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Lost and Found, Letters and Methods: Assessing Attitudes toward Chiropractic and Medical Care
Attitudes toward traditional and chiropractic medicine were compared using Milgram's lost letter technique. A total of 192 letters were placed on the windshields of vehicles in parking lots at six restaurants and department stores in each of four quadrants of a medium-sized, Southeastern city. These letters were addressed to "Admissions" at either a fictitious Institute of Medicine or Institute of Chiropractic Care. Return addresses included either a male or a female name. Thus, those who found a lost letter were faced with the option of returning or not returning a letter from either a male or a female, addressed to an Institute of traditional or non-traditional medicine. After examining previous studies which had used the lost letter technique, numerous methodological improvements were implemented. For example, letters were randomly assigned to potential drop spots for each of 24 study locations (six study locations in each of four city quadrants), and a Latin square design was used to control for possible order effects in the four study conditions that were implemented. Nearly 65% of the letters (124 of 192) were returned. We found: 1) letters addressed to a fictitious Institute of Chiropractic Care were just as likely to be returned as those addressed to a fictitious Institute of Medicine; 2) letters with female return addresses were as likely to be returned as those with male return addresses; 3) there was no interaction between study conditions; 4) based on what was essentially a replication study, a comparison of the pattern of returns using the first and second cycle of lost letters (n = 96 for each cycle) revealed an equivalent pattern of no-difference findings. | <urn:uuid:23c5add5-4c1a-49ec-9966-3648939c37ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jmmss/article/id/749/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.978141 | 349 | 1.953125 | 2 |
RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
October 7, 2021
Finding your PowerShell version helps you know what PowerShell features you have access to. By using a PowerShell command we can reveal its version number. Let’s explore this simple feature.
This is for devices running Windows 10
Find Your Version
First, open the Start menu. In the Cortana search box, enter Windows PowerShell, and click the search results in upper left-hand corner. Refer to below image:
Now, in the PowerShell window that opens, type the following command and press Enter:
See below image:
The PowerShell command will display various numbers. The first value that says PSVersion is your PowerShell version. See following image:
You may now close the PowerShell window.
Windows 10 updates the built-in PowerShell tool when you install system updates. This means you should keep your device up-to-date to ensure that you are always running the latest version of PowerShell.
Also, know that PowerShell 7 is different from the version that’s usually installed on Windows 10 PCs. To install this version, either download the installer file or run a command from PowerShell.
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Epaphras—“A Faithful Minister of the Christ”
WHO founded the Christian congregations in Corinth, Ephesus, and Philippi? Perhaps you would have no hesitation in answering: ‘Paul, the “apostle to the nations.”’ (Romans 11:13) You would be right.
However, who established the congregations in Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea? Although we cannot be sure, it may have been a man named Epaphras. At any rate, perhaps you would like to know something more about this evangelizer, since he is called “a faithful minister of the Christ.”—Colossians 1:7.
Evangelizer of the Lycus Valley
The name Epaphras is an abbreviation of Epaphroditus. But Epaphras is not to be confused with the Epaphroditus from Philippi. Epaphras was from Colossae, one of the three centers of Christian congregations in the Lycus River valley, in Asia Minor. Colossae was situated just 11 miles [18 km] from Laodicea and 12 miles [19 km] from Hierapolis, in the ancient region of Phrygia.
The Bible does not explicitly say how the good news of God’s Kingdom reached Phrygia. However, Phrygians were present in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost in 33 C.E., perhaps some of them being from Colossae. (Acts 2:1, 5, 10) During Paul’s Ephesian ministry (about 52-55 C.E.), the witness given in that area was so vigorous and effective that not only the Ephesians but also “all those inhabiting the district of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.” (Acts 19:10) It would seem that Paul had not preached the good news throughout the Lycus Valley, since many who became Christians in that region had never seen him.—Colossians 2:1.
According to Paul, the one who taught the Colossians about “the undeserved kindness of God in truth” was Epaphras. The fact that Paul calls this coworker “a faithful minister of the Christ on our behalf” shows that Epaphras was an active evangelizer in the area.—Colossians 1:6, 7.
Both the apostle Paul and the evangelizer Epaphras had great concern for the spiritual welfare of their fellow believers in the Lycus Valley. As the “apostle to the nations,” Paul must have rejoiced to receive news of their progress. It was from none other than Epaphras that Paul heard about the spiritual condition of the Colossians.—Colossians 1:4, 8.
The Colossians faced problems serious enough to persuade Epaphras to make the long journey to Rome for the specific purpose of discussing these matters with Paul. The detailed report made by Epaphras was evidently what moved Paul to write two letters to those brothers otherwise unknown to him. One was the letter to the Colossians. The other letter, which apparently has not been preserved, was sent to the Laodiceans. (Colossians 4:16) It is reasonable to think that the contents of those letters were intended to respond to the needs of those Christians as perceived by Epaphras. What necessities did he see? And what does this tell us about his personality?
The letter to the Colossians seems to indicate that Epaphras was worried that Christians in Colossae were endangered by pagan philosophies involving asceticism, spiritism, and idolatrous superstition. Moreover, the Jewish teaching of abstinence from foods and the observance of certain days may have influenced some members of the congregation.—Colossians 2:4, 8, 16, 20-23.
The fact that Paul writes about these subjects shows us how alert and sensitive Epaphras was to the needs of his fellow Christians. He showed loving concern for their spiritual welfare, being conscious of the dangers of the environment in which they lived. Epaphras sought Paul’s counsel, and this reveals that he was humble. Maybe he felt the need to receive advice from someone with more experience. In any case, Epaphras acted wisely.—Proverbs 15:22.
A Man Who Valued Prayer
In the conclusion of the letter he sent to the Colossian Christians, Paul says: “Epaphras, who is from among you, a slave of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings, always exerting himself in your behalf in his prayers, that you may finally stand complete and with firm conviction in all the will of God. I indeed bear him witness that he puts himself to great effort in behalf of you and of those at Laodicea and of those at Hierapolis.”—Colossians 4:12, 13.
Yes, even while he was Paul’s “fellow captive” in Rome, Epaphras was thinking about his beloved brothers in Colossae, Laodicea, and Hierapolis and praying for them. (Philemon 23) Literally, ‘he struggled’ for them in prayer. According to scholar D. Edmond Hiebert, the Greek term used here denotes “a strenuous and costly activity,” something similar to the mental “agony” experienced by Jesus Christ as he prayed in the garden of Gethsemane. (Luke 22:44) Epaphras earnestly desired that his spiritual brothers and sisters attain stability and full Christian maturity. What a blessing for the congregations such a spiritually-minded brother must have been!
Since Epaphras was called a “beloved fellow slave,” there can be no doubt that he endeared himself to fellow Christians. (Colossians 1:7) When circumstances allow, all members of the congregation should give of themselves freely with warmth and love. For example, attention can be given to assisting the sick, the elderly, or others with special needs. There may be different responsibilities to care for in the congregation, or it may be possible to contribute to theocratic building projects.
Praying for others, as Epaphras did, is a form of sacred service that all can perform. Such prayers may include expressions of concern for worshipers of Jehovah who have to face various dangers or difficulties of a spiritual or physical nature. By exerting ourselves vigorously in this way, we can be like Epaphras. Each of us can have the privilege and joy of proving to be a “beloved fellow slave” in the family of Jehovah’s faithful servants. | <urn:uuid:c06fba3f-68ef-4c49-8aeb-c68aa75fe8c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1997366 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.97139 | 1,414 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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An Evaluation of the Potential Performance Gain from Leakage Reduction in Rotary Engines
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
Published February 01, 1973 by SAE International in United States
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A brief description is given of a rotary engine analytical model which permits calculation of apex- and side-seal leakage. This model was used in conjunction with experimental results for the purpose of estimating the relative importance of apex- and side-seal leakages. Comparing analytical and experimental results, an estimate is made of the potential gain to be expected through leakage area reduction at both wide open throttle (WOT) and road-load operating conditions.
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Regardless of whether you’ve incurred huge amounts of debt or little amounts, it can soon become tough to stay inclined in keeping aside savings, cutting down costs and making timely payments towards your debt. You must be wondering whether or not there are any steps to make it easier or maintain the momentum that you’ve been planning. Well, yes, there is a way in which you can keep a close track on the progress that you’ve been making and that is by visualizing your debt.
Debt is undoubtedly an invisible data and if you wish to turn the indistinguishable debt into something concrete, you have to know the tools that you have to install in your phone. There are numerous financial apps that you can keep in your phone in order to stay updated on your finances. Let’s check out some of them.
#1: DEBT MANAGER
This is an app which is all about paying off their debt and the app offers you with several tools that you may need to set up a solid repayment plan and this includes a visualize too. Once you load all your debts into the app, you can view details like loan balance, interest rate, compare standard repayment plan with snowball plan and also check the total interest rate that you will pay throughout the life of the loan.
#READY FOR ZERO
This app is an effective way to measure your progress which you have made with your debts and also check out how well the debt snowball method can assist you in becoming free of debt. This mobile app might not be too good for visualizing debt, nevertheless the web and desktop apps can give you an easy and simple way of understanding where you stand financially and how much more you have to work hard to pay off the amount that is still due.
#3: EXCEL GRAPH
As the name suggests, this is definitely the most obvious and simplest method which entails maintaining a financial spreadsheet and utilizing Excel to make a graph of the remaining outstanding dues that you have. There are several Excel budget templates which you can use to calculate your debts. Just ensure calculating the percentage of debt which is paid off so that you can keep a track on your progress rate.
Mint is an app which most of us have heard off as this is considered as one of the most trustworthy and reputable apps in the market. This app has also got a tool built in it which helps you visualize debt. Open the Trends tab and hit Debt and don’t forget to select Over Time. You can see a bar graph of your debts and use the drop down menu to adjust the timescale accordingly.
Therefore now that you know the different apps to install in order to visualize your debt and keep paying it off regularly, what are you waiting for? Check your Android market store or your iPhone market to download these useful apps. | <urn:uuid:62295ea1-de14-4bf0-a051-b3f78f12e4f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.daytodayfinance.com/keep-track-of-your-debt-and-stay-inclined-in-paying-it-off/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958472 | 580 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Position is one of the most useful and most complex of all the symbols in GD&T. The two methods of using Position discussed on this page will be RFS or Regardless of Feature Size and under a material condition (Maximum Material Condition or Least Material Condition). Position is always used with a feature of size.
A datum is theoretical exact plane, axis or point location that GD&T or dimensional tolerances are referenced to. You can think of them as an anchor for the entire part; where the other features are referenced from. A datum feature is usually an important functional feature that needs to be controlled during measurement as well.
GD&T Flatness is a common symbol that references how flat a surface is regardless of any other datum’s or features. It comes in useful if a feature is to be defined on a drawing that needs to be uniformly flat without tightening any other dimensions on the drawing. The flatness tolerance references two parallel planes (parallel to the surface that it is called out on) that define a zone where the entire reference surface must lie.
The standard form of straightness is a 2-Dimensional tolerance that is used to ensure that a part is uniform across a surface or feature. Straightness can apply to either a flat feature such as the surface of a block, or it can apply to the surface of a cylinder along the axial direction. It is defined as the variance of the surface within a specified line on that surface.
GD&T Rule #1, also known as the Envelope principle, states that the form of a regular feature of size is controlled by its “limits of size." Limits of size, or otherwise known as size tolerances, can be seen in many forms. A few of them are symmetric, unilateral, and bilateral. | <urn:uuid:8c3b44be-317c-4ed6-b5b9-6af16ae0c8b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gdandtbasics.com/gdt-symbols/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950642 | 369 | 3.46875 | 3 |
With good housing management and feed planning, winter feeding costs for suckler cows can be reduced by using the body reserves built up at grass, according to CAFRE advisor Pat McCambridge.
He says there should be plenty of good quality silage available on farms this year.
"Good quality, well-fermented silage with a high dry matter has a high predicted intake and this may result in higher intakes than required for some cattle."
According to McCambridge, this will be the case for dry suckler cows and some restriction of silage is essential for cows in body score 3 or better. He says cow condition can safely be brought back to condition score 2.5 at calving.
McCambridge advises that farmers should batch cows according to condition and provide separate feed arrangements for first calved heifers.
"If the intake of some of the herd can be restricted, for example, dry cows in body score 3+, a considerable saving in silage costs can be made, as well as reducing calving difficulties. If the intake of 20 cows is restricted by 20% over a 200-day winter, £1,000 (€1,200) in silage costs can be saved (silage at £30 per tonne).
McCambridge also says it is important farmers know the feeding value of their winter forage.
He says a silage analysis provides essential analytical and performance information for your livestock.
"The important factors are energy value (MJ/kg dry matter), dry matter content and intake predictions. You can also request feed reports which provide a useful guide on concentrate requirements for sucklers, stores, beef cattle and sheep," he said. | <urn:uuid:8e91430f-efa6-40a5-aff0-122ee81b33af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agriland.co.uk/farming-news/save-money-feeding-costs-make-best-use-quality-silage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.935805 | 349 | 2.078125 | 2 |
WASHINGTON – An undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International revealed dozens of items made from imperiled wildlife for sale last week at the Safari Club International convention in Reno, Nevada. These items included elephant skin furniture, paintings on elephant ears, hippo skulls and teeth, and stingray skin belts. SCI is one of the world’s largest trophy hunting advocacy groups. Offering these items for sale likely violates Nevada state law on wildlife trafficking, and HSUS and HSI have reported their findings to enforcement authorities.
The investigation also found that canned lion hunts, the sale of which SCI banned at its conventions as of February 4, 2018, were easily available for purchase in Reno last week.
Kitty Block, acting president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and president of Humane Society International, said: “The world’s leading trophy hunting industry group is apparently promoting, enabling, and profiting from the illegal wildlife trade and unethical hunting practices. Conservation laws and hunting ethics are thrown out the window by SCI when financial profit is involved, driving iconic wildlife such as African elephants toward extinction.
“Making money off the opportunity to kill these animals for bragging rights is something that most people around the world find appalling. It’s an elitist hobby of the 1 percent, and there is no place for trophy hunting in today’s world.”
As of January 1, 2018, it is unlawful for any person within the state of Nevada to “purchase, sell, offer for sale or possess with intent to sell any item that it, wholly, or partially, made of an animal part or byproduct derived from a shark fin, a lion of the species Panthera leo or any species of elephant, rhinoceros, tiger, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, pangolin, sea turtle, ray, mammoth, narwhal, walrus or hippopotamus.” Nev. Rev. Stat. § 597.905.
The investigators found more than a dozen convention vendors offering for sale and possessing with intent to sell wildlife products that appear to violate this law. The items include:
- Paintings on elephant ears and skins;
- An elephant skin bench;
- Elephant leather boots, shoes, chaps, belts, and saddles;
- Bracelets made from elephant hair;
- An entire mammoth tusk;
- Mammoth tusk carvings;
- Stingray skin boots, shoes, belts and purses;
- Boxes of hippo teeth;
- A hippo skull table;
- Hippo leather belts and boots;
- Shark skin belts;
- A knife with a handle made of narwhal tusk.
Investigators also found “canned” lion hunts for sale, in which customers can pay to shoot a captive-bred African lion in an enclosed area from which it cannot escape. Canned hunts are internationally scorned, and SCI claims that it does not allow such lion hunts to be sold at its conventions. Yet vendors, in an attempt to attract bookings of such hunts, showed investigators sample pictures of types of lions that may be killed, priced according to the age and size of the animal and his mane. One conference attendee told the investigators that he and his children participated in a canned hunt, killing “their” lion within 90 minutes. Canned hunt operators described baiting lions with meat, which they said they could do ahead of a trophy hunter’s arrival, to save time. One canned hunt operator told investigators if they wanted to kill a really big lion, he could special order one.
The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International are releasing their investigation while the Dallas Safari Club convention is underway in Dallas, Texas, with some of the same vendors that were at the SCI convention last week. While Texas does not have the same laws prohibiting the sale of wildlife products as Nevada, the Dallas Safari Club has stated that it too opposes captive bred lion hunting. At least six exhibitors selling canned lion hunts at the SCI convention are also at the DSC convention. These include De Klerk Safaris, whose representatives told investigators that they buy lions from breeders and could special order a really big lion, and Mabula Pro Safaris, whose representative told investigators that they are the biggest breeder of lions in South Africa.
The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International submitted its findings in writing to the Nevada Department of Wildlife on January 10, requesting investigation and enforcement of Nevada law. Any person who violates this law is guilty of a gross misdemeanor for the first offense, a category E felony for a second offense, and a category D felony for a third offense, in addition to civil penalties of up to $6,500.
Investigation Report HERE.
Photos/Video of the investigation HERE.
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Guest Post by Sarah Clark, Breast Cancer Survivor
Hi, my name is Sarah Clark. And I’m a breast cancer survivor. I’m married with two kids, a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl. I’m also a consultant and educator with Beautycounter. I wholeheartedly believe in healthy living and that knowledge is power. Whether it’s food, our environment or products we use on our skin every day – I’m all about supporting companies that are transparent and honest.
Currently, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the US, and that number is way too high. While I’ll never really know what caused my breast cancer (I have no genetic link), the thought of potentially harmful ingredients being in the products that I used, makes me really angry. We shouldn’t have to wonder if the cosmetics or personal care products we used, caused our cancer.
I was most surprised to learn that the labels on products don’t really mean anything in the US and that fragrance can basically contain a slew of ingredients that could potentially be harmful. Because fragrance ingredients don’t have to be disclosed, there’s no way to know what’s really in those products that contain fragrance. So, all the other ingredients in a product could be safe, but dangerous ingredients could be hiding in the fragrance.
We need federal cosmetic safety reform.
It’s frustrating to not know what’s really in the products we use and put on our kids. My search for safer products was the result of my son’s very sensitive skin when he was a baby and I couldn’t figure out why he’d still react to products labeled “safe”, “natural”, “sensitive skin.” It wasn’t until I heard about the lack of regulation in the US that it all made sense. Now, I try to educate everyone I can about the importance of being aware of what’s in the products they use.
Cosmetic safety reform affects every single one of us. What we’re using, what we’re putting on our babies and our kids, what our family members are using, none of us should be exposed to ingredients that are known to cause harm. Reducing our toxic load is important and not being exposed to endocrine disruptors (which are common in cosmetics and personal care products) is a really big deal for our developing children.
Having gone through 8 rounds of chemo and 20 radiation sessions last year, reducing the toxic load on my body while going through those treatments was very important to me. I used safer products and ate cleaner foods, and had little to no side effects, I think in part because my body didn’t have to filter out toxic ingredients and could just focus on the chem and radiation. Anyone who has been affected by cancer either personally or because of a loved one, should take care to avoid products with potentially harmful ingredients. It’s just not worth the risk.
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, voted Monday to extend full membership to Palestine, despite promises by the US and other donor nations that this decision would cost the Organization some of its funding.The delegates of UNESCO voted overwhelmingly to include Palestine as a member, with a vote of 107 – 14, with 52 abstentions. When the vote was counted, a huge cheer went up through the Assembly room.
‘Joy fills my heart. This really is an historic moment,’ said Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riad Malki. ‘We hope that today’s victory at UNESCO marks but a beginning. Our admission to UNESCO is not an alternative; it is no substitute for something else.’
The Palestinian delegation to the United Nations is still awaiting a decision on its bid for statehood, submitted to the UN Security Council several weeks ago. The bid was passed to a Committee, where it is currently under consideration.
A surprise vote of support at Monday’s UNESCO meeting came from France, which had previously been considered to be a ‘no’ vote for Palestinian statehood. After voting for Palestine’s inclusion in UNESCO, France’s Security Council vote may be up for consideration as well.
Among the nations who voted ‘no’ on UNESCO membership for Palestine were the US, Israel, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany, with Great Britain and Switzerland in the ‘abstain’ camp.
The Obama Administration, however, called on the Palestinians and Israelis to re-start direct peace talks, halted since October 2010, claiming it is the only way to create a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called on the Palestinian President to return to direct peace talks in order to discuss outstanding issues and establishing an independent Palestinian state.
UNESCO is an agency of the United Nations that works to encourage international peace and universal respect by promoting collaboration among nations. The organization receives about 20% of its funding from the US, who have stated that they will not be making the upcoming $60 million contribution, previously earmarked for UNESCO, due to Monday’s vote. | <urn:uuid:35edf4a8-b3f4-43f6-9a77-8e47d0489a08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://imemc.org/article/62402/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.953517 | 443 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Kidney cancer is a type of cancer that forms in the kidneys, the two bean-shaped organs in the body located behind the abdominal organs on either side of the spine. Kidneys filter the blood that flows through the body several times a day, removing wastes and controlling the body's fluid balance. The kidneys form urine by removing wastes and excess water from the blood. The most common type of cancer in adults is known as renal cell cancer, which forms in the tissue within the kidneys. Risk factors for kidney cancer include smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, and a family history, but many people have no risk factors. The risk increases with age. Kidney cancer often is diagnosed at an advanced stage because usually there are no early signs or symptoms.
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Supportive Care and Survivorship Clinic
The Supportive Care and Survivorship Clinic takes an interdisciplinary approach to caring for patients with serious illnesses, whether they are in active treatment or have completed treatment. Our goal is to help patients fulfill their maximum physical, emotional, spiritual, vocational, and social potential.
The health professionals at the Supportive Care and Survivorship Clinic help patients manage the side effects associated with cancer. Referrals to the Supportive Care and Survivorship Clinic can be made by any treating physician or nurse or by patient self-referral. A broad range of insurance is accepted.
Patient appointment scheduling is flexible and based on patient needs and other concurrent treatments. Clinic sessions are held Wednesday and Friday mornings with palliative care physicians and fellows. A physician assistant is available Monday through Friday.
Physicians and physician assistants have special expertise in complex symptom management including depression, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, loss of appetite, pain syndromes, and others.
Nurses support patients by facilitating the clinic sessions as well as managing communication with patients. They are the front line of patient care.
Physical therapists develop individualized programs for each patient to help with coordination, balance, strength, endurance, flexibility, or range of motion. Counselors are experienced in structuring counseling sessions to meet the specific needs of each person. Individual, couple, and family sessions are available.
Nutritionists have expertise in nutrition for patients with serious illnesses.
Massage therapists are trained in all types of massage, including oncology massage, which is a specialized approach that supports the body's health before, during, and after treatment for cancer.
Our clinic is an active teaching environment with fellows, residents, and students in both medicine and nursing participating in patient care.
The UAB Supportive Care and Survivorship Clinic is located on the 3rd floor of The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital.
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Topmost sentence example
In the topmost tier was just one single crouching chicken, the blustering wind ruffling its feathers.
Birdwood's force had taken root since April were spurs of a tangled mountain mass known as Sari Bair, from the topmost ridges of which the Straits about the Narrows were partially visible at a distance of 4 or 5 miles.
The occupation of these topmost ridges must greatly assist in a further advance across the peninsula here at its narrowest point.
One of the Allies' columns nevertheless succeeded in establishing itself on a patch of the topmost ridge and in holding on to what had been secured, although the efforts of the assailants miscarried elsewhere.
On its topmost bough sits an eagle, between whom and Nidhug the squirrel Ratatbskr runs to and fro trying to provoke strife.Advertisement
These consisted, we are told, of a garden of trees and flowers, built on the topmost of a series of arches some 7 5 ft.
The lowest layer contains ammonites from the topmost zone of the Middle Lias.
The spectators were seated in its terraces; women and plebeians (plebs) were confined to the topmost tier of seats.
Among the inoffensive species are counted the graceful green " tree snake," which pursues frogs, birds and lizards to the topmost branches of the forest; also several species of pythons, the commonest of which is known as the carpet snake.
In the case of the plastic film version, the topmost layer is peeled off to expose a fresh layer.Advertisement
Some, climbing into the tree itself, were making their way to the topmost branches.
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File / Save The contents of the topmost window are saved.
Among other things, developing relations with India in the oil sector, would be the topmost item on his agenda.
One such congenital brain anomaly, anencephaly (literally "without brain") results when the topmost portion of the tube fails to close and the brain does not develop.Advertisement
My topmost priority has been to become life long friends with her and to love her as a person.
Among the inoffensive species are counted the graceful green "tree snake," which pursues frogs, birds and lizards to the topmost branches of the forest; also several species of pythons, the commonest of which is known as the carpet snake.
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The badge of the military order is a blue cross with gold uncrowned eagles in the angles; on the topmost arm is the initial F., with a crown; on the other arms the inscription Pour le Merite.Advertisement
At this moment the republic of the United Netherlands touched, perhaps, the topmost point of its prosperity and greatness.
On the following day the king, seated on the topmost step of a lofty tribune surmounted by a baldaquin, erected in the midst of the principal square of Copenhagen, received the public homage of his subjects of all ranks, in the presence of an immense concourse, on which occasion he again promised to rule " as a Christian hereditary king and gracious master," and, " as soon as possible, to prepare and set up " such a constitution as should secure to his subjects a Christian and indulgent sway.
After proceeding up the nave, he was to kneel and pray at the topmost step of the entrance of the choir, into which he was to be introduced by the bishop or his commissary, and placed in his stall.
It will perch on the topmost bough of a tree, if a tree be near, to watch his proceedings, and the cock exhibits all the astounding gesticulations in which the males of so many other Limicolae indulge during the breeding-season - with certain variations, however, that are peculiarly its own.
Near at hand, upon the topmost spray of a birch, sings the brown thrasher--or red mavis, as some love to call him--all the morning, glad of your society, that would find out another farmer's field if yours were not here.Advertisement
The tank is placed above the level of the topmost draw off, and often in a cupboard which it will warm sufficiently to permit of its being used as a linen airing closet.
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The first thing you need to learn with adult numeracy is how to count. Most children learn these skills at an early age by being taught songs and rhymes by parents and nursery school teachers. However, a great number of South Africans have never had the advantage of this type of education. But it is never too late to learn and you can assist an uneducated individual in learning adult numeracy simply by contributing your time, resources or funds towards an institution that provides adult basic education and training. Please contact us to find out more about how you can assist someone in gaining adult numeracy skills to improve their quality of life. | <urn:uuid:83ff9833-f9e8-41fc-9611-398935a5a03a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eee.co.za/gaining-adult-numeracy-skills/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.978619 | 125 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Osgoode JD/MBA students Al Hounsell and Brendan Monahan have received awards from the University of Miami School of Law’s innovative LawWithoutWalls program.
Hounsell was a member of the winning team for substance for LWOW X on March 27. Monahan was a member of the winning team for substance for LWOW X Compliance on April 10.
According to the program organizers, the winning team for substance is the team with “the most substantively sound Project of Worth. The winning team for substance was clearly the product of extensive research, effective understanding of the problem, synthesis of innovation, financial investigation, and a well-thought plan to bring the Project of Worth to market.”
It was the second year in a row that Osgoode and the Schulich School of Business have been invited to participate in the LawWithoutWalls program. The Jay and Barbara Hennick Centre for Business and Law organized the JD/MBA students’ participation in the program.
LWOW brings together business and law students from around the world to create a business plan in response to a problem in legal education or practice. The program concludes with a closing conference where the business plans are judged by a multidisciplinary panel, including venture capitalists. | <urn:uuid:1ad193a2-7551-4177-b094-8e92191de072> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/news/jdmba-students-al-hounsell-and-brendan-monahan-take-home-lawwithoutwalls-awards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.963511 | 262 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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It does not tend to overcrop. Cropping starts early and fruit size is enhanced with pruning.
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He also composed the music for its production of Paul.
During his time, about 60 pieces of church music were composed.
For example, how many children have ever tried to compose music?
He composed music under them for almost half a decade.
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He has composed music for more than 300 movies between late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Colorful walls or whitewashed houses, high doors and wooden blinds – the colonial period left Colombia’s villages with a pretty architectural heritage. In the cosy interior patios hummingbirds and butterflys circle the flowers. Splashing fountains provide a relaxing background. Enjoy this charming ambiente in one of the many boutique hotels.
From Villa de Leyva, Guatavita or Monguí you can hike on the paths of the Muiscas. Discover the holy lakes of this indigenous tribe and dive into the legend of Eldorado. Villa de Leyva itself is famous for its huge main square and colonial architecture. Also, worth a visit is the monastery of La Candelaria, an Augustine convent of the 17th century. It is next to a small village called Ráquira, which lives of the pottery.
Voted the most beautiful village of Colombia, Barichara glows with white houses, yellow-red ground and purple bougainvillea bushes. Here on the slopes of the Eastern Cordillera, many creative minds enjoy the warm climate. Enter the studios and watch painters, potters and scultors at work. Barichara is one of these places where you forget the time while walking through its streets.
Another insider tip is San Vícente del Chucurí. A small village in the north of Santander. There we are collaborating with an organic cocoa farm, where you can spend a day and produce your own chocolate.
In the middle of the Magdalena river’s marshes lies Mompox a real hidden gem. Getting there is a bit strenuous but the voyage is rewarding. This is where Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márques got inspired to write “A hundred years of solitude”.
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Glendale, CA, Sept. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —
Os.me is an internet start-up that is focused on helping people find their hidden potential. In many cases, that potential is hindered by social conditioning, difficult circumstances, and confusion.
This start-up was founded by Om Swami, an extraordinary monk, who took a vow of truth. Now, his goal is to help os.me members “Discover Their Truth.”
Os.me members discover that “truth” through their thoughts, behaviors, and their interactions with others. Os.me has created a kind and encouraging environment where everyone can speak their truth without any concerns about being judged.
Introducing the Os.me Karma Program
The os.me online community is building “the kindest & most truthful corner on the Internet.” The flagship program of the company is the os.me Karma Program, where the platform pays its members to write posts and even interact on the website through comments. Both free and premium members can participate in this program.
The Karma program was launched in 2020, shortly after the COVID-19 lockdown. Om Swami, the founder of os.me states, “Many took to the online world during the lockdown and I wanted to give them a positive and productive reason to be there.” He adds, “I find writing highly involving and evolving so this was a gift from me to anyone who wanted it.”
Om Swami publishes insightful articles on a bi-weekly basis. These articles are written with a combination of his own inimitable style full of humor and practical advice for self-development. A recent study shows that over 90% of Os.me members report that they’ve gained wisdom from Om Swami’s insightful articles.
Os.me members also get an opportunity to publish their own articles on os.me. They write about their transformational personal experiences that inspire, move and motivate other members. This has been running since the karma program started last year. Now, it has over 4,000 members’ blogs! And the blog has already distributed over $20,000 in less than a year under the karma program.
Many os.me members have shared personal experiences about battling depression or dealing with personal crises and they have found support. People share deeply personal stories, mindful living hacks, and just about anything. At the moment, the community has entrepreneurs, engineers, doctors, journalists, published authors, monks and more, from all over the world.
Medha Shri, the os.me Editor in Chief, states, “You don’t have to be a great writer, just a compassionate writer to become part of the community and benefit from ‘write and earn’ os.me Karma Program.”
The Os.me Karma Program is Troll-Free
The platform strives to be an absolute troll-free zone. The karma program has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to cyberbullying and trolling. While anyone can become a free member of the community, only premium members can engage with the content.
Om Swami explains this perfectly, he states, “There are enough places on the web where people are hurtful and insensitive, so it was an absolute necessity for me to ensure os.me always remain a safe, kind and truthful space on the internet.”
Os.me is a global online community of people from all walks of life. If you are seeking your truth, you may find many like-minded individuals and practical advice to discover your hidden potential.
Many people find the os.me online community therapeutic. And they’ve shared their battles with a compassionate community during difficult periods of their life.
Features of the Os.me Karma Program:
- Os.me pays people to write posts and comments on their website.
- Each post and every comment generates some Karma points, which are deposited in the community member’s account.
- Every month, these points get converted into Karma earnings, which the member can withdraw once they have at least $50 in their Karma Balance.
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OS.ME ONLINE COMMUNITY
Founded by Om Swami, the mission of os.me is to create the kindest and the most truthful corner on the internet. It is a troll-free community of seekers wanting to make spiritual progress or tap their hidden potential. The community extends support, suggests solutions and hacks. Om Swami – OS.ME founder – shares his invaluable insights on the website, twice a month. | <urn:uuid:34edde2f-99d1-4803-965d-67b6a070c998> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gwcmag.com/where-members-can-grow-spiritually-and/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958691 | 952 | 1.726563 | 2 |
That broken siding panel you have may be causing more damage to your home than you think. A deteriorating home siding is not only unappealing but can also cause numerous problems for the exterior and interior of your home. Your siding is designed to protect your home from several weather conditions and needs to be properly maintained to keep your home clear of rot and other damage.
Mold and Mildew
As your home siding starts to age, it will lose its ability to keep out water and moisture. Water that seeps behind the siding can start to form into mold and mildew. The mold spores will eventually spread if not caught early, resulting in a wide array of damage. Removal can be dangerous and will require an expert, costing you more money than you may have bargained for.
If you are finding bubbles on the outside of your home and loose wallpaper or peeling paint on the inside, it may be a sign that your siding is allowing moisture to penetrate into your home. The sooner you address the problem, the less you will have to spend in costly repairs.
Wood Siding panels work great against extreme climates and intense winds. But over time they can begin to have issues with water damage and salinity. If the panels have become soft or warped, it may be a sign of dry rot. Dry rot is caused by a fungus that grows in moist conditions. They act to digest the wood fibres that provide strength and then move on to a fresh area. If not repaired and quickly replaced the fungus can spread to more of your siding causing wide-spread damage.
Weak siding panels make a perfect home for burrowing insects. If you start to notice holes in your panels, you may have an insect infestation. Replacing your siding should help alleviate any future inspect problems and prevent them from causing structural damage.
Excessive Heating And Cooling Costs
The exterior siding acts also to insulate your home, keeping your heating and cooling costs in check. Once it starts deteriorating, you will often notice a rapid increase in your utility bills due to energy loss. If you don’t replace your siding, you won’t be getting the full insulation benefits and will be simply wasting your hard-earned money.
Your siding works to protect your house from fierce winds and water. It also works to lower your energy bills and will impact the curb appeal of your home, for better or for worse. So if you’re asking why you should replace your siding, just remember each of these factors that can end up costing you much more than that replacement. | <urn:uuid:d1bcbc0e-1635-4915-86e9-464e26706763> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://roofmaster.ca/replace-homes-siding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.941876 | 546 | 1.796875 | 2 |
How does Apple ResearchKit collect health data?
Announced in March 2015, ResearchKit is an open-source software framework developed by Apple to aid medical researchers and healthcare organizations in collecting medical information on patients and participants straight from their iPhone or Apple watch.
ResearchKit apps created by developers could change the way in which medical research and health monitoring is conducted forever. 1 billion smartphones and 70 million wearable health trackers are purchased every year, and these devices have the capability to monitor how much we exercise and sleep, monitor pulse rates and track what we eat.
While this information is useful to the user, this gold mine of medical information is currently inaccessible to researchers and healthcare professionals that could use this data to make better informed decisions on how they treat medical conditions.
Finding participants to take part in medical studies to collect data is a laborious process, often with very low response rates. If users can contribute to medical studies via a tech device that is almost always with them, the data researchers have access to could advance medical breakthroughs.
To give an idea of how just important these apps could be, in Apple’s ResearchKit promotional video Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania Health System states: “We have sent out over 60,000 letters. Those 60,000 letters have netted 305 participants.”
There are endless possibilities for healthcare professionals too. Apple also created HealthKit – a similar framework that can be used to collect a user’s health and fitness information. If healthcare professionals can monitor their patients from the data sent from their smartphones or wearable tech rather than having to visit them, or have them attend an appointment, the time and cost savings for organizations have the potential to be huge.
The data collected from ResearchKit and HealthKit apps is not available to Apple. Although any developer or researcher can create an app, it needs to be IRB or ethics approved before it can be available for download in the app store.
What happens after the participant or patient provides this data is the responsibility of the party that publishes the app – and this means adhering to HIPAA rules.
An app used to collect data on people with asthma developed by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has confirmed the process that they are working to ensure HIPAA compliance once the data is collected:
“The data’s collected in the app, and the data goes to what we call a bridge server. It’s maintained by Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit medical research institute in Seattle. It’s all encrypted and very secure, meets all the industry standards for shipping sensitive data, HIPAA compliant.”
Any medical researcher or developer that creates an app on the ResearchKit framework will need to bear in mind that HIPAA compliance will be their sole responsibility once the data has been collected.
There have been concerns around data security, as laws and rules governing the medical community’s privacy policies do not always apply to data shared in an app.
The healthcare industry has been targeted more aggressively by hackers, garnering up to 10 times the dollar amount of financial data. It’s an unsettling fact that could result in apps being targeted, and although Apple has met with the Federal Trade Commission to discuss its commitment to protecting the information and identities of its customers, namely by prohibiting the sharing of collected data with third parties, there is no guarantee that the data collected is safe when being shared within an app.
The ResearchKit and HealthKit software frameworks have created opportunities to make huge changes in the way that health information is collected and managed; however, until the risk of leaks, security breaches and hacks ceases to exist, consumers may never be put at ease with how secure their information is.
Despite these concerns, ResearchKit will change the way in which clinical research is conducted forever, and we can’t wait to see how this shapes the future of medical studies. | <urn:uuid:060fee36-2eaf-4f74-8418-753bc947f662> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scrypt.com/blog/how-does-apple-researchkit-collect-health-data/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.946323 | 801 | 2.59375 | 3 |
by Jon Street
The Chinese Virus began infiltrating the United States in early 2020, but the communist country already had a foot in the door well before then.
In the last year, Campus Reform has covered multiple instances of U.S. law enforcement officials charging professors and students with lying about their ties to China while conducting U.S.-funded research and even attempting to smuggle U.S.-funded researched to China.
Yi-Chi Shih, University of California-Los Angeles
In the summer of 2019, UCLA adjunct professor Yi-Chi Shih was found guilty of conspiring to steal U.S. missile secrets for China.
Feng Tao, University of Kansas
A University of Kansas associate professor and researcher was indicted for allegedly lying about his ties to China while conducting U.S.-funded academic research.
Charles Leiber, Harvard University
The Harvard University chemistry department chair was arrested for his alleged ties to a Wuhan, China laboratory, where he was paid up to $1.5 million to build the lab, plus an additional $50,000 per month.
Xiojiang Li, Emory University
An Emory University associate professor and medical researcher was charged in late 2019 with allegedly lying about his employment at a Chinese university while simultaneously working at Emory. He pleaded guilty in May 2020.
Simon Saw-Teong Ang, University of Arkansas
A University of Arkansas professor was charged with lying to federal authorities about his ties to China while conducting U.S.-funded academic research.
Anming Hu, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
A UT-Knoxville associate professor and researcher was charged in February with lying to the federal government about his connections to Chinese universities in order to receive a federal research grant.
Zaosong Zheng, Harvard University
A Chinese national medical student at Harvard University’s Beth Israel Deaconess Teaching Hospital was arrested in December for allegedly attempting to smuggle vials of cancer research out of the U.S. on a flight to Beijing, China.
Not only has China attempted to gain a foothold on American university campuses through professors and students, but the communist regime has also targeted dozens of campuses nationwide by paying to open what are known as Confucius Institutes. Campus Reform has covered these centers extensively.
Below, you can see an interactive map of the locations of each Confucius Institute.
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Jon Street is managing editor for Campus Reform.
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FRIENDS WITH A BABY GOT STRANDED FROM A FLOOD IN THE AUSTRALIAN WILD, USE DRONE PHONE FOR HELP
So I’ve been to Australia and it’s a gorgeous place. But it’s as big as the continental United States. So I didn’t actually see much of it at all. I certainly haven’t been to Far North Queensland, which looks to be enticing. Well, until you find yourself stranded, that is, and needing a drone phone to get out. And that’s exactly what happened to a group of friends, including one of their babies. They went to see a remote waterfall in the wilderness. But then two flooding creeks stranded them on both sides. When they tried to drive thru one of them, their car died. But since we’re talking about the wilderness here, there was no cell service to call for help! So what did they do? They used a drone phone. Totally wild move in the wild.
DESPERATE AFTER A NIGHT IN POURING RAIN, THEY ATTACHED THEIR PHONE TO A DRONE TO GET CELL SIGNAL
So no, there’s no such thing as a drone phone. Well, until now. You take your phone. Then you take your drone, if you have one. Then, you put these together to hopefully find some cell service. And that’s exactly what these desperate folks did. Well, after spending an entire night in the rain, which only made the flooding worse, of course. That’s when they came up with something new: a drone phone. So they attached it to a drone they had with them to send it up in the air, broadcasting an SOS to get some help.
AFTER, SMART, DESPERATE DRONE FLIGHT, DRONE PHONE CALLED FOR SUCCESSFUL HELP
And guess what? It bloody well worked! So if you’re wondering how you send a message after you send your drone phone up in the air, out of reach, just think a little harder. Don’t get it yet? Well, when you try to send a message on your phone, it keeps trying to send for a while to get it out. So that’s what they did here with the drone phone. The stranded group sent the message and immediately sent the drone phone up in the air. And, even better, when they brought it back to earth, they could see that the message was sent! So sure, with a baby on hand, anxieties must have been high until they saw responders at the scene to help them get out of there. McGyver is alive and well in the Australian wild. | <urn:uuid:f76461de-f02a-421d-a0ce-775d43be15c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theblot.com/stranded-sightseers-in-the-wild-use-drone-phone-for-help/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959584 | 571 | 1.75 | 2 |
In this blog, we compiled a list of advice that accomplished researchers would give to their younger selves - the tips they wish they had known. Whether you are a college student considering a future career in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), healthcare or an early career researcher, you’ll find this blog full of invaluable wisdom not only for your career, but for life. After all, what better way to prepare for the future than learning from the experience of others? Enjoy!
Advice from academic researchers
1. PeerJ’s advice to my younger self blog series
The PeerJ communities have invited renowned professors around the world to share their thoughts in 5 tips. Their research fields span from Evolutionary Biomechanics, Psychology, and Anatomy, to Marine Ecology. If you are interested in pursuing a research career in academia, read this blog and you’ll learn the essential things too.
