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Anders Brieviek the Norwegian mass murderer idolised Islamophobic demagogues like Fjordman, Robert Spencer, Bat Ye’or, Pamella Geller, Brigette Gabriel and Geert Wilders.
What do Islamophobes, whether they are nazis, white supremacists, neo-cons, Christian supremacists, funders, bloggers, propagandists or media personalites nearly all have in common? This article connects the dots between the Islamophobia industry and right wing Zionism.
On the 22 July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik, an Islamophobic right wing Norwegian, set off a bomb outside the prime minister’s office in Oslo.
He then entered a summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya where the youth wing of Norway’s ruling Labor party had been holidaying and shot dead 69 people. He is now in solitary confinement awaiting trial. Breivik had cobbled together a ‘manifesto’ that layed bare his reasons for the attack and the motivations. Under interrogation, he told police he had no regrets about the massacre because he had to save Europe from being taken over by Muslims and from multiculturalism.
A closer look at the 1,500-page ‘manifesto’, A European Declaration of Independence, which Brievik emailed to his online community hours before the crime, was replete with material and quotations from a small but tightly knit transatlantic network of anti Muslim demagogues and bloggers, of how Europe was becoming ‘Eurabia’, a myth propogated by Bat Ye’or. With a some exceptions, the names of his favourite inspirations read like a Who’s Who of the Islamophobia industry.
This underworld of the Islamophobic blogosphere which includes writers, self styled experts on Islam, dubious ‘historians’ and from which Anders Brievik took his inspiration, has come under the spotlight since the horrific massacre.
European Far Right
Brievik cited heavily from the now notorious anti-Muslim blog “Gates of Vienna” (GoV) run by a white supremacist Baron Bodissy.
His fellow Norwegian white supremacist Islamophobe, Pedar Jensen, was a heavy contributor to Gates of Vienna under the anonymous alias of Fjordman until he was interviewed by Norwegian police.
Fearing for his safety, Fjordman has since gone into hiding.
Gisele Littman, better known as Bat Ye’or is a Cairo born Jewess, who fled in the 1950’s leaving behind everything she landed in England. She now lives in Switzerland. She is the author of ‘Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis” and other books. She claims to be a historian on ‘dhimmitude’.
Her works are alarmist in nature, she claims European elites made secret deals with Arab rulers to bring in immigrants to Europe in exchange for oil. She gives dire warnings of impending “Dhimmitude” where Christian and Jewish Europeans would be servile dhimmis to their Islamic Arab overlords.
Her theories have generally been dismissed by historians, but since 9/11 some like Bernard Lewis cited her work on Assyrian Christians. Islamphobes propogate her work and Brievik bought into her conspiracies.
On July 25th the Associated press reported that Bat Ye’or ‘ has expressed regret that her writing might have helped to inspire his rampage.’
It is perhaps not surprising that Bat Ye’or’s revisionist history of Christians and Jews living under Islamic rule, found an eager audience amongst Islamophobes. What is surprising is that a respected historian like Sir Martin Gilbert, who has received some flak from his peer group, would give her work credence in his book ‘The House of Ishmael’.
Further digging led to the not so surprising discovery that Sir Martin Gilbert is Jewish and a passionate Zionist as is the American historian Bernard Lewis who has also cited her in his books about Islamic history.
The ‘Eurabia’ conspiracy was eagerly lapped up by the European far right. For over a decade the far right in Europe has been critical of the immigration policies of their countries. The Vlaams Belang in Belgium, the PVV in Holland (Geert Wilders party) the Front National in France and the FPO in Austria, and the The English Defence League’s which has a Jewish Division.
Geert Wilders, whom Brievik admires has called for the Quran to be banned. He was the subject of a BBC documentary ‘Europes Most Dangerous Man’ and claims to have been to Israel over 40 times. His legal fees during his prosecution in the Dutch courts for incitement were met by Daniel Pipes’ ‘Middle East Forum’.
The British journalist Melanie Philips, author of ‘Londonistan’, and columnist for the Daily Mail and The Jewish Chronicle was quoted in the ‘manifesto’. Philips is known for her right wing views, she was in favour of the Iraq war, in contrast to the majority of the British public.
Brievik cited her from an article she wrote describing the former Labour government as being guilty of ‘unalloyed treachery’ for allowing mass immigration to ‘destroy what it means to be culturally British and to put another ‘multicultural’ identity in its place’.
Seeking allies to further their aims and for funding the European right wing populists, and white supremacists have forged alliances with far right Zionist extremists. The traditional hatred reserved for Jews by these same far right extremists, has now been exchanged for a new threat, that of Muslims. To this end, there have been some bizarre alliances, amongst ultra nationalist Europeans and the far right Islamophobic Zionists in Israel and the USA.
The Islamophobia industry has a network of funders, activists, and bloggers sympathetic to the far right wing Zionist aim of expanding settlements and ridding the land of Palestinians. For this they need to keep up a steady stream of propoganda, of the type that brought about the Iraq war.
Islamophobia became an industry after 9/11 in the USA.
The pseudo-academic Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, was referenced 55 times in Brievik’s manifesto. Robert Spencer a Catholic writer who is the director of Jihad Watch which is owned by David Horowitz and his “Freedom Center’, publishes Front Page mag, whose columnists regularly churn out anti Muslim and anti Palestinian propoganda.
Daniel Pipes, a neo con Muslim basher who was active long before 9.11 was mentioned over 18 times. The extremist neo-con blogger Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs is cited too. She operates an Islamophobic organization in partnership with Spencer, Stop Islamisation of America, which has a European sister organisation named Stop Islamisation of Europe.
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have been on talkshows and on Fox TV, giving them a degree of exposure, visibility and an audience. Geller was the ringleader in the controversy over the Cordoba House’s ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ in 2010.
Conservative media favourites like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mark Steyn are quoted by Brievik as is the historian Bernard Lewis. Patrick Buchanan opined that ‘Breivik may be right’ about the supposed clash of civilizations between Western Christianity and Eastern Islam.
Aubrey Chernick, is a publicity shy software tycoon with a personal fortune of $780 million. He and his wife Joyce Chernick are amongst the biggest donors to David Horowitz’s Freedom Centre which owns Jihad Watch. Another recipient of their funds is Aish HaTorah, an organisation which claims to educate Jews about Judaism. With an office in New York this group has branches in and is active in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Aish HaTorah shares an office address with the mysterious Clarion Fund which produced ‘Obsession’, a DVD warning of the dangers of Jihad. The Clarion Fund was responsible for distributing over 25 million DVD’s in the US 2008 election race.
‘Obsession’ had a roster of Islamophobic speakers warning of the dangers of Islam. Clearly it was a propoganda piece designed to scare voters into choosing a candidate that would continue the bloodshed and war in the Middle East, that had been the trademark of the Bush presidency since 9/11.
America’s free speech laws zealously guarded in the first amendment rights, and the nature of the internet provide a fertile breeding ground for extremist bloggers to propogate their hate free from any kind of scrutiny and with relative anonymity. The Arab spring proved how influential online social networking media can be in influencing opinion.
Zionism, Palestinians and the Middle East
What does all this have to do with the Middle East? American foreign policy, lobby groups, media propoganda and the demonisation of Islam, ultimately influences the politics and economies of not only Palestine, but the wider Arab and Muslim world as tools to be manipulated for an agenda. A selection of some of the more prominent personalites engaged in the Islamophobia industry gives us an insight into how the dots are connected:
‘Let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural Marxists/multiculturalists,’ Breivik wrote in his manifesto.
Commending Israel for robbing most of it’s Muslim citizens of civil rights, as opposed to the freedom Muslims enjoyed in Europe Brievik spoke highly of Netanyahu for including the Yisrael Beiteinu and the Shas parties in his ruling coalition. A number of Israeli professors were quoted in his ‘manifesto’, including Itamar Rabinovich and Eyal Zisser.
Ten years earlier, Netanyahu could barely conceal his glee when asked for his reaction to the 9/11 attacks. “It’s very good”, he gushed, then realising how it would sound, quickly added, “Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy”.
This was a heaven sent opportunity to the Zionist lobby to propogate the myth of Israel and the United States as having the same enemy. In the heightened climate of fear, this propoganda of Islam and Arabs being the enemy found a receptive audience particulary amongst the millions of Christian Zionists.
Thus was born a whole new Islamophobia industry, complete with ‘ex Muslims’ like Walid Shoebat, whose fake narrative has now been exposed as a sham. Brigitte Gabriel another rabid Islamophobic Christian Zionist is President of Act for America.
She is also known as Nour Semaan and Hanan Tudor. Her talks denigrating Islam and Muslims are sponsored by hard right Zionist organisations.
David Yerushalmi, a Brooklyn lawyer who settled in Jerusalem, and is affiliated with Lubavitch Hasidic Judaism, has been the architect behind the anti-Sharia bills in the USA. He is Pamela Geller’s and Robert Spencer’s legal representive.
Aish HaTorah, the Jewish educational organisation which receives funds from Aubrey Chernick is active in the settlements of the West Bank, in Palestine. Most of the funds for the expansion of settlements come from the USA, from Jewish and Christian Zionist charities.
All of the writers and bloggers mentioned above have expressed their revulsion and distanced themselves from the carnage in Norway. Since coming under the spotlight, their reactions have ranged from expressing regret (Bat Ye’or) being on the defensive (Pamela Geller, Geert Wilders).
Gates of Vienna meanwhile is inferring that Anders Brievik may be working for covert forces, and Frank Gaffney and Jihad Watch have have put forth bizarre conspiracy theories of the Noway massacre having being a false flag operation to silence the ‘counter jihadists’. Debbie Schlussul, who like Pamela Geller is notorious for her pro Israel and anti Muslim rants, has condemned the attack but crowed that it was ‘karma’ for Norway, as it is an anti Israel country.
Up until the Norway massacre, the underground world of Islamophobic bloggers did not merit the attention of the law enforcement agencies. After Utoya, Europol announced a new EUR50 million fund to monitor far right extremism. Previsouly right wing extremism had been deemed as less worthy of attention and not as serious a threat as that posed by Al Qaeda and Islamists.
In an attempt to intimidate, the usual attacks and denunciations of ‘anti-semitism’ followed when attempts were made to connect the Norway massacre to Zionism.
For too long these underworld hate mongers have tried to silence and stifle any debate on this subject. Is there a link between right wing Zionism and Islamophobia? Certainly more and more people and the mainstream media are now exploring this hitherto taboo subject and connecting the dots.
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I believe that prayer is essential to life. It’s not only crucial to your physical and spiritual health but also for your eternity. That’s why who you pray to makes all the difference in the world.
The Catholic church teaches people to ask Mary and the Saints to pray for them and millions of people end up asking priests for direct help, mercy, and salvation. This has zero biblical backing.
In the words of the famous Catholic prayer Memorare, people pray directly to Mary by praying; “Remember, most loving Virgin Mary, never was it heard that anyone who turned to you for help was left unaided. . . I run to your protection for you are my mother.”
We see it again in the Catholic prayer “Hail, Holy Queen” when it says, “Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, hail, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To you we cry, the children of Eve; to you we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this land of exile. Turn, then, most gracious advocate, your eyes of mercy toward us; lead us home at last.”
(from A Book of Prayers, 1982, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc.)
Although these prayers are said by millions of well-intentioned people looking for divine intervention, we must ask: Are these prayers beneficial and biblically correct?
Even if you’re reading this and you’re a Catholic, wouldn’t you want to know if your prayers are godly and biblical? I think I would.
Here are three reasons we pray to God, not Mary or the Saints.
Jesus is the only way to God.
Trying to get favor or access to God through anyone but Jesus has no biblical basis. Jesus made it perfectly clear that there is only one way to the Father when he said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) He is the only way to access the father.
Jesus is the only mediator between God and us.
1 Timothy 2:5-6 teaches us “There is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.”
This means that Jesus is the only representation we have before God. He’s the only one who can grant us forgiveness and peace with the father and reconcile us to him through his finished work on the cross.
The Bible says, “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” (2 Corinthians 5:18-19)
Jesus is alive.
As Hebrews 7:23-25 so brilliantly points out when it says, “Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.”
Did you catch that? No one else could remain in office because they died. But since Jesus is alive, he alone can save, and we can approach him boldly in our prayers.
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In 2013 At The Age Of 18, Which Player Won A World Championship Medal In This Sport?
India’s shuttler P V Sindhu has won a bronze medal in women’s singles category at the BWF World Championships in 2013 after suffering a straight-game and defeat against the world number three Ratchanok Inthanon in the semifinals in Guangzhou, China on 10 August 2013. In 2013 At The Age Of 18, P V Sindhu of India Has Won A World Championship Medal In Badminton Sport.
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Momodu Maligi returns to his alma mater as a representative of the government of his native Sierra Leone to shed light on why, in some parts of Africa, water is more valuable than diamonds in a Lawrence University 2017 Povolny Lecture Series in International Studies.
Maligi, Sierra Leone’s minister for water resources, presents “Beyond Diamonds—Trade, Water and Development in Africa,” Monday, May 8 at 4:30 p.m. in Thomas A. Steitz Hall of Science 102. The event is free and open to the public.
A 2004 Lawrence graduate, Maligi has served the Sierra Leone government as minister of water resources since 2014. He speaks on water issues at international conferences around the world. Since his appointment by President Ernest Bai Koiroma, Maligi has overseen the reorganization of Sierra Leone’s water sector, rehabilitating damaged water facilities, bringing in private sector investors and changing the legal framework for water policy.
After earning a degree in government and international studies from Lawrence, Maligi earned a master’s degree in international business and public policy from Valparaiso University.
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What is unemployment?
Unemployment is a term referring to individuals who are employable and actively seeking a job but are unable to find a job. Included in this group are those people in the workforce who are working but do not have an appropriate job. Usually measured by the unemployment rate, which is dividing the number of unemployed people by the total number of people in the workforce, unemployment serves as one of the indicators of a country’s economic status.
The term “unemployment” is often misunderstood, it as it includes people who are waiting to return to a job after being discharged, yet it does not include individuals who have stopped looking for work in the past four weeks due to various reasons such as leaving work to pursue higher education, retirement, disability, and personal issues. Also people who are not actively seeking a job but do want to work are not classified as unemployed.
Interestingly, people who have not looked for a job in the past four weeks but have been actively seeking one in the last 12 months are put into a category called the “marginally attached to the labor force.” Within this category is another category called “discouraged workers,” which refers to people who have given up looking for a job.
The categories mentioned above sometimes causes confusion and debate as to whether the unemployment rate fully represents the actual number of people who are unemployed. For a full understanding, one should juxtapose “unemployment” with the term “employment,” which the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) describes as individuals aged 16 and above who have recently put hours into work in the past week, paid or otherwise, because of self-employment.
Types of Unemployment
There are basically four types of unemployment: (1) demand deficient, (2) frictional, (3) structural, and (4) voluntary unemployment.
1. Demand deficient unemployment
Demand deficit unemployment is the biggest cause of unemployment that typically happens during a recession. When companies experience a reduction in the demand for their products or services, they respond by cutting back on their production, making it necessary to reduce their workforce within the organization. In effect, workers are laid off.
2. Frictional unemployment
Frictional unemployment refers to those workers who are in between jobs. An example is a worker who recently quit or was fired and is looking for a job in an economy that is not experiencing a recession. It is not an unhealthy thing because it is usually caused by workers trying to find a job that is most suitable to their skills.
3. Structural unemployment
Structural unemployment happens when the skills set of a worker does not match the skills demanded by the jobs available, or alternatively when workers are available but are unable to reach the geographical location of the jobs.
An example is a teaching job that requires relocation to China, but the worker cannot secure a work visa due to certain visa restrictions. It can also happen when there is a technological change in the organization, such as workflow automation that displaces the need for human labor.
4. Voluntary unemployment
Voluntary unemployment happens when a worker decides to leave a job because it is no longer financially compelling. An example is a worker whose take-home pay is less than his or her cost of living.
Causes of Unemployment
Unemployment is caused by various reasons that come from both the demand side, or employer, and the supply side, or the worker.
Demand-side reductions may be caused by high interest rates, global recession, and financial crisis. From the supply side, frictional unemployment and structural employment play a great role.
The impact of unemployment can be felt by both the workers and the national economy and can cause a ripple effect.
Unemployment causes workers to suffer financial hardship that impacts families, relationships, and communities. When it happens, consumer spending, which is one of an economy’s key drivers of growth, goes down, leading to a recession or even a depression when left unaddressed.
Unemployment results in reduced demand, consumption, and buying power, which in turn causes lower profits for businesses and leads to budget cuts and workforce reductions. It creates a cycle that goes on and on that is difficult to reverse without some type of intervention.
Long-term Unemployment vs. Short-term Unemployment
Unemployment that lasts longer than 27 weeks even if the individual has sought employment in the last four weeks is called long-term unemployment. Its effects are far worse than short-term unemployment for obvious reasons, and the following are noted as some of its effects.
Some 56% of the long-term unemployed reported a significant decrease in their net worth.
Financial problems are not the only effects of long-term unemployment as 46% of those in such a state reported experiencing strained family relationships. The figure is relatively higher than the 39% percent who weren’t unemployed for as long.
Another 43% of the long-term unemployed reported a significant effect on their ability to achieve their career goals.
Sadly, long-term unemployment led to 38% of these individuals losing their self-respect and 24% seeking professional help.
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The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), signed into law in 2021, included a change to income reporting requirements aimed at reducing the “tax gap” between taxes the IRS believes taxpayers owe and the taxes they actually paid. ARPA required more taxpayers to complete Form 1099-K by lowering the reporting threshold from $20,000 and 200 financial transactions to just $600 with no limit on the number of transactions. This was projected by the Congressional Budget Office to increase tax receipts by $7.728 billion over ten years, but the substantially lower threshold is set to cause significant headaches for taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Thankfully, several lawmakers have introduced legislation that would help alleviate this problem.
Prior to ARPA, payment vendors were required to generate Form 1099-Ks for all businesses or individuals with over 200 transactions adding up to $20,000 or more in total, and to send a copy to both the business/individual and the IRS. With COVID-19 disruptions and the growth of the gig economy, lawmakers purported lowering the threshold to $600 would ensure taxable revenue was not escaping unreported. However, as NTU Foundation notes, Form 1099-Ks often lack context for the income they report and often covers income that does not incur income tax obligations.
The $600 threshold is much too low for policymakers’ stated goal and comes with a host of problems for taxpayers. For example, a college student selling more than $600 worth of textbooks or a person hosting an online garage sale would receive a Form 1099-K, despite the fact that they are unlikely to incur tax liability from these sales. With the sizable backlog at the IRS, a lower threshold will flood the agency and taxpayers with unnecessary paperwork that will contribute to what is already a very dysfunctional tax season.
Thankfully, several lawmakers have introduced legislation to come to the aid of taxpayers. Representative Carol Miller (R-WV) introduced the Saving Gig Economy Taxpayers Act (H.R. 3425), Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced S. 948, and Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Representative Michelle Steel (R-CA) introduced the SNOOP Act of 2022 (S. 3546/H.R. 6913). These bills would undo the ARPA provision and revert the Form 1099-K threshold to $20,000 and 200 transactions — a welcome change to free taxpayers and the IRS from unnecessary reporting.
Republicans are not alone in attempting to fix this problem. Representatives Cindy Axne (D-IA) and Chris Pappas (D-NH) recently introduced the Cut Red Tape for Online Sales Act which, according to their press release, would raise the threshold for reporting to $5,000 and have the IRS clarify when sellers need to file their form. Reports state that Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) are introducing a Senate companion to this bill. While NTU believes reverting back to pre-ARPA baseline would be the most straightforward solution, this would still help alleviate many of the issues facing taxpayers, and it is certainly better than the status quo.
It is our hope that the bipartisan recognition of the burdensome Form 1099-K reporting requirements will lead to a commonsense solution. Raising the Form 1099-K reporting threshold is a practical goal that should continue to attract bipartisan support. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle should come together and find an expeditious solution to this issue facing American taxpayers, especially gig workers. NTU applauds the work to address this issue and looks forward to working with all interested parties in pursuit of a reasonable fix. | <urn:uuid:d2a7f148-edab-4e83-97b9-169b3f844d52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ntu.org/publications/detail/bipartisan-focus-on-1099-k-reporting-issue-will-hopefully-lead-to-taxpayer-relief | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957448 | 752 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Celebrated author and journalist Auberon Waugh was an iconoclast, a political maverick and wine connoisseur. When he died prematurely at 61 in 2001, he left a set of nine expensively stocked cellars at Combe Florey, the family home in Somerset — and a full-bodied collection of wine columns. Almost every one was distinguished by an impertinent, robust nose — and a decidedly acidic finish. […]
Waugh, whose father, the novelist Evelyn Waugh, started the family cellar, wrote about wine for Tatler, The Spectator and Harpers & Queen. An anthology of his most pungent columns, Waugh On Wine, published in the Eighties, soon became a classic among wine buffs. The book has just been republished to introduce a new audience to Waugh’s vigorous passion for the grape — and much else.
The story continues with several excerpts from the book containing just the sort of wine assessments Wilson describes in his article.
—Wine Spectator also welcomes the reprint of Auberon’s book. After describing Auberon’s career, the Wine Spectator’s reporter concludes:
Some of Waugh’s wine wisdom is dated, of course—the original volume was published in 1987 and Waugh died in 2001—but he was ahead of his time on the wine and weed trend, advising that kabinett and spätlese Rieslings are “the only wines I have discovered which go well with pot, having a soothing and fragrant influence.” In the new intro, [publisher Naim] Attallah praises his chum’s “unsnobbish approach to wine” and remembers Waugh’s reaction when he gifted him a 1947 Cheval-Blanc on his birthday: “The joy on his face as he held the bottle in his hand … is still etched in my memory.” Some classics can please even the greatest contrarians.
–The Boston Globe previews a new HBO documentary on innovative ways of coping with death. This is called Alternative Endlings: Six New Ways to Die In America. The Globe’s assessment of it opens with this:
In one of the wackier gags in the 1965 film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s “The Loved One” a funeral ends with the dear departed blasting off in a missile bound for outer space. Today that’s just one of the latest funeral possibilities seen in Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill’s lightheartedly morbid and often poignant documentary.
Given the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, the missile option has special appeal. In a service provided by Celestis Memorial Spaceflights, the ashes of the deceased — here a beloved dad and husband with a love of the extraterrestrial — joins several other cremated fellow passengers as extra baggage, “a secondary payload,” on a NASA flight. Loved ones gather at a safe distance and cheer at the familiar but always stirring spectacle of a successful blast-off. They cheer again minutes later when a loudspeaker announces that the missile has entered outer space for a voyage which, depending on what you want to spend, can be suborbital, orbital, lunar, or infinite.
The idea from the film that has now been realized was not Waugh’s but the scriptwriters’ Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood (more likely Southern since it seems a bit too “wacky” for Isherwood). Waugh himself was appalled at the wholesale changes wrought in the script.
Other new ideas in the documentary include converting the deceased’s remains into a cement ball so that it can be made part of a coral reef and holding a “living wake” to which a dying loved one invites friends and family. The HBO documentary airs in the USA next 14 August 2019 and will be available for streaming on HBO Go. A different schedule may apply in the UK.
–Patrick Maxwell on a Lib-Dem website reckons that Boris Johnson’s premiership will be one of the shortest-lived in history. After offering several reasons, he concludes with this:
Johnson’s weakness is the perfect chance for Lib Dems. Behind the impressive visage lies a childlike desire to be liked, and in the surroundings of No10 such amiability will soon wear off. To interpret Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited,
“Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Boris, it has killed you.”
–Finally, blogger Patrick Kurp on his weblog Anecdotal Evidence offers a reconsideration of a memoir of Waugh by one of his Gloucestershire neighbors. The posting contains several excerpts and opens with this:
Evelyn Waugh is the most brilliant and infuriating of writers, the envy of anyone who sweats his prose and an object lesson in how not to treat other people. We need him now more than ever. Imagine Waugh on Twitter. I might be tempted to open an account just to retweet his barbs.Frances Donaldson in her memoir Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967), published a year after Waugh’s death, gives a nuanced look at Waugh’s sometimes exasperating behavior, neither condemning nor excusing him. Her goal is understanding… | <urn:uuid:f12da3cd-05ec-4315-b02c-127eface2172> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://evelynwaughsociety.org/2019/roundup-waugh-on-wine-and-more/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958118 | 1,161 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Where Faith Teaches Respect For Life: UP Man Shows How To Save Turtles In The River
Sixty-four-year old Bheema is a resident of Makhdoompur village on the banks of the Ganga near Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary. He has no illusions about the difficult life his fellow villagers and he have to navigate. But Bheema and others like him have found a new outlet for their faith and hopes — saving turtles in the river.
“Our lives go by struggling with problems. At least they should survive,” said Bheema, standing at the riverbank early in the morning, looking out at the Ganga.
While community participation has been the key behind conservation success stories in the country, saving turtles has taken on the form of a religious mission for villagers near Hastinapur.
Every season, freshwater hardshell turtles lay eggs along the riverbank snaking past 50 of these villages. With the aid of hundreds of farmers like Bheema, more than 3,000 turtles have been saved and released into the Ganga in five years.
Residents of Makhdoompur and other villages lose their crops when the Ganga floods, or are forced out of their homes every year. But turtle conservation has become such a sacred task for them that this season, too, they will comb the riverbanks for eggs to save.
“The Ganga is our mother. These turtles clean the river, and eventually our mortal remains will be assimilated here. By saving the turtles, we are saving our goddess,” said Pritam Kumar, also from Makhdoompur.
This mix of faith and conservation was not always there. In 2012, a young environmentalist named Sanjeev Yadav, working with the Worldwide Fund of Nature (WWF), wanted to revive the dwindling turtle population in the sanctuary, which covers 2,074 sq km across five districts of Uttar Pradesh. But it was impossible without the help of villagers. The eggs were getting destroyed by wild animals or under the implements of the farmers.
“I faced a lot of resistance among villagers at first. Obviously, for them mere survival was a priority. Caring about turtles did not come easily under the circumstances in which they lived,” recalled Yadav, who then tried a different approach.
“Despite the havoc during monsoons, the Ganga is revered by villagers as a mother. I tackled conservation through this deep religious belief system, pointing out how turtles helped clean the river,” Yadav added.
The villagers used to find hundreds of eggs while tilling the soil, but would throw them away. “Then there are some communities which eat the eggs. So the survival rate used to be very low. Things are different now,” Kumar smiled.
Farmers have been helping Yadav establish and maintain hatcheries where the baby amphibians get space to grow before entering the river.
Lives have changed in other ways in the process. “I used to do illegal fishing in the sanctuary earlier, and opposed conservation efforts. But now I might be one of the biggest contributor of eggs in the programme. The credit goes to Yadav ji.
I have left fishing and just serve Mother Ganga. Perhaps through this we will be able to reverse our fortunes with the blessings of the goddess,” said Bheema.
Villagers first spot the eggs after laying season begins in late November. They inform the WWF team and help transport the eggs to hatcheries. They then guard the eggs till they hatch in April, a process which continues till June.
The hatchlings after that are moved to a nursery in forest department office premises 10 km from the river in Hastinapur. In November-December, the turtles are released in the Ganga by villagers and their children.
“We had never seen it before. Just a year ago, Sanjeev Bhaiyya took us to a hatchery and showed us hatchlings coming out of the sand after breaking out from eggs. A few months later, I released many of the turtles into the Ganga. Now we keep looking for eggs,” said 9-year-old Arjun, while 12-year-old Ram Kumar giggled that he found the highest number of eggs last year. The "sacred task" clearly is being handed over to the next generation. | <urn:uuid:3c242d28-d95e-4d78-b8f9-90d65215f845> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/where-faith-teaches-respect-for-life-up-man-shows-how-to-save-turtles-in-the-river-360328.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.969892 | 908 | 2.828125 | 3 |
The fresh new bedrock of any fruitful relationship ‘s the correspondence between men and women involved in you to dating. It will be the mainstay of any nutritionally beneficial matchmaking and you may loving relationship and it happens saying that instead of productive communication, it is quite easy for one link to with ease fall apart.
Statistically, women can be said to reasonably talk nearly 3 x as many terminology, to 15,100, daily to that away from a person of approximately 5,one hundred thousand. So inside a routine dating, the women are usually considered to be the brand new chatty partner however, in some relationship which part is often reversed.
In effortlessly emailing the mate, it’s very extremely important that people see the make-right up of sexes and exactly how they tend in order to communications essentially. It is of one’s opinion away from created viewpoint one to males and you may women differ inside their experience of ideas and their communication off them.
Normally, lady, compared to males, show an elevated selection of ideas, such sadness, worry, love, glee, and you will anger. Women are and inclined than just males to reveal private information, eg their individual viewpoint otherwise details of the personal record. Many of these characteristics needless to say, inclines the lady to get for desire so you’re able to show these types of emotions and you will speaking of them is one way it believe best.
Girls, needless to say pick talking to end up being therapeutic in the wild when you find yourself boys generally consider this given that detrimental. Female will processes some thing of the talking about her or him assuming they support eliminate the problems as conversing with elite singles coupons them was nearer to convinced out loud.
Towards more than understanding, check out things that will be out-of assistance in assisting us promote interaction inside our relationships.
Tune in Reflectively
Many simple key to success during the energetic interaction is the artwork regarding hearing. Hearing doesn’t have to help you imply that we just trust whatsoever our very own companion is saying, but the majority times it just “agreeing in order to disagree” over specific circumstances.
Understanding how to discuss efficiently with your partner means you’re prepared to become fully present and you can mindful through the conversations. The primary intent behind a hearing is to make an effort to understand what your mate is saying because of the going giving your own complete attention while they are reflecting on their issues because they speak.
Just after discover reciprocated effective listening out-of both parties inside it, productive tow-ways communication has been situated, which is the primary goal regarding telecommunications. The feeling of being heard and you may learn is the most effective only one communications enhancement.
That very important and simple way to keep the partner speaking much more is to try to speak about issues that you realize are very genuine so you can him/the woman. If you have been with your mate for even merely a primary while you are, you would probably found by now in which their/the lady fancies rest. Sincerely get searching for this area of the lover’s life and you may raise up sufferers associated with they and it’ll considerably assist when you look at the improving the desire they usually have within the communicating with your actually into other topic issues.
The target is to sincerely show your spouse that you enjoy him or her anywhere near this much. If you possibly could only try to recall the glow on your own face the past date someone offered surprise suit, you’ll understand the natural must be confirmed and you may preferred because of the anyone else.
Take part in Products you to Render Correspondence
Activities like seeing a movie with her can provide avenues through which we can easily engage our people in the imaginative and energetic communications. Try to end up being impulsive, take action actual to get their undivided appeal and acquire contained in this including possibilities, facts you to definitely both of you normally take part in and that will bring avenue for people to always be personal together with her, discussing and you may revealing your own views.
Go out with each other frequently and purchase top quality day alone. Go out him/the lady over again. Have fun with such possibilities to possess constant conversations into anything that you will feel regarding shared attract to help you both of you.
Query An excellent Concerns
They do say the answer you earn is just as a great while the matter your questioned. Do not presume that your particular lover knows what you are considering otherwise constantly understands what your requires is actually and just how you are feeling.
In case your partner looks annoyed or disappointed, don’t just suppose something, try to detect in the event the situation is great to inquire about them in the event that some thing is actually wrong. Don’t bashful regarding it.
Prevent Criticizing and have Value
Should you ever need to criticize, definitely do it trying of bringing out the higher edge of that individual and never so you’re able to apportion blame. Nobody loves one. Avoid unjust and important reasoning in heated dispute and constantly stay in today’s addressing points at hand rather than to promote early in the day hurts otherwise occurrences.
Take control of your attitudes and you can respect its views enabling these to offer out of the finest in them. Individuals needs specific admiration and you can care inside their life.
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A new update is rolling out for users of the OneNote UWP app on Windows 10 right now and it includes some features that are capable of dramatically improving your note taking experience in the app. Some of the new features were already available to Windows Insider Program members in the Fast Ring, but now everyone on the stable branch can try them out.
This update finally brings Text to Math feature to more users. With its help, you will be able to naturally enter any math equations (with a pen, for example) and they will be converted into actual equations by OneNote automatically.
There's also a new Smart Lookup feature, similar to the one built into Office 365 and Microsoft Edge in the form of "Ask Cortana". Users will now be able to lookup any word or phrase on the Web from the right click menu.
The full change log also mentions these additions:
- Choose a personal set of pens, highlighters, and pencils for inking.
- Learning Tools boost reading skills by adjusting text spacing, presenting a narrow column for reading, and highlighting each word as the document is read aloud.
- Open multiple windows so you can see a bunch of your notes at the same time.
- Use Bing's Image Search to safely insert photos and images without ever having to leave OneNote.
So this update is certainly quite packed with new features which OneNote users were expecting for a long time. If you want to try them out for yourself, check for updates in the Windows Store or download it directly from its Store listing page.
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The overexpression of human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) in breast cancer is a poor prognosis. Trastuzumab improves overall survival but is associated with cardiotoxicity, especially a decline in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). In addition, chemotherapy and radiotherapy increase fatigue and pain, decrease physical capacity and health-related quality of life. To date, no study has evaluated the benefits of physical activity on the side effects of treatment in patients with HER2 positive breast cancer. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of 3 months’ exercise intervention on myocardial function and in particular on the rate of cardiotoxicity.
This multicenter, randomized clinical trial will include 112 patients treated by adjuvant trastuzumab for HER2 positive breast cancer to investigate the effects of a 3 months’ supervised exercise program (intermittent exercise, combining moderate and high intensities; 55 minutes duration, 3 times per week), on the rate of cardiotoxicity [defined by either a decrease of the LVEF under 50% or an absolute drop of LVEF of 10%] between baseline and at 3 months and on strength, aerobic capacity, metabolic, inflammatory and hormonal parameters. Health-related quality of life, fatigue, pain and level of physical activity will also be assessed. Participants are randomly allocated to one of the two groups (“training group” vs “standard oncological care”). Performance-based and self-reported outcomes are assessed at baseline, at the end of supervised exercise program and at six months follow-up.
Although physical exercise is recommended to reduce the side effects of adjuvant treatments in breast cancer patients, no randomized study has been conducted to assess the benefits of a physical training program in patients with HER2 overexpressing breast cancer. Cardiac toxicity of trastuzumab may be minimized with an exercise program combining high and moderate intensities. This type of program may be safe, feasible and effective but also increase cardiorespiratory fitness and improve health-related quality of life. If these benefits are confirmed, this exercise intervention could be systematically proposed to patients during the course of treatment by trastuzumab in addition to standard oncological care.
Trial registration: National Clinical Trials Number (NCT02433067); Registration 28 april 2015.
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DescriptionPyridoxal-5’-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes are mainly involved in the amino acids metabolism and catalyze a number of diverse chemicals reactions, such as decarboxylation, transamination, racemization, elimination, carbon-carbon bond cleavage and formation. Due to remarkable versatility of the PLP-enzymes they have been exploited as biocatalysts for the production of natural and non-natural amino acids and their related compounds. All structurally characterized PLP-dependent enzymes have been classified into five distinct structural families. Enzymes belonging to one family often exhibit diverse functions and/or broad substrate ranges. To explore the molecular basis of the functional diversity in the aspartate aminotransferase family of PLP-dependent enzymes, e.g. substrate and reaction specificity, the comparative bioinformatic analysis of genetic and structural data of homologous proteins was carried out. The approach applies a multiple structural based sequence alignment of evolutionary related proteins, which was further used to cluster the proteins into subfamilies according to their functional diversity. Systematic analysis of the amino acids distribution within subfamilies combined with detailed investigation of the structural differences between functionally different enzymes enabled identification of the subfamily-specific positions and structural elements (e.g. cofactor and substrate binding regions) responsible for the catalytic diversity in each subfamily. Thus selected specific positions were used as hotspots for rational engineering of L-threonine aldolase to reveal the putative amino acid positions that mediate catalytic activity and substrate specificity in this class of enzymes. This knowledge will be prerequisite to design the efficient biocatalysts for the asymmetric synthesis of non-canonical amino acids.
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Unwanted humidity can result in many problems, including mold growth, musty odors, structural issues, and an uncomfortable muggy feeling. That’s why it’s important to control humidity if you plan to improve indoor air quality and home comfort.
The perfect relative humidity level is around 30 to 50 percent. Summer is generally the toughest time of year to stay within this range. Luckily, turning on the air conditioner can help.
After all, air conditioning doesn’t solely cool your home—it also lowers humidity. Here’s details of how this works, alongside with tips to adjust indoor humidity levels.
How Air Conditioning Eliminates Humidity
Contrary to what you might think, your air conditioner doesn’t add cool, dry air in your home—it removes heat and humidity. The process involves refrigerant, which soaks up heat and moisture effectively from the indoor air. Here’s what happens:
- Indoor air moves through the ductwork and travels over the evaporator coil filled with cold refrigerant.
- The refrigerant collects heat, and the moisture in the air collects on the coil.
- The condensation flows into the condensate pan below the evaporator coil and drains out of the system.
- Cooler, dehumidified air flows into your home.
How to Decrease Humidity
Running the air conditioner might be sufficient to lower the relative humidity under 50 percent in dry climates. But if high humidity is still a problem in your home, try these tips.
Run the exhaust fan in the bathroom, kitchen and laundry room when you shower, cook and wash clothes. Detached ventilation eliminates humidity at the source to keep these rooms more comfortable. You can also open a window when it’s more temperate outside to draw in fresh air.
Mop Up Standing Water
Water on shower tiles, kitchen counters and laundry room floors raise indoor humidity and could encourage mold growth. Clean up standing water promptly to avoid these problems.
Install a Dehumidifier
If you grapple with high humidity in the summer, consider installing a whole-house dehumidifier that runs in tandem with your air conditioner to make each room more comfortable. A whole-house unit can even run separately from the AC to remove humidity on mild days without running the air conditioner. This strategy saves you money and avoids that “cool but clammy” feeling.
Adjust the AC Fan to Auto
The condensation that collects on the evaporator coil needs time to build up and flow away. If you run the air conditioning fan continuously, the moisture won't be able to leave your home. That’s why it’s better to set the fan to “auto” so it is only on when the AC compressor starts. You should be able to find this setting easily on your thermostat.
