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Judge rules against cell tower
Nextel filed suit in 2014 over ruling by zoning board
A federal judge denied a Nextel Communications’ lawsuit to build a 130-foot cellular tower in Ross Township.
At the same time, the judge granted the Ross Township Zoning Board’s s motion to uphold its decision to reject the company’s application for a special use exception permit to build the tower, according to court documents.
The judge’s decision came after a protracted battle and lawsuit filed in 2014 by the company to overturn the board’s decision to reject the company’s special exception permit to build the tower. Nextel needs the permit before it can build the tower.
Nextel proposed to erect the monopole tower with three Sprint communications antennas, an equipment shelter, fencing, parking, an access drive and various equipment on property leased off of Rolling Hills Road. Nextel said it wanted to provide service to under-served areas in the county. The zoning board argued Nextel failed to provide sufficient evidence to show the area in question had inadequate cell service through the provider.
The suit was filed under the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, which gives special consideration to cellular providers in zoning decisions when there is a question of coverage in the community. The act includes a provision that blocks any actions that prohibit providing personal wireless services.
The company submitted a zoning application in October 2013 to build the tower. The township’s zoning ordinances permitted the proposed use by special exception in a rural residential zone. Nextel argued it had a significant gap in wireless service in the surrounding area, and that a new facility, the proposed tower, would allow it to fill those gaps in the least intrusive manner.
Nextel/Sprint argued the denial of the board, which came after hearings in 2015, violated the Federal Telecommunications Act because the denial had the effect of prohibiting wireless communication service, according to its complaint. It called the zoning board’s decision to deny the special exception application “arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of discretion and contrary to law. ...”
In the zoning board’s decision to deny the special use permit, it said the applicant must show that there are no other suitable locations for the antennas on existing towers and/or in commercially or industrially zoned areas. The board said that evidence suggested there were more than one other suitable location for the tower. It also said the company didn’t adequately investigate locating its facilities on existing towers or explore reasonable opportunities to increase the length or height of antennas on existing towers.
However, perhaps the most damning evidence was presented by Nextel itself, according to the zoning board. The board said the company’s own evidence showed that the area where Nextel believes there’s a significant gap in service is substantially covered.
The company conducted two "coverage” tests that it presented to the zoning board during the application process. One was a radio frequency analysis that the company said, through computer modeling, showed gaps in coverage. The other was an empirical analysis by a team of drive testers who actually went out on the road to test the user experience. The zoning board concluded that the drive by empirical data contradicted radio frequency analyses in several areas. The judge agreed the company did not demonstrate that a significant gap in coverage existed.
Board attorney Jim Fareri said Nextel could appeal to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals or it could continue its state appeal in Monroe County Court of Common Pleas. Nextel filed suit in county court, but both parties agreed to hold it in abeyance pending the federal suit, he said. The company could also re-file an application with the Ross Township Zoning Hearing Board. | <urn:uuid:9c3c7d0b-77be-4f3a-a2e9-99616440b868> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/politics/county/2016/04/15/judge-rules-against-cell-tower/31785503007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963966 | 760 | 1.601563 | 2 |
|Now is the time for some tough questions. How do we confront systemic racism as it shapes the work we do — here and around the world? And how do we ensure that our community lives out principles of equity and justice?As part of our commitment to convening conversations around service and opportunity, National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is joining the Building Bridges Coalition and the International Volunteer Programs Association to host a dialogue about racial equity in international service. Speakers will share their experiences as Black volunteers and staff on service programs, and as organizational leaders with longstanding commitments to institutional and systemic change. Join us for this important dialogue.
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On Thursday 28 May 2009 15:58:04 Lorenzo Perone wrote:
I tried hard... but without success ;(
the result is, when choosing the disk with the zfs boot
sectors in it (in my case F5, which goes to ad6), the kernel
is not found. the console shows:
forth not found
definitions not found
only not found
(the above repeated several times)
can't load 'kernel'
and I get thrown to the loader prompt.
lsdev does not show any ZFS devices.
Strange thing: if I boot from the other disk, F1, which is my
ad4 containing the normal ufs system I used to make up the other
one, and escape to the loader prompt, lsdev actually sees the
zpool which is on the other disk, and shows:
I tried booting with boot zfs:tank or zfs:tank:/boot/kernel/kernel,
but there I get the panic: free: guard1 fail message.
(would boot zfs:tank:/boot/kernel/kernel be correct, anyways?)
Sure I'm doing something wrong, but what...? Is it a problem that
the pool is made out of the second disk only (ad6)?
Here are my details (note: latest stable and biosdisk.c merged
with changes shown in r185095. no problems in buildworld/kernel):
Machine: p4 4GHz 4 GB RAM (i386)
Note: the pool has actually a different name (heidi
instead of tank, if this can be of any relevance...),
just using tank here as it's one of the conventions...
mount (just to show my starting situation)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1a on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/mirror/gm0s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
mirror/gm0 DEGRADED ad4
(ad6 used to be the second disk...)
echo 'LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=yes' /etc/make.conf
make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=HEIDI
make installkernel KERNCONF=HEIDI
shutdown -r now
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad6 bs=512 count=32
zpool create tank ad6
zfs create tank/usr
zfs create tank/var
zfs create -V 4gb tank/swap
zfs set org.freebsd:swap=on tank/swap
zpool set bootfs=tank tank
rsync -avx / /tank
rsync -avx /usr/ /tank/usr
rsync -avx /var/ /tank/var
make installkernel KERNCONF=HEIDI DESTDIR=/tank
zpool export tank
dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ad6 bs=512 count=1
dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ad6 bs=512 skip=1 seek=1024
zpool import tank
zfs set mountpoint=legacy tank
zfs set mountpoint=/usr tank/usr
zfs set mountpoint=/var tank/var
shutdown -r now ...
at the 'mbr prompt' I pressed F5 (the second disk, ad6)
.. as written above, loader gets loaded (at this stage
I suppose it's the stuff dd't after block 1024?),
but kernel not found.
(among other things...):
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options DumpPass#
tank / zfs rw 0 0
/dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
any help is welcome... don't know where to go from here right now.
BTW: I can't stop thanking the team for the incredible
pace at which bugs are fixed these days!
On 26.05.2009, at 18:42, George Hartzell wrote:
Andriy Gapon writes:
on 26/05/2009 19:21 George Hartzell said the following:
Dmitry Morozovsky writes:
On Tue, 26 May 2009, Mickael MAILLOT wrote:
MM i prefere use zfsboot boot sector, an example is better than
a long talk:
MM $ zpool create tank mirror ad4 ad6
MM $ zpool export tank
MM $ dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=1
MM $ dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ad6 bs=512 count=1
MM $ dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ad4 bs=512 skeep=1 seek=1024
MM $ dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ad6 bs=512 skeep=1 seek=1024
s/skeep/skip/ ? ;-)
What is the reason for copying zfsboot one bit at a time, as opposed
dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=2
seek=1024 for the second part? and no 'count=1' for it? :-)
[Just guessing] Apparently the first block of zfsboot is some form
of MBR and the
rest is zfs-specific code that goes to magical sector 1024.
Ok, I managed to read the argument to seek as one block, apparently
my coffee hasn't hit yet.
I'm still confused about the two parts of zfsboot and what's magical
about seeking to 1024.
I obtained the same result with FreeBSD 7 stable.
I installed first a new system in a scsi disk with ufs
I put LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=yes in /etc/make.conf, updated src and made
buildworld without trouble.
I built a new kernel, installed it and installed new world.
Until here, that's all right
Then, I tried with a PATA hard drive, ad2
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Chapter 1: Hitch-hiking and the Umbilical Cord
Still in the womb:
Beginning to wean:
Active revolt against parental domination:
These girls illustrate three different stages of emancipation from childhood. The first one, though entering her twenties, is still tightly bound to her mother. In talking to the interviewer, a complete stranger, about her mother and herself, she apparently feels there is nothing odd or babyish in saying:
Mother tends to want the best for her, and protect her in a way .... The girl readily admits that she has not thought for herself but has simply adopted her parents' attitudes. She hasn't begun to become an adult
The second girl, though not daring to break into open conflict with her parents, is beginning to allow herself to doubt the sacrosanctity of their views. Hitch-hiking is a thing she sees many of her contemporaries doing and she sees nothing to condemn in it.
The third student sees hitch-hiking as a central factor in her open conflict with her parents, in her bid to demand that they accept her adulthood. In hitch-hiking she finds a way of physically escaping from home. The thumbing convention allows her to travel around almost without money, money which she would presumably have to get from home. Hitching also affords her psychic escape from her parents. Since they have made it an issue, since they have made it clear she must not hitch, by hitching she defies them and proclaims the integrity and independence of her own personality. Finally hitching offers her a temporary, perhaps illusory escape from the social background of her upbringing. Daughter of a company director, she has the chance of mixing with lorry drivers, of jumping, or appearing to herself to jump class barriers. In her case, as in the case of many young people, hitch-hiking emerges as both a practical and symbolic issue in their struggle for emancipation from their parents' psychological and sometimes financial control over them. The first tentative lifts hitched can sometimes resemble the Boston Tea Party. They may be the start of a long drawn out war of independence from 'parental colonialism'.
All the same it would be wrong to jump to the conclusion that all parents oppose their children when they show a propensity to start hitch-hiking, if they do. People (see Appendix I) hitching at the London mouth of the M.1, near K garage were asked:
In other words around one third of the nearly seven hundred thumbers had parents who more or less approved of them hitch-hiking when they started; about one third had parents who disapproved or were anxious and rather more than one fifth had parents who didn't mind either way.
The above is in no sense a statistically trustworthy sample (see Appendix I). All that I intend to show by presenting these figures is that the parent-child conflict over hitch-hiking is a widespread phenomenon in families where teenagers suddenly take it into their heads to hitch-hike.
The likelihood of conflict depends on a great number of factors, how authoritarian or otherwise the parents are, the age it occurs to the child to try hitching, the sex of the child, the child's own personality and capacity to cope for himself etc.... Without knowing these factors and many more in each particular case, not much more can be said about the above figures. All they show is that conflict exists on a reasonably large scale—it is not confined to a fringe of families.
In order to get more of a picture of the ways parents and off-spring interreact over hitching 186 people picked up in my van were interviewed in more detail than the hurriedly questioned M.1 respondents (see Appendix II). The parents fall into various categories, ranging from those strongly for to those violently anti. To start at the positive end of the scale:
Sometimes parents disagree about whether their child should be allowed to hitch-hike. One parent may foist the burden of making a decision onto the other:
A small minority of parents who have children who hitch apparently feel violent antipathy to the idea of their own flesh and blood standing by the roadside thumbing. Two examples of this extreme group will suffice:
It may be relevant that both the civil engineer's son and the architect's daughter have got themselves jobs of lower status than their parents' presumable ambitions for them. This and the imaginable resultant tensions in the families might explain the violence of parental riposte
Quite a number of virgin hitch-hikers seem to fear strong negative feelings at home and avoid facing them by not telling their parents. What the eye does not see .... Sometimes the deception goes on over quite a period of time during which the teenager hitches regularly. The most extreme case found was that of a 26 year old, lah-di-dah, outwardly self-confident art dealer's assistant. She was the daughter of a rich farmer. When she was 16½ she lit off to Europe with her boy friend of the moment. Neither her father nor mother knew she was hitching. When her mother found out she was: terribly upset, she thought it degrading and dangerous. The father was never told by either her or her mother. Ten years later he still did not know his daughter had been hitching round Europe at 16½, and regularly thumbing for several years after that. Presumably he was never told because both women feared his anger.
The above is an example of total concealment. Several of the 186 respondents spoke of partial deception:
A sizeable group of parents opposed their children's hitching not on principle or because the very idea seemed to them outrageous, but because they did not like the thought of their children having to face the difficulties and dangers of the road. Imaginatively they lived through the accidents their children might get involved in, the lifts with bad drivers, the morally dangerous lifts and so on ...:
Some of the parents of the 186 respondents questioned in my van didn't make any fuss about their children wanting to hitch. They took it completely for granted. It seemed natural or even unimportant to them. A sizeable fraction of the parents of the nearly seven hundred M.1 mouth respondents fell into this category (about one fifth). Are they perhaps the most successful and mature parents? One of the students I interviewed in Cambridge was certainly surprised at his parents' equanimity:
Whether this man's parents and the others like them are the most mature in their attitudes towards their offspring is perhaps a moot point—they are certainly the least uptight.
Children whose parents fail to grant them adult status as they are gradually growing into it have no alternative but to seize it for themselves. Hitch-hiking, which makes possible escape from the home and all that implies in terms of parental surveillance, and which allows for almost free mobility, without the humiliation of needing to rely on parents for financial support, has an immediate attraction to the young person in an incipient phase of the revolt that may be necessary for the afirmation of his own separate identity. When the paren tries to disssuade a child, especially a son, from thumbing he is probably reinforcing the desire to try it. The father says to the son: It's difficult, it's risky, you won't be able to get lifts etc.... This kind of paternal reaction immediately turns hitch-hiking into a challenge to the boy's courage and virility. If the boy has backbone there could be no more counter-productive way of dissuading him:
A boy may also, like Gibben's joy riders in Chapter 6, be reacting against the over intimate protectiveness of the mother. In the case of the 19 year old technical college student below, this is probably one of the factors pushing him to hitch—his mother certainly comes through as a personality who still over-shadows, even half submerges him:
Lucky for this man that he does hitch-hike all the same!
In so far as hitch-hiking turns out to be a conflictual issue between parents and teenagers attitudes to hitch-hiking on the part of young people often tell one quite a lot about their rapport with their parents and evolution in attitudes to hitching about changes in this relationship. There are certain family situations in which thumbing is more likely to become a bone of contention than in others. Parents tend to be more apprehensive over girls hitching than boys. Their anxiety is greater over young children hitching than older ones. The smaller the family and the more protective the parents the more there is likelihood of a clash. On these criteria certain types of middle class and professional homes would seem more likely to witness conflict than larger working class families.
Acting on these hunches I got girls in a fee-paying part boarding school in the North West to write essays on Hitch-hiking They were given no further guidance—the teacher simply told them the essays were wanted for research and asked them to write anything they felt like for half an hour.
20 fourth-form girls, aged around 13, came out as in the main congruent and acceptant of their parents' negative feelings about hitch-hiking. As a group they appear firmly entrenched in the particular prejudices of their parents' part of the previous generation. Only 3 or 4 of them state their parents' aversion and then point out that other points of view do exist. In other words, in early puberty, under the influence of small, tight families and an authoritarian, maternalistic, minor public school, they maintain obedient attitudes, and therefore very similar ones. Here are two examples of 'obedient' essays:
Even the 3 or 4 girls in whom there is a nascent glimmer of disagreement with their parents' views very quickly hedge their shy movement towards approving of thumbing with a massive exposition of the dangers and disadvantages. So for instance this 13 year old, civil engineer's daughter who carefully puts everything in the conditional:
The 7 essays written on the same subject by sixth form girls in the same school were radically different in tone and attitude. Out of 7 only I was firmly anti-hitch-hiking, 2 were on the fence and 4 were in favour, despite parental objections. The girl who was anti was interestingly from a skilled working class home, presumably a socially 'rising' one:
The most interesting thing about this essay is that it gives the key to the change in attitudes evident in this school between the fourth and sixth forms. The girl says: I have never been hitch-hiking, and have never met anybody who really has. She is the exception in her form—most of the other girls are beginning to come into contact with other teenagers outside the narrow confines of their sheltered school life. From new friends outside the mental 'clausura' they suddenly learn that you can go thumbing and not be automatically raped and strangled by the first man who picks you up. Given their curious, earlier conditioning this comes as a surprise to some of them. Their change of attitude brings them into a state of mental conflict with their parents. The change of attitude to thumbing and consequent stretching of the umbilical cord is excellently put by the 16 year old daughter of a Coal Board clerk:
While the decorator's daughter did not hitch because she had never met anybody who had, in other words because no one had introduced her to the idea, the clerk's daughter had the idea suddenly thrown at her for the first time by a 'student'. She was still a mere schoolgirl and here was a college student willing to be her friend, though she was only 16, willing to take her into college society. When she found that hitch-hiking seemed to be the done thing at college, she naturally didn't want to be out of step. After all most of her training both at home and at school had probably been directed to making her accept group values. The college group was now the one she aspired to join and so she easily accepted the idea of hitching, despite her earlier reservations.
You might object that the difference in attitudes to hitching between the fourth form and sixth form girls is simply due to the fact that it is less imprudent for older girls to go thumbing and so there may have been a common sense relaxation in parental policy. This does not seem to be the case. The sixth formers who come out in favour of hitching report just as much hostility to the habit on their parents' part as do the fourth formers.
So for instance this 16 year old commercial manager's daughter:
Poor parents, how negative they seem to these 16 year olds:
To young people thumbing isn't always just a question of narrow conflict with their parents. Often it is a means of broadening out of extending horizons to achieve a kind of human freedom it is very difficult to evoke with words. It's an emancipation in terms of place and time. You no longer feel bound by these two factors which in ordinary life hold you to the board as firmly as pins do a butterfly. It is an emancipation from your role in society, be it as a child, a brother, a sister, an apprentice, a student, a worker or whatever. It is release from ordinary responsibilities. In a way hitchhiking is a kind of long drawn out, pleasurable fantasy—this is what makes it so attractive to young people, what makes its relative hardships seem so trivial and unimportant to them.
Many people who have hitched long distances speak of the sense of liberation it gives them. So this Mexican Indian girl:
Nobody has tabs on her, she can go where she likes, when she likes, for as long as she likes. This kind of hitcher avoids planning and thus lives the fantasy of freedom to the full. In All The Time In The World Hugo Williams tells how he got himself a lift across the desert from Jordan to Kuwait on a huge truck:
In an odd sense, though, Williams' feeling of freedom from planning is calculated self-conscious and very Western. He plans not to plan, and he is not the only one to do this. Maybe as a civilisation we are so tense and overwrought that this is the only way we can let go, short of using chemical means, like drugs or drink.
The heady falling in love with hitch-hiking seems in most 'addicts' lives to be a stage passed through but which gets naturally sloughed off. This is precisely what happened to the amazing Barbara Starke who in the late 1920's hitch-hiked alone across the USA, from her home in the East and back. She did it to escape the pressures and the narrowness of her environment, her protestant Yankee family and the obscurantism of her college education. In her book Touch And Go she describes the psychological point of her journey:
Though she didn't feel very happy about going back into the net, after a time on the road she wanted to go back to a more normal life:
Barbara Starke went back to ordinary life with potent regrets. She had partially worked through the emotions triggering off wanderlust, but not by any means completely. To some extent she had to force herself back into the net. She still saw life in New York as a net. Most people who have lived through a prolonged 'hitch-hiking fantasy' find leaving it, coming out of it, hard, yet at a certain stage in the development of the personality the abandonment of hitching seems to impose itself. I was lucky enough to catch a Cambridge undergraduate in the middle of the sloughing period, a time of consolidation, an inevitable but very sad part of the growing up process. He spoke first about the freedom he had found in thumbing and then about the fall-away period:
Why do people stop hitching? Usually they don't suddenly consciously stop—one day it dawns on them that they haven't been hitching for a year and maybe wonder why. The two practical events that most often mark the end of a person's thumbing career are the acquisition of a car or the arrival of a baby. It is extremely strange, but I have never seen or even heard of a couple hitching with a small baby, at least not in Britain. You often get young marrieds thumbing but not once they have a baby to cart around. Having a baby or getting a car seem to be much more often the end of hitching than leaving college or finishing an apprenticeship. (None of this, of course, applies to the 'industrial' hitchers, the car delivery men.)
Cars and babies get more frequent among people in their late twenties, which perhaps explains why, platers apart, most hitch-hikers are under thirty.
The end of hitch-hiking is clearly most often determined by practical factors, but it is rare for emotional elements not to be involved behind the scenes. When hitch-hiking loses its attraction, and from a pleasure turns into a bind, then a man is much more likely to want to buy himself a car. When two people, whose hitching started off as adolescent rebellion against over protective parents, marry, establish themselves and push their parents into grandparenthood, then the emotional need to hitch is likely to be on the wane. They don't need to make gestures of independence, or live out mile after mile of freedom fantasy; they are factually, economically, and if they are lucky, psychologically independent. Hitch-hiking has played its part in stretching, if not slicing, the umbilical cord. | <urn:uuid:b7c2b176-9bf7-4245-8256-878241fb709f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prino.neocities.org/www/mario_rinvolucri/chapter1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.977497 | 3,607 | 2.375 | 2 |
A neoclassical chimneypiece commemorating the peace between Great Britain and the United States of America.
A neoclassical chimneypiece commemorating the peace between Great Britain and the United States of America. Circa 1777–1791.
The carved Bacchante figures are depicted performing an ecstatic dance upon two low plinths with crossed axes behind. The plinths are decorated with leaves and flowers of the tobacco plant and rattlesnakes, both of which are indigenous to the Americas. The central tablet depicts three female allegorical figures: Minerva, Britannia and America, which commemorates the peace and future harmonious relationship between Great Britain and the United States of America, after the American War of Independence. According to the family tradition of the previous owners, it belonged to Gouverneur Morris, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
This magnificent neoclassical chimneypiece, likely designed by the renowned architect Samuel Wyatt, was carved by the British sculptor John Bacon RA (1740–1799), one of the leading sculptors of the British Georgian period. Its vertical stiles feature a pair of beautifully dynamic Bacchante figures that derive from a work which Bacon exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1777. Morris could have commissioned the work from John Bacon in 1790–91, during his diplomatic mission to London, when he was sent by George Washington to resolve some of the major issues that had arisen since the signing of the Treaty.
There are three other known variations of this highly specific work. One at Sir William Stanley’s residence of Hooton Hall, Cheshire. There is another version of these chimneypieces located at number 38 Grosvenor Square, London, whose 1780s interior is attributed to Samuel Wyatt. The third is at Pishiobury Park Mansion, which was remodelled after fire by James Wyatt in 1782–3 in Gothic Revival style for Jeremiah Milles. | <urn:uuid:df3cfc7b-f3a8-445d-a832-7fa6c742374e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jamb.co.uk/us/fireplace-mantels/antique-mantels/georgian/g365/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.96026 | 398 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Wisconsin law requires the following with respect to PFDs.
- All vessels (including canoes, kayaks, and paddleboards) must have at least one USCG–approved wearable Type I, II, III, or V PFD for each person on board.
- In addition to the requirement for PFDs, one USCG–approved throwable Type IV device must be on board vessels 16 feet or longer (except canoes and kayaks) and be readily accessible.
- Federal law requires children under the age of 13 to wear a USCG–approved PFD while underway in an open vessel on federally controlled waters. It is strongly recommended that children also wear PFDs while on state waters.
- Sailboarders and windsurfers are exempt from PFD requirements but are encouraged to wear a PFD.
- Every person on board a PWC must wear a USCG–approved Type I, II, III, or V PFD.
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Comics Exhibition Comes to The Beaney
A family-friendly exhibition exploring the wonderful world of comics will open at The Beaney during February half term.
‘Comics: Explore and Create Comic Art’ is an interactive exhibition from Seven Stories, and offers a chance for comic fans of all ages to discover an eclectic mix of original and iconic comic art, alongside work by current children’s comic creators.
The display will feature influential British comic icons such as Desperate Dan and Dennis the Menace just as they were drawn in the 1940s and 50s, alongside old friends Wullie, Minnie the Minx and Roy of the Rovers.
Other famous characters include Captain America, Wonder Woman, Superman and the Hulk as drawn by Ian Churchill, the British artist and producer of comics for America’s two largest comic corporations – Marvel and DC comics.
The interactive exhibition will also offer fans the chance to create their very own settings, characters and stories using playful props and costumes.
Chairman of the council’s Community Committee, Cllr Neil Baker, said: “This is a fantastic exhibition that not only allows visitors to explore the history of comic classics like Dennis the Menace and Desperate Dan, but also offers a chance for fans of all ages to discover how modern day artists are producing the classics of tomorrow.”
The exhibition runs from Saturday 8 February to Sunday 23 February. Entrance costs from £5.
The Beaney is offering three relaxed sessions aimed at visitors who prefer a quiet and calm experience. These are ideal for people who would benefit from a more relaxed atmosphere, including those with an autism spectrum condition, learning disability, or communication and sensory disorder.
Two sessions are on Tuesday 11 February (9am to 11am, and 11am to 1pm) with the third on Tuesday 18 February (9am to 11am). The prices are the same and spaces can be booked online at thebeaney.co.uk/comics.
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The ‘transformation’ or ‘makeover’ of people and places has long been a standard feature of popular women’s magazines and is now a dominant form of television. The television design programme offers an uneasy interface between the private world of the domestic and the public world of television, a tension apparent in the conventions that surround the encounter between ‘ordinary’ people and television personalities in interior decoration programmes such asHome Front andChanging Rooms. The magic of television promises that the old fashioned, the dowdy, the ‘tasteless’ can be transformed through the expertise of ‘designers’ and experts. This article will address the transformation of designers into television personalities and argue that the ‘experts’ on the television makeover show act as ‘tastemakers’. The article will argue that the growth of the transformation programme on television is bound up with the privatization of property and with the rising cost of housing and that knowledge of interior design is explicitly understood in the language of these programmes as a capital investment. Using Bourdieu, this article suggests that while claiming a democratization of taste, such programmes serve to confirm the superior knowledge and cultural capital of the designated expert. The subjects of the makeover are required by the programme’s conventions to accept the dictates of the ‘tastemaker’ and, in that acceptance, to erase the traces of their own ‘habitus’ in favour of a commodification of taste and style. | <urn:uuid:383ac000-8f6b-4070-bf80-d890c1e6ea2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/publications/transformation-scenes-the-television-interior-makeover-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.933665 | 325 | 1.835938 | 2 |
The past year has been one to forget for the business world in Birmingham and the wider West Midlands.
The city's usually thriving Colmore Business District has resembled a movie ghost town since lockdown initially started in March while the buzz of Christmas shopping followed by drinks at the Frankfurt Market has been sadly missing.
But from all of this has emerged tales of genuine innovation and entrepreneurialism as companies continue to find new ways of working and targeting customers and generating alternative revenue streams.
To kick off this new year, BusinessLive asked some of the many experts based in the city region who we should be looking out for across the West Midlands in 2021.
With a ban on new petrol and diesel cars coming in just nine years' time, the UK urgently needs to build batteries at scale if it is to see electric vehicles (EVs) made in the UK.
Britishvolt is a startup with big ambitions to do just that as an investor in advanced battery technologies.
It has announced plans to site its global HQ in the West Midlands in the heartland of the UK automotive industry where it will spearhead the development of battery technologies for future EVs.
The new 53,820 sq ft site, set to be fully operational by 2022, will be at the MIRA Technology Park Campus near Coventry, already renowned as a global innovation hub.
Further developments are being considered which could see Britishvolt expand that plant, with plans to make green batteries for 500,000 cars a year by 2027.
David Bailey, professor of business economics at Birmingham Business School
Birmingham-based CHH Conex is one of the West Midlands' untold manufacturing success stories, delivering rack and cabinet integrations and cable design, manufacture and assembly services to clients such as Vodafone, City Fibre Holdings and Bybox Field Support Services.
The company, which celebrated 30 years in business recently, has taken its electronics assembly expertise and formed a commercial partnership with Pathogen Solutions to help it produce the innovative Medixair product.
This new technology has been tested and proven to eliminate airborne viruses and bacteria as part of effective infection control regimes and promises to reduce the airborne spread of coronavirus.
It is this level of innovation and collaboration that will help the business emerge from the challenges of 2020 in a stronger position and with ambitious plans to grow.
Sharn Haywood-Higgs, manufacturing growth manager for the Manufacturing Growth Programme
Work by the Birmingham office of global design business Gensler in Europe, the Middle East and UK has set them up for success in 2021.
The business has now outgrown its Custard Factory offices and will be moving to new premises in St Philip's Place in the spring.
Gensler also has big plans to expand its local portfolio and work on mixed-use, workplace and interior design projects not just in Birmingham but across the West Midlands.
2021 will be a year for the city, and the region, to rebuild. Gensler will almost certainly be involved in a new era for the city and its recovery.
Paul Faulkner, chief executive of Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce
Independent retailer Loki Wine is a prime example of how passion and customer service combine to create a truly memorable experience, with customers encouraged to sample and discover a range of wines, spirits and craft beer.
Having built a loyal customer base since opening his first site in Birmingham in 2012, followed by a second store and deli in Edgbaston in 2018, founder Phil Innes has embraced innovation in the face of coronavirus-enforced closures.
By introducing virtual tasting events and expanding Loki's delivery services, he has kept true to the essence of the brand's personal, experienced approach and stayed close to his loyal customer base in the process.
With a third site in Knowle opening in January, Loki has defeated the odds this year and, with a focus on delivering the very best in both products and experience, I believe the best is yet to come.
David Pardoe, head of marketing, retail and tenant engagement at the Mailbox, Birmingham
Microland's presence in the region is a major endorsement of our growing digital economy.
In February, the Indian cloud and data company made its second investment in the region in two years, marking an exciting period of innovation and development for the global outlook of the business.
The West Midlands' pivotal role in its future plans will create more opportunities for us to attract like-minded, tech-focused firms to establish here - especially from the Indian market.
We are ramping up our activity there through initiatives like the West Midlands India Partnership to foster more success stories for mutual economic benefit between the region and India.
Neil Rami, chief executive of the West Midlands Growth Company
Oval Real Estate
Oval Real Estate is fast becoming a major player in Birmingham's residential and commercial property sector.
The property investment and development company, which has offices in Birmingham and London, has invested heavily in the city, acquiring 16 acres of land in Digbeth, where it is building up to 2,000 homes and more than two million square feet of commercial space.
It has submitted planning applications across a further 42 acres. Last year, Oval also acquired 1 Colmore Square, its first major trophy office asset acquisition in Birmingham.
Nick Woodward, senior director in Birmingham capital markets team, CBRE
Round Midnight is a creative arts company that uses virtual reality (VR) to explore challenging issues and deliver bespoke creative arts education to young people in Birmingham.
The business' interactive 'Technology for Good' programme recently featured on Channel 4's VR vs Gangs documentary which examines the decision making processes linked to gang culture and risk-taking behaviour.
Its products have also been used by West Midlands Police and probation services.
Following successful funding rounds last year, 2021 will see the company introduce a new VR experience which will use a 'choose your own path' format to explore more social issues that impact young people on a daily basis.
2021 will also see the launch of a new digital learning platform called LINK_UP, developed using funding from Innovate UK, which has been created for teachers and will engage pupils in challenging subject matters through the use of interactive films, voting systems and live discussions.
David Hardman, managing director of Bruntwood SciTech Birmingham
Single-use plastic is a massive global concern and one that we must all take action on to try to eradicate.
SauceStream is a new start-up run by serial Birmingham entrepreneurs Peter Neath and Ian Worton who have devised a new rubber squeezer for improving how sauces are poured from glass bottles.
They hope to replace the 650 million plastic ones made every year.
The product has taken two years to develop and is now fully patented and trademarked in the UK, with the engineers awaiting news on global approvals.
A social media campaign has seen the concept go viral, reaching more than 2 million people in a matter of days and generating opportunities with retailer Dunelm, Genting Arena hotels and customers in Austria and the US.
There is a worldwide appetite to end single-use plastic so I expect SauceStream to be one of the innovations that starts to make a huge difference.
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The Australian Heritage Database is a searchable online database of heritage sites in Australia. It is maintained by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment as of 2022 , in consultation with Australian Heritage Council. There are more than 20,000 entries in the database, which includes natural, historic and Indigenous heritage places, held in separately maintained lists.
Included in the database are places or items:
- the World Heritage List, places that are of outstanding universal value and have been included on this United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) managed list;
- the National Heritage List, a long list of natural, historic and Indigenous places that are of outstanding national heritage value to the Australian nation;
- the Commonwealth Heritage List, a list of natural, historic and Indigenous places of heritage significance owned or controlled by the Australian Government;
- the Register of the National Estate, a list of natural, historic and Indigenous heritage places throughout Australia, frozen in February 2007 and replaced by the Australian National Heritage List and the Commonwealth Heritage List;
- the List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance (LOPHSA), a list which recognises symbolically sites of outstanding historic significance to Australia that are located outside the Australian jurisdiction; and
- other places being considered for listing in one of these lists.
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Are you repeatedly using snippets of text on your WordPress site? If you do, then the reusable block feature will be very helpful to you. In this video, we will show you how to easily create a reusable block in the WordPress Gutenberg/Block editor.
To start, you would want to create the text that you want to repeat in your content in a single block. Now click the verticle ellipsis in the editing options for the block and click the Add to Reusable Blocks option. Name the block and click the save button to add it to the available blocks.
Now when looking to add a block you can go to the reusable blocks section and select the block you’ve added. This will add the block to your content and if you modify the block it will modify the content in the block everywhere it is placed on your site.
Another popular reusable block to add is a button block. You will want to style the button to the design you’re wanting, select the text you plan to add and add a link to where the button should send the user who clicks on it. Now when you add this to the reusable blocks area, it will be an option for placement and will have the same design and link for every place it is added.
Should you want to see all of your reusable blocks you would click add a block, open the reusable block area, and click the link titled Manage All Reusable Blocks. It will bring you to an area where you can delete, edit, or export the reusable block. This will allow you to import the block into other sites.
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Data Wrap - national business confidence falls to record low
In today’s Data Wrap we review the latest ABS survey on the business impacts of COVID-19, and consider other leading indicators of economic activity which provide insight into the national economic impact of coronavirus, including the NAB’s latest business surveys and the Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index.
Business Impacts of COVID-19
The state, national and global economies face the prospect of significant downturns in the face of various social distancing and other operational restrictions that have been widely implemented over the past month in order to mitigate the spread of coronavirus. As most of the economic indicators we cover in the Data Wrap are produced with a significant lag, they generally do not capture these latest changes to the economy. In order to better understand how COVID-19 has impacted the way businesses operate, employ people, and their cash flow has changed, the ABS has fielded two surveys to measure the business impacts of COVID-19. While the surveys do not provide state level detail, they still provide useful information on general business impacts and differences across industries, which will generally apply across all states.
The latest ABS survey was undertaken from 30 March to 3 April, which followed the Australian Government’s announcement on 29 March 2020 of increased social distancing restrictions and additional business support measures, and coincided with the announcement on 30 March of the $130 billion JobKeeper payment program which is designed to ensure that employers stay connected to their employees. This program provides a flat $1,500 per fortnight wage subsidy to employees and may assist approximately 6 million workers nationwide.
According to the latest survey 90 per cent of Australian businesses were still operating in the week commencing 30th March 2020. Of those businesses that were not trading, 70 per cent reported that this was due to COVID-19. A large majority of businesses (84 per cent) that had paused trading due to COVID-19 did so due to the introduction of government measures. More than 40 per cent of these businesses indicated that a reduction in demand for their products and services was another reason for not trading.
Industries that involve a high degree of social consumption activity that cannot necessarily be shifted to online delivery have been most affected by the social distancing restrictions. Hence those industries which had the lowest proportions of businesses currently operating included ‘arts and recreation services’ (47 per cent), ‘accommodation and food services’ (69 per cent), and ‘retail trade’ (76 per cent). Interestingly, a relatively low share of businesses in ‘information media and telecommunications’ were currently operating (65 per cent), which may reflect, in part, impacts stemming from cut backs in advertising spend.
Industries which had the highest proportion of businesses still operating in early April included ‘professional, scientific and technical services’, ‘financial and insurance services’, ‘transport, postal and warehousing’, and ‘electricity, gas, water and waste services’ (more than 95 per cent respectively).
Almost half (47 per cent) of trading businesses had recently made changes to their workforce due to COVID-19. The most common change was temporarily reducing staff work hours, with just over one quarter of trading businesses doing so. The next most common responses included placing staff on paid leave (11 per cent), and placing staff on unpaid leave including standing down staff (9 per cent). On the other hand, a small proportion of trading businesses had temporarily increased staff work hours (2 per cent) and/or hired additional employees (3 per cent).
In terms of operational impacts, two-thirds of Australian businesses reported a reduction in turnover or cash flow as a result of COVID-19, while a similar proportion (64 per cent) reported a reduction in demand for their products and services. Government restrictions on operations and changes in demand have had a significant impact on supply chains, with 29 per cent of currently trading businesses reporting difficulty in sourcing stock or raw materials. Meanwhile, a small proportion of businesses reported positive impacts in terms of experiencing an increase in demand for their goods and services (11 per cent), and/or an increase in turnover or cash flow (4 per cent).
Given the significant government restrictions that have been implemented on businesses operating in the accommodation and food services sector, it is unsurprising that almost all businesses in this sector reported a reduction in demand for their goods and services. Others industries in which a relatively large proportion of businesses reported reductions in demand included ‘transport, postal and warehousing’, ‘construction’, and ‘administrative and support services’.
Businesses are adapting to the rapidly changing environment by altering their financial arrangements and introducing new products and processes. Almost four out of ten trading businesses reported changing the method of delivery for their products or services (including a shift to online services), while 10 per cent reported having introduced new products. The most commonly reported financial management changes included renegotiating property rent/lease arrangements (38 per cent) and deferring loan repayments (24 per cent). It also appears that the current crisis has pushed some firms into action, with just over one quarter indicating that they have brought forward their investment plans.
NAB Business Confidence Index Falls to Record Low
Business confidence in Australia as measured by the National Australia Bank's index of business confidence collapsed in March, plunging to -66 points, down from -2 points in February. The latest result is the lowest on record and well below the low of around -30 points recorded during the Global Financial Crisis.
The index of business conditions also fell sharply, from a net balance of zero in February to -21 points in March, which is only a little worse compared to the lows recorded during the GFC. Measures of profitability, employment and trading all declined sharply.
Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index Jumps in Response to Stockpiling
The Australian Industry Group’s Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (APMI) rose sharply in March, by 9.4 points to 53.7 points, in seasonally adjusted terms. The shift above 50 points indicates that the manufacturing sector is generally expanding, and follows four months of readings that were consistent with general contraction in the sector. In spite of the latest improvement, the index remained well below its previous peak of above 60 points reached in early 2018.
The recent jump is almost entirely due to stockpiling activity with there being a surge in demand for household essentials such as food products and personal care items which retain a significant degree of manufacturing within Australia, particularly for food and beverages. In contrast, the results for traditional manufacturing sectors such as machinery and equipment and metal products pointed to declining conditions within these sectors.
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Priorities: Student Well-Being and Voice
Student well-being was a founding priority of Bringing Theory to Practice. BT2P was an early voice of alarm about rising levels of student depression and harmful behaviors and their links to academic and civic disengagement. Since 2003, we’ve supported more than a hundred well-being projects, often for work that bridges curricular and co-curricular programming and initiatives that strengthen connections among well-being, engaged learning, and community engagement.
In the process, our approach has evolved. An early focus on treating unhealthful behaviors as barriers to learning grew into an understanding of well-being as itself a core purpose of college learning, an essential goal of educating the whole person. We have learned from a range of researchers on student thriving and flourishing and supported work that explored the psycho-social outcomes of various educational experiences on diverse students.
BT2P is currently focused on the relationship between student well-being and educational equity. We are developing a collaboratory with researchers, advocacy groups, and campus exemplars aimed at overcoming racial, class, and other disparities in student thriving. We hope that such work will help to put equity at the heart of the well-being agenda and well-being at the heart of the equity agenda.
In prioritizing student well-being and its connections to inclusive excellence, we work with and learn from many friends and allies: among them, the Healthy Minds Network, the Jed Foundation, the Steve Fund, and the NYU-based Network for Improvement and Innovation in College Health. We are partners in the 20×30 Learning and Action Network, a consortium to improve the health and well-being of 20 million college students by 2030.
The BT2P database offers a scan of well-being work we have supported or initiated. Here are links to several exemplary projects that received grant funding.
- Georgetown University’s Engelhard Project for Connecting Life and Learning infuses issues of well-being, public health, and community and personal care — as well as information about support programs –– across the curriculum.
- George Mason University researchers analyzed the efficacy of service learning and well-being programs in increasing first-generation students’ social connectedness, sense of welcome, and thriving.
- Spelman College created an experimental Total Well-Being Course, focused on mindfulness, positive identity, and self care for Black women, which has evolved into a Wellness Curriculum required for graduation
- Penn State University’s network of branch campuses jointly adopted a general education course, “The Art and Science of Human Flourishing,” taught by faculty trained in a multi-institutional summer institute.
BT2P has published widely on student well-being. We held national conference, “The Whole Student: Intersectionality and Well-Being,” which led to a special issue of Diversity & Democracy. Our volume Well-Being and Higher Education brings together important research, case studies, and theoretical essays on this theme. Both are available as free downloads on the Publications page. | <urn:uuid:bb9508d7-1c80-4c7d-87ef-8dfb2a35073e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bttop.org/student-well-being-and-voice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.952689 | 627 | 2.265625 | 2 |
The coronavirus recession and oil price crash could push inflation below zero for the first time since the Great Depression, causing a dangerous deflation spiral that will require a huge government spending stimulus after the virus passes, a former top Treasury economist has warned.
Canberra-based Outlook Economics director Peter Downes said because the Reserve Bank of Australia will not cut the cash rate below the current 0.25 per cent, real interest rates — which are adjusted for inflation — will rise and hurt the economic recovery.
The government would ultimately need to step in and inject another huge fiscal stimulus on top of the $84 billion announced so far, he said.
Rising unemployment, weak wage growth and the oil price collapse to below $US30 a barrel after negotiations broke down between Russia and the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will push inflation to or below zero by the middle of next year, according to his preliminary economic modelling.
That is despite a likely short-term price spike in some grocery items due to panic buying.
Inflation below zero
"Once you throw in the low oil prices with unemployment rising you get a disinflation dynamic developing," said Mr Downes, a former top forecaster at Treasury and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
"I'm getting inflation dropping below zero towards the end of 2020-21."
Economists believe deflation is dangerous because it can suppress wage growth and encourage consumers to delay spending and investors to defer asset purchases if they believe prices will be cheaper in the future.
