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TIRE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM (TPMS)
The self-powered sensors measure the pressure and temperature inside the wheel and transfer information to the Receiver Control Unit (RCU) via wireless communication. The tire pressure information is integrated into the Original Equipment Manufacturer display .
Passive Entry Passive Start (PEPS) TECHNOLOGY
This technology allows the driver to keep the key-fob in their pocket when locking, unlocking (Passive Entry) and starting the vehicle (Passive Start). The key is identified via several antennas. The vehicle is automatically unlocked when a button or sensor is pressed.
This system which allows the “Hands-Free” is based on two way wireless communication (challenge/response) established by the immobilizer cryptography and allows for Passive Start back-up in low-battery condition (Limp home mode).
CAR SHARING & FLEET TELEMATICS
A Linux-based, state of the art Telematics box offers customers the full range of technical possibilities for car sharing fleet manager:
A Bluetooth Smart© and NFC interface allow vehicle access via a virtual key, CAN bus communication, several Digital Inputs and Power Outputs provide a maximum of connections, for example to lock and unlock a key box. Thanks to a GPS/GLONASS and 4G mobile connection, each vehicle can be tracked 24/7.
Customers can freely configure the Linux application according to their special needs: payload messages, transmission mechanism, configuration update, custom services such as CAN protocols or specific algorithms…
An optional rechargeable battery allows autonomy from the vehicle power supply. | <urn:uuid:4d8f7777-f79f-49f5-bc07-6ec304532779> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ldl-technology.com/cars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.870953 | 339 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Thyroid Problems In Dogs Signs And Symptoms. Both types of destructive behavior can lead to problems with other organs, such as teeth, skin, the stomach, or intestines, if left untreated. All types of hyperthyroidism are due to an overproduction of thyroid hormones, but the condition can occur in several ways:.
Medication can boost those levels, and that can improve or get rid of your symptoms, including depression. Recognizing excessive salivation will depend on knowing what is normal for your dog since some dogs drool more than others, especially among different breeds. Dogs that have other symptoms like anxiety, fear, or aggression in combination with their destructive behavior are diagnosed with secondary destructive behavior.
Seek treatment if you notice any of the following symptoms in your dog: This condition is not a harmful condition and only affects the appearance of the skin. Dogs that have other symptoms like anxiety, fear, or aggression in combination with their destructive behavior are diagnosed with secondary destructive behavior.
It is a medical emergency and requires hospital care to control the. It usually occurs due to untreated hyperthyroidism and can be provoked by infections. Schnauzer comedo syndrome in dogs is a genetic condition in which miniature schnauzers develop bumps on the skin, typically along the back.
Problems can often be detected by an increase in the level of salivation or a change in the saliva consistency. Many dogs will have more than one type of infection present (e.g., a bacterium and a fungus, or two kinds of bacteria). That’s when your thyroid gland doesn't make enough thyroid hormone.
Thyroid storm is a severe form of thyrotoxicosis characterized by rapid and often irregular heart beat, high temperature, vomiting, diarrhea, and mental agitation.symptoms may not be typical in the young, old, or pregnant. Thyroid disease is a relatively common problem in dogs. While it is usually treatable, learning that your dog has a thyroid condition is understandably con | <urn:uuid:17730d85-909f-48cb-8020-de8f532c75d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://titisanalam.com/thyroid-problems-in-dogs-signs-and-symptoms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.942827 | 407 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Note: This psalm poses a significant challenge for interpretation inasmuch as it is made up of two halves of two other psalms. The first part of psalm 108 is the second part of psalm 57. The second part of psalm 108 is the second part of psalm 60. Both contributory psalms, 57 and 60, have unusually detailed introductions, the first about David in a cave fleeing Saul, and the second about an incident prior to Joab’s victory over Edom when David was king. In the first, David is fleeing unjust persecution. In the second, the psalm suggests that Israel is being chastened by the Lord. Psalm 108 therefore brings together the celebrations of deliverance from two different scenarios. Interestingly the connecting sentence between the two parts begins with the repeated refrain of psalm 57 – “ Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth”. All suggestions welcome.
A Song or Psalm of David.
From Psalm 57:7-11
1 O God, my heart is fixed;
I will sing and give praise,
even with my glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp:
I myself will awake early.
3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people:
and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens:
and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens:
and thy glory above all the earth;
6 That thy beloved may be delivered:
save with thy right hand, and answer me.
7 God hath spoken in his holiness;
I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem,
and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim also is the strength of mine head;
Judah is my lawgiver;
9 Moab is my washpot;
over Edom will I cast out my shoe;
over Philistia will I triumph.
10 Who will bring me into the strong city?
who will lead me into Edom?
11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off?
and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
12 Give us help from trouble:
for vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly:
for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
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Crime Victims United wants to remind everyone that while we are taking steps to protect ourselves and our family’s physical health, we must also take measures to protect against criminal activities. Unfortunately, during times like this there is a criminal element of the population that preys upon our fears and vulnerabilities. Amid the COVID 19 pandemic there are scams and burglaries that are on the rise.
CVU urges that you to take precautions, not to let anyone into your home that you do not know, even if they say it is to provide testing for the virus or health services. There are no said services or testing being offered that are legitimate. These are scams and dangerous individual.
Also remember that scam come in many forms, such as: email, phone calls, text and social media. These are attempts to steal your personal information and money. Do not provide information to anyone.
As a part of our virtual clinic aiding crime victims, below are several numbers if you believe that you have been scammed or there is an attempt to scam you. Contact the following resources:
Please call CVU f you need the phone number for your local District Attorney’s hot line.
CVU is dedicated to protecting the rights of victims of crime, their families and safety of their communities. In this time of COVID-19, CVU is providing the community with a virtual clinic, resources for coping and locating assistance. After making sure your families are safe and secure, please donate what you can to help us help others. | <urn:uuid:decc681f-03a6-4ac0-8ade-d83b0a3f90ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.crimevictimsunited.com/resources-burglary-scams/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962529 | 317 | 1.554688 | 2 |
This summer TheCityFix started a new series, Access for All, about how we can use sustainable transportation development to ensure increased accessibility for poor city dwellers, particularly in developing countries. Now, with 84% of U.S. transit agencies facing service cuts and fare hikes, we are witnessing in the United States how poor, socially excluded groups suffer the most from public transit cuts.
As transit agencies across the country face massive deficits – and cut services to make up for it – cities’ most disadvantaged residents will be hurt the most.
It seems a bit ironic that as we write about a new BRT in Johannesburg – which gives poorer residents an alternative to the informal, reckless van services they used to depend on – New York City is expanding such “dollar cab” services to try to make up for MTA service cuts (more than 50 bus routes have been eliminated or restructured, and 3 subway lines have been scrapped).
NYC’s dollar cabs operate mostly in the informal sector, although a small percentage are licensed by the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC). They look just like regular vans, and are particularly popular along Brooklyn’s and Queens’ major arteries, like Flatbush Avenue. The city up until now has tried to ban the private commuter vans from MTA-serviced routes; most of the vans – licensed or unlicensed – ran along these routes anyway.
Now, for the first time, the city is granting the TLC-licensed vans designated stops along three to six of the more than two dozen terminated routes. Most of the service cuts are in areas of the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, where residents already faced some of the longest commutes in the city. Starting soon, the TLC dollar cabs servicing the scrapped MTA routes will be distinguishable from the rest (we don’t know how they’ll be marked, yet); the TLC also says it will simultaneously step up enforcement of illegal vans.
Still, while this might help to placate Brooklyn and Queens residents affected by the service cuts, it comes nowhere near providing a replacement for MTA services in those boroughs – in large part because anyone who takes the vans to reach an MTA hub will not have the benefit of a single fare.
Now that the buses are gone, passengers who start taking the vans to get to an MTA station will have to pay at least $2 in addition to the $2.25 for a subway or bus ride; before, they got a free transfer from the bus to the subway.
Needless to say, such changes affect the cities’ poorest residents the most, especially since the service cuts are concentrated in the outer boroughs where living is cheaper. (Transportation Nation recently profiled the communities on bus routes that have been cut.) They exacerbate social exclusion of poor people, people of color, immigrants, the elderly and the disabled.
Nationally, only seven percent of white households do not own a car, compared to 24 percent of African American households, 17 percent of Latino households, and 13 percent of Asian American households. African Americans are almost six times as likely as whites to use transit to get around. In urban areas, African Americans and Latinos comprise over 54 percent of transit users (62 percent of bus riders, 35 percent of subway riders, and 29 percent of commuter rail riders). | <urn:uuid:e4ee8242-06c0-4042-aae5-12cfac2f9dff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thecityfix.com/blog/access-for-all-transit-cuts-hit-u-s-cities-less-fortunate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951906 | 688 | 2.375 | 2 |
Growing evidence from across the country suggests that high-quality early education programs improve school readiness as well as produce other short- and long-term benefits for children. Early education programs can also contribute to narrowing the achievement gap through building increased academic skills among disadvantaged groups. CFRP studies the impact and effectiveness of early education programs on school readiness, student achievement, and additional student outcomes.
Research demonstrates that teacher-student interactions are essential to child development and learning. The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) is a tool used to assess and improve classroom quality, specifically by improving teacher and child interactions in classrooms with children from birth through 12th grade. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) awarded United Way for Greater Austin the RECESS Initiative 2 grant to increase the quality of pre-k programs across the Central Texas region by improving teacher-student interactions through classroom observations using the CLASS® tool and individual and group coaching sessions. CFRP is serving as as the Institute of Higher Learning (IHL) for the project to analyze the effectiveness of CLASS® and the coaching sessions in improving knowledge and quality of teacher-child interactions.
Research shows that economically disadvantaged children who attended a Texas public pre-K program (Texas pre-K) are less likely to be retained or to participate in special education programs in first, second, or third grades. Children who attend high-quality pre-K programs also have better academic outcomes, are less likely to drop out of high school, and are less likely to use public services compared to children who do not attend pre-K. CFRP found that, thanks to Texas pre-K, in the 2013-2014 school year, Texas spent $127 million less on special education programs and nearly $15 million less because fewer kids were retained. Texas pre-K is a program that has a substantial return on investment for Texas kids and the state.
Children who experience high-quality, pre-K are better prepared for school than their counterparts who do not have pre-K. Several states have adopted universal or widespread public pre-K, in response to this evidence. Austin Independent School District (AISD) is one of the first large school districts in the nation to push further and offer public pre-K to 3-year -olds. CFRP, with students at The University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs, is evaluating the impact of the program. The project is the first evaluation in the nation to determine whether children who experience two years of public pre-K (at ages 3 and 4) are better prepared for Kindergarten than their counterparts who experience pre-K only at age 4.
The AVANCE Network operates several programs within the framework of a two-generation approach to whole family success. The largest of these is their Parent-Child Education Program, a program for parents and their children up to age 4. While the parents are in their own session learning about the importance of their role as a teacher and specific parenting skills, their children are taught school ready concepts and participate in stimulating activities. CFRP is evaluating the impact of the AVANCE Parent-Child Education Program on parent participants' children's later Kindergarten readiness and other outcomes including special education enrollment rates, and reading and math scores. | <urn:uuid:38850885-21a8-4c74-b4a2-75651e63de20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://childandfamilyresearch.utexas.edu/eci-sr | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967099 | 662 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls was published by Hutchinson & Co in London in 1960.
In her recent memoir, Edna O’Brien recalls an early, pre-publication response to her first novel, The Country Girls. Buoyed by the enthusiastic praise she had received for the finished manuscript in the course of a celebratory dinner with her publisher, Iain Hamilton of the Hutchinson Group, and one of the manuscript’s readers, the novelist Clifford Hanley, O’Brien left a copy for her husband, writer Ernest Gébler, on their hall table. He surprised her a few mornings later “by appearing quite early in the doorway of the kitchen, the manuscript in his hand”. What she records as his reaction was one that would become general all over Ireland: “You can write and I will never forgive you.” That was in 1959, and by the end of the following year, many in Ireland would come to find the novel unforgivable, following the lead of Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid, whose purity campaign had contributed to a brisk uptick in the business of the Irish Censorship Board in the 1950s. When, with the support of then government minister and moral guardian Charles Haughey, he declared O’Brien’s book a “smear on Irish womanhood”, McQuaid inaugurated a decade of controversial persecution of Irish writers, leading to, inter alia, the novelist John McGahern losing his position as a primary school teacher in 1965.
However, in the spring of 1960 when The Country Girls was first published, initial reviews and opinions in Ireland were favourable. Maurice Kennedy’s review in The Irish Times, for example, described the novel as having “a fresh dewy sincerity about it, a nice accuracy of observation and feeling … With any luck Miss O’Brien should have an immensely successful literary career.” Benedict Kiely, who saw the proofs in February of 1960, remained her staunch champion for the rest of his life. Frank McEvoy, getting ready to launch The Kilkenny Magazine with James Delahunty, wrote to O’Brien in June 1960, congratulating her on a “marvellous achievement” and asking for a chapter for his fledgling publication of the next instalment of what was already known to be the planned Country Girls trilogy. In the letter he also asks whether she expects the novel to be banned, suggesting that this would be a great boost to sales.
Banned it very soon was. The Country Girls was the first of six of O’Brien’s novels that the Irish Censorship Board would judge “indecent and obscene under section 7(a) of the Censorship of Publications Act, 1946”. It would also be banned in Australia and New Zealand, but was nevertheless enthusiastically received elsewhere in the Anglophone world. In the United States, where it was published by Knopf that same year, reviews called the book “brash and bright”, “delightful”, “charming”, introducing “a writer of zestful humour and humanity”. Even Dorothy Parker wrote a favourable notice for Esquire magazine. In the United Kingdom, especially after its second printing there by Penguin in 1962, it was received in similar terms. While O’Brien does not betray much concern about having been banned in Ireland in her correspondence with Hamilton about the future of her writing career, she was not happy with Hutchinson’s decision to issue the novel in 1960 in the experimental format of an expensive paperback rather than in hard cover, blaming this decision for a relative lack of early reviews. However, according to The Sunday Times, the novel was “a buoyantly youthful novel, with all the freshness in the world and undertones of something much more lasting”. The Evening Standard said the book offered an “excellent and highly unusual bland of bawdiness and innocence”. VS Naipaul in the New Statesman described it as “a first novel of great charm by a natural writer … fresh and lyrical and bursting with energy”, and Kingsley Amis awarded it his first-novel prize of the year.
While it was O’Brien’s first novel, it was not her first publication. McEvoy’s letter references an earlier piece by O’Brien that had appeared in The Spectator. Prior to the publication of The Country Girls, she had contributed several times to the Saturday Evening Post, beginning as early as 1955, and she was also being encouraged by Peadar O’Donnell, then editor of The Bell. It was on the strength of her “sketches”, published and unpublished, as well as the work she had been doing as a reader for Hutchison that she was offered €50 by Iain Hamilton in 1958 to write a novel. In the fifty-four years since, the novel made its author’s lasting reputation ‑ and it is the one text of O’Brien’s that makes at least some appearance in the official Irish literary canon ‑ The Country Girls has never been out of print. It usually appears as part of The Country Girls Trilogy, which was reissued with a newly written “Prologue” in 1988. The novel has continued to define O’Brien, a fact she accepts and appreciates, as is evident in the title of her 2012 memoir, Country Girl, different only in number from that of the first ground-breaking work. In 1986, she appeared on the cover of the magazine Irish America, under the title “Country Girl Revisited”. In 1989, Seamus Heaney interviewed her for the RTÉ radio programme Off the Shelf, a programme listed in the RTÉ Guide as an interview with “The Country Girl”. In 1991, the Irish Independent ran a feature entitled “Country Girl Goes Home”, reporting O’Brien’s receipt of an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway. O’Brien revisited the text herself when she produced a stage treatment of the novel for a Red Kettle Theatre Company production that toured the country in 2012. It may still not be safe out there for the text. Some online reviews from the Gaiety production run objected to the nudity onstage.
In the “Diary” that Anne Enright regularly contributes to the London Review of Books, in March 2013 she discussed the history of Ireland’s Censorship Board, suggesting that, in the case of John McGahern and Edna O’Brien in particular, it was the people at home in rural Leitrim and Clare, the ostensible subjects of the young novelists’ early literary productions, who took most vigorous offence and umbrage at their work. McGahern’s local library board banned The Barracks, according to Enright, when the Irish Censorship Board never got around to doing so. She also claims that while “Edna O’Brien’s erstwhile neighbours might have burned copies of The Country Girls in the churchyard … up in Dublin everyone who was a reader read it without a qualm”. O’Brien continued to feel unforgiven by her home place and her own family for decades, often recalling in interviews the discovery after her mother’s death of her copy of The Country Girls (initially dedicated to her mother), with blackened passages and torn out pages, stuffed into a bolster, hidden in a shed. O’Brien’s “elopement” with a divorced “foreigner” (Gébler was Irish-born but of Czech background) in 1954 had already caused scandal; the novel was one more betrayal. As Enright mentions, it was reported that a local priest burned the book in the chapel yard soon after copies first appeared in nearby Limerick. In an interview with Julia Carlson, O’Brien relates the experience of receiving anonymous letters in response to the novel, threatening and condemnatory, including claims to have been possessed by the devil as a result of having read it. Benedict Kiely has noted: “it was not to be tolerated that a young woman educated, as we used to say, at one of the best Irish convent-schools, should come out, even in a fetching County Clare accent, with home truths or sharp statements about what we used to call sex”.
The notoriety may have helped promote O’Brien’s career initially. As late as 1972, she was still identified in Pornography: The Longford Report, an official British government publication, as a “leading purveyor of insidiously pornographic and perverted views on sex”, but her international success (and she has been translated into over a dozen languages) has little to do with the scandal or her reputation as a writer of “racy” novels. She has been winning important international literary prizes from the beginning of her career, far too many to list, and has had the support and admiration of eminent writers from the start, including some notable Irish figures: Derek Mahon, who identified her as a “culture heroine” in 1970; Seamus Heaney, who applauded her “strong sense of the idiom of Ireland”; Declan Kiberd, who recognised the fact that “O’Brien was arguably the writer who made many of the subsequent advances in Irishwomen’s writing possible, and … continued to craft a prose of surpassing beauty and exactitude”; Clare Boylan, who argued that she was “the first Irish novelist who managed to encapsulate the emotions of Irish Catholicism and the Irish convent influence with both humour and realism … [I]n her early novels she changes the image of Irish women”; and Anne Enright, who insists on the importance of “praising O’Brien because she has taken enough insults in her day”. Enright makes this observation in a review of O’Brien’s 2012 memoir, where she also suggests that O’Brien “was a standing annoyance to the small-town Irish literary male. The accusations shifted over the years ‑ their content changed ‑ but the emotion behind them remained somehow the same”, that emotion being one largely shaped by sexism, if not misogyny.
It is disturbing when surveying the contemporary reviews of The Country Girls as well as the correspondence O’Brien received both in praise and censure of it, to note the repeated emphasis on the “youth”, “freshness” and “girlishness”, not only of the book’s content and characters, but of the author herself, a thirty-year-old married woman and mother of two at the time of the novel’s publication. This preoccupation with O’Brien’s constitutively “immature” femininity could be aggressively unpleasant, as when her own husband asserted that her talent “resided in her knickers”. He claimed to have written her first two books for her as she slept, rewriting and refining the silly gushing she had produced by day. He continued to insist up to 1988 that he had “held her hand, and taught her the ABC of narrative”. Gébler’s campaign was later taken up by his nephew, journalist Stan Gebler Davies, who repeated the charges as late as 1992 in a “review” for the Evening Standard of O’Brien’s novel Time and Tide. After categorising her work as “the sort of self-indulgent drivel written by housewives seeking to escape Wimbledon”, he commends his “former aunt’s” good sense in writing about herself, that is, having continued to take her husband’s advice that she run “her diaries through the typewriter … It is a literary technique well known to all scribblers, and while it may not often produce high literature, it is frequently lucrative.”
O’Brien is often linked with McGahern as having suffered similar difficulties at around the same time and for the same reasons, but there is an important distinction to be made. Decades before his death in 2006, McGahern’s reputation in Ireland had been thoroughly revised, and he has long been recognised as one of the most important Irish writers of the late twentieth century. O’Brien, on the other hand, is only very recently receiving long overdue acknowledgement in Ireland of her significant literary achievements. McGahern has been forgiven; it is taking much longer for O’Brien. Though McGahern’s novels are largely set in rural Ireland and he frequently revisits characters from his own childhood, especially the brutal, domineering father and the saintly, doomed mother, they do not draw the same accusations of over-reliance on autobiography, or of “being stuck in a rut”, that O’Brien’s works persistently receive. He escaped what Amanda Greenwood has identified as O’Brien’s critics’ “unrelenting conflation of author and character”. The sins McGahern committed do not appear to include having a range that is “narrow and obsessional”, in Julia O’Faolain’s phrase of 1974. This charge has been levelled against O’Brien’s fiction up to and including The Light of Evening, dismissed in a 2006 review in the Observer, for example, that complained O’Brien’s “tale remains the same”. In 1929 in A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf, the subject of a successful 1981 play by O’Brien, complained of the trivialisation of “feminine” values in literature: “This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. A scene in a battle-field is more important than a scene in a shop.” If since Woolf wrote these words there has been an effort to accord the same status to the “domestic” and “personal”, the private “feminine” concerns of sex, relationships, and family, as that granted “larger”, traditionally “masculine” concerns of history and politics, even when expressed by the male writer through family dynamics, the spheres remain strangely separate, if nominally equal.
But just what did this novel do to stir up so much trouble? The narrative, loosely based on characters and events from O’Brien’s own young life, follows the lives of two girls growing up in rural Co Clare. The narrator Caithleen (Cait) Brady is an insecure, nervous child terrified of her feckless, drunken, abusive father. Her father’s self-indulgence means that the family struggles to survive in a once grand but badly run-down house and minimally producing farm with the help of a single farm hand. Cait, dreamy and lyrical about flowers and birds and the Virgin Mary, clings anxiously to her put-upon mother. Baba Brennan’s father is a doctor, and so the prematurely jaded, wisecracking Baba enjoys rare privileges such as a shiny bicycle, new clothes, a modern house and motor car, and a cheeky attitude toward her own unconventional mother. Cait and Baba have a competitive, complex relationship that includes mutual sexual experimentation, providing Baba one of her many opportunities to threaten and torment shy, dependent Cait. The girls go to a convent school together ‑ Cait on a scholarship ‑ after Cait’s mother disappears, assumed drowned. Cait has become infatuated with an older neighbour, known as “Mr Gentleman”, an infatuation of which he takes advantage while the girls are away from home. Desperately unhappy, the girls get themselves thrown out of the convent by writing a dirty verse on a holy card, and must then make their way in life without completing their secondary education. They head off to Dublin, share a room, and have various adventures there with men and boys, including a planned weekend away on the continent for Cait and Mr Gentleman, a tryst that never materialises. The novel is unsparing in its depiction of cruelty, privation, filth, misery, exploitation, and violence. It is also vivid and moving in its description of the natural world, childhood innocence, the all-consuming love between mother and child, the thrilling enticements of Dublin, the delight to be taken in the first flush of independence and the joys and terrors of female embodiment. It is, above all, often raucously funny and irreverent about all physical experiences: sleeping, eating, eliminating, and sex in many forms. Despite its reputation, the novel is not salacious, nor does it ever blaspheme, even if the girls innocently attempt to, but the one revered object it does fail to take seriously is the sanctity of the Irish female. In O’Brien’s novel, the Irish wife and mother is a resentful, unwilling slave to sexual demands and household drudgery, a fate shared by downtrodden Mrs Brady and glamorous, “fast” Mrs Brennan. Older men prey on young Irish girls, expose themselves to women and girls, fondle them, demand kisses of them, and threaten more serious attacks. Girls experience sexual desire for each other, for older girls in school, for nuns, for remote, idealised men, all objects of longing superior to any of the men Cait and Baba regularly encounter who tend to provoke disgust or laughter or both. This laughter may be the novel’s greatest transgression.
Late in the The Country Girls, Mr Gentleman proposes that he and Cait see each other naked as preparation for their trip to Vienna, so, he explains, “we won’t be shy when we get there”. The scene, which takes place in the boarding house sitting room late at night, is not easily categorised as erotic. Cait is embarrassed and cold. Divested, Mr Gentleman emerges “not half so distinguished”. The fear of someone walking in on them renders the scene absurd to Cait:
I thought what horror if Joanna [the landlady] should burst in in her nightdress and find us like two naked fools on the velveteen couch. … I looked down slyly at his body and laughed a little. It was so ridiculous.
“What’s so funny?” He was piqued that I should laugh.
“It’s the colour of the pale part of my orchid.” … I touched it. Not my orchid. His. … It reminded me when it stirred of a little black man on the top of a collecting box that shook his head every time you put a coin in the box.
Mr Gentleman pulls his trousers back on and briefly fondles Cait’s bare bottom, before they both finish dressing, go into the kitchen, and make a pot of tea. This is the novel’s sexiest scene. The real outrage perpetrated by O’Brien’s representations of sex is their resistance to prurience.
Is it fair to see the way in which the Censorship Board and many Irish readers treated The Country Girls in 1960 and for years afterwards simply as evidence of post-independence Ireland’s benighted ignorance, now something safely relegated to the past? There are other fictional girls in popular culture at the moment subject to similar scrutiny and objections: the young women characters in the controversial American television series, Girls. Its creator, Lena Dunham, who writes, directs, and stars, and who has won two Golden Globes and been nominated eight times for an Emmy for her work in the series, appears naked frequently on the show. Not only does Dunham’s body fall somewhat short of the ideal telegenic female physique, but her character’s nudity is casual and only rarely occurs in an explicitly sexual context. Like O’Brien, Lena Dunham the writer is conflated with the character she plays, Hannah Horvath. Hannah is a spoiled, immature narcissist, a writer like Dunham, who claimed in an early episode to be the “voice of a generation”. Derision followed as a result of confusing the fictional creation’s boast for an assertion on the part of its creator, who was parodying Generation Y (or “Millennial”) self-absorption. What causes even greater consternation among critics, however, is the fact that, in the words of a typically disapproving (male) television critic, Hannah “is often naked at random times for no reason”, although it is Dunham whom he identifies as the one who is gratuitously nude. A (female) blogger more recently asked “how could anyone film ‑ or inflict upon viewers ‑ such gratuitous, relentlessly grubby sexual content? It’s not romantic, it’s not erotic, it’s not even entertaining”, a complaint that echoes criticism O’Brien has endured for decades. With The Country Girls O’Brien made possible, for both male and female writers in Ireland who followed her, a right to self-determination in representing sexuality and the body, potential release from the cultural and social expectations that traditionally determined Irish identity. The female body O’Brien presented for the first time in Irish fiction over fifty years ago is, nonetheless, one shaped by its Irishness, especially its rural specificity. Her unblinking attention to every detail of that body, “grubby” and lovely, suffering and thrilling, has rendered those country girls universal, however, and, possibly, immortal.
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By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
The Speaker of Tonga’s Legislative Assembly has broken his silence and delivered a statement on air detailing what advice he offered King Tupou VI before the monarch dissolved Parliament.
As Kaniva News reported, the surprise dissolution last Thursday followed an approach by the Speaker, Lord Tu’ivakanō, to King Tupou VI and a decision made by the Privy Council.
According to the government gazette, fresh elections must be held by November 16.
Acting Attorney-General ‘Aminiasi Kefu said the king’s decision to dissolve Parliament was part of his royal prerogative and could not be challenged in court.
Kefu said when the king proclaimed such a royal command he was not required, according to the constitution, to explain it.
The royal command left the public in a state of limbo with many wanting to know why the king had made such a surprise decision.
However, it is understood the Speaker went public with the grievances he presented to the king on the Tonga Broadcasting Commission (TBC).
Speaker’s grievances posted
Former political advisor and government CEO Lōpeti Senituli has posted the Speaker’s grievances in English on Facebook.
The Lord Speaker said he was concerned “that a Bill had been submitted to the Office of the Speaker that seeks to amend the Constitution so as to revoke His Majesty’s right of assent to legislation approved by the Legislative Assembly before it could become law.
“That the intent of the Bill is in keeping with the Cabinet’s earlier plans to bypass His Majesty’s prerogative to sign treaties and conventions entrenched in clause 39 of the Constitution when they tried to sign and ratify CEDAW without His Majesty’ prior approval.
“That Cabinet had also become party to PACER Plus without His Majesty’s prior approval.
“That another Bill had also been submitted to the Office of the Speaker that seeks to amend the Constitution so as to remove His Majesty in Privy Council’s right to appoint crucial positions such as the Police Commissioner and the Attorney-General.
“That Hon Prime Minister [‘Akilisi] Pōhiva had intervened and prevented the Legislative Assembly from sanctioning former Cabinet Minister Etuate Lavulavu for abuse of office on the understanding that he would punish him instead. It later became apparent that he did not punish Lavulavu as promised.
“That several petitions have been submitted to the Office of the Speaker that seek to impeach various members of the Legislative Assembly and the Speaker feels spending time on these petitions would be a waste of time and resources.
“That Cabinet had deliberately misled the Legislative Assembly regarding the hosting of the Pacific Games in 2019 and after the legislation was passed authorising the collection of the foreign exchange levy tax in order to fund it, Cabinet cancelled the hosting of the Games and yet they continued to collect this tax.
“That Cabinet had recently approved a 5 percent salary increase for all ministers in response to a recent increase in income tax, yet the tax increase applies to the whole country, especially all the civil servants and people in private enterprises.” | <urn:uuid:1b561627-0da4-4c9d-b0d1-4692d3b9903a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asiapacificreport.nz/2017/08/29/lord-tu%CA%BBivakano-breaks-silence-over-why-king-dissolved-parliament/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966447 | 672 | 1.632813 | 2 |
|Name:||Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition|
|Dates:||26 Apr – 30 Nov 1907|
|Days:||188 days – 219 days inc Sundays (different admission rules)|
|Venue:||Venue is Sewell’s Point, today’s Hampton Road Naval Base|
– 149 ha (367 acres)
|Theme:||Third centennial of the first permanent |
English colony in the New World
|Exhibitors:||– 18 countries, 3 colonies and 24 states|
|Visitors:||2,758,692 total (the target had been 3,500,000), 1,401,409 paid|
– 50c adults, 25c children
|Legacy:||Total costs $3,191,918 with losses of £2.45m|
The original site of Jamestown had been abandonned, so a 367 acre site was selected six miles out of Norfolk Virginia – it is today’s 4,000 acre Hampton Road Naval Base.
The first Event President was General Fitzhugh Lee, a confederate general and governor of Virginia, the Second (Vice?) President was Henry St. George Tucker, who was a former Virginia Governor. Underwear factory-owner David Lowenberg was appointed as Director-General, though he was replaced on 5 Jul.
The show was opened by President Theodore Roosevelt, with the warships providing salutes. The United States had determined to take a role in world affairs, having won the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt would send his ‘Great White Fleet’ around the world to advertise American sea power. He visited the show on a number of occasions, other famous attendees were King Edward VII, William Randolph Hearst, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mark Twain, and Booker T Washington.
Exhibiting countries were: Austria-Hungary, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Russia and the United States,
Exhibiting colonies were: East India, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic.
State of New York pavilion
State of Virginia pavilion
Exhibiting states were: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Exhibiting cities were: Baltimore and Richmond.
The exhibition was arrayed around three main features – Raleigh Square, the Lee Parade Grounds and the Hampton Roads (ie sea lanes). Buildings included an Auditorium, others were designated History, Mother’s and Children’s, Negro issues… The History Building did not open until 12 Aug, four months into the seven-month run.
Attractions included: two squadrons of ships off Sewell’s Point – sixteen battleships, five cruisers, and six destroyers. Two long piers jutted out 760m (2,500 ft) into the Hampton Roads and formed a lagoon that staged naval and aquatic events.
Given the area’s role in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, there were cycloramas of Gettysburg and the Manassas battles, a mock battle between the Meerimac and Monitor.
There was a Pennsylvania Independence Hall replica, an International Congress of Beauty, a Baby Incubator, a miniature railway, a monorail, and features like the The Far East, the Beautiful Orient, Colonial Virginia, Deep Sea Diving, Marvels of the Jungle, the Destruction of San Francisco, the Esquimoux Village, Fair Japan, Ferrari’s Wild Animal Show, the Klondike Gold Mine, the Old Mill, the Ostrich Farm, Roman chariot races, Paul Revere’s Ride, the Streets of Cairo, Temple of Mirth, and Commanche Dan’s Wild West Show.
In July some 400 uniformed guardsmen became incensed that they had paid to see both the Far East and Beautiful Orient burlesque shows, only to find they were the same show. They shut down the shows protesting they were fakes. The exhibition police talked and confronted them until they withdrew.
Visitors could take a boat ride to Jamestown to see ruins of its church and its cemetries, and Ye Olde Jamestown Theatre that played performances of John Smith and Pocahontas (aka Priness Matoaka).
Exhibitors included Aluminum Company of America, Cambria Steel Company, HJ Heinz,and the Westinghouse Machine Company.
Jamestown had just 200,000 population, in retrospect it was realised that this was not enough to support an international exhibition. The show experienced bad weather, weak management, poor roads, high prices at hotels and eaterys, ineffective drainage, limited availability of electricity – at the end of the show Receivers were appointed.
The exhibition site did not attract development investment, instead the government bought it (less their loan fee) to create the naval base. Over a dozen of the state buildings remain on Admiral’s Row in the naval base, most are used as admiral’s quarters. The Hampton Roads Naval Museum has many exhibits devoted to the 1907 exposition. | <urn:uuid:bc471a88-d802-4fb5-a87a-94eccf5caded> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bobdenton.com/1907-jameston-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.943353 | 1,128 | 2.1875 | 2 |
2-4 page essay, double-spaced, with separate title page, it’s okay if you happen to write a little more than 4 pages, however, we will stop reading at 5 pages.
The prompt is a general guide to spur your own thinking on the topic. Please do not feel you have to answer any and every question contained in the prompt; the questions are only meant to catalyze your own thinking
Please use good essay style, organization is paramount, please have a thesis, please link your paragraphs back to your thesis, please have a conclusion.
Do not summarize or quote any sources from the internet. Only use primary sources given for the class.
- Compare and Contrast the creation myths in Hesiod with those given in the Rig Veda. What problems are they trying to solve? What assumptions do they make?
- Compare and contrast the attitude of the god/gods toward mortals in Hesiod and in the Hindu myths (Vishnu) contained in the flood document on blackboard. Do the gods wish to help or harm the beings who live on the earth? Why?
- Please discuss the stories about Prometheus given in Hesiod. With what sort of myth is Prometheus associated? What do these stories tell us about human life, society, and the relationship between the mortals and immortals?
- How does Hesiod use myth in the Works and Days to solve or deal with contemporary societal problems?
- Based on what you have read so far, in any and all texts, what do Greek and/or Hindu myths tell us about gender in ancient society? By gender, I mean both the role of women in the culture, but also the role of the men, and more specifically, the relationship between the sexes?
Readings for reference below
Hesiod Theogony, p. 61-78 = verses 1-620, CB
Rig Veda, Creation Hymn, p. 25-38, BB
The birth of Ganesh, Brhaddharma 2.60.1-4, BB
(compare Shiva with Zeus/Cronos, Ouranos)
The creation of women, from the Mahabharata, BB
(this is just one page, compare with Pandora)
1.18 Hesiod Works and Days 23-38, CB
The Flood and avatars of Vishnu, BB
Homer Iliad, 1-20, CB
week 3 myth, justice, and literature
1.23 Homer, Iliad 20-82, CB
1.25 Homer, Iliad 82-153, CB
week 4: myth, justice, and literature
1.30 Homer Iliad 153-205, CB
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Bronze Fennel is a flowering plant species in the carrot family. It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow-bronze flowers and feathery leaves. It is indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean but has become widely naturalized in many parts of the world, especially on dry soils near the sea-coast and on riverbanks.
It is a highly flavorful herb used in cooking and, along with the similar-tasting anise, is one of the primary ingredients of absinthe.
Size: 2 to 3 feet tall and 1 to 2 feet wide.
Uses: Pickled stems, baked goods, Italian sausages, herbal seasoning, and herbal tea.
Companions: Yarrow, echinacea, ornamental onion, globe thistle, feathertop grass, and zinnia.
Habitat: Thrives in dry, sunny conditions along roadsides, pastures, and in open areas. They are important host plants for swallowtail butterflies and attract birds and beneficial insects.
Harvest: Foliage can be harvested at any time and used fresh or dried and seeds should be harvested when they turn brown on the stalk.
Fun Fact: The Romans used fennel as a digestive aid, while in traditional Chinese medicine, fennel was used to treat snake bites.
Recipe: Fennel dill vinaigrette: https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/275085/fennel-dill-vinaigrette/ | <urn:uuid:a538f182-ca6d-4817-8c5e-48a109586f49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rootsdownga.com/post/bronze-fennel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.925888 | 319 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Testing of the Anderson TLUD in Cambodia 27.04.2010
Sarah Carter and Vichida Tan, UK Biochar Research Centre
Similar tests have been carried out on the Anila http://www.bioenergylists.org/content/testing-anila-stove and EverythingNice stoves http://www.bioenergylists.org/content/testing-everythingni.
**Stove**: Produced by the Iron Workshop, Siem Reap, Cambodia (http://www.theironworkshop.org/). Stove had been used in a couple of practice runs before controlled testing began.
