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Move Over Expense Ratios
CHARLIE BURKE, CPA
Although still important to donors, the expense ratio (what a charity spends on administrative, overhead and fundraising costs vs. program costs) is now sharing the spotlight with other measurements as a way to judge an organization’s effectiveness.
The traditional appeal of expense ratios is obvious. They are easy to calculate using data from financial statements or Form 990s and provide a standard metric with which to compare all not-for-profits. Watchdog groups vary somewhat in the expense ratios they advocate, but most agree that “effective” not-for-profits spend at least 65% to 75% of their budgets on program costs.
Many in the not-for-profit community question the benefit of expense rations. Clearly, they do not tell the whole story. In addition, because watchdog groups, donors, foundations and government regulators have placed such a strong emphasis on this single metric, many not-for-profits felt pressure to under-track and under-report actual administrative and fundraising spending. Some not-for-profits have even neglected to make the organizational infrastructure investments that are essential to continued health and future growth. Ironically, pinching pennies to improve the appearance of fiscal responsibility can undermine an organization’s long-term effectiveness.
Some influential groups have begun to shift their emphasis on expense ratios to other areas. The Charities Review Council, for example, revised its Use of Funds (essentially, an expense ratio) standard to reflect that no one range is ideal for every charity and to encourage more infrastructure investment. Other groups such as Charity Navigator, GuideStar and GiveWell do not believe that expense ratios or executive salaries provide meaningful data to determine a not-for-profit’s impact and utilize other data to rate not-for-profits.
Many not-for-profit professionals have advocated placing less emphasis on “outputs” — such as the percentage of funds spent on programs — in favor of “outcomes” — a program’s measurable impact in the community. Not-for-profits need to craft a clear and compelling message to illustrate financial performance. A good starting point is to develop a method of measuring your success appropriate to your mission. Track these results and explain them clearly in the “Summary” section on your Form 990 and in fundraising and marketing materials. Be proactive in telling your story. Not only are real-life examples of program outcomes compelling, but the reporting of the results — not just dollars spent and activities conducted — strengthens an organization’s position for fundraising and public trust over time.
Not-For-Profit Newsbit: Simple and Secure
The 2013 Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report stated that online giving increased 13.5% compared to 2012, which had shown an increase of 10.7% from 2011 – two consecutive years of double-digit growth. More donors are making online contributions to not-for-profit organizations in the United States than ever before; no doubt this trend will continue. The generation that grew up browsing and shopping on the Internet will be even more likely to log on to contribute to their favorite organizations.
Major organizations have been effectively using the Internet to raise revenue for years, especially for specific events, such as annual nationwide races. Now, even the smallest organizations can easily create a platform through which Internet users can make contributions on a one-time or recurring basis, purchase tickets for fundraising events, or pay fees and dues. There is a dizzying array of options to consider from all-in-one,“off-the-shelf” software to custom-designed donor management and fundraising integrated packages.
If your organization does not already have the capability to collect online contributions, it is time to join this growing movement. As when purchasing any service, you will want to be certain that the cost and fees associated with an online fundraising vehicle fit within your budget and that the capabilities of the system are appropriate for your needs. Ideally, online giving should be simple and secure for you and your donors. Making a gift online should be quick, easy and convenient. Donors should have the assurance that their information is being handled as responsibly as the funds they are contributing. The back-end accounting and reporting need to be workable, enabling staff to efficiently track and record transactions, maintain useful records and maximize the benefit of this valuable resource.
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Us, Now roves from Indonesia to the Middle East, Taiwan, Mexico, China, Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Pakistan, and points in between, converging in Newfoundland. These stories by racialized Newfoundlanders are by turns joyous, tender, hilarious, and heart-wrenching. They confront racism and celebrate the act of enduring. They are about settling and getting unsettled, about parents and their children, about language, about facing down the horrors of homophobia, about the joy of love, about lifelong relationships or the glee of a magnificent crush. Here social and domestic violence are countered with tenderness and the penetrating power of narrative. This is a book about distance and coming together, about what it means to be seen and understood, or—devastatingly—to be seen and judged, or to be invisible and misunderstood. What it means to belong. These are new writers and new visions of an in-the-present-moment Newfoundland, stories shaped by powerful voices, stories urgent, radical, and sparking with beauty.
Authors: Ayse Sule Akinturk, Kyekue Mweemba, Lisa Moore, Nabila Qureshi, Prajwala Dixit, Richard Elcock, Santiago Guzman, Sobia Shaheen Shaikh, Tzu-Hao Hsu, William Ping, Xaiver Campbell, Zay Nova | <urn:uuid:0f48e176-6565-4087-941f-caca81b767e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shop.thebeeskneesstore.com/products/us-now-stories-from-the-quilted-collective | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.928123 | 289 | 1.703125 | 2 |
EUCALYPTUS OIL 15 USES FOR IT
Are you looking for an essential oil that helps in strengthening your immune system, protects you from various diseases, and saves you from respiratory diseases?
WE PRESENT TO YOU: EUCALYPTUS OIL!
This oil is considered to be one of the best essential oils for treating sore throat, cough, seasonal allergies and headaches. The benefits of this essential oil are due to its ability to stimulate immunity, protect antioxidants, and improve blood circulation in the body.
The researchers found that the “widespread antimicrobial effect” made the oil an attractive alternative to medication. This is why eucalyptus essential oil is commonly used in products to fight foreign pathogens and various types of infections.
So the next time you’re looking for a home remedy to relieve a cough, want to disinfect your home naturally, or if you want to prevent mice from entering your home, try using Eucalyptus oil (called eucalyptus in Lebanon, which is a misnomer). You will enjoy the benefits of this beneficial oil.
15 USES FOR EUCALYPTUS OIL
- Disinfecting your home:Add 20 drops to a spray bottle filled with water and use it to clean your roof, or sprinkle 5 drops to kill germs in the home.
- Stop mold growth:Add 5 drops of this oil to your vacuum cleaner or surface cleaner to prevent mold from growing in your home.
- Extermination of household mice:Add 20 drops to a spray bottle filled with water and spray it on areas such as small holes that are most exposed to mice. Only be careful if you have cats, as eucalyptus can harm them.
- Seasonal allergy improvement:Spread 5 drops of eucalyptus at home or at work, or put 2 to 3 drops daily on your temples and chest.
- Cough relief:Use a mixture of eucalyptus oil andmintOr put two to three drops of eucalyptus on your chest or the back of your neck.
- Sinus cleansing: PourA cup of boiling water in a bowl and add 1-2 drops of this eucalyptus essential oil. Then place the towel over your head and inhale the deep scent for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Reduce sore throat:Put 2-3 drops on your chest and throat or sprinkle 5 drops at home or at work.
- Ear pain relief:Apply 2-3 drops of this oil to your chest and neck or gently place one drop on the outside of the ear canal. Remember to dilute eucalyptus oil topically before using it. Do not apply it individually or directly.
- Strengthening the immune system:Make an oil with a mixture of eucalyptus, clove, lemon,Cinnamon and rosemary. You can also put 5 drops of eucalyptus oil at home or at work.
- Reducing skin irritation:Put 2-3 drops of this oil on a cotton ball and apply it on the desired area 2-3 times a day to solve the problem.
- Neutralize insect bites: Put 2-3 drops of it on a cotton swab and apply it to the place of the insect bite three times a day until it disappears.
- Energy boost:Spread 5 drops of this oil at home or at work, or put 2-3 drops on your temples and neck to boost your energy.
- Reduce headache:Spread 5 drops of eucalyptus at home or at work, and inhale the oil directly from the bottle, or apply 2-3 drops topically to the temples and back of the neck.
- Muscular and muscle pain relief:Apply 2-3 drops of eucalyptus topically to the desired area. To cover a larger surface, dilute the eucalyptus with ½ teaspoon of carrier oil.
- Fight bad breath:Use it as a natural mouthwash by adding 1-2 drops of eucalyptus oil to the water and then gargling. Just be careful not to swallow it.
POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF EUCALYPTUS OIL:
eucalyptus oilNot safe for indoor use.This oil should only be used aromatically or topically.If you are using eucalyptus for oral health purposes, avoid swallowing it, simply gargle and then discard it.
People with sensitive skin should dilute it with a carrier oil (such asCoconut oil or olive oil) before putting this oil on their skin. It is recommended to avoid using this essential oil on the face as it may be irritating.
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We all know that some plants thrive in the hot sun and others prefer shadier spots, but what about those places around your house that are a little bit of both depending on the time of day? This is what we mean by a transitional bed – a space that gets sun in the morning but is shaded in the afternoon, or vice versa. These spaces can be tricky.
There are a couple of things to consider when selecting the plants for our transitional bed.
- Pay attention to the sun patterns before you choose plants. Does your area get morning sun or afternoon sun? Which side of the house is the bed on? Are there any large trees that could be shading the area? Also, if the area is large, one side of the bed could have different sun exposure than the other side.
- As with any plants around your house, consider how much maintenance you want to undertake. This time of year, are you willing to water plants often or do you need drought-tolerate options? Some other considerations include pruning requirements and blooms that can make a mess as they fall.
In this example, the customer wanted to liven up the north side of the house with a low maintenance plant installation. It gets a good amount sun in the morning, but it’s in full shade later in the day. This bed also runs the length of the house, so closer to the corners of the home gets more sun than the middle of the bed. When we arrived, there was an established base of wood chips, but the client needed some guidance in selecting appropriate plants.
See the photo gallery below for snapshots of the project start to finish!
We used hydrangeas and pieris japonica to anchor the bed. Hydrangeas are fantastic for shadier areas because they are easy to maintain, they make a big impact, and most of them bloom continuously throughout the summer months. However, they can droop quickly if exposed to too much sun. Pieris japonica are also a great option because they give you four seasons of color; it is an evergreen for the winter, flowers in the spring, produces red growth tips in the summer, and turns a golden color in the fall. Other good options for shadier areas are otto luykens, rhododendrons, and azaleas.
To fill in the spaces between the larger plants, we used hostas, ferns, and phlox that are strategically placed according to their sun needs. The phlox can withstand full sun, so they were placed on the western side of the bed that gets some afternoon sun. The ferns and hostas are intentionally placed in the center of the bed to make use of the shadiest part.
Don’t forget! When you’re planting, you’ll oftentimes see that plants from the nursery are rootbound. Make sure to break this root pattern by scoring the base with a knife or breaking it loose with your fingers. This allows the plant’s roots to establish a wider, more supportive base underground.
Still unsure of what to do with your transitional bed?
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Log4j: Is The Sky Really Falling?
Every year there are several defining cyber security events. Some are critical – like what happened with SolarWinds and Kaseya. Vendors jump onto the bandwagon to share how their technology would have stopped each new headline event. The latest alarm bell is Log4j.
Should you cry WOLF to your customers every time the alarm bell goes off if you have a solid plan in place to detect anomalous behavior? The answer is “No” if you’re leveraging XDR with unsupervised machine learning.
The reason is simple. When you use rules-based detections with a traditional SIEM tool, you would need a specific rule to detect each of these new cybersecurity events. Rules take time and resources to create and deploy, which is why many SOC operations have three times as many analysts as partners that leverage XDR.
Unsupervised machine learning baselines normal behaviors for assets, users, and network behavior. When there is anomalous behavior, it can be alerted on immediately. As the IDS logs are ingested, we also correlate the log data with a dozen different sources of threat intelligence to determine if it is a known vulnerability. In the case of Log4j, we triggered several alerts for our customers when it was still an emerging threat:
- Public to Private Exploit Anomaly
- Private to Public Exploit Anomaly
- Private to Private Exploit Anomaly
- Public to Public Exploit Anomaly
Instead of sending up an alarm bell at Stellar Cyber, we take our time and send out a Security Advisory to our partners. We provide a definition of the vulnerability, its potential impact, and how to detect it within the Stellar Cyber platform. With Log4j, we shared the instructions to create an Automated Threat Hunting rule for customers for additional visibility.
Stellar Cyber provides these rules out of the box on our Open XDR platform. All ML-based detections are mapped to the XDR Kill Chain, which is mapped to the MITRE Attack Framework for additional context. If you would like to learn more, please reach out to Brian Stoner – firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:91809de1-c47e-48ea-aace-3c280a366b7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.msspalert.com/cybersecurity-guests/log4j-is-the-sky-really-falling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936605 | 451 | 1.734375 | 2 |
A new survey has found Singapore to be the world’s most expensive city for the third year in a row.
Singapore has retained its status as the world’s most expensive city for a third consecutive year. However, its lead over the next two cities, Zurich and Hong Kong, has narrowed, according to the latest Worldwide Cost of Living Survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Geneva and Paris round out the top five cities, followed by London, New York and Los Angeles. The rankings list tracked 133 cities.
Despite Singapore topping the list, the report revealed that prices in the city-state were lower in some categories, such as basic groceries. Prices are 33 percent higher in Seoul, followed by Hong Kong (28 percent) and Tokyo (26 percent).
However, Singapore is considered more expensive in other categories.
“It is the most expensive place in the world to buy and run a car, thanks to Singapore’s complex Certificate of Entitlement (COE) system. Transport costs in Singapore are 2.7 times higher than in New York. Alongside Seoul, Singapore is also a very expensive city in which to buy clothes and pay for utilities,” stated the report.
The EIU survey compares more than 400 individual prices across 160 products and services. These include food, drink, clothing, household supplies and personal care items, home rents, transport, utility bills, private schools, domestic help and recreational costs.
New York was used as a base for city-to-city comparisons; it has an index set at 100.
The purpose of the survey is to help human resources and finance managers calculate cost-of-living allowances in order to put together compensation packages for expatriates and business travellers, said the EIU.
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Streaming giant Netflix apparently did not pay a penny in federal or state income taxes despite posting profits exceeding $845 million, according to a review of their tax filings.
The online entertainment service reported a profit of more than $845 million in 2018, but also reported a $22 million federal tax rebate, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), the Daily Mail wrote.
ITEP noted that Netflix is still “exploiting loopholes” in the tax code that helped it gear up to become one of the nation’s leading entertainment companies.
The group also said that the streaming service reported paid $131 million in taxes in 2018, but most of that was paid to foreign governments.
“It is pretty clearly true that Netflix’s cash payment of worldwide income taxes in 2018 was $131 million,” ITEP Senior Fellow Matthew Gardner said. “But that is a worldwide number—the amount Netflix actually paid to national, state and local governments worldwide in 2018. This tells us precisely nothing about the amount Netflix paid to any specific government, including the U.S.”
But Gardner adds that the notes to the report tell a more detailed story.
“The notes to the financial statements have a detailed section on income taxes,” he said. “And what this tells us is that all of the income taxes Netflix paid in 2018 were foreign taxes. Zero federal income taxes, zero state income taxes in the US.”
Netflix seems to be doing just fine, and may not be in need of the massive tax breaks it enjoyed for 2018.
For instance, the streaming service recently shelled out a record ten million dollars to purchase the broadcast rights for a documentary that followed the primary run of self-avowed socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Challenge their minds with the OSMO Creative Starter Kit
Are creativity and fun while learning important to you and your child? If you want to give your child an early educational advantage by combining fun and creativity with learning, the OSMO Creative Starter Kit is a must! It combines tools, games, and cutting edge technology to foster fun and creativity for kids ages five and up (and from beginner to expert levels).
Featuring three creative games that come to life on your iPad (Monster, Newton, and Masterpiece), the OSMO Creative Starter Kit lets kids experience fun, travel, and adventure, as well as solve unique and challenging problems using creative drawing skills. It will also help them in a number of key learning areas, including developing an early knowledge of physics.
Included in the kit are a base for your iPad, a new creative board, four erasable markers, a fuzzy (microfibre) eraser pouch, and stackable storage for each game. This award winning game also features a parent app to help you track your child’s progress on their road to creative genius.
They’ll enjoy three fun and creative games in one
The OSMO Creative Starter Kit includes three fun games that inspire kids to learn and be creative: Monster, Newton, and Masterpiece.
With Monster, a friendly monster called Mo brings kids’ drawings to life through animation. It’s really creative, super fun, and your child will absolutely love it. For instance, draw Mo a magic wand on the creative board and he’ll pull it onto the screen himself and begin waving it around.
Then there’s Newton—the fun physics game where kids learn about concepts like gravity and angles as they attempt to guide the falling balls into the target area as they bounce and roll around the screen.
Finally, there’s Masterpiece, where kids can transform any image they like—even a photograph, into a basic line image that they can then easily trace in the real world. It’s easy, fun, and will make your child feel like a bona fide Rembrandt! They can even make cool time-lapse videos of their own artistic process.
The many amazing things they’ll learn
Among the many useful things that kids will learn through the OSMO Creative Starter Kit are visual thinking, problem solving, and drawing detail and speed. These skills will help them considerably later in life when they go out into the real world. For instance, problem solving is something we all use multiple times each day, and visual thinking helps with critical life skills like driving a car, where it’s always important to be able to visualize where you are in relation to obstacles and other vehicles.
Kids will also gain a lot of creative confidence as they begin to master each of the games in the kit. For instance, Masterpiece will show them that they can create a detailed piece of artwork with their own hands, and Newton will help them to see that even the most intimidating subjects (like physics) can be easy to understand. The confidence built here will serve them well when they advance into ever more challenging grades in school.
The OSMO Creative Starter Kit is award winning fun
The OSMO Creative Starter Kit is not just fun and games. This set has won a number of prestigious awards and accolades since it was first launched.
For instance, it received both the Parents’ Choice Silver Award and the Family Choice Gold Award in 2015, and it received the Oppenheim Best Toy Platinum Award in 2016.
The Creative Starter Kit has also been widely praised in the press, where it was called “a game changing toy for the industry” by Stephanie Oppenheim, “cinematic” by Forbes Magazine, and was credited with being able to “turn you into an artiste” by Time.
Other examples include CNET stating “This is one toy I wish I had growing up!” and the Wall Street Journal calling Mo “the kind of creature you’d see in a Pixar film or on ‘Sesame Street,” which is certainly high praise for any animated monster!
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When there are more choices and conversations to spend time on, one can easily become distracted. Social media as an industry has created many distractions — some of which are enjoyable, some not — that can easily cause one to lose focus. This makes time prioritization and good decision making a critical skill set. Experience shows making a conscious choice to focus on what matters, individual professional and/or personal goals, makes a huge difference.
Here are five social media items that in hindsight have been personal distractions:
1) The A-List
It’s easy to become annoyed with the A-List. The fodder is endless, whether it’s their lack of originality, the ridiculous posturing and ensuing absurd behavior, or a ridiculous stream of bad practices retweeted by hundreds or thousands. Oh yes, spending time on the ills of leading A-List voices is very easy.
Overfocusing on the A-List is like feeding the trolls. The more you talk about them positively or negatively, the more you increase their stature. Further when talking about them as A-Listers rather than people just like us, you put them above yourself, lowering your market stature. Ironic, given that most of these conversations seek to reduce the barriers between the top and middle tiers of blogging voices.
In the end, negative or positive discussions about popular content producers only distracts one from pursuing their dreams. Just like Albert Einstein said ‘What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.’ So focus on what is right and matters to you. Focus on your business or personal dreams, reward those that merit praise (without labels), and ignore the rest.
2) Mistaking Attention for Respect
Balancing online presence and wasting time is always a difficult thing. But there are many people who spend their entire day on social networks or talking about social media while their business bombs. Or competitors outflank them while they are playing on Empire Avenue or Angry Birds, or some other nonsense. Meanwhile there are people receiving much less attention who are pulling down big contracts, spending time with their families, and achieving great things, like raising $20,000 for charity, successfully concluding a business, or changing the way news is reported.
Real results earn respect, while a big social network presence, well, that just equals a lot of attention. Understanding that online attention is not the same as a real outcome — personal or business — is the realization that online popularity can become a distraction.
Measuring one’s performance against their peers has been an easy distraction, bothersome or pleasing, in nature. But while rankings like the Ad Age 150 provide a barometer for general intra-industry performance (or at least popularity), they don’t mean much to customers.
Yes, online engagement is important and demonstrating you can actually walk the social media talk matters. At the same time, writing for a stakeholder group like CMOs may be much more important to you than getting the most retweets. What is the goal? This is the difference between quantifying and qualifying online worth. Does it really make sense to compare yourself to others? Never lose sight of the big picture, otherwise you’ll find yourself chasing phantom windmills.
4) Gossip and What He/She Said
The rumor mill is thick in social media. Sure, it’s fun. So what? How does this help you achieve goals? Ever count how much time you are spending talking about other people rather than focusing on your business or goals? Notice the similarity between this one and the A-List. It’s just another form of the same problem, except a bit nastier. Enough said.
5) Social Media Conferences
Rare is the intra-industry social media conference that produces actual business. SxSW and the defunct Gnomedex are the only two that come to mind. SOBCon has been very educational from an online business owner’s perspective. The rest, well, they are great to see your online friends. If you have family and business objectives to achieve, while enjoyable, social media specific conferences tend to waste time, unless it is how you choose to spend vacation. Otherwise stick to professional conferences designed for businesses with an online focus or track.
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Why beginners should learn Arabic with Berlitz
Arabic classes for beginners with Berlitz feature both language and culture training, which means as you are learning the pillars of the language, you will also be learning how to use the language in real-world situations. Using our proven immersive language learning Berlitz Method, you will only speak Arabic during your classes where you will be speaking directly with a Berlitz-certified native-level speaker. This method of language learning will give you the skills you need to be confident using Arabic with other native speakers
The Arabic language has many cultural nuances and with Berlitz, you will have the opportunity to focus on these aspects of using the language in your classes. Based on your timeline and goals, you can select a completely custom beginner Arabic course that will allow you to dictate the specifics of what you want to learn to allow you to achieve your goals faster.
What will you learn in our Arabic for beginners course?
Our basic or beginner course consists of four levels of proficiency. After completing each of these levels, you will be able to do the following:
Berlitz Level 1 | CEFR Level A 1
- Introduce yourself to new people
- Order food in a restaurant
- Describe your work and your basic field of work
- Make an appointment, ask questions, and give the time of day
- Ask for directions
- Go shopping and ask about prices
- Make calls, receive and leave simple messages
Berlitz Level 2 | CEFR Level A 2.1
- Plan and talk about your next trip
- Describe your responsibilities and those of your work colleagues
- Contact a doctor, state your symptoms, and order medication
- Talk about your hobbies
- Describe where you live and what your home and city are like
Berlitz Level 3 | CEFR Level A 2.2
- Make plans with friends and family and suggest places to meet them
- Describe vacation plans and leisure activities
- Buy event tickets
- Talk about transportation
- Ask about budgets and project specifications
Berlitz Level 4 | CEFR Level A 2.3
- Participate in social activities
- Ask others for favors
- Describe personal skills and work competencies
- Talk about current news
- Describe future plans
Further Arabic levels
You will learn to carry on uncomplicated conversations in Arabic in social and professional situations and talk about familiar topics. You will also be able to hold sustained conversations with others on a broad variety of topics.
You will carry on complex and sophisticated conversations and communicate effectively with a variety of audiences on diverse familiar as well as new topics. You will be able to speak Arabic confidently in most situations in a personal, academic, or professional setting.
Berlitz offers Arabic for beginners courses for everyone
In these courses, you will have the opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the Arabic language and interact with other students at the same level. Our instructors will support you, so that you can develop and improve your skills every day.
Arabic courses for adults
Our beginner courses are ideal for adults of all ages who would like to learn Arabic.
Arabic courses for children
Children and teenagers between the ages of 4 and 17 can learn Arabic from scratch together at Berlitz in group or private lessons.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Berlitz offers a variety of language courses to meet your personal language training needs. This means you don't waste valuable time on topics that are irrelevant to your professional development.
Anyone can learn Arabic anywhere, thanks to our extensive online offering. With the help of innovative tools, we create the framework to enable independent learning. This means you can learn Arabic live in the Berlitz Online Classroom even when you're on the go.
The fastest way to learn Arabic is in our online private lessons. There, your own speaking portion is maximized, you enjoy the full attention of the language trainer and can arrange the lessons according to your wishes. If you would like to practice Arabic in addition to the lessons, we recommend that you also complete the exercises on our self-study platform Berlitz Connect Classic.
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Word of Life
From the very beginning when the first words were uttered, the ability to communicate has played an important role in our world. Whether within our own thoughts, spoken or written, words have the power to transform the world we live in and beyond. Love, laughter, heroism, peace, joy, friendship, and virtually every emotion that we feel as human beings, can be inspired by words.
Unfortunately, fear, anger, hatred, failure and other negative emotions can also be invoked by words. As a matter of fact, everything can be inspired by words. Words frame one’s world. Words make the difference. Words create even when it doesn’t appear to be visible or instant.
As humans, we normally say words as they are appropriate to situations. When the situation is good, we say good things, but when the situation is bad, we say the bad. This is not supposed to be so.As believers, Christ desires to teach us the WORD OF LIFE, which is the word of God, to change what we say especially in the face of a challenge. These words of life are pure and powerful enough to crumble the worst of situations that are stubborn and unyielding to human will. All spirits are subject to these words. They must hear the word of the LORD. This is why they are higher words, superior to the words of men and negative forces.
Jesus informed us that these are words straight from our heavenly father: John 8:26-29, ‘I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit, He that sent me is true; and THE THINGS WHICH I HEARD FROM HIM, THESE SPEAK I UNTO THE WORLD. They perceived not that He spake to them of the Father. Jesus therefore said,’When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he, and that I DO NOTHING OF MYSELF, BUT AS THE FATHER TAUGHT ME, I SPEAK THESE THINGS. And He that SENT me is with me; He hath not left me alone; for I DO ALWAYS the things that are PLEASING to HIM.’
Jesus really came to save the lost teaching the WORD OF LIFE. We should put aside our own words and hold fast to His method from above. He confirms that the words that He’s teaching us are higher words from a higher realm; John 6:63 It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: THE WORDS that I have SPOKEN UNTO YOU are SPIRIT, and are LIFE.’
Christ also emphasized that we need to believe God in our heart which is the seat of this WORD: John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. This means that we need to start following God as our source, doing things as pleasing to Him. Just speaking His WORD won’t work. Following after Him and letting Him direct us will activate the power of the word of life in our lives.
John 7:37-38 …If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink. HE THAT BELIEVES ON ME, as the scripture hath said, FROM WITHIN HIM SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER. God deals with the inside than on the outside. If the inside accepts the word, then the outside will follow suit. Those that believe in God are those that spend time with this word of life, and that is how to make the heart conducive for the word.
For further Study
Proverbs 4:1-6, 20-22.
Personal declaration for the day
The word of God is working mightily in my life.
Questions to reflect on
Do you know your words reveal your heart?
Can you take back what you have spoken?
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Narcotics addiction treatment is the best way for a user to overcome their illness and recover in a responsible way.
Narcotics Addiction Treatment: Rehab, Therapy, and Medications
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Substance use disorders and narcotics addictions are prevalent throughout the United States, and it is estimated that over 2.1 million people within the U.S. have an opioid use disorder alone and need addiction treatment.1 Many refer to the prevalence of opioid use disorders as an epidemic, causing thousands of fatalities per year and tremendous suffering within many communities.
How Do I Know if I Need Addiction Treatment?
If you are considering drug treatment, try to answer any of the following questions:
- Is the continued use of a substance causing you distress?
- Is it too hard for you to stop using drugs on your own?
- Has substance use been the cause of tension or conflict between you or those you are closest to or live with?
- Have you wanted to stop using for some time but just couldn’t find the strength to stop using?
If you answered yes to any (or several) of these questions, seeking narcotics addiction treatment is a good step for you to take. Call 800-407-7195(Who Answers?) to speak with a rehab specialist about your options.
If you are wondering if you or your loved one has an opioid addiction, consider some of the following common symptoms associated with opioid use disorders:3
- Opioids are being consumed more frequently and in larger amounts, than intended or prescribed, and this is a pattern that occurs over time.
- Repeated, unsuccessful attempts to stop using opioids
- The use of opioids in hazardous situations
- Tolerance, or the diminishing of the effect of opioids over time, requiring more of the drug to maintain a similar effect. Continued use of opioids even though there are consequences, including psychological or physiological distress.
If any of these symptoms sound familiar to you, consider some of these suggestions for determining how to get the help and support you need.
First Step in Narcotics Addiction Treatment: Detox
If you can stop on your own in safety, you will not need to enter a detoxification program, which is often the first step in treating those with a substance use disorder.
If you cannot stop on your own in safety, the first step would be to medically detox with the guidance of your physician or appropriate medical professionals. Determining the appropriate level of care beyond acute concerns related to withdrawal symptoms will involve considering several other factors in the patient’s presentation.
Treatment for Withdrawal Symptoms
If you develop a physical dependence on a substance, you may experience a physical withdrawal. Depending on the type of substance causing the withdrawal, symptoms can include:
- Gastrointestinal distress
- Aches and pains
If you have experienced withdrawal symptoms in the past, you may be fearful of experiencing these symptoms and may avoid entering treatment for this reason. In fact, for substances like benzodiazepines, withdrawal can cause seizures and even death in cases of withdrawal, leading to increased fear in discontinuing the use of the substance.2
This is why seeking professional treatment for withdrawal is important. You will be able to rid your body of drugs in a safe environment with medical professionals by your side. Call 800-407-7195(Who Answers?) to speak to an addiction treatment specialist and get help today.
Support in Recovery
If you believe that you may have a substance use disorder, or feel that you have developed an unhealthy relationship with a drug, consider some of the below avenues for getting support for your sobriety.
1. Go to a Meeting
You can attend a Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting in person or virtually via Zoom. Meetings occur at all times of the day and can be found from NA chapters worldwide. Check out na.org for local chapters and a list of meeting times. Meetings can be an opportunity to get connected with others who are going through a similar experience.
2. Connect with Others
Meetings can be a great way of getting to know some new people, and for those in recovery from substance use disorders, relying on others for emotional support and understanding is crucial to recovery.
Finding ways to connect with friends and loved ones is important if you are facing a narcotics addiction. Many say the hardest part of having an addiction is the mental or psychological stress that occurs when the substance is no longer being consumed. Because of this, social and emotional supports must be in place to help process emotions and cope.
Recovering from a substance use disorder comes with many challenges and hurdles to overcome, from physical discomfort to changes in social life to feeling difficult emotions, and often for the first time in a while.
3. Look to Professionals in Addiction Treatment
If you or someone you care about has a substance use disorder, it is often the case that you will need to look to appropriate professionals for support. Luckily, there are addictions specialists just a phone call away to help get you started learning more about narcotics addiction treatment options that will be best for you. Call 800-407-7195(Who Answers?) today.
Options for Narcotics Addiction Treatment
When talking to an addictions specialist, you can inquire about different levels of care and treatment options. For drug addiction treatment, you will want to consider your needs based on your life circumstances and severity of substance use disorder, as well as risk factors. Some examples of levels of care within healthcare are below.
When considering addiction treatment options, it is important to keep in mind the substance or substances or choice of the person seeking treatment. This will help determine available treatment options. Different substances of choice do coincide with specified treatment options.
For example, some substances of choice will have options for medication-assisted treatment (MAT). This involves incorporating particular pharmaceutical medications in combination with other forms of treatment, such as individual psychotherapy or counseling. For example, in cases of addiction to opioids, there are MAT options such as Suboxone, Subutex, or methadone.
Outpatient Therapy for Addiction Treatment
Outpatient therapy can help you develop effective relapse prevention techniques through the use of:
- Individual counseling
- Family therapy
- Group therapy
Outpatient therapy services are most appropriate for those who have a stable recovery, which often involves total abstinence from the substance of choice.
Treatment is often ongoing, and you may choose to continue to engage in individual, outpatient therapy services for years and even decades.
An Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) allow you to live at home while attending the program, and consist of multiple therapy groups that often occur over the course of weeks. These programs offer different levels of engagement, where some require three days per week and others offer a five-day option.
Partial Hospitalization Program
Similar to an IOP, a partial hospitalization program (PHP) is a five-day-per-week program in which you attend therapy groups, meet with an individual therapist or case manager, and engage in social activities with peers in the program.
Residential Treatment Program/Rehab
Residential treatment programs or drug rehabilitation (or drug rehab) centers offer longer-term options if outpatient and partial hospitalization programs aren’t enough for you. The change in the environment alone can help break behavior patterns associated with substance use and be more effective than other options.
Residential treatment programs or rehabs offer a wide range of treatment times, ranging from 30 days to some programs offering support over a year or more.
Inpatient care is an option if an individual with a substance use disorder requires around-the-clock supports in a medical facility with medical staff available at all times. Detox programs are considered an inpatient level of care, and these programs serve to provide a safe and supported environment for withdrawal to occur. Inpatient treatment programs can vary in treatment times based on the patient and care team’s needs and preferences.
Thinking About Going to Drug Rehab?
If you are thinking about addiction treatment or treatment for your loved one, you may have already asked yourself, “Where can I find drug rehab near me?” When choosing a treatment program, you will want to look for options that will work for you. It will be important to consider aspects of treatment such as location (especially if you need daily transportation to and from the program), cost, facilities, and programs.
Call 800-407-7195(Who Answers?) today to get connected with an addiction specialist who can help you determine an appropriate plan for treatment. These specialists can discuss treatment options available to you based on your insurance and financial needs.
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U.S.-Africa Economic Relations at the State Level
On November 6th, 2019, the Wilson Center Africa Program held the fifth annual Signature Event of the Brown Capital Management Africa Forum, “U.S.-Africa Economic Relations at the State Level.”
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On November 6th, 2019, the Wilson Center Africa Program held the fifth annual Signature Event of the Brown Capital Management Africa Forum, “U.S.-Africa Economic Relations at the State Level.” Dr. Monde Muyangwa, Director, Wilson Center Africa Program and Mr. Keith A. Lee, President, Brown Capital Management gave opening and welcoming remarks at a pre-event brunch discussion for speakers, state representatives, U.S. federal and Congressional officials, African officials and civil society and private sector stakeholders. Dr. Witney Schneidman, Senior International Advisor for Africa, Covington and Burling LLP and Member of the Wilson Center’s Africa Program Advisory Council delivered the keynote address assessing Africa’s importance and the current state of play in U.S.-Africa economic relations. Dr. Schneidman identified four key reasons why Africa matters to the U.S. and the world: demographics, governance, economics, and the perception gap (the gap between the realities on the continent and how many perceive the continent). He also noted the long-standing trend of U.S. engagement moving from aid to trade including new initiatives such as the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development (BUILD) Act and Prosper Africa, and the durability of bipartisan support for U.S. policy in Africa across several administrations, while noting some missed opportunities, including the fact that that senior-level engagement between the U.S. and African partners has not kept pace with other U.S. initiatives or with other major international actors.
The brunch was followed by a public discussion during which, Congresswoman Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO, Wilson Center, welcomed guests and Mr. Keith A. Lee, President, Brown Capital Management introduced the Africa Forum. The event consisted of two panels. The first panel focused on African and U.S. federal perspectives on why Africa matters and on the current state of U.S.-Africa economic engagement, and featured Mr. Abdoul Salam Bello, Adviser to the Executive Director, The World Bank Group; and Ms. Robyn Kessler, Executive Director, Middle East and Africa, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. The second panel focused on U.S.-Africa economic engagement from the perspectives of five U.S. states, and featured Mr. Joseph Bell, Regional Manager, International Trade Development, Enterprise Florida; Mr. John Elink-Schuurman, Manager, Virginia Leaders in Export Trade (VALET) Program, Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP); Mr. Abdiwahab Mohamed, Regional Trade Manager, Africa, Middle East, and India, Minnesota Trade Office, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED); Dr. Alain Mortha, Manager, Business Attraction and Retention, Office of International Business Development, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development; and Ms. Jessica Reynolds, Senior Director, Office of International Investment and Trade, Maryland Department of Commerce. Dr. Muyangwa moderated both panels.
Mr. Bello opened by assessing why Africa matters. He noted the increasing presence and engagement of other international actors in Africa, including India, Japan, China, and Russia, who recognize the enormous opportunities the continent offers. He highlighted Africa’s rapid population growth and increasing economic integration through the African Continental Free Trade Agreement as key opportunities, while emphasizing that these dynamics also pose challenges to African countries. Assessing the current state of U.S. engagement with Africa, he noted that the U.S. is a good partner for the continent, which offers a different way of doing business than other countries, especially through its strong accountability mechanisms. He cited the World Bank’s Doing Business report, and noted that many African countries are among the top performers in regulatory reform, for which he credits strong leadership committed to reform and taking the private sector seriously. He recommended leveraging diaspora populations to build bridges between U.S. states and African economies and to develop an investment platform, increasing engagement between U.S. state chambers of commerce and their African counterparts, as well as consideration of more platforms (or better leveraging existing platforms) to enhance on-the-ground capacity—such as establishing a “Peace Corps for business” or the Mandela Fellowship Program.
Ms. Kessler described how the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. federal government as a whole, works to support and enhance U.S.-Africa economic ties. She highlighted the work of the U.S. Export Assistance Centers, which are the first point of contact at the federal level for American companies looking to do business overseas. The Department of Commerce also has a network of Foreign Commercial Service Officers serving at U.S. embassies, who provide on-the-ground information and perspectives for companies looking to enter foreign markets. She discussed several major federal initiatives, including the recently-passed Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development (BUILD) Act, which created the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and aims to boost federal support for investment opportunities in Africa. Ms. Kessler outlined some of the government’s other key initiatives, including the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA), and Prosper Africa. She emphasized that the federal government is focused on engaging with the private sector and helping develop a more level playing field for companies by identifying risks and working with African governments to identify and resolve issues in order to improve the investment climate. Ms. Kessler underscored that the objective of Prosper Africa is to increase bilateral trade between the U.S. and African countries by synchronizing the capabilities and initiatives of all U.S. government agencies, facilitating transactions, and building long-term African capacity in order to establish stronger business climates and reduce trade barriers for mutual benefit.
The second panel featured state representatives from Virginia, Minnesota, Maryland, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Each of the speakers was asked to speak to five issues: 1)What is the profile, scope, and trajectory of their state’s economic engagement with the continent (including key sectors and value) and which are the top three African countries with whom their state is most economically engaged? How many jobs have been created through these economic relations? 2) What are the key policies, programs, and infrastructures underpinning their state’s economic engagement with Africa? 3) How has their state leveraged the African diaspora to facilitate economic engagement with Africa? 4) What are the top two challenges that their state has faced in trying to foster economic engagement with Africa? 5) What are their top 2-3 recommendations for expanding and deepening U.S.-Africa economic relations?
The panel began with remarks by Mr. Elink-Schuurman from the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP). VEDP is Virginia’s economic development agency, with a $6 million annual budget to help Virginia companies export. The VEDP international trade team includes around 20 people stationed in 5-6 field offices around the Commonwealth. In FY18, the international trade team helped around 330 Virginia exporters, who generated approximately $794 million in export sales, resulting in about 7,200 trade-supported jobs. The top three markets for Virginia exporters in Africa are South Africa, Morocco, and Nigeria. He explained that VEDP supports Virginia companies looking to export their products through initiatives such as organizing travel for companies to potential markets—including group trade delegations, independent visits, and trade shows. They also conduct extensive market research to help companies understand the barriers to entry, and have conducted 145 research projects over the past decade. VEDP achieves this by utilizing a global network of in-country consultants and private sector experts based in 60 countries—including in South Africa. Other VEDP programs include the Virginia Leaders in Export Trade (VALET) Program, a two-year export acceleration program that helps companies write an export strategy by identifying priority markets, determining entry strategies, finding potential partners, conducting due diligence, and building a strong business case. The Global Defense Program helps Virginia-based defense firms export internationally, and facilitates participation in AFRICOM’s annual “Africa Endeavor” symposium. VEDP has also worked with the diaspora through the Africa Network Initiative. Mr. Elink-Schuurman observed that the key challenges for companies looking to do business in Africa are developing a market entry strategy and conducting due diligence. To enhance U.S.-Africa economic ties, he recommended improving education and awareness of the opportunities available in Africa, and developing better long-term market data from African economies.
Mr. Abdiwahab Mohamed, from the Minnesota Trade Office, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), followed with his remarks. The Minnesota Trade Office has six regional trade managers, with Mr. Mohamed responsible for both Africa and the Middle East. The mission of the Minnesota Trade Office, is to “bring the world to Minnesota, and Minnesota to the world,” and employs about 12 people. Mr. Mohamed noted that while Minnesota has a dynamic export industry, with over $33 billion worth of exports worldwide, only about $178 million went to Africa (less than 1 percent). The top three African markets for Minnesota’s exports were South Africa, Algeria, and Morocco. However, the state hopes to expand that figure, and Mr. Mohamed and the Minnesota Trade Office are developing a strategy for leveraging Minnesota’s large African diaspora population to increase Minnesota-Africa trade and investment. Thanks to the diaspora’s presence, several African countries have already established honorary consulates in Minnesota, and they are helping to attract business to and from Africa. Mr. Mohamed noted that remittances have already established a clear line between Minnesota and Africa, which could be leveraged for investment (as some fintech companies are already doing). Importantly, Mr. Mohamed clarified that Minnesota views trade as a two-way street, and the state is also very interested in attracting investment from the continent. He identified the key challenges to enhanced Minnesota-Africa economic relations as familiarity, distance, and trust. Mr. Mohamed recommended leveraging the diaspora to help to address the issue of trust by building bridges between the state and Africa. He also recommended using the “reverse pitch,” wherein the U.S. Commercial Service or others hold an event for an African country that has identified a specific need, U.S. companies pitch their proposed solutions, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation or Prosper Africa can help the companies finance their investment. He also noted the importance of state and federal export assistance, including through the State Trade and Export Promotion (STEP) Grant Initiative. Mr. Mohamed closed by noting the importance of sustainability—with investments creating new jobs and opportunities that help lift up communities.
Ms. Reynolds, from the Office of International Investment and Trade, Maryland Department of Commerce, then offered her remarks. She explained that the Office of International Investment and Trade is responsible for promoting exports, attracting investment, and marketing Maryland internationally, which it carries out with 9 staff members. Ms. Reynolds observed that in recent years Maryland has had a renewed focus on Africa, opening the state’s first foreign commercial office on the continent in 2012, and sending its first delegation to an African trade show in 2016. She noted that Maryland has a significant African diaspora population, including the second largest Nigerian diaspora in the United States, and that the diaspora has helped to drive the state’s strategy. She observed that some key challenges for U.S. companies looking to do business in Africa are a lack of familiarity with and insufficient knowledge about African markets. Ms. Reynolds noted that Maryland exports $709 million in goods and services to Africa annually, while importing over $1 billion in goods and services from Africa. The top three African markets for Maryland’s exports are Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa—primarily transportation equipment and machinery, as well as computers and electronics. Maryland’s top three partners for imports from Africa are South Africa, Madagascar, and Egypt—principally primary metals and agricultural products. The Office of International Trade and Investment works to address this through its ExportMD program, which offers resources to Maryland companies and jurisdictions to support export marketing. They partner with the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business to match student teams with companies in order to conduct in-depth market research. Ms. Reynolds’ office has led delegations to the Africa Aerospace and Defense (AAD) expo in South Africa, and has hosted delegations from African countries to Maryland. There is a partnership with states in Nigeria and Liberia through the Maryland Sister States Program. Ms. Reynolds underlined the importance of the federal STEP program, which provides the Office of International Trade and Investment with resources that help to enhance their presence and effect. She closed by recommending continued support to federal export assistance programs, including the U.S. Export Assistance Centers, OPIC/DFC, and STEP. Ms. Reynolds also called on the members of the African diplomatic corps present to bring delegations from their countries to the U.S., or to hold informational sessions at their embassies, noting that it is easier to attract companies to sector-specific events that do not require them to travel to the continent.
Mr. Joseph Bell, from the International Trade Development department of Enterprise Florida, explained that Florida is an important global hub for trade and commerce, especially with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. Trade is a core aspect of Florida’s economy, with a two-way merchandise trade of $153 billion, supporting 2.4 million jobs, or 1 in 5 jobs, in Florida. However, current trade between Florida and Africa accounts for less than $1 billion of this total. He underlined the importance of economic engagement with Africa, saying that Africa’s position today is comparable to that of China 25 years ago. Florida hopes to take advantage of its proximity to the continent, and is one of the few U.S. states with a longstanding trade office in Africa (and has recently opened several more). Enterprise Florida works to provide market information via trade shows, industry sector analysis, and information on government agencies and governing dynamics. Their Africa Trade Program is focused on bilateral trade—both supporting Florida companies wanting to do business in Africa, as well as showing African governments and companies how they can do business in Florida and use the state’s position to move and sell products across the Western Hemisphere. To this end, Florida is helping African countries develop manufacturing capacity, so that they can develop products which Florida can then help move and sell. Mr. Bell stressed the importance of developing air links with the continent, observing that Florida’s trade with Morocco and Ethiopia increased following the establishment of non-stop flights between those countries and Miami. One of the challenges that Mr. Bell has noticed is that the “low-hanging fruit” of trade with the Caribbean, Central, and South America have already been developed, and his office now faces more of a challenge getting companies to look to Africa. Another challenge is the lack of education about Africa, and getting U.S. companies to understand the difference between the popular perception of Africa and the reality on the ground. Mr. Bell’s recommendations included doing more to help African governments diversify their economies away from primary commodities and toward industry, having more events and dialogues that come down to the state level, and increasing the number of U.S. trade officials and commercial officers based in Africa.
The second panel rounded off with Dr. Alain Mortha, from the Office of International Business Development, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. The Department’s international business efforts are split across two key offices: the Investment Office, which has offices around the world focused on promoting investment in Pennsylvania; and the Trade Office, which has 15 offices worldwide and covers activities in about 51 countries, which helps Pennsylvania companies to trade internationally. Dr. Mortha noted that Pennsylvania has a strong trade connection with Africa. The top three African trade partners for Pennsylvania are Nigeria ($45 million in exports, $2.2 billion in imports), Algeria, and South Africa. In total, Pennsylvania exported $624 million in goods to Africa, while importing $6.7 billion of commodities from the continent—at least 19% of total U.S. imports from Africa. Several African countries invest in Pennsylvania, most notably Mauritius, creating over 4,000 jobs in the state. The state has several programs aimed at attracting investment, including “Keystone Opportunity Zones,” “Keystone Innovation Zones,” workforce development incentives, job creation incentives, financial assistance for technology investments, and a tax credit for research and development. The Office of International Business Development supports Pennsylvania companies looking to invest overseas by conducting trade missions, and also hosts trade delegations from other countries—including many from Africa. To this end, the Office of International Business Development has engaged with the diaspora, including working closely with the African-Caribbean Business Council. Dr. Mortha identified two key challenges facing Pennsylvania-Africa economic relations: cultural differences and differing expectations between American and African businesspeople, and the need to identify African companies with solid business plans. He recommended that the diaspora be bold, noting that even small-scale entrepreneurs can export to the U.S. and that Pennsylvania can support them, and that American and African businesses do more to understand each other’s culture and expectations.
