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As a parent, the last thing you want to do is put your child in a situation that makes them feel terrified. So, it’s not hard to see why many parents are unsure how to go about handling their child’s biannual checkups and cleanings, especially if you have a child with Autism that is triggered by strange sounds, tastes, and sensations. Fortunately, that’s where special needs dentistry comes in. Keep reading to learn a few ways to help your child with Autism feel comfortable at the dentist.
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#2. Introduce Dental Visits Through Books and Videos
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#3. Act Out a Checkup & Cleaning
Now that your child is familiar with the concept, have them act it out! You can buy some toy dental tools, have them practice saying “ahh,” and get them used to leaning back in a chair. Have them participate by playing “dentist” with their stuffed animals too!
#4. Bring Some Comfort-Based Items
Naturally, your child may feel a bit anxious due to the unfamiliar sights and sounds of the dentist’s office. So, make sure to bring some of their favorite comfort-based items with them! This could be a soft blanket, their favorite book, or even an iPad.
#5. Fill Out All the Paperwork Beforehand
The last thing you want is to be filling out paperwork while your child’s anxiety continues to grow in the waiting room or treatment chair. To avoid this, ask the practice if you can fill out the new patient paperwork beforehand. This will help get you and your child in and out of the office as quickly as possible.
Your child’s oral health is essential to their overall wellbeing and development, which is why their routine visits to the dentist are of the utmost importance. Fortunately, you can use the above tips to help them feel as comfortable as possible in the process!
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The Legend of Theodore Kuzmich
By Metropolitan Andrew
The Emperor Alexander I was the first son of Emperor Paul I. He was the favourite of his grandmother Catherine the Great and was groomed by her to be the next Emperor, since from the reign of Peter I to that of Catherine II the succession depended on the will of the Sovereign rather than birth. Because of Catherine’s manifest preference for her grandson, the relations within the Imperial Family were strained to say the least.
Paul upon accession to the throne published the Fundamental Law of Succession, which for the first time since Peter I provided for an orderly transfer of power. He also initiated other reforms in the Empire, some of which were not at all to the liking of powerful people in the Capital. These formed a conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor. To this end, they convinced Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich that he and the other members of the Imperial Family were in mortal danger. They got an agreement form the Grand Duke that in the case of the abdication of the Emperor, he would agree to assume power. The conspirators promised that the Emperor would not be harmed which was the only way that they could get an agreement in principle from Alexander. Now, all historians agree that Alexander must have known the character of his father well enough to know that he would never quietly abdicate and retire to the country. In fact, on the night of March 11, 1801 o.s. he was murdered in the Michael Fortress, because he refused to sign the act of abdication presented to him by the conspirators. Alexander was crowned and began a brilliant reign. However, there runs a dark streak through all his years on the throne. He had a deep and abiding sorrow which never completely left him. He was tormented by guilt for the death of his father.
As the years past, Alexander turned more and more to religion [not all of it Orthodox] and he spoke of the burdens of office. In the autumn of 1824, one of the worst floods in the history of St. Petersburg left 600 people dead and thousands of homes destroyed or ruined. As the Emperor stood on an eminence surveying the devastation in tears, an old man walking by said “God is punishing us for our sins.” The Emperor said “No, not for our sins but for mine.” The sin was his, unforgotten and unexpiated – parricide. At the same time the Empress was lying sick in the Winter Palace with a pulmonary disease.
In the Spring of 1825 Alexander began a tour of the Empire which included many of the scenes of is youthful triumphs. With 20/20 hindsight, historians say that he was taking leave of his old haunts in preparation for – death? By the time Alexander returned to the Capital, Elizabeth Alexeievna was much worse. Her temperature was now constant and she was coughing up blood. The doctors recommended a change of climate and the Emperor, for no logical reason chose Taganrog, a small sea port town with few amenities and inferior climate to that of the neighbouring Crimea.
Early in the morning on August 31 Alexander left the Winter Palace for the last time and made his way to St. Alexander Lavra, where he stood through the Liturgy praying with tears. After Liturgy the Emperor visited the cell of a holy elder and then made his way to Taganrog. Arriving on Sept. 13, he began to prepare for the arrival of the Empress. She arrived on Sept. 23. They settled into a quiet life, Alexander taking a few side trips. During one such trip a soldier who had come with a message or the Emperor was killed in an accident, and was buried in the town. It has been suggested that it was his body which was used to fake the Emperor’s death.
On November 5 the Emperor returned form ride complaining of feeling ill and suggesting that he may have caught a touch of Malaria. From this point on we have very few documents concerning events in Taganrog, because Nicholas Pavlovich, upon taking the throne, destroyed much of the material relating to his brother’s reign, including the letters sent to the Empress Dowager from Taganrog. What does remain is contradictory and suggest that some cosmetic surgery was done on the reports after the death/disappearance of the Emperor. Be that as it may, on November 19, 1825 Alexander passed from the pages of history.
The account of the autopsy is revealing. Everyone reports that the body was decaying at an unusually fast rate. And the doctors were all reported as having been smoking during the process which is shocking in itself but doubly so if this were really the body of the Emperor, the anointed of God. Believers in the legend hold that the cigar smoke was intended to mask the smell of decay from the body used to replace the Emperor. The body was kept as cold as possible during the entire trip to St. Petersburg, yet it continued to decompose at a great rate, and was never displayed to the public, a most unusual thing. When the Empress Dowager finally saw the body late at night she is reported to have said, “ ‘Yes that is my Alexander.’ Almost as thought she were trying to convince herself.”
The following paragraphs are taken from the Imperial Legend by Alexis Troubetzkoy, to which the reader is referred for the most complete discussion in English of the mystery surrounding the death of Tsar Alexander I and the appearance of St. Theodore Kuzmich.
The Life and Death of Feodor Kuzmich
ONE CHILLY SEPTEMBER DAY in 1836, a stranger astride an impressive white horse rode into the Siberian town of Krasnoufimsk, in Perm province. A tall, balding figure, with a full gray beard, he was a man in his fifties or early sixties and modestly dressed in a peasant’s black tunic and trousers. He made his way to the blacksmith’s shop and asked to have his steed reshod. Then as now, strangers in provincial Russian towns invariably aroused curiosity, and the blacksmith made little attempt to disguise his interest in the distinguished-looking visitor standing before him. The bearing and manner of speech of this solitary horseman were those of a refined gentleman, yet his ordinary dress was that of a common peasant. As he set about his work, the blacksmith engaged the visitor in idle banter. Where had he come from? Where was he headed? What was his business?
The stranger responded evasively and volunteered little helpful information, obviously not anxious to talk. The blacksmith pressed more aggressively but received little satisfaction; he continued at his forge. Before long, a small crowd had filtered into the shop, as much to enjoy the warmth of the furnaces as to satisfy their curiosity about the new arrival. They listened attentively to the exchange and, perceiving that the stranger seemed to be deliberately hiding something, they grew suspicious. Perhaps the fellow was on the run. Perhaps he was wanted by the law. After some dispute among themselves, they forcefully hustled him off to the police station for questioning. Try as they might, however, the authorities were no less successful in finding out anything meaningful about the man, who volunteered nothing. He told the police that he had no recollection of his past, but he knew his name to be Feodor Kuzmich. It was not that he was really suffering from amnesia, but that he was unwilling to reveal his true identity to the police. He also informed them that he was homeless and that the horse belonged to him. The irritated officials persisted in their questioning and even threatened him with the whip. In those days the laws governing vagabondage were inordinately harsh. Kuzmich nevertheless steadfastly maintained his silence.
When all else had failed, the exasperated police stripped Kuzmich of his tunic and, according to the law, beat him soundly with a birch rod. He received twenty strokes and was sentenced to exile near Tomsk, a few hundred miles deeper into Siberia.
On April 8, 1837, Feodor Kuzmich arrived from Perm to join the 43rd Exile Settlement at Bogotolsk, near Tomsk. This time he came by cart and foot; his horse had been sold to settle his account with the Perm innkeeper, with whom he had lodged before being sent into exile. The long and arduous passage was shared with prisoners of every sort, including thieves and murderers. But the elderly man endured the trip patiently without complaint, even offering encouragement to the weaker prisoners. When they arrived, Kuzmich was assigned to work in a vodka distillery, to which he assented without complaint. From the outset, a warm relationship developed between the newly arrived exile and the plant’s administration. The distillery’s director treated him especially well, with considerable deference; this workman, he had decided, was no ordinary person. After the first few weeks of hard toil, no further demands were made of him and he was excused from compulsory labor. Factory staff and colleagues showed equal consideration. Everybody liked the reclusive gentleman, who got along readily with one and all. Within the distillery’s precincts, Kuzmich spent nearly five years, living in relative solitude.
In 1842, for reasons unrecorded, Feodor Kuzmich was moved to another exile settlement at Beloyarsk, where he eventually took up residence in a small hut, generously constructed for him by a Cossack named Simeon Siderov. Within a few months, Kuzmich had developed a local following. Attracted by his ascetic mode of life and good education, people gravitated to him for every conceivable reason, mostly to ask questions and to seek advice and spiritual comfort. On the one hand, he enjoyed receiving visitors but in small doses and mostly when it suited him. On the other hand, his burgeoning popularity denied him the privacy and seclusion he so desired. Eventually it became such a problem that he left Siderov’s cabin and Beloyarsk and moved on.
For the next fifteen years, Kuzmich moved from one place to another. From Beloyarsk he traveled to Zertsaii, thence to the gold-mining center at Enyisei, and eventually to the secluded banks of the Tchuivin River. Later he relocated into the deep taiga near the village of Korobeinikov, where he spent a few months, following which he moved on to Krasnaya Rechka. In all, Feodor Kuzmich spent almost three decades in the greater Tomsk area. They were searching years, during which he seemed never fully satisfied. His constant moves suggested that he was in quest of an elusive something, or perhaps escaping from some invisible force.
Wherever he traveled or settled, the local populace invariably took to him. Peasant children in particular were attracted to him, and he freely instructed them in grammar, history, geography, and religious knowledge. With adults, he held religious discussions and recounted colorful events of national history the old man was well versed in the details of various battles. His followers were especially captivated by his vivid accounts of life in St. Petersburg. By his piety and simplicity and through the sympathetic counsel he freely offered, Kuzmich earned the warm affection of those around him. As in his earlier years in Beloyarsk, visitors of every sort sought spiritual counsel from him or simply asked for practical advice. At first he appeared genuinely to welcome his callers, but as time went on it became increasingly clear to the people that the starets required privacy and seclusion. A tacit understanding was eventually reached, and before long people ceased imposing on the old man’s hospitality.
The longest time Kuzmich spent in any one place was in Krasnaya Rechka. There a wealthy peasant named Ivan Latyshov took an exceptional liking to him and generously erected a small cabin for him. As in his previous places of domicile, the poor, the lonely, and those in need of advice or moral support came to him, initially out of curiosity, but before long out of affection and a sense of deference. The starets received everyone equally warmly, and shared whatever food happened to be at hand. He was especially fond of children, whom he continued to teach, and who frequently brought him flowers.
When visitors did call, the starets was invariably polite, although on rare occasions he showed flashes of irritation. Once, for example, a couple of workmen were sent to repair a broken window frame in his cabin. The carpenters set about their work noisily while Kuzmich remained at his table inside the hut. Twice he asked them to be less noisy, to no avail. Finally, he raised his voice and ordered them to do as he bid, adding threateningly, “If only you knew who I am, you would not dare aggravate me this way! “
Among the regular visitors whom Kuzmich received were two elderly sisters living nearby, who noted that the old man was particularly attached to St. Alexander Nevsky, the patron saint of Tsar Alexander. An icon of St. Alexander hung in Kuzmich’s cell, and each year on August 30 the starets made a point of marking the saint’s feast day. One year on that day the sisters baked sweet cakes, which they took to him. The starets seemed pleased to receive the women and was openly moved by their attentions. He sat them down at the little table to share the cakes, and in the course of conversation he enthusiastically told of the massive celebrations that took place in St. Petersburg on St. Alexander Nevsky’s Day. The women listened attentively, enthralled by the colorful details of the large crowds massing the streets, the spectacular fireworks, and night-time illuminations decorating the city. Kuzmich assured them that such festivities gave much pleasure and happiness to the Tsar.
One incident that provoked comment related to the visit paid by Count General Pyotr Kleinmikel to Krasnaya Rechka. From earliest days, the count had been one of Alexander’s closer friends and advisers. By 1825, he had risen to become one of the most influential officials in the country, serving as Arakchey’ev’s chief of staff. During an extensive inspection tour of Siberia, the general stopped off at Krasnaya Rechka and visited the local hospital. As coincidence would have it, Feodor Kuzmich, whose health had always been sturdy, was at the time suffering an illness that required hospitalization. He therefore happened to be in the hospital during Kleinmikel’s visit, which was something of a state occasion for the staff and patients. When the inspecting party entered the ward where Kuzmich was lying, the physicians were upset to see the starets turn his face to the wall and cover himself with a blanket, as though trying to avoid eye contact with the honored guest. Until then, Kleinmikel had been greeted by one and all with the warmest Siberian hospitality. Now, it seemed, he was ignored, if not insulted. Why had Kuzmich acted so churlishly? It was so uncharacteristic of him. One can only surmise that he might have feared the general would recognize him. Given the more than thirty years that had elapsed since Alexander’s death, it was highly unlikely that Kleinmikel would have known the patient, but Kuzmich was doubtless taking no chances.
On another occasion in Krasnaya Rechka, three peasants called on Kuzmich and, no doubt having been taken by rumors concerning the possible imperial origin of the starets, bluntly asked him, “Little father, is it true that you are the Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich [Alexander’s younger brother]?” The starets crossed himself and blurted out without thinking, “Thank God, I’m not. He’s shorter than me, not very handsome, and has a pug nose.”
At the end of October 1858, Kuzmich made his final move. From Krasnaya Rechka he relocated to the outskirts of Tomsk itself. Earlier in his wanderings, he had met and was befriended by a merchant named Khromov. The kindly businessman offered to settle the starets on his country property just outside the city, where he proposed to build him a cabin, or rather a cell. Kuzmich gratefully accepted the generous proposal and soon found himself in his new quarters, where he lived out his final years.
During those years, Khromov’s guest aged rapidly. When they had first met, Kuzmich was still tall and broad-shouldered, a handsome man with delicate features, his deep blue eyes sparkling with kindness. Now he was nearly bald and sported a graying beard. The merchant was taken by the man’s gentle, reserved manner and by his thoughtfulness and generosity. A considerate person, but oh so secretive never speaking of his past or of himself. The old man soon captured a place not only in Khromov’s heart but in those of his family as well. But why so guarded? Who was he really? The “vagabond” was obviously a cultured person who possessed the sort of tact one could hardly expect to find in an ordinary peasant. Might there be something dark in his past? Surely such a man should have the initiative and wit to secure honest work, and make something of himself. Perhaps, thought Khromov, he had sometime in the past committed a crime or serious transgression and now, in his declining years, was destined to wander the vast country, knocking on monastery doors for food and shelter.
From the start, the relationship between Kuzmich and the Khromovs was familial, and soon the starets became something of a fixture in the household. An especially close friendship blossomed with the merchant’s young daughter, Anna, and she was always welcome at the old man’s cabin, where the two spent hours in discussion. Over time, Anna recorded many anecdotes and incidents concerning the family’s enigmatic guest, which, if we take them at face value, and there is no reason we shouldn’t, comprise a valuable record of the starets during that period.
The mode of Kuzmich’s life was simplicity itself. His dress invariably consisted of a peasant’s full-length chemise of crude linen, loose trousers of the same cloth, thick white stockings which he changed daily and hard leather shoes. His hut was a single room with a tiny vestibule leading outdoors, a sort of mudroom, in which hung a heavy winter overcoat. The cell itself measured eleven and a half by fourteen and a half feet and was sparsely furnished, containing only a rough wooden table with two or three chairs and a cot with wooden slats that served as a mattress, together with a pillow and a heavy quilt. In addition, there was a small stove, a couple of benches, and a shelf. On the table lay a Bible and prayer book, and a wall shelf contained a collection of religious books. On another wall hung a crucifix and a display of icons with a votive lamp that burned day and night. The two small windows provided little light; in freezing winter, however, the room was warm and cozy. Visitors invariably remarked on the tidiness and cleanliness of these spartan quarters.
Among Kuzmich’s belongings was a chest containing writing materials and packets of papers that he scrupulously concealed from all but his most trusted visitors, such as the Khromovs. He wrote many letters, but always behind a locked door. Few people were aware of the extent of his contact with the world at large, an aspect of his life Kuzmich guarded jealously. Letters were received and sent; unfamiliar visitors came and went, often bearing a parcel or an envelope. Khromov tells us that on one occasion he and members of his family overheard Kuzmich speak with his visitors in a foreign tongue, which he presumed to be French.
The starets arose early in the morning but did not emerge from his cell until well into the day. Weather permitting, he spent as much time as possible outdoors, usually working the garden or tending his bees. At night he slept fitfully, with long hours given over to prayer. The old man dined sparingly and simply mostly hard biscuits, vegetables, and water. Occasionally he ate some fish or meat that was offered to him, which he consumed with indifference. “You see,” he declared to one visitor, “I’m not a rabid vegetarian! “
Even by the time of Kuzmich’s move onto the Khromov property, the staret’s notoriety had already spread throughout the region. The inhabitants were now drawn to him in ever greater numbers. An aura of sanctity seemed to envelop him. “The saintly old man of Tomsk,” they called him. One longtime resident of Tomsk, V. Dolgoruky, recounts the following prophetic story that circulated in Siberia at the time. On an especially cold midwinter day, Kuzmich asked one of Khromov’s workmen to report to his master in Tomsk and request additional firewood. Without hesitation, the obliging merchant dispatched his servant back to the starets with the message that firewood would be arriving shortly. Khromov then ordered another employee to load up a cart and make the delivery. The delegated servant, enjoying the warmth of his own hut, was displeased with the order but grudgingly carried out the task, all the time cursing his lot, his master, the starets, and the two-and-a-half mile journey ahead of him. But when he arrived at Kuzmich’s cell, the old man informed him that the wood was no longer required.
“What do you mean, you don’t need the wood?” protested the exasperated workman.
“From you, I won’t accept the wood,” replied the starets. “You bring the logs with resentment and anger. As you loaded your cart, you swore and cursed me.” And the old man repeated to the dismayed deliveryman every word that he had uttered in Tomsk before departure. The awe-struck workman fell to his knees and pleaded for forgiveness, which was readily given and the wood accepted. Real or apocryphal, the story reflects the way the people regarded their starets.
Anna Khromov relates how she and her father once called on Kuzmich, who, on seeing them approach, exited his cell and asked if they would kindly wait for a few moments until his guests left. The two distanced themselves from the cabin and patiently bided their time. The “few moments” turned into an hour, then two, before they finally saw Feodor Kuzmich emerge from the cabin together with a young woman and an officer in a hussar’s uniform. The starets escorted the couple for some distance and, as “they were leaving,” recalled Anna, “it appeared to me that the hussar kissed the old man’s hand, something he never permitted anybody to do.” It is surmised that the mysterious hussar whom the Khromovs observed that afternoon was none other than the Tsarevich, Alexander II. In his work on Alexander I, Prince Vladimir Bariatinsky provides solid evidence that the heir at one time did visit Feodor Kuzmich, who, if the Legend is true, would have been the young man’s blood uncle.
Another extremely intriguing incident was related in Anna’s diary. As Kuzmich awaited the construction of his cell, he was provided a room in the Khromov house for a brief period. One evening, as was their wont, the family was gathered around the dining room table, listening to the younger daughter read aloud. Kuzmich’s room was adjacent, its door ajar. The girl had chosen to read from a newly published work on the reign of Alexander I. She came to a passage that read, “Emperor Alexander turned to Napoleon and said to him…,” and she quoted a statement Alexander was alleged to have made when the two emperors met. Suddenly an angry voice was heard to cry out, “I never said that!” At first nobody understood where the voice had come from, but then they all rushed into the starets’s room, where they found him “on his knees in submissive prayer.”
The historian Grigory Vasilich tells of Kuzmich’s attachment to a young orphan girl called Alexandra, who often visited him, frequently bearing fresh berries, mushrooms, or other little presents.
At an early age she was adopted into the large family of a priest, a certain Father Polikarp, who lived not far from Kuzmich’s cabin. While on a walk with her brothers, Alexandra, then twelve years of age, first saw the starets and immediately wanted to run up to him. The boys held her back, arguing that it wasn’t for her to bother the stranger, and that at any rate the old man would never speak to her. A few days later as Alexandra emerged from the forest where she had been alone picking bilberries, she again spotted the starets. Without hesitation, she ran up to him, held out her basket, and said, “Grandfather, would you like some berries?”
Kuzmich smiled tenderly, clasped her head in his hands, and kissed her forehead. Tears welled in his eyes perhaps he was touched by the child’s impetuosity and purity, or possibly from some memory that the unexpected encounter dredged up from the past. It didn’t take long for the old man and the girl to bond, and before long they were spending many days together. Alexandra helped Kuzmich work the garden and delighted in helping him clean his cell. The old man taught her reading and writing and gave her lessons in history, geography, and religion. The girl was enchanted by the stories her friend told of far-off countries and places, of the monasteries he had visited and of holy sites and pilgrims.
Alexandra was a religious girl, which no doubt helped cement the incongruous relationship. Over the years, the girl’s admiration for the starets developed into a profound affection, obviously reciprocated by the old man. At age twenty, Alexandra announced her intention to make a pilgrimage to the holy places of Russia. Her brothers did all they could to dissuade her from such an uncertain and possibly perilous undertaking, urging her instead to seek a husband. Kuzmich, however, encouraged her. “Wait,” the starets advised, “there’s plenty of time to marry; none of these people is worthy of you. When you marry, it will be to a fine officer.”
Plans for the trip went ahead, and Kuzmich worked out a detailed itinerary for the girl. He counseled her on which monasteries to visit, what people she might turn to for hospitality, and gave her all sorts of practical advice on the do’s and don’ts of travel. Years later, Alexandra recalled an exchange that took place during those planning sessions. At one point, in her exuberance, she asked the starets how she might arrange to see the Tsar when she was in Russia. “You really want to see the Tsar?” asked Kuzmich. “Of course, father,” Alexandra exclaimed, “how can one possibly miss seeing the Tsar? Everyone speaks of the Tsar, the Tsar, the Tsar… but what sort of person is he really like?”
“Wait,” replied the starets. “Perhaps in the course of your life you’ll have a chance to meet more than one Tsar. God willing, you will speak with him and then you’ll see that tsars are human like everyone else!”
Alexandra bade farewell to her family and to her beloved starets and set off on her lengthy pilgrimage. In Kiev, she visited the sacred Kievo-Pechersky Monastery, which since 1051 had been Russia’s foremost monastic and religious center. While in that ancient capital city, Alexandra also called on Countess Osten-Sacken, to whom she bore a letter of introduction from the starets. The countess was much taken by the new arrival and hustled her off to their country home at Kremenchuk, to introduce her to her husband, Count Dimitry Erofeyevich, a much-decorated general who later became one of the heroes of the Crimean War. It is reported that he and Feodor Kuzmich exchanged letters, although no hard evidence of any such correspondence has been found. After the count died, his wife returned to Kremenchuk and opened the secret box in which her husband had locked his most valued papers; presumably, Kuzmich’s letters might have been there. However, she discovered the box empty; evidently someone had already opened it and managed to remove the contents. Nothing else in the house was reported missing. It is also possible, of course, that the count himself had removed the contents. But it is equally feasible that the same forces responsible for the destruction of material related to the Taganrog death were at work here, in Kremenchuk. The apparent connection between Alexander I Osten-Sacken, and Kuzmich is tantalizing. A further interesting aside: for decades, Count Osten-Sacken steadfastly refused to attend memorial services for the emperor.
Both the count and countess were delighted to receive the Siberian girl and persuaded her to stay on with them for a while; Alexandra dallied for several months. During her stay at Kremenchuk, Emperor Nicholas I happened to be touring the region and was a guest of the Osten-Sackens. The couple informed him of Alexandra’s presence in the house and he asked to see her. The young pilgrim was brought before him, and in the company of their hosts a leisurely conversation took place between the Tsar of Russia and the Siberian peasant girl. The emperor queried her on her life there, on her family, and on Feodor Kuzmich. Alexandra answered the sovereign’s questions enthusiastically and with childlike naiveté, often causing him and the Osten-Sackens to chuckle with delight. “Well,” said the Tsar at one point, turning to his hosts, “you’ve certainly got a daring young girl in your house.” To this, Alexandra shot back, “What’s there to be afraid of? I’ve got God on my side… and also, the powerful prayers of Feodor Kuzmich are with me. Besides, you’re all very kind people.” At this spontaneous cri de coeur, Nicholas became pensive and softly commented, “Feodor Kuzmich is indeed a holy man.”
As he left, Nicholas asked Osten-Sacken to give Alexandra a pass – a laissez-passer – and told the girl that if ever she got to St. Petersburg, she should come to the palace. “Present the pass and nobody will stop you.”
Alexandra never did get to St. Petersburg, but sometime later she returned to Siberia, to the relief and embrace of her anxious family. She lost little time in calling on Feodor Kuzmich, who received her enthusiastically. Over the next few days, the girl related to him the details of her adventures. During one of the sessions, Alexandra records, “I observed him with intense care and blurted out, ‘Father Feodor Kuzmich, how greatly you resemble the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich!’ No sooner had I said this than his face changed. He rose out of his chair, his eyebrows contracted menacingly, and he looked sternly upon me. ‘And how do you know? Who prompted you to say that to me?’ I became frightened.
“‘Nobody prompted me. In Count Osten-Sacken’s study I saw a full-length portrait of Alexander Pavlovich. The thought then, as now, came to me that not only do you look like him but you even hold your hands as he did.’ The starets made no reply but simply moved away into the entry hall, apparently overcome by emotion.”
Five years later, the Russian historian Lev D. Lubimov tells us, Alexandra made a second pilgrimage to Russia, and again Kuzmich gave her letters of introduction. One of the people upon whom the girl called directed her to the monastery of Valaam on Lake Ladoga, north of St. Petersburg, an enormous lake navigated by capital vessels. By chance Alexandra found herself on the same ship as the Empress Maria Alexeyevna, wife of Alexander II, who was also traveling on a pilgrimage to the island monastery. The empress learned of the Siberian girl’s presence on board and invited her to her cabin; the two were closeted together for a long time in conversation. If one does not question the authenticity of this report, then it might well be asked why a reigning empress would not only deign to receive a simple Siberian girl in her stateroom but would also engage her in extended conversation. Maria Alexeyevna must have been aware of some connection between the girl and Feodor Kuzmich.
Years later, again in Russia, Alexandra met a dashing officer, Major Fedorov. The two fell in love, married, and raised several children. The prophecy of the starets was thus realized, and Alexandra never returned to her Siberian roots.
The substance of what we have on Feodor Kuzmich, particularly his various movements from place to place, comes from civic records studied by historians such as Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, Vladimir Bariatinsky, Lev Lubimov, Anatol Kulomzin, and others. Fleshing out the starets’s life is possible only through memoirs and anecdotes of his contemporaries -what they themselves recorded or related to others, who in turn set it down.
We come now to where we began with Kuzmich. By late January 1864 the starets was nearing his end. His breathing grew increasingly labored; it was evident that he was suffering great pain, and he appeared totally wasted. By January 31, his eyes remained closed, but his lips occasionally moved in silent prayer. Late that afternoon, a small crowd of people filtered into the cell to be with their beloved recluse. just before eight o’clock, it became evident that the end was truly at hand. In the silence of the darkened cell, the weeping assembly held candles and prayed. Kuzmich awoke.
Standing at his side was his kindly benefactor, Simeon Khromov. As the old man steadily weakened, the merchant gently persisted in the matter of his true identity. Kuzmich determinedly deflected the questions, steadfastly refusing to divulge anything. And then at last, pointing to his chest, he murmured, “Here ties my secret.” And with those enigmatic, intriguing words, he died.
As the body was being washed in preparation for burial, Khromov removed from around the neck a small, stained cloth sachet, which was attached to a leather cord. It was evident that, whatever it was, Kuzmich had carried it on his person for years, wearing it much as one might one’s baptismal cross. On prying open the packet, Khromov discovered a yellowed scrap of paper on which was written a message in numbered cipher. A few recognizable words appeared on it, as well as the initials A and P. The puzzled Khromov retained the relic but made no secret of its existence. Some years later the scrap of paper was given to the authorities in St. Petersburg and was eventually photographed and examined by a succession of experts, including Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich. But try as anyone might, for over sixty years the message defied decoding. Finally, in 1927, two cryptographers, one in Riga and the other in Belgrade, working independently of one another, almost simultaneously broke the code and uncovered the secret. The message read:
Anna Vasilievna: we have discovered an incredible flaw in our son. Count Pahlen informs me of Alexander’s participation in a conspiracy. We must hide tonight, wherever it is possible.
St. Petersburg March 11, 1801
Thus ends the chapter on the life and death of the Starets.
There were many tales of the opening of the grave of the Emperor, included one that reports that the Soviets opened the grave and found it empty. This was told frequently during the 60’s and 70’s of the last century; but there is no record of such a proceeding in the archives, making it highly unlikely that the story is true. Soviets were meticulous record keeper. It is next to impossible that they would have failed to make a record of the opening of an Imperial grave, and they would have had no reason to hide the fact that the grave was empty. Therefore we can make no assertion about the state of that grave. However Theodore Kuzmich’s grave was opened some years ago by the present Abbot of the monastery in which it is located and he found that it had been opened at some point in the past and portions of the relics had been removed. No record was made of this and no one knows what became of the relics. But it looks very much like someone was trying to make identification difficult.
As mentioned above, the reports of the doctors do not agree among themselves, even giving wildly varying times of death. And their diaries are silent about the eight hours between the death of the Emperor and the evening when the men got to their rooms, “…nothing worthy of note appears to have occurred – almost as though on purpose.” And the autopsy was insufficient, irregular and contradictory. Troubetzkoy gave copies of the autopsy to three leading pathologists, withholding the name of the deceased. All three said that there was not sufficient evidence to give a cause of death, though one did say that there was nothing in the report to indicate that the subject had died of either malaria or typhoid, which are the two diseases most often advanced as the cause of Alexander’s death.
Of the two chief physicians Tarasov never attended the annual memorial service held in the chapel of the Winter Palace on November 19. He always seemed to have some excuse for not attending until his friend, Vasili Sergeievich Arseniev , a high ranking official at the court of Alexander II informed him of the repose of Theodore Kuzmich. The next November 19, in full uniform, he attended the Panakhida. Wylie the other physician left a very large estate upon his death – larger than one would expect from a person of his rank. The conclusion is that he was rewarded by the Crown for some extraordinary service [such as helping Alexander I fake his own death and substitute another body for his own?].
There is a story which I have heard many times from many people, among whom was Princess Vera Constantinovna the daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich the Poet. I can not now recall whether or not she said that the person involved was her father, but that was my impression. At any rate she certainly believed the story and believed firmly that Alexander I and Theodore Kuzmich were the same person. The story as given below is from Troubeztkoy’s book.
In 1874 Mikhail Nikolayevich Galkin–Vraski the State Secretary was reporting to the Tsar Alexander III Alexandrovich. Among the subjects he covered was the rumour that the Elder Theodore Kuzmich was in fact Alexander I. Alexander Alexandrovich sat in silence for a moment and then pointed behind him with his hand. There on the wall were two large portraits in gold frames, one of Alexander I and the other of Nicholas I. Between the two was a small portrait of Theodore Kuzmich.
The way I have most often heard the story and the way Vera Constantinovna told it to me, the official notices a portrait of the Elder among the portraits on the Emperor’s desk and remarks on it. The Emperor then say’s, “Yes all my predecessors are here.” This story makes more sense if the person speaking with the Emperor were Constantine Constantinovich. A member of the Family would be far more likely to receive such a response than would a State official, however much trusted. There may, of course be two different events which have been reported.
But aside form all reason and argument there is something about this legend that makes most people believe it. I don’t think that I personally have ever met anyone who doesn’t believe it. As one writer put it, there is something that speaks to the heart and says that thus it must be and no other way. But even if one rejects the legend, there can be no doubt that Theodore Kuzmich, whoever he was, was an extraordinary and saintly man. He was in fact canonized by the Moscow Patriarchate [in 1984 I think].
The note appears to be addressed to Paul’s mistress, Anna Vasilievna Gagarina. Her apartment was in Mikhailovsky Castle. [There is some question about the exact relationship between Paul I and Anna Vasillievna. She and the Empress were always on good terms, and it has been plausibly argued that Paul I and Anna Vasillievna’s relationship was infact platonic. F.A.] | <urn:uuid:c87d1660-a6c0-40e7-adc2-74daf19c5a06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://bishopandrewofmarkham.blogspot.com/2019/08/some-notes-on-legend-oftheodore-kuzmich.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.985064 | 8,886 | 3.125 | 3 |
Letter: Take a moment to thank a veteran
Internationally the nation’s longest war continues, and I’m fairly sure that when (if?) it ends another will follow. I’m grateful for the military’s men and women who are willing to be sent into a different culture to support another nation’s drive for civility, education and stability.
Nationally we are in the midst of what are, by all accounts, the most unusual political campaigns in recent history. I’m grateful that our national elections are not closed and that non-career politicians have an opportunity to share their opinions and to disagree with the mainstream (on both sides of the aisle). Ultimately, because of our military, U.S. citizens will freely vote and choose their elected officials.
Locally the Fossil Ridge High School football team gained national prominence with its intention to honor fallen soldiers. The team had been required to complete military-style training including a ruck walk, and each player researched a fallen member of the armed forces. Despite repeated pleas the school district denied them the opportunity to wear the names of fallen soldiers on their uniforms during military appreciation night. In its statement the school district said it “cannot comply with this request without giving other causes the same opportunity.” I am so grateful that high school football players understand that the military is not a “cause.” It is not a charity; it is not an aid organization. It is the federal force that defended a vision to develop our free nation, our national unity and our common identity. Men and women continue to volunteer to defend this vision at home and to defend those abroad who have the same vision.
On this Veterans’ Day take a few moments to realize all that you have to be grateful for: education, voting, freedoms of choice, worship, of voicing opinions. Take the time to thank a veteran for your freedoms with a couple of words or a handshake. It will take only a few seconds and to you it may be a small thing. To a veteran it will have a meaning you’ll never understand.
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Greg Odegard (MEEM) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $1,000,000 research and development grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Ravi Pandey (Physics), Julia King (ChE) and Trisha Sain (MEEM) are Co-Pis on the project titled “Institute for Ultra-Strong Composites by Computational Design (US-COMP).”
This is the first year of a five-year project potential totaling $14,999,995.
These students are designing materials tough enough to land on another planet.
The spacecraft that will one day land humans on Mars will be made of a material that has not yet been invented. Ditto for the rocket that sends them there. But at the end of a $15 million, five-year NASA project set to begin next month, an advanced, high-performance composite will be invented, and it may be the very material used to build those spacecraft. The people inventing it are Ph.D. candidates and other students at 11 universities, all working together.
The project, called the Institute for Ultra-Strong Composites by Computational Design (US-COMP), is led by Michigan Technological University professor Greg Odegard, who assembled the 11-university team of experts in computational mechanics and materials science. The problem NASA has set for them to solve: Use carbon nanotubes to create a composite that is lighter and stronger than any material used in load-bearing structures today. Odegard says high-powered computers at his university and others are the key to success. | <urn:uuid:c4c028d0-1ea1-4196-80c5-9d6ea57e76f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.mtu.edu/mechanical/category/news/research/page/8/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.943586 | 337 | 2.90625 | 3 |
The State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz or New Paltz) is a public college in New Paltz, in the U.S. state of New York. The university was founded in 1828.
In the proud tradition of SUNY, the State University of New York at New Paltz is committed to providing high quality, affordable education to students from all social and economic backgrounds. Furthermore, SUNY New Paltz is an active contributor to the schools, community institutions and economic/cultural life of the region. New Paltz also offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences which serve as a core for professional programs in the fine and performing arts, education, health care,
business, and engineering.
Every semester, the Office of Student Activities & Union Services hosts a club and involvement fair on campus. This gives all students the opportunity to meet campus organizations and learn more about them. In a frame to encourage all students by joining a group, or attending to the many campus programs that are happening around. “This is your place for campus entertainment, activities, and information on how to get involved in campus life.”
New Paltz is a village in Ulster County located in the U.S. state of New York. It is about 80 miles (130 km) north of New York City and 70 miles (110 km) south of Albany, with a population around 7,000. Minnewaska State Park sits nearby, amidst the towering Shawangunk Mountains. After a short drive, visitors can enjoy the park's countless waterfalls, crystal-clear lakes, and dense forests. Minnewaska has more than 50 miles of trails, and plenty of space is available to ride bikes, rock climb, sw
im, and even scuba dive. The small, picturesque town of New Paltz is well known for the State University of New York at New Paltz, for great rock climbing, and for the great wineries that surround it. | <urn:uuid:b723bd11-4eee-4bb8-92d1-f6ab9a00e523> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.findcourse.com/en/highereducation/university/4259 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958524 | 419 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Boats of the Maldives
Let’s talk about the many different kinds of boats of the Maldives. With the country being an island nation and the big blue surrounding it, it is essential that we have boats to get around.
Speed boats are the Maldivian equivalent to a taxi. We use them for island hopping, to pick up our guests from their domestic flight or water skiing. There are also big safari boats or liveaboards in our waters. These are for guests who just purely want to dive. Very essential are the supply boats. Some deliver diesel others brings all necessities to the islands starting from food over mattresses to post cards, anything you can think of. Finally, there are dhonis. Dhoni boats are used for many different things in the Maldives, they have been adopted by most dive centres because they are perfect excursion boats.
The dhoni is the traditional fishing boat of the Maldives. They are also used by other countries bordering the Indian Ocean. The word dhoni has a derived meaning that translates to the words “to dig”, as the early dhonis were made from a singular log that had been dug out. Traditional dhonis had big sails and would use to the wind, whereas now most have motors.
Building a dhoni is a traditional craft in the Maldives. Where craftsman will take on young apprentices and guide them into creating these boats. Originally the boats were made of coconut palm with little to no planning, now most are made of fiberglass or imported woods.
We use dhoni boats for our excursions. They are spacious, cool, and the main deck is low enough for divers to get on and off easily. There is also a top deck, which is perfect for soaking up the sun, but also for spotting marine life!
So, if you join us on any excursion now you know what type of boat to expect!
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Gita Subramony, ERS, for Zondits
In the recently released ACEEE International Energy Efficiency Scorecard, Brazil was one of the lowest-scoring countries, ranking within the bottom three. In a few weeks, they will also be hosting a different type of international competition, the 2016 Summer Olympics.
[mks_pullquote align=”right” width=”300″ size=”18″ bg_color=”#8224e3″ txt_color=”#ffffff”]The organizers of the Rio 2016 games are claiming to have far lower GHG emissions from electricity than other recent Olympic events.[/mks_pullquote]The Rio Olympics are certainly not without controversy. The negative factors include fear of the Zika virus, heavy pollution in waterways used for events and competitions, stadium infrastructure projects that are behind schedule, Brazil’s economic crisis, political scandals, and corruption in the government.
With all of these controversies the Rio Olympics is claiming that sustainability and reducing GHG emissions are priorities for the games, and they even released a report on this. The organizers of the Rio 2016 games are claiming to have far lower GHG emissions from electricity than other recent Olympic events. The chart below is from the report and shows a comparison of the GHG emissions from different Olympic games.
The report provides only a general outline of strategies to achieve lower GHG emissions and to create a more sustainable Olympic experience, but it remains to be seen how efficient the games really will be. Given the ongoing problems with corruption, pollution, and construction schedules, it’s hard to believe that the Rio Olympics will really deliver on environmental protection, energy efficiency, or GHG emissions reductions. | <urn:uuid:4f3a262d-7808-4532-8d53-d914baf6619b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zondits.com/how-green-are-the-rio-olympics-really/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.924911 | 357 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Spirituality gets many definitions .
The proper definition of spirituality is getting fulfilment from faith in the supernatural and or embracing obligations that come from the spiritual realm.
It is not true that religion and spirituality can be separated. People who agree with the thought that they can say that you can’t have religion without spirituality but you can have spirituality without religion. Actually the two go together. A spiritual person who denies that he or she is religious is actually his own individualistic religion.
A religion with only one member is still a religion.
Faiths that do not believe in a supernatural soul such as the Christadelphians still urge people to be spiritual . Some atheists say atheism is spiritual for it gives you meaning in life and can be fulfilling. But then what do they need the word spiritual for? Why not just use the word fulfilling? For example, we might say that a person has done something in an unselfish spirit. This is a metaphor. We only mean that their attitude is unselfish. And there need be no spirit involved in that!