2. Advice to my younger self - thoughts from Professor Mark Costello and his 16 colleagues
Professor Mark Costello is the first professor who began the PeerJ’s advice to my younger self blog series mentioned above. Professor Mark Costello was invited to give a talk to the Science Faculty Postdoc Society on this topic. This blog is a summary of the key points of his talk. In addition, he emailed colleagues for their perspectives and listed a summary from 16 of them. This list of insights and advice from 17 seasoned researchers gives you a bigger spectrum of perspectives and backgrounds to help you find the one most related to you.
3. Letter to My Younger Self: Dean Dr. Cynthia Peterson
Dr. Cynthia Peterson is the head of Louisiana State University (LSU)’s college of science. Her younger self had a lot of questions, such as what does a career in science hold? Do you have what it takes? What is a pathway to success? Can you balance a scientific career with other things in life? Dr. Cynthia Peterson’s letter offers answers to those questions and an assurance that she is on the right path. I’m sure that you’ll really enjoy reading this inspiring life journey that Dr. Cynthia Peterson has shared.
4. Advice to my younger self: world’s top researchers share the tips they wish they’d known
A list of shorter but succinct responses from a handful of world-class researchers about advice they would give to their younger selves. Here is what Dr. James Levinsohn, Professor of Economics and Management, Yale University, has to say “Work on problems that are interesting and the rest will work out.”
5. A letter to my younger self from distinguished professors across the University of Southampton
Four distinguished professors (PhD/EngD/Psych/DEd Psych/EdD etc) shared their own journey through their doctorate. Read the following paragraph from the letter by Professor Chris Howls, Director of the Doctoral College. Have you ever been in a similar situation?
“You are probably going through one of those long periods of frustrated progress, where nothing seems to work. You may have just spent three weeks working on a problem, day and night, and have just proudly shown the results to your supervisor. It’s a fair bet that they will have crushed you within two minutes, with their favorite phrase of, ‘Chris, that’s exactly what it isn’t’. Persist.”
Advice from industrial scientists
6. Novartis female scientists - letters to their younger selves
Not everyone’s dream is the same. If your dream scientific career resides in industry, you’ll find the blog from Novartis, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, inspiring, and helpful for planning your future career path in industry. In this blog, 5 accomplished female scientists at Novartis shared their wisdom in an inspiring and touching personal story born from the difficult moments in life. For those who have never worked in industry, this blog will definitely be eye-opening, a reality check with broad horizons. In addition, this blog especially sheds light on whether a woman scientist can have it all - balancing work life and home.
7. Data science job-seeking advice to my younger self from Dr. Schaun Wheeler – Co-founder @aampe.co, Anthropologist and Data Scientist
Data science started to become popular in 2012. Dr. Schaun Wheeler had started in the data science field a few years before most people realized this trend. Over the course of his career, he has held data science positions and founded/managed data science teams across the security and intelligence, travel, asset management, education, and advertising industries. In this very insightful blog, he shares his hindsight about how to work as a data scientist, the things that are really important to this profession, and the hard lessons that he has learnt along the way.
8. Career advice to your younger self from remarkable women in TechWomen community
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2021, women made up 32% of the STEM workforce, a tremendous increase from 8% of STEM workers in 1970. As more women join the STEM workforce, career advice demands more from young women who are interested in pursuing a career in STEM. TechWomen is an Initiative of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. They reached out to its community and asked the past emerging leaders, mentors, female tech enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, investors and role models, “What career advice would you give to your younger self?” This blog is a summary of 10 of the most powerful insights that the community shared. | <urn:uuid:b02e5503-3b07-4c4e-97b6-33a715f6b170> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sciencegrit.com/blogs/news/best-letters-to-my-younger-self-career-advice-from-8-accomplished-scientists-in-academia-and-industry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959104 | 1,169 | 2.0625 | 2 |
We all know that the lyrics to every country song are true right? Well, here is Exhibit A: “Every time you kiss me it’s like sunshine and whiskey.” These words from the Frankie Ballard song “Sunshine & Whiskey” ring truer than ever before, especially in Lynchburg, Tennessee the home of Jack Daniel Distillery.
Jack Daniel Distillery has partnered with the Tennessee Valley Authority, Duck River Electric Membership Corporation, and Nashville-based solar power producer Silicon Ranch to provide the iconic Tennessee whiskey maker’s Lynchburg distillery with 20 megawatts of solar energy.
TVA signed a long-term power purchase agreement with Silicon Ranch to build, own, and operate the solar facility just a few miles from the world-famous distillery in Moore County, Tennessee, pending environmental reviews.
“Our commitment to making great whiskey is only matched by our commitment to preserving the world we call home through sustainable practices,” said Jack Daniel’s Vice President and Assistant General Manager Melvin Keebler.
“We’re excited to be the first distillery to sign a Green Invest deal that will provide nearly three-quarters of our electricity needs. Now the world’s most iconic whiskey is even greener.”
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Jack Daniel’s runs its distillery with a zero-waste to landfill policy and has programs to protect the water and wood used to make its whiskey.
“This announcement demonstrates the environmental leadership of Jack Daniel’s and Duck River, fueled by our shared long-term commitment to renewable energy and community engagement,” said Chris Hansen, TVA vice president, Origination and Renewables. “TVA’s Green Invest program is the nexus for any organization interested in making renewable energy a part of their business.”
“TVA, Jack Daniel’s and Duck River are excellent neighbors who are valuable assets to our community,” said Mayor Bonnie Lewis, Metro Lynchburg, Moore County, Tennessee. “Each year, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world tour the distillery, and this solar farm from our newest corporate citizen Silicon Ranch will be another attraction as they provide additional construction jobs and tax revenue to Moore County.”
Silicon Ranch collaborated with local landowners Cumberland Springs Land Company, the leadership at Motlow State Community College, and officials in Moore County to develop the solar project.
“The Tennessee Valley is our home, and Silicon Ranch is honored to be part of this compelling story that demonstrates what’s possible when partners work together with a shared commitment to our local communities,” said Reagan Farr, Silicon Ranch Co-Founder and CEO.
“Thanks to the leadership of our friends at TVA, local power companies such as DREMC, and visionary companies such as Jack Daniel’s, Silicon Ranch is on pace to invest more than $1 billion across the Valley, and we are proud to expand this legacy to Moore County.”
TVA sees a bright future for solar fueling the region’s economy and has increased its contracted solar capacity by 60% since October 2020.
“Duck River is honored to serve as Jack Daniel’s trusted energy provider,” said Scott Spence, DREMC president and CEO. “We have witnessed great things happen over the years through Jack Daniel’s investment in the Metro Lynchburg, Moore County community, and this is no exception. Duck River is thrilled to be a part of this project.”
TVA Receives No Taxpayer Funding
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(Beirut) – Qatar made some important progress on human rights in 2018 but failed to deliver on several key promised reforms, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2019. Among the promises not yet kept is the full repeal of the exploitative kafala (sponsorship) system, which gives employers excessive power over migrant workers.
“While Qatar has taken some important steps to protect human rights, there is still a long way to go before migrant workers are protected from abuse and exploitation,” said Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “With the World Cup 2022 fast approaching, and as Qatar races to complete planned construction projects in time, now is the time to put in place durable labor rights reforms.”
In the 674-page World Report 2019, its 29th edition, Human Rights Watch reviewed human rights practices in more than 100 countries. In his introductory essay, Executive Director Kenneth Roth says that the populists spreading hatred and intolerance in many countries are spawning a resistance. New alliances of rights-respecting governments, often prompted and joined by civic groups and the public, are raising the cost of autocratic excess. Their successes illustrate the possibility of defending human rights – indeed, the responsibility to do so – even in darker times.
In May, Qatar joined the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, but did so with a range of formal reservations depriving women and migrant workers of some of the treaties’ protections.
In September, Qatar’s emir signed into law the Gulf region’s first refugee asylum law. The law demonstrates Qatar’s commitment to refugee rights but falls short of its international obligations, particularly with regard to its restrictions on refugees’ freedom of movement and expression.
Also in September, Qatar passed a law on permanent residency that would be available for the first time to children of Qatari women married to non-Qatari men. With permanent residency, they can receive government health and educational services, and can invest in the economy and own real estate. However, the law falls short of granting women equal rights with men to confer nationality on their children and spouses.
On April 30, the ILO inaugurated its first project office in Qatar for a three-year cooperation program to help Qatar achieve its commitments on migrant rights. Its work will include replacing the kafala system with a new contractual system, setting a nondiscriminatory minimum wage, improving a system to ensure that wages are paid, and barring employers from confiscating workers’ passports. In September, Qatar also passed a law allowing most migrant workers to leave the country without an exit permit. But it excludes workers not covered by the labor law, such as domestic workers, and allows employers to apply to exclude some other workers.
“If Qatar truly wants to stand out in the Gulf region as a forward thinking and rights-respecting state, it should start by delivering fully and transparently on all its promised reforms,” Fakih said. | <urn:uuid:b5273b83-7384-4ba3-8d8e-50e796fa256c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/01/17/qatar-partial-reforms-risk-undermining-progress | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.947854 | 626 | 1.875 | 2 |
June 24, 2017
June 24, 2017
June 28, 2017
NSF Grantees Poster Session
The engineering program at East Carolina University was only six and a half years old when it was awarded an S-STEM grant for $599,894 in the spring of 2011. Most of the funds were used to provide scholarships to small cohorts of academically talented, FAFSA-eligible students in the incoming classes of 2011-2014. Participants in the S-STEM scholarship program also benefitted from numerous internal and external engagement and professional development opportunities. This poster examines one specific external engagement opportunity of our S-STEM program - job shadowing with a local engineer. As Bandura and Walters indicate, observing can be a very effective way to learn. One goal of the shadowing experience is for student participants to have a better understanding of what engineers do and what skills are needed in order to be successful. We included the shadowing activity in our S-STEM program in an effort to improve participants’ confidence and self-efficacy. As noted by Ponton et al , “vicarious experiences”, such as shadowing and observing, can serve as significant contributors in the enhancement of self-efficacy. Perhaps one of the best features of the shadowing experience is that it requires minimal funds, making it easily replicable at other institutions. Most of the locations that students visit are within 10 miles of campus, so students do not seek reimbursement for mileage. The short travel distance also allows students to maximize their time spent on-site with the company while minimizing the disruption to their academic course schedules. It is our hope to expand the shadowing program so that other students in the department may apply to participate. We believe that an application process is necessary in order to ensure that the student is serious about participating and understands his/her responsibilities associated with this activity. Included in the poster are survey results from S-STEM scholars indicating their perceptions of the shadowing experience and how this experience impacted them. Survey results from the participating employer-partners are included to indicate how shadowing partners felt about the experience, and how the department could improve the shadowing experience in the future.
Bandura, A., and Walters, R. (1963) Social learning and personality development. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York.
Ponton, M.K., Edmister, J.H., Ukeiley, L.S., Seiner, J.M. (2001) “Understanding the role of self-efficacy in engineering education”. Journal of Engineering Education 90(2), 247-251.
Castles, R. T., & Brown, E. C. (2017, June), Board # 19 : Expanding Engineering through an S-STEM Program Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. 10.18260/1-2--27800
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|aAmerican Indian education :|bcounternarratives in racism, struggle, and the law /|cMatthew L.M. Fletcher.
|aNew York :|bRoutledge,|c2008.
|axi, 223 p. ;|c24 cm.
|aThe critical educator
|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
|aCommodifying Indian students and sport mascots : the Lake Matchimanitou Warriors -- Burying Indian histories in the curriculum : the American history teacher -- Criminal injustice and demonizing Indian students : the American Indian student -- Intergenerational character of Indian experiences in education : Niko Roberts on the ice -- Indian academic fraud : the terrible tribe -- Indian literary fraud : Vann Logan's novel -- Indian cultural restoration : Toledo Marks' return -- Indian political resurgence and affirmative action : the Lake Matchimanitou Indian School.
|aIndians of North America|xEducation.
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Buying things second hand can be tricky because sometimes, the items are in poor condition and need to be replaced sooner, so you don’t actually end up saving that much. However, there are some items that are worth buying used if you want to save money. It’s also a great way to be more sustainable while watching your budget. The trick is, knowing what items to buy new and what to buy used. These are the common items you should always buy used to save money.
A brand new smartphone can easily cost over £1,000, which is a huge amount of money, especially considering they perform the same basic functions that older models do. If you buy a phone that is ten years old, you’ll be missing out on a lot of features. But if you go just a few generations back, the phone will still do everything you need it to but it will cost a fraction of the price. There are some great companies that refurbish phones so they are as good as new and they will still last you a few years at least. Electronic waste is a huge problem right now, so if you’re looking for a good way to be more sustainable and save money at the same time, buying refurbished smartphones is one of the best things you can do.
People are often very unsure about used cars. They worry that they will keep breaking down and end up costing a lot in repairs, so they won’t really save money. While that is a possibility, this only usually happens if you buy from an unreliable dealer. If you purchase your car from a trusted Car supermarket that offers a good warranty, you should be fine. Look for the most reliable models and always take a test drive before you agree to anything. Keep up with maintenance too and your used car should last you long enough to make it worthwhile.
Good quality clothes can be very expensive, but if you go for the cheap option, they won’t last long at all and you will end up spending more in the long run. Buying used is a great way to make sure that you get good quality clothes without spending a fortune. A lot of people follow fashion trends religiously, so if something isn’t on trend anymore, they’ll just sell it. As a result, there are always a lot of great clothes on sites like eBay for very reasonable prices.
Furnishing your home is a quick way to empty your bank account, but it doesn’t have to be. Charity shops and antique stores are filled with great quality wooden furniture that is still perfectly usable. It might be a bit rough around the edges but you don’t need to be an expert to upcycle it and get it looking great again. The great thing about upcycling second hand furniture is that you can get completely unique furniture at a fraction of the price.
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Vaera is read on January 21, 2023
Parshat Vaera: Torah Portion, Dvar Torah & Summary
Vaera Torah Portion: Exodus 6:2–Exodus 9:35
Moses and Aaron plead with Pharaoh to let the Jewish people go serve their God, but Pharaoh refuses. God begins sending plagues to punish Pharaoh and convince him to free the Jewish people.
Why Did God Harden Pharaoh's Heart?
Vaera Torah Portion
Parshat Vaera Dvar Torah
Parshat Vaera Summary
Vaera Torah Portion: Exodus 6:2–Exodus 9:35
When we left off at the end of Parshat Shmot, Moses and Aaron had approached Pharaoh, introduced themselves as messengers of God, and asked him to free the Israelites. Not only did Pharaoh refuse, but he responded by increasing the slaves' burden.
Seeing all of this, Moses had turned back to God in frustration (to paraphrase): "I did what you said, but I only ended up making things worse!" And so, at the start of this week's parsha, Parshat Vaera, God reassures Moses, re-articulating His intention to free the people. No, it won't happen all at once, and no, it won't be without obstacles, but liberation will come.
God wants Moses not only to internalize this message himself – Moses is, after all, God's newly appointed messenger and leader of the people, so it's important that he has faith in the plan – but to convey it to the children of Israel. God wants them to know that He has heard their suffering, that He has been watching them, that their pain matters to Him, and that now, He intends to intervene in world affairs to do something about it.
In a word: God expresses His empathy to the people. (See here for a Passover video that relates powerfully to this notion of God's empathy for the people.) In the course of this conversation, God also says something very mysterious to Moses about the nature of His divine name. For more on that, see our video here.
After a brief break, the text clarifies the genealogy of Moses and Aaron: naming their parents, Amram and Yocheved, and letting us know the names of their offspring and relatives, many of whom will feature in the later stories of the Bible – Korach, Nadav, Avihu, Nachson, Uzziel, and others. Then, we return to the action: the second approach of Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh.
There, Moses and Aaron display before Pharaoh the first of the special "signs" that God taught them, that were meant to prove that God really was on their side: Aaron casts down his staff and it magically transforms into a snake. But when Pharaoh's sorcerers are able to replicate the trick, Pharaoh rationalizes that Moses and Aaron aren't as powerful as they claim. (Aaron's serpent swallows the sorcerers' serpents, but Pharaoh seems to conveniently overlook that.)
So Moses and Aaron announce the coming of the first plague: that God will turn the Nile waters to blood. Aaron stretches his staff out over the Nile and, sure enough, the waters are transformed. But as Pharaoh's sorcerers were able to replicate this trick too, at least in part, Pharaoh remained unmoved.
Next comes the second plague (to paraphrase): "If you still won't listen, God will bring frogs upon Egypt!" Pharaoh doesn't listen, the frogs come, and the sorcerers imitate. This time, Pharaoh calls for Moses and Aaron and asks them to stop the plague. When he does, a truly perplexing conversation ensues, whereby Pharaoh says: "Please tell your god to call off the frogs!" and Moses says: "No problem, when would be a good time?" and Pharaoh says, "Tomorrow," and Moses says, "Your wish is my command." Why tomorrow, you might well ask? Why didn't Pharaoh want the frogs gone right then and there?
It's an excellent question and it turns out to be one of the primary pieces of evidence in Rabbi Fohrman's understanding of what the 10 Plagues were all about. For the wide-scope story, we highly recommend the Passover course, What Does It Mean To Be God's Chosen People? For a shorter introduction to the meaning of the 10 Plagues, you can start with our shorter two-part video series, which focuses in particular on the question: What does it mean that God hardened Pharaoh's heart?
No sooner are the frogs gone than Pharaoh's heart is hardened. So Moses and Aaron threaten Plague #3: the plague of lice. This time, curiously, Pharaoh's sorcerers are unable to replicate the plague, which may begin to undo Pharaoh's resolve. But if it does, he doesn't let it show, because the text tells us that still he refuses to listen to Moses and Aaron.
So the lice afflict all of Egypt, with one exception: as Moses and Aaron had explained to Pharaoh, a great precision will be evinced in this plague, and the land of Goshen (where the Israelites dwell) will be perfectly immune.
Next comes Plague #4, frequently translated as "wild beasts" (or perhaps more precisely, a mixture of wild beasts – in Hebrew, arov). In the wake of that affliction, Pharaoh's resolve seems to be wavering, because he calls Moses and Aaron back and seems willing to accede to one of their earliest requests: to take a three-day trip into the desert to worship their God.
But even that doesn't lead to a large-scale change, because before long, Pharaoh is at it again with his hardening of heart, and Moses and Aaron are threatening Plague #5: pestilence. And once again, the theme of precision is highlighted: that the plague is going to affect only the Egyptian-owned cattle, but not one of the Hebrew-owned cattle.
The narrative continues apace, with the coming of Plague #6 (boils) and Plague #7 (hail). And as Rabbi Fohrman points out in his video linked above – about the 10 Plagues and the hardening of Pharaoh's heart – there seems to be something markedly different about this plague of hail.
You can see it by Pharaoh's reaction: "I have sinned this time," he tells Moses and Aaron. "The Lord is the righteous One, and I and my people are the guilty ones." To hear this kind of language coming from Pharaoh is shocking. Never before have we, the reader, known him to speak in such explicitly moral terms. "I have sinned"?? He sounds so repentant.
Yet by the end of the parsha, he has changed his tune entirely, repeating his now-familiar refrain, refusing to let the people go. What happened? What made Pharaoh see the error of his ways, only to do a 180 in the very next motion? These are the questions that Rabbi Fohrman aims to relate to in the 10 Plagues video series. With that, Parshat Vaera draws to a close, with the drama of the final three plagues to be told in Parshat Bo. | <urn:uuid:65c24cbc-8bee-410b-abf9-aee06719b9d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alephbeta.org/weekly-torah-portion/parshat-vaera | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966367 | 1,504 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Lithuania will keep the option of sending troops to an international operation in Syria, but does not plan to do it any time soon. This emerged on Thursday during debates on the parliament's resolution on giving a mandate for troops to take part in international operations over the next two years.
Lithuania sent military instructors to Iraq several years ago where they trained local forces to fight the so-called Islamic State. Politicians in Lithuania have lately been discussing possibilities to send special operations troops to fight Islamists in Syria.
But discussions stopped when Turkey invaded Kurdish-controlled northern Syria, and also because of Russia's involvement in the ceasefire negotiations.
“Taking into account Turkey's ongoing operation and Russia's [involvement] and the relative instability, there are no conditions for Lithuanian troops to take part in an international operation,” the minister said. “But [ISIS] has not gone anywhere. There are growing [ISIS] challenges in Iraq […] and, in general, there are unresolved problems in the Middle East.”
“This is why we are proposing to include a political signal in this mandate and also a specific outlook that if our participation was necessary not only in Iraq, we will do that,” Karoblis said.
Lithuanian troops would be sent to other operation in the Middle East, provided that the government and parliament agreed, he said.
Just as under the existing mandate, Lithuania would be able to send up to 40 troops to the US-led operation Inherent Resolve.
Under the proposed resolution, up to 303 Lithuanian troops could be sent to military missions over the next two years, compared to 255 troops under the existing mandate, which is in force from 2017 until the end of this year.
The bill also says that Lithuania could send up to five troops to the Strait of Hormuz where an international operation protects shipping to Persian Gulf countries amid tensions between Iran and the United States.
The bill would also allow to send more troops to Afghanistan and Africa, including Mali and the Central African Republic.
“As you know, Lithuania is mainly a receiver of security guarantees, but we should also contribute to the functions of ensuring peace and regional stability with our allies,” Karoblis said. | <urn:uuid:1c0b92e1-9084-4820-bbff-73a2c9664376> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1118338/sending-lithuanian-troops-to-syria-an-option-but-won-t-happen-soon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.960294 | 464 | 1.890625 | 2 |
If you’re driving your car on a daily basis, your windshield ends up taking a bit of a beating - especially if you’re doing any highway driving, are regularly driving in construction zones or roads that are poorly maintained.
There are really only two ways to protect yourself from rock chips: option 1 - save your windshield with a windshield protection film; or option 2 - stop driving. Since #2 isn’t really an option for most of us, a windshield protection film is your best bet for avoiding rock chip damage. Although a windshield protection film isn’t completely invincible, it will make it significantly less likely to break or suffer significant damage when a rock hits your windshield - which can give you a lot of peace of mind.
"Think of it like a phone screen protector for your windshield"
A windshield protection film works by absorbing the force of any incoming rocks so that your windshield doesn’t break. It’s a thin, transparent film installed on the outside of your windshield to make the glass 6X less likely to break when a rock hits it. Think of it like a phone screen protector for your windshield.
A windshield protection film designed for daily driving is usually made up of 3 layers: a shock-absorbing polymer layer (this is what makes your windshield impact resistant), an optically clear ultra-strong adhesive (to stick the film to the windshield) and a protective topcoat (to prevent the soft, shock absorbing layer from being scratched by the wiper blades).
When the film is applied to the windshield surface, the force of impact from a rock or other debris is distributed across the film, which protects the windshield glass underneath from breaking.
The topcoat (or outer layer) of most windshield protection films acts as a protective barrier that prevents the shock-absorbing layer of the film from being scratched or damaged through everyday wear-and-tear. This topcoat layer is absolutely critical to the overall lifetime of the film, and is what usually causes the biggest difference between film brands.
The longevity of your windshield protection film will depend on lots of factors like where you live, your driving habits, and your windshield protection of choice.
Generally, there are really only two ways that the lifetime of any windshield protection film gets reduced:
1. A Loss of Integrity
2. General Wear-and-Tear
This can refer to any time that the layers of the film start to separate, are completely removed, or just stop performing as advertised. One of the most common ways that windshield protection films lose their integrity is through a process called ‘delamination’, which is just a fancy way of saying that the layers of the film start to peel apart over time.
Climates that are hot and humid or have high UV exposure are known to wreak havoc on all automotive films (windshield protection film, window tint, paint protection film, you name it) because the UV radiation will start to break down the bonds between layers in the film and cause it to degrade.
If you live in a climate that is at high risk for delamination, you might hear within the industry that film products have a really hard time lasting as long as they would in other climates.
Delamination has been an issue in the automotive film industry for many years, and this has been one of the biggest failure modes for windshield protection products universally. Luckily, as polymer technology has advanced, we’ve been able to make huge enhancements in product lifetime even in these harsh climates. At ExoShield, we recently released our latest generation product (ExoShield GT3) that was designed to last 10X longer in these harsh environments by specifically addressing the issue of delamination (more on how that works later).
Even if your film does not lose its structural integrity, the lifetime of your windshield protection film is finite - all good things come to an end eventually. This usually happens when the surface of the film gets worn out after everyday use of the wiper blades, sandblasting, and small impacts from rocks and road debris. The protective topcoat on the surface of the film will eventually wear out, and the film may not look ‘brand new’ anymore.
In this case, your driving habits can play a huge role. The more you drive, the more wear-and-tear your windshield protection film will see. And if you’re driving on dusty, or dirt-covered roads, those tiny sand and dirt particles may get stuck in the wiper blades and scratch the film’s surface.
Chances are that you aren’t going to change your driving habits (and really, you shouldn’t have to) but the other key factor in limiting wear-and-tear is the inherent durability of the topcoat. Not all windshield protection films are created equal, and in fact, different brands may use completely different types of materials in their product.
There are two “types” of windshield protection: nanoceramic (PET-based) and self-healing (TPU-based). A nanoceramic-based technology actually resists scratching by using tiny ceramic nanoparticles in the topcoat that have high hardness. In contrast, a self-healing film is super soft, so it scratches more easily, but is made up of a material that can ‘heal’ minor scratches when exposed to heat. We’re not going to get into comparing the two types of tech in this post, but for more about the two types of technology read this.
As far as wear-and-tear, nanoceramic films have been shown to have a much longer lifespan than TPU-based films, simply because the topcoat is designed to be ultra-durable and prevent any minor scratches in the surface. This is something we’ve tested in our lab, and is ultimately why at ExoShield we chose to use an ultra-durable nanoceramic topcoat for ExoShield GT3.
To get a truly long-lasting windshield protection film, it’s important to find a product to address both of the issues above: loss of integrity of the film (i.e. from delamination), and wear-and-tear (scratching).
To solve both of these common problems, we developed our Endurance Class Nanocoating, which massively reduces the chances of delamination by increasing the bond-strength between layers AND resisting abrasion to reduce wear-and-tear.
While ExoShield has always been known to have great resistance to scratches because of our proprietary nanoceramic topcoat, delamination has been an industry-wide issue for a long time. To create our new Endurance Class Nanocoating, we used some of the latest advances in polymer technology to increase the crosslinking density between layers, which helps to reduce delamination by at least 10X in harsh environments.
Generally, crosslinking refers to the process of linking two polymers together by a chemical bond. In the context of windshield protection film, we use inter-layer crosslinking density to describe how many bonds there are between two different layers of the film. A higher crosslinking density will mean a much stronger bond holding the layers together, making them much less likely to separate over time.
Because of the different technologies used by different manufacturers (PET vs TPU, different topcoat chemistry), and the effect that climate and driving habits can have on the film, the total lifespan can range from as little as 3 months for a low-end film to 3 years or more with a premium film. If longevity is what you’re looking for, make sure you’re choosing a film that maintains its structural integrity (i.e. anti-delamination) and will resist wear-and-tear (high abrasion resistance) in your climate.
We’ve tested most of the different windshield protection films on the market today, and as far as product lifetime, ExoShield GT3 comes out on top thanks to the durable nanoceramic coating to protect the film against scratching and the increased cross-linking effect to resist delamination.
It’s also important to remember that your driving habits are just as important though, including where and how often you drive. If you drive frequently (especially on highways or in high-risk areas), your film may not last as long, but you’re also much more likely to see rock chip damage.
How long your windshield protection film will last ultimately comes down to three factors: durability, environment, and care.
To get the most out of your investment, choose a windshield protection product that is designed to be durable and fits your lifestyle.
The lifespan of any windshield protection product will depend on where you live and the type of technology used by the manufacturer. Finding one that is designed to work in all climates is best, especially if you live somewhere hot, humid or at high elevation where the film will be more prone to UV damage.
Care & Maintenance:
Taking good care of your windshield protection film will make sure that you’re getting the most out of whatever product you choose. Things like using only recommended cleaning products, maintaining your wipers, and avoiding pressure washing your windshield will go a long way to extend the lifetime of any automotive film product. We have a set of detailed instructions for maintaining your windshield protection film here.
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During my elementary years, I remember that my hair got infested by head lice that I acquired from my playmates in school. I was being teased by my friends and classmates because of having head lice. With this, my mother used home remedies to help prevent the head lice from reproducing and to stop it from reoccurring. Fast forward, it happened to my daughter, too! Good thing I have found about Licealiz through a local radio station. After using the shampoo the head lice were gone and now my daughter is head lice free. I definitely recommend this product to all moms out there who are having a hard time how to get rid of this little head creatures.
In order for Licealiz to spread awareness, Lamoiyan Corporation conducted a nationwide campaign called Kilusang Kontra Kuto. Here is the official press release from ComCo Southeast Asia:
Licealiz battles head lice infestation in Mindanao with Kilusang Kontra Kuto
About one-third of elementary public school students in the Philippines suffer from head lice-related problems. Head lice infestation or pediculosis can cause severe itchiness and infection of the scalp, but this could be the least of these children’s worries; the social stigma associated with having kuto can leave lasting psychological damage on both children and their parents.
A survey of communities visited by the Licealiz caravan last year found that 47% of respondents from Visayas and 76% of respondents from Mindanao said that their children were bullied and teased for having head lice, causing some of them to miss school to avoid their peers. The parents, on the other hand, feel incompetent and embarrassed for being unable to prevent head lice from infesting their children.
In response to this, Lamoiyan Corporation’s Licealiz Head Lice Treatment Shampoo launched Nationwide Oplan Alis Kuto as a part of its Kilusang Kontra Kuto effort to educate the public on lice infestation issues. The caravan was launched in partnership with the Department of Education, University of the Philippines Manila College of Public Health and Mommy Bloggers Philippines with the goal of traveling to different schools and barangays all over the country to hold shampooing programs and lectures for students and their parents.
Lamoiyan Corporation is set to end the year with 30 public schools visited and over 8,000 children shampooed.
“We want to remove the stigma associated with having kuto by educating communities on lice infestation issues,” said Lamoiyan Corporation Marketing Director Bing Cavestany. “We want to drive home the message that everyone can be potentially infested by kuto, that it’s not something to be ashamed about, and definitely not something to ridicule others for. We also hope to encourage these communities to unite and take action to solve this public health problem together,” shared Cavestany.
Licealiz invites everyone to join the Kilusang Kontra Kuto in changing the public’s perception about head lice infestation and spreading correct information regarding head lice prevention and treatment.
For more information on head lice prevention and treatment, visit Licealiz’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/licealiz.
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USAID Enhances Voter Accessibility in Papua New Guinea’s National Election
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea – Every voter should be able to register and vote without facing barriers. To enhance access for people living with disabilities (PLWDs) in Papua New Guinea’s upcoming national election, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) supported the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) to host a workshop on assessing accessibility at polling places.
The workshop empowered people living with disabilities to engage in the national election through conducting polling place assessments and developing reports on the findings. Participants learned how to evaluate the accessibility of polling by checking for accessibility aids such as magnifying plastic for low-vision voters and large pens to assist voters without fine motor function. Participants also learned how to assess and prioritize mobility for wheelchair access.
Danny Ten, a training participant and person living with disabilities, said, “We do not want to be put aside any longer. I am proud to be part of the first batch of election observers supporting people with disabilities.”
As part of his first official trip to PNG, USAID Mission Director for the Philippines, Pacific Islands, and Mongolia Ryan Washburn joined the workshop to congratulate participants and hand out completion certificates.
“Like everyone else, people living with disabilities are affected by the decisions of their elected officials,” said Mission Director Washburn. “We are honored to support these young people to mobilize their community for this fundamental right.”
The People with Disabilities organization will analyze the data that workshop participants collect and hold a follow-up workshop after the election to create an advocacy action plan with recommendations to the PNG Electoral Commission and other government agencies.
“This is a perfect example of how civic awareness workshops spark ideas from participants to continue their engagement to create large-scale changes in communities,” said Paul Rowland, IFES Country Director, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.
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President Obama is wrong to equate Tolerant Hinduism with Intolerant, Violent Christianity and Islam
On January 27, President Obama, before he left India, stated, “Around the world, we’ve seen intolerance and violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to be standing up for their faith, but, in fact, are betraying it. No society is immune from the darkest impulses of man. And too often religion has been used to tap into those darker impulses as opposed to the light of God.”
Obama said, "India will succeed so long as it is not splintered along lines of religious faith, splintered along any lines and it is unified as one nation."
President Barack Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday (February 5, 2014) again repeated the religious tolerance in Indi by stating, "In past years, religious faiths of all types have, on occasion, been targeted by other peoples of faith, simply due to their heritage and their beliefs— acts that would have shocked Gandhiji," meaning Mahatma Gandhi.
“Michelle and I returned from India -- an incredible, beautiful country, full of magnificent diversity -- but a place where, in past years, religious faiths of all types have, on occasion, been targeted by other peoples of faith, simply due to their heritage and their beliefs -- acts of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhiji, the person who helped to liberate that nation.” He also said, “We see faith driving us to do right. But we also see faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge — or worse, sometimes used as a weapon.”
Comparing Hinduism to Islam and Christianity is outrageous
It is unfortunate, outrageous, deceptive, prejudiced, unwarranted and totally misleading to imply that Hinduism is involved in acts of intolerance. President has done a disservice to associate Hinduism with Christianity and Islam. Both Abrahamic religions are exclusive, meaning that if you do not believe in my way of worship and my God, you are condemned to hell. Hinduism is tolerant, accommodative, open minded, pluralistic, and embraces the philosophy of “live, let live.” It does not believe in conversions, and does not exploit the poor by offering bribes and inducements. Hindus believe in freedom, discussion, dialogue, debates, and questioning the scriptures. They have not annihilated any civilization, destroyed any places of religion, not massacred other religious people, not engaged in deceptive conversions, and not terrorized the humanity. Hindus see only divinity in all living and nonliving entities and never abhor the individual for their religious believes. They have not conquered and subdued any nation for establishing their religion. They never play the role of victim in order to incite the media and turn the public opinion against other religions. Hinduism is the most philosophical, spiritual, and scientific religion. Any person in authority should go beyond one’s own religion, should take high road and should not plunge into this quagmire of religious controversy. Small mindedness is the character of an educated, and intelligent person. Religion should not pull any body down to whirlpool where nobody can out without being bruised. Equating such a religion with Christianity and Islam is beyond reason, objectivity, rational and scientific. Ignorance or the ploy to cloak behind the religious faith is not the answer for today’s mindless terror, brutality, deception and destruction. This is the discussion that should have taken place in the class rooms but not the halls of US Congress and Whitehouse. Unfortunately, it is the President of the United States who ruffled the feathers of religion and instigating the Muslims and Christians to demean them and humiliate them by playing their traditional victim role.
Indian government officials responded with restraint and with decency. India has been failing consistently to give appropriate and fitting response to the clandestine statements made over the years. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, "India has a huge cultural history of tolerance. Any aberration doesn't alter the history … its part of India's tolerance that even he found it comfortable and India found it comfortable to absorb him in the society." He appropriately said the best example of Indian tolerance was sitting next to President Obama referring to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who exiled to India in 1959 and set up a government of Tibet in exile in Dharamshala.
Similarly Rajnath Singh, the Home Minister said, "as far as religious tolerance is concerned, it is embedded in our Indian tradition. India is the only country in the world where all the communities including various divisions of Muslims and all sects of Christians are present ... In India, Parsis and Jewish are also there."
His Holiness Dalai Lama on India
President Obama made these remarks in front of His Holiness Dalai Lama who was given shelter in India. They are most inappropriate, disturbing, surreal and stealthy considering what Dalai Lama said about India. "India is a model. Different religious traditions live peacefully and harmoniously. Please keep this tradition," Dalai Lama said at the valedictory of the year-long celebration of the 1,960 year-old Malankara Orthodox Syrian church in Kochi in 2012. "India has great heritage. There is harmony among different religious traditions. India is a land where people of different religious faiths can live peacefully and harmoniously here. India's tradition is very relevant in today's world.”
Former President of India, Abdul Kalam
It is worth remembering the words of the former President of India about the rich heritage of India.
“In 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Portuguese, the British, the Mughals, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others.” --President Dr. Abdul Kalam
US Press Reacts to President Obama
Reacting to President Obamas remarks, Charles Krauthamer appearing on Hugh Hewitt’s Radio program said that he is insulting India. “What the hell is he doing bringing India into this? I mean, it’s the first time I’ve heard India drawn into this discussion. Here he is essentially insulting, and it’s because it’s a Hindu country. It’s not Muslim. I mean, he’ll say in the name of Christ. He won’t say in the name of Muhammad and in the name of Allah. He won’t use those words. And then he goes after India, which is probably our strongest, most stable, most remarkable, democratically on the planet, considering all the languages and religions that it harbors. It has the second-largest Muslim population on Earth. And yet he goes after it as a way of saying hey, everybody here is at fault. They are not at fault.”
President Obama is failing in his responsibility to clearly look at the horrific history of the Abrahamic religions and to equate them with Hinduism, the most tolerant religion the humanity has ever seen or experienced. He is distorting the history, he is misguiding his shepherds, pleasing the Muslims, and trying to be in the good books of people who were successful in banning Visa to Narendra Modi in 2005. Both Abrahamic religions have been professing from their inception that anybody who would not embrace their faith would be condemned to hell, death and torture. They can be destroyed, sacrificed and killed. Both Quran and Bible have hundreds of verses that allow the nonbelievers to be slaughtered and their places of would be destroyed. In return what do Hindus do? As Swami Vivekananda said, “The difference is this. They had not the fanfaronade of the reformers of today; they had no curses on their lips as modern reformers have; their lips pronounced only blessings. They never condemned.”
Look How India Blessed the Abrahamic Religions
The Presidents of India: The country that has elected four Muslims and one Sikh as Presidents should not be the target for President Obama’s insensitive remarks about acts of intolerance. India had five Presidents who belong to other religions. Dr. Zakir Hussain, Mohammad Hidayatullah, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam were Muslim and Giani Zail Singh was a Sikh.
Chief Ministers in Five States: Although Christians are only about 3 percent of the population, Hindu dominant voters elected five Chief Minister in India. Hindus have elected them in Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
Christians and Muslims occupied important positions
Chairperson of the country’s ruling political alliance UPA is Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi were practicing Catholic Christians.
Country’s Defense Minister - A.K. Antony, (Christian) the Foreign Secretary - Ranjan Mathai, (Christian)
Head of the Air Wing of military - Anil Kumar Browne, (Christian)
P.J. Kurien – Dy. Chairman Rajya Sabha, (Christian)
P.C. Chacko, newly appointed Congress Spokesperson, (Christian)
The country’s Foreign Minister Mr Salman Khurshid, (Muslim)
Minister of State for External Affairs Mr E. Ahmed, (Muslim)
Chief Justice of India Mr Altmas Kabir, (Muslim)
The nation’s Vice President and Chairman of Rajya Sabha Mr Hamid Ansari, (Muslim)
Chief Election Commissioner Mr S.Y. Qureshi, (Muslim)
Attorney General of India Mr Goolam Essaji Vahanvati, (Muslim)
Minister for Minorities Affairs - K. Rahman Khan, (Muslim)
Rashid Alvi - the Congress Spokesperson is a Muslims.
President Obama VS his administration
President is failing to name the names. He is abrogating his responsibility to call spade a spade. He is refusing to identify Islam as the source of violence, extremism, torture, beheading and radicalism. He is hiding behind the words such as radical terrorists, and Islamic terrorists. You cannot defeat the enemy if you cannot identify the source.Thomas Friedman says that, “When you don’t call things by their real name, you always get in trouble. And this administration, so fearful of being accused of Islamophobia, is refusing to make any link to radical Islam from the recent explosions of violence against civilians.” The administration officials acknowledge that they have list of individual who cited Islam as the source of their violence. “But it is not good for us or the Muslim world to pretend that this spreading jihadist violence isn’t coming out of their faith community.” And Josh Earnest continues to say that “purposeless violent extremists rummage through the scriptures of great faiths, looking for some verses to cite to support their mayhem and often happen to settle on the holy texts of Islam.” But Obama refuses to acknowledge that almost all terrorist are Muslims and cite Quran as the source of their terrorist acts.
Religious Tolerance in India
For centuries Hindu have welcomed by almost all the religions with open hands, respected them and allowed them to practice their religion. Jewish people openly declared that India is the only country that has not discriminated. Likewise Parsees, the descendants of Zoroastrians, were thrown out from their homeland, Persia, to be welcomed by India. Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists, and many others religions lived peacefully. Hindus have no history of killing, raping, rampaging, terrorizing, decimating and destroying other religions and annihilating the civilizations. It is worth remembering the former Presidents words we quoted earlier.
BUDDHISTS: In fact, on December 1, 2011 Sri Dalai Lama proudly announced that “I consider myself as a son of India” and carried the message of ahimsa across the globe and says that the country’s spiritual leaders should promote love and harmony in India and outside. Further he observed “that India has so many languages and dialects, yet remains strongly united because there is the freedom of speech and rule of law.”
JEWS: Jewish people lived in peace in India without any discrimination for more than 2000 years. Gary Weiss observed that in India the ethnic diversity “is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes toreligious tolerance. India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
That’s really a bit astonishing, if not ridiculous, when you think about it. Compare that with any Western nation, be it France or Russia or even the U.S., where discrimination against Jews in housing was a fact of life as recently as the 1950s. But in “backward” India, from the beginning, the Jewish communities have not only been free of discrimination but have dominated the commercial life of every place where they have settled–something that has fed traditional European anti-Semitism.
Why has India remained free of this scourge? Various reasons have been advanced for that–such as, the Hindu religion does not seek to convert those from other faiths. What we do know is that anti-Semitism seems alien to the Indian character.”
MUSLIMS: Shah Rukh Khan, the Muslim movie actor said, “that we in India are extremely safe and happy. We have an amazing democratic, free and secular way of life. In the environs that we live here in my country India, we have no safety issues regarding life or material. As a matter of fact it is irksome for me to clarify this non-existent issue.”