**Test**: A water boiling test (time to boil 5 litres of water, in a pan without a lid)
**Location**: The Iron Workshop, Siem Reap. A well ventilated building – 2 surrounding walls, and a roof. Wind conditions were low but variable.
**Test 1**: Cold start
**Feedstock**: 400g dry small sticks varying sizes between 5mm and 1.5cm diameter and 2cm and 10cm length. This filled up the inner chamber to 2cm from the top.
**Ignition**: Lighter and wood fibers, lit easily
**Water boiling**: 7 minutes into burn, pot put on but failed to boil after 19 minutes.
Burn: 5 mins into test, flame went out (easily recognised by smoke production – usual burn is virtually smokeless), it was easily re-ignited by blowing in the top of the stove.
Total burn 26 minutes, by this point all the biochar had been burned and ashed. When the flame disappeared the biochar had begun to burn.
**Test 2**: Hot start (the stove was not allowed to cool down before the next test began).
**Feedstock**: as test 1.
**Ignition**: failed to ignite using wood fiber, so very small amount of paraffin / petrol used
**Water boiling**: 1 minute into burn, pot put on – after 9 minutes, failed to boil. Bubbles began to form on bottom of pot.
**Burn**: good strong flame, after 10 minutes emptied due to flame dissapearing indicating biochar is beginning to burn.
**Biochar production**: 100g
**Test 3**: Hot start (as test 2)
**Feedstock**: 900g dry wood pieces, 5-15cm length, 2-4cm diameter. This filled up the inner chamber to 2cm from the top.
**Ignition**: very small amount of paraffin / petrol used.
**Water boiling**: 2 minutes into burn pot added, water boiled after 20 minutes and boiled vigerously for 5 minutes.
**Burn**: 32 minutes
**Biochar production**: 100g
**Test 4**: Hot start (as test 2)
**Feedstock**: as test 3
**Ignition**: as test 3
**Water boiling**: after 17 minutes water failed to burn. Bubbles formed on bottom of pot.
**Burn**: 4 minutes into burn flame went out. Easily re-lit with lighter
14 minutes into burn, flame went out again – probably due to wind. Easily re-ignited by blowing into stove. High flames produced, again possibly due to wind. Total burn 24 minutes.
**Biochar production**: 125g.
**Further testing and comments**:
5 repetitions will be carried out of each feedstock (other feedstocks tbd.).
A thermometer will be used in further testing to measure water temperature at regular intervals.
The Anila and Everything Nice stove have also been built and will be tested.
For more information about this project see: **http://biocharinnovation.wordpress.com/**
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ZTE Placement Paper : KIIT Bhubaneswar ,23 February 2011
ZTE Placement Paper : KIIT Bhubaneswar
ZTE Placement Paper : Whole Testpaper CHANDIGARH
ZTE Placement Paper : ZTE Paper Whole Testpaper CHANDIGARH
1. Write all layers of OSI Model and briefly explain them ? - 10 marks
2. What is difference between GSM & CDMA ? - 10 marks
3. Draw any communication model(GSM/CDMA) ? - 10 marks
4. Explain all multiplexing techniques(TDMA/FDMA/CDMA) - 10 marks
5. Write about AM,FM & PCM ? - 10 marks
There were 10 questions of 3 marks each & other 10 ,2 marks each ,all fill in blanks along with objective type: Some of questions I m mentioning are :
Which Modulation is used in CDMA?
How many slots are in E1 ?
CDMA 2000 has data rate of ..?
Frequency range of CDMA?
Which of following are not forward channels? (Pilot,Sync,Access)
Class C specification ?
Bandwith of one time slot?
How may bits are in one burst?
Which of following connect two networks?(Router,Switch,Hub)
CDMA Stands for :
Two types of Frequency Hopping
The technical test went excellent for me,after that it was time for 30 minutes aptitude test?? Which had some tricky questions like:
Which of the two countries have square flags?
Which comes after gigabyte? Terabyte & then???
After that, it was time for group discussion??(Topic : Is India Booming ???)
At the last they took an interview, technical along with hr, well for me they took 25 minutes to complete askin me questions..oopes..big inteview for me..reg my 6 months practical training at Nokia India Pvt Ltd and general questions like why u didn,t opt for MBA,why do u want to join ZTE,weakness 7 good qualities sort of stuff | <urn:uuid:9e33077b-8a27-4af2-8841-2ce58fe907bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indianfresher.com/download-placement-papers-for-zte/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.893196 | 444 | 2.078125 | 2 |
In life, working can be tough but can be made easy while using the latest technology developed for it. There should be no problem with switching and trying to use the internet and new technology as and when it is available. A sharepoint solution provider is among such technology that helps out with sharing of files and data to anyone over the same network with other employees with data being safe and secure. It is best to use microsoft power bi hk. This bi stands for business intelligence and it is an essential part of today’s time.
Adapt To Change
When working no one would like to work on the same thing in case it gets lost to avoid all of these issues ever occurring in life it is best to use software that would back up and store the data. When the data is backed up it would not get lost and can be accessed at any time. Using this would also help to ensure work can be shared as it has a facility that makes the calendar changes for everyone on the same team.
It helps to ensure efficiency in work management. It helps with sharing the information that is an easy collaboration among the employees. It helps to also provide automated services to some that ensure there is no redundancy of data in the system. It helps to reduce dependence on paper and supports the use of technology for even small tasks. | <urn:uuid:6ff2c0aa-693d-4b46-9c87-61f36d889d21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eurogeo6.org/use-sharepoint-solution-provider-now/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967697 | 267 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Balloon Sinuplasty is a surgical procedure to aid those suffering from chronic sinusitis but do not see results with medications. A balloon is placed into the sinus cavity that is inflamed and gradually inflated to remove the swelling. A catheter then drains the fluid that has accumulated.
Sinuplasty can be offered as an alternative to conventional sinus surgery. It involves removing bone or tissue from the sinuses, allowing drainage. Continue reading to learn more about medical balloon tests.
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Is Balloon Sinuplasty safe?
Every surgical procedure comes with a risk. Sinus surgery, which involves surgical removal of obstructions inside the sinuses is more risk than minimally performed Balloon Sinuplasty. One of the most significant advantages to safety is the substantial reduction in bleeding.
Since the balloon was designed to gently move the sinus tissue away instead of removing it, the chance of bleeding is very minimal. In 2007, CLEAR research several patients who had traditional sinus surgery while others received Sinuplasty Balloon. Results showed that those who underwent this procedure showed "statistically significant differences of postoperative pain."
Is Balloon Sinuplasty effective?
For the CLEAR study Patients were reexamined one year after the procedure. 85percent of patients were found to maintain open sinus passageways following the first procedure. The study found that "SNOT-20 scores were statistically better than pre-operative scores and show continued improvement."
Two years after the initial Sinuplasty procedure 65 of the 109 original patients were evaluated. If tested again it was found that the subjects had continued to improve as indicated on the scores of SNOT-20 at the time of one year. | <urn:uuid:a777da99-a0ea-48df-80fb-a56c30f1ca1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://foodidentityblog.com/tag/medical-balloon-test/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969263 | 354 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Central idea: God will give us what we ask for. Doctrine: Prayer of petition. Practical application: Asking for things.
To view Lectionary 102, click here.
Central idea: God will give us what we ask for
Reading 1 Is 66:10-14c
Thus says the LORD:
Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her,
all you who love her;
exult, exult with her,
all you who were mourning over her!
Oh, that you may suck fully
of the milk of her comfort,
that you may nurse with delight
at her abundant breasts!
For thus says the LORD:
Lo, I will spread prosperity over Jerusalem like a river,
and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing torrent.
As nurslings, you shall be carried in her arms,
and fondled in her lap;
as a mother comforts her child,
so will I comfort you;
in Jerusalem you shall find your comfort.
When you see this, your heart shall rejoice
and your bodies flourish like the grass;
the LORD’s power shall be known to his servants.
- Jesus’ second beatitude in the Sermon on the Mount is “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” (Mt 5:4).
- Jerusalem was the religious and political capital of ancient Israel. Many times in her history, Jerusalem was laid siege to, her inhabitants lived in fear, hunger, and thirst, and she was destroyed and her people killed or enslaved. This happened at the time of Isaiah; it would happen again in AD 70; and in the second century AD the Romans would do their best utterly to destroy Israel.
- Yet the prophets promised that Jerusalem would be the religious capital of the world and the Gentile nations would bring their wealth to her in homage.
- Isaiah prophesizes that Jerusalem will someday be like a mother who will care for her people like babies who are nursed, fondled, and comforted on their mother’s lap.
- We Christians understand this place or condition to be the New Jerusalem which is the assembly of all the saved with glorified bodies living with God and the angels in the New Creation.
- As St. Paul will say in the second reading, “neither does circumcision mean anything, nor does uncircumcision, but only a new creation.
- Through the Christian life of sacramental grace, of prayer, through living the virtues, and through our ordinary work done well, we can experience this promised consolation even now. This consolation consists in our personal friendship with the Persons of the Blessed Trinity.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20
R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
Shout joyfully to God, all the earth,
sing praise to the glory of his name;
proclaim his glorious praise.
Say to God, “How tremendous are your deeds!”
“Let all on earth worship and sing praise to you,
sing praise to your name!”
Come and see the works of God,
his tremendous deeds among the children of Adam.
He has changed the sea into dry land;
through the river they passed on foot;
therefore let us rejoice in him.
He rules by his might forever.
Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare
what he has done for me.
Blessed be God who refused me not
my prayer or his kindness!
- Whenever God answers our prayers we should rejoice and be thankful. We can also recall all the other works God does in creating and sustaining, and guiding creation and in all his saving acts for humanity, the children of Adam.
- One of the most important saving events for the Jews was the Exodus: Moses led the Chosen People out of slavery in Egypt, passing through the sea safely. The central saving event for us is the Passion and Resurrection of Christ: Our Lord redeems us from the slavery to sin and death, through the waters of Baptism.
- One key reason to pray regularly is to be aware that God answers our prayers. How foolish it is to pray for something for a long time, for it actually to come to pass, to take the new condition for granted, and not to thank God for helping or making happen what was wanted.
Reading 2 Gal 6:14-18
Brothers and sisters:
May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
through which the world has been crucified to me,
and I to the world.
For neither does circumcision mean anything, nor does uncircumcision,
but only a new creation.
Peace and mercy be to all who follow this rule
and to the Israel of God.
From now on, let no one make troubles for me;
for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit,
brothers and sisters. Amen.
- All Jewish men did bear on their bodies the mark of circumcision, the sign of God’s covenant with Abraham. But for us, this mark has been superseded by the New Covenant in which Jesus Christ bore on his body the marks of his Passion and Death, which he retained in some way in his glorified body.
- Paul bears the marks of Jesus on his body through all the suffering and injury he endured to spread the Gospel. Paul may even have received the stigmata.
- Paul prays for the Galatians that “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.” The grace of Christ in our souls pours over into our bodily lives and so we begin to bear in our bodies the marks of Jesus. People may not see physical or emotional cuts and bruises due to hardships and sufferings. They will see peace and acts of mercy which belong “to all who follow this rule.” The “rule” is associating ourselves with the Passion of Christ.
Gospel Lk 10:1-12, 17-20
At that time the Lord appointed seventy-two others
whom he sent ahead of him in pairs
to every town and place he intended to visit.
He said to them,
“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
so ask the master of the harvest
to send out laborers for his harvest.
Go on your way;
behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.
Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals;
and greet no one along the way.
Into whatever house you enter, first say,
‘Peace to this household.’
If a peaceful person lives there,
your peace will rest on him;
but if not, it will return to you.
Stay in the same house and eat and drink what is offered to you,
for the laborer deserves his payment.
Do not move about from one house to another.
Whatever town you enter and they welcome you,
eat what is set before you,
cure the sick in it and say to them,
‘The kingdom of God is at hand for you.’
Whatever town you enter and they do not receive you,
go out into the streets and say,
‘The dust of your town that clings to our feet,
even that we shake off against you.’
Yet know this: the kingdom of God is at hand.
I tell you,
it will be more tolerable for Sodom on that day than for that town.”
The seventy-two returned rejoicing, and said,
“Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name.”
Jesus said, “I have observed Satan fall like lightning from the sky.
Behold, I have given you the power to ‘tread upon serpents’ and scorpions
and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you,
but rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”
- This Gospel passage recounts one of Jesus’ apostolic initiatives. He sent two-man teams of disciples to every town and village he intended to visit to prepare the people there for him, similar to the way John the Baptist prepared Israel in general for Christ. This initiative both advanced the evangelization of Israel and formed many disciples to be evangelizers.
- Some of what Jesus said pertained only to that mission; some is of universal application.
- One universal application is the command to pray for missionary vocations:
- “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.”
- It makes sense to pray for two kinds of evangelists.
- First are the traditional evangelists who fan out to the farthest corners of the world—for Jesus intends to visit everyplace.
- Second are the evangelists who are to penetrate our own culture. We are these new evangelists!
- We who are out in the world are like lambs among wolves. This is why we have to be as cunning as foxes yet remain as innocent as lambs.
- Unlike the seventy-two disciples who had a limited time to do their work and so who dramatically rejected those who rejected their message, we don’t ever reject those who reject us and we never give up on bringing them to the Catholic faith. Instead, as Pope Francis likes to remind us, we seek them out and accompany them.
- Accompaniment is tricky today because many who reject the Catholic faith hold an ideology that claims to be extremely moral and judges us as immoral. We must decisively reject their ideology but not their persons.
- Another universal application is that our pastors deserve our material and spiritual support and in turn they owe us their total dedication.
- We should see our pastors performing miracles, at the very least the miracle of holiness. They must confront evil in themselves and around them and overcome it.
Doctrine: Prayer of petition
- Prayer of petition is asking God for the things we and others need. Petition is one of the acts of the virtue of religion; and the virtue of religion is part of the virtue of justice. In other words, we should ask God for good things.
- Religion is binding ourselves to God. Asking God for good things is one way we attach ourselves to him. When we do this we are giving God what we owe him, because we are acknowledging, as the Catechism puts it, “We are creatures who are not our own beginning, not the masters of adversity, not our own last end. We are sinners who as Christians know that we have turned away from our Father. Our petition is already a turning back to him.” (CCC 2629)
- The Catechism also points out how Christian prayer is overall hopeful prayer. It is a prayer of expectation of our full redemption and the fulfillment of the redemption of the world (CCC 2630). Our life on earth is not the only life and the only venue for whatever happiness we can experience.
- The first step in petitionary prayer is asking for forgiveness of our sins which brings us back into communion with God, the condition we need the most (CCC 2631). Being in a right relationship with God is really the answer to all our prayers.
- Most of “Christian petition is centered on the desire and search for the Kingdom to come, in keeping with the teaching of Christ . . . first for the Kingdom, then for what is necessary to welcome it and cooperate with its coming” (CCC 2632).
- Last comes every need. “When we share in God’s saving love, we understand that every need can become the object of petition” (CCC 2633).
Practical Application: Asking for things
- It is good to pray for every need you have, but to fight self-centeredness, it is probably good to begin with the needs of others. In the Mass, the Church proposes the following rule for the series of intentions which make up the Prayers of the Faithful:
a. For the needs of the Church;
b. For public authorities and the salvation of the whole world;
c. For those burdened by any kind of difficulty;
d. For the local community. (GIRM 70)
- If you follow an order like this, the “local community” would include your family, friends, and finally yourself.
- It is very important to pray for the needs of those around you. It is a real exercise of charity.
- How often should you do petitionary prayer? Our Lord said to pray always. So one good time to pray is whenever you become aware of a need. This can occur any time of the day or night, in fact many, many times each twenty-four hours.
- There are also good “set times” to practice petitionary prayer:
- The morning offering is a good regular time to anticipate the needs of those you will encounter that day.
- At the Offertory at Mass you can “place” your petitions on the paten and in the chalice along with the bread and wine which will be transformed into the Body and Blood of Our Lord.
- While praying the Rosary, you can set aside each decade for a particular intention.
- At the examination of conscience at the end of the day, you can pray for any you have harmed or whose needs have become known to you.
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There’s a Great Trouble coming
Jerusalem’s big stones are coming down1 Jesus was walking out of the Temple when one of his disciples said, “Teacher, my goodness, look at those huge stones! The buildings are beautiful!” 2 Jesus said, “Yes, we’re looking at some great buildings, aren’t we? And yet, they will be ripped down and leveled. Not one stone will be left sitting on top of another.” 3 Jesus took a seat on the western slopes of the Mount of Olives, the side that gave him a good view of the Temple. Four of his disciples—Peter, James, John, and Andrew—came to him with a question. 4 “We’d like to know when this is going to happen and what kind of advance warning we’ll get that the time is almost here. Would you tell us that?”
You’ll get arrested and killed5 Jesus said, “Be careful that people don’t trick you into believing their lies.
6 Many will come claiming to be me. They’re going to say, ‘Here I am, your Messiah!’ They will con many folks into believing them. 7 When you hear about wars breaking out and rumors of more war, don’t be afraid. These things are going to happen. What I’m talking about will come later. 8 One country will go to war against another, one kingdom against another. Scattered earthquakes are coming. Famines, too. These are just the first of the birth pains.
9 Keep your eyes open and stay alert. You’re going to get arrested and turned over to government officials and synagogue leaders who will beat you. You’ll be forced to stand in front of governors and kings and testify about me. 10 Before this, the good news needs to be preached to people everywhere.
11 When you do get arrested, don’t worry about the testimony you’ll need to give. No need to practice your speech. Whatever words come to mind when you have to stand up and speak, go ahead and speak those words. They won’t be coming from you. They’ll be coming from the Holy Spirit.
12 Some of you will be turned over to the authorities and executed because a brother turned you in. A father will turn in his child. Children will rebel against their parents and get them executed. 13 Everyone around you will hate you because you have tied yourself to my name. But those of you who hang onto your faith all the way to the end will be saved.
14 Keep your eyes open for something detestable and destructive standing where it has no right to stand. (Note to readers: Do your homework if you want to understand.) When you see this, that’s the clue for everyone in Judea to escape to the hills. 15 If you’re on the roof of your house when this happens, get out of the house. Don’t stop to pack anything. Just go. 16 If you’re in the field when this happens, don’t take the time to go back to the house to get a coat. 17 When this happens, it’ll be bad news for pregnant women and those nursing babies. 18 Pray that it doesn’t happen in the winter.
Time of Great Trouble19 What’s coming is a time of Great Trouble. It’s going to be worse than anything that has ever happened before—since the beginning of God’s creation until now. 20 God is going to shorten the time of Great Trouble. If he didn’t, everyone would die. But he’s going to shorten the time because he wants to save the chosen ones—the people he chose. 21 During that time, someone might say to you, ‘Oh my, look! Here’s the Messiah!’ Or someone might say, ‘Look, he’s over there!’ Don’t believe it.
22 I want you to know that fraud messiahs and fake prophets are coming. They’re bringing with them little signs and clues that hint they are genuine. And they’ll be able to do wonders that look like miracles. They hope this will trick my chosen people. 23 So I’m putting you on notice to stay alert. I’ve told you ahead of time what’s going to happen.
After the Great Trouble,
The sun won’t shine
and the moon won’t glow.
their powers shaken in the heavens. 26 That’s when they will look up into the clouds and see the Son of Humans coming. When he comes, everyone will see how glorious and powerful he is. 27 He’ll send his angels on a mission: Bring him all the chosen people from everywhere in heaven and on the earth.
Read the signs of the times28 You can learn something from the fig tree. When the winter branches soften in the springtime and pop out their leaves, you know summer’s coming. 29 Well, when you see the things I’ve been talking about start to happen, you’ll know the time is almost up. 30 I’m telling you the truth, this generation of human beings will live to see everything I’ve talked about here. 31 The earth and everything in the sky will die someday. But my words will live forever.
It’ll happen, but you don’t know when32 No one knows when this is going to happen. Not the day. And certainly not the hour. Angels don’t know it. Even the Son doesn’t know it. The only one who knows it is the Father. 33 So stay alert and keep your eyes open because you know it’s coming, but you don’t know when. 34 Think of it this way. A man has to leave home and go on a trip. So he tells the servants to do their job. And he tells the guard at the front door to stay on alert. 35 So keep your eyes open. You have no idea when the master of the house will come back. He might come in the evening. He could come at midnight. He might come in the darkness of early morning, when the rooster crows. Or he might come with the sunrise. 36 When he comes suddenly, don’t let him find you sleeping. 37 I’m not talking to you folks alone. What I’m saying, I say to everyone. Keep your eyes wide open all the time.”
The narrow Kidron Valley rested between the Mount of Olives and the ridge on which Jerusalem was built.
This was two sets of brothers. James and John were brothers. Peter and Andrew were brothers.
More literal translation: “abomination of desolation.” There are lots of theories about what Jesus meant. The prophet Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 44:22, uses those terms to describe what Babylonian invaders eventually did to Jerusalem in 586 BC. He said that because of the evil abominations the people committed, Jerusalem was going to be decimated. A later prophet, Daniel, seemed to pick up this phrasing when he talks about a future ruler who sets up a sacrilegious object that spiritually pollutes a holy place, which could be the Jerusalem Temple. Daniel says the abomination will cause desolation (Daniel 9:27). Contenders for the culprit behind this sacrilegious act: (1) Pontius Pilate tried to bring into Jerusalem Roman standards, which were flags that had engraved images. Jews objected and Pilate backed down. (2) Emperor Caligula ordered that a statue of him be installed in the Jerusalem Temple. He died before he could enforce his order. (3) Roman general Titus led the Roman army in crushing the Jewish rebellion that started in AD 66. In AD 70, he went into the Jerusalem Temple and stood in the most holy room, according to Josephus, a Roman citizen and a Jewish historian who collaborated with Titus. (4) Some early Christians began to associate Jesus’s cryptic description with “the antichrist,” someone who would pretend to be the Messiah, but who acted like a devil of a Messiah.
This parenthetical note from Mark may have intended to point readers to prophets who used the words “abomination” and “desolation.” The prophets would have included Jeremiah and Daniel.
Some early Christian writers, including Eusebius (about AD 260-340), said that when Christians saw what Roman general Titus was about to do to Jerusalem in AD 70, they remembered Jesus’s warning. They fled to the city of Pella, about 20 miles (32 km) south of the Sea of Galilee, in what is now the Arab country of Jordan.
Jerusalem fell to Roman general Titus in the summer of AD 70.
In the Jewish Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, the “Chosen” is a shorthand way of talking about the Jewish people, who were also known as the “people of the covenant,” which is the agreement they had with God: obedience was their responsibility, protection and blessing was God’s job. Jewish writers such as Mark, who became followers of Jesus, used “chosen” as a way of referring also to Christians as the people of the new covenant, which was launched during the ministry of Jesus.
Jesus seems to be quoting two prophecies: Isaiah 13:10; 34:4. There, Isaiah is talking about a judgment “day of the Lord,” when the Babylonian Empire will be punished for destroying Jerusalem in 586 BC, and exiling the Jewish survivors to what is now Iraq. Some Bible experts say Jesus is probably using cosmic-scale exaggeration to describe the punishment God has in store for Jerusalem, much like Isaiah used the same kind of exaggeration to talk about what was going to happen to Babylon. Other scholars say Jesus was talking about something beyond the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. They argue that Jesus was talking about some kind of Tribulation or Great Trouble directed by some autocratic, antichrist character.
The Roman army crushed a Jewish rebellion and leveled Jerusalem about 40 years later, in AD 70.
Many Bible experts say that the Gospel of Mark was written sometime between AD 66-70. Jews revolted against the Romans and drove them out of what is now Israel in AD 66. The Roman army came back, conquered the Jews, and leveled Jerusalem. The only Jewish Temple on the planet was destroyed and never rebuilt. Jesus seemed to predict that about 40 years ahead of time: “Not one stone will be left sitting on top of another” (13:2). If a Christian and non-Christian each read this prediction, how do you think each one might react to it?
Bible experts say they see two different scenes in these prophecies of Jesus (13:1-37; see also Luke 21:5-28). In some cases, they see the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, when Romans crushed a Jewish rebellion and leveled the city of Jerusalem. Others say they see references to the Second Coming. What are some of the quotes you see in here that seem to track nicely with the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70? And what lines seem to point to something beyond that event?
Jesus seems to say that before he comes back, “the good news needs to be preached to people everywhere” (13:10). Are we there yet? There are a lot of people who have never heard anything about Jesus.
Jesus said there was a time of “Great Trouble” coming (13:19). He said “It’s going to be worse than anything that has ever happened” (13:19). What do you think he’s talking about?
Jesus said the people would see signs in the sky: “The sun won’t shine and the moon won’t glow. Falling stars will paint the sky” (13:24-25). What are some scenes that would qualify during the Roman army’s attack on Jerusalem? What are some scenes that would qualify today?
How could Jesus, in one breath, say “some of you will be turned over to the authorities and executed” (13:12), and in the next breath say that those who hang onto their faith “all the way to the end will be saved” (13:13)?
Jesus says that there is coming a day when everyone “will look up into the clouds and see the Son of Humans coming.” (13:26). Many preachers have gotten rich by writing books and hosting TV shows that focus on end times and the Second Coming. How much time and energy do you think Christians should give to studying and talking about these prophesied events?
Jesus said, “I’m telling you the truth, this generation of human beings will live to see everything I’ve talked about here” (13:30). Does this suggest to you that everything Jesus said in this section about future events was about the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70? Or was he talking about the Second Coming and he was mistaken about the timing—which is a position some religion scholars take?
LIFE APPLICATION. Jesus said that some of his followers would be “arrested and turned over to government officials and synagogue leaders who will beat you” (13:9). He said this would be their opportunity, forced though it may be, “to testify about me.” When we go through stressful situations, what are some of the ways we give others a glimpse of our Christian faith?
LIFE APPLICATION. Jesus told his followers that some of them would be “executed” (13:12). Christians in recent times have been executed by extremist groups who ordered Christians to either convert to another faith or die. Imagine one of the people you love most being put in that situation and converting. Would you think less of that person? Do you think God would think less of that person?
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When Profet won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1993, international media took notice. New York Times reporter Natalie Angier called Profet's theory that menstruation protected some female mammal's reproductive canals a "radical new view".Scientific American,Time,Omni, and even People Magazine all followed with in-depth profiles of the 35-year-old "maverick" scientific prodigy.
Profet went on to publish two equally controversial bestselling books, 1995's Protecting Your Baby-To-Be: Preventing Birth Defects in the First Trimester and a 1997 follow up, Pregnancy Sickness: Using Your Body's Natural Defenses to Protect Your Baby-To-Be. Supporters—including U.C. Santa Barbara anthropologist Donald Symons and U.C. Berkeley toxicologist Bruce Ames—considered her work a pioneering analysis of evolutionary theory in a never-before-studied, everyday context.
In 2008, Cornell University researchers Paul and Janet Shellman-Sherman found Profet's theory, that allergies are evolved ways to expel toxins and carcinogens—the so-called "toxin" or "prophylaxis hypothesis"—may explain a mysterious observation dating back to 1953 and replicated many times since: People with allergies are at much lower risk for some types of cancers, most notably the brain tumor glioma.
While research has for decades supported Profet's prophylaxis hypothesis applied to carcinogens, Stanford University Medical School and Yale University Medical School researchers in 2013 reported similar experimental support applying it to toxins, specifically bee venom. Bee venom induces allergic reactions in some people that can include anaphylactic shock and death. Both studies were published in the journal Immunology.
Yale immunology researchers Noah W. Palm, Ruslan Medzhitov, et al. reported that Phospholipase A2—the major allergen in bee venom -- "is sensed by the innate immune system" and induces an immune response in mice that can protect against potentially fatal venom doses.
Likewise, injecting mice with a small dose of bee venom conferred immunity to a much larger, fatal dose, Stanford researchers Stephen Galli, Thomas Marichal, and Philipp Starkl found. "Our findings support the hypothesis that this kind of venom-specific, IgE-associated, adaptive immune response developed, at least in evolutionary terms, to protect the host against potentially toxic amounts of venom, such as would happen if the animal encountered a whole nest of bees, or in the event of a snakebite," Galli explained.
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Light: Bright, filtered light (1000-1500 foot candles) with good air circulation. Leaves should have a slight reddish tinge.
Temperature: 70-80F during the day, 45-55F during the night.
Water: Roots should be moist at all times. Pure water with very low salt is essential.
Media: We recommend shallow pots with New Zealand long-fiber sphagnum moss or fine fir bark. These plants can also be mounted on cork or redwood slabs.
Fertilization: Use a 20-20-20 fertilizer at half-strength every 2 weeks. Never fertilize when roots are dry.
Repotting: Repot annually, taking care not to disturb the roots too much. For mounted plants, they should be remounted every 3-4 years.
Cleaning: Take care to remove old flowers and leaves during the winter. If a plant has already been blooming for more than 8 months, it is advisable to remove all flowers in the winter to give the plant a rest, so that it will produce more flowers in the late spring.
Pests: Spider mites are the most common and destructive pest affecting Dendrobium cuthbertsonii. They will appear on the underside of the leaves and will create a silvery color to the underside of the leaves, where the insects are sucking on the plant juices. When heavily infected, the leaves will curl slightly from the edges and eventually fall off. Spider mites are most common during the warmer months of the summer and fall, and thrive in conditions with little or no air circulation. Slugs can also be a problem, particularly when the plants are planted in pots. They will eat both the roots and new growth, as well as flowers and buds.
The most important factor in growing Dendrobium cuthbertsonii is to have a healthy root system. Once a plant loses its roots, from either overwatering, under watering, or over-fertilizing, the plant will quickly go into decline. Care should be taken when repotting or remounting the plants. This should be done in early spring when the plants are making their new growths. When using sphagnum moss, it is best to use premium grade moss, that will stay fresh in the pot. Once the moss starts to deteriorate or decompose, it should be replaced with fresh moss. The same holds true with fine bark.
Light: Masdevallias prefer bright, filtered light (1200-1500 footcandles).
Temperature: 70-80 degrees during the day; 45-55 degrees at night.
Water: Roots should be moist at all times, but not soggy.
Media: Masdevallias grow well in either New Zealand sphagnum moss or fine Orchiata bark.
Repotting: Masdevallias should be repotted every 1-2 years when the media starts to deteriorate. The ideal time to repot Masdevallias is after the plants have finished flowering in the spring or fall. It is best to avoid repotting during the heat of the summer months.
Pests: The most common pests affecting Masdevallias are slugs, aphids, and occasionally mealy bugs and scale. Slugs will chew on the developing roots, as well as buds and flowers. Aphids will attack the buds and developing new growths, causing yellowing of the new growth. Mealy bug will attack the leaves as well as the flowers, and quite often hide in the sheathing leaves at the base of the plants.
Masdevallias will grow best in an environment with good air movement. It is also important that the foliage is dry by nightfall. Water will collect in the sheathing leaves at the base of the plant, where the flower spikes develop. If the water is not dry by nightfall, the immature flower spikes will damp off and not develop. | <urn:uuid:ff30505b-738d-42c9-97de-b726d12fc60c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goldengateorchids.com/pages/orchid-care | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.93468 | 837 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Skills and talent are important in any field. But so is adaptability to the changing landscapes. In fashion’s case: capturing the attention of the generation whose eyes are always glued on the screens of their gadgets.
The answer it appears is simple: Instagram.
Fashion innovator, mentor, and style icon Andre Chang, during a talk before a crowd of fashion design and merchandising students of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, emphasized the importance of the ability to adapt.
“Social media plays a very huge part in fashion, and Instagram is always the most effective channel in the online platform today,” confirmed Chang, “If you want to make it big in terms of digital, you better use Instagram to build and establish your brand.”
He cited the photo- and video-sharing app’s wider reach and more vivid visual compared to other venues such as Twitter and Facebook, thereby making it the better channel to showcase aesthetic creations.
Chang, whose first business venture started on the now-defunct social networking service Friendster, recalled how people used to only rely on fashion shows, fundraising events, and glossy magazines. But social media, he said, changed the landscape. “There was no way before to promote your products online unless you have your own website.”
He further expressed that technology allows direct access to things that were once challenging to reach, such as affairs of fashion, which can now be livestreamed.
“Digital transformation and innovation allows fashion to become democratized. You must also build your reputation within the industry for the general public to respect you whatever your profession is,” said Chang, adding that creating a brand is more than just uploading photos and gaining followers. He currently has over 18,000 followers on his Instagram where he regularly posts his looks and styling creations.
Benilde FDM alumni Abraham Guardian and Mamuro Oki seconded Chang’s statements, citing how Instagram helped them reach more audience for their experimental brand Ha.Mü.
“It was initially challenging to gain followers. Instagram has greatly assisted us in reaching out not just in Manila but also in other parts of Luzon,” revealed Guardian. “It successfully connected us with buyers and other stylists who expanded our brand.”
Oki said the social networking service has been one of the marketing strategies of their fast-evolving line. “It is through our Instagram account that local and international clients see our products,” he shared.
Chang reiterated that one of the main advantages of being on Instagram is that anyone can easily get a grasp of the brand. “Visual is important,” he posited.
Guardian and Oki, however, clarified that they do not solely rely on the digital platform to market their brand.
“For those who do not use Instagram, we reach out to them by how we dress up,” shared Guardian. “I am a maximalist person and whenever I go to an event, I put on whatever I want. It is easy if they see things instantly.” | <urn:uuid:41178910-d31b-4dbf-a032-86b5c60a64fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ec2-54-179-107-131.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com/lifestyle/style-beauty/315998/want-to-make-it-in-fashion-put-it-on-instagram.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958279 | 645 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Renewable energy bill advances in VT House
Vermont's new requirement would be that utilities get 55 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2017, ramping up to 75 percent by 2032.
The Vermont House has advanced a wide-ranging bill that pushes utilities beyond electricity to help customers save on heat and could resolve criticism that the current state program to promote renewable energy double counts its results.
Supporters say the bill would move Vermont from the back of the pack — the five other New England states already have the renewable energy requirements the bills calls for — to the front, by adding language calling for utilities to help customers cut consumption of home heating oil and other carbon-emitting fuels.
The Renewable Energy Standard and Energy Transformation — or RESET — program would end a current program under which wind farms and other renewable energy projects have been allowed to meet in-state goals for construction of such projects, while at the same time transferring their carbon-reducing attributes to out-of-state utilities through the sale of renewable energy credits.
Critics say the credits allow utilities in other states to meet those states' renewable energy standards without building as many renewable projects of their own as they otherwise would have to, and fear has been growing that other states could enact laws or regulations to stop their utilities from buying the Vermont renewable energy credits, known as RECS.
"Vermont needs a renewable portfolio standard now because the viability of Vermont's RECS has been put into question," said Rep. Rebecca Ellis, D-Waterbury, who described the bill to her House colleagues.
She said once Vermont had its own standard like those in other states, its utilities could continue to sell RECS when they've met Vermont's standard and have some to spare.
Vermont's new requirement would be that utilities get 55 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2017, ramping up to 75 percent by 2032. Some have met or exceeded those goals already, since Vermont gets big chunks of power from hydroelectric dams, which are considered renewable, as well as biomass plants, like the wood chip-burning McNeil power plant in Burlington.
The last two letters in the RESET acronym stand for "energy transformation," which state and utility officials say is getting underway as homeowners switch from fossil fuels to new, efficient, cold-weather heat pumps.
Goals separate from the renewable portfolio standard would be set for utilities to promote "distributed generation" — solar and other small power generators installed by homeowners and businesses; and heating systems using heat pumps, biomass and tightening buildings with insulation and other weatherization techniques.
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Data Management Technologies - Overview
In the clinical trial process, there is a substantial amount of data that is collected and analyzed for reliable end results. The existing paper-based system is inefficient and can prolong the development process and delay providing patients with effective treatments that could improve their well-being and even save their lives. DDA Medical offers innovative Internet-based data management systems for pre-clinical studies through Phase 4 clinical trials to sponsoring pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers. Effective, efficient, exclusive, our electronic data management technologies bring new meaning to eClinical so that you can bring your products to market quickly and safely.
Data Management Technologies - In-depth
In the clinical trial process, there is a substantial amount of data that is collected and analyzed for reliable end results. The existing paper-based system is inefficient and can prolong the development process and delay providing patients with effective treatments that could improve their well-being and even save their lives. DDA Medical offers innovative Internet-based eClinical trial data management systems for pre-clinical studies through Phase 4 trials to sponsoring pharmaceutical and biotech companies and medical device manufacturers.
Paper-based Clinical Trial Data Management System
Exam data recorded on patient chart --> Information manually transcribed to paper Case Report Form (CRF) --> Clinical research assistant from sponsoring organization collects CRFs --> Data manually entered into clinical data management system (CDMS)
- In a paper-based system, the process of collecting information from participating physicians, laboratories, data reading centers, and contract research organizations can last a long time, which is time wasted in what is often the most expensive phase of the development process.
- Study files must be kept in fire-proof storage rooms or cabinets whose access must be controlled and permitted only to authorized team personnel. Consultation on paper files is only possible by physical extraction at the office location.
Online eClinical Trial Data Management Solutions
Electronic processes are used to collect, access, exchange, and archive data and documents required for conduction, management, analysis, and reporting of the trial.
- Information management tools, every site contact report, document collected, monitoring visit report, patients’ enrollment, delay in eCRF forms compilation, queries solved and outstanding, and study metrics are available 24/7 anywhere in the world through an Internet connection.