After the event’s conclusion, Mr. Eddie C. Brown, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Brown Capital Management and Member, Wilson National Cabinet, gave closing remarks on “What Five Years of the Brown Capital Management Africa Forum shows about the Future of U.S.-Africa Economic Relations.” Mr. Brown noted that the Africa Forum was conceived after the 2014 United States-Africa Leaders Summit as a first-in-class platform for looking at over-the-horizon and under-explored questions in U.S.-Africa economic engagement. A key priority of the Africa Forum has been to reframe the conversation around Africa. Mr. Brown quoted Mr. Keith A. Lee, saying “The narrative that we hear about Africa is one of poverty, war, and ineffective or failed states… This has never been the entire story, and today, more than ever, Africa is undergoing enormous transformations that challenge this narrative.” Core to reframing this narrative was ensuring that Africans were engaged as full partners, and represented on the panels of all Africa Forum events. Looking back on five years of the Africa Forum, Mr. Brown summarized some of the key lessons learned. First, Africa is important beyond the context of security risks and humanitarian crises. The continent’s economic dynamism, population growth, business and regulatory reforms, and economic integration highlight its status as a key economic partner in its own right. Second, Africans are driving this agenda. The Africa Forum has looked closely at how African governments and citizens are leading the charge in advancing the economic development agenda on the continent, including through key advances like the African Continental Free Trade Agreement and innovative tools like sovereign wealth funds. Third, public-private cooperation is essential. The Africa Forum itself is an example of a public-private partnership that has brought together differing perspectives on complex issues facing the continent. Mr. Brown observed that the big questions around trade, investment, and development in Africa require an open dialogue between all the involved parties—public and private—to find a shared vision for the way forward. Finally, there is more work to be done to strengthen and deepen U.S.-Africa economic relations. Mr. Brown closed his remarks by expressing Brown Capital Management’s pride in the Africa Forum’s accomplishments, and their great expectations for the future.
Launched in September 2015, the Brown Capital Management Africa Forum provides a premier platform for substantive and solutions-oriented dialogue on key trade, investment, and development issues in Africa, and in U.S.-Africa relations. Convening business leaders and policymakers, as well as subject matter experts from the United States and Africa, the Brown Capital Management Africa Forum sponsors a series of public events designed to support the development of economic engagement and policy options that advance mutually beneficial economic relations between Africa and the United States. The Brown Capital Management Africa Forum is made possible by the generous support of Brown Capital Management.
Eddie C. Brown, CFA, CIC
Abdoul Salam Bello
The Africa Program works to address the most critical issues facing Africa and U.S.-Africa relations, build mutually beneficial U.S.-Africa relations, and enhance knowledge and understanding about Africa in the United States. The Program achieves its mission through in-depth research and analyses, including our Africa Up Close blog, public discussion, working groups, and briefings that bring together policymakers, practitioners, and subject matter experts to analyze and offer practical options for tackling key challenges in Africa and in U.S.-Africa relations. Read more | <urn:uuid:2050e12e-28c1-42cf-bfb0-ebeb41b33d1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/us-africa-economic-relations-the-state-level?1573063200 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.9461 | 4,466 | 1.734375 | 2 |
It comes when dental issues seem to be out of hand, hence needing a prompt medical response. This often comes from various aspects such as bleeding, injuries, and excruciating pain. The good thing is that dental care centers are willing to offer a helping hand. They focus on your individual needs, then suggest procedures that will suit your needs. Concentrating on your medical history and current examinations can quickly tell the source of your dental issues. You may have a question: what are the indicators that you need emergency dental care? Here are some of the telltale signs. But first, book an appointment with Dr. Marvin Taylor.
Severe Jaw Swelling
If you have any form of swelling in your jaw, pay a visit to a dentist quickly. It gives the medical team enough time to determine the problem and proactively remedy it. Different aspects can cause such swelling, starting with viral infections. It results in the swelling of the lymph nodes, which then extends to the jaw area, making it appear fuller.
It could also be a tooth abscess, a dental condition arising from bacterial entry into the tooth’s pulp. If left untreated, it can spread to the surrounding tissues, including the jaw area. This will later cause some form of swelling. A cosmetic dentist can do necessary tests and identify the primary cause during emergency dental care.
Extreme Tooth Pain
If you are experiencing tooth pain that starts and accelerates quickly, you may also need these dental services. A normal tooth has nerve endings that connect with the nervous system. What happens is that sometimes, the enamel, which is the protecting part, can wear off and expose the inner layers.
This often makes the teeth feel more sensitive, especially when eating or drinking. Sometimes gum disease leads to the teeth roots’ exposure, bringing the same effect as when the enamel is corroded.
Bleeding Gums That Won’t Stop
If you have been struggling with bleeding gums, you are a good candidate for emergency dentistry services. This is because this is a sign that you could be having gum disease. On the other hand, plaque buildup can interfere with the gum lining, leading to bleeding.
A dentist can treat gingivitis, an ultimate solution to the problem. They also guide you on the best dental hygienic practices to adopt in ensuring the sound health of your gums and teeth.
Suddenly Loose Permanent Tooth
Sometimes, teeth can feel more loose than usual, which can also indicate gum disease. The bond between the teeth, gum, and jaw bone typically needs to be strong for the teeth to be mechanically firm. An emergency dentistry service focuses on what is weakening the bond. It could be through treating any gum disease and guidance on the best lifestyle changes to adopt as a person.
In conclusion, emergency dental care services are fundamental in many ways. The procedures can significantly enhance dental health, from jaw swelling and tooth pain to teeth loosening. The important thing is finding a dentist who is exemplary in the field to offer the best services. | <urn:uuid:4f1d5e77-791c-4e16-a776-121b6084446e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://picgrum.com/what-are-the-telltale-signs-that-you-need-an-emergency-dentistry-service/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948583 | 619 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Buying and selling Bitcoin is not a very easy task and very often comes with a lot of pitfalls. The crypto market itself is still quite young and government regulators with banks in many countries are very distrustful of digital money, hindering their circulation in every possible way. So using any exchanger found in a search engine will not be a good idea – it is very easy to run into scammers.
If you ask any trader to tell you the story of their first purchase or sale of bitcoin, they will most likely tell you how in the beginning they spent a lot of money and time working with inconvenient, buggy and downright expensive exchangers.
What to look for first
Of course, on the exchange’s history and user experience. You can find reviews about almost any site on the net and on independent forums. If there is no feedback, there is no exchanger.
Any reviews should also be carefully studied. They should appear throughout the declared existence of the exchanger and should be written by more or less verified users. If you see dozens of topics from newly registered users and all this happened in one week, then this should at least alert you.
It is worth noting here that completely positive reviews are the same alarming sign as all negative ones. This may indicate that the exchanger was recently opened and has no history. Of course, if the site was opened by some well-known company, then there is nothing to worry about, but if you cannot find any traces on the Internet, then it is better not to use this crypto exchanger for now.
This is by far the most important factor when choosing a crypto exchange to convert btc to eth or any other currency. Fraudsters and simply unscrupulous comrades constantly come up with new tricks to lure you to their sites and get your money out.
If you are looking for an exchanger through a search engine, which I do not immediately recommend doing, then pay attention to the issue. First, scammers often buy domains that are very similar to the addresses of long-standing services. The difference can be one letter. And such fake sites can come first only because they are placed on advertising space. If the domain is in the blacklist topics, then it is probably a false exchanger.
Selling rate and liquidity
The more cryptocurrency is exchanged in the exchanger, the more liquid a particular site is. This means that you can always sell or buy the amount of digital money you need.
Remembering security, it should be said that no exchanger will perform operations at a loss. Even very famous services can be hacked by hackers and you should be alerted, for example, if the selling rate is less than the buying rate, or if the rate is much more profitable than the market average. These are all indicators that should stop you from transactions on the exchanger.
What is the result
As you understand, a high-quality and reliable btc crypto exchanger should:
· have a history;
· collect reviews and have a “loop” on the Internet for the entire time of its existence;
· accumulate sufficient reserves of cryptocurrencies and funds;
· exchange with a competitive rate;
· take care of the safety of your funds.
Carefully evaluate the selected sites, follow the news about them in the media and on the forums, and you will never lose your money. | <urn:uuid:3a479413-44d6-4615-a697-1a68d2f43e48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.electronicsmedia.info/2021/01/20/how-to-convert-btc-to-any-currency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965719 | 690 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Does ZeroBank depend on Bitcoin? Based on the correlation analysis, BTC and ZB have a strong positive relationship. The correlation coefficient of their values is 0.55, which was estimated based on the last 100-days' price dynamics of both cryptocurrencies.
This coefficient may range from -1 to 1, where -1 is the strongest negative correlation, 0 is no correlation at all and 1 is the strongest positive correlation.
The negative coefficient points that the prices of the cryptocurrencies are moving in the contrary trend while the positive coefficient means that the prices are moving in the same direction. For example, if Bitcoin and ZeroBank connection is positively strong, it means that when BTC is growing ZB will grow as well. The negative strong relation will tell that when BTC is rising ZB value will be in opposite decreasing.
The knowledge of the correlation coefficient helps to determine in percentage the influence of Bitcoin over ZeroBank. If we take all the factors affecting the price of ZB as 100%, then the share of BTC price among these factors will be 30.25%. The other part which is 69.75% covers all the other factors, such as news, events or regulations. | <urn:uuid:aba7a84d-3e6b-4c49-a328-5865c6756851> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coinpredictor.io/altcoins/bitcoin-zerobank-correlation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944075 | 237 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Geography and history mostly isolated the Ethiopian Orthodox Church from the rest of the Christian world until the 20th century. The Ethiopian king converted to Christ in the 4th century, about the same time as the Roman Emperor Constantine. Unlike other Christian populations of the East, Ethiopia successfully resisted Muslim military power, but they were isolated from the rest of Christendom by it. Rumors circulated in Europe about a powerful, wealthy Christian kingdom in Africa, but little was known for sure. For 1,000 years, Muslim controlled territory separated Christian Europe from Christian Ethiopia. The Kebra Nagast, first brought to Europe in the 18th century by Scottish explorer James Bruce, was not translated into English until the 1920s. Needless to say, this text is not well known in the West. The Kebra Nagast explains Ethiopia’s Jewish heritage, its three thousand year old monarchy beginning with the son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and, most important of all to Ethiopians, the story of how they came to possess Israel’s Lost Ark of the Covenant.
Rumors of Legends
Since I was a teenager I’ve seen hints in documentaries and articles about the legends of Ethiopia. Everyone seemed to have a slightly different version – that Solomon tricked the Queen of Sheba into his bed, that he married her, that their son stole the Ark of the Covenant from Solomon, that the priests of Jerusalem asked him to take the Ark to protect it from abominations, that Solomon gave his son the Ark, that Solomon gave only a replica of the Ark. Recently I found a copy of the Kebra Nagast, and read the original for the first time. In this series of hubs I’m going to discuss how the Kebra Nagast was written, the story it tells, and how this compares with Old Testament writings about the same people and events.
Motives For Writing the Kebra Nagast
The Kebra Nagast was compiled at a critical juncture in Ethiopian history. From an ancient date, Ethiopia was ruled by an unbroken dynasty of emperors. Most of Ethiopia followed a First Temple Judaism, a form dating from before the Babylonian captivity of 697 BC. (Some Ethiopians were still animists, adherents of the “nature religion” more typical of Africans.) The Ethiopian monarchy converted from Judaism to Christianity in the 4th century, and by the 11th century much of Ethiopia had also become Christian. But a powerful Jewish faction remained, mostly living in strongholds in the mountains. In the year 1030 the Jewish Ethiopians, led by Queen Gudit, attacked the Christian capitol, killed the emperor and most of his family, and claimed the throne. One son of the emperor escaped, went into hiding, and raised a family to continue his line. The victorious Jewish Gawa Dynasty held power until 1270, when the Jewish ruler abdicated in favor of Yekuno Amlak, direct descendent of the deposed Christian emperor. Reasons for this abdication have never been clear. With Yekuno Amlak, Ethiopia returned to a dynasty which claimed a more than 2,000 year history. To commemorate this historic event, the new emperor had the history of his family written into a book, along with other religious oral traditions. The result is the Kebra Nagast.
Is the Kebra Nagast History or Propaganda?
This timing causes some to look cynically at the Kebra Nagast as a propaganda tool for Yekuno Amlak, who probably felt some insecurity in his position. An extreme version of this cynical view suggests that Yekano Amlak “invented” a history for himself, to bolster his claim to power. Other historians point to cultural, religious and linguistic clues which support events presented in the Kebra Nagast. (See The Sign and The Seal, by Graham Hancock, for details on this.) Historians are divided: some think the writings have a basis in real events, others that they were invented to serve the purposes of those in power.
Is It Scripture?
In Ethiopia, this book is scripture. The Kebra Nagast is taken literally, at face value, in all details. Many Christians still regard the Old and New Testaments this way, although in the past few generations a significant number have come to regard some portions of the Bible as either allegorical or, as the Catholic Church states, “Spiritual truth, not scientific truth.”
While many Western scholars see the Kebra Nagast as based on some real events, they do not consider it a history book in the same way as the writings of Romans like Pliny the Younger, or the Jewish historian Josephus. I expect this is at least in part because of not only the number but the magnitude of its miracles. All sorts of natural explanations have been offered for many of the Bible’s miracles: the Red Sea apparently parts of its own accord when conditions are right, huge flocks of quail like those that fed the Hebrews regularly land in that same desert, minerals in the mud of Palestine are known to cure certain types of blindness, and some believe this is the basis of some of Jesus’ healings of the blind. But the Kebra Nagast features miraculous events like Solomon’s son traveling in a caravan which covers thirteen days march in one day, because angels lifted and carried all the wagons. The young man himself doesn’t notice how he is being whisked along until the end of the day.
As I read through the Kebra Nagast, I kept referring back to the Old Testament. Many of the same figures are there, even some quite minor characters. I saw the Kebra Nagast adding events and details the Bible is silent about, rather than offering alternate versions. The Kebra Nagast even made me notice some details I hadn’t previously, such as Solomon having only one recorded son. I did not see direct contradictions, leading me to agree with scholars who argue these oral traditions grew up among a people familiar with the Old Testament and respectful of its authority.
This series of hubs will explore the historical background of the events described in the Old Testament and the Kebra Nagast, and compare the histories presented in each. The hubs will also look at the history of the worship of God in Ethiopia, from Jewish background to Jewish and Christian present.
- The Kebra Nagast Part 2: The Incomparable Reign Of King Solomon
The Kebra Nagast goes through several story arcs: the romance between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and the conception of their son; the return of that adult son to Jerusalem, and the abduction of the...
- The Kebra Nagast Part 3: Were Solomon And The Queen Of Sheba Lovers?
The history presented in the Kebra Nagast begins with a romance between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba during her visit to his court in Jerusalem. Ethiopias ruling dynasty claims descent from...
Tim Truzy from U.S.A. on October 16, 2020:
Interesting. Logically, Egypt is crucial in the Bible as well as mention of Ethiopia. People forget: many books were removed from the Bible which probably would have shed even more light on the topic you wrote about. I don't doubt the historical relevance of the text you mentioned wit regard to Christianity and Judaism.
People may not know Solomon is a figure in the Islamic faith as well, and these topics cross in the religions with Abraham as crucial in these faiths.
On another note, to underscore what I'm saying: The DNA of priests from Ethiopia has been traced to the priesthood of Judaism, startling many in Israel. The modern state of Israel was primarily founded by people from eastern Europe. It should be noted, Jews of darker complexion were ignored for many years by Israel, but that is changing.
Much as the Catholic Church canonized some books of the Bible and left out others, some would rather Jewish texts, and the one like you wrote about, be forgotten. Great read.
graceomalley (author) on December 04, 2011:
no body - Thank you for visiting! Christianity has some little known history. I spent the summer in India on a work mission when i was a teenager, and i learned although india has a Hindu majority, there has been a Christian minority there since the first century. Missionaries who came to India from Europe in the 19th century discovered to their surprise that there were already Christian churches, with a long history. Indians say that Jesus' disciple Thomas traveled to India and taught them about Him.
Robert E Smith from Rochester, New York on December 04, 2011:
So many Christians think Africa has known no evangelism in the long history of Christianity. But Africa at one point was all evangelized and the gospel was preached on the whole continent despite the Muslim persecution for it. As far as these legends, I tread lightly with extra biblical stuff. Look forward to reading more of the series.
graceomalley (author) on April 21, 2011:
Slarty-Glad you liked the hubs!
Ron Hooft from Ottawa on April 20, 2011:
Great hubs. Love to see people interested in history.
graceomalley (author) on April 14, 2011:
Nice to see you here!
I think that is a good observation, I am of the opinion monotheism suits more organized societies - societies which run by rule of law rather than the clan system of alleigence. History also seems to indicate that Monotheism introduces the idea of a "just" and reliable God, as opposed to the more capricious deities of polytheism.
I think the monotheistic view of the nature of God reflects how modern or what we call "developed" societies see themselves. The polytheistic worldview - lots of different spiritual powers with their own agendas, and human beings often caught in the cross fire - I see as reflecting more the experience of tribal people.
So I see the worldwide move towards monotheism connected to the type of societies people were in the process of building.
William Thomas from That Great Primordial Smash UP of This and That Which Gave Rise To All Beings and All Things! on April 12, 2011:
Great hub graceomalley! I love that picture of the old man at the bottom. He looks like a "patriarch" or something. This is a nice introductory start on a kind of lost chapter of the history of world Christianity.
I think its interesting that this Kebra Nagast, Ethiopian Christian scripture mirrors and amplifies the Old Testament. It is also interesting to note, as you do, that the Ethiopian emperor converted to Christianity around the same time that the Roman ruler did. I guess it was a global movement, leaving polytheism behind in favor of monotheism.
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Other names: Edgar
Locations in this story: East Knoyle, Wiltshire France & FlandersVis-En-Artois Memorial, Haucourt, Nord Pas de Calais, FranceClouds Stables, East Knoyle, WiltshireManchesterMilton Park, Milton Abbas, Blandford, Dorset
Story: Edgar Wareham was born in 1887 in East Knoyle and baptised there on 16th October, 1897. He was the son of Harry Wareham, a Groom, and Lydia Laura Rideout Wareham (nee Wareham). At the time of the 1911 Census he was single and was working as a Game Keeper at Milton Park, Milton Abbas, Blandford, Dorset. He enlisted in Manchester as a Private in the Manchester Regiment (Service No. 2993). He was later posted to the 1st/8th Battalion of the Regiment (New Service No. 300699). He served in France & Flanders and was awarded the Victory, British War and 1915 Star medals. He was with 'C' Company when he went missing presumed dead on 30th August 1918 and his name appears on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Haucourt, Nord Pas De Calais, France (Panel 9). At the time of his death his mother was living at Clouds Stables, East Knoyle, Wiltshire. He is remembered on the East Knoyle War Memorial. | <urn:uuid:315dc2aa-4979-4a05-8f7d-7cda2761deac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shaftesbury-remembers.goldhillmuseum.org.uk/regiment/manchester-regiment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.952621 | 296 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Calcitonin salmon is used to treat osteoporosis in women who are at least 5 years past menopause and cannot or do not want to take estrogen products.
Osteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to weaken and break more easily.
Calcitonin is a human hormone that is also found in salmon.
It works by preventing bone breakdown and increasing bone density (thickness).
Calcitonin, a 32-amino acid linear polypeptide hormone that is produced in humans primarily by the parafollicular cells of the thyroid, and in many other animals in the ultimopharyngeal body. | <urn:uuid:2df33f90-a5d1-4e11-a36d-737b10a38391> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://drquay.com/invention/calcitonin-spray/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.917907 | 137 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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Maze on Mingus
The Butterfly Trail is a primitive route that follows closed logging roads on the north end of Mingus Mountain. Its main attractions are secluded forest and distant views off the north side of Mingus Mountain. You can also use the Butterfly Trail as a connector between the Woodchute Trail and the View Point/North Mingus Trails. Despite the multiple trail signs and numerous cairns, this trail is tricky to follow, so I strongly recommend using a GPS unit or taking good mental notes to avoid getting lost.
Two trailheads access this trail: the east trailhead at Mingus Work Center, and the west trailhead at Butterfly Spring along forest road 104. Both trailheads have a vertical brown signpost for trail #536. This description starts at the west trailhead. For an easier and less confusing adventure, just hike to the edge of Mingus and back from the east trailhead.
At the west trailhead (34.70581, -112.13939), there is a rocky path heading up a shallow drainage towards a concrete dam. A fiberglass signpost soon identifies the trail as #536. The trail crosses over to the east side of the dam and then continues north while staying near the bottom of the drainage. At about 0.25 miles (34.70798, -112.13796), a cairn and a signpost mark the point where the trail leaves the creek bottom and begins climbing the north slope of the canyon. The next quarter-mile is a confusing stretch of cairns and pink tape tied in trees.
The cairned route comes upon an ancient logging road at around 0.5 miles (34.71087, -112.13646). A single piece of blue tape was hanging from a tree here when I hiked this route. Head east now, and follow the old logging road.
At around 0.75 miles, the road comes within a hundred yards of the north rim of Mingus Mountain. The edge of the mountain is visible through the trees. Leave the road here to enjoy your own private viewpoint (34.71077, -112.13149). There are some great views of the Verde Valley and the Flagstaff area from the edge.
Continuing from the viewpoint, the road begins curving to the south and arrives at a 4-way intersection with three other old logging roads at 1.4 miles (34.70295, -112.13078). A signpost for trail #536 now directs you to head southeast, along another old logging road. At 1.5 miles, you will come to a "T" intersection (34.70209, -112.12956). Turn left (north), away from the private property sign. You will encounter another logging road on the left at 1.6 miles: keep going straight. The forest closes in now, and the pines grow taller.
Trail #536 meets trail #537 at a fork at 2.15 miles (34.70488, -112.12138). Stay right on trail #536. The logging road soon begins to flatten out, and the forest opens up to reveal the fenced enclosure of the Mingus Work Center. Behind it are a cell phone tower and forest road #104. The logging road disappears once it arrives at the Work Center. A lone fiberglass signpost for trail #536 marks the end of the Butterfly Trail (34.70146, -112.11924) on the south side of the Work Center.
If you've made it this far, you can return the way you came or take the easy way back (forest road #104).
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There are plenty of easy tips for the treatment of constipation. As a retired parent or a young mother, whenever you spend time in cooking, ensure that you add some of the best ingredients that prevent constipation.
For instance cumin seeds, curry leaves and asafoetida are used regularly in Indian style of cooking. Some of the best spices which are regularly used in Indian style of cooking are the best natural sources for preventing constipation.
Home Remedies For Constipation
Use Plenty Of Green Leaves In Daily Meal
Beginning from spinach, mint, coriander and curry leaves there are plenty of green leaves which carry lot of vitamins, proteins and minerals that help the system to be clean on daily basis. Therefore when you use green leaves in cooking and consume it in your daily meals, it prevents constipation and further your appetite levels are also good.
Take Fruits And Fruit Juices
Apple, Banana, orange, grape, water melon, straw berry, pomegranate and there are many bother varieties of fruits which are absolutely good for health. Having fruits or fruit juices is really good and works as one of the best home remedies for constipation.
Further fruit market is always looking for buyers as these are quickly perishable. Therefore the cost of the fruits is also moderate when you make a purchase of fruits in open market or super markets.
Ensure that you buy small quantity of fruits and use these as quickly as possible after your regular meals. This will help your digestion system to function accurately and further there would not be any problem in passing the regular bowls.
Lemon, big lemon are also excellent fruits for preventing constipation. Further these are priced quite low as compared to any other fruit. Therefore, keep a bunch of fresh lemons and big lemons at home.
In Take Of Yoghurt Prevents Constipation
Fresh curd or yoghurt or butter milk is a very good home remedy for constipation. Especially for elderly parents and children who are irregular in bowls, can consider in take of a glass of butter milk or take a cup of fresh yoghurt and this works very easily for cleaning your system.
Drink 8-10 Glasses Water Per Day
As you agree water is the best natural home remedy for constipation. What you need to do is, take 2 glasses of water after your breakfast. Prior to the period of lunch time, drink another glass of water as you carry on work in your home or office. After completing lunch, drink another 2 glasses of water. Evening after your snack, take another glass of water.
At night, after you finish your dinner the remaining 2 glasses of water can be taken. In this procedure of in take of water, there are totally 8 glasses of water included per day whereas if you wish to have more, you can continue depending on your requirement.
But at this point it is really important that you must ensure to drink clean water. Preferably filtered or boiled and cooled water.
Include Fresh Salads And Vegetables In Your Daily Meal
Salads made with tomato, lettuce, onion, mint and lemon are excellent for the treatment of constipation. Radish, carrot, cucumber, aubergine, ladyfinger and bitter gourd, are also considered as best for preventing constipation.
Therefore the more you use, the better will be your health and as you find relief from constipation, your health improves.
Hot And Cool Beverages
Coffee stimulates the intestines and it is always advisable to take either a cold cup of coffee or hot coffee as you require. Green tea is also an excellent home remedy for the treatment of constipation. Honey either taken mixed with cold water or one or two spoons of honey will also help relief from constipation.
Perform Regular Exercise And Practice Yoga
Take time to exercise early in the morning preferably for 15-20 minutes on a slow pace and ensure that you do it empty stomach. Avoid tea or coffee prior to the practice of exercise.
Exercise activates all the muscles of the body and also works on releasing the pressure from intestines. This will surely work as a best remedy for the treatment of constipation.
Particularly for elderly people, practice of exercise and yoga is highly recommended as it is easy to perform and releases the bowls easily.
Fast And Skip One Meal Once In A Week
Fasting helps your body in many ways. Because, your body begins its activity and works efficiently as your stomach is kept empty for few hours. Therefore it works on cleaning up your body and releases the bowls easily.
Therefore, if you have been taking regular meals all through the week, you can skip one meal prior to the week end and review whether it is working in your favor. Once you find good results that fasting is helping you to find relief from constipation continue this practice and you will appreciate this best home remedy for constipation.
Limit The Quantity Of Food
Although savory food is very delicious, it is advised especially for elders to limit the size of quantity of food as digestion takes lot of time. When your food is less in quantity, there is scope for easy and quick digestion and you will avoid constipation.
For children, small quantity of food in regular intervals is suggested as this will allow the children to enjoy the best food and also keeps their delicate digestive system to function efficiently. Warm water and warm milk are also considered as one of best home remedies for constipation.
It is really important to allow your body to work on its own and allow the appetite to work in you. This will further lead to perfect quantity of food which is a combination of proteins, minerals and vitamins which will prevent constipation and will allow you to enjoy best health.
Since home remedies are the best for the treatment of constipation, use these whenever required and draw health benefits from time to time. When bowls are removed, you feel not only fresh but also quite active in your daily activities and regular schedules.
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Step 1: Learn
There are many children who overcome the negative effects of experiencing domestic violence. As caring adults, we can use our words and actions to help children learn positive coping skills and inspire hope in their lives.
Here are some examples of ways you can inspire hope in the lives of children experiencing domestic violence:
- Remember children and teens have different strengths that foster their ability to succeed.
Experiencing negative events may bring out an inner strength and lead to positive growth for some children. Helping children and teens think and reflect on their experiences can help reshape their understanding of it and change the way they see themselves and others. You might say, “I understand and believe you. I am here to listen if you want to talk. I am sorry you’re going through this but you’re not alone. Many other children are going through the same thing. Remember it’s not your fault. Also, it’s not your job to stop the violence. You can’t control what is happening in your home, but you will be able to control what you do when you get older. You can choose a different path.”
- Focus on the positive by highlighting all the wonderful qualities of a child or teen.
For example, their academic or athletic achievements, their sense of humor, or their kind and caring personality. This may help boost their self-esteem. It also lets the children know that they do have qualities others see and appreciate. You might say, “You know, you are so smart and you’re great at math! I bet one day you will be a great engineer or architect. Keep up the great work!” or “I see your leadership qualities and you also have a gift for writing. You could become a great journalist someday. I encourage you to pursue these wonderful gifts.”
- Share the stories of President Bill Clinton, Halle Berry, and Christina Aguilera.
These stories help children and teens see that experiencing domestic violence does not have to define who they are. These stories can show children and teens that they can choose a different way of life. You might say, “Some very successful people, like former President Bill Clinton, Halle Berry, and Christina Aguilera went through what you’re going through when they were children. When they grew up, they chose to not use violence and anger but to be kind to others and went on to live wonderful, very successful lives.” Go to the Children of Domestic Violence website (cdv.org) to view President Clinton’s story and stories of other people who have experienced domestic violence as children and have risen above it to have successful and satisfying lives.
- Specific words of hope and encouragement.
“It isn’t your fault”
“You have had to overcome obstacles that other children never had to”
“A child is never responsible for the actions of an adult”
“I hear you”
“It’s not your job to stop it”
“I believe you”
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Fifth World Day of the Poor
“The poor you will always have with you” (Mk 14: 7)
Pope Francis meets the Poor in Assisi
Friday, 12 November 2021
Now in its fifth year, the World Day of the Poor, established by Pope Francis with the aim of raising awareness of listening to the cry of the poor and suffering, will be celebrated on Sunday, 14 November 2021.
In preparation for this event, involving the entire Church, the Pope will make a private visit to Assisi on Friday 12 November, in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli. Pope Francis will meet privately with a group of 500 poor people from different parts of Europe and will spend some time listening to and praying with them. | <urn:uuid:8381dffd-e40c-4cee-82db-e6ab635a0904> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/10/15/211015c.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.945797 | 185 | 1.5 | 2 |
Packer on the Christian Life by Sam Storms summarizes much of J.I. Packer’s thoughts that answer the question “How now shall we live?” I’ve enjoyed Storms’ works before and have been curious to learn more about Packer, so I was looking forward to this read.
The book starts with some brief biographical information on Packer. Then, we are quickly thrust into core aspects of his theological framework. In particular, Packer emphasized the atonement as central to any Christian understanding of life or doctrine. The Bible is seen as the authority for the Christian life. These early chapters are used to set the stage for a more holistic approach found afterwards.
Packer’s stance is heavily influenced by Puritanism. The Puritans have suffered from a bit of a bad reputation, and some of it has been deserved. However, the insights the Puritans gave into living purely (sorry) are worth reading about, and Packer’s view of the Christian life highlights them throughout. The battle against indwelling sin, the definitions and search for holiness, and the like; all are colored with Puritan lenses, and this provides a different approach than some of the other books in the series.
After the holistic approach found in the middle section of the book, individual topics are addressed. These include the work of the Holy Spirit, prayer, discerning God’s will, and enduring suffering. The chapters on prayer and enduring suffering are particularly edifying. Packer offers biblical answers to perceived unanswered prayers as well as insight into how to pray and why and when (always). His approach to enduring suffering leans heavily towards a Calvinistic response, and Storms presents it in a pastoral, applicable manner.
Storms admirably handles Packer’s view on spiritual gifts. Packer is a cessationist but seems to have a rather moderating position, whereas Storms has been an outspoken continuationist. He fairly presents Packer’s view on the topic of miraculous gifts without criticism–an appropriate stance given the purpose of the book.
Packer on the Christian Life is another good entry into the “Theologians on the Christian Life” series. I enjoyed it quite a bit, though I think the entries on Luther and John Newton were slightly better. It comes recommended.
+Good insight on varied practical topics, including prayer
+Makes accessible, in one place, much of Packer’s work
+Highlights contributions possible from Puritanism
-Could use more exposition in addition to all the quotes
Disclaimer: I received a review copy of this book from the publisher. I was not required to provide any specific kind of feedback whatsoever.
Sam Storms, Packer on the Christian Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015).
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Talent Pathway Activities from home Stage Two
Stage Two - Programme One
1. Lunges - Forwards and Backwards Lunge
- Do a walking lunge backwards and forwards, repeat three times and rest.
- Complete 3 sets.
2. Press Up and Catch
- Start in the press up/plank position, push up and take a catch.
- Throw the ball back and jump back down into the press up/plank position.
- Repeat 10 times.
- Complete 3 sets of 10.
3. Bowling Stability
- Stand on your right leg. Bend down (staying upright) and pick up a book/cone/a sock…
- Balance it on your head and stand upright without dropping the book/cone/sock….
- Bend back down and put the book(etc) down, stand back up again.
- Turn your body 90 degrees and start again.
- When you get back to the start, rest, change to your left leg and start again.
1. Catching Grid
For this activity, you will need a ball, pen, paper and a partner. You could also use a bat or a tennis racquet. Using the pen and paper, draw a 5x5 grid with a stickperson in the middle to represent you. From here, the feeder can either hit or throw the ball to you in various positions. Every time you drop the ball, mark the position on the catching grid. This will highlight areas of strength and areas of weakness for you to work on in the coming weeks. You may find that catches high and to your left are most challenging or low and to your right are difficult.
- Be as accurate as you can with the catching grid.
- Make the catches for all areas challenging (Think speed of catch and reaction time).
- Tennis balls can encourage ‘soft hands’.
- Think about your catching technique. (Ready Position, Fingers up vs fingers down).
2. Chin Drop Drill
For this activity, you will need a tennis ball, a bat and a target area. Set the target area up for mid-on to mid-off. Using the chin drop feed, strike the ball through the target zone in front of you. Complete this as many times as you can.
You could also keep score for two development areas:
a) Count how many balls go through the target area. (E.g. 2/6, 5/6 etc.)
b) How many balls did you strike in the middle of the bat. Be harsh and only count those that you are certain of. Try to beat your score every time. An extra challenge could be using a stump or a thin bat instead.
- When striking the ball, ensure the full bat face is directed towards the target zone (I.e. it would be facing the bowler)
- Try to finish your shot with the bat following through the target zone too. Try to ensure your hands work together and the bat path is straight, rather than dominated by your strong hand.
- At the point of ball contact, try to keep you head over the ball and watching it carefully.
3. Bowling Exercises
A) Pace Bowling:
Back leg strength and stability is an important part of the bowling action. Bowlers with more back leg strength and stability are better able to maintain strong bowling positions and prevent injury. You might want to look for some examples of good back leg stability on Youtube for international bowlers.
Use these bowling stability drills below to help build up back leg strength.
Back Leg Hops – Using shoes, cones or boxes, created some hurdles that are approximately 1.5ft apart. Then, standing on your back leg (Right foot for RH bowlers, Left Foot for LH bowlers), hop over each ‘hurdle’. You will get more out of this drill if you can hop and hold a strong bowling position.
B) Spin Bowling:
As a spinner, you’re job is to ‘Spin the ball’ as much as you can. Spin creates challenges for the batter and this can be in the form of lateral movement off the surface, drift in the air or bounce. Bowling pace can also cause problems for the batter.
Watch this video from Peter Such (Spin Bowling Coach) to understand the role of a spinner and some useful bowling tips/drills.
If you have space, you may want to try some of the drills in the video. If not, here’s an activity you could try at home. You will need a tennis ball, some chalk and an area to land the ball (You could use a dark tea towel perhaps). Using the chalk, draw a seam line around the ball. Then, from one knee, bowl the ball and land it on the tea-towel. You should see a chalk mark in the direction of the seam. Is it pointing the right way, in the direction you are trying to turn it?
4. Wicket Keeping
At this early stage in the season, it is important that wicket keepers start to build up their hand eye coordination and fitness levels. Use the catch grid exercise above from a wicket keeper’s stance to identify which catching areas to focus on. You could extend this to diving range if you have a big enough and safe space.
For the fitness activity, you will need 3 balls (or rolled up pairs of socks) and a stopwatch. Place the balls in a line, with approximately 1.5m between each ball. Adopt a Wicket Keeper’s stance at the central ball and start the clock. Pick the first ball up with your right hand and side step to the left. Pick the second ball up and swap it with the first. Then side step to the 3rd ball and swap them over. Continue to side step and swap for 30 seconds, then rest and repeat.
- As you feel more fatigued, it is likely that you body position will be taller. Be conscious of this and try to stay as low as possible, in a strong wicket keepers stance. Remember, your back should be straight and you body should be in a Z-position (Feet-shins-thighs-back).
- Push yourself for the whole period of time and use the rest period to recover. The harder you work now, the easier fixtures will be in the summer months.
Top athletes in all sports have excellent psychological skills that aid their performance. In Cricket, psychology plays a crucial role in everyone’s ability to perform. This could be in the form of confidence, coping with pressure, tracking the ball, concentration and many other psychological skills – it is far more important than many players and coaches believe and is often what separates a ‘good’ player from a ‘great’ player.
One element of performance that is often forgotten about is a player’s ability to put themselves in the optimum psychological state. There are probably lots of examples where you ‘weren’t in the mood’, ‘couldn’t focus’ or even ‘felt too much pressure’ or ‘was anxious’.
The diagram below demonstrates this ‘psychological state’ in an inverted-U shape, with the x-axis (Horizontal) representing psychological arousal (stress/pressure) and the y-axis (vertical) representing performance.
As you will see, there is an optimum point on the x-axis for achieving ‘peak’ or ‘optimal’ performance. This peak may occur at slightly different stages of psychological arousal for each individual (e.g. it could be skewed to the left or right).
Activity: Getting in the ‘zone’:
a) Think about your very best performances (with bat or ball) and identify some key characteristics for that performance. Are they common characteristics with other ‘great’ performances? If they are common, keep them on the list – perhaps you can try to replicate these each time you perform.
For example, some people describe themselves as ‘confident, stubborn, proactive, instinctive, intense/relaxed, no fear of failure, motivated, taking control. You may also have some common ‘actions’, such as: loud & confident calling, decisive/proactive movements, desire to ‘be the hero’, watched the ball.
It is important to remember, there isn’t necessarily a right or wrong answer here, it is generally what works for you and where you feel your ‘optimum performance’ occurs. Identifying this can be help to understand how to prepare for matches/training.
b) Think about some of the times when you may have under-performed? Do they have common characteristics too? Would you say that you were ‘over-aroused’ or ‘under-aroused’ psychologically?
Similarly to above, some examples might include: too relaxed, lazy, felt over-nervous, afraid to fail, quiet/loud, indecisive, wondering thoughts etc.
c) Using the internet, find some strategies that may help to change your psychological state when performing. Some examples could be:
- Re-evaluating challenge vs threat state (more on this next time).
d) If you’re interested in more psychological theories and research based on psychological arousal and performance, the following video and article gives a nice summary of the inverted-U theory amongst others.
For this activity, you will need some pens and paper.
Think about our bowling (or view this as a captain) and draw a variety of field placement diagrams to discuss with your coaches when we start training. Remember, your field is fluid so you can make changes, but it’s always good to have a base plan.
You will need to consider:
a) Stage of Innings (1st Innings? 2nd Innings? Opening? Middle overs? At the death?)
b) Types of batter (Top Order? Right Hand? Left Hand? Tailenders?)
c) Your home ground (Size of boundary? Pitch type? Common wind direction? Slope?)
d) Team-mates? (Which players are fielding where? Strengths/weaknesses? Bowling partnerships?)
e) You bowling plan? (Defend? Attack?)
f) Field Restrictions? (Powerplays? Defending small total?)
g) Type of match? (20 over? 50 overs? 2-day?)
h) Your skill set? (How confident are you with your plan?)
Stage Two - Programme Two
Sideways Hurdle Step Over Drill
Using a flexiband for resistance or not…..the decision is yours.
Complete ten seconds of as many step overs as possible, using two things as hurdles…..a book, a cardboard box, your pads stacked one on top of the other…
Finding some space, perform 8 successive jump squats then rest for 30 seconds. Repeat the set of 8 three times, performing 24 jump squats in total.
Watch the video for plank taps and identify the appropriate challenge for you. Complete a 10-12 plank taps then rest. Try to advance to the more challenging plank taps after each set.
Skill Set: Batting – Sweep Shot
Batting against spin is one of the many challenges that batters will face during their innings. The best batters are very capable of not only staying at the crease but also scoring plenty of runs against spinners. One of the keys for this is having the skill set and ‘shot options’ to combat every type of spinner. These options can include using the feet, sweeping and depth of crease.
Developing these options is the key to success and allows batters to manipulate the field.
Options against spin:
In this activity, place a ball on a batting tee (you could use an empty loo roll or paper cup too) and strike the ball through a target zone using the sweep shot.
How to play the sweep:
Bonus Tip: Placing your back knee on the floor can provide an extra point of contact and help with balance.
Begin practicing the sweep from a kneeling position and progress this to starting from your usual batting stance. You may choose to progress this further and ask a helper to provide you with drop feeds or underarm feeds for you to sweep.
You may also wish to practice reverse sweeping, slog sweeping and paddle sweeping.
Skill Set: Pace Bowling
Bowling at home remains a challenge, however, we can isolate parts of the skill and develop these ready for returning to full bowling actions very soon. In the previous home-activities, back leg stability was the focus and should continue to be included with any practises. In this week’s activities, the wrist and ball position will be the basis for the activities.
As a pace bowler, the key skills are either swing bowling or seam bowling. Swing bowling relies on the aerodynamics of the ball in flight to create a lateral change of direction that can lead to batters misreading the line of the ball. Seam bowling is slightly different and relies on the seam coming into contact with the pitch which causes a deviation in the line (a little bit like spin). Both seam and swing bowling need a strong wrist position at ball release and some ‘backspin’ to be placed onto the ball.
Take a look at these activities and give them a go at home.
(You could use a tennis ball and masking tape to create a seam. Masking tape could also be used to make a 2 coloured ball. Alternatively, electrical tape works well for adjusting the aerodynamics and seeing the swing in action.)
Skill Set: Spin Bowling
Building upon the last ‘home activities’ session, this activity looks at bowling some spin variations.
When bowling spin, there are 4 different types of spin:
- Lateral Spin = The ball rotates like a flying saucer, causing the ball to drift or curve in the air
- Over-Spin/Top Spin = The ball rotates forwards towards the batter, causing the ball to dip faster and bounce more.
- Back Spin = The ball rotates towards the bowler, causing extended carry and a small bounce)
- Side Spin = The Ball rotates clockwise or anticlockwise, causing the ball to change direction when bouncing
In this activity, known as ‘around the world’, you can experiment with the different types of spin above. If you have a two coloured ball, this will help with identifying the outcome.
1. Bowl a ball with just lateral spin. (You should see just one side of the ball as it spins).
2. Bowl a ball with side and over spin. (The seam should be diagonal)
3. Bowl a ball with just over spin.
4. Bowl a ball with just back spin.
5. Bowl a ball with lateral spin.
6. Can you repeat the process but spin the ball in the opposite direction?
Skill Set: Fielding – Catching
To continue from the previous Home-based activity sessions, it is worth repeating the ‘catching grid’ exercise and compare any results that you have been able to record. Are your strong catching areas still strong? Are your weaker areas developing?
To build onto the catching skills, try the below reflex catching activities. You will need a helper to feed the balls to you.
a) Begin with your back to the feeder. On the “Go” command, the feeder will throw the ball towards you as you spin around. Try to spot the ball quickly and react fast enough to catch it.
b) Place 2 markers on the floor (cones/shoes etc.) about 3m apart. The feeder will need 4 or more balls for this drill. (You could use rolled up socks if you don’t have enough). The ‘feeder’ should alternate between throwing the ball over the left and right marker. The catcher should move quickly from side to side to take the catches.
c) Using 2 balls, the ‘feeder’ should stand about 2m from the ‘catcher’ with a ball in each hand, arms stretched out to each side. The ‘feeder’ will then randomly drop 1 ball and the ‘catcher’ should collect the ball before it bounces for a second time. If this is too easy or the balls are too bouncy, the ‘feeder’ could kneel down or the ‘catcher’ could start further away.
Skill Set: Wicket Keeping
Wicket Keepers can do a wide range of activities from home to develop their skills for the season.
Using the videos below, try to replicate these ‘drills’ with the help of a ‘feeder’. Try to be creative if you don’t have the right equipment. (E.g. Rolled up socks for a ball, frying pan for deflections, washing basket for stumps etc.)
Wicket Keeping Cricket Drills - Part 1 of 4 - YouTube
Wicket Keeping Cricket Drills - Part 2 of 4 - YouTube
Wicket Keeping Cricket Drills - Part 3 of 4 - YouTube
Wicket Keeping Cricket Drills - Part 4 of 4 - YouTube
Confidence is a key contributor to sport performance. Very often, the top cricketers will be very confident in their abilities to perform with the bat, ball or in the field. This confidence has been developed over time and many of them will have worked with a sport psychologist to ‘grow’ their self-confidence.
In sport psychology, self-confidence is theorised to be influenced by:
- Performance Accomplishments (Past successful experiences)
- Vicarious Experiences (Seeing/being involved with success of others)
- Verbal Persuasion (Encouragement, Praise etc.)
- Emotional Arousal (Stress, Anxiety, ‘In the zone’)
The model above demonstrates how the 4 influencing factors can help to develop self-confidence and athletic performance as a result.
With this in mind, take some time to think about each of the 4 influencing factors and write down some thoughts that will help you to grow your confidence.
Performance Accomplishments = What was your best game? Why was it the best? Can you do this skill in training? What other times have you succeeded? What similarities are there between successes?
Vicarious Experiences = When have you helped a friend/team mate to succeed at a skill? Try to think of somebody similar in performance to you? If they can do it…so can you!
Verbal Persuasion = This could come from parents, friends, coaches, team mates etc. Think about the times when someone has said “I know you can do it” or “You’ve done it before, you can do it again” or “I believe in you”.
Emotional Arousal = Firstly, refer back to the previous “activities from home” page for a detailed explanation. Think of times when you have felt relaxed, comfortable or confident when performing your skill. What are the similarities? Did you feel “In the zone”? How did you prepare for your best performances?
