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The Keurig brewer had to be recalled due to water overheating during the brewing process. The water would then spray out of the machine burning consumers. There have been roughly 200 claims of hot water spraying out of the machine. Ninety of the 200 claims are reports of burn-related injuries.
The affected brewing systems are the MINI Plus units with the model number K10, an identification number beginning with “31” and manufactured before July of 2014. If you believe your Keurig falls into this category, Keurig is asking you to visit their website and click on the tab titled “Product Recall” for more information. You can also call them toll-free Monday through Friday. Keurig is not planning to replace or refund the faulty system; however, they are providing a free repair of the brewing system.
For a free legal consultation, call 412-661-1400
When a product is recalled, it can become dangerous for consumers to keep using the product. Even if your product seems to be functioning fine, it is important to stop using it to avoid a serious injury. In a previous blog post, we talked about the recalled vehicles of General Motors and the growing list of fatalities associated with that recall. To read more about that story, you can visit our blog here.
If you have been injured by a product, you have the right to obtain legal advice. If you were using the product correctly and were seriously injured as a result, you may be able to file a product liability claim and be compensated for your injuries. It is a manufacturer’s responsibility to make sure their products are safe for consumers. To learn more about your rights, contact the attorneys at Berger and Green for a free consultation.
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If I said how it feels
It would only make things really real
Nothing can be said or done
The changes can’t be overcome.
The leaking sieve
The grains of sand
We can’t hold in his open hand.
I say the same thing once again
And watch my tone with care
Pretend it isn’t on repeat
Sometimes it’s difficult explaining
And what went well just yesterday
Is no guarantee of what’s today.
Repetition is no key
Information’s lost so instantly
One thing at once with no exception
When he struggles with his recollection.
Distraction makes things harder
And focus waivers badly
It always turns out sadly.
Mood can change and so does outlook
Such varies day on day
The positives than horrid falls
The brightness turns to grey.
I can not challenge or debate
The logic isn’t there
So I just go along with it
To show how much I care.
I try to make the feelings good
And hope, that they will stay
Just a little longer
As the memories fade away.
For those who do not know the stealth this illness has
It steals the skills, the hopes, the dreams
The change comes slowly so it seems,
But looking back so much has gone.
We can’t dwell on what used to be
Or what we both thought might be done
But plan to make the best of things
And prepare for what’s to come.
Alzheimer’s isn’t easy
It touches all the family.
The world no longer makes good sense
Everything is hard
Protecting with a great big fence
Constantly on guard.
The balance is so difficult
Independence v carer
Working out the boundaries
Making choices fairer.
Respecting the person
Keeping them safe
Trust and faith.
Picking up the pieces when it doesn’t quite work out
Giving time and patience
When your instinct is to shout.
Dementia slowly wilts the flower
But keep it blooming on
With love and hope and tender care,
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The Love Cup — it sounds like The Love Boat, doesn’t it? I taught first grade and was the counselor in a school that was pre-K through 5th grade, and at the end of each school year I’d ask my students, “what was your favorite part?” It was always something related to emotions. People may forget words and actions, but they never forget how you made them feel.
Says L. R. Knost, “Every strength has a corresponding challenge and every challenge has a corresponding strength. … When faced with challenging behaviors, look for the corresponding strength, and focus on nurturing that gift while providing gentle guidance and coping techniques for the challenging areas. That is the essence of working with, instead of against, our children.”
Learning to make the shift from compassionate teaching to compassionate parenthood has been a challenge in its own right. I don’t want to throw my children under the bus, but they have exhibited challenging behaviors, as all children do. Instead of judging them and asking myself, “what’s wrong with my child?!” — I have had to detach my ego to attach to them at the heart level. Challenging behaviors are indicative of a growth experience.
In the classroom and in the home, when I worked with my students and my children to recognize all the good things people were doing, we noticed even more good things. You see, there is an abundance of love in our hearts. It can’t be seen, but it can always be felt.
In this episode, you’ll learn about the symbolic “love cup” exercise and other techniques I’ve used to build up my students and my children. By cultivating self-love, we encourage our children to share the infinite abundance of love, compassion, and forgiveness with themselves and with their peers. We can create community, connection, and cooperation. We can raise our children to have powerful internal motivation and drive.
Guards down, masks off — you don’t have to be anything other than yourself here.