PARSEES: Chief Justice of India, S H Kapadia, observed, “I am proud to be an Indian. India is the only country where a member of the minority Parsi community with a population of 167,000, like myself, can aspire to attain the post of the Chief Justice of India. These things do not happen in our neighboring countries
Maria Wirth brings up the question, “Are Indians good natured?” They generally are, and probably more than other people. There are few countries where the attitude of “live and let live” is as pronounced as in India. “All are one family” is the traditional attitude.
It is worth remembering the words of A L Basham about Indian humility, gentleness and kindness: ‘To us the most striking thing feature of ancient Indian civilization is its humanity….Our second general impression of ancient India is that her people enjoyed life, passionately delighting both in the things of the senses and the things of the spirit….India was a cheerful land, whose people, each finding a niche in a complex and slowly evolving social system , reached a higher level of kindliness and gentleness in their mutual relationships than any other nation of antiquity. For this, as well as for her great achievements in religion, literature, art and mathematics, one European student at least would record his admiration of India’s ancient culture’
That is absolutely correct if Christiana and Muslims have lived with few principles of respecting other religion, if they have not claimed as the exclusive religions where nonbelievers in their religion are dammed to hell, where torture, terror, bombings, killings, explosions, rape, jihad, deceptions, hatred toward ‘idol’ worshippers, allurement are used to create fear and convert the Hindus into their intolerant, dishonest and brutal religions. Both religions should stop cheating, deceiving, forcing and coercing Hindus to get converted to their respective religions.
Comparing Hinduism with other faiths, Josh Shrei stated that "Hinduism" is Open Source; and most other faiths are Closed Source … "Open source is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code…. India has been the place where the doors have been thrown wide open and the coders have been given free reign to craft, invent, reinvent, refine, imagine, and re-imagine to the point that literally every variety of the spiritual and cognitive experience has been explored, celebrated, and documented.” He goes on to say, “The results of India's God Project -- as I like to refer to Hinduism -- have been absolutely staggering. The body of knowledge -- scientific, faith-based, and experience-based -- that has been accrued on the nature of mind, consciousness, and human behavior, and the number of practical methods that have been specifically identified to work with one’s own mind are without compare.”
In comparison, aces to God in Christianity is considered a trade mark that means it is considered most closed system. Josh Shrei observed that, “The ability to reinterpret the bible, or the teachings of Christ, or the Old Testament, or to challenge the basic fundamental authority of the church has been nonexistent for most of the church's history. Those who dared to do so were quite often killed.”
Dithering any longer identify the culprit for all the atrocities will be result in more bombings, massacres, beheadings, decimation and untold brutality.
"Perhaps in return for conquest,
arrogance and spoilation, India will teach us
the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind,
the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul,
the calm of the understanding spirit,
and a unifying, a pacifying love for all living things."Will Durant
Avigdor Liberman, Foreign Minister of Israel said on February 15, 2015 that "The chain of terrorism incidents in Copenhagen at the synagogue and at the freedom of expression conference, proves what we have said throughout the years - Israel and Jews have been made to absorb terror attacks first and foremost because we are the front line in the war of terrorism being waged against the West and the entire free world."
"The international community should not settle for declarations and rallies against this, but shake up the rules of "political correctness", and wage total war against Islamic terrorism and its roots," Liberman said.
Thomas Jefferson, “Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites.”
According to Dr. T. R. De Souza at least from 1540 onwards that all the Hindu idols disappeared because all the temples were destroyed, their sites and building materials were used erect new Christian Churches and chapels. Church council banished the Hindu priests from the Portuguese territories; practices of Hindu rites including marriage rites, were banned; Hindu orphan children were to raise as Christians; the Hindus were denied many types of employment; they were forced to assemble in Churches to listen to preaching or to the refutation of their religion.
- The torture by rope consisted of the arms being tied backwards and then raised by a pulley, leaving the victim hanging for some time, and then let the victim drop down to half a foot above the floor, then rose again. These continued up and down movements dislocated the joints and made the prisoner emit horrible cries of pain.
- The torture by water made the victim to lie across an iron bar, and was forced to imbibe water without stopping. The iron bar broke the vertebrae and caused horrible pains, whereas the water treatment provoked vomits and asphyxia.
- The torture by fire was definitely the worst: the victim was hung above a fire, which burnt the soles of the feet, and the jailers rubbed bacon and other combustible materials on the burning feet. The feet were burnt until the victim confessed, “I am Christian.”
On Christmas Day, many churches conduct Masses in Indian style, using Aarti, breaking coconuts, offering camphor, lighting incense sticks, singing kirtans and even offer Prasadam to Jesus. So much for Idol worship! It is done only to trap the Hindus by making the m comfortable with worship services. Mother Karen observed, “The Indian style Mass is being celebrated in many Christian ashrams in India.” There are hundreds of Christian ashrams in India where Christianity is presented to show that it is an Eastern faith. B R Haran in his article stated in article on “Christian missionaries target every single component of Hindu society” that, ‘’The Church uses the process of inculturation with an aim to adopt the well-established Hindu cultural practices to confuse, corrupt and change the minds of the gullible masses.”
Christ is dressed to look like an Indian sadhu. Jesus was shown in Radham giving message similar to Lord Krishna’s images. They celebrate Hindu festivals like Pongal and Diwali. They will conduct shodashopachara Puja (16 steps of doing any regular Hindu puja) to Jesus. Churches are being built in a Hindu Temple style with similar architecture, intricate artisan work and several steeples. They will have OM and Cross on the Temples. They also have developed Sahasranamavali (Thousand names) for Jesus in Sanskrit with meaning for each Nama. Since many Hindus are used to listening to Ashtottara Nama and Sahasranamavali for many Hindu Gods and Goddesses, the Christians have gone to the extent of composing them to lure and attract Hindus.
Popes call for establishing Cross-over India
On November 7, 1999, the Pope John Paul II addressing the missionaries gave a call to convert Asia to Christianity as follows: –
“Just as the first millennium saw the cross firmly planted in the soil of Europe, and the second in that of America and Africa, so may the Third Christian Millennium witness a great harvest of faith on this vast and vital continent.” Pope Benedict XVI also reiterated conversion agenda with the words, “The church is by its very nature missionary; its first task is evangelization.”
Deception is the game they play
What method do the Christians use to propagate and convert innocent and gullible Hindus into Christianity? Father Joseph Menengis, priest of St James Church in Mariyannapalya, Bangalore, confessed before the Justice B K Somashekara Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday (March 11, 2009) “The duty of every Christian is to convert non-Christians to Christianity by any means.” When he says “by any means” what does it mean? They can use any means such as deception, deceit, force, manipulation, allurement, tricks, treachery, exploitation, violence, killings, educational indoctrination, defamation od other religions, demeaning our gods, denouncing our scriptures, sexual exploitation and so on to convert Hindus.
Critics of Christianity were tortured and/or killed
History of Christianity is loaded with cruelty, torture, imprisonment, excommunication, and death. Anybody who refuses to obey the orders of church officials are put to untold torture and death.
Origen was an ardent believer in reincarnation. He was cast into prison, tortured, and condemned to the stake. The death of the emperor prevented his execution, but He died in prison
Leo Tolstoy was excommunicated for criticizing the Church practices and Christianity.
Pelagius was excommunicated from the Church for believing in the theory of Karma and deny only God’s grace as the cause for salvation
Galileo published a book entitled “Dialogue“ on the Two Chief Systems of the World, which said that the Earth was not flat and not the center of the universe. He was imprisoned for life for failing to withdraw his views.
Hypatia was a female mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in 4th century AD Roman Egypt. Due to religious objections against heliocentrism, the Christians have now forbidden Hypatia from teaching at the school. Cyril, the leader of the Christians, views Hypatia as having too much influence over her pupils, he convinces a mob of Christians that Hypatia is a witch and they vow to kill her. Before killing her, the mob strip Hypatia naked and beat her until Davus, Hypatia’s slave, tells the mob to stone her. When everyone was busy collecting the stones, Davus secretly suffocates Hypatia to death.
What Bible Says
What Scriptures Say about Tolerance and respecting other faiths?
President Obama should have known what is written in the major religious scriptures to realize that he should not compare other religions with Hinduism and treat all religions as same and treat them as peace loving. All religions are not same. Both major Abrahamic religions are brutal, barbaric, ruthless, deceptive, disrespecting, insulting, offensive, threatening, undemocratic, and intolerant and freedom less. Let us give few verses from Bible. Look what Bible says:
Deuteronomy 12:3 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.
Deuteronomy 7:25 The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
Jeremiah 25:6 Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them; do not provoke me to anger with what your hands have made. Then I will not harm you.”
Exodus 23:24 Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.
God who is supposed to be compassionate, loving and caring acting and thinking like a small kid, who wants possess his toys and do not want to share with others, is not Godly. Anybody, who is envious, bitter and resentful, cannot be called God. Thinking that the worship belongs to him only but nobody else is antichrist.
Gandhi on CONVERSION.
There is no question that Gandhiji would have shocked or fasted to death if he had seen the poison that is being fed to the innocent people. The fraudulent missionary activities would have made him sick. The kind of enculturation taking place to allure the innocent Hindus is nothing but a shameful, shocking and scandalous deceptive acts. If Mahatma Gandhi is alive, he would have lead the second freedom movement to make India free of this scourge of conversion and terrorism. If he had alive He would have walked the length and breadth of India to rid this menace. Gandhi himself said:
If I had the power and could legislate, I should stop all proselytizing. In Hindu households the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink. (November 5, 1935).
“It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?” (Harijan: January 30, 1937).
VIDEOS showing how Christians are CONVERTING HINDUS with DECEPTION
Hindus have never denied the freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom to practice one’s own faith. A lady from Scandinavia produces the following videos. She came to India to visit enjoy the diversity, richness, greatness, lushness, and glory of the ancient Sanatana Dharma culture. Soon she was aghast at the intensity of conversions through allurement. She was appalled at the way the Christian missionaries were demeaning the Hindu way of life, with the aim to destroy the Hindu culture. She was horrified at the dissension the new converts have caused in their families, kith and kin. She was shocked to see, on the commands of the pastors, the new converts stepping on the idols of Hindu Gods, breaking them and tearing up the pictures of the Hindu Gods. She was stunned to hear the stories of the Hindu who got converted as to how they were deceived by the missionaries and the kind tricks played on them.
Please watch the following video. These are the stories that should have received the uproar in the Parliament.
Christian Missionary attack on India (part 1 of 3)
Christian Missionary attack on India (part 2 of 3)
Christian Missionary attack on India (part 3 of 3)
Hindus must remember that the Christians have an open mission to convert the whole of India. In fact they are doing openly under our noses. They are very aggressively pursuing the mission. If we are not careful, these termites will crumble the Hindu edifice in front our own eyes. History of the last two millennium of Christian dominance in Europe, Africa and America; and the Pope Paul’s command to put a Cross on Indian soil should not be taken lightly. It is a serious matter and due attention must be paid without wasting even one minutes of time. Let us remember the words of Thomas Jefferson who said that the Christian God and their followers are cruel, revengeful and capricious. History cannot be hidden. Equating Hinduism with Christianity and Islam is not genuine, sincere, honest, and truthful. Can Hindus sleep in peace knowing their cunning, deceptive nature?
It is time to read the verses from the Bible and ask the Christians to explain.
President Obama has willingly dirtied his hands by meddling in the religious matters of India. He has deliberately associated Hinduism with deception, terror and torture by equating with Christianity and Islam. Would he dare to make these remarks in Saudi Arabia?
Part II of the article will follow next week on ISLAM and President Obama’s utter failure to name the names.
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Short Answer: Actions speak louder than words. If you want your family to consider Islam, the first step is to live your life in such a way that they are impressed with you. They will want to know more. Try to be patient with them, as it was only their ignorance that led them to teach you Islam is bad. Most of all, respect them and treat them with kindness. And remember: God calls people to Islam, God guides them. We are only responsible for showing them the way that God provided through our own example. The rest if up to God.
Salam Dear Greg,
Thank you for your question and for contacting Ask About Islam.
May Allah Almighty continue to shower His blessings on you and help you to live as a good Muslim for your whole life.
The fact that you ask many questions is good. May Allah guide you to the right path, inshallah.
Lying Vs. Ignorance
It is natural that you feel very strongly and that you want to take Islam very seriously, but the words you use are loaded with emotion.
It may possibly be that you have, indeed, been lied to all your life about the revealed truth, but it is more likely that the people who told you about matters of faith did not have a full understanding about Islam.
It would be easier here to call this ignorance of the truth, rather than lying about it.
There are many sincere believers throughout the world who do not follow Islam. They may be very good people or not.
Allah Alone can judge the intentions of our hearts.
They may be people who pray, who read their own scriptures, who give charity to the poor and who do their utmost to live what they believe to be good lives in the sight of God.
They Are Rejecting a False Islam, Not The Real One
There are many millions of people in the world, though, who have not heard the message of Islam.
These people did not reject Islam, since they never heard about the real Islam in the first place.
What they heard of Islam might have come to them through distorted reports on the television or in the newspapers.
To reject a wrong image of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), for example, is not to have rejected the Prophet himself (peace be upon him).
Indeed, who could reject the best of men to have lived?
Who, in fact, could reject Islam, since Islam speaks directly to the heart and is the final message of Almighty Allah to His creation?
In other words, many people do not follow Islam and have wrong ideas about Islam because they never learned about it in the first place.
Most people believe things because that is what they were taught when they were young.
The majority of people don’t question what they are taught.
It is Allah Who Guides People
So what can be done in your case?
You are right to say that it is Allah Alone who calls people to Islam.
No matter how much we may want this or that person to become Muslim, it is Allah who calls.
Allah calls people in different ways and He invites us to tell others with “wise words and beautiful preaching” what Islam is about.
When we have done this, our job is done. He doesn’t tell us that when we tell them about Islam they will become Muslim!
I don’t know your parents so I can only give a general answer, but most parents love their children and want the best for them.
It could be that because of the distorted ideas about Islam they have seen in the media they want to protect you from this Islam they have heard about.
Show Them How Islam Has Benefited Your Life
Your job is to show them that what they have seen and heard is not true.
Rejecting them most certainly won’t win them over. You need to show them, first of all by your actions, not by words, what Islam is like.
Do they see you now as a better person?
Are you kinder, more honest, more at peace with yourself? If this is so, they will begin to associate this new Greg with the new message he believes.
Words come easy. Anyone can give a talk or try to persuade using arguments. Actions, though, speak much louder than words.
If it is Allah’s Will to call your parents to Islam He will do so.
Above All Else: Respect Them
You are called as a Muslim to respect and honor your parents and to tell them by your life and your speech what Islam is really like.
This may take five months or it may take a lifetime, but you must never give up on your parents.
May Allah help you to give good example to those around you, so that they look at you and ask themselves what it is that makes you such a good person.
If they do that, they may then feel that they want to be the same.
Welcome to Islam and enjoy the opportunity Allah has given you to tell others about Islam by calling you to Himself.
I hope this helps answer your question.
Salam and please keep in touch.
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It has change into inevitable for the city inhabitants to reside in smarter cities that use Info and Communication expertise ought to they proceed to get pleasure from good way of life and a wholesome life-style. Our present Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi dived into the scenario and launched a plan to construct 100 sensible cities unfold throughout the nation inside a brief span of time. These cities shall be clever in attribute and shall contain utilization of e governance and actual time knowledge capturing and monitoring to be able to make it effectively deliberate and price efficient. It shall embody highway and utility companies, rail over bridges, sewage and customary effluent therapy plant, strong waste administration, district administrative constructing, good healthcare amenities, high quality training and far more.
Authorities has at present sanctioned Rs. 48,000 crore in direction of growth of the sensible cities that shall be allotted over a 5 yr span. A considerable a part of funding requirement for growth of those cities shall met by means of Public Personal Partnership mannequin for which each Indian and overseas investments are anticipated to move in. Trunk Infrastructure work has already began within the cities of Dholera Particular Funding Area (first sensible metropolis) in Gujarat and Shendra Bidkin in Maharashtra. Each Greenfield and brownfield tasks shall be executed as per plans. Unicon cupboard has proposed a listing of 100 current cities that may be upgraded to sensible cities. The checklist goes as beneath:- Andhra Pradesh o Guntur o Vijayawada o Kurnool o Chittoor Assam o Guwahati o Tinsukia o Odalguri o Tangla o Goalpara Bihar o Muzaffarapur o Patna o Gaya o Bhagalpur o Bihar Sharif Gujarat o Gandhinagar o Ahmedabad o Surat o Vadodara o Rajkot o Bhavnagar o Junagadh Haryana o Faridabad o Gurgaon o Panipat o Ambala Himachal Pradesh o Shimla Jharkhand o Jamshedpur o Dhanbad o Ranchi Karnataka o Bangalore o Gulbarga o Bidar o Bijapur o Badami o Pattadakal o Mahakuta Kerela o Thiruvananthapuram o Kollam o Kottayam o Tiruvalla o Ernakulam o Cochin o Thrissur Madhya Pradesh o Bhopal o Indore o Gwalior o Burhanpur o Jabalpur Maharashtra o Pune o Mumbai o Nagpur o Nashik o Aurangabad o Bhivandi Manipur o Bishnupur o Chandel Orissa o Bhubaneswar o Cuttack o Rourkela o Sambalpur o Balasore Punjab o Ludhiana o Amritsar o Jalandhar o Patiala Rajasthan o Jaipur o Ajmer o Bharatpur o Bikaner o Jodhpur o Kota o Udaipur Sikkim o Gangtok o Pelling o Yuksam Tamil Nadu o Chennai o Coimbatore o Madurai o Tiruchirappalli o Salem o Tirunelveli Telangana o Hyderabad o Warangal o Karimnagar o Nizamabad o Nalgonda Uttar Pradesh o Kanpur o Allahabad o Lucknow o Jhansi o Faizabad o Varanasi Uttarakhand o Dehradoon o Haridwar o Roorkee West Bengal o Calcutta o Durgapur
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Classifications always start with a group of things to be classified into subgroups/types: types of teachers, types of shoppers, types of houses, etc.
Any group of things can be classified by any of the characteristics or features displayed by the members of the group:
? A group of students can be classified by how they take notes, the clothes they wear, their behavior during class, etc.
? Movies can be classified by the audiences they are aimed at, their story lines, the quality of their actors, etc.
? Sports fans can be classified by the sports they are fans of, by the intensity of their support, by the behaviors they engage in as fans, etc.
1. Once you start classifying the members of a group, you are required to use only one principle as you classify the members:
? You can classify cats according to the length of their fur. ? You can classify Teachers according to their teaching style. ? You can classify lizards according to their habitats.
You can classify cars according to size: full-sized, mid-sized, compact, sub-compact, mini- compact.
However, if you start to consider luxury cars because they are usually large cars like Cadillacs, or Lincoln-Continentals, you violate the classification by moving to a second classification principle since luxury cars are being classified by the features being offered in the car rather than by their size.
2. The groups produced by the classification also cannot overlap. If you find your groups contain members which could fit into more than one of the groups you’ve created, your groups are too loosely defined. Your groups should be mutually exclusive.
3. The classification should reveal useful information about the groups themselves. Classifying teachers by the color of their eyes reveals nothing useful about those people as teachers.
4. As you describe/define each group in your essay, you must treat all your groups the same way. In a classification of cars, if you mention engine size when defining one group, you are obligated to discuss engine size in all the groups you define. Each group must be defined by the same set of criteria.
ENC 1101: College Composition I Classification 5. In your essay, each group/type will become a new body paragraph.
6. When you classify material and then compose an essay describing the classification, several important points need to be communicated by the thesis:
1. what is being classified (the group you started with) 2. the number of groups in your classification 3. accurately descriptive/informative names or labels for the groups 4. the principle of classification used to determine these groups
? Cars can be divided into five major categories: full size, mid-size, compact, sub-compact and mini-compact.
? Fires can be classified into five classes according to the materials being burned: common combustibles, flammable liquids/gases, electrical, metals, and oils/fats.
7. Common transitions or signal phrases used in classification are:
? this type of… ? several kinds of… ? in this category… ? can be divided into… ? classified according to… ? is categorized by…
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On the last night of term, in keeping with true Elstree tradition, Mr Pricha…
An important feature of an Elstree education is to foster an awareness of those less fortunate than ourselves and to encourage pupils to become helpful and caring members of the community. Everyone is actively encouraged to participate in projects for the benefit of others and to raise money to help those who have less.
A number of different charities are chosen to benefit from fundraising activities throughout the year. The Ridgeway Walk is a major fundraiser held every two years to raise money for charity involving all parents, staff and pupils. The 10 mile hike is quite a challenge for both adults and children and the last Walk raised the tremendous sum of £6500 for Glad’s House, a charity which provides support and opportunities for street children in Mombasa. Elstree has an ongoing association with Glad’s House which reunites street children with their families or if this is not possible, finds foster families for them as well as providing educational and sporting opportunities and practical and emotional support. For more information, please visit their website www.gladshouse.com.
Two other charities that have enjoyed Elstree’s continued support over the past few years are the Afghan Connection and PALS.
The Afghan Connection, directed by Dr Sarah Fane, a former Elstree parent, raises funds for our “twin” school, the Ghazi Gul Ahmad School just outside the Kabul province of Afghanistan. Elstree pupils have already been able to contribute to the purchase of new equipment for the school, as well as exchanging correspondence, drawings, and other creative items with pupils in Afghanistan. Visit www.afghanconnection.org for more information.
PALS is a local charity that helps children and young people who have a physical disability or sensory impairment. Each term, a group of youngsters from PALS comes to spend a Saturday morning at Elstree to take part in activities with pupils from Year 7 which is always a lively and fun session. More information can be found on their website, www.palsweb.org.uk.
The proceeds from the last Elstree Autumn Gift Fair went to Newbury Riding for the Disabled (RDA), which is a voluntary organisation enabling local disabled children to ride and enjoy the benefits it gives them. Recent events at Home Farm have raised money for various charities. Every year there is a sale of the Harvest Festival produce; this year £208 was raised and donated to Guide Dogs for the Blind, and the children recently did a sponsored run for up to 1 kilometre for Red Nose Day.
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After four years of research, a group of scientists have completed the sequences for the coast redwood and giant sequoia genomes. The research paves the way for a better understanding of the genetic basis of the species’ ability to adapt to climate impacts, wildfires and pathogens.
David Neale, plant sciences professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis and lead author on the new coast redwood genome research, equated this project to the human genome project.
“The human genome was sequenced for the very first time in 2000. The Human Genome Project provided us with a map of all of the genes that make up a human and it has made a significant impact on human health as well as an understanding of our ancestry,” he said. “… It’s the very same thing for trees; it’s fully equivalent. All those trees out there are just as different as you and I. Some of them have low risk to changing climate, a lack of moisture, while others do not.”
The study revealed that coast redwoods are among the most complex to be sequenced, Neale said. The redwood genome is nine times larger than the human genome and is among the most complex to be sequenced so far with 26.5 billion base pairs of DNA, second only to the axolotl salamander with 28.4 billion base pairs of DNA, and it is hexaploid, meaning redwoods have six sets of chromosomes.
In comparison to other conifers, researchers found the redwood genome spans hundreds of gene families unique to the coast redwood. Many are genes that help the trees respond to and fight stress, resist disease and repair after injury.
“A forest manager trying to restore a redwood forest with trees that are resistant to future climates could use this information and apply it to forests in Humboldt County,” Neale said. “I realize this might sound very futuristic, but this is the direction we’re moving in and this is how we can use modern technology. When it comes to managing, conserving and restoring forests populations, this is one of the best tools in the toolbox.”
The multi-year effort, funded by Save the Redwoods League, was conducted by researchers at UC Davis, Johns Hopkins University, University of Connecticut, and Northern Arizona University.
Neale credited Save the Redwoods League not only for funding the project but for taking the risk to pursue such ambitious research. “This was a very large, high-risk project that a lot of people said couldn’t be done. The Save the Redwoods League showed great courage and decided that my team and I could actually accomplish this, which we ultimately did.”
Joanna Nelson, director of science and conservation planning at Save the Redwoods League, said the link between science and action is critical.
“The key is really to be able to look ahead and say, ‘What is the knowledge that we need? What is the knowledge we need to do better conservation action and to do better on the ground?’ This is really a long view of supporting basic research and seeing it as the next step to conservation action, to deciding which trees we should be planting and how to build up genetic diversity lost through logging and fire,” she said.
In the last 160 years, commercial logging and clear-cutting have claimed 95% of the coast redwood range and about one-third of the giant sequoia range, according to the Redwood Genome Project. In 2020, an estimated 10% to 14% of giant sequoia died from high-intensity wildfires.
“We may well have shrunk genetic diversity with societal choices about logging and other forms of land use, so this project is really broadening and supporting genetic diversity,” Nelson said. “Responding when genetic diversity has gotten really diminished and also finding the parts of the code responsible for the ability to adapt to a changing world and being able to promote those is critical. That’s where we’re headed.”
Save the Redwoods League donors contributed more than $1 million to the Redwood Genome Project. Genomic services companies Illumina, Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Dovetail Genomics contributed as well.
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Because there is no known cure for ocular rosacea, the goals of patient management are prophylactic and palliative in nature. A stepwise approach is recommended, beginning with eyelid hygiene and artificial tears. The use of hot compresses and/or light pressure on the eyelids promotes the expression of meibomian gland secretions. Nonirritating eyelid scrubs can also be applied to the eyelids to keep them clean. Blepharitis of the eyelids can be treated with thermal pulsation. In addition to thermal pulsation, a hand-held medical-grade exfoliating microsponge can be used to remove scurf and debris from the eyelid and eyelash areas.
Oral antibiotics should not be used in asymptomatic patients. When symptoms occur, both topical and oral anti-inflammatory medications may be used. In studies of patients with moderate to severe papulopustular rosacea, the combination of oral doxycycline with topical metronidazole or azelaic acid showed a faster onset and greater magnitude of efficacy over 12 weeks versus monotherapies.
For more on the treatment of ocular rosacea, read here.
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In 1992, three not-so-amateurish astronomers, Edwin E. Ritchie, John H. Rudolph and Mac Gardiner founded the Battle Point Astronomical Association (BPAA), named for the location in which the group met at Battle Point Park. Although we definitely have our share of overcast days and nights, the open landscape and the lack of light pollution made it (and still makes it) an ideal location to conduct public star parties, presentations on the latest developments in astronomy, and classes on basic astronomy. But why stop there? Why not an observatory too?
Located on a small rise in the park, they found the perfect spot, it even came with a building—an abandoned World War II Navy radio-transmitter building known as Helix House, which originally housed a helical coil that generated long carrier waves to the Pacific Fleet. The 26-by-38-foot structure, with its 25-foot-high walls was ideal as it was elevated and stable, but more importantly, the site was dark as can be when the sun went down.
Although the Helix House was slated for demolition by the Parks Department, BPAA convinced them it would better serve the community as an observatory. And they were right. However, renovating the building and equipping it with a sizable computer-controlled telescope wouldn’t be easy. With limited funds from their members, they drew upon their own talents and those of the community to get the job done.
Mac Gardiner, a retired Boeing engineer was instrumental in working with Boeing to obtain the 27 ½-inch mirror, made of Zerodur—a special, low-expansion glass ceramic—as well as the additional 41 ½-inch Zerodur mirror blank, both of which were surplus optics from an obsolete Strategic Defense Initiative project. Gardiner was also a talented scavenger, scrounging here and there for scrap materials that could be used for the project.
John Rudolph, a local architect, created the plans for the building renovation and observatory deck/dome, as well as managing the volunteer construction crew. Like Gardiner, he found parts anywhere he could and encouraged his crew to do the same; one volunteer pulled windows from the trash, another donated a rebuilt oil heater, while one more found surplus interior doors and cedar decking, and another procured a 200-ampere electrical panel. In addition to donated and/or found supplies, local carpenters and electricians donated labor and materials and the Bainbridge Island Rotary Club assisted with additional funding.
Retired inventor, prosthetic-limb designer and master machinist, Ed Ritchie, took on the job of building the telescope. He constructed all the parts for the main telescope and did most of the machine work himself, including bending the steel for the 300-pound telescope fork mount using a 20-ton hydraulic press and creating the grinding/polishing machine, which was used (over the course of about 12 months) to grind almost a half inch off the face and remove the flaws to produce the rough spherical surface. He also tooled several of the telescope parts such as the micrometer and the spherometer.
Once the mirror was ready for the final stages, Gardiner carefully packed it into his car and drove down to California to have it vacuum-coated with aluminum and silicon dioxide applied to protect the surface
Sadly, Ed Ritchie passed away on March 13, 1997, shortly after completing the telescope. With more than 20 members of his family, BPAA members, and a large crowd from the community, the Edwin E. Ritchie Observatory was dedicated on December 21st of that year.
I had the pleasure of meeting with BPAA President, Frank Petrie and Chief Astronomer, Cole Rees to learn more about the observatory’s past, present and future.
We began our tour at the impressive front doors, which are original to the building. Once inside the foyer, you’ll find a storage room for loaner telescopes, a storage/furnace room and the classroom/planetarium. A concrete block structure rises through the center of the building to support the Ritchie Telescope on the roof. Frank explained that when they first began construction, there were several large concrete piers in the future classroom/planetarium which needed to be demolished, unfortunately no amount of jackhammering would do. In the end BPAA inserted dynamite into the piers and raffled off tickets for the winning ticket holder to press the detonator that blew them up. It worked beautifully.
The classroom/planetarium can comfortably seat 40 people, and boasts a 14 ½-foot ceiling, allowing space for a planetarium dome. The dome is removable, and made of a curved aluminum frame supporting a reflective surface of movie screen projection material. BPAA is currently working with Bainbridge Community Foundation (BCF) as well as other fundraising efforts to purchase a new projector and upgraded computer equipment for the planetarium and observatory as a whole. Once the new projector is obtained, a more sophisticated dome will need to be built for the room, which they’re hoping to collaborate on with Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN).
Fun fact: If you glance upwards, you’ll see an odd square opening on the left-hand wall. This “hole” runs through the central concrete telescope support structure. When BPAA were drawing up the renovation plans, one member realized that a window on an upper floor was perfectly positioned to receive sunlight for the winter solstice, but the light needed a pathway in which it could shine through. Thus, they built in the hole, which provides a tunnel for the rays to travel, where they’re reflected on the opposite wall of the planetarium.
Once the renovations are complete, the planetarium will be rededicated as the John H. Rudolph Planetarium.
From there, we headed up the spiral staircase to the mezzanine level where you’ll find the member meeting room, complete with a library (built by the woodworkers at BARN). In addition, this area houses most of the computerized communication and control equipment and a shelf displaying some of the original small handmade calibration devices for the mirror and telescope.
Chief Astronomer, Cole Rees explained that the new state-of-the-art computer system will vastly improve the telescope’s tracking, imaging, image-processing, and storage capabilities. The new system will also provide the ability to participate in scientific astronomical surveying, observation of exoplanets, as well as improved interferometry. This in part, was made possible by Bainbridge Island Metro Parks & Recreation Department’s generous installation of a microwave internet link, which has greatly improved internet access and makes usage of the new, and more sophisticated equipment possible. “Once the new system is installed, the only limitation will be the weather,” Cole said.
Next to the main meeting room, you’ll find a combination storage room and ham radio station, operated by Bainbridge Island Amateur Radio Club (BARC) (official call sign W7NPC). BPAA President, Frank Petrie, who is also a member of BARC, explained that having the station there is a wonderful addition to the observatory for two reasons, “it provides an opportunity for island ham operators who live in apartments or condos with restrictions on large antennas to practice on-air and enjoy making contacts around the world, and it provides long distance communication capability for the emergency HUB established in Battle Point Park by Bainbridge Prepares.” Frank is also hopeful that hams with an interest in astronomy will experiment with “radio astronomy” utilizing homebuilt receivers tuned to specific radio frequencies emanating from celestial sources.
The room also houses donated telescopes in need of a little TLC (mostly concerning their drive mechanisms), and circling back to the fun fact above, you’ll find a large round window (currently boarded up) that allows light to stream through to the corresponding “winter solstice” tunnel opening from the planetarium room one floor below.
The grand finale was of course the dome and Ritchie Telescope itself, which is the largest telescope accessible to the public in the Pacific Northwest. Frank explained that the 17-foot-diameter dome—which can entertain up to 20 “star gazers”—is made of plywood and like everything else at the observatory, it was built by volunteers.
Unfortunately, it was pouring rain on the day of my tour, and Frank and Cole were unable to open the roof door. However, they were able to angle the telescope around, giving me a glimpse of the impressive Zerodur mirror. As Frank explained, the 27 ½-inch telescope was designed to be both Newtonian and Cassegrain by switching secondary mirrors.
Upgrades and improvements are always ongoing at the observatory, and one such pertained to the original bearings, which had begun to wear down, and the mounting arms, which needed to be enlarged. BPAA turned to Peter Moseley, who donated much of the machine shop equipment at BARN (and current BPAA Secretary) for help. Peter steered the effort to build the new hardware, as Frank said, “he was one of our guiding lights” in facilitating the improvements. In addition to Moseley, the team that built the parts consisted of Stan Stumbo, David Browning, Steve Ruhl, Ken Warman, Mark McComsey, and Frank Petrie.
As we departed the dome, the rain had let up a bit and we could see the ground-level viewing platforms for members to use (with their own, or a BPAA loaner telescope) as well as the Equatorial Bow String Sundial designed by local sculptor and metalsmith, Bill Baran-Mickle. Prof. Woody Sullivan of the UW Astronomy Department provided scientific advice. David Browning and Frank Petrie did the engineering design, and Lee Fabricators of Silverdale built and installed it. BPAA’s Russ Heglund and Malcolm Saunders were also involved in the planning. *
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Upcoming Events: Webb Telescope First Images events live streamed from NASA (July 12 & 16); Webb Telescope event with KiDiMu (August 6); Second-Saturday monthly lectures and star parties (weather permitting); Impromptu star parties as conditions warrant. Check their website (bpastro.org) and social media (Facebook: BattlePointAstronomy and Instagram: bp_astronomical) for details.
BPAA and KiDiMu: BPAA is excited to collaborate with the Kids Discovery Museum on a number of science-themed learning opportunities. Last year KiDiMu hosted a “James Webb Space Telescope Launch Party”, and BPAA brought telescopes for the kids to look through and learn how to use. They also provided telescopes to FamJam for a similar engagement. Coming up in August, they’ll participate in KiDiMu’s Webb Telescope event on 6th, and they will be hosting Kids in Space at the Ritchie Observatory Day Camp the week of August 8 – 11. “We’re thrilled to bring science to kids through the lens of astronomy in partnership with KiDiMu,” said Frank.
Got skills? BPAA is always in need of people with skills; whether it be computer, carpentry, painting, electrical…or you’re great at helping out with a variety of tasks and want to learn more about astronomy. Sign up to volunteer at the observatory and reach for the stars! Contact Frank Petrie at email@example.com for details.
“In addition to the overwhelming community support received in the 1990s for the creation of the Observatory and Telescope, more recently BPAA has received the following support for specific projects:
- In 2021 a Community Grant through Bainbridge Community Foundation funded the rebuilding of the rooftop shelter over the spiral access stairway, which was leaking.
- The work we did with BARN to improve the telescope bearings and build the bookshelves in our board room was supported by a 2018-19 COBI Cultural Funding Grant.
- In 2014 we received a Rotary Grant for the purchase of a telescope equipped with special filters for safe viewing of the sun. This telescope is used extensively for our daytime public outreach events and will be featured at our booth at the 2022 Grand Old 4th.
- In 2013-14 multiple grants were received to support the creation of the Sundial. Grantors included the Bainbridge Parks Foundation, the North American Sundial Society, and several local family foundations. These grants supplemented many individual donations from the community at large.
BPAA is grateful for the continuing support from the Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap community.” – Frank Petrie, President of BPAA
*Per BPAA’s website, the Sundial is ‘equatorial’ because the number arc is parallel to the Earth’s equator, and ‘bowstring’ because the gnomon wire is stretched between the tips of a supporting bow (gnomon is a Greek word for pointer).” Latitude N 47º39’40” • Longitude W 122º34’38”
*Images provided by and used with permission from Margaret Millmore, Frank Petrie, President of the BPAA, and Cole Rees, BPAA Chief Astronomer
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The Hartree-Fock method is a general method for the approximate solution of the electronic Schrödinger equation of multiple electron systems (atoms, molecules) in the non-degenerate ground state or in certain excited states.
The Schrödinger equation for a two-electron system is
because of the disturbance cannot be solved exactly.
Hamilton operator of electrons and , Operator of the potential repulsion energy of the electrons, Wave function, Total energy
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Unlike Drupal’s previous versions, Drupal 9 doesn’t have major architectural changes from its predecessor Drupal 8. But when Drupal 8 was released, it was a major transformation from Drupal 7. If you upgrade a website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 or Drupal 9, it needs a complete migration. Because Drupal 7 is completely different from these two versions. However, upgrading from last Drupal minor version to Drupal 9 is easier, how?
Drupal 9 is a minor overhaul to Drupal 8.9, and if you are regularly eliminating the deprecated codes and modules of Drupal 8, then, you will find it easier to upgrade to Drupal 9. Though, there is remarkable differences when we go for Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 upgrade.
Drupal 8 and 9 releases – A quick look
Drupal 8 was released in November 2015 and as compared to Drupal 7, it had many new features and functions. The extensive list of features made Drupal 8 a completely different version. The platform was improved with a new page editor and multilingual support feature. Drupal’s previous versions were using a procedural approach whereas, Drupal 8 used object-oriented programming. Drupal 8 could edit the content directly from the website’s user interface as well. Page loading speed also improved due to entity caching, in which, previously viewed content doesn’t need to be reloaded because it remains there in the caches.
Now, shall we sneak peek at Drupal 9?
Drupal 9 is released in June 2020. It was built on Drupal 8; therefore, the two versions are more or less same yet different. Despite many new upgrades, this process of upgrading is not cumbersome (you’ll discover this fact later in this article).
In Drupal 9, many jQuery UI library dependencies have vanished, which were there in Drupal 8.
For performing tests, Drupal 9 relies on the PHPUnit solution, previously in Drupal 8, it was done by the SimpleTest framework.
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Let’s look at the database. Drupal 9 requires version 5.7.8 of MySQL, whereas Drupal 8 was using MySQL 5.5.3. For MariaDB, Drupal 9 needs 10.3.7 and for SQLite, the minimum version requirement is 3.26. Drupal 8 was using MariaDB 5.5.20 and SQLite 3.6.8+.
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Major differences between Drupal 9 and Drupal 8
This is one of the significant features of Drupal 9 that it is backward compatibility. In other words, if your website is fully updated to Drupal 8 then it is already compatible with Drupal 9. Unlike Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 upgrades; Drupal 8 was not at all compatible with Drupal 7.
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Drupal 8 was using Symfony 3 whereas, Drupal 9 has an updated version of Symfony 4/5. The new Symfony has helped in improving the website performance, quality, and scalability.
Removal of deprecated codes
Drupal 9 has eliminated all the deprecated codes to provide a cleaner version to the developers. This Drupal release has minimal upgrades and a major focus on removing unwanted codes. The deprecated codes are no longer developed and used by users in the Drupal ecosystem. The unwanted code removal makes Drupal code nimbler and error-free. The code removal happened gradually with each minor version upgrade of Drupal 8.
Contributed modules compatibility
This is a real tough task if you must update the site and contributed modules are not compatible with the latest version. Unlike Drupal 7 to 8 upgrade, Drupal 9 is compatible with every contributed module of Drupal 8.
Upgraded third-party dependencies
Drupal 9 has upgraded its third-party dependencies. Now it supports trusted third-party applications. There are many more dependencies other than above-mentioned (Symfony, Twig, CKEditor, MySQL, etc.), Drupal have upgraded all of them. The reason for this upgrade is mainly because the dependencies are reaching their end of life soon (or have already reached to EOL).
Other than these major differences, Drupal 9 is more secure, easier to use, versatile, and dependable than the previous version which is Drupal 8. Moreover, Drupal 9 needs an updated hosting environment with the most recent PHP database engine, which makes it faster than Drupal 8.
As mentioned above, Drupal 9 is built on Drupal 8, but Drupal developers have made Drupal 9 an evolved version of its predecessor, and they tried eliminating all the performance hindrances to achieve a better and secured platform.
Upgrading from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9
Upgrading from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 is less time-consuming and the transition is seamless. The community support for Drupal 8 has already been suspended in November 2021. So, most of the websites have upgraded to Drupal 9. But if still there are a few, they need to first check all the modules and dependencies for the upgrading process to Drupal 9. Ensure to have all the latest versions of each module and dependencies, as mentioned above. Explore this Drupal 9 readiness checklist for a smooth migration.
Also, check the server requirements for Drupal 9, as you know, it needs all the latest versions of PHP, Apache, and the database engine. Once you have updated the platform, you are good to start working with Drupal 9. Asking for professional help is an excellent choice for the upgrading process because the experts will perform this task without harming the data of your website.
Since there is a moderate difference between Drupal 8 and Drupal 9, at times, many users cannot understand the need for Drupal 9, when the minor version Drupal 8.9 was already there. From Drupal 8.9 to 9 might be a baby step (which eventually you must take), but if you have not updated to any minor version, it is a long haul for you. Moreover, upgrading to Drupal 9 is not an option but it is compulsory, yet staying on an outdated version is completely your choice.
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Bicycle Tourism Prompts Bike Safety Investments
Personal Injury Attorney | A growing number of tourism officials have cozying up to the bicycle advocacy movement amid recognition of the economic potential of this subgroup of tourists, according to a recent report by Stateline.org, a publication of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Biking is becoming increasingly popular as people embrace it not only as a form of healthy recreation, but as a green alternative to driving a motor vehicle. According to the League of American Bicyclists, the number of bicyclists doubled from 1.7 billion in 2001 to 4 billion in 2009 – and the numbers have continued to grow. Bicycle commuting rates are up more than 100 percent from 2000 to 2013. People who have fallen in love with this sport are also recognizing it as a way to see the country from a different perspective, and that’s given birth to bicycle tourism.
Although bicyclists make up a small portion of out-of-state visitors, they are a much-desired one, according to the report. They tend to stay longer and spend more when they come.