Replace the Air Filter Regularly
An obstructed air filter traps dust and debris and can support mold growth if it becomes wet. This introduces moisture and mold spores into your home each time the AC turns on. Change the air filter every month or as encouraged by the manufacturer to reduce indoor humidity and increase air quality.
Fine Tune the Fan Speed
Refining the fan speed can be tricky. High airflow helps the AC sustain cooling demand on scorching summer days, but this may result in shorter cycles that minimize the chance of effective dehumidification. Work with an HVAC technician to help you choose the best fan speed for your comfort needs.
Clean the Evaporator Coil
A grimy coil can’t cool and dehumidify well. If your AC is having trouble reaching the preferred temperature, get in touch with our HVAC specialists to maintain your cooling system and clean the evaporator coil. Cooling and dehumidifying efficiency should improve as a result.
Check the Refrigerant Charge
Insufficient refrigerant can impede your air conditioner’s ability to perform its job. Left ignored, serious issues including a frozen evaporator coil or compressor failure may happen. Only a qualified HVAC technician can solve refrigerant leaks and replenish the system as required, giving you another reason to schedule an AC tune-up.
Exchange Your Air Conditioner
If your home has constant comfort issues and your air conditioner is getting old, it might be time to look for a new one. Select a new AC system with advanced features, such as a thermal expansion valve (TXV) and variable blower motor. A TXV provides the perfect amount of refrigerant determined by the air temperature, and a variable blower motor adapts the fan speed to satisfy demand. Both features improve cooling and dehumidifying effectiveness.
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Wireless charging provides a convenient, safe, and reliable way to keep smart devices at home, in the workplace and in industry powered and ready to use. Here’s what you need to know.
By eliminating the use of physical connectors and cables, wireless charging provides efficiency, cost and safety advantages over the standard power cable.
How wireless charging works
As of today, there are only two major groups that have incorporated wireless charging technology into devices: The Wireless Power Consortium and the AirFuel Alliance (formerly A4WP and PMA).
The Qi standard developed by the Wireless Power Consortium is used by over 900 products worldwide. Known as tightly-coupled or inductive power transfer, the Qi standard requires devices to be precisely aligned for charging to take place. As a result, Qi devices often use magnets to line-up devices with the charging pad. It is also limited to short charging distances, no more than 4cm but typically just 2cm.
Advancements continue to be made in the development of resonant capabilities. Led by the AirFuel Alliance, resonant charging allows more spatial freedom by creating a 3D charging zone. Such technology should allow for a ‘drop-and-charge’ use case for cafes, restaurants and airports, whereby multiple phones can be placed down on a surface and charged, without being perfectly aligned.
Industry standards are important to ensure interoperability between transmitters and receivers produced by different manufacturers. Whether one wins the standards battle or both emerge as the preferred choice for different use-cases remains to be seen.
But is it safe?
Many people who are exposed to the technology for the first time worry about harmful effects of radiation and the idea that power is buzzing around us.
Inductive charging is very safe to use, having been proven in devices such as electric toothbrushes and induction cookers and pans for years, while resonant charging has also been proven to run no significant health risks.
Wireless charging can even be safer than plugging in a device because it transmits power without the need for exposed electrical connectors.
Read more: Firtst laptop with AirFuel wireless charging
Beyond the smartphone
The most well-known application of wireless charging is the smartphone. The number of phone manufacturers who offer the capability is increasing. For those phones which do not offer the capability, a range of external charging cases and sleeves are available.
Battery-powered devices: In-device charging, whereby AA batteries are fitted with a wireless receiver which can recharge the battery when placed inside a transmitter device.
Commercial applications: Wireless charging offers real benefits in terms of productivity, efficiency and safety for industrial applications where cables and connectors can become unreliable, dangerous or incur high maintenance costs.
Medical: A genuine benefit in sterile environments where traditional connectors become a potential source of contamination and a physical hazard.
Electric Vehicles: Some manufacturers are already testing wirelessly-charged parking spots, while Highway England is testing the viability of highway lanes that can charge cars while they’re in motion.
A solution for the modern lifestyle
The proliferation of more mobile products from fitness and communication devices and the fact people’s lives are increasingly ‘on-the go’ mean battery driven products face a constant challenge of being ready for use. Cables and sockets have historically been the answer, but there is a finite ability to provide outlets especially in public spaces.
Read more: Wireless charging coming to Shenzhen
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When you hear the word “exercise” what comes to mind? Do visions of frantically running on a treadmill or being locked in a grueling gym session with a personal trainer flicker through your head? Take heart. Getting the regular exercise you need to stay healthy and protect yourself from developing a chronic disease doesn’t mean you have to participate in a full-blown, hour long, muscle-burning workout.
What is regular exercise?
Exercise is anything that gets your body moving. It’s the best thing you can do for yourself when it comes to:
- reducing your risk of developing several chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some cancers like colon cancer and breast cancer
- improving your mental health
- preventing falls
- reducing pain from arthritis and fibromyalgia
- controlling the frequency and duration of asthma attacks
- increasing your chances of living longer
Exercise doesn’t have to be overwhelming to provide you with all kinds of wonderful benefits. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends getting 2 hours and 30 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise every week—that’s about how long it takes to watch a movie. The CDC also recommends doing muscle-strengthening exercises 2 or more days a week.
The great news is that exercising for 10 minutes at a time is perfectly acceptable and will provide you with all of the above benefits.
What is moderate-intensity aerobic exercise?
To be moderately intense, the exercise you are doing should raise your heart rate and make you break a sweat. One way to tell if you’re working at a moderately intense rate is being able to talk, but not being able to sing the words to your favorite song. Here are some examples of activities that require moderate effort:
- walking fast
- doing water aerobics
- playing doubles tennis
- pushing a lawn mower
- cleaning (washing windows, vacuuming, mopping)
- biking 10–12 mph
What are muscle-strengthening exercises?
Muscle-strengthening activities work all the major muscle groups of your body (legs, hips, back, chest, abdomen, shoulders, and arms). Examples include:
- lifting weights
- working with resistance bands
- doing exercises that use your body weight for resistance (i.e., pushups, situps)
- heavy gardening (i.e., digging, shoveling)
When lifting weights, doing resistance bands or using your body weight for resistance, you should try to do 8–12 repetitions per activity. That counts as 1 set. Try to do at least 1 set of muscle-strengthening activities. To gain even more benefits, do 2 or 3 sets.
What does the research say about the benefits of exercise?
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), exercise can boost heart health by improving blood pressure and glucose, lessening stress, reducing body fat and fueling the production of heart-protective HDL cholesterol while lowering artery-clogging triglycerides and bad LDL cholesterol.
Researchers from the U.K. combined results from 28 studies and found that the more exercise people did, the lower their risk of Type 2 diabetes. The studies found that exercise helps insulin work better on cells and helps muscles use sugar more effectively.
A small study conducted by researchers in New Zealand found that walking 10 minutes after meals, and dinner in particular, proved to be more effective in controlling blood sugar levels for Type 2 diabetics than doing 30 minutes of exercise all at once during the day.
The NIH reports that ongoing clinical trails are examining physical activity and/or exercise interventions in cancer prevention and treatment. Research indicates that being active may have beneficial effects for several aspects of cancer survivorship—specifically:
- weight gain
- quality of life
- cancer recurrence or progression
- prognosis (likelihood of survival)
Most of the evidence comes from people diagnosed with breast, prostate or colorectal cancer.
Even if you haven’t been physically active for years, be sure to talk with your doctor before starting any kind of exercise program to determine the kinds of activities and intensity levels you can handle. Then set a reachable goal. Maybe it’s taking a 5-minute walk after dinner. Work to increase the time you are active as you get stronger. You’ll start feeling the benefits of exercise right away.
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The Need for Creativity in Education
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His 2006 talk ‘Do Schools Kill Creativity?’ has been viewed online over 60 million times, and has been seen by an estimated 380 million people in 160 countries. Sir Ken Robinson, regarded as one of the world’s leading thinkers on reforming the educational system, sadly passed away last Friday. We pay tribute to his legacy, and look back at his powerful takedown of the world’s current educational paradigm.
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What you need to know about Nigeria
Conflict, hunger, and the threat of Boko Haram
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with roughly 170 million people.
The country is facing a humanitarian crisis in the north-east due to ongoing conflict with the Islamic militant group Boko Haram.
The Boko Haram uprising began in the capital of Nigeria’s Borno State.
It then spread into Chad and Cameroon.
The border area between the three countries is known as the Lake Chad Basin.
Boko Haram has repeatedly attacked schools, churches, mosques, and markets.
The group also kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria.
Over 1.8 million people have been forced to flee their homes. Over half of those are children.
The majority of those displaced are living in temporary camps in urban centers.
Due to the conflict, many farmers haven’t planted crops for the past three years.
This has led to extremely high levels of food insecurity.
In December 2016, a possible famine alert was issued in areas inaccessible due to the Boko Haram insurgency.
A lack of conclusive data out of these areas makes it impossible to confirm a famine.
However, 5.2 million people in the region are estimated to not have enough to eat in 2017.
And 450,000 children under five may suffer from severe acute malnutrition.
Ongoing violence and insecurity make it very difficult for humanitarian groups to reach people in need.
International Medical Corps has worked across Nigeria since 2013.
Our programs include health, nutrition, water and sanitation,
…gender-based violence prevention and response, and food security.
We’re part of a massive polio vaccination effort for children under five years old.
We’re also responding to the emergency needs of displaced people in Chad and Cameroon.
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We’ve all been there before. You’re working with a few other people and everything just seems to click. It might be on a ballfield or court. Or it might be in a jam session or a rehearsal for live theater. If you’re lucky, it might be a collaborative team of teachers. You bounce ideas back and forth and offer honest feedback from a place of trust and mutual humility. The mood shifts from intense concentration to laughter to deep discussion and maybe even vulnerability.
In these moments, you realize that together you are creating something you could never create on your own.
However, we’ve all experienced the downside of small-group collaboration, where things move slowly with constant discord or flat disengagement. Deep down inside you wish you were working alone. In some cases, team dynamics can be downright toxic.
As teachers, we’ve seen both extremes as well. We’ve had students in small groups experiencing the collective sense of flow as they work together to accomplish a goal. You watch in amazement as they generate creative ideas, offer meaningful feedback, and create something together that they could never create on their own. In these moments, you realize that your students have moved beyond cooperation and into genuine collaboration.
But we’ve all had those moments when group work didn’t work – when one student dominated or when members simply checked out or when collectively they simply didn’t get started.
Creative collaboration is a critical component to project-based learning and design thinking. But it’s not as simple as assigning members to teams and then walking away. Collaboration is hard work because it’s deeply relational and all relationships have challenges. In other words, collaboration is hard because people are hard. However, as teachers, we can be proactive in the way we design creative collaboration to help mitigate some of the common pitfalls in student collaboration.
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The Four Biggest Pitfalls of Collaborative Grouping (And How to Avoid Them)
The following are some of the biggest pitfalls I’ve experienced in group collaboration. As an educator who has used project-based learning for over 15 years, I’ve made some big mistakes. I’d like to share the mistakes and some of the ways to avoid the mistakes through better design.
Pitfall #1: One Student Does All the Work
Remember those group projects in high school where you did all the work and other students still got all the credit? Researchers have a term for this. It’s cognitive loafing, where team members assume someone else will take care of the work and thus they pull back and do nothing. Why bother working if you know you can get full credit without the work? But actually, it’s a little more complicated. There are a lot of reasons why students might disengage from creative collaboration:
- Fear and Insecurity: They feel that their skills are too low. Here, a member either doesn’t want to be discovered or doesn’t want to bring the whole group down. What looks like laziness is actually fear masquerading as indifference. The core issue here is often a lack of self-efficacy. Even if they want to do the project, these students believe they are incapable of completing the tasks successfully.
- Difficulty: A group member might not have the skills to do a particular task and so it’s easier to let someone else with expertise handle it. After all, if the group shares a grade, this non-participating member might not want to get in the way of the two students who are aiming for an A.
- Confusion: A group member doesn’t know what to do. There’s a lack of clarity in terms of tasks and this lack of clarity pushes a student to disengage from the group.
- Lack of motivation: They simply aren’t interested in the project. This is the type of student who wouldn’t be doing the group project even if it were an individual project. Perhaps it’s boring or maybe they lack the creative endurance needed to go through the harder parts of the project.
- No Buy-In: A group member who doesn’t have a sense of ownership will have a hard time sticking with a project. It can feel like they’re following other people’s instructions and they have no sense of agency or autonomy. This issue will be addressed in Pitfall #2.
Solution: Build Interdependency into Your Projects
Often, the default in a project is for one member to work independently while other members are dependent on the single member, merely filling in the gaps when asked to help. The solution is to have students work interdependently. If independent learning is fully autonomous and dependent learning involves students simply depending on another person, interdependence is the overlap, where students have autonomy but they must have mutual dependence on one another.
When students work interdependently, each member is adding value to the group project. Each member has something of value to add to the group. So, what does this look like? One example is the following brainstorming strategy. Notice that students must listen to one another depend on each other for new ideas. Even the “low” student has something valuable to add to the group. This is a core idea of interdependence. Each member has something valuable to add.
Similarly, when doing research, every student can add additional information to the group’s shared knowledge. They can read texts that are varying reading levels and interest levels and then share what they learn during an interdependent research debrief. However, as a teacher, you sometimes need to integrate differentiation into mixed-level groups. You might provide specific scaffolds for students, such as sentence stems or tutorials. You might even pull students aside for small group interventions or do quick direct instruction lessons for students who need extra support.
In some cases, you might assign roles that correspond to skill levels. When students move from inquiry to research, they often need to narrow down their questions to determine which ones will actually guide the research process. Here’s what the process looks like. See if you can spot the interdependency and differentiation.
- Students generate questions independently. They might need sample questions or sentence stems, but they can all create questions.
- Once they have their questions, they can send them to a Google Document or submit them on a Google Form. Or if you want to go old school, students can have chart paper and smelly markers. Seriously, Mr. Sketch markers are the best. I don’t care about being Google Certified or Apple Certified but if Mr. Sketch ever does a certification, I might just do it.
- Students analyze the questions to see if they are actually research questions. Each member has a role:
- Member #1: Is this question fact-based?
- Member #2: Is this question on-topic?
- Member #3: Is this question specific?
- Member #4: Quality control
- Members #1-3 can put a star by each question that fits their criteria. So, member #1 looks at each question and puts a star by questions that are fact-based. Meanwhile, member #4 is available to help and observe. Then member #4 double-checks all the questions with three stars and circles or highlights it if it’s an actual research question.
Note that a struggling student might still be able to do the job of member #1 or 2 while a more advanced student can do #3. Meanwhile, the group member who typically dominates and achieves at a top level learns to trust other members and wait and observe. However, they can still provide expertise as the quality control person who has the final say.
When students work interdependently, they become more confident, which addresses fear and insecurity. When the tasks fit their ability, confusion and difficulty become less significant. It also helps promote buy-in, which can lead to more resiliency. However, even with interdependency, there is the risk of one student dominating the collaborative process.
Pitfall #2: One Student Dominates the Creative Process
This second pitfall similar to pitfall #1 but instead of one person doing all the work, this is where one person determines the entire creative vision for the group. In some cases, a single student is highly talented and it makes sense to the other members to let that person make key decisions. In other situations, a single member is more forceful or even manipulative and bulldozes other members.
In many groups, the student who dominates isn’t even aware of the behavior. This student might feel that they are passionately defending an idea or engaging in meaningful dialogue. However, if other group members don’t have a voice in the collaborative process, it becomes easier to disengage. It’s not a lack of motivation or even self-efficacy. Instead, it’s a sense of powerlessness. If your ideas aren’t being honored, why bother trying to collaborate?
Solution: Incorporate Individual Voice into Collaboration
This solution is similar to the first point about interdependency. It’s the idea that even within a collaborative project, students should have individual ownership of specific tasks. So, in the brainstorming structure, students have the opportunity to generate their own ideas first and share those with the group rather than working together on a group brainstorm where louder members might dominate.
Other times, it might involve breaking up specific tasks and allowing each member to work independently within the project. So, if students are prototyping on a STEM challenge, each member might work on specific components of the prototype and then meet up multiple times to seek out and offer feedback and ultimately create a cohesive single prototype. This process provides internal processing time for introverts who need that additional personal mental space.
It also helps to incorporate a shared leadership model. Here, you break a project up into multiple components and ensure that each student has an opportunity to own the leadership for a different component. For example, if it’s a shared documentary, one person might take the lead on key editing decisions, while another owns the storyboarding leadership and another owns the visual storytelling elements.
Note that this varies by age. High school students are sometimes able to negotiate roles and clarify responsibilities in a self-directed way while early elementary students might need assigned roles with role sheets and modeling from the teacher. Although this can take time, it saves time in the long run as students eventually master the essential soft skill of shared ownership.
Pitfall #3: Groupthink
The first two pitfalls involved a single person dominating the process. By contrast, groupthink occurs when the entire group makes collectively bad decisions. Irving Janis first coined the term “groupthink” in 1972 to describe what happens when group cohesion gets in the way of necessary critical feedback. Janis analyzed the disaster of the Bay of Pigs operation and contrasted that to Kennedy’s approach to the Cuban Missile Crisis, where members in his cabinet were encouraged to think divergently, question one another, and play devil’s advocated. Note that Adam Grant has since critiqued this (there’s a great section on this idea in Originals) suggesting that it’s often overconfidence in leadership and a lack of intellectual humility rather than group cohesion that leads to groupthink.
We see this to a lesser degree in group projects. Here, team members get tunnel vision and fail to see the whole picture. Often, these teams get along really well and there’s a collective overconfidence about how awesome their work is. They no longer engage in vital critical feedback and they fail to think divergently.
Solution: Use Intergroup Peer Feedback
It’s easy in a classroom setting for groups to work in silos – figuratively, of course, because silos would make for really awkward classroom design. Collaborative teams can easily work through an entire project without ever intentionally working with any of the other groups. This is too bad because other group members might have fresh ideas, necessary perspectives, and critical feedback that could help a group take their projects to the next level.
An easy solution is to have students send one member to another group during a small part of the project. They might, for example, do some research for another group during the research phase. Or during the ideation phase, you might have do a gallery walk and have every group rotate around and offer ideas with sticky notes.
Other times, you might have every group member disperse and find a partner from another group. After partnering up, they go through the 20-minute peer feedback process:
When this is done, each group member goes back and debriefs the feedback with their original group. After each member shares in a round-robin, the group, as a whole, talks about trends they see and discusses possible critical feedback they might want to address.
Pitfall #4: An Inability to Resolve Conflict
Sometimes group members fight with one another and they simply can’t resolve their conflict quickly. This is especially true in projects where there is already mutual buy-in and interdependence. Sometimes the conflict is personal. Personalities will clash. Students can get careless with their words. In these moments, you might need to step in and engage in conflict resolution. I’ve known teachers who have specific conflict resolution structures to guide them in the process. Others have used peer mediators.
Other times, the issue is less about personality and more about clashing creative visions. When I was a kid, I used to watch VH1 Behind the Music. Nearly every band broke up due to “creative differences.” Part of this is ego, with member feeling that their ideas are better than others (addressed in the second pitfall) but sometimes there is a genuine difference in the creative direction of a project.
However, whether it’s a personality issue (he’s not doing his fair share of the work or she’s dominating the conversations) or a creative difference, conflicts tend to fester due to a lack of trust. Conflict resolution requires hard conversations and often vulnerability. But that can’t exist without trust.
Solution: Spend time building trust
Trust is vital for interdependent work, with member depending on other members to complete their tasks. It can feel risky and even vulnerable to let go of control. Trust is also vital in order to give and receive critical feedback. I recently created a sketch video showing the grid I developed to help students see the connection between trust and feedback:
In some cases, you might need to do team-building activities before you even start with a project. I’m not saying we go full-blown into trust falls or bust out the ice breakers (I’m an introvert, which means I’d rather let the ice melt slowly over days or weeks instead of shattering it all at once). However, spending a little time earlier on in team-building can help students develop long-term trust throughout the project. It also helps to establish group norms and expectations.
Trust takes time to develop, which is why, as an eighth-grade teacher, I often had teams work for an entire quarter on multiple projects before changing up the grouping. The same thing is true of the collaborative teams I have at the university level.
The Need for Structure
Notice that these solutions work in tandem to boost collaboration. Trust leads to interdependence but interdependence can help develop trust. The following sketch video explores key elements of successful creative collaboration:
They also often require structure. This was a hard lesson for me. In my goal of empowering students, I worried that using specific structures would make the projects less authentic. However, outside of school, we often use structures in our shared work. True, you might keep it informal, but you might use a Mastermind Structure for peer feedback. You might not state it outright but you use a round-robin structure when sharing your ideas with one another. Some structures can crush creativity and feel cumbersome. But others can boost creative collaboration and actually facilitate ownership and interdependency.
And yet, and even when we, as educators, plan things well, collaborative work will never be perfect. Students will argue with one another. They’ll check out and wander around the classroom. Collaboration takes practice and that includes mistakes. But that’s the beauty of it. Even when the pitfalls happen, they are opportunities for students to learn and grow and ultimately develop the vital soft skill of collaboration.
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This calculator can help you assess whether you should stay on a floating mortgage rate or change to a fixed rate.
It takes into account where the markets expect the Official Cash Rate and floating rates to go over the next couple of years and allows you to work out whether staying floating is cheaper than fixing at a certain rate for a certain time.
It works out the cost of floating using the assumed size and timing of rises in the OCR that the financial markets assume. It is updated daily.
However, it is only designed to 'help' you make a decision. It does not take all factors into account. Some of those other factors will be non-monetary, some specific to your personal situation.
For a full and proper assessment related to your specific circumstances, you should seek professional advice from a qualified person.
Don't make a decision based solely on this tool. It is designed to help, not to decide. It only factors in the technical rate outlook data, nothing more.
How it works ...
At any point in time, certain things are known. These include current wholesale rates, current mortgage offer rates, and what the futures market is pricing.
Markets aren't really 'predicting' what a rate will be at a point in the future; what they are saying is, "given the circumstances today, the balance of opinion in the market is that a rate of x% in y months can be expected". Tomorrow, this same approach could well give a different outcome, equally valid based on tomorrow's circumstances. Futures market participants will continuously adjust their positions as these changes happen. So, they are not predicting a committed rate.
It is these 'futures' positions that are used in this calculator. These positions are updated daily, so this calculator may well give different answers tomorrow.
Therefore the tool looks to make a calculation based on the best data we have today.
It calculates the monthly payment cost for two scenarios over a 24 month future period, and compares the total payment cost of each, one floating, one fixed.
If you use a one year rate, the tool assumes at the end of the period you will enter into another one year fixed rate mortgage at a new implied rate based on the difference between today's one and two year swap rates.
If you use a two year rate, the tool uses the 2 year fixed mortgage you input.
The assumptions used ...
This calculator is designed to be used by someone who is thinking of changing from a floating rate mortgage to either a one or two year fixed rate mortgage. (Don't use it for any other purpose.)
Payment calculations are based on a standard 20 year table mortgage taken out 'now'. If you have actually taken out a mortgage earlier (or over a different term than 20 years), the absolute values in your case may be less, although relativities should be similar.
This tool assumes the margin is constant between the floating rate and the 90 day bank bill rate - in other words, we are changing the future variable rates by the same amount as the 90 day bill rate changes. It is assumed that the 90 day bill rate is a relatively accurate predictor of the OCR and therefore the floating mortgage rates. This is usually the case and has been over a long period, but it is no certainty.
If you use a one-year rate, the tool assumes at the end of the period you will enter into another one year fixed rate mortgage at a new implied rate based on the difference between today's one and two year swap rates.
Other resources ...
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Security Non-Issue/Publicity Stunt
I keep seeing tweets about how Microsoft is ignoring a security flaw. One that involves a potential risk for passwords to be exposed.
I think the folks who found this problem are likely VERY intelligent. And I think raising this flaw was a good move on their part. And I don't think that they're guilty of a publicity stunt. I think folks like these are. I also think they're dead wrong – because this isn't an issue.
How can Exposing Passwords NOT be a security issue?
At the heart of this problem is the fact that passwords for SQL Server Authentication users are stored, in memory, in plain text. Granted, that seems like a bit of a problem and I wouldn't be surprised to see it corrected some day (maybe in future service packs and/or future versions). But I certainly agree that it doesn't need any immediate attention. Nor, in fact, do I think it really needs any attention.
Why don't I care? Because in order to take advantage of this information, you would need to be a part of the Trusted Computing Base (TCB) on a server to gain access to these passwords. In other words, you'd either have to be running code as an Administrator or as Local System/etc. So, in other words, to be able to take advantage of this exploit, you'd need to be an administrator on the box you're targeting.
My kids all have bedroom doors that lock. My bathrooms all have doors that lock.
Those locks offer some great security – when you close the door from the inside, and turn the little knob inside the door-knob, you're locked in.
Sadly though, because my children (when they were smaller) were able to accidentally lock either their bedroom door or the bathroom door without being able to figure out how to unlock it, I've also got little 'keys' scattered in my house on top of door frames. And these keys are either nothing more than little thin slats of metal provided by door knob-manufactures, or cannibalized sardine-can openers. Point is: any parent with small children knows exactly what I'm talking about.
And in relation to this, what this security exploit is crying wolf about is analogous to saying that if thieves are able to break into your home, they might be able to unlock your kid's doors.
But what about…?
And as for any arguments that people testers or others might have admin perms when they shouldn't have, those are are all moot. If you trust those people enough to give them access to your systems at TCB level, or if you trust code enough to run it at that level, then you've got way bigger problems than the fact that code or a rogue admin might find out that Ted's password over in accounting is hotdog1. And if Ted's using that password everywhere within your enterprise, then he should be connecting to your SQL Server with Windows Authentication – not SQL Server Authentication. So this shouldn't even be a problem – and if it is, it's not because of this exploit, but because you haven't secured your system as you should. In other words, about the only time when using SQL Server Authentication makes sense is when you're letting web users or other applications access your system that can't (for one reason or another) use Integrated/Windows Authentication. And being able to discover those people's or application's passwords is a moot point. | <urn:uuid:83385f54-6b36-4cbc-9bdd-4891eed25c37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://updates.sqlservervideos.com/2009/09/security-non-issuepublicity-stunt.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.965735 | 718 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Ottawa Decision Support Framework (ODSF)
The Ottawa Decision Support Framework (ODSF) conceptualizes the support needed by patients, families, and their practitioners for ‘difficult’ decisions with multiple options whose features are valued differently. It guides practitioners and researchers to assess participants’ decisional needs, provide decision support interventions (clinical counselling, patient decision tools, decision coaching) and evaluate their effects on decisional outcomes. It has been used to develop and evaluate over 50 patient decision aids, measures (Decisional Conflict Scale), and training in providing decision support.
The ODSF asserts that decision support interventions that address patients’ decisional needs improve the decisional outcomes: quality of the decision and decision making process, which may favourably affect implementation of chosen option and appropriate use of health services. A 2020 review of ODSF-based studies (>100 decisions, >50,000 patients, 18 countries, 5 continents) validated decisional needs listed below and showed that ODSF-based patient decision aids were superior to usual care in improving decision quality and reducing decisional needs. Further research is needed to study downstream impacts and to evaluate decision coaching. More details about the ODSF and its evaluation are found here.
Resources that use the ODSF and References
- ODSF Decisional Needs Coding Manual: conceptual / operational definitions.
- Practitioner Decision Support Skills Training: O'Connor AM, Stacey, D, & Jacobsen MJ. Ottawa Decision Support Tutorial (ODST): Improving Practitioners' Decision Support Skills. Ottawa Hospital Research Institute: Patient Decision Aids, Web. Free log in to e-training.
- Patient Decision Aid Development Training: O'Connor A, Stacey D, Saarimaki A, et al. Ottawa Patient Decision Aid Development eTraining. Web. Free log in to e-training.
- Overview paper. Stacey D, Légaré F, Boland L, Lewis KB, Loiselle MC, Hoefel L, Garvelink M, O’Connor A. 20th Anniversary Ottawa Decision Support Framework: Part 3 Overview of Systematic Reviews and Updated Framework. Med Decis Making. 2020;40(3):379-398. doi:10.1177/0272989X20911870
- Presentation by Annette O'Connor entitled "Ottawa Decision Support Framework: Historical Perspective" (PowerPoint file with audio). Part of the "20th Anniversary Update of the Ottawa Decision Support Framework: A Workshop to Discuss Evidence, Lessons Learned, and Future Research." held during the "10th International Shared Decision Making Conference (ISDM 2019), that took place from July 7-10 2019 in Quebec City, Canada.
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Lihong Wang, PhD, continues to build on his groundbreaking technology that allows light deep inside living tissue during imaging and therapy.
In the Jan. 5 issue of Nature Communications, Wang, the Gene K. Beare Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, reveals for the first time a new technique that focuses diffuse light inside a dynamic scattering medium containing living tissue.
In addition, Wang and his team have improved the speed of optical focusing deep inside tissue by two orders of magnitude. This improvement in speed is an important step toward noninvasive optical imaging in deep tissue and photodynamic therapy.
In the new research, the team built on a technique it developed in 2010 to improve the focusing speed of time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) optical focusing for applications in living tissue. To focus light, the engineers use a virtual internal guide star at the targeted location. By detecting the wavefront of light emitted from the guide star, they can determine an optimum phase pattern that allows scattered light moving along different paths to focus at the targeted location.
When light is shined into living biological tissue, breathing and blood flow changes the optical interference, or speckle pattern, which can cause previous methods to focus diffuse light inside scattering media to fail. Scientists have to act quickly to get a clear image.
The new TRUE technology combines two techniques: focused ultrasonic modulation and optical phase conjugation. Researchers use a type of mirror to record then time-reverse the ultrasound-modulated light emitted from the ultrasonic focus to achieve the best focus.
Previously, technology limited the speed of TRUE focusing to no more than 1 hertz (cycles per second). To overcome this obstacle, the team used a fast-responding photorefractive crystal that is sensitive to light at the 790-nanometer wavelength, making it suitable to focus light deep into biological tissue.
The new TRUE technology is able to focus light inside a dynamic medium with a speckle correlation time as short as 5.6 milliseconds. The improved speed allowed Wang to achieve the first optical focusing of diffuse light inside a scattering medium containing living biological tissue.
Going forward, the team plans to implement the system in a reflection configuration, where light is shined and detected on the same side of the tissue.
Liu Y, Lai P, Ma C, Xu X, Grabar A, Wang LV. Optical
focusing deep inside dynamic scattering media with near-infrared
time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) light. Nature
Communications, online Jan. 5, 2015. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6904.
Funding from the National Institutes of Health (DP1 EB016986 and R01 CA186567) supported this research.
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Students at the Medical College of Georgia are finishing the first month of their spring semester. For some, they are mere weeks away from Match Day 2019. For others, it is the start of their second semester of medical school. But, no matter where they are on their academic journey, it is the perfect time to find a mentor ready to help guide their career path.
“Mentorship is important for all walks of life, particularly in navigating and advancing through a medical career,” said Dr. Zach Klaassen, a urological surgical oncologist at the Georgia Cancer Center and Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. “We have a mentorship program that starts during a student’s first year and continues on into residency.”
According to Klaassen, students should consider three areas when choosing a mentor. First, the ability to connect and share experiences important to the mentee’s career in the medical field. This can include helping the student provide the best information on an application for residency and/or fellowship or sharing insightful opinions on a student’s research proposal. Next, a good mentor will provide letters of recommendation that are as individual as the person applying for the residency or fellowship. Finally, mentors and mentees form a bond that is going to survive into actual medical practice.
“A doctor’s choice to work at an academic medical center is about research and educating the next generation of doctors,” Klaassen said. “Yes, we do enjoy the patient aspect of our jobs. But, if all we wanted to do was care for patients, we can find that at a private practice.”
For Klaassen, he gets much more enjoyment from walking a resident through a procedure and watching them do it well than doing the procedure himself. After all, being a mentor means you make an impact on the student’s or resident’s career that will last for years to come. When they have questions about the best treatment plan for a patient’s condition, they have access 24/7 to someone who is ready to listen and provide guidance on the next steps.
“Mentorship allows you to build relationships that can last for the next 40 to 50 years of an individual’s career,” Klaassen said. “These are the doctors who could become your colleagues later in life. The relationships we form through mentorship allow us to work more collaboratively to provide the best patient care possible.”
Of course, communication is the biggest key to a successful mentor/mentee relationship. For Klaassen, he likes to talk with his residents to find the best way to share critiques, offer opinions about alternative surgical options, etc.
“I like to give feedback in real time,” he said. “While some feedback can be given during a procedure, sometimes you wait until the patient is in recovery to reflect on what the resident could have done different during the surgery.”
Klaassen, Dr. Martha Terris and the other members of the Medical College of Georgia’s Section of Urology have a mentorship program, the Urology Interest Group, starting as soon as first-year students take the first steps in their career. The team holds workshops every three months to meet with students, discuss topics related to urology including urinalysis, suture tying and cystoscopy.
“In the medical field, there are open positions filled through a personal word from your mentor,” Klaassen said. “Those recommendations are paramount and will place students in a position to succeed.”
According to Klaassen, the mentoring program for urology starts with around 40 first-year students. By their second year, the interest drops to 20 as students start to decide on their career choices. Once they get to third year, the number of students is typically between 10 and 12. Around five students declare urology during their fourth year as they interview for residency programs.
“Urology can be a niche specialty,” Klaassen said. “I didn’t find it until my fourth year. But, for some of the residents we’ve matched in the last few years we’ve known since they were first-year medical students.”
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Immersive virtual reality (VR) emerges as a promising research and clinical tool. However, several studies suggest that VR induced adverse symptoms and effects (VRISE) may undermine the health and safety standards, and the reliability of the scientific results. In the current literature review, the technical reasons for the adverse symptomatology are investigated to provide suggestions and technological knowledge for the implementation of VR head-mounted display (HMD) systems in cognitive neuroscience. The technological systematic literature indicated features pertinent to display, sound, motion tracking, navigation, ergonomic interactions, user experience, and computer hardware that should be considered by the researchers. Subsequently, a meta-analysis of 44 neuroscientific or neuropsychological studies involving VR HMD systems was performed. The meta-analysis of the VR studies demonstrated that new generation HMDs induced significantly less VRISE and marginally fewer dropouts. Importantly, the commercial versions of the new generation HMDs with ergonomic interactions had zero incidents of adverse symptomatology and dropouts. HMDs equivalent to or greater than the commercial versions of contemporary HMDs accompanied with ergonomic interactions are suitable for implementation in cognitive neuroscience. In conclusion, researchers’ technological competency, along with meticulous methods and reports pertinent to software, hardware, and VRISE, are paramount to ensure the health and safety standards and the reliability of neuroscientific results.
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The Beverly Hills Police Department is investigating the appearance of anti-Semitic fliers left outside of homes in the California city on Sunday morning.
Today, in one of the only Jewish-majority cities outside of Israel, this screed was distributed on residents’ doorsteps. The world’s oldest extant form of racism rears its ugly head on Erev Chanukah. The response to this hatred is a simple, but unmistakable: “Am Yisrael Chai.” pic.twitter.com/H2FG4hwAS9
— John Mirisch (@JohnMirisch) November 28, 2021
“Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” read the flier before listing the names and titles of more than a dozen people with the word “Jewish” next to them, including Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
It also said: “Were literally Shabbos Goy carrying out the will of the Jews, wittingly or unwittingly.”
The printed papers contained the logo and a link to the website of GoyimTV, which the Anti-Defamation League says is run by the Goyim Defense League. Just last month, that group, which is virulently anti-Semitic, hung banners over a highway overpass in Austin, Texas, that read “Vax the Jews,” and came amid a spate of anti-Semitic incidents there.
The fliers in California were found around 6 a.m. on Nov. 28. Police were immediately notified; they plan to beef up patrols in the city during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah.
In a statement, the Beverly Hills Police Department said that officers “surveyed the area and discovered that the flyers, enclosed in plastic bags containing rice (for weight), were distributed to homes in several blocks in the northeast area of the city. The flyer, a single 8 ½ by 11 sheet of paper, contains propaganda-style hate speech related to the COVID pandemic and the Jewish people. Police and public works personnel canvassed the area and collected the flyers. Police are continuing to investigate and attempt to identify the persons responsible for this disturbing act.”
Beverly Hills City Council member John Mirisch posted an image of the flier on his Twitter page, saying: “Today, in one of the only Jewish-majority cities outside of Israel, this screed was distributed on residents’ doorsteps. The world’s oldest extant form of racism rears its ugly head on Erev Chanukah. The response to this hatred is simple but unmistakable: ‘Am Yisrael Chai.’ ” | <urn:uuid:3e7a1027-7f4a-423c-a056-fc9f9647b85c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/beverly-hills-police-investigate-anti-semitic-fliers-blaming-jews-for-covid-19/2021/11/29/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952355 | 584 | 1.632813 | 2 |
It doesn’t take much more than common sense to realize that what you put into your body is going to have an impact on how your body looks and feels. If you eat foods that are filled with fat, cooked in grease and high on the sugar then your body is going to reflect that in its shape, size and texture. In contrast, if you consume foods that are healthy for you then your body is going to respond by looking and feeling healthier.
This is true at all levels including the level of your skin. People who want to have skin that looks young and supple and that has that healthy natural glow to it need to start by paying attention to what types of foods they are putting into their bodies. Take a look at the following twenty foods that are good for your skin and think about which ones you can easily add to your diet to get that youthful skin appearance that you desire:
1. Water. The number one thing that you can put into your body if you want great-looking skin is water. The more water you drink, the more you flush all of the other stuff out of your body and the healthier your skin is going to look.
2. Green tea. When you’re not drinking water, you should be drinking green tea. It has many, many different health benefits including benefits for the skin. You can drink it cold or warm. Avoid adding sugar or milk to it if you want the best benefits for your skin.
3. Cantaloupe. This food increases antioxidants in your body which increases your ability to absorb free radicals which in turn reduce skin problems so that you have healthier skin.
4. Tomatoes. This is another food that is rich in anti-oxidants and so will have the same skin-boosting benefits that the cantaloupe will give to you.