Let’s Connect! Here’s where you can find me:
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Sometimes when we say we work with sustainable fashion people look at us like... "Mmmm, is it really possible for something like fashion to be sustainable?" And let's face it, people are right being suspicious. If anything the fashion industry has become increasingly unsustainable over the last decades, using more and more natural resources and creating more and more waste.
Sustainable FashionCopenhagen Business School
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Centrally located in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen Business School (CBS) is one of the largest business schools in Europe with close to 23,000 students. CBS offers world-class research-based degree programs at undergraduate, graduate, and PhD levels as well as executive and other post experience programs.
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I loved this course and my only feedback would be that I wish it were longer. I wanted to keep learning and getting deeper fashion and sustainability.
For a beginner, this course was really informative and helpful. Definitely introduced me to a lot on new interesting concepts and ideas.
Good way of Presenting Subject to make it understand well. It gives a good basic on Sustainability strategy in Fashion Industry. Recommend to everyone...
A great insight for a beginner learning more about sustainable fashion. I truly enjoyed learning about ways that I can move forward with ethical and sustainable purchasing.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has appeared on state media several times in 2020 but has not disclosed details on the country's response to the coronavirus or the impact of the disease in the country. File Photo by Jeon Heon-kyun/EPA-EFE
NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- North Korea's claims that it is free of COVID-19 are raising serious concerns in the South that the country is struggling to contain the coronavirus amid other problems that include malnutrition, tuberculosis and even malaria.
Pyongyang's decision to isolate at a time when inter-state cooperation is crucial in combating a deadly virus is a sign North Korea has likely been hit hard, South Korean analysts say.
E.J.R. Cho, a research fellow at state-funded think tank Institute for National Security Strategy, said Tuesday at a livestreamed forum hosted by Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification that North Korea only has limited access to diagnostic kits.
North Korea also shares borders with China and Russia, countries that reported relatively high numbers of COVID-19 cases at an earlier stage of the pandemic.
"The past couple of years have witnessed an uptick in Chinese tourists to North Korea," Cho said at the panel, where analysts took turns speaking without removing their masks. "It's hard to believe North Korea is a COVID-19-free country."
South Korea has offered to help North Korea. Pyongyang has not issued a public response. Cho said tripartite cooperation among the United States, South and North Korea could be the answer to what she thinks is a serious health crisis in the isolated North.
Cho's proposals, which include supplying North Korea with basic materials to manufacture key drugs domestically, would be built on interstate cooperation.
So far, however, the pandemic has illustrated that deeper cooperation, even when humanity faces a common enemy, is difficult to achieve amid an atmosphere of animosity and anxiety.
China, where coronavirus cases were first reported, and the United States, the country with the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths, are locked in a blame game, said Cha Du Hyeogn, a principal fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul. The two countries are developing vaccines independently even when it is obvious cooperation would mean a faster path out of the pandemic, Cha said.
COVID-19 has demonstrated that emerging security, a concept that goes beyond notions of traditional security to address issues like climate change, disease and the refugee crisis, has the potential to inflict enormous damage around the world, according to the analyst.
"There was this perception dominant powers and other countries would work to build more trust" when faced with a common threat, Cha said. "But in fact, in the post-COVID world, some countries began to divert from that cooperation."
Cha said security theorists expected a universal danger would push countries to practice transparency and coordinate with each other. Instead, in an era of high nationalism, each country tried to address the pandemic individually.
North Korea has also doubled down on national pride in its official statements. The pandemic has yet to produce any patients in the country, according to North Korean media, although the state does not even have the capacity to test widely for COVID-19, says Cho Han-bum, a senior research fellow at KINU.
The situation remains dire in the North, Cho also said, referring to North Korea's food shortage and tuberculosis deaths over the years that are estimated to be about 200,000.
Cho said there may have been 1,200 COVID-19 tests conducted in North Korea this summer -- a number too small to detect, trace and prevent the further spread of the disease.
"Swine flu is ongoing," Cho said, referring to the disease among pig populations that began last year in China and spread to the Korean Peninsula. "Now, without South Korean assistance, malaria is spreading in North Korea."
E.J.R. Cho said multilateralism is needed now more than ever around the world. Bilateral relations stagnate and are not enough to keep up the momentum of inter-state cooperation, she said.
"Why don't we think of a bicycle?" she said. "If we do not pedal at a certain speed, you will fall.
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Remember the Pixar lamp? Well, [Rick] from [Phlegmatic Prototyping] decided to build his own.