- All digitized documents are securely stored and their accessibility is protected by encrypted transmission. Documents are immediately available to those authorized at any time.
Effective, efficient, and exclusive, our electronic data management technologies and services bring new meaning to eClinical trials so that you can bring your products to market quickly and safely. Our online systems facilitate and accelerate clinical trial development by supporting business and data management processes on our HIPAA-compliant servers. From remote electronic data capture and clinical data management to real-time patient enrollment, patient reported outcome, and registry withdrawal, our sophisticated proprietary software technologies present a significant advantage in terms of time from data generation to data cleaning and ultimately data lock. DDA Medical’s eClinical trial data management solutions are changing the face of pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device research and development. | <urn:uuid:d46e87e7-547a-4421-adbe-e8364194ed2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zeroonezero.com/medical/clinical-trial-data-management.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.927939 | 642 | 1.625 | 2 |
Woman seeks to trademark ‘I can’t breathe’ for clothing
An Illinois woman is seeking to trademark the last words of a dying New York City man who was killed during an encounter with police.
43-year-old Eric Garner died when an NYPD officer placed him an illegal chokehold during detainment. His last words were, “I can’t breathe.”
In a December 13 application, Catherine Crump petitioned the United States Patent and Trademark Office to register the phrase for use on hoodies and t-shirts for men, women, boys, girls, and infants.
The 57-year-old Crump, who lives in Waukegan, a city 40 miles north of Chicago, contends that she has been using “I can’t breathe” for commercial purposes since “at least as early” as August 18, one month after Eric Garner, 43, died following a confrontation with police on Staten Island.
A video of the encounter captured Garner repeatedly saying, “I can’t breathe” as Officer Daniel Pantaleo wrapped his arm around the 350-pound suspect’s neck. Other officers sought to pin Garner to the sidewalk so he could be handcuffed. A Staten Island grand jury earlier this month declined to indict Pantaleo in connection with Garner’s death.
During nationwide marches, participants have chanted “I can’t breathe” as part of protests against police brutality.
In an interview, Crump said she had “nothing to do with the Garner family,” and had not talked to them about her trademark bid. She says her purpose for marketing wasn’t to make money, but did not say what her reason for the filing was.
Three other entrepreneurs have filed to trademark the phrase “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” for use. Each of those applications was filed within three weeks of the August 9 death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager who was fatally wounded by former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson.
What do you think of these people seeking to patent the words of a dying man?
Is it disrespectful to not just the family members of Eric Garner and Mike Brown, but to the entire civil rights movement that is currently taking place?
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Rock foundations and truncated trail mark where the suspension bridge to the Paint Pots spanned the Vermilion River in Kootenay National Park. The bridge washed out in 2012, and with no immediate prospect of replacement, hikes to the Paint Pots and the northern region of The Rockwall now begin from Marble Canyon.
Follow the trail into Marble Canyon for 150 m to a junction and gate on the left. From this junction, the access trail runs southwest above the Vermilion River for 3.2 km to the Paint Pots and the Ochre Creek trail. As described in the Canadian Rockies Trail Guide, the following trails are affected by this detour (add 2 km to all distances for these trips):
As a footnote, bridges on Tumbling Creek are washed out at this time (July 24), so the trail is considered unsafe and is closed until further notice.
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More than 3,000 tourists visited the 25,600-acre Moeyungyi Wildlife Sanctuary and Wetlands at the start of the tourist season in early November.
As migratory birds from the North Pole flock to Myanmar to spend winter every year, water birds are seen staying in the Moeyungyi wetlands while tourists visited the area in the tourist season. More than 2,800 tourists visited the area each day in April and May. Although the number of tourists declined in August and October, more than 3,000 tourists visited the wetlands in early November which is also the start of the tourist season.
“There were 405 visitors in August and 970 in October. As it increased to more than 3,000 tourists in November, we could say that more visitors have visited the Moeyungyi since October, and more tourists would come in during the tourist season,” said the in-charge of the Moeyungyi Wildlife Sanctuary and Wetlands.
As more wintering birds have arrived compared to the last month, crane birds are also seen now in the Moeyungyi Sanctuary and Wetlands. It is expected to be more touristy in December than last month as it is a popular holiday period for tourists and bird watchers. With the attention to the prevention and control of COVID-19 disease, it will be more possible to predict the fluctuation of tourism at the beginning of the year, according to the person in charge of the wetlands.
This winter, migratory birds have been arriving in the Moeyungyi wetlands earlier than last year since the end of October and more water birds continued to enter in November. In the last winter, about 40 species of migratory birds spent winter in the area, and about 26 species of them are beginning to arrive this November.
The Moeyungyi Wildlife Sanctuary and Wetlands is the first Ramsar Site in Myanmar. It also received international recognition in 2014 as the Flyway Network Site of the East Asia-Australia Joint Aviation Conservation Group (EAAFP). It is a bird sanctuary, conserving endangered bird species. The Department of Forest is working to ensure the long-term sustainability of the forest and the sustainability of local livelihoods. — Nyein Thu(MNA)/GNLM | <urn:uuid:9d2bdcd6-cf43-47e4-b59b-bb4613cbe531> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gnlm.com.mm/over-3000-travellers-tour-moeyungyi-wildlife-sanctuary-in-early-november/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964806 | 466 | 2.390625 | 2 |
OLED (Organic Light Emitting Display) is a new generation of flat panel display technology after LCD, LED, CRT and PDP (Plasma Display Panel). It has significant new industry characteristics. OLED is a new type of pure solid (CRT and PDP), which is a new type of pure solid (and LCD) with advantages of LCD and CRT. Besides, OLED has advantages of self luminous (no back light source), simple structure, ultra thin, fast response, wide viewing angle, low power consumption and flexible display, etc. It is known as “fantastic display technology” (view Table 1 and Table 2).
|Table 1 Comparison of OLED in LCD (liquid crystal display)|
|OLED||LCD||Technological advantage of OLED|
|Angle Range||No limitation||limited||Perspective width, The side picture color without distortion|
|Response Time||Microsecond(μs)||Millisecond(ms)||With suitable player dynamic image, No tail phenomenon|
|Luminescence Mode||Active luminescence||Passive luminescence||No back light source, thinner hardware, higher contrast, more vivid color|
|Temperature Range||-40~80℃||0~60℃||OLED (Organic Light Emitting Display) is a new generation of flat panel display technology after LCD, LED, CRT and PDP (Plasma Display Panel). It has significant new industry characteristics. OLED is a new type of pure solid (CRT and PDP), which is a new type of pure solid (and LCD) with advantages of LCD and CRT. Besides, OLED has advantages of self luminous (no back light source), simple structure, ultra thin, fast response, wide viewing angle, low power consumption and flexible display, etc. It is known as “fantastic display technology” (view Table 1 and Table 2).|
|Table 2 Comparison of OLED in LCD (Light emitting diode)|
|OLED||LCD||Technological advantage of OLED|
|Luminous region||Surface luminescence||Point luminescence||OLED is Thinner, and for high resolution display, such as mobile phone, computer monitor, TV etc. LED only for outdoor large screen|
|Pixel size and pixel spacing||Micron scale||Millimeter scale|
OLED two major application markets is for display and lighting, which is to show the development of the application is more rapid. Today, display technology of OLED need to overcome some challenges to have a real impact on the market. First of all, the OLED display manufacturing process is not yet matured, large size screen is difficult to mass production. With the increase of the size of the OLED display, the loss of the finished product rate and the loss of the manufacturing are also increasing. Secondly, the service life of OLED display material still needs to be further improved.
According to the drive mode classification, the OLED device can be divided into passive drive (also known as passive drive, PM-OLED) and active drive (also known as active drive, AM-OLED). PM-OLED device does not use thin film transistor (TFT), generally applied to small and medium size display. AM-OLED device is suitable for large size display, especially for large size full color dynamic image display. Compared with PM-OLED, the new display which we say is usually AM-OLED, which has the characteristics of fast response speed, wide angle of view, and has more application fields. Compared to the traditional TFT-LCD LCD panel, the AM-OLED panel has many advantages, such as thin body, high contrast, rich color, high resolution, wide visual angle, low power consumption and so on. In addition, because the OLED panel has no liquid molecules, the seismic performance is better, low temperature resistance, strong and durable. At the same time, compared with millisecond response TFT-LCD panel, AM-OLED panel response time is its thousands of tailing and dynamic picture jitter problem does not appear to. Therefore, AM-OLED has been the industry consensus as a new type of flat panel display technology”. At present, the application of the small and medium size AM-OLED panels in the high-end mobile phone is a foregone conclusion, but it is not enough to produce a revolution in the large size TV.
Generally speaking, OLED manufacturing equipment mainly include: organic vapor plating and packaging of the passive organic light emitting display (PM-OLED) with key equipment, sputtering, plasma enhanced chemical vapor phase deposition (PECVD) system, vacuum thermal evaporation system (VTE) etc. AM-OLED has thin film transistor (TFT) thin film deposition apparatus, coating machine, exposure machine, dry and wet etching machine etc. AM-OLED TFT graphics making equipment, annealing furnace, annealing gas pipeline, laser annealing equipment of AM-OLED with TFT annealing equipment, TFT electrical test equipment, OLED optical test equipments AM-OLED test equipment, laser repair machine AM-OLED with defect detection and repair equipment etc.
2011 OLED technology progress rapidly, and in 2012 will be AM-OLED production technology has reached the mature and applied to large-scale panel production began. Over the next ten years, OLED technology will continue to flourish, especially in organic light emitting materials, organic coating material, circuit drive way and encapsulation technology has pretty good progress. Although the current OLED maximum production of glass substrate for 5.5 generations, but the 5.5 generation of the production cost structure is not clear. With the gradual maturity of AM-OLED technology, AM-OLED panel manufacturers will begin to import production in large size applications.
Lisun Instruments Limited was found by LISUN GROUP in 2003. LISUN quality system has been strictly certified by ISO9001:2015. As a CIE Membership, LISUN products are designed based on CIE, IEC and other international or national standards. All products passed CE certificate and authenticated by the third party lab.
Our main products are Goniophotometer, Surge Generator, EMC Test Systems, ESD Simulator, EMI Test Receiver, Electrical Safety Tester, Integrating Sphere, Temperature Chamber, Salt Spray Test, Environmental Test Chamber, LED Test Instruments, CFL Test Instruments, Spectroradiometer, Waterproof Test Equipment, Plug and Switch Testing, AC and DC Power Supply.ESD61000-2 , LMS-6000 , LPCE-2(LMS-9000) , LPCE-3 , LS9955 , LSG-1700 , LSG-1890B , LSG-6000 , SG61000-5 | <urn:uuid:8703260d-533e-4939-8afb-118174e5085f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lisungroup.com/news/technology-news/development-of-oled-equipment-manufacturing-technology.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.885157 | 1,428 | 2.453125 | 2 |
A plan for a multimillion-dollar overhaul of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge calls for major structural repairs and upgrades to pedestrian and bike accommodations along the busy route connecting Washington and Northern Virginia.
The commission on Thursday approved preliminary site plans for the project, offering an initial glimpse at the proposal and giving the District Department of Transportation an early green light to extend the bridge’s life by at least 25 years. The structure is past its 50-year life span and was rated in “poor” condition in 2018 — a designation that doesn’t necessarily mean it is unsafe to use.
Construction isn’t expected to begin until 2024 at the earliest and would cost about $150 million, according to DDOT. The bridge, which carries Interstate 66 over the Potomac River, is an important commuter route that supported a daily average of about 150,000 vehicles before the pandemic.
The Roosevelt Bridge’s condition has declined in recent years, prompting emergency repairs and the closure of three travel lanes since February after an inspection found steel support beams had deteriorated. Traffic is restricted on part of the bridge to two lanes in each direction, while vehicles weighing more than 10 tons are restricted, sending buses and heavy commercial vehicles to different Potomac crossings.
D.C. transportation officials said the emergency work, which is expected to be completed by the end of summer, will enable the bridge to support normal operations at least until the full rehabilitation is complete. DDOT Director Everett Lott said Thursday that crews are continuing to install temporary beams and are on track for completion by the end of August. In April, DDOT officials had said much of the bridge could reopen as early as this month.
The 3,200-foot-long bridge was constructed in two units: one that goes between the District and Theodore Roosevelt Island over the Potomac, and the second between Theodore Roosevelt Island and Arlington County over the Little River.
The most recent Federal Highway Administration records, from a 2020 inspection, indicate several of the bridge’s features, including its railings, do not meet current standards. They note the deck condition is rated “poor.”
DDOT’s plans, released this week and approved Thursday, call for significant structural upgrades, including deck replacement, concrete and stone repairs, and retrofitting the bridge’s pin and hanger assembly.
The road’s signage and lighting will be replaced. And the bridge will be painted to its original white “to create a cohesive aesthetic between the bridge and nearby monuments and the Arlington Memorial Bridge,” according to DDOT.
The road’s configuration will change to create 10-foot sidewalks, although details of those changes will be developed in plans. Existing sidewalks on both sides of the bridge vary in width between four and six feet and, according to DDOT, do not meet safety standards.
Officials say a wider sidewalk will improve the experience of pedestrians and cyclists in the shared path. Replacing the 36-inch railings with 42-inch railings and existing traffic barriers that DDOT says “provide minimal protection” will make the pathway safer, officials said.
The improvements will also create better connections to trails and other nearby destinations. The north sidewalk connects to the Mount Vernon Trail in Virginia and the Kennedy Center in the District. The south sidewalk does not connect to trails, but a National Park Service plan envisions better connections from the south sidewalk between D.C. and Arlington.
The National Capital Planning Commission urged DDOT to explore adding lighting to the pedestrian path, noting that DDOT’s plan doesn’t include the option. The commission said lighting should be selected to “improve pedestrian (and bicyclist) comfort and continuity with adjacent streetscape character, protect the night sky and surrounding natural resources, and elevate the quality of this important gateway.”
Dennis Leach, Arlington’s transportation director, said the county welcomes progress on the plan after about a decade of talks on the need for a full bridge upgrade. He said the county supports the pedestrian and bike improvements, saying the crossing is “by far the worst experience” compared with other Potomac crossings.
“With these improvements, it will get a whole lot more use,” he said.
The Roosevelt Bridge project would be similar to the recent two-year, $227 million rehabilitation of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, which involved months of closed and shifted lanes, as well as traffic disruptions.
According to DDOT, the bridge will stay open to traffic during construction, but the work will require a closure of two travel lanes for an extended period, accompanied by reduced lane widths and lower speed limits.
Leach said the county will work with the District to ensure disruptions are minimal. He said past experiences have proved such traffic challenges are manageable.
“We lived through the reconstruction of Memorial Bridge. It was totally rebuilt and we managed. And that was done before the pandemic,” Leach said. “People in the region will adjust and hopefully some of them will choose rail.”
Leach said Metro should have normal rail service with the return of its 7000-series cars by the time construction begins. The rail cars, which make up 60 percent of Metro’s fleet, were suspended in October after a federal safety investigation revealed a wheel defect on a small number of cars. Metro expects to restore 64 rail cars to service this summer, with the rest of the fleet to follow.
The transit agency also will be operating the second phase of the Silver Line to Washington Dulles International Airport and Loudoun County, which would be another option for commuters in the I-66 corridor.
District officials said that the Roosevelt Bridge is a high priority and that the city is coming up with a funding plan, including the use of local and federal infrastructure money.
Lott said the city is ready to move the rehabilitation project forward, describing the state of the bridge as “functional obsolete.” He said this year that the city will work on the project design and expects to launch a competitive bidding process next year.
The planning commission, which has review authority of the project, is expected to review the final site development plans next year. Stephen Staudigl, a commission spokesman, said those plans are likely to come before the board next spring. | <urn:uuid:7abaf090-29c8-4ce3-96a4-59d76a5b3606> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/06/02/roosevelt-bridge-updates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.956788 | 1,303 | 1.679688 | 2 |
A system and method for improving electrochemical power sources through the dispensing, encapsulation and dispersion into galvanic chambers of an electrochemical cell. Features of the method include the optimization of the concentration levels of chemicals involved in desired energy producing reactions.
Cardenas-Valencia, Andres M.; Alcantar, Norma A.; Ding, Xiaoling; Toomey, Ryan G.; and Langebrake, Lawrence C., "Method of controlled delivery for use in electrochemical power sources" (2012). USF Patents. 315.
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Balanga is part of the municipalities that comprises Bataan.
Balanga City is mainly a residential-agricultural city. In the recent years, it is gradually becoming an important commercial city in Region III.
Agribusiness has always been Balanga's leading industry. In fact, it is one of the richest towns in Bataan. Fishing also provides a steady source of income, especially for those who lived in barrios near the sea or near the rivers.
Being the center of trade and industry, and the seat of government in Bataan, Balanga is now a flourishing municipality. The citizens of Balanga are called Balangueños.
In Balanga City, travelers can catch some rays in resorts like the La Vista Inland Resort and Rolancor Farm, Vicarville Resort, Joyous Resort, Bethsaida Resort, and at the Vetaf's Farm.
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Amazon Linux 2 Setup¶
For what is intended to be the final production version, an Amazon EC2 instance is running Amazon Linux 2. Amazon Linux 2 includes such conveniences as pip and python pre-installed.
Setup Amazon Linux 2¶
Amazon Linux 2 is Amazon’s latest version of Amazon Linux. According to OS metadata, Amazon Linux 2 may be a fork of RHEL7 or the equivalent Fedora version, but built to run on the EC2 of AWS. It is a good choice for having an operating system that is fully up to date and supported by the “host.” I particularly like that it is already setup with most of what is needed. If preferred, use Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Red Hat, et al., but your mileage will vary using this guide.
- Opted for a
t3.microinstance since that’s what’s ‘in’ right now. Also used Security Groups to limit access to My IP and used a key pair.
- It is a good idea to enable billing alerts.
- The root volume is deleted on termination of the instance, so I enabled termination protection. Alternatively, the root volume can be changed to persist.
Configure an EBS to store the database. Went with 20 GB since that should be more than enough. Also went with magnetic storage because it costs less than SSD storage and the I/O speed is not needed.
Next, secure the EC2 instance. It is an old guide, so the only thing that needs to be done is adding a new user (with limited access, by default) to run the bot. At this point, a root volume snapshot can be made to save progress, if persistence was not enabled previously.
- Install and enable yum-cron to keep the EC2 instance updated automatically.
Setup pip and python¶
Install some dependencies as the default user, not the new one.
sudo yum install gcc python3-devel.x86_64 openssl-devel libffi-devel pip3 install --upgrade pip
As the new user, set up the needed environment and select it from within the package directory:
python3 -m venv clashcallerbot-reddit/env source clashcallerbot-reddit/env/bin/activate # selects venv
From within the virtual environment, run:
pip install -U wheel pip install --upgrade pip pip install praw==6.0.0 # Still on praw6.0.0, for now pip install mysql-connector
Set up a MySQL database within an EBS volume as the default user. The guide is for MySQL and Ubuntu, but setup
for MariaDB and Amazon Linux 2 is very similar (replace
mariadb, and use
sudo systemctl [start|stop] mariadb to start or stop MariaDB). Mainly follow the steps for creating and
attaching an EBS volume. Fear not, the remaining steps will be summarized in this guide.
First, once the EBS volume has been created and attached, the default user needs to run the following from
within the EC2 instance to create an XFS filesystem at
# Create XFS filesystem sudo yum install xfsprogs mariadb-server mariadb-devel grep -q xfs /proc/filesystems || sudo modprobe xfs sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdf # change to wherever volume is mounted # Mount XFS filesystem echo "/dev/sdf /vol xfs noatime 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab sudo mkdir -m 000 /vol sudo mount /vol
Now that MariaDB is installed, it must be configured.
sudo systemctl start mariadb sudo systemctl status mariadb # Confirm it is running sudo mysql_secure_installation # Say 'y' to everything! sudo mysql -uroot -p"password"
From within the MariaDB prompt,
MariaDB [(none)]>, the database can be set up.
CREATE DATABASE db_name; USE db_name; CREATE TABLE message_table (id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, permalink VARCHAR(100), message VARCHAR(100), new_date DATETIME, username VARCHAR(20), PRIMARY KEY(id)); ALTER TABLE message_table AUTO_INCREMENT=1; GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES ON db_name.* TO 'botname'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; QUIT;
Alternatively, run the
database.py script with the settings specified in Quickstart.
Make sure that MariaDB is stopped with
sudo systemctl stop mariadb && sudo systemctl status mariadb, then move
MariaDB into the EBS volume.
sudo mkdir /vol/etc /vol/lib /vol/log sudo mv /etc/my.cnf.d /vol/etc/ sudo mv /var/lib/mysql /vol/lib/ sudo mv /var/log/mariadb /vol/log/ sudo ln -s /vol/etc/my.cnf.d /etc/my.cnf.d sudo ln -s /vol/log/mariadb /var/log/mariadb sudo mkdir /var/lib/mysql echo "/vol/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql none bind" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab sudo mount /var/lib/mysql sudo systemctl start mariadb && sudo systemctl status mariadb sudo systemctl enable mariadb # set to start at boot
Now that python, pip, and MariaDB have been set up, the new user can download and setup the bot:
source clashcallerbot-reddit/env/bin/activate # set virtual environment, if needed cd clashcallerbot-reddit # go to desired source directory wget https://github.com/JoseALermaIII/clashcallerbot-reddit/raw/master/update.sh chmod +x ./update.sh ./update.sh
Next, add the bot’s reddit metadata to praw-example.ini and rename to praw.ini, then add the database’s root and desired bot user credentials to database-example.ini and rename to database.ini.
Then, all requirements can be installed via pip:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Once all relevant files have been downloaded and configured, the bot can be started:
chmod +x ./clashcallerbot.sh ./clashcallerbot.sh
- The bot has to login to reddit at least once to refresh the oauth token. Amazon Linux 2 does not have a web
browser installed by default, so run
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Drag your mouse or swipe your tablet or move your smartphone left and right to change the viewing angle.
Beginner Stage One
Here is the first stage, learn the first ten moves of the dance, and the first three form sequences, twelve moves.
Take your time and don’t rush to the next stage until you have learned these thoroughly and can do them purely from memory without following the video. Make sure you look at the teachers located on the left and right and behind you to get the nuances of the hand positions and stances you can’t see from looking at my back view.
T’ai Chi Dance 1-10
T’ai Chi form 1-12
Beginner Stage Two
Here are the next two videos with ten new moves of the dance and form. Learn these and practice them every day until you can do them perfectly without following the video. Use your smartphone or video camera and video yourself then compare it to this video, look at the stances, posture, and hand positions. Even better go to one of our classes or subscribe to the Zoom lessons and we can teach you in person.
Get hold of a copy of Chee Soo’s Tai Chi book from Seahorse Books, it’s cheaper than Amazon, and look at the Golden Principles of Tai Chi on page 32. Keep your back straight and don’t lean forwards or back. Keep relaxed and make sure you coordinate the upper and lower body just the same way I am in the video.
T’ai Chi Dance 1-20
T’ai Chi form 1-20
Beginner Stage three
Here are the final videos of the forms for the beginner stage. The best times to train are for one hour after sunrise or for one hour before sunset. Use your Tai Chi book and read up on the principles, make sure you keep upright but relaxed, and let the shoulders sink down. Keep your breathing in the lower abdomen and don’t puff up the chest when you breathe. Always keep the arms slightly bent so the Qi can flow. Keep your head in alignment with your spine. Stay relaxed at all times, especially the mind. Make sure all the movements are circular in nature or curves. Avoid taking big steps that will stress your knees and tense your muscles as this obstructs the flow of Qi.
T’ai Chi Dance 1-30
T’ai Chi form 1-30
There follow three more videos of the intermediate and four more of the advanced stage up to instructor grade. In total there are 184 moves of the Tai Chi dance and 140 moves of the Tai Chi form. We have unlisted Youtube videos of these two forms incrementing in ten moves stages. As a general guideline, you should be able to learn at a rate of approximately one move per week. These videos are not publicly listed and are only available if you are a member of the Taoist Cultural Arts Association or have subscribed to Lockdown Tai Chi Zoom lessons. | <urn:uuid:e95fd398-27d1-4d57-a566-fe74b2e8342f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seahorsearts.co.uk/360-videos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.918038 | 615 | 1.804688 | 2 |
If you're in the front line, in the danger zone,
ducking bullets from all directions, you need all the help you can get.
No-one can move fast enough to dodge a sniper's bullet, when they can't even see it coming.
There's only one way to protect yourself: place a barrier in front of your body that
will dissipate a bullet's energy. That's the basic idea behind
bulletproof glass. Let's take a look at how it works!
Photo: There's no such thing as totally bulletproof glass.
In this controlled test carried out by the US Air Force, a very powerful AK-47 assault rifle
has shattered a piece of armored glass to smithereens.
Picture by Gary Emery courtesy of the
US Air Force.
Photo: You have to absorb a ball's kinetic energy (energy
of movement) to bring it to a halt and catch it successfully. Picture by John Collins courtesy of US Navy and
If you've ever caught a fast-moving baseball or cricket ball, you'll
know the trick is to move your hand back and stop the ball gradually so you reduce its energy very slowly. That reduces the force
on your hand so the catch hurts less. Putting it more scientifically,
the force the ball exerts on your hand is equal to the rate at which the ball's momentum changes.
So if you change its momentum slowly, by bringing it to a halt gradually,
the force you feel is reduced. Let's say you stop a ball nearly instantly in half a second
and you feel a hefty smack as your hand absorbs the impact.
Now suppose you could replay the moment and take two seconds to stop the ball instead.
This time, taking four times longer to bring the ball to rest, your hand would feel
only quarter as much force—so the ball would hurt you much less.
Photo: Normal glass offers little protection against bullets.
When a bullet strikes a pane of glass, the bullet's energy pushes against the glass, making fractures radiate out from the point where the bullet hit along lines of weakness. This is what makes glass shatter into huge shards.
Glass damaged like this adds an extra element of danger: if the bullet doesn't kill you, the glass just might.
Picture by Bennie J. Davis III courtesy of the
US Air Force.
Unlike your hand, a piece of glass can't move. If someone fires a bullet at an ordinary piece of
glass, the glass can't bend and absorb the energy very gradually.
So it simply shatters and the bullet carries on through with hardly any loss of momentum. That's
why ordinary glass offers no protection against bullets: it is completely ineffective at slowing them down
and absorbing their energy.
Animation: Why glass shatters. Metals (left) have a crystalline structure: the atoms (red) inside are arranged in regular, repeating patterns. Apply a force (with something like a bullet or a hammer blow), and the planes of atoms simply shift pass one another, so the metal twists and bends to soak up the energy. Glass (right) is different. It has an amorphous (irregular)
structure. Its atoms (blue) can't easily shift aside when a force is applied and the incoming energy has nowhere to go, so it splits the whole material apart. That's why metals bend, while (ordinary) glass shatters.
How bulletproof glass works
"Bulletproof" glass is very different to ordinary glass. More correctly called
bullet-resistant glass (because no glass is totally bulletproof), it's made from
multiple layers of tough glass with "interlayers" of various plastics.
Sometimes, there's a final inner layer of polycarbonate (a tough type of plastic) or plastic film to prevent "spalling" (where dangerous shards of glass or plastic splinter off following the impact of a bullet). This sandwich of layers is called a laminate. It can be up to ten times thicker than a single pane of ordinary glass and it's usually very heavy.
When a bullet strikes bulletproof glass, its energy spreads out sideways through the layers. Because the energy is divided between
a number of different pieces of glass and plastic, and spread over a large area, it is quickly absorbed.
The bullet slows down so much that it no longer has enough energy to
pierce through—or to do much damage if it does so.
Although the glass panes do break, the plastic layers stop them flying
apart. Think of bulletproof glass as "energy-absorbing" glass and
you'll have a good idea how it works.
Photo: Top: Ordinary glass shatters and does nothing to stop the passage of a speeding bullet. Bottom: Bulletproof glass shatters too, but the layers of plastic sandwiched between the layers of glass absorb and dissipate the bullet's energy. If it does manage to penetrate through the glass, it will be greatly slowed down and it will do much less damage.
How do you make bulletproof glass?
Traditional bulletproof glass is made from alternating layers of glass (typically 3–10mm or ⅛–⅜in) and plastic, where the plastic is simply a thin film of
polyvinyl butyral (PVB) (around 1–3mm or 30–90 mils thick).
Newer, stronger kinds of bulletproof glass use a sandwich of glass and plastic made of
ionoplast polymers (such as SentryGlas®),
ethylene vinyl acetate,
with the thick glass and plastic layers separated by thinner films of various plastics, such as PVB or polyurethane.
Artwork: Bulletproof glass is essentially a multi-layer sandwich of glass and plastic, but
there are many different ways of arranging the ingredients. In this example, there are multiple layers of glass
with thin plastic interlayers binding them together and one thick layer of polycarbonate—but many
other arrangements are possible.
To make simple PVB-based bulletproof glass, the thin PVB film is sandwiched between the thicker glass to make a laminate, which is heated and compressed so the plastic melts and begins to bond to the glass. Often this process happens in a vacuum to prevent air becoming trapped between the layers, which makes the laminate weaker and affects its optical properties (distorting the light that passes through). The unit is then fully "cooked" at a much higher temperature (up to about 150°C or 300°F) and pressure (up to about 13–14 times normal atmospheric pressure) in an autoclave (a kind of industrial pressure cooker). The main difficulty with the process is ensuring that the plastic and glass layers stick together properly with no air trapped between them, and ensuring the autoclave's heat and pressure doesn't distort the plastic so it becomes difficult to see through. (You can read more about the manufacturing process in US Patent: 5,445,890, listed in full in the references below.)
Where is bulletproof glass used?
Photo: This bulletproof armor withstood the impact of
a .30 caliber armor-piercing bullet fired from 23 m (25 yards) away
using a Russian M-44 sniper rifle. Picture courtesy of US Air Force.
Bulletproof glass comes in all shapes and sizes to give different levels of protection in different situations.
You're most likely to find it in places like banks, where the tellers typically sit behind thick bulletproof windows and use bulletproof drawers to exchange paperwork and money with customers.
Generally speaking, the thicker the glass and the more layers it has, the more energy it can absorb and the more protection it will give. Basic bulletproof glass ranges from about 3cm (1.185 in) to 4cm (1.59 in) thick, but it can be made twice this thick if necessary.
The only problem is, the thicker you make bulletproof glass the heavier it becomes.
That may not be a problem in a bank, but it's certainly a consideration when you're trying to bulletproof
a president's car or a
Making bulletproof glass thicker also makes it slightly more opaque, because light struggles to get through all those extra layers. That can cause difficulties if it impairs the driver's visibility. Rap artist Buster Rhymes ran into problems in 2007 when police stopped his SUV (with its 5cm/2in-thick bulletproof glass) "for having excessively tinted windows" (only 70 percent light transmission).
Standards for bulletproof glass
Different standards exist in different parts of the world. In the United States, the effectiveness of
bulletproof glass is typically compared using NIJ (National Institute of Justice) Standard 0108 for Ballistic Resistant Protective Materials (September 1985), which lists seven kinds of armor broken into five main types (Types I, II-A, II, III-A, III, IV, and Special). The highest classification, Type IV, must be able to cope with
a single hit from a 30-caliber armor piercing rifle with a bullet mass of 10.8g and measured velocity of 868±15m/s. In the UK, the relevant British Standard is BS EN 1063:2000, which compares nine different types of glass (BR1 for handguns and rifles, BR2–4 for handguns, BR5–7 for rifles; and SG1–2 for shotguns). Elsewhere in Europe, that's equivalent to CEN 1063.
Chart: You need thicker glass to stop bullets with higher velocities and energies. This chart compares the effectiveness of bulletproof glass rated BR1–7 on the standard EN/CEN 1063. BR1 would typically be around 13–15mm (0.5–0.6in) thick; BR7 would be more like 75–85mm (3–3.5in)—roughly six times thicker.
Who invented bulletproof glass?
Modern bulletproof glass is simply a variation on laminated safety glass, and that was
invented by a French chemist named Édouard Bénédictus (1878–1930),
who took out a patent on the idea in 1909. His original version used celluloid (an early plastic)
sandwiched between two sheets of glass. The idea of using polyvinyl plastics in laminated glass
dates from 1936, when it was first proposed by Earl Fix of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company.
Popular Science was flagging up the possible use of bulletproof glass in armored police
buses the following year (in its April 1937 issue).
If you wanted "bulletproof glass" before the 1930s, you had to resort to using very thick ordinary glass:
gangster Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac—one of the first ever bulletproof vehicles—didn't have modern laminated safety glass but inch-thick ordinary glass.
Artwork: Earl Fix's idea was to sandwich polyvinyl acetal resin (PVA) between two layers of glass.
Artwork from US Patent 2,045,130: Safety Glass, courtesy of US Patent and Trademark Office.
Find out more
On this website
Glass: How ordinary glass works—and why it's not what it appears to be!
Armored glass demonstration: A fantastic and very persuasive demonstration by Labock Technologies (6 minutes). It's absolutely amazing to watch a sledgehammer bouncing straight back off glass for two-solid minutes!
Bulletproof glass demonstration: Watch how bulletproof glass behaves in actual firearm tests by BP-Glass. As you watch this video, notice how the tester handles the glass planes: you can clearly see their thick, laminated construction as he reaches down and tilts them.
US Patent 2,045,130: Safety Glass: by Earl Fix
(Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company), June 23, 1936. The first patent for laminated safety glass using a polyvinyl acetal resin sandwiched between two sheets of glass.
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Many entrées have 1,000 to 1,500 calories (not counting the 200 calories in every cup of brown or white rice). Share or ask for a doggie bag. hen it comes to eating out, Americans love Chinese.
- 1 Does Chinese food have alot of calories?
- 2 How many calories are in the average Chinese takeaway?
- 3 Is Chinese food good for weight loss?
- 4 What’s the lowest calorie Chinese food?
- 5 Does Chinese cause weight gain?
- 6 What is the lowest calorie takeaway?
- 7 Is chow mein bad?
- 8 How many calories should I be eating?
- 9 What is the Chinese diet?
- 10 Is rice good for weight loss?
- 11 What Chinese food can I eat on a diet?
- 12 Is fried rice healthy?
Does Chinese food have alot of calories?
Typical side dishes like fried rice, lo mein noodles, crab rangoon, and egg rolls are high in calories — and fat. Healthier choices include steamed brown rice, sautéed or steamed vegetables, spring rolls, or soups like egg drop soup or hot and sour soup.
How many calories are in the average Chinese takeaway?
According to the independent cross-border study, an average takeaway of a vegetable spring roll starter, sweet and sour chicken and egg fried rice has 2,184 calories — 109% of an adult’s total daily calorie count.
Is Chinese food good for weight loss?
The Asian diet will probably help you lose weight. Research suggests people in Asian countries who follow this dietary pattern weigh less than their Western counterparts. That’s likely because it’s high in healthy foods that keep hunger at bay: whole grains, vegetables and bean products, for example.
What’s the lowest calorie Chinese food?
10 Chinese Dinners Under 400 Calories
- Chinese Chicken Salad III | 393 Calories.
- Chinese Pepper Steak | 312 Calories.
- Chinese Take-Out Shrimp with Garlic | 227 Calories.
- Chinese Pork Tenderloin | 222 Calories.
- Authentic Chinese Steamed Fish | 379 Calories.
- Black Pepper Beef and Cabbage Stir Fry | 280 Calories.
Does Chinese cause weight gain?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG), most often associated with Chinese food and after-dinner headaches, may also be enhancing waistlines, a new study finds. Researchers found that people who eat more MSG are more likely to be overweight or obese.
What is the lowest calorie takeaway?
Healthiest takeaway options
- Fish and chips. Battered cod: 444 calories | 28g fat.
- Pizza. Domino’s Mighty Meaty (medium classic crust): 197 calories | 8.7g fat per slice.
- Chinese. Small container of egg fried rice: 679 calories | 17.9g fat.
- Indian. Lamb rogan josh: 525 calories | 30.5g fat.
- Burger and chips.
Is chow mein bad?
Like many other ethnic cuisines, Chinese food can be a healthy option if you know what to look for on the menu. Chow mein noodles prepared in light oil with lots of vegetables and lean protein is a great option that’s low in calories and high in nutrients.
How many calories should I be eating?
An ideal daily intake of calories varies depending on age, metabolism and levels of physical activity, among other things. Generally, the recommended daily calorie intake is 2,000 calories a day for women and 2,500 for men.
What is the Chinese diet?
The traditional Chinese diet consists of low or moderate amounts of meat or fish and plenty of vegetables accompanied by starches like rice or noodles. Tea is often served with dinner instead of soft drinks. Desserts are generally not part of the meal but fresh fruits can be served to help with digestion.
Is rice good for weight loss?
In short, white rice appears to be neither detrimental nor favorable for weight loss. However, eating diets high in whole grains like brown rice have more consistently been shown to aid weight loss and help maintain a healthy body weight ( 24, 25, 26 ).
What Chinese food can I eat on a diet?
5 Healthy Chinese Food Options That Aren’t Boring Steamed
- Moo Goo Gai Pan.
- Shrimp or Beef and Broccoli.
- Buddha’s Delight.
- Moo Shu Anything.
- Anything on a Stick.
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PEARLAND, Texas — Summer Linn is only 8 years old but the Pearland student is already making a big impact in the world.
She's stepping up for those who often feel like no one cares about them.