Everyone should be familiar with a warm-up before training or playing a fixture. A warm up is important to prepare physically and mentally. It also helps to prevent injury, which is essential for cricketers who play fixtures regularly.
Warm ups look different for every team and every individual, but there are some common themes:
- Pulse Raiser
- Dynamic Stretches
- Individual Skills
- Team Skills
As players mature and develop, coaches will often ask players to lead their own warm up and prepare themselves using activities that work for them. With this in mind, plan your own individual warm up. A good warm-up duration is usually about 90 minutes and can loosely follow the below timings:
9.15am: Arrive at Cricket Ground. Possibly some individual skills (Batting/Bowling)
9.30am: Team Pulse Raiser Activity (15 mins)
9.45am: Dynamic Stretches (15 mins)
10.00am: Drinks Break
10.05am: Team Fielding Drill (15 mins)
10.20am: Individual Fielding Stations (10 mins) & Usually Toss
10.30am: Individual Skills (Batting & Bowling) (15-20 mins)
10.45am: Prepare for game and change.
11.00am: Match Start
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Strangers In A Strange Land
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- Strangers In A Strange Land
- This World Is Not Our Home, Heaven Is.
- This world is not our home because we are citizens of another land.
- Since we are citizens of heaven, then our purpose here is to be ambassadors.
- The fact that this world is not our home was modeled by Jesus Himself!
- If you really think about it. What do you want? Do you want this world to be your home or do you want heaven to be your home?
- Books On Heaven
This morning I shared with my congregation that we need to remember that this world is not our home. I want to share with you what I shared with them. So many times in our lives we get distracted by the cares of this world and trying to live out our lives. So I started by reminding them how the Bible describes heaven in the book of Revelations in chapter 21.
The New Jerusalem
21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. 2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
3 I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them.[a] 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”
5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.” 6 And he also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life. 7 All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.
This World Is Not Our Home, Heaven Is.
This is not our home. Our lives are short, but it seems so long when we go through the motions of life in this world with all its distractions and disappointments. We need to remember that as soon as we die, there will be no more pain or tears; just eternal peace!
This world is not our home because we are citizens of another land.
When we gave our lives to Jesus, He brought us from this world into a heavenly inheritance. Although the earth is still home, for now, it has become only temporary. We’re no longer citizens of this world and its woes; instead of living in righteousness as heirs with Christ!
17 Dear brothers and sisters, pattern your lives after mine, and learn from those who follow our example. 18 For I have told you often before, and I say it again with tears in my eyes, that there are many whose conduct shows they are really enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 They are headed for destruction. Their god is their appetite, they brag about shameful things, and they think only about this life here on earth. 20 But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. 21 He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.
Since we are citizens of heaven, then our purpose here is to be ambassadors.
There are 3 types of people in a country that are not citizens of that country. There are illegal aliens, there are those that are either tourists or some type of visitor with a visa, and there are ambassadors. We are ambassadors for Christ. We are not here illegally and we are not here to be tourists or business partners, we are here with the express purpose of representing the King of our country.
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
We Are God’s Ambassadors
18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin,[a] so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Our purpose as Christians is to reconcile people back into a good relationship with God. To do this, we must go out and find those who are not in that good relationship so they can be reconciled through Jesus.
When we understand that we are no longer citizens of this world, and that we have a purpose that has been assigned to us by our King, then the things that might distract us in this world lose their power. If you realize that your home is not here on earth, then things like being accepted, gathering wealth, and obtaining power lose their appeal because they are only temporary.
The fact that this world is not our home was modeled by Jesus Himself!
Jesus had the opportunity to follow the dictates of this world when He was being questioned by Pilate. He could have gotten out of being crucified, however, Jesus understood that there are principles that are more important than saving His own skin and building an earthly kingdom.
33 Then Pilate went back into his headquarters and called for Jesus to be brought to him. “Are you the king of the Jews?” he asked him.
34 Jesus replied, “Is this your own question, or did others tell you about me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate retorted. “Your own people and their leading priests brought you to me for trial. Why? What have you done?”
36 Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world.”
When you made Jesus the king of your life, then you became part of that kingdom that is not of this world. So I want to ask you some questions that may prick your heart and make you think a little bit. It is not because I think you are a bad person, but I am hoping that as people read this post, they will consider and change their perspective and start walking as people who know that this world is not my home.
- Take a look at the way you spend your time. What are you doing with your free time? Is it being spent being that ambassador for Christ, or is it being spent on things that are of this world?
- Take a look at your finances. What are you doing with your discretionary spending? I am not talking about just giving to the church or some evangelist or ministry, but are you using it to plead with people to be reconciled with God?
- Take a look at whether or not you want to be accepted by this world and gain earthly power. Are you willing to lovingly stand up for your beliefs and convictions and the principles of your country of citizenship or are you going native in this world?
If you really think about it. What do you want? Do you want this world to be your home or do you want heaven to be your home?
When you look at it compared to the description I shared with you at the beginning of this blog post, what country do you want your citizenship to be? What kind of citizenship are you looking for? Do we live in a world worth living in, or is it one that will only make us feel unfulfilled and unsatisfied with the life we have?
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A driver who uses his or her ears has a leg up on those who don't. In addition to noises helping you be aware of traffic, they can give you clues to potential problems in your vehicle. One noise to pay attention to is growling.
Growling is a universally recognizable noise; you know it when you hear it. In a vehicle, it's usually the sound of metal contacting metal, and not in a good way. So, what is your vehicle telling you if you hear growling when you are turning your steering wheel?
There are a few possibilities. One is the mechanical linkage that helps your steering wheel turn your wheels and tires. That system frequently has a hydraulic system that makes turning the steering wheel easier for you. That can be a source of growling sounds as well. A NAPA AutoCare technician can check your power steering fluid to see if it's at the correct level and still in good shape.
There are a few things that can go wrong with your power steering. If your fluid is low, that might be a sign of a leak in the pump, hose, or somewhere else in the system. It's important to have your power steering working properly since losing the ability to turn precisely can sharply reduce the safety of your vehicle.
If that growling sound is coming from around the wheel area, it could be a suspension issue. That growling is giving you a warning that a component such as a constant velocity (CV) joint or a wheel hub may be on the verge of failing, so it's a good idea to get it checked. Another reason you may be hearing growling when you are turning your steering wheel is that your brakes are engaging when they shouldn't.
Growling noises are trying to tell you something, and they can tell a trained technician a great deal. Inform your Service Advisor about the symptoms you're hearing. Your NAPA AutoCare Center can put that growling to a halt. Your ears have better things to listen to.
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Equation of Cauchy Transparent
The earliest dispersion formula was established by Cauchy (1836) who set up simple empirical dispersion law. The “Cauchy Transparent” dispersion works best when the material has no optical absorption in the visible spectral range and consequently generally has a normal dispersion which means a monotonous decreasing refractive index with increasing wavelength in this way:
(1) 1 < n(λred)< n(λblue)
The following equation connects the refractive index to the wavelength (in nm):
Equation of Cauchy Absorbent
A second formulation of the Cauchy model is the "Cauchy Absorbing" dispersion and it is more suitable to describe the optical properties of weakly absorbing materials. Here a non-zero extinction coefficient is given in an expression similar to the previous used for the refractive index:
Three parameters are used in the equation of the Cauchy transparent model and 6 parameters in the Cauchy absorbing model.
Parameters describing the refractive index
(4) 0 < | C | < | B | < 1 < Α
Three parameters describe the extinction coefficient.
Cauchy’s formulation cannot be easily applied to metals and semiconductors. The parameters used do not have any physical meaning and therefore, these empirical relations are not Kramers-Kronig consistent. From first principles, the Kramers-Kronig relation relates the index of refraction and extinction coefficient parts; it means they are not independent quantities. In other words, if the value of the extinction coefficient is known over the entire spectral range, the index of refraction coefficient can be calculated.
Cauchy Transparent function
Fig. 15: Optical properties of SiO2given by the Cauchy transparent Function
Cauchy Absorbent function
Fig. 16: Optical properties of SiN given by the Cauchy absorbent Function
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Understanding Assigned Services
On the CloudGen Firewall, special services can be configured and activated to extend its network functionality. These services are assigned and bound to the firewall they are created on.
In order to understand the concept of Assigned Services, see Understanding Assigned Services.
Services are software modules running on the service layer of the firewall. Each service provides a piece of network functionality. Depending on which service you start, it might require additional services or be limited to one service per device. The services below are available on stand-alone and managed firewalls.
Before a service can be configured, it must be created. For more information, see How to Assign Services.
For how to configure a special service, see the following services:
Access Control Service
The Access Control service defines security policies for network users (e.g., VPN clients) and provides a range of features, such as registry checks and repairs on a client. Create access control objects with p olicy rulesets specifying the required system and service settings to let the CloudGen Firewall perform identity and health checks on connecting clients and groups.
For more information, see Access Control Service.
The DHCP service automatically assigns IP addresses to clients in the same network. For clients requiring special DHCP options, combine the DHCP server with the DHCP Relay service to share a DHCP server across multiple network segments.
For more information, see DHCP and .
The CloudGen Firewall can act as an authoritative DNS server. The DNS service returns definitive answers to DNS queries for domain names and IP addresses. Use split DNS to return different answers depending on the source IP of the DNS query. This allows you to redirect internal clients to an internal IP address of a server.
For more information, see DNS.
Dynamic Routing Protocols (OSPF/RIP/BGP)
Dynamic Routing enables the CloudGen Firewall to learn and select the optimal route to a destination IP address, detects changes to the network topology, and advertises these changes to other neighboring routers. Three dynamic routing protocols are supported - OSPF, RIP (V1 and V2), and BGP.
For more information, see Dynamic Routing Protocols (OSPF/RIP/BGP).
The Forwarding Firewall handles all traffic for which the destination does not match a listening socket on the firewall - in other words, all traffic passing through the CloudGen Firewall. The firewall service includes all Application Control features such as virus scanning, mail security, and file content filtering.
For more information, see Firewall.
The HTTP Proxy service provides content filtering and caching, antivirus and malware protection, and access control. You can configure the HTTP Proxy in forward, reverse, and transparent mode.
For more information, see HTTP Proxy.
The SIP Proxy server allows the CloudGen Firewall to act as a (transparent) proxy for SIP and RTP connections.
For more information, see SIP Proxy.
The Barracuda Web Filter (URL Filter) can be used by the HTTP Proxy service and in combination with application control. URLs are categorized according to content.
For more information, see URL Filter.
The Virus Scanner service provides virus protection, archive scanning, malware detection, and HTTP multimedia streaming. The Virus Scanner service can be configured using the integrated Avira or ClamAV virus scanning engine. Using the Virus Scanner service requires a subscription that can be renewed annually.
For more information, see Virus Scanner.
The VPN service supports site-to-site, client-to-site, and SSL-VPN VPN connections. CloudGen Firewalls support multiple encryption methods, SD-WAN, and WAN Optimization when using the TINA protocol.
For more information, see VPN.
For administration of Wi-Fi networks, the Wi-Fi service provides configuration settings for the local access point. The service also supports user authentication in large networks via RADIUS and EAP.
For more information, see Wi-Fi.
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Saint Composer ‘Sangeetha Pitamaha’
PURANDARA DAASA (1484 – 1564)
Purandara Daasa was born in ‘Purandaragada’, a village in Hampi in Bellari District of Karnataka. He was named as Srinivasa by his parents as he was born in answer to their prayer to the Lord of Seven Hills. He was affectionately called Seenappa.
After his fathers demise Srinivasa continued the family business in precious stones. His business acumen in him enabled him to expand his business and amass a lot of wealth. This gave him the name ‘Navakoti Narayana’. It is a pity that he was a great miser. The expansion of his heart was inversely proportional to the upward leap in his wealth.
Lord Purandara Vittala performed a miracle and made Srinivasa a Hari Daasa overnight. Leaving behind all the worldly possessions, Seenappa came to the street with the Tambura and Cymbals, and continued his journey on the path of bakthi. He surrendered at the feet of Vysasaraaya for guidance and became his deciple. Then on he came to be known as Purandara Daasa. His devotional outpourings continued the quintessence of Upanishads and Puranas. Even now they are popularly known as Devara Namas.
Widely seen as an incarnation of the divine poet-musician Narada Maharishi himself, Saint Purandara Daasa is glorified by the people of Karnataka as the original guru and patriarch of their music. He was a gifted scholar, poet and devotee, and was the first to setup abode in Hampi, even before his contemporaries like Kanaka Daasa, Vaadiraja, Vyasaraaya and others.
Sri Sripadaraya, the guru of Sri Vyasaraya, who in turn was Sri Purandara Daasa’s guru, started a new trend of Kannada compositions called Suladis and Ugabhogas (short prose). Sri Purandara Daasa was ordained by Sri Vyasaraya to continue the tradition, but his creative mind found the situation confusing and chaotic. There was no system by which a beginner of music could learn singing. Talas and ragas were known, but a student would not know where to begin. Sri Purandara Daasa studied the available literature and brought about reforms that embraced all the three fields in music viz. raga (tune), sahitya (lyrics) and tala (rhythm).
Another significant contribution of Purandara Daasa was streamlining of the teaching method of Carnatic music. He introduced graded lessons such as swaraavalis, alankaras, geetams and prabandams with the raga Mayamalavagowla constituting the basic scale of instructions.
The song commonly sung at the beginning of the musical practice are:
Lambodara / Lakumikara //
Kundagaura / Gaureevara //
Karaya neerannu / Karege chelli //
Padumanabha / Paramapurusha //
The new concept of offering prayer in the mother tongue gained currency in Karnataka. The author of this school was Narahari Theertha. A number of saints made their contribution for keeping alive, and building up this tradition – called ‘Dasakoota Sampradaaya’. The shining star of this sampradaaya is Purandara Daasa. He enriched the bakthi literature, and, during his lifetime it is said, that he had composed around 4 lac devara namas of which, over 1000 are known today. His works relate not only to devotion, but also to intellectual and moral values, and reflect his total mastery over raga-tala. His innumerable compositions render themselves beautifully to music, whether they are bhajan, devotional, folk songs or lullabies.
Purandaras compositions were in simple language, using earthly metaphors which were easily understandable to the common people. While many of his compositions go along well with classical music, he used only those notes which were easy to sing. Hence, in order to facilitate effortless learning of music and performance of raga bhava, his compositions involve only seven talas.
He was the originator of the musical scale by which all the rules of Carnatic music are formed – so he came to be known as the Grammarian of Carnatic music. The style and format of Carnatic music which dominates the music world today originated from this pioneering saint musician that Purandara Dasa was. His Sulaadis are worthy of special mention. Saint Purandadara Daasa has gifted the improved form of ancient music by introducing the pattern of Pallavi and Anupallavi and this system was followed later by Saint Thyagaraja and others. Vidwans stick this pattern till this day in all the concerts. This signal contribution earned him the name ‘Sangeetha Pitamaha’ of Carnatic music.
His greatness lies in earning the encomium of his guru Vyaasaraaya – ‘Daasarendere Purandaradaasariah’.
PURANDARA GURUM VANDE DASHA SHRESTAM DAYANIDHIM
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Our verse for today comes from John 18:12, “Then the detachment of troops and the captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound Him.”
A juxtaposition is the instance of two things placed close together with contrasting effect. You might consider the everyday staples of salt and pepper or oil and vinegar as basic examples. Generally, though, when items are juxtaposed with another, the desired response is much more notable than what one gets from seeing salt and pepper on the table together. Humorous versions would show a street sign for Electric Avenue mounted on the same pole showing No Outlet for the dead end road, or the billboard drawing attention to diabetes or heart disease or high blood pressure placed next to the billboard advertising a fast food restaurant. An article in a health magazine was reporting on Anatidaephobia, which is the fear of being watched by a duck, and alongside the article was an advertisement by their sponsor Aflac. But less humorous is the image of Jesus being bound and led away from the Garden of Gethsemane. I need not attempt to describe the immeasurable power that Jesus had, even as He yielded to the ropes or chains that the officers used to constrain Him.
But let us fast forward to today, where you may be bound in ways that should be very foreign to a redeemed child of God. The pitiful habit or destructive choice that keeps you from being all you were delivered to be is as the meager ties that the officers thought were keeping Jesus from going free. But Jesus alone kept His hands by His side. No outside force had power or authority over Him or His decisions. His was a will completely surrendered to His Father, just as He taught in what we call the Lord’s prayer. And you need not live any differently than your Savior did. He did not set you free only part way. He said you would be free indeed. But it’s going to cost you more than it has. It cost Jesus His life, and yours must be sacrificed as well. But when you lay it down, the chains come off, and the contrast is as real as death and life.
As we seek Him today, stop living with your feet in two worlds. Eliminate the unnatural juxtaposition that keeps you from complete peace, and wholeheartedly follow the Son.
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Calls to a mental health crisis hotline in New York City have soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has closed schools and businesses, put millions out of work, and ushered in stay-at-home orders.
"Crisis hotlines are a core part of our nation's mental health safety net, ensuring that care is available when and where needed during a crisis, whether that be an individual crisis, a local community crisis, or a national mental health crisis like we are facing right now," said Kimberly Williams, president and chief executive officer of Vibrant Emotional Health.
Vibrant Emotional Health, formerly the Mental Health Association of New York City, provides crisis line services across the United States in partnership with local and federal governments and corporations. NYC Well is one of them.
Williams and two of her colleagues spoke about crisis hotlines April 25 during the American Psychiatric Association's (APA's) Virtual Spring Highlights Meeting.
Rapid Crisis Intervention
Crisis hotlines provide "rapid crisis intervention, delivering help immediately from trained crisis counselors who respond to unique needs, actively engage in collaborative problem solving, and assess risk for suicide," Williams said.
They have a proven track record, she noted. Research shows that they are able to decrease emotional distress and reduce suicidality in crisis situations.
Kelly Clarke, program director of NYC Well, noted that inbound call volume has increased roughly 50% since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Callers to NYC Well most commonly report mood/anxiety concerns, stressful life events, and interpersonal problems. "Many people are reaching out to seek support in how to manage their own emotional well-being in light of the pandemic and the restrictions put in place," said Clarke.
Multilingual peer support specialists and counselors with NYC Well provide free, confidential support by talk, text, or chat 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days a year. The service also provides mobile crisis teams and follow-up services.
NYC Well has set up a landing page of resources specifically geared toward COVID-19.
How to cope with the rapid growth and at the same time ensure high quality of services are two key challenges for NYC Well, Clarke said.
"Absolutely Essential" Service
For John Draper, PhD, the experience early in his career of working on a mobile mental health crisis team in Brooklyn, New York, "changed his life."
First, it showed him that for people who are severely psychiatrically ill, "care has to come to them," said Draper, executive vice president of national networks for Vibrant Emotional Health.
"So many of the people we were seeing were too depressed to get out of bed, much less get to a clinic, and I realized our system was not set up to serve its customers. It was like putting a spinal cord injury clinic at the top of a stairs," he said.
Crisis hotlines are "absolutely essential." Their value for communities and individuals "can't be overestimated," said Draper.
This was revealed after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and now with COVID-19, said Draper. He noted that following the attacks of 9/11, a federal report referred to crisis hotlines as "the single most important asset in the response."
American Psychiatric Association's (APA's) Virtual Spring Highlights Meeting. Presented April 25, 2020.
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Volume 56, 2013International Workshop NUCPERF 2012: Long-Term Performance of Cementitious Barriers and Reinforced Concrete in Nuclear Power Plant and Radioactive Waste Storage and Disposal (RILEM Event TC 226-CNM and EFC Event 351)
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Link between microstructure and tritiated water diffusivity in mortars
1 CEA, DEN, DPC, SECR, Laboratoire d’Etude du Comportement des Bétons et des Argiles, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
2 Paris Est University, Navier Institute (UMR8205 CNRS/ENPC/IFSTTAR), 2 allée Kepler, F-77420 Marne La Vallée, France
3 EDF R&D, Moret sur Loing, France
Ions and radionuclide diffusivity in concrete is one of the most important factors that determine service life and safety assessment of cement based structures in nuclear power plants and radioactive-waste repositories. Apart from the influence of cement paste microstructure, the presence of aggregates may have an impact on transport properties of the material. The well-known interfacial transition zone, denoted by ITZ, is created near the aggregates and characterized by a greater porosity. The goal of this study is to investigate the competition between the more diffusing ITZ zone and the less diffusing aggregates. To this end, several series of tritiated water diffusion tests are conducted on mortars characterized by different water-to-cement ratios and sand volume fractions. In parallel, microstructure of these materials is explored by mercury and water porosimetry. It was observed that at low sand content (0% – 50%), diffusion properties of mortars are dominated by aggregates dilution effect. At 60% sand, diffusion increases significantly suggesting that percolation’s pores threshold has been reached. Results indicate also that sand particle size distribution has a great impact on the diffusivity of mortars.
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Forum for the Future’s Principal Strategist in the Americas, Mary McCarthy, reflects on the state of regenerative agriculture in the US in 2022 and argues that while emerging marketplaces and recent policy interventions are encouraging, we need to fundamentally rewire the agriculture system’s structures if we are to see the deep transformation required.
Around 15 months ago, we explored what the surge in corporate commitments meant for the regenerative agriculture transformation more broadly. With the pandemic and extreme weather events continuing to affect the US agriculture sector, and new marketplaces and policy interventions gaining momentum, it’s time to take stock once more and ask: what’s the state of play for the transition to regenerative agriculture in the US?
It all starts and ends with farming communities, and the recent State of Sustainable Ag Report paints a grim picture of the reality of impact on the ground.
This underlines the reality that transitioning to regenerative agriculture in the US is a massive undertaking that requires shifts in behavior and investment from all actors connected to the agriculture system – from farming communities to retailers and brands. Harnessing early momentum around regenerative agriculture into meaningful impact requires rapid translation and learning across diverse environments and markets, between scales and regional contexts. While each regenerative farm has a unique soil, climate and culture, there are shared barriers to the transition, from perverse incentives to lack of pathways to market.
Even though there are new efforts and initiatives every day to support the transition to regenerative agriculture, many operate in the same silos as the status quo agriculture system – isolated by commodity or sector, not reflecting the diverse farm landscapes that will make up a regenerative future. Likewise, many existing initiatives address only one part of the problem – using either a soil health or social justice lens – rather than designing for multiple positive outcomes.
So, where are we starting to see these types of shifts? Two signals have emerged:
- The US Government has entered the conversation. Will intent lead to impact?
Last month, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) made an unprecedented commitment to invest up to $1 billion to support projects that create market opportunities for commodities produced using climate-smart practices through the “Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Program”. As the name suggests, the program is focused on and driven by verifiable greenhouse gas benefits which leaves questions around how these programs will ensure landscape-level ecosystem restoration including considerations for water and biodiversity.
In the same month, the USDA announced the formation of an Equity Commission, a 15-member independent commission, “charged with evaluating USDA programs and services and will recommend how we can reduce barriers for accessing them”. This is an encouraging step for an agency with a well-documented history of discrimination.
In both cases, USDA announcements demonstrate the important role the Federal Government can play in supporting a more just and regenerative agriculture system in the US.
With the renewal of the Farm Bill on the horizon, and mounting pressure on farm communities from climate change, input prices and more, it is a critical period for policy makers to support meaningful transformation toward an equitable and resilient agriculture system.
As we’ve heard consistently through the Growing our Future Policy Change workstream, farm community needs must be at the center of these new legislative efforts, and more incumbent stakeholders – particularly corporations – need to align the efforts of the Public Affairs team with their sustainability commitments.
Given the role the USDA has played in developing the agriculture system we have today, and the associated environmental and social impacts, the question remains how significant the policy shifts will be in the near term. Can they support greater transparency and more equitable distribution of value? Can they expand the goals of our agriculture system beyond yield to include the well-being of people and the planet? If so, we may see the agriculture system in the United States making strides to address the climate crisis and the revitalization of rural and farming communities.
- Ecosystem service markets come online. Who benefits?
As businesses and other stakeholders have sought creative solutions for financing the immense costs for farmers transitioning to regenerative agriculture, an abundance of ecosystem service marketplaces are beginning to emerge, all trying to capture a piece of the $13.9 billion ecosystem credit pie. In addition to early innovators around soil carbon like Nori and IndigoAg, new ecosystem service market providers are expanding their scope to include water and biodiversity impacts in an attempt to maximize environmental impact and value for the grower. Notably, the Soil and Water Outcomes fund is providing more than $31/acre on average for farmers enrolled in their outcomes-based program. “Preliminary environmental outcomes resulting from practices implemented by Soil and Water Outcomes Fund farmers are: More than 111,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) sequestered (a 260% reduction from baseline levels). This is equivalent to removing 24,250 cars from the road for one year.” Likewise, the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC) will publicly launch their marketplace, after three years of research and piloting their measurement reporting and verification platform.
There is still significant concern about the use of ecosystem service markets: the science and data requirements to verify outcomes is incredibly complex, and there is a risk that, if marketplaces allow for routine offsetting, they could prop up unsustainable industries or businesses. Alongside questions of environmental impact, concerns remain about if and how ecosystem service markets will equitably reward farming communities and help them manage the risk around transitioning to regenerative agriculture systems. To this end, the Growing our Future and Cotton 2040 initiatives are working together on a regenerative cotton pilot in the US to better understand if and how ecosystem service markets can fulfill key sustainability criteria relevant to encouraging regenerative, just, resilience-building business models.
Is this enough to transform the US agriculture system?
While these emerging marketplaces and policy interventions are encouraging, what remains to be seen is the level of transformation these efforts will support. There is a significant risk that the emerging shifts in policy and financing create only an incrementally better version of the current system – perhaps supporting carbon sequestration in soils but neglecting biodiversity and community health. Progressing towards a more just and regenerative agriculture system in the US will require stakeholders from farm communities, to brands, investors and policymakers working in fundamentally different ways that create new relationships and structures within agriculture.
Current efforts still have significant gaps around meaningfully addressing land access and ownership for farmers, supporting regenerative growers to access a supportive marketplace through localized processing and distribution infrastructure, and meaningfully addressing price transparency.
As we commenced the Growing our Future collaboration 15 months ago, amidst surging corporate momentum, we asked:
With funding from the Walmart Foundation, VF Foundation and Nestlé, Growing our Future, a system-wide initiative gathering more than 135 diverse organizations, is working to address many of these gaps and support uptake of regenerative agriculture in the US. The Growing our Future community is a space to support new relationships and learning amongst diverse, and at times disparate, agriculture system stakeholders while delivering impactful interventions within Policy Change, Financing the Transition and Pathways to Market. We continue to extend an open invitation to stakeholders from across the US agriculture system to join us in one or more of these areas of work. Opportunities to get involved range from contributing to workstream implementation, sharing your story through our communication efforts, or joining the community to learn alongside other regenerative agriculture practitioners.
- The State of Sustainable Ag, published February 2022 by Trust in Food and Field to Market
- USDA: Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities
- USDA: Equity Commission
- EWG: Timeline: Black farmers and the USDA, 1920 to present
- ESMC: Economic Assessment for Ecosystem Service Market Credits from Agricultural Working Lands
- Soil and Water Outcomes Fund environmental outcomes
- Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC)
- Growing our Future initiative
- An Abundant Harvest for Regenerative Agriculture
- Growing our Future: Scaling regenerative agriculture in the USA
- Podcast: With a narrow window for innovation, will our food systems transform or unravel?
- The Innovative Business Models That Can Transform Cotton Supply Chains
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Improved Classification of Mangroves Health Status Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data
- Institute of Remote Sensing, Anna University, Chennai 600025, India
Keywords: Mangroves health, Hyperspectral, Band reduction, Soil adjusted vegetative indices, classification
Abstract. Mangrove ecosystem plays a crucial role in costal conservation and provides livelihood supports to humans. It is seriously affected by the various climatic and anthropogenic induced changes. The continuous monitoring is imperative to protect this fragile ecosystem. In this study, the mangrove area and health status has been extracted from Hyperspectral remote sensing data (EO- 1Hyperion) using support vector machine classification (SVM). The principal component transformation (PCT) technique is used to perform the band reduction in Hyperspectral data. The soil adjusted vegetation Indices (SAVI) were used as additional parameters. The mangroves are classified into three classes degraded, healthy and sparse. The SVM classification is generated overall accuracy of 73 % and kappa of 0.62. The classification results were compared with the results of spectral angle mapper classification (SAM). The SAVI also included in SVM classification and the accuracy found to be improved to 82 %. The sparse and degraded mangrove classes were well separated. The results indicate that the mapping of mangrove health is accurate when the machine learning classifier like SVM combined with different indices derived from hyperspectral remote sensing data. | <urn:uuid:aa0f4275-9101-4d9a-9b81-0bd598ec4b9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-8/667/2014/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.911753 | 303 | 2.046875 | 2 |
10.15.2134 0103 ESDS Time
Out past Pluto's orbit floated a tiny grain of sand in a vast ocean of everlasting night and near absolute zero temperatures. From that distance the sun was only slightly brighter than the myriad other light points that surrounded it.
The Extraterrestrial Signal Detection System, ESDS for short, rotated slowly as it reoriented its antennas. It was the size of a three-story building, ungainly and ugly, a mess of antenna dishes and other devices that protruded at odd angles, so that it resembled a floating junk pile. It was a listener. It listened for minute signals, a few nanowatts, mere whispers, so tiny that they were not measurable by ordinary radio telescopes, from every part of the Milky Way galaxy, scanning a billion different frequencies. It amplified the infinitesimal bits of information to microvolts, digested and analyzed them with a powerful artificial intelligence computer looking for that one in a billion signal that seemed to have intelligent content.
Twice it had detected signals it considered worthy of further investigation. These it broadcast to a relay satellite in the vicinity of Jupiter's orbit, which in turn sent the amplified signal to the astronomical center at Clavius crater on the moon. Both instances had proved false alarms. The first was from an erratic pulsar. The second was a sporadic anomaly in the satellite's own circuitry, which was corrected by telemetry from Clavius.
On October 15, 2134, at 0134.43 hours according to its atomic clock, ESDS pointed its main dish at a section of sky not previously surveyed and detected an unusual signal in the microwave range. It performed tests to ensure that its own circuitry was not producing the phenomena and analyzed the signal. According to the criteria coded into it, the transmission contained patterns that an intelligent being might send. ESDS activated its amplifiers and beamed an alert signal to the Jupiter relay station.
The first transmission reached Clavius several hours later. The receiver recorded the signal and sounded the IMR (Intelligent Message Received) alarm.
In the cramped quarters of the SETI section of the Clavius astronomical complex, Matthew Harding sat reading a science fiction paperback. He felt his job was cushy, that he was paid for doing nothing, although it was severely boring. For the past two years, each day he gabbed for a few minutes with the person he relieved, checked that the equipment was operating properly -- and then sat for seven hours.
When a buzzer sounded across the room, Harding mumbled, "What's wrong now?" He stretched and sauntered across the room. A red light flashed on the SETI receptor. He pressed the Alarm Reset button to turn off the irritating sound and read the label under the glowing indicator. It read, "Signal Received."
That was unprecedented. A signal had come in from the ESDS. Quickly, he pulled the manual from the desk drawer. He wanted to be sure that he followed procedures to the letter. This was too important to screw up. He read the manual: "If the Signal Received indicator comes on, do the following: Press the Alarm Reset button." He had already done that. There was also a warning, "DO NOT TOUCH ANY OTHER CONTROLS." The second item on the list was to call the chief of SETI Operations.
After several rings, a sleepy voice answered, "Hello. Aaron Warner here."
"This is Matt down at SETI Operations. The Signal Received indicator has come on."
"Wow. That's great. Don't touch anything. I'll be right down." He clicked off.
Harding recalled that twice before he had come to the moon ESDS had sent a signal. Both times had been false alarms. "Well, third time's a charm," he muttered.
Minutes later Warner, flushed with excitement, rushed in. He was barely dressed, hair uncombed, shirt unbuttoned, no socks. He was followed by two SETI scientists, Kate Hatchway and Lu Dong. All three ignored Harding and went directly to the SETI receptor. Warner flipped two switches and nervously lit a cigarette although smoking was not allowed anywhere inside the complex. All three peered anxiously at the computer monitor. Beeps and squawks came from the speakers.
Harding peered over the Warner's shoulder. Columns of numbers slowly floated upward on the monitor screen. "What's happening?" he asked. "Is it really a signal from an alien intelligence?"
Warner grinned like a Cheshire cat and shrugged. "We won't know for a while. I relayed the signal to the supercomputer in the main complex. It'll number crunch for a couple of hours before we'll know for sure. If it says yes, that's when the real fun begins. It may take months, maybe years to translate the information."
For the next three years, the top mathematicians, cryptologists and linguists from all over the world worked on decoding the data. It was definitely from an alien intelligence and came from the Nihal star system two hundred and fifty light-years distance, but that was all they knew.
The signals repeated every four hours. Parts of the data simply consisted of a progression of prime numbers. Everything that followed was gibberish. No one could make head nor tail of it. Many cryptographers, language experts and mathematicians worked on the problem without result. Soon the official effort was abandoned. Finally, the signals stopped. A month later, the ESDS malfunctioned. As a result, funding for the entire SETI project was stricken from the Clavius budget.
The recorded signals were stored away as a curiosity. Over the years many experts and amateurs tried to decipher the message with no more success than the original team.
July 7, 2155
Jacques Roget was a graduate student majoring in ancient languages with minors in chaos theory and cryptology. Roget had chosen the most difficult subjects simply for the challenge. He was especially adept in seeing patterns in chaotic information. His fellow students called him Genius Jacques. It was a joke that he did cryptology problems in his head while making love -- not that Roget dated much; he was too busy with his studies. When a friend in the astronomy department told him about the message from outer space, he jumped on it like a starving spider on a fly. It was exactly the kind of challenge he loved.
He obtained a memory cube of the raw information sent by ESDS, logs from the SETI project and notes from various attempts to decode it. He was not interested in anything except the original data, which displayed on his computer monitor as rows and columns of numbers. He noted that by grouping them, they formed patterns. For the next two weeks he barely ate or slept. He rearranged them, converted them into letters of various alphabets and examined the group immediately after the prime numbers for clues.
One night, he dreamed that he lived in ancient Babylon. When he woke, it came to him. He rushed to his computer and replaced certain combinations of numbers with symbols that represented phonetic sounds. Soon he saw words and a grammar that bore a slight resemblance to ancient human languages. Two days later, exhausted from lack of sleep with his stomach grumbling from the awful stuff he had put into it, he had it much of it translated. He saved the translation, collapsed on his bed and slept thirty-six hours straight.
Later that week, he submitted his conclusions to a linguistic journal. His "paper" included the translation and reported how he accomplished it. Soon after the paper was published, the entire academic world buzzed about his achievement. Eventually he received a Nobel Prize.
For those interested in learning about the aliens, the message itself was disappointing. It gave no information about their appearance, history, culture, philosophy, technology or psychology. It was cryptic and made vague references to mystical beings, god or demons and strange and fantastic events. A minority thought that it warned of some danger. Many felt that it was a religious tract. It did, however, pinpoint its location, as that of Nihal, a G-type star, approximately two hundred and fifty light years from the solar system.
Ten years later a robotic probe was launched toward Nihal. Accelerating to fifty percent of light speed, it would take the probe more than five hundred years to reach its destination and another two hundred and fifty years for its report to reach the solar system. Nonetheless, the scientists, engineers and backers of the probe felt that although they would be long dead by the time the information about the aliens arrived, they were leaving a legacy of the utmost importance to future generations.
April 30, 2179
As it turned out, several of them were still alive when a method was invented for reaching the alien's system in a fraction of the time that the probe would take. Perhaps because of the interest generated by the receipt of the alien message, great strides had been made in faster than light travel technology.
Early in 2177, the quantum drive had been invented. With this device, a starship navigator simply entered the coordinates of any point within a radius of fifty light years, engaged the quantum drive and instantly appeared at that location. No one, not even its inventors, were exactly sure why it worked. It had to do with quantum jumps on a macro level. Physicists theorized that the starship passed through one or more dimensions other than the familiar four.
Later that year, a starship dubbed Alien Explorer was built. One drawback to the quantum drive was that it needed massive amounts of fuel. Each jump required the energy of a ton of hydrogen matter colliding with a ton of antimatter hydrogen. This meant that it initially had to carry two tons of hydrogen, half of which was converted to antihydrogen, for each jump. Hence, for the round trip to the alien's star system, it needed ten tons of hydrogen to fuel the quantum drive. In addition it needed fuel for the impulse engines that it used within the system, plus electricity for life support and the antimatter converter. Although the spaceship was enormous, most of its bulk was for fuel storage. A relatively tiny forward section contained the antimatter conversion unit, the quantum drive and the engineering bay. The smallest sections were the crew's quarters and the bridge. Far to the rear were the refueling station and the impulse drive. A shuttle for planetary exploration was mounted on the outer shell.
A second drawback of the ship was that after each jump, the quantum drive required a month cool down period before it could be used again. This meant a month of idleness after each leap of fifty light years toward its destination.
The starship was built near Jupiter and siphoned gases from the giant planet's atmosphere from which hydrogen was extracted, compressed and loaded into the Alien Explorer's enormous fuel tanks. Only the amount needed to reach Nihal was stored. It was known that there was a Jovian planet in the Nihal system to fuel the ship for the return trip.
A crew of mixed civilians and Solar System Cosmonaut Corps members were chosen for the mission. Captain Steven Amlada, commanding officer and pilot, was responsible for making command decisions, ensuring the welfare of everyone aboard, and seeing to the overall success of the mission. Lieutenant Shirley Thompson was his copilot, chief navigator and second in command. Lieutenant Celia Gigilioni was the science officer and medical doctor. Chief Petty Officer Kirk Schmidt, the chief engineer, was responsible for the smooth running of the ship. His assistant Mike was a humanoid robot who communicated with the artificial intelligence that ran the automatic functions. Also aboard was Doctor Sharon Miller, an anthropologist, who had published several papers and a book dealing with alien intelligence with cultures so different from humans that from our point-of-view they might seem insane. She had studied Roget's translation of the alien signal extensively. Finally, there was the genius himself, Jacques Roget, who was nearly fifty, the oldest person aboard.
The last day in April in the year 2179, the seven had boarded the Alien Explorer. At the end of the countdown, Lieutenant Thompson entered the coordinates for the first jump. Captain Amlada signaled thumbs up to the camera on the bridge and moved the switch that engaged the quantum drive. From the point of view the personnel observing the ship's departure, the ship simply vanished.
Because electronic transmissions cannot travel faster than the speed of light, there would be no communication with the ship until it returned. The mission personnel, who must wait with bated breath for two years for the Alien Explorer to return, prayed that the mission would go well. All over the solar system, people wondered and discussed what the astronauts would find. Most of their guesses and hypotheses were wrong.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: May 30, 2179 1000 hours
We made our first quantum leap into the unknown. I and my crew are the first humans to venture out of the solar system. I have great confidence in them, all whom I have served with me on other missions. On my last long mission, which was to make repairs to the ESDS, my second command, Lieutenant Thompson and I became lovers. She was an Ensign at the time. Although we no longer have a romantic relationship, we're good friends. Perhaps, on this mission things between us could heat up again. I only mention this because we have long idle periods between quantum leaps. From a morale standpoint, it would be good for people to pair up. It would be one more thing to keep them occupied.
All went well with the leap itself. Kirk, a fine engineer with years of experience, checked everything out and reported "all systems nominal." We consumed exactly nineteen percent of our original fuel supply. Now it's my job to ensure good morale and keep everyone aboard busy. I don't need worry about our two geniuses. They're quite content to do research and argue over the finer points of the alien signal translation. Roget is an odd duck who keeps to himself unless he's debating with Sharon Miller. I suppose that's the nature of genius. Our anthropologist is an attractive twenty-seven-old woman. I had it in my mind to shack up with her during the mission. But when I flirted, she became cold and annoyed. Well, who knows? As time goes by, sheer boredom may drive her into my arms.
Our first jump brought us into the vicinity of Castor, a sextuple star system made up of three binaries. I felt it incumbent to do a little exploring and make a report on such things as planets, detailed astronomical information and any other scientific data of interest. Since Celia Giglioni is our science officer, I put her in charge of planning the additional mission. She and I will work on it together, which gives me a chance to get better acquainted with her and feel her out about cohabiting with me.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: June 7, 2179 2300 hours
We are in the middle of our first idle period and so far, crew morale has remained good. We explored two of the six stars in the Castor group, Castor Aa, a main sequence blue white dwarf and its companion red dwarf, Castor Ab. These stars are separated by a little over a million miles, and orbit each other in nine days, causing great flares to leap from one to the other. We found an earth-like planet orbiting both stars at a distance approximately that of Jupiter in our system. Because of the radiation given by its two suns, water exists in liquid form. We orbited it and made observations. There seems to be plant life, as there were great stretches of green across the continents. Celia wanted to take the shuttle down to explore, but I nixed it. We had no idea what dangers she might face. We can't afford to risk losing personnel until our primary mission is accomplished.
As I had hoped, people are pairing up as couples. Nonetheless, I was a bit taken back by the choices. My fun loving second in command, Shirley, picked the stiff-backed by-the-book German engineer, Chief Kirk Schmidt. Jacques Roget came out of his shell and hooked up with the buxom and pliable Celia Giglioni. The only woman available for me, your poor captain, was the frigid Sharon Miller. I knew I had my work cut out to unfreeze her.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: December 22, 2179 0800 hours
Our third jump put us in the vicinity of Gomeisa, a group of five luminous giant blues. We won't be doing any exploring here. There's a problem with the impulse engine. Kirk sent Mike out on an EVA to fix the damn thing. It's too bad we didn't know about the problem at Jump Point 2, where there were no nearby stars. The crew is becoming extremely bored. I played a lot of chess with Mike and haven't yet won a game. Also, I've given up trying to seduce Miller. She informed me that she preferred women. So it goes.
In addition, she and Roget are arguing endless about the meaning of certain words in the alien message. Roget thought that they referred to mythological creatures, such as demons or dragons. Miller felt that they referred to an enemy. They practically come to blows on the point. After a while, the stubborn Miller walks away and refuses to discuss the subject further.
To cheer everybody up, I suggested a Christmas party. All were agreeable. Miller, who is an avid Pagan, calls the holiday Yulefest.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: March 15, 2180 1300 hours
We made our fourth jump. Only one more and we'll reach our destination, Nihal, where the alien signal originated. Excitement is building. To my chagrin, during our last idle period, Lieutenant Thompson, Chief Schmidt and Miller became involved in a menage a trois. When I asked Thompson why, she rolled her eyes, giggled and pinched my cheek. "Jealous, Captain? I bet you'd love to be Schmidt now, wouldn't you? You know what your problem is; for the captain of a starship, you're too namby-pamby, always worried what people think of you. Kirk is a real man."
I was taken aback. "I thought women liked sensitive men."
"Maybe some women do. Not me. I like a man who's not afraid to order me around. You're so cautious about everything. Look how you wouldn't let Celia take the shuttle down to that planet."
"There could've been deadly danger."
"A real man would've gone with her to protect her. We have weapons aboard."
I was mortified. In retaliation, I said, "I never thought of you as a lesbo before."
She laughed at me. "Oh Steve, you're such a dope. Sex is sex. I enjoy variety. Miller is quite passionate with women. She does anything I ask."
I should note that the nearest star is Mu Leoporis, an O type blue giant. Its only planet is a brown dwarf. I'll have Giglioni do a report on the star and its companion. There'll be no need to use the shuttle.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: March 30, 2180 0100 hours
There's been a major shift in sex partners to my advantage. Celia is now mine. She's lying on my bunk at this moment, exhausted from the wild sex we had last night. Praise be, my year of celibacy is over. She came to me after dinner about a week ago and asked to see me alone. When I brought her to my room, she burst into tears. When I asked her what was wrong, she said, "Doctor Roget is evil. A very bad person."
"What did he do?" I asked.
She shook her head. "I can't say."
"Did he harm you physically? If he did, I have the authority to discipline him, civilian or not."
She would not reply, merely stared at her hands in her lap. Finally, she said, "It's not necessary." She gazed up at me, her eyes big and round, filled with tears.
"What should I do?"
"Put your arms around me."
I held her for a long time. Finally we kissed, which led to the inevitable.
When I told Shirley what had happened, to my absolute stupefaction, she broke up with Kirk and seduced Roget. I'll never understand that woman. What was even more surprising, Doctor Miller stayed with Kirk. What does that man have that even a lesbian wants to make love with him?
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: April 22, 2180 0700 hours
Today we entered the Nihal system. We celebrated with the bottle of Champagne I had put away for the occasion. Our next step is to locate the transmitter of the alien signal. If it's still transmitting that won't be difficult. A signal that could be detected from the solar system would have to be extremely powerful. Of course, we're two hundred and fifty years later in time from when the signal was sent. Everyone except me is grouped around Celia, who is running the detection equipment.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: April 22, 2180 1200 hours
There was rejoicing as Celia pinpointed the signal's source although it was reduced in strength from the time it was first detected. I declared a holiday and a general celebration.
Tomorrow we start the impulse engines and head inward, since the source is eighty million miles from the G-type star Nihal, slightly less than one astronomical unit.
My own morale has improved since I hooked up with Celia. This is a great day, a successful mission, a beautiful mistress who is great in bed and a crew who seem to have finally settled happily into their assignments and partners. The only fly in the ointment is that now we must travel several months on impulse power to reach the inner system. It will be a busy six months, however, since this is a full blown star system with many objects of interest, an outer and inner comet belt, several gas giants with moons and rings, and smaller planets. We'll record everything.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: July 4, 2180 1200 hours
We've stopped our progress inward to orbit a gas giant planet for refueling. It's larger than Jupiter, with an enormous ring system and many moons. As I gazed at it through the bridge viewscreen, it was such a marvelous sight that I choked up in awe at its beauty. Lieutenant Thompson caught me with tears in my eyes. She laughed at me. "See what I mean about you, Steve. You cry like a woman at the drop of a hat."
"And you have no appreciation of beauty." Nonetheless, I felt that the remark was flirtatious in a weird way.
She and Sharon Miller, the two Americans aboard, had their own Independence Day celebration. I could not allow fireworks to be set off, but I allowed them to light candles.