5. Berries. Strawberries, blueberries and blackberries are all berries that are also rich in antioxidants. Eat them alone, toss them in cereal or add them to the sides of other dishes to increase the healthiness of your skin all throughout the day.
6. Plums. There really is a long list of fruits that you can eat that are rich in antioxidants and that are therefore good for your skin.
7. Sweet potatoes. This is a vegetable alternative to the cantaloupe and tomato options that you may want to try to get those free radicals flowing healthfully throughout your body and fighting off skin problems.
8. Broccoli. This is a great vegetable that has many different health benefits which is why you’re always hearing that you should “eat your broccoli”. One of the things it contains a whole lot of is Vitamin A, a vitamin that is great at improving the turnover of cells in the skin. This means that when you eat broccoli, your skin gets renewed more quickly and the freshest (nicest looking) skin is on top where everyone you meet can see it.
9. Spinach. This food doesn’t just make you strong like Popeye. It’s also rich in the same Vitamin A properties that broccoli has so it’s good for your skin as well. You never saw Popeye looking like he had dry, aged skin did you?!
10. Carrots. If you want to get your Vitamin A but you aren’t that big of a fan of leafy green vegetables then you may want to turn to carrots to improve your skin with this vitamin.
11. Low Fat Dairy. Diary products are another really great source of Vitamin A so they can be really good for the skin. However, you want to avoid the fat that is in a lot of these foods so make sure that you look for low-fat versions of cheese and milk that are rich in Vitamin A.
12. Omega3 Rich Fish Dishes. Omega3 is that “good fat” that we’re always trying to get even though we try to avoid the “bad fat”. One of the things that the Omega3 fats do is ward off any kind of inflammation. This means they’re good for the skin. You can find these in many different fish dishes including tuna, shellfish, sardines and salmon.
13. Flax seeds. You don’t have to eat fish to get the essential fatty acids that your body needs (and that improve your skin). An alternative option is to eat flax seeds and to cook with flax seed oil.
14. Walnuts. These are yet another option that you can choose in addition to flax seeds or fish dishes if you want to improve your skin with those essential fatty acids.
15. Grapefruit. This food is really rich in Vitamin C. Vitamin C is great for people concerned about skin problems because it delays or reduces wrinkles.
16. Oranges. Just like with grapefruits, these are great for the skin because they are so rich in Vitamin C.
17. Brussel Sprouts. Most people think that you have to eat citrus fruits to get Vitamin C but there are a few vegetables out there that have it as well. Brussel sprouts are a good one for the skin. Peas are another option.
18. Whole wheat. Another ingredient in some foods that is really good for your skin is selenium. This is found in whole wheat cereals, breads and baked goods. This improves the skin at a cellular level and keeps you looking young and beautiful.
19. Lean red meat. Some people have poor skin because they don’t have enough iron in their diets. If you are concerned that you’re too pale or you have dark circles under your eyes then you may need more iron. Red meat is a great source for that but make sure that you’re not eating any red meat that is too high in fat.
20. Eggs. Eggs are a good iron-providing alternative for people who don’t want to eat much red meat.
Adding these foods to your diet should go a long way towards improving the healthfulness of your skin. However, it’s just as important to cut out foods from your diet as it is to add foods if you do want healthy skin. Make sure that you reduce your intake of caffeine, bad fats, salt, sugar, etc. to maximize the healthy benefits that your skin is getting from the intake of these other good foods!
Sarah Forester from Australia on February 24, 2014:
I'm always trying to increase my water intake, I'm going to need to focus on some of the others as well.
Subhas from New Delhi, India on July 10, 2013:
Hi Kathryn Vercillo! This is really a gem of an article one would love to read and comply with.
vibesites from United States on July 10, 2013:
Thanks for a wonderful health information. For most of days I drink water much to keep my skin clear. Fortunately, I eat almost all of the foods you recommend. Thanks for posting! Up, useful and shared. :)
siddharth on March 06, 2013:
Thanks for this sharing with us !!!!!!
Salam Perumanna on February 22, 2013:
Thanks for sharing this is really useful! I vote it up! :)
Kari on January 12, 2013:
Every night I scramble up 2 organic eggs with spinach in them & eat them with a side of sliced tomato! So yummy & healthy!
mjhilado on November 08, 2012:
Thanks! Your article helps me a lot.
meegs supergirl on October 02, 2012:
Great article, when you look after yourself, feeling great just naturally follows :)
greeneryday from Some tropical country on September 25, 2012:
Very informative hub and useful list of foods that help to enhance your skin looks, thanks for sharing..
KellyMediaBest from Tampa, Florida on August 14, 2012:
Stress has always been the major factor in my breakouts and how my skin looks but I do try to drink a lot of water to keep it clear, and it does work! Also, I like that you included cantaloupe to this list. Every type of melon is chalk full of antioxidants and many other vitamins and minerals that are great for your skin and overall health. My favorite is watermelon.
cityalice on June 16, 2012:
This is a great list. Water is definitely the most important to keep your skin healthy, and I love fish. I see that most of the list is vegetables and fruits which make perfect sense.
rabia from afghanistan 16 years old in 11 class at shamal public girls high school on June 08, 2012:
yeah! friends its really true that water is so much essential for our skin. my dear friend every morning when you wake up from your beautiful and cute cute dreams drink 6 glass water
then pray for me
thanks bye me rabia
deepa on May 25, 2012:
too good article
billy on May 23, 2012:
this is garbage....doesn't even include avocado
Thanks! on May 22, 2012:
Thanks for the help!
Rita on May 13, 2012:
Thank u for this information i use most of them, is real good
Cathleena Beams from Tennessee on May 13, 2012:
Great hub - Let me know that I am doing some things right. Blueberries for breakfast, drinking green tea, eating broccoli, tomatoes and carrots. Good to have the reminders though that I need to add some more of the ingredients you recommended, number one being to drink more water. This is an area I find myself slacking off on. I found you through success stories. Congratulations on doing what you do well and sharing your tips and techniques with others here on Hubpages. This is a fabulous healthy eating hub. Voting up and awesome!
Angela Michelle Schultz from United States on May 10, 2012:
Well, looks like I'm eating the right foods, just still have bad skin. Maybe I need to avoid the other kind of food. Now I need an article, foods to avoid.
hi friend from India on April 19, 2012:
Nice and informative hub
Lisa on April 15, 2012:
eating foods like these really does make a difference! great hub :)
Mike on April 14, 2012:
Kelly Kline Burnett from Fontana, WI on April 11, 2012:
The last one surprised me - it shouldn't have given the vitamins in the eggs. Great post.
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Miranda on April 01, 2012:
Great info, but just one thing to mention - you should not cook with Flax seed oil. It's a very sensitive fat that will change when heated and turn into a harmful one.
regen on March 29, 2012:
hope it is good
sammythrone from North America/South America/Europe/Asia on March 28, 2012:
Water is so important for health and radiant skin, and yet most people still find it hard to drink plenty of it daily. I'm sure if everyone trade in their carbonated drinks for water, they will be glowing from head to toes.
stella on March 27, 2012:
really my skin is glowing its good etonmet food
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Tyler on March 26, 2012:
Honey and lemon juice is also a great way to get that glowing spot free skin.
TotalHealth from Hermosa Beach, CA on March 13, 2012:
Great hub! Definitely drinks lots of water and eat plenty of fruit rich in antioxidants!!
John Cena on March 11, 2012:
all these would take time to work out, but still i'll try it!!
Maria Babar on February 29, 2012:
Very informative - for a younger look
neetu on February 20, 2012:
true grt n cooooll,,,
parthi on February 14, 2012:
thanq yo .......ill try
Merona on February 07, 2012:
Thank you! Sharing Is Cring :-) Cucumbers, Oysters, Mushrooms and Avocados Are Also Very Good For Skin.
gaurav on February 04, 2012:
m gonna try dis...n thank q..:D
CoCoglam on January 31, 2012:
I totally agree with the first person that commented we would all be a healthier and more attractive people
kelleyward on January 28, 2012:
Great hub. After I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes I have eaten much better and my skin reflects it. I love all these foods you mentioned. Thanks~
aestheticlinicSG from Singapore on January 26, 2012:
Sometimes skin rejuvenation only needs the simple act of sleeping in order for your cells to regenerate. Little to no rest can be a stress to your body, and this releases chemicals or toxins that cause oxidation. This is definitely one thing that can age your cells faster which results to your skin looking tired and dull. However, if you want instant solution, you are free to visit aesthetic clinics for consultation, http://www.hairandlaserclinic.com/aesthetics.htm , it pays to asked the right person for skin problems.
ME on January 18, 2012:
O I WILL TRY IT
Hema on January 17, 2012:
Egg...do I have to eat yellow part as well..??
fitness_freak on January 17, 2012:
I heard building up a good sweat during workouts helps a lot too !
carahoyler on January 13, 2012:
Brilliant post! I have been a vegetarian for 17 years and these are the foods I eat (with the exception of number 19). I don’t claim to have the best skin ever, but I am proof that if you eat well, you feel well, and therefore are well. You’re post was very insightful and I’m so glad you shared it.
Anne on January 12, 2012:
Great help esp.to those pregnant women. .thnk u hub. .God bless!
sheena on January 08, 2012:
thanks for the info.. :)
Phoebe Pike on December 28, 2011:
And I thought I naturally had good skin... but I do eat most of the foods on this list so maybe not! ^_^
mortgage-news from Los Angeles, CA on December 21, 2011:
I am surprised that cucumber did not make the top 20. How did cucumber get elimiated? that was a bit of an updet.
johncimble from Bangkok on December 18, 2011:
victoria from Hamilton On. on November 30, 2011:
I do these foods most of the time.But thanks for the reminder.We always need reminders of what we know.
With good foods like these and some exercise,our bodies should be able to maintain our good spirits.
Prasanth on November 17, 2011:
It is very good list but one Giant fruit is missed in this list. " THE APPLE " It is also good for skin .
Aceblogs from India on October 19, 2011:
Well thanks a for very informative hub i would say , also i want to suggest few things which i know is not good for a healthy skin , eating too much of chicken , dry fruits and chocolates is not at all good
Naren on October 16, 2011:
Thanks a lot
Ployie from Bangkok,Thailand on October 15, 2011:
Thanks for sharing this is really useful! I vote it up! :)
Dr Rockpile from USA on October 10, 2011:
Thanks for the list! And I now have a craving for fruit. ;)
Asahda Shavaja Poet of the New Age from New York City on October 07, 2011:
great info. Thanks.
avilashbehera from Pune, iNDIA on September 23, 2011:
This is so useful for me. I can use some of these tips at my spa http://www.spatouche.in
Stephanie Das from Miami, US on September 19, 2011:
Voted up and useful--Great information. All you have to do is eat for your skin, and the rest of your body will benefit. Skin really is a mirror of your health.
naturalsolutions on September 18, 2011:
I do believe that by just drinking a lot of water everyday you will able to get the health that you want. Drinking 10 to 15 glass of water a day is the best.
drspaniel from Somewhere, where the sun shines once a year... on September 17, 2011:
Great advice especially since in this day and age, more and more people are feasting on McDonald's instead of fruit and vegetables!
SHEETAL on September 07, 2011:
Whatever the food eaten was given in will follow it and i think so the result should be well and good.thanks for the details.
selfdefenselesson on August 24, 2011:
Awesome stuff. It pretty much confirms that by eating healthy food, you'll do your entire body wonders. Not just your skin.
Chris on August 16, 2011:
....nothing about soy beans, soy milk, honey,other kinds of nuts, rooibos tea and so on. I guess it serves as a guide only.
elliegoulding on August 15, 2011:
So basically you can't eat a bunch of junk food?! Laugh out loud! Great hub
Andrew0208 from Zion on August 10, 2011:
Great! I just love this article, very informative. Thank you.
cowtowngirl77 on August 09, 2011:
I have recently changed my eating habits to get healthier and this is very informative.
Ravi Singh from India on August 08, 2011:
Nice info.I too insist on taking more green vegetables and fruits.It very difficult for me to get low fat dairy.specially butter and milk.
Venture Boyz from Floating in the clouds on July 27, 2011:
Excellent hub. Thank you for spreading awareness Kathryn. When I once asked a dermatologist what foods to avoid to make sure I don't break out they responded that you should be more focused on foods that are good for your skin than foods that are bad for your skin. Make sense? Thanks so much for sharing this list of foods that are good for my skin.
fashion on July 27, 2011:
Fantastic article.An excellent resource of information.All foods are always the best choice.
askjanbrass from St. Louis, MO on July 20, 2011:
Thanks for this, really useful Hub!
Freegoldman from Newyork on July 19, 2011:
I never thought that one can have an idea of making a hub of such a topic.Awesome work.Banana can be another option.Voted U up.Jst loved it.
heavenrooms on July 11, 2011:
Great Hub! it's so useful, thanks :)
maxine on July 08, 2011:
yes very informative
MaxFueled from , Fort Worth, Texas on July 05, 2011:
This is an excellent resource of information! Whole foods are always the best choice.
danfresnourban from Fresno, CA on July 03, 2011:
This is an excellent article. The information is useful and the presentation is wonderful. The picture suggest a bountiful tray of healthy and great tasting food. Thank you for spending time to create this hub.
Nancy McClintock from Southeast USA on June 30, 2011:
Great article Thanks
carolinemoon on June 28, 2011:
I am now having water therapy for my UTI. Fortunately, I feel better now.
*Swetha* on June 27, 2011:
Wow really great to have such a helpful information.
health screening singapore on June 23, 2011:
i got this skin rashes and i dont know what exactly is this. i search for characteristic for psoriasis. it somehow same but not really same. hope to get the best advices here :). i really missed to live normal.
fit2day on June 22, 2011:
I'm glad you put water as number one, I used to never drink water and my lips stayed dry and cracked. I thought she was wrong, but now I drink it all the time and rarely have problems
madlopez22 from Pooler GA on May 28, 2011:
Its good to know which foods are best!
GrantGMcgowan on May 24, 2011:
Glad to find this hub. Very nice and healthy blog.
JMAW from Hawaii on May 16, 2011:
Thx for sharing. I selected awesome. I had very horrible eczema and through diligent self-work and eating less meat and more nutritiously I no longer have it. This hub will surely help some people out I am sure.
jamiesweeney from Philadelphia, PA on May 13, 2011:
Good for our health, Thanks for sharing.
leeroper from UK on May 11, 2011:
This advice isn’t just for skin, it’s a good hub for general healthy eating. Popeye he knew what he was doing, excellent write up thanks.
Elrascal on May 10, 2011:
Thanks for a great hub. I have only just started eating brussel sprouts again. As a kid I hated them. As I grew up I never thought to try them again. I had them about a month ago and I can safely say that I now love them
Tom989 from Philadelphia, PA on April 22, 2011:
Great list...I need to eat more fruit myself.
The Jet from The Bay on April 07, 2011:
Here's me eating more grapefruits and eggs. Cool hub.
ChristineVianello from Philadelphia on March 29, 2011:
Everything except the fish sounds great!
munirahmadmughal on March 22, 2011:
"20 Foods That are Great for your Skin"
The hub is comprehensive and up by all standards.
Human beings are made of body and soul. Twenty Foods for beauty and health of body prescribed by Kathryn have each a food for thought as well. The One who created these twenty and many and multiple foods with many and multiple advantages is also to be remembered to keep the soul healthy and handsome. Faith, truth, cooperation, honesty, spending what ones capacity is to spend upon the deprived persons, love, kindness, mercy, thanksgiving and appreciation of all welfare behaviour, imparting awareness and education whereby rights of the human beings are protected and on time paid, avoiding all sorts of backbiting, rancour, caprice, harshness, taunt, abuse, hurting feelings of others, causing any sort of harm or doing any act whereby the dignity of mankind is damaged are, among other things, a few recipe for the soul. To behave this way shines the internal and attracts the fellow beings towards the right direction of human character.
May God bless all.
Linda Tadlock from Atlanta on March 08, 2011:
Kathryn, thank you for these useful tips. I love reading articles on beauty and health.
JLClose from OreGONE on February 16, 2011:
Sounds like the food pyramid people are right: Eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies!
jerrycorinadam from United State on February 15, 2011:
I have been using these foods in the past but did not realize their skin boosting advantages earlier.
TroyM on February 13, 2011:
And yes, I myself had observed effect of Green tea.
st lucia for sale from St Lucia on February 12, 2011:
Don't forget about Cabbage! Healthy and high in vitamin E, so good for the skin :)
Ankush Kohli from India on February 09, 2011:
I'm always fond of health related info. Good hub, also thinking of writing health related hubs.
Eczema in Babies on February 01, 2011:
a big thumbs up from me on this hub, seriously really useful and helpful advice! I love seeing how different foods affect my overall wellbeing and my skin is the biggest indicator. Thanks again, voted!
Active Nutrition from Sammamish, WA on January 31, 2011:
Great hub. Keep spreading the word that healthy foods taste great.
Melanie Palen from Midwest, USA on January 27, 2011:
I'll have to try more of these foods. I LOVE sweet potatoes and they have so many health benefits, I should eat more!
gsharadasheker from Zaheerabad on January 24, 2011:
This is Intresting
deepakkumaarr on January 19, 2011:
This is Yamee ......
JohnBarret on January 12, 2011:
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Botanical name: Portulaca oleracea Family: Portulacaceae (Moss rose family)
This is a common weed found the world over. The leaves are alternate. Each succulent leaf is entire and the leaves are clustered at stem joints and ends. The flowers have 5 regular parts and are up to 0.6cm wide. They are yellow. Blooms first appear in late spring and continue into mid fall. The flowers open singly at the center of the leaf cluster for only a few hours on sunny mornings. Seeds are formed in a tiny pod the lid of which opens when the seeds are ready. It can be found growing wild and/or cultivated in much of the world. It existed in the New World before the arrival of Columbus, and was found in Europe by the late 16th century. It can be found growing in almost any unshaded area, including flower beds, corn fields, and waste places. Purslane can be found growing in cold climate areas as well as warm areas. It has been used in salads and as a medicinal plant (for people) for hundreds of years Purslane is a good edible and is eaten throughout much of Europe and Asia. It can be eaten fresh or cooked and has no bitter taste at all. Since it has a mucilaginous quality it is great for soups and stews. Purslane is native to Tropical Africa, Medit. to Pakistan and Arabian Peninsula, naturalized worldwide.
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As Garcetti Speaks at NACTO, L.A. Mobility Advocates Protest Lack of Progress
The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) is hosting its Designing Cities 2018 conference in downtown L.A. this week. This morning, Los Angeles City Mayor Eric Garcetti addressed the gathering of transportation professionals.
Garcetti delivered brief opening remarks and then took interview questions from Chief Design Officer and former L.A. Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne.
Garcetti puts a good spin on what he calls L.A.’s “transportation renaissance.” The mayor pointed to successes in passing Measure M, the countywide transportation sales tax, and hosting the extraordinarily successful open streets event, CicLAvia. He billed Metro’s transit ridership decline as “less than other parts of the country.”
Garcetti touted “1,200 Vision Zero improvements,” though even the international press holds up L.A.’s largely-toothless Vision Zero efforts as an example of the United States’ failure to address its traffic violence. An Angeleno is killed in a traffic crash every 40 hours. Under Garcetti, this has gotten worse, though this is due to multiple factors, some of which are outside Garcetti’s control.
The mayor seemed most excited when speaking on technology’s benefit to transportation. Garcetti said he wants to “make L.A. the transportation technology capital of the world” and expressed a hope that transportation tech would replace the “car city” image that people associate with Los Angeles. Garcetti described e-scooters as “just so damned fun” and touted their “great potential” for mobility and for helping build out bike infrastructure. He went on about high-tech VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) drone helicopters that could deliver people cheaply and safely to downtown helipads.
While Garcetti spoke, bicyclists lined up to form a people-protected bike lane on 7th Street in front of the InterContinental hotel, where the conference is being held. Using a tactic that seems to have originated in the Bay Area, people formed a human barrier between cars and the unprotected bike lane. Protestors held signs expressing frustration with the lack of Vision Zero progress and the slowed rate of bike facility implementation.
Protestors also hung a large banner citing increased traffic deaths under Vision Zero, and urging the city to go beyond lip service.
Garcetti gets criticism from both sides over his streets initiatives.
Since encountering an aggressively spite-filled and litigious backlash that resulted in the city undoing Playa Del Rey safety improvements, the city Transportation Department (LADOT) canceled several road diet projects planned under Vision Zero. Though this morning’s demonstration focused on Garcetti, many of our city councilmembers bear a great deal of responsibility for canceled safety measures. Garcetti does not appear to have used his considerable influence to help councilmembers to better embrace Vision Zero.
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By Sarah Levesque (Rated G)
One of those Ancient Greek philosophers – Aristotle, maybe – said that there were three types of friendship. Whatever he called them, I’m going to call them the Fun Friend, the Useful Friend and the True Friend.
The Fun Friends are the ones you hang out with because you enjoy either being the audience to their antics or you enjoy having them as an audience. Alternatively, you could enjoy the same things and just do them together, like go to the movies or play softball, or you might be co-workers that spend time together at work because you have the same sense of humor. You probably don’t talk about heavy topics, you just enjoy each other’s company when you’re around each other and that’s probably about it. Maybe you care about how their personal lives are going, maybe you don’t. There’s nothing wrong with this sort of friendship, particularly if you’re on the same page.
The Useful Friends are the ones you keep on good terms with for specific reasons. Maybe it’s for job networking, or for keeping tabs on your ex, or for being the designated driver after a night at the bar. You rarely talk to them about heavy subjects, but you probably talk to them about things you have in common, just to keep the relationship intact. You might talk about your lives, but it’s probably for the same reason, and you probably don’t think of them much without thinking of their function. As long as you are also useful to them, there’s nothing wrong with this type of friendship, though after a while of being used, I don’t think it’s unusual to want either more to a friendship or less.
Finally we have the True Friend. True Friends are the ones who help you find Truth. They’re honest with you, they’re there for you whenever you need them, and they really want to look out for you and your best interests. These are the people you discuss the heavy stuff with – health problems, mental problems, politics, religion, philosophy, and whatever else. If you’re in trouble, these are the people you reach out to. And you get a call (or at least a text) if something happens to them. These are the people you encourage, who encourage you. You probably enjoy their antics as well, and they’re probably useful, too, in some respect. But you each put the other first, and that’s what makes these the best friendships.
There’s nothing particularly wrong with any of these types of friendships, as long as you are both on the same page. If, however, you have a friend in one category and s/he has you in another, things may get dicey. Someone who thinks of himself as a Fun Friend might feel put out realizing he’s a Useful Friend, or vice versa. And if you think you’re a True Friend but the other person doesn’t treat you like one, you’re probably not going to be happy. But if you’re on the same page, then all is well. And friendships can change, of course, either moving up toward True Friendship or slackening off to Useful or Fun Friendship. That’s okay too; it’s just a part of life. I doubt most people knowingly categorize their friendships, in part because most friendships are some combination of these categories. But this doesn’t mean that the categories I’ve postulated here are inaccurate.
These categories can also apply to romantic relationships as well. A Fun Relationship will have very little depth and will most likely move toward a different type of relationship or fold. A Useful Relationship is not a good place to be (whether or not either realizes this is what it is) as one or the other will realize they are being used and will probably end things then and there. Once again, the best relationship is the True Relationship, where each puts the other first, where you discuss the heavy stuff and you work through things together, where you can tell each other anything without fear or reservation.
Ultimately, the goal of the True Friendship or True Relationship is to bring each other toward Truth, objective Truth. As a Catholic, to me that means bringing the other person toward God. Granted, there are other, smaller objective truths, such as “we all crave love” and “being selfish will hurt you in the long run” and “take out the trash or it will smell”. There are also small subjective truths, such as “you shouldn’t name your dog Sadie” and “this pizza shouldn’t have pineapple on it”. These last statements ought to be followed by an explanation – “you shouldn’t name your dog Sadie because that’s my dog’s name and it’s going to be confusing”; “this pizza shouldn’t have pineapple on it because I didn’t order it with pineapple”. Large or small, subjective or objective, truth is something we all need. And Truth – that is to say, God – is definitely something we all need. This is why True Friendships and True Relationships – those that bring you to the Truth – are the best kind of all. | <urn:uuid:2c89e9bb-a139-4fab-8892-0cdfafc15504> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://logosophiamag.com/2021/06/05/a-short-discourse-on-friendship/?like_comment=441&_wpnonce=ac7a36cb8c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.958571 | 1,125 | 1.640625 | 2 |
By STEVE HOLLIDAY
Red ‘danger’ flags are being raised by engineers and other professionals who work to provide a reliable supply of energy to our homes, workplaces and roads, that energy must be a serious priority for Messrs Davis and Barnier at the Brexit negotiating table in Brussels.
During my decade at the helm of National Grid I was acutely aware of the interconnected nature of the UK’s energy system. As an island nation we enjoy enormous indigenous energy resources.
But the efficiencies available through trading energy with our European neighbours offer huge benefits to consumers, the resilience of our economy and the environment.
We are physically connected. Vital electricity cables lie on the sea bed connecting the UK to France, Ireland and the Netherlands. Gas pipelines link our system to Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands.
About 5% of the UK’s electricity is imported from the EU, and 38% of its gas. The UK is no energy island
Interconnection is the most tangible manifestation of collaboration with our European neighbours in the energy sphere. There are many others – standards on cars and kitchen appliances; targets on renewables energy efficiency and carbon reduction – these provide a level playing field for mutually beneficial gain.
Membership of the EU is not essential to a fruitful relationship with European neighbours – after all Norway provides up to a fifth of the UK’s gas – but what will be complicated is disentangling decades of carefully crafted market integration and finding new mechanisms for achieving similar benefits.
And those surveyed are very clear on the four big signposts for the new Government as it navigates Brexit.
First: existing EU energy laws that govern how Europe’s energy markets work should be transferred into UK policy post-Brexit as a top priority and as seamlessly as possible.
Second: the UK must retain the closest possible cooperation with the EU. It would be a mistake to assume going it alone is an option – not least in the case of Ireland and Northern Ireland, who presently share a single all-Island Energy Market.
Third: the <UK> Government needs to act to ensure the necessary skilled workforce is available to the energy industry, prioritising engineers in particular. Nearly 60% of those responding to the Barometer anticipate a fall in the number of skilled workers, if free movement of labour is curtailed.
Fourth: energy investors are desperate for a predictable, no-surprises policy environment. Energy and climate policy has been on ice for the best part of a year. After a decade of tremendous progress in decarbonisation in the power sector, investor confidence has also chilled. Investment in clean energy plunged in the first quarter of 2017 to around $1bn, the lowest since 2010.
Add to this the potential loss of around £2.5 billion of European Investment Bank loans in energy each year and the need for government to defrost its strategy is critical.
That means bringing clarity, soon, through the much heralded Industrial Strategy, a Clean Growth Plan to meet our carbon reduction targets, and breaking the logjam of delayed policies.
Energy, due to its complexity, investment lead times and importance to our economy and society, stands out as a special case among industries which are heavily integrated at the European level in need of an effective, clear and far-sighted government strategy.
And it must be one that retains essential links – and future ambition – to make the most of collaboration with our energy neighbours on the European mainland.
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Vanderbilt and the Outpatient Whiteboard - 2005 thru 2017
updated December 23, 2021
|HISTORICAL SUMMARY - from February 4, 2016|
The Outpatient Whiteboard (OPWB) application is a clinical workflow tool designed to facilitate communication
among all members of the healthcare team - front desk, nurses, providers, and supporting personnel - by
displaying numerous aspects of a patient's status. In addition to information about the appointment,
additional workflow-relevant items commonly displayed are the patient's location, the length of time at that
location, and the status of tests to be performed, processes to be completed and/or personnel to be seen in clinic.
The OPWB also collects data on clinic workflow activities which can be used to identify bottlenecks and re-allocate
resources. It's tight integration with Starpanel allows the OPWB to serve as an application portal, from which
additional electronic medical record (EMR) functionalities can be launched. It has been used to implement process
management techniques in Quality Improvement projects, most recently to help reduce missed opportunities for
influenza vaccination in children.
Statistics - as of 2/4/2016
- Maximum number of unique users in a single day: 3,318 users on Jan 14th, 2016
- Sample number of unique users over a 3-month period: 6,175 (1/19/15 thru 4/19/15)
- Total number of configured whiteboards: 201
Early History of the OPWB
- Initially Developed as part of the ChemoWiz Project
- Dec 2004 - Production HL7 EPIC Scheduling Messages Begin Populating the OPWB
- Summer 2005 - OPWB Implemented in Pediatric and Adult Cancer Centers
- Oct 2005 - OPWB Implemented in Peds Primary Care and Acute Care Clinics with DOT Opening 10/3
- Nov 2006 - Live Demonstration of OPWB at AMIA Annual Symposium
- Aug 2007 - Vanderbilt Asthma, Sinus and Allergy Program Converts from Digichart and Uses OPWB to Replace Queue Management System
- Sep 2008 - Patient Pagers Piloted in Adult Cancer Center
- Feb 2009 - 1st day at One Hundred Oaks for OB, Univ Peds, Lab
- Aug 2009 - OHO Dermatology Rollout Completes 1st Phase at One Hundred Oaks
- 8/11/09 - First Day that Number of Distinct Users Passes 1,000
The OPWB generates upwards of 50,000 data points each weekday related to clinics' workflows
and the tasks performed within those clinics. In addition to timestamps that are recorded
when patients are placed in and out of various rooms/locations in clinic, many clinics use
specific columns in the whiteboard to mark the status (i.e., ordered, in progress, done) of
events that occur in clinic, such as specific studies, technical procedures, or educational
activities. The timestamps for these status updates are also recorded, and all of this
timestamp data for a given day is sent to the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) the following
morning at 6 am. The OPWB application does not itself generate reports using this data, but
analysts can access this data (table star.op_wb_patient_status) through existing EDW tools.
Journal Articles, Conference Proceedings, Peer-Reviewed Abstracts Associated with the OPWB Project
- Weinberg ST, Giuse DA, Miller RA, Arrieta MA.
The Outpatient Clinic Whiteboard - Integrating Existing Scheduling and EMR Systems to Enhance Clinic Workflows.
AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 1197:2006.
- Weinberg ST. Optimizing an Electronic Outpatient Whiteboard Through Analysis of Incoming HL7 Scheduling Messages.
Accepted for poster presentation: American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA, November 2009.
- Weinberg ST, Patterson BL. Embedding Real-Time Clinical Decision Support in An Electronic Whiteboard to Reduce Missed Opportunities for Influenza Vaccination in Children.
Accepted for poster presentation: 44th National Immunization Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 2010.
- Weinberg ST, Patterson BL. Embedding Process Management into an Electronic Outpatient Whiteboard to Address Real-time Pediatric Influenza Vaccination Status.
Accepted for poster presentation: American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 2010.
- Weinberg ST. Profiling Users of an Electronic Outpatient Whiteboard Across an Enterprise Healthcare System.
Accepted for poster presentation: American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, November 2012.
- Steitz BD, Weinberg ST, Danciu I, Unertl KM.
Managing and Communicating Operational Workflow.
Designing and Implementing an Electronic Outpatient Whiteboard.
Applied Clinical Informatics. 2016;7(1):59-68.
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Rami Komrokji, MD, discusses the current treatment landscape in myelodysplastic syndrome.
Rami Komrokji, MD, professor, Medicine and Oncologic Sciences, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, senior member, Malignant Hematology and Experimental Therapeutics Program, and head of the Leukemia and MDS Section, Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses the current treatment landscape in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).
Hypomethylating agents (HMAs) such as azacitidine and decitabine have been the frontline standard of care for patients with MDS for over a decade, says Komrokji. While these agents improve survival and delay leukemic transformation, they are only active in about half of patients with MDS for around 1 year.
Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT), the only curative option for patients with MDS, is typically reserved for patients with higher-risk disease, explains Komrokji. Many patients with MDS are ineligible for allo-SCT due to disease risk, age, or comorbidities.
Patients with high-risk disease, including those with p53 mutations, tend to have poor survival despite treatment with HMAs or intensive chemotherapy, Komrokji says.
Future research efforts should focus on improving response rates and the durability of response with HMAs, as well as developing novel agents for patients who progress on HMAs, concludes Komrokji. | <urn:uuid:4c6090aa-2e00-4e45-831f-a2caccf96f59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.onclive.com/view/dr-komrokji-on-the-current-treatment-landscape-in-mds | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.896638 | 361 | 1.65625 | 2 |
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Sitting for hours on end can cause muscle weakness in the hips, spine, and shoulders. This workout is designed to gently bring the body to a more upright posture, strengthening the hip and trunk muscles that go off-line while sitting in a chair.
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These are some of my "go to" Pilates exercises to manage the stress of daily life! Inspired by the original mat Pilates routing by Joseph Pilates, this workout is designed to gently help you develop pelvic floor strength, intrinsic core stability, and improved respiration. No equipment is needed...
These exercises, taken from the classic Pilates Mat sequence, are some of the most effective floorwork routines that target the hips and glutes. The Pilates Ring can provide effective resistance by pushing against it with our extremities. The ball allows for a fulcrum in many exercises to chang...
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20 December 2010
Be afraid mortals, for today the heavens align and the moon turns red as blood!
No, really. Tonight is not only the northern winter solstice, when the northern nights are longest since we are tilted away from the sun, but there is also a lunar eclipse tonight! I like lunar eclipses a lot, first of all, because they are much more common and long-lived than solar eclipses, but more importantly, the moon turns red.
Why does the moon turn red, you ask? Oh, nothing much, it’s just that every sunrise and sunset on earth is simultaneously being projected onto the moon’s surface. The earth is larger than the sun in the sky as seen from the moon, so it blocks all direct sunlight from hitting the moon. But, since we have an atmosphere, some sunlight just grazes the earth, is bent through our atmosphere, and ends up hitting the moon. As you know, our atmosphere scatters blue light more effectively than red light, so some of the same red light that you see as sunrise or sunset continues on into space. When there’s a lunar eclipse, the moon acts as a projector screen and is illuminated a deep red. It varies in brightness from eclipse to eclipse, but it’s always a cool sight.
So, if you can, step outside and take a look at the moon tonight. Even if the earth’s shadow hasn’t quite hit the moon yet, the moon will look super bright since the light is bouncing almost directly back toward the sun. Granular material like the moon’s surface is especially good at reflecting light back at its source, and effect which is called “opposition surge”. | <urn:uuid:3aef9d30-b698-4e7e-9d26-0cf4477545ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.agu.org/martianchronicles/2010/12/20/solstice-eclipse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.948044 | 357 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Based alongside the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) on the border of Sheffield and Rotherham, the McLaren Composites Technology Centre (MCTC) is the firm’s first purpose-built facility beyond its campus in Woking and is part of an effort to cement its status as a world-leader in lightweight materials technology.
Officially opened by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince of Bahrain, the facility will help McLaren deliver on its so-called Track25 business plan that will see it invest £1.2bn in research and development to deliver 18 new cars or derivatives by the end of 2025.
Once fully operational in 2020, the centre will produce carbon fibre chassis that will be sent to the McLaren Production Centre (MPC) in Woking for hand assembly into cars.
The facility is expected to create more than 200 jobs and provide an estimated £100m GVA benefit to the local economy by 2028. McLaren claims that in-sourcing of the manufacture of the carbon fibre chassis will increase the average percentage (by value) of a McLaren car sourced in the UK by around eight per cent from its current average of around 50 per cent.
Speaking at the facility’s opening McLaren Automotive CEO Mike Flewitt said: “What goes on here at the MCTC will be vital for our ability to make good on our intention to continue to develop and unveil cars that are lightest in class; it is my belief that Britain – through facilities like this - can become a world leader in lightweight materials technology that will help create more efficient future vehicles.”
McLaren was attracted to the region by Sheffield’s burgeoning advanced manufacturing industry, which is spearheaded by the University of Sheffield's AMRC. Commenting on the opening of the facility Prof Keith Ridgway, co-founder and dean of the AMRC said: "It’s great to see McLaren Automotive bringing the production of their supercar bodies to Britain; and even better that they chose to do it here in the Sheffield City Region. The AMRC’s expertise in composites and light-weighting was a critical factor in this great British car maker’s decision to locate their own state-of-the-art factory here in Rotherham."
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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #6286 - פָּאַר
1) to glorify, beautify, adorn
1a) (Piel) to glorify, beautify
1b1) to glorify oneself
1b2) to get glory to oneself, be glorified
2) (Piel) to go over the boughs
1388) rp (פר PR) AC: Tread CO: Bull AB: Fruitful: The pictograph p is a picture of an open mouth, the r is a picture of a head. Combined these mean "open the head". The heads of grains are scattered on the threshing floor, a smooth, hard and level surface. An ox is lead around the floor crushing the heads, opening them to reveal the seed inside. Also the fruit of trees that harvested. (eng: bull - with the exchange of the b and p and the l and r; fruit, also other fruits with a "pr" such as pear and apricot)
V) rrp (פרר PRR) - Break: To throw something on the ground and break it by trampling. KJV (50): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Hophal, Pilpel) break, void, defeat, disannul, disappoint, frustrate, nought, cease, clean, dissolved, divide - Strongs: H6565 (פָּרַר)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
פָּאַר not used in Kal, to be beautiful, ornamented, prop. apparently used of the rosiness and heat of the face (see פָּארוּר, פָּרוּר, compare Arab. فَاَر Med. Waw, to boil up, to be hot, فَوْرَةُ glowing heat); hence to be proud (which, in Arabic, is expressed by a hardened guttural, فخر to glory, to boast).
(1) to adorn, e.g. the sanctuary, Isaiah 60:7, 13 Isaiah 60:13 the people of God, Isaiah 55:5 to bestow aid upon the poor, Psalms 149:4 (compare ornare beneficiis).
(2) denom, from פֹּארָה to examine the boughs, in order to glean them, Deuteronomy 24:20.
(1) to be adorned, honoured, as a people by Jehovah, Isaiah 60:21, 61:3 to glorify oneself, as God in bestowing favours on his people, followed by בְּ Isaiah 44:23, 49:3.
(2) to boast, followed by עַל against any one, Judges 7:2; Isaiah 10:15.