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The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) officially launched the Piso Eco-brigade Programme in Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount County.
The launch, which took place on Saturday, September 11, 2021, was done in partnership with the Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia (SCNL), in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
This youth eco-brigade will over the next five years mobilize, mentor and train over one thousand (1,000) young men and women, including persons living with disabilities in environmental conservation and management.
The youth Eco-brigades will support waste management, natural resource management and environmental monitoring activities while benefiting from business training and development to create sustainable incomes and livelihood opportunities for them.
The first batch of sixty Piso Eco-brigades have completed phase one of the training exercise, and will now be involved in providing community environmental services, helping the Robertsport city administration to manage and monitor important environmental features and ecosystems. The project will create more eco-brigades in six other counties- Grand Bassa, Grand Gedeh, Lofa, Montserrado, Nimba, and Sinoe.
Each participant will receive a business start-up grant of US$400 in recognition of their stewardship and commitment to the community and the environment, which can enable them to start their own businesses.
“Liberia’s youth constitute more than 60% of the population and are therefore key in driving the sustainable development agenda. UNDP is committed to empowering the youth to start and run income-generating activities that contribute to the conservation of the environment. The Eco-Brigades must make good use of the business training they have received as well as the business start-up grants to engage in sustainable enterprises to make a living for themselves, their families and the community at large,” said UNDP Resident Representative, Stephen Rodriques at the official launch.
Mr. Rodriques stressed that UNDP is targeting the youth and vulnerable populations with projects that will create climate-resilient and environmentally friendly jobs and business opportunities such as eco-tourism.
“UNDP looks forward to working with the private sector, the government, development partners together with local communities to support the development of tourism and initiatives that deliver tangible benefits to both the environment and communities that rely on it,” Rodriques concluded.https://thenewdawnliberia.com/ministry-of-commerce-signs-agreements-to-boost-livelihood-projects-supported-by-undp/ | <urn:uuid:b902212e-7203-4197-b231-15cf05a7999c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thenewdawnliberia.com/government-undp-to-launch-youth-eco-brigade-to-fight-waste-menace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936117 | 552 | 1.65625 | 2 |
My experience working in the area of elections, since my days at the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn), and the Centre for Elections and Democracy in Southern Africa (Cedsa), introduced me to an array of electoral scholarship but it was not until now that I have paid so much attention to the discourse around a pre-election coalition.
I am quite convinced that prior to 2013, very few among political analysts, activists and the general populace also saw the need for a pre-election coalition in the same way Zimbabweans are clamouring for it today.
There are reasons why a pre-election coalition is desirable today than it was some eight or so years ago. The Electoral Act, section 110, which provides for a presidential election run-off in the case where no one candidate polls more than 50% of the presidential vote, is one such determinant today if one takes into account the dynamics obtaining in the political field now.
Before the entry of former vice-president Joice Mujuru into opposition politics, before her acrimonious departure from Zanu PF, there seemed to be only two serious contenders for the presidency pre-2013 and post 2008, which made talk of a pre-election coalition redundant if not completely unhelpful.
However, the formation of Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) in 2015 and the subsequent entry of Mujuru into the presidential election race changed the dynamics of electoral politics in Zimbabwe and provided a third option that threatened the winning chances of both Zanu PF and MDC-T.
With Mujuru taking away a large chunk of the Zanu PF voting bloc when she left the party, Zanu PF became weakened to a point where it is no longer obvious that it can garner the 50% plus one vote needed to secure the presidency.
Equally, the movement of some MDC-T supporters to ZimPF and the off-shooting, from MDC-T, of Tendai Biti’s PDP, coupled with the MDC-T’s defeat by Zanu-PF in 2013 meant Morgan Tsvangirai’s chances of winning a presidential plebiscite without votes from other opposition political parties remain slim.
In a country which uses the first-past-the-post electoral system for the presidential election, but with a caveat which demands that the winner should have more than 50% of the vote, winning a presidential election demands that a huge chunk of the electorate votes for the triumphant candidate.
The fact that in 2008, when Tsvangirai won against President Robert Mugabe, with varying percentages according to th Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and Mugabe, Mujuru played a significant role when her alleged faction split the Zanu PF vote through the famous “Bhora Musango,” (anyone but Mugabe) makes it compelling for Mujuru and Tsvangirai to form a coalition if 2008 could be repeated, or better still, improved.
Considering that, despite the movements and disintegrations that I alluded to within MDC-T and Zanu PF, both parties still command a large share of the electorate, coupled with the undesirability of an election run-off where Zanu-PF can use the army and brutal force, opposition parties like ZimPF, and its leader Mujuru, cannot take chances going it alone in the general election with the view of coalescing in the event of a presidential run-off.
The events prior to the June 27 2008 presidential election run-off are so gory and repulsive to the idea that contemplating a run-off is a clear political turn-off.
The background I have given above provides a compelling argument for opposition political parties in Zimbabwe to form a pre-election coalition now, rather than wait to be forced into a coalition by a presidential run-off.
A pre-electoral coalition exists when multiple parties choose to co-ordinate their electoral strategies rather than run for office alone. Pre-election alliances are a common phenomenon in liberal democracies with thriving multipartyism.
The desirability of a pre-election coalition increases under a first-past-the-post, winner-takes-all electoral system like the one practiced in Zimbabwe, especially for the election of the president of the republic. This argument is called the disproportionality hypothesis.
The disproportionality hypothesis states that pre-election alliances are more likely to arise in disproportional electoral systems if there are many or at least more than two serious political parties.
First-past-the-post, a disproportionate system that we use in the presidential election here, usually advantages larger parties. If there are more than two competing parties in the party system, like the situation today with ZimPF, MDC-T, Zanu PF inter alia, the major parties would tend to seek pre-election alliances in order to enhance their chances of achieving a majority in the legislature and thus being part of the government.
It is my argument, therefore, that forming a pre-election coalition is not a sign of weakness on the part of the political parties forming the coalition but a pragmatic decision to maximise on their strengths to harness votes and form the next government.
We have heard Zanu PF and its moribund faceless state media columnists, disingenuously purporting that the opposition desire to form a coalition is a sign of weakness. Nothing could be further from the truth. It reflects more on Zanu PF’s fear of a pre-election coalition than honest assessment of the opposition’s strengths and weaknesses. The desperation with which Zanu PF is dismissing the idea of a coalition of opposition parties shows the potency such a pact has in the bid to wrest power.
Apart from quantifying votes and increasing our chances of dislodging Zanu-PF, a pre-election coalition demonstrates the leading opposition political parties’ desire to govern with others. This is called the signalling-device theory. Our desire for the formation of coalition before elections is a signal or a clear demonstration to the electorate that we would be able to govern the country in a stable coalition.
Forming a stable coalition government is desirable after years of Zanu PF monopoly with its attendant clientelism, corruption, rent-seeking behaviour by government ministers and the culture of primitive wealth accumulation, unaccountability and impunity.
By drawing members from different political parties, a pre-election coalition provides a chance to heal our national politics, inculcating tolerance and diffuse political polarisation introduced into our body politic by Zanu PF. Our people demonstrated, in Gweru, when ZimPF and MDC-T held a joint rally and march, that they desire unity and are prepared to work together for the good of the country.
Our people have also realised that coming together in a coalition enhances democracy and widens the base for selection of civil servants like ministers with craft competence. They are also aware that a coalition provides an opportunity for combining the best elements of the majoritarian vision of democracy (increased accountability, transparency, government identifiability, strong mandates) with the best elements of the proportional representation vision of democracy (wide choice, more accurate reflection of voter preferences in the legislature) which is badly needed if we are to form a formidable government post elections in 2018.
With each political party in the coalition providing its best in terms of human resources, our people know that the electoral coalition being negotiated by their parties will increase democratic transparency and provide the resultant coalition government with as much of a mandate as single parties in majoritarian systems.
Our people are also aware that the pre-election coalition that we are preparing for them makes it imperative that the coalition government draws from a wide array of craft competencies from among the best provided by each party, thereby providing realistic chances for a socio-economic turn-around.
Zimbabwe right now needs a group of serious politicians capable of identifying the best brains and competencies needed for changing our political narrative and a coalition is such a platform from which to begin our journey.
We have the right variables to negotiate a pre-election coalition within opposition politics in Zimbabwe. While factors such as ideological differences have been cited as political minefields inimical to the operationalisation of a pre-election pact, such vagaries are not pronounced among critical players in opposition politics today.
The MDC-T prides itself as a group of social democrats while ZimPF is identifiable as national democrats with both groups espousing fundamental tenets of liberal conservatism which combine liberal economic theory with a classic conservative regard for tradition.
ZimPF believes strongly in retaining the fundamental principles of the liberation struggle with their attendant desire for a democratic, free and just society for all, the same principles that the MDC-T fronted democratic change seeks to establish through observance of the rule of law. It is basically a clamour for the same thing using different voices, some shrill, others hoarse, depending on the elasticity of the voice box but achieving the same effect.
Even if the ideological predisposition of each party were to be inferred through economic blueprints, both ZimPF’s Blueprint to Unlock and Leverage Development (Build) and MDC-T’s Jobs Upliftment Investment Capital and Environment (Juice) capture the same aspirations of the Zimbabwean people albeit in different linguistic or literary structures. Zimbabweans, although not a homogenous group, seem to be united on how they want their country to move forward hence the ease with which they can group to confront their situation.
It should also be stressed here that even if there was ideological incompatibility, it is possible to forge ahead since coalitions are not determined by ideological purity but the exigency of the situation and, normally, ideological purity is a liability rather than an asset.
Some pessimists have dismissed the chances of a pre-election coalition on the basis of perceived selfishness and big egos in some of the key players in the coalition matrix. However, what they seem not to appreciate is the selflessness exhibited, especially by the MDC-T president in 2008.
The GNU is instructive on the case of Tsvangirai. He won the 2008 election yet he agreed to enter the GNU as a prime minister, not president, not even vice-president. Surely, to accuse such a selfless leader as having a big ego is being ridiculously mischievous.
Mujuru served under Mugabe, being genuinely elected at congress and commanded a huge following within Zanu-PF structures as shown by the number of chairpersons who were either expelled or suspended for supporting her, yet she did not usurp power from Mugabe although it was apparent the President was old, frail and literally besides himself.
If you have the key players as selfless as Mujuru and Tsvangirai, you wonder where the pessimists derive their lethargic “big ego” mantra from.
Zimbabweans are one and together we can defeat the evil that is Zanu PF and it is clear as never before, that a coalition to send Mugabe to his rural home for retirement is gathering both steam and momentum. The inexorable wheel of change is gaining velocity; it will crush every obstacle in its way.
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Nate* could have chosen any city when he immigrated to the USA, but he chose Knoxville. He had friends, he says, who were “giving me good words about Knoxville.” They said his children would have a good future if he moved here, and the cost of living was reasonable.
Three years later, Nate is “giving good words” about Knoxville himself! He wants to buy a house and see his children grow into adulthood here.
But getting to Knoxville wasn’t easy.
Nate served as a translator for the US military in Afghanistan for over seven years then worked with NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) for another two years. He did it because he wanted to help his countrymen, and the US Army was truly helping people there. He also wanted to honor his father, a retired colonel in the Afghan military.
He had to leave Afghanistan because his life was in danger from groups who wanted to punish him for the work he did to help his countrymen. So he started the application process for an SIV (Special Immigrant Visa). After two years spent submitting stacks of documents, his application was denied due to “misdocumentation.” He appealed and, with help from advocates, finally received a visa for himself and his family after another two years.
Nate, his wife, and children arrived in Knoxville early in 2019. His family was disappointed because they expected Knoxville to look like New York or San Francisco. After their rural lives in Afghanistan, everyone had to adjust to the industry and computerization of Knoxville. "At least the weather was the same," Nate laughs.
Several KINfolk—now friends—helped Nate and his family adjust to life in Knoxville. His wife takes English classes and recently learned to drive. KIN helped him find a suitable job. After a few months, they bought a car, and the older children are doing well in school!
Nate’s family is still at risk in Afghanistan. He’s trying to help some of them immigrate to Knoxville. He wants Americans to know Afghans are facing incredible hardship right now and most of the conflict is caused by people coming from surrounding countries.
*Names have been changed for privacy.
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Again, describing the shield of Jupiter:
Here all the terrors of grim War appear,
Iliad, v. 914.
Nor is it pleasant to be carried backward and forward alternately in a rapid succession:
Then dy'd Scamandrius, expert in the chace,
Iliad, v. 65.
It is wonderful to observe, upon what slight foundations Nature erects some of her most solid and magnificent works. In appearance at least, what can be more slight than ideal presence; and yet from it is derived that extensive influence which language has over the heart; an influence which, more than any other means, strengthens the bond of society, and attracts individuals from their private system to perform acts of generosity and benevolence. Matters of fact, it is true, and truth in general, may be inculcated without taking advantage of ideal presence; but without it, the finest speaker or writer would in vain attempt to move any passion: our sympathy would be confined to objects that are really present; and language would lose entirely its signal power of making us sympathize with beings removed at the greatest distance of time as well as of place. Nor is the influence of language, by means of ideal presence, confined to the heart; it reaches also the understanding, and contributes to belief. For when events are related in a lively manner, and every circumstance appears to be passing before us, we suffer not patiently the truth of the facts to be questioned. An historian, accordingly, who has a genius for narration, seldom fails to engage our belief. The same facts related in a manner cold and indistinct, are not suffered to pass without examination: a thing ill described is like an object seen at a distance, or through a mist; we doubt whether it be a reality or a fiction. Cicero says, that to relate the manner in which an event passed, not only enlivens the story, but makes it appear more credible. For that reason, a poet who can warm and animate his reader, may employ bolder fictions than ought to be venured by an inferior genius: the reader, once thoroughly engaged, is susceptible of the strongest impressions:
Veraque constituunt, quæ belle tangere possunt
Lucretius, lib. 1. 1. 644.
A masterly painting has the same effect. Le Brun is no small support to Quintus Curtius: and among the vulgar in Italy, the belief of scripture-history is, perhaps, founded as much upon the authority of Raphael, Michael Angelo, and other celebrated painters, as upon that of the sacred writers."
The foregoing theory must have fatigued the reader with much dry reasoning; but his labor will not be fruitless; because from that theory are derived many useful rules in criticism, which shall be mentioned in their proper places. One specimen shall be our present entertainment. Events that surprise by being unexpected, and yet are natural, enliven greatly an epic poem: but in such a poem, if it pretend to copy human manners and actions, no improbable incident ought to be admitted: that is, no incident contrary to the order and course of nature. A chain of imagined incidents, linked together according to the order of nature, finds easy admittance into the mind; and a lively narrative of such incidents occasions complete images, or, in other words, ideal presence: but our judgment revolts against an improbable incident; and, if we once begin to doubt of its reality, farewell relish and concern-an unhappy effect; for it will require more than an ordinary effort, to restore the waking dream, and to make the reader conceive, even the more probable incidents as passing in his presence.
I never was an admirer of machinery in an epic poem, and I now find my taste justified by reason; the foregoing argument concluding still more strongly against imaginary beings, than against improbable facts. Fictions of that nature may amuse by their novelty and singularity; but they never move the sympathetic passions, because they cannot impose on the mind any perception of reality. I appeal to the discerning reader, whether that observation be not applicable to the machinery of Tasso and of Voltaire: such machinery is not only, in itself, cold and uninteresting, but gives an air of fiction to the whole composition. A burlesque poem, such as the Lutrin or the Dispensary, inay employ machinery with success; for these poems, though they assume the air of history, give entertainment chiefly by their pleasant and ludicrous pictures, to which machinery contributes. It is not the aim of such a poem, to raise our sympathy; and for that reason a strict imitation of nature is not required. A poem professedly ludicrous, may employ machinery to great advantage; and the more extravagant the better.
Having assigned the means by which fiction commands our passions, what only remains for accomplishing our present task, is to
At quæ Polycleto defuerunt, Phidiæ atque Alcameni dantur. Phidias tamen diis quam hominibus efficiendis melior artifex traditur: in ebore vero longe citra mufum, vel si nihi! nisi Minervam Athenis, aut Olympium in Elide Jovem fecisset, cujus pulchritudo adjecisse aliquid etiam receptæ religioni videtur; adeo majestas operis Deum æquavit.
But Phidias and Alcamenes possess those qualities which were denied to Polycletus. Phidias, however, is said to be a better artificer of gods than of men-in ivory, indeed, he is far beyond his rival, even if he had made nothing except his Minerva at Athens, or his Olympian Jove in Elis, whose beauty seems to have even added something to the received religion, so much has the majesty of the work represented a god. Quintilian, lib. 12. cap. 10. § 1.
assign the final cause. I have already mentioned, that fiction, by means of language, has the command of our sympathy for the good of others. By the same means, our sympathy may also be raised for our own good. In the fourth section of the present chapter, it is observed, that examples, both of virtue and of vice, raise virtuous emotions; which becoming stronger by exercise, tend to make us virtuous by habit, as well as by principle. I now farther observe, that examples confined to real events are not so frequent as without other means to produce a habit of virtue: if they be, they are not recorded by historians. It therefore shows great wisdom, to form us in such a manner, as to be susceptible of the same improvement from fable that we receive from genuine history. By that contrivance, examples to improve us in virtue may be multiplied without end no other sort of discipline contributes more to make virtue habitual, and no other sort is so agreeable in th application. I add another final cause with thorough satisfaction, because it shows, that the Author of our nature is not less kindly provident for the happiness of his creatures, than for the regularity of their conduct. The power that fiction has over the mind affords an endless variety of refined amusements always at hand to employ a vacant hour: such amusements are a fine resource in solitude; and, by cheering and sweetening the mind, contribute mightily to social happiness.
EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS AS PLEASANT AND PAINFUL, AGREEABLE AND DISAGREEABLE. MODIFICATIONS OF THESE QUALITIES.
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It will naturally occur at first, that a discourse upon the passions ought to commence with explaining the qualities now mentioned; but upon trial, I found that this explanation could not be made distinctly, till the difference should first be ascertained between an emotion and a passion, and their causes unfolded.
Great obscurity may be observed among writers with regard to the present point: particularly no care is taken to distinguish agreeable from pleasant, disagreeable from painful; or rather, these terms are deemed synonymous. This is an error not at all venial in the Fcience of ethics; as instances can and shall be given, of painful
passions that are agreeable, and of pleasant passions that are disagreeable. These terms, it is true, are used indifferently in familiar conversation, and in compositions for amusement; but more accuracy is required from those who profess to explain the passions. In writing upon the critical art, I would avoid every refinement that may seem more curious than useful; but the proper meaning of the terms under consideration must be ascertained, in order to understand the passions, and some of their effects that are intimately connected with criticism.
I shall endeavor to explain these terms by familiar examples. Viewing a fine garden, I perceive it to be beautiful or agreeable; and I consider the beauty or agreeableness as belonging to the object, or as one of its qualities. When I turn my attention from the garden to what passes in my mind, I am conscious of a pleasant emotion, of which the garden is the cause: the pleasure here is felt, as
quality, not of the garden, but of the emotion produced by it. 1 give an opposite example. A rotten carcass is disagreeable, and raises in the spectator a painful emotion: the disagreeableness is a quality of the object; the pain is a quality of the emotion produced by it. In a word, agreeable and disagreeable are qualities of the objects we perceive; pleasant and painful are qualities of the emotions we feel the former qualities are perceived as adhering to objects; the latter are felt as existing within us.
But a passion or emotion, beside being felt, is frequently made an object of thought or reflection: we examine it; we inquire into its nature, its cause, and its effects. In that view, like other objects, it is either agreeable or disagreeable. Hence clearly appear the different significations of the terms under consideration, as applied to passion: when a passion is termed pleasant or painful, we refer to the actual feeling; when termed agreeable or disagreeable, we refer to it as an object of thought or reflection; a passion is pleasant or painful to the person in whom it exists; it is agreeable or disagreeable to the person who makes it a subject of contemplation.
In the description of emotions and passions, these terms do not always coincide: to make which evident, we must endeavor to ascertain, first, what passions and emotions are pleasant, and what painful; and next, what are agreeable, and what disagreeable. With respect to both, there are general rules, which, if I can trust to induction, admit not a single exception. The nature of an emotion or passion, as pleasant or painful, depends entirely on its cause: the emotion produced by an agreeable object is invariably pleasant; and the emotion produced by a disagreeable object is invariably painful.* Thus, a lofty oak, a generous action, a valuable discovery in art or science, are agreeable objects that invariably produce pleasant emotions. A stinking puddle, a treacherous action, an irregular, illcontrived edifice, being disagreeable objects, produce painful emotions. Selfish passions are pleasant; for they arise from self, an agreeable object or cause. A social passion directed upon an agreeable object is always pleasant; directed upon an object in distress it is painful.t
* See Part 7. of this chapter.
Lastly, all dissocial passions, such as envy, resentment, malice, being caused by disagreeable objects, cannot fail to be painful.
A general rule for the agreeableness or disagreeableness of emotions and passions is a more difficult enterprise: it must, however, be attempted. We have a sense of a common nature in every species of animals, particularly in our own; and we have a conviction that this common nature is right, or perfect, and that individuals ought to be made conformable to it.* To every faculty, to every passion, and to every bodily member, is assigned a proper office and a due proportion: if one limb be longer than the other, or be disproportioned to the whole, it is wrong and disagreeable: if a passion deviate from the common nature, by being too strong or too weak, it is also wrong and disagreeable: but as far as conformable to common nature, every emotion and every passion is perceived by us to be right, and as it ought to be; and upon that account it mus! appear agreeable. That this holds true in pleasant emotions and passions, will readily be admitted: but the painful are no less natural than the other; and therefore ought not to be an exception. Thus the painful emotion raised by a monstrous birth or brutal action, is no less agreeable upon reflection, than the pleasant emotion raised by a flowing river or a lofty dome; and the painful passions of grief and pity are agreeable, and applauded by all the world.
Another rule more simple and direct for ascertaining the agreeableness or disagreeableness of a passion as opposed to an emotion, is derived from the desire that accompanies it. If the desire be to perform a right action in order to produce a good effect, the passion is agreeable: If the desire be, to do a wrong action in order to produce an ill effect, the passion is disagreeable. Thus, passions as well as actions are governed by the moral sense. These rules by the wisdom of Providence coincide: a passion that is conformable to our common nature must tend to good; and a passion that deviates from our common nature must tend to ill.
This deduction may be carried a great way farther: but to avoid intricacy and obscurity, I make but one other step. A passion which, as aforesaid, becomes an object of thought to a spectator, may have the effect to produce a passion or emotion in him; for it is natural, that a social being should be affected with the passions of others. Passions or emotions thus generated, submit, in common with others, to the general law above mentioned, namely, that an agreeable object produces a pleasant emotion, and a disagreeable object a painful emotion. Thus the passion of gratitude, being to a spectator an agreeable object, produces in him the pleasant passion of love to the grateful person: and malice being to a spectator a disagreeable object, produces in him the painful passion of hatred to the malicious person.
We are now prepared for examples of pleasant passions that are disagreeable, and of painful passions that are agreeable. Self-love, as long as confined within just bounds, is a passion both pleasant and agreeable in excess it is disagreeable, though it continues to
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They have guns, wear badges and patrol Michigan’s streets.
They’re even in uniform. But they’re not real cops.
Across Michigan, police departments have enlisted civilians to work alongside licensed officers to patrol communities and even assist real cops with arrests. But unlike the regular officers licensed by the state, these armed civilians are unregulated.
A Detroit Free Press investigation found there are no state-established training requirements for reserve officers, as they are commonly known; no standards for screening their qualifications, and no process for monitoring their conduct. The state agency responsible for police licensing and training is not regulating reserve officers — despite gaining authority last year to do just that — and has no idea how many such unlicensed volunteers there are statewide.
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Safeguarding the Nation's Drinking Water: EPA and Congressional Actions [September 30, 2010] [open pdf - 259KB]
"The events of September 11, 2001, focused heightened attention on the security status of the nation's drinking water supplies and the vulnerability of this critical infrastructure sector to attack. Congress since has enacted security requirements for public water systems and has provided funding for vulnerability assessments, emergency planning, and drinking water research. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the lead federal agency for the water sector, has worked with water utilities, state and local governments, and federal agencies to improve the drinking water security. The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (P.L. 107- 188) amended the Safe Drinking Water Act to require some 8,400 community water systems to assess vulnerabilities and prepare emergency response plans. It authorized funding for these activities and for emergency grants to states and utilities, and it directed EPA to review methods to prevent, detect, and respond to threats to water safety and infrastructure security. The act did not require water systems to make security upgrades to address potential vulnerabilities. In most years since FY2002, Congress appropriated roughly $5 million annually for EPA to work with states and the water sector to improve the security of drinking water supplies."
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As they become more familiar with ICD-10, health care executives recognize the long-term benefits of the updated code set and plan to use it for quality improvement and performance measurement, according to a new report based on a survey by AHIMA and eHealth Initiative (eHI).
Survey results show more respondents plan to use ICD-10 for quality improvement, performance measurement, and outcomes measurement than respondents of a similar study in 2013.
Respondents said they believe ICD-10 will make managing population health and conducting clinical, health services, or translational research easier, and that ICD-10 will ultimately improve the accuracy of claims, quality of care, and patient safety.
A majority of the respondents also indicated they are far enough along in the implementation process to conduct end-to-end testing prior to the compliance deadline of October 1, 2015, although smaller organizations appear less equipped to test.
“These results demonstrate that the health care community has stayed on track with preparation despite delays and that as health care executives continue to learn more about the specificity in ICD-10, they see clear value in it,” says AHIMA CEO Lynne Thomas Gordon, MBA, RHIA, CAE, FACHE, FAHIMA. “AHIMA will continue to provide training and resources to help health care organizations, including small physician groups, prepare for implementation so all health care organizations and patients will experience the benefits of a modern and robust coding system.”
Four hundred and fifty-four individuals responded to the survey representing a wide range of health care settings, including health care delivery organizations, acute care hospitals, clinics, and physician practices to assess the anticipated affect of ICD-10. Areas of focus in the survey included readiness for testing and implementation, anticipated financial, clinical and operational affects, and the strategic implications of an expanded code set.
While a majority of respondents are ready to implement end-to-end testing, survey results show that smaller organizations are less ready to test or to mitigate a possible decrease in staff productivity. Respondents also indicated they are not aware of when their business partners will be prepared to conduct testing.
“As organizations continue to prepare for implementation, survey results highlight the need for communication and collaboration among health care organizations and business partners,” says eHI CEO Jennifer Covich Bordenick. “By working together, organizations will be better equipped to handle the demand of ICD-10 implementation and ultimately leverage the code set for better health care outcomes.”
As organizations work toward meeting the compliance deadline, AHIMA and eHI recommend the following:
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A New Quantum Physics?
During the mid- to late-twentieth century, quantum physicists picked apart the unified theory of physics that Einstein’s theory of relativity offered. The physics of the large was governed by gravity, but only quantum physics could describe observations of the small. Since then, a theoretical tug-o-war between gravity and the other three fundamental forces has continued as physicists try to extend gravity or quantum physics to subsume the other as more fundamental.
Recent measurements from the Large Hadron Collider show a discrepancy with Standard Model predictions that may hint at entirely new realms of the universe underlying what’s described by quantum physics. Although repeated tests are required to confirm these anomalies, a confirmation would signify a turning point in our most fundamental description of particle physics to date.
Quantum physicists found in a recent study that mesons don’t decay into kaon and muon particles often enough, according to the Standard Model predictions of frequency. The authors agree that enhancing the power of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will reveal a new kind of particle responsible for this discrepancy. Although errors in data or theory may have caused the discrepancy, instead of a new particle, an improved LHC would prove a boon for several projects on the cutting edge of physics.
The Standard Model
The Standard Model is a well-established fundamental theory of quantum physics that describes three of the four fundamental forces believed to govern our physical reality. Quantum particles occur in two basic types, quarks and leptons. Quarks bind together in different combinations to build particles like protons and neutrons. We’re familiar with protons, neutrons, and electrons because they’re the building blocks of atoms.
The “lepton family” features heavier versions of the electron — like the muon — and the quarks can coalesce into hundreds of other composite particles. Two of these, the Bottom and Kaon mesons, were culprits in this quantum mystery. The Bottom meson (B) decays to a Kaon meson (K) accompanied by a muon (mu-) and anti-muon (mu ) particle.
They found a 2.5 sigma variance, or 1 in 80 probability, “which means that, in the absence of unexpected effects, i.e. new physics, a distribution more deviant than observed would be produced about 1.25 percent of the time,” Professor Spencer Klein, senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, told Futurism. Klein was not involved in the study.
This means the frequency of mesons decaying into strange quarks during the LHC proton-collision tests fell a little below the expected frequency. “The tension here is that, with a 2.5 sigma [or standard deviation from the normal decay rate], either the data is off by a little bit, the theory is off by a little bit, or it’s a hint of something beyond the standard model,” Klein said. “I would say, naïvely, one of the first two is correct.”
To Klein, this variance is inevitable considering the high volume of data run by computers for LHC operations. “With Petabyte-(1015 bytes)-sized datasets from the LHC, and with modern computers, we can make a very large number of measurements of different quantities,” Klein said. “The LHC has produced many hundreds of results. Statistically, some of them are expected to show 2.5 sigma fluctuations.” Klein noted that particle physicists usually wait for a 5-sigma fluctuation before crying wolf — corresponding to roughly a 1-in-3.5-million fluctuation in data.
These latest anomalous observations do not exist in a vacuum. “The interesting aspect of the two taken in combination is how aligned they are with other anomalous measurements of processes involving B mesons that had been made in previous years,” Dr. Tevong You, co-author of the study and junior research fellow in theoretical physics at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, told Futurism. “These independent measurements were less clean but more significant. Altogether, the chance of measuring these different things and having them all deviate from the Standard Model in a consistent way is closer to 1 in 16000 probability, or 4 sigma,” Tevong said.
Extending the Standard Model
Barring statistical or theoretical errors, Tevong suspects that the anomalies mask the presence of entirely new particles, called leptoquarks or Z prime particles. Inside bottom mesons, quantum excitations of new particles could be interfering with normal decay frequency. In the study, researchers conclude that an upgraded LHC could confirm the existence of new particles, making a major update to the Standard Model in the process.
“It would be revolutionary for our fundamental understanding of the universe,” said Tevong. “For particle physics […] it would mean that we are peeling back another layer of Nature and continuing on a journey of discovering the most elementary building blocks. This would have implications for cosmology, since it relies on our fundamental theories for understanding the early universe,” he added. “The interplay between cosmology and particle physics has been very fruitful in the past. As for dark matter, if it emerges from the same new physics sector in which the Zprime or leptoquark is embedded, then we may also find signs of it when we explore this new sector.”
The Power to Know
So far, scientists at the LHC have only observed ghosts and anomalies hinting at particles that exist at higher energy levels. To prove their existence, physicists “need to confirm the indirect signs […], and that means being patient while the LHCb experiment gathers more data on B decays to make a more precise measurement,” Tevong said. “We will also get an independent confirmation by another experiment, Belle II, that should be coming online in the next few years. After all that, if the measurement of B decays still disagrees with the predictions of the Standard Model, then we can be confident that something beyond the Standard Model must be responsible, and that would point towards leptoquarks or Zprime particles as the explanation,” he added.
To establish their existence, physicists would then aim to produce the particles in colliders the same way Bottom mesons or Higgs bosons are produced, and watch them decay. “We need to be able to see a leptoquark or Zprime pop out of LHC collisions,” Tevong said. “The fact that we haven’t seen any such exotic particles at the LHC (so far) means that they may be too heavy, and more energy will be required to produce them. That is what we estimated in our paper: the feasibility of directly discovering leptoquarks or Zprime particles at future colliders with higher energy.”
Quantum Leap for the LHC
Seeking out new particles in the LHC isn’t a waiting game. The likelihood of observing new phenomena is directly proportional to how many new particles pop up in collisions. “The more the particle appears the higher the chances of spotting it amongst many other background events taking place during those collisions,” Tevong explained. For the purposes of finding new particles, he likens it to searching for a needle in a haystack; it’s easier to find a needle if the haystack is filled with them, as opposed to one. “The rate of production depends on the particle’s mass and couplings: heavier particles require more energy to produce,” he said.
This is why Tevong and co-authors B.C. Allanach and Ben Gripaios recommend either extending the LHC loop’s length, thus reducing the amount of magnetic power needed to accelerate particles, or replacing the current magnets with stronger ones.
According to Tevong, the CERN laboratory is slated to keep running the LHC in present configuration until mid-2030s. Afterwards, they might upgrade the LHC’s magnets, roughly doubling its strength. In addition to souped-up magnets, the tunnel could see an enlargement from present 27 to 100 km (17 to 62 miles). “The combined effect […] would give about seven times more energy than the LHC,” Tevong said. “The timescale for completion would be at least in the 2040s, though it is still too early to make any meaningful projections.”
If the leptoquark or Z prime anomalies are confirmed, the Standard Model has to change, Tevong reiterates. “It is very likely that it has to change at energy scales directly accessible to the next generation of colliders, which would guarantee us answers,” he added. While noting that there’s no telling if dark matter has anything to do with the physics behind Zprimes or leptoquarks, the best we can do is seek “as many anomalous measurements as possible, whether at colliders, smaller particle physics experiments, dark matter searches, or cosmological and astrophysical observations,” he said. “Then the dream is that we may be able to form connections between various anomalies that can be linked by a single, elegant theory.” | <urn:uuid:786c156b-6671-4d15-b2dc-a26da79568da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.manahelthabet.com/measurements-cern-suggest-possibility-new-physics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.933135 | 1,965 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Tesla’s next big feature for Autopilot has been delayed due to the variety of lane markings around the world, CEO Elon Musk explained on Monday. “Navigate on Autopilot,” a semi-autonomous driving feature where the car turns off the highway at the correct exit depending on the destination, was pulled from the 9.0 software update prior to its release last month.
The feature was spotted in a number of pre-release beta updates for the Model S, X and 3, but it was ultimately pulled ahead of launch. The beta versions explained that “a single blue line indicates the path ahead, keeping your car in the lane,” while “gray lines highlight lane changes for a more efficient driving route,” also enabling a level of autonomy as the car “will also automatically steer toward and take the correct highway interchanges and exits based on your destination.”
Musk hinted at this issue when he held back the feature. Stating that the feature would undergo “a few more weeks of validaton,” Musk explained that it’s “extremely difficult to achieve a general solution for self-driving that works well everywhere.” It’s an issue that many researchers agree about: Shaoshan Liu, co-founder and chairman of autonomous robotics firm PerceptIn, told Inverse this month that “I agree with Musk that self driving in its current state does not work well everywhere.”
Musk previously promised that the company would offer full, hands-off-the-wheel autonomous driving by the end of 2017, using the same set of cameras and sensors found in vehicles shipping since October 2016. It was a far stricter deadline than companies like Volkswagen, which predicted small fleets in cities by 2021. In the wider industry, autonomous car firms have struggled to deliver on the promises of full-blown autonomy, with a Drive.AI representative suggesting that these vehicles could work in segregated lanes to solve some of autonomous driving’s biggest issues.
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When you start studying calligraphy, you never know when you will finish your career. The art of Islamic Calligraphy is a lifelong learning; it is a journey where you don’t just learn how to write letters, but you study some different aspects of human experience such as humility, patience, self-discipline, or “adab” (manners).
I first started making calligraphy after I was attracted to the beauty of the shapes of the letters. I thought to myself, “there is no doubt that exist an arcane, a sacred knowledge, an implicit message hidden behind every stroke and every letter.” To this day, I realize it is the simple fact that there exists a mystery that connects with your soul as soon as you observe a piece of calligraphy even if you can not understand what is written on it. But there is a connection that happens in some different level beyond mere comprehension when you look at a piece of calligraphy. And that connection led me to start practicing calligraphy, making it by myself, with no idea of what I was making, but captivated by the magic of this art form.
Meeting N.G. Masip and Ijazah in Calligraphy
My first meeting with calligraphy came about a few months after I met Nuria García Masip, my future mentor, teacher and the person who originated the biggest professional change in my life. When I met her she already was a renowned calligrapher. She took me to Istanbul and introduced me to her own teachers and so I started studying with her and some of the most important Turkish calligraphy masters. After five years of training, I received my “ijazah” or calligraphy diploma signed by the masters Hasan Çelebi, Ferhat Kurlu, and Nuria García.
Istanbul, the long-term capital of the Ottoman Empire, is a rich culturally and artistically rich city. It is also a place where the tradition of calligraphy has been preserved throughout the centuries. In Istanbul, you can easily find people from all across the world coming to this particular city to learn from the masters.
The teaching of calligraphy was originated in the Arabian Peninsula and quickly ventured into several directions. The main line in the tradition of calligraphy traveled into Syria, Iraq and Persia, and later into Anatolia and the Ottoman Empire. The teaching has been passed down from master to student since the beginning of Islam, creating a chain of knowledge.
The fourth caliph of Islam, Imam Ali, is considered by Muslims as the first major calligrapher. Hence, the chain of transmission begins with him, documented through the centuries until today. That is noteworthy not the least because when you become a disciple in the Ottoman school of calligraphy, you join a chain of transmission of knowledge. It means you have received your knowledge from masters who were once students of older masters, who, to this day, use the traditional teaching methods and the same materials used by the first calligraphers.
“The fourth caliph of Islam, Imam Ali, is considered by Muslims as the first major calligrapher. Hence, the chain of transmission begins with him, documented through the centuries until today.”
At the same time, the fact that the knowledge has been passed down on this way ensures that the classic models or shapes of the letters have not suffered any change. An additional step in preserving the tradition of calligraphy is the observance a series of “rituals.”
Teaching Calligraphy: A Gift
A most important ritual of calligraphy in the Ottoman school concerns the nature of teaching. In this school, teaching has been always considered a “gift,” and that the master teacher cannot charge for this “gift.”
The idea is that, the things we get in life for free are the most important things we get, and when we get them for free we have to give them back for free. That is the essence of the Ottoman Turkish way of teaching calligraphy. It is a gift you receive, the tradition tells us, and one has to give the gift back.
It follows, therefore, that every single calligrapher becomes a teacher because what you get, you give. And when you have the experience, you have to pass it on.
“How the teacher holds the qalam (pen), how he turns it, at what point he starts a stroke, where he pauses and where he finishes it are all aspects of that teacher-student relationship.”
The teaching is always done in person, so the student can see every motion and observe carefully how his master´s hand moves. How the teacher holds the qalam (pen), how he turns it, at what point he starts a stroke, where he pauses and where he finishes it are all aspects of that teacher-student relationship.
The Master’s “Hands”
Every students of calligrapher is taught the saying that reads: “The hand of your master keeps all the knowledge you have to learn.”
The hand has a specific symbolism in this tradition. For a calligrapher, it is very important to have a healthy hand.
There are some interesting stories about master Ottoman calligraphers and their “hands,” such as the story of Kazasker Mustafa Izzet Efendi, who, in addition to being a calligrapher, was the imam of Eyüp Mosque in Istanbul. Every Friday he gave a speech in that mosque and that made him unable to do calligraphy during the day. So, in order to keep his hand from becoming lazy, he kept a small piece of soft material in his hand to exercise calligraphy
Another such story is about one of the greatest calligraphers of all time, Sami Efendi, who used to put his hands in between the buttons of his shirt while walking on the street, in an effort to protect his hands from getting a hit.
In a similar vein, there is an idiom in Turkish language, used often by calligraphers. When somebody has created a beautiful piece of work, they will say “ellerine sağlık,” which means, “may God protect your hands.”
Visit Your Master
Another “ritual” which is constantly repeated in traditional calligraphy circles is that every single calligrapher visit his master weekly to show him his work in order to get corrections and advise.
I mentioned before the fact that the teaching is always done free of charge; so the only way that you have to “pay” your teacher is to apply yourself to this art in the best way you are able to do and never stop visiting him and showing him your work.
And visiting one’s master is not the novice student calligrapher’s responsibility alone, every single calligrapher, doesn’t matter if he is already a renowned calligrapher, should keep up with visits to his master.
“…visiting one’s master is not the novice student calligrapher’s responsibility alone, every single calligrapher, doesn’t matter if he is already a renowned calligrapher, should keep up with visits to his master.”
Your Master is in Your Signature
Constant visits are not the only way to traditionally honor a calligraphy master. We , students of calligraphy, honor our masters, through a formula we use to sign a calligraphy piece –this is the same for all the calligraphers. Once a work is completed, with a small qalam (pen) and in the same paper, the calligrapher writes:
[it] was written by the poor (e.g., poor of spirit or humble) – name of the calligrapher –which is one of the students of – name of his master – May God forgive him and be pleased with him.