I also let Celia take the shuttle to explore one of the moons. It would give her practice in maneuvering the shuttle. The entire time she was gone I worried about her. Perhaps I've grown overly fond of her. A starship captain should keep a little reserve when dealing with the crew, even the one who is his current mistress. It was better when I was with Thompson. She never took our loving making as anything but fun sex.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: October 29, 2180 1700 hours
We've finally reached the object of our mission, an artificial satellite, a metallic sphere several meters in diameter covered with many microwave dishes. It orbits an earthlike planet, which we'll explore after we see what's at the transmission station. We've tried sending signals without receiving a reply. Either it doesn't hear us or doesn't understand.
I discussed the mission with Celia. Early tomorrow morning I'll send her and three others to explore it since the shuttle only hold four persons. My original plan was to send the two scientists and either Chief Schmidt or Mike the robot. I felt that an engineering person might figure out the working of the electronics and machinery aboard the artifact. Celia refused to have Mike on the mission. She was quite stubborn about this. She argued that the quarters on the shuttle were too close for her to be comfortable with the robot aboard. She wouldn't say why. I argued that Doctors Roget and Miller would also be there, so that she would not be alone with the AI. This is what I get for becoming too close to one of the crew. I allowed her to overrule me and logic. I'm wondering whether what Thompson said is true. I'm too softhearted to be in command. I have a tendency to allow subordinates to subvert my decisions.
Excerpt from Science Officer Lieutenant Celia Giglioni's Report of the Mission to the Alien Satellite
We were very excited when we left the Alien Explorer. We were to be the first humans to explore an alien artifact and possibly meet the aliens face-to-face -- if they had faces. What we actually found was a letdown, however, although my scientist companions were in their glory. Chief Schmidt also seemed to enjoy poking around the alien machinery and electronics. I'm happy as long as he stays away from me.
Once we docked with the satellite -- it actually had a docking facility that we could use, not a perfect fit, but the shuttle has ways of dealing with that. Anyway, it was a simple matter to open the hatch to enter an airlock. We found a lever that closed the outer door, filled the airlock with an invisible gas and opened the inner door. I tested the atmosphere and found that it was a mix of nitrogen and oxygen not much different from the air we breathe on earth. That bastard Roget remarked, "Simply by entering the satellite we have learned much about the aliens. The size of the hatches reveal that they're our size, perhaps slightly smaller, and that they're oxygen breathers."
I removed my helmet and was almost sick. There was a strong stench of death and decay. I quickly put it back on. Miller, who was about to remove her own helmet, asked, "What's wrong?"
When I told her, she smiled. "You'll get used to it after a few minutes. Catacombs and tombs all smell like that." She took off her helmet and stepped through the entrance. Roget did the same. Feeling like a fool, I followed. She was right. After a few moments, the stench seemed only musty, like walking into a room of moldy books.
Inside we found only death and unusable equipment. This did not bother the two scientists or Schmidt, who found much to explore. They took pictures, bagged samples and took apart broken equipment. There were several mummified corpses of the aliens. I chose two of the best preserved and asked Doctor Miller to help me prepare them to bring back to the shuttle. The aliens had bodies somewhat like chimpanzees covered with greenish hair, their faces were almost human except that they had no noses, simply nostrils, and their eyes were set further apart. They had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. This confirmed Roget's theory that they used a duodecimal system instead of a decimal system for counting and mathematics. They also had tails.
The scientists found the transmitter, which was a machine for repeating over and over the message the ESDS had intercepted. The satellite's power source was atomic, but the radioactive element was almost depleted. We had intercepted the message just in time. A few more years, and the station would've shut down permanently with no power.
I relayed this information to Captain Amlada. He ordered us to return soon even though the scientists wanted to stay for several days in order to examine everything closely. We brought their sample bags and the alien corpses back to the ship.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: November 2, 2180 1000 hours
This morning I met with Roget, Miller, Celia and Shirley to discuss what our next move should be. Roget wanted to continue exploring the satellite. The others wanted to go down to the planet. They argued that once we found out more about the aliens, the items on the satellite would make more sense. Since a majority were for going planetside, I decided that is what we would do. Roget looked unhappy but acquiesced. I decided that the planetary mission should consist of Roget, Miller, Shirley and Mike. I felt that the robot's strength and imperviousness might be needed if they ran into trouble. Celia could spend the next couple of days doing autopsies on the alien corpses -- and her nights pleasing me of course.
Excerpt from First Officer Lieutenant Shirley Thompson's Report of the Mission to the Alien Planet (Day One)
To choose a landing spot for the shuttle, I orbited the planet -- temporarily named Nihal Five since it is the fifth from the star -- at a low altitude and surveyed it with the high resolution camera. N5 has four major continents and several large islands. The rest is all ocean, which I determined to be liquid water. The atmosphere consists of an oxygen- nitrogen mix with other gases including water vapor. In other words, the planet is almost identical to earth. The continents are covered with forests, deserts, mountains and so forth, again in an earthlike mix. During my first pass the land areas seemed uninhabited by any intelligent beings. I was especially watchful for alien artifacts. At first there seemed to be none. But Sharon pointed out that what I first thought were jumbles of stone were ruins. The planet has many acres of them. Sharon concluded that we had stumbled on a destroyed civilization.
I relayed this information to Steve and asked Jacques and Sharon where I should land. They chose a large ruined coastal city.
Following protocol, after I landed I sent Mike out to scout around in case something in the area was dangerous. I passed out sidearms to my companions. Jacques tried to refuse to take one.
"Typical militaristic thinking," he said. "I suppose that if we spot an alien we should blow it up?"
"Only if it shoots first. Hey, there could be dangerous wild animals out there. Without a weapon, what would you do if a sabertooth tiger attacks you?"
He kept the weapon. I showed the civilians the settings. Jacques kept his on Stun. Probably it was best that way since he wasn't used to handling firearms. At least if he accidentally let it go off in my direction or Sharon's the effect wouldn't be fatal. On the other hand, Sharon informed me that she often carried firearms and sometimes hunted.
Hours later Mike returned. The robot said that it had encountered wild animals, but none that posed a threat. I asked him whether he had seen any humanoids, alive or dead. He said no, but that he had not entered any buildings.
We were two kilometers from the nearest ruin. I left Mike to guard the shuttle, and the three of us hiked up there. The ambient temperature was in the seventies, the air was pure and sweet, and the sun was high in the sky. All in all it was a beautiful spring day on N5. I enjoyed the walk immensely. We stopped often to take samples of the plant life. We even saw a few small animals and insect like creatures. The animals seemed similar to rabbits only with long tales and six legs.
The first set of ruins was a disappointment. Barely one stone was piled on another. Whatever had damaged the city had turned the buildings into charred and crushed rock. Most of it was practically gravel. We poked around in the debris for several hours without finding anything of significance. Once or twice a block had what could've been a date or a name engraved on it. We took pictures of those. One stone was etched with a relief of something that could have been an animal, a god or a demon. Something about the carving gave me the willies.
Sharon remarked, "The aliens must've had a terrible war. It's likely that they destroyed themselves completely."
Jacques, who never agreed with any conclusion of Sharon's, said, "Or a few survived and retrogressed." He pointed at ruins ten miles away. "Those look like they haven't suffered as much damage as these."
By then the star Nihal was low in the sky.
I told them that we would go there at first light. I decided against traveling at night. I herded them back into the shuttle and radioed our plans to Steve.
Excerpt from First Officer Lieutenant Shirley Thompson's Report of the Mission to the Alien Planet (Day Two)
We started out at sunrise in the all-terrain exploration vehicle or ATEV, which runs on tracks and cruises at thirty-five kilometers per hour. Because of the rough terrain it took two hours of jolting, zigzagging and breathing dust to reach the second site. Again, not one building was whole. Nonetheless, we found what might've been a skyscraper but was reduced to its first six stories. The ground floor seemed to be a lobby of a commercial building. A large heap of debris made a mound in the center where an upper floor had collapsed. The two scientists spent a long time minutely searching through it for anything that would give a clue as to the nature of the alien civilization and what happened to cause such devastation. They found nothing of significance.
We started up a partially blocked stairway. I wished that I had brought Mike, as we spent an hour of hard labor clearing it away. Two flights up, we found something noteworthy, a large room filled with what seemed to be video broadcast equipment. Although it was rusty and broken, Sharon found storage media that she hoped contained the station's programs. Jacques could hardly wait to get back to the Alien Explorer, where he could work on decoding the media so that the broadcasts could be viewed. Bowing to his wishes, we returned to the shuttle and subsequently to the Alien Explorer.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: November 12, 2180 2100 hours
It's been over a week since the expedition to the planet returned. So far Roget and Miller have not been able to decode the recordings they found in the alien ruins. They've been so involved in this project, neither one has hardly spoken to anyone on the crew. When I ask for a report, they claim to be near a solution but had not reached it yet. Chief Schmidt is not happy since he's reduced from having two lovers in his bed to none. Since Roget has his head stuck in a computer all the time, Shirley started to flirt with me and Kirk again.
Celia finished her autopsies of the alien corpses and reported that their inner workings were similar to humans in some respects and much different in others. There were organs whose function she could not determine. "Perhaps, if the landing party had brought back a few living animals for me to experiment with, I could figure it out. Allow me to make planet fall and trap some."
I told her that there would be no more exploring parties. "We must return to earth. Future expeditions can explore this system in depth. Right now, our duty is to report what we've found as quickly as possible." What I didn't say was and bask in the glory of being the first to visit an alien world. She pouted and refused to sleep with me that night.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: November 30, 2180 1800 hours
Our first jump of the return trip was fifteen days ago. Good news on all fronts. Roget and Miller have found a way to view the alien broadcasts. Because they showed events during a war, they were a bit confusing. What we learned was that their enemy was a race quite different from the alien corpses. The enemy aliens were horrible looking creatures who had powerful weapons of mass destruction. It was apparent that the natives of N5 were attacked and obliterated by a species from another star system. Until Roget and Miller translated the commentary, however, we cannot be sure exactly what transpired.
The other good news is that Shirley and I are back together. I enjoy sex with Shirley much more than with Celia. Celia is too compliant, always waiting for me initiate everything. Shirley, on the other hand, is quite inventive.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: September 1, 2181 0800 hours
We're on the final leg of our journey. On the next jump, we'll be home. All of us will be glad to be back. It's been a wearing voyage. We've been cooped up in the Alien Explorer for twenty-nine nerve-wracking months. Nonetheless, I count our mission a great success. During our last idle period, Roget and Miller finally had a breakthrough in translating the aliens' language. From the recordings, they learned that the other aliens, the invaders, were beings who controlled many star systems in the galaxy. Our aliens were given one chance to capitulate and become slaves. When they refused, they were set upon by the conquering race and obliterated. It was a sad fate for them.
Captain's Log Ship Date and Time: March 15, 2182 0100 hours
What horror! It's unbelievable what happened. It's inconceivable. The people aboard the Alien Explorer may be the last humans alive. During our absence the aliens who destroyed the planet we had visited had come to our solar system and destroyed humanity. We took the shuttle down and found only blasted ruins as we had on the alien world. We visited all the colonies and science stations on Mars, Earth's moon, and other moons. We found not one person alive. Everywhere in the solar system there was nothing but death and destruction. As the truth became known, I wept like a baby. One space station was semioperational. It was broadcasting a distress signal. Roget thought that it was deliberately left on to lure other beings to the solar system. It was his theory that the evil aliens had left a detection device so that any starship coming to the satellite could be traced back to its origin. In that way, the aliens would know which systems to attack next. We destroyed the equipment.
We did not know whether the evil aliens would return. To be on the safe side, we returned to Castor and settled on the planet there, which turned out to be also quite earthlike, with many species of plants and animal, none of which were anywhere near as intelligent a humans. If we can survive, the seven of us will become new Adams and Eves of Paradise (as Shirley dubbed it) and populate it with the human race.
© 2006 by Joe Vadalma
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Running an effective apprenticeship program requires the management of a wide variety of key stakeholders. Navigating this complicated landscape and avoiding potential pitfalls have long been concerns of these contacts. The International Foundation Apprenticeship Program Answer Guide can help. This online, member-exclusive resource is designed to be a quick Q&A-style reference for a wide variety of apprenticeship program stakeholders, including training directors, coordinators and trustees.
Below are nine questions that address some common program pitfalls, including prohibited transactions; what constitutes a plan fiduciary; the use of plan assets for marketing, contests and competitions; and lending agreements.
What is a prohibited transaction?
Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), there is a broad prohibition against fiduciaries causing (directly or indirectly) a benefit plan to engage in transactions that would create a potential or actual conflict of interest. Any such transaction would be considered a prohibited transaction.
What are the specific types of transactions that could trigger a prohibited transaction?
ERISA Section 406(a) states that the following transactions between a benefit plan and a party in interest are prohibited transactions absent an exemption:
- Sale or exchange of property
- Loan or other extension of credit
- Provision of services, goods or facilities
- Transfer of plan assets to or for the use or benefit of a party in interest.
ERISA also provides for prohibited transactions applicable only to fiduciaries. Under ERISA Section 406(b), these prohibited transactions are:
- Fiduciary conflict of interest
Fiduciary responsibility is the “highest standard known to law.” The prohibited transactions in Section 406(b) set specific guidelines on impermissible behavior by those charged with fiduciary responsibility. The key for these types of prohibited transactions is that fiduciaries cannot use plan assets for their own interest, act on both sides of a transaction involving the plan or receive financial benefit from a party doing business with the plan related to plan business.
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What is the definition of a fiduciary?
With respect to an ERISA benefit plan, including apprenticeship plans, a fiduciary is a person (or entity) that performs certain functions for the plan. There are several ways to become a fiduciary. Fiduciary status may be conferred by simply holding a particular plan position, such as plan trustees who are automatically fiduciaries. ERISA also requires that plans designate a named fiduciary. The named fiduciary has the ultimate responsibility for the plan. For multiemployer plans, the named fiduciary is virtually always the board of trustees.
There are also general fiduciaries under ERISA. These individuals or entities include those who exercise discretion or control over plan assets or plan management, provide investment advice to the plan for compensation or have any discretionary responsibility in administering the plan. It is important to know that people can be fiduciaries without expressly accepting fiduciary responsibility if they are performing fiduciary functions. This is true even if they have expressly stated (in a contract or otherwise) that they do not intend to be a fiduciary. ERISA places actions over words in this context.
What are the pillars of fiduciary responsibility?
There are five basic principles, or pillars, of fiduciary responsibility. These pillars, which are derived from ERISA Section 404, provide the fundamental guidelines by which fiduciaries, including those associated with a JATC, must act.
- Act solely in the interest of plan participants and beneficiaries
- Hold and deal with plan assets for the exclusive purpose of paying benefits and defraying costs of plan administration
- Act prudently
- Diversify plan investments
- Act in accordance with plan documents, insofar as the plan documents are consistent with ERISA.
Use of Plan Assets
Can an apprenticeship program use plan assets to purchase marketing and other promotional materials?
Yes, an apprenticeship program can use plan assets to purchase marketing and other promotional materials. Like other educational enterprises, apprenticeship and training programs have to perform outreach to increase awareness of the program and to recruit prospective applicants for the program. Outreach efforts may include distributing information about the program and program standards, publishing advertisements, participating in workshops or other job fairs, and partnering with local school districts and vocational education systems.
The use of plan assets to purchase marketing and other promotional materials must be consistent with ERISA fiduciary responsibilities. The expenses must be for marketing or promotional materials, and the amount of the expenses must be consistent with the fiduciaries’ obligation to be prudent and economical in the use of plan assets. For example, T-shirts bearing the name of the program would be a permissible expenditure, but expensive sporting event tickets would be impermissible.
As with other expenditures, trustees should be mindful of prohibited transaction rules when authorizing the use of plan assets for marketing and promotional activities. In addition, as a matter of general prudence, a written expense policy and internal controls should be in place to prevent abuse and inappropriate or excessive expenditures of plan assets.
Can an apprenticeship program use plan assets to pay for contests and other competitions?
Yes, an apprenticeship program may use plan assets to pay for modest graduation ceremony expenses, provided that (1) the amount of the expense is modest in relation to plan assets; (2) the expenses are approved in accordance with internal accounting, recordkeeping and administrative controls designed to prevent inappropriate, excessive or abusive expenditures; and (3) the expenses are directly related to the graduation ceremony.
Like other educational enterprises, apprenticeship and training programs often coordinate graduation ceremonies to honor apprentices who have successfully completed the program. Apprenticeship programs may use plan assets to pay for modest graduation ceremonies, including light refreshments, diplomas or certificates, and small token gifts for those associated with the program (e.g., instructors).
However, the use of plan assets to pay for a graduation dinner for all attendees, valet parking, or payment for travel and accommodation would be impermissible.
As with other expenditures, trustees should be mindful of prohibited transaction rules when authorizing the use of plan assets for graduation ceremony expenses. In addition, as a matter of general prudence, a written expense policy and internal controls should be in place to prevent abuse and inappropriate or excessive expenditures of plan assets.
A final note: Although there is clear DOL guidance permitting the use of plan assets for marketing, promotional activities and modest graduation ceremony expenses, trustees still have to closely monitor and review these types of expenses. Despite such DOL guidance on graduation ceremonies, DOL interpretation and application of that guidance may still vary from auditor to auditor. For example, some DOL auditors may apply the guidance in a narrower fashion than others when determining whether the actual cost of light refreshments or token gifts is sufficiently modest in relation to plan assets.
Is a written lease agreement required if the space has been leased over a long period of time?
Yes. A written lease agreement is always required to document the transaction and its terms. Importantly, a written lease is required before day one!
What terms should be included in the lease?
Terms that should be included in a lease are:
- Length of the lease
- Monthly lease payment
- Description of the premises
- Termination provisions.
Can a JATC buy land or property from a party in interest?
No. A JATC cannot buy land or real property from a party in interest. There is no exception in ERISA to permit this type of transaction. However, a JATC can lease real property from a party in interest as long as certain criteria are met, including (1) the transaction is just as favorable to the JATC as any other arm’s length transaction with an uninterested party would have been, (2) the transaction is appropriate and helpful in carrying out the purposes of the JATC, and (3) all records related to the transaction are maintained for at least six years from the termination of the transaction in order to allow interested parties and the Department of Labor (DOL) an opportunity to review.
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- Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state (HHS) was formerly known as HyperOsmolar Non-Ketotic coma (HONK).
- HHS is a condition that occurs in patients who suffer from type 2 diabetes mellitus and have very high blood sugars (over 33.3mmol/L).
- The condition can have an insidious onset, worsening over several days or weeks before the patient presents to a health care provider.
- HHS is often caused by a combination of illness (i.e. infection) and dehydration.
- HHS is an emergency with a high associated-mortality and therefore requires specialist treatment, usually in a high-dependency setting.
- In type 1 diabetes, an absolute lack of insulin can cause high blood sugars and lead to the production of ketones which results in Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)- see related article here.
- In type 2 diabetes, however, patients usually retain some usable insulin and the body will not need to resort to ketone production. Therefore someone with type 2 diabetes can have extraordinarily high blood sugar levels without a clinically significant rise in ketones.
- In HHS, the pancreas is still able to produce small amounts of insulin and this is enough to suppress lipolysis and therefore prevent ketogenesis which would lead to DKA but not enough to lower blood glucose levels to a safe level.
- Importantly, patients with type 2 diabetes who are insulin dependent may develop DKA rather than HHS (as they do not have any usable insulin).
- HHS can be the first presentation of type 2 diabetes.
- There are fewer hospital admissions for HHS than there are for DKA.
- Sources report HHS accounts for less than 1% of all primary diabetic admissions.
- However, the mortality rate for HHS is 10-20% which is about 10x higher that of DKA.
- Poor outcomes with HHS occur in:
- Patients at the extremes of age (very young or very old)
- Those who present with coma and
- Those with profound hypotension.
- While DKA and HHS are separate emergencies, they represent 2 points along the same spectrum of metabolic derangement caused by a lack of insulin.
- Roughly 1 in 3 patients who present with a hyperglycaemic crisis will actually have a mixed picture of DKA and HHS.
- As patient’s blood glucose levels gradually rise they will have increasing polyuria due to the osmotic diuresis effect of glucose in urine and this will cause polydipsia.
- As the patient loses more and more fluid through their urine they will develop profound dehydration and electrolyte imbalances.
- The urine will become hyperosmolar.
- Osmolality is calculated from the formula:
- Patients with HHS often present with symptoms of:
- Increased thirst
- Recent weight loss
- Urinary frequency
- Disorientation, drowsiness, reduced GCS, coma
- It is also important to consider the cause for their deterioration i.e. a chest infection or a urinary infection and a patient may present with symptoms associated with the underlying cause.
- On examination of a patient with HHS you will notice signs of volume depletion:
- Dry mucus membranes (dry mouth)
- Reduced skin turgor
- Reduced urine output
- Cold, clammy peripheries
- Mottled skin (sign of circulatory collapse secondary to hypovolaemia).
- Physiological responses to hypovolaemia: tachycardia, hypotension
- An important step in the management of HHS is recognising it as a potential differential!
- HHS should be a differential for anyone presenting with altered mental status, especially if they have a history of type 2 diabetes (although, as mentioned above this could be their first presentation of diabetes).
- HHS is characterised by:
- Profound hyperglycaemia (glucose >33.3mmol/L)
- Hyperosmolality (serum osmolality >320mmol/kg)
- Volume depletion in the absence of ketoacidosis (pH>7.3 and HCO3>15mmol/L)
Acute management of HHS
Treatment of HHS requires consideration of 5 different goals:
- Replace fluid and electrolyte losses.
- These patients are profoundly dehydrated and require careful and considered fluid resuscitation.
- A Cochrane review has recommended the use of crystalloid rather than colloid fluids.
- Replacing fluids too quickly might lead to cerebral oedema or cerebral pontine myelinosis as it causes fluid shifts and further electrolyte imbalances.
- Replacing fluids too slowly would be futile and the patient would likely remain hypotensive and hypoperfused.
- Normalise blood glucose levels
- Fluid replacement will start to bring down blood glucose levels. Once fluid replacement alone stops bringing the plasma glucose down an insulin infusion can be started.
- A fixed rate intravenous insulin infusion should be started at a very low dose to prevent bringing the glucose down too quickly.
- A rapid decrease in glucose might cause the patient to become hypoglycaemic.
- Normalise osmolality.
- Rapid changes in osmolality can also be harmful.
- Fluid replacement alone (without insulin) will lower blood glucose which will reduce osmolality causing a shift of water into the intracellular space. This will cause a rise in serum sodium (a fall in blood glucose of 5.5 mmol/L will result in a 2.4 mmol/L rise in sodium).
- Rising sodium is only worrying if the osmolality is not declining at the same time.
- To prevent cerebral pontine myelinosis sodium can only be safely reduced at a rate of 4-6 mmol/hr.
- Patients with HHS are potassium deplete and require potassium replacement.
- Treat pre-disposing cause
- Prevention of complications including:
- Arterial or venous thrombosis
- Hypernatraemia and increasing ADH levels, which both occur in HHS, can lead to a hypercoagulable state.
- All patients will require low-molecular weight heparin to reduce their risk of developing an arterial or venous thromboembolism.
- Arterial or venous thrombosis
- See above for careful management of fluids, glucose and electrolytes.
- Daily foot checks.
Patients with HHS will need to be treated in a high dependency setting.
- Correcting blood glucose, electrolyte imbalances and increased osmolality will be done carefully as rapid correction is harmful.
- These patients do best when they are cared for with an MDT approach:
- Mobility: Early mobilisation is essential for recovery.
- Nutrition: dietician involvement to assess nutritional status and give advice regarding re-feeding once well enough to avoid re-feeding syndrome.
- Diabetes management:
- IV insulin can be discontinued once the patient is eating and drinking and SC insulin therapy can recommence.
- All people with HHS should be referred to the specialist diabetes team.
- Education! All patients will receive education to reduce the chance of reoccurrence and long-term complications.
- Kitabchi AE, Umpierrez GE, Murphy MB, et al. Management of hyperglycemic crises in patients with diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2001;24:131-153
- Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state – UpToDate
- Wachtel TJ, Tetu-Mouradjian LM, Goldman DL, et al. Hyperosmolarity and acidosis in diabetes mellitus: a three-year experience in Rhode Island. J Gen Intern Med. 1991;6:495-502
- Diabetes UK (2012). The management of the hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state (HHS) in adults with diabetes
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Turkey is calling on all sides in the Ukraine crisis to respect an international pact on passage through the Turkish straits to the Black Sea, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said, after Ankara closed access.
"Eroding Montreux or disrupting the status quo in any way is to nobody's benefit. We see a benefit in preserving Montreux. We tell all sides that it would be beneficial to abide by Montreux," Akar was quoted as saying by state-run Anadolu Agency on March 1.
"We will continue to implement articles 19, 20 and 21 of the Montreux Straits Convention, as we have done so far," Akar said.
NATO ally Turkey borders Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea and has good ties with both. Under the 1936 Montreux Convention, Ankara has the right to limit transit through its straits during wartime.
This allows it to curb Russian warships going to the Black Sea. The pact grants exemption to ships returning to their home bases.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Feb. 28 that Turkey had warned both Black Sea and non-Black Sea countries not to pass warships through its Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits,
"We implemented what Montreux says, and we will do so from now on. There has been no request for passage through the straits until today," Çavuşoğlu told reporters after a Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara.
In a call on Feb. 28, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken "expressed his appreciation" to Çavuşoğlu for Turkey's implementation of the accord, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.
While calling Russia's invasion an unacceptable violation of international law, Turkey has carefully formulated its rhetoric not to offend Moscow, with which Ankara has close ties in energy, defence and tourism. It has called for dialogue and offered to host peace talks.
Late on Feb. 28, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke to Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko about ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine on Belarus' border, his office said.
"We are determined to use the powers the Montreux Convention grants our country to ease the crisis," Erdoğan said after the Cabinet meeting on Feb. 28. "We will surely not compromise on our national interests, but we will also not disregard regional and global balances. This is why we cannot abandon ties with Russia or Ukraine."
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OBJECTIVES: Dairy products consistently have been associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer, yet the mechanism of this relationship remains unknown. Recent hypotheses propose that 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25 D) is protective for prostate cancer. One study in the United States found that calcium consumption, which can lower circulating 1,25 D, was associated with higher risk of advanced prostate cancer, and we sought to address this hypothesis in a distinct population. METHODS: We analyzed data from a population-based case-control study of prostate cancer conducted in Orebro, Sweden, with 526 cases and 536 controls. Using unconditional logistic regression models, we examined the relationship of dairy products, dietary calcium, phosphorous, and vitamin D with risk of total, extraprostatic, and metastatic prostate cancer. RESULTS: Calcium intake was an independent predictor of prostate cancer (relative risk (RR) = 1.91, 95 percent confidence interval (CI) 1.23-2.97 for intake > or = 1183 vs.
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Life on Instagram is not real.
Now, read that again.
These are the words I repeated as I forced myself to put my phone in my backpack and take a moment to pay attention to the nature around me. Why did I go on this hike in the first place? So I could let everyone that follows me know that I have a life where I go out to swim under waterfalls with all of my friends?
It was a hard pill to swallow when I realized that a large portion of my motive behind going out and having fun was actually only to get pictures of me doing it. Yes, some real fun would seep through regardless of my motive. I could even go as far as to say that my desire to have a new Instagram post motivated me to be more adventurous in the first place. But how much more of a genuine connection and new experience could I have had if I wasn’t so obsessed with getting that perfect photo that makes me seem “aesthetic” and “spontaneous?”
I get it. As human beings, we are naturally inclined to desire the acceptance and respect of others. With social media, we have full control over how people perceive us. We see other people showing off their perfect lives, and we wonder why our lives don’t look exactly like theirs. Those Instagram accounts that you follow and compare your life to? The people behind those accounts feel the same stress, insecurities and troubles that we do.
This isn’t to say that posting on Instagram is all bad. In fact, Instagram has proven to be an incredible tool to share art, curate a creative feed and connect with others that you wouldn’t stay in contact with (or meet!) otherwise. When used intentionally and carefully, Instagram can be a positive outlet for creative inspiration and honest connection.
Learning to appreciate each moment takes a complete rewiring of our minds. Next time you go out, don’t stop to take posed pictures. Let yourself enjoy what you actually set out to do in the first place. Take advantage of this time to get to know your friends better rather than using them as props for your weekend’s Instagram story. The people that you run into, the conversations that you have and the fulfillment that you receive as a result will be so much greater than just having something to post.
Living for the experience of life provides new, broader perspectives that open us up to knowledge that allows us to better connect with others. By intentionally putting away the technological obstacle that blocks us from that initial eye contact, that first impression and that first opportunity to connect with a new human being, we open ourselves up to a much broader and colorful world. | <urn:uuid:9b51cc5c-bf92-4169-b03d-89ce9eb368dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://southern-accent.org/2020/11/03/instagram-is-not-real-life-stop-living-to-post-and-start-living-to-experience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.970848 | 555 | 1.5 | 2 |
Insects can pose a challenge to livestock and impact performance, but there are steps producers can take to reduce their numbers.
Iowa State University Extension veterinarian Grant Dewell says there are many tools breeders have to combat fly problems, but a good first step is to limit their ability to breed by identifying the type of flies.
“Different flies have different breeding grounds,” he says.
Dewell says horn flies and face flies are major pests of grazing livestock. He says horn flies are the most economically harmful external parasites of grazing animals, and can reduce weights and growth rates. They spend most of their time on the backs and shoulders of grazing animals and lay their eggs in fresh manure.
Face flies also lay eggs in manure and congregate around animal faces. They are similar in size to house flies and are twice as large as horn flies. They don’t feed on blood, so they don’t have a direct impact on cattle growth, but they can cause lower weaning weights by decreasing milk intake. pastures.
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“One thing is just good pasture management,” he says, “so they break up those faecal flushes.”
Ric Bessin, professor of entomology at the University of Kentucky, says insect management works with chemical control options.
“There are other methods to complement chemical control,” he says. “Maybe not as a replacement for chemicals, but so we’re not relying on chemicals alone.”
In feedlots, manure dung is frequently disturbed, naturally destroying the insects’ potential breeding ground. In extensive grazing situations, cattle are less likely to disturb manure.
“Use some sort of trail to disturb them and spread them out,” Dewell explains.
Bessin says the disturbing manure pats can help dry them out and eliminate them as a spawning ground.
“It’s very beneficial,” he says. “The longer this patty stays wet, the more breeding ground it is for several species of flies that harm livestock.”
Bessin says working in pastures to limit wetlands can also reduce insect populations.
These efforts are aimed at reducing the number of harmful insects and making them easier to deal with, Bessin explains.
“It’s not going to totally eliminate the pest population, but what we’re trying to do is reduce those populations to a manageable level,” he says.
Producers may also consider using insect growth regulators in manure pats.
“It does a really good job,” Dewell says.
In feedlots, stable flies are more of a concern than horn and face flies. They lay eggs in decaying organic matter such as old leaf litter or muddy grass.
“We have to be pretty aggressive in cleaning up this organic material,” Dewell says.
He says growers can also introduce parasitic wasps, which naturally reduce adult fly populations by inserting eggs into fly pupae and disrupting fly development.
“Finding a reputable supplier and releasing wasps periodically throughout fly season can yield the best results,” he says.
Beyond reducing breeding populations, farmers have some chemical fly control options, including sprays and spills, feed additives, back rubbers, dust bags, and ear tags.
“We have a lot of tools available,” Bessin says.
Ear tags can be helpful in controlling horn flies.
“Insecticidal ear tags are primarily designed for horn flies, and they’re good for that,” Dewell says.
For face fly problems, he says treated face wipes can help keep flies away from pets. Putting these insecticide-impregnated wipes in front of mineral feeders can apply some protection to faces when animals come in to eat.
Bessin says growers should always work to combat resistance, so they shouldn’t just use the cheapest fly control option year after year. He says constantly reusing a mode of action can make pests more tolerant, and instead they might try using three different tactics in rotation.
Fly control remains a critical issue, as Dewell says their impact on weight loss and performance is “well documented”.
“Stable flies have a very painful bite,” he says. “It doesn’t take much to antagonize cattle, dab their food and stay away from feeders.”
Bessin says to monitor flocks, and if horn fly populations reach more than 100 flies on an animal’s side, or more than 200 per animal in total, it can start to have bigger impacts on the performance of the cattle.
“If you exceed that, it will really lead to a reduction in gain,” he says.
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Delias sagessa Frühstorfer 1910
Papua New Guinea, 2003
Photo : Brian Thistleton
Subspecies and range of Delias sagessa :
. sagessa Frühstorfer 1910 - S. Papua New Guinea
(Homonym dives - Rothschild 1914)
. straatmani Schroder 1977 - C. Papua New Guinea
Notes on Delias sagessa :
A beautiful species. Similar and closely related to D. abrophora which has a much reduced black submarginal band.
The photograph of D.s.straatmani shown is one obtained by Robert Gotts from Ray Straatman, after whom it was named. It is unlikely that such rare subspecies as this will ever reach dealers, and as such, are very rarely in the public view.
D. anjae and D. sinak were both originally placed as subspecies of D. sagessa. They have both recently been given specific status. I am not 100% convinced that this is correct, but in the absence of any reason to doubt the experts, will follow current opinion.
Original description : Frühstorfer - Seitz' Macrolep. ix. p.183 (1910) - "Male: Wings white on upperside. Fore wing black from apex of cell distad, costal edge black down to base, white area rounded distally, extending close to apex of SM². Hind wing with very thin black distal border, not exceeding 1mm. in width.
Underside olive-black, somewhat purplish, especially on hind wing, slightly glossy olive-green. Fore wing: a broad pale yellow band before middle anteriorly, just proximally of cross-veins, gradually widening behind, not reaching costal edge; four submarginal dots also pale yellow, the second the larger. Hind wing: median band deeper yellow than on the fore wing, terminating behind at a large scarlet abdominal marginal spot; moreover, a submarginal row of five scarlet spots, rounded, nearly touching fringe.
Female: Similar to the male; the black apical area of the fore wing, above, is wider, and the hind wing has a broad black distal border, which slightly widens costally. There are often white submarginal dots on both wings, those of the hind wing being slightly pinkish. The white area is feebly yellowish. The sexes are alike on the underside."
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The undersigned organizations expressed surprise and strongly condemned the military trial of an Egyptian young man without a crime except the love for his country. Ahmed Hassan Bassiouny created a group on Facebook to assist Egyptians awaiting recruitment and to answer their questions about prerequisites for military service. Military prosecution charged him disclosing military secrets on the internet despite the state owned radio station “El-Shabab wa El-Riada” praised the group and hosted the young man describing him as a role model for Egyptian youth.
On his group, Ahmed mentioned all necessary documents needed for recruitment, submission dates, deadlines and other formalities. He stated that his group is ” unofficial , voluntary aiming to offer the best possible answers”. The group members reached 1600 , all very supportive and excited for this bold initiative.
However, Ahmed was surprised to find a summoning from the military prosecution. He was interrogated on charges of disclosing military information despite this information is available to all Egyptians and is often published in the press.
The undersigned defense team said,” It is a big mistake to court-martial a young man for loving his country. We cannot find the slightest offense committed by this young man. His deed is out of good will and if he had gone wrong in his initiative, military trials are certainly not the way to react to a group on Facebook”.
Ahmed Hassan Bassiouny is not the first internet activist to face military trial this year. In March 2010, Ahmed Mostafa was court-martialed because of his writings on the internet. Shortly after and as a result of pressure from human rights organizations , the government stopped the hearings to save the young man’s career.
The undersigned organizations hope that the Egyptian government would reconsider this decision this time as well in a step forward to remedy the wrong act of presenting a young man to military trial without crime unless the government is cruel enough to punish him for loving his country.
Link to the group of alleged offense
Egyptian Human Rights Organizations Call On The Government To Stop Military Trial Of A Blogger
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
Hisham Mubarak Law Center
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China has been getting a lot of bad press lately. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is slowing. China’s much-vaunted currency reserves have fallen for the first time in many years. Thousands of U.S. investors have gotten burned by investing in fraudulent U.S.-listed Chinese stocks. And tellingly, a growing number of China’s wealthiest entrepreneurs are packing their bags, and taking their money out of China.
This also means that over the coming years, you’ll make more money by betting against the “China Miracle” than on it.
And as you’ll see below, some of those ways to bet are surprisingly close to home.
The Air is Seeping Out of the Chinese Bubble
Mine is not the consensus opinion. More than 80% of fund managers recently told Merrill Lynch that they expect the Chinese economy will engineer a soft landing. Even the newly pessimistic International Monetary Fund projects Chinese growth will only slow to 8% in 2012. Western economies can only dream of such a “slowdown.”
I’ve been a bear on China for a long time. And I believe history will show that Chinese economic statistics — especially concerning GDP and inflation — are as reliable as their Soviet and East German counterparts were. A small cottage industry emerged around studying fuel and electricity consumption as a way to gauge the extent of China’s real economic slowdown. You can argue the numbers until the cows come home. But the bottom line is this: the numbers don’t add up and it’s worse than what the Chinese government admits.
That makes China no different from other Communist economies in the bad old days of the Eastern Bloc. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the East German economy turned out to be 40% smaller than what economists had calculated. Not exactly a rounding error. In a remarkable example of historical symmetry — in what I think is the still single most underreported financial story I’ve ever come across — the World Bank cut its estimates of China’s total GDP by 40% in 2005. If the World Bank did the same today, China’s economy would shrink to $4.38 trillion, and drop it to #3 globally behind Japan’s $5.87 trillion.
China’s Coming Lost Decade
The Chinese economy may face a “lost decade” like the United States or Japan for two reasons.
First, with investment accounting for about 50% of GDP growth in China, no economy in history has experienced growth that has been this unbalanced and distorted. Much of this investment has been financed by China’s mostly government-owned banks.
And as Beijing-based academic Michael Pettis has pointed out, yesterday’s 10% growth borrowed against future growth. An enormous amount of still unseen debt and bad investments will take a long time to work through the economy. And that’s bad news for the Chinese banking system. Yet, China has been here before. In the late 1990s, the Chinese government had to write off the equivalent of 30% of China’s GDP in bad loans to its state-owned banks. Today’s equivalent would be to write off $2.19 trillion. That’s exactly the size of Italy’s economy.
Second, China is suffering from a real estate bubble that China bear Jim Chanos has called “1,000 times worse than Dubai.” The bursting of the real estate bubble hit the U.S. economy hard. But real estate construction, as a share of China’s GDP, is nearly double what it was for the U.S. economy in 2005, right before the housing bubble burst. Even a 10% fall in property investment would cut China’s GDP growth to 5.3%. And given that housing starts fell by 25% in December, 2011, and that U.S. housing dropped 35% from less loftier levels — a 10% drop is optimistic.
The Chinese economy faces some tough times ahead.
How to Get Rich by Betting Against China
A handful of high-profile hedge fund managers, including Jim Chanos in the United States and Hugh Hendry in the United Kingdom, are set to make a fortune from China’s collapse, betting both against its economy and Chinese real estate.
Here’s how you can do the same.
First, bet against the Chinese stock market and the poorly run state-owned enterprises that make up the bulk of the index. The best way to do this is through ProShares Trust Short FTSE/Xinhua China ETF (YXI). This exchange-traded fund (ETF) rises as the Chinese market falls. With a 52.70% weighting in Chinese financials, this position should soar as banks start to write off bad loans in the coming years.
Second, tumbling Chinese GDP growth is hitting global demand for commodities hard. That’s bad news for former investment darlings, such as commodities giants like Australia’s BHP Billiton (BHP) and Brazil’s Vale (V). These are highly liquid stocks that you should be able to short in any U.S. brokerage account.
Third, and most surprisingly, buy U.S. real estate. After all, that’s what the Chinese are doing. Half of China’s 960,000 millionaires are now considering moving or getting permission to reside overseas. Their top country of choice? The United States. Chinese are now the second most numerous foreign buyers of U.S. property after Canadians. Chinese accounted for 78% of the 3,805 EB-5 applications in the United States last year through which they can get “green cards” in exchange for investing $500,000 or $1 million in job-creating U.S. ventures. Entrepreneurs in Florida are already constructing specially designed Chinatowns targeting just such buyers.
The bottom line?
Bet against China and commodities over the coming decade. And scrounge up enough for a deposit on a property in Las Vegas or Phoenix or Miami.
You’ll be glad you did.
Nicholas A. Vardy
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Philodendron ilsemanii and Monstera variegata, two houseplants with similar leaf structure, can be confusing to identify as they are very similar in appearance. However, it’s actually quite easy to tell the difference between the two; you just need to know what to look for. If you are trying to decide between one or the other or need help remembering which is which, keep reading! We’ll go over the main characteristics of each plant, how to take care of them, and how to tell them apart so that you can have both!
According to Phytosanitary Plants, a site dedicated to botanical terms and their purposes, Monstera variegata is commonly called variegated or Christmas-wreath philodendron. It’s an evergreen perennial that grows from a rhizome (think thick root) and thrives best as an indoor plant. Albo, a term that applies to several species of philodendrons, means white; for example, albo variegated philodendrons include P. ilsemannii, which features creamy white leaves with green veins. The leaves can grow up to 10 inches long and 4 inches wide—pretty big for houseplants! They’re also delicate, so be careful when handling them. If you have kids or pets, keep them away from these plants! While they aren’t poisonous, they are poisonous if ingested by humans and animals. So keep your little ones safe!
How Do They Grow
Both monsteras (Monstera deliciosum) and philodendrons (Philodendron spp.) are tropical plants from arid areas of Latin America, Southeast Asia, or Africa. They enjoy indirect sunlight, lots of water—even when it’s dry outside—and regular fertilization. In other words, they need to be babied a bit if you want them to thrive. But they’re worth it: Monsteras have heart-shaped leaves that can grow up to 4 feet long, while philodendrons have variegated leaves that change color throughout their life cycle. They also make great houseplants for those who don’t have outdoor space for greenery. And did we mention how pretty they look? Monsteras produce clusters of small white flowers, which give way to little yellow fruits. Philodendrons will eventually produce bright red berries. The only downside is that both require pruning—they’ll get out of control quickly if left alone! While they may not win any awards for being easy plants to care for, these beauties are sure to add some punch and personality to your home decor!
Monsteras come in a variety of sizes, from small tabletop plants to 10-foot giants that can be difficult to care for indoors. It’s best to research your monsteras thoroughly before you buy—but if you want something that’s guaranteed large right off the bat, look for Monstera deliciosas with variegated leaves; they grow exceptionally big. Since these plants are used to dealing with desert heat, they also do well outside. However, if you live in an area where it gets below freezing during winter months, bring them inside until spring arrives. If you have any questions about caring for either plant (or any other houseplant), just ask! Garden centers are often staffed by knowledgeable employees who love talking about their favorite plants. The more you know, after all, the better able you’ll be to take good care of your new friend.
Neither monsteras nor philodendrons need much room to grow, but they both thrive when you give them as much light as possible. They’re both tropical plants that need air temperatures of at least 65 degrees Fahrenheit, so they shouldn’t be grown outdoors year-round—but if you live in a climate that’s mild enough for outdoor gardening all year long, plant them outside. If not, keep them indoors near a sunny window with plenty of natural light. If you want to move your plant outdoors during warmer months (or bring it back inside during winter), do so gradually over several days by slowly introducing it to lower temperatures until it can withstand full sun again. Be sure to water your plant thoroughly before moving it or bringing it back inside; dry soil can cause root rot, which will kill your plant.
Do I have room for them?
If you’re short on space, don’t worry—these two plants are perfect for an apartment. They both require minimal care, yet add a touch of personality to any room with their unique coloration. They make great housewarming presents, especially when you purchase them from https://legitvariegatedplants.com. I purchased my monsteras from a vendor on https://legitvariegatedplants.com, and I could not be happier with my purchase. She was quick to respond to questions and provided excellent customer service throughout the entire process. Plus, her prices were much more reasonable than other vendors that I found online. Definitely check out her website if you’re looking for quality variegated plants!
How do I care for them?
The two varieties—Monstera deliciosa variegata and Philodendron ilsemanii—are both relatively easy to care for. Because of their tendency to drop their leaves, it’s wise to give them some room so that they don’t touch when they grow. Soil should be rich in peat moss or potting soil, with a good amount of lime added so that your plants are not acidic. Watering should be done regularly, but only enough to keep the soil moist; overwatering can cause root rot. If you have pets or small children, you may want to consider placing these plants out of reach as they do have poisonous sap inside their stems and leaves. As long as you follow these guidelines, your plant will thrive! It’s also important to note that neither of these plants like direct sunlight. They prefer indirect light, which makes them perfect indoor houseplants. However, if you choose to place them outside during summer months, they will tolerate full sun as well.
Any other tips to care for my new plant(s)?
Many people shy away from monster-variegated plants because they look like they’ll be difficult to care for. Not so! Given plenty of light, water, and food, these plants will thrive! Try giving them three to four hours of sun a day (if it’s indirect sunlight that you have available, that’s still a good start), while also remembering to water them regularly with room-temperature or warm water. And don’t forget about fertilizer! I use Miracle Gro every two weeks during my plant’s growing season. I find that just one tablespoon per gallon of water is enough to give my plant all it needs. Finally, remember to provide ample space between your new addition and other houseplants; variegated plants are more susceptible to spider mites than green ones.
The philodendron ilsemanii thrives when given enough space to grow. When potting a new plant, use an 8 or 10 planter (depending on how big you’d like your plant to get) and repot only when necessary. Use a peat-based potting soil, like Miracle Grow’s 2X Miracle Grow Potting Mix, for plants that require acidity in their environment.
Like most plants, philodendrons need soil that is rich in nutrients and organic matter. The soil needs to drain well and be slightly acidic; if your tap water tends to be hard or alkaline, add some peat moss or composted bark to help adjust pH levels. You can also use a commercial potting mix formulated for houseplants.
In most cases, houseplants don’t need fertilizer unless you notice signs of nutrient deficiency (excessive yellowing in older leaves, for example). If you do choose to fertilize, buy a high-quality all purpose plant food that contains no more than three ingredients: nitrogen (in a form like ammonium sulfate), phosphorus (like calcium phosphate) and potassium (potash). Mix according to package directions. Use sparingly—you can always add more later if needed.
