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“B.J. Palmer was my mentor. He taught that a subluxation is like a jack on the bumper of a car with a flat tire. You must fix the tire before removing the jack.” ~Dr. Dick Versendaal
A Subluxation Is Like A Car With A Flat Tire
"Fixing the tire" is equivalent to finding and addressing the root cause of a health issue. Dr. Versendaal was a genius at understanding how the body worked together as whole - one area supporting another, because he understood that "the obvious" was not always what caused pain or imbalance in our bodies. We need an exam from head to toe (literally).
It’s understandable that structural issues may be caused by physical trauma such as fall or accident. Yet emotional trauma, nutritional imbalances due to the environment, and other life stressors such as job loss can also cause structural issues. According to Dr. Dick Versendaal, when the spine subluxates “it is a holder to what’s left of you.” The spine will twist, turn, and subluxate to hold up a tired heart, a stressed out brain, an overworked kidney or more.
Dr. Versendaal also called the heart the queen bee. It is the center of your physical and emotional being with all organs, glands, and structures willing to work overtime or sacrifice there needs for the heart. When the heart becomes energetically, physically, or emotionally injured, the body will often find ways to compensate for its loss to maintain a healthy functioning state.
Unfortunately, these traumas may also create what’s called “energetic heart shock” causing structures such as bones, muscles, fascia etc., to twist and turn out of alignment in order to support the heart. This can lead them back into painful postures again until the heart is addressed and brought back into balance.
When the root cause of a subluxation is addressed, a chiropractic adjustment will hold. After dealing with any accident, surgery, or broken bones, always address the heart as it remembers the trauma. The structures will become holders. Once the heart has been brought back into balance, then physical therapy, chiropractic adjustments, and other structural management will be maximally effective - full healing can happen! | <urn:uuid:74b6e124-2ec4-4ec0-8df8-ebc6683155f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crawellness.com/pages/structures | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945633 | 480 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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They call it “chemistry”, but falling in love isn’t a perfect science. It’s different for everyone and relies on all sorts of factors, from how physically attractive you find someone to whether you feel comfortable in their presence. Still, research has shed some light on what is happening in the brain when we do feel those first butterflies – and the amount of time it takes for people to fall in love.
A 2013 survey conducted by YouGov and dating site eHarmony found that the time taken from the first date to saying “I love you” differs between men and women. The average time for men to fall in love is 88 days, while those same feelings of true love take women 134 days. Another dating site, Elite Singles, did a poll in 2017 and found that 61 per cent of women believe in love at first sight, while 72 per cent of men do.
These surveys focused on heterosexual relationships. Other types of relationships have been comparatively understudied, though a 2000 study of 38 lesbians found that, on average, they declared their love or commitment to a partner after six months. A Match.com poll done in 2013 found that 65 per cent of gay men believe in love at first sight, while 60 per cent of lesbians do.
How does love affect the brain?
Neurologically speaking, the bonds we feel that we know as love are due to the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin, which activate the reward centre in our brain. These take a fraction of a second to reach the brain, and some studies have shown that just looking at a person you love can activate the same brain region that creates the feelings of euphoria associated with some drugs.
But those hormones don’t just kick in when you meet a potential love interest. You have to get to know them first. Psychologist Arthur Aron devised a set of questions that can accelerate this process and potentially help couples to fall in love quicker. Known as “the 36 questions that lead to love”, these require two people to be vulnerable and share life experiences, which can enhance intimacy and potentially lead to love. They aren’t quick questions, though, so it could take a while to get through them all.
With the rise of dating apps, particularly during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, people have been finding love without even being in the same place. A 2021 survey from dating app Bumble found that 67 per cent of people now believe it is possible to fall in love with someone you haven’t even met in person. So maybe the length of time it takes to fall in love is simply about how quickly you can respond to text messages. | <urn:uuid:cb2a8bb2-015a-4262-b0f2-e39d0f2a95f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://articles.indiatips.in/2021/08/09/how-long-does-it-take-to-fall-in-love/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.948851 | 561 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Commercial Accounts: Everything You Need to Know
A commercial account is often a checking account that is utilized by a business owner that is separate from the personal checking accounts kept by the owner(s).3 min read
A commercial account is often a checking account that is utilized by a business or business owner that is separate from the personal checking accounts kept by the owner(s). A commercial account will often have higher fees associated with it than a personal account, but many banks provide a different arm of their institution to oversee commercial accounts which are sometimes referred to as business accounts. There are different services provided, such as payroll services and ways of paying your business taxes.
A commercial account can usually be set up at any of the same financial institutions where you may already do your personal banking. Examples of commercial banks include Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citi Bank and Chase, all of which provide banking services for both personal and business use.
Advantages of Commercial Banking
You may be thinking that your business is still quite small and questioning the value of commercial banking. So, what are the advantages?
- Setting up direct deposit for your employees, often for free if your employees choose to bank at the same institution where your business account is housed.
- By establishing a business account and keeping the account in good standing, you may have an easier time obtaining a business loan, should you need one.
- Utilizing a commercial account can make the day-to-day accounting easier for a business.
- Often times, the bank will assign your business a designated individual who can assist you with your business’s banking needs.
- Your business may be able to save money by allowing the bank to take care of payroll and invoicing services.
- In addition to direct deposit, many larger commercial banks may provide retirement services to your employees.
- Commercial banks are generally large institutions with branches all over the place, making it easier for things like deposits and withdraws for both you and your employees.
- Many provide online banking services, which can be of benefit for both you and those employees who bank at the same institution.
Additionally, for tax purposes, it is greatly advantageous for a business owner to allow their commercial bank to oversee the payment of state and federal taxes. This can generally only be done if a commercial account and personal account are two separate entities. Even if your business is still quite small, chances are, you will still have to be paying taxes.
While there are certainly any number of advantages to commercial banking and having commercial accounts for your business, there can be some downsides, as well. Some of the disadvantages include:
- There are often additional fees included with commercial accounts that do not exist with personal accounts.
- While payroll services may be provided by the bank, there may be limits as to the number of employees your business can have on payroll to utilize those services.
- If you become dissatisfied with your financial institution and wish to move your accounts to another bank, it can sometimes be difficult to do so.
- You may be charged for the services provided by a commercial account, even if you are not fully utilizing them.
- If your business is one in which you receive a lot of checks, your bank may place restrictions on the number of checks they will process for free, causing you to then pay for processing any checks beyond that.
- Different banks may provide different products and services, and at different costs. Being able to properly compare and contrast among different financial institutions can sometimes be difficult, making it tricky to best determine the specific needs of your business.
As you can see, while there certainly are some downsides to a commercial account, the advantages often still outweigh the disadvantages, so it is probably still in the best interest of your business to establish a commercial account. With that said, if your biggest concern is being able to properly pay your taxes, and you are not currently concerned with issues of payroll or retirement accounts, then you may be fine with utilizing the services of a good accountant who specializes in business accounting.
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"Through thee have the gates of Paradise been thrown open to us, O thou who this day did triumph so gloriously among the Angels."
- Divine Office Antiphon
Each year on August 15 we celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven, a Holy Day of Obligation. According to St. Peter Canisius, Doctor of the Church, the Solemnity of the Assumption is the greatest of all Marian feasts and therefore holds the highest place of them all. Why?
Because Mary's entrance into heaven was the happiest and most joyful event of her life—even happier than the Annunciation and the Nativity of Our Lord. Below are ten points regarding the awesomeness of today's feast.
At her Assumption into heaven:
1. The Blessed Virgin Mary was, for the first time since His Passion and Ascension into heaven, physically reunited with her Son, Jesus, for all eternity, never to be separated from Him again.
2. Her long and difficult earthly mission as a co-worker in Christ's redemption of the human race was now complete; through God's grace she persevered to the end in perfect harmony and submission to the will of God.
3. At this moment she received the fulfillment of all she longed, sacrificed, sought, worked, desired, hoped, waited, and prayed for her entire life.
4. She experienced perfect and complete happiness in her entire person, as both her body and soul were united in heaven (Mary and Jesus are presently in heaven with their physical bodies; the souls of the other saints will receive their bodies at the final resurrection of the dead).
5. Everything mysteriously written and prophesied in the Scriptures of her role in salvation history was brought to its glorious fulfillment.
6. Mary, the true Ark of the Covenant where the Incarnate Christ dwelt, was finally in her exalted place in the Temple of the heavenly Jerusalem.
7. Just as Mary humbly received Jesus into the world at his nativity, now Jesus magnificently receives Mary into heaven for all eternity.
8. Mary, as the most beautiful and perfect creature in all of God's created order, enters heaven for the first time—with her physical, human body—and is given the highest place above all the choirs of angels, and there receives the honor and praise proper to her exalted state.
9. Mary is crowned as Queen of Heaven and Earth to reign as Queen Mother alongside her Divine Son, to rule, protect, guide, intercede, and lead all of her spiritual children to be with her Son, Jesus, just as she is.
10. Mary is the first to receive the promise of the resurrection given to all who are united to Jesus Christ and persevere in faith as she did; therefore she embodies the future hope of the Church and of all believers.
"Among all these feasts which have been celebrated so devotedly for so many years, even unto the present day, the Feast of the Assumption is considered the greatest and holdeth chief place. Indeed there was no happier or more joyful day for Mary, if we duly consider the happiness of both body and soul granted to her on that day. Then especially, as never before, her spirit, soul and body rejoiced wondrously in the living God and she could rightfully say: He hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden; for behold, all generations shall call me blessed; for he that is mighty hath magnified me." - Homily by St. Peter Canisius (Doctor of the Church) | <urn:uuid:69dd5028-4884-4ceb-9919-5735df120ac4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.catholiccompany.com/magazine/marys-assumption-greatest-moment-5869 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.968763 | 734 | 2 | 2 |
Morning everyone !
Here is todays activity- we hope you have fun being creative.
Print off the dragon and knight puppets and have fun making some stick puppets. You can them make up a story with them. If you haven’t got a printer why not copy the drawings and then stick them onto wooden spoons and have some fun.
Can you draw your favourite picture from this week’s book ? You can do this in you red book that you took home before Christmas. We look forward to seeing your creations.
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Euro 2020: The climate cost of a competition held across the continentOct 6 | 6 min read
Will your football club be under water by 2050?
The Athletic, in collaboration with BT Sport, examines how climate change is affecting football and considers what is it actually being done to mitigate those issues
Climate change poses a question that humanity can’t hide from.
But how is football threatened by rising sea levels and carbon emission rates and - more importantly - what is actually being done by clubs to mitigate those issues?
There are 92 teams in the Football League. By 2050, 23 of those can expect partial or total annual flooding of their stadiums.
With extreme weather occurences expected to increase in the coming years, football clubs are being forced to consider how to mitigate against the most devastating consequences of climate change.
In this startling video from The Athletic, presented by Tifo, the impact of climate change on spectators, athletes and football stadiums is laid bare in shocking detail.
At BT Sport, we are committed to reducing our environmental footprint as urgently and impactfully as possible by becoming the greenest broadcaster in the UK.
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Mizuchi (蛟 or みずち, means Water Spirit/God or Water Serpent) is a water dragon and is both the guardian and the creator of the Mount Penglai.
As an Asian dragon, Mizuchi has a Gekirin (逆鱗, lit. Reverse Scale) or Sakasa-Uroko (逆さ鱗, lit. Reverse Scale) on its forehead, and is extremely sensitive to anyone who tries to touch or steal it, making it out of control until the scale will be recovered.
However, Mizuchi is calm by nature and keeps manifesting the Mount Penglai as long as its Gekirin is safe.
When Nezumi-Otoko saw the Gekirin of Mizuchi, he thought it is a valuable treasure and took off from the ground. However, where Nezumi-Otoko was standing was actually the head of the dragon; Mizuchi awoke and enraged to the intruder and the Mount Penglai disappeared. On a small island nearby, Xú Fú explained the secret of the island and the connection to the dragon, and Kitarō on Ittan-Momen went to recover the scale and calm Mizuchi. With Kani-Bōzu's aid, Kitarō finally managed to persuade Nezumi-Otoko and recover the scale on Mizuchi, bringing back a peace.
Powers and Abilities
Manifesting Mount Penglai:
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Andrews County, in the southern High Plains, is bounded on the west by New Mexico, on the north by Gaines County, on the east by Martin County, and on the south by Winkler and Ector counties. The center of the county is at 32°18' north latitude and 102°50' west longitude, 110 miles southwest of Lubbock. Andrews County encompasses 1,504 square miles of level, rolling prairieland typical of the southern High Plains. Sandy soils predominate except in the east, where red clay loam is found. The elevation varies from 3,000 feet in the south to 3,400 feet in the north. The average annual rainfall is 14.37 inches, and temperatures range from a January average minimum of 30°F to a July average maximum of 96°F. The growing season is 213 days. The county's road network includes Highway 385 (north‑south), Highway 176 (west‑east), and Highway 115, which bisects the other roads at Andrews.
Angostura type arrowheads discovered by archeologists indicate the possibility of an aboriginal population as early as 6,000–4,000 B.C., but pottery sherds and other evidence establish occupation by the Anasazi people from around A.D. 900. In more recent times the Apaches and Comanches occupied the region, until the United States Army campaigns of 1874–75 cleared the way for White settlement.
The county was formed from Bexar County on August 21, 1876, a year after the first detailed explorations made by Col. William R. Shafter from his military base at Fort Concho. The county was named for Richard Andrews, a hero of the Texas Revolution who was killed at the battle of Concepción in 1835. Subsequent boundary alterations occurred in 1902, 1931, and 1932. For administrative purposes the area was placed within the jurisdiction of Shackelford County in 1876, within the Howard Land District from 1882 to 1887, and within the Martin Land District from 1887 to 1891. The area was placed within the jurisdiction of Martin County from 1891 until 1910, when Andrews County was formally organized with Andrews as its county seat.
In 1886 O. B. Holt first filed on county lands, although the huge Chicago Ranch, founded by Nelson Morris, a Chicago meat packer, purchased 228,000 acres in the southeastern corner in 1884. The county's aridity and its lack of surface streams encouraged novel rain-making experiments in 1891 by the United States Department of Agriculture. Sixty mortars charged with blasting powder and thirty kites suspending dynamite loosed their destructive forces at clouds while a number of ten-foot balloons, each holding a thousand cubic feet of oxygen and hydrogen gas were simultaneously discharged. Despite these notable bombardments no rain fell locally, although a copious precipitation to the east and south was, perhaps, a result of the experiment. After the droughts of 1886 and 1887, Nelson Morris introduced windmills to draw ground water until he had seventy-nine of the wind machines spaced on his ranch. Morris also introduced barbed wire drift fences to contain cattle.
In 1894 the Scharbauers purchased the Wells Ranch, which with Morris's C-Ranch occupied most of the eastern part of the county. A year later the Texas legislature passed the four-section law, which helped to end open-range ranching in Texas by encouraging the breakup up of great ranches for the benefit of homesteaders and small tract purchasers.
In the early 1880s the building of the Texas and Pacific Railway through Midland, Midland County, the supply point of Andrews County, gave promise of future growth. The railroad promoted immigration and had millions of acres to offer settlers. But since there was plenty of land in West Texas with better access to transportation than Andrews County, the population grew slowly; the census showed only twenty-four residents in 1890, and as late as 1900 only eighty-seven people lived in Andrews County.
By 1910, however, the population was 975, principally farmers and ranchers. Though only 70 acres of farmland had been classified as improved in the 1900 census, by 1910 the census counted 1,105 improved acres; and by 1920 the area was more than 6,000 acres. Almost 2,700 acres was planted in corn, at that time the county's most important crop. Still, actual cropland accounted for relatively little of the county's economic activity; ranching, while declining somewhat between 1910 and 1920, continued to dominate the local economy. The 2,700 acres devoted to corn production in 1920, for example, was only a small fraction of the 366,755 total productive acres in the county that year. The county had more than 53,000 cattle in 1900, and more than 54,000 in 1910.
The terrible drought of 1917–18, World War I, the great influenza epidemic of 1917–18, blizzards, and a drop in cattle prices reduced county population to 350 in 1920. It was clear by this time that much county land was not suitable for farming. Cattle ranchers bought the abandoned lands of disappointed farmers to extend their ranges. Land owned by the University of Texas, some fourteen blocks scattered around the county, accounted for 29 percent of the total acreage, and much of this was leased for grazing purposes. Nevertheless, agricultural activity did rebound during the 1920s; seventy-five farms and ranches were counted in Andrews in 1930, nearly a 32 percent increase over the figure for 1920. During this same decade cotton came to be the single largest crop raised by the farmers of the county. While the number of acres devoted to corn production fell more than 50 percent between 1920 and 1930, by 1930 almost 1,900 acres was planted with cotton. By the 1940s, sorghum had become another leading crop.
The 1920s also saw the beginning of oil production in Andrews County. On December 5, 1929, the gusher drilled in the Deep Rock Ogden No. 1 came in. The oil had been tapped at 4,345 feet and flowed in prodigious quantities. While the excitement was general in oil-industry circles and among county residents, who braced for a great boom, prosperity did not come at once. The timing of the new field could not have been worse. East Texas fields were in full production, and the 1929 crash had devastated the market. By 1931 oil was selling for as little as ten cents a barrel. Even at that price the Andrews County oil, of low gravity and heavy in sulfur, would not have sold. Investors declined to build a pipeline into the county until 1934, when J. W. Tripplehorn bought up leases, began drilling, and encouraged Humble Oil Company (later Exxon Company, U.S.A.) to lease other lands and to build a pipeline.
Though five new oilfields drilled during the 1930s continued local petroleum development, the industry did not really boom in Andrews County until the 1940s, when twenty-six new fields were discovered. Extravagant drilling efforts during this time added an entirely new dimension to life in the county, as thousands of people traveled to the area seeking jobs in the oilfields and service industries. The population of Andrews County rose from 1,277 in 1940 to more than 5,000 in 1950, and with the growth came housing problems and overcrowded conditions in Andrews, which, like the rest of the county, experienced unprecedented growth and prosperity thanks to the oil boom.
Petroleum production continued to rise in Andrews County during the 1950s, when ninety new fields were discovered. Oil income from royalties and tax dollars provided residents with many of modern services and conveniences that could not be afforded earlier, but oil production fell off in the 1960s, when only fifty-three new fields were found, and particularly in the early 1970s, when only thirteen new fields were discovered. Unemployment mounted, and county leaders called for some diversification of industry.
Water flooding of old fields and the Arab oil embargo of 1973–74 stimulated oil production again in the 1970s, and prosperity became general through the decade. In the early 1980s, livestock production accounted for roughly two‑thirds of the county’s $11 million average agricultural income. Crops of cotton, sorghums, grains, corn, and hay accounted for the rest. About 8,000 acres of land was irrigated. Oil and gas production and related services produced most of the county's income. With an income of $146,055,000 and oil production valued at $1,213,228,209 in 1982, Andrews ranked among the leading counties of the state in median annual income and in annual oil production. The oil industry was a major source of employment; by the end of 1982 the county had produced over two billion barrels of oil. About 293,000 acres of valuable county land have been owned by the state university since 1883. Andrews County’s population was 10,352 in 1970 and was estimated at 15,000 in 1982, before declining slightly to 14,338 in 1992. Most people in the county live in the town of Andrews, the county seat, which had a population of more than 11,000 in 1982, 10,678 in 1990, and 12,736 in 2014. . In the early 1990s cattle ranching continued to be the most important agricultural activity in the county, while sorghum, cotton, and corn were the most significant crops (seeCORN CULTURE, COTTON CULTURE, SORGHUM CULTURE).
As of 2014, the population was 17,477. About 42.9 percent were Anglo, 53.4 percent Hispanic, and 2.1 percent African-American. Of residents age twenty-five years and older, 68 percent had completed high school, and more than 12 percent had college degrees. In the early twenty-first century oil, agriculture and manufacturing were important elements of the local economy. More than 23,230,000 barrels of oil, and 1,669,622 thousand cubic feet of gas well gas, were produced in the county in 2004; by the end of that year 2,783,911,447 barrels of petroleum had been taken from county lands since 1929. In 2002 the county had 169 farms and ranches covering 803,998 acres, 81 percent of which were devoted to pasture and 13 percent to crops. That year farmers and ranchers in the area earned $8,671,000; livestock sales accounted for $6,432,000 of the total. Beef cattle, cotton, sorghum, grains, corn, and hay were the chief agricultural products.
Communities include Andrews, McKinney Acres (population, 927), and Florey (25). Prairie Dog Town and the Oil Museum are two of the county's most popular tourist attractions.
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After a one-time setup of the desired calibration points up to 10 points are allowedthey are automatically run through under the control of the TSA2 and ValidR.
ANSI and IEC color Codes and limits of error for Thermocouples, Wire and Connectors
In combination with the TSA2, the metal block oven has the following properties: Measuring a minimal change in theoretical temperature of 0. Miscellaneous A pressure sensor is supplied with a calibration certificate traceable to international standards. Several individual thermocouples are assembled to thermocouple sets with or without a pressure tight feedthrough.
This pressure sensor is ideally suited for measuring the vessel pressure during steam sterilization processes: Individual Thermocouples are available as separate elements, on one side provided with a thermocouple connector and on the other side finished with a soldered point and insulation. For the metal block oven option, in combination with the thermocouple calibration facility, an accuracy of 0.
A unique feature is the ability to connect this input by means of a relay to the sterilizer control system, with which the exact phase transition of that control can be detected. But for type T thermocouples additional hardware could be integrated recalibration with resistors.
Electronic Sensor – Thermocouples of IEC
A change in temperature of 0. For a improved placement and thermal stabilization of the thermocouples during the calibration procedure, it is advisable to make use of so-called thermocouple heating tubes: A particular advantage of this metal block oven is its ability to execute programmable calibration procedures in combination with the ValidR validation software.
In order to independently monitor the temperature of the metal block oven MBO during calibration use can be made of a Catch-T model ITCS with pt sensor and separate digital readout:. The use of type K or type J thermocouples is recommended. For a improved placement and thermal stabilization of the thermocouples during the calibration procedure, it is iev to make use of so-called thermocouple heating tubes:.
We make a distinction with regard to pressure sensors in accuracy and stability. Sets of thermocouple heating tubes with 6 holes for 6 thermocouples.
The scanner comes including: It is also possible to enter a desired point of time at which the calibration procedure is then started automatically. Type and the length are at your choise.
For example, two pressure sensors can have the same accuracy, but the stability, among other things as a result of temperature variations of iecc of the two pressure sensors, may be such that the accuracy can not be guaranteed over a longer period of time. Other configurations of thermocouple sets are available on request, for example: This pressure sensing system has a range of 0 to kPa and an accuracy of 0.
The lesser accuracy can than be idc by software. By means of this integrated functionality, the entire calibration procedure can be carried out independently and unattended. Programmable calibration procedures A particular advantage of this metal block oven is its ability to execute programmable calibration procedures in combination with the ValidR validation software.
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Some health issues need regular monitoring. It can be difficult for people to rush to a healthcare facility for assistance whenever something happens. Then, the condition of the patient can become worse while waiting for the treatment. All these are uncomfortable scenarios for anyone to imagine. But after the pandemic, one has understood that even hospitals and clinics can be inaccessible. Hence, it demands attention to preparation for one’s proper health and disease management. One has to be more careful, particularly if they have aging parents and patients with mobility issues. Any sudden health-related development can create an urgent requirement for specific medical equipment, such as tracking or monitoring devices, hospital beds, wheelchairs, etc.
As per Apria Healthcare Reviews, the vast range of in-home medical equipment comes in handy in emergency monitoring and tracking to provide urgent health care and avoid further deterioration. The benefits of having smooth access to home healthcare products and services are many.
Opting for home healthcare products and services for home – Apria Healthcare Reviews
Chronic, terminal, or lifestyle ailments make daily monitoring and care an integral part of the patients’ lives. Since visiting a medical facility tends to be extremely expensive, the family can struggle to ensure top-notch care for their loved ones. However, products like hospital beds, blood and glucose monitors, ECG units, and others can reduce healthcare costs in the long term. The caregivers can also take a sigh of relief for saving money that otherwise goes into lab tests. Hospital admissions also charge for everything, including food, doctor’s visit, nursing services, beds, etc. However, the in-home medical devices for respiratory, mobility and other such conditions allow considerable savings.
As everyone knows, chronic conditions involve regular monitoring for health management. When the diagnostic tools are handy, one can quickly check their health and take more care. Timely detection of any developing symptom can also help them lead a better life by practicing self-care and caution.
Some innovative medical products can have emergency contacts to alert the system about a patient’s deteriorating condition. Due to the notification, the help can arrive soon and protect the person. At the same time, easy access to necessary medical devices ensures quick attention and better response to emergency care. In emergencies, the quickness of the treatment can decide the life or death of the patient.
The standard home healthcare systems offer ease of use and flexibility. Consequently, caregivers get an opportunity to perform their duties hassle-free. Whether one needs monitoring or critical care after coming from the hospital, the family doesn’t need to worry about providing support. They can use the devices adhering to the usage guidelines and keep their loved ones safe.
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“In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Thoreau in his iconic deathbed essay “Walking.”
Celebrates the bicentennial of Thoreau’s birth in 1817.
This summation of his life’s work, published posthumously in 1862, became a seminal influence in the modern environmental movement and is no less relevant today than 150 years ago. “Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present,” he wrote. He extolled walking as a delightful and necessary idleness, an antidote to the burdens of civilization, a means of immersing ourselves in nature and awakening to the moment.
“Walking” is recognized by most scholars as Thoreau’s “other” masterpiece, Walden in a more concise form. In the introduction of this edition, Adam Tuchinsky accessibly and engagingly unpacks the essay’s nineteenth-century associations, highlights the startling modernity of its sentiments, and reveals why Thoreau remains the towering figure in the history of American nature writing. Exquisite contemporary nature photographs curated by Denise Froehlich grace this handsome book.
B&W nature photos from Kurito Koichiro and other fine art photographers captioned with memorable lines from Thoreau’s writings.
About the Author
ADAM TUCHINSKY (Portland, ME) is Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Southern Maine and an Associate Professor of History. He is the author of Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune: Civil War-Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor (Cornell, 2009) and several essays on Transcendentalism. | <urn:uuid:172fc95f-d3d5-4a6d-ab4a-6e0c556aa927> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.concordbookshop.com/book/9780884486138 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.914871 | 386 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Holy Thursday, April 13
After sharing the Passover meal with his friends, Jesus began to wash their feet. Imagine the wonder on the faces of the apostles as Jesus moved from one to the other. It must have been a bit awkward for all of them, especially Peter.
This action of Jesus gives an image of what our church should look like, feel like, and act like. Sometimes we wash; other times we are washed. Both experiences have lessons to be learned and graces to be received.
Readings for Holy Thursday, April 13
- Reading 1, Isaiah 61:1-3A, 6A, 8B-9
- Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 89:21-22, 25 & 27
- Reading 2, Revelations 1:5-8
- Verse Before Gospel, Isaiah 61:1 (Cited in Luke 4:18)
- Gospel, Luke 4:16-21
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Windows 7 offers a much better utility for backing up your computer than previous versions of Windows, but sometimes it might take up too much disk space. Here we take a look at how to get some space back by deleting older backups.
Manage Backup Size
First click on Start and enter backup and restore in the search box and hit Enter.
Then under the Backup section click on Manage Space.
In the Manage Windows Backup disk space screen click on View Backups under the Data file backup section.
A list of backups for different time periods will show up. You can delete older ones and just keep the most current backup. This will free up a lot of space if you have several backups periods stored.
You will get a message making sure you want to delete the backup. If you delete the most recent backup, there is an option to delete it and run the backup again so everything is current.
Now that we’ve been able to free up some space, let’s take a look at how to keep only the most recent system image stored. Go back to the Manage Windows Backup disk space window we were at previously and this time click on Change settings which is under the System image section.
Now select Keep only the latest system image and minimize space used by backup then click Ok.
Backing up your system is extremely important, especially if you have a lot of sensitive data and important files. If you allow Windows to manage space, it will automatically save backup periods but won’t take up more than 30% of space on the backup disk. When it gets to the 30% range it will start deleting older system images. Use these tips if you use Windows Backup and Restore and need more room on the backup disk. First create more space by manually deleting the older backups manually, then have it only save the most recent backups.
Also check out our tutorial on Using Backup and Restore in Windows 7
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Join author Lauren Thompson and Mouse in celebrating Spring. Little Mouse and her Momma are out enjoying a Spring day when Mouse sees something flittery; it’s a beautiful butterfly. Just as she spots this new friend, a whoosh of wind blows and the butterfly flies away. Mouse and Momma continue their walk encountering all sorts of creatures peeking their heads out on this beautiful spring day. As Mouse meets each new friend, she invites the reader to guess with her, “Who could it be?”
Buket Erdogan’s bright acrylic paintings and Thompson’s nicely crafted guessing game introduce Mouse and readers to the joys that can be found on a Spring day as animals and plants emerge. Each illustration reflects the story’s progression, as Mouse and Momma encounter a snail, frog, and squiggly worm. The crisp contemporary font, short sentences, and repetition all work together to encourage beginning readers. Sight words, like the descriptive adjectives and onomatopoeia, are in bold to encourage shared reading and vocabulary building. Readers sharing this books may notice an error on page twenty-five where the word Mouse is bolded. Despite this oversight, readers of all ages will enjoy all the hallmarks of spring, and the elation of Mouse and Momma on their walk.
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Robots are a big part of our lives these days. They are used to help out in hospitals, for shipping purposes, and even to help us out in the kitchen. But have you ever wondered how they work? How to build a robot?
A robot is not a device; you just can make it in one day. Yes, you can, but that will be a toy robot. There are several stages involved if you want a robot for a big purpose.
You will need to make a prototype first to observe whether the robot is functioning as you want or not. If you have a 3D printer, only some small components could be finished by it.
But If you want your robot to join an event like BattleBots, then you’d better find a professional staff to finish your robotic project. Search “Rapid prototyping companies” or related words on google, you could find rapid prototyping companies who can help you to do these technical things in a short time.
With the development of technology development, more and more people are becoming interested in the possibility of programming robots. Although it may seem like a daunting task, it is actually very easy to get started with robots. Here’s how to build a robot for beginners.
Right now building a small robot is not difficult, you can also try it yourself! Below is an easy-to-follow guide, you can learn how to build a robot that can move and do all sorts of amazing things.
What is a Robot?
The word robot conjures up images of science fiction movies and television shows. Today’s robots are far different from the robots of old. Today’s robots are far different from the robots of old.
Robots are becoming increasingly common in our society. They can be found in factories, offices, homes, and even in our schools and hospitals. However, they help us do our jobs and protect us when we are not around. They are our companions, our helpers, and our partners in crime.
A robot is an artificial device that performs tasks usually done by humans. The word robot comes from the Czech word robota, which means work. Today, robots are used in many different places, from factories to restaurants.
They are used to doing jobs that are too dangerous or hard for humans, like exploring space, building bridges, and even performing surgeries.
How to Build a Robot for Beginners a Step by Step Guide
For a highly functional robot, the process is a bit complex. The engineering team needs to make several prototypes before the main product. But for DIY robots we don’t need that.
Here we will describe how to build a normal robot using your household equipment. So, let’s get started:
What You’ll Need To Build A Robot?
- Soldering Pencil
- Needle-nose Pliers
- Wire Stripper
- Putting together the motors for your robot
- Glue the Wires Together
- Romeo BLE Controller assembly and Connect the Battery
- Create the power toggle switch
- Set Up a Microcontroller Board and Motors
- Program your Robot
Putting together the motors for your robot
Examine the bag containing the components to find eight long screws. These screws will secure your motors.
The robot’s component bag has washers and gaskets. Washers improve rubbing and help secure the electric motor.
When the robot is in motion or when it comes into contact with an object, the gaskets provide the function of preventing the screw nuts from becoming dislodged and dropping to the ground.
Glue the Wires Together
Keep an eye out for wires that are black and red. Attach 15-centimeter black and red wires to each motor.
Remove the cable insulation with a wire stripper. Don’t exaggerate. Then solder the wires onto the pins that are attached to the motors. Repeat with remaining motors.
Make a mark for the red and black wires at the appropriate locations, and then solder them in the appropriate places.
Romeo BLE Controller assembly and Connect the Battery
Get 3 copper supports from the bag. One-centimeter-long supports are frequent. They’ll secure the Romeo board.
The board has three holes. Screw in the three copper supports. Then remove two countersunk screws with flat heads from the bag of components and use them to secure the battery to the underside of the car.
Create the power toggle switch
Adjust the settings on your power switch. Batteries are required for robots to function.
The utilization of power can be controlled by the power switch. When the robot is not operating or moving, the power switch will shut off automatically. Be mindful of the gasket series and the screw nuts while you are installing a robotics switch.
After assembly, solder the button’s circuits. Use some cut-off cables. As in step 1, remove the insulation to expose the copper wire. Solder cables to button pins. Setting button pins is important. So:
a) Connect a button to the battery charger and note the setting. b) Solder the switch's red cables to the battery charger. c) Get a red and black cable to finish. Attach the first cable to the battery charger's negative pole and the second cable to its positive pole. The Romeo BLE controller.