It’s actually the third iteration of the project, the first being made from a cheap camera sensor, an ATMega328, a computer mouse and laser cut parts. The second iteration… sounds like it was the Pixar Lamp — and due to possible copyright infringement [Rick] decided not to show it off. Which brings us to number three, Robolamp the Third.
Quite obviously not the Pixar lamp now, [Rick] designed the whole thing in 3D CAD and had it printed at Shapeways. It uses a CMUCAM5 vision sensor that detects color hues, allowing the lamp to track colorful objects, like an orange, which ends up looking painfully cute. Just take a look at the video. | <urn:uuid:300a6ada-9028-4180-affc-fd1f084a176b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hackaday.com/tag/robolamp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.955947 | 172 | 1.867188 | 2 |
The most important aspect of the ENTER Professional Register goes beyond the registration and the issuing of a professional card, it is an important tool to recognize your efforts of continuous improvement as an educator and to help you identify the areas where you need to grow as an educator.
Therefore the educators applying to register will receive requests for information on their academic qualifications, professional level as educator if they have been participating in Accredited Professional Development Programs, and the evidence existing in the portfolio related to the professional competences aligned with the international professional standards.
As a result, a positive registration of an educator will be accompanied with an assigned professional level that is compatible with the evidence provided and the proposed professional development recommended.
The different levels of educator correspond to:
1 – Educator
Teaches using accepted theories and practices, seeking to raise students' awareness and instill their understanding, inspiring students to pursue their interests and delve deeper into certain subjects.
2 – Effective Educator
Is well-prepared organizing and planning each class, sets clear and fair expectations, has a positive attitude, is patient with students, and assesses their teaching on a regular basis. Can adjust teaching strategies to fit both the students and the material, recognizing that different students learn in different ways. As a teacher, can be considered as a role model who inspires and motivates students.
3 – Outcomes-based Educator
Practices outcome-based teaching and learning, emphasizes the explicit declaration of learning outcomes which identify the tasks students are expected to be able to perform after completing the course, and to what standard. Continuously assesses students’ performance and makes improvements.
4 – Scholarly Educator
Practices the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning or SoTL. SoTL sees teaching as intellectual work, as a process of inquiry, as research that employs the same criteria as other forms of disciplinary research and an ongoing investigation that is made public and shared with others, peer-reviewed and published.
5 – Education Researcher
Conducts Education Research to improve higher education and the development of strategies for solving important issues for the future of education, such as recruitment, the need for new competencies, and the ability to deal with new types of interdisciplinary and complex knowledge.
6 – Senior Education Researcher
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CRC World Dictionary of Plant Nmaes: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology
This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from M to Q.
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Latin malus apple appletree see Christo Albertyn Malleastrum Baillon J F Leroy Meliaceae
5355 1981 From the Greek mallos wool and phoros carrying
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With all the talk of AirAsia and black boxes this week, we though it would be interesting to take a look at a place where black boxes are listened to, a black box investigation centre. What do investigators listen for? Who has access to these recordings? Watch the video to find out!
Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.
Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+
Have a great weekend!!
- How many of these centres exist around Europe?
- What’s special about the door?
- Which part of the black boxes contain the information that investigators want?
- Why are four speakers used in the room?
- Who’s allowed in the room where they listen to the recordings?
- What else, beyond the voices, do investigators listen for?
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Children and Family Care
We provide coordinated and comprehensive home care for Children and Families. The service user can receive complete support for the entire family, with our home care for children. When it comes to home care for children, we are offering a variety of care services to support the specific needs of children and their families.
Our care team has practical experience in dealing with challenging behaviour, autistic spectrum disorders, complex health needs, physical disabilities and sensory impairment. We can offer temporary care while a parent(s) or guardian is in the hospital or recovering from an illness, or longer-term support for a child with disabilities or special needs.
What is Children and Family Care?
Helping children and their families to prepare and getting ready for school/college.
Escorting children from home to school and school to home.
Supporting children to attend in a medical or any other appointments.
Supporting the family to establish daily tasks and routines
Offering therapeutic interventions which includes bed time stories and shared play.
Offering activities at home or in a community setting.
Helping with personal care which includes preparing a meal and feeding.
Supporting children to attend in any social or cultural events including shopping.