This formula comes from Hafız Osman, a seventeenth century Ottoman calligrapher. By the time Hafiz was a student, he had already developed a strong talent and he was able to write a copy of the whole Qur’an in a delightful handwriting. One day, his master took this Qur’an and asked Hafız to go with him to visit the Ottoman Sultan of the time so the Sultan could see the beauty of Hafız’s work. The Sultan was fascinated when he saw the copy of the Qur’an, and he inquired from Hafız who was the author of that beautiful work of art., In response, Hafız said: “It was written by the humble student of the master Mustafa Eyyubi.” In other words, just as Hafiz merely mentioned his master’s name to honor and show him respect, in the same way, we, students of calligraphy, follow his tradition to this day.
The Qalam and its Shavings
The qalam we use to write calligraphy might seem like a simple piece of bamboo, but for Muslim calligraphers it has a very special significance and a number of rituals are closely connected to the qalam.
In Muslim literature, we find that the first thing God created was the qalam, and its duty was to record every event that happens in one’s life. Similarly, we find that in the Qur’an “a whole chapter, Surat al-Qalam”, the sixty-eighth chapter, takes its name from the qalam.
We should also keep in mind that the calligrapher spends a great amount of time every day, and during his whole life, with the qalam in his hand, such that the qalam becomes a prolongation of the calligrapher’s hand. A prolongation which is used to express some ideas and feelings on the paper. The qalam, therefore, is the most sacred tool for a calligrapher.
As such, a ritual respected by students of calligraphy is to keep all the shavings you get every single time you cut and sharpen your qalam (pen)Most of what calligraphers write, not everything but most of it, is directly related to Qur’anic verses or Hadiths (teachings from the prophet Muhammad). And this is one of the reasons why we keep the shavings of the qalam; we don’t want to throw a part of the tool we use to write sacred texts to the trash and mix them with garbage.
Therefore, the tradition says that the calligrapher has to keep all his shavings since the day he starts learning calligraphy until the day that he dies. and when death falls upon a calligrapher, his family collects the shavings and puts them to fire in boiling the water they will use to wash the body of the calligrapher (in Muslim tradition, the family is still in charge of the deceased’s body). In other words, when the calligrapher disappears from this world in its material form, the shavings of his qalam also disappears.
The Water and the Ink
Something similar happens with the water we use to mix the ink. During the Ottoman Empire, calligraphers would only use rain water to make their own inks. As they say, rain is “Rahmatullah,” which means “mercy from God.” This is why, the calligraphers considered it the purest water they could use.
Nowadays, as well as rain water, we use rose water or distilled water, in an effort to avoid using tap water. This is because we are not sure if the pipes this water is passing through are completely clean; we don’t want to write something which has a sacred meaning for us with something which might be dirty or not pure enough.
The ink we use is made by soot, Arabic gum and water.In the past, calligraphers used to collect the soot from the oil lamps that illuminate the mosques and use that to make their own inks. The famous Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan, also known as Sinan the Architect, for example, ordered his disciples to build a small room atop the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul during the construction phase. All the soot from the lamps were diverted to this room, where, once a year, calligraphers used to go and scratch the soot pasted at the walls and the roof; they would use this soot in preparing their ink.
The calligraphers would use this ink to write the copies of Qur’an. They would later give these copies to the mosque as a charity. In other words, what originated in the mosque in a soot form, came back later to the same place in a beautiful handwritten Qur’an form and would stay there for a long time.
Tomb Visitation and Calligraphy
Another ritual the calligraphers traditionally observe is to visit the tombs of the great calligraphy masters of the past. In these visits, in addition to praying for the masters’ souls, the calligraphers would bury a qalam at the level of the hands of the person who is buried, and leave it there for some time. Later on, they would come back to the tomb and pick the qalam up to use it for their calligraphy works. It is believed that this qalam will take on some baraka (the blessings or the positive energy from the calligrapher) and it will make the work of the calligrapher easier and beautify the handwriting.
Survival of a Tradition and Making Art
These rituals are not mandatory for all calligraphers, nor are they observed by everyone who is engaged with calligraphy. Nonetheless, in part thanks to these traditions, , as well as some other factors, generations of calligraphers were able to keep the essence of this art alive and those are very important points we have to keep in mind when we talk about calligraphy.
Speaking from my personal experience, it is very much true that all of these traditional aspects really fascinated me and made me fall in love with this art. At the same time, however, there is the practical part, the practice, the creative process where somehow you can express yourself by composing a calligraphy piece.
Creating a piece is a long process where the final result should be like a static theatrical representation where every little thing is carefully placed and has been chosen according to its beauty, balance and flow in relation to the rest of the elements you have in the composition. As my teacher says, “creating a piece of calligraphy is like sculpting a sculpture.” A final piece should be poetry for the eye, should be music written in a paper, a delight for the eye, and should carry a meaning for the soul.
“As my teacher says, ‘creating a piece of calligraphy is like sculpting a sculpture.’ A final piece should be poetry for the eye, should be music written in a paper, a delight for the eye, and should carry a meaning for the soul.”
In my opinion, the first thing one has to keep in mind while he is working on a composition is that this particular piece of work will last in this world (hopefully) for a long time, so we have to be really careful about what we want to leave in this world. In other words, it is the calligrapher’s responsibility to create something good enough to leave with others.
Reaching the “Hal”
When we look at a calligraphy piece, there is a dialogue that happens. This is a non-verbal dialogue, a communion between the geometry of the letters and our own cellular geometry. This make it all the more important because every single artwork is going to have an effect not only on the people who will observe it, but its specific geometric features will also transform the environment of the place where this artwork is exhibited. Somehow, it will transform the atmosphere of that location. This is in addition to the fact that as calligraphers we work with words and it is well known that words have a powerful impact or energy when we pronounce them.
In this piece above by Nuria García, we see a composition where this big letter “ha” stands out. This letter is used by Sufis during their sessions of meditation to reach the “hal,” which is a state of consciousness that is supposed to be in a higher level than the ordinary state and that brings you closer to your being, your essence, and therefore, your Lord.
So, if we understand the words as mantras, these will have a very specific effect on ourselves when we pronounce them. The power of words will have one or another effect depending on how we pronounce them. And the power of the written word, will have varying effects depending on how it is written.
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Making your business as efficient as possible is important in any industry, but particularly if you work in childcare. The NDNA recently reported that nurseries in England are suffering a loss of £958 per child per year for current 15 hour a week places, and the Government’s 30 hour ‘free’ policy is threatening the viability of many settings.
With financial and time pressure continuing to mount for those working in the childcare sector, what can you do to make the most of the resources you have?
Cross-train your staff
It can be particularly helpful to train your staff to fulfil more than one role in your setting. This can be as simple as making sure that all practitioners know how to answer the phone and book a showround with a parent. Having additional responsibility and ownership of tasks will motivate your staff and help their personal development, too.
Stop chasing parents who owe money
Time is precious when you’re a childcare provider and there never seems to be enough hours in the day! Putting automated fee collection in place means that parents pay their fees to you by Direct Debit. Using this service, you can keep conversations about finances completely separate from the everyday care of children and, importantly, preserve the relationship you’ve worked hard to build with parents.
Avoid unnecessary printing
Parents have become increasingly mobile – checking their emails whilst on-the-go and accessing the internet everyday through their phones. So, why not take advantage of this? Make your invoices electronic, send your newsletter by email, and use your website and social media pages to keep them updated on upcoming events. Not only is this convenient for parents, it will also help to keep your printing and paper costs as low as possible.
Use technology to speed up workflow
If you’re spending hours each week trying to figure out what parents owe or using your evenings to put together staff rotas, then technology can help you get back the time you’ve lost. Great nursery management software can, in fact, cut down on your planning and preparation work by as much as 50%, as explained by Carly Garratt of Banana Moon Nurseries. Similarly, using online learning journals such as Footsteps will reduce the amount of time your staff spend outside of the room, cutting and sticking photos and writing time-consuming notes into scrapbooks or ring binders. | <urn:uuid:dc1dd8d7-fdd1-4d75-a5e1-c719ae8010dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.parenta.com/2017/06/06/top-tips-to-make-your-childcare-business-more-efficient/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.962691 | 479 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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Strana 27 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Strana 190 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Strana 235 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Strana 108 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Strana 243 - The mountain shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Strana 233 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Strana 70 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Strana 15 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me. | <urn:uuid:57ea483d-232a-4ec9-a233-b769fd68eb74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.com/books/about/Crayon_Sketches.html?hl=cs&id=r50vAAAAMAAJ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.9066 | 723 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Antimicrobial resistance is a situation that occurs when viruses, fungi, parasites and bacteria do not respond to medication, making illness harder to treat hence escalating the risk of severe illness, disease spread and death.
Various factors like overuse of drugs, such as antibiotics, by human beings, agriculture and livestock as well as poor access to water and sanitation, have led to an increase in the threat of AMR. Despite its severity, misuse and lack of access to antibiotics has been overlooked over the decades.
According to global data shared on the Ministry of Health website, 10 million lives are lost annually as a result of AMR and it’s projected that the menace will cause a reduction of the global GDP by three per cent by 2050.
Africa’s Voices Foundation collaborated with Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data(GPSDD) to generate and disseminate insights on AMR in Kenya using Citizen Generated Data. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, deployed AVF’s unique interactive radio shows and SMS methodology, listening group discussions and interviews across three counties in Kenya: Kiambu, Kilifi and Bungoma.
We received 20, 272 messages from 5,313 participants who consented for their SMS to be analysed. Also, 48 listening group discussions and 16 informant interviews were held across the targeted counties to compliment the interactive radio discussions with a span of 10 weeks. The project’s findings were officially launched by Dr. Rashid Aman, Chief Administrative Secretary, Ministry of Health, Kenya during a webinar on 30th September, 2021.
Tackling AMR is a shared responsibility. Citizens, policymakers, health care workers, and the research community all have important roles to play.
Citizens should feel empowered to play a role in tackling AMR by changing their practices in accessing, using, and misusing antimicrobials. With civil society, they should proactively engage in efforts to gather citizen-generated data.
Health care workers should drive quality patient engagement on AMR to tackle misinformation and improve levels of trust with citizens. They should also take a holistic view of addressing AMR by understanding the role of community engagement and drawing on lessons from CGD to inform their engagement with patients.
The AMR research community should explore ways of incorporating citizens’ voices in research studies that target challenges on AMR, especially in hard-to-reach areas such as arid and semi-arid lands.
The findings from this study have reinforced the value of CGD in providing insights on issues that matter to citizens, as a means to get the voices of citizens heard, hold the government accountable, and ensure citizens’ experiences are reflected in policy and decision-making. Beyond tackling AMR, citizen-generated data has huge potential: to improve health; turn the dial on gender equality and social inclusion; improve livelihoods; build more prosperous and cohesive communities; and enable more downwards accountability from service-deliverers to the people they serve. Enabling conversations and providing spaces where citizens share social insights, narratives, beliefs, and experiences is instrumental in informing norm-change programs, filling evidence gaps for the research community, and supporting health policy decision-making.
You can read the full report by CLICKING HERE.
Photos by Elphas Ngungi – GPSDD
This work benefitted from feedback and guidance from colleagues at the Centre for Humanitarian Change colleagues: Peter Hailey and Nancy Balfour, alongside Guhad Muhammad Adan, Khalif Abdulrahman and Dan Maxwell.
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As part of effective workplace identity theft solutions, companies should have a backup plan to prevent identity theft knowing that data breach incidents are inevitable. We hear about personal data breach incidents regularly which result in almost a billion lost personal records, millions of victims, and several billions of dollars in fraud losses annually due to identity theft.
Although companies do all that they can to secure the personal information of their customers, we now know that personal data breach incidents are inevitable and the stolen information is used by identity thieves to commit various identity theft crimes. I use the word inevitable because although many companies have good intentions to keep the personal information of their customers safe, information protection is not 100 percent effective all the time as evidenced by the sophisticated and successful attacks upon some of the largest and richest companies in the world. Also, the fact that consumers and businesses are voluntarily becoming identity obese by sharing and collecting an excessive and unnecessary amount of personal information is not helping us reduce the consequences of identity theft. As you may have noticed, personal data breach incidents are now resulting in huge losses of personal records, why? Because businesses maintain huge files which contain millions of customer personal records. So, huge files combined with a lack of 100 percent security result in huge identity theft problems for companies. Regardless of who lost control of what files and how, any personal information obtained from any company can be used to defraud any company. And by the way, we may not know about some of data breach incidents because of lack of transparency and disclosure for obvious reasons.
That being said, what are we supposed to do given the large size of data files that companies maintain, less that 100 percent effective security, and, lack of knowledge about all incidents and their nature? We have to have a backup plan.
Knowing the facts described above, businesses are better off having a backup plan to prevent any stolen information from being used to defraud them. The backup plan is an identity theft prevention program which can be designed and managed by qualified employees. Having an identity theft prevention program is also a major requirement of the US Federal Red Flags Rule regulation overseen by FTC and other agencies. | <urn:uuid:0fb4dea1-577e-4fc9-8086-e812652f6b05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.identity-theft-awareness.com/workplace-identity-theft-solutions.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959881 | 425 | 1.789063 | 2 |
The Union of B.C. Municipalies (UBCM) meetings took place September 22 to 26 in Whistler. The meetings are held once a year with council and regional district delegates from local government. We discuss concerns that we have and make recommendations to the provincial government on issues affecting our communities. This year, councilor Mueller and councilor Duchaine and I attended. The theme was Leading Edge.
I attended the B.C. Mayor’s Caucus on Monday, September 22. It is an important meeting for mayors to attend, learn about all communities and come to a collective decision on issues we want to push with the provincial government. One of our main concerns is the Ad-hoc granting process that is in place; we are encouraging the government to look at providing grants that will be more effective. There needs to be flexibility around the federal gas tax and Build Canada Fund so that it is more goal-orientated to the priorities of communities. Currently, the guidelines are not fitting to the needs of many communities. The implementation of the Municipal Auditor General, the aging infrastructure and ambulance service delivery are also topics their are concerns with and committees are being formed to move forward with recommendations.
Mental Health and Policing are areas that need work. In many areas, the police are asked to deal with issues around mental health and it is not a policing mandate. Housing options are needed so we don’t have people on the street. Coordination with placement and related issues needs work. There needs to be a framework for the province so that everyone is aware of the issues and can work together. Long term care beds are needed as well as more health care and addictions beds.
Members of the B.C. Mayor’s Caucus issued a call to action related to mental health and addiction as their are an urgent issue facing every B.C. community regardless of the size.
The small talk forum had many communities presenting success stories. Of particular interest was on Community Forests and Carbon offsets. We can now apply to have a community forest listed for carbon offsets. The wood waste heating system at Telkwa was also a great learning experience for us and one that council is interested in. We also learned that libraries in small communities have shown an increase in usage of 400 per cent, and a space increase of 40 per cent over the past 10 years a 200 per cent increase in programs, and that virtual contact is a fifth of the total visits. Pretty impressive.
We met with the Minister of Health, the Honourable Terry Lake, to discuss the need for six more residential care beds as well as renovation to our emergency department and consultation rooms for visiting consultants. Although the decisions remain with IHA, it is important that the Minister hear our issues.
Our second ministerial meeting was with the Honorable Todd Stone, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure. We discussed the importance to our economy, on the reliability and load capacity of the ferry as well as the availability of a back up ferry. We stressed how important the transportation corridor is to our economic driver. We also informed the minister of the importance of building future ferries in Nakusp and the positive impact on our economy. We asked that RFP’s for future work come out sooner rather than later. We were assured that the backup ferry would be in place for at least two years.
We also met with ministry staff to discuss adding to our Community Forest license as the areas we currently have are impacted by the caribou and various other ecological factors. The community forest is a wonderful asset for our communities and we would like to see it grow.
We met with Multi Material BC (MMBC) to discuss the recycling program and what we need to move forward to provide an efficient system for our taxpayers and residents.
The experience of attending UBCM cannot be underestimated. We make many useful connections, learn about other communities and come home with ideas for our own communities.
Many of council’s projects from our three year plan are completed or in the final stages of completion. The reservoir lining will be completed over the next few days. Our groundwater protection plan has been completed. A lot of smaller projects have been addressed as well and if you walk the waterfront, you will see that the sidewalk, on tired Avenue has been replaced —many of you commented on the pooling of water there. There have been upgrades to the cedar chalets and we have received a lot of positive feedback.
We have successfully renewed our Fair Trade status. Thanks to the NSS we became the first community in B.C. to receive Fair Trade Status, and the fourth in Canada. You will soon see five more heritage signs around town bringing the total to 15. Some exciting new projects are on the horizon and we will keep you informed.
Municipal elections are coming up and closing date for filing is Friday, October 10 at 4 p.m..
As always, a great big thank you to all of our volunteers who make our community the special place that it is and also to everyone who takes the time to let us know their concerns and positive comments. | <urn:uuid:18376206-2942-4220-aaab-b03d01721e62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.arrowlakesnews.com/community/mayor-report-ubcm-meetings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972066 | 1,042 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Major American businesses and trade groups are fighting newly proposed legislation intended to protect U.S. industries deemed critical to national security from China.
A bipartisan group of senators and representatives proposed legislation for inclusion within the Bipartisan Innovation Act (BIA) on June 13 that intends to protect American manufacturing power within industries considered vital to U.S. national security, the lawmakers said in a joint statement. However, organizations with vested business interests in China reportedly intend to fight the legislation, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Douglas K. Barry, senior director of communications at The U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC), told The Daily Caller News Foundation that his organization opposes the legislation, claiming it will lead to regulatory uncertainty which will paralyze companies and harm U.S. supply chains.
“We appreciate the need to ensure U.S. investments abroad do not cause national security concerns,” Barry told TheDCNF. “However, a unilateral mechanism like that in the House-passed COMPETES Act would be far too broad in covering many sectors not critical to national security, create tremendous uncertainty and reduce the competitiveness of U.S. companies.”
Over 250 companies belong to USCBC, including Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Intel, Procter & Gamble, Visa and Snickers. Despite the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China, these six American companies officially sponsored the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Yet, these companies suspended their business operations in Russia following the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The newly proposed legislation would reportedly require U.S. companies to disclose their intention to invest in the development of sensitive technologies — such as drones, hypersonics and pharmaceuticals — within China and other “foreign adversaries,” The Wall Street Journal reported after reviewing a draft of the bill. A new interagency panel would then have the opportunity to vet and block those proposed foreign investments deemed vital to national security.
U.S. venture firms, such as Sequoia Capital, might therefore be impacted if the legislation is implemented, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sequoia Capital has reportedly made numerous direct investments to Chinese semiconductor, robotics and biotechnology companies and has also invested in a Chinese artificial intelligence firm blacklisted by the U.S. government in 2019 for “acting contrary to the foreign policy interests of the United States.”
The pro-China lobby, which includes both Chinese government lobbyists as well as non-governmental groups advocating on behalf of Chinese interests, has ramped up its efforts in recent years, spending in total around $68 million in 2019, $73 million in 2020 and $83 million in 2021, according to Open Secrets’ database. Major American corporations with vested business interests in China, such as Apple, Intel and Procter & Gamble, have lobbied on issues related to the United States Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) — of which the newly proposed legislation would become a part.
USCBC reportedly lobbied successfully to defeat an earlier push for similar legislation requiring government reviews of U.S. investments in China in 2021, according to Politico. The National Retail Federation, which represents major U.S. retailers, also joined in efforts to oppose anti-China competition bills, Politico reported.
“USCBC is, in essence, a pro-CCP interest lobbying group,” Fu said. “USCBC is, at least, partially responsible for successfully making America dependent on China, resulting in massive strategic national security losses for the U.S., including the ongoing supply chain disaster.”
Fu said that USCBC has a clear track record of downplaying China’s human rights violations while also safeguarding China’s access to the lucrative U.S. business market.
Speaking at a 1997 hearing before the Subcommittee on Trade regarding renewing China’s most-favored-nation status, former USCBC head Robert A. Kapp argued that China’s human rights violations shouldn’t be a moral obstacle to U.S. trade.
“The notion of turning the [most-favored-nation] vote into a litmus test of the moral integrity of individual members of Congress is absolutely astounding,” Kapp said. “To say to a member of Congress — as many members have told me they have themselves been told — that their vote on a tariff measure on Chinese imports is a measure of their commitment to their most fundamental moral beliefs is an extraordinary, heavy and unacceptable burden to place on individual members of Congress, whose integrity is not in doubt.”
However, Barry called claims that USCBC had ever downplayed China’s human rights violations for the sake of business interests “utter nonsense.”
“USCBC has rarely advocated for American or Chinese workers’ rights and interests, nor does it support any initiatives on universal human rights and religious freedom issues,” said Fu. “Instead, its influence over the years provides platforms for CCP leaders’ propaganda activities, such as lobbying the U.S. government to grant China permanent normal trade relations and most-favored-nation status by delinking business with human rights in China, then helping China’s entry into the World Trade Organization.”
Barry told TheDCNF that USCBC also opposes the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) — which came into force Tuesday — and requires American companies to ensure their supply chains are free from products created using Uyghur slave labor. Barry argued the newly proposed legislation might lead to regulatory uncertainty and compliance issues for U.S. businesses.
“[UFLPA] will create significant uncertainty, further snarl already stressed supply chains, and contribute to inflation,” Barry told TheDCNF. “We are expecting implementation to be messy. [Customs and Border Protection] has had to scramble to implement a complex piece of legislation in only six months.”
USCBC lobbied against the UFLPA in March 2022 by submitting comments outlining their objections to the Department of Homeland Security. Among the objections, USCBC criticized the act’s implementation timeline and characterized its scope as “extremely broad.”
Meanwhile, Apple, Coca-Cola, Nike and other American companies reportedly identified as having been beneficiaries of Uyghur slave labor by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in March 2020 are members of USCBC.
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Broken promises can fuel distrust in politics and lead to citizens distrusting their leaders. They are a breeding ground for resentment from poor countries toward the great powers in terms of international solidarity. Public action is not inevitable, but it is possible to resort to a series of renunciations.
Only $60 billion has been pledged almost a year after rich nations announced financial support for vulnerable countries equal to $100 billion to address the Covid-19 pandemic. Day by rich countries and only a small portion of this amount has been actually paid to the beneficiaries countries. They are rightfully impatient because they face greater challenges than ever before.
What is the real issue? The IMF made a new allocation of special drawing right (SDRs), equivalent to 650 billion US dollars, on August 23rd 2021. It distributed these SDRs among its 190 members based on their global economic weight. SDRs, which are international reserve assets, can be used by recipients countries to exchange for foreign currency without incurring additional debt. High-income countries didn't need this mechanism to combat the pandemic because they had sufficient fiscal and monetary flexibility as well as enough borrowing capacity to offset the effects of the crisis. The crisis's impact. The Summit on financing African economies in Paris was the inspiration for the proposal to ask rich countries to "recycle” a portion of their SDRs to countries most in need, particularly African countries.
It was up to the wealthiest countries to determine, on a voluntary basis how much of their SDRs they wanted to redistribute in this manner. Some countries, like France, Canada, and the United Kingdom, have announced that they would redirect 20% of their SDRs towards African economies. Others have not made any announcements. For example, the United States has yet to fulfill its promise to reallocate 20% SDRs. 40% of the 100 Billion dollars promised by the G20 is still missing.
Worse, almost none of the pledged sums have been disbursed. There are still technical solutions that allow rich countries to recycle their SDRs, without affecting their balance sheets or foreign exchange reserves. In fact, financial assistance could include loans.
But Africa is at the edge of collapse. Africa is facing a crisis that is escalating and the financial needs of African economies are becoming more urgent than ever. The shock of the global health crisis has not been fully recovered on the continent: While leaders from the G7 nations announce that they are now willing to "live with it", the pandemic has pushed 97 million people to extreme poverty. Humanitarian needs are rising due to the persistence of armed conflicts on the African continent and increased security risks. A climate crisis's effects, including droughts and flooding, raise the risk of a global food crisis. Furthermore, the country's dependence on Russian and Ukrainian agricultural imports is causing soaring food costs.
In April 2022, 335,000,000 Africans were suffering from hunger. 28 million people in East Africa are at risk from starvation. This is why 27 emerging countries, including 10 from Africa, are having major problems borrowing on the financial market. 23 African countries are in high or moderate debt distress. It would be absurd if external financial assistance was not available at a time when it is most needed. It is unacceptable that it increases the debt service repayment burden, to the detriment financing economic and social development and resilience to global shocks.
It is not the right time to procrastinate. It is essential to keep the commitment to pay 100 billion to most vulnerable countries through the recycling of SDRs from rich countries, and in particular by supporting the Multilateral Development Banks.
What makes the difference between communication at a summit of Heads-of-State and reality is consistency and monitoring of implementation. The latest example of breaking promises to African countries is recycling SDRs to keep fragile economics afloat. Although Africa feels excluded from the global pandemic vaccine campaign, France cannot allow it to be ignored by the international community. France should not accept financial support for Africa.
Our country must cooperate with all G20 countries in order to ensure that their aid commitments to Africa are met. This issue must be addressed by the President of the Republic during the French presidency in the European Union, which ends at end of the month. France must raise at least $15 billion to fund additional SDRs with European partners. This will include increasing its commitment to reach 30% reallocation before the Czech Republic takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Europe's power in this area of the world will continue to decrease, particularly among its youth, as long as it is unreliable. | <urn:uuid:4e7cc593-6532-46d0-aeb9-fc0487addee4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailynewsen.com/breaking/najat-vallaudbelkacem-what-happened-to-covid-aid-to-africa-h39366.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965551 | 942 | 2.625 | 3 |
The sex of adult hamsters is easy to determine. Males have very large, prominent testicles. In fact, owners unaccustomed to seeing them are often astonished at these anatomic peculiarities.
Male golden hamsters can breed from 14 weeks old, and females can be bred when they reach 10 weeks old.
When the female is ready to mate, thin, stringy, cobweb-like mucous is visible from the vulva. The female can then be placed into the male’s cage about one hour before dark. The pair must then be carefully observed for mating activity and/or fighting.
Females can be very aggressive to males in this situation and can harm them, so the male should be removed at once if there is fighting. Because fighting is highly likely, aggressive males are best hand-mated so they are better able to defend themselves and “hold their ground”. The male should then be removed after mating.
Pregnancy lasts about 16 days.
Before delivery, the female becomes restless and usually discharges a small amount of blood from her vulva.
Litters usually range from 5-10 pups – the pups are born hairless, with ears and eyes closed. They do, however, have their front teeth (the incisors) at birth.
Female hamsters with young must be provided with abundant nesting and bedding materials, and plenty of food and water, and they must not be disturbed in any way.
The young should not be touched or handled until they are at least 7 days old, the nest should not be disturbed, and the cage should not be cleaned during this period. Failure to heed these cautions, especially with females nursing their first litters, most often results in cannibalism of the young.
Observant owners may note an interesting maternal rearing activity, especially if the female with young is excited or disturbed. She will stuff pups into her cheek pouches and deposit them into the nest a short time later when she believes the danger has passed. Occasionally, pups suffocate as a result of this activity, especially during lengthy periods of disturbance.
Young hamsters usually begin eating solid food at 10 days of age but are usually weaned at about 3 weeks of age. Solid, pelleted food must be soaked to soften it and be placed on or near floor level of the enclosure for easy access by the weanlings.
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In everyday speech, a phrase may be any group of words, often carrying a special idiomatic meaning; in this sense it is roughly synonymous with expression. In linguistic analysis, a phrase is a group of words (or possibly a single word) that functions as a constituent in the syntax of a sentence—a single unit within a grammatical hierarchy. A phrase appears within a clause, although it is also possible for a phrase to be a clause or to contain a clause within it.
In grammatical analysis, particularly in theories of syntax, a phrase is any group of words, or sometimes a single word, which plays a particular role within the grammatical structure of a sentence. It does not have to have any special meaning or significance, or even exist anywhere outside of the sentence being analyzed, but it must function there as a complete grammatical unit. For example, in the sentence Yesterday I saw an orange bird with a white neck, the words an orange bird with a white neck form what is called a noun phrase, or a determiner phrase in some theories, which functions as the object of the sentence.
More generally, we found evidence that dogs are capable of forming abstract concepts." ... "They can understand the concept of repetition ... "This is an important step toward a greater understanding of how other species form abstract concepts," Scagel said, "and we're learning that humans aren't that cognitively unique after all.".
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AT birth, Pakistan inherited Punjab University in Lahore, the only among the Raj’s 16 universities. Seventy-five years later, there are 120-plus officially recognised universities ...College numbers have skyrocketed from 30-35 to 1,500 or more ... Appealing to abstract canons of academic freedom won’t help since ‘imported’ Western concepts are scorned ... .
He can also write very clearly about abstract engineering concepts for a wider audience ... many of the Faculty of Engineering and Environment Professors at his university, often discussing design concepts and novel approaches to increasing the efficiency of energy storage devices.
Mindfulness is an abstract concept by nature and competition is growing.Early offerings at Wondermind include social-media channels and a newsletter, which offers "a roadmap for overcoming stigma, shifting your mindset and feeling supported," according to its ...
The concept of the movie even echoes Spielberg’s undeveloped pitch for Night Skies, a horror about aliens terrorizing a farm, although Peele claims to have been unaware of the similarities ...Debord never defines the boundaries of “the spectacle,” and so the concept takes on an abstract and Lovecraftian dimension similar to the creature in Nope ... ....
The aim of the institute is to nurture young local and regional talent in the fled of design, unlocking their creative and entrepreneurial potential ... An innovative economy requires three pillars ... We offer four disciplines ... Innovation and entrepreneurship are abstract concepts, yet they define so many of the UAE’s national agendas and global economies.
The Warhammer-esque underpinnings have been jettisoned in favor of a whole new game concept where your turn ends when you fail an action ... Not in terms of artefacts but the far more abstract concepts of events, monuments, pharaohs and the like.
You may not know about Brittney Griner or her stardom in the WNBA. You may not care that Russian airport guards caught her with a cannabis vape cartridge in her luggage ... I hadn’t really followed her career. I don’t listen to sports radio ... She pled guilty ... When cause and effect are stretched too far apart, their connection fades into an abstract concept.
Runny nose, snot, runny nose. How much liquid can a kid's nose have?! It happens mainly in the winter, the liquid won't dry up and you're constantly wiping your kids' noses ... There's definitely another way ... Preschool kids learn through their senses and not through abstract concepts ... Experience is the best teacher ... console.log("BODY1 ... console.log("BODY2 ... .
Image. Skydance Animation...It’s not unlike the ”yes and” technique seen in improv ... And also the preservation of magic luck rocks ... Image. Apple TV Plus ... Where Inside Out threatened to over-literalize the workings of the human mind and Soul struggled to make its abstract metaphysical concepts more concrete, Luck is something far worse ... Image. Apple TV Plus.
The war in Ukraine has exposed the truth about Russia... nationalism, colonialism, and totalitarianism ... The voice has been coming from Poland for many years ... To all of them, the common good is an ever more abstract category. European solidarity is becoming an empty concept, brought down to enforcing acceptance of an actual dictate of the stronger ... .
‘Prey’ ... Mostly though, “Prey” works because the filmmakers don’t overcomplicate it ... This picture has plenty ... In the Good Luck realm in particular, everything moves like clockwork, in ways that are incredibly visually appealing — akin to Pixar classics like “Monsters Inc.” and “Inside Out,” which also turned abstract concepts into habitable spaces ... MVD.
Reading aloud to babies teaches fundamental concepts that lead to reading ...Knowing words and their meanings gives children the ability to understand more complex concepts and to better express themselves ... Reading aloud develops the ability to grasp abstract concepts and to recognize cause and effect ... It’s about fun ... .... | <urn:uuid:859a9548-8699-42bd-a1d1-50d69581a056> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wn.com/Abstract_concept?from=abstractconcept.org | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.937593 | 1,190 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Up to 50,000 more HGV driving tests will be made available each year it has been announced today, as the government continues to battle the lorry driver shortage.
The news has been welcomed by Logistics UK, one of the UK’s leading business groups in the sector.
Elizabeth de Jong, Policy Director at Logistics UK, said: ““With access to tests a key barrier to recruits wishing to join the occupation, the government’s measures to speed up the process of qualifying as an HGV driver – including the removal of staged testing and allowing authorised private sector examiners to undertake parts of the examination – will increase testing capacity significantly and have a positive effect in the longer-term. However, the impact of today’s measures is unlikely to make a significant difference on the driver shortage if they cannot be implemented in time for the industry’s Christmas peak, with DVSA, DVLA and the wider training industry needing time to apply the changes and adapt their operations.”
She added: “Logistics UK had strongly voiced our concerns about the proposed abolition of the B+E driver category, as this could pose a risk to road safety. However, Logistics UK has been assured that there will be a package of safety mitigation measures introduced; we will be working with government to ensure safety is prioritised.”
(Category B+E is for car drivers who want to tow a trailer with their car.)
HGV driving tests will be overhauled, meaning drivers will only need to take one test to drive both a rigid and articulated lorry, rather than having to take two separate tests (spaced three weeks apart). This will make around 20,000 more HGV driving tests available every year and mean drivers can gain their licence and enter the industry more quickly.
Tests will also be made shorter by removing the ‘reversing exercise’ element – and for vehicles with trailers, the ‘uncoupling and recoupling’ exercise – and having it tested separately by a third party. This part of the test is carried out off the road on a manoeuvring area and takes a significant amount of time. Testing such manoeuvres separately will free up examiner time, meaning they can carry out another full test every day.
Car drivers will no longer need to take another test to tow a trailer or caravan, allowing roughly 30,000 more HGV driving tests to be conducted every year.
The standard of driving required to drive an HGV will not be affected, with road safety continuing to be of paramount importance. Any driver who does not demonstrate utmost competence will not be granted a licence. All car drivers will also still be encouraged to undertake training to tow trailers and caravans.
This new legislation is changing previous EU regulations which the UK is no longer obliged to use.
According to the Road Haulage Association, around 40,000 HGV driver tests were cancelled last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While testing has now resumed, the pace of the tests remains too slow given the shortage of HGV drivers currently causing problems across the UK.
Last week it was announced that, after relentless campaigning from the RHA, the Urban Driver Cat C Apprenticeship scheme has been been given the go-ahead by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, providing a new training option for drivers of rigid HGVs.
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About the garden
School of Economic Science
Seven miles from the heart of historic Oxford lies Waterperry Gardens – eight acres of beautiful ornamental gardens with a fascinating history. Established as a School of Horticulture for Ladies by Beatrix Havergal in 1932, it is now also home to a plant centre, garden shop, art gallery, gift barn, museum and teashop.
The gardens are extensive, well maintained and full of interesting plants. Much has been redesigned and replanted in recent years, with some fine formal features and pleasing plant combinations. The Virgin's Walk is a good place to study shade-loving plants, but the main feature of this area is a long classical herbaceous border brilliantly colourful from late May until October. The Mary Rose Garden, enclosed by yew hedges, illustrates both modern and older roses, and the formal garden is particularly neatly designed and colourful, with a small knot garden, herb border and wisteria tunnel. Nearby are some interesting ways of training apples and roses, but the main part of the garden is the extensive shrub borders, alpine beds and flower borders.
Waterperry Gardens holds year-round events including outdoor theatre, concerts, art exhibitions and there is always something fun for the children to do in the holidays. Don’t go home without a bottle of the award-winning apple juice, made on site with apples hand-picked from the five-acre orchards and pressed using time-honoured methods.
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Spring means new beginnings, renewal, and growth–a great time to prepare your landscaping for planting. While we only experience mild winters in the Orlando area, it’s important to prime your landscape for summer. But what should you focus on? We at Grasshoppers are offering some outdoor spring cleaning tips below.
Some plants benefit from being pruned in spring, while others benefit from being pruned in fall. Prune dead, diseased, and damaged foliage.
2. Cut Back Perennials
Perennials are plants that regrow each spring. If they’ve started to take over your landscape, you’ll want to give them a trim to allow for growth. Don’t be afraid to trim them down to the base.
3. Remove Fallen Branches & Debris
After pruning and trimming is complete, take time to remove branches and debris. Dead foliage can block growth. Removing it from your landscape will not only help tidy it up but also promote growth once the temperature warms up.
4. Replace Damaged Plants
After removing dead flora, you can replace them with new plants for the season. Do your research and make sure you’re choosing plants that are appropriate for the area you’ll be planting them in–whether in the sun or shade.
Next, it’s time to apply mulch. Mulch helps keep your plants cool and moist, which is especially important in our Central Florida climate. Plus, it looks great and keeps weeds at bay. It’s a good idea to remove your old mulch before applying new mulch because too much of it can attract pests. Also, keep the depth of your mulch to 2 to 3 inches.
6. Check Sprinkler System
Spring is also a good time to ensure your sprinkler system is working properly. Check your rain shut-off device and make sure it works correctly. Then, turn on your sprinklers and walk through each zone, checking that filters and emitters aren’t clogged. This is also a good time to calibrate your sprinkler system to ensure each zone is getting an adequate amount of water.
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For my first Eminent project, I chose Charles M. Schulz as my eminent person. I am a big fan of Peanuts and I decided to research more into them and their creator.
Before I started the journey, I made a few goals for myself. To use descriptive and sensory writing in my speech, make it engaging, and to have a creative and collaborative hands-on project. I got feedback from Mr. Morris saying I should add more descriptive language in my writing so I made that my first goal. I feel like I could’ve added more to my speech but overall, I think I did a good job of meeting that goal. I tried to incorporate sensory language and metaphors to make my speech more impactful. My second goal was to make my speech and learning center engaging. While performing my speech, I did not look up enough so I didn’t feel like to connected with the audience. Next year, I will know to memorize more of my speech and to make eye contact with the audience. As for my learning center, I did a good job of engaging my visitors. They were interested in the timeline I created, and many contributed to my group comic. Their creations were very fun to watch. I achieved my third goal of making my hands on project collaborative and creative. Many visitors offered to draw something for the comic and I got more drawings than I expected. I will remember Night of the Notables and keep it in a safe spot in my brain.
I will remember those nights I stayed up, pouring myself over the computer, researching all I could about Charles M. Schulz. My brain filling up with the holiness of Mr. Schulz, being fascinated with this journey towards success. The trip to Vancouver Library, walking along the sidewalks of downtown Vancouver with my classmates, three books weighing my backpack down. Sipping on my bubble tea as we ventured through the Vancouver weather and walking around the massive place. When it came time for speeches, I remember my hands getting clammy, my heart beating faster, and my mind racing. Waiting until the last day where I unconsciously raised my hand to go first. Standing in front of the class reading my speech aloud with the words rambling inside my head. It was as if God was stirring soup inside my brain. When it finally ended, feeling that weight lift off my shoulder as I walked off and sat in my chair thinking, “I did it.” The weekend before November 22 was filled with the panic of Learning Centers. I struggled to come up with a good idea but when I finally got to work on it, I think it turned out good. The day of Night of the Notables, for a month we put hard work and dedication towards this one night. It passed like a breeze. Watching the grade 10s was amazing. Their speeches took me to another dimension with the knowledge of their eminent people, seeing myself on that stage next year brought a shiver down my spine. Standing beside my Learning Center, watching people spill their creative comic characters onto my hands on project. Staying at school till 10:30 was ridiculous, but it was the finale of Eminent and I cherished it. The whole project was a crazy roller coaster and I’m glad I got to experience it.
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Did you know that playing solitaire can have some major mental health benefits for men? Believe it or not, this simple card game can help reduce stress and anxiety, improve cognitive function, and even boost creativity. In this blog post, we will discuss the many mental health benefits that men can gain from playing solitaire. We will also provide some tips on how to get the most out of your gaming experience!
What Is Solitaire And How Do You Play It?
Solitaire is a single-player card game that has been around for centuries. It is thought that the core game originated from the Baltic regions of Eastern Europe around the 18th century and may have earlier origins as game that evolved from fortune-telling practices.
While you can be an excellent player with many hours of experience, the intrigue of Solitaire is that there is still an element of luck so even the most adept player is not guaranteed to win each time. In some circles, this pattern of winning was thought to reflect if a player's wishes would come true due to their luck being foretold by the pattern of the cards.
The objective of the game is to remove all of the cards from the tableau, which is the main playing area. This is typically done by matching pairs of cards that are of the same rank or value. For example, if you have two Ace cards, you would match them together and remove them from the tableau.
Over the years there have been many variations of the rules as well as visual design to maintain interest in that game as technology progressed. For instance, prior to Solitaire being included in Windows 3.0 on May 22 of 1990 it was primarily a game played with a physical deck of playing cards.
Following that release though the game catapulted to an incredible level of popularity since nearly everyone had access to play the game on their computer at home and work.
Today, while it is still available on Windows 10, there are many other options to play the game online such as Solitaire.org where they have tons of different variations and visual styles available for all age groups.
