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1. 'When you have entered the country which Yahweh your God is giving you as heritage, when you have taken possession of it and are living in it,
2. you must set aside the first-fruits of all the produce of the soil raised by you in your country, given you by Yahweh your God. You must put these in a basket and go to the place where Yahweh your God chooses to give his name a home.
3. You will go to the priest then in office and say to him, "Today I declare to Yahweh my God that I have reached the country which Yahweh swore to our ancestors that he would give us."
4. 'The priest will then take the basket from your hand and lay it before the altar of Yahweh your God.
5. In the presence of Yahweh your God, you will then pronounce these words: "My father was a wandering Aramaean, who went down to Egypt with a small group of men, and stayed there, until he there became a great, powerful and numerous nation.
6. The Egyptians ill-treated us, they oppressed us and inflicted harsh slavery on us.
7. But we called on Yahweh, God of our ancestors. Yahweh heard our voice and saw our misery, our toil and our oppression;
8. and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with mighty hand and outstretched arm, with great terror, and with signs and wonders.
9. He brought us here and has given us this country, a country flowing with milk and honey.
10. Hence, I now bring the first-fruits of the soil that you, Yahweh, have given me." 'You will then lay them before Yahweh your God, and prostrate yourself in the presence of Yahweh your God.
11. You must then rejoice in all the good things that Yahweh your God has bestowed on you and your family-you, the Levite and the foreigner living with you.
12. 'In the third year, the tithing year, when you have finished taking the tithe of your whole income and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow so that, in your towns, they may eat to their heart's content,
13. in the presence of Yahweh your God, you must say: "I have cleared my house of what was consecrated. Yes, I have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow, in accordance with all the commandments you have imposed on me, neither going beyond your commandments nor neglecting them.
14. When in mourning, I have not eaten any of it; when unclean, I have taken none of it away; I have given none of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh my God and I have behaved in every way as you have commanded me.
15. Look down from your holy dwelling, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the country which you have given us, as you swore to our ancestors, a country flowing with milk and honey." '
16. 'Yahweh your God commands you today to observe these laws and customs; you must keep and observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.
17. 'Today you have obtained this declaration from Yahweh: that he will be your God, but only if you follow his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, his customs, and listen to his voice.
18. And today Yahweh has obtained this declaration from you: that you will be his own people -- as he has said -- but only if you keep all his commandments;
19. then for praise and renown and honour, he will raise you higher than every other nation he has made, and you will be a people consecrated to Yahweh, as he has promised.' | <urn:uuid:ec312b30-ce57-466e-b0ce-48c3339652d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/de/new-jerusalem-bible/deuteronomy/26/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.980336 | 827 | 2.25 | 2 |
This Community Conversation is being presented free for social workers, their clients, and the general public. It is not CEU eligible.
Engaging Immigrants and Refugees Communities
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This presentation will give a trauma-informed overview of some of the vulnerabilities people with different immigration statuses face. As well as, how to effectively engage with refugees and other immigrants and some basic principles for integrating them into our society.
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Piedmont Community College will offer a computer literacy course on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting Tuesday, March 22, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. at the W orkforce Training Center, 303 South Morgan Street in Roxboro for those looking for work. The final class will be held on May 24.
This course will teach students how to navigate the internet, ensure your safety online, and search for jobs online. Participants will also learn Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel basics with the opportunity to earn a Microsoft Digital Literacy Certification.
“I have had the privilege of taking the Computer Literacy class and I have learned so much. The class is very informative and the people you meet so nice,” shares a former student. “The instructor makes you feel so at ease. I am a senior and would recommend this class for anyone who wants to learn more about the computer while looking for work.”
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2020 is a year of change. At a rapid pace, we all had to adapt to the effects of the pandemic and change our usual ways of working, educating our children, interacting with each other, and conducting business. Change affected all of us in similar ways, but our ability to adapt to change varied.
Change management specialists highlight that most change initiatives fail. The reason why is inherent in our biology and brain structures. Those structures have been optimized over billions of years to keep us safe, yet sometimes, this well-organized system gets in our way. And this is where neurosciences and psychology help us understand three key elements:
What it means to adapt to change
Why it can be difficult to change
What we can do to be better prepared for change
What we can understand at an individual level, we can apply to organizational structures … as they are, after all, a collective of human beings, driven — without their knowledge or control — by their biology.
Harness design processes and principles for change and resilience
I often interact with leaders charged to deliver a “top-notch and future-proof” concept, product, or new service. This happens when organisations rely on the design thinking or service design process as a guarantee for future-proofing. Indeed, those models’ representations look simple on paper, but that’s what representations are meant to be … in reality, things do not look as simple.
User experience researchers working in what we call “the fuzzy front end” are comfortable with uncertainty. So are service designers, who are comfortable saying how little they know about what they are going to find when they start a service design initiative … and that’s the right attitude.
Design can help companies understand their ecosystem today, grasp its complexity, make sense of it, and experiment with potential futures in a controlled way — helping them to be more resilient. In that sense, design is a powerful tool for change — as the one and only constant is change.
Lean more about the topic design for change at CX EMEA 2020. The article was written by Forrester Senior Analyst Karine Cardona-Smits and originally appeared here.
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How Joe Walsh Barnstormed Through ‘The Smoker You Drink … ’
“I was frustrated just being the only melodic instrument [in the band],” he later told In the Studio. “I wanted to expand and try something else. I also didn’t want to stereotype myself into an ‘American rocking guitar player.’ I felt like there was more of a musician than that in me.”
Walsh got together with old Cleveland rival Joe Vitale and bassist Kenny Passarelli to form a new band called Barnstorm. They released a self-titled debut in 1972, credited to Walsh, and watched it go nowhere – not because the music on the record was bad (it was actually very good), but because of industry politics.
“We weren’t doing very well because powers that be didn’t want me to leave the James Gang, but I felt I had to,” Walsh told Redbeard. “[The] powers that be [were] old management, James Gang management and the record company wanted to discourage my solo attempt, Barnstorm, hoping I would go back with the James Gang. They didn’t want people to know that I wasn’t in the James Gang. That’s why the first Barnstorm album didn’t do very well.”
Having blown through his savings supporting his new band, Walsh was in a bit of a pickle. What he needed was a hit, though hits were not much of a consideration as he and Barnstorm were working on his second solo outing, which would be issued as The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get on June 18, 1973. The record wound up containing one of his most indelible hits, and the inspiration for it came when Walsh least expected it: while he was doing yard work.
Listen to Joe Walsh Play 'Rocky Mountain Way'
“We had the Smoker album pretty much done,” he told Rolling Stone, “except we had this one track that was an instrumental. I couldn't think of any words and everybody was patiently waiting for me to come up with something. One day I was in my backyard in Boulder mowing the lawn. And then I looked up ... and there were the Rocky Mountains. It was summer, but you could still see snow on the back range. It just hit me how beautiful it all was, 5,000 feet up. And that was it — the words came: ‘Spent the last year Rocky Mountain way, couldn't get much higher.'"
Nature was also the center of the introspective “Meadows,” whose refrain “I'm out here in the meadow / Part of an old stone wall” came from a morning drive Walsh once took in Massachusetts.
“I was driving around one morning and it was foggy,” Walsh told Redbeard, “and I looked across this meadow, and it was beautiful. There were horses. It was a horse farm, and there was this old falling-down barn. And the thing I noticed for the first time was there was about a half-mile wall; and there’s walls all over New England that used to be property dividers — the farmers would pile rocks up along the border of their land to clear the land to farm. ... And I was kind of lonely and it was a real foggy morning and I was in a very thoughtful mood.”
“Wolf” makes mention of a meadow, as well, but it’s just in passing – and it might go right by you, thanks to the arpeggios Walsh is playing on his acoustic guitar. It’s almost menacing; the tension is coiled throughout the song, but it never gets released.
Listen to Joe Walsh Perform 'Meadows'
There are other details that make the The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get special. Pay attention to the way the guitars are mixed on “Happy Ways” — the layered acoustics and electrics sound thick, but still with definition. The interplay between three different keyboard sounds on “Dreams” (acoustic and electric pianos and synth) also bear the mark of an expert engineer, in addition to the players.
Walsh’s solo on “Midnight Moodies” is a snarling thing, contrasting with the overall tenor of the song, with its percussion and flute solo and very Traffic-like vibe. (“Days Gone By” has a similar feel.) Actually, the Traffic comparison is somewhat apropos, considering the contributions of other Barnstorm members and Walsh’s overall desire for the band to be a team, not just his backing group.
“Traffic songs aren’t Steve Winwood songs,” Walsh told Redbeard. “They’re Traffic songs. And I wanted it to be a band. ... When ‘Rocky Mountain Way’ came out ... the record company didn’t care about anybody in the band, and the promoters didn’t care about anybody in the band, and the reviewers didn’t care about anybody in the band. It was all ‘Joe Walsh is back.’”
The Smoker You Drink proved to be Walsh’s last ride with Barnstorm. Although Vitale and Passarelli would play on his next record, 1974’s So What, they were relegated to sidemen, shuffled in with the studio pros, stray Eagles, Dan Fogelberg and Walsh himself, taking a turn on just about every instrument. Their contributions to The Smoker You Drink, , the Player You Get, however, helped re-establish Walsh as a singular voice in rock outside the James Gang, and set him up for bigger things in the years to come.
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Tuesday, 19th October, 2021 will mark the 35th year of the squalid murder of the Nigerian finest investigative journalist, Dele Giwa. He was coldly murdered through a venom letter bomb he opened to his face.
Because Giwa’s murder was of conscience, for the media and in this epoch month of October that our country attained her Independence in 1960 after a protracted agitation from the colonial government, with the media playing the greatest role for her eventual freedom; there is no better time to write about the fate of the media and freedom of the press, speech and the conscience of an ordinary citizen of Nigeria than now.
Dele Giwa was pursuing the paths of truth and conscience for the defenceless Nigerians whose dreams he saw evaporating into the air of political uncertainty, poor governance in gross corruption. Because of these, he betrayed his own life that we might have a better nation in fullness of freedom to demand accountability and quality leadership.
However, till today, Nigeria is still battling to grapple a prosperous nation. We are faced with reoccurrences of the government’s intolerance for all the inherent constitutional freedom we deserve.Section 39 of the 1999 Constitution particularly provides for the right to freedom of expression and the press. The purpose of entrenching this right is in the recognition that in democracy, the people hold diverse views and opinions especially as regards the government’s policies and programmmes. The right however is not without reasonable derogation.
Under the military regimes, we witnessed egregious violations of all the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Dissenting views and opinions on the government’s policies were always perceived intolerable. It was against this backdrop that Dele Giwa, Ken Sarowiwa amongst other Nigerians lost their lives under the military.
Interestingly, Chief Gani Fawehimi, a Nigerian foremost Human Rights Lawyer expressed the view that the worst democratic government is better than the best military regime. It is however uncertain whether this remark by Gani years ago could still stand the test of the reality in Nigeria today.
The present adminstration had tried on several occasions to put restrictions on the citizens’ freedom of speech. It was argued the depth at which the citizens were criticising the government was intolerable to the effect that a Bill was sponsored before the National Assembly to prevent what they perceived as “Hate Speech” and “Fake News” with the aim of regulating the free speeches of the citizens especially on Twitter platform which was regarded a dissident by the government.
As the world transit through an advancement in technology, governance, politics and the economy have become digital. It is on this record that something very usual happened in October 2020 which the Nigerian government found so strange. What metamorphosed into the EndSars Movement began on Twitter as online protests by Nigerians expressing their displeasures against the Special Anti-Robery Squad, a unit in the Nigeria Police Force accused of incessant extra-judicial killings of the innocent citizens.
The protests on Twitter was to turn out physical overwhelming the government. It was reported that the EndSARS protest was an historical mass movement by Nigerians against their government and to the government, it was a revolution looming. Given the intensity of the movement especially the protest at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos State, a commercial hub of the country, the Nigerian government developed disdain for Twitter where the perceived “Revolution” began.
Luckily for the government in search of a venom substance to murder a rat, Twitter deleted the post of President Muhammadu Buhari particularly the section warning those agitating for Biafra that they would be “treated in the language they understand.” Twitter’s interpretation was that the President statement violated it rules against incitement to violence as the statement to it was a call to another civil war in the country. The government on 5th June 2021 placed a ban on the operation of Twitter in Nigeria. .
The government posited that its ban on Twitter had became necessary in view of the platform’s accommodation of its citizens’ Fake News and the spread of misleading information thereby affecting the national security. Twitter soon engaged the government with a view to lifting the ban on its operation in Nigeria while the government placed some conditions to be complied with including but not limited to surrender to local contents, licensing by the appropriate national agency and fair tax policy. It is not yet clear whether when these conditions are met, Twitter’s Independence would be affected..
However, there is no gainsaying the fact that some Nigerians are found of abusing the social media including Twitter. The abuses of the online media platforms in Nigeria is not limited to fake news alone. It includes the nefarious activities of cybercrimes. Thus, the call to regulate the social media platforms could be fairly said to be relevant but for the government to order sudden shutdown of Twitter alone immediately after the deletion of Mr. President’s post revealed the height of disdain and personal frustration for the platform. .
For instance, if the government had tolerance and respect for the freedom and the rights of her citizens, the government should have engaged Twitter and maybe other social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram on its intending policy of regulations with an ultimatum on ban when the conditions specified are not met. That is how a prudent adminstrative policy should be. It is about designing frameworks and implementation targets.Many Nigerians today are carrying out commercial activities in an online media platform like Twitter. It was reported that Nigeria economy lost over Six Billion Naira within a week of the ban on Twitter. In this era of digital economy, the roles of Twitter like any other platform cannot be overemphasised. The ban on Twitter has been protracted till today..
While on the occasion of Nigerian Independence Day celebration, the President was to inspire hope in the citizens but his statement on the conditions to lifting the ban on Twitter was a disappointing one. Given a speech on the occasion of the country’s celebration of her freedom, it ought to have been, as it should be, a proclamation of hope that the ban on Twitter was lifted in the interim with such conditions that Twitter is to fulfill on or before the expiration of an ultimatum or risk a reinstatement of its ban. .
As we approach the 35th Year Anniversary of the murder of Dele Giwa, a finest journalist who was killed that press and indeed an ordinary Nigerian may enjoy freedom of speech, we must all accept that our freedom dies with the freedom of the press such as Dele Giwa.Otiwe, a graduate of law from Kogi State University, Anyigba, writes from Abuja via [email protected], 08064188686 | <urn:uuid:4dbf03c3-6239-4377-a7f8-d7dc72d744f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.blueprint.ng/between-twitter-ban-fake-news-and-dele-giwas-murder/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.963332 | 1,364 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Just In Time For Vacation: Five Sewer Tours To Check OutPosted By: Ed Miller
It’s that time of year – vacations are in full-swing! And although your drains and sewers might not take a day off, that doesn’t mean we all don’t need to recharge our batteries from time to time. For some, that means sitting on a beach with a cold drink in their hand and, for others, that means a trip to the mountains for some cozy relaxation. For us, that means a chance to see some of the world’s sewers! So, get out your passport and get ready to tour some interesting sewers – and, trust us, there’s a lot more than just gunk and waste in these historic tunnels.
Fall In Love With Brooklyn’s Largest Wastewater Plant
There are plenty of museums and tours you can check out during your time in The Big Apple but this one takes class trips to a whole other, much more smelly, level. It might not be accessible every day of the year but the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has, in the past, offered tours of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn, the largest of the city’s 14 wastewater treatment plants which opened back in 1967. Offered annually, ironically on Valentine’s Day, the tour covers the entire wastewater process, complete with a step-by-step guide of how almost 1.5 million gallons of sludge gets processed every day. It’s broken down using heat and a lack of oxygen into materials that will be used as fertilizer.
After You’ve Seen The Louvre, Visit Paris’ Famous Sewers
With so many sights to see and things to eat in Paris, sewers probably don’t come to mind when planning a visit but there's definitely a spot to check out when you’re done at the Louvre! At Le Musee des Egouts, the city’s sewer museum, attendees will discover the history of the system and see some very cool workings up close, like a giant ball that cleans out the tunnels, street signs designating each tunnel and a sewer wagon. The city’s sewer system, which was installed in 1200, has actually been offering tours since 1867 – and was the first to do so, after author Victor Hugo popularized the murky underground pipes in his famous novel, Les Miserables.
A Glimpse Into Rome’s First Form Of Wastewater Treatment
When you think of Rome, you probably think of pizza, pasta and red wine – but why not wastewater? If you’d like to better understand how drains and sewers have progressed over the lifetime of man, you can see ancient Roman sanitation at Cloaca Maxima. Constructed around 600 BC, the once-considered sacred ground served as a way to drain swamp water before becoming a sewer system, perhaps one of the first. Some areas of the Cloacina can be seen above ground and although the insides aren’t open to the public, you can apply for a permit through Roma Sotterranea (Rome Underground), which studies the city’s underground past.
Line Up To See Sydney’s Sewer Tunnels
While it might not be quite as old as the ancient Roman system, twice a year visitors can attend a tour of Sydney’s sewer tunnels – it’s limited because of safety concerns. Attendees can see colonial Sydney’s first and primary source of freshwater tributary, the Tank Stream, explore underneath the city in a 60-meter stretch the tunnel, as well as some of the city’s reservoirs. Some of the stops along the tour can date as far back as 1789 and tickets are in high demand.
See The Sewer Orson Welles Made Famous In Vienna
In 2007, a publicity manager for a Vienna sewer company began to use Carol Reed’s 1949 film The Third Man to promote the local sanitation system. In the film, Orson Welles’ character runs down to an underground Vienna waterway and the scene can now be seen underground, on a sewer wall, as part of The Third Man tour. Visitors can see the city’s sewer current system, though the story of Vienna’s sewer system originates back to the first century, when Romans built the sophisticated system in their military camp before it was polluted in the Middle Ages and finally modernized in the middle of the 19th century, as the system Welles ran in for the film.
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The National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN) has launched a resource pack for NHS Trusts as part of its efforts to maximise local opportunities for patients to engage in clinical research.
The downloadable “We do research” pack comes on the heels of a ‘mystery shopper’ investigation commissioned recently by NIHR CRN, which found that far too few National Health Service Trusts in England were providing easy access to information on clinical-research opportunities.
The new pack explains to Trusts how they can access consumer-friendly booklets that will help patients understand the role played by clinical research in developing better treatments and answer common questions about participating in a clinical study.
There are also materials Trusts can customise, so that front-line staff will be better equipped to point patients who enquire about research in the right direction, be that the appropriate contact at the Trust or an information source.
Onus on clinicians
As things stand, the onus is on clinicians to raise with their patients the possibility of taking part in a clinical study, NIHR CRN noted.
“Whilst this approach has proved very successful – with the annual number of patients taking part in clinical studies doubling over the past five years – the Clinical Research Network believes that it is also important to empower patients to ask questions about research opportunities that might benefit themselves and others,” it added.
Mystery shopper findings
Among the findings of the ‘mystery shopper’ investigation, which involved 82 hospital sites across 40 NHS Trusts in England, were that 91% of the sites did not have information on clinical-research opportunities available in the obvious places where patients would expect to find it.
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Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know that I consider all religions to be mythology, which people are usually fine with unless it’s their own personal religion I’m examining. At any rate En No Ozunu is revered as the founder and most active mythical figure in the belief system called Shugendo, and in some offshoot cults of Shugendo as a virtual patron deity of ninja practices and ancient weather forecasting.
Practitioners of the Shugendo faith are called Yamabushi and their belief system fuses elements of Shinto, Ainu, Buddhism and Taoism along with features of shamanism and the ancient Japanese reverence for mountains, all of which are considered sacred ground in Shugendo. The ninja connection is very big in popular culture but actually the Ainu are more technically the originators of many ninjutsu practices.
En No Ozunu supposedly began his existence on Earth when he was born to a mortal woman who was so beautiful she caught the eye of an incredibly ancient deity. The mere act of finding the woman desirable enabled said deity to impregnate her without actual intercourse. This is fairly standard in Ainu myths. There is also a tendency in ancient far eastern mythology not to obsess over the exact identity of a deity who fathers a demigod. Western readers are more familiar with versions of these tales where the paternal deity is always explicitly named. In Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines and elsewhere it is usually enough to just say a mythical figure was “the child of a god and a mortal woman.”
We are told Ozunu was born with a horn on his head and a flower in one hand. Like countless other demigods from around the world he was able to talk immediately and could outdo adults in philosophical and theological debates. Ozunu eventually left his mortal life behind him to pursue a spiritual path. He wandered the mountains of Japan, fasting, training himself physically and meditating, often while calmly showering for hours underneath waterfalls of freezing-cold mountain rivers.
Ozunu’s travels brought him to Mount Katsuragi, where a family of Oni (Japanese demons) were terrorizing the region. The father and mother demonoids, named Zenki and Goki, were feeding on the children of the mountain-dwelling populace. En No Ozunu overcame Zenki and Goki with his godly power and while they were unconscious he imprisoned their children in a giant cauldron. When the parent demons awoke Ozunu claimed he had killed the children. Zenki and Goki then realized the pain and suffering they caused the human parents whose children they devoured.
The two demons renounced their “evil” ways and so En No Ozunu reunited them with their offspring. From then on the family of subdued and tamed Oni were Ozunu’s faithful servants. Ozunu’s heroic deed made him famous and he developed a rapidly-growing following of disciples. His Shugendo cult grew so large and influential (especially their use of medicinal herbs) that the ancient rulers of Japan realized it threatened their own power base and exiled En No Ozunu to the remote island of Oshima.
While serving this three year exile Ozunu was still crafty enough to elude his guards and make frequent pilgrimages up and down Mount Fuji, thus increasing his godly power many times over. By the time his exile was over En No Ozunu had purged himself of all traces of his half-human heritage and was fully realized as a deity.
En No Ozunu’s Shugendo faith prospered more than ever now and he began teaching his adherents the camouflage techniques he used to slip away for his journeys up and down Mt Fuji. Ozunu himself was immune to assassination attempts now, as weapons shattered against his skin. No exact date is given for En No Ozunu’s physical departure from the Earth but like Muhammad in Muslim myths he eventually ascended into the heavens. In some versions he took his mother with him in a giant alms bowl.
But on the plus side, unlike with Muhammad, En No Ozunu can be depicted in drawings without blood-soaked, superstitious savagery dictating that the artist be put to death.
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After six months of check-out and calibration in orbit, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich mission will make its first two data streams available to the public on June 22, 2021. Launched in November 2020, the satellite is a U.S.–European collaboration to measure sea surface height and other ocean surface features such as wind speed and wave height.
One of the sea surface height data streams that will be released is accurate to within 5.8 centimeters (2.3 inches) and will be available within hours of acquisition by Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich. A second stream of data, accurate to within 3.5 centimeters (1.4 inches), will be released about two days after it is collected. The two different products are meant to balance the need for timeliness in tasks like weather forecasting and the need for more precision in studying longer trends. Other datasets—accurate to about 2.9 centimeters (1.2 inches)—are slated for distribution later in 2021; these are intended for research activities in climate science and global mean sea level rise.
The map above shows sea surface height anomalies (3.5 centimeter accuracy) as measured by the satellite’s radar altimeter between June 5-15, 2021. Red-orange areas show regions where sea level was higher than normal, and blue areas show regions where it was lower than normal.
Named after former NASA Earth Science Division director Michael Freilich, the satellite collects measurements over about 90 percent of the world’s oceans. It is one of two satellites in the Copernicus Sentinel-6/Jason-CS (Continuity of Service) mission. The second satellite, Sentinel-6B, is slated for launch in 2025. Together, they are the latest in a series of spacecraft that have been gathering precise ocean height measurements for nearly 30 years.
Shortly after launch, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich moved into a position trailing the Jason-3 sea level reference satellite by 30 seconds in orbit. Scientists and engineers have since been cross-calibrating the data collected by both satellites to ensure the continuity of measurements between them.
“It is a relief knowing that the satellite is working and that the data look good,” said Josh Willis, project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Several months from now, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will take over for its predecessor, Jason-3, and this data release is the first step in that process.”
“We have been flying Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich on the same orbit as Jason-3 for the past six months so that the satellites have the same view of the ocean,” said Julia Figa Saldana, ocean altimetry program manager at the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites of (EUMETSAT). “Experts from around the world have collaborated intensively over the past six months, despite the workplace constraints caused by the coronavirus pandemic, to cross-calibrate their data to ensure accuracy.”
Scientists can use sea surface height data to gauge how fast sea levels are rising around the world. Such measurements can also help forecasters predict things like ocean currents and potential hurricane strength.
More than 90 percent of the heat trapped in the Earth system due to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases is absorbed by the ocean, and this heat causes seawater to expand. The expansion of seawater accounts for about one third of modern-day sea level rise, while meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets accounts for the rest. The rate at which the oceans are rising has accelerated over the past two decades, and researchers expect it to speed up more in the coming years.
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Chronic pain is very common in older adults and should not be underestimated. Prevalence figures in people over age 65 vary widely, ranging from 35% to 85%, depending on the population. The elderly experience a number of different pain types and have a higher prevalence of pain due to aging. Visceral/soft tissue pain, bone pain, neuropathic pain, pleuritic pain, colicky pain, and muscular pain differ in their presentation and require different management. In 2001, the Advancing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) expert panel recommended a quality indicator for screening elderly persons for pain because it often goes unrecognized. Causes of chronic pain include spinal stenosis, arthritis, herpes zoster, and diabetic neuropathy.
There are brand new guidelines available from the American College of Rheumatology specifically addressing hand, hip, and knee osteoarthritis pain. It covers use of nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapies and incorporates the latest evidence (or lack thereof) for this condition.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) published an excellent document last year reviewing many of the issues related to pain identification and management (you can find it here). The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) also has an important guideline document addressing persistent pain specifically in older adults available here.
Since multiple comorbidities and medications in older adults often coexist with acute and chronic pain, multidisciplinary team involvement, including physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, nurses, physical therapists, case managers, and others, is likely to be the best approach.
Routine screening for pain is recommended at every visit with an older adult and many screening tools are available (see the original AGS pain guideline). Any persistent pain affects physical function, psychosocial function, or other aspects of quality of life should be recognized as a significant problem.
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Postpartum Support International has many resources to help families, providers, and communities learn about the emotional and mental health of childbearing families. If you are not able to find what you’re looking for, there are three ways to find more options: You can do a search by typing keywords in the search box at the upper right of your screen or contact the PSI office for assistance at firstname.lastname@example.org or 503-894-9453.
This tool can help track your symptoms and discuss them with your healthcare provider.
The PSI Poster has been created to raise awareness of pregnancy and postpartum mental health and for distribution in community and healthcare settings.
Healthy Mom, Happy Family: Understanding Pregnancy and Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders. English and Spanish versions available to stream online or order on DVD.
View and download the PSI Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Infographic and PSI informative brochures in English and Spanish.
Here’s our list of recommended reading on Pregnancy and Pernatal Mood Disorders.
This 66-page booklet provides suggestions and solutions for creating a perinatal support network of any size in your community.
Coaching for Support Group Leaders
What should I call my group? Where should I hold my group? What’s the best time for a group? Chat with an Expert service just for peer support group leaders.
Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color
PMHA-POC was created to fill a gap in support services for professionals and communities of color around perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
Parents and providers can access reliable information about medication uses and risks during pregnancy and postpartum at these links.
Resources in Other Languages
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Cooperative Education Program
The Cooperative Education Program, or "Co-op" is a five-year program where students work in paid, full-time jobs in an industry related to the student's academic major and career goals. Students participating in Co-op alternate a semester of academic study with a semester of full-time work over the course of their sophomore and junior years. Stevens Career Center staff work closely with employers to align employer recruitment needs with student academic schedules and Co-op work terms.
Benefits to Employers
- The Stevens Career Center has over 20 years of experience creating meaningful Co-op experiences for employers and students.
- Employers gain early access to Stevens talent providing a competitive advantage in recruiting and hiring top talent.
- Students work as full-time employees and learn first-hand what it is like to work for your organization.
Engineering Programs: Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Engineering Management, Environmental, Mechanical, Industrial & Systems, Engineering with a Concentration in Naval Engineering, Software Engineering
Computer Science Programs: Computer Science, Cybersecurity
- Co-ops are full-time paid positions, minimum 35 hours per week
- Co-op start and end dates must align with the academic calendar
- The employer must assign a designated supervisor to oversee the work performed by the student
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The following infographic covers the differences in music, movies, video games, and sports stars that have influenced the generations.
According to this source, kids today are less likely to use marijuana and cigarettes and more likely to practice safe sex, however, they are less likely to finish high school. Decreased graduation risks might be correlated with the devaluation of college degrees, the shift towards working in business and arts fields that do not always require a high school diploma, and other socio-economic factors.
While modern teens are less likely to graduate from high school, they are more likely to believe that they will attend college in the future (58.3% in 1980 vs. 79.2% in 2004).
There is also less excitement or proactive behavior towards obtaining a driver’s license; only 43% of 15-17 year olds had their driver’s license in 2004 as compared to 52% in 1982. Is this because parents can no longer afford to buy their teenagers a car or is it something else?
But does this infographic really tell us anything important about their real differences? Do you think that this infographic is a little too superficial?
Another thing to consider is that this visual has outdated information. Career fields are changing swiftly and I doubt that this graphic truly captures modern tenns’ career aspirations.
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Earliest golf courses
The first golf courses were simply public reserves, also used for grazing sheep and cattle. Since most players were professional men, they set up courses in urban centres. From the 1890s purpose-built sites were either bought or leased. These were at first relatively flat in comparison with modern courses, with fairways flanked by pine trees.
Clarice Espiner played regularly at the Thames Golf Club until a month before her death in 2008, at the age of 97. Three years earlier she scored a hole in one on the eighth hole. A flower garden between the 11th and 17th tees is known as Clarice Espiner Corner.
Historic golf clubs
The Manawatu Golf Club in the Palmerston North suburb of Hokowhitu, which opened in 1895, claims the title of New Zealand’s oldest golf course. Napier Golf Club opened the following year at Waiōhiki, on land gifted by a prominent chief of the local tribe, Ngāti Kahungunu. In the early 20th century the Ngāti Whakaue tribe of Rotorua gifted land to the Crown, and in 1912 part of that thermal reserve land became the Arikikapakapa Golf Course. Its website warns players, ‘There are a number of bubbling mud pools and steam vents that are to be avoided’.1 The ninth hole at Arikikapakapa is often wreathed with sulfuric steam and, uniquely, features on a New Zealand postage stamp.
Professionally designed courses
The economic depression of the 1930s made cheap land and labour widely available and many new municipally owned golf courses were established. These were more carefully planned and maintained than in the past, and specialists were engaged on their design. The country’s first professional golf course architect was Irish-born retired engineer C. H. Redhead, who developed and improved many of the country’s golf courses from 1924. Titirangi Golf Club in west Auckland is the only New Zealand course designed, in 1926, by Englishman Alistair Mackenzie, the most renowned golf architect of his era.
Among the best
In 2012 two New Zealand golf courses featured in the world’s top 100 – Cape Kidnappers, set on cliffs overlooking Hawke’s Bay (at number 33) and Kauri Cliffs in the far north (80). Both were owned by US magnate Julian Robertson.
In 1902 the New Zealand government predicted that in future golf links ‘would provide a source of pleasure to many visitors’.2 By the 1970s those visitors included a fast-growing number of golfing tourists from overseas. Wairakei International, near Taupō, was built in a geothermal environment by the Tourist Hotel Corporation in 1970. It became one of the country’s premier golfing destinations and has been ranked among the top 100 courses outside the United States.
From the early 20th century golf clubs included purpose-built clubhouses offering facilities for members’ recreation, including dining, dancing and card evenings. Most ran a bar, nicknamed ‘the 19th hole’.
From the 1990s new golf courses often formed the nucleus of ‘golf-focused communities’ that also included a resort, conference facilities and residential developments. Examples include Millbrook Resort in Queenstown where US president Bill Clinton played in 1999, Terrace Downs in the Canterbury high country, Pāuanui Lakes in the Coromandel and Carrington in Northland.
A golfer’s paradise
By the early 21st century New Zealand had about 400 golf courses, more per capita than any other country except Scotland. Unlike Scotland’s, almost all were playable year-round. They ranged from nine-hole country courses where green fees were dropped into an honesty box to world-class resort courses set in some of the country’s most scenic locations. New Zealand was also one of the cheapest countries to play golf. The average cost of a round was $24 for a tourist or casual golfer, and $18 for a club member. On the other hand, it was not uncommon for membership of a golf club in Japan to cost more than $1 million. | <urn:uuid:ffe746b8-7082-4f6e-b0f6-b5fc24490669> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teara.govt.nz/en/golf/page-5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.970481 | 890 | 2.71875 | 3 |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Amid war in Ukraine and market chaos, nickels are now worth more in melted metal than their face value. But before you empty the piggy bank and fire up a smelter in the yard, there are a few things you should know.
According to McKinsey & Company, Russia was the largest exporter of raw nickel in the world before the war, with 21.1% of the global supply of nickel mined in the country. The next highest was Canada, with 17.1% of raw nickel mining in the world. The war in Ukraine has injected instability into the global market causing the value of the metal to shoot up as much as 250% in a single day in March, according to the London Metal Exchange.
On Reddit, some Americans have discussed the value of hoarding nickels as a potential investment and a hedge against inflation. Nickel has value outside of coin production, it is used in car batteries, among other products.
If you were to melt down a single nickel today, the metal would be worth approximately $0.079, or nearly 60% more than the coin’s face value. At those values, a $2.00 roll of nickels, containing 40 coins, would be worth $3.18.
There are also a few problems with the thinking behind nickel-hoarding, one of which concerns the legality of melting coins. Melting nickels, dimes, quarters and pennies for the purpose of simple destruction, creating art, or other non-economic purposes is still legal in the U.S. — but it’s illegal to melt nickels to sell the metal itself.
It’s also worth noting that today’s nickels are only made with 25% of the metal they’re named for, according to the U.S. Mint. The rest of the coin is made with copper. (Ironically, pennies are mostly zinc instead of copper. The copper-plated coin has only contained 2.5% of the valuable metal since 1982.)
So even if you stuff nickels under the mattress to hedge against inflation, only a small part of the coin’s value would rise with the cost of raw nickel.