When you’re done soldering, make sure the battery and Romeo controller wiring is consistent.
Set Up a Microcontroller Board and Motors
Connect motors to a microcontroller. Careful! Sold the left motor’s red and black wires to M2 and the right motors to M1.
Observe the battery pack. Solder the black wire into GND and the red wire into VND. Screw drivers open and close cable ports. Once you plug in the cords, secure the ports.
After attaching the motor wires to the microcontroller board, connect the robot’s top and bottom plates. Attach the sensor plate before the top plate. You can postpone this action.
Program your Robot
After making your robot, upload the microcontroller so it can move. Now that your robot is fully assembled, it can move.
There are many sample codes online. Download one that suits your machine and then upload it to the microcontroller. Check the batteries and power switch if they don’t work.
Once the motors operate, your robot is complete. Move your robotic automobile. If the robotic car travels forward and backward in seconds, the parameters are correct. If not, modify.
Robotics is our future. From household work to replacing inside parts of our body, robotics is everywhere. We hope our initiative to build a robot for beginners will help you become more enthusiastic in this technology department. | <urn:uuid:56e09ec3-4708-4c2c-a511-aac259f5f2ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smartbusinessdaily.com/how-to-build-a-robot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.913158 | 1,417 | 3.359375 | 3 |
The hummus expired on January 15. The rashers are a week out of date. The milk should have been thrown out four days ago. And I’m very shortly going to eat an M&S chocolate pudding with a use-by date of January 19.
Since implementing this new year resolution, I’m fine. I haven’t been sick, nor struck by a dodgy tummy. The food still tastes good, and I’ve drastically reduced my waste.
For years, my dad has extolled the virtues of smelling your food before you eat it. Does it smell sour, or gone off? If not, then it’s not. Dad’s hardly ever sick and I’m guessing it’s because he has cultivated a fierce immune system (he also spent nearly two decades working in the dairy industry, so he knows a think or two about food).
We all use our common sense with best before dates, recognising them as merely a guideline. But use by dates are, strangely, considered sacrosanct. In reality, they’re also a guideline, with food producers keen to cover their backs. One market stallholder told me that the anchovies I bought would be good for seven days in the fridge, but quietly whispered that they’re probably good for up to ten. You’ll know by the smell.
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INTEG Spring 2016
Spring 2016 | Volume 1
Virtual to Reality: Improving Design Collaboration
INTEG Spring 2016
Welcome to another edition of IN TEG. In our last edition, I wrote about how clinical technology is changing the way health care is delivered across the world. In this edition of IN TEG, we discuss how technology is changing the way TEG collaborates with our clients through the use of virtual reality (VR).
The use of VR goggles and 360-degree, computer-generated images allows our design teams to refine designs to levels never experienced. Our team then creates images that allow our clients to literally stand inside a space or outside their buildings while viewing every detail — increasing effective client+design team collaboration.
The human brain is capable of incredible things, but not every person can visualize a three-dimensional space or building while viewing a two-dimensional drawing such as a floor plan. Using VR to illustrate spaces in three dimensions facilitates extensive collaboration. The essence of highly productive collaboration is that all parties are fully engaged in the review and commentary on design solutions.
In a novel by Edwin A. Abbot, titled “Flatland,” he explores how two dimensional objects such as squares, triangles and circles live on a flat plane. Abbot then introduces a three dimensional object, a sphere, which teaches the other objects how to act as a three dimensional form. This is essentially what VR at TEG does for our clients. Oh, by the way, Abbots novel was written more than 100 years ago. While not a new idea, application of this innovation and technology to a design collaboration process is certainly a new idea made possible by computer technology and tools that allow us to take this technology to our clients.
This is only the start of how technology is improving TEG’s abilities to engage our clients in the facility design process. As we approach a project, our planners and designers look at how we can improve every aspect of our client’s operations. Regardless of project type, we explore ways design can improve efficiency and productivity. In our latest book, “Efficient Design+Productive Care: The Return on Investment of Facility Design,” TEG demonstrates the process we use to engage our clients and the financial results of partnering with our client to shape facilities that improve how clinical care is delivered — increasing patient satisfaction and elevating patient outcomes.
As an architect who started his career being taught how to draw by hand, communicate by hand and collaborate with hand-drawn illustrations, now being able to use 360-degree, computer-generated images delivered by goggles has been an incredible experience. I’m glad to have been along for the ride and can’t wait to write many more chapters.
R. Wayne Estopinal, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP
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CHARACTERISTICS AND ORIGIN OF IRON MINERALIZATION IN NORTHERN SANANDAJ – SIRJAN ZONE (IRAN – IRAQ)
The studied iron mineralization is located in the northwestern parts of the Sanandaj – Sirjan Zone (SaSZ) of Iran and extends inside Iraq. This zone is bordered by the Urumieh – Dokhtar magmatic arc and the Zagros Thrust Zone, which is the boundary between the Arabian and Iranian plates. The SaSZ is very important for its iron, manganese and gold mineralizations. The main iron ore localities and mining sites in the area are studied in this work. The study included field characterization, petrologic and geochemical analysis. The aim of the present work is to study the genesis and paragenetic history of the Fe mineralization in this zone. The results indicate a two-phase formation process with two different paragenesis of iron mineralization in most of the localities studied in the region of the northern Sanandaj – Sirjan Zone; one of low temperature and the other formed at high temperature. The first phase represents sedimentary exhalative iron oxides layers. The second phase is metamorphogenic, following orogenesis, metamorphism, and plutonism. High-temperature fluids released from the solidification of a large plutonic body remobilized iron oxides of the first phase and caused deposition as magnetite and high-temperature silicate veins within higher stratigraphic levels. | <urn:uuid:78fc7bec-b52f-4d67-aa30-95e9da50b66a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ibgm-iq.org/ibgm/index.php/ibgm/article/view/430 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.919556 | 321 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Today we'll be looking at the usage of " A/V ~(으)ㄴ/는지 " Korean grammar point with some example sentences.
A connective ending used to indicate an ambiguous reason or judgment about the following statement.
It is a sentence-final ending used to indicate a vague doubt.
The basic conjugation rules are :
Present tense : Adjectives
- When the stem ends with a vowel add ~ㄴ지
- When the stem ends with a consonant add ~은지
Present tense : Verbs
Add ~는지 irrespective of whether the verb stem ends with a consonant or vowel.
Past tense : Adjectives/Verbs
- If the stem ends with 오 or 아 add ~았는지 after the stem.
- If the stem ends with anything other than 오 or 아 add ~었는지 after the stem.
Future tense : Verbs
- If the verb stem ends with a vowel add ~ㄹ 건지 at the end.
- If the verb stem ends with a consonant add ~을 건지 at the end.
Lets see some example sentences :
1) It was so expensive that I couldn't buy the item.
어찌나 비싼지 차마 그 물건을 살 수 없었다.
2) I was worried if my younger brother fell down the stairs and got hurt.
동생이 계단에서 넘어져 다친 건 아닌지 걱정이 되더군요.
3) Are you healthy these days?
4) Time flies so fast!
세월이 어찌나 빠른지!
5) I was so happy that I hummed automatically.
어찌나 기분이 좋은지 콧노래가 절로 나왔다.
6) Are you the same age as Jisoo?
지수와 나이가 같은지?
7) Is it okay to choose this book ?
이 책으로 선택해도 좋은지 ?
8) Is it okay to eat dinner now?
지금 저녁을 먹어도 괜찮은지?
9) Don't you have enough travel funds?
여행 자금이 충분하지 않은지?
10) Let's see if Seung Kyu did well on the test.
승규가 시험은 잘 쳤는지.
11) How are all the adults doing?
집안 어른들은 다 잘 계시는지?
12) Is there a reason you can't say why you suddenly quit your job?
갑자기 직장을 그만둔 말 못할 이유가 있는지.
13) Jisoo said that all of a sudden, so I was really flustered.
지수가 갑자기 그런 말을 해서 얼마나 당황스러웠는지!
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Learning Korean can be tricky, especially when the goal of your learning is conversation. If you’ve ever attempted to speak Korean but were unable to, then hopefully you’ll find this post helpful.
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Rationale: Several studies in mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have shown a higher than normal ventilatory equivalent for carbon dioxide ([Formula: see text]e/[Formula: see text]co2) during exercise. Our objective was to examine pulmonary gas exchange abnormalities and the mechanisms of high [Formula: see text]e/[Formula: see text]co2 in mild COPD and its impact on dyspnea and exercise intolerance.
Methods: Twenty-two subjects (11 patients with GOLD [Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease] grade 1B COPD, 11 age-matched healthy control subjects) undertook physiological testing and a symptom-limited incremental cycle exercise test with arterial blood gas collection.
Measurements and main results: Patients (post-bronchodilator FEV1: 94 ± 10% predicted; mean ± SD) had evidence of peripheral airway dysfunction and reduced peak oxygen uptake compared with control subjects (80 ± 18 vs. 113 ± 24% predicted; P<0.05). Arterial blood gases were within the normal range and effective alveolar ventilation was not significantly different from control subjects throughout exercise. The alveolar-arterial O2 tension gradient was elevated at rest and throughout exercise in COPD (P<0.05). [Formula: see text]e/[Formula: see text]co2, dead space to tidal volume ratio (Vd/Vt), and arterial to end-tidal CO2 difference were all higher (P<0.05) in patients with COPD than in control subjects during exercise. In patients with COPD versus control subjects, there was significant dynamic hyperinflation and greater tidal volume constraints (P<0.05). Standardized dyspnea intensity ratings were also higher (P<0.05) in patients with COPD versus control subjects in association with higher ventilatory requirements. Within all subjects, Vd/Vt correlated with the [Formula: see text]e/[Formula: see text]co2 ratio during submaximal exercise (r=0.780, P<0.001).
Conclusions: High Vd/Vt was the most consistent gas exchange abnormality in smokers with only mild spirometric abnormalities. Compensatory increases in minute ventilation during exercise maintained alveolar ventilation and arterial blood gas homeostasis but at the expense of earlier dynamic mechanical constraints, greater dyspnea, and exercise intolerance in mild COPD.
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September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. In honor of Gina DePalma, author of Dolce Italiano: Desserts from the Babbo Kitchen and Executive Pastry Chef of Babbo Ristorante in NYC, who was recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Sara of Ms Adventures in Italy, Jenn of The Leftover Queen, and Michelle of Bleeding Espresso are asking you to donate to the:
Ovarian Cancer Research Fund
and then, out of the goodness of your hearts and to be eligible for the OFoods for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Contest, please do the following:
1. Post a recipe to your blog using a food that starts or ends with the letter O (e.g., oatmeal, orange, okra, octopus, olive, onion, potato, tomato) and include this entire text box in the post;
We will post a roundup and announce prize winners on October 3.
* 1 Recipe Prize for best “O food” concoction: $50 gift certificate to Amazon;
* 1 Awareness Prize for only publicizing event: Copy of Dolce Italiano cookbook.
From the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund:
* Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancers in the United States and is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women; a woman’s lifetime risk of ovarian cancer is 1 in 67.
* The American Cancer Society estimates that 21,650 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the U.S. in 2008 and about 15,520 women will die from the disease.
* The symptoms of ovarian cancer are often vague and subtle, making it difficult to diagnose. There is no effective screening test for ovarian cancer but there are tests which can detect ovarian cancer when patients are at high risk or have early symptoms.
* In spite of this patients are usually diagnosed in advanced stages and only 45% survive longer than five years. Only 19% of cases are caught before the cancer has spread beyond the ovary to the pelvic region.
* When ovarian cancer is detected and treated early on, the five-year survival rate is greater than 92%.
My entry to help support this wonderful cause is:
Olive Tapenade (adapted from RecipeZaar)
- 3/4 cup pitted kalamata olives
- 1/2 cup pine nuts
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1/2 cup fresh parsley
- 1/4 tsp dried basil or 1 tsp fresh basil
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- fresh ground pepper to taste
Add garlic to food processor, blend until minced. Add remaining ingredients except olive oil. Blend until smooth, adding olive oil slowly while the blade is running.
- Adjust ingredients to your liking - Additional pine nuts, parsley or pitted canned black olives will make it less salty and intense in flavor, while additional oil will increase the creaminess. You can also use other fresh herbs such as sage or rosemary.
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Happy Halloween, kids! It's just like the goldfish's funeral. Somebody stop me.
H alloween or Hallowe'en is a contraction of "All Hallows Eve.” Hallows is Gaelic for “saints” (“holy ones,” literally). So, All Saints Eve. Like Christmas Eve. (Nov. 1st is All Saints Day.)
And a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church, meaning you have to go to mass just like on Sunday. Only we never made you go because we weren’t very good Catholics. Technically, it kicks off the three-day religious observance dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints, martyrs and all the faithful departed believers. (Nov. 2nd is All Souls Day.)
Primarily a Christian observance, Halloween is celebrated mainly in the US and Canada these days and evidently Ireland, too, where it supposedly all started. "El Dia de los Muertos."is a decidedly different and more somber affair.
Halloween is one of the world’s oldest holidays, although why they call it a holiday is hard to understand. Nobody ever got off from work or school for it. Although Catholic schools gave you all Saints Day off, which I always considered one of the chief advantages of growing up Catholic. We generally weren’t allowed out on school nights, and trick or treating (both) were decidedly nighttime activities.
Typical Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, decorating the house and yard with increasingly large, expensive and ersatz displays, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bobbing for apples and drinking to excess. All of which you are all old enough to have experienced first-hand.
And talking about the state of the US economy and what politicians are trying to do to ruin it.
Unemployment stands at 5.1 percent (down from 5.9 percent last year). And even John Boehner has given up asking, "Where are the jobs?” Right now he’s one of the few without one, although he’ll probably have no trouble finding a new one, assuming, unlike everyone on welfare, he really wants to.
The Federal government’s fiscal year (FY’15) closed Sept. 30. Revenues were $3.249 trillion, up 8 percent. Spending was $3.685 trillion, up 5 percent. The deficit was $435 billion, the smallest since 2007 and at 2.4 percent of GDP slightly below the average of the past 50 years. Which is why even the most obdurate Republicans no longer complain Obama is spending us into the poor house.
Now the complaint is that he still hasn’t got into a land war in Syria. And Putin has. Americans: they’re never satisfied.
How bad have things gotten? The House's 40-member Conservative Freedom Caucus has had to recruit Planned Parenthood as poster child for their annual "Shut Down the Government" drive this year. Oh, the humanity!
A majority of Americans, who still believe the economy is getting worse, are probably going to be too distracted with Halloween preparations to take much notice of a government shut down. Busy putting in place their own economic stimulus package. Consumers are expected to spend an average of $74.34 apiece this Halloween. That's down a litle from last year, but total spending should still reach $6.9 billion.
Try to stay safe tonight. But don't be afraid to go out and spread a little cash around. Why not head over to Planned Parenthood and see what they've got to offer? Theyre going to need the dough if they do get defunded. While you're there take in some seasonal cult rituals. (See story below.) Get in the spirit.
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Satanic temples are hidden in Planned Parenthood clinics as ‘legal cover’ for child sacrifice
Oct 8, 2015
By David Edwards, Raw Story.com
Pastor Jim Bakker and the guests on his show asserted this week that Satanic worship services were taking place in some Planned Parenthood clinics, which were being used a legal cover for the ritual sacrifice of children.
On Thursday’s episode of the Jim Bakker Show, co-host Zach Drew observed that “the most dangerous place for a human to be in America today [is] inside the mother’s womb.”
According to co-host Lori Bakker, one in five “babies” — and one in two African-American “babies” — were aborted in the United States. And she argued that Planned Parenthood had purposefully placed clinics in the black community because the organization’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was a racist who believed that blacks should die.
Although the Sanger myth has been debunked numerous times, guest pastor Rick Wiles and Jim Bakker both agreed.
“And we think, what’s going on the black community, that black lives matter — and they do! My God, they do!” Jim Bakker exclaimed. “Every life matters. Black lives matter in the womb. Let’s find out where the real enemies are!”
“The real reason Planned Parenthood has abortions in the black community is because the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a racist,” Wiles opined. “She’s the founding mother of eugenics. And she taught that blacks should be eliminated.”
“Planned Parenthood means kill the babies so that’s the plan,” Jim Bakker replied.
“They’re natal Nazis,” Wiles added. “It’s a pile of babies almost 70 million babies tall, mountains and mountains and mountains of babies,” Jim Bakker said. “This is why God’s judgement is coming.”
The pastor noted that creationism had to be true because “there are no accidental babies.”
“You are sitting here talking about this and I think you have — your eyes are there,” Jim Bakker said, pointing at Wiles. “They’re not below your mouth. Your mouth didn’t somehow land up [on your forehead]. If this was all accidental, you know, you’d have an ear there.”
Wiles said that a former Satanist told him that he “performed 164 Satanic rituals inside of abortion clinics.”
“Absolutely!” Lori Bakker chimed in. “I can’t prove it because I wasn’t there… I will tell you, especially on Halloween, that many many many many Satanic rituals — abortion rituals — are performed. It’s the truth.”
“I’ve had women sit as close as Jim is to me, as you are to me, crying, screaming from their innermost being because they were in those Satanic rituals where their babies were aborted,” she insisted.
Wiles claimed that his former Satanist friend said that “sacrificing a human life is the greatest thing that they can do for Lucifer.”
“Because murder is illegal, they have to find a way to have a sacrifice that are human,” Wiles continued. “And so because America has abortion, therefore, their doing these human sacrifices in an abortion clinic because it gives them a legal covering.”
“The anti-christ spirit is loose,” Jim Bakker declared. “You know, I believe the first horse of the apocalypse is the Satanic — the white horse, this apocalyptic being is the spirit of anti-christ. And it is riding, this spirit is here.”
“Satan has always wanted to be God. And he can’t create so he wants to kill God’s creations.”
Police uncover house of horrors in Florida
September 17, 2015
By Casey Cumley, WTSP-TV, Tampa
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. -- You may never look at your neighbor's home the same way again after this story.
"My family has been through hell for two years with this woman," said Paula Deford, who says her neighbor 47-year-old Nickcole Dykema was caught on her surveillance video attacking her home with a knife twice in recent weeks. "It's just been torment, torment."
Parole officers arrived at Dykema's home in the 12100 block of Eldorado Avenue Tuesday night to serve multiple felony warrants. They had no idea the house of horrors that awaited them.
When Sergeant Chris Calderon arrived, he said Dykema looked directly at him through a broken window of the house and then disappeared back into the home. Calderon gave commands for her to come out, but she only responded with obscenities and told officers to "leave her property."
At that point, officers called the sheriff's office for reinforcements. When they arrived the officers decided to force their way inside, at which point, Dykema reportedly grabbed a large sword, or machete, and tried to stab Sergeant Calderon, missing his face and head by only inches. She then disappeared into another part of the house.
"He [Sgt. Calderon] would have been well within his rights legally, morally and ethically to use deadly force on her," said Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis.
Deputies eventually found a set of feet standing in the corner of the mobile home, possibly hiding under or behind a blanket. They then saw a long, silver, shiny sword waving around behind the blanket and asked Dykema to come out with her hands up.
She refused and moved towards the deputies with the sword. Sergeant Bill Hillman deployed a bean bag round at her which had no effect. She fled into a room in the home that contained more than 500 bladed weapons.
Dykema armed herself with more blades and advanced toward the deputies. Another officer fired a bean bag round hitting her abdomen and thigh. She then retreated to another section of the home.
Deputies were staged at the front door behind shields as Dykema eventually emerged from behind a hanging blanket, advancing toward deputies.
Deputies ordered her to turn around so they could make sure she didn't have any weapons behind her back, but it appeared as if she was retreating back into her residence. That's when Corporal Stephen Miller deployed his Taser and Dykema fell to the ground.
She was quickly taken into custody by deputies on scene.
During inventory of Dykema's home, deputies found upwards of 2,000 bladed devices -- even an altar of some sort.
"I think most people would look at that and think that it does seem to at least mimic satanic worship," Nienhuis said.
On Wednesday, deputies brought out box after box of knives, blades, and swords. Sheriff Nienhuis says it could be hours before they process all the evidence which included "some Halloween-type things that are fake and even some bones that we feel are chicken bones," said Nienhuis. Deputies also found a pentagram and a ceiling fan with knives attached to it.
"I also think that it's not outside the realm of possibility that there's probably some mental illness here," said Nienhuis. "I know she's very dangerous," said Deford.
Deford said after seeing the parade of blades come from Dykema's home she has only one thought. "I'm lucky to be alive that's how I feel that's exactly how I feel."
This isn't the first time deputies had a confrontation with Dykema. In December 2014, they were called out to the Dollar Tree on Cortez Boulevard on suspicion of shoplifting. When deputies tried to get her into custody for providing a false name and date of birth, she resisted but was quickly subdued and detained. | <urn:uuid:496c7d2e-fe08-4642-aacc-caae86206bd6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://websitesammy.com/halloween/index15.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.97375 | 2,531 | 2.078125 | 2 |
How Technology Can Streamline Your Business’s OperationsJune 4, 2018 No Comments
Featured article by Rick DelGado, Independent Technology Author
Embracing the latest tech trends is essential for your business’s success. It can streamline your business’s operations, allowing you to produce and sell more products in less time. And failure to take advantage of technology may allow your competitors to gain an edge in your market. If you’re reluctant to adopt new tech trends, you should consider some of the following benefits that it offers.
Reach Mobile Device Users
Using the right technology, you can reach mobile device users with digital marketing campaigns. The Small Business Administration (SBA) explains that more people now access the internet through smartphones, smart wearables, tablets and other mobile devices than through traditional desktop computers. Therefore, neglecting to target these users in your marketing campaigns is a serious mistake that will cost your business sales.
You can reach mobile users by developing a mobile-friendly website. There are three primary mobile-friendly design configurations from which you can choose: dynamically serving HTML, a separate mobile website or a responsive theme. However, Google only recommends the latter because of its high level of cross-compatibility. In addition to using a mobile-friendly design for your business’s website, you can also use online advertising networks to reach mobile users. Facebook Ads, Google AdWords and Bing Ads all support device targeting, meaning you can create ads that only display to mobile device users.
Technology also allows you to monitor your business’s performance. Tracking all customer and vendor transactions manually is time consuming and tedious. Whenever you make a sale, you must create a record of it. The right technology, however, can streamline sales tracking while providing insight into your business’s performance in the process. Accounting software, for example, can reveal key performance indicators (KPIs) like cash flow, gross profit margin and inventory turnover rate whereas digital marketing software can reveal the conversion rates, click-through rates and ad impressions of your marketing campaigns.
Reports show that businesses spend up to five hours calculating their payroll for each pay period. By automating this process, however, businesses can save time, energy and money while also reducing the risk of human error. Accounting software and human resources software typically support payroll automation. According to the American Payroll Association (APA), automating payroll lowers processing-related expenses by 80 percent, making software products such as these a smart investment.
Foster Customer Relationships
Customers are an invaluable resource for your business. When customers are happy and satisfied with your business, they’ll probably return to make additional purchases in the future. According to a study cited by Business2Community, three-fourths of consumers will spend more money with businesses that provide a positive customer experience than their counterparts that provide a negative experience. You can foster positive, long-lasting customer relationships using the software. Customer relationship management (CRM) software is designed specifically for this purpose. It offers a central hub where you can manage customers’ information and nurture them through the sales funnel. Some CRM software can even automate tasks like email marketing and order confirmations, further streamlining your business’s operations.
Improve Product Quality
You should constantly improve the product or products offered by your business. Otherwise, a competing business may launch a better product for a lower price, thus stealing your customers. Thankfully, technology can help you with this process. You can use marketing software, for example, to identify which products have the strongest demand, or you can use email software to send customers satisfaction surveys. This information can help you create a better product that’s more aligned with the needs of your business’s customers.
Finally, technology allows workers to collaborate on projects so that they accomplish a single, shared goal. There are dozens of cloud-based collaboration apps, some of which include Trello, SharePoint, Google Docs, Microsoft Teams, Samepage and Asana. Using these apps, workers can share files, exchange messages and work together on projects. And because collaboration apps are hosted online, they allow workers to access files and project information from any internet-connected device.
Technology offers countless benefits for your business. Using it, you can reach mobile users with marketing messages, monitor your business’s performance, foster customer relationships, automate payroll, improve the quality of your products and encourage worker collaboration.
by Rick DelGado, Independent Author
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Visiting colleges is a great way to get a feel for what college is like. And when the time comes, it can help you decide if a specific college is right for you. Exploring campuses is well worth your while.
Campus visits can range from a quick hour to an overnight stay, from a casual guided tour to a formal presentation. At many colleges, you can also arrange to do the following:
- Meet with a professor.
- Meet with an admission officer.
- Meet with a financial aid officer.
- Attend a club meeting or a sports practice session.
- Eat in the dining hall.
- Spend the night in a dorm.
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Graduates of our accounting degree program will play a central role in the financial life of a business or client. They will learn to assemble, identify, record, and interpret financial information in private and public accounting.
Automotive Service Technology
Students who earn our automotive degree are prepared to assume positions in the automotive industry as entry-level automotive technicians. Students become adept in all aspects of the automobile and automotive repair, including electrical/electronics, engine repair, engine performance, heating/AC, suspension, brakes, and transmissions.
Aviation Maintenance Technology
RVC offers an FAA Certified program in aviation maintenance as well as certification programs for airframe mechanic and powerplant mechanic. Aviation repair is a growing field that will need 584,000 new technicians in the next 20 years.
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Graduates of the Computers and Information Systems Program learn the complexities of computer software, hardware, and programming processes to enable them to be successful in the workplace. Although many graduates of the program begin work as entry-level programmers, opportunities are also available as a programmer/analyst, technical support specialist, PC specialist, operations specialist, and in database support.
Graduates of the Criminal Justice Program meet the minimum educational requirements necessary to complete for sworn positions at most local and state law enforcement agencies as well as, private security firms. With experience and additional training or education, there are opportunities for graduates to advance into areas of specialization and management. Opportunities include positions in law enforcement, crime prevention, probation, corrections, court records, communications/dispatch, and security/loss prevention.
Data Assurance & IT Security
Graduates of the Data Assurance & IT Security Program are prepared for a career in computer network and Internet security. Responsibilities include developing information security strategies, performing analyses, installing security software, monitoring network traffic, and developing emergency plans. Graduates secure jobs such as security specialists, network specialists, security technicians, security support specialists, and security assistants.
A career in dental hygiene offers opportunities in multiple settings. Registered Dental Hygienists are part of a dental health team. Dental hygienists work in private and corporate dental offices, where they provide treatment and services that help to prevent oral disease such as dental caries and periodontal disease and educate the client about maintenance of optimal oral health. They also work in hospitals, nursing homes, extended care facilities, schools, correctional facilities, health maintenance organizations and higher education institutions where they serve as faculty members.
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Graduates of the Early Childhood Education Program are well-versed in child development, developmentally appropriate practices, discipline techniques, and other integral facets of early childhood education. Students will be prepared to direct or teach at a day care center or preschool. Opportunities exist in home-based care, day care centers, nursery schools, preschools, private homes, and at before or after-school programs.
Electrician Apprenticeship (ELC)
The Electrician Apprentice (ELC) Program consists of a series of technical core courses covering the required classroom-related instruction for people who wish to become journeyman electrical workers. The program requires a minimum of 800 hours of related instruction and 8,000 hours of on-the-job training. Those who successfully complete the Electrician Apprentice Program are employed as residential or commercial wiremen, linemen, and/or advanced journeypersons.
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Graduates of the Electronic Engineering Technology Program have the necessary skills to use electronic test equipment to make measurements, understand electrical schematics and blueprints, analyze electronic circuits and understand fundamental design concepts, relate the principles of electrical circuits to hydraulic circuits and pneumatics. The graduates are ready to support manufacturing, design test equipment, produce and test products, and to assist in product development. Successful graduates secure positions as test equipment designers, quality assurance and reliability specialists, sales and service professionals, control system technicians, medical equipment experts, or as part of a manufacturing support team.
Few careers may be as physically challenging as they are deeply rewarding as is fire service. Ever changing technologies and firefighting tactics make the fire service a dynamic and exciting career. The Fire Science Program at RVC offers two learning options for students. Graduates have secured positions in fire protection and prevention, firefighting, dispatch/communications, fire equipment manufacturing and sales, and volunteer fire protection. With additional training, graduates can enter the specialties of fire inspection and insurance investigation.
Fitness, Wellness & Sport (Exercise Science or Sport Management)
The FWS degree provides students with the educational and practical experiences needed to obtain employment in sport, recreation, exercise, or fitness organizations. It also provides students the opportunity to transfer to a 4-year degree program in Exercise Science, Sport Management, or other related fields in order to enhance their earnings potential.
Graphic Arts Technology
Students in the program are prepared for a variety of jobs in the printing and publishing industry and related fields of graphic arts. The graphic arts industry is a major employer in Illinois. This program focuses on developing students with a well-rounded education encompassing both the creative and technical aspects of the industry with a focus on the digital production techniques that are changing the world of media delivery.
Manufacturing Engineering Technology
Graduates of this program are prepared for interdisciplinary careers in high-tech manufacturing and industrial technology. The areas of emphasis are modern design methods, production, and continuous improvement techniques. In addition to the areas of product design, 3-D CAD modeling, process planning, production scheduling, quality technician, and CNC programming and operation, a graduate of this degree may assume responsibilities in automated production, technical sales, and problem solving in many other areas of today’s dynamic world of manufacturing.
Nursing (A.A.S. Degree)
The Rock Valley College Associate Degree Nursing Program prepares graduates to work as entry-level registered professional nurses (RN) in a variety of health care settings, including acute care facilities, long-term care and many specialty related health care facilities. Classes, labs and clinical experiences are integrated into our nursing degree program.
The Office Professional Program allows students to focus on one of four areas of office administration: General office, medical office, legal office, or office software application professionals. Under the guidance of the Associate Dean of Business/CIS, students will be able to tailor a program that meets their unique needs.
Respiratory Care is an allied health profession that focuses on the care of patients with cardiopulmonary (heart and lung) problems. The graduates of the RVC program are prepared to work locally and nationally. As highly skilled and knowledgeable Registered Respiratory Therapists (RRT), they are vital parts of the health care team. RRT’s actively work to deliver direct patient care with physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals. This includes patient assessment to help guide the treatment, care, education, and rehabilitation of the patient.
Sustainable Energy Systems
Graduates of the Sustainable Energy Systems Program have a broad understanding of energy efficiency and conservation, comprehensive energy and electrical-load audits, alternative electrical energy generation using photovoltaics, wind turbines, fuel cells, and microhydro. They also understand how active and passive solar technology (including geothermal systems) can be used to produce air conditioning via heat pumps and radiant floor heating. They comprehend solar hot water heating systems as well as well as tankless hot water heating. The graduates are ready to work in alternative energy product and service development, testing and alternative energy product certifications with an emphasis on the electrical and electronic systems.
Web Programming & Design
Graduates of this program are prepared for a career in Website programming and support. Thus, students will not only be able to design Web pages, but apply technical specifications to bring them to life. Graduates of this program often work as Web programmers, Web programmer assistants, Web server systems administrators, Web designers, or Web media developers. Students obtaining this degree will be better prepared to take the following certifications: WOW, ZEND, PHP Certification, Magento Certification, and the W3C certification. | <urn:uuid:fbaec439-215e-45ea-8f2a-e925775c43ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rockvalleycollege.edu/Courses/Programs/index.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.930525 | 1,772 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Sweet and sour dishes are very popular in China, although the Chinese tend to use sweet and sour sauces as dipping sauces rather than for cooking, as is done in Westernized sweet and sour dishes. Here is a recipe for sweet and sour prawns.
- Large prawns — 16 (peel the prawn shell off, but leave the tails on)
- Macadamia nuts (or any nuts) — ½ cup
- Garlic — 3 cloves (chopped)
- Oil — 2 tbsp
- Tomato sauce — ¼ cup
- Water — ¼ cup
- Sugar — 1 tbsp
- Soy sauce — 1 tbsp
- Sesame oil — ½ tsp
- Tapioca flour — 1 tbsp
- Dried shallots — 1 tbsp
- Mix all the sauce ingredients into a bowl
- Put oil in a wok and sauté the garlic until light brown
- Add in the prawns and stir fry. When prawns are almost cooked, stir in the sauce
- When the sauce thickens, add nuts and mix well
- Optional — Decorate with spring onions and coriander
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SAN DIEGO–The number of local COVID-19 deaths went up by four and total cases increased by a record 152, the County Health and Human Services Agency said Thursday.
One person died April 16 and three died April 21. The ages of the four people who died ranged from 68 to 79 years. Two were men and two were women. All of them had underlying medical conditions.
To date, 100 San Diegans have died from complications of COVID-19. Of the people who have died, 88 were 60 years and older; 56 were men and 44 were women.
Of the nearly 39,000 COVID-19 tests administered to San Diegans, 2,643 have been positive including 152 additional cases announced today, the highest one-day total for the region since 146 cases were announced April 2. Increase in cases are anticipated as the region expands its testing capacity.
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At the second Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a major in the Army National Guard who was deployed to Iraq, accused President Donald Trump of helping al-Qaida.