Disinflation (slowing price growth) and deflation (falling prices) also make it harder to repay debts incurred in better economic times.
Falling prices exacerbated the Great Depression in the 1930s which was caused by the collapse of banks and tight monetary policy.
RBA out of bullets
To support the economy in response to the 2008-09 global financial crisis, the RBA slashed the official overnight cash rate by 4.25 percentage points to 3 per cent.
But with no capacity to further cut the cash rate and the RBA deploying unconventional bond buying and cheap bank funding to drive down longer-term borrowing costs, the central bank will not be able to repeat its GFC emergency moves.
"If inflation falls from 2 per cent to zero, that means real interest rates have risen by 2 percentage points," Mr Downes said.
"A normal monetary policy response to a crisis like this would be an aggressive 400 basis point reduction in the RBA cash rate.
"But we could have the opposite with an increase in real interest rates which would truncate the recovery."
Mr Downes said for every 1 percentage point of rate cuts the RBA would have done, the government would need to spend about $20 billion, or 1 per cent of GDP.
"As we come out the other side of this we will probably require a very large fiscal stimulus on top of what's already been done."
"If inflation is falling and real interest rates are rising the fiscal package will potentially have to be very large and also very well designed."
He said the government's first $17.6 billion and second $66 billion fiscal support packages were good, but "not large enough to offset the huge shock" that will cause unemployment to rise.
"Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better," Mr Downes said.
Annual inflation was a subdued 1.8 per cent in the December quarter, below the RBA's 2-3 per cent target band.
RBA governor Philip Lowe has blamed weak inflation and wage growth on global trends such as an excess of savings by an ageing population, and competition from technology and globalisation.
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Auto dealers often like to reward loyal customers with some free or discounted services and other special offers. For example, clients may receive free oil changes throughout the entire lease term, which ranges between two and four years. Sometimes, other free services may be included for loyal patrons of car dealerships. For instance, free tire rotations and fluid replacements may be available. Major discounts could also be offered on brand new tires, brakes, windshield wipers, wheels and other essential components. Free safety checks are usually done during any routine repair or service in licensed automotive repair shops that are affiliated with car dealerships such as Fletcher Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram.
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Education Minister Christopher Pyne’s scheme for the deregulation of university fees is dead or delayed. Either way it has been exposed as bad for Australia. This is because it will put universities in a spot where they need to increase their fees, continually. They will have to, just to compete with one another on the thing everyone wants: quality.
Improving quality by increasing fees means the cost will eventually outweigh the benefit of going to university. Yet what choice will young people have? If they want a decent job, a large proportion of Australia’s youth will be compelled to pay whatever fees universities charge.
Pyne’s deregulation was a scheme that would hold the middle class to ransom. And if the middle class is in trouble, you can bet it is going to be bad for anyone who falls below that. Those who care about the poor in Australia were rightly appalled: the ideas to compensate for the effect of deregulation on equity groups were tokenistic at best.
The Pyne debacle has, however, exposed other flaws in our higher education system.
We need better advice than the VCs will give
Firstly, any politicians wishing to reform higher education need to speak to people who are not vice-chancellors or deputy vice-chancellors to inform their thinking about what they are doing.
Most VCs probably care for more than their fiduciary obligation to their institution, but few seem to feel that they can really stand for what is good for Australia, as opposed to what is (in the short term) financially good for them.
The support of the VCs was clearly not the support of “the sector”; no-one was fooled by Pyne’s claim that it was.
But that is not the point. Higher education is important. If reform is needed, we need people who are capable of thinking about what sort of university reform would be best for Australia (and the world) beyond their own self-interest.
We need to reform our peak body
Secondly, Universities Australia is nearly wholly useless as it is. University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker’s scathing comments have been some time coming.
This is a great pity. Since the universities perceived themselves to be competing with one another (and this is mostly perception rather than reality) their ability to work together has been near impossible. I feel for Universities Australia in trying to get them to co-operate; it must be dreadful.
But we clearly need a body that (properly) represents the role of universities in society. If that body is going to have value, it needs to be prepared to explain to government what the effects of its proposals will be on Australia, rather than just weigh up the financial effects for its noisiest VCs.
No one knows how to run a mass university system
Thirdly, the attempt at reform shows that no-one currently knows how to run a mass university system. We cannot as a sector figure out how to properly fund the mass university system until we nut this out.
What do I mean by this? Let us consider:
Is it true that we can not fund a mass system at the same price per head as we could fund an elite system?
What does it really take to educate 40% or more of Australia’s young people at higher levels? Do we think everyone comes into university already knowing how to study?
What are the pathways for students for whom the system was not designed such as low socio-economic, Indigenous and first-in-family students? How do we make it fairer for them?
What does it look like to properly teach all students rather than throw them into the system and reward those who survive (and act surprised when the elite the system was designed for do the best)?
Might it be possible to think creatively about research and teaching loads so that all students, regardless of institution, come into contact with at least some top researchers in their field?
What are the career prospects of academics in a system that seeks to put researchers in some universities and teachers in others?
These questions are just the beginning – they don’t come close to covering some of the most important issues, like academic work-life balance, research priorities, the size and distribution of grants, or whether we need quite so many administrators and glossy marketing brochures.
The point is that reforming universities without seriously asking such questions puts the cart before the horse. Unless we examine the problems of running a mass university system, we can not know how best to fund it.
We need to take this seriously
The purported “$100,00 degrees” are bad for individual families, but are not really the point. Higher education is important for all of us. We need to educate large numbers of young people to be competitive globally and to underpin a humane society. We also need it because knowledge adds to the beauty of the world around us; knowledge is intrinsically good.
This is not even to explore why we need research, though our safety, civility, prosperity, health and possibly even the longevity of the planet depend on it.
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Brands championing sustainability in 2019
In 2019, the rise of deforestation, climate change and air pollution have caused environmental concerns that are too harsh to ignore and at last it seems both consumers and brands are working together to combat the issue.
Brands who are adopting a new attitude to help global affairs are now becoming favoured by the masses of like-minded consumers. And with new objectives transpiring, we’re looking into three brands who are marching forward to make positive changes.
Swedish fashion retail brand Ganni quickly reached a cool 660K followers on Instagram. Their latest movement? Rent, rethink, reduce. The brand vows to reduce their carbon footprint by increasing the longevity of their clothes. Offering a one to three week rental plan, Ganni hope to reduce textile waste with their new model. The brand is confident that they can help the landfill crisis, and it isn’t a moment too soon, as in Denmark alone 39,900 tonnes end up in landfill per year.
In Denmark alone 39,900 tonnes of textiles end up in landfill per year.
Rent The Runway
Ganni aren’t the first fashion brand to put their focus into sustainability. Entering the fashion rental arena in 2009, Rent The Runway is an American brand combining luxury with sustainability. Being one of the first of it’s kind has seen the fashion conscious brand grow to an estimated worth of $1 billion dollars. Rent The Runway continued to expand on their sustainable fashion movement—thinking outside the (cardboard) box—and invented patented eco-friendly garment bags.
The Body Shop
With a growing demand for a reduction in plastic packaging, The Body Shop is stepping up to do their bit and encouraging their customers to return, recycle and repeat. Earlier this month, The Body Shop created a refill station in their central Bond Street store. With interior design elements recycled from landfill waste, The Body Shop are serious about helping reduce plastic pollution. Empty plastic packaging can be returned by heading in store to either dispose or refill with new product. The brand also pledge to allow all plastics from other brands and retailers to be recycled in their store too. With a partnership with recycling company Terracyle to re-purpose plastic to new items such as playgrounds and park benches. As an extra incentive, The Body Shop has started to offer a voucher scheme to encourage more customers to recycle with them.
The brands that are changing their business models and attitudes towards our environmental issues are being rewarded. Customers will continue to make mindful investments and show brand loyalty to those who are supporting their own values. With new habits, come new ways of shopping and consuming which will have a knock-on effect on how we move forward to design and build eco-friendly spaces.
It’s not just beauty and fashion retail that’s looking to combat the severe environmental issues we’re facing. Food and beverage app Olio are fighting for a new attitude towards food waste. The free app has soared in popularity, with over 1 million active users. Olio make sharing unwanted food easy, with a snap and share feature that allows both hospitality businesses and general households offer unwanted food to other members of the community.
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Hudson Street (Manhattan)
Route and landmarks
Hudson Street has two distinct one-way traffic patterns that meet at Abingdon Square, at the street's intersection with Eighth Avenue and Bleecker Street. The southern portion of Hudson Street carries northbound traffic and begins at the intersection of West Broadway and Chambers Street. At Abingdon Square, the traffic is directed onto Eighth Avenue. Meanwhile, the section of Hudson Street north of Abingdon Square runs from 14th Street to Eighth Avenue. At 14th Street, southbound traffic from Ninth Avenue splits off into this street. Just below 14th Street, it is one of the major streets in the Meatpacking District. At Abingdon Square, traffic on Hudson Street goes into Bleecker Street.
The former New York Mercantile Exchange building is located at the corner of Hudson and Harrison Street in TriBeCa. Other notable buildings on this stretch of Hudson Street include The Church of St. Luke in the Fields and its garden, the White Horse Tavern (notorious for being the bar where poet Dylan Thomas drank and collapsed before he died of alcohol poisoning), and the headquarters of radio station WQHT ("Hot 97"), which has been the site of several shootings including a gunfight between the entourages of 50 Cent and The Game in 2005. The street is also home to the U.S. headquarters of the Pearson-owned Penguin Group.
- Writer and activist Jane Jacobs lived at 555 Hudson Street, above a candy shop. Jacobs' fought and won in her battle against Robert Moses and his efforts to build the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have destroyed fourteen blocks along Hudson Street in Greenwich Village. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities was written from this apartment and described the day-to-day activities from outside her window.
- Golfer Tiger Woods moved onto Hudson Street in late August 2010.
- Writer John Cheever lived in a boarding house on Hudson Street in the 1930s.
In popular culture
- A.E.S. Hudson Street was a comedy television show running on ABC from March 16, 1978 through April 20, 1978. This short-lived series followed the poorly equipped Adult Emergency Service hospital set on Hudson Street.
- The cast of MTV's 2001 series The Real World: Back to New York lived in a four-story loft apartment on 632 Hudson Street.
- The Northern Irish electronic duo Agnelli and Nelson released an album entitled Hudson Street in 2000.
- In the 1982 film Annie, the orphanage Annie comes from is the Hudson St. Home for Girls.
- McGrath, Ben (October 6, 2006). "Where Hip-Hop Lives: Hot 97's Turf Wars". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 29, 2010.
- Martin, Douglas (April 26, 2006). "Jane Jacobs, Social Critic Who Redefined and Championed Cities, Is Dead at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- "NYDailyNews.com Gossip Page Article: Tiger Woods moves into his new digs on Hudson St., stops to pet pretty brunette's puppy". Answers.com. Retrieved May 3, 2007.
- "John Cheever". Answers.com. Retrieved May 3, 2007.
- Leland, John (June 21, 2001). "Designed to Pry: Building a Better Fishbowl". The New York Times. Retrieved January 3, 2008.
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delity or desperate positions of atheism; for I have been these many years of opinion there was never any. Those that held religion was the difference of man from beasts, have spoken probably, and proceed upon a principle as inductive as the other. That doctrine of Epicurus, that denied the providence of God, was no atheism, but a magnificent and high-strained conceit of his majesty, which he deemed too sublime to mind the trivial actions of those inferior creatures.(5) That fatal necessity of the Stoics, is nothing but the immutable law of his will. Those that heretofore denied the divinity of the Holy Ghost, have been condemned, but as heretics: and those that now deny our Saviour (though more than heretics) are not so much as atheists: for though they deny two persons in the Trinity, they hold, as we do, there is but one God.
That villain and secretary of hell, that composed
(52) In this I cannot agree with Sir Thomas Browne. Man, considered in himself, is not a contemptible creature ; he is the work of God, and, within our experience, the chiefest work. To disparage him, therefore, is to disparage his Creator ; so that it was not piety, but the reverse, which laid the basis of Epicureanism. Still, the doctrine of the old Gargettian was not atheism. With respect to man, it is only when he would vainly compare himself with his Maker that he becomes contemptible. Then even the inspired prophets proclaim his nothingness, and humble his pride in the dust. Hear Isaiah : “ It is He that sitteth on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers.” (xl. 22.) What more need we to humble our pride ? In a similar strain Homer :
“ Like leaves on trees the race of men is found,
Now in life, now withering on the ground !"-ED.
that miscreant piece of the Three Impostors, (*) though divided from all religions, and was neither Jew, Turk, nor Christian, was not a positive atheist. I confess every country hath its Machiavel, every age its Lucian, (54) whereof common heads must not hear, nor advanced judgments too rashly ven
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(53) It was Ochinus that composed this piece ; but there was no less a man than the Emperor Frederic the Second, that was as lavish of his tongue, as the other of his pen;
ore, tres fuisse insignes impostores, qui genus humanum seduxerunt, Moysem, Christum, Mahumitem.” Lips. Monit. et. Exempl. Polit. c. 4. And a greater than he, Pope Leo the Tenth, was as little favourable to our Saviour, when he used that speech which is reported of him : “Quantas nobis divitias comparavit ista de Christo fabula !” ANON. Annot. In addition to the information furnished by the Annotator, I may observe, that the passage of Lipsius, which refers to the emperor solely, is found in Vol. IV. of his collected works, p. 347, (by mistake, 147,) where he relates it without citing any authority. He owed, however, the knowledge of the fact to Matthew Paris, who relates it in somewhat different language ; and I owe the same to Burton, (Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. III. $.4. Vol. II, p.558,) who says, “Frederic the emperor, as Matthew Paris records, licet non sit recitabile,” (I use his own words,)“ is reported to have said, “ Tres præstigiatoes, Moses, Christus, et Mahomet, uti mundo dominarentur totum populum sibi contemporaneum seduxisse.' (Henry the La ve of Hesse heard him speak it.) Si principes imperii institutioni meæ adhærerent, ego multo meliorem modum credendi et vivendi ordinarem.'” Muth. Par. p. 645. With the work “De Tribus Impostoribus,” Marcennus (ap. Burton. ubi sup.) classes the “ Mundi Cymbalum Dialogis Quattuor Contentum, an. 1538, auctore Peresio, Parisi :s excusum.” Giordano Bruno's wild production, exposed in the Spectator by Addison, Vanini's extravagancies, and Spinoza's “Tractatus Theologico-Politicus,” once famous, have now sunk irrecoverably into obscurity.--Ed.
(54) That Lucian was an infidel and a scoffer there can be no doubt on any one's mind who reads the “ Jupiter Traægdus," and many other of his pieces ; but it is not quite certain that Macchiture on: it is the rhetoric of Satan, and may pervert a loose or prejudicate belief.
I confess I have perused them all, and can discover nothing that may startle a discreet belief; yet are their heads carried off with the wind and breath of such motives. I remember a doctor in physic of Italy, who could not perfectly believe the immortality of the soul, because Galen seemed to make a doubt thereof. With another I was familiarly acquainted in France, a divine, and a man of singular parts, that on the same point was so plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca, (55) that all our antidotes, drawn from both Scripture and philosophy, could not expel the poison of his error. There are a set of heads that can credit the rela.. tions of mariners, yet question the testimonies of St. Paul; and peremptorily maintain the traditions of Ælian or Pliny, yet in histories of Scripture raise queries and objections, believing no more than they can parallel in human authors. I confess there are in Scripture stories that do exceed the fables of poets, and to a captious reader sound like Gargantua or Bevis. Search all the legends of times past, and the fabulous conceits of these present, and it will be hard to find one that deserves to carry the buckler unto Sampson; yet is all this of an easy possibility, if we conceive a divine con
avelli deserves to be found in company so disreputable.--
Mors individua est, noxia corpori, nec patiens animæ
course, or an influence from the little finger of the Almighty. It is impossible that either in the discourse of man, or in the infallible voice of God, to the weakness of our apprehensions there should not appear irregularities, contradictions, and antinomies : myself could show a catalogue of doubts, never yet imagined or questioned, as I know, which are not resolved at the first hearing ; not fantastic queries or objections of air; for I cannot hear of atoms in divinity. I can read the history of the pigeon that was sent out of the ark, and returned no more, yet not question how she found out her mate that was left behind : that Lazarus was raised from the dead, yet not demand where in the interim his soul awaited; or raise a law-case, whether his heir might lawfully detain his inheritance bequeathed unto him by his death, and he, though restored to life, have no plea or title unto his former possessions. Whether Eve was framed out of the left side of Adam,(5") I dispute not; because I stand not yet assured which is the right side of a man ;(57) or whether there be any such
(56) A specimen of the literary trifling which amused our an. cestors. To this Butler alludes, where, among the other profound acquisitions of the republican knight, (Butler was a royalist, and died neglected,) he enumerates his great proficiency in this department of science. He could, he says, tell
“ What Adam dreamt of, when his bride
Who first made music malleable."
(57) Perhaps not, though probably he would never have endistinction in nature. That she was edified out of the rib of Adam, I believe, yet raise no question who shall arise with that rib at the resurrection. Whether Adam was an hermaphrodite, (**) as the rabbins contend upon the letter of the text, because it is contrary to reason there should be an hermaphrodite before there was a woman; or a composition of two natures, before there was a second composed. Likewise, whether the world was created in autumn, summer, or the spring, because it was created in them all; for whatsoever sign the sun possesseth, those four seasons are actually existent: it is the nature of this luminary to distinguish the several seasons of the year, all which it makes at one time in the whole earth, and successively in any part thereof. There are a bundle of curiosities, not only in philosophy, but in divinity, proposed and discussed by men of most supposed abilities, which indeed are not worthy our vacant hours, much less our serious studies. Pieces only fit to be placed in Pantagruel's library, or bound up with Tartaretus's De Modo Cacandi. (69)
These are niceties that become not those
tertained a doubt, or speculated at all on the subject, had not Plato (De Legg. VIII. 14. f. Bekk.) thought proper to make his airy citizens ambidextrous, and to ridicule the old-fashioned practice, which, however, has long outlived him.-ED.
(58) Another bolt from the same quiver. The rabbins bad been filching extravagances from the speech of Aristophanes in Plato's Symposion, where the original inhabitants of the world are described as having been all hermaphrodites, with four legs and arms, &c.-ED.
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QPCC Sports & Academies
QPCC boasts the only dedicated Table Tennis facility in the region and is home to some of our country’s best and brightest established and upcoming stars.
It is our belief that getting schools and young people to embrace table tennis is the key to our long-term growth.
We will work to get table tennis offered to young people in several communities and at least 10 schools by 2021. We will launch a School Club Link Programme to provide a vital and sustainable partnership with schools within the east west corridor of the country.
The School and Youth Programme will form part of the Table Tennis Academy Programme which will link parent and child engagement where QPCC will serves as the facilitator of this developmental partnership. QPCC will provide coaching, mentoring and assist with the development of these members both physically and mentally.
Queen’s Park Cricket Club (QPCC) Table Tennis Section aspires to be recognized as the leading club, delivering a diverse and dynamic sport to transform lives, connect communities, achieve excellence and inspire medal-winning performances.
- Honesty and Integrity – promoting fair play.
- Leadership – providing effective, focused and inspirational leadership.
- Community Spirit – providing an inclusive community for all players, friends and families.
- Equal Opportunity – promoting diversity, irrespective of age, disability, gender, religion, culture, race, and financial status among members.
- Listen and be responsive.
- Be participant centered.
- Be continuously insight driven.
- Work in partnership with other stakeholders including sponsors.
- Embrace the use of technology where possible.
- Strive for continuous improvement in what we do.
Our Strategy is based on four pillars that underpin the whole purpose of Table Tennis.
Our four P’s are:
Each pillar supports the structure – if one is weak, the others will wobble.
Table Tennis Season Recap
Over the period 2018 to 2019 the Table Tennis Section has undergone review, re-engineering and successfully transformed Table Tennis on the map of the club, Country and Region, into now being the most formidable and foremost club in the world of Table Tennis.
QPCC’s Table Tennis’s Team has won many medals at the National Level. In the 5 major Tournaments, both in individual and team competitions and our National players have excelled at Caribbean and Latin American Tournaments in the “Open” and respective age group categories.
The club currently holds National titles in the following categories;
- Female Under 11,13 and 15: Gold Medal & Silver Medal
- Female Under 18 and 21: Gold Medal
- Male Under 18 and 21: Gold Medal
- Adult Male: Gold Medal
- Adult Female: Gold Medal
Additionally, the Club holds several other individual and team titles in various competitions played throughout the year. These achievements are largely due to the hard work and commitment of our male and female athletes.
SHEMAR BRITTON – Law Student UWI St Augustine,
TTO Under 21 and Open Super Singles Champion
Caribbean U 21 Gold
TTO U 21 Gold
TTO Men’s Champion
Represented Guyana at Pan American Qualifiers-Guatemala
TOP Ranked Male-Guyana
BRITTANY JOSEPH – Graduate Business Student, UWI St Augustine
A2 Open Classified Champion
Caribbean Seniors Singles Quarter Finalist
Caribbean U 21 Bronze Medalist
Represented T & T at Pan American Games Qualifiers-Guatemala
Trinbago Open Champion
TTO Top ranked female
TTO top ranked under 21 female
Super Singles Female Champion
Current ranking #1 female in T&T
DERRON DOUGLAS – 14 year old Student Bishops Anstey Tobago
Caribbean Under 21 Silver
Caribbean under 15 Gold
TTO under 18 Gold
Silver Bowl Under 21 Silver
Silver Bowl Under 18 Gold
Super Singles Silver
Current ranking Boys under 18 – First
Overall Male ranking-Fifth in T & T
CHLOE FRASER 10 year old Student, San Fernando
Junior Nationals Under11 and under 13 First Place
Silver Bowl U 11 & U 13 First Place
Caribbean Cadets and Mini Cadets – Puerto Rico 2nd Place
Trinbago Jnr Championships Under11 and under 13 –First Place
Scotia Bank Schools Tournament under 11 and under 13 –First Place
Super Singles Open female Division- Bronze Medalist
The Section continues to be recognized for social and recreational tennis by continuing its monthly inter-team tournament. In fact, QPCC is the only club in Trinidad and Tobago with an Inter-Team Tournament.
Five Teams participated this year in 6 Divisions. Bravados were the eventual winners, followed by Jaguars, Charmers, Loopers and Maulers.
During the year we successfully staged our two main tournaments the Annual Tournament and Hamper Tournament, which provided exciting and competitive table tennis for all table tennis enthusiasts at the club.
Hamper winners in the three divisions were:
A2 Division- B Division C Division
First Dylan Lee Richard Hart Jordan Thong (9 years)
Second Edward Moses Stuart Henderson Dean Lee Lum
Third Geevan Sankersingh Fred Archer Harry Laughlin
Our First Team represented by Shemar Britton, Brittany Joseph. Derron Douglas, Daniel Henriques, Joshua Maxwell, Dylan Lee, Lucky Lungren and Section Captain Merle Baggoo, won the inagrual Caroni North Zone Invitational League Tournament and the WAS invitational Tournaments.
Our teams performed well in the recently concluded WAS International Invitational Tournament placing: First in third Division –Imani Edwards Taylor , Chloe Fraser & Merle Baggoo
Second in the First Division-Shemar Britton, Brittany Joseph & Joel Alleyne
Fourth in the Second Division – Joshua Maxwell, Derron Douglas & Coach Aaron Edwards
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FACILITY (YDF)
The YDF, housed under the Duprey Stand, represents the first and only dedicated facility of its kind in the Caribbean Region. Only 15 months in existence and already beginning to pay dividends as witnessed in the leaps and bounds development of its 20 Kiddie and Junior members.
Under the tutelage of Former National Player and current National Junior Team Coach, Aaron Edwards is the driving force behind the programs, in varying groups depending on age level and aptitude of the participants.
A certified grade 3 level coach, Aaron brings his experience and knowledge with a scientific approach to coaching his charges and the results have been remarkable.
The Section has always been self-sustaining and this attributed to the tangible support of our major sponsor, The Insurance Company of the West Indies (ICWI), with prudent management of funds by the members of the Table Tennis Subcommittee – Ronald Murray – Chairman, Fred Archer – V/Chairman, Merle Baggoo – Section Captain, “Lucky” Lochinvar Lungren – Treasurer, Kirk Newallo, Andrew Persad along with youthful volunteers Brittany Joseph – Acting Secretary and Aaron Edwards – Section Coach.
The transformation will continue apace in the coming year towards achieving greater heights for Table Tennis, the Club and Country.
We will deepen and expand our work at the Youth Development facility to include schools/community and establish a program for Elite Players, while providing our members with continued enjoyment and success.
TO BE UPDATED AT THE END OF THE SEASON
Game & Tournament Schedule
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Procurement of Oilseeds and Pulses under Price Support Scheme
NAFED is one of the Central Nodal Agencies for procurement of 16 notified agricultural commodities of Oilseeds, Pulses and Cotton under Price Support Scheme(PSS) and continues to be the sole Central Nodal Agency for procurement of Milling Copra, Ball Copra and De-husk Coconut under Price Support Scheme. Under the scheme, procurement is to be undertaken, if the market price of FAQ stocks rule at or below the declared MSPs and procurement is to be continued till the market price stabilize above the declared MSP or harvesting period of 90 days as declared by respective State Governments, whichever is earlier, NAFED is procuring FAQ stocks under PSS directly from the farmers through its Cooperative network at State level and Primary level. The payment to the farmers is made only through digital mode like RTGS/NEFT. Losses, if any, incurred is PSS Operations of Oilseeds, Pulses and Cotton are fully reimbursed by Government of India Profit, if any, on disposal of the commodities procured under PSS is transferred to Government of Inida. NAFED has been implementing the Scheme on behalf of Government of India for more than four decades.
During last five years (2014-15 to 2018-19), NAFED made an unprecedented record procurement of 91.098 lakh MT of oilseeds and pulses under the Price Support Scheme, up by 1205% when compared to quantity of 7.02 lakh MT during corresponding period of previous five years, i.e. 2009-10 to 2013-14. | <urn:uuid:7e53ac3a-32ad-4281-8b2b-11d9ea2ef928> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nafed-india.com/govt-operations-nafed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.914209 | 339 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Seed On Good Soil
15 But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.
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The Parable of the Sower
11 "This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. 13 Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. 14 The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life's worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature. 15 But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop. NIV
Our Purpose . . .
Probably Jesus’ first parable, He uses a common example that would have been recognized by all those present – maybe He even saw a farmer in the distance out spreading seed in his field – and applied it to the spreading of the Word of God. The preparation of the receiver’s hearts has everything to do with how the Word of God grows in their lives. And not only when they receive the Word of God, but what they DO with it in their lives (produce a crop) is as important as the receiving.
We have a “motto” in our Sunday School class:
“If your Sundays don’t change your Mondays, then what’s the point?”
What we learn from reading and studying God’s Word is important; but equally important is what we DO with that knowledge. We MUST take that knowledge we gathered on Sunday and take it out into the world on Monday, or we have missed the intent of our Savior’s commission to spread the seed:
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. NIV
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We are a Sunday School class at an
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We believe that we really do need to stand ready as Peter says:
1 Peter 3:15
15 But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. NIV
Through our knowledge of God’s Word and Jesus our Lord we can discern truth from error, test the spirits, and defend our faith.
Please join us as we study God’s Word and take another step closer to Him.
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Parenting little ones came with it’s own exhausting set of challenges prior to COVID 19. Now, many parents are expected to continue to manage those challenges, all while figuring out how to work from home, home school their children of different ages, and cope with the stress of the “new normal”. Below are some quick tips to help parents through this time.
In times of emergency, put on your own oxygen mask first.
This is a time in which we may be experiencing heightened emotions that are difficult to manage, such as anxiety and/or depression. For your health, you want to ensure that you are prioritizing your own self care. Below are some quick self care tips during this time:
Take quick mindful moments throughout the day. One mindfulness activity to do by yourself or with your kids is to name five things you see, four things your hear, three things you can touch, two things you smell, and one taste. This activity allows us to focus on our environment and redirect our own thoughts to the present moment.
Have realistic expectations of yourself. As much as you can, slow down. All your home improvement projects or additional life projects do not need to be completed during this time. Children do not need any extra expectations and genuinely thrive with unstructured time with a parent who can be fully present with them. Just being present with your kid is doing more than enough.
Practice Gratitude. Take time to reflect on something that made you feel proud of yourself or something that you did well each day. You can discuss proud moments or gratitudes as a family at mealtimes or just before bedtime.
Take media and screen breaks. Put your phone and the news away. So much of our days are consumed with screens at this point, give your eyes and your brain a break from all the input to allow yourself to recharge.
Practice Emotional Regulation Skills
No one is at their best when their normal routines have been thrown and new stressors have developed; it’s understandable that little things will come swinging with big emotions! One of the best things you can do for yourself and your child’s well being during this time is to practice (and in result, role model) skills like labeling emotions and intentionally coping with emotions. Littles ones look to their parents for the appropriate response to a situation.
- Remember it’s okay to have emotions, even if that includes some challenging emotions. All emotions are valid and appropriate to have during this time.
- When you are feeling overwhelmed around your child, name your feelings and tell them how you are going to cope with your emotions. “Oh man, I’m feeling a little sad about not getting to see grandma. I’m going to take a deep breath, think kind thoughts about her, and give her a call.”
- Find your calm before engaging in discipline. Remember discipline means to teach. If you need to take a break, drink a sip of water, and then talk to your kid about how we don’t chase Fido with a baseball bat, that is more than okay. It allows you to reset and find some peace and will improve communication around expectations for your family. It also teaches your child how to handle frustration through modeling.
Set a Consistent, yet Flexible Schedule
We are living in the paradox that most humans (and especially children) thrive on consistency and yet things are constantly changing. Setting a general schedule to your days will provide consistency, and it can be adapted to the needs of your family that day.
- Have a general schedule of the day that your child can see. Use pictures for littles ones. For example, you could have a picture of things they would need for their morning hygiene routine, then breakfast foods, and you can write in a morning activity to start the day after breakfast. Allow your children to help create the schedule by choosing a morning activity that could change day to day.
- If you are trying to do skill building or academic work, it is best to do it in the morning. Young children tend to have the most brain power in the morning.
- Be flexible with your screen time rules. Giving kids a little extra time on their device can give you a little extra time to take care of yourself. Give yourself permission to let them watch a favorite show while you recharge your batteries.
Discuss COVID 19 in Age Appropriate Ways
It is okay to talk about stressful topics at a developmentally appropriate level. Make sure your child knows that they can ask questions and come to you with their concerns. Making a topic taboo can raise children’s anxiety.
- It’s okay to say that you don’t know all the answers. Children will feel more comfortable if they know you are being honest with them. For example you can say, “ We don’t know for sure when everyone can go back to school, but we know that you are safe with me and you will see your friends again.”
- Read a book or watch a video. A lot of children process things better visually. There are many resources available online. Some of our favorites have been Time to Come in Bear and How to Explain Social Distancing to Kids.
- Kids process through play. If your child starts to act out fighting COVID or taking their dolls to the doctor, that is totally normal and okay! This is part of their process of understanding the world around them. Unstructured play time, in which parents let kids lead, is vital to young children’s development.
- Keep answers simple and focused on safety. For instance, if your child asks, “why can’t I see my friends?” You can say, “there’s a rule that we can’t see our friends right now. This helps us stay healthy and safe.”
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Kelly Jean Tucker is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with Carolina Pediatric Therapy. She is a part of a multidisciplinary team including occupational, speech, and physical therapists supporting and promoting children’s development and well being.
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TORONTO — The government of Ontario will be getting help from Canada’s military in dealing with a surge of coronavirus infections, while several other Canadian provinces are tightening health restrictions in hopes of avoiding a similar situation.
Ontario’s solicitor general says resources are coming from the Canadian armed forces and the Canadian Red Cross.
Ontario has been struggling with a new wave of the pandemic that has seen the number of COVD-19 patients in intensive care surge. Ontario’s Ministry of Health reported 2,271 people were in hospitals with COVID-19 on Monday, including 877 in ICUs.
Several other provinces imposed new restrictions Monday, including Nova Scotia, which closed Halifax-area schools to in-person learning for two weeks after the province revored a single-day record for new cases for the second day in a row.
THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
— The U.S. says it will share its pipeline of AstraZeneca vaccines with the world
— Continental Europe could allow US tourists back this summer
— Mass funeral pyres, overwhelmed crematoriums reflect India’s health care crisis amid record virus surge
— Virus surge in crowded Gaza threatens to overwhelm hospitals weakened by conflict, border closures
— EU launches legal action against AstraZeneca, citing failure to respect contract
HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:
SAN FRANCISCO -- Officials at the University of California, San Francisco say a man in his 30s is recuperating after developing a rare blood clot in his leg within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.
As of Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had reported the rare clots in 15 people, all women, after 8 million doses of the vaccine were administered nationally.
Federal officials lifted an 11-day pause on use of the single-shot vaccine Friday, saying the benefits outweighed the risks.
The university said Monday that “to the best of our knowledge, this is the first male patient with VITT syndrome in the U.S.” It says the man was admitted 13 days after receiving the vaccination and should be released shortly.
CAMBRDIGE, Mass. — The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi will help manufacture the Moderna coronavirus vaccine beginning in September, joining other companies assisting with production of one of the three vaccines now approved in the U.S.
Under the agreement announced Monday, Sanofi will handle final manufacturing steps, including filling, inspecting and labeling vaccine vials and packaging them. The deal involves up to 200 million doses of Moderna’s two-shot vaccine.
Sanofi will do the work at its existing manufacturing plant in Ridgefield, New Jersey.
Moderna earlier this month said it was expanding its partnership with contract manufacturer Catalent by dedicating a new high-speed production line at its Bloomington, Indiana, factory for filling vials with the Moderna vaccine.
In April, Moderna struck an agreement with Baxter International to provide “fill and finish” services and packaging for about 60 million to 90 million doses.
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s president says a full lockdown will start this week to fight coronavirus infections, marking the country’s strictest measure since the pandemic began.
The lockdown is set to begin Thursday and last until May 17.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday all businesses will have to close unless otherwise stated by the interior minister. Supermarkets can stay open, except on Sundays. Permission will be needed for intercity travel. All schools will switch to online learning.
Erdogan said without stricter restrictions and curbing infection rates, there would be a “heavy price” for tourism, trade and education. He said the aim is to lower daily infections to 5,000. Confirmed infections Sunday stood at 38,553.
Turkey had so far instituted partial lockdowns. After the country lifted partial restrictions in March, infections and deaths soared.
Turkey has recorded more than 38,000 deaths and 4.6 million infections since the start of the pandemic.
GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization is calling India’s surge in coronavirus cases “beyond heartbreaking” and says the U.N. agency has dispatched critical supplies to the subcontinent, including thousands of portable oxygen machines that help patients breathe.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency has redeployed more than 2,000 staff to support India’s response. Among the supplies the agency has sent are pre-made mobile field hospitals and lab supplies, he said.
Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19, said the reported cases and deaths in India were “certainly an underestimate of the true number of cases.”
At a press briefing on Monday, Tedros said the pandemic “continues to intensify” globally and that coronavirus infections have now risen for the ninth straight week, while deaths have increased for the sixth week in a row.
“There were as many cases globally last week as in the first five months of the pandemic,” he said.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. says it is providing a range of emergency assistance to India to help the country contain its surging coronavirus infections.
The White House says the help includes vaccine materials, therapeutics and devices that help provide oxygen. India set another record Monday for new coronavirus infections for a fifth day in a row with more than 350,000 cases.
President Joe Biden spoke Monday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and committed that the U.S. and India will work together to fight COVID-19. The White House says Modi expressed appreciation for the cooperation between both countries.
In a tweet Sunday, Biden said, “Just as India sent assistance to the United States as our hospitals were strained early in the pandemic, we are determined to help India in its time of need.”
MADRID — Spain’s famed bull-running festival in Pamplona is being canceled for the second year in a row because of the pandemic.
Pamplona Mayor Enrique Maya cited a prevalence of coronavirus outbreaks, a high occupancy rate in hospitals and a slow rollout of vaccines for the decision.
“The festival cannot be organized overnight,” Maya said Monday during a news conference. “This is very hard. I never thought that this could happen.”
The nine-day festival in July — popularized by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises” — is Spain’s most international event. Before last year’s cancellation, it was last called off during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military says it has deployed troops to help ensure people follow social distancing rules in cities hard hit by coronavirus cases.
The troops were summoned at the government’s request after civilian authorities failed to implement the rules. Government officials say a nationwide lockdown will be necessary if the COVID-19 situation does not improve this week.
Pakistan is in its third wave of coronavirus infections, said Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Babar Iftikhar at a news conference.
Iftikhar’s comments came hours after Pakistan reported 70 deaths from COVID-19 and 4,825 cases over the past 24 hours.
Since last year, Pakistan has reported more than 17,000 deaths from COVID-19 and more than 800,000 cases.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan police are arresting people who fail to wear masks and maintain social distancing in public places, as the number of COVID-19 patients rapidly increases.
Police have arrested 177 people in the past 24 hours for violating the regulations, police spokesman Ajith Rohana said Monday.
Under quarantine laws, violators can face a fine of LKR 10,000 ($54), six months’ imprisonment or both.
Health officials have warned that a more contagious variant has been detected in Sri Lanka. For several weeks, the number of confirmed new cases had been less than 300 daily. On Monday, the figure rose to 793.
Sri Lanka has recorded a total of more than 100,000 cases, including 642 fatalities.
TOKYO — Japan will step up border controls at airports after health authorities found 21 cases of a coronavirus variant experts say could be more contagious.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said Monday all but one of the 21 variant cases were detected in people arriving at Japanese airports.
The variant has been circulating in India, and experts fear it could worsen Japan’s ongoing surge.
On Sunday, Japan also began emergency measures in Tokyo, Osaka and two of its neighboring prefectures that include closing bars, department stores and other businesses and requiring staying home until May 11.
It's the third state of emergency in Japan in three months, and is raising questions about whether the country can safely host the Olympics this summer.
BANGKOK — Cinemas, parks and gyms were among the closed venues in Bangkok on Monday as Thailand struggles with its worst surge in coronavirus cases during the pandemic.
The restrictions come amid a shortage of hospital beds, along with a failure to secure adequate COVID-19 vaccine supplies, but did not include nationwide lockdowns, curfews or travel bans. Health care workers say stronger measures are needed to relieve overburdened hospitals.
The Thai capital has seen a rapid rise in infections since early April. On Monday, health authorities announced 2,048 new cases and eight deaths, bringing the totals to more than 57,000 cases and 148 deaths.
The latest measure to curb infections is a fine of up to 20,000 baht ($636) for failing to wearing face masks in indoor and outdoor areas in 48 provinces including Bangkok.
Thailand also has banned the entry of visitors from India, with the exception of its own citizens. The ban takes effect May 1.
PRAGUE — The Czech Republic is easing its tight coronavirus restrictions amid a decline in new infections in one of the hardest-hit European Union countries.
The government says hairdressers, beauty salons and pet care providers will be among those allowed to reopen starting May 3.
If new infections continue to decrease, the government is set to reopen all stores at the same time, with the final decision expected on Thursday.
The number of new cases per 100,000 citizens in last seven days was at 163 on Sunday. The easing is set to go ahead if that number drops to 100. That would also makes it possible for the elementary schools to fully reopen.
The nation of 10.7 million had 1.6 million confirmed cases and more than 29,000 deaths.
In neighboring Slovakia, the restaurants are reopening on Monday for outdoor dining together with fitness centers after a decrease in new cases.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong and Singapore said Monday tourists will soon be able to fly between the cities without quarantining.
The move comes as both cities are seeking to boost tourism amid the pandemic, which prompted many countries to restrict travelers from abroad.
Flights will begin from May 26. Visitors will not have to go through the quarantine as long as they fulfill other conditions of travelling within the air travel bubble.
The cities had announced the launch of the arrangement last November, but shelved the plan after Hong Kong saw a surge in COVID-19 infections.
ROME — Much of Italy is reopening after weeks of strict coronavirus lockdowns, with museums welcoming art lovers and bars and restaurants opening for outdoor dining.
Public transport in Rome and Milan was jammed, despite appeals for social distancing, as high schools began operating at least 70% in-person on Monday.
Restaurant workers who have been home for weeks got an early start setting up tables and sweeping cobblestones to welcome customers.
At Rome’s Capitoline Museums, visitors had the place to themselves, without the tourists who usually overwhelm the museum and its picturesque piazza overlooking the Roman Forum.
Art student Giorgio Salemme said the reduced crowds were good for museum visitors: “We are avoiding the usual over-crowding where you see that everyone is trying to devour everything as quickly as possible without appreciating it.”
WARSAW, Poland — No-shows for COVID-19 vaccinations in Poland have been limited and are not affecting the country's vaccination push, according to a Polish official.
Michal Dworczyk, who is in charge of Poland's vaccination program, says 1.5% of registered people didn’t show up for their vaccinations in April. He linked the no-shows to a social media action that urged people not to show up for their shots.
A bigger problem is the delays in vaccine shipments, Dworczyk said. Around 1.1 million of the doses expected this week from vaccine producers will be delayed, likely until May, he said.
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Time and space are inseparable concepts, and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard makes that perfectly clear.
With the exception of a few permanent settlements (the northernmost in the world) Svalbard is space shaped not by man, but rather by wind and rain, ice and sea. Time itself designed the Svalbard islands, and what masterpieces they are. Wild, remote and profoundly inhospitable, the islands will only reveal their unparalleled beauty to those brave enough to head north in search of it, despite the dangers lurking beneath the northern lights. Despite the blizzards slowing everything down to the point where it feels like you’re only moving in time, not in space.
The landscape remains unchanged when all is white in all directions. All dimensions disappear, except for the fourth. Time always remains. That’s when your BRUVIK Svalbard timepiece will let you know, down to the millisecond, just how much time has passed since the last time your eyes sought rest at your wrist. And then, when the weather clears and you finally spot one of Svalbard’s majestic mountains on the horizon, you’ll know that it was time well spent.
After visiting the arctic archipelago of Svalbard, designer Rune Bruvik knew that the islands would someday inspire a range of watches.