In reality, the 5 cent nickel has been expensive to produce for some time. The U.S. Mint reported the nickel’s unit cost rose by 14.8% in Fiscal Year 2021. For the 16th year in a row, nickels were more expensive to produce than they were worth as cash. | <urn:uuid:90cbecf4-e6c4-488d-a5e5-14c3b97321d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wane.com/news/hoarding-nickels-why-their-value-could-be-tied-to-russia-ukraine-crisis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968894 | 539 | 2.40625 | 2 |
An underground stop, a crossroad for the commuters of the northern suburbs, a new 'door to the city'.
The Guidoni stop is alive with unique resonances, almost as if some otherwordly presences were guiding the commuters towards lands far away...
The soundworks selected for this stop are:
Borgarfiord in Spring
Length: 70 secondi
Borgarfiord in East Iceland, may 2019. Birds come to mate in a small cliff near the village. They take every little space in the vertical wall to set a nest and to mate. Hundreds of birds in very small space. And old Icelandic folk song is heard floating among the birds.
Charo Calvo is a Spanish electroacoustic composer, sound designer and professor living in Brussels.
Length: 60 seconds
Ghost Chant was selected among the sound pieces submitted to the 60 rec Radio 2019 Concours de Création Radio.
As Mark Fisher states “in a postmodern society there is no innovation. Just rehashing nostalgic, vintage trends”, everything seems to flow fluidly from a conformation to another, as soon as the right dose of oblivion let us believe we are facing something new. Our frontier thus become the ability to force us to remember and - as artists - the struggle to watch our work from the outside and understand if it’s capable of facing our time and narrating it. An isolated guitar loops a cracked riff surrounded by field recordings, a dense cloud of radio noises and panning found objects, like the soundscape of a decaying automated musician.
Chelidon Frame is an electroacoustic project from Milano and works with noises, found-objects, radio signals and guitars. Some of his pieces in the field of radio art has been broadcasted by Radiophrenia Glasgow, XX Files Radio Framework Radio and Radio Arte.
Lenght: 119 seconds
Jeanne Debarsy graduated in sound engineering at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in 2007. She collaborates with numerous artists both for cinema, radio and music productions. In 2011 she directed her first radio documentary, Ino Vaovao Mada to continue with Los Santos and Terre Noire. In 2017 she produced her first radio drama La première fois que je suis devenu foule, a binaural work which was selected for the Prix Europa, the Prix Phonurgia Nova and La semaine du son in Brussels. In 2018 she was awarded the SCAM-SACD Award for the BELGIAN RADIO. Fountain is a soundscape.
Tziscao Lagoon, Chiapas, Mexico
Length: 106 seconds
Balam Ronan is a sound artist and composer base in Geneva, Switzerland. His practice is currently focused listening and soundscaping; he works between field recordings, sound art, action art, participatory & relational art in public spaces. His soundscapes have been released by Green Field Recordings, Echomusic, Sonic Terrain, La Escucha Atenta, Auriculab and Suplex. Tziscao Lagoon, Chiapas, Mexico is a soundscape part of Ronan's Sound Menu project, which is a compilation of recordings that he have made over the past 7 years in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Switzerland, the United States and Uruguay.
Length: 70 seconds
French architect living in Grenoble, with his work Faivre is looking for a way to establish a dialogue between architectural landscape and sound environement. Each piece is composed as if it was drawing micro-architectures.
Length: 110 seconds
Di passaggio (Passing by) it is an imaginary journey. The sounds of the leaves under the feet, the water and the steps on the gravel mark both the physical journey and the metaphor of an inner journey. The wind, the rain, the undertow of the waves, the cicadas are clearly perceptible and overtake the vehicle noise in the distance, a kind of resonant song. Di passaggio features recent field recordings and some extracts from previous works, such as Rapsodie di passaggio and Azimuth. Luana Lunetta is a sound designer and sound artist. He works as a sound engineer and music consultant for music, theater, cinema and TV.
Length: 108 seconds
Toni Dimitrov is a cultural producer and explorer, radio host and activist, philosopher and communicologist, poet and mountain climber but he is also a sound artist-dj-designer and label owner. He is based in Skopje, Macedonia. He is a radio host at Kanal 103. The Stream is a soundscape.
Paesaggio Toscano Immaginario
Length: 115 seconds
Paesaggio Toscano Immaginario is an imaginary soundscape: it is made of recordings made in different places and at different times. All of them are from sited in Tuscany. The field recordings are interwined with melodies and rhytmical parts. The result is a fleeting 115 second piece. Valerio Orlandini is a sound designer and field recordist. He studies Music and New Technologies at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence.
Echoes on Air 2
Length: 60 seconds
Echoes on Air was a live-streamed radio art composition that Mani composed; it was broadcast simultaneously on ORF OE1 Kunstradio Austria, Radio Pula Croatia, Radio ARS Slovenia and Radio Belgrade 3 in Serbia on the 23rd September 2018. Participants involved in the live network piece included Zahra Mani, Mia Zabelka, Thomas Köner, Svetlana Maras, Andrea Sodomka, Tibor Szemzö, Jure Tori and Samo Kutin. This is a one-minute excerpt of the piece.
Connecting in the ether across Europe, the musicians created a quartet-at-a-distance in four radio studios in realtime. Sonically abstracted texts by Danilo Kis, Pasolini, Rilke and Ingeborg Bachmann create vocal resonances about exile and boundaries. A metaphorical and physical expression of crossing frontiers in acoustic dialogue.
Durata: 95 secondi
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At Watkins Middle school, through our Professional Learning Community, our mission is to:
- Promote a challenging learning environment for a 21st century global community.
- Inspire our students to develop their potential and achieve their dreams.
- Engage students and staff in a safe, supportive environment to foster positive relationships.
- Create high expectations for success through developmentally-appropriate instruction that allows for individual differences and learning styles.
- Encourage our parents, teachers, and community members to actively participate in our students’ life-long learning and personal growth.
1,526 students as of October 29, 2021.
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Targeted therapy directed against oncogenic BRAF mutations and immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed melanoma therapy over the past decade and prominently improved patient outcomes. However, not all patients will respond to targeted therapy or immunotherapy and many relapse after initially responding to treatment. This unmet need presents two major challenges. First, can we elucidate novel oncogenic drivers to provide new therapeutic targets? Second, can we identify patients who are most likely to respond to current therapeutic strategies in order to both more accurately select populations and avoid undue drug exposure in patients unlikely to respond? In an effort to evaluate the current state of the field with respect to these questions, we provide an overview of some common oncogenic mutations in patients with metastatic melanoma and ongoing efforts to therapeutically target these populations, as well as a discussion of biomarkers for response to immune checkpoint inhibitors—including tumor programmed death ligand 1 expression and the future use of neoantigens as a means of truly personalized therapy. This information is becoming important in treatment decision making and provides the framework for a treatment algorithm based on the current landscape in metastatic melanoma.
- programmed cell death 1 ligand 1
- tumor antigens
ASJC Scopus subject areas
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Buckminster Fuller, talking to the New Yorker in 1966, quoted in this article by Elizabeth Kolbert: “I made up my mind . . . that I would never try to reform man–that’s much too difficult. What I would do was to try to modify the […]
“If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the Industrial Designer has failed.” Henry Dreyfuss, Designing for People, 1955 Cognitive friction is one thing, and generally a result rather than a deliberate strategy; process friction is […]
Scott Adams (via Seth Godin): I think writer’s block is when you say to yourself, “I could write something, but it wouldn’t be good enough.” There’s no such thing as a complete inability to write a sentence. He’s right, of course: it’s the fear of […]
As a flipside, perhaps, to the quote on precedents from a couple of weeks ago: If there is something really cool, and you can’t understand why somebody hasn’t done it before, it’s because you haven’t done it yourself. (From Lion Kimbro‘s fascinating How to Make […]
L.J.K. Setright, the late motoring writer and commentator, self-taught mechanical engineer and all-round Renaissance Man, once wrote: Fashion is a terrible fetter; convention, since it lasts longer, is even worse. This was in an issue of Car, when it was still any good. Setright wrote […]
It is remarkable… how often thinking for oneself will lead us to conclusions written about before we were born. From a post by Vera Bass, ‘Teaching requires learning’, 6th November 2006. Many people have probably also said this, but that’s the point, pretty much.
J G Ballard, Super-Cannes, chapter 29: Thousands of people live and work here without making a single decision about right and wrong. The moral order is engineered into their lives along with the speed limits and the security systems. Re-reading Ballard’s excellent Super-Cannes, since the […] | <urn:uuid:c1aa5de1-9017-445b-850d-789202e6a6ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://imaginari.es/projects/friday-quote/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968201 | 467 | 1.984375 | 2 |
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known...The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena...There are a lot of places out there, the molecules of life are everywhere, I use the word billions...it would be astonishing to me if there weren’t extraterrestrial intelligence.” ~ Carl Sagan
In the past couple of weeks, amid the holiday hustle and bustle, there has been an interesting, no-drama flurry of UFO related information, including camera footage, released by NASA, former Pentagon officials, and other high level sources to mainstream media. Articles and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, on the major television news broadcasts and in social media. The bottom line of all this is that highly placed people and government sources are gently letting us know that the evidence for non-terrestrials visiting the Earth is very compelling.
WHAT’S NOT SO NEW
The topic of extra-terrestrials and their influence on life here on Earth is not new. Peoples throughout history have attempted to tell us in the records of their art, written traditions, and even in nuggets of truth surviving in myths that contact with E.T.’s has been going on for untold thousands of years and is real. Ancient advanced civilizations all over the world have openly attributed their knowledge of everything from architecture, engineering and medicine to beings from the stars who came to Earth. The recognition of star beings is also true among indigenous cultures.
Currently, we have the eyewitness reports from astronauts, military personnel, police, scientists, and thousands of civilians who have witnessed UFOs and/or experienced “close encounters.” Recently we also have detailed testimony about secret space programs from credible experts and experiencers turned whistleblowers. There is an impressive selection of brilliantly researched books published on these E.T. and secret space program topics.
WHAT IS NEW
What is new is that when NASA and Pentagon government sources share previously secret information with mainstream media, when a recently retired head of a government UFO project speaks publicly about findings, we can assume the timing of this is not random. These disclosures would likely be on purpose and with a purpose. This appears to be part of an on-going soft disclosure...aka a little bit at a time … perhaps slightly accelerated right now...about what’s been going on for the past seventy years or so related to extra-terrestrial research, exploration, technology retrieval and outer space discoveries.
ON THE EVENT HORIZON
This article is an invitation to be aware of what we are being shown is on the event horizon. This is not about promoting fear. This is intended as an opportunity to begin adjusting ourselves to the far reaching changes to everything we thought we knew and believed, which a confirmed E.T. presence will bring. The ability to expand our capacity for what’s true and to adapt, no matter how mind blowing, can spare individuals, communities and nations from excessive fear and mitigate serious personal and societal mental trauma as some of our long-held and/or foundational beliefs become obsolete.
IT IS WHAT IT IS
Inevitably there will be good guys and bad guys, noble agendas and destructive ones, things we will want to know and things we’d rather we didn’t know. The ability to see what is...without emotional reactivity...allows for mental clarity, emotional calm and the ability to discern what’s true to make informed choices. As more and more of what’s been kept secret related to UFOs, space exploration and ET technology is likely revealed, there will an appropriate mix of reactions...from shock, upset and despair to wonder, excitement and optimism, and everything in between.
BECOMING GALACTIC HUMANS
These revelations also introduce the extraordinary and challenging opportunity to step into becoming galactic citizens capable of leaning into and contributing the best of our unique humanness to the advancements, the complexities and the wonders of expanding what’s possible beyond what we are able to imagine. Always keep in mind that every human being has a heart equipped with the ability to consciously access and share the highest love, creativity and intelligence of the Cosmos. As this story unfolds, keep informed, keep your mind open and curious. And as consistently as possible, lead with an open heart. | <urn:uuid:2f3f8d9a-9053-43c4-9ce5-1ad46cc4c493> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yourcosmiccafe.com/articles/planetjh/TheBiggestStoryin2018.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.945624 | 895 | 2.25 | 2 |
Just setting up to use the 301 for a live show for the first time. I’m wondering if anyone has got any experience with using Tom F’s Turing unit in this context.
Basically I want a Turing set up on ch 1, driving a FM synth voice on ch2
To get something similar to the Thonk Turing Machine, I’m thinking the best option for getting gates and 1v/Oct out to drive the synth voice would be a combination of the Euclidean unit and the Turing, clocked to the same pulse?
Anyone got any tips on how I’d set this up practically to get the best results and simplicity similar to the hardware Turing?
Would appreciate any help! | <urn:uuid:d0f731d9-ad85-4814-ad51-9b1a68de6053> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum.orthogonaldevices.com/t/turing-machine/6428 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.887739 | 156 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Couching its proposal in language reminiscent of urban policy and housing debates of the 1980s and 1990s, the UK government says it will spend £140m to kick start the demolition or refurbishment of nearly 100 estates and rehouse their displaced residents.
The idea that the design and physical environment of modernist housing estates has contributed to social problems and concentrations of criminality is a longstanding one. Announcing the initiative, the prime minister, David Cameron, said that three out of four rioters in the disturbances that swept through some English cities in 2011 “came from these post-war estates” and not “from within terraced streets or low-rise apartment buildings”. He argued:
“Within these so-called sink estates, behind front doors, families build warm and welcoming homes. But step outside in the worst estates and you’re confronted by concrete slabs dropped from on high, brutal high-rise towers and dark alleyways that are a gift to criminals and drug dealers.s”
This seems to mark a powerful return to mainstream political discourse of the notion of “environmental determinism” – the idea that physical environments shape individual behaviour and social and economic conditions. By bulldozing some of what are deemed to be the “worst” estates or improving others, the hope is that social phenomena such as drug use and gang culture can be tackled.
The initiative is to be led by Michael Heseltine, who in the 1980s drove a previous Conservative government’s response to social, environmental and economic issues in what Margaret Thatcher famously termed “those inner cities”. Their modernist tower blocks and terraced streets have certainly enjoyed changing political fortunes over the years. Yet while the tower block is once again firmly in the dock, the terraced house seems to be enjoying a reversal in its fortunes.
The terraced house was the vernacular domestic architectural form of English industrial towns and cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Bradford and Middlesborough. Built as a response to the rapid urban growth of the 19th century, each successive wave of comprehensive redevelopment in English cities has had to decide how to address the terraces. At different times they have been variously classified as slums, unfit for human habitation or no longer appropriate to current needs, and frequently demolished as a result.
Modernist environments often replaced these generally well-planned, solidly built, streets of terraces – and the dense functioning neighbourhoods they supported. But many of these failed almost as soon as they were completed, landing many local councils with repayment costs long after these new environments were demolished.
From the 1960s, a greater societal concern for heritage and the qualities of existing buildings and urban environments started to be reflected in new legislation and ways of planning. The shift to refurbishment, rather than the clearance of houses, in the 1970s reflected this.
However, by the 2000s, some policymakers were again starting to conceive of terraced housing as problematic. In particular its prevalence in some areas was seen as one cause of “low demand” or weakly functioning housing markets. The Labour government’s “Housing Market Renewal” programme, which ran from 2002-2011, assumed that some areas were unattractive to aspirational people because of a “monolithic” supply of pre-1919 terraced houses. This was despite the fact that in the same period in London and elsewhere such houses were highly sought after and rising in value. The programme may have funded more refurbishment than demolition overall, but more clearance of terraces was mooted and carried out than at any time since the 1970s.
The logic seemed to be “fix your housing market to help fix your economy” rather than the more conventional view – illustrated by the rise of property prices in economically buoyant cities at the time – that a growing urban economy will tend to lift property prices.
Many proposals for demolition faced tough opposition from those who didn’t wish to be rehoused, or didn’t share the view that their homes were somehow terminally deficient. Responding to some of the criticisms of the initiative, but also no doubt with an eye to reducing public spending, the programme was scrapped by the last coalition government.
Granby Four Streets area in Liverpool. Image courtesy of Ronnie Hughes.
The 2015 Turner Prize was won by architects working with residents who had stood against demolition to refurbish the “Granby Four Streets” area, also in Liverpool, while the city’s council recently announced that it would no longer pursue demolition of most of the nearby Welsh Streets area but instead pursue refurbishment of a “significant proportion” of homes instead.
Perhaps the key lesson from previous episodes of urban housing renewal is that, before making sweeping generalisations about an area, it’s essential to understand and respect the complexities and nuances of real places and lives.
As the government embarks on its plans to transform what it rather dismissively brands “sink estates”, a nuanced approach that goes beyond simply “blaming buildings” for certain societal problems is crucial. A Policy Studies Institute report from 1991 reminds us to be wary of “simplistic solutions”, stressing that: “Most residential neighbourhoods are complex social entities, best understood by those who live there.”
Yet the residents of zones designated for urban renewal are often still presented as problematic, in need of management or control; or as victims of circumstances, in need of assistance; or being incapable of effecting change in their own lives or communities.
If renewal not removal of communities is the goal, then such positions run the risk of denying agency and influence to local residents and of repeating previous failures, rather than learning from what has contributed to success in the past. In particular, before assuming that any housing type contributes to or helps resolve certain societal issues, engaging well with those who actually live in it will always be essential. | <urn:uuid:7192c4b7-2651-49fb-b220-6a461e273340> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://citymonitor.ai/environment/fall-and-rise-terraced-house-shows-how-far-our-attitudes-architecture-can-change-1804 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.967622 | 1,229 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The far-left Axios reports “Police recruiting suffers as morale hits new lows,” citing the Democrat-run cities of Charlotte, Minneapolis, Des Moines, and Denver as the most notable examples.
Charlotte, North Carolina, which has been run exclusively by Democrats for 22 years, says policing applications are down 26 percent compared to the first four months of last year.
Des Moines, Iowa, which has been run exclusively by Democrats for nearly a quarter century, saw a 50 percent drop in police applicants.
Fayetteville, Arkansas, a city with a non-partisan office but a mayor who’s currently serving his fourth four-year term, “had only 10 applicants qualify for interviews compared to what is typically about 40, due to a smaller applicant pool[.]”
Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Democrats have been in charge for nearly 50 years, reports: “There are far fewer police officers patrolling the streets of Minneapolis so far this year than city officials anticipated. Members of a City Council committee Thursday approved $6.4 million for the city’s Police Department to hire dozens more officers this year.” Further, the city’s own data shows the number of officers plummeted from 817 to just 638.
Denver, Colorado, where Democrats have been in charge for 59 years, “hire[d] 97 fewer officers than expected in 2020. And some of the 81 officers who were injured in last summer’s unrest still have not returned to full duty.”
Not all Democrat-run cities are annihilating police morale. Tampa, Florida, has increased funding. But if morale and recruiting are low, the Democrats in charge are the reason.
Why would anyone want to be a police officer in a city where Democrats are in charge, a city where the domestic terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter are allowed to terrorize, loot, and burn with impunity, a city where if you arrest them they are immediately released, where if you defend yourself, you will be thrown to the howling jackals in the corporate media and forever smeared as a Klansman?
The International Association of Chiefs of Police has just declared “the state of recruitment” is a “crisis for law enforcement,” which is a surprise to no one who understands human nature.
The Democrat Party, as well as countless everyday Democrat voters, have not only turned against the police. They have become openly pro-criminal, which is the only way to describe the full-throated endorsement of a terrorist movement like Black Lives Matter as they openly and proudly rampage, burn, and loot city after city, all to the sound of a cheering media.
Being a police officer is tough enough, dangerous enough, but when you are going into the field knowing you are being portrayed as the villain, it’s even more dangerous, not to mention thankless.
The net effect of this is going to be exactly what the voters in these cities deserve: more crime, more blight, lower property values…
You get what you vote for, and despite what’s happening before their very own eyes, these morons keep voting for terror, anarchy, death, racism, poverty, pollution, and failure.
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CANBERRA : The International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) on Friday urged the federal government to set-up a dedicated hotel quarantine system for international students.
The number of international students educating in Australia has fallen by more than 200,000 since the country's borders were closed in March 2020 to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had previously announced that more than 40,000 Australians who remain stranded overseas would be given priority to return the country.
In a statement, the IEAA said it would "pay whatever it takes" to restart the lucrative international education industry, which has been crippled by the coronavirus pandemic, reports Xinhua news agency. Under the IEAA proposal students would not take quarantine places from Australians.
"There's no reason why we can't have charter flights bringing these students in, walking them across the tarmac into separate quarantine facilities that are not going to be competing with the hotel quarantine for Australian returnees," IEAA Chief Executive Phil Honeywood told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
"The industry is prepared to pay whatever it takes for additional Australian Defence Force and for police to ensure that it all happens properly, with only one point of entry and one point of exit." Data released by Universities Australia in February revealed that the higher education sector lost A$1.8 billion in revenue in 2020 and cut more than 17,000 jobs. | <urn:uuid:41316028-6325-4d83-bf37-b9b2b16be312> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.newstracklive.com/news/australia-urged-to-setup-quarantine-system-for-international-students-sc57-nu318-ta318-1149326-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962635 | 286 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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Thursday, October 06, 2005 | It seemed like a good idea at the time. Make sure California’s public schools issue annual School Accountability Report Cards that disclose vital information specific to each school so parents can evaluate that school’s quality and performance.
But somewhere along the line, in the 17 years since the SARC was approved by voters in 1988 as part of Proposition 98, the intent to provide the public with clear, honest information derailed. Instead of clarity and intelligibility, today’s SARC has become opaque, obscured by the use of deceptive accounting, perplexing reporting methods and confusing expenditure figures.
“The intent was candor, because the public deserved transparency,” said Steve Rees, editor and publisher of School Wise Press, which develops SARCs for 95 California school districts and offers online school comparisons and evaluations.
Rees said the problems arose because the California Department of Education was given oversight responsibility but insufficient funding to preserve the original point of the law. Much of the information still remains tough to find or impossible to interpret, he said.
SARCs, which are available on-line for any school in the state through the CDE, provide data on each school’s enrollment, demographics, test scores, achievement history and trends, average class sizes, absenteeism rates, textbooks and instructional materials, safety and cleanliness, teacher credentials, staff salaries, budgets, per-pupil costs and other statistics.
One of the most questionable SARC practices, according to state Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), is the use of salary-cost averaging to report teacher salaries at individual school sites. He says this approach hides the disparity in teacher compensation that exists from school to school within a district by averaging the cost of teachers’ salaries district-wide rather than averaging the cost at each school.
This gives the distorted impression that districts spend the same amount of money at each school site on teachers, claims Simitian. But the reality – particularly for larger school districts with schools scattered across an urban landscape that includes poor, middle-class and wealthy communities – is that teachers are compensated very differently from school to school, depending upon the experience, education and credentials of teachers at each site.
To address the problem, last week Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law SB-687, sponsored by Simitian, which requires school districts to show on each school’s SARC its per-pupil spending and average teacher salaries at that site, not averaged district-wide.
“SB-687 is designed to give parents and concerned community members precise, accurate information about school spending,” Simitian said in a prepared statement. “From there, communities can decide whether that money is being put to good use.”
The new legislation does not require equity in school funding within a district, but only requires that school districts disclose on their SARCs, beginning July 1, 2007, actual site-specific teacher costs and per-pupil spending. This transparency of the use of billions of dollars of public education funds promotes good government, Simitian and his allies argue, because it allows the public to see exactly how money is being distributed throughout each school district.
A broad coalition of SB-687 advocacy groups claims in a position paper that SB-687 will lift “the veil of secrecy and help ensure that the school board and the public know where the dollars are really being spent. Local boards and communities will then have the information needed to ensure that low-performing schools have access to an equal amount of financial resources for teachers as other schools in the district.”
SB-687 “addresses the inequitable distribution of base-level spending,” said Brad Strong, legislative director for EdVoice, a California public education reform organization. Strong said that, in addition to a number of statewide groups supporting SB-687, key to its passage were Mark Wyland, Republican state assembly member representing north coastal San Diego County, and Ginger Hovenic of the San Diego Chamber Foundation’s Business Roundtable for Education.
Report on the hidden spending gap
Education Trust-West found that 42 of the 50 largest school districts in California spend about $3,000 less per teacher at schools many believe need the extra funding the most – those with the highest numbers of Latino and African-American students. This can amount to a difference in the allocation of resources from school to school of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the report found.
A second Education Trust-West report (www.hiddengap.org), funded by the Broad Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was issued last month and further highlights the disparity by showing actual average teacher salary dollars spent at each school in the 12 largest California school districts, including the San Diego Unified School District, the second largest in the state.
This latest Education Trust-West report, which took two years to complete and provides data from the 2003-2004 school year, shows, for example, that SDUSD’s Kearny High School has an average teacher salary of $46,377 and a 67 percent poverty rate, while the average teacher salary at Scripps Ranch High School, which has a 16.9 percent poverty rate, is $52,856. The report estimates a resulting $370,072 annual gap in district funding between the two schools.
Yet the SARC for each SDUSD school provides identical salary figures for beginning, mid-range and highest paid teachers – no matter whether the school is in La Jolla or southeast San Diego, nor whether the school serves elementary or high school students, large numbers of economically disadvantaged students or a student body composed mostly of historically underserved subgroups.
SB-687 supporters say the public is therefore deceived into thinking that school districts, especially those in large urban centers where the achievement gap is a chronic problem, are providing equity in teaching ability at each school.
“Salary-cost averaging gives the illusion of a fair distribution of per-pupil funding, when in reality the distribution of teaching dollars is anything but fair and equitable,” said Russlynn Ali, executive director of Oakland-based Education Trust-West, in a public statement. “This new series of reports shatters that illusion. It is now clear that the current teacher spending system amounts to a perverse subsidy to wealthier schools paid for by poor schools.”
“Before SB-687,” Ali continued, “California school districts routinely misled parents and the public about how much they truly spend on what research tells us matters most in student achievement: the quality of their teachers. As a result of SB-687, California becomes the first state in the nation to allow parents and community members to know what is being spent at their schools.
“This level of transparency is critical if we are to analyze and develop sound education policies and budgetary decisions that will help level the playing field for all students.”
The role of labor
Opinions differ as to why schools with the highest number of poor and minority students have more lower-paid, beginning teachers. Although the implication in the Education Trust-West report is that school districts have control over teacher assignments and deliberately place better teachers at schools in wealthier, higher-achieving neighborhoods, this may not be entirely true.
Teacher union rules that limit a district’s flexibility in teacher assignments contribute to the disparity, many education administrators say. They claim that seniority rights that allow a district’s most experienced, and consequently highest paid, teachers to be first on the list to transfer to any posted open teaching position throughout the district – a process commonly called “post-and-bid” – plays a central role in the migration of qualified, experienced teachers to more affluent schools.
Most labor union contracts for California’s larger school districts include post-and-bid clauses, according to Alan Bersin, former SDUSD superintendent who now serves as California’s education secretary. During his stormy seven-year tenure at SDUSD, he often said that post-and-bid union rules limit a district’s ability to assign higher-paid, more experienced teachers where they are needed most – in the poorest-performing schools – by guaranteeing teachers the option to transfer from a struggling school after they gain greater seniority. This ties districts’ hands, he has said, and leaves low-achieving schools chronically bereft of qualified teachers.
Not true, said Robin Whitlow, executive director of the San Diego Education Association, the SDUSD teachers union. “This is about the quality of principals and the safety of the environment,” she said. Repeated teacher surveys consistently indicate that these values are central to teacher priorities in the workplace, she said.
Teachers will bid out of schools if they feel unsafe or unsupported by their principals, Whitlow said. By the same token, she added, teachers will stay in a school, whether it’s in a poor or affluent community, if they are given the right support. “People migrate to good leadership,” she said.
In addition, she said both students and teachers deserve safe, clean facilities. “A student’s learning environment and a teacher’s work environment are one and the same.”
SB-687 supporters contend that experienced teachers generally provide a higher quality education, so the dollar disparity underscores the inequity in public education. Robert Watkins, president of the San Diego County Board of Education, said students at schools with new teachers who earn starting salaries are not getting the same educational opportunities as students at schools with higher-paid teachers. “We need to get the best teachers in those underserved populations, and we have a reluctant partner in labor,” he said.
Whitlow disagrees. “Just because someone has more experience and makes more money doesn’t mean they are necessarily the best teacher,” she said. “The salary is not the sole measure. Just looking at salaries does not meet the complexity of the challenge.”
In a recent interview, Leslie Fausset, who was SDUSD interim superintendent until last week, said that one of the major barriers in raising student achievement is maintaining stable staff at the hardest to teach, lowest-performing schools. But she said there is a range of issues that contribute to the situation. “Post-and-bid is one factor, but it’s not the only factor,” she said.
“How can you be expected to be accountable when you have no control over your staff?” asked Watkins.
“It’s not about picking your own staff,” Whitlow said. “It’s a matter of being a leader. It’s about having clear expectations and communicating them properly.” She said in recent years SDUSD has had high turnover of school site leadership, “so people hired in [as principals] often do not have proper training or credentials” and therefore are ineffective managers.
Whitlow suggested that the district use teacher migration trends as an indicator of problem areas in site management, and said the post-and-bid structure would be a useful assessment tool for feedback on principal quality.
“Every child is entitled to a good education,” Watkins said. “Districts need to put their best resources on their most critical needs. But districts are held at the mercy of labor negotiations.”
Calling teachers “the glue that holds it all together,” Watkins added, “I don’t think we should continue to be focusing on teachers. It’s not always about teachers. Administrations need better controls. We should be looking at the total revenue and compensation structure.”
The solutions to public education’s overwhelming range of problems cannot be found in one simple answer, but many public policy experts, legislators and educators believe that full disclosure on how education dollars are spent is a positive first step. Others, however, see the new law as a distraction from the central issues confronting California’s complex education system.
“Students who attend the highest-poverty and highest-minority schools throughout California are consistently shortchanged when it comes to dollars spent on teachers,” said Education Trust-West’s Ali. “SB-687 marks an historic first step toward transparency on education spending.”
Whitlow said the bill misrepresents the issues and over-simplifies a complicated array of problems by suggesting that teachers and union policy are culpable. She said the purpose of SB-687 is not to improve the situation but to denigrate it. “Other than parents, no one cares more about children than teachers,” she said.
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If you’re trying to find an environmentally-friendly way to secure your house, you may want to consider the advantages of all-natural parasite control. Pest control approaches that work by subduing the population of a parasite can actually create even more damages than they prevent. Luckily, there are several techniques offered to aid you stop bug issues. Here are a few of them. You can discover more regarding the different kinds of parasite control by reviewing our post. By adhering to these tips, you can keep your residence pest-free for as long as feasible.
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The advantages of insect control go far beyond securing homes, but they likewise assist shield forests as well as farm plants. In fact, making use of pesticides has actually added to the control of a number of illness that can be dangerous to your family’s health. Other than avoiding damages, bug control assists in saving lives. This implies you’ll understand precisely when to make use of pesticides. You’ll additionally avoid the risks of allergic reactions by ensuring that you don’t expose on your own or your family members to chemicals.
Physical controls entail traps, barriers, and devices that protect against the bug from going into and infesting your house. As an example, you can install home window screens and also drifting row covers to prevent ground-based bugs. You can likewise get plant collars to keep cutworms from damaging your plants. Insect monitoring and also control methods can likewise include using red ball traps or glueboard catches. By setting up cardboard bands around apple trees, you can trap codling moth larvae or stop birds from roosting on structures. Electrical lights as well as fans might additionally be mounted to hinder flying pests. подходящ уеб сайт
All-natural pest control approaches additionally help to lower the prices of chemicals for private farmers. Nevertheless, these methods can additionally be less efficient as insects develop resistance to the chemicals they are subjected to. Nevertheless, all-natural bug control methods may be much more environment-friendly and lasting in the future. While these methods are not ideal, they can still minimize the expenses connected with using chemicals on ranches as well as crops. So, make sure to investigate them prior to making a decision about the very best methods for your circumstance. | <urn:uuid:7681892d-f791-4d53-b027-3c80dcccca72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.imagineartphoto.com/2022/05/27/explanation-on-why-parasite-control-is-important-as-well-as-you-must-learn-about-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.953525 | 1,416 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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Each of us has a unique, gripping, and heart-warming story. Your life, recorded in memoir, is a gift to the world. Whether you’re a beginning memoirist or need help organizing your memories, join us for a hands-on memoir retreat to encounter your inner writer. Prompts and group exercises will take you step by step through transforming your life tale into the written word. Bring your pen and notebook or laptop for a motivating and stimulating experience!
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you
~ Maya Angelou
About the Presenter(s)Shoshana Kobrin
“From an early age, I was awed by the written word. My future awaited me in the power of words, so a Master’s degree in literature at the University of South Africa was the next step. Interest in interracial dynamics led to a Master’s degree in psychology at John. F. Kennedy University in California. I became a psychotherapist, a university professor, and facilitated workshops and retreats professionally and in the community.
Then I moved from psychotherapy and wrote my first book, a how-to journaling guide. Four self-help books and collections of short stories and poetry followed. A how-to book on memoir writing was next. At the same time, I enjoyed the fulfilling experience of teaching creative writing to adults. Psychotherapy slots neatly into coaching memoir writing, which is now my focus. I’m here to help you with all aspects of writing your memoir.” | <urn:uuid:590e94e6-8f4f-414a-ac33-7b99d77d4253> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sandamiano.org/events/memoir2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.945167 | 328 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Predictive dialer software is a computer-based dialing system that can rapidly place multiple outbound calls. Predictive dialing is a system of outbound calling that dials without an agent on the line. The system dials the phone, listens, and automatically transfers the call to an agent when alive, "hello," or a short greeting is detected. The dialer makes multiple calls simultaneously, checking each number for a live "hello" or any other call disposition. If the ring is busy, no answer, not working, etc., the dialer drops or reschedules the call, then dials another number. The dialer is predictive because it predicts when the next agent will be available and when the next "hello" will be detected.
Most predictive phone dialers automatically adjust to calling patterns, number of agents, and average call length. If the calls are few, the dialer should dial more lines. If fewer agents are available, the dialer should dial less frequently. If calling patterns change, the dialer should change with them. It should also handle multiple projects and multiple calling lists, seamlessly switching between them. Finally, one must modify the dialer's frequency "drops" the call. An abandoned call is when a survivor picks up the phone, but no available agent takes the call. When the dialer disconnects before switching the call to an agent, the call is "abandoned." A high-quality dialer will automatically adjust the calling rate to minimize abandoned calls and maximize the agent's talk time.
Predictive dialing is typically used for business-to-consumer calling, where the consumer's identity is not entirely relevant to the call. The agent does not have time to preview the ring before connection using predictive dialing. Additionally, it is believed that calls left to unknown consumers do not harm the business of call centers. However, because companies answer their calls with a business greeting and require personal preparation, predictive dialing is generally not used to call business customers.