Safe and flexible
The happiness of your home life should never be compromised
Better value for money than a care home
Specialist care for a variety of conditions and needs
Completely bespoke care plan
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CMS Releases Proposed Rule on Durable Medical Equipment
At the end of October, CMS proposed new changes to Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotic Devices, and Supplies (DMEPOS) coverage and payment policies. This rule would provide more choices for beneficiaries with diabetes while streamlining the process for innovators in getting their technologies approved for coverage, payment, and coding by Medicare.
The proposed rule would expand the interpretation regarding when external infusion pumps are appropriate for use in the home and can be covered as durable medical equipment under Medicare Part B, increasing access to drug infusion therapy services in the home. The proposed rule also drastically reduces administrative burdens—such as complicated government coverage, payment, and coding processes—that block innovators from getting their products to Medicare beneficiaries in a timely manner. This action aligns with President Trump’s Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors.
Due to administrative constraints, the process for making Medicare benefit classifications, pricing determinations, and creating billing codes for DMEPOS used to routinely take up to 18 months to complete. Last year, CMS changed this process through subregulatory guidance to reduce that timeframe to 6 months in many cases and is now proposing to establish a streamlined process for coding, coverage, and payment in regulation. Under this accelerated process, benefit classification and pricing decisions could happen on the same day the billing codes used for payment of new items take effect, which would facilitate seamless coverage and payment for new DMEPOS and services. If finalized, this proposed rule would allow innovators to bring their products to Medicare beneficiaries quicker, giving them more choices and increased access to the latest, cutting-edge devices.
If finalized, this proposed rule will also expand Medicare coverage and payment for continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) that provide critical information on blood glucose levels to help patients with diabetes manage their disease. Currently, CMS only covers therapeutic CGMs or those approved by the FDA for use in making diabetes treatment decisions, such as changing one’s diet or insulin dosage based solely on the readings of the CGM.
In addition, the proposed rule would expand classification of external infusion pumps under the DME benefit, making home infusion of more drugs possible for beneficiaries. An external infusion pump is a medical device used to deliver fluids such as nutrients or medications into a patient’s body in a controlled manner. The proposal would expand classification of external infusion pumps as DME in cases where assistance from a skilled home infusion therapy supplier is necessary for safe infusion in the home, allowing beneficiaries more choices to get therapies at home instead of traveling to a health care facility.
Lastly, in the proposed rule, CMS proposes to continue to pay higher amounts to suppliers for DMEPOS items and services furnished in rural and non-contiguous areas to encourage suppliers to provide access and choices for beneficiaries living in those areas. CMS is making this proposal based on previous stakeholder feedback that indicate unique challenges and higher costs for providing for DMEPOS items for beneficiaries in rural and remote areas.
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Prof. Radhika Gajjala, Ph.D.: Gendered Indian Digital Publics - Labor and Affect
The emergence of overlapping and intertwining publics occurs through the formation of both localized social media interactions and global facing publics. Common affective characteristics of such publics include ideological clashes, interpersonal disputes, feelings of being “left out” but they also include affects leading to self-affirmation, validation, friendship and collaboration. Affective bonds and filter bubbles of people who share similar political views or social ideals form but also encounters with people who have opposing views occur. All the while individuals in these spaces are fully aware of surveillance, stalking and trolling that occurs as they negotiate these digital publics.
Drawing long term digital ethnographic research in South Asian and Indian digital diasporic contexts and with a focus on particular case studies and moments, I examine how affective intensities create resonances in across social media platforms through hashtag activisms as they trans-nationalize localized issues. Methods for extracting and visualizing such connections through the digital interface are also discussed. The focus is on gendered political and entrepreneurial subjects as they emerge in digital publics and the key ways in which affects are deployed by different actors in making selves and others visible as political and/or entrepreneurial subjects.
Time & Location
Apr 29, 2021 | 06:00 PM
The lecture is taking place online. Please find the acces link below.
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Well…as we’ve experienced till now working with many of our clients, some of them asked me how they would share a Dropbox folder and I have guided them separately via email instructions. But today I am just going to write detail instructions for all of our clients and visitors.
What is Dropbox and how it works?
Dropbox is mainly a Microsoft Company providing online file store and sharing services worldwide. For the primary users, they offer 2.5 Gigabytes of space for storage and share their files. And for premium users, they offer 50 Gigabyte space. They have also desktop and mobile app to be updated and sync all the files cloud. Let’s see how to share a file or folder from Dropbox.
First, you need to login to your Dropbox folder. If you do not have an account you can create an account going here www.dropbox.com maybe a bottom ‘sign up’ button appears.