The Mental Health Benefits Of Playing Solitaire
It would be easy to dismiss the game simply as a fun pastime. However, Solitaire offers significant mental health benefits for those who play it. This is especially true for men. Let's take a look at some of the top benefits:
Reduces stress and anxiety:
One of the main benefits of playing Solitaire is that it can help to reduce stress and anxiety. The game provides a much-needed distraction from your day-to-day worries and concerns. It also gives you a chance to focus on something else, which can help to break the cycle of negative thoughts.
Improves cognitive function:
Another great benefit of playing Solitaire is that it can help improve your cognitive function. The game requires you to think strategically to win, which can help to improve your problem-solving skills. In addition, the act of concentrating on the game can also help to improve your memory and focus.
Solitaire can also be a great way to boost your creativity. The game requires you to come up with new ways to win, which can help to spark new ideas and solutions in other areas of your life.
Reminds you that not everything is winnable but you can always try again!
One of the best things about Solitaire is that it reminds you that not everything in life is winnable. There will be times when you just can't seem to win no matter how hard you try. But the good news is that you can always try again tomorrow. This reminder can be very helpful when dealing with difficult situations in your life.
Variations Of The Classic Solitaire Card Game
As mentioned above, with a game like Solitaire that has centuries of time to evolve, there are many different variations of the game. The most popular of these include:
This is the classic Solitaire game that most people are familiar with and that's because it was the first to be popularized in Canada and the United States. It is believed to have evolved in the late 1800's in the Canadian Klondike region as a popular game among gold miners with plenty of time to spend playing games by themselves. It uses a standard deck of 52 cards and has seven columns of cards with the top card face-up. The object of the game is to remove all of the cards from the tableau by making pairs that add up to 13.
This variation of Solitaire uses a standard deck of 52 cards and has four free cells where you can temporarily place cards. The object of the game is to remove all of the cards from the tableau by making pairs that add up to 13.
This variation of Solitaire uses two decks of cards (104 total) and you can shuffle through the deck an unlimited number of times. It has ten columns of cards with only the top card face-up. The object of Spider Solitaire is to remove all of the cards from the tableau by making pairs that add up to 13.
Golf is a great option for new Solitaire players since suits aren't part of the equation when it comes to removing cards from the tableau. Instead, you must simply focus on the face value of the card to determine the next one in the sequence and start putting things together as quickly as possible
In addition to these "official" variations, there are others that are more visual and fun that appeal to folks that may not want to play a classic card game but want a more arcade-like experience.
For instance, A Deck Of Fish ditches the classic card style for a fishing-style game complete with Caribbean music and a unique set of game rules where the objective is to ultimately collect fish. There are many other unique variations out there and that's the fun of playing Solitaire. There is almost an infinite amount of games you can play by just shifting the game mechanics around a bit.
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I’m not a big reader of short stories. I prefer novels most of the time, but some short stories have impressed me over the years, and I have a sneaking suspicion that I should read more short stories in order to improve my own writing. I reviewed a book by William H. Coles recently called Creating Literary Stories, and I was impressed by the ideas and techniques he described. I wanted to see the results of his theories, and what kind of writing they produced, so when I got this chance to read Illustrated Illustrated Short Fiction of William H. Coles: 2000-2016, I jumped at it. I am suitably impressed. Mr. Coles’ writing is intensely powerful and delivers a maximum punch in a relatively small time. I can see a mastery of techniques that he talked about in Creating Literary Stories, and I have learned so much from reading and studying these two books. These stories are great. You don’t have to be a writer to enjoy them. I think every reader will love and appreciate them.
Most of the stories in Illustrated Short Fiction of William H. Coles: 2000-2016 present the reader with ethical moral dilemmas that cannot easily be solved. These are questions and situations that real people face in life. Thank heavens most of us don’t, but some people do. The characters are real, the conflicts vividly intense and the resolutions, while not always as satisfying as we would hope for in a perfect world, are good enough for this one. “The Gift” was my personal favorite. I have been a sucker for short stories with this title since discovering O. Henry in high school. I fell in love with O. Henry’s writing then and I love William H. Coles’ writing now. | <urn:uuid:2e065a33-c048-4c65-9be7-76b050e8ba21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.storyinliteraryfiction.com/review/reviewed-by-ray-simmons-for-readers-favorite/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.97554 | 365 | 1.96875 | 2 |
So far, much of the attention on Turkey’s Gezi Park protests has focused on domestic politics, on tactical errors by both sides, or on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s electoral motives.
As the cycle of protests and repression winds down, it is time to look at the international dimension of the demonstrations. That doesn’t mean the claim that Turkey is the victim of a foreign conspiracy, or the many statements by the UN and international NGOs, but the real impact of the crisis on Turkey’s relations with the United States and the EU.
The U.S. administration entertains a security-based relationship with the Erdoğan government. So it is not surprising that the words from Washington have been softer than those from Berlin, Brussels, or Stockholm. What matters most for the United States is ensuring that its main interests are served ; these include the Incirlik air base, the U.S. missile defense shield, a normalization of Turkish-Israeli relations, and the NATO shield against Syria. The United States is also keen to dissuade Ankara from taking any autonomous initiatives on Syria.
Washington’s selective approach is to safeguard its essentials and turn a blind eye to domestic issues while expressing some concern at the excessive use of force. According to some Turkish analysts, Ankara interpreted Erdoğan’s recent visit to the White House as a blank check on domestic affairs as long as Washington’s international priorities are met.
Another dimension is the Turkey-EU relationship, which is based on tight economic links and accession negotiations. The Gezi protests have seriously dented this crucial relationship. As is customary in such circumstances, the European Parliament (EP) adopted a resolution criticizing the Turkish government, which in turn drew a harsh, dismissive reaction from Ankara. The key issue is not the legitimacy of the EP resolution but the tone of Ankara’s reaction. In effect, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) “does not recognize” the EP and called on it to “regain [its] reason as soon as possible.”
During and after the crisis, the Turkish authorities adopted a number of measures that clearly point to a clash of values with the EU. These include curbs on press freedom and the right to peaceful protest, the use of excessive force, the arrest of large numbers of protesters, lawyers, and doctors, stricter regulation of social media, and a lack of dialogue with civil society. Such steps are all in contradiction with the political criteria that underpin Turkey’s EU accession negotiations.
This relapse came at the very moment when accession talks were about to be relaunched after a three-year stalemate. The opening of a new chapter in the negotiations is scheduled for June 26, but there is currently no certainty that it will take place. Germany remains particularly opposed to opening further chapters, even though doing so would enable Europe to engage with its Turkish interlocutors.
Within EU circles, the greatest concern is Turkey’s underlying concept of democracy. For the Turkish leadership, legislative elections every four years are enough to legitimize the policies the government deems appropriate for the entire population. In addition, the government has reacted to the protests by cracking down on traditional and social media.
If such ideas are the true colors of the AKP’s “advanced democracy” and Turkey’s answer to both its citizens and the EU’s political criteria, then there is a huge problem in store. Fundamentally, the EU’s accession requirements have become an impediment to the AKP’s and the prime minister’s political ambitions for the next ten years.
A further issue is the development of Turkish civil society, which is at the center of the European concept of democracy. The Gezi protest movement has shown how vibrant and dedicated young liberals are, without any connection to political parties or trade unions. It is no surprise that EU civil society programs in Turkey have met with immense success since 2005.
In the medium and long term, Europe has a strategic interest in the development of a vibrant Turkish democracy based on the country’s rich social diversity. Beyond the EU’s harsh but justified criticisms of the Turkish authorities’ handling of recent protests, the creation of a robust civil society based on democratic principles, tolerance, and respect is a crucial objective for the EU—and for the West more generally.
EU ministers now have a delicate balancing act, not just the simplistic option of suspending accession negotiations with Turkey. The EU cannot afford to ignore the fact that a very large segment of Turkish society is fighting peacefully for the very values the EU is based on. Not only should the EU continue to vigorously engage with the Turkish authorities, but it should also urgently reaffirm its support for Turkish democracy through the accession negotiations and civil society projects.
As for Turkey, despite current temptations to abandon EU values, there remains a basic need to maintain an active relationship with the EU. That is necessary for economic reasons such as trade, investment, and technology, but also because EU values have taken deep root in Turkish society. These values are reflected not just in a few urban intellectuals’ leanings, but in the opinions of a very large part of the population.
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The Ministry has received many signals, particularly from parents and teachers, as well as from trade unions regarding the need to provide solutions that will increase the effectiveness of the educational supervisor’s actions. Most often, these signs contain information about illegal activities that had a negative impact on the quality of education and the conditions for development of students involved in education, upbringing and care. We want to change that. Therefore, we have prepared solutions that eliminate such situations.
All students must be provided with the best possible conditions for education, upbringing and care. Therefore, it is important that the principal of the school or facility is the one who ensures the proper performance of the tasks assigned to him. It is also important that she ensures, with her knowledge, experience and behaviour, the best performance and organization of the work of the school or institution she runs. We suggest that the principal, as the body exercising educational supervision, has greater influence over his appointment, as well as an important vote on appeal or suspension in the event that deficiencies relating to a threat to student safety are discovered during classes organized by the school.
Effective operation of probation officers
The Ministry also received indications that there are principals of schools and educational institutions that do not follow the recommendations issued as a result of inspections by the educational supervisor, while at the same time there are no effective tools to enforce this commitment. Probation officers also pointed out problems in the practice of educational supervision in schools and non-public institutions. They cited the inability to conduct the inspection, the avoidance of contact by the manager, the failure to respond to letters or the failure to disclose documents. In such cases, the conduct officer must be able to act effectively.
Parents should have the right to decide on the participation of their children in the activities that take place in the school by various organizations. Therefore, we propose the introduction of such a provision, thanks to which the director of the school or institution is obliged – before the start of classes that are conducted as part of the activities of the association or organization in the school or institution – to obtain detailed information about the work plan of the school, as well as the scheme of classes and materials used in provided classes, as well as obtaining a positive opinion from the educational supervisor of the activities of such an organization in the premises of the school or institution. Having obtained it, before the start of classes, the principal will be obliged to provide the parents of the underage student or adult student with detailed information about the objectives and content of the classroom program, as well as the classroom materials. In addition, the student’s participation in classes will require written consent from the parents of the minor student or written consent from the adult student.
The proposed solutions give greater powers to the education supervisor. However, it is worth emphasizing that the local government will continue to perform public tasks in the field of public education to the extent that laws are not limited to the public administration body, the educational supervisor.
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Family is an incredible thing—being related to someone is a bond that lasts no matter where you are or how far you are apart.
That’s what two little dogs proved after they instantly recognized each other on the street… because they were from the same litter!
The two cockapoos, Monty and Rosie, might not look immediately like siblings—they have completely opposite coats, one white and one black—but they were born to the same litter last summer.
“There were six of them,” Rosie’s owner Susan Killip told The Dodo. “But Monty and Rosie were always together.”
Susan adopted Rosie and a friend nearby adopted Monty. Despite living close by, they lost touch… until a fateful walk brought them together again.
The two dogs immediately recognized her and happily embraced. It was far more loving than how stranger dogs react when they pass each other.
“It was so lovely, they both just jumped up and hugged each other,” Susan said. “It was amazing they remembered each other after 10 months of not seeing each other.”
One of the owners took a few photos of the adorable scene, and the story went viral after someone posted the photos to Twitter.
It was clear there is still a lot of love between these two long-lost siblings… and their owners knew they couldn’t keep them apart.
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Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive memory loss, spatial disorientation, cognitive dysfunction, and behavioral changes. It is the most common form of dementia, affecting nearly 50 million people worldwide. The primary pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease include amyloid-beta plaques and tau tangles. Abnormal electrical activity in the brain can worsen the condition. A recent review describes findings from two rodent studies suggesting that stimulating gamma waves in the brain may reverse the pathology and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
During wakefulness and periods of REM sleep, the human brain exhibits spontaneous rhythmical activity in the form of fast-moving gamma waves. These waves are evoked by intense attention, conditioned responses, tasks requiring fine movements, or sensory stimuli.
The studies utilized mice that were predisposed to Alzheimer’s disease. These mice often exhibit diminished gamma wave activity. The authors of the studies exposed the mice to visual and auditory stimuli that were designed to promote gamma wave activity.
Following exposure to visual stimuli alone, the mice exhibited reduced amyloid burden and structural changes in the microglial cells in the visual cortex of their brains. These structural changes were consistent with increased phagocytic capacity, which is crucial for the clearance of apoptotic or necrotic cells and the removal of amyloid-beta. Exposure to auditory stimuli alone had similar effects on microglial activity and amyloid burden in the auditory cortex of the mice’s brains, but the mice also exhibited improved performance on several hippocampal-dependent tasks and improved brain vasculature.
When the mice were exposed to combined auditory and visual stimuli to promote gamma wave activity, the amyloid burden was reduced throughout the neocortex, the area of the brain that processes sensory, motor, language, emotional, and associative information. In addition, the microglia in several regions of the brain exhibited a clustering pattern around the amyloid plaques that facilitated clearance.
These findings suggest that non-invasive techniques that promote gamma wave activity in the brain may be useful in treating people with Alzheimer’s disease.
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has required health care systems to radically and rapidly rethink the delivery of care. One of the most remarkable ongoing changes has been the unprecedented accelerated expansion of telehealth. The pandemic may provide the incentive needed to realize the potential of telehealth. Nevertheless, concerns remain that safety and privacy may be compromised by rapid deregulation, despite data, although limited, regarding good overall quality.1 In studies conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic, patients reported high levels of satisfaction.2
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Corresponding Author: Carmel Shachar, JD, MPH, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, 23 Everett St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (email@example.com).
Published Online: May 18, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.7943
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Ms Shachar reported receiving a grant from the Collaborative Research Program for Biomedical Innovation Law, a scientifically independent collaborative research program supported by a Novo Nordisk Foundation grant (NNF17SA0027784). Dr Elwyn reported receiving active research grants from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and advising for EBSCO Health, PatientWisdom, Abridge AI, and Bind Insurance.
Additional Contributions: Some of the concepts and ideas incorporated in the article were based on discussion and interviews with Sanjeev Arora, MD, ECHO Institute; Elliot Fisher, MD, MPH, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; Matthew Handley, MD, Kaiser Permanente of Washington; Judd Hollander, MD, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University; Surena Matin, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Lois Ramondetta, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Robert Satcher, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center; and Rahul Sharma, MD, MBA, New York Presbyterian–Weill Cornell Medical Center. None of these individuals were compensated for their participation.
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Most people make a serious effort to protect their home.
They install smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors and radon detectors.
They’ll also make sure their home has a fire extinguisher and that their outside doors all have deadbolts.
That’s a pretty thorough list.
There’s just one thing missing from it.
A sump pump.
Installing a new sump pump is easy and cost-effective.
It also has the potential to save you thousands of dollars.
But what is a sump pump?
And why is it so important?
Read on to find out.
What Is A Sump Pump?
If you guessed that a sump pump is some type of pump, you’re not only correct, you’re very perceptive.
You’ll find sump pumps in a house’s basement or crawlspace at the lowest point in your house, usually in a hole called a sump pit.
When water comes into the sump pit, the sump pump activates, and it will move the water out of the sump pit and into another location—preferably somewhere a safe distance away from the building.
This prevents your building from flooding.
This can not only save you thousands of dollars in immediate flood damage, it can also help preserve the integrity of your building’s foundation, so your building lasts longer.
What Can Go Wrong?
Unfortunately, sump pumps are not problem-free.
To be fair, it’s not entirely their fault.
This is a piece of machinery in a dark pit underneath your house that can easily be forgotten.
That’s’ not a good environment for any machine, and some sump pump problems are a result of it
• Buildups of mud and dirt in a sump pump can result in blockages.
• The pump or discharge line has been clogged.
• The sump pump might lose power.
Some problems are the result of not having professionals install the sump pump.
• Your sump pump might be too big or too small for your basement, making it ineffective at cleaning up water.
• The pump also might not be properly connected to the drainage system.
In most cases, you can stay ahead of problems if you just schedule some time to check your sump pump to make sure it’s running properly.
Does Your Sump Pump Need To Be Replaced?
If you suspect your sump pump needs to be replaced, your first inclination may be to call out a plumber to inspect the pump, perhaps even replace it.
Don’t give in to that temptation.
We’re happy to come take a look at your sump pump, but you can save yourself some money by inspecting the sump pump yourself first.
Perform some basic maintenance and cleaning on it, using the steps below as guidelines.
1. Clear away debris.
2. Look for any obvious broken parts or cracks in the pump.
3. Inspect the discharge lines and the valve.
4. Test the pump.
If the pump still isn’t working like it should, give us a call and we’ll come out as soon as possible to get it working again.
Contact Triton Plumbing & Service
If you’re having problems with a sump pump or want one installed, contact Triton Plumbing Service immediately, either at our website or by calling (226) 270-6424.
One of our experienced plumbing will be happy to assist you with any sump pump questions you might have.
They’ll also be happy to set up an appointment if you need to repair or replace your sump pump.
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A new date and time will be released soon.
At 3 AM local time, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck 70 miles south of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido. This comes just hours after large parts of the south of the country were battered by the biggest typhoon to hit in 25 years. As result, the Nintendo Direct that was scheduled for 6 PM EST today has been postponed. The official Nintendo twitter this morning released the statement, promising for a new date and time to be released soon. We will be sure to announce it when a new date is released.
Currently there have only been four confirmed deaths. In addition, it is reported at least thirty-three people are missing with numbers and over 150 people injured. However, as with most of these situations, these numbers are expected to rise.
Hokkaido is a region in southern Japan and considered the inspiration for the Sinnoh region. The earthquake itself struck what would have been the southeast part of the Sinnoh region, hitting some of the first cities players encounter when they play Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum. Some of the areas that were struck include Sapporo city and Tomakomai City, the inspirations for Jubilife City and Sandgem Town respectively. In addition, the epicenter of the earthquake is likely close to the location of the in-game Pal Park on Sinnoh Routes 220 and 221. | <urn:uuid:6e636d4a-4d1a-4cb4-ab37-c46ce24a6410> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/hokkaido-earthquake-postpones-nintendo-direct/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972886 | 286 | 1.539063 | 2 |
For more than 40 years, Médecins du Monde, a campaigning medical organisation committed to international solidarity, has been caring for the most vulnerable populations at home and abroad. It has continued to highlight obstacles that exist in accessing health care and has secured sustainable improvements in health-for-all policies.
Those working for this independent organisation do not solely dispense care and treatment but condemn violations of human dignity and rights and fight to improve matters for populations living in precarious situations.
MdM currently works in 30 countries across all continents where it focuses on 5 priority areas: emergency and crisis, sexual and reproductive health, harm reduction, migrants and displaced populations (health rights), health and environment.
MdM is active in North-East Nigeria since 2016. The program is implemented around the main following components:
- Access to primary health care,
- nutrition treatment (severe acute malnutrition),
- gender based violence survivors’ treatment,
- mental health and psychological support.
MdM has its coordination office in Maiduguri and a sub office in Damboa. The team is composed of around 10 expatriates and 300 national staffs.
Untill recently MdM’s intervention was pretty much emergency oriented, with five MdM runned clinics (3 in Maiduguri, 2 in Damboa) plus an emergency response team (ERT) for rapid response to sudden population displacements and cholera outbreaks.
At the same time, a new crisis has arrisen in North-West Nigeria in link with massive banditery acts and farmers/herders conflict dynamics. Two needs assessments have been conducted by MdM teams in Zamfara State in 2021 and even though we are not planning to be operational in this area in the coming months, we keep a close eye to the developmentrs in this region and start to work on our access strategy. This could led to a scale-up in MDM’s humanitarian operations.
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under the supervision of the general coordinator, you are responsible for the overall management of MdM’s programmes and administrative departments and good team spirit.
You directly supervise the logistics and program teams in Maiduguri. You receive technical support from the coordination team that is still currently based in Maiduguri.
Your main responsibilities are the following:
- Ensure adequate information flow within the different departments
- Oversee and coordinate the general functioning of the base and all departments
- Create and maintain a team spirit within the different departments and amongst the staff
- Participate in the set-up of the new organization chart
Program implementation and management
- Ensure the implementation of the programme and its follow-up
- Assess the needs in the field and adjust the programmes and responses to the needs
- Contribute to the definition and revision of the strategy, draw up scenarios and proposals, support budget creation and revision for future or new activities
Logistics, finance and administration
- Ensure projects are implemented in compliance with procedures and guidelines
- Ensure appropriate logistical systems and procedures are in place, maintained and respected
- Work closely with the logistics coordinator to ensure adequate risks management at the Maiduguri base level
- Ensure financial needs are well planned
Human resources management
- Conduct regular team building activities, ensure the well-being of staff, facilitate and support stress management activities
- Contribute to recruitment and selection of staff
- Be responsible for the disciplinary and grievance procedures
- Carry out performance review as per requirements and procedures
- Ensure all new team members are briefed on arrival in the field and departing team members are debriefed
- Be responsible for capacity building and training of personnel
- Work closely with the human resources coordinator to ensure proper management of day-to-day issues
- Carry out representation with other NGOs, UN agencies, government bodies, traditional authorities, donors and other parties
- Participate on a regular basis in all relevant meetings and build strong relationships with all partners working in the area
Safety and security management
- Ensure team security and safety
- Monitor the political and security situation in the area
- Ensure security guidelines are developed, shared, implemented and regularly reviewed
- Ensure security and incident reports are sent to the security and liaison officer and the general coordinator
- Elaborate coordination reports with the coordination team
- Participate to the writing of proposals and reports to donors
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
- Status : Employee Contract : Fixed-term contract
- Duration : 6 months
- Starting date: as soon as possible
- Gross monthly salary: 3 175 euros
- Based in Maiduguri with regular field visits to sites of intervention or assessment
- Premium equal to one month salary paid in two instalments – minimum of 6 months seniority required
- Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
- Transportation cost, vaccines and visas covered
- Guesthouse housing
- 22.5 RTT (recovery days) per year
- 5 weeks of paid leaves per year
- Health insurance (60% covered by MdM and 40% by the employee)
- Insurance (repatriation…)
- Teleworking agreement for positions eligible to telework: 110 days/year (minimum of 1 day per week onsite), minimum of 6 months seniority required
- Given the current circumstances of Covid-19 pandemic, we are taking special measures to apply health protocols and hygiene measures to guarantee the safety of our staff.
- Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility
- Single posting
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED:
- Higher education in project management or general field of study
- Minimum three year experience in a similar position with an international NGO working in emergency contexts, preferably within the health sector, or previous field experience with MdM in different contexts
- Experience of security management at the field site level
- English: fluent (oral and written)
- Hawsa or Arabic or Kanuri is an asset
You embrace the core values and support the proactive philosophy of Médecins du Monde.
TELEPHONE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED Médecins du Monde reserves the right to fill the vacancy before the closing date for applications. MdM stands up for the integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.
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Scientific name: Loligo Duvauceli; squid species that can be found in the Indian Ocean, rounded between 15 and 30 centimeters.
Fishing zone: FAO zone 51. The FAO 51 zone, is located in the Indian Ocean and extends from the east coast of India to the east coast of Africa, reaching the meridian 45 south. This area in turn is divided into eigth sub-zones.
Presentation: IQF,10 kg bulk box. I.Q.F (Individual Quick Freezing), individual quick freezing is applied to frozen fish. We can find it in a bulk box protected by an interior plastic.
The I.Q.F whole squid sizes are U/3, 3/6, 6/10 and 10/20.
U/3 contains 3 pieces of I.Q.F whole squid per kilo.
3/6 contains 3 to 6 pieces of I.Q.F whole squid per kilo.
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Are you connecting with your partner the way you want to?
Listen up. Your partner is talking to you. What do you hear?
- “Honey, do you want to grab lunch tomorrow?”
- “You would never guess the stuff I heard at work today!’
- “Aren’t YouTube cat videos the worst?”
So, how do you respond to your partner? With a nod or shrug, before turning back to the TV? A murmured “uh- huh” while surfing your social media?
Just a heads up, your partner is likely bidding for connection with you. And if he or she is doing any of the following, you’re probably missing even more:
Did they open your door, offer you a seat, or willingly share a bite of their dessert?
Did they chuckle or sigh at something, hoping you would ask why?
Did they touch you affectionately with a little squeeze on the leg, a pat on the shoulder, a hug, or a peck on the cheek?
All of these behaviors are bids for emotional connection. Instead of using words, their actions speak instead.
They say, “Here I am.” “Come to me.” “Let’s get together.” And, “Hey! I want to be with you.”
And each bid requires your response, the best being positive, affirming reaction. They are without a doubt vital to the health of your relationship.
Because when attempts at connection are deflected, deliberately ignored, or simply fall flat or unnoticed, the desire to make ourselves vulnerable to each other is doused with disappointment. Intimacy then gives way to uncertainty and resentment over time. And the good thing between you can start to fizzle out and weaken.
To prevent a breakdown in your bond, learn to recognize and respond to your partner
Demands or “bids” for emotional involvement have long been the subject of much study and exploration by well-known relationship and marriage counseling expert and scholar Dr. John Gottman. For decades, Gottman identified nine ways in which partners seek emotional connection. Specifically, these include:
- Bids for Attention: “Check out what I did while you were at work!”
- Bids for Interest: “Did you just see what happened in the news today?”
- Bids for Enthusiastic Engagement: “Why don’t we get away this weekend?”
- Bids for Extended Conversation: “How did your sister’s vacation go?”
- Bids for Humor: “Listen, what happened in class was hilarious!”
- Bids for Emotional Support: “I don’t know how I’m going to get through the holidays.”
- Bids for Self-Disclosure: “What happened at work today?”
- Bids for Play: Teasing or playfully wrestling with your partner.
- Bids for Physical Contact: Reaching for your partner’s hand or leaning in for a hug.
As you become more adept at recognizing these bids, so should you work at becoming a skilled and intentional positive responder. Gottman breaks this down too. He calls the way we should respond “turning toward” your partner:
Response to each other’s bids for emotional intimacy generally occurs in three key ways
There are three primary ways we generally respond to our partner’s bids for emotional connection and intimacy with us:
- “Turning toward.”
When we turn toward our partners, we acknowledge and respond appropriately to their bids. For example, we might provide encouragement, smile, nod, ask questions, or offer a hug. These behaviors indicate that we’re listening and responsive.
- “Turning away.”
In this case, we literally dismiss or ignore bids for intimacy. We might turn away by refusing to answer questions, walking off, or deciding not to accept an outstretched hand or embrace. Passively, we might choose to ignore phone calls or texts as well.
- “Turning against.”
This occurs when we respond to our partners in an irritable, hostile, or negative way. We may become angry or short, shooting down our partner when they make a request. We may pull away when they seek to make physical contact. Or we may respond in a generally critical way to whatever they say or do to get close or establish rapport.
Not surprisingly, couples who respond to bids for connection by turning toward each other enjoy a higher level of intimacy and relationship satisfaction. This is because these small gestures of acceptance help answer a key question spouses ask each other. John Gottman defines the key to building trust as answering positively your partner’s question, “Are you there for me?” Accepting your spouse’s bids for connection answers these questions:
Are you there for me when:
- I need affection?
- I want to share a smile?
- I’m seeking emotional support?
- I’d like to be playful?
- I’m interested in something?
While you can’t turn towards each other 100 percent of the time, you can dedicate yourself to accepting bids for connection consistently. When you do, you’ll have thousands of opportunities over the course of a year to show your spouse you are there for him or her. When you do that, you’re building trust in all the little ways, day by day.
If you find that your relationship is mired in behavior that turns you away or against each other, all is not lost. Commit to change, and look for ways to meet your partner’s bids for connection. When you do, you just might find that they’re meeting your needs more often, too. And, if the two of you aren’t able to work through things on your own, don’t wait. Couple’s counseling can create the space where building new habits can help to turn things around. | <urn:uuid:e371b5c7-2857-4b1a-bce1-82a150f2cd75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lizmillercounseling.com/2017/09/connecting-partner/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944644 | 1,298 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Watch out Silicon Valley, there's a new whiz kid in town. He's not even old enough to get his driver's license, but Rohan Agrawal is already making big waves in the tech community.
According to Mashable, not only did the 12-year-old teach himself how to program, but he also builds his own robots. Expressing an interest in HTML at a young age, Agrawal had already made his own website by age 5. He recently took his talents to OLogic, a company in Sunnyvale, Calif. that specializes in the building of robots, where he unsurprisingly impressed as an stand-out intern.
"He [Agrawal] knows more than most Ph.D. students," said Ted Larson, CEO of OLogic, describing how Agrawal created a mechanism that could distribute potato chips . "I was totally shocked... He did that just within a week of being here." Watch in the video above.
Agrawal isn't the only young developer superstar in the making. North Carolina sisters, Camille and Genevieve Beatty, successfully built a robot modeled after NASA's Mars rover in their garage.
"It's a good way for kids to learn about science and robots and space," Genevieve told Space.com. "I learned a lot by building all these robots."
Similarly, two Michigan high school students put their skills to the test earlier this year when they built a robotic locker opener for a classmate with muscular dystrophy.
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The landscapes, the market towns, the culture, the history, the food… oh the food… and let’s not forget the wine! France is a truly unique country with so much to explore and discover.
For as long as I can remember, we’ve kept some kind of bucket list of places and experiences we’d love to try out in France. If you’re a fellow Francophile looking for some travel inspiration, then go ahead and check out our epic bucket list of ideas for visiting France. This list will no doubt keep growing so keep checking back as we work our way through it and as we write up the ones we’ve already done!
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So many artists, painters, sculptors, photographers, film makers have been drawn to France over the years and it isn’t difficult to understand why… the landscapes, the light, the colours, the French… And there are of course many homegrown artists – think Monet, Matisse, Derain, Cézanne, Dégas, Gauguin, Chagall, Rodin, and the list goes on…!
Indulge in your love of impressionism in Paris
Lovers of impressionism are spoilt for choice in Paris – whether you head to the Musée d’Orsay or L’Orangerie, you’re sure to find your bonheur! The old converted train station is home to over 1100 impressionist oeuvres d’art by the likes of Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Manet and Degas. If you’re looking for a smaller museum, head to l’Orangerie which is located in the Tuilerie Gardens, a stone’s throw from the Louvre museum. You’ll be blown away by Monet’s Nymphéas paintings – 8 water lily murals housed in two oval rooms within l’Orangerie.
You can even check them out on this virtual visit.
Stand on *that* bridge in Monet’s Gardens in Giverny
I’ve always loved and admired Monet’s work. Visiting the artist’s home and gardens ‘Les Jardins de Giverny’, has been on my bucket list since I was about 20 years of age. I fell in love with the impressionists’ work when my parents took me to Paris aged 14 and we visited the famous Musée d’Orsay. I was delighted to finally be able to make it to the home of the founder of the impressionism movement. A dream come true! Indeed as you stand on *that* bridge, you feel as though you’ve stepped straight into one of his painting’s. The waterlilies, the pond, the bridge, the flowers…
Go on Van Gogh’s trail in Arles
The town of Arles is another UNESCO World Heritage Site in the south of France and boy does it deserve this status. This vibrant and arty town was home to the Dutch artist, Vincent Van Gogh, for the last few years of his life. Van Gogh moved to Arles in 1888 where he produced over 300 works of art over the course of his 15 months’ stay. You can join a walking tour that takes you around the various sites and views that inspired the artist or you can simply download a map for a self-guided tour.
Marvel at Da Vinci’s lifesize recreations in the Chateau Clos Lucé
Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci spent the last three years of his life living in France at the service of King Francis I? The monarch was an avid fan of the talented artist and invited him to come live in Amboise as his ‘Premier Painter and Engineer and Architect of the King’. Da Vinci was based in the Chateau du Clos Lucé, a short 300 meters from the King’s residence, le Chateau d’Amboise in the Loire Valley. Visitors can tour the manor house and get a glimpse into the life of this genius – his workshop, his rooms as well as many lifesize replicas of his inventions in the beautiful gardens.
Visit Les Carrières de Lumière in les Baux de Provence
This is an absolute must on your France bucket list! A quarry in the beautiful town of Baux-de-Provence was converted into an art museum of sorts. The walls of the quarry provide the backdrop to a stunning art and music show. We visited when they were showing exhibitions on Van Gogh, Starry Night and Dreamed Japan.We strongly recommend you book your tickets ahead online to avoid large queues!
Check out the views that Matisse painted in Collioure
It doesn’t take long to understand why the likes of Collioure, Derain, Picasso and other artists were drawn to the beautiful seaside town of Collioure. In fact, as you meander around the town, you’ll spot plenty of frames that capture a gorgeous view of the town that was painted by one of the artists (see image above!). It’s where the fauvism movement originated as many artists were attracted to Collioure’s special light. There’s plenty to see and do in the picturesque fishing village including a dip in the sea, a wander through the colourful old town, a visit to the church and fortress or a cheeky apéritif by the beach at sunset. Bliss.
Spot Cocteau’s work in Menton
Menton is one of our favourite towns along the French Riviera. Located just a few kilometres from the Italian border, you could easily be fooled into thinking you’d arrived in the land of gelatos and pizzas. Famous for its lemon festival, Menton is a beautiful patchwork of pastel-coloured buildings and if you’re interested in Jean Cocteau, you’ve come to the right place. You’ll find several Jean Cocteau sights around the town including a museum dedicated to all things Cocteau.
Photograph the iconic Mont St Michel at dawn
Visit Matisse’s chapel in Vence
From the outside the building looks rather unassuming, set on the roadside on the outskirts of Vence, however, step inside and you’ll discover something rather special. Floor to ceiling bright, colourful stained glass windows, sketches and models, priests’ robes designed by the artist. The Matisse chapel or the Rosary Chapel was one of the artist’s last works. At the end of his life, Henry Matisse was unwell and was cared for by a student nurse called Monique with whom he developed a close friendship. Monique eventually moved on and became a nun. Their paths crossed again when Matisse moved from Nice to Vence where Monique (now known as Sister Jacques-Marie) was now living her new life at the Dominican convent. It is here that Matisse became involved in the design, conception and building of the small chapel through his connection with Monique.
Visit the setting of the Count Monte Cristo
Head to Marseilles, jump on a tour boat and head to the island of If (pronounce ‘eeeef’) where you’ll find the Chateau d’If. This military fortress was used as a prison until the late 19th century and was also the setting of the famous Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo. From the boat, you’ll get some gorgeous views of Marseilles, the old port, the Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde and the iconic Mucem museum.
There are plenty of action-packed activities to do in France – whether you’re a thrill-seeker, nature lover, snow-sports enthusiast, there’s something for everyone!
Walk the Calanques de Cassis
There are a number of ‘calanques’ in the south of France including the famous ‘Calanques de Cassis’. If you haven’t visited this pretty seaside town, you’re missing out! Located a short 20 minute drive from Marseille, this picturesque fishing village is a world away from the busy metropolis. It will enchant you with its pastel coloured houses, winding streets and port. The nearby Calanques de Cassis are beautiful rocky inlets featuring the most stunning turquoise waters. The Calanques are spread across 20kms between les Goudes (south-west of Marseilles) to Cassis.
Climb La Dune du Pilat, the largest sand dune in Europe
Did you know that the tallest sand dune in Europe was located in France? It’s called la Dune du Pilat and is situated in the town of La Teste de Buch. It measures 107m in height, almost 3kms in length and attracts in excess of 1 million visitors a year! Climb to the top – either using the stairs or ascend directly in the sand – and enjoy the amazing panoramic view of Arcachon Bay. It makes for a great day trip from Bordeaux (60kms away) or alternatively, enjoy a stay in the nearby attractive seaside town of Arcachon.
Go canoeing on the Dordogne river
What better way to discover the Dordogne than from the river? You get an amazing view of villages, castles and sweeping landscapes from the comfort of your canoe. We were so excited once our youngest turned 5 as it meant we could finally go on a river outing together as a family. There are plenty of canoe hire companies dotted the length and breadth of the river offering various distances that can be covered in a day. We strongly recommend stopping along the banks of the Dordogne and having a picnic as well as a refreshment or two.
Bike ride from Bordeaux to Biarritz
300kms of bike trails, one sore bottom and lots of laughs… this what the hubby did a couple of years ago. It was a challenge set up by fellow expat. Yes, let’s ride 300kms in 3 days during the month of November. Fun right? Well, apparently it was rather a lot of fun (in spite of a number of punctures, getting lost, poor French sign posts and almost missing a boat across from Cap Ferret)!
Hire bikes and explore l’Ile de Ré
A popular getaway for Parisians, l’Ile de Ré oozes charm and is the perfect place to escape the rush of city life. Famous for its sweeping beaches, salt marshes and kilometres of cycle paths, the island, which is the fourth largest island in France (85 km²), is linked to mainland via a bridge. The entire island is connected via cycle lanes making it the perfect way to explore the area.
Walk the GR20 in Corsica
The infamous GR20 hiking trail in Corsica is not for the faint-hearted. Dubbed as one of the ‘toughest long distance trails in Europe’, this hike will take you from the south to the north of the island covering almost 200kms of rugged terrain, deep forests, lakes, snow-capped peaks. This trek will certainly provide you with your fill of breathtaking views and panoramas. Oh, and very sore legs as well as an incredible sense of achievement!
Discover the family-friendly ski resort of Avoriaz
The family friendly ski resort of Avoriaz is located in the French Alps about 2 hours’ drive from Geneva. This purpose built resort was developed in the 1960s and has a unique pedestrianised centre. It’s been designed in a way that integrates with its environment as much as possible. There are no cars allowed in the village and everyone is able to ski-in and ski-out of their accommodation – perfect if you have little ones… no carting of equipment around! It’s located in the popular ‘Les Portes du Soleil’ skiing region which includes an extensive ski domain of 650 kms and many hours of sunshine to boot. There are plenty of family friendly activities including clubs, an ice rink, a carousel, sleigh contests and the impressive Aquariaz indoor water park.
Mountain biking in the Auvergne, the land of extinct volcanoes
Welcome to the Auvergne, an area known as the land of sleeping volcanoes and the perfect playground for lovers of outdoor pursuits! The Massif du Sancy mountain range in central France is a popular place to ski in the winter, but have you thought about visiting the area in the summer? If outdoor activities are your passion then take your pick from swimming, canoeing, walking and mountain biking.
We spent a long weekend based at the Super Besse ski resort, a small town with a few restaurants, shops and hotels, similar to Aviemore in Scotland. It was an active trip with lots swimming in the amazing fresh water lake called Lac Chambon, hiking and the highlight for our son – downhill mountain biking.
Kayaking in the Ardèche
Deep gorges, swirling rivers, limestone cliffs… the Ardèche should definitely feature on your French bucket list. This lesser-known area is located in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of Southeastern France, halfway between Nimes and Lyon. A trip on the eponymously named river is a must – hire a kayak or a canoe and prepare to be wowed by the dramatic scenery. A descent through the iconic Pont d’Arc – a 60m wide natural bridge – is a must!
Take a surf lesson in Biarritz
The Atlantic coast around the town of Biarritz is said to attract surfers from around the world and has earned a reputation as a key surfing location. Large swells and waves make it a hot destination for fans of surfing. And of course, the town itself is well worth a visit with its beautiful buildings, kilometres of beaches and seafront promenade. Oh and apparently, some of Biarritz’ landscapes feature in the trailer of season seven of Game of Thrones!
France is one of the world’s best gastronomic centres! Foodies will be spoilt for choice and here are a few bucket list food and drink experiences to add to your French bucket list.
Have a hot chocolate at Angelina’s in Paris
Now this is something for your Paris Bucket list! Angelina’s patisserie and tearoom in Paris is something of an institution and should definitely feature on your Paris itinerary. Located on the Rue Rivoli, across from the Tuilerie Gardens and a stone’s throw from the Louvre, this quintessentially Parisian tearoom has been around since 1903. We strongly suggest you indulge in one of their delicious, creamy hot chocolate’s accompaned by their signature Mont Blanc cake. This iconic tearoom, with its Belle Epoque interior, is believed to have attracted the likes of Proust, Coco Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld.
Champagne at the legendary Co’orniche bar overlooking the bassin d’Arcachon
Three for the price of one! Stunning views + champagne + UNESCO listed sand dunes. How about enjoying a gorgeous view on the Arcachon basin while sipping on a glass of champagne at the legendary Co’orniche bar? This funky, trendy bar is located at the Dune du Pilat about 45 minutes from Bordeaux. This coastline is gorgeous and well worth the detour plus you’ll get to enjoy the challenge of climbing the tallest sand dune in Europe!
Improve your culinary skills by taking part in a cookery course
Are you a foodie? Do you enjoy learning how to make regional dishes? France is synonymous with wonderful gastronomy and taking part in a cookery class is such a fun, unique and memorable activity whilst on vacation. I’ve been on two cookery courses and to this day, they’ve been the highlight of my holidays. I took part in a full day’s cookery course which included a market visit and I also embarked on a family course with my then 7 year old daughter. Watch this space as I’ll be writing up our experience on both courses!