GROW ZONE & LIGHT
The philodendron ilsemanii is native to Brazil and prefers to grow at elevations between 1,500–1,800 meters (4,900–5,900 feet). You’ll want to keep your plant in a sunny area with plenty of exposure. Avoid drafts and be careful not to over water. The philodendron ilsemanii is extremely sensitive to both cold temperatures and direct sunlight.
WHAT IS THE SHIPPING SIZE
The proper shipping size for a philodendron ilsemanii is a 20 inch box with each plant individually wrapped in plastic and tucked into cushioning styrofoam. It will be shipped fully mature but only need water every two to three weeks. If you’re planning on moving your philodendron within a week or two of receiving it, we recommend keeping it potted until you move so that it can acclimate slowly to its new environment.
BEFORE YOU PLANT OUTDOORS
Check for hardiness in your area. The tropical ilsemanii grows best in zones 10–11 and will survive temperatures as low as 40 degrees Fahrenheit, but you should protect it from frost. If you live outside of its hardiness zone, grow it indoors or plant it outdoors during warmer months. (Note: It’s a good idea to check with local garden centers before purchasing any plant.) | <urn:uuid:f169bca3-8c17-418a-aeda-662b4c439fd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://legitvariegatedplants.com/product/monstera_variegata/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.937973 | 2,037 | 3.09375 | 3 |
We have all heard it before: The terrorists are coming!
Such concern, especially by the United States government following the atrocious attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001, has been increasing ever since. After all, the government even launched the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in response to 9/11. But is this terrorist threat really as imminent as we have been led to believe? Could the FBI be using this paranoia among the American populace to serve its financial needs?
Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terrorist Factory: Inside the U.S.'s Manufactured War on Terrorism, explores this possibility in his investigation of the 500 suspects accused of terrorist involvement within the U.S. since 9/11. Of those 500, only 50 actually had access to a weapon or bomb. Of that number, only five actually attempted to carry out an attack, only to be thwarted by authorities in time. In fact, many of the remaining suspects turned out to actually be undercover FBI agents and their attacks ... staged by the FBI itself.
Basically, the FBI has been desperate to appear somehow "heroic" to American civilians. Why? Aaronson goes on to explain that the widespread fear resulting from the 9/11 attacks churned out an enormous investment in U.S. national security — a budget which America's chief of police, the FBI, had to make it appear was worth the investment. Their special forces unit had to locate and restrain terrorists on a regular basis, even if — most of the time — there were no real terrorists to be found. What's more, real terrorists such as the Tsarnaev brothers who carried out the Boston bombings in April 2013 have been cleared by the FBI before carrying out their attacks. These terror skits, or "stings" as they are sometimes called, went so far as to try to lure recent American converts to Islam or those with grievances against the government into committing acts of terror to gauge if they were a threat. Then even if they turned out not to be, the FBI would either frame them for simply watching one jihadist video or stage an attack showing the previously undercover agent "rescuing" American citizens from the FBI's own attack.
Now what do staged spectacles over something as serious as terrorist attacks simply for the sake of money say about our government? Obviously, if there have been so few actual terrorist attacks within the country and the FBI have not even caught most of the real ones, the United States government needs to start investing this type of money in a different, more real-life concern. | <urn:uuid:e9556279-138d-4401-86e2-cc8185c45234> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mic.com/articles/53743/the-f-in-fbi-stands-for-fraud | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974678 | 522 | 1.789063 | 2 |
When we are confronted with difficult emotions like anxiety, depression, stress, grief, anger, or loneliness, we are quick to search for the off-button on our emotional dashboard instead of taking in the messages they contain.Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D – The Shortest Guide to Dealing with Emotions
But emotions are not the problem. They are merely messengers. And the messages they carry deserve at least to be heard. They often contain important lessons, and can call us to helpful actions. Often they show us opportunities.
When emotions arise, you can ask yourself: “What am I feeling right now?” and “Where can I feel it?” and “What does my emotion ask me to do?” and “What does this suggest I am yearning for?”
We like feeling this way, and never want it to stop, and so we cling onto this pleasant feeling, in the hopes of never losing it. Or we detune so it won’t be noticed when it stops, as if being numb is the definition of happiness. We dislike feeling this way, so we push it away as if feelings are the enemy.
Feelings are not just about like and dislike. They are how our past and present impact us. They help train our ability to notice what is present, based on what we’ve experienced in the past.
Allowing emotions to be there when they occur, to listen closely to their message, to feel them fully with neither clinging nor needless defense, allows them to serve their proper role.
Emotion regulation is the ability to exert control over one’s own emotional state. It may involve behaviors such as rethinking a challenging situation to reduce anger or anxiety, hiding visible signs of sadness or fear, or focusing on reasons to feel happy or calm.Psychology Today Staff – Emotion Regulation
emotion regulation often involves what experts call “down-regulation,” or reducing the intensity of emotions. A grieving person might down-regulate his sadness by recalling something amusing. An anxious person may cope by distracting herself from the thought that is causing her anxiety. Emotion regulation can also include “up-regulation,” or amping up one’s emotions, which can be useful when an imminent danger or challenge calls for a healthy dose of anxiety or excitement.
The process model of emotion regulation proposed by psychologist James Gross emphasizes that people can act to control their emotions at different points in time—including before they feel an emotion (“antecedent-focused emotion regulation”) and after they have already begun to react emotionally (“response-focused emotion regulation”).
Emotion dysregulation is a component of certain forms of mental illness. Over time, it could have a negative impact on one’s personal well-being and social relationships.
Certain ways of regulating emotion regulation, such as regularly bottling them in, may also be associated with lower well-being and satisfaction with relationships.
A bodily component in the form of central nervous system arousal, as when you experience your heart go aflutter in the presence of a love interest or when you tremble in fear.Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP – The ABCs of Emotions
A cognitive component, which includes the subjective feeling of the emotion, which we label as fear, love, joy, anger, and so on, as well the judgments we make about our life experiences that trigger emotional reactions (back to this in a moment).
The behavioral component, the third “side” of the emotional coin, is the outward expression of an emotion in overt behavior, such as smiling when happy or approaching someone we love or moving away from a feared object or situation.
Let me explain using a simplified ABC model, as proposed by psychologist Albert Ellis. The “A” stands for an activating event that sets the stage for an emotional response. The “B” stands for beliefs or judgments we make about the event, and the “C” represents the emotional consequences, such as anger, anxiety, sadness, guilt, worry, or for positive events, perhaps joy or happiness.
The emotional consequence (C) isn’t the direct result of the A (activating event) itself, but of the exaggerated or catastrophizing way of thinking (the B) that cognitive-behavioral therapists call a cognitive distortion.
In other words, life experiences are filtered through our belief systems that, in turn, trigger our emotional responses.
In order to validate and regulate emotions, it’s necessary to be aware that you are experiencing them in the first place.Mallory Frayn Ph.D. – How to Validate Your Emotions
There are three questions you can ask yourself to prompt your awareness of emotions: What am I feeling physically? What am I thinking? What emotional label would I put on this experience?
Paying attention to physical sensations is a helpful starting point because emotions usually present themselves in our bodies to motivate us to action.
Thoughts are also helpful to attend to because they provide some context as to what your emotions are communicating to you about your needs and whether or not they are being met.
Allowing yourself to feel your feelings—to lean in, rather than lean away—can show you that you’re capable of riding the waves of emotion. Because emotions are temporary experiences, they will reduce in intensity over time. Not allowing them to run their course can in fact make them feel more intense for longer, like trying to fight the tide.
Three simple words can go a long way in working to acknowledge and validate how you feel, and they are as follows: “That makes sense.”
They are a reaction to something that is happening in our environment, a threat detection system as it were, and they don’t pop up out of nowhere.
In some cases, after being present to your feelings and allowing them to run their course, you may realize that this in and of itself was all that you needed in that moment. Other times, after the intensity of the emotion has reduced, you may want to address whatever led to the emotion in the first place.
The key here is to wait to problem-solve your way out of an emotion until you’ve actually gone through it. If you jump right into figuring out what you need to do to make it go away, you’re effectively telling yourself that you shouldn’t be feeling what you’re feeling, which is a sure-fire way to make it worse.
The benefits of reappraisal extend beyond the emotional realm. People who reappraise are less depressed, more satisfied with their lives, have higher self esteem, and greater optimism and well-being; they are also seen by others as more having closer relationships and being more likeable.Amie M. Gordon, Ph.D. – The Good and Bad of Emotion Regulation Strategies
When people are told to suppress their emotions during experiments, they express fewer negative emotions, but they still report experiencing as many negative emotions as people who aren’t told to suppress.
Although suppression doesn’t dampen people’s experience of negative emotions (just their expression of them) it does seem to have an adverse effect on people’s positive emotions.
People who suppress more also have less social support, avoid getting close to others, and are seen by peers as having fewer close relationships.
The key reason why suppression was associated with poor well-being and relationship quality? It made people feel inauthentic. Suppressing their emotions made people feel like they were holding back their true selves.
In a nutshell, “fawning” is the use of people-pleasing to diffuse conflict, feel more secure in relationships, and earn the approval of others.Sam Dylan Finch – 7 Subtle Signs Your Trauma Response Is People-Pleasing
If you’re a fawn type, you’re likely very focused on showing up in a way that makes those around you feel comfortable, and in more toxic relationships, to avoid conflict.
But the downside to this is that you’re not necessarily being your most authentic self. The more you fawn and appease others, the more likely you are to feel unknown to others, even in your close relationships.
Your catchphrase might even be something like “it’s no trouble at all, really!”
We need an outlet for our emotions, but having emotions can be sooo off-putting, right? So we unload them onto people we aren’t yet invested in, that we won’t see again, or where a safe distance (like on social media) is in place.
You might make a lot of excuses for the lousy behavior of other people, defaulting to self-blame. You might get angry, only to feel like an Actual Monster for having feelings at all five minutes later. You might even feel like you’re not “allowed” to be upset with other people.
We’re trying to anticipate someone else’s happiness, because deep down, we feel responsible for it — and are trying everything in our power to ensure that the people we care about aren’t disappointed.
This can be difficult to notice at first. You might think of yourself as being agreeable, good at compromise, easy to get along with. But if you pay attention to the conversations you’re having, you might notice you’re a little too agreeable — to the point of validating viewpoints that you don’t really, fully agree with.
Fawning often requires that we shut down emotionally. The less we have distinct feelings of our own, the easier it is to adapt to and accommodate the emotions of other people.
If we feel that “fawning” is failing us in an argument, that it won’t work with a particular person, or that we just don’t know how to please someone, we might check out emotionally, or rely on other “escapist” mechanisms so that we no longer have to engage.
It can be painful to constantly silence yourself and push your emotions away, all while working overtime to anticipate the emotions of other people.
Chronic loneliness occurs when feelings of loneliness and uncomfortable social isolation go on for a long period of time. It’s characterized by constant and unrelenting feelings of being alone, separated or divided from others, and an inability to connect on a deeper level. It can also be accompanied by deeply rooted feelings of inadequacy, poor self-esteem, and self-loathing.Cigna- Signs and Symptoms of Chronic Loneliness
必須説自從好幾年前那一段結束後，這種孤獨的感覺的確有越來越强烈，尤其是經過了兩年多瘟疫的煎熬。但説到第一次有這種感覺，大概就是在我人在Semenyih研究生年代，第一次分手後病到滾來滾去的那時候。那是第一次如此深刻感受到無助。在此之前，由於身邊總有朋友陪伴從來都不覺得戀愛是個必要，但搬出去大病時才覺得原來孤獨is a thing。
Inability to connect with others on a deeper, more intimate level. Maybe you have friends and family in your life, but engagement with them is at a very surface level. Your interaction doesn’t feel connected in a way that is fulfilling and this disconnection seems never ending.
No close or “best” friends. You have friends, but they are casual friends or acquaintances and you feel you can find no one who truly “gets” you.
如上，我的確不太喜歡跟太多人談太深層的事情。或許是不善於面對離別這件事情吧，從小到大每當終於get comfortable enough to跟別人開始聊比較深的事情時，那個朋友就會因爲家庭的緣故離開我的社交圈。經過幾次后，本來就比較少跟別人聊心事的我，就自然更難有這樣的朋友。
Overwhelming feeling of isolation regardless of where you are and who’s around. You can be at a party surrounded by dozens of people and, yet, you feel isolated, separate, and disengaged. At work, you may feel alienated and alone. Same on a bus, train, or walking down a busy street. It’s as if you’re in your own unbreakable bubble.
When you try to connect or reach out, it’s not reciprocated, and you’re not seen or heard.
Exhaustion and burn out when trying to engage socially. If you’re dealing with chronic loneliness, trying to engage and be social with others can leave you feeling exhausted. Continued feelings of being drained can lead to other issues like sleep problems, a weakened immune system, poor diet, and more.
Some studies even suggest that there may be a link between loneliness and an increased risk for developing dementia and Alzheimer’s.
Long term feelings of loneliness and social isolation can also reduce cognitive skills, such as the ability to concentrate, make decisions, problem-solve, and even change negative self-beliefs. And it can ultimately lead to depression.
Talk to your doctor, a therapist, or another health care professional. Chronic loneliness isn’t limited to feelings of social isolation and alienation from others. It is often tied to ongoing and deeply rooted negative beliefs about yourself that can eventually lead to other medical and emotional problems. Let someone know what’s going on.
Engage with other people in a positive, healthy way. Even though it may be difficult, try making the effort to connect with others. Volunteering, hobby clubs, workout groups, and other opportunities, can help boost self-esteem and provide a safe and satisfying way to connect with others.
Get some exercise and sunlight. Getting active and out in the sunshine can help elevate endorphins and serotonin. These “brain hormones” can boost mood, help improve sleep, and make people feel happier.
Find a support group, especially if chronic loneliness is a side effect of some other issue you might be dealing with, such as substance use, loss of a loved one, loneliness from a divorce or break up, a chronic and isolating illness, etc. Receiving support and encouragement from others who may share similar feelings, could help ease symptoms of chronic loneliness. | <urn:uuid:60972598-2c4d-4b42-92ec-ed3b39b840d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jeff.coolsilon.com/2022/07/04/3266/?amp=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.760534 | 9,374 | 3.390625 | 3 |
The key to being financially healthy is to take advantage of the many money making opportunities that do not require so much effort and resources on our part. Gone are the days when people’s definition of career success has a lot to do about being a part of a giant firm somewhere in the city. While that still works for some people and while being a part of a prestigious company has its perks, it does not mean that it is the only way to be successful career wise. Nowadays, more and more people are embracing the fact that they can make money online. With millions of people using the internet in almost aspects of their lives, that translates to a million of online opportunities for those who have the daring. If you are wondering, here are some ways you can make money online.
YOUR CUSTOMERS WILL APPRECIATE REGULARLY HEARING FROM YOU: You see, blogs today have this great ‘comment’ facility which means your people – your customers – can ask you questions and give you valuable feedback almost immediately. This is almost like a ‘chat’ system, and is quicker than email. Forget about having to manipulate your source codes, Blogs make this unnecessary. Blogs have an amazing comment system that allows your customers to immediately post feedbacks and queries. And that’s what service on the net is all about today – quick responses, dependable advice and getting what you want, when you want. Now. And Read my story can do it.
I kept hearing about online blogs, those personal websites that are published on the Web. As you probably know, blogs contain philosophical reflections, talk about social issues, and opinions about everything under the sun. They are usually presented in journal style with a new entry each day, or almost every day.
You would be shocked how many people write make money online blogs. Make money online is an interesting topic and everyone who makes money online has an opinion about how to do. Unfortunately, it is a very crowded niche. I have had more success by building smaller blogs talking about subjects that are far less interesting. For instance, my best performing blog is about gluten free living — a topic that, for me, is fairly uninteresting. But, I have found that there are a lot less competing blogs in the gluten niche.
Whatever you decide to do, the internet is a great place for starting as it’s a growing market. Once you have decided upon something you believe will work, spend time researching and developing your idea.
This is one of my favorite methods for finding dofollow blogs and other linking opportunities. Here’s what you do. Search in Google with the main keywords in your niche. Note the top 10 (or 5 or 20, it doesn’t matter) website URLs. Then go to Yahoo! Site Explorer and display the incoming links to that particular URL. Go to each URL, especially if it’s a blog (indicated often by the word “blog” in the title), and then go to those blogs.
With the ease of use and exceptional potential that keeping a blog provides, it’s incredible that people didn’t tap into this gold mine years ago. If you are creative enough, you can have huge success using this free, easy method of marketing and quickly make money with blogs. | <urn:uuid:baf42c33-7b2e-4b18-82fc-cd1c285cc322> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://interfaces-competences.com/make-money-by-blogs-with-blog-marketing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957863 | 684 | 1.515625 | 2 |
MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. -- He stands noticeably smaller than the Marines to his right and left. Their frames fill out their camouflage utilities and flak jackets, while his looks a couple sizes too small.
Despite the noticeable size difference, Ryan Forbes, a 13-year-old native of San Diego, held his own with the Marines of Lima Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment. His grin from ear to ear could be seen as they joked during lunch and when describing the lifestyle of the Marines in the field.
Forbes received a small taste of that lifestyle when he was made a “Marine for a day” with the battery. The Marine Corps coordinated with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to grant his wish May 13. Forbes was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a form of brain cancer in January, but he hasn’t let his current treatment hinder his enthusiasm for the military.
Forbes arrived with his parents and brother in the morning, but after a short meeting and a long drive, he was seen in flak jacket and Kevlar. He talked to Marines about various weapon systems, ate a Meal, Ready-to-Eat, called orders through the radio and participated in a fire mission at the gunline.
It was an eventful day that culminated with him fulfilling one of his dreams.
“I came out and fired a howitzer,” said Forbes with a grin. “It shook me.”
Forbes has wanted to join the military for several years. He spends time learning about the different branches, what it takes to complete recruit training and the various weapon systems. He saw some of the same weapon systems today.
“I learned a lot about different guns like the 240B (machine gun) and the SAW (squad automatic weapon), and how a howitzer works,” Forbes said.
With the smell of artillery fire still in the air, Forbes relaxed with his section during lunch. Forbes and his brother Jason seemed right at home with the Marines. With an M777 lightweight howitzer as their backdrop, they talked and laughed like old friends.
“Guys just never change,” said Navy Lt. Katrina Landa, the battalion surgeon. “He just sat down with the Marines and joked and told stories.”
While Forbes enjoyed the visit, many felt the Marines got just as much, if not more, from their guest of honor.
“I think the Marines got a really good sense of helping other people,” Landa said. “They are usually so focused on the mission, but here they got to see the human side. They saw how they inspire a young child.”
Forbes returned home with a handful of gifts and souvenirs from the Marines. While they gave him shirts, plaques and trinkets, Forbes gave the Marines something more. His grin was transferred to the Marines in attendance who couldn’t help but enjoy his youthful enthusiasm. They won’t forget Forbes soon as they honored him with his name taped on their howitzer. | <urn:uuid:c6a5a3c4-709a-4e31-8645-33afdcaf3dee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.1stmardiv.marines.mil/News/News-Article-Display/Article/542163/make-a-wish-marines-team-up-to-grant-san-diego-natives-wish/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.983135 | 655 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Update: On Tuesday night (6/30), the Brazilian Senate approved the “PLS 2630/2020”, the so-called “Fake News” bill. A final amendment cut back on article 7 “Account Registration” so that mandatory identification no longer applies to all users and is, in principle, optional in general. Under the revised text, companies "may" demand identification from users where there are complaints of non-compliance with the "fake news" law, or when there is reason to suspect they are bots, are behaving inauthentically, or assuming someone else's identity. Social networks and private messengers app are also expected to create some means of detecting fraud in account creation (Article 7, paragraph one). These new provisions seem to match most companies' existing practices but may be expanded to also include those new obligations established in the "fake news" bill.
An amendment narrowed article 8 “Account Registration” so that it applies only to private messaging accounts "exclusively linked to cell phone numbers" (still potentially tremendously confusing in practice); private messaging services are ordered to check with mobile operators which numbers had their contract terminated in order to suspend the related accounts in the app. This provision now excludes social networks.
An amendment removed “within the scope of its service” from article 9 that says that private messaging services must limit the size of private groups and lists. This last change can potentially undermine innovation of future products based upon peer-to-peer messaging systems that, by design, can not control the size of a group.
Another amendment cut back on article 10 "the traceability provision", forcing only private messaging applications to retain the chain of all communications that have been “massively forwarded” for the purpose of potential criminal investigation or prosecution. Previous versions of the bill, as explained in our post below, also included social networks. The virality of a message and thresholds do not change the privacy and due process rights of the original sender. Forwarding a popular message does not mean you should automatically be under suspicion. The traceability provision is a "tech mandate" that compels private messaging apps to change their privacy-by design platform to weaken its privacy protections.
All the other parts of the provisions discussed in this post remained intact.
The original article was published on Monday morning, June 29th, 2020.
The Brazilian Senate is scheduled to make its vote this week on the most recent version of “PLS 2630/2020” the so-called “Fake News” bill. This new version, supposedly aimed at safety and curbing “malicious coordinated actions'' by users of social networks and private messaging apps, will allow the government to identify and track countless innocent users who haven't committed any wrongdoing in order to catch a few malicious actors.
The bill creates a clumsy regulatory regime to intervene in the technology and policy decisions of both public and private messaging services in Brazil, requiring them to institute new takedown procedures, enforce various kinds of identification of all their users, and greatly increase the amount of information that they gather and store from and about their users. They also have to ensure that all of that information can be directly accessed by staff in Brasil, so it is directly and immediately available to their government—bypassing the strong safeguards for users’ rights of existing international mechanisms such as Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties.
This sprawling bill is moving quickly, and it comes at a very bad time. Right now, secure communication technologies are more important than ever to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, to collaborate and work securely, and to protest or organize online. It’s also really important for people to be able to have private conversations, including private political conversations. There are many things wrong with this bill, far more than we could fit into one article. For now, we’ll do a deep dive into five serious flaws in the existing bill that would undermine privacy, expression and security.
Flaw 1: Forcing Social Media and Private Messaging Companies to Collect Legal Identification of All Users
The new draft of Article 7 is both clumsy and contradictory. First, the bill (Article 7, paragraph 3) requires “large” social networks and private messaging apps (that offer service in Brazil to more than two million users) to identify every account’s user by requesting their national identity cards. It’s a retroactive and general requirement, meaning that identification must be requested for each and every existing user. Article 7 main provision is not limited to the identification of a user by a court order, also including when there is a complaint about an account’s activity, or when the company finds itself unsure of a user’s identity. While users are explicitly permitted to use pseudonyms, they may not keep their legal identities confidential from the service provider. Compelling companies to identify an online user should only be done in response to a request by a competent authority, not a priori. In India, a similar proposal is expected to be released by the country’s IT Ministry, although reports indicate that ID verification would be optional.
In 2003, Brazil made SIM card registration mandatory for prepaid cell phones, requiring prepaid subscribers to present a proof of identity, such as their official national identity card, driver’s license, or taxpayer number. Article 39 of the new draft expands that law by creating new mandatory identification requirements for obtaining telephone SIM cards, and Article 8 explicitly requires private message applications that identify their users via an associated telephone number to delete accounts whenever the underlying telephone number is deregistered. Telephone operators are required to help with this process by providing a list of numbers that are no longer used by the original subscriber. SIM card registration undermines peoples’ ability to communicate, organize, and associate with others anonymously. David Kaye, United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion have asked states to refrain from making the identification of users a condition for access to digital communications and online services and requiring SIM card registration for mobile users;
Even if the draft text eliminates Article 7, the draft remains dangerous to free expression because authorities will still be allowed to identify users of private messaging services by linking a cell phone number to an account. The Brazilian authorities will have to unmask the identity of the internet user by following domestic procedures for accessing such data from the telecom provider.
Internet users will be obliged to hand over identifying information to big tech companies if Article 7 is approved as currently written, with or without paragraph 3. The compulsory identification provision is a blatant infringement on the due process rights of individuals. Countries like China and South Korea have mandated that users register their real names and identification numbers with online service providers. South Korea used to require websites with more than 100,000 visitors per day to authenticate their identities by entering their resident ID numbers when they use portals or other sites. But South Korea’s Supreme Court revoked the law as unconstitutional, stating that "the [mandatory identification] system does not seem to have been beneficial to the public. Despite the enforcement of the system, the number of illegal or malicious postings online has not decreased.”
Flaw 2: Forcing Social Media and Private Messaging Companies to Track and Retain Immense Logs of User Communications
Article 10 compels social networks and private messaging applications to retain the chain of all communications that have been “massively forwarded”, for the purpose of potential criminal investigation or prosecution. The new draft requires three months of data storage of the complete chain of communication for such messages, including date and time of forwarding, and the total number of users who receive the message. These obligations are conditioned on virality thresholds and apply when an instance of a message has been forwarded to groups or lists by more than 5 users within 15 days, where a message’s content has reached 1,000 or more users. The service provider is also apparently expected to temporarily retain this data for all forwarded messages during the 15-day period in order to determine whether or not the virality threshold for “massively forwarded” will be met. This provision blatantly infringes on due process rights by compelling providers to retain everyone’s communication before anyone has committed any legally defined offense.
There have also been significant changes to how this text interacts with encryption and with communications providers' efforts to know less about what their users are doing. This provision may create an incentive to weaken end-to-end encryption, because end-to-end encrypted services may not be able to comply with provisions requiring them to recognize when a particular message has been independently forwarded a certain number of times without undermining the security of their encryption.
Although the current draft (unlike previous versions) does not create new crimes, it requires providers to trace messages before any crime has been committed so the information could be used in the future in the context of a criminal investigation or prosecution for specific crimes defined in articles 138 to 140, or article 147 of the Brazil’s Penal Code, such as defamation, threats, and calúnia. This means, for example, that if you share a message that denounces corruption of a local authority and it gets forwarded more than 1,000 times, authorities may criminally accuse you of calúnia against your local authority.
Companies must limit the retention of personal data to what is reasonably necessary, proportionate to certain legitimate business purposes. This is “data minimization,” that is, the principle that any company should minimize its processing of consumer data. Minimization is an important tool in the data protection toolbox. This bill goes against that, favoring dangerous big data collection practices.
Flaw 3: Banning Messaging Companies from Allowing Broadcast Groups, Even if Users Sign Up
Articles 9 and 11 require broadcast and discussion group sizes in private messaging tools to have a maximum membership limit (something that WhatsApp does today, but that not every communications tool necessarily does or will do), and that the ability to reach mass audiences via private messaging platforms must be strictly limited and controlled, even when those audiences opt in. The vision of the bill seems to be that mass discussion and mass broadcast are inherently dangerous and must only happen in public, and that no one should create forums or media for these interactions to happen in a truly private way, even with clear and explicit consent by the participants or recipients.
Suppose an organization like an NGO, or a labor union, or a political party wanted to have a discussion forum among its whole membership or send its newsletter to all its members who’ve chosen to receive it. It wouldn't be allowed to do this through a tool similar to WhatsApp — at least once some (unspecified) audience size limit was reached. Per articles 9 and 11, the organization would have to use another platform (not a private messaging tool), and so the content would be visible to and subject to the control of its operator.
Flaw 4: Forcing Social Media and Messaging Companies to Make Private User Logs Available Remotely
Article 37 compels large social networks and private messaging apps to appoint legal representatives in Brazil. It also forces those companies to provide remote access to their user databases and logs to their staff in Brazil so the local employees can be directly forced to turn them over.
This undermines user security and privacy. It increases the number of employees (and devices) that can access sensitive data and reduces the company's ability to control vulnerabilities and unauthorized access, not least because this is global in scale and, should it be adopted in Brazil, could be replicated by other countries. Each new person and each new device adds a new security risk.
Flaw 5: No Limitations on Applying this Law to Users Outside of Brazil
Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 1 provide some jurisdictional exclusions, but all of these are applied at the company level—that is, a foreign company could be exempt if it is small (less than 2,000,000 users) or does not offer services to Brazil. None of these limitations, however, relate to the users’ nationality or location. Thus, the bill, by its terms, requires a company to create certain policies and procedures about content takedowns, mandatory identification of users, and other topics, which are not themselves in any way limited to people based in Brazil. Even if the intent is only to force the collection of ID documents from users who are based in Brazil, the bill neglects to say so.
Addressing “Fake News” Without Undermining Human Rights
There are many innovative new responses being developed to help cut down on abuses of messaging and social media apps, both through policy responses and technical solutions. WhatsApp, for example, already limits the number of recipients of a single forwarded message at a time and shows users that messages were forwarded, viral messages are labeled with double arrows to indicate they did not originate from a close contact. However, shutting down bad actors cannot come at the expense of silencing millions of other users, invading their privacy, or undermining their security. To ensure that human rights are preserved, the Brazilian legislature must reject the current version of this bill. Moving forward, human rights such as privacy, expression, security must be baked into the law from the beginning. | <urn:uuid:50844384-175d-471a-b347-45b0a698aa96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eff.org/id/deeplinks/2020/06/5-serious-flaws-new-brazilian-fake-news-bill-will-undermine-human-rights | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.939363 | 2,703 | 1.828125 | 2 |
We are growing native UK duckweeds for comparison in common lab conditions. How useful are duckweed plants?
R&D into specialised duckweeds for fast growth and nutritional value for agricultural and food applications.
Well... they are the fastest growing plants in the world!! They are also the tiniest flowering plants on Earth! They are aquatic plants found worldwide in temperate and tropical places. They make exact clones of themselves very quickly and can double in biomass in as little as 16 hours and form large populations, taking over water courses in peak growing seasons.
Duckweeds are commonly found in stagnant waters, ponds and swamps and canal networks. They are important for biodiversity: ducks eat them, frogs hide under them, and birds and other animals can transport them great distances. A healthy coverage of duckweed can control algae populations in water as they form a mat on the surface, excluding light from deeper penetration in a water body.
Common duckweeds cover the expanse of the UK and are, as the name suggests, common. The fat and ivy-leaf duckweeds are also frequently found species in the UK. The least duckweed is an invasive alien species introduced initially from America to Europe and then to the UK, this species is currently migrating Northwards. Greater duckweeds are the largest and have many short stubby roots. The smallest of all UK duckweeds, the rootless duckweed has been reported present in the South of the UK. Species use multiplication as clones as their primary means of reproduction to ensure fast growth and large populations. Many species also produce miniature flowers so it is expected that the species interact sexually with one another. Some duckweed species make 'overwintering bodies' called turions which sink to the bottom of water and act as seeds, transforming into true duckweeds in Spring. Image taken from Collins flower guide: Guide to the flowers of Britain and Ireland.
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What is the balance between native and invasive duckweeds? Factors involved in successful growth of certain duckweed species?
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Is it a good balance or do duckweeds have full coverage of the waterscape?
What is the water like? and light levels?
The majority of duckweeds are floating plants. Excessive duckweed growth as mats on the top of the water surface can be associated with litter aggregation in the top layer of water courses. This is totally unsightly! Duckweed mats can disrupt human activities such as swimming, boating and have been reported to cause fish death by depleting oxygen. If you want to know more about duckweed-ing and our manual, organic clean-up service, click below.
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This article was originally published in Russian in Kommersant.
Merely listing the people who advised the United States against challenging the nuclear deal with Iran (the JCPOA) would take the rest of this column. Numerous leaders, diplomats, and experts, including EU-based and Russian members of our organization, the European Leadership Network, expressed their support for continuation of the agreement. It puts significant, even if time-limited, constraints on the development of Iran’s nuclear program and provides strong safeguards against cheating. Even senior members of the Trump Administration reportedly prefer to uphold the JCPOA.
Yet we are in the middle of a major crisis. In his 13 October “de-certification” decision President Trump did not immediately restore suspended US sanctions or impose fresh ones. And it is not certain that the US Congress will act on President Trump’s invitation to pull out of the JCPOA or impose further stiff US conditions. But the hostility towards both Iran and the nuclear deal evident in the President’s announcement and the accompanying new US strategy on Iran has already invited condemnation and may provoke more hardline reaction from Tehran. It diminishes the political space for progress towards better relations between Iran and the international community. And it leaves the JCPOA permanently vulnerable to US political spasms.
It is important to note that President’s “de-certification” does not allege Iranian violations of the JCPOA. That would be hard to claim while the IAEA continues to find Iran in full compliance. Instead, President Trump is saying that he cannot any longer certify that the deal is in US national security interests. He justifies this using a range of arguments about Iran’s regime and its policies in Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and the Gulf region.
It will be for Congress to decide whether to re-impose the most important sanctions. It is most likely that the US would start with threatening to restore sanctions in an attempt to pressure Iran to re-negotiate the deal. Only then would sanctions be re-introduced, maybe in a modified form, or difficult unilateral new conditions imposed. At the same time, the critics of the deal hope that, somewhere along the way, Iran will over-react and quit the deal or do something stupid – such as resume higher level uranium enrichment or strike against US forces in the region, giving the US a perfect excuse to toughen its policy.
For the members of the European Union, who have supported a diplomatic resolution of the nuclear crisis with Iran since 2003 and have played a crucial part in reaching the JCPOA in 2015, US willingness to seek a direct confrontation with Iran looks like the wrong strategy, especially at a time of nuclear crisis with North Korea. They are not starry-eyed about Tehran. But they do not see Iran as the ultimate villain or as the only obstacle to a peaceful and prosperous Middle East. The region is much more complicated than that. They also judge that re-opening the JCPOA won’t result in a “better” deal, but rather will lead Iran back to the position of a nuclear threshold state, with enough nuclear material, infrastructure and expertise to produce nuclear weapons in weeks. In the process, as US-Iran confrontation escalated, the Middle East would become an even more dangerous and chaotic place, as we can see in the latest escalation of Saudi-Iran tensions. From a European perspective, it looks like the US has a good plan for how to start a crisis, but little or no idea about what may result from it.
Some in the US seem to hope that the threat of US sanctions will force the Europeans to join the US and cut links with Iran, not out of conviction but in order to maintain transatlantic unity and to protect European businesses. This time, however, the US may be overplaying its hand. It is true that the business links with the US matter to Europe much more than trade with Iran, but US actions compromise very basic European rules: that pacta sunt servanta (the deals must be kept) and that diplomacy should come before force. This is the message that European politicians and diplomats have delivered in Washington, including Federica Mogherini who during her visit to the US this week called the potential dismantlement of the deal “irresponsible”.
All of this draws the EU countries, Russia and China closer together as JCPOA signatories. Tactical coordination of positions is already under way. We should focus on sending a clear signal to Washington about the damage that US actions can do. Even after de-certification, there’s still time for diplomacy to work before irreparable harm is done, and we all share the same goal of preserving the JCPOA. There is also scope for a certain ‘division of labour’, with the EU working to influence Washington and Russia working to persuade Iran to stay in the JCPOA.
With regards to broader EU – Russia relations, we would caution against drawing conclusions that are too far-reaching. Yes, a US-EU split over Iran may encourage Europeans to adopt more assertive foreign and security policy positions and not just over Iran. But no, there will be no immediate transatlantic divorce and this crisis will not make the EU more likely to seek closer partnership with Russia. The EU will still expect Moscow to show the same respect for the existing rules of international behavior in Europe as it expects the US to show in its dealings with Iran.
See: http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/eln-group-statement-sustaining-the-iran-nuclear-deal-_5108.html
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7 Mental health apps and computer programs
The move towards smartphones and tablets in recent years has seen an inflation of apps and programs designed to support people with mental health problems. These self-help applications can be a cost-effective method for delivering basic mental health and wellbeing information and support. An obvious virtue of mental health apps and programs is that they can be downloaded, often for free, and used flexibly in the users’ own time and geographic location.
Keeping track of the plethora of mobile phone apps and programs developed each year can be difficult. They are usually manualised and highly structured, often providing computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT). They are presented in a range of ways and include animations, graphics, videos, interactive episodes, homework assignments and access to supplementary resources.
The NHS Apps Library used to offer a list of mental health apps that met NHS standards, which included evidence of clinical safety, security and technical stability. However, the NHS has now decided to close the NHS Apps Library and instead link to recommended apps throughout the NHS website (see). The effectiveness of some mental health apps is very well evidenced, but that is not the case for all of them. Value and usefulness of mental health apps can be questioned if they are not properly evaluated.
One way to judge the quality of mental health apps is to apply criteria that seem important from a user perspective. Whittaker et al. (2012) sought feedback from users in the process of designing their depression prevention app for adolescents. The user perspective emerging from their discussions with young users pointed to the fundamental importance of aspects like realism, credibility, positivity, and simple, clear messages when creating apps. When trying out a free mental health app in the activity below you might want to consider these criteria.
Activity 19: Trying out a free mental health app
Pause for reflection
Think about your experience of using the app. Is this something that could be useful for any of your clients? Can you imagine recommending any of these programs, either on their own or to complement the counselling you provide?
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Personnel Selection Procedures And Invasion Of Privacy
We conducted two studies on the perceived invasiveness of 12 personnel selection procedures. In Study I, indirect scaling methods were used to examine the degree to which 84 employed adults in the United States perceived such procedures to be invasive of privacy. Results showed the application blank was the least invasive of privacy and the lie detector was the most invasive of privacy. In Study 2, data from 149 (mostly employed) adults in the Northeast were used to assess relationships between invasiveness and several hypothesized antecedents. Correlation analyses showed that invasiveness was predicted by several factors (e.g., the extent to which the procedures erroneously discredited job applicants). Implications for personnel selection practices in work organizations are considered.
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Updated on July 13, 2022 by Sarina
Y2K fashion is back with a bang, and those who like to keep up with the trends are looking out for those glittery clothes, spaghetti strap tops, low-rise jeans, and also butterfly tops; All of them are back in fashion, and everyone is a diva again.
So you can do your thing and make a cute butterfly top just right for a Y2K party.
The butterfly top was first introduced by Singer Mariah Carey some 20 years ago – and she looked fabulous in it, and it could be today because nowadays young celebrities like Olivia Rodrigo can be seen sporting them with elan.
The butterfly top is a halter neck tie bralette top with sphagetti straps fastening it at the neck and at the back. It is shaped like a butterfly and may or maynot feature the body of the butterfly. It is usually heavily embellished.
Sewing tutorial for Butterfly top
The butterfly top can be made in any fabric – but the more glittery the better you will look ready for the y2k vibe. It can be made in thin see-through fabrics with chiffon, shiny fabrics like satin, or rich-looking textured fabrics like brocade or embroidered velvet – it is your fancy and your party. Use whatever you want to wear but embellish with lots of beads and sequins.
Sewing tutorial for a Butterfly top
Draft the pattern
You can base your butterfly top on an old bra or use the free-size pattern given below. The pattern given is for a free size one which can be modified to suit your particular body size. You can increase or decrease the amount you take in as a dart according to the bust size.
You need an outer fabric and lining piece to make this top and some thin fabric for making the spaghetti straps. Cut out 22 inches wide and 11 inches tall fabric pieces from the outer fabric and the lining.
Fold these fabrics by the middle and mark the following pattern. Change the pattern according to your aesthetic sense, personal preference, sense of modesty, etc.
Mark the darts and sew them on either side. Do this for the outer fabric and the lining
Make the spaghetti straps – you need six straps for this butterfly top. 2 for the neckties and 4 for the back ties.
These thin straps can be cords you can buy ready-made at shops, or you can make fabric tubes. Follow the tutorial for fabric tubes here.
Basically, they are quite easy to make. Just cut out 6 fabric strips of 3/4 inch from very thin fabric (in matching color as the outer fabric) – do not use thick fabric or use it to your own frustration. I just cut them from the fabric by the crosswise direction.
Fold each strip by the middle and sew a little less than 1/4 inch from the folded edge. Now use a thick needle (tapestry needle without a sharp edge) and thick Perle cotton or denim sewing thread. Attach it to one end of your fabric strip opening. It is better to taper trim the seam allowance of one end of the folded strip so that it will easily turn.
Use the needle and thread to ease the tube right side out slowly.
So you have the six fabric tubes.
Keep the tubes aligned on the lining piece. Baste stitch them in all the correct places.
The red lines in the picture show the basting stitches.
Keep the outer fabric right side down on your lining material.
Pin in place
Now stitch all around the edge, leaving 2 inches somewhere (for turning)
Bring it right side out through the unstitched hole.
Sew the open hole closed with hand sewing stitches or machine stitching. You can top stitch along the whole edge of the top and in the process sew the hole closed. The top stitching reinforces the edge.
Make the middle body of the butterfly.
My body looks completely unsymmetrical and more like an alien. I guess you can do better.
It is cut 8.5 inches long – you can make it longer or shorter. I made it bigger earlier and had to cut it shorter.
Cut out this shape from layers of fabric – so that the body part will be thicker and stand independently. Keep them stacked – with the outer fabric right side down. Sew all around, leaving a hole for turning.
When the body is turned, hand sew the hole closed.
Keep the body to the middle of the top and sew in place.
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New York is globally recognized as a place for music. Excuse me as I quiet the loud mouthed “Brooklynite” ranting about the best pastrami in the world to my left, and allow me to tell you why you should take music lessons in Brooklyn, New York.
First let’s talk about the benefits of music lessons. Naturally, one of the immediate advantages for music students is that they will be able to play their chosen instrument with greater confidence and proficiency. Although most self-taught musicians take pride for the fact that they have learned things on their own, those who have studied are often far more capable and knowledgeable when it comes to the technical aspects of music.
Additionally, music learners also get to develop various physical skills such as proper hand and eye coordination. Playing a guitar, for instance, means a player will need to master proper finger placement as well as good strumming. Violin players, on the other hand, have to handle both the instrument and the bow the right way. Drums can also provide musicians with nice exercise because it involves the hands, arms, feet and legs. It’s almost like dancing!
Most of the time, being a musician also puts an individual in a situation where he or she will collaborate with others. Playing with a band or orchestra is often the direction taken by most players. This gives the person a chance to interact socially in order to produce good music.
Now on to Brooklyn. Music never sleeps in New York. Imagine how fun it would be to take music lessons in Brooklyn in the privacy of your own home. Remember, the headliners at Madison Square Gardens, the Amphitheater or the Coliseum all probably started working with his or her music teacher, maybe in Brooklyn, New York. To get started with your music education check out music lessons at Kathryn Brickell Music Instruction in Brooklyn at https://www.music-instruction.com. They teach lessons on all instruments throughout New York and the areas of Brooklyn. Get music lessons today and I’ll watch you at the Amphitheater in Brooklyn very soon! | <urn:uuid:660555e3-a8e8-4388-a9cb-0551935fa91d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://music-instruction.com/the-many-advantages-of-taking-music-lessons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966408 | 433 | 2.03125 | 2 |
About: Aluminium chloride is a(n) research topic. Over the lifetime, 2312 publication(s) have been published within this topic receiving 21740 citation(s). The topic is also known as: Aluminum chloride anhydrous & Aluminum trichloride.
01 Jan 2004-Carbon
Abstract: Activated carbon fibres (ACF) are obtained mainly by physical activation with steam or carbon dioxide. Additionally, there are many papers dealing with chemical activation of carbon fibres, or a polymeric raw material, with several chemical agents like for example, phosphoric acid, zinc chloride, aluminium chloride,… Nevertheless, although it is well known that hydroxides are good activating agents, there are few papers about the activation of carbon fibres with KOH or NaOH. In the present work, ACF with high surface area are obtained by chemical activation with KOH and NaOH. Both chemical agents present different behaviour; thus, NaOH developed the highest value of porosity and KOH developed samples with narrower micropore size distribution. In order to compare the results with those obtained by physical activation, some ACF have been prepared using CO2 activation. The main conclusion of this work is that by using chemical activation it is possible to obtain similar, or even higher, porosity (∼1 ml/g, ∼3000 m2/g) than by physical activation. However, chemical activation presents two important advantages: (1) a much higher yield (27–47% for chemical activation and 6% physical activation for ∼2500 m2/g activated carbon fibres) and (2) the surface of the fibres prepared by chemical activation is less damaged than by physical activation.
12 Sep 2006-Surface & Coatings Technology
Abstract: The electrodeposition and surface morphology of aluminium on tungsten (W) and aluminium (Al) electrodes from 2 : 1 molar ratio AlCl 3 –[EMIm]Cl ionic liquids were investigated. Analyses of the chronoamperograms indicate that the deposition process of aluminium on W substrates was controlled by instantaneous nucleation with diffusion-controlled growth, while the deposition processes of aluminium on Al electrodes were found to be associated with kinetic limitations. Constant potential deposition experiments showed that the electrodeposits obtained on both W and Al electrodes between − 0.10 and − 0.40 V (vs. Al(III)/Al) are dense, continuous and well adherent. Dense aluminium deposits were also obtained on Al substrates using constant current deposition between 10 and 70 mA/cm 2 , and the current efficiency was found to be dependent of the current density varying from 85% to 100%.
01 Aug 1979-Journal of Clinical Pathology
TL;DR: It is suggested that aluminium retained in the bone of the dialysis patients and the experimental animals interferes with normal mineralisation.
Abstract: Iliac bone aluminium was determined by neutron activation analysis in 34 patients with chronic renal failure and in eight control subjects. In 17 patients treated by haemodialysis there was a significant increase in the amount of aluminium (mean +/- SE = 152 +/- 30 ppm bone ash). In eight patients treated by haemodialysis and subsequent renal transplantation, bone aluminium was still significantly increased (92 +/- 4.5 ppm bone ash) but was less than in the haemodialysed patients. In some patients aluminium persisted in bone for many years after successful renal transplantation. There was no relationship between hyperparathyroidism and bone aluminium. Although no statistically significant relationship was found between the mineralisation status of bone and bone aluminium, patients dialysed for the longest periods tended to be those with the highest levels of aluminium, osteomalacia, and dialysis encephalopathy. In 20 rats given daily intraperitoneal injections of aluminium chloride for periods of up to three months, there was accumulation of aluminium in bone (163 +/- 9 ppm ash) to levels comparable to those obtained in the dialysis patients, and after about eight weeks osteomalacia developed. The increased bone aluminium and osteomalacia persisted after injections had been stopped for up to 49 days, although endochondral ossification was restored to normal. As a working hypothesis it is suggested that aluminium retained in the bone of the dialysis patients and the experimental animals interferes with normal mineralisation.