After login, you will see an upload button like the screenshot below. Click on that and click again into the Choose File button from pop-up dialogue, then select your files from local drive. So you will see the upload progress in the middle of the page. After complete click on done.
Then right-click on that file or folder you uploaded or want to share and click on share there you will see two options one is “invite people you collaborate…” another is “send link”. If you want to share with specific people then you could select the first option so you will be asked for an email address of the people you want to collaborate with. Or if you want the link that you will share with the people using email or another way. So the content will show to them who will have the link and click on.
Please see the screenshot below as a details reference.
I hope it is clear now that you will able to share your Dropbox File or Folder with people you want to share with.
Also, nowadays, smartphone app is much popular like Desktop or Web App. You know smartphone is every hands/pockets this days, we even use smartphone to read ebook(best pdf reader app for android). So, you can download Dropbox app to your smartphone to utilize your smartphone in order to upload your images.
> Dropbox has a limit of 2.5 GB space for primary free users, so you will able to share within this size of the file.
> If you are our one of the client and believe that your file size bigger than 2.5 GB then you can ask us for an FTP account with unlimited space going here…
> Please don’t close the browser or tab until you finished the file upload.
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SolarEdge invented the power optimiser which revolutionized the way power is harvested and managed in a solar system. Today, SolarEdge is one of the largest solar technology companies in the world.
How is SolarEdge Different?
SolarEdge can harvest more solar energy from the sun. See the short explainer video below
The SolarEdge PV Solution
In a SolarEdge installation, each panel is connected to a power optimiser. Power optimisers maximise solar energy production from each panel separately and therefore reduce power losses. If an individual panel underperforms, it won’t affect the performance of any of the other panels in the string.
SolarEdge also take safety seriously, with SafeDC and rapid shut down built into every inverter to protect people and property.
See the short explainer video on the advantages of panel optimisation.
The Complete Residential Solution
Premium SolarEdge smart panels, each integrated with a power optimiser, for greater energy production. Elegant black frame design and excellent reliability.
Integrated with SolarEdge smart panels or installed on third-party panels. A power optimiser enables each panel to perform independently, providing greater energy production, enhanced safety, and detailed performance feedback.
Single and three phase inverters supporting every type of residential roof. Inverters compatible with battery storage and EV charging solutions are also available.
The mySolarEdge app allows users to measure and manage solar energy more effectively.
Use excess solar production with a range of smart energy products to power high loads such as heat pumps or pool pumps. Smart Energy products are designed to use more of your solar energy to reduce electricity bills. Smart Energy products can be easily controlled via the mySolarEdge app.
Commercial Solar Energy Solution
Commercial solar power enable businesses to harness the sun’s energy during the day when the organisation is at peak operation. The commercial SolarEdge solution offers the following advantages;
Install more solar modules with optimised PV design. Offer more energy over the system lifetime.
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County adds more than 2,000 jobs in 12 months
Unemployment rate stays same in July at 2.9%
St. Johns County has continued to add jobs and maintain one of the state's lowest unemployment rates, according to data released Friday.
The July report from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity showed that St. Johns County had an unemployment rate of 2.9% in July, which was the same rate as last month and the same as July 2018.
But over the last 12 months, the county has seen its labor force and number of people employed grow by about 2,000. In July, the county had 127,551 employed workers out of a labor force of 131,310. That's up from 125,234 employed and a 129,033 labor force in July 2018.
Monroe County had the state’s lowest unemployment rate (2.3%) in July, followed by Okaloosa County (2.8%), and Walton and St. Johns counties (2.9% each).
Hendry County had the highest unemployment rate (8.2%) in Florida in July, followed by Hardee County (6.7%), Citrus and Highlands counties (5.2% each), and Glades County (4.9%). Individual county rates are not seasonally adjusted.
For the surrounding area, Clay County had the lowest rate at 3.3%. That was followed by Duval (3.7%), Flagler (4%) and Putnam (4.6%) counties.
Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.3 percent in July 2019, down 0.1 of a percentage point from the June rate, and down 0.2 of a percentage point from a year ago. There were 344,000 jobless Floridians out of a labor force of 10,354,000. The U.S. unemployment rate was 3.7 percent in July.
The number of jobs in Florida was 9.012 million in July 2019, up 227,200 jobs compared to a year ago. The industry gaining the most jobs was education and health services (65,900 jobs, 5.1%).