Learn about wine at la Cité du Vin in Bordeaux
A museum dedicated to wine… I like the sound of that! A bold feat of architecture, la Cité du Vin was completed in 2016 and has attracted over a million wine enthusiasts since its opening. This interactive museum takes visitors through an exploration of the cultures and civilisations of wine-making over the centuries. You’ll learn about the history wine, the process of wine-making and the cherry on the cake, you’ll even get to taste a glass or two! The unique design of the building is said to evoke ‘gnarled vine stock, wine swirling in a glass and eddies on the Garonne’. It can easily be reached by tram (line A) or by hiring one of the city’s many rental bikes and cycling there.
Visit the world renowned vineyards around Bordeaux
Ah, Bordeaux… the city synonymous with wine! In this instance we’re talking about the wines and not the city. There are literally thousands of acres of vineyards in the Bordeaux area including some 6000 chateaux. Head north towards the Médoc area and indulge in a delicious Margaux or head east to the picture perfect town of St Emilion. Wine making traditions in this region stretch back some 20 centuries! I’ve also decided that if I ever do a marathon, it’s going to have to be the Marathon du Médoc – running through 42 kms of stunning landscape (yes, vineyards and chateaux!), in fancy dress, making wine tasting pit stops every few kilometres – I’m sold!
Visit a ‘Bouchon’ restaurant in Lyon
Again, we’re not talking about wine here… in this case, ‘bouchon’ refers to a type of restaurant rather than a ‘corked’ wine. Often referred to as ‘the stomach of France’, Lyon is famous for its bouchon restaurants. These are traditional eateries that usually serve sausage dishes, duck paté, hearty, meaty fare.
Eat oysters in Arcachon
We’ve visited the attractive seaside resort of Arcachon on a number of occasions and have noticed that oysters feature rather prominently on their local menus. The area around the Bay of Arcachon is famous for oyster farming so we feel that Arcachon would be the perfect place to indulge in this delicacy. I’ll actually be completely honest and admit that I’m not entirely sold on the whole slimy, gluey slurping down of oysters but the hubby is actually a numero uno fan of said delicacy. My lovely French neighbour introduced me to a slight variant on oysters – cooked oysters! Yum! Much more up my alley. So here’s to those of you who are into the slurping down of oysters – Archachon OR Bordeaux is the place to indulge. And let’s not forget the accompanying crisp white wine.
Be brave and try snails
Snails, frogs’ leg, baguette and a garland of garlic … and there you have it – the epitome of the French stereotype. So have you ever tried snails or frogs’ legs? When we first moved to France back in 2012, our kids were young uninhibited 3 and 5 year olds who thought nothing of munching on chewy, garlickey mollusk! I once had a go at munching on a snail but I remain unconvinced…
Eat an authentic tartiflette in Annecy
Known as the Venice of the Alps, Annecy is located in eastern France (Haute-Savoie), close to the Swiss border (about 40 minutes from Geneva). This picturesque town lies at the northern tip of lake Annecy and enjoys a unique location next to the water as well as the mountains. The food in this area is hearty and one of their signature dishes is the tartiflette! Made with reblochon cheese, potatoes, lardons and onions, tartiflette is a must if you’re visiting Annecy. Try this local speciality at one of the many restaurants that line the canals in the old town. Bliss.
Champagne tasting tour *without* the kiddos
Who doesn’t love Champagne?! Apparently, it’s Tom Jones’ tipple of choice and his secret to looking young… Mumm, Veuve, Moët, Taittinger… you name it, you’ll find it. The Champagne region is located northeast of Paris and makes for an easy trip from the capital – either by train in 45 minutes or by car in around 2 hours. You’ll want to stay ‘sur place’ though and we highly recommend joining a tour to avoid having to get behind the wheel.
Foodie tour in one of France’s gastronomic capital’s, the Dordogne
Foie gras, duck confit, truffles… the Dordogne is a foodie heaven (as well as somewhere you’ll most likely gain a few inches around your waistline!) The Dordogne is indeed one of the gastronomic capitals of France and is one of the best places to sample local, regional food at its best. There are plenty of options available including markets, food festivals, Michelin starred restaurants and more.
Go rosé wine-tasting in the beautiful Provence region
There is so much to love about the Provence region of France. Stunning landscapes, pretty villages, fields of lavender, historic cities and wine… Peter Mayle has sold many people the Provançal dream with his wonderful A year in Provence book. Almost everywhere you go in France, you’ll find they’ve perfected the art of wine making and nowhere more so than Provence is particularly famous for its rosé – nothing beats a cold glass of crisp and fruity rosé on a summer’s day. And there are so many vineyards to choose from…
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Marvel at the Chateau Versailles
The Palace of Versailles, wow. Two words: stunning and overwhelming. This place oozes grandeur, opulence, over-the-topness (is that a word?). Apparently half of France’s GDP was spent on the Palace. It actually started out as a fairly modest hunting lodge until King Louis XIV became its owner and started adding additional wings, acres of formal gardens, impressive fountains with mythical creatures. A visit to the chateau de Versailles is a must if you’re planning a trip to Paris – it’s an easy day trip from the French capital.
Walk across the 2000 year old Pont du Gard
Located in the South of France, this amazing feat of engineering was built by the Romans some 2000 years ago. It’s an ancient aqueduct bridge which was built to carry water from Uzès to Nimes, over 50 kms away. It’s as wide as 3 jumbo jets, as tall as the Statue of Liberty and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. Oh, and it’s on the 5 euro note! Check the website for further details on opening hours, prices and access.
Discover the Chateaux of the Loire Valley
Visit 18,000 year old caves paintings at Lascaux IV in the Dordogne
The world famous Lascaux cave paintings are located in the town of Montignac in the Dordogne. At the end of 2016, a brand-new ultra-modern multi-million-pound visitor centre opened, Lascaux IV, that allows visitors access to the full replica of the cave. A visit to Lascaux IV is an absolute must on your Dordogne itinerary. You’ll learn about the fascinating story of how 4 boys discovered this prehistoric Sistine chapel back in 1940. The original caves were opened to the public from 1948 til 1963, however the human footfall (1 million visitors over 15 years) eventually took its toll resulting in the definitive closure of the caves. The tour will take you on a journey back in time… 20,000 years to the prehistoric period with the use of cutting-edge multimedia technology including 3D cinema.
Visit the top chateaux in the Dordogne
The Dordogne, the land of 1001 chateaux! You’ll be spoilt for choice when it comes to visiting chateaux in the Dordogne. You’ll find everything from chateaux, fortresses, fairy tale castles to manor houses. Check out our comprehensive guide of must-visit chateaux in the Périgord!
Visit Oradour-sur-Glane, the Martyr Village
Chilling and haunting. Oradour-sur-Glâne, the village where time has stood still. On 10th June 1944, the German SS descended on the small town located near Limoges and rounded up all the inhabitants. They told the mayor they were carrying out a check but the reality was far grimmer. Women and children were sent into the church while the men were rounded up into a barn. A bloody massacre ensued where a total 642 men, women and children were killed. Following this horrendous massacre, the town remains as a memorial village to this atrocity committed during World War II.
Learn about Roman history in Nimes
You could be fooled into thinking you’d landed in Rome but you’re actually in the French city of Nimes. And another surprising fact is that the denim you might be wearing originates directly from this city – De Nimes (denim!) Pretty cool, huh?! Anyway, this attractive city located in the South of France boasts a number of Roman ruins including an amphitheatre (les Arènes), la Maison Carrée, the Temple of Diane and La Tour Magne. You’ll also want to check out the nearby Pont du Gard.
Discover the Cathar Castles in Occitanie
Visit the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild in the French Riviera
This beautiful Renaissance villa, located in St Jean Cap Ferrat, was owned by Beatrice Rothschild and was donated to the Académie des Beaux Arts following her death in 1934. During the 2nd World War, in 1943, the town of St Jean Cap Ferrat was evacuated and remained empty for 2 years. The grounds fell into disrepair and great work ensued to restore the gardens to their former glory. The main garden was designed to resemble a ship’s deck with the Mediterranean sea surrounding the deck. You can see it clearly when viewing from within the Villa. There are also a total of 9 different gardens including French, Spanish, Florentine and Japanese ones.
Visit the Pope’s Palace and THE famous bridge in Avignon
Visit the cathedral of Orleans, Joan’s of Arc’s resting place
Pay our respects at the battlefields of Somme
Walk in the steps of the pilgrims at Rocamadour
Admire the view from the top of the Eiffel Tower
Visit the largest private aquarium in Europe at La Rochelle
Experience a hot air balloon festival in Rocamadour
Stay in a tree house
Take the kids to Eurodisney
Go on the scariest ride at Futuroscope
Take a trip on a barge on the Canal du Midi
Visit the Zoo de Beauval
Check out some of the best campsites in France
One thing’s for sure, the French know how to do camping. We’ve been to a fair number and have been very impressed with the standard and caliber. Read this post if you want to find out about one of our favourite campsite’s. And because we’re nice, we’ve also compiled a guide to some of the top campsites in the Dordogne.
Experience the carnaval in Nice
Explore the garden exhibition at Chaumont-sur-Loire
Boat trip into the Gouffre de Padirac in the Lot
Road trip through the Gorges du Verdon
Drive around the F1 racetrack in Monaco
Experience the citrussy scent of Menton’s Lemon Festival
Menton, literally on the Italian border, is one of my favourite towns in the French Riviera. The colours, the seaside, the atmosphere – there’s not much to not like about this place. There’s a famous lemon festival that takes place there in February. I’ve heard that a lot of the lemons are now imported so it may have lost some of its authenticitiy, however, a stay on the riviera is never a bad thing.
Admire the views of the French Riviera from the picturesque hilltop town of Eze-Village
Experience the Lights Festival in Lyon
Take in the heady smell from the Lavender fields in Provence
Ride on the famous Large Elephant in Nantes
L’Île de Nantes is a fun, vibrant, arty neighborhood in the trendy town of Nantes, West of France. L’Ile de Nantes is home to the whimsical ‘Les Machines de l’Ile’ where you’ll get to see a giant mechanical elephant wander around. Apparently, the elephant ride was inspired by the 1880 novel “The Steam House” by Jules Verne. The story is about a house which is pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant in India.
Mingle with Asterix and Obelix at the Parc Astérix
Have you heard of the two famous gauls, Asterix and Obelix? You’ll usually find them on the screen or in the pages of Goscinny’s comic books, however, did you know that there’s a large theme park dedicated to these two fellows? The Parc Asterix is located 30 minutes north of Paris and is the second largest theme park after EuroDisney with 14 million annual visitors! A visit is definitely on our kids’ French bucket list!
Attend a night show at Le Puy du Fou
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Folks, I know you have all heard it; actually, most of us, me included, have all through believed that the consumption of carrots helps improve eyesight. As a matter of fact, I grew up believing in that theory and never disputed it even for a moment; I had no reason to anyway. I mean, even most of our celebrated local medics have always subscribed to that argument. Who was I to dispute it?
But that was until a while back when, a friend posed a challenge to me that changed everything.
It all began in the market one Saturday afternoon. I was busy buying groceries and in the process of arguing about this and that with the Mama Mboga, I picked a pack of carrots, put it into my shopping basket and subconsciously ranted, “Carrots are good especially for the eyesight of those of us who spend lots of time staring at computer screens.”
And it is at this point that my friend, who had accompanied me to the market interjected, “wrong argument! Carrots don’t help much in eyesight. It’s a pure myth.”
Of course, I disagreed.
The guy therefore challenged me to go research on the topic and prove him wrong and, true to his words, we have all been living a lie folks!
The reality is damn far from the truth.
Yes, carrots are a good source of beta-carotene, which the body converts to vitamin A—a crucial component of overall eye health. But while carrots might help the vision of a person with severe malnutrition, gobbling down excess amounts of them won’t allow you to suddenly ditch your glasses or see better in the dark.
The direct link between carrots and eyesight, as we have always known it, is a total lie.
Actually, dark, leafy green vegetables such as spinach, kale, and collard greens are better for your eyes than carrots. These veggies contain more antioxidants such as lutein and zeaxanthin, which can protect your eyes from certain high-energy rays of light that can harm your retina. These greens and their carotenoids can also reduce the advancement of age-related macular degeneration, which can cause blindness.
Sweet potatoes are also good for your eyes, and they contain more vitamin A than carrots. Fresh fruit also has vitamins C and E, which are good for your peepers. Most people get enough vitamin A from their diets to keep their eyes healthy and strong.
So where did this entire carrots spin come from, one may ask.
It all dates back to the World War II, early 1940s, and a famous misinformation campaign by the British government. At the time, the Royal Air Force was utilizing a new onboard radar system called Airborne Interception Radar, which allowed their pilots to more effectively target German bombers during nighttime missions. To keep the true source of their higher kill counts under wraps, the RAF spread a rumor that its fighter aces’ cat-like night vision was the result of a steady diet of vitamin-rich carrots.
The British even went further to publicize “night fighters”, well fed on carrots, as having night vision spectacular enough to spot enemy planes in the dark. The most successful night fighter became a sensation. The media lauded John “Cat’s Eyes” Cunningham for his ability to spot Luftwaffe bombers at night. But even his cool nickname was misdirection. While the Air Ministry claimed a diet of carrots was responsible for his spectacular shooting prowess, his accuracy was in a large part due to the Airborne Interception Radar.
And the carrots story was not just a tactic to fool the enemy. It had multiple intended goals.
On December 22, 1940, the British Ministry of Agriculture released a statement urging the populace to eat carrots. “If we included a sufficient quantity of carrots in our diet,” the statement read, “we should overcome the fairly prevalent malady of blackout blindness.”
The government had another motivation in pushing carrots: Great Britain faced food shortages due to wartime rationing, and carrots were plentiful and cheap. This led government agencies to tout them as having eye-strengthening powers as part of widespread campaigns aimed at getting the British public to eat carrots.
Radio spots and film reels humorously extolled carrots. Grim posters plastered around cities implied that only by eating carrots could people dodge darkened cars. Britain’s Ministry of Food even published pamphlets with recipes such as carrot fudge and carrot croquettes, while proclaiming the vegetable could help people “see better in the blackout.”
The government made so much noise about carrots that it was news in the United States and elsewhere. “Lord Woolton, who is trying to wean the British away from cabbage and brussels sprouts, is plugging carrots,” Raymond Daniell, the New York Times’ London bureau chief wrote in an article about blackout survival techniques. “To hear him talk, they contain enough Vitamin A to make moles see in a coal mine.” That Lord Woolton, the peer heading the Ministry of Food, was known to say, “A carrot a day keeps the blackout at bay.”
Meanwhile, England developed “Dr. Carrot,” a cheerful cartoon carrot with a top hat and a medicine bag emblazoned with “VIT-A.” Lord Woolton even roped Walt Disney into the carrot-lauding game. When Woolton sent Disney a telegram asking for more carroty mascots, Disney immediately had one of his artists whip up the Carrot Family: Carroty George, Pop Carrot, and Clara Carrot. Printed on newspaper inserts and event posters, the Carrot Family was “food propaganda,” often accompanied by recipes.
The Germans were probably never fooled by the carrot trick, and the ruse was rendered moot when Germany developed its own AI system. But for years, Britons and Americans were bombarded with carrot propaganda and publicity surrounding British flying aces and their carrot-filled diets. Cunningham and Carroty George may be hazy memories, but their message endures. Though born of wartime necessity, the concept of carrots’ eye-strengthening qualities has grown deep roots.
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LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be giving back the responsibility for collecting COVID-19 data from hospitals to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to an Aug. 20 report from The Wall Street Journal, White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx told health and government officials this week that the current system for how hospitals report new COVID-19 cases is an interim one.
In July, the Trump administration ordered hospitals to send data to the HHS instead of the CDC, a move that has drawn criticism from public health experts who say that the White House has been politicizing the pandemic and sidelining the CDC.
Hospitals previously reported to the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network, described by the agency as “the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system.” The CDC is one of 11 divisions under the HHS, and has historically handled this sort of data.
“CDC is working with us right now to build a revolutionary new data system so it can be moved back to the CDC, and they can have that regular accountability with hospitals relevant to treatment and PPE,” Birx said, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The outlet reported that based on a statement from the HHS, the CDC is working with the U.S. Digital Service to build a “modernized automation process” for the data.
In July, a report published by a group headed by Dr. Thomas Frieden, a former CDC director, detailed essential information that U.S. states should report immediately to help contain the novel coronavirus spread.
“Unlike many other countries, the United States does not have standard, national data on COVID-19. The US also lacks standards for state-, county- and city- level public reporting of this life-and-death information,” according to a website from Prevent Epidemics. “We identified 15 essential indicators, and evaluated COVID-19 data dashboards for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.”
The essential indicators include:
-New confirmed and probable cases and per capita rates by date with 7-day moving
-COVID-19 daily hospitalization per capita rates and 7-day moving average
-New COVID-19 confirmed and probable deaths and per capita rates with 7-day moving average
-Time from specimen collection to isolation of cases, by week
-Percentage of new cases from among quarantined contacts, by week
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John Nairn established his market garden business at the end of College Street, as it was then, in 1893. In all seven glass houses and other buildings were built over the years. The family business largely grew tomatoes, cucumbers and grapes.
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Woods Tea Rooms on Wood Street in the town centre first closed in 2020, but re-opened later that year under new family management.
Yet it has now shut its doors for good due to difficult trading conditions.
A post on the business's Facebook page read: “It's been a pleasure to be part of one of the original standing tearooms in Doncaster. Management and staff are incredibly sad this is now what the business has become. Unfortunately we just couldn't continue. Thank you for your continued support and custom over the years.”
Described as a 'Doncaster institution', the genteel restaurant was likened to famous Yorkshire chain Bettys - with some customers even claiming it was better.
Tracy Woods ran the business for 28 years until the first closure in 2020.
The management also blamed rising energy costs for their decision and explained their reasoning in a sign pinned to the window: "Due to the lasting impact of the coronavirus and the now rapid increase in energy prices and increase in costs from our suppliers it is no longer viable for us to keep trading. We are a family-run business so this has impacted us greatly. Mark, Joanne and the Woods." | <urn:uuid:8ddcd43f-a1a2-409e-a141-0a81e7cea022> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle/food-and-drink/woods-tea-rooms-bettys-of-doncaster-closes-after-30-years-as-owners-blame-energy-price-rises-3697886 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974877 | 252 | 1.523438 | 2 |
English language learners (ELs) may need extra support when learning remotely, as many do not regularly hear English spoken at home. Listenwise offers a curated collection of more than 2000 podcast lessons featuring engaging nonfiction audio stories that can give students practice listening to naturally spoken English. These stories are full of academic language and background knowledge related to current events and popular curriculum topics in English language arts, social studies, and science, sourced from public radio and other producers of high quality educational audio content.
The Listenwise platform offers many features to support listening comprehension among English language learners, including interactive transcripts, slowed audio, and embedded dictionaries. The flexible platform can be used in a variety of ways with learners at all levels. Two experienced teachers who have been using Listenwise with their ELs, Tatiana Dobrodomov and Alyson Noble, share some of their teaching strategies and lesson ideas below. Both educators use Listenwise with Google Classroom, and each offers examples of incorporating Listenwise into both synchronous and asynchronous remote instruction.
Teaching Language and Literacy Skills through Current Events
Tatiana Dobrodomov teaches beginning, intermediate, and advanced English language learners at Union High School in Camas, Washington. She assigns her students a current event each Friday to develop their reading, writing, listening, and critical thinking skills, while also building background knowledge in science, social studies, and other content areas.
Tatiana selects current events that relate to her curriculum and are relevant to her students’ interests. For example, she recently selected “Drive-Through Coronavirus Testing,” as students had been building background knowledge about the subject for a while, and she felt they were confident enough to handle the story and interested in studying the topic in depth. She asked students to listen to the story independently first and then discuss it together.
Tatiana asked her students to preview key vocabulary before starting to listen to the story on their own. She encouraged them to listen as many times as they needed, at a slower pace if desired, in order to fully understand the story. Then she led a class discussion through Google Hangouts Meet video chat after everyone was finished. According to Tatiana:
Even newcomer students were able to complete most activities independently, comprehend some difficult concepts, and build confidence in English. The beauty of the Listenwise selections and support tools is that they all have interesting and engaging topics that make all students, regardless of their English language proficiency level, wonder and explore even challenging concepts with minimal or no support.
Tatiana recommends Listenwise stories as a “great activity to develop listening comprehension and language confidence in a non-stressful way.” She says that Listenwise is easy to access for students and teachers, with clear instructions and minimal additional planning required. She notes, “There are many audio stories to choose from, and many new stories are being added each day. It’s a great supplementary source, and all students enjoy it.”
One of Tatiana’s students reflected on the Listenwise experience:
Listenwise plays a role of a source that sums up most relevant problems in one short podcast. It’s really cool as events in every single recording are happening now, so that’s another reason to try to understand what people are talking about. Besides that, I still learn English, and Listenwise helps me to train my listening and analyzing skills.
Integrating Podcast Lessons into the Curriculum
Alyson Noble teaches students at ELD levels 1 & 2 at Granada High School in Livermore, California. She appreciates that Listenwise offers many scaffolds and supports to help ELs with remote assignments, such as slower audio, transcripts, vocabulary, translations, and picture dictionaries. She also likes that there are ELA lessons, as well as interdisciplinary lessons that involve science and history. Alyson recommends checking the difficulty of the passage using the Lexile audio measure to make sure that the assignment is appropriate for the class. She loves the current events and debate topics because they “allow students to activate prior knowledge and acquire new information in order to hold meaningful discussions.”
To find stories that are appropriate for her students, she searches topics that relate to what the class is reading to make the information more relevant and meaningful. When teaching remotely, she creates a listening assignment, including discussion questions and/or a quiz to assess students’ understanding. Alyson explains, “The grading is very easy to do remotely because students submit their typed answers, and I can type my feedback in the Listenwise website.”
Alyson assigned her students the lesson “Psychology of a Bully” to accompany two short stories they were reading about people confronting bullies. She thought the podcast might offer a different perspective, as it features someone who had been a bully in the past. Her students listened to the audio story independently using the scaffolds, including the listening organizer, and then answered the discussion questions. Here is one student’s written response to a question about empathy:
You can increase empathy on yourself and in others by being with them, trying to talk to them of their problems, or what they feel inside, and to make them feel like they have somebody to talk to in life and know that they care about them, make them feel important in life.
This example of an assignment that students worked on asynchronously on the Listenwise platform is one way that Alyson uses Listenwise with her ELs.
Using Podcasts in Teaching Writing
Alyson also recommends using a story such as “Love Poems from Kids” as a way to jumpstart a writing assignment. She taught a writing lesson based on this story, which includes a collection of poetic responses from students around the country to the prompt, “Love is…” She met with students via a synchronous meeting platform and used the featured poems as mentor texts for students’ own creative writing. She describes how she taught the lesson, starting with listening to the audio story as a group:
We listened to a poet and poems written and recited by students to start a poetry writing assignment. We discussed metaphors, symbols, and imagery in the poems we heard in order to give the students ideas about their own poem. I gave additional examples of how to write the “Love is…” poem and explained how they could describe different types of love. They could talk about familial love, romantic love, platonic love, love for a pet, love for a sport, etc.
In this lesson, Alyson engaged students in listening to an audio story together and discussing it in real time before working remotely on a related writing assignment.
Many thanks to Tatiana and Alyson for sharing their expert teaching practices with the broader Listenwise community!
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For higher education, a master is a great option. Programs can last about two years with a requirement somewhere between 12 and 18 courses at the graduate level. Field of study options may vary widely, allowing students to tailor their education to their needs.A landlocked country found in the Central Europe region with Hungarian as their official language. The country’s mathematics and science… Read More
For higher education, a master is a great option. Programs can last about two years with a requirement somewhere between 12 and 18 courses at the graduate level. Field of study options may vary widely, allowing students to tailor their education to their needs.
A landlocked country found in the Central Europe region with Hungarian as their official language. The country’s mathematics and science approach are outstanding. It homes the world’s first technology institute. It is here that the first steam engine in Europe was built back in 1722.
Budapest is the capital city of Hungary and the ninth largest in the European Union. As the largest in the country, it serves as a center for commercial and industrial activities among others. It has close to twenty institutions of higher learning within its borders.
Master of Art Programs in Budapest in Hungary
The program focuses on logic and its applications in the philosophy of science, particularly in the foundations of mathematics, physics, linguistics, and the social sciences. ... +
With the help of personality- and task-oriented lessons our master’s course prepares our students to fit into the labor market. The acquired knowledge and practice will make y ... +
The curriculum of the MA program in International Relations was framed in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to fulfill practical needs.
Earn a scholarship worth up to US$10,000
The master's degree in German language, literature and culture at the KRE provides specialist knowledge in the areas of German literature, language and culture. With continuou ... +
Students at the Television Production program acquire the complex skills and comprehensive knowledge necessary to produce television programmes in various formats. The courses ... +
In this course, you will study a solid background of the social sciences and a variety of general courses, such as Theories of International Relations and Comparative Foreign ... +
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NetChoice opposition to Texas HB 20, regulating social media businessesDownload
We respectfully ask that you not pass HB 20, primarily because it would be enjoined by federal courts for violating the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
But if HB 20 were to somehow be enforceable, it would produce consequences its sponsors and conservatives would abhor:
- Expose social media platforms to lawsuits for removing harmful content.
- Make it more difficult for social media platforms to block SPAM messages.
- Violate conservative principles of limited government and free markets.
In the attached, we explain why HB 20 would be set aside for violating the First Amendment.
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One of the primary themes of the science fiction genre is risky experiments, and the scientists in these movies are frequently characterised as either having sincere but faulty motives or being prepared to go to any lengths to make an immoral experiment successful. According to Ranker, there is a boundary that should never be passed, and the movies on this list are excellent examples of scientists stepping outside of their comfort zones.
1. Species (1995)
Director- Roger Donaldson
Whatever intelligent life form may be listening is sending a message from Earth into space. The scientists receive a response some 20 years later that includes details on the DNA structure of an extraterrestrial species and instructions for fusing that DNA with human DNA. The hybrid, which they refer to as Sil, is successfully created by the scientific team. The experiment had to come to an end because of some errors. By killing others, Sil is able to get away. The crew assembled has to act quickly to stop her because she is trying to mate with a human male. Sil will create progeny that will destroy Earth if she is successful in mating.
2. Splice (2009)
Director- Vincenzo Natali
Scientists at Newstead Pharmaceutics, Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast, are looking for ways to combine the DNA of other animals to create new genetic organisms that will be beneficial to humans. In order to change the genetic makeup of their experiment, they want to combine human DNA with that of Ginger and Fred, the hybrids they recently made. When the senior management decides to scrap their project, they decide to go ahead covertly and create a life form with human traits. Elsa loves their intelligent creation, which they call Dren and which grows up quickly, very much. Dren is raise by the scientists on Elsa’s abandon farm when the business shuts down their experiment there.
3. Firestarter (1984)
Director- Keith Thomas
Vicky and Andrew McGee first crosse paths at a college experiment where they get pay as test subjects. It appeared that the experiment involved psychic talents and was cloak in mystery and mistrust. Charlie, the couple’s daughter, was born into their union and possesses pyrokinesis. The power to create fires by just thinking about it. Naturally, Charlie attracts the attention of the government. The agents from the covert division known as “The Shop” want to isolate and research her.
4. Leviathan (2014)
Director- Andrey Zvyagintsev
A typical family consisting of Kolya, his wife Lilya, and their adolescent son Romka. They lives on the outskirts of a small coastal settlement in the Barents Sea. The family is plagued by a crooked mayor who is attempting to evict Kolya from his land, house, and modest auto repair company. Kolya contacts his former Army comrade in Moscow, who is now a reputable attorney, in order to rescue their properties. Together, they make the decision to take the mayor down and retaliate.
5. Hollow Man (2000)
Director- Paul Verhoeven
Sebastian Caine, a bright but conceited scientist, has figured out how to make matter invisible after years of research. Caine urges his team to advance to the next stage while utilising himself as the test subject. Since he is driven to make the greatest advancement. The experiment is successful, but Caine starts to exhibit some unforeseen repercussions of his remarkable condition. When the process cannot be stop and he appears doomed to a future without flesh.
6. Re- Animator (1985)
Director- Stuart Gordon
After the horrifying episode at the Institute of Medicine in Switzerland, Herbert West, an ambitious medical student, travels to New England. He is obsess with the concept of transcending the barrier of death and determine to prove his theory. Soon Herbert will resume up where he left off, persuading his sceptic roommate Dan Cain to join his bold endeavour. While initially experimenting with dead feline tissue and eventually fresh human cadavers. The university will inevitably begin to overflow with West’s reanimated corpses as the two young scientists delve deeper and deeper into unexplored territory. Hence, gaining the attention of his arch-nemesis, Dr. Hill, who longs to claim credit for this amazing discovery. Even with a little assistance, the dead will rise once again.
7. Mimic (1997)
Director- Guillermo del Toro
Children in Manhattan are being killed by a dangerous new sickness that reaches pandemic proportions. Dr. Susan Tyler, an entomologist, is asked for assistance by the desperate Peter Mann in eliminating the common cockroach, the illness vector. Susan uses genetic engineering to create a brand-new species of predatory insect that will kill the cockroach and then go extinct. The youngsters recuperate thanks to this creative technique, but since nature isn’t a lab, things don’t exactly go as planned. Three years later, people start to go missing, dismembered remains are discovered, and hysterical tales about enormous insects that look like humans are said to be emerging from the bags of people residing in the Manhattan underground system. Susan and Peter are asked to conduct the investigation.
8. The Fly (1986)
Director- David Cronenberg
Research scientist Seth Brundle, who works for Bartok Sciences, created “Telepods,” which are two-matter transmission pods that can transfer any thing through space from one “Telepod” to the other. But Seth doesn’t successfully teleport until he meets journalist Veronica Quaife, who motivates him to change the system. Seth utilises himself as a test subject for a matter transmission experiment, teleporting himself without realising his genes have been combined with those of a house fly stuck in the telepod with him. However, something goes tragically wrong. As his modified genes start to take control, Seth now finds himself slowly transforming into the terrible mutant creature known as “Brundlefly,” engaged in a bloody conflict.
9. The Lazarus Effect (2015)
Director- David Gelb
For three years, Drs. Frank Walton and Zoe McConnell at the university supported by Werner-Goss Biotechnical have been investigating a serum called “Lazarus” to assist patients in comas to remain alive during procedures. The crew, which is made up of Clay and Niko, conducts an experiment using a dead dog, and they bring in documentarian Eva to make a movie about their findings. They do learn, though, that Lazarus has the power to raise a dead animal with new behaviour. They choose to keep their discovery a secret, but President Dalley terminates their research because he claims their experiment was done in blatant defiance of the Review Board.
Furthermore, Crylonis Pharmaceutical, a shareholder in Werner-Goss, entirely steals their research. To demonstrate that they have the patent on the serum, Frank persuades his staff to go back to the lab and repeat their experiment. However, an accident occurs, and Zoe is electrocuted and dies. Against the advice of his friends, Frank decides to utilise the Lazarus to bring her back to life, but the team soon discovers that something is amiss with Zoe, who is a practising Catholic and claims that she is imprisoned in hell.
10. The Island Of Dr. Moreau (1977)
Director- Don Taylor
Andrew Braddock ends up on Dr. Moreau’s tropical island after his ship sinks there. Braddock is frightened by the weird creatures wandering the island as he waits for a ship to take him back to civilization. He also develops feelings for Maria, a beautiful woman who lives with Moreau. Soon after learning that Moreau’s evil experiments produced the creatures, Braddock hatches a plan to flee before becoming one of the victims. | <urn:uuid:e76f14fe-b69b-458f-8600-14450d890df4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reelsrated.com/sci-fi-horror-movies-where-scientists-go-beyond-their-limits-according-to-ranker/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959598 | 1,619 | 2.5625 | 3 |
RoMontana Association was represented by it’s President (Adrian-Radu Rey) at the Life OREKA MENDIAN Seminar “The role of the shepherd. Tradition and technology for the conservation of mountain pastures” that was organized in Vittoria-Gasteiz, Basque country (Spain) between 25 and 27 November 2018. Over 100 specialists from across Europe discussed on the main subject of the Project and Seminar.
The objective of the LIFE OREKA MENDIAN project, “Conservation and management of mountain pastures in the Basque Country”, is to conserve the grazing habitats of community interest in Protected Natural Spaces by means of maintaining traditional livestock usage, given that the progressive abandon of grazing systems is considered to be the main reason why these pastures are among the European habitats under greatest threat.
This affirmation raises a large number of questions: What is really happening in mountain livestock farms? What are
the causes and the tendencies of change? What challenges are faced by mountain spaces and the farmers and shepherds who manage them? What strategies are developed by the farms which remain in place today to tackle the socioeconomic and environmental changes? What are the consequences of the changes in grazing habits on the state of conservation of pastures and of our mountains?
In this Intermediate Seminar of the LIFE OREKA MENDIAN project, an endeavour was made to answer these questions and to place emphasis ons new technologies as monitoring tools to support the planning of actions to conserve and manage our mountain pastures. This project assembles the administrators of Protected Natural Spaces and mountains, owners, farmers and scientists with a view to achieving the permanence of genuine mountain landscapes, valuable habitats and a traditional way of life.
All the presentations made during the event can be accessed here: http://www.lifeorekamendian.eu/en/seminario-intermedio-del-proyecto-2-2-2-2/
To complete the seminar, on the 27th participants made a field trip to the Aizkorri-Aratz Natural Park where they had the opportunity to observe the alpine pastures management measures applied in a Natura 2000 Natural Protected Area and the way that traditional pastoral activities and cheese production from sheep milk Mendiko Gazta (PDO – Protected Designation of Origin) – are organized.
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2 edition of Accent on purity found in the catalog.
Accent on purity
Joseph E. Haley
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accentuation - the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance. Master Charmolue exhibited an alarming note book, and began to read, with many gestures and the exaggerated accentuation of the pleader, even among men who speak the French language with the neatest purity. her. She had read my book and said I’d done a good job, that I’d written a worthwhile book. I was elated. I still have that little note taped in my journal. What an honor it is for me to return the favor and com-mend Passion and Purity to any single person seeking a bib-lical .
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Seems a bit silly on my part to prefer someone with an obvious Spanish accent when the book is being read in English, but I do. Like Specs, I love books read in a Southern (North American) accent.
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Most cyclists have preferences regarding riding surface. From the highly technical off-road for the mountain bike specialist to the smooth and fast banked surface for the track racer, there is a broad spectrum. I prefer no-stripe roads.
I consider myself a road cyclist, but prefer narrower, quieter, out-of-the-way roads. When possible, I like to minimize encounters with large vehicles, noise, and congestion. There are roads out there that provide such opportunities. They are the back roads. Often they are county roads that are paved, gravel, or dirt.
Due to their size, and sometimes rougher surface, they do not promote high-speed automobile use. Due to their not-so-direct path from place-to-place, they do not promote frequent automobile use. My usual encounters are with pick-up trucks driven by folks that live nearby, because they also value less speed, noise, and congestion. We wave to one another as we pass.
Due to budget limitations and lack of need, no-stripe roads do not have striping to separate lane direction, passing zones, or to identify the edge of road. Rural folk have enough common sense to figure that out on their own.
The vast majority of my favorite local routes are comprised of these no-stripe roads. Allow me to illustrate. The first example clearly shows what a NON-no-stripe road looks like. Frequently, after about 30-40 minutes of no-stripe bliss, I cross this bridge over IH-35, look north, and see this view. I usually count myself lucky to be pedaling away from this noisy place.
Within about 90 seconds from the spot of the last photo, is a fine example of a true no-stripe road. The roar of the interstate fades quickly and the continuous quiet crunching of gravel under bicycle tires takes its place.
No-stripe roads meander through forested areas, between open pastures, and through small towns. They might be smooth or rough, in good condition or bad, and paved or not. They allow one to see the character of a place. Major highways give the traveler uniformity of road configuration, signage, and surrounding national-chain businesses. No-stripe roads offer diversity, personality, and amusement.
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No matter which area of opticianry you choose, you'll be in high demand in the job market because the need for eye care professionals is constantly expanding. It may surprise you to learn that while our eyes are healthier in many ways than in the past, some eye problems are actually growing more common due to changes in our lifestyles and the aging population.
For instance, the incidence of myopia (nearsightedness) is growing rapidly. In fact, experts estimate that nearsightedness will increase by 50% over the next decade. It may be because we spend more time doing close work and less time outside. Other eye problems, such as presbyopia (the poor near vision that develops as we age), are also increasing as our population gets older.
In this course, you can gain the skills and knowledge you need to obtain an entry-level job as an optician in the states that recognize this certification. In addition, you'll prepare to take the Basic American Board of Opticianry (ABO) exams, which includes the NOCE (National Opticianry Competency Exam) and the CLRE (Contact Lens Registry Exam), which is required by many states to work as an optician or as a stepping-stone to career advancement.
After successfully completing this course, you will possess the knowledge required to pass the American Board of Opticianry (ABO), National Opticianry Certification Exam (NOCE) exam, or Contact Lens Registry Exam (CLRE). However, we recommend researching your state's requirements prior to pursuing a career as an optician. While some states only require a high school diploma or GED and passing score on the ABO exam to fulfill licensing requirements, others have their own optician licensing exams. Additionally, some states may require that opticians complete an apprenticeship program or degree program in order to become licensed.
What you will learn
How you will benefit
Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment. The following textbooks will be shipped to you approximately 7-10 business days after enrollment:
Please Note: You will receive a digital book if the physical book is on backorder.
There are no prerequisites to take this course. However a high school diploma or GED is required to take the ABO exam.
After successfully completing this course, you will possess the knowledge required to pass the American Board of Opticianry (ABO) and National Contact Lens Examiners (NCLE) Basic certification exams, Opticianry Certification Exam (NOCE) and Contact Lens Registry Exam (CLRE). However, you should also research your state's requirements prior to pursuing a career as an optician. While some states only require a high school diploma or GED and passing score on the ABO exam to fulfill licensing requirements, others have their own optician licensing exams. Additionally, some states may require that opticians complete an apprenticeship program or degree program in order to become licensed.
Dr. Beverly Smith is a Doctor of Optometry and has been in private practice for 30 years. She holds a Master of Business Administration and founded a consulting firm that helps new practitioners start and manage their own eye care practices. Throughout her career, Smith has taught many future opticians, certified paraoptometrics, and fellow optometrists. Her work has been published in the professional journals New O.D. and Women in Optometry.
Does this course prepare for a certification?
Yes, you will be prepared to take the American Board of Opticianry (ABO) and National Contact Lens Examiners (NCLE) Basic certification exams - Opticianry Certification Exam (NOCE) and Contact Lens Registry Exam (CLRE).
How does this course prepare me to become an optician?
By taking this course, you will learn how to read prescriptions for glasses and contact lenses, become familiar with the equipment opticians use, and gain an understanding of eye anatomy and eye diseases. You will also learn various office responsibilities within an optometrist's office, including bookkeeping, tracking inventory and sales, and maintaining customer records (including payments and prescriptions).
After completing this course, you will be fully prepared to begin a career as an optician and have the skills and knowledge to advance as an optical manager in this popular and exciting medical field.
How much do opticians make?
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that the median salary for opticians is $38,530, with top professionals in this field making over $60,000 per year.
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A core practice of our school is Crew. Crew is a sustaining practice that brings our community together to promote shared understandings and encourage all community members to become Crew, not passengers. Crew is a vehicle for developing and supporting students socially, emotionally and academically. It is also an engine for equity and inclusion, a place where all students feel they belong and can succeed.
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“My sheep hear my voice.”
Can you hear God’s voice in the midst of all the other voices competing for our attention? It’s not always easy, and yet I think it just might be one of the most important challenges that we face. Sometimes I call it the “recognition problem”. How do we recognize God’s voice speaking to us in the midst of all the noise? How can we know what God is calling us to do?
Often, I find our Bible readings quite unhelpful on this point. So often in scripture, God calls someone, and they seem to know right away that it’s God calling, they know the voice and they hear what God is saying. Last week for example, after Saul has been blinded by his experience on the road to Damascus, we’re told that God called Ananias, and Ananias answered right away, “here I am.” God told him to go to Saul, and Ananias pushed back a bit, but eventually went. And I actually find it a little disconcerting to see how quickly Ananias recognized God’s voice and heard what God was saying, because personally I find it a lot more difficult than that. Discerning God’s voice is one of my biggest challenges.
So I like the fact that in this Easter season we do get some scripture readings that address this recognition problem head on. On that first Easter day, Mary Magdalene doesn’t recognize Jesus at first, thinking him to be the gardener. On the road to Emmaus, the two disciples spend a long time walking beside an apparent stranger before they figure out that it’s Jesus. And last Sunday we had the story of the stranger on the beach who calls out to the fisherman to cast their nets on the other side of the boat, and then invites them to join him for breakfast. Sometimes recognition takes a while; sometimes discernment is a process.