25 May 2010-Journal of Materials Chemistry
Abstract: Hierarchical spindle-like γ-Al2O3 materials were prepared in the form of fray ended bundles of twisted nanoflakes by a non-template hydrothermal synthesis and sequential calcination route using aluminium nitrate or aluminium chloride as precursors and urea as precipitating agent. The microstructures, morphologies and textural properties of the resulting materials were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and N2 adsorption–desorption techniques. It was found that the spindle-like γ-Al2O3 particles are composed of at least three levels of hierarchical organization: polycrystalline γ-Al2O3 at the nanoscale, oriented nanoflakes and uniform spindle-like assemblies. The hierarchical γ-Al2O3 particles prepared from aluminium nitrate show a slightly smaller size, fewer self-organized nanoplatelets and better textural properties than γ-Al2O3 prepared from aluminium chloride, due to the larger aqueous ionic radius of NO3− than that of Cl−. The reported experiments allowed us to propose the mechanism of formation of the spindle-like assemblies, which involves self-transformation of metastable amorphous aluminium hydroxide particles and their sequential cooperative assembly. The as-prepared γ-Al2O3 was found to be effective adsorbent for the removal of selective pollutants from wastewater as a result of its unique hierarchical structure and high specific surface area, indicating a promising potential of this material for environmental remediation.
01 May 1996-Solid State Ionics
Abstract: The conductivity and phase structure of several composite polyether-alkali metal salt solid electrolytes are analysed and discussed. Species containing Lewis acid centres (AlCl 3 ), Lewis base centres (poly( N , N dimethylacrylamide) as well as those of amphoteric Lewis acid-base character (α-Al 2 O 3 ) are used as fillers. It is suggested that the competition between the Lewis base ether oxygens in the polyether chains and filler Lewis base centres in the complexation of alkali metal cations leads to the formation of different types of complexes and therefore to the modification of the polymer electrolyte ultrastructure. On the other hand acidic centres on the fillers compete with the Lewis acid metal cations in the formation of complexes with the polyether chain. The final ultrastructure and conductivity of composite electrolytes depends on the equilibrium of these Lewis acid-base reactions. | <urn:uuid:6786d518-1ad3-4d39-a780-25abce212f73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://typeset.io/topics/aluminium-chloride-33aptm6u | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.918882 | 1,532 | 2.84375 | 3 |
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2015 to Question 5430, on ownership of companies, what his definition is of a similarly effective system.
16 October 2015
The international standards on anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing, including transparency of legal persons, are set by the Financial Action Task Force. The British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands are members of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force and are subject to mutual evaluations of their AML/CTF regime through this body.
At the December 2014 Joint Ministerial Council, the UK and the Overseas Territories committed to continue to work together in raising international standards to tackle money laundering, tax evasion, illicit finance and corruption, leading by example given the importance of our financial centres to the international financial system. In March, the Minister for the Overseas Territories and I wrote to the Premiers of the BVI and Cayman Islands asking them to set out plans and a timetable for the implementation of central registers of company beneficial ownership, or similarly effective systems, by the November Joint Ministerial Council.
Any system should meet the following three criteria: UK and domestic law enforcement and tax authorities must be able to access company beneficial ownership information without restriction, subject to relevant safeguards; these competent authorities should be able to quickly identify all companies that a particular beneficial owner has a stake in, without needing to submit multiple and repeated requests; and companies or their beneficial owners must not be alerted to the fact that an investigation is under way.
The UK Government continues to engage actively with the BVI and Cayman Islands to emphasize the importance of this agenda and to offer any technical support that might be required. | <urn:uuid:2d763f37-c099-4857-af27-6fd909c9962f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2015-09-16/10448 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946957 | 345 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Set the wayback machine to 1998. Parallax View presents reviews of films released 20 years ago, written by our contributors for various papers and websites. Most of these have not been available for years.
It takes chutzpah to monkey with Orson Welles, even for the best of reasons, and without a doubt this unprecedented revision of Touch of Evil was undertaken with the best intentions. While I can quibble with a few details, the result is a remarkable success. Forty years after the fact, producer Rick Schmidlin and Oscar winning film and sound editor Walter Murch have given Welles his due and made Touch of Evil into the film he wanted to make.
Let There Be Light (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD) – John Huston, like so many members of the Hollywood community, offered his talents to the armed services after Pearl Harbor. He was assigned to the Army Signal Corps, where he made four films. This disc features all four films, including a recently restored version of his final documentary for the armed services.
You can see his changing perspective on war through the productions, from Winning Your Wings (1942), a recruitment film narrated by James Stewart, to Let There Be Light (1946), his powerful portrait of the mentally and emotionally scarred men treated at a Long Island military hospital. Report from the Aleutians (1943) shows the routine of military life at a remote base in the frigid Aleutian Islands between Alaska and Russia (it’s also the only film shot in color), but his tone becomes darker in San Pietro (1945), which documents the battle to take a small Italian village from the occupying German forces. Huston provides the ironic narration himself over the record of destruction and loss of life on a single battle. The scenes of bombed-out ruins and dead soldiers are real but the battle itself was restaged by Huston for maximum dramatic impact. The military chose not to show the film to civilian audiences but new recruits did watch the film to understand the grueling ordeal awaiting them in battle. The film was voted into the National Film Registry in 1991.
Let There Be Light, his final film, is on the one hand a straightforward portrait of soldiers receiving help for “psychoneurotic” damage, what today was call post-traumatic stress disorder, and on the other a powerful portrait of the damage that war left on these men. It’s also a portrait of an integrated military, with black and white soldiers living and working in group therapy sessions together, before it ever existed in the barracks. The film was censored for 35 years and restored just a few years ago. This disc features the restored version.
With sales of movies on disc falling with the rise of streaming video and digital movies, many studios have licensed their catalogs of classic movies to other labels. But not Warner Brothers. They started the Warner Archive in 2009 for manufacture-on-demand releases of films that otherwise wouldn’t support a traditional DVD release, and a few years later they started releasing Blu-rays through the same service. The difference between the formats, however, is that the Blu-ray releases from this line are in fact pressed discs and they feature high-quality transfers as good as any classic released through Warner’s traditionally-marketed Blu-ray line.
Because they are available only by order online (through Warner Archive, Amazon, and other outlets), they don’t get the kind of public profile that commercially released and distributed discs get. So here are some of the highlights of the past few months.
Out of the Past (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) – In a genre full of desperate characters scrambling and plotting to grab their slice of the American dream, Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past (1947) is a hard-boiled tale of betrayal with an unusually haunting quality. Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) is the classic doomed not-so-innocent of the American cinema, a former private detective whose life is forever changed when he falls in love with the wrong woman: Kathie Moffat (Jane Greer), the runaway mistress of a gangster (Kirk Douglas, all shark-like smiles). He’s been hired to get both her and the small fortune she stole back. She has other ideas and immediately seduces him, sending him on a long road to a fatal dead end.
Jacques Tourneur’s masterpiece has been called the greatest film noir of all time and I wouldn’t argue the claim. It’s certainly one of the quintessential expressions of the genre, a hard-boiled story of betrayal and revenge with its compromised PI, vindictive gangster, coldly conniving femme fatale, and flashback structure narrated by the wounded hero. It opens in an idealized rural Eden, flashes back to the corrupt city and an exotic escape south of the border, and crawls into a snake-in-Eden thriller of deception, regret, and scarred-over emotional wounds, and it’s beautifully photographed by Nicholas Musuraca, RKO’s resident expert in shadowy atmosphere and clear-eyed perceptions.
The photography alone is reason enough to get the Blu-ray; in a genre of hard shadows and stark graphic imagery, this film contrasts the dark scenes of murder and treachery with the rural escape and the wooded retreats, an ideal that is slowly corrupted when the city crooks arrive. But this is one of the noir essentials and features perhaps Mitchum’s greatest role. He delivers more than merely a performance: his sleepy-eyed sneer and laconic delivery create the quintessential bad boy with a good soul and resigned acceptance of his fate. And Greer is blithely seductive as the alluring but hollow object of his obsession. “Don’t you see you’ve only me to make deals with now?”
It’s a beautifully-mastered disc from an excellent source print, with no visible scratches or damage. The image is crisp and sharp and the contrasts are excellent, pulling out the details in the light and in the shadows. It features the commentary track by film noir expert James Ursini recorded for the 2004 DVD release.
Possessed (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) – As Joan Crawford aged out of glamorous roles and glossy romantic dramas she remade herself in the 1940s as a tough, driven woman in a series of melodramas that gave the actress an opportunity to play big, emotional scenes. This 1947 drama stars Crawford as a woman who appears to be the very model of self-possessed strength and confidence except for her obsessive love for Van Heflin, a cad of a bachelor who is happy to play around with her but resists any commitment. She moves on and eventually marries the rich and kind Raymond Massey, but when Heflin re-enters her life and falls for another, younger woman, she spirals into jealousy, paranoia, and emotional instability.
Crawford gets to play both the proud, strong, glamorous woman and the flamboyantly crazy woman, sinking her teeth into jittery madness and exaggerating her trademark make-up (dark lips and slashes of eyeliner standing out from a powdered face) to something like a kabuki mask. This was made during the post-war fascination with psychiatry and analysis and plays out in flashback, framed by blandly authoritarian doctors providing elaborate diagnoses for the hysterical Crawford after she is found wandering the streets in a stage of shock in the opening scenes. The psychological explanations are simplistic and arrogant and the wonder drug that instantly makes her lucid is a movie gimmick, but that’s not unusual for the period. German-born director Curtis Bernhardt balances the portrait of high society affluence and fashionable lifestyle with the shadowy atmosphere of film noir as Crawford slips into madness.
It’s a handsome film and it looks great on Blu-ray, which shows just how rich and nuanced black-and-white photography can be. Features commentary by film historian Drew Capser and the featurette Possessed: The Quintessential Film Noir. Not to be contrary, but this this is less quintessential noir than a prime example of how the noir sensibility seeped into so many other films in the late forties and early fifties.
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) – James Cagney won his only Academy Award playing George M. Cohan in the rousing Michael Curtiz bio-pic. Cagney was a song-and-dance man before he found fame as a movie tough guy and he returns to his roots with a passion, dancing his way through the role with straight-backed, stiff legged formality while his body is coiled like a loaded spring about to leap. The story of his spunky rise in the showbiz world pure Hollywood hogwash, but it is delightful hogwash invigorated by Cagney’s cocksure drive. Walter Huston and Rosemary De Camp play his vaudevillian parents and Joan Leslie is the love of his life (for whom he writes the song “Mary” – “plain as any name can be”). It’s a real flag-waver of a show-biz tale, a Fourth of July celebration with Cagney setting off the fireworks.
Warner released the film as a two-disc special edition on DVD a decade ago. The Blu-ray presents and excellent HD edition of the film. Not all of the extras from that set have made it to this single-disc Blu-ray, but I’d say that the most essential supplements are there. That includes commentary by film historian Rudy Behlmer (an expert on Warner Bros. studio history), the 45-minute documentary Let Freedom Sing!: The Story of Yankee Doodle Dandy, the 1943 propaganda film You, John Jones with Cagney, the 1943 cartoon Yankee Doodle Daffy, an “Audio Vault” of archival audio-only extras, the trailer, and the “Warner Night At the Movie 1942” collection of ephemera hosted by Leonard Maltin (with the cartoon Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid, short subject Beyond the Line of Duty, a newsreel, a Casablancatrailer).
Pete Kelly’s Blues (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) – Jack Webb is best remembered for his most iconic creation: Sgt. Joe Friday, the no-nonsense hero of the police drama Dragnet on radio and TV. But he played a number of other characters on radio and TV and in the movies, and one of his favorites was jazz coronet player Pete Kelly, first on the radio in 1951 and then in this 1955 movie. Webb directs and stars as Pete, the leader of a Dixieland jazz band in 1927 Kansas City, when speakeasies sold bootleg liquor practically in plain sight and the mob ran the streets.
It’s a mix of musical melodrama, with Pete as a struggling musician trying to keep a band together during the depression and Janet Leigh as a rich flapper who falls for the reluctant Pete, and gangster drama, with Edmond O’Brien as the mob boss running the protection rackets, produced in bright, vibrant Technicolor and CinemaScope. Webb was a big fan of Dixieland jazz and fills the film with club performances by his band (performed by Matty Matlock’s Dixielanders) and vocal numbers by Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee (who earned an Oscar nomination for her performance as an alcoholic torch singer). Webb’s performance mixes the terse, unemotional delivery of Friday with an edge of uneasiness and dialogue filled with period slang and colorful dialogue and his direction is clean and straightforward, light on atmosphere but full of vivid characters and telling detail. His casting is also interesting, with Lee Marvin playing nicely against his usual tough guy roles as an easy-going clarinet player and Andy Devine, who usually get comic relief roles, playing it tough as a cop who wants to shut down O’Brien’s mob boss. It’s a solid old-fashioned drama with great music, memorable dialogue, and lots of period color. The new Blu-ray looks great, with color that pops, and it includes two vintage shorts.
The Great Race (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) – Blake Edwards made this epic comedy, a tribute to silent movie serials and thrill comedies, a few years after It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which helps explain the unusual length and scope of the film. Tony Curtis stars as the clean-living, chivalrous, and chauvinistic hero The Great Leslie, always clad in gleaming white outfits, while Jack Lemmon is in black and sports a flamboyant mustache as his dastardly nemesis Professor Fate, a rival daredevil who, with the help of his loyal but dim henchman (Peter Falk), tries to sabotage Leslie at every turn. Like Wile E. Coyote in the Road Runner cartoons, every scheme ends up backfiring on them.
The rivals engage in a car race from New York to Paris (they float across from Alaska to Russia on an ice floe) while a suffragette newspaperwoman (played by Natalie Wood) joins them, first as a racing competitor and then as a traveling companion. Blake Edwards has always been a fan of physical comedy and elaborate visual gags and this film, which he dedicates to “Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy,” plays the slapstick for self-aware nostalgia, taking cartoonish delight in the lavish recreations (from barnstorming biplanes to an old west saloon and a Russian castle), Rube Goldberg schemes with early 20th century technology, and comic brawls, the last of which is a massive cream pie fight in a Russian castle. While it doesn’t have the star-studded cast of Mad World, it has an epic running time of two hours and forty minutes, so long that it requires an intermission. It is, in fact, a little too long for the whimsical nature of the story, and it stalls long before the end, but there’s just enough gas to get it across the finish line.
The Blu-ray, beautifully transferred from a restored Technicolor master of the complete Road Show version, also includes the original Overture, Entr’acte and Exit sequences and an archival behind-the-scenes featurette.
Kismet (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) is one of the stranger exotic musicals from MGM’s Technicolor prime (though to be accurate, this was shot in Eastman Color). Howard Keel, who plays a beggar-poet with a lovely daughter (Ann Blyth), carries the slim tale with his outsized presence and rich baritone. Directed by Vincent Minnelli, it is a pure studio fantasy of Arabian exotica starring Howard Keel, who carries the slim fantasy of wizards and princes curses and treasures with his outsized presence and rich baritone. Blyth and Vic Damone are admittedly weak, but the score is marvelous, including “Stranger in Paradise” and “Baubles, Bangles, Bright Shiny Beads,” though the best moment is Dolores Gray’s number “Not Since Ninevah,” as she tries to woo three Princesses into staying in Bagdad with a great song and dance performance in a huge, lavish set. The glorious production design and fantastic Eastman Color storybook colors never allows reality to intrude upon the make believe.
This disc features a superb HD transfer of the CinemaScope film with a DTS-HD 5.1 treatment of the original soundtrack. Supplements include an alternate version of the song “Rahadlakum” (in B&W) from the archives, an audio-only deleted song, two excerpts from the TV series MGM Parade about the film, the 1955 short The Battle of Gettysburg and Tex Avery cartoon The First Bad Men, and trailers from the film and the earlier 1944 version of the musical.
Touch of Evil (Universal, Blu-ray) – Orson Welles’ baroque border town murder mystery is a wild masterpiece, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, and ultimately dazzling work of cinematic magic. It’s considered the last great film noir and the bookend to the true noir era. It was also Welles’s last attempt at a career in Hollywood before he packed up to make movies in Europe.
Charlton Heston is a stiff, straight-arrow Mexican government agent Mike Vargas whose planned honeymoon with his American bride Susie (Janet Leigh) is derailed by a sensationalistic murder and police detective Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), a bloated, blustery grotesque with a doughy face and an ill manner who has a habit of creating evidence to speed the process of justice. It features Akin Tamiroff as a Mexican border town Little Caesar with a cheap toupee and a wise-guy patter, Dennis Weaver as a sex-obsessed motel clerk on the verge of a nervous breakdown, a guest appearance by Marlene Dietrich and cameos by Welles regulars Ray Collins and Joseph Cotten.
After studio executives viewed Welles’ work in progress in 1957, the film was taken from Welles and recut into a 109-minute version that was previewed for audiences. Welles viewed the studio’s rough cut and wrote a detailed 58 page memo describing the changes he felt needed to be made to save the film. Some of those suggestions were incorporated in the final cut, most were not, and it was subsequently edited down to the 96-minute version that was released in 1958. The “preview version” was discovered in 1976 and supplanted the release version, but while it feature more footage directed by Welles, it was not his cut of the film.
Jonathan Rosenbaum discovered Welles’ memo in the files of Universal Studios and published it in the 1990s and in 1998 he became an advisor to producer Rick Schmidlin and editor Walter Murch as they took on an unprecedented project: reconstructing the version that Welles described. Though referred to as the “restored version,” it’s in fact an entirely new version: “(A)n academic example of what Welles intended,” is how Schmidlin described it.
The differences in this revision are apparent in the first seconds of the film. The studio threw credits over the famous opening crane shot and set it to a brassy theme song from composer Henry Mancini but Welles (ever the pioneer) meant the scene to open the film as a dramatic sequence. By removing the credits and revealing Welles’ dense sound design, previously buried by the music, we find a riveting scene with a completely different sensibility and dynamic. Anyone who grew up on the earlier versions still feel a gang of loss; that bongo beat and the growling horns had become a part of the familiar experience, so married to the image it seemed inseparable. But as the camera follows the parallel journeys of the car (carrying a ticking bomb) and the strolling newlywed couple (Heston and Leigh) as they weave their way through the bustling Mexican border town, the rediscovered soundtrack (with musical additions by Murch as per Welles’ instructions) gives a specific sense of place of movement with its street sounds competing with car radios and nightclub music weaving in and out of the mix.
With the abrupt explosion, Welles’ style becomes more expressionistic—looming low angles, jittery handheld shots, edgy editing—and the new cutting design outlined by Welles serves this style better. The subsequent scenes are tightened up with insistent intercutting between the Vargas/Quinlan confrontations on the American side of the border and Susie’s run-in with racketeer “Uncle Joe” Grandi (Tamiroff) in Mexico. It creates a driving pace with a greater sense of urgency and tension, but it also weaves their stories together more insistently. The subsequent changes are less obvious (a trim here, an insert there, a couple of short scenes cut) but this cut also restores another, less obvious element to the original intentions.
For decades Touch of Evil was shown in theaters and on home video in the Academy ratio of 1.33:1, the boxy format of old Hollywood and old TV, but it was shot and framed to be screened at 1:85:1, the standard format by the late 1950s. The 1998 theatrical release and subsequent disc editions restored the film to its correct ratio (rounded down to 16×9 for disc). Compositions became more dramatic, framed more tightly around Welles’ groupings. The long-takes in Sanchez’s apartment feel more claustrophobic, without so much of the expanse of the blank ceiling open above their heads. The characters dominate the frame with more presence. Despite the documentation in the production records and the film elements itself that verify this change, it’s become a controversy among fans and historians, perhaps because of years of familiarity with the old format, perhaps because they prefer the open-frame roominess, a la Citizen Kane. I’m on the widescreen camp: the framing serves this film better and the visual schemes were taken up in Welles’ next widescreen film, The Trial. In Britain, both the Academy and widescreen versions were include on the DVD and Blu-ray editions. Here it’s just the widescreen.
Universal releases all three existing cuts of the film in a special edition for its Blu-ray debut, just like it did for the DVD special edition. It is a package worthy of Criterion. It’s been remastered from original 35mm elements for Blu-ray and looks amazing, and it features the four commentary tracks spread over the three versions recorded for the DVD set. Project producer Rick Schmidlin hosts a track with stars Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, with Schmidlin commenting on the changes in the “restored version” and drawing production stories and experiences from the stars, and he also contributes a solo track, both for the reconstructed version. Welles historian / project consultant Jonathan Rosenbaum and fellow Welles historian James Naremore discuss the “preview version” with a mix of production details and interpretations, and film critic F.X. Feeney offers a solo track on the shorter theatrical release. Also includes the featurettes “Bringing Evil to Life” (one on the making of the film) and “Evil Lost and Found” (on the history of the various versions and the process of reconstructing the new cut) and a reproduction of the original 58-page memo that inspired the entire project. Also features an UltraViolet digital copy for download and instant streaming.
Universal debuts another film noir masterpiece on Blu-ray: Double Indemnity (Universal, Blu-ray), the 1944 classic that codified the moral depravity and sexual charge of film noir at its most cynical. Billy Wilder shocked audiences and tweaked the morality watchdogs with this ruthless adaptation of James M. Cain’s notorious novel, creating one of the touchstone films noir in process.
Barbara Stanwyck is perfectly heartless as the icy adulteress who plants the seeds of murder in the mind of Fred MacMurray’s conniving insurance agent. He plots the cold-blooded murder of her rich husband, only to discover that sharing a murder does not necessarily bring lovers closer together. Edward G. Robinson’s persistent investigator Keys brings the only real warmth to this chilly film noir; his relationship to MacMurray is the closest this film comes to real love. The rest is simply fatal attraction. The masterpiece of film noir double dealing was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay (co-written by Wilder with Raymond Chandler), Best Actress (Stanwyck), and Best Cinematography (for John Seitz’s cool, crisp, shadowy imagery), but it was just a little too cynical and sour to win anything in that era.
This is also newly remastered and includes the supplements from the earlier DVD special edition: two commentary tracks (on by film historian Richard Schickel, one by film historian / screenwriter Lem Dobbs and film historian Nick Redman), the featurette “Shadows of Suspense,” an introduction by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne, and the 1973 TV-movie remake starring Richard Crenna in the MacMurray role, Samantha Eggar as the seductive Phyllis, and Lee J. Cobb as the insurance boss Keys. Also features an UltraViolet digital copy for download and instant streaming.
The Fog (Shout Factory), John Carpenter’s follow-up to his breakthrough hit Halloween, isn’t among the director’s best films, but it is one of his most gorgeous.
Carpenter and his producer / co-writer Debra Hill wanted to make an old-fashioned ghost story, something spooky and eerie, rather than another slasher movie (not that “Halloween” is just a slasher movie, but that’s how the industry saw the film and the director). So they came up with a story about a hundred-year-old curse involving an island leper colony, a fortune in stolen gold, and an act of genocide covered over in a story that has become legend in this fiction California coastal town. Jamie Lee Curtis plays a hitchhiker who stops over on the 100th anniversary (that’s bad timing), her mother Janet Leigh plays the local civic leader, Tom Atkins is a fisherman who picks up Curtis (in every meaning the term), and Hal Holbrook is a boozy priest who uncovers the curse, but the hero of this one is actually Adrienne Barbeau, a single mom and evening deejay in a lighthouse booth who goes on the air to give fog reports like traffic updates.
You can see Carpenter reaching for a larger canvas, incorporating more characters and storylines, crosscutting and weaving story arcs. And you can see the appeal of an old-fashioned ghost story played without gimmicks, although he ultimately has to compromise his original concept. When he tested the finished film, where the fog itself was the monster and no murders appeared on screen, he found that his campfire tale was more soggy than scary. It simply didn’t work and he didn’t need studio prodding to bring back the cast and toss in ghost pirates and a series of murders. (Carpenter and Hill discuss this in a commentary track they recorded a decade ago, included on this release.) It still isn’t particularly scary or compelling, the performances are variable, and the dialogue seems to mark time between money shots.
But it is a beautifully shot film, with the fog coming alive and taking over the frame like a creature in its own right. Carpenter and Dean Cundy were the low-budget masters of composition and lighting of their time and this film is an exemplary case, creating compelling shots even when the drama itself is weak. As in Halloween, Carpenter and Cundy shoot in Panavision and fill the sides and backgrounds with shadows and empty spaces “where evil can inhabit,” as Cundy describes in an accompanying interview. The monsters don’t come from outside of the frame or hide behind objects. They arise from the darkness (or, in this case, the empty white of the fog) itself, materializing as if they have always been there. In its own way, The Fog a quintessential Carpenter horror.
This program note was written in connection with the November 16, 1971 showing of Touch of Evil in the University of Washington Office of Lectures & Concerts Autumn Quarter Film Series “The Cinema of Orson Welles.” Since that was a long time ago and the only version of the movie available at the time was the 93-minute Universal cut, I’ve let the piece stand. Touch of Evil was the seventh installment in the series, and the note was written to be read by people who’d been watching Welles pictures and reading comparable notes on them for the previous six weeks. –RTJ
Van Stratten: “Where’s Sophie?” Trebitsch: “Where is anybody?”
—Orson Welles, Mr.Arkadin
After his unhappy experiences with Macbeth in 1947–48, Welles spent the next eight years in Europe, managing to complete two features of his own, act both leading and supporting roles for other directors, and begin work on the still-uncompleted Don Quixote. In 1956 he returned to the States and, among other things, was sought by trash specialist Albert Zugsmith for a role in a police melodrama he was producing. Charlton Heston, set to star in the picture, heard about Welles’s involvement and strongly hinted to Zugsmith that Welles ought to be given directorial control as well. (Some accounts have it that Heston demanded Welles for the director, or else; others, that Heston was leery of appearing in what seemed a B-movie property but changed his tune when Welles entered the picture, saying, “I’d act in anything directed by Orson Welles!”) As it turned out, Welles got to rewrite the film entirely and direct it as well. He took his time cutting the picture and at the last left final cutting to the studio. Although Welles has muttered subsequently about how yet another of his films was ruined, he also claims never to have watched the final version. Russell Metty, cameraman on The Stranger, “confirms that Welles’s concept was followed to the letter,” according to Charles Higham. Higham further quotes Charlton Heston on the subject of some additional shooting supervised by Universal contract director Harry Keller: “The scenes Keller made were shot in less than half a day. Contrary to rumor, the footage does not replace any mysterious material shot by Orson, but is merely structural cement to clarify what the studio felt to be unnecessarily ambiguous sequences in Orson’s version of the film, explaining time and place and whatnot” (e.g., Mike and Susan’s discussion about her going to the motel). The studio evidently felt uneasy about the whole project. Touch of Evil (which Welles repudiates as a silly title) was leaked out rather than released; there was no press drumbeating, no preview screening, no anything. The film nosedived in this country but dazzled festival audiences internationally and won some prizes.
In 1998, as Universal was preparing the theatrical release of the revised Touch of Evil, I was offered the opportunity to talk with star Janet Leigh about the film in a phone interview. I had yet to see the new version, so my questions were formed around my research and my familiarity with the previous versions of the film. The interview was never published. What follows is an edited version of the transcript focused specifically on her experiences during the original production of Touch of Evil and her thoughts on Welles, on the original film and on the revision, which she generously supported and promoted in interviews and personal appearances.
I wanted to talk to you about what it was like to work with Orson Welles on the shooting of the film.
Right. This new reediting is not a new shooting, it’s just the proper assemblage of what we shot, which hadn’t been done the way he [Welles] had hoped. Well, you know the story. But I don’t want to give the impression that it’s like another picture or something. I mean I don’t think we’d match if we shot scenes today (laughs), so it’s really just what we shot then, as you know.
Were you involved in any way with this revision?
With this revision? No, only in, now that it’s coming out, in telling people about it. But I didn’t have anything to do with the revision.
I understand it doesn‘t make a lot of narrative changes but it does make a lot of stylistic changes.
Exactly. Plus the pacing. At that time in Hollywood the level of our movies were sort of, everything had to be kind of tied up with a little pretty ribbon, each scene rounded off, and Touch of Evil was never meant to be that kind of picture. It was way ahead of its time, as Orson was. It was meant to be a rough, jagged, jarring, shaking-you-up kind of movie, and the studio just didn’t understand that. They couldn’t understand the rough edges. When I saw it this way it was so exciting because you went back to the way it had felt on the set. In mean this was the kind of picture we made and now that’s what we’re seeing on the screen. I mean, the editing has pace to it and suspense and much more of the mounting kind of horror and the mounting kind of “My god, when is he going to look for his wife?” It just mounts to a frenzy.
[Editor’s note: This essay was originally written in 1998, before the re-edited version from producer Rick Schmidlin and editor Walter Murch, and is based on the 109-minute version that was rescued from the vaults in 1975, generally known as the “preview version. This version had replaced the original 98-minute theatrical version in retrospective screenings and TV showings, but it makes its DVD debut – along with the 98-minute theatrical version – on the new Touch of Evil: 50th Anniversary Edition, which also features the previously released 1998 “restored” version. The essay has never before been published.]
Despite the fact that, like most of Welles’s films, Touch of Evil was the victim of injudicious cutting, it holds together narratively better than just about any film he ever made. The result is a film even more corrosively insidious than Mr. Arkadin—a film in which we’re never quite sure what’s going on, but are always profoundly aware that, whatever it is, it is far more horrible than it appears. And, in Touch of Evil, that is very horrible indeed.
It’s an intentionally seedy film—you can pretty much smell Hank Quinlan—and Welles, always a better director of space and decor than of actors, creates in his mise en scene a dynamic tension between the rich baroque and the decadent gothic. “Baroque” in the way it uses incidental ornamentation within the frame composition, insisting upon signs, posters, souvenirs and bric-a-brac to provide comment on character and event, as well as to lend atmosphere. Bulky Quinlan, looking up quizzically, belatedly prepares his defense against the lanky Vargas, in a room walled with bullfight posters and photos of the great matadors. We almost expect him to snort and paw the earth. This mise en scene was, in part, Welles’s debt to Karl Freund, neo-Gothic cameraman (The Golem, 1920; The Last Laugh, 1924; Metropolis, 1926; All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930; Dracula, 1931) and director (Mad Love, 1935) who combined compositional richness with thematic darkness to create a Cinema of the Grotesque that seminally influenced the look and style of Citizen Kane (1941).
This sense of the Gothic, augmented with lessons learned from Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau, is evident in The Third Man (1949), a film directed by Sir Carol Reed but as closely associated with Welles in our cinematic collective consciousness as any film on which he received directorial credit. Reed had himself quoted the child’s bouncing ball and a few other tones and gestures from Lang’s M in Odd Man Out(1947); and the collaboration of Welles and Reed on The Third Manwas one of like minds and visions, learning from each other, and creating, along the way, both a film masterpiece and an enduring document of the shattered physical and human architecture of postwar Europe. | <urn:uuid:855f54f9-0ada-41f6-b934-26f4f2c26600> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://parallax-view.org/tag/janet-leigh/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.955183 | 7,655 | 1.609375 | 2 |
By Bernadette Christina and Rajendra Jadhav
JAKARTA, May 20 (Reuters) – Long lines of trucks trying to unload palm fruit formed outside Indonesian processing mills this week, illustrating the growing cost of a palm oil export ban by the world’s biggest producer.
The trucks were stuck for days as storage space for palm oil neared capacity and, with local crop prices slumping by 70%, farmers took to the streets to demand a policy change.
President Joko Widodo has now agreed to lift the export ban, despite a bid to flood the local market with palm oil failing to bring down the price of cooking oil to a government target.
“Ultimately, an increasing realisation that the export ban was starting to hurt palm oil producers without benefiting the end-consumers all that much prompted the reversal,” Wellian Wiranto, an economist at OCBC Bank in Singapore, said in a note.
A palm oil farmer in West Sulawesi told Reuters trucks in his area had been stuck for days as farmers desperate to try to limit losses bypassed agents and offloaded their crop.
“But the mill is prioritising their partners, so the number of non-partner farmers is rising and waiting in a long queue,” said Irfan, who uses one name.
The pain caused to farmers comes after a string of policy changes aimed at containing the soaring price of palm oil, a staple for Indonesian families.
Jokowi, as the president is known, imposed the export ban, saying a need for affordable food trumped revenue concerns.
The president then justified ending the export ban by arguing cooking oil prices were expected to come down in coming weeks.On Friday, his government unsettled markets again by announcing a domestic sales requirement to ensure supply at home.
DAMAGE TO TRADE RELATIONSHIPS?
The cost of the export ban was estimated by the government at $400 million a month in lost state revenue, but there are also questions over longer-term damage in the eyes of Indonesia’s trading partners.
India, the world’s biggest buyer of palm oil, previously bought two thirds of its supplies from Indonesia but has started to buy more from Malaysia and Thailand
“We incurred losses this month as Indonesian shipments couldn’t land because of the ban. We bought from other suppliers at a higher price,” said a Mumbai-based palm oil buyer.
A Bangladesh-based vegetable oil refiner also expressed frustration over Indonesian flip-flops.
“Indonesia was our biggest supplier with a market share of more than 80%. But we will bring down reliance even if Indonesia removes all the restrictions,” said the Dhaka-based refiner.
Pakistan, another big buyer, was also looking to balance out it suppliers, including from the world’s second-biggest producer, Malaysia.
“Pakistan would love to buy more from Malaysia, but they don’t have enough stocks,” said Rasheed JanMohd, chairman of the Pakistan Edible oil Refiners Association.
Malaysia’s Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said in a May 10 interview that some importing countries had sought to increase supplies of Malaysian palm oil.
Still, Julian McGill, head of South East Asia at LMC International, said importers were unlikely to cut themselves off from Indonesia.
“When Indonesia re-enters the market, as a distress seller of the large stocks that have accumulated during the export ban, they should find plenty of buyers,” he said.(Additonal reporting by Zahra Matarani and Fransiska Nangoy in Jakarta and Mei Mei Chu in Kuala Lumpur; Writing by Ed Davies; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe honored at state funeral, burial delayed
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — African heads of state joined thousands of Zimbabweans at a state funeral Saturday for Zimbabwe’s founding president, Robert Mugabe , whose burial has been delayed for at least a month until a special mausoleum can be built for his remains.
More than 10 African leaders and several former presidents attended the service and viewing of the body of Mugabe, who died last week in Singapore at age 95, at the National Sports Stadium in the capital, Harare. The crowd filling about 30% of the 60,000 capacity of the Chinese-built stadium. Most of those attending were supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa drew boos from the crowd, as a result of the recent attacks in Johannesburg on foreigners, including Zimbabweans. An official pleaded with the stadium crowd to let him speak. Ramaphosa apologized for the attacks.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta described Mugabe as “a great icon of African liberation” and “a visionary leader and relentless champion of African dignity.”
The announcement Friday evening that that burial will be postponed until the building of a new resting place at the national Heroes’ Acre Monument is the latest turn in a dramatic wrangle between Mugabe’s family and President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a once-trusted deputy who helped oust Mugabe from power.
Mnangagwa presided over Saturday’s ceremony, attended by Mugabe’s widow Grace, who wore a black veil.
“A giant tree of Africa has fallen,” said Mnangagwa, who hailed Mugabe as “a bold, steadfast revolutionary.”
He praised Mugabe for seizing land from white farmers. “To him, this was the grievance of all grievances of our people,” Mnangagwa said. “The land has now been reunited with the people and the people have been reunited with the land.” He also called on Western countries to remove sanctions imposed during Mugabe’s era.
“Go Well Our Revolutionary Icon” and “Farewell Gallant Son of the Soil” were among the banners praising Mugabe, who led the bitter guerrilla war to end white-minority rule in the country then known as Rhodesia. Mugabe was Zimbabwe’s first leader and ruled the country from 1980 for 37 years, from years of prosperity to economic ruin and repression.
He was deposed in 2017 by the military and Mnangagwa in a bloodless coup that was marked by more than 100,000 people demonstrating in Harare’s streets to demand that he step down. Following Mugabe’s resignation, Mnangagwa took power and won elections the next year on campaign promises he would improve the collapsed economy and create jobs. But Zimbabwe’s economy has lurched from crunch to crisis and some in the crowd expressed the view that life was better under Mugabe’s rule.
“Bread was less than a dollar when we marched against him (Mugabe). It is now $9,” said Munashe Gudyanga, 18. “I am just here to say ‘Sorry, President Mugabe, we didn’t know things will be worse.’”
Some in the stadium sang an impromptu farewell to Mugabe, “When you left bread was a dollar,” lyrics that implicitly criticized Mnangagwa, whose nearly two-year rule has been marked by rising prices, with inflation currently more than 175%.
The visiting leaders viewed Mugabe’s the partially open casket, followed by a 21-gun salute, a flypast by Zimbabwean air force jets and the release of 95 doves, to mark Mugabe’s 95 years.
Mugabe’s body is to be viewed in his birthplace, Zvimba, on Sunday and then will be held in preservation until the new mausoleum is ready.
In downtown Harare, many Zimbabweans were busy with their weekend errands, and expressed little interest in the funeral, which was open to the public.
“What will I get if I go there? What will Mugabe do for me now that he failed to do when he was alive?” said Amelia Tukande, who was selling cellphone chargers along Harare’s Samora Machel Avenue that leads to the stadium. “It is a waste of time. I have to work for my family.”
Others said they would have wanted to attend the funeral but cannot afford transport fares.
“I didn’t like him, but I still wanted to attend just to see for myself that he is gone ... but kombis (minivan taxis) want $3.50 just to get to the stadium,” said Amos Siduna, waiting in line at a bank to get cash, which is in short supply. “That’s too much money for me just to go and say ‘bye bye’ to a corpse. Mugabe’s corpse. No.”
The mourning period for Mugabe’s death has been marked by the ongoing drama over where, when and how the ex-strongman will be buried. The new resting place will be built near the stadium at Heroes’ Acre, a national burial site for top officials of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party who contributed to ending white colonial rule
The mausoleum will be at an elevated site above the other graves, according to Mnangagwa and a Mugabe family spokesman.
Grace had previously insisting on a private burial rather than the state funeral and burial in a simple plot alongside other national heroes planned by the government.
“We are building a mausoleum for our founding father at the top of the hill at Heroes’ Acre,” Mnangagwa said on state television Friday night, consenting to the Mugabe family’s wishes.
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Remember the movie wedding crashers? I am reminded of that movie whenever I think about how young people and women should take the leap in politics, governance, and leadership spaces. What do you do when you are not invited to the party?
Gatecrash! Women and young people must crash the all-male’s club where major decisions regarding their wellbeing and development are made. The youth and women are the most underrepresented in governance and leadership spheres. Nevertheless, one may ask, why do we want a seat at the table?
The decision-making table is where the action is. This is where the decisions that affect our everyday lives are made. The table that affects the education we receive, the taxes, the economy of the country.
If we are to achieve prosperity and development indicated in the African Union Agenda 2063 and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we need to start practising the SDGs motto, and leave no one behind even at the decision-making table.
Given the complexity of the issues our world is currently facing, such as climate change, rising inequalities, poverty and high youth unemployment, it is imperative that young people and women are in the rooms where policies, strategies and decisions regarding the solutions to these problems are designed.
Diversity in sex, age, and gender matters may bring a different perspective to the table. If only old males make decisions on behalf of the entire population, it results in policies that are not human-centred and may be irrelevant for the target population as they will be based on assumptions.
Human-centred design thinking maintains that at the heart of solutions should be consultations with the affected population. How is a 78-year-old male supposed to make a solution to the issues affecting a 15-year-old who does not feel safe because her teacher at school is making sexual advances at her?
And what about the thousands of Basotho women who are subjected to gender-based violence daily? By working in collaboration and attaining input from people of diverse ages and backgrounds, more smarter and sustainable solutions will be achieved.
Confucius once famously said, insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Why are governments forever leading without inclusion of more than half of their population yet expecting to see progress?
Akin to a three-legged pot, so is development, without two of its pillars; youth and women, it cannot fully operate efficiently. It is time for our governments to decide if they are going to be a hem, haw, sniff or scurry from the book, Who moved my cheese.
Are they able to sniff out change early like sniff, take decisive action in the face of change like scurry,or deny and resist change amid fear of the unknown like hem or like haw, learns to adapt amidst change?
Most young people and women are perceptive and can sniff change from miles away. We need young people’s curiosity and innovative minds and women’s thoughtfulness and ideas to win as the world.
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Be ye sure that the Lord he is God; it is he who hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and speak good of his name.
to his excellent great
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him upon the lute and harp.
Praise him upon the well tuned cymbals; praise him upon the loud cymbals.
Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God;
Be honour and glory, through Jesus Christ for ever and ever. Amen.
Then may follow an Anthem or a Voluntary_on the Organ; and then the Minister shall read the FIRST LESSON, which may be either of the following portions from the Old Testament: Deut. viii. or xxvi. or xxviii. to v. 15. Isaiah xii. or xxv. to v. 10. And at the end of the Lesson he shall say, Here endeth the First Lesson. Then shall be sung or said the following Anthem.
OBE joyful in the Lord, all ye lands; serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song.
For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endureth from generation to generation.
O thank the Lord of all lords; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Answ. And on earth peace, good will toward
Who by his excellent wisdom made the heavens; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who laid out the earth above the waters; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who hath made great lights; for his mercy endureth for ever.
The sun to rule by day; for his mercy endureth
The moon and the stars to govern the night; for his mercy endureth for
Who remembereth us when we are in trouble; for his mercy endureth for
And hath delivered us from our enemies; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who giveth food to all flesh; for his mercy endureth for ever.
O give thanks unto the God of heaven; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Min. The Lord be with
Answ. And with thy spirit.
Min. Glory be to God in the highest;
Min. Let us pray. O Lord, show thy mercy upon us;
Answ. And grant us thy salvation.
Min. O God, make clean our hearts within us;
Answ. And take not thy holy Spirit from us.
O THOU who art good unto all, who exercisest loving kindness in all the earth, and who hast come nigh to us by Jesus Christ thy Son; it is thou, who givest our daily bread, health in our habitations, and peace in our borders, and who crownest the year with thy goodness. We desire this day gratefully to recount thy mercies, and to ascribe blessing and honour, and glory and praise to thee our rock and fortress, our strength and redeemer.
How precious have been thy thoughts unto us, O God, how great has been the sum of them! We bless thee for preserving our houses from the ravages of fire, for all the health
and pleasure which we have enjoyed in them, for the bread which has given strength to our bodies, for the medicine which has arrested the progress of disease, for the tear of sympathy which has comforted us under trouble, for divine preservation in our journeys by land, for favourable winds on the ocean, for refreshing showers upon the fields. We thank thee for every cheerful sensation when alone, for the pleasures of friendly intercourse, for the benefits of good neighbourhood, for the privileges of public worship, for the maintenance of civil order, the continuance of peace, the administration of justice, for every encouragement to well doing, every manifestation of useful truth, and for all the advantages of our condition. Graciously direct us, O God, to a right improvement of all thy mercies. Preserve us from the wicked indulgence of all fleshly lusts, and from wasting our substance in riotous living. May we enjoy our temporal possessions with temperance, cheerfulness, and
contentment. Protect us from the snares of prosperity. May we honour thee with our substance, be rich in good works, and duly esteem and praise thee the rock of our salvation.
Continue to us the enjoyment of our civil rights; disappoint the devices of the crafty; prolong the days and usefulness of those public. men under whose administration the righteous flourish, and who make our land a quiet habitation; grant peace, order, and plenty in our families, our villages and towns, and throughout our country; bless all fountains of useful science; heal and cleanse their waters; dispel the mists of ignorance; arrest the progress of profaneness and vice; make the people of our land humble before thee, peaceable in their civil and social relations, and zealous for the establishment of liberty, order, and truth. May we never by our ingratitude incur that censure, I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me. Grant this, O Father,
for thine infinite mercy's sake in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
world to come life everlasting. Amen.
ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee, and hast promised by thy beloved Son, that where two or three are gathered together in his name, thou wilt grant their requests; fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them, granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the
THE Lord bless us, and keep us; may he be gracious unto us, and give us peace, now and for evermore. Amen.
on NOW unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and to presentous faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, through Jesus Christ, for ever and Amen.
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END OF SERVICE FOR DAYS OF THANKSGIVING,
FOR DAYS OF FASTING AND HUMILIATION.
The Minister may use the common Service for Morning or Evening Prayer, till he comes to the Psalm beginning O come let us sing, &c., instead of which, shall be said or sung, the following Anthem, from the fiftyfifth Psalm.
My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon
And I said, O that I had wings like a dove; for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Lo, then would I get
remain in the wilder
I would make haste to
escape, from the stormy wind and tempest.
Fearfulness and trem- O cast thy burden upon bling are come upon me the Lord, and he shall and an horrible dread hath nourish thee, and shall not overwhelmed me. suffer the righteous to fall for ever.
But yet I will call upon God, and the Lord shall
In the evening, and morning, and at noonday will I pray, and that instantly; and he shall hear my voice.
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Nowadays, many pilgrims have made up their minds to write a blog about the camino. Some of them while hiking, others once they have come back home as a way of having a nice memory of their adventure. All of them just want us to see how amazing this experience has been to their lives. Sharing it in a blog allows us to know more about the Camino and to learn about useful stuff if we eventually want to do it. But not everything is about advise, culture or adventure; we also learn about an inner route that they have walked in silence and which has made them grow stronger and more humane.
I sometimes spend time peering into these blogs, which make me travel mentally to a different Camino every time. Some of my favorite blogs are:
“Ten Truths of El Camino de Santiago May 2013
Now that our journey is over, I realize the enormity of El Camino. While my daughters and I were hiking across Spain, we lived in the moment, taking each kilometer as it came. Now that we have completed our 46-day pilgrimage and returned to the United States, I remember our time on the trail as one huge experience as opposed to a collection of solitary hiking day.”