Instead of spending her Thanksgiving break at home, Summer Linn has set up shop at a Pearland shopping center to sell her cupcakes.
It's how she's using her profits that makes Summer Linn special. She's turning her cupcakes into Christmas gifts for foster kids.
“I wanted to help so I thought about making cupcakes,” Summer Linn said. “I buy gifts with them for the foster kids."
The third-grader made more than 2,000 and sells boxes for $5.
Summer Linn said she knows it's hard for Santa to find the foster children.
“He’s very busy,” she said. “They get moved a lot. They’re special no matter what anyone says or does. Seriously. They deserve a good Christmas. They need a good home.”
That's why she decided to take it upon herself to help.
She has already adopted 13 kids for Christmas. Click here to find out more ways to help.
“They deserve something that makes them feel like they’re wanted and loved, which they are,” she said.
It's a heartbreaking reality that many families don't understand.
But Summer Linn's mom, Max Ryder, does.
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Famed Notre Dame football coach and repeat AB Show keynote presenter Lou Holtz was honored Thursday by president Donald Trump with the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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A release published to the White House’s website called Holtz “one of the greatest football coaches of all time for his unmatched accomplishments on the gridiron,” but also noted his work as a “philanthropist, author, and true American patriot.”
After growing up in a small town in West Virginia, Holtz attended Kent State University, becoming the first member of his family to enroll in college. At Kent State, Holtz played football, studied history, and joined the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. For the next seven years, he honorably served as an Officer in the United States Army Reserves.
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The current fashion system puts profits above people and the planet. But what if we could flip this on its head and get fashion to actually put human and ecological health first?
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This season of the podcast is focused on slowing down fashion and envisioning the possibilities of a post-growth future.
What is post-growth exactly? Well, according to the Post Growth Institute, post-growth “is a worldview that sees society operating better without the demand of constant economic growth.” And by better, they mean that we can achieve “widespread economic justice, social wellbeing, and ecological regeneration.”
Similar to the degrowth movement, post-growth understands that we cannot have infinite economic growth on a planet with finite resources.
A post-growth future for fashion would look like getting away from this obsession of more clothes at cheaper prices and instead focus on fewer, better items worn more often. It would be rewearing, mending, sharing, choosing pre-loved, celebrating artisans and thoughtful production instead of mass-produced fashion that enriches just a few billionaires at the top of the fashion food chain. Basically it would be the slow fashion movement.
And today’s conversation on wellbeing economies in fashion is very related to this concept of post-growth and slow fashion, making it a natural fit for this season.
Let’s talk about today’s show and guests!
A couple of months ago, I came across a report titled Wellbeing Wardrobe. This report, commissioned by the European Environmental Bureau identified the ways that fashion could build a post-growth future and actually work in the interest of the common good.
I was so fascinated and inspired by this report. It is incredibly in-depth and far-reaching, covering a myriad of solutions to improve the environmental and social impact of fashion. As soon as I read it, I knew I had to get the team of researchers on this podcast to share their findings with all of you directly. And now, here we are!
You’ll hear from the following researchers from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney
- Dr. Samantha Sharpe, who is an Associate Professor and Research Director
- Dr Monique Retamal, who is the Program Lead for Resource Stewardship
- and Dr. Taylor Brydges, who is a Research Principal
Samantha is going to start us off here first, sharing what exactly a wellbeing economy is and how it differs from our current economic systems.
Well, a wellbeing economy really just has a different focus to our current economic systems. So if you think of our current system, the goal is continuous economic growth and material accumulation. It’s reflected in how we think about economic success — we’re all focused on measuring GDP growth.
And we know that this model is not environmentally sustainable. This focus on continuous growth has got us to a really unsustainable position. We’re using 1.75 planets. This is expected to be two planets by 2030. And this current economic system has really triggered the climate crisis that we face, and the immense biodiversity loss.
So a wellbeing economy starts from a different place. It looks at people and planet and designs an economic system around those and around what’s good for them. So it puts wellbeing of people and wellbeing of the planet first.
Wellbeing is pretty broadly defined as meaning the satisfaction of human needs. And this is basic human needs, obviously, for food, water, security, safety, but as well as mental and emotional needs for identity, relationships, meaningful work.
And there are really, I guess, a broad range of perspectives that are contributing to what wellbeing is, you may have heard post-growth thinking or degrowth, or donut economics, you know, they all share some of the same elements. And it’s really a focus on reducing the environmental impact of human activities, supporting fairness, or supporting redistribution of resources, including income resources. So they talk about things like universal basic income.
And it’s also a focus on transitioning us away from material consumption and consumption-based societies to more community-orientated or participatory societies. And so that might include thinking about shorter weeks, you know we don’t need to work as much, because we don’t need to have as much money to consume things. And new ways of recognizing unpaid labor that a lot of actual work and economic activity is unpaid and unaccounted for in our current system.
Yeah. And there’s so much there to dive into. But I’m very curious to hear about what a wellbeing economy for fashion would look like? And I know, that is a very big question. But what are some of the overarching ideas or main concepts behind a wellbeing fashion economy?
Yeah, that’s essentially what we tried to do in that in, that wellbeing wardrobe report was talk to a broad range of stakeholders in the fashion sector to think about how we would apply these concepts. And we really came up with four principles.
You know, the first and I think it’s like, really fundamental is limits, we need to have some limits, this idea of endless growth is not possible. And this is true in the fashion sector.
So first and foremost, we need to reduce the amount of clothing that we make and consume. And for, for the clothes that we continue to make, they need to be of higher quality. They need to be cared for and use so much longer, have multiple life cycles, either with us or through secondhand or other forms of exchange. And I think we really need to understand what drives overconsumption and overproduction and how we might address that.
So we had the four key principles: so limits, first and foremost. But also thinking about fairness. And that’s, I guess, a little bit of what I said previously, is like, well, how do we, how do we make the sector fair? Because it’s really not fair at the moment.
We’ve got a lot of people in a number of countries that really bear a lot of the environmental and social costs, about clothing consumption. And so we need to, you know, start redistributing the burdens or hopefully minimizing the burdens and better distributing the benefits and the costs.
So, what kind of systems and, you know, there’s some initial steps that have been taken if we think about some of the due diligence, transparency, work policy, work that’s coming in the EU that is trying to stamp out some of those poor purchasing practices. But there’s a long way to go, in terms of talking about fairness.
Obviously, just governance, because if you’re going to think about limits, and you’re going to think about redistributing, you need to have really participatory processes that include everyone in that decision-making. So how you design those processes and how you ensure inclusivity, openness, open dialogue, and allow for a diversity that can, you know, create change.
I think this governance, particularly at a global level, is not something that’s going to be easily achieved. Because we need to bring in so many stakeholders, and we need to essentially create new global institutions. And if you look at, you know, many of our current global institutions, they’re not working so well. So this is, it’s a big task. But again, we’ve got good, I guess, starting places in the fashion sector as to start from with a number of these kind of big movements.
And the fourth one is thinking about new systems. So this is a new system for the way we make and exchange clothes. So, this can be new business models, we’re seeing lots of B corps and social enterprises, really at the forefront of sustainable fashion. So it’s having greater number, greater diversity of those types of businesses, less emphasis on profit-driven activities, and support for making that switch to less profit-driven.
And there’s also a whole lot of nonmarket activities like fashion design or clothing swaps, that don’t even have to take place with money involved kind of thing. So there’s a lot of nonmarket activities that we need to find and support as part of these, these new systems of exchange.
Yeah, thank you so much for laying that foundation and giving all that context to wellbeing economies and wellbeing economies in fashion.
Monique, why do you think that we need a wellbeing economy for fashion? And why are the current sustainability efforts not enough in fashion right now?
I think we need a wellbeing economy for fashion, because the social and environmental costs of the industry are currently too high. And those impacts are increasing rapidly.
We currently have an industry that is focused on ever faster and higher volume production. And that’s having a significant impact on workers and the environment. So we really need to make change.
And so current approaches to fashion sustainability, include a range of things such as responsible sourcing of materials, improving transparency in supply chains, also providing better information, labeling certification of sort of responsibility that’s been taken in supply chains.
There’s also efforts to drive textile recycling. However, that remains relatively small scale.
And many businesses are looking at substituting synthetic fibers for natural fibers or recycled synthetics. So there are a range of different activities going on. There’s even fast fashion brands that are offering small product lines that use more sustainable materials. But however, this accounts for a small percentage of their offerings, and they’re otherwise continuing with business as usual.
So all of these things are helpful, and they contribute in an incremental way. But they aren’t enough to deal with their greenhouse gases, pollution, resource consumption challenges, and they don’t really address the critical issues of volume and the speed of clothing production.
So we really need clothes to last longer. We need to use them for longer, we need to buy less. And these are things we need to come to terms with and to address in a practical way.
Mhm yeah, absolutely. And moving to a wellbeing economy for fashion, what Sam described in the beginning from where we are today, which you just explained these incremental efforts that aren’t really substantially changing the status quo. It feels like a really big leap. But as you explained in the Wellbeing Wardrobe report, moving beyond growth economies, it should be seen as a transitional process. It’s, you know, not an overnight switch.
And so, I wanted to talk with you about some of these transitioning business models or structures. And you know, what that would look like in fashion. So, could you share some elements of business models or organizational models that are paving the way for post-growth fashion?
Yeah, sure. Yes. So agree, does feel like a huge leap from our current reality. There are some great examples of the kinds of business and organizational models that can contribute to a wellbeing economy, though. So we are seeing examples in niches, I guess.
So one thing that Sam also mentioned was that not-for-profit businesses are really important, because, you know, removing the profit motive helps to reduce the pressure to overproduce.
There’s also businesses where profit is used for a social benefit. And that can be really helpful for redistributing the benefits and helping to enable the wellbeing economy.
So there are examples of alternative business models in the fashion sector. That can include things like social enterprises, B corps, which Sam mentioned, as well. There’s also cooperatives, so sort of worker-producer cooperatives. And there’s also charities selling secondhand clothing. There are also collaborative consumption models that facilitate sharing and sort of more intensive use of clothing. And that can be peer to peer, for example.
So in terms also, of fashion sustainability, I’d also point towards businesses focused on repairing clothing or selling second-hand. There are also businesses that include service arrangements, for example, around sharing or renting or other exchange practices that encourage long-lasting design and ongoing care for clothing. So there are examples out there of how this concept can be applied to the fashion sector.
Mhm yeah, and it’s really great to have those tangible examples. And we are even seeing, as you sort of tied it together, like what Sam just described as like a wellbeing economy for fashion, we’re seeing like little snippets of it in the slow fashion space, the conscious fashion space.
And you know, that’s really the space I operate in. So sometimes I have this perception that these things are commonplace and happening everywhere, but they are still relatively niche. And so we have to think about how to, I don’t want to say scale them, because a slow fashion economy should be very regional and localized. So it’s hard to say scale, but to expand these concepts and these ideas and make them more accepted.
Yeah, they can also be replicated doesn’t always need to be scaled up. Yeah.
That’s a fantastic word. I really like that. Yeah, like replicating and then maybe modify to that local context. And inspired by people can take these models and be inspired by them.
Yeah, and thinking about this is getting me so like, excited and inspired. And it’s very cool to think about how some of us are already sort of involved in that future already, especially with the rising growth of secondhand and like peer-to-peer sharing models.
And I definitely think listeners of this podcast are involved in some shape or form. So my next question is for you, Taylor. What are some of the activities or movements happening in fashion right now that you see as providing pathways for a wellbeing fashion economy?
I think the good news is that there are a lot of existing activities and movements underway, that are providing pathways for a wellbeing fashion economy. And a lot of these have been talked about on the podcast before, like thinking about those alternatives to ownership, and engaging in collaborative business models like sharing and swapping, or investing in slow fashion.
I think though, when we do decide to go shopping, it really is important to look at the labels. And think about buying, for example, natural fibers rather than synthetics, these are your nylons, and polyesters, and spandex, which really are plastics.
And however we can’t consume natural fibers at the pace at which we’re consuming currently, which is why we also need to be focused on really reducing our consumption. And I think this brings us to what is likely the most important practice that listeners may already be involved in, which is buying less.
So reducing our consumption is key to reducing the environmental and social sustainability impacts of the industry. And then when we are buying less, we can focus more on caring and wearing the garments that we already have.
And here that includes getting creative about shopping our own closets, as well as some of the activities Monique was just mentioning around mending and repairing, that helped to challenge the notion that our garments are disposable, instead, keeping our clothes in use for as long as possible.
Yeah. My follow-up question for you on that is what are some of the gaps in the current efforts? You know, how can we sort of mainstream replicate relatively niche practices that are happening right now in slow fashion? Like, how can we get those the main sphere of the fashion industry?
Yeah, you’re absolutely right. A lot of the practices we are talking about here, are still quite niche. And one of the gaps that we found in our work was this lack of buy-in from those mainstream brands like heavier High Street or mid market labels, to incorporate things like slow fashion, or circular design principles, or engage in practices such as offering garment take back and repair.
So really, only a fraction of overall garment production in the industry today, could be described as a high quality, ethically sourced, responsibly manufactured, or transparent about things also, such as the material content, labor conditions, and the environmental impact of those garments.
And this relates to another key gap, which is around a lack of reliable high-quality data, which accurately portrays the environmental and social impacts of the industry, which can then be used in more concrete ways to help shape those business and production practices.
So there really is this need for improved communication and transparency around these wellbeing or sustainability initiatives, particularly then, as consumers, we have the tools that we need to be able to interpret the actions of brands and make more informed decisions.
So we’ve been doing some work also, for example, around fashion rental, and when it comes to the impact of these types of consumption alternatives, better data is still needed to actually help us determine whether these alternatives actually are more or less sustainable than your business as usual, or for example, clothing, ownership.
And more broadly, this lack of data and transparency means that industry actors can still kind of get away with making those nebulous claims around the supposed sustainability of their practices.
Obviously greenwashing is something you’ve talked a lot about before. But it creates confusion around what brands are doing, and also creates or contributes to confusion around concepts such as ethical fashion, which continues to be a barrier then for sustained consumer engagement with a lot of these alternatives.
And just finally, I’ll say policy plays a really big role in this as well. But I know it’s something that’s a, we’ll get into some more. And that’s when he can Sam have a lot of thoughts on as well.
Yeah, that was a perfect segue into my next question, which is for Monique, that such transformative changes for fashion in the economy, require involvement from many stakeholders, policymakers, businesses.
And we touched on business model shifts, and also some of the individual activities like buying less, you know, prioritizing, secondhand, mending, looking for quality, you know, all that kind of good stuff.
But we have not talked about this third pillar yet, which is policy. So what are some of the policy opportunities that you found in your research that could drive this transition to a wellbeing economy for fashion?
Yeah, so as you’ve described, this kind of long list of actions that are required, we kind of need to take action from a whole load of angles and policy is a really important one for enabling a wellbeing economy, also to help limit overproduction and to encourage more sustainable practices or consumption practices, and also to ensure a just and fair transition for workers and for those in the supply chain.
And, and also to support these new systems of exchange, which we’ve talked about. So we have a long list of policy recommendations in our reports, and that I can try and share some key ideas.
So with regards to setting limits, to fit within planetary boundaries, some of the, you know, sort of potential policies could include eco-design standards to drive better quality and durability of clothing that is made.
We could have extended producer responsibility or also known as product stewardship arrangements. And that is where producers take responsibility for the end of life of garments and this responsibility could be extended to consider limits on overall volumes produced. There could also be levies for virgin fiber use.
Also, there’s a potential to ban the export of textile waste from countries and banning the destruction of unsold stock. There could also be support for consumers and businesses that are involved in reuse and repair economies, through tax incentives or other kinds of supports.
So beyond these kinds of initial policy initiatives, we also need to start a discussion on setting limits and targets to bring production and consumption to within sustainable levels. And so for this, we could learn from other sectors, so things around, for example, carbon budgeting, or fishing quotas, systems, or that kind of thing, that take into account planetary boundaries. And these kinds of targets are limits, they could be voluntary initially, and then mandatory as they are established. So that’s kind of just one aspect, like thinking about the kind of the environmental limits.
But then in terms of encouraging global and intergenerational equity, we could have policies around enforcing the value chain accountability, through due diligence regulations. Also, through public disclosure mechanisms to improve transparency. It’s also important to regulate purchasing practices to improve labor rights, as well as unfair trading practices. And this can improve fairness in supply chains.
And so this whole wellbeing economy kind of shift, you know, requires deep change and will therefore require fairly significant stakeholder dialogue. So you need a lot of participation and deliberation amongst stakeholders across the supply chain. So that could include, to enable that kind of dialogue, there could be things like stakeholder assemblies, to help to drive an agenda for the transition and also to coordinate national and international institutions.
And this kind of deliberative engagement in supply chains can also help to enable some trends. formative education and learning systems, which is also really important. Like, obviously, it’s critical for the industry to change. But it’s also really important more broadly in changing the cultures around fashion. So for example, supporting decreased consumption or promoting quality of work.
So yeah, so I know that’s a long answer, but it was just kind of one more thing is, which is around supporting new systems of exchange. So supporting these new kinds of business models can include policies that support not for profits, could be things like tax incentives, access to seed funding, you know, sort of legal regulatory support, that kind of thing.
And there’s also other kinds of support that can be provided for non-market, sustainable fashion practices, you know, even physical space and accessibility for clothing swaps and repair cafes and that kind of thing.
So that’s, I know that’s a lot. But there’s plenty more ideas out there. And all of these policy ideas need to be considered, and sort of developed in relation to each other and considered as a sort of a coordinated approach and the way they interact.
Yeah for sure. And there was so much there that we can dive into further and I can could ask a million follow up questions if we have more time but I’d definitely will be linking the Wellbeing Wardrobe Report in the show notes so that listeners can read through all of those policies suggestions, get more details on the ones you mentioned and read even more because there were a lot in there that were all super fascinating to think about.
And I think that it’s so important to be getting at some of these root causes, like you mentioned limits on production, right now most brands don’t even publish how much they produce.
Getting back to the point about the lack of data that Taylor mentioned, there’s just such a lack of information and data on fashion but it’s really interesting to think about all these different angles that we can start to get to that. And I really don’t see, for instance, how, how we are going to start producing less without policy.
And then another point that you mentioned was purchasing practices. And this is something we covered a lot in episode 45 with Arjen Laan of the manufacturing company, Pactics, but it’s just such a huge topic.
So I was wondering if you could elaborate on purchasing practices from a policy standpoint, so like what is wrong with purchasing practices between brands and suppliers today? And what sorts of laws and policy actions could be put into place to make purchasing practices more fair, and equitable, and sustainable?
I might ask Sam, to answer this one, because she’s a bit of an expert on supply chains, and particularly in production.
Sure, I can jump in there. Purchasing practices, I mean, this is essentially the way that a brands and buyers purchase order clothing to be produced. And I think the pandemic really highlighted the unsustainability of many of these practices that manufacturers get very little knowledge of what the orders that are coming.
They’re not paid until several months after they have produced and sent off the order. They get very little control or notification in how the size of orders, the variety of orders. And this has really big impacts on how they, you know, how they manage their workforce.
Because if you start the week thinking, Okay, I have to produce 10,000 shirts, and actually the order comes through over the weekend that no, it’s going to be 5000 now and actually then tomorrow, it’s going to be 15,000. You can’t, you know, have your workforce in place that can adequately meet those.
So we get lots of examples of people working really long hours of overtime. And sometimes that’s forced, you know the worker doesn’t have an opportunity to say, No, I don’t want to work any more overtime. So you can have examples of forced labor.
If it really puts manufacturers, you know, to the wire in terms of their viability, maybe they will think about switching off the effluent treatment plant, because that’s an additional cost. And so then we’ve got additional water pollution.
When people were working long hours, lots of overtime, they tend to make mistakes, because we’re not meant to work those long hours. And so you can have increasing occupational health and safety risks.
And then if you’re not paid until several months afterwards, and you know, as the pandemic highlighted, you know, many of those manufacturers didn’t get paid at all, for orders that they had produced. You know, it’s just, it’s a really unsustainable situation.
Through the pandemic, the price that manufacturers get in many of the big production centers in Asia, actually, the price per garment actually reduced, it was kind of called pandemic pricing. So, you know, at a time when, you know, we’ve had a greater focus on supply chains, that’s actually the risk of the supply chain is always transferred down the supply chain to those manufacturers, and then largely to workers. And that’s where we see really limited viability of many manufacturers, and that causes a whole range of social and environmental sustainability issues.
Yeah, I think that is just such an important issue that we need to be talking about more in this space is how the purchasing practices set by these brands, how they deal with their suppliers, is really driving a lot of the problems we are seeing with the environmental and social cost of fashion.
And I think a big reason why we’re not hearing about it more is because, if this big fashion brands are, sort of, narrating the sustainability conversation, if they’re driving the sustainable fashion narratives then, of course, they’re not going to talk about that because that kind of points the finger back at them and it has caused some to have to change.
But anyway, going back to what we are talking about before we’re transitioning to a post-growth economy, I wanted to talk a little about the concept of a voluntary transition. So a lot of the definitions of degrowth have to do with creating participatory economies, equitable societies, you know, not just focusing on the ecological sustainability but also making sure it’s very community-centric and that it’s not a top-down transition.
So Sam how do you think that we can balance making these large-scale policy shifts that Monique was talking about while also assuring that this transition isn’t like top-down and it is considering the needs and the desires of various communities?
First, I’ll just like to, I guess, unpack voluntary a little bit. And I know this is a big, slightly contested debate within the kind of degrowth space is what do we mean by voluntary? Do we mean people have the option to opt-out of like, oh, no, I’m not, I’m still continuing my life as it is now, I’m not kind of reducing consumption.
I think what voluntary means is that everyone is empowered to be part of the change, not that people can opt-in or opt-out. So I think voluntary and inclusivity is really the key.
That’s why we need these participatory approaches. This kind of deliberative processes that ensure everyone is involved in the decision making in the sector around limits and purchasing practices and volumes. So everyone has a say, and therefore can put their case forward.
Unfortunately, when you look at much of what happens in the industry, at the moment, it is very top-down. It is even in the environmental and social initiatives that are too kind of other aimed at improving things along the supply chain are always very top-down. They’re kind of like brands saying well, you need to do this, meet these criteria. You need to be certified in these ways. It’s not really a collaborative approach coming to a problem.
And so one of the things that post-growth will really require of us is this deep collaboration, this deep supply chain collaboration. We’ll need to have all the partners involved across the supply chain. Because it’s so interconnected. You can’t expect change kind of in the way we buy clothes and use clothes if we haven’t changed the whole supply chain.
So having that collaboration and building the collaborative structures, because in many ways, the fashion sector is not collaborative, it’s more competitive. And so yeah, there’ll be lots of changes in mindsets required to, to foster this deep collaboration.
There are some existing collaborative structures or multi-stakeholder platforms, as we like to call them within the sector at the moment. And, you know, they’re a good starting point. And a lot of the voluntary initiatives have come from those platforms.
But again, I think we need to start stepping away from kind of like voluntary initiatives, or voluntary compliance with social and environmental standards, because I mean, if you look particularly at labor standards, we really have seen some progress around occupational health and safety, but really limited progress on wages and working conditions for much of the sector, despite kind of 20, 30 years of efforts.
So and that’s looking at the global picture, obviously, there’s going to be pockets of good practice and where things have changed significantly, but the global picture, not a lot, unfortunately, changed.
So if we’re going to use those multi-stakeholder platforms, we need to really think about what makes good multi-stakeholder platforms, what else, what needs to be in place for all those actors to come together?
Do they need some capacity building, to allow them to participate in making those decisions or contributing? And I think that would be definitely the case. If you think of workers or union in the Global South. You know what do we need to build their capacity to so they can take their place at the table and start thinking and discussing these issues.
And we need a real mindset of change, like we really need the industry to recognize the problem and want to change and want to work together with other aspects, or the partners in the supply chain to get to get that change?
Yes, I really appreciate that sort of questioning and deep dive into the word voluntary. And I didn’t even think of that before that I was thinking more volunteer in the sense of like, citizens, like it’s a democratic process, right? It’s not like, forced upon in that sense, in that we’re, we’re voting we’re participating.
And I didn’t even think about that voluntary could also be taken in the context of like, these brands, sustainability efforts that yeah, as we’ve seen, these voluntary efforts from these big fashion brands are just really not cutting it at all. So I really appreciated that.
And then also, you were talking about bringing the workers and the communities from the global south to the table when we’re talking about post-growth fashion, which I think leads into a big question that I had for you, which is, you know, how can we ensure that a post-growth fashion future doesn’t leave out those most economically vulnerable and dependent on the fashion industry behind? What would a just transition that considers the workers and their futures look like?
Yeah, just, just transition is a big, big question. And I think in the fashion sector will be as big a change as it is, as we’re kind of talking about in the energy sector as we transition away from fossil fuels.
With any transition, it’s not necessarily a smooth transition. So I think we need to, to realize that and and plan for the transition and plan to make it just and I guess how we do that is identify where workers or enterprises in the supply chain will be negatively impacted by the changes.
And in the short term, even though well we economists has, has the overall perspective of, you know, putting people in planet first, there’s, you know, in any kind of economic system change, there’s going to be disruption. And that will also include negative impacts on certain populations and places.
So I think it’s knowing that they’re going to happen, planning for the transition, and identifying where we expect those negative impacts to happen, and making plans for those people in places to safely transition.
So in the post-growth literature, they talk about different redistributive mechanisms. And so this might include support, you know, payments, income, and investments in communities, such as in Bangladesh, so they’ve been really radically affected by the impacts of water pollution to so that they can regenerate the environment, and so they can regenerate industries and employment in other sectors.
If we did implement the Wellbeing Wardrobe Principles, then we would already be looking at, you know, a greater sharing of resources and income from the sector across the supply chain. So we might have a situation where we have less people working in the fashion sector, particularly in the production links, but those people that are better paid and have more secure and better employment. And that we have, we’ve planned for other workers in their communities to be able to be retrained or supported to find other forms of employment as well.
So yeah it’s a big, again, it will require those kind of big global institutions of economic governance to help do this. Because unless we can have that global kind of leverage, it’s hard for individual countries to take actions that will definitively ensure a just transition.
I know much of the steps that the European Union taking a kind of work walking in that direction. So you know, there’s, it’s not to say that we have to wait for the formation of these global institutions. Because it’s highly unlikely that we’ll all just get together and decide to form them, they’ll actually have to slowly evolve.
So I think the work that policymakers are doing about due diligence and changing those purchasing practices will slowly start to make that change. It’s just whether I guess the climate can wait as long.
Yeah, the last question is definitely one that weighs heavy on my mind about the climate and how we, how we make these changes in a fair way that also takes into account the urgency of our climate crisis.
But something that I wanted to bring in, to this conversation about just transition that Ayesha Barenblat of the advocacy organization, Remake, talks about is that, if we integrate living wages, paying higher wages to workers in our conversations on sustainability, the natural by-product of that will be less production.
Because right now how brands are able to produce so much and waste so much, how consumers are able to buy so much which is that the prices are artificially low. They do not take into account the true cost, the real cost of producing a garment in a, you know, sustainable and ethical way and there’s a lot to that, but wages is just such a huge part of that and it is just such an obvious way that we can tackle fashion’s social and environmental impacts in one, sort of, full swope.
And then another element I’ve been thinking about is how most garment makers work like 60-hour, 80-hour weeks, even up to 96-hour weeks according to Clean Clothes Campaign. And if, you know, if we reduce production, if we cut production in half, it not might even have to mean that garment makers lose their jobs at all, right?
If we cut from an 80-hour work week to a much more reasonable 40-hour work week, what most people in the Global North are accustomed to, then we’re sort of fixing this problem of over-working, excessive overtime, and reducing production without losing jobs.
I mean, again if we all require raising prices but I do think that there are more connections between safe fair conditions and living wages and sustainability and overproduction. I think there’s a lot more interconnections with that than what gets talked about in the mainstream fashionsphere.
But getting back to the Wellbeing Wardrobe Report, wellbeing economies, we’ve talked about such a range of issues and solutions and there was a lot there. So Taylor, as we start to round out this interview, could you share what you hope listeners take away from this conversation, like what are some of the main points that you want to sort of emphasize?
It’s a big one, I think that there’s really, there’s no denying the significant environmental and social challenges the fashion industry is facing. And really, then to build this wellbeing economy, there is a need for collaborative solutions between all industry stakeholders.
And like as consumers, we will play an important role in this transition. And for example, slow fashion is a really great place to start. And then also talking about and sharing our practices with others to help build that momentum and understanding. But at the same time, we can’t do it alone.
So really, for there to be this meaningful industry transition. This needs to be a multi-stakeholder process that Sam was talking about before. And still, while these are really big problems, that is overwhelming, it is important to also keep in mind there are pathways forward and these different strengths that we can build upon.
And with that momentum building, now really is the time for the industry to come together and start working towards this wellbeing economy for fashion.
Yeah, absolutely. And what can we do as citizens slow fashion lovers, you know, what can we do to be part of this change and the shift towards a wellbeing economy for fashion?
I think there’s lots we can do. But the biggest one would be to limit our resource use and really be consuming less. So some industry estimates put this about reducing the number of new clothes, we buy by about 75%.
So at an individual level, this means buying fewer clothes, as well as considerations about where and how we do get the garments that we feel like we need. So that could also include things like secondhand, and rental as well as some of the nonmonetary forms of exchange Monique was discussing earlier, such as swapping and borrowing.
And of course, then when we do buy clothes, thinking about slow fashion, prioritizing things like quality and classic styles, as well as focusing on taking better care of those garments that we already own, to help extend their lifespan, whether it’s mending repair, as well as things like better laundry practices. But this will also require us to have those broader societal conversations about sufficiency, or how really how much clothing is enough to live well.
In our communities and daily lives, we’ve lost so much of the kind of cultural and emotional value around our clothes. And here we can turn to our communities and networks to help rebuild a lot of those emotional connections and change how we see the value of our clothes.
Yeah, absolutely. I think that’s a great word like sufficiency and like enoughness instead of this constant, more, more, more, faster, faster.
And there’s just so much more that we could cover like, I could think of a million more questions for you all. But we are coming to the end of our time here. So I will close out with my final question that I’d love for each of you to answer, which is: what would a better future for fashion look like to you?
I guess I could start there. And then I know we’ve heard that before. But a better future for fashion is an industry that creates fewer but better garments that reflect the true costs of production and are valued and cared for. And really just as the garments are cared for. So too are the people that make them.
Yep, I totally agree with what Taylor has said. And I guess to add to that, I’d also like to see different cultures around fashion. So we’re mending clothes is the norm, where we have good quality clothes that can be valued, shared, passed on to others, even through generations. And also to see I’d like to see new forms of exchange flourishing. So things like repairing and sharing and swapping and so on.
Yes, definitely, all of those things. And I guess I would just like to add, you know, I think our wellbeing wardrobe is where we, you know, we look at our wardrobe and we see you know, we have this deep emotional connection to all those items of clothing and we can have an appreciation and gratitude for all the hands through those that have contributed to making those clothes and all the hands through those where those clothes will travel because I want them to have a long life.[OUTRO MUSIC]
And that’s a wrap for this week’s episode.
If you would like to learn more about wellbeing economies and fashion, definitely check out the full Wellbeing Wardrobe Report, which will be linked in the show notes.
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I will meet you here again, same time, same place next Tuesday for another episode on slow fashion.
In the meantime, some other similar episodes that I would recommend if you like this one, are episode 11 with Ayesha Barenblat of Remake, episode 20 on How We Can Make Mending Mainstream with Josephine Phillips, and episode 45 with Arjen Laan about purchasing practices.
So I hope that you enjoy those episodes. And I’ll catch you again here next Tuesday or maybe I’ll be in your inbox on a Saturday if you’re subscribed to the newsletter. Either way, take care and I’ll see you again soon.
About Our Guests:
Dr. Samantha Sharpe
Dr Samantha Sharpe is an Associate Professor and Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at University of Technology Sydney. Samantha is a highly experienced policy analyst and social researcher investigating how sustainability transitions are driving employment and labour market changes within a development context in Asia and the Pacific. She has deep expertise and extensive experience in the textile and garment sector and how social and environmental sustainability can align and accelerate transitions with research projects in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Thailand and Viet Nam.
Dr. Monique Retamal
Dr. Monique Retamal is Program Lead for Resource Stewardship at the Institute for Sustainable Futures in Sydney. She has a background in environmental engineering and social research and fifteen years’ experience undertaking research into sustainable urban systems, including for water, sanitation and solid waste. She specialises in sustainable systems of consumption and production in the Asia-Pacific region. Her research is currently focused on circular supply chains and environmental governance for packaging and textiles.
Dr. Taylor Brydges
Dr Taylor Brydges is a Research Principal at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research investigates sustainability and the transition to a circular economy in the fashion industry, including collaborative consumption, local/global production networks, textile recycling, and the impact of Covid-19 on sustainability initiatives in the fashion industry. Taylor holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and a Master of Arts in Human Geography from the University of Toronto, Canada. In 2017, she completed her PhD in Human Geography at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has worked in Australia, Canada, Sweden and Switzerland. | <urn:uuid:4a2919d8-0179-4ac0-9e3c-8091089e9aac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.consciouslifeandstyle.com/wellbeing-wardrobe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.961638 | 9,889 | 2.171875 | 2 |
On the 4th of April 1949 NATO came into being and for the first time in the history of Europe a multinational body capable of wielding significant effective military power existed. Over the following decades NATO developed rapidly, coalescing into one of the largest military alliances the world has ever seen. Whilst NATO was not exclusively focused on European defence, it became central to defence of western European nations, providing a bulwark against the threat posed by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact Allies.
However, the past two decades have seen the development of a second major multinational military organisation on the continent – the European Union. With continued emphasis on developing a common defence capacity in revisions to the Treaty of Europe and with the establishment of the European Defence Agency in 2004 it is abundantly clear that nurturing the military capabilities of the EU is a key goal for the European Commission. This goal is also shared, and the prosecution of it promoted, amongst certain member states, with the governments of Germany, France, Belgium and Italy all vocal in their support for the development of the defensive capabilities of the EU in recent years. Now, with the establishment of the €5.6 billion European Defence Fund and the wider European Defence Action Plan in 2016, the EU stands poised to make military integration amongst members a reality.
iGeoSIT-1 – For nearly 20 years, NATO’s iGeoSIT tool has allowed commanders and officers in the field to align operations and have access to the information they need
The aims of this fund have been made fairly clear by the European Commission. The fund itself will support investment in research and the joint development of defence equipment and technologies between EU member states. This investment is designed to stop the decrease in defence spending in Europe (12% over the last decade), and encourage member states to carry out collaborative research projects and to jointly develop military capabilities. The Commission also aims to make changes to the European Investment Bank (EIB) in order to give SMEs and start-ups better access to funding for defence projects. As Jean-Claude Juncker put it in his 2016 State of the Union address, these steps should “turbo boost research and innovation” within the European defence industry.
These steps are clearly essential if the European Union is to develop some degree of integrated defence capacity. Through working in the European defence industry for two decades, we have noticed first-hand the industry’s current inability to instigate and integrate such collaborative initiatives. Whilst Europe is (collectively) the world’s second largest military spender, behind the US, the vast majority of procurement is carried out on a national basis. This has led to a high, and very costly, degree of duplication amongst member states which, by the Commission’s own estimates, costs between €25 billion and €100 billion annually.
Yet, whilst the aims have been outlined, it remains largely unclear what kinds of collaborative projects will need to be undertaken to create a common European defence capability. It is possible, however, to gain an insight into what the future may hold by examining the European threat landscape and by looking at which areas of military technology NATO, as the other multinational defence organisation on the continent, has been developing.
Presently the European security environment is at its most unstable since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, with EU member states facing potential threats in Europe and farther afield. In particular, with the rise of Vladimir Putin, Russia is once again exerting its power and appears to be aiming to restore regions within its historical sphere of influence. To this end funding for the Russian military saw a 168% increase from 2000-2014 and has allowed significant investment into new technologies, replacement of older equipment and the development of much talked about cyber warfare capabilities. This has culminated in the successful deployment of cyber-physical hybrid warfare in Crimea and Donetsk. There is now no shortage of concern in Poland, Estonia, Latvia and the other countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltics. Once again troops are being deployed in Europe to provide the nations bordering Russia with some assurance of security, yet the nature of the threat has changed significantly. Rather than worrying about seeing thousands of Soviet tanks pouring through the Fulda Gap, European militaries are instead more preoccupied with hybrid war.
iGeoSIT-app-screen-2 – Officers in the field access iGeoSIT with a standard Web browser and simple hardware. The solution works well with limited bandwidth. iGeoSIT gives officers a better handle on the situation they face in battle. And they are able to make decisions more quickly.
Over the same period, international terrorism has emerged as a major threat to the security of Europe. Fuelled by disruption in the Middle East, organisations such as Daesh have been capable of fighting both conventional wars (particularly in Syria and Iraq) and in provoking attacks within European nations. Daesh, in particular, utilises some of the same principals of hybrid warfare, making frequent use of messaging apps to organise and communicate and using social media to spread propaganda and confusion. They have even demonstrated some cyber capabilities, although not to the same degree as major state actors.