Florida is an ideal spot for many cyclists across the East Coast and beyond due to its flat terrain, unparalleled scenery and mild winters. But there is one major hurdle: Safety.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were nearly 750 cyclists killed and another 48,000 injured in motor vehicle crashes in 2013 (the latest year for which statistics are available). One of the worst places for bicyclist accidents? Florida.
That year, there were 133 people who died in the state in bicycle accidents, second only to California (with more than double our population) with 141 bicycle deaths. When population was factored in, Florida was No. 1 by far for bicycle fatalities. We had 6.08 bicyclists die per 1 million population. The second-highest was Arizona, with 4.68 per 1 million. The national average was 2.35.
Recognizing what’s at stake here – and also how much economic capital there is to be gained – state officials across the country have been investing in bicycle safety.
In Florida, for example, officials last summer approved a $25 million annual investment into connecting individual, local bicycle paths to a newer, larger statewide network of bicycle paths.
In Colorado, Gov. John Hickenlooper underscored the positive force of biking and asserted that states that have the best biking are going to start leading the country in tourism and economic growth.
Studies have shown that cyclists who are touring tend to be older and wealthier. They tend to support smaller and locally-owned businesses (i.e., cafes, motels, craft breweries, shops, etc.), versus other tourists who usually flock to national chains.
Researchers in Montana, which welcomes 500,000 bicycle tourists a year, found that the average bicycle tourist spent $75 daily and spent eight nights or more, compared to other tourists who spent $58 daily and stayed for just six nights on average.
On the whole, states spend less than 2 percent of their state budget and 2 percent of their federal funds on biking and walking projects. With the recognition of how biking tourism can help bolster the economy, that may be changing. –Florida Injury Lawyer
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Diagram showing the effect of a closed (a) and an open (b) arterio-venous anastomosis. From Boyd JD. Arterio-venous anastomoses. London Hospital Gazette 1939;42:2–8
The general frostbite sequence begins with complete tissue ischemia, followed by reperfusion, and ultimately tissue necrosis. Manson et al. defined a “double vascular lesion” phenomenon that occurs in cold injury: lack of tissue perfusion from large vessel vasoconstriction and loss microcirculatory control leading to stasis, vessel thrombosis, and tissue ischemia . Three distinct mechanisms are central in understanding the pathophysiology of frostbite by which tissue damage can occur: direct cold-induced cell damage from cell crystallization, indirect cellular injury from local hypoxia from vasoconstriction and microvascular thrombosis, and release of inflammatory mediators post-thaw from reperfusion injury and cell death .
Further elucidating the mechanisms are four interconnected pathophysiological phases of the freezing cascade that depend on the temperature, conditions, and duration of cold exposure:
42.4.1 Phase I: Pre-freeze
As tissues begin to cool below 15 °C, vasospasms and eventual vasoconstriction occurs, blood viscosity increases, and tissue perfusion diminishes. Cold-induced vasodilation (CIVD) ceases at temperatures below 10 °C and ice crystal formation begins. This cycling of vasodilation and vasoconstriction is inherently protective to ice crystal formation.
42.4.2 Phase II: Freeze-Thaw Injury
As skin temperature reaches freezing point below −0.5 °C [16, 43], ice crystal formation occurs. There is a distinct difference in pathophysiologic effects with the rate of tissue cooling and absolute temperature to which the tissue is cooled. Rapid freezing of tissue below their freezing point through flash freeze or cold-contact mechanisms leads to the formation of large intracellular and extracellular ice crystals, leading to cell death and irreversible damage to skin . Intracellular ice crystals denature cell membrane lipoproteins and can mechanically disrupt cell membrane integrity. The critical cellular freezing point occurs. With slow freezing, large ice crystals form in the extracellular space, increasing the osmotic pressure and subsequently drawing free water across the cell membrane into the extracellular space which leads to cellular dehydration and interstitial hyperosmolarity as the cell thaws. Cellular dehydration modifies protein structure, alters membrane lipids and cellular pH. Upon rewarming, the intracellular/extracellular ice melts, tissue ischemia is relieved, and reperfusion occurs. As vascular integrity remains grossly intact post-thaw, there is generally full restoration of circulatory reflow with increased vascular permeability due to endothelial damage. With an increase in fluid and protein leakage, blood viscosity further increases and platelet aggregation and coagulation cascade is initiated by the damage to the endothelium basement membrane [64, 65]. As such, despite near initial normal blood flow, within 3–5 min, disruption of flow is seen. Exposure to multiple freeze-thaw-refreeze cycles is detrimental to cell survival [66, 67].
42.4.3 Phase III: Vascular Stasis
As disruption of flow occurs and tissue ischemia persists from vasospasticity and increased blood viscosity secondary to transendothelial plasma leakage, arterio-venous shunting occurs more proximally as distal stasis occurs. These areas of stasis and ischemia lead to the buildup of inflammatory mediators (prostaglandins, histamine, thromboxane, bradykinin) which all propagate progressive tissue ischemia . The combination of stasis and increased viscosity promotes thrombus formation.
42.4.4 Phase IV: Progressive or Late Ischemia
Thrombosis and proximal arterio-venous shunting lead to progressive dermal ischemia and loss of tissue. Final extent of demarcation and tissue necrosis is based most importantly on the degree of microvascular damage and vessel thrombosis. Gangrene eventually occurs from tissue necrosis and depending on degree of vascular compromise, mummification of the tissue can occur in severe cases.
Depending on the time of rewarming and therapeutic management for reperfusion, the increased cellular oxidative stress and inflammation associated with ischemia-reperfusion injury may contribute to further cellular damage and necrosis. The disruption of normal vascular flow due to microvascular thrombosis leads to cellular anaerobic metabolism and subsequent tissue hypoxia. These combined factors further stimulate the increased release of inflammatory mediators, prostaglandins PGF2 and thromboxane A2 (TXA2). Robson and Heggers have reported elevated levels of prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) and thromboxane B2 (TXB2), an inactive metabolite of TXA2, in frostbite blister fluid. In addition, Özyazgan et al. reported increased prostaglandin I2 and TXB2 in frostbitten tissue by 188% and 249%, respectively. As PGI2 and TXA2 can be seen as physiologic antagonists of one another, it has been postulated that an increase in the ratio of TXA2/PGI2 could lead to increased platelet aggregation and thrombosis and thus the balance between physiologic levels of prostacyclin (prostaglandin I2) and thromboxane A2 is crucial for reducing further tissue necrosis in frostbite injury [69–71].
Degree of severity
Description and presentation
Superficial partial thickness involvement of the epidermis that is characterized by erythema, edema, hyperemia with possible skin desquamation
Transient burning sensation with throbbing of the area
Full thickness skin freezing that is characterized by erythema, marked edema characterized by vesicles of clear fluid. These blisters may desquamate and eschar formation may occur
Numbness of the affected area
Full thickness skin with subcutaneous tissue involvement that is characterized by violaceous or hemorrhagic blisters with thickened areas of skin necrosis seen as bluish/gray discoloration
No sensation of the area but progresses to shooting burning pain that is throbbing and aching
Full thickness skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, tendon, bone involvement characterized by little edema with initially mottled deep red or cyanotic area which eventually becomes dry mummified
May complain of joint pain
Marsigny et al. Clinical Prediction Tool
Frostbite injury of extremities (hands and feet)
Extent of initial lesion at day 0 after rapid rewarming
Absence of initial lesion
Initial lesion on distal phalanx
Initial lesion on intermediary and proximal phalanx
Initial lesion on carpal/tarsal
Bone scanning results at day 2
Hypofixation of radiotracer uptake area
Absence of radiotracer uptake area on the digit
Absence of radiotracer uptake area on the carpal/tarsal
Blister presentation at day 2
Absence of blisters
Hemorrhagic blisters on digit
Hemorrhagic blisters over carpal/tarsal
Prognosis at day 2
Bone amputation of digit
Bone amputation of the limb ± systemic involvement ± sepsis
Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guideline
Degree of severity
Description and presentation
There is none or minimal anticipated tissue loss, corresponding to first- and second-degree injury of the traditional scheme
Deeper injury and anticipated tissue loss, corresponding to third- and fourth-degree injury
Traditional classification follows the classic thermal burn scheme, which is based according to depth of injury, and is defined as follows (Table 42.1):
One criticism of the traditional classification scheme is that it does not take into consideration the unique delayed tissue necrosis demarcation in frostbite injuries and that treatment is directed as a typical burn injury resulting in suboptimal care and patient expectations. As such, the clinical presentation and diagnosis of degree of frostbite injury in a patient who presents acutely in an urgent care setting may not be appropriate, as duration and time of frostbite onset may be unknown.
Of note, it is important to be able to recognize and differentiate “frostnip,” a superficial non-freezing injury of exposed skin, from true frostbite. It is not to be confused with first-degree or superficial frostbite. Frostnip mostly presents as an exposed area with numbness, accompanied by palor or erythema, with potential ice crystal formation on the surface of the skin. By definition, there is no ice crystal formation in the dermis and there is thus no damage done beyond the epidermal layers. What further differentiates frostnip from frostbite is the rapid resolution of symptoms with no long-term sequelae through skin protection and rewarming .
Marsigny et al. Clinical Prediction Tool developed in 2001 to classify frostbite injuries of the hands and feet mainly based on locations of lesions and early bone scan results from initial presentation (day 0) (Table 42.2):
This system is highly practical and used clinically as most long-term sequelae and tissue viability are unknown until several months from injury. As such, descriptive diagnosis of frostbite degree from the traditional system becomes inaccurate as previously described.
42.5.1 Hennepin Score
Radiography (Limb X-Ray)
Stage and time frame
Early: immediate to weeks after injury
– May be normal, depending on injury severity
– Soft tissue swelling
– Tissue atrophy and distortion in severely affected areas
– Subcutaneous emphysema
– No bone or joint changes
Intermediate: weeks to months after injury
– Bone demineralization
Late: months to years after injury
– Sclerosis at ends of involved bone
– Asymmetric early osteoarthrosis of the affected limb
– Small periartibular erosion
– In children, epiphyseal fragmentation and/or premature fusion with resulting deformities
The purpose of the Hennepin score is to devise a standardized rating scale for researchers across academic centers to accurately measure injury and salvage rate outcomes to evaluate treatment efficacy. Imaging modalities that are included in the scale are Doppler ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, angiography, and bone scanning . However as we will discuss below, currently there are no accurate means for diagnosis at the early stages of frostbite.
42.6 Diagnostic Methods
Most frostbite injuries are diagnosed clinically in the context of symptoms, physical examination, detailed history. In the setting to determine the extent of soft tissue injury and long-term tissue viability, diagnostic radiologic imaging modalities that aim to determine tissue perfusion and vessel patency have proven valuable. The main objective of imaging in the context of frostbite is to assess depth of involvement, severity, and to direct treatment based on surgical or non-surgical indications. It also allows for objective determination of frostbite treatment response and efficacy.
42.6.1 Radiography (Limb X-Ray)
In general, X-ray is not useful in the initial context except to rule out a trauma-related fracture. It is however, a rapid and inexpensive imaging modality in the late context that can show bone demineralization changes as soon as 1 week after frostbite injury, and bone artifacts and/or epiphyseal arrest after 6 weeks of injury in children . Millet et al. have described the radiographic findings in relation to the stages of frostbite.
In summary, these radiographic findings can range from a normal X-ray with evidence of soft tissue swelling to severe bone destruction and demineralization depending on the severity of frostbite and the duration of time since the injury. Early radiographic evidence of mild injury can demonstrate osteopenia or show no prominent pathology. However most notable is the evidence of acro-osteolysis, sclerotic areas at terminal ends of affected bones, as well as early osteoarthritis, months to years after injury. All of which are indicative of previous deep frostbite injury that involve the tips of fingers or joints . In children, epiphyseal fractures and premature fusion of the growth plates have been reported to occur, often months to years after injury. This can result in finger malformation and debilitating chronic joint problems. As a clinical tool, radiography can be a useful modality to follow the progression of injury but there may be discrepancies in clinical correlation as radiographic evidence is nonspecific and has no predictive value in determining the level of tissue necrosis. Management would indeed be based on clinical examination.
42.6.2 Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA)
The main goal of using DSA is to identify potential targets for thrombolysis in patients presenting within 24 h with deep frostbite injury. Initial DSA will demonstrate lack of perfusion in affected digit and may show areas of impaired perfusion that do not appear affected on physical examination. Patients undergoing thrombolytic therapy can be followed with repeat DSA imaging at 12 h increments for up to 48 h to assess response to thrombolytics. By reversing the microvascular thrombosis present in frostbite injury, flow can be restored and prevent further tissue ischemia [74, 75].
42.6.3 Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) has been suggested as a noninvasive alternative to DSA for evaluating the patency of vessels in frostbite injuries . However, this modality lacks the benefit of being both diagnostic and therapeutic, unlike DSA. There is limited evidence suggesting that MRA might be able to define occluded vessels and demarcate soft tissue injury after more than 24 h of injury [77, 78].
42.6.4 Technetium (Tc)-99 m Scintigraphy
Also known as triple-phase bone scanning, Technetium-99 m (Tc-99m) has been in use for the past two decades for evaluating frostbite wounds. It involves a nuclear isotope that is taken up by osteoblasts. If the bone’s blood supply has been compromised secondary to frostbite, the tracer will not be present in the bone. There are 3 phases in scanning: flow phase, blood pool image, and delayed phase. The first phase (seconds after the injection of the isotope) illustrates perfusion to an area. The blood pool phase occurs 5 min after injection and this shows the vascularity of the region. Finally, the delayed phase occurs about 3 h after injection. By this time, most of the isotope will have been metabolized and bone turnover can be better assessed.
Tc-99m scintigraphy is indicated in patients who present with deep (second, third, and fourth degree) frostbite injuries and is recommended to have bone scanning performed within 2–4 days after frostbite injury [79, 80]. The scan should not be performed immediately after cold exposure, as microvascular thrombosis can progress over time and what is defined on imaging may not be the level of tissue necrosis. Cauchy et al. in 2000, report that the level of amputation can be closely predicted in approximately 84% of cases at the initial scan, many weeks before the nonviable tissue declares itself on physical exam. Moreover, it has been suggested that any blisters should be debrided before the scans are performed to prevent accumulation of tracer in the blister fluid and lead to false-positive interpretation . Again, larger prospective randomized studies are warranted to evaluate the reliability of such an imaging modality to predict the level of tissue demarcation and subsequent amputation, which would ultimately limit patient morbidity.
42.6.5 Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography + CT (SPECT/CT)
By combining both the functional information from scintigraphy (bone perfusion) and uptake with the anatomic information derived from CT, a more specific image can be rendered than a conventional bone scan alone. More specifically, a CT scan is sequentially performed immediately after the delayed phase of nuclear bone scan and the images are merged, allowing for more exact delineation of the level at which the bone loses perfusion. It becomes particularly useful in assessment of the distal ends of digits as conventionally these regions can be difficult to properly visualize on bone scintigraphy alone. Most recently in a retrospective case series (N = 7), Kraft et al. describe the effectiveness of SPECT-CT in determining level of more distal amputation, allowing for preservation of digit length . Six patients were able to undergo more distal amputation based on SPECT-CT imaging correlation. Although suggesting that SPECT-CT has a favorable predictive capacity, this is early evidence and further comparative and prospective studies are warranted for validation. It may be an important modality for surgical planning and minimizing the amount of tissue that is excised and limit patient morbidity.
Recently, Masters et al. describe a case report indocyanine green fluorescence microangiography to monitor clinical progression of perfusion in severe frostbite in hyperbaric oxygen therapy and propose its potential role in frostbite monitoring . The benefits of indocyanine green microangiography are that it can be administered through a peripheral intravenous line; it is hepatically cleared and is thus safe in renally impaired patients and has a short half-life. On a technical and operator standpoint, it also does not require the consultation of a radiologist or dedicated imaging department, but rather can be done in the office or clinic. The dye travels to areas where there is perfusion and with a near-infrared laser and camera, blood flow is visualized by brightness. Given the potential benefits and portability of this imaging modality, further studies are required to determine its efficacy and practicality in the setting of frostbite.
As initially indicated, the key factor that will determine the type of management is duration of exposure to subzero temperatures. The classic management of frostbite has been resuscitation, rewarming, and watchful waiting. Over the past 50 years, the adage “Frostbite in January, amputation in July” remains relevant despite advancements in the understanding of frostbite pathogenesis and advancements in thrombolytic therapy. The main goal of treatment is to prevent further tissue damage and to limit limb morbidity. As such, rapid triage and initiation of proper treatment for frostbite can lead to remarkable improvements in outcome and prognosis.
The initial clinical manifestations of frostbite injury are similar for superficial and deep tissue damage, thus early treatment is identical for all injuries.
The mainstay of treatment is to ensure that core body temperature is raised to near physiologic 37 °C and that rewarming of the affected area is quickly initiated. Rapid rewarming ideally occurs through total immersion of the affected area in a warm whirlpool water bath between 37 and 44 °C . Given that it has been shown that anoxic reperfusion injury occurs from slow thawing, rapid rewarming is recommended [15, 63, 83]. Rewarming time can vary from 15 to 30 min and up to an hour and can be stopped based on clinical judgment of tissue color with the goal of a red/purple color and good tissue pliability [29, 72].
126.96.36.199 Blister Debridement
Rewarming of skin in cases of superficial frostbite may result in the formation of clear blisters while cases of deep frostbite results in hemorrhagic blisters . It has been shown that blisters filled with clear or milky fluid contain elevated levels of inflammatory mediators prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) and thromboxane B2, an inactive metabolite/product of thromboxane A2 (TXA2), which both propagate platelet aggregation, thrombosis, and vasoconstriction. As such, in order to prevent further damage to the sub-dermal plexus, most evidence in literature supports superficial debridement of white or clear blisters. It is however not recommended to debride blisters in the field to prevent infection . It is also an indication to debride blisters if they are on joint surfaces and restrict movement . Should blisters be debrided, the wound is to be covered with topical antimicrobial and possibly aloe cream, which has properties that inhibit the arachidonic acid cascade and thromboxane synthesis . There is no evidence supporting either debriding or leaving intact hemorrhagic blisters.
188.8.131.52 Tetanus Prophylaxis
184.108.40.206 Systemic Antibiotics
The call for systemic antibiotic administration is based on the presence of infection or open trauma. The role and benefits of prophylactic antibiotics in frostbite has not been proven and is not recommended unless signs of infection develop [29, 87, 88]. Antibiotics should be considered for prophylactic administration in severe frostbite injuries (second or third degree) where there is presence of an open wound [84, 88].
220.127.116.11 Wound Care
Unsalvageable tissue will eventually necrose and potentially become gangrenous without proper wound care. Tissue gangrene and mummification requires daily wound care to ensure that the wound stays dry to prevent wet gangrene infection. Use of topical antimicrobial dressings similar to burn dressings are recommended until mummification occurs after which dry dressings can be used. Furthermore, tissue protection through removable protective splinting, interdigit padding, or orthotics is also important considerations during the demarcation period to prevent further tissue tear and infection .
As of current literature, there are no human randomized controlled trials with an objective reproducible method to assess the change in demarcation level from the intervention, making the recommendation of therapeutic interventions difficult. There are several emerging treatment options being increasingly studied in cases of severe frostbite within the first 24 h of injury.
18.104.22.168 Topical Aloe Vera
As elevated levels of prostaglandin production contribute to the pathogenesis of frostbite, early prevention with anti-thromboxanes such as topical aloe vera gel has suggested as treatment adjuncts. Aloe vera has been shown to inhibit TXA2 synthetase and maintain PGE2 and PGF2α levels to maintain vasodilation in both thermal and frostbite injuries [89, 90]. An early animal study using frostbitten rabbit ear models showed that tissue survival can be improved with the administration of topical aloe vera and that its effects are comparable to the therapeutic effects of systemic pentoxifylline, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor . Clinically, it is to be applied to all frostbitten areas every 6 h until wound healing is completed.
22.214.171.124 Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory (NSAID) Medication
Most commonly used NSAIDs are ibuprofen and aspirin (ASA) which hold the dual purpose of providing anti-inflammatory activity and analgesia. This medication work by inhibiting cyclooxygenase enzymes (COX) that converts arachidonic acid to prostaglandin H2 (PGH2), which is ultimately converted to other prostaglandins (PGD2, PGE, PGF2, PGI2) involved in inflammation, as well as TXA2. Ibuprofen is a nonspecific COX inhibitor, reversibly blocking both COX-1 and COX-2, but has higher inhibition of thromboxanes than other prostanoids [87, 92]. Early oral administration of ibuprofen at a dose of 12 mg/kg/d to a maximum of 2400 mg/d provides early systemic anti-prostaglandin activity, limiting inflammatory damage . Similarly, aspirin is also an effective analgesic and suppresses prostaglandins and thromboxanes through irreversible inactivation of COX-1 and COX-2, thus having a prolonged anti-platelet property. ASA may also inhibit endothelial cell synthesis of PGI2, a prostaglandin involved in platelet aggregation inhibition. Although, in terms of pathophysiology, the use of either aspirin or ibuprofen in initial supportive frostbite treatment would be reasonable, there is insufficient evidence to support the benefits of aspirin in preventing tissue loss secondary to frostbite. The only study in humans supporting aspirin dates to 1983, whereby 38 patients with first- and second-degree frostbite upon presentation were treated with ASA and aloe vera showing no major tissue loss. However, there was no control group, 2 patients with acute second-degree progressed to third degree, and no mention of the time to treatment post-injury . Conversely, ibuprofen has shown stronger evidence to support its efficacy in frostbite. A nonrandomized control trial by Heggers et al. in 1987 reported that patients treated with ibuprofen and aloe vera had a significant reduction in morbidity, whereby in all degrees of frostbite 67.9% healed without tissue loss vs. 32.7% in the control group, and 7% in the ibuprofen treatment group vs. 32.7% in the control group required amputation. As such, evidence thus far has suggested that ibuprofen should be considered as adjuvant therapy for the management of frostbite [12, 29, 93]. There remains no study that compare directly aspirin and NSAID for frostbite treatment, and there is no study that compares the different types of anti-inflammatory agents in frostbite therapy.
126.96.36.199 Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA)
A protease enzyme involved in fibrinolytic pathway in the breakdown of blood clots, tPA has been used as a mainstay treatment in the setting of acute ischemic stroke and is postulated to resolve microvascular thrombosis and ultimately restore perfusion in severe frostbite injury. The mechanism of thrombolysis is through the activation of plasminogen conversion to plasmin, which is capable of cleaving cross-links between fibrin molecules that form thrombi. Historically, evidence to support the effectiveness of thrombolytics in frostbite dates back to the 1980s where antithrombotic agents (streptokinase, urokinase) were proposed in rabbit and rat animal models, showing positive results [94, 95]. The earliest clinical data of tPA use in frostbite was in 1992, whereby 14 patients with severe frostbite, confirmed through triple-phase bone scanning, were treated conservatively with supportive measures (N = 10) and tPA (N = 4). It was seen that all 10 patients treated with supportive therapy required amputations while 3 out of 4 (75%) of those treated with tPA required no amputation .
More recently, two studies have reported significant limb salvage rates in severe frostbites following tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) therapy. In 2005, Twomey et al. published a nonrandomized prospective trial with historical controls, reporting an 18.9% rate of amputation in 19 patients with severe frostbite with a total of 174 digits at risk, 33 of which required amputation, that were treated with intravenous tPA (N = 13), intra-arterial tPA (N = 6), and subsequent intravenous heparin. Those who did not respond to therapy were more than 24 h post-injury, warm ischemia time of greater than 6 h, or evidence of multiple freeze-thaw cycles . Furthermore, this study supported that tPA and heparin administration concurrently are safe and tPA administration, whether intravenous or intra-arterial, shows similar therapeutic effect in terms of digital limb salvage. In 2007, Bruen et al. published results from a single-center, retrospective review, comparing 32 patients recruited from 2001 to 2007 who were treated with intra-arterial tPA to historical controls from 1995 to 2001 presenting more than 24 h post-injury. It was found that those with severe frostbite treated with tPA within 24 h of injury and found the incidence of digital amputation was reduced from a potential amputation rate of 97 out of 234 digits (40%) at risk to 6 out of 59 digits (10%) at risk . Similar to Twomey et al., it was noted that the patients who failed to improve blood flow and required amputations were those who presented to hospital post 24 h from injury. Both studies suggested that early tPA administration can result in digital salvage rate of 85–90% . However, both studies use nonrandomized controls without an objective means of assessing the demarcation level.
In regard to thrombolytic therapy in general, Gonzaga et al. in 2016 published a retrospective observational cohort study of 69 patients from 1994 to 2007 with severe frostbite confirmed by angiography, 62 of whom underwent thrombolytic therapy which included Urokinase (N = 19), tPA (N = 18), Reteplase (N = 14), and TNKase (N = 11). Of these groups, there was no significant difference in response to different thrombolytic agents. They report a combined 68.6% digit salvage rate with 148 digits requiring amputation out of 472 digits at risk. Similar to both studies by Twomey and Bruen, Gonzaga et al. also describe the scenario in which 7 patients were given intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy post-24 h and none of the patients responded, all requiring digit amputations . | <urn:uuid:3b57bd70-af93-4fc2-9029-75a05fd1ce76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://plasticsurgerykey.com/42-frostbite/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.923674 | 6,441 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Leather lacing is a great way to join pieces of leather together for a project. I’ll share what I’ve learned best about how to lace leather.
Leather lacing is done primarily in a few basic steps. These include making holes, threading the needle, feeding the lace (which varies based on stitch type), tying off the end, then finishing the lace with hammering and/or conditioner. This can be a great way to attach leather pieces together.
So let’s get started and learn a little bit about leather lacing, the tools needed, and how to lace leather.
Lacing leather is very similar to hand-sewing. The main differences are that we’ll make the holes ourselves rather than using the needle, and will use leather lace which is typically heavier than thread. Let’s take a look at lacing leather, step–by–step.
Leather lacing is essentially a way to hand sew very thick leather. Since leather comes in a variety thicknesses and material types, sometimes projects require a leather that is too thick for leather sewing machines, or too heavy to pierce with a standard leather needle. In these cases, the weather can be joined by lacing.
If one is already familiar with hand sewing, this is very similar. Mainly, it just involves making the holes first (rather than piercing with the needle), and using leather lace, which is heavier then typical sewing thread.
The common types of leather goods that are laced generally include thicker leather goods such as holsters, sheaths, moccasins, bags, and saddlery.
First, need to make the holes in the leather that the lacing will go through. For this, will generally use a leather chisel. The leather chisel is a pronged tool with sharp cutting tips. This allows us to line it over the leather, Strike it with a hammer, and produce equally spaced and shaped holes in the material. This is where the lease will feedthrough.
Generally, consider the thickness of the lease that will be used, and find a chisel that is an appropriate size. It’s usually best to match these up, so that the finished product looks good. If the holes are too small, the lace might stretch them. If they are too large, the lace will move around, and the stitches be loose. A successful lacing stitch will sit well and be strong.
When you have the proper chisel, simply work it down the edge of the weather making a line of holes that will be used for lacing.
We’ll now want to measure and cut our lace. In general, The amount of lease needed is typically 1.5 – 2 times the straight length of the edge of the leather being laced. For example, if we have a 12-inch edge of leather that we are lacing, Will need approximately 18 to 24 inches of lace. It is often better to have a little extra than not enough.
Once you have measured and cut the lace (often from a larger roll), we are ready to lace the needle.
Next we’ll lace the leather lacing needle. These needles are a little different than standard sewing needles. Leather lacing needles typically have an end with two metal pieces very close together. The strength of the steel keeps them close together, which helps hold the lace in place.
To thread the needle, open it with a fingernail or thin screwdriver, pushing it in between the metal ends. With a little space between them, slide the leather lace in between, and let the metal ends Close down on top of it. For an extra–secure grip, the metal ends cane crimped down with pliers. This will help ensure the lace stays attached to the needle during lacing.
We’re now ready to feed the lace through the holes. Feed the needle through the first hole, Which is typically at a corner or end of the edge, then through a small slit (made in the lace with a sharp knife) to lock it in place. Then, with the initial stick secured, proceed to the next holes. The way you approach the stench will very much depend on the type of stitch that you are using. For example, there is the buckstitch, the double-loop stitch, the running stitch, and the whip stitch. We will explore these in more detail below.
Continue lacing along the entire edge of the leather to be joined. This may be a single straight edge, or could work around the corners and 3 to 4 sides of a leather item. When you have laced the entire piece, we will then finish the end.
This is a critical step to ensure a tight lacing job. Once the final lacing stitch has been made, loop the lace back in-between a few existing stitches, and tie it off. Ideally, this sits in between other stitches and is barely visible. Yet, it provides a very secure end to the stitch that should last and perform well during everyday use.
With the last stitch tied-off, one might choose to finish the lacing. This can be done for both aesthetic and functional purposes. For example, finishing might include hammering over the lace. This helps to flatten the lace material. From a visual perspective, the flat lace may look more finished and more appealing. From a functional perspective, this helps the lace sit lower and prevent it from being caught and pulled as easily during day-to-day use.
Additionally, since the lace will be on or near the edges of a leather item, conditioner can be applied to help make it more supple, softer, more comfortable to touch, and somewhat more flexible so it is less affected from abrasions, wear, and day-to-day use.
To lace leather, there are only a few leather lacing tools that are necessary. Let’s take a look at each, below.
The chisel is a type of leather tool that has a series of teeth with sharp points. These are typically laid towards the edge of leather, and struck with a hammer, resulting in those sharp points making holes in the leather material.
Chisels have teeth of various shapes and distances, thus offering a variety of choice based on the project you are working on. This is one of the leather lacing tools that gives you options that impact the look/feel of the finished piece. Here is a demonstration of one in use:
The leather lacing needle is a unique tool in that it has a pointed metal end and the other end is essentially a metal clip that is used to hold the leather lace. These come in different sizes, And make lacing leather exceedingly easy.
In terms of leather lacing supplies, lacing does not require that much. In general, one only needs lace. Let’s explore that below.
When lacing leather, it is important to choose a lace that works well with the project. Leather lace is available in a wide variety of sizes and materials. For example, lace is available in buckskin, suede, nubuck, cow leather, pig leather, and virtually any type of leather unavailable.
Additionally, leather lace comes in many widths and thicknesses. The one chosen will depend upon aesthetic preference in the projects functional needs. It is great there is so much choice, you know which type of works best for your project, there should be one available that will work great.
When we are lacing leather, it is key to decide early on what type of states we will use. Each stitch can look a little different, while also adding different performing characteristics to the final piece. Let’s take a look at some of the most common types of leather lacing stitches.
You might be curious how to buckstitch, it’s relatively easy once you get the hang of it. Generally, this stage is started towards the middle of the edge being stitched. The leather lace is worked outward and results in a somewhat diamond-shaped pattern to stitching. Here is a helpful video demonstrating the buckstitch.
The cross stitch runs over the outer edge and that makes a “V” pattern in the lacing all the way down the stitch.
The double loop stitch is made by creating another loop of lace in the middle of an existing stitch. On the edge of a leather item, this creates a visually noticeable, and rounded, edge formed by the lace. This can help protect the leather edge as well as provide an aesthetically pleasing element to the finish good.
Curious how do you end a double loop lace? It’s likely easier than you think. To do this, simply push the needle through the middle of the existing stitches, pull it through a few of those stitches, and outward. Using a knife or sharp scissors, as closely as possible to the other stitches, and it should rest securely in place.
The running stitch is a very basic, straight stitch. However, it is also very functional. It does not cross over the end of the leather, and instead runs parallel to it. When determining the length of lace needed for a straight stitch, it is approximately 1.5 times the measured distance on the edge. For example, a 12 inch edge would require approximately 18 inches of lace to stitch. Here is a great video demonstrating how to make a running stitch in leather.
The whip stitch is a another basic, and very common stitch used in leather lacing. It runs over the edge of the leather in a diagonal way. This creates a strong stitch that also helps protect the leather’s edge. Below is a helpful video showing how to make a whip stitch in leather.
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Childcare cost rises ‘may make parents quit their jobs’
Some parents could be forced out of work and into poverty as the rising cost of childcare outstrips wage rises, says a report.
A survey by the Daycare Trust charity showed that the average cost of nursery care in Britain for children under two rose by nearly 6% last year.
Average wages rose by just 0.3%.
The government said it was investing an extra £300m to help families with childcare costs and increasing places in free early years education.
The figures, published in the Daycare Trust’s annual survey of childcare prices, also show the costs of child minders and of nurseries for children over two rose by nearly 4%.
The report also highlights the impact of the government’s recent limits on the tax credits which lower-paid parents can claim to pay for childcare.
Analysis of government figures for last year show that 44,000 fewer families are receiving this help – while those who still get it receive an average of £500 a year less, says the report.
This year’s survey finds the average cost of a part-time nursery place for a child under two is more than £100 a week or £5,000 a year, with significant regional variations.
Nurseries in London and south-east England were most expensive, with a top price of £300 a week for a part-time place.
“These above-inflation increases in the cost of childcare are more bad news for families, heaping further pressure on their stretched budgets,” said Anand Shukla, Daycare Trust’s chief executive.
He said his group warned that “the government’s decision to cut tax credits would mean some families found they were no longer better off going to work once they had paid for childcare”.
“The figures reinforce Daycare Trust’s fear that the loss of this vital lifeline is forcing families out of work and into poverty,” he added.
The survey also found a shortage of childcare in some areas, particularly for disabled children.
The Trust wants the government to boost the value of childcare tax credits to the poorest families and to commit itself to free nursery education to all two, three and four-year-olds by 2015.
It also says employers should be encouraged to offer flexible working and childcare vouchers and local authorities should prioritise childcare in their budgetary planning.
The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) said it was crucial to remember that nurseries faced the same rising costs as families and that good quality childcare was not cheap.
Purnima Tanuku, NDNA chief executive, said parents should use all the financial support available to them, including the 15 hours of free early education which is currently open to all three and four-year-olds.
Ms Tanuku called on the government to ensure that the free hours were fully funded so that nurseries did not make up the shortfall by raising the costs of paid-for hours.
The Local Government Association said councils were doing all they could to run affordable, high quality childcare services in the face of cuts in their grants from central government.
Children’s Minister Sarah Teather said the government was “determined to help” and the coalition was putting more money into early years and nursery education than ever before.
“Every three and four-year-old can already claim 15 hours of free early years education a week. But we want to go even further – so will extend these free places to around 40% of two-year-olds as well,” she said.
“We’re also investing an additional £300m to help families with childcare costs while they look for work, and will maintain the duty on councils to make sure there is sufficient childcare available for local parents.
“These measures will help parents and, most importantly, make sure even more children get a fair start in life.”
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TYPE: Five-seat lightplane/turboprop.
PROGRAMME: Introduced 1984 as M-7-235 Super Rocket (prototype N5656A; based on M-6-235 but with extended cabin and additional windows). In May 2000, Maule received first of an initial batch of 10 SMA SR305 turbocharged diesel engines, rated at 169 kW (227 hp), for installation in MX-9s.
CURRENT VERSIONS: Produced with short (M-5), mid-length (M-6) or long (A Model) wing span and engine/landing gear options as detailed below; short option deleted on 1999 versions, while piston-engined and turboprop/nosewheel aircraft have only M-6 wing from that year, the turboprop/tailwheel variants employing A Model wings. Designation prefixes are T = tricycle and X = short span.
MX-7-160 Sportplane: Four-seater, 119 kW (160 hp) Textron Lycoming O-320-B2D engine, Sensenich two-blade fixed-pitch metal propeller, and four-position flaps. One delivered in 1999, since when no further deliveries reported.
MXT-7-160 Comet: As MX-7-160, but tricycle landing gear; two seats standard, four seats optional. Previously known as Maule Trainer. No recent deliveries reported.
MX-7-160C Sportplane: As M-7-160, but spring aluminium landing gear. Available from 2000, but no reported deliveries by 30 June 2002.
MX-7-180A Sportplane: As MX-7-160, but 134 kW (180 hp) Textron Lycoming O-360-C4F engine. Two delivered in 2002 and one in the first nine months of 2003.
MX-7-180AC Sportplane: As MX-7-180A, but spring aluminium landing gear. Two delivered in first nine months of 2003.
MXT-7-180A Comet: As MX-7-180, but tricycle landing gear and four seats standard. Introduced and first production aircraft (N1002N) flown 1996; optimised for flight training schools. Total of 18 delivered in 1999, six in 2000, one in 2001 and three in 2002, and three in the first nine months of 2003.
MX-7-180B Star Rocket: 134 kW (180 hp) Textron Lycoming O-360-C1F engine, Hartzell two-blade constant-speed metal propeller and five-position flaps. Two delivered in 2002.
MX-7-180C: As MX-7-180B, but with spring aluminium main landing gear. Two delivered in 1999, two in 2000, one in 2001, two in 2002, and three in the first nine months of 2003.
MXT-7-180 Star Rocket: As MX-7-180B, but with tricycle landing gear. Previously known as Star Craft. One delivered in 1999, ceven in 2000, and two in 2001; no reported deliveries in first six months of 2002.
MX-7 Rocket: 153 kW (205 hp) PZL-Franklin 6A-350-C1R engine, McCauley two-blade propeller. Prototype was being test flown by second quarter of 1999. Engine may be offered as an option on Textron Lycoming O-360-powered models. No reported deliveries by October 2003.
M-7-235B Super Rocket: Five-seater; choice of 175 kW (235 hp) carburetted Textron Lycoming O-540-J1A5, low-compression Mogas approved O-540-B4B5 or fuel-injected IO-540-W1A5 engines; McCauley constant-speed propeller, five-position flaps; fuselage raised 7.6 cm (3 in) at trailing-edge of wing and baggage area moved aft 12.7 cm (5 in) to accommodate fifth seat; recommended for high gross weight short-field operation, and for floatplane operation. Eight delivered in 1999, seven in 2000, five in 2001, six in 2002, and three in the first nine months of 2003.
M-7-235C Orion: As for M-7-235B but with spring aluminium main landing gear. Sixteen delivered in 1999, 18 in 2000, 14 in 2001, 15 in 2002, and six in the first nine months of 2003.
MT-7-235 Super Rocket: As M-7-235B, but tricycle landing gear, four-position flaps and IO-540-W1A5 engine only. Four delivered in 1999, five in 2000, 16 in 2001 and 12 in 2002, and six in the first nine months of 2003. Civil Air Patrol approved purchase of 15 in glider towing configuration mid-2000.
M-7-260 Super Rocket: As M-7-235B, but 194 kW (260 hp) Textron Lycoming IO-540-V4A5 engine; McCauley two-blade constant-speed propeller standard, Hartzell and MT propellers optional. Seven delivered in 1999, one in 2000, four in 2001, one in 2002, and one in the first nine months of 2003.
M-7-260C Orion: As M-7-235C, but 194 kW (260 hp) Textron Lycoming IO-540-V4A5 engine; McCauley two-blade constant speed propeller standard, Hartzell and MT propellers optional. Eight delivered in 1999, seven each in 2000 and 2001, two in 2002, and three in the first nine months of 2003.
MT-7-260 Super Rocket: As MT-7-235, but 194 kW (260 hp) Textron Lycoming IO-540-V4A5 engine; McCauley two-blade constant-speed propeller standard, Hartzell and MT propellers optional. Three delivered in 1999, two in 2000, four in 2001, and one in 2002.
M-7-420AC: M-7 fuselage with long-span wings, 313 kW (420 shp) Rolls-Royce 250-B17C turboprop, spring aluminium tailwheel landing gear. One delivered in 1999, none in 2000, one each in 2001 and 2002, and one in the first nine months of 2003.
MT-7-420: As MT-7-260 but with 313 kW (420 shp) Rolls-Royce 250-B17C turboprop; FAA certification granted 6 January 2003.
MX-9: M-7 with 169 kW (227 hp) SMA SR305-230 Diesel engine and LoPresti cowling; max take-off weight 1,270 kg (2,800 lb). Fuel capacity 322 litres (85.0 US gallons; 70.8 Imp gallons); estimated range more than 869 n miles (1,609 km; 1,000 miles). Prototype (N305SR) first flown on 18 July 2003; public debut at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 29 July 2003 at which time it had completed 18 hours' flying time. Estimated cost US$200,000 (2003).
CUSTOMERS: Total of 970 produced by mid-2003, plus 908 of earlier M-5 and M-6 series. At 17 April 2001 Maule's order's backlog stood at 100 aircraft, of which 10 were for SMA SR305-powered MX-9s.
COSTS: MX-7-160 US$105,000; MX-7-160C US$110,400; MX-7-180A US$110,850; MXT-7-160 US$114,600; MX-7-180AC US$116,150; MXT-7-180A US$120,400; MX-7-180B US$123,500; MX-7-180C US$128,800; MXT-7-180 US$134,600; M-7-235B (O-540) US$139,600 (IO-540) US$147,750; M-7-235C (O-540) US$145,800 (IO-540) US$153,950; M-7-260 US$158,400; MT-7-235 US$160,200; M-7-260C US$165,200; MT-7-260 US$170,850; M-7-420AC US$450,000; MT-7-420 US$470,000. (All 2003; standard equipment)
DESIGN FEATURES: Rugged, STOL utility aircraft. High constant chord, wing braced by V-struts; mid-mounted tailplane; large sweptback fin.
USA 35B (modified) wing section; dihedral 1°; incidence 0° 30'; cambered wingtips standard.
FLYING CONTROLS: Conventional and manual. Ailerons linked to rudder servo tab to reduce adverse yaw; trim tab in port elevator; rudder trim by spring to starboard rudder pedal; flap deflection 40° down for slow flight (further setting of 48° down on all except -420), 24° down, o and 7° up for improved cruise performance; underfin on floatplane and amphibious versions.
STRUCTURE: All-metal two-spar wing with dual struts and glass fibre tips; fuselage frame of welded 4130 steel tube with Ceconite covering aft of cabin and metal doors and skin forward of cabin; glass fibre engine cowling.