Sue Kenney is a pilgrim. She first walked 780 kms on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela after she was downsized from her corporate telecom career. She wrote a book My Camino which is now a Canadian best seller and is in development as a feature film. Sue has since written another book Confessions of a Pilgrim and Directed a feature length documentary film Las Peregrinas, about the Camino. www.suekenney.ca
Randall St. Germain, author of the Camino de Santiago In 20 Days, is a middle-aged Canadian Boy who is passionate about nature, photography, hiking, music, and self-improvement. After the death of his mother, he chose to walk the famous pilgrimage, the Camino de Santiago, across the north of Spain, despite knowing little about it. He certainly didn’t plan to write a book until the latter days of his Camino. Similar to walking the Camino, writing and publishing a book was a learning experience. It was also very rewarding, and part of his ongoing journey. Please join him as he takes you along on his journey in Camino de Santiago In 20 Days, and on his blog Camino My Way.
“There were a few times on the Camino when I felt completely defeated, utterly broken, and uncertain of my ability to continue. May 18, 2013 was one of those times. If I were going to continue, I needed a miracle. It was always at my lowest times, when I was finally able to admit that I couldn’t do it alone, that the miracles would arrive, proving to me that I wasn’t alone, that all I had to do was ask and I would receive…”
“I’ve just walked 500 miles!” You must be mad. Many pilgrims on the Camino say their friends think they are mad to try to it. This is especially true of young people who set off for Santiago on their own. In my student days, 40 years ago I would not have believed that one day I would walk 500 miles in just over a month.
After a 28 day pilgrimage covering 790 km and (what will be) 5 days of travel to and from Spain, what I freshly learned and re-learned will continue to inspire me.
1) Walking 600km is no easy feat (excuse the pun)! It was physically hard, took commitment and focus and mental stamina.
2) Most people are generous, happy and funny!
3) Walking in the rain can be fun!
4) If hungry, eat; if thirsty, drink; if tired, rest!
6) I am stronger than I think!
7) Knapsacks do stink after days of constant wear!
8) Music lifts my spirits.
9) Do not be afraid to ask!
10) When disappointed, leave it behind…”
In some sections as Realities of the camino; See you in Santiago; The way, I will walk… where you can read something like that: “So, I’ve loved every day on the Camino, but I should level with you. It can be a challenge for many. Here are some realities of the Camino.
* You do laundry in your bathroom sink or tub and if it doesn’t dry your pack becomes a mobile drying rack. Kind of like being a float in a parade.
* Blisters and sore muscles are inevitable. Just pack a lot of peroxide, Advil, and bandages.
* You are going to find some graffiti. Chalk it up to enthusiasm for a good day’s walk and someone marking their success….”.
Cole Burmeister walked just four days of the Camino from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, but he captured lovely images.
“Before I left for my Camino journey I wondered if I would find a deeper meaning to life, a more balanced view of the unseen, of the intangible, and of my purpose in life; quite an imposing feat for such a short journey.”
“A month ago yesterday, I arrived on foot in Santiago de Compostela, a city in the northwestern corner of Spain, after hiking the last 200km of the Camino de Santiago. The experience was, hands down, the most incredible of my life to date. Even a month later I’m finding it really difficult to put it into words. Part of that could be that I went immediately from the Camino to the whirlwind of moving back to the US, but I think there’s more to it than that. I think I’ll be processing the experience for months, or maybe even years to come.”
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Sympatric occurrence of Ixodes ricinus with Dermacentor reticulatus and Haemaphysalis concinna and the associated tick-borne pathogens near the German Baltic coast
Parasites & Vectors volume 15, Article number: 65 (2022)
Ixodid ticks from the Northern Hemisphere have registered a northward expansion in recent years, and Dermacentor reticulatus is such an example in Europe, its expansion being considered a result of climate change alongside other factors. The aim of this study was to identify the composition of questing tick species and the associated pathogens at different sites near the German Baltic coast.
Questing ticks were collected monthly at four sites (May–November, 2020), mainly grasslands, and in October and November 2020 at a fifth site. Molecular screening of ticks for pathogens included RT-qPCR for the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), qPCR for Anaplasma phagocytophilum, PCR for Babesia species and Rickettsia species, and nested PCR for Borrelia species.
Altogether 1174 questing ticks were collected: 760 Ixodes ricinus, 326 D. reticulatus and 88 Haemaphysalis concinna. The highest activity peak of I. ricinus and D. reticulatus was in May, in June for H. concinna while a second peak was observed only for I. ricinus and D. reticulatus in September and October, respectively. All samples tested negative for TBEV. For A. phagocytophilum, 1.5% of I. ricinus adults tested positive while the minimum infection rate (MIR) in nymphs was 1.3%. This pathogen was found in 0.6% of D. reticulatus. Babesia spp. were detected in I. ricinus (18.2% adults, 2.1% MIR in nymphs) and H. concinna (13.3% adults, 9.7% MIR in nymphs). Borrelia spp. were present only in I. ricinus (49.1% adults, 11.9% MIR in nymphs), while Rickettsia spp. were detected in I. ricinus (14% adults, 8.9% MIR in nymphs) and D. reticulatus (82%). Co-detection of pathogens was observed in 26.6% and 54.8% of positive I. ricinus adults and nymph pools, respectively, while one D. reticulatus tested positive for A. phagocytophilum and Rickettsia spp. The most common co-infection in I. ricinus adults was Babesia microti and Borrelia afzelii (12.3% of positive ticks).
The results of this study confirm the northern expansion of D. reticulatus and H. concinna in Germany. The detailed data of the infection levels at each location could be useful in assessing the risk of pathogen acquisition following a tick bite.
The ixodid tick fauna in Germany is represented by a total of 19 species . In addition to these, two tick species of the exotic Hyalomma genus (Hyalomma marginatum and Hyalomma rufipes) have been recently reported in Germany alongside their ability to develop from nymphs to adults under the local climatic conditions . Another imported species in Germany, Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato (s.l.) was found on dogs after travellers returned from regions with a tropical or subtropical climate. Additionally, it is considered that this tick species can survive indoors during the winter .
The geographic range of Ixodes ricinus extends on longitude from 10° W (Ireland) to 45° E (Ural Mountains, Russia) and on latitude from 60° N (Sweden) to 30° N (Egypt) . It is the most common tick species in Germany, and is present in all 16 federal states . One of the main characteristics supporting the wide geographic distribution of this tick species is the low host specificity. More than 300 vertebrate species are described as feeding hosts for I. ricinus ( after Bowmann and Nuttall, 2008). It is an exophilic tick species with three different developmental stages, each stage feeding on different hosts to continue the life cycle. Ixodes ricinus is mainly found in deciduous and mixed forests and shrubs but also in urban and peri-urban habitat types . It can transmit a broad spectrum of pathogens to both animals and humans, with the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.). being among the most relevant disease agents in Europe for public health. Ixodes ricinus is considered the best studied tick species in Germany, and various reports have confirmed its ability to carry multiple pathogens (bacteria, viruses or parasites) [1, 5,6,7,8,9,10].
Dermacentor reticulatus is the second most commonly encountered tick species in Central Europe after I. ricinus, having a distribution that extends from 9° W (Portugal) to 88° E (western Siberia) and within the latitude range of 34–60° N . The geographic range of this species in Germany indicates that it is widespread in the eastern federal states of Brandenburg, Saxonia, Saxonia-Anhalt and Berlin . The northern location of D. reticulatus in Germany is represented by a site at the Baltic Sea coast in the port of Rostock and there are also indications needing confirmation that its range extends further north, a citizen science project reporting the presence of D. reticulatus on the island of Sylt . Similar to I. ricinus, it is a three-host tick species, and while adults are exophilic ticks, feeding on large mammals (dogs, sheep, goats, horses, cattle, occasionally humans), the larvae and nymphs of D. reticulatus are nidicolous, feed mostly on rodents and are rarely collected by flagging [13, 14]. The preferred habitats of this tick species are deciduous and mixed forests, meadows and pastures, requiring moderate humidity levels . Dermacentor reticulatus is a competent vector for several pathogens such as Babesia canis (responsible for canine babesiosis in Europe), Babesia caballi (causing equine babesiosis) , Rickettsia raoultii (causative agent of tick-borne lymphadenopathy) or Francisella tularensis (tularaemia) and Coxiella burnetii (Q fever agent) . The TBEV has also been detected in D. reticulatus from Germany and this tick species is considered to act as a vector for the virus .
The west–east distribution of Haemaphysalis concinna extends from the Spanish Atlantic coast to Kamchatka (Russia) while the latitude range is 28–64° N . The northern limit of H. concinna in Europe is reported from Germany at 53.30° N latitude . In connected water landscapes from Central Europe (such as the Mecklenburg lake plateau in the north-east of Germany or alongside the Danube and Morava rivers), it is considered the third most encountered tick species after I. ricinus and D. reticulatus . The occurrence of H. concinna in Germany is patchy and a total of 24 known locations have been described .
The life cycle of H. concinna requires three different hosts (small or medium-sized mammals, birds or reptiles). It is an exophilic tick species that completes its developmental cycle within 3 years [19, 20], and it can be found in different habitat types such as deciduous and mixed forests, river valleys, or in close proximity to lakes, in habitats of forest steppes and wet steppes [17, 19]. A broad variety of known tick-borne pathogens have been detected in this tick species such as B. burgdorferi s.l. (causative agent of Lyme borreliosis), C. burnetii, F. tularensis, Babesia divergens (responsible for bovine babesiosis), B. canis, or Anaplasma phagocytophilum (human granulocytic anaplasmosis and tick-borne fever of ruminants) (reviewed by ).
The northern distribution limit of I. ricinus has been advancing northwards in Sweden since the climate began to change significantly in the late 1980s . In addition, the expansion of D. reticulatus in Europe is considered a result of climate change alongside other factors such as the increase of deer abundance and the availability of more fallow land due to the EU agricultural policies . It is essential to conduct active monitoring for an accurate determination of the geographic distribution of ticks in order to rightly assess the risk posed by these ectoparasites in different regions. In this study, a collection of questing ticks was conducted to identify the composition of tick species and the associated pathogens at different sites near the German Baltic coast, north-east of Germany.
Collection of ticks and species identification
Questing ticks were collected from five different locations in Western Pomerania, Germany (Fig. 1). Ticks were collected once a month from May until November 2020 by flagging method between 09:00 am and 02:00 pm at four sites represented mainly by grassland and meadows located in the proximity of lakes or forest: Torgelow (TG; 53.643406, 14.034056), Ueckermünde (UM; 53.733800, 14.043847), Holländerei (HN; 53.680698, 14.046079), and Hohe Düne (HD; 54.188678, 12.135170). These locations were selected after they were evaluated as suitable for encountering D. reticulatus, which was the target species to collect in this study. One additional site was included (Putzar-PZ; 53.711169, 13.664667) due to the high tick infestation of a dog reported by the owner, and it was visited in October and November 2020. Ticks were further identified to species and developmental stages using morphological keys . After identification, the samples were stored at −80 °C until further processing.
DNA and RNA extraction
Adult ticks were processed individually while larvae and nymphs were pooled at a maximum of 10 ticks per pool. One pool consisted of ticks from the same tick species, location and date. Homogenization of ticks was done as previously described while DNA and RNA extractions were performed from 100 μl aliquots by using NucleoMag® VET kit (Macherey–Nagel, Düren, Germany) and the KingFisher® Flex purification system (Thermo Fisher, Darmstadt, Germany), following the manufacturer’s instructions. Total DNA and RNA were eluted in 100 μl of elution buffer and stored at −80 °C until further use.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and nested PCR for tick species identification and pathogen detection
A total of 59 ticks morphologically identified as I. ricinus (n = 40, representing 7.4% of females, 7.6% of males and 11.4% of the pool of nymphs), H. concinna (n = 8) and D. reticulatus (n = 11) were included in a PCR for genetic confirmation of the tick species based on a part of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COX1) gene. PCR was also conducted for all tick samples to detect Babesia/Theileria spp. 18S rRNA gene and Rickettsia spp. gltA gene, while a nested PCR was done to detect Borrelia spp. 16S–23S rRNA intergenic spacer (IGS). PCR for the Rickettsia ompA gene and nested PCR for Rickettsia ompB gene were done only for a part of the samples that tested positive after Rickettsia gltA PCR in the attempt to identify the Rickettsia species: 43 D. reticulatus samples tested for Rickettsia ompA, 57 I. ricinus and 43 D. reticulatus samples tested for Rickettsia ompB. The reactions were performed using the GoTaq® Flexi DNA Polymerase Kit (Promega, Walldorf, Germany) and a C1000 thermal cycler (Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc., Feldkirchen, Germany). The amplification conditions and primer concentrations were followed as stated in the available publications for each target (Table 1). Each reaction included a positive control (DNA from ticks) and a negative control (molecular-grade water). The PCR products were separated on a 1.5% agarose gel stained with ROTI®-GelStain Red (Carl Roth GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany), then visualized using the ChemiDoc™ MP Imaging System (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA).
qPCR for Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Tick samples were screened for the A. phagocytophilum msp2 gene using specific primers and probe (Table 1). The fluorogenic probe included a 6-carboxyfluorescein (FAM) reporter attached to the 5′ end and a Black Hole Quencher 1 (BHQ1) at the 3′ end. The reaction was performed using iTaq™ universal probes supermix (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Munich, Germany) and CFX-96 Real-Time system (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Munich, Germany). The reaction mix included 10 µL of DNA, 12.5 µL of iTaq supermix (2×), 900 nM of each primer, 120 nM probe and 1.75 µL of nuclease-free water in a total volume of 25 µL. The initial denaturation step at 95 °C for 5 min was followed by 40 cycles of denaturation at 95 °C for 5 s and annealing/elongation at 60 °C for 30 s. Each reaction included positive (DNA of positive ticks) and negative (molecular grade water) controls.
RT-qPCR for detection of tick-borne encephalitis virus
Tick RNA samples were screened for TBEV by RT-qPCR targeting the 3′ non-coding region of the TBEV genome with specific primers and probe (Table 1). The reactions were done in a final volume of 20 μl using the iTaq™ Universal Probes One-Step Kit (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Munich, Germany). Each assay contained 5 μl of RNA, 10 μl iTaq universal probes reaction mix (2×), 400 nM for each forward and reverse primers and 200 nM probe, 0.5 μl iScript advanced reverse transcriptase and 2 μl of water. Each run included RNA extracted from TBEV Neudoerfl viral stock as positive control and water as negative control. Thermal cycling conditions were as follows: 50 °C for 10 min, 95 °C for 5 min, 45 cycles at 95 °C for 15 s then 60 °C for 1 min.
Sequencing the PCR products
The sequencing strategy included the samples that tested positive for more than one pathogen after the molecular analysis. In addition to those, 13 D. reticulatus samples were also sequenced based on the gltA gene to identify the Rickettsia species after testing positive only for this pathogen. In the attempt to clearly determine the Rickettsia species, the 13 samples that were sequenced for Rickettsia spp. gltA and 30 additional D. reticulatus samples were further sequenced based on the ompA and ompB genes. Two H. concinna samples positive only for Babesia/Theileria spp. were also sequenced.
The PCR products were purified with NucleoSEQ® kit (Macherey–Nagel, Düren, Germany), following manufacturer’s instructions. After purification, samples were included in a PCR assay, in a 10 µL reaction mix: 1 µL of 5× Sequence buffer, 2 µL BigDye Ready Reaction Mix (Thermo Fischer, Darmstadt, Germany), 1 µL of the reverse primer (10 µM), 5 µL of molecular-grade water and 1 µL of the purified PCR product. The thermal conditions included a denaturation step at 96 °C for 1 min, then 25 cycles of denaturation at 96 °C for 10 s, annealing at the specific temperature for each primer for 5 s (Table 1), elongation at 60 °C (duration depending on the size of the product). The obtained products were again purified with NucleoSEQ kit (Macherey-Nagel, Düren, Germany) and 15 µL of each purified product were mixed with 15 µL of highly deionized (Hi-Di) formamide in a 1.5 ml tube and sequenced at the Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany.
The obtained sequences were viewed and edited in Geneious Prime 2021.0.1 (https://www.geneious.com) and compared with available sequences from GenBank database using BLASTn (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.library.vu.edu.au/BLAST/.).
All sequences obtained for the genetic identification of D. reticulatus and H. concinna based on a part of the COX1 gene were used for the construction of phylogenetic trees together with sequences retrieved from GenBank. The alignment of the sequences was conducted in MEGA X using ClustalW [26, 27]. Model test was then run in MEGA X for the selection of the suitable model prior to building the phylogenetic trees.
Statistical differences and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated with GraphPad Prism version 9.0.0 for Windows (GraphPad Software, La Jolla, CA, USA, www.graphpad.com). Ordinary one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey’s multiple comparison tests were performed on adult tick infection rates for different geographic groups, tick species and pathogens. The unpaired t-test with Welch’s correction was used to compare the infection levels between two different groups. The results for pathogens detected in pooled samples are expressed as the minimum infection rates (MIR), representing the ratio of the number of positive pools to the total number of analysed ticks, assuming that only one tick from a pool was positive. Differences were considered statistically significant when P < 0.05.
Identified tick species and their seasonality
A total of 1174 questing ticks were collected from May to November 2020 at five different locations from Western Pomerania, Germany. The morphological identification revealed three different tick species. Ixodes ricinus was the most frequently encountered species, with 760 ticks collected (524 adults and 236 nymphs) from all five locations. Dermacentor reticulatus was found in three locations (TG, HD and PZ), with 325 adult ticks and one nymph collected. In addition to the above-mentioned tick species, 88 H. concinna specimens (15 adults, 62 nymphs and 11 larvae) were found at three collection sites (TG, HN and UM) (Table 2).
The monthly distribution of collected ticks was recorded for I. ricinus from four locations (TG, UM, HN and HD), for D. reticulatus only from the HD site, and for H. concinna from three locations (TG, UM and HN) (Fig. 2).
As shown in Fig. 2, Ixodes ricinus were mostly found in May and June (77.2% of the total monthly collected ticks) while for D. reticulatus the highest number of flagged ticks was in May (49.1% of the monthly collected D. reticulatus) followed by a second peak in October (26.7%). Haemaphysalis concinna were mostly found in June (71.6%) without registering a second peak of occurrence.
BLAST analysis for the valid sequences of I. ricinus (38/40) confirmed the morphological identification of this tick species and had 99.6–100% identity with reference I. ricinus sequences from GenBank (AY945440 and KF197122). Molecular identification of selected D. reticulatus ticks was successful for all samples (n = 11) and BLAST analysis showed that the sequences from this study are 100% identical to D. reticulatus reference sequences (AF132829). The molecular confirmation was done also for H. concinna samples and the sequences (n = 8) matched 96.6–99.2% with H. concinna sequences from GenBank (KR108858).
The phylogenetic analysis based on the COX1 gene confirmed the morphological and molecular identification of D. reticulatus and H. concinna, the isolates from this study positioned within the same clades with the reference sequences retrieved from GenBank for the corresponding species (Figs. 3, 4).
Molecular screening of tick-borne pathogens
Out of the total number of collected ticks, 964 were screened for the selected pathogens: 714 I. ricinus (479 adults and 235 nymphs), 162 D. reticulatus (161 adults and one nymph) and 88 H. concinna (15 adults, 62 nymphs and 11 larvae). The RNA samples of all ticks tested negative for the specific RNA of TBEV. Table 3 includes detailed data regarding the prevalence rates for each pathogen identified in different tick species and developmental stages.
Ixodes ricinus ticks tested positive for all other selected pathogens. Borrelia spp. was the most encountered pathogen in I. ricinus adults (49.1%), showing a significant difference when compared to the infection levels of Rickettsia spp. (14.0%), Babesia/Theileria spp. (18.2%) or A. phagocytophilum (1.5%) (P < 0.001). No significant difference was observed between the prevalence rates of Rickettsia spp. and Babesia/Theileria spp. (P = 0.267) but both pathogens had a significantly higher prevalence compared to A. phagocytophilum (P < 0.001).
From a total of 92 I. ricinus samples positive for Babesia/Theileria after PCR, 70 samples were positive for more than one pathogen and were sequenced. BLASTn analysis identified 62 sequences similar to Babesia microti (MW554613) (57 showed 99.1–100% similarity and five matched 96.3 to 98.7%) while eight samples matched 100% to Babesia sp. (MW554616).
Out of 263 I. ricinus tick samples positive for Borrelia, 114 were sequenced, resulting in a total of 92 valid sequences. The BLASTn search determined 71 sequences as Borrelia afzelii (MK945792) (98.4–100% identity), 18 sequences matched 99.3–100% to both B. afzelii (MK945782) and Babesia spielmanii (JX448323), without a clear distinction between the two genospecies, while the remaining three samples matched 99.9% to B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (s.s.) (CP077727), 100% to Borrelia miyamotoi (LC540659) and 99.6% to Borrelia valaisiana (MK945840), respectively.
Confirmation of Rickettsia species was attempted for 57 samples that showed double or triple infection, out of the total 88 positive I. ricinus ticks. In total, 51 valid gltA sequences were obtained. No clear identification of Rickettsia species was possible, 44 samples had 99.4–100% identity to R. helvetica (GenBank accession number: MH618386) and uncultured Rickettsia sp. (KX051405), three sequences showed 99.4 and 100% identity to R. raoultii (MT293352) or Rickettsia sp. (MT424977), two samples had 99.4 and 100% identity to R. monacensis (MH618388) and uncultured Rickettsia (LC060719), and two sequences matched 100% to Candidatus Rickettsia mendelii (KJ882309) and uncultured Rickettsia sp. (AB911109).
Rickettsia ompB sequencing was successful for 49 samples, out of which 44 matched 100% to R. helvetica (KY951985) and one had 99.7% similarity to R. helvetica (LC461080). For the remaining four samples, clear identification was not possible. Detailed data regarding the results retrieved after BLAST analysis of Rickettsia sequences are available in Additional file 1.
The second most commonly encountered tick species, D. reticulatus, tested positive for Rickettsia spp. and A. phagocytophilum. The infection rate of Rickettsia spp. in adults (82.0%; 133/162) was significantly higher compared to A. phagocytophilum (0.6%) (P < 0.001). Due to the high prevalence of Rickettsia spp. in D. reticulatus, 13 samples positive only for Rickettsia spp. were initially sequenced based on gltA gene. Sequencing results for gltA gene did not result in a clear identification of Rickettsia species, 2 samples had 100% identity to Rickettsia helvetica (GenBank accession number: MH618386) and uncultured Rickettsia sp. (KX051405), while 11 samples had 99.6–100% identity to R. raoultii (MN388798) or uncultured Rickettsia sp. (MN431836). Species confirmation was attempted for the 13 samples and 30 additional ones based on ompA and ompB genes. The results retrieved 40 valid sequences of Rickettsia ompA that showed 99.5–100% (n = 32 isolates), 98–99.4% (n = 7 isolates) and 97.6% (n = 1 isolate) similarity to several R. raoultii sequences (MF166732, KX506737, JN398480) and one entry identified as Rickettsia sp. (AH009131). A distinction between these entries was impossible. In total, 42 Rickettsia ompB sequences were obtained and all showed 100% identity to different R. raoultii isolates from GenBank (HQ232278, DQ365797, KU310593) and to one entry, Candidatus Rickettsia rioja (GQ404431) (Additional file 1).
One D. reticulatus tick that showed co-infection with A. phagocytophilum and Rickettsia spp. was sequenced based on the gltA and ompB genes to determine the Rickettsia species. The gltA sequence showed 100% identity to R. raoultii (MT293352), Rickettsia sp. (MT424977) or uncultured Rickettsia sp. (MN431836). Based on a part of the ompB gene, the obtained sequence had 100% similarity to R. raoultii (HQ232278) and C. Rickettsia rioja (GQ404431). The PCR reaction for Borrelia spp. and Babesia/Theileria spp. showed unspecific amplification and the samples were considered negative.
Haemaphysalis concinna ticks tested positive for Babesia/Theileria spp., adults showing a prevalence of 13.3%. From the two samples that were sequenced, one matched 100% to Theileria sp. (MG214907) and Theileria capreoli (MW531681) while the second sample had 99.74% identity to Babesia sp. (KU550694).
Prevalence of pathogens in ticks from different sites
The PCR for Babesia/Theileria spp. retrieved positive ticks from all locations except the samples collected from HN (Holländerei) (Table 3). When comparing the Babesia/Theileria spp. infection rates of I. ricinus adults according to location, there was a significant difference between ticks from HD and TG (26.3% versus 6.3%; P < 0.001) but no statistical difference to samples from UM (P = 0.089). Babesia/Theileria spp. were detected in H. concinna ticks collected only from TG (Table 3).
Rickettsia was detected in I. ricinus from all locations where this tick species was found. After comparing the infection rates of adult ticks, I. ricinus from TG (21.4%) showed a significant difference compared to the samples from HD (10.7%) (P = 0.006). The molecular screening detected high infection rates of D. reticulatus for Rickettsia spp. There was no statistical difference between the infection rates in ticks from sites HD and PZ (P = 0.261) while all the three D. reticulatus adults found at the TG site tested positive for this pathogen (Table 3).
Borrelia was the most encountered pathogen in I. ricinus ticks, the statistical analysis in adults indicated a significantly higher prevalence for samples from HD compared to TG (58% vs 34.6%; P < 0.001) but no significance when compared to UM site (50.9%) (P = 0.591) (Table 3).
Anaplasma phagocytophilum was identified in I. ricinus ticks from sites HD, TG and UM, with no statistically significant differences among adults from different collection sites (P = 0.072) (Table 3). Concerning D. reticulatus, only the ticks collected in the HD site were positive for this pathogen, with a 1.4% prevalence of infection. Overall, all the H. concinna ticks tested negative for the presence of A. phagocyophilum DNA.
Infection rates of pathogens in different tick species
There was no significant difference of Babesia/Theileria spp. overall prevalence in I. ricinus adults (18.2%) compared to H. concinna ticks (13.3%) (P = 0.609) while the prevalence in H. concinna at site TG (25%) was higher compared to I. ricinus (6.3%) without a statistical significance (P = 0.292) (Table 3).
Co-detection of pathogens
From the total number of I. ricinus ticks that tested positive for at least one putative pathogen, 26.6% of adults (78/293) and 54.8% of nymph pools (17/31) showed an association with two or three different pathogens.
In total, 17 different associations were observed in I. ricinus: 11 different co-detections of two pathogens and six different associations with three pathogens (Table 4). The most common co-infection in adults was with B. microti and B. afzelii (12.3% of positive ticks), showing a statistically higher infection rate compared to all other co-infections (P < 0.001). No significant difference was observed when comparing the co-infection levels with B. microti and B. afzelii in I. ricinus adults from sites HD, TG or UM. The second most common co-infection in adults was with B. afzelii and R. helvetica (4.4% of positive ticks).
In nymphs, co-detection of B. afzelii and R. helvetica was observed in 25.8% positive samples followed by the co-detection of B. microti and Borrelia sp. (6.5%) and Borrelia sp. and R. helvetica (6.5%).
Co-infection with A. phagocytophilum and Rickettsia spp. was detected in 0.8% of positive D. reticulatus adults (1/132) and it was the only co-infection observed in ticks other than I. ricinus. Table 4 contains detailed information on the dual and triple associations of pathogens observed in ticks.
In this study, we conducted a follow-up analysis on the tick population near the Baltic Sea coast to determine the tick species composition and the prevalence rates for some of the most relevant tick-borne pathogens. The results of our previous study, which focused on screening pathogens in I. ricinus only, indicated that questing ticks from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania can harbour several Borrelia species and that B. miyamotoi infection levels in ticks are at similar levels to other regions in Europe . Considering the current expansion D. reticulatus is undergoing alongside other tick species in Germany and other European countries, we aimed to investigate the presence of this species and the potential sympatric occurrence with other ticks at different sites near the coast in north-east Germany.
Overall, we collected and identified three tick species from the assessed areas. As expected, I. ricinus was the most frequently encountered tick, previously reported as the species with the widest geographic distribution in Germany . Previous reports indicated the sympatric distribution of I. ricinus with Ixodes inopinatus in southern and northern Germany [28, 29]. Ixodes inopinatus was described in 2014 as a new species closely related to I. ricinus . Due to the similar morphological features of I. ricinus and I. inopinatus, we conducted molecular identification for a representative batch of the collected I. ricinus ticks and all sequences belonged to this tick species, confirming the initial morphological identification. Further extensive tick collection campaigns should determine whether I. inopinatus is present in Western Pomerania.
Dermacentor reticulatus was found at three collection sites which confirms the presence of this species in north-east Germany. In recent years this species continuously expanded its geographic range in several European countries, Germany included, and it is the second most widespread questing tick on the continent after I. ricinus . Climate change has been incriminated as the dominant factor for the range expansion of D. reticulatus, nevertheless, the importance of other contributing factors like changes in land use, availability of wildlife hosts, and intense travel of humans and their pets should not be neglected .
Collecting D. reticulatus from the environment in HD site, very close to the German Baltic coast (Fig. 1), confirms the northward expansion of this species in Germany and the previous documentation of this tick in the port of Rostock (12.14°E∕54.15°N) . A recent publication reported the presence of D. reticulatus further north, on the island of Sylt. The observation was made during a citizen science, still, further research is needed to confirm this finding .
Haemaphysalis concinna was the third most prevalent questing tick species collected in this study. The observation of H. concinna at site UM (Fig. 1) further expands the reported northern distribution limit of this species in Europe. The previously known limit from Germany was reported in 2016 at the Seedorf military training area (9.26° E/53.30° N) . In this study, H. concinna was collected from sites near the Mecklenburg lake plateau, an area that was described as suitable to maintain H. concinna tick populations, and where this tick is considered the third most common species after I. ricinus and D. reticulatus . Information regarding the circulation of H. concinna near the German Baltic coast is available since 1960, with published data indicating several specimens collected in 1958 from Capreolus capreolus (L.) deer at several locations near Greifswald . Our observations confirm the presence of the H. concinna population in the north-east of Germany by providing the exact geographical locations where this species occurs.
Ixodes ricinus showed a main peak of occurrence in May–June while D. reticulatus was most active in May, followed by a second lower peak in September for I. ricinus and September–October for D. reticulatus. The occurrence of H. concinna suggested only one peak of activity in June. The monthly distribution of occurrence is in line with the known seasonal activity of all three species and could be of use in predicting the seasonality of tick-transmitted diseases .
The morphological identification of D. reticulatus and H. concinna was molecularly confirmed based on the COX1 gene that proved to be suitable in identifying ticks at species level. The phylogenetic analysis further supported the morphological and genetic species identification, the sequences from this work clustered within the same clade with reference sequences corresponding to D. reticulatus and H. concinna, respectively, having also good bootstrap support (Figs. 3, 4).
Using molecular methods, ticks were screened to determine the infection rates for some of the most common tick-borne pathogens, using species-specific and generic primers. All samples tested negative for TBEV. Even though there have been recent reports of TBEV RNA detection in ticks and anti-TBEV antibodies in animals [35, 36] from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the results of this study confirm the low risk classification of this region for TBEV. Nevertheless, the northward expansion of ticks, the land use changes that facilitate movement of virus reservoir hosts, and climate change are factors that could facilitate the range expansion of TBEV towards the northern regions of Germany.
Ixodes ricinus adults and nymphs were positive for all other analysed pathogens: Babesia/Theileria spp., Rickettsia spp., Borrelia spp. and A. phagocytophilum. These results highlight the involvement of this tick species in causing health problems of public and veterinary concern.
The Babesia/Theileria spp. prevalence in questing I. ricinus adults in our study (18.2%) was higher compared to the observed infection levels in I. ricinus from different geographical areas in Germany that ranged between 0.4% and 10.7% . In addition, 70 out of 92 total Babesia positive samples were sequenced and most of the isolates (n = 62) matched B. microti, the protozoan blood parasite responsible for human babesiosis . These results indicate that there is a significant risk of acquiring this protozoan after a tick bite at the sites selected for this work. Ixodes ricinus ticks collected at site HD near Rostock showed the highest infection rate for Babesia spp. (26.3% in adults and MIR of 8.3% in nymphs), and the transmission of the pathogen can be facilitated also by the high human activity in the vicinity of this collection site.
The observed Rickettsia spp. infection rate in I. ricinus adults in our study (14%) is higher when compared to data available from questing ticks collected near the German Baltic coast (8.5%) , which can suggest an increase over time of the tick infection rates with Rickettsia spp. Ticks simultaneously act as vectors and reservoir hosts for Rickettsia, and the efficient transovarial transmission in I. ricinus ticks observed under laboratory settings might contribute to the maintenance of the microorganism in tick populations . In the sequenced samples, R. helvetica was the dominant species (in 45 out of 49 valid sequences). This species belongs to the spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae and it is reported as a pathogenic agent in humans transmitted mainly by Ixodes ticks . The current study confirms the presence of this pathogen in questing ticks from north-east Germany, yet further analyses are required to provide a clear estimation of R. helvetica prevalence in tick populations from this region.
Borrelia was the most common pathogen detected in the assessed ticks (49.1% of adult ticks and MIR of 11.9% in nymphs) showing a higher prevalence compared to our previous study (12.1% in adults and MIR of 3.3% in nymphs) . The infection levels of I. ricinus ticks for Borrelia spp. are also high when compared to other studies in questing ticks from Germany. High infection rates with B. burgdorferi s.l. were also reported from southern Germany (up to 36.2%) . The primer pairs used in this study to detect Borrelia spp. are also amplifying the 16S–23S rRNA IGS sequence of B. miyamotoi relapsing fever agent, and since not all samples were sequenced, the herein results regarding the prevalence of B. burgdorferi s.l. should be interpreted with caution. On the other hand, based on the B. miyamotoi infection rates found in I. ricinus ticks from Europe, ranging from 0.4% in Estonia to 3.5% in France and Germany [42,43,44], we can expect a high prevalence of B. burgdorferi s.l. in I. ricinus ticks from this study. Borrelia spp. showed high prevalence in I. ricinus ticks from sites HD (58% in adults and MIR of 25% in nymphs) and UM (50.9% in adults and MIR of 16.7% in nymphs) (Table 3). These sites are located in peri-urban areas that represent high-risk locations for public health due to increased tick-human contact.
The observed prevalence of A. phagocytophilum in I. ricinus ticks from this study (1.5% in adults and MIR of 1.3% in nymphs) is comparable to other published data from northern Germany: 1% near the German Baltic Coast , 3.6% in Hamburg , and 3.8% overall prevalence for a 10-year interval in Hanover . Supplementary research on a larger scale is needed to determine the prevalence of this pathogen in tick populations and furthermore to identify the circulating A. phagocytophilum variants which will facilitate the proper evaluation of the risk posed by this tick-borne pathogen to human and animal health.
Molecular screening of D. reticulatus ticks for tick-borne pathogens enabled the detection of high infection levels with Rickettsia spp. Overall, 82% (132/161) of the adults tested positive with a homogenous distribution of the prevalence among different collection sites. In addition, approximately one third of the positive samples were sequenced for ompB gene (42/132) and matched to R. raoultii and C. Rickettsia rioja. Both of these bacteria are described as causative agents of Dermacentor-borne necrosis erythema and lymphadenopathy (DEBONEL) or tick-borne lymphadenopathy (TIBOLA) in humans [13, 46]. According to these results, the sites at which D. reticulatus ticks were observed are locations where people could potentially acquire SFG Rickettsia following a tick bite.
From the range of screened tick-borne pathogens, H. concinna ticks tested positive only for Babesia/Theileria spp., with sequences that matched Theileria sp. or T. capreoli and Babesia sp. Previous studies have reported detection of piroplasmids of the genus Theileria in questing H. concinna from Austria or Hungary , and Babesia in H. concinna larvae collected from rodents in Slovakia , to which the isolate from our study was closely related. These results suggest a potential role of this tick species as vector for Theileria and Babesia in Central Europe. Vector competence studies would be valuable in understanding the role of H. concinna as vector for pathogenic Theileria and Babesia species.
Co-detection of pathogens was mostly observed in I. ricinus ticks; from the adults and nymph pools positive for at least one agent, 26.6% and 54.8% of the respective adults and nymph pools registered association of two or three different pathogens. The results from the pools of nymphs need to be treated with care since they can express an overestimated association of pathogens. Nevertheless, the high number of I. ricinus ticks positive for several pathogens confirms the ability of this species to carry a broad range of pathogens, and exhaustive work is needed to fill the gap on the knowledge in regard to the relationship between pathogens (positive or negative interactions) within the same tick.
In conclusion, the results of our study represent new data that confirm an expansion of the northern distribution limit of D. reticulatus and H. concinna. We also confirm the existence of suitable habitats for the sympatric occurrence of I. ricinus, D. reticulatus, and H. concinna near the German Baltic coast, by providing exact geographic locations where these ticks were encountered. The high infection levels of I. ricinus with Babesia/Theileria spp., Rickettsia spp. and Borrelia spp., and of D. reticulatus with Rickettsia spp. at peri-urban areas suggest a high risk for public health that is facilitated also by a potentially increased tick-human contact. We have also confirmed the ability of I. ricinus to carry several pathogens and provided detailed data of the infection levels at each location, data that could be useful in assessing the risk of acquiring a pathogen following a tick bite.
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All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article. Newly generated sequences were submitted to the GenBank database and received the following accession numbers: Babesia spp.: OL549321-OL549398; Rickettsia spp.: OL549399-OL549443; Borrelia spp.: OL701405-OL701478; tick species: OL639104-OL639118.
Minimum infection rate
- COX1 :
Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I
- 18S rRNA :
18 Svedberg ribosomal ribonucleic acid
- gltA :
Citrate synthase gene
- ompA :
Outer membrane protein A
- ompB :
Outer membrane protein B
- msp2 :
Major surface protein 2
Basic local alignment search tool
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We thank Dr. Gerhard Dobler (Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, German Center for Infection Research) and Dr. Kerstin Wernike (Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut) for kindly providing the positive control for tick-borne encephalitis RT-qPCR reaction. We are also grateful to Dr. Susanne Fischer and Ulrike Neumann for their help during the collection of ticks.
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Many people have Gut issues, and some even do not realize it. If you have constipation, bloating, indigestion, diarrhoea, candida overgrowth or food sensitivities, you are likely to have a Gut imbalance. Homeopathy can help rebalance your microbiome and address different underlying causes.
The term “gut microbiome” refers to microorganisms in your intestines. Each person has about 200 different species of bacteria, viruses, and fungi in their digestive tract.
Some microorganisms are harmful to our health, but many are incredibly beneficial and even necessary for a healthy body.
The Gut microbiome inhabiting the human gastrointestinal tract provides unique metabolic functions to the host and is fundamentally important in health and disease.
I can’t stress enough the importance of Gut health. It is connected with metabolism, weight issues, and mental health.
Diseases may occur when the balance between good and harmful bacteria is disrupted. Such conditions include:
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Cognitive and mood problems.
For example, IBD is caused by dysfunction in the interactions between microbes (bacteria), the gut lining, and the immune system.
Chronic, low-grade inflammation can become a silent killer contributing to cardiovascular disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes and other conditions.
When we consider the connection between the brain and the gut, it’s essential to know that 90% of serotonin receptors are located in the gut.
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Homeopathy can help rebalance your microbiome and address different underlying causes.
For this to happen, you need to work with a homeopath. The treatment is individualized, and there are no set protocols. Advice on a healthy diet and lifestyle is given, and some supplements when required. It is a health journey and takes time. How long it will depend on the case. As a rule, the longer you had the problems more time you will need for your body to heal.
I use Ton Jansen’s method of prescribing to detox, rebalance and promote health. The detoxing and balancing courses are usually over 8 weeks. Most of the clients need 3-4 appointments which are done over 6-8 months.
Sara is 40 years old and came to me with digestive symptoms- bloating wind, constipation, oral candidiasis and vaginal candidiasis. Her problems have been ongoing for more than 12 years. Sara had many courses of conventional antifungal treatment, but her symptoms kept relapsing. She was on the Candida diet for 6 months before her 1st appointment.
She has a history of a high sugar diet and many antibiotics for ear, nose, and throat infections. Dental amalgams, contraceptives.
Sara had 3 appointments where we did poly-contraceptives, poly-antibiotics and dental amalgam detoxes and bowel nosodes course, which is a microbiome balancing course. Plus, a constitutional remedy weekly that covers most of the main symptoms and a miasmatic remedy as an opening remedy (A single dose at the start of the course). Sara already was on a healthy diet and was advised to take supplements to support the heavy metal detox. She was doing coconut oil pulling first thing in the morning, which helped with the oral thrush. Her symptoms fully resolved after the treatment.
In this case, we can see that a client with a candida overgrowth often has various symptoms- oral and vaginal thrush and digestive symptoms. Her symptoms were ongoing for many years, and she needed a treatment that went on for 6 months- one consultation every 2 months. I saw her 3 times during this period.
Sometimes I am asked why I do not prescribe just one remedy and see if it will be enough. This is the classical homeopathic approach. In my experience, this is possible for healthy people who need a slight boost from the remedy and will return to balance. Well, the patients I see usually had problems for many years, had tried conventional and other treatments, and came to homoeopathy as a last resource. These people are not at a high level of health. They are struggling to rebalance and need detoxes and balancing courses to help their system regain balance. They would not have ongoing candida overgrowth if they were at a high level of health.
Homeopathic remedies often used for Gut symptoms:
It helps to reduce uncomfortable and painful bloating in the lower stomach. This remedy is well-suited to people with IBS & food intolerances, especially onions, oysters, cabbage and beans. The pains are worse in the evening, typically from 4- 8, and are relieved by passing wind. The inflamed digestive tract struggles to get enough nutrition from food, so there can be a loss of weight with fullness and bloating in the abdomen. The appetite is changeable and can go from ravenous tory full after a few mouthfuls.
Nux Vom aids with overindulgence, constipation and heartburn. This remedy suits people who burn the candle at both ends, working hard and playing harder. Eventually, this stressful lifestyle takes its toll, and the digestive system suffers. There are severe stomach cramps and acid reflux that are aggravated by mental exertion. Hiccoughs, belching, fullness and indigestion are worse after coffee, spicy foods and smoking. There can also be a lot of nausea and feelings of being seasick. The remedy is also beneficial to treat a hangover.
Stomach cramps aggravated by touch, with burning pains worse in the morning and at night. Appetite usually increases, especially around 11 am, with an ‘all-gone’ sensation. The stomach feels very heavy straight after eating.
For those who struggle with rich, fatty foods, Carbo Veg works to combat heaviness and fullness in the stomach. The remedy is well-suited to older people or those suffering from general fatigue with stomach pains that are burning, sore or pressing. There are cramps which feel like the stomach is being contracted with a lot of bloating after eating. Butter, fats & rich foods can cause belching, heartburn and indigestion with weakness or faintness.
China Officinalis. The appetite swings from being ravenous to being entirely off food, with a feeling of fullness after eating a small amount. Stomach acidity with a great deal of bloating & bitter or sour belching. Fruit and milk aggravate, and the pains are pressing or sore. Digestion, in general, is very slow.
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Live Streaming Services are a form of internet-based broadcasting that delivers audio and video of real-time events to viewers. As it allows businesses and organizations to communicate with their viewers deeper, regardless of their physical location, live streaming is gaining popularity in the professional sector. Increased event accessibility is why live streaming continues to grow in popularity.
Much content has been composed concerning the emergence of Live Streaming Services and their possible influence on traditional television. This move will be investigated using our Canadian crowd, Bounty’s crowdsourcing platform, and app. The study, conducted across Canada in a matter of days, yielded essential findings regarding the relationship between viewers, broadcasting services, and online streaming.
All parties said they have at least one online streaming subscription is particularly notable. For those with cable TV and a range of viewing options, all participants had online streaming as a supplement to their cable service. Regarding the number of Live Streaming Services or packages that people owned, the popularity of internet streaming was even more remarkable. 28 percent of survey respondents without cable reported they had two or more live streaming packages, compared to 25 percent with cable. Therefore, the poll indicated that homes with two or more streaming subscriptions are rising. And there is only a three percent difference between those with cable and those without cable in terms of this prevalence.
Lack of innovation is the sole factor that has limited the growth of cable television. Streaming services are gradually becoming more simplified to enhance the customer experience. Here are two reasons why streaming services are gaining ground on cable television.
Streaming live events online can be valuable and influential in various scenarios since it enables professionals to share in-person events, service marketing, live releases, online classes, and the broadcasting of animals. There are various reasons why live streaming may be suitable for your company.
Live broadcasts can also improve and maximize direct engagement with community partners. Streaming an event live helps you to reach and interact with a more significant number of people throughout the globe. One of the most excellent benefits of live streaming is the ability to reach a global audience.
Many broadcasters employ live streaming technology solutions and their toolset of valuable streaming resources to host live events. A live streaming service for enterprises enables you to share live video content professionally. Live Streaming Services Are Appealing to Everyone and Permit Greater Personal Control
Another benefit of Live Streaming Services is that they facilitate parental control. Parents can monitor their children and restrict the content they are exposed to. You can rest assured that introducing kids to age-appropriate content will not compromise nascent morals.
Online Streaming Appeals to All
Although several studies, most recently the spring 2016 study by the Convergence Consulting Group, have warned of the increasing number of cord-cutters and cord-nevers, we have had little information on the consumption mediums of people with cable as opposed to those without. To facilitate the study, we divided respondents into two categories: those with cable and those without cable, with about equal sample sizes for each group.
All respondents said they have at least one internet streaming subscription is particularly notable. Therefore, for those with cable TV and several viewing options available through cable services, all respondents had an internet streaming service in addition to their cable package. Even more remarkable was the popularity of live streaming as measured by the number of streaming bundles people had. 25 percent of survey respondents with cable said they had two or more live streaming packages, while 28 percent of those without cable reported the same. The poll indicated that households with two or more streaming subscriptions have become increasingly common, with only a 3% difference between those with cable and those without; both population groups share this predominance.
The Cost of Live Streaming Services
With additional streaming options, monthly rates increase. This proliferation of streaming services pushed many individuals to purchase multiple subscriptions, including Disney+ for their children, Sling for live sports, and Amazon Prime Video for date night movies.
As nations eliminate pandemic-related prohibitions, many people have questioned the viability of certain streaming services. Will Hulu and Netflix face content shortages if other companies withdraw shows and films to create their services?
For decades, other companies well-established in the television industry have had good content to stream on their respective platforms. Paramount owns Nickelodeon content, and HBO Max owns dozens of Warner Brothers and Studio Ghibli episodes and films. Most streaming providers develop their content. Will viewers determine that the subscription is worthwhile?