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Billed as “finally giving female writers the credit they deserve,” the “Reclaim Her Name” collection is re-issuing books written by women who used male pen names.
Twenty-five titles have been released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, one of the most prestigious literary prizes.
The series most notably includes the popular classic “Middlemarch,” which was written by Mary Ann Evans under the pseudonym “George Eliot.” Another title, “Marie of the Cabin Club,” is by Ann Petry (alias Arnold Petri), who is now known as the first African American woman author to sell over a million copies.
The collection is sponsored by Baileys, which is offering free e-book editions of the collection. The books will not be sold as physical copies, but box sets are being donated to libraries across the U.K. Female designers created the covers for these editions.
“Throughout history, many female writers have used male pen names for their work to be published or taken seriously,” wrote Baileys on its website. “ … [W]e have put their real names on the front of their work for the first time to honor their achievements.”
Beyond the women writers represented in the collection, other best-selling authors with male monikers include Louisa May Alcott, the Brontë sisters, Erika Leonard (E.L. James) and Joane (J.K.) Rowling.
Women authors have long chosen to write under gender neutral or masculine nom de plumes to avoid sexist barriers in publishing and literary circles.
For instance, Evans chose the name “George Eliot” because she feared her work would not be taken seriously—in the 19th century, women writers were mostly associated with romantic novels. Even today, Rowling revealed in an interview that her publisher explicitly asked her to write under an initialized name, the reason being so that the now-iconic “Harry Potter” series would better appeal to both boys and girls. | <urn:uuid:4dc080d8-777f-4050-bb39-d024c257a11a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://msmagazine.com/2020/08/25/we-heart-republishing-novels-to-recognize-women-writers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.970121 | 434 | 2.390625 | 2 |
April 9th, 2014
12:17 PM ET
By Jessica Ravitz, CNN
(CNN) We can blame the Internet for plenty: the proliferation of porn, our obsession with cat videos, the alleged rise of teen trends like - brace yourself - eyeball licking.
But is it also a culprit in helping us lose our religion? A new study suggests it might be.
Allen Downey, a computer scientist at Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, set out to understand the national uptick in those who claim no religious affiliation. These are the “nones,” which the Pew Research Center considers the fastest-growing “religious” group in America.
Since 1985, Downey says, the number of first-year college students who say they're religiously unaffiliated has grown from 8% to 25%, according to the CIRP Freshman Survey.
And, he adds, stats from the General Social Survey, which has been tracking American opinions and social change since 1972, show unaffiliated Americans in the general population ballooned from 8% to 18% between 1990 and 2010.
These trends jibe with what the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project reported in 2012. It said one in five American adults, and a third of those under 30, are unaffiliated.
Downey says he stepped into the ongoing debate about the rise of the "nones" not because he has a vested interest one way or the other, but because the topic fascinates him. He says it’s good fodder for study and appeals to students who are learning to crunch real data.
In his paper “Religious affiliation, education and Internet use,” which published in March on arXiv – an electronic collection of scientific papers – Downey analyzed data from GSS and discovered a correlation between increased Internet use and religious disaffiliation.
Internet use among adults was essentially at zero in 1990; 20 years later, it jumped to 80%, he said. In that same two-decade period, we saw a 25 million-person spike in those who are religiously unaffiliated.
People who use the Internet a few hours a week, GSS numbers showed Downey, were less likely to have a religious affiliation by about 2%. Those online more than seven hours a week were even more likely – an additional 3% more likely – to disaffiliate, he said.
Now, Downey is the first to point out that correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causation.
But he was able to control for other factors including education, religious upbringing, rural/urban environments and income, to find a link that allowed him to “conclude, tentatively, that Internet use causes disaffiliation,” he said.
“But a reasonable person could disagree.”
The Internet, he posited, opens up new ways of thinking to those living in homogeneous environments. It also allows those with doubts to find like-minded individuals around the world.
He believes decreases in religious upbringing have had the largest effect, accounting for 25% of reduced affiliation; college education covers about 5% and Internet use may account for another 20%.
That leaves 50% which he attributes to “generational replacement,” meaning those born more recently are less likely to be religiously affiliated – though he doesn’t attempt to explain why that is.
The Pew Research Center has offered its own theories.
One explanation Pew gives is that our nation is experiencing political backlash – "that young adults, in particular, have turned away from organized religion because they perceive it as deeply entangled with conservative politics and do not want to have any association with it."
More specifically, Pew explains, this brand of religion and politics is out of step with young adult views on same-sex rights and abortion.
Postponement of marriage and parenthood, broader social disengagement and general secularization of society may also play a part, according to Pew.
But to be religiously unaffiliated doesn’t require a lack of faith or spirituality, researchers say.
Yes, the "nones" group includes those who might call themselves atheists or agnostics. But it also accounts for many – 46 million people – who don't belong to a particular group but are, in some way, religious or spiritual, according to Pew.
This is all part of the changing face of society and faith, and where the Internet fits in is just part of a complicated puzzle.
The evolving landscape includes plenty of people who go online in search of spiritual and religious sustenance, said Cheryl Casey, who delved into the issue for her 2006 dissertation.
Casey, now a professor of media, society and ethics at Champlain College in Vermont, wrote about the “revirtualization of religious ritual in cyberspace” and the morphing relationship between technology and religion.
That Downey would find a correlation, that the Internet is increasing disaffiliation, makes perfect sense to her.
"The institutional control over the conversation is lifted, so it's not just a matter of more churches to choose from but more ways to have that conversation and more people to have that conversation with," she said Wednesday.
People move away from formal affiliation and toward what she calls "grass-roots religious exploration," where "the nature of the medium allows for those conversations to grow organically."
Innovations have long played a part in influencing religion, she said, and will continue to.
Something she wrote back in 2006 said it best.
“When a new technology, such as the printing press or the Internet, unleashes massive cultural change, the challenge to religion is immense. Cultural developments change how God, or the ultimate, is thought of and spoken about,” she wrote.
“The dynamics of this transformation, however, await continued investigation.”
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Med Ball “Clean the House”: Fill one side of your class area with Med Balls of varying sizes and line children up shoulder to shoulder on the opposite side. On Trainer “Go” kids run back and forth “Cleaning” the items up and carrying them to the opposite side of the Box/Gym. You can add variety by asking them to roll the balls hand over hand instead of carrying them.
Plank: Hand position to avoid bridging.
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As with the holiday, so with the culture at large. The increasingly post-Christian culture of America and Europe are nevertheless more deeply rooted in Christianity than is usually recognized by its opponents (and some of its adherents). It’s at least theoretically possible that this culture will eventually get Christianity out of its system, out of the roots of its consciousness, and negligible as a cultural force, reduced to the private practices of an eccentric few. This would take several generations, and I don’t think it will happen, but it certainly could. And if it did, the resulting culture would, like Christmas, lose the hope and the humanism which had been its legacy from Christianity. As with Christmas, if the heart were to stop beating, the body would die.
We have seen the prospects for that new culture already, in the totalitarian nightmares of communism and fascism, in the wasteland of pleasure-and-power-seeking which is offered as the good life by much of the entertainment and advertising produced by capitalism, in the drab materialist collectivism of “Imagine” and the absurd materialist egoism of Atlas Shrugged.
Perhaps it’s not even too much to say that if Christmas were to die, the remains of Christian culture would die, too, and with it that softness toward the individual human person””imperfect, of course, and slow to develop””that has characterized it. As long as the mad mixture of the very earthly and the very heavenly which is Christmas””the poor and vulnerable newborn baby among the animals on the one hand, choirs of angels on the other””remains at the heart of the holiday, and the holiday remains very much alive in the culture, the natural coldness and brutality of the human race is always challenged from within the culture itself. Should that challenge be removed, no one would be more surprised by the result than those who worked to remove it. They might not live to see that result, but if their souls were not lost altogether, part of their purgatory might be the knowledge of what they had done to their descendants.
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Film Courage: Robin, for any actor who wants to be a working actor in Hollywood, what are some things that they need to know, not just about the business but also themselves?
Robin Riker, actor/author: You have to have a good sense of yourself and a good thick skin. It’s very odd that an actor needs to be able to shed that skin immediately and be able to be vulnerable and express feelings. You must have thick skin because you are not going to get more jobs that you get. Even the most famous actors, the ones who you think work all the time, don’t get every job they want and as a working actor (we working actors) don’t get more jobs than we do. So you have to know that, you just have to know that.
And then you have to act. I encourage (alas equity is making this a little difficult for equity actors) but you have to perform. So find a class to go to that keeps your instrument lubricated and working so you know you’re not going in and trying to read for Macbeth after not doing anything for six months or doing cereal commercials. So find a workshop some place where you can work and do scenes and scene study and that sort of thing.
You have to be very careful of becoming a professional student. A lot of people come here and take classes and that satisfies them in a way. Even doing really good work in a class is not the same as working and so you have to do that work in order to be able to be good enough to land work. This is not the same as working.
And so you have to do that work in order to be able to be good enough to land that work. So you have to get on stage as often as you can. There are lots of little theaters here that do plays. If you’re not equity you can do that. If you are equity you have to do some workarounds to get that happening now alas. But get on stage as much as you can so you are warmed up.
You should always (before you go out on an audition) you should be as prepared as you can possibly be but for yourself (this is not so much for the audition) but for the person, go somewhere in public before you go to the audition. Because you are a human who is trying to display emotions. If you make this audition the most important thing of your day I’m getting ready for this. I can’t do anything before this. This is it, the focus, the focus, the focus, then you get in the room and you’re not limber…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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Are spray sunscreens harmful?
Most sunscreens — including the spray-on kind — contain small particles of two minerals, zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, which reflect the sun’s harmful rays. The tiny bits, referred to as nanoparticles, are considered safe and effective when applied to the skin.
Are you supposed to rub in spray on sunscreen?
It’s also important to remember that a typical 6-ounce bottle of spray sunscreen contains six applications. Rub it in thoroughly. To ensure that you didn’t miss any spots and that you have an even layer of coverage, rub the sunscreen in after spraying. Avoid inhaling spray sunscreen.
Which sunscreen spray works best?
The Best Spray Sunscreens
- Best Overall: COOLA Classic Body Organic Sunscreen Spray SPF 70.
- Best Clean Formula: Australian Gold Botanical Sunscreen Spray SPF 70.
- Best Value: Sun Bum Sunscreen Spray SPF 30.
- Lightweight Feel: Soleil Toujours Organic Sheer Sunscreen Mist SPF 50.
Why you shouldn’t use spray sunscreen?
“Small particles of the spray can get deep into the lungs and cause irreversible damage,” says Nneka Leiba, the vice president of healthy living science at the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., that assesses the health effects of chemical exposure from day-to-day products.
Is it OK to use spray sunscreen on your face?
The ingredients in spray sunscreens are safe for your skin, but they can be irritating to the lungs if inhaled. Importantly, this means that you should never spray sunscreen directly on your face. Instead, spray it into your hands and rub it onto your face, taking care to avoid your eyes and mouth.
Is it better to use lotion or spray sunscreen?
Overall, sunscreen lotion is the best way to go. Spray is not recommended, but if that is the only sunscreen you have on hand, make sure to spray the sunscreen onto your hands and then rub it onto your child’s skin and face. Be sure to avoid getting the spray into the eyes or mouth.
Does spray sunscreen cause acne?
Segal, MD, two things can cause sunscreen-related pimples: clogged pores from comedogenic ingredients or a sensitivity to chemical UV-blocking agents. In other words, the mineral sunscreens can sit on top of your skin and gunk up pores, while the chemical ones might irritate vulnerable skin.
Will a shirt rub off sunscreen?
Do: Use broad-spectrum protection
Even waterproof sunscreens eventually wash off, and all sunscreens can be easily rubbed off by towels, sand, and clothes.
Can I spray sunscreen over makeup?
Investing in a high-quality setting spray that carries SPF is the simplest way to apply sun protection over makeup! The majority of setting sprays apply as a mist with a clear or matte finish. Using a setting spray to apply sunscreen will provide a layer of protection to your skin without messing up your makeup.
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Cyber security is not only good ethics, but quite simply good business.
Cyber security has clearly made its way to the frontstage of the global risk landscape in recent years. Cyber-attacks are proving increasingly threatening to both the public sector and to the private sector which finds itself facing an ever-growing risk of data breaches resulting in losses of ever-growing magnitudes, both in financial and reputational terms.
Companies, however, seem to be consistently lagging behind when it comes to protecting themselves against these risks – favouring all-too-often a complacent or reactive approach to cyber security where a proactive, holistic one is badly needed.
For organisations where lip-service and knee-jerk reactions are still prevailing today, the true adoption of cyber security good-practices is not going to happen overnight, and it could take several more years – if not decades – of InfoSec scandals and severe data breaches before this issue finally tops organisations’ agendas in real terms.
In that sense, the parallel with the sustainability movement, and more largely with the growing trend of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) over the last two decades is becoming more and more pertinent.
Cyber security has become essential to protect the hyper-connectivity that the digital transformation will require to be successful, and the colossal amounts of data it will generate. Beyond the trillions of dollars of economic value that could be created, it is the transformation of society that is at stake, in a manner that many have been comparing with a 4th Industrial Revolution. Meanwhile, at the junction of the various technology layers involved (IoT, BIgData, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics), it is also the personal data and the right to privacy of consumers and citizens that has become vulnerable. And they have started to react to ruthless data monetisation, as the widespread use of ad-blockers is illustrating.
Taking cyber security seriously today and driving adherence to security and privacy good-practices is key to engineering the trust of consumers and citizens, which in turn will be the cornerstone of a truly successful digital transformation that can deliver fundamental economic and social benefits in fields as diverse as healthcare, transportation or public services. Failure to do that would simply prevent progress and kill value.
It is in that sense that cybersecurity has actually become a matter of CSR for most firms— and as such it is presenting them with similar challenges and opportunities.
The challenges are evident: Changing mentalities takes a lot of time and efforts, especially in very large organisations paralyzed by internal politics, poor governance and short-term thinking. The advantages of a proactive and consistent cyber security practice are indeed hard to perceive when only looking at short-term profit maximization, just like funding sustainability programs was once seen as a waste of resources and energy that could instead be dedicated to maximizing the bottom line. This is a deep matter of management culture and corporate ethics that might take a generation to emerge and needs to be embedded today in the way management is taught from business school onwards.
The opportunities and advantages that long-term, sustainable cyber security programs can yield are however tremendous. Companies making the move early on can indeed foster a great competitive advantage by building up and preserving consumers’ trust – increasingly valued by customers and, as such, a highly precious asset for any company wishing to make the most of the digital transformation. Top that with the increasingly high costs of recovering from a cyberattack, and the argument for the long term, viable benefits that sustainable InfoSec programs have the potential to unleash is simply a no-brainer. Just like sustainability and other CSR programs have often helped companies save money, including in the short run, good cyber security is not only good ethics, but quite simply good business.
InfoSec reforms and initiatives can follow the example of how organisation have managed to successfully incorporate other areas of CSR such as sustainability into their business models. Integrated reporting, for example, could include measures of cyber-resilience just like it now includes measures of socio-environmental impact, and as such become an area of focus for companies. The creation of public cybersecurity certification schemes or rankings would also incentivize companies to move InfoSec up their agendas by better signalling firms actively concerned with this issue. To an extent, this is partly what the UK Government initiated with its “Cyber Essentials” scheme, but those initiatives will always remain worthless if they do not go beyond self-certification. In that sense, the role of policymakers both at the national and international levels could be key, as their capacity for shifting and steering market forces remains one of the most potent drivers of change.
Just like for sustainability before it, the incorporation of InfoSec into coherent CSR programs will not happen in one day and may rightfully seem like a daunting task for most organisations whose top executives all-too-often lack even a basic understanding of what cyber security entails. The potential rewards are so huge, however, that those companies who take up that task early on will likely prevail over the mid to long-term, while those who missed the InfoSec train could find themselves struggling.
We should all remember that as we look towards the cybersecurity challenges of the year ahead.
Contact Corix Partners to find out more about developing a successful Cyber Security Practice for your business.
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There are many things that characterize a great tennis player, and there are several traits and qualities that can be found among almost all of the very best players, which sets them apart from players who aren’t quite as good.
Success in this incredibly challenging sport relies on a staggering array of different traits and finding all these traits in one person can be very difficult, and it can be even more difficult to develop them over a long period of time with so many different temptations and difficulties that stand in the way of success and greatness.
We’re going to break down some of these key traits, indicating why they’re so important and how they set apart average players from the very best, as well as some tips on how to improve these traits or work on them in yourself and your own game!
Dedication and Determination
One of the universal truths about good tennis players is that they are incredibly determined and dedicated. Tennis is a very difficult sport and requires many years of high-level practice to become competitive at, and this requires an incredible amount of dedication to persevere with.
Training, maintaining your fitness, and facing challenges and disappointments are all a part of becoming good at any sport, but it can be even more difficult in tennis as there are no places to hide on a tennis court, and dealing with these challenges over the course of several years, especially formative years such as one’s youth, makes this one of the single most important attributes of a successful tennis player.
The will to improve, to take losses, and come back stronger as well as facing criticisms are all a part of this and not everyone has the ability to face down these difficult processes, and the moment you find yourself unable to handle them is usually the end of your progress as a tennis player or aspiring sportsperson.
While this has a little in common with dedication and determination, we’ve categorized this as a separate trait because tennis is one of the most mentally challenging sports due to its high pressure, large spectator element, and the inability to hide from your mistakes.
Tennis is well known for having some of the most high-profile professional meltdowns in any sport, and there have been many cases where players find themselves struggling to withstand the immense mental pressure of high-level tennis.
It takes incredible strength to face this pressure and perform well, however it takes even more toughness to handle the days when nothing seems to be going right. As is often said, there’s nowhere to hide on a tennis court.
You’re totally alone and facing the reality that you aren’t quite good enough on the day, or are being outplayed can cause a whirlwind of difficult emotions, which requires immense willpower to master and control.
All good tennis players require enough endurance to play at a high intensity for several hours long matches, and among all the different skills here this may actually be one of the least challenging for a person to obtain!
Periodic and regular exercise like tennis can do wonders for your cardiovascular system as well as your aerobic fitness even at lower levels of play.
For professionals, matches can go on for several hours depending on how many sets are played. However tournaments are made up of many different matches played close together, so you’ll need to have a great recovery time in order to be able to play at a high level not only for the duration of a match but for the duration of a tournament!
Speed and Agility
While tennis players need to be able to run and move continuously for a long period, they also need to be able to be fast, as tennis balls travel at over 100mph, and getting in position requires great footwork and agility as well as the ability to move around the court at speed.
While not all tennis players will be the fastest runners, being able to accelerate quickly is absolutely essential in tennis as shots such as drop shots require players to cover a lot of ground very quickly in order to not lose the point.
Tennis players need flexibility for a few reasons, one of the main ones being to prevent injury when performing the various strenuous movements and techniques required of professional tennis players.
Players often find themselves slipping, sliding, and falling over as they contort their bodies to get the most power possible, and being able to do all this without getting an injury requires an almost elite level of flexibility.
Shots such as the serve and backhand also require good flexibility as you need to be able to generate a lot of force and put your body into positions it would normally find unnatural.
Coordination is one of the most important attributes of any tennis player, and probably comes second in importance overall to determination and mental toughness.
Coordination is what allows tennis players to actually hit the ball consistently and accurately, all while strategizing the next shot, their positioning on the court, and preempting where the opponent’s shot is going to go.
Coordination can be improved with practice, but it’s a somewhat innate quality that many people will struggle to improve too much even with a lot of practice.
A Strategic Mind
Finally, a great tennis player needs to be a student of the game and know which shot to play and when. Being able to strategize in this way and move your opponent around the court to your advantage is one of the attributes of a truly great tennis player!
Some great examples of players like this would be Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic, and their ability to read the game and their opponents is one of the major things that sets them apart from less accomplished players at that level.
If you’re a beginner, it’s best to watch as much tennis as possible and also try new things when you play. Experimenting with shots more often will give you a better sense of which shot is appropriate and when, and will improve your technique, giving you the confidence to use these shots as and when you need them.
Being able to read what your opponent is most likely to do can give you a huge edge in terms of positioning, but another thing to try and learn is how your opponent likes to play and to turn this against them.
Find holes in their game and exploit them! If they have a weak backhand, force them to use it! If they are slow to move to the net, make use of the drop shot!
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In accordance with King Vajiravudh or Rama VI, the three pillars that maintain together the Thai society are – nation, religion and monarchy. Academics want to include all genres of superb arts, which include, theater, visual artwork, dance, and music, into their lesson plans because the humanities provides the scholars motivational instruments to unlock a deeper understanding of their schooling.
Till just lately musicians have been seen as wayward individuals and kids who opted to sing were disowned by their dad and mom. On the finish of eighteenth century, Neoclassicism appeared as a reaction to the elaboration, lightness and bourgeoisie of Rococo model and centered on proportional and easy varieties, digital themes and Roman antiquity.
Subsequently we will summarize by saying that once we leave a scene, its representation in our minds begins to get distorted. Not only is it a form of artwork in work, sculptures and sketches, but many other architectural forms are nonetheless in existence at the moment.
The teacher also had the scholars write a poem utilizing phrases they felt whereas they, the snowflakes, were falling to the ground (Jacobs, 1999, p.2). “The motivational powers of the arts are significant as this instructor defined, “Hooking a kid is half, if not more than half, the battle of studying.
What Perspective Really Means In Drawing And Artwork
In the fifth century earlier than Christ, the artistic spirit of Greece touched the brand new horizons of structure, art, drama, literature, and philosophy, effectively shaping the Western Civilization, and influencing the culture of several different international locations as properly. After the Renaissance (14th-seventeenth centuries), French artists like Courbet (1819-seventy seven) and Cezanne (1839-1906) showcased extra realty based topics, equivalent to the use of linear perspective and Realism, via oil portray. This is really one thing that almost all professionals in the visible arts must deal with, ranging from film administrators to bridge builders, or anybody else that presents imagery to audiences, prospects or purchasers.
Repeatedly, African poems, novels, performs, music, work, and so forth, as a lot as potential painting life in both conventional and fashionable African societies. The stress-free sessions of Art Remedy could embody the likes of Movement & Music Therapy. Andy Warhol did every little thing the prim and proper Parisian Artists abhorred.
visual arts degree, visual arts class
What objectives are more likely to promote inquiry in artwork as a child? During that time, he spent numerous days mastering his craft by drawing and portray throughout faculty. Photograph retouching applied to the situation described above is, for instance, the artwork of manipulating the picture we captured and making more seen a number of the particulars that just about disappeared as a result of limitations of our photograph camera.
Visual Illusions Of The Mind
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As with Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak is a woman-centered and driven narrative brimming with claustrophobic imagery and red-hued horror. While Pan’s Labyrinth incorporated fairytale structure and imagery to tell a political tale of post-civil war Spain, Crimson Peak draws on the gothic genre to meditate on the dangers of inherited class privilege. More prominently, it takes a cleaver to the horrific results of imprisoning women within domestic roles of mother, wife, daughter and sister.
It is a writerly tale driven by the voice and will of the aspiring young female author, Edith Cushing.
At the outset, we learn that Edith has written a ghost story. Her hopes of publication at Atlantic Monthly are curtailed when she is told she should be writing love stories. Edith does not want to write love stories, though. She wants to write tales reminiscent of a woman she compares herself to near the start of the film—Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
Edith does not fear death, she does not fear love, rather, she fears not being published. Like Mary Shelley, Edith’s mother died soon after childbirth, leaving her in a man’s world, one Edith recognizes will require her to type her next manuscript so as to disguise her female identity (like Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and others). Like Shelley, she is also surrounded by monstrously rakish types, including the Bryon-esque Tom Sharpe.
Though not interested in love and romance as her primary goals, Edith falls for Tom and soon leaves America for the home he and his sister, Lucille, share in England. She does not leave her writing in the States, however. In fact, her status as a writer bookends the film, coming up at key moments in the narrative, as when she instructs Tom that her “characters make choices as to who they become.”
Edith, too, makes choices as to who she will become: She refuses to be the victim to Tom’s menacing sister Lucille, who is clearly the brains behind the attempts to bolster her and her brother’s rapidly dwindling wealth by having him marry successive women and steal their fortunes.
Tom and Lucille’s English estate, Allerdale Hall, is typically Gothic—dark, decaying, menacing, and alive with bugs, moths and several ghostly skeletons. Replete with a creaky elevator and built atop a red clay mine, the house is sinking—much like the class status of Tom and Lucille Sharpe. In keeping with the gothic genre, “old money” is portrayed as sinister, and the rotting house echoes the dysfunctional system of landed aristocracy .
Early on, Edith’s father, Carter, sees through the money-grabbing intent of the Sharpes and gives them a check to disappear, after berating Tom with the following: “In America, we bank on effort, not privilege.” The film thus condemns inherited wealth and privilege, tying it to death and decay.
In addition to this underlying class-based critique, the film offers a feminist re-visioning of female ghosts. Unlike in other recent ghostly films, such as The Conjuring, where a ghost-witch wreaks havoc on a mother and her family due to her territorial desire to keep her resting place free from the living, in Crimson Peak, the red-tinged skeletal ghosts function to warn Edith of the danger she is in—to reveal to her the bloody history of Allerdale House and the “crimson peak” upon which it is set. Rather than an evil mother prompting the mayhem—as in Friday the 13th and Carrie—the mothers and wives of the film warn Edith, saving her from Tom and Lucille’s nefarious plans.
Women—dead and alive—drive the entire story, with men playing only bit parts. Sure, Edith falls in love with Tom while Alan (her American suitor) follows her to England once he learns Tom and Lucille are murderers. But Edith is no damsel, and neither Tom nor Alan are able to save her—nor does she want them to. Rather, she saves both of them and, in a skull-crushing, nail-biting final scene, Edith brains Lucille with a shovel, a scene that one reviewer argues is “unflinchingly feminist.”
The film is a must-see not only for its complex explorations of class and gender, but also for its amazing visuals and color palette. Black, white, red and grey predominate, with Edith’s blonde hair and yellow clothing shining light upon the blood and red-clay-soaked Crimson Peak. del Toro’s fascination with rot and decay is captured in the black moths, butterflies and red skeletal ghosts, all of which emphasize that the old house—based on an old class structure—is rotten, and that a new way is coming. One where an aspiring young female writer is saved by ghostly red women. | <urn:uuid:8999ca9f-cf88-4697-ba8d-e9a367d8b792> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://msmagazine.com/2015/10/22/guillermo-goes-gothic-in-the-grrrrl-powered-crimson-peak/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.953714 | 1,072 | 2.125 | 2 |
In a scene early in John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) who has come back as an old man to the town of his youth, Shinbone, somewhere in the West, enters a shed and sees an old stagecoach, cobwebbed and up on blocks. The railroad has come to town now and stages are obsolete. It was perhaps the very coach he first came to Shinbone in, all those years ago, the one held up and robbed by the outlaw Liberty Valance, and he looks at it with nostalgic regret. Of course, it was too clearly a reference to another John Ford Western, also from a time long ago.
Europeans may think of stagecoaches as an essentially eighteenth-century mode of transport but they were an integral part of the late nineteenth-century Western movie and Western myth. In the Old West there were four ways of getting around – apart from the obvious walking, which was what most people did: travel by boat, mount up, take the stage or, later, ride the cars. And as travel is so vital to the stories – for example, the lone stranger coming in to town, righting wrongs and then leaving again – horses, stages and trains are bound to loom large in the tales.
Ship of fools
The ‘ship of fools’ plot dated back much further that the 1965 Stanley Kramer film of that name. Putting very different characters together in a confined space (it might be a railroad car, a lifeboat or even a stagecoach) and letting them interact is as old as literature. In the case of stagecoaches we might think of Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif (1880), in which during the Franco-Prussian War ten residents of Rouen, including two nuns, a bourgeois shop-owning couple, a wealthy factory owner and a Count and his wife, as well as a prostitute, travel by stage to Le Havre. It is a tale of hypocrisy and snobbery.
If it sounds a mite familiar, that might be because Ernest Haycox used it as a model for his 1937 Saturday Evening Post short story Stage to Lordsburg, and it was that tale that served as the basis (though much altered) for John Ford when he made his famous Western Stagecoach, released by United Artists in 1939.
Stagecoach is, of course, the Western stagecoach movie. A drunken doctor, a crooked banker, a Southern gambler, an Army officer’s wife, a whiskey drummer, the Ringo Kid just out of the pen and of course the prostitute Dallas are all aboard a coach which is attacked by Geronimo’s Apaches.
The picture as remade twice. The 1966 one was OK, I guess, directed by Gordon Douglas, though Ann-Margret as Dallas and Alex Cord as Ringo weren’t up to the task. In 1986 CBS screened a ‘country singer’ version with Kris Kristofferson (aged 50) as the Ringo Kid and Willie Nelson as Doc Holliday (what Doc Holliday was doing aboard it’s better not to ask). It was pretty bad, I’m afraid.
But Stagecoach wasn’t the only Western movie that featured the conveyance. Far from it. In fact just off the top of my head I can think of dozens, such as Stage to Thunder Rock, Stagecoach to Denver, Stagecoach to Fury, Stagecoach Days, Stagecoach Driver, Convict Stage, Last Stagecoach West, and so on, ad pretty well infinitum. The first one that I know of was The Old Stagecoach in 1912, so stagecoach Westerns went right back.
And then there were all the Westerns without stage or stagecoach in the title necessarily but still about them, such as Westbound, Riding Shotgun, Dakota Incident, Hombre, and many, many more. We have grown entirely used to stagecoaches with no side so that the camera can peer in and show us the passengers, which stage hands rock the coach in the studio to simulate the rolling movement.
On TV we got the ABC series Stagecoach West in 1960, about two partners and the young son of one of them running a stage line. Every imaginable event happens to them (and quite a few things you wouldn’t guess) during the show. Running a stage line was evidently an exciting business.
And how many stages have you seen held up? It would be impossible to count. In fact it might be quicker to count the Westerns where that doesn’t happen.
Stand and deliver!
Were stage robberies really that common? Marshall Trimble, “Arizona’s official historian” and vice president of the Wild West History Association, writing in True West magazine, says, “My home state, Arizona, had 129 stage robberies between 1875 and 1903, with the worst cases occurring in the area around Tombstone and the Black Canyon Stage Line, from Phoenix to Prescott, which roughly follows Interstate 17 today. Of the roughly 200 stage robbers, 80 have been identified—79 men and one woman.” He adds, “Wells Fargo stages were robbed nearly 350 times between 1870 and 1884. In California alone, the express company was the victim of 74 stage robberies, as reported by Wells Fargo detective John N. Thacker. The last holdup of a horse-drawn stage out West took place near Jarbidge, Nevada, on December 5, 1916.” So yes, I reckon we’d have to say robberies were not rare.
One of the most successful stage robbers was Black Bart, who operated in northern California and southern Oregon in the 1870s and 80s, with considerable success. In 1849 Charles Boles, with his brothers, joined the California gold rush. Charles fought in the Civil War on the Union side and became a sergeant within a year, but was badly wounded at Vicksburg. In 1867, he went prospecting for gold in Idaho and Montana. In a surviving letter to his wife back in Illinois from August 1871, he told her of an unpleasant encounter with some Wells, Fargo & Company agents and vowed to exact revenge. His wife never heard from him again, and in time she presumed he had died. But he had not. In fact he is thought to have robbed Wells, Fargo stagecoaches at least 28 times between 1875 and 1883. He left poems at some of the robbery sites, taunting his pursuers and calling himself Black Bart. He worked on foot and never fired a gun during his whole career (he brandished a shotgun, but never used it). He was polite and well-spoken. He wore a long duster and over his head a flour sack with eyeholes cut out. A short man, he wore a bowler hat beneath the hood, making him seem taller. He was eventually tracked down by good detective work on behalf of Walls, Fargo man James B Hume, but he was only charged with his last robbery, sentenced to six years but released after four because of good behavior. On his release in 1888, he simply vanished, and no one knows where and when he died.
Dan Duryea was a very fictional version in Black Bart (1948), and the outlaw appeared twice on TV, both in 1954, in Stories of the Century (Arthur Space), when of course it was detective Matt Clark who caught him in the end, just as he caught every other outlaw in the West, and also in an episode of Death Valley Days (Don Beddoe).
In the West the stage comes into its own
Back East and in the Midwest, the days of the stagecoach were already numbered by the 1850s, as canals, for freight, and then the fast-growing network of railroads rendered them obsolete. But west of the Mississippi it was a different story. There were no such replacements for many years, and in the classic ‘Western’ period, which we normally reckon to be in the three decades or so after the end of the Civil War, stages were an essential, and often only practicable means of transport.
Stage lines, i.e. companies offering regular services west of the Missouri, started in the late 1840s. The first stagecoach to arrive in California was in 1850. Gradually, all over the West, a network of waystations was established which held stock as replacement teams, Morgans being the most favored for their sturdiness.
Many lines carried the US mail – which made robberies a federal offence. For example, in 1851 the firm of Hall & Crandall was awarded a four-year contract to carry the US mail three times a week between San Francisco and San Jose, and the compensation was a healthy $6000 a year. This enabled the line to reduce the passenger fare to $16, then to $10, and undercut all competition. Other stage lines provided a private mail service, for example to the mining camps.
Benjamin Holladay (1819 to 1887) was one the extraordinary figures of the old West. He created a transportation empire and he is known in history as the “Stagecoach King”. Holladay moved to California in 1852 where he was to operate 2,670 miles (4,300 km) of stage lines. In 1861 he won a postal contract for mail service to Salt Lake City, Utah, and established the Overland Stage Route along the Overland Trail to avoid confrontations with American Indians on the northern Oregon Trail and Pony Express routes.
In 1862 he acquired the short-lived Pony Express from Russell, Majors and Waddell. Between the Overland Trail and six other routes, Holladay received government subsidies totaling nearly $6 million over a four-year period, and became an enormously wealthy man (though he would eventually lose most of his fortune in the crash of 1873). He saw the way the wind was blowing and sold out to Wells, Fargo in 1866 for $1.5m, moving north to Oregon to build railroads. There he became the model for such wicked railroad barons in Westerns as Morton in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). People who knew him described him as “illiterate, coarse, boastful, false, and cunning” and “wholly destitute of fixed principles of honesty, morality, or common decency”.
James E Birch
There were so many small stage lines set up in California that consolidation was inevitable. For example, in 1853 many different companies merged into the California Stage Company, put together by James E Birch, another California stagecoach magnate (though less unscrupulous) and this combined five-sixths of all stage lines in the state. In the absence of federal or state construction of roads, the company built and improved more than fifteen hundred miles of routes. By 1856 the company was operating 28 daily departures over nearly 2000 miles of road, and owned 1500 horses and 205 Concords and mudwagons.