LANDING GEAR: Non-retractable tailwheel or nosewheel type. Maule oleo-pneumatic shock-absorbers in narrow track main units on MX-7-160, MX-7-180A, MX-7-180B, M-7-235B and M-7-260 models; wide chord main units standard. Maule steerable tailwheel. Cleveland mainwheels with Goodyear or McCreary tyres size 7.00-6, pressure 1.79 bar (26 lb/sq in). Tailwheel tyre size 8x3.5-4, pressure 1.03 to 1.38 bar (15 to 20 lb/sq in). Cleveland hydraulic disc brakes. Parking brake. Oversize tyres, size 20x8.5-6 (pressure 1.24 bar; 18 lb/sq in) optional.
Provisions for fitting optional Aqua 2200 and 2400, Baumann 2720 or Wipline 2350 and 3000 floats, or Baumann 2750A or Wipline 2350A and 3000A amphibious floats (also available on some tricycle models). Float option available for MX-7-160, MX-7-180A/B/C, M-7-235B/C, M-7-260 and M-7-420AC. Ski option available for M-7-235B.
POWER PLANT: One flat-four or flat-six engine as described under Current Versions, driving a Sensenich two-blade fixed-pitch or Hartzell two-blade constant-speed propeller (three-blade McCauley propeller optional on 175 kW; 235 hp and 194 kW; 260 hp models); or Rolls-Royce 250-B17C turboprop with three-blade, Hartzell HC-B3TF-7A/T10173F-21R constant-speed feathering and reversing propeller in -420 models. Piston versions have two fuel tanks in wings with total usable capacity of 163 litres (43.0 US gallons; 35.8 Imp gallons). Auxiliary fuel tanks in outer wings (standard on all 1999 models), to provide total capacity of 276 litres (73.0 US gallons; 60.8 Imp gallons). Turboprop versions have total fuel capacity of 322 litres (85.0 US gallons; 70.8 Imp gallons). Refuelling points on wing upper surface.
ACCOMMODATION: Four or five seats according to model, as described under Current Versions; individual, adjustable front seats; non-adjustable, rear seats. Dual controls and three-point shoulder harnesses standard. Baggage compartment, capacity 113 kg (250 lb), aft of seats; cargo capacity with passenger seats removed 349 kg (770 lb). One front-hinged door on port side; three doors on starboard side, forward and centre doors hinged at front edge, rear baggage door hinged at rear edge to form double cargo door providing an opening 1.30 m (4 ft 3 in) wide to facilitate loading of bulky cargo; aircraft may be flown with doors removed. Accommodation heated and ventilated.
SYSTEMS: Hydraulic system for brakes only; electrical system powered by 60 A engine-driven alternator; 12 V battery (24 V battery on turboprops).
AVIONICS: Standard SP-3 VFR package comprises Garmin GNC 250XL GPS/com (GNC 420 upgrade optional), GTX 327 digital transponder, PS Engineering PM 1000II four-place intercom. IFR-4 package comprises GNS 430 GPS/nav/com, GNC 250XL GPS/com, GI-106A CDI with GS, GTX 327 digital transponder, PS Engineering PMA 7000B stereo audio panel. IFR-4KX package deletes GNC 250XL and adds Bendix/King KX-155-42 nav/com/GS and KI-209-01 VPR/GS indicator. IFR-5 package adds second GNS 430 to IFR-4 package. GNS 530 replacing one GNS 430 optional in IFR packages. Optional avionics upgrades include 28 V system for IFR packages, Century NSD 360A-15 or 360A-26 non-slaved/slaved HSIs replacing one GI-106A in IFR packages; S-TEC System 20, System 30 or System 50 autopilots and heading bug directional gyro; Insight Strikefinder SF-2000; Bose Headset X; Light Speed Technologies Twenty 3G ANR headset; and fifth-seat microphone and headset jack. All avionics packages include Narco AR-850 remote altitude encoder, Bendix/King KA 33-00 cooling blower (KA 33-01 optional), ELT, pilot and co-pilot PTT switches, radio master switch, and broadband antenna; IFR packages also include second broadband antenna, marker antenna and triplexer.
Instrumentation: Standard equipment includes full gyro panel/vacuum system comprising attitude and directional gyros, electric turn co-ordinator, VSI, OAT gauge and suction gauge; ASI; altimeter; compass; audio/visual stall warning indicator; CHT gauge; tachometer; electric fuel gauge, manifold pressure gauge (constant-speed propeller models only); fuel pressure gauge; oil pressure and temperature gauges; ammeter, and clock. Options include TAS indicator, carburettor air temperature gauge, hour meter, and KS Mix-Mizer EGT probe.
EQUIPMENT: Standard equipment includes instrument and dome lights, auxiliary cabin heater, auxiliary fuel pump, auxiliary power plug, heated pitot tube, vinyl seats with velor inserts, vinyl cabin side panels, cloth velour cabin headliner, cabin soundproofing, cabin overhead speaker, window vents, cabin steps, cargo tiedowns, smoke-tinted windscreen, windscreen defroster, landing light in port wing, navigation lights, wingtip strobe lights, seven fuel drains, tiedown rings, airframe powder coating, wing corrosion proofing, and standard external paint scheme in Glacier White or Dune White base colour with single-colour trim. Options include dual-caliper brakes, dynamically balanced propeller, engine heater, leather seats and interior trim, four-point shoulder harnesses for pilot and co-pilot, Oregon Aero seat cushion system for pilot and co-pilot, two-position middle seat, colour co-ordinated instrument panel, landing light in starboard wing, Precise Flight pulselight, Micro Dynamics Inc vortex generators, dual tailplane struts (for glider towing), ground service plug, fuselage grab handles, Halon fire extinguisher, Schweizer or Tost glider tow/release kit, aircraft towbar, observation door, camera port, observation window, skylight, co-pilot's swing-out window, smoke-tinted cabin windows, and additional external trim colours. | <urn:uuid:cb85e7bb-3bf6-4756-80c4-0bc49bfb576e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://janes.migavia.com/usa/maule/m-7.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.840919 | 3,493 | 1.625 | 2 |
Circuit openening relay (COR)
What is it?
A circuit opening relay (COR) may as well be called a fuel pump relay, as that is what they control. They simply switch power to the fuel pump and are fitted to most cars with an electric fuel pump (recently cars have begun to use fuel pump ECUs for the job)
Why do you need one?
Because you need to know when to run your fuel pump. But most importantly you need to know when to stop it. You could run your pump from ignition power (runs whenever the key is in the ON position) and things would work, however there are two main problems with this:
- The pump will continue running if you crash. If you break a fuel line then fuel will spray everywhere and not be fun for anyone involved.
- If you leave your car not running, but with ignition on then you’ll flatten your battery.
How to wire one.
A COR is simply a relay with one switching contact and two coils. The switching contact controls 12V to the fuel pump. The two coils are there to close the contact when either the car is starting or the car is running.
The starting coil is simply triggered when the key is in the STA position.
The running coil is triggered differently on AFM and MAP engines. For AFM there is a contact in the air flow meter which closes as soon as the flap opens at all (meaning the engine is sucking air, so must be running). For MAP there is a pin (usually FC) on the ECU which is earthed whenever the engine is running.
If you aren’t sure which pins on the AFM to connect to then they are easy to find with a multimeter. Just find two which are an open circuit when the flap is closed and then go to zero ohm as soon as the flap is opened. They also tend to be the two pins at one end of the connector. | <urn:uuid:9443f8b1-3f15-43a0-9fbb-79b48b527d66> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eatsleepboost.lt/tech-info/electrical-stuff/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967591 | 452 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Msg 3705, Level 16, State 1, Line 6
Cannot use DROP %ls with ‘%.*ls’ because ‘%.*ls’ is a %S_MSG. Use DROP %ls.
This error message appears when you try to execute a DROP command for an object of the wrong object type.
The T-SQL statement can be parsed, but causes the error at runtime.
Errors of the Severity Level 16 are generated by the user and can be fixed by the SQL Server user. The statement cannot be executed this way. You must use the valid DROP command for the type of object in question.
All versions of SQL Server.
CREATE TABLE t
IF OBJECT_ID(‘t’) > 0
DROP PROCEDURE dbo.t
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.t(@i INT)
SET NOCOUNT ON
EXEC dbo.t 1
In the above example we try to use a DROP PROCEDURE command for an object of the type table. This raises the error. | <urn:uuid:7c9649de-595c-4d21-b8b0-7e35f10f5695> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sql-server-performance.com/cannot-use-drop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.713949 | 299 | 2.390625 | 2 |
In the previous post I talked about how I built Pickle Jr – which is my name for the networked air pollution monitor that comprises the Shinyei PPD42 with a small Sunon fan fused to the 42. I first built the Pickle described earlier which was the networked air pollution monitor that comprised the PPD60PV-T2 (aka T2) with a small fan fused to it and an Arduino Ethernet.
I decided to do make the Pickle Jr. hoping that the same improvement in noise and sensitivity I got with the Pickle (T2) would also apply to the 42.
For those who have worked with the 42 or one of its cousins (the DSM501 and the Sharp GP2Y thingy) know that the data gives many many zeros. As in this blog post from Darrell Tan in Singapore. http://irq5.io/2013/07/24/testing-the-shinyei-ppd42ns/, and in this blog from David Holstius http://www.davidholstius.com.
That is even when there is known air pollution, the sensor reads zero. If you wait long enough or average over a long time then there is some data. But waiting for an hour, or in some cases the entire day is not that great so I wanted to see results with a minute or so. So I added the fan to the 42 and measured it against the 42 without the fan, and the T2 and the AES-1, the zeros improved, but unfortunately I still got many of them (this is with PM2.5 less than approx 25 ug/m3.). The issue with the zeros is that the data cannot be scaled because a zero is a zero 🙂 So I have seen other folks use a previous non-zero value to guess what that zero should have been. But what if you could reduce the number of zeros significantly in the first place ?
So how do I reduce the number of zeros ?? The 42 has two controls on the board that are set at the Shinyei factory for calibration. I did not want to mess with those if I could help it because it would be impossible to know precisely what I had set them to in case I (or others) wanted to do the same thing. Then I found this brilliant note by Tracy Allen and he has figured out how the 42 works!
After reading and re-reading the note (with help from others), I understood that P1 is what most of us measure and that P2 is less sensitive. But, we can make P2 more sensitive by decreasing the threshold voltage at Pin5. I did not know quite how to do that right away but after some trial and error, I attached a 10 KΩ resistor between Pin5 and Ground and then measured the voltage at that Pin. Why 10 KΩ ? Because I wanted to reduce the threshold to half from what it was for the P1. I measured 1.35V as the threshold for P1 and with the 10 KΩ resistor I measured 0.491V at Pin5. Without the resistor I measured 2.48V at Pin5.
So now with the fan and with the resistor I measured both P1 and P2.
The sensor 42:00012 is the 42 with Fan and resistor and 42:00004 is the vanilla 42. As before I store all the data in tempoiq and make all the plots with plotly. I have written the code to store and extract info from tempoiq and then post process in plotly. The y-axis is just the P1 and P2 voltages scaled by a straight line curve from the Shinyei data sheet measured every minute. The x-axis is the date. So now the number of zeros has gone down dramatically! But obviously the calibration would be quite off. However, since I did not muck around with the two controls, if all of us used the same resistor value then we could come up with a *new* calibration curve (more on this later).
Now how good is this 42 with fan and resistor, let me call this 42FR compared to the T2 with fan or the Dylos ? I wanted to do this with the AES-1 as well, but the windows computer it is connected to has some issues. So here is the 42FR, 42 and Dylos with measurements every minute:
The 42FR is still quite noisy but has a response that generally traces the Dylos over this per minute interval. Changing the interval to 10 minutes results in
Now the respond of the 42FR vs the 42 is much clearer wrt the Dylos. Adding the T2 with fan to the mix for 1 minute intervals gives:
Since I used the left y-axis for both the T2 and 42’s, the latter look “compressed” and, of course, the T2 with fan tracks quite closely to the Dylos. BTW, this is not the calibrated particle counts, I have not done that yet as I said before. Here is the same data over 10 minute intervals
Interestingly the vanilla 42 can barely be seen wrt the 42FR. And now the proof of the pudding, that is how is the regression of the 42FR and the vanilla 42 vs the T2 with fan and the Dylos. First the comparisons with the T2
That is a pretty decent R2 of 0.62 for the 42FR compared to an R2 of 0.02 for the vanilla 42! Across 10 minutes it becomes better
R2 of 0.81 for the 42Fr compared to an R2 of 0.19 for the vanilla 42. But the number of points are not enough, I need to continue this for a longer period. Next is the comparisons to the Dylos, first the per minute
A lower R2 than for the T2 but still oodles better than the vanilla 42. And finally the same over 10 minute intervals
A decent R2 of 0.55 for the 42FR vs 0.21 for the vanilla 42.
I absolutely love tempoiq and plotly. I am so thankful to the tempoiq guys who have just rocked for this project! And the plotly tool is the greatest too.
Work still to be done (likely in the holiday break): compare with much higher PM2.5 concentrations, and then produce a calibration curve of the 42FR vs Dylos and T2 that anyone can use if they want to modify their 42’s. As a summary, the mods are to add a fan to the plastic housing and the resistor to the threshold pin Pin5. | <urn:uuid:1e377ccb-22c7-4907-b26e-0fa7e4025ec0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://indiaairquality.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.953377 | 1,405 | 2.1875 | 2 |
To add to Steve's excellent answer.
It may not be widely known but grep is almost always faster when grepping for a longer pattern-string than a short one, because in a longer pattern, Boyer-Moore can skip forward in longer strides to achieve even better sublinear speeds:
# after running these twice to ensure apples-to-apples comparison
# (everything is in the buffer cache)
$ time grep -c 'tg=f_c' 20140910.log
0.168u 0.068s 0:00.26
$ time grep -c ' /cc/merchant.json tg=f_c' 20140910.log
0.100u 0.056s 0:00.17
The longer form is 35% faster!
How come? Boyer-Moore consructs a skip-forward table from the pattern-string, and whenever there's a mismatch, it picks the longest skip possible (from last char to first) before comparing a single char in the input to the char in the skip table.
Here's a video explaining Boyer Moore (Credit to kommradHomer)
Another common misconception (for GNU grep) is that
fgrep is faster than
fgrep doesn't stand for 'fast', it stands for 'fixed' (see the man page), and since both are the same program, and both use Boyer-Moore, there's no difference in speed between them when searching for fixed-strings without regexp special chars. The only reason I use
fgrep is when there's a regexp special char (like
*) I don't want it to be interpreted as such. And even then the more portable/standard form of
grep -F is preferred over | <urn:uuid:c4b7a0e3-5e20-4f70-81ff-b0e08e0c0f3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12629749/how-does-grep-run-so-fast | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.882403 | 392 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Bivalvia | Cardiida
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Eastern Central Atlantic and the Mediterranean: Mauritania, Italy and Greece. Tropical.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Inhabits muddy bottoms (Ref. 2780).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Bivalvia are mostly gonochoric, some are protandric hermaphrodites. Life cycle: Embryos develop into free-swimming trocophore larvae, succeeded by the bivalve veliger, resembling a miniature clam.
Gusso, C.C., M.F. Gravina and F.R. Maggiore. 2001. (Ref. 2780)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 124695)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Threat to humans
| FishSource |
Estimates of some properties based on models | <urn:uuid:aa0cc15a-cc20-458e-ab6e-e74999bf3b89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sealifebase.ca/summary/Tellina-distorta.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.732927 | 299 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.
The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.
The silent lion hunts a game whereas the roaring lion never
I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
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CIVIC groups have warned that the incoming government might not have the political will to promote and advance minority languages as enshrined in the new Constitution.
Zimbabwe Indigenous Languages Promotion Association (Zilpa), an independent association that promotes ethnic languages rights, has been clamouring for the recognition of local languages through their inclusion in the education curricula.
The 2001 Education Act saw some of the languages being introduced in primary schools.
The new Constitution compels the government to advance and promote local languages, but civic activists are sceptical that the new government may not be too keen to advance the languages.
Thomas Sithole, a civic activist with Plumtree Development Trust, said the government will likely ignore the constitutional provision which binds it to promote local languages.
“This will be a difficult call for government to do anything to promote minority languages, as they know that promotion of one’s language cannot be divorced from real empowerment, as these communities have been marginalised since independence,” he said.
“The government will most likely cite financial constraints and just pay lip service for political expediency.”
However, Sithole maintained that local groups should lobby for government intervention in their bid to fight their cause.
Cultural activist and author Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo weighed in, saying he doubted whether there was political will to advance minority languages.
“People must bear in mind that there were some elements within political parties that were against the promotion of minority languages during the constitution-making process, hence I don’t see any political will in the new government to promote minority languages,” he said.
During the Copac programme Zanu PF strongly resisted having local languages being granted official language status in the new Constitution.
Zilpa secretary Tshidzanani Malaba, however, remained hopeful that the government will work to promote local languages.
“We hope that the new government will do something to promote and advance minority languages rights as provided for in the constitution,” he said.
Outgoing Education minister David Coltart said any incoming minister will have to honour the language policies in place, adding the Constitution mandated the State and all other government agencies to promote and advance minority languages.
“It’s too early to say whether the new government will have the political will to promote minority languages, but I think the new government will have to honour language policies in place and the new Constitution that places an obligation on government to promote local languages,” he said.
Chewa, Chibarwe, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Shangani, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda and Xhosa were accorded official status in the new Constitution, alongside Ndebele, English and Shona. | <urn:uuid:bc412de5-2bd6-473c-8d51-b797eb205439> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.southerneye.co.zw/2013/09/03/will-minority-languages-get-due-recognition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.94875 | 592 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Power tops lists of concerns for data centre developers in Europe
The availability of power is the most important factor in the decision-making process for a new data centre, according to new research.
Almost three-quarters of 3,000 senior data centre professionals across Europe cited it as their "number one driving choice" in the 14th annual Summer Report from BCS (Business Critical Solutions) and research house IX Consulting.
This year, however, the responses mark an increase on the 62% who cited it as their top concern last winter. Further, amongst developer and investor respondents – the survey canvassed owners, operators, developers, consultants and end users – the ability to have access to a secure and economic power source is rated even more highly, with around 85% placing it first.
James Hart, CEO at BCS, said: “The fortunes of the data centre industry are inextricably linked to the ability to source and utilise power in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. The impact of power runs across every aspect of the market from informing decisions on data centre site selection, through the design and construction phases and the operation of such facilities. With forecast growth for digital services likely to remain substantial, the industry continues to respond to power issues created as a result, with the question of sustainability arguably never so important as it is today.
“We believe that utilities is a specialist area that is often overlooked, with many organisations unaware of the flexibility that is a result of deregulation and that efficiencies which can be as high as 80% with the right solution. In response to this we recently launched BCS Utilities, as part of the BCS Group, which operates internationally on offsite utility procurement and delivery strategies, offsite generally referring to the project utility networks adopted, owned and operated by statutory regulated undertakers or third-party independent network providers.”
On consumption, BCS said its the latest survey confirms that around three-quarters expect their levels of consumption to rise over the next three years, a proportion marginally above the long-term tracked average. More than two-fifths expect this rise to be significant whilst a further 19% expect their levels of consumption to at least remain stable. Notably, despite increased efficiency of systems – and targets to reduce non-renewable energy use – only 8% are expecting to see a reduction.
Elsewhere in the report, two-thirds of respondents believe that an expected rise in power costs in Europe will see demand levels for power efficient data centre space rise over the next three years. Among service providers, some 76% shared this view whilst 84% of developer and investor respondents concurred, whilst just 40% of end-users were in agreement. | <urn:uuid:087e4866-5fa5-462e-abe8-7e4bb4cbf602> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/29otdc38gbc2vnk910um8/news/power-tops-lists-of-concerns-for-data-centre-developers-in-europe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.960235 | 550 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Financial Support for Single Moms In California during COVID-19
Millions of single mom workers have lost their jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic and most of them have found themselves in situations where they cannot get access to benefits. The situations have made low single mom workers to experience high unemployment, inadequate resources, and difficulty in accessing government relief. The following Covid-19 resources can support single mothers in need of assistance in California.
United Way of Santa Barbara County Emergency rental assistance
This program provides support to single moms in need of rental assistance i.e. those residing in the unincorporated locations within Barbara County. The support is specifically given to those who have recently loosed their income due to the covid-19 crisis and need rental assistance. Find out more at https://www.unitedwaysb.org/rental-assistance.
One family, Los Angeles
This program offers grants to single moms in need of support in Los Angeles, California. One family LA is a group of community-based organizations that have come together to collectively respond to the rapidly developing covid-19 pandemic. One family LA provides financial assistance on a first-come, first-served basis to single mom headed families residing in Los Angeles, and are experiencing financial constraints due to the pandemic. The goal is for the most affected single moms to get help in prioritizing their financial needs. Find out more at https://www.onefamilyla.com/.
Napa Valley Community Foundation
The Napa Valley Community Disaster Relief Fund focuses on the health and economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic among single moms in the community. The Napa Valley Foundation also provides the Emergency Financial Assistance program to single mom workers residing within. The assistance is specifically provided to single moms with low income and who are not eligible for the unemployment or paid leave benefits from the government. Learn more about the foundation at https://www.napavalleycf.org/our-response-to-covid-19-in-napa-county/.
The Workers’ Fund
How does the Workers’ Fund work? Well, the program is primarily funded by donors willing to support single mom workers experiencing economic struggles due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Have you been affected by the pandemic? The program allows single mothers who have been impacted to use the Steady app to apply for emergency financial assistance. The program offers up to $1000 to those qualified for emergency funding. When you receive the fund, you can use it to pay rent, buy food, or spend it on utilities. Find out more at https://www.theworkerslab.com/the-workers-fund.
National Domestic Workers Alliance’s Coronavirus Care Fund
The National Domestic Workers Alliance established this program to support single mothers working as nannies and house cleaners to help them stay safe during the pandemic. Why is this program important for single mom domestic workers? They spend most of their time caring for those people who are most vulnerable to the Covid-19 pandemic. Because of this, domestic workers may not find it easy to maintain social distancing during the pandemic. So, the funds raised through this program are exclusively used to support single mothers taking care of the most vulnerable people to the pandemic in California. Find out more about Coronavirus Care Fund at https://domesticworkers.org/coronavirus-care-fund-faq.
Undocufund San Fransisco
Due to the rapid development of Covid-19, Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California ordered residents to stay at home to reduce the spread of the pandemic. Unfortunately, this left so many undocumented single mothers without any work. Such people do not qualify for unemployment benefits or any other relief to help them survive the situation created by the pandemic. The Undocufund San Fransisco is funded by donations from individuals willing to assist single moms in need. Learn more about the fund at https://www.undocufund-sf.org/en/apply/.
Immigrant Relief Fund
The Immigrant Relief Fund was created to help single mothers who are undocumented to get through the economic crisis in California. The fund has disbursed over $75 million to over 150,000 single mom headed families in need of financial assistance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Find out more about the fund at https://www.immigrantfundca.org/faqs. | <urn:uuid:6b4e8536-d269-44cf-95d2-369fc54afb37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.asinglemother.org/covid-19-resources-in-california/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.949755 | 922 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Mesh bags are the open netted bags used in various applications like grocery shopping, warehouse, vegetable stores, cold stores, waste & recycling, laundry room, and others. It is generally made of materials like plastic, cotton, monofilament, etc providing a protective layer between the items inside it. The mesh bags have loner durability than the regular bags offering safety to the items inside the bags from moisture heat etc.This growth is primarily driven by Growing Demand Breathable and Durable Carry Bags for GRocery Items and Easy Availability of Raw Material for the Production of Mesh Bags.
Globally, a noticeable market trend is evident Introduction of Mesh Bags in Fashion Industry in Different Designs and Patterns. Major Vendors, such as Volm Companies (United States), Karatzis Group (Greece), Cady Bag (United States), Cady Bag Company, LLC (United States), Bagfactory (Lithuania), Min Shen Enterprise Co., Ltd. (China), SG Global Packaging (China), SG Global Packaging CO.,LTD. (China) and Vedder Industrial Co., Ltd. (China) etc have either set up their manufacturing facilities or are planning to start new provision in the dominated region in the upcoming years.
"The mesh bag material conforms to relevant parts of FDA 21, CFR 175-178 for direct food contact and has passed the USP, Testing for Class IV Plastic. General temperature performance from the manufacturer states a softening point of approximately 150°C / 300°F. and Because the material is used in a wide variety of conditions/ processes, the stated temperature parameter for softening may or may not apply to a customer’s specific use. These mesh bags are considered consumable items that do degrade and should be expected to be replaced with continued use."
- Growing Demand Breathable and Durable Carry Bags for GRocery Items
- Easy Availability of Raw Material for the Production of Mesh Bags
- Introduction of Mesh Bags in Fashion Industry in Different Designs and Patterns
- Regulatory Guidelines Involved Regarding the Environmental Harm Caused by Production of Mesh Bag
Surging Demand for Mesh Bags from the Rising Fashion and Retail Industry
Stiff Competition in the Mesh Bag Market
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When it comes to extremists within the military, the Defense Department makes a distinction without a difference.
Last updated in February 2012, the Defense Department’s policy bans service members from actively participating in extremist or supremacist groups. DoD Instruction 1325.06 goes on to list what “active participation” in a hate group involves: Fundraising, rallying, recruiting, training members, and so on.
But the U.S. military does not explicitly prohibit service members from belonging to hate groups — just as long as they do not engage in any of the proscribed activities that count as “active participation.”
By any definition, that’s an extremely obvious loophole, since membership in a hate group is the first step toward active participation.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), said she was “flummoxed” when defense officials testified last year that military does not explicitly prohibit troops from being members of extremist groups.
“I find that astonishing,” Speier said in February 2020. “If you’re a member, that’s an activity. I think we need to take a look at that.”
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby recently indicated that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other top military leaders might take a fresh look at whether service members should be involuntarily separated if they join hate groups.
“Right now, membership is not considered inconsistent with service in the military and it really is about what you do with that membership,” Kirby told reporters at a Feb. 5 Pentagon news conference. “I’m not going to be predictive one way or the other about where this discussion is going but I think membership in these groups is certainly something that I would expect for them to look at.”
The issue of extremists in the ranks literally boiled over when rioters assaulted the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Many of the people arrested have ties to the military, including Jacob Fracker, a corporal in the Virginia Army National Guard.
One of the five people killed in the riots was Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran who reportedly embraced QAnon conspiracy theories. She was shot while allegedly trying to force her way into the Capitol building.
Speier recently authored legislation that would have made it illegal under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for service members to commit acts of violent extremism, but it did not criminalize being a member of a hate group.
First reported by John M. Donnelly of Roll Call, the legislation would have made it expressly illegal for service members to commit violent acts that are intended to intimidate or coerce a person or class of people or retaliate against policies of the U.S. government or individual states.
The proposed change to military law was included into a provision of the Fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate ultimately removed from the final version of the legislation, which Congress passed over former President Trump’s veto on Jan. 1, Speier said.
“The Senate eliminated it from the final National Defense Authorization Agreement, claiming they were trying to avoid a veto from President Trump,” Speier said in a statement. “We all know how that turned out.”
“If it had been included in the NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act], it would be law and apply to current service members and even some military retirees who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6,” Speier continued. “At least now we have a president who takes this threat seriously and I expect my provision will become law as part of this year’s defense policy bill.”
A spokesperson for the Senate Armed Services Committee said the final version of the defense policy bill included other ways to combat extremism within the military, including a provision that establishes a new deputy Defense Department inspector general with a special focus on extremist and criminal gang activity.
“The Uniform Code of Military Justice already offers all the tools necessary to prosecute service members who have committed violent offenses, including any criminal act a violent extremist would potentially commit, and I am confident the UCMJ can be used as needed to protect all members of the military community,” said Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), the former chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “This kind of behavior directly undermines the ability of our armed forces to perform their constitutionally mandated role of defending the nation.”
But the issue remains that membership in a hate group is not grounds alone for involuntarily separating service members. Until that is fixed, the military cannot begin to find any meaningful solutions to the problem of extremists in the ranks. | <urn:uuid:b750ff45-c945-45c2-a3a2-13967e8a9041> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-ban-troops-joining-extremist-groups/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964963 | 958 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Battle of Le Cateau
|Battle of Le Cateau|
|Part of the Great Retreat on the Western Front of the First World War|
British dead at the Battle of Le Cateau.
|Commanders and leaders|
Friedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin|
Georg von der Marwitz
|Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien|
Höhere Kavallerie-Kommando 2
23 infantry battalions|
18 cavalry regiments (9 at half strength)
6 divisional cavalry squadrons
162 guns (27 batteries)
40 infantry battalions|
12 cavalry regiments
2 divisional cavalry squadrons
246 guns (41 batteries)
c. 80 machine-guns
|Casualties and losses|
7,812 (700 killed, 2,600 captured)|
The Battle of Le Cateau was fought on the Western Front during the First World War on 26 August 1914. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the French Fifth Army had retreated after their defeats at the Battle of Charleroi (21–23 August) and the Battle of Mons (23 August). The British II Corps fought a delaying action at Le Cateau to slow the German pursuit. Most of the BEF was able to continue its retreat to Saint-Quentin.
Having retreated from Mons two days earlier, Le Cateau and Mons being 24.8 mi (39.9 km) apart, the British II Corps (General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien) was exhausted. The corps had become separated from the rest of the BEF because of the unexpected retreat by Sir Douglas Haig, the commander of I Corps,, who had fought his own rearguard action at Landrecies on 25 August. Following that engagement, where Haig had rallied his troops, revolver in hand, he succumbed to panic, writing to the French High Command about the imminent debacle. He had greatly overestimated the German numbers, was "[mentally] completely destroyed" - as described by James Edmonds, Chief of Staff of the 4th Division. Instead of reinforcing Sir Horace at Le Cateau, he opted to retreat further inland, marching for five straight days.
Ignorant of the manoeuvre of I Corps, Smith-Dorrien intended to continue marching, as mentioned by Wilkinson Bird, Colonel of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. Early on 26 August Smith-Dorrien changed his mind, seeing the exhaustion of his troops and the disorder that could occur should the marching continue. Edmund Allenby, commander of the II Corps' cavalry, claimed that both his men and the horses were "almost finished" and that battle at Le Cateau was inevitable, the enemy being so close. Sir Horace agreed. At 07:00 he received a call from Henry Wilson at BEF HQ, ordering him to continue the retreat; he refused the order, confirming that the men were already fighting.
On the morning of 26 August, the Germans arrived and attacked II Corps. Unlike the Battle of Mons, where the majority of casualties inflicted by the British were from rifle fire, Le Cateau was a gunners battle, demonstrating the devastating results which modern quick-firing artillery using shrapnel shells could have on infantry advancing in the open. The British deployed their artillery about 50–200 metres (55–219 yd) behind the infantry, while the German artillery used indirect fire from concealed positions. With the guns so close to the infantry, the British had unintentionally increased the effectiveness of the German artillery-fire, because shells aimed at the British infantry could just as easily hit the British guns.
The British 5th Division was on the right flank, on the southern side of the Le Cateau–Cambrai road between Inchy and Le Cateau. The 3rd Division was in the centre, between Caudry and Inchy and the 4th Division was on the left flank, on the north bank of the Warnelle. The road was sunken in places, providing inadequate long-range firing positions and in many places the Germans could close up to the British positions unobserved. On the right flank, west of Le Cateau, the Germans marched along the road from the north to Le Cateau. The British were on a forward slope and suffered many casualties during the withdrawal.
At 03:30, Smith-Dorrien decided to "strike the enemy hard and after he had done so, continue the retreat" but the purpose of the operation was unclear to his subordinates. A "hold at all costs" mentality was evident in the 5th Division on the British right flank. The commander of the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, was given a written order that "There will now be NO retirement for the fighting troops; fill up your trenches, with water, food and ammunition as far as you can". The order was confirmed by a colonel from the II Corps staff. The delaying action never occurred because the order to defend arrived at the front line at about the same time as the Germans, in some places later. Nor were the conditions of a doctrinal delay observed, such as refusing to let British units be pinned down. Smith-Dorrien did not choose positions with adequate fields-of-fire and with prepared and hidden routes of withdrawal.
Holding their ground despite many casualties, around noon, the British right and then the left flank began to collapse. The arrival of the Corps de cavalerie Sordet (French Cavalry Corps, General André Sordet) provided a shield for the British left flank and enabled the British to slip away, despite German attempts to infiltrate and outflank them. That night, the Allies withdrew to Saint-Quentin.
According to Der Weltkrieg, the German official history, Lieutenant-General Sixt von Armin, the commander of IV Corps, issued an order at 11:15 that co-ordinated the encounter battle but there is no evidence of German command above the divisional level. About 75 per cent of the troops of IV Corps were in contact before they received the order and the rest never made it to the battlefield. Armin had no authority over II Cavalry Corps, which fought independently.
The Germans were pleased with their victory. The historian of Infantry Regiment 93 wrote
The battle of Beaumont-Inchy will always be one of the most glorious days in the history of the regiment, which demonstrated that in a frontal attack against an enemy that was heretofore considered unbeatable, the crack troops of the British Army, the 93rd was not merely their equal, it was superior." 75th Field Artillery Regiment said that the battle "strengthened the self-confidence of the German troops … all the more so because the British army was made up almost exclusively of long-service active army troops, who were superbly trained and equipped.— Historian, IR 93
German satisfaction in part arose from a mistaken belief that they had defeated the BEF, not II Corps and a cavalry brigade. It was this mistake which allowed II Corps to retire as German troops were given a night of rest instead of being sent to pursue the British forces. Although credited at the time by Field Marshal Sir John French for having saved the BEF, he later criticised Smith-Dorrien.
In 1926, James Edmonds, the British official historian, wrote that of the 40,000 British troops who fought at Le Cateau, 7,812 became casualties, 2,600 being taken prisoner. Thirty-eight guns were abandoned, most having their breech blocks removed and sights disabled by the gun crews. In 2011, Terry Zuber wrote that having suffered 7,000 casualties and with another 2,500–3,000 footsore and exhausted men having to be evacuated to Le Mans to recuperate, II Corps was not battle-worthy for at least two days. In 2008 Cave and Sheldon speculated that German casualties "are not likely to have been any more than 2,000". According to Terry Zuber in 2011, the Germans suffered 2,900 casualties.
II Corps retreated on the morning of 27 August and in two days of marching, broke contact with the Germans. The Second Battle of Le Cateau took place in much the same area from 5 to 11 October 1918. The Entente captured the St. Quentin–Cambrai railway, 12,000 prisoners and 250 guns for 536 casualties.
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- Hastings, M. (2013). Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914. London: Knopf Press. ISBN 978-0-307-59705-2.
- Jones, Nigel H. (1983). The War Walk: A Journey Along the Western Front. London: Robert Hale. ISBN 978-0-7090-1174-3.
- Lomas, David (1997). Mons – 1914. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84176-142-8. | <urn:uuid:c2f2e613-e637-4d9d-b38c-5254a051f33e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Le_Cateau | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.901947 | 3,065 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Seasonality in antibiotic prescribing in primary care has been described around the world and, in particular, for countries with high annual levels of antibiotic use [1,4,5]. This term refers to variations that occur with a frequency of less than a year, and for antibiotic use, is typically defined by peak values in winter and valley values in summer, mainly driven by penicillins, macrolides, and fluoroquinolones. The seasonal pattern of outpatient antibiotic use is similar to the seasonal fluctuations of the incidence of acute bronchitis, acute upper respiratory tract infections, and acute tonsillitis, and is importantly associated with the change in influenza virus activity in the community . Antibiotic overuse in the community, mainly for treating acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs), is proposed as one of the main causes of this phenomenon despite most ARTIs are caused by viruses, for which antibiotics have no role in treatment .
Since the introduction of the SARS-CoV-2 into the northern hemisphere in January 2020 coinciding with the 2019/2020 respiratory viruses season, a decrease in influenza activity has been reported. Interventions aimed to avoid the spread of SARS-CoV-2, including lockdowns and mandatory use of face masks, among others, are strongly proposed as causes of this beneficial collateral effect [, , , , ].
Antibiotic use across different healthcare settings has also been significantly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, with an effect on antimicrobial resistance that remains unclear. In contrast to the consumption data from hospitals, where antibiotic prescriptions initially increased despite relatively low detected rates of bacterial co-infections in COVID-19 patients [13,14], antibiotic use in primary care dropped. The magnitude of this reduction has ranged between 30 and 40% and has been notably greater for antibiotics primarily used for ARTIs [, , , ].
Based on our previously reported sharp decline in antibiotic prescribing in the community setting in our region in the second quarter of 2020 coinciding with the onset of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and national lockdown , the objective of the present study was to assess the influence of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 over time on the seasonal pattern of antibiotic use and its possible association with influenza virus activity in the outpatient setting of Andalusia, the most populated region in Spain. | <urn:uuid:c918a4bd-119c-41c9-9c5d-3bce05ffbce0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://influenza.awarenessmonthly.com/has-the-covid-19-pandemic-wiped-out-the-seasonality-of-outpatient-antibiotic-use-and-influenza-activity-a-time-series-analysis-from-2014-to-2021/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.944504 | 502 | 2.5 | 2 |
The 100 best short stories, from Charles Dickens to Cat Person
As The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award winner is announced, Culture writers pick their favourite tales
RITES OF PASSAGE
Sredni Vashtar by Saki (1911)
An unhealthy boy looked after by a strict aunt worships his secret pet polecat, but knows she will have it destroyed if she finds it. Exquisitely black and cool, comic and bloody.
Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing (1955)
This is a vivid description of an English boy, on holiday in France, who is desperate to copy older French boys by swimming through a dangerous channel.
The Peaches by Dylan Thomas (1940)
A Swansea boy is sent to his aunt and uncle’s farm in Carmarthenshire for the summer. When he invites a more well-to-do friend to stay, classes clash. Notable for its child’s-eye view of the world.
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Camp Sidney Dew
Over 80 Years of Scouting Experience
Located in the northwest corner of Georgia and approximately 20 miles north of Rome, Camp Sidney Dew offers the natural beauty of the Appalachian foothills. Founded in the late 1930’s, the camp is a unique blend of old and new, with several of the early structures still in use.
Located in the valley between John’s Mountain and Horn Mountain (The Pocket), the camp’s 650 acres are bordered on the west by the Chattahoochee National Forest and on the east by John’s Creek. The camp’s rolling terrain offers an abundance of deer, wild turkey, and other wildlife, including a trout stream open annually to fishing.
Several points of interest are within a couple hours drive from camp. Visiting units can explore the Etowah Indian Mounds, Chickamauga Battlefield, New Echota Historic Site, museums, and historic sites of Rome, Atlanta, and Chattanooga. In short, Camp Sidney Dew is the crown jewel of the council and is committed to offering the best possible program for Scouts and Scouters of all ages.
Scouts BSA Summer Camp
Camp Sidney Dew offers a week long summer camp program for Scout troops.
Cub Scout packs, Scouts BSA troops, and Venturing crews can utilize Camp Sidney Dew's amities for unit camping throughout the year. To reserve a campsite or facility, follow the link below and the camp ranger will contact you to confirm your reservation.
15 individual campsites are located at Camp Sidney Dew. All sites are suitable for tent camping and contain potable water, latrines, covered pavilions, and tables. Several sites also have lean-to shelters.
Camp Sidney Dew is equipped with many Scouting amenities for summer camp and individual unit camping. Many facilities can be reserved for unit use via the unit reservation system. Some facilities require the approval of the camp ranger and the program director.
Event Facility Reservation
Camp Sidney Dew reservation for event directors only.
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Australia’s peak forest industries association has urged the Coalition and Labor to elevate the forestry portfolio to Cabinet in recognition of the sector’s significant economic contribution and the essential products and services it provides.
Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) Chief Executive Officer Ross Hampton said Australia’s $24 billion-a-year forest industries employ more than 80,000 people across the supply chain to produce timber for our building industry and vital everyday items like toilet paper, renewable packaging, and other single-use plastic replacements.
“Our message is simple: 2020-21 has shown us that you can’t have a Cabinet without timber,” Mr Hampton said.
“Forest industries are the backbone of the construction industry that is currently keeping the Australian economy strong, we make the toilet paper that is flying off the shelves, and we will play a vital role in any national net-zero target.
“It is time the whole-of-government impact of our industry is recognised with the appointment of a dedicated Forestry Minister to Cabinet. There is no better candidate for the role than our Assistant Minister for Forestry, Senator Jonno Duniam, who has proven he is up to the task.
“Our sector should also be acknowledged in the Department’s name, which should revert to the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.”
Mr Hampton said all Australian governments should work together on a national timber strategy to ensure we have the forest resource we need to meet our future timber needs.
“The current housing timber shortage should be a wake-up call to decision-makers that we cannot rely on imports to meet our timber needs. Housing timber is a sovereign capability issue alongside fuel and food, and at the moment we are failing.
“Unless we take immediate national action to grow our plantation resource to meet future timber needs and stop the closure of yet more sustainable native forestry operations, we will fail future generations. The Aussie dream of owning a home will be out of reach for our children and our children’s children.
“The best time to plant more timber trees was 30 years ago. The next best time is today,” Mr Hampton concluded.
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VOLUNTEERING WITH WOMEN IN GRANADA
The volunteer program of women in Nicaragua aims to work for the welfare and development of women in the most vulnerable communities of Nicaragua. Through the guidance and acquisition of tools that strengthen the importance of the role of women individually and collectively.
It also works on teaching in a more personalized way, where they are helped to develop their skills and strengthen their knowledge.
The program looks for a way to improve and expand their knowledge and skills. Only by the detail of sharing a moment, the dedication, affection and time you share with them, do you enrich their day.
WHAT WILL I DO AS A VOLUNTEER?
- Carrying out of teaching and training workshops. Reading activities, classes in English, Spanish, mathematics and other more specific subjects are developed.
- Organize workshops on job opportunities and business development. It promotes knowledge of new technologies, guidelines for making a Curriculum Vitae (resume), tools for job search, how to start a business among others.
- Cultural exchange workshops. The different customs of the members of the program are known, exchanging culinary practices, beauty and customs and ideas of the participants.
- Know the use of tools such as computers, writing, creating an email, surfing the Internet and using Office applications.