"The problem is that this current president is continuing to betray us. We were supposed to be going after al-Qaida," Gabbard said about Trump and the organization that was responsible for the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
"But over (the) years now, not only have we not gone after al-Qaida, who is stronger today than they were in 9/11," she said, "our president is supporting al-Qaida."
In this fact-check, we focused on whether Trump has not gone after al-Qaida and whether he is supporting it. We found Gabbard is wrong on both counts.
(There are indications that al-Qaida is stronger today than it was on 9/11.)
Asked after the debate to explain her attack, Gabbard told Fox News that Trump’s "support and alliance with Saudi Arabia" is "both providing direct and indirect support" to al-Qaida, and that Saudi Arabia is "providing arms and support to al-Qaida in Yemen."
When we asked the Gabbard campaign to back up her statement, a spokesman referred not to Yemen, but Syria.
The spokesman said Trump "is protecting al-Qaida in Idlib, Syria, and through his arm deals with Saudi Arabia," is arming al-Qaida in Syria.
Terrorism experts told us that the United States has repeatedly fought against al-Qaida and that, even if a case can be made that some of the arms sold by the United States to Saudi Arabia end up with groups aligned with al-Qaida, Gabbard’s attack goes too far in saying Trump is supporting the terrorist group.
The first part of Gabbard’s claim was undercut on the day of the debate when news reports said that Hamza bin Laden, the son of al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden, was killed. The operation at least had support from the United States, according to the New York Times. And although it is not clear when he was killed, it was during the Trump administration, officials said.
ABC News, in checking Gabbard’s debate statement, said the United States is supporting Somali forces against an al-Qaida affiliate and that the United States has also conducted drone strikes against al-Qaida in Yemen.
Trump’s campaign also cited to us similar instances that have been reported in the news, including two U.S. air strikes. One in June 2019 was on an al-Qaida leadership and training facility in northern Syria where militants were "plotting external attacks" against American citizens; and one in December 2018 killed the al-Qaida terrorist who was behind the USS Cole bombing.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, chief executive officer of the Valens Global consulting firm and an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, made the point to us that the United States has, in effect, supported al-Qaida — but indirectly, and not intentionally.
During the Obama administration, he said, there was a revolution in Syria, and the United States gave arms to the rebels, but the rebels came to be dominated by jihadists, including al-Qaida. Some rebels with whom the United States worked turned around and provided arms that the United States gave to them to al-Qaida-aligned groups, he said.
But rebel support was discontinued under the Trump administration, so Gartenstein-Ross disagreed with Gabbard's suggestion that al-Qaida began benefiting from U.S. policy toward Syria under Trump.
As for U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia under the Trump administration, it is possible that some of the arms ended up with the rebels, Gartenstein-Ross said. But that would not be the same as the Trump administration sending arms to al-Qaida, he said.
GlobalSecurity.org director John Pike made a similar point about how some arms might end up with al-Qaida groups. "There has been some such four degrees-of-separation transfers, but it is contrary to U.S. and Saudi policy," he said. "That part of the world is awash with this stuff, and it would be impossible to keep track of everything."
While the United States is selling arms to countries who are thought to supply Islamist rebels in Syria, Gabbard’s claim about Trump "is extremely exaggerated," said Princeton University politics and international affairs professor Jacob Shapiro.
Carnegie Mellon University politics and strategy professor Colin Clarke went further, telling us that any claim that Trump is deliberately helping al-Qaida "is patently false."
Gabbard said that under Trump, "not only have we not gone after al-Qaida ... our president is supporting al-Qaida."
There have been numerous U.S. military actions against al-Qaida during the Trump administration.
While some arms sold by the United States to Saudi Arabia might ultimately end up with rebels groups in Syria that have ties to al-Qaida, the United States has been supporting those rebels since before Trump took office and the arm sales are not supporting al-Qaida.
We rate the statement False.
Twitter, CNN tweet and video clip, July 31, 2019
Email, Tulsi Gabbard campaign press assistant Cullen Tiernan, Aug. 1, 2019
Email, Donald Trump campaign spokesman Zach Parkinson, Aug. 1, 2019
New York Times, "Debate Fact Check: What Were They Talking About, and What Was True?" July 31, 2019
New York Times, "Son of Qaeda Founder Is Dead," July 31, 2019
NBC News, "Osama bin Laden's son and heir, Hamza, is dead, U.S. officials say," Aug. 1, 2019
Fox News, "Tulsi Gabbard defends debate claim that Trump supports Al Qaeda," July 31, 2019
CNN: "Trump: US military killed terrorist behind USS Cole bombing," Jan. 6, 2019
ABC News, "Democratic debate night 2: Fact-checking the candidates on the issues," Aug. 1, 2019
Email, GlobalSecurity.org director John Pike, Aug. 1, 2019
Email, Princeton University politics and international affairs professor Jacob Shapiro, Aug. 1, 2019
YouTube, "Going Underground with Afshin Rattansi" interview with Max Blumenthal, author of "The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump," May 25, 2019
Interview, Valens Global chief executive officer International Centre for Counter-Terrorism associate fellow Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Aug. 1, 2019
Interview, Carnegie Mellon University politics and strategy professor and International Centre for Counter-Terrorism associate fellow Colin Clarke, Aug. 1, 2019
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The surface of Mars is a frigid unwelcoming desert, but once upon a billions years ago there was an oasis, says a new study based on discoveries made by NASA’s Curiosity rover. But one mystery remains: was there life?
Using data gathered by the aptly named rover, scientists have determined a 100-mile-wide crater on the planet’s surface, dubbed “Gale,” was once dotted with small, salty lakes and ponds some 3.5 billion years ago. The finding provides a window deep into the Red Planet’s history, to a time when it may have been capable of sustaining life.
“Understanding when and how the planet’s climate started evolving is a piece of [a] puzzle: When and how long was Mars capable of supporting microbial life at the surface?” asked William Rapin, lead author of a study on some of Curiosity’s discoveries published in the Nature Geoscience journal on Monday.
The remnant of a massive asteroid or meteoroid impact, Gale Crater preserves a “unique record of a changing Mars,” Rapin said, making it the ideal place to search for evidence of the planet’s prehistoric climate.
One section of the crater known as “Old Soaker” contains perhaps the clearest signs of an ancient oasis, leaving behind what appears to be a lake bed of dried, cracked mud. Scientists believe the region underwent a cycle of wet and dry periods, before ultimately desiccating to its current state.
To better imagine how Mars’s oasis may have appeared in its prime, one might look closer to home. Rapin suggested the saline lakes on South America’s high planes, which are also known by their distinct reddish appearance, might offer a general idea.
Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars in 2012, where it has collected samples and studied the planet’s climate and geology for over 2,600 consecutive days, far surpassing its initial two-year mission. The car-sized rover is now in the process of scaling Mount Sharp, the huge landmass smack in the center of the Gale Crater. | <urn:uuid:364fad39-40c6-49b1-aebe-8b1cd0b771e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yerepouni-news.com/signs-of-life-nasas-curiosity-rover-discovers-ancient-oasis-on-mars-3-5-billion-years-in-the-making/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.956564 | 452 | 4.125 | 4 |
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|Location and accuracy||Discovery Creek, which is not named on the 1:63,360-scale topographic map, drains the south flank of Sukakpak Mountain. It is about 1 1/2 miles long and much of it is below a gold-stibnite-quartz vein (CH076). The site is somewhat arbitrarily plotted about 1.2 miles upstream from the mouth of the creek below the vein. The site is about 0.5 mile west-southwest of the center of section 22, T. 32 N., R. 10 W.|
Geologic descriptionDiscovery Creek is downslope from the gold-stibnite-quartz veins on Sukakpak Mountain (CH076). Little is known about this prospect but clasts of stibnite-quartz-vein material have been found in the creek gravels and there is some evidence of past placer mining or prospecting (Dillon, 1982; Kurtak and others, 2002). Suction dredging was reported in 1982.
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|Mineral deposit model||Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).|
|Mineral deposit model number||39a|
|Age of mineralization||Quaternary.|
|Workings or exploration||Suction dredging in 1982 and some evidence of drift mining in the early 1900s (Dillon, 1982; Huber, 1988; Kurtak and others, 2002).|
|Indication of production||Undetermined|
See also the nearby unnamed prospect on Sukapak Mountain (CH076) which is the probable source of any gold in this creek. This prospect is in the Alaska pipeline corridor which is not open to mineral entry.MAS No. 0020310072
Dillon, J.T., 1982, Source of lode and placer gold deposits of the Chandalar and upper Koyukuk Districts: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report AOF-158, 25 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Dillon, J.T., Reifenstuhl, R.R., and, Harris, G.W., 1996, Geologic map of the Chandalar C-5 quadrangle, southeastern Brooks Range, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Professional Report 104, 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
Huber, J.A., 1988, The geology and mineralization of the Sukakpak Mountain area, Brooks Range, Alaska: Fairbanks, University of Alaska, M.Sc. thesis, 81 p.
Kurtak, J.M., Klieforth, R.F., Clark, J.M., and Maclean, E.A., 2002, Mineral investigations in the Koyukuk mining district, northern Alaska, 2 vols.: Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Technical Report 50, 845 p.
Mosier, E.L., Cathrall, J.B., Antweiler, J.C., Tripp, R.B., Lueck, L., and Eakins, G.R., 1987, Gold occurrences and characteristics in the Chandalar-Koyukuk area, in Albanese, M.A., and Campbell, B.W., eds., Proceedings of 9th Annual Alaska Conference on Placer Mining: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Miscellaneous Paper 9, p. 45-53.
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Class 12 chemistry important questions with answers are provided here for Chapter 11 – Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers. These important questions are based on the CBSE board curriculum and correspond to the most recent Class 12 chemistry syllabus. By practising these Class 12 important questions, students will be able to quickly review all of the ideas covered in the chapter and prepare for the Class 12 Annual examinations as well as other entrance exams such as NEET and JEE.
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Short Answer Type Questions
Q1. What is the structure and IUPAC name of glycerol?
Glycerol is a trihydric alcohol. The structure of glycerol is
So, IUPAC name is — propan- 1, 2, 3-triol.
Q2. Write the IUPAC name of the following compounds.
The IUPAC name for the compounds is given below.
Q3. Write the IUPAC name of the compound given below.
The IUPAC name of the compound given below is 3-methylpent-2-ene-1, 2-diol.
Q4. Name the factors responsible for the solubility of alcohols in water.
- Hydrogen bonds – Because of their propensity to create hydrogen bonds with water molecules or intermolecular hydrogen bonding, alcohols are soluble in water.
- Size of the alkyl or aryl groups – The solubility of alcohols in water diminishes as the size of the alkyl or aryl groups grows larger. The presence of intermolecular hydrogen bonding between alcohol molecules makes low molecular mass alcohols liquid in water.
- Molecular mass of the Alcohols – It reduces the effect of the polar character of the –OH group of alcohol with an increase in the alkyl group of alcohol or in the case of large molecular mass alcohols. As a result, as the molecular size of an alcohol increases, its solubility drops, therefore alcohols with lower molecular masses are more soluble than alcohols with larger molecular masses.
Q5. What is denatured alcohol?
Denatured alcohol is ethanol (ethyl alcohol) that has been made unfit for human consumption by adding another chemical to it. Denaturing refers to removing a property from the alcohol (being able to drink it), not chemically altering or decomposing it. There are hundreds of ways ethanol is denatured. Denatured alcohol that is intended for use as a fuel or solvent typically contains 5% or more methanol.
Q6. Suggest a reagent for the following conversion.
The given reactant is H3C−CH=CH−CH(OH)−CH3. It is a secondary alcohol. Secondary alcohol gives ketone when oxidised by CrO3 or pyridinium chlorochromate without carrying out oxidation at the double bond.
Q7. Out of 2-chloroethanol and ethanol which is more acidic and why?
The acidity of 2-chloroethanol is higher than that of ethanol. The Cl atom have electron-withdrawing nature so it will withdraw the electron density from the O-H bond thus making the O-H bond weak. As a result, the O-H bond of 2-chloroethanol weakens compared to the O-H bond of ethanol. As a result, 2-chloroethanol is acidic in comparison to ethanol.
Cl ← CH2 ← CH2 ← O ← H > CH3 → CH2 → O → H
Stronger acid due to the -I effect of Cl.
Q8. Suggest a reagent for conversion of ethanol to ethanal.
Ethanol can be oxidized into ethanal by using pyridinium chlorochromate.
Q9. Suggest a reagent for conversion of ethanol to ethanoic acid.
Acidified KMnO4 or K2Cr2O7 can be used to convert ethanol to ethanoic acid. Both KMnO4 and K2Cr2O7 are powerful oxidizers.
Q10. Out of o-nitrophenol and p-nitrophenol, which is more volatile? Explain.
o-nitrophenol is more volatile than p-nitrophenol due to the presence of intramolecular hydrogen bonding. In para nitrophenol intermolecular hydrogen bonding is present. This intermolecular hydrogen bonding causes the association of molecules.
Q11. Out of o-nitrophenol and o-cresol which is more acidic?
The presence of an electron-withdrawing group (–NO2) in an ortho position relative to the –OH group increases the acidic strength of the chemical by stabilising the phenoxide ion, allowing o-nitrophenol to easily release a proton.
Because of the presence of an electron releasing group, o-cresol is less acidic (alkyl group). They prevent the production of the phenoxide ion. As a result, the compound’s acidic strength is reduced.
Q12. When phenol is treated with bromine water, a white precipitate is obtained. Give the structure and the name of the compound formed.
When phenol is treated with bromine water, white ppt, of 2,4,6- tribromophenol is obtained.
Q13. Arrange the following compounds in increasing order of acidity and give a suitable explanation. Phenol, o-nitrophenol, o-cresol.
Increasing order of acidity : o-cresol < phenol < o-nitrophenol
O-nitrophenol is a stronger acid than phenol due to the -I and -R effects of the NO2 group, but o-cresol is a weaker acid due to the +I effect of the CH3 group.
Q14. Alcohols react with active metals e.g. Na, K etc. to give corresponding alkoxides. Write down the decreasing order of reactivity of sodium metal towards primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols.
The +I effect is produced by an electron releasing group, which raises the electron density on oxygen while decreasing the polarity of the O-H bond. The electron density on the O-H bond increases as the number of alkyl groups grows from one to three alcohols.
When going from one to three alcohols, the polarity will decrease and the strength of the O-H bond will grow.
As we all know, sodium metal is basic in nature, whereas alcohols are acidic. As a result, as the acidic strength lowers, the reactivity of alcohol with sodium metal reduces. As a result, the right sequence is 1>2>3.
Q15. What happens when benzene diazonium chloride is heated with water?
The phenol is formed. When benzene diazonium chloride is heated with water, it produces phenol as well as nitrogen gas and hydrochloric acid as by-products.
This process is frequently used to produce phenol from aniline. Diazonium salt is generated when aniline is treated with NaNO2/HCl.
Q16. Arrange the following compounds in decreasing order of acidity. H2O, ROH, HC≡CH
A stronger acid takes away the salt of a weaker acid. ROH is formed when RONa is handled with H2O, hence water is a stronger acid than ROH. Acetylene is produced when sodium ethynide is handled with water and alcohol in the same way.
As a result, water and alcohol are more acidic than ethyne, and the decreasing order of acidity of given compounds is as follows:
H2O > ROH > HC≡CH
Q17. Name the enzymes and write the reactions involved in the preparation of ethanol from sucrose by fermentation.
Invertase and zymase are enzymes that are utilised in the fermentation process to convert sucrose to ethanol.
Sucrose is transformed to glucose and fructose by the enzyme invertase, and then glucose and fructose are turned to ethanol in the presence of zymase. The following is the response that occurs during the process:
C12H22O11 + H2O → C6H12O6 + C6H12O6
C6H12O6 → 2CH3CH2OH(Ethanol) + 2CO2
Q18. How can propan-2-one be converted into tert-butyl alcohol?
Propan-2-one is a ketone when treated with Grignard reagents that give tertiary alcohols.
Q19. Write the structures of the isomers of alcohols with molecular formula C4H10O. Which of these exhibits optical activity?
Four isomers of alcohols with molecular formula C4H10O can be obtained. These isomers exhibit optical activity. They are
Q20. Explain why the OH group in phenols is more strongly held as compared to OH group in alcohols.
The phenol –OH group is directly attached to the benzene ring’s sp2 hybridized carbon atom. The carbon-oxygen bond length in phenol is shorter than that in alkyl alcohol, which is owing to the partial double bond character of phenol or to the resonance and charge distribution in phenol. As a result, the OH group in phenols is retained more strongly than the OH group in alcohols.
Q21. Explain why nucleophilic substitution reactions are not very common in phenols.
The OH group in phenols is a powerful electron donor. As a result, the benzene ring’s electron density is quite high, and it repels nucleophiles. To put it another way, nucleophiles are unable to approach the benzene ring, hence phenols rarely undergo nucleophilic substitution reactions.
Q22. Preparation of alcohols from alkenes involves the electrophilic attack on alkene carbon atoms. Explain its mechanism.
To prepare alcohols from alkene in the presence of sulphuric acid through the process of hydration of alkenes.
Direct hydration takes place by adding water in the presence of a catalyst.
Indirect hydration is achieved by the addition of sulphuric acid to alkane followed by hydrolysis of the alkyl hydrogen sulphate.
Q23. Explain why is O=C=O nonpolar while R-O-R is polar.
The dipole moments of the two C=O bonds are exactly equal and opposite, making O=C=O nonpolar. As a result, they cancel each other out, resulting in a net dipole moment of zero for O=C=O. Because the form of this compound is non-linear, the net dipole moment of R—O—R is not equal to zero, and hence R—O—R is polar in nature.
Q24. Why is the reactivity of all the three classes of alcohols with conc.HCI and ZnCl2 (Lucas reagent) different?
Alcohols react with Lucas reagent (conc. HCl and ZnCl2) using the SN1 mechanism. The stability of carbocations is required for the SN1 mechanism to occur (intermediate). The alcohol is more reactive when the intermediate carbocation is more stable.
Tertiary carbocations are most stable among the three classes of carbocations and the order of the stability of carbocation is 3∘>2∘>1∘. This order, intrun, reflects the order of reactivity of three classes of alcohols i.e., 3∘>2∘>1∘.
As a result of the differences in carbocation stability, the reactivity of all three types of alcohols with Lucas reagent varies.
Q25. Write steps to carry out the conversion of phenol to aspirin.
The phenoxide ion is created by treating phenol with NaOH. Phenoxide ion then undergoes electrophilic substitution with CO2 to yield salicylic acid as the major product. This is called Kolbe’s reaction. After that, the acetylation of salicylic acid yields aspirin, which is a significant product.
Q26. Nitration is an example of aromatic electrophilic substitution and its rate depends upon the group already present in the benzene ring. Out of benzene and phenol, which one is more easily nitrated and why?
Nitration of benzene and phenol is an electrophilic substitution reaction. During nitration NO2 (nitronium ion) is produced as an intermediate as follows.
Phenol is more easily nitrated than benzene as the presence of the -OH group in phenol increases the electron density at ortho and para positions in the benzene ring by + R effect. Since the electron density is more in phenol than in benzene, therefore, phenol is more easily nitrated than benzene.
Q27. In Kolbe’s reaction, instead of phenol, phenoxide ion is treated with carbon dioxide. Why?
Phenoxide ion is more reactive than phenol towards electrophilic aromatic substitution and hence undergoes electrophilic substitution with carbon dioxide which is a weak electrophile.
Q28. The dipole moment of phenol is smaller than that of methanol. Why?
In phenol, carbon is sp2 hybridised and due to this reason the benzene ring is producing electron-withdrawing effect.
On the other hand, carbon of methanol is sp3 hybridised and produces an electron releasing effect (+ effect) Thus, C – O bond in phenol is less polar than the C – O bond in methanol and therefore, the dipole moment of phenol (1.54 D) is smaller than that of methanol (1.71 D).
Q29. Ethers can be prepared by Williamson synthesis in which an alkyl halide is reacted with sodium alkoxide. Di-tert-butyl ether can’t be prepared by this method. Explain.
In order to prepare di-tert- butyl ether, sodium tert-butoxide must be reacted with tert – butyl bromide. Alkoxides are not only nucleophiles but they are strong bases as well. They react with
3∘ alkyl halides leading to the elimination reaction.
When tert – butyl- bromide reacts with sodium tert-butoxide instead of substitution, elimination takes place. As a result of this elimination reaction, Isobutylene is formed instead of di – tert butyl ether.
Q30. Why is the C-O-H bond angle in alcohols slightly less than the tetrahedral angle whereas the C-O-C bond angle ether is slightly greater?
The bond angle in C−:O:−H in alcohols is slightly less than tetrahedral angle (108.9). It is due to the repulsion between the unshared electron pairs of oxygen. In alcohols, two lone pairs of electrons are present. Therefore, there is comparatively more repulsion and less bond angle.
The C-O-C bond angle (111.7∘) in ether is slightly greater than the tetrahedral angle due to the repulsive interaction between the two bulky (- R) groups.
Q31. Explain why low molecular mass alcohols are soluble in water.
The solubility of alcohols and phenols in water is due to their ability to form hydrogen bonds with the water molecule. The hydrocarbon part methoxymethane (i.e., R group) tends to prevent the formation of hydrogen bonds.
Alcohols with lower molar mass will have smaller hydrocarbon parts and therefore tend to form hydrogen bonding more and they are more soluble in water.
Q32. Explain why p-nitrophenol is more acidic than phenol.
Nitro group of phenol produces – I and – R effect. Because of these two effects -NO2 group is electron-withdrawing in nature. So, the electron density in the O-H bond of p – nitrophenol decreases relative to the O-H bond of phenol.
With the decrease in electron density of the O – H bond of p-nitrophenol, the polarity of the O – H bond decreases. The electron-withdrawing group (-NO ), withdraws electrons and disperses the negative charge. Therefore, the -NO group stabilises the phenoxide ion. Hence p-nitrophenol is more acidic than phenol.
Q33. Explain why alcohols and ethers of comparable molecular mass have different boiling points?
Because the ethers have a low polarity, they do not display any intermolecular hydrogen bonding.
Because breaking weak dipole-dipole forces in ethers requires less energy than breaking strong hydrogen bonds in alcohol.
Hydrogen Bond in alcohols.
As a result, ethers have low boiling points, which are lower than isomeric alcohols and nearly equal to alkanes of comparable molecular weights. Alcohols and ethers have vastly different boiling points due to the presence of hydrogen bonding in alcohols.
Q34. The carbon-oxygen bond in phenol is slightly stronger than that in methanol. Why?
The conjugation of unshared electron pairs over oxygen with the aromatic ring in phenol produces a partial double bond character in the C–O bond. This type of conjugation (resonance) is not feasible in methanol.
Oxygen is connected to sp2 hybridised carbon in phenol, while oxygen is attached to sp3 hybridised carbon in methanol. The sp2 hybridised carbon atom is more electronegative than the sp3 hybridised carbon atom (because of the higher 5-character). As a result, the connection formed by oxygen and sp2 hybridised carbon is more stable than the one formed by oxygen and sp3 hybridised orbital.
The C – O bond of phenol gains some partial double bond character from the aforesaid resonating structure, whereas the C – O bond of methanol is strictly a single bond.
Therefore, the carbon-oxygen bond in phenol is slightly stronger than that in methanol.
Q35. Arrange water, ethanol and phenol in increasing order of acidity and give reason for your answer.
After removing a proton, the phenoxide ion is resonance stabilised in the following way.
The ethoxide ion formed after removing a proton, on the other hand, is not stabilised but destabilised due to the + I action of the -C2H5 group. As a result, phenol is a more powerful acid than ethanol.
Because the electron-releasing ethyl group increases the ethanol density of oxygen, ethanol is a weaker acid than water. As a result, the proton is not easily released. In ethanol, the CH3CH2 group increases the electron density on the O – H bond. Ethanol has a higher electron density on its O – H bond than water. In the case of water, there is no such effect.
Thus, the increasing order of acidity is ethanol < water < phenol.
Long Answer Questions
Q1. Write the mechanism of the reaction of HI with methoxybenzene.
In case of alkyl aryl ethers, the products are always phenol and an alkyl halide because due to resonance C6H5-O bond has a partial double bond character. The mechanism is given below.
Mechanism Protonation of anisole gives methyl phenyl oxonium ion.
In this ion, the bond between O−CH3 is weaker than the bond between
O−C6H5 which has a partial double bond character. This partial double bond character is due to the resonance between the lone pair of electrons on the O -atom and the sp2 hybridised carbon atom of the phenyl group. Therefore, an attack by I− ion exclusively breaks the weaker
O−CH3 bond, forming methyl iodide and phenol.
Q2. (a) Name the starting material used in the industrial preparation of phenol.
(b) Write a complete reaction for the bromination of phenol in an aqueous and non-aqueous medium.
(c) Explain why Lewis acid is not required in the bromination of phenol?
(a) The starting material used in the industrial preparation of phenol is cumene.
(b) Phenols when treated with bromine water give polyhalogen derivatives in which all the hydrogen atoms present at ortho and para positions with respect to the -OH group are replaced by bromine atoms.
In an aqueous solution, phenol ionises to form phenoxide ions. This ion activates the benzene ring to a very large extent and hence the substitution of halogen takes place at all three positions.
(c) In bromination of benzene, Lewis acid is used to polarise Br2 to form the reactive electrophile, Br+. In case of phenol, Lewis acid is not required because the O-atom of phenol itself polarises the Br2 molecule to form Br+ ions. further, the +R-effect of OH group makes phenol highly activated towards electrophilic substitution reactions.
Mechanism of bromination of phenol.
Mechanism of bromination of benzene:
Q3. How can phenol be converted to aspirin?
Allowing sodium phenoxide to absorb carbon dioxide and then heating the result to 400 K and 4-7 atm pressure is the typical procedure. The first unstable intermediate is generated, and it undergoes a proton shift to become sodium salicylate. Salicylic acid is produced as a result of the acidification of sodium salicylate.
As a result, phenol is transformed into salicylic acid. Acetic anhydride is used to treat this salicylic acid. Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is generated when salicylic acid is acetylated
Q4. Explain a process in which a biocatalyst is used in industrial preparation of a compound known to you.
Biocatalysts are enzymes. These biocatalysts (enzymes) are utilised in the production of ethanol in industry. Ethanol is made by fermenting molasses, a dark brown coloured syrup left behind after sugar crystallisation that still contains around 40% sugar.
Fermentation is the process of breaking down big molecules into smaller ones in the presence of enzymes. Yeast is the source of these enzymes. The numerous reactions that occur during carbohydrate fermentation are listed below.
Grapes are used to make wine because they contain sugars and yeast. The amount of sugar in grapes increases as they ripen, and yeast forms on the outer peel. When the sugar and enzyme in the grapes come into touch, fermentation begins. Fermentation occurs in anaerobic conditions, that is, without the presence of oxygen. During fermentation, CO2 gas is produced.
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Payroll is the process of paying a company’s employees, which can include the tracking of hours worked, the calculation of employee’s pay, and the distribution of payments via direct deposit directly to their account or by check. Payroll is a list of employees who get paid by the company. Payroll also refers to the total amount of money employer pays to the employees. As a business function, it involves:
- Developing organization pay policy including flexible benefits, leave encashment policy, etc.
- Defining pay slip components like basic, variable pay, HRA, and LTA
- Gathering other payroll inputs (e.g., organization’s food vendor may supply information about the amount to be recovered from the employees for meals consumed).
- The actual calculation of gross salary, statutory as well as non-statutory deductions, and arriving at the net pay.
- Releasing employee salary.
- Depositing dues like TDS, PF, etc. with appropriate authorities and filing returns.
Equation for calculating the net pay
Net pay = Gross income- gross deduction.
Gross income or salary = All types of regular income + allowances + any one-time payment or benefit.
Gross deduction = All types of regular deductions + statutory deductions + any one-time deductions.
Stages to processing payroll
- Defining payroll policy: The net amount to be paid is affected by multiple factors. The company’s various policies such as pay policy, leave and benefits policy, attendance policy, etc. come into play at that time. As a first step, such policies need to be well defined and get approved by the management to ensure standard payroll processing.
- Gathering inputs: Payroll process involves interacting with multiple departments and personnel. There can be information like mid-year salary revision data, attendance data, etc.
- Input validation: Once inputs are received, you need to check for validity of the data concerning adherence to company policy, authorization/approval matrix, right formats, etc. You also need to ensure that no active employee is missed out and that no inactive employee records are included for salary payment.
Actual payroll process
- Payroll calculation: At this stage, the validated input data is fed into the payroll system for actual payroll processing. The result is the net pay after adjusting necessary taxes and other deductions. Once payroll process is over, it is always a good practice to reconcile the values and verify for accuracy to avoid any errors.
Various methods available to do payroll for your business
- Excel based payroll management: Excel based payroll management involves doing payroll calculation on excel sheets using standard payroll calculation template. The mathematical formulas are set that help the payroll officer do the computation.
- Payroll outsourcing: Outsourcing payroll means you want an external agency to take care of your payroll function. Many organizations who do not have a dedicated person for payroll go for this option. Based on their pay cycle, every month they provide employee salary information and other data such as attendance, leaves, reimbursement details, etc. to the payroll service provider.
- Using payroll software: There are advanced payroll management software available in the market that not only automates payroll computation but also serve as a holistic leave and attendance management, HR management and employee self-service portal. Depending on the size of your business and use cases you can opt for an appropriate payroll software for your business. | <urn:uuid:452eeda1-137d-4a27-be7b-68b0645cd3de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onlinestudy.guru/payroll/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.916315 | 703 | 3.109375 | 3 |
News No. 05/61
"Always stay on the road,don't take shortcuts, keep off the verges and avoid holes in asphalt!" This was the stark advice given to 30 bus drivers during a recent mine-risk education session organized by the ICRC in a room at one of Kabul's bus stations. After crisscrossing Afghanistan for years, many drivers have direct experience with mines. They know the danger posed to their passengers' lives as well as their own.
One of them, Mirwais, has been driving a bus for the past 25 years. This was the first time he had attended such a presentation, but he already had tragic personal knowledge of the mine danger. "Some years ago I was driving behind a bus that tried to pass the vehicle in front by going off the road onto the shoulder," he recalled. "It hit a mine and exploded, killing all 13 passengers. It was a really frightening experience. Since then, I have never driven on the shoulder."
The number of mine accidents on roads has been increasing in recent years, especially since there is better access to former conflict areas and a general increase in traffic. Records regularly collected from some 500 health-care facilities across the country by the ICRC and the Afghan Red Crescent Society show that there were 198 victims of anti-vehicle mines between 1998 and 2001.This number grew to 351 between 2002 and June of this year, which is why the ICRC has started mine-risk education for bus drivers.
"Our aim is to promote safe behaviour regarding mines and other explosive remnants of war,familiarizing the drivers with dangerous situations," said Zamanuddin Noori, who runs the programme in Kabul.
Drivers can also help by spreading awareness throughout the country, as Hafizully, a 63-year-old driver from Maidan, explained. "These pointersare useful not only for us driving down the road, but also at home and in the towns and villages we go through, where many people still live with mines and other munitions around their homes."
Since November 2004, over 2,600 drivers have attended 160 presentations in nine provinces around the country. By sharing their knowledge about the risks of mines, all of these drivers can help reduce accidents in the future.
According to figures from the UN's Mine Centre for Afghanistan, landmines and other explosive remnants of war pose a danger for an estimated 6.2 million Afghans living in high-risk areas or planning to return there. Twenty-five years of mine-laying in Afghanistan have killed or maimed an estimated 100,000 people. This deadly legacy of war continues to claim two to three persons every day.
For further information, please contact:
Olivier Moeckli, ICRC Kabul, tel. +9370
282 719 or +9370 276 465
Ian Piper, ICRC Geneva, tel. +41 22 730 20 63 or +41 79 217 32 16
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Table of Contents
Project Management utilizes the company's resources such as manpower, technologies, and funds, to accomplish a specified goal, event, or duty. Normally these processes are applicable to one-time project delivery with specific milestones but it is not uncommon to see them applying to continuous product development pipeline projects.
Traditionally, engineering or construction fields, as well as more recently, information technology (IT) and healthcare have been associated with project management because they all require the completion and assembly of numerous components in a precise order in order to produce a product or deliver services.
Regardless of the sector or industry, a project manager's role is generally more or less the same, which focuses on the project's goals and project objectives. It assists to identify when and by whom the various project components will be completed. In addition, they carry out quality control tests to make sure that the final products fulfil a predetermined requirement.
Recent management trends refer to the most up-to-date methods used by managers to efficiently manage their staff. Changes in the market and in management trends follow suit. These modifications are dependent on the current market conditions.
Total Quality Management, Crisis Management and Risk Management are some of the popular current management trends.
Let's take a closer look at these subjects:
The cost of a building project is more heavily influenced by the facility owners. This is obvious since the decisions made at the beginning of the project have an impact on all subsequent actions.
Figure 1 shows how this works. The design and construction decisions advance the project's operational costs. In order to ensure thorough and optimum planning as well as a feasibility analysis for the project under consideration, an owner must seek the advice of experienced professionals.