Birch had greater ambitions. Like Holladay, he wanted to set up a transcontinental stage line. He was well-connected in Washington DC and lobbied hard. Finally, early in 1857, he was awarded the contract for overland service on the “Southern Route” and he set up the San Antonio–San Diego Mail Line. This involved a twice-a-month service in four-mule coaches, scheduled to leave San Antonio and San Diego on the ninth and the 24th of each month, with 30 days allowed for each trip. Water holes were mapped out at 30-mile (48 km) intervals, though many were unmanned and actual waystations could be separated by as much as 100 miles (160 km). The line was popularly known as the Jackass Mail, and it is this that features in Fox’s excellent 1951 Western Rawhide, with Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward, in which one of the stations is besieged by bandits wanting to rob the stage. It was also the subject of an earlier comedy Western with Wallace Beery, Jackass Mail (1942).
Birch died in the fall of ’57 and his lie did not survive long. Only about 40 trips were ever made over the entire route before the service was curtailed. Starting in September of 1858 it was the Butterfield line that took over.
John Butterfield’s Overland Mail Company had two eastern termini, St Louis and Memphis. By pure coincidence, the Postmaster General who awarded the contract was a Tennessee senator from Memphis, Aaron V Brown. The route, known as the Oxbow Route because of its long curving path through the southwest, was 600 miles (970 km) longer than the Central Overland Trail, but had the advantage of being snow free. There were 139 waystations at the start but these gradually increased with the addition of thirty-six more for a total of 175. The company also built bridges.
Butterfield himself already had 37 years of experience driving for and running stage lines, and he was clearly an extremely competent and visionary manager.
In October 1858 President James Buchanan wrote to Butterfield, congratulating him. “It is a glorious triumph for civilization and the Union. Settlements will soon follow the course of the road, and the East and West will be bound together by a chain of living Americans, which can never be broken.”
Contrary to what was shown in movies, no one on a Butterfield stage was ever killed by outlaws or Indians (though some died in accidents). This was because Butterfield’s instructions were clear: “No money, jewelry, bank notes, or valuables of any nature, will be allowed to be carried under any circumstances whatever.” There was, accordingly, no shotgun guard. However, John M Farwell, a passenger in 1859, wrote, “After leaving this station [Arizona’s San Pedro River Stage Station], the conductor asked ‘how many of us were armed’, and requested that those who had arms should have them ready for use, as we now were in the Apache country. Guns and pistols were produced, and we rode all night with them in our hands.”
Butterfield’s ‘celerity wagons’ were partly designed by himself. Sixty-six were employed on the route. For the 25-day trip, the stages did not stop for the passengers to sleep. They had to nod off aboard.
The Civil War put an end to the southern route. The last Overland mail bag left St Louis, Missouri, March 18, 1861 and arrived in San Francisco on April 13, 1861.
Elmore Leonard stories featured Butterfield stages, as we see in the first 3:10 to Yuma (1957), in which Butterfield was played by Robert Ernhardt. The 2007 remake was more of a railroad story and Mr. Butterfield (Dallas Roberts) became a railroad man, ‘Grayson Butterfield.’ It’s also a Butterfield stage in the more recent The Hateful Eight (2015) but this isn’t very authentic because it’s set up in Wyoming. In any case, in reality the coaches never featured Butterfield’s name; Overland Mail Company was painted on the sides.
Two of the directors of the Overland Mail Company had been fellow-New York staters Henry Wells and William G Fargo. They were the Overland Mail’s bankers and primary lenders. Back in 1845 they had founded the Western Express, linking Buffalo with Detroit, rapidly then Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. In 1850 Wells went into partnership with John Butterfield and they founded the American Express Company. When Wells retired in 1866 Fargo took over as president of American Express, which he remained until his death in 1881.
In 1861 Butterfield’s operation was in financial difficulties and he fell out with Wells and Fargo, and resigned. Wells, Fargo & Company reorganized the Overland Mail. Now that the southern route was no longer practicable, coaches branded Wells, Fargo & Co. took the central route, from Nebraska to California via Denver and Salt Lake City. From Denver, coaches served the mining towns of the Rockies, and from Salt Lake City they carried mail and passengers to Montana and Idaho. Wells Fargo coaches are perhaps the quintessential Western stages, and there are countless Westerns featuring them. They certainly grew, opening many new routes in the 1860s. The ‘grand consolidation’ of 1866 occurred when Wells, Fargo reorganized the ownership and operation of the entire overland mail route from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean and many stagecoach lines in the western states.
Paramount’s big picture Wells Fargo (1937) with Joel McCrea and Frances Dee (Mrs McCrea) describes the building of the Wells Fargo empire in ‘manifest destiny’ nation-building terms.
NBC’s Tales of Wells Fargo was one of my favorite shows as a boy. The Left-Handed Gun wasn’t Billy the Kid for me but Jim Hardie (he was always Jim Hardie, never Dale Robertson, even when he appeared in other Westerns). I thought he was really cool, and I imitated his flip of a wave for years. Wells Fargo detective extraordinaire, Hardie solved every crime, and local marshals and sheriffs, even US marshals, bowed to his authority. Hardie was based on real-life Fred J Dodge (1854 to 1938), cattleman, Tombstone lawman (and friend of Wyatt Earp) and detective. He worked as undercover agent for Wells, Fargo in California, Nevada and Arizona. He helped track the Dalton and Doolin gangs. His diaries describe dozens of his cases, including stage robberies, t
Concords and mudwagons
Although many Western movies which feature stagecoaches use a fine Concord, the emblematic stage, the vast majority of coaches (such as those used on the Jackass Mail) were in fact ruder mudwagons. More like wagons than coaches, and in fact often used for transporting freight, mudwagons had open sides, maybe with canvas flaps, which gave passengers little protection from the dirt of the road. Mudwagon wheels and their iron tires were as much as fifty per cent wider than those of conventional stagecoaches. Many such wagons had rigid steel ‘springs’ or were even not sprung at all, and they offered a bone-jarring ride. But they were cheap, sturdy (which was vital on the rough roads of the time) and ubiquitous.
The 1820s produced a revolution in stagecoach design, when the Abbot, Downing Company in Concord, New Hampshire made a coach which used long leather straps called thoroughbraces under the body which made the ride far smoother and more comfortable (though it also produced a swinging motion which made some passengers seasick). These coaches weighed more than two thousand pounds and were very expensive, and could cost between $1200 and $1500, a great sum in 1840s values, so Abbot, Downing also sold a lighter, cheaper affair, called the Overland Wagon, similar to a mudwagon but better sprung, with thoroughbraces, and this sold for $500.
Driving the stage
It took skill to drive a Concord, especially a six-up (that is, pulled by a team of six horses, the ‘wheelers’ nearest the coach, the ‘swing team’ in the middle and the ‘leads’). Not everyone could do it. On vacation a few years ago in Colorado, I paid a visit to the Mancos Valley Stage Line, a fascinating experience, and driver Eric Bartels let me ride up on the box and explained the art.
In his interesting book Stagecoach West (University of Nebraska Press, 1967) Ralph Moody describes the manual dexterity need to handle a six-up. He says it was similar to that of a concert pianist. I don’t know about that but it was certainly a highly skilled affair. “Each rein was manipulated by ‘climbing’ it – gathering it in by alternately drawing with the finger on each side of it – and by separating the fingers just enough to let it slip out the desired amount.” Moody adds, “Try to climb one between the third and little fingers of your left hand while holding another stationary between the third and middle fingers and at the same time letting still another slip an exact distance between the middle and fore fingers.”
Then there’s the brake to be managed, which was operated by the right foot (these vehicles were right-hand-drive, in the English fashion) and the whip. Drivers were often called ‘whips’. Many drivers were inordinately proud of their whipping skills, placing the scourge with complete precision just over the horse’s back but not actually touching it. In The Silver Whip (1953) the eponymous expensive lash is presented to young stage driver Robert Wagner by his role-model Dale Robertson.
Mr. Bartels also had a sack of little pebbles which he would throw at the rump of any recalcitrant member of the team.
The driver sat high on the box because height gave more purchase on the brake and also allowed all-round vision. But of course it also exposed the reinsman to the worst of the weather.
Drivers were aristocrats of the road and well paid. In addition to $300 a month salary, typically, they also received $1 of the passenger fare, 25¢ per letter carried and 1% of money, as well as free drinks and cigars at each stop.
One of the most skilled and remarkable of the old drivers was Charley Parkhurst, also known as One-Eyed Charley (after losing the use of one eye because of a kick from a horse) or Six-Horse Charley, for the skill in handling a six-up team, who worked as a stable hand in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and early developed a talent as a driver for handling horses. Aged about 30, Charley moved out West at the time of the gold rush, and became one of the most noted stage drivers in California. It was a dangerous occupation but Charley was one of the toughest drivers there was. As the railroads drove the stage lines out of business and age began to take its toll, Charley retired, and eventually died, aged about 65, in 1879, when it was discovered finally that Charley was in fact a woman, Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst. No one ever knew until then. Charley had always signed letters and documents simply CD Parkhurst.
The number of Western character actors who could manage a stage like that was also limited. Andy Devine was one, which is how he got the job as Buck in Stagecoach (though much of the ‘driving’ is faked in the studio, not all is) and you can also see him deftly handle the reins as the rascally Ozark in When the Daltons Rode the year after.
We learn a lot about long rides in these coaches from Mark Twain. In 1861, Samuel Clemens’s brother Orion was appointed secretary to James W Nye, Governor of Nevada Territory, and Sam, 25, accompanied him as the secretary’s secretary. From St Joseph, in those pre-transcontinental railroad days, they took a stage West. Sam’s book Roughing It, recounting the voyage, is an absolute delight.
He tells us with enthusiasm (his capitals) that “at 5 P.M. we crossed the Platte itself and landed at Fort Kearney, fifty-six hours out from St Joe – THREE HUNDRED MILES!”
I calculate therefore that they moved at an average of 5.3 mph. Only a few years later, the train would take passengers roughly four times as fast, at 19.1 mph. By the way, fares averaged 50¢ a mile, so the stage fare from St Joseph to Carson City, Nevada was a hundred and fifty dollars – a monstrous sum at the time.
Sam and his brother are thrilled to see the Pony Express rider gallop past their stage and we are told that the series of young horsemen carried letters from St Joe to Sacramento, nineteen hundred miles, in eight days, or 235 miles a day (by way of comparison, a wagon train would do approximately 100 miles a week).
The six-up stage, “of the most sumptuous description”, almost certainly a Concord (before they changed to a mudwagon further down the trail) is described in detail. Twain says, interestingly, that it was the shotgun guard, whom he called the ‘conductor’, who was the princely commander of the vessel; the driver came next in the hierarchy but the conductor was regarded by all with reverence and awe, and his word was law.
Twain wasn’t the only one writing about stage trips. European and Eastern tourists and journalists glamorized the journeys. Few of them failed to include danger of one kind or another, with their coaches hurtling down mountain trails with precipitous falls inches away, hold-ups, attacks by Indians and so on. There were also highly imaginative paintings and illustrations (some, such as those by Frederic Remington or Charlie Russell very fine).
And the dime novelist embraced the stagecoaches with gusto, each one more lurid than the last. Calamity Jane featured heavily with the Deadwood Stage (the Concord which was bought by Buffalo Bill, ridden in by the crowned heads of Europe, viewed by thousands, and became of so great historic value that it was placed in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, DC for preservation – though today the coach is at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, a truly great museum). If you believed the thrilling tales, no stage ever rolled at anything less than an all-out gallop and every single one was attacked on each run. Western movies have also been guilty of, er, over-dramatization.
The twilight of the stage
But eventually time and technical progress caught up with the West and, as had happened back East, the stage lines were gradually driven out of business by the railroads. In Dodge City (1939) we see a race to Dodge between a stagecoach and a train. The stage is driven by an old-timer, to represent ‘the olden days’, while the train carries General Dodge and symbolizes modern times. The train wins. There’s a hint of nostalgic regret that the stage loses, but it’s accepted as inevitable. The general declares, “Gentlemen, that’s a symbol of America’s future.”
The eastward-moving CPR met up with the westward track-laying UPR at promontory Point in Utah in in May, 1869, and the continent was spanned. Journeys were now faster, cheaper and more comfortable. Why would anyone take a stage?
Of course it didn’t all stop overnight. Even as the railroad network expanded, linking ever smaller towns, there were still remote outposts that could only be served by road. Horse-drawn stages were still operating in the new century in some areas of the West.
Still, the days of the stagecoach were numbered. Not for us, though, not for Western fans. For us the stage keeps rolling along.
Oh! The Deadwood Stage is a-rollin’ on over the plains,
With the curtains flappin’ and the driver slappin’ the reins.
Beautiful sky! A wonderful day!
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Steve Martin's latest novel, An Object of Beauty
, focuses on Lacey Yeager, an ambitious, fascinating, somewhat amoral art dealer and rising star in the New York City art world of the past couple of decades. The New York Times Book Review
raved, "The expertise of Martin, himself a longtime collector...is dazzlingly in evidence here. The text is as useful an idiosyncratic art-history primer as it is a piece of fiction....As fiction, though, it is thoroughly delightful, evoking a vanished gilded age with impertinence but never contempt." Wide-ranging, insightful, funny, and moving, An Object of Beauty
sets a new standard for Martin's captivating, accomplished fiction.
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Jill Owens: At the beginning of An Object of Beauty, Daniel says, "I'm so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, I will be unable to ever write about anything else." Was that how this book began for you, with a character you couldn't stop thinking about?
Steve Martin: No, but I have found that to be true about these kinds of characters. I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating. I've talked to other people who said that they're having an experience with a person, and I can see that they actually can't stop talking about them. I'm fascinated, so I don't mind that they can't stop. That is the source of that sentence. It comes from my own experience and listening to other people talk about other people.
Jill: Lacey is such a different kind of character than the main characters in your previous novels. She's almost the polar opposite of someone like Mirabelle, for example.
Martin: Yes, that's right. Really, in every case, with the exception of the character in The Pleasure of My Company, which is not based on a real character, it's only an extrapolation of "what if," if I exaggerated my own traits or traits I've seen in other people, if I enlarged them... It's like, what if these traits were extreme? They are loosely based on real people, but are composites of real people.
Jill: Why did you decide to let Daniel be the narrator instead of having Lacey herself or a third-person, fully omniscient narrator tell the story?
Martin: I thought about the point of view for about a year before I started writing. I knew the milieu and I knew the character. The reason I didn't make Lacey the narrator is that I didn't think the reader would want to spend that much time in her head. Another reason is that a lot of her actions are inexplicable, and if you were inside her head, they would have to be explicable. You can't really explain them, and I can't explain them, so someone has to be watching. And an omniscient narrator would also have to know why she was doing these things. So it really became perfect to have a human narrator who could observe and report. It took a year, but it finally made sense to me.
Jill: This book is almost as much a story of the art world, particularly in New York over the last couple of decades, as it is Lacey's story. It's fascinating to see you writing about New York as a character, much the way L.A. is a character in your earlier novels and movies. Is that part of the allure of this story for you?
Martin: Yes. I spend a lot of time in both cities, L.A. and New York. And New York has, at least up until now, really been the center of the art world, or at least my art world. I started in the art world in the late '60s, and New York was always the center of it. There was really almost no other place to set it. It's also like a home base for London, Paris, and L.A., in the art world.
Jill: Early in the book, you write that Lacey crossed "ground from which it is difficult to return. She started converting objects of beauty into objects of value." Do you think you've crossed that line at some point, and, if so, have you managed to return from it?
Martin: I say that there because Lacey's in the art business, so it's natural for her. She almost has to do it. For myself, I think I've managed to stay on both sides of the line. There's a period where it's very exciting to be in the financial art world, because you essentially get a bi-yearly report when auction season comes. But, when you're home alone or at a museum alone, it is possible to separate the financial world from the aesthetic world. It happens all the time even in the financial art world with dealers or collectors. One point, which I don't know if I made clear in the book, is that when a lot of dealers get together, they become aestheticians. [Laughter]
There's a lot of very plain talk about art, which I deeply enjoy, because there's commingling between the aesthetic world and the financial world. Critics talk to dealers; writers talk to dealers; Sotheby's hires writers. There's a lot of cross feeding. Dealers have to check in with scholars to verify pictures. There's a lot of crosstalk from the two worlds. So, the answer is, yes, you can maintain your distance. But for that moment, you know, Lacey's on her way to becoming a dealer, so that's where she takes her step.
Jill: I love John Updike's answer to his own question, "How do rich people know about good paintings?" He says, "The paintings are Darwinian in a way. They make themselves necessary for survival."
Martin: Right. He gives a poetic answer. I think it is sort of poetically true that these pictures announce themselves.
Jill: Why did you cast John Updike as that character?
Martin: John Updike was a big writer on American art. He published books dedicated to American art, and he wrote essays in the New Yorker on American art. Not a lot of people know that, but he loved it, and he was good at it. So it seemed like the right scene at the right moment, for Lacey to brush up against that greatness. [Laughter]
Jill: What was the first piece of art that you ever bought?
Martin: It's a little vague. The first good artwork I ever bought was an Ed Ruscha print called Hollywood. I bought it from Irving Blum, the great dealer in Los Angeles, who gave Andy Warhol his first show, with the Campbell's Soup cans. I was a Hollywood writer. I was writing for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour then. The painting was $125.
Jill: What year was that?
Martin: It would have been about 1968, I'm guessing.
Jill: Have you ever bought a painting that you regretted later?
Martin: Oh, hundreds of times. [Laughter]
Jill: Do you usually sell them, or...?
Martin: You trade it around, or look at it for a while. It's not a big deal. It's all in learning about paintings. You learn as much from a bad painting as you do from a good painting.
Jill: In Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, you describe how much work and practice you put into your stand-up and your magic tricks, all of your work in those years. Do you do anything like that in terms of your writing?
Martin: I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.
In that sense, I've been practicing. Nora Ephron once said, "I don't care who you are. When you sit down and you write the first page of your screenplay, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech in your head." [Laughter]
I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.
Jill: What prompted you to start writing fiction in the first place? What do you enjoy about writing fiction that you don't get from writing essays or plays, or even music or movies?
Martin: I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words. I haven't said this in a long time, but it's so true for me. When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore. But my favorite early 20th-century poets were Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, and e. e. cummings. Looking back, here's what I think I learned from each of them. From e. e. cummings, I learned about the rhythm of words. From T. S. Eliot, I learned about the intelligence of words. And from Dylan Thomas, I learned about the beauty of words. I try to bring all three of those elements into writing. Then, of course, you have to tell a story at the same time.
So those are my goals in prose. [Laughter] Prose should be, unless you're writing an instruction manual, a kind of poetry.
Jill: I think you've preempted my next question, which was to ask how you think about the way you use language — it's so clean and lovely and almost fine-boned, I think.
Martin: Well, thank you. I do try to pare it down. I'm always trying to pare it down. I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their notes and see what they've said. I don't criticize myself for making blunders here and there, because it's just natural. You write in chunks, and you may not remember that that sentence you wrote yesterday had the same word repeated three times. [Laughter] I do enjoy that. I love the feeling of repairing. Repairing is really nice.
Jill: I was reading Cruel Shoes yesterday.
Martin: Oy. [Laughter] I don't disavow it, but I know it's an immature thing. I actually wrote it 10 years before it was published.
Jill: In the piece called "The Stephen Martin Collection of American Art: The Man behind the Genius," you describe Stephen Martin as a character who is convinced that smell is all too often ignored in evaluating works of art. That image has a sort of echo in the new book, with the character of Hinton Alberg, the collector.
Martin: That's right!
Jill: I was wondering if that was a conscious reference.
Martin: No, that's unconscious. I didn't even think about that. One is supposed to just be a non sequitur, silly thing. In the novel, it's supposed to be an actual anecdote. But I never put that together. Never did. [Laughter]
Jill: What made you decide to turn one of your songs into the children's book, Late for School?
Martin: There was no big thought process behind it. I thought it would be a good children's book. I thought it'd be good illustrated. It's a karaoke book. There's a CD in the back, and there's the track without me singing it. I thought it'd be really fun for kids, because the words are complicated. I can just imagine a kid setting out to learn them and then presenting it at school, or something. When I was a kid, I learned The Music Man. The whole opening is just this chatter, that sort of recitative thing, and it was very hard to learn. So I just thought it might be a good book.
Jill: The illustrations are beautiful.
Martin: Yes. C. F. Payne did a great job. John Lithgow turned me on to him. He illustrated John's books, too.
Jill: What are you reading and enjoying these days?
Martin: Let's see. It's funny. It's nothing monumental. I just finished Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter, because I knew her a little bit. And I started reading Russell Brand's My Booky Wook. [Laughter]
But one of the best books I read this year was volume three of John Richardson's A Life of Picasso. I thought it was fantastic, so vivid. I mentioned Richardson in my book as being one of the premier writers about art. It's really good. You can breeze through it, it's so well done.
I spoke to Steve Martin by phone on November 15, 2010.
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There’s no doubt that the world of cryptocurrency is growing remarkably fast. And it’s no surprise that scamsters will lock unto this endless opportunity like a heat-seeking missile. Even one of the most widely known cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, is no exception to this threat.
Just recently, the social media and digital security monitoring company ZeroFOX reported about the dark side of digital currency. According to the report, a new type of financial scam involving bitcoin is rapidly spreading across social networks.
However, with the cryptocurrency market growing very rapidly, have it in mind that scamsters are becoming more sophisticated than Ponzi schemes. And before you invest in any of them, try to explore the following unconventional red flags that indicate a cryptocurrency is a scam.
1. The cryptocurrency has no local exchange, only internal exchange
There’s no genuine cryptocoin that can’t be exchanged into a local or fiat currency. For example, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Etherum have local exchanges where they can be converted into fiat currency.
Unlike most of the scam cryptocoins out there designed in such a way that they can only be exchanged internally — that is within its community, such ‘community’ is usually a Ponzi scheme.
Note: A genuine cryptocoin is not being traded internally, but can be converted into traditional currency by local exchanges such as Poloniex, Bittrex etc.
2. The cryptocurrency always appreciates in value
Beware. This is another strategic method of getting into your pocket. Whenever you come across a coin that only appreciates, you have in front of you a scam coin. How can you be sure?
One of the characteristics of currencies (either digital or fiat) is volatility; there are times when it goes up and down in value due to ‘market factors.’
Scamsters understand human psychology — our love of making just profit. So, they’ve developed several coins that will only appreciate in value daily, knowing for sure that many people will fall for this.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to inaugurate the newly built Deoghar airport on July 12, according to officials. According to them, the airport is prepared to begin operations after two successful flight run demonstrations.
After Birsa Munda International Airport in Ranchi, the airport will be the second of international standards in Jharkhand when it is operational and would offer aviation connection between Jharkhand, northern West Bengal, and south-eastern Bihar.
The Deoghar airport in Jharkhand received the aerodrome licence from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on June 29, enabling it to accommodate narrow-body aircraft like the A321 and B737. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced on Twitter that "the recently constructed Deoghar Airport in Jharkhand acquired an aerodrome licence from DGCA today."
“The licence has been upgraded from 3C to 4C, which permits commercial operations up to Airbus 321, Boeing 737 type, and equivalent aircraft. A 3C license allows an airport to only handle regional aircraft like ATR-72. It will also facilitate easy connectivity to pilgrims coming to Baidyanath Dhaam," the tweet stated.
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Sociology Essay: Corporal Punishment on Children
Task: Prepare a sociology essay on the topic “Crime & Deviance: Durkheim proposed that crime and deviance brought people in a society together. Choose an activity or behaviour that might be considered more deviant or less deviant today than it has been in the past (e.g., smoking, drink driving, abortion or same-sex marriage). Discuss the relevancy of Durkheim’s statement by using this behaviour or activity as an example”.
Introduction to the theme of sociology essay
Corporal punishment has been an integral part of child rearing. However, corporal punishment can be considered more deviant in present world. Through understanding “Corporal punishment”, in present world, understanding of parenting quality, crimes of physical abuse and delinquent, criminal as well as antisocial behaviour will be acknowledged through this assignment. It will bring out understanding of corporal punishment as implicated in etiology associated with criminal and different antisocial behaviours by both adults and children. It will focus on understanding deviance of behaviour resulting in crimes due to corporal punishments in children. It will involve understanding of associations and relation between child delinquent and potential corporal punishment resulting from an inability of corporal punishment of potentially facilitating internalisation of different moral as well as values in children. Furthermore, it will relate with Emily Durkheim’s proposal regarding deviance and crime, that is stated as a necessary part of society and it brought people living in any society together. Therefore, present essay will concentrate on Durkheim’s crime along with ‘deviance theory’, focusing on behaviour of corporal punishment on children, which seems to be more deviant at present times.
Present essay argues that corporal punishment in child-development phases is associated with social as well as cultural attitudes to corporal punishment. It will find clear relation between child delinquency and potential corporal punishment resulting from an inability of corporal punishment of potentially facilitating internalisation of different moral as well as values in children. Therefore, the behaviour changes and deemed as deviant within the context of corporal punishment.
Government views on corporal punishment
Corporal punishment (CP) is a discipline that is associated with utilisation of physical force with intention of causing a child for experiencing adequate pain solely for purpose of correction or monitoring of child’s behaviour. CP comprises of spanking, slapping as well as shoving child roughly while assuring there is no injury given to the child (Traus & Stewart, 1999). CP consists of different perspectives, traditionally that holds an opinion of utilising it for teaching respect related with authority and is essential towards maintaining control over child. However, the deviance in behaviour from CP to child abuse is evident through different governmental records.
Government of “New South Wales” has restricted extensiveness of corporal punishment due to its changing attitudes (Poulsen, 2018). As per governmental records, it is evident that parents can be subjected to lose their temper along with applying great extent of physical pain to the child. Under psychological review of the context, it can be stated that a hot-tempered individual or a parent can lose their temper, which can lead to application of too much physical pain to a child. Therefore, the behaviour of CP can lead to potential physical abuse for the children. It enhances deviance behaviour as root of tantrum is yet to be analysed but potential action has already been taken in place. “The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)”, marks forefront form of international awareness regarding dangers of CP as it can lead to major child assault (Gershoffet al. 2017). It proves that CP comprises of deviance behaviour as stated by Durkheim and control of such behaviour largely can help in understanding the statement that crime as well as deviance, which brings a society together.
According to (Porzig-Drummond, 2015), there have been concrete form of psychological evidence, that domestic form of physical punishment can lead to potential behavioural changes among children. CP can turn into child abuse due to behavioural and aggression issues, that enhances subject of deviance. Sometimes, parents can suffer from any form of psychological condition and while applying CP, they can take out their frustration or anger on their children, which facilitates child abuse and crimes. According to “United Nations Convention on Rights of Child (UNCRC)”, there is a clear requirement for absolute form of protection of children regarding violence in their parental care (Sclafani, 2012). It clearly explains that even in parental care a child that is subjected to CP, required for its developmental phase can result in being abused by its own parents or guardians. Therefore, CP can be recognised as a potential deviant behaviour.
Cultural views and risks of Corporal Punishment
CP is infliction of potential physical form of pain as a proper form of ‘punishment’ in child development phase. In cultural aspects, traditionally it resembles power gap between punisher (parent) and the punished (children). However, in Australian culture, it is considered as a potential form of discipline (Rey-Salmon &Adamsbaum, 2018). Non-abusive form of CP is often confounded with potential harmful as well as abusive form of behaviours. In most developed countries, apparent confound has further arisen due to view of CP as potential abusive strategies as continuum of different physical acts to children.
The deviance of behaviour among CP to child abuse negatively affects the quality associated with child-parent relationship development. It tends towards disrupting parent-child association and can evoke different feelings related with fear, anxiety along with anger among children (Wilkinset al.2019). It is worthy to mention that if this form of feelings are generalised to parent, it can result in interference with optimal form of parent-child association through inciting children for being scared of the parent. If CP tends towards leading children for avoiding their parents and guardians it can further turn into erode trust bonds among the parent-children relationship. Use of potential severe abusive form of physical techniques as well as strategies as a part of CP, can deviant from main motives of CP which is to assure child development and invoking of morale into children. It can lead to child abuse marking relevantly negative consequences of the behavioural development in children. Potential for widely used practice of CP can be deviant and be associated with a potential form of risk or injury to children.
Social Views of corporal punishment as a deviant behaviour
According to Stewart (1999), in that time 94% of the parents were subjected to hit toddlers, causing them injury or severe pain while applying CP to their children. The society views CP in developed and developing countries as a potential strategy to, physically discipline their child. However, utilisation of CP through parents has turned in to a major controversial form of topic among parents, guardians and families. Conversely, there are people in society that do not utilise CP because of different reasons or potential beliefs, some based on personal along with religious preferences. The topic remains directly associated with potential social work and in most of the states in Australia CP is legal in terms of disciplining the children. However, as per opinion of (Rowlandet al. 2017), CP is a behaviour that can change from time to time and result in becoming major risks towards proper and healthy child development. According to “National Child Traumatic Stress Network”, a survey has been conducted in 2006, in which results further reflected that many parents and guardians utilises severe physical punishment for children in order to ‘discipline them’ (Elgaret al. 2018).
According to Lochman, parents continuously resort to CP as a potential way of marking discipline and teaching them behaviour; however, at times there will comprise an unintended form of consequences associated with teaching child different frustrating situations, which are handled through major physical aggression. It is not just a way that a parent disciplines their children as they were disciplined when they were children. Sometimes, the major external factors, that causes disturbances in mental state and depression can potentially contribute to deviation of CP in to child abuse (Heekeset al. 2020). For example, a child that grew up in a very positive environment can also be subjected to depression in workplace or other phase in their lives. It can thereby lead to major aggression issues, turning CP into deviance behaviour while hitting their children out of frustration and causing physical abuse and injuries.
This part of the essay implements “Differential-Association Theory“as a part of Deviance behaviour analysis. This theory coined by “Edwin Sutherland”, states issue of different ways in which people learn deviance (Straus & Donnelly, 2017). According to this potential theory, environment is responsible for deciding different norms people that learns to violate. Applying this theory to CP clearly brings out an understanding of different reference groups such as anger issues, aggression, mental health issues and frustration that can provides norms of potential conformity along with deviance and lead to a changing behaviour, resulting in potential child abuse.
It can be concluded from the above discussion that corporal punishment (CP) during rearing of children can be recognised as a potential deviant form of behaviour in global context. It concentrates on understanding deviance of behaviour resulting in crimes due to corporal punishments in children. The deviance of behaviour among CP to child abuse negatively affects the quality associated with child-parent relationship development. It tends towards disrupting parent-child association and can evoke different feelings related with fear, anxiety along with anger among children. It is still condoned in different cultures and countries but potential examples from societal, cultural and governmental perspectives clearly illustrates that CP contains major risks to turn into child abuse. Furthermore,
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Traus, M. A., & Stewart, J. H. 1999. Corporal punishment by American parents: National data on prevalence, chronicity, severity, and duration, in relation to child and family characteristics. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2(2), 55–70.
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While shopping last weekend, I was twice offered the “opportunity” to buy an extended warranty on a consumer good. Both times I declined. In one case, I bit my tongue because the warranty was such a bad deal that I was tempted to chastise the salesman. But in neither case do I think it wrong for the sellers to try to sell the warranty to me.
Let me explain.
“Extended” warranty offers are common these days. Such warranties may cover a longer period of time, or cover a greater range of problems than does the basic warranty that comes with the product. Whether you’re buying small electronics or a laptop or major appliances, the salesperson will likely offer you the chance to pay extra to get a warranty that goes above and beyond.
But let’s focus here on the small stuff—not major appliances, but smaller items. And let’s start with the two warranties I turned down this weekend.
First, I bought a new pair of prescription reading glasses, for $500. The extra warranty I was offered was priced at $25.
Next, I bought a small, waterproof digital camera to take on a beach vacation. Cost: $189. The young salesman (he could have been one of my students) confidently explained that I “really should” buy the extended warranty, for “just $49.”
Now, whether you should buy a warranty depends on two things. First, it depends on the probability that something bad will happen to the product you’ve bought, multiplied by the cost of repair. That gives you the “expected value” of not having the warranty, which is what you must compare to the expected value—the price—of buying the warranty. In most cases, the expected value of the warranty will be lower than the value of going with out it. Not a good deal.
But one more factor must be counted, namely whether you can afford to cover the cost of loss or damage yourself. If my house burned down, I wouldn’t be able to afford to buy another one, which is why I have house insurance. But in the case of the $189 camera, I know that if it breaks I can afford to pull out my credit card and buy another, and so the ridiculously expensive warranty doesn’t make sense for me. But the warranty could conceivably make sense for someone who has the extra $49 to spend on the warranty, but who absolutely would not be able to afford another $189 for a new camera eighteen months from now. People in that category are presumably relatively few, but not zero.
What direction did my rough math point in, for the two warranties I was offered this weekend? I figured the warranty on the glasses might, barely, be worth it, but I decided to take a risk and opted not to buy. (Besides, I’m in my 40’s and my prescription might well change in the next 2 years, which would mean buying new glasses anyway.) The warranty on the camera, on the other hand, was laughable; I would have been a fool to buy it. (You can find lots of blog entries out there about why extended warranties on small electronics are generally a bad deal.)
So what about the ethics of offering such crummy warranty deals to customers?
In general, I think it’s ethically fine to offer such warranties, even though they’re generally a bad deal.
First, the dollar value on these things is relatively low. So, although I think the $49 warranty is (for most buyers) a rip off, it’s a small rip off. No one is going to miss a mortgage payment over it.
Second, the ability to figure out whether a warranty is worth it is well within what we should expect in terms of basic financial literacy for grown-ups. That’s not to say that everyone has that bit of financial literacy. But warranties on small electronics are very simple insurance policies. Compare the question of selling indexed annuities or derivatives or other complex investments. In those cases, investment professionals are selling highly sophisticated financial instruments, and we should expect them only to sell them to sophisticated investors.
So buyer beware. There are bad warranties out there. And they’re generally not unethical products, so even an honest salesperson can earnestly advise you to buy a warranty that you don’t really need.
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Boy, the timing is almost perfect.
On Saturday, the U.N. Intergovernental Panel on Climate Change told us that the world is going to end.
Opening with a sweeping statement directed at climate change skeptics, the summary declares that climate systems have already begun to change.
Unless action is taken, human activity could lead to "abrupt and irreversible changes" that would make the planet unrecognizable.