These trends demonstrate that military forces must now be able to operate in battlespaces which will be hybrid, highly complex and involve actors whose identity and intentions may be unclear. Some action has already been taken to adapt to hybrid warfare, with the EU and NATO adopting a Joint Framework to encourage information sharing and to safeguard the systems used to share informing by building resilience against cyber-physical attacks. This focus on information sharing is likely to be central; as the RAND Corporation noted in a piece of recent research, countering hybrid will rely in part on the ability of the European military alliances to quickly share intelligence and coordinate. The research also suggests that this intelligence gathering will benefit from providing those nations at risk with increased access to sophisticated sensors, UAVs and other intelligence gathering capabilities. The reason for this, RAND argues, is the weight hybrid warfare places on detecting hostile actions, attributing them to a state actor and responding quickly with a coordinated multinational response.
This creates an urgent need for the EU Defence Fund to focus on providing C4ISR systems capable ingesting a wide variety of intelligence from diverse sources, facilitating rapid analysis and allowing for this analysis to be shared amongst all relevant decision makers. This is a growing issue which we’ve come across through our own work with the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NATO) on C4ISR systems, where such capabilities would provide significant tactical and strategic advantages. Developing intelligence gathering systems such as sensors or UAVs is, as mentioned above, also crucial, but they cannot be effective if the information they gather cannot be quickly utilised. This creates a number of requirements for defence information systems.
First, as mentioned, they must be able to deal with information from diverse sources and deal with it quickly. Whether the source is a satellite, an unmanned vehicle, geolocated posts on social media or a sensor it must be accessible; if the source is a new one, the system must be able to adapt to it. Systems must also be able to handle streams of dynamic data, such as a video feed from unmanned vehicles. This is something which traditional geospatial C4ISR systems in particular have struggled to do, generally because they rely on transforming data into a particular format before it can be placed on a map and analysed. This naturally takes time, and may even be impossible in the case of dynamic streams of data. High quality satellite imagery may be very useful, but if it takes hours or days to become available to the end user using an information system then it is of no real use. The natural solution to this is to move away from utilising databases, particularly for dynamic data, and instead connecting directly to data sources rather than carrying out time consuming transformations.
Second, if the EU wishes to have a multinational defence capacity that can react to the threats it could face, then information systems must be developed with interoperability in mind. Given that, as has been mentioned, the majority of defence procurement amongst EU member states is run on a purely national basis, EU militaries may possess very different C4ISR capabilities which in turn could make sharing achieving interoperability difficult. Essentially, systems cannot be siloed if they are to be effective, but instead must be built with sharing in mind. The key to achieving this is ensuring information and analysis systems are developed with open standards so that the systems and formats of different nations can effectively cooperate.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly in the long term, systems must be developed with the future in mind. This is something which applies to all defence systems, given the length of procurement cycles, but is particularly critical given the speed at which the current threat landscape develops. Take, for example, the speed at which state actors have acquired significant cyberwarfare capabilities, or the natural unpredictability of non-state actors like Daesh. We cannot always predict what future requirements may be, so technology must be developed with this in mind. This means that complete, off-the-shelf solutions are fundamentally unsuitable. Funding must instead be directed at projects which follow a component based design, which can be quickly altered and adjusted.
SAP – In a demo with SAP, Luciad demonstrates the ability to analyse trends and determine potential threats by visualising 20 years of newswire and diplomatic cable data.
NATO has carried out procurement with these requirements in mind for some time and has funded a number of C4ISR projects, some of which we have been involved with, which reflect this. The most relevant example for the European Union Defence Agency is perhaps NATO’s Joint Common Operational Picture (JCOP) system, developed by the NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA). JCOP, used by ISAF in Afghanistan and by the NATO Response Force (NRF) during multiple exercises was developed to integrate and display information from a variety of separate C2 systems in order to produce a Common Operating Picture (COP). It was developed on a tight schedule by combining a number of existing systems including the Integrated Command and Control (ICC) and iGEOSit (interim Geospatial Intelligence tool), which was made possible due to those systems being component based and capable of using open standards. Rather than being developed as a massive fixed project which cannot adapt to changing circumstances, it was instead made with agility in mind. On top of this, its ability to draw in data from large numbers of different systems at speed means that it is also uniquely suited for multinational operations which involve many different systems.
It may not be enough for the systems themselves to be reactive, however. The architecture that enables it to function must also be reactive and flexible, able to deal with fast changing situations and requirements. This applies to wider military reactions to hybrid warfare. Take, for example, the development of the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force in response to the 2014 annexation of Crimea. Combined with the establishment of the NATO Force Integration Units (NFIUs) it shows that NATO sees rapid deployment as being essential to the future of combined European defence. The EU has already followed the same principals with the development of the EU Battlegroups, so it is natural to assume that it will aim to develop military capabilities with these principals in mind. Similarly we can assume that funds will be invested in equipment which suits the role of a rapid reaction force. What this means in the context of C4ISR systems is that the entire architecture must be quickly deployable in the field without the need for dedicated system specialists. For example, a geospatial C4ISR system which requires a dedicated specialist to set up the data management system and process data needed by users in the field is fundamentally unsuited to the role of a rapid reaction force. If information systems rely on a small number of specialists then they will quickly hit an information roadblock which, in the current threat landscape, can jeopardise operations. Therefore, focusing on allowing users to manage data directly and ensuring that systems can be used without specialist training should be a priority.
It goes without saying that it remains to be seen which projects and of what type will receive funding from the EU and what will be prioritised by member states, EU bodies and the European Defence Industry. However, it cannot be doubted that funding must be carefully directed at projects which will enhance the common defence capacity of Europe, that they must be able to work in today’s threat environment and that they must maintain a strong degree of flexibility. In essence, if the EU wishes to pursue the dream of an integrated military capacity to support the security of its member states, then the defence technology which powers this capacity must be suited to the world in which we live.
Article author: Luciad is a key supplier of mission-critical C2 and C4ISR technology, most notably for NATO systems including ICC, ACCS, SEW, ALT-BMD and iGeoSIT.
T Sandler & J George, ‘Military Expenditure Trends for 1960-2014 and What They Reveal’, Global Policy (7 March 2016)
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Perhaps one of the biggest concerns for parents who are contemplating divorce is the effect that their separation will have on their children. While it’s true that divorce will inevitably serve as a hardship and hurdle to overcome for any child, it is possible for divorce to actually be beneficial for their well-being in the long run. Of course, household dynamics and individual circumstances will need to be considered, but it’s just as important to consider the benefits of divorce for your children as it is to consider the disadvantages. Below, we’ve listed three benefits that divorce can have for children.
Less Exposure to Adult Conflict
As much as children would love for both of their parents to be together and happy, many children who grow up in a high-conflict home eventually voice a preference for their parents to split, as doing so can create a more peaceful atmosphere for all.
If you and your spouse are staying together for the sake of the kids, but find yourself leading unhappy lives as a result, you may actually be hurting your kids more than helping them. By exposing your children to adult conflict, such as arguments, yelling, parental tension and even complacency and indifference, you may be inadvertently teaching your children poor lessons about relationships and marriage. In addition to this, exposure to chronic tension can create stress, low self-confidence and self-blame within children.
Prioritizing your own health and happiness and striving to be a leading example for your children in what a respectful relationship looks like is not selfish. As backward as it may seem, getting a divorce and removing your children from the exposure of recurring hostility can show great strength, and often times may be one of the most profound decisions you could make for their own well-being and perception of healthy relationships.
More Intentional Time with Each Parent
If your children are accustomed to living in a household where Mom and Dad are occupied with their own troubles and chronic conflict, it’s possible that quality time spent with them gets laid to wayside amidst relational hardship. In addition to this, if you’re staying with your spouse for your children but at the expense of your own health and ability to be present with your children, you may not be doing them as big of a favor as it seems.
Having healthy and present parents is one of the best gifts you can give your children, and sometimes that’s best accomplished through separation from your spouse. While divorce is inevitably challenging for the entire family, once the dust settles and each spouse gets accustomed to their own life and routine as single parents, you may find that your time with your children is far more intentional and focused. Since parenting time will be split, you’ll likely present your best self for your children—add in restored sense of self and purpose post-divorce, and you may find that you’re more capable and better suited to provide for your children than ever before.
Learned Resilience and Empathy
It’s natural that parents want to protect their children from hardships and heartbreak. While this gesture is certainly noble in theory, the truth is that no parent can protect their child from every hardship in life, and it’s unfair and unrealistic to put that pressure on oneself. Challenging seasons will arise for every family and every individual. Rather than bend over backwards to try and shield your child from sadness or hardship, and in turn sacrifice your own emotional health (which does have a ripple effect on children), it may be a more realistic goal to purpose to support and guide them through hardship and help them learn how to navigate unfavorable situations. Divorce will be hard, but if both parents agree to keep the children out of the conflict and affirm each other’s relationships with their children, it will make the transition far easier for everyone involved.
It’s common for children who have walked through a parental divorce to have a strong sense of resilience and adaptability—learned skills that can benefit them throughout life. In addition to this, children of divorce are also likely to show an increased sense of empathy for others going through similar situations or difficulties in general. This is true of anyone who walks through a challenging season—it’s not ideal, but more often than not, it can serve as a character-building experience.
Let it be understood: every child will react to divorce differently. That being said, your child’s experience with your divorce has far less to do with the actual breakdown of an institutional marriage, and far more to do with how their parents handle the process. A child needs to feel secure in their relationship with their parents, have confidence in their parent’s character, and be able to count on a routine that protects them from unnecessary turbulence.
While divorce is never the ideal, the truth is that sometimes it does become necessary in order for both spouses to lead healthy and happy lives. If you’re avoiding divorce to shield your children, take a moment to consider the long-term benefits of removing them from chronic conflict, and instead fighting for your own well-being with the intentions of being the best parent possible. | <urn:uuid:41e3972e-71cf-469c-9054-1a3ecb4815c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pacificcascadelegal.com/blog/2019/september/is-it-possible-for-divorce-to-benefit-children-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969946 | 1,048 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Body image came about because of the way people compared themselves to others because people are exposed to countless images in the media and ads about what the “perfect” body should look like, these media images and ads become the basis of people’s comparisons. When people start to believe these images and think that they’re body isn’t substandard, they can suffer from depression, anorexia, bulimia, low self esteem, and eating disorders. The influence the media has on body image can be seen as ironic, considering that people in the United States and even other countries have become out of shape and overweight, female models that society portrays have become thinner and male models have become more muscular. Many psychologist and sociologist have created many theories pertaining to how the media influences body image, these theories such as self-comparison theory, self-schema theory, third-person effects and self-discrepancy theory. These scientist have also came up with interventions to put off the negative impact of unreal media images. These scientist believe that society promotes these false images in order to advertise body-dissatisfaction because it helps promote diets costing billion of dollars and self improvement industry products.
As much as society plays a role in the way we see ourselves, body image is both internal and external. Internal views include how we perceive our bodies visually, how we feel about our physical appearance, how we think and talk to ourselves about bodies and our sense of how other people view our bodies. How we look has never held as much societal importance or reflected so significantly on our self-worth. If you think about it, when were little , around elementary school years, we don’t really care how we look or how our parents dress us. It was never as important until we started middle school. The year we started puberty, boys liking girls and vice versa and that’s the age we usually received phones and that’s where social influence rolls in. That’s when celebrities and society starts having an influence on what is “in” and what isn’t. Internal views are how we view ourselves without the input of society but then when society puts this standard on certain things that’s when external views come in. External views are how society judges and influences us. Society gives us a number of things that shape our perceptions whether it be positive or negative. When it comes to our bodies there are a number of sources that affect us more than others.
These sources may include our own family members, the media, our favorite celebrity, and even our best friends. Positive body image involves understanding that healthy attractive bodies come in all different shapes and sizes and that there is more to us than just our looks. Body image is more than just skin deep. But society plays such a widespread role on this, according to an article “The Influence of Societal Factors On Female Body Image,” A study was designed to identify factors associated components of female body image. It was stated that societal factors were thought to mediate the relationship we have with our bodies. In this study they also included body mass and age as an independent variable. A total of one hundred and one university female students from Australia ages eighteen to fifty five participated in the study and in this study it was found that on average four percent of women underestimated their bodies. These women typically wanted to be smaller than their size. About two fifths of these women expressed negative feelings about individual body parts and their body as a whole. This study showed that the perception of their bodies was not from the independent variables, age and mass but that body satisfaction was best explained from societal factors, self esteem and BMI. Another article I read showed that many disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, depression and anxiety are caused by society’s influence on body image.
These are long term issues whereas body image may not be. Many girls and even males restrict the numbers of calories they eat because they may believe they are overweight even if they are extremely thin. Being underweight is just as unhealthy as being overweight and that’s what no one seems to realize because of the image society puts out there. Being underweight can cause just as many risks as being overweight. People that follow the media’s view on this ideal body image may diet excessively in order to have their body match the images they see which can cause disorders such as bulimia or anorexia. In the United States and other countries, the overall rate of eating disorders has increased. The media plays a huge effect on youth because teens start to diet excessively in order to gain that “perfect” body that media puts out. These diets causing disorders such as depression, anorexia, bulimia, and even bipolar disorder. Some of these disorders even long-term and can last forever, which is the one thing the ideal body cannot do. Body dissatisfaction causes eating disorders and many other harmful effects. Society causes many effects on body image, some that may even last forever. People with these disorders are considered unhealthy and even unattractive.
Many of us want to be healthy and the risk of obesity are known, but we need to understand that being healthy can come in all different shapes and sizes. It is imperative to know that the ideal body image presented by the media is not healthy. The ideal body weight of women is one hundred twenty pounds meaning her body mass index is about seventeen point two and doctors consider anything under eighteen point five to be underweight. This shows how even society’s view on the ideal body image isn’t healthy nor ideal. Society’s ideal body image isn’t ideal and the media causes this dangerous influence on body image. Everyone has their own idea of what the “perfect body image” may be but we are heavily influenced by society and the media. Society’s expectations color our beliefs about the ideal body image and sometimes this can create problems or cause harm. Society and the media tell us what kind of body image we should strive for and those images may not even be healthy for us.
People come in all shapes and sizes and people of all shapes and sizes can be attractive and even healthy. In past years, curvy women were actually considered to be more attractive but now in this generation or year in time that doesn’t seem to be the case. If we look at society’s ideal body image for women, the perfect body image would be a woman who was about five foot ten and weighed only one hundred twenty pounds, whereas the average American women are five foot four and weighs about one hundred seventy pounds. That’s a big difference between the two. As for men society’s ideal body image would be a male who is about six foot one and weighs one hundred ninety pounds but the average male is five foot nine and weigh about one hundred ninety pounds. The perfect body image is a term that keeps changing as the years go by. This shows how there is never a “perfect” body if it is always changing. Due to this we need to get people to judge themselves less critically. But we first need to figure out why people listen to society’s view on body image anyways. Society and the media play such a huge role and the media is everywhere we go so it may be hard to ignore when it is everywhere you go. Being healthy comes in all shapes and sizes, whether you are a size two or a size twenty two being healthy is more important after all these are just numbers on a piece of clothing and a scale. They don’t actually affect who you are and what’s on the inside. | <urn:uuid:5602c1b3-c4cf-4659-8a3c-aaa8acc680ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://graduateway.com/body-image-is-how-people-tend-to-judge-their-own-bodies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96841 | 1,568 | 2.875 | 3 |
When most people think of the word mushroom, the first thing that comes to mind is the common white button mushroom. Most are not aware of the diverse number of varieties of edible mushrooms that are available because grocery stores typically carry only white button, Crimini, and Portabella mushrooms . All of the aforementioned mushrooms are the same species, Agaricus bisporus, except Crimini and Portabella are a brown strain of A. bisporus. To make it more interesting, Crimini and Portabella are actually the same mushroom, just at differing levels of maturity. The mushroom sold as Crimini is the brown variant that has been harvested before the the cap has opened to expose the gills. The converse is true for Portabella with the cap being allowed to mature fully, open, and expose the gill structure. Bet ya didn’t know that, huh!
I say, “common” white button mushroom, but there is nothing common about it. See the links to articles, websites, and reports at the bottom to see what healthful benefits this “common” superfood contains. Not only do white button mushrooms contain health-promoting components, so do many other edible and medicinal mushrooms. Mushrooms in general are well known to possess qualities conducive to good health but some provide very specific benefits. Read on to learn more.
To expose yourself to the array of numerous shroomy options available out there, check out your local food specialty stores, higher end grocers, and farmers’ markets. Yes, you can find differing species at Asian markets as well but I encourage you to purchase mushrooms that are locally grown as much as possible. This is important because cultivation and processing laws in other countries do not match that of those in the US. In addition, local products are associated with greatly decreased transit times and equate to a fresher product.
Some of the cultivated species available that not only will expand your palate but offer you immense health benefits are: oyster mushrooms, chanterelles, hen of the woods (cultivated specimens are much smaller than wild), shiitake, and Lion’s Mane, to name a few. Please click on each of the links for the names mushrooms in order to obtain more information. Yes, some of these are Wikipedia links but they include nutritional info for all but the Lion’s Mane, as well as provide references for the information documented.
This brings me to the entire point of this article. People repeatedly ask me why I love mushrooms so much. In addition to the fact that they are just plain delicious, with a variety of textures and flavors available, I am absolutely in awe of mushrooms and the powers that lie within them. Past, current, and continuing research is demonstrating the tremendous health benefits that mushrooms offer. Not only are they chock full of vitamins and minerals, they also contain substances that fight and prevent cancer, assist in weight loss, help to control blood sugar in diabetics, improve immune response, have cognitive/neuroregenerative effects, lower cholesterol, assist to maintain a healthy blood pressure, decrease inflammation….the list goes on and on.
I am not a fan of rewriting something that has previously been done so perfectly. Therefore I am providing the following links to answer all of your burning questions regarding how mushrooms are truly beneficial from a health/medical standpoint. I will say that I do not believe everything I read and nor should you. Only obtain your information from reputable sources such as peer-reviewed journal articles and well respected educational sites. The links I have provided are either journal articles themselves or are articles/reports that are based upon the aforementioned criteria and site their sources.
Yes, you may notice that Dr. Roupas is listed as an author on both the article and the report. I am not biased nor am I trying to provide you a narrow perspective. Quite the opposite. When searching for all-encompassing sources on the topic at hand I discovered the Science of Mushrooms and Health Website after I had already discovered the article below. After hours of research, I concluded that regardless of the fact that Dr. Roupas is listed on both documents, they truly were the most thorough and comprehensive compilations of info, utilizing reliable scientific sources. Please feel free to do your own research.
Mushrooms – Biologically Distinct and Nutritionally Unique. Feeney, Miller, and Roupas provide a well-written article with a focus on the nutritive benefits of mushrooms. Medical applications are discussed as well.
Mushrooms and Health 2014: Clinical and Nutritional Studies in Humans. This comprehensive report, created by Roupas, Krause, and Taylor, documents studies that have been done and are slated to be done with respect to the effects of mushrooms on human health. I appreciate the fact that this report is unbiased, reporting studies that are both supportive of the positive healthful effects of fungi as well as those that have been inconclusive. It is a long read at 156 pages long but well worth the time if you are truly interested in the unique components and qualities that mushrooms harbor. If after reading this report you are not convinced that you need to add mushrooms to your daily diet to maintain your health and prevent and fight illness/disease, I do not know what will!
Also, thepowerofmushrooms.com is a great website with a lot of the health-related info contained in the above article and report but written in layman’s terms.
Happy reading! : )
To really blow your mind, please view the following video, A TED talk by Paul Stamets regarding the medicinal power of four mushrooms in particular. Paul Stamets is one of the leading mycologists in the world and commands my deepest respect. After you view this video, I feel confident that you will be in awe of fungi as much as I. : ) | <urn:uuid:fdfd4b5a-c579-4b6d-9f32-87e44bb316a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.foxfarmforage.com/foraging/why-make-mushrooms-a-part-of-your-daily-diet-the-amazing-health-benefits-thats-why/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.952911 | 1,205 | 1.945313 | 2 |
When it comes to dietary health, it’s important not only to develop a healthy eating schedule, but also to stay on top of what you’re eating and where it came from. While many go out of their way to improve their physical bodies, the same often can’t be said for their information consumption.
Though it’s been building for decades, distrust of the media (combined with the rise of both internal and external propaganda) has really come to a head in the past two years. The result has been that a fair portion of otherwise-well-meaning Americans have developed a “trust no one” attitude, and in some cases have begun to actively discredit legitimate journalists.
As a former journalism student that’s observed the situation for a while now, I’ve noticed a couple major contributing factors:
- FOX News: Their devastating impact on our culture really can’t be overstated, especially among the older population (their average viewer is about 70). Much ink has been spilled about Roger Ailes’ effect on America, but for many seniors not using the Internet, FOX News is handing out the daily marching orders, making sure to “clarify” that they’re the only ones speaking the truth in a corrupt media landscape. If you really want to depress yourself, check out this indie doc.
- Cord-Cutting/Smartphones: The meteoric rise of cord-cutting and mobile news consumption has conditioned people (many of them young adults) to place all incoming news sources on a level playing field, and therefore all equally untrustworthy. It’s understandable. If you didn’t grow up in a world of legitimate print and television journalism, how are you supposed to know the difference between The Washington Post and Infowars? It’s all just content, and after all, anyone can publish. Why trust the “mainstream media” when a compelling blogger raises some great points as well? Sure that blogger might be intentionally spreading disinformation for personal or governmental purposes, but yolo, right?
So where do we go from here? Is it all Facebook comment sniping and cries of “fake news” while the world burns? I sincerely hope not. To me, as always, education is the answer. Many large social platforms are already rolling out their own “fake news” detection systems (a good, albeit rocky start), but it’s far more important that people of all ages take the time to learn about:
- The history of journalism, journalistic methods and integrity
- How to properly source an article and understand if a publication has a specific political bias
- The importance of reading/watching a variety of sources and viewpoints
- The importance of paying for quality content and reporting
The news business may not be as exciting as Mario Lopez hosting “Candy Crush,” but I have faith that a new generation has been inspired by what’s happened, and we’ll see journalism get a healthy second wind. After all, it’s already looking slightly promising for newspaper subscriptions.
In this spirit of optimism, I thought I’d share my current work-in-progress personal source list. It’s by no means perfect, but it’s been a great help to me in navigating this point in our country’s history. I hope it’s helpful:
- The New York Times (If you pick nothing else from the list, make it this…)
- The Washington Post (…or this)
- The Los Angeles Times (Great to subscribe to a local paper, obviously match where you live)
- Twitter (I’d be missing a limb without Twitter. My follow list is here if you’re interested. My wife is also fantastic at sharing tweets from all across the political spectrum.)
- RSS (I’m basically the cryptkeeper at this point, so I still use/love following RSS feeds for a variety of sources. Reeder is my favorite client, running on top of Feed Wrangler.)
- Apple News (Apple’s built-in news aggregator has gotten much better since its initial launch, and I follow a decent number of sources. It even provides me with healthy exposure to FOX News pieces from time to time…shudder.)
- Instapaper (Absolutely essential for “save and read later” functionality. It’s my DVR for articles.)
- NextDraft (Dave Pell’s outstanding daily roundup)
- Reddit (More for entertainment than news, as it can get real questionable real fast in various subreddits)
- Politico (Great politics-specific content)
- Slate (Definitely left-leaning, but a lot of great pieces)
- BuzzFeed News (I know, BuzzFeed?!? They’re putting out some great news content these days.)
- CNN (Primarily for watching video highlights after events)
- Medium (Consistent stream of interesting pieces/viewpoints)
- The New Yorker (as well as the great The New Yorker Today standalone app)
- Vanity Fair
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The Brazilian National Social Development Bank (BNDES), which is the federal financial institution operated by the Ministry of Development, Brazil, has plans to release their own Ethereum-backed crypto token in 2019.
The bank will be using an Ethereum-backed Stablecoin, 1:1 on par with the Brazilian real. Test and trial versions of the stablecoin have already been operational since mid 2018, with a full-fledged pilot project to be implemented in January 2019.
ConsenSys, the Ethereum powerhouse studio is one of the top companies consulting with the bank during the creation and implementation of the stablecoin. Though no official announcement has been made from either party, previous releases by the ConsenSys co-founder Joe Lubin have indicated the firm's involvement.
The pilot will use the National Film Agency (called Ancine, for short) as a transaction method to fund and distribute movie scripts and films in Brazil.
Ethereum Foundation developer Alex Van De Sande assisted in the development of this pilot project, allowing Brazillian filmmakers and movie industry workers associated with the not-for-profit Ancine to collect and transact their funds in real time using this stablecoin. The transactional data collected from this pilot will be utilized to correct and gradually implement further features as per the customer's feedback.
The National Registry of Taxpayers’ (Cadastro Nacional da Pessoa Jurídica, or CNPJ) will be issuing the identification certificates for this trial. The CNPJ is the national authority currently used by Brazilian companies and organizations as official registration and identification documents.
A development manager for BNDES, Vanessa Almeida stated that:
“We can enforce rules using smart contracts. The company that receives the money can only spend it with companies that are working within the [film] sector. We have a kind of ID in Brazil that has a certificate to send a token to the company, the company has to sign with this certificate…we will know in advance to which address you can send the tokens.”
Using the Transparency of Ethereum to forge ahead:
The Bank has been instrumental in funding large scale financial backing to the infrastructure and businesses in Brazil throughout its controversial history. It has previously been accused of illegal lobbying efforts as well as accusations of corruption in order to procure and sustain transactions.
Since Ethereum transactions are open source, developer friendly and fundamentally transparent, the move will hopefully bolster faith in the state owned bank.
Rosine Kadami, founder of the local Blockchain academy noted that this move could spearhead a transparency based era in financial and government transactions in Brazil:
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ISO 75-3:2004 specifies a method for the determination of the temperature of deflection under load of high-strength thermosetting laminates and compression-moulded long-fibre-reinforced plastics in which the fibre length is greater than 7,5 mm. The flexural stress used is not fixed, as in ISO 75-2, but is a fraction (1/1000) of the initial (room-temperature) flexural modulus of the material under test. This allows the method to be applied to materials with a wide range of flexural moduli.
Status : PublishedPublication date : 2004-05
Edition : 2Number of pages : 5
Technical Committee:Mechanical behavior
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Explore the North East using Active Travel this Half-Term!
Half-term is fast approaching, and we’re here to help you get out and get active, while keeping the whole family entertained during the school holidays.
If you’re struggling to find things to do that won’t break the bank, look no further than Go Smarter, Go Active’s FREE Active Travel Days Out Guides and Interactive Maps to occupy your time and make lasting family memories.
Cllr Martin Gannon, Chair of the North East Joint Transport Committee said “The Go Smarter, Go Active tools encourage more sustainable, active travel, reducing the reliance on travelling by car- and are the perfect resources to help families leave the car at home and discover the rich heritage and culture that is on their doorstep on foot or by bike.
“As well as guaranteed family fun, the guides encourage greater use of active travel and play a significant part in helping families to reduce their own carbon footprint during the half-term holiday and beyond. This all helps to deliver our transport ambitions, which are outlined in the region’s Transport Plan.”
There are 16 fun-filled Days Out Guides for you to try. Packed with fun facts, folklore and history, all of the guides are illustrated in a way that brings each of the areas they cover to life! Designed to be walked or cycled, there are shorter routes, ideal for families with young children, and longer cross-boundary routes for those looking to make a day of it. Each guide is designed to help you discover amazing and perhaps previously uncovered parts of Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland- offering an abundance of options for half-term days out, whether you’re wanting to explore your local area or somewhere completely new.
All of the guides are educational, bursting with stories and anecdotes about some of the region’s most impressive landmarks, beaches, market towns and beautifully preserved countryside. Many of the guides are also suitable for wheeled pedestrians, those with limited mobility and people bringing pushchairs. Simply check the suitability key on each guide for more information. Download the guides for free at: gosmartergoactive.co.uk
If you are keen to make your own adventures, why not use our free Interactive Walking and Cycling Map to plan the best route to get you to your chosen destination. The map brings together all of the walking and cycling routes in the whole of the North East- presenting unlimited possibilities for active journeys during the school holidays! Download a map for free at:gosmartergoactive.co.uk
If you try out a Days Out Guide or use any of the maps to explore this half-term, make sure you take a photo and tag us on social media so we can share in your fun.
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Shropshire’s acute hospitals have secured almost £50,000 from NHS Charities Together to support a ‘social inclusion’ project aimed at addressing health inequalities in the diverse population they cover.
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford, will use the money to address areas of inequality, particularly among members of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities.
SaTH’s social inclusion project has three strands:
- Outreach and engagement with BAME and isolated communities
- Creation of multi-faith rooms on both sites
- Unconscious bias training to understand the lives and needs of the diverse communities served by SaTH
Julia Clarke, Director of Corporate Services at SaTH, said: “The communities we serve, and indeed our own workforce, are incredibly diverse. In Shropshire and mid Wales, we have an older population with rural isolation being a significant factor, whilst in Telford & Wrekin we have some of the most deprived areas in England. Unemployment in Telford & Wrekin has significantly increased since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and BAME communities have been disproportionately affected by this.
“The percentage of our workforce from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds is higher than the national average and higher than the population we serve.
“We need to ensure our hospitals and the services we provide are the best they can be for everybody we serve and, equally, that we make provisions for all our workforce. This grant will go a long way to helping us achieve that.”
Some of the money will be used to employ a Social Inclusion Project Officer for 12 months. Their job would be to build relationships with under-represented communities and provide ways for them to engage with the Trust to help shape services which meet their needs.
Another portion of the money will be used to create more inclusive multi-faith rooms, including at the Shropshire Women and Children’s Centre at PRH.
As part of this work, SaTH is conducting a survey about its Chapels, which can be found at www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SaTHChaplaincySurvey
Julia said: “This is a very important project for the Trust and we are delighted to have secured the money from NHS Charities Together to drive it forward. On behalf of the Trust I would like to thank everyone who has supported NHS charities during this incredibly difficult time.”
SaTH also has its own charity – SaTH Charity – that people can choose to support and make a real difference to the patients, affected friends and family, and members of staff at RSH and PRH. For more information about SaTH Charity please visit www.sath.nhs.uk/about-us/charity | <urn:uuid:bbf8e14b-5ebd-4714-a66d-f4695b11a970> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oswestry.life/article/hospitals-secure-50000-grant-to-help-address-health-inequalities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.95958 | 613 | 1.75 | 2 |
Guests at DISNEYLAND in the late 1950's would encounter an interesting sight at the end of Main Street. An intriguing display showed what the future held in store for the theme park, an exciting new land called Edison Square.
Wait, Edison Square? Was that supposed to open at DISNEYLAND in Anaheim? Indeed it was. Souvenir maps depicted the new land as "Coming Soon".
There was a ton of conceptual art included in the park's souvenir guide as well.
So what happened? Why did the park quietly remove any mention of the new land from the park? It seems that Mr. Disney just got too busy with other things and in the end, felt that Edison Square would not be interesting enough. The plans wouldn't go completely unused, however. Years later, when Imagineers were looking for a replacement for New Orleans Square for Florida's Magic Kingdom, some of Edison Square's elements were incorporated into that park's Liberty Square.
Disney was still using ideas recycled from Edison Square in 1982 for the United States pavilion at Epcot Center's World Showcase.
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Boating Safety Tips
Personal Injury Attorneys | Florida’s Boating Safety Education law took effect in October of 1996. The law was initially designed to “cap” in October of 2001, and from that point forward to only affect persons 21 and younger. Currently, any boat operator who is 21 or younger (has not yet turned 22) and operates a vessel with 10-horsepower or more must do the following:
• Take a state and NASBLA-approved boating safety course,
• Send proof of course completion to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and
• Carry their Commission-issued Boating Safety Education ID Card and a photo ID with them while operating the vessel.
• A person licensed by the US Coast Guard as a master of a vessel,
• A person operating only on a private lake or pond,
• A person accompanied by an individual who is either exempt from the requirement or is at least 18
years old and possesses the required ID card (provided that person is attendant to the safe operation
of the vessel and is responsible for any violation that occurs).
Approved boating safety courses are taught in classroom settings by a multitude of organizations or may be taken either online or by completing a home study course. Boating Safety Education ID Cards are issued free of charge.
More info can be found here: http://myfwc.com/boating/safety-education/
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Today is the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s birth, and we’ve been marking the occasion all week by looking back at his most important projects. Next up is the American architect’s desert home and studio in Arizona, which serves as a campus for the architecture school he founded.
Completed in 1937, Taliesin West was built to accompany Wright’s home and studio Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisconsin, where he taught the Taliesin Fellowship – an apprenticeship that allowed 50 to 60 students to study under the architect.
Taliesin West is located in Scottsdale, Arizona, which Wright often travelled to with his third wife Olgivanna and his students to escape the harsh winters of the American Midwest.
Today, it stills serves as one of two campuses for the School of Architecture at Taliesin that Wright founded in 1932. The house at Spring Green acts as the other.
Wright decided to buy a 600-acre (243-hectare) plot of land at a reported price of $3.50 (approximately £2.71) per acre, and employed his apprentices to help him to build a permanent estate.
Typical of his architectural approach, it is designed to reference the surrounding landscape.
The sprawling open planes and up-tilted ground of the desert are reimagined in a series of low-level structures interlaced with terraces, gardens and pools.
Local materials were also employed to help the structure blend in with its environment. Large stones found on site are set within concrete to form the walls, with smaller rocks providing buffers between landscaped elements.
Reddish hues in the stone and the surrounding desert are complemented by a series of red-painted timber elements, forming a rib-like structure that Wright’s drafting studio and the garden room. A translucent canvas roof slotted between to bring in natural light.
Other red wood details include coverings for porches, steps that lead to a pool, and window frames.
“What makes Taliesin West so wonderful to me is the way in which it is the desert itself, folded up into the low walls of ‘desert concrete’ Wright made out of the boulders on the site, adding only the least amount of concrete he could get away with,” School of Architecture at Taliesin dean Aaron Betsky told Dezeen.
“Then it is canvas tents spanning between redwood frames – originally that was it, the perfect embodiment of how to site yourself on the land and inhabit it lightly.”
Mono-pitched roofs topping the drafting studio and the garden room are angled upwards to offer shade from the intense sunlight, while also allowing for clerestory windows that bring in an abundance of daylight.
As with his Fallingwater house, boulders are used to form the fireplace in the living room – one of many fireplaces that Wright dotted around the complex.
“Everywhere there are fireplaces, most of them under skylights or clerestories, with the most beautiful one being the one in the living room whose boulders condense the energy of the American landscape in the same way the abstract expressionist artists did,” Betsky said.
As Wright and his apprentices returned each winter, they continued to alter the building, with additions including a dining room and a music pavilion.
The team also added a cavernous six-sided cabaret theatre, which – due to its impeccable acoustics – has become regarded as one of the architect’s biggest accomplishments.
Betsky said that other “magical moments” can be found in the private corner living room hidden away and the small courtyard at the back entrance to the house.
Lesser-known features at Taliesin West include a pool framed by columns made of rock and concrete that widen at the top. There is also a fountain shaped like a fire-breathing dragon, which Wright bought for Olgivanna on his travels.
During the construction, she had a nearby column fitted with a gas pipe so that it could be spout fire instead of water.
Wright continued to use Taliesin West up until his death in 1959, aged 91. It is the studio that the drew up plans for a spiralling museum for New York City, which became known as the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and is considered one of his most famous projects.
Today it is occupied by both the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the School of Architecture at Taliesin, which was recently renamed from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.
Betsky told Dezeen that despite changes in its use over the years, the complex – which echoes the shapes of nearby mountains – still forms part of the landscape like Wright originally intended.
“Over the years, the rooms have become more filled in, but the campus still has a sense of rightness in the landscape, lining itself up with the McDowell Mountains to the north, while Wright’s living room comes forward in a way that mirrors the spur of Maricopa Hill,” he said.
“The whole complex also lines up with the extinct volcanoes to the east, and even the little kick-up of the roof over the kitchen corresponds to McDowell Peak itself,” he continued.
Today, 8 June 2017, marks the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth. Taliesin West is hosting tours across the complex as part of a series of events taking place to mark the occasion.
A major retrospective exhibition presenting the architect’s archive of drawings and models also opened at New York’s MoMA to coincide with the anniversary.
Dezeen is celebrating Wright’s birthday by looking back at his most famous projects, including the impressive Fallingwater, the Prairie-style Robie House, and Hollyhock House – an early example of Mayan Revival architecture.
Photography is by Andrew Pielage, courtesy of Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, unless stated otherwise.
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Pregnant and worried about COVID-19?
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Information for pregnant women and their families
COVID-19 is a new infectious illness that can affect your lungs and airways. It is caused by a virus called coronavirus.
There is currently little information about the effects of COVID-19 on pregnant women. However, since pregnant women experience changes in their bodies, this may increase their risk of catching some infections and getting sicker if they do, when compared to others who are not pregnant.
As with the current situation related to COVID-19, Sidra Medicine advices pregnant women to follow the instructions from Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) and call the hotline number 16000 if they have any questions or concerns.
To reduce the risk of catching COVID-19, please follow these general instructions:
- Wash your hands with soap and water regularly, for at least 20 seconds, as soon as you come from public places to your home or workplace.
- Use hand sanitizer, if soap and water are not available.
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or the inner part of your elbow or your sleeve (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze.
- Throw used tissues in the bin straight away and wash your hands afterwards.
- Avoid close contact with people who are unwell.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
- Clean surfaces before touching anything including your phone. Viruses can last a few hours to a few days on surfaces.