Derivatives, פְּאֵר, פּאֹרָה, פָּארוּר, תִּפְאֶרֶת [פֻּארָה, פָּארָן].
פָּאַר (kindred to בָּאַר) to dig, to bore, especially in the earth. Arab. فَأَرَ to dig down and hide under the earth. Hence פֵּרָה for פְּאֵרָה (Arab. فَاَرةُ) a mouse, פָּארָן pr.n. of a region abounding in caverns. To this root I refer
Hithpael-הִתְפָּאֵר to explain, to declare oneself (compare significations used figuratively in the same manner under the word בֵּאֵר No, 2, and נָקַב No. 2). Exodus 8:5, הִתְפָּאֵר עָלַי לְמָתַי וגו׳ “declare to me when”, etc.; in which words the particle עַל (of which the sacred writer has made a delicate use) implies a command. Well rendered by the LXX. τάξαι πρός με. Vulg. constitue mihi, quando, etc. But the Hebrews themselves, and many more recent writers, glory over me (in saying) when I shall intreat for thee; and this they explain, I give thee this honour that thou mayest set me a day when, etc.; every one must see that this is very harsh and arbitrary.
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If you’re interested in becoming a guide for the Hidden Kalamazoo tour, you don’t need an advanced degree in local history or historic preservation, although the KHPC welcomes those volunteers, too. We want people who are excited by local architecture and local history. If you enjoy it and want to learn more, volunteering is a great way to do that.
A thorough training is provided about a week before the tour along with a detailed step-by-step script. here’s no pressure to become an instant expert. If you do not know the answer to a visitor’s question another guide in your building may be able to help, or the visitor can email the question to email@example.com after the tour. Please read the volunteer instructions below.
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Recently a gent from the States created me an e-mail asking some questions relating funding for animation animated collection production. This is an all-time favorite topic on this blog site ever since I created a write-up entitled “8 Steps to Producing an Anime Series”. Among his inquiries is a most unusual inquiry as it handled the topic of ‘options’.
Choices is a common term in the economic variable but utilized in the animation industry context is only common among the sector players.
In essence, an option is a contract which conveys to its owner the right, however not the responsibility, to acquire or offer shares of an underlying security at a specified cost on or prior to a given date.
Utilized in computer animation, a choice can be understood as an agreement which communicates to its owner the right, however not commitment, to purchase or sell a computer animation building (or any type of such derivative) at a specified price on or prior to a provided date.
For example, you might have a terrific suggestion for an animated movie and Steven Spielberg’s just got to have it (don’t we desire?), so he makes you an offer to ‘hold’ on to your concept, while he protects moneying to acquire as well as create it. However it doesn’t suggest he hangs on to the legal rights of your suggestion for life. If the choice contract runs out and he still hasn’t paid you the cash to purchase your suggestion, after that the option is rendered useless. Steven has simply lost the money he paid you to purchase the choice to hang on to your idea and you are that much richer!
I know this appears complicated. Basically Steven will pay you for the option to hang on to your idea for a specified time. Within this option agreement, it will certainly also be specified how much he will certainly pay you for the suggestion as well as acquire the civil liberties completely should he make a decision to execute the legal rights to this option.This suggests he will pay you once more to do a tidy acquisition of the idea off you!
So with the basis of this comprehending what choices are, below’s the concern below.
The Inquiry: My first inquiry is where can I find published reports (numbers) of option offers as well as out best acquisition bargains for the animation sector. So I can have a concept of what to expect going in, if a workshop is interested. I comprehend that unknown residential or commercial properties have much less value. I have actually looked and looked.
My Solution: Choice offers are really manga tough to carry out if your workshop doesn’t have a criterion in such offers and/or if any one of the top line creatives involved in the project (especially the EP as well as the scriptwriter) do not have previous credit reports that are impressive. The customer would do all he can to threaten the worth of the job. In a manner, there is no way to establish truth value of the project considering that there are no criteria in your workshop neither do you have a EP or scriptwriter that have actually had successes with various other jobs prior to. The ball is practically in the customer’s court and he can give any kind of figure he desires – as well as in many cases it will not make you smile right to the bank. The very best path I can think about is to get in touch with an amusement attorney or representative who have managed such offers before for various other jobs. They would likely be well-positioned and also knowledgeable sufficient to discover precedents off the sector or bargains they might have structured to apply it in your instance. However take care not to authorize any kind of rights away whatsoever! Treat this as a non-exclusive (or exclusive for a brief time period) solution where you will certainly settle the attorney or representative a procedures from the deal. (Typically 15-30%). Your other choice would be to repay those guys directly with no backend from the offer. It’s all up to you.
However what you are searching for is likewise what a lot of people are looking for (including myself!). These numbers will certainly be very hard to come by unless you overcome amusement legal representatives and also agents that have existed, done that. Conversely you can dig into the annual records of provided computer animation firms that could have composed information of their deals. Last but not least it would not harm to have a few friends in the industry. They might just be able to drop some light on what their companies been getting for how much recently. | <urn:uuid:f0bd2759-67fa-4ad9-992c-697ed40c2410> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kapslermedicin.site/3d-animation-software/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.973771 | 933 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester are working to better understand how COVID-19 impacts student and staff in schools that serve students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The $4 million project, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP), will allow researchers to work with students and staff at the Mary Cariola Center School in Rochester, to study how COVID-19 spreads in the vulnerable population the agency serves.
“Understanding how to best test this population and how COVID spreads in group settings is imperative to keeping those with an IDD safe,” John Foxe, Ph.D., Director of the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, and co-principal investigator of the study. “Ultimately, this study will have major implications for schools across the United States and specifically for schools that serve vulnerable students. This funding continues a well-establish collaboration with Mary Cariola Center and will help keep their population, many of which are too young to be vaccinated, safe from COVID.”
Foxe is one of three principal investigators leading this study. Martin Zand, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of Clinical & Translational Science Institute and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the Medical Center, and Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D., Vice Dean for Research at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, are also principal investigators.
According to the NIH, a non-vaccinated person with intellectual and developmental disabilities is four-times more likely to contract COVID-19 and eight-times more likely to die from the virus than someone without an IDD. It is also a population that is difficult to test with effective procedures. This study will allow researchers to rapidly identify initial infections, antigen levels, and through isolating and contact-tracing, stop the spread of infection in school settings.
“COVID-19 poses a considerable threat to our students who have intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as medical complexities,” said Karen Zandi, LCSW-R, President/CEO of Mary Cariola Center. “This partnership will provide crucial insight into this deadly virus and will allow us to update, revise, and create best practices beyond what we are currently doing. Ultimately, it means we will be able to keep our students and staff healthy and provide peace-of-mind to their families, while providing important research data to help schools in general and other schools like ours.”
“Individuals living with intellectual developmental disabilities remain disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and we cannot leave them behind as we build toward our recovery,” said Rep. Joe Morelle. “With this study, we will be able to better combat the virus and deliver the outcomes IDD individuals across our nation and their families deserve. Thank you to the Mary Cariola Center and the University of Rochester for the incredible work you have already completed in this space and will continue to do to uplift our entire community.”
In addition to researchers testing on all three Mary Cariola School campuses, they will also utilize a dedicated vehicle to travel between the school and students' homes to test and track anyone who tests positive.
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- President Donald Trump denied that climate change played a factor in the record-setting wildfires ravaging the West Coast.
- “It’ll start getting cooler,” Trump said on Monday during a briefing in California on the wildfires. “You just watch.”
- “I wish science agreed with you,” California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot responded.
- The fires have burned more than 5 million acres and killed at least 26 people as of Monday.
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President Donald Trump again shrugged off scientific consensus that climate change is a significant factor fueling the record-setting wildfires devastating several western states.
“It’ll start getting cooler, you just watch,” Trump said on Monday in California while being briefed on the ongoing wildfires by Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders.
“I wish science agreed with you,” Wade Crowfoot, the state’s natural resources secretary, pushed back.
Newsom and Crowfoot pointed to earlier comments Trump made that forest management is largely to blame for the unprecedented wildfires disrupting lives across parts of California, Oregon, and Washington state. More than 5 million acres have been burned, hundreds of thousands have evacuated their homes and at least 26 people have died as of Monday.
“We have not done justice on our forest management. I don’t think anyone disputes that,” Newsom acknowledged, but he added, “climate change is real and that is exacerbating this.”
“We want to work with you to really recognize the changing climate and what it means to our forests,” Crowfoot told Trump. “That science is going to be key. If we ignore that science and sort of put our head in the sand and think it’s all about vegetation management, we’re not going to succeed together protecting Californians.”
“I don’t think science knows, actually,” Trump responded and quickly moved on to the next set of questions.
The scientific community agrees that changes in climate, such as higher temperatures, can lead to drier and warmer conditions that increase wildfire risk and extend its duration. California and other western states are experiencing record heat waves and years-long drought. Recent environmental research found that climate change is linked to the increasing fire risk in parts of California.
Other factors, including land use and forest management, also contribute to the fires.
The president has long dismissed the growing climate crisis and previously called the science a “hoax” perpetrated by the Chinese to hurt the US economy. As president, Trump has reversed or undermined every significant federal policy designed to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change.
Even after his daughter and top adviser Ivanka attempted to stop her father from abandoning the Paris Climate Accord, Trump withdrew from the landmark international agreement in 2017.
A New York Times report found the Trump administration had rolled back or gotten rid of at least 70 environmental regulations and 30 more such policy reversals were in progress as of mid-July.
Meanwhile, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden blasted Trump as a “climate arsonist” during a campaign speech on Monday, warning four more years of Trump would mean worsening wildfires, hurricanes, and other climate-related natural disasters.
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We know there’s nothing worse than waking up cold; it’s one thing if you can just pull the covers up higher, but that won’t solve issues that you may be having with the furnace in your home. If you can’t rely on your furnace to heat your home effectively when you need it, or worse, you’ve experienced emergencies where your furnace has caught fire and caused untold damage, then furnace repair and maintenance is an essential service that your home needs.
Below, we’ll discuss the ten most common hints that you need furnace repair. Whether it’s a commercial or residential property, it’s likely that at some point during the lifespan of your furnace, you’ll need to schedule a repair service. We’ve seen and treated many of the most common issues including:
- Dirty or clogged filters. One of the most common causes of furnace repair is clogged filters. Air filters that have been clogged up not only reduce the airflow and efficiency of your furnace but can also lead to damage to the limit switch that controls the fan.
- Wear and tear. Sadly, no furnace is exempt from general wear and tear, which can also cause airflow issues. General wear and tear that’s not addressed can also lead to irregular heat control and overheating. And we’re not just talking clogged filters, but also worn down internal parts that you won’t be able to replace without the help of a repair professional.
- Pilot control issues. Faulty ignition lights commonly cause heating issues in homes and commercial properties. Unwanted drafts, clogs, and thermocouple issues can all make it difficult to ignite a pilot light and subsequently heat your desired space.
- Electric ignition issues. Issues with the electric ignition switch can often cause the igniter to turn off early before your home is sufficiently heated. Additionally, mismatched igniters that don’t match your furnace’s voltage can cause issues – most commonly, these are installed during DIY jobs. Power surges can also cause your igniter to burn out and require a professional furnace repair service to replace it.
- Malfunctioning thermostats. Malfunctioning thermostats will lead to poor heating control and result in your home being several degrees colder or warmer than the desired temperature. Fixing or replacing thermostats attached to your furnace is a common task for furnace repair specialists.
- Frequent cycling. Quickly cycling between on and off modes can indicate a variety of repair issues that need to be addressed, such as clogged filters, incorrect thermostat settings, or airflow problems.
- Low heating levels. While clogged filters can cause this, it may simply be that your furnace is not large enough for the space you’re trying to heat. When you’re unsure, it’s best to ask the professionals as it may not merely be a furnace repair issue.
- Non-existent heating. We often provide repair services for furnaces that are not providing any heat. Causes can range from incorrect thermostat settings to problems with the pilot light, power, or gas supply.
- Continuous blower operation. Faulty limit switches can cause continual blower operation. When this occurs, replacement limit switches are often required.
- Noisy furnaces. A loud, rumbling, rattling, or squeaking furnace isn’t typical, even if your furnace has exhibited these symptoms for as long as you’ve had it. These sounds often indicate mechanical issues but can also be caused by clogged burners.
Whether it is a conventional gas furnace or a more modern high-efficiency model, your furnace requires regular maintenance to keep functioning at its best. Typically, if you fail to schedule annual maintenance and inspections, it will take you longer to notice crucial signs that you require a furnace repair service. You might think that as long as your furnace is working away quietly, it’s operating to the best of its ability, but that’s not always the case. Luckily, annual maintenance will take a look at some of the inner workings of your furnace, e.g., filters, pilot lights, and thermostat, so that you won’t be caught out.
Some of the most common maintenance tasks that can help to improve your furnace’s operation include cleaning and replacing air filters, checking thermostat battery levels, and also checking the thermostat’s temperature is set to higher than the ambient temperature.
If you haven’t yet stumped up the cash for a furnace in your Rockwall, TX, property, there are a few critical considerations before purchase that you should be aware of.
Furnaces operate best in rooms where you can get fresh air intake and limit drafts that can affect the pilot light. You may find that you’ll need to close doors and windows while the furnace is in operation. Furnaces are commonly located in basements, garages, utility rooms, and in homes with limited space, you can also utilize the attic. Some houses already have a dedicated furnace nook, in the garage, for example, that doesn’t reduce the overall usable space in the room, which is great if you’ve already got the area.
The furnace will also need access to a vent, so you’ll either need to place it near an existing one or put it in a location where you can easily create a ceiling vent.
For obvious reasons, you’ll need to maintain adequate clear space around the furnace to prevent accidental fires. Sufficient space also means anyone completing furnace repair has enough space to work freely and safely.
When preparing your furnace for use over the winter months, all heating system components must be clean and in working order. Burners, and other parts, don’t function as well if they’re dirty – and if you’re unsure whether a furnace is safe to operate, then call an expert at K&S Heating and Air. Our team regularly inspects, maintains, installs, and replaces furnaces in Rockwall, so you’re in safe hands!
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Sal de Epsom
Sal de Epsom
Epsom salt has been used for many years to help provide relief of muscle pain. This unique material is magnesium sulfate which is a mineral compound that has a wide range of benefits. There are lots of ways you can incorporate Epsom salt into your life. Read on to learn more about this valuable, helpful mineral and its many benefits.
Epsom Salt Benefits
Athletes often use Epsom salt to help relieve sore muscles, aches, pains, and bruising. You can do this at home with some Epsom salt of your own. You can add two cups of the salt to water and then soak sore muscles in the water for around 12 to 15 minutes, but always read the instructions first. If you add the Epsom salt to running water, it may help it dissolve more quickly. If you prefer not to soak in the tub, you can use it to make a muscle compress. You can soak a soft cotton washcloth in water that has been mixed with two tablespoons of Epsom salt per cup of water. Next you can apply the compress for a few minutes to the area seeking relief. Other ways you can use it include creating a paste which can be applied directly to the skin for bruising and splinter removal. You can also create an Epsom salt foot bath by adding one cup of the salt to some warm water and soaking your feet.
Epsom Salt Uses
Aside from its ability to help relax muscles, you can also use Epsom salt to exfoliate and smooth the skin. Mix it with your lotion or conditioner to potentially help with exfoliation of dead skin or even to help make skin feel softer. To help with exfoliation it is recommended to make a paste with the Epsom salt, apply it gently and rub in a circular motion, then wash it off with warm water. For deep hair conditioning, combine equal parts of warm water and Epsom salt. Then, work this mixture through the hair and leave it on for 20 minutes, rinsing it clean when you're done.
Epsom Salt Face Wash
Epsom salt can also be used as a limpiador facial. Mix ½ teaspoon of the salt into your favorite cleanser to help clean your skin. It should be noted that Epsom salt can mix well with a variety of ingredients. You can make your own body butter, bath soaks and facial cleansers by adding it to water or to your favorite products that you use every day to potentially get some extra benefits. And of course, before using Epsom salt we recommend asking your dermatologist or pharmacist if it is right for you. | <urn:uuid:da026190-9f2c-4e7b-b6ce-976b1820a3be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://es.cvs.com/shop/content/epsom-salt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.943754 | 554 | 1.882813 | 2 |
gimlet-eyed... [gim'-lit - eyed].... adj.
Having keen vision. adj.
—The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Ed.
—Encarta World English Dictionary, North American Edition
The phrase gimlet-eyed is worthy of careful study, not only for its flexibility in being able to spin out multiple meanings from its core meaning of "having penetrating eyes," but also for its powers as a figure of speech, a metaphor, powers that make the multiple meanings possible.
A figure of speech is a word or phrase that is a variation from what the reader expects, either in the order of the words or in the meaning of the words. Variations in word order are called schemes; variations in meaning are called tropes. (Gimlet-eyed is a not scheme. Therefore we will pass over it, except to say that the sentence "Fierce Susan eyed the intruder into a gimlet-stung stupor" is a scheme called inversion, a rearrangement of non-schematic "Fierce Susan gimlet-eyed the intruder into a stung stupor.")
Gimlet-eyed is a metaphor, a trope in which words from different domains (gimlet from the domain of human tools and eyes from the domain of human physiology) are put into an unexpected juxtaposition, challening the reader to discover how they are somehow similar.
Note that we are not speaking, here, of gimlet-the-beverage, i.e."a cocktail made with vodka or gin, sweetened lime juice, and sometimes effervescent water and garnished with a slice of lime" (American Heritage Dictionary).
Nor are we interested in "gimlet-eyed," which is playfully defined in the Urban Dictionary of American Slang as a reference to
an aging or world-weary barfly with eyes the color of a gin gimlet, or one who has consumed too many gin gimlets. "I do believe that gimlet-eyed gent has soiled himself."—urban dictionary.com, from contributor Joe Bone, Mar. 16, 2005.Rather, our target is gimlet-the-tool.
Here we go:
1. A small hand tool having a spiraled shank, a screw tip, and a cross handle and used for boring holes.
To penetrate with or as if with a gimlet.
Having a penetrating or piercing quality: gimlet eyes.
gim·let·ed, gim·let·ing, gim·lets
Now that we know that a gimlet is a simple, spiral-shaped rod, with a handle at one end for turning and applying force, and a sharp point at the other for penetrating permeable material, we can begin to understand the full potential of our heretofore seemingly simple term, gimlet eyed.
To understand how gimlet-eyed can produce a plurality of nuanced meanings, we must understand its form as a metaphor, a figure of speech comprising two interacting elements: (1) a term to be enhanced, called the tenor, and (2) the "vendible" term which supplies the traits that will enhance the tenor.
In our metaphor, eyes is the tenor and gimlet the vehicle. The reader's action is to select traits that belong to gimlet and apply them to, or map them upon, the eyes, thereby giving eyes added meaning and effect.
Put another way, that which a gimlet can do physically, eyes can do metaphorically.
Thus far we have looked at how three current, reputable dictionaries have defined gimlet-eyed:
Having keen vision.
With penetrating eyes: having eyes that seem to penetrate or pierce, or to notice everything—Encarta World English Dictionary, North American Edition
The lexicographers at American Heritage transfered the quality of keenness from the end-point and applied it to the eye's capability of providing vision and as if by magic we have "having keen vision." Simple enough, isn't it. But in my view, too simple.
In a dictionary as sophistcated and comprehensive as the AM He, one would exect more of the traits associated with the gimlet — penetration, precision, efficiency (to name just three) to appear as metaphorically apt qualities of vision.
A quick way to understand the current nuances of "gimlet-eyed" is to read the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus for the term synonyms from "sharp-eyed":
Sharp-eyed: observant, perceptive, eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, gimlet-eyed; watchful, vigilant, alert, on the lookout
To the OAWT's list, I'd add these intellectual traits: penetrating, insightful, thorough.
- The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus; 33 Words sharp-eyed • adjective a sharp-eyed witness contacted the police synonyms : observant, perceptive, eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, gimlet-eyed; watchful, vigilant, alert, on the lookout; informal beady-eyed.
Gimlet-eyed as defined in the 19th. century
In 20th. and 21st. century usage, gimlet-eyed is a hyphenated compound (as gimlet-eyed readers of this posting may have already observed), whereas in the past it was not, appearing, instead, as two words, as you shall see in the citation immediately below from E. Cobham Brewer's compendious Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, which was is publication during the years 1810-1897:
Gimlet Eye (g hard) A squinting eye; strictly speaking, "an eye that wanders obliquely," jocosely called a "piercer." (Welsh, cwim, a movement round; cwimlaw, to twist or move in a serpentine direction.Thus the "strict" 19th. century meaning of gimlet eye—an eye that "wanders obliquely"—was out-foxed in the 20th. century by the meaning Brewer had identified as "jocose," a term which the OED tells us is "[o]f the nature of a joke, or characterized by jokes; spoken, written, or done in joke; playful in style or character."
Speaking of matters jocose, Jeffrey Kacirk, in his deck of instructional cards titled Forgotten English Knowledge cards, recounts a decidedly jocose tale to illustrate the meaning of gimlet-eyed:
_____________________________________________________________gimlet-eyed: Adjective for a sharp-sighted and inquisitive nineteenth-century person, derived from the name of an old piercing tool. A gimlet-eyed Saxon taylor named Tom was involved in a famous legend involving the lord of Coventry, who subjected his people to merciless taxation. His wife, Lady Godiva, pleaded on their behalf. Her husband joked that he would lower the taxes if she rode throughhe streets of Coventry unclothed. To his surprise, she did so, after asking the locals to close their shutters and stay indoors during her excursion. All complied except the taylor, who was remembered as Peeping Tom.
WHO HAS GIMLET EYES?
Reeling from the sudden death of her husband, novelist John Gregory Dunne, and the life-threatening illness of her only daughter, the literary lioness [Joan Didion] canonized for her cool, gimlet-eyed view of the world discovered she’d gone temporarily “crazy” from grief. Writing her heart-rending memoir of loss and mourning, The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf, 2005), was her road back to sanity.--
Dropping By: Writing to Live AARP – March and April, 2007 Mark Matousek
To put the question more precisely, who in some writer's view has eyes that seemingly penetrate like gimlets or, by analogy, who has shown gimlet-eyed perception of how certain domains of life as we know it that is penetrating, precise, or insightful? To get some sense of who might be described as being gimlet eyed , I scanned scan roughly 300 Google hits for the word "gimlet-eyed," and found the following
President Bush's steadfastness in battling forces that would destroy our way of life, and his gimlet-eyed recognition that international terrorism is primarily a military rather than a criminal-justice problem, are his most alluring assets.—Andrew C.McCarthy National Review Online November 13, 2003,
The granite-jawed, gimlet-eyed face beneath the VFW hat festooned with unit badges looked ready in an instant to swing a mean left hook. But Kerry's shadow man had only one arm and no legs. It was Max Cleland—Bruce Shapiro posted January 29, 2004 The Nation
Robert De Niro's character in the film "Meet the Parents"
Another actor might have mugged, stomped, spit and steamed from the ears. De Niro plays the suspicious father -- who has a secret life of his own -- for nuance. He's gimlet-eyed. He broods. He throws little sidelong glances. His moods range from a pained smile to tight-lipped disgust Bob Graham, Chronicle Senior Writer, Friday, October 6, 2000, SF Chronicle
With just a few words about Pakistan today, Barack Obama transforms himself from a calculating, gimlet-eyed realist into a swaggering, steely-eyed Bushie.Which in turn transforms all those swaggering, steely-eyed Bushies into calculating.. ... Which in turn transforms all those swaggering, steely-eyed Bushies into calculating, gimlet-eyed Realists.-- Wednesday, August 1Blogrunner, Jonathan Blogoland
"wholesomeness doesn't really suit Chaney's gimlet-eyed intensity."-- 1998 Christopher Clotworthy, Silent film sources
Gimlet-eyed witch* with a stout birch-rod-like wand - a portrait of this former headmistress of Hogwarts hangs in the Headmaster/mistress's office (OP22).--By Wendy Zellner-- MARCH 3, 2003—Business Week
*McGonagall, Minerva - she became the headmistress of Hogwarts when Dumbledore died (HBP29). m Mugglenet’s Harry Potter Encyclopedia—www.mugglenet.comArturo Toscanini
"Toscanini - gimlet eyed and full of insinuation and menacing drive..." Jonathan Woolf - MusicWeb International-- Arturo Toscanini. Music for Freedom Concert-- www.guildmusic.co------
"Andy Griffith--good God, you may have forgotten what a gimlet-eyed, stealthy delight the man is--shows up as Old Joe, the diner's owner, negotiating a seemingly beyond-hokey arc from curmudgeon to Jenna's spiritual adviser."—5/23/2007-- Ian Grey— www.citypaper.com/-- Review: Waitress directed by Adrienne Shelly
Lyndon was fun, but Billy Graham found his true soul mate in the gimlet-eyed little quaker from California. “There is no American I admire more than Richard Nixon,” he said.-- www.terrybisson.com-- Published in American Monsters, Nation Books, 2005
Jaime Lee Curtis
"Born to Hollywood luminaries Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh in 1958, Curtis has been in the glare of celebrity throughout her life, and it has given her a gimlet-eyed view of fame."-- Psychology Today Last Updated: October 11, 2002-- health.yahoo.co
"For Schmidgall, researching his Whitman biography, the biggest surprise in the Traubel material was “how pungent in expressing his dislikes, and capable of gimlet-eyed scorn, Whitman was—and also discovering his wry sense of humor. It was widely thought in his day that he lacked a sense of humor—a theory that Leaves of Grass, some might say, makes thoroughly plausible!”-- Cynthia Haven—Stanford magazine—Sept. Oct. 2001
"But there has always existed a small coterie of male writers who share the preoccupations of the novel of manners: the gimlet-eyed Evelyn Waugh, the underappreciated British writer Henry Green and, in our own time, Louis Auchincloss, who carries aloft the banner of the old guard.-- Louis Begley. Saturday, September 1, 2007 NYT
Still Gracious, Now Gimlet-Eyed
Remember the days when receptionists answered phones and fetched coffee? Now they've become front-line troops in the war against terrorism.
Across the country, thousands of receptionists are being sent off to various workshops that teach them how to increase security at their companies' front doors. The National Seminars Group's one-day Security Essentials for Front Desk Professionals, for example, includes how to "spot holes in security in your reception area" (such as subdued lighting and blockable exits) and identifying "red flag" behaviors. That means visitors who avoid eye contact or are vague about their intentions. Seminar execs say interest in their workplace-violence training, picked up after September 11. Participants are "more concerned about planned threats," says curriculum director John Carey. So far, though, there's no instruction on how to duct tape your office.
Which words like to "partner" in a sentence with "gimlet-eyed"?
Think of "Gimlet-eyed" as a verbal equivalent of Ginger Rogers. As she sashaying alone into a lively ball room, we immediately appreciate Ms. Rogers feminine beauty and her graceful gait. We appreciate her for her own essence, we might say. But as soon as she engages in dance with a nearby, eager-to-dance fellow—say, a fellow over there named Fred Astair, I believe—well, then we see her terpsichorical grace and dynamism extended and engaged with the grace and dynamism of Mr. Astair—and everyone in the room stops dancing to watch them dance.
In like manner, we value gimlet-eyed for what it is: a compact, memorable metaphor in which the gimlet is identified with the human eye. The qualities of the gimlet—its power to penetrate resistant matter, capability of providing a fresh line of sight, and delivering results with graceful efficiency—are transfered to the functions of the human eye, now significantly enhanced. All of these palpable qualities can be easily attached to abstractions such as
thorough, gimlet-eyed, superbly told story PRECISECRITICAL
Here, rendered in bold print, are characteristics embedded in gimlet-eyed that writers access to make a point:
his gimlet-eyed analysis of Melville’s hard-to-decipher manuscript
his thorough, gimlet-eyed, superbly told story
his gimlet-eyed memoir
novels which look gimlet-eyed at the future
gimlet-eyed satirical humor
gimlet-eyed self-preservation I
gimlet-eyed deconstruction of social morays
gimlet-eyed knack for nightmarish extrapolation
gimlet-eyed instinctsgimlet-eyed assessments
gimlet eyed interrogation
a bracing, gimlet-eyed sobriety
see the world in gimlet-eyed simplicity
Judge's gimlet-eyed knack for nightmarish extrapolation
gimlet eyed determination—a blogger
MENTAL MODE OR PROCESS
gimlet-eyed and hilarious essay
a gimlet eyed look at contemporary culture
Zoe looked at me gimlet-eyed—adv
view scrutiny focus often
MODES OF EXPRESSION
was quickly rebuffed with a gimlet-eyed "We're expecting someone!
There are . . .
gimlet-eyed readers, witnesses, inspectors, contestants, lawyers, moralists, reporters, buffo0ns, harpies, assassins
mit scharfem Blick gimlet-eyed
mit stechenden Augen gimlet-eyed
Gimlet and gimlet-eyed, as explained in the Oxford English Dictionary:
1. a. A kind of boring-tool
The earliest citation of gimlet in the OED offers us, in fact, a definition of the term:Forms:
Entry #3 among the several definitions of gimlet in the OED indicates gimlet can be used as attributively to describe another thing or used as a part of a combined form, giving "gimlet eye" as an example, which, in turn, it defines as follows:
(a) a squint-eye,gimlet eye....(g hard)
(b) a sharp or piercing eye; hence gimlet-eyed, having a gimlet-eye. ‘What said ye yer name was?’ said the old dame again, looking at me with her gimlet eyes.'
A squint-eye; strictly speaking, "an eye that wanders obliquely," jocosely called a "piercer:
Some words are wired, we might say, to a simple electrical circuit connected to a switch that, when thrown, energizes the word, sending to the reader's mind a single beam of meaning. An example of such a word is the adjective "circular," as in "a circular hole in the wall." The hole is not oval, square, triangular, or jagged: it's circular, precisely so: a set of points in a plane, each point placed at a fixed distance, called the radius, from an established point called the center. It's circular.
Other words, such as gimlet-eyed, work with far more sophisticated wiring (perhaps even a circuitboard) which is routed to a panel of arrayed switches, each offering its own nuanced meaning. It's up to the reader, then, to throw the set of switches appropriate to the occasion, i.e., to the context of the sentence at hand. | <urn:uuid:c499734f-7a85-4c86-995d-6ce89c26f214> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wordsworthonline.blogspot.com/2007/08/gimlet-eyed.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.924333 | 4,345 | 2.1875 | 2 |
The Antarctic Treaty
On December 1, 1959, the Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington, with the presence of the twelve countries that had developed scientific activities in and around Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) 1957-1958. It entered into force in 1961, and since then it has been accepted by many other nations, with 54 Parties.
Some important provisions of the Treaty are:
- Antarctica shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes (art. I).
- Freedom of scientific research in Antarctica and cooperation to that end […] shall continue (art. II).
- The Contracting Parties agree to […] exchange observations of scientific results on Antarctica, which shall be freely available (art. III).
- No act or activity carried out while this Treaty is in force shall constitute a basis for asserting, supporting or denying a claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica or for creating sovereign rights in this region. No new claims to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica shall be made, nor shall claims previously asserted be extended, while this Treaty is in force (art. IV).
- In order to promote the objectives and ensure compliance with the provisions of the Treaty, “all regions of Antarctica, and all stations, installations and equipment therein […] shall at all times be open to inspection” (art. VII).
Source: Antarctic Treaty Secretariat
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Teeth, as we all know, are not wear-and-tear resistant, and hence need constant and efficient care. But with all of us rushing through our lives, there is little time to stop and stare into the mirror, smiling and checking whether the color of the 32-white guys had discolored in contrast to last night's smile. Add to this fast food binges, smoking, and the environmental contributions - and you have a perfect set of teeth turn yellow within a year!
Earlier, this was an irreversible problem - something which we had to live with for the rest of our lives. And those of us who could afford the fantastic teeth whitening gels or laser teeth whitening treatments, would only do so out of desperation. But those days are history. Affordable teeth whitening is here and can be accessed by any and everyone within the middle-income group. Teeth whitening kits have also made such luxuries a reality for people in the lower income group as well.
Teeth whitening dentists will be able to give you a perfect set of teeth overnight. So if you had been planning for a wedding or engagement and you had been worried sick of your yellow teeth can set aside your fears. A quick session with the teeth whitening gel can give you the confidence and the color back to your smile - and to your personality as well!
But is laser teeth whitening the only option for keeping your smile out of harm's way? Well, not really. Make a few lifestyle changes, eat healthier and ensure that you brush and floss every time you have food. These will help you keep that glorious smile intact. But as we speak, people are getting more negligent with this as they think that when an overnight session at the dentists' can help them get what was lost through disregard, why put in the effort at all? This misconception needs to be cleared. Teeth whitening kits can give the color back to your teeth, but brushing and daily floss helps you keep your mouth clean and devoid of germs that can get your teeth off their roots and into the rot!
There are very subtle points that will help you decide whether a laser teeth whitening session is right for you or not. And one of the core conditions is that you need to have germ-free, healthy teeth to have the beam clean off the scales of debris on your dentures. And if you haven't taken proper care of your teeth since long, chances are that you will be disqualified from a sitting outright! | <urn:uuid:d5c13dab-19d2-4c0a-97ba-1d22726adbe9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.enjoywhite.com/laser-teeth-whitening-has-become-a-phenomenon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.96638 | 514 | 1.78125 | 2 |
LOVED BY KIDS
trusted by parents
Through compassionate and expert dental care, we strive to better the health and lives of children, adolescents and those with special needs in and around Danville. We are grateful to serve our neighbors in this community and strive to lead every individual patient on a path to great oral and overall health through prevention first and intervention second. Our kid-centered office is designed to be fun and relaxing from a one-year-old’s first visit through graduation!
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Why Pediatric Dentistry?
Our pediatric dentists have completed several years of additional training, beyond dental school, to specialize in providing dental care that’s specific to children. All of our kid-centered services are provided in a calm, caring environment in order to provide you and your child with a positive experience. In our opinion, taking your child to see a pediatric dental specialist is as important as taking them to see a pediatrician.
What age should I Bring my child in?
The AAPD recommends that your child should be seen no later than 6 months after their first tooth erupts from the gum. Little teeth need as much attention as “big teeth” to prevent decay and encourage life-long healthy habits.
Does Pediatric Dentistry cost more?
Not necessarily! Every parent wants the best for their children, and we do too! Our practice is happy to work with you to create a dental hygiene plan for your child that will suit you and your family’s financial needs.
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Rosc, which means ‘poetry of vision,’ was a series of exhibitions of international art that took place approximately every four years between 1967 and 1988. In collaboration with the National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL), IMMA is marking the 50th anniversary of the first Rosc exhibition, in 1967, through a programme of events which will unfold over the course of 2017. This programme includes new research undertaken by Dr. Brenda Moore McCann which informs a display of archival material from NIVAL and films and news clippings from the RTÉ Archives (in IMMA’s Project Spaces (5 May – 19 June) relating to the Rosc exhibitions. The display will be complemented by a programme of talks, artist commissions and a symposium in the Autumn. Through this inquiry we hope to revisit the art historical account of Rosc in terms of its intentions, impact and legacy, particularly as it relates to IMMA. We asked ROSC50 co-curator Lisa Moran to tell us more about the project
There are many accounts of Rosc and a wealth of information in the archives of NIVAL, RTÉ, the Irish Photo Archive and many other public and private archives. We hope, over the course of this inquiry, that some of the myths and realities of Rosc, particularly with regard to its impact on the public and on Irish art and artists, can be explored and that this will contribute to a renewed understanding of Rosc.
Rosc attracted large audiences and considerable public interest evident in the early Roscs in the large attendance numbers and numerous letters to the paper. As a relatively recent event, still within lived memory, we are interested in hearing about people’s memories of Rosc. We are inviting people to visit the Rosc display in IMMA’s Project Spaces (5 May to 19 June 2017) and to contribute their memories to this growing archive. You can also do this using #ROSC50 or by email to [email protected]
The first Rosc exhibition took place in 1967 in the Royal Dublin Society (R.D.S.) and then ran approximately every four years until 1988. In the absence of a museum of modern art, the purpose of the Rosc exhibitions was to provide an opportunity to display international modern and contemporary art for an Irish audience and also to situate Ireland within an international art context. The intention, set out in the first Rosc exhibition, was to show the work of the fifty ‘best’ living artists who were chosen by a jury of three international selectors.
Each Rosc exhibition was accompanied by a supplementary exhibition intended to create a dialogue with the main exhibition. For example, the first Rosc exhibition in 1967 was supplemented with an exhibition of ancient Celtic art to draw attention to the relationship between the inherent tendencies towards abstraction in such objects and abstraction in modern art. However, the proposal to remove several ancient monuments from their original sites such as the Tau Cross of Kilnaboy and to situate them within an exhibition of modern art evoked considerable public consternation and numerous letters to the paper.
There were many controversies associated with Rosc during its 21 years, most notably the exclusion of Irish artists from the first two Rosc exhibitions and the ongoing debate about the representation of Irish art and artists in Rosc. There were no Irish artists in the first two Rosc in 1967 and 1971, and only two artists – James Coleman and Patrick Ireland – were included in the 1977 Rosc.
The Rosc exhibitions attracted large audiences and the Department of Education enabled all schools to take a day to visit the exhibition, establishing an important precedent which was sustained for the subsequent Rosc exhibitions. The Rosc exhibitions also received considerable national and international critical attention. The American art critic Clement Greenberg was a regular visitor and can be seen here with a loaf of Buttercrust bread which he liberated from Argentinian artist Marta Minujin’s James Joyce Tower at Rosc ‘80. Minujin used 5,000 loaves of Buttercrust bread to create a replica of the Martello tower in Sandycove associated with James Joyce. At the end of the event, the bread was given away to the public. According to art historian and critic Dorothy Walker, who was one of the members of the Rosc committee, ‘Greenberg rather liked coming to Ireland for a good argument.’
Rosc provided an opportunity for some emerging international artists to be shown in Ireland for the first time. For example, Marina Abramovic and Ulay first performed Rest Energy in Rosc ’80, which involved Ulay holding a steel arrow pointed directly at Abramovic’s heart for four minutes. Rosc also enabled established artists such as Joseph Beuys, who featured in Rosc ’77 and Rosc ’84 exhibitions, to build on existing relationships with Ireland and to reach a wider audience.