These activities give women the opportunity to open their minds, with the purpose of showing them the opportunities they have to improve and achieve their dreams.
The purpose of the workshops is to create a pleasant and dynamic environment, to raise women’s awareness of the importance of being academically trained and the job opportunities they offer, and to encourage them to continue to face the difficulties they have with respect to the academic level that exists among women.
WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME A VOLUNTEER?
- To be of legal age
- Person to be committed and participative for a better development of the activities of the program.
- It is not necessary to have a university degree or related careers to carry out this program, with your general knowledge and skills you can support many women, although it is advisable to have experience in social work.
The volunteer will participate in different workshops described in the volunteer program women’s empowerment in Nicaragua and can perform according to the skills they have, in the same way know and can help women and young people of various ages, with different levels of knowledge, in some cases women who for the first time are joining a study group, so it will require support, patience, interest and enthusiasm.
WHAT DAYS AND DATES CAN I VOLUNTEER?
The project is open all year round, except on the following dates:
- From 15 to 02 January for children’s holidays.
- May 1st
- October 03 and 04, as it is a holiday in the community
- For the 14th and 15th of September, for national holidays.
- Easter, this varies every year
TIMETABLE AND PICK-UP POINT
- The pick-up point is Augusto C. Sandino International Airport.
- Pick-ups are scheduled from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
WHERE WILL I BE AND WHAT WILL MY SCHEDULE BE DURING VOLUNTEERING?
We have two shifts Monday through Friday as part of the school reinforcement volunteer program for children in Nicaragua.
- In the mornings it would be from 10:00 to 12:00 p.m. and the afternoon shift from 13:00 to 17:00 hours.
WHAT ARE THE LODGING AND MEALS LIKE?
You stay at the volunteer’s house, which is located in the centre of Granada. You will sleep in a room with private bathroom and you will have the common areas at your disposal.
- Accommodation includes the 3 daily meals provided in the volunteer’s home.
On the day of your orientation you will be explained together with the coordinator of the program the timetables of the meals.
The contribution of the women’s teaching volunteer program in Nicaragua is divided into two parts. In order to register for the program, a deposit of 150€ must be paid. One month before the beginning of the program, the rest of the program must be paid.
Each additional week has a cost of 150€. The currency exchange will have real effect, check the currency exchange in the period of your trip.
WHAT ARE YOU PAYING FOR?
- Welcome at the airport and transfer to the volunteer’s home
- Accommodation during your volunteering
- 3 meals during the course of your volunteer program
- 24/7 support from the Adventure Volunteer team
- Monitoring and evaluation of the programme
- Orientation and induction to the program
- Certificate of weeks completed in your volunteering
- Accident insurance during your volunteering
- Civil liability for your activity
- Receipt from NGO about your program fee
- Guidance, advice and management in the choice of programme
WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED?
- Flight to the country
- Visa, if necessary
- Travel Insurance
- Vaccines, if required
- Internal transports and excursions
- Return to the airport on the last day
- Drinks, diets, special meals
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Crystal Cathedral sale to diocese a milestone; some see a miracle
Whenever clergy from Asia, South America or Europe visit Roman Catholic Bishop Tod Brown in Orange County, they all want to see one church, but not one of Brown’s. They want to see the Crystal Cathedral.
For decades, the architectural landmark — famous for its 10,000 panes of glass and 236-foot bell tower — has been synonymous with the Rev. Robert H. Schuller and his “Hour of Power” broadcasts. That is about to change.
Last month, the Crystal Cathedral property became the future home of the diocese after a bankruptcy judge approved the sale for $57.5 million. The Vatican has signed off and diocese officials expect escrow to open soon.
In Orange County, where a third of the population is Catholic, the deal represents both vast demographic change and the rising influence of the church.
“I think the Crystal Cathedral will be, for us, the heart and center for our Catholic community,” said Brown, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 on Nov. 15, two days before the court victory. He will help oversee the transition because a successor has not yet been named.
Such cooperation between Catholic and Protestant faiths was once unimaginable in American Christianity.
In a rare interview, Schuller told The Times that he never saw it that way.
“I think it could have happened 20 years ago because I haven’t changed,” he said. “It’s who I have always been.”
The 85-year-old minister, who became the pivotal unifying force in the bankruptcy sale, said he has always respected the Roman Catholic faith and considers it the “mother church.” Schuller also said he drew inspiration for his “Hour of Power” from Catholic Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, whose own popular TV show in the 1950s paved the way.
“The Roman Catholic Church isn’t going to change its theologies,” Schuller said. “I trust them.”
Still, Brown’s tenacious pursuit of one of the most recognizable Protestant symbols surprised many, even Brown himself, who said the idea “never crossed my mind” until several lay advisors approached him. After all, he had long planned to build a cathedral in Santa Ana for an estimated $200 million in response to the booming Catholic population. He even hired an architect last year.
But he quickly saw the bankruptcy as a chance to fulfill his dream in a different way and began a bidding war for the church property with Chapman University.
In the final 24 hours, Brown said that even he thought “it was all over.” Then Schuller, who had won over millions of believers through his credo of “possibility thinking,” told the court he could not abide the thought that Chapman might someday use the cathedral for nonreligious purposes. The deal was struck.
Diocesan officials were elated, with one attorney calling it a miracle. As Brown put it, “ecumenism has got a shot in the arm.”
The acquisition unquestionably raises the profile of the nation’s 10th-largest Roman Catholic diocese and could help it emerge from the shadow of the Los Angeles Archdiocese.
“It was a tactical decision,” said Father Thomas Rausch, a professor of Catholic theology at Loyola Marymount University. “Here’s this beautiful church with a rich history in Orange County and an identity that’s already established. It’s a bargain for the local church.”
It was a bittersweet victory, though, because Brown knew it marked the end of an era for Schuller’s world-famous Crystal Cathedral Ministries, which has three years to vacate under terms of the deal, whereupon the Catholic diocese will use the campus.
Sheila Schuller Coleman, the founder’s daughter, is senior pastor and continues to preach “possibility thinking,” though the philosophy has not brought the $50 million in donations that could have staved off a sale.
“There’s plenty of time for God to perform a miracle,” she told congregants on a recent Sunday. At the front of the church, a table was set up with sign-up sheets for a “miracle” prayer drive.
Congregant Jillian Carter of Torrance said she still holds out hope.
“I feel like it’s not over until it’s over. Anything can happen,” she said. “This place has its trademark. Nobody can take that.”
That trademark is exactly what appealed to the diocese.
When Brown succeeded Bishop Norman McFarland in 1998, there were 600,000 Catholics in Orange County. There are now 1.2 million. That growth can be seen on almost any Sunday. For many parishes, the norm is standing-room-only turnout for Mass; at others, the Sunday crowds spill out the doors. Mass is said in 10 languages, including Vietnamese, Polish, Mandarin, Korean, Indonesian and Spanish.
During Brown’s tenure, he dedicated nine churches, bringing the diocese total to 57. He also appointed Latinos and women to key positions and gave a new parish a Vietnamese name, Our Lady of La Vang, a first for a Catholic church in Southern California.
But he never lost sight of building a cathedral, first announcing plans in 2001.
Barbara Nelson, executive director of a Santa Ana shelter for pregnant teenagers, remembers working on the capital campaign for the cathedral from 2000 to 2002. Brown went to her office days before the formal kickoff, she said, and told her it was “inappropriate” to move forward given the clergy sex-abuse scandal that was facing the diocese.
“We had the brochures printed and everything,” she said.
The scandal became his priority.
In January 2004, Brown nailed a “Covenant with the Faithful” to the doors of Holy Family Cathedral, a seven-point promise to heal wounds and foster trust within the diocese.
One year later, he became the first bishop to settle all of the abuse cases in his diocese with a landmark $100-million payout to 87 claimants, an average of $1.1 million per plaintiff. The decision not to go to trial placed Brown as a leader in the settlement movement; he also allowed sealed personnel files to go public.
That same year, he established Christ Our Savior parish and deemed it the site of the future cathedral.
But in 2007, Brown found himself under fire.
As part of a separate sex abuse lawsuit, Brown had been deposed. Although diocesan attorneys moved to seal that testimony, the judge allowed it to be read in court.
In it, Brown acknowledged that years before, he allowed a priest accused of raping a 15-year-old girl to work at a parish with an elementary school. “A lot of bishops, including myself, were not fully aware of the seriousness of the problem in terms of putting other people at risk,” Brown testified.
The deposition also revealed that Brown had been accused of molesting a boy early in his priesthood. Brown denied the allegation when it was lodged in 1997. An internal investigation determined the complaint to be baseless.
The lawsuit and three others facing the diocese were quickly settled for $6.8 million. But Brown then faced contempt of court proceedings, accused of violating the judge’s orders for allowing a church official who was to testify to leave the country. The citation was later dropped as part of the settlement.
Through it all, Christ Our Savior, the expected future home of a new cathedral, flourished. The parish once celebrated Mass in a multipurpose room. Now, five Sunday services are held in large modular units resting on concrete slabs. The parish will go on, just not with a grand cathedral.
“I am a little disappointed because I was going to be part of the parish that would be the new cathedral,” Nelson said. “But on the other side of the equation, it makes so much sense.”
Jeff Urbaniec, chairman of the Diocesan Council and a member of the Pastoral Council for Christ Our Savior, sees possibilities.
“I think, over time there’s been a sense of opening up to the idea that we perhaps have a lot more in common than perhaps we realize,” he said. “I think we could have a coming together of different faiths and a better understanding of each other.”
Not everyone is happy, though.
Amin David, who owns a plumbing supply company in Anaheim, said his family is “disquieted” by the money involved.
Almost two years ago, David’s grandson had to switch middle schools because the school at Saint Anthony Claret in Anaheim had closed, he said. And St. Boniface, also in Anaheim, closed its school in 2006.
“This is not the right time to be making these huge outlays,” David said. “It just doesn’t sit well with my family. We don’t remember being asked what we think about it.”
Mark Buckles, a parishioner at Holy Family, is among those who wanted a cathedral built from the “ground up,” as he put it.
And making the Crystal Cathedral iconic for the Catholic community won’t be easy, he said.
“It will be up to the new bishop to make this a reality,” said Buckles, 60. “Winning the bid was the easy part.”
Father Al Baca, Brown’s chief ecumenical officer, said Christian leaders — including Orange County-based evangelist Rick Warren — praised the deal, and were praying for it to go through.
“These are the kind of things that maybe 25 years ago would have been impossible,” he said.
Brown doesn’t disagree.
“This was an incredible surprise,” he said. “For us, it was certainly the work of a minor miracle.”
As for Schuller, what he built in Garden Grove is not about him, he said, but about faith.
“I know when I called it the Crystal Cathedral, they said it’s not a cathedral. And I said, ‘not yet.’ It wasn’t yet, but it has become one.”
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Composite concrete/profiled steel sheet slabs are a popular form of construction for suspended floor slabs, as they are simple and economical to design and construct. Generally they are found to be satisfactory in service. However, visible cracking is one aspect that occasionally causes problems and complaints from building occupiers. As the majority of composite floors are covered (by finishes, flooring or a raised computer floor) cracking is generally not readily visible. Sometimes the floor use dictates that the surface of the composite slab is left uncovered, e.g. power trowelled floor finishes. It is on exposed floors that cracking can be an issue.
The Concrete Society document Advice 13 Cracking in composite concrete/metal decking floor slabs outlines the causes of the cracking and steps that could be taken to control or minimise it.
Acknowledgement: Concrete Society
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The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) wrote the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) on June 24 regarding the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ December 18 decision that the USFS lacked the authority to grant a right-of-way for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) to cross the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (ANST). The SELC letter follows an April 30 communication from USFS to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC (ACP, LLC) asking the company if it would like the USFS to “renew is consideration of the right-a-way application for the ACP.” The company responded in the affirmative.
The SELC letter points out that:
“(1) the Cowpasture decision does not affect the Forest Service’s other management authorities for the ANST;
“(2) reasonable off-forest alternatives exist for the ACP to cross the ANST; and
“(3) while the Forest Service has never before and cannot now issue a new gas pipeline right-of-way across the ANST, options exist for new pipelines to be built in the eastern United States, and existing pipelines are unaffected by the Cowpasture decision.”
SELC further explains to USFS:
- “We have examined every existing crossing of the ANST by an oil or gas pipeline and confirmed that the Forest Service has never before granted a new right-of-way for an oil or gas pipeline to cross the ANST where it traverses a national forest, until it did so for the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines.”
- “Of the pipelines that do cross the Appalachian Trail on federally-owned land, nearly all existed before the creation of the Appalachian Trail or before the land was acquired by the federal government. The Mineral Leasing Act applies only to the initial grant of a right-of-way or the renewal of temporary rights-of-way for oil and gas pipelines. See 30 U.S.C. § 185(a), (q). Permanent rights-of-way granted before the creation of the ANST as land in the National Park System are unaffected by the Cowpasture decision because they require no new authorization under the Mineral Leasing Act. Similarly, the federal government took ownership subject to any property rights for permanent rights-of-way that existed prior to federal acquisition; such property rights do not require renewal under the Mineral Leasing Act and are unaffected by the Cowpasture decision.” | <urn:uuid:bbf8c157-06cd-4e4e-a6c5-cc2f57ec1376> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abralliance.org/2019/06/28/selc-comments-to-forest-service-on-appalachian-trail-issue/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.930246 | 520 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Hathaway line removal could greatly boost cost
Majka: Reserves in water funds will cover costs
PANAMA CITY — The county is facing an unexpected multimillion-dollar repair or replacement of a leaking water main, but officials said Wednesday that customers’ water bills are not expected to increase to fund it.
A steady leak in the county’s utility system recently was detected in a pipe encased beneath the Hathaway Bridge. The Florida Department of Transportation has advised the county to replace the pipes with a submerged line beneath St. Andrew Bay, at an estimated cost of $7 million to $8 million.
However, County Manager Bob Majka said Wednesday the work will be funded through the county’s wholesale water system, which comes from water bill proceeds and has enough in reserves to cover the costs.
“At this time, we don’t anticipate wholesale rates going up,” Majka said. “Part of the (water) rate contemplates planning for events like this.”
He said the county also might consider borrowing money to pay for the line so as not to dip too far into reserves.
The county’s wholesale water is purchased by cities throughout Bay County, including Panama City Beach, and by retail customers. The damaged Hathaway line, which serves the eastern portion of the Beach, is one of the city’s two primary lines.
FDOT officials have told the county the leaking line must be removed from the bridge and relocated subaqueously because should a catastrophic break in the line occur, it could harm the structural integrity of the bridge.
“Anyone who has had a leak in their home knows how it can cause damage to a home,” said Ian Satter, FDOT spokesman. “It’s the same thing if there is a large-scale break in the water pipe in the bridge. We want to make sure we’re protecting the traveling public.”
County officials estimate the installation of the submerged line will cost the utility system $7 million to $8 million, but the actual dollar amount won’t be known until a firm is hired and designs the project.
Three of five commissioners on Tuesday concurred that they would pursue a design-build process in which one firm oversees the project from start to finish. The county is putting out a “request for qualifications” this week for firms interested in handling the job.
Before 2003, the water line to Panama City Beach hung on the side of the old Hathaway Bridge. When FDOT built the new bridge in 2003, its design had the lines encased in box girders under the westbound lanes.
Satter said the agency was contemplating possible water line repairs when the line was designed, and many parts were put inside the bridge to make repairs if needed. But the part needed for this fix — an expansion joint — was not one of the them.
State guidelines no longer allow lines to be encased inside bridges, and Satter said the current problems on the Hathaway are one example of why.
And just shutting off the main water line inside the bridge when the new underwater line is done isn’t enough, “Because a pipe inside is having an effect on bridge’s natural ability to expand and contract, which could lead to damage to the bridge,” Satter said. “That’s why we’re requesting (removal of the pipe). It could become an issue if it’s allowed to remain in the structure.”
That removal could add significantly to the project costs, forcing the county to hire a contractor to cut the water main into pieces and pull them out through a door into the area where the pipe is located.
Majka said it would be a major project.
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Issues such as the economy's health and the government's ability to produce an environment where jobs are available are not of particular concern to us as voters, asserts Aakar Patel.
Another Budget has come and gone and for a couple of days we have seen and read what people have to say about the economy.
Much of this is limited to two things.
The first is the government's taxing and spending and its deficits.
And the second on what sops and subsidies have been given.
This is, of course, what the Budget is for and it is what is expected.
The curious thing is that the economy does not appear to be a relevant subject in India's political debate.
It is not a part of the electoral debate.
We can go a step further and say that a lack of economic performance and inability to deliver growth does not harm the ruling party.
This is not a new phenomenon and we can observe that for decades we had low economic growth, what was called the 'Hindu rate of growth' under Nehru and Indira Gandhi, of about 3 per cent.
Despite this they and their parties remained popular and remained in office.
A related phenomenon is about jobs. India has, according to the government's own data, the lowest labour participation rate in South Asia and one of the lowest in the world.
This refers to those people over 15 who are working or looking for work.
In the United States, this rate is 60 per cent, in Thailand around 70 per cent and in China and Vietnam around 75 per cent.
In India it is 40 per cent, lower than Pakistan and even Afghanistan.
The theory is that people have stopped looking for jobs because they are impossible to find.
MNREGA is today 4 times the size it was in 2004 and yet demand for it is unmet because the government has no money.
Though fewer people are in the labour market, the number of the unemployed (those who are looking for work but cannot find it) reached a record of 6 per cent in 2018 according to the government and has not fallen below this rate since.
This problem of jobs has gone along with the softening of the economy.
Once again, we only need to see the government's own data here also.
GDP growth began to decline from January 2018 and fell sequentially for 2 years and 3 months before the pandemic.
And then the pandemic produced a recession. This year's high growth rate will only take us back to where we were two years ago.
Taken together, we can see that India's economy and its capacity to give its people work has been in trouble for a long time.
But this is not a part of our political debate and there is no pressure on the ruling party to defend its record on this front.
It also appears that it is not easy for the Opposition to mobilise people around these two issues of economic failure and mass unemployment.
The mobilisation that has happened on this was spontaneous, such as the Patidar andolan for jobs a few years ago and what is currently happening with Railways recruitment in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
The Opposition wants to take the debate away from Hindu-Muslim and such things towards the economy and jobs, but is unable to.
The question is why. One answer could be, as Ravish Kumar the news anchor has suggested, that the media chooses not to cover these issues.
He has said that if the media would focus on jobs for two weeks in a row, the government would give in to the demands of those on the street.
Perhaps this is so. But in today's era, with social media, one does not require the mainstream media to the extent one did 15 years ago and so it is unlikely that this is being kept suppressed by a lack of attention from the media.
The answer to the question appears to lie in something deeper.
It seems that broad issues such as the economy's health and competent management and the ability of the government to produce an environment where jobs are available are not of particular concern to us as voters.
If important, they are less so than other things, like more temples and stopping young women wearing hijab from entering college as we are doing in Karnataka, and more statues.
When some of us who are directly affected by this economic crisis are mobilised as happened under Hardik Patel in Gujarat or as is happening for the railway recruitment now, then there is some activity on the ground.
But for the most part our popular politics appears to exclude issues that are crucial in many other democracies, especially those of the west.
Things that make or break leaders and parties and which are the constant subject of daily debate and concern are not of importance in our India.
We can reflect on what that means about us as voters and us as a nation, and also, if this continues, where we will find ourselves as we enter the Amritkaal of our democracy.
Aakar Patel is a columnist and writer and you can read Aakar's earlier columns here.
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CHAMBERSBURG - At least one expert said it's possible some Franklin Countians could contract the Zika virus this summer - with elderly and those with weakened immune systems most at risk.
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Donna Scherer, Penn State Extension educator, told county commissioners Tuesday that 80 percent of the population are healthy enough that their immune systems can defeat the virus. The other 20 percent most at danger for infection are the elderly, children up to 10 years old and those with weakened or compromised immune systems.
Symptoms include fever, joint pain, rash, and conjunctivitis. Those symptoms may not show up for a week.
After Scherer's presentation Tuesday, Franklin County Commissioners David S. Keller, Robert L. Thomas and Robert G. Ziobrowski indicated the county is ready for the possibility of Zika.
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The Start of Modern Travel Writing
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From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the author – who is also her great great great grandfather.
Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 1840s he whisked his family away to live in Italy for year, and spent several months in Switzerland. Some years later he took up residence in Paris and Boulogne (where he lived in secret with his lover). In addition to travelling widely in Europe, he also toured America twice, performed onstage in Canada and, before his untimely death, was planning a tour of Australia.
Dickens and Travel enters into the world of the Victorian traveller and looks at how Charles Dickens’s journeys influenced his writing and enriched his life.
Dickens’ travels around the British Isles, Europe and America arranged by place and mostly chronologically. Lots of excerpts of his writing from his nonfiction, novels and letters are included making this an enjoyable read for any Dickens fan.NetGalley, Janelle Womsley
Rating: 5 out of 5 starsNetGalley, Brenda Carleton
Beloved writer Charles Dickens was passionate about travel and gleaned inspiration from his travels for his books, many of which are mentioned here. He is...and always will be...a favourite author of mine so it was an honour to learn more about his life through his own eyes with many excerpts from letters and his travel books Pictures from Italy, American Notes and Uncommercial Traveler. He was an advocate for the rights of children and abhorred slavery and executions. His firsthand experience as a child living in a debtor's prison and forced to provide for the family by working at the age of twelve contributed greatly to his writing.
Dickens enjoyed traveling with his wife Catherine and their children, with friends and alone. His family even lived in various places in Europe to become immersed in the culture and to learn more about life. As an ex pat, I understand this very well...travel is unlike any other education and I have had the fortune to visit so many of the places Dickens did. He wrote about his love for Paris, kindness of Canadians, disgust for slavery in Richmond in America, extols free education in Cincinnati, pure magic of Venice, his dislike of Naples which he called "dirty", gradually falling in love with Rome, pride of his wife's Scottish heritage, his fondness of Brighton and despair of abusive boarding school such as that at Barnard Castle.
Not only did Dickens write about experiencing different cultures but also the oft harrowing physical journeys themselves including train accidents, horse/carriage travails, seasickness and a ship without beds. He wrote beautifully and with wit and always captured the emotions and feeling of a place in his words. He also traveled to give public talks. I would have been at the edge of my seat in awe! If only he had lived longer than only 58 years.
This magnificent book written by Dickens' great, great, great granddaughter, also a traveler, is an absolute must for fans of Charles Dickens. I learned more about his magnetic character and compassionate personality as well as his childhood, adventures as a journalist, family life and his marriage breakdown.
My sincere thank you to Pen & Sword and NetGalley for the privilege of reading this beguiling, astonishing and engrossing book.
As featured in the article: 'From Paris to Pompeii: How Dickens and his family viewed the world on their own grand tour.'The Sunday Times (Dundee)
Rating: 5 out of 5 starsNetGalley, Nancy A. Bekofske
Travel writer and great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, Lucinda Hawksley has written about her illustrious ancestor, including Dickens and Christmas. Her newest book explores Dickens as a travel writer. “Almost everywhere I have travelled,” she shares, “I have discovered a connection with my great-great-great grandfather.”
It’s been perhaps forty years since I read a biography on Dicken, and I had no recollection of his extensive travels across Europe. I was aware of his visits to America. I will admit, I have not read ALL of Dickens’ books, although a complete set has been on my shelf for almost fifty years. I was surprised to learn how many of his books reflect his experience abroad.
When depression hit him, his wanderlust inspired him to go abroad, not only on tours but to take up residence for a lengthy time in Italy and Paris. Hawksley draws from Dickens’ letters, articles, and books to provide quotes about his experiences. I loved reading them, enjoying Dickens’ humor and vivid descriptions.
Dickens traveling began in England when he was a journalist seeking to cover stories, “adrenaline-fueled travels,” Hawskely calls them. “Belated on miry by-roads, towards the small hours, forty or fifty miles from Long, in a wheelless carriage, with exhausted horses and drunken postboys,” Dickens wrote, arriving in time to turn in his story to the printers. The roads were muddy and rough, the countryside held robbers. His experiences informs The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
What a prodigious walker Dickens was! Day-long walks in all kinds of weather. Consider Dickens’ description of one day in Scotland: “To-day we have had a journey of between 50 and 60 miles, though the bleakest and most desolate part of Scotland, where the hill-tops are still covered with great patches of snow, and the road winds over steep mountain-passes, and on the brink of deep brooks and precipices.” Another day it took four hours to walk sixteen miles in a gale, his wife Catherine’s timely removal from the carriage coming before it was caught up in a flood.
Everywhere he went, Dickens toured the prisons and noted the conditions of the poorest neighborhoods. He was particularly appalled by slavery. Southerners persisted in asking him his feelings about their ‘domestic institution,’ and he told them what he thought. He didn’t finish his American tour, turning back North.
“Party feeling runs high,” he wrote about 1842 America, “the great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly the acrimony of the last election is over, the acrimony of the next one begins…” (Some things never change!)
One American custom that disgusted him was spitting. He describes floors slick with it, “the stone floor looks as if it were paved with open oysters.”
Dickens met many American writers, including a young Edgar Allan Poe, who was inspired by Dicken’s pet raven Grip when he wrote his famous poem The Raven. Grip ended up in the Philadelphia Free Library! In Washington D. C. he dined with John Quincy Adams, noting that “Adams is a fine old fellow-seventy-six years old, but with most surprising vigor, memory, readiness, and pluck.” He felt sympathy for the Native Americans, reduced to assimilation for survival, and he was appalled by the destruction of the country’s primal forests.
Dickens wrote, “Canada has held, and always will retain, a foremost place in my remembrance.”
Lengthy quotations from Dickens on Italy describes its beauty and the discomfort: “…but in the day you must keep the lattice-blinds close shut, or the sun would drive you mad; and when the sun goes down you must shut up all the windows or the mosquitoes would tempt you to commit suicide.” He also noted “the fleas, whose size is prodigious, and whose name is Legion, and who populate the coach-house to the extent that I daily expect to see the carriage going off bodily, drawn by myriads of industrious fleas in harness.”
He especially loved Paris, France, “the most extraordinary place in the world.” He met Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas, and George Sand. He reveled in his fame, while Catherine became more unhappy. They had been happy for many years, but after many children, and becoming stout, she was losing him. Dickens fell in love with actress Ellen Ternan, who was his daughter’s age. Catherine moved out, and Dickens set Ellen up in an apartment with her mother.
He made a second trip to America to raise money, but his health was poor during this time, with a cough and a swollen foot, unable to sleep or eat, dependent on laudanum. His hoped for trip to Australia and New Zealand never happened; Dickens died at age 58.
I so enjoyed this book and I have to wonder why I never read his travel books. It is something to look forward to.
Rating: 5 out of 5 starsNetGalley, Michelle Kidwell
Written by a descendant of Charles Dickens, his Great Great granddaughter Lucinda Hawksley, Dickens and Travels gives us a unique glimpse not only of his travels, but how Dickens helped to shape the modern age of travel writing.
9th June 1870
Author Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, aged only fifty-eight. He wrote fifteen novels between 1836 and 1870, including some of the most famous works in the English language, such as Oliver Twist and the novella A Christmas Carol.
Few writers have had a greater impact upon British society than Charles Dickens. His stories, and, in particular, his many memorable characters, highlighted the life of the forgotten poor and disadvantaged within society at a time when Britain was the leading economic and political power in the world. Dickens’ portrayal of the poor, such as Oliver Twist daring to ask for more food in the parish workhouse, and Bob Cratchit struggling to provide for his family at Christmas, roused much sympathy and an understanding of the poor and the conditions in which they lived. This led to many people founding…By Paul Kendall
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Mustered out: June 25, 1865
The following is taken from New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. Frederick Phisterer. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1912.
Colonel Richard Franchot received authority, July 19, 1862, to recruit this regiment in the counties of Herkimer and Otsego. It was organized at Herkimer, and there mustered in the service of the United States for three years August 13, 1862. The three years' men of the 18th Infantry were transferred to it May 10th, those of the 27th, 31st, 16th and 32d Infantry May 215, 26, 30 and 25, 1863, respectively. The men not to be discharged with the regiment were, June 25, 1865, transferred to the 65th Infantry.
The companies were recruited principally: A at Manheim, Little Falls, Salisbury and Danube; B at Winfield, Plainfield, Litchfield, German Flats, Columbia and Stark; C at Fairfield, Russia, Herkimer and Newport; D at Frankfort, Warren, Manheim, Schuyler, Columbia and Salisbury; E at Middlefield, Milford, Cherry Valley, Hartwick, Springfield, Otego and Roseboom; F at Edmeston, Exeter, Unadilla, Otego and Maryland; G at Cherry Valley, Roseboom, Decatur, Middlefield, Westford, Worcester and Herkimer; H at Little Falls, Richfield, Salisbury and Otego; I at Milford, Laurens, Morris, Worcester, Pittsfield, Hartwick and German Flats; and K at Laurens, New Lisbon, Oneonta, Burlington, Otego, Butternuts, Pittsfield and Plainfield.
The regiment left the State September 2, 1862; it served in the 2d Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Corps, from September 9, 1862, and it was mustered out and honorably discharged, under Col. Egbert Olcott, June 25, 1865, at Hall's Hill, Va.; having, during its service, lost by death, killed in action, 10 officers, 171 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 5 officers, 42 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 4 officers, 114 enlisted men; total, 19 officers, 327 enlisted men; aggregate, 346; of whom 20 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy.
The following is taken from The Union army: a history of military affairs in the loyal states, 1861-65 -- records of the regiments in the Union army -- cyclopedia of battles -- memoirs of commanders and soldiers. Madison, WI: Federal Pub. Co., 1908. volume II.
One Hundred and Twenty-first Infantry.—Cols., Richard Fran-chot, Emory Upton, Egbert Olcott; Lieut.-Cols., Charles H. Clark, Egbert Olcott, Henry M. Galpin, James W. Cronkhite, John S. Kidder; Majs., Egbert Olcott, Andrew E. Mather, Henry M. Gal-pin, James W. Cronkhite, John S. Kidder. This regiment, recruited in the counties of Otsego and Herkimer, rendezvoused at Her-kimer and was there mustered into the U. S. service for three years on Aug. 23, 1862, and in May, 1863, the three years men of the 18th, 27th, 31st, 16th and 32nd N. Y. infantry were transferred to it. The regiment left the state Sept. 2, 1862, and was immedj-ately assigned to the 2nd (Bartlett's) brigade, 1st (Brooks') division, 6th corps, with which command it continued during its entire term of service. It joined McClellan's army in Maryland and was present but not active at the battle of Crampton's gap. The 6th corps was only partially engaged at the battle of Fredericksburg, though the 121st lost a few killed and wounded by the artillery fire to which it was exposed. The regiment fought with great gallantry and was exposed to a deadly musketry fire at Salem Church, Va., where it lost 48 killed, 173 wounded and 55 missing, out of 453 officially reported as present. All except 23 of those reported missing were killed, and the loss was the greatest sustained by any regiment in the battle. Col. Franchot resigned in Sept., 1862, and under his successor Col. Upton, an unusually efficient officer, •the excellent material of the regiment was molded into a finely disciplined organization. Col. Upton was promoted to Bvt. brigadier-general in Oct., 1864, and achieved an enviable reputation in the war. The regiment was in reserve at Gettysburg and was not again engaged with loss until the 6th corps returned to Virginia, when it lost 25 killed and wounded- at the battle of Rappahannock Station in Nov., 1863. It was not heavily engaged during the Mine Run campaign, at the close of which it went into winter quarters at Brandy Station. In May, 1864, the regiment moved on the bloody campaign of Gen. Grant, crossing the Rapidan on the 5th, and plunging into the sanguinary struggle of the Wilderness, where it lost 73 in killed, wounded and missing. In the battle of Spottsylvania Col. Upton commanded and led in person an assaulting column of twelve picked regiments belonging to the 6th corps, the 121st being placed in the advance, an honor which cost it dear. The losses of the regiment at Spottsylvania amounted to 19 Killed, 106 wounded. In the magnificent charge of Upton's storming party, the strong works of the enemy were carried after a hand-to-hand struggle. Said Gen. Upton in a private letter: Bayonet wounds and sabre cuts are very rare. But at Spottsylvania there were plenty of bayonet wounds, and no picture could give too exalted an idea of the gallantry of the 121st N. Y., 5th Me., and 96th Pa., as they led the assaulting column of twelve picked regiments over the formidable intrenchments which con-'rpnted them." The regiment was successively engaged at North Anna, Totopotomy, Cold Harbor, the first assaults on Petersburg, and the Weldon railroad. When Early menaced Washington in July, the veterans of the 6th corps were ordered there to confront him, and the 121st was engaged at Fort Stevens with a loss of 26 in killed, wounded and missing. It followed with the corps in pursuit of Early through Maryland, into Virginia, and up the Shenan-loah Valley, fighting at Charlestown, the Opequan, Fisher's hill, and Cedar creek, its loss in the last named battle amounting to 10 killed, 42 wounded and 5 missing. The 1st division was command-:d by Gen. Wright at the Wilderness; by Gen. Russell at the Ope-juan; and by Gen. Wheaton at Cedar creek. In Dec., 1864, the regiment returned to the Petersburg trenches and established win-:er quarters near the Weldon railroad. It took a prominent part in the final assault on the fortifications of Petersburg, April 2, 1865, and in the hot pursuit of Lee's army, during which it lost 34 killed and wounded, and fought its last battle at Sailor's creek. The egiment captured 4 flags at Rappahannock Station and 2 at Sail-or's creek. It was mustered out at Hall's hill, Va., under Col. Ol-cott, June 25, 1865. It took part in 25 great battles, and gloriously earned its title as an efficient and dashing fighting regiment. Its total enrollment during service was 1,897, of whom 14 officers and 212 enlisted men were killed and mortally wounded; 4 officers and 17 enlisted men, died of disease and other causes. Its total of 126 killed is 11.9 per cent. of its membership, and its total of 839 killed and wounded was one of the largest sustained by any regiment.
121st Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry | National Color | Civil War
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"Chas Williams' book is as valid in Boston as in Nashville. Berklee is using the book to prepare students for the recording industry."
--Robert Stanton, Assistant Professor--Berklee College of Music
"The Nashville Number System, by Chas Williams, is a book I really needed back in 1983 when I moved to Nashville for a recording career. I had to learn it bit by bit, trying to keep up. It can save you a lot of time and embarrassing moments."
"After looking through The Nashville Number System, it would be in my opinion, the most informative book for learning this system and being able to apply your own way of using this method."
"This book seems to be the definitive answer to those desiring to understand the Nashville Number System. In addition to a brief history of the system, the book details several versions exemplifying the variety of styles used. I highly recommend it for anyone involved or seeking to become involved in the Nashville music community."
The Nashville Number System is used as a textbook at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Belmont University in Nashville, MTSU in Middle Tennessee and other schools that are preparing students for a music career in Nashville.
Ring of Fire Review by Les Reynolds of indie-music.com:
Noted Nashville guitarist Chas Williams has released a masterpiece of instrumental guitar that is finely crafted and diverse enough to hold your interest through the whole CD. "Ring of Fire" is 10 instrumental works of art covering jazz, folk, rock, bluegrass, country and blues. Eight are originals while the title track is the famous Johnny Cash tune and "Gold Rush" is from the late Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe. Chas' treatment of each is excellent.
Chas plays all slide and dobro guitars with expertise and precision. And he shows his versatility in covering so many styles. This guitarist has toured with Maura O'Connell, Wynonna Judd and Nancy Griffith and is a sought-after studio musician. These tunes are evidence of just why that is.
Speaking of instruments, Chas is joined by an all-star ensemble of rhythm and keyboard players, but it's the guitars that really stand out. The bluegrass/country "Canterbury" starts things off with medium-tempo drumming and Chas leading the way with his dobro. He is so skillful that these tunes need ONLY the instrument(s) -- voices would actually subtract from this. And it's been said that slide guitar is about as close to human voice as a musical instrument can get. Chas proves that time and again throughout this CD. "Ring of Fire" is a full-out rousing rendition of a country/rock classic from one of music's legends. Chas keeps the true spirit of the song alive and kicking with skillful effects, pounding rhythm and smooth "dirty" electric slide guitar. These same elements are featured throughout the CD.
There are some jazz elements (among others), but the very best are the tunes centered around the dobro and electric slide. Which leads to the final tune "IMHO" (does that mean 'in my humble opinion'?). Anyway, this starts out with a wailing, gradual slide and rich electricity flowing all the way through. It's a gentle roar of a tune that reminds you of a dirt bike weaving and revving through dirt mounds, staying low and occasionally grabbing some serious air. | <urn:uuid:503f0562-ca92-41ed-affd-d476a10de31e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nashvillenumbersystem.com/what-people-are-saying/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.95263 | 728 | 1.585938 | 2 |
This article was first published in 2004.
Most multimeters can measure up to only 10 or -
more rarely - 20 amps of current flow. Pump 20 amps through a typical multimeter
and you'll get a blown fuse or maybe even a melted multimeter! But in many
automotive applications, even 20 amps is too little.
In fact, 10 amps at a running car voltage of 13.8
volts equals just 138 watts, while even 20 amps is only 276 watts. That means it can
be impossible to measure the current draw of all the lights with the headlight
high beam on, you cannot measure starter motor current draw or maximum
alternator charging, and the current flowing to a big car sound amp is also an
unknown. Add to this the fact that the circuit in which the current flow is
being measured always needs to be broken (ie the meter needs to be inserted into
the circuit) and the practical difficulties of measuring high currents become
However, there are devices available that allow
the no-pain measurement of currents up to hundreds of amps. The circuit doesn't
need to be broken and the meter won't get hot. It's also safe and easy. And what
are these devices called? - current clamps.
Many current clamps can measure AC currents only,
which is not useful in automotive applications. Those that measure DC (direct
current) do so by using a Hall Effect sensor to measure the strength of the
magnetic field produced in a ring of material that is temporarily placed around
the current-carrying wire. The greater the amount of current flowing in the
wire, the stronger the magnetic field that is produced in the ring. (Most
current clamps that can measure DC can also measure AC, using a different
technique where the clamp acts as part of a transformer.)
In addition to AC-only and AC/DC designs, current
clamps are available as standalone accessories or built into multimeters.
When the clamp is a standalone design, it outputs
a precise voltage per measured amp. For example, it might have an output of 1
millivolt per amp. This makes measuring the clamp's output easy - if the
multimeter shows a measurement of 5 millivolts on its voltage scale when
connected to the operating clamp, the current flowing in the wire is 5 amps. If
the voltage displayed on the multimeter is 100 millivolts, the current flowing
in the wire is 100 amps.
In designs where the clamp is built into a
multimeter, measuring the current flow is as easy as selecting 'current' on the
rotating selection knob of the meter. The value is then displayed in amps. Most
of these meters can measure both AC and DC.
All sound very expensive? It's not - a simple kit
for an AC/DC standalone current clamp is AUD$35 and multimeters with built-in
AC/DC clamps start at about AUD$160.
When using a current clamp its jaws are opened, the
clamp passed over the wire, and the jaws closed. The wire is then centred in the
opening and the measurement made. Note that it's the individual conductor that
is measured - not a cable containing both earth and power leads, for
Current clamps are not particularly good at
accurately measuring very small currents. This is so for two reasons - firstly,
if the output scale of the clamp is 1 millivolt per amp, a current flow of 0.5
amps is only 0.5 millivolts - a figure that is getting very low for many
multimeters to accurately measure.
Secondly, because of the influence of stray
magnetic fields, current clamps need to be zero'd before they can be used. That
is, a knob on the clamp first needs to be turned until the current reading is
zero - obviously, when there isn't any current flowing through a wire inside the
jaws! In normal use, the clamp is zero'd with the clamp away from the wire
that's to be measured. However, getting an absolutely precise zero can be a
fiddly and time-consuming job, especially if the meter has good measuring
resolution. Typically, the clamp might end up not being exactly zero'd, but
instead might be showing on the meter the equivalent output voltage of up to 0.3
amps before measurement begins. If - say - 75 amps is being measured, 0.3 amps
is a trivial amount. But it would be much more important in a measurement of
only 2 amps...
For these reasons, current clamps are usually used
for current measurements of about 5 amps and upwards. Note, though, that with
very careful use, a good current clamp can measure tenths of an amp.
Another negative is that most current clamps have
large jaws. This is so that firstly, they can be opened enough to slip over
large diameter wires, and secondly, the magnetic core is less permanently
magnetized by the current flows. The latter refers to the fact that in some
designs, the core itself can start to become magnetized, giving a wrong output.
(More on this in a moment.) Large diameter, specially constructed cores are less
susceptible to this. The negative is that large jaws can make the clamp awkward
to use in confined spaces.
So a current clamp probably won't replace the use
of a conventional multimeter in all current-measuring situations, but it will
allow the much easier and effective measurement of current on many
The Cheap Kit
The Australian electronics magazine Silicon
Chip has developed an AC/DC current clamp design which is available in kit
form (from retailers such as Jaycar Electronics - www.jaycar.com.au - where it's cat no
KC-5368) for about AUD$35. This is extremely cheap, but the kit does have some
Most importantly, because it uses a small magnetic
core that is not designed expressly for current clamp applications, the clamp
gets magnetised fairly fast. This has two outcomes. Firstly, the clamp needs to
be re-zero'd frequently and secondly, current cannot be monitored over a period,
as the reading will become more and more in error as time passes. When measuring
major current bursts (eg of a starter motor), the degree of magnetism is such
that the clamp assembly needs to be de-magnetised by being reversed in its
orientation on the wire and then having the same level of current pass through
However, if you need to use a current clamp just
occasionally for a one-off measurement, it's ideal.
If building the electronic kit, be careful of a
few points. Firstly, the Hall Effect leads are fragile where they enter the
sensor, so they should not be bent close to the body of the sensor.
Secondly, you may need to do some work with a hammer and a pair of pliers so
that the jaws of the clamp (a modified battery clamp) always self-align.
Finally, look carefully at how the PCB (printed circuit board) is mounted to the
box lid and position both the switch and the pot at appropriate heights to mount
the lid clear of the other components.