Just a couple days earlier, this report was released to the public. This is the summary with emphasis added:
Historical data provide a baseline for judging how anomalous recent temperature changes are and for assessing the degree to which organisms are likely to be adversely affected by current or future warming. Climate histories are commonly reconstructed from a variety of sources, including ice cores, tree rings, and sediment. Tree-ring data, being the most abundant for recent centuries, tend to dominate reconstructions. There are reasons to believe that tree ring data may not properly capture long-term climate changes. In this study, eighteen 2000-year-long series were obtained that were not based on tree ring data. Data in each series were smoothed with a 30-year running mean. All data were then converted to anomalies by subtracting the mean of each series from that series. The overall mean series was then computed by simple averaging. The mean time series shows quite coherent structure. The mean series shows the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) quite clearly, with the MWP being approximately 0.3°C warmer than 20th century values at these eighteen sites.
The guys over at Climate Audit have been looking into tree ring data (you can read the discussion on this report here) recently and it's certainly looking possible that tree rings are not accurate or useful when it comes to doing climate studies. Rain maybe, but temperatures, not so much.
So, remember, the Earth's warmer than ever because of all our cars -- except that the Medieval Warm Period was warmer.
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Brisbane, October 10, 2015, (Alochonaa): Last week, after lengthy preparations which included strengthening defences around airbases and building up stockpiles of weapons in strategic places around the country, Russia finally launched its attack in Syria. Russian aims are simple – destroy Bashar al-Assad’s enemies and reinvigorate Russian regional influence. Russia’s moves should have surprised no one, yet NATO, the Western media and politicians appear to have taken it rather poorly. The West is still struggling to cope with the idea that Russia, China and several more minor dictatorships, North Korea and Iran included, don’t particularly care for Washington’s vision of international order and, more importantly, are becoming increasingly good at recognising NATO or American powerlessness.
Russia’s leadership understands that NATO will not lift a finger to stop Russian aircraft bombing terrorist targets in Syria, and that Western rhetoric about their opposition to Russia taking to the skies in support of Assad is simply the result of frustration by a group of leaders who can neither prevent nor approve of Russian foreign policy initiatives. Therefore, not only should we be unsurprised at the appearance of Russian airpower, we should expect the increased involvement of Russian special forces, artillery detachments and forward observers. With their own expensive air assets parking on Syrian airfields, Russian forces will be hypersensitive to ground threats and should be expected to be proactive in their defence, thereby blurring the lines between self-defence and attack. Of course, much hinges on how much money the Russians are willing to throw at Syria to protect Assad but as long as Russian aircraft remain parked in Syria there will be parallel temptations to reinforce their ground troops, both to protect their bases and to increase the effectiveness of their airstrikes.
Airstrikes: A Game Changer?
As soon as the airstrikes began there were many pundits who immediately pronounced that Russian intervention in Syria was the game changer Assad had been waiting for, and that the bombing will effectively save Assad’s regime. Whilst I agree that Assad will be breathing a little easier this week than last, the reports that Assad has been saved have been greatly exaggerated. There are several reasons for Assad to be pessimistic:
- ISIS has proven durable in the face of airstrikes by a US-led coalition for a very long time and there is no reason to suspect that Russian airstrikes on ISIS, Kurds, Al-Nusra or the alphabet soup of anti-Assad rebels must necessarily be more effective.
- Assad still needs a lot of money, weapons, ammunition, food, fuel and the basic building blocks of a real economy. Russian airstrikes do not alter the fact that his country is shattered and that he is in control of only a fraction of it. That said, with Western sanctions coming off Iran in the wake of the nuclear deal we can expect more money to flow from that source as the Iranian economy recovers.
- Assad and his close associates are still vulnerable to defections, insider attacks or a factional coup, and Russian intervention doesn’t change that.
The Long Game
Overall, Assad may hold on for some time yet or he could still be dead in a ditch in a week – such are the vagaries of civil wars and revolutions. However, we should recall that the vast majority of pundits predicted that Assad would be ousted by the rebels during the first year of the Arab Spring. As dictators toppled in Egypt and Libya, and defections mounted amongst the Syrian Army, most people, myself included, felt that Assad’s days would be over soon. How wrong we were.
The staying power of the Syrian Army, that part which did not defect from Assad early in the war, is simply stunning. The intensity of the fighting in some of Syria’s cities has rarely been matched in recent civil wars and the country is now awash with heavy weapons on all sides. It is worth remembering that ISIS even managed to overrun northern Iraq and seize massive quantities of weapons, including the occasional tank and artillery piece, and here, again, I and many others predicted that Assad would soon collapse as a result of this windfall to ISIS. Yet Assad’s troops have clung grimly to their enclaves and the sight of Russian planes tipping out precision munitions might be enough of a morale booster to see them through another depressing, exhausting year, especially given that their other options appear to be reduced to surrendering to the head chopping Islamists who have little time for regime holdouts.
Of course, Assad’s fate hangs on many things which are not up to him or his forces. For instance, should the Iraqi Army, or more specifically, the Shia militias which seem to have taken over Iraq, manage to push ISIS out of Iraq, will Iraqi forces stop there or be tempted to march into Syria to help Assad? Would Assad, or anyone else (read: Saudis or Americans) be able to stop them? And with Russia paving the way for pro-Assad intervention in Syria, will Iran be tempted to lend even more hands-on support to ensure their previous investments in Assad have not been wasted? No doubt there are unforeseen twists and turns left in this story.
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Why the name Redeemer Bible Fellowship? This choice was made due to the vast number of existing church names in the Orlando area, coupled with the desire to capture what is truly important in ministry:
Christ is the head of church (Eph. 4:16; Col. 1:18) and his substitutionary, redemptive work in his death, burial and resurrection is the initiating and foundational salvific influence in the church. Therefore, the church was birthed and is sustained through the redemption of Christ (Eph. 2; 1 Pet. 2:4-10);
The God-breathed Scriptures are completely authoritative and sufficient pertaining to life and godliness (2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Pet. 1:2-4). In the Bible, God has also given us crystal clear direction regarding the proper purpose (Eph. 4:12-16) and conduct within the church (1 Tim.; 2 Tim.; Titus). Without the Bible we would be lost in darkness, unable to find our way (Ps. 119:105). Furthermore, a particular ministry is validated by God based on faithfulness to his Word and not any other standard of measure (1 Cor. 3-4; 1 Tim. 4:6-16);
Since the resurrection of Christ, the church is God’s primary focus and represents the assembly of “called out ones.” However, a church which does not have fellowship with God and one another is not a healthy church (1 John 1:3). Accordingly, fellowship was a fundamental component of the early church. In fact, they were actually devoted to participating in one another’s lives (Acts 2:42);
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In an article written by Tony Hicks on January 6, 2020 he states that researchers have found that the pain of Arthritis often leads to mental distress and depression. The following bullet points are part of such research:
- Researchers say 19 percent of adults with arthritis report having frequent mental distress and 32 percent have a history of depression.
- They say the percentages are higher in states such as Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
- Experts say the pain associated with arthritis can lead to mental health issues.
That compares with about 8 percent Trusted Source of the overall population that report having depression.
The analysis Trusted Source by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to “estimate state-specific prevalence of frequent mental distress and history of depression among adults with arthritis.”
CDC officials report that 22 percent Trusted Source of adults in the United States have arthritis that has been diagnosed.
The study included 147,288 adults in the United States, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
COMMENT: The correct nutrition is extremely important when it comes to alleviate the pain of arthritis. Many foods have an inflammatory effect on the body irritating the joints and increasing joint pain.
Foods with added sugars, carbonated drinks, deep fried foods, cheese, milk and sweets are all culprits that cause the body joints to inflame and have flare-ups of pain. Anti-inflammatory foods like ginger root, fatty fish (salmon, mackerel, sardines and trout), broccoli, garlic, walnuts, berries, spinach and grapes as well as 20 minutes daily of mild exercising will help reduce arthritic pain.
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HUG&KISS ― A Valentine's Day dedicated to you, your loved ones and nature
To celebrate love in all its expressions, including respect for the environment, at Valentine’s Day Green Wise proposes sustainable compositions that enhance the flowers and plants that nature offers us in the current season.
Devoting flowers and plants not subjected to any chemical treatment, grown with the sole force of nature, to yourself and to those you love means them dedicating a lifestyle.
A sustainable life, in which we appreciate the shape of nature as it is.
Flower Tote Bag
Just like when you hug your loved ones, hold the beauty and scent of nature in your arms.
Our Flower Tote allows you to carry beautiful flowers and plants from one place to another, holding them in your hand or on your shoulder.
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Slow Green Christmas ― Spreading love and kindness
This year, which has been a tough year, let’s make Christmas a more loving and warm holiday for both people and nature, dedicating the beauty and scent of a plant that is sustainable, local and cultivated without the use of pesticides to the most important people in our lives.
By choosing one of our Christmas tree proposals, you can help reduce the number of trees that are cut down during the Christmas period and then thrown away as waste.
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The Kukido concept was awarded in the “Awareness improvement for individual and public” category of the Good Design Award 2020!
The Good Design Award is a Japanese comprehensive design evaluation and commendation system.
Many companies and designers from both inside and outside of Japan participate in the activity to enhance the industry or the quality of life through the design.
The judging committee has positively evaluated our design approach because it is a methodology that makes flowers and nature feel beautiful as they are, rather than controlling nature to create artificial beauty. It makes one think about what beauty is.
Kukido, in fact, is a design approach to create a symbiotic relationship with nature by broadening people’s sense of values for flowers and deepening their understanding of nature that surrounds us. Through creative activities of making the flowers stand upright just like in their natural form, you will notice the uniqueness of naturally grown flowers and discover the charm that nature creates.
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“Everyone became a demon within three months. When new soldiers arrived to Nanking, they couldn’t believe their eyes, because “the scene was so appalling”. Gradually, they all learn to kill without a second thought. “Good sons, good daddies, good elder brothers at home were brought to the front to kill” — Tominaga Shozo speaking on December Friday 13th 1937 capture of Nanking by the Japanese Imperial Army were between 50,000 & 60,000 Chinese people were murdered with 20,000 women, including children & the elderly, raped and in case then forced into prostitution for the occupying forces.
NOTE WORK IN PROGRESS FULL REPORT EXPECTED BY 11/12/PM WITH UPDATES THERE AFTER
WEAPONS HOT: A slow news day eruptions, rockets, and lightening tsunami sweep the land down under. Ben C Vidgen firstname.lastname@example.org
There are 12 million lightening strikes a year, 32,800 a day. NZ just had earths monthly dump in just two days. Video below briefing summary on a spectacular 48 hour from the land of the hobbits.
I. RED ALERT: Dec 10th 201913-feared-dead-50-chance-further-eruption-24-hours?
Just shortly White Island erupts as nearby Bay of Plenty experiences a 5.9 (29km) the same day.
Two days earlier Dec 8th the country was lashed by a major weather anomaly. Read the article below it actually states over 800,000 lightening strikes.
Have we seen this pattern before? Were there any academic quality clues that what happens in the atmosphere has impact on seismic Vulcan activity under the surface?
Were there any clues the Island’s activity was increasing and the New Zealand authorities should have being more alert than they were.
I believe the answer is yes on both counts.
A: ‘Volcanic, Co-seismic, and Seasonal Changes Detected at White Island (Whakaari) Volcano, New Zealand, Using Seismic Ambient Noise’
” Recent activity began in 2012 (supporting information Table S1) following over a decade of relative inactivity. White Island experienced five ash and steam eruptions, numerous small mud eruptions and geysering, and extruded a small lava dome during a highly active period between August 2012 and October 2013 (Chardot et al., 2015; Jolly et al., 2016). Activity resumed in 2016 with a moderate phreatic eruption in April followed by a minor ash emission in September, thought to have resulted from vent erosion (GeoNet, 2016a)”.
B Time Line of Activity
i –Oct 30 2019 the White Island: Activity increase reported in mainstream media:
ii –November 10th 2019: Around the same time frame flooding cuts off roads in West Coast and Canterbury 66,000 lightning strikes, thunderstorms lash the country.
i –Oct 30th 2019: Lightning may have been the cause of two fires in Canterbury, says Fire and Emergency NZ.
ii –Oct 30th 2019: extreme weather.
iii – November 13th 2019 4.9 earthquake – New Zealand on Wednesday, 13 November 2019 200+ NE White Island
iv – November 18th 2019: GNS screw up again law suit walking said White Island was safe. “3 weeks ago the alert level was kept a 2 on White Island and the spokesperson for GNS said nothing to worry about for the tourist charters GNS volcanologist Michael Rosenburg said over the past few weeks there had been an increase of sulphur gas from deep inside the volcano and an increase in tremors.He said the changes may or may not be a signal that something is happening…White Island volcano is really complicated and just because one thing changes, it doesn’t necessarily mean that everything else will change and it doesn’t necessarily mean that this is going to lead to an eruption’.Dr Rosenburg said tour groups can still visit the island”.
History Never Repeats.
Dec 8 2019:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/403542/volcanic-alert-level-rises-on-white-island “According to NIWA, from midnight Friday there have been 872,000 recorded lightning strikes around the country and in the waters offshore”.
Dec 10th 2019: 800,000 lightening strikes.
Dec 10th 2019: seismic activity Hawkes Bay. (Later upgraded to 5.9).
Fullmoon December 12th 2019:
Dec 10th-13th 2019: Space weather report next 3 days (cornoa currently facing towards us).
Documented cases of correlation between Volcanos/Quakes & Lightening.
GNS previously dismissed cosmic impact on seismic activity when proven wrong by atmospheric scientist GNS they backtracked. Except instead of learning from other disciplines they continue to just ignore their contribution.
GNS debunk link to moon and seismic activity.
“Scientists have debunked a post, which warned a ‘major earthquake’ would hit the South Pacific on November 14 (2016) because of the super-moon, after it gained prominence this morning…. posted by Nigel Antony Gray (paper forgot to mention he has a phd) on November 6, urged people to stock up on supplies and be prepared in case an earthquake struck the region in coming days…. However, earthquake experts have rubbished his theories, saying there is no evidence linking supermoons with earthquakes, and no science to predict when an earthquake will occur.”
World acclaimed Atmospheric scientist debunk the earth scientist debunkers:
A –Sep 12 2016: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/moon-tide-earthquakes/499637/
B –Sep 21 2017: https://principia-scientific.org/scientists-discover-connection-between-full-moon-and-earthquakes/
C –Jan 2019: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-strong-storms-earthquake-like-seismic.html Florida Sate University.
Nov 21 2016: “GeoNet only reports on things we can measure. This is why we stick to our knitting: geophysical data. We know that people are really interested in what we think about the supermoon or earthquake lights, but we just don’t have any way to measure their effects using the GeoNet sensors. So, I am just going to leave that topic for other people to discuss”. GNS, despite in 2010 2011 and 2016 having repeatedly, rubbished those who listened to atmospheric science and commented on mass reported eye witness reports of earth quake lightening and sonic booms.
What else has the department, financed by mining oil mineral exploration industry, seconded to the Prime Minister office (who advise the PM on threat assessments) and the National Emergency Management Agency got wrong?
For example these same experts will tell you you can’t have man made earthquakes. Even though scientist who research fracking, nuclear detonation and military scientists and electronic warfare experts, will like the atmosphere scientists, debate other wise.
Ignorance or politically/economically contrived dogma?
II ROCKET MAN – War in The Heavens The Battle For Air Superiority waged above Aotearoa. The strategic access point to mineral rich Antarctica (via longest window of opportunity for flights into Antarctica pre winter) .
Front line Assets.
1.Rocket Lab propagation (transmitting signal booster) March 2019
2. More SPAWAR (Space Warfare) Hardware pops up in New Zealand
A: Leo Labs Central Otago Naseby (circa) Spaceminesweeper.
“The location of the facility (on private land) was not disclosed last year but the spokeswoman confirmed yesterday it was in the Naseby district”. LeoLabs‘ other two space radars measured space debris down to a diameter of 10cm, so the new 2cm technology would be integral in the fight to “clean up space” (counter space land mines caused by self detonating satelite such as demostrated by China in 2007 ).
” The buzzword in military space these days is “proliferated LEO,” which is Pentagon-speak for large numbers of small satellites in low Earth orbit”.
“For DoD (Department of Defence), one of the concerns is dealing with maneuvering satellites that may or may not have malicious intent but still pose hazards”.
B: Otago a great place to monitor the ‘space highway’
NASA to Stay in Wanaka for Further Ten Years
C: Infrastructure now in place Dec 9 2019 to bad for the weather men.
D: Niwa in Lauder Otago The sites back yard full of old equipment of 1970’s all US Army Green, wall was posted with communique from Washington D.C. I interviewed Manitoto local Les Henderson (Little Mt Ida) in 1990’s for the Mt Scene talked of US military atmospheric research program they witnessed at current Niwa site held during an “open day”. Les Henderson account backed up by a second also present witness Roger Cameron (Ophir).
“New Zealanders’ exposure to dangerous weather could increase if 5G cellphone technology has the effect on weather satellites that international scientists are predicting“.
E; Atmosphere over South Island massively charged November December. Cromwell resident Brigitte Tait said she heard a “massive bang”, then saw orange flames and smoke on a nearby hillside. Witness report sonic boom, double rainbow (shag point radio propagation testing site) and flash over night sky over Naseby Middle March Manito area. All signs of an atmosphere heavily ionised.
4. Rocket Lab Earthquake volcanic atmospheric monitoring detection experiment 2018: Rocket Lab Lockheed Martin Mahia Peninsula east Coast New Zealand. So much for no way to detect. You will not the permit for this project is signed off by David Parker Labour’s Minister for Economic development.
“QuakeTEC is an 1U CubeSat developed by the University of Auckland’s APSS (Auckland Programme for Space Systems) to test, if ionospheric disturbances can be used to predict earth quakes. The QuakeTEC satellite carries a Langmuir probe and will measure the electron density in the ionosphere to determine the feasibility of detecting earthquakes in advance. The students will be using their satellites to investigate a debated theory, that seismic activity in the earth’s crust creates signatures in the ionosphere, a region of the atmosphere between 60 to a thousand kilometres above the earth’s surface. The satellite will be launched in late 2018 by an Electron KS rocket.
5. Dec8 2019: Hands in the Cookie Jar – Rocket Lab launches plasma based Japanese ‘firework’s for Japan’s fuck you Russia China Olympics.
Japans’meteor shower’ event fire works or electromagnetic counter weapon? for the Japanese 20/20 ‘fuck you Russia China Olympics’
https://postmanproductions.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/ben-news-picks-22-11-2019/ Plane crash over Haarp site Chch, RV Tangoroa switches off tracker, freak hail, Japan’s fuck you China/Russia Olympics, NEMA & Police tool up.
The launch dates coordinates with Japan cyber space warfare drills “In the latest National Defense Program Guidelines, the government said it is vital for Japan to “achieve superiority” in cyberspace, along with space and the electromagnetic spectrum”. Nov 28 2019.
The annual exercise is dubbed “Yama Sakura.” (Mountain Cherry Blossom Exercise dates Dec 3/12/-16/12:2019 SET) at several locations in Japan, with about 6,600 personnel taking part. https://www.facebook.com/yamasakura/
“The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force and the US Army have begun a joint drill aimed at boosting cooperation in cyberspace and other new areas of defense”
. ..The two sides will determine how they should work together beyond the conventional fields of land, sea and air. They will also practice dealing with “cyber and electromagnetic wave attacks that disrupt chains of command”.
6. Prof. Nigel Gray – Score board: 1 GNS 0:
From Prof. Nigel Gray— 10 Dec 2019 “I think what we are looking at here is strategic planning. Police allowed a man only 5 weeks in the country to get a gun licence online using online “friends” as references and purchasing 2000 rounds of ammunition “by mistake”. Now we have a situation where “just by chance” 10 days after Civil Defence is closed down and a new agency established for the country called NEMA …..National Emergency Management Response (note the familiarity to “FEMA” here!) and we have an “overlooking” of the dangers so the new agency can do their first “operation”! The eruption? Set off with EMF….it was already showing an uptick in activity so it would have been an easy target. They have been doing EMF in that area for months now, including two beams that set off a swarm of earthquakes in Wairoa….and yes, we have those beams recorded.
Here is the info on NEMA —–https://www.civildefence.govt.nz/…/national…/…
AND ONE LAST POINT…..Note that this new legislation passes more power to local authorities and Ministry of Health when a pandemic happens…..ie. to enact mandatory vaccination etc. So yes, there we have it, Big Pharma do have their part in this too!”
Editor Note Kaikoura/ Chch emergency also used to to push economic agenda under the two pro Trans Pacific Partnership Agreements of both Labour & National.
7. The National Emergency Management Agency Cowinkadink Files.
8. Ben’s World pre White Island reports.
Oct 3 2019:
18 Oct 2019: Simulated 7.0 Hawke’s Bay earthquake: An inside look at how civil defence HQ will cope:
19 Oct 2019: Posted Ben Vidgen Facebook – Southern Magpie — same period as NZ Police Counter Terrorism Exercise Operation Guardian and Air-force exercise Wise Owl. Planning for Exercise Southern Magpie 19 began in 2018 with police, the ADF and the Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs working closely with a range of stakeholders including La Trobe Valley infrastructure owners such as “Alinta Energy, AGL Energy, Basslink and Snowy Hydro Limited”.
Snowy Hydro is the company led by Colonel Professor Thomas Leech, (the head of New Zealand based geowarfare experiment Operation Seal), post WWII when it was then used to mask Australia’s secret nuclear weapons operations coordinated inside Lucas Height (subject to bogus terror threat in 2000) and today conducts geoengineering research specifically stratosphere aerosol spraying using low level crop dusters and snow dams. Snowy Hydro is critical to Australia’s water needs. Wise Owl takes place as new space tracking radar in Otago used to detect space debris was announced. Snowy Hydro in all likelihood conducted the original geoengineering experiment conducted in NZ as part of Project Crow Flight which also had links to Woodburn Air-force base Project Long Bank located in Blenheim in the 1970’s not far from Waihopai spy base today.
The Basslink electricity inter-connector is a 370 km (230 mi) 500 MW (670,000 hp) high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable linking the electricity grids of the states of Victoria and Tasmania in Australia, crossing Bass Strait and mirrors for all intense purpose the Cook Strait cable The undersea electricity cable, which connects Tasmania and Victoria, failed last Saturday. Last Monday, investigators found a failure in the low-voltage cable, had caused the inter connector’s Direct Current Protection system to trip.
The exercise is result of legislative change in Australia which allows the Australian police and military to work under a joint command and reflects the steaming of command as also has taken place in NZ with the merger Fire and Emergency and the creation of the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema). (previously the Civil Defence )
We have seen several system failure prior to March 15 including last October New Zealand air control system failure. The last system failure resulted in the creation of new system owned by US military contractor and took place as US NZ Air-force and NASA experiment taking place under project SOFIA (also active currently).
Magpie forms part of the Australian Government’s investment in counter terrorism capability through the Australia New Zealand Counter Terrorism Committee (ANZCTC). The ANZCTC allocates around $1.8 million per annul to conduct counter terrorism exercises nationally. It come after numerous bomb scares and terror alerts (including yesterdays port event) in which people are arrested but not charged and their is no media up follow up to the events which simply added to people fears. It comes as police announce ARC armed flying squads which are to have new toys and add to the 17 mllion spent by Jacinda Adern on step up social media surveillance and controls.
March 15 took place as people in Christchurch and else where began to be aware of the role of politician and property developers (involved in the rebuild of Cch) links to firms involved in the charity industry, land development and water privatisation. For example Christchurch mayor Lianne Dalziel in February failed to disclose a family connection to water bottler Cloud Ocean Water, admitting there was a conflict of interest she “should have managed”. Dalziel had come under major public scrutiny, until March 15, when it was discovered that the law firm Davidson Legal, run by her husband Rob Davidson, is representing Cloud Ocean and offered to use personal contacts to lobby politicians. “That offer has since been revoked” according to Dalziel.
La Trobe University is also home to the T.I.G.E.R. satelite station and has links to HAARP and SuperDarn over the horizon radar its sister station is in Awarura bay. Operation Nocturnal Owl seen focused on low level flights in Otago (where LeoLab had just set up shop), which you use for low level reconnaissance or counter insurgency styled operations. HAARP also hosted experiment at the University of Canterbury specifically Hop 1 and Hop 2 buoys, at Birdling Flats (site of Nov 22 air crash) and in relation to the Grosser Laser ring stored until recently in the Cashmere Tunnels behind Princess Margarets where last week a fire broke (the same weekend I investigated the Hospital grounds) in a disused part of the hospital believed to be where two police officers, participating in the exercise that coincided with March 15 shootings, who would detain Mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant, had also being located. The fire in the hospital was allegedly carried out by a teen with mental issue and mirror the act of arson conducted at Antonio House 265 Riccarton Rd, Upper Riccarton, and the scene where Red Cross body tags were located. Mosque defender Abdull Azim confirm police failed to secure the scene to establish who was and who was not present on the day. Presumably this also the case with Riccarton where video analyst confirm action of shooter on the day but where however the action of firing down the road toward a car yard do not match ballistic expectation (no bullet holes in the car yard.
See also https://postmanproductions.wordpress.com/2019/06/29/letters-to-m-shaken-not-stirred-events-in-chch-march-15-work-diary-notes-mossad-secret-tunnels-and-other-stuff-that-will-blow-your-mind/
28 Oct 2019: Posted Ben Vidgen Facebook
A US Fema (Now called NEMA) based agency (to be run out of the PM office) headed increasing by police military people and communication system established in 2015 (Operation Tangoroa which ended the day before the Kaikoura quakes and the US NZ Military exercise operation Mahi Tangoroa ‘Unconventional Warfare’ began ) will be launched by the end of the year.
The current Minister of Civil Defence is Hon Peeni Henare whose father was Erima Henare, head of the Māori Language Commission for National; his grandfather was Sir James Henare, a lieutenant colonel in the Māori Battalion, member of Te Rūnanga o te Tiriti o Waitangi, and Commander of the British Empire (CBE); and his great-grandfather Taurekareka (Tau) Henare was also a Member of Parliament, for the former electorate Northern Māori from 1914 to 1938.
Sarah Stuart-Black was appointed Director of the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management in December 2014. She joined the Ministry in 2003 and has fulfilled a number of different roles during her time at the Ministry. Sarah has had a diverse range of experience (er can you be specific please) in New Zealand and England, as well as Ethiopia, Niue and the Solomon Islands, and was a member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment & Coordination Team for nine years.
Originally trained as a registered nurse, Sarah holds a BSc (Hons) in Development and Health in Disaster Management and MSc by research in Disaster Management. Sarah regularly meets with mayors, elected officials, local government chief executives and emergency management practitioners across New Zealand to develop productive relationships with the CDEM stakeholders (the who sorry what??) and understand key civil defence emergency management challenges and opportunities they face
My research shows Saraha (Norman) is an ex UN offial and her husband is Jim Stuart-Black the National Manager, for Special Operations (New Zealand Fire Service) New Zealand Fire Service National Headquarters. Now to be known as Fire Rescue Emergency New Zealand or Fenz whose red fire engines are slowly turning civil defence (sorry I meant NEMA) Yellow. Sarah worked in the emergency command centre during the highly controversial terrorist bombings in the London underground – known as 7/7 which many deem a false flag event. 7/7 Like many suspect events coincided with an emergency drill and is linked to the acknowledged murder of subway electronic worker Jean Charles Mendez by UK security forces.
7/7 links Corporate media acknowledge security forces played fast and loose with truth.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ex-spy-david-shayler-begins-court-battle-1.381849 (Shayler is 7/7 whistle blower who won the case in question).
Oct 29 2019: (general background) https://postmanproductions.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/canterbury-tales-a-time-line-of-corruption-treason/
Nov 2019: Operation Guardian NEMA
Nov 25th 2019:(Original Rocket Lab 10 launch date). By Ben Vidgen.
How many of you noticed the alert said “Presidental Alert” becuase US The National Emergency Management Agency or NEMA (previously the Federal Emergency Managment Agency FEMA) took over the automated communication alert system Civil Defence (soon to become the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) under the PM’s jurisdiction) in 2016 on shortly before the Kaikoura earthquake on November 16th.
‘Presidential Alert’ is the name for an emergency text alert system used by US agency FEMA – which pioneered the concept of pushing a message to every cellphone.
“The purpose of this warning order is to provide advance warning of Exercise Tangaroa, a Tier 4 (national) exercise under the National Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) Exercise Programme. The exercise will be led by the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management (MCDEM) and will be conducted over three dates in 2016 (31 August, 14 September, and 28 September 2016). Your agency will be formally invited to participate in early 2016….Particpating angencies include (“but not limited to”) Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), CDEM Groups and local authorities, Ministry of Transport/New Zealand Transport Agency, New Zealand Police, New Zealand Customs Service, New Zealand Fire Service, NGOs – Red Cross, New Zealand Defence Force, Media (MoU Partners), Ministry of Health (including Ambulance, and District Health Boards), Bilateral partners plus the – Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from the USA”.
III PUSH & SHOVE IN SPACE.
1. Comes as Russian blame HAARP on weather and the US blame Russia China for doing the same. Not important if its true or not. Main thing an indicative of geopolitics concerning space — their lot of pushing and shoving go on up there right now
2. Official launch of USA Space Command Dec 9 2019.
Check out the launch signature of Rocket Lab (below) Vs “These characteristics mean the rockets could allow for the speedy launch of replacement satellites if the country’s communication or navigation network in space was damaged or came under attack”
Check out the launch signature of Rocket Lab launch 10 vs Chinese Dragon’s Tail(below) “These characteristics mean the rockets could allow for the speedy launch of replacement satellites if the country’s communication or navigation network in space was damaged or came under attack”
- https://www.scmp.com/…/pentagon-chief-plans-shift-us…Pentagon chief plans to shift US focus to China and Russia
- Business leaders in Hong Kong detained and denied entry to MacauUS business leaders in Hong Kong detained and denied entry to Macau
- https://www.voanews.com/…/us-sending-ships-south-china… Sending Ships to South China Sea to Teach Beijing, Not Fight It.
“DOD is also increasing cooperation with the Japanese in space, cyberspace, the electromagnetic spectrum, and artificial intelligence as well as cross-domain operations, he added.”
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08 Jul Concept and Script Development
An Easy Guide to Concept and Script Development for Video Production!
Ever had a great idea for a film, TVC or viral web video? Or maybe you have an idea brewing in the back of your mind but you’re not quite sure where to start? The team here at VMP faces this challenge daily and think we might be able to help! So let’s try and break it into some simple steps. We might even throw in a bonus template for concept and script development and who knows; maybe we can help you make a masterpiece!
Step 1: Developing an Idea
You might have no idea at all, or maybe you’ve got an idea that is ready to burst into life, for either scenario, we have to get through the grunt work first. You need to know why and what you’re creating so this can mean asking the sometimes boring, but extremely important questions.
– What is your main objective – Do you want to attract new customers? Show off a new product? Tell a story? Meet Brad Pitt? etc
– Who is your target audience? Don’t just think age, digital advertising can be pin pointed to specific gender, age, profession, educational level, personality and location. Online video is booming because you can make messages for target markets that want to watch them!
– It is a good idea to know your medium – what is it? Short film, web video, TV commercial, cinema spot? Knowing where you want your video to play is extremely important. It’s no use filming web quality and finding out the quality won’t fly when you try to run it at the cinema.
– Is the project feasible? Do you want Brad Pitt riding a tiger? That’s cool, but can you afford Brad Pitt riding a tiger? Most production houses are willing to negotiate on price to suit your budget but keep an eye out for extra costs like distribution, graphics and special effects. You can do it yourself, but be careful and make sure it looks good. Low quality productions can damage your image.
– What do you want to trigger? Emotional appeal, rational appeal, humour, celebrity appeal, sensual appeal etc. what will be your point of difference?
Step 2: Concept Development
Next you need to hone in on your ideas. It’s important to fine tune the concept so your video doesn’t dither about through lack of direction.
One of our favourite methods for concept development is brainstorming. You can channel your inner preschooler, roll out the craft paper and get to work with colourful pens, you could surround yourself with pictures of locations and actors you want to use or if you feel more suited to working verbally, spitball ideas at a white board or with friends, writing down what becomes coherent and scrubbing away the rest. I could go on, but there are as many ways of brainstorming as there are people. The idea is to put everything on the table, no matter what, see where it takes you and distract the logical side of your brain so the creative side can flow.
Experiment and find what works for you.
Next, write a treatment. This step doesn’t suit everyone and many skip it. That’s not a crime; we live in a free country. But the treatment is a useful outline of the idea that affirms the concept and the direction of the video. For a longer video or to capture more details you could break a treatment into a larger paragraph with a title, statement and summary. There is no established mantra for a treatment, as long as it reads well and people “get it”, you’re doing it right. Just keep it short, to the point and readable.
Eg: A young ladies guide to riding tigers comfortably by Brad Pitt.
Finally, decide on a structure. This is an easy step, and again not everyone’s cup of tea. If you already know what you want to happen this isn’t essential, but for those who are stuck, a structure can help direct the mood of your video. Here are two basic structures that we commonly use for our videos (of course it never hurts to break the mold and try something different.)
If you’re struggling for a concept you are welcome to borrow the idea above or, it might be time to call for some help. Get friends, family or colleagues to put in their two cents or hire a professional, that’s what we’re here for. Don’t be afraid to liaise with a production company and discuss your ideas, it’s our job to be flexible and to help bring your vision to life.
Step 3: Writing the Script
Once you’ve answered the basic questions to ground your video, you can get creative with the script. This is where the planning comes in handy and you get to have some fun!
Flesh out your idea by adding the elements you need to achieve the result you are after. From the first thing heard in your mind when you visualize the concept to the call to action and key messages. Turn your concept into a script, and then start working out the bugs. When you have a draft in front of you, you can check it against this little list.
– Timing – Does the video run within your time frame? Read it out loud.
– The language – if you’re using slang or technical language, make sure your audience will understand and won’t be scared off by the unfamiliar.
– Does everything make sense? Can your audience understand what you mean? – A great way to do this is to find a confidant and make sure that a cold read from them still makes sense. Feedback from fresh eyes is essential when working on projects.
– For a commercial, try to keep your audience’s attention by using short and punchy sentences, and don’t be afraid to repeat catch phrases
– Write with a location and talent in mind and troubleshoot early. If you know you want to film from bird’s eye view but your location is surrounded by trees you might have to compensate.
– Do you want animation, graphics or a logo? Where do you want them?