The Rosc exhibitions took place during a particularly volatile period of social, cultural and political change. The Troubles, which began in the early 1970s and continued into the 1990s, had an impact on the level of public and critical engagement with Rosc. As Dorothy Walker notes:
Kienholz had wished to install his version of Russian roulette, which involved the extremely remote possibility that a spectator taking a seat opposite a loaded rifle would activate the mechanism and shoot him or herself dead. While not wishing to curb the creativity of the artist, the selection committee felt that, at that time in Ireland, there was enough unsolicited violence and killing without introducing a life-or-death gamble into an art exhibition. (Dorothy Walker, 1997, p. 132)
Rosc was dependent on the commitment and dedication of many individuals and they secured significant levels of state and commercial sponsorship even during the financially constrained 1980s. Rosc is also notable for the level of political patronage and support it secured most notably from Charles J. Haughey who was variously Honorary President and Vice-President of Rosc for the duration of the Rosc exhibitions. The centrality of his role is reflected in the work From the Animal Farm: Charles J. Haughey, 1988, by Tim Rollins and K.O.S. collective, which was made for the last Rosc in 1988.
There is no doubt that the Rosc exhibitions made an enormous contribution to the Irish art environment, both in terms of what they did and failed to do. They provided an opportunity for a range of contemporary practice to be seen on a large scale, they created an appetite for art even if, in some cases, it was for the controversy it engendered. They secured a level of political patronage that remains unprecedented and, in their selections and exclusions, they emboldened Irish artists to assert themselves in this contested sphere of contemporary practice.
To open the presentation of archival material in the Project Spaces, Exhibitions Curator, Seán Kissane, gave an introductory talk about Rosc at 1:00pm on Friday 5 May in the lecture room.
On the 15 May IMMA/NIVAL Researcher Dr. Brenda Moore McCann will give a presentation on her research into the international artists’ experience of Rosc. On 31 May, we will also have panel discussion featuring several of the Irish artists, including Kathy Prendergast, Robert Ballagh and Nigel Rolfe, who were involved in Rosc chaired by Christina Kennedy, Head of Collections, IMMA.
Dorothy Walker, Modern Art in Ireland, Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1997, p. 133
Curator: Education and Community Programmes
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Team painting, graffiti, sculpting or music is a great way to open the mind and approach problem solving. It has to be done correctly though…
Creative events provide a great opportunity for teams to socialise, break down barriers and unleash their more extrovert personalities. By working together, teams are strengthened and become focussed on a single goal – a final piece of art, a sculpture made of ice or an elaborate song or dance.
As a HR Manager or Corporate Event Manager, there are 5 rules to follow to ensure all goes to plan!
THE 5 RULES
1. Align the activity with company or meeting objectives. Artistic activities may not seem productive or conducive to team development unless a correlation with professional goals is explained. The organiser should briefly outline what the teams are going to achieve and of course make sure the group knows what the final outcome will be – a picture representing a new idea, a sculpture incorporating the company logo or a song and dance showing off a new product line.
2. Help participants feel comfortable. This is a key element as it’s hard to be creative in a tense environment. What makes your team relax? Aperitif with wine and food or do they require a pre-event ice breaker exercise?
3. Think about the venue. Will your group work best in the office cafeteria they know so well or will they appreciate something unique? On the edge of a lake, up a mountain or in a historical castle? It pays to invest time and (where needed) money to ensure the venue in conducive to your goals.
4. Rely on professional expertise. By using trained facilitators and experts in the team building field, you will not only ensure that the day runs smoothly but also benefit from the facilitators skills in bringing the best out of your team and may help to encourage out-of-the-box thinking.
5. Ask for feedback. Not only from your team but from the professionals you have working for you too. Don’t forget they do this for a living and they see a LOT of interesting things and know what could be improved or what went exceptionally well.
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“It is SO much more expensive to live in a community than here in my own home. My home is paid for and I do not really have many bills here. It does not make sense to pay those monthly fees.”
This is the perception of most seniors as they begin looking at options for their future. At first glance, this makes sense. Comparing your living options side by side, though, will reveal cost differences between them.
Take into consideration what some of your monthly budgets may include:
- Real estate taxes
- Basic cable and/or internet services
In community living, these items are included. Let’s dig a little deeper into what else to consider.
Figuring in the Unexpected
As our lives change, it becomes challenging to manage all that comes with maintaining a house. We most often begin to call on professionals and family members to help with maintenance and upkeep issues.
“Oh, my, now I have to replace the hot water heater!” Or, “Oh, no, the roof is leaking!” And, “I guess it’s time to repair the driveway.” These unexpected situations are expensive and are often overlooked when comparing living options. In a community setting, the cost of maintaining your home is no longer an issue because the staff is there to handle upkeep for you.
The extra costs at home, along with the normal day to day costs, can add up significantly. But, when you factor in the amenities and lifestyle opportunities that are included in a community setting, the cost differential between staying in your home and community living dramatically decreases.
Counting the Intangibles
As someone said about community living, “We didn’t change how we live, just where we live.” It’s so true. Community living offers amenities such as:
- Transportation services to medical and personal appointments
- Wellness classes
- Lifelong learning classes
- Volunteer opportunities
- Social and cultural events
- Security system
These are all things you would need to pay for if you were living in your home. But, many if not all, are included within a community living environment. Most importantly, a community offers a life full of connection, belonging and independence. This is truly “priceless”!
My encouragement is to research available options by visiting different communities and obtaining full details. This is the only way to understand more clearly the benefits/limitations of options should your health status change.
Finally, armed with this knowledge, you can implement a plan that will meet your emotional needs and provide a sound financial plan as well. And, you will be in control of this decision-making process instead of shifting this responsibility to your loved ones.
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In recent years, the esthetics involved in drinking wine have become increasingly important. Wine is not drunk for its taste alone but also for what it represents financially, socially and culturally. Wine reflects a certain status for its drinker or buyer. Consuming wine goes above and beyond mere pleasure. Certain wines are considered works of art and winemakers are seen as artists. The extravagant prices fetched in auction houses has had the effect of breaking down barriers between wine and art.
Marketing trends: From Nestlé to Ikea
Art has been used in marketing for a long time to promote quotidian consumer products because it makes them more attractive (and, de facto, consuming them becomes more esthetic or at least linked to an artistic symbol). For instance, IKEA uses street art that smacks of Banksy to embellish its façades and communicate to its customers. A few years back, the store launched a limited-edition collection dedicated to street art, which enabled them to communicate about its brand and identify it with the codes of street art while burnishing its reputation and increasing its visibility. Another strident example is Nestlé, which for years has used a Vermeer painting on its yogurt packaging to lend a reassuring image of its product and differentiate it from other brands.
The Pop Art revolution in the 1960s has, in terms of marketing, filled the gap between art and mass consumption products, and positioned itself as a rampart against a certain form of artistic elitism. It enabled art to reach the masses and shed the chains of academism. From this period, “the borders between art and advertising have become more porous” (Gibbon, 2006). Andy Warhol was its instigator because he used simple household products to express his artistic genius.
Leveraging art as a marketing tool
The wine industry has followed in these footsteps and now a myriad of products and brands regularly lean on art to communicate to customers. Surprisingly, this method of communication isn’t reserved for the elites; companies, sometimes even relatively modest ones that don’t have extensive visibility, leverage art as a marketing tool as we’ll see below.
Making the connection between art enables consumers to increase the tasting experience and to associate themselves with the prestige of the artistic creation. The experience that follows the purchase is multiform. During the tasting, the intersensory links are reinforced; it’s no longer just about admiring the taste of the wine but also to develop the visual aspects of the bottle.
Using art to market wine creates a direct link between the intrinsic qualities of the product and the esthetic qualities inherent in a work of art. Making the link between a ‘consumable’ product and a work of art also modifies the consumer’s perception of the attributes of that product. While wine is produced in limited quantities, associating it with a specific artwork makes it even more unique, creating a certain form of originality and reflecting a status that goes beyond that of a simple beverage. The message sent by the wine producer is crystal clear: we’re not content to just produce wine, we also want to create an entire experience that is about more than simply drinking good wine.
Winemakers inviting contemporary artists
For some winemakers, art is at the heart of their marketing strategy. This is the case for certain iconic brands such as Dom Pérignon, which regularly invites contemporary artists (Jeff Koons and Tokujin Yoshioka, for example) to collaborate on limited edition champagnes. The goal is to communicate about the intrinsic quality of the product (the taste) as well as its extrinsic qualities (the brand also has 'good taste’). The symbolism here is important. Because a renowned artist has drawn the label, a very strong bond has been made with the wine, which is also seen as a work of art by a famous artist.
Other wine producing companies also hire artists to create a work of art that will then be tied to a certain type of wine via the label. The first and foremost example is undoubtedly Baron Philippe de Rothschild (the first artist to have created a label for the brand was Jean Carlu in 1924, followed by Philippe Jullian in 1945). Château Mouton Rothschild then perpetuated this tradition by pairing each vintage with a contemporary artist to whom they entrusted the design of the grand cru’s label. Mouton Rothschild unambiguously created a close link between art and wine. Each year, connoisseurs wait with bated breath for the announcement of which artist will be designing the new label. For Mouton, the principle is ‘written in stone’ and for the buyer the brand is forever associated with the prestige of its label.
Yet, this principle is not limited to the most famous brands only. For example, the cooperative in St Chinian (Languedoc Roussillon in France) has proven that wine and art can be brought together even for less-than-iconic wines. The cooperative obtained funding from the local department (Hérault in France) and the wine tourism board to be able to carry out the project. For each vintage, an up-and-coming artist is invited (for the 2019 vintage a Swiss artist, Laura Chaplin, was selected) to the winery to taste the wine with an expert. After the tasting, the artist paints a fresco that will then be transformed into a label for the vintage. The winery hired a communications firm to convince the cooperative’s wine makers of the project’s benefits and to draw up a marketing strategy thereafter. According to the marketing director, this initiative attracted a different clientele that was interested in the artistic initiative and not just the wine itself. The frescos are displayed in the wine tasting room and the bottles with the artist’s label are available for sale to visitors. The initiative also created a buzz in the local newspapers and professional reviews (e.g., Revue des vins de France). The initiative has given the cooperative local and national visibility entirely free of charge.
Music and wine
For some companies, working with local artists strengthens links with the surrounding social fabric and land while creating a community around art and wine. Synergies with wine are not limited to the visual arts. Music - due to its close ties to wine (e.g. similar terminology) - can help us reveal certain intermodal relationships and create an intersensory experience (e.g. we use several senses when sipping wine while listening to music). Many hypotheses have been formulated over the years about music’s influence on wine consumption and purchasing activity, which has been supported by recent, scientifically-sound research. For instance, music can influence customers who are in the act of purchasing wine (Areni and Kim, 1993) (Northand et al., 1999). In addition, it has been proven that “music and sound change how we perceive aromas, taste and flavors” (Spence et al., 2010). For wine, aggressive or loud music will make wine taste more pronounced (North, 2012).
The analogy between music and wine helps the wine industry to implement “multisensory marketing” (Knoeferle, 2015) and enhance wine tasting. However, most musical experiences that companies have designed are not based on science but are, rather, a type of non-verbal communication. Krug, for example, has begun in recent years to use music as a marketing tool. Each “Grande Cuvée” is accompanied by a playlist compiled by artists who draw inspiration from tasting the champagne. Krug extends the metaphor between musical creation (orchestra) and the creation of its cuvée. The process of making champagne thus becomes an allegory for creating music. Wine, like music, is open to interpretation and there is freedom in the way the two are paired.
Experiments are popping up everywhere and have resulted in a wide variety of creations. Some winemakers have been really creative and are breaking stereotypes about how wine and music are supposed to go together. The experience of La Fleur Cardinale, which is part of the St. Emilion Grand Cru Classé appellation, strays from wine’s traditional pairing with jazz or classical music. In a video, the winery shows how its assemblage comes together: each wine that enters the mix has a different sound and instrument. The various sounds are then played together to explain the harmonious taste of the cuvée. The music is, surprisingly, rock music. Wineries are also teaming up with music festivals, even when the two styles seem opposed. For instance, the notorious Hellfest, held in the Muscadet region, is a mecca for heavy metal fans and yet the region’s winemakers have latched onto its popularity to promote Muscadet wine and sell over 14,000 liters of its dry white wine in the process!
Occasional risks with pairing art & wine
Utilizing art for promotional purposes is not without risk, especially when the winery intentionally likens its wine to a work of music. The biggest risk is if consumers don’t react positively to the comparison and they see it as a cheap marketing ploy. Another risk is the attempt to compare a high-volume wine with a singular, one-of-a-kind artwork. The message can be unflattering when there is a large gap between the information being communicated via the work of art and the wine. For a label, to take one example, its aesthetic may not reflect the quality of the wine at all. The approach consisting in associating wine and art must remain logical and sober.
Customers may find the winery’s new approach off-putting, jarring or even uncouth. In another example, geographic location may not make it possible to attract a new clientele of art lovers. This was the case for a winery in a fairly rural Swiss canton that, back in 2012, partnered with street artists. Unfortunately, the company’s geographic isolation doomed the costly project over the long run as it failed to lure more urban wine drinkers. Or maybe they were just ahead of their time… | <urn:uuid:28f9791c-96b0-472f-9665-a696456d06f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hospitalityinsights.ehl.edu/art-wine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.957843 | 2,110 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Many individuals enjoy helping other people less fortunate than themselves. Some blessed with more financial means often become philanthropists and join or start community organizations to help those residents in need.
Consider these lesser-known benefits of community-based volunteering.
Types of Community Groups & Services That Benefit from Volunteers
Community organizations that may need volunteers include animal shelters, healthcare services for lower-income families, various charity organizations, historical societies, food banks, soup kitchens, veteran groups, and many others.
Volunteers Benefit from Volunteer Work Too by Staying Connected to the Community
Volunteering helps not only the recipients but the volunteers themselves by way of staying connected to their communities. Volunteers often feel immense satisfaction when giving their time, assets, or funds to others in need.
Anyone can volunteer in their own communities, doing valuable activities and holding fundraisers even if they lack money.
Volunteers Can Meet New People, Make Friends, & Expand Their Community Contacts
Volunteering for some of the worthy causes in your own community can help you meet new friends and gain important social and business contacts along with acquiring job skills at the same time.
Working side-by-side with other members of your community strengthens the social structure and provides opportunities to network with others who share your interests and life goals.
Parents Can Model Compassion & Show Children How Volunteer Work Helps Others
Many families make it a point to volunteer together as a family experience. This is a wonderful way to promote good deeds and the benefits of working hard while expecting nothing in return.
Kids can also learn valuable social, relationship, and future business skills that will hopefully encourage them to do the same later when they become adults.
Pick a charity or group event that will suit the interests and ages of your children. Children and teens can have lots of fun volunteering at a local zoo, animal shelter, nursing home, art festival, or cleaning up a public park with others their own age.
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When Hong Kong’s summer of protests began in June, the city was so shocked by police unleashing 150 canisters of tear gas and using their batons, it helped bring two million people into the streets to demonstrate again and denounce police brutality.
Four months of rolling protests later, they used nearly 10 times as many tear gas rounds in 24 hours in a futile bid to control the city as China celebrated 70 years of communist rule last Tuesday. That day police shot a protester with live ammunition for the first time, seriously injuring the teenager. Three days later another schoolboy was shot in the thigh.
There have been other serious casualties, including a journalist blinded in one eye, and more than 1,100 people have been treated at hospitals for injuries from the protests.
Water cannons laced with dye, beanbags, rubber and sponge-tipped bullets, pepper spray, baton charges and mass arrests have all become common. Gangs of thugs accused of triad links have also attacked demonstrators.
Deepening violence has been central to the long standoff between the city’s authorities and its people. Police brutality has fuelled public anger, feeding the protest movement, and as both sides became more entrenched their tactics have escalated.
Protesters’ arms and armour are rudimentary compared to police, but they too have become more aggressive as the conflict has deepened, and their tactics have diversified.
They have thrown rocks, bricks and molotov cocktails, used poles and slingshots for fighting, set fire to businesses, street barricades, and metro stations – targeted because the network closes to stop people gathering for protests. They have vandalised the city’s legislature, and damaged businesses thought to be pro-China.
Protesters have also attacked police and people suspected of being undercover officers or mainland spies. On Friday night a group beat a plainclothes policeman, then threw a molotov cocktail that briefly set the man on fire.
It is a dramatic transformation for a city known for its civic values and commitment to “peaceful, rational, non-violent” protest, or wo lei fei in Cantonese shorthand. During the last major protests five years ago – the umbrella movement – some demonstrators even used their totemic umbrellas to shield officers from rain.
And hanging over this spiralling showdown are fears the Chinese authorities could lose patience and intervene.
Barely veiled threats of state violence issued from the mainland so far include parading paramilitary troops just across the border, releasing a video showing the Chinese garrison in Hong Kong in urban combat and denouncing protesters as terrorists.
China’s ambassador to the UK said Beijing would not hesitate to intervene if it thought it was necessary. “If the situation in Hong Kong becomes uncontrollable by Hong Kong government, the central government will not sit on their hands and watch,” Liu Xiaoming told the BBC’s Newsnight.
‘They might have to kill someone, or be killed’
For now, both Beijing and Hong Kong authorities appear to be relying on the city’s police, giving them greater powers by invoking sweeping colonial era laws, and easing constrictions on how they operate.
Leaked documents show they loosened guidelines on the use of lethal force on the eve of the student being shot. Changes including removing a line that said “officers will be accountable for their own actions”.
Even before that attack, a senior police commander told journalists officers were concerned that escalating violence would end in deaths on the streets, CNN reported.
“Our officers are worried that violence has got to such a level that they might have to kill someone or be killed themselves,” the commander said. “This pressure has become extremely dangerous.”
But protesters, far from being cowed by violence, arrests, or even the shootings, are promising to die if needed in what they see as a battle for the soul of their city.
“There are bound to be deaths and injuries in every revolution. We’re born into this era and if there is a crackdown, we would resist till the last moment,” one demonstrator told the Guardian. He asked not to be named for fear of arrest or reprisals.
“If you want to overturn a regime, it’s hard to stay peaceful. Not everyone has to fight, but everyone can use whatever means they have to help,” he said.
Determination and deadlock
Police brutality is not only strengthening protestors’ resolve, it has also swelled their numbers. Between the violent clashes, people have repeatedly turned out in their millions to protest heavy-handed policing; an independent inquiry has become a key demand at demonstrations.
The police have arrested more than 2,000 people, some as young as 12, the oldest in their 70s. The sight of injured protesters and mass detentions have spurred on others including many Hong Kong residents who say they previously shunned politics, to turn out in support.
“Before when people were gathering and they deployed so many riot police, some people would try to leave. Now they don’t,” said Cathy Lam, 24, part of a crowd of local residents from West Kowloon who waited hours to support protesters being arrested on a bus there. “You can see the conflict between police and citizens escalating day by day.”
There is a risk that violence – and the damage and shutdowns linked to chaotic protests – may alienate supporters, both in Hong Kong and overseas, and provide pro-Beijing critics with ammunition. Chinese state media widely reports examples of vandalism and attacks by protesters.
Yet so far, protesters have largely contained both the extent and focus of their violence, directing it at symbols of the government they are opposing. While authorities have denounced them as rioters, there is little of the random smashing and looting that characterises most riots.
“The so-called vandalism they have done is really exceptional, because here it is only focused on targets related to ‘injustice’ they see,” said professor Lawrence Ka-ki Ho, a specialist in policing and public order management at the Education University of Hong Kong.
“Most vandalism would have indiscriminate targets, but their targets are the metro stations, the police stations – not the luxurious shops, not M&S.”
For the police, by contrast, escalating violence has been disastrous, both sapping their support and bolstering opposition. Yet once authorities or protesters are locked into violence, it becomes difficult for either side to step away.
Negotiations to end the stand-off, which would always be fraught, are particularly problematic in Hong Kong, both because there are no real channels of communication between authorities and protesters, and also because the movement doesn’t have any identified leaders.
This is in part because of sweeping round-ups of prominent figures during past protests, and part reflection of the grassroots nature of the movement which has taken as its motto ‘be like water’ – fast-moving, powerful, but hard to grasp or block.
So even if city authorities want to negotiate, it is not clear if there is anyone with power to call people off the streets.
“Many protests do actually generate some kind of reform movement, and its notable in Hong Kong that they have repealed the extradition bill [which first sparked the protests],” said Kristian Gleditsch, regius professor of political science at the University of Essex.
“The problem could be that if mobilisation has gone quite far, and many activists are now ready to use violence, these kind of concessions will be seen as too little, too late. And if the protest groups are not strongly organised, there may not be a hierarchy or leadership figures who can control them or negotiate with authorities.”
Protesters in turn feel they have no option but to stay on the streets despite the escalation in violence. Hong Kong’s unusual set-up offers civic rights and rule of law but the government is not democratically elected, so public protest is the only way the city’s people can express their political will.
“We have access to the internet, journalists can report on the situation live, we have rule of law. We are not totally autocratic. But at the same time our system is not totally democratic. We are not totally open or totally closed,” said Ho. “This hybrid [system] explains the dynamic and the deadlock we have seen.” | <urn:uuid:c178550f-9dd4-47cc-a7c4-f6add0f522a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/06/a-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-city-why-violence-has-spiralled-in-the-hong-kong-protests | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968165 | 1,758 | 2.421875 | 2 |
- Sustainable urban development
- Local master plans
- FI / SV
Uutta Helsinkiä Kuninkaantammi
Kuninkaantammi will be a sustainable community that stays connected to nature – thus providing the residents with a range of experiences. Realised in a spiral form reminiscent of old medieval towns, Kuninkaantammi will stress walkability and community-orientation every step of the way.
Kuninkaantammi also has some history as an active industrial area and some of the old premises will remain in the neighbourhood, among them Pitkäkoski water treatment plant and the facilities of Finland’s Environmental Centre. | <urn:uuid:1f7f2b23-8cfa-4b3d-9757-6bec067e3fd5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uuttahelsinkia.fi/en/kuninkaantammi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.834658 | 140 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Lost Dog: Have you have seen Lola?
LOST DOG: HAVE YOU SEEN LOLA?
Lola was lost on May 5 while her owner was visiting a family member near Timber Ridge Drive and Apalachee Parkway. She was wearing a collar with a pink bone-shaped ID tag with her owner’s phone number on it. Her family is worried about her. Lola is unfamiliar with the area where she went missing. She is 14 years old, and like many seniors, she is a bit thin and sometimes needs to be coaxed to eat.
After a few days on her own, her long fur is likely to become dirty and matted, and she may lose weight. By her appearance, it might be easy to assume she has been neglected, but in truth she is very pampered. Her owner needs to return home to Ohio, but they hope to go as a family, and Lola is an important member of their family!
When a mom loses her child at the grocery store, she will run up and down each aisle, calling her child’s name, and visually search for them. When we lose a dog, we do the same thing because we rely on our sight and hearing more than our sense of smell. We assume our dogs are just like us. Owners of lost dogs scour the neighborhood, hoping to catch a glimpse of them, all the while calling their dog’s name. At 14 years old, Lola’s hearing isn’t the best, but her sense of smell is still very keen.
Placing a familiar scented object outside will often guide a lost dog back to the area, or encourage them to remain nearby. This is one of our most effective tips for finding a lost dog, and works especially well when they are lost in an unfamiliar area. A baseball cap worn by their favorite person, a pillow case the owner has slept on, a stinky pair of socks, or the dog’s blanket work well.
Choose an unlaundered item with the owner’s or the dog’s scent on it. Leave one item near the house. If the yard is fenced, if possible, leave the gate open so they can get back in the yard. Cut the second item up into small pieces, a few inches wide. Smaller pieces are likely to go unnoticed and not be picked up or thrown in the garbage. Leave a trail beginning near the point your dog was last seen and ending at your door. Use your dog’s nose to guide them home.
Please contact Lola’s family with any possible sightings or information that will help them find her. They would also welcome help distributing flyers in the neighborhood. Phone: 216-905-8139. Email: email@example.com. For more info, additional photos, to print flyers, share to social media, or to contact her family directly: http://www.helpinglostpets.com/petdetail/?id=1683962. You can help lost dogs get home by following us on Facebook. Visit our partner, www.HelpingLostPets.com , to view a free map-based, searchable database of lost/found pets and create free flyers. Let's get Lola home!
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Project: – Simple college site for information
Everyone and every single college desire to have their own site for their business interest. Nowadays, many schools and colleges desire to have their own professional and business websites. We use HTML for this purpose.
This project develop with the concept of the above-mentioned pieces of information. Students get the idea of to develop the useful college and school sites for their skill orientation.
This project is the complete website of a college specification where you can find lots of news regarding the fee structure, admission procedure, exam routines and so on. The user interface is attractive with normal screen design so that users can easily search there stuffs.
This simple yet very useful and well-maintained site is developed with HTML tags. The whole project is designed in HTML language. Different tags have been used for the development of the project. It is quite easy to use and handle. There is no any error and warning contents in the project.
Following are the features of the project:
A customer can easily open the website and can order their gadgets in their home within the certain time, which saves the time of the customers.
The user interface is simple and very user-friendly.
The form validates so that the customers can input their correct identity.
The customer’s identity and their orders are in the website Database, which is a very useful than the documented files.
The customers can connect with the social media like as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Viber and so on, that’s why they can get there new updates and notifications.
The customer can easily find the store by viewing the contact page information.
For the project demo, you can have look at the video bellow:
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If you have read the rules of Active and Passive voice from our blog, it is time for you to do the Practice of theirs. As you know that Active and Passive Voice plays and important role for the competitive exams for jobs and admissions, it is necessary to give them maximum practice.
Therefore we are preparing some Practice sets of Voice. This is the Practice Set 1. The questions of Active and Passive Voice come in the form of sentences ( they ask you to change the voice ) and common errors. We hope you shall be benefited a lot from this effort of ours.
Q. 1 Change the voice of the following sentences -
a. Don't touch the naked wire.
b. There is nothing to say.
c. He has to purchase a car.
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d. One should listen to one's conscience.
e. I like the people to respect me.
f. Turn him out.
g. Someone killed the criminal.
h. It is time to switch off T.V.
i. I am to take tea.
j. Please bring me a glass of water.
k. Let her write a poem.
l. Did you tell a lie ?
m.Why did you help her ?
n. The judge enquired in to the case.
o. She made me sing.
p. She asked me if I could solve that sum.
q. They let me go.
r. People speak English all over the world.
s. Rose smells sweet.
t. The police arrested the thief and sent him to jail.
u. By whom are you taught English ?
v. Which teacher teaches you ?
w. How many people played the match ?
x. Can you read this letter ?
y. She will have prepared coffee by now.
z. They were taken to the hospital.
Solution of the Active and Passive Voice Practice Set - 1-
a. Let the wire not be touched.
b. There is nothing to be said.
c. A car has to be purchased by him.
d. Conscience should be listened to.
e. I like to be respected.
f. Let him be turned out.
g. The criminal was killed.
h. It is time for TV to be switched off.
i.Tea is to be taken by me.
j.You are requested to bring me a glass of water.
k.Let a poem be written by her.
l. Was a lie told by you ?
m.Why was she helped by you ?
n. The case was enquired into by the judge.
o. I was made to sing by her.
p.I was asked if I could solve that sum.
q. I was let go.
r. English is spoken all over the world.
s. Rose is sweet when smelt.
t. The thief was arrested and sent to jail.
u. Who teaches you English ?
v. By which teacher are you taught?
Which teacher are you taught by ?
w. By how many people was the match played?
x. Can this letter be read by you ?
y. Coffee will have been prepared by her by now.
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If you spend enough time in Italy you’ll inevitably hear someone asking: “Where is this Tuscia area we keep hearing about? Is it a village? A region? I’ve never heard of it before.”
Actually, Tuscia (also referred to as Etruria) is a historical landmass whose arm wraps around most of Tuscany, much of Umbria and parts of Lazio. It’s often called ‘the land of the Etruscans’ after the ancient civilization that roamed these parts from about 900 B.C. until their decline and absorption into the ascendant Roman Republic around 100 B.C.
Many inventions and technological advancements that we now associate with Romans actually originated with Etruscans, including winemaking, pottery wheels, certain types of metalworking, and the civil engineering ideas that went into building the famous Roman roads.
The Etruscans may be gone, but their mysterious spirit lives on in many of the enchanting sights in the area. The following are some hidden gems that capture something of the essence of this ancient civilization.
What to See
Parco dei Mostri (Monster Park), Bomarzo, Lazio
Bomarzo is a town in northern Lazio that’s home to one of the most stunning and unique Renaissance gardens in the world. As with many mannerist-style Italian gardens, the Parco dei Mostri eschews order and symmetry for whimsy and a certain stylized sense of fun. Designed by Architect Pirro Ligorio (who also built the Tivoli Gardens in Rome), it’s jammed-packed with creepy mythological creatures, mind-bending structures, and bizarre, haunting motifs. For some people, the Monster Park might feel dark and brooding, but to others it’s a breath of fresh air – lighthearted, whimsical and more than a little fun.
The story goes that Salvador Dali once visited Bomarzo and was so enthralled with the spot it inspired him to paint his surreal Temptation of Saint Anthony. We can’t confirm the story, but we can certainly see how you could make the connection.
Terme di Saturnia, Saturnia, Tuscany
According to an Etruscan/Roman legend, the hot springs of Saturnia were formed when Jupiter launched a lightning bolt at Saturn during a quarrel. Fortunately for Saturn (and for us) he missed and opened a great rift in the earth where hot watered poured forth. It’s more likely that the warm pools were formed by calcium carbonate deposits from the natural sulfurous hot springs accumulating over thousands of years, but who are we to say?
Adjacent to a luxury spa resort, Saturnia has two outdoor waterfalls, the most famous of which is the Cascate del Mulino, which features mineral-rich pools rising to temperatures of nearly 100° F/38° C. This, ahem, hot spot is absolutely free to the public and open all year round.
Via Cava di Sovana, Sovana, Tuscany
The Vie Cava are an ancient network of Etruscan roads surrounding Sovana, but their construction is like nothing you’ve ever seen. In English, ‘cava’ refers to an excavated road. This awesome artery was cut through 65-foot high tufa rock, presumably to create an easy path between settlements and the Etruscan tombs. Archeologists theorize that the chasm might also have been used as a system to direct rainwater or as an effective defense against enemies. If you go for a walk in the woods around Sovana you can tread a path that predates the birth of Christ.
La Scarzuola, Montegabbione, Umbria
This last destination is technically’outside the invisible border of Tuscia, but it’s nearby, and wonderful, so we’re including it…
Looking a bit like something out of an M.C. Escher drawing, La Scarzuola is a former Franciscan monastery originally constructed during the middle ages. In 1956, Italian architect Tomas Buzzi acquired it and transformed the property and grounds into a surrealist villa-cum-sculpture gallery with futuristic underpinnings.
In the way it juxtaposes symbolism, architecture, esoteric cultural references, and the beauty of the surrounding countryside, it’s similar to the Monster Park, but much more personal in nature. It’s often said that the work is Buzzi’s “autobiography in stone”. However you interpret it, most people find it bizarrely compelling.
How to Get There
Located smack dab in the middle of the country, Tuscia is about 75 miles / 120 km from the center of Rome and 125 miles / 200 km from Florence. Although there are some local train services to the area, we highly recommend touring by car to access these spectacular sites and all their surrounding towns and villages.
Where to Stay
Orvieto, once a hotbed of Etruscan civilizations, is a great base for traveling around Tuscia. It has one of central Italy’s best locations (along the A-1 Autostrada and the main train line between Rome and Florence), but more importantly, it’s home to The Museo Etrusco Claudio Faina and ancient Etruscan tombs. Both are conveniently located in Orvieto’s historical center.
Pitigliano is smaller in population than Orvieto but packs a big punch with its sheer cliffs looking down into a dramatic ravine. A classic Italian experience is to watch the golden Tuscan sunset from the balcony of one of Pitigliano’s charming hotels or B&Bs.
Viterbo is the capital of the province, the home to the University of Tuscia and in close proximity to a wide area of thermal springs, which especially attracts visitors there. Surrounded by well-preserved medieval walls, the city can be entered through impressive ancient gates.
What to Eat
The dishes of Tuscia are famously earthy and rustic. Although the Etruscans didn’t leave cookbooks lying around (or any writings, for that matter), archeologists have been able to piece together their eating habits by studying relics and remains found in their necropoli. Their favorite foods seem to have been game, poultry and lots of pork.
Unsurprisingly, today, the traditional cuisine of central Italy includes porchetta (roasted pork), pigeon and dove, cinghiale (wild boar), as well as hearty soups (Tuscan bean and lentils are popular), in addition to rich sheep and goat cheeses. From a country trattoria to a fine restaurant, you’re sure to find one or more of these delicacies on the menu.
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Today, all institutions and companies are accelerating the use of AI technologies in their businesses to achieve a clear vision and quality results. The education sector is one of the sectors where AI can be used because of big data. In this work we created a machine-based learning model to predict a student's educational performance. The developed model relied on the student's previous data and performance in the last stage of the school. The model showed a very accurate accuracy rate that can be adopted.
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YOUR ASPHALT IS A SEA OF HOLES?
HOW TO PROLONG THE SERVICE LIFE OF THE
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unbound layers and background to the phenomenon of pumping
generated by traffic, subtracts the fine parts causing the progressive
The simple repair with a new layer of asphalt will not resolve the problem
which soon recur again with useless waste
of time and resources. The laws and regulations give
a precise personal liability, civil or criminal, to managers
provincial, municipal and highways with respect to incidents
for poor or lack of maintenance of road works;
which leads to the big increase of insurance of
Commissioners and interest in diluting maintenance costs in times
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strengthen the strata related to increase the load-bearing capacity and at the same time interpose an impermeable layer of water to prevent the phenomenon of pumping.
elastomeric membrane armed tackifying resin-Index sandwiched between Binder and surface layer reinforces and waterproof the flooring and prolongs its life because:
blocks the transmission of cracks
increases resistance to fatigue
reduces wheel tracking
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New business incubator and office building; “Turbosealtech”, designed by New Wave architecture. The project is located in Pardis Technology Park, in suburb of Tehran, aims to provide a platform for people to research and innovate. Pardis Technology Park is made up of developments by architects from Iran, and this project continues this pattern of expressing the vision of Iranian architects through its design team.
Turbosealtech is a medium-size project and the area is 2500 square meters. The design approach focused on an interaction between technology, site, function and landscape.
With considerations toward continuity of site views, heat control and function of the building, the form was generated. The volume of the building is drawn out of the ground, creates a visually beautiful skyline and harmony with the environment.
The exterior of the building is wrapped in a glass envelope, helps allow in natural light and the aluminum profiles on the outer layer, controls the internal heat gain. The exposed structure used for the interior, is taken from the form of the building which represents characteristic structure of industrial buildings.
The glass pyramid shaped building is divided into five horizontal levels that are well connected vertically by a transparent lift. The interior spaces are designed in a way to enhance interaction between users.
Offices are located on upper levels and an open plan workhouse is designed in a transparent enclosure on the lower levels where gives visitors a chance to observe company’s production. The entrance is located in the triangle corner of the building, motivates users to enter the building.
The cut-out roof creates a terrace which brings in natural light and air and forms a shared outdoor space for both visitors and employees to have an access to fresh air, interact and accomplish their work.
The inclined roof is voided throughout to create a green corridor from ground to roof to create a dynamic space, reduce building temperature and energy consumption. A water tank is also embedded next to the building to collect rainwater which will be used for the irrigation purposes and non-potable uses.
Architects_Principal and Director: Lida Almassian / Shahin Heidari
Team: Soheila Zahedi, Sheida Ghotbi, Pary Pour Moghadam, Maryam Shokouhi, Shirin Zeaei, Ilnaz Ashayerei, Niloufar Moradi, Golrokh Heydarian
Structural, Mechanical & Electrical Consultant: New Wave Architecture
Structural Design Supervisor: Hamed Jilani
Structural Design Team: Matin Mohammadpour, Melika Sandani
Client: Turbosealtech company
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On Mother’s Day in 1988, Margaret Kimball’s mother attempted suicide—a family secret that was only revealed to her 15 years later. In Kimball’s family, silence became the answer to a painful history of mental illness and death. But the unspeakable cannot remain unspoken—grief must eventually be brought to the surface. Through And Now I Spill the Family Secrets (HarperOne), Kimball’s debut illustrated memoir, she has found a way to break her family’s tradition of silence.
Can a family archive provide clues when our memories feel inadequate? As she examines photographs, hospital records, diary entries, and other family artefacts, Kimball searches for meaning. Her desire to find a reason for the tragedy in her family history is an instinctive impulse, the opposite of silence. If we can define a cause by putting language to the pain we’ve experienced, maybe we can protect ourselves and the people we love from further hurt.
Kimball’s pages are not typical panels of a graphic novel. She illustrates rooms from the houses she grew up in, objects from her childhood, and family records. The only time human figures appear are in her illustrations of photographs or home videos. Many of the pages show rooms in which people are absent, a choice she made to create an immersive, accessible experience, for the reader to put themselves in these spaces. When I was reading, I did exactly that—imagining my own childhood home, my parents’ divorce, and my family’s history of mental illness that has gone undiagnosed. Kimball has managed to process and work through her own trauma while constructing a narrative that will be familiar to readers who have known and struggled with silence in their own families, making And Now I Spill the Family Secrets a powerful achievement.
I spoke to Kimball about the inaccuracy of memory, her childhood home, and the process of healing that came from writing about her family’s traumatic past.
Sabrina Papas: A large part of the narrative of your family history is based on home videos. You refer to these home videos as “evidence,” a way to validate your own memories. The videos act as a form of time travel to access the past. Would you have been able to undertake the same journey without these videos?
Margaret Kimball: I think I would have still tried to unpack the family history, but I feel like the videos just offered evidence that I wouldn’t have been able to get otherwise. I saw us walking around and talking and interacting with each other. Especially the tension between my parents was so palpable, just watching it. From the position now, 30 years later as a married person, you can just see it and have a little more sense of what that might have meant inside of their marriage, to them. Whereas I never would have seen that and I would’ve questioned my memory more.