Many owners are unable to manage their own construction work or to have in-house engineering related to their project because they lack the resources. That's why they need to speak with an independent consultant or specialist to help them accomplish their demands.
Fig.1: Factors influencing construction cost against time
Taking on a construction project is fraught with risk due to the large number of people involved and the variety of variables that might go wrong. Conflicts among participants can be harmful to the project because everyone is trying to minimize their personal risk.
Due to its control over risk allocation through correct contractual interactions with other parties, only the owner has the authority to temper such tensions. It's common for owners to fail to recognize this obligation, which might result in unfavourable outcomes.
Federal agencies have begun to adopt the idea of "risk-sharing/risk assignment" contracts in recent years. It is believed that the cost of this sort of contract will be cheaper than that of a contract in which all risks are assigned to contractors. Recognizing that incentives are needed to encourage participants to take on higher risks is a vital first step in tackling the issue of uncertainty.
A participant's readiness to take risks often reflects both their professional ability and their risk-taking proclivity. Society's view of a participant's potential liabilities can influence the risk-taking attitude of all participants. A claim filed against one of the participants is difficult for the public to ascertain whether fraud has been committed or just an accident.
The environmental movement has added to construction uncertainty because of the inability to foresee what will be necessary and how long it will take to secure regulatory agency permission.
Additionally, the need for constant re-evaluation of issues and the lack of practical standards have resulted in additional costs.
In the energy sector, where nuclear power plants and coal mines are prevalent, rules aimed at improving public safety have had a similar impact. Engineers, builders, and owners have had to deal with continually shifting requirements as projects go from design to construction.
This extra level of unpredictability can make it nearly hard to plan and complete projects on time and on budget. Increasingly high inflation and interest rates have exacerbated the uncertainty that has permeated most of the last decade.
Construction funding can be impacted by the deregulation of financial institutions, as a result of unexpected issues like funding anomalies or misuse. Some degree of uncertainty should be eliminated or at least minimised from regulatory bodies, environmental difficulties, and the financial components of development.
Owners are eager to find a way to reduce the cost of the projects and reduce or eliminate the time they take to complete them. It's rare for a breakthrough like this to be planned. In general, they occur when the proper conditions are there, such as when innovation is enabled or when a basis for incentive or reward exists.
Meaningful cooperation amongst all parties concerned is still a long way off. The cost of construction rises during periods of economic expansion due to large capital expenditures by industries.
Planning and scheduling of the project are made easier with Gantt charts. They aid in the estimation of project duration, the identification of necessary resources, and the formulation of a work schedule. They're also useful for keeping track of the ties that bind several jobs together.
Project managers use a risk register to keep track of any potential problems and hazards that may arise throughout the course of the project. So, basically, it's an inventory of potential threats, along with the measures that can be considered to minimize the risks.
Activities are scheduled in phases within the project plan with a clear start point and end point. Normally an activity contains a few tasks and their completion lead consider the whole activity being completed. Numerous activities are formed to call a summary activity.
Controls that are in place to keep workplaces safe and healthy not only keep employees safe from harm but also help the organization to maintain a healthy and safe working environment for their employees.
To ensure that a construction project stays within its allotted budget, managers use labour, material, and overhead management methods to keep costs in check. To keep costs under control, a project's managers prepare project cost estimates and monitor progress at regular intervals.
I hope the blog provides you with a good understanding Project Management and Its Key Features.
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Having your wisdom teeth extracted is never a pleasant experience. The groggy recovery following sedation to the discomfort in the proceeding days, it is inevitable that it will have an impact on day-to-day life.
However, it does not have to be completely life altering. There are a number of ways patients can prepare for the procedure and care for their teeth – both before and after the extraction – to help fend off any major pain.
Here, we take you from the pain via sedation – and onwards to a happy recovery.
In the UK, more than 75,000 people have their wisdom teeth removed each year. Pushing through the gums between the ages of 18 and 24, wisdom teeth can often become ‘impacted’ – meaning they are unable to come through normally. This can cause a plethora of problems and often means the patient would be better without these pesky teeth than with them at all.
Indeed, painful wisdom teeth are extremely common – and a student has recently found a way to combat this. Jeevan Boyal invented the EZ Teether, (https://www.ezteether.com/) a device based on angles of the jaw and mouth. Containing no painkillers, the aid has a rubber-like surface, which relieves pain when the patient bites down on it – working in a similar fashion as a child’s teething device.
But how do you know when to take action? If any of your wisdom teeth are causing you consistent, severe discomfort, it is best to give your dentist a call. An X-ray will usually be carried out to see how the tooth is growing. If it is impacted and causing continuous problems, an extraction will be on the cards. This helps to avoid any tricky complications, such as tooth decay, gum disease and the development of abscesses.
The procedure can last up to half an hour, depending on the positioning and development of the wisdom tooth.
A local anaesthetic will always be given to numb the area around the tooth – or teeth – to keep any pain at bay.
For those teeth that are particularly tricky – or if the patient is especially nervous – a sedative can be opted for.
Conscious sedation will make the patient feel drowsy and very calm and, more often than not, they may be unable to recall the procedure. If this medication is administered, it is essential that the patient does not drive to or from the dentist, or for the next 24 hours, and has a responsible adult accompany them.
The effects of the sedative can take a few hours to fully subside. Having a proper understanding of what is involved and how you are likely to feel after the procedure is imperative and will make recovery more comfortable.
Unfortunately, you are in for at least a tough few days following the extraction – this is inevitable. But recovery can be made much easier if you are armed with the right knowledge and right tools – so we have put together some top tips.
Immediately after the procedure, rest is important – as is avoiding chewy foods. Rinsing should also be avoided for the next 24 hours as this can disrupt the formation of the blood clot in the gum, which is essential for it to heal. Avoiding cigarettes and alcohol will also aid recovery.
Over the next few days, ibuprofen will become your best friend and will help keep the pain down to a minimum. You may be pleased to know that this is a fantastic opportunity to laze about without feeling guilty.
Strenuous exercise should be avoided and instead replaced with plenty of rest – a great way to get through that Netflix series you have been meaning to start. When it comes to sleeping, propping up your head with a couple of extra pillows will help to reduce bleeding and discomfort. Bonjela teething gel is also a lifesaver, particularly if an ulcer has formed.
Time off work – and having a helper at hand – is necessary during these first few days of recovery. It’s also vital to stock up your cupboards and your fridge with soft foods such as mashed potato, soup, ice cream and yoghurt. Any foods that require chewing will be a challenge and can bring on more pain, so avoid these where possible.
Within a week, any pain or throbbing should have subsided. If this is not the case, it is advisable to take another trip to the dentist for a check-up. It is possible that a dry socket has formed – which is where the healing process has been interrupted – and it is important that this is attended to promptly. Nerve damage is also a possibility but unlikely. | <urn:uuid:66fd42f1-7199-4e31-93c8-62515b4126b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://comparethetreatment.com/infohub/wisdom-teeth-extraction-what-you-need-to-know | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966404 | 957 | 2.125 | 2 |
Lung cancer still holds the top position worldwide in terms of the number of new cases and deaths each year, which in 2018 reached 2.1 million and 1.8 million, respectively.1 Given that roughly 85% of all lung cancers can be traced to cigarette smoking, many countries have sought to rein in the morbidity and mortality of the disease by implementing public health initiatives and tobacco control policies. Most notably, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, an international tobacco control treaty from the World Health Organization, entered into force in 2005 and boasts more than 180 countries that have signed on to support provisions to reduce tobacco demand and supply.2
“Population-based interventions are essential for reducing tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure,” said Brian King, PhD, MPH, deputy director for Research Translation, Office on Smoking and Heath at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Proven population-based measures include increasing the price of tobacco, implementing comprehensive smoke-free policies, implementing hard-hitting media campaigns, and increasing access to cessation services.” Beyond this, other strategies advocated by the World Health Organization as part of its MPOWER measures include monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies and enforcing bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.3
The effectiveness of these efforts is generally slow to emerge given the 20- to 30-year lag between smoking prevalence and lung cancer mortality, but positive changes are evident.4 According to the 2014 US Surgeon General’s Report,5 “in the United States, the prevalence of smoking among males has declined since at least the 1950s, but age-adjusted death rates for lung cancer among men did not begin to decline until approximately 1990. Among women, the comparable death rates peaked around 2003 then significantly declined, likely due to considerable success in reducing the prevalence of smoking among women.” More recent global data from the World Health Organization revealed that 86% (42 of 49) of evaluable countries demonstrated decreases in lung cancer mortality from 2000 to 2016.6 Notably, 91% of the countries with declining lung cancer mortality showed decreasing tobacco use among men and 82% showed decreasing tobacco use among women. In contrast, among the countries with increasing lung cancer mortality, only 60% and 30% showed decreasing tobacco use among males and females, respectively.
In the wake of successful tobacco control endeavors, lung cancer demographics are beginning to shift in sometimes unexpected ways by histopathologic subtype, sex, and age, and it is important for the healthcare community to take note in order to optimize lung cancer prevention and management.
Changes in Histopathology
Exposure to tobacco smoke and other inhaled carcinogens greatly influences tumor histopathology. Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and SCLC are almost exclusively tied to smoking, whereas adenocarcinoma is linked to multiple causes, including smoking, air pollution, radon exposure, family history, and other factors. In concert with declines in smoking prevalence, many regions have reported a decreasing incidence of SCC over the past few decades juxtaposed with a progressive increase in the incidence of adenocarcinoma among both individuals who smoke and those who do not.7-9 The incidence of other lung cancer subtypes, such as small cell lung cancer and large cell carcinoma, demonstrates wide variability in different regions of the world.
The predominance of adenocarcinomas over SCCs in North American and European countries began to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s.8 This shift is attributed, in part, to changes in cigarette design and smoking behaviors that began years earlier during the 1960s and 1970s. During this period, tobacco companies began to manufacture “light” cigarettes featuring lower levels of tar and nicotine and marketed them as a “safer” cigarette option. However, the machine based method for measuring tar and nicotine yield failed to account for variations in smoking patterns among people.10 Some individuals who switched from higher- to lower-tar cigarettes tended to compensate for the reductions in nicotine by inhaling more deeply or holding the smoke in the lungs longer, enabling carcinogens to reach distal areas of the lung where adenocarcinomas arise.8 Around the same time, Western tobacco companies also started incorporating reconstituted tobacco into cigarettes, in turn increasing nitrosamines, which are implicated in adenocarcinoma development.
Similar shifts in adenocarcinoma predominance are now emerging in Eastern countries such as China. For example, the average amount of tar in Chinese-made cigarettes decreased from 27 mg in 1983 to 17 mg in 2000 to 12 mg in 2010.9 Following on the heels of these changes, the incidence of SCC has decreased and the incidence of adenocarcinoma has steadily increased among both smokers and nonsmokers since 2000, with the latter now comprising the majority of all lung cancer cases in China.8,9
Changes Based on Sex and Age
Several countries have achieved marked decreases in lung cancer incidence among men over the past few decades, which has largely been attributed to declines in smoking.7,11 In contrast, the incidence of lung cancer in women has been gradually increasing, and the cause of this rise is not entirely clear. For example, in the United States, the incidence rate of lung cancer is now higher among women than men aged 30 to 49 years and cannot be fully attributed to differences in smoking behaviors.12
Similar findings have been observed in China based on incidental detection of lung cancer through the use of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening, which is often utilized in low-risk populations regardless of age and smoking history. In a study in which LDCT was performed as part of a routine health examination in approximately 8,400 healthcare workers, lung cancer was incidentally detected in 179 individuals (2.1%), with higher detection rates in females versus males (2.5% vs 1.3%) and nonsmokers versus smokers (2.2% vs 1.4%).13 Notably, 96% of the tumors presented as ground glass opacities (GGO) on the LDCT scans, and 54.2% of the lesions occurred in individuals aged 55 years or younger.
“It is still unclear whether the increasing trend of lung cancer in young female nonsmokers can be attributed to early detection by LDCT or a true rise in incidence,” stated lead researcher Haiquan Chen, MD, the director of the Lung Cancer Center at the Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center. “Our findings should raise global attention to the identification of risk factors associated with young, female, nonsmoking lung cancers. Epidemiologists, doctors, geneticists and basic science researchers should work together to clarify the etiology.” Although the potential risk factors for nonsmokers include exposure to secondhand smoke, outdoor air pollution, and indoor air pollution, such as that from burning wood, coal, other solid fuels, or kerosene for heat in poorly ventilated houses, these factors do not seem to be responsible for the rising lung cancer incidence in young female nonsmokers based on preliminary research results of Dr. Chen and his colleagues.
Dr. Chen notes that the prognosis for the patients in his study was quite favorable since 95% had stage 0/IA disease and since 63% of the tumors comprised either adenocarcinoma in situ or minimally invasive adenocarcinoma.13 In other work, Dr. Chen’s group has found that the rate of recurrence-free survival at 5 years among patients with invasive stage I NSCLC was 100% in those with pure GGO lesions, 88% in those with part-solid lesions, and 73% in those with solid lesions.14
Although lung cancers featuring GGO at presentation are generally indolent and tend to progress slowly, Dr. Chen warned that he and his colleagues “have seen some cases progress into aggressive part-solid or even solid tumors. Some GGO nodules progress quickly, while others grow very slowly. We still cannot reliably distinguish between fast-progressing and slow-progressing nodules.” He further added, “Even lung cancers with a GGO component can have mediastinal lymph node metastasis. Based on our research, once there is lymph node metastasis, lung cancers with a GGO component have an equally bad prognosis to their
This and other work raise concerns about limiting LDCT screening for lung cancer to older, long-term smokers, as is currently done in many Western countries based on the results of the National Lung Screening Trial and the NELSON trial.15,16 Screening eff orts may require more refined tailoring based on age, smoking status, and ethnicity, among other factors, carefully weighing the need for screening to avoid overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
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- World Health Organization. WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO Document Production Services; 2005.
- World Health Organization. MPOWER in action: defeating the global tobacco epidemic. Available at: https://www.who.int/tobacco/mpower/publications/mpower_2013.pdf. Accessed October 25, 2020.
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- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Th e Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health; 2014.
- Khaltaev N, Axelrod S. Global lung cancer mortality trends and lifestyle modifi cations: preliminary analysis. Chin Med J (Engl). 2020;133(13):1526-1532.
- Lu T, Yang X, Huang Y, et al. Trends in the incidence, treatment, and survival of patients with lung cancer in the last four decades. Cancer Manag Res. 2019;11:943-953.
- Zeng Q, Vogtmann E, Jia MM, et al. Tobacco smoking and trends in histological subtypes of female lung cancer at the Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences over 13 years. Th orac Cancer. 2019;10(8):1717-1724.
- Zou XN, Lin D, Chao A, et al. Histological subtypes of lung cancer in Chinese women from 2000 to 2012. Thorac Cancer. 2014;5(5):447-454.
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- Miranda-Filho A, Piñeros M, Bray F. Th e descriptive epidemiology of lung cancer and tobacco control: a global overview 2018. Salud Publica Mex. 2019;61(3):219-229.
- Jemal A, Miller KD, Ma J, et al. Higher lung cancer incidence in young women than young men in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2018;378(21):1999–2009.
- Zhang Y, Jheon S, Li H, et al. Results of low-dose computed tomography as a regular health examination among Chinese hospital employees. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020;160(3):824-831.e4.
- Fu F, Zhang Y, Wen Z, et al. Distinct prognostic factors in patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer with radiologic part-solid or solid lesions. J Th orac Oncol. 2019;14(12):2133-2142.
- The National Lung Screening Trial Research Team. Reduced lung-cancer mortality with lowdose computed tomographic screening. N Engl J Med. 2011;365:395-409.
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After the police killing of George Floyd, Boston’s technology companies were quick to pledge their support for racial equality.
HubSpot, the marketing technology firm, said it stood with the Black community “now more than ever.” Drizly, the alcohol delivery company, told the Black community that “your lives matter.” Wayfair, the online furniture giant, posted a black box on Instagram, and its chief executive officer, Niraj Shah, told employees in a note that “racism in any form (explicit or implicit) is unacceptable.”
More than a year later, there are signs of progress: Some companies have hired more workers of color, others have issued hiring goals that they can be measured by in the near future; while some have brought on new executives to lay the groundwork for systemic changes in recruitment and hiring.
But overall, the needle has yet to move much on the industry’s woeful record on diversity. The tech industry remains largely white and has not shed its reputation for elitism. The talent pipeline routes through a select number of exclusive and expensive universities, and the hiring process skews in favor of candidates with educations from traditional degree programs.
Entrepreneurs of color who aren’t members of this club still struggle to get backing from venture capitalists, and some Black and brown employees say their work environments remain indifferent or ineffective at addressing racial issues.
“Nothing actually changes,” said Pariss Chandler, a Boston-area coder and founder of the Black Tech Pipeline, a group that helps technology companies hire and retain Black workers. “This has been happening forever. Everything feels really temporary and performative.”
This report is based on interviews with nearly 20 Boston-area tech employees, startup founders, and advocates of color, who said the fight to diversify Boston’s tech industry will take years. It also comes amid research that shows nationwide, technology companies that made statements of solidarity with the Black community after the murder of George Floyd employed 20 percent fewer Black employees on average than those that didn’t, according to an analysis by Blendoor, an analytics company that specializes in diversity issues.
Since last year HubSpot’s workforce has become more diverse; of its 4,200-plus employees globally, roughly 73 percent are white, compared to 78.1 percent a year ago. Katie Burke, the chief people officer of HubSpot, wrote in a June blog post that “real progress” on the company’s diversity goals will be better measured over “five years.”
To that end, Wayfair, a behemoth in Boston’s technology scene, launched its first diversity report this year. Spokeswoman Susan Frechette said Wayfair is “committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace,” and remains “focused on making meaningful progress” on its diversity goals. Meanwhile, Berkshire Bank, which is based in Boston, has created co-working space and micro loans for underrepresented entrepreneurs.
Local tech executives have rallied around an initiative called HackDiversity, raising funds for its efforts to train and develop workers of color for jobs in Boston’s technology community. Coding boot camps intended to democratize the learning process have sprung up and created hiring partnerships with the region’s largest employers, and a leading trade group has called on the local community to double its Black and Latino workforce by 2030.
Yet the fundamental drivers of racial inequality are deeply embedded in Massachusetts, and will take years of systemic reform to overturn, employees interviewed said. Families of color in Massachusetts earn significantly less than their white counterparts, rendering many unable to live in high-end school districts or invest in expensive training required of most technology jobs. The state’s top universities, where companies prefer to recruit, churn out low levels of Black and Latino graduates.
Data from 2020 show that only 5 percent of Massachusetts’ tech workers are Black, and around 7 percent are Latino. And of the 100 largest public companies in the state, around two-thirds did not have a Black board member. (Nine percent of the state population is Black, and 12 percent is Latino, census figures show.)
David Delmar Sentíes, founder of the coding boot camp Resilient Coders, said a key element fueling the disparity is hiring managers’ desire for candidates with bachelor’s degrees. In an industry where some of the most celebrated executives are college dropouts, including Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, Sentíes said it is still the case that large companies in Boston flock to the region’s top universities to fill their ranks.
“This is the land of BC, BU, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, and Northeastern,” he said. “People take it for granted. But to insist that somebody has a degree, means that you’re eliminating from consideration like 70 percent of Black and Latinx folks.”
Chandler said that a more systemic reform in how companies evaluate job candidates is needed.
She pointed to coding challenges — exercises used in the interview process for technology jobs — which skew in favor of candidates who have obtained computer science degrees from four-year colleges.
She remembers her own experience, as a graduate of the Resilient Coders boot camp, taking a hiring test at a large technology company in Boston and being asked questions on theoretical computer concepts like binary trees. Chandler did not get the job.
“That’s something [college graduates] learned in the four years that they’ve had in school,” she said. “I went to a boot camp for eight weeks. I’m not learning all of that. I’m learning how to code.”
The business case for diversity is strong. Boston Consulting Group found in 2018 that companies with diverse management teams earned 20 percent more revenue from new innovations than less diverse organizations. Paul Gompers, a professor at Harvard Business School, showed that diverse venture capital firms were more successful at investing in companies that end up acquired or going public.
Despite that, Corey Thomas, chief executive officer of Boston-based cybersecurity company Rapid7, predicted that diversifying Boston’s tech industry will take years.
Thomas — the lone Black CEO of a publicly traded company based in Massachusetts — said that for companies to get serious about living up to antiracist ideals, they must “get rid of some of the elitism” in the industry, and recruit from nontraditional areas, including community colleges and programs such as HackDiversity.
He also said that tech leaders should place less emphasis on hiring through internal employee referrals. “If you have employees who actually spend time with people [that have] backgrounds like them,” he said, “then those are the only people you’re going to see in your referral ecosystem.”
Natalie Cantave, a Somerville-based tech worker who is Black, said that during the racial reckoning last year, what bothered her most was not any overt acts of bigotry, but how she was treated by her “well-meaning” white friends.
Cantave remembers friends on her Twitter feed kept saying “Black Lives Matter.” Her white colleagues at work, a startup accelerator in Boston, scheduled time on her calendar to “check in.” Another friend sent her $50 over Venmo, even though she was not in need.
“It feels like it’s well intentioned, but it’s more about them feeling good, and that’s what’s harmful,” she said. “It’s easy to throw up a tweet or send money, but it’s harder to do the work where it really counts.”
As racial unrest grew, tech workers in Boston said a common phenomenon sprung up: diversity panels.
Cristina Costa, a Boston-based tech worker turned diversity and inclusion consultant, remembers speaking at a Zoom panel last summer on “How to be an antiracist,” at Mainstay, an education technology company in Boston. Before speaking, she talked to a few employees of color there. They told her they were unhappy with the work environment there and wanted hiring managers to interview and hire more diverse talent.
Costa, who is Latina, said she talked about the importance of diversifying the hiring pipeline, and remembered the two-hour conversation felt good in the moment. But months later, in February, an employee at Mainstay told her things had “not changed at all,” she recalled.
“I’m not surprised,” Costa said. “Hiring somebody to do a workshop or presentation is cute ... but if companies really want to make those changes, they have to invest into it.”
Told of the criticism from his employees and Costa, Mainstay chief executive Andrew Magliozzi said in a statement. “Hosting panels is far from enough. ... We recognize the hard work, time, and re-learning of certain behaviors and perspectives that must go into any effort to build a culture that is rooted in equity, justice, and belonging.”
Tech entrepreneurs of color also said venture capital firms need to do better. In the first half of 2021, just 1.2 percent of the record-breaking $147 billion in venture capital invested in US startups went to Black founders, Crunchbase data shows. In Boston, where record-breaking levels of venture capital funding are flowing into the city, entrepreneurs of color say they don’t see it.
Adjoa Edzie, founder of a music technology startup Gruuvv, said that as a Black female entrepreneur, she will have to work twice as hard to get noticed by venture capitalists in Boston.
“There’s white males that would go to a firm and have a great idea and pitch it with nothing, and they can get funding,” she said. “But if you’re a person of color, you have to have the [product demo], the traction, following, and contacts just to get considered. ... I want to make sure I have as much traction as possible. I don’t want to get laughed out of the room.”
Daniel Acheampong, cofounder of Visible Hands, a venture capital firm in Boston which funds and trains underrepresented founders, said mentorship programs have grown, but that leads to its own problems, which Black founders have noticed.
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- Nearly two weeks of protests and strike actions from municipal sanitation workers in Greece has led to growing piles of trash in cities around the country, as reported by Reuters. In addition to marching, sanitation workers have also been blocking the entrances to garages and landfills in an effort to prevent other collection crews from doing their jobs.
- Union leaders are calling for the government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to follow through on previous promises for long-term jobs. They fear that a recent court order banning extensions on short-term contracts could put thousands of employees in jeopardy. While Tsipras' government has offered to give these employees first preference in contract renewals, and met with union leaders earlier this week, no deal has been reached.
- The Greek government is now considering ways to move forward if the strikes continues, such as attempting to force the employees back to work or calling in the national army to do collections, according to the Greek Reporter. This week, emergency municipal crews have been sent out to spray down piles of decomposing trash and also make collections.
As Greece enters a summer heat wave, with temperatures regularly topping 100 degrees, government officials are becoming more concerned about public health. Residents have been asked to keep additional waste inside to reduce opportunities for rodents, insects and the spread of disease. Though for many, the smells coming from outside are already bad enough. Greek officials have also raised concerns about how the strike could affect tourism.
This follows other recent garbage crises in Paris and Beirut that drew international attention. The issue in Paris also revolved around a labor dispute over a policy that union officials believed would make it easier to terminate workers. Unemployment rates in France at the time were more than 10% and have since dropped slightly. Due to ongoing financial issues, the unemployment rate in Greece is currently more than 20%. The root issue in Lebanon had more to do with the operation of the government itself than specific labor disputes, leading to a longer-lasting and more complex situation. Sanitation operations are now back on track in the country and designers have reportedly become more interested in using recycled material as a result.
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The Novel “Life by Fire”
Like light, creativity, and communication, fire is a contagious energy that ignites collective values and embodies abundance by expanding through sharing. Fire gathers us to warmth and companionship. It soothes and mesmerizes us, in dancing flourishes of flame and swirling smoke.
To our ancestors, at the centre of every camp and village, fire gave warmth in the coldness, light in the darkness, and nourishing sustenance daily. Most importantly, fire invoked the great, intangible lesson that sharing it by extending it to others, rather than diminishing the quantity or quality of the fire, actually created more and ensured that the vital resource would not be extinguished.
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Gisa Catarina Gärtner was born at sea on October 5, 1933, halfway between the province of Tirol, Austria, and the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, thereby becoming the youngest of 91 Catholic Austrian emigrants headed to found a new colony in the New World.
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You are the facilities manager for a large commercial building. you get a call from one of your maintenance staff that your pump room has standing water. What do you need to do?
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Making sure your cleanup crew is using proper PPE (personal protective equipment is very important. Even if the water appears "pretty clear" if it came back into your building through a plumbing "p-trap" you MUST treat it as sewage. The waste water needs to be put back into a sanitary sewer line and the affected area needs to be cleaned properly.
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“I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King. Speech Analysis - Free Essay Sample
So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. King illustrates the injustice that America has placed upon its coloured citizens of colour in the contrasting of the idea of moral debt owed by the country to a financial debt.
King adds many small touches that enhance the larger idea. The money theme, which is prevalent through the speech, works well because this is a capitalist society. People are concerned with getting money, because money is needed to live. The average oppressed black man was concerned more with getting money to feed his family than freedom. That freedom should be the real goal.
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I also think that this speech finally made the nation aware of the race conflict that still existed even after a hundred years since slavery was abolished. People started to think about the struggle the black faced for a very long time and this was really a milestone in the white people's minds. In addition I want to add that this speech is a perfect example of a really good political speech because with its clever use of stylistic devices it is aimed to persuade a big crowd of people which every politician today should be cutting a piece off. More documents. In the following I explain some selected quotes and clarify what effect they have.The Civil Rights Movement: Dr. He is using metaphors and a lot of repetitions in order to make him clear and to create emotional touching. These Analysis Of Martin Luther Kings Speech And I Have A Dream Speech demonstrate how people assumed about the Analysis Of Martin Luther Kings Speech And I Have A Dream Speech and his activities. Learn More. It was a somewhat Essay On Best Evidence Rule speech. Let me know if you have any other questions. | <urn:uuid:1e3dd7ac-387e-45b3-a4b1-8a991fccfa01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://vrvsnwx2021.tftpd.net/buy-persuasive-essay/page-967-2021-12-07.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.953729 | 1,392 | 2.390625 | 2 |
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Brockwood Park 2nd Public Question & Answer Meeting 30th August 1979
We have so far one hundred and fifty questions! I don't think it will be possible to answer all of them this morning. Probably one needs a month to answer them, and you won't be here and I won't be here.
I think before we answer these questions, please remember that we are sharing the question as well as the answer. Your particular question may not be answered because there are too many of them to go into each one, but I think we have more or less chosen, or gathered together representative questions out of that hundred and fifty. So I hope you will not mind if your particular question is not answered. Most of us I am afraid ask questions and try to find an answer from others. When we do put a question one must find out why we put them. Is it a genuine, serious applicable question? Or just a fanciful question and therefore no answer that can be properly correct and true? But as we said, we are going to share together the question and the answers. And I hope that we can do that this morning. I hope you are not too hot.
1st QUESTION: The speaker has said that going to an office everyday from nine to five is an intolerable imprisonment. But in any society all kinds of jobs have to be done. Is K's teaching therefore only for the few?
You have understood? Shall I read it again? The speaker has said that human society is so constructed throughout the world that most people are occupied with jobs, pleasant or unpleasant, from nine to five everyday of their life. And he said also that it is an intolerable imprisonment. I don't know how you feel about it. Probably you like being in prison, probably you like your jobs from nine o'clock to five o'clock, rushing, rushing back and all the rest of it. What shall we do? To the speaker he wouldn't tolerate it for a single minute - for the speaker. I would rather do something which would be pleasant, helpful and necessary to earn enough money and so on. But most of us accept this prison, this routine - right? We accept it. So what shall we do? Nobody, as far as one is capable of sufficient observation, nobody has questioned this. We say it is normal, it is the way of society, it is the way of our life, it is the way we must live. But if we all see together that such an imprisonment, which it is actually, that we all feel it is intolerable, not just verbally but actually do something about it we will create a new society - right? We will if all of us say we will not tolerate for a single day this routine, this monstrous activity of nine to five, however necessary, however good and pleasant, then we will bring about not only psychological revolution but also outwardly. Right? We may agree about this but will we do it? You might say, "No, I can't do it because I have responsibility, I have children, I have a house and mortgage, insurance" - thank god I haven't got any of those! And so you might say, "It is easy for you to talk about all this." But it is easy for the speaker to talk about it because he refuses to go in that pattern. From boyhood he refused it.
Now if we all consider that such a psychological as well as physical revolution of this kind is necessary, not bloody and all the rest of it, then we will create the society - won't we? You want others to create the society and you can then slip into it. That is what we are all waiting for. A few struggle, work, create, and refuse to enter into this rat race and the others say, "Yes, after you have constructed what you think is right society, then we all join you" - but we don't do it together. That is the whole problem. Right? If we all had this, not idea but the fact, that to spend our life from nine o'clock to five o'clock probably before that, every day of our life for sixty years and more, we would do something about it. As if you refuse to have wars - you understand - wars, killing other people in the name of your country, your god, whatever the ideal is, if you all refused to kill another there would be no wars - right? But we have constructed a society, built a society, based on violence, armaments, each nation protecting itself against other nations, and so we are perpetuating wars, killing your sons, your daughters, everything. And we support it. In the same way we support, maintain this imprisonment. It may be pleasant for those who have an agreeable job but those who refuse to enter this game they will act, they will do something.
So the problem is, do we see the importance, or the necessity of this change? After all the human mind is not merely occupied with a particular job, pleasant or unpleasant. The human mind has the quality of other things which we disregard. We are concerned with the whole of life, not just a career, nine to five, how we live, what we do, what our thinking is, whether there is affection, care, love, compassion. All that is part of life. But we are so conditioned to this idea that we must work and create a structure of a society that demands that you work from morning until night. The speaker refuses to pay into that rat race. It isn't that he has got certain gifts or that somebody will look after him, but he refuses to enter that. I wouldn't go for a single day from nine to five for anybody, for anything. I might die but I wouldn't do that. In the same way I wouldn't kill another human being whatever the circumstances. I know what you are going to say - 'What if your sister is attacked?' - you know all that game. Because violence produces more violence. You are seeing that in Ireland. But we are all so timid, we are all so nervous, frightened, anxious, we want security which we think we have, which we haven't got.
So will you go into this and find out if you can free yourself from that rat race and to find out one must exercise capacity, intelligence, not say, "I won't do it". You don't do it because you are intelligent, not because you are told, or you have read in some book, or some philosopher. I think it is very clear.
And also the questioner asks: are K's teachings therefore only for the few? This is one of the questions that is asked over and over again. What do you think? If it is for the few it is not worth it. Wait a minute, just go slowly. The speaker says it is for everyone. But everyone is not serious, has not got the energy because he is dissipating it in various ways. And so gradually there are very few - you follow? So observing it, say it is only for the few. Whereas actually if you apply, go into it seriously with the spirit of investigation and wanting to live a different kind of life, it is for everyone. There is nothing secret about it. But there is great mystery if you go beyond the limitation of thought. But we don't do any of these things, we don't test it out, we don't apply, we don't eat the food that is put before us. And the few that eat it say, "We are the elite". They actually are not the elite, they are only the serious people that have applied, thought about it, gone into it, seeing that it affects their daily life. It is only then one can create a different kind of society.
2nd QUESTION: Isn't insight intuition? (You have heard these two words, I am sure.) Would you discuss this sudden clarity some of us have. What do you mean by insight and is it a momentary thing or can it be continuous?
In the various talks the speaker has given he has used the word 'insight'. That is, to see into things, into the whole movement of thought, into the whole movement, for example, of jealousy. To perceive the nature of greed, to see the whole content of sorrow. Not analysis, not exercise of intellectual capacity, nor is it the result of knowledge, knowledge being that which has been accumulated through the past as experience, stored up in the brain, therefore knowledge always goes with ignorance. There is no complete knowledge, therefore there is always knowledge and ignorance, like two horses tethered.