– Think about music, what kind of music, how much and where? Brad Pitt riding his tiger to Ride of the Valkyries may be more epic than a Crazy Frog soundtrack. But what suits your idea?
– Write draft scripts and be prepared and unafraid to make changes.
– Give the script to a few people to read, again, so a fresh pair of eyes may catch something you missed.
– Format your script; there are heaps of templates available that can guide you through a script format. VMP’s preferred format for our videos is a template with the left column for vision, and the right column for audio.
– Finally, have fun with this process – we do!
Remember, planning is the key to a successful production and nobody wants to make disaster. A great concept with polished script will help you work through the production phases of creating your masterpiece. It’s great to create and have fun, but if you want your creation to stand out, have meaning, and appeal to its target audience, you will need put the work in first and then watch the rewards roll in. See you at the Oscars baby!
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Question: On what basis do Evangelical apologists argue that Muhammad committed sin?
Romans 5:12 tells us that through Adam sin entered the world, and so death was passed on to all men because “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). King David understood his sinful nature: “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me” (Psalm51:5). Christians acknowledge that we are all natural born sinners and the Bible confirms this: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). That would include Muhammad. The only sinless person was Christ Jesus: “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth” (1 Peter 2:22). That is the biblical and Christian understanding of sin – we ALL sin, and there is no exception.
The difference between the Christian understanding of sin and the Muslim understanding of sin is significant. Christians believe that sinners have broken God’s law (1 John 3:4); sinners are slaves to sin (John 8:34); they face the judgment of God (Jude 1:14–15); they are on the road to death and destruction (Ezekiel 18:20; James 1:5). The ONLY solution to sin is to place our faith in what God, through Christ Jesus, has done – He laid down his life to pay the price of sin, then was raised from the dead and is now seated at the right hand of God.
Muslims do not believe this. They deny that Jesus died and was resurrected. They do not believe in original sin or that every person since Adam has inherited sin.
In Islam, a sin is any act of disobedience against the commands of Allah, which may entail punishment in the Hereafter. In contrast, a good deed (if done sincerely and accepted by the Almighty Allah) will entail reward in the Hereafter. The crucial piece is that sins vs. good deeds are weighed, and the human being is judged on the difference; that determines where you end up. Sin is not a state of being (no "Original Sin"). Sin is an action that you commit. Sins can be committed accidentally, although you are not held accountable for them in that case. You can think of committing sins, but you are only held accountable for actions, not thoughts. https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/351/what-is-the-muslim-definition-of-sin
Muslims believe they can atone for their own sins by good works. If they comply with the Five Pillars of Islam and perform more good deeds than bad deeds, then Allah may be merciful and they will not go to hell. With regard to Muhammad, I posted a question on the Islam site and received this answer:
The theological Islamic position is that prophets can not commit sins. What is attributed to e.g. Noah, Abraham, Moses عليه السلام etc. are not actual sins - rather excusable or lawful matters over which they repent out of their extreme piety and because of holding themselves more strictly accountable in view of their status and relationship with Allah.
47:19 does not mention a sin of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and if you look at its exegesis there are various explanations on whether it is addressed to the Prophet or an ummati, and in which of their possible meanings the words غفر (forgive) and ذنب (sin) are used.
Regarding the incidents over which the prophets repented: One is not necessarily attributed to all prophets, and Jesus عليه السلام is among those prophets regarding whom nothing of the sort is mentioned in the Quran. Although from hadith it may be construed that he is concerned over people committing shirk using him.
The following answer is in response to another question on the Islam site regarding Jesus/Isa being without sin. This makes reference to the Hadiths (traditions): https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/215/was-the-prophet-sinless/52867#52867
I hope this will help readers to understand the theological differences that separate the Christian view of sin, repentance, forgiveness and salvation from the Muslim view. Muslims might believe that Muhammad never sinned, but their view of sin differs from the biblical view of sin. Only Christ Jesus was without sin. He died so that we might live:
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21).
P.S. There is a religious movement that attempts to merge Islam and Christianity. It is known as ‘Chrislam’:
While it is undeniable that there are many similarities between Christianity and Islam (and Judaism, for that matter), Chrislam ultimately fails because Christianity and Islam are diametrically opposed on the most important of issues – the identity of Jesus Christ. True Christianity declares Jesus to be God incarnate. For Christians, the deity of Christ is a non-negotiable, for without His deity, Jesus’ death on the cross would not have been sufficient to be the atoning sacrifice for the sins of the entire world (1 John 2:2).
Islam adamantly rejects the deity of Christ. The Qur’an declares the idea that Jesus is God to be blasphemy (5:17). Belief in the deity of Christ is considered shirk (“polytheism”) to Muslims. Further, Islam denies the death of Christ on the cross (4:157–158). The most crucial doctrine of the Christian faith is rejected in Islam. Source: https://www.gotquestions.org/Chrislam.html | <urn:uuid:e0ca27ef-438b-4acc-bbb6-c34215bd3c1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/78832/on-what-basis-do-evangelical-apologists-argue-that-muhammad-committed-sin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955131 | 1,215 | 2.25 | 2 |
Regenerative Therapies in Ischemic Stroke Recovery (Original PDF from Publisher)
By Syed Shadab Raza
This book illustrates the importance and significance of regenerative medicine in stroke recovery. It discusses stem-cell-based treatment strategies and offers mechanistic insights into their role in neurological recovery. It also examines the challenges and advances in using adult stem cells for enhanced therapeutic efficacy. Further, it presents the strategies as well as the strengths and weaknesses of various delivery methods to administer stem cells in ischemic stroke. It examines the role of non-coding RNA in our understanding the stroke pathogenesis, their regulatory role in ischemic stroke and potential as biomarkers and therapeutic targets. Lastly, it explores exosomes in the treatment of stroke, and the underlying mechanism of their action as therapeutic vectors for stroke. Given its scope, it is an excellent resource for neurologists, neuroscientists and researchers involved in regenerative therapy for stroke.
- Publisher : Springer; 1st ed. 2022 edition (July 10, 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 366 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9811685614
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Our industry is often described in terms like "accelerated" or "high-performance". Sounds great: everyone wants what they are waiting for happens faster. Customers will naturally come to us for faster data transfer speed. But when it comes to moving data across networks, there are many moving parts. File transfer software is also one of them. No software can move data faster than basic hardware. Therefore, if you think your data should run faster, the first thing to look at is the telecom provider. If you have an upstream speed of 100 Mbps, and the system at the other end has at least a downstream speed of 100 Mbps, and the speed reaches 90 Mbps, then you don't need acceleration software. The utilization rate reaches 90% , so the only way to increase the speed is to increase the line speed. Remember, upgrading only one end does not help: the data path is only as fast as its slowest link. If you don’t seem to be filling the data pipe, make sure the width of the pipe is the same as you think. More than half of the people who contacted us did not have accurate information about their internet connection speed. The differences between uplink and downlink speeds, corporate bureaucracy, bonded links, and outdated telecommunications contracts often lead to expectations exceeding reality. At least at some point, transferring data to a nearby server or using a public test site allows you to quickly estimate the capabilities of the network. Also, remember that you may not be the only user of these links: bandwidth is a shared resource, and various devices may require you not to exceed your fair share. Even if the hardware is not fully utilized, there are still many software bottlenecks that will limit your speed. Firewalls and antivirus software may decide that your data flow is not worth it quickly. It can be particularly frustrating to keep track of these restrictions when they are based on obscure "heuristic" rules or long-forgotten configurations made by people who have not worked in your company for years. The data transfer acceleration software solves a very specific problem: the insufficient use of hardware due to the inefficient transfer protocol. In other words, TCP often fails to meet the requirements. Data transfer optimization aims to make utilization as close to 100% as possible. So before you ask if this will make the file transfer faster, ask yourself where the 100% benchmark is. If you want to use file transfer acceleration software, you can try Raysync large file transfer. The transfer speed is hundreds of times faster than FTP and HTTP. It maximizes the bandwidth without affecting other network traffic. Cross-regional and international big data replication and migration Or archive, at least 100TB of data can be transferred every day.
With the vigorous development of new technologies such as cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, large-scale new applications have facilitated my life. But at the same time, hackers, who are tempted by the interests of black products, also turn their eyes to this place, and they have targeted attacks, again and again, thus directly plundering enterprise data resources and important customers. Here are our 5 tips for improving your data security: 1. Troubleshoot computer network system vulnerabilities The computer network system is composed of computer hardware, software, and client network system configuration. The first step of enterprise self-examination is to carry out daily maintenance of its own hardware equipment; Secondly, it is also the key point to check the compliance and security of software systems, clean up the non-compliant and unsafe third-party applications used by employees in time, update the conventional systems, and investigate loopholes; The other is to configure the client's network system safely. 2. Is the data using standardized The second point of self-examination of enterprise data security is to standardize the management of enterprise data use. Enterprises have a clear positioning of safety standards, and the practicality of specific data usage specifications is usually reflected in employees' daily work. Especially in file transmission, the transmission process is the hardest hit by network attacks, and the control of data flow is also very important. Just as many Internet companies are doing, it is necessary to manage the access, editing, and downloading rights of sensitive data, which plays a protective role in data security to a certain extent. 3. Investigate employees' safety awareness At present, nearly half of cyber-attacks are caused by the lack of security awareness of enterprise employees, which directly or indirectly leads to data leakage. The employees' awareness of the importance of data and network attack methods is directly related to their sensitivity to the possible security threats and potential attacks of current data. Many enterprises tend to ignore the safety control of employees. Do your employees really know what might be a cyber attack? Data security training is a good way for employees' safety awareness. Establish a culture so that employees can quickly perceive potential threats and report suspicious cases in time. The above self-inspection method is based on three key factors of data security, and the next two points we want to mention are the self-inspection method of security control of dynamic data. 1. Data flow direction "High-speed data transfer creates value for enterprises" is the service concept of Raysync. On the contrary, this sentence is essentially the normal state of enterprise business transfer. Every day, a small and medium-sized enterprise produces no less than 10GB of data, and where this data flow is actually a security blind spot for many enterprises. At present, there are more and more ways of online data interaction, and various ways of data interaction facilitate people's work, but also greatly increase the difficulty for enterprises to supervise data security. To solve this problem, let's take a look at how the enterprise-level file transfer expert Raysync deals with it. - Transmission management and control: add transmission strategy, transmission reality, and transmission log design, and the administrator can take a glance at the transmission of sub-accounts; - Supervision of document outgoing: all documents outgoing are under management supervision. In the face of sensitive data leakage, the administrator can directly interrupt the sharing of relevant documents; 2. Grade authority Dividing data grades and employee categories is the key to building an enterprise data safety net. Hackers and system vulnerabilities are the main reasons for data leakage incidents. Some conscious and unconscious operation behaviors of employees in their daily work are easily manipulated or misled by cybercriminals, and the data level they come into contact with is the height of enterprise information assets that criminals can reach. Grant local administrative authority only when necessary, assuming that the network attack against the enterprise is successful , and the infected computer cannot easily spread malicious software to other devices in the network, which plays an important role in curbing the attack scope. In view of this, many applications can do it at present. For example, several functional designs of data authority such as identity authorization, user grouping, and security encryption in Raysync run through the whole process of data security transmission, which is a good way to protect enterprise data security. Data flow transfers data to create greater value. Today, with the rapid development of science and technology, the process of data interaction is both an opportunity and a challenge for Internet enterprises, as well as hackers.
FTP protocol originated from the early days of network computing. A few government and university researchers explored the value of connecting computers together, so they created FTP protocol to promote the movement of files in the network. Why do so many people still use FTP now? Because it is perfect and embedded in most operating systems today. Although FTP is provided free of charge, it does not mean that it has no cost. IT teams spend too much time managing and maintaining FTP servers and their users, which could have been devoted to more important IT projects and plans. Security Many changes have taken place in FTP since it was invented, especially the security and confidentiality. FTP predates the Internet as we know it today, but it is not designed to transfer files safely. When companies use it to send files containing personally identifiable information or patient data, compliance does not exist. FTP has no resistance to many types of attacks, and the user name and password credentials are sent in clear text. It is not difficult for hackers to extract information and access the entire server containing company data. Ease-of-use FTP is mainly an IT tool. Many IT professionals still like to run FTP in command line mode, and take pride in managing servers through text commands, but for ordinary knowledge workers, FTP operation is too technical. FTP client software can help, but it is only an overlay, which will not increase security or reduce manual management of FTP server. The complaints that FTP administrators often hear are managing users and their credentials, and knowing which files should be saved on the server and which files can be deleted. This causes the FTP server to become very bloated. As time goes by, the files on the FTP server continue to accumulate, and the situation will get worse and worse. What transfer tools do we use now? Today's file transfer function has surpassed FTP many times, providing encrypted communication, reporting and tracking functions, integrating with enterprise applications, and being more intuitive. Today's file transfer solutions can meet today's growing demand for secure file transfer. It's time to adopt a more modern and powerful data transfer solution. As time goes by, your company will benefit from this, operate within the scope of compliance standards, and become more efficient after the final rest of FTP.
Today’s business demands are fast-paced and unrelenting. When it comes to meeting these demands, efficiency is often the crux. Inefficiencies within the IT infrastructure can create a chain reaction of problems. The end result? More time and money is spent troubleshooting and problem-solving. Even worse is failing to deliver services and products to customers or failing to meet compliance regulations. The common ways individuals and organizations move data from point A to point B include email, FTP, HTTP, consumer file sharing applications, or even the physical delivery of a USB drive or paper files and documents. With each method of moving data from point A to point B, there are many, many risks and limitations. According to the survey, using the Managed File Transfer platform to automatically execute the file transfer workflow enables users to manage complex mass workflows with greater flexibility and capacity, thus enabling organizations to manage their security, compliance and productivity priorities more effectively. Based on the self-developed transfer protocol, MFT is a more efficient and safe way comparing to the traditional FTP transfer. After using it, the efficiency of file transfer between employees in the enterprise and between employees and external partners has been significantly improved. The test results show that using Raysync can increase the transfer speed by 10-100 times in one second. After solving the problem of efficiency and focusing on safety, employees' file transfer is not standardized, or the incidents of employees destroying and leaking confidential documents of the company are repeatedly prohibited. The file-hosting platform usually has the functions of log supervision and permission setting, such as Raysync Transmission, recording each operation log in detail, setting detailed operation permissions, allowing corresponding permissions to be used by corresponding people, and reducing the risk of the data leakage caused by the human operation. At the same time, Raysync also adopts financial grade AES-256 encryption transfer technology to ensure the safety and integrity of transfer data and meet the compliance requirements. Raysync Transmission also has file synchronization function, and the files of the server and client are synchronized in both directions, which saves the troublesome of manual copying, improves efficiency, and reduces the data omission caused by manual copying.
IT departments for oil and gas companies often face an uphill battle to meet industry file transfer demands. Like many other industries, oil and gas companies are concerned with speed and security when transferring data, but they must also consider the possible complications transferring very large files across vast distances. Difficulty 1: Problem of Extremely Large File Transfer File size often determines whether the transmission is smooth or not. Oil and gas exploration companies with energy services usually need to carry out snapshot detection of oil wells. The log files of these snapshots can reach up to 20GB. Some traditional tools cannot be used for such a large amount of file transfer at all. It is easy to deploy a set of radium transmission software in an enterprise. No file can be transferred because it is too large. Oil and gas exploration companies can transfer files without restriction. Difficulty 2: Accessibility Across Continents Oil and gas exploration companies often send employees to remote corners of the earth in search of natural resources. Raysync Transmission acceleration technology with synchronization function can ensure users to quickly access data at any distance. Remote users and contractors of drilling rigs, wherever they are, can upload, download, and share data quickly and safely. Difficulty 3: Simplify the Complex Businesss Processes Raysync Transmission is aimed to improve the business processes, it can help the IT department to improve the efficiency of those staff in oil and gas group. Flexible authorization and sharing of multi-group files, you and your organization can save the files in Raysync Transmission and access them anywhere and anytime; Global file central control and management, which ensures the data visible, controllable and traceable. With Raysync Tansmission, users can enjoy high-quality service of fast upload and download anywhere in the world without interruption. Don’t let outdated technology hold you back. Raysync Transmission helps oil and gas exploration companies to improve their business processes and improve the efficiency of the project by ensuring fast and safe document transmission worldwide without restrictions on the size and quantity of files.
The growing number of media and entertainment documents poses challenges to media professionals. One of the dilemmas of media and entertainment is the increasing data size: with the continuous development of technology, 4K, 8K, 3D, VR and other technologies are gradually popularized in the media industry. The media and entertainment industries are increasingly demanding data transmission speed. In order to meet the customer's needs and quality expectations, ensure that users will obtain the highest quality video in the shortest possible time. The media industry urgently needs to deploy a set of software that can solve the problem of large file transmission and ensure the safety of data transmission. Raysync Transmission is a software-based file transfer provider, it is also one of a leading enterprises in providing high-performance enterprise-level transmission product. Transfer Acceleration Various transfer models deliver your data at full line speed. Pay-as-you-go Pay-as-you-go, pay as your need. Intelligent Mangement Central control makes data movement visible, controllable, and traceable. Collaborative work Share file and data with others anytime and anywhere. Flexible Storage Super large storage space for local and the third-party storage. Data Protection Bank-grade SSL and AES-256 encryption protects your data sercurity. Raysync Transmission provides customers with high-performance, stable and safe data transmission services in many industries such as media entertainment, IT, film and television, bio-gene, manufacturing, etc. Until now, there are more than 20000+ enterprises have reached cooperation with Raysync Transmission.
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As drug overdose deaths have climbed dramatically in Ontario, the construction industry workforce is being impacted more than any other sector of the economy.
A new report shows that 2,500 Ontarians died of drug overdoses in 2020, up from 1,500 in 2019. An increase of 60%. And of the victims who were employed, 30% were construction workers – by a wide margin the industry most impacted. The report by the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network (ODPRN), the office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario and Public Health Ontario was released on May 19th.
“This situation is alarming,” says Ontario Construction Consortium (OCC) Executive Director Phil Gillies. “Construction workers are dying from drug overdoses, a crisis largely driven by the widespread street distribution of the highly-addictive opioid fentanyl. And the 60% increase in deaths in 2020 has to be linked to the shutdowns and isolation imposed by the COVID pandemic. The increase in addiction and mental health issues that has accompanied the pandemic is impacting the construction workforce in a dramatic and tragic fashion.”
OCC was looking into this situation early in 2021, as U.S. data from the Centres for Disease Control came out months ago indicating the construction workers were most at risk in that country. There was reason to believe the situation was no different in Canada.
“Now we have this tragic situation confirmed in Canada,” says Gillies. “This crisis is very real in Canada. The ODPRN report indicates that at least 57 construction workers died of overdoses in Ontario last year. And the situation continues to unfold. I know of one worker, a 28-year-old man, who died over the May long weekend.”
OCC is launched a public information campaign on May 31st to raise public awareness on this pandemic, TheOtherPandemic.ca , which will urge construction workers to take steps to safeguard their health and safety. The campaign will include an advertorial in the National Post and Toronto Sun, a public service announcement (psa) video and radio commercial. The OCC video includes comments by addiction health care experts and from Toronto Mayor John Tory.
The OCC campaign urges:
- Do not use hard drugs alone. Use in the company of another individual with a Naloxone kit close at hand or go to a supervised injection site.
- As this advice will bring the worker into close company with other people, OCC urges all construction workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
- Governments need to increase addiction treatment and counselling services to meet this unprecedented challenge.
- Workers wrestling with addiction should seek help. With a public health crisis manifesting itself in a 60% increase in deaths in one year, there was never a better time to stop using hard drugs if at all possible.
“We know that urging drug users not to use in isolation goes against most advice directed at the general population re: the COVIC pandemic. There the messaging is about staying away from other unrelated people,” added Gillies. “But using hard drugs alone is killing people. What we are recommending here will save lives.”
The OCC campaign is supported by the Interior Systems Contractors Association, the Carpenters Union District Council of Ontario and the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.
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Sangha (Skt. saṅgha; Tib. དགེ་འདུན་, gendün, Wyl. dge 'dun) is the term for the community of practitioners who are following the Buddha's teachings. According to the Mahayana teachings, the sangha that is included within the Three Jewels as an object of refuge is the noble sangha, i.e., those who have reached the path of seeing and beyond.
The Tibetan word for sangha is དགེ་འདུན་, gendün (Wyl. dge 'dun), which signifies those who aspire to or yearn for (འདུན་, dün) virtue (དགེ་, gé). Khenpo Ngakchung explains that virtue here refers to the threefold training in discipline, meditation and wisdom.
Eight Qualities of the Sangha
According to Maitreya's Uttaratantra Shastra, the Sangha has 'eight qualities of knowledge and liberation' (Tib. རིག་གྲོལ་་གྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱད་, rig drol gyi yönten gye; Wyl. rig grol gyi yon tan brgyad):
- 1) the profound nature of phenomena
- 2) the vast – phenomena in all their multiplicity
- 3) discriminating awareness wisdom
- 4) attachment, the emotional obscurations
- 5) hindrance, the cognitive obscurations
- 6) the inferior – the obscurations of the shravakas and pratyekabuddhas
- 7) knowledge; and
- 8) liberation.
- see Twenty Sanghas
Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha
- Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Berlin Centre, 26 June 2010
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ICD-10-CM Code T81.4
Infection following a procedure
Non-Billable CodeNon-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.
7th Character RequiredCode requires 7th Character Extension identifier. This 7th Character usually captures Episode of Care information, such as "Initial Encounter," "Subsquent Encounter," or "Sequela."
ICD Code T81.4 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use specify a 7th character that describes the diagnosis 'infection following a procedure' in more detail. The 7th characters that can be added, and the resulting billable codes, are as follows:
|7th Digit||Billable Code||7th Digit Specifies|
What is 7th Character Extension?For codes less than 6 characters that require a 7th character a placeholder 'X' should be assigned for all characters less than 6. The 7th character must always be the 7th position of a code. E.g. The ICD-10-CM code T67.4 (Heat exhaustion due to salt depletion) requires an Episode of Care identifier. T67.4XXA Initial Encounter or T67.4XXD Subsequent Encounter. More Info
Coding Notes for T81.4 Info for medical coders on how to properly use this ICD-10 code
Inclusion TermsInclusion Terms are a list of concepts for which a specific code is used. The list of Inclusion Terms is useful for determining the correct code in some cases, but the list is not necessarily exhaustive.
- Intra-abdominal abscess following a procedure
- Postprocedural infection, not elsewhere classified
- Sepsis following a procedure
- Stitch abscess following a procedure
- Subphrenic abscess following a procedure
- Wound abscess following a procedure
Additional Code Note:
Use Additional CodeUse Additional Code note means a second code must be used in conjunction with this code. Codes with this note are Etiology codes and must be followed by a Manifestation code or codes.
- Code to identify infection
- Code See code R65.2- to identify severe sepsis, if applicable
Code Type-1 Excludes:
Type-1 ExcludesType-1 Excludes mean the conditions excluded are mutually exclusive and should never be coded together. Excludes 1 means "do not code here."
- Obstetric surgical wound infection - instead, use code O86.0
- Postprocedural fever NOS - instead, use code R50.82
- Postprocedural retroperitoneal abscess - instead, use code K68.11
Code Type-2 Excludes:
Type-2 ExcludesType-2 Excludes means the excluded conditions are different, although they may appear similar. A patient may have both conditions, but one does not include the other. Excludes 2 means "not coded here."
- Bleb associated endophthalmitis - instead, use code H59.4-
- Infection due to infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection - instead, use code T80.2-
- Infection due to prosthetic devices, implants and grafts (T82.6-T82.7, T83.5-T83.6, T84.5-T84.7, T85.7) - instead, use code T82.6-
Related Concepts SNOMET-CT
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection of postoperative wound (disorder)
- Organ-space surgical site infection (disorder)
- Infected seroma after surgical procedure (disorder)
- Postoperative abdominal wall wound abscess (disorder)
- Postoperative subphrenic abscess (disorder)
- Postoperative wound cellulitis (disorder)
Coding Advice SNOMET-CT
- Possible requirement for causative agent code
- Possible requirement for an external cause code
- Possible requirement for additional code to fully describe disease or condition
- Episode of care information needed
- Consider additional code to identify specific condition or disease
- Possible requirement for causative disease code
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First in a series exploring local education budget initiatives
Next year, a group of Cale Elementary students may spend half the school day learning in Spanish.
At a recent parent information session at Cale, principal Lisa Jones and Albemarle County School’s world languages facilitator Russell Carlock introduced a proposal to pilot a dual language immersion program.
“We have known forever that language is best taught in the early years,” Jones said. “You have that window of time to do it in, yet we do it backwards all the time.”
Jones and Carlock said Cale’s curriculum would not change under the “two-way” immersion program, but that instruction would occur half the time in English and half the time in Spanish. In addition, the immersion classroom would be 50 percent native English speakers and 50 percent native Spanish speakers.
“The kind of day students have is going to be the same, just half of it is going to be taught in Spanish,” Jones said. “You will learn about a tree in another language, and still learn the same things about a tree.”
“All students graduate from these programs with bilingualism or near bilingualism by the time they go to middle school,” Carlock said.
Cale Elementary already implements Spanish language instruction differently than other County Schools. Cale uses a Foreign Language in Elementary Schools (FLES) model that began in 2012.
In the current model, kindergarten and first grade students learn for two hours per week in Spanish. Jones’ mantra of this model is, “they do not learn Spanish, they learn in Spanish.”
Cale parent Anna Emory believes bilingualism is relevant for students today.
“Only speaking one language really is the new illiteracy, and our kids will be faced with that reality,” Emory said. “We are behind as a nation in teaching multiple languages and I am excited we are reversing that trend in Albemarle County and at Cale.”
“We have two years under our belts. Principal Jones has a passion for this and it is contagious,” Emory added. “The teachers and other parents I have talked to are excited about this program and want to see it grow.”
In the 2014-2015 school year, Jones hopes to see the world languages program expand at Cale to serve the second grade, and also pilot the two-way immersion program to a limited number of students in grades K-2.
But implementing the pilot immersion program and expanding FLES to the second grade are contingent upon new funding.
As proposed by County Executive Tom Foley, the FY15 budget leaves a $5.8 million shortfall between the School Board’s requested funding and financial support from local government.
Albemarle Superintendent Pam Moran has already compiled a list of options for closing the budget shortfall. Among these would be increasing class sizes and cutting about $137,000 for two new full-time equivalent positions to support Cale’s world languages program.
Developing a county-wide K-12 world languages program is a strategic priority adopted by the School Board in 2012, and one that would require continuing financial support.
“Providing FLES instruction county-wide would cost as much as $300 per elementary school student per year,” Carlock said. “Expanding world languages in elementary schools countywide will depend heavily on future budget decisions and priorities set by the school board.”
“In the past two years, Cale has been courageous in supporting this new pilot,” Jones said. “We have a unique opportunity to provide instruction for all students to excel in language and thrive in a global world.”
Decisions about class sizes and new initiative funding will determine Cale’s staffing for next school year and thereby how much flexibility Jones has to hire new bilingual Spanish and English-speaking staff to expand the language program.
“Everything is intertwined when you look at staffing and funding,” Jones said. “I may end up with zero vacancies and I would be hindered in the pieces [of the language program] I can do.”
“We have seen so much growth out of all our children in the first few years of this,” Jones said. “Once you know something is good and the right thing, you don’t let it go easily.”
Right now, this means planning for multiple scenarios that might play out as the budget is discussed, so that Cale is prepared to move forward when the final decisions are made in April.
Jones and Carlock are asking parents of students currently in the FLES instruction to fill out applications to the immersion program if they are interested and will be reaching out to rising Kindergarten parents soon. Carlock says some applications have been submitted already.
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First aid is the assistance given to any person suffering a sudden illness or injury, with care provided to preserve life, prevent the condition from worsening, and/or promote recovery. It includes initial intervention in a serious condition prior to professional medical help being available, such as performing CPR whilst awaiting an ambulance, as well as the complete treatment of minor conditions, such as applying a plaster to a cut. First aid is generally performed by the layperson, with many people trained in providing basic levels of first aid, and others willing to do so from acquired knowledge. Mental health first aid is an extension of the concept of first aid to cover mental health. There are many situations which may require first aid, and many countries have legislation, regulation, or guidance which specifies a minimum level of first aid provision in certain circumstances. This can include specific training or equipment to be available in the workplace (such as an automated external defibrillator), the provision of specialist first aid cover at public gatherings, or mandatory first aid training within schools. First aid, however, does not necessarily require any particular equipment or prior knowledge, and can involve improvisation with materials available at the time, often by untrained persons. First aid can be performed on all animals, although this article relates to the care of human patients. | <urn:uuid:0900ab50-cd44-4ab7-84db-bcf2fd4a22a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uscpronline.com/blog/entity/first-aid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.962258 | 259 | 3.78125 | 4 |
Civil engineering 2017July 3, 2017 2:12 pm
Emergency Service Networks Infrastructure
The emergency services are moving towards the next generation communication system for the Fire and Rescue, Police and the Ambulance service which can be used by over 300 other public safety organisations
ESN as it is formally known as, will cover all the built up areas as usual but will also cover the most remote of areas in the UK
ICS have been tirelessly working in the highlands and islands to build some of the most challenging sites we have encountered
Access to the sites from the road even at survey stage was a problem and there was a need to use all-terrain vehicles:
- The narrow road infrastructure in the highlands meant our use of plant was restricted and the careful planning was needed.
- Access tracks needed to be laid from the road to the site location on a majority of the sites before the construction could take place.
- Peat and rocky ground conditions increased the excavations time.
- Harsh weather and working conditions hindered the field staff.
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ETEFIA ETEFIA, PAUL INYANG-ETOH
This was a case-control survey on the evaluation of intestinal parasite loads, haemoglobin levels and CD4 counts of patients on antiretroviral combination therapy (cART) in Calabar, Nigeria. Methods: Stool samples were collected from case-control study of 500 participants with 350 people living with HIV on cART and 150 HIV negative participants and examined using direct microscopy, formol-ether concentration technique and modified Ziehl-Neelsen technique; Human Immunodeficiency virus status was determined using serial HIV testing algorithm; Haemoglobin levels were determined using cyanmethaemoglobin method; CD4 count was analyzed using PartecCyFlow counter. Results: Among the test subjects, 11.14 (39/350) were infected with enteric parasites, mean helminth ova count was 494.36+37.50 ova/g with mean haemoglobin level of 10.24+0.28 g/dl. Entamaoeba histolytica (31%) was the commonest protozoan parasite, Ascaris lumbricoides (15%) was the commonest helminth parasite and Cryptosporidium parvum (23%) was the commonest opportunistic parasite. Conclusion: It is recommended that strategies aimed at diagnosing and treating for intestinal parasite infections, monitoring and improving the haemoglobin levels of people living with HIV be encouraged. | <urn:uuid:82cc6c59-1ae7-4c91-8221-3e9ce4149cbc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mjpms.in/abstract/evaluation-of-intestinal-parasite-loads-haemoglobin-levels-and-cd4-counts-of-patients-on-antiretroviral-combination-ther-62990.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.895634 | 313 | 1.53125 | 2 |
MicroRNAs and the cellular response to rapamycin: Potential role in diagnosis and therapy
The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a major regulator of cell
growth, motility and angiogenesis that is often deregulated in malignancies. mTOR inhibitors have been approved for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma and mantle cell lymphoma. Currently, second generation mTOR inhibitors are under clinical evaluation. Major challenges remain in the identification of patients who will respond to mTOR inhibitors and the development of therapeutics that can overcome intrinsic resistance or acquired resistance. There are currently no biomarkers that predict tumor response to mTOR inhibitors.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression. MiRNAs participate in many biological processes including proliferation and apoptosis. miRNAs are often deregulated in cancer and act as tumor suppressors or oncogenes.2 Recently miRNAs emerged as diagnostic and prognostic markers to assess therapeutic responses giving rise to the field of miRNA pharmacogenomics.3 Numerous studies indicate that mTOR and its signaling pathway is regulated by miRNAs. However, little is known as to whether miRNAs play a role in the intrinsic tumor resistance or the development of acquired resistance to mTOR inhibitors.
In our recent studies we used rapamycin resistant (RR1) variants of the murine brain tumor cell line BC3H1, developed by chronic rapamycin treatment.
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23 February 2007
ISKANDAR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY & ISKANDAR DEVELOPMENT REGION INFORMATION PACK23 February 2007
Brief background of Iskandar Development Region (IDR) In July 2005, the Federal Government had asked Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Khazanah) to conduct a feasibility study for the development of a special economic zone in South Johor. This zone later came to be known as the Iskandar Development Region (IDR).
A Special Projects Team (SPT) was formed in Khazanah to undertake the task of preparing a Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) for the IDR’s development. Senior officers from the Federal Government and the Johor State Government were seconded to the SPT for this purpose.
The SPT team also included outside consultants and subject matter experts in fields such as town planning, real estate, economic and financial planning, environmental planning, legal and regulatory, marketing, business process reengineering, social policy, strategy, and local government.
In October 2005, Khazanah presented to the National IDR Planning Committee, a Conceptual Outline Plan for the IDR. The Committee was jointly chaired by the Prime Minister and the Johor Chief Minister, with Khazanah acting as the secretariat for the Committee. The Committee concluded that there was strong economic, social and developmental rationale to create the IDR.
On 4 November 2006, IDR was officially launched by His High Royal Highness the Sultan of Johor, and witnessed by YAB Prime Minister and YAB Chief Minister of Johor. This marks the beginning of an exciting and dynamic phase of South Johor’s economic development as outlined in the form of the CDP.
Brief background on Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA)
A Bill to incorporate the IRDA was tabled in and approved by the Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara on the 13 December 2006 and the 21 December 2006 respectively. The Bill received Royal Assent on 12 February 2007. The IRDA Act 2007 (Act 664) was gazetted the next day (13 February 2007), and came into effect on 17 February 2007.
IRDA will be responsible for the direction, policies and strategies in relation to development within the IDR, having regard to the general framework of national and Johor State policies. Pursuant to this responsibility, IRDA will assist the State Planning Committee (SPC) and relevant local planning authorities to co-ordinate development, and for this purpose IRDA will adopt a Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) for use by such local planning authorities.
An Approvals and Implementation Committee (AIC) will also be established by IRDA, which will have the responsibility to identify, monitor, and co-ordinate the roles and activities of all relevant Government entities to expedite the implementation of major or strategic development and investments.