Although streaming was advertised as more cost-effective and handy than cable and satellite TV, the sheer quantity of streaming options has escalated monthly entertainment prices.
Monthly streaming plans from Netflix range in price from $8.99 to $17.99. One of the lowest streaming options at $5.99 per month, Hulu includes advertisements. Users can pay $11.99 monthly to eliminate ads as an alternative to incessant advertising. Discovery+ and Paramount+ each cost $4.99 a month, and many streaming services offer student discounts.
3. Wide Variety of Content Availability
Not only live, but both audio and video streaming services also constitute live broadcasting. You can utilize a range of video and multimedia formats, such as images, text, and live chat. Numerous platforms provide a great deal of accessibility to various presenting techniques.
In addition, your live feeds can be repurposed as on-demand content. This maximizes your audience reach. One of the critical advantages of live streaming is the ability to reuse content for the benefit of your business in whatever way you see proper.
Live Streaming Services: Support Services
If you have little expertise with live streaming, it can be challenging to troubleshoot technical issues. When you use a live streaming service, you usually have access to a competent customer care team that is available around the clock.
Alternatively, if you stream alone, you will only have access to Google you already know regarding live streaming. A dependable live streaming provider will provide ongoing customer care and assist you with any problems you face. It would help to have a live support crew when broadcasting content live.
Most of your potential audience presumably uses mobile phones and other intelligent devices. There is a good chance that most of your audience will tune in via mobile streaming, as consumers nowadays see over half of all online video content on mobile devices.
It is crucial to keep up with these live streaming data and trends and to ensure that consumers can access your live broadcast through a mobile device.
Most platforms permit you to stream your content on mobile devices and tablets using the dynamic HTML5 player, compared to the previous Flash technology.
The HTML5 video player is global, enabling users to access your live broadcast anytime. A professional streaming service provides easy access to this sort of video player. You can engage with a larger audience by providing mobile live streaming.
Cost, selection, and convenience have emerged as the primary concerns of customers in 2016. The cost of services was by far the most influential element in determining the preferences of telecom consumers. Respondents frequently highlighted the high cable price and the relatively lower price of unlimited internet. The choice came in second place after cost.
The choice was a clear consumer need, regardless of whether individuals chose to keep their cable subscriptions owing to the accessible sports content or if they opted to rely on internet streaming due to the expanding selection of series on Netflix. Respondents also noted convenience, including the option to pause and rewind live TV, the capacity to record a TV show, and the ability to watch online whenever desired and start-up just where they left off.
What does this signify for internet service providers? The ubiquity of live streaming among families indicates that the trend of rising demand for unrestricted internet will likely continue. A future study could examine these variables by age, considering the time spent viewing television and the growing demand for more options and lower prices. This would indicate whether or not, following a time of research, Millennials will decide on standard cable providers. With many alternative survey kinds and ways to narrow down respondents, including by geographic location via GPS-enablement, the Bounty app presents options for gaining novel and intriguing insights into consumer behavior.
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Guwahati: Rich tributes are being paid to Assamese cultural doyen Rupkonwar Jyotiprasad Agarwala whose death anniversary is being celebrated today as Shilpi Divas across the state.
A poet of great brilliance, a musician of rare calibre, an artist, an ardent revolutionary and a humanist Jyotiprasad was born on June 17, 1903. The pioneer of Assamese film industry who made the first Assamese movie ‘Joymoti’ in 1935, died on January 17, 1951.
Assam Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma took to Twitter to pay his homage to Agarwala.
আধুনিক অসমীয়া সমাজ, সংস্কৃতি আৰু সাহিত্যৰ এগৰাকী অন্যতম ৰূপকাৰ জ্যোতিপ্ৰসাদ আগৰৱালাদেৱ আছিল আমাৰ আপোন ৰূপকোঁৱৰ৷ অসমৰ জনজীৱনলৈ সীমাহীন অৱদান আগবঢ়োৱা জ্যোতিৰ জ্যোতিয়ে অসমৰ জনজীৱন আলোকিত কৰক চিৰদিন-চিৰকাল৷ পৱিত্ৰ পুণ্যতিথি ‘শিল্পী দিৱস’ত সুন্দৰৰ পূজাৰীক জনাইছোঁ সশ্ৰদ্ধ প্ৰণিপাত৷ pic.twitter.com/A1hM26RJfu
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) January 17, 2022
Assam Sahitya Sabha organised several events across the state to commemorate the lumineer’s contribution to the field of art and culture.
Jyoti Prasad Agarwala was the ‘Rupkonwar’ of Assam who was the first filmmaker, belonging from the Marwar of Rajasthan. His forefather arrived in Assam in 1811 from Rajasthan but he was truly an Assamese from his heart. He has contributed a lot to his birthplace.
He is regarded as the Assamese cultural icon and gained the title of ‘Rupkonwar’ of the state. He was a notable writer who has constituted in several dramas, films, songs, and poems. He had a creative vision and his words were cherished by lakhs of people that his name is still pinned in everyone’s heart.
He was born on June 17, 1903, in the Tamulbari tea estate of Dibrugarh, Assam. His father was Paramananda Agarwala and his mother was Kiranmayee.
He was very patriotic and he joined the freedom movement during his school days. He was completely involved in the freedom movement and he was also imprisoned for around fifteen months and was charged a penalty of Rs. 500 for active participation in the struggles of freedom. Since childhood itself, he was exposed to nationalist ideas, and his outlook was intensely influenced by the freedom struggle against British rule.
He was actively participating in the freedom struggle and when Gandhi visited Assam in 1921, he dwelled in Prasad’s home which was the first concrete home in Tezpur named as ‘Poki’ and later becomes a place for meeting.
Jyoti Prasad was a celebrated writer 14 years of age. During that time, he wrote the well-known plays ‘Sonit-Konwari’ and ‘Joymoti’ in collaboration with the ‘Kolaguru’ Bishnu Prasad Rabha. In 1934, he established the Chitaraban Studio at the Bholaguri Tea Estate in Tezpur.
In 1935, he began his first film making career and produced his first-ever Assamese film, ‘Joymoti’ and he became the first filmmaker of the state. In 1937, he launched a movie theatre named ‘Junaki’ in Tezpur. His second film was ‘Indramalati’ in 1939 which gained much popularity during that period. He also republished a newspaper named ‘Asomiya’ which was shut down in 1944.
He was a renowned poet and his valuable words were immortal and still remembered in the present era. He was also a noteworthy songwriter and wrote about 300 songs and provided music to most people. His collections are known as ‘Jyoti Sanjeet’ which itself became a genre of music in the future days and will always be evergreen. He used to love children and wrote a lot of stories for them. Several well-known plays written by him include Ligiri, Lobhita, Rupalim, Karenghar, and many more.
He got married in the year 1936 to Devajani Bhuyan, his wife who stood by his side throughout his life. Jyoti Prasad Agarwala has a creative mind and was an expert in almost everything so he aptly gained the title of the ‘Cultural Icon’ of Assam. He was the founder of the Assamese film industry and his movies were distinct and made bold political statements that have greatly influenced the mindset of people even now.
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Rural 'Red Zone' Hospitals Fighting COVID-19 In Communities With Heavy Spread
Hospitals in western Kentucky counties designated as COVID-19 “red zones” are fighting the virus while critical spread hits their communities. WKMS spoke to two area hospitals on their current point in the battle against the virus, as well as safety precautions taken to limit virus spread within their facilities.
Governor Andy Beshear reported record numbers of virus-related hospitalizations and intensive care unit visits this week. However, the record-breaking numbers are not being seen in all western Kentucky medical facilities. Caldwell County currently has one of the highest COVID-incedence rates in the commonwealth as of Friday, at 71.7 daily cases per 100,000 residents, on average. Despite this, Caldwell Medical Center Infection Preventionist Mandy Smiley said the local hospital has zero active cases of the virus among patients. She said when there is an active case in the facility, multiple precautions are taken to limit potential spread.
"We’re making sure that we follow all of the state and local and CDC guidelines when it comes to our COVID patients. And so we put them in what we call airborne precaution. We’re also recognizing droplets and contacts so our staff is going in and wearing all of the personal protective equipment that goes with each one of those transmission-based precautions,” Smiley said.
Smiley said a hospital team meets regularly to determine if changes are needed to the hospital’s COVID plans. Potential changes could include halting some elective surgeries.
“We meet weekly, if we need to we meet more often. Those decisions are made by that team as to when we could cease any kind of elective procedure in order to make sure we’re caring for COVID patients,” she said.
The Murray-Calloway County Hospital does currently have active COVID-19 cases. MCCH Director of Planning & Marketing Melony Bray said the hospital is treating 11 COVID-19 inpatients as of Thursday. She said four patients are receiving treatment in the intensive care unit, with five isolating in the COVID-19 unit. Bray said the COVID-19 unit can be quickly expanded to accommodate more patients, although that hasn’t yet been needed.
“In addition to ICU capacity, MCCH has 15 beds designated for COVID-19 isolation. There are currently nine patients in this area. This unit can be quickly expanded to 27 beds if needed,” Bray told WKMS.
Bray said an MCCH committee is keeping a close eye on virus patients to determine if additional action is needed to keep hospital beds available.
“MCCH has a surgical oversight committee which monitors the number of COVID 19 patients in the facility as well as total volume of patients to determine if we have capacity to continue various categories of surgeries,” Bray explained. “The surgical schedule is managed to ensure we have adequate capacity. The decision to stop all elective surgeries would depend on our ability to meet the surge capacity guidelines from the KDPH as well as trends with regards to incidence rate, positivity, and overall volume.”
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Astronomy. any of the several large, dark plains on the moon and Mars: Galileo believed that the lunar features were seas when he first saw them through a telescope.
Latin mare “sea” is obviously but irregularly derived from Proto-Indo-European mori- “body of water, lake.” The Latin word “ought” to be more (the a is unexplained). The Proto-Indo-European mori- becomes Old Church Slavonic morje “sea, ocean,” Lithuanian marė “lagoon, bay,” and, in the Germanic languages, English mere (i.e., a lake or a pond), German Meer “sea, ocean,” Gothic marei “sea.” Latin mare used to describe the lunar feature first appears in Michael van Langren’s map of the moon (1645). Mare first entered English in the 19th century.
The wheels were large and open, and absorbed the unevenness of the mare; Malenfant felt as if he were riding across the Moon in a soap bubble.
The craft will attempt to retrieve up to 2 kilograms of soil and rock from the Oceanus Procellarum, a vast lunar mare on the near side that has yet to be visited by any spacecraft.
four times twenty; eighty.
Americans will recognize the phrase “Fourscore and seven years ago” from the Gettysburg Address (whether they will know what a score of years amounts to is another question). Most Americans will recognize the line from Psalm 90, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten” and will probably guess 70. The noun score comes from Old English scoru “a tally of 20,” from Old Norse skoru “a notch, scratch, tally of 20.” Score is one of the developments from the very complicated Proto-Indo-European root sker-, ker- “to cut.” In Latin the suffixed form ker-sna appears in cēna “dinner,” literally “a slice.” Old Latin also has the form cesnas; Oscan (an Italic language spoken in southern Italy) has the very conservative form kersnu “dinner.” Sker-, ker- in Germanic (English) appears in shear “to cut” and shears “scissors,” shard, shirt (from Old English scyrte), and skirt (from Old Norse skyrta). Fourscore entered English at the end of the 13th century.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Of the fish, I need say nothing in this hot weather, but that it comes sixty, seventy, fourscore, and a hundred miles by land-carriage …
surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature: a snobbish milieu.
Milieu is still unnaturalized in English, as its several pronunciations indicate. The French word means “middle, medium, environment.” (In Old French miliu means “the middle.”) Milieu breaks down into the prefix mi- and the noun lieu. Mi- ultimately derives from the Latin adjective medius “middle, middle of, in the middle” (the same prefix occurs in French Midi “midday, the south”). The French noun lieu “place” comes from Latin locus. A lieutenant is literally “a place holder, one who holds the place of another, a substitute” (for a higher authority). Milieu entered English in the mid-19th century.
… he grew up in Dagenham, on the eastern outskirts of London, a milieu that he has recalled as “gray and grimy.”
Most crucial, though … is a deeply informed, deeply immersive essay from Luc Sante, “Beastie Revolution,” that places the then-nascent band amidst the cultural milieu of New York City, and the world at large, in 1981, from the Walkman and Ronald Reagan and Grandmaster Flash getting booed off stage while opening up for the Clash in Times Square to Robert Mapplethorpe and WBLS radio and the Mudd Club and still-cheap rent. | <urn:uuid:312a0e73-2f0d-4549-9522-cdb7c714e770> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/mare-2019-02-19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936058 | 950 | 3.5 | 4 |
7 Essential Factors to Consider When Developing an Ecommerce Website
Web development can be a daunting task due to the fact that there are so many things involved. It’s still a must to offer an outstanding and engaging shopping experience. Designing and developing a website is a continuous process because trends are ever-evolving. Perhaps you’re about to kick start your website development project or your site needs improvement, here are some noteworthy elements.
1. Site Search
Websites that integrate a functional site search box usually discover that searching becomes simplified. Autocomplete is a feature that helps users to discover related items or popular products. It involves offering suggestions as visitors enter the text into the box. Another option is the faceted search which allows users to narrow down their searches in various ways. A concise product description that is powerful enough to convince customers is essential. This is because most visitors have an idea of the exact product they want. Ensure that it’s functional across all browsers and devices.
2. CMS Platform
Take note of the goals that you intend to achieve before choosing a particular platform. This will help to decide whether it’s the right one or not. Magento is one of the most popular CMS platforms for eCommerce websites, which is why many companies, such as Digitl, are a magento partner. Other options include Hybris, Shopify, Drupal, and WooCommerce. It should be compatible with the other technologies that you’re using such as marketing tools.
3. Marketing Strategy
Designing a solid marketing strategy for your eCommerce site can really help it to go a long way. Some of the approaches often used include organizing marketing campaigns on social media platforms and employing effective SEO tactics. Handling SEO the right way ensures that your site ranks well in searches, thereby boosting engagement. The smartest thing is to stick to the plan, or else it is useless.
4. Site Performance Optimization
Providing unique products or services alone isn’t enough to attract and retain customers. Web visitors don’t have the patience to wait for more than 3 secs before a site loads. They have many other sites that they visit with their smartphones and can decide to buy from their competitors. Taking advantage of caching and compressing images is a sure way to reduce page load time.
5. Responsive Web Design
A significant percentage of online shoppers carry out the payment process across different devices, especially on smartphones and tablets. In view of this, optimizing websites for mobile should be every eCommerce store goal if they want to remain relevant in this highly competitive space. Most of the CMS platforms need to be configured before they can maximize responsive design. The need to design separate platforms for mobile and desktop visitors can be eliminated with responsive design.
6. Guest Checkouts
Almost all eCommerce stores usually discover real-time insights as customers register on their sites. Truth be told, online visitors rarely like setting up an account before making a purchase. This doesn’t mean that you should ditch the idea altogether. The best approach involves encouraging customers to place orders without registering. You can then offer suggestions that they should sign up once the process is completed.
The importance of implementing SSL encryption on an eCommerce website can’t be underestimated. There is hardly anyone who wants to deal with a company that takes security issues lightly. One of the best practices for security is to avoid storing customers’ card information on your servers. Let customers rest assured that their contact information and other sensitive data will be protected. | <urn:uuid:1225f24b-f25f-4c72-b9d6-04e8c2bc9be4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dezzain.com/website-development/7-essential-factors-to-consider-when-developing-an-ecommerce-website/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.937113 | 728 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The spatial expertise of those individuals encompasses places beyond the boundaries of their homes, corresponding to shops, nursing houses, their adult youngsters’s properties, and the spatial expertise created whereas getting out to adult day programmes. The threshold phenomenon, as has been described by Heidegger and Bollnow, supplies a pure match with the empirical findings. The interviewed persons differentiated between the being right here of dwelling alone in their own houses on the one hand, and the being there of the nursing house and the being out locally on the other. As these quotations reveal, Bachelard’s phenomenology is way faraway from Husserl’s concept of phenomenology.
Our experience taught us we wished “arms on” involvement from our contractor. We didn’t desire a “swimsuit and tie” to signal us up after which delegate the job to a superintendent. We needed our builder, and within the case of Carey and Tammy Elam, our staff, on the job every day.
The body is taken into account to be a basic supply of selfhood that doesn’t derive its agency from a cognitive type of knowledge (Leder 1990; Kontos 2005). Therefore, the concept of embodiment is crucial to grasp how dementia symptoms are an expression of the lived physique in dementia. Finally, to be an individual is to be an agent and never merely a acutely aware or rational being. “Home” is well known from everyday expertise, performs an important position in all types of narratives about human life, however is hardly ever systematically handled in the philosophy of medication and health care.
Buy a home with low revenue: not at all times easy, however attainable
As the shortfall in social housing reaches disaster levels, his Goldsmith Street in Norwich was celebrated for creating sustainable and ambitious properties for folks in need. A former trainer and designer, Lynda launched House & Home over 30 years ago as Canada’s first design and life-style monthly shopper journal. Today, the journal is Canada’s most generally learn shelter publication, reaching over 1.8 million readers throughout Canada and the united statesA. Through its digital channels, web site, movies and line extensions, the House & Home brand now reaches over 6 million folks every month.
House & Home in Potchefstroom — 1154km
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Nuk Latex Teat Size 1 – Large Cross cut Hole is suitable for hungry babies who need a faster flow rate, for babies 0-6 months. The NUK shape is based on scientific studies of infants’ orthodontic development and designed to encourage correct oral development. These teats have a cross cut hole. When the infant is not sucking, the opening hole closes completely, so good for infants having trouble sucking.
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- Flat underside ensures correct positioning of tongue encouraging milking action. This helps widen jaw allowing correct spacing for tooth development.
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The Outlaw Michael Howe tells the story of its eponymous bushranger’s rebellion against the British empire in early nineteenth century Van Diemen’s Land (an embryonic title for Tasmania). Played by Damon Herriman (who you might recognise as a far less noble outlaw, Dewey Crowe, from Justified), Howe is defined by anger and sadness. His rebellion, achieved by setting English colonies ablaze, is defined less by strategy than a manifestation of sullen wrath.
As a historical document, Michael Howe is unsuccessful. The English villains are poorly-defined and poorly-performed, restricted to darkened sets that try (and fail) to obscure the small budget. Howe’s alliance and dalliance with a rich colonialist’s wife, Maria Lord (Mirrah Foulkes), is based in historical fact but lacks a compelling narrative purpose; Maria is less a person than a Biblical viper, a familiar femme fatale archetype.
As an expression of mournful anger, the film resonates. Its best moments find Howe drifting through the gorgeously-photographed Tasmanian wilderness, always on the cusp of a terrible tempest, moments where he reflects and deliberates and is forever defined by helplessness. Herriman is excellent in the role; his performance suggesting that beneath the surface of this crusty brigand is a lost, rebellious teenager. | <urn:uuid:e58f831b-95c0-44cb-a00f-422f55e99c64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ccpopculture.com/2014/02/02/the-outlaw-michael-howe-2013/?replytocom=2618 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.917739 | 286 | 1.765625 | 2 |
A nurse is providing care for a 44-year-old male client who is admitted with a diagnosis of fever of unknown origin (FUO). Which of the following characteristics of the client’s history is most likely to have a bearing on his current diagnosis?
A. The client is cachexic and an African American.
B. The client is malnourished, hypomagnesemic, and hypocalcemic.
C. The client is HIV positive and homeless.
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The Japanese Ministry of Defense has stated that earlier reports of the rescue of a crew member of a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force F-15 that disappeared from radar over the Sea of Japan on Monday were a “false alarm”. Search and rescue efforts for the aircraft’s crew remain underway, after the discovery of suspected debris at sea.
The Ministry of Defense had reported earlier in the day that contact was lost with the F-15 around 5:30PM local time, shortly after it took off from Komatsu Air Base in Ishikawa Prefecture. Komatsu base command reports that the F-15 involved is a two-seater F-15DJ with two crew members aboard. The aircraft is assigned to the Tactical Fighter Training Group, better known as the JASDF’s aggressor squadron.
The F-15 was heading out for a routine training mission over the Sea of Japan when radar contact was lost around 5 kilometers northwest of Komatsu. Search and rescue operations were launched shortly afterwards, with the Kanazawa Coast Guard office stating to the NHK that an eyewitness near the Hashidate Fishing Port in Kaga City reported seeing a red light out at sea around the time contact with the aircraft was lost.
Three Japan Coast Guard patrol boats are now among ships searching for the F-15 and its crew near the missing aircraft’s last known location. Following the discovery of what is suspected to be aircraft debris offshore, search and rescue efforts are being conducted on the presumption that the F-15 crashed into the sea.
The Tactical Fighter Training Group provides dissimilar air combat training for the JASDF, with detachments traveling to air bases around Japan from their home base of Komatsu Air Base to train various JASDF squadrons in air-to-air combat. In addition to the elite stature of group pilots, F-15s operated by the group also stand out due to their colorful aggressor paint schemes, intended to ease visual identification of aircraft during training. | <urn:uuid:ac4a60ee-c782-431e-a241-a80961b4df8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.overtdefense.com/2022/01/31/jasdf-aggressor-f-15-goes-missing-over-sea-of-japan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.97416 | 407 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Under "Other Possible C14 Dating Problems" we have the following:
Coal from Russia (the "Pennsylvanian)" supposedly 300 million years old, was dated at 1,680 years.This is the result of poor reading comprehension and a mistake. The original translation from the Russian intermixed "coal" and "charcoal" and that fooled Ken Ham, Andrew Snelling, and Carl Weiland. They got it wrong in The Answers Book, published by Master Books, El Cajon, CA, in 1992 (page 73), and creationists have been copying their mistake ever since. The mistake is in somehow getting "Pennsylvanian" and "supposedly 300 million years old" into the mix. That is found nowhere in the original date citation. I can give you the complete original text if you doubt me.
Bones of a saber-toothed tiger from the LaBrea tar pits (near Los Angeles), supposedly 100,000 to one million years old, gave dates as recent as 28,000 years.Another creationist boo-boo. The accepted age for the LaBrea Tar Pits is from about 9,000 years to about 50,000 years. The "supposedly 100,000 to one million years" is just faulty creationist research.
Eleven human skeletons, the earliest known human remains in the western hemisphere, have been dated by the "accelerator mass spectrometer" technique. All eleven were dated at about 5,000 radiocarbon years or less.These skeletons were all originally dated by the amino acid racemization method, which has been shown to be extremely inaccurate. The radiocarbon dates straightened out the dating error in the amino acid racemization method. This is just the opposite of what the article implies.
Oh, and the author also uses the global flood to account for his method of calibrating the radiocarbon method.
Sorry, I can't buy Dr. Pitman as an expert on the radiocarbon method. You better read the links I posted earlier today and learn a little more about how radiocarbon dating really works.
And leave those creationist websites alone. They are not doing science.
Is that your tactic now, ignore the body and focus on the least important part of the article (”Other Possible Carbon 14 Dating Problems”)? Do you want to focus on the “possibilities” section or the section dealing with the known science? I’m waiting...
PS Talk about quote mining!
Having said that, he went on to say that “These are not, however, the most fundamental problem with C14 dating. Although C14 is among the most useful and reliable of all the dating techniques, it still relies on several key assumptions. The same is true for tree ring dating. Why not ask Coyotemen to review some of the other mainstream arguments and references, such as those I’ve listed by Douglas J. Keenan?” | <urn:uuid:dd2ad994-0966-49de-ac98-93e1d1a7b875> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853433/replies?c=135 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958457 | 622 | 2.84375 | 3 |
HHS issues new guidance for facility reporting of COVID-19 data. Additional optional data fields have been added to help track health care personnel and patient vaccinations. These fields can be reported weekly starting January 13.
Vaccine eligibility expanded, but supply remains constricted
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Operation Warp Speed said this week they will immediately broaden the population of those eligible to be vaccinated from COVID-19 to include patients over the age of 65 and those with underlying health conditions that place them at risk for COVID-19. The basis upon which vaccines are distributed to states is also changing; weekly shipments of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will be determined by the size of states’ 65-and-over population, along with how quickly vaccines are administered.
In response to this guidance, the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) announced Arizonans age 65 and older will be able to register for vaccine starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, January 19 in counties that are currently vaccinating those in prioritized Phase 1B of vaccination. However, counties may prioritize based on available vaccine, so hospitals and other stakeholders should check with their local health department on its plan. Information on the phase each county is currently vaccinating, the number of doses ordered by each county and location of vaccination sites can be found here.
During a member call Thursday, AzHHA members asserted efficient and swift distribution, as well as the administration of vaccines is of paramount importance right now. AzHHA staff were directed to work with state and federal partners to improve the pipeline and remove any barricades.
HHS adds vaccine data fields to COVID-19 metrics
HHS issued new guidance for facility reporting of COVID-19 data. Additional optional data fields have been added to help track health care personnel and patient vaccinations. These fields can be reported weekly starting January 13. Providers are asked to report previous weeks that vaccines were provided when they start this new reporting.
AzHHA is concerned the process is not in place to currently support efficient and accurate reporting of this this data. We are working with our state and federal partners to address these concerns. ADHS reports the vaccine data fields will be open EMResource if and when reporting becomes mandatory.
Crisis Standards of Care
With COVID-19 caseloads at their highest level so far and available hospitals beds stretched thin these past few weeks, there is a renewed focus on the possibility of hospitals needing to soon implement crisis standards of care. During an AzHHA member call Thursday, Chief Medical Officers affirmed they are committed to avoiding this status shift. They noted the Arizona Surge Line remains key to helping hospitals “load level” patients during the current surge and thus avoiding widespread implementation of crisis standards of care.
The state is reviewing the current crisis standards of care protocols in response to a recent meeting with the Office of Civil Rights. The goal is to ensure all protocols are implemented in a non-discriminatory manner.
ADHS announces second state-run vaccine site
ADHS announced Thursday it will open its second COVID-19 vaccination site next Tuesday at Phoenix Municipal Stadium. ADHS launched Arizona’s first 24/7 state vaccination site in Glendale earlier this week and reports the site is “fully booked for January.” Read more here.
Hospital resources for times of civil unrest
HHS Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has a packet of resources available for hospitals to prepare for times of civil unrest. The packet includes planning resources and lessons learned from around the country, resources on injuries and treatment related to riot control strategies and symptoms and treatment for individuals exposed to tear gas and/or pepper spray.
Palliative care telehealth now available in Arizona
Palliative Care Telehealth is a referral source for healthcare providers across Arizona to help their patients navigate through the complexities of COVID-19 related symptoms, or those chronic conditions exacerbated by COVID-19. The free telehealth program offers patients the opportunity to talk directly to a palliative care specialist to discuss symptom management in their home as opposed to in the hospital when possible. Please visit our website for more resources including patient and provider flyers and frequently asked questions: https://palliative.vsee.me/u/clinic.
Healthcare heroes, in their own words
The testimonials are quite compelling. Arizona’s doctors, nurses and EMTs give their first-hand accounts of the effects of COVID-19 in our hospitals.
“This is real. People are dying.”
“Some people won’t be able to come back from this.”
“Protect the ones who can’t protect themselves.”
We hope the words our healthcare heroes use will invoke action on behalf of those who watch and slow the spread of COVID-19. Please join us in sharing the message on social media and throughout your respective network. Go to SlowTheSpreadAZ.org to learn more. | <urn:uuid:ad84c2e6-8da2-4938-8805-1b1a1b9dd274> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.azhha.org/azhha_member_advisory_january_14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.949966 | 1,041 | 1.726563 | 2 |
2014’s Top Fitness Trend: High-Intensity Interval Training
Posted: March 14, 2014 at 11:12 am, Last Updated: March 17, 2014 at 10:49 am
By: Alison Hall
For the past 8 years, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has conducted a survey of fitness trends. Results came in from around the world, and the number one fitness trend for 2014 is High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT).1 HIIT training consists of short high-intensity bouts of exercise followed by a short rest break. Usually the entire workout is complete in thirty minutes or less. Studies have found that HIIT training can promote fat loss, increase post-exercise metabolism, and improve VO2max.2
One popular style of HIIT is Tabata training. True Tabata training means following a protocol developed by Izumi Tabata. Dr. Tabata and his team of researchers performed his protocol on high-level athletes at the extremely high intensity of 170 percent of VO2max and compared them to a control group exercising at a steady state of 70 percent of VO2max. The study found that moderate-intensity training improved maximal aerobic power but did not impact the anaerobic energy system. High-intensity interval training, however, significantly improved both anaerobic and aerobic power because both energy systems are stimulated. 3 Most of us do not and should not exercise at the high intensity used in this study. Dr. Tabata’s research has lead the fitness industry to call any type of high-intensity anaerobic exercise that is done for 20 seconds with 10 seconds of rest, repeated 8 times, Tabata training. That means pushing yourself to the point that you could not say more than a word or two, resting, and repeating for 4 minutes.
Other methods of HIIT training are not as specific with time and intensity. General HIIT workouts can be any ratio of work to rest, such as 1 minute work and 1 minute recovery, 1 minute work and 30 seconds recovery, 45 seconds of work and 1 minute of recovery, etc. The number of times an exercise is repeated can vary, as can the intensity. You can mix and match pushing yourself to the point you can barely say a few words with less intense drills. HIIT does not have to be high-impact exercise. Drills can be done using Gliding Discs, BOSUs, or bodyweight exercises such as planks or pushups.
Many survey participants expressed reservations about HIIT training; however, HIIT training can be done safely with education. Industry guidelines suggest limiting HIIT training to no more than 3 sessions per week. The more fit you are, the more your body can adapt to more intense workouts, but it still needs a chance to recover.2 As long as you are cleared to exercise, some HIIT can be beneficial, but be careful you don’t overdo it. If you are unsure, hire a personal trainer to help you assess your current fitness level and make suggestions to incorporate HITT training safely and effectively.
- Thompson WR. Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends for 2014. ACSM’s Health and Fitness Journal. 2013:17(6);10-20.
- Vogel A. Industry Experts Wonder If High-Intensity Exercise Has Gotten Out Of Hand. IDEA Fitness Journal. 2014:11(2)33-9.
- Tabata I, Nishimura K, Kouzaki M, Hirai Y, Ogita F, Miyachi M, Yamamoto K. Effects of moderate-intensity endurance and high-intensity intermittent training on anaerobic capacity and VO2max. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 1996:28(10);1327-30. | <urn:uuid:a4b3a892-22e4-4882-9010-29da3abd6edc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://recreation.gmu.edu/2014/03/2014s-top-fitness-trend-high-intensity-interval-training/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936582 | 773 | 2.203125 | 2 |
A less-noticed new provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) may be critical to unlocking business model innovation in teacher preparation. For decades, voices from both outside and within education schools have called for reforms such as greater admissions selectivity, curriculum that is grounded in learning science research, and stronger clinical training in K–12 school settings. But unfortunately, despite the fair amount of consensus regarding needed reforms, schools of education seem to have done little over the last 30 years to fundamentally change their business models to align with suggested reforms.
The reality confronting reformers that too often goes unrecognized is that fundamentally transforming teacher preparation is not merely a matter of improving programs and curriculum. As the Clayton Christensen Institute’s research has shown, real change typically requires new institutional business models. To this end, a new provision in ESSA encourages states to authorize new teacher preparation programs that circumvent the challenges of institutional deadlock.
Overcoming teacher prep programs’ resistance to change
The heart of the challenge of reforming established teacher preparation programs is that their business models discourage change. For example, many reformers call for teacher preparation programs to improve the quality of their outputs through higher admissions standards. But many prestigious institutions, such as Harvard and Yale, where selectivity is the norm across all programs, have either limited the scale of their teacher preparation programs to instead focus on education leadership and academic research, or have eliminated their schools of education altogether. The rankings-focused business models of selective colleges and universities lead them to prioritize higher-status leadership and academic training over the lower-status professional work of training new teachers. In contrast, the business models of non-prestigious state university systems are aligned with producing large numbers of teachers to serve the public good. But these same business models also sideline efforts in improving teacher quality for the sake of maintaining high volumes of graduates and low operational costs in order to provide positive revenue sources for their parent institutions.
Most states’ policies governing teacher preparation reinforce established business models and traditional practices. In order for schools of education to operate legally, issue teaching certificates, and offer their students financial aid, they must demonstrate that they meet the standards set by state departments of education and regional accreditation agencies. Although the standards set by those entities are all well intentioned, they tend to emphasize inputs (such as governance structures, credit hour requirements, and faculty credentials) rather than the quality of their outputs (effective teachers). Thus for established institutions, research and curriculum standards become central priorities because they lead to state authorization, accreditation, and the ability to bring in federal dollars. Meanwhile, these schools inadvertently give secondary priority to efforts to improve teacher quality.
Aligning business models with student outcomes
An alternative way to improve teacher preparation is to build new institutions from the ground up with entirely different business models that are aligned with student outcomes. A few examples of new institutions that have done this include Match Teacher Residency, Urban Teachers, Aspire Teacher Residency, and Relay Graduate School of Education. New institutions can design their business models with strong incentives to prioritize practices like establishing selective admissions requirements, setting competency-based graduation requirements, creating close partnerships with local schools, designing high-quality curricula, and supporting graduates during their induction into the profession.
Along this vein, ESSA has a new provision that encourages states to foster new teacher preparation programs with innovative business models. Whereas the “alternative certification” provisions from prior versions of the law have resulted mostly in new programs within existing education schools, this provision gives states funding to authorize new “teacher preparation academies” that have very different business models from those of most established education schools. Section 2002(4) of Title II of ESSA requires states that authorize these academies to eliminate “unnecessary requirements” for state authorization, such as requiring that faculty hold advanced degrees or conduct academic research, that students complete a certain number of credit hours or sequence of coursework for graduation, or that preparation academies receive institutional accreditation from an accrediting body. Instead, the law specifies that states must ensure that each academy gives its prospective teachers “a significant part of their training through clinical preparation,” awards “a certificate of completion to a teacher only after the teacher demonstrates that the teacher is an effective teacher,” and “limits admission … to prospective teacher … candidates who demonstrate strong potential to improve student academic achievement.” The law also requires that states recognize the certificates from these academies, “as at least the equivalent of a master’s degree in education for the purposes of hiring, retention, compensation, and promotion in the State.”
This new provision in ESSA for teacher preparation academies will hopefully make it easier for programs with new business models built around teacher quality to launch new sites and expand their impact. The challenge for states will be to make sure that the policies and regulations they adopt for authorizing these new programs truly lead to the desired outcome of producing more high-quality teachers. But if the states can get these details right, the new programs that result may finally lead to the changes in teacher preparation that reformers, public officials, and education groups from across the political spectrum have anticipated for decades.
The Brown Center Chalkboard launched in January 2013 as a weekly series of new analyses of policy, research, and practice relevant to U.S. education.
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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has dirtied its hands with coal despite its green rhetoric, ahead of its third annual meeting in Mumbai next week.
As the world’s newest multilateral development bank, the AIIB has made big efforts to brand itself as a “green” bank, with President Jin Liqun saying its “sacred mission” is to invest “without leaving an environmental footprint”.
He told last year’s annual meeting that the AIIB “will not consider any proposals if we are concerned about their environmental and reputational impact”, and proudly proclaimed “there are no coal projects in our pipeline”.
But a year later, the AIIB has already invested in coal. A report by Bank Information Center Europe and Inclusive Development International reveals how the AIIB’s investment through a financial intermediary has led the institution down a carbon fuelled path.
In September 2017, AIIB backed the IFC Emerging Asia Fund (EAF), which subsequently bought equity in Shwe Taung Cement for expansion of a cement plant in Myanmar. The investment will fund a new kiln to increase production significantly, as well as more than double the output from a coal mine that supplies the plant exclusively.
The EAF also invests in Singapore’s Summit Power International, which operates 13 power plants in Bangladesh, all of them run on fossil fuels, with no renewable energy visible in the pipeline. The IFC’s own investment in Summit Power is considered “high risk” because of concerns about issues such as land acquisition and pollution.
This back-door investment is a worrying sign that the AIIB may not stick to its green commitments as it prepares to invest $100 billion in new infrastructure projects in Asia and beyond. Asia is on the front line of the fight against climate change.
Asia has increased its greenhouse gas emissions by 3.6% per year between 2006 and 2014 – 3% more than the global average. This includes emissions from industrial processes such as cement production, which according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change accounts for at least a fifth of all direct emissions.
AIIB’s investment follows widespread disappointment that its energy sector strategy, agreed last year, failed to rule out coal, let alone fossil fuels more broadly. To date, the AIIB has disbursed US$4.59 billion, of which US$990 million has been invested in five fossil fuel projects. Many of its renewable energy investments are also questionable, focusing on large scale potentially damaging projects, rather than funding for off-grid renewable energy projects, that are better at providing energy access for those most in need.
The AIIB still has the chance to leapfrog its peers like the World Bank to more sustainable lending practices. To truly be a 21st century bank, the AIIB needs to act now to ensure no more coal in its portfolio and develop a plan to phase out remaining fossil fuel investment by 2020. This must cover both direct and indirect investments. And following the World Bank’s lead, it should also stop upstream oil and gas financing.
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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) can be an essential co-enzyme reported to operate both intra- and extracellularly. platform the extracellular conversion of NAD+ can vary significantly according to the cells environment or pathological conditions. Accumulating evidence suggests that tumor cells exploit such a network for migrating and homing to safeguarded areas and even more importantly for evading the immune response. We statement on the experience of this lab to exploit human being multiple myeloma (MM) a neoplastic development of plasma cells like a model to investigate these issues. MM cells express high levels of surface CD38 and grow in an environment prevalently represented by closed niches hosted in the bone marrow (BM). An original approach of this study derives from the recent use of the clinical availability of therapeutic anti-CD38 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in perturbing tumor viability and enzymatic functions in conditions mimicking what happens and make it possible for clinicians to improve therapy through the use of anti-CD38 reagents. 2 Premises Biogenesis of NAD+ Nobel laureates Harden von Euler-Chelpin and Warburg contributed in the early 20th century to the discovery and definition of the structure and key metabolic functions of NAD+ . NAD+ is an essential cellular metabolite involved in a wide range of cellular processes such as energy production reductive biosynthesis and calcium homeostasis . In addition NAD+ is an enzymatic substrate. Despite evidence that NAD+ levels influence health span and in some cases lifespan NAD+ cannot cross the cell membrane due to its nature as a polar compound . Several metabolic routes lead to NAD+ synthesis from four different precursors. In detail the dinucleotide may be obtained from JTT-705 (i) tryptophan as the pathway while (ii) nicotinamide (NAM) (iii) nicotinic acid (NA) and (iv) nicotinamide riboside (NR) represent elements of salvage pathways [4 5 The synthesis from L-tryptophan (obtained from the diet) is a complex 8-step enzymatic process which likely shifts the balance to more economical 2-3 step enzymatic pathways to generate NAD+. One of these originates from dietary niacin (consisting of NAM and NA) which is recycled as NAD+ precursor by means of a salvage pathway (Figure 1). NAM is converted to NAM mononucleotide (NMN) by the NAM phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) enzyme . The enzyme is reported as present inside and outside the cells: the extracellular form also acts as a cytokine (pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor PBEF) better known as visfatin . NAMPT gets the function to convert NAM to NAD+ lowering NAM Bmpr2 and increasing NAD+ amounts as a result. Furthermore to its part like a rate-limiting stage NAMPT can be an essential regulatory element of the NAD+-eating enzymes functioning in the cells. The features controlled consist of DNA restoration by poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) and gene manifestation by sirtuins. After NAMPT response the NMN item can be changed into NAD+ by nicotinamide mononucleotide adenylyltransferase (NMNAT) which condenses the adenylyl moiety to NMN . Shape 1 Pathways for NAD+ biogenesis and NAD+-eating enzymes. Cellular NAD+ can be synthesized either from diet tryptophan or nicotinic acidity and nicotinamide (known as nicotinic acidity supplement B3 or niacin). Extracellular NAD+ could be divided also … A salvage path to generate NAD+ was lately described beginning with the precursor NAM riboside (NR). NR can be markedly much less polar than NAD+ and treatment with NR raises mobile NAD+ amounts [3 8 Like a salvageable precursor JTT-705 of NAD+ NR can be phosphorylated to NMN by NR kinases (NRK) and NMNAT catalyzes its transformation to NAD+ . Like NA this pathway can be active in human beings. NR hydrolysis can be mediated by Compact disc157 an associate of the Compact disc38/NAD+-glycohydrolase family members which binds NR like JTT-705 a substrate much better than NAD+ . Actually the Compact disc157-catalyzed response with NR produces NAM as something with high affinity: the 6 nM Kilometres worth for hydrolysis was discovered to become >100 0 greater JTT-705 than that for additional nucleotides . Compact disc157 can be therefore confirmed like a fragile NAD+-glycohydrolase adding fresh perspective to the pathway like a potential event for restorative modulation in NAD+-reliant rate of metabolism. 3 NAD+ Degradation 3.1 Part of NAD+ as Cofactor The part of cofactor in oxidoreductases was related to NAD+ in 1935 in reactions catalyzed by. | <urn:uuid:5d1eedcc-4c93-4308-855a-da4c9096c212> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rectalcancersite.com/nicotinamide-adenine-dinucleotide-nad-can-be-an-essential-co-enzyme-reported-to/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.928219 | 1,071 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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- n. - A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while
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- n. - A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or
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The outrage of the young has erupted, sometimes violently, on the streets of Greece and Italy in recent weeks, as students and more radical anarchists protest not only specific austerity measures in flattened economies but a rising reality in Southern Europe: People like Ms. Esposito feel increasingly shut out of their own futures. Experts warn of volatility in state finances and the broader society as the most highly educated generation in the history of the Mediterranean hits one of its worst job markets.
Politicians are slowly beginning to take notice. Italy’s president, Giorgio Napolitano, devoted his year-end message on Friday to “the pervasive malaise among young people,” weeks after protests against budget cuts to the university system brought the issue to the fore.
Giuliano Amato, an economist and former Italian prime minister, was even more blunt. “By now, only a few people refuse to understand that youth protests aren’t a protest against the university reform, but against a general situation in which the older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones,” he recently told Corriere della Sera, Italy’s largest newspaper.
“This is the best-educated generation in Spanish history, and they are entering a job market in which they are underutilized,” said Ignacio Fernández Toxo, the leader of the Comisiones Obreras, one of Spain’s two largest labor unions. “It is a tragedy for the country.”
**Yet many young people in Southern Europe see labor union leaders like Mr. Fernández, and the left-wing parties with which they have been historically close, as part of the problem. They are seen as exacerbating a two-tier labor market by protecting a caste of tenured older workers rather than helping younger workers enter the market.
For Dr. Kotlikoff, the solution is simple: “We have to change the labor laws. Not gradually, but quickly.”
Yet in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, any change in national contracts involves complex negotiations among governments, labor unions and businesses — a delicate dance in which each faction fights furiously for its interests.
Because older workers tend to be voters, labor reform remains a third rail to most politicians. Asked at a news conference last year about changing Italy’s de facto two-tier system, Italy’s center-right finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, said simply, “You can’t make violent changes to the system.”
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DENVER – The Colorado State House passed the Safe Crossings for Colorado Wildlife and Motorists Act (SB151) on Tuesday, a measure that would provide $5 million for wildlife crossings across the state.
The bipartisan bill was sponsored by Sens. Jessie Danielson and Tammy Story and Reps. Julie McCluskie and Perry Will. Earlier this year, the Senate passed the measure 28-7, and today the House passed it by a count of 56-9.
Governor Jared Polis, who has previously supported wildlife corridors, will now have the opportunity to sign the bill into law. Colorado already has 64 wildlife crossings across the state: This legislation will provide the resources to add more.
Rex Wilmouth, Environment Colorado senior program director, issued the following statement:
“For too long, we’ve carved up Colorado wildlife habitats with our roadways, with little to no regard for what it means to the health of our species.
“By building more wildlife crossings, Colorado can reconnect fractured habitats so that animal populations, such as elk, deer and black bears, can thrive, rather than ending up dead on the road.
“Coupled with new federal funding passed through the bipartisan infrastructure bill, we’re thrilled that the Colorado Legislature has taken this important step to fund wildlife crossings. Now, we look forward to Gov. Polis signing this bipartisan bill into law.” | <urn:uuid:a6b27282-d594-4d5e-813f-95748836ba2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://environmentamerica.org/news/ame/colorado-legislature-passes-wildlife-crossings-bill | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.927854 | 294 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Latinx Literature & Culture Students Engage with Middle Schoolers
By Sarah Gibbons | Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
On April 27th, students in Kristie Soares's "Introduction to Latinx Literature and Culture" class welcomed 23 middle school students from Up Academy Leonard, a middle school in Lawrence, Mass. Lawrence is a town with a large Dominican population, and many of these students speak Spanish at home. Soares is assistant professor in the Spanish and Portuguese program of the department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
Collaborating with Up Academy Leonard teachers, Soares arranged for her students and the middle schoolers to read the same bilingual texts and come together to discuss them on campus. Several exercises lead up to this visit, so when the day arrived, the UMass students and the Up Academy Leonard students quickly established a rapport. Spanish major Brook Hansel led the group on a campus tour, and several more students took the group to lunch at the Hampshire dining commons.
The class session was a success as well. Class discussions were conducted in both Spanish and English, with the middle schoolers dominating most of the conversation about the literary texts. "I was impressed by the middle schoolers' incredibly in-depth understanding of the readings," said Hansel. She continued, "I think that it is important for college-aged students (or any older person) to see the understanding that young people have in these discussions and conversations.” "I feel like I learned more from them than they did from me," said Spanish major Angelica Troche.
"Bilingual and bicultural classroom spaces are essential to the study of Latinx literature," says Soares. "I think my students would agree that to truly understand the literature of a community, you have to listen to the community itself."
In a reflection questionnaire, Soares's students noted that the event was very impactful for them and that they learned more about the texts by discussing them with the middle school students than they would have otherwise. The Up Academy scholars reported that the visit was their favorite day of the year, and many of them have indicated they now plan to attend UMass Amherst. | <urn:uuid:bd98a6db-8489-47a0-a012-c27fb2684af0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.umass.edu/hfa/news/latinx-literature-culture-students-engage-middle-school | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.979483 | 460 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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