I feel like the videos just provided this layer of context that gave me a little more insight into their marriage that I don’t think I would have seen. And then I could extrapolate from that what that meant for our family dynamic, if they were having so much tension. So I think I would have done a book, but it would have been a little different.
Do you think our memories can be more accurate than family artefacts of videos, photographs, documents?
I think both are important. A memory, you can recall a feeling or a sense of the atmosphere or mood of an experience. Whereas the evidence itself is just cold hard facts, like this happened on this date or this is the document of this, or the marriage certificate. But I feel like you need both, cause memory is really terrible. Without my diaries, without all the documentation I found, the dates would have been totally confusing to me.
For instance, my concussion. I thought I was 8 years old when I had that concussion. And it was like, no I was four. And then learning that it happened in 1988, which was the big year for my family. It was surprising. I think having both documentation of things and remembering on your own are so important to push together and figure it out. One of the things I loved was, I would have my memory, and then I would find evidence that countered my memory, or added to it, or changed it in some way. So then I had to figure out like, okay well my timeline’s off, so how do I incorporate this? Or my brother’s memory is different from mine, so how do I incorporate both perspectives and try to make it fair to everybody? That was such an interesting problem to try to solve. But I felt like I just needed as much information as I could get to make an accurate story.
There are also certain documents that are irretrievable. I’m thinking specifically of when you try to find the files from your grandmother’s first admission into a mental health unit in 1959. The patient files, however, were all destroyed. At the time, ideas about mental health would have been limited, even harmful—especially for a woman. But would having access to these files have made a difference in understanding your grandmother’s experiences?
Oh, totally. It’s such a blank spot in my mind. Maybe she went, and it was therapeutic and fine. I wonder if she had a lobotomy or was given electroshock therapy over and over. I have no idea. I know what she was like when I knew her, but when I think of a 21-year-old, and even just having that experience of going to the hospital, you have an infant—is traumatizing. But I think there’s a whole other layer of it when there’s a physical trauma as well. I think it would really deepen my understanding of her life if I knew. They say they’re destroyed, but part of me wonders if the files exist secretly somewhere. But I can’t get them.
A memory will always be different for each person involved. Even home videos and photographs, that claim to objectively capture a moment, are subjective. When constructing your family history, did you find that there were multiple versions of events to interpret? How did you choose what to accept as truth?
All my family members have different memories of everything that happened. My baseline is if I had any physical evidence, like a diary entry, that was like “this person said this on this day” or just a video, or a photograph or something—I would use that as the concrete fact that was irrefutable. It’s like, “Well, I have evidence so, that’s that.” Then I just talked to each family member as much as I could about specific memories.
An example is my parent’s divorce, where my mom says my dad had an affair. I haven’t exactly talked to my dad about it, but he’s kind of hinted at it. But I had to kind of interpret my mom’s understanding of an affair, which is different from mine. I think maybe during the separation, my dad was dating somebody else. And so I feel like I tried to be fair to her memory, but also be fair to my dad and say “This is what I think happened.” So I guess I just try to show the different perspectives as much as I could, and then do my own interpretation.
It’s so hard cause everybody feels so strongly in their memories. I think as you remember something, it deepens that neuropath in your brain, so you’re so certain about it, but it might be totally wrong.
I was reading Bluets by Maggie Nelson yesterday. There’s a passage about memories, whether or not when you remember an experience, it’s a trace of the original experience or if we’re creating a new trace each time from recalling the memory.
It literally changes over time. Especially if your first memory is incorrect. That’s the interesting thing, you never know what’s exactly correct. Especially from a different angle, it looks different. I find that one of the most interesting things about memoir, and also the most frustrating things. Some days I’m like “What is the fact?” and there is no fact. It’s just a series of perspectives.
Did the process of compiling research for the book make you more aware of how you record and preserve your own experiences and thoughts?
When I was ten, when I found out that my mom was bipolar, I just stopped writing in my diaries for a year. I didn’t mention it, I didn’t say anything about it. I think in realizing that, I realized that sometimes I do that. I carried that through. If there’s something extreme happening in my life, I just stop writing about it. Which is probably the worst thing to do, cause I know I’ll write about it later, so really I should be documenting it. But I think sometimes it’s too overwhelming to jot things down in the middle of a storm. So that was surprising.
The other thing, there’s something about records and learning how many records exist—that was kind of glorious to me. There’s public records, and then as I was talking to my parents when they finally agreed to talk to me about the book, they had so many photographs and documents and videos that I didn’t even know about. It made me think about what we keep over time and what my parents are willing to shell out. I think at this point, they don’t care. They’re like “Whatever, take whatever you want, empty our house, please.” But I think just learning the vastness of the archive that we actually have as a family, in addition to what’s available, even just online from public records is really fascinating to me. So I just try to be more aware of that and keep more records. So now if I have medical stuff, I request the records right after. I’m like “I need those for something.” I try to do that with everything.
In a conversation with your mother, she expresses anger at the prospect of her life being written about. At the time, you disagree and tell her that you’re writing about yourself—a statement which you regret on later reflection. But when we write about the people we love, especially family, are we not also writing about ourselves? Is there a way that their stories become a part of us?
I think yes, I’m always writing about myself. But I [also] think it’s never true to say “Well, I’m not writing about you,” when I’m exactly like “My mom tried to kill herself on this day”—that had nothing to do with me. There’s just no excuse for what memoir does to the people in our lives. It’s very much taking other people’s experiences, at least in this case cause I’m writing about my whole family. It’s taking their experiences and using it for my own purposes.
In this case, I think it’s for honourable purposes. I was trying to process a lot of traumatic events that happened to us over time. Nevertheless, it’s still taking their experiences and writing about them. So I think, while I am writing about myself and trying to deal with it, interpret it, process, and heal, no matter what it’s still taking their lives. And some of the darkest times in my parent’s lives in particular, and my maybe my older brother too, I’m not totally sure. And just kind of exploiting them in a way. So that’s something I’ll probably always feel guilty about. But I still just feel like it’s such an important thing to do to, to not have secrets and not feel shame, that I’m still going to do it.
No matter what, it’s still connected to you and who you are.
I think it helps the family too. They process things differently. They don’t write books about it, for instance. But I think once one of us starts yacking about it non-stop, it kind of gives license to everybody to talk about it. Maybe even laugh about some of the things in a way. Or just let the memories exist, rather than have them buried as secrets.
I’m interested in the absence of human figures in your illustrations. Many of the panels depict empty rooms, or objects from your childhood. The only time people appear is in illustrations of home videos or family photographs, but never in undocumented memories. Can you speak about this choice?
It started out just intuitively. I was drawing rooms and not people in the very early drafts of the book. But as I tried to consider which approach to take, I felt I don’t remember people when I think of my memories, I remember very much place. Or flashes of things, flashes of a shirt, or shoes. But I don’t picture people in my memory so much as place. Place is a really strong aspect of memory for me. I wanted readers to be able to be fully immersed in the environments that I was immersed in. When I think of these memories, this is what I think about. So I just didn’t draw people.
But I didn’t want it to be lifeless. So when I had photographs or something that felt more concrete to me, like “Okay, if I document this photograph, it’s real,” versus me just interpreting what I might have looked like at age six. So it was this idea of creating the environments readers could immerse themselves in.
I think it would have changed the whole feel of the book if I had drawn us growing up throughout. I think it would have made it less accessible in a way, because I want the reader to put themselves in the space. If you’re just looking at people in the space, maybe you’re not in it as much. It could just be an excuse because drawing people is hard, I don’t know. But it felt to me like the most strong things in my memories are of place, not people.
There’s also a feeling of the places being preserved through the drawings.
The memories are so dear to me, I love them. The house we grew up in, I’m always looking it up online to see if it’s for sale. Which it’s not. Not that I want to buy it, but I just want to look in the rooms. I’m so in love with some of the memories or some of the places. I think you’re right, I just wanted to show people my bedroom or our yard—I just love them. They’re so big in my mind. I guess just to let people in on that.
You write about returning to your childhood home. Your mother also visited many times and spoke to the people living there. What do you think draws us back to old homes? What are we looking for when we return?
I was so young at the time. I think if I went back now, it would be trying to see it and remember it and feel the feelings of that house. Which you can never do cause it’s probably totally different. But I also think when there’s something unresolved, you might return to a place and try, even if it’s just subconscious, [to] interpret your memory of the place, or what happened there, or live in those feelings again. I do feel like it’s a way of processing, to return to a place. Especially if you haven’t been there in a long time. To just go back and see what’s the same, see what’s different, if any of it correlates to your memory. I think it’s just a way of processing something that’s happened.
I’m working on another book now which takes place when I was in grad school. I keep imagining myself going back to Tucson to visit, cause I haven’t been back since then. I keep wondering what it’s going to be like, and am I going to remember the streets? One of the amazing things about going back to Glastonbury, where I grew up, is I remember my bus route. I can just drive along and I was like “Laura lived there, and Chad lived there.” It’s so weird, you see these things and it’s kind of magical to feel that, to feel that memory come alive. Like “I remember riding the bus on this street, I can find my way home.” So I think it’s just a way of processing. It gives me warm feelings to see something that you lived a long time ago that’s no longer a part of your life.
It’s almost like entering a memory in a way because these places that we inhabited when we were younger, they feel like they don’t exist—it almost feels like they’re not real. So when you visit, and you’re reminded of it, it’s like you’re in a film and entering these sets of your life.
Yeah! It’s connected to the evidence thing. I feel like so many of my memories, I sort of dismissed. I mean, I can name ten of them. I thought, maybe I imagined them, or maybe it was a dream, especially when you’re younger. Like my dad carrying my mom down the steps [after she attempted suicide]. It’s like, maybe that was a dream. Until it was confirmed by my brother, and then my parents, I was like “Oh, I just thought that was some weird image I had in my head that I invented.”
It’s the same thing with places. It does feel like a confirmation of your experience, which is a great feeling I think.
Silence became a way for your family to avoid confronting a difficult past. You write about your own habit of a “failure to record in the heart of catastrophe.” What inspired you to overcome the silence and put language to your family’s unspeakable past through a memoir?
A few things. One is, I just hated the secrets. I still do. But I hated when, if I asked my dad or my mom about something and they just wouldn’t talk about it. Or they would give me completely different stories, or the story changed every time. I just hated that. I sensed their shame. I feel like secrets are [a] means of hiding shame. I sensed their shame about the past.
My mom was so ashamed of the suicide attempt in 1988, she still is. My dad is so ashamed of the divorce and what happened. I just wanted to put language to it so we could deal with it, so that it doesn’t have such a big presence in our lives. I think with secrets like that, that impacted our whole lives. It just impacts everything, there’s this ripple effect. If there’s this thing that’s happening and no one’s talking about it, it creates this panic of “Is this really happening, am I okay? Is everybody okay? Is everybody not okay?” And there are just all these questions that arise when no one’s talking about what’s clearly happening, or what clearly has happened.
So I feel like I just rejected that. I don’t know if it’s a personality disorder, but I’ve always been like “I want to talk very clearly about what’s happening, what’s happened, what’s going to happen,” so that it makes sense to me.
You explain that grief in your family, in relation to mental health, “has been passed on and reshaped through generations, each person containing two sorrows—one for herself and one for others.” Have you found a way to take care of yourself and your own grief through the process of writing the book?
The book was really surprising. I was so angry for so long at my mom. And then later at my dad, it took me a really long time to ever be angry at my dad, but I was. But in the process of writing, and trying to ask them questions, which I hadn’t done in early drafts, in part because they refused to talk to me about it. But in talking to them about it, I just felt a ton of empathy for their positions. They were in impossible situations I think. They had good intentions the whole way. I think everybody does the best they can. They certainly did. It just wasn’t great all the time. It feels mean to say I forgave them, because I don’t feel like I had to forgive them anything. But my anger dissipated, and I just felt sorry for them.
I think writing the book was such a healing process. It helped our relationships, because all the secrets were out. Unless there are more I don’t know about, which is totally possible. I’m sure there are more I don’t know about. But the ones I cared about are all out in the open now, it’s all fine. I don’t feel any anger towards them anymore and I don’t think they feel anger towards me—I think—for writing a book. I hope not. | <urn:uuid:f3168a16-43e7-4e8f-9b76-b9bc713af5a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hazlitt.net/feature/theres-just-no-excuse-what-memoir-does-people-our-lives-interview-margaret-kimball | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.979201 | 4,584 | 1.921875 | 2 |
My prairie sources tell me that tomorrow is the big day. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal is set to issue its landmark ruling on whether the Section 2(d) of the Charter [freedom of association] guarantees Canadians a right to strike. If the Charter guarantees a right to strike, then all manner of laws that prohibit and restrict the right to strike would be subject to challenge. We have an abundance of such laws in Canada.
Of course, whatever the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decides is just a step along the inevitable path to the Supreme Court of Canada. The last time the SCC was asked whether the Charter protects a right to strike, in 1987, the answer was no. However, a lot has changed since then, including the B.C. Health Services decision, in which the SCC overturned its 1990 conclusion that the Charter did not include a right to collective bargaining. Since BC Health Services, there has been an expectation in the labour law bar that the SCC will similarly overrule its 1987 rulings (in the so-called Labour Trilogy) that strikes are not protected.
For a review of the Labour Trilogy and its potential impact on the right to strike cases, see this excellent review by Prof. Jamie Cameron of Osgoode Hall Law School.
Interestingly, in the Labour Trilogy cases, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal was on the side of recognizing a right to strike. It was overturned by the SCC in one of the three Labour Trilogy cases (the Saskatchewan Dairy Workers case). For very keen labour law students, go back and read the Court of Appeal reasons. Is tomorrow’s ruling a chance for the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to say, “I told you so” in a message to the SCC?
Justice Ball of the Saskatchewan Court of Queens Bench ruled last year that the right to strike was guaranteed by the Charter. He relied on the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent pronouncements on the need for the Charter to be interpreted consistent with Canada’s international law obligations. Those obligations include protection of a robust right to strike. He ruled that Saskatchewan’s labour laws, which prohibited or rendered useless any right to strike infringed the Charter, and were not saved by Section 1 of the Charter.
By way of refresher, here are some of my earlier blog postings on the case. Though I won’t have time to do a full summary of the decision tomorrow, I will post it on the blog once I get it.
Explaining the Saskatchewan Court’s Finding that the Charter Protects a Right to Strike
Professor Michael Lynk’s Expert Affidavit on the ILO’s Law on the Right to Strike
Guest Blog: Professor Roy Adams on the Saskatchewan Decision Recognizing a Charter Right to Strike
Saskatchewan Government Appeals Ruling Finding Charter Protects Right to Strike
P.S., legal counsel for the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour in the case is Craig Bavis, who is presently a student in the Osgoode LLM program in labour and employment law, of which I am Director. And my buddy from London graduate school days, Peter Barnacle, is on for CUPE. Peter was at Cambridge doing his LLM, when I was at LSE. Good luck, Craig and Peter!
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A somewhat factual introduction to the hoppy, crawly, wriggly, buzzy, fluttery critters that call your backyard home.
Butterflies are like moths - just fancier.
They fly around during the daytime to show off their pretty, colourful wings. This is probably why moths prefer to only come out at night.
Backyard Buddies is a handy field guide full of buzzy facts (some of them even true) about the insects and creatures - ladybugs, snails, blue-tongues and more - that kids are likely to discover living in their backyard.
Publication Date: 27-Jul-2022
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- 1 What does the good news mean in the Bible?
- 2 What is the good news Jesus brings?
- 3 Why is the Gospel called the good news?
- 4 What does the Bible say about sharing the good news?
- 5 What is the main message of Jesus?
- 6 Who made the original covenant with God?
- 7 What does the Gospel of Mark tell us about Jesus?
- 8 What was Jesus mission to the world?
- 9 What is the core message of Christianity?
- 10 Why did Jesus become human?
- 11 Who spread the word of Jesus?
- 12 How was Jesus a servant leader?
What does the good news mean in the Bible?
In Christianity, the gospel, or the Good News, is the news of the imminent coming of the Kingdom of God (Mark 1:14-15). It perceives this as saving acts of God due to the work of Jesus on the cross and Jesus’ resurrection from the dead which bring reconciliation between people and God.
What is the good news Jesus brings?
What is the good news Jesus brings? good news for all people. includes being loved by God, and being forgiven for bad things.
Why is the Gospel called the good news?
The word gospel is derived from the Anglo-Saxon term god-spell, meaning “good story,” a rendering of the Latin evangelium and the Greek euangelion, meaning “good news” or “good telling.” Since the late 18th century the first three have been called the Synoptic Gospels, because the texts, set side by side, show a
What does the Bible say about sharing the good news?
As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news.” This passage goes on in verse 17, “So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.” We most clearly hear the message about Christ in Scripture, and so we know that discipleship does not occur apart
What is the main message of Jesus?
He is believed to be the Jewish messiah who is prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, which is called the Old Testament in Christianity. It is believed that through his Crucifixion and subsequent Resurrection, God offered humans salvation and eternal life, that Jesus died to atone for sin to make humanity right with God.
Who made the original covenant with God?
The first covenant was between God and Abraham. Jewish men are circumcised as a symbol of this covenant. You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
What does the Gospel of Mark tell us about Jesus?
Jesus, in the Gospel of Mark is portrayed as more than a man. Mark, throughout the Gospel of Mark tells us that Jesus was of flesh and skin but also tells us what attributes he had that set him apart from the other humans. Mark also tells us the testimony of when Jesus healed a women.
What was Jesus mission to the world?
Jesus was sent into the world in order that people might have life in relationship with God. The goal of his being sent, according to 14:6, is that people might “come” to the Father, which in the immediate context means that they might know and believe in God.
What is the core message of Christianity?
The core Christian belief is that through belief in and acceptance of the death and resurrection of Jesus, sinful humans can be reconciled to God, and thereby are offered salvation and the promise of eternal life.
Why did Jesus become human?
The latter gives a soteriological emphasis to the incarnation: the Son of God became a man so that he could save us from our sins. The former, on the other hand, speaks of the incarnation as a fulfilment of the Love of God, of his desire to be present and living amidst humanity, to “walk in the garden” with us.
Who spread the word of Jesus?
Although Jesus had died, his message had not. Word of his teachings spread to Jewish communities across the empire. This was helped by energetic apostles, such as Paul and by the modern communications of the Roman Empire.
How was Jesus a servant leader?
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(SEATTLE) — The U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard responded to a containership that lost 40 containers during heavy weather Friday 40 miles from the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
U.S. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received notification from Prince Rupert Marine Communication and Traffic Services at 12:49 a.m. Friday that the shipping vessel Zim Kingston reported losing approximately 40 containers overboard when the vessel heeled 35 degrees in heavy swells 38 miles west of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The lost containers were initially reported to be general containers with no dangerous cargo.
No injuries were reported to any crewmembers.
The U.S. Coast Guard 13th District Command Center and Sector Puget Sound directed U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles to conduct a flyover at 10 a.m. An Air Station Port Angeles crew was able to locate 35 of the containers. The air crew deployed a self-locating datum marker buoy to monitor the movement of the containers.
At 2 p.m., Sector Puget Sound reported that the Canadian Coast Guard received a preliminary report from the master of Zim Kingston reporting that two containers overboard contained hazardous material.
The U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian agencies are continuing to monitor movement of the shipping containers.
Zim Kingston moored 5 miles from Victoria, British Columbia.
At 11:11 a.m. Saturday, Rescue Coordination Center Victoria reported that Zim Kingston had two containers on fire. Sector Puget Sound and RCC Victoria arranged an overflight to monitor the area. Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles was directed to do the overflight and captured imagery.
Both the U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard continue to broadcast warnings as the containers pose a significant risk to mariners.
“The U.S. Coast Guard continues to monitor the situation, engaging with our Canadian and tribal partners to respond and support as requested while this incident continues to develop,” said Capt. Daniel Broadhurst, chief of incident management for the 13th Coast Guard District.
An incident command post, led by the Canadian Coast Guard on behalf of the government of Canada, the province of British Columbia, and First Nations representatives, has been established to manage and coordinate this multi-agency response.
Unified command is working with the Emergency Management British Columbia network through local communities to broadcast public safety information as required.
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The Art of Giving (Without Being Taken For a Ride)
In order to understand the true heart of giving, one must come to know the heart of the One who “gave it all” to redeem His premiere creation. John 3:16 – 18 has this to say about Him;
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
For God so LOVED that He GAVE...
The way to give therefore, is to give because we love. Ah. But there's the rub. Most of us give more often from a desire to be loved, or even just liked. We give because we don't want to be thought of as stingy or unloving. We give because we don't want to be the bad guy who says no! We want to be perceived as loving, though our heart may seethe with resentment if our giving is not properly acknowledged or reciprocated or isn't rewarded as we'd like.
God gave the very best He had for our redemption. He did not scrape up some third rate substitution to pawn off on our behalf! He hoped that we would reciprocate! He wanted us back! But He also wanted us to prosper and be in health, which we could not do outside of His love and wisdom.
“So that those who believe... should NOT perish....He did not send His Son to judge, but to save....”
Is our giving redemptive? Or does it, instead, place the other person in a place worthy of our judgment? That is to say, are we truly doing it to save them grief and anxiety? Are we doing it just because we have the money they need, and they don't? Are we just truly glad to help? Or are we sort of making them indebted, a type of emotional slave to us, by putting them in a position to owe us, does giving give us a feeling of power over the recipients, giving us a “right” to judge them? Does it keep us comfortable in our mental paradigm as the “big-hearted victim”? Believe it or not, this syndrome is all too common. The wily flesh is very adept at making anything about itself!
These are difficult questions to answer honestly and forthrightly. Because we have to dig down to the motivation in our hearts to see what lies there. The spirit man, who is like God, is able to truly give, because it is created in, or restored to, God's holy, loving image. But the fallen flesh, which too often rules our decisions and actions is not a giver. It can not do as Yeshua instructed us in His upgraded version of the Torah, (recorded in Luke 6 & Matthew 5), “...lend expecting nothing in return...”. That took giving to a whole new level. The flesh always demands or at least expects to get something back – even if it is just kudos! Most of us are glad to “help”, as long as we know we'll be repaid. But very few can really give to people who can't, or just won't, reciprocate or pay back the loans which they freely still ask for! So, instead of refusing to continue to enable this usury, the people pleasing, kudo seeking flesh will just continue to “be used”. And rather than forgive the debt, and cease to increase the debt. It just takes notes, and abets self-robbery, while collected offenses just lay in there and burns, and we can't or won't let it go.
Of course we should not enable a selfish, unnecessary usury of the good nature of others, or even ourselves! But in setting healthy boundaries for those around us, neither should we forget to stretch a bit for those who are not “there yet” spiritually! The flesh, however can not set healthy boundaries. The flesh loves the drama of codependent entanglements! It loves the pity parties of being victimized, or the feeling of power that having others indebted to it brings! It is nasty insidious mess, in need of deliverance!
That is where the Anointed One and His Anointing comes in – bringing His forgiveness to us, which then enables us with Grace to forgive others. Not only are we to forgive the actual financial debt that was incurred when someone was desperate enough to borrow from us, And then found that their circumstances did accommodate their paying us back. But we are to also forgive their moral weakness which has rendered them irresponsible, careless or selfish enough to take unfair advantage of our willingness to give.
Forgiveness of debt does release that person from indebtedness to us, which seems somehow unjust on a level. But it also releases us from unrealistic expectations, and keep us from developing roots of bitterness, which will eventually defile God's dwelling place in us! We wouldn't want our inability, to give from the right motivation, to drive God's presence and blessing out of our lives! But giving and then holding grudges against the one who didn't treat our giving with the responsibility or respect we expected, or feel that we deserve, does begin to cramp our freedom and steal our joy! It can produce a root of bitterness, that is forbidden to be cultivated by God's people.
It is said of Yeshua that it was “for the joy set before Him” that He gave the last full measure for our redemption, and suffered the agonies and humiliations of the cross! The writer of Hebrews records it this way:
“...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.”
“That we might not grow weary and lose heart...” Isn't that exactly what happens when we come to a place that we feel people are taking advantage of us? Especially if it happens to be a repeat performance! And yet, HE was willing to give everything – His comfort, His time, and even His Life – to and for us, knowing full well that we could never come close to repaying Him! And the only way to save our souls from eternal judgment is to accept this free gift, which makes us most embarrassing debtors! But in receiving His forgiveness for us, we also must receive and extend the grace to forgive those who “trespass against us”, or rip us off!
One thing which is helpful to remember in this situation, is that we can never out give God! He sees our true giving, and rewards it, whether the person we helped properly acknowledges it or not! Giving is His method of increase and blessing for His people, if it is done from His motivation of LOVE. Loving God and others more than we love ourselves is said to produce utter fulfillment of the Law, and complete Yeshua's mission of returning us, God's stolen property, back to Him!
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St. Mary’s N.S. has recently been awarded the Pieta House Amber Flag for promoting Positive
Mental Health in our school for the school year 2019-2020. We set and achieved goals
throughout the year.
We established a Healthy Minds Committee with pupils from 1st to 6th class. We had monthly
meetings with the Healthy Minds Committee where the pupils discussed ideas for promoting
mental health and wellbeing in our school. They worked very hard during the year.
We ran a Jersey Day for World Mental Health Day in October 2019, where we raised money for
Pieta House. We ran a Health and Wellbeing Week in January 2020. We had lots of activities
incorporating mental health, wellness and mindfulness. We also ran a Health and Wellbeing
Poster Competition as part of Wellbeing Week. We also have a Health and Wellbeing
noticeboard in the corridor, which we added to each term and displayed the winning posters.
Thank you to Mrs Brennan, Ms Lawlor, Mrs McHugh, Mrs O’Reilly, Ms McLean, Mrs Clerkin, Ms
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A coronavirus vaccine candidate developed in Russia prompted an immune response and didn't cause serious adverse reactions in early trials, according to new data released today (Sept. 4).
This data was released weeks after Russia announced that it had approved its vaccine for the general population (but had actually only approved it for a small group of people), Live Science reported, drawing criticism from public health experts who said there was not enough data to prove the vaccine was safe and effective.
Early results from the "Sputnik V" phase 1/phase 2 clinical trials were published today in the journal The Lancet. Between June 18 and Aug. 3, the researchers enrolled 76 healthy participants between 18 and 60 years old to be given the candidate vaccine, developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, in one of two Russian hospitals.
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The researchers tested two different forms of the vaccine, made from weakened adenoviruses armed with genes that code for the coronavirus' spike protein — which the virus uses to invade human cells. This type of vaccine is called a vector-based vaccine because it uses a weakened virus (a vector) to deliver genetic information from the pathogen to the body to spur the immune response, according to a Live Science vaccine roundup. Several other candidate vaccines, such as those developed by Johnson & Johnson, the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca, and CanSino Biologics are also made from weakened adenoviruses.
The trial did not include a control group, or a comparison group of people who received a placebo shot instead of the active vaccine, a limitation that the authors noted in the study. A control group is usually a key component of clinical trials to help ensure that the effects seen are solely due to the vaccine itself, and not due to an outside factor.
In total, 18 volunteers received one formulation, another 18 received the other and 40 people received both. "Both vaccine formulations were safe and well tolerated," the researchers wrote in the paper. The most common side effects were mild: pain at the injection site, an increase in body temperature, headache, asthenia (physical weakness or lack of energy), and muscle and joint pain. These mild effects were similar to those elicited by other adenovirus vaccines and there were no serious adverse effects, the researchers wrote. The participants were monitored for 28 days (and after 42 days for phase 2 participants) and will be followed-up up to 180 days, according to the research.
The vaccine generated an immune response in all participants, prompting the immune systems to produce neutralizing antibodies (molecules that can latch onto the virus and block it from infecting cells) and other immune cells, such as T cells, against the coronavirus.
The researchers noted in the paper that neutralizing antibody levels were lower than those reported for the University of Oxford vaccine and other vaccines, such as Moderna's based on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. But the level of neutralizing antibodies was comparable with the amount of neutralizing antibodies that the body develops naturally in patients who recover from COVID-19.
Similar to the studies before it, these results are "encouraging but small," Naor Bar-Zeev, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Dr. Tom Inglesby, the director of the Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote in an accompanying commentary also published Sept. 4 in The Lancet. "The immunogenicity bodes well, although nothing can be inferred on immunogenicity in older age groups, and clinical efficacy for any COVID-19 vaccine has not yet been shown."
In other words, there's no way to know whether the same immune response would happen in older adults, and we don't yet know if the vaccine actually prevents infection.
Showing that a COVID-19 vaccine is safe will be "crucial" in order for the public to trust the vaccine and be willing to get it, they wrote. "Safety outcomes up to now are reassuring, but studies to date are too small to address less common or rare serious adverse events," the researchers wrote.
On Aug. 26, researchers at the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology received approval to conduct a phase 3 trial, which tests the drug in a large group of people and is the only way to show a vaccine is both safe and effective. The trial is expected to enroll 40,000 people and include a placebo, according to clinicaltrials.gov.
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The Blue John Gallery has proudly handcrafted award winning gemstone jewellery for over 40 years, beautifully capturing the distinctive bands of yellow, purple and blue into stunning sterling silver and gold designs. From classic rings to contemporary pendants to unique one-off pieces decorated with diamonds, our Blue John jewellery collections are a sight to behold. Before you begin exploring all the latest arrivals on our website, let’s dive a little deeper into the world of Blue John…
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Blue John is a semi-precious gemstone found in an area of Derbyshire in the UK in a small village called Castleton. Despite the stone being a variation of fluorite, also known as fluor-spa, Blue John differs from any other form of fluor-spa for its unique crystal structure and striking coloured veins. Due to its unusual bands of blue, yellow and purple, it is deemed Britain’s rarest mineral with only a few small veins and nodules of the gemstone left over.
It is believed the name for Blue John derives from the French term ‘blue et jaune’ which translates to ‘blue and yellow’, tributing the stone’s distinctive bands of colour. It was first discovered over 2,000 years ago by the Romans and believed to have been taken abroad with one rare Blue John vase found in the excavations at Pompeii. The 19th century in particular saw a rise in popularity for the gemstone with many upper class individuals and royalty coveting the colours for vases, tables, columns and windows. To own Blue John was an honour with places like Buckingham Palace and Chatsworth House boasting ornaments and decorative features created from the rare mineral.
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Many questions surround Vikings stadium transparent roof
KSTP, Channel 5, on November 3, 2014, reported the results of its six-month investigation into the transparent (see-through) material to make up 60 percent of the new Vikings stadium roof. They even sent a reporter to the manufacturer, Vectorfoiltec, in Bremen, Germany. Thus, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (on Germany’s western border) gets the steel for the stadium and Germany gets the see-through ETFE (ethylene-tetraflouroethylene) for the roof.
This will be the first NFL stadium with a transparent (see-through), ETFE, non-movable roof. This reflects the level of NFL involvement in decisions made for our stadium. We hope it works. If it saves construction and maintenance costs, while ensuring its use year round, it will be worth it for us and for future NFL stadiums.
We are the experiment. Traditional roofs (whether fixed, retractable or domes) can cost $50-$150 million more (although we haven’t been able to find out the actual cost of the Vikings roof). Builder HKS assures low maintenance and self-cleaning, thus costing less over the life of stadium.
However, there are issues KSTP raises that the building process will have to address:
• New: As ETFE is relatively new, not much research has been learned about it.
• Longevity: ETFE roofs are supposed to last 30-50 years. Will the Vikings roof? Who knows? Vectorfoiltec owner/inventor/President Stefan Lehnert said: “We don’t know the actual life span.”
• MSFA (Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority) chair Michele Kelm-Helgen could also not say, saying only that the warranty is for 15 years. She said after 15 years, insurance would pay to fix or replace.
• Cost over time: How much will insurance go up if the roof doesn’t last as long as hoped for?
• Germany vs. Minnesota: Luxembourg, steel, Bremen, Germany EFTE, and Minnesota
• Climate: still unclear regarding extreme climate conditions and disasters
• Hail: a weakness. A UM professor raised the issue of whether or not Minnesota golf-ball and baseball-size hail will penetrate the EFTE roof. It is assumed the material will hold. We will have to wait to see how well it holds.
• Vision line claim: to be able to see the downtown skyline. How, from roof, even with its tilt?
• Embarrassment: a tear in EFTE — the 6’ 4” 220-pound KSTP investigative reporter was invited to jump up and down on a demo spread of EFTE; a tear resulted.
This revolutionary roof with the revolutionary material from Bremen, Germany will eventually comprise 60 percent of the massive roof supported by specialty-forged steel from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. German workers will install the EFTE roof. And Minnesota workers?
When the time comes to make repairs, will we use Minnesota workers or will we have to import German workers to fix the people’s roof? Another question: Will this material be used on any of the vertical panels?
Germans are about to make a financial killing on Minnesota taxpayers. Ted Mondale’s MSFA, in the interest of full disclosure, should tell taxpayers and ticket holders what the real overall costs are of the people’s stadium.
We notice little talk of the steel being from Luxembourg. What is the plan if something goes wrong with the ocean-crossing shipping? How come no one is talking about the fact that such materials are not “Made in the USA?”
We assume, based on political ads leading up to the Minnesota elections this year, that this was important. How will Iron Range voters respond? I wonder what jobs could have been saved if stadium materials from Minnesota promises were kept instead of outsourcing them to Europe in order to carry out this experiment for the NFL?
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JAPAN'S ratification of the London Naval Treaty shows not only that the majority of the Japanese people are thinking along the same lines as the peoples of England and America, but also that her vital interests are forcing her to adopt a definite policy in regard to world problems. Why was limitation of armament so popular in Japan, and why did her newly emancipated democracy support so strongly the policy of concert with England and America? The reasons are political, economic and intellectual. I propose to take up briefly these three phases of Japanese national life and then to consider how far and how long Japanese democracy will follow this line of foreign policy. These are questions of international interest, for they have a direct bearing upon the future peace of the Western Pacific and eventually of the whole world.
Politically, Japan can be said to be entering upon a second period of modernization. The constitution of 1889 did not have such far-reaching effects as were expected, owing to the absence of a strong, awakened democracy to support the spokesmen of the masses, and also owing to the efficiency and integrity of the bureaucratic rulers of those days. Party government did not make much headway in the first period of constitutional government. But with the promulgation of the universal manhood suffrage law in April 1925, Japan entered upon the second period of her political life. The voting population jumped from three to thirteen millions. The sheer increase in the number of voters, however, was not so important as the change that had come over the economic fabric of the nation through its industrial revolution and the new intellectual currents that had followed closely on industrialization and the introduction of Occidental thought.
When the first general election under the new law was held, in February 1928, the whole nation was naturally agog with excitement. The election resulted in a stalemate between the two major parties and, contrary to expectations, very little new blood was infused into the legislature. The people's major interest was centered upon the first appearance of labor representatives in the political arena. But as there were only eight laborites, they were too small a contingent to make a profound impression. The election had some bright aspects, such as the greater freedom of speech, the increased influence of the press, and the large number of votes cast -- 81 percent of the total voting population. However, the nation as a whole was disappointed, for it had expected that the new voters would work a miracle and break the strength of the old machine politics. The result was just the reverse. The party machines succeeded in electing a greater percentage of former members than in previous elections. Contrary to the hopes of the enthusiasts, election expenses, the curse of Japanese politics, showed an unmistakable increase. There is no way of obtaining accurate figures, but it is safe to say that the average cost per member was around 50,000 yen (or $25,000). Undeniably, too, some portion of this was spent in buying votes. Another disappointment was that universal suffrage, instead of decreasing the average age of the members, increased it. The record of the House was not a happy one, and popular feeling turned against it as well as against the Tanaka Cabinet.
Therefore, when the present Hamaguchi Cabinet came into existence on July 2, 1928, supported by the second strongest party in the House, the Minseito, there arose at once a demand for a new general election. It came in February 1930, and resulted in a complete victory of Minseito, which obtained 272 members out of the total of 466 and outdistanced the party of Baron Tanaka, the Seiyukai, by 98. The previous election had given Seiyukai 218 seats and the opposition party (Minseito) 216, leaving the balance of power with the small blocs outside of the two major parties. In a way the election of 1930 meant a repudiation of the election of 1928.
The outstanding feature of the 1930 election seems to me the manifestation of Japan's political-mindedness. After two years of experiment the people realized that without a substantial majority behind it no party cabinet can function well, and so it wanted to give the Hamaguchi Cabinet a safe working majority. Issues of policies there were, but they did not figure so largely in the mind of the people as its desire to give a lesson to Seiyukai by a great defeat. In order to attain this end, it had to give the government party a substantial majority and not split the political power by giving votes to labor candidates or independents. Accordingly, not only Seiyukai but labor candidates as well as independents lost heavily. Labor dropped from eight to five, and the independents from seventeen to six. Mr. Muto's Business Men's Party returned six and the Reform Party three.
Some outsiders concluded from this that Japan had reverted to the two-party system of government. But this is too sweeping a statement and needs a careful examination of facts, which I propose to undertake at the end of this article. The second general election was a more wholesome one than the first, and we notice many signs of progress on the part of the new democracy of Japan. There was a great deal more freedom of speech. The election issues were clearer than before. People knew that their votes would directly and immediately affect the life of the cabinet, because it was quite obvious that Premier Hamaguchi would resign if he did not get the people's mandate. The actual amount of votes cast increased from 81 to 84 percent of the electorate.
There is one peculiar feature in Japanese elections and politics in general: the influence of the press. Very few people outside of Japan realize the unique position of the Japanese press. Some of the papers have enormous circulations; for example, there are two papers in Osaka whose daily circulation is around one and a half millions each, and there are a number of dailies in Tokyo with circulations between half a million and a million. And these are all independent newspapers. They derive the major portion of their revenue not from advertisements but from the sale of papers. Therefore they have to cater to the interest of the subscribers, who are the common people. Any paper that had party affiliations or was a government organ always has lost its circulation. Sheer business needs, therefore, have made the leading Japanese papers independent of all political and economic connections. They are very free in their criticisms. Then, again, there is another Japanese trait: our love of unity, which makes us look up to leadership and makes the people willing to follow leaders. This leadership is gradually passing to the press. It was plain in the election of 1928, and was truly remarkable in 1930. The popularity of the present cabinet with the press was one of the chief reasons for its phenomenal victory this year.