- Use a clean tissue to open doors and wash your hands or use hand sanitizer
- Keep a safe space between you and others in public and avoid contact, like shaking hands or hugs, when greeting people.
- Practice social distancing by staying at home and avoid going to public places unless it is absolutely necessary. Do not go out during rush or peak hours.
Common questions if you are pregnant and have been diagnosed with COVID-19:
1. What should I do if I think I may have COVID-19 or if I have been exposed?
Call Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) hotline 16000, if you are pregnant and you have the following conditions:
- Fever and / or symptoms of a respiratory illness (e.g. cough, runny nose or shortness of breath.
- You have been to a country or area infected with COVID-19 in the last 14 days.
- You have been in close contact with someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.
2. What should I do if I have been diagnosed with COVID-19?
You will be treated in a COVID -19 site hospital arranged by Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health. Please note that Sidra Medicine is not a COVID-19 hospital site and will not admit suspected or COVID-19 positive patients.
3. What should I do if I am advised to self-isolate?
Pregnant women who have been advised to self-isolate should stay indoors and avoid contact with others for 14 days. This means:
- Choose a separate room, preferably with a separate ensuite bathroom, and ventilate it regularly
- Do not go to school, work, shopping or public areas
- Do not use public transport
- Stay at home and do not allow visitors
- Avoid sharing household items. You should not share dishes, drinking glasses, cups, eating utensils, towels, bedding, or other items with other people in your home. After using these items, you should wash them thoroughly with soap and warm water
- Use friends, family or delivery services to do tasks on your behalf, but advise them to leave items outside your door
- For more information on home-isolation, visit Qatar’s MOPH website which has a selection of educational materials that you will find useful.
4. Can I still attend my antenatal appointments if I am in self-isolation?
- Contact your antenatal clinic to inform them that you are currently in self-isolation for suspected or confirmed COVID-19. Your healthcare provider may advise you to :
- Delay your appointment until your isolation ends.
- Come for you appointment if it is urgent and the necessary arrangements will be made for you to be seen. For example, you may be asked to attend at a different time, or in a different clinic, to protect other patients.
- If you have been diagnosed with COVID-19, you will be followed up in a specialized COVID-19 hospital as determined by Qatar’s MOPH.
5. How will my care be managed after I have recovered from COVID-19?
As a precautionary approach, you will be asked to do an ultrasound 14 days after your recovery, to check that your baby is well. If you have recovered from COVID-19 and tested negative for the virus, your previous illness will not affect how and where you give birth unless instructed otherwise.
6. If I am diagnosed with COVID-19, how would this affect my baby?
It is still unknown at this time if COVID-19 would cause problems during pregnancy or affect the health of the baby after birth. Early/ Premature births have been reported among infants born to mothers that caught the COVID-19 virus during pregnancy however, it is not clear that these outcomes were related to pregnancy infection.
7. What do I do if I feel unwell, worried about my baby or experience labor pains during self-isolation?
If you have any of the above concerns during your self-isolation period, call Qatar’s MOPH Hotline 16000 and you may be advised to go to a MOPH designated site for pregnancy related care.
Pregnant women on self-isolation or those who have been exposed and have COVID-19 symptoms are advised not to visit Obstetrics triage or an Outpatient Clinic unless in need of urgent medical care.
If you are a Sidra Medicine patient and would like to speak to one of our obstetricians, please call 4003 1419 for further advice.
8. What do I need to know if I have the COVID-19 infection and I am in labor?
- You will be assigned to a designated COVID-19 hospital by Qatar’s MOPH. Follow the recommendations given to you by the medical team of that hospital.
- You will be required to travel by private transport or call an ambulance
- Prior to entering the hospital, inform the triage security staff about your condition.
- Your medical team will meet you at the maternity unit entrance and provide you with a surgical face mask to wear until you are isolated in a suitable room.
- Your birth partner might be able to stay with you throughout your labor (this depends on the hospital’s policy)
- Make sure you have minimum companions. To ensure your safety your medical team will decide the number of companions
- Ask any visitors to stay home.
9. If I have the COVID-19 infection, will it affect how I give birth?
There is currently no evidence to suggest that COVID-19 may affect how you may give birth. Your original birth plan should be followed as closely as possible and based on your wishes. However, if you have severe breathing difficulty indicating urgent delivery, then a cesarean birth may be recommended.
There is no evidence that women with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cannot have an epidural or a spinal block. However, the use of gas and air (Entonox =Nitrous Oxide) may increase the spread of the virus via aerosolization and is not recommended. Therefore other options may be discussed.
10. Will my baby be tested for COVID-19?
Yes, if you have suspected or confirmed COVID-19 at the time your baby is born, your baby will be tested for COVID-19.
11. Will I be able to stay with my baby/give skin-to-skin if I have suspected or confirmed COVID-19?
If you are confirmed to have COVID-19, you will be at an MOPH designated hospital site and will be asked to follow the recommendations of their medical team.
Based on the severity of the medical condition of the baby and/or the mother, separation will be advised by the medical team in a case by case basis.
12. Will I be able to breastfeed my baby?
At the moment there is no evidence that the virus can be carried in breastmilk, it is recommended that you continue to breastfeed and follow your medical team’s advice based on the situation.
The main risk of breastfeeding is close contact between you and your baby leading to infection of the baby after birth. When breastfeeding, the following precautions are recommended:
- Wear a face mask if you choose to breastfeed
- Wash your hands with water and soap before touching your baby, breast pump or bottles
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So goes the adage which is so pragmatic and real even in today’s fast-paced, modern world. A new-born in any family brings in much love, warmth and joy. What is more, it also creates a sense of responsibility, brings about the seriousness and a better focus on life. After all, the child is looking up to you to learn to walk, talk and get on to the journey of life.
You can see the sparkle of hope and affection in the little one’s eyes and this is one of life’s rare events that can bring so much excitement at home. When the doctor charts out the vaccinations for the next ten years, the feeling of being a parent starts sinking in.
You start dreaming big for your child and visualise seeing them getting the best of education and career options. With these dreams also come attached the associated costs that alert you about the need to start planning.
New Financial Responsibilities as Parents
A parent’s role is to shower love and affection on the child besides providing for necessities for the overall well-being of the child. Whilst it is understandable that all parents are not wealthy to provide a lavish lifestyle, proper financial planning can ensure that your child leads a reasonably comfortable life.
A new-born baby will need a comfortable place where they can be cared for. Nutritious baby food, hygiene and round the clock support is what is essential at this stage. As the child grows, you will have to account for expenses on bicycles, toys, sports items and so on.
Needless to say, education and quality schooling will form a good chunk of the expenses (and probably your income) in the initial 10-15 years. During this phase, you would also mostly be building your career and your income would see a modest growth year on year.
Children are more aspirational than ever because of the advent of technology and the shrinking of geographical barriers. Dreaming of studying in a different city, state, country or even continent is no longer a distant dream. Applications can be made at the click of a button, interviews done online or even in several Indian cities.
With stiff competition for the best jobs, post-graduation is the minimum any aspirational student aims for. Studying for top undergraduate and postgraduate programs in technology or management may require a total budget in the range of Rs. 30 Lakhs-Rs. 50 Lakhs.
You will certainly not want to restrict your child from applying to a program or university of his/her choice. Planning early could help build a corpus by the time the child is old enough to set foot inside a university.
Increasing your Term Insurance Cover for your Child
Apart from constant attention, efforts, supervision and planning, what is also essential is building a financial cover to protect against risks. Hitherto, your term insurance plan such as iSelect Star from Canara HSBC Life Insurance would have offered a sum assured that could take care of your spouse’s expenses in your absence. But what now?
Now that you have a new member in the family. iSelect Smart360 Term Plan gives you the flexibility to increase the sum assured at different life stages and milestones in life. With this plan, you can increase the sum assured on marriage, the birth of a child and/or on purchase of a house. On the birth of a child, 25% of the sum assured can be increased thus giving an additional safety net and peace of mind.
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Why Use a Term Insurance for Child’s Financial Protection?
A child needs constant attention, supervision and guidance even as s/he grows up from being a toddler to an adolescent ready to take on the world. The child will also need solid financial support throughout this journey until s/he becomes financially independent. You have an excellent career track record and bright prospects ahead but what if fate has some other plans?
Your planning should also factor in this possibility and ensure your child’s plans are not affected under any circumstances. Term insurance is helpful to provide financial protection at affordable, economical premiums. Now your child’s future will be secure and unaffected even in your absence. Here are a few advantages:
1. Investment in Financial Assets:Term plans are economical and affordable. You spend less to get more. Most premiums can be paid monthly instead of a huge lump sum each year thus making it more convenient. After paying the premium, you will still have sufficient savings to invest in other asset classes such as ULIPs, PPF, SSY, NPS etc
2. Tax Advantage:The amount paid as a premium for insurance plans are eligible for deduction (from taxable income) under section 80C of the Indian Income Tax Act. The upper limit is Rs. 1.5 Lakhs. In case of demise, the nominee will receive death benefits that are exempted, from tax, under section 10(10)D.
3. Corpus Creation:Most term plans have a long tenure which means that you can utilize this option to leave behind an inheritance for your son/daughter even if they have grown up and are financially independent. Opting for a term plan of Rs. 5 Crore sum assured at the age of 30 may cost you only Rs. 4000 each month.
If you pass away at the age of 69, your family will inherit Rs. 5 Crore in the form of a death benefit. Instead of buying a term plan, had you invested the same amount in a recurring deposit at 4%-5% interest rates, you would accumulate approximately Rs. 1 Crore-Rs. 1.25 Crore.
4. Freedom to Invest for Child’s Future:A term plan is your investment for the child’s future. As soon as you have a new-born, if you buy/enhance a term plan, you are essentially securing the child’s future. Once you have purchased a term plan, you can now have peace of mind that a fixed sum assured is ready in case of your untimely demise. You can then focus on investing in high growth funds such as Canara HSBC Life Insurance Smart Future Plan.
There are a plethora of options to choose from when you plan to invest in your child’s future:
- For the girl child, the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY) gives a modest interest of 7.6% p.a.
- The Public Provident Fund (PPF) yields about 7.1% p.a.
- Child plans such as Invest 4G and Smart Future can help you build a large corpus in the long run
You may invest in any of these if you are risk-averse and are happy with modest returns. If you are starting early and are aspiring to build wealth, derive the benefit of equity investments. All of these plans offer tax-exempt maturity values and tax deductions of up to Rs 1.5 lakh on annual investment.
A child plan has one unique feature over others as it also protects your child’s goal from your untimely demise. Child plans like Invest 4G and Future Smart will continue investing the due premiums after your death as you would have done. Finally, your child receives the maturity proceeds and meets his/her goals.
Planning for the child’s future is quintessential and starting early gives you both peace of mind and better returns on investment. Buying a term plan will give the much-needed financial support whereas investing in growth instruments can help build wealth in the long run.
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To enable processing of investigators’ genomic data, we maintain numerous high-performance Linux-based compute resources, both locally in HCI and at CHPC.
HCI maintains a number of Linux-based servers within our data center for use in processing bioinformatics data. For information on how to gain access to these compute resources, please contact us. These servers include the following:
- Uinta, an interactive server with 48 cores and 440 GB memory
- Alta, an interactive server with 32 cores and 512 GB memory
- Moab, an interactive server with 24 cores and 64 GB memory
- A dedicated 20-core server for Illumina sequence processing and de-multiplexing
- A high performance 28 TB network file server for temporary, working storage
- A 128 TB archival network storage to support the GNomEx LIMS database
In addition to local resources, we own a number of compute nodes on clusters at the University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC). Users of our local computing servers can submit jobs to our nodes on these clusters by using our pysano service, or by arranging guest accounts to access the nodes directly through CHPC; please contact us for more information. The nodes we own include the following:
- Fourteen nodes (32-48 cores, 64-128 GB RAM each) on the Kingspeak cluster
- Thirty-eight nodes (56 core, 128-256 GB RAM each) in the HIPAA/PHI-compliant protected environment Redwood cluster at CHPC. These are the nodes used for working with human-derived data.
Application and Data Resources
For the interactive HCI Linux servers, all machines mount the same network resources. Some common paths to remember include the following. Some directories are mirrored on our CHPC nodes for use with our pysano service.
/scratchis for fast, temporary file storage without storage quotas. Make your own directory and use it when launching pysano jobs.
/tomato/dev/jobis a historical location for launching pysano jobs. Make your own directory to use when launching pysano jobs.
/home/BioAppsis a repository of bioinformatic applications not shared with CHPC nodes.
/tomato/dev/appis a repository of bioinformatic applications shared with CHPC.
/tomato/dev/datais a repository of genomic reference data shared with CHPC.
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Reinventing America’s Schools: David Osborne’s New Book Offers Case Studies of Cities Rethinking 21st Century Classrooms
David Osborne’s newest book, Reinventing America’s Schools: Creating a 21st Century Education System, vividly and specifically unpacks his theory of how U.S. education must be redesigned for the modern era — and sketches out a road map for cities and policymakers to follow in building towards the future.
The 74 has partnered with Osborne in launching Reinventing Schools, an immersive website and multimedia experience that not only offers up specific case studies from across the country in cities that have redesigned their districts, but hosts in-depth interviews with educators, students, and visionaries who have been part of the process.
We will be publishing new content throughout the months of September and October; to be alerted about the latest additions to Reinventing Schools, sign up for The 74 Newsletter and bookmark the Reinventing Schools microsite.
Here’s a roundup of Osborne’s initial excerpts from his book — including his detailed introduction to the project:
1. Introduction — To Save Public Education We Must Reinvent It
If we were creating a public education system from scratch, would we organize it as most of our public systems are now organized?
Would our classrooms look just as they did before the advent of personal computers and the Internet? Would we give teachers lifetime jobs after their second or third year of teaching? Would we let schools survive if, year after year, half their students dropped out? Would we send children to school for only eight and a half months a year and six hours a day? Would we assign them to schools by neighborhood, reinforcing racial and economic segregation?
Few people would answer yes to such questions. But in real life we don’t usually get to start over; instead, we have to change existing systems. And that threatens tightly held interests—such as teachers’ rights to lifetime jobs—triggering enormous political conflict. One city did get a chance to start over, however. In 2005, after the third-deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, Louisiana’s leaders wiped the slate clean in New Orleans. After Katrina, they handed more than 100 of the city’s public schools—all but 17—to the state’s Recovery School District (RSD), created two years earlier to turn around failing schools. Over the next nine years, the RSD gradually turned them into charter schools—a new form of public school that has emerged over the last quarter century. Charters are public schools operated by independent, mostly nonprofit organizations, free of most state and district rules but held accountable for performance by written charters, which function like performance contracts. Most, but not all, are schools of choice. In 2017 the old Orleans Parish School Board, which is elected, decided to transition its last four traditional schools to charter status. Perhaps by next school year, 100 percent of the city’s public school students will attend charters.
The results should shake the very foundations of American education. (Read the full excerpt)
2. The Revolution in New Orleans
…A century later, the third-deadliest storm in U.S. history hit Louisiana, killing 1,800. And just as the Great Galveston Hurricane wiped the slate clean for reform, so did Katrina. In its wake, the most important experiment in U.S. public education began in New Orleans. Two years before, the governor and state legislature had created a Recovery School District (RSD), to take over the worst public schools in the state. After the storm, they handed it more than 100 New Orleans schools. Gradually, over the next seven years, the RSD turned them all into charters. Today, every public school student in the city attends a charter school.
By 2014, when the state switched standardized tests, the percentage of students testing at grade level or above had jumped from 35 to 62 percent. Schools in the RSD had improved almost four times as fast as state averages. Before Katrina, 62 percent of students in New Orleans attended schools rated “failing” by the state. Though the state raised the bar, by 2016 only 6 percent attended failing schools. Graduation and college-going rates now exceed the state average.
New Orleans has improved its schools faster than any other city in the United States. Indeed, some experts believe it has improved faster than any city in American history. This improvement would be impressive enough on its own, but it is occurring in a district in which 82 percent of the students are African American and 85 percent are poor. (Read the full excerpt)
3. Indianapolis Blazes Two New Trails
Francis Scott Key Elementary School 103 had been rated F by the state for five years. In its neighborhood, nearly of third of residents had annual household incomes of less than $10,000. The school had one of the most transient and violent student bodies in the city. In its final year, 2014–15, 73 fights erupted, more than in any other IPS elementary school. Enrollment had fallen from 527 to 341, and only 11 students passed the state exams. “Every single classroom was chaotic,” says Earl Phalen, who took it over. “Literally 13 of our sixth-graders, on the pretest, were at kindergarten or first-grade levels. They couldn’t spell their names.”
Phalen, an African American who graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School, already ran one charter elementary in town and had charters to open nine more. The Mind Trust had first enticed him to town to create a summer program for thousands of teenagers, then had recruited him to launch a charter. Of the innovation school he says:
We knew it had to be done well, because if it wasn’t, the notion of innovation schools would take a severe hit. It was sooner than we wanted to do a turnaround, and everybody said turnaround is tougher than a charter. The risk is that you’re taking on the whole school, and you have to believe that you can get third-graders and fourth-graders and fifth-graders who’ve been in a chaotic environment for five, six, and seven years to actually behave up to your expectations. But we had done summer programs with kids from seven different gangs, and we put them on one campus. So I wasn’t scared about being able to set the culture. We can set culture…
4. Seven Key Strategies for Creating a 21st Century Education System
In Banishing Bureaucracy, Peter Plastrik and I explained the five fundamental strategies that we found reformers using to reinvent their bureaucracies, around the globe. We called them the five C’s: the core, consequences, customer, control, and culture strategies. By now they no doubt sound familiar, because well-run charter systems embody all five. In this book I have been careful to highlight both aspects of the core strategy—contestability and clarity of purpose and role—because both are so important in 21st century education systems. I have also discussed another strategy that becomes central when the task is as difficult as educating poor, inner-city children: creating talent pipelines and building the capacity of school leaders and personnel.
This strategy—though always useful—is less critical in many public functions, because average public servants operating in 21st century systems can perform well. But inner-city schools are extremely challenging terrain, so I have lifted capacity building up as a key strategy.
I believe there are seven strategies that hold the key to transforming performance in urban school systems, that have the most power to drive improvement. Think of them as the seven C’s of 21st century education systems:
—Creating clarity of purpose by separating steering from rowing, so those doing each can concentrate on their core purposes.
—Creating contestability, so no public school has a right to continue if it consistently fails its students.
—Creating consequences for performance, through competition, rewards, and penalties.Empowering customers by giving them choices of different kinds of schools, with public dollars following their choices.
—Empowering customers by giving them choices of different kinds of schools, with public dollars following their choices.
—Decentralizing control over operations (but not steering), to give those running schools the authority they need to succeed.
—Using this freedom to transform the culture of public schools.
—Boosting the capacity of school leaders, teachers, and other staff.
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Northeastern University public health expert Jean McGuire will speak at the White House on Wednesday, delivering remarks in honor of the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act.
McGuire was one of the nation’s leading HIV awareness advocates when President George H.W. Bush signed the CARE Act into law on Aug. 18, 1990. As the executive director of the AIDS Action Council, she worked to convene a diverse political coalition that succeeded in pushing Congress to pass the landmark legislation.
“The council considered the CARE Act a major success,” recalled McGuire, now a professor of the practice in the Department of Health Sciences in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. “It has saved many lives and built a care delivery infrastructure and clinical capacity that has endured.”
The invitation-only White House event will convene a score of AIDS awareness advocates and lawmakers both past and present, including former U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, the CARE Act’s lead author. Together, they will reflect on the bill’s impact over the past 25 years and discuss its current place in the nation’s ever-changing healthcare landscape.
The legislation created the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, the most comprehensive federal program for people living with HIV. Funded at $2.32 billion in 2015, it currently provides drugs and support services to more than 500,000 people who do not have the financial resources to manage the disease.
The CARE Act is named in honor of an Indiana teenager who was diagnosed with AIDS following a blood transfusion and died just four months before Congress enacted the legislation. White’s mother, Jeannie, will be attending Wednesday’s celebration.
“I would never have thought that Ryan’s legacy would still be ongoing today,” she told an Indiana TV station in June 2014. “I think he opened the eyes to a lot of people to make this a disease, as Ryan always said, and not a dirty word.”
Noted McGuire: “The bill never would have come to fruition without people living with the disease who were courageous enough to be out and active so early in the epidemic. All of us who had the opportunity to work with them to make this happen were privileged.”
The fight begins
More than 1.2 million people in the U.S. are currently living with HIV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost one in eight—or about 150,000—are unaware of their infection.
McGuire joined the fight against HIV in 1985, four years after the AIDS epidemic broke out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City. She was working as a healthcare lobbyist in Washington, D.C., when her primary foci—fair housing and the rights of developmentally-delayed children—suddenly grew more complicated due to the HIV outbreak.
As a profile of McGuire on the AIDS Action Council’s website put it, “Could people who were sick with AIDS, and who were routinely denied housing or evicted after falling ill, be considered to have a disability and therefore protected? And could children born with AIDS be considered disabled and eligible for benefits?”
By the time she joined the council in 1987, McGuire was particularly attuned to the ins and outs of the AIDS crisis. Her responsibilities ran the gamut, from raising money for HIV research to arranging meetings with community health centers, Catholic churches, and the American Medical Association. She fostered a strong relationship with the National Commission on AIDS, working with high-ranking members to set up Capitol Hill hearings on the crisis.
“We needed to create an echo chamber,” she explained. “We looked for sympathetic faces to speak to the public, voices who could be architects of our strategy.”
The fight continues
Following the passage of the Ryan White Act, McGuire stepped down from the council and returned to academia. She earned her master’s in public health from Harvard University in 1991 and then received her doctorate in social policy and political science from Brandeis University in 1996, writing her thesis on the ethics of community-based clinical HIV research.
After enhancing her professional credentials in the university setting, she was named the director of the HIV/AIDS Bureau for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Her six-year tenure with the bureau, from 1997 to 2003, included overseeing its $85 million HIV surveillance program; conducting research into care quality; and developing innovative substance abuse treatment programs.
Over the past 12 years, McGuire has continued to remain active in the fight against HIV. In 2007, for example, she co-authored a major paper in the American Journal of Public Health on the CDC’s HIV prevention plan and the challenges of establishing a national strategy. More recently, she’s supported the development and implementation of the Obama administration’s HIV plan, an updated version of which was released in July. Today, she sits on the advisory boards of the American AIDS Political Action Committee, ViiV Healthcare, a pharmaceutical company specializing in the development of HIV therapies; and Boston’s Shattuck Hospital, which focuses on treatment of HIV and other infectious diseases.
“I’ve had the good fortune to bring together my intellect, my passions, my politics, and my faith in what has been lifelong work focused on building community, equity, justice, and opportunity,” said McGuire, reflecting on her career in AIDS advocacy. “Public health has been a particularly rich environment within which to engage the struggles about basic human rights, in part because success depends on having the engagement and leadership of those most affected.”
In the classroom, McGuire tells her students to embrace their inner advocate and doles out keen advice to those looking to affect positive change. “Never stop building the evidence you need and keep your eyes on the prize,” she urges them. “Not every compromise is worth it.” | <urn:uuid:ebc1e6e0-6c47-4f14-a032-b8261e8d0bcb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.northeastern.edu/2015/09/09/northeastern-hiv-and-aids-awareness-advocate-to-speak-at-white-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967306 | 1,255 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Local Raw Honey
Raw Local Honey for the Western Suburbs of Chicago
With hives located in Glen Ellyn and Downers Grove
Yes, we’re that local!
Thank you for your interest in Gordon’s Farm raw wildflower honey. We thought it would be helpful to put together some information about what’s in the jar!
Why do different honey varieties have different colors and tastes?
No two nectar sources have the same chemistry. They have different combinations of sugars, minerals and enzymes. For example, very dark honeys, such as buckwheat or tulip poplar, have a high mineral content. Light honey, which is lower in minerals, is usually milder in taste.
What is raw honey?
Raw honey is honey that has not been pasteurized or finely filtered.
Do you filter your honey?
We coarse filter our honey to remove large debris, but do not fine filter our honey. Our honey is NEVER heated
Is eating honey good for my allergies?
It has been reported that eating local honey helps with allergies, but recent studies in Great Britain have shown that eating raw honey from anywhere helps even more. Anecdotally my boys allergy symptoms always seem to get better after a teaspoon a day for two or three days. Nothing scientific here.. just sayin’
What is Local honey
Local honey is defined as anything from 5 to 100 miles. I guess this depends on how big the operation is of the person selling it. We’ve always stuck with 20 miles as a rule of thumb.
I believe! So Is Gordon’s Farm Local?
Here is the local footprint for our of honey
How much would I have to eat?
For allergies eat a small spoonful once or twice a day for around two months then less to maintain acquired health. You can also spread on your favorite foods. It can also be used as a sugar substitute and in food or drinks for kids and adults, but heating raw honey over 93 degrees diminishes its healthy enzymes.
A Source of Antioxidants
Honey is a source of antioxidants (like fruits and vegetables); substances scientists are finding help the body protect itself against some serious diseases. Honey adds to a long, healthy life.
A Bacteria Inhibitor
Honey can play a role in inhibiting bacteria by acting as a natural barrier and may also promote healing. Therefore, it can be used on minor scrapes and burns. This older natural approach is resurfacing and it is easy to have honey on hand. (Honey is not an ingested antibiotic replacement.)
An Energy Boost
Honey’s natural mixture of simple sugars is a unique combination that may help in boosting sagging energy levels and help athletic performance.
A Source of Valuable Nutrients
Honey includes a variety of nutrients in trace amounts, including amino acids and a variety of vitamins and minerals, all important to good health.
Why do Honey labels say not to feed honey to infants under 1 year of age?
Honey may contain Clostridium botulinum spores that can cause infant botulism – a rare but serious disease that affects the nervous system of young babies (under one year of age). C. botulinum spores are present throughout the environment and may be found in dust, soil and improperly canned foods. Adults and children over one year of age are routinely exposed to, but not normally affected by, C. botulinum spores. Honey is safe to consume during pregnancy and lactation. While infants are susceptible to the infant botulism, adults, including pregnant females, are not. The concern for babies stems from the fact that infants lack the fully developed gastrointestinal tract of older humans.
How it started
When I moved to Lombard (a suburb of Chicago) we were lucky to find a neighborhood tucked away from everything. We started planting fruit trees, raspberries, blackberries and there were already a few mulberry trees (or are they bushes?). We started making stuff out of our harvest and were having a blast doing it. We were able to acquire the vacant lot next to the house (just under 4 acres) and started clearing paths so the kids would have a fun place to play.
It only seemed natural that a place we call Gordon’s farm which now had Gordon’s woods would have livestock! So I started to keep bees.
Beekeeping in Lombard (or any Chicago suburb) is not always an easy thing to get done. Honey bees are seriously misunderstood and beekeepers are labeled as wacko’s (true in my case). but the fact of the matter is honey bees are seriously cool – beneficial to plants, flowers and gardens and most importantly the honey bee is disappearing at an alarming rate (CCD or Colony Collapse Disorder).
So over a few months, I read everything I could get my hands on regarding bees and beekeeping, took an AMAZING class at Long Lane Honey Bee Farms from Master Beekeeper David Burns and his wife Sheri and bought all the junk needed for beekeeping.
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We are a recognized affiliate of the Funakoshi Shotokan Karate Association
Shōtōkan (松濤館, Shōtōkan) is a style of karate, developed from various martial arts by Gichin Funakoshi (1868–1957) and his son Gigo (Yoshitaka) Funakoshi (1906–1945). Gichin Funakoshi was born in Okinawa and is widely credited with popularizing "karate do" through a series of public demonstrations, and by promoting the development of university karate clubs, including those at Keio, Waseda, Hitotsubashi (Shodai), Takushoku, Chuo, Gakushuin, and Hosei.
Funakoshi had many students at the university clubs and outside dojos, who continued to teach karate after his death in 1957. However, internal disagreements (in particular the notion that competition is contrary to the essence of karate) led to the creation of different organizations—including an initial split between the Japan Karate Association (headed by Masatoshi Nakayama) and the Shotokai (headed by Motonobu Hironishi and Shigeru Egami), followed by many others—so that today there is no single "Shotokan school", although they all bear Funakoshi's influence.
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If you are using this website it probably means that either you or someone close to you has sadly lost a baby through miscarriage, whether recently or some time ago. All of us at The Miscarriage Association of Ireland have had personal experience of miscarriage and we are here to help and support you when you need us.
We hope this site will be of help especially to the mums and dads of the precious lost baby, but also to grandparents, brothers, sisters, relatives and friends who love and support us. Each one of us copes differently with the loss of our baby and the loss of our future hopes and dreams for that child.
Many women blame themselves, whether consciously or not, following a miscarriage. This is a normal reaction. However it is important to know that miscarriage is not your fault. It is out of your control and it is very rare that a miscarriage can be caused by something that you did or didn’t do.
There are different types of miscarriage with differing amounts of pain or severity. All miscarriage is sad and means the loss of your precious baby. Whatever your situation, even if you are worried and unsure if you are having a miscarriage, you should contact your doctor or hospital.
Sometimes, when we are faced with miscarriage, we feel lost and alone and feel like we are the only one that this has happened to. We soon realise that miscarriage is much more common than that. About one in every five pregnancies in Ireland end in miscarriage. That is approximately 50 miscarriages a day.
The Miscarriage Association of Ireland holds support meetings, once a month in Dublin and Cork, and every two months in Galway, where people can meet in a supportive environment and, if they wish, they can share their experiences with others who have had similar experiences.
We also have a Helpline for those in need of support, understanding and a listening ear. | <urn:uuid:55e6a647-0e30-469f-852b-0bae41b57b15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://miscarriage.ie/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.972863 | 384 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Mystery Babylon The Great
IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION CHAPTER 17‑18 we read of this Great Mystery portrayed as ‘A woman on the back of a Red Beast.’ We realize this mystery power is at war with the kingdom of YAHWEH, all the nations of the Christian West, and our Faith. We are to understand that this is symbolic, is the same battle which from its beginning is between the children of Light and the children of Darkness. (Genesis 3:15). We are also to understand that this is symbolism, this Beast, is not a man, it is a system of power over political, economic, religions, social programs and so forth. It is in fact the program of Anti‑Christ, it is a way of life, a way of thinking, it is the structure of an Anti‑Christ society. | <urn:uuid:11c22717-2b89-4484-8eb8-9dbb978ca745> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://newensign.com/sdm_downloads/erm-tape-65/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.955486 | 176 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Revenge causes corruption by changing an individual’s persona and nature. Obsession to revenge brings forth difficulties such as destroyed relationships. Finally, revenge can be the foundation to the ultimate sacrifice of fatality. Hamlet goes to show that revenge is never the correct route to follow, and it is always the route with a dead
Hamlet is showing how eager he is to avenge his fathers death, and he knows to kill Claudius the new king; in the back of Hamlets mind he still wants to avenge his mother for marrying Claudius. But at the same Hamlet has doubts about what he has been told by the ghost, “the spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I 'll have grounds more relative than this. The play 's the thing wherein I 'll catch the conscience of the King” (II, II, DCXXVII- DCXXXIV). Hamlet is still having doubts on whether or not the ghost of his father is telling the truth or not, or if the ghost leaving him astray.
The ghost of Hamlet’s father influences Hamlet to seek revenge who would otherwise contemplate the subject to death, GHOST: Revenge his foul murder and most unnatural murder. HAMLET: Murder? GHOST: Murder is most foul, as in the best it is, / But this is most foul, strange and unnatural. HAMLET: Haste me to know’t; that I, with wings as swift / As meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge (I, v, 25-31). Notably, the ghost tells Hamlet to enact his revenge in the opening scenes of the play; he seems hesitant, as if he questions death for the first time.
Yet, the Ghost of Hamlet 's father has required revenge for precisely the kind of killing that the villain of the play is about to commit. Reality or cliché? -- Irritated with the bad acting of the antihero in the play, Hamlet calls out, "Come, 'the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge '" (3.2.253-254). The literary device that is highlighted within this quote consist of a metaphor. This quote reveals that Hamlet is giddy as he gives away his plan, although Claudius does not end up realizing the truth behind what he said.
To his disappointment he finds the person to be Polonius, and not the king. This is a bit of irony, since Hamlet ceased to hesitate and killed an innocent person anyway. After all of the procrastinating and delaying, Hamlet finally receives justice. He exposes the king as a conspirator and cuts his throat, but loses his own life in doing so. Hamlet?s hesitation prolonged his emotional agony, but it succeeded in amplifying his anger and desire for justice.
However, through his thoughts, and actions, the reader can see that he is in fact putting up an act, he is simply simulating insanity to help fulfil his fathers duty of revenge. Throughout the play, Hamlet shows that he understands real from fake, right from wrong and his enemies from his friends. Even in his madness, he retorts and is clever in his speech and has full understanding of what if going on around him. Most importantly, Hamlet does not think like that of a person who is mad. Hamlet decides to portray an act of insanity, as part of his plan to seek revenge for his fathers murder.
Thus he delays his revenge in order to intensify the misery of the other characters. This also casts a most inauspicious light upon Hamlet, but only if the general premise of the book is true, that Hamlet is the hero and is not enslaved to evil. That general premise is false. For even the Prince admits that he may be under the thrall of the Devil, who is able to “assume a pleasing shape” and is “very potent with such spirits [of melancholy]”. The first victim to fall under Hamlet’s preternatural wrath is Polonius.
As well as Hamlet is giving clues to Claudius, that Hamlet knows who killed his father. Hamlet asks for a play that gives the same story line to scare his uncle. This is a tactic to send not only Hamlet into insanity but also Claudius. The tactic of the play works Claudius is fearful of what Hamlet knows about the murder of King Hamlet. Prince Hamlet is now fearful of everyone that is proximate to him.
The first instance is when Hamlet begins to replicate madness. When he begins to fake his madness, a change in Hamlet’s fortune becomes apparent, as this causes various people, Claudius included, to become suspicious of Hamlet, every move he does to be watched and monitored. Hamlet had the chance to kill Claudius as he prayed, but did not so as hit would grant Claudius into heaven, which would mean a non-exact vengeance. The other main point of peripeteia is the point where Hamlet slays Polonius hiding behind the curtain. At this point when Hamlet kills Polonius, his reversal of fortune begins to turn around for the worst.
Hamlet’s choice of words such as “like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause(580)” shows Hamlet’s feelings of uselessness for not being stirred to act upon the revenge he has pro... ... middle of paper ... ... This is seen in the line “the spirit that I have seen might be the devil, and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape(610-612)”. I think that this reasoning is just an excuse for Hamlet’s procrastination as during his encounter with the ghost; he seemed to be somewhat convinced that the ghost is his father as he starts to think about revenge. He acts in a hypocritical manner, taking no actions into his own hands other than the staging of this play in which he will accomplish nothing. While Hamlet could infer that Claudius is guilty through the play, it will not put Hamlet any closer to the fulfillment of his promise and so Hamlet will find himself at the same position as before. | <urn:uuid:1c240555-2ee4-4bf9-a1f8-39aa224756b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.123helpme.com/essay/Hamlet-Revenge-Analysis-661708 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.974666 | 1,333 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The founder of Gaydar, one of the world’s first gay dating websites, has reportedly died at the age of 51.
According to BuzzFeed News, Henry Badenhorst died in South Africa on 11 November 2017. Initial reports suggest he took his own life.
Badenhorst, who was named one of the most influential LGBT people in Britain by The Independent on Sunday, founded Gaydar in London in 1999.
According to the report, he died after falling from a tower block in his native South Africa.
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Geologists work to find hidden network of mines underneath Greene County
Tue Nov 26 2019 06:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
I've never considered myself to be much of a scientist. In school I'd get frustrated with how long it took to set up the experiments. I felt bad for the frogs and rats we dissected in biology, and a lot of science requires doing math. So when I called Greene County Geologist Matt Forir last week to set up an interview for a story, I suspended my biases toward science, thinking it'd be cool to learn about the county's caves, sinkholes and fault lines from the only county-level geologist in the country. What I did not realize was that I'd be a part of a geological discovery. | <urn:uuid:fedd91eb-e258-488c-93b7-9b30d4f02b8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.monatsci.org/news/geologists-work-to-find-hidden-network-of-mines-underneath-greene-county | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.963901 | 166 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. This is an endemic disease in the Americas, but increased migration to Europe has made it emerge in countries where it was previously unknown, being Spain the second non endemic country in number of patients. T. cruzi is a parasite with a wide genetic diversity, which has been grouped by consensus into 6 Discrete Typing Units (DTUs) affecting humans. Some authors have linked these DTUs either to a specific epidemiological context or to the different clinical presentations. Our main objective was to describe the T. cruzi DTUs identified from a population of chronically infected Latin American migrants attending a reference clinic in Madrid. 149 patients meeting this condition were selected for the study. Molecular characterization was performed by an algorithm that combines PCR of the intergenic region of the mini exon-gene, the 24Sα and 18S regions of rDNA and the variable region of the satellite DNA. A descriptive analysis was performed and associations between geographical/clinical data and the different DTUs were tested. DTUs could be determined in 105 out of 149 patients, 93.3% were from Bolivia, 67.7% were women and median age was 35 years (IQR 29-44). The most common DTU found was TcV (58; 55.2%), followed by TcIV (17; 16.2%), TcII (10; 9.5%) and TcI (4; 3.8%). TcIII and TcVI were not identified from any patient, and 15.2% patients presented mixed infections. In addition, we determined DTUs after treatment in a subset of patients. In 57% patients had different DTUs before and after treatment. DTUs distribution from this study indicates active transmission of T. cruzi is occurring in Bolivia, in both domestic and sylvatic cycles. TcIV was confirmed as a cause of chronic human disease. The current results indicate no correlation between DTU and any specific clinical presentation associated with Chagas disease, nor with geographical origin. Treatment with benznidazole does not always clear T. cruzi's genetic material from blood, and DTUs detected in the same patient may vary over time indicating that polyparasitism is frequent.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- veterinary (miscalleneous)
- Insect Science
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For pioneering contributions to the pathogenesis and treatment of severe immunodeficiency diseases, including the first successful allogeneic bone marrow transplants.