Other industries gaining jobs over the year included: professional and business services (41,900 jobs, 3.1%); leisure and hospitality (25,900 jobs, 2.1%); trade, transportation, and utilities (23,000 jobs, 1.3%) and construction (21,300 jobs, 3.9%). | <urn:uuid:11eed14e-a493-4f72-9733-abefb3482fed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.staugustine.com/story/news/local/2019/08/16/st-johns-county-adds-more-than-2000-jobs-in-12-months/4448620007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972759 | 508 | 1.640625 | 2 |
If you are new to hiking or have not explored beyond familiar urban trails, these tips are for you.
Hiking (aka walking) is one of the most accessible, beneficial forms of exercise.
As with starting out in any new sport or activity, it’s best to start slow and build gradually. If you haven’t walked more than an hour at a time, don’t attempt a six-hour, overnight trip on your first hiking activity. Start with familiar trails or trails that are relatively flat and accessible.
Listen to your body
Getting out in nature is often about listening to birdcalls and the gentle sound of wind in the trees. But don’t forget to listen to your body. If you feel a hot spot or pain in your foot, stop and check it out. A band-aid applied at the first sign of trouble can save you from a nasty blister later on. If your legs are cramping, stop and stretch for a few minutes. If you need to rest, take a break.
By listening to your body, you are more likely to prevent injury. You are also more likely to have the energy and desire to get out again soon. Be kind to yourself and to the body that is carrying you.
Hopefully nothing will go wrong, but it’s always best to be prepared that something might. Bring a cellphone, but don’t rely on it. Let someone know where you are going and what trail you are going to be walking on. Bring water and some healthy snacks. Pack a basic first-aid kit and ideally an emergency kit and flashlight too. Bring extra layers in case of rain or unexpected drop in temperature. | <urn:uuid:633c47f7-97dd-4f6e-a823-6825224bd03e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hikingchallenges.ca/tips-for-new-hikers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946383 | 353 | 3.03125 | 3 |
BPHC community health planning
What is a Community Health Needs Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHNA-CHIP)?
A Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) identifies the key health needs, strengths, and resources of a community through data collection and analysis.
A Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) is the response to needs identified in the CHNA. The CHIP process involves creating a detailed, evidence-based improvement plan. The plan addresses the prioritized needs of the community.
How were the key health needs identified in the 2019 Boston CHNA?
The Boston CHNA-CHIP used a participatory, collaborative approach to engage the community through:
- a review of existing data
- a community survey administered in seven languages that gathered 2,404 responses
- 13 focus groups with 104 community residents, and
- 45 key informant interviews with leaders and direct service providers across sectors.
We narrowed the information through a process that included:
- an online survey
- small group discussions, and
- a large inclusive prioritization meeting.
This process identified the priorities for collaborative action.
The final priorities selected were:
- Housing: Includes affordability, quality, homelessness, ownership, gentrification, and displacement
- Financial Security and Mobility: Includes jobs, employment, income, education, and workforce training
- Behavioral Health: Includes mental health and substance use
- Accessing Services: Includes healthcare, childcare, and social services
The overarching focus is:
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Community, For-profit Business (Corporate), Government
“When boat maker Will Hayes moved to Port Clinton to help a friend build his boat, he didn’t plan to stay.
He had visited the city several times as a child, but he didn’t really know much about it beyond the lake activities he enjoyed. But once he had lived here a while, he came to recognize the city’s potential to be a great place to live.
Now, five years later, Hayes is heading up Voice to Vision, a citizen-led initiative whose goal is to create a community-wide vision and a comprehensive long-range plan for the city. Through a process called Appreciative Inquiry, Voice to Vision seeks to collect residents’ input on their goals for the city’s future.” ~ Excerpt from article | <urn:uuid:877519d6-b4f4-49bb-9e68-cbea5fe812a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://appreciativeinquiry.champlain.edu/educational-material/will-hayes-vision-port-clintons-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960498 | 203 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Forest House was completed this year by NZ-based Fearon Hay Architects. Set at the foot of the Waitakere Ranges, the Forest House is a collection of timber clad, gabled structures. They slip past each other, opening spaces for courtyards, cooking and fire. Exterior shells of native timber boards and shingle roof are founded over cast in situ concrete masses, bracketing the interior spaces within and adding a weight and strength to the voluminous interiors. Text by Fearon Hay Architects
Project team: Jeff Fearon, Tim Hay, Stephen de-Vrij, Michael Huh
Photography: Simon Wilson
Styling: Amelia Holmes
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E-billing and invoicing system is a report that emphasizes the necessity of using the automated way of billing in the shops. Invoice is the process of giving the fees receipt to users for the items purchased. This report can emphasize the importance of using the billing and invoicing system. The report can also provide the advantages of using the billing and invoicing application. The importance of the invoicing system is easily available through this application. The report can focus on the exact working of the billing and invoicing system.