Brief background on South Johor Investment Corporation Berhad (SJIC)
On 2 November 2006, a Heads of Agreement was signed to form a new company to drive the development of catalyst projects (previously referred to as “super developer”), the South Johor Investment Corporation Berhad (SJIC) or Permodalan Johor Selatan with an eventual shareholding structure of Khazanah Nasional Berhad (60%), EPF (20%) and Kumpulan Prasarana Rakyat Johor Berhad (KPRJ) (20%), a company wholly-owned by the Johor State Government. The definitive agreements were signed on 19 December 2006 and is expected to be completed in May 2007.
SJIC will be set up with total assets of approximately RM3.4bn of land and cash at the outset. It will also own a significant land bank in South Johor through various subsidiaries and Joint Venture companies which will be created in the future. As a company wholly owned by Federal and State government investment agencies, SJIC will lead the implementation of various strategic and catalyst IDR initiatives including implementing of some of the major Ninth Malaysia Plan projects within the IDR through various Special Purpose Vehicles and partnerships with the private sector.
The Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP)
The CDP for IDR addresses socio-economic development in a holistic and sustainable fashion, with particular emphasis being placed on creating a healthy investment climate that is attractive to local and foreign investors.
Under the CDP, IDR’s strategic framework consists of the following:
The CDP is divided into seventeen chapters, in two main sections.
Section A: Framework for Comprehensive Development consists of five chapters. The first two chapters in Part 1 of the section cover the background and context (Chapter 1) and vision and objectives (Chapter 2) of the IDR development. The next three chapters in Part 2 outline development strategies from the standpoint of physical development (Chapter 3), economic development (Chapter 4) and social development (Chapter 5). The overarching theme of this section is to link the interconnectedness of the three main development approaches – physical, economic and social – into the holistic comprehensive development framework that the plan aspires.
Section B: Planning and Implementation consists of twelve chapters divided into five parts. The section builds on the development framework and strategies discussed in Section A and focuses on the “how to” to realise the strategies outlined in the previous section. In particular, specific planning and development initiatives are tabled with an emphasis on specific actionable items. Each of the five parts represents the multi-prong and holistic approach to IDR development, covering the regulatory, legal and institutional framework and (Part 1, Chapter 6), the social and holistic development initiatives (Part 2, Chapters 7 and 8), physical planning initiatives (Part 3, Chapters 9 to 13), infrastructure development initiatives (Part 4, Chapters 14 to 16) and commercial development initiatives (Part 5, Chapter 17).
The CDP also incorporates the required delivery systems required in translating the plan into reality. In particular the CDP incorporates the emphasis given under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, where special provisions were made and RM4.3 billion was allocated for IDR alone.
The IDR encompasses 2,217 sq km of land, making it the largest single development project ever to be undertaken in the region. Envisaged to cover the logistic triangle of Senai Airport to the north, Port of Tanjung Pelepas (South West) and Johor Port in Pasir Gudang (South East), the area has excellent links through the North-South Expressway, road and rail links to Singapore, air links and sea links to Indonesia and the region. Its strategic location and proximity to some of the world’s most rapidly growing and important economies is a key differentiating factor for the development.
The CDP also outlined proposed approaches to minimise key risks that have hampered regional development in the past, including uncoordinated and duplicative development, excessive private value capture and potential marginalisation of the local population.
The IDR is a sustainable development that accounts for the direct and indirect needs of all stakeholders. It will enhance the quality of community life, without compromising the local environment and ecology. In this regard the CDP has given great emphasis in incorporating plans to ensure the preservation of South Johor’s natural environment and in particular South Johor’s unique wetlands which are rich in mangroves and inter-tidal mudflats.
Commercial Development Initiatives
Five leading local architects and five foreign architects have been selected to participate in this competition, with the winner expected to be announced by the second quarter of 2007.
IDR FAST FACTS
IDR’s Key Features
• IDR covers a land size of 2,217 sq km.
• Some 1.35 million people representing 43% of Johor’s population. About 66% of the population is of working age. • Malays 48.2%; Chinese 35.8%; Indians 9.4%; Foreigners 6.6%. One third of the population is estimated to be below 15 years old.
• GDP for IDR was about USD20 billion in 2005. This is 60% of Johor’s total GDP of USD33.4 billion.
• IDR’s current per capita GDP is about USD14,790. This is higher than Johor’s per capita GDP of USD10,757. • Services and Manufacturing sectors are the two main pillars of IDR’s economy. Services dominate by contributing about USD10 billion in IDR.
• Within the Services sector, Wholesale and Retail trade contributes 42.2%, Tourism and Hospitality (16.8%), Professional and Business (14.6%), Transport and Related Industries (12.7%), Medical and Educational (6.7%), and Financial (6.6%).
Flagship Zones In IDR (refer to map)
• These areas play host to various key developments in IDR, namely:
1. Johor State New Administrative Centre
Located in Nusajaya, this is the new administrative centre for Johor. State and Federal Government complexes, the State Legislative Assembly, Dataran Mahkota and Chief Minister’s Complex will be sited here.
Dedicated to education, this hub will feature universities, industrycentric R&D clusters, colleges, international schools and amenities. Courses will include medicine, social science, economics, business, agriculture, engineering, computer science, performing arts and others.
3. Medical Hub
This hub consists of two components – Medical Park and Medical City. It will be a leading centre in Asia for medical excellence. Medical treatment, teaching and research and development will be carried out here.
4. Halal Hub
The halal industry is a market worth billions. As a Muslim country, Malaysia has the resources, knowledge and expertise to create this halal hub. Growth of the halal industry will be promoted by encouraging local manufacturing of halal products and exploring new markets to export halal meats.
5. First Class Transshipment And Logistic Hub
The Port of Tanjung Pelepas is Malaysia’s biggest transshipment hub. As one of the fastest growing ports in the world, it will drive the development of Johor’s economy. The port has won numerous Best Emerging Container Terminal awards. Combining the strengths of Senai Airport, Johor Port and the Port of Tanjung Pelepas will create centres for logistics, inland port and cargo hub.
6. Waterfront City
Located at Selat Tebrau, it will integrate activities around the waterfront thanks to the future development of a marina, sporting facilities, entertainment centres, international hotels, resorts and shopping malls.
7. Cyber Cities And Centres
IDR will have three Cyber Cities – Nusajaya, Johor Bharu Central Planning area and University Technology Malaysia. Their functions are to expand ICT infrastructure and info structure, enhance the ICT cluster and encourage the growth of Cyber Cities and Cyber Centers.
8. Biofuel Hub
Tanjung Langsat Port is dedicated to the nation’s biofuel research development centre. This port is part of the heavy duty industrial area. It will have chemical processing plants, ship-building factories, logistic port, and warehouses. It will be the nation’s biofuel development centre.
9. Creative And Entertainment Hub
A 1,000 acre park has been dedicated for an extensive digital content industry. This creative and entertainment hub opens new and available opportunities for employment for multimedia graduates.
10. Islamic Financial Hub
As a Muslim country, this movement is not a new attempt but rather an extension of Malaysia’s role in Islamic Financing. It is set to become the region’s premier Islamic Financial Hub.
11. Commercial, Sporting And Recreational Hub
At every stage of the development that is taking place, commercial, sporting and recreational facilities are made available adding excitement to life in a metropolis.
12. Residential Hubs And Parks
Major housing and development will take place to cater for the expected growth in population in the southern region. At each developmental zone, residential areas will be built to ensure every city has a life on its own. Schools, hospitals and public amenities will also be provided. The southern region will have a variety of parks to visit, like the world’s oldest Mangrove Park and the Nusajaya Theme Park.
13. Dugong Sanctuary
A rare kind of mammal, a site has been dedicated to the dugong as part of the effort to preserve wildlife in IDR.
14. Preservation of Rivers
Rivers are major assets in IDR, with 56 rivers in its areas. Out of these, four rivers – Sungai Johor, Sungai Tebrau, Sungai Skudai and Sungai Pulai are important and play a significant role in human settlement. These rivers will be managed to ensure that the water quality remains at healthy levels.
The IDR will ensure that the following areas are developed:-
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Nearly 80% of the informational needs of local government policymakers are related to geographic location. As a result, the techniques of analytic mapping (the study of the dynamic diffusion and distribution of any variable across area and over time) and of geographic information systems (GIS) have become increasingly important tools for analyzing census, crime, environmental and consumer data. The authors of this significant little volume discuss data access, transformation and preparation issues, and how to select the appropriate analytic graphics techniques through a review of various GIS and common data sources: census products, TIGER files, and CD-ROM access. Garson and Biggs describe each procedure, review its assumptions and requirements, and provide illustrative output for sample data using selected software. Researchers and administrators who need to manage data of geographic locations will find Analytic Mapping and Geographic Databases a useful guide for systems storing, retrieving, analyzing, and displaying this information.
If a social science graduate student were to attend the annual computer expositions sponsored by Government Computer News and other organizations in Washington each year, or visit the annual meetings of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, some conclusions would be strikingly self-evident. First, geographic information systems constitute a billion-dollar business, not an obscure methodological sidelight. Second, GIS infuses every aspect of local, state, and federal government, from ... | <urn:uuid:15a6348a-a4ec-4013-90c2-a0b6e7e9c165> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://methods.sagepub.com/book/analytic-mapping-and-geographic-databases/n6.xml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.898935 | 283 | 3.015625 | 3 |
American Girl dolls have been making appearances lately on TikTok and other social media platforms — but in meme format.
The Smithsonian Magazine described the new American Girl doll meme this way: “The formula goes like this: ‘We need an American Girl doll who …’ lived through situations ranging from historically significant to hilariously obscure.” Distractify compiled 10 of the best of these memes, showing the full range that this trend encompasses.
But these memes have also poked fun at modern culture. La Croix has been popular for a few years now (most recently because a TikToker mixed it with balsamic vinegar and called it “healthy coke”) and popular American Girl doll meme maker @hellicity_merriman has made several La Croix American Girl Doll memes.
This meme format is so popular that The Washington Post published an opinion piece by Christine Emba with the title, “We need an American Girl doll who hasn’t given up.”
The idea of American Girl dolls lends itself to this meme format. According to Smithsonian Magazine, the founder of the American Girl company was Pleasant Rowland, an educator and entrepreneur whose dolls based on historical figures became popular because they were well-researched and relatable.
Selling dolls with accompanying novels — like Kit Kittredge, who grew up during the Great Depression, and Melody Ellison, a singer and voice for justice — the American Girl business model is to make relatable, historical dolls. Even before they were a meme, public historians like Rebekkah Rubin used American Girl dolls to teach history.
American Girl dolls have garnered a collective nostalgia. Last year in June, the Smithsonian Magazine reported on this phenomenon, pointing to the floods of social media posts in response to the company announcing the rerelease of six previously archived dolls.
Commenting on this, public historian Dominique Jean-Louis said that the timing of the brand’s debut contributed to its continued success. “It was really a moment in the ’90s, with that early sense of girls can do history, too, or girls can be part of history, too,” she said, per the Smithsonian Magazine. “(American Girl) really instilled in you a sense that girlhood is universal.”
The memes seem to have a similar effect. Tara Strauch, who is a historian at Centre College, wrote in The New York Times, “Within the world of these memes, there is nothing the world won’t throw at an American Girl doll, and there is nothing she can’t do. She, a representation of the childhoods of countless girls, can succeed where others have failed.” | <urn:uuid:24c2852f-4d44-4f55-9772-21800595df17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2022/7/19/23268972/american-girl-doll-memes-why-popular-right-now | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954474 | 561 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The FINANCIAL — Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth has fallen to its lowest level in more than 20 years, the IMF said in its latest Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa.
While some countries like Senegal and Kenya continue to experience growth rates higher than 6 percent, growth has slowed for two thirds of countries in the region bringing down average growth to 1.4 percent in 2016.
A modest recovery in growth, to 2.6 percent, is expected in 2017, but the report said the underlying regional momentum remains weak, and at this rate, sub-Saharan African growth will continue to fall well short of past trends of 5-6 percent, and barely exceed population growth.
Why has growth slowed?
While noting that many countries suffered a very substantial commodity price shock, the report also points to insufficient policy adjustment to account for the broad-based slowdown in growth momentum in the region. This is especially the case among commodity exporters, notably oil exporters, such as Angola, Nigeria, and the countries of the Central African Economic and Monetary Union (CEMAC). According to the report, the delay in implementing critical adjustment policies is leading to higher public debt, creating uncertainty, holding back investment, and risks generating even deeper difficulties in the future.
Vulnerabilities are also emerging in countries that do not rely significantly on commodities for their exports. While these countries—such as Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, and Senegal—have generally maintained high growth rates, their fiscal deficits have been high for years, as governments rightly sought to address social and infrastructure gaps. But now, consequently, public debt and borrowing costs are on the rise.
No room for complacency
The report also shows that, while the external environment has recently become more favorable, it is expected to offer only limited support. Improvements in commodity prices will provide some breathing space, but will not be enough to address existing imbalances among resource-intensive countries. Oil prices for example, are projected to stay far below their 2013 peaks. Likewise, while they have been on a declining trend since early 2016, financing costs for frontier economies in the region remain higher than for other emerging markets, and they could rapidly tighten further against the backdrop of fiscal policy easing and monetary policy normalization in the United States.
The outlook is also clouded by the incidence of drought, pests, and security issues, according to the report. While the impact of the drought that hit parts of southern Africa last year is fading, food insecurity appears to be rising with parts of southern and eastern Africa facing drought and pest infestations. Worse still, famine has been declared in South Sudan and is looming in northeastern Nigeria as a result of past and ongoing conflicts.
Policy priorities to restart growth engine
With all these challenges, the head of the IMF’s African Department, Abebe Aemro Selassie, says strong policy decisions could turn things around. “Sub-Saharan Africa remains a region with tremendous potential for growth in the medium term, but with limited support expected from the external environment, strong and sound domestic policy measures are urgently needed to reap this potential,” Selassie said. And the report highlights three priority areas.
The priority should be to put renewed focus on macroeconomic stability in order to set the stage for a growth turnaround. For the hardest-hit countries, fiscal consolidation remains urgently needed to halt the decline in international reserves and offset budgetary revenue losses, especially in the CEMAC. In addition, where available, greater exchange rate flexibility and the elimination of exchange restrictions will be important to absorb part of the shock. Meanwhile, for countries where growth is still strong, it will be important to address emerging vulnerabilities from a position of strength.
The second priority is to address structural weaknesses to support macroeconomic rebalancing. Structural measures are needed to ensure a sustainable fiscal position and help achieve more durable growth by improving tax collection, strengthening financial supervision, and addressing longstanding weaknesses in business climate that impede economic diversification.
Finally, the third priority should be to strengthen social protection for the most vulnerable people. The current environment of low growth and widening macroeconomic imbalances risks reversing recent progress made in alleviating poverty. Existing social protections programs are often fragmented, not well-targeted, and cover a small share of the population. The report suggests savings from expansive and untargeted schemes such as fuel subsidies could be put towards helping vulnerable groups.
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Is Blue Eyes A Sign Of Inbreeding For Animals And Humans?
Blue eyes are an inherited trait that can be dominant, recessive, or co-dominant and can be caused by multiple genes in different combinations. Blue eyes can also occur when the iris of one eye takes on a different color than the other eye; this happens during the formation of the egg and sperm during embryogenesis and usually results in heterochromia iridium rather than blue eyes as seen here.
Blue Eyes: A Sign of Inbreeding in Animals
If you’ve ever wondered why some animals have blue eyes, wonder no more. Blue eyes signify that an animal or person is closely related to someone else usually very closely related.
Babies with light-colored eyes are often born to parents who share genes for lighter eye color. Many times, though not always, these parents are blood relatives.
A quick look at history reveals how common it is for kings and queens to marry their siblings or cousins (yes, really) and give birth to children with striking (and medically significant) pale-blue peepers.
Icons like Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn were just two famous people with unusually pale irises. While blue eyes aren’t a medical concern on their own, they can be a symptom of something else inside your body.
For example, suppose you notice your baby has bluish sclera (the white part around his pupils). In that case, he may have congenital glaucoma which means he has abnormally high pressure inside his eyeballs.
This condition can lead to vision loss if left untreated. So while having light-colored eyes isn’t problematic, they can indicate that something else is wrong with your baby’s body.
Blue Eyes: Is Blue Eyes a Sign of Inbreeding Among Humans?
In nature, eye color ranges from brown to green to grey. In humans, it also varies from blue to green to brown. At one point, scientists thought that since humans had more pigmentation in their irises (known as melanin), only light-colored eyes were possible.
However, studies have shown that we can still produce some melanin because humans are exposed to sunlight much less than many other mammals. As such, different colored eyes are likely to be seen among humans around you!
However, for those who do have blue or green eyes is there anything special about them; You might think so if you’re a Viking descendant! Yes indeed!
Blue Eyes: What Does Science Say?
Your melanin levels determine the color of your peepers and even if you don’t have naturally brown eyes, they can still appear brown if you have low levels of melanin. But that’s not to say that there aren’t other factors regarding eye color. For example, studies suggest that iris coloring can also be genetic.
A published study found that people with heterozygous or dominant alleles had darker-colored irises than those with recessive alleles. If one parent has light-colored eyes, it might be possible for their offspring to inherit a diverse set of genes resulting in unique coloring. It’s worth noting that some research suggests that your ethnicity could also impact eye color.
Researchers have observed lighter-colored eyes among certain ethnicities, including East Asians, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Europeans, compared to other groups like Africans and Hispanics. This isn’t necessarily indicative of genetics, though it could be because lighter eyes are more common in these populations due to environmental influences like sun exposure.
And while we’re on the topic of science: No matter what you may have heard about blue-eyed parents having blue-eyed children all of their lives (or at least most), it’s not true! Genetics doesn’t work like that, but we know what determines whether someone will have dark or light-colored eyes: age!
Why Are Some People More Prone to Having Blue Eyes than Others?
Blue eyes are relatively rare, with only around 10% of people having them. So if you have them, chances are you are part of that lucky 10%. But what is it that causes blue eyes to appear at all; What are their genetic roots; And why do they occur in some people but not others; For most species, eye color is determined by an allele (an alternative form) at a single gene locus.
The OCA2 gene is one such gene that’s involved; it encodes an enzyme called tyrosinase, which plays a significant role in melanin synthesis (melanin being responsible for skin and hair coloring). Mutations (or changes) in the OCA2 gene can cause differences in pigmentation between individuals.
In humans, mutations in OCA2 result in lighter or darker shades of brown or greenish-brown eyes. There are several different alleles for eye color: one for brown eyes (B), two for green/hazel (G), and four for blue eyes (A through D). A person with two copies of any given allele will express that trait—so someone who has two copies of allele A will have blue eyes.
Likewise, someone who has two copies of any other allele will express that trait; someone who has two copies of G will have hazel/green eyes. Suppose a person inherits one document each from both parents. In that case, they’ll be heterozygous for that trait and thus likely to display an intermediate phenotype.
Research has shown that blue-eyed people are more likely to be related. And there are several possible explanations. The first is probably easiest to understand: Blue eyes are likely an indicator of what scientists call inbreeding when people marry close relatives, either because they live near each other or because their pool of potential partners is limited.
This can happen in small towns where there aren’t many options or when populations become isolated, as was common among early Americans who settled together in new colonies around the country. Humans have been marrying cousins (or second cousins) long before anyone started measuring eye color. | <urn:uuid:c52bd589-5ccd-452d-8a0d-4663afc57180> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fitbeautyblog.com/is-blue-eyes-a-sign-of-inbreeding-for-animals-and-humans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952541 | 1,262 | 3 | 3 |
The Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative updates its segmentation framework to keep pace with societal, energy industry changes
Twenty-one percent of American consumers fall into the Green Pioneers segment, a “sweet spot” of utility customers who highly value technology and environmental values, according to a report released today by the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC).
For over a decade, SECC has studied consumer attitudes and behaviors around energy, and the latest report is the eighth installment in the SECC’s flagship “Consumer Pulse and Market Segmentation” series. As the only organization that focuses solely on energy consumers, SECC aims to assist stakeholders in understanding consumers as their needs, wants and behaviors evolve over time.
The latest research was conducted from April to June and started with five 30-minute interviews to begin to unpack consumers’ opinions on key energy topics. These conversations were followed by an online survey of 2,500 consumers, which used a series of agree/disagree statements to better understand consumers’ attitudes about technology and electricity.
From this data, the following consumer segments were developed:
Green Pioneers highly value technology and electricity. They understand how technology works and the impact their electricity usage can have on the grid. They represent the “sweet spot” of those who are willing to engage in innovative utility offerings.
Connected Pragmatists are comfortable with technology but are not engaged with their electricity usage. They are, however, potentially interested in energy-saving offerings that do not require a large investment.
Simply Sustainable consumers want to save energy due to their environmental values but are intimidated by technology. They are content to use simple lifestyle approaches to achieve their energy goals.
Trusting Traditionalists understand the impact of their energy use on the environment but don’t make the connection between technology and achieving their energy goals. More than other segments, these consumers trust their electricity providers for information.
Comfort Seekers are all about their personal comfort. They are disinterested in saving energy, and they are not likely to exert much effort to learn about or invest in energy-related technology.
The full report, which can be downloaded here, provides recommended steps for engaging each of the new segments. The research team, including guests from Maru/Matchbox and Questline Digital, will also walkthrough key findings during a free webinar on Tuesday, August 9 at 1 p.m. (ET). | <urn:uuid:1ba3bed9-117d-437c-9ba5-04f9beb4e951> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smartenergycc.org/research-release-consumer-pulse-wave-8/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96346 | 498 | 2.078125 | 2 |
New York – Organizers of a US boat that will join a humanitarian flotilla trying to break the Israeli sea blockade of the Gaza Strip said Monday they were only allowed to bring letters of friendship to Palestinians with them under US law.
A total of 36 US citizens and four crew members will assemble in Athens in coming days to board the US-flagged boat, The Audacity of Hope, and then join other ships in the high seas before sailing toward Gaza, possibly by the end of the week.
The organizers said the US government prohibitedthem from bringing humanitarian and medical assistance to Gaza, which is headed by Hamas.
Thus they said they will carry 3,000 letters to the Palestinians, but other ships may carry relief supplies.
The UN is opposed to the flotilla and has called on organizers to use land routes to bring relief to the Palestinians in order to avoid any confrontation with Israel.
The name of the US boat, The Audacity of Hope, is taken from President Barack Obama’s second book.
The organizers expect the flotilla to face the challenge of the Israeli Defence Forces, which in May, 2010 stopped a three-ship fleet that attempted to break the blockade. A clash aboard the Turkish Mavi Marmara resulted in nine people aboard the ship killed by Israeli commandos.
Leslie Cagan, the US boat organizer, called for Israel to end the blockade and for the US government ‘to play a positive role’ in the removal of the blockade, which Israel said was necessary to prevent arms smuggling by Hamas.
‘We are on a peace mission,’ Cagan told a news conference announcing the US participation in the flotilla. ‘We are unarmed, on a mission that is unambiguous and clear.’
Robert Naiman, the policy director of Just Foreign Policy, a private think tank who will be aboard the US boat said he and other US participants want to demonstrate their personal freedom and as peace activists.
‘We’re sailing to break the blockade on Gaza, which has subjected 1.6 million people to collective punishment in violation of international humanitarian law, as the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and Oxfam have stated,’ said Naiman said, who is a Jewish American from Urbana, Illinois.
The organizers said their boat will join the 12-ship flotilla and if logistics permit, it will sail to Gaza later this week. They said other countries taking part the flotilla include ships from Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Britain, France, Greece and Norway.
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Evaluation & Medication Management
Evaluation and Medication Management consists of our providers sitting down and talking with the patient to gain a complete picture of their symptoms through a comprehensive assessment. They then educate the patient in a way that will help them understand what they are facing and the medication regimen that will help them to best treat their condition.
What Does Treatment Involve?
Depending on the severity of the patient’s symptoms or condition, and based on our provider’s assessment, the patient and provider would work together to come up with a treatment plan and follow ups that are individually tailored to the patient’s needs.
Is Evaluation & Medication Management right for me?
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What can you learn about BC from a pioneering photographer?
Hannah Maynard was an early expert in experimental photography. In the mid-1800s, she started capturing portraits of Victoria’s early settlers and Indigenous communities. She ran a thriving photography studio and was recognized across the country for her creativity and her unique photographic style. But, as a woman in charge of her own business, she faced criticism. This did not stop Maynard from excelling in the world of this new art form and she quickly gained respect as a talented photographer.
One of her techniques involved cutting out and pasting together hundreds of portraits of children by hand. She would send out the montages as part of her renowned Gems of British Columbia. She was also well known for her quirky self-portraits. With explorations of multiple exposures and photo sculpting, she experimented with surrealism years before its time. Without access to tools like digital cameras and Photoshop, creating took time; the methods behind some of her creations remain a mystery to this day. Hannah Maynard did not shy away from exploring ideas of life and death in her art and expressed her own struggles with grief.
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No one wants to think about their child getting sick, but the fact of the matter is that it can happen at any time. When your child falls ill, you want to be sure that they are receiving the best possible care. This means finding a health care provider who is right for your family and ensuring that your children are up-to-date on their vaccinations. This blog post will discuss some tips for ensuring that your children receive the best health care possible.
1) Up-to-Date On Vaccinations
One of the best ways to ensure that your children receive the best health care possible is to make sure they are up-to-date on their vaccinations. Vaccinations help protect children from various illnesses, and not getting them can put your child at risk for serious illness.
Most paediatricians require that infants be vaccinated according to the schedule set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). You can find more information about the CDC’s vaccination schedule on their website. If you have any questions or concerns about vaccines, be sure to talk with your paediatrician. They will address any concerns you may have and help you make an informed decision about vaccinating your child.
2) Finding The Right Health Care Provider
When it comes time to find a health care provider for your children, it is important to do your research. Not all providers are created equal, and you want to be sure that you are choosing one who meets your family’s needs so that you won’t feel the need to contact a medical malpractice attorney. Some things you may want to consider when choosing a provider include location, hours of operation, insurance accepted, and specialities.
If you have a specific doctor or paediatrician that you would like to use, check with them first to see if they accept new patients. If they don’t, ask them to refer to someone who does. You can also search online for reviews of local health care providers. This can help give you a better idea of what to expect before making an appointment.
3) Good Nutrition And Exercise
Another important part of ensuring that your children receive the best health care possible is making sure they have a healthy diet and get enough exercise. This doesn’t mean you have to become a nutritionist or fitness instructor, but there are some simple things you can do to help your children stay healthy.
Encourage your children to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and avoid sugary drinks and processed foods. Make sure they get at least 60 minutes of exercise each day. This can include playing outside, going for a walk, or swimming. If you make being healthy fun, your children will be more likely to stick with it as they get older.
4) Regular Check-ups
One of the best ways to ensure that your children receive the best health care possible is to take them for regular check-ups. This allows their paediatrician to track their development and ensure they are on track. It also gives you a chance to ask any questions or raise any concerns you may have.
Most paediatricians recommend check-ups at least once a year, but some may suggest more or less frequent visits, depending on your child’s age and health history. Be sure to follow the doctor’s recommendations when it comes to check-ups. This will help ensure that your children are getting the care they need.
In conclusion, there are several things you can do to ensure that your children receive the best health care possible. This includes finding a good health care provider, being up-to-date on vaccinations, providing a healthy diet and plenty of exercises, and taking them for regular check-ups. Following these tips will help keep your children healthy and happy. | <urn:uuid:76ad3cf2-ae6c-45b3-931d-82deea0b5ca3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.mumstheword.me/2022/01/24/how-to-ensure-your-children-receive-the-best-health-care-possible/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.963369 | 767 | 2.21875 | 2 |
“I laughed so hard that tears rolled down my legs.”
This was the quote that greeted the patients who lay down on the examination bed of my dear attending (senior doctor) at Cleveland Clinic Florida during my fellowship days, written as it was on a sheet of paper that she had so thoughtfully stuck on the ceiling above the bed. It was an attempt to elicit a smile from women whose daily life otherwise was often devastated by a health issue that they were conditioned by societal norms to keep under the wraps; the problem of urine leakage on laughing, coughing, sneezing or any other physical activity. And these were not just underprivileged women from backgrounds that did not accord them the empathy they were entitled to. These were often well-educated, gainfully employed women who carried a secret that they felt the need to be ashamed about.
Urine and bowel leakage are conditions that can be so debilitating that they can turn a woman’s daily life into a constant struggle to find a toilet or be near a toilet. The scant attention accorded to this torture may be pardonable if it wasn’t such a prevalent problem. Unfortunately, one in three women in UK have urine leakage; 33 per cent of women worldwide have undiagnosed obstetric anal sphincter injury during childbirth, a significant proportion of whom go on to suffer from faecal incontinence (leakage).
The numbers in India are not known, but they are unlikely to be any different. They are not known partly because India lags behind in research. The larger reason is the silence around the problem. The veil of secrecy is ironic because these problems are sequelae of one of the most common life events, one that almost all women go through: childbirth. It is a commonly known fact that India fares very poorly in maternal health indicators. However, what is rarely spoken of is that for every woman who dies in childbirth, 20 more suffer from injuries during childbirth that can reduce them to the ultimate state of human wretchedness.
Take the case of an obstetric fistula (formation of a small opening between the vagina and the urinary bladder or between the vagina and rectum), a particularly distressing complication that can result from obstructed labour. It can ruin the life of a young woman, barely 18–23 years old, at the cusp of life as the resultant incontinence of urine or faeces can lead to deep personal shame, abandonment by the husband and family and social ostracism. And this is not the fate of only rural women who do not have access to the best of medical care. Urban India hides stories that can be in equal parts shocking and tragic. And these problems may not manifest immediately after childbirth. Urine and bowel leakage and the other major problem resulting from damage of the pelvic floor support, namely prolapse (bulging down of the pelvic organs) can manifest many years after childbirth, even after the children have grown up and flown the coop.
Childbirth is celebrated. However, problems that arise from it, problems that can make a woman’s life a nightmare, are pushed under the carpet. Why? Because these injuries affect parts of the body which must be kept completely hidden from view and of which women dare not speak from a deeply ingrained sense of modesty. Their misery is thus utter, lonely and complete.
The problem is further compounded by the larger societal issue of lack of access of toilets. 53 per cent of Indian homes overall and 69 per cent of homes in rural India don’t have toilets. Women in rural India postpone defecation and urination until night time so as to be able to complete their ablutions under the cover of darkness. The situation for the urban Indian woman, whether middle class or underprivileged, is also disappointing if not as dire as in rural India. It is astounding how even the national capital region, for all its transformation in last few decades, lags behind severely in offering much needed amenities for women.
Even a few hours out in the city can turn distressing for any woman because of the lack of access to clean toilets. It is not unknown for an urban woman also to postpone urination and defecation and to drink and eat less to facilitate the same. These bad habits developed over time can lead to major health problems. Drinking less water can lead to concentration of urine, especially urinary irritants that can over time irritate the bladder wall and cause a condition called as urgency incontinence, a form of urine leakage caused by a constant ‘urge’ to go to the restroom. Holding urine over time can cause the bladder muscles to become flabby and not contract well and can lead to repeated urinary tract infections. The constant struggle and shame associated with this normal bodily function can lead over time to uncoordinated pelvic floor muscle contraction that can cause difficulty in emptying the bladder and/or in defecation.
In such a scenario, imagine the plight of a woman suffering from bowel and bladder control issues? Imagine the predicament of a woman, whose life is anyways beholden to a toilet because of her health problem, when she is out for work in a city that does not provide any public amenities.
It does not have to be this way. Treatments are available. However, what is needed is for the wall of silence to be breached. It is time that we speak up and take the veil off this burning issue. It is time that women stop accepting these issues as a part of growing old and demand the best possible care. And it is time that we organise ourselves and ask for better public amenities as it is our right.
As a urogynecologist (a doctor specialising in the treatment of bladder and bowel control problems and prolapse) and the founder of the NGO ARMMAN (www.armman.org) which works in the field of mother and child health, this issue is one that is not only close to my heart but one I am committed to keep in the public domain. I hope this blog becomes a focal point for the same in addition to informing you about common urogynaecological problems and their treatments and discussing simple solutions. I hope this becomes a forum for women where we can discuss this important issue openly, fearlessly and without a false sense of modesty that only works to ensure that we have an inferior quality of life. Remember that the ‘quality of your life matters!”
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Becoming European: Abou Sene, fisherman, activist and asylum seeker from the Gambia
Just one day after the World Refugee Day, join this event to hear Abou Sene, one of the protagonists of our documentary ‘Stolen Fish’, in conversation with Anna Alboth, our Europe Media Officer.
Why do people leave Gambia? How does it feel? What does new European Abou dream about?
ABOU SENE is a Gambian fisherman and activist who met Polish director Gosia Juszczak in 2019 in Gambia. Both decided to work together on Gosia’s ‘Stolen Fish’ documentary to make sure Abou’s story and message were given as much reach as possible. ‘Stolen Fish’ draws a line between the influence of Chinese companies on Gambian economy and drivers of migration to Europe. At the end of last year, Abou decided to step into the unknown, sell his boat and cross into Europe. He made it to the Canary Islands in November, and is now waiting for a decision on his asylum request in mainland Spain.
ANNA ALBOTH is Europe Media Officer at Minority Rights Group. She led our ‘Media, Minorities and MIgration’ programme, which led among others to the production of ‘Stolen Fish’ and journalist field trips to places touched by migration.
Make sure you tune in and hear Abou and Anna talk about migration, and share your favourite quotes using the hashtag #MRGSofaTalk. You can also submit your questions in advance by email at events
WHEN? Monday 21 June at 5 pm (London) / 6 pm (Madrid)
WHERE? Follow the event live on our Facebook page!
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Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino’s service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia—only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships.
The authoritative edition of Twelfth Night from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:
-The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference
-Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation
-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
-Full explanatory notes conveniently linked to the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries
-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases
-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language
-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books
-An annotated guide to further reading
Essay by Catherine Belsey
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.
Bruce Coville's latest adaptation of one of the Bard's masterpieces, William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, illus. by Tim Raglin, will forsooth elicit applause-and laughter-from youngsters as it transports them to ancient Illyria where not all is as it appears. With an abundance of quotations from the original play plus smooth scene transitions, the accessible narrative reveals the plot's ample comical convolutions, put into merry motion with the shipwrecked Viola's decision to disguise herself as a young man to gain entry into the court of Duke Orsino. Raglin's earth-toned, etching-like art enhances the robust humor with its caricature portraits of the players. | <urn:uuid:ac02986b-9724-461b-8b15-15a3c1b226b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.apple.com/au/book/isbn9781476788609?ct=twelfthnight_9781476788609_ssaussau&uo=8&at=101rBC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.899851 | 558 | 2.234375 | 2 |
A New Literal Translation, from the Original Greek of All the Apostolical Epistles: With a Commentary, and Notes, Philological, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical. To which is Added, A History of the Life of the Apostle Paul, Volume 6
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A facility in Levenshulme, Manchester that is specifically tailored for young adults with autistic spectrum conditions
Designed specifically for people including young adults with autistic spectrum conditions, it’s a great example of how expert planning, co-operation and innovation can create a place where people at different stages of their developmental journey, can find peace and happiness in a safe environment.