Dr. Good is a world-renowned pioneer in clinical investigation into the mechanisms of immunity. He has made uniquely important contributions to our understanding of the body's defenses against disease.
Dr. Good demonstrated in a systematic series of experiments that the human body has two immunological defense systems—one in the blood and tissue fluids, the other in certain white blood cells. He then showed the way in which the immune system develops and functions. The concomitant discovery of the key role of the thymus gland in immunobiology, and the application of this knowledge to clinical therapy, constitute a major landmark in medical research. His investigations led to the development of an essential theoretical framework within which logical correction of immune deficiency diseases can be achieved. Recently, Dr. Good transplanted bone marrow cells into immunologically deficient children, thus reconstituting both systems of immunologically active cells, and saving the children from heretofore uniformly fatal infection.
The ramifications of Dr. Good's contributions may go far beyond these immediate areas—into the pathogenesis of cancer, certain autoimmune diseases, some aspects of aging, and control of certain inherited diseases.
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Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley. The novel tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a monster out of body parts from different corpses. Frankenstein is horrified by his creation and abandons the monster. The monster is then forced to live in the shadows, where he learns to despise humans. He eventually meets Frankenstein, who promises to create a female monster for him. However, Frankenstein reneges on his promise and the monster kills him.
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Frankenstein Andorid App Summary
Virtual Entertainment is the developer of this Frankenstein application. It is listed under the Books & Reference category in the Play Store. There are currently more than 2879+ users of this app. The Frankenstein app rating is currently 7.4. It was last updated on Feb 6, 2022. Since the app cannot be used directly on PC, you must use any Android emulator such as BlueStacks Emulator, Memu Emulator, Nox Player Emulator, etc. We have discussed how to run this app on your PC, mac, or Windows with this emulator in this article.
Features of Frankenstein for PC
-Virtual Entertainment, 2013
-Series: World classic books
-Frankenstein is written in the form of a frame story
-The storyline emerged from a dream
-Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story
-After thinking for weeks about what her possible storyline could be, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made
-She then wrote Frankenstein
-Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
How To Install Frankenstein For PC
Follow the simple instructions below to easily install and download Frankenstein on your PC:
- Download the Bluestacks Android emulator from the link above
- Once the download is complete, run the .exe file to begin the installation
- Bluestacks can be successfully installed by following the on-screen instructions
- Launch Bluestacks once it has been installed
- Bluestacks will ask you to sign in; you can use your Gmail ID to sign in
- Now, look for the search bar and in the dialog box, type Frankenstein and press Enter
- Click on the most appropriate app from the search results to expand it
- Start the installation process by clicking the Install button
- Wait for the installation to complete
- Now launch the Frankenstein andorid App within the emulator and enjoy
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Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a monster from parts of corpses. The monster is huge and ugly, and Frankenstein is horrified by what he has created. He abandons the monster, who wanders through the countryside, terrorizing people. Frankenstein eventually tracks the monster down and kills him.
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Frankenstein is one of the most renowned and widely read novels of all time. The novel tells the story of a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who creates a life-like being from various body parts. The novel explores the consequences of playing God and the horrors that can result from such a decision. Frankenstein is a timeless tale that is still relevant today and is sure to continue to be read and enjoyed for many years to come. | <urn:uuid:c2ae5d2c-8cf1-4676-a83c-86d824979ad1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theforpc.com/frankenstein-for-pc-how-to-install-windows-7-8-10-and-mac/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.900654 | 890 | 2.25 | 2 |
5 minutes! That’s all it takes for me to know if a school has strong culture or not.
After visiting over 1,000 schools I can feel it.
Great culture requires a strong admin team and a tightly connected community, but more often than not it is created by the Director of Activities or Activities Director or Student Council Advisor. Whatever your district might title this person, their job is one in the same, and for me they are the single most direct path to strong school culture. I’ve seen countless Activities Directors spark school culture in a matter of days!
That said…the average lifespan of a Director of Activities is just 3.5 years.
Why? It’s usually because they get burnt out, don’t feel supported, or (even worse) get stonewalled on their initiatives and ideas.
Yet, they are crucial, and I mean CRUCIAL, to building school culture.
Which brings us to our simple technique: support your Activities Director.
Make sure they know you’ve made activities a priority. It’s a simple jumping off point, but it can dictate the tone of the entire year.
In an effort to help even more, TEEN TRUTH has brought on veteran Activities Director, Stephen Amundson of Tulare Western High School. He will be writing TEEN TRUTH blogs to inspire, motivate, and inform you throughout this school year. Beyond the blogs, he will also offer lessons, activities, and innovative ideas that you can implement to better engage your students and empower your Activities Director.
In his first TEEN TRUTH blog, Stephen discusses the nature of this 3.5 year trend and offers three tangible solutions that you can use right now to improve your activities program. Click here to read his insightful words.
I am honored to have Stephen as part of our team, and it’s just one more way that TEEN TRUTH is working to help you build a strong school culture.
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I’ve often heard it said that forgiving is for one’s self and not so much for the individual being forgiven. “Forget about them,” I was often told. “Don’t let them dictate you,” they said. I’ve never been able to reconcile that, because I have a hard time forgetting pain, real or perceived. In my mind, forgiveness first requires those who have harmed others to first show penance for what they’ve done. It shouldn’t be as simple as going to the god of your choice and groveling a bit, putting a bit of money in the poor box, and walking away with a clear conscience. Yes, sometimes, forgiveness requires more than just a few words and small actions.
If you talked to anyone at my workplace 5 years ago, they likely would’ve said that they did nothing wrong. That what they did to others was no big deal and that they ought to be forgiven for such small things, if they really need to be forgiven at all. A great many of them firmly believe to this day that they did everything right and no harm was done. Will they ever know? Will they ever gain the conscience necessary to understand not only the harm they did, but the evil they embraced? If you were to ask me, I would say that they will never learn that in this lifetime; only after it has passed will they have a chance to understand, at at that they may never come to terms with it. They may take many lifetimes to finally reconcile the evil they have done.
You see, when I left Club Fed, I wasn’t just giving up a job. I wasn’t just giving up a career. It wasn’t just a paycheck, the benefits, or any material considerations. I was giving up a future. I was giving up hope. Those harmful words that I remember so clearly to this day will remain with me even after I die. “You just need to learn to hear better,” they told me. “She’s just trying to help you out,” they said after those words. Even as I write this now, I can feel anger and hatred within my heart. What would drive people to not only say such things, but to excuse them as well? The reasons are numerous, of course, not to mention varied. Each individual had their own justification, I’m sure. Maybe it was just too much trouble. It was a small thing; I shouldn’t have taken such offense over it. I should have kept it inside the organization; going for outside help was the wrong thing to do. It’s not their job to deal with it; they should just keep their heads down and wait til they finally reach retirement, then they might be able to do something about it.
In the end, people found ways to not take action because they feared that by taking a action that it might be the wrong one. Better to not be in a position where you have to answer why you did an action, because nobody got in trouble for not doing anything. Naturally, this has been proven wrong many times, but we’ll push that aside for now. So many individuals with responsibility who simply wanted the prestige of that responsibility without the actual duty of such. I shouldn’t be surprised, for this is a reflection of both culture and society as a whole.
I remember a great many things. I remember dreams I’ve had to the point I’m not sure if they are mere dreams or something more. Is the waking life the real one or a cover for something else? Are these events the experience of one person or of many? Is this reality or something merely playing at it? Perhaps these questions help with imagination and thus creative ordeals. But what is such if it leads to nothing but pain? Am I simply addicted to that pain, vainly holding onto it so I do not fade away? Is pain the only reason I have retained this life to this point? And if I were to let it go, what would I become?
Yes, I remember. I still hold that anger, that hatred, all so tightly that I fear what may become should it ever be released. For in this life, my greatest fear has never been the end of it, but instead what would happen should I be consumed by so much hate that I’ve kept buried deep within my heart. I fear that at some point, the people of this world will force me to embrace something far worse: apathy.
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What might sound like an invitation to dinner is a unique theater piece asking us to consider hunger. What makes it great theater are the blue green waves, the shadow puppets, and the astonishing Delft china of a downwardly mobile life-shift. Not only are the stories being told compelling; they are presented in a provoking and imaginative fashion. Hunger is not something that just happens to famine victims in Africa. Hunger is stalking people that you see every day.
When I went to Highways performance space in Santa Monica to see “Who’s Hungry ?” I had heard about this show from a number of different sources; a press release, a food bank, a church and a homeless shelter. I had to go.
The phrase “food insecure” is the current jargon used to describe those who suffer hunger. Having to choose between food and rent, or food and medicine, there are millions in the Los Angeles area who struggle daily to eat. Is this entertainment? The best kind, the kind that makes you think and feel and maybe even change things.
Produced and written by Dan Froot (who originated “Who’s Hungry” in West Hollywood five years ago) the piece was created by interviewing five Santa Monica residents with food security issues, and then transcribed into oral histories. Froot, along with Puppeteer Dan Hurlin and composer Amy Denio then adapted selections for presentation.
The cast, Sheetal Gandhi, Rachel Lincoln, Daruis Mannino and Zachariah Tolchinsky did a tremendous job of bringing these small slices of stories into full realization.
Telling the truths about how people find themselves unexpectedly or unavoidably homeless and/or hungry requires a warm creativity to get us past the bias. As one narrative told of a woman who shifted from driving a Range Rover to sleeping in a box, there was no obvious villain of addiction or irresponsibility. The long dining table that serves as the set was decorated and then cleared of all the accessories of her life sculpted in a Blue Delft china pattern. Her ventures in insurance and software all sounded like plausible business. Her divorce sounded like anyone’s heartbreak. To follow her into destitution invited the audience to realize that anyone is a candidate for poverty and hunger.
While each tale had a unique presentation, the tall puppet (pictured above) that narrated the story of a grandmother with a heroin habit on her way to the bus for rehab was a remarkable moment. Not one puppeteer, but the whole cast was involved in supporting her, creating her speech, helping her walk – an ideal metaphor of the support it takes to get help.
While this is the last weekend the show will be at Highways, Froot spoke at a Q & A after the performance about doing the work in West Hollywood and Santa Monica, and said that he is hoping to bring the next phase of the project to Culver City.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — A titanic-sized ship is making history in Georgia today.
The largest ship on the East Coast of the U.S. is arriving in Savannah this morning. The Marco Polo arrived at the port around 8:30 a.m.
Even by the standards of ocean carriers, the CMA CGM Marco Polo is a behemoth: three-and-a-half football fields long — standing on end, it would be roughly the height of the Eiffel Tower. For Georgia standards, it’s longer than three of the University of Georgia’s Vince Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium.
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The ship can tote enough cargo to fit in more than 16,000 20-foot-long containers.
The Georgia Ports Authority posted live video on its Facebook page of the ship arriving. Crowds of people lined River Street to see the colossal ship arrive.
The Marco Polo has a capacity approximately six percent larger compared to the CMA CGM Brazil, previously the largest vessel to call the East Coast, which sailed through Savannah in 2020.
- Group says sea turtles heading to Georgia’s beaches may be in danger
- Crews find possible Revolutionary War ship cannons in Savannah River
- Agents seize record $31 million worth of cocaine at Georgia port
It’s the largest container ship ever to call on the East Coast, and its visit this week to New Jersey; Norfolk, Virginia; Savannah, Georgia; and Charleston, South Carolina underscores both the surging volume handled by ports nationwide as COVID-19 restrictions continue to ease, as well as the billions of dollars spent by port systems to accommodate these larger ships.
Savannah’s port, the fourth-busiest container port in the country, is in the final stages of a six-year, roughly $1 billion project to deepen the shipping channel. Officials expect the port to have handled 5 million containers in the current fiscal year ending June 30, just four years after surpassing 4 million for the first time.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this story
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solve a linear semi-algebraic system
LinearSolve(sys, R, options)
LinearSolve(F, N, P, H, R, options)
list of linear equations, inequations and inequalities of R
list of linear polynomials over R representing equations
list of linear polynomials over R representing nonnegativity conditions
list of linear polynomials over R representing positivity conditions
list of linear polynomials over R representing nonzero conditions
(optional) equation(s) of the form keyword=value, where keyword is either 'canonical' or 'projection'
triangularized list of linear equations, inequations, and inequalities of R equivalent to sys
The canonical option controls the redundancy of the output. Its default value is false. If 'canonical'=true, or just 'canonical' for short, is specified, it will be guaranteed that there are no redundancies among the constraints with the same main variables in the output.
The projection option determines the subcoordinate space to be projected onto. If the option 'projection'=k is specified, where k is a nonnegative integer less than the number of variables, then the output provides the projection of the zero set of S onto the coordinate subspace determined by the smallest k variables of R.
The algorithm behind this command is a variant of Fourier-Motzkin elimination.
Consider the linear semi-algebraic system S whose unknowns are the variables of R and whose equations, non-negative inequalities, strictly positive inequalities, and inequations are given either by sys or by F, N, P, and H, respectively.
The commands LinearSolve(sys, R) and LinearSolve(F, N, P, H, R) return an equivalent linear semi-algebraic system of triangular shape to the input linear semi-algebraic system S. This assumes that R is a polynomial ring over the field of rational numbers.
If S has no solutions, the output is the empty list . If the solution of S is the whole space, the output is true. Otherwise, the output is a nonempty list of linear constraints satisfying the following properties:
The output constraints are in an ascending order according to the largest variable appearing in them.
The projection of the solutions of the input system S onto any lower dimensional space, say the space formed by the smallest i variables, are exactly the solutions of those constraints in the output which only involve the smallest i variables.
Define a ring of polynomials. The order of variables is z > y > x.
Define a set of linear equations and inequalities.
We eliminate variables according to the order z > y > x.
The output is a set of equivalent linear equations and inequalities sorted in ascending order according to the largest variables appearing in the constraints. It provides conditions on lower order variables such that higher order variables have solutions.
Now compute the projection of sys.
The output is a set of linear constraints describing the projection of the zero set of sys onto x,y space.
The option 'canonical' can be used to remove redundancies among constraints having the same main variables.
The F, N, P, H and options parameters were introduced in Maple 17.
For more information on Maple 17 changes, see Updates in Maple 17.
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NATO will start using a Russian air base in the Volga region city of Ulyanovsk on August first to transport supplies to and from Afghanistan.
This is confirmed by Kommersant daily reported on Monday, citing a senior official.
Preparations will be complete by then for transit to “go on continuously,” Russia’s acting NATO envoy Nikolai Korchunov was quoted as saying.
There were “no plans” to use “foreign military personnel” at the facility, Korchunov said.
“No explosive or dangerous cargo will be transported,” he added.
The Russian government gave the go-ahead for the facility last month.
Moscow announced plans to create a NATO transit hub in Ulyanovsk in March. The decision sparked protests in the city, the birthplace of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin.
Veteran Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov has called the deal “humiliating” for Russia.
But both NATO and Russian officials have sought to allay fears the hub would turn out to be a fully-fledged base.
“We have no intention of establishing a base in Russia,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a video link-up with RIA Novosti in March.
“This is a pragmatic arrangement which allows us to transport non-lethal weapons and troops to benefit our operation in Afghanistan.
It is an illusion to believe that the US and Russia are enemies.
A global elite of one per cent of mankind are all good friends, and they control between 80 and 90 per cent of all values on Earth.
Once in a while, some mad dictators enter the stages and create a revolution or start a World wide war.
For the Russians, it is not difficult to join America in their war on the rebellious Muslims in the Taliban. The Russians lost the war against Islam, they started in Afghanistan in 1979. A rematch seems to be in the pipeline.
Funny that NATO is also loosing its war against the tribal people, the US supported as long as they crippled and killed Russians.
This end time union of Washington and Moscow is also Biblical. The day Moscow removes its support of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the dictator will be removed just like Gaddafi. Both Russia and the USA will form the final army that will enter Israel from the north.
The emerging One World Government will make the “perfect peace plan” for Israel.
For all who believe in the Word of God, the formation of this union is wonderful news. Let the children of the devil speed up and get their work done. So all believers can enjoy the second coming of the Messiah Jesus.
2 Thessalonians 2: 7-10.
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing.
For all the rest, who do not believe. You better pay attention to what I just shared with you.
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While a master’s student at Eastern Michigan University, Shenika Hankerson was asked to fix her writing errors and turn an assignment back in. The only problem was, what errors?
She couldn’t see them, and when she showed the paper to family members, they couldn’t either. It was almost as if she and the instructor were communicating in different languages—and today, the assistant professor in the College of Education’s Applied Linguistics and Language Education program knows that in fact, they were.
Rather than turning her off to higher education, or causing her to meekly endeavor to stamp out whatever offended the instructor, the incident helped spark Hankerson’s research career, which today explores how writing is taught to African American Language (AAL) speakers in universities and community colleges, and studying whether antiracist approaches can inspire learning.
At the core of her work is the conviction, based on decades of scholarship in the field, that Black students have a right to their mother tongue. What Hankerson calls AAL, also known as Black English or Ebonics, has structural features that reach back centuries to the languages of enslaved Africans shipped to North America. An estimated 80% to 90% of African Americans at times use some form of the language, she says, which like all languages evolved—and continues to develop—to suit users’ needs.
And yet her experience, and that of countless other Black students, pushes the conclusion on them that there’s something faulty about their language.
“It’s not an error, it’s a language,” she said. “If we’re going to have inclusive, democratic and socially just classrooms, educators must make an effort to educate themselves on what AAL is … and then it is important for them to integrate racial and linguistic equity as a core mission in their curriculum.”
What does such a curriculum look like? Fundamentally, it’s inclusive, she says, allowing students to stretch their writing wings and express themselves using their own language, while using academic language as well to help students work effectively in the classroom.
Hankerson also is the principal investigator and director of Project RISE (Research Institute for Scholars in Education), which provides underrepresented undergrads from local universities with a year of paid research and career development training in education. Such work is vital at the University of Maryland, which is set in an African American-majority county, said Jeff MacSwan, professor and head of the Applied Linguistics and Language Education program.
“It’s the university’s job to relate to and serve the community in which it’s situated,” he said. “Students often internalize the racism directed against them, and what Shenika is doing helps them work through that by developing respect around their own language, which itself is subject to racism.”
Students don’t necessarily have to flip a switch between their own language and someone else’s, Hankerson said. By becoming proficient in “code meshing,” AAL speakers can introduce elements of their language across language barriers, enriching the English language in general while ensuring mutual comprehension.
“We’re working on equity, which means honoring every language, including AAL,” she said.
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For all of neurosciences’ advances, we have made very little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?
Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world – not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know.
Hawkins’ novel “A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence” uses this discovery to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self (or not) and the origin of high-level thought.
Hawkins may be best known as the co-inventor of the PalmPilot – one of the initial attempts to create a miniature computer that can be carried around wherever you go – but he has spent decades thinking about the connections between neuroscience and machine learning, and there is no better introduction to his thinking than this book.
When you ask yourself, what does an intelligent system do? It is intuitive to think in terms of behavior.
We demonstrate human intelligence through speech, writing and actions, right? Yes, but only to a point.
Intelligence could be the way we understand the world, or it extends only as much as understanding parts of our world. Intelligence could also just be a mental model of how we interpret reality.
And what if we do not have only one interpretation or mental model? What if our reality is a compilation of many mental models, like a collage of models?
Hawkins answers these questions through some of his theories in this book.
This book is split into three parts – the first one speaks about a new theory of reference frames in our neocortex, which is described as the “thousand brains” theory. This theory tries to explain how we engage with physical objects and experiences in this world.
Just like maps use latitudes and longitudes to help us navigate, the theory suggests that we have “what” and “where” reference frames in our neocortex to help us engage with the objects around us.
The second part is about machine intelligence and how that could be achieved using his thousand brains theory.
This part is certainly persuasive and brushes off all the sci-fi movie theories, which we are already aware of. He also touches on futuristic concepts of storing our brains into computers to “live” eternally and connecting our brains to computers to live in harmony.
The last part is about human intelligence and is probably the most interesting part of the book.
He talks about how humans can pass on information to the next generation of species and the far reaches of the universe. He touches on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and messaging extraterrestrial intelligence and tries to convince you why that may or may not be a good idea.
The idea is based on the theory that the universe definitely has other forms of intelligent life either in the present moment or have been there in the past (and in the future).
While I definitely did not agree with all of his theories and found several of them downright terrifying (particularly in parts two and three), this book was mind-blowing in its scope. It opened my eyes (and my thousand brains) to a whole new way of thinking about intelligence – how it is constructed, modeled and stored in the human brain. It also explains what this new thinking means for future machine intelligence (AI) and its ultimate place in the long-term survival of the human race.
Heady stuff (pun intended!).
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An easy way to get rid of a painful sunburn? Yes please.
In 2018, a woman Facebook post about his simple — but slightly messy — trick to getting rid of sunburn has gone viral, and many people are eager to find a solution to one of summer’s biggest dangers. The trick? Apply menthol shaving cream to the burn, which the poster says “takes the heat away” and soothes the skin.
While most people know that the only real cure for sunburn is to prevent it by using an effective sunscreen, it’s clear that people are still hungry for a quick fix. Over 234,000 people shared the post at the time.
But before taking a can of shaving creamKnow this: Dermatologists say it’s not a magic bullet for sunburn, although it may provide some relief.
“I’ve heard of people putting menthol on the skin, for soothing, like after shaving – that’s why it’s included in shaving gels, because menthol has a cooling effect,” said Dr Anthony Rossi, dermatologist certified by the American Board Academy of Dermatology.
Burned skin is like a wound.
His concern is that shaving foam contain additional ingredients that could irritate the skin, especially when it is already inflamed. A better choice would be to use aloe vera to soothe the skin, or a mild moisturizer. The AAD lists other tips for soothing sunburn on its websitesuch as drinking water and applying cool, damp towels to the skin.
“With a sunburn, you have active inflammation,” Rossi said. “The skin is red and it can hurt and be sensitive. So when the skin is inflamed and open like that, we want to use very bland materials to trap moisture on the skin and avoid chemical irritants. So my only concern is that these foams have all these extra ingredients that might make them better shaving creams, but not great moisturizers.”
Dr. Susan Chon, a board-certified dermatologist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, agreed: “Burnt skin is like a wound,” she told TODAY. “You don’t want to put all kinds of stuff on it. You could probably put a lot of soothing stuff on your skin. But if you have a more severe sunburn, you’re probably better off taking some ibuprofen.”
Cindie Allen-Stewart, the woman who wrote the viral Facebook post, said she wasn’t trying to push her remedy on anyone – she just wanted to share what worked for her. In her post, she shared a photo of her sunburned back, and another photo of her back after the shaving cream treatment, which was noticeably less red.
‘If you don’t want to try it, you don’t have to try it, but it worked for me,’ she told TODAY, adding that the two photos were taken at three interval days.
Allen-Stewart also stressed the importance of SPF to prevent sunburn in the first place. “I in no way endorse not using sunscreen,” she wrote.
Ultimately, if it works for you, it can’t hurt you. “I don’t see anything wrong with that if it relieves them,” Chon said.
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Seaweed waste biomass from the carrageenan industry (SWBC) is a potential biomass feedstock for producing sustainable biofuel because it increases the product value and reduces the pollutant risk. Peracetic acid (PAA) followed by ionic liquid (IL) pretreatment has been used to increase the enzymatic saccharification of pretreated SWBC. The SWBC cellulose content was comparable with that of terrestrial biomasses. PAA+1-hexylpyridinium chloride ([Hpy][Cl]), and PAA+1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium diethylphosphate ([Emim][DEP]) pretreatments produced saccharide and unknown oligosaccharide fractions in regenerated water (~4-6% SWBC cellulose content). For 48h of saccharification, the untreated SWBC and the SWBC pretreated using PAA followed by [Hpy][Cl], [Emim][DEP] or 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazole acetate ([Emim][OAc]) produced cellulose conversions of 77, 91, 84 and 62%, respectively. The untreated SWBC had a high cellulose conversion, which may be caused by the low lignin and hemicellulose contents of the SWBC. PAA+IL pretreatment could yield pretreated SWBCs with more amorphous cellulose structures, which lead to an almost-complete cellulose conversion.
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In a recent speech before the usual friendly audience, hawkish Vice President Dick Cheney opined that U.S. failure to resolutely avenge anti-U.S. terrorist attacks during the 1980s and 1990s led to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Speaking before Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Cheney concluded, "The terrorists came to believe that they could strike America without paying any price. And so they continued to wage those attacks, making the world less safe and eventually striking the United States on 9/11." There is something to the Vice President's remarks, but not very much.
Cheney was ostensibly even-handed by criticizing both Democratic and Republican administrations for their weak responses to anti-U.S. terrorism, but only one of the seven attacks on Cheney's list-the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 Marines-happened during a Republican administration. The other six incidents occurred during the Clinton administration, making the real underlying intent of Cheney's remarks yet another partisan attack on the administration's long-gone predecessor.
But the implications of Cheney's speech go far beyond the throwing of red meat to a pro-Republican audience of military personnel. Conservatives have long noted that Osama bin Laden saw U.S. timidity in the Clinton administration's withdrawal from Somalia after al-Qaeda-trained Somali militiamen killed U.S. soldiers. But according to bin Laden, he actually saw the first sign of U.S. weakness in President Reagan's withdrawal of troops from Lebanon after the Shi'ite group Hezbollah killed U.S. Marines. Cheney's list of episodes at least makes some contribution by mentioning this inconvenient incident in order to appear bi-partisan.
His remarks, however, continue the Bush administration's Tarzan-like foreign policy of "we good, you bad." The administration talks generally of "terrorists" and its "war on terror," making no distinction between the many different terrorist groups around the world, their varying characteristics, and whether or not they attack the United States. In fact, most terrorist groups around the world have local or regional goals and enemies and do not focus their attacks on U.S. targets. Most important, Cheney and the administration never address why anti-U.S. terrorists are attacking the United States in the first place. Experts on terrorism always say that where terrorism exists, there is an underlying grievance.
Anti-U.S. terrorists' grievance is normally U.S. foreign policy-especially U.S. meddling in the affairs of other nations, usually with the threat or actual use of military force. Every one of the seven attacks on Cheney's list was motivated by retaliation for U.S. interventionism. Al Qaeda perpetrated five out of the seven attacks. Although both the jingoistic Bush administration and the interventionist U.S. foreign policy establishment have an incentive to cloud al Qaeda's motives for attacking the United States, bin Laden's writings and media interviews indicate that his primary gripes are against U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf and U.S. backing of corrupt Arab rulers and Israel. Ramzi Yousef, a co-traveler with bin Laden in radical Islamist circles, made the first attempt to destroy the World Trade Center in 1993 because of U.S. policies in the Middle East, specifically active U.S. support for Israel. Hezbollah bombed the Marine barracks and other targets in Lebanon and kidnapped and killed U.S. personnel because the United States was essentially fighting on the side of a minority Christian government against Muslim militias in the Lebanese civil war.
Many other terror attacks that failed to make Cheney's list can also be attributed to retaliation for U.S. interventions overseas. Conveniently, Cheney forgot to mention other attacks that happened during Republican administrations and especially during his tenure as Secretary of Defense under the first Bush administration. For example, the 1988 bombing by Libyan intelligence agents of Pan American flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland was a culmination of tit-for-tat attacks between Libya and the United States, which President Reagan actually started in 1981. In the first Bush administration, anti-U.S. terrorist attacks spiked during the Persian Gulf War, increasing to 120 during that period in 1991 compared with only 17 during a comparable period the year before.
The conclusion that Cheney should have reached-unlikely in such a reflexively hawkish administration-was that any short-term military retaliation for terrorist strikes should be quiet and surgical. Flaying away with massive, well-publicized military actions (particularly against countries who had nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11) such as the invasion of Iraq, will simply generate more terrorism. Even the U.S. State Department admits that the number of major terrorist attacks worldwide has recently spiked. Better yet, the United States could use intelligence and law enforcement resources to quietly apprehend and prosecute terror suspects without stirring up more anti-U.S. hatred.
In the longer term, to reduce anti-American attacks, the United States must remove the underlying grievance-U.S. interventionism-causing them. If there is doubt that this approach will work, consider the drop off in Lebanese Hezbollah's anti-U.S. attacks after the United States withdrew its forces from Lebanon and the significant reduction in Libyan attacks on U.S. targets after the Reagan administration ended and its provocations of Libya stopped.
If Vice President Cheney wants to stop terrorism, an endless escalation of tit-for-tat retaliation will not do so. With the Cold War ended, the United States no longer needs such an interventionist foreign policy. Adopting a policy of military restraint overseas would bring many advantages, one of which is less anti-U.S. terrorism at home and abroad.
Ivan Eland is the Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California and author of the book, Putting "Defense" Back into U.S. Defense Policy: Rethinking U.S. Security in the Post-Cold War World.
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Memoirs: On Haplobranchus, a New Genus of Capitobranchiate Annelids
ALFRED GIBBS BOURNE
University Scholar in Zoology, Assistant in the Zoological Laboratory of University College, London
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ALFRED GIBBS BOURNE; Memoirs: On Haplobranchus, a New Genus of Capitobranchiate Annelids. J Cell Sci 1 January 1883; s2-23 (89): 168–176. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.s2-23.89.168
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The Sunflower Castle looks out of place among the staid brick dowagers of Beacon Hill and the glittering shops of trendy Charles Street a block away.
it almost seems like a pocket of sunlight—cheerful and whimsical—amid the darker brick buildings around it on Beacon Hill Flat.
But what is Beacon Hill Flat? Isn’t that an oxymoron? How can a hill be flat?
Beacon Hill Flat
Technically, Beacon Hill Flat is made land that was constructed in the nineteenth century. When the Puritans arrived in 1630, Beacon Hill ended in a steep bluff just east of Charles Street. This section, which lies between Cambridge Street/Longfellow Bridge on the north and Beacon Street on the south, used to be part of the Charles River with mud flats exposed at low tide.
As the city’s expanding population needed room, they turned to the tidal mud flats below the hill. Planning to fill the area got underway in 1796 but, for several reasons, the actual filling did not begin until 1803.
This project, one of the first large-scale land-making projects in Boston, cut down the top of Mount Vernon — one of the three peaks on the Tri-Mount — and moved it to the mud flats. This area was bordered by an abutment of pilings to retain the fill. Additional fill came from mud dredged from the Charles River. Almost 200 “pick and shovel” men, along with teams of oxen, spread the fill until it ranged from six to fourteen feet across the flats.
The newly made section of the city became home to tradesmen such as blacksmiths, shoemakers and stable owners. It was also the location of a bath house, “Beaman’s Baths,” for many years. The Flat of Beacon Hill housed the stables for the elegant houses on the south side of Beacon Hill and, later, their garages. Many of these structures were converted over time into homes and artists’ studios.
The Sunflower Castle
Located at the intersection of Mount Vernon and River streets, the house stands out among its red-brick neighbors. The first floor is made of stucco painted bright yellow while the second floor and roof are covered with red shingles in an English fish-scale pattern. Black half-timbering highlights peaks, windows, doors and the roofline.
A large wooden carving of a sunflower painted in bright yellow and green hangs under the eave above the front door. Beneath it, in the center of a windowed gallery you see a carving of a black griffin.
Where did this unusual house come from?
An Artists’ Residence
The Sunflower Castle was originally built in 1840 and was later described as just “an old wooden building.” In the 1860s it was the home of interior designer and artist Frank Hill Smith, who painted the ceiling frescoes in the Representatives Hall of the Massachusetts State House.
In 1878 Charles Luce renovated the house in the Queen Anne style, which is based on buildings constructed in England during the Elizabeth and Jacobean periods. One characteristic of this style is bold and unconventional color schemes. Others are asymmetry, contrast and elaborate decorative motifs.
The Bourne Family
In 1904 Gertrude Beals Bourne, a watercolor artist. moved into the castle with her husband, architect Frank Bourne. Mr. Bourne created a studio on the third floor for his wife. Known for painting gardens and Colonial Revival architecture, Ms. Bourne showed her work at such venues as the Boston Art Club, the New York Water Color Club, the American Water Color Society, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the National Gallery of Art.
Ms. Bourne painted the interior of her studio prior to World War I. The painting, called “The Artist’s Studio – Sunflower Castle, is now in the collection of Historic New England. The room was later converted to the master bedroom, which is complete with walk-in closet and spacious bath.
Gardens and Privies
An enclosed garden with a gate influenced by Japanese design lies along the west side. Ms. Bourne was a dedicated gardener and one of the founders and first president of the Beacon Hill Garden Club. The organization helped residents to, “turn the open spaces behind their houses from laundry yards and privies into beautiful gardens.”
The Sunflower Castle’s garden has been included on the Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill, a once-a –year event. This year it is scheduled for May 18, 2017.
For his part, Mr. Bourne was one of the founders of the Beacon Hill Association and was instrumental in saving Asher Benjamin’s Charles Street Meeting House. In 1922 he was a member of a group that raised the money needed to move the historic building 10 feet west when Charles Street was widened.
The Sunflower Castle went on the market in 2012 for $4.5 million and is a private residence today.
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You can see the Sunflower Castle on Boston By Foot’s Flat of Beacon Hill tour, which is usually scheduled for December.
Althougt the house is not open to the public, you can admire it from the outside at any time.it sits just one block away from Charles Street.
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The Largescale Neoscopelid is a deepsea species that has a row of photophores along the midline of the belly.
The Largescale Neoscopelid has a single short-based dorsal fin followed by an adipose fin. It has deciduous scales that are often lost when fish are caught in trawl nets. There is a row of photophores along the midline of the belly and two rows on the sides of the body. The body is brown with tinges of pink. The head is silver and the fins are pinkish.
The Largescale Neoscopelid occurs in continental slope waters.
The species occurs in most tropical and temperate marine waters. In Australia it is known from the central coast of New South Wales, south to Victoria and Tasmania, and around the south of the country to the Great Australian Bight. It is also known from off north-western Western Australia.
The map below shows the Australian distribution of the species based on public sightings and specimens in Australian Museums. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
- Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & G.R. Allen. 2006. Fishes. In Beesley, P.L. & A. Wells. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 35. ABRS & CSIRO Publishing: Australia. parts 1-3, pages 1-2178.
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To ensure that we take all reasonable care to protect vulnerable adults, Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) is registered with the Fundraising Regulator, adheres to the Fundraising Code of Practice as held by the Fundraising Regulator, and complies with the Institute of Fundraising’s guidance set out in ‘Treating Donors Fairly: Responding to the needs of people in Vulnerable Circumstances’.
These guidelines do not cover children and young people under the age of 18, and we do not actively seek donations from them.
PET relies on donations from individuals and organisations to fund our work – without our donors we could not provide essential educational opportunities to people in prison. We aim to communicate with supporters in the ways in which they are most comfortable and this includes mail, email, phone and in person.
Every donor is an individual with a unique background, experiences and circumstances – and every interaction between a fundraiser and donor is different. PET does not define vulnerable adults based on broad personal characteristics such as disability or age. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to donate if they are willing and able to do so, and that denying people the chance to give based on appearance, age or behaviour may be considered discriminatory.
It is inevitable that we will come into contact with people who are vulnerable and not able to make informed decisions about their giving. This document outlines how we take all reasonable care to identify supporters who may be vulnerable, and what action we take if we suspect a person is vulnerable.
The Code of Fundraising Practice standards relating to vulnerability (Treating Donors Fairly, page 8) are:
“1.3.5. Your fundraising must meet equality law as it applies in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. You must not discriminate against people with characteristics protected under the law of these countries. You can get more information from the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.
1.3.6 You must take all reasonable steps to treat a donor fairly, so that they can make an informed decision about any donation.
1.3.7 You must take into account the needs of any possible donor who may be in vulnerable circumstances or need extra care and support to make an informed decision.
1.3.8 You must not exploit the trust, lack of knowledge, apparent need for care and support or vulnerable circumstance of any donor at any time.
1.3.9 You must not take a donation if you know, or have good reason to believe, that a person lacks capacity to make a decision to donate, or is in vulnerable circumstances which mean they may not be able to make an informed decision.
1.3.10 If a donor makes a donation while they do not have the capacity to make an informed decision, you must return the money to them.”
PET fundraising practice abides by the four key principles of ‘Treating Donors Fairly’ (page 6), namely:
This means being mindful of and sensitive to any particular need that a donor may have. It also means striving to respect the wishes and preferences of the donor.
Fundraisers need to be ready to adapt their approach and be flexible to meet the needs of individuals. It also means being prepared to ask questions or take additional steps when necessary.
Fundraisers should not make decisions based solely on a particular characteristics such as a person’s appearance, the way they talk, any medical condition, or disability. Fairness means responding to people as individuals.
Fundraisers should take responsibility for their actions, ensuring that their work is carried out in line with the Code of Fundraising Practice.