Years later, sitting in his office wearing the finished prototype on his wrist, he immediately fell in love with the watch. What he didn’t quite know was whether or not he had succeeded in capturing the wild nature of the landscape in such a sophisticated piece of design and engineering. The uncertainty was to be short-lived, and when he brought the watch to Svalbard in august 2013, he knew with absolute certainty. The watch was home. Here’s Rune’s own account of the journey to the northern end of Norway.
Rough, tough, empty and vast.
When you first arrive at Svalbard it’s like step- ping onto the surface of the moon. The landscape resembles nothing you’ll find anywhere else in Norway – or anywhere else on Earth, for that matter. It genuinely seems out of this world, and the stark contrasts of the characteristic Svalbard mountains – black volcanic rock at the bottom, partially covered by the blindingly white ice and snow – lend themselves effortlessly to a watch design.
The challenge is to do the landscape justice. Svalbard is ravaged by weather, worn by time. Rough, tough, empty and vast. Extremely vast. All this became part of the watch, and, to my relief, the finished product really seemed at home at Svalbard. The watch that had felt so good, so right, in the urban surroundings of the BRUVIK main office, felt equally good in the surroundings that inspired it. Slightly better, even. That was the most pleasing thing to me, personally. That as- sured me that we had succeeded.
Another goal of the trip was to capture photographic evidence of the landscape that inspired the watch. Photographer Hanne Feyling is a resident of Svalbard, and hiring her would prove to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Knowing the islands like her own back pockets, she knew the perfect place and the perfect time to capture the perfect photograph.
20 minutes by car from Longyearbyen, the capital of Svalbard, just past the abandoned coal mine creatively named Mine 7, Feyling had found her location. She also knew when the light conditions would be at their best, early in the morning. Therefore, before the break of dawn, we had already collected our canine escorts, two magnificent gruskies (a mix between Greenland dog and husky), a power generator, a rifle for protection against polar bears, and we were on our way.
Upon arrival a sense of awe struck the entire crew.
Upon arrival a sense of awe struck the entire crew. This was exactly what we came for. Majestic mountains, clear skies, no sign of civilization or, lucky for us, polar bears. That day, the session lasted for three hours, but in my mind it’ll remain for much longer. In fact, I don’t think I’ll ever forget it. But if I do, I’ve got the pictures to remind me. And the watch, of course, to which I made one small adjustment upon returning home. The final piece of the timepiece puzzle, if you will, but I’ll keep that change as my little secret. Rest assured, it didn’t only make the watch better, it made it whole. I hope you’ll enjoy it.
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This is assembled into six panels:-
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2. More with a demi-angel. c.1450-60
3. Composite demi-angel, issuing from clouds
4. Finely drawn head (?BVM) of Norwich School
5. St Barnabas under a canopy c.1310-20
6. Seraphim standing on wheel with replacement head
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For many people who require lenses to correct their vision, contact lenses can be the preferred option rather than having to wear awkward and heavy glasses.
As a contact lens wearer, it is important not to get complacent with your routine as your eyes are sensitive to foreign objects and bacteria, and can easily become irritated or infected.
While contact lenses are initially completely sterile, how they are handled before insertion into the eye can affect how they are tolerated by the eye.
If contact lenses are unclean, damaged or an ill-fit for your eyes, they can cause eye redness, general irritation or lead to infection.
This common eye infection of the cornea can be attributed to contact lenses and is often caused by bacteria, fungus or the herpes virus getting into the eye. Keratitis usually results in the cornea which is located at the front of the eye becoming inflamed and can also result in excessive tear production or watery eyes.
Adequate tear production is essential so that eyes remain lubricated at all times, but sometimes prolonged use of contact lenses can impact the level of tear production in the eye which causes painful dry eyes.
When the thin membrane found inside the eyelid known as the conjunctiva becomes inflamed and results in severe itching and watering in the eye along with a discharge that tends to dry in the corners of the eye and eyelashes.
If the cornea is scratched or damaged by a person trying to insert or remove a contact lens it can develop into a corneal infection. As the cornea contains many nerves it can be quite painful and cause an overproduction of tears.
In all of the above instances, it is vital that contact lenses are not worn as they could exacerbate any eye infection and/or prevent effective healing.
If you wear contact lenses and have noticed an increase in the frequency or occurrence in any of the eye infections or irritations, it may be a case that contact lenses may not be a long term, feasible solution to your vision defect.
In this instance, alternative corrective measures such as Laser Eye Surgery at Optilase Northern Ireland can be considered instead of resorting to wearing glasses.
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This story was co-published with the BBC.
When I arrived, the sheriff was wary of me.
I was a visitor to his rural Mississippi county; worse, I was a reporter from New York City.
He summed up his skepticism this way: Every time Mississippi made national news, it seemed like the reporters managed to find the one toothless person in the vicinity and shove him or her in front of the camera.
The sheriff had a point. And I had a challenge to conquer. The story I was onto was not going to flatter Mississippi. But I did promise him I would not go searching for the toothless.
I had come to write about the mentally ill in Mississippi, in particular those who wound up in jail, accused of often serious crimes but denied — for months and even years — the basic legal requirement that they receive a mental evaluation. Such evaluations — to determine whether the defendants were sane at the time of the alleged crime and competent to stand trial for those crimes — would profoundly shape the rest of their lives.
Tyler Haire was one of those I wanted to write about. He was 16 when he was arrested for stabbing his father’s girlfriend. She survived, but Tyler, with a mental health case file thick with diagnoses, went to jail. He waited nearly four years for the evaluation a judge ordered be done as soon as possible.
The sheriff in Calhoun County barely knew of me when I arrived, and Tyler’s family didn’t know I was coming at all. But they let me into their homes, their jail, their lives. Then they let me come back, again and again.
They and others in Mississippi — families, sheriffs, mental health professionals, politicians — wanted their stories of deep frustration told.
It was, they felt, a Mississippi embarrassment that would be helped by greater, even national, attention.
I soon learned that it wasn’t only the accused who sat waiting in jail. The state’s mental health resources were so scarce that families saw troubled loved ones who needed hospitalization wind up behind bars simply for want of an available bed in a treatment facility.
One sheriff had a veteran in his jail a few years back. The veteran hadn’t committed any crime. He was in jail waiting for a bed at a state hospital or a crisis center. The Veteran’s Administration hospital let him walk out. His family had had him involuntarily committed. The man hung himself in the jail cell. It was the first time the jail staff had ever lost someone like that.
The mentally ill have lost lots in the last decade in Mississippi. Hospital beds. State employees devoted to care. Local crisis centers. Options of all kinds as state budgets have shrunk — first by the national financial crisis, then in a sustained series of state scale backs.
The daughter-in-law of the woman Tyler stabbed had lost a brother to suicide. She had walked up to his house and saw him hanging there. He had a history of mental illness and self-harm. She had tried to get him help, trying to get him committed and begging local police officers to go check on him. She had a voicemail of him threatening suicide. He was 33 when he went ahead and did it.
So, today, she mourns him, and helps cares for her mother-in-law, a casualty of a struggling system of care and justice.
It didn’t shock me, then, when Bridgett, the camera-shy mother of Tyler, told me she, too, had been hospitalized for her own mental health problems.
“It’s too late for me and Tyler,” she said to me more than once.
I couldn’t honestly tell her otherwise.
But maybe it’s not too late for others.
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Vietnam has long held rich fascination for western travellers, with the outstanding natural beauty of valleys and deltas providing the perfect counterpoint to the bustling cities of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. With enchanting country lanes winding from charming village to charming village, there is a peaceful innocence to the spectacular beauty offered by this nation. On a cycling journey through the rice paddies, witnessing centuries of tradition unfurl before your eyes, you can savour the majesty of life in this compelling region of South East Asia.
The agrarian cycle of Vietnam's rice paddies has been the very lifeblood of the nation for centuries. Until the recent growth of tourism, rice and agriculture were the foundations of the nation's trade and commerce, with the Red River and Mekong Delta areas rich and fertile, and shimmering fields delivering magnificent harvests each year.
Of such importance is the vast quantity of rice cultivated in the region, the people of Vietnam host annual celebrations and festivals to secure the favour of deities and enjoy bountiful harvests. These lively pageants and traditional events have been conducted for centuries and, with the endless rice fields that decorate the Vietnamese landscapes, there seems no cause for such customs to change. As such, a cycling tour through the lush landscapes and welcoming towns provides the perfect opportunity to engage in what remains vital to the success of this enchanting country.
The Vietnamese climate is as diverse and changeable as its landscapes, with the north and south often in sharp contrast to one another. There is, however, no good nor bad time to visit Vietnam, with fantastic temperatures and bursts of rain par for the course.
To get the very best from a cycling trip through the rice fields of Vietnam, take to the saddle and allow yourself to go wherever the winding routes lead. For the chance to experience the festivities of the rice planting seasons, the months between May and July are often the most active. Harvests - of which there are often two or three per year - can also prove a rewarding time to visit, with October through to December being the optimal months to travel.
As one of the world's largest producers of rice, Vietnam's reputation around the globe for delivering this white gold is unsurpassed. For the people of Vietnam, meanwhile, the value afforded to the industry has long taken on even greater importance, with enduring legends indicative of the divine influence many attribute to the success of the trade.
According to ancient beliefs, man was never meant to toil so long on the cultivation of rice, with deities instead delivering from heaven to each home in the form of a giant ball. This ancient delivery was summoned by fervent prayers, but came to an end following the act of one recipient. While sweeping the floor in preparation for the arrival of the rice ball, the ball landed in the home and struck the broom, braking into individual pieces and leaving mankind to henceforth toil for its rice among the rice paddies of Vietnam.
Heading across the rice fields of Vietnam on two wheels provides the perfect opportunity to experience the many charms and traditions of the Vietnamese people. The friendly and welcoming locals take pride in harvesting the rice that grows beside the Red River and Mekong Deltas, and help provide a travel experience filled with warmth and happiness.
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Depression and Heart Disease, Ever drown your sorrows in a big bowl of ice cream? When you’re feeling down, it’s easy to reach for your favorite comfort food. But thinking about your heart health is important, even when you’re not feeling too chipper.
That’s often easier said than done, said Nieca Goldberg, M.D., medical director of the Joan H. Tisch Center for Women’s Health at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. But it’s also important, because heart disease is the No. 1 killer of all Americans.
“When people are stressed, anxious or feeling down, they’re not apt to make the healthy choice because they’re so overwhelmed by their situation,” Dr. Goldberg said. “A person’s mental health, in terms of their general health, is underestimated.”
Depression is reported in an estimated 1 in 10 of Americans ages 18 and older, and the figure can be as high as 33 percent for heart attack patients. But just feeling down can lead to changes that can affect your health, and not just because you may fall into habits that are bad for your hearth, Dr. Goldberg said.
“Other physiological things are happening in the body, including increased stress hormones, higher levels of cortisol and higher glucose levels,” she said. “Taking care of your overall outlook and well-being is as important as taking care of your blood pressure and cholesterol.”
It’s not surprising if you find it hard to get plenty of exercise, eat heart-healthy foods, limit alcohol or kick a smoking habit. All those things can seem like “just one more thing to add to their list of things that is already causing stress,” Dr. Goldberg said. “People turn to things that give them comfort and aren’t thinking about whether those things are healthy or not.”
Out With the Bad, In With the Good
If you’re struggling with stress or anxiety, Dr. Goldberg said that taking three key steps can help.
- Identify the cause of your stress or anxiety and address it. Seek therapy if necessary.
“If you’re feeling down for a couple days, that’s OK, but if it goes on for weeks, you need to seek help,” Dr. Goldberg said.
- Choose healthy habits and don’t rush it. If you aren’t in the habit of exercising, start gradually rather than putting pressure on yourself to get back to a rigorous routine.
“Something as simple as taking a walk, 30 minutes a day, even if you do only 10 minutes at a time, can help your heart,” Dr. Goldberg said. “Exercise improves your mood while you’re doing it, but long-term studies show that people who exercise report better quality of life overall.”
Exercise is especially important when you’re struggling with work, family and other life stresses, Dr. Goldberg said. In addition to being good for your heart health, “exercise can be a means to making you feel better,” she said.
“Some people respond to stressful situations by eating because they’re so stressed out and that’s something that gives them pleasure and relaxes them,” Dr. Goldberg said.
If reaching for unhealthy foods has become a habit, try using healthier cooking techniques or substituting ingredients to cut down on fat, added sugar, sodium and calories. Try reaching for healthy snacks, or choose undressed salads and other healthy dishes when dining out. Fresh fruits and vegetables are a nutritious and satisfying snack.
“Focus on eating from all four food groups,” Dr. Goldberg said. “Many people say they have to eat on the go, but you can really find healthy items on the salad bar instead of getting a burger, fries and milkshake.”
- Incorporate other unhealthy lifestyle habits one a time instead of trying to “fix” everything at once.That’s especially true if one of the habits you want to break is a smoking habit.
“Quitting smoking is a big deal and difficult to break,” Dr. Goldberg said. Learn about Life’s Simple 7 keys to prevention and how to get heart healthy one step at a time.
Ultimately, you have to take care of yourself to break the cycle of feeling down. That could be doing something structured, like a yoga class or tai chi practice, or something you can do anywhere, such as a few minutes of meditation, listening to music or reading a book.
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There’s so much I don’t know!
When teaching rhetoric, I often use “Is light a wave, or is it a particle?” as an example of a false dichotomy.
My high school physics teacher (Rear Admiral Edward Metcalfe Peebles) set up a lecture giving us the “pro-wave” evidence and the “pro-particle” evidence and inviting us to take sides, then sprung the “wavicle” at us (a thing that sometimes acts like a wave and sometimes acts like a particle) so we’d notice our faulty thinking.
A FB friend recently shared this 2015 item on the first image of light operating as both a wave and a particle.
I wanted to make sure I wasn’t sharing a pretty computer simulation, so I’ve tried to understand what the image shows.
As I understand it, this is a “standing wave” of laser light, interacting with a nearby stream of electrons in such a way that we would expect from photons (individual light particles).
Vibrations of particles reacting to repeated pulses passing each other in opposite directions interact in such a way to create what appears to be a stationary wave, which is the source of light for the experiment.
As a stream of electrons passes near the stationary wave, individual electrons periodically interact with photons (the light particles, or I guess what we think of as particles, somehow connected to the part of light that makes up the wave), and the properties of the individual photos can be determined by how they interact differently with the (presumably identical?) stream of electrons.
I presume we wouldn’t see these intermittent distinct interactions if light were just a wave, and we wouldn’t see the “standing wave” effect if light were just particles.
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Stirrup-Spout Vessel Depicting Fruit
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Stirrup-Spout Vessel Depicting FruitLate Intermediate Period
ca. 1000 CE - ca. 1470 CE
7 1/2 in. x 4 1/8 in. x 6 15/16 in. (19 cm x 10.5 cm x 17.6 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
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- clay - Naturally occurring sediments that are produced by chemical actions resulting during the weathering of rocks. Clays are composed of hydrated aluminum silicates, such as Kaolinite, Illite, Palygorskite, Attapulgite, Bentonite, and Montmorillonite. Small amounts of other minerals can change the color (white, yellow, brown or red) and texture of the clays. Clays may include all earths that form a paste with water and harden when heated.
- fruit - Portions of a plant consisting of the seed and its envelope, especially the latter when it is of a juicy, pulpy nature. In its strict botanical sense, the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a plant, enclosing the seed or seeds, such as apricots, bananas, and grapes, as well as bean pods, corn grains, tomatoes, cucumbers, and (in their shells) acorns and almonds, are all technically fruits. Popularly, however, the term is restricted to the ripened ovaries that are sweet and either succulent or pulpy. The cultivation and processing of fruits are major industries worldwide.
- Late Intermediate Period - The sixth of the seven main chronological phases recognized in Andean archaeology, generally dating ca. 1000-1450 CE, following the collapse of Middle Horizon empires, including Tiahuanaco and Huari. During this time distinctive regional cultures emerged along the coast and in highland areas, including the Chimú empire. The political entities that developed during the late Intermediate Period were subsequently conquered by the Inca empire.
- Peruvian - Of or belonging to the nation of Peru or its people.
- stirrup jars - Ancient Aegean vessels with a false spout rising on top to support two stirrup-shaped handles and having a narrow, easily sealed spout further down on the shoulder.
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Welcome to episode 23 of the ADHD Podcast. In this episode, we're going to discuss a major issue in dealing with ADHD – parenting and ADHD.
- How your child's ADHD causes bad parenting – and NOT the other way around… (i.e. bad parenting doesn't cause your child's ADHD)
- Stories of three moms and dealing with their ADHD sons…
- How good treatment for ADHD can help
Listener Feedback: We didn't have any listener feedback after last episode. As you work on filing your taxes, if you want to find out if you can save money for your family, then go back and listen to episode 22 to learn how to save money on the costs of ADHD treatment (and that may include saving money on your taxes because of ADHD treatment).
This past week, while seeing a teenage girl with her parents, her mother told me about a unique strategy to track her daughter's behavior and mood. She found an app, called iMensies (Period Calendar) – Svetlana Brandel for her iPhone, which helps her to track her daughter's menstrual cycle and also to document her mooods, irritability and symptoms. Since moodiness can be a big issue for some patients with ADHD (see episode 19: about Poor Emotional Control and ADHD), it can be helpful to track your teenage girl's menstrual cycle and the psychiatric symptoms that can come with it.
There are also similar Android apps as well, which you can find at the Google play store.
Parenting and ADHD:
There are many challenges that come up when you are raising a child with ADD or ADHD. These include school issues, social issues, family issues, behavioral issues, and many more issues like that.
And even though we know that ADHD is real, and that it is a real medical condition, people in our society still try to blame parents for their child's symptoms and behavior. They have no real understanding or appreciation for what is really going on.
In my experience, most parents of children or teens with ADD/ADHD are in fact working a lot harder than most parents, but the results aren't as good, and it is frustrating and thankless.
To illustrate the issues, let's talk about the stories of three moms. Please note, these stories are fictional, related to my pulling together concepts that I see in my office regularly, while dealing with families handling ADD/ADHD.
Story A: Alice, and her son Albert:
Alice is a working mom, and her son Albert has a lot of problems at school. He often misbehaves, talks back to the teacher, and he doesn't get his work done in class. He is often described as the class clown. While he can make friends, and other kids love his energy, he has trouble keeping friends – because they love playing his games, but when they want to change and do what they want, he isn't flexible enough to go along, and the other kids get frustrated with him.
Albert struggles with transitions in school, i.e. finishing one period, and moving onto the next. He also does really badly in ‘unstructured' time – like walking in the hallway to the library or gym class. He also has a lot of trouble with recess, when he often gets into fights with other kids.
Alice knows that Albert is bright, good hearted and a great boy. But she gets so frustrated when he keeps getting in trouble. She is continually called out of work to come to the school to pick Albert up, because his behavior has been getting so bad. She also has trouble taking Albert to birthday parties, because she knows he often gets too ‘hyped up' and she can't go far, because she knows she'll be called to pick her son up (though this is less of a problem recently, because Albert hasn't been invited to many parties in the past few months…). She also hates having to take Albert to the store, because he inevitably has a meltdown when she doesn't buy him a treat, or the newest video game or electronic gadget.
Alice worries that she's going to lose her job, because of being called to the school so often. She's worried that this will seriously impact her family's finances. She worries that no one realizes how great Albert is, because he keeps getting in trouble.
Although Alice has read many parenting books, and gone to different parenting classes, she can't get Albert to listen. She feels that others blame her for Albert's behavior, and deep down, she believes that if she were a better mother, Albert would start to behave.
Albert's dad, Albert Sr. has expressed his frustration with Albert's behavior, and believes that Alice indulges Albert Jr. too much, and that's why he keeps misbehaving. Albert Sr. believes that a good spanking would cure Albert, but that's not allowed, and clearly this ‘touchy feely' parenting is not working. This is seriously straining the marriage.
Alice feels that no matter how hard she tries, nothing seems to work. She feels that she's failing her son, and her husband, and maybe it is because she's a bad mother…
Story B: Betty, Bob, and Bailey
Our next story is about a mother Betty, her son Bob, and daughter Bailey (and her husband Robert Sr.).
In this story, Betty is much like Alice (from story A), and Bob is much like Albert (from story A). In other words, Bob has significant trouble with behavior, school functioning, social functioning, and family time. Betty is really struggling to manage Bob's behavior. She is continually called out of work, and she fears she'll lose her job. She doesn't like to take Bob to the store because of what usually happens, and all of the rest (similar to Alice and Albert above).
However, this story is different, because Betty has her daughter Bailey. While Bob is a real handful, Bailey is really easy to manage. Even though she's two years younger than her brother, she is able to be independent in the morning (appropriate to her age), and she seems to get ready for school more quickly and easily than her brother. She seems to be able to keep track of things, and not lose everything. She rarely gets in trouble, and her teachers say “she's a delight to have in the classroom.” One teacher (who didn't know Bob) even asked if Betty had more delightful kids like Bailey, because she'd love to have another student like her in her class.
Parenting for Betty can be described in the words of Charles Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
While Betty feels frustrated with parenting Bob, she feels great about parenting Bailey. She wonders what she can do to get things to turn around for Bob, but no matter what she tries and how hard she works at it, things don't get any better.
Although Bob Sr. is frustrated with Bob, he knows that Betty is a great mom, because look at how well Bailey is doing. The family struggles on, and the parents wonder how they can get through to Bob Jr, and how soon they can do that.
Story C: Courtney, Charlie and Charlie Sr.
In this case, Charlie has similar problems, like the boys in the two previous stories. Courtney also struggles as a mom, and feels guilt and frustration on a regular basis. Charlie Sr. tries to help as much as he can, and he and Courtney do their best to support one another and take turns to deal with the frustrations that come up on a day to day basis.
The difference in story C: Charlie's 3rd grade teacher, Ms. Cafferty, suggested to the parents that their son may have ADHD. She did this in a way that explained that she sees great work from Charlie sometimes, and she sees how well he can behave in certain circumstances, and that she believed that the right help could make a big difference.
After taking Charlie to see Dr. Calderwood, Charlie was given a diagnosis of ADHD. Dr. Calderwood suggested ‘multi-modal treatment' for Charlie, including parent support and parent management training.
At first, Courtney and Charlie Sr. felt that getting the diagnosis explained so much that they were relieved. Knowing that this was ADHD was so freeing to them, because it meant that they weren't the cause of their son's bad behavior. But then Dr. Calderwood suggested that they go to parenting therapy.
Courtney's first reaction was upset. She thought, “if our son has the diagnosis, why do we have to go to therapy. Is the doctor trying to secretly blame us?”
Dr. Calderwood picked up on Courtney's concerns, and explained: “because children with ADHD have trouble structuring the world for themselves, we train parents with the best practices in parenting an ADHD child. This helps your child to function better. You then also create the structure around your child, and share that with the school, as well as with anyone else involved in the care of your son – like a babysitter, the grandparents, the soccer coach, or anyone else like that.”
When Charlie's parents started to use the parenting strategies that the doctor and therapist were teaching them, they noted some benefits, but Charlie was still difficult at times. There were still calls from the school, but the school was working with the parents, using the new strategies, so things were going better.
When the medication started to work well, there was a big change for Charlie and his family. Charlie felt better, acted better, and was more in control of his behavior.
The parents noted that the parenting strategies they were using started to work so much better once the medication started to work.
Key Insights from the ADHD Parenting Stories Above:
- If you only have one child, and that child has undiagnosed ADHD, or diagnosed ADHD, you're more likely to feel like a bad parent, and you're more likely to feel guilty about it, than if you more than one child, one of whom doesn't have ADD/ADHD
- When a child has ADD/ADHD, trying the regular parenting strategies that people use, but just trying harder doesn't work well enough. You need to get specialized parenting strategies that have been shown to work with kids with ADD/ADHD
- When you work with a doctor and a therapist, and you learn good parenting strategies to help your child with ADHD, they can start to make a difference. The biggest difference happens when you use parenting strategies in combination with multimodal treatment, often including medication.
Bad Parenting Doesn't Cause ADHD, ADHD Causes Bad Parenting. Treat your child's ADHD, and your parenting will work a lot better.
As I wrote in my book, Attention Difference Disorder, as a message to parents: “Parents aren't the cause of ADHD, but they can be part of the solution.”
There is plenty of research which supports the fact that ADHD is real, and that bad parenting is not the cause of ADHD. Almost without exception, in 13 years of clinical practice, I haven't met a parent who wasn't doing the best they could for their child (with the resources they had). That's why it's so important that we share messages like this one, so that parents and kids get the help that they need, when ADD/ADHD is involved. It needs to be recognized, helped and treated, and then things can get a lot better.
For more information about parenting strategies for ADD/ADHD, as part of a comprehensive treatment plan (including alternatives), get a copy of my book: Attention Difference Disorder.
Please share your thoughts and reactions to this episode in the comments below. I look forward to hearing from you.
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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, dramatically moved to join the international criminal court on Wednesday, setting Palestinians on a diplomatic collision course with Israel and Washington, and risking imposition of US sanctions.
Abbas signed the Rome statute governing the court and 19 other international agreements, potentially opening the way to Palestinians to pursue Israel for war crimes in the court of last resort based in The Hague.
It followed the rejection by the UN security council of a Jordanian-backed resolution on behalf of Palestine calling for the end to the Israeli occupation by 2017 and the establishment of a Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders.
Abbas’s move came at the end of 24 hours of diplomatic tension when – under pressure from other members of the Palestinian leadership – he followed through on his long-threatened plan to join the ICC.
In response to Abbas’s signing of the treaty Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, warned that it was Palestinians, not Israel, that should be concerned about the ICC.
“It is the Palestinian Authority – which is in a unity government with Hamas, an avowed terrorist organisation that, like Isis, perpetrates war crimes – that needs to be concerned about the international criminal court in the Hague,” Netanyahu said, adding that Israel would take unspecified “retaliatory steps”.
The US also condemned the move which it described as “deeply troubling” with State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke saying it was “an escalatory step that will not achieve any of the outcomes most Palestinians have long hoped to see for their people”.
He added: “Today’s action is entirely counter-productive and does nothing to further the aspirations of the Palestinian people for a sovereign and independent state. It badly damages the atmosphere with the very people with whom they ultimately need to make peace. As we’ve said before, the United States continues to strongly oppose actions – by both parties – that undermine trust and create doubts about their commitment to a negotiated peace. Our position has not changed. Such actions only push the parties further apart.”
Acceding to the Rome treaty – the first step in joining the court – had been seen by many as the nuclear option in the recent Palestinian efforts to advance their case for statehood in international forums.
“They attack us and our land every day, to whom are we to complain? The security council let us down – where are we to go?” Abbas told a gathering of Palestinian leaders in remarks broadcast on official television.
“We want to refer to international institutions, and this is one we are referring to, and we’ll complain to these people,” he added, before signing the documents.
Abbas had been under heavy domestic pressure to take action against Israel following months of tension fuelled by the collapse of US-brokered peace talks, a 50-day war between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, a spate of deadly Palestinian attacks on Israeli targets and Israeli restrictions on Palestinian access to a key Muslim holy site in Jerusalem. Tuesday’s defeat in the UN security council further raised pressure on Abbas to act. There was a palpable sense of fury in the Palestinian leadership over US and Israeli-led efforts that derailed the UN resolution that called for the ending of the Israeli occupation.
The resolution was opposed by the US and Israel and saw both the US secretary of state, John Kerry, and Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, call the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, on the eve of the vote to persuade him to abstain.
“Even half an hour before the vote Nigeria indicated it was committed to voting for the resolution,” one Palestinian source involved in the negotiations commented furiously. “We knew that Rwanda, South Korea and Australia would not back it, but we believed Nigeria was on board.”
Britain, Rwanda, Lithuania and South Korea joined Nigeria in abstaining. Welcoming the UN vote, Netanyahu extended his special thanks to Nigeria and Rwanda. “This is what tipped the scales,” he said.
Signalling that the vote would not mark an end to the campaign to win a security council resolution, Palestinian and French officials indicated they would continue working to find a text to put to the UN, perhaps within weeks.
Before the vote the Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Palestinians could return again to the security council, which will have five new members starting on Thursday who are viewed as more sympathetic to their cause.
However, despite signalling a sharp defeat to the Arab-supported campaign to get security council backing for a moves towards a Palestinian state, the vote held minimal comfort for Israel, seeing two European countries – France and Luxembourg – support the resolution. The US also made clear it was not voting for the status quo in opposing the resolution.
“We voted against this resolution not because we are comfortable with the status quo. We voted against it because … peace must come from hard compromises that occur at the negotiating table,” the US ambassador Samantha Power said.
She criticised the decision to bring the draft resolution to a vote as a “staged confrontation that will not bring the parties closer”. She added that the resolution was deeply unbalanced and did not take into account Israel’s security concerns.
The ICC can prosecute individuals accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed since 1 July 2002, when the Rome statute came into force.
According to the ICC’s official website the Rome treaty has been ratified by 122 states.
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Wells Fargo improperly foreclosed on approximately 400 homes in which homeowners should have been eligible for a loan modification, according to the bank’s SEC filings. The troubled institution blamed the error on a computer glitch that occurred with an automated underwriting tool.
The homes were foreclosed on between April 13, 2010 and October 20, 2015, according to the filing.
“This error in the modification tool caused an automated miscalculation of attorneys’ fees that were included for purposes of determining whether a customer qualified for a mortgage loan modification pursuant to the requirements of government-sponsored enterprises,” the filing says.
“As a result of this error, approximately 625 customers were incorrectly denied a loan modification or were not offered a modification in cases where they would have otherwise qualified,” the filing continues. “In approximately 400 of these instances, after the loan modification was denied or the customer was deemed ineligible to be offered a loan modification, a foreclosure was completed.”
The bank said it set aside $8 million to pay back the homeowners who were impacted by the error, in the filing.
In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, Wells Fargo spokesman Tom Goyda, said some of the borrowers may still have lost their homes regardless of the error.
“There’s not a 100 percent clear cause and effect relationship between the modification denial and the ultimate foreclosure,” he told the LA Times.
In April, the scandal-prone banking behemoth was also smacked with a $1 billion fine after it was revealed the bank had been charging mortgage customers for its own mistakes.
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Ali Gill’s unlikely journey to a hemp PhD
When Ali Gill enrolled in a science degree, she never thought she’d go on to pursue a PhD to determine the drought tolerance and water use efficiency of industrial hemp.
Ali shares her journey as a University of Adelaide student and researcher, which includes an AgriFutures Horizon Scholarship and now a Fullbright Scholarship.
Follow Ali on Twitter at @aligill_
If someone had told me in Year 12 that seven years later I would be midway through a PhD in plant science, I would have laughed. My career aspirations leaving high school were broad and, at that stage, agriculture was not on the cards.
Going into a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) at the University of Adelaide seemed like the best way to keep my options open. As part of this, I applied for the AgriFutures Horizon Scholarship Program early in my first year and was both incredibly honoured, but also very surprised, to be successful. Little did I know, the Horizon Scholarship would transform my career.
"Going into a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) at the University of Adelaide seemed like the best way to keep my options open."Ali Gill
The Horizon Scholarship was pivotal in igniting my passion for plant science and agriculture. Unlike many of the other scholars, I did not grow up on a farm, nor do I have relatives in agricultural careers.
I had big ambitions to be a leader but did not have much of an understanding of agriculture at the time. The yearly Horizon Workshops were not only an unparalleled opportunity for networking, but also exponentially increased my agricultural knowledge base. Coupled with two-week long industry placements each year, I quickly discovered a passion for plant science research.
I was very lucky to undertake placements supported by the scholarship at the CSIRO Cotton Group in Canberra, Advanta Seeds in Toowoomba and SARDI in Adelaide. I strongly believe that research is a vital step in improving efficiency and sustainability in agriculture, and these placements inspired me to aim high.
After completing my Bachelor of Science (Advanced) with majors in botany and soil science, I went straight into Honours in Plant Science at the University of Adelaide.
Supervised by Professor Rachel Burton, I aimed to characterise the root morphology and root exudates of native, commercial species of saltbush. Saltbush as a species, can survive in extraordinarily high levels of soil salinity, and we proposed that the release of exudates from the roots may assist in this salinity tolerance.
While honours threw me in the deep end, I loved every minute, particularly finding new information that has never been published before. I originally had plans to find a job in the industry after my honours year, but I quickly realised I wanted to continue the research pathway and signed up for a PhD midway through the year.
I am now one and a half years into my PhD, and still enjoying the challenges that research brings. My project aims to determine the drought tolerance and water use efficiency of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa).
Hemp is an emerging industry that has thousands of applications from textiles to biofuels to hemp concrete. Hemp has been selectively bred to produce low concentrations of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and therefore does not have psychoactive properties. It shows such potential to be a sustainable crop of the future. It is very exciting to be researching a plant that could be a game-changer for agriculture in Australia.
A highlight of my PhD so far has been using state-of-the-art facilities at The Plant Accelerator, Australian Plant Phenomics Centre, to grow hemp varieties at different water levels.
Although Cannabis has been grown for thousands of years, little is known about hemp drought tolerance and water use, as well as other growing conditions, predominantly due to the stigma surrounding THC. With this knowledge, we can establish which hemp cultivars are most appropriate for consideration by Australian primary producers wishing to diversify their crop options.
I have ambitious aspirations for my research, and I am hopeful it can assist in creating a sustainable hemp cropping industry here in Australia.
An even bigger highlight of my PhD so far is being awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to undertake part of my research in the United States. I will be visiting the Agroecology Lab at the University of California, Berkeley for 9 months from early 2022, COVID-19 permitting.
Led by Tim Bowles, this lab aims to create productive, resilient, and healthy agricultural systems, with a focus on rhizosphere ecology, soil health and ecosystem services, climate change and urban agriculture.
This experience will be invaluable as it will not only elevate the impact of my PhD research but will also benefit agricultural industries in Australia and the US.
Like the Horizon Scholarship, I am certain that the Fulbright Scholarship will play a pivotal part in shaping the next years of my career. I am particularly excited to learn from the established industrial hemp industry in the US and bring this knowledge back to Australia. As well as the professional experience, I am looking forward to embracing another culture and fostering collaborations across the globe.
Personally, it is hard to predict how my career will progress over the years. Research itself is dynamic, and if the last few years are anything to go by, who knows where the next will take me! Taking each opportunity as it presents itself has placed me in good stead so far.
Finally, I cannot thank AgriFutures Australia and the Horizon Scholarship Program enough for the exceptional opportunities and support throughout my undergraduate years. The Horizon Scholarship continues to play a vital role in diversifying future generations of agricultural leaders. The future is looking bright, and I would not be where I am today without the fantastic experiences I gained through the Horizon Scholarship Program.
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CURRENT VACCINE NEWS:
A Primer on What We Know About Mixing and Matching Covid Vaccines (STAT News):(J. Harris: Readable and meeting ongoing currently.)
”… If you get a booster jab that is of the same brand as your previous jab or jabs, you are getting a homologous booster. In the United States, most people who have been vaccinated have had homologous vaccine series and homologous boosters….If your original series of vaccines or the booster were from different manufacturers, you have what’s called a heterologous vaccine series or a heterologous boost…Kathryn Edwards, a vaccines researcher at Vanderbilt University, suggested the United States should probably look at whether specific brands of booster doses should be targeted at certain populations — or more specifically, if certain people should be steered away from certain vaccines when it comes time for them to get boosters. With concerns about myocarditis in young males associated with mRNA vaccines and clotting problems reported mainly with younger women who got one of the viral vectored vaccines, such as the J&J, maybe it’s time to think about who gets which type of Covid vaccine, Edwards said…A number of countries — the United States among them — do not consider people who received two different brands of vaccines fully vaccinated, even if the person’s home country does. This means someone who got an mRNA vaccine as a second dose after receiving an AstraZeneca shot as a priming dose is not deemed fully vaccinated and is not eligible to travel to the U.S. or other countries with the same rule…the kind of immune response one gets from Covid vaccines is determined by the first dose… “And so it kind of locks you into a repertoire and a pattern of antibody, T-cell balances that carry on through subsequent boosters…Complaints about reactogenicity [discomfort after injection etc] were even greater among people who got mixed vaccine brands, the Com-CoV trial reported…Who then has that responsibility to bring forward a recommendation to mix and match? …”
(J. Harris: FDA vaccine meeting almost live.)
The order requires everyone to wear a mask or face covering in public indoor spaces, with limited exemptions for younger children and for religious or medical reasons.
(Short, readable school/Covid article.)
Conclusions and Relevance Despite the implementation of several mitigation measures, the incidence of COVID-19 among children attending primary school in this study was comparable to that observed among teachers and parents. Transmission tree reconstruction suggests that most transmission events originated from within the school. Additional measures should be considered to reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at school, including intensified testing.
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Admittedly, chemical peels sound kind of scary. But this treatment isn’t nearly as frightening or uncomfortable as it sounds. Peels are an easy and cost-effective way of improving the look and health of your skin, and patients at MG Plastic Surgery in McMinnville, OR, find them to be an effective part of their cosmetic regimen. In some cases, this treatment can even be used to manage a chronic skin condition.
What Happens During a Chemical Peel?
A chemical peel is a facial treatment that uses a chemical solution to peel back the very top layer of skin, revealing the fresh new skin beneath. There are many different types of peels available, and we’ll help you select one that will best address your concerns. A lighter peel may be used to improve skin tone, clear the pores, or resolve areas of hyperpigmentation. Deeper peels are often used to address fine lines and wrinkles, adult acne, or scars.
The application of the peel is nothing to worry about. We’ll start by cleansing and drying your skin. We’ll also use gauze or another method to secure your hair and protect your eyes, nose, and mouth. Using a sponge or brush, we’ll apply the chemical solution and allow it to dry. Depending on what type of peel you’re having, we may then apply a neutralizing solution to remove the chemicals. We may also soothe the skin with a cool compress.
What Will Happen Next?
Protecting your skin from the sun will be especially important immediately following your peel. It’s also a good idea to avoid strenuous exercise, which can stress your skin. We’ll provide specific recommendations about sun protection and the use of cosmetics once we know which peel you’ll be receiving.
How Long Will My Peel Appointment Take?
Most peels can be completed in an hour or less, making them suitable for busy professionals.
Will the Peel Be Painful?
You may feel mild stinging as the chemical solution is applied, but you won’t experience any discomfort. Many patients find this treatment to be soothing and relaxing.
How Frequently Should I Have Peels?
Most patients see improvement in their skin after just one peel. But for the best results, patients should plan on having several peels over a few months. Skin conditions develop over time, and it also takes time to restore the health of the skin. We’ll be able to make a specific recommendation regarding your peel frequency and schedule once we’ve had a chance to evaluate your skin.
What Is the Best Age To Start Scheduling Peels?
Adults of all ages benefit from peels. Some individuals schedule them during their twenties to combat acne and scarring. Patients who turn to peels to address sun damage and the first signs of aging often begin scheduling them in their thirties and early forties. Older patients can benefit from peels as well.
Am I a Chemical Peel Candidate?
You’re in Good Overall Health
Peels are an easy and non-invasive treatment, and very few medical limitations are involved. It helps, though, if you’re in good general health. Peel patients should not be pregnant or breastfeeding. Patients who have a history of scar tissue abnormalities, who are receiving certain acne treatments, or who have open sores or lesions also might not be candidates for this treatment.
You Want To Broadly Rejuvenate Your Skin
Peels are a great option for individuals who want to refresh and rejuvenate their skin. Peels can brighten your skin, even out areas of hyperpigmentation, smooth over fine lines, and minimize the appearance of scars. There are a couple of skin concerns peels won’t help with. Peels won’t tighten loose skin, and they don’t always help with deep wrinkles.
What Benefits Are Associated With Peels?
They Can Bolster Your At-Home Skincare Routine
Peels clear away all of the dead skin cells sitting on the surface, making it easier for your moisturizers and serums to penetrate deeply. Many patients notice that the skincare products they use at home are more effective in the weeks following a peel.
They Can Control Melasma
Peels can be an effective tool in controlling melasma, a hyperpigmentation disorder that can cause brown spots to appear on the face. Melasma is sometimes the result of hormonal changes. This condition can affect a patient’s self-esteem, and while a peel won’t cure melasma, it can help manage it.
Peels are not a one-size-fits-all approach. Several different chemical solutions can be used, which allows us to customize the treatment so that it addresses your concerns and goals.
They Can Beat Back Signs of Aging
Peels can soften fine lines all over the face, giving patients a younger, more refreshed appearance. Peels can also help resolve hyperpigmentation and other types of sun damage that appear as we age.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Should I Prepare for This Treatment?
We’ll provide you with some guidelines to follow as you prepare for a peel. Depending on which peel you are scheduled to receive, we may ask you to stop using skin care products that include retinoids or glycolic acid for a few days before treatment. Certain facial scrubs and masks may also be off-limits.
Will My Health Insurance Cover This Treatment?
Because peels are usually performed for cosmetic reasons, most health insurance plans don’t cover them.
Are Peels Ever Performed on Other Parts of the Body?
Although the face is the most popular part of the body to have treated, peels can also be performed on the hands and neck.
Do Men Ever Receive Peels?
Yes. Chemical peels promote the overall health and appearance of the skin, which men benefit from as well. We regularly perform this treatment on patients of both genders.
Can This Treatment Be Combined With Other Treatments?
Yes. Our chemical peel patients frequently take advantage of other aesthetic treatments. Dermal fillers and botulinum toxin injections are both popular treatments. Fillers and botulinum toxin injections wouldn’t be performed on the same day as a peel, but we can recommend an appropriate treatment schedule for patients. Botox, for example, shouldn’t be performed during the week leading up to your peel.
How Far Apart Should I Schedule Peels?
If you receive a light peel, you should probably wait two to five weeks before your next peel. Peels that penetrate more deeply should be scheduled even more infrequently, perhaps every three to nine months.
What Peel Is Best for Beginners?
The perfect peel depends on the cosmetic concerns you’re interested in addressing. Individuals who are new to peels are often best served by starting with a lighter peel, or a superficial peel, which can address minor skin issues like dullness.
Does Every Treatment Result in Peeling?