In today’s gospel reading, the recognition problem is front and centre. The response to Jesus is divided: is he the Messiah or not? Some say yes, some say no. The naysayers say to him, “How long are you going to keep us guessing? Are you the Messiah or not – tell us straight!”
It seems like a reasonable question. But Jesus doesn’t give them a straight answer.
It reminds me of the time they asked Louis Armstrong to give them a definition of swing music.
I used to play in my high school jazz ensemble, and this is the sort of music we played:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ZSQUyU00s The Benny Goodman Orchestra: Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)
That was the Benny Goodman Orchestra playing Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing). That’s swing music, the music that came out of the jazz scene in the US in the 1930s. Benny Goodman was one of the greats. So was Louis Armstrong.
One day someone came up to Louis Armstrong, and asked him to define swing.
Louis looked up at him and said, “If you have to ask, you’ll never know.” That kind of reminds of Jesus’ answer in today’s gospel. Swing music isn’t something you define, it’s something you experience, something your body moves to. I know swing because I grew up playing it.
(sing a few bars of In the Mood)
Now that’s swing. You don’t define it, you feel it, you move to it, it’s got a groove that swings. If you went to high school in the 50s, you know swing because you danced to it at high school sock hops.
But if you don’t know swing, I could tell you that it’s a jazz music form that incorporates call and response with an emphasis on the off beat, and you still won’t know swing. Because that’s not how we know it.
When Jesus is asked if he’s the Messiah, he doesn’t tell them straight, because that’s not how we know it. We know it because we know his voice, we belong to his sheep, we follow him, because we’re in a relationship and we’ve experienced something.
You see, the solution to the recognition problem is faith. But faith is not knowing the facts about Jesus. Faith is an experience, faith is a relationship, faith is a life-giving, intuitive, experiential sense of belonging and trust. That’s how you come to know God. That’s how you come to recognize God’s voice.
It’s there in the image of the good shepherd and the sheep. The shepherd cares for the sheep, day after day, night after night, leading them in to the safety of the sheepfold and leading them out to green pastures and still waters. The sheep belong to the shepherd and the shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
“I know my sheep and my sheep know me. They follow me because they know my voice. My sheep hear my voice.”
Some of you know that I used to coordinate the Sunday School here at Trinity. One Sunday we were talking about Jesus as the Good Shepherd, and so we played this big game in Bender Hall as an illustration. The way it worked was this: all the kids, probably about twenty of them, were blindfolded and put at one end of the hall. They were the sheep. The hall was filled with obstacles, tables and chairs and ropes placed randomly in the hall. There was an adult who was the Good Shepherd who went to the far side of the hall. The idea was that the Good Shepherd would call to the sheep, and give them instructions so that they could get through the obstacles and across the hall to reach the Good Shepherd. But the problem was, we also had some older kids who were the wolves. They would wander through the hall giving the sheep bad advice so that they would get lost and disoriented and not reach the Good Shepherd.
We did this two times. The first time we did, we chose someone to be the Good Shepherd that the children didn’t know, that they had just met that morning. The result … was a disaster. The wolves gave the children all sorts of bad advice, it was so noisy that the kids couldn’t pick out the Good Shepherd’s voice, and those poor little blindfolded sheep were bumping into obstacles all over the hall.
Then we did it again. But this time we chose a Good Shepherd that the children knew really well, and who could call the children by name. The wolves did their best to confuse them, it was just as noisy and chaotic as the first time around – but this time the children could hear the Good Shepherd’s voice because they knew it and they could trust what the Good Shepherd was telling them, and they all made it safely around the obstacles to the other side of Bender Hall.
Hearing God’s voice is grounded in a relationship. The solution to the recognition problem is faith. Faith as a relationship, faith as experience, faith as a life-giving, intuitive, experiential sense of belonging and trust. That’s how you come to know God’s voice. That’s what makes it possible to hear God’s voice in the midst of all the competing voices of our world.
It’s not an exclusive thing. It’s not like some people are born with the voice recognition software and some aren’t. No, we’re all invited into this life-giving relationship of faith. Learning to hear God’s voice is more of a discipleship thing than an exclusive thing.
Now, don’t get me wrong, discernment is still a challenge. Hearing God’s voice, figuring out what God is saying, trying to get a sense of where God is calling us as individuals and as a church, and then responding, that will always be a challenge. It’s a challenge that we work through together. We pray, we read scripture, we worship, we go to those places we talked about last Sunday. We listen to each other, we learn from our tradition, we seek the inspiration of art and nature. We try stuff and learn from our experience, we pay attention to our own inclinations and passions, and we bring all that into community, into communion with God and communion with each other.
Discernment, the recognition problem, is a big part of our faith. And it is our faith, faith understood as an experience, a relationship and a way of life, that’s what will enable us to hear God’s voice amidst all the other voices of our world.
It’s kind of like swing. The more you love it, the more you dance to it, the better you’ll know it when you hear it.
Homily. Yr C Easter 4, May 8 2022, Trinity
Readings: Acts 9.36-43; Psalm 23; Rev 7.9-17; John 10.22-30
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When working with clients, we go through in-depth and rigorous Brand Discovery &Design Thinking Workshop for their brand. And one of the significant questions we go into are
— What are the Industry related secrets?
— How can we position the Brand to over come or leverage the situation?
— How can we make a negative situation in to a positive one?
Here is an example which I found recently, from the FMCG/food industry.
Since, Diwali is just around the corner, sweets are something which are integral part of the festivities. Here, there is a silver foil aka ‘Varak’ used on many traditional sweets. The methods used to make the silver foil is rather controversial and questionable.
One of the most widely used methods of preparing silver involves the intestines of cattle. This industry-wide practise sees manufacturers purchase intestines from slaughterhouses as soon as the animal is killed (and before their innards stiffen and become unusable). After stitching the intestines together to form a booklet, sheets of silver are then placed between them and hammered till they turn into thin wafers — which happens to be the final product you find on your sweets. Some manufacturers even claim, that their product is 100% vegetarian.
The founder of this brand, brings this forward to the primary target audience and communicates what their brand values are and how they have solved this problem.
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The Queen is Britain's longest reigning monarch
How long has the Queen reigned for?
Elizabeth II was crowned 64 years ago on June 2 1953 at Westminster Abbey.
But the Queen has actually reigned for more than 65 years, making her Britain’s longest-reigning monarch ever.
She became Queen when her father died on February 6 1952 but the coronation was delayed until the following year due to a period of mourning.
The Queen has chose to mark the milestone in quiet contemplation at her Sandringham estate where her father died 65 years before.
The only formal acknowledgement of the Sapphire Jubilee was the traditional gun salutes at the Tower of London and Hyde Park.
It is thought that major celebrations are being reserved for her Platinum Jubilee, which will take place in 2022.
On September 9 2015 the Queen surpassed the reign of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria to become our longest-ruling monarch ever.
The 90-year-old chose not to celebrate the milestone and instead carried on with business as usual.
Speaking at an engagement in the Scottish Borders, she said the record was “not one to which I have ever aspired”.
She told well-wishers: "Inevitably a long life can pass by many milestones - my own is no exception - but I thank you all and the many others at home and overseas for your touching messages of great kindness.”
How old is the Queen?
The Queen turned 91 on April 21 but chose to celebrate her birthday in private. Her official birthday is later this month.
Her 90th birthday was marked with a glittering weekend of celebrations, culminating with a street party along The Mall.
The Queen was coronated in 1953
When was the Queen’s coronation?
She was proclaimed Queen on June 2 1953 at Westminster Abbey with her husband Prince Philip by her side.
It was the first ever coronation to be televised and the first major event to be broadcast worldwide.
The Queen has owned over 30 pictures during her reign
The Queen and her corgis
The photograph above shows the Queen with one of her corgis. Queen has been fond of the corgis since her parents presented her with a pup named Dookie as a child.
She has owned more than 30 corgis during her reign, continuing a tradition dating back to Queen Victoria.
Much like their owner, the dogs famously follow strict protocol, and are served dinner in order of seniority.
The Queen has four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward
The Queen and her children
This casual family photo above shows a 24-year-old Charles, still seven years away from meeting Lady Diana. He towers over his younger brothers Andrew, then aged 12, and eight-year-old Edward.
Completing the picture is Anne, the Princess Royal, who was 22 years old at the time.
The Queen’s four children were often by her side while growing up, and still accompany her on official engagements to this day.
The Queen was joined by her husband, sister and mother for Prince William's christening
The Queen at at Prince William’s christening
The Queen looked radiant at the christening of her third grandchild, and second-in-line to heir the throne, Prince William.
Joined by the baby prince’s parents, Charles and Diana, the picture also includes her beloved mother, also named Elizabeth.
The Queen celebrated 50 years on the throne in 2002
The Queen at her Golden Jubilee
Waving from her gilded carriage, the Queen marked her Golden Jubilee with a weekend of celebrations in London.
She would celebrate her Diamond Jubilee 10 years later, becoming only the second monarch to reach the milestone.
The Queen enters her 90th birthday celebration
The Queen was joined by four generations of her family for her 90th birthday celebrations
The Queen on her 90th birthday
In 2016 the Queen celebrated her 90th birthday with a weekend of events.
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- Workers at chains including Whataburger, Ralphs, and Whole Foods are fighting for their right to wear Black Lives Matter masks and other gear on the job.
- Employers have the right to create dress codes that prevent workers from wearing clothing with any sort of messaging, according to employment and discrimination attorney Wendy Greene.
- However, if these policies are not regularly enforced, employers could be subject to discrimination claims.
- “Even though generally, employers are within their legal rights to bar employees from wearing ‘Black Lives Matter’ masks and shirts, employers should shift the focus from whether I can legally do so to should I do so?” Greene said.
- Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.
Workers are fighting for their right to wear Black Lives Matter gear on the job. But, can they win in court?
Last week, Ma’Kiya Congious filed a complaint with Texas officials against Whataburger, saying the burger chain pushed her out after she wore a Black Lives Matter mask to work. Congious’ attorney says she plans to file a racial-discrimination lawsuit against the burger chain.
Labor union United Food and Commercial Workers Local 21 also filed an unfair labor charge against Kroger-owned supermarket chains QFC and Ralphs in September, saying Seattle-area employees were told to remove Black Lives Matter buttons.
Meanwhile, back in July, Whole Foods workers filed a class action suit against the grocery chain, saying they were prevented from wearing Black Lives Matter masks on the job. The lawsuit now involves 28 Whole Foods and Amazon employees in nine states, some of whom say they were sent home or threatened with termination for wearing BLM gear.
The chains and a number of other companies that have banned employees from wearing BLM apparel at work emphasized that they were not specifically barring workers from wearing BLM masks or buttons. Instead, they said that they did not want workers to wear any messages that were unrelated to the brand at work.
“It’s important for our customers to understand the purpose behind this policy,” Whataburger said in a statement to Business Insider. “If we allow any non-Whataburger slogans as part of our uniforms, we have to allow all slogans. This could create tension and conflict among our employees and our customers. It is our job as a responsible brand to proactively keep our employees and customers safe.”
Do these policies justify workplaces preventing employees from wearing BLM masks or other gear? The answer, according to employment and discrimination attorney Wendy Greene, is complicated.
The messy legality of Black Lives Matter mask bans
Greene, a professor at the Drexel Kline School of Law, told Business Insider in July that private companies are typically given “considerable latitude in regulating an employee’s dress while working.” So, banning any messages on clothing would be allowed in the same way that banning certain colored shirts or jeans at work is considered an employer’s legal right.
However, questions around how policies are enforced can create legal problems for employers. According to Greene, any written or informal uniform policies needs to be enforced “evenly and uniformly to prevent claims of differential treatment on the basis of protected classifications like race.”
“If an employer disallows Black employees from wearing Black Lives Matter paraphernalia yet permits non-Black employees to wear paraphernalia advancing other social justice causes, the employer can be subject to a race discrimination claim,” Greene said.
This alleged unequal treatment is the crux of Whole Foods workers’ argument against the grocery chain and parent company Amazon.
Whole Foods workers say Black Lives Matter masks were targeted
According to Whole Foods workers’ complaint, the grocery chain’s policy against “visible slogans, messages, logos, or advertising” was generally unenforced. Employees said people had worn apparel with cartoon characters, sports logos, and Pride flags to support LGBTQ coworkers without facing repercussions.
“Plaintiffs and other Whole Foods employees expected Whole Foods would support their decision to wear [BLM] masks because Whole Foods has expressed support for inclusivity and equality and because it previously allowed its employees to express support for their LGBTQ+ coworkers through their apparel without discipline,” the complaint states.
Workers allege they were sent home when they refused to take off their masks, with Savannah Kinzer claiming she was fired from her job at a Cambridge, Massachusetts Whole Foods for organizing workers to wear BLM masks.
“It is possible it’s uncomfortable for people, but it’s not political,” Kinzer told Business Insider in July. “It’s human rights. It is a simple, simple statement: Black lives matter, that’s it. They matter.”
Whole Foods declined to comment on pending litigation, but denied that any employees were terminated for wearing Black Lives Matter masks or other gear at work.
“It is critical to clarify that no Team Members have been terminated for wearing Black Lives Matter face masks or apparel,” a Whole Foods spokesperson said in July. “Savannah Kinzer was separated from the company for repeatedly violating our time and attendance policy by not working her assigned shifts, reporting late for work multiple times in the past nine days, and choosing to leave during her scheduled shifts.”
Should companies let workers wear masks?
Greene said that there are bigger questions than simply legality that companies need to consider when it comes to barring workers from wearing Black Lives Matter masks. Enforcing these policies could cause employees and the public to believe that their commitments to combat racism are “insincere and performative.”
“Even though generally, employers are within their legal rights to bar employees from wearing ‘Black Lives Matter’ masks and shirts, employers should shift the focus from whether I can legally do so to should I do so?” Greene said.
“That in mind, employers should assess whether developing grooming policies barring ‘Black Lives Matter’ masks and shirts in the workplace is in furtherance of or in contradiction to their organizational commitment to racial equity and justice,” Greene continued.
Increasingly, employees are not satisfied with their companies staying on the sidelines when it comes to political and social issues. Jacinta Gauda, the principal at The Gauda Group — a communications firm that works on branding, strategy, and diversity and inclusion — told Business Insider that the US has a “generation of workers who will push traditional boundaries and test the company’s commitments.”
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Role of Hazelnut Consumption in Improving Micronutrient Status in Older Adults
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03485989|
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 3, 2018
Last Update Posted : August 28, 2019
With advancing age, older adults are susceptible to vitamin and mineral deficiencies for a variety of reasons. Nutrient-dense food sources of vitamin E and other key vitamins and minerals, like hazelnuts, may offer a simple means of improving nutritional status of healthy older adults.
This hypothesis is that individuals eating hazelnuts everyday will result in measurable increases in magnesium and vitamin E levels, two under-consumed micronutrients among older adults. Thus, subjects will consume two ounces (56 g) of hazelnuts each day for sixteen weeks. Investigators will measure vitamin E and magnesium levels along with a general assessment of micronutrient status as primary outcomes. Since nuts are nutrient-rich sources of unsaturated fatty acids but low in carbohydrates, changes in fasting glucose, lipid and lipoprotein profiles, and BMI will also be determined (secondary outcomes).
|Condition or disease||Intervention/treatment||Phase|
|Nutrition Poor Micronutrient Deficiency Aging||Other: Hazelnuts||Not Applicable|
Older adults are at increased risk of various chronic diseases where inadequate levels of vitamins and minerals may play a significant role, including cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, liver disease, and cancer. Older adults are increasingly more susceptible to vitamin and mineral deficiencies with changes in dietary preferences, changes in socioeconomic status, decreased consumption of a variety of foods, poor absorption in the gut, and an increased demand for many of these micronutrients with advanced age.
Epidemiological studies and recent clinical trials have shown that use of multivitamin/mineral or single nutrient supplements, such as vitamin E, have beneficial effects on disease risk, but many people are hesitant to use dietary supplements due to reports of ineffectiveness or potential negative effects. However, food sources of vitamin E and other key vitamins and minerals continue to show health benefits. As an alternative to mandating consumption of multivitamin and mineral supplements or food fortification, a dietary solution is to increase consumption of nutrient-dense foods, like hazelnuts.
Tree nuts, including hazelnuts, contain a wide variety of vitamins and minerals, and are particularly good source of vitamin E and magnesium, two "shortfall nutrients" that are lacking in the typical American diet. Over 90% of U.S. adults do not meet recommended intake levels of vitamin E, and 60% do not get enough magnesium. Tree nuts are also a good source of protein and fiber and are high in healthful unsaturated fatty acids and phytochemicals such as flavonoids and phytosterols.
Most clinical studies on the benefits of nut consumption have been conducted using almonds and walnuts, with hazelnuts used less frequently. However, the health benefits of consuming hazelnuts have been demonstrated in many clinical trials, including lower blood glucose levels, alterations in blood lipids, and declines in biomarkers of oxidative stress. Although several clinical trials have investigated nutritional impact of hazelnuts in adults, no clinical trials with hazelnuts have focused on examining micronutrient status and potential health benefits only in older (≥55 years) adults.
Determination of body status of many micronutrients can be difficult, especially so the evaluation of vitamin E levels when age is considered as a factor. Although serum α-tocopherol levels are generally higher in adults above the age of 50 compared to younger adults, the increased prevalence of hypercholesterolemia in older adults makes interpretation of circulating α-tocopherol levels difficult. Alternatively, urinary α- and γ-carboxyethyl hydroxychromanol (α- and γ-CEHC) is believed to be a biomarker of α- and γ-tocopherol status that changes with vitamin E intake. In particular, low α-CEHC excretion is considered a reliable marker of poor α-tocopherol status, while an increase in α-CEHC is indicative of adequate α-tocopherol status.
The objective of this study was to determine whether daily hazelnut consumption by healthy older adults for 16 weeks improves biomarkers of micronutrient status, especially vitamin E and magnesium. For a detailed assessment of vitamin E status, plasma α- and γ-tocopherol concentrations were determined together with urinary α- and γ-CEHC levels. In addition, a commercially available lymphocyte proliferation assay was utilized to evaluate the status of several other micronutrients. Since hazelnut consumption is reported to reduce blood lipids and improve glucose homeostasis, these biomarkers were also monitored in our study.
|Study Type :||Interventional (Clinical Trial)|
|Actual Enrollment :||41 participants|
|Intervention Model:||Single Group Assignment|
|Masking:||None (Open Label)|
|Primary Purpose:||Basic Science|
|Official Title:||Role of Hazelnut Consumption in Improving Micronutrient Status in Older Adults|
|Actual Study Start Date :||June 22, 2016|
|Actual Primary Completion Date :||September 18, 2017|
|Actual Study Completion Date :||December 29, 2017|
Participants given 2 ounces (~57 grams) of dry roasted hazelnuts to consume each day.
Dry roasted, individually packaged hazelnuts provided from the Hazelnuts Marketing Board of Oregon
- Changes in Plasma Micronutrient Levels [ Time Frame: Between baseline (Visit 2) and 16 weeks (last visit) ]Plasma levels of magnesium and vitamin E (alpha and gamma tocopherol) at baseline and 16 weeks after hazelnut intervention will be determined. Vitamin E analyses will be performed as absolute concentrations and concentrations corrected for total plasma lipids.
- Changes in Plasma Urine Vitamin E Metabolites [ Time Frame: Between baseline (Visit 2) and 16 weeks (last visit) ]Urine concentrations of alpha and gamma carboxyethyl hydroxychroman (metabolites of alpha and gamma tocopherol, respectively) will be determined at baseline and 16 weeks after hazelnut intervention. Urine values will be corrected for creatinine levels.
- Changes in Lymphocyte Proliferation Assay [ Time Frame: Between baseline (Visit 2) and 16 weeks (last visit) ]Blood samples will be collected and sent to Spectracell Labs, Inc. for a functional micronutrient analysis utilizing their proprietary lymphocyte proliferation assay. Micronutrient levels in these white blood cell samples will be assessed by changes in lymphocyte proliferation in the absence of a given vitamin or mineral, suggesting functional inadequacies that may not correspond to plasma values. Data will be represented as percent difference in cell proliferative capacity in cells growing in a complete media vs. a single-nutrient deprived media.
- Lipid Status [ Time Frame: Between baseline (Visit 2) and 16 weeks (last visit) ]Lipid profile will be determined from samples blood sent to a CLIA(Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments)-certified laboratory. Changes to fasting lipoprotein and triglyceride status determined before and after hazelnut intervention.
- Glucose Homeostasis [ Time Frame: Between baseline (Visit 2) and 16 weeks (last visit) ]Glucose and insulin levels will be determined from blood samples to a CLIA-certified laboratory. Changes to fasting glucose levels and insulin levels determined before and after hazelnut intervention.
- BMI [ Time Frame: Between baseline (Visit 2) and 16 weeks (last visit) ]Height and weight will be measured by stadiometer and scale. Changes to height and weight will be expressed as BMI calculated before and after hazelnut intervention.
- Blood Pressure [ Time Frame: Between baseline (Visit 2) and 16 weeks (last visit) ]Changes to resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) will be measured by sphygmomanometer before and after hazelnut intervention.
- Heart Rate [ Time Frame: Between baseline (Visit 2) and 16 weeks (last visit) ]Resting heart rate will be measured manually using the ventral aspect of radial artery.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03485989
|United States, Oregon|
|Linus Pauling Science Center|
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A Spiritual Autobiography
By Richard Rodriguez
In the months after the events of September 11, 2001, the award-winning journalist Richard Rodriguez found himself drawn to learn more about Islam—both the religion and its followers. He began a quest that took him from the old kingdom of Jerusalem to the posh high-tech world of Silicon Valley. Along the way, he examined not only how this religion is so misunderstood by the Western world, but also how he had developed his own relationship with the faith. As a Roman Catholic, he sees himself as a spiritual cousin to both Jews and Muslims, who worship the same God. Yet as a homosexual he feels excluded from all three religions.
Rodriguez suggests that, more than a decade after September 11, we are “at the dawn of a worldwide religious war that Americans prefer to name a ‘war against terror.’” In this collection of provocative and beautifully crafted essays, Rodriguez challenges the reader to move beyond the dialogue of terrorism—and the resulting grief and sadness—to a place of greater understanding and compassion.
He equates the feminist movement of the ’60s with the current movement for gay rights. And he believes that women, in their compassion and wisdom, will play a central role in the future of the desert religions that have treated them as second-class citizens for centuries.
From False Dogma to Life-Affirming Faith
The journalist and author Richard Rodriguez discusses faith, terrorism, and “the age of the woman.”
How does faith play into your personal definition of religion?
There is no “personal definition of religion.” Religion defines itself; religion is creed, it is form, the enumeration of laws and beliefs. Faith, on the other hand, is often idiosyncratic. Faith can be at variance with dogmatism and certitude. Faith is the willingness to trust in the God of the night, to live with a God who remains in mystery.
You’ve said of September 11, 2001: “It worries me that 10 years later, we’re still preoccupied with this one event. We need to move from grief to a different kind of sadness.” What would that entail?
A society that is overwhelmed by grief forbids imagination, which is an understanding of the world beyond itself—and a grief other than its own. I am struck that cultures that are “tragic” in their disposition often are more joyful than a culture like America’s, which is afraid of grief.
Why did you publish this memoir now?
There is an epic change in the world—let me call it “the
age of the woman.” It may be that the male energy is exhausted. The question for me, as a practicing Christian—who considers himself spiritual kin to the Jew and the Muslim because we worship the same God—is whether patriarchal religions will come to see women as equal, will be willing to learn from women, and in that way recognize that the feminine aspect of God coexists with the male aspect of God.
What do you hope readers take away from it?
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In September 2015, the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were formally adopted at the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Summit. The 2030 Agenda and the SDGs provide a comprehensive vision and framework for all populations across the globe. As goals for all people of our planet, they require teachers and pupils to develop a deeper understanding of how social action is pivotal to sustaining our planet for all its people.
The SDGs (there are 17 and we are campaigning for SDG18 - Race Equality) promote ‘envisioning’ – pupils and teachers being able to imagine a better future. The premise is that when we know where we want to go, we will be better able to work out how to get there. Envisioning enables us to establish an ongoing link between long-term goals (SDGs) and our immediate actions. This is an ongoing process that develops collaborative tasks for pupils and teachers, developed through school assemblies and curriculum planning. The commitment of our learning community to social action is driven by moral purpose, which is, in part, an acknowledgement, recognition and identification of ‘habitus’, which perpetuates inequality in our society and across the globe. We imagine a better future framed by the SDGs, which promote social and environmental justice for all people of the planet. Understanding the SDGs through a local, national and global approach, enables our pupils to connect tangibly with inequalities such as food poverty (SDG 2: Zero hunger). Our pupils have been inspired to set up and run our own school food bank. This is social action that addresses SDG 2 at a local level.
We practise an iterative approach to embedding the SDGs. This iterative approach creates the space to reflect and adapt the curriculum in order to forge stronger links to examine social and environmental justice issues. SDGs are woven into the curriculum themes, enabling links to be made – for example, the Year 5 theme of ‘Wild, Wondrous Water’ is linked to SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), 4 (Quality Education) and 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation). We provide our children with a broad, balanced and experiential curriculum where they are encouraged to develop critical thinking skills, enabling them to critically consider questions of social justice, inequality and environmental integrity. Our approach supports the shaping of individual and collective knowledge, skills, values and attitudes, to enable our learning community to move along pathways towards sustainable development and become a catalyst for development itself. This progressively equips our learners with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes needed to be responsible global citizens | <urn:uuid:ce0fae14-5f50-4f7d-b655-9f238485307d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rathfern.lewisham.sch.uk/SDGs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.93669 | 534 | 4.125 | 4 |
Rev. Sommerfeld reflects on the 20th commemoration of 9/11
By Rev. Russ Sommerfeld
Assistant to the President for Church Engagement
On 9/11 of 2001, 2,977 people died in a vicious surprise attack on the United States. Among them were 343 firefighters, 23 police officers, 8 paramedics, 3 state court officers and 1 patrolman. When a response is no longer received from a firefighter or officer, the dispatcher announces the individual is “10-42”. This means the tour of duty has ended. The radio crackles, 10-42 is announced, followed by the date.
The silence of 9/11 was deafening! After the explosions of planes deliberately flown into buildings, shrieks of the dying, blaring sirens and crashing structures, there was silence. Dispatchers called for firefighter after firefighter, officer after officer and only to receive silence. And in the days to come, the code 10-42 and the date 9/11 would be repeated over and over again. Hospitals received code 99 for an emergency of mass injuries. But silence fell upon the emergency rooms as they waited.
Amid the silence, Americans were stunned. How could this have happened? Who had done it? Would there be more? Life as we had known it was 10-42. And 9/11 would be repeated in silence year after year. Only the sound of a bell for each victim at the towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania would be heard.
And here we are at year 20. It’s time for silence again. What can be said? “Never forget!” Indeed, “Never forget!” What about code 10-41? Yes, the start of a new tour of duty. Amid the 586 B.C. war-conquered ruins of Jerusalem, Jeremiah lamented in its silence. And then by the inspiring Spirit of God he announced through his tears,
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.” Lamentations 3:23-24.
As we never forget the evil, the death and silence of 9/11, there is also confidence for a 10-41. Hope in Jesus Christ is real for a new tour of life won by His death when he was laid in the grave in silence. He is victorious over death! He lives and He always will! We can be 10-41 because of Him. “Alleluia, He is risen” pierces the silence. He can gather us around Himself to “Never forget” there is true hope in Him! | <urn:uuid:6518a11f-5279-4292-a201-169268fa49f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cune.edu/news/rev-sommerfeld-reflects-20th-commemoration-911 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.973571 | 588 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Xanax (alprazolam) and Ativan (lorazepam) are short-acting. Klonopin (clonazepan) and Valium (diazepam) are longer-acting. The beneficial effects of the benzodiazepines: They do, indeed, have a minor tranquilizing effect. For that reason they are called the minor tranquilizers. They are as effective as a.
The beneficial effects of the benzodiazepines:
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It also depends on the patient. PTSD is very real and I do not care how "mindful" the are, what sets off anxiety sets it off. Nothing is impossible and you must consider your patients diagnosis. I agree 0.5 mg Xanax is not a low dose. I do not want drugs, but I cannot have an MRI without medication, I have tried. I have had it for years and I know it and have been in treatment for over 40 years.
I am currently taking the low dose xanax as needed & I have taken it for a number of years. I noticed that the xanax sometimes make me sleepy & all I want to do is cut my anxiety & not get sleepy or lower my energy level! Does anyone take ativan & use to take xanax? Or has anyone tried them both & prefer.
And for the love of God stop using qualifying statements that contradict everything you're actually about to say. Just use common sense and be responsible. Do what you know works for you.
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I would say they all have the same effect w/different side effects and some are faster acting. talk with your Dr if you question what your putting in it! Peace ~. they are all benzos and affect each individual differently depending on chemistry, dosage and the reason a person is prescribed the medication in the first place.
Ativan (lorazepam) vs. Xanax (alprazolam) are prescription drugs used to treat anxiety disorders and panic attacks. Ativan also is prescribed to treat insomnia, seizures, and nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy. Both of these drugs are addictive and should be prescribed with caution. Side effects, drug.
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Therefore, neither should be used by women who are nursing. Ativan and Xanax are excreted in breast milk and can affect nursing infants.
Panic attacks are sudden feelings of terror that strike without warning. These episodes can occur at any time, even during sleep.
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Similarities between Ativan and Xanax. Xanax (alprazolam) and Ativan (lorazepam) are both benzodiazepines. Benzodiazepines (Benzos) are a class of psychoactive drugs characterized by and used as tranquilizers, sedatives, muscle relaxants of to induce sleep. Benzos can also be used to relieve anxiety, nervousness.
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3. Addictive qualities are different. However, doctors recognize that Xanax may have more abuse potential than other benzodiazepines, including Ativan. Chronic use of any benzodiazepine can lead to physical dependency and withdrawal symptoms once you stop taking the medication.
Lorazepam and Xanax are benzodiazepines. They both slow the activity of your central nervous system (CNS) and provide a tranquilizing effect. This calming result can help you manage anxiety and nervousness. Both of these drugs are prescribed for short-term use. Lorazepam is approved to treat.
While these drugs share several side effects, each drug can cause some unique side effects.
Always read the package labels and follow directions carefully. It’s important to l your doctor and pharmacist about all the medications that you currently take. You can learn more about interacting drugs in the detailed interaction information for lorazepam and Xanax.
For people who have depression or anxiety, these are some of the most insightful and helpful resources on the web.
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An old friend provided me with a wonderful opportunity. She’s the Middle Level Director for a city in the South. I’ve been doing workshops for her schools and teachers for about 14 years. A couple summers ago, I worked with the teachers at two schools that have high populations of at-risk and hard to teach students. I introduced the teachers to several strategies for reaching these students. The following winter, I returned to the district and got to spend a day at each of the schools. I was able to conduct classroom observations and focus groups at the schools.
Surprisingly (at least it was an “aha” for me!), I didn’t see out of control classrooms or bad teaching. What I did see was order and a lot of competent (and in some cases outstanding) direct instruction.
Even so, I often only saw about half of each class “engaged” (showing signs of being on task) and, in conversations and focus groups, teachers indicated that many students don’t care, won’t do the work or study, and there isn’t much support from home.
One teacher called this “lazy disease.”
But maybe it wasn’t just laziness or home support. Maybe, for some kids, how we teach doesn’t work for them. Any parent with more than one child knows that they learn in different ways. Why do we expect our students to all learn the same way?
This helped me realize that some students need more than direct instruction.
The teachers also unknowingly provided me with the answer to the question, “When do you know that you need to do more than direct instruction?” The answer: “When the students don’t care, won’t do the work or study, and there isn’t much support from home. When they have hard to teach students.” Simple, right?
I think that maybe direct instruction isn’t enough for these students because it focuses more on the content than on how students might learn it. We are often quick to get frustrated with hard to teach students exactly because we covered the material and they didn’t learn it.
And yet shipping companies, such as UPS, would never think to say that they “delivered” a package if a customer did not receive it. It might be accurate to say they left the package on the porch, but it isn’t “delivered” until the resident actually gets the package. Dewey puts it a little differently:
Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys. We should ridicule a merchant who said that he had sold a great many goods although no one had bought any. But perhaps there are teachers who think they have done a good day’s teaching irrespective of what people have learned. There is the same exact equation between teaching and learning that there is between selling and buying. (Dewey, 1933, p. 35-36)
Underserved populations, including underachieving students from all learning styles, career aspirations, cultures, and socioeconomic levels deserve a quality education.
It is not surprising that improved instruction, which involves students in meaningful, engaged learning, is viewed as a remedy to the growing concern over the high social and economic cost of large numbers of disengaged and at-risk youth. Identifying practices which help these diverse populations learn well is a step toward creating an educational system intent on serving all students. Finding out what motivates our underachieving and hard to teach students will help inform and equip teachers in the struggle to lead all students to academic achievement.
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How Stressed Out Are Iowans Compared to Other States?
Would you consider yourself to be someone who deals with a lot of stress? Personally, I'm pretty lucky, I would have to be in the "no" category of that question. Thankfully I'm rarely stressed out and don't have to worry about dealing with it too often. How about Iowans collectively? Where do you think our biggest cities rank compared to other big cities in the United States?
We often hear the word stress and immediately think it's something bad. Too much stress can be bad but there are certain kinds of stress that can have a positive effect. According to Wallet Hub, "acute stress" can be a good thing. It can help keep you active and alert. When stress reaches an unmanageable level, it turns to chronic stress. That's when you start feeling like it's taking over your day, week, or life.
Which cities in America cope with stress the best? Wallet Hub looked at 180 different cities with 40 different metrics, such as work hours, unemployment rate, divorce rate, and suicide rates. The two cities they chose to look at in Iowa are Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. Both cities actually performed pretty well if you go by the metrics they used.
Des Moines ended up being the 114th out of the 182 cities that were studied and Cedar Rapids finished at 169th. That would put both of these cities in the bottom half of the most stressed-out cities in America. This is fantastic news for Iowans. As a whole, our state is either rarely stressed or does a good job of coping with it in a healthy way. The number 1 stressed-out city is Cleveland Ohio, followed very closely by Detroit Michigan.
Stress is something that can take over and negatively affect your life if you let it. It can lead to diminishing mental and physical health. It can lead to various mental health disorders including anxiety and depression. It can negatively affect your sleeping habits and can cause unwanted muscle tension. There are things you can do to help cope with managing your stress.
One of the best things you can do to manage stress is some kind of physical activity. Try Stress Management believes exercise can improve your mood, stabilize hormone levels, and decrease stress due to the "positive effects of a behavioral change."
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Born On: April 3, 1914
Born In: Amritsar, Punjab
Died On: June 27, 2008
Career: Indian Army
It was during the World War II that a young captain in the 4/12 Frontier Force regiment, Indian Army, was leading his battalion as a Company Commander against the invading Japanese. A raging battle on the Sittang Bridge near Sittang River in Myanmar kept both the sides on their toes. The young company commander, even though severely injured with multiple wounds in the stomach caused by light machine gun's bullets, was staring straight into the face of the enemy, stern; managing his troops effectively and fought until the battle was won. When the Indian Forces arrived at the scene and saw the severely wounded company commander, Major General D.T Cowan quickly took off his own Military Cross and pinned it to this commander while he was still alive, saying "A dead person cannot be given a Military Cross". This young commander was Sam Manekshaw aka Sam Bahadur (Sam the Brave). He was immediately taken to the hospital. With 9 bullets in his lungs, liver, and kidney; he was almost declared dead when brought to the hospital but lived to be India's first Field Marshal till the age of 94. Such was Sam's zeal to serve that it took him out of the face of death and stood him menacingly straight against all enemies. During the 40 years of his military career, he saw four wars, held various positions in army and otherwise and received many honors but never let pride make its way into the proceedings and dealt everything with absolute honesty, fairness, and justice.
Sam Manekshaw was born on 3rd April, 1914 in Amritsar, Punjab, to Parsi parents who moved from the small town of Valsad, Gujarat. Her mother's name was Heerabai and his father, Hormusji Manekshaw, was a doctor by profession and had served with the royal British army in Mesopotamia region (now Iraq) during the World War I. After completing his schooling in Amritsar and in Sherwood College in Nainital, he wanted to go to England to study medicine but was denied the permission by his father on account of Sam being too young to manage on his own. It was an act of rebellion that made Sam apply to the newly established Indian Military Academy in Dehradun and was among the 40 cadets to be selected in the first ever batch. This was in the year 1932. Two years later, in 1934, Sam passed out from IMA and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, first to the Royal Scots and later to the Frontier Force Regiment under the British Indian Army. What started as an act of rebellion was soon to turn into many acts of valor that would consume the life out of nation's enemies.
Immediately after passing out of IMA in 1934, Sam Manekshaw was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the British Indian Army. This marked the beginning of his selfless service towards his country. He was first attached to the 2nd Bn The Royal Scots and later to the 4/12 Frontier Force Regiment. It was under this regiment that he was made the company commander of the battalion that fought the famous battle against the Japanese in Myanmar and won. It was this very battle that earned Manekshaw a Military Cross, a recognition that's granted in acknowledgment of "an act or acts of exemplary gallantry during the active operations against the enemy on land to all members, of any rank in the armed forces". After partition, the 4/12 Frontier Force Regiment became a part of the Pakistan army so Manekshaw was transferred to 8th Gurkha Rifles.
The temperament and perspicacity with which Manekshaw handled the planning and administrative issues that had crept up after the country's partition, was remarkable. Shortly after when Pakistan invaded Kashmir; he was made the colonel in charge. The success of the operations of 1947-48 is largely attributed to him for he showed exceptional strategic and battle skills during the military operations. Later in 1962, when India had suffered a defeat in NEFA at the hands of the Chinese, Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru asked Manekshaw to command the retreating Indian forces. The soldiers too, showed immense faith in their commander and successfully checked further intrusion by the Chinese. In the Indo-Pak war of 1965, Manekshaw was made the Company Commander of the eastern command and successfully led India to victory. He, then, went on to become the 8th Chief of Army Staff, succeeding General Kumaramangalam, on June 7, 1969.
The second Indo-Pak war of 1971 again saw the strategic brilliance of Sam into action as he was right in the middle of it all. It is said that there was a difference of opinion between the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Manekshaw as to what should be the timing of the military action and that the latter offered to resign from the post if his plans were not accepted. Indira Gandhi accepted his plans and the result was evident in 93, 000 Pakistani soldiers that were made to surrender in a short span of just 14 days. India had won the war, making it one of the fastest military victories in the history of Indian Military. After four decades of selfless riveted service to the Indian Military and the country itself, Sam Manekshaw retired on 15th June 1973, but not before he was made the first ever Field Marshal.
High Commands & Honors
Upon earning Military Cross and regaining health after the 1942's battle against the Japanese in Myanmar, where he got severely wounded; Sam went for a course at the Staff College in Quetta, where he also served as the instructor till he was called to join his 12 Frontier Force Rifles. Towards the end of World War II, he was also made the Staff Officer to General Daisy in Indo-China and helped rehabilitate 10000 Prisoner of Wars; after which he went to a 6 months long lecturing tour to Australia, in 1946. During the 1947-48 operations in Jammu & Kashmir, he was made the Commandant of the Infantry School and was also made the Colonel of the 8 Gurkha Rifles (his new regimental home) and 61 cavalry. He was honored with a Padma Bhushan in 1968 after handling successfully handling the insurgent situation in Nagaland. In 1972, he was awarded with a Padma Vibhushan for his immaculate strategic skills and contribution towards successfully winning the 1971's Indo-Pak war. And finally on 1st January 1973, Manekshaw was awarded the prestigious rank of Field Marshal. Following his retirement from the service, he successfully served as a Board of Director and Chairman for various companies.
During his later part of his life, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw settled down with his wife in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. At the age of 94, he died of complications from pneumonia at the Military Hospital in Wellington, Tamil Nadu. He is survived by his two daughters, Sherry and Maya, and three grandchildren.
1914: Sam Manekshaw was born.
1932: Became one of the 40 cadets to be selected in the first ever batch of Indian Military Academy (IMA).
1934: Passed out of IMA and was made Second Lieutenant in the British Indian Army.
1935: Became Lieutenant.
1939: Got married to Silloo Bode.
1940: Became Captain.
1942: Received Military Cross for his Gallantry.
1943: Became Major.
1945: Became Lieutenant-Colonel.
1946: Became Colonel.
1947: Became Brigadier. Was also the Colonel-in-Charge of the operations when Pakistan invaded Kashmir.
1950: Became Brigadier in the Indian Army.
1957: Became Major General.