The following are some of the facts underlying the billing and invoicing system report:
- This report can emphasize the details of the way or automating the invoicing.
- The pros and cons of using the e-billing and invoicing system are easily available
- The report can also give the details related to the usage of the invoice and billing system.
The report can also emphasize how the invoicing takes place through the help of this system. The advantages of using e-billing and invoicing are easily available here. It can also ensure in providing the details as to how the penned paperwork is reducible through the automated system easily. The details of the steps involved in the process are available in this report. The report can also provide the details of the exact working and benefits of the billing system.
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By Mirvat Ammouri
Our focus is to turn the light on these hard-held beliefs on fitness, training, and health and to shed away the misconceptions that, despite the wealth of knowledge in the wellness industry, still exist today.
Doing crunches, sit-ups, and planks will slim my waist and show my packs.
Muscles and fat are two different things in your body. One doesn’t turn to the other. Doing exercises like crunches or resistance training using weights strengthens the muscles making them look strong and toned.
For the muscles to show however, you need to shed off the layers of fat under the skin that hide them away. And to do that, a good high intensity cardio regimen must be a part of your overall workout routine.
Having washboard abs that your friends would envy is more than just abs exercises. In addition to a healthy nutritious diet, exercises focusing on fat burning are essential.
- Eat clean: Healthy fats, well-sourced proteins and complex organic carbs.
- Have a well-rounded weight training/resistance training program targeting all muscles.
- 2-3 times per week of high intensity cardio (30 minutes is enough). Get your heart really pumping and break a real sweat. | <urn:uuid:6eca1416-94fc-42d8-bd99-584c9eadbf1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://destinationksa.com/the-fitness-myth-series-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.934963 | 271 | 2 | 2 |
Gas Heating & Furnace Services
The winters in Minnesota are downright frigid, but many homeowners counter the outdoor chill by seeking indoor refuge with gas heating systems. Gas heating is an energy-efficient alternative to electricity heating, with a range of benefits for keeping your indoor air comfortable. Whether you already own a heating system fueled by either natural or propane gas, or you need a heating system replacement, Bloomington Heating & Air provides all-encompassing gas heating services, including gas furnace installation, maintenance, and repair services.
*Bloomington Heating & Air does not service boilers, hydronic, attic, or high velocity systems.
Types Of Gas Heating Systems
The two main options for gas heating systems are natural gas and propane gas. The most common heating systems fueled by either natural or propane gas is a forced-air system using a furnace, followed by radiant heating systems, and a radiant system used in combination with gas-fueled space heaters. Gas heating efficiency is measured in annual fuel use efficiency (AFUE). This is the amount of heat output produced compared to the amount of energy consumed during heat production. The higher the AFUE, the greater the system’s efficiency as a whole.
Natural Gas Heating
Natural gas is methane pressurized into a liquid state. It burns more cleanly than its fossil fuel counterparts with lower emissions. Natural gas is often found in whole-home furnaces that use ductwork, space or wall-mounted heaters, and fireplaces.
Propane Gas Heating
You may hear the terms liquefied petroleum gas, LP gas, or LPG but all of these terms refer to propane gas. Propane gas a fossil fuel in its simplest form, derived from a hydrocarbon found in natural gas and petroleum refinement.
Advantages Of Gas Heating
Faster Warming Output
As soon as the burner in the gas furnace begins to run, the system produces maximum heat output. Electric heat takes time to warm up and transport hot air into the home. Gas also has a higher heating temperature — propane heat reaches 130 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit as it’s released into the home.
More Affordable Operating Expense
For Minnesota residents, gas-fueled heating systems are often cheaper to operate than electricity-based systems. Natural gas powered systems are less expensive to operate than propane gas systems.
Disadvantages Of Gas Heating
The venting and combustible fuel required for gas heating systems increase the importance of scheduling regular heating system check-ups throughout the system’s lifespan. Scheduling regular HVAC maintenance service is necessary for preventing exposure to dangerous byproducts of gas combustion as well as prolonging the life of your gas heating system.
On average, gas furnaces have a functional lifespan of 10