Because of the name of this treatment, you might expect to experience peeling after every treatment. But sometimes patients undergo this treatment and experience minimal to no peeling. Why? If you are regularly undergoing peels, or if you exfoliate regularly on your own, you may not have enough dead skin cells to generate significant peeling.
Some individuals also have skin that is predisposed to regular skin cell turnover, which would mean their skin is less likely to peel.
How Can I Maximize My Chemical Peel Results?
Maintaining a good at-home skincare routine is one of the best ways to preserve the results you get from a peel. Regularly cleansing your skin and using high-quality moisturizers and serums will keep your skin healthy and fresh. Avoiding excessive sun exposure, and wearing sunscreen daily, is also an important step. So is scheduling another peel at the appropriate interval. Most patients see their results get better and better with successive peels.
Are You Ready To Put Your Best Face Forward?
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MOCA offers three types of workshops on a recurring basis. One type is an in-depth conservation workshop held every few years and led by a professional conservator.
The other two types - typically offered in years when we do not offer a conservator led workshop - focus on cleaning stones and straightening leaning tablet stones. Our workshops offer hands-on learning opportunities and are led by experienced MOCA members. Cleaning and Leaning Workshops are often combined into one day-long experience.
Workshop I: Cleaning
Workshop II: Leaning
Does your town have a cemetery that has long been neglected, that has leaning tablet stones, and stones covered with layers of dirt and lichen?
A MOCA Cleaning and/or Leaning Workshop may be the answer. During these one-day workshops, participants learn and practice valuable conservation techniques:
- Workshop I: Cleaning: Instruction in cleaning gravestones. Attendees practice cleaning techniques.
- Workshop II: Leaning: Instruction on straightening leaning TABLET stones. Attendees practice new straightening skills. Important -- the only type of stones we tackle in these workshops are TABLET stones - often slate stones are tablet stones. Stones usually need to be leaning more than 15 degrees in order to fit the criteria for needing to be straightened.
MOCA would like to hear from municipalities, historical societies, or other organizations who are willing to host a Cleaning/Leaning Workshop and commit to providing future maintenance of the cleaned/restored cemetery on a regular and continual basis once the workshop is concluded. Contact a member of the MOCA Workshop Committee for more information about hosting a workshop in your area.
Workshop III: Beginner's Gravestone Preservation Workshop
4-Day Intensive Conservator Led Instruction
Does your town have a cemetery that has long been neglected, that has broken stones, leaning tablet stones, and stones covered with layers of dirt and lichen? Would your town, historical society, or other group be willing to host a Gravestone Conservation Workshop promoted by MOCA at such a cemetery?
MOCA is always looking for municipalities, historical societies, cemetery associations, or other groups that are willing to host a conservator led workshop. There must be an upfront commitment from the sponsoring entity that, once the conservation workshop has concluded, maintenance of the cleaned/conserved cemetery will be provided on a regular and continual basis by the responsible entity. The sponsoring entity will be responsible for supplying specified materials. Cemeteries with fewer than 100 marked burials are likely too small for this type of workshop.
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The informative text is a type of written text whose purpose is, as its name says, to inform. Its function is to transmit to the reader certain information, data, descriptions, real facts or knowledge of any nature. Elements of informational text
He does not use any type of rhetorical figures (such as metaphors, redundancies, hyperbole, etc.), since his wish is to convey knowledge as faithfully as possible. To achieve this, it uses clear, precise, direct language, devoid of opinions or arguments.
An informational text objectively presents the facts or data. Examples are news, articles with encyclopedic content, informative texts, specialized texts, such as scientific articles, or film synopses.
Characteristics of the informative texts Elements of informational text
The informative text shares certain traits that must be met:
1-No argumentation or opinions
As its purpose is to inform (and not to convince or persuade), the informative text is only concerned with presenting the fact, without trying to influence the reader in any way. The third person and the simple past or future are preferred.
2-Clear and precise language
Use careful but simple and direct language, aimed at any reader. The language without metaphors wants to make sure that the interlocutor understands the information that is being transmitted without any doubt.
3-Rhetorical strategies Elements of informational text
This point reinforces the previous one: there will be special care in the use of punctuation marks (commas, periods, ellipsis, question marks or exclamation marks) so that the discursive strategy is expository and objective. Elements of informational text
Therefore, no adjectives will appear that allude to moral or valuation judgments (“the corrupt politician”, “the wicked and cruel murderer”, “desperate situation”, etc.) nor will the use of exclamations. The speech thus tries to be as objective as possible.
4-Resources that help
To provide the reader with orderly information, and help him understand the text, the author may use glossaries, indexes, tables, images, highlighted text, various graphics and bibliographic sources, where the reader can go in search of more information or to corroborate it. .
The topics covered by the informative text always belong to the realm of reality. That is to say, they are not fiction or literature .
By this he refers to the length of sentences. An informational text will have short, concise sentences. And equally short paragraphs.
In this sense, the syntactic construction will be the simplest: subject – verb – complements. An erroneous example: “Together with his ministers, the president approved the budget law”; the correct form would be: “the president approved the budget law together with his ministers.”
Likewise, the active voice is preferred to the passive voice, the affirmative sentences to the negative ones and sentences without subsections or subordinations.
Informational texts are made up of a series of elements with different functions and very easy to recognize.
Headline. It is the heading of the informational text. It is a first level of information whose function is to condense the fundamental and attract the attention of the receiver. It can have the following items.
- Headband. Heading that gives continuity to information by linking it to other news on the same subject.
- Pre-title. General statement of the information. It usually contextualizes it.
- Qualification. Maximum synthesis of the information that responds to the two or three most important W’s and announces the content of the text.
- Subtitle. Add additional information to the title.
- Brick Order and group the contents of the body of information, attracting attention and distending the reading, breaking the graphic continuity of the text.
- Summary. They are summaries of highlights of the information, often verbatim phrases or statements, in which case they are enclosed in quotation marks. They attract attention and distract reading.
- Entradilla. Summarize the news giving an answer to its most important aspects. Sometimes it acts as a lead. It is highlighted typographically.
Lead. It is the first paragraph of the information and summarizes the news responding to the 5W. It is the most important paragraph.
Neck. Secondary information used as a link between the lead and the body of the news.
Body. Information development. It is the most extensive part of the news and if it is short it can coincide with the lead.
Exploded view. Aspects of the information or documentation on the same that are broken down from the body and offered separately with their own title, but that is meaningless outside of the unit that forms with the informative text. Elements of informational text
Graphic material. It complements the text by showing graphic evidence of the information helping to understand the news. They can be photos, graphics, drawings or infographics.
Caption. Text that complements the content of the photo and closes your message.
When composing your informative texts, the editor or the editor of the association can use all these elements, although it is not essential. What we believe should never be lacking is a title, clearly differentiated, a lead and a well-structured body of information that, if it is extensive, will include bricks every twenty lines or so.
Informational text types
Informational texts cover several types; for example, journalistic (news), informative articles (such as encyclopedia or dictionaries), specialized (or scientific) or biographical notes.
1-Newspaper or news text Elements of informational text
Describe a recent event. The issuer (author) tries to explain the fact in the most objective way possible, adjusting to the veracity of the facts, without falsifying them. Information on specific things will be given in the news:
- What happened
- Who was involved
- How it happened
- Why it happened
Informative texts are a type of informative text because their function is to explain in a close and simple way more complex topics, generally scientific (biology, geology, anthropology, etc.), with a language understandable to anyone.
The encyclopedic articles are framed within the informative and, of course, the informative.
3-Specialized texts Elements of informational text
Specialized texts, like scientists of any discipline, report a topic to an also specialized and prepared reader, with previous knowledge without which they would not be able to access the understanding of the text. Elements of informational text
It will be an informative text when the intention of this note is to provide readers with objective data about a specific person, without delving into their feelings or pretending to know more deeply their life. Elements of informational text
The dates of birth and death, the place where he was born, the names of parents and siblings if relevant, studies carried out and the reason why he is considered an important person are given.
Formal letters are considered informational texts because they function as a means of communicating specific information about something in particular. That is, the main function of a formal letter is to express to the recipient information that is of interest to him.
A resignation letter, termination notice, request for authorization, or budget allocation are examples of information that can be developed into a formal letter. Elements of informational text
6-Report Elements of informational text
The report is a text whose main function is also to inform. This type of informative text focuses on dissemination related to scientific research, management results in the business field, field studies, among others.
There are numerous types of reports: scientific reports, technical reports, work life reports, social service report, epidemiological report, health status report, etc.
Function of an informational text Elements of informational text
As has been said throughout this article, the primary function of informational text is to objectively explain a fact of reality. The intention is to inform, not to convince or argue.
Informational Text Examples
Simone de Beauvoir (Paris, 1908-1986) was a French writer, philosopher and teacher. He fought for women’s rights, for the decriminalization of abortion and for the freedom of sexual relations. He wrote numerous novels, biographies, and essays on political, philosophical, and social issues. His thought runs within the existentialist philosophical current.
She is the author of The Second Sex (1949), the founding book of feminism, and was a partner of the French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
2-Dictionary Elements of informational text
From the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (DRAE):
- tr. Consecrate, dedicate something to religious worship or also to a profane purpose or use.
- tr. Address someone, as a gift, any object, and mainly a literary or artistic work.
- tr. Employ, allocate, apply. Utc prnl ”.
Buenos Aires, September 22. Ramona Galarza, the “Bride of Paraná”, died at the Pirovano Hospital in Buenos Aires.
The well-known 80-year-old singer from Corrientes had suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest and was admitted to the Pirovano Hospital in the city of Buenos Aires, where she died.
Ramona Galarza was a chamamé singer, a folk musical genre typical of the Argentine northeast. The popular singer was much loved in the province of Corrientes, where she was from, and the news has saddened the country’s cultural scene. Elements of informational text
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A University of Alberta spinoff company has received FDA approval for an artificial intelligence tool that could revolutionize thyroid ultrasounds, making the procedure faster and easier for thousands of Canadians who undergo it each year.
MEDO.ai, with offices in Edmonton and Singapore, received approval last month from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its thyroid ultrasound technology.
“This is our crucial first approval. We will be seeking additional approvals in Europe, Canada and worldwide,” said MEDO co-founder Jacob Jaremko, associate professor in the Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, who started the company in 2018 along with Dornoosh Zonoobi, a former post-doctoral fellow at the U of A and research fellow with Alberta Innovates, and Jeevesh Kapur, a radiologist from Singapore.
The MEDO-Thyroid tool, the first of its kind in the world, starts with an ultrasound video sweep of the thyroid gland and then uses AI software to analyze the scan results. The company describes the process as “seamless, fast and objective.”
One ultrasound scan is performed for every three Canadians each year, of which three to five per cent are thyroid ultrasounds. Women receive more thyroid ultrasounds than men because they are more likely to have lumps or nodules on the thyroid gland in the neck. Although these nodules are usually benign, they can be malignant, so patients require regular follow-up ultrasounds. An estimated 8,600 Canadians were diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2020.
The current approach is for a sonographer to slide an ultrasound probe from top to bottom and side to side on the neck, taking multiple side-view and transverse-view pictures of the bowtie-shaped thyroid gland, while locating, measuring and characterizing any nodules. The process is time-consuming and the next step – interpretation by the radiologist – is complicated and potentially error-prone.
Jaremko said inconsistency in describing nodules and interpreting ultrasound results can lead to confusion and false negatives or positives. False positives can result in unnecessary biopsies, the next step in determining whether a suspicious nodule might be malignant. False negatives could mean a malignancy isn’t discovered.
“It’s very frustrating because most of the nodules are benign, but occasionally there is a needle-in-a-haystack one that’s malignant,” said Jaremko, who holds the Alberta Health Services Endowed Chair in Diagnostic Imaging at the U of A and is a member of the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute.
MEDO’s software analyzes the videos taken by a sonographer, locating, measuring and characterizing any significant nodules and selecting optimal images for analysis. The system produces a preliminary report, giving a score for each nodule indicating whether it is likely benign or malignant. The radiologist is free to edit the report if they have a different opinion on the findings.
“This will make scanning thyroids much simpler and more reliable, especially in people with complex thyroid glands who need follow-up,” said Jaremko. “We are avoiding confusion, making things simpler, faster and easier for patients and clinicians.”
MEDO is doing an investigational trial of its thyroid ultrasound tool at a Sherwood Park clinic run by MIC Medical Imaging, scanning several patients a day using the software, as well as using conventional ultrasound as a backup. The pilot will continue until the end of June, then Jaremko and his team will analyze the results. If they are comfortable with the findings, they hope to be using the software in all 10 MIC clinics in the Edmonton area by the end of the year.
The company will then begin marketing the system to other radiology groups, starting in Western Canada, as well as busy endocrinology clinics that could use the tool to do their own scans. The Singapore arm of the company hopes to piggyback on the FDA approval to get the go-ahead to roll out the tool there soon. Marketing will also begin in the U.S. and eventually in Europe once approvals are obtained there.
This is not MEDO’s only AI-based ultrasound tool. They have four, three of which have been approved by the FDA, including MEDO Hip, a tool to screen newborn babies for hip dysplasia, a common hip joint problem that leads to osteoarthritis but is easily fixed if detected early.
“We realized that the three of us shared the same vision of democratizing medical imaging through simplifying the use of ultrasound,” said Zonoobi, who was the mastermind behind the startup and is now CEO.
The new tool is already being used by specially trained nurses in two clinics in the Westview Primary Care Network in Spruce Grove. Jaremko expects it will soon be used in other primary care clinics in the Edmonton, Alberta area and hopes to then move into clinical practices throughout Alberta.
The company is also developing other applications, including lung and fracture ultrasounds, and has recently done several trials scanning patients with COVID-related pneumonia in ICUs.
MEDO has 25 employees working out of the U of A Health Hub & Accelerator space in Enterprise Square in downtown Edmonton, but Jaremko says that number could easily grow to 100 over the next few years, making the company one of the high-tech engines for economic diversification in Alberta. Many new hires are graduates of the U of A’s Department of Computing Science.
Zonoobi noted that the mentorship support the company has received through the Health Hub has been useful for connecting the company with resources and even talent.
“We felt connected to the entrepreneurial community and plugged into the university infrastructure at the same time.”
Jacob Jaremko’s U of A research is supported by several partner organizations, including the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and MIC Medical Imaging.
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This article was submitted by the University of Alberta’s Folio online magazine. The University of Alberta is a Troy Media Editorial Content Provider Partner.
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In the minds of some, the apostle Paul’s question seems to be, “Why were they baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not?” But this view (and the practice that results from it) is based on an improper understanding of the scripture. It was neither taught by Christ or any of the apostles, nor followed by the New Testament Church. It was first brought into professing Christianity around A.D. 150 by Marcion, a man who had devised his own religion, establishing his own church in Rome in A.D. 144.
God’s Word plainly teaches that baptism must be preceded by repentance (Acts 2:38) and belief (Mark 16:16; Acts 16:31, 33). Since “the dead know not any thing” (Ecc. 9:5), they are incapable of repenting or believing. Baptism is for the living, as a symbol of our acknowledgement of our sins. When baptized, one figuratively dies with Christ in a watery grave. After rising out of that “grave,” we live a new (righteous) life through Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit within us (Rom. 6:4; 8:9; Gal. 2:20).
Baptism is also symbolic of the resurrection of the dead. To rise from the watery grave is to acknowledge belief in the resurrection (Rom. 6). To surrender to Christ now—to crucify the self now—to be baptized—would be foolish unless there is a future resurrection. Without the hope of the resurrection, one might as well live in this fashion: “…let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die” (Isa. 22:13; I Cor. 15:32). As Paul also stated, “…if there be no resurrection of the dead…we are of all men most miserable” (I Cor. 15:13, 19).
The meaning of verse 29 now becomes clear. The entirety of I Corinthians 15 addresses the resurrection. Paul uses the example of baptism as one proof that there is a coming resurrection of the dead. By their actions, those being baptized expressed their hope of a resurrection. This verse was simply translated incorrectly from the original Greek text.
The Greek word translated “for” is huper, the same word translated “of” in the following scripture: “For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure” (Phil. 2:13). In this verse, huper cannot possibly mean “instead of.” It would not make any sense to say, “For it is God which works in you both to will and to do instead of His good pleasure.” This verse, properly translated, states, “God works in you both to will and to do for the realization of His good pleasure.” What is God’s “good pleasure”? Christ stated, “It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32). God works in us “in the hope of” one day giving us His kingdom!
Therefore, Paul is not writing about being baptized “in the place of,” “on behalf of,” or “for” the dead. According to the context of I Corinthians 15:29, huper should properly be translated “for the hope of,” as follows: “Else what shall they do which are baptized for the hope of the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the hope of the dead?”
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Engaging within the community - key lessons from a multi-stakeholder Australian/New Zealand salmon industry workshop
Cobcroft, JM and Main, A and Fudge, M and MacLeod, C, Engaging within the community - key lessons from a multi-stakeholder Australian/New Zealand salmon industry workshop, World Aquaculture Adelaide 2014, 7-11 June 2014, Adelaide, South Australia (2014) [Conference Extract]
A recent workshop brought together a range of stakeholders with an interest in identifying best practice for community engagement and communication; they included industry and governance representatives from different sectors, as well as academics from a range of disciplines with social research interests, and representatives of several industries/ companies with specific links to salmon aquaculture. The group identified a range of issues with respect to community engagement and prioritised strategies to improve future engagement.
Community understanding of salmon farming is influenced through many mechanisms. Publicity has been shown to have a major influence on perceptions of salmon farming in the northern hemisphere. The messages and expectations generated by this publicity are frequently used to judge the performance of the industry in the southern hemisphere. People with an understanding of the industry in Australia and New Zealand know that there is a lot of misinformation in the media and that many of the issues affecting the broader industry do not translate to the southern hemisphere. Consequently a key focus of the workshop was to ascertain community perceptions of salmon farming in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), identify common trans-Tasman values, and determine any key points of distinction from these other growing regions.
The group considered a range of existing perception/ opinion/ attitude research and case studies in relation to seafood in the ANZ region with a view to identifying the current context of the industry. Through reflection on previous experience in other sectors the group identified many cases where the value of community support was underestimated. Perceptions of seafood production (farming and wild capture), and resultant purchasing and political behaviour, tend to be strongly associated with the community's prevailing cultural and social values. Even the normal planning and regulatory frameworks can also unintentionally create conflict; recent experience in New Zealand saw the regulatory process force stakeholders to legal proceedings without space to engage with the community. In hindsight, with a clearer analysis of the risks, prior engagement may have resulted in a very different outcome for the industry and community. Consequently, appropriate analysis of community perception issues (identifying both what those perceptions might be and just who is the community concerned) is critical to understanding how those perceptions might impact farming, both operationally and strategically. The presentation will summarise the key findings but the main take home messages were that there is a clear need to include community engagement (and the potential for negative impact) in future planning and business risk assessments and that both industry and regulators need to continually seek to improve approaches for engagement. | <urn:uuid:7946606c-5af0-4a04-9ed1-2e5617a0ad20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ecite.utas.edu.au/96240 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.939223 | 574 | 2 | 2 |
There were 138,000 fewer working-age immigrants in the country in August 2017 than in August 2016, according to the Labor Department—a decline of 0.33%. Year-over-year declines of this magnitude last occurred in 2009, the nadir of the Great Recession. And even in that dreadful year, the August reading showed an increase in foreign-born population from the same month of the prior year.
Any decline in the foreign-born working age population during a period of fairly robust employment growth is an extraordinary development. Job growth has always attracted illegal border crossers—at least, before Trump.
Seasonal factors are always at work, so it is particularly heartening to juxtapose August 2017’s year-over-year decline in foreign-born population to the massive 1.478 million year-over-year increase in August 2016, when an unreported (by the Main Stream Media) late Obama Era illegal alien surge was clearly underway.
|Change in Foreign-born population from same month prior
(age 16+; in 1,000s; BLS data)
The bad news: the two employment surveys reached very different conclusions. The widely cited Payroll Survey figure reported that 156,000 jobs were created in the month of August, while the Household Survey, which alone disaggregates total employment into immigrant and native-born components, found a 74,000 job loss. This meant that in August:
During Trump’s first seven months immigrant employment rose by 510,000, an 1.11% increase, while native-born Americans gained 1,145,000 jobs, a 1.96% increase.
So while we have not yet decisively reversed the long-term Obama-Era trend, the first seven months of Trump has moved us much closer to that goal.
Native-born American workers lost ground to their foreign-born competitors throughout the Obama years, and this trend accelerated significantly in the months leading up to the election. This is brought out in our New VDARE.com American Worker Displacement Index (NVDAWDI) graphic:
Native-born American employment growth is represented by the black line, immigrant employment growth is in pink, and NVAWDI—the ratio of immigrant to native-born American job growth—is in yellow. The index starts at 100.0 in January 2009 for both immigrants and native-born Americans, and tracks their employment growth since then.
From January 2009 through August 2017:
In February 2009, Barack Obama’s first full month in office, 14.97% of all persons working in the U.S. were foreign-born. In his last full month, December 2016, 17.05% of workers were foreign-born. This implies that Obama-era immigration pushed as many as 3.16 million native-born Americans onto the unemployment rolls.
The immigrant share of employment in August (17.27%) was 0.22 percentage points above the share in December. This implies that resistance to Trump’s immigration agenda may have put some 33,760 native-born Americans out of work.
In contrast, at its peak in April 2017 the mere threat of a Trump immigration crackdown appeared, by our estimates, to have put 168,000 native-born American workers back to work. This was actually quite plausible, given the early hysteria about Trump in the MSM. Some immigrants, legal and illegal, may have decided to leave. Others, above all illegals, may have decided not to come after all.
A detailed snapshot of American worker displacement over the past year is available in the Employment Status of the Civilian Population by Nativity table published in the monthly BLS Report. [PDF]
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Machine vision can be called the”eye” of artificial intelligence, and the calibration of imaging system is one of the important links of machine vision processing. Its calibration accuracy and stability directly affect the efficiency of the system. In the field of traditional machine vision and camera measurement and calibration, the small hole perspective model still has the problems that the high-order lens distortion cannot be fully characterized and many kinds of complex special imaging systems are not applicable.
The ray based model assumes that each pixel point corresponds to a virtual main ray in the space under the focusing state of the imaging system. Calibration and imaging characterization can be achieved by determining the parameters of the ray equation corresponding to all pixels, which can avoid the structural analysis and modeling of complex imaging systems. Based on this light model, the relevant research group of the research institute has developed various special stripe structured light three-dimensional measurement methods and systems. Experiments show that the light model can be used for high-precision measurement of many kinds of complex imaging systems. It is an effective model for calibrating non pinhole perspective imaging systems and can be used as a supplement to the perspective model.
2、 Ray model
Baker et al. First proposed a light model that can characterize any imaging system, the image is considered as a discrete set of pixels, and a group of virtual photosensitive elements”light elements” represent the complete geometric characteristics, radiation characteristics and optical characteristics between each pixel and the spatial virtual light associated with a pixel, as shown in Figure 1.
Therefore, the calibration of the light model is to determine the light equation corresponding to all pixels, without strict analysis and construction of the complex optical imaging model of the imaging system. It has certain portability and versatility, and can also avoid the measurement error introduced by the polynomial approximate characterization of lens distortion to a certain extent, which provides a new idea for the characterization of the imaging system of non aperture perspective projection model.
Figure 1 Schematic diagram of light model of imaging system
3、 Three dimensional measurement of stripe structured light based on ray model
In the field of fringe structured light projection three-dimensional measurement, on the one hand, the light model can be used as a light scheme for three-dimensional reconstruction, which can be used to characterize the imaging and projection devices with large distortion lenses, light field cameras, DMD projectors, MEMS projectors and other special structures, and new fringe structured light three-dimensional measurement methods and systems based on light model can be developed; On the other hand, explore the advantages of light model in structural light measurement. Light model has excellent effects on overcoming the nonlinear response of projection and camera, and improving the accuracy of 3D reconstruction under large distortion lens imaging.
3.1 light model and three-dimensional measurement of Scheimpflug small field telecentric structured light measurement system
The research group has developed a small field of view telecentric structured light measurement system, which adopts the Scheimpflug structure design to ensure the public depth of field coverage, as shown in Figure 2. Considering that the telecentric lens belongs to the parallel orthogonal projection and the Scheimpflug inclined structure, resulting in the non centrosymmetry of the distortion model, a non parametric generalized calibration method based on the ray model is proposed。 In the system, the imaging process of camera and projector is represented by light model, the corresponding relationship between its pixels and space light is calibrated, and the coordinates of light intersection are calculated to realize three-dimensional reconstruction. Figure 3 shows the physical diagram of the system and the three-dimensional measurement results of a small local area of a nickel coin, with a measurement accuracy of 2 μ m。
Fig. 2 Scheimpflug small field telecentric structured light measurement system
Figure 3 physical diagram of measurement system and three-dimensional measurement results of part of a nickel coin
3.2 light model calibration and active light field three-dimensional measurement of light field camera
The research group has developed a three-dimensional measurement method and system of light field based on active fringe structured light illumination. By placing a microlens array in front of the sensing plane, the light field camera can record the light intensity and direction at the same time. Due to the complex factors such as microlens processing error, distortion aberration, assembly error and so on, the complete characterization and precise calibration of the light field camera is a difficult problem.
The research group proposed a light model to characterize the light field imaging processThat is, the interior of the light field camera is regarded as a black box, and the parameters of the pixel m and the corresponding object space light equation L are directly established, as shown in Figure 4. By calibrating the mapping relationship between all rays of the light field and the phase of the projection fringe, the high-precision three-dimensional measurement of the measured object is realized. Considering the multi angle recording characteristics of the light field, a data screening mechanism based on the fringe modulation is constructed to realize the high dynamic three-dimensional measurement of the scene. As shown in Figure 5, the black panel and reflective metal can be reconstructed at the same time.
Figure 4 light field imaging model
Figure 5 high dynamic three-dimensional measurement of active light field
3.3 light model calibration and three-dimensional measurement of DMD projector and biaxial MEMS laser scanning projector
The projector based on micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) laser scanning is applied to the fringe projection measurement system with the advantages of miniaturization and large depth of field, as shown in Figure 6 (a). However, because it relies on the biaxial MEMS scanning projection pattern of laser points and does not rely on lens imaging, there will be some errors in the characterization of perspective projection model. In addition, DMD and other projectors that rely on lens imaging, large aperture design will also affect the characterization accuracy of small hole perspective projection model.
In this regard, the research group used the light model to characterize the projectorA calibration method of fringe projection 3D measurement system based on projector ray model is proposed. This method recognizes and tracks the ray according to the orthogonal phase of biaxial MEMS projection, and realizes 3D reconstruction by using projection ray and triangulation constructed by camera. It is further found that due to the phase consistency of projection light, the light model can significantly suppress the measurement error caused by the nonlinear response of the system. Figure 6 (b) shows the three-dimensional reconstruction results of gypsum sculptures using perspective projection model and light model respectively under the condition of three-step phase shift (without additional correction of nonlinear response). It can be seen that the light model is immune to the influence of nonlinear response.
Fig. 6 principle of double axis MEMS laser scanning projection and 3D reconstruction results of plaster sculpture (3-step phase shift, perspective projection model on the left and light model on the right)
3.4 ray model calibration and three-dimensional measurement of uniaxial MEMS laser scanning projector
The single axis MEMS projector extends laser point scanning to area scanning, which greatly improves the projection rate and can be applied to dynamic measurement. Aiming at the problems that the pinhole model is not applicable and the unidirectional projection cannot provide orthogonal phase feature points due to the lensless structure of the uniaxial MEMS projector, the research group proposes a system calibration method based on the isophase plane modelA new mapping function between the three-dimensional coordinate value and the phase value at the intersection of the camera back projection ray and these phase planes is derived, and a fast three-dimensional reconstruction is realized.
Figure 7 shows the monocular measurement system and reconstruction scene built with a high-speed camera. The projection acquisition rate is 1000 frame/s, using 4-step phase shift and phase unwrapping of the thunder code diagram, and the three-dimensional reconstruction rate is 90 frame/s. Later, in order to adapt to higher rate measurement applications, monocular can be extended to binocular or multi camera systems, and methods such as single frame demodulation phase and multipole constrained phase unwrapping can be used to reduce the number of projected images and improve the three-dimensional measurement rate.
Figure 7 3D measurement system and dynamic reconstruction scene
3.5 ray model calibration and three-dimensional measurement of large distortion lens imaging
Aiming at the problem that the traditional low order polynomial can not completely represent the large distortion lens, the research group adopts the light model to represent the imaging of the large distortion lens camera, and proposes a three-dimensional reconstruction method of light and fringe phase mapping that is completely independent of the camera and projector internal parameters (the perspective model depends on the camera and projector internal parameters). By directly calibrating the reciprocal polynomial mapping coefficients of the camera light and fringe phase, the tedious and time-consuming corresponding point search and light interpolation operations are avoided.
Figure 8 shows the light calibration results and the three-dimensional measurement results of the standard sphere equipped with a 4 mm wide-angle lens. It can be seen that due to the large distortion of the wide-angle lens, the reconstruction quality of the light model is improved compared with that of the perspective model.
Fig. 8 fitting error distribution of wide-angle lens ray calibration and standard sphere three-dimensional measurement data (a) perspective projection model, (b) ray mapping model
The ray model realizes calibration and imaging characterization by determining the parameters of the ray equation corresponding to all pixels, thus avoiding the structural analysis and modeling of complex imaging (projection) systems, solving the calibration and reconstruction problems of special fringe projection 3D measurement systems, and showing excellent performance in the suppression of nonlinear phase error and accuracy improvement of fringe projection 3D measurement systems. In the future development of structured light 3D measurement, we can further expand the method and application of light model 3D measurement, improve the measurement accuracy, efficiency and versatility, and solve the application measurement problems in various special and complex scenes.
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Authors:Liu Xiaoli, Yang Yang, Yu Jing, Miao Yupei, Zhang Xiaojie, Peng Xiang, Yu Qifeng;Shenzhen Key Laboratory of intelligent optical measurement and perception, School of physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University.
Led by academician Yu Qifeng, the Institute of intelligent optical measurement and image research of Shenzhen University mainly focuses on large-scale structural deformation and large-scale motion measurement, extraordinary optical measurement and intelligent image analysis, computational imaging and three-dimensional measurement, multi-sensor fusion perception and control, etc. | <urn:uuid:1dad1847-a5ea-42ab-b1b2-e6f980ce55df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.instrumentandapparatus.com/2022/progress-in-calibration-and-3d-measurement-of-imaging-system-based-on-ray-model-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.884341 | 2,506 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Snake prices and crocodile appetites: aquatic wildlife supply and demand on Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
- Commercial trade is a major driver of over-exploitation of wild species, but the pattern of demand and how it responds to changes in supply is poorly understood. Here we explore the markets for snakes from Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia to evaluate future exploitation scenarios, identify entry points for conservation and, more generally, to illustrate the value of multi-scale analysis of markets to traded wildlife conservation. In Cambodia, the largest driver of snake exploitation is the domestic trade in snakes as crocodile food. We estimate that farmed crocodiles consume between 2.7 and 12.2 million snakes per year. The market price for crocodiles has been in decline since 2003, which, combined with rising prices for their food, has led to a reduced frequency of feeding and closure of small farms. The large farms that generate a disproportionate amount of the demand for snakes continue to operate in anticipation of future market opportunities, and preferences for snakes could help maintain demand if market prices for crocodiles rise to pre 2003 levels. In the absence of a sustained demand from crocodile farms, it is also possible that alternative markets will develop, such as one for human snack food. The demand for snakes, however, also depends on the availability of substitute resources, principally fish. The substitutability and low price elasticity of demand offers a relatively sustainable form of consumerism. Given the nature of these market drivers, addressing consumer preferences and limiting the protection of snakes to their breeding season are likely to be the most effective tools for conservation. This study highlights the importance of understanding the structure of markets and the behaviour of consumer demand prior to implementing regulations on wildlife hunting and trade.
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CBSE has declared the term 2 class 10th result, students can now check their result easily. To check the result students should have their roll number. Students who are not satisfied with their results can apply re-evaluation form online. All the important details like check scorecard, download mark sheet, check subject wise marks and percentage is released by the Central Board of Secondary Education department. The term 2 exam was conducted between 26 April 2022 to May 2022. The result was declared on the 5th of July at 11 am by the CBSE board. The result was mailed by the board to each school. Candidates can check their results offline by contacting their school examination department. Many schools like DPS principals are not satisfied with the result of their schools. whereas many schools are neither happy nor unhappy with the performance of their students. They added that “it is fine, we can not change the past but we can focus on the future i.e CBSE term 2 exams”.
Note: class 10 cbse result 2022 has been sent to the schools by CBSE.only marks in theory have been sent as internal Assessment /practical scores are already available with the schools.
CBSE term 2 Class 10th Result: Marksheet, Revaluation Form
The result is declared on the various school’s notice boards. Many students want to fill out the re-evaluation forms. As per the CBSE rules, students need to pay some fees for the re-evaluation process. Earlier the re-eval fees were 500/- ruppes per subject. Now fees might be changed as per new exam pattern is introduced. Students who are failed in the term 2 exam are not allowed to appear in the tern 2 exams, so students need to fill the compartment exam to reappear in the exam. Those students who are Failed or not satisfied with their marks provided by cbse board can raise appeal by filling out rechecking forms.Advertisment
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Important Note: Only schools can apply for CBSE Result Revaluation for CBSE term 2 Results 2022 as of now.
Since cbse divided the session into two-part i.e term 1 and term 2. The term 2 date sheet is released by the board, according to the date sheet the first exam of class X is from 26 April 2022 to 24 May 2022. So students need to score good makes in both terms to get a decent overall percentage throughout the session 2021-2022.
Step to check CBSE term 2 result 2021-2022 session
Student can check their result offline mode only. Students need to visit the school and contact the official examination department of their school. Student can also ask the formalities for the rechecking and reexamination from the same department. apart from this students need to wait to check their results online. Cbse will also publish the term 2 result online on their official portal i.e cbse.nic.in, cbseresults.nic.in.
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Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by Jennifer Crewe (2014–present) and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fields of literary and cultural studies, history, social work, sociology, religion, film, and international studies.
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John Wiley & Sons (Europe, Africa, Asia)
Founded in 1893, Columbia University Press is notable for publishing reference works, such as The Columbia Encyclopedia (1935–present), The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry (online as The Columbia World of Poetry Online) and The Columbia Gazetteer of the World (also online) and for publishing music.
First among American university presses to publish in electronic formats, in 1998 the Press founded an online-only site, Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) and Columbia Earthscape (in 2009).
Notes and references
- "For Booksellers". Columbia University Press. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
- Jeff Camhi (15 April 2013). A Dam in the River: Releasing the Flow of University Ideas. Algora Publishing. pp. 149–. ISBN 978-0-87586-989-6. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
- Thompson, John (2005). Books in the Digital Age. Polity. pp. 354–356. ISBN 9780745634784.
- "Columbia University Press Acquires Wallflower Press". Publishers Weekly. 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2014-06-26.
- Official website
- Columbia Earthscape
- Columbia International Affairs Online
- Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
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When was the Memorare created?
It was popularized in the 17th century by Fr. Claude Bernard, (d. 1641) who learned it from his father. Bernard’s devotion to Our Lady under the title Consolatrix Afflictorum (Comforter of the Afflicted) led him to promote recourse to her intercession among the poor and condemned prisoners.
Why was the Memorare created?
The Memorare as a Separate Prayer
Claude Bernard, a 17th-century French priest who ministered to the imprisoned and those condemned to death, was a zealous advocate of the prayer. Father Bernard attributed the conversion of many criminals to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, invoked through the Memorare.
When did people first pray to Mary?
The earliest recorded prayer to Mary is the sub tuum praesidium (3rd or 4th century) and the earliest depictions of her are from the Priscilla catacombs in Rome (early 3rd century).
Is the memorare a novena?
This Quick Novena was, so to speak, Mother Teresa’s spiritual rapid-fire weapon. It consisted of ten Memorares — not nine, as you might expect from the word novena. Novenas lasting nine days were quite common among the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity.
Why is the prayer the memorare important and significant to Marcellin?
Many people believe that they have a special friend that they can talk to about anything – talking to God is called praying. We see from Marcellin’s life that praying, particularly to Mary, was very important for him to give him strength in difficult times, to give thanks and to seek encouragement to continue his work.
What does V and R mean in prayer?
Amen. V. Lord, hear my prayer. R. … Let us pray.
Can you wear the rosary?
Rosaries are a very special symbol and prayer guide for Catholics, Anglicans and Lutherans. They are not meant to be worn around the neck; they are meant to be held and prayed with. … If wearing the rosary around the neck, it should be worn under clothes, so no one can see. | <urn:uuid:5eb90800-e7da-45bb-8eab-917536bf79c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acsiwest.org/about-god/how-old-is-the-memorare-prayer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972614 | 469 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Black clay draws out toxins and impurities, fights oily sheen, tightens pores.
Clay contains strontium, iron, quartz, calcium and magnesium.
The mask based on black clay fights well against inflammation on the skin, acne and enlarged pores, absorbs excess sebum and has antiseptic properties.
Green tea extract reduces inflammation, reduces the likelihood of acne, protects the skin from environmental damage and UV rays, moisturizes and refreshes the skin, and softens the effects of black clay.
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In Part 2 of our review of the 2010s, we’re looking at how the birding community has changed. I asked David Ringer, chief network officer at the National Audubon Society, and Devon Trotter, program associate of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Audubon, to share their perspectives on the increasing interest in birding from young people and nontraditional audiences. Here’s what they had to say.
“Birdwatching and conservation were once seen as almost entirely pursuits of older white Americans, but Audubon has seen and cultivated a great widening in our audiences and membership over the last decade, particularly among younger people,” Ringer says. “It’s also because young Americans have embraced birdwatching and discussing birds online as a delightful pastime and social opportunity.
“‘Birdwatching is cool,’ Outside Magazine declared this month, promoting an in-depth article detailing a writer’s conversion to birding. Gizmodo published a similar piece in 2018, shortly after The New York Times crowed ‘Young Urban Birders, Open Your Hearts to the Treetops!,’ detailing the adventures of New York City’s Feminist Bird Club and other young birders. Jason Ward’s ‘Birds of North America’ web series and his ebullient Twitter presence have attracted significant attention, too.
“Back in 2013, USA Today wrote about birding attracting younger birders as smartphone apps and other tools proliferated. Even Esquire declared in 2014, ‘Uh-Oh. Birdwatching Is About to Become Cool,’ reviewing a film about teen birders. The Onion kept up a steady drumbeat of stories about birds and the people who love them, at one point earning a tweet from then-president Barack Obama himself. And ‘Bird Twitter’ – as it’s known – came into its own in the latter half of the decade, creating a raucous lekking ground for birders of every age, color, and experience level to appreciate, research, and even lovingly parody birds.
“Perhaps one of the strongest signs of the growing adoption of youth birding is the rapid growth and success of the Audubon on Campus student chapter program, which, in the span of about 18 months, has grown from 10 pilot programs to active on more than 100 college campuses across the country. (And for their part, older generations of birders are welcoming this surge of youth participation with open arms – they know the next generation is key.)”
Devon Trotter adds:
“In addition to young people, funders and organizations are finally beginning to realize and act on the value of the perspectives and skills of communities of color in the conservation movement and outdoor recreation, as these communities suffer the effects of climate change and environmental degradation at a disproportionately higher rate than other communities. In recent years, Audubon has received funding from the Hewlett Foundation in order to fortify our leadership around equity, diversity, and inclusion. The Fund II Foundation awarded Audubon a grant to create the organization’s first-ever apprenticeship program (building on several years of paid fellowships and internship programs), enabling Audubon to embed seven young conservationists of color throughout the organization and country, with the goal of having at least five hired by Audubon or a partner organization after their apprenticeships. This is part of a shift conservation organizations are recognizing between simply ‘educating’ young people through well-intentioned programs and actually investing in their career prospects through programs like this.
“Also, groups like Outdoor Afro, Latino Outdoors, Outdoor Asian, and Queer Birders of North America have gained significant momentum over the last 10 years, and corporations and big green groups have taken note, partnering with these community-oriented organizations on events and conferences. Audubon’s Let’s Go Birding Together program for the LBGTQ+ community and allies, bilingual bird walks, and events during Black History Month and other heritage months provide ready examples.
“As a result, we will continue to see growth in interest, participation, and membership from young people and historically nontraditional groups in Audubon, as long as we continue to make the three-way link between birds, the health of our world, and the health of our communities and social fabric. In order for us to mitigate climate change, it will take all of us, and we are beginning to get there.
“In part, this is because younger people’s concerns around climate change continue to grow – knowing their future is at stake – and they increasingly see birds as a barometer for the health of our environment.” | <urn:uuid:d655681a-aea2-46de-9d8b-b94dcab3964d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/birdwatching/birding-community-expanded-2010s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.94983 | 990 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Sleep is the time our skin uses to relax to the fullest and recover from the stress accumulated during the day. Therefore, if you really want to preserve the beauty and natural glow of your face, it is important to learn how to use optimally your night rest in order to take care of your skin. Remember that no matter how many face balms, creams and lotions you use, there is no point of doing it if you deprive your body of its much needed night’s rest, and this is something that reflects on both your health and the condition and appearance of your skin.
So, most dermatologists say that quality sleep and relaxation keeps your skin healthy and beautiful. A recent study published in the British Medical Journal has shown that sleep deprivation damages our skin. This is because when people are physically and mentally tired, usually some stress appears, and this affects not only our appearance but also your overall health condition.
During the day, your skin is being exposed to various harmful influences, such as cigarette smoke, air pollution, etc. Therefore, it is the night time that our organism takes to recover the function of our skin because it is restful sleep that allows your skin to cope with the stressful and damaging factors from the environment.
Here are some of the main advantages and positive effects that sleep provides your skin with:
Clean and smooth face
More sleep means more radiant and smoother skin without any wrinkles on. On the other hand, lack of sleep often leads to stress and unpleasant skin disorders such as acne, blackheads, etc. After they have made an interesting study, some experts have proved that most college students who get less sleep during their exams, have more skin problems than during the rest of the school year.