However, there were some disappointments in this election. One was a further increase of election expenses. Another was a further increase of the age of the members returned.
In 1930 Minseito made a masterly bid for the conservative, liberal and moderate radical votes, and succeeded. It skilfully juggled up a comprehensive platform to include liberal policies as well as some new-fangled radical planks. It made an appeal to liberals who previously had supported the independents, as well as to moderate radicals who would support social democrats, the right wing of labor. The united press support completed the sweeping victory. Hence the cabinet is in a very strong position, with the people, the press and the majority party behind it. It was with the support of these three elements that the cabinet fought the Privy Council, the naval general staff and Seiyukai in the matter of the ratification of the London Naval Treaty.
But how long will these conditions last? For an answer we must turn to a more basic discussion of the economic life of the Japanese nation and its intellectual currents.
The forces that ushered in political democracy in Japan were twofold, economic and intellectual. The downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1867 had three causes: (1) The inefficiency of the Shogunate itself, which was built upon a strict hereditary system and excluded abler men from the seats of power in government; this resulted in an utter failure to promote the economic welfare of the people and called forth the revolt of young men who belonged to the lowest stratum of the Samurai class and were excluded from power. (2) The growth of a new economic system based on nation-wide commerce, challenging the old economic system of feudalism based on the agriculture of self-supporting villages. (3) The impact of the capitalistic nations of the West. Therefore, when the new Meiji government was organized by these young enthusiasts, it had to face an acute economic situation. It had to organize a national system of economy in place of a village system and prepare the nation for an international economic competition. It was a sudden contact of an agricultural nation, which had lived a self-contained and self-contented life of seclusion for over two centuries, with the highly industrialized nations of the world. The only way the country could be saved was to make it, too, go through an industrial revolution. So almost frantically the young leaders plunged into the new venture of industrializing the country. They imported new machines from the West, created factories of all kinds, educated the people in the new machine arts and encouraged all branches of industry. It was a paternalistic industrial revolution. It was the rear guard of feudalism serving as the vanguard of industrialism. It arose, not from the people, as in the West, but from the top. Begun in the early 'seventies, the industrial revolution of Japan was completed by the end of the nineteenth century. The agricultural Japan of 1868 with an annual export of fifteen million yen, 95 percent of it raw materials and silk, emerged in 1900 as an industrial nation with an export of over two hundred million yen. The export of raw materials fell in these years from 54 percent to 23 percent, and that of manufactured goods rose from ½ percent to 18 percent.
Thus the years that followed the Russo-Japanese War of 1904--5 found Japan a very prosperous industrial nation, flushed with successes in the political, economic and military fields. This was the heyday of modern Japan. The economic prosperity and political expansion quickened the intellectual blood of the nation and, as in England in the days of Queen Elizabeth, art and literature began to bloom in all their glory. In the number of great poets, novelists, painters and men of letters, no previous era in the history of Japan was richer. The compulsory system of education diminished illiteracy to less than 5 percent of the population and created a great market for imaginative literature and science.
The rapid progress of the industrial revolution in Japan may be attributed to: (1) Facilities for importing scientific knowledge and machines from the West. (2) The existence of undeveloped natural resources at home. (3) Low wages. (4) Propinquity to the vast markets of China, the South Seas and India, which had no industries of their own. The industrial prosperity and military success, which synchronized with the ascendency of the bureaucratic system of government, were due to the endeavors of bureaucratic rulers. The idea of party government could not make much progress in those days, for the people liked the efficiency and integrity of the bureaucratic rulers who gave economic prosperity at home and political security abroad.
However, when the twentieth century rolled into its second decade, symptoms of a great change began to loom on the horizon. One was the rising power of the moneyed class, bankers and industrialists. Symptoms of the same old fight of bourgeoisie with feudalism began to appear. The weapons in the hands of the bourgeoisie were money and political parties. Engaged in ambitious ventures on the Asiatic continent, the bureaucratic rulers were very often in need of money. They had to go for this to the industrial and banking world, which was not slow to avail itself of the situation and push its way forward. After the Russo-Japanese War the political prestige and social position of the captains of industry and financial magnates began to rise very fast. The boom of the World War bestowed upon them unmistakable power in the public affairs of the country. Then a new affiliation began to take form between the moneyed class and the political parties. Or it can be said that the allegiance of money was gradually turned from bureaucratic rulers to party politicians. The power of political parties kept on increasing, and even the iron hand of the late Prince Yamagata, the head of Genro, with all his aversion for the political party, could not stem the tide. The Terauchi Cabinet of 1916--18 was perhaps the last stand of the bureaucracy of Japan, and when it was succeeded by Hara's Seiyukai Cabinet the glorious days of bureaucracy were gone from Japan, never to return.
Another cause that accelerated the rising power of political parties in Japan was the growing influence of the press. With the spread of education and the arrival of prosperous and independent middle and labor classes during the business prosperity of the World War, papers began to improve their financial positions and increase their power. In the fight between the bureaucracy and party government, the weight of the press was thrown on the side of the latter. Hara's Seiyukai Cabinet (later under Takahashi) was followed in 1922 by three short-lived cabinets of non-party complexion. When, therefore, Count Kato's Coalition Cabinet of three political parties was organized in 1924, it confirmed the notion conceived at the time of the Hara Cabinet that party government had arrived in Japan to stay. Party leaders have been heading cabinets ever since and apparently they are going to continue to do so. The election of 1930 was particularly convincing in this respect and the alliance of the political party, the moneyed class and the press seems to be firmly in the saddle.
One of the very significant features in Japan at present is the precipitate entrance of the abler brains, which used to serve bureaucracy, into the political parties. The whole country is more and more divided along party lines. It was this new régime that changed the election law and invited the ever-growing forces of the middle and labor classes to its side in the final struggle with bureaucracy. No wonder that the House of Peers, the stronghold of bureaucracy, held out to the last moment against the passing of the new election law. The party leaders began to share honors with business men and to show greater consideration to newspaper men. It was this new régime that accepted the Versailles Treaty, the Washington agreements and the London Naval Treaty, lessening the burden of the people by cutting down military expenses. Intent less on political designs and more on the expansion of trade, it changed its policies toward China. In the days of imperialism, at the time she entered world politics late in the nineteenth century, Japan tried to play the game in the imperialistic spirit. Similarly, in the changed world where trade and international banking are ascendent, she is now trying to play the new rôle. Is it the same old apish mimicry of a soulless Japan, or is it the decision of wise statesmanship to accept the reality of things ungrudgingly and to try to protect and promote the interest and heritage of the Japanese people in harmony with the will of the majority of humanity?
There were and still are people in Japan who are fighting a rear-guard action against the so-called undoing of the work of the glorious leaders of the Restoration. But they are borne away in the new tide of surging democracy whose interests and desires are fast changing. But does this mean that Japanese politics has found a new equilibrium of forces to continue its path of undisturbed progress? Does it mean, again, that party government as it exists at the moment will probably satisfy the new desires and new ambitions of the emancipated millions? In short, is party government to stay in Japan in its present form?
Here we enter upon the discussion of the third phase of the country's national life.
There are two outstanding issues now before the nation -- the business depression and its attendant unemployment. The solution of these, I think, is the test by which the party politicians newly installed in power will stand or fall. Will they succeed as did their predecessors, the bureaucrats, in giving the people two things it needed, economic prosperity and political integrity? The future of party government in Japan will be decided as they succeed or fail. For the new democracy is restive. Under the unruffled surface flows a social current of unknown designs and unmeasured strength with ever-increasing speed and volume.
Critics may say that depression and unemployment are world phenomena and are not peculiar to Japan. That is true. However, there are peculiar situations that brought about these things in Japan and there are also peculiar reactions of the Japanese people to these universal phenomena. In the first place, the depression has been chronic in Japan since the business panic in the spring of 1920. In the second place, the unemployment is more due to the increase in population than to the sudden disorganization of business. In the third place, the unemployment hit the educated people especially hard and is augmenting radicalism in intellectual circles.
When the World War ended, the temporary business prosperity of Japan came to a sudden end. People thought, at first, that it was one of the ordinary economic cycles of prosperity and depression. But as good times did not return they began to realize that the roots of the depression were deep in the economic structure of the country itself.
In the first place, the conditions that had made the Japanese industrial revolution smooth and easy in the 'eighties and 'nineties were gone. The natural resources had all been used up. There was a limit to the importation and imitation of foreign machines. The rise of industries brought in its train the rise of wages and deprived Japan of her best condition for competing with Western nations. In the second place, the necessity of maintaining a large army and navy began to be a handicap to the economic progress of the country. In the third place, the rise of new industries on the continent of Asia began to cut into Japanese trade with China very seriously. The only alternative for a nation in such a situation lay in developing different kinds of industries, needing more skill and organization. This would bring Japan at once in direct competition with the more industrialized Western nations. And in this she was faced by fundamental difficulties because it touched the tap-root of economic imperialism and economic nationalism of the present-day world.
Japan lacked raw materials to create new industries that were immune from Chinese competition. Even if she had to purchase these raw materials from foreign countries, how could she find markets for the products in countries which raise their tariff walls every year? And who can tell that China will not raise her tariff wall now that she has tariff autonomy?
At this very moment another danger beset Japan -- the rise in the rate of increase in her population. In 1918 it was 6 per 1000, in 1919 it rose to 10, in 1920 to 12, in 1921 to 13.5 and in 1925 almost reached 16. It has come down ever since, but the annual increase is over eight hundred thousand and, taking 12 as an average, the population will exceed the hundred million mark in 1965. The area of Japan proper is smaller than that of California, and only 15 percent of the land is arable. Gradually birth control will meet the situation, but it cannot solve the immediate problem.
Thus Japan was caught unawares within three unsurmountable walls: the tariff wall, the emigration wall and the peace wall. The first wall excludes Japan's manufactured goods from other countries. The second cuts off the migration of her people. And the third prohibits the readjustment of the unequal distribution of territories among nations with different density of population.
To far-seeing Japanese the precarious situation of their own country is becoming clearer every day. The spread of education is making people more ambitious to raise their standard of living and the political emancipation is making them articulate. The pinch is felt by the whole nation, but the burden of life is falling heaviest on two classes of people: the farmers and the middle class. The limitation of the arable land makes the farmer's remuneration so meagre that the average income of a Japanese farmer for a day is only 97 sen (48 cents). As for the middle class, only a very small proportion of the college graduates can get forty dollars a month nowadays. Japan's strength has lain in the sturdy character of the farmers and the intelligence of the middle class. The present economic predicament of these classes will inevitably react on their votes at future elections.
In the election of 1930 these people voted mainly for Minseito in the hope that it would relieve the burden of their life by its liberal and progressive policies. But can Minseito live up to its election pledges? How can it? Can a party which was supported by contributions from big business and finance dare to touch seriously the grave problem of the distribution of wealth by taxation or regulation? The opposition party, Seiyukai, is attacking Minseito vigorously for its failure to alleviate the sufferings of the masses by a courageous handling of the situation. But can Seiyukai touch the economic structure of a modern industrial nation without destroying the foundation on which the party stands?
Is it after all the wisdom or stupidity of this or that individual public servant, or does the cause of all evils lie much deeper, in the system itself? Here lies a serious challenge to the present rulers of Japan. It must be giving them a number of sleepless nights. Look at the intellectual currents among some industrial workers, farmers, and young college graduates. Through the press, periodicals and books, as well as from platforms, they have been fed with biting criticisms of the economic system of modern capitalism. Are there many countries in the world where two complete translations of Marx's "Capital" are selling by hundreds of thousands of copies? Are there many countries where young newspaper reporters have such freedom to write sympathetically about radical labor movements? Are there many countries where novels and plays are so profoundly influenced by the new school of proletarian writers? Those who do not read the Japanese language cannot appreciate the place that the modern literature of Japan occupies in her national life. The novelists, poets and playwrights are the people who think ahead of their times, and by their pens the future destiny of a nation is directed. And some of them certainly are thinking in a new mood. In spite of rigorous suppression of the so-called "dangerous thoughts," these new leaders are being read and heard by hundreds of thousands of subtle and sensitive minds. In 1921 I asked a group of some fifty students of the Tokyo Imperial University in what foreign literature they were most keenly interested. None of them said English or American; all were for Continental literature, and over 90 percent for Russian. I then asked them in what foreign country they were most interested, and over 50 percent said Germany, because, they explained, it was there that an educated people were experimenting with socialism. These undercurrents do not appear yet on the surface, simply because these boys and girls are all young, and in a country where age is revered it takes time for a new element to become an actual force in politics. Also, these radical intellectual ideas could not influence the majority of the mature minds, who have not yet lost confidence in the ability of the present rulers and still think that the progress of Japan can best be secured by the normal process of constitutional government along liberal lines. And this was ably capitalized by Minseito in the last election.
However, there is one concrete difficulty of a serious nature. That is the undeniable tendency to concentrate wealth in a comparatively few hands. A parallel development is the gradual defeat of the middle class. On the one hand, 48 percent of all the bank deposits, trust company deposits and reserve funds of insurance companies, totaling 11,743,570,000 yen, is possessed by six great financial concerns, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda, Kawasaki and the First Bank; on the other, the status of the middle class is being depressed to that of the labor class, which is under socialistic leaders. The question is, how long can the party politicians who wrested power from the bureaucrats retain it. It all depends upon whether or not they can maintain prosperity as the bureaucrats did. If they cannot, then a new alignment of social forces will gradually work itself out and the present majority of Minseito will vanish into thin air. We thus cannot accept the results of the election of 1930 as a substantial and final verdict of the people for the two-party system of government.
Now let us briefly summarize the political situation of Japan and cast a glance into the future.
During the first fifty years of political life in modern Japan, the people supported bureaucratic rulers because they gave them economic prosperity and political independence, by promoting a paternalistic industrial revolution at home and following vigorous foreign policies abroad. But the industrial revolution was their ultimate undoing. The newly arisen industrialists and financiers threw their weight on the side of political parties and the people demanded through the press a greater share in government and less burden from armaments. This resulted in the establishment of party government on the model of the liberal countries of the West. And Japan's foreign policies began to approach those of England and America, as the interests as well as the sympathies of these three nations became closer. But the economic situation of Japan was becoming so difficult for the common people that radicalism began to become a power in the intellectual field. Radicalism could not make any headway in the election of 1930 because people pinned such hope on Minseito's liberalism. Now the test is coming not only to Minseito but to all the political parties. Can they continue to give prosperity to the people through the policies of liberalism?
Constitutional government along liberal lines can function only when it is supported by an economically independent middle class and moderate labor. But in a country where the standards of the middle class are fast being pressed down to those of labor the gospel of "sweetness and light" will scarcely make a strong appeal. If the rescue does not come in time the middle class votes will gradually turn away from the liberal and conservative parties and go over to socialistic labor. And how can the rescue come? To my mind it will come only through one of two alternative developments. One is the gradual toning down of economic imperialism and economic nationalism at present practiced by the leading nations of the world and the adoption of more liberal policies by these countries in tariff and emigration matters. If this is not yet possible in the world as it is, then the alternative will be the serious consideration by the leading Powers of the world of a peaceful readjustment of territories so that nations with orderly governments and a high state of civilization can be given a chance to pursue the course of normal development along liberal lines. If these two alternate courses do not get serious consideration from nations with greater territories and proportionately small populations, then the motives of their so-called peace movement will be seriously questioned by the economically harassed nations and there will gradually be created in these countries a psychology which will challenge the present status quo of the world. In other words, the world will gradually be split into two camps of "haves" and "have-nots," one tending to be highly capitalistic and the other more and more socialistic.
It will take a long time for Japan to turn to a new orientation of policies, as the Japanese by nature and tradition are very cautious and moderate in the matter of government and diplomacy. The present position she enjoys in the world is the result of hard and painstaking endeavors. She will not risk losing it in exchange for fine theories and political and economic logic. In times of crisis it has always been our innate love of solidarity that has saved the situation, and we have not yet lost that trait. If a transformation ever comes over Japan, it will come not in a breakdown of the political and economic system, but in a complete change of national policies accepted by the majority of the people. Japan as a nation realizes her responsibility as a stabilizing factor in the Western Pacific and will try to continue her present policy of coördination with the liberal nations of the West. But the economic and psychological development of her national life has been such that she might be forced to evolve new policies, both internally and internationally, if the present liberal policies are found inadequate to solve her vital problems. | <urn:uuid:76a9e7cd-ee0d-482e-a845-3b0d0cc79c83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/japan/1931-01-01/japan-modern-world | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.970173 | 5,860 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Picture books writers, generally, aren’t doing elaborate character sketches and questionnaires about what secret object their character keeps in the sock drawer, his favorite breakfast food or what her grandfather did for a living. There isn’t going to be time to develop or to even hint at much nuance.
But like most characters, your main character needs to start in one place and end in a different place emotionally. And that not only comes from a change in situation but a change in their character.
So how do you set up a character quickly? I tell my students to think in terms of a core trait. One clear thing you can say about this character after just a few lines.
How would you describe these picture book characters?
Even if I didn’t know this character (but of course I do since I wrote it!) I’d say grouchy and reclusive. There’s a lot I didn’t know about Bear until Kady MacDonald Denton did her illustrations. For example, I didn’t know that Bear was such a fastidious homebody with his ever-present apron, big fat bottom and delicate paws. Although a lot of character is suggested in the text–Bear is very deliberate about fixing his breakfast, he’s the sort to make tea and he has cozy fires- think the reader has a strong sense of his most important trait from the first few lines.
What about this puppy? What’s his core trait.
The last to eat from Momma, the last to open my eyes.
The last to learn to drink milk from a saucer,
The last one into the dog house at night.” (The Last Puppy, Frank Asch)
Well, Asch makes it clear across 8 story pages that if this puppy is anything—it’s last! And he has good reason for beating that point home. I won’t give it away, but it sets up one of the best final twists ever in a picture book.
What can you say about Corduroy from the opening lines?
The store was always filled with shoppers buying all sorts of things but no one ever seemed to want a small bear in green overalls.” (Corduroy, Don Freeman)
Easily overlooked, like so many children? I know that we quickly care for this little bear and want him to get picked. Later in the story, Corduroy is made even more pitiful because his overall strap has broken making him even less desirable and neglected, but that’s just icing on the cake. Right from the start Freeman has tapped into a universal quality. Who hasn’t felt left on the shelf at one time or another.
The thing about a truly outstanding trait is that it carries the story direction and resolution within it. You just know that the last puppy isn’t always going to be last and Corduroy isn’t always going to be overlooked.
What do you know about Lilly from these opening lines?
“Lilly loved school! She loved the pointy pencils. She loved the squeaky chalk. And she loved the way her boots went clickety-clickety-click down the long, shiny hallways.” (Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Kevin Henkes)
One word fits Lilly perfectly: exuberant. And, as with all good stories, it’s this very trait that causes her problems. She gets over-exuberant about her purple plastic purse and this causes problems with her teacher. Henke’s book has the longest set-up I’ve ever seen in a picture book. A whopping 500 or so words of what looks to be about a 1,300 to 1,400 word book. It really heightens the emotional trauma of her turning on her beloved teacher. But, really, we get Lilly after just a few words, especially the “clickety-clickety-click” of her boots.
And then there’s Daisy.
“I’ll try,” said Daisy.
But Daisy didn’t. “Come along Daisy!” called Mama Duck.
But Daisy was watching the fish.” (Come Along Daisy, Jane Simmons)
Everyone knows a Daisy. She’s an easily distracted child. But notice how much those few words “I’ll try” do for this story. It makes Daisy a likable character. She’s not willfully disobedient, but she’s not able to promise for sure, either. And she won’t lie about it. Take out the “I’ll try.” And you have a different Daisy.
How about this classic opening? In some ways it doesn’t look like much:
Babar has grown bigger. He now plays with the other little elephants. He is a very good little elephant. See him digging in the sand with his shell.” (The Story of Babar, Jean de Brunhoff)
Well, here’s an opening that would probably land this book in the editor’s trash today. Look at that clumsy jump in time. “Babar has grown bigger.” Boom! That’s it? And where the heck is this story going anyway. But it doesn’t matter because in the next two lines Babar’s mother is shot dead and he’s launched into a completely different story. De Brunhoff spends little time getting Babar on his way, but even so we learn several critical things about Babar. He’s happy and he’s good but the key trait is that he is loved. This is why the reader feels for him as he goes away from his home and then comes back.
So, do your characters have a key trait? It’s not that you can’t get some nuance and depth in, but what can be said about your character after the first two paragraphs?
Just for fun, to see the power of a core trait, you might try an exercise. Take a few rather bland lines. For example:
Cat went to the forest. It was dark. Cat walked into the forest.
Now add a trait:
Scaredy Cat went to the forest. It was dark. Scaredy Cat walked into the forest.
Brave Cat went to the forest. It was dark. Brave Cat walked into the forest.
Hungry Cat went to the forest. It was dark. Hungry Cat walked into the forest.
Just one word suggests a different character and a different story line. And, if I’m really doing my job, that trait starts to drive all my word choices.
Scaredy Cat went to the forest. It was so dark. Scaredy Cat shivered and slunk into the forest.
Brave Cat went to the forest. It was dark. So what? Brave Cat sauntered into the forest.
Hungry Cat went to the forest. It was dark. Just right. Hungry Cat crept into the forest.
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With fitness being such a hot subject in today’s globe, it’s not surprising that that numerous individuals spend a substantial quantity of their time looking for the most effective exercise regimen as well as set of exercises to get themselves fit.
Yoga has actually typically been among the world’s most popular health and fitness methods, and also while that appeal continues to be to now, many people overlook Yoga when they are trying to lose weight or tone up their muscles. Yyoga Burnaby This is because Yoga is generally thought of as a relaxing health and fitness method as well as something to boost flexibility, not Burn calories.
These thoughts about Yoga may cling some degree, but it actually depends on the type of Yoga that you are engaging in. This is where the Yoga Burn system can be found in. The Yoga Burn regimen is meticulously created with dynamic sequencing Yoga (extra on this later) by expert Yoga instructor Zoe Bray-Cotton.
With the help of the Yoga Burn system, lots of people have discovered just how to slim down, improve their adaptability, and enhance muscular tissue tone, all from the benefit of their home. This evaluation will go over the one-of-a-kind advantages of the Yoga Burn routine as well as give you a break down of the advantages and disadvantages of the system so you can choose whether or not the Yoga Burn system is the right choice for you.
What Is Yoga Burn?
Yoga Burn is a special home exercise course that is developed to aid ladies drop weight, tone their muscular tissues, and also boost their versatility. Specifically made to be modern and allow people to accumulate their toughness and also convenience with each present naturally, Yoga Burn offers a 12-week system for females to comply with. By the end of the program, many people discover that they have slimmed down, appear a lot more toned, and have higher strength than when they started the program Yyoga Burnaby.
Yoga Burn uses dynamic sequencing Yoga as well as rep of courses to help you accumulate your toughness and also gradually overview you with each phase of the program. Before you know it, you will be able to do more intermediate Yoga moves and will be capitalizing on your brand-new, toned look.
That Is Zoe Bray-Cotton?
Zoe Bray-Cotton is a professional Yoga teacher with over ten years of experience crafting unique Yoga programs for women that intend to slim down, tone their muscle mass, as well as improve adaptability. Bray-Cotton has actually helped to popularize vibrant sequencing Yoga, the specific type of Yoga made use of in her Yoga Burn system, in order to assist women be challenged as they relocate through the lessons as well as Burn calories without any special gym equipment or weightlifting required.
Bray-Cotton makes every effort to make her physical fitness exercises easily accessible to women almost everywhere by supplying her courses in a residence exercise version. She is likewise responsible for creating the Yoga Burn Instagram community where women can find health and fitness tips and also assistance during their physical fitness journeys with the Yoga Burn system.
The Yoga Burn System
The Yoga Burn system provides three different stages for you to progress through, a crucial element of dynamic sequencing Yoga. Each one has a various focus and also builds on the stage before it to totally build up your stamina, maintain burning calories, and also urge proficiency of the course product. You can progress from one stage to the following as soon as you really feel comfy and confident with your current phase’s program product.
The very first phase of the program, ‘Foundational Circulation,’ focuses on developing strong Yoga structures. Yyoga Burnaby this stage will certainly aid you learn how to boost your versatility and will function to boost your metabolic rate at a sluggish rate that is best for novices. It supplies a very easy method for those without any experience in Yoga to become aware of the poses made use of in the Yoga Burn program while minimizing the total chance of injury.
The center stage of the Yoga Burn system, ‘Transitional Flow,’ improves the Yoga essentials that you discovered throughout the structure stage. This aids you build your toughness as well as flexibility in addition to boosting the calories that you Burn during each exercise. The transitional flow stage also presents brand-new positions and also allows you to see modifications in your muscle tone by the end of the stage.
The final phase of this program, ‘Proficiency Circulation,’ depends on the strength, versatility, as well as boosted Yyoga Burnaby metabolic rate from the previous Yoga Burn stages to increase the exercise. In the proficiency circulation stage, you will Burn more calories, discover more intermediate and also sophisticated Yoga series, and also start to see actual modifications in your body by the end of the stage.
The Advantages and disadvantages of the Yoga Burn System
As with all health and fitness programs, the Yoga Burn system has its very own set of advantages and disadvantages that you should know. Meticulously assess both of these components, as this will help you make one of the most enlightened choice feasible concerning this product.
The adhering to list of pros considers every one of the benefits that you may be able to possibly experience when spending your time and money right into the Yoga Burn system.
- The Yoga Burn system starts slow and is intended for beginners. Between the position tutorials and the unique phasing of the program, you will discover how to control as well as strengthen your core.
- The Yoga Burn system doesn’t require any type of previous technique or experience with Yoga, and it is a terrific choice for any person that wants to slim down, tone muscles, and increase adaptability.
- With the Yoga Burn system, you will not require to bother with going to a health club, paying gym membership costs, or discovering exactly how to use special devices. The whole method happens on a yoga exercise mat, as well as because it is created for a home exercise, you can get suit any type of environment that you choose.
- When contrasted to a health club membership, the Yoga Burn system is fairly cost-friendly, as well as lots of people in your family can quickly join it.
- You can conveniently customize the Yoga Burn program. You can increase or reduce the period of the program in addition to the size of each individual lesson. You can proceed through the phases slowly or promptly relying on your requirements, way of life, and also body problem.
- Yoga Burn is easy on the joints as well as is developed to considerably improve your body’s toughness, all the while burning calories. This makes it a secure home exercise and also decreases the total danger of health and fitness injury.
- Digital copies permit the program to be played anywhere around your house, allowing you to exercise in an entirely exclusive area or relocate your Yoga technique right into a living room so every person can Yyoga Burnaby have a try at the distinct Yoga Burn system.
- Yoga Burn is a fitness system only and doesn’t determine what you need to be consuming. You can customize your dish plan to help supplement the weight reduction motivated by the program as well as can adhere to a diet plan that works completely for your lifestyle as well as needs. This allows the outcomes of the program to be more vibrant.
- Zoe Bray-Cotton is a professional Yoga teacher with more than ten years of experience. Her training course is specifically designed to be progressive and simple to follow, as well as you will be able to take advantage of clear, helpful explanations of each position.
Make certain to evaluate the following list of cons very carefully in order to recognize any type of drawbacks or negatives concerning the Yoga Burn system that might be dealbreakers for you or your way of life.
- The Yoga Burn system is not designed to be an automated fat burning system or something that you can just place half an effort into. It is a modern workout program that should be followed for at the very least the whole twelve weeks if you intend to see the best results. That being claimed, you may see outcomes earlier than twelve weeks or a bit later than twelve weeks, but either way, you will require to be able to use the system constantly.
- Each 45-minute course is not a special set of positions for the entire time. Rather, each video clip will certainly be a fifteen-minute program that you duplicate three times. Repeating is an important part of the program as well as enables you to progress, but some individuals may prefer to have a totally Yyoga Burnaby one-of-a-kind 45-minute duration instead of the three fifteen-minute pieces.
- The Yoga Burn system is developed for beginners and also those that have had no Yoga experience before. If you are an advanced Yoga trainee or you have a solid history of physical fitness, this program may not be the best selection for you and also most likely won’t be testing enough to see significant improvements in your fitness levels or Yoga technique.
Yoga Burn Frequently Asked Questions
These frequently asked questions can summarize crucial truths about the Yoga Burn system as well as put to rest any type of lingering worries that you may have regarding purchasing the Yoga Burn regimen.
Just How Does Yoga Burn Job?
As discussed above, the Yoga Burn system uses a special style of dynamic sequencing Yoga to train your body. Each step builds on previous ones so you can progress from beginner-oriented motions to more advanced Yoga presents effortlessly while toning your muscle mass and shedding calories. The program has 3 stages that all job to maintain your mind engaged and also your body adjusting as well as changing to lose weight as well as assistance tone your body.
Who Is Yoga Burn Intended For?
The Yoga Burn system is planned for any kind of person that wants to drop weight, tone muscular tissue, and also accumulate their adaptability without investing lengthy hours in the fitness center as well as needing to use workout tools or weights. Yoga Burn is planned to renew your home workouts and can quickly suit your day-to-day schedule, so you don’t need to adhere to any type of strict routine and also attempt to function mosting likely to a fitness center right into your day. Instead, choose when you wish to follow in addition to the video clips and reach function whenever you prepare.
Can You Do Yoga Burn While Pregnant?
Yes, it is feasible for you to adhere to the Yoga Burn system while expectant. Each video in all of the phases of the program comes with a list of adjustments, so you can quickly undertake the workouts during all stages of maternity. Additionally, Yoga Burn may assist you get back right into shape and also start reclaiming your flexibility after having your baby, as every one of the exercises can be done at your pace from the convenience of your residence.
When Can I See Results From Yoga Burn?
Like with virtually every other fitness program, the results you obtain will certainly vary based upon the specific as well as various other aspects, such as diet regimen, genes, and any other workouts you might be doing while participating in the Yoga Burn program. The Yoga Burn system is developed to give you leads to the shortest quantity of time, and also numerous individuals do begin to see outcomes within a month or more. You might additionally notice boosted adaptability, more muscle tone, and also enhanced strength within this very same timeline Yyoga Burnaby.
What if Yoga Burn Does Not Work?
Occasionally, also the very best workout programs simply do not match your way of living as well as can’t help you reach your physical fitness goals. If that holds true with Yoga Burn, you can easily access a refund for your acquisition if you speak to the client service line with email or by calling their toll-free number within sixty days after your purchase. A refund will be released to you within forty-eight hours, as well as you can continue on your look for the perfect physical fitness program without shedding any one of the cash you spent into this program.
Our Final Ideas on Yoga Burn
The Yoga Burn system is a distinct means to lose weight, tone up your muscular tissue, and also enhance your flexibility. The program is made specifically for females to help them Burn calories and attain their preferred health and fitness objectives all from the comfort of their residences. Although like lots of workout programs, results are different and also rely on a number of aspects independent of the program, we offer the Yoga Burn system a positive review.
This program is simply the appropriate degree for beginners and aids you to build up your toughness as well as versatility gradually, all while dropping weight. This program is incredibly helpful for people who don’t have accessibility to a health club or don’t want to purchase expensive equipment.
If you select to combine this program with a details diet that fits your way of living as well as follow closely to the program (including rest days and also working out on the days where you aren’t following the Yoga Burn programs), you will likely have the ability to achieve excellent results by the end of the twelve-week program for a more affordable expense than signing up with a health club or attending an in-person Yoga course. | <urn:uuid:c4dbfe00-f109-4b11-a673-d8ff8a5a1a65> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://donovanartworks.com/yyoga-burnaby/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.961483 | 2,723 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Of all the places where Queen Elizabeth II remains head of state, the future of the monarchy looks the bleakest among the nations of the Caribbean.
Last November, Prince Charles joined Rihanna and other guests at the ceremony in which Barbados deposed the Queen as head of state and became a republic. Now six other Caribbean countries can follow suit.
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, public sentiment towards the monarchy has soured, and calls for reparations for Britain’s often ruthless role in the slave trade have grown.
Separate tours of the Caribbean this year by Prince Edward, Charles’ brother, and Prince William, the future king’s son, have been the subject of protests against the monarchy and Britain’s brutal history of slavery. The protests forced the cancellation of some stops.
Standing next to William during his visit, Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness said his country “went off” from the British monarchy. “We intend to fulfill our true aspirations and destiny as an independent, developed and prosperous country,” said Holness.
In 1972 Arthur Foulkes was present as an opposition delegate at the Bahamas Independence Conference in London. Five decades later, he says it’s time for a Bahamian head of state to replace the British monarch.
“I have great respect for Queen Elizabeth II,” said Mr. fouls. But he added: “The time has come for us to look beyond the monarchy. I think many of us have thought that way.”
Although the appearance of William and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, sparked local debate, the couple were not met with notable protests or apparent resentment during their time in the Bahamas.
The government of the Bahamas has not said it plans to change the country’s head of state. But Fred Mitchell, the Secretary of State, has long pushed for the country to become a republic.
“We should have become a republic at independence, but we couldn’t for various internal political reasons,” he said. “If the Bahamian people are convinced that’s the direction they want to go, we’re going that way. But there is currently no campaign for a constitutional amendment in that direction.”
Patricia Glinton-Meicholas, a Bahamian author and historian, said discussions about who should become head of state had overlooked bigger and more important questions.
“I prefer to use my voice to talk about those things that we need to solve in our own country,” said Ms Glinton-Meicholas. “There are big problems with having a slave and colonial past.”
She said it would be more productive for Caribbean countries to push for reparations from Britain for slavery and colonialism, and she would like them to take the form of educational institutions and museums dealing with the history and consequences of slavery.
“We should focus on how to repair the damage done,” said Ms Glinton-Meicholas. “Give us institutions with reparations. For that, give money from the wealth you got from these colonial areas.”
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jQuery outside events
Version: 1.1, Last updated: 3/16/2010
With jQuery outside events you can bind to an event that will be triggered only when a specific "originating" event occurs outside the element in question. For example, you can click outside, double-click outside, mouse-over outside, focus outside (and over ten more default "outside" events). Also, if an outside event hasn't been provided by default, you can easily define your own.
Please note that because a reference to the originating event's element is available as event.target you can change behavior based on which element was actually interacted with.
Visit the project page for more information and usage examples!
These working examples, complete with fully commented code, illustrate a few ways in which this plugin can be used.
Support and Testing
Information about what version or versions of jQuery this plugin has been tested with, what browsers it has been tested in, and where the unit tests reside (so you can test it yourself).
Internet Explorer 6-8, Firefox 2-3.6, Safari 3-4, Chrome, Opera 9.6-10.1.
1.1 - (3/16/2010) Made "clickoutside" plugin more general, resulting in a whole new plugin with more than a dozen default "outside" events and a method that can be used to add new ones.
1.0 - (2/27/2010) Initial release
Copyright (c) 2010 "Cowboy" Ben Alman
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If you’ve never had congee before, prepare your mind to be blown. This cozy and incredibly simple-to-make dish is sure to become a staple in your kitchen.
Congee is a creamy rice porridge of Chinese origin that dates back centuries. It’s consumed in many places in Asia, as well as in other parts of the world. In its most basic form, congee is just rice and water, simmered together for a long time, creaming a creamy, viscous porridge.
Congee is typically eaten for breakfast during the colder months. It’s also a meal of choice for those who are sick or feeling under the weather. This is likely because white rice is satiating yet easy on your digestion. But also, there’s just something so primally comforting and nourishing about a creamy, warming porridge when you’re not feeling your best.
The great news is that you don’t have to get sick to enjoy the magic of congee. It’s the perfect one-bowl meal that can be topped with any number of savory add-ons, including soft-boiled eggs, shiitake mushrooms, and scallions. Toasted sesame oil and soy sauce are a must.
Find more healthy recipes from Alexandra Shytsman on her plant-based recipe site, The New Baguette.
Gather your ingredients to make this congee
You only need three ingredients to make congee: long-grain white rice, water, and salt. This basic style of congee is a blank canvas for any toppings your heart desires.
If you want a congee with more personality and substance, switch out the water for beef, chicken, or mushroom broth. Congee cooked in broth will be more flavorsome and savory than that cooked in water. Sometimes, bone-in chicken or sautéed pork are also added to the cooking liquid.
If you want to make your congee a little healthier, use brown rice instead of white.
Cook the congee
Combine the rice, water, and salt in a pot. Choose a pot with a heavier bottom (to help prevent rice from sticking).
Cover the pot with a lid and bring the mixture to a boil. After it comes to a boil, reduce the flame to a bare minimum, and simmer the congee — with the lid ajar — until it becomes thick and creamy. This should take about an hour.
Don’t forget to stir the congee frequently while it’s simmering — every eight to ten minutes or so. This is important so the rice cooks evenly and doesn’t stick to the bottom.
Serve the congee
You can make your congee as plain or as fancy as you want it to be. We recommend a combo of toasted sesame oil and soy sauce as a starting point. The oil adds a nutty warmth and richness, while the soy sauce adds saltiness and umami (savoriness).
To make your congee into a heartier meal, we recommend topping it any of the following: scallions, seven-minute eggs, seared tofu, sautéed shiitake mushrooms, sautéed greens, fried shallots, crumbled nori, and/or sesame seeds.
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Organizations needing to move activities online now have new resource for assistance
Colorado Office of Film, Television & Media (COFTM) and CU Denver’s College of Arts & Media (CAM) announce the launch of the CAM Creative Corps, a student and recent-graduate run team dedicated to helping nonprofit arts and cultural organizations pivot to online programming and remote learning opportunities. As safer-at-home restrictions continue to disrupt the traditional vision of events, performances, and summer camps, CAM Creative Corps will work with these organizations to utilize various technologies and virtual, stream-able strategies to reach audiences in new ways.
This joint effort was born organically as COFTM began running a series of webinars in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This sparked a conversation between Deputy Film Commissioner Mariel Rodriguez-McGill and Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) Executive Director Deborah Jordy about the amount of inquiries from creative organizations regarding how to move programming online. Rodriguez-McGill had recently read an article in The New York Times about a Cornell Tech initiative that mobilized student volunteers to help elderly populations connect with loved ones via technology. From there her thoughts were localized: “Why not activate media savvy students to help the Colorado arts community in a similar way?”