1963: Became Lieutenant General.
1965: Became Commander of the Eastern Command during the Indo-Pak war.
1968: Received Padma Bhushan Award.
1969: Became General.
1971: Steered India to victory during the second Indo-Pak war.
1972: Received Padma Vibhushan award.
1973: Became Field Marshal.
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Construction of a new zero-discharge wastewater treatment plantconsisting of three separate 12-acre geosynthetic lined evaporation ponds and gas venting system to replace Hugo’s existing wastewater treatment facilities.
Good communication between installer, general contractor, engineer, and material suppliers was critical to be able to complete this project when the raw materials supply chain was stressed by the pandemic. When the approved manufacturer was not able to acquire resin fast enough to manufacture the specified geomembrane and with construction of the ponds already underway, the project management team went back to the drawing board. Meeting all required properties, Raven’s N45B, a scrim reinforced Linear Low-Density Polyethylene (LLDPE-R) geomembrane was selected as an alternate to the specified 45 mil Reinforced Polypropylene (fPP-R) geomembrane. Once approved, the installer coordinated with the fabricator to prioritize which panels were needed to begin the installation. And only 14 days after material approval, the first set of trucks carrying the fabricated panels arrived on site. These trucks were quickly followed with just-in-time delivery of the other factory fabricated panels needed through completion of the other two containment ponds during the project.
One important design feature is the sand ballasting used across the floor of each pond. The native soil excavated during construction of the ponds was stockpiled and once final inspection and sign off of each pond was complete, the excavated sand was placed directly on top of the 45 mil LLDPE-R geomembrane as ballast and protective cover. This ballast/soil cover operation required extreme care to protect the integrity of the geomembrane because only six inches of soil cover was specified. Three-foot thick haul roads were constructed on the geomembrane to transport material inside the ponds. The soil cover sand was placed using GPS equipped Low Ground Pressure (LGP) equipment to precisely place the sand ballast and obtain the needed thickness. Constant monitoring of the soil cover operation and wrinkle management precautions were implemented to minimize damage and stress to the geomembrane and other geosynthetics. During installation of the 36 acres of geosynthetics the installer performed 53 liner repairs. After backfilling and ballast/ cover soil operations were complete an additional 88 repairs were needed and performed by the installer over two return visits.
Follow-up visit to the site revealed how post-installation weather can also have an effect or pose challenges. In this case it was observed that the sand cover across the pond floor was displaced by heavy winds. Leaving the liner uncovered in one area, and drifted sand in other. Further displacement of the cover material was mitigated by adding fluid to the dry cells to keep the ballast in place.
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Did you recently sell your house? Have you made money in the stock market? Are you accruing interest in your savings account?
If so, you may owe capital gains taxes. The capital gains tax is a percentage of earnings that you pay to the federal government. And, it’s required for anyone who’s making money off of their assets.
The terms and conditions surround the capital gains tax can be confusing, but we’re here to break everything down. Just keep reading to learn more.
What Is Capital Gains Tax?
A capital gains tax is a required payment to the government. It taxes the financial growth that investors get from selling their investments.
It’s important to note that these taxes only apply to realized capital gains. This means that you only owe money on the sale of the assets once the sale is final. So, you do not have to pay capital gains taxes on the property even if you own the property at the end of the year.
This applies to stocks, too. No matter how long you hold your stocks, you will not owe any taxes on the appreciation until you sell them.
Short-Term vs Long-Term Capital Gains
The capital gains tax in the United States only applies to profits that you make on assets that you hold for more than a year. Those profits that you make after holding onto an asset for more than a year are long-term capital gains.
On the other hand, there are short-term capital gains. These are the profits that you make on assets that you own for less than a year.
Depending on your tax bracket, your long-term capital gains will be worth a 0%, 15%, or 20% tax on the profits. Your short-term capital gains will have the same taxation as your regular income.
Capital losses are the amount of money that you lose by investing in these kinds of things. The good thing about your losses is that they can offset your gains.
So, your amount of taxable gains lowers. Thus, you’ll pay less in taxes.
The amount of your long-term capital gains minus your capital losses is your net capital gain. This is the total number of your capital gains that are taxable.
Since your capital losses offset your capital gains, it’s not necessarily a bad thing to have capital losses. It may sound like you’re losing money, but – as long as your net capital gain is positive – you’ve made money.
What Is the Capital Gains Tax Rate for 2021?
As we said, short-term capital gains and long-term capital gains get taxed separately. Your short-term capital gains become a part of your regular income, while your long-term capital gains follow the regular capital gains tax.
Taxation on Short-Term Capital Gains
All of this means that your short-term capital gains have the same tax rate as your ordinary income. However, if your short-term capital gains push you into a higher tax bracket, you will have the higher tax rate associated with that higher tax bracket.
In other words, the total of your ordinary income and your short-term capital gains follow the regular tax brackets and tax rates. This could mean that you have the same tax rate or a higher tax rate, depending on which bracket you end up in.
The same rules apply to any dividends that your assets pay. These aren’t technically capital gains, but they do represent a part of the profit that you can make from these kinds of investments.
In the United States, these dividends have taxation at the rate of ordinary income. However, only those who belong to the 15% tax bracket or higher pay taxes on their dividends.
Taxation on Long-Term Capital Gains
Since long-term capital gains have a different taxation rate, there is another set of rates to consider.
If you’re filing single, these are the rates that you should follow:
- 0% on capital gains up to $40,400
- 15% on capital gains from $40,401 to $445,850
- 20% on capital gains over $445,850
If you’re filing as the head of household, follow these rates:
- 0% on capital gains up to $54,100
- 15% on capital gains from $54,101 to $473,750
- 20% on capital gains over $473,750
If you’re filing jointly as a married couple or a surviving spouse, you should follow these rates:
- 0% on capital gains up to $80,800
- 15% on capital gains from $80,801 to $501,600
- 20% on capital gains over $501,600
If you’re filing separately as a married couple, follow these rates:
- 0% on capital gains up to $40,400
- 15% on capital gains from $40,401 to $250,800
- 20% on capital gains over $250,800
All of these tax rates are consistent with the fact that capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than individual income.
Are There Any Exceptions to the Capital Gains Tax?
There are a few exceptions when it comes to the capital gains tax rate of some investments, like the following:
- Owner-Occupied real estate
- Investment real estate
- Investment exceptions
Each one of these categories has its own rules for taxation.
Collectibles include items like art, jewelry, antiques, precious metals, stamp collections, and similar items. These kinds of things have a taxation rate of 28%, no matter what your income is.
So, even if you’re in a lower tax bracket, you still have to pay a 28% tax. And, those who are in a higher tax bracket won’t have to pay more than 28%.
Owner-Occupied Real Estate
Real estate capital gains are different if you’re selling the residence that you’re primarily living in.
If you’re filing independently, $250,000 of the capital gains on the property that you’re selling are excluded from the taxation. This means that you should take the amount that you made on the property and subtract it by $250,000, the remaining amount is the amount that becomes taxed.
If you’re filing jointly, $500,000 of the capital gains on the property that you’re selling are excluded from taxation. Similar to the independent example, you should subtract your total capital gains on the sale of the property by $500,000. The remaining amount is the amount that’s taxed.
These rules apply as long as the seller has lived in the property for two years or more.
The downside to this rule is that any capital losses are not deductible. So, if subtracting the capital gains by the offset is negative, there are no deductions.
In most cases, you can count significant repairs and upgrades to the total value of your home. Since this increases the value of the home, this decreases the amount of capital gains tax that you have to pay.
Investment Real Estate
Investors who own real estate can take depreciation deductions against their capital gains. This amount reflects any deterioration over time of the properties that they own. Keep in mind that the deterioration of the home’s condition is completely separate from the appreciation of the property that is tied to the real estate market.
The deduction that real estate investors get increases the amount of capital gains tax that they have to pay. This is because it increases the gap between the property’s value after deductions and its sale price.
There is another type of tax to consider: the net investment income tax. This applies if your investment income is relatively high.
The net investment income tax imposes an extra 3% of taxation on your net investment income. This includes the number of capital gains that you have if your modified adjusted gross income is above a certain amount. Keep in mind that your modified adjusted gross income is different than your taxable income.
These are the thresholds for the modified adjusted gross income:
- $250,000 if you’re filing jointly as a married couple or as a surviving spouse
- $200,000 if you’re filing as single or head of household
- $125,000 if you’re filing separately as a married couple
If you’re a real estate investor who is nearing retirement, you should plan out your profits very carefully. You want to make sure that you’re not selling all of your assets at once to ensure that you’re not raising your capital gains tax unnecessarily.
Will the Capital Gains Tax Change?
As Suzanne Clark reports, President Biden is proposing to raise the capital gains tax. However, this is only going to affect those who are earning more than one million dollars in long-term capital gains. He is proposing to raise this taxation rate to 39.6%.
This tax adds to the existing 3.8% investment surtax that the government places on high-income investors. This means that the total tax rate could be 43.4%, not counting state taxes.
Where Can I Learn More About Capital Gains Tax?
Understanding the capital gains tax is essential for anyone who is planning on pursuing or actively pursuing investing. It’s important to plan out your capital gains and capital losses to ensure that you’re getting the best taxation rate possible each year.
To do this, you should work with an accountant to get your best options.
While you’re navigating the world of capital gains, you should be sure to check in with our blog frequently. We share tons of information about capital gains tax and other important financial terms.
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“I know it is stupid to expect a miracle at 18, but that’s all I can do. I try, every half an hour to go up to her and call her by her name. When she still does not respond, it breaks me, but I keep trying. I know she will open her eyes and smile at me. I know she will call me ‘Dada’ again,” Shraboni’s brother Amin feels heart-broken to see his 10-year-old sister battle between life and death every living moment.Shraboni’s father is a farmer.
He works on the fields on wages. Her brother Amin helps him add a few hundreds more to the family income. The occupation being seasonal, their income is irregular and unreliable. Despite these limitations, the family stayed happy in the little they had.
At 10, Shraboni is a bright, cheerful 5th grader. Curious and delightful, she loved going to school and enjoyed singing. In fact, her music teacher teaches her free of cost owing to her beautiful voice. Amin stopped studying after his 10th standard so that little Shraboni could complete her education.
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The short answer to this question is “no.”
But you might be forgiven for thinking otherwise had you read this February 1, 2012 BGov article, “Federal Union Workers Get 5.7% Raise in Freeze.” BGov took an interesting data find from a Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report and turned it into something bigger.
To understand what went awry here, one first must get a few basic facts straight about federal employees and their pay.
(1) Most federal civilian employees are paid based upon the government-wide General Schedule. The wages set in the General Schedule have not changed since January 2010. Agencies follow the general schedule when they pay their employees. (That’s the law.).
(2) With few exceptions (e.g. postal workers), most federal civil servants do not bargain for their wages. As point (1) notes, federal wages are set by the General Schedule, which is decided by Congress and the President.
(3) Federal employees earn pay raises either through earning promotions (from one General Schedule—or GS—level to the next) or by earning “step” increases due to time spent in their jobs. (Each GS level has ten steps, and it takes 18 years to go from step 1 to step 10 within a GS pay level.)
So, with these facts in mind, let us return to the BGov article.
Most plainly, for the article to frame the topic as a matter of “union federal employees” injects a red herring. Whether a federal employee belongs to a union or not he is paid according to the GS scale. So unionism did not produce the 5.7% increase in median federal wage in 2011. Indeed, federal unions were rebuffed by Congress and the President this past year when they sought an increase in the GS wages.
So, assuming the BLS study is correct, the question becomes, “How could the federal median federal wage go up 5.7% when the GS scale of wages was not increased?”
Rather than plumb this tricky question, regrettably the BGov article takes the lazy route. It turns to Professor Gary Chaison, who tells BGov that federal agencies have the discretion to move money around and give their people pay raises. Chaison reportedly also says the government’s failure to pass a budget last year makes it difficult to track agency wage outlays. Put this all together and the picture is this: the rise in median federal wages has been produced by wily, unionized federal agencies who furtively dodge the wage cap and use their own authority to raise employees’ pay.
I can only hope that Professor Chaison was misquoted because this hypothesis is absolutely batty. Here is why.
(1) Federal agencies cannot just shift money around to free up cash to give their employees raises. Again, wages are set by the General Schedule. If, say, a civil servant is a GS-9 step 2 in 2010, well, come 2011 his additional year of federal service will entitle him to get a step increase to GS-9, step 3 (unless his superiors grade his work as bad and deny his step increase). This is how it the GS system works, and agencies are obliged to allocate the money to pay this employee his increased wage. This is very different from Chaison’s picture of an agency deciding to “move money” in order to hand out raises.
(2) Whether the Congress passes a budget or whether the federal government was funded via continuing appropriations has absolutely nothing to do with the visibility of agency outlays for wages. Zero. There’s no nexus. If Congress or the President want to know what agencies are spending on wages they can consult the Office of Personnel Management, which keeps this data.
(3) The BGov article is predicated on the conflation of two different policies: not increasing the GS scale wages vs. freezing the wages of each federal employee. Congress and the President chose the former course, not the latter, which would prohibit any federal employee from getting promoted from one GS level to another or from moving from one step to the next.
(4) The article unfortunately treats an increase in median federal wages as a raise for federal employees generally—that is both a fallacy, and it misconstrues the nature of a median. To understand how one need only look at a hypothetical example. Suppose an agency has five employees earning $20k, $30k, $40k, $50k, and $60k. The median would be $40k. Now suppose the employee earning $20k retires. The median would rise to $45k, despite nobody getting an increase in pay. Or, to take another example, one could take the same five employees—earning $20k, $30k, $40k, $50k, $60k)—and then assume the employee earning $40k get promoted and have his pay increased to $50k. This would shift the median to $50k, despite only one of the five employees having his pay lifted. (Anyone needing a refresher on how the median is calculated should play with this calculator.)
So, BGov pulled a boner with this piece.
Nevertheless, the question lingers—why did the BLS report show median federal wages grow 5.7% from 2010 to 2011?
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You can tell a lot about your mental slopes when you find skis rapidly in this tropical optical illusion.
Winter athletic gear is hidden under the surface of a busy, beachy scene with red lounge chairs, palm trees, umbrellas, dolphins and an airplane.
According to The Sun, you will become a "record holder" if you find the skis in 28 seconds or less.
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You're havingl illusions like this one are a fun diversion but also can hold scientific value for medical professionals.You're havingan help researchers shed light on the inner machinations of the human mind — as well as how it reacts to its surroundings.
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What distinguishes Android devices from their iOS peers is their openness. If you find the manufacturer’s firmware imperfect, you can easily replace it. You can not only customize your device but also install a fresh OS on old gadgets which producers no longer support.
What Android Firmware Includes?
In the beginning, this term firmware only applied to small programs in the ROM (read-only memory) of a device. This firmware was mission-critical, and it was almost impossible to modify without access to very special professional tools.
With Androids, the situation is very different. The firmware includes the whole operating system. It is often called Android ROM, as users may not straightly write to it. Then how could custom firmware Android work, you may ask? The storage location is NAND flash memory, which is writable and is also utilized for CS cards and memory sticks. Hence, it is a simple habit to use this term.
There are three default components installed by manufacturers:
1. Build of the OS
Build is the only component generated from the open-source code. This means that the code for the user interface, kernel, key apps, libraries, and other parts of the system, is freely available. Hence, it is also the only element that users can modify and extend. Such flexibility enables companies to offer customized OS distributions. They are known as “custom firmware” or “custom ROMs”.
It is possible to create Android from source and then flash it onto whatever gadget is compatible. Usually, one may share a build as a ZIP file. The other two components are supplementary closed source programs, which may not be normally replaced. Whenever users talk about flashing a new ROM, they refer to the build.
This is a tiny bit of proprietary code. Its main function is to start the OS whenever an Android gadget is working. Additionally, it has to check system authenticity. If it is, only the manufacturer can sign the boot partition via a unique OEM key.
3. Radio Firmware
This part enables you to use all the wireless networks from 2G to 5G. In essence, it is a second OS. But it works independently on a so-called baseband processor. Most popular types are produced by Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Spreadtrum. Normally, this will be a real-time OS. The communication between the two systems occurs via callbacks and sockets.
Reasons to Install the Custom Firmware
Remove Preinstalled Software
You have finally received your brand new phone. Playing enough with its programs, you understand that it would be better if they did not exist at all. Most often, producers are completing a soft set of devices, focusing not on the feasibility and quality but purely on financial profit. In addition, these programs are part of the system and are hard to delete. As a result, one gets a device stuffed with frank rubbish that ruins the impression.
Getting Additional Features and System Settings
Many firmware has a look and feature set that is so different from the original Android. We can already speak boldly about independent operating systems. First of all, we are talking about such popular Chinese projects as MIUI, Lewa, and Oppo. They are developing at a gigantic pace. After trying these oriental developments at least once, you will look at the Android with undisguised regret.
There is other firmware such as AOKP which is based on Android. It gives such a space in the settings and customization options that owners of ordinary smartphones haven’t dreamed of.
This may sound strange but the firmware created by the free community can be safer than a Google product. If you wish, you can completely get rid of the all-seeing eye of this company in them. Just replace all their services and applications with third-party developments. Therefore, you receive “Android without Google”, as strange as it may sound.
Refuse of Standard Appearance
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Interview Like a Pro Part Three: Nail the Details – Specific Clinical Questions to Be Prepared For and to Ask
Editor’s Note: This post is part three of a four-part interview guide for speech-language pathologists, school psychologists, occupational therapists and physical therapists. To read the rest of this guide, visit our Interview Like a Pro – The Pediatric Therapy Clinician’s Guide landing page.
There is a wide range of the types of clinical questions that you might get asked during an interview. Specifics will depend, of course, on the setting for which you interview, the ages and diagnoses of the children you will be treating in the position, the amount of independence you will be expected to have in the job, and whether or not you will be expected to be fluent with new technology. The following list of questions are a “good start” to help you begin thinking about the types of questions you should be prepared to answer.
OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS
- For experienced therapists: If this job was a “ball of clay” what would you make or create? (in other words what would your ideal clinic/department look like – what programs/groups would you create, etc…)
- For CFYs and New Grads: In your work or professional life, where do you shine the brightest?
- How do you handle interruptions or changes to your daily schedule? Give me an example?
- What did you like the least/most about your last position? Why?
- Describe a significant challenge you faced in your professional life and how you over came the obstacles to accomplish it anyway?
QUESTIONS ON TESTING AND ASSESSMENT
- What tests/assessments do you have experience with?
- How will you handle a situation when a standardized assessment doesn’t go as planned?
- What alternatives to standardized assessments are there that you like or have used?
- How have you adapted testing situations when a child cannot be tested with a “standardized” instrument?
- What testing materials have you used? Do you recognize these (you may be shown some they use there)?
- What is your confidence level with informal assessments/procedures – such as language sampling?
- How knowledgeable are you about standard childhood benchmarks/milestones?
- How confident are you in judging whether a child has met or will meet development milestones for those children that cannot participate in standardized assessments?
- What would you / do you do if you suspect abuse in the child’s home?
QUESTIONS ABOUT TREATMENT EXPERIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
- What treatment models do you have experience with? (for example, behavior analysis for children with autism spectrum disorders, developmental relational model, etc)?
- What specific disorders have you had experience with?
- Are there populations or specific disorders you are uncomfortable with? If so, which ones? Why?
- Are you comfortable working with adolescents and/or children who are bigger than you?
- Are you more confident with early childhood development type cases (early childhood) or language learning disabilities (school-age)?
- Do you have experience treating children with Traumatic Brain Injuries?
- What Behavioral Management skills do you have?
- Are you more likely to verbally prompt children, touch or both – to redirect them? (Interviewers here are looking here to make sure candidate is not a “restrainer.”)
- What are your play skills? (Interviewers are trying to gauge if you get down on the floor – among other things – or not)
- What toys do you like to use most with the little ones?
- Are there particular tools you use frequently, and that are your favorites?
- What is your experience with technology in therapy (iPads, AAC devices, etc?)
- How do you mediate situations?
- How are your messages received by others? Can you switch gears when your audience is ‘not responding’?
QUESTIONS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, RECORD KEEPING AND DATA COLLECTION
- Do you use graphic organizers?
- What technology tools have you used for record keeping? Do you use Google Docs, Evernote, other?
- How frequently do you collect data on specific children and what system do you use?
- How comfortable are you with sharing data measurable progress with parents and teaching colleagues – in meetings, etc?
- Tell me about your writing skills (You may be asked to show/provide a sample)
- Tell me about your experience with online/distance treatment/therapy
It’s always a good idea to be prepared to ask a few questions at the end of the interview. Make sure you allow the interviewer to ask all their questions and complete their process, before you ask your questions. By not interrupting the interviewer, you are showcasing your listening skills and emphasizing your interest in what they have to say. Here are some questions for you to ask:
QUESTIONS FOR YOU TO ASK
- What are the responsibilities of this job? (perhaps ask for a written job description)
- Size – the number of students or clients served, number of schools, number of administrators or managers
- Will I have access to other professionals in the department?
- What is the chain of command for this position?
- For CFYs/New Grads: Will my supervisor be regularly available to me?
- What are your HIPPAA guidelines? (first names only on folders, double locks anywhere files are kept, etc.)
- What are your insurance credentials? How long does it take to get things approved, etc.
- Will I have Case Management responsibilities?
- Recent awards and honors the district or organization has received
- Why are you hiring? Why did the last person leave?
- Tell me about the rest of your team.
- Reputation – How is this district or employer perceived in the city/town compared to others?
- What hours am I expected to be there?
- Do you co-treat? Do you have shared planning time for certain children?
- In schools: What are safety drill procedures? Do you have regular practice lockdowns?
- What is caseload size/makeup/age grade, diagnoses of kids? What are the economic, geographic, cultural and socioeconomic factors for the families that you will be serving? If the employer is a school district, is it growing or shrinking?
- Do I get same planning time for all cases, or do I get more time for more involved kids?
- What is the expected dress code for this particular setting?
- What types of therapy materials are provided?
- Is there a budget for purchasing new/updated therapy and assessment materials?
- What will my work space consist of?
- Am I responsible for tracking my own PD hours? (Apparently some places have people who track them for clinicians)
- Will I be expected to supervise other clinicians/assistants/para-
- How is data recorded and reported? What are the expectations in terms of paperwork?
- Are there support staff available? What reports / paperwork am I responsible for and what might support staff help with?
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If you’re a fan of anchovies, you’re probably wondering how long your canned anchovies in oil will last. The good news is that canned anchovies can last for years, as long as they’re stored properly. The key to storing anchovies is to keep them in a cool, dark place.
Anchovies are also a salt-cured fish, so they don’t need to be refrigerated.
Canned anchovies in oil can last for a long time if stored properly. If stored in a cool, dark place, they can last for up to 2 years. If stored in a fridge, they can last for up to 4 years.
I try anchovies for the first time
Can anchovies in oil go bad?
Anchovies are a small, oily, salt-cured fish that are often used as a flavoring agent in dishes. Because of their high fat content, anchovies can go bad relatively quickly if they are not stored properly.
To extend the shelf life of anchovies in oil, it is best to keep them refrigerated.
Unopened jars of anchovies in oil can last for up to 2 years when stored in the fridge. Once opened, however, the anchovies should be consumed within 1-2 months. If you notice that your anchovies in oil have developed an off odor or flavor, it is best to discard them as they have most likely gone bad.
Can you eat out of date canned anchovies?
Yes, you can eat out of date canned anchovies. However, it is important to note that the quality of the anchovies will decrease over time. Additionally, canned anchovies that have been stored for a long period of time may develop an off-flavor.
How long do white anchovies in oil last?
White anchovies in oil will last for about two to three years when stored in a cool, dark place. The oil will help to preserve the anchovies and prevent them from drying out. Once opened, they should be consumed within a few months.
Can you get botulism from anchovies?
Yes, you can get botulism from eating anchovies. Botulism is a serious illness caused by a toxin that paralyzes your muscles. The toxin is produced by a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum, and it can be found in soil and on the bottom of the ocean.
Anchovies are often contaminated with this bacterium, and when you eat them, the toxin can enter your body and cause illness. Symptoms of botulism include weakness, paralysis, and difficulty breathing. If you think you may have botulism, seek medical attention immediately, as it can be fatal.
How to store anchovies in oil after opening
Anchovies are a delicious and versatile ingredient that can be used in a variety of dishes. However, they can also be a bit of a pain to deal with because of their small size and tendency to spoil quickly. If you’re not careful, your anchovies can go bad in just a few days.
The best way to store anchovies is in oil. This will help to keep them fresh and prevent them from drying out. Once you’ve opened a can or jar of anchovies, transfer them to a clean, airtight container.
Fill the container with enough olive oil to completely cover the anchovies. Then, store the container in the fridge. When you’re ready to use the anchovies, simply remove them from the oil and give them a quick rinse.
They’ll be good as new and ready to add to your favorite recipe.
Do canned anchovies need to be refrigerated
If you’re like most people, you probably have a few cans of anchovies in your pantry, and you’re not quite sure what to do with them. Do you need to refrigerate them? Can you eat them straight out of the can?
Here’s what you need to know about canned anchovies: they do not need to be refrigerated. In fact, it’s best to keep them in a cool, dark place like your pantry. Canned anchovies will last for two to three years without being refrigerated.
Of course, you can refrigerate them if you want, but it’s not necessary. Once you open a can of anchovies, you can keep them in the fridge for up to a week. Just be sure to keep them in a covered container so they don’t dry out.
If you’re not sure how to use anchovies, they’re actually quite versatile. You can add them to salads, pasta dishes, pizzas, and more. Or, you can simply eat them straight out of the can as a snack.
No matter how you eat them, canned anchovies are a delicious and easy way to add some flavor to your food.
How long do cooked anchovies last
If you’re like most people, you probably have a few cans of anchovies in your pantry. But how long do cooked anchovies last?
Here’s the scoop: Cooked anchovies will last for about 3-4 days in the fridge.
After that, they start to lose their flavor and texture. If you’re not planning on eating them within a few days, you can freeze them for longer storage. When it comes to cooked anchovies, the key is to eat them while they’re still fresh.
Once they start to lose their flavor, they’re not worth eating. So, if you have a can of anchovies that’s been sitting in your pantry for a while, it’s best to just toss it out. If you’re looking for a tasty way to use up your cooked anchovies, try them in a pasta dish or on a pizza.
They’re also great in a salad or as a topping for grilled fish or chicken. However you eat them, just make sure you enjoy them while they’re at their best.
How long do anchovies in oil last in the fridge
If you have a jar of anchovies in oil that has been properly sealed, it can last in the fridge for up to a year. However, once you open the jar, the anchovies will only last for a few weeks. If you are not sure if your anchovies are still good, you can check for signs of spoilage, such as a bad smell or mold.
How to tell if anchovies in oil are bad
If you’re not sure whether your anchovies in oil have gone bad, there are a few things you can look for. First, check the expiration date on the package. If it’s past the date, the anchovies are probably not safe to eat.
Next, take a look at the color of the anchovies. If they’re darker than usual, that’s another sign that they’re not fresh. Finally, give them a smell.
If they smell fishy or off, it’s best to throw them out.
Storing anchovies after opening
If you’re one of those people who loves the salty, savory flavor of anchovies, you’re probably wondering how to store them once you’ve opened the can. The good news is, anchovies are actually pretty easy to store! Here are a few tips:
First, make sure you’re using a clean, airtight container. This will help keep the anchovies fresh and prevent them from drying out. Next, if you’re not planning on using all of the anchovies right away, you can store them in the fridge.
Just make sure to put them in a container with some ice so they don’t get too warm. Finally, if you want to keep your anchovies for a really long time, you can store them in the freezer. Just make sure to wrap them tightly so they don’t get freezer burn.
With these storage tips, you can enjoy your anchovies for weeks to come!
What to do with anchovies
Anchovies are a type of small, oily fish that are often used as a flavoring agent in many recipes. While they may not be the most popular fish around, anchovies can actually be quite versatile and add a lot of flavor to many dishes.
If you’re not a fan of eating anchovies on their own, there are plenty of ways to use them in cooking.
One popular way is to use them as a pizza topping. Anchovies can also be used in pasta dishes, salads, and even as a component of a homemade Caesar dressing. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can even try your hand at making your own anchovy-based sauce.
This umami-packed sauce can be used on everything from grilled meats to roasted vegetables. Whether you love them or hate them, there’s no denying that anchovies are a unique and flavorful ingredient that can add a lot to your cooking. So next time you’re in the mood for something different, don’t be afraid to give them a try.
Do anchovies go bad
It’s a common question – do anchovies go bad? The answer is both yes and no. Technically, anchovies are cured and thus will not spoil in the traditional sense.
However, over time the quality of the fish will degrade, and they will become increasingly salty and strong-tasting. If you’ve ever eaten an anchovy that was too old, you’ll know exactly what we mean! For the best flavor, we recommend using anchovies within one year of purchase.
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[EDITORIALS]Not So Fast on Choson DocumentsSouth Korea and France held a fourth round of negotiations on the return of Choson Dynasty historical documents kept in Paris. Korean scholars are now examining the 297 books held in France to get a better appreciation for their historical and artistic value. The two countries also reportedly agreed that they would first exchange books which the other does not have. That principle had been agreed in principle by the heads of the negotiating teams.
It is welcome, although belated, for the National Library of France to allow Korean scholars to peruse the French-held books inside the library. Our experts should study the archives that French soldiers confiscated in 1866.
The tentative agreement says that exchanges of artifacts between the two countries will begin with the dispatch to Korea of books in the French archives in which Korea is particularly interested because no duplicate copies exist here. Korea will in return, send to France books of the same period (1630-1857) that Korea has duplicate copies of but the French do not. Also to be exchanged, according to the agreement, are Korean royal publications now in France for books in Korea which were produced for commoners.
The negotiations' principle is that we must send similar artifacts for the return of our own pillaged cultural relics. That, to some people, is no more than a justification of the original looting, but realists contend that this is the only way to solve the problem. From the beginning of the dispute in 1993, they say, the government treated the temporary mutual exchange of books as if it were a return in the form of a permanent loan.
Both the realistic and the principled arguments make sense, but we would like to ask if there is an urgent reason to reach an agreement if the root principle of ill-gotten gains is not addressed. It may be better to leave the issue open; even if the two governments reach a "realistic" agreement, royal archivists at Seoul National University and librarians at the Academy of Korean Studies are adamantly opposed to the swap. Another strategy might emerge once the French archives are thoroughly examined. We hope the government will not take hasty measures it will later regret. | <urn:uuid:ca1bcf85-1f02-41c2-a3e1-a3f1e90bdedd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2003/01/05/editorials/EDITORIALSNot-So-Fast-on-Choson-Documents/1892744.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.960688 | 445 | 2.34375 | 2 |
For almost a year, Farm Laws in the northern region of the nation have been opposing three regulations.
Modi has urged farmers to call a halt to their demonstrations.
In a Friday speech to the country, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repeal of three contentious agriculture regulations.
For more than a year, farmers in the country's north have been opposing these three rules.
This is an ongoing narrative.
PM Modi stated that they had not been able to persuade farmers, and that only a small percentage of farmers were opposed to the rules, but that they continued to educate and enlighten them.
New Delhi, India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that three unpopular agriculture regulations that have sparked enormous farmer demonstrations throughout the country will be repealed, just days before important state elections.
The statement was made during the Guru Purab festival, which commemorates the birthday of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism.
“Perhaps something was missing in our Tapasya, which is why we were unable to persuade some farmers to follow the regulations. But today is Prakash Parv, and it's not the time to point fingers. I'd like to inform the people today that we've decided to abolish the three agriculture laws “In a speech to the nation, Prime Minister Modi remarked.
Whatever I did was for farmers. What I am doing is for the country.”
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan have been camping outside Delhi since November 2020, demanding that the laws be withdrawn.
Everything I did was for the benefit of farmers. “What I'm doing is for the good of the country.”
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By Carla Calhoun
The day was sunny and warm with high winds. The streets leading to the boulevard were blocked off for the parade led by the Cleveland Mayor, the honorable Justin Bibb.
The Cleveland Observer (TCO) had the opportunity to host a vendor table at the African American Cultural Gardens (AACG) Juneteenth celebration. TCO provided sports balls, candy, hand sanitizer, wrist bands, and informational pamphlets for the senior population.
At the foot of the beautiful African American monument was a mock stage with a musical band, a drum circle, and African storytellers dressed in colorful African attire. Chairs were lined in rows for viewers who were excitedly anticipating the start of the program.
Children’s activities were across the street from the monument, and care was provided with games and giveaways hosted by AACG member Earnestine Baker.
The speaker asked for permission from an elder to begin the program, and homage was then made to past elders while onlookers called out various deceased relatives.
Mayor Bibb arrived and was happily received by the viewers. During Mayor Bibb’s speech, he stated, ”Although we are free, we still have a lot of work to do across this city, across this state, and across this country. This concept of freedom is not a binary thing; not something you turn on and off. It’s something you have to fight for, engage in, something you have to live every single day for.” Bibb went on to say, “so my call to action for all of you this weekend is what are you going to do to make sure the promise of freedom for black people is not just Juneteenth, not just Black history month, but 365 days out of the year? This garden is important for young people because you can’t know where you are going if you don’t know where you’ve been.”
Throughout the gardens were various vendors selling jewelry, African artifacts, and books. They also were providing information and recruiting volunteers for their programs.
One such group was the Extended Family Organization, which is a non-profit that provides a variety of activities for youth. The Extended Family Traveling Underground Quilt was on display, and a member shared the history of the Underground Railroad with on-lookers.
At the cultural gardens’ Peace Plaza, youth participated in a talent show displaying singing, creative dance, and a cheering squad. The talent show was sponsored by the Cleveland Cavaliers and all the participants received a monetary gift. Additionally, Frank Ross, the author of the book “The Grand March, The Spirit of African-Americans,” spoke. He shared that the African American Folk dance is cultural, spiritual, and social. Ross then had a crowd of about 50 viewers participate in the grand march.
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On September 17th, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the current partnership between the Departments of Defense and Energy concerning the U.S. nuclear deterrent. While the three Administration witnesses are highly professional public servants and have labored mightily to ensure the U.S. has the nuclear capabilities it needs in an increasingly dangerous and uncertain world; what the witnesses did not address is the 800 kiloton elephant in the room: the 20 year experiment to create a semi-autonomous nuclear weapons production complex within the Department of Energy (DoE). The U.S. is at a critical moment in the recapitalization of its deterrent, and adversaries (including Russia and China) are in the midst of a nuclear arms race. Time is of the essence to throw out this failed arrangement in favor of a new, fully independent cabinet department.
Since the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was dissolved in 1975, management of the nuclear weapons stockpile has, effectively, been entrusted to the Department of Energy (DoE). The decades that followed were marked by failures, waste, and even highly damaging espionage by nations like the People’s Republic of China. So, finally, 20 years ago this month, the House and the Senate passed legislation, on a veto-proof margin, to stand up a semi-autonomous agency – the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) – to manage the nation’s nuclear stockpile, nuclear nonproliferation programs, and naval nuclear reactors. At the 20-year point, it is entirely appropriate to consider whether this half measure worked, and, if not, is now the time for a more radical change?
There has long been an awkward “blended family” arrangement to manage the U.S. nuclear deterrent: the Department of Defense (DoD), a civilian-run agency, sets the requirement for how many nuclear weapons of what types the nation needs to satisfy the President’s nuclear weapons guidance, but it leaves the actual production of the nuclear weapons to another civilian-run agency: the Energy Department’s NNSA.
DoD develops, procures, and deploys multi-billion weapons systems, like nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, heavy bombers, and other systems. But, as sophisticated as these weapon systems are, they’re effectively paperweights without the “bullet in the chamber,” the nuclear weapon, that the NNSA produces and maintains.
This has, understandably, always been a fraught relationship between large bureaucracies. While the DoD’s mission is relatively single-focused on national defense, the DoE has varied missions. It was established to help the nation prevent another energy shock of the type it faced in the Arab oil embargo of the early 1970s. Its priorities range from fossil fuels to solar panels to nuclear waste dumps to artificial intelligence and electric utility rates. It’s worth noting that other than the national defense mission of the NNSA, DoE’s other missions are exclusively civilian.
DoE’s first leader, former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, was perhaps the first and last hired with any actual nuclear weapons experience (having been Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission). Most Secretaries are hired because they’re energy experts, understandably. As a result, most ignore the nuclear weapons mission, content to leave it in a radioactive bureaucratic box. Yet, this is Washington: no bureaucrat wants to lose responsibility for a mission (or its budget – especially not 50% of it). Since the NNSA was created as a semi-autonomous entity with DoE, Secretaries of Energy have bridled at this arrangement: while the head of the NNSA is subject to the control of the Secretary, the agency is supposed to otherwise be beyond the reach of the Department of Energy and its bureaucracy.
But these two massive departments, DoE and DoD, have ultimately been able to work together – often at greater cost in time and dollars than should have been needed – because of a statutory system of coordination and cooperation. Congress established the Nuclear Weapons Council (NWC) to coordinate budget requests between the two departments, synchronize acquisition and modernization cycles, and prepare the annual Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Memorandum. for the President, wherein he determines the size and composition of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.
And today, the NWC is headed by Undersecretary for Acquisitions and Sustainment Ellen Lord, marking the first time that the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile has been managed by two women (i.e., Lord and NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon Hagerty), a shattering of the nuclear glass ceiling. Together with senior uniformed leaders, including General John Hyten, USAF, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Admiral Charles “Chas” Richards, USN, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, the DoD and NNSA systems appear to be succeeding in the hard, but critical, work of ensuring the reliability and credibility of the nation’s nuclear deterrent.
For example, in the process to produce the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request, the NWC learned that the NNSA budget submission, as reviewed and approved by the Department of Energy and the Office of Management and Budget, was going to be woefully short of the requirements needed to meet the Department of Defense’s requirements, as determined by the President. Ultimately, the President agreed with the budget requirements initially identified by the NWC. While some in the White House Office of Management and Budget and DoE were not pleased that the President sided with the NNSA and the NWC and not them, the system worked because the President had the information and options to make his decision.
Unfortunately, those who were on the losing side appear not to have accepted that decision. For example, after the President made his decision about the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request, an effort has been underway to strip both the Nuclear Weapons Council and the NNSA Administrator of her responsibility for coordinating the NNSA budget with DoD’s. There is no winner in this effort to sabotage the Nuclear Weapons Council. But these institutional jealousies are not new; they are long-standing symptoms of previous half measures to address the organization and governance of the U.S. nuclear weapons production enterprise.
Early in the 2010s, Congress recognized that DoE’s partial implementation of semi-autonomy, as required by the NNSA Act, was a risk to the U.S. nuclear deterrent. The NNSA, which itself has accreted tremendous bureaucratic bloat over the years as a lazy response to mistakes, mismanagement, and congressional and press pressure, was also drowning in micromanagement from “Big DoE.”
Notwithstanding the NNSA Act, which provided that, as a matter of law, only the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Energy can direct NNSA, through the Administrator, the Department’s bureaucracies had regularly interfered with the NNSA’s activities. Countless layers of oversight of the overseers meant DoD weapons were regularly late and over-budget (often resulting in the Pentagon being asked to foot the bill) because no one in the DoE bureaucracy or NNSA field offices had the authority and will to say “yes” and anyone could say “no.” Instead of accountability and responsibility by the Secretary and the NNSA Administrator, as specified in law, it was spread around a dozen bureaucratic fiefdoms.
So, Congress established the Augustine-Mies Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise to propose solutions for this dysfunctional arrangement. In its final report, the panel members found that “the existing governance structures and many of the practices of the [nuclear weapons] enterprise are inefficient and ineffective, thereby putting the entire enterprise at risk over the long term. These problems have not occurred overnight; they are the result of decades of neglect.”
The panel proposed a wide-ranging overhaul of both the Department of Energy and the NNSA, including reorganizing and renaming the Department itself to reflect a priority on the nuclear deterrent. The panel also made a recommendation that, if those changes were not undertaken within two years, the NNSA must be made “ an independent, autonomous agency. ” Six years, two Administrations, and multiple Congresses later, the reforms have not been made. And, bureaucratic infighting – and gamesmanship with bureaucratic allies on Capitol Hill – again threatens the U.S. nuclear deterrent.
In a March 2000 hearing, the Chairman of the Special Oversight Panel on Department of Energy Reorganization of the House Armed Services Committee, Mac Thornberry (R-TX), stated, “if we cannot make this work within the Department of Energy, there are a number of our colleagues who want to remove it entirely.” Twenty years after the passage of the NNSA Act, and a mountain’s worth of GAO and independent commission reports later, it’s clear that there is only one option left: the Executive Branch and the Congress need to establish an independent, cabinet level agency, answerable to the President, to provide the U.S. and its allies the nuclear deterrent it needs today and for the foreseeable future.