So then what is insight? You understand my question? You are following this? Please it is a hot morning but it doesn't matter a little bit. If the observation is not based on knowledge, or on intellectual capacity of reasoning, exploring, analysing, then what is it? That is the whole question.
And the questioner asks also: is it intuition? That word 'intuition' is rather a tricky word because many of us use that word. The actuality of intuition may be the result of desire. One may desire something and then a few days later you have an intuition about it. And you think that intuition is most extraordinarily important. But if you go into it rather deeply you may find that it is based on desire, on fear, on various forms of pleasure. So one is rather doubtful about that word, specially used by those people who are rather romantic, who are rather imaginative, sentimental and wanting something. And they would certainly have intuitions but it may be based on some obvious self-deceptive desire. So for the moment we can put aside intuition, that word. I hope I am not hurting anybody who is caught in intuitions.
And if that is not so, then what is insight? That is, to perceive something instantly which must be true, logical, sane, rational. You understand? And that insight must act instantly. It isn't that I have an insight and do nothing about it. If I have an insight, if one has an insight into the whole nature of thinking - you understand? - that is, I will explain a little bit about thinking. Thinking is the response of memory. Memory is the result of experience, knowledge, stored up in the brain. And the memory responds. Where do you live? You answer. What is your name? There is immediate response. And so on. Thought is the result or the response of the accumulated experience, knowledge as memory. That is simple. So that thought based upon, or the outcome of knowledge, that thought is limited because knowledge is limited. So thought can never be all inclusive. It must always be partial, limited, based on knowledge and ignorance. Therefore it is everlastingly confined, limited, narrow - right? Now to have an insight into that, which means, is there an action which is not merely the repetition of thought - you are following all this? - to have an insight into say organizations, let's take that. Right? To have an insight into it, which means that you are observing without memory, remembrances, without argumentation, pro and con, just to see the whole movement and the demand for organization. Then you have an insight into it, and from that insight you act. And that action is logical, is sane, healthy. It is not you have an insight and then you act the opposite, then it is not insight. I wonder if you are getting all this? Sorry to be so emphatic. That is my way of doing it.
To have an insight, for example, into the wounds, hurts that one has received from childhood. You understand my question? We are all people who are hurt for various reasons, from childhood until we die there is this wound in us, psychologically. Now to have an insight into the whole nature and structure of that hurt. Do you understand? Are you following all this? You are hurt, aren't you sirs? - wounded psychologically? Play the game with me. The ball is in your court. You are hurt obviously. You may go to a psychologist, analyst, psychotherapist, and they trace why you are hurt, from childhood, your mother was this and your father was that, or you are put in the wrong part or the right part and so on and so on. (Laughter) Don't please. Go into it. And by merely looking, or seeking out the cause the hurt is not going to be resolved. It is there. And the consequences of that hurt is isolation, fear, resistance, and not to be hurt more, therefore self-enclosure. You know all this. That's the whole movement of being hurt. The hurt is the image that you have created for yourself about yourself. right? So as long as that image remains you will be hurt, obviously. Now to have an insight into all that, without analysis, to see it instantly and the very perception of that insight, which demands all your attention and energy, the hurt is dissolved. And therefore when it is dissolved there is no further hurt. I wonder if you get all this?
If one may ask most politely, you have heard this, have you got that insight that will dissolve your hurt completely, leaving no mark, and therefore no more hurt, nobody can hurt you. You understand? Because the image that you have created about yourself is non existent. Are you following all this? Are you doing it? Or are you just merely verbally paying attention to the words?
Questioner: I don't really understand what you mean when you say we have created this hurt.
K: First of all, who is hurt? What do you mean by being hurt? Sir, what do you mean by being hurt? You say, "I am hurt" - consciously you are aware of it or not. One is hurt. Now what is that which is being hurt? Do you understand my question? Do you understand sir? What is that which is hurt? You say, "It is me". What is that 'me'? It is the image you have about yourself. If I have an image about myself, I am marvellous, spiritual, blah, blah - eh? - and you come along and say, "No, you are a silly ass" - I get hurt. (Laughter) That is, thought - please follow this - thought has created an image about oneself and that image is always comparing: my image is better than your image, and so on and so on and so on. So as long as one has this image about oneself it is going to be trodden on by somebody. And that is called hurt, wounds, psychologically.
To have an insight into that means to see the whole movement, the cause and the image and therefore the very perception ends the image. Do you understand this? No?
3rd QUESTION: You say that organizations will not help man to find what we Christians call salvation. So why do you have your own organization?
In 1925 - perhaps some of you weren't born even - in 1925 the speaker was the head of a very big vast organization. He was the head of it and they looked up to him with devotion - you know, all that stuff, candles and all that! (Laughter) Please don't laugh, we are just stating facts. And it was considered a spiritual organization, a religious organization. And in 1925 - or was it 28 or 29, I have forgotten, it is not important - that organization called 'The Order of the Star' was dissolved by the speaker, because he said that any spiritual organization of any kind is not spiritual. And he dissolved that organization, returned the properties, the whole works of it.
Now he has - not, he has - there are several Foundations, one in India, one in this country, America and Canada. In India there are five schools, in different parts of that country, with a great deal of land. And they are schools, they are operated under the K. Foundation, which is responsible for the land, to see that the schools are more or less in the right direction - less perhaps than more! And here also there is a Foundation with a school and we are hoping the school will keep in the right direction. And the Foundation is responsible to gather all these talks, tapes, publish and so on and so on. And it is the same in America and in Canada. There is nothing spiritual about it. Right? They merely act as function. They are necessary, the law demands it. And to publish the books - you know, all the rest of it. And to see that the teachings are kept fairly pure. That is the only function of these Foundations - right? It has no other function. They are not spiritual bodies which you can join and attain Nirvana, or Heaven or whatever. It is very simple, very clear. Is that all right? So don't please next time ask about why do you have organizations. It is very simple: there are schools, they publish, tapes, arrange talks wherever I go and some of them look after the speaker physically, because the speaker has no money. When the speaker is in India they look after him, here they look after him, when the speaker is in America they do the same. Full stop. That is finished, isn't it? Shall we go on to the next question?
4th QUESTION: Is sex incompatible with a religious life? What place has human relationship in spiritual endeavour?
First of all why have human beings, right throughout the world, made sex so important in their life? Do you understand my question? Why? Now in the west it is permissive, boys or girls of twelve, thirteen, have already sex. And one asks why have human beings throughout their activities, throughout their lives made this thing of such colossal importance? Go on sirs, answer it. Put the question. We are sharing the question together - right? You are not just listening to a Delphic Oracle, but together we are investigating. It is your life. We are looking at it.
There are those gurus, and there is a whole philosophy called Tantra - part of it - is based on sex. That through sex you can reach god - whatever that god be. And that is very popular. And there are those, like the monks, the Indian Sannyasis, and the Buddhist priests, have denied sex because they have all maintained that it is a waste of energy, and to serve god you must come with all your energy. Therefore deny, suppress, burn inside yourself with all the demands but suppress it, control it. So you have the permissive, and the so-called religious suppression. And those in between who enjoy everything, both sides, they have one foot in this and one foot in the other! Then they can talk about both things and see if they cannot harmonize the two together and find god - or whatever you want to find. Probably you will find at the end of it a lot of nonsense!
So we are asking: why has man, woman, made this sex business so important? Right? Why don't you give the same importance to love - do you understand? To compassion? Not to kill? Why do you give only such immense value to sex? You are following what I am saying? Your wars, terrors, national divisions, the whole immoral society in which we live, why don't you give an equal importance to all that and not only to this? You are following my question? Why? Is it because sex is your greatest pleasure in life? The rest of your life is a bore, a travail, a struggle, a conflict, meaningless existence? And this at least gives you a certain sense of great pleasure, a sense of well being, a sense of - you know - what you call relationship, and what you also call love - right? Is that the reason why we are so sexually crazy? Go on sirs, answer yourselves. Because we are not free in any other direction. We have to go to the office from nine to five, where you are bullied, where your boss is over you - you know all that happens in an office, or in a factory, or in another job where there is somebody dominating you. And our minds have become mechanical - are you following all this? - we repeat, repeat, repeat, we fall into a tradition, into a groove, into a rut. Our thinking is that: I am a Christian, I am a Buddhist, I am a Hindu, I am a Catholic, I worship the Pope - you know, the whole thing is clearly marked and you follow that. Or you reject all that and form your own routine.
So our minds have become slaves to various patterns of existence - right? So it has become mechanical. And sex may be pleasurable and gradually that too becomes mechanical. So one asks, if you want to go very deeply into it, one asks: is love sex? Go on, ask it. Is love pleasure? Is love desire? Is love a remembrance of an incidence, which you call sex, with all the imagination, the pictures, the thinking about it, is that love? Oh, for god's sake! Is love a remembrance?
And the questioner asks: (Oh, lord, I have forgotten where is it? Here it is.) what place has human relationship in spiritual endeavour? You see what it is reduced to? Human relationship is pleasure, sex, conflict, quarrels, divisions, you go your way, I'll go my way - you follow? That is our relationship, actual relationship in our daily life. And what place has human relationship in spiritual endeavour? Obviously the present relationship has no place whatsoever, obviously. We are jealous of each other, we want to possess each other, we want to dominate each other and so there is antagonism between each other, one is sexually unsatisfied therefore you go to somebody else, and in that sexual relationship there is loneliness - right? All this sir. And always seeking your own pleasure. Is that all love?
So you disregard, put aside that thing called love, perhaps that is the most wonderful thing if one has it, and are so caught up in this vortex or one's own desire, of one's own pleasure - right? So we are always wanting not only sexual satisfaction but gratification in every direction, which is based on pleasure. And that we call love. From that we kill each other - right? Love of the country.
So when at the end of this you say why has man, woman, given this one thing such extraordinary importance? All the magazines, you know all that is happening. Is it man, woman, have lost their creative capacity? - not sexual capacity - you understand? - creative capacity. To be able to see, to be a light to themselves, not to follow anybody, not to worship any image, illusion, belief. When you put aside all that and you have understood your own petty little desires, which is your own sexual demands, gratifications, then when you see all that, have an insight into all that, then out of that comes creation. It doesn't mean painting a picture, or writing a poem. That sense of ever freshness - you understand? Having a mind that is fresh, young, innocent all the time, not clouded, burdened with all kinds of memories, dissatisfactions, fears and anxieties, you know, when you have lost all that there is a totally different kind of mind. Then sex has its own place. But when sex becomes a means of religious endeavour - you understand what I am saying? - then we get completely bogged down.
Apparently we don't have that quality of scepticism - you understand? To be sceptical about one's own demands, to question, doubt these innumerable gurus. And doubt also becomes rather dangerous because if you don't hold it then you doubt everything and then there is no end. It is like having a dog on a leash, you must let it go occasionally, or often so that the dog enjoys himself, runs about. In the same way doubt must be kept on a leash and also allowed, take away the leash, so the mind is - you know, the mind being your heart, your brain, your emotions, everything active, not just directed in one direction which is sex, sex, sex.
5th QUESTION: Can thought be aware of itself as it is taking place? Or does the awareness come after the thought? Can consciousness be aware of its whole content?
Most of us are aware after the happening - right? - after the incident, after an action. Then we say, "I should have done", "I shouldn't have done". The questioner asks: can thought be aware of itself as it arises? - not after, which is fairly simple, which is what most of us do. But the question is: can there be awareness of thought as it arises? Do you understand the question? You understand the question at least? Can you be aware - please listen - of your thought? That is, can thought be aware of itself, as it arises? You understand the question? That is, one's whole life is based on thought, thought recognizing the emotion, the sentiment, the romantic feelings, the imagination and so on, thought is recognizing all this - right? "Oh, I am very emotional" and so on. Now thought is our instrument of all action - right? Therefore there is no spontaneity. If you look into yourself seriously spontaneity can only exist when there is complete, total freedom, psychologically.
So can your mind be aware of itself as thought arises? That is, is there an awareness when you begin to be angry? You follow all this? Can there be an awareness as jealousy arises? Can there be an awareness as greed comes - be aware of that? Can there be? Or you are aware that you have been jealous, or that you have been greedy or that you have been angry? That is fairly simple, most of us do that. But to be aware so attentively you can see for yourself the anger coming in, the adrenaline and all the processes, the whole movement of anger. You can see greed come into being: you see something you want and - you follow? - reaction. To be aware of that. Of course one can as it arises.
Now the question is a little more difficult, more deep. Can thought - please listen to this - which is, you can be aware as anger arises, that is fairly simple, but is there an awareness of thought itself? You understand what I am saying? You are thinking now, aren't you? Or are you all absent minded? You are thinking now, aren't you? Now as you are thinking find out if that thinking can be aware of itself. Not you aware of thinking - do you understand the problem? I wonder if you see this. This is really great fun if you go into it. Not only fun, it is very, very serious because we can go very, very deeply into all this. That is, you are thinking about something, about your dress, how you look, what people have said, what you are going to meet, and this and that - thinking is there. Now take one thought and see if that thought can know itself. Ah, yes sir, this requires tremendous attention which you are not used to. You are thinking about the dress you have had, or you are going to buy. The thought that arises, can that thought say, "Yes, I am awake" - you understand? I see myself, itself, not you observe the thought because you are also thought. Do you understand? So you are not aware as thought arises but thought itself is aware as it comes into being. I wonder if you see this. No. Right? That is one question.
The other is: can consciousness be aware of its whole content? Do you understand? Consciousness, to put it very quickly and briefly, is its content, isn't it? Your belief, your name, your nationality, your prejudices, your opinions, your conclusions, your hopes, your despairs, your depression, your concern about yourself, you believe and you don't believe, you believe in being a British - you follow - god or no god. All that - your anxieties, your fears, all that is the content of you - right? Your sexual demands, your urges, your pleasures - all that is your consciousness, and can that consciousness - please listen to it - be aware of its own content, as a whole, not just a part? You get the point? No.
This is real meditation, you understand? Not all the nonsense that goes on. Because to see the whole of your being, not just your sexual demands because sex isn't your only life, there are fears, death, anxiety, guilt, despair, depression - you follow? - sorrow, all that is part of your life. So all that is your consciousness. Now the questioner asks: can your consciousness be aware of its whole content? That means can you observe - not you observe - is there an observation of the whole thing? One has to go very deeply into this. We haven't time but we will go briefly into it.
That consciousness is put together by time, through time, through what we call evolution. You have had incidents, accidents, remembrances, racial, national and so on, family, all that is a movement contained in consciousness - right? And is it ever possible to be completely free of that content. Do you understand? No, you are not interested in all this. This is really very important because otherwise we are always acting in the field of the known, the known being the unknown also, the ignorance. There is never freedom. That is, a man always living in the past, as you do. You may project that past into the future as an ideal, as a hope and so on, but it is still the movement of the past, modified through the present - right? So a man who is more or less living in the past, what is his mind - you understand? He may have new techniques, new opportunities to learn other forms of skills but it is essentially, in himself, his consciousness is the movement of the past. Right? So a man who is living in the past - or a woman - what happens to his brain, mind? It can never be free.
So a man who enquires into this very seriously has to find out whether this whole consciousness with its content can be seen at once, which is to have total insight into this. I don't know if you have ever considered looking at anything wholly: to look at your wife, or your girl, or your husband, whatever it is, wholly, not just her face, her this or that, but the whole quality of another human being. And you can only do that when the you is not - do you understand? When you are not centred here, me. The 'me' is very small, very petty, because the 'me' is the accumulation of all this.
So when you begin to enquire into this, whether it is possible to see the whole content, the movement of consciousness, which means the whole structure of the 'me'. That requires pure observation - do you understand? Not your direction, prejudice, like and dislike and all the rest of it, but just purely to observe the vast structure, very complex. Because of its very complexity you must come to it very simply. Right?
Shall I go on with one more question?
6th QUESTION: I have tried all kinds of meditation, fasting and a voluntary solitary life, but it has come to nothing. Is there one thing, or one quality that will end my seeking and my confusion, and if there is what am I to do?
You understand this question? Are you in that position? You understand the question? That is, one goes to Japan, Zen Buddhism, Zen meditation, the various forms of Tibetan, Hindu, the Christian, and all the innumerable meditations man has invented. And the questioner says, "I have been through all that. I have done yoga of various kinds, fasted, led a solitary life trying to find out what is truth. And at the end of it all I have found nothing". Do you understand this? Many people don't understand. Which isn't a tragedy to you, is it?
Is there one thing, one quality that will end my seeking and my confusion? If there is, tell me what to do? You understand the full meaning of this question?
I met a man once, he was a very old man, I was quite young, grey hair, almost dying. And he heard one of the talks and came to see me afterwards and he said, "I have spent twenty five years of my life in solitude, in meditation. I have been married and so on, but I left all that, and for twenty five years I have meditated. And I see now that I have heard you that I have lived in an illusion." - you understand? Twenty five years - you people don't know a thing. And to say to oneself, "I have lived an illusion, I have deceived myself." - you understand? At the end of twenty five years to say that. Which means a wasted life, which you are doing anyhow, without meditating for twenty five years.
And he asks what is the one thing, one action, one step that will dissolve my confusion, the end to my search. You understand the question? Are you in that position, any of you? Except the questioner? You understand, you have come to the end of your tether. You have read, you have walked, you have heard, you have cried, you have meditated, you have longed, you have sacrificed - you understand? Probably you haven't done any of those things. And if you have, then what is the one thing that will resolve all this?
First of all don't seek? Do you understand what it means? Because if you seek you will find, what you find you have already sought. I wonder if you see all this? What you will find in your search is what you have projected - you being your priests, your gods, your professor, your guru, your philosophy, your experience. That, projected in the future, you will find, therefore a wise man doesn't seek. And the questioner says, what is the one thing? For that one thing there must be total freedom from all attachment, to your body, to your exercises, to your yoga, to your own opinion, judgements, and persons, and beliefs, complete freedom from all attachment - right? Don't make it a sorrowful thing, it isn't. There must be no fear - wait, this is not one thing, absolutely no psychological fear, and therefore when there is physical fear you deal with it - you understand what I am saying? When somebody is attacking you, you deal with it, but psychologically there is no fear, that means no time as tomorrow. Oh, you don't see this.
And the mind having understood the nature of sorrow and therefore freedom from sorrow, which doesn't mean that you are indifferent and all the rest of it - freedom from sorrow. Right? These are only indications, not the final thing. If these don't exist the other final thing cannot be. You understand the point? I don't think you do. Look sir, a man or a woman, a man has spent years and years searching, seeking, asking, demanding, so-called sacrifices, taking vows of celibacy - you follow? - and at the end of it all he says, "My god, I have nothing. I have ashes in my hand". Even though they think they have in their hands Christ or Jesus or the Buddha, it is still ashes. I wonder if you see all this? And such a man asks: what is the right action in my life, the right action which will be right under all circumstances? It doesn't vary from time to time according to culture, according to nations, according to education - right, precise, actual.
When all this is clear, that your mind is totally unattached to itself - do you understand? - to its own body and no fear, and the ending of sorrow, then if that is clear the one thing is compassion. You understand? Out of all this comes compassion, then compassion is not ashes in your hand, which isn't the compassion that does social reforms, social work, the saints, it isn't the compassion of the saints, compassion of the people who go out in the war and heal people, doctors and so on and so on. It is not that at all. It is the one answer that is true under all circumstances and therefore out of that right action because compassion goes with intelligence. If there is no intelligence which is born out of compassion - you understand? - then you get lost in some trivialities. And the world then accepts those trivialities as being extraordinary acts of compassion. They become saints, they become heroes, they become all kinds of idiotic recognitions of silly people. So there is one act, one quality that is supreme and that is compassion with its intelligence. And out of that intelligence there is right action under all circumstances.
Brockwood Park 1979
Brockwood Park 2nd Public Question & Answer Meeting 30th August 1979
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This dog experienced CDS for the last year of her 15.5-year life and spent much time standing in front of corners, seemingly unable to get out of them. Photo by VIN.
Cognitive behavior issues include difficulties with spatial orientation (a sense of direction while moving around); problems with memory, learning, housetraining; and difficulty in recognizing and reacting to human family members.
Pet owners have long been frustrated by age-related behavior changes, including house-training problems, apparent memory loss, disorientation, confusion, staring, wandering, getting stuck in corners, sleep disturbances (waking at the wrong time, sleeping unusually deeply, night pacing), restlessness, barking, separation anxiety, panting, drooling, obsessive licking, etc.
Progression of clinical signs is so gradual that most owners fail to recognize the early stages.
These changes are often written off as being due to normal aging. A recent study at the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine demonstrates how common these observations are: out of 69 dogs participating, 32% of the 11-year old dogs were affected by this syndrome and 100% of the dogs 16 years of age older were affected.
In another study of 180 dogs aged 11-16 years, 28% of 11-12 year-old dogs and 68% of 15-16 year old dogs showed at least one sign consistent with cognitive dysfunction. Ten percent of 11-12 year old dogs had signs in two or more categories and this rose to 36% in the 15-16 year old group.
Still, the high frequency with which the syndrome is seen in older dogs does not make the behavior normal.
Increasing age results in some or all of the following changes in the brain:
- The brain atrophies. The total weight and size decreases, especially in the cerebral and cerebellar areas. The number of neurons, or brain cells, decreases, causing decreased brain function.
- There is an increase in beta amyloid plaques. Beta-amyloid is a protein that accumulates in the brain and damages neurons. The greater the beta-amyloid accumulation is, the greater the cognitive impairment. In dogs, errors in learning tests were strongly associated with increased deposition of beta-amyloid.
- Numerous micro-hemorrhages (bleeds) and infarcts (places where blood flow has stopped or been disrupted) occur. These likely compromise overall blood flow and result in hypoxia (a reduced availability of oxygen).
- Changes in neurotransmitter levels. Monoamine oxidase B (MAOB) has been found to increase in older dogs. MAOB metabolizes dopamine, a neurotransmitter, resulting in decreased dopamine levels.
Treatments that may help improve cognitive dysfunction (CDS) include selegiline, dietary changes, SAM-e, environmental enrichment, and cerebral perfusion (an improved blood flow to brain cells).
L-Deprenyl helps prolong dopamine activity. This may account for part of its efficacy (power to be able to produce an effect) in treating cognitive dysfunction. In addition, since dopamine breakdown results in free radicals, L-Deprenyl also helps reduce the amount of free radicals in the brain.
Of the 69 dogs mentioned in the above University of California-Davis study, approximately 76% showed improvement on L-Deprenyl after one month of therapy. Some dogs improved in the first few days or weeks; some dogs did not show improvement until the second month. Often dogs continued to improve during the first three months. Anecdotally, the earlier L-Deprenyl is started, the better the result.
When using L-Deprenyl to treat cognitive dysfunction, if no improvement is seen after the first month, your veterinarian may recommend doubling the dose for an additional month before deciding the drug may not be useful in that individual pet.
Some commercial therapeutic diets contain antioxidants, mitochondrial cofactors, and omega-3 fatty acids. These diets have been shown to improve the performance of a number of cognitive tasks when compared to older dogs on a non-supplemented diet. Improvements have been seen as early as to 2 to 8 weeks after therapy begins.
S-adenosylmethionine SAM-e was found to be effective in improving clinical signs associated with CDS in a double-blinded, placebo controlled trial.
Just because they're old doesn't mean your dogs can't learn new things. Use their intelligence to improve the quality of their lives.
If your old dog's vision is still good, teach signals. This will serve as a back-up if hearing fails, which it often does. Signals are fun for dogs and are a more natural language for them than words.
Grooming (touch) will help your dog cope with vision and hearing loss. Your touch will help guide your dog.
In a laboratory study of older dogs over a 2-year period, environmental enrichment (e.g., housing with another dog, playing daily with toys) was shown to be effective tool for task learning. In fact, the combined effect of a special diet and enriched environment provided the greatest improvement in learning ability when compared to the dogs who did not have either dietary or environmental enrichment.
Improved Cerebral Perfusion
Drugs that increase cerebral perfusion may have some benefit in CDS.
- Propentofylline (Karsivan) is licensed for use in some European countries for dullness/lethargy in old dogs. This drug exerts its beneficial effects by improving blood flow to the brain.
- Nicergoline is an alpha-1 and alpha-2 adrenergic antagonist available in the United Kingdom for age-related behavior problems.
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With the use of Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) becoming increasingly common, it is important that anyone dealing with personal data understands what a DSAR is, when it can be used, how an organization should respond to the request and the timeframe for its response. Even entities which have had one or more DSARs must reflect on whether their procedures are in line with the required approach. A key trend in decisions by data protection authorities in the Channel Islands relate to failures by organizations to properly respond to DSARs and this has resulted in public reprimands being issued.
A useful starting point is either section 15 of the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2017 or article 28 of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 which affords individuals the right to be provided with confirmation as to whether or not an organization is holding or using their personal data and, if it is, the right to be provided with a copy of that personal data (subject to certain exceptions or exemptions). The provisions of the Channel Islands’ data protection legislation will look familiar to anyone who has dealt with DSARs in the UK, EU or any other country that has been deemed to have data protection legislation equivalent to the GDPR.
We set out below some key points which organizations may want to consider when receiving and responding to a DSAR.
What is a DSAR?
Broadly speaking DSAR outlines a request by an individual in which they ask “what do you know about me?”. Any information identified in response is likely to be the data of that individual. The DSAR captures all of the individual’s personal data and “personal data” is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. The DSAR can be made in any format and need not mention “data subject access request” so the organization’s staff must be able to spot a DSAR when it arrives.
First steps and identity
It is recognized good practice for an organization to send the requesting individual an acknowledgment of the DSAR and this can be combined with a request for information to verify that the DSAR is genuine. If the request for information by the individual is very wide this is also a chance to invite the individual to narrow their request to see if there is something they are particularly interested in. If the individual does not wish to narrow the scope then this cannot be used to avoid responding to a DSAR.
The first question the organization (being the “controller”) should ask itself when a DSAR is received is “are we sure this individual is who they say they are?”. In the event that the organization has any reason to doubt the requestor’s identity, it may request any additional information that is reasonably necessary to provide the verification. When the identity of the requesting individual cannot be verified despite the organization taking reasonable steps, the individual will not be entitled to exercise any data subject right and the organization will not be required to give the information. Where a third party is making a DSAR on behalf of a data subject then the organization must satisfy itself that the request being made is genuinely by the individual whose data is being sought.
Once a DSAR is received and the organization is satisfied that the request is genuinely from the individual, the clock for responding to the DSAR starts.
Organizations in Jersey have a maximum response time of four weeks and those in Guernsey have one month, although in both Jersey and Guernsey this can be extended for a period of a further eight weeks / two months (respectively) in certain circumstances.
What information should be provided?
As well as providing the individual with a copy of any personal information held by the organization (subject to certain exemptions and exceptions –see below), the organization must provide a statement setting out certain additional information relating to the use of the individual’s personal data.
The contents of this statement are very similar to the information that must be included in the organization’s privacy notice.
When the organization provides copies of information to the data subject, this information must be provided free of any charge, except in the case where the individual is asking for further copies. If the organization is not going to comply with all or any part of a request, it must notify the individual of the reasons for the organization not so complying and that the individual has the right to complain to the relevant data protection authority.
Often the key challenge for an organization responding to a DSAR is ascertaining where to search for the personal data and then subsequently sorting through the data retrieved to extract the information. Electronic storage systems and structured physical filing systems must be searched, including archived and back-up data. This can be a time consuming exercise although IT solutions are available to help with this process.
Exceptions and Exemptions
If any part of a DSAR is ‘manifestly unfounded’, the organization may refuse to give the information or take the action requested in that part of the request. Similarly if any part of the request is frivolous, vexatious, unnecessarily repetitive or otherwise excessive under the Guernsey legislation or manifestly vexatious or excessive under the Jersey legislation, the organization may either refuse to provide the information or may provide the information but charge a reasonable fee. for the administrative costs of doing so. Any organization intending to rely on these exceptions must be certain that it is entitled to do so and must be ready to evidence this to the relevant data protection authority.
The organization should keep in mind that a DSAR is ‘purpose blind’, meaning that it is a free standing right of individuals, even where that individual is in conflict with the organization. Employers in particular have faced criticism from the data protection authorities where the employer has failed to properly respond to a DSAR from a hostile former employee on the grounds that the information was going to be used in legal proceedings.
There are also a number of instances where data, although strictly within the ambit of a response to a DSAR, can be withheld by the organization because one of the exemptions in the data protection laws apply. The list of exemptions is relatively long and includes certain key exemptions which allow the organization to withhold information where the disclosure would:
- Prejudice the management forecasting or management planning of the organization;
- Prejudice current negotiations;
- Result in disclosing legally privileged information;
- Prejudice judicial proceedings.
The data protection authorities have stated that exemptions should be applied narrowly, to specific personal data in specific circumstances and should be carefully considered and their use fully justified. All decisions to rely on an exemption should be documented and the organization should be prepared to share that documentation with the relevant authority if it is asked.
Often the individual’s personal data is mixed with that of one or more other people and this places the organization in a more difficult position. The requesting individual is entitled to their own data but not to the personal data of other people. Here the organization needs to undertake a balancing exercise. With appropriate redactions the information might still be shared. Alternatively it could be appropriate for the organization to see if the other person would object to their information being disclosed.
Manner of Response
Where the organization is required to provide information in response to the DSAR, and none of the exceptions or exemptions apply, the organization must give the information to the individual in writing (unless requested to be given orally), which must be concise, transparent, easily accessible, intelligible and clearly legible. Where the DSAR was made electronically, this information must be provided by similar or commonly used electronic means, unless otherwise requested by the data subject. Organizations should note that the individual is entitled to a copy of their personal data and not to the document in which the data is held. The organization may decide that it will provide a copy of the document containing the personal data (possibly in redacted form) but the individual does not have a right to that document.
The changing landscape for DSARs?
As the GDPR and the new data protection legislation in the UK and Channel Islands bed down, the data protection authorities are refining their guidance on DSARs and issuing decisions where organizations have failed to meet their obligations. For more information about this direction of travel please see this article.
Organizations should also be aware of the other rights given to individuals contained within the data protection legislation. These rights include the right to rectification, to erasure, to restriction of processing, to data portability, to object to processing for direct marketing purposes or not to be subject to automated decision-making. In each case the organization must take all reasonable steps to facilitate the exercise of these data subject rights.
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A Virginia legend states that when Native Americans destroyed several settlements on the New River, south of what became known as Hungry Mother Park, Molly Marley and her small child were among the survivors taken to the raiders' base north of the park. Upon finding help, the only words the child could utter were "Hungry Mother," indicating a strong craving for food.
A significant highlight of the late 1940's was for my family to embark on a short excursion to a local state park, Hungry Mother State Park, located in Smyth County is just above the Virginia line near Marion, Virginia.
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The goals of an environmental studies program include finding ways to increase energy efficiency, minimize pollution, increase environmental awareness and encourage alternative energy use. The main focus for students is to learn how to assess and solve environmental problems.
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The Newcomer's Dictionary by Joyce Agee
The Newcomer’s Dictionary is an A to Z of words that explore aspects of relocating. Whether you have moved or are considering a move, this dictionary will help to identify and describe the experience of being a newcomer.
Filtered through Joyce Agee’s memories and illustrated by her sister, Ellen Agee, this book identifies the often hidden and complex feelings that can be experienced by newcomers – whether first-time,
seasoned or expatriate – as they relocate to a new suburb, city or country.
Now an Australian citizen, in writing this book Joyce has brought together the experiences of a nomadic expat with those of a newcomer child. She reflects on how her life has been impacted
by the family’s frequent moves while she was growing up. Books, television programs and films were to become an emotional lifeline for the two sisters, giving them a sense of stability and continuity
when everything else around them was constantly changing.
The Newcomer’s Dictionary also explores how language, which evolves over time and across cultures, influences our perception of newcomers. It describes the newcomer identity, experiences
and emotions – above all the feelings of being an outsider and the need to belong.
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In addition to the topic study materials, use the chart you completed and questions you answered in the Topic 3 about “Case Study: Healing and Autonomy” as the basis for your responses in this assignment.
Answer the following questions about a patient’s spiritual needs in light of the Christian worldview.
- In 200-250 words, respond to the following: Should the physician allow Mike to continue making decisions that seem to him to be irrational and harmful to James, or would that mean a disrespect of a patient’s autonomy? Explain your rationale.
- In 400-500 words, respond to the following: How ought the Christian think about sickness and health? How should a Christian think about medical intervention? What should Mike as a Christian do? How should he reason about trusting God and treating James in relation to what is truly honoring the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence in James’s care?
- In 200-250 words, respond to the following: How would a spiritual needs assessment help the physician assist Mike determine appropriate interventions for James and for his family or others involved in his care?
Remember to support your responses with the topic study materials.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.