Twinkle in the eye
Dark circles around the eyes are also some of the most common problems when it comes to skin. So, in order to get your previous freshness, try to get used to falling asleep earlier than you usually do, which means that it is best if you manage to do so before midnight. Meanwhile, in order to hide dark circles, you can use a simple trick – apply a thin layer of eye contour cream and then gently apply skin concealer, which is one tone lighter than your skin tone.
An even skin complexion
Staying up after midnight has a negative impact on your skin complexion. It has been proved that the skin of people, who go to sleep too late and sleep less, is weaker and is exposed to more problems. Sound sleep stimulates the blood flow to your skin which gives it a fresh and radiant appearance. However, if your night time sleep has proved to be insufficient and you have woken up with uneven tan, try applying some translucent loose powder, which is usually used to fix make-up, but in this case it can really do wonders.
Fresh and youthful appearance
Some research has confirmed that people, who spend minimum eight hours of sleep are in a better overall health condition, tire harder, demonstrate their good mood more often and are more creative and more attractive.
Say goodbye to puffy eyes once and for all
Very often not getting enough sleep may cause some eyes problem, the most common one of which is puffy eyes. Usually this problem is due to the horizontal position of the body, which leads to redistribution of fluids in your body tissues. Of course, such a swelling may also be a result of eating too much salt in your food. Therefore, make sure you limit your salt intake, drink more water, and more importantly, try having a good and healthy sleep. | <urn:uuid:ad72a92f-edbe-4674-ae24-fef2df28af0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.chicbeautytips.com/get-more-sleep-for-healthy-skin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966236 | 725 | 2.0625 | 2 |
choice of profession - is a crucial step for each young man.If history attracts, monuments, you can choose a specialty associated with them.What is the profession of people, reducing the monuments of culture, and where it can be learned?
Who are the restorers
a specialist who deals with restoration and preservation of historical and cultural sites.This profession emerged in the Middle Ages and was necessary to give an attractive appearance of the artwork.But over time, the main task was to keep the restorer original appearance of the object.
Knowing the name of the profession of people, reducing the monuments of culture, is to understand the peculiarities of this specialty.
How does restorer
main objective is the preservation of modern restorer.Once you will recover or replenishing chips, cracks or other damage, you must arrange for the preservation of the object as such for as long as possible.
used for this purpose:
- Chemical treatment.
- determines the optimal humidity.
- choose the right lighting.
can definitely say that the restoration and conservation - these are the main activities of such a specialist.
Before you get started, the restorer examines the object determines the complexity of damage, the material from which the work of art.
Restorer - not an easy profession.Each specialist works with certain objects.It could be monuments, paintings, books and old materials in various materials.But very often the work is done as a team with historians and archaeologists, art historians may need to consult, chemists and physicists.
restoration methods for selection of specialty is not enough to know the name of the profession of people restoring cultural monuments.It is necessary to understand the principles of this activity, to determine whether it meets your desires and possibilities.
modern restoration can be divided into two types.
- Science.Is to maximize the preservation of the original form of art, with the traces of destruction are visible.But people see a painting or a monument in the form in which they were created by the artist.
- Commercial.The emphasis is on giving visual appeal and resume functionality of the object.Typically, such restoration bought antiquities owners who intend to use them in your everyday life.This reduction is very similar to the repair, but it requires special skills.
qualities that should have a specialist
restorer - a profession that can master not everyone.In order that the work has been successful and enjoyable, you must possess the following qualities:
- perseverance and patience;
- attentiveness and ability to concentrate;
- respect for the works of art;
- desire to work with his hands.
restorer can get a special institution of higher education or secondary professional.Also, you can master this science in school.The choice of places depends on the level of knowledge and skills.
The students received information about restorative materials and techniques.You need to read a lot of literature on the works of art, to understand how they were created.
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In this invaluable resource, the chief reader of the AP Exam compiles feedback from members of the AP Reading leadership to explain how students performed on the FRQs, summarize typical student errors, and address specific concepts and content with which students have struggled the most that year.
Scoring guidelines for each of the sample free-response questions in the CED are also available. Support your topic sentence with full explanations and specific examples, when appropriate.
However, you do not want to contradict yourself or write a rambling, unclear response. For example, Part A may ask you to simply define a term; Part B, to describe an example of the term; and Part C, to interpret the term in the context of a geographic theory. You do not have the option, as in some other AP exams, to choose the questions that you would like to answer.
Learn more about the new resources Preparing Students for the Exam Create personalized practice with a library of multiple-choice and free-response AP questions you can assign to students online or on paper using the question bank in AP Classroom.
Pacing Because each of the three prompts counts equally in your overall score, you should practice pacing yourself to make sure you have adequate time to answer each prompt fully. Some examples of action words you may encounter, from simple to complicated, include: Identify: simply provide a piece of information o Describe or Explain: fully and clearly lay out the details of something Discuss: fully explain all possible sides of an issue Analyze: discuss what something means and why it is significant o Evaluate: use reasons to support your claim, or make a judgement about something The stimulus if applicable : Some prompts include a visual such as a map or chart.
When practicing free-response questions, you should also practice planning ahead; it only takes a few minutes, and ultimately saves time by helping you write a focused response.
The College Board has two main criteria for scoring your responses, so keep these criteria in mind as you develop your answers: Analysis: Does your response demonstrate knowledge and critical thinking about the content of AP Human Geography?
Step-by-Step Approach In order to get the best score possible, you should approach each prompt in a methodical, strategic fashion that will ensure that you effectively analyze and organize every response. | <urn:uuid:8c619d26-c530-47df-ad05-ca930fb228ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bunozyrulysalilur.oberonlife.com/ap-human-geography-final-essay278104548ra.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.933711 | 469 | 3.625 | 4 |
The Iguana Speaks My Name
By Roberto Moulun
Reviewed by Bob Drynan
Roberto Moulun’s collection of short stories weaves a tapestry as brilliantly colorful as the tejidos hawked in the streets and shops of Chichicastenango, Antigua and Guatemala City. Panimache, a hidden village in the mountains overlooking Lake Atitlan in Guatemala could be a metaphor for our own village of Ajijic. The inhabitants of Panimache pretended not to notice the cloud of “war that raped the land and left a trail of orphans.” The backdrop of random violence and intimidation, fed by political ambition, greed, and foreign manipulation darkens the lives of simple folk who have “no dog in the fight.” The problems of everyday existence demand their attention, but a hostile outside world haunts their dreams and occasionally intrudes into their lives.
Moulun’s tapestry is of whole cloth, laced with a wide ranging dramatis personae, rich with deeply human characters; some mundane, a few passionate, often drolly humorous, and frequently tragic. He introduces the reader to such colorful characters as La China, the wistful whore; the French painter Alizarin pining for his German enamorata; El Lobo the local military commander who totes a pistol, butt forward “like Wild Bill Hickok”; the sajorin, a Mayan witch doctor that exorcizes an ailing infant; the tragic lovers, Lotario and Coco; and Juan Domingo, a one-armed gardener who assists the protagonist In the rescue of an abused iguana.
This Guatemalan indigenous world oscillates from the harsh realities of life in the humble village to the imaginary or perhaps allegorical flights of inherited Mayan legends. In one deliciously erotic incident his protagonist is almost seduced by La Ciguanagua, a siren who entices young men to their death.
Roberto’s imagery is evocative; a mad woman’s laughter that began “at first lightly like a brook, and then like overflowing water.” His description of a village plaza in which “children and dogs ran freely, as if they…had sprouted from the soil,” evokes visions of a Sunday morning in the Ajijic town square. His love of the majesty of the Guatemalan highlands is lyrical, “…the incandescence of the rising sun on the three volcanoes which stood like oriental magi worshipping the birth of a god.”
Moulun’s writing exposes other personal passions, as his treadle threads into his narratives allusions to the brushes of Manet, Goya, Cezanne, Titian, and Van Gogh; the literary classics of Goethe, Byron and the poetic insights of Robert Frost; and he delightfully draws parallels of Mayan mythology with the imaginations of the cultures of Mediterranean antiquity.
As wide ranging as Moulun’s interests extend, his writing reflects the choice of his life work as a psychiatrist, his deep seated compassion for human vulnerability.
His chapters in Iguana could stand alone as single anecdotes, each describing an aspect of the human condition; insightful displays of individual foibles and conflicting virtues. His Part Two: Ten Backyard Stories from Panimache, is indeed a collection of stand-alone anecdotes, but they cleverly tie together as a whole with Part One.
Read his words, meet his characters, view his world, revel in his imagination and when you finish you will want to consider yourself a friend of Roberto Moulun.
Ed. Note: Kindle and paperback versions of The Iguana Speaks My Name will be available on Amazon.com in early September 2012. Print copies will be available in Ajijic at book signing events with the author beginning in late September, and at Diane Pearl Colecciones and La Una Restaurante. Please visit www.egretbooks.com/moulun for further information. | <urn:uuid:67a6174d-1bd8-48f6-8a76-99ea1f00cebf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ojo.chapala.com/articles2012/september-2012/the-iguana-speaks-my-name/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.933184 | 847 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Maybe it started as an idea.
Either you or the people you are living with might have brought up the idea of you getting a place of your own. At first you were kicking around the idea. Dreaming of how to decorate. Imagining the feeling of inviting your friends and family over to your place. Visualizing your new routine and embracing a new, you.
You might be going through a whirlwind of emotions. Except, now you might be feeling a bit worrisome. Worried if you can afford living on your own.
First, read through all the things that you’ll need to consider. Afterwards, you should feel more prepared.
Cost of Rent
The first area that you should consider is the cost of rent.
Most apartment companies refer to your monthly income. They may ask that you make three times the cost of rent. This is a general rule of thumb that apartment companies use to feel secure knowing that you are going to be able to pay each month.
Meanwhile, because of the ever-changing economy the cost of rent fluctuates. By making three times the cost of rent, you will feel more secure knowing that you will have enough for rent, your other expenses listed below, and maybe have some left over to save.
This idea is to make everyone feel comfortable.
What other expenses might you be paying for.
Right now, your mind might be solely focused on moving out and finding your own place that you are forgetting the other areas of your life that your paycheck is working towards. Things like student loans, car payments, phone bills, credit cards, etc.
If you aren’t paying for these things now, think about if you plan to. For instance, do you plan on purchasing a new vehicle? Do you plan on going to school?
Might you be taking out a loan or another added expense that you will need to afford. These are things to be conscious of.
When looking at apartments, know what areas of service they cover. You might get lucky and find an apartment where they pay for all the utilities.
Utilities might include: electricity, water, heat, cable, and trash. If the apartment does not, then ask what the deposit is.
Each place is different, and the cost might depend on the size of the apartment.
Depending on how much furniture that you have moving with you, chances are that you’ll need more.
With the new place comes more ways to decorate. Think about it, you’ll need furniture for your kitchen, living room, bedroom, maybe an office room, or even a guest bedroom and that’s just the furniture.
What about all those accessory items to help spruce up the place or even your modern conveniences. Not to mention that you’ll need the basic cleaning supplies and tools.
Lastly, think about the moving expenses. You’ll need some boxes, tape, and some more bodies. Ask your friends and family members to help you move.
You will be more efficient and save yourself time and money by finding some people to help you. By asking others to help you, it will be more affordable rather than renting a truck or paying someone else to move all your stuff for you.
This way, you might just get by with paying for their lunch to thank them for helping.
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The Department of Health is standing by a decision to delay second doses of the Pfizer Covid vaccine insisting it will “bring faster protection to greater numbers of people”.
But officials say care home residents and staff will get their second doses within the original three-week period.
The Department, in a statement issued on Friday afternoon, said the move “recognises the particular logistical and infection prevention challenges associated with care homes and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine”.
Health Minister Robin Swann was pressed in the Assembly this week about concerns that have arisen since it was decided to adminster the second jab to some people around ten weeks after the first rather than the recommended three weeks.
The Department insists the ‘rescheduling’ of second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine “will bring faster protection to greater numbers of people most at risk from the virus - including more health care workers ”.
They say it “will prevent more severe disease, hospitalisation and deaths and reduce pressures on our health service”.
In the Assembly on Wednesday, Stormont Health Committee chairman Colm Gildernew challenged the Minister on the delay. In a separate statement he said: “It was reported last week that Pfizer, the company who developed the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, said people should get their vaccinations on the recommended schedule and said ‘there is no data to demonstrate that protection after the first dose is sustained after 21 days’.”
The Department of Health, however, says the decision is “based on the expert advice of the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)”.
The Chief Medical Officers for NI, Scotland, Wales and England “agree with the JCVI that prioritising the first doses of vaccine for as many people as possible will protect the greatest number of at risk people in the shortest possible time and will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality, severe disease and hospitalisations and in protecting the health service”.
In their joint letter to health service colleagues in NI and across the UK, the four CMOs stated: “Halving the number vaccinated over the next 2-3 months because of giving two vaccines in quick succession rather than with a delay of 12 weeks does not provide optimal public health impact.”
The Department says supplies of the vaccine “are continuing to arrive with more scheduled for later this month”.
On Wednesday, the Minister told the Assembly: “We do not have enough supplies to vaccinate everyone right now. Supplies will inevitably come in batches. And that means we have to prioritise. In that we will be guided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
“Prioritisation will inevitably create tensions. I have been pressed by some Members to move different workforces and sectors up the list.
“Let me make clear again, I will continue to take my lead from the JCVI. In the coming weeks, the primary focus will remain on protecting those members of our community most at risk of serious illness and death from the virus. I don’t see how anyone could argue against that.”
The Department is also citing the “current progression of the pandemic - and the particular threat posed by the new variant detected in the UK and Republic of Ireland” as justification for the change in approach. | <urn:uuid:031eb89b-763c-4824-bc0f-08c8fa40f6d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/health/northern-ireland-covid-vaccine-department-19587729 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.95862 | 708 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Until 09 July, the Museum Wiesbaden is hosting a very special exhibition. Emil Nolde, one of the leading Expressionist painters, is universally known for his powerful play of colours, his wild seascapes and his wonderful flower gardens. But Nolde was much more than just a landscape painter. This is particularly evident in his paintings devoted to the fantastic and the grotesque. In close cooperation with the Nolde Foundation Seebüll, an exhibition has been created that focuses on this rather unknown facet of Emil Nolde's artistic oeuvre. On display are 20 paintings and around 90 works on paper, some of which have never before been on public display.
The fascination with the grotesque and the rejection of reality run through Nolde's work from his beginnings at the end of the 19th century to the years when he was banned by the National Socialists. Especially in comparison to the atmospheric sea paintings, the pictures he painted after a trip to the South Seas or even the colourful, actually very cheerful flower paintings, the grotesque works radiate a gloomy fascination, which give him an additional, very interesting facet as an artist.
His penchant for the grotesque is particularly intense in the watercolours painted in Utenwarf in 1918 and during a stay on the Hallig Hooge in 1919. In a series of paintings, all painted in 1923, Nolde also eludes a clear interpretation and legibility of what is depicted. Between 1931 and 1935 he paints a series of large-format watercolours with the Phantasien, which prepare the so-called "Ungemalte Bilder" (Unpainted Pictures), which are created in secret, especially during the period of the occupational ban. In these, Nolde often finds fantastic and grotesque pictorial compositions, which only serve as the basis for paintings after 1945.
"Emil Nolde The Grotesques" is an exhibition of the International Days Ingelheim, accompanied by a really nice catalogue. Not only are all the works on display illustrated here. The book also contains explanatory text contributions by Caroline Dieterich, Ulrich Luckhardt, Christian Ring, Daniel J. Schreiber and Roman Zieglgänsberger. The catalogue is thus a good complement to the exhibition visit. So anyone who would like to get to know this really exciting facet of Emil Nolde's oeuvre, or who is interested in fantastic Expressionism in the truest sense of the word, should definitely pay the Museum Wiesbaden another visit.
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California Assemblymember Rivas taps SJSU to provide data for new broadband legislation
In spring 2020, as schools began to close in-person instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, California Assemblymember Robert Rivas, ’11 MPA, saw how “blatant” limited access to broadband Internet was negatively impacting families in his district—Assembly District 30, which spans from Morgan Hill to King City.
As a native of California’s central coast and an alumnus of San José State, Rivas hoped that by collaborating with faculty members to collect data in the region, the state Legislature would benefit from scientific information to help address the lack of broadband access in the state.
“COVID-19 has exposed and exacerbated the broadband inequities that have existed in our state for years,” said Rivas.
Shortly after, a conversation with San José State Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Vincent Del Casino, Jr., sparked an opportunity for Rivas to gather data that could support potential legislation to improve broadband access.
Heather Lattimer, dean of the Lurie College of Education, recommended that Assistant Professors of Teacher Education Luis Poza, Tammie Visintainer and Eduardo Muñoz-Muñoz collaborate to create a case study about the lack of broadband access in the coastal town of Watsonville. Together, the faculty partnered with teachers at Watsonville High School’s Education, Community, Humanitarian, Outreach (ECHO) Leadership Academy to create curriculum that involved high schoolers in the data collection process.
The project sought to answer a few key questions: How could students attend online school with limited Wi-Fi? How could residents access telehealth services without reliable Internet? And how did the pandemic shed light on infrastructure inequities across California?
Students interviewed members of their communities about their Wi-Fi access since the pandemic began in March 2020. Poza and Visintainer presented the resulting case study, along with a series of maps created by the SJSU Spatial Analytics and Visualization (SAVi) Center, led by Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Ahoura Zandiatashbar, that depicted broadband access by demographic across District 30.
The maps specifically use American Community Survey 2018 data to highlight school-age children, Hispanic and African-American populations, as well as residents with below-poverty earnings. The SAVi team also used Fixed Broadband deployment data released by the Federal Communication Commission to identify four types of broadband service available.
Early analysis revealed that communities with a higher proportion of vulnerable households live in areas with lower broadband access fixed services.
“Our work shows that the neighborhoods of these individuals are suffering from insufficient service providers or the provided service is at a low speed,” explained Zandiatashbar.
“The fact that this region has had issues with Internet access has less to do with the Internet itself, but rather the populations affected,” said Muñoz-Muñoz. “Our racial identities connect with how we speak and choose to communicate, so these inextricable issues make it a social justice matter, a racial matter, a linguistic matter, and a right to learn matter.”
According to Poza, Internet access is not an all-or-nothing issue. A household might have to share wireless accounts across multiple families, which affects speed and reliability. Slow connectivity, in turn, makes it difficult for students to download resources and upload completed assignments.
This was acutely demonstrated when Monterey County Supervisor Luis Alejo tweeted an image of two young girls sitting outside Taco Bell with laptops in August of 2020, attempting to attend online school by accessing the restaurant’s Wi-Fi. The picture went viral, epitomizing the height of the digital divide.
“That photo captured this inequity at its core,” said Rivas. “Low-income families of color are facing the brunt of this pandemic, and it is research like San José State’s broadband report that informs our legislative response to this digital divide through data and facts.”
“Many of the participants mentioned the psychological and mental health costs of managing all this during a pandemic,” said Visintainer. “These kids are often portrayed as students who don’t care or aren’t motivated, but it’s very obvious that’s not the case and that they’re fighting so much harder to just access school right now, much less learn.”
From Research to Legislation
Poza and Visintainer were allotted five minutes with Rivas to explain how unequal access to Internet hotspots was just one way that the pandemic had amplified issues across the region. Central to their argument was that adding broadband infrastructure alone would not address the issues these communities experienced.
“Working with the ECHO Academy students, working with their teachers and hearing from their families and community members, made it abundantly clear that they are as brilliant, motivated and dignified as anyone in Silicon Valley,” said Poza.
“Their lack of access to broadband, housing or financial insecurity or their disproportionate exposure to COVID-19 risk are the results of policy decisions underlying these Band-Aid fixes around infrastructure in years past.”
How can policymakers and education researchers move beyond the Band-Aid? While there is no single cure for social, racial and economic inequity, this collaboration between the Lurie College and Assemblymember Rivas’ office is one critical step in closing the digital divide.
This was made clear in December, when Asm. Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, ’84 Accounting, introduced Assembly Bill 14, which Rivas co-authored, in the California Legislature. The bill, nicknamed the “Internet for All Act of 2021,” would allow educational agencies to report on issues with Internet access as it affects student learning.
“As a graduate of San José State, I am excited to work with the university community,” said Aguiar-Curry. “I know how educational, or anchor institutions, as they are defined in my AB 14, are critical hubs for learning and community engagement. We need the support of every educational, health and public safety institution in California so we can deliver 21st-century Internet technology to all Californians now.”
In the end, the 175 ECHO Academy students who participated in the project with the Lurie faculty had the satisfaction of knowing that the data they collected could lead to positive change not only in their hometown but also across the region. While their contributions could support Rivas’ campaign to improve wireless access, the project empowered students to reflect on pre-existing inequalities that have been exacerbated by the pandemic and what steps they could take to address them. | <urn:uuid:0c923a31-869e-4b98-a556-fa40a8837380> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.sjsu.edu/newsroom/2021/lurie-college-case-study-illuminates-unequal-access-to-internet-in-central-california-amid-covid-19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.95596 | 1,412 | 2.265625 | 2 |
A Book About Colab (and Related Activities) – edited by Max Schumann, and with a Foreword and Afterword by art writer and Colab member Walter Robinson – traces the output of Collaborative Projects Inc. (aka Colab), the highly energetic gathering of young New York downtown artists active from the late 1970’s through the mid 1980’s. The beautifully printed, full color publication pays homage to the group’s practice of collectivity and social engagement, while reflecting an iconic period of NYC cultural history. Advocating a form of cultural activism that was purely artist driven, the group created artworks, curated shows, and engaged in discourse that responded to the political themes and predicaments of their time. With extensive documentation of the printed material and media steadily produced in the course of their collaborative undertakings (as well as many new first-hand accounts), the publication offers a look into the diverse aesthetics and concerns of the group as they embarked on The Real Estate Show, The Times Square Show, the A. More Store, and other projects. | <urn:uuid:2a651c74-5739-415d-9ee8-b24210b11743> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.artecontemporanea.com/product/19893/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.943237 | 218 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Seminar: Critical social media analysis using mixed methods
|Instructor||Dr. Simon David Hirsbrunner, Michael Tebbe|
|Room||takes place online|
|Start||Nov 05, 2020 | 04:00 PM|
|end||Feb 25, 2021 | 06:00 PM|
Thursday, 4 pm - 6 pm
People are gathering in social media platforms in order to connect, represent, debate and purchase. Accordingly, data sourced from these platforms can and is widely used to create knowledge on contemporary social interaction, practice and culture. In this seminar, students are introduced to critical approaches to social media analysis using and experimenting with various methods emanating from qualitative social sciences and data sciences. The thematic focus of analysis lies on the characterization and evaluation of debates concerning scientific issues including the climate crisis, COVID-19 and associated conspiracy theories on YouTube and Twitter. Throughout the course of the seminar, experts from these scientific domains will be invited to suggest and discuss possible entry points and topics to be further investigated by the students.
While students will experiment with various tools for data extraction, visualization and analysis, the main objective of the seminar is to enable a critical evaluation of methods and their contribution to knowledge creation concerning digitally-mediated social interaction. This includes the entanglement of approaches such as Grounded Theory (qualitative coding), digital ethnography and machine learning. In particular, data science methods promise new investigative opportunities and a scalability to larger datasets, which are common in the analysis of social media data. Students will learn how to make data science methods productive, while at the same time grounding their investigation in empirically-observable social practice by use of qualitative methods. To do so, students will be introduced to human-centered research approaches pushed forward by the HCC Research Group at FU.
Here you can find our Code of Conduct.
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Student Project ResultsGroup 1: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of User Behavior Based on YouTube Videos Dealing With Climate Change
User behavior analysis based on social network data is an extensive research field usually affected by noise and misguiding elements. Millions of videos on one of the biggest and fastest-growing websites in the world - YouTube, often trigger long discussions in their comments section. Those interactions might count with the presence of trolls, bot accounts, human bot, or entities, which for various reasons, try to deviate the sentiment of the ongoing discussions. This paper focuses on trying to identify such patterns under videos of a highly controversial conspiracy theory about so-called "chemtrails". We want to determine user groups with the same opinion commenting on the same videos, find out if they also appear with similar comments in other videos of the topic, and what their intentions could be. To do so, we will leverage two different approaches for qualitative and quantitative analysis to successfully classify behavioral patterns on social media interactions, enabling us to answer the aforementioned questions.Group 1b: What are the topics and practices of the most prolific commenters under videos related to climate change?
In the following paper we show a way of collecting a large amount of YouTube comments using some custom scripts and the YouTube API. Afterwards we show the results of some statistical insights into the data set and provide more in depth analysis of the 200 most frequent commenters.Group 2: The end of political apathy?
A Mixed Methods Analysis of the general attitude towards young individuals that publicly engage in political topics.
A case study for climate change
Adults often complain about the allegedly unpolitical youth. However, with Fridays For Future, there exists now a very political global youth movement. We examined the public opinion on this development, i.e. we analyzed if people are pleased about the young age of such activists or if they are criticizing them and why. We did this by looking into YouTube comments under videos featuring young politically active people like the globally famous climate activist Greta Thunberg and the probably most popular climate change skeptic Naomi Seibt. For the analysis we used an empiric mixed methods approach. We found out that the attitudes towards the political engaged individuals of the younger generation are very polarized in a way that age-related comments either accuse inexperience, lack of education or assume that the youth is being used, or defend the courage and commitment that it takes to stand up and raise their voice. Index Terms—Ageism, Climate Change, Digital Humanities, Mixed Methods, Online Media, Youth Climate Activism, YouTubeGroup 3: How is climate change discussed dierently on YouTube at various moments in time
YouTube is the most popular internet video platform. Every day more than one billion users watch more than a billion hours of video collectively. YouTube's wide reach and high popularity has inspired scholars of all elds to explore YouTube as a research medium. One of its advantages is that it is suitable for exploring any media content, be it educational or entertainment content, advertising or news. In addition, variations in presentation format are possible, from images and text to audiovisual materials and lms, allowing content to be created by every user regardless of their technical capabilities. Finally, as YouTube allows its users to post comments on presented video material that is publicly available, it is possible to explore comments on the displayed content. Many people use YouTube as a source of information on technology and science (Leon and Bourk 2018). But there is often controversy surrounding online video and science videos are no exception. Many scientic disputes resolved in the academic community continue to circulate in the social media and even in political debates. This is the case with climate change (Leon and Bourk 2018, Chapter 4). When scientic issues are presented as controversial, in most cases this is done from a political or social perspective rather than from a scientic perspective. In the following, we present a project in which we investigate comments on YouTube videos containing materials about climate change and try to analyse how different social and political events in uence the debate on such a controversial topic.Group 4: Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) of Social Media: Taking a Greta Thunberg’s Speech on YouTube as a Case Study
Nowadays Social media has become an important information platform in our society. People use social media to connect to eachother, express their opinions, share their news, and discuss hot issues of society. With the development of social media, The influence on society and people’s daily life has become stronger. This research takes a speech of a Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg on YouTube as an example. Taking critical discourse analysis as a theoretical perspective. With qualitative analysis, we found the attitudes and intention behind the video. At the same time, by analyzing 27,324 online comments of the video, we found that the netizens have different attitudes toward Greta and environmental protection. With machine learning methode and Quantitative analysis, and using descriptive statistical methods. The authors believe that social media is playing an increasingly important role in expressing public opinions. This research helps us understand the attitudes of Internet users on the topic such as environmental protection.Group 5: Alt-Right Influence in YouTube Comment Sections
In the context of the seminar "Critical social media analysis using mixed methods" we worked on identifying members of the altright in the comment section of YouTube videos using a natural language processing pipeline. As the alt-right drastically increased their activity on social media platforms and also YouTube, we think it is important to have means and tools to identify possible attempts by them to influence discussions. We tried to use the presence of dog whistles as an indicator for alt-right participation. To achieve this goal, we analyzed YouTube comment data with the supplied pipeline of the seminar, clustered similar comments and then checked them against a list of known dog whistles if the resulting clusters can be labelled with one of these dog whistles. We also investigated clusters close to the identified dog whistle clusters to see if we can identify new dog whistles.Group 6: YouTube Platform Interventions discussed in Videos about Climate Change Skepticism
The aim of this study is to investigate how different types of platform interventions are discussed in the comment sections of YouTube videos in the context of climate change skepticism. The work focuses on exposing explanation and justification patterns to real and perceived platform interventions, determining the volume of comments debating the intervention methods as well as the user’s opinion on the relationship between interventions and free speech, with particular focus on platform credibility. An elaboration of the underlying theoretical background combined with a detailed literature review was carried out to accurately highlight the necessities, implementation strategies and consequences of interventions on social media platforms. To answer the research question a preliminary quantitative analysis followed by an extensive qualitative analysis was performed. The comment sections of ten precisely selected YouTube videos were considered where the average proportion of comments actually dealing with platform interventions was determined to be 3% corresponding to an average number of 99 comments of interest per video. A central component of the criticism on platform interventions consists in complaints about the YouTube search algorithm and the accessibility of specific videos via the search function. This resentment becomes especially evident by the observable trend of moving controversial content and entire communities to other platforms. It is further noticeable that the commenting users have fundamentally different perceptions of YouTube’s role as a social platform. A considerable part of the users understand intervention methods as a form of censorship and an infringement against their right of self-expression and accuse YouTube to follow a hidden agenda. In contrast, other users accept and justify the execution of platform interventions and request to delete unacceptable content more quickly. Overall, a positive correlation between the evaluation of the platform’s credibility and the evaluation of platform interventions was observable. As a third question, we have a theoretical discussion about the possibility to have an automatic sanctioning of alt-right members based on our results. After analyzing the comments, we were able to identify known dog whistles, which in most cases also appeared in the same clusters. It turned out that the alt-right clusters separate from other clusters, which made it possible for us to label them and then examine them more closely. Nevertheless, it was not possible for us to identify new dog whistles. But the pipeline can be used as a starting point for further research and with more data, new dog whistles could probably be identified.Group 8: Geoengineering discourse on YouTube: A machine learning based approach for the analysis of discourses
Concurrent with the growing public interest in online discussions on social media platforms, as well as the growing importance of the topic of climate change, YouTube serves as an open platform for the general public to participate in social debates. Besides the academic and scientific debate on geoengineering as a method to alleviate global warming, a more marginal discourse takes place in which the word "chemtrail" is interchangeably used with "geoengineering" to describe the contrail left by aeroplanes. Chemtrail activists claim that some “global elites” ally with governments to use chemtrails for weather manipulation for some secret on-going programs. Public debates around chemtrail conspiracy theories have received little attention in the academic field, despite recent calls for greater understanding of the different ways in which the idea of geoengineering is understood and widely discussed by the general public. This paper works on gaining insights into the public discourse around chemtrails and geoengineering with the Grounded Theory approach supported by machine learning algorithms. Our study has two main contributions: (1) describing the discursive patterns from both (with or against scientific consensus) camps around the topic of geoengineering ; (2) implementing Mutual Information Score to enhance in-cluster structure for qualitative analysis.Group 9: Analyzing conicting views on the COVID-19 Vaccination eorts in Social Media from an Establishment/Anti-Establishment standpoint using Machine Learning
During the seminar "Critical Social Media Analysis using Mixed Methods" in the Winter Term 2020/21 at Free University Berlin, we made ourselves familiar with the idea of interdisciplinary research between Computer Scientists and Digital Media researchers. In this context we learned on the one hand, how to work with technical tools tailored for Social Media like "YouTube Data Tools" and a natural language processing (NLP) pipeline while we on the other hand regularly read research papers in order understand Social Science methods or to get ideas for interesting research questions and design. The goal of the seminar was that we would ultimately design our own research papers in the eld of Digital Media research. Due to our unfamiliarity with NLP and scientic research in general, we decided to stay close to the methods that we learned during this seminar, but apply them to a research eld and research questions that interested us both. Due to the rising political and social tensions which we have witnessed in the recent period, both overseas in the United States and \at home" in Europe, we first had the idea to analyze the differences between left and right Establishment Critique. We felt that in some way the anger expressed in very dierent political movements seemed to be rooted in a rising dissatisfaction with the status quo in the West. But we encountered the problem that in the often "messy" real-world we did not have the possibility to study data that is neatly divided into the categories \establishment critique left" and \establishment critique right". We therefore decided to rather contrast \the establishment" and \the anti-establishment". Firstly, we tried to clarify for ourselves what we meant by these terms: for us (and based on some denitions we have looked up on this topic) the establishment can be seen as the current power structure in society and the people still having faith in the current order and acting in accordance with it, while the anti-establishment is a heterogenous collection of people or rather opinions held by people who distrust the current power elites and show some rebellion against them. Due to the very new and recent character of the COVID-19 pandemic, the increased importance of institutions like the WHO, the government, scientists etc. and the interesting conflict between the ideology of liberalism and pandemic response of governments, we decided to study the conflicting establishment/anti-establishment views of netizens on the topic of COVID-19. We further decided to focus on COVID- 19 vaccination due to availability of research on the topic of vaccine skepticism. In the following paper, we are going to draft a research design by starting with giving some context on the characterization of the establishment /antiestablishment divide and vaccination skepticism, formulating research questions that we want to answer, proposing a way of answering the research questions and ultimately presenting the results and insights we obtained on the basis of our research. | <urn:uuid:6a360ded-b90d-420b-9758-ba17678ba4c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/en/inf/groups/hcc/teaching/Past-Terms/winter_term_2020_21/seminar_critical_social_media_analysis_mixed_methods.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.917519 | 3,581 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Officially, the 18.5 millionth Bitcoin has been mined, and the miners have now generated more than 88% of the total BTC supply, but it will still take a century to mine all 21 million.
More than 18.5 million bitcoins have already been produced by the miners, which is around 88% of the total supply of 21 million. Because of the standard halves, it would take up to 100 years to find each last BTC. Consequently, the miners now have fewer than 2.5 million BTC remaining to mine, but while it looks like the emission of Bitcoin is closing on the finish line of 88% already mined, the emission of the last BTC is projected to be no earlier than 2140.
On May 12, the last BTC halving took place, and block rewards decreased from 12.5 to 6.25 BTC per block, which will continue to occur every four years before the previous satoshi unit is found. It is not entirely clear why the crypto founder Satoshi Nakamoto restricted Bitcoin’s maximum supply to 21 million coins; however, few theories exist. An interpretation, the money supply substitution hypothesis is while the alternative idea is that the cap may be extrapolated mathematically from the parameters.
When bitcoin was initially developed, the entire world’s money supply stood at $21 trillion. Each BTC will be worth $ 1 million if it becomes the ultimate currency and replaces all fiat currencies, while each satoshi will be worth $0.01. Although these figures resemble each other simultaneously, we can only speculate whether this is a coincidence. The second idea is clearer. Accordingly, the emission cap of the BTC is linked to the halving interval. For each loop, the total of the block rewards is equal to 100, so multiplying the number by 210,000 blocks, the cumulative supply is 21 million.
So it’s official now that there’s 21 million BTC, but except the miners’ rewards, the blockchain will still run as usual. Since there will be no new coins found, miners will have to rely on them. | <urn:uuid:b278e40e-b0e9-4185-a0c6-f942b12eb8db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crypto-radars.com/2020/09/28/its-official-the-18-5-millionth-bitcoin-has-been-mined/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.943925 | 423 | 2.59375 | 3 |
In response to Congressional direction in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, Public Law No: 116-92, on 18 December 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued “Interim Guidance on the Destruction and Disposal of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Materials Containing Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances” (Interim Guidance) as part of its continuing efforts to regulate the large body of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, collectively referred to as “PFAS.” See, Interim Guidance.
EPA issued the Interim Guidance, not as a rulemaking or policy statement, but to provide current scientific information on disposing of or destroying PFAS and PFAS-containing materials. PFAS are often referred to as the “forever chemicals” because they do not break down easily or quickly in the environment. Thus, they present a unique challenge for disposal/destruction. The Interim Guidance outlines three methods that may be effective and are currently available for disposal or destruction—landfill disposal, underground injection disposal, and thermal treatment for destruction (incineration)—and discusses the data gaps and challenges for each, along with noting the need for further research into these methods for future guidance. EPA intends for this information to inform the decision making process of those managing the destruction/disposal of this material.
The Interim Guidance identifies six waste streams that commonly contain PFAS:
- Aqueous film-forming foam (used in fire suppression);
- Soil (directly through land application or spills, or indirectly through particles released from stack emissions, for example) and biosolids (the Interim Guidance refers to the definition in 40 C.F.R. Part 503 for “sewage sludge,” also called “biosolids”);
- Textiles, other than consumer goods, treated with PFAS;
- Spent filters, membranes, resins, granular carbon, and other waste from water treatment;
- Landfill leachate containing PFAS; and
- Solid, liquid, or gas waste streams containing PFAS from facilities manufacturing or using PFAS.
Congress specifically identified these six areas in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 as the waste EPA was required to address through issuance of the Interim Guidance. As a result, while EPA recognizes the information could be useful to other PFAS and PFAS-containing materials, the Interim Guidance only covers these six materials.
The Interim Guidance addresses the three disposal and destruction techniques currently used by industry discussed above: landfill disposal, underground injection disposal (liquid phase only), and thermal treatment for destruction (incineration). None is favored or rejected by EPA. However, as EPA clearly recognizes, the science behind potential migration of PFAS and PFAS-containing chemicals into the environment during any of these three disposal/destruction methods is still in its infancy. Accordingly, the Interim Guidance recognizes that in some cases it may be best to store PFAS and PFAS-containing materials for a period of two to five years while scientific advances in this area are made.
EPA’s inclusion of destruction in commercial incinerators, cement kilns, and lightweight aggregate kilns in the Interim Guidance was not surprising. EPA acknowledged data gaps related to temperatures, residence times, and emission characterization data. EPA had planned an experimental burning in a New Jersey incinerator to learn more about how PFAS reacts to incineration; however, that test was canceled due to vocal objections by environmental groups concerned about potential resulting air pollution. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said protestors misunderstood the testing, thinking PFAS-containing firefighting foam shipped from New York would be burned, when in truth the experiment involved burning CF4, a chemical with similar bonding properties to PFAS chemicals, but that is considered a safe, nontoxic surrogate compound to PFAS.
EPA has pledged to move forward over the next three years with its efforts to further study thermal destruction of PFAS, but individual states are acting in the meantime. New York adopted a state law banning incineration of PFAS-containing aqueous film-forming foam. The PFAS Waste Incineration Ban Act of 2019 (H.R. 2591) was introduced during the 116th Congress but was not adopted into law. The bill would have not only banned the incineration of PFAS-containing firefighting foam, but would also have required EPA to identify and then ban incineration of other wastes containing PFAS. It is unclear whether such legislative actions will be a priority going forward.
The Interim Guidance is just one part of EPA’s larger PFAS Action Plan. The Biden administration is expected to aggressively continue EPA’s current work on the items listed in that Action Plan, including setting maximum contaminant levels for PFAS in drinking water and designating certain PFAS as CERCLA hazardous substances. Congress is also expected to push for PFAS legislation such as the PFAS Action Act, which among other things would designate PFAS as a CERCLA hazardous substance and mandate the promulgation of a national primary drinking water standard.
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Support For Joint Health, Flexibility, and Function
As age increases, glucosamine levels decline. Cartilage is a living tissue with the ability to regenerate itself, given the right nourishment. Studies confirm that supplementary glucosamine is readily absorbed and incorporated into cartilage and other connective tissue.
Glucosamine is a naturally occurring, essential component of glycosaminoglycans, sponge-like compounds which absorb and bind water within cartilage. Glucosamine hydrochloride is thought crucial for helping to maintain joint cushioning, flexibility, function, and integrity. Glucosamine hydrochloride is also thought to be important in the formation and structure of bones, tendons, ligaments, and other connective tissue, stimulating cartilage production, natural joint repair, and reduction of joint inflammation.
MSM (methylsulfonymethane) is a naturally occurring sulfur compound and a derivative of DSMO, it supports the integrity of healthy mucous membranes, and is necessary for the production of collagen and keratin, the primary proteins in hair, skin, and nails. MSM also plays an essential role in the formation of bones, joints, ligaments, and tendons. MSM is primarily used for its natural and remarkable anti-inflammatory properties, which are especially useful in alleviating pain, joint inflammation, muscle spasms, allergies, and gastrointestinal inflammation. Its maintenance of healthy cell membranes may help to prevent allergies and support normal lung function.
Collagen is the major structural component of articular cartilage in joints. Type II collagen from chicken sternal cartilage contains the highest amount of anti-inflammatory and joint-related proteoglycans. It is also much more absorbable than other forms of collagen, with an absorption rate of 70 to 90 percent. It supports production of synovial fluid, decreases levels inflammatory cytokines and increases T-suppressor cells.
Glucosamine and Chondroitin are naturally occurring compounds thought crucial for joint health, flexibility, and function, as well as the formation of bones, tendons, ligaments, and other connective tissue. MSM (methylsulfonymethane) is a naturally occurring sulfur compound supporting the integrity of healthy mucous membranes, and is necessary for the production of collagen and keratin, the primary proteins in hair, skin, and nails. Collagen is the major structural component of articular cartilage in joints. Glucosamine, Chondroitin, MSM with Enzymes contains properly balanced enzymes to maximize the health benefits of all these nutrients in one easy daily supplement.