The specifications of this current clamp include a
maximum DC amperage of 150 amps (900 if the core is demagnetized afterwards) and
a resolution of 100 milliamps. However, our testing indicated that it would be
preferable to use the clamp only when measuring currents above about 5 amps. Its
output is 1 millivolt per amp.
The clamp adaptor has no indication of battery
strength - nor even that the adaptor is switched on - so it is wise to turn it
on only when it is being zero'd, make the measurement, then turn the adaptor off
immediately after that.
The Expensive Clamp
Fluke is one of the premier names in electronic
test equipment and as you'd expect, their i410 current clamp suffers from few of
the drawbacks of the DIY kit clamp. However, it is about tens times as
expensive! Its specifications include a current measurement range from 1- 400
amps (DC or AC) and an accuracy of plus/minus 3.5 per cent plus 0.5 amps.
It will work with any multimeter or as shown here,
with a Fluke Scopemeter which also allows logging of current trends and allows
the current waveform to be shown. Display devices that have the ability to
sample quickly and record peaks can show some interesting data - here the
recorded maximum reading is 0.32 kilo-amps - that's 320 amps. It was the peak
current drawn by the starter motor when the car was started....
If you're often frustrated by the highest current
reading that's possible on a normal multimeter, have a look at the option of a
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Returning to work is a goal that drives most survivors of brain injury through the long and difficult rehabilitation process. Yet when they finally achieve this goal, often they have difficulty adjusting to expectations of the workplace.
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The 2019 legislative session began on Monday, kicking off 45 days of debate on hundreds of proposed pieces of legislation. Legislative leaders cite a familiar list of priorities, including funding for education and efforts to improve air quality, health care costs and transportation.
But the session comes on the heels of a controversial move by lawmakers to replace a medical marijuana law, approved by popular vote, with a plan of their own making. And with two other ballot initiatives successfully added to the state code, supporters worry that Medicaid expansion and an independent redistricting commission could be the next to undergo major surgery in the Legislature.
On this week’s episode of “Trib Talk," House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City, and Senate Minority Leader Karen Mayne, D-West Valley City, join Benjamin Wood to discuss their hopes and expectations for this year’s legislative session. | <urn:uuid:857ffe85-77f6-425b-8bc4-9b11ce2645eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/01/30/trib-talk-utah-republican/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.937756 | 197 | 1.5 | 2 |
The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. March of Dimes was founded in 1938 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, but was originally known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The March of Dimes Mission is “To improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality.”
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, was created after World War II to provide emergency aid to children in Europe and Asia. Today, UNICEF works in more than 150 countries and territories—supported entirely with voluntary contributions. Across the globe, wherever vulnerable children are struggling to survive, UNICEF is there with medicine, vaccines, clean water, and nutrition. Whatever vital help struggling children need, UNICEF will supply. Over the years, UNICEF has saved more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organization in the world. The U.S. Fund for UNICEF supports UNICEF’s mission through education, advocacy, and fundraising in the United States.
THE TOMORROW FUND
Tomorrow Fund grants can help you take action. How? Identify projects your club would like to tackle on your campus or in your community. Then, apply for grant funds to support those service projects.
Grants by the Circle K International Board from the Tomorrow Fund must conform to the policies of Circle K International. Tomorrow Fund grants are granted only to CKI clubs and/or districts. The review committee may award up to, but not more than, the amount of interest earned off of the endowment available at the convening of the committee.
Clubs may request funding assistance from US$200 to US$2,000. The committee typically funds those clubs asking for a portion of the total cost of the project, and clubs that are working with other organizations to fund and complete the project.
Better World Books’ mission is to help break the cycle of poverty through education and literacy…one book at a time. Better World Books (BWB) is a for-profit social enterprise that collects used books and sells them online to raise money for literacy initiatives worldwide. They offer great bargains on books–over 6 million used and new titles, with free shipping anywhere in the U.S. and just $3.97 worldwide. Get up to 90 percent off used books and up to 30 percent off new books. Plus, CKI members receive an extra 10 percent discount.
STUDENTS TEAM UP TO FIGHT HUNGER (STUFH)
Students Team Up to Fight Hunger (STUFH) is dedicated to linking food banks with local colleges and universities for two purposes: to collect food for those who need it most and to raise awareness of these needs upon the local student population. The main focus of STUFH comes at the end of a school year, when students move out of apartments and dorms. Rather than discarding unopened non-perishable foodstuffs into trash bins as they leave, STUFH supplies food bins for students to donate these unwanted items. Since the program began in 1999 at Cornell University, more than 1 million pounds of foodstuffs have been raised for food banks to feed the hungry. It is the mission of STUFH to increase this gathering of food at college campuses throughout the country, which will link the hearts and souls of college students with their less fortunate hungry neighbors | <urn:uuid:262e4619-c6f5-423c-a3fe-53b5a19899cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://njcirclek.org/about/service-partners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.947923 | 710 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Canadian snowbirds who were lucky enough to escape property damage from hurricane Irma will still face higher costs as insurance providers jack up premiums and condo associations levy special assessments, say Florida insurance experts.
“We’re probably looking at across-the-board 15 to 20 per cent increase in property insurance costs over the next year,” says Brad Hubbard, the Tampa owner of an insurance agency and an engineering consulting firm specializing in flood risk.
He said the higher premiums could come from greater insurance losses and reinsurance companies determining there is a statistical increase in the risk that future storms will be more frequent and severe.
Hurricane Irma is expected to be one of the mostly costly storms in history with losses estimated at US$20 billion to US$65 billion, including up to US$50 billion in the U.S., according to risk modelling software company AIR Worldwide.
Additional insurance costs will be borne by all insured Florida homeowners, including the estimated 500,000 Canadians who own Florida properties.
Condo owners could also face special assessments if their building sustains heavy damage that isn’t fully covered by insurance or its policy has a high deductible.
“Your condo can be fine but at the end of the year you could receive a bill that says $3,500,” added Martin Rivard, an insurance broker in Boynton Beach originally from Shawinigan, Que.
The situation could be especially acute in areas like the Florida Keys, where 25 per cent of homes were destroyed by heavy winds and storm surge.
Rivard said he’s always amazed by homeowners — especially Canadians who purchased second residences when they were extremely cheap during the housing collapse — who decline to take out a policy because of the increased cost.
“I’m hoping that Irma was a wake-up call,” he said in an interview.
The average price of homeowner’s insurance in high-risk wind areas of Florida is US$2,055 or US$1,500 if you buy through Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, a state-run provider. Flood coverage premiums average US$450, providing coverage of $250,000 on the structure and $100,000 for the contents, says the Insurance Information Institute.
Canadians are eligible to buy homeowner’s insurance from Citizens Property Insurance and flooding insurance from the federal National Flood Insurance Programs. Only 16 per cent of Americans purchase flood insurance and less than 10 per cent have no insurance at all.
Canadians were eager to buy insurance after hurricane Andrew devastated southern Florida in 1992, but Rivard said the concern has waned because the state hasn’t experienced a big storm in about a decade.
Renee and Dino Picchioni are relieved their mobile home north of Tampa was spared because they didn’t carry any insurance.
“It’s too expensive to pay for insurance down there for four months out of the year,” Renee said from Windsor, Ont.
Since they don’t own the land where their mobile home is parked, the couple was prepared to walk away if the unit was destroyed.
Rivard expects many others will do the same if their insurance doesn’t cover repair costs.
Realtor Jass Tremblay of Marathon said most of the Canadian customers she knows in the Keys don’t have insurance. While people with a mortgage are required to have insurance that covers wind, they can roll the dice if they pay cash.
Tremblay, a Quebec City native, said she hopes those without coverage would have put money aside so they can face such a disaster.
“Some of them lost everything. They’re probably panicking,” Tremblay said from Deerfield Beach where she holed up during the storm.
Brent Leathwood, a realtor in Sarasota who is originally from Burlington, Ont., said about 80 per cent of his Canadian customers are fully insured even though tougher building codes after hurricane Andrew have helped to minimize damage.
“Canadians tend to be, I would say, sober and pragmatic in their assessments of things and they’re a little less inclined to take big, crazy risks like some of the people in the states are.”
Florida’s insurance system has been strengthened since hurricane Andrew as the number of people living in coastal areas surged 27 per cent between 2000 and 2015, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
“We feel that we’re in the best position we can be in at this time,” said Michael Peltier, spokesman for Florida’s public insurance provider.
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2 Saint Vital Avenue, St. Albert
Built in 1861, the Father Lacombe Chapel is Alberta’s oldest building and was at one time the centre of the French-speaking Métis settlement of St. Albert. Interpretive guides lead tours (available in English or French) through the chapel and the historic Mission Hill site and demonstrate activities and skills of the time. The site also includes the crypt where Father Lacombe, Bishop Grandin and Father Leduc are buried.
The chapel was built by Métis craftsmen using "post on sill" (or Red River frame) construction and served the community until 1870 when it was replaced by a larger church. The chapel survived, however, because it was reused for storage. In 1929 it was converted into the Father Lacombe Museum, and in 1977 it was declared a provincial historic site. In the early 1980s it was acquired by the Alberta government and moved to its present location on Mission Hill in St Albert.
Father Lacombe worked with just a few Métis men to build this little chapel when they arrived from Lac Ste. Anne in 1861. It is what is called “fur trade construction”, designed to be taken apart and moved as necessary. The post and sill building is made with slotted vertical posts into which the wall pieces were slipped, and then held together with wooden pegs. It took 10 days to build, has been moved twice and is now back in its original position on the hill, overlooking the Sturgeon River. | <urn:uuid:5843bfa5-63eb-4fba-a8ea-9c9e339d70a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.edmontonmapsheritage.ca/location/father-lacombe-chapel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.985431 | 314 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Civilization Without Religion?
Sobering voices tell us nowadays that the civilization in which we participate is not long for this world. Many countries have fallen under the domination of squalid oligarchs; other lands are reduced to anarchy. “Cultural revolution,” rejecting our patrimony of learning and manners, has done nearly as much mischief in the West as in the East, if less violently. Religious belief is attenuated at best, for many—or else converted, after being secularized, into an instrument for social transformation. Books give way to television and videos; universities, intellectually democratized, are sunk to the condition of centers for job certification. An increasing proportion of the population, in America especially, is dehumanized by addiction to narcotics and insane sexuality.
These afflictions are only some of the symptoms of social and personal disintegration. One has but to look at our half-ruined American cities, with their ghastly rates of murder and rape, to perceive that we moderns lack the moral imagination and the right reason required to maintain tolerable community. Writers in learned quarterlies or in daily syndicated columns use the terms “post-Christian era” or “post-modern epoch” to imply that we are breaking altogether with our cultural past, and are entering upon some new age of a bewildering character.
Some people, the militant secular humanists in particular, seem pleased by this prospect; but yesteryear’s meliorism is greatly weakened in most quarters. Even Marxist ideologues virtually have ceased to predict the approach of a Golden Age. To most observers, T. S. Eliot among them, it has seemed far more probable that we are stumbling into a new Dark Age, inhumane, merciless, a totalist political domination in which the life of spirit and the inquiring intellect will be denounced, harassed, and propagandized against: Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, rather than Huxley’s Brave New World of cloying sensuality. Or perhaps Tolkien’s blasted and servile land of Mordor may serve as symbol of the human condition in the twenty-first century (which, however, may not be called the twenty-first century, the tag anno Domini having been abolished as joined to one of the superstitions of the childhood of the race).
At the End of an Era
Some years ago I was sitting in the parlor of an ancient house in the close of York Minster. My host, Basil Smith, the Minster’s Treasurer then, a man of learning and of faith, said to me that we linger at the end of an era; soon the culture we have known will be swept into the dustbin of history. About us, as we talked in that medieval mansion, loomed Canon Smith’s tall bookcases lined with handsome volumes; his doxological clock chimed the half-hour musically; flames flared up in his fireplace. Was all this setting of culture, and much more besides, to vanish away as if the Evil Spirit had condemned it? Basil Smith is buried now, and so is much of the society he ornamented and tried to redeem. At the time I thought him too gloomy; but already a great deal that he foresaw has come to pass.
The final paragraph of Malcolm Muggeridge’s essay “The Great Liberal Death Wish” must suffice, the limits of my time with you considered, as a summing-up of the human predicament at the end of the twentieth century.
“As the astronauts soar into the vast eternities of space,” Muggeridge writes, “on earth the garbage piles higher; as the groves of academe extend their domain, their alumni’s arms reach lower; as the phallic cult spreads, so does impotence. In great wealth, great poverty; in health, sickness, in numbers, deception. Gorging, left hungry; sedated, left restless; telling all, hiding all; in flesh united, forever separate. So we press on through the valley of abundance that leads to the wasteland of satiety, passing through the gardens of fantasy; seeking happiness ever more ardently, and finding despair ever more surely.”
Just so. Such recent American ethical writers as Stanley Hauwerwas and Alasdair MacIntyre concur in Muggeridge’s verdict on the society of our time, concluding that nothing can be done, except for a remnant to gather in little “communities of character” while society slides toward its ruin. Over the past half-century, many other voices of reflective men and women have been heard to the same effect. Yet let us explore the question of whether a reinvigoration of our culture is conceivable.
Surprise Turning Points
Is the course of nations inevitable? Is there some fixed destiny for great states? In 1796, a dread year for Britain, old Edmund Burke declared that we cannot foresee the future; often the historical determinists are undone by the coming of events that nobody has predicted. At the very moment when some states “seemed plunged in unfathomable abysses of disgrace and disaster,” Burke wrote in his First Letter on a Regicide Peace, “they have suddenly emerged. They have begun a new course, and opened a new reckoning; and even in the depths of their calamity, and on the very ruins of their country, have laid the foundations of a towering and durable greatness. All this has happened without any apparent previous change in the general circumstances which had brought on their distress. The death of a man at a critical juncture, his disgust, his retreat, his disgrace, have brought innumerable calamities on a whole nation. A common soldier, a child, a girl at the door of an inn, have changed the face of fortune, and almost of Nature.”
The “common solider” to whom Burke refers is Arnold of Winkelreid, who flung himself upon the Austrian spears to save his country; the child is the young Hannibal, told by his father to wage ruthless war upon Rome; the girl at the door of an inn is Joan of Arc. We do not know why such abrupt reversals or advances occur, Burke remarks; perhaps they are indeed the work of Providence.
“Nothing is, but thinking makes it so,” the old adage runs. If most folk come to believe that our culture must collapse—why, then collapse it will. Yet Burke, after all, was right in that dreadful year of 1796. For despite the overwhelming power of the French revolutionary movement in that year, in the long run Britain defeated her adversaries, and after the year 1812 Britain emerged from her years of adversity to the height of her power. Is it conceivable that American civilization, and in general what we call “Western civilization,” may recover from the Time of Troubles that commenced in 1914 (so Arnold Toynbee instructs us) and in the twenty-first century enter upon an Augustan age of peace and restored order?
To understand these words “civilization” and “culture,” the best book to read is T. S. Eliot’s slim volume Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, published forty-four years ago.
Once upon a time I commended that book to President Nixon, in a private discussion of modern disorders, as the one book which he ought to read for guidance in his high office. Man is the only creature possessing culture, as distinguished from instinct; and if culture is effaced, so is the distinction between man and the brutes that perish. “Art is man’s nature,” in Edmund Burke’s phrase; and if the human arts, or culture, cease to be, then human nature ceases to be.
From what source did humankind’s many cultures arise? Why, from cults. A cult is a joining together for worship—that is, the attempt of people to commune with a transcendent power. It is from association in the cult, the body of worshippers, that human community grows. This basic truth has been expounded in recent decades by such eminent historians as Christopher Dawson, Eric Voegelin, and Arnold Toynbee.
Once people are joined in a cult, cooperation in many other things becomes possible. Common defense, irrigation, systematic agriculture, architecture, the visual arts, music, the more intricate crafts, economic production and distribution, courts and government—all these aspects of a culture arise gradually from the cult, the religious tie.
Out of little knots of worshippers, in Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, India, or China, there grew up simple cultures; for those joined by religion can dwell together and work together in relative peace. Presently such simple cultures may develop into intricate cultures, and those intricate cultures into great civilizations. American civilization of our era is rooted, strange though the fact may seem to us, in tiny knots of worshippers in Palestine, Greece and Italy, thousands of years ago. The enormous material achievements of our civilization have resulted, if remotely, from the spiritual insights of prophets and seers.
But suppose that the cult withers, with the elapse of centuries. What then of the culture that is rooted in the cult? What then of the civilization which is the culture’s grand manifestation? For an answer to such uneasy questions, we can turn to a twentieth-century parable. Here I think G. K. Chesterton’s observation that all life being an allegory, we can understand it only in parable.
Parable of the Future
The author of my parable, however, is not Chesterton, but a quite different writer, the late Robert Graves, whom I once visited in Mallorca. I have in mind Graves’ romance Seven Days in New Crete—published in America under the title Watch the North Wind Rise.
In that highly readable romance of a possible future, we are told that by the close of the “Late Christian epoch” the world will have fallen altogether, after a catastrophic war and devastation, under a collectivistic domination, a variant of communism. Religion, the moral imagination, and nearly everything that makes life worth living have been virtually extirpated by ideology and nuclear war. A system of thought and government called Logicalism, “pantisocratic economics divorced from any religious or national theory,” rules the world—for a brief time. In Grave’s words:
Logicalism, hinged on international science, ushered in a gloomy and anti-poetic age. It lasted only a generation or two and ended with a grand defeatism, a sense of perfect futility, that slowly crept over the directors and managers of the regime. The common man had triumphed over his spiritual betters at last, but what was to follow? To what could he look forward with either hope or fear? By the abolition of sovereign states and the disarming of even the police forces, war had become impossible. No one who cherished any religious beliefs whatever, or was interested in sport, poetry, or the arts, was allowed to hold a position of public responsibility. “Ice-cold logic” was the most valued civic quality, and those who could not pretend to it were held of no account. Science continued laboriously to expand its over-large corpus of information, and the subjects of research grew more and more beautifully remote and abstract; yet the scientific obsession, so strong at the beginning of the third millennium A.D., was on the wane. Logicalist officials who were neither defeatist nor secretly religious and who kept their noses to the grindstone from a sense of duty, fell prey to colobromania, a mental disturbance. . . .
Rates of abortion and infanticide, of suicide, and other indices of social boredom rise with terrifying speed under this Logicalist regime. Gangs of young people go about robbing, beating and murdering, for the sake of excitement. It appears that the human race will become extinct if such tendencies continue; for men and women find life not worth living under such a domination. The deeper longings of humanity have been outraged, so that the soul and the state stagger on the verge of final darkness. But in this crisis an Israeli Sophocrat writes a book called A Critique of Utopias, in which he examines seventy Utopian writings, from Plato to Aldous Huxley. “We must retrace our steps,” he concludes, “or perish.” Only by the resurrection of religious faith, the Sophocrats discover, can mankind be kept from total destruction; and that religion, as Graves described it in his romance, springs from the primitive soil of myth and symbol.
Graves really is writing about our own age, not of some remote future: of life in today’s United States and today’s Soviet Union. He is saying that culture arises from the cult; and that when belief in the cult has been wretchedly enfeebled, the culture will decay swiftly. The material order rests upon the spiritual order.
So it has come to pass, here in the closing years of the twentieth century. With the weakening of the moral order, “Things fall apart; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. . . .” The Hellenic and the Roman cultures went down to dusty death after this fashion. What may be done to achieve reinvigoration?
Some well-meaning folk talk of a “civil religion,” a kind of cult of patriotism, founded upon a myth of national virtue and upon veneration of certain historic documents, together with a utilitarian morality. But such experiments of a secular character never have functioned satisfactorily; and it scarcely is necessary for me to point out the perils of such an artificial creed, bound up with nationalism: the example of the ideology of the National Socialist Party in Germany, half a century ago, may suffice. Worship of the state, or of the national commonwealth, is no healthy substitute for communion with transcendent love and wisdom.
Nor can attempts at persuading people that religion is “useful” meet with much genuine success. No man sincerely goes down on his knees to the divine because he has been told that such rituals lead to the beneficial consequences of tolerably honest behavior in commerce. People will conform their actions to the precepts of religion only when they earnestly believe the doctrines of that religion to be true.
Still less can it suffice to assert that the Bible is an infallible authority on everything, literally interpreted, in defiance of the natural sciences and of other learned disciplines; to claim to have received private revelations from Jehovah; or to embrace some self-proclaimed mystic from the gorgeous East, whose teachings are patently absurd.
In short, the culture can be renewed only if the cult is renewed; and faith in divine power cannot be summoned up merely when that is found expedient. Faith no longer works wonders among us: one has but to glance at the typical church built nowadays, ugly and shoddy, to discern how architecture no longer is nurtured by the religious imagination. It is so in nearly all the works of twentieth-century civilization: the modern mind has been secularized so thoroughly that “culture” is assumed by most people to have no connection with the love of God.
How are we to account for this widespread decay of the religious impulse? It appears that the principal cause of the loss of the idea of the holy is the attitude called “scientism”—that is, the popular notion that the revelations of natural science, over the past century and a half or two centuries, somehow have proved that men and women are naked apes merely; that the ends of existence are production and consumption merely; that happiness is the gratification of sensual impulses; and that concepts of the resurrection of the flesh and the life everlasting are mere exploded superstitions. Upon these scientistic assumptions, public schooling in America is founded nowadays, implicitly.
This view of the human condition has been called—by C.S. Lewis, in particular—reductionism: it reduces human beings almost to mindlessness; it denies the existence of the soul. Reductionism has become almost an ideology. It is scientistic but not scientific: for it is a far cry from the understanding of matter and energy that one finds in the addresses of Nobel prize winners in physics, say.
Popular notions of “what science says” are archaic, reflecting the assertions of the scientists of the middle of the nineteenth century; such views are a world away from the writings of Stanley Jaki, the cosmologist and historian of science, who was awarded the Templeton Prize for progress in religion last year.
As Arthur Koestler remarks in his little book The Roots of Coincidence, yesterday’s scientific doctrines of materialism and mechanism ought to be buried now with a requiem of electronic music. Once more, in biology as in physics, the scientific disciplines enter upon the realm of mystery.
Yet the great public always suffers from the affliction called cultural lag. If most people continue to fancy that scientific theory of a century ago is the verdict of serious scientists today, will not the religious understanding of life continue to wither, and civilization continue to crumble?
Perhaps; but the future, I venture to remind you, is unknowable. Conceivably we may be given a Sign. Yet such an event is in the hand of God, if it is to occur at all; meanwhile some reflective people declare that our culture must be reanimated, by a great effort of will.
More than forty years ago, that remarkable historian Christopher Dawson, in his book Religion and Culture, expressed this hard truth strongly. “The events of the last few years,” Dawson wrote, “portend either the end of human history or a turning point in it. They have warned us in letters of fire that our civilization has been tried in the balance and found wanting—that there is an absolute limit to the progress than can be achieved by the perfectionment of scientific techniques detached from spiritual aims and moral values. . . . The recovery of moral control and the return to spiritual order have become the indispensable conditions of human survival. But they can be achieved only by a profound change in the spirit of modern civilization. This does not mean a new religion or a new culture but a movement of spiritual reintegration which would restore that vital relation between religion and culture which has existed at every age and on every level of human development.”
Amen to that. The alternative to such a successful endeavor, a conservative endeavor, to reinvigorate our culture would be a series of catastrophic events, the sort predicted by Pitirim Sorokin and other sociologists, which eventually might efface our present sensate culture and bring about a new ideational culture, the character of which we cannot even imagine. Such an ideational culture doubtless would have its religion: but it might be the worship of what has been called the Savage God.
Such ruin has occurred repeatedly in history. When the classical religion ceased to move hearts and minds, two millennia ago, thus the Graeco-Roman civilization went down to Avernus. As my little daughter Cecilia put it unprompted, some years ago looking at a picture book of Roman history, “And then, at the end of a long summer’s day, there came Death, Mud, Crud.”
Great civilizations have ended in slime. Outside the ancient city of York, where York Minister stands upon the site of the Roman praetorium, there lies a racecourse known as the Knavesmire. Here in medieval time were buried the knaves—the felons and paupers. When, a few years ago, the racecourse was being enlarged, the diggers came upon a Roman graveyard beneath, or in part abutting upon, the medieval burial ground. This appeared to have been a cemetery of the poor of Romano-British times. Few valuable artifacts were uncovered, but the bones were of interest. Many of the people there interred, in the closing years of Roman power in Britain, had been severely deformed, apparently suffering from rickets and other afflictions—deformed spines and limbs and skulls. Presumably they had suffered lifelong, and died, from extreme malnutrition. At the end, decadence comes down to that, for nearly everybody.
It was at York that the dying Septimius Severus, after his last campaign (against the Scots), was asked by his brutal sons, Geta and Caracalla, “Father, when you are gone, how shall we govern the empire?” The hard old emperor had his laconic reply ready: “Pay the soldiers. The rest do not matter.” There would come a time when the soldiers could not be paid, and then civilization would fall to pieces. The last Roman army in Italy—it is said to have been composed entirely of cavalry—fought in league with the barbarian general Odoacer against Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, in the year 491; on Odoacer’s defeat, the Roman soldiers drifted home, nevermore to take arms: the end of an old song. Only the earlier stages of social decadence seem liberating to some people; the last act, as Cecilia Kirk perceived, consists of Death, Mud, Crud.
In short, it appears to me that our culture labors in an advanced state of decadence; that what many people mistake for the triumph of our civilization actually consists of powers that are disintegrating our culture; that the vaunted “democratic freedom” of liberal society in reality is servitude to appetites and illusions which attack religious belief; which destroy community through excessive centralization and urbanization; which efface life-giving tradition and custom.
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors
And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,
Guides us by vanities.
So Gerontion instructs us, in T. S. Eliot’s famous grim poem. By those and some succeeding lines, Eliot means that human experience lived without the Logos, the Word; lived merely by the asserted knowledge of empirical science—why, history in that sense is a treacherous gypsy witch. Civilizations that reject or abandon the religious imagination must end, as did Gerontion, in fractured atoms.
Restoring Religious Insights
In conclusion, it is my argument that the elaborate civilization we have known stands in peril; that it may expire of lethargy, or be destroyed by violence, or perish, from a combination of both evils. We who think that life remains worth living ought to address ourselves to means by which a restoration of our culture may be achieved. A prime necessity for us is to restore an apprehension of religious insights in our clumsy apparatus of public instruction, which—bullied by militant secular humanists and presumptuous federal courts—has been left with only ruinous answers to the ultimate questions.
What ails modern civilization? Fundamentally, our society’s affliction is the decay of religious belief. If a culture is to survive and flourish, it must not be severed from the religious vision out of which it arose. The high necessity of reflective men and women, then, is to labor for the restoration of religious teachings as a credible body of doctrine.
“Redeem the time; redeem the dream,” T. S. Eliot wrote. It remains possible, given right reason and moral imagination, to confront boldly the age’s disorders. The restoration of true learning, humane and scientific; the reform of many public policies; the renewal of our awareness of a transcendent order, and of the presence of an Other; the brightening of the corners where we find ourselves—such approaches are open to those among the rising generation who look for a purpose in life. It is just conceivable that we may be given a Sign before the end of the twentieth century; yet Sign or no Sign, Remnant must strive against the follies of the time. •
Copyright 1992 by The Heritage Foundation and reprinted by permission.
Russell A. Kirk† was a Distinguished Scholar at The Heritage Foundation. He spoke at the Heritage Foundation on July 24, 1992, delivering the second in a series of lectures asking “Can Our Civilization Survive?” Dr. Kirk edited the quarterly University Bookman and was the author of thirty books, including The Conservative Mind and Eliot and His Age. He was awarded the Presidential Citizens’ Medal by President Ronald Reagan.
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The other shoe, so to speak, has dropped in the controversy over Jaswant Singh's book on Jinnah. The BJP government of Gujarat has banned it on the catchall but nevertheless idiotic grounds of "national interest", and the opposition Congress party in the state has applauded the move. No one with any political clout appears to be seriously upset by this, at this point.
It is likely that eventually, if not the publisher, someone in public life--perhaps someone with an aversion to the Sangh Parivar and the leadership in Gujarat in particular will get around to moving the courts to get the ban revoked. It is also possible that such a person is a positive admirer of Jaswant Singh, for any of a number of possible reasons--his aristocratic mien, his undoubted style and grace in the present difficulties, and not least his current role as central casting's dream Vibhishana to the Sangh Parivar's Ravana.
This hypothetical person will likely succeed, since even by the censorship-loving standards of Indian Law and public culture, the already-flimsy grounds for the claim that the book denigrates Vallabhai Patel are actually untenable. The actual references to the Sardar in the book are here. It is clear that the author draws on primary sources to draw a perfectly valid conclusion that Patel (along with, perhaps Nehru) was, (a) at worst, guilty of a political misreading of Jinnah's true goals and in effect, calling his bluff on Pakistan and losing and (b) was worn down by Jinnah's sheer intransigence on the subject. While clearly not hallmarks of political success, neither is a mortal sin, and more to the point, cannot detract from Patel's accomplishment of integration of the Princely States.
But suppose Jaswant Singh had done a much poorer job of analyzing Patel's role, or had even spoken of him in disparaging terms. And suppose that Jaswant Singh had no admirers. Would it have been acceptable to ban the book? What if, just hypothetically, Jaswant Singh had seen fit to toss in a few references to the alleged violent and aggressive nature of Islam, in the context of Direct Action Day, for instance? Would the book then be banned (to the cheers of lefties, perhaps) to calm an outcry by Muslims? Would the BJP leadership then be sagely lecturing on freedom of speech and thought ? Things can get bizarre and confusing in a hurry when doing thought experiments with a culture that appears incapable of handling the least challenge to the perfection and infallibility of its icons.
The fascinating thing about the Gujarat government's latest act of patriotic repression is that it actually does no harm to the supposed perpetrator, as his books at nearly Rupees 700 a copy, are selling quite briskly outside Gujarat, thank you very much. Nor does it do anything to protect the reputation of Sardar Patel, unless you count as protection the implication that the Sardar was actually guilty of something heinous or disreputable that needs the Gujarat government to hush it up for him. Since I doubt very much that the Gujarat leadership actually means to imply that the Sardar had done something that everyone needs to be made to keep quiet about, we can only conclude that it was more of an instinctive, knee-jerk reaction, sort of like a zealous family dog chasing away the postman from the premises.
Of course, following that analogy, not receiving the post has consequences. One might be spared the arrival of vexatious bills, but equally, one might miss a juicy cheque or an enlightening and fun magazine. To the dog, of course, it does not matter. Having decided that the postman is a threat, it did its job in good faith and is entirely satisfied with itself, and would be very hurt indeed if the householder did not reward it for its diligence.
The masters of the house, that is to say the people of Gujarat, have a good deal to lose by sitting by and letting the state government--their servant if not their dog, as it were--supply them with the misguided protection of censorship, even if, in this instance, the inability to read Jaswant's tome on Jinnah is no great loss, and the ban will eventually be revoked anyway. I don't mean money, they'll probably not lose any money because of censorship. But they, along with Indians in general, will lose the possibility of ever being able to be in command of the critical narrative of their own lives and culture, in short the collective soul of the nation.
Any such critical narrative has at its core a critical mass of people engaged in systematic critical thinking about culture, religion, and so on. One may liken having this critical mass to having a society that is capable of consistently winning a significant number of medals at the Olympics. The capability for doing so doesn't miraculously appear overnight, it requires the building of institutions, and the acceptance of a string of below-par performances to start with. It certainly doesn't come as a consequence of reflexively banning or beating up a coach--mediocre though he may be--who notes that there are distinct defects in the athletes' technique and approach.
In such a culture, a nation of a billion might produce an ocassional Abhinav Bindra but for the most part, it is reduced to watching enviously while other nations gobble up the medals like clockwork every four years, even in sports like hockey that we thought were "ours". Something like that is happening in the field of critical sociocultural and religious studies pertaining to India. Quite simply, the best work in these fields is being done by Westerners, particularly Americans, in a setting where censorship on the Indian scale is not even a remote threat.
A major case in point is the controversy regarding Hinduism Studies in American universities. Here is an article that outlines the problem, and here is a lengthy critique of American academicians' treatment of the Indian soul by Rajiv Malhotra, and a shorter, more specific reaction by Narayanan Komerath. Both Malhotra and and Komerath might be intellectually impressive, but they are only reacting, and at times deconstructing the messenger, and offer no countervailing critical study of the subject. Therefore, they have no hope of engaging in a peer-level collegial dialogue with the Religious Studies professors in question--the dialogue, is no more than that between a professor and a smart, contentious but ultimately limited student. But both Malhotra and Komerath, though reputed professionals in their own fields, are amateurs when it comes to Religious Studies, and they can no more be expected to constructively engage the American Religious Studies academic establishment than Abhinav Bindra and a handful of talented boxers can be expected to bring home Olympic medals on par with the American athletes who are part of a well-oiled multi-tiered athletic system of long standing.
When it comes to the ownership of critical studies, Indian society--at least the censorship-loving segment of it--has tried all kinds of futile dodges when faced with unpalatable observations and analyses of revered icons by Americans and other foreigners, as in the attacks on the Bhandarkar Institute when James Laine published a book on Shivaji. But, censorship or vandalism are non-starters as a way of coping with such things, since the professors in question are free to continue their work in America where there face no such threats.
More to the point, by indulging in censorship and worse, we are dishonouring ourselves and our culture in a particularly galling way, given that we are nothing if not a nation of students. scholars and seekers at the core. The American scholars can hardly be blamed for bringing their own personal, traditional and academic perspectives to their study of Indian matters. And while it is a fact that the perspective that is steeped in direct knowledge and experience of Indian culture has received short shrift, this again is hardly the fault of American scholars--the same class of Indians who might bring such a perspective are apparently busy censoring and repressing any attempt at critical thought by their fellow Indians, instead of studying and equipping themselves to be the peers of Western scholars, qualified to engage them as equals.
At the end of the day, while censoring Jaswant Singh is of little consequence in its own right, it represents a collective attitude that tears at free India's very soul. If this mania for censorship is not curtailed, who would be to blame if India loses her soul altogether?
Postscript: If Jaswant Singh ever explained in the past 10 years why he abandoned the case of the murder-mutilation of Lt. Kalia and his troop after raising it so eloquently, I have missed it. Now that Shri Singh is in the glare of the media, I wish someone would ask him if he actually followed through on the matter, and if yes, what transpired, and if not, why not. | <urn:uuid:c38f4c43-439a-439e-a357-7275056bed5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://admin.outlookindia.com/blog/story/censorship-mania/2014 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.965211 | 1,849 | 1.742188 | 2 |
It has long been thought that as UK population rises and the age expectancy of that population also increases that the state pension will have to be altered in response. It has now been claimed by the Labour Party and supporting economic experts, that working people may have to wait until their 70s before they can start to think about retirement.
The Office for Budget Responsibility has already forecast that on current trajectories of life expectancy, the state pensionable age could hit 70 by the mid-2060s, but Labour and financial experts are now warning that this could occur much earlier than anyone had previously predicted.
The government is currently reviewing the state pension age and mulling a decision to move the state retirement age from April 2028, the point at which it will have reached 67 for men and women, potentially affecting people under the age of about 55.
John Cridland, the director general of the CBI, has been named as the independent reviewer of the pension age and will look at whether the pension age should continue to be linked to rising life expectancy.
For more details on this story check out HRreview’s recent webinar on the problems relating to an aging workforce: https://www.hrreview.co.uk/videos/the-uks-ageing-workforce-debate/59462
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Fronteras: How A Flood 100 Years Ago Fueled San Antonio’s West Side Resilience And Power Of Community
One hundred years ago up to 17 inches of rain fell across San Antonio. The San Antonio River and the creeks in the city’s near West Side flooded, spilled over and left destruction in their wake.
The city’s official death toll from the flood of 1921 was recorded at 51, but that figure is believed to be severely undercounted. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated at the time 224 people may have perished from the floods, either buried by mud, killed by debris or their bodies washed away by the waters and never located.
The tragedy marked a pivotal point for city leaders as they moved quickly to prevent any future flood damage. But those efforts were largely focused on protecting the downtown business elites and property assets, and the city’s predominantly Mexican-American West Side was neglected.
“The disregard that the city elite — politicians, business folks and the like — held for the West Side is appalling,” said Char Miller, author of “West Side Rising: How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement.”
Miller details the fatal events that unfolded Sept. 9, 1921 and brings attention to the community mutual-aid groups — including Cruz Azul Mexicana and Communities Organized for Public Service (C.O.P.S.) — who, according to Miller, served as one of the earliest examples of the environmental justice movement in the country.
“I think this is a story that is at once really devastating, but also is celebratory in that, look at how the community — in this case, it's really the West Side — how it saved itself,” said Miller. “And that's a tale that's rare in environmental justice stories, but I think it's well worth telling.”
This is part two of a two-part conversation. Part one can be listened to and read here.
Trinity University Press hosts a Maverick Book Club discussion on “West Side Rising” with Char Miller and Sarah Zenaida Gould, the Executive Director of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, on Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 6 p.m. (CT). | <urn:uuid:2559e734-dcd0-441f-a8f9-7b242565897c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tpr.org/podcast/fronteras/2021-09-10/fronteras-how-a-flood-100-years-ago-fueled-san-antonios-west-side-resilience-and-power-of-community | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.955809 | 484 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Author Eugenia Bevz
Team Eugenia Bevz, Konstantin Miroshnychenko
We are pleased to contribute to the discussion on ‘other territories’ and suggest the measures, that we believe can transform the perception of ‘leftover space’ in the Buritis cityscape and start the celebration of ‘other’…Our proposal includes strategy and several examples of site specific art installations.
To change the marginal image and perception of stilts in the community, those structures should offer the potential and opportunity. Focused on the particular points of development the ‘other territories’ shall manifest the new set of values for the community and speak up to the city.
It should be inhabitant.
Providing public access to the stills is necessary to initiate the dialogue with community and invite the potential visitors. Accessible stilts would suggest the humanistic idea of space – the place that may be used by people and become inhabited.
It should be urbane.
To make the space available for use, the stilts area should be safe and maintained. Lighting and landscaping (at least ground cleaning) will transform the marginal leftover space to the opportunistic ‘white cube’ space.
It should be artistic.
Arts will breathe life into the stilts. The stilt itself is an open structure ready to support and accommodate artistic installation within its limits.
In our proposal, we romanticize stilt structures. We perceive them not as an ugly output of the collision between the building economy and the site context, but rather as a suggestion, a three-dimensional super grid, a Cartesian 3d system… a spaceframe.
Messier 31 inhabits stilts structure and deconstructs its image. Being a light installation, it uses the potential of sun energy daytime to empower Messier 31 during the night. The name Messier 31 or M31 comes from a constellation – Andromeda Galaxy, the most distant object visible to the naked eye, and one of the brightest deep sky matters. M13 recreates the geometry of Andromeda constellation within ‘stilts coordinate system’.
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Global Health Advocates is a French NGO which mission is to carry out political advocacy in France and with the EU institutions to ensure policies and resources are effectively addressing health inequalities.
Created in 2001, Global Health Advocates was born out of a collective effort to eliminate three poverty-related diseases : HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis. In the year 2000, ambitious commitments were taken during the G8 Summit in Okinawa. The international community agreed to create and fully fund mechanisms to fight against the three diseases which kill millions of people every year.
Within this context, the « Massive Effort Campaign » was created to follow up on those commitments and advocate for global health alongside the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria. In 2005, the Massive Effort Campaign became Global Health Advocates, with offices in Paris and Brussels. Since 2008, GHA is a member of the international global health advocacy network « Action ».
Since 2009, GHA has been working in France to maintain and increase Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) budgets as well as highlight the importance of access to health in French development policy. We also monitor the French government’s health commitments in the field of international solidarity.
We work specifically with the French government and French MPs. In order to raise awareness about health equity we organize study visits in countries most affected by diseases of poverty, we provide analysis as well as recommendations and evaluation of public policies and communicate concerns from our partners in the global South.
We collaborate closely with other French NGOs within the Coordination Sud coalition, but also within the Collectif Santé Mondiale which gathers 10 organisations (Action contre la Faim, Oxfam, ONE, Equilibres & Populations, le Planning familial, Solidarité Sida, Solthis) calling on the French government to safeguard aid for global health.
GHA’s Brussels office develops recommendations on EU research, health and development budgets and policies that have the potential to help the world reach equitable access to health.
We specifically look at how EU Research policies can better deliver societal impact for its citizens, especially in the area of health and access to medicines. We look at trends in EU development policies, and how they likely affect EU support to global health and nutrition. Our current work is focusing on the recent shift in focus towards migration and security activities as well as the increasing involvement of private sector in development cooperation.
We also work closely with the TB Europe Coalition, a regional network of 200 civil society advocates and activists who are working towards increasing the bottom up community response to the biggest infectious disease killer in the WHO Europe region and the European Alliance for responsible R&D and affordable medicines.
“Public policies ensure the right to health for all”
Global Health Advocates strategy revolves around three main pillars:
Resource Mobilisation: we are working to increase the quantity and the quality of public health financing.
Public Policies: we ensure that governments and other stakeholders are adopting and implementing coherent policies which meet everyone’s health needs, with a specific focus on poor and marginalized populations. We work to ensure integration of public policies that help realise universal health coverage, defend human rights and reinforce health systems.
Capacity Building: we strengthen civil society in countries with higher health inequalities so that they’re better equipped to influence their decision makers.
GHA identifies the most neglected global health issues which get the least financing and political attention. We work to fill those gaps through advocacy and capacity building of civil society in order to guarantee equitable access to healthcare.
In the pursuit of its goals and strategic objectives, GHA will rely on the following 5 core values:
1 – Ownership and leadership: GHA believes that civil society, communities and more specifically poor and marginalised populations and their needs should be at the centre of any health related decision-making. In order to highlight their expert contributions, we echoe their analysis, stories and support their advocacy strategies.
2 – Human rights-based approach: Human rights-based approach to health policies is at the core of all GHA activities. GHA believes that health is our most basic and essential asset, and everyone should have equal access to health in a non-discriminatory manner, where no attribute, including origin, sex, civil status, sexual orientation, or income status can affect one’s ability to fulfil their right to health.