This benchmark assignment assesses the following competencies:
BS Nursing (RN to BSN)
5.2: Assess for the spiritual needs and provide appropriate interventions for ind
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Patient’s Spiritual Needs: Case Analysis
This paper aims at exploring patient’s spiritual needs through case analysis. It examines the aspect of decision-making and principle of autonomy, Christian perspective, and the principles of Beneficence and Nonmaleficence, and spiritual needs assessment and intervention
Decision-Making and Principle of Autonomy
According to Whyte (2017), the principle of autonomy in the realm of patient care takes into account the right of the patients to make decisions regarding their medical care with influence from the healthcare providers. The principle of autonomy upholds that each individual has values, reasons, as well as standards of her or his own. Additionally, this principle upholds that each individual has own interest when it comes to self-determination. Therefore, in the context of healthcare practice, self-determination of individuals must be protected in all ways possible by ensuring that patients are empowered in making medical decisions in accordance to their personal values, standards, and reasons. This sentiment has been echoed by Bourne, Crossfield, and Nicholas (2017), who add that every individual is an independent human being and this has a different background. While patient autonomy typically allows healthcare practitioners to educate patients on various aspects, it does not allow them to make the decisions for the patients. Therefore, in the case of Mike, although his decisions seem irrational and harmful to James, the principle of autonomy gives him the freedom of making a personal choice. Thus, in this case, the only thing that the physician can do is to educate Mike on the best treatment options available for James.
Decision-Making, Christian Perspective, and the Principles of Beneficence and Nonmaleficence
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A popular option for
house color exteriors is to go with the natural wood color.
Whether it is clapboard, shakes, shingles, or log, the preservation of the natural wood color as the main body color of the house presents unique challenges.
Think About Scale
Picture yourself looking at your house straight on…a certain percentage of your house will be dedicated to the body color, some to trim, some to shutters, roof and door. When you think of your house in this two-dimensional way, it becomes easier to map out your color schemes.
A house with wooden siding that is stained or clear coated is definitely a house where “wood is the message”. Recall back to the image of the house I asked you to picture and all of its components in scale…certainly the body color is largest component in square footage and most likely in visual impact. Therefore, a house treated in this way says what? It says “I am all about the fact that I am made of wood and I am derived from nature and am part of the landscape”. Yes, your house does have a voice and it is speaking to you, you just have to be listening.
The question now is, “what becomes a house that looks like it is made directly from natural materials?”. The answer is simple and obvious…the trim and accent choices for such a home are those which are derived from nature itself; colors that look like river rock, bark, foliage, sand and soil.
Today, take a walk outside and look at nature. Tree bark, rocks, soil, mosses, lichen; all these things are very muted in color. They are not bright, but low in intensity. Intensity is a colorist’s term for a hue which is very muted and far away from being a primary or pure color. So since nature itself is very muted, the use of a muted color for trim and accents which mimics stone, moss, soil, etc. will be a compliment to the main body of the house. The trim and accents will not overwhelm the body color but will support it, allowing the subtle nuances of the wood siding to have its own voice.
A color scheme or palette especially of natural wood colors
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Learn how to cook without oil and get to know the secrets of sugar-free baking. What are the best substitutions for oil, butter and refined sugar in baking, salad dressings, desserts and smoothies?
When I started cooking without oil and sugar I was amazed of how rich and satisfying the food tasted. To be clear, I had no problems with replacing sugar as there are so many great substitutes. Besides, I have never liked overly sweet things anyway.
I hope that following the below simple tips for cooking without oil and sugar will make your transition easier.
How to Cook Without Oil
Plant-based whole food substitutions for butter and oil
Oil-free baked goods:
- Boiled and pureed fruits and sweet vegetables (e.g. applesauce, prune puree or pear sauce, pureed pumpkin or summer squash) act as a binder and make your cakes and muffins moist.
- Pureed raw fruits (persimmon, mango, pineapple, banana) make your baked goodies moist too, but also act as a sweetener.
- Nut and seed butters (peanut butter, tahini or sesame seed paste, cashew paste etc.) work in baked items such as cakes, cookies and muffins. If you don’t have nut or seed butter on hand, add soaked nuts to the wet mixture.
- Beans – ideal for baking brownies. Beans make them moist and give mass.
I usually use about 2 tablespoons of nut butter along with a combination of bananas, other sweet fruits or applesauce for a lower fat sweet treat.
Oil-free salad dressings and sauces:
- Nut and seeds butters: just add some water, lemon juice and seasonings to ½ tsp of nut butter, mix it well and pour over your salad.
- vinegar (if you can tolerate it) + water + herbs
- avocado with water, lemon, a bit of sweetener, sea salt, fresh basil
- water + herbs + thickener
- mustard + water
- vegetable purees
- pureed boiled beans. See recipe for White Bean Dressing.
- just add some nuts, seeds and avocado to your salad. Nuts: walnuts, almonds, pecans, hazelnuts. Seeds: sesame, sunflower, pumpkin, hemp, flax)
In this delicious Veggie-Chickpea Stew I used a peanut butter and soy milk sauce which turned out wonderful.
Cashew sour cream/mayonnaise can also be used as a dressing or a sauce.
Sautéing and stir-frying without oil
It’s easy to use water, stock or even white wine for frying and stir-frying.
Add 2 tbsp water in a large skillet. Once the water starts to sizzle, add onion or whatever vegetables you want to fry. Sauté them, stirring occasionally and adding water one tablespoon at a time to prevent sticking. Cover the skillet with a lid to make the veggies cook faster.
How to Make Sugar-Free Recipes
By all means, you don’t have to forgo sweetness as a plant-based whole foods eater. Fortunately there are some excellent alternatives to plain white sugar.
Sugar-free baking, smoothies, oatmeal, or pancake jam
- Chop dried fruits (date or other dried fruit paste), add enough water to cover and let soak for 30 minutes. Blend until smooth (use a regular blender or immerse blender). Use boiled water. If you don’t consume the whole batch at once you can store it in the fridge.
- Sweet fruits (persimmon, mango, banana, pineapple). Puree and use as jam or as a sweeter to moisten muffins or cakes.
To be honest, with conventional cake, cookie or muffin recipes, it’s actually difficult to replace the sugar. It’s because the quantities of the other ingredients will need to be adjusted too if you use date paste or sweet fruits instead of dry white sugar.
Replacing sugar in hot beverages
The goal is to train your palate so you don’t need anything extra in your coffee or tea. To start re-training your taste buds, cut down on the amount of sugar in your morning cup of coffee and replace it with a healthier alternative:
Xylitol is a naturally occurring alcohol found in most plant material, including many fruits and vegetables. It’s extracted from birch wood or corn. Xylitol is widely used as a sugar substitute in “sugar-free” chewing gums, mints, and other candies.
Xylitol tastes sweet but, unlike sugar, it’s not converted in the mouth to acids that cause tooth decay. It reduces levels of decay-causing bacteria in saliva and also acts against some bacteria that cause ear infections.
Adults should avoid higher doses of over 50g per day and for children it’s 20g per day. Pregnant and breast-feeding women should stay on the safe side and avoid xylitol as not enough is known about it when it comes to expectant and new mothers. (1)
Xylitol is expensive, but as your palate adjusts you’ll only use a teaspoon every now and then. I bought a half a kilo package and after a year, I hadn’t even consumed a quarter of it.
Don’t use xylitol in baked goods that use active yeast or in fermented products.
Raw cane sugar
It’s still sugar, but in a more natural form and suitable for a gradual transition towards sugarless beverages.
Palm sugar is often labelled under various other names reflecting the several different species of palm used and its wide production area across Africa and Asia. Palm sugar was originally made from the sap of the Palmyra palm, the date palm or the sugar date palm. Now it’s also made from the sap of the Arenga pinnata (sugar palm) and the nipa palm, and may therefore be sold as “arenga sugar”.
Palm sugar is produced by tapping the sap from tree and boiling it down to produce a syrup. The syrup is then sold as is or allowed to crystallize into various shapes and sizes. (2)
Jaggery is a concentrated product of date, cane juice, or palm sap (see palm sugar) without separation of the molasses and crystals, and can vary from golden brown to dark brown in colour. (3) It’s available in health and organic stores.
Stevia is about 100 to 300 times sweeter than sugar, but has no carbohydrates, calories or artificial ingredients. It has a peculiar taste though: a bit like menthol. You have to try it to see whether you like it.
Stevia is sold in powder or liquid form. Check the package before you measure out the sweetener as each brand has its own sugar-to-stevia ratio.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA)approved only the purified form of stevia, called stevioside, as safe to use. If you see whole stevia leaves or crude stevia extracts at your local natural foods store, don’t buy them. (4)
Agave nectar is extracted from the agave plant, a plant that is used to make tequila. It’s a lot sweeter than sugar so use half as much. Agave nectar is usually found in health stores.
I don’t recommend using a lot of agave every day because it’s high in fructose. It’s fine if you only put a bit in your coffee.
Read on low glycemic sweeteners from my post Low Glycemic Sweeteners. And watch this video as well:
The bottom line is that artificial sweeteners aren’t a substitute for healthy eating, but they can help you on your way to a better diet.
When consuming sweeteners, always be aware of the QUANTITIES. A little bit of artificial sweetener won’t harm you but a lot just might…no matter how healthy the package says it is for you.
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New Hampshire’s seventh Artist Laureate, Gary Samson is a fine art photographer and photo educator who has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships for his work during the past 40 years. Currently serving as the Chair of the Photography Department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, Samson has taught both digital and traditional film based photography courses and workshops regionally and internationally since 1981. His career in photography started in 1971 at the University of New Hampshire where he served as the University Filmmaker and Manager of Photography.
In 1984 he received his second fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts for his environmental portraits of New Hampshire artists and writers. Gary’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Currier Museum of Art, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, the state of New Hampshire, the University of New Hampshire Art Museum and the National Archives in Washington, DC as well as in private collections.
Gary’s approach to portrait work is to create extended portraits over several months or years. “I see the process of creating a portrait as a collaboration between myself and the subject in the subject's familiar environment. That environment is an instrumental part of the portrait, revealing facets of the subject's character. While I am setting up my camera, I draw the subject out in conversation and the ensuing dialogue will shape my portrayal of the individual. And like portrait photographers Arnold Newman, Lotte Jacobi and Richard Alvedon, I often prefer to use a view camera and black-and-white film to make these portraits.”
Cultural photography and documentary filmmaking assignments over the past four decades have taken him to Russia, Ghana, Guatemala, Peru, Ireland, France, Labrador, Belize, Cape Breton, New Orleans as well as the White House. At UNH, Gary produced ten films exploring the history and culture of the state of New Hampshire and these documentary films have been aired locally, regionally and nationally.
After producing a film on the life of internationally acclaimed portrait photographer Lotte Jacobi, Gary spent six years working with Jacobi cataloging her archive of 47,000 negatives which were donated to the University of New Hampshire in 1981. Jacobi’s archive which is housed at the Dimond Library includes portraits of Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Mann, J. D. Salinger, Marc Chagall, and Kathe Kollwitz. Gary has extensively utilized 19th and 20th century photographic collections in the production of films and exhibitions about New Hampshire's rich industrial history. His best known films, A World Within A World: The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company and Milltown, are sensitive portrayals of Manchester's textile mills and the immigrant people who labored in them.
In 1982 he organized and curated an exhibition on the Franco-American experience in New Hampshire which traveled to Canada and France as well as throughout museums in New England. Samson has also written several books on New Hampshire history including A World Within a World: Manchester, The Mills, and the Immigrant Experience and in collaboration with Elizabeth Hengen, Capitol Views: A Photographic History of Concord, New Hampshire 1850-1930.
Collaborating with UNH Professor Burt Feintuch, Gary photographically illustrated the book In the Blood: Conversations on Culture, published in the fall of 2010 by Utah State University Press and Cape Breton University Press. Gary spent two months in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia photographing the people, culture and landscape of this ruggedly beautiful island in the North Atlantic. An exhibition of this work was showcased at the Cape Breton University Art Gallery in the fall of 2010. Two more books have followed from this initial collaboration, Talking New Orleans Music: Crescent City Musicians Talk about Their Lives, Their Music and Their City, published in the fall of 2015 by the University Press of Mississippi. They are currently working on a book about Zydeco music also to be published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2018.
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Local Land Services NSW has long been passionate about supporting Aboriginal people to care for Country through Aboriginal Elders sharing their traditional land management and ecological knowledge with the younger members of their community. Recently, Hunter Local Land Services approached the Centre for Advanced Training Systems (ATS) to explore the possibility of creating an interactive program to increase awareness about cultural burning.
Senior Land Service Officer Toby Whaleboat approached the Centre with a vision of how to increase awareness and create a deeper understanding for both trainees and the general public about cultural burning practices. The project will involve a close collaboration between Hunter Local Land Services, the Centre for Advanced Training Systems and key local stakeholders including Local Aboriginal Land Councils.
Cultural burning refers to the traditional Aboriginal practice of using burning methods to improve the health of the land and its people. It can include burning or the prevention of burning to improve the health of specific native plants and animals in bushland. The relevance of these approaches have been highlighted by the recent catastrophic bushfires.
Speaking about the project, Toby says “We see the project as important because there have been increased interest from the wider community about Cultural Burns and how the techniques could better manage our landscapes. This project will assist in increasing the awareness of Cultural Burns and suggesting how we can work with and support our Aboriginal communities as they lead the way with Cultural Fire knowledge developed over thousands of years to assist the wider community to better understand and look after country”. ATS Director Professor Rohan Walker agrees, saying “We are proud to be helping Local Land Services to achieve their vision of transforming how we transfer and increase awareness around the practice of Cultural Burning. It is a fantastic initiative.”
As the first step in the project, ATS members Dr Steven Maltby and Dr Murielle Kluge were recently hosted on-site in Blacksmith by Kentan Proctor, on behalf of the Bahtabah Local Aboriginal Land Council landowners. While on site, they captured images and video to document the effects of a burn conducted in 2019, and to understand logistics for a planned future burn. The planned burn will also be documented to include in the educational resource.
As the project continues, audio-visual content will be developed to be viewed in a virtual reality headset. This will provide an immersive and engaging educational tool that can be used to promote awareness and support training. ATS looks forward to providing updates on the project as it progresses and to working with local communities to inform development.
The ATS respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians: the Awabakal people on whose traditional land the visited site is located and acknowledge the Bahtabah Local Aboriginal Land Council the landowner.
Learn more about ATS projects on our website: https://www.advancedtrainingsystems.org.au/projects/
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Hi, I have designed a Non inverting comparator circuit with LM2901. The inverting input has 0.5V as Vref through a potential divider. The non inverting input is the signal input, which has 10K input resistor and a 390K feedback resistor to get 100mV hysteresis. The output has a 10K pull up and it is connected to a IO expander PCA8575 through a 0 ohm resistor. I am seeing a strange behavior of the comparator output. During power up, if the +input is 0V then the output is stuck at low. after power up, the change in the +input higher than Vref is not changing the state. However if the input is higher than Vref at the power up then the output is toggling high and low as expected. Can anyone help to explain what is happening here, and how to solve this issue?
December 11, 2021
Hope this would help you, you can find the LM2901 datasheet here: https://www.easybom.com/p/lm2901d-texas-instruments-3420391
December 21, 2021
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Azoospermia affects about 1% of men worldwide, and there are about 10%-15% of infertile men who struggle with this condition. Just like Low sperm count, in Azoospermia, there will be no sperm count. Men who struggle with Azoospermia face a lot of stress and embarrassment as they are unable to conceive naturally. Ayurveda is the best way to treat Azoospermia without any side effects or complications.
"Obstructive causes and Hormonal problems of azoospermia are treatable with the help of Ayurveda."
This blog will let you understand what Azoospermia is and how it affects the male population around the world.
What is Azoospermia (Nil\Zero Sperm count)?
Azoospermia is an infertility disorder that occurs in men. This disorder causes a complete decrease or absence of sperm when a man ejaculates. Azoospermia can develop due to various causes such as a blockage along the reproductive tract, Hormonal Problems, Ejaculation problems, or issues with testicular function. There are two types of Azoospermia that are generally observed, Obstructive Azoospermia and Non-obstructive Azoospermia.
What is obstructive Azoospermia?
This type of Azoospermia causes a blockage or missing connections in the epididymis, ejaculatory ducts, vas deferens, or somewhere in the tract of the reproductive organ. In this condition, a man would be producing sperm, but due to blockage or absence of connection, the sperm is unable to exit in an appropriate amount. This type of Azoospermia can occur due to many factors such as Infection, Previous surgeries in the pelvic area, Cyst development, and Vasectomy.
What is Non-Obstructive Azoospermia?
In this type of Azoospermia, man faces infertility problems because of inadequate or nil\zero sperm production due to flaws in the structure or function of the testicles.
The defects can occur due to many factors such as genetic causes- Kallman syndrome, Kleinfelter syndrome, and Y chromosome deletion. Hormonal imbalance, Ejaculation problems, and testicular problems such as anorchia, Sertoli cell syndrome, spermatogenic arrest, Mumps orchitis, tumors, Radiation treatments, and diseases such as diabetes, kidney failure, cirrhosis, and varicocele can also be a factor behind non-obstructive Azoospermia.
Prevention Is Always Better Than Cure.
If Azoospermia is not caused due to genetics, there are many ways through which we can prevent it.
- Avoid engaging in activities that can cause injury to the reproductive organ.
- Avoid being exposed to radiation.
- Avoid medications that can harm sperm production.
Avoid exposing your testicles to hot temperatures for a prolonged period.
Complications faced by Men struggling with Azoospermia.
- Relationship difficulties occur due to the inability to conceive.
- Stress and anxiety arise.
- Men who are struggling with Azoospermia may also have suicidal thoughts.
- Social and familial embarrassment.
- Family conflicts can also arise.
Failure to become a father.
Ayurvedic Way Of Treating Azoospermia.
There have been several therapeutic approaches to treating the male infertility problem, Azoospermia. The world prefers Ayurveda above all the treatments because it has shown positive effects in treating all kinds of infertility problems and other diseases.
In Ayurveda, Azoospermia is treated with the help of powerful herbs that boost male reproductive organs. Some of these herbs are Ashwagandha, Bharangi, Kantakar, Gokshura, Bhilawa, and chitrak. These herbs contain properties that re-regulate hormonal imbalance. These herbs also contain properties that stimulate spermatogenesis and libido, activate genital secretion, and enhance the maturation of spermatozoa.
At Dr. Health, the Ayurvedic approach is used for all patients who struggle with any kind of infertility problem. Our ways of treatment are effective as we use natural methods, lifestyle changing methods, and herbs that have specific properties to improve overall health.
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What Is Gambling?
Almost everyone has gambled at some point in their life. Gambling is defined as placing an item or a certain amount of money on an event or activity that is largely determined by chance, and the gambler hopes that they will win. Once the bet is placed, it is generally impossible to get it back. People most commonly think of gambling in casinos and slot machines, but there are many other forms of gambling, such as office pools and bingo.
Gaming and gambling are both popular forms of entertainment and major commercial activities. The total legal gambling market was $335 billion in 2009. In some cases, such as poker, wagering on the outcome of a game involves the stake being an item of value. It can be as simple as placing a bet on whether a horse will win or lose a race, or as complex as betting on the winner of a game. The stake may include anything from money to possessions, including a house or car, and the prize may be anything.
Regardless of the type of gambling, it is important to remember that gambling involves risk. The odds are always against you. Therefore, it is important to set a budget for your gambling expenses. You should also avoid gambling when you’re unsure of the odds. For example, if you’re not sure what to do with the money you have invested, you should try to find a better alternative. Alternatively, you can look up the term “gambling” in Wiktionary, a free online dictionary.
In the UK, the Gambling Commission regulates the activity of gambling. There is a wide range of legal and illegal gambling activities, and the total market reached $335 billion in 2009. A person who is involved in a game of marbles might be betting on a marble or a Magic: The Gathering collectible. If you’re serious about losing money, it is essential to seek help. There are many organizations that can help you with your problem.
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Tailor who has served FOUR presidents was a Holocaust survivor - who was imprisoned at Auschwitz
- Martin Greenfield, 84, was imprisoned at infamous Nazi camp in 1943
- Later made his way to the United States, where he built his clothing empire that boasts many celebrity clients and presidents
The clothes may make the man, but what about the man behind the clothes?
Martin Greenfield, the Brooklyn, New York-based tailor to the rich and famous, has been altering suits for decades, and has a host of celebrity clients from the music, sports and political arenas.
But life has not always been easy for Mr Greenfield, who had his world turned upside down when he was sent to the Auschwitz prison camp by the Nazis during the Holocaust in 1943.
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Tailor to the stars: Martin Greenfield has been altering suits for decades, and has a host of celebrity clients from the music, sports and political arenas
In fact, the first shirt he ever touched with a needle and thread belonged to an SS guard who had given it to him to wash.
Mr Greenfield, 84, told the Washington Post: 'I didn’t know how to wash shirts - we had a maid. And I ripped his collar… First, he whipped me, then he gave me the shirt.'
Honing his sewing skills and fixing the attire to fit him properly, Mr Greenfield used the shirt as a status symbol, wearing it in place of his prison garb.
He had been moved to the Buchenwald camp before he was freed by Allied forces. When freed, he was alongside another young prisoner, writer Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel.
Master of the trade: The first shirt Mr Greenfield ever touched with a needle and thread belonged to an SS guard who had given it to him to wash
Mr Greenfield was 19 years old when he arrived in the U.S. in 1947. Today, he is showing few signs that he is ready to retire.
The Post reported that suits at Greenfield’s Brooklyn headquarters cost anywhere from $1,800 to $2,700.
In the past, Mr Greenfield’s prowess as a tailor has been sought out by some of America’s biggest names, including Paul Newman and Michael Jackson.
But perhaps no name is bigger than the president of the United States.
Wall of fame: On the wall in Mr Greenfield's office are photos and letter signed by Paul Newman and Bill Clinton, among others
High-priced: Suits at Greenfield's Brooklyn headquarters cost anywhere from $1,800 to $2,700
As a young tailor in the 50s, his bosses gave him the privilege to measure Dwight D. Eisenhower, the same man who shook his hand as a general outside the liberated Buchenwald camp years earlier.
Eisenhower may have been Mr Greenfield’s first president, but he wouldn’t be the last, as Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton also bought suits from him, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
He had an appointment with President George W. Bush at the White House on September 11, 2001 - a meeting that had to be rescheduled after the terror attacks.
Right at home: Mr Greenfield is pictured in his Brooklyn, New York, headquarters
President Obama is likely among Mr Greenfield’s clientele as well, but the humble tailor will not say so, citing a personal policy not to speak about a client unless that client has first spoken of him.
Other clients include other key political figures as Gen Colin Powell, Sen Bob Dole and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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South Shores Pet Clinic is your partner in caring for your senior pet. We know your pet, their medical history, their lifestyle, and their individual risk factors. We also know that their major areas of increased needs as senior pets are veterinary care, pain relief, physical support, and dietary adjustments. Together, we can prepare a plan, and make your pet’s entry into senior citizenship a cause for celebration—not a cause for concern.
Senior pet veterinary care needs
Provide your senior pet’s increased veterinary care needs by following these guidelines:
- Scheduling physical exams — Schedule your senior pet for twice-yearly physical exam appointments, to track weight, assess muscle mass, detect heart murmurs, and identify other clinical disease signs. Discussing changes may reveal that something you perceive as “normal aging” is actually a disease process we can diagnose and treat.
- Watching for changes — Any time you suspect a problem, make an appointment. Senior pets have increased incidence of heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease, thyroid disease, and diabetes. Almost half of dogs over age 10 are diagnosed with some form of cancer, so bring any changes to our attention.
- Scheduling lab work — Schedule at least twice-yearly senior pet lab work, including a complete blood count, chemistry panel, thyroid level, urinalysis, and other needed tests. If we can diagnose senior pet problems early, more can be done to treat and slow disease.
- Scheduling dental care — Senior pets need regular dental care. Pets often hide tooth pain, but regular oral exams at our clinic will uncover common senior pet problems of gum disease, dental tartar, and tooth root problems, which we can treat before tooth loss and jaw deterioration ensue.
- Tailoring wellness plans— Adjust your pet’s preventive wellness plan according to our recommendations. Senior pets’ immune systems change, so we will tailor their custom vaccination and parasite prevention plans at every veterinary visit.
Senior pet pain relief needs
Senior pets are at risk for increased pain from arthritic joints, back problems, dental disease, and other issues, but they tend to hide their pain. Remember the following about senior pet pain needs:
- Watch your senior pet for subtle pain signs, such as avoiding stairs, reluctance to jump, stiffness, and slowing down.
- Be aware if your pet is slow to start moving in the morning, licks or rubs a particular area, is eating less, and is less active. These can all signal arthritis pain.
- Learn to detect pain in your senior cat by referring to the “grimace scale” to decode their facial expressions. Sixty to 90 percent of cats older than age 12 suffer from arthritis, but they hide it well.
- Remember that pain doesn’t have to be a fact of life for your senior pet. We can diagnose and pinpoint the pain source with a detailed history, physical exam, X-ray, thermal imaging, ultrasound, and other advanced imaging techniques.
- Follow our recommendations to provide pain relief for your senior pet. Many options for medication prescriptions and natural supplements are now available, and we will customize a pain relief plan for your senior pet.
- Take advantage of additional pain relief modalities. We routinely perform pet laser therapy, which works at the cellular level to promote healing and reduce pain and inflammation. Our clinic also offers pet chiropractic services with an in-house specialist.
Senior pet physical support needs
Increased joint stiffness and decreased muscle mass mean mobility concerns for senior pets, as well as other increased physical needs.
- Be aware that your senior pet is an increased fall hazard. If your home has slick tile or wood floors, consider non-slip pet booties or grip socks, or non-skid mats and rugs.
- Install ramps to assist pets who struggle with climbing stairs, and pet steps to help pets who have trouble jumping.
- Learn how to provide towel-walking for mobility-challenged pets, or have your pet fitted with a support harness.
- Consider orthopedic pet beds, which are more heavily cushioned, to support boney pressure points, and help older pets stay warm. Keep bedding clean and dry, and pay special attention to incontinent pets.
- Help senior pets avoid dehydration by providing fresh water in several locations, and considering elevated bowls.
Senior pet dietary adjustment needs
Your pet’s golden years come with changed nutritional needs because of decreased activity levels, decreased muscle mass, and various disease processes. Consider the following:
- Remember that pets with an ideal body condition score benefit from decreased joint stress and diabetes risk, and senior diets are designed to provide the correct caloric intake level, the proper protein balance, and the most readily digestible ingredients.
- Consider offering canned food or softened kibble, since senior pets often experience mouth pain, brittle teeth, and weakened jaw bones. Canned food also provides increased fluid intake.
- Ask about specialized prescription diet options. For example, “brain support” diets provide supplements and antioxidants for pets with decreased cognitive function, and “joint support” diets provide correct, balanced fatty acid levels for joint health.
- Don’t forget—we can administer some natural supplements in injectable, treat, or liquid formulations, for administration ease.
Your senior pet is easing into retirement—and this is cause for celebration. They have provided your family with love and companionship through the years, and now you can provide them with a little extra. Contact the team at South Shores Pet Clinic for help in caring for your pet senior citizen. Together, we will ensure they have everything they need. | <urn:uuid:d8583f36-5d77-40ea-b931-f35d94b4773f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sspet.com/meeting-your-pet-senior-citizens-needs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.930902 | 1,169 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Enabling distributed radiology for better healthcare
Project start date : 01/05/2016
Beneficiary country : Philippines (the) Bangladesh India Thailand Indonesia Viet Nam Nigeria
About the project
In light of these challenges, Lifetrack introduces Lifesys™ RIS/PACS, featuring patented RadNav™ technology — tech that’s designed to make a sustainable social impact in the places that need radiologists most. It expands radiologists’ reach, without them ever leaving their clinics or cities. With RadNav™ technology, featuring integrated decision support and active templates, radiologists are trained as they work. Training/coaching and quality control are built into the system in a way that is intuitive and easy to use. t’s a tool for medical efficiency and accuracy. It’s a platform for capacity building.
Many LMICs still lag behind developed countries in key health indicators – notably, two thirds of the world do not have access to diagnostic imaging. The lack in medical imaging is exacerbated by the widespread inequality in developing nations. Lifetrack aims to address the shortfall in affordable, accessible diagnostic imaging driven by rising demand in high-growth emerging markets. The shortfall is driven by 3 key issues:
Emerging markets have a shortage of trained radiologists. Countries in SE Asia have only 0.8-1 radiologists per hundred thousand people, 10x less radiologists compared to advanced markets like the US.
Traditional radiology software is engineered for price points and technology infrastructure in advanced markets. For emerging markets, the cost hurdle is very high due to their bandwidth and hardware requirements.
Radiologists tend to cluster in major cities at large hospitals, meaning many patients are challenged by cost and location to access vital diagnosis for urgent cases such as strokes or treatable illnesses such as tuberculosis.
Lifetrack addresses these challenges through a distributed radiology model that supports diagnostic healthcare in emerging markets at a fraction of the cost. Their architecture provides rapid access of diagnostic images in remote areas, using consumer DSL or even 4G. Lifetrack also enables affordable adoption in emerging market environments, offering up to 10x savings in upfront setup costs. Access to affordable medical imaging becomes key in improving overall health outcomes for populations in the developing world, leading to earlier screening of cancer, less invasive procedures later on, and savings for the healthcare system as well as longer, healthier lives for people while also rebalancing inequalities.
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From rubbery chicken to soggy paninis, reheated food never seems to taste as good the next day. But your leftovers don't need to be a total loss.
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Often, the problem is your reheating strategy — and with a few tiny tweaks, you can still savor your second-day scraps like they're hot off the stove.
We consulted with NYC-based chef and registered dietitian Abbie Gellman, RD, to learn the top tricks and tips for reheating your favorite foods to retain their first-day freshness.
How to Reheat Leftovers Safely
"Generally, the rule of thumb is to reheat leftovers how you originally made them," Gellman tells LIVESTRONG.com. In other words, warming up roasted chicken in the oven or soup on the stovetop is the best way to retain your food's original flavor and texture.
But when you don't have the time or the means to reheat using the same cooking method, say on your lunchbreak at work, you'll likely lean on the microwave.
"The microwave is usually fine for reheating soup, stew and braised foods," Gellman says. Just be sure to distribute your food evenly on a microwave-safe plate and cover it with a vented lid or damp paper towel. The steam will keep your food moist, ensure it's cooked thoroughly and help kill any harmful bacteria, per the USDA.
Since some microwaves have hot spots, so use a food thermometer to check your food's temperature in several places to ensure uniform cooking. You'll know your leftovers are ready to serve when they reach 165 degrees.
What about frozen food scraps? If you forgot to defrost your leftovers, you can still reheat them directly from the freezer without thawing, per the USDA. Keep in mind, though, that frozen foods will take longer to rewarm.
Lastly, Gellman says that some foods (think: egg-based dishes like frittatas) don't hold up well the day after, so you should serve and enjoy them straight from the stove or oven.
1. How to Reheat Meat
For the best quality and taste, Gellman suggests sticking with the same method to reheat chicken and other meats that you used to cook them in the first place, i.e. in the oven or on the stovetop.
But when you're short on time, reheating meat in the microwave is a viable option. Just add a little liquid and cover your meat when rewarming to retain moisture. Additionally, slicing up a larger piece of meat into smaller cuts will help it heat up evenly.
2. How to Reheat Fish
Fish is a fickle leftover. Depending on how it was originally prepared, its texture can easily turn soggy or dry when reheated. This is especially true when you try to nuke seafood in the microwave.
Since turntables in microwaves are notorious for hot spots, you'll likely overcook fish this way (not to mention leave a lasting fishy odor).
To preserve your fish's freshness and flavor (and save your kitchen from stubborn unsavory smells), Gellman recommends reheating on the stovetop or in a toaster oven. The toaster oven technique makes breaded and fried fish particularly palatable since it helps keep the crisp factor of the initial dish in play.
Either way, keep the heat low and slowly warm the fish until just heated through to prevent drying.
3. How to Reheat Soups, Sauces and Gravies
Reheating sauces, soups and gravies is a cinch. Simply bring them to a rolling boil on the stovetop, per the USDA. Alternatively, liquid foods also fair well in the microwave, Gellman says.
Transfer your soup or sauce into a large microwave-safe container with room at the top (bear in mind, liquids can boil over and make a mess), then cover it with a lid, plastic wrap or a damp paper towel, careful to leave a small opening to vent steam.
Stir every few seconds to ensure uniform heating until the center of the liquid reaches 165 degrees.
4. How to Reheat Pasta
When it comes to reheating leftovers, pasta can be tricky. Your perfect al dente dish can quickly turn into a side of sad, soggy spaghetti, or, conversely, a less-than-pleasing plate of crunchy campanelle.
The key to successfully warming up pasta is technique. For starters, add a little liquid to your pasta to keep it from drying out. A good rule of thumb: The liquid should match the base of (or at least complement) your original sauce.
Use water for pasta tossed with tomato sauce (or undressed noodles), milk or cream for cream-based pasta dishes like fettucine alfredo and plant-based oils for vegan varieties like cashew nut sauce.
Then spread out your noodles evenly on a microwave-safe dish, top with a vented lid, plastic wrap or a damp paper towel and stir frequently while reheating.