Joint & Connective Tissue Health
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Izumo Taisha Grand Shrine is famous for its dedication to Okuninushi-no-okami, known as the deity of en-musubi (creation and arrangement of relationships). Gods throughout Japan gather once every year for a meeting called “Kamuhakari” where they discuss the linking of fates, binding of ties, or in the case of romantic relationships, matchmaking. It is held during the 10th month of the lunar calendar which is why, here in the Izumo Region, that month is called “Kamiari zuki” or The Month of the Gods. Visited yearly by a large number of worshipers, Izumo Taisha is popular as a “land of matchmaking.”
|Access：||About a 10-minute walk from Ichibata Electric Railway Izumotaisha-mae Station, or 30 minutes by Ichibata bus from Izumoshi Station to Izumo Taisha, getting off at Seimon-mae bus stop|
|Address：||195 Kizukihigashi, Taishacho, Izumo, Shimane|
Located roughly between Izumo Taisha Grand Shrine and Matsue Castle, Matsue Vogel Park is designed with a theme of flowers and birds. The park’s indoor garden is one of the largest in the world and offers visitors the chance to enjoy a variety of flowers (with begonia as the main focus) as well as various birds. The penguin march is a must see.
|Access：||Get off at Matsue Vogel Park Station, Ichibata Electric Railway|
|Opening hours：||9:00 am – 5:30 pm (admission until 4:45 pm; April – September)
9:00 am – 5:00 pm (admission until 4:15 pm; October – March)
|Closed：||No closing days|
|Admission fee：||Adults: ¥1,050, Elementary, and junior high school students: ¥530 (Foreign tourist discounted prices require presentation of passport or other identification)|
|Address：||52 Ogakicho, Matsue City, Shimane|
Boasting a modern Japanese art collection from Japan’s leading artists, including Taikan Yokoyama, Seiho Takeuchi, and Kansetsu Hashimoto. The Adachi Museum of Art also features pottery from Rosanjin Kitaoji, Urushi lacquerware, sculptures, and fascinating children’s paintings. The museum is also home to a famous Japanese garden covering some 50,000 tsubo (1 tsubo = 3.3 square meters), named the best Japanese garden every year since 2003 by a professional U.S.-based garden journal.
|Access：||20 minutes by free shuttle bus from JR Yasugi Station|
|Opening hours：||9:00 am – 5:00 pm (October – March),
9:00 am – 5:30 pm (April – September)
|Closed：||No closing days(New building subject to closing days)|
|Admission fee：||Adults:¥1,150, University students: ¥900, High school students: ¥500, Junior high and elementary students: ¥250 * No charge for elementary, junior high, and high school students on Saturdays (presentation of valid student ID card required) (Foreign tourist discounted prices require presentation of passport or other identification)|
|Address：||320 Furukawacho, Yasugi, Shimane|
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine was designated a World Heritage Site in July 2007. For about 100 years between the 16th and 17th centuries, a large amount of silver was mined from the Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine, playing a major role in connecting Asian and European countries through trade. In the first half of the 17th century, the silver yield from the mine was estimated at about 38 tons annually. During that time, a significant portion of the world’s silver is said to have been produced in Japan with Japanese silver accounting for about one-third of the world’s production.
|Access：||30 minutes by Iwami Kotsu Bus from JR Odashi Station to Omori bus stop|
|Address：||Omoricho, Ohda, Shimane|
|Contact：||Ohda City Tourist Association, 0854-89-9090|
Featuring 186,000 stones, Matsue Castle is the symbol of Matsue Castle Town. The castle, also known as Chidori (Plover) Castle, is a Momoyama-style watchtower-type castle featuring shitami itabari-style wooden board siding with battens. One of only 12 Japanese castles with an existing main keep, Matsue Castle boasts the only existing keep in the San’in area. The castle was designated a National Treasure in July 2015.
|Access：||10 minutes by Lake Line Bus from JR Matsue Station to Matsue-jo (Otemae)|
|Opening hours：||[Castle Keep Gate Hours] Apr. 1 – Sept. 30: 7:00 am – 7:30 pm, Oct. 1 – Mar. 31: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
[Keep Entry Hours] Apr. 1 – Sept. 30: 8:30 am – 6:30 pm (admittance until 6:00 pm),
Oct. 1 – Mar. 31: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm (admittance until 4:30 pm)
|Admission fee：||Adults: ¥340, children: ¥140 (Foreign tourist discounted prices require presentation of passport or other identification)|
|Address：||1-5 Tonomachi, Matsue, Shimane|
|Contact：||Matsue Jozan Koen Administration Office, 0852-21-4030|
Tamatsukuri Onsen boasts high beautifying effects for skin, leaving bathers with surprisingly smooth skin, making this a popular destination for women. Enjoy a beautiful view from the bath in any season— fresh greenery in spring, summer clouds, autumn foliage, and wintry snowscapes— while refreshing both body and mind.
|Access：||5 minutes by taxi from JR Tamatsukurionsen Station to Tamatsukuri Onsen Town|
|Address：||Tamatsukuri, Tamayucho, Matsue, Shimane|
|Contact：||Matsue Tourism Association(Tamatsukuri Onsen Office), 0852-62-3300|
Izumo soba (buckwheat noodles) is one aspect of Izumo’s local food culture. The most notable features of Izumo soba are its distinctly darker color compared with buckwheat noodles from other areas and how the noodles are eaten. Made with unsorted flour and unhulled buckwheat, Izumo soba is fragrant and features a distinct flavor and texture. Izumo soba can be eaten from small round bowls called warigo or served kamaage-style straight from being boiled in a pot or kettle.
Tottori Sand Dunes are Japan’s largest sand dunes, extending some 16 km to the east and west. The wind ripples created in the sand by the wind coming off the Sea of Japan are a truly beautiful sight that speaks to the very heart of those who see them. Visitors can enjoy such activities as sandboarding, paragliding, and dune yoga.
|Access：||30 minutes by bus from Tottori Station|
|Address：||Yuyama, Fukubecho, Tottori|
|Contact：||Tottori Convention & Tourism Association, 0857-26-0756|
Selected among the first round of Japan Heritage sites, Misasa Onsen is one of the world’s finest radium hot springs. Visitors can soak in, drink, or inhale the waters from this modern therapeutic bath, which is said to rejuvenate both body and mind after three nights and three mornings here.
|Access：||20 minutes by route bus from Kurayoshi Station|
|Address：||Misasa, Tohaku District, Tottori|
|Contact：||Misasa Onsen Tourist Agency, 0858-43-0431|
Uradome Coast is a magnificent coastline with unique terrain shaped by the rough waves of the Sea of Japan. Enjoy the natural scenery up close through a variety of marine activities, from enjoying a ride on a sightseeing boat to witnessing the incredibly clear water of the sea in a see-through canoe or through snorkeling.
|Access：||30 minutes by car from Tottori Station|
|Address：||Uradome, Iwamicho, Iwami District, Tottori|
|Contact：||Iwami Convention and Visitors Bureau, 0857-72-3481|
Mt. Daisen is known as the third national park to be designated in Japan and is ranked as one of Japan's best three peaks. Also known as “Hoki Fuji,” the mountain boasts a beautiful appearance that continues to capture the hearts of sightseers. The contrast between the autumn foliage, peaking between late October and early November, and the majestic north slope reminiscent of the Alps is distinctive.
|Access：||30 minutes by car from Yonago Station|
|Contact：||Daisen-cho Tourist Information Office, 0859-52-2502|
Mizuki Shigeru Road is located in Sakaiminato City, the hometown of the famous cartoonist Shigeru Mizuki, famous for “Gegege no Kitaro” (a comic of Japanese adorable spirit monsters). Along the road’s 800 m stretch from Sakaiminato Station, visitors can find more than 170 bronze statues of spiritual characters from his comics. Visitors will enjoy shopping for spiritual character-themed goods in the many shops lining Mizuki Shigeru Road.
|Access：||Just close to Sakaiminato Station|
|Address：||Suehirocho area, Sakaiminato, Tottori|
Tottori’s 20th Century pears offer one of the areas quintessential tastes. During pear season from around late August to mid-September, Tottori is dotted with souvenir shops displaying rows after rows of pears. The season is bustling with pear-picking orchards with visitors looking for the refreshingly sweet flavor of this fleshy fruit overflowing with juice and crisp sweetness.
|Season：||Late August to mid-September|
|Contact：||Convention & Tourism Association, 0857-26-0756|
The black burnt cedar boards on white stucco walls and the red Sekishu Kawara tiles of the unique Kurayoshi landscape invite visitors to forget time and relax. Not only will visitors enjoy the souvenirs and other goods from kura (storehouses) including specialty stores, galleries, and local toy workshops, but Kurayoshi also offers a wide variety of events and other experiences.
|Access：||15 minutes by bus from Kurayoshi Station|
|Address：||Uomachi/Higashinakamachi/Nishinakamachi/Nishimachi, Kurayoshi, Tottori|
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A group of primarily white protestors stood outside the D.C. Office of Police Complaints Thursday morning, calling for an end to racism in the D.C. police department.
The crowd of roughly 100 chanted phrases like “No justice, no peace” and “Freedom now” at 14th and I streets NW and held signs honoring Sherman Evans, who was shot and killed this year by Metropolitan Police Department officers. Others held signs that simply read “Black Lives Matter.”
The group called on D.C. residents to file complaints of racism against MPD officers, holding signs with the phone number for filing complaints with the department. They yelled demands for MPD to make the investigation into the officers involved in Evans’ death more transparent and to release a concrete timeline on when they will make a public announcement of the officer’s fate.
The D.C. chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice, a group of mostly white activists who call for an end to injustice against black people, organized the protest as part of the National Day of Action.
Between chants from the crowd, Sean Blackmon, an organizer for the Stop Police Terror Project, spoke about how he believes there should be an “ideological shift” away from the “white supremacist capitalism” that perpetuates unjust treatment of black people.
“Under the system of white supremacist capitalism, no lives can matter,” he said.
Blackmon says that D.C. is “every bit as liable and guilty” as other major cities who have come under fire for the deaths of black people while in police custody. He said MPD only acknowledges 15 percent of the complaints they receive about police actions, and the protest group called for more accountability in the department.
He said the top-down approach for change will not work. Blackmon was critical of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to increase police presence in response to the spike in crime last year.
“This is an example of how we cannot rely on the state to solve our problem,” he said after his speech. “The state is the problem.”
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‘No Thoroughfare on The Tram Road: History of Clontarf and its Environs’ by historian Val Lynch is a charming local history book which many northside Dubliners may have seen knocking around in newsagents and shops. Being from the area myself, I have an obvious interest. Whilst I am all for local history (something which we here on blather.net have always been fans of) one does have to worry when such books simply repeat stories about local legends and folklore. In the book I’ve just mentioned, there is an excellent example: the story of the ‘Mysterious Underground Tunnels Under Clontarf’.
The fact is, the story is nonsense. How do I know? Because I was part of the group that (inadvertently) made the whole thing up.
So, how did it happen? Well, at the time I was a semi-regular poster to an Irish discussion forum – the mighty p45.net (‘wasting time at work’) which is run by blather.net’s old friends Paul Clerkin and Mick Cunningham. Paul and Micko have a touch of “the mischievous” about them and, a couple of years ago, they decided to add a hidden forum to the site called ‘Urban Legends’. The express purpose of the forum was to create fictional news stories, leak them to the media and see if we could get them published.
The schoolboy pranks aside, the project had a serious point: to illustrate that most mainstream Irish media outlets would publish just about any piece of crap that they were handed without checking the stories for factual accuracy. And man were we right. As we reported here on blather.net in November 2003, in the article ‘Knick Knack Paddy Hack’ the project became frighteningly successful, with the final ignominious embarrassment of the Irish Independent when they published a story that Silvio Berlusconi (then the Italian Prime Minister) was demanding the return of Caravaggio’s painting “The Taking Of Christ” from the National Gallery in Dublin. It was the most famous in a long line of ridiculous stories which we managed to get into the media.
But recently, an even older one, (which I had all but forgotten about) re-appeared in a local history book ‘No Thoroughfare on The Tram Road: History of Clontarf and its Environs’ by Val Lynch. A friend mailed me to ask me had I read it. I said that I hadn’t, as I now live in London. He then scanned the cover (pictured below) and also page 26 (shown further below). I then commenced weeping laughing: the book repeated the story about the tunnels.
Here’s how it happened: Paul posted a thread to the forum with a draft of the original story on the morning of the 25th March, 2003. Later that day I asked him if I could (being from the area) add some ‘local colour’. This is what I posted next:
Mysterious underground tunnels under Clontarf
Excavation work on the Dublin Port Tunnel has uncovered mysterious underground tunnels in the Clontarf area. Surveyors on the project have stated that the network of tunnels which stretch for several miles are too deep to have been an old sewerage system and are obviously man-made. The tunnels were uncovered late last week and are currently being mapped and investigated by archaeologists from Irish Antiquities Division of the National Museum of Ireland [Ed – I used to work here] and surveyors from Duchas.
The construction company in charge of the project remains tightlipped but speculation is rife in the Irish historical community. According to Fergus McLinden, an archaeologist at Queen’s University Belfast “We’re guessing wildly here as we haven’t seen the shafts and tunnels yet but they may have been old mines of some sort. They’re quite deep underground and hewn out of solid rock”
“As to what else they could be, we have no idea. There were no major British military installations in the area so they’re unlikely to be escape routes. There is also some speculation that they may have been connected to the St Anne’s Park in Clontarf, but they seem too expansive for that.”
Local historian and politician Barry Ahern had an alternative theory to offer. “Clontarf Castle was originally an important Knights Templar preceptory, before they fell foul of the Inquisition. This was after they were famously rounded up on Friday the 13th, 1307, thus giving birth to the superstition concerning the date of Friday the 13th. What makes all of this particularly interesting is the local legends in Clontarf concerning hoards of buried treasure and valuables that the Templars may have secreted in the area at that time. No-one really has any idea what could have been buried by the Templars. Nearly everything has been suggested from hoards of coins to important documents and religious Templar artefacts. Some have even suggested that Clontarf could have been the last resting place of the Ark of the Covenant…” [Ed- I was reading Graham Hancock’s ‘The Sign and the Seal at the time and threw this in for a laugh]
Meanwhile further tunnelling is being carried out at a slower pace in case further tunnels are uncovered that may collapse or cause damage to the drilling equipment.
This is not the first hold-up on the Port Tunnel project. In recent weeks, contractors have had to investigate cracking in a house in Marino. CIE have also complained about the tunnel causing movement in the railway line on the main Dublin-Belfast line.
And that’s how the story went out. It took some time, but we knew that the story had succeeded when Paul was in a taxi some months later and, whilst driving through Clontarf, was told by the taxi driver the story of ‘de underground tunnels in Clontarf’. Paul tried to tell the driver that he’d been responsible, but to no avail. The driver was adamant.
And here it is again, five years later, taken from page 26 of the book. (Click to see the full image)
Perhaps the funniest part of all this is the fact that the ‘No Thoroughfare on The Tram Road’ book quotes a source named as Barry Ahern – this is an old friend of mine from the area. I added his name at the last moment, as I was in a rush and couldn’t think of anything else. We always said he’d be famous.
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Aims. This paper reviews placebo and placebo effects and their measurement and application to nursing. Ethical and methodological issues are also discussed. Implications for nursing and recommendations for future study are offered. Background. Placebos have been used for decades in clinical trials but discussion about conceptual, methodological and ethical issues has been comparatively scarce. Conclusion. It is concluded that true placebo effects are difficult to measure and control and the use of credible placebo is sometimes impractical in clinical nursing research. This leads to the increased use of usual care as a control by researchers. However, more information should be reported in studies that use this approach, including the specification of usual care, its monitoring and patient adherence. Relevance to clinical practice. Where its use is considered ethical, safe and feasible, a placebo arm should be included in studies of efficacy to distinguish between active and inactive treatment.
- Placebo effects
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Hazelnuts in Maraschino: The Vanished Garnish
Reposted in part with permission from Libation Legacy.
When I first started to make my own maraschino hazelnuts, I thought that I had discovered the most obscure lost ingredient of all. Heavy research had turned up meager results, but I was able to use what clues I could find to attempt a re-creation of what was once a commercial product, sold in the finer grocery stores. Now, others are discovering the secret, so I thought they may enjoy some of the details I’ve found.
The cocktail hazelnut may have experienced a comeback in the 1930s, but its origin lies at the very beginning of the twentieth century. The best documentation for both the fad and its resurgence comes from an obscure booklet published by Dr. Jayne’s, a patent medicine company that flourished in Philadelphia in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Outside of early weight-loss pills and hangover cures, the company was most famous for its annual almanac, and today is remembered more for its publications than its potions. In 1933, immediately upon repeal, they saw an opportunity to fill the niche for cocktail recipe books, and contracted to a bartender in New York to develop their own.
Unfortunately, and for whatever reason, Dr. Jayne’s did not see fit to credit the author (hopefully, they paid him). Although he remains anonymous, it seems that he was well-known among his contemporaries behind the stick in the posh hotels and watering holes of Manhattan. Several of these locales are mentioned by name, and he provides details which can be found nowhere else. These include the Hotels Biltmore and Pennsylvania, whose bars, before and after prohibition, were both known for their use of preserved hazelnuts as a cocktail garnish.
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When I graduated from high school, I had a plan. I was going to get a degree and get a job. A degree, after all, was the only thing my family ever asked of me. Off I went into the world of post-secondary education, excited and full of whimsy.
Then it happened: The moment I realized school might not be for me, halfway through my first semester.
I had no idea why everyone was so intent on me going to school. I didn't get what the big deal was. It was then that I started thinking: Maybe everyone else doesn't know best.
I never once thought of taking a break or checking out different interests I might have – that seemed like a waste of time. I had my plan and I was going to stick to it. I continued with my studies (reluctantly) and I went on to my next plan. I was going to become a behavioural consultant and work with children on the autism spectrum.
My plan was all set, my classes were all chosen, and off I went to continue with my education before knowing very much about being a behavioural consultant. I didn't talk to anyone working in the field and I didn't know what I might be in for. Big mistake.
I eventually got a job working as a behaviour interventionist and I thought that I was on the right track. I chose a profession and I was going to work my way to it. The plan was in motion!
After about a year, I realized that I couldn't work in the field anymore. I failed to take into account the possibility that I might not be suited for a career as a behavioural consultant.
The idea of a plan was so ingrained into my head that I couldn't even think what I would do without one. Scrambling to make a new plan, someone told me, “why don't you just see where life takes you?” I had no clue what to even say to that. Why would I leave my future up to fate?
I had blinders on; focusing only on what I thought was part of my plan. I didn't think about how I could find something I was actually passionate about.
Why did I keep going to school even though I knew I was unhappy?
I thought things would get better. I thought I would learn to like it and I didn't want to disappoint my family.
Why did I continue to think of one set plan even when I knew it hadn't worked before?
That's all I knew how to do.
When think about our careers, we automatically assume the need to have a set goal and plan, because that's the message we’ve internalized. From a very young age, one of the first questions posed to us is “What are you going to be when you grow up?” Once we get too old for that question, it becomes, “What's your plan for the future?” The idea that there is just one thing to do as a grown up and just one plan to have once you're old enough is something that has been challenged extensively. Jim Bright and Robert Pryor set forth the idea of “shiftwork” in careers, 11 shifts in thinking for career services.
One of the “shifts” that really stands out to me is the idea of shifting from plans to having plans as well as continuously planning. Confused? Stay with me for a moment. Plans need to be modified. They should take into account everything that influences our life. Plans should always be changing, and it's better to have a planning process than a plan that is set in stone. Plans may be developed, redeveloped, deployed, and sometimes abandoned. The idea isn't to go into every moment in life blindly; it's to keep all options open and let your plan be as adaptable as needed.
So, what happened to me? I eventually let go of the idea of one set plan and kept my options open with every experience. I didn't let fate decide what I would do, rather, I let things happen and I continue to let influences around me affect my planning. I took a class on vocational counselling and I decided to find out if working in career services was a good fit for me. The more I dug into the field, the more I found that I could not only make a difference, but also do the things I am most passionate about.
Looking back at my journey, I see that everything that I did and everything I experienced was meaningful in my life. If it hadn't been for the experiences I loved (and the ones I didn't love as much), I wouldn't have seen where my passion was. Not only were all my experiences eye-opening, they were all telling me something I didn't want to hear:
“There is no plan.” I never once as a child thought, “I want to work in employment services,” but that's exactly where I ended up!
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A Jewish couple on Sunday became the first people to have a Jewish wedding in the Grand Synagogue of Edirne in over 40 years. The synagogue, located in northwest Turkey, was reopened in 2015 after a major restoration that cost over $2 million.
According to Hurriyet Daily News, the ceremony was attended by over 1,000 people, including such senior officials as Edirne’s mayor and the regional governor. Also on hand were Ishak Ibrahimzadeh, president of the Jewish Community of Turkey, and Rufat Mitrani, who is the patriarch of the only Jewish family left in Edirne.
Representatives of the Jewish society conducted the religious wedding ceremony while the mayor, Recep Gürkan, conducted the civil ceremony afterwards.
The event was not without its security concerns. Guests had to go through x-ray machines upon entering the synagogue. Security sweeps were conducted in the area of the synagogue and roads leading to it were closed off. A Turkish television crew filmed police scanning flower arrangements with metal detectors at the entrance.
The synagogue is the third-largest in the world, and the largest in Europe. Construction on the synagogue first began in 1906, after a great fire in Edirne three years earlier left the 20,000 Jews that lived there without a place of worship. It was built to hold 1,200 worshipers.
The synagogue closed in 1983 after the Jewish community dwindled to virtually no residents. Having fallen into ruin, the synagogue was renovated and reopened in 2015. A banner outside the synagogue reads, “Welcome home, our old neighbors.”
The wedding triggered a deluge of anti-Semitic speech online, a leader of the country’s Jewish community said.
Ibrahimzadeh, the Jewish Community leader, said Sunday that some social network users responded with hate speech to his invitation to watch a live streaming video of the wedding.
“Many anti-Semites regurgitated their hatred in Periscope,” Ibrahimzadeh said in reference to the streaming service that offered the feed. “They are the reason for Islamophobia. Hand in hand, we will overcome them.”
Some users wrote “kill the Jews,” the news site NRG reported Sunday. One user wrote: “Such a pity that Hitler didn’t finish the job.” Others referenced “occupied Palestine.”
On Twitter, Ibrahimzadeh urged the Turkish Justice Ministry and the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights Inquiry to investigate those responsible for the hate speech for inciting racist hatred.
“Don’t the comments on Periscope about the Edirne synagogue constitute a hate crime?” Ibrahimzadeh asked.
Edirne has few Jews and nearly all of the hundreds of at the wedding of Guneş Mitrani and Harun Esenturk came from Istanbul, elsewhere in Turkey and beyond.
Still, the guests appeared to be in high spirits inside the ornate interior of the massive, cream-colored building. Dressed in designer suits and white kippahs, the guests cheered and whistled as a relative of the bride lifted the hem of her wedding dress to show off her white shoes.
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Govt. asks states to formulate plans for biomass co-firing in power plants
Recently, the Ministry of Power has asked the states to prepare a plan for biomass co-firing in power plants.
- The objective of the scheme is to prepare a time bound plan for ensuring use of biomass for co-firing in thermal power plants.
- The ministry has asked to prepare this plan before the Kharif crop season. This will help in controlling the activities of stubble burning and will also help in reducing air pollution.
- Earlier, in October 2021, the government had issued a policy for the use of agricultural waste based biomass. Under this, five to seven percent biomass co-firing with coal was made mandatory in all thermal power plants.
- The Ministry of Power also launched the ‘SAMARTH’ (Sustainable Agrarian Mission on use of Agro Residue in TPPs – SAMARTH) mission in the year 2021 to utilize biomass in thermal power plants. Here SAMARTH stands for Sustainable Agriculture Mission on the use of agricultural residues in thermal power plants.
Biomass co-firing refers to the combustion of coal as well as biomass in coal-fired power plants.
Types of co-firing
- Direct Co-firing: In this, biomass and coal are burnt in the same furnace.
- Indirect co-firing: In this, solid biomass is converted into clean fuel gas using a biomass gasifier.
- Parallel Co-firing: A biomass boiler is installed completely separate in addition to the conventional boiler.
Importance of Biomass Co-firing:
- It reduces greenhouse gas emissions,
- It ensures additional income for the farmers,
- Coal-fired power plants can be retrofitted quickly and at a low cost,
- It uses only the existing network of coal plants.
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At last after two long years, the borders between Canada and the United States are reopened. Only a six-hour drive to arrive in Quebec, la belle province. There is something for everyone, from couples looking for a romantic escapade, families looking for activities that will please all ages and those just looking for a place to go that has charm, clean and safe streets and many, many kosher options. Of course, for those who so choose there are one-hour flights to Montreal from LaGuardia, Newark and JFK airports. These days it is agreed by most that it is easier to drive.
First and foremost before anyone enters Canada: At least 72 hours prior to arriving one must download an app called ArriveCAN. It is not difficult to do and allows easy access into Canada. One must have a passport, a U.S. birth certificate, a certificate of citizenship, permanent resident card or a government-issued ID card. Children are allowed to have copies of birth certificates instead of a passport. Keep in mind that Canada is a foreign country. No one who is unvaccinated may enter Canada. Check the sidebar for further information.
The French flavor of Quebec is appealing to vacationers who would have to spend a great deal more to get to Paris. Another great perk is the fact that the Canadian dollar is now worth approximately 1.30 USD. Spend, spend and spend … and it will not be that painful.
Once one has crossed the border, the drive to the city of Montreal should be no more than 45 minutes to one hour. Keep in mind that speed limits in Canada are in kilometers, and temperatures are in Celsius. When you hear that the temperature is 39 degrees in the middle of July, do not worry that you will freeze. In actual fact, you will be perspiring and hot. That temperature is approximately 102 degrees!
Driving at 100 kilometers is approximately 62 miles per hour. Gas is sold in liters and food is sold in kilos. A gallon of gas is the equivalent of 3.78 liters. Beware of the prices. Try to fill up as much as you can prior to entering Canada. If you think the prices are drastic here, wait until you see the prices there (in Canadian currency). The last exit before the border will be Champlain.
Prepare yourself for signs to be in French. While everyone will probably be crossing the Champlain Bridge in order to get to the downtown area of Montreal, be prepared that the sign will say “PONT Champlain.” Before you know it all of these foreign signs can be easily mastered. Sortie is the word for “Exit,” and Arret is the word for “Stop”! (I recently heard a story from someone who was on his way to Canada looking for the Champlain Bridge but saw the word “PONT” and drove around and around looking for the bridge.)
Different strokes for different folks, but I assume that families traveling together would choose different accommodations than a couple traveling alone. There are many options, with deluxe accommodations and other hotels that probably would be more comfortable if traveling with young children, many with suites including kitchens.
The Sofitel Hotel is downtown on Sherbrooke Street, offers keys for Shabbat upon request and is more deluxe. It is also walkable to Chabad, where they offer lunch on Shabbat. The choices of where to get kosher food downtown are almost nil. There are many kosher restaurants, but with the exception of La Pletzel on Peel Street in the Chabad House, there is nothing in that area. La Pletzel is open Monday-Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is extremely informal, serving dairy and pareve. Think also of the McGill Hillel, where students and some business people drop in and expect simple but good food not served in a very deluxe fashion.
There is also a Chabad House of Westmount at 4 Westmount Square, which is closer to downtown and they do have a minyan each day They can be reached at 514-937-4772 for further information.
The Canadian equivalent of Starbucks is called Second Cup. All coffee drinks there are kosher, however, the pastries and food items are not. There are a few Second Cups that might provide kosher cakes, but one must ask. Definitely downtown that is not the case. (I called them.)
I will list separately all of the kosher restaurants in Montreal. There have been many changes since COVID, and for some, I would suggest making reservations. I will indicate if necessary.
For those who prefer to stay in a suite hotel and buy prepared food, Montreal has many very delicious options. Keep in mind that nothing in Montreal is very far from each other. Even if you stay downtown, you are only a 20-minute drive from a Jewish area where you can get kosher food. It might be fun to try out the Metro (subway system) which is quiet as it runs on rubber wheels. It very clean and safe! The entire city is clean and safe. I would not hesitate to walk there at night.
Montreal is a city of festivals. Considering that Tisha B’Av falls on August 7 this year, you might still be able to avail yourself of either the Just for Laughs Festival or the Jazz Festival. Their dates are easily available online, and what is special about them is that there are many free shows along the streets and one can just have a great time watching what is going on without paying a penny. On the other hand, tickets are available to purchase for concerts or shows as well.
Walking along the streets of Montreal is a show in itself, and for an extra treat visit what is known as Old Montreal, where cobblestone streets and the old city are filled with people each night.
Troubadours, artists, and all kinds of street entertainment take place. The Cirque du Soleil, which began in Old Montreal and still has its headquarters there, could very well be in town for a performance. Please note that the show will be in French. The founder of Cirque, Guy Laliberte, still lives in Old Montreal and his idea of what a circus should be has changed people’s ideas of the circus worldwide. Again, no food in Old Montreal, although cafes and restaurants abound—just not for the kosher consumer.
The architecture is stunning; proudly stands the Hotel de Ville (City Hall) and the Palais de Justice (the court house) in the midst of it all. Take a walk down the Grand Allee and enjoy it all. Perhaps you would enjoy a caleche ride (horse and buggy) through the narrow streets of Old Montreal, and I am sure that your driver will fill you in on the history of the area. One can rent bikes in Old Montreal, whether they be for two or for six. It is fun to ride them alongside the river, which in this case is the Champlain River. Bike paths are everywhere. Bike rental is similar there to New York City, where they can be picked up on one street and returned several streets or miles away. In the Old City is the famous Montreal Science Museum, which children and adults love.
In the center of the city is a mountain known as Mount Royal. From the top of the mountain, which can be reached by car, bike if you are very physically fit. Or by bus, it is possible to see the Adirondack Mountains of New York on a clear day, as well as the Olympic Stadium and other well known Montreal landmarks. There are lookouts for people to park their cars and enjoy the view.
Visit the Biodome with children, where they are able to walk through four different seasons and ecosystems—one minute they will be freezing as in the Arctic, and the next moment they will be walking through the tropics. From the Biodome one can walk over to the Olympic Stadium and Tower. Tickets can be purchased as a package at the Botanical Gardens are just a few steps away. (no kosher food nearby).
The hotels that are the closest to the Jewish areas with food options are Wyndham Montreal, on Decarie, where if you preorder, a kosher prepackaged breakfast will be served to you. (You will go away hungry) There is a fee for parking and the accommodations are not luxurious. Ruby Foo’s is another hotel nearby which is a few pegs up. They have an outdoor pool, are accustomed to having many shomer Shabbat guests, but no rooms with kitchen facilities. There is no fee for parking. The last hotel and the newest is the Hilton Homestead Suites Midtown, which does provide a breakfast where kosher items can be found amongst the selections. Their pool is indoor and there is a charge for parking. The hotel is new, modern and very close to a supermarket and the kosher area.
Pizza Pita, the famous kosher pizza store in Montreal, is just a few blocks across the street from these hotels. Unfortunately since COVID, they have made many changes and food must be eaten at the tables outside or for takeout. (Think of the Montreal winters.) It is known for its delicious poutine and has a large dairy menu. Trust me, it is well worth it!
All of these hotels are blocks from several shuls and the Lubavitch yeshiva. The Kosher Quality Bakery is approximately eight blocks away, and there is nothing that you cannot get there. Aside from their scrumptious challah and danish, their takeout food department is extremely large. They also sell sandwiches.
I am a big fan of going to Mont Tremblant for Shabbat. The recreated village in the Laurentian Mountains is beautiful. There are many different hotel and condo choices. A great advantage of staying in Mont Tremblant over Shabbat is the thriving Chabad, which is run by Rabbi Yisroel Mochkin. Each Shabbat afternoon the Mochkins host guests from everywhere for a generous and lovely lunch. Minyanim take place in the Chabad House.
There are a variety of hotels and condos. It is easy to pick up food in Montreal to have for Shabbat as there are many delicious choices for both the Ashkenazi and Sephardi palates. Mont Tremblant offers beautiful walking trails, a lake and a gondolier, which can take people all the way up to the top of the mountain. It is great for couples as a rendezvous and for families with children as activities abound.
Montreal has several different Jewish areas. I can say quite emphatically that I never experienced any type of antisemitism while living there. The yeshiva community is located off Van Horne and de Vimy. The Chassidish community—Montreal has the second-largest population of Chassidim in North America next to New York—can be found between Park Avenue and de Vimy and between Van Horne and Ste. Catherine. The majority of Sephardim live in Cote St.
Luc or St. Laurent, where they have their own schools, shuls, kollels, shtiebels, etc. (and the most delicious bakeries).
The majority of the dati leumi community lives in the Hampstead/Cote St Luc area. The Cavendish Mall is home to the only almost-completely-kosher food court in North America. There are at least five to six kosher establishments in the food court. A brand new addition to the eating area recently opened is a luscious candy store called Sucrese, which sells ice cream cones, cotton candy and candy. Sfingy’s, a first-of-its-kind doughnut store, is in the mall. (There are no Dunkin’ Donuts in Montreal) The only remaining non-kosher restaurant there is Subway. There is an indoor playground directly adjacent to the food court, and family members have the opportunity to sit at the same table and choose from so many different options. There is a kosher pizza store, sushi restaurant, deli, Chinese food establishment and a falafel and shawarma restaurant.
The IGA (supermarket) in the same mall has an only kosher bakery, takeout food department, meat department and fish department, all under hashgacha. It is worth checking out. Also in the same mall is a kosher butcher store called J&R. There is also a ladies’ clothing store in the mall with the appropriate name of Tzniut.
For those interested in shopping, it is a well-known fact that most of the “frum” children’s clothing that is sold in Lakewood, Monsey, Borough Park, etc., is manufactured in Montreal. All of the manufacturers have factory store outlets and are open on Sundays. They all take credit cards and are open to the public. Lollypop, a well-known children’s clothing brand, now has a wholesale store in a strip mall where there is a completely kosher supermarket called the Fooderie as well. The address of the store is 6590 Park Avenue. Many other factory stores are in office buildings.
A trip to Montreal is not the same without visiting Cheskie’s Bakery on Bernard. There is nothing that you can buy there that will not be delicious. It is best known for its rugelach and cheese crowns. Right next door to it is Deli 365, and the famous smoked meat and charcuterie that is well-known in Montreal can be purchased there. All food is takeout and definitely worth a try.
For those who prefer to shop downtown, go to Simon’s Department Store, and of course we are home to the famous Roots. Both would be a worthwhile stop. Montreal streets are connected for some miles underneath due to the brutal winter. This indoor world is called the underground city.
I am not sure if my passion for this amazing city has been given its proper due as a result of this synopsis. I have not touched on the things to do for families on the way into and out of Montreal. I have not zeroed in on the amazing blending of Sefardi and Ashkenazi cultures and palates. I have not emphasized enough the safety and cleanliness of the city. For anyone who needs further information, please do not hesitate to contact me at The Link and I will be more than happy to help construct an itinerary that would best suit your needs as well as your choice of where to eat and stay. Kosher restaurants abound as do parks, choice of synagogues, minyanim, in and outside of the city.
Please be in touch: [email protected].
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Dennis CHAVEZ, Congress, NM (1888-1962)
Senate Years of Service:1935-1962
CHAVEZ Dennis , a Representative and a Senator from New Mexico; born in Los Chavez, Valencia County, N.Mex., April 8, 1888; attended the public schools; worked as a grocer's clerk as a boy and later in the engineering department of the city of Albuquerque; travelled to Washington in 1917 with Senator Andrieus A. Jones and served as clerk in the office of the Secretary of the United States Senate 1917-1920; graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1920; admitted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Albuquerque, N.Mex.; member, State house of representatives 1923-1924; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-third Congress); did not seek renomination in 1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator; appointed as a Democrat on May 11, 1935, and elected on November 3, 1936, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bronson M. Cutting; reelected in 1940, 1946, 1952, and again in 1958, and served from May 11, 1935, until his death in Washington, D.C., November 18, 1962; chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Seventy-ninth Congress), Committee on Public Works (Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses); interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Albuquerque, N.Mex.
American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Crouch, Barry. "Dennis Chavez and Roosevelt's Court-Packing Plan." New Mexico Historical Review 42 (October 1967): 261-80; Lujan, Roy. "Dennis Chavez and the National Agenda: 1933-1946." New Mexico Historical Review 74 (January 1999): 55-74.
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Written by: Charlotte LoBuono
In general terms, children with ADHD often have trouble staying focused and exhibit hyperactive and impulsive behaviors. Roughly twice as many boys as girls were diagnosed with ADHD in 2015-2016. ADHD is a chronic condition that may carry over into adulthood.
HeyTutor compiled a list of nine common ADHD symptoms found in children. While HeyTutor consulted established medical organizations including the CDCand the Mayo Clinic, only health care professionals—child psychologists, psychiatrists, and primary care providers—can appropriately diagnose children with ADHD. Diagnosing ADHD can be challenging because so many of its symptoms are, in milder forms, common behaviors seen in most children—from trouble listening to loud play.
Parents can take the first step in helping children who exhibit ADHD symptoms by contacting a medical professional for a consultation (or several) to confirm whether the symptoms fit a formal ADHD diagnosis. A doctor will be able to determine whether another condition may better explain the symptoms—or, as is often the case, if the child has a coexisting condition along with ADHD. Click here for the rest of the story. | <urn:uuid:957a1d9c-42a9-41a4-af76-c2fea060e14d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://specialneedsresourceblog.com/author/specialneedsresourcetrainingblog/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958466 | 235 | 3.296875 | 3 |
If you’re trying to lose weight, there’s no doubt about it: Changing your diet is more important than exercising. (That’s the topic of one of my favorite mythbusters, in fact.) But does that mean you should skip exercising altogether? Absolutely not — considering exercise reduces chronic disease and can sometimes even replace some medications.
While working out might not be the No. 1 factor in shedding pounds, it’s vital for so much more than weight loss. Not only do the benefits of exercise include feeling happier and boosting energy levels, but it’s a proven way to reduce the risk of chronic diseases and cancer — who doesn’t want that?
It’s amazing that at a time when so many gadgets, devices, medications and drugs are available, one of the best ways to reduce the risk of chronic diseases is still totally all-natural, free and available to most of us.
Don’t miss out on your very own “miracle cure” — get out there and exercise!
How Exercise Reduces Chronic Disease
It’s now generally accepted that lack of exercise is a major cause of chronic diseases. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, today chronic diseases are the most common, expensive and, critically, the most preventable of all health problems.
In fact, heart disease and cancer, both considered chronic diseases, accounted for 48 percent of all deaths in the United States in 2010.
Studies show that the fact that there is way too much sitting in our lives and we’re more sedentary than ever before doesn’t help. This can lead to accumulation of intra-abdominal fat (or visceral fat) which is dangerous when it comes to disease risk.
Which common diseases can be eliminated or prevented through physical activity? There’s evidence suggesting that diseases that can be prevented by exercise include:
- Heart disease and markers, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol
- Type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance
- Depression and anxiety
- Neurodegenerative diseases, including dementia
- Joint pain/arthritis
- Renal failure
- Mobility impairments
What are the negative effects of lack of exercise?
As a 2017 report published by the American Physiology Society explains:
physical inactivity, itself, often plays an independent role as a direct cause of speeding the losses of cardiovascular and strength fitness, shortening of healthspan, and lowering of the age for the onset of the first chronic disease, which in turn decreases quality of life, increases health care costs, and accelerates mortality risk.
A sedentary lifestyle has been linked to health problems including:
- reduced gray matter in the brain
- increased depression and anxiety
- loss of strength and mobility
- impaired immune function
- worsened heart health
As explained by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson’s Prevention Center, “exercise reduces overall body fat and hidden intra-abdominal fat, the most dangerous type of fat.” Recent studies have linked this type of fat to cancer and other chronic diseases not only in women, but in men as well.
Even if those who exercise regularly don’t see dramatic weight loss, prevention of intra-abdominal is a key way in which exercise fights disease and a reason why exercise reduces chronic disease risk.
Benefits of Exercise for Fighting Disease
There are numerous reasons why physical activity boosts overall health. Here are some of the many ways in which staying active protects both your mental and physical health:
- Gets your blood flowing— For starters, your body demands glucose, or stored sugar, to give it energy. It also requires adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, to keep going. Because our bodies store limited amounts of both, we need more oxygen to create more ATP. More blood starts flowing to your muscles to provide them with the oxygen boost they need.
- Circulates more oxygen— To get oxygen circulating, your heart rate quickens, enabling your body to circulate blood more quickly and efficiently where it’s needed. Because the human body is awesome, the more you exercise, the better your heart becomes at getting that oxygen around speedily. Keep at it and you’ll notice that an exercise that once wiped you out is now a lot easier — plus, your resting heart rate will go down.
- Improves your mood and attention — With all that blood swirling around, some of it is sure to go to your head. That’s actually a good thing. It gets your brain cells fired up, making you feel more energized and alert while also protecting the brain against inflammation.
- Gives you more energy — You know how you might be exhausted before starting a workout and by the end, you’re feeling pretty peppy? Thank your brain for that. It also releases neurotransmitters like endorphins and serotonin, giving you that post-workout high.
In a 2015 report, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, a consortium of 21 medical institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland, called exercise a “miracle cure.”
How can exercise treat diseases? Below is more about some of the ways in which exercise reduces chronic disease:
1. Fights Heart Disease
One of the most obvious places exercise reduces chronic disease is in this category.
Heart disease is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in America. In fact, 610,000 people die annually in the U.S. from heart disease — that’s one in four and second only to cancer.
It’s the leading cause of death for nearly every ethnicity in the country, too.
One 2018 study found that the number of adults with dyslipidemia, hypertension and diabetes who adhere to the physical activity recommendations is very low. This is a shame considering that exercise fights heart disease in a variety of ways.
We usually hear how bad cholesterol is — but why do our bodies need cholesterol? The good kind is critical for proper neurological function, repairing scar tissue and regulating hormones.
As your body becomes more adept at circulating blood, you’ll enjoy improved circulation. That means a reduced risk of blood clots, which often lead to strokes or heart attacks.
2. Defends Against Diabetes
In 2012, 9.3 percent of Americans were living with diabetes — that’s 29.1 million people.
Evidence suggests that there’s a positive link between diabetes and exercise. Exercise can actually play a major role in both preventing and managing diabetes.
Staying active allows your blood sugar to stabilize and assists insulin in absorbing glucose. Because muscles use glucose more effectively than fat does, working out regularly prevents high blood sugar levels, which is what actually causes diabetes.
Exercise also improves circulation, reduces bad cholesterol levels and alleviates stress, all of which can increase glucose levels. Additionally, studies have demonstrated that diabetic, cardiac and cancer patients have reduced hospital admissions, improved diabetic control and improved quality of life scores when following a healthy diet and exercise program.