The consideration of how people use, engage and interact with their personal and shared space has is central to the scheme’s design. Good design and technology can work to reduce anxiety and increase the well-being of residents in a positive environment.
Great Places work in partnership with City Care, a well regarded support provider specialising in support for people with autism. Our combined expertise in the areas of supported housing and developing for a specific kind of learning disability group, enables us to deliver a truly innovative
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One way to think of mediation is “assisted negotiation.” A neutral person tries to help parties settle their litigation.
Sometimes a court in the United States will encourage or even order parties to try mediation. But courts and mediators cannot force parties to settle.
If the mediation is successful and the parties reach an agreement, they will usually put their agreement in writing as “a settlement agreement.” The settlement agreement is a contract and may be enforced by a court. So let’s say Patty sues David for $1,000. Mary acts as a mediator and helps Patty and David resolve the dispute. If David agrees to settle the dispute with Patty for $400 the case is over but David is contractually obligated to pay $400.
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Margot Stöckl, born in 1939, comes from Zillertal, Austria, and was already in her youth passionate about creative and fine arts. Although she consequently attended the Höhere Technische Lehranstalt für Kunsthandwerk in Innsbruck, it took years before she was finally able to devote all her energy and time to art.
Stöckl works with wood, clay, stone and metal. She became known through a still-growing series of works entitled "Kopfarbeit" (eng.: Headwork). For this series, the artist depicts expressive portraits of ideal-typical personifications ("The Doer", "The Knower", "The Unbending") or representatives of different cultures ("The Iroquois", "The Aztec"). These works are similar to the tradition of her compatriot Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783). | <urn:uuid:2a517d91-1ab3-49e9-b51e-92546596576d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.arsmundi.de/en/artists/stoeckl-margot/?properties=9a60180ebb234754b163e24321db8d36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.943921 | 196 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The Foundation Programme is a two-year programme which doctors undertake after graduating to enable them to practise as a doctor in the UK.
It precedes specialist or general practice training. A Foundation Programme (FP) post is a job – and foundation doctors work in the NHS, treating patients.
These doctors will go on to be a valued part of the NHS workforce, with over 4,300 more doctors working in the NHS compared to last year, according to the latest statistics up to December 2021.
How does it work?
Once a medical student has graduated, they must apply for a Foundation Programme to continue their path towards becoming a more experienced doctor. Most applicants are UK students who have graduated from a government-funded place within a UK medical school.
What has happened this year?
This year, there have been record numbers of applicants for the 2022 Foundation Programme. 8,209 foundation training places were filled and 791 applicants were placed on a reserve list.
This is a higher number than in previous years and, like in most recent years, the Foundation Programme is oversubscribed. We are aware this can be unsettling for people.
That is why our plans ensure all those who want a place and graduate from medical school will be allocated one.
The government, working with Health Education England and the UK Foundation Programme Office have already created an extra 402 Foundation Programme places to ensure the maximum number of students can start.
We have also brought forward the allocation process for students on the reserve list to April (it normally happens in June) to reduce the period of uncertainty.
This means everyone on the reserve list will be allocated their foundation school in April, moving into their Foundation Year 1 posts from August 2022.
Why is it oversubscribed?
The UK Foundation Programme works closely with UK medical schools to predict the number of graduates each year. However, there are additional students who are also able to apply, including students graduating from independent medical schools or those with an overseas campus, as well as those who have studied abroad.
We cannot always predict with certainty how many of these additional students will apply each year, and there is also some fluctuation in the number of government-funded students who apply – for example due to students resitting exams or taking a year out.
What will happen to people on the reserve list?
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We all know that good things do bring some problems along with them, so does the pregnancy also. Many ladies might not be aware of these pregnancy problems, but these are very common among all the pregnant ladies. We are sharing these common pregnancy problems here with you all.
This is one of the most common pregnancy problems which almost every pregnant lady face.
Many couples these days are dealing with the problem of infertility. Infertility is a problem which can be because of females or males or maybe both. The couple is trying to conceive a baby or a female is trying to get pregnant, but they are unsuccessful even after trying for the long time period. These days medical science has made a lot of progress, and that is why the Infertility can be treated now.
Most of us know what infertility is, but we are not aware of the causes of infertility. Of course, it is because of some medical and physical complications only.
During pregnancy, you will need to take proper care of you. From your food to your health to your exercises, your medicines, you will have to take care of all. So, to help you out on the journey of your pregnancy, we are going to share these tips for a healthy pregnancy.
Take a healthy diet, which includes whole foods. Protein, fiber, healthy fats, and most importantly folate, these all should be there in your diet. For folate, you can eat more green leafy vegetables. Try to eat more fresh food and organic food. As during pregnancy, you will require lots of nutrients, so that is why you need to take proper care of your diet.
Cervical cancer is the type of cancer which is related to the uterus. The cervix which is the lowest part of the uterus and is in between uterus and vagina, it gets infected in the Cervical Cancer. Because of the growth of the abnormal cells in the Cervix, the Cervical Cancer is caused.
These cells keep growing and multiplying, which increases the risk more and more. If the Cervical Cancer is not detected at the right time or right stage, then it can become life- threatening as well. The risk of cervical cancer is such that it can even spread to other body parts as well.
A woman's body goes through a lot of hormonal changes after childbirth. Some women experience intense episodes of mood swings called "baby blues." These are primarily sad, weepy feelings that usually start on the day after the birth and last around 12 days. Our Gynecologist in Noida specializes in treating the severe form of hormonal changes known as postpartum depression. Postpartum depression may start right after childbirth and can extend up to a year. Therefore it is necessary to approach the best Gynecologist in Noida extension to ensure that you have a healthy balance of hormones.
Baby blues include crying, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, fear of being alone, loneliness, lack of confidence in your motherhood capacity, mood swings, etc. When you look for the best Gynecologist near me for pregnancy, Doctor Neelu Agrawal would be the right doctor to approach. Severe forms of postpartum depression can cause extreme nervousness, fear or dislike of touching the baby, feelings of emptiness and hopelessness, lack of sleep or feeling sleepy all day, frightening thoughts about the baby, loss of appetite, irritability, lack of energy, etc. Approaching the best Gynecologist in greater Noida would help you overcome these symptoms.
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The Mysterious Ghost Pipe Plant
During the summer a mysterious, rare and unusual plant can be found in the deep shadows of the forest. Between June and September, pearly white ghost pipe plants appear. Hiding from the sun, they emerge near the base of mature trees and the cool moist shade of deep forests and are known for their waxy, almost translucent stems and flowers. The stem at the top of each plant, where a single blossom appears, points downward, giving it the appearance of a pipe. This downward shape of the flower conveniently prevents rainwater from diluting its nectar, which attracts pollinators.
These plants have also been called Indian pipes or ghost flowers due to the fact that, unlike most plants, they lack color. These fascinating wild plants have no chlorophyll, don’t depend on photosynthesis and grow in the dark of forests where other wild plants more dependent on sunlight would have difficulty growing.
I find these plants this time of year while hiking our wooded trails and always stop for a close look and to take a few pictures. The ghostly white plants stand out among the rust-colored pine needles and bark of the mature trees in the dark understory.
Here is some information about these fascinating plants from the U.S. Forest Service website.
Ghost pipe (also known as Indian Pipe) is a member of the Monotropaceae family. The genus name Monotropa is Greek for “one turn” referring to sharp recurving of top of the stem, and the specific epithet is Latin for “one flowered.” This native plant species is found throughout the majority of the United States in humus in deep, shady woods at low to moderate elevations. This species is also found in Asia.
These perennial plants are generally 4-8 inches tall, with small scale-like leaves, and white five parted flowers. Plants only have one flower per stem, and flowering occurs roughly from June through September. Stems can be found alone but are commonly found in small clusters.
It is striking in appearance because it is completely white in appearance, although individuals can have pink coloration and black specks. How does this plant survive without the green pigment chlorophyll? Chlorophyll is responsible for harnessing the sun’s energy to produce carbohydrates, a process known as photosynthesis. Ghost pipe saps nutrients and carbohydrates from tree roots through an intermediate source, myccorhizal fungi in the genera Russula and Lactarius.
The website link can be found at: https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/monotropa_uniflora.shtml
After pollination, the stem and single flower turn upward producing fruit. The fruit is a small, brownish capsule. When it dies, it dries up and its seeds are released through slits in the skin. When it completes its annual life cycle it turns a blackish brown color.
Ghost pipe plants are perennial and will reappear in the same location each year. The plant is considered rare, however, it is not listed on the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s list of endangered, threatened and species of special concern plants.
The plant is very difficult to propagate and cultivate and will likely not survive transplanting from the wild. An abundant amount of forest humus around the plant would be necessary, as well as the appropriate fungi needed for its survival. It also needs the deep shade of mature trees. If you find it the woods near you house or on regular jaunts through our region’s forestlands, take pictures and enjoy its unearthly presence.
I hope you’ll join me as we explore The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor’s woodlands. Perhaps you’ll discover the ghost pipe plant and pause to take in the amazing plant that grows in the shadows. We live in a beautiful place called The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor. Together let us enjoy it, care for it and pass it on.
Additional information on ghost pipe plants was sourced from The Chattahoochee Nature Center website and article by Emma Schell, “The Flower that Grows in the Dark.”
Bill Reid is the Chief Ranger of The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor He can be reached at 860-774-3300 or firstname.lastname@example.org
Exploring The Last Green Valley, Sunday, July 24, 2022
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NARVA, Estonia — Like many of the ethnic Russians who live along Estonia’s eastern border with Russia, Stansislava Larchenko could not believe that President Vladimir V. Putin had gone on a killing spree in Ukraine.
Ms. Larchenko, 51, got angry with her son when he said in February after Mr. Putin invaded Ukraine that Russian soldiers were killing civilians. She insisted the carnage was the work of Ukrainians dressed in Russian uniforms, a trope of the state television beamed in from Russia that she watched.
“For me, Russia was always a liberator, a country that got attacked but never attacked others,” Ms. Larchenko said in the Estonian border city of Narva, NATO’s easternmost outpost and the European Union’s most ethnically Russian city.
But after four months of war, Ms. Larchenko said she had “taken off my rose-colored glasses” — and stopped quarreling with her son, Denis, 29, after taking his advice to stop watching Russian state TV.
“Psychologically,” she said, “I have passed over to the other side.”
In a city where nearly everyone speaks Russian instead of Estonian and faces social pressure to stick with their ethnic group, Ms. Larchenko is unusual in her willingness to state openly that she no longer sees Russia as a force for good but as an aggressor.
That so few Russians in Estonia’s free and democratic society are ready to do this is perhaps an indicator of how difficult any change of heart will be for people in Russia, where open criticism of the war is a criminal offense.
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On 31st January 2019 Amnesty published the outcome of the assessment conducted by KonTerra following the suicides of Gaëtan Mootoo and Rosalind McGregor and against a backdrop of culture and restructuring challenges. The scope of the assessment explored two questions:
(1) What are the major lessons that Amnesty International can learn from these tragic incidents?
(2) What additional measures, if any, would be recommended…to ensure adequate support to our staff and their wellbeing..
You can access the report here and I don’t intend to rehash the contents but to answer the question I set out in the title. The report is easy to navigate although uncomfortable to read: it serves as a case study in leadership failings, ‘people services’ that didn’t serve the people and transformational change that destroyed. It’s required reading because I challenge you to read this report and not use its findings for your personal and business development.
You may take a quick look and discount the relevance to your own organisation: Amnesty is cause driven, it’s a charity and its work is highly specialised. You may consider that the people who have the opportunity to serve are “lucky” in their opportunity or that the problems of this type of organisation or employee are unlikely to align with what you see around you.
Amnesty’s work may be niche but the motivation is not unique; I know many individuals, roles or professions who strongly believe in the values and rights that they seek to uphold. It’s that motivation that helps them ‘go the extra mile’ and it’s also the challenge that can create a sense of martyrdom in approach to work or create secondary victims. These are themes picked up in this report but they are not the catalyst for an unwell organisation.
So if its not the tragedy and horror that people deal with every day that is undermining wellbeing and the overall organisational health what is it? The answer to question number 2 is that the root cause of stress is the internal culture, work environment and leadership. The top 5 identified causes of stress are:
- Conflicting priorities and demands
- Heavy workloads and long hours
- Time/resource insufficient for the job
- Ineffective communication
- Overly hierarchical structure
Sound familiar? Amnesty, for its specialist function, is still a people ‘business’: 49% of respondents did not feel able to ask questions or challenge the status quo. The consistent theme is a negative workplace culture that is long established escalating in consequence of a lengthy programme of “transformational” change. Views of the Leadership and People and OD teams must make for exceptionally uncomfortable reading (recognised in Amnesty’s response) but also present a smorgasbord of feedback that you’d be hard pressed not to improve upon.
A stand out quote for me was on the need for leaders to continuously ‘walk the talk’ to remain authentic, true to mission and to avoid the ‘hypocrisy’ label that fatally undermines trust: “They (Amnesty) need to be honest and they need to be transparent. They tell governments that they’re speaking truth to power, but they have been secretive, dishonest and corrupt themselves“.
Towards the end of the report you’ll find some recommendations which include a series of interventions and timelines to move towards becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organisation along with insight into what the participants need from Amnesty. There are many take-aways and I hope the read prompts some reflection. One final point from me is the reference in the report (at page 54) to the tragic catalyst for action: the two individuals who took their own lives. Don’t wait for crisis to be the impetus to make wellbeing a priority. The time is now. | <urn:uuid:7b7e2c9d-7b1a-4c96-8229-289e1a499615> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bhamiltonbrucecom.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/why-is-amnestys-staff-wellbeing-report-required-leadership-reading/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.954859 | 792 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Sonny Terry started playing harp in his teens, as a blind street musician in North Carolina. After a stint with a medicine show, he hooked up with the popular ragtime singer/guitarist Blind Boy Fuller. When he was 23, he made his recording debut, backing up Fuller. Barely a year later in 1938, he was wowing New York audiences at Carnegie Hall, appearing solo as part of John Hammond's Spirituals to Swing concert.
After Fuller's death in 1940, Terry teamed up with Brownie McGhee and the two began a ...more
After Fuller's death in 1940, Terry teamed up with Brownie McGhee and the two began a long lived musical partnership. It took them from the socially conscious New York folk music scene of the forties, where they lived, worked and recorded with people like Leadbelly, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, to the concert halls of Europe as premier blues artists of the sixties. Sonny and Brownie recorded copiously and were regulars in folk clubs and at festivals, paving the way for today's spate of "unplugged" blues artists. In 1982 the duo split up and Sonny worked solo, even recording an album with Johnny Winter.
Sonny Terry died in 1986, leaving behind many recordings and numerous fans -- as well as harp players trying to duplicate his virtuosity. He was a true originator and a powerful entertainer.
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New Mexico offers new COVID-19 crisis line
SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Human Services Department (NMHSD) is offering another free crisis line called the Cope with COVID-19 Crisis Counseling Program.
The program is available seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The number to call is (505) 954-1057.
Dr. Neal Bowen, the director of the Behavioral Health Services Division with NMHSD, said mental health is crucial.
"We are seeing the cost of the pandemic in the mental health field in general. We’re seeing elevated rates in anxiety, elevated rates of depression, and more expression of other kinds of difficulties including trauma reactions,” he said.
Dr. Bowen said the crisis line specifically focused on the mental health effects from the pandemic is a frontline intervention.
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Supporting children by giving them better access to education and culture is the approach taken by the Wilo Foundation. This includes giving young people easy, child-friendly access to singing and music.
As part of its community involvement in the Oberfranken/Hof region, the Wilo Foundation began in 2012 to support a new project run by the Hof Music Academy, “Piano from Age Four”. This project gives children as young as four years old the chance to learn to play the piano.
The Suzuki Method developed by Japanese violin teacher Shinichi Suzuki, which has a long-established place in early instrumental training at the Music Academy of the Hof Symphony Orchestra, has proved its worth as a method for young children all over the world. Since the Suzuki Method involves learning to play music by first listening and then imitating the sounds, even very young children can learn to play an instrument. The idea of this ‘native language method’, as the Suzuki Method is also known, was adopted by a piano teacher at the Music Academy of the Hof Symphony Orchestra and developed into a piano teaching method in its own right. This is reflected in the “Piano from Age Four” project run by the Hof Music Academy. It enables children as young as four years old to learn to play the piano by starting with familiar children’s songs.
Our funding partner:
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Condors are soaring again over Northern California's coastal redwoods
REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — The endangered California condor returned to soar the skies over the state's far northern coast redwood forests on Tuesday for the first time in more than a century.
Two captive-bred birds were released from a pen in Redwood National Park, about an hour's drive south of the Oregon border, under a project aimed at restoring the giant vultures to their historic habitat in the Pacific Northwest.
The two male condors were moved into staging area at late morning and a remotely controlled gate was opened. After a few minutes of warily eyeing the opening, the birds stepped one by one through the opening, spread their giant wings and took off.
"They just jumped up and took flight off into the distance," Tiana Williams-Claussen, wildlife director for the region's Yurok tribe, said in a webcast.
Condors were last spotted in the park area around 1892, authorities said. The California condor is the largest native North American bird, with a wingspan of nearly 10 feet (3 meters). The scavenger was once widespread but had virtually disappeared by the 1970s because of poaching, lead poisoning from eating animals shot by hunters and destruction of its habitat.
The birds can live for 60 years and fly vast distances in search of carrion, so their range could extend into several states.
Federal and local fish and wildlife agencies are involved in the restoration project headed by the Yurok tribe, which traditionally has considered the California condor a sacred animal and has been working for years to return the species to the tribe's ancestral territory.
"For countless generations, the Yurok people have upheld a sacred responsibility to maintain balance in the natural world. Condor reintroduction is a real-life manifestation of our cultural commitment to restore and protect the planet for future generations," tribal Chairman Joseph L. James said in a statement.
Two more condors were set to be released later — after biologists determine that the two birds who took to the skies Tuesday have displayed appropriate behavior, authorities said.
The condors, including one female and three males, are between 2 and 4 years old. Two were hatched at the Oregon Zoo and two at the Peregrine Fund's World Center for Birds of Prey in Idaho.
In the early 1980s, all 22 condors remaining in the wild were trapped and brought into a captive-breeding program that began releasing the giant vultures into Southern California's Los Padres National Forest in 1992.
That flock has been expanding its range while other condors now occupy parts of California's Central Coast, Arizona, Utah and Baja California, Mexico. The total population now numbers more than 500 birds in captivity and in the wild.
Two years ago, California condors were spotted in Sequoia National Park, in California's Sierra Nevada, for the first time in nearly 50 years.
However, that same year, a dozen adults and two chicks died when a wildfire set by an arsonist ravaged their territory on the Big Sur coast.
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The House standing committee on industry, innovation, science and resources has announced the launch of an inquiry into developing Australia’s space industry, chaired by former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce.
Joyce said the committee would draw from industry feedback to explore ways in which policy could facilitate the growth of the sector.
“The Australian Space Agency has a goal to triple the size of the sector to $12 billion and create an additional 20,000 jobs over the next decade,” he noted.
“This inquiry will examine ways to achieve this.”
Specifically, the inquiry aims to identify solutions required to strengthen support of domestic and international space related activities, which include:
- Development of space satellites, technology and equipment;
- International collaboration, engagement and missions;
- Commercialisation of research and development, including flow on benefits to other industry sectors;
- Future research capacity, workforce development and creation; and
- Other related matters.
Joyce stressed that the activities of the space industry extend beyond “rockets and astronauts”, pointing to its broader contribution to the development of technology and equipment used in everyday life.
“There are enormous opportunities for individuals, organisations and communities to take advantage of this growing sector, particularly in rural and regional areas,” Joyce said.
The committee has invited stakeholders to participate, with submissions open until Friday, 29 January 2021.
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"गायें बिल्लियाँ नहीं होती हैं।"
Translation:Cows are not cats.
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I get how "Cows eat grass." and "Cows don't eat carrion." are generally true statements about cows. However "Cows are not cats." seems different to me since it is not information about cows. it is sort of nonsense, while the other two statements could be informative, say, to a child. If बिल्लियाँ could be understood as "felines", I could understand this sentence as "a general truth." Perhaps a child would not know the word "feline", but I think it would be more natural to say "A cow is not in the cat family." But that seems too obvious state. Hindi speakers, to your mind is this a good example of the use/meaning of होता है?
Of course not,but there are many other instances where such sentences are like - मैं एक मछली हूँ, मैं सब्जी नहीं हूँ,इत्यादि| So i think we should expect these kind of sentence from duo.
The use of 'hona' here is for 'gnomic' truths or statements about general principles.
In Old English (Anglo-Saxon) you also had two verbs - 'wesan' = 'to be, to exist', and 'bēon' = 'to be', but as gnomic statements. The latter became our general infinitive 'to be'. So "Cattas ne bēoð hundas' means 'cats shall not be dogs,' or 'cyning bið anwealda' means 'a king shall be sovereign'.
Hindi seems to do something similar by using 'hoti' in addition to 'hãi'.
Hindi does not have a definite article that's equivalent to 'the'. If you really want to specify definiteness, you can use यह/वह (this/that) but otherwise, definiteness is inferred from context. So, for most sentences, you can translate into English with or without the 'the'.
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Who was visited by an angel in the Bible?
An angel of the Lord appears to Gideon, and in verse 22 Gideon fears for his life because he has seen an angel of the Lord face to face.
How many times did an angel appear in the Bible?
Angels are mentioned 273 times in the Bible.
Who was the angel that appeared to John in Revelation?
Connection with the Book of Daniel
Rashi interprets Daniel’s Son of Man to be the archangel Gabriel.
What did Jesus say about angels?
Jesus said: “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.” (Matt 18:10). Finally, angels’ primary care is for those who trust in Jesus.
Who are the 7 angels of God?
Chapter 20 of the Book of Enoch mentions seven holy angels who watch, that often are considered the seven archangels: Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel, Saraqael, Raguel, and Remiel. The Life of Adam and Eve lists the archangels as well: Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael and Joel.
How do angels look according to the Bible?
In the Book of Ezekiel, the prophet’s vision depicts them as having four faces: that of a lion, an ox, an eagle, and a human. They have straight legs, four wings, and bull hooves for feet that gleam like polished brass. One set of wings covers their body, and the other is used for flight.
What are the 4 types of angels?
- Dominations or Lordships.
- Powers or Authorities.
- Principalities or Rulers.
Who is the angel of peace in the Bible?
Phanuel (angel) – Wikipedia.
Who is the angel of wisdom?
Jophiel/Dina is described as an angel of the seventh heaven, a Cabalistic guardian of the Torah (and wisdom itself), who taught 70 languages to souls at the dawn of creation. The Zohar lists her as a Great Angel Chief in charge of 53 legions who superintend Torah-readings on the Sabbath.
Who are angels and what is their purpose?
In Christianity and Islam, angels function mainly as God’s messengers (mostly announcing births and deaths), but in modern times they function more as guardians. Indeed, the word “angel” has come to describe any hero or benefactor. Though angels, by their nature, serve God, they also serve mankind directly.
How many angels are in heaven?
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The hill-man invited to the christening
The hill-people are excessively frightened during thunder. When, therefore, they see bad weather coming on, they lose no time in getting to the shelter of their hills. This terror is also the cause of their not being able to endure the beating of a drum. They take it to be the rolling of thunder. It is, therefore, a good recipe for banishing them to beat a drum every day in the neighbourhood of their hills, for they immediately pack up, and depart to some quieter residence.
A farmer lived once in great friendship and concord with a hill-man, whose hill was in his lands. One time when his wife was about to have a child, it gave him great perplexity to think that he could not well avoid inviting the hill-man to the christening, which might, not improbably, bring him into ill repute with the priest and the other people of the village. He was going about pondering deeply, but in vain, how he might get out of this dilemma, when it came into his head to ask the advice of the boy that kept his pigs, who had a great head-piece, and had often helped him before. The pig-boy instantly undertook to arrange the matter with the hill-man in such a manner that he should not only stay away without being offended, but, moreover, give a good christening present.
Accordingly, when it was night, he took a sack on his shoulder, went to the hill-man's hill, knocked, and was admitted. He delivered his message, gave his master's compliments, and requested the honour of his company at the christening. The hill-man thanked him, and said—
"I think it is but right I should give you a christening present."
With these words he opened his money-chests, bidding the boy hold up his sack while he poured money into it.
"Is there enough now?" said he, when he had put a good quantity into it.
"Many give more, few give less," replied the boy.
The hill-man once more fell to filling the sack, and again asked—
"Is there enough now?"
The boy lifted the sack a little off the ground to see if he was able to carry any more, and then answered—
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Trump Versus Comey:
The Politics of Lawlessness, Lying and Fake News
by Henry A. Giroux
Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey as the director of the FBI has caused a firestorm around the country, but for the wrong reasons. Rather than see Trump’s actions as another example of the unraveling of a lawless and crooked government, the mainstream press largely focused on the question of whether Trump or Comey are lying. Even worse, the debate in some quarters has degenerated into the personal issue and question of whose side one is on regarding the testimony. Testifying before a Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey claimed that in meetings with the president, Trump had not only asked him if he wanted to keep his job, but also demanded what amounted to a loyalty pledge from him. Comey saw these interventions as an attempt to develop a patronage relationship with him and viewed them as part of a larger attempt to derail an FBI investigation into National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s links to Russia. What Comey implies but does not state directly is that Trump wanted to turn the FBI into the loyal arm and accomplished agent of corrupt political power.
Comey also stated that he did not want to be alone with the president, going so far as to ask Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General to make sure in the future that such meetings would not take place because he did not trust Trump. Comey also accused Trump of lying about the FBI being in disarray, slandering him, and misrepresenting the reasons for his firing. And most importantly, Trump had possibly engaged in an obstruction of justice. In fact, Comey was so distrustful of Trump that he took notes of his exchanges with him and leaked the content of some of the memos to a friend at Columbia University who passed on the contents to a reporter at The New York Times. Comey stated outright he leaked the information because he thought Trump would lie about their conversations and that he wanted to prompt the appointment of a special counsel.
Suffering from what appears to be malignant narcissism and a pathological contempt for the truth, Trump has tweeted that Comey’s testimony had vindicated him and that Comey was a liar and a leaker. Of course, Trump made no mention of the fact that Comey leaked non-classified information because he did not trust anyone at the Department of Justice, especially since it was led by Trump’s crony, Jeff Sessions. Since it goes without question that Trump is a serial liar, there is a certain irony in Trump accusing Comey, a lifelong Republican and highly respected director of the FBI, of lying. As Mehdi Hasan, appearing on Democracy Now, observes:
From a political point of view, we know that one of the biggest flaws in Donald Trump’s presidency, his candidacy, his ability to be president, is that he’s a serial fabricator. Now you have the former top law enforcement officer of this country going in front of the Senate, under oath, saying he—that, you know, “Those are lies, plain and simple,” he said, referring to Trump’s description of his firing. He said, “I was worried he would lie.” He says, “I was worried about the nature of the man.” …And there was a quite funny tweet that went viral last night, which said, you know, “Trump is saying he’s a liar. Comey is saying Trump’s a liar. Well, who do you believe? Do you believe an FBI director who served under two—who served under three presidents from two parties? Or do you believe the guy who said Obama was born in Kenya? And, you know, that’s what faces us today.”
Let’s be clear. Trump is a salesman and a bully. He constantly assumes the macho swagger of a loud TV used car salesman in an annoying commercial while at the same time, as Rebecca Solnit observes, he bullies facts and truths as well as friends and acquaintances. He is obsessed with power and prides himself on the language of command, loyalty, and humiliation. His biggest fear is that the United States still retains the memory of a real democracy.
Trump cannot be trusted because he not only infects political discourse with a discourse of hate, bigotry, and lies, but also because he has allowed an ideology to take over the White House built on the use of a species of fake news in which the truth is distorted for ideological, political, or commercial reasons. Under the Trump administration, lying and fake news have become an industry and tool of power. All administrations and governments lie, but under Trump lying has become normalized, a calling card for corruption and lawlessness, one that provides the foundation for authoritarianism.
A democracy cannot exist without informed citizens and public spheres and educational apparatuses that uphold standards of truth, honesty, evidence, facts, and justice. Under Trump, fake news has become a weaponized policy for legitimating ignorance and civic illiteracy. Not only has Trump lied repeatedly, he has attacked the critical media, claimed journalists are enemies of the American people, and argued that the media is the opposition party. There is more at stake here than the threat of censorship or the normalization of lying, there is also an attack on traditional sources of information and the public spheres that produce them. Trump’s government has become a powerful disimagination machine in which the distinction between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy are erased. Trump has democratized the flow of disinformation and in doing so has aligned himself with a culture of immediacy, sensationalism, and theater where thoughtful reading, informed judgments, and a respect for the facts disappear. Trump’s propagation of fake news as a way to discredit facts, if not thinking itself, operates in the service of violence because it infantilizes and depoliticizes the wider public creating what Viktor Frankl has called in a different context, “the mask of nihilism.” Trump capitalizes on a digital culture of immediacy and short attention spans in which complexity collapses in a barrage of tweets and the need for a narrative that offers a sense of consistency, a respite from fear, and a vision of the future in which people no longer experience a sense of invisibility.
Trump’s attack on Comey goes beyond a personal insult and act of egregious lying if not an obstruction of justice, it is also a register of his attempt to discredit criticism and the shared public reality among institutions that is central to a democracy. In an age in which the dissolution of public goods and the public sphere have been underway since the late 1970s, Trump attempts to both depoliticize and bind the American people through a kind of dystopian legitimacy in which words no longer matter and anything can be said functions largely to undermine the capacity for truth telling and political speech itself. Under the Trump regime, consistent narratives rooted in forms of civic illiteracy and a deep distrust of the truth and the ethical imagination have become the glue of authoritarian power. All of which is reinforced by a disdain for measured arguments, an embrace of the spectacle, and an alignment with a banal theater of celebrity culture. In this context, rumors are more important than truth telling and in this theater of the absurd society loses its auto-immune system as a safeguard against lies, corruption, and authoritarianism. In a culture of short attention spans, Trump provides the lies and theater that offer up a tsunami of misrepresentations and values in which thinking is done by others, power is exercised by a ruling elite, and people are urged to dispense narrating their own experiences and give up their ability to govern rather than be governed. Trump offers his followers a world in which nothing is connected, diversion functions as theater, destabilized perceptions reinforce a politics that turns into a pathology and community becomes dystopian, unconnected to any viable democratic reality.
Roger Berkowitz in a brilliant analysis of Trump and his followers that draws upon the work of Hannah Arendt argues that his supporters don’t care about his lies or immunity to facts. What they prefer is a consistent narrative of a reality in which they are a part. Berkowitz is worth citing at length. He writes:
The reason fact-checking is ineffective today — at least in convincing those who are members of movements — is that the mobilized members of a movement are confounded by a world resistant to their wishes and prefer the promise of a consistent alternate world to reality. When Donald Trump says he’s going to build a wall to protect our borders, he is not making a factual statement that an actual wall will actually protect our borders; he is signaling a politically incorrect willingness to put America first. When he says that there was massive voter fraud or boasts about the size of his inauguration crowd, he is not speaking about actual facts, but is insisting that his election was legitimate. ‘What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.’ Leaders of these mass totalitarian movements do not need to believe in the truth of their lies and ideological clichés. The point of their fabrications is not to establish facts, but to create a coherent fictional reality. What a movement demands of its leaders is the articulation of a consistent narrative combined with the ability to abolish the capacity for distinguishing between truth and falsehood, between reality and fiction.
As important as the Trump-Comey affair is, it runs the risk of both turning politics into theater and reinforcing what Todd Gitlin refers to as Trump’s support for an “apocalyptic nationalism, the point of which is to belong, not to believe. You belong by affirming. To win, you don’t need reasons anymore, only power.” Trump values loyalty over integrity and he lies in part to test the loyalty of those who both follow him and align themselves with his power. The Trump-Comey affair must be understood within a broader attack on the fundamentals of education, critical modes of agency, and democracy itself. This is especially important at a time when the United States is no longer a functioning democracy and is in the presence of what Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis refer to as “the emergence of modern barbarity.” Trump’s discourse of lies, misrepresentations, and fakery give new meaning to what it means to acknowledge that education is at the center of politics because it is crucial in the struggle over consciousness, values, identity, and agency. Ignorance in the service of education targets the darkness and reinforces and thrives on civic illiteracy. Trump’s fake news machine is about more than lying, it is about using all of the tools and resources for education to create a dystopia in which authoritarianism exercises the raw power of ignorance and control.
Artists, educators, young people, and others need to make the virtue of truth-telling visible again. We need to connect democracy with a notion of truth-telling and consciousness that is on the side of economic and political justice, and democracy itself. If we are going to fight for and with the powerless, we have to understand their needs, speak to and with them in a language mutually understandable, and create narratives in which they can both identify themselves and the conditions through which power and oppression bear down on their lives. This is not an easy task, but nothing less than justice, democracy, and the planet itself are at risk.
Amy Goodman, “Is the President a “Serial Fabricator”? Fired FBI Director Comey Says Trump Repeatedly Lies,” Democracy Now (June 9, 2017). Online: https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/9/is_the_president_a_serial_fabricator
Tom McWilliam, “Death of the Word?,” Arena Magazine, Issue No. 134, (April/May 2015), 41.
Roger Berkowitz, “Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “the Origins of Totalitarianism”,” Los Angeles Review of Books, [March 18, 2017].Online: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/arendt-matters-revisiting-origins-totalitarianism/
Todd Gitlin, “The Management of Unleashed Insanity,” CommonDreams (March 17, 2017). Online: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/17/management-unleashed-insanity
Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis, Liquid Evil (London: Polity, 2016), p. 79.
Henry A. Giroux is McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department in Hamilton, Canada. He is the author of dozens of books and his website is www.henryagiroux.com. | <urn:uuid:37bc9ecd-5f4a-4ef1-bc07-ab1201c0771b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ragazine.cc/henry-giroux-trump-vs-comey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.965269 | 2,699 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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