While Gellman says the microwave is also sufficient for rewarming pasta-based casserole dishes like baked ziti, the oven may be the optimal option for evenly reheating heartier, heavier foods like multi-layered lasagna.
In this case, top your lasagna with a little sauce to retain moisture, cover with aluminum foil and bake from 350 to 400 degrees for 20 to 40 minutes (depending on the serving size).
5. How to Reheat Vegetables
If your veggies were originally boiled, steamed or sautéed, zapping them in the microwave is a practical and convenient reheating method, Gellman says. Indeed, any veg that does not need to stay crunchy (like a baked potato) can be nuked.
Conversely, if you're reheating a roasted vegetable and you want to preserve its crispiness, then the oven or toaster oven — on a low temperature setting (350 degrees tops) — is your best bet.
6. How to Reheat Rice and Other Grains
The main issue with reheating grains in the microwave is dryness. To ensure your plump, fluffy rice doesn't devolve into a dish of dried out, hard, crunchy grains, add a splash of water and cover with a damp paper towel to bring back some moisture.
Also, make sure to spread your rice in an even layer on your plate to help it heat evenly.
7. How to Reheat Fried and Breaded Foods
Ever attempted to reheat onion rings or egg rolls only to find the once crispy morsels in a mound of mush? From chicken tenders to french fries, breaded and fried foods (or any food that you want to stay crunchy) may pose a reheating challenge, Gellman says.
These types of bites do best in the dry heat of an oven or toaster oven where they can re-crisp. Same goes for pizza, panini, sandwiches, crusty bread or baked goods — basically anything with bread that runs the risk of going soggy, Gellman says.
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A draft opinion suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide that was published in a Politico report released Monday did indeed come from the court, according to a statement released Tuesday morning.
In the written statement, the court confirmed the draft and Chief Justice John Roberts vowed to investigate the leak, which represents an extremely rare breach of the court’s secretive deliberation process, and on a case of surpassing importance.
"Yesterday, a news organization published a copy of a draft opinion in a pending case. Justices circulate draft opinions internally as a routine and essential part of the Court’s confidential deliberative work. Although the document described in yesterday’s reports is authentic, it does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case."
In the written statement Chief Justice John Roberts strongly condemned the leak.
"To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed. The work of the Court will not be affected in any way," Roberts said in the statement.
"We at the Court are blessed to have a workforce – permanent employees and law clerks alike – intensely loyal to the institution and dedicated to the rule of law. Court employees have an exemplary and important tradition of respecting the confidentiality of the judicial process and upholding the trust of the Court."
"This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here. I have directed the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak."
The document was labeled a “1st Draft” of the “Opinion of the Court” in a case challenging Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks, a case known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
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A collector often is subject to sudden and sometimes passionate attractions toward specific works of art,” R. Stanley Johnson, the Chicago dealer-collector, wrote recently. He made the comment in the catalogue for “David to Picasso,” an upcoming museum exhibition of drawings collected by him and his wife, Ursula.
“This might result in the casting aside of a certain degree of logic and carefully established principles in order to take immediate advantage of an acquisition opportunity.”
How often do collectors cast aside logic and carefully established principles? “It happens very often,” Johnson said.
Johnson, like many of his colleagues, is convinced that serious buyers for first-class material are undeterred by the current state of the world.
“The art market,” said Marc Blondeau, the dealer who heads Blondeau Fine Art Services in Geneva, “is extremely healthy, not easy but good.”
Blondeau’s colleagues in London, New York, Milan, and Paris agree. They were among the dealers, auctioneers, collectors, museum directors, curators, and consultants interviewed by ARTnews correspondents in 22 countries for the 13th annual ARTnews200 (and its Top Ten), the list of the world’s most active collectors. Sheikh Saud al-Thani of Qatar is new to the list of Top Ten. He is considered to be the art world’s biggest spender. In the last few years he has spent many hundreds of millions of dollars on antiquities, Islamic art, photography, Impessionists, Old Masters, furniture, and jewelry.
Why do collectors cast aside logic? “Sometimes,” said Johnson, “it’s because of jealousies among collectors. They will fight for an object at an auction. Then, there’s the collector who finds something that would enhance his collection. He realizes he has a hole in his collection. After he’s paid for it, another hole appears—a month later, a year later, and he says, ’How could I go on living without this?’” | <urn:uuid:69715d9b-0a4f-4916-b91e-572a40bec4e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-top-ten-2003-75/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962703 | 445 | 1.523438 | 2 |
A predicted spike in energy prices could change the market
Recently, we talked about how Texas has become a leading state for renewable energy despite its historic association with the fossil fuels industry. Now circumstances are shaping up to possibly spike solar adoption in the Lone Star State even further – and homeowners who miss out could find themselves dealing with dramatically higher energy bills.
To understand what’s going on, we first need to talk about Texas’s deregulated energy market. Our readers in Texas will already know about this, of course, but for those elsewhere, the differences compared to what they’re used to may be surprising.
In most U.S. states, homeowners have no choice but to buy electricity from the regional monopoly utility which operates the grid in their area. A few states, like Texas, have a deregulated energy market. In Texas, there is a difference between the Transmission and Distribution Utility (TDU), which manages the grid, and the electricity providers which sell power to customers. Several different TDU’s operate the grid in different regions of the state and serve most of the Texas population under the authority of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. However, many different electricity provider companies who do not play a role in the day-to-day management of the grid compete for customers, offering contracts which typically range in duration from 12 to 36 months.. This system means that most Texans have a lot of freedom to comparison shop for the best rates on energy and change plans to get the best deal – but it also means that homeowners have to be prepared to research and potentially change plans frequently as providers constantly compete on pricing.
While the rates offered by the various electricity providers do vary somewhat, they’re all generally tied to the price of natural gas futures. As long as that price has remained fairly low, Texans have usually been able to get a decent deal on electricity regardless of which provider they choose – the average price of energy in Texas has generally remained markedly below the national average. However, rates are on the rise. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in mid-May that prices had gone up 30% in just a one-month period, and 70% in the past year. And the worst could be yet to come. Some experts are predicting that a radical spike in the price of natural gas futures might be on the horizon, due to the ongoing conflict in Eastern Europe and a number of other factors – and that this spike could occur in the middle of the sweltering Texas summer, when demand for electricity to cool homes would be at its highest.
Under these circumstances, the value of being able to generate your own power becomes obvious. Solar-empowered homeowners wouldn’t be at the mercy of rate fluctuations caused by volatility in the natural gas market, and net metering provides a lucrative payout for sending energy back to the grid to help meet high demand. Many retail energy providers in Texas already offer a net metering program for solar customers, and more are likely to start as the retail rate climbs and makes solar more attractive for homeowners. Although we don’t have a crystal ball, we think it’s highly likely that some of the competing electricity providers in Texas will soon look at making solar part of their appeal to homeowners as a dependable way to save money.
This is a story we’ll be keeping an eye on in the weeks and months ahead, so stay tuned to our social media for any updates. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a way to save money and stay more comfortable during the summer, whether you’re in Texas or elsewhere, one of our trained energy consultants would be happy to have a conversation and see if solar is right for you. | <urn:uuid:d1610ae2-b011-4af9-a48e-decc759c9a44> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zenernet.com/texas-solar-surge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964703 | 761 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The expanding diagonal triangle is showing up in many different places, the most recent in ABX. We have had them work right to the extremes and in other cases they seem to depart from the expected path a little early in the game. The Nikkei (see our blog of Dec. 28, 2012) which we got wrong, we got carried away is a better description, is instructive and provides a good lesson with regard to these wedge structures. Here is the Nikkei 225;
The diagonal occurs either as a 5th or a C wave. In ABX, the previous blog, it is a 5th wave. Here in the Nikkei it is a C wave. The main characteristics of this pattern is that it has overlap, normally not allowed, and that the amplitude increases with time as in an unstable equilibrium. The tensions are very high and nothing seems to be obvious which, perhaps, explains the violent retracement that invariable follows. Where we went wrong is that we expected to get closer to the lower boundary of the pattern. Each of the 5 legs within the pattern has to be a 3 wave affair. It all would have looked better if it had dropped another 2000 or so points. It might have if we had not had Abeconomics in about 2013. Japan was already running the largest deficit of any civilized country in the world, but that did not seem to matter as the theory had it that this island nation was borrowing from itself, so no problem. The Yen was taken down from 130 in 2012 to 78 today. Not quite but almost 1/2! The events in beige never happened but the return to the base line is almost complete, so watch out as then we could easily drop back to 14000 or even lower.
Using this wisdom on ABX, we know that it should go back to about $23. We know that an ideal low would be on the lower trend line but we do not know if it will get there. It may even exceed it by a fraction. It has already traded as low as $8.87 This is a double and even if the stock briefly trades at, say $7, the upside does not change.
Whatever causes the change, it is never expected. This must be so as otherwise the violent reaction would not happen. Abeconomics was, and is , a completely idiotic approach which would never have been accepted were it not for the dire circumstances of Japan’s economy. The same was true for Ford when it decided not to follow the rest of the gang into bankruptcy in order to become eligible for big hand-outs. Perhaps in the case of gold the Fed. will awaken to the fact that perception is reality and will announce the creation of a rainy day strategic gold reserve fund and mop up all the excess supply. Below is the chart for Ford, just as an example. We nailed that one and NOBODY believed it. You can click on the charts, enlarge them and move them around to compare them. All three are identical except for Abeconomics.
Note; Like Reaganomics, Abeconomics or Abenomics was coined to describe a previously non-existent economic approach , at least not in this mix of of fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms. A soup of QE and Mercantilism plus a good deal of interference in markets etc. It is an experiment the consequences of which are unknown, certainly not at this scale. | <urn:uuid:90472743-66c4-41ae-9344-2f75316a3d70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hamiltonewave.com/2015/07/nikkei-225-revisited-15454/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.979236 | 701 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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Turkey Government Bond 10y - data, forecasts, historical chart - was last updated on March of 2021. 2009-08-11 When you buy a bond, you are lending to the issuer, which may be a government, municipality, or corporation. In return, the issuer promises to pay you a specified rate of interest at set intervals (usually twice a year) during the life of the bond and to repay the principal, also known as face value or par value of the bond, when it “matures,” or comes due after a set period of time. Ensure you are on top of current and historical data relating to Turkey 10-Year Bond Yield. The yield on a bond represents the return an investor will receive by holding the bond to maturity, and should be monitored closely as an indicator of the government debt situation. Foreign holdings of Turkish government bonds accounted for 11.5% of the total in mid-May, according to the latest central bank data. Investors abroad held 15.3% of the bonds in February, and 26% 2006-09-10 eAGBs can only be bought through licensed ASX brokers.
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Other columns refers to hypothetical yields variations (100 bp = 1%). You can buy the treasury bills and government bonds from TEB Internet Branch, 0850 200 0 666 TEB Phone Branch and through TEB Branches that are also open at lunch hours; and if you wish, you can either hold them till their maturities and get the principal and relevant interest or sell before their maturities. Government bonds are issued by the U.S. government to balance the money that they've spent. Find out how to buy government bonds on the U.S. Treasury Web sit Invest in bonds over the ASX An easy and relatively cheap way to access the bond market is through exchange traded funds (ETFs) or exchange traded bonds (XTBs + ETBs).
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Turkey has the sixth largest local currency bond market among the emerging market countries. Its key instruments are corporate bonds, commercial paper and bank bills. The corporate bond market in Turkey amounted to only TL481 million (US$340million) at the end of 2009, jumping up to TL1.4 billion5 (US$1.9 billion) in end 2010 and to TL4.3 Turkey Widens Emergency Response With Central Bank’s Bond Buying By Bloomberg - Mar 31, 2020 I would like to buy 100,000 euros of local currency Turkish government bonds. The bank introduced new measures to ease lenders’ access to credit and support liquidity in the government bond market, before the latest data showed Turkey’s caseload of Covid-19 rose to Not all of Turkey’s national debt is valued in the country’s currency, the Turkish Lira (TRY).
Your loan amount (bond price) is returned to you when the bond matures after a fixed period of time: anywhere from a few weeks to 50 years. Anyone in the world can buy bonds from any country in the world. You do not need to be a citizen or resident of Israel to buy and Israeli government bond.
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Image segmentation towards new image representation methods
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Signal Processing: Image Communication Vol. 6, Nº 6, pp. 485 - 498, February, 1995.
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Very low bit-rate video coding has recently become one of the most important areas of image communication and a large variety of applications have already been identified. Since conventional approaches are reaching a saturation point, in terms of coding efficiency, a new generation of video coding techniques, aiming at a deeper “understanding” of the image, is being studied. In this context, image analysis, particularly the identification of objects or regions in images (segmentation), is a very important step. This paper describes a segmentation algorithm based on split and merge. Images are first simplified using mathematical morphology operators, which eliminate perceptually less relevant details. The simplified image is then split according to a quad tree structure and the resulting regions are finally merged in three steps: merge, elimination of small regions and control of the number of regions. | <urn:uuid:f871c85c-685d-4ded-a634-d2fb33a83a1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/193 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.881543 | 284 | 2.375 | 2 |
Recorded in many spelling forms inclucing Gealy, Geely, Gelly,Jelly, and Jolly, this is an English surname. Meaning "Little Jul" it is one of the many diminutives of the personal name Julian, itself descended from the Roman family name of Julius Caesar, meaning "the supreme god". Julian was borne by a number of early saints, the best known of them being St. Julian the Hospitaller, an early patron saint of travellers. Introduced into Europe by returning crusaders in the 12th century, it soon achieved great popularity as both a first name and a later surname.From this source other surnames such as Julyan,Jolland, Jalland, Golland, Jellicoe, Gillian and Jolle, all ultimately derive. As a personal name it is recorded in the Letter Books of the city of London in 1187 with Julian de Horbelighe and the female form Juliana de Habetoren. Later examples of the surname recordings taken from early surviving church registers include those of John Geely, christened at the famous church of St Martins in the Field, Westminster, on October 27th 1556, Thomas Jellye who married Allice Ellet on June 6th 1575, at St. Mary the Virgin, Dover, Kent, another John, but this time Gealy, who married Jane Shryve at St Giles Cripplegate in the city of London, on February 3rd 1605, and William Jelly married Martina Harrison on August 20th 1639, at All Hallows church, London Wall. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Letter to the editor: Premature babies face difficult fight
In August 2006, our son, Tyler, was born six weeks too soon and had to fight to survive. At 5 pounds, 5 ounces, his lungs weren’t ready, and he spent three weeks in neonatal intensive care before finally coming home. Tyler was one of 500,000 babies born preterm in the U.S. each year. Prematurity is the leading cause of newborn death and serious health challenges.
We’re working with the March of Dimes as ambassadors to give more babies a healthy start in life because no parent should have to experience the fear and worry we did. November is Prematurity Awareness Month, and on Nov. 17, we’ll join the March of Dimes and its partners in Europe, Africa, and Australia to observe the first-ever World Prematurity Day to focus attention on the impact premature birth has globally on babies and their families.
Each year, more than 4,200 Connecticut babies suffer the consequences of being born too soon; 13 million worldwide, with 1 million dying.
Visit facebook.com/WorldPrematurityDay and marchofdimes.com/ct to learn more about how we can work together for stronger, healthier babies.
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Acacia phaeocalyx facts for kids
Quick facts for kidsAcacia phaeocalyx
Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
|Occurrence data from AVH|
The spreading and pungent shrub typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 0.6 metres (1.0 to 2.0 ft). It can have an intricate, sprawling or compact habit and has glabrous branchlets that are often covered in a fine white powdery coating and have spny stipules that are 2 to 4 mm (0.079 to 0.157 in) in length and shallowly recurved. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The pungent, coraiceous and green dimidiate phyllodes are widest below or near or below the middle and are 8 to 15 mm (0.31 to 0.59 in) in length and 6 to 11 mm (0.24 to 0.43 in) in width with a midrib near the abaxial margin. It blooms from April to June and produces yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences occur singly in the axilss with spherical flower-heads that contain seven to eight loosely packed flowers. Following flowering coriaceous-crustaceous, red-brown seed pods form that are shallowly curved and longitudinally striated. The terete pods are usually up to around 7 cm (2.8 in) in length and have a diameter of about 4 mm (0.16 in). The dark brown seeds inside have an oblong shape with a length of 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.20 in) with a conical terminal aril.
The species was first formally described by the botanist Bruce Maslin in 1978 as part of the work Studies in the genus Acacia (Mimosaceae) - A revision of the Uninerves - Triangulares, in part (the tetramerous species) as published in the journal Nuytsia. It was reclassified as Racosperma phaeocalyx by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006.
It is native to an area in the central Wheatbelt region of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on plains and hillsides growing in sandy soils usually over or around laterite. The bulk of the population is found between Wongan Hills in the north west and Kellerberrin in the south east where it is usually a part of scrub and tall shrubland communities.
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A successful writing life is what all writers want to pursue, and it can be difficult to obtain, but Vanderslice's guide shows that it is possible to have it. She focuses on how to establish this by considering a writer's personal and career life. The author even gives insightful commentary on being an effective literary citizen and options in different careers.
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Vanderslice examines topics that are rare in writing guides ... Her take is knowledgeable and informative, with a writing style that is clear and anecdotal.
The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life is for every writer at every stage of his or her writing life because even the most experienced writers know those nagging questions-Can I write? Should I write? -never disappear completely. Writing can be a lonely craft but Stephanie Vanderslice inspires, informs and motivates with warmth, humility, and compassionate humor-writers who are fortunate to read this guide (and it is a book I'll be urging my writerly friends and students to read) will hear Vanderslice's voice cheering them on when those nagging questions visit, and that encouragement is a valuable gift.
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The Pirate Party has planted another official flag: Finland, where its 5,000 signatures made it an officially recognized party. [H/T: Orgtheory.net]
About the Pirate Party, from Wikipedia:
The Pirate Party (Swedish: Piratpartiet) is a political party in Sweden. Its sudden popularity has given rise to parties with the same name and similar goals in Europe and worldwide. The Party strives to reform laws regarding copyright and patents. The agenda also includes support for a strengthening of the right to privacy, both on the Internet and in everyday life, and the transparency of state administration. The Party has intentionally chosen to be bloc independent on the traditional left-right scale to pursue their political agenda with all mainstream parties.
The Party participated in the 2006 Riksdag elections and gained 0.63% of the votes making them the third largest party outside parliament, where a minimum of 4% is required. In terms of membership, it passed the Green Party in December 2008, the Left Party in February 2009, the Liberal Party and the Christian Democrats in April 2009, and the Centre Party in May 2009, making it the third largest political party in Sweden. The Pirate Party’s associated youth organization, Young Pirate (Swedish: Ung Pirat), is now the largest political youth organization in Sweden by membership count. The Party is currently in the process of preparing for the 2009 European Parliament elections.
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How our cells proliferate from a single egg cell into a precisely formed human composed of trillions of cells is a stupendous feat of genetic regulation.
But it also contains the seeds of cancer when the controls are lost and these cancerous cells can proliferate relentlessly into tumours.
More than two decades ago, a group of scientists began delving into embryonic development to better understand how our cells are directed to make us as we are. It started as curiosity-driven basic research, but has now led to the discovery of a wholly new class of anti-cancer drugs that can stop specific cancer cells from proliferating – putting them to “sleep,” potentially permanently.
The research, just published in scientific journal Nature, has shown the compound works in animal models (mice and zebrafish) by blocking key genes involved in cancers like blood and liver cancers. Unlike chemotherapy and radiotherapy, there is no damage to healthy cells.
Cells put into senescence
“This new class of compounds stop cancer cells dividing and proliferating by switching off their ability to continue the cell cycle,” says joint research leader Associate Professor Anne Voss of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the University of Melbourne.
“The technical term is cell senescence, but essentially the cells are put to sleep. The cancer cells aren’t dead, but they are effectively stopped in their tracks.”
Joint research leader Associate Professor Tim Thomas, also of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and University of Melbourne, says that subject to clinical trials the compound has the potential to be “an entirely new weapon for fighting cancer.”
“The compound was well tolerated in our preclinical animal models and is very potent against tumour cells, while appearing not to adversely affect healthy cells,” he says.
At this stage it is unclear what happens to the “sleeping” cancer cells, but the researchers suspect that over time they could be killed and cleared by the immune system.
“We suspect that inducing senescence in the cancer cells will give the immune system more chance to clear these cells because they will eventually be recognised as abnormal,” says Dr Thomas.
Frontline and consolidation treatment
The compound may also work as an adjunct for treatment where a therapy has already been effective in clearing a cancer. By inhibiting the specific processes involved in cancerous cell proliferation the compound could help keep a treated cancer in remission.
“It could be both a frontline treatment for specific cancers and a useful consolidation therapy for some other types of cancer,” says Dr Thomas.
The targeted genes are known as KAT6A and KAT6B and are involved in the growth and development of organisms.
“These genes control cell proliferation and are important in regulating how embryos develop to ensure that everything is in the right place and is the right size. But in some cancers, these are the same genes that will be mutating and driving the growth of cancer.
“So, we always had in the back of our minds that what we were exploring may have implications for treating cancer,” says Dr Thomas.
They had a breakthrough six years ago when team member and then University of Melbourne PhD student, Dr Bilal Sheikh, discovered that removing KAT6A from mice with fatal lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes carrying white blood cells) quadrupled their life expectancy from three-and-a-half months to about 14 months.
“By learning that KAT6A and KAT6B and the protein they express are important drivers in some cancers, we knew that if we could find a molecule of the right size and shape we should be able to inhibit or block it.”
Defying the odds
But finding that right molecule was a lot easier said than done.
They had to screen almost a quarter of a million different potential molecules before they found one that had promise.
“In hindsight you’d have to say 1-in-nearly 250,000 aren’t great odds,” laughs Dr Thomas.
Indeed, unbeknown to the research team, which also includes Professor Jonathan Baell at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Dr Brendon Monahan at the Cancer Therapeutics Cooperative Research Centre, drug companies had been on the same trail but had given up, leading some to believe that these genes were “undruggable.”
It is understandable why. Just working out how to screen the molecules took the team a year of work.
They had to develop a robotic process in which the protein generated by the genes was suspended in a tiny droplet of solution that light would be shone through to monitor the chemical processes they were seeking to inhibit. The process was automated so that 384 molecules could be screened at once on a plate full of tiny wells, each holding a droplet of fluid.
“The research has been a big collaboration and that is most obvious in the screening and testing,” says Dr Voss. “Much of that work was done by the Cancer Therapeutics CRC.”
The next step now is to team up with a pharmaceutical company to pursue clinical trials on patients with the specific cancers that can be targeted through these genes.
“We think these compounds will be effective in treating those cancers where the proliferation of cancer cells through the cell cycle is driven by these KAT6A and KAT6B genes, and if we inhibit these genes it should have a therapeutic effect,” says Dr Thomas.
Targeting different cancer pathways
“For example, we think it will be effective in some blood cancers that block cells from differentiating normally into different cell types.
“In the case of leukaemia, the cancer causes the excessive proliferation of white blood cells, diluting oxygen-carrying red blood cells. Eventually a patient starts to lose their ability to circulate oxygen. We’d hope to be able to stop that from happening.
“I think the future of cancer treatments is very much going to be focused on developing specific treatments like this that target different cancer pathways, rather than a universally applicable therapy across cancer,” says Dr Thomas.
But the source of such treatments will always be knowledge-building, curiosity-driven research.
“We need first of all to understand how the body works if we are to reliably design new therapies, otherwise we are just relying on luck – trying something just to see if it works. Most therapies are derived from knowledge and then experimentation,” says Dr Thomas.
“It can be painstaking and slow, but if you are single-minded enough to keep going the rewards can be potentially life changing for patients.”
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Scientific Name: Matthiola incana
Common Name: Northern Greenhouse Selectable Matthiola (Stock)
Propagation Method: Seed
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Planting Density: 64 plants/sq. meter (6 plants/sq. foot).
Flower Color (primary): Pink/Rose
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About this Project
EST worked to provide plans to ODOT Local Government for this project. The objective of this project is to replace a structurally deficient bridge along EW-182 Road over Unnamed Creek in Pushmataha County. The existing roadway is classified as a major collector and has open section drainage, two driving lanes and no shoulders (Approximately 20’ wide) with an asphalt chip seal in poor condition. The existing structure over Unnamed Creek is a double cell RCB with a single cell overflow, built in 1938.
Bridge and approach plans have been designed to replace the existing structure with a single span bridge and approach roadways. There was also a horizontal curve that was corrected on the east side of bridge. The creek parallels the roadway on the south side and a retaining wall was designed to hold back the approach roadway in this area. With this being a major roadway, a shoofly was also designed so that the road could remain open to traffic during construction.
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Paced breathing beats normal breathing when it comes to managing many common health conditions or just feeling more energetic. Something as simple as lengthening each inhalation and exhalation can help you feel fitter and more at ease.
♦Benefits of Paced Breathing
1. Reduce hot flashes.
Changing the way you breathe affects your body’s autonomic nervous system. Your autonomic nervous system helps maintain your body temperature, so changing over to paced breathing minimizes hot flashes.
2. Tame anxiety.
Anyone who is prone to panic attacks knows what it’s like to be short of breath. If you’re being treated for anxiety and depression, ask your doctor about using paced breathing as a supplement to conventional care. It’s also great for ordinary daily challenges like traffic jams and lost luggage.
3. Boost your mood.
Most people feel a little lazy or blue from time to time. Delivering more oxygen to your brain will make you more alert and cheerful.
4. Manage stress.
Modern life is full of pressures and demands. Getting stress under control with paced breathing helps to prevent chronic inflammation as well as emotional distress.
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5. Cope with pain.
Childbirth is one of the most obvious occasions when patients use breathing techniques. You can apply it to any kind of pain. Experts debate exactly how it works, but it seems to provide a distraction and helps you to loosen up.
6. Sleep better.
Get relief from tossing and turning until dawn. Fall asleep faster and wake up less frequently during the night.
7. Promote healing.
Studies show that skillful breathing can help recovery times. If you have major surgery scheduled or you injure your knee jogging, you may be able to get back in shape faster than you think.
8. Strengthen your immune system.
The quality of your breath plays a big role in keeping you fit and strong. You’ll find you catch fewer colds and you’ll increase your resistance to more serious conditions.
♦Training Yourself in Paced Breathing
Understand your hormones.
Stress triggers higher levels of adrenaline, which is associated with short and shallow breathing. When you relax, your brain produces more choline, so your breathing becomes deeper and more leisurely.
♥ Breathe in through your nostrils. Count to at least 2-3 seconds.
♥ Slowly draw air up from your diaphragm.
♥ Experiment with going deeper each time.
Exhale fully. Pay equal attention to exhaling.
♥ Let all the air out gently and slowly and count mentally 5 seconds. (One thousand one, One thousand two, one thousand three, etc.)
♥ Match the length of each exhalation to the length of each inhalation.
Pick a focal point.
If you have trouble concentrating on your breath, use an aid that works for you. Count your breaths or silently repeat an inspiring word or phrase to yourself. If you prefer visual images, look at a candle or a pretty flower.
Continue your education.
There are many variations on breathing mindfully. Once you’ve mastered paced breathing, you may want to go on to learn other styles. Sign up for a yoga or meditation class or browse through your local library for books and CDs.
Paced breathing is a safe and natural method that anyone can learn. It helps eliminate anxiety and hot flashes. It’s free and simple and you can take it everywhere you go. Start living better with every breath you take.
Relieve Stress with these 4 Great Tips
Stress can come in many forms and shapes. It happens in everyday life. Traffic, being pressed for time, health concerns, relationships, family, a job can be sources of stress. If allowed to rule your life, it can cause psychosomatic disorders that can manifest in health issues.
Do you feel more stressed out than ever? Is your work life so hectic that you’re starting to burn out? Just faced with a financial crisis? How about the recent pandemic and how it affected your life? I don’t even want to delve into that one. All of us have been affected by it one way or the other.
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Unfortunately, it is up to us to deal with this. Short of paying big bucks for a mental health therapist, let me share easy ways to help alleviate stress. The little things and adaptations we make in our lifestyle can make a big difference. Situations may differ but our bodies react similarly to the physiological effects of stress. So here goes.
If you’re desperately seeking peace and relief from the hustle and bustle of your demanding life, the good news is that you have the power to adopt simple strategies you can use to combat stress.
I am realistic. You or I may never eliminate stress entirely. I talk to people every day with varying degrees of stress. In fact, a life without stress would be pretty boring. The challenges of life often make it worth living. However, employing a few simple strategies to reduce stress will increase your peace and happiness, even in the midst of life’s storms.
Working out can be a great way to relieve stress. Whether you go jogging, pump some iron, or hit the punching bag for several minutes, the physical activity allows you to channel all the frustration you’re holding inside and release it in a constructive manner. Walk it off: by yourself or with someone. You can never underestimate walking outside and seeing nature, the sun, great weather, and just beholding nature in itself.
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Water has a great calming effect on the brain. It may be because we are closely related to water as organic beings. It gives you time to think, promotes circulation that can also reach your brain, filling brain cells with more oxygen for it to function better. Oxygen is found in our red blood cells. With better circulation, oxygen can get circulated better which helps your body get revitalized.
Music can greatly influence your mood. Among its many benefits of boosted memory, it can lighten your mood, reduce anxiety, and even improve your response to pain. Have you heard of how music calms down children with attention deficit disorders? (ADD).
Music therapy has become relevant to alternative therapies for different ailments. Sometimes, all it takes to gain peace and focus is a few minutes of listening to music that soothes you inside. Different types of music affect your mood in different ways and pick a style that suits your emotional need of the moment can dramatically lower the level of stress you feel inside.
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When you’re feeling stressed, try upbeat music. When you’re down in the dumps, you want something that’ll perk you up and lift your spirits. Few things can lift your mood faster than music. How about picking up that guitar you haven’t strummed in a while? Or tinkering with those white and black keys on your keyboard? Even singing karaoke, or just singing along with the music of your favorite artists can make a difference. Experience music in all its forms. YOu have your own unique way of responding to the music of your choice.
When one is stressed, there are two behaviors in response. To overeat, which can risk unhealthy weight gain, or to under eat, where one can be undernourished and not get the nutrients your body needs to fight stress.
Heard of the proverbial ice cream eating while watching TV after a relationship fail or conflict? Yup, that’s very common. When one feels stressed, there is that feeling of wanting to console that empty feeling through instant gratification such as eating. I have heard of people who shop and overspend, only to realize they don’t really need things they have bought. Even go into debt as one does not think clearly when stressed. Emotion rules. Impulse buying can also be the result of this feeling of wanting to fill a need or an empty feeling.
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If your body isn’t getting the proper nutrition it needs, you’re more likely to feel tired and stressed out.
Breakfast is the most neglected meal of the day for busy people. It is called as so, “Break – the ” fast” from sleeping overnight. Fill that belly and feed that body so you have the energy you need to face the day. And make sure it’s a good one too. Balance out your carbs and protein. It does make a difference. Eating healthy prevents from being sluggish, clouded, droopy, and slow to respond to situations or decision-making.
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Meals and snacks are fuel for your body. Are you eating the types of foods that contribute positively to your health?
Keep track of what you eat in a daily log. This simple step will make you more aware of what you’re eating, which often leads to automatically making healthier choices, like these:
- Drink as much water as possible.
- Add as many fruits and vegetables as you can to your diet.
- Look for tasty, healthier alternatives to junk food.
- Eat smaller, more frequent meals.
Small changes in your diet can make a big difference in how you feel and how effectively you handle stress.
Breathing is life. Good gas exchange ensures that your body gets the oxygen it needs to function better. This means move better, think better.
If you learn to control your breathing, you can control the level of stress you feel. Slow, deep breathing takes practice, but a little effort goes a long way. Once you learn to take slow, deep breaths from your belly, you’ll have an unstoppable weapon against stress.
Breathing plays a big part in our lives. Even beyond the obvious biological necessity, it comes into play when exercising, giving birth, easing fears, and even releasing stress.
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Deep breathing slows your heart rate down and relaxes your muscles. It also helps you to calm down mentally. Shallow breaths create a feeling of anxiety within you. Deep breaths fuel your body’s cells with much-needed oxygen and your mind with much-needed confidence in the midst of the challenges you face.
BREATHING TIPS TO OPTIMIZE BENEFITS:
Breathe in through your nose slowly as if trying to fill in your lungs completely. Then, as you exhale, purse your lips as if in a kiss, and count 3 seconds mentally before you completely let all the air out. Repeat this about three times at a time, throughout the day and whenever you get a chance. Doing this deep breathing at least 10 times is also known to lower your blood pressure for a bit.
You can in fact try taking your blood pressure before you do this breathing exercise. After about 10 times, take your blood pressure again. Breathing allows capillaries to open and improve blood flow throughout the body.
With these simple strategies, you can learn to practice peace wherever you are.
Stress is all around us and can come in many shapes and forms. Instead of being tossed about in the midst of your storms, you’ll stand strong and handle challenges more effectively. Life is a gift. Use it wisely.
Experience the confidence and inner peace you deserve by applying these simple stress management strategies today.
Until the next ish!