3. Helps Prevent Musculoskeletal Diseases
Musculoskeletal diseases are a fancy way of saying diseases affecting the joints, skeleton and muscles, like arthritis or osteoporosis. Because exercising puts extra weight on your joints, conventional thinking assumes that it would actually lead to more joint-related diseases, not less.
Finally, it increases stability which is beneficial or preventing falls and injuries.
4. Boosts Brain Health
Perhaps one of the biggest ways that exercise reduces chronic disease is by improving brain health. This has a chain reaction on the body.
Exercising also stimulates chemicals in the brain that affect the growth of brain cells, particularly in the hippocampus. This is the part of your brain that’s mostly responsible for memory and is most likely to decline as you age, which can lead to dementia.
The more you exercise, the more of these chemicals you produce.
Research also shows that regular physical activity like exercise improves the integrity of white matter in the brain. White matter is linked to quicker neural conduction among regions of the brain and higher cognitive performance.
Disease like multiple sclerosis, dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases are affected by a deterioration or changes in white matter.
5. Defends Against Certain Types of Cancer
Exercise has long been advocated as a way of reducing the risk of certain types of cancers, like breast, colon and endometrial cancers.
A recent study conducted by the National Cancer Institute pooled together data of nearly 1.5 million people ranging in age from 19 to 98 years old in both the U.S. and Europe. This gave researchers the the ability to study people with many different cancers — not just the common ones, but also some rarer forms.
How do we explain the connection between exercise and cancer? For people who already have cancer, exercising when possible can improve physical condition, strengthening the body to better withstand treatment.
It can also improve one’s mood, help increase appetite, aid with sleep and support a healthier immune system.
Consult with your doctors to choose the best type based on your treatment plan and situation.
Is exercising better than drugs or medication?
Many experts now believe that exercise can be a very effective way of preventing chronic diseases and reducing symptoms. It might even lead to reducing or eliminating prescription medications.
Ideally, work with a doctor who takes a holistic approach to your health before eliminating any prescribed drugs or courses of medication. Don’t be afraid to look around until you find the right doctor.
Some, for instance, might even prescribe exercise as a therapy, considering exercise reduces chronic disease risk.
How Much Exercise Do You Need?
Now that you know how and why exercise reduces chronic disease risk, let’s talk about how much adults require to reap these benefits.
Are you worried you’ll need to go from couch potato to marathoner? Not so fast! You don’t actually need a crazy amount of exercise to reap all the health benefits.
For most adults, the American Heart Association recommends about 40 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise three to four times a week (or at least 150 minutes total perk week). This is believed to be enough to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Remember, that’s 40 minutes total of accumulative exercise— you can split it anyway you’d like. Ideally you’ll do a combination of aerobic exercise and strength-training each week.
Compared to adults, children are encouraged to get at least 60 minutes (one hour) or more of physical activity each day to maintain their health.
Aerobic Exercise Recommendations:
Aerobic activity (or “cardio” as it’s sometimes called) is considered moderate or vigorous intensity activity that gets you breathing harder and your heart beating faster. Examples include running, cycling, fast walking and CrossFit workouts.
Turning to high-intensity interval training workouts is a terrific option. HIIT workouts beat conventional cardio by delivering the same physical benefits in a shorter amount of time, usually 20–30 minutes.
These workouts involve alternating exercising at high levels of intensity with exercising at a less intense level for short periods of time. If you have a difficult time making time for exercise, HIIT and tabata workouts can easily be squeezed into your day.
However, it’s OK if HIIT is not your thing. The key is finding out what is.
If you love to cycle but want to do it in the comfort of your home (and if it’s within your budget), consider checking out and investing in a Peloton bike.
HIIT-style workouts may be too tough for older adults or those who are ill, so gentler exercise would be more appropriate in this case. If you enjoy swimming, hit the local pool a few times a week, or take your dog on a brisk walk after dinner
A 2019 report published in Frontiers in Physiology states, “there is an emerging body of evidence showing that resistance exercise training appears to be as effective as aerobic training in reducing risk of several chronic diseases.” Resistance training seems to be especially helpful for mitigating risk of mobility disabilities in older adults.
Strength training is considered all muscle-building workouts that work most of your body’s major muscle groups, such as your legs, hips, back, chest, abs, shoulders and arms. Examples include using free weights, doing movements like squats and lunges, using elastic bands, or lifting your own body weight.
You can even do vinyasa yoga classes or a fun group fitness workout involving props like blocks, weights and bands.
It’s best to aim for at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise weekly, plus muscle-building exercise for an additional 10 to 20 minutes several times per week. The CDC recommends that adults do muscle-strengthening activities at least two days a week.
Risks and Side Effects
While recent studies have revealed that exercise is generally safe for people of all ages, even those with pre-existing conditions like heart disease and cancer, it may need to be modified depending on the persona’s abilities.
For many people who are already suffering from certain condition, especially older adults, vigorous exercises might not be an option. If you’re experiencing serious pain, fatigue or other ailments from chronic disease, getting out of bed might be an achievement, never mind running miles at the gym.
If that’s the case, don’t give up on exercise. Work with your doctor or physical therapist to design a program you can do.
Can’t walk a mile? Try walking around the block.
Tai chi can be a good way to tap in to the mind-body connection even with limited mobility, too.
Keep an eye on how you feel as you ease into exercise. Slow down if you experience dizziness, unusual shortness of breath, chest pains or an irregular heartbeat.
Overall, remember that anything is better than nothing, and finding a workout you enjoy will ensure you keep at it regularly. The opportunities are endless!
- Hundreds of studies show that regular exercise can cut your disease risk. What can exercise prevent? Some conditions it helps defend against include heart disease, diabetes, obesity, dementia, depression and arthritis.
- Exercising regularly is preventative medicine if you don’t already have a chronic disease. It is also a proven way of managing or reducing symptoms, such as instability, pain, asthma and weakness.
- Some of the key ways exercise reduces chronic disease risk is by reducing inflammation, lowering blood pressure, protecting brain cells, reducing visceral fat and weight gain, and improving insulin sensitivity.
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On the surface QCAD and LibreCAD and every other 2D CAD software is the same, offering the same basic tools, user interface, and supported file formats. The small differences will either have you praising the software developers or cursing them as you spend your precious time fiddling with the quirks.
In 2011 LibreCAD was forked from QCAD version 2. In the software development community, forking is the process of duplicating a project and having it be developed by a different group of engineers. The process is common when developers have differencing opinions on where the project is headed or want to implement features that the original project owners don’t want. At that time, QCAD and LibreCAD were nearly identical since they were copies of each other.
In 2012, QCAD diverted greatly from their previous version which LibreCAD was based and reworked large portions of their software to bring it up to version 3. With version 3, QCAD implemented many improvements to their software that now distinctly distances it from LibreCAD.
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The feature list is infinitely larger, but you likely already know that both programs have tools for lines, arcs, dimensions, ellipses, snapping, hatching, and modification and movement tools.
QCAD Unique Features
Outside of the expected tools for 2D CAD programs, almost every additional feature present in QCAD is unique compared to LibreCAD. A full list of QCAD features is available on their website.
Some features are limited to QCAD Professional, those will be left out of the below features to compare QCAD and LibreCAD on a level ground.
QCAD text tools has many additional features. You can stylize text with their rich text editor to add color, set font weight, add italics, and more. Maybe the best part of it is that once the text is placed in the drawing, you can edit it.
QCAD comes with a library of over 5,000 parts (screws, nuts, symbols, …) to use in your drawings. The library browser also lets you set favorites and has text search.
A fantastic addition to QCAD is ECMA scripting. With ECMA scripting, plugins can be written in a high level programming language to automate drawing parts and create new tools. Even if you don’t program, this feature lets other developers easily create tools that you can use.
Aside from 2D and isometric projection with LibreCAD also supports, QCAD supports planometric, dimetric, cabinet, and cavalier projections. I’ve never needed anything other than isometric view, but for more experienced designers, this feature alone could change your perspective on what program to use.
QCAD also has a dark theme for their program. You can switch from light to dark to save your eyes when working at night. These small differences really add up when you spend hours inside a single program.
LibreCAD Unique Features
LibreCAD has no defining features compared to QCAD in their current states. “LibreCAD is going to get new features, QCad will not.”, R. van Twisk said when asked about the differences between QCAD and LibreCAD1. At the time, QCAD did appear to be unmaintained, but QCAD was working quietly on their next large release.
R. van Twisk, a contributor to LibreCAD also said, “LibreCAD is truly open source while QCad was not,” which may have been the case in the past, but QCAD is on GitHub and accepts pull requests from other developers.
QCAD or LibreCAD
I suggest using QCAD over LibreCAD in every case. With the additional features, more polished drawing interface, and the always expanding feature set, QCAD is a solid choice over LibreCAD. I’ve made the switch from LibreCAD to QCAD a few months ago and have really enjoyed how the program runs.
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Finding the funds for research through traditional channels is becoming increasingly difficult – which is why many researchers are turning to crowdfunding.
Most universities finance their research projects in conjunction with funding from the government, from agencies or from philanthropists (sometimes called Angel Investors). However, securing these resources isn’t always possible, and may prove particularly difficult to obtain in the case of very innovative ideas or controversial projects.
So what can they do?
Well, take the case of David Nutt, a professor at Imperial College London, who wanted to study the impact of the illegal drug LSD on the brain. For Nutt, crowdfunding was the perfect solution as his project scared off conventional research council funding but attracted huge interest from the general public, who donated more than £53,000 in two days.
With academics under increasing pressure to show that they are engaging with the public through their work, crowdfunding is a great way to get support for research topics with a broad public interest such as the environment, information technology or climate change. Some researchers who might be put off by crowdfunding for fear of lack of credibility in academic circles, tend to use it in conjunction with more traditional funding rather than as a unique source of funds, as it boosts the possibility for them to make full use of their network of contacts.
Some Universities have their own crowdfunding platform while others use a general platform with a research section. Locally, ZAAR wants to create a specific Research section to give researchers the opportunity to co-finance their scientific projects and to reduce the gap between scientists and people by sharing progress, data and results. Researchers who decide to crowdfund through ZAAR will have the opportunity to find collaborators for new projects and also stimulate new and creative ideas by engaging with the wider public.
So if you’re a scientist or researcher who’s interested in crowdfunding your research project, remember that you have to present the material in an interesting and engaging way that captures the imagination of the public. A good video that explains the project in layman terms, as well as constant use of social media, will show potential investors how engaged you are as a researcher in sharing your process.
Studies have also shown that early stage research is more likely to raise money from crowdfunding because it is less expensive than more advanced stages (for example clinical trials) and because it’s easier to explain to people who might not have a scientific background. Interdisciplinary research also tends to be more successful in crowdfunding campaigns.
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Personal Thoughts on Truth, Duty, Valour
10155 Gregory B. Mitchell, Class of 1974
As we know from experience, the Royal Military Colleges (RMC) are structured, focused, and demanding in so many ways. As with other universities, they offer a safe environment in which to question, to learn, to grow, and to find our place in the world. But the Military Colleges are so much more. They create an environment to test ourselves physically, mentally, and emotionally, to develop our intellect, to question and test our beliefs, and to examine and understand the military system to determine if it is a good fit for us. It is at RMC that we begin developing our own leadership style from the good and bad examples we see around us. And it is at RMC that we are blessed with the opportunity to make lifelong friends, to spread our wings, to try out new experiences, perhaps to find love, and certainly to have fun.
Whether we are destined to become Officers in Her Majesty’s Canadian Armed Forces, or to pursue civilian career paths of leadership and responsibility, we could not have made it through the years at the Military Colleges had we not also formed an underlying ethical base. Therefore, by the time we graduate, our commissions, our degrees, and our lives will be built upon a healthy respect for the values of RMC’s defining motto – Truth, Duty, Valour. I say respect, but I also recognize that some might grow cynical or dismissive about TDV, usually because of the destructive words and unethical actions they may have witnessed. That is indeed unfortunate. However, rather than engendering cynicism, I would hope that such circumstances might strengthen our resolve to do what’s right, regardless of what may be done around us by others.
Personally, I loved my time at RMC Kingston, embraced what it offered, and am thankful for the opportunities it gave me. My personal interpretation of Truth, Duty, Valour paved the way for my future, and I consider those three words to represent a lifelong process, always something to strive towards, rather than an end-state.
In my 37-year military career, I held positions at schools, on staff, in command, and on operations, both domestic and overseas, while my subsequent civilian career comprised pursuits in business, consulting, and non-profits organizations. As a result, I can confirm that, regardless of what we do in life, or where we go, we continue to live in an ambiguous world full of new and unexpected challenges and uncharted pathways. For me, that meant that I held no position that was easy, or that was free of ethical or leadership challenges. In all cases, however, my understanding of the precepts embodied within TDV provided the foundation upon which I made decisions, cared for my people, provided advice to my leaders, and took necessary action. And despite my mistakes and shortcomings along the way, I still believe strongly in the importance of that ethical foundation.
As important as those three words are to all of us, please accept my thoughts on their meaning, as I have grown to interpret them.
Truth – Truth is the unwavering adoption of an ethical approach in all we do. It guides our personal and professional selves, regardless of the challenge or the consequence. That notion must, however, be tempered by two facts. First, there are rarely straight-forward and obvious answers awaiting our questions of ethics, and sometimes the phrase ‘Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t’ readily comes to mind. Second, no one can expect perfection, of themselves or of anyone else. We can only strive to do our very best to live up to that ethical ideal in everything we do, both personally and professionally, so that we can forevermore look in the mirror and state confidently that we have ‘Fought the good fight’
Duty – We are Military Officers; that is the profession we have freely chosen. As such, our primary duty is to lead, whether it be from behind in support of our superiors, from the side supporting our colleagues and peers, or from the front as we bear the weighty responsibilities of command. That is our duty – to lead – with all the determination, compassion, self-sacrifice, and responsibility that entails.
Valour – In its simplest form, valour is courage, and it will be tested many times during our career, especially within the profession of arms. However, not all courage is physical. Speaking truth to power requires moral persuasion and moral courage, something that may at times be harder to muster than physical courage but is just as essential.
Combined, these three meaningful words – Truth, Duty, Valour – succinctly and brilliantly represent the highest ideals that we, as Military Officers or Civilian Leaders in Canadian society must strive to attain. Regardless of our professions, rank, status, or personal circumstances, our time at RMC has given us the tools, the know-how, and the opportunity to live up to those ideals. It is up to each of us, as a cohesive group, and as individuals, to do so with vigour and determination. | <urn:uuid:6c68bb5a-bff0-4e3c-bfa1-75554887f35b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://everitas.rmcalumni.ca/two-perspectives-on-tdv-10155-greg-mitchell/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.967421 | 1,061 | 1.570313 | 2 |
SS Lesson for 05/05/2019
Devotional Scripture: Phil 3:8-14
The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) has often been quoted as saying, “The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world,” a maxim based in an article he wrote in 1937. Niebuhr, a keen student of the writings of the apostle Paul, insisted that political considerations, no matter how noble, would always be influenced by human sinfulness. He saw the tension between our desire for justice (serviced by politics) and our human tendencies toward pride, self-assertion, and conflict. With both Paul and Niebuhr, sin and justice were not partners but enemies. In Romans 3, Paul looks at this tension between sin and justice from God’s perspective.
Paul wrote to the church in Rome in about AD 58, during his third missionary journey. He had not planted that church, but expressed a desire to visit. He envisioned Rome to be a future stop on his way to Spain for missionary work (Romans 15:24, 28). Paul did indeed come to Rome a couple of years later, but not as part of a missionary trip. Instead, he arrived under Roman guard due to his appeal to Caesar (Acts 25:9–28:16). Rome was the center of an empire that encompassed most of the territories bordering the Mediterranean Sea, among others. Rome was a colossal city, the largest in the ancient world. Considerations of water, sanitation, and food supply limited the practical size of ancient cities, with just a handful being over 100,000 in population. Rome, however, was 10 times this size or more. Jews made up a significant minority of Rome’s residents, perhaps as many as 10,000–20,000. The church in Rome had a mixed membership of Jews and Gentiles. We can only guess at the church’s size. Paul’s greetings in Romans 16 list more than two dozen people by name, implying many more. It’s reasonable to think of a church of several hundred—still a tiny fraction of the city’s total population. Paul wrote to prepare the church in Rome for his intended future visit. He was aware of issues between the Jews and Gentiles in the church and had words for both groups. In the process, Paul gave a thorough presentation of the gospel that he had been preaching. It was a message that had already influenced the Roman church through people such as Aquila and Priscilla (Romans 16:3; see Acts 18:2). A central doctrinal concern for Paul was to demonstrate the universal sinfulness of humanity and the magnificent scope of God’s plan for redemption of men and women from the consequences of this sin. Paul based his conclusions on both the historical facts of Jesus’ life and proper interpretation of Jewish Scriptures. Today’s lesson assumes the case for universal sinfulness has been made in Romans 1:18–3:20. With that foundation in place, the question that arises is how the sinless, holy God can rescue sinners from the wrath that divine justice requires. This weighty matter is the subject of this week’s lesson.
24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
In God’s condemnation of the human race His own personal infinite righteousness was revealed along with the fact that not a single human being—the Lord Jesus Christ excepted—has ever or will ever be able to meet that standard and be accepted by God on his own merit. Now in this second major section of Romans Paul discussed God’s “provided righteousness” for people through Jesus in justification. Justification is a forensic declaration of righteousness as a result of God’s imputing to believers Christ’s righteousness, provided by God’s grace and appropriated through faith.
A. Provided righteousness explained (3:21-31)
3:21. By the words but now Paul introduced a sharp contrast with what preceded. He had just affirmed, “No one will be declared righteous in His [God’s] sight by observing the Law” (v. 20). This is now followed by the statement, Apart from Law (in the Gr. this phrase is in the emphatic first position) a righteousness from God... has been made known (i.e., made plain). This in essence repeats the words of 1:17a. But Paul added the fact that the Law and the Prophets testify to this fact. What Paul was introducing about God’s righteousness was not foreign to the Old Testament. “The Law and the Prophets” was often used of the entire Old Testament (see references at Matt. 5:17), the Law referring to the first five books and the Prophets, the other books. In Romans 4 Paul illustrated this truth from the Law (Abraham: Gen. 15:6; Rom. 4:1-3, 9-23) and from the Prophets (David: Ps. 32:1-2; Rom. 4:4-8).
3:22. The first part of this verse is not a new sentence in the Greek; it is an appositional clause, and could be rendered, “a righteousness from God through faith.” These words reminded Paul again of the Jewish insistence on their special position before God. As a result he added, There is no difference (cf. 10:12), introduced in the Greek by the word “for” to tie it to what precedes. Any prior privilege the Jews had is gone in this Age when God is offering a righteous standing before Him to all sinful people on the basis of faith in Christ alone. Since all are “under sin” (3:9), salvation is available “to all” on an equal basis.
3:23. Paul explained that “no difference” existed among human beings because all have sinned. The Greek is literally, “all sinned” (pantes hēmarton). The same two Greek words are used in 5:12. Since the entire human race was plunged into sin with Adam, all (whether Jews or Gentiles) are sinners. It is impossible to say there is a “difference,” that the Jews’ privileges (2:12-21; 3:1) exclude them from God’s condemnation. Not only did all sin, but also all fall short. This single Greek verb is in the present tense, stressing continuing action. It can be translated “keep on falling short.” The simple fact is that as a sinner not a single human being by his own efforts is able to measure up to the glory of God. God’s glory is His splendor, the outward manifestation of His attributes. God desires that humans share that splendor, that they become like Him, that is, Christlike (cf. “glory” in 5:2; 2 Cor. 3:18; Col. 1:27; 2 Thes. 2:14). Yet their sin keeps them from sharing it.
3:24. In view of man’s sin God has stepped in with His provided righteousness, because all who believe are justified (the pres. tense may be trans. “keep on being declared righteous,” i.e., each person as he believes is justified). “Justify” (dikaioō) is a legal term, meaning “declare righteous” (not “make righteous”; cf. Deut. 25:1). God’s justification of those who believe is provided freely (dōrean, “as a free gift,” i.e., without charge) by His grace. God justifies by the instrument of His grace, His unmerited favor. Grace too is a favorite word of Paul’s, used by him in Romans 24 times (in the Gr.). But God would not declare a person righteous without an objective basis, without dealing with his sin. That basis is the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. The Greek word for “redemption” is apolytrōsis, from lytron, “a ransom payment.” Apolytrōsis is used 10 times in the New Testament (Luke 21:28; Rom. 3:24; 8:23; 1 Cor. 1:30; Eph. 1:7, 14; 4:30; Col. 1:14; Heb. 9:15). (See the chart, “New Testament Words for Redemption” at Mark 10:45.) The death of Christ on the cross of Calvary was the price of payment for human sin which secured release from the bondage of Satan and sin for every person who trusts God’s promise of forgiveness and salvation.
3:25a. God presented Him, Christ, as a Sacrifice of atonement. The Greek word for “Sacrifice of atonement” is hilastērion, rendered “propitiation” in the kjv and the nasb. This noun is used elsewhere in the New Testament only in Hebrews 9:5 for the mercy seat (niv, “the place of atonement”) of the tabernacle’s ark of the covenant. There a goat’s blood was sprinkled on the Day of Atonement to cover (atone) Israel’s sins (Lev. 16:15), and satisfy God for another year. Jesus’ death is the final sacrifice which completely satisfied God’s demands against sinful people, thus averting His wrath from those who believe. (The verb hilaskomai, “to satisfy by a sacrifice, to propitiate,” is used in Luke 18:13 [“have mercy”] and Heb. 2:17 [“make atonement”]. And the related noun, hilasmos, “propitiation,” appears in 1 John 2:2; 4:10.) Christ, God’s propitiatory Sacrifice for sin, was “presented” (lit., “set forth”), in contrast with the tabernacle’s mercy seat which was hidden from view. This work of Christ is through faith in His blood (cf. Rom. 5:9). It is appropriated by faith (cf. 3:22). By the death of Jesus and the shedding of His blood the penalty for sin has been paid and God has been satisfied or propitiated. The phrase “in (or by) His blood” probably should go with “a sacrifice of atonement,” not with “through faith.” A believer places His faith in Christ, not in His blood as such.
3:25b-26. God’s purpose in Christ’s death was to demonstrate His justice (i.e., God’s own judicial righteousness, dikaiosynēs; 1:17) because in His forbearance (anochē, “holding back, delay”) He had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished (cf. Acts 17:30). Why did God not always punish sins in the past? Does this mean He is not righteous after all? Previously Paul said God was forbearing because He wanted to lead people to repent (Rom. 2:4). Here God is said to be forbearing because He anticipated His provision for sins in the death of Jesus Christ. Such forbearance was an evidence of His grace (cf. Acts 14:16; 17:30), not of His injustice. Paul was so insistent that God’s righteousness be recognized that (Rom. 3:26) he repeated (from v. 25) the words to demonstrate His justice (dikaiosynēs, “righteousness”). God’s purpose in the redemptive and propitiatory death of Jesus Christ was so that He could be seen to be just (dikaion, “righteous”) and the One who justifies (dikaiounta, “the One who declares righteous”) the man who has faith in Jesus. God’s divine dilemma was how to satisfy His own righteousness and its demands against sinful people, and at the same time how to demonstrate His grace, love, and mercy to restore rebellious, alienated creatures to Himself. The solution was the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, God’s incarnate Son, and the acceptance by faith of that provision by individual sinners. Christ’s death vindicated God’s own righteousness (He is just because sin was “paid for”) and enables God to declare every believing sinner righteous.
3:27-28. After explaining God’s provided righteousness for sinners, Paul considered five questions (in Gr.) which he anticipated his readers might ask. Two are in verse 27, two in verse 29, and the other in verse 31. The first is, Where, then is boasting? How can Jews have any boasting in their special position? (2:17-20, 23) Paul’s response was abrupt: It is excluded (“completely shut out”). Since justification is by grace (3:24) through faith (vv. 22, 25-26), boasting because of one’s accomplishments (works) is ruled out. This prompted a second question: On what principle? (“Law” here in the Gr. means “principle.”) On that of observing the Law? (lit., “through works”) Paul’s response was, No (lit., “not at all,” an intensive form), but on that of faith. Doing works (i.e., observing the Law) is no basis for boasting for the Law cannot justify. It was not given for that purpose (cf. v. 20). The apostle then summarized, For we maintain (the verb logizometha, “to reckon,” here has the idea of coming to a settled conclusion) that a man is justified (“declared righteous”) by faith (cf. vv. 22, 25-27) apart from observing the Law (lit., “apart from works of Law”).
3:29-30. The next two questions cover the same issue of Jewish distinctiveness from a different angle. Because the Gentiles worshiped false gods through idols, the Jews concluded that Yahweh, the true and living God (Jer. 10:10), was the God of Jews only. That was true in the sense that the Jews were the only people who acknowledged and worshiped Yahweh (except for a few proselyte Gentiles who joined with Judaism). But in reality Yahweh, as the Creator and Sovereign of all people, is the God of all people. Before God called Abraham and his descendants in the nation Israel to be His Chosen People (Deut. 7:6) God dealt equally with all people. And even after God’s choice of Israel to be His special people, God made it plain (e.g., in the Book of Jonah) that He is the God of everyone, Gentiles as well as Jews. And now since there is “no difference” among people for all are sinners (Rom. 3:23) and since the basis for salvation has been provided in the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ, God deals with everyone on the same basis. Thus there is only one God (or “God is one”). Paul no doubt had in mind here the “Shema” of Israel: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD [Yahweh] our God [ʾElōhm], the LORD [Yahweh] is One” (Deut. 6:4). This one God over both Jews and Gentiles will justify all who come to Him regardless of background (circumcised or uncircumcised) on the same human condition of faith.
3:31. The final question is, Do we, then, nullify the Law by this faith? Paul responded in his characteristic expletive, Not at all! (mē genoito, “Let it not be”; cf. v. 4) and then explained, Rather, we uphold the Law. The purpose of the Mosaic Law is fulfilled and its place in God’s total plan is confirmed when it leads an individual to faith in Jesus Christ (cf. v. 20; Gal. 3:23-25). Paul repeatedly affirmed that faith, not works of the Law, is the way of salvation. He wrote the word “faith” eight times in Romans 3:22-31! (See vv. 22, 25-28, 30 [twice], and 31.)
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;
21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God — that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
5 But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope.
7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ — the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.
17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,
17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
20 There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.
9 What shall we conclude then? Are we any better? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin.
22 But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.
8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned— 13 for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring — not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.
16 know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.
24 You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.
39 Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
20 The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
13 Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey — whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.
9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!
19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace
14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?
9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Patience of God to show His wrath (Rom 9:22)
22 What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath--prepared for destruction?
2 Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.
7 The Lord reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment. 8 He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice.
17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways and loving toward all he has made.
31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead."
5 All this is evidence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
3 If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? 4 But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.
38 "Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 39 Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
13 It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. 14 For if those who live by law are heirs, faith has no value and the promise is worthless,
4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.
18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness?
6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
11 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for.
17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."
2 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— 2 for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."
18 Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.
11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
The Roman poet Horace, laying down some lines of guidance for writers of tragedies in his day, criticizes those who resort too readily to the device of a deus ex machina to solve the knotty problems which have developed in the course of the plot. ‘Do not bring a god on to the stage,’ he says, ‘unless the problem is one that deserves a god to solve it’ (nec deus intersit, nisi dignus uindice nodus inciderit).
Surely man’s problem as Paul summarized it is one that needs God to solve it. James Stifler suggests in his commentary on Romans that there is a ‘sigh of relief that can be heard’ in the particle ‘but’ which introduces verse 21. Surely this is the case, for what a relief it is to know that God has provided a solution for man’s dilemma of sin.
The dilemma of man is such that he is incapable of releasing himself from the shackles of sin. He must be saved by someone other than himself and by someone who does not suffer from the same malady. One drowning man cannot help another. What man cannot do (provide a righteousness acceptable to God), God has done in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the good news for which we have waited.
A Preliminary Definition of Righteousness. The righteousness of which Paul writes in verses 21-26 may be defined as: The gift given to every man who trusts in Jesus Christ which enables him to stand before the Holy God uncondemned and in His favor. This righteousness of God is described in verses 21-26.
(1) The source of righteousness is God. Paul wrote, “But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets” (Romans 3:21, cf. also v. 22). This righteousness is that which is provided by God and not produced by the efforts of men. It is the righteousness of God.
(2) This righteousness, though not produced by the Law, was promised by it. From this same verse (v. 21), we can see that in one sense this righteousness of God is related to the Old Testament Law and in another it is totally distinct. It is related in that it was predicted in the prophecies of the Old Testament concerning the Person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ. Further, the Old Testament Law is a valid standard of righteousness, so when our Lord came to the earth as a man the Law pronounced Him to be righteous, according to God’s standards. Not one charge of sin could be made against our Lord Jesus Christ, according to the Law of the Old Testament (John 8:46).
But this righteousness of God which Paul writes about is completely independent from the Law in that it cannot be attained by men and their futile efforts to satisfy the requirements of the Law. So the righteousness of God comes not from Law-keeping, as the Jews erroneously supposed.
(3) The righteousness of God is retroactive. The righteousness of God is retroactive in that it is sufficient for the sins of men who lived in previous ages. “… This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed” (Romans 3:25). Paul’s argument about the retroactivity of God’s righteousness subtly undermines the false hope of the Jew in attaining righteousness by Law-keeping. Since the righteousness of God is retroactive and saves those who had faith in God in the Old Testament age, then Law-keeping not only fails in the present age; it has never saved men.
(4) God’s righteousness vindicates Himself. Stifler has written, “The chief question in saving man is not how the man may be accounted just, but how God may remain so in forgiving sins.”
With reference to God’s character under the Old Testament economy, God appeared to ‘look the other way’ when men sinned. It appeared that God was less than just in dealing decisively with man’s sin. When God’s wrath was poured out on His Son, Jesus Christ, there was not one shadow of doubt left as to how God felt about sin.
A number of years ago, I was a school teacher with a reputation for being the toughest disciplinarian in school. One woman bus driver at least thought so and brought a couple of boys to my room who had thrown rocks at the bus. I paddled these two boys, but was informed that there was yet one culprit who had not yet been brought to justice, and this lad was the principal’s son. I had a long talk with the principal, who implied that perhaps his son should be exempted because he had a glass eye. Since he did not have a glass bottom, I went to his room and paddled him, too. Until this boy was paddled, there was a cloud of suspense which hung over the school. Would Mr. Deffinbaugh paddle the principal’s son, or would he make an exception? How quickly the cloud was dispelled with the crack of the paddle.
So it is with God’s character. God’s character was in question. For hundreds of years, God had passed over sins previously committed. He could not be just and overlook sin forever. Sin must be punished. When the wrath of God was poured out on His own Son, God’s righteousness was vindicated once for all. This is not only so in reference to past sins, but also to present sins. God simply cannot overlook sin. If He were to pronounce men righteous without a payment for sin, He would contradict His own character, His holiness and justice. The justice of God demanded a payment for sin. So the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ vindicated God’s character by satisfying the requirements of justice and holiness.
(5) The righteousness of God accomplishes man’s salvation. The revelation of God’s righteousness not only vindicates God, but it saves men. This salvation is described in three dimensions in verses 21-26.
The first term, ‘redemption,’ in verse 24 describes salvation in terms of the slave-market. Redemption refers to the payment of a purchase price which liberates the captive. When a man went to the slave-market and paid the price of the slave he redeemed the slave. The death of Christ on the cross and the shedding of His blood was the payment of our redemption price. We, just as Israel was redeemed from the slavery of Egypt, have been redeemed from the bondage of sin.
The second term, ‘propitiation,’ takes us to the temple. This word is used in the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament) for the ‘place of propitiation’ or the ‘mercy seat’ which covered the ark in the Holy of Holies. In this sense our sins have been covered or blotted out by the shed blood of Jesus Christ. But propitiation also conveys the idea of appeasing. God’s wrath has been legitimately aroused by man’s sin. This wrath has been appeased by the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. God’s holy anger has been satisfied in the work of Christ.
The final word, ‘justification,’ takes us to the courtroom. This is a legal term which means to pronounce righteous. If God were to judge us according to our own righteousness, He would have to declare us as unrighteous and wicked. But when we acknowledge Jesus Christ as our substitute—the One Who died in our place and Who offers His righteousness in place of our wretchedness—then God declares us to be righteous on the basis of the work of Jesus Christ.
By the terminology of the slave-market, the temple and the court room, we see this righteousness of God described in terms of its effect on the believing sinner.
(6) God’s righteousness is available to all men, and appropriated by faith. God’s righteousness is true to God’s character in that it is available to all men without distinction. Just as there is no distinction with God in universally condemning all men as sinners, so God does not show partiality in offering it only to the Jews.
Just as the righteousness of God is not allotted to men on the basis of their race, so it cannot be earned or merited by man. It is given by grace as a free gift: “Being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24). Your salvation is not without cost, for it cost God the death of His Son, but it is without cost to you for there is nothing you could ever do to earn it. The gift of God’s righteousness must be accepted by faith, not earned by works: “Even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe …” (Romans 3:22).
The problem for most people is not that becoming a Christian is too difficult; it is that it is too easy. We want desperately somehow to contribute something to our salvation. But the Word of God tells us that our righteous deeds are like filthy rags in God’s sight (Isaiah 64:6). The more we offer our works to God the greater the offense to Him.
What kind of righteousness are you relying on for your eternal salvation? The rags of your own works, or the riches of Christ’s merit. You don’t have to walk the aisle or raise your hand to become a Christian. All you need to do is acknowledge the wretchedness of your righteousness and trust in the righteousness which Jesus Christ offers in its place—a God-kind of righteousness which results in eternal life. Stop trusting in yourself and lean only on Him. That’s the good news of the gospel. Come to think of it, none of Romans 3 is bad news for the Christian.
(Adapted from URL:https://bible.org/seriespage/some-bad-news-and-good-news-romans-3)
Responsible parents know that children must sometimes be disciplined. Healthy discipline is not a release of a parent’s anger. Rather it is an enforcement of family standards that allow a household to function harmoniously and a child to learn self-discipline. This does not make disciplining children easy, however. A loving parent may struggle with imposing loss of privilege on a child. Some parents may think they are letting love win out when they avoid imposing punishment, believing that natural consequences for bad decisions will be adequate without parental consequences. From a biblical perspective, the parent who does not punish may be loving but is not being just. If lack of parental-imposed consequences stems from a parent’s desire to avoid conflict, it is not even loving. Our Lord God is both loving and just. Both are essential to his nature. Humans, through their sin, create a dilemma for God. How can God maintain both his love and justice in the face of that sin? Sin leads to eternal death according to God’s just and holy nature, but how can a loving God consign those created in his image to eternal punishment? The solution is God’s Son. Jesus’ death on the cross allows both God’s justice and love to be preserved. The wrath of God, called forth by the necessity for justice, is satisfied by the sacrifice of Jesus, the gift of God’s love. Our sin debt is paid. Perhaps you are familiar with the old hymn titled “I Am So Glad That Salvation’s Free,” by James Rowe. Salvation is indeed free—to us. But it was not free to God. The cost to him was enormous. There is no truth of which we should remind ourselves of more often!
Plan of Salvation - The apostle Paul established man's need for God's righteousness in the early chapters of Romans. Our right standing with God only comes from the heavenly Father Himself. Man is so deep in sin only God can deliver him—through Jesus, God's plan of salvation. Putting one's faith in Christ, and in Him alone, equips a human being to stand innocent and pure in the presence of a sovereign, holy God.
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The legal system in the United States comprises of a number of legal institutions that work together to enforce law and resolve judicial disputes. These regulatory bodies are found at local, state, and federal level. The legal system is broad and addresses all kinds of legal issues that may arise. These legal issues can range anywhere from individuals committing crimes to organizations violating environmental laws. As technology and other factors have added to the complexity of such problems, the demand for more specialized legal professionals has increased. There are all kinds of law professionals you may find working in this field such as lawyers, barristers, attorneys, judges, paralegals, and court reporters.
There are many law schools in the nation that have earned a reputation for offering top quality educational programs. These schools are dedicated to providing higher education in the field of law. Individuals who want to pursue a career in law will first need to earn a law degree. To enroll in a law degree, it is first necessary to complete your high school diploma. On the other hand, it is also recommended that you take the LSAT (Law School Admission Test) exam. This exam is administered by the Law School Admission Council. Many law schools base their admissions on the LSAT score. You may be required to submit these when applying for admission in a law degree.
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There are three main types of degree programs you can enroll in after completing your college education. These include Juris Doctor Degree, Master of law Degree, and Doctor of Juridical Science degree. Students can also opt for online law degrees if attending a campus is not a possibility for them due to certain restraints.
A Juris Doctor Degree is the most basic level law degree that will prep a student for practicing law. The program can be completed in three years or more, depending upon which law institute you enroll in. The program covers all basic concepts in law and provides students with an in-depth understanding of the legal field. A master’s of law degree can be pursued after completing a JD program. This is a more advanced qualification and allows students to specialize in a certain area of law. Some of the most popular branches in law include corporate law, family law, intellectual property law, criminal law, class action lawsuit, cyber law, and real estate law.
A doctor of Judicial Science law is the highest form of qualification you can get in the United States. This is a post graduate program that comprises of a dissertation and other course requirements. The duration of the program can range anywhere from 5 to 7 years, depending upon the institute offering the program.
With a law degree in hand, you can take the bar examination and acquire license for practicing law in your state. Many individuals start their career by working in a law firm and gaining experience. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the annual median income of lawyers in 2010 was $112,760. This field is expected to grow at a fast rate and is opening up many job opportunities for qualified individuals.
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Over the next week or so I am going to talk about each of our books in detail, starting with Edge of Extinction by Kristen Stone.
In this book Ms Stone takes you gently by the hand and leads you into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, to a world no Western eye has seen. She creates a whole culture, unique in its isolated existence, suspended in time for there is no need for change, the people are happy and contented.
The story is told through the eyes of the tribal leader, a man of mysterious origin and strange appearance. His hair is a sun-bleached, almost golden, colour. His skin has a deep bronze tan unlike the natives. He has hair on his face which none of the other men of the tribe have. And he has a prehensile tail. He MUST be a god, in their eyes. His name is Kianda Mala, the Monkey Man.
As leader of the tribe it falls to Kianda to find out why the people in his village are suddenly falling ill and dying. His search takes him from the security of a world he understands to a strange world fall of monsters and strange machines.
Some have said this story is naive, which is a testament to Ms Stone's skill as an author. Apart from the introduction, this story is told in first person from Kianda's point of view and it does not stray into the modern world even when Kianda himself finds himself there. His idea of how things should be done are founded on the way HE has been brought up. He doesn't understand why his people are considered expendable. Ms Stone doesn't try to extend the story beyond Kianda's understanding but through his eyes we are introduced to a culture quite different to that of the reader and feel for the problems being caused by unscrupulous industry.
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This report is part of our upcoming Strategic Monitor 2019 - 2020 which monitors global trends and assesses risks and opportunities for Dutch national security.
Geopolitical competition is currently reshaping the global economy, and economic power and means are increasingly used for political purposes. Simultaneously, the fast-changing and increasingly complex contemporary geopolitical context has shifted increasing attention to economic security. Following these developments, it can be said that the economy and (geo)politics are increasingly interwoven. Hence, it is not surprising that economic security has been receiving increasing attention from both European as well as Dutch policymakers. It includes among other things foreign takeovers and investments, trade espionage, security of energy supply, etc. Moreover, in the absence of global leadership, global norms and standards are currently under pressure. There are numerous examples that demonstrate this, such as the trade war between the United States (US) and China, and concerns about the Chinese technology giant Huawei, which is accused of being a tool for espionage by the Chinese government. | <urn:uuid:1e2b3090-134a-426d-babb-72baba39c22d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.clingendael.org/nl/node/10827 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963926 | 205 | 1.796875 | 2 |
If one thinks about how small the earth on wich we live is , compared to the vast universe, one could come to the conclusion that our home planet is our lifeboat, floating threw an infinite space, giving us all that we need! We are one with this earth and the universe! We are one as a people! We are one as life! Everything that devides us today should unite us! All the differences we see about eachother are nothing, when we think and feel that we are one human family, sharing a little blue dot, our shelter. Can we remember who we are? One!
The time to see that all wars, greed, hatred, and destruction, is destroying all of us! If we work together and open our minds, this little blue dot could be more beautiful and peaceful then we can hardly imagine living in todays systems!
Look at yourself and see the similarities to all humans and life on earth! Revolutionize your thoughts and minds, and love yourself enough to understand the other!
This is OUR universe! We are watching and experiencing it from OUR earth!
Peace with Love….and Technology
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Pulse oximeter devices have been about for a very long time. Its been over 4 decades since the first devices were manufactured to the hospital setting. However, everything you might have seen over 40 years ago within the hospital settings is not that which you see today. There is maybe a complete transformation containing changed the complete landscape of the medical device market.
The old systems were substantial and bulky and could not easily move. They fairly appointed to a single patient room and offered such functions as measuring pulse rate and oxygen saturation. This is the truth is something typical to all or any pulse oximeter devices by which each of them measures accurately the heartbeat rate and blood oxygen saturation.
pulse oximeter devices portable and mobile
Then through generations of technological advancement inside the pulse oximeter devices, they became now more portable and mobile. Today’s items are so small that you could just merely put them in your pocket. They allow one to easily go wherever you desire to go while still at the same time having quick access to measuring your vital signs. Some of the people who happen to be particularly benefited with this device are in reality those that have cardiac conditions.
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Can you catch pneumonia from being cold and wet
Getting wet doesn’t cause pneumonia — an infection from bacteria or a virus does.
A cold or flu that gets worse can turn into pneumonia.
That’s because the cold or flu will irritate the lungs, creating an environment where it’s easier for pneumonia germs to move in and start an infection..
Why do we catch cold when we are wet
For this to make any sense there needs to be a mechanism by which getting chilled feet, or for that matter wet hair, could give you a cold. One theory is that when your body gets chilled the blood vessels in the nose and throat constrict.