As stated in ‘Treating Donors Fairly’, all individuals may, at some stage in their life, be considered vulnerable or require additional care and support, depending on their own personal circumstances, health, bereavements, life events and more. These factors could affect people differently and for different periods of time. For instance, an individual could manage a family bereavement without obvious long-term distress, whilst somebody else may need more substantial support for a prolonged period of time.
An individual who may need additional care and support, or may be considered to be in a vulnerable circumstance, can still have capacity to choose to donate to a charity.
What is relevant is the context and circumstance that they are in at the time of making the decision about whether to donate. For example, a recently bereaved person may need additional support, but this may change over time. At the time of bereavement, they could still have the capacity to make a donation, but might need additional support to help them make their decision.
Additional support may include: delaying acceptance of the gift to give the donor further time to consider it; including a ‘cooling off’ period to allow the donor time to change his or her mind; and suggesting the donor gets advice from family/friends.
The following are examples of indicators which could mean that an individual is in a vulnerable circumstance or needs additional support:
It is not feasible to provide a comprehensive set of factors or characteristics which would enable fundraisers to always identify an individual who is in vulnerable circumstances. We therefore use the checklist set out in ‘Treating Donors Fairly’ (page 15) to help identify signs in verbal and written communications that an individual may be in a vulnerable circumstance (it should be noted some signs are more relevant for verbal communication than written):
Is the individual:
Having difficulty processing information:
Showing signs of distress or discomfort:
Indicating they are overwhelmed or not capable:
If one or more of these signs are noted, we may contact the donor to assess in more detail whether we believe the donor to be vulnerable. This contact would be made in line with our data protection policies and adhering to any communication preferences the donor has stated.
In some instances a supporter may actively declare their vulnerable status, or a family member of carer will alert PET. Where we have been given this information we act upon this, by asking the supporter or their family member/carer what kind of communication, if any, is acceptable.
If PET believes that an individual may be in a vulnerable circumstance or unable to make an informed decision, we will politely and carefully end our interaction with that individual, and make a file note of the engagement, including time, date, name of supporter, and the name of PET volunteer or staff member who was interacting with the donor. The Head of Fundraising & Communications will also be informed to assess whether there is a need for any further action.
If PET has reasonable grounds for believing that a supporter lacks the capacity to make a decision then their donation will not be taken.
If after a donation has been given, PET receives evidence that the person lacked capacity to make the decision to donate, then the charity will return the donation because the original donation was invalid.
If a donor is found to lack capacity, PET will put in place measures to ensure that donations are not solicited from them in the future. We will note the circumstances on our supporter database, mark the individual as “No Mail” and retain their information in line with data retention and financial control policies.
If appropriate, and as recommended in ‘Treating Donors Fairly’ (page 19), if an individual is expressing signs of being distressed and tells us that they are in a particular situation (e.g., they are recently bereaved, or have been diagnosed with a medical condition) then part of responding appropriately may be to let them know that there is a charity or service which might help them and passing on a phone number or website address if the individual is interested.
Should you wish to discuss any aspect of this policy, or would like to raise a concern about a supporter of PET whom you believe to be vulnerable, in the first instance, please contact Cassie Edmiston, Head of Fundraising & Communications:
T: 020 3752 5670
Prisoners’ Education Trust, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London, SE11 5RR
Fundraising Regulator: https://www.fundraisingregulator.org.uk/
Fundraising Code of Practice: https://www.fundraisingregulator.org.uk/code-of-fundraising-practice/code-of-fundraising-practice/
Chartered Institute of Fundraising ‘Treating Donors Fairly’: https://ciof.org.uk/events-and-training/resources/treating-donors-fairly
PET Vulnerable Donors Policy
Drafted: March 2017
Adopted: March 2017
Review date: May 2022
Next review date: May 2023
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This article explores narrative in African American protest art by examining Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son, alongside 21 Savage (Shayaa Abraham-Joseph) and Metro Boomin’s 2016 rap album Savage Mode. I open with a discussion of Native Son as a project of protest and with James Baldwin’s criticism of the novel, and of protest fiction at large. Centring Baldwin’s critique, this article explores the violence and horror of the narrative worlds of Wright’s Bigger Thomas and Abraham-Joseph’s 21 Savage, in an effort to discover if these works are capable of complicating Baldwin’s claims and expanding notions of what protest is and how it operates.
By applying Marie-Laure Ryan’s concept of storyworlds, and the attendant “principle of minimal departure,” the article lays out a narratology of protest. The social protest of these works, I find, is rendered uniquely efficacious by the violence that takes place within their storyworlds, violence that operates as a visceral, unignorable force urging real-world change. Because of its impact on the reader or listener, violence and discomfort within these narratives directs that user toward extra-narrative action. In building on the transmedial approach that Ryan encourages, and examining Savage Mode as a contemporary work of protest that shares a narrative technique with Native Son, the article also discusses some recent engagements with rap music in traditional scholarship and popular writing.
Throughout, I put forth the argument that both Savage Mode and Native Son function as powerful works of protest against real-world conditions, protests that operate via narratives that empathically involve their users in violent storyworlds. Abraham-Joseph’s protest, then, furthers Wright’s, as both are works that operate in a “savage” narratological “mode”—one of intense violence and discomfort which, read as protest, has the capacity to prompt an activist response in the user.
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Justice Project South Africa (JPSA) has warned vehicle owners to carefully check any speed camera-based traffic fines they receive or happen to discover through their banking app or on the internet.
JPSA chair, Howard Dembovsky said so-called ‘capture errors’ are causing motorists to be incorrectly charged with infringements and criminal offences they didn’t commit.
“In one recent case, a motorist faced a criminal charge because the location of the infringement was incorrectly recorded,” he said.
In that instance, the motorist was on a freeway, travelling at 134km/h in a 120km/h zone and should have received an infringement notice for exceeding the 120km/h limit by 14km/h.
The image shows his vehicle on the freeway. However, the location at which the violation was alleged to have occurred was given as an urban road several kilometres away, in an 80km/h zone.
“Using the incorrect location, the motorist was no longer alleged to have been just 14km/h over the speed limit, but a massive 54km/h over it.
“Exceeding the speed limit by more than 30km/h in an urban area is automatically classified as a criminal offence and triggers a mandatory court appearance,” Dembovsky said.
“For this reason, it is essential that the authorities record the location of an alleged violation correctly, both to prevent spurious criminal charges like in this case, but also to ensure genuine traffic offenders are brought to book.”
Dembovsky said the JPSA was assisting the motorist to have the defective notice of intention to prosecute him in court withdrawn, but remained concerned that the same location mistake may have applied to many other camera violations recorded at the same place on the same day.
“Camera violations are meant to be reviewed by traffic officer before being issued to prevent this kind of error.
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Although France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Belgium and Spain may go so far as officially recognize a Palestinian state, Berlin will not, and sources say, Germany will not support EU or UN sanctions should Israel annex parts of the West Bank.
By Itamar Eichner
Germany will not support sanctions over Israel’s planned unilateral annexation of parts of the West Bank or recognize Palestinian independence, a diplomatic official in Jerusalem said Monday.
However, the official stressed that annexation would likely put a strain on the relations between Jerusalem and Berlin, and Germany’s willingness to support Israel on the international scene.
Germany is set in July to take the presidency of two key institutions, the Council of the European Union for six months, as well as the UN Security Council for a month, meaning, Berlin will head two major international forums just as they will need to respond to Israeli actions, should Jerusalem move forward with its intention to apply sovereignty onto the contested territory. Continue Reading »
Israel’s President Rivlin warns that boycotting Israeli firms is not conducive to peace and trust-building, but PM Netanyahu gets combative, pledging to fight blacklist “with all of our might.”
By Ynet, News Agencies
Israel hit back furiously Wednesday at the United Nations publication of a list of companies operating in its West Bank settlements, accusing the international body of bias and surrendering to anti-Israel elements and freezing ties with its human rights chief.
Obsessively biased against Israel, the UN Human Rights Council publishes a list of companies which are operating in the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria, including Airbnb, Expedia, and TripAdvisor, claiming they’re ‘breaking the law’.
By Arutz Sheva Staff
The UN Human Rights Council has released a report detailing a ‘black list’ of international companies operating in Judea and Samaria.
The council listed 112 companies which it claims violate international law by continuing to operate in the Jewish communities in the area, including Airbnb, Expedia, and TripAdvisor.
Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz responded to the black List, saying that “the UN Human Rights Council’s announcement of the “black list” of business companies is a shameful surrender to the pressures of countries and organizations interested in hurting Israel, even though most countries in the world have refused to join this political pressure campaign.” Continue Reading »
Special Rapporteur on Palestinian territories tells the UN how the int’l community has a responsibility to compel Israel to completely end its ‘occupation’ of territory the Palestinians want for their own state and to ban all products made by Israelis in those areas.
By Associated Press
The U.N. independent expert on human rights in the Palestinian territories called Wednesday for an international ban on all products made in Israeli settlements, as a step to potentially end Israel’s 52-year-old “illegal occupation.”
Michael Lynk told the General Assembly’s human rights committee that the international community should also issue “a clarion call to the United Nations” to complete and release a database “on businesses engaged in activities related to the illegal settlements.” Continue Reading »
Facilitated by the Palestinian Authority, Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa sought to condemn Israel for it’s demolition of 10 apartment buildings illegally built, in what Israel’s High Court determined a high security threat to the State by ignoring their location and defiantly constructing them along Israel’s security barrier.
UNITED NATIONS – The United States on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes on the outskirts of Jerusalem, diplomats said.
Israel said the 10 apartment buildings demolished on Monday, most of them still under construction, had been built illegally and posed a security risk to Israeli armed forces operating along a barrier that runs through the West Bank. Continue Reading »
Having not entered Gaza or Israel during their ‘investigation’, and receiving no cooperation with the Israeli government, the UNHRC still adopted a report accusing only Israel of war crimes during Hamas’ year-long organized clashes with armed rioters along Gaza’s border with Israel.
By David Rosenberg
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday voted to adopt a report accusing Israel of human rights violations, including war crimes, for its response to violent riots and attacks on the Israeli border along the frontier with Gaza.
On Friday, the Council’s 40th session voted in Geneva by a margin of 23 to 9, with 14 abstentions and one absence, to adopt the 252-page report conducted by the Commission of Inquiry on the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Continue Reading »
Retired British commander, Col. Richard Kemp and retired U.S. Lt. Col. Geoffrey S. Corn accuse U.N. Human Rights Council of promoting false claims against the Israel Defense Forces and warns the UN diplomats & member states that such an erroneous, biased report will further incentivize Hamas’ exploitation of Gaza’s population.
JNS and Israel Hayom Staff
In testimony delivered at the United Nations on Monday morning, retired U.S. Lt. Col. Geoffrey S. Corn and renowned retired British commander Col. Richard Kemp refuted a U.N. Human Rights Council report that accuses Israeli soldiers of “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” on Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip. Continue Reading »
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in a speech on global inequity at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, that Israel may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against Hamas-led protests on the Gaza border.
Considering the United Nations Human Rights Council commission had no access to Gaza or cooperation from Israel, due to the biased mandate to only investigate Israel’s response to the Hamas-led riots along the Gaza border, PM Netanyahu rejected the report, saying the UN had set “new records for hypocrisy and mendacity out of an obsessive hatred of Israel.”
In a likely war crime, IDF soldiers deliberately shot at children and people with disabilities when it quelled Hamas-led protests on the Gaza border during the last 11 months, a United Nations Human Rights Council commission of inquiry reported on Thursday morning. Continue Reading »
With Israel’s withdrawal from the unethical UN organization going into effect on 1/1/19, the Jewish State’s Ambassador explained, “UNESCO is a body that continues to rewrite history, among other things, by attempts to erase the Jewish connection to Jerusalem.”
World body routinely condemns Israel by simple majority, but as usual, enacts a double standard against Israel to officially condemn Hamas, so General Assembly decides a 2/3 majority must be needed to condemn the Palestinian terror group.
By ISRAEL TODAY STAFF
The United Nations has failed to officially condemn Hamas, even after the US and Israel managed to garner a strong majority in the General Assembly for a resolution doing just that.
Typically, such resolutions require a simple majority to pass. But the General Assembly decided that a two-thirds majority would be required for it to condemn a group that most of the world considers a terrorist organization. Continue Reading »
In Hanukkah greeting, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, rejected the U.N. General Assembly’s [non-binding] resolution denying the Jewish State’s claim to the ancient holy city. • Envoy tweets: “The U.N. can’t vote away the facts: Jerusalem is the ancient & modern capital of Israel.” • President Trump pledges further support for the Jewish community.
By Israel Hayom Staff
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman lambasted the United Nations on Monday over its anti-Israel bias, using the occasion of Hanukkah to highlight Israel’s legitimate claim to Jerusalem.
Friedman, the first U.S. envoy to serve in the recently opened embassy in Jerusalem, tweeted: “More than 2,000 years ago, Jewish patriots (Maccabees) captured Jerusalem, purified the Holy Temple and rededicated it as a house of Jewish worship. Continue Reading »
In a plea sent to U.N. Secretary-General Guterres, Jewish community representative suggests U.N. should strive for justice for all refugees, including the recognition of some 850,000 Jews expelled from Arab states and Iran.
By Ariel Kahana
Seventy years after the exodus and expulsion of some 850,000 Jews from Arab states and Iran, the heads of communities of Jews from Arab countries are demanding the United Nations officially recognize the suffering they were forced to endure.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. – Photo: Wikimedia Commons
In a letter to U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, community leaders, among them Dr. Shimon Ohayon, director of Bar-Ilan University’s Dahan Center and chairman of the Alliance of Moroccan Immigrants wrote, “While the U.N. Continue Reading »
Ambassador Haley reported that this year the US will vote “no” on the annual UN resolution that condemns the Israeli “occupation” of the Golan Heights, because “the atrocities the Syrian regime continues to commit prove its lack of fitness to govern anyone,” while endangering Israel’s security.
By Elad Benari
The US announced on Thursday that it plans to vote “no” on an annual resolution at the UN condemning Israel’s alleged “occupation” of the Golan Heights.
The annual resolution, entitled “The Occupied Syrian Golan”, is scheduled for a vote on Friday, November 16.
In the past, the US had abstained in the vote, but in a statement, the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, explained why this year the American delegation would vote against the resolution. Continue Reading »
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British painter, teacher, administrator, and writer on art, born in London. From 1936 to 1938 he studied under *Coldstream, first privately and then at the *Euston Road School, and much of his subsequent work (mainly landscapes, portraits, and still-lifes) was in the sombre Euston Road vein. However, he also painted abstracts, and in 1976 he began producing large pictures in which he traced the outline of his own naked body stretched out on the canvas, the paint being applied by an assistant. He had a prominent career as a teacher, notably as professor of fine art at King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne (later Newcastle University), 1948–58, at Leeds University, 1967–75, and at the *Slade School, 1975–85. From 1965 to 1967 he was deputy director of the Tate Gallery, and he had a long association with the *Arts Council, for which he helped to organize and catalogue several exhibitions, notably the major *Matisse exhibition that inaugurated the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1968 (he also published a book on Matisse in 1979).
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Dr Ahmed Al-Burai
If Deniz Zeyrek, a famous leftist journalist in Turkey, was to say, “The state of Israel and its people are undoubtedly sincere friends of Turkey and our condemnations until now are aimed at some extreme illegitimate actions of the Israeli government,” he would be condemned as a conspirator or a traitor to the Republic of Turkey. It was a surprise, therefore, that the statement was actually made by Omer Celik, the spokesperson of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). He made his comment in a press release after talks about the rapprochement between Turkey and Israel.
The emerging deal was announced a few days after Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters that reconciliation “would be good for us, Israel, Palestine and the entire region.”
Due to the recent crisis between Turkey and Russia following the shooting down of a Russian fighter last month, the Russians imposed strict sanctions on the $31 billion bilateral trade between Moscow and Ankara. In response, Turkey tried to apply countermeasuresand create new markets for its products. This worked in that it increased its exports to the EU and the Middle East, but it has had to exert serious efforts to source new supplies of natural gas.
Amidst regional turbulence, Turkey has found itself dithering between protecting its interests in a more utilitarian way and going on with its declared policy of promoting the increasing need for democracy in neighbouring Arab countries. All of this while also standing by the oppressed nations of the region who are believed to share cultural, historical and geographical commonalities with the Turks.
Every choice Turkey makes has its trade-offs that will inevitably affect it regionally and internationally. A central factor in this context is the Turkish relationship with Hamas and Israel. This cannot be comprehended and assessed from a one-dimensional angle due to the overlapping issues and the diverse perspectives and consequences that the Arab Spring produced.
The pending reconciliation between Israel and Turkey reflects Ankara’s policy of requesting a role in the Middle East, especially after the ousting of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the subsequent hostility of the current regime in Cairo headed by Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi towards Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip.
Before Sisi, Egypt maintained a minimum level of relations and managed to balance the relationship with Gaza after Hamas’s 2006 election win. The Mubarak regime succeeded in demonstrating its influence through its role in mediating in a range of conflicts between Hamas and Israel, ending with the prisoner exchange in 2011.
Thus, Turkey is looking forward to killing many birds with one stone through reconciliation with Israel. Such an agreement will send strong messages to Turkey’s allies in Europe and the US, in addition to the economic win-win aspects by which Turkey would substitute Israeli gas for Russia’s. It is worth-noting that Turkey depends on Russian gas for 60 per cent of its domestic requirements.
However, the pending agreement followed by the ruling party’s rhetoric has prompted recurring question marks over Turkey’s political premises. Turkey is stereotyped, even among some of the Islamists, as a Machiavellian, ideologically-pragmatic political entity that acts on interests rather than morality, although that libels the ruling party and its founder who is still, presumably, its influential leader, President Erdogan. When the leader of Hamas was invited to Ankara and two extended meetings were held with the president and prime minister, it sent multi-dimensional messages through the compliant local media.
The first message was intended to reassure Turkish public opinion that Ankara is not imposing any agreements on the Palestinians and is not a mere utilitarian regime that will easily forgive those who killed its civilians in the brutal attack on the Freedom Flotilla in 2010. That is why three conditions are always stressed by pro-government channels: compensation for the victims’ families, a full apology from Israel and, most importantly, lifting the siege of the Gaza Strip.
The second message targets Israel itself by stating bluntly that Turkey is not initiating any step in the Palestinian issue without the consent of Hamas, and that it will not succumb to Israeli blackmail.
Finally, the proponents and opponents of the neo-Islamist pragmatism should get the message that Turkey is not as it is being portrayed. It is, rather, an independent country that has a leading role to play in regional affairs and which refuses to be a puppet for any other power.
This was established clearly by Ankara’s rejection of the extradition of Saleh Al-Arouri, a Hamas official who is accused of orchestrating attacks against Israelis in the occupied West Bank. In addition to its insistence on lifting the blockade of the Gaza Strip, this would be a major obstacle to any agreement with Israel.
As stated earlier, according to economic analysts, the Turkish government has been working hard on shuttle diplomacy with Ukraine, Qatar, Kazakhstan and other countries in an attempt to open new opportunities and reduce its dependence on Moscow’s gas. Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz told Israel Radio that the government is looking into the opportunity of rekindling relations with Turkey, which would be a valuable market for its gas industry; this, he explained, would break the ice and revitalise relations between the two countries. In turn, he expects, Turkey would give up prosecuting Israeli officers and drop the criminal charges it has filed against them, which has caused serious problems for their freedom of movement in Europe and various other countries.
Most importantly, Israel cannot keep Turkey at bay for ever; it knows that Hamas holds a number of its soldiers and is looking for a second prisoner swap deal. The revival of Turkey-Israel relations would facilitate Ankara’s role as a mediator with Hamas.
- Israel offers natural gas to Turkey to improve sour relations
- Turkey’s conditions: An apology, compensation from Israel and lifting the blockade on Gaza
- Israel faces ‘no reconciliation’ if Turkey insists on Gaza siege to be lifted
I believe that a preliminary reconciliation between Turkey and Israel would, if it succeeds — and contrary to expectations — give a boost to Hamas, as it would provide a lifeline in the midst of a set of extraordinary conditions dominated by political ambiguity, a lack of genuine alliances, regional turmoil and a shortage of funding sources.
That’s what prompted the Deputy Chairman of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, to address the Iranian people and the Ayatollahs in Tehran in an attempt to repair their damaged relationship after a serious rift between the Sunni resistance movement and the “Axis of Resistance”. Haniyeh’s message coincided with a formal obituary posted by the movement’s military wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, for the “Martyr of Palestine and the free world”, Samir Kuntar. He was the doyen of the former detainees liberated from Israel’s prisons and killed, it is believed, by an Israeli missile strike in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana a few days ago.
Condolence letters sent by Hamas infuriated some its followers and many activists who believe that the last drastic shift of Hezbollah and its militants — to support Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad — removed them from the “Axis of Resistance”. Others defended Hamas’s dogmatic principle that sees it sympathis with those who have sacrificed for the cause of Palestine and are targeted by Israel.
In light of these polarisations ignited by Facebook activists, the possible agreement between Turkey and Israel was announced. Bear in mind that Hamas has been operating under an unbearable blockade that has paralysed every aspect of life in the Gaza Strip, while its members in the West Bank have been targeted by the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority. The movement lost Iran as a strategic ally, along with Tehran’s military and financial support. It also gambled and lost on support from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and is now being exposed, as are all Palestinians in Gaza, to collective punishment by the government in Cairo, which has urged Israel not to respond positively to the Turkish condition of lifting the blockade on the coastal enclave. Hamas has not succeeded in finding alternative allies within the Sunni world to replace Iran. Furthermore, the Sunni countries have not put any pressure whatsoever on Egypt to ease its own role in the blockade.
As such, the expected deal between Turkey and Israel will help Hamas to catch its breath and may open new channels of communication (and mediation) between Gaza and the outside world. This, in turn, will help to ease public pressure arising from the insufferable economic conditions endured by the Palestinians.
According to Steven A Cook, a researcher on Turkey at the Council on Foreign Relations, the compromise deal between Israel and Turkey is a diplomatic priority for the United States. The US administration has been putting great pressure on both parties to push for an end to the rift. The tension with Russia has made Turkey realise that it needs its Western allies.
The White House has praised the efforts to reach an agreement. “We would welcome this step in improving relations between two of our key allies in the region, particularly given our common interests and the challenges we face,” a senior official said.
Reconciliation between Israel and Turkey will re-establish the latter as one of the pivotal partners in the Middle East, which is in dire need of a country such as Turkey to help maintain regional security. It is evident that Turkey used to be Israel’s most crucial friend in the Muslim world, and the two still share many strategic interests, including containing Iran. The terms of any rapprochement will be very interesting indeed, especially if Turkey’s conditions are accepted.
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Graham Cox | CUPE Research
With anti-union financial disclosure legislation already introduced by the Conservative government, and the possibility of some form of US-style “right-to-work” law not far behind, there is added urgency for locals to include strong, preventative language in their collective agreements.
That’s why CUPE has developed a special Fairness Project bargaining kit. This kit will assist bargaining teams to assess their current collective agreement language and provides sample language that can strengthen collective agreements.
While it might not protect locals from all forms of anti-union legislation, bargaining new language to protect our representation rights is an important line of defence.
For example, financial disclosure legislation would force locals to spend time and resources reporting detailed financial publicly. But union members already have access to this information, and only the employer benefits from this kind of disclosure. The kit helps identify opportunities to ensure the employer shares the cost of implementing any new procedures.
In total, the kit covers these seven vital areas:
- Member contact information
- Orientation sessions
- Access to worksite
- Bulletin boards
- Union dues deduction and remittance
- Union release time
- Language in response to potential legislation
There is also a detailed overview of the legal issues related to union access to employee contact information. Contact information is essential to the democratic functioning of the union and required under law. Enshrining this right and the format of the information in the collective agreement will simplify the understanding of this right with the employer.
It has always been important to have a direct connection with all our members even before recent legislative attacks on unions.
Strengthening representation rights will be good for locals, CUPE, and ultimately the broader labour movement.
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President Obama announced that he would be extending the moratorium on offshore drilling for at least another 6 months. This announcement just happens to coincide with the time of year that the demand for oil historically spikes — the summer time. Why is it that a decrease in production, combined with a time of historically increasing consumption and a history-making oil disaster, oil is not going through the roof? According to Peter Schiff Oil prices SHOULD BE going through the roof right now. The only reason they’re not is because of the broad-based sell-off around the world in equities, commodities, and other currencies due to the fear of contagion in Europe. This is trumping the very very bullish news for oil. But once we hit a bottom, I think we’re gonna see a huge increase in the price of oil.
Peter see’s oil going over $100 a barrell, a huge increase from the current price of oil. See the video below:
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There are a myriad of different ETF options available to participate in the rise in oil as some will do much better than others. We have included some in the list below.
PowerShares DB Oil Fund West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil (DBO)
The investment seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index — Optimum Yield Oil Excess Return. The index is a rules-based index composed of futures contracts on Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) and is intended to reflect the performance of crude oil.
United States Oil Fund West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil (USO)
The investment seeks to reflect the performance, less expenses, of the spot price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light, sweet crude oil. The fund will invest in futures contracts for WTI light, sweet crude oil, other types of crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, natural gas and other petroleum based-fuels that are traded on exchanges. It may also invest in other oil interests such as cash-settled options on oil futures contracts, forward contracts for oil, and OTC transactions that are based on the price of oil.
United States Gasoline Fund Gasoline (UGA)
The investment seeks to track, net of expenses, the changes in percentage terms of the price of gasoline. The trust will invest in the futures contract on unleaded gasoline delivered to the New York harbor traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange that is the near month contract to expire.
iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil Ttl Ret Idx ETN (OIL)
The investment is linked to the performance of the Goldman Sachs Crude Oil Return Index and reflects the returns that are potentially available through an unleveraged investment in the futures contacts comprising the index plus the Treasury Bill rate of interest that could be earned on funds committed to the trading of the underlying contracts. The index is derived from the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures contract traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange. | <urn:uuid:4ea64956-359d-4b74-92d0-d3b1857d6764> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/06/peter-schiff/oil-prices-should-be-going-through-the-roof/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945431 | 652 | 1.546875 | 2 |
I’m Using My Status to Speak Up
I’ve been thinking a lot about privilege in recent months — what it enables as well as what it prevents. Those who benefit from it may not be aware of their position, and when their privilege is pointed out, they have a hard truth to face. Many refuse to accept their advantage; they deny it or decry the person who points it out. Others begin to examine their situation more closely and use it to the advantage of others. Privilege isn’t only a “white thing” or a “male thing,” though these two groups do benefit from many advantages in our culture. Privileges come with socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, sexuality, education level, and physical and mental ability.
As a white, straight, happily married, Christian woman who has a master’s degree and comes from a two-parent home, I enjoy many advantages. It wasn’t until I learned I had multiple sclerosis in 2004 that I slipped out of one of the privileged categories, from “able” to “disabled.” (Yes, I know the term isn’t ideal, but that’s the way most Americans view the dichotomy, so let’s go with it.)
Being an MS patient means perhaps not walking or talking like “normal” people. It involves fatigue or troubles with coordination. The brain becomes sluggish from time to time. One “runs out of gas” before most people their age would. Medications are injected, something others never have to think about. Spontaneity is often impossible because planning ahead and practicing a kind of self-care is necessary, which “able” people would find exhausting.
Many people are understanding and try to help. They encourage and support us on the bad days as well as the good. However, others don’t understand what it means to live with a chronic, incurable (for now) disease. These folks are the ones who criticize us for where we park or for asking for assistance in public spaces. They’re the ones who don’t want us to speak up or advocate for ourselves.
I think there are two reasons for this. First, we don’t “look sick,” and why should people who don’t look miserable get special accommodations? The second is more elusive. I firmly believe our illness freaks out “able” people. There’s no genetic cause for MS like there are for other illnesses. We didn’t do it to ourselves through poor life choices. Multiple sclerosis just happened. And having us around is a reminder that it, or something similar, might land in their laps one day. I would never condone such behavior, but I can understand why they might want to push us away with both hands.
In her wonderful book, “The View from Flyover Country,” Sarah Kendzior closes with an essay entitled: “In Defense of Complaining.” In it, she writes that when things got hard, Americans were told: “Stop complaining — things will not be like this forever. Stop complaining — this is the way things have always been. Complainers suffer the cruel imperatives of optimism: lighten up, suck it up, chin up, buck up. In other words: shut up. The surest way to keep a problem from being solved is to deny that problem exists. Telling people not to complain is a way of keeping social issues from being addressed. It trivializes the grievances of the vulnerable, making the burdened feel like burdens. Telling people not to complain is an act of power, a way of asserting that one’s position is more important than another one’s pain. People who say ‘stop complaining’ always have the right to stop listening. But those who complain have often been denied the right to speak.”
She’s 100 percent correct. Being allowed to speak (or keep others from doing so) is an act of privilege. It controls our national dialogue about everything from ableism to xenophobia, but I refuse to allow myself to feel “like a burden.” I am here in the body I’ve been given, and I do not simply take up space designed for someone who is “better” than I am. My body is not an inconvenience or an embarrassment. I am no less worthy of love, kindness, or joy because I am an MS patient. And neither are you.
So don’t be afraid to advocate for yourself. Use your voice for good, and never ever feel like your concerns are trivial. But also, allow your status to shape the way you see people who are different from you. Let your illness inform the way you see the world and change it for the better. Many other groups are subjected to the same muzzling as the MS community, and as people who know what it’s like to be on the outside, it’s our job to stand up — both for ourselves and others.
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“Gosh, Father, you look so warm in that!”
“Black isn’t the best color to be wearing in the heat, eh, Father?”
“Wow, Father, you’re dressed so formal!”
“Why don’t you loosen up that collar a little?”
One of the things I’m really picking up in my first year of priesthood is the importance of wearing my clerical dress, namely, the Roman collar. Sure, all of those statements above are true – it’s hot, it absorbs heat like crazy, it’s sometimes uncomfortable, and it makes people stare. Sometimes, I even wonder whether as children, some peoples’ parents told them to stop staring, smacking them upside the head. And yet, I’m called wear this thing anyway.
Sure, you could consider a legal thing. The 1983 Code of Canon Law states that “clerics are to wear suitable ecclesiastical garb in accord with the norms issued by the conference of bishops and in accord with legitimate local custom.” (canon 284) So yes, I guess I have to wear it according to the law.
But the collar means so much more than that. We find ourselves in a very secularized, very materialistic society, one that longs for signs of the sacred and of something beyond itself. The distinctive black shirt with the white Roman collar stands out as a beacon in this world, and is very recognizeable as a sign of what we stand for. The man who wears that white piece of fabric or plastic around his neck is more than just the guy who lives at the church down the street. He is a man of God, a dispenser of the great mysteries of our faith, and by virtue of his ordination to the priesthood, he is conformed to the image of Christ, consecrated and set apart from others.
This is where it gets tough. In living at the parish, many priests have a pull within themselves between the things that they have to do as presiders – preach, lead the community in worship of Almighty God, stand in the person of Christ (for goodness sakes!) – and the things they have to do as spiritual fathers – get close to the families of the parish, be present in the best and worst times in their lives, etc. In this way, a false humility almost gets the better of us. Many priests don’t want to wear their clerics for fear of being set apart from solidarity with their people, but the reality is, the priest is called to be set apart, in the same way that Christ himself was set apart amongst his disciples – not to be their boss, but to lead them to the Father.
As I reflect on the meaning of the clerics in my own life, I see it as a challenge. When I put on that collar (even when it keeps unbuttoning itself, i.e. I need new ones), I feel Christ calling me to something more. He is calling me to truly be the pastor, the shepherd that my people need me to be. And it is a reminder to me that I’m not here to do my own work, but the work of the one who sent me to this parish, this hospital room, this classroom, this confessional. When people see me walk in with my collar, my prayer is that they don’t see Michael Joseph Grosch, some twerp kid from Ballwin, but Jesus of Nazareth coming to minister to their needs.
The ministerial priesthood is a vocation and a witness, not merely a job, and so the clerical shirt isn’t about what I do, but who I am.
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Indirect discrimination occurs when there is an unreasonable rule or policy that is the same for everyone but has an unfair effect on people who share a particular attribute.
Example: It could be indirect sex discrimination if a policy says that managers must work full-time, as this might disadvantage women because they are more likely to work part-time because of family responsibilities.
Example: It could be indirect disability discrimination if the only way to enter a public building is by a set of stairs because people with disabilities who use wheelchairs would be unable to enter the building.
Indirect discrimination is unlawful if the discrimination is based on certain attributes protected by law, such as a person’s race, sex, pregnancy, marital or relationship status, breastfeeding, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status. Some limited exceptions and exemptions apply.
Indirect discrimination is not unlawful when the rule or policy is reasonable, having regard to the circumstances of the case.
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Left to right.
Back row: Mary Coker?, Cara Bartholomew, Mr. Coker?, William Bartholomew, John Shill;
Foreground, standing: James Bartholomew;
Seated, left to right: Harriett Matilda (nee Burden), Jane (nee Willis), Ellen Mary, Sarah Jane with Elizabeth (8), Emily (6) and Frederick (4) Burgum.
Photo probably taken about 1876 (between 1875 and Aug. 1876)
Fontley House which stands near the site of the old Fontley Iron Mill.
Great Funtley Farm where James Bartholomew and his father were born. Photos taken about 1950.
Caroline (Cara) E.F. Shill wrote letters telling her cousin, Alfred Bartholomew, about his English ancestry. Alfred, the youngest surviving son of William Henry and Harriet Matilda Bartholomew had come to Canada as a home-child in 1901 after spending a few years in Portsea Island Union, an orphanage.
"When Grandfather Bartholomew married Jane Willis, there was sufficient money left over from the sale of James Strugnell's properties for a marriage settlement. Grandfather had the use of the interest from 1881 when Grandmother died until his death." (I haven't the date of that.-Cara Shill)
"Grandfather quarreled with his father - I do not know why - and he left the iron mill and started a Smithy in Fareham. I believe it is still there. He got terribly into debt and was put in a Debtors Prison as they did in those days - Grandma (Jane Willis B.) paid the debts and he was released - it was not considered any disgrace."
"They went to live in London where he got a post in the Albert Docks. Both Mother (Ellen Mary) and Aunt Carrie were born in London (recorded at Portsea). Whether Aunt Harriet the eldest sister and mother of Emily Burgum were too, and Ida's Father (William), I don't know. There were a number of other children who died as babies."
"I don't know how long they lived in London, but he returned to Portsmouth and got a job in the Dockyard - I understand he had a good position there. He bought a good bit of land in Fratton, then a country district and built a house called Woodbine Cottage. It had a large garden and he grew and sold vegetables after he retired on a good pension.
After Grandmother died (1881) Uncle Willie and Aunt Matilda and all their family went there to live. After Uncle Willie and his wife died (1892/93), Grandpa sold Woodbine Cottage and bought a house in Swanwick - the strawberry neighbourhood, and retired there. It was there he died and I think he was buried there."
"He left everything he could to your sister Lily and didn't bother about the rest. He never forgave our mother (Ellen Mary Bartholomew Shill) for marrying against his wishes and did not even mention her in his Will.
Grandfather Bartholomew had some brothers and sisters but know nothing about them - they don't seem to be a united family."
|Born:||1821||in:||Fontley, Hants, Eng.|
|Married:||Aug.17, 1843||in:||Fareham, Hants, Eng.|
|Died:||Unknown||in:||Swanwick, Hants, Eng.|
|Born:||Jan. 18, 1822||in:||Fareham, Hants, Eng.|
|Died:||1881||in:||Woodbine Cottage, Fratton, Hants, Eng.|
|Father:||Peter Willis||Mother:||Sarah Strugnell|
|1. Daur.||Sarah Jane||Bartholomew|
|Born:||Jan. 16, 1845||in:||West Ham, Lon., Eng.|
|Married:||Dec. 3, 1866||in:||West Ham, Lon., Eng.|
|Died:||Aug. 6, 1876||in:||Marylebone, Lon., Eng.|
|Spouse: Henry Burgum|
|2. Son||William Henry||Bartholomew|
|Born:||Mar., 1852||in:||Portsea Island, Hants, Eng.|
|Married:||Abt. Jun. 1873||in:||Portsea, Hants, Eng..|
|Died:||Jan.23, 1894||in:||Fareham, Hants, Eng.|
|Spouse: Harriett Matilda Burden|
|3. Daur.||Caroline Ann (Little Auntie Bartie)||Bartholomew|
|Born:||Oct.8, 1854||in:||St. Mary’s Portsea, Hants, Eng.|
|Died:||1936||in:||Fareham, Hants, Eng.|
|4. Daur.||Ellen Mary||Bartholomew|
|Born:||Feb.18, 1857||in:||Fratton, Hants, Eng.|
|Married:||May 25, 1878||in:||St. James Church, Milton, Portsea, Hants, Eng.|
|Died:||May 8, 1929||in:||Montreal, Quebec, CA|
|Spouse: John Shill|
|Born:||Unknown||(I have seen no evidence in FreeBMD or in UK census records to support the existence of a daughter named Harriet. Is it possible that Cara Shill was mixing up Sarah Jane and her aunt by marriage, Harriet Matilda?)| | <urn:uuid:e4e192f8-c530-4e01-b523-758457478c4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.recordfamilyhistory.com/ancestrybartholomew.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.942026 | 1,321 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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