Rodriguez-McGill reached out to CAM Dean, Laurence Kaptain. COFTM and CAM have a long standing history of partnership. CAM students and faculty are currently working on two COFTM grant-funded projects–– Film and television faculty Jim Phalen’s documentary about homelessness and food-insecurity and Film and television faculty Tom Kolicko’s documentary about Grey Wolves. The Dean of CAM, Laurence Kaptain, understood the need for virtual assistance in the arts community, how CAM students were well suited to offer the skill-set, and, additionally, the value of paid work for students and recent grads, as well as the opportunity to network with local arts organizations.
“CAM students, hailing from the areas of film and television, music and entertainment, and visual arts, will be able to help our community partners navigate new digital landscapes for communications, meetings, exhibits, concerts, and other creative endeavors,” says Kaptain. “The students who will support a better digital presence are immersed in digital imaging, sound, communication, imagining and most importantly—story telling.”
"COFTM is excited to partner with CAM to identify solutions to one of the many challenges presented by the pandemic,” adds Rodriguez-McGill. “CAM students excel in all aspects of the arts ranging from film and television to music business and digital design. This expertise paired with students' intrinsic skills as digital natives made CAM an obvious fit for the initiative."
Creative Corps Students are able work with organizations to strategize and demonstrate the capabilities of many different platforms, including:
- Facebook Live
- Instagram Live
Creative Corps Students also provide guidance on subjects such as reaching audiences through Instagram, utilizing multiple live streams, whether to present live or pre-recorded presentations, and best practices for participating in a video presentation. How-to documents and FAQs are also provided for most platforms.
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From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report.
Some countries have suspended imports of wheat from the United States. The suspensions were announced after an unapproved form of wheat was found in the American state of Oregon. The crop was made through processes of genetic engineering.
An Oregon farmer recently discovered wheat in his field that survived the popular weed killer Roundup. Roundup is designed to destroy unwanted plants. It is a product of the seed and chemical company Monsanto.
The company has created genetically engineered corn, cotton, soybean and canola crops that resist Roundup. Monsanto had field-tested Roundup-resistant wheat. But it never sought government approval of the wheat and the seed were never sold.
Michael Firko is with the United States Department of Agriculture, he says the wheat had passed safety inspections.
"Although there are no wheat varieties that are approved for unrestricted planting, we have no safety concerns related to planting of this transgenic wheat at this time."
Monsanto ended its wheat project mainly because buyers in Europe and Asia were concerned about the safety of genetically engineered crops. The discovery of unapproved wheat in Oregon led Japan and South Korea to suspend some imports, at least temporarily.
Mark Welch is an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University. He says American Farmers do not want to produce genetically engineered wheat because there is no demand for it. he also says the incident could affect America’s standing in a competitive world marketplace.
The United States is the world’s largest wheat exporter. Mark Welch says American agriculture already has difficulty competing against other countries because production costs are higher in the United States.
"If we’re going to maintain a place in world markets, we have to do it primarily on two fronts: one on quality, and the other on reliability. And this raises a red flag, of course, when something like this happens."
Right now it is not clear how the incidents happened. American officials are working to identify where the genetically engineered wheat came from. There is no evidence yet that it has entered the food supply, However, the Agriculture Department is working to make tests available to buyers.
Prices of wheat on world markets have changed little since the discovery of the unapproved wheat. But this could change after the investigation is completed.
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On the occasion of the U.S. Independence Day celebrations (July 4), the U.S. Embassy in Prague adopted the Bald Eagle at the Prague Zoo. Since 1782, the eagle has been a symbol of the American nation. Often it is seen carrying an olive branch and arrows in its talons, as on the U.S. national seal. The Bald Eagle also is a good example of the successful reintroduction of a species that was once on the brink of extinction.
U.S. Ambassador Andrew Schapiro and his wife Tamar Newberger unveiled the adoption plaque at the eagles’ aviary on July 2.
“We wanted to support the Prague ZOO with its mission of education and conservation. We thought that the Bald Eagle is a perfect symbol because it was on the endangered species list for many years and because of careful conservation it is now only on the threatened species list,” said the Ambassador during his interviews with the media. | <urn:uuid:5d02c8bc-2954-4523-86fa-af1801e0039c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cz.usembassy.gov/u-s-embassy-prague-celebrates-4th-of-july-by-adopting-bald-eagle-at-zoo-july-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.973024 | 198 | 3.125 | 3 |
Neuroblastoma is a cancer that is usually found in the adrenal glands atop the kidneys. It is also found in the stomach, chest, neck, pelvis and bones. The most vulnerable to this ailment are children at the age of five or younger. The main cause is genetic mutation that occurs during the early development. Scientists have recently developed a combination of therapies that was found to be highly effective against high-risk neuroblastoma and other forms of childhood cancer. | <urn:uuid:f28013ec-4f39-4d63-8168-790c201ba555> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iaspoint.com/neuroblastoma/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.972094 | 101 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Four suggestions for getting privacy right when developing edtech
As digital interactions increase, so does the flow of learner data—and the risk of its misuse. But edtech can respect and protect learner privacy. Here’s how.
Edtech is, and perhaps always will be, in the privacy spotlight.
In order to bring the benefits of technology to learning and assessment, we need to capture information about the learning process and people’s skills. The more data we capture, the better the analysis we can do and the better the learning or assessment will be.
But with great amounts of data comes great responsibility. And so regulators, politicians, learners and their stakeholders are keen to ensure that privacy is respected.
Three of the most pressing concerns are that:
- Learners, parents and those with their interests at heart need to ensure personal learner data is used only for learning or assessment and not for marketing or commercial purposes.
- With the shocking commonality of data breaches, everyone wants to make sure that private data about learners is not hacked or disclosed.
- Governments and other stakeholders are often keen to ensure that information on their young people isn’t disclosed to foreign governments.
Most edtech companies are highly reputable and many (including Learnosity) have signed the Student Privacy Pledge, which is committed to the responsible use of learner data. However, edtech is expanding rapidly—one report suggests that edtech venture funding in 2021 was three times that prior to the pandemic. Inevitably, there is increasing legislative and regulatory interest in privacy and edtech.
Recent regulatory developments
Let’s start with President Biden’s State of the Union address in March:
“It’s time to strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted advertising to children, demand tech companies stop collecting personal data on our children.”
Although Biden’s main focus was social media companies, there is a natural spillover to edtech. And although his address was just a speech, there is active discussion going on in Washington about new US legislation to protect children.
Let’s move onto California, which is often a leader in privacy among US States. Many privacy laws are being considered at present that could impact edtech. For example, one proposed bill (AB-2486) would set up an Office for the Protection of Children Online to protect the privacy of children using digital media. Another proposed bill (SB-1172) would apply additional privacy protection to proctoring exams in an educational setting. These bills are not yet passed, and may not be passed this year but they reflect legislator concern.Edtech venture funding in 2021 was three times that prior to the pandemic. Inevitably, there is increasing legislative and regulatory interest in privacy and edtech. Click To Tweet
Meanwhile in Europe, regulators are stepping up enforcement of the GDPR privacy law, with over 1,000 GDPR fines recorded to date. Some of these are in the education space—including for inappropriate remote proctoring and various data breaches. A current regulator focus has been on personal data being shared into the US without sufficient supplementary measures to protect it.
Many other countries are also making new legislation to protect personal data. This is going to increase, not decrease.
What can you do about it?
Privacy is not something you do once and don’t have to worry about again; it needs to be a permanent part of your modus operandi. Here are four suggestions for edtech companies to consider.
1. Build privacy into your design and design process
It’s a cliche but it really is true that it’s much more expensive to retrofit privacy later than add it in to start. As part of this, consider pseudonymization. This is when you separate out the name and other identifying information for learners from the data about them and is described more below.
2. Adopt an approach of full transparency with learners and their stakeholders
Document what data you gather, the purposes you collect it for, what you do with it and how long you keep it. Often this is required by law, but if you go beyond the minimum required, do it proactively and communicate it well, it will help build trust with your learners and stakeholders.
3. Your privacy is only as good as that of your suppliers and partners
Many privacy and security failures are down to third parties so make sure that you review the privacy practices of your vendors and put in place good data protection contracts. At Learnosity, we strive to be leaders in assessment privacy and work only with trusted suppliers.
4. Get someone on your team who knows or learns about privacy
Privacy is principle based, and understanding these principles will stand you in good stead in the myriad of product and communication decisions made day to day. The IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) is a good place to learn and get certified. Two of my Learnosity colleagues and I have IAPP certifications and it helps us greatly.
Pseudonymity: Reducing risk by reducing identifiability
At the recent ATP Innovations in Testing conference, I led a session with Marc Weinstein of Caveon on “Pseudonymity, an Answer to Assessment Privacy Concerns?” (the whitepaper we wrote for the session with Jamie Armstrong, Learnosity general counsel, is available for download below).
Pseudonymity is a way of storing electronic data where names or other information that identify a person are stored separately from the data about them. When using pseudonymity, learner data is associated with a numeric ID representing the learner rather than with the person’s name. There is a separate index that allows matching the numeric ID to the name, stored separately.
For example, Learnosity customers know who their learners are, but they pass to Learnosity APIs a pseudonymized ID only. In the diagram below, the learner is called Jane Doe, but an ID is generated “1234567”. Learnosity knows only this and not the learner’s name, address, or date of birth. Learnosity’s APIs deliver the assessment and pass the result back to the client, but are never privy to who the learner is.
Pseudonymous data is still personal data, but pseudonymity reduces the number of people or systems with access to real identities and so greatly reduces compliance and security risks. | <urn:uuid:747ba34d-0e96-4ab3-820c-33338cc89f3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://learnosity.com/edtech-blog/four-suggestions-for-getting-privacy-right-when-developing-edtech/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.947249 | 1,324 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Day 11 of Lent – The Gospel of Mark, Monday, March 21st
(Mark 4) Again he began to teach beside the sea. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the sea and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. 2 He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3 “Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly, since it had no depth of soil. 6 And when the sun rose, it was scorched; and since it had no root, it withered away. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 8 Other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.” 9 And he said, “Let anyone with ears to hear listen!”
Jesus’ preferred means of teaching was to tell parables — stories arising from every day life which often have include some sort of surprise. Parables are often confused with allegories. With an allegory, every item directly represents something else. Once you have the parts ‘translated’, the meaning is established once and for all. Parables, however, are more open-ended; we can receive new insights each time we hear them. They are designed to break us out of our usual way of seeing things.
The ultimate reality that Jesus was trying to point us to – often referred to as “the kingdom of God” – can’t be captured in human words, though people through the ages have attempted to do exactly that, arguing that their words are the right words. The form of communication that Jesus chose to use recognized what a mistaken path this is to take.
An allegorical interpretation of this story would ask, who is the sower in this story, and answer: God. Perhaps. But we, too, are sowers in our lives, and we know well the experience of having the seeds we attempt to plant come to nothing, and how frustrating that can be.
The striking thing about the sower in this story is he or she doesn’t seem to worry. There is an implicit trust. Many, many seeds make bear no fruit – or appear to bear not fruit. There will, however, be seeds that will bear a harvest far greater than we could have imagined. We cannot tell in the present which sowed seeds will be which.
So we just keep on sowing, and trust that God will bring a wondrous harvest.
Please pray for Terri and Lincoln Ferriss, Ruth Freerks, Gloria and Bob Fuechsel, Debra Gantert, Harold Gantert, Terry and Oscar Germann.
Day 12 of Lent – The Gospel of Mark, Tuesday, March 22nd
10 When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in parables; 12 in order that ‘they may indeed look, but not perceive, and may indeed listen, but not understand; so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.'” 13 And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables? 14 The sower sows the word. 15 These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. 16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: when they hear the word, they immediately receive it with joy. 17 But they have no root, and endure only for a while; then, when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. 18 And others are those sown among the thorns: these are the ones who hear the word, 19 but the cares of the world, and the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it yields nothing. 20 And these are the ones sown on the good soil: they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”
Reading scripture has a lot of challenges. What, for instance, did Jesus in fact say and do, and what did others who came after him add? We don’t know for sure.
My interpretation of this passage would be that it expresses the discomfort that those who came after Jesus felt with parables.
If you followed what I had to say yesterday, then you recognize that what we have in these verses is an attempt to nail down the meaning of the parable with an allegorical interpretation.
Jesus taught in parables with the idea that they were open to everyone: “Let anyone with ears to hear listen!” The writer of the Gospel has turned this around; now the parables are designed to keep people in the dark, with the disciples set apart as the only ones who are given the true interpretation.
Despite this attempt to present the disciples as possessors of special understanding, the larger picture of the story is consistent with how the disciples are presented throughout this Gospel: they’re kind of dense! As such, they are just like the rest of us. Parables can seem pretty opaque until suddenly our way of seeing things shifts and we have an “aha!” moment.
The interpretation offered here of the parable invites us to ask: what kind of soil are we for the word of God? This can be a good question to ask, and yet, how would we know for sure?
Thank God the sower keeps on sowing those seeds, even when we don’t have a clue what’s really going on.
And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. 25 Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years. 26 She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse. 27 She had heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 for she said, “If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.” 29 Immediately her hemorrhage stopped; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. 30 Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?” 31 And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, ‘Who touched me?'” 32 He looked all around to see who had done it. 33 But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
35 While he was still speaking, some people came from the leader’s house to say, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further?” 36 But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the leader of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” 37 He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. 38 When they came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 When he had entered, he said to them, “Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.” 40 And they laughed at him. Then he put them all outside, and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. 41 He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha cum,” which means, “Little girl, get up!” 42 And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about (she was twelve years of age). At this they were overcome with amazement. 43 He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.
I recently read a fascinating book entitled Finger prints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality, by the NPR religion correspondent, Barbara Bradley Hagerty. She describes her personal quest to find out what science has to say about the viability of belief in God, and her conclusion that the brain is hardwired to be in communion with God. She was raised a Christian Scientist by her family, and that although she felt compelled to turn away with from their practice of going without the assistance of doctors, she nonetheless was deeply affected by her roots.
Her mother came across an account that Barbara’s grandmother had written down on a yellow undated paper of a time when at the age of 41 she became deathly ill. Her daughter, Barbara’s mother was away at school, and “when she arrived at Granny’s bedside, she found her mother slipping in and out of consciousness. Granny was attended by two Christian Science practitioners and a medically trained Christian science nurse. They kept a fierce prayer vigil for nearly three days, but on Saturday morning, Granny ‘slipped out of this world and moved through a brief space of darkness,’ as she would later write, in a written testimony that my mother found after Granny’s death. According to the people by her bedside, ‘the eyes did not close but a film closed over them and all activities ceased.’
“But not for Granny. Granny was on the move. ‘I had passed through the portal called death,’ she wrote. ‘There was no fear and no anxiety. I seemed to be walking or going some place. I was conscious of the fact that I had left the world and those dear to me just as much as if you walked out of a room and closed the door behind you. After walking for a time, the light seemed to breaking through and everything seemed to be getting much lighter when suddenly a light that I had never seen anything like before broke before me, and I was completely surrounded by a brilliancy that blinded me, so that I could hardly see. A voice spoke to me and said, ‘Go back, you are needed there.’ As a soldier obeys a command spoken to him without question, so I obeyed this command.’
“An hour passed, and the friends next to Granny’s bed continued to hold vigil, unaware of Granny’s subterranean travels. Suddenly, “to the astonishment of them both, I opened my eyes wide” and began to speak.
“’I heard my own voice talking, and this is what was said as they took it down… ‘It is wonderful.’ ‘It is beautiful.’ ‘The darkness is all gone, there just isn’t any more darkness at all.’ ‘There is not death. You don’t have to die.’ Turning to the (friends,) I said, ‘You never have to be afraid again.’”
“At that moment, Granny threw off the covers. ‘I’m hot!’ she declared, and rose from the bed, brusher her teeth, and asked for some breakfast.” (pp. 216-7)
Please pray for Art Gibson, Mark Gibson, Bill and Amy Gripp and their daughters, Kelsey, Erika and Anna, Joshua Gropper and his wife Victoria, John Guerra and his son Johnny.
Please pray for Lois Kelshaw, Karen Kessler, Daniel Kinsley, David Kinsley and Darryl Sokolowski, and David’s parents, Eleanor and Charlie Kinsley.
Day 13 of Lent – The Gospel of Mark, Wednesday, March 23rd
21 He said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under the bushel basket, or under the bed, and not on the lampstand? 22 For there is nothing hidden, except to be disclosed; nor is anything secret, except to come to light. 23 Let anyone with ears to hear listen!” 24 And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you. 25 For to those who have, more will be given; and from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.”
26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28 The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.” 30 He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” 33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34 he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
What God has given to us is not designed to be kept to ourselves. Whatever God has given us is intended to be a blessing not only to us, but to the larger world as well. When we are truly alive in the manner that God intends for us, being the person God designed us to be, then the world will be blessed.
Conversely, when we fail to be the person God intended us to be, then we are withholding a blessing from the larger world. And if our life is about hoarding our blessings, we will discover that they shrivel up and disappear.
But even if, at the present moment, we are struck by how shriveled our spirit seems: fear not! the scattered seed hidden away in the earth grows without our taking care of it or understanding the mechanisms of its growth, and the tiny mustard seed, sown into the ground, reaps a wondrous harvest that provides a blessing for the birds of the air who make nests in its shade.
God is God and we are not. Thanks be to God.
Please pray for Sangeetha and Raj Gunaseelan and their sons Santash and Eazhil, Carol Haeussler, Ann and George Hawkins, George and Monica Hawkins and their sons Alex and Valia, Keith and Emily Hawkins and their sons Keith and Kristopher.
Day 14 of Lent – The Gospel of Mark, Thursday, March 24th
35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. 37 A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. 38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” 39 He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. 40 He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?” 41 And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
(Mark 5) They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. 3 He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with a chain; 4 for he had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones. 6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him; 7 and he shouted at the top of his voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.” 8 For he had said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” 9 Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” 10 He begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11
Now there on the hillside a great herd of swine was feeding; 12 and the unclean spirits begged him, “Send us into the swine; let us enter them.” 13 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned in the sea. 14 The swineherds ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came to see what it was that had happened. 15 They came to Jesus and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the legion; and they were afraid. 16 Those who had seen what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine reported it. 17 Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood. 18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. 19 But Jesus refused, and said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you.”
The disciples cried out to Jesus, “Do you not care that we are perishing?” Sometimes we, too, wonder if God cares as we find ourselves rocked by storms.
God absolutely does care. But this we must know: whether we live, or whether we die, we are in the arms of the Lord.
Jesus has the power to still storms – storms that arise around us, and storms that arise within us. The people in the country of the Geresenes begged Jesus to leave. They recognize that if he is going to still the storms of their lives, then in return they are required to give their lives to him. They want to remain the masters of their ships.
Do we want God’s peace, or do we want to be the master of our lives?
Please pray for George Haddad, Tammy Hasel and her daughter Olivia, Michelle Weiss Hess, Linda Honickel, Trudy Hunt, Connie and Bob Keller and their sons, Jon and Michael.
Day 15 of Lent – The Gospel of Mark, Friday, March 25th
20 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed. 21 When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was by the sea. 22 Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet 23 and begged him repeatedly, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.” 24 So he went with him.
Day 16 of Lent – The Gospel of Mark, Saturday, March 26th
(Mark 6) He left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2 On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands! 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. 4 Then Jesus said to them, “Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house.” 5 And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. 6 And he was amazed at their unbelief.
Jesus invites us into a relationship; we need to be willing partners in this relationship. How sad that those who assumed they knew Jesus best, the people of his hometown, were least willing to enter into the kind of relationship with him in which he could yield his power to make people whole.
When Jesus displayed his power, people were amazed. When people refused to cooperate with the Spirit working through his ministry, Jesus was amazed.
How might we be refusing to let Jesus work in our lives?
Please pray for Andrew Klekanos and Darren Yacenko, Carol and Ben Korab, Lyn and Bob Krisa and their son Michael, and their daughter Tracy and her husband Jim Kempski, John and Rose LaForte and their children, Erica and John Paul. | <urn:uuid:30943be4-46fc-4a22-8047-32a63ffb56d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://parsippanyumc.org/days-11-through-16/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.986613 | 4,706 | 2.59375 | 3 |
6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL
Undergraduate - Unit
Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.
- First semester 2017 (Day)
- Second semester 2017 (Day)
- Summer semester A 2017 (Day)
- Summer semester B 2017 (Day)
Students will work with an academic supervisor on an experimental or theoretical project in an area such as: observational astronomy and astrophysics, condensed matter physics and nanotechnology, electron microscopy and diffraction, particle physics, ultra cold atomic gases, biophotonics and biomedical imaging, optics and imaging (using light, electrons and atoms), x-ray and synchrotron-based studies.
On completion of this unit students will be able to:
- Plan aspects of a project and manage related timelines.
- Communicate effectively with a project supervisor, colleagues and technical staff.
- Access and review scientific literature.
- Maintain a clear record of work done.
- Analyse and interpret results in terms of related physics theory.
- Write appropriate scientific reports, both interim and final.
- Communicate by oral presentation.
Project work - logbook, competence, planning and initiative: 40%
Written progress reports: 10%
Oral presentation: 10%
Final report: 40%
An average of 12 hours of study per week split between
independent research, collaborative research, meeting with
supervisors and work on assessed items.
See also Unit timetable information
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Large Increases In Spending On Postacute Care In Medicare Point To The Potential For Cost Savings In These Settings
Author: Amitabh Chandra, Maurice A. Dalton, Jonathan Holmes
Identifying policies that will cut or constrain US health care spending and spending growth dominates reform efforts, yet little is known about whether the drivers of spending levels and of spending growth are the same. Policies that produce a one-time reduction in the level of spending, for example by making hospitals more efficient, may do little to reduce subsequent annual spending growth. To identify factors causing health care spending to grow the fastest, we focused on three conditions in the Medicare population: heart attacks, congestive heart failure, and hip fractures. We found that spending on postacute care—long-term hospital care, rehabilitation care, and skilled nursing facility care—was the fastest growing major spending category and accounted for a large portion of spending growth in 1994–2009. During that period average spending for postacute care doubled for patients with hip fractures, more than doubled for those with congestive heart failure, and more than tripled for those with heart attacks. We conclude that policies aimed at controlling acute care spending, such as bundled payments for short-term hospital spending and physician services, are likely to be more effective if they include postacute care, as is currently being tested under Medicare’s Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Initiative. | <urn:uuid:eb01ac6a-b68a-49b9-892f-7c827b5597a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthaffairs.espstores.com/large-increases-in-spending-on-postacute-care-in-medicare-point-to-the-potential-for-cost-savings-in-these-settings-2012-1262 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.942321 | 283 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now!
Learn to play the harmonica and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about various harmonica types, how to care for and groom your very own harmonica, how to hold and break it in and getting acquainted with harmonica notation. You will then move right along to playing different notes, chords, and songs, lesson by lesson. You will learn advanced techniques such as bending notes, cross harp, and improvisation, which will assist you in coloring your musical creations with your own unique style. Upon completion of this book you will be able to play the harmonica in all styles, perform with a band, understand the basics of improvising, and know how to read music.
The book features the following resources for reference during and after your lessons:
* Licks in the style of your favorite performers
* Complete harmonica note chart
* Blues progressions in various keys
* Brand new Hohner harmonica
This book is for diatonic and chromatic harmonicas and teaches you how to play through an easy-to-understand, step-by-step system.
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Two top U.S. Defense Department officials have testified in Congress about military sightings of unexplained flying objects.
The officials told a House Intelligence subcommittee Tuesday the U.S. military is fully prepared to keep investigating the origins of the objects. The Defense Department calls the objects “unidentified aerial phenomena,” or UAPs. UAPs are also commonly known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.
The two defense intelligence officials were testifying in the first public congressional hearing on the subject in more than 50 years. The last such hearings took place in the 1960s.
The House hearing came after the release of a U.S. government intelligence report on UAPs last year. That report, ordered by Congress, documented more than 140 cases of UAPs observed by U.S. military pilots since 2004.
One of those testifying at Tuesday’s hearing was Scott Bray. He is deputy director of naval intelligence. He told House members that the official number of UAP sightings recorded by a newly formed Defense Department group had grown to more than 400.
The two officials said investigations were ongoing into the reported sightings. They added, however, that many of the cases remain outside the government’s ability to explain.
The defense officials were asked whether some of the sightings might have originated from extraterrestrial beings. The term extraterrestrial describes things that exist or originate from outside Earth or its atmosphere.
Bray told the hearing that, so far, the Defense Department had discovered no "material” suggesting that any of the sightings were “non-terrestrial in origin." However, he added that military and intelligence experts have not ruled that possibility out.
The officials said department investigators aimed to follow any evidence of UAP sightings as far as it leads them. They noted that the military’s main interest in unexplained objects is that they present possible national security threats.
The other official who testified was Ronald Moultrie. He is the Defense Department’s undersecretary for intelligence and security. He also heads the Pentagon’s latest UAP investigative team.
Moultrie told the hearing that UAP sightings by military members represent possible flight safety risks, as well as general security concerns. Because of this, he said, investigators hope to “determine their origins.”
Moultrie said the department had sought to urge pilots and other military members to report any unusual objects they see. He told lawmakers, “We want to know what's out there as much as you want to know what's out there.”
Bray presented two short videos of UAP sightings. One showed flashing, triangle-shaped objects in the sky. The objects were later judged to be elements of light passing through night-vision glasses. The other showed a bright, rounded object speeding past a military aircraft's window. Bray said that sighting remains unexplained.
Last year’s report on UAPs described sightings of unexplained objects that appeared to show speed and movements not seen in existing flying technology. Such objects appeared to lack traditional propulsion or flight control systems. Propulsion is the force that moves something forward. Bray said those incidents, including one described by Navy pilots, are among the cases still considered "unresolved."
The 2021 report said more data and examinations were needed to identify whether such objects might represent new systems being developed by a foreign power such as China or Russia.
The subcommittee's top Republican, Rick Crawford, said he was in favor of the UAP investigative effort. But he added that he was “more interested" in gaining a better understanding of Chinese and Russian hypersonic weapon development.
Hypersonic is a term that relates to speeds of more than five times the speed of sound. In addition to flying at extremely high speeds, hypersonic weapons are also designed to move in ways that make them difficult to find and destroy in flight.
Crawford added: “The inability to understand objects in our sensitive operating areas is tantamount to intelligence failure that we certainly want to avoid.”
I’m Bryan Lynn.
Reuters and The Associated Press reported on this story. Bryan Lynn adapted the reports for VOA Learning English.
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Words in This Story
testify – v. to say what you know or believe is true in a court of law or a congressional hearing
origins – n. the cause of something or where something comes from
aerial – adj. in or from the air, especially from an aircraft
phenomena – n. something that exists or happens, usually something unusual
determine – v. to discover the facts or truth about something
flash – v. to shine brightly and suddenly
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Bird flu, or avian influenza, has spread to the forest and protected areas of Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, and Kerala and infected mostly migratory duck species over the past week, the Union environment ministry has said. In other states, mostly poultry has been impacted.
"The first cases of avian influenza were reported from the Pong Dam in Himachal Pradesh. But following that reports have come from forest areas of Kerala and Gujarat where the affected birds are mostly migratory duck species in forest wetlands," said the ministry's additional director general, Soumitra Dasgupta.
The ministry is trying to get other agencies like the department of fisheries involved in controlling the spread. "We have to see which are the other bird species that have been infected," said Dasgupta.
Dasgupta added an advisory was issued to all chief wildlife wardens on January 3 asking them to keep a strict vigil on the wintering habitats of migratory birds including wetlands for any mortality or outbreak signs.
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) director Bivash Pandav said most migratory waterfowl species are known to be carriers of the H5N1 virus (bird flu). "Most recently there have been reports of red junglefowl [contracting the disease]... They are a relatively rugged species. So, it is very surprising that they contracted the virus. The avian influenza virus normally does not jump over to humans but can be easily transmitted from migratory species to domestic birds and has great potential to completely damage our poultry... and even pigs."
Pandav said the possibility of endangered bird species contracting the virus cannot be ruled out. "We have to be extremely watchful and monitor wetlands and other wintering grounds. You cannot catch migratory birds and vaccinate them. All you can do is protect other species like vultures. Precautions must be taken in zoos. This epidemic cannot be taken lightly as the virus mutates and evolves very quickly." Pandav added birders and nature lovers can help in reporting cases of dead or sick birds but they should avoid going close to them.
The ministry's advisory said the affected birds have symptoms such as tremors, diarrhoea, head tilt, and paralysis. The disease spreads quickly causing paralysis and staggering. The advisory asked state chief wildlife wardens to prepare action plans for monitoring migratory birds and for dealing with any emergency.
"Dead birds should be handled with utmost caution and scientific supervision and surveillance should not be restricted to the protected areas alone, but to all such wetlands and habitats that provide grounds to the migrating birds and to areas where there is a possibility of interaction of migratory birds and poultry such as backyard poultry."
The forest department staff has been asked to use protective gear like rubber gloves, eye gear, or face shield, and to disinfect hands and surfaces and take antiviral drugs. The virus is much more difficult to inactivate if it is encrusted in organic material such as faeces or soil.
Experts say bird flu has various strains with H5N1 being the worst as it can jump from birds to mammals. H5N1 also spreads through fomites or infected surfaces. So, surfaces interacting with infected bird species can also spread the virus.
Ornithologist Asad Rahmani said most domestic birds are kept away from wild birds but as domesticated ducks feed in the same paddy fields where wild ducks also feed, there are chances that disease may transmit either way. "Similarly, poultry farms are spread all over India, sometimes near to areas where wild birds are found. Hence, poultry farm birds are also susceptible to get the avian flu from wild birds [and vice versa]." | <urn:uuid:916b66d4-3df4-4af8-b391-19ce0fe88366> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publisher.tbsnews.net/world/bird-flu-spreads-forest-areas-triggers-worries-about-safety-endangered-species-184279 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958521 | 754 | 3.09375 | 3 |
By Guest Blogger Maria Mercedes
- A sheer curtain, or any other fabric
- A wooden embroidery hoop in any size
- Elmer’s or any glue of your choice
- Fabric scissors
- Paint colors: white, orange, light blue, brown
- Permanent ink black marker
- Red pastel color (for the cheeks)
- Tape, pencil
Iron fabric if necessary. Place fabric in the hoop and pull tight. Cut fabric at least 2 inches wider than hoop.
Take the fabric out of the embroidery hoop to paint. Place pattern underneath the sheer fabric, tape it down and trace. Paint the snowman white, scarf light blue, nose orange and twigs brown. Let dry. More than one coat of paint may be necessary.
Use the black maker to finish off the eyes, smile and buttons and red pastel stick with a brush to color in the cheeks.
After all the painting has dried, place sheer curtain back in the embroidery hoop. Turn to wrong side, Trim fabric to edge of hoop and run a small line of glue around the inside hoop. Press fabric into glue, all the way around. Allow it to dry. | <urn:uuid:6f5b8fc2-4705-4ccf-a1cb-ecd0fa5768ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thinkcrafts.com/blog/2014/01/04/winter-snowman-hoop-art/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.809062 | 258 | 1.765625 | 2 |
An affluence of artists across the globe have used illicit substances to create or aid in creating their particular form of art. Did you ever imagine the drugs themselves could be art? That’s exactly what Sarah Schönfeld managed to do.
Sarah is a German artist who received her MA of Visual Arts, University of the Arts Berlin, Lothar Baumgarten. She applied a liquid spot of each drug to a piece of already exposed film. Each drug manipulated the film coating in a unique manner. Sarah then analog enlarged each one to make the prints up to 63 x 78 inches. The project is named "All You Can Feel" and the images can be found in her book featuring the same title.
These images of meth, heroin, cocaine, and others substances find an enchanting crossing of pharmacology, photography, and drug usage. From the intricate crystalline structures to the isolated cold spheres, It's hard to image such a beautiful image was created from substances that have harmed so many.
Since the 1950s, we in the western world have increasingly come to understand our most intimate desires and experiences, as the products of a so-called “chemical self”. We are able to explain moods, angers, and diseases both physiological and psychological through an imbalance of substances in the body. All of this, of course, takes place against the backdrop of a constantly shifting legal and political climate regarding the regulation of different types of mood altering substances. | <urn:uuid:6b355858-1a1c-4da0-9333-fa9ce4a1f986> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fstoppers.com/film/some-say-drugs-enhance-creating-art-who-knew-drugs-could-be-art-43061 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.949737 | 299 | 2 | 2 |
Location: Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica
92 Acres of land located in Peñas Blancas of Pérez Zeledón,
On a global scale, the land is becoming a scarce resource; the purchase of productive farmland will enable you to own a stake in the global food supply chain.
This beautiful farm is surrounded by Peñas Blancas river, the Coopeagri production factory, and the Interamerican Highway.
14 Hectares have been used to produce sugar cane, the rest have been used for cattle, and can be exploited for rice or pineapple production. The farm produces approximately 9,000 tons of sugar cane per year and could hold up to 50 cattle. There is a contract with Ingenio Coopeagri meaning all the production is sold to them.
Most of the water for irrigation purposes is obtained from the river. The property has big potential because of its great location.
The Peñas Blancas River runs alongside the property, its capacity for irrigation purposes is not limited, water is more abundant in the rainy season, six months between June and November of each year.
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"Rising prices for various assets and the latest major losses make considerably higher reinsurance rates in Europe likely. The major losses produced by extreme flooding in Central Europe and the rise in weather events like droughts and wildfires affect regions that, in some cases, are not characterized by risk-adequate prices and conditions. In addition, the higher inflation is accompanied by continuing low interest rates for investments. Accordingly, I see a number of indicators for prolonged market hardening when the renewals come", said Doris HOPKE, Member of the Board of Management.
The following was released by Munich Re here.
Economic conditions and renewals
The most serious losses in Europe this year were in connection with the floods that struck Central Europe in mid-July. Overall losses amounted to an estimated EUR 46 billion, of which over EUR 9 billion were insured. In Germany, the flooding - which produced overall losses of around EUR 33 billion and insured losses of at least EUR 7 billion - was the most expensive natural catastrophe in its history. In addition to improved preventive measures, the influence of climate change, which makes precisely this type of regional extreme rainfall more probable, has to be taken into greater account in risk assessments.
At the same time, the eurozone has seen a recent spike in inflation - well above 3% in September, and climbing to over 4% in Germany. Higher inflation also leads to higher claims costs. In the long term, the inflation rates will likely normalize again, but remain above the pre-COVID level. In contrast, interest-rate levels have remained virtually unchanged. Taken together, these two factors are producing an upward pressure when it comes to insurance prices.
Very large losses and the role of insurance
In response to the very large losses resulting from the flooding, the pandemic, and increasingly also cyber-attacks, Munich Re's strategy is to be a reliable point of contact for all aspects of clients' risk management in the context of very large risks - from consulting on risk prevention and risk transfer, working hand in hand with the state or the capital market wherever necessary, to providing support with disaster recovery.
The latest very large losses, including those in Europe, show that the role of insurance must extend far beyond assuming risks and compensating for losses. Consulting based on sound risk expertise can promote more active prevention, helping to prevent or reduce losses. Risk assumption puts a price tag on risks, which supports risk-adequate action. We contribute our know-how on risk avoidance and the development of innovative insurance solutions like state-supported pools. And when it comes to managing losses, insurers can help by entering into partnerships with suitable companies and by working to ensure that claimants receive support that goes beyond simple loss compensation.
Where people's risk awareness is too low, or the risk exceeds the risk-bearing capacities of private insurers, reinsurance providers actively work to help find new solutions. Examples to be mentioned include the perennially discussed topic of compulsory flood insurance in Germany, or the potential expansion of state-supported risk pools, which would be necessary in order to cover pandemic-related business interruptions. State-supported risk pools would also be needed to combat certain systemic cyber risks, e.g. those resulting from cyber warfare, since they can't be borne by insurers alone.
"This is how I see the future role of insurance: We want to be the central partner for comprehensive risk management, to be a resilience provider, if you will. The basis for insurance, and for risk management of any type, is to monitor and understand risks, and to subsequently develop forward-thinking solutions that can strengthen society in the long term. And of course we want to help reduce the considerable gaps in insurance that can still be found in many industrialized countries, like insurance for flood losses in Germany. Otherwise, many people will have no way to cover their losses, or will have to hope they receive state support, even though these losses could have been insured in exchange for a suitable premium," said HOPKE at the Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting. | <urn:uuid:61858898-895a-4526-af67-7688ecc63ede> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.xprimm.com/Munich-Re-anticipates-higher-reinsurance-rates-on-European-markets-articol-117,149-18108.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.965226 | 842 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Today in History
Tuesday, Sept. 9
1776: The second Continental Congress made the term “United States” official, replacing “United Colonies.”
1893: Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House; it was the first time a president’s child was born in the executive mansion.
1919: Some 1,100 members of Boston’s 1,500-man police force went on strike. The strike was broken by Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge with replacement officers.
1932: The steamboat Observation exploded in New York’s East River, killing 72 people.
1956: Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
1971: Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a siege that ended up claiming 43 lives.
2009: In a speech to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama summoned lawmakers to enact sweeping health care legislation, declaring the “time for bickering is over.”
2013: Four days of vehicular gridlock began near the George Washington Bridge when two of three approach lanes from Fort Lee, N.J., were blocked off; the traffic jam was later blamed on loyalists to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over the refusal of Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich to endorse Christie for re-election. Christie has denied any prior knowledge of the lane closures.
Birthdays: Actress Sylvia Miles is 80. Singer Dee Dee Sharp is 69. Actor Tom Wopat is 63. Actress Angela Cartwright is 62. Musician-producer Dave Stewart is 62. Actor Hugh Grant is 54. Actor Adam Sandler is 48. Model Rachel Hunter is 45. Actor Henry Thomas is 43. Actress Michelle Williams is 34. Actress Julie Gonzalo is 33.
Thought for Today: “To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.” — Helen Rowland, American writer, journalist and humorist (1876-1950). | <urn:uuid:8113228b-d754-4dd2-9db1-9ae305a0c1ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.htrnews.com/story/news/local/records/2014/09/08/today-history/15303617/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946534 | 467 | 2.3125 | 2 |
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