Does being cold weaken your immune system
Some of this may have to do with a few infectious organisms, like flu viruses, thriving in colder temperatures, but there’s also evidence that exposure to cold temperatures suppresses the immune system, so the opportunities for infection increase.
Does wet hair make you cold
The short answer is no. Colds are caused by viruses, so you can’t catch a cold from going outside with wet hair. And wet hair won’t make you more attractive to germs. People often associate going outside with wet hair with getting sick because exposure to germs is more likely when you go outside.
Why do you get sick after getting wet in the rain
Rain temporarily weakens an immune system. It gets even weaker if the immune system has not been well-taken care of. So if someone is to sneeze at your child, or has some form of flu-like symptoms when his body temperature is lowered, there is a high chance that your child may fall sick.
What are the 4 stages of pneumonia
Four Stages of PneumoniaCongestion. This stage occurs within the first 24 hours of contracting pneumonia. … Red Hepatization. This stage occurs two to three days after congestion. … Grey Hepatization. This stage will occur two to three days after red hepatization and is an avascular stage. … Resolution. … … Is Pneumonia Contagious?
Can getting your feet wet cause a cold
Getting a chill can bring on a cold. So bundle up and keep your feet warm and dry. Infectious disease specialists may ridicule the hoary concept that cold wet feet can trigger the symptoms of a common cold. Viruses cause these infections, not wet feet, they argue.
Do germs spread faster in hot or cold
Air temperature is key for bacteria. In general, cold air kills germs while warm air incubates them. These factors, combined with those mentioned above, play a part in how quickly viruses spread within the office. But that’s not the whole picture, and there’s more to the story of how germs spread in your office.
Can cold weather make pneumonia worse
Pneumonia is an infection in the lungs, and can be caused by a number of different things, including fungus, bacteria, and viruses. Pneumonia is more prevalent in winter months, not because it is cold, but because people tend to be indoors and in close contact more.
What diseases can you get from being cold
Types of Cold-related IllnessesHypothermia. When exposed to cold temperatures, your body begins to lose heat faster than it can be produced. … Frostbite. Frostbite is an injury to the body that is caused by freezing. … Trench Foot. … Chilblains.
Can living in a cold house make you ill
Cold homes are bad for health. If you’re struggling to pay your heating bills and your home is cold and damp, your health may suffer. Problems and diseases linked to the cold range from blood pressure increases and common colds, to heart attacks and pneumonia.
Can you get sick by being cold
“Can you get sick from being cold? Yes, but not in terms of a cold or the flu. This comes from frostbite and/or even hypothermia. If you get frostbite or hypothermia, this can weaken the immune system, which leaves you more at-risk for getting illnesses, such as the common cold and/or the flu.”
Can you get sick from being cold and wet
Getting chilly or wet doesn’t cause you to get sick. But there are things that make you prone to come down with a cold. For example, you’re more likely to catch one if you’re extremely tired, under emotional distress, or have allergies with nose and throat symptoms.
Is it OK to sleep with wet hair
Going to sleep with wet hair can be bad for you, but not in the way your grandmother warned you. Ideally, you should be going to bed with completely dry hair to reduce your risk of fungal infections and hair breakage. Sleeping with wet hair could also result in more tangles and a funky mane to tend to in the morning.
Why are viruses more common in winter
1) During the winter, people spend more time indoors with the windows sealed, so they are more likely to breathe the same air as someone who has the flu and thus contract the virus (3).
How get rid cold fast
Cold remedies that workStay hydrated. Water, juice, clear broth or warm lemon water with honey helps loosen congestion and prevents dehydration. … Rest. Your body needs rest to heal.Soothe a sore throat. … Combat stuffiness. … Relieve pain. … Sip warm liquids. … Try honey. … Add moisture to the air.More items…
Can you get sick from running in the rain
Contrary to popular belief, running in the cold or in the rain won’t actually give you a cold. The only way you can catch a cold is by being exposed to the virus. But, the cold can indirectly cause you to get sick.
Can you give yourself pneumonia
Ways you can get pneumonia include: Bacteria and viruses living in your nose, sinuses, or mouth may spread to your lungs. You may breathe some of these germs directly into your lungs. You breathe in (inhale) food, liquids, vomit, or fluids from the mouth into your lungs (aspiration pneumonia) | <urn:uuid:12caa917-bdda-4aae-acec-c72d56800ff2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://moviebox-apkp.com/qa/question-can-you-get-pneumonia-from-being-cold-and-wet.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.938945 | 1,292 | 3.015625 | 3 |
The technology which ensures safety in vehicles has evolved perpetually over the decades, giving drivers a better chance of surviving serious crashes and also helping to protect other road users and pedestrians in the process.
There are various mechanisms and innovations that are present in modern cars to enhance safety, so here is a look at some of the latest developments to hit the market.
Managing a car’s speed and bringing it to a stop in an emergency, or as dictated by the conditions of the road ahead, can mean the difference between disaster and an uneventful trip. But humans are fallible, with reaction times dictating how quickly we can respond to changing circumstances and act accordingly.
With automatic braking systems available on contemporary cars, some of this responsibility is taken out of human hands and handed to significantly swifter electronic components. Manufacturers are begging to integrate camera systems and even radars which can scan the road around the car and detect obstacles in a fraction of a second so that direct impacts can be averted, according to Technology Review.
And while the concept of driverless cars may still be some way from becoming a reality, the groundwork is being laid in the automatic braking systems that we see today. In fact Euro NCAP’s crash tests will begin to take the presence of this technology into consideration in 2014, so manufacturers will have even more of an incentive to fit it across their ranges.
GPS and smartphone apps
Safety on the road is not just about slip second decisions, but also the other factors that are in play during a journey from A to B. Being safe means having enough fuel to complete the trip, being able to call for help in the event of mechanical issues and getting information about any problems with traffic and other calamities on the highways.
Standalone GPS devices, either built into car dashboards or purchased and mounted separately by the car owner, have developed from simple route-finding devices to multifunctional hubs for data on everything from current congestion levels to the location of speed cameras, petrol stations and even local amenities.
With a GPS device onboard, a driver can head out with confidence, always knowing their exact location should they need to alert emergency services or contact a breakdown repair provider.
But to a degree a standalone GPS satnav has been rendered obsolete by smartphones, which not only have GPS onboard but also offer a range of other automotive benefits via downloadable apps. Because smartphones can connect to high speed internet connections from almost anywhere in the country, drivers are never lost, alone or unsafe with one to hand.
It is difficult to put a price on safety when driving, but with modern technology it is more affordable and attainable than you might think.
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If pain or stiffness in your joints are making it difficult to walk, bend or lift, a knee, leg or hip replacement surgery may help you get back to enjoying normal everyday activities. At MOSM, we are leaders in minimally invasive hip surgery, such as the Makoplasty knee & hip robotic surgery.
We believe in supporting you through the entire process of surgery. You’ll learn what to expect and can ask questions of our hip orthopedic surgeons who are trained to perform this hip revision surgery. After surgery, your MOSM doctors and therapists will work closely with you to develop a personalized plan for your rehabilitation to help you restore function, reduce pain and get back to daily activities.
MEET YOUR PROVIDER
The procedure, known as MAKOPLASTY® partial knee resurfacing, makes surgery a more palatable option for patients who have been reluctant to pursue traditional knee surgeries that often require months of recovery. It’s a less invasive treatment option than total knee replacement and allows surgeons to treat knee osteoarthritis at earlier stages. Makoplasty uses 3D computer mapping and an interactive robotic arm system to resurface the diseased portion of the knee and replace it with an artificial implant.
“The technology allows us to position the implant components much more accurately than conventional surgery and preserve more of the natural knee structure,” said Jeffrey K. Moore, Moore Orthopedics and Sports Medicine “The ability of the robot to help us prepare the bone surface and precisely place and align the implant enables patients to experience a more natural knee movement after surgery.”
MOSM offers the experience of skilled physicians and physical therapists specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of athletic injuries and illnesses. Our fellowship-trained sports medicine orthopedic surgeons not only use state-of-the-art surgical techniques to treat injuries of the shoulder, elbow, knee, and ankle but work directly with a number of local athletic events and high schools providing sports medicine services at the sidelines.
East Coast Robotic Surgery, a division of Moore Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, utilizes MAKOplasty to perform partial knee and hip replacements and now for the first time, total knee replacement surgery with smaller incisions, less pain and quicker recovery compared to traditional surgeries.
SPORTS THERAPY & REHAB
Moore Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (MSTR) is a division of Moore Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (MOSM). We offer comprehensive physical therapy, training, and rehabilitation services, which include pre-and post-operative care as well as treatment of acute or chronic non-operative conditions. MSTR’s direct partnership with Moore Orthopedics and Sports Medicine’s physicians allows us to work together as a team and provide superior medical care to each individual patient.
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Homeopathic Materia Medica by Dr. Benoit Mure: Benoît Mure (1809 – 1858) was a French homeopath & he founded the Instituto Homeopático di Sai and later the Instituto Homeopático di Brazil.
List of all Homeopathic Materia Medica: Dr. Clarke, Boericke, Farrington, Allen, Dunham, N M Choudhury, Nash, Boger, Lippe, Mure, Tyler, Constantine Hering, Kent, Homeopathic Materia Medica, Online Materia Medica
PEDICULUS CAPITIS (COMMON LOUSE)
It is scarcely necessary to give a description of this species which is sufficiently known; we shall content ourselves with indicating the principal characteristics which distinguish it from the other vermin living on the surface of the human body. The louse is of an oval form; flattened, longer than the crab-louse; its head is very small; its thorax is composed of three not very distinct rings; the abdomen is all of one piece, rounded off on the sides; it is ash-colored, whereas the crab-louse is entirely white. The lice which have been made use of in our provings, were taken from the head of a healthy child of five years.
Even before undertaking this experiment we expected to derive from it important results. We entertained the belief that nature pointed out to us the louse as a specific for the hereditary psora, in which belief we were strengthened by the fact that psorin develops the lice-malady in healthy persons. And we are now prepared to affirm that we have found the louse one of the most useful agents in diseases of children. We offer the following pathogenesis with a sincere pleasure which none but those who devote themselves to such patient investigations, can appreciate.
SYMPTOMATIC ARRANGEMENT ACCORDING TO HAHNEMANN.
MORAL AND MENTAL: 1. Depression of spirits. Dullness of feeling. Merry in the evening. Very merry. 5. Irascible. Sad without cause. Sensation as if raised off the ground by the hair. She is waked in the night by an attack of dizziness, and inability to open the eyes. Dizziness while walking; the cerebellum feels compressed, with beating and an acute pain on rising in the morning.
HEAD.: 10. Frontal headache. Headache at intervals, and abating all at once. Headache in the evening. Heaviness of the head. Dullness of the head, on rising, with beating in the right temple. 15. Heaviness at the vertex. Violent headache, with dizziness and nausea, in the forenoon. Violent headache, worse on stooping. Headache, with nausea, when walking. Violent headache, and darting in the forehead, when walking. 20. Dull pain in the head, on rising from bed. Headache and pressure at the nasal eminence. Lancinations in the forehead. Dartings in the forehead. Dartings in the right parietal bone. 25. Intermittent dartings in the head, worse when stooping. Heat about the head. Itching of the hairy scalp, in front. Contraction of the hairy scalp. Itching of the left temple. 30. Itching of the hairy scalp. Shuddering over the left side of the hairy scalp. °Falling of the hair.
FACE: Dark complexion. Warmth of the face, afternoon. 35. Itching of the beard. The face is red and bloated. Sweat in the face. Scarlet-redness of the face. To avoid unnecessary repetition, the natural order of the symptoms has been left out, it being nearly the same as Hahnemann’s arrangement. Ed.
Itching at the right lower part of the face. 40. Heat in the face. Tingling pain in the right cheek. Itching of the face and hairy scalp. The left cheek is swollen.
NOSE: Tickling and prickling at the left wing of the nose. 45. Inflammation of the nasal fosse . Dartings in the root of the nose. Itching of the tip of the nose.
EARS: Itching in the left ear, evening. Buzzing in the ears. 50. Hot ears. Itching of the right ear. Whizzing in the ears, when whistling. Cracking in the right ear, when eating.
EYES: Itching of the left eyelid. 55. Rings around the eyes. Dilatation of the pupils. Smarting of the eyes as from weeping. The eyes feel weary, are red and smart. Sensation as of sand in the eyes. 60. Smarting around the eyes.
TEETH: The lower jaw feels tired, as from chewing too much. Darlings in the right upper molares.
MOUTH: The lips are black and cracked. Dry, swollen and red lips. 65. Burning and prickling on the border of the tongue, which is red and cracked.
GASTRIC: Hunger, with inability to swallow; the pharynx seems to contract, followed by fainting and desire to vomit, at noon. Aversion to food. Constant nausea in the evening. Difficult digestion, with contraction of the stomach. 70. Colic and diarrhoea after dinner.
THROAT: Sore throat, getting worse until evening. Scraping in the throat. Sore throat every evening. Transitory choking, especially after supper. 75. Dryness of the throat. Scraping at the tonsils, when swallowing. Sore throat, with constriction of the pharynx. Constant swallowing of saliva.
STOMACH &c.: Stomach-ache, and dartings in the umbilical region. 80. Violent colic. Slight colic.
STOOL: Soft stool, in the evening. Diarrhoea evening and next morning. Hard and scanty stool.
URINARY, GENITAL, &c.: 85. Frequent and copious discharge of a watery, yellow-greenish urine. Red urine. Yellow, clear urine. Frequent and copious micturition. Continual erection, without desire. 90. Leucorrhoea. Shifting pain in the uterus, in the evening. Painful stitch in the uterus. Painful dartings, heat and itching in the uterus.
BRONCHIAL, CHEST: Thirst with hoarseness, towards evening. 95. Dry and convulsive cough. Numbness while drawing breath. Pain in the breasts, when drawing breath. Pain in the chest, worse when touched. Oppression on the chest, in the evening.
BACK: 100. Tickling at the nape of the neck and between the shoulders. Itching of the nape of the neck and back. Frequent pain in the loins, when standing. Itching of the back.
EXTREMITIES: Bruising pain on the shoulders and arms. 105. Darting at the arms. Itching of the forearm, in the evening. Pain in the bend of the right arm. Itching of the forearm, in the evening. Tickling at the left wrist. 110. Tickling at the wrists. Darting in the back of the left hand. Itching at the backs of the hands. Itching of the back of the hand, with redness and swelling of the veins. Tremor of the hands. 115. Darting and itching at the first phalanx of the middle-finger. Tingling in the tips of the middle and index fingers. Itching at the ring-finger. Itching of first phalanx of right index-finger. Redness and itching at the right hip. 120. Itching as from nettles in the bend of the thigh. The skin on the left thigh peels off. Weakness of the lower limbs. The knee and upper portion of the left lower limb feel tired. Violent lancination above the left knee-pan. 125. Beating above the left knee-pan. Weariness of the knees, especially the left, in the evening. Intense itching at the right instep. Cold sweat at the feet, followed by excessive coldness, in the evening. Ganglion under the foot, hard, swollen, and painful when walking.
SLEEP, FEVER: 130. Yawning. Drowsy. Uneasy sleep. Restless night. Frequent waking. 135. Dreams about a mob, then amorous dreams with an emission. Confused dreams about being pursued. He dreams that he is dissecting one of his friends. He dreams that he sees people skate on the Seine, in summer. She dreams that she sees acquaintances walk on water. 140. She dreams that she is sick in a dirty hospital, full of vermin; water flows from her mouth. Dream about large-lice. She dreams that she sees a large, black figure flying to the clouds. He dreams that he is to die in a prison, whence he escapes by crawling out. Shuddering all over, eight or ten times in succession. 145. Shuddering in the evening. Shuddering and twitching. Fever.
CUTANEOUS: Pimples in the face, on the forehead, temples, chin, &c., vesicular with a black point in the center. Miliary pimples at the nape of the neck, on a red base. 150. Red pimples on the hands, passing off soon. Red, inflamed pimples on the temples, shoulders, arms, legs. Inflamed pimples on the back, red all around, white in the middle, with a black point in the center. Red inflamed pimples in the face, evening. Smarting pimples on the back, white at their tips. 155. Red inflamed pimples on the left shoulder and arm. White blotches above the left breast. A number of small pimples on the left knee, black at the center. Small red pimples on the feet, on taking them out of the warm water. Red pimples on the shoulders. 160. Small red pimples and itching on the right calf. Red pimples with a black point in the middle, on the right side of the neck. Miliary pimples on the calves, with itching. Miliary eruption at the inside of the thighs, with itching. Former pimples at the nape of the neck reappear. 165. Miliary pimples at the inside of the arms. White pimples on the forehead.
GENERAL: Increase of physical strength. Swelling of the breasts, face, and then of the whole body. Itching all over. 170. Face, hands and feet look red. Tickling all over. Starting when sitting or lying in the evening. Prickling all over, the whole day. Prickling all over, especially at the front part of the thigh. 175. Weariness, dizziness, faint feeling. Shivering, heat and dryness of the extremities. Itching of the skin. Heaviness. Itching here and there, at night. | <urn:uuid:d65dccd7-2168-4eeb-a494-ca5561872cb4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.anandahomoeohall.com/pediculus-capitis-common-louse-by-benoit-mure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.916926 | 2,355 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Although cyber attacks are not new, the methods of employing them continue to evolve. Here the most common cyber threats you should be aware of, to protect your personal information and organizational data.
We should be deleting emails from unknown senders or that have suspicious links or attachments. Now, we must be even more cautious as spear-phishing is a recent trend that is continuing to be seen across all industries.
Spear-phishing is when you receive a fraudulent email that appears to be from one of your contacts, and it tries to get you to reveal confidential information.
Fraudsters are most successful with spear phishing when three key elements are included in their message:
- The message is from a source that is trusted and known.
- There is information within the message that supports its validity. This could include a name or phone number.
- The request that the individual makes must seem logical.
Unfortunately, due to the appearance of a trusted source and the logic behind the message request, people fall victim to these crimes often. In December 2019, even the Royal Canadian Mint fell for a spear-phishing scam and almost forked over an employee’s paycheque to fraudsters, according to a breach report obtained by CBC through access to information.
As a best practice, don’t respond or click on any attachments from emails that you don’t know the sender. It is important that you limit what personal information you are giving out on the web and through emails.
Cloud migration holes
Many organizations use cloud technology to increase their overall efficiency and security. Cyber attackers know that often there are gaps in the implementation of cloud technology, and are finding ways to take advantage of this.
To avoid being a target to cyber attackers when implementing your cloud technology, make sure you properly estimate your time frame and budgets. Underestimating these puts you at greater risk of making mistakes and leaving vulnerable gaps throughout your integration process. Next, take steps when moving everything on to the cloud. Determine what applications should go first and do things one step at a time. Lastly, don’t slack on cloud security. Having inadequate security policies is one of the fastest ways your organization can fall prey to a cyber attack.
You can also implement cloud technology in partnership with a trusted expert with the prerequisite skills. Take the time to find someone who will do it right the first time.
Vulnerabilities in IoT devices
Another one of the most common cyber threats that slips under our radar involves our beloved and various smart devices. Internet of Things (IoT) devices are any nonstandard computing device that can connect wirelessly to a network and transmit data. Examples include smart devices like TVs, speakers and appliances, and even “smart home” devices that can adjust temperatures or lighting levels.
One important security challenge with IoT devices is that users do not update them regularly. Often the device is secure when sold to the consumer, but if it is not updated it becomes prone to hackers. Early computer systems had similar problems, and this was somewhat resolved through automatic updates. Other challenges faced due to the security of IoT devices include the use of default passwords, ransomware attacks and data privacy.
Ransomware is a malicious software attack. It threatens to publish victim’s data or blocks access to data unless the ransom is paid. The cost of downtime and repairs due to a ransomware attack can have a large impact on an organization. It was found that some industries such as healthcare providers, legal firms and educational institutions are more prone to ransomware attacks, but no industry is off limits.
To stay protected, be sure that you have a strong backup and recovery plan in place. This way if something happens you can restore your data quickly and reduce downtime. You should also keep all of your software up to date.
Working with an IT provider is beneficial as we monitor your systems to ensure things are up-to-date and running smoothly. In the event of a crisis, an IT provider can improve response times to get your organization up and running again in no time.
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QUESTION: How often should I be watering my indoor plants? I can’t seem to figure out the right watering schedule for them. — Jim F.
ANSWER: There’s no simple, one-size-fits-all answer to your question, because different plants will need to be watered at different times. However, we can tell you how to determine when your plants need water so you can give them the hydration they need to grow healthy and strong.
You’ll see some advice that tells you to water indoor plants once every so many days or weeks … but we’re here to tell you that this advice doesn’t take individual plant preferences into account and is unlikely to result in a happy garden. It isn’t only up to the type of plant you are growing—the container, potting media, humidity, and temperature are all factors in how much water a plant needs. So instead of trying to choose a certain watering schedule, we’ll teach you what to look for so you’ll know when a plant is ready to be watered, and even when a plant has been getting too much water, so you can adjust your watering as needed.
For most indoor plants that are not cacti or succulents, you can perform a simple test to see whether the plant needs to be watered. Just insert a finger into the soil where your plant is growing to a depth of two inches. (If you can’t get your finger two inches into the soil, the plant may be rootbound, or your potting mix may be too dense.) If the soil feels moist or clings to your skin, the plant doesn’t need water just yet. When the soil is dry and does not stick to your skin, it’s time to water your plant.
A plant with soil that has dried out will be much lighter than one that is still moist. Try lifting up the plant, container and all, to check its weight. If you do this every so often, you’ll learn what the plant’s normal weight is when watered, and you’ll be able to feel how the plant is lighter once the soil has dried.
Instead of watering your plants each day, instead just check on them to see if they need water. While you shouldn’t water on a set schedule, you should do an inspection of your plants regularly so you can see when they need water, or when they’ve been getting a little too much. You just need to know what to look for. We’ve told you two ways to check and see whether a plant is ready to be watered, and now we’ll tell you how to read the plant’s signs that indicate overwatering or underwatering.
Your plants will show you when they need water or have been getting too much. If you know these signs, you’ll be able to adjust your watering regimen as needed.
One of the signs of overwatering is drooping, wilting foliage—which is confusing, because drooping and wilting can also be a sign of underwatering. However, if you see drooping or wilting foliage while the soil is moist, your plant is getting too much water. You may also notice yellowed leaves. A plant that is getting too much water will not be putting out new growth. The presence of fungus gnats or an unpleasant smell coming from your plant also point to overwatering. If you see these signs, reduce the amount you are watering and use the finger test so you’ll know for sure when the soil is dry and it’s time to water your houseplants.
If you have scaled back on watering and are still seeing these symptoms, it’s possible that your plant has root rot. Check for root rot by carefully removing the plant from the soil, roots intact. Gently use your fingers to shake off the excess soil. Then examine the roots. If the roots are slimy or dark in places instead of the pale color of healthy roots, your plant has root rot.
If your plant has root rot, you will need to remove the diseased roots and repot the plant. Use a clean, sterilized pair of gardening shears, snip away the slimy or darkened root sections. (You can sterilize your shears by soaking them in a mix of half water and half rubbing alcohol for five minutes. Then rinse them under fresh water and let them air dry.)
Then you will need to put the plant in a new, clean container with fresh new soil. Discard the old soil, but do not put it in your compost heap. You can reuse the container once it has been cleaned and sterilized. Once you have repotted the plant, scale back your watering and use the finger test to determine when it’s time to water your plants.
Underwatering can look similar to overwatering, but instead of these symptoms appearing when soil is wet, they’ll appear when soil is dry. You may see drooping, yellowed, or withered leaves, or the leaves themselves may turn brown at the tips. These symptoms in conjunction with dry soil mean the plant needs more water than it is getting. Make sure to water deeply, as we explain in the next section, and monitor the plant regularly so you’ll know when more water is needed.
You can water houseplants either from the top or from the bottom. Either way, you should give plants a deep watering, and we’ll tell you how.
Make sure that you use room temperature water on your plants. All your plants should be in containers that have drainage holes. You may hear advice about using rocks or broken pottery in the bottom of containers if they don’t have holes, but this is not really effective. There’s really no substitute for having enough drainage, and it’s very important to keep plants healthy and prevent root rot.
Smaller plants will need to be watered more frequently than your large plants. Plants in sunny spots will need to be watered more frequently than plants that get a bit of shade.
Keep the time of year in mind when you’re watering, because plants that go dormant during the off-season don’t need nearly as much water during this time. If your plant goes dormant in fall and winter, scale the watering way back. Not familiar with this concept? Check out our article Dormant Plants: Your Top Questions and Answers.
It’s not sufficient just to sprinkle a bit of water on top of the soil where your plants are growing. Instead, you need to do a deep watering. Aim for the root area, and keep on watering the plant until moisture starts to leak out of its drainage holes. If your plant is in a saucer or tray, pour out any excess water after the plant has had 10 minutes to soak it up.
To water from the bottom, fill up the plant’s saucer or tray—or a basin you can set the plant in—so the plant can soak up the water through the drainage holes in its container. Keep refilling the saucer until the plant stops taking in the water. Or, if you are soaking the container in a larger dish, let the plant soak for 10 minutes. Once you are finished watering the plant, dispose of any excess water remaining in the saucer, tray, or basin.
There are a few plants that have special watering instructions you should be aware of.
- Cacti and succulents: These plants need far less water than other houseplants. Water them only when the soil has dried out completely.
- Orchids: Orchids need a little bit of water about once a week.
- Citrus: These plants need to be watered much more frequently than others. Don’t let them dry out, but keep them consistently moist. However, you don’t want the plant to be waterlogged, so go for damp instead of wet.
Soluble salt buildup happens when the minerals in water slowly accumulate in your plant’s soil over time. Symptoms include brown leaf tips, dropping lower leaves, dead root tips, wilting, and reduced growth. You may be able to see the salt deposits around the drainage hole, on the outside of the container, or inside near the soil line. Avoid watering plants with soft water, which has the most soluble salts.
To prevent soluble salt buildup, either use distilled water or rainwater. You can also let soluble salts evaporate by drawing your water 24 hours before you will water the plants. After settling for a day, the chlorine in the water should have evaporated, and most harmful minerals will have settled to the bottom. Just pour out and discard the bottom inch or two of water.
Every four to six months, and as soon as you bring a new plant home, you should flush out the salts that have built up in the soil. (Even if you personally use distilled water, rainwater, or draw your water early, you should flush out the salts when you get a new plant, since you don’t know how much salts may have built up from the nursery’s care.)
Start by examining the top layer of the soil for a crust of salt. If this is present, remove it with your hands before starting the flushing process. It is best to use distilled water, rainwater, or water drawn a day early to flush with. Start by pouring clean water, at least twice the volume of the pot, over your plant. Then let the excess water drain out through the drainage holes. Do this two or three times. Do this before you fertilize the plant, since you don’t want to wash away newly applied fertilizer.
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Best Express Courses 2022
Best Express Book 2022?
Best Express tutorials 2022
Just Express (with a bunch of node and http). In detail.
Many students have requested a course on Express js only because they were overwhelmed when they learned it, or they could not find any details about it to go beyond the knowledge of the beginners. This is what this course is for. We’ll go through the different parts of Express in detail so you can know why it behaves the way it does and get the most out of it. Express 5 is currently in alpha, so when it releases beta or full, and questions arise, the course will expand accordingly!
Note: This course is not a quick way to launch a web application with Express / Node. You can get it in 10 minutes in many other places. This course is intended to take a closer look at what Express js actually does.
I have been using Express since V.2, in 2012 and have seen it do just about everything. It’s one of my favorite node mods and still one of the most downloaded on npm. There are other great technologies that connect with Express that are easily missed. This course will naturally lead to other things like websockets, webRTC, etc. Get ready for one of the most awesome node mods on npm!
Environment configuration (ignore if the node is already installed)
Before Express … – TCP & HTTP, creation of a node server without express
Express 101 – Create a basic web server with Express
Express 201 – Middleware and rendering
Express 301 – Req & Res revisited, the router and the express generator
Passport (JWT and local strategy still to come)
Best practices (coming soon …)
Additional – connection to various databases (very basic – only for those who already know a database)
You will learn:
Express. That’s (mostly) all we cover, so when you’re done, you’ll know!
Set up an Express server that can do everything Express can do!
Run this Express server as a REST API
Use this Express server to make your web pages front-end with EJS, PUG and handlebars
Understand the basics of HTTP and the request / response cycle
This is the best Expressjs course in 2022.
Projects in ExpressJS – Learn ExpressJs building 10 projects
Learn how to build robust and dynamic web applications using Express JS with this hands-on EPIC course!
Express JS is the pre-built Node JS framework that can help developers build faster, smarter websites and web applications. Although NodeJS is a brilliant server-side technology, it can now be extended to building complete web applications using Express.
So, if you are familiar with NodeJS, but want to move on to building applications from server-side only technologies, then Express JS is the perfect place to learn and it’s the perfect course to help you learn it.
However, Express is not only limited to NodeJS, but also works wonderfully with other modules and offers HTTP utilities and middleware to build APIs. This brilliant framework can help you master single page and multiple page websites, as well as some complex web applications.
We’ve designed this course to help you learn exactly how to do this! This Express Tutorial will help you master 12 different websites and web applications by building them from scratch. In addition, you will also benefit from royalty-free coding for any apps you have created. The course has been divided into 12 sections with each section focusing on a project and at the end of each section there is also a quiz to help you assess yourself.
By the end of this course, you will not only master over 15 different technologies, but you will also have 12 working projects that you can call your own.
Here are 12 projects you’ll be working on:
Project 1: This project will show you how to build a basic web server, while learning the basic concepts of NodeJS and Express.
Project 2: In this project, you will build a PC repair website to help you understand the beginner concepts of Express.
Project 3: A simple Todo application to learn how to use MongoDB and Mongo Driver.
Project 4: A complete and detailed sports blog to understand Mongoose and MongoDB.
Project 5: A user login application that will show you how to integrate Passport authentication.
Project 6: In this project, you will learn how to integrate chat using Socketio.
Project 7: In this project, you will create a ClientKeeper application that will use the MEAN stack from scratch.
Project 8: A functional Job Board which will familiarize you with the Mean.JS generator.
Project 9: A MovieBase application that will use Kraken, which is an extra layer added over Express to build better MVC-like applications.
Project 10: In this project, you will create an Instagram app using the Instagram API.
Project 11: A business listing application that will include the use of CouchDB.
Project 12: A Storefinder based on Redis that learns the integration of Redis and Google Geocode.
Express.js Node.js & MongoDB
This course will teach you the basic concepts you need to start building web applications and backend services. You will learn to:
Understand the basic concepts of Express
Serve static content
MongoDB running in the cloud (AWS) through MLAB
Connect to MongoDB
Serve static content from the server
Create an API for customers
Build apps with Express
Use template engines
Launch databases running in the cloud
Best Express books 2022
Express in Action: Writing, building, and testing Node.js applications
- Hahn, Evan (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
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Section 3 in The Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010
Title: Establishment of National Council.
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Course Number: 100/101
Full Year; 10 Units
UC/CSU Approved: English “B” Requirement.
Satisfies one year of the English graduation requirement.
English I is a year-long, college preparatory course centered on the inquiry-based processes of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. The units integrate nonfiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and short stories with overall learning objectives rooted in the Common Core standards for the state of California. This course promotes sophistication and analytical interpretation in the study of literature and in the development of creative and academic writing skills in this subject. English I also reviews and enhances the development of study skills, higher-order thinking, research techniques, critical thinking, and vocabulary.
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros ISBN# 9780679734772
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ISBN# 9781107615403
- Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson ISBN# 9781681191072 - This book is a summer reading assignment.
Additional books will be identified on the syllabus.
Supplemental texts will be provided in PDF format by the instructor.
Note: Summer Reading Texts are by grade level and are posted in May.
Level of Difficulty:
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We sat down with some pioneers of animal language learning to ask them about button teaching, cognitive science, Bunny, and more!
Leo Trottier | Monday, December 28, 2020
Leo is a unique blend of cognitive scientist, software engineer, product designer, and entrepreneur.
He is founder and CEO of CleverPet, a startup that uses smart hardware to teach pets automatically through advanced cognitive and behavioral science techniques, as well as the developer of FluentPet.
He’s also an alumnus of San Diego's EvoNexus and the Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator (powered by Techstars).
He has degrees in cognitive science from the University of Toronto and UC San Diego, and started CleverPet while a PhD Candidate at UCSD.
Before CleverPet, Leo ran Scholarpedia, Wikipedia’s academic equivalent, where he worked with Nobel Laureates to "wikify scholarly canons."
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Alexis & Bunny | Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Alexis Devine, the Tacoma-based artist and designer perhaps best known for her role as Bunny the talking sheepadoodle’s mom and teacher, began teaching Bunny to communicate via AAC devices in Fall 2019 after seeing videos of speech pathologist Christina Hunger working with her dog Stella.
By the time Alexis connected with CleverPet founder and cognitive scientist Leo Trottier in May 2020, Bunny had mastered 24 word buttons.
She now has 78 buttons, 5.5 million TikTok followers, half a million Instagram followers and her very own website, in addition to a growing number of headlines. Over the past few months Alexis and Bunny have been featured on GMA, The Wall Street Journal, The Seattle Times, BBC, Inside Edition, Mashable, Buzzfeed, The Verge, The Guardian, NBC's Today, and dozens more.
Check out our recent Q&A with her and Bunny!
[00:35] Can you just tell us a little bit about who Bunny is and how you're teaching her to communicate?
[01:16] How many buttons does Bunny have on her board right now?
[01:24] You started very young with Bunny but is this something that older dogs can learn how to do too, or is it something you have to start with when they're very young?
[01:46] Can you take us through how you teach Bunny to use these buttons on some of the more tangible words like “cat” or “outside” versus some of the more abstract words like “love” or “mad”?
[02:58] Did you do the same kind of modeling method for both the very concrete words and the more abstract words?
[03:50] Words like “why” “where” “what” “when”... How do you work through those?
[04:35] How many hours do you spend training Bunny on these words? When you first started versus once you already had an understanding of some words, what was that timeline like?
[05:50] How is this NOT a trick, and how do you then go about engaging Bunny to interact with the board to answer questions and that kind of stuff?
[07:26] What about when you're on the go? Does Bunny ever get frustrated when she doesn't have access to her buttons?
[07:56] A lot of people have picked up on the fact that you also have a cat, and Bunny seems to be kind of obsessed with this cat. Is there a reason your cat isn't learning to communicate using the buttons as well?
[09:12] You said you had 78 buttons. How do you organize them?
[10:31] Why did you name her Bunny?
[10:50] Have you noticed that Bunny's personality has changed at all since she's learned this new way to communicate with you?
[11:18] Is there a conversation that you guys have had using the buttons that has surprised you the most?
[11:50] Speaking of “ouch,” a lot of people want to know how you teach something like that while being ethical about it?
[12:52] How do you balance things like potty training with the consistency of using the buttons? Because obviously if you're potty training your dog, you might not want them to go out at any time that they want to go out, so how do you balance that?
[13:48] If you’re traveling with Bunny, do you bring the buttons with you?
[14:39] Do you recommend using your dog's paw to teach her to use the button, like hand-over-hand?
[15:34] You mentioned that you recently added a word that Bunny didn't know before. Does that mean that the majority of the words that you add buttons to, that she already knows the concepts?
[16:22] How do you teach the concept of time? “Now”... “later”... how do you teach a dog “later”?
[18:00] is Bunny learning new words faster, or about the same speed, or is there no way of knowing?
[18:32] What buttons have you found to be essential for basic conversation? Like maybe the first 15 or so to introduce?
[20:02] How many new words do you add at a time? Would you add “morning,” “afternoon,” “night” around the same time so that you can help her understand the differences, or one at a time?
[20:47] Have you noticed whether or not Bunny presses specific buttons in a consistent order? For example “play now” versus “now play”?
[21:07] Does Bunny’s plan of learning stop after a while, or are you guys just exploring her full potential?
[21:41] Does that include all tenses of the words — past, present, future — do you think?
[22:15] Do you bring the button outside with you for “poop” so that you can then model it while it's happening?
[22:34] Is your husband dedicated to this too? Any issues with inconsistency with training between the two of you?
[23:41] You mentioned that she's not very treat-motivated, or you try not to use treats to motivate her. What is she motivated by in terms of learning the buttons?
[24:39] How do you handle if she has a tantrum using her buttons? What do you do then?
[25:25] Some people use hand signals with training. Have you ever tried combining the words with hand signals, or do you do it separately? How does that work?
[26:25] Will you try to teach her pronouns at any point?
[27:26] Has Bunny ever spoken to another animal also using buttons, and is that something that you might try at some point? If Bunny and Stella were in the same room, what do you think would happen?
[28:21] You mentioned this research that you're contributing to, and at the last TheyCanTalk Show, we interviewed Federico Rossano, who is conducting this big research project with a lot of different animals. What are you hoping to find out from the research?
[29:27] Do you work full-time while working with Bunny?
[29:49] Approximately how many times a day would you say, on average, Bunny hits a button?
[30:45] How proficient do you wait for her to be with the newest button before adding more?
[31:46] Have you seen any examples of Bunny coining her own phrase to mean something that she doesn't have a button for yet?
[32:24] Someone in the chat said that they saw the videos of her existential crisis. Does she recognize herself in the mirror now?
[33:06] Going back to the study that we were talking about, you have multiple cameras set up. How many do you have at this point, and is the camera always on, or is that something that you can control?
[33:49] Someone in the chat says “We've started using the buttons last week. My Weimaraner is as intense in pressing the buttons as anything in her life. Do you have any tips to get her to be gentler?”
[35:06] What has it been like to go from nearly zero to six million followers in just a few months?
[35:53] Are you concerned about privacy with all the cameras around?
[36:27] From the chat: “I teach my dog all the commands in English — like “sit,” “lay down,” “stand up,” “stay” — but normally I would just speak Vietnamese, [my] mother tongue. If I start to teach my dog to use these buttons, would you recommend me to use English and always speak english to my dog, or should I use my mother tongue?”
[37:40] Does Bunny ever try to use buttons to get a treat?
[38:29] What's your favorite, or the most interesting, thing that you've learned about Bunny that you maybe wouldn't have known if it weren't for the buttons?
[39:39] Have you sought out research on AAC for humans and children to incorporate into your practice with Bunny?
[40:44] Which words do you recommend to start with for beginners?
[41:37] When you're first starting out, is there a place where you can go that you would recommend to get these buttons, or the board, or any other information?
[42:38] Does Bunny communicate with guests in your home or just with the family?
[43:16] Would you consider adding more vocalization buttons like you have for the question, the “Hmm?” sound button?
[43:56] If Bunny starts to play without using the button first, do you then go back and model the button before you initiate play, or do you ask Bunny to press play before you then play with her?
[45:27] How and when did you first introduce the “Hmm?” button?
[46:24] What influences your word choice with each new button that you do add?
[47:15] Prior to Bunny, did you have dogs, and did you have any kind of dog-training experience?
[48:33] How do you think your approach differs from that of Christina Hunger?
[49:55] How does it make you feel when Bunny tells you that she loves you?
[50:18] When Bunny is upstairs and she wants to express something, will she indicate to you to come downstairs or does she vocalize/bark or something like that?
[50:44] How do you introduce the concepts of time? That sounds really hard to model?
[51:20] How do you differentiate “I love you” from “scritches”?
[52:20] From the chat: “Right now I have one button per HexTile. Any tips on combining buttons onto one HexTile?
[53:15] Have you thought about teaching her the days of the week?
[53:28] Do you recommend having a singular person's voice with the button, or does it matter if it's mom or dad's voice?
[53:58] How do you envision Bunny to be in five or ten years?
[54:46] Now that Bunny has so many buttons, do you just branch an additional tile of the same type next to each other, or do you arrange it once you've filled up all of the category tiles? So if you have let's say 10 action words, how do you branch off of that existing action tile? How do you go about arranging that?
[56:00] What's Bunny's most used word?
[56:58] You mentioned you're an artist. What kind of art do you do?
Prof. Federico Rossano | Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Curious about our approach to research at TheyCanTalk.org? Interested in understanding more about the state of language research in non-human animals?
Check out our Q&A with UC San Diego Professor of Cognitive Science, Professor Federico Rossano!
Prof. Rossano received his PhD in Linguistics from the Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and has worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany).
His current research adopts a comparative perspective on social cognition and is focused on the development of communicative abilities and social norms in human and non-human primates.
[00:57] Can you tell us a little about your research interests your lab and the kind of research that you do?
[02:25] Can you tell us about the They Can Talk project and what it’s about?
[04:06] Can you tell us in layman terms what operant conditioning is, and how is this study either similar or different to that?
[12:11] Are you likely to have a greater success training a puppy versus an adult, or are there certain breeds or breed characteristics that might make it easier to teach button-using?
[17:28] As I mentioned, I myself contribute data to this research, but I’m personally not always great about submitting videos or word updates. Why is keeping track of those things so important to this research?
[20:40] How about some more abstract concepts, what do we know about animals understanding of those abstract concepts such as emotions?
[23:44] I would love to talk a little bit about inflection. If your tone of voice is happy or sad, do you think it’s more tone based or do they actually understand the context?
[26:49] We know that animals do pick up on tone. Would it be helpful to mitigate that bias by recording our voice unto these buttons or is it better to record with like a flat tone of voice so that we are not putting our own biases towards them and helping them learn the actual context, or does that actually help them even more?
[30:31] We talked about how this is not natural behavior necessarily. So if your learner is communicating something clearly in a non-verbal manner, should you still encourage them to use the words?
[33:24] What is the ultimate goal of this study?
[38:01] Speaking of what it takes to get there, what happens if we train them in correctly or inconsistently?
[42:09] I know this research is obviously far from finished, but have you noticed so far, in terms of dogs kind of putting together grammar, have you noticed any consistent grammar usage with dogs so far?
[44:04] How long do you anticipate this study to continue for?
[46:41] We’ve talked a lot about dogs doing this. and we talked a little bit about other animals as well. but is there any anticipated results for other types of animals such as cats using these buttons?
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