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Discover The Power of Deep Breathing
With the current health environment, we have all heard about the effects of COVID 19 on the respiratory system. The need for ventilators and a continuous supply of oxygen just to survive was common. For survivors who lived through the corona-virus onslaught, their fight was fierce. Unable to breathe on their own and the anxiety of other complications are known facts.
It makes one realize that something that we enjoy for free every day can mean the fine line between life and death once your body succumbs to the coronavirus.
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Deep breathing techniques are often cited as an important tool that can help you immediately alleviate stress, anxiety, frustration, and anger. This is also especially useful to the COVID 19 survivors.
Many people have difficulty practicing deep breathing exercises because they either don’t believe that it can help or they try once and are not motivated to try again. No judgment, as I myself am guilty of forgetting this very simple activity that can make a difference in how your day goes. So I have programmed my watch to remind me to take deep breaths every hour.
The same is true for breathing exercises, however, as is true for many other things: practice makes perfect. It is a surprising fact that many of us do not really know the proper and ideal breathing pattern! Singers however are trained to breathe using the diaphragm efficiently for volume.
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The more you get into a routine of practicing breathing exercises, the better you will become at doing so. This will give you the ability to reduce stress, anger, and frustration with more ease than before.
Why do breathing exercises work to relax our bodies and minds?
The body has two systems within the nervous system: the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous system.
Both of these systems contribute to the reasons why deep breathing exercises can calm us down.
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Discover how the nature of our physiological systems contributes to the positive effects.
The Fight or Flight Response
Our biological systems have a natural ability to react during times of stress, especially in those situations where we face a significant threat. As a matter of survival, humans have this innate ability. In prehistoric times, humans came face-to-face with all sorts of wild animals, such as bears or tigers.
In response to such a threat, our body activates the Fight, Flight, or Freeze Response, or FFF reaction.
The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for the physical sensations we get when we feel stress, anxiety, or severe anger and frustration. These can include sweaty palms, increased heart rate, and faster breathing. The activation of the FFF response is preparing our bodies to either run, fight the threat, or freeze.
The problem with the activation of the Fight or Flight Response is that it can be activated whenever we perceive that we’re up against a threat – whether we really are facing a threat or not.
Even though we experience negative situations in our lives, this does not necessarily make them a threat to our physical well-being.
Situations involving personal relationships, work responsibilities, work promotions, verbal arguments with others, and bad news about your health or the health of loved ones are just a few scenarios that can trigger the flight or fight response.
Despite the fact that all of these situations may be emotionally hurtful or painful, our body’s nervous system may interpret them as physically threatening. As such, our bodies activate the natural FFF response to get us ready to fight or run away.
Triggering the Opposite Reaction
In order to tell our biological systems that the situations we’re facing don’t require a fight or flight response, we must trigger the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system produces the opposite response to the FFF, causing a relaxation response instead.
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One other important aspect of the Fight or Flight Response is the way that it diverts your blood flow. To prepare you to fight or to get ready to run from a perceived threat, blood is diverted away from the brain to the extremities in the body, such as the arms, legs, hands, and feet.
Deep Breathing Reverses This Process
Breathing exercises send the blood supplies back from the extremities (since we’re not concerned with running or fighting) to the areas of the brain that allow us to think, reason, and problem solve.
TIP: When you notice that your blood pressure is high, take slow deep breaths for at least 10 repetitions. Then take your blood pressure again. You will notice a drop in the reading just with deep breathing. Although this may not be the ultimate solution for controlling high blood pressure it can at least help you deal with it for the moment.
This is why breathing exercises work to calm us when we experience acute stress, anger, or frustration. Blood is returning to the brain and it becomes easier for us to think.
How to Practice Deep Breathing
There are several ways in which you can practice deep breathing to relax both your body and mind.
The simplest way to practice in times of stress or anger is to:
1. Close your eyes. This eliminates distractions in your surrounding.
2. Tense your whole body for four seconds while inhaling deeply: In through your nose.
3. Exhale slowly. This is out through your mouth, slightly pursed lips to regulate the volume of airflow.
4. Repeating this three or four times can take you back to a state of relaxation and calm.
When you are calm, your brain is clearer which helps with being able to think better and make more rational decisions and actions.
As you can see, the body’s natural ability to fight or flee from a perceived threat has been useful throughout the ages and is still useful today.
However, reversing the process through breathing exercises place you in a better position to think more clearly and reason about the stress or issue that you’re facing.
Set your Fitbit or Apple watch to remind you to take deep breaths throughout the day!
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Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans…
For the week ending Friday March 21, 2014
Student Loan News:
1. Students should question the risk, terms of dangerous private loans:
College is an exceptional time in our lives when we can partake in activities that society otherwise frowns upon, such as drinking Keystone beer and playing hacky sack in public. One potentially ruinous side effect of pursuing a higher education, though, is taking out the loans to pay for it.
According to a May 2013 estimate by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, there are $1.2 trillion in outstanding student loans in the U.S. Student loans now make up the second-largest sum of debt held by Americans, behind mortgages. The swelling bubble of student debt is a well-trod narrative — rising costs of school combined with declining job prospects make post-grad financial realities difficult — but a less-explored dimension of student loans is the market forces behind them. Know more: http://www.dailytexanonline.com/opinion/2014/03/19/students-should-question-the-risk-terms-of-dangerous-private-loans
2. Why Most Student Loan Debt Advice Is Bad or Just Wrong:
As a consumer debt expert it is exceedingly frustrating hearing from people all around the country on a daily basis who are seeking good help for their student loan troubles, only to get really bad advice, or worse, ripped off.
The scammers are ahead of the experts on selling student loan solutions. It's not unusual at all for me hear from people who were charged $20,000-$37,000 for student loan help that's available for free. I've got a couple of those client agreements sitting right here on my desk as I write this. Quite frankly the reason the scammers do this is because unaware consumers are easy pickings.
Even student loan servicers are giving horrible advice. Call me cynical but one reason might be the servicers and collectors earn more by not telling you how to reduce or eliminate your loans for free. In fairness, I have observed some employees at some loan servicers trying to give best advice. Find more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rhode/why-most-student-loan-deb_b_4979801.html
3. Gainful Employment Rule And Student Loan Debt Counseling: A Perfect Match?
New regulations that will impose severe requirements on for-profit colleges and career training programs may open the door to an increased need for independent third-party student loan debt counseling. On March 14, 2014, the Obama administration released its “gainful employment” rule that would establish student-loan default thresholds that, if exceeded, could lead to schools losing access to student financial assistance programs authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA).
The 841-page rule uses student-loan default rates to determine whether a program's students are burdened with unpaid debt. Programs with a cohort default rate higher than 30% for three consecutive years may lose access to federal financial aid. Training programs could lose funding if the annual education-debt payments of typical graduates exceed 20% of their discretionary earnings or 8% of their total income. Schools that fail to comply for two out of three years would lose eligibility for funding. At the same time, the Department of Education predicts one million students will lose access to post-secondary education. Get more: http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/301238/Education/Gainful+Employment+Rule+And+Student+Loan+Debt+Counseling+A+Perfect+Match
Student Loan Blog Posts:
1. As Many As 1-in-3 Student Loans May Be Delinquent:
Over the years, Consumerist has reported on student loans and the crippling impact their debt can have on recent graduates. But with rising tuition costs and financial aid opportunities becoming increasingly competitive it’s easy to see why student loans are a necessity for entering college. A new report claims that overall loan delinquency rates are declining, but a closer look at the numbers may reveal a problem that is much worse than previously believed.
The newest Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit highlights the fact that loan-payment delinquency rates are improving, but Credit.com’s review of the data turns up some potentially frightening numbers
The FRBNY report [PDF] notes outstanding student loan balances increased to $1.08 trillion as of Dec. 31, representing an increase of $114 billion for 2013. Go there: http://consumerist.com/2014/03/19/as-many-as-1-in-3-student-loans-may-be-delinquent/
2. Graduate Student Loans Regulations Proposed by Obama:
The Obama administration took new steps on Friday and proposed “gainful employment” regulations to hold for-profit colleges and other career training programs accountable for producing graduates who can earn enough money to pay back student loans.
The regulations are intended to protect students from amassing large amounts of student loan debt that they will not be able to pay off after graduation.
“Career-training programs offer millions of Americans an opportunity they desperately need to further their education and reach the middle class,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan told reporters in a conference Thursday, a day before the official announcement of the “gainful employment” program. Original article: http://www.webpronews.com/graduate-student-loans-white-house-proposes-test-2014-03 | <urn:uuid:3ed3ae43-6360-4226-88d2-d37dc11bcdcf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.paymystudentloans.com/student-loan-news-march-21-2014/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.95125 | 1,188 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The majority of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy who experience seizure recurrence during antiepileptic drug (AED) withdrawal after an anterior temporal lobectomy become seizure-free, and a minority of patients become drug-free following seizure recurrence, according to a study published in Neurology.
In the retrospective study, investigators analyzed 5-year follow-up data of 384 consecutive patients who underwent anterior temporal lobectomy for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy between 1995 and 2005. Patients included in the analysis had hippocampal sclerosis or normal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). At 3 months, AED withdrawal was initiated in patients taking ≥2 drugs. Withdrawal from AEDs was also initiated at 1 year in patients taking a single drug.
During a median postoperative 12-year follow-up, a total of 316 (82.3%) patients attained seizure-free and aura-free status during the terminal year, and 234 (60.9%) patients achieved terminal remission at 5 years. Additionally, 177 (46.1%) patients were free from seizures or aura after intervention. Discontinuation of AEDs occurred in 53.9% of the entire cohort at the last follow-up evaluation.
Recurrence of seizures was reported in 28.2% (n=92) of patients who attempted withdrawal. Of these patients, 86% (n=79) of patients achieved a seizure-free status during the terminal 2 years and after a median postrecurrence 7-year follow-up. A total of 17 (18.5%) patients had AEDs discontinued, and 57 (62%) patients had their doses reduced. A 17% risk of seizure recurrence on AED withdrawal was observed in patients with a normal electroencephalogram (EEG) at 1 year after initial operation, in patients with febrile seizures, and in patients with an epilepsy duration of <20 years.
In the multivariate analysis, the predictors of seizure recurrence included having an epilepsy duration of >20 years (odds ratio [OR] 1.8; 95% CI, 1.1-3.1; P =.022), absence of febrile seizures (OR 1.8; 95% CI, 1.1-2.9; P =.031), and interictal epileptiform discharges on 1-year EEG (OR 2.2; 95% CI, 1.1-4.2; P =.018).
The study’s main limitations include its observational and retrospective nature, which limits the conclusivity of the findings.
According to the researchers, the findings from the study may be “useful in identifying patients who have a lower chance of recurrence on attempted AED withdrawal,” considering that “not all seizure-free patients can be continued on AEDs indefinitely.”
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With the latest Special Edition, Montblanc honours John F. Kennedy, one of the most popular and influential presidents of the USA. Central elements of his life are reproduced on the writing instruments of the JFK Special Edition.
Of central importance to John F. Kennedy's life and career was the support of the entire Kennedy dynasty. As a reference to the three JFK brothers, the writing instruments are adorned with three cap rings.
The navy blue color of the writing instruments and the two stripes that reflect Kennedy's rank as a lieutenant are symbolic of JFK's time in the US Navy.
The clip engraving of the three letters "JFK" recalls his time as President of the United States in the White House. As a central element, Kennedy's vision of landing on the moon is captured on the fountain pen's nib with the representation of the Lunar Module.
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Corundum is a crystalline form of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) typically containing traces of iron, titanium, vanadium, and chromium. It is the third hardest natural mineral known to science. It is a rock-forming mineral. The hardest mineral, diamond is still four times harder than corundum.
It is a very hard mineral that consists of aluminum oxide occurring in massive and crystalline forms, that can be synthesized, and that is used for gemstones and as an abrasive. The name “corundum” is derived from the Tamil word Kurundam, which originates from the Sanskrit word Kuruvinda meaning ruby.
- Category: Oxide mineral – Hematite group
- Formula: Aluminum oxide, Al2O3
- Crystal system: Trigonal
- Crystal class: Hexagonal scalenohedral (3m)
It is commonly used as an abrasive on everything from sandpaper to large machines used in machining metals, plastics, and wood. Some emery is a mix of corundum and other substances, and the mix is less abrasive, with an average Mohs hardness of 8.0.
In addition to its hardness, corundum is unusual for its density of 4.02 g/cm3, which is very high for a transparent mineral composed of the low-atomic mass elements aluminum and oxygen.
- Color: Colorless, gray, brown; pink to red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet; may be color zoned, asteriated mainly grey and brown
- Cleavage: None – parting in 3 directions
- Fracture: Conchoidal to uneven
- Tenacity: Brittle
- Mohs scale hardness: 9 (defining mineral)
- Luster: Adamantine to vitreous
- Streak: White
- Diaphaneity: Transparent, translucent to opaque
- Specific gravity: 3.95–4.10
It is a naturally transparent material but can have different colors when impurities are present. These impurities are the presence of transition metals in the crystal structure of corundum. Corundum has two primary gem varieties, ruby, and sapphire. Rubies are red due to the presence of chromium, and sapphires exhibit a range of colors depending on what transition metal is present.
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Foods that relieve symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis
Medications including pain relievers, steroids, and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Some of these drugs soothe painful symptoms of RA, while others, especially the DMARDs, can help slow down or stop the course of the disease and reduce structural damage.
By lowering inflammation in the body, specific foods may help treat symptoms of RA, too.
"Regular consumption of specific dietary fibers, vegetables, fruits and spices, as well as the elimination of components that cause inflammation and damage, can help patients to manage the effects of rheumatoid arthritis," said autoimmune disease expert Bhawna Gupta, PhD, assistant biotechnology professor at KIIT University in Odisha, India.
"Supporting disease management through food and diet does not pose any harmful side effects and is relatively cheap and easy,” she added.
For a study published Frontiers in Nutrition, Gupta and colleagues analyzed and evaluated current scientific knowledge about specific foods and dietary interventions shown to have long-term effects in reducing inflammation and the potential progression of RA.
Dried plums, blueberries and pomegranates, whole grains, ginger and turmeric, olive oil, and green tea were found to lower circulating inflammatory cytokines (immune system chemicals linked to rheumatoid arthritis symptoms), lessen joint pain and stiffness, and also help the body detoxify harmful chemicals.
The research team also noted people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis may find symptom relief by reducing or eliminating meat and alcohol, not smoking, and adding probiotics to their diets. Eating Mediterranean and vegan diets can also be helpful for some patients, the researchers concluded.
"Our review focused on specific dietary components and phytochemicals from foods that have a proven beneficial effect on rheumatoid arthritis," Gupta said. "Doctors, physicians, and dieticians can use our study to summarize current proven knowledge on the links between certain foods and rheumatoid arthritis. Knowing the nutritional and medicinal requirements of their patients, they can then tailor this information for the betterment of their health."
In the future, pharmaceutical companies may use the mounting evidence that certain foods have anti-inflammatory effects to formulate nutraceuticals to help treat RA, Gupta added.
It’s important to remember that standard therapy, however, treats diet as adjunct therapy, not a replacement for treatment.
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A new study has identified a key protein on the surface of the hepatitis C virus that interacts with a receptor found on human cells.
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Four hepatitis C drugs have demonstrated promise as boosters to increase the efficacy of remdesivir against SARS-CoV-2 by as much as tenfold.
Recent years have seen an increase in the development of biomaterial and nanoparticle-based vaccine formulations. Sushma Kumari, Sonal Asthana and Kaushik Chatterjee from the Department of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science discuss why these materials have such high potential in the fight against infectious diseases.
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The highly praised exhibition of D-Day activities and Churchill’s visit to Droxford Station in June 1944, has been extended until 12th September. The exhibition includes a video recording of 26 eyewitness reports of preparations for D-Day in the Meon Valley.
Visit the D-Day 70 Exhibition in Droxford Church and see photographs of the troops camped in the area, and storyboards about the important meetings between Churchill and de Gaulle. Find out what else Churchill, Montgomery and Eisenhower were doing in in the run-up to D-Day, and see pictures of the historic Meon Valley Railway.
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#anotherearthart is a feature in which we get people to tell us which artwork or fashion image they’d choose if they had to leave earth today and go to a brand new world empty of all our art. The idea being to find out more about people through their artistic interests. That and to look at some nice images.
Down the Rabbit Hole – Salvador Dali
As far as landing and hopefully living (assuming there’s some sort of breathing apparatus and/or I’m one of those genetic anomalies that can adjust to any kind of oxygen levels) on another planet goes, I think it’s safe to say it would be surreal. Not least because I’d be the only human in existence.
So being the one and only representative for the human race, I would want to show our capacity for imagination and how we, as a race (and myself as an individual) exhibit our receptiveness to change, our open-mindedness and adaptability to a new reality. For me, this would be best done through this work of art, by the amazing Salvador Dali. I may have to explain his genius – maybe even the word ‘genius’ itself – but once done, I’d be able to explain to the inhabitants of this planet that this piece is an interpretation of the story of a young girl, who falls down a rabbit hole into a whole new world, much like I have done.
It would be a way of communicating my journey, and, hopefully, given its surrealism, my capability of thinking and living outside the reality I had known and grown comfortable with in my own world. And then it would give me great solace and comfort as I embark on this new adventure, because it is so reminiscent of childhood. It would encourage me to think positively, and to always be open minded, because of the ideas of friendship and discovery that are so central to the ‘Alice’ story.
This painting demonstrates above all the way emotions can be expressed simply through colour. Hope and happiness, anger and jealously, excitement and boredom: they’re all here, in this painting, all merged together as the colours are and all showing that humans are vulnerable and thus understanding creatures.
The girl with the skipping rope is a strong, central figure to the painting and would play a central part in my taking on of my new role as the representative of my race. I could envision myself in the heroic role of Alice: her blank, featureless face would lend itself to my own identity, and her strength in the painting would remind me of my ideologies and my memories, the things which make me who I am.
That I’d want to take forward into my new life – just as Alice did.
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The Rhyming Rabbit
The Rhyming Rabbit loves to make up entertaining poems, inspired by everything he sees, but the other rabbits don't appreciate his talent for rhyme. Sad and lonely, the Rhyming Rabbit sets off one starry night all on his own - will he ever find someone to share his poems with?
The Rhyming Rabbit is a clever rhyming adventure from the stellar picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, creators of What the Ladybird Heard. With brilliant rhyming verse, bright and distinctive illustrations and a gorgeously glittery cover, this story is a delight to read aloud.
Enjoy all the stories from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks: Sharing a Shell, The Princess and the Wizard, The Rhyming Rabbit, The Singing Mermaid, Sugarlump and the Unicorn, Princess Mirror-Belle and the Dragon Pox, What the Ladybird Heard, What the Ladybird Heard Next, What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday and The Girl, the Bear and the Magic Shoes.
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USS Prowess (AM 280)
Minesweeper of the Admirable class
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The college GPA arms race
The waters of Lake Wobegon have flooded U.S. college campuses. A's — once reserved for recognizing excellence and distinction — are today the most commonly awarded grades in America.
That's true at both Ivy League institutions and community colleges, at huge flagship publics and tiny liberal arts schools, and in English, ethnic studies and engineering departments alike. Across the country, wherever and whatever they study, mediocre students are increasingly likely to receive supposedly superlative grades.
Such is the takeaway of a massive new report on grade inflation from Stuart Rojstaczer, a former Duke University professor, using data he and Furman University professor Chris Healy collected. Analyzing 70 years of transcript records from more than 400 schools, the researchers found that the share of A grades has tripled, from just 15 percent of grades in 1940 to 45 percent in 2013. At private schools, A's account for nearly a majority of grades awarded.
These findings raise questions not only about whether the United States has been watering down its educational standards — and hampering the ability of students to compete in the global marketplace. They also lend credence to the perception that campuses leave their students coddled, pampered and unchallenged, awarding them trophies just for showing up.
So, what's behind the sharp rise in GPAs?
Students sometimes argue that their talents have improved so dramatically that they are deserving of higher grades. Past studies, however, have found little evidence of this.
While it's true that top schools have become more selective, the overall universe of students attending college has gotten broader, reflecting a wider distribution of abilities and levels of preparation, especially at the bottom. College students today also study less and do not appear to be more literate than their predecessors were.
Plus, even if students have gotten smarter, or at least more efficient at studying (hey, computers do help), grades are arguably also supposed to measure relative achievement among classmates.
Affirmative action also sometimes gets blamed for rising grades; supposedly, professors have been loath to hurt the feelings of underprepared minority students. Rojstaczer and Healy note, however, that much of the increase in minority enrollment occurred from the mid-1970s to mid-'80s, the only period in recent decades when average GPAs fell.
Rapid grade inflation instead occurred during two distinct periods: first from the 1960s through the early 1970s, then during the mid-1980s through today.
That first era, the researchers say, can be explained by changes in pedagogical philosophy (some professors began seeing grades as overly authoritarian and ineffective at motivating students) and mortal exigencies (male students needed higher grades to avoid the Vietnam draft).
The authors attribute today's inflation to the consumerization of higher education. That is, students pay more in tuition, and expect more in return — better service, better facilities and better grades. Or at least a leg up in employment and graduate school admissions through stronger transcripts.
And indeed, some universities have explicitly lifted their grading curves (sometimes retroactively) to make graduates more competitive in the job market, leading to a sort of grade inflation arms race.
But rising tuition may not be the sole driver of students' expectations for better grades, given that high school grades have also risen in recent decades. And rather than some top-down directive from administrators, grade inflation also seems related to a steady creep of pressure on professors to give higher grades in exchange for better teaching evaluations.
It's unclear how the clustering of grades near the top is affecting student effort. But it certainly makes it harder to accurately measure how much students have learned. It also makes it more challenging for grad schools and employers to sort the superstars from the also-rans (which, if you're an elite school like Harvard, is probably a feature, not a bug).
Lax or at least inconsistent grading standards can also distort what students — especially women — choose to study, pushing them away from more stingily graded science, technology, engineering and math fields and into humanities, where high grades are easier to come by.
But what to do about the rise of the Gentleman's A?
A decade ago, my alma mater, Princeton, decided to lead the charge against grade inflation. But when students grumbled, and other schools didn't follow, the school abruptly abandoned its fight. Wellesley, which had the highest average GPA in Rojstaczer's database in 2000 (3.55), underwent a similar endeavor, only to see its grades creep back up more recently.
Without collective action -- which means both standing up to students and publicly shaming other schools into adopting higher standards — the arms race will continue.
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A Bloomfield pastor fights for souls
Events in the Bible never made sense to Savannah Summers. The Bloomfield 16-year-old considered herself agnostic, so Sunday mornings didn’t involve church.
Then she met the folks at Bloomfield United Methodist Church, whose pastor is fighting for souls with a different approach.
“I give people permission not to believe,” said Pastor Tim Frasher, 30. “I don't expect people to believe the way I believe or to act the way I act. We need to allow people to join the faith journey no matter where they are at in life. They may not believe right now, and that's OK. If I shake my fist, preach fire and brimstone, and condemn them for their disbelief, I will push them away.”
His church attracts nearly 170 people during two Sunday services. Frasher said his approach has kept attendance steadily growing over his first two years here, while across the country fewer are attending church.
Summers’ young adult peers have contributed to the decline in the percentage of Christians since 2007, down to 70 percent in the U.S., according to Pew Research Center. Most in that age group say that present-day Christianity is judgmental (62 percent) and hypocritical (58 percent), according to the Public Religion Research Institute’s Millennial Values Survey of people ages 18-24.
Not long ago, Summers would have agreed.
Frasher was preparing his sermon on a recent fall Sunday. During that time, he asked himself what an atheist would get out of the sermon.
Jesus did the same thing 2,000 years ago, seeking out the unchurched, telling parables in hopes that one day they would be inspired to follow him, Frasher said. “Too often today, church is not transforming people.”
The church may not even be getting people there to try.
Only 48 percent of people in Davis County are adherents to a faith, which ranks it in the bottom fourth of all Iowa counties, according to the U.S. Religion Census. A 2014 Iowa State survey showed that 45 percent of Bloomfield citizens attend a local church. In 1994, it was 82 percent.
Empty Pews: Stats show sharp religious decline in Iowa
Frasher can add his own grim numbers, shared by his United Methodist state organization. Its survey showed that 66.2 percent of respondents said churches are “too focused on money” and 65.8 percent said “religion is too judgmental.”
“There is an attitude that being Christian is being a hypocrite, that’s a huge part of it,” he said. “My family was all factory workers. I don’t fit the mold. But I’m not going to change because people want authenticity, knowing who you are. We are people struggling and going through things in life. To not be up front is to be dishonest. I became a pastor because I don’t have things together.”
While he prepared, one of his best examples entered the church.
Andy Summers and his family had fallen away from church a few years ago. He and his wife worked full time, came home tired and didn’t want to deal with people. His marriage was suffering.
Summers finally sought counseling help at the church. A month later, a massive rainstorm flooded his basement, and the family lost its furnace and other possessions.
“A day after it happened, the church sent us a check of $500,” he said. “I felt terrible only going there a month. It was unexpected that the church would open the door and help random people.”
He enthusiastically returned to church. Daughter Savannah was indifferent at first.
Every time she tried to go to church, a thought came to her: They don't want me here. They are looking at me like I have done something wrong. She was having other difficulties at the time, too.
“At a certain point, I was depressed and having anxiety,” Savannah said. “Honestly, I thought there was no hope for me.”
Then she agreed to join a church mission trip to a Native American reservation in South Dakota two years ago.
“We were with the Indians," she recalled. "There was a guy not very old. Every day he did a spiritual dance to teach us. It hurt him so bad because he had bone cancer, but he loved it so much he wanted to keep doing it. It inspired me.”
Her father, Andy, said he noticed a change immediately.
“She literally came back a different person, with such a different attitude,” he said.
Frasher’s sermon was polished. He walked easily before the pews, relaxed and wearing jeans, a colorful shirt and tie.
He tossed out a question about Donald Trump, Henry Ford and Walt Disney. What did they have in common?
They all went broke and never gave up, he said. “Failure is normal. It’s what you do with failure that sets you apart.”
He added a Bible quote as backup before another story, one he heard on a radio call-in show.
A woman’s husband left her with a 5-month-old baby and she got cancer. She suffered. Then she became a Christian and still suffered. “The biggest difference in not having God in my life is I lost hope,” the woman said. “God will give you that. Hope is a powerful thing.”
If his sermon sounds like a mixture of modern self-help and spiritual teaching, it is.
Frasher said his design is to make church service relevant to people’s lives. He aims to help people “believe in something that is not just fluff” and help them get through the week.
“The way I preach is geared to people who don’t go to church,” he said. “Agnostics and atheists are welcome.
“We need to be doing church a whole lot different than we do it now.”
It’s not the only approach that works. Another church bucking the declines in attendance is Mark Baptist Church, south of Bloomfield. When Pastor Gary Axtell got there 10 years ago, he looked out to see an average of 40 people in the pews. Now there are 160.
“I preach the Gospel, that Jesus died for our sins,” he said. “A lot of churches don’t preach that anymore. We can change the style of our music and praise theme, but we need to stick with the message. I preach right out of the word of God, and I try to interpret it literally.”
Hearing a consistent message brings comfort, he continued. It doesn’t change with a shifting culture.
Don’t think there isn’t competition in the battle for souls.
Frasher said some churches recruit, asking people if they are happy with their church. He calls it “sheep stealing.”
He said he is not as focused on how many he has in the pews as in what he can do in the community to change hearts.
He spends half his day on church business and half in the community. Sometimes that means having coffee with business leaders or going to school football games to build relationships.
He has started a weekly child care on Wednesdays after school to give parents a break, followed by a community meal, which has attracted young parents who never before went to church. Youth groups and other service projects keep them engaged.
On this Sunday, a few young people are in the pews, including Sean Emmons, 17. The recent high school graduate said he learns here that “what you do now affects you later in life.”
There is Kevin and Danna Cook of Bloomfield, who were driven away from other churches because of political divisiveness but found this church was more about “people doing faithful things.”
Danna tells her college-age children not to “let religion come between you and God. Don’t let people’s negativity get you down. This is the time for questions. But believe in something.”
Frasher’s sermon is heating up as he works toward the conclusion — on overcoming difficulties and on hope.
“Your mess can be your ministry. Christians take a beating and get back up. That comes from God,” he said. “People often say, 'Don’t get your hopes up.' That creates a low ceiling. I want you to start dreaming.”
Summers started to dream and believe, not necessarily in all the Bible stories, but in the church community.
“There is something here that makes everyone get along. When everyone gets in here, it seems holy,” she said. “Everybody gets together to create a family. We are a family.”
She sang in the church choir, played in its band and on that morning in Sunday school, told little children that God made the squirrels and the sun. She finds the whole week is better when she spends time at the church.
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President Hamid Karzai and the new democratically elected president of Pakistan, Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, are firmly committed to fighting terrorism in a united front, as common allies of the United States and victims of terrorism. As part of this struggle, we need to find new ways to deny terrorists the opportunity to capitalize on abject poverty that engulfs the tribal regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
This is crucial: People who are well fed are not desperate. People who have confidence in public education do not turn toward political madrassas to educate their children. People who have good jobs do not shelter terrorists. In other words, prosperity is one of the most important predictors of political stability, which in turn is the single most critical element in the containment of fanaticism and terrorism.
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Sunrise Camps celebrate a decade of caring for kids with cancer
Carlyce Macintosh has got game.
And you’d never know, as she balanced on crutches intent on her volleyball game, that she’s also got cancer. Raring to go, this lithe 11-year-old wasn’t about to let a couple of crutches get in her way. After all, last summer, she attended camp in a wheelchair.
Carlyce attends Sunrise Camp in Pearl River, New York, one of four Sunrise Camps run for children with cancer and their siblings, age 3 1/2 to 16. The Pearl River location is run through the Rosenthal JCC in Pleasantville, New York.
Carlyce, who was diagnosed in 2013 with osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, had a portion of her pelvis removed. She went from being an active child to one in treatment, wheelchair bound.
“She had never been to camp before, and she really didn’t want to go,” says her father, Carlyle Macintosh, who urged his daughter to attend last year. “But she went from not really liking it, to pretty much loving it. This year she was looking forward to it.”
Carlyce is one of 206 children enrolled at the Pearl River location this summer, according to Sandy Haft, the camp’s director. But because of the realities of cancer — from ongoing treatment, to doctors’ appointment, or how a child feels in the morning — only 100 attend on any given day. But when they do, the staff strives to create a camp experience that feels like, well, camp, with rowdy singing to start the day, arts and crafts, sports and pool instruction.
“It looks like every other day camp in the world,” says Haft, who describes his work at Sunrise as “the most meaningful thing I’ve done,” bringing to bear 33 years of experience in the JCC field.
Haft is quick to point out that to keep things “normal” requires some unusual steps. Two of three nurses on site specialize in pediatric oncology. A scrape is never treated as “just as scrape,” and is seen to right away. Many staff are on a nursing track in college. Here, a rule about wearing hats is about more than sun protection. It masks that many of the children have no hair. And recruiting is done in the region’s hospitals, where the children and their families spend much of their time.
The idea for Sunrise began at a Paul McCartney concert for Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. Arnie Preminger, today president and CEO of Sunrise Association, attended. Camps for kids with life threatening illnesses were the beneficiaries and he was deeply moved by the children who took the stage to share their stories.
Preminger, who was then president and CEO of the Barry and Florence Friedberg JCC in Oceanside, New York, says the notion of camp struck a chord for someone with a JCC background. But the ones available were short-term camps, one to two weeks, and they were overnight.
“The more I thought about it, it just seemed like, well, my kids never went to sleep away, they didn’t want to,” he says. “Kids aren’t going to want to leave home when newly diagnosed. Day camp might have some particular value.”
There were logistics to consider, too. There would not be five kids on one block needing a bus. But there were 13 hospitals within driving distance from the Friedberg JCC, where pickups now occur. As he started talking to them, they also grew excited about the idea.
Today there are four Sunrise camps, two in the United States and two in Israel, with the Pearl River site the newest in the family. The four will serve 1,100 children this summer, a far cry from the 96 who attended the first year in 2006. The organization raised $5.5 million to support the camps, which are free to the children who attend.
One critical part of the camp is to include siblings. The “primary camper” is the one with cancer, but the siblings, who are often overlooked in family interactions because of the demands of cancer treatment, are by no means secondary at Sunrise.
“The reality is that the siblings are the forgotten children,” says Preminger. “They don’t get paid attention to . . . .By opening, the camps have forged stronger family ties. They can play together with no one telling them ‘no’ and it gives tremendous respite to the parents, who deal with this on an ongoing basis, 24/7. We have found [including the siblings] enormously successful.”
Nina J. Pickett, chair of the Sunrise Association’s board of directors, and the administrator for the Department of Pediatrics at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, says that it was the very mission of being a day camp that drew her to the cause. And while Sloan Kettering works with overnight camps for children with illnesses, Sunrise takes into account that some children cannot go away, and allow families to be together at the end of each day.
“Illness takes so much away from these families that the time they have together is exquisite,” she says, noting again that the inclusion of siblings is so important. “The day camp experience itself is powerful in allowing so much of that.”
And for the staff who work with the children each day, it is no less inspiring.
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