3 – Respect for sovereignty: GHA grounds its activities and collaboration with Southern states, civil society and communities on the principles of mutual respect, country ownership and self-determination.
4 – Transparency & Independence: GHA accepts funding only from those donors whose objectives are in line with the vision and the core values of GHA. GHA does not accept funding from those parties, whose involvement in healthcare or in other fields further entrenches health inequality, not fully respecting human rights principles and eroding the long term capacity of governments to provide quality public healthcare services. GHA is committed to respecting a policy of transparency and disclosure for its beneficiaries, donors, and partners by making all relevant information on the allocation and management of its funds.
5 – Accountability: GHA is committed to regularly evaluating the effects of its activities. We recognize our responsibility to account for our actions to our partners and donors.
Founder and Executive Director
Patrick Bertrand has more than 20 years of experience in advocating for global health. He is the Director and founder of Global Health Advocates France. He is a founding member of the ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership consisting of advocacy organizations working to influence policy and mobilize resources to fight diseases of poverty and improve equitable access to health services. ACTION partners work across five continents in both donor and high burden countries.
Patrick Bertrand is actively involved in various health-related initiatives, including being a former member of the Gavi CSO steering committee as well as the selecting committee of the 5 % initiative.
He holds a Master in Communication from the University of Grenoble, France.
Fanny joined GHA in February 2011, when the GHA’s laison office with the EU institutions was created. As Head of EU Office from 2014 until 2020 she helped grow a team of dedicated global health advocates, and diversified advocacy portfolios and campaigns in the realm of research, health and development aid policies during a few European elections as well as negotiations of EU multi-annual budgets. Fanny was also strongly involved in the development of the TB Europe Coalition, of which she was the Chair of the Board from 2017 to 2019.
Fanny holds a Master in Conflict Studies and Human Rights from the University of Utrecht. Before joining GHA, she worked for several NGOs in the field of health and human rights in Palestine, in Kosovo, at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the European Commission and at the Peacekeeping Operations of the UN in New York City.
Head of Advocacy, France and EU
Elise joined GHA in January 2020 to help teams based in Brussels and Paris define and implement advocacy strategies in order to secure lasting change in favour of universal access to healthcare.
With a degree in Political Communication, Elise has worked for 15 years in mobilisation and advocacy within solidarity organisations, focusing notably on financing issues within global health, climate and nutrition policies. She led the Advocacy & CSO engagement Unit of Action Against Hunger (ACF), where she coordinated their contribution to big international events, such as the World Health Assembly, COP21, and G7 Summits. She also led a number of capacity building projects to strengthen civil society in the global South.
Administrative and Financial Assistant
Daisy obtained her BTS as an Executive assistant in Paris. Before that, she worked as an administrative assistant for a legal firm in Paris and then launched her own restaurant which was a success story for 14 years. She joined GHA in April 2016 to pursue her career and join the fight for Global Health.
After graduating from the University of Strasbourg (France) in International and European Law, Gautier joined Global Health Advocates in September 2021 to promote the right to health to the Members of Parliament, French and international decision-makers.
Gautier has worked for 10 years in advocacy within NGOs (Coordination SUD, Solidarité Sida), particularly on issues of development finance and global health policies.
Gautier participated in the French campaigns “Printemps Solidaire” in 2017-18 on official development assistance and “Treatment4all” in 2019 on financing the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria during the Global Fund Replenishment Conference. Gautier has also developed advocacy capacity-building projects for Southern CSOs.
Analysis and Advocacy Coordinator
Yann holds a degree in international public law, strategic negotiations and diplomacy. He joined GHA in October 2020 with previous experience in global health. He worked on advocacy for Coalition PLUS, ONE and the 5% Initiative, the indirect contribution of France to the Global Fund to fight HIV/Aids, TB and Malaria.
Before joining GHA he also coordinated the French NGO platform Coordination SUD’s health and development finance committees and the Working Group on the French law programming international aid and the fight against inequalities.
After graduating from Sciences Po Paris with a master’s degree in international affairs, Héloïse made her debut in advocacy at the CCFD-Terre Solidaire, where she gained an understanding of international solidarity and official development assistance issues. In 2020, she joined Crisis Action to support the coordination and advocacy of about fifty international and Sahelian NGOs campaigning for better protection of civilians in the Sahel. Héloïse joined GHA in September 2021 to promote universal health coverage to parliamentarians.
Eager to advocate for human rights, Laurianne specializes during her studies in international solidarity and development. After graduating with a master’s degree in Political Science at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, she gets involved in the fight against health inequalities and starts her career in advocacy at Global Health Advocates. As an advocacy officer, Laurianne is mainly involved in the monitoring of multilateral health funds (Global Fund, ACT-A and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance) as well as in favor of sexual and reproductive health rights.
After a Bachelor in International Relations at the University of Idaho in the United States, Claire continues her studies at the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS Sup ‘) to strengthen her understanding of the world. During her studies, she became aware of the systemic injustices and dysfunctions and consequently decided to work in the field of international solidarity. During her internship at the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU), she acquired an interest in global health issues, which she considers central in the fight for social justice. Claire joined GHA as a communications officer in April 202 with the desire to increase the impact and visibility of its advocacy actions.
EU Advocacy Officer
Manon joined GHA in March 2022 to advocate for a better inclusion of global health in the EU’s development policies. Passionate about social justice and intersectionality, she carries on her commitment to the right to health for all. She previously worked at the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in Brussels where she first got involved in advocacy by working on the protection and promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the EU’s external development policies.
She holds an MA in Public Law and Administration from Sciences Po Strasbourg, as well as an MA in International Relations and EU Diplomacy from the College of Europe of Bruges.
EU Junior Advocacy and Policy Officer
Tarita holds a Master degree in International Relations and European Studies from the University of Florence, obtained in 2018. Prior to joining GHA, she has worked at different institutions including VOICE, the platform of European humanitarian NGOs, advocating for greater quality and effectiveness of EU’s humanitarian aid.
Tarita joined GHA in August 2021 and is committed to the fight to eradicate poverty in all its forms and to reduce the inequalities and vulnerabilities in the world.
GHA is a member of a wide range of networks and civil society coalitions working in the field of global health and development aid:
Action is a global partnership of advocacy organisations working to influence policy and mobilize resources to fight diseases of poverty and improve equitable access to health services. GHA is a founding member of ACTION.
Created in 2009, the TB Europe Coalition (TBEC) is a regional advocacy network of more than 200 civil society organisations and individuals from across the WHO Europe region, comprising Western and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. The network aims to strengthen the role of civil society within the regional response to tuberculosis (TB), and ensure political and financial commitments to end TB. GHA is a founding member of TBEC. It helped register TBEC as an independent legal entity and chaired its board from 2017 until 2019.
CONCORD is the European Confederation of Relief and Development NGOs and the main interlocutor with the EU institutions on development policy. GHA was a Board Member of CONCORD from 2015 until 2019, representing the French NGO Coalition Coordination Sud.
Coordination SUD is the French national platform of international solidarity NGOs. Founded in 1994, it brings together more than 164 NGOs active in the fields of humanitarian aid, development assistance, environmental protection, the defense of disadvantaged people’s human rights and international solidarity education and advocacy. Coordination SUD fulfills a dual mission of supporting the professionalization of French NGOs and representing their positions to public and private institutions in France, Europe and around the world. GHA was a Board member of Coordination Sud from 2015 until 2019 and an active member of its Health Committee and its ODA & Development Financing Committee. GHA now leads Coordination Sud’s European Affairs Committee and acts as the point person for the G7 Steering Committee of Coordination Sud’s Board.
GHA helped create the Collectif Santé Mondiale, which gathers 10 organisations calling on the French government to safeguard aid for global health, with a specific focus on nutrition, health systems strengthening, sexual and reproductive health and rights and pandemics.
This European Parliament Working Group aims to ensure that the EU adopts appropriate measures that improve access to existing medical tools (medicines, diagnostics, vaccines) and stimulate the research and development (R&D) of urgently-needed better tools for people in developing countries, notably for poverty-related diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. GHA co-led the Secretariat of the Group together with MSF Access Campaign from 2010 until 2019.
The Generation Nutrition campaign gathers NGOs advocating for the fight against malnutrition at the EU level . The goal is to galvanize political will so that we can be the generation that ends under-nutrition for good. GHA is the founder of Generation Nutrition EU and coordinated the campaign from 2016 until 2018.
As part of the Equality Generation Forum, Global Health Advocates is part of the Generations Feminist Collective with fifty other French organizations with various identities, through an inclusive, intergenerational, and intersectional approach.
As part of the European Alliance for Responsible R&D and Affordable Medicines, an alliance of representatives of civil society, consumer, patient and public health organisations, GHA raises awareness and advocates for reform of the pharmaceutical R&D model. The Alliance calls for the creation of an R&D system that is driven by public health needs, results in public goods and delivers medicines that are universally accessible and affordable. GHA is a member of the Coordination Committee of the Alliance since 2017.
SDG Watch Europe is a new EU-level cross-sectoral CSO alliance of NGOs from development, environment, social, human rights and other sectors. Its goal is to hold governments to account for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs). GHA was a Steering Committee member from 2017 until 2019.
People’s Budget Campaign and network wants a united Europe. The key to unlocking a positive new vision is rethinking the EU Budget to make it work for citizens. We want to believe in a brighter future, where Europe is reconnected to its people and values. We want to rethink where the money goes in order to build an economy that is more equal and sustainable. An economy based on well-being. GHA was a contributing and founding member of the People’s Budget Campaign.
The Civil Society Forum (CSF) has been established by the European Commission as an informal working group to facilitate the participation of non-governmental organizations, including those representing people living with HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis and Tuberculosis in policy development and implementation. It also provides a platform for information exchange and strategic thinking on improving EU’s policy response to the three diseases. GHA represented the TB Europe Coalition within the Coordination Committee of the CSF from 2016 until 2019.
The Global TB Caucus is a global networks of parliamentarians united to end Tuberculosis. It aims to transform the fight against TB by targeted national, regional and global interventions. Officially launched in 2014 in Barcelona, the Caucus has become one of the biggest parliamentary networks worldwide, with more than 2500 parliamentarians from 150 countries. It is structured around four regional networks and one francophone network since 2016 : the Francophone TB Caucus, for which GHA acted as Secretariat from 2016 until 2019.
UHC2030 is the global movement built on the International Health Partnership (IHP+). UHC2030 provides a multi-stakeholder platform co-facilitated by the World Bank and the WHO and encourages global and national collaboration to strengthen health systems, increase political commitments on universal health coverage and evaluate progress towards reaching SDG 3. As CSO representative to HIP+, GHA helped create UHC2030, specifically in the area of governance and strategic development. GHA helped the creation of the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism of UHC2030 (CSEM) to guarantee that civil society’s voice will be heard in the governance and activities of this newly formed partnership. GHA acted as Secretariat of CSEM until April 2018. Today, as a member of CSEM we continue to advocate for UHC, while focusing on primary health care and equitable health financing at global and national level. GHA works towards improving collaboration and coordination between civil society groups and identifying advocacy opportunities that reinforce their objectives and accelerate progress towards UHC.
Global Health Advocates has a Board of Directors, which meets regularly throughout the year to provide guidance and leadership to the organisation. The Board currently has 5 voluntary members with a broad range of experience in organisational management, global health and advocacy. They are:
Simon Wright, Chair of the Board
Simon Wright is the Head of Child Survival for Save the Children and has worked in global health and development for nearly 20 years. He is a strong proponent of Universal Health Coverage.
Sonja Read, Treasurer
Sonja Read is a public health nutritionist, specialised in malnutrition in children under 6 months. She holds a BA in business management and worked in administrative positions in different NGOs. Sonja currently works for the French Islamic relief in Palestine.
Louis Da Gama
Louis Da Gama is Director of the Princess of Africa Foundation and Humanitarian Adviser to UNICEF & Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Campaign Goodwill Ambassador, musician and celebrity Yvonne Chaka Chaka. The Foundation’s advocacy focus is on Malaria, AIDS, TB, Reproductive Maternal Child, Newborn Health and Nutrition with an emphasis on Women and Girls.
Serge Breysse is a medical doctor, with a public health degree. He has been working with several NGO’s (ACF, MSf, MDM, Save the Children) in Africa, Asia, and Europe. He did set up the advocacy department of ACF and later managed the Expertise and advocacy department and the ACF research Foundation. He has also regularly been intervening in academic courses on health, hunger, and humanitarian issues. He is currently director of GloPID-R Secretariat, an initiative to improve the funding of research in emerging outbreak
Alexia Sena is a French journalist from Cameroon. She develops content for French business and media and facilitates online radio programmes in Cameroon. After 10 years of work experience in the field of financial advise (KPMG and Accuracy in Paris), Alexia started a career in journalism. She taught finance in universities and business schools like Science Po and Skema School in Paris.
Walid Rachedi is co-founder and Publishing Director of Frictions.co. He is also a novelist and screenwriter. Before founding Frictions, Walid worked for 15 years in the corporate world, mainly in the digital sector, in France and internationally (United States and Latin America). He graduated from University Paris Saclay, business school (Neoma Business School – Program Grandes Ecoles) and a bachelor in cinema (Paris I – Sorbonne). He teaches digital communication and entrepreneurship at Paris Saclay and IESEG.
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THOUSANDS of women suffering with breast cancer could benefit from a new pill.
Approved by the NHS, abemaciclib can cut the chance of the illness coming back once a tumour has been removed.
There are over 50,000 cases of the condition in women every year in the UK.
Breast cancer is the name given to any cancers that have first developed in the breast tissue – there are many different types.
Nearly 1,000 people die from the illness every month in the UK, with the disease killing around 11,500 women and 80 men each year.
The new twice-a-day pill, made by Eli Lilly is set to be given to over 4,000 women on the health service.
Medics said it's suitable for women who are at high risk of recurrence and have had surgery.
These women have hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, node-positive early breast cancer.
It's the most common type of the disease, accounting for around 70 per cent of all cases.
In early breast cancers, it's estimated that it comes back after initial treatment in around 30 per cent of people.
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Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive at Breast Cancer Now, said: "It’s fantastic thousands of women with this type of primary breast cancer will now have an additional treatment option available on the NHS to help further reduce the risk of the disease coming back.
"The fear of breast cancer returning or spreading to other parts of their body and becoming incurable can cause considerable anxiety for so many women and their loved ones.
"New effective treatments such as abemaciclib, which can offer more women the chance to further reduce the risk of the disease recurring, are therefore extremely welcome and this is an important step-change in the drug options available for this group of patients."
What are the breast cancer symptoms in women?
For most women, the first sign or symptom of breast cancer is a lump or area of thickened tissue in their breast.
While 90 per cent of such lumps are not cancerous, it is vital to get them checked by your GP at the earliest opportunity – detecting the disease early can mean treatment is more effective.
It is therefore vitally important to be "breast aware" - know what feels normal for you, and therefore what changes to look out for.
One in three women do not regularly check their breasts, and a fifth of these women say it is because they don't know how to do it.
However, while the majority of women know to feel for unusual lumps and bumps, there are also other, less understood signs and symptoms.
Results from a clinical trial revealed that those taking the pills with hormone therapy had a more than 30 per cent better chance of their cancer not coming back following surgery compared with hormone therapy alone.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) made the decision to offer the medication on the NHS.
Helen Knight, interim director of medicines evaluation at Nice, said until now there have been no targeted treatments for people with this type of breast cancer.
"Abemaciclib with hormone therapy represents a significant improvement in how it is treated because being able to have a targeted treatment earlier after surgery will increase the chance of curing the disease and reduce the likelihood of developing incurable advanced disease," she added.
Professor Peter Johnson, cancer director at NHS England said the decision will add to the arsenal the NHS has to fight cancer with.
He added that it will help increase the chances of beating cancer for good.
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- a principal melodic subject in a musical composition.
- a short melodic subject from which variations are developed.
Origin of theme
synonym study for theme
OTHER WORDS FROM themethemeless, adjectivesubtheme, noun
How to use theme in a sentence
So those themes, as you understood, are driven into a better world.Leveraging collective intelligence and AI to benefit society|Jason Sparapani|November 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Two additional themes made the list of progressing towards a cyborg future.
In August, Anheuser-Busch posted a splashy job listing looking to bring on three creatives to make “fire” Bud Lite Seltzer-themed image macros.
Hill may prefer to call his entrees “meat and three,” in keeping with the Southern theme, but several of his mains are barbecue in everything but name.
The county’s holiday colors should really be yellow and red because that’s the theme carried by water quality warnings pockmarking the coast from Oceanside to Imperial Beach via San Diego County’s beach test results site.Environment Report: Coastal Neighborhoods Supported Measure E Least|MacKenzie Elmer|November 9, 2020|Voice of San Diego
British Dictionary definitions for theme
Derived forms of themethemeless, adjective
Word Origin for theme
Cultural definitions for theme
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Pope Francis’ decision to impose new restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass in July drew a strong reaction from Catholics in the United States. While some Catholics welcomed the news, others criticized the pontiff, saying the revival of the Latin Mass in recent years has been key to rejuvenating the faith of younger Catholics.
Despite the controversy, most U.S. Catholics are unaware of Pope Francis’ recent actions, with roughly two-thirds saying they have heard “nothing at all” about the new restrictions, according to a Pew Research Center survey of adults conducted Sept. 20-26, 2021. But there are pockets of opposition to the new rules, with weekly Mass-goers and Catholic Republicans expressing higher levels of disapproval than those who do not go to Mass regularly and Catholic Democrats. Nevertheless, Francis remains a very popular figure among American Catholics, with about eight-in-ten continuing to express a favorable view of the pope, little changed since March.
Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to track opinions of Pope Francis. We most recently surveyed 6,485 U.S. adults (including 1,374 Catholics) from Sept. 20-26, 2021. All respondents to the survey are part of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education, religious affiliation and other categories. For more, see the ATP’s methodology.
Prior to February 2020, the surveys on views of the pope were conducted by telephone. A discussion of the different mode effects (phone vs. online) can be found in this post.
Most Catholics around the world attend Masses conducted in the vernacular (or local language), but some prefer the traditional Latin version that was used for centuries prior to the Second Vatican Council. In 2007, Francis’ predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, expanded access to the traditional Latin Mass by allowing priests to use the older form “without any further permission from the Vatican” or their bishop, according to Catholic News Service. Francis said in July that the new limitations, which reverse Benedict’s move, are designed to promote unity within the Church.
Francis’ decision requires priests currently using the traditional Latin rite to “request authorization from their bishop to continue doing so,” according to Catholic News Service. The new rules also require bishops to “determine if the current groups of faithful attached to the old Mass accept Vatican II,” and forbid bishops from authorizing “the formation of any new pro-Latin Mass groups in their dioceses,” The Associated Press reported.
Overall, 65% of U.S. Catholics say they have heard “nothing at all” about the pope’s decision to impose new limits on the use of the traditional Latin Mass. About three-in-ten of those surveyed (28%) have heard “a little” about the change, and 7% say they have heard “a lot” about it.
All the survey respondents who indicated they have heard at least a little about the new limitations received a follow-up question asking whether they approve or disapprove of the pope’s decision. Their opinions are divided about evenly between those who approve (9% of all Catholics) and those who disapprove (12% of all Catholics) of Francis’ actions. An additional 14% of U.S. Catholics say they have heard at least a little about the change, but either have no opinion on it or declined to give their opinion.
Catholics who attend Mass weekly are both more likely to be aware of the new restrictions and more inclined to oppose them than Catholics who attend less frequently, the survey finds.
Nearly six-in-ten Catholics who attend Mass weekly or more often have heard at least a little about the new restrictions, and roughly three-in-ten say they disapprove of them. By contrast, just 7% of Catholics who attend Mass once or twice a month or a few times a year disapprove of the pope’s decision, as do 6% of Catholics who rarely or never go to church. Majorities in both of these groups say they have not even heard about the new rules.
Political affiliation also is tied to views about the new Mass guidelines. Catholics who identify with or lean toward the Republican Party are roughly three times as likely as Catholic Democrats or Catholics who lean toward the Democratic Party to oppose the new rules (20% vs. 6%), though majorities in both groups say they are unfamiliar with the issue.
There is little difference on these questions by age, although Catholics ages 50 and older are slightly more likely than younger Catholics to have heard about the issue, and to say they have no opinion about it.
Meanwhile, views of Pope Francis have remained fairly steady among U.S. Catholics recently, even within segments of the Catholic community that express higher-than-average disapproval of the new rules about the traditional Latin Mass.
Overall, 83% of U.S. Catholics say they have a favorable view of Pope Francis, compared with just 14% who express an unfavorable view of him. That’s little changed from March 2021 (82% vs. 14%, respectively).
Surveys prior to February 2020 were conducted by telephone, while later ones used a representative sample of Americans conducted on the Center’s online American Trends Panel. (For a discussion of the impact of switching from telephone survey administration to web surveys for measuring attitudes about Pope Francis, see “Americans, including Catholics, continue to have favorable views of Pope Francis.”)
Among U.S. Catholics who say they attend Mass at least weekly, 83% express a favorable view of Pope Francis, virtually indistinguishable from the 84% who said this in March. And among Catholic Republicans, 71% now express a favorable view of him, little changed from the 73% who said the same in March.
The study continues to find political polarization in the way Catholics view the pope: The share of Catholic Democrats who have a favorable view of Francis is 20 percentage points higher than it is among Catholic Republicans.
Political polarization also extends to views about Pope Francis’ personal characteristics.
Catholic Republicans are less inclined than Catholic Democrats to say “yes” when asked whether positive words like “compassionate,” “humble” and “open-minded” describe Pope Francis – though majorities of Catholics in both parties say the pope does embody these traits.
And Catholic Republicans are more likely than Catholic Democrats to ascribe certain negative attributes, including “out of touch” and “naive,” to Pope Francis. Nearly half of Catholic Republicans say Pope Francis is “too liberal” (49%), while just 16% of Catholic Democrats say this. There is also a difference in how Catholic Republicans and Democrats view the state of the pope’s health. In July, before Francis announced the new rules about the traditional Latin Mass, he underwent surgery to remove half his colon and spent 10 days in the hospital.
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Research Podcasts has collaborated with the Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network (ICWBN) to produce a podcast series that focuses on the lives of children in the UK and Ireland during the pandemic and beyond.
Generation Pandemic is a ten-episode series that features discussions with leading academics and practitioners working with and for children across key areas such as education, mental health and family well-being.
Dr Yekaterina Chzhen, one of ICWBN’s project leaders said:
“I am so excited about the Generation Pandemic series. Due to pandemic restrictions we were unable to bring our network together for a face to face workshop as planned. But via our podcast series we are still able to communicate our research findings on the impacts of COVID19 – and reach an even wider audience! It’s also great that we’ve been able to combine contributions from our researchers with those who are experiencing the effects of the pandemic on children every day, such as a parent and a teacher.”
Catherine McDonald, Senior Producer at Research Podcasts and series host, added:
“As a parent myself, it was both enlightening and reassuring to hear about the work that’s already being done to support families and children as we (hopefully) begin to emerge from the pandemic – not only to mitigate the many existing effects but to try to prevent the same problems happening again were we to experience a similar societal shock. The ICWBN pulls together a stellar line up of experts and I’m confident this series will resonate with anyone who has children in their lives.”
The aim of the ICWBN is bring together academics and practitioners from the four nations of the UK and the Republic of Ireland to establish an interdisciplinary research network to study the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the associated policy responses, on children in the two countries and beyond. It studies the medium- and longer-term consequences of the pandemic for children’s living standards as well as their outcomes in health, cognitive- and socio-behavioural development, educational attainment and achievement, and subjective well-being.
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If your loved one's health declines, you may find yourself taking responsibility for complicated, difficult tasks that used to fall to medical professionals. "It's not unusual for caregivers to feel overwhelmed," said Linda Pellegrini, a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner at UMass Memorial Medical Center. In her blog post, she explains which tasks are considered complex, how to find resources to help you and why it's imperative to take care of yourself.
As part of the Shared Voices choir, people living with early-stage dementia and their caregivers sing together in a fun, stress-free group. It's a good way to take time to appreciate each other’s company—while also developing friendships with people going through similar challenges.
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Family caregivers and all types of health care professionals have had to drastically change their routines and expectations during this time of COVID-19 and “social distancing.” Social worker Emily Lemire discusses ways to keep your social connections and adapt to circumstances.
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Joint News Release from Association of U.S. Catholic Priests and Voice of the Faithful
For Immediate Release, Aug. 15, 2019
Clergy and laypeople collaborate to confront clericalism
Pope Francis condemns clericalism, repeatedly. Catholic commentators decry it. Theologians and church historians examine its roots. Now, in a significant collaboration, the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests and Voice of the Faithful have examined the ways clericalism emerges from the clerical culture, generating complex problems facing the Roman Catholic Church today, and they suggest ways to combat it.
Their document, “Confronting the Systemic Dysfunction of Clericalism,” was approved at the AUSCP June 2019 Assembly, where guest speaker Dr. Richard Gaillardetz called it “very informative, even visionary.” Keynote speaker Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, noting the real-life examples reported, said it was “nothing less than a catalogue of horrors chronicling imperial pronouncements, put-downs, claims of privileges, entitlements and exemptions from accountability, but also a culture so pervasive that, sadly, many of the laity have come to accept it as normal and yes, even have cooperated in maintaining it.”
Real-life examples are central to the report and a significant contribution to the study of clericalism today. As the writers note, “We typically encounter clericalism as an experience. Using only scholarly definitions and explanations when discussing clericalism cannot communicate this lived experience of clericalism in the Church. To fully understand clericalism, we also must hear the voices of those who experience abuse of power.”
One experience describes a confrontation between a laywoman and a visiting priest in Boston during a 2003 meeting. “We must fix this [sex abuse] because we are the Church,” the laywoman said. The visiting priest replied, “YOU are not the Church,” and pointing to his Roman collar, declared, “WE are the Church.”
In another example, a new pastor announced that he would personally choose pastoral council members and no one would be allowed to disagree with him. In yet another, a seminarian criticized the pastor for his monthly blessing service because it differed from what the seminary practiced.
If these examples seem to focus blame on the clergy or an insulated hierarchy or any group or faction within the universal church, the document will not allow such a conclusion. Clericalism is not simply a problem of clerics, and the authors cite experiences where lay people enable such behavior.
Clericalism is toxic to all the baptized, they note. When lay people encounter clericalism: “They find another parish; they leave the Church; they never speak up again in meetings with priests; they abdicate all decision-making to the priest; they become audiences rather that participants in the parish’s life and sideline observers within the Church. Or all of the above. They abdicate their baptismal responsibilities.”
Priests may suffer, too, from unrealistic expectations stifling their human development. It is manifested in “overwork, isolation, loneliness, unrelieved stress, the expectation that he and he alone will handle all the parish business and be responsible for all the parish problems.”
The document delves into the culture of the diocesan priesthood and characteristics that help incubate clericalism: the hierarchical and patriarchal structure of the church, its requirements for celibacy, an ordination that is said to confer an ontological change, an education separated from the daily lives of laypeople, distinctive clothing and liturgical dress. Clerics also receive privileges of lifestyle and compensation not available to the people to whom they minister. The final section of the paper describes options for confronting clericalism.
“Our aim,” the AUSCP and VOTF writers say, “has been to raise the consciousness
of readers to the expressions of clericalism and its problems. Clericalism betrays the teachings of the scriptures and ignores the best practices of the first three centuries of Christian faith and life. Both clerics and lay persons can be afflicted with the disease. Both are often unaware that their mode and manner, their self-understanding, and their sense of ministry have wandered far from the example of Jesus … [We]” hope that our words help us all rise to the challenge of today in confronting and ultimately removing as many vestiges as possible of the clericalism that harms us all.”
Cardinal Cupich emphasized a similar conclusion: “Clericalism can only be confronted by reclaiming the authenticity of the conversion we are called to in Baptism.”
The team preparing the report worked with input from clergy and laypeople across the United States, modeling the synodality Pope Francis urges as one way to address clericalism’s damage. Following its completion, the white paper also was endorsed by FutureChurch, another organization that includes both priests and lay people.
Lead writers for “Confronting the Systemic Dysfunction of Clericalism” were Rev. Kevin Clinton, AUSCP Past Chair of the Leadership Team, retired pastor, Archdiocese of St. Paul–Minneapolis; and Ms. Donna B. Doucette, Executive Director, Voice of the Faithful, member of Paulist Center Community, Archdiocese of Boston.
Contributors on the Working Group under the auspices of AUSCP were Rev. Gerry Bechard, AUSCP, pastor of Sts. Simon and Jude Parish, Archdiocese of Detroit; Ms. Alvera Bell, parishioner of St. Paul the Apostle Parish, Diocese of Youngstown; Mr. David Bell, parishioner of St. Paul the Apostle Parish, Diocese of Youngstown; Rev. Bernard R. Bonnot, AUSCP Executive Director, retired pastor in the Diocese of Youngstown; and Rev. Tom Ogg, AUSCP, retired pastor, Diocese of Cheyenne, Worldwide Marriage Encounter―U.S. Ecclesial Priest.
N.B. “Confronting the Systemic Dysfunction of Clericalism” can be read and downloaded at https://www.votf.org/wp-content/uploads/Systemic20Dysfunction20Clericalism.pdf.
Strategies for addressing clericalism in local faith communities can be found in “The BridgeDialogues: Laity & Clergy Reimaging the Church” at https:///content/priest-and-lay-reform-organizations-take-clerical-culture, which is a collaborative effort of AUSCP, FutureChurch and VOTF.
Contact: Donna B. Doucette, Executive Director, firstname.lastname@example.org
Voice of the Faithful®: Voice of the Faithful® is a worldwide movement of faithful Roman Catholics working to support survivors of clergy sexual abuse, support priests of integrity and increase the laity’s role in reforming administrative structures that have failed. VOTF’s mission is to provide a prayerful voice, attentive to the Spirit, through which the faithful can actively participate in the governance and guidance of the Catholic Church. More information is at voiceofthefaithful.mystagingwebsite.com.
Contact: Kevin Clinton, email@example.com, Paul Leingang, firstname.lastname@example.org
Association of U.S. Catholic Priests: AUSCP serves the People of God in parishes and other ministries. We seek to add a priest’s voice to the public conversation within our pilgrim church, among bishops and lay persons, vowed religious, ordained deacons and others. Our concerns are your concerns: good liturgy, social justice, the role of women in our church, immigration policies that reflect Gospel values, the dignity of all human lives, and a Church that welcomes all the People of God. Our mission is to be an association of U.S. Catholic priests offering mutual support and a collegial voice through dialogue, contemplation and prophetic action on issues affecting Church and society. Our vision is to be a Priest’s Voice of Hope and Joy within our Pilgrim Church. More information is at uscatholicpriests.org. | <urn:uuid:6c2d3753-c92a-44cc-a7e6-1729828695f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.votf.org/press/clergy-and-laypeople-collaborate-confront-clericalism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.941032 | 1,755 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Developing amazing virtual reality experiences for those living with Motor Neurone Disease. MND is a progressive and debilitating disease for which there is no cure. For many people it can lead to total paralysis although they continue to be mentally alert. Virtual reality allows people to participate in activities which they would not be able to physically achieve at this most difficult time in their lives and thus create memories for them and their families.
MND (Motor Neurone Disease) is a progressive disease which is life shortening and for which there is no cure. MND impacts an individual's ability to walk, talk, eat, drink and breathe, often resulting in complete paralysis. In most cases those living with the disease retain their mental agility, hearing, sense of taste and smell as well as ability to feel sensations. As a result they are limited in the physical activities they can enjoy and this can also adversely affect their mental health.
We are working with partners at Challenging MND to provide virtual reality equipment and develop a number of new high quality virtual experiences to be used by those living with MND including those in the advanced stages of the disease when their ability to participate in a physical experience may be very limited or have gone. Being able to enjoy amazing virtual reality experiences will improve the quality of life for those living with MND and create for them and their families lasting memories.
With an estimated 6 people diagnosed each day with MND, 1 in 300 of us is likely to be effected in our lives. In the UK there are 5,000 people living with MND at any one time. The need for and demand for experiences of the kind we are planning is going to continue to grow. Providing amazing virtual reality experiences will improve the quality of life, improve mental wellbeing. This will help create lasting memories for potentially hundreds of individuals living with MND and their families. | <urn:uuid:a72c08b4-32ad-4aaf-9a2f-f7a352e65fd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/mnd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962879 | 424 | 2.328125 | 2 |
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प्रश्न 1. आखिरी शेर में गुलमोहर की चर्चा हुई है। क्या उसका आशय एक खास तरह में फुलेदर वृक्ष से है या उसमें कोई सांकेतिक अर्थ निहित है? समझाकर लिखें।
उत्तर: गुलमोहर फूलों का पेड़ होता है लेकिन इस गज़ल में गुलमोहर स्वाभिमान का प्रतीक है। इस गज़ल के माध्यम से कवि हमें यह सन्देश देना चाहता है कि हमें गुलमोहर से प्रेरणा लेनी चाहिए और अपना जीवन में हर पल स्वाभिमान से जीना चाहिए।
प्रश्न 2. पहले शेर में चिराग शब्द एक बार बहुवचन में आया है और दूसरी बार एकवचन में। अर्थ एवम् काव्य-सौंदर्य की दृष्टि से इसका क्या महत्त्व है?
उत्तर: पहले शेर में चिराग शब्द को बहुवचन रूप में अर्थात “चिरागों” का उपयोग किया गया है। यहाँ चिरागों से तात्पर्य सुख-सुविधाओं से है। दूसरी बार चिराग शब्द को एकवचन में ही प्रयोग किया गया है। चिराग से तात्पर्य सीमित सुख-सुविधा से है। इन दोनों ही शब्दों को प्रयोग करने के पीछे एक महत्वपूर्ण कारण है। इस गज़ल में चिरागों शब्द हमारी कल्पना को और चिराग शब्द हमारी वास्तविकता को दिखाने का कार्य करता है। यहाँ हम देखते हैं कि एक ही शब्द के वचन रूप को बदलने से उसका अर्थ भी बदल जाता है।
प्रश्न 3. गज़ल के तीसरे शेर को गौर से पढ़े। यहाँ दुष्यंत का इशारा किस तरह के लोगों की ओर है?
उत्तर: इस गज़ल के तीसरे शेर में दुष्यंत का इशारा उन लोगों की तरफ है जिनके भीतर उत्साह को कमी होती है। ऐसे व्यक्ति जीवन की किसी भी परिस्थिति चाहे वो अच्छी हो या बुरी उसमें खुद को ढाल लेते हैं। उन्हें न्याय या अन्याय से कोई फर्क नहीं पड़ता है, वह बस अपने आप से नाता रखते हैं। यही कारण है कि अफसर और नेता जनता का फायदा उठाने सफल होते है।
प्रश्न 4. आशय स्पष्ट करें।
तेरा निज़ाम है सिल दे ज़ुबान शायर की,
ये ऐहतियात जरूरी है इस बहर के लिये।
उत्तरः इन पंक्तियों को शासक वर्ग लिये व्यंग्य के रुप में लिखा गया है। शायरों के गज़लों या उनकी कविाओं को सत्ता में बैठें लोग हमेशा ही दबाते रहते हैं। ऐसा वह इसलिए करते हैं क्योंकि उन्हें यह डर लगता है कि कहीं उनकी सत्ता की शक्ति उनसे ना छीन जाए परंतु यह बात बिल्कुल ही सही नहीं है। लोकतंत्र में जनता को अपनी बात स्वतंत्र रूप से रखने का अधिकार होता है।
प्रश्न 5. दुष्यंत की इस गज़ल का मिज़ाज बदलाव के पक्ष में है। इस कथन पर विचार करें।
उत्तर: दुष्यंत इस गज़ल के माध्यम से समाजिक और राजनीतिक बदलाव लाने चाहते हैं। दुष्यंत देश में हो रहे अन्याय को देख कर चिंतित है और समाज में परिवर्तन लाना चाहते हैं। देश में बढ़ते भ्रष्टचार से दुष्यंत निराश है और वह आम आदमी को इस गज़ल के जरिए प्रेरित करना चाहते हैं जिससे वह अन्याय के खिलाफ आवाज उठाये। कवि सत्ता के विरूद्ध आम लोगों में आक्रोश पैदा करना चाहते हैं।
प्रश्न 6. हमको मालूम है जन्नत की हकीकत लेकिन
दिल को खुश रखने को गालिब ये अच्छा ख्याल है
दुष्यंत की गज़ल का चौथा शेर पढ़े और बताएं कि गालिब के उपयुक्त शेर से वह किस तरह जुड़ता है?
उत्तर: दुष्यंत की गज़ल का चौथा शेर है:-
खुदा नहीं, न सही, आदमी का ख्वाब सही,
कोई हसीन नज़ारा तो है नज़र के लिए।
यह शेर पूरी तरह से गालिब के शेर से प्रभावित है। दोनों का मतलब एक ही है। गालिब “जन्नत” को और दुष्यंत भगवान को मानवीय कल्पना मानते हैं। दोनों ही इनके अस्तित्व को मन को संतुष्ट करने वाले कारण के रूप में मानते हैं।
प्रश्न 7. ‘यहां दरखतों के साए में धूप लगती है’ यह वाक्य मुहावरे की तरह अलग अलग परिस्थितियों में अर्थ दे सकता है मसलन, यह ऐसी अदालतों पर लागू होता है, जहां इंसाफ नहीं मिल पाता। कुछ ऐसी परिस्थितियों की कल्पना करते हुए निम्नाकित अधूरे वाक्यों को पूरा करें।
1) यह ऐसे नाते रिश्तों पर लागू होता है,………
उत्तर: यह ऐसे नाते रिश्तों पर लागू होता है, जिनमें प्यार नहीं होता।
2) यह ऐसे विद्यालयों पर लागू होता है,………
उत्तर: यह ऐसे विद्यालयों पर लागू होता है, जहां विद्या के नाम पर अविद्या सिखाई जाती है।
3) यह ऐसे अस्पतालों पर लागू होता है,………
उत्तर: यह ऐसे अस्पतालों पर लागू होता है, जहां इलाज की जगह रोग बढ़ता है।
4) यह ऐसे पुलिस व्यवस्था पर लागू होता है,………
उत्तर: यह ऐसे पुलिस व्यवस्था पर लागू होता है, जहां सुरक्षा के बजाय भय मिलता है।
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NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Hindi Aroh Chapter 17 - Ghazal
Chapter 17 - Ghazal
Chapter 17 of CBSE Class 11’s syllabus deals with a Hindi Ghazal which is written by Dushyant kumar. He talks about the lies spewed by the politicians and how the security of the citizens is at stake. He aspires to escape from this brutal society and go to a utopian place which will give him some relief. Various aspects of the condition of the citizens are explained by taking the help of different imageries. And the only escape is the dream world for the people who cannot change the present circumstances.
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FAQs on NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Hindi Aroh Chapter 17 Poem Gazal
1. What Does the Poet Want to Talk About in this Poem?
In this Ghazal, the poet talks about the prevailing brutal condition of the society and uses several different images to make the concept clear and poetic. He further states that the only people who can survive in this society are those who do not bother. And the people who get bothered by the surroundings but cannot do anything about it due to their lack of power can only escape through dreams.
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3. Who does the poet target in the poem?
The poet is targeting the various politicians who trick innocent people into supporting them by giving them false hopes. He uses the metaphor of electricity, stating that this was promised to everyone in return for their win in politics. But with time, one comes to realize that this was a false promise which has left everyone in darkness with no light to help and assist them. The naive citizens trust the words of their leaders and give them their whole trust, just to be betrayed afterwards. The poet, through this, emphasises the difference between empty talk and working on one’s statements. The politicians of today, with their sweet talks, get followers but ultimately do not work upon their promises.
4. What was claimed after Independence by the politicians?
After independence, the politicians had promised all the citizens that their demands would be fulfilled. They were promised that their voices would be heard and their difficulties would be gotten rid of. They were assured that their lives would be filled with containment and satisfaction and that the families would live decent lives. But, sad as it is, the poet claims that none of this has met its fruitful end. The people still continue to suffer and find it difficult to make ends meet. This is because the politicians who had manipulated the people to vote them into power have turned selfish. They are unable to see the plight of the people and therefore remain blind to their sufferings.
5. What does the poet compare these people in power to?
The poet compares the people in power to a stone. The poor and deprived people are assured that their corrupt politicians have a heart of stone through which their cry for help and aid will never penetrate. These people in need only desire for their voices and demands to be heard, which is never fulfilled. These deprived people shape themselves by the way they are treated and mould themselves according to the demands of these politicians.
They have accepted their fate and have lost any hope they had left with them. Through this poem, the poet wants to bring to light the plight of his fellow citizens and the corruption of the leaders who rule over these people. He ignites his fellow citizens to come forward for a revolution to fight for their rights and demand their integrity.
6. Why are the politicians afraid of the poets?
The politicians feel threatened when a poet or writer voices his or her opinion or concerns on the situation and plight of his fellow citizens. These politicians have the fear that their power will get snatched away if the common people get influenced by the writings of these poets and writers. In fear of this, they place various restrictions on them, which takes away their rights to free speech. The poet is aware of this mistreatment and knows that the same might be meted on him. But even that does not stop him from presenting the real picture of these corrupt leaders that they hide behind their masks.
7. What advice does the poet give to the common people?
The poet writes that even under the shade of the politicians, the common people always feel as though they are exposed to the sun. They had hoped to get rid of the darkness, but that hope was never fulfilled by the leaders whom they had trusted and supported. The poet asks the people to distance themselves from such a society, where they are mistreated and where their integrity is lost. He assures them that even if these god-like figures appear to be dead, they can always resort to their determination and dreams to find the strength to fight these atrocities. The solutions provided by Vedantu are free of cost. They are also available on the Vedantu Mobile app. | <urn:uuid:32679fc2-79a2-4e3c-baa3-a969a9a1a2e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vedantu.com/ncert-solutions/ncert-solutions-class-11-hindi-aroh-chapter-17-poem | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.656731 | 7,458 | 3.359375 | 3 |
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