The nuclear deterrent is the ultimate guarantor of U.S. and allied security. The nation’s senior civilian and military leaders have been clear it is the number one priority to protect the homeland. We cannot continue to risk unilateral nuclear disarmament by bureaucratic neglect. The time for change is now.
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UNSW Observatory is operated by the UNSW School of Physics and is located on the roof of a building on UNSW's Kensington Campus. The dome houses a 35 cm Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope. Used with the Mini-HIPPI polarimeter, one of the world's best stellar polarimeters, it has been a powerful research tool for stellar and planetary astrophysics.
Apr 2019 — Paper on reflected light in the Spica binary system published in Nature Astronomy. The majority of the observations were obtained with the UNSW telescope and Mini-HIPPI instrument.
Feb 2017 — Mini HIPPI paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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“Cocoa plants are generally quite difficult plants to grow,” said Heather Lake, a technician at the newly-revamped centre, which is funded half by the British chocolate industry and half by the US government. “They don’t like too much sunlight, they don’t like too much shade.
Why can’t cocoa beans grow in the UK?
Growing cacao trees in the UK is not without its challenges. The species comes from areas of South America that can experience rainfall of up to six metres a year! This can be hard to replicate in the glasshouses, particularly during winter when high humidity can cause the pods to rot.
Can you grow cocoa tree in UK?
Cocoa trees don’t just grow anywhere. … In the UK, scientists are successfully growing cocoa plants in specialist centres such as the International Cocoa Quarantine Centre (ICQC), which precisely simulates the necessary tropical conditions for the plants to thrive.
Can cocoa grow in Europe?
Even though chocolate is largely manufactured in Europe and North America, cacao is largely grown in Africa and Central & South America. Cacao can be grown in humid climates within 25 degrees of the equator, so it doesn’t grow in Europe at all, with the exception of Spain’s Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa.
Why cocoa trees grow only in tropical countries?
It requires high rainfall and temperatures to grow, as well as rainforest trees to offer shade and protection from too much light and damage caused by wind. Because cocoa farms are sensitive to this type of climate, they can only flourish in a narrow band of countries between 20 degrees north and south of the equator.
Where does the UK get cocoa beans from?
Ivory Coast remains the main supplier of cocoa beans to the United Kingdom. In 2017, the two main suppliers of cocoa beans to the United Kingdom were Ivory Coast and Ghana.
Can you grow chocolate in greenhouse?
Once you’ve got healthy cacao trees, either by germinating your own cacao pods or by starting with a live cacao tree, all you have left to do is wait. Mature and productive tree in a New Hampshire greenhouse. It’s only about 6 feet tall, but producing well.
Is it pronounced cacao or cocoa?
Cocoa (pronounced kow · kow) and cacao (pronounced ka · kaw) originate from the same place, the fruit of the Theobroma cacao tree.
Who invented chocolate?
The creation of the first modern chocolate bar is credited to Joseph Fry, who in 1847 discovered that he could make a moldable chocolate paste by adding melted cacao butter back into Dutch cocoa. By 1868, a little company called Cadbury was marketing boxes of chocolate candies in England.
Who produces the most cacao?
Most cocoa is produced in West Africa
In the 2018/2019 cocoa season, a total of 4.8 million tons of cocoa was produced worldwide. Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are by far the two largest producers of cocoa, accounting for over 60% of global cocoa production, followed by Ecuador with seven percent.
Is chocolate grown in Spain?
Spain’s chocolate industry reaching maturity
The Spanish grinding industry produces industrial chocolate that is used as a basis for the manufacturing of final chocolate products. The growth of Spain’s chocolate industry fuelled an increase of the country’s entire confectionery industry starting in 2015.
Does Germany grow cocoa beans?
Germany is the biggest chocolate producer in the EU, ahead of Italy, France and Belgium. Europe’s most populated country is certainly catering to its sweet tooth. In recent years, the volume of cocoa beans processed in Europe has been rising again.
Can cocoa grow in Germany?
Germany houses the second-largest cocoa grinding industry of Europe. Most cocoa beans imported into Germany are used domestically for further processing. Germany is the second largest grinder in Europe, after the Netherlands, and the world’s fourth largest with 9.7% of global grinding .
Where is cocoa originally from?
Fruit of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao), the source of cocoa and chocolate. The plant is native to tropical regions of Central and South America but is primarily cultivated in western Africa.
How many beers does a cacao tree produce?
It’s a beautiful plant!
The trees blossom almost continuously; a fully grown specimen can sometimes produce as many as 50,000 or even 100,000 blossoms in one year.
Can I grow a cacao tree?
Cacao Care. Cacao trees are not easy to grow, especially if you want to cultivate them outside of their natural environment. Occasionally growers keep them as houseplants. But it is very difficult to provide them with the proper light and humidity levels indoors, and they often won’t ever produce seed pods. | <urn:uuid:90b6f0c7-f267-4115-8c43-8fab7b70f2c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://manxvoice.com/for-tourists/you-asked-why-dont-we-grow-cocoa-in-the-uk.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945406 | 1,031 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Steps to calculating capacitance
1. Imagine the capacitors are charged to +Q and -Q
2. Use Gauss' Law to find the electric field between them
So we know from the derrivation in the previous post that the electric field between two parallel plates with +Q and -Q (or and ) is:
Because we did the derrivation for the this in the previous post we can skip steps 1 and part of step 2.
(since l is just the distance d between the plates)
(from step 2.5)
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As a memorial service is held today to mark the 20th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre, it is timely to reflect upon the wider ramifications of such events, according to psychiatrists Professor Alan Rosen, from the University of Sydney, and Dr Michael Dudley, from the University of NSW.
Many people and communities, beyond those directly affected by the Port Arthur shootings, are living with the legacy of such tramatic events, they say.
Meanwhile, for reasons that they explain below, their analysis of contemporary gun control issues will be published at Croakey at a later stage.
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Alan Rosen and Michael Dudley write:
The 20th anniversary today of the Port Arthur massacre is undoubtedly most distressing to the survivors, the injured, the families of the victims and the first responders alike.
We met with the still highly active network of them from around Australia, including their legal, health, academic, police, criminology and government advocates, who were welcomed at NSW Parliament House yesterday and swapped torrid campaign experiences, reflected over many heart-wrenching stories, grief and sad memories still fresh.
This was largely thanks to the persistent work of Rebecca Peters and Sam Lee and others from the National Coalition for Gun Control in organising and keeping people in touch.
This anniversary also may rekindle the vivid transgenerational memories of the extreme traumatising of families of earlier massacre victims, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descendants of those massacred in Australian colonial history.
It may also rekindle the traumas of our transcultural communities, asylum seekers and refugees from genocidal mass killings in and displacement from their countries of origin from post-20th century wars to more recent times.
Ms Cate Swannell, the Medical Journal of Australia News and Online Editor, has just published a column about the Port Arthur massacre for the 26 April issue of “MJA Insight” which has pointed to the forthcoming publication of our article in the MJA, on The Port Arthur Massacre and the National Firearms Agreement: twenty years on, what are the lessons?
This perspective/for-debate article, combining appraisals of the current psychiatric, public health, epidemiological and medico-legal evidence, is by Michael Dudley, Alan Rosen, Philip Alpers and Rebecca Peters, and will appear in the MJA on line on 23 May 2016 and in hard copy in the 6 June issue of the MJA.
Ms Swannell states: “The authors address the gun lobby’s claims that gun violence is attributable to mental illness, not gun ownership, and ask what role health professionals can play “in working with legal authorities to monitor and assist regulation of firearm access, especially among high-risk populations”.
She cites the paper’s authors: “Clinician involvement must be complemented by wider gun control measures. The gun lobby’s turning the firearms availability debate into a question about whether people with mental illness histories should access such weapons is a calculated appeal to prejudice. Complacency has “somewhat eroded” the NFA and it needs “review, revision and tightening.”
Though there is an opinion piece ready for Croakey readers for today, the MJA staff have determined that publication of such an op-ed piece would be “in breach of its embargo and are unable to give permission for this”.
Croakey will publish the full opinion piece when this embargo on the authors’ related but different academic article can be lifted.
• Alan Rosen is Professorial Fellow, University of Sydney & Clinical Associate Professor, University of Sydney and Michael Dudley is Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of NSW
• Meanwhile Croakey suggests readers wanting more information on the current state of gun control in Australia and globally check this excellent initiative, GunPolicy.org which provides evidence-based, country-by-country intelligence from a broad range of official and academic sources. The site is for researchers, officials, journalists and advocates who need accurate citations and rapid access to credible sources. Readers can create graphs and charts according to their interests and queries, and check the latest news from around the globe.
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Flower beds are a beautiful way to make the outside of your home more aesthetically pleasing. However, considering how delicate flower beds are, they have a lot of enemies, including active and overly excited dogs.
The colorful nature of flower beds easily attracts dogs, who can cause mass destruction on your flower bed. Luckily, there are ways that you can minimize the destruction of your flower beds and keep dogs away.
Whether you want to avoid dogs passing by on their walks from jumping into your flower bed or want to train your dog to stay away from your perennials, rest assured that it’s possible to repel dogs from your garden.
In this article, you’ll learn how to keep dogs out of flower beds with just a few easy tips. As a result, your plants will grow uninterrupted.
Why It’s Important to Keep Dogs Out of Your Flower Bed
Before talking about how to keep dogs out of flower beds, it’s first important to know why you should deter dogs from your flower beds.
You should keep dogs out of your flower bed for several reasons. The most evident reason is to maintain the beauty of your flower bed and keep it intact. A dog can cause a lot of damage to plants in very little time, whether digging in the flower bed, chasing birds and insects, urinating or defecating, or simply eating the plants.
However, another reason to keep dogs out of your flower bed is for their safety. There are a variety of plants that, when ingested, can cause harm to dogs. Some plants are poisonous to dogs but not poisonous to humans, so you might not know which ones could cause some serious harm to dogs.
Now that you know why you need to keep dogs out of your flower bed, let’s talk about how to go about it.
8 Tips on How To Keep Dogs Out of Flower Beds
Knowing how to keep dogs out of flower beds will make a world of difference for your garden and your dog.
To guide you, here are 8 tips on how to keep dogs out of flower beds and protect your plants.
1. Create a Barrier
The simplest way to keep your dog out of your flower beds is to create a barrier between them. A plant barrier can work double duty by keeping your dogs out and creating a beautiful enclosure for your flower bed.
Your barrier can be plants your dog would have no interest in, such as a bush. This is an especially effective option if you create a barrier with prickly plants that won’t harm your dog but that feel unpleasant to the touch.
Although a plant garden is a visually pleasing way to keep dogs out of your flower bed, it is a difficult option to execute. Instead, consider building a regular fence.
2. Build a Fence
Our next option for how to keep dogs out of flower beds is to build a fence or physical barrier around your flower bed.
This is one of the simplest ways to protect your flower beds from dogs as they won’t be able to see the flower bed, let alone reach it. The only downside to this option is that if your flower bed is behind a physical barrier, you and others won’t be able to see it either. This may not be the best option for flowers that are aesthetic additions to your home.
If the garden bed you want to protect is in your backyard and you own a curious dog, another option is to build a backyard dog fence to keep your dog within a limited section of your backyard away from your flower bed.
3. Keep Your Dog Entertained
When dogs are bored is when they end up wreaking the most havoc. If you distract your dogs, they’ll forget that your flower bed even exists. That’s why distractions are one of the best ways to keep your dog out of your flower beds.
When you go outside with your dog, make sure that you always have an activity to do with them. Whether playing catch, swimming in a doggy pool, or playing with dog toys around the garden, giving your dog another task will help them forget that your flower bed even exists.
4. Take Advantage of Smells
Sometimes you need a little extra help to train your dog to know not to approach your flower bed. There are several ways to do that using your dog’s senses, one of the most effective being their sense of smell.
You can use an off-limits spray to train your dog not to approach your flower bed. This is also a great deterrent for dogs that pass by your unfenced flower bed. Just make sure whatever spray you choose is plant-friendly and won’t have adverse effects by harming your flowers in other ways. You can also make homemade dog repellent by adding cayenne pepper, red pepper flakes, chili pepper, or powdered mustard to a spray bottle of water or vinegar.
5. Always Supervise
Our next tip on keeping dogs out of flower beds is to supervise them in your yard.
This is a good option if you don’t have the time right now for any additional training for your dog or to install additional deter tactics. Simply allow your dog to roam free and explore the backyard. However, whenever you see them approaching your flower bed, intervene and let them know that they aren’t allowed to go near it.
6. Install a Sprinkler System
A sprinkler system is a great way to keep many animals and pests away from your plants — dogs included.
Turn on your sprinkler system whenever you see a dog approaching your flower bed, or have it activate automatically in intervals to discourage dogs.
What’s more, you can use this technique to train your dog not to approach your flower garden. Whenever you see them running towards it when playing outside, turn on the sprinkler to deter them. As a bonus, your flowers will always remain well-watered!
7. Make Sure They’re Trained
For your dog, the most effective way to keep them out of your flower bed is to simply train them.
This is the most effective way because once your dog has learned that they have no right to your flower garden, they will never approach it again and your job is done.
Even better, training helps your dogs develop their cognition, and so there’s a chance they’ll continue to be more cautious in other areas of their life.
If you need help training your dog not to approach your flower bed, it’s a good idea to ask a professional for help.
8. Find the Root of the Problem
Our last tip on keeping dogs out of flower beds is to dig deep and find the root of the problem.
If you find that your dog is constantly approaching your flower bed, there may be a reason. Some of these reasons may be:
- They smell you, their owner, working in the garden, which is comforting to your dog.
- Digging in the loose soil is appealing and fun.
- It’s hot, and it’s easy to create a cool place to lie in your garden.
- There’s a specific plant that attracts them to it.
- They see other creatures in your flower bed that they want to catch.
Observe your dog the next time you see them in your flower bed and, before stopping them, pay attention to what they’re doing. This gives you a hint as to what the problem is and how you can potentially mend it to discourage your dog from approaching your flowers.
Recap: How to Keep Dogs Out of Flower Beds
To recap, the best ways to keep dogs out of flower beds are:
- Create a Barrier
- Build a Fence
- Keep Your Dog Entertained
- Take Advantage of Smells
- Always Supervise
- Install a Sprinkler System
- Make Sure They’re Trained
- Find the Root of the Problem
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Life is full of up’s and down’s, good days and bad, successes and failures. We’ve all had days from which we thought our hearts would never recover.
Anyone who has ever experienced grief knows how utterly gut-wrenching it is, and how it takes every ounce of strength you can muster to help your broken heart to heal. Grieving is not a process to be rushed or to be avoided, it will take its own time. Eventually it will fade, and you will find a new way to be feel happiness. You will never be the same again, but you will be okay.
No matter how qualified a person is, how many books they’ve read or respected a professional they are, only someone who has lived through grief can really understand it, and identify with others who have also grieved for a loved one.
Unfortunately, Niamh Fitzpatrick, is one of those people. Niamh is a psychologist with many years experience and is well known to listeners of Todayfm. Last year, Niamh was devastated when her beloved sister Dara passed away. Dara was the captain of Rescue 116, the helicopter which crashed in March 2017, who has been hailed as a hero for her courage. Since her passing, Niamh herself has shown tremendous courage and is also, in our eyes, a hero.
Some things in Life cannot be fixed, they can only be carried
In October Niamh was invited to speak at Zeminar, an amazing event for young people and our dear friends. Niamh, very bravely decided to dig deep, and share her own story. Still very raw and very heartbroken, Niamh shared with the audience how she herself has managed to cope, and gave 7 steps to help face those dark and painful days.
1: When hard times hit, face it head on.
2: Let yourself cry
3: Deal with facts
4: Focus only on whats in front of you
5: Focus on what you can control
6: Gather support around you
7: Take care of yourself
Please watch Niamh’s amazing speech here:
Thanks Zeminar for sharing this, if you get a chance to go this year, please do x
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
“Biodiversity and global change” is a required course for the first year of the master program in Environmental Sciences. This course will provide the knowledge of the impact of the global changes on the living organisms, from individual to the population level. The educational objectives of the course are to understand:
a) changes on the global and local level and how those influence living organisms (both plants and animals),
b) ways in which living organisms respond and adapt to global change and
c) approaches available for managing and/or adapting to impacts of global change.
Particular attention will be directed towards changes caused by human activities and the ways for their mitigation. Students who complete the course will have an advanced understanding of the influence of global change on the biodiversity. They will be able critically to analyze the effect of everyday decisions and actions on different stakeholder levels.
Expected learning outcomes
1. Knowledge and understanding
a) Knows the basic terminology used to address biodiversity and global change and understand the texts that use it.
b) Knows the different influential factors on biodiversity in the context of global change.
c) Knows the strategies for adaptation to or mitigation of global change on the biological level, including humans.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
a) Have learned how to properly use the terminology in all the processes of application and communication of the acquired knowledge.
b) Can recognize different factors in the analysis of the causes of global change and evaluate their impact on living beings.
c) Can see the applications of learned strategies in everyday life and to suggest the best possible strategies for different stakeholders.
3. Judgment skills
a) Will learn to choose a subject for independent work.
b) Will learn to formulate scientific hypotheses.
4. Communication skills
a) Know how to communicate the specificities of biodiversity and global change using appropriate terminology.
b) Knowing how to interact with peers and with the tutor, in a critical and respectful way.
5. Learning skills
a) Have improved presentation skills by presenting a literature review.
b) Have improved reviewer skills by reviewing fellow students works.
c) Have developed skills for critical reading of scientific publications.
Adequate knowledge in general biology is recommended as background for the course.
1. Introduction to the course, organization, requirements, and deadlines; overview of the subject; global change from the historical perspective.
2.-3. Biodiversity: what do we know and what should still be learned. Theories and approaches.
4.-5. Biocultural diversity: a combination of biological and cultural diversity; how they are interrelated and why adding cultural factor is essential.
6.-8. Human impact on the environment, plants, and animals
9.-10. Two last meetings will be reserved for reporting the independent study.
In the case of a non-attending specific day, students will have access to the pdf of the lecture slides and will be required to submit a 1-page referenced (min. 4 references) essay on the subject covered in the missed class, as every class requires active participation. One lecture can be missed without the penalty.
Aronson, S.M., 2007. Local science vs. global science: Approaches to indigenous knowledge in international development (Vol. 4). Berghahn Books.
Maffi, L. and Woodley, E., 2012. Biocultural diversity conservation: a global sourcebook. Routledge.
Active participation in the seminars or essays due to absence – 25 %
Independent study and presentation – 20%
Reviewing two independent studies and debates – 5%
Written exam – 50%
In case if the student doesn't attend any lecture, the value of the written exam will be 100%
The written exam will consist of ten open questions requiring a concise and well-supported answer on the different subjects covered within the course. The value of every question is 5% of the final grade (or 10% in the case of non-attendance).
The example of the questions from the previous year:
1. How does urbanization influence global change?
2. How cultural diversity and biological diversity are interconnected?
3. What are the main consequences of deforestation?
4. What makes a species invasive?
5. How plants and their pollinators interact?
6. How language influences perception of the ecosystem?
7. Would returning to traditional lifestyle stop global change?
8. What are the most important anthropogenic drivers of global change?
9. Could GMOs be a solution for the food crisis?
10. Bring an example of a plant or an animal affected directly by climate change or human activity. Please, describe the consequences.
Students are allowed to use handwritten notes.
The frontal meetings will be designed in the way that the time will be split between lecture and discussion approximately in proportion 2/3 and 1/3 respectively. The discussion section will be grounded on the required text for every lecture. There will be ten meetings lasting three academic hours.
The independent study will be in the form of a presentation to an imaginary project competition within the scope of bio(cultural)diversity in the context of global change. The study will need to lead to a hypothesis or two for prospective future research. Each student will present his or her study to the class; the presentation will be accompanied by the disputation with two reviewers from the class.
Type of exam
written and oral
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals
This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development
Last update of the programme: 11/03/2021
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Machine learning methods have recently gained attention in business applications. We will explore the suitability of machine learning methods, particularly support vector…
Machine learning methods have recently gained attention in business applications. We will explore the suitability of machine learning methods, particularly support vector regression (SVR) and radial basis function (RBF) approximation, in forecasting company sales. We compare the one-step-ahead forecast accuracy of these machine learning methods with traditional statistical forecasting techniques such as moving average (MA), exponential smoothing, and linear and quadratic trend regression on quarterly sales data of 43 Fortune 500 companies. Moreover, we implement an additive seasonal adjustment procedure on the quarterly sales data of 28 of the Fortune 500 companies whose time series exhibited seasonality, referred to as the seasonal group. Furthermore, we prove a mathematical property of this seasonal adjustment procedure that is useful in interpreting the resulting time series model. Our results show that the Gaussian form of a moving RBF model, with or without seasonal adjustment, is a promising method for forecasting company sales. In particular, the moving RBF-Gaussian model with seasonal adjustment yields generally better mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) values than the other methods on the sales data of 28 companies in the seasonal group. In addition, it is competitive with single exponential smoothing and better than the other methods on the sales data of the other 15 companies in the non-seasonal group.
The variety of the subjects examined in the preceding chapters reflects the vastness of the contemporary conflict resolution field. To discuss contexts that encompass them…
The variety of the subjects examined in the preceding chapters reflects the vastness of the contemporary conflict resolution field. To discuss contexts that encompass them requires relying on basic conflict processes. I have chosen such processes related to three fundamental matters: (1) that conflicts are interlocked with each other, (2) that various kinds of inducements are used in conflicts, and (3) that how conflicts are waged and settled is related to conflict outcomes.
Scarcity in the construction aggregates necessitated the use of suitable alternative materials such as recycled aggregates. However, the higher porosity of recycled…
Scarcity in the construction aggregates necessitated the use of suitable alternative materials such as recycled aggregates. However, the higher porosity of recycled aggregates due to the presence of adhered mortar affects its quality resulting in limited utilization. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of Bacillus subtilis to enhance the properties of the recycled coarse aggregate (RCA). The strains of the bacterial species were collected from the Gene bank, Chandigarh, and cultured to 105 cells/ml to treat the RCA.
The concrete mixtures are prepared with 0%, 50% and 100% of treated and untreated RCA by mortar mixing approach. The concrete specimens are tested for compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and elastic modulus at 7, 14 and 28 days, respectively.
Microbial treatment to RCAs increased the weight of the aggregate and decreased the water absorption of the aggregates. The optimal replacement of RCA was observed to be 50% and the strength of the concrete with 50% of treated RCA was comparable to the normal aggregate concrete. The CaCO3 precipitation by bacterial species fills the pores on the RCA and thus increasing the strength of the concrete.
The originality of the research is to produce concrete with waste recycled aggregate treated by bacteria to overcome the problem of scarcity in construction materials.
Dependence on access to European markets through subcontracting relationships with European firms has exposed subcontracting clothing and textile producers in less…
Dependence on access to European markets through subcontracting relationships with European firms has exposed subcontracting clothing and textile producers in less developed economies to the vagaries of international market competition. This paper aims to examine the problems that such exposure creates and the requirements for developing marketing activities through the concept of the alliance life cycle as a viable solution for a sample of Tunisian clothing and textile firms.
The inductive reasoning of this research was implemented through qualitative research based on a range of tools derived from a case study and a dual ethnographic approach.
The main results showed that life cycle stages of the subcontracting firms reflected Schumpeter's creation and destruction cycle of innovation. Therefore, subcontracting firms could learn from their activities with their business customers so that they developed marketing competences in innovative processes. The findings also demonstrated that some of the firms in the Tunisian clothing and textile industries were more successful than others.
This research focused mainly on subcontracting alliances with implications for future study of other alliances for different industries.
The life cycle approach could be of great interest to subcontracting managers in the post Multi Fibre Arrangement era. This approach is relevant mainly for decision makers in providing them with a framework within which they might optimise their marketing strategies and their implementations.
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Enhanced integration helps create culture of dignity, respect Published Feb. 17, 2022 By Christa D'Andrea 37th Training Wing Public Affairs JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas -- As early as 2015, the Air Force recognized the power of Basic Military Training enhanced integration in creating a climate of dignity and respect. Enhanced integration beta tests in 2015 and 2019 demonstrated those exact benefits and yielded lower levels of trainee misconduct. Further implementation was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the first Airmen assigned to enhanced integrated flights at BMT graduated Jan. 13. Today, a limited number of flights in each BMT squadron are integrated in all aspects of training aside from sleeping and hygiene time. “Nowhere else in the Air Force do we operate in single-gendered formations,” said Lt. Col. Michelle Sterling, 324th Training Squadron commander. “It’s appropriate to start our newest Airmen in the environment we expect them to operate in throughout their careers.” While the 324th TRS is the first squadron to integrate a limited number of flights, enhanced integration is being phased in as each BMT squadron picks up a new class of trainees -- meaning one squadron per week began integrating flights. The 320th TRS is the final squadron to integrate and picked up their class Jan. 18. Despite COVID originally delaying flight integration, “we have mastered protocols and procedures in the last 18 months that enabled us to move forward,” Sterling said. The vaccination requirement, coupled with COVID protocols and strict hygiene and cleaning discipline, contributed to ensuring the safety of all personnel. Sterling added that BMT leveraged the lessons learned from beta tests in 2015 and 2019. “It was clear to us that the trainees would take their cues from their instructors not just on folding clothes or making beds, but on their professionalism,” she said. “We established MTI team chiefs for each set of integrated flights to increase supervision and decrease the administrative burden on individual MTIs to allow them to focus on the flights and forming multiple high performing teams.” All dormitory flights are paired and combined to form integrated training flights. In the case of the 324th TRS that meant eight training flights were gender integrated, while the remaining six flights were all male. BMT partnered with the RAND Corporation to do a deep-dive of the enhanced integration plan. One of the main issues reviewed was that of balancing integration with isolation. “One of the many questions we asked was about any concerns of a minimum percentage of females in a flight,” said Bill Fischer, BMT Training Director. The 2018 RAND Report and the associated literature review indicated there should be no less than 15% of women in any flight and that percentages lower than that would create isolation. “Although it’s an extreme example, having two females in a flight of 50 isn’t really integration and can actually do more harm than leaving those two females in an all-female flight,” Fischer added. While every female trainee will train in a gender-integrated flight, not every flight will be integrated as female-male. However, BMT leadership stated that there are benefits of integrating flights, whether male-male or male-female. The integration means Military Training Instructors will get exposed to more of their fellow trainees and enhances their training as they could be pushing a female flight for one class and then a male flight the next. The 2018 RAND report also highlighted potential benefits of enhanced integration. For example, the report states that “generally research suggests that [enhanced integration] improves female performance and does not adversely affect male performance in terms of both readiness and cohesion.” Additionally, it points out that is some cases there were higher physical fitness, marksmanship, and individual proficiency test scores in a sample of Army integrated units; and that in one study two-thirds of respondents stated that having men and women in basic training made it easier to adapt once in integrated operational units. Some research also indicates that integration improves teamwork. [RAND, An Assessment of Options for Increasing Gender Integration in Air Force Basic Military Training, pages 5-13.] Full integration (all flights in all squadrons) will be implemented when the BMT electronic system of record is upgraded to administratively support the logistics associated with blending flights. “Exposure to more people of any background will hopefully lead to more resilient and more adaptable Airmen,” said Col. Rockie Wilson, 37th Training Wing commander. The 37th TRW is home to the Department of the Air Force’s only basic military training location. Males and females remain segregated for sleeping and hygiene. MTIs may, at times, conduct classes in the dormitories or day rooms, but at no time will trainees be in mixed gender formations in the dormitories unsupervised. BMT is anticipating the electronic infrastructure that helps MTIs maintain accountability and manage schedules to be updated in spring 2022. With this upgrade, BMT will then move into full integration. “Updating the IT infrastructure is one of our highest priorities,” said Col. Jeffrey Pixley, 737th Training Group commander. “When integrating two flights, MTIs are currently able to manage the accountability and schedules. However, it would be an administrative nightmare and we risk losing accountability if we attempt to integrate the entire squadron right now.” Pixley added that accountability is about more than head counts and who is where and when. 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Summary. Analysis. Miles attends his first class at Culver Creek and is surprised to find that all of the girls wear pajamas to class. He is overwhelmed by Madame O'Malley 's French class and worries that his school in Florida didn't prepare him for Culver Creek Before World Religions starts, Takumi and the Colonel mention to Miles that Alaska is upset on his behalf. They ask Miles to mark who hazed him on a makeshift seating chart. Kevin, one of the hazers, walks in and glares at the Colonel; Miles marks him off. The Old Man—Dr. Hyde—comes in Alaska plans a triple date for her and Jake, the Colonel and Sara, and Miles and Lara. 87 days before: Lara, Miles, the Colonel, Sara, Alaska, Jake and Takumi go on a triple-and-a-half date to a basketball game where Miles gets hit in the head with a basketball and gets a concussion. Sara breaks up with the Colonel Looking for Alaska - Before, Part 1, p. 4 - 21 Summary & Analysis. John Green (author) This Study Guide consists of approximately 47 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Looking for Alaska. Print Word PDF
Meanwhile, Alaska and the Colonel send fake progress reports with failing grades to a number of Weekday Warrior parents. The next morning the group hangs out and gets drunk in a barn. They play a game called Best Day/Worst Day, in which each person tells the story of their best and worst day Despite being in a relationship, Alaska kisses Miles one evening as part of a game of truth or dare, and Miles feels the impulse to tell Alaska that he loves her. However, Alaska leaves to answer a phone call only to return in a state of hysteria. She will not say what is wrong, but she insists that she has to leave the campus. Though she is drunk and panic-stricken, she is so insistent that Miles and the Colonel let her go The group sleeps at the Smoking Hole over night. They spend the next day hanging out at the Smoking Hole. Takumi reveals his talent for freestyle rapping and the rest of the group attempts to imitate his skill. As they drink Alaska's supply of wine, they go around sharing the best and worst days of their lives Immediately preceding her death Pudge took control of his own life - making progress on his relationship with both Lara and Alaska, participating in the pranks, and finding the Great Perhaps. After her death, Pudge changes back to someone more concerned with the past and less focused on the moment at hand In the text exerpt from p. 84-99MIles and Alaska are staying at Culver Creek during the Thanksgiving vacation. they drink wine which Alaska has buried to hide it from the Eagle. she tells Miles that she bought it with her fake ID. She always buys some Vodka for the Colonel, too. Miles and Alaska spent a lot of time together
one hundred eight days before. Dr. Hyde asks Miles to stay after class and talks to him about being present both in class when he's in class and outside when he's outside Miles meets the Colonel (real name Chip Martin), Takumi, and Alaska Young. The Colonel grew up in a trailer park, Alaska and her dad don't get along (mystery alert), and Takumi is just kind of there for a while. The three take Miles (nicknamed Pudge because he's so skinny) under their wing and introduce him to the social order of campus, mischief-making, smoking cigarettes, and drinking. They have to avoid the Eagle—the aptly-named dean of the school—when they're creating mischief so.
While smoking cigarettes at the lake (not the Smoking Hole), Alaska, Takumi, the Colonel, and Miles are busted by the Eagle, who gives each one his patented Look of Doom. The Eagle expects to see them at Jury (a disciplinary hearing) the next day Alaska 's dad. According to Alaska, he blames her for her mother 's death. Along with Kevin, Longwell Chase throws Miles into the lake at the beginning of the school year. At the end of the year, he helps Miles convince the Eagle to hire Dr. William Morse for Speaker Day eighty four days before - A few days after the basketball game, the campus is inundated by a heavy, constant rain that lasts for several days, during which Chip indulges in video games, Miles keeps his distance from Lara, and Alaska keeps her distance from Miles. At one point, he finds her sitting by a window and starts asking her what`s going on, but she says she's not in a mood to talk, assuring him that her silence has nothing to do with him Looking for Alaska was published in 2005 by Dutton Children's Books. It was John Green 's first novel. Inspired by his own education at Indian Springs School in Alabama, the book is set at the fictional Culver Creek Preparatory School, an upscale high school fifteen miles south of Birmingham. The novels follows Miles Halter, a new junior at the. nine days after. After classes the Colonel announces that he has a theory about Alaska: someone calls (he thinks Jake, her boyfriend), they fight, she cries, she freaks out, and then she drives away. Miles doesn't want to believe this because Alaska was making out with him, not Jake
When the Colonel drunkenly realizes that Miles hooked up with Alaska, he tells Miles that things are not going to end well. Miles falls asleep and vaguely hears Alaska go answer the pay phone that is ringing in the hall. When she returns she is hysterically crying. She screams that Miles and the Colonel have to help her sneak off campus Looking for Alaska. John Green. Looking for Alaska John Green. Listen Download Save. Enjoy this free preview Unlock all 90 pages of this Study Guide by subscribing today. Get started . Summary. Chapter Summaries & Analyses. Chapters 1-5. Chapters 6-10. Chapters 11-15. Chapters 16-20. Chapters 21-25. Chapters 26-30. Chapters 31-35. Chapters 36-40. Chapters 41-45 Chapters 46-50. Chapters 51-55.
Looking for Alaska Summaries; Page: 1; Words: 295; Downloads: 8 ; Disclaimer: This work has been donated by a student. This is not an example of the work produced by our Essay Writing Service. The novel, written by John Green gives the experiences of Miles Halter as a first-year student attending a private school. His mother organizes a send-off party for him though it is poorly attended. . These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Looking for Alaska by John Green. The Boarding School Microcosm: The Unrealistic Portrayal of Real Life in the Institutions of Young Adult Literature; Looking for Alaska: Self-Destructive Behavio In the Best Day round, the stories are, for Miles, THIS day, Alaska's trip to the zoo with her mother when she was eight, Lara being the interpreter when her family moved to America (because she was the only one who spoke English), and Takumi's losing his virginity. For Chip, the best day is in the future - the day he buys his mother a nice house. For the worst day, the stories are, for Takumi, the day he watched his dead grandmother's body burn on a funeral pyre, a school humiliation for. This Study Guide consists of approximately 47 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Looking for Alaska. Miles and his family make their home in Florida. The fact that Miles can't wait to leave Florida to go to. Chapter 10 - One hundred days before Miles spends some time alone with Alaska and decides to ask her about her first name. Alaska explains that her parents could not agree on a name, so they decided to let her choose her own name when she is old enough to do so | <urn:uuid:40a0fb92-e2e6-41fd-a560-b6cd96ec892b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vergeeteleggekind.com/studyguide-looking-for-alaska/chapanal0126p3-4109--gn.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968908 | 1,659 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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The Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment funded the program development. Following the approved grant proposal, the program included (1) a feedback tool addressing working conditions and well-being, and (2) a team-based intervention aimed at improving working conditions. The project team consisted of researchers (MD, KL, RS), trainers (NH), and software developers, all familiar with the medical profession.
The project team developed the program in three consecutive steps: a preparatory phase, needs assessment, and program design (October 2016 until March 2017). Next, we piloted the program (April 2017 until September 2017).
The institutional ethical review board of the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam (AMC) confirmed that the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (WMO) did not apply to this study and thus waived ethical approval (reference number: W18_234 # 18.279).
Step 1—Preparatory phase
Two researchers searched and mapped reliable and valid measures of physicians’ working conditions and well-being for potential inclusion in the feedback tool. To inform the intervention, they also mapped evidence-based interventions to improve physicians’ well-being. We used the resulting overview to construct the needs assessment’s survey.
Step 2—Needs assessment
Our needs assessment included one focus group in an academic hospital (n = 12) and one in a non-academic teaching hospital (n = 12), followed by an online survey (n = 218).
The focus groups lasted 75 min and aimed to obtain in-depth insight into physicians’ needs concerning their working conditions and well-being. Beside residents and medical specialists, we invited human resources staff and senior hospital management to illustrate how hospital policies and practices could address physicians’ needs. Four key questions structured the discussion: ‘What characterises well-being in practice?’, ‘What needs do physicians have to improve their well-being?’, ‘What influences physicians’ well-being in practice?’, and ‘What possibilities do you see for promoting physicians’ well-being?’. A moderator facilitated the focus groups; two observers made notes about verbal and non-verbal communication. Participants indicated that a feedback tool to assess working conditions and well-being should be easily accessible, time-friendly, and encourage discussion. Furthermore, an intervention should provide a positive and psychologically safe environment. Also, it should address team members’ shared workplace issues (e.g. lack of social support) while respecting individuals’ needs (e.g. no collegial contact outside working hours).
The survey aimed to quantify physicians’ needs regarding the feedback tool and intervention. Using the previously mentioned overview (step 1), we listed working conditions and well-being aspects for which validated measures were available, as well as evidence-based interventions. The survey asked physicians to rate working conditions (e.g. workload) and well-being aspects (e.g. work engagement) of interest. Additionally, physicians indicated preferred methods of discussing the feedback tool’s results and evidence-based interventions.
Project team members invited physicians from Dutch hospitals for the survey using their professional networks, company newsletters and websites. In total, 218 physicians participated, of which 50.3% were male. The mean age was 43.3 (SD = 9.97) years. The most represented specialties were surgery (17.8%), neurology (14.1%), and internal medicine (12.0%). Of the working conditions of interest, administrative burden, appreciation by patients, learning and professional development opportunities, inspirational leadership, and workload were most frequently rated. The top rated well-being aspect was work-life balance. Furthermore, physicians preferred to discuss the feedback tool’s results in a facilitated team dialogue. The most preferred interventions were team communication training and collaborative job crafting training.
Step 3—Program design
Based on the previous steps, we designed the content of the (1) feedback tool and (2) intervention, shown in Fig. 1. The job demands-resources (JD-R) model and positive psychology guided the program design. According to the JD‑R model, individuals classify perceived working conditions as job demands (i.e. workplace stressors, requiring energy) or job resources (i.e. workplace resources, providing energy). Optimising the balance between both can improve well-being. Also, focusing on enhancing team strengths and workplace resources—i.e. positive psychology—is worthwhile to improve well-being . Workplace resources are functional in achieving work goals, stimulating personal growth, and alleviating the negative impact of stressors [12, 14].
The feedback tool (1) consisted of a self-report questionnaire and feedback report on perceived working conditions and well-being. The questionnaire counted 75 items (completion time of 10–15 min) based on validated measures of working conditions (i.e. administrative burden, collegial support, inspirational leadership, intrinsic motivation for patient care, learning and professional development opportunities, participation in decision making, workload) and well-being (i.e. emotional exhaustion, work engagement, work fatigue, work-home interference). Software developers implemented the feedback tool in an existing online environment, wherein physicians could conduct the questionnaire and download the feedback report. The feedback report included results benchmarked against ratings from peers and explained the JD‑R model assisting physicians to analyse working conditions in relation to their well-being. When peer scores were unavailable, the report showed benchmarks of the general working population.
The intervention consisted of two consecutive parts: (2a) a facilitated team dialogue and (2b) a team training on team communication and collaborative job crafting (Fig. 1). The (2a) team dialogue was a two-hour session led by an external trainer, in which teams discussed their working conditions and well-being to formulate improvement actions. The feedback tool’s results served as input for the dialogue, although physicians decided what they wanted to share. We organised a focus group with trainers and senior physicians (n = 8) to design a team dialogue guide.
This guide included an exemplar schedule and defined preferred conditions for a productive meeting (i.e. no beepers, external facilitator). Also, the guide suggested an appreciative inquiry approach, which invites participants to discuss stories about what is working well. The resulting identified strengths are the starting point for positive change actions .
The (2b) team training was a four-hour training in which physicians practised with providing team members feedforward. Furthermore, physicians exercised collaborative job crafting to address the formulated improvement actions regarding working conditions and well-being from the facilitated team dialogue. Typically, feedforward focuses on future expectations and tasks to create lasting improvement . Collaborative job crafting refers to physicians determining together how to alter workplace stressors and resources to meet their well-being goals . To design the team training, trainers used prior communication and job crafting workshops, and collaborative job crafting literature . The training combined both topics because of the relevance of communication for team learning of job crafting .
Project team members invited physician teams to participate in the program’s pilot using their professional networks, company websites and newsletters. We piloted the feedback tool in 14 Dutch hospitals, and 377 physicians from 48 teams completed the questionnaire (71% response rate) and received a feedback report: 47.7% were male, 78.8% medical specialists, and 21.2% residents. After completing the feedback tool, teams were more inclined to participate in the facilitated team dialogues. We selected physician teams based on variation in size and specialty (medical or surgical) and conducted four team dialogues in different hospitals. From those teams, two were willing and available to address their formulated improvement actions in the team training, completing all program components.
To evaluate the program, we inspected respondents’ answers on open text evaluations of the feedback tool and consulted its helpdesk to obtain insight into participants’ experiences. Furthermore, we examined observers’ notes from the intervention, inspected printed evaluation forms from the team training, and conducted 14 telephone interviews with participants. | <urn:uuid:5edbc708-59b9-46d3-aeb8-85120faaf451> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40037-020-00600-5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.941737 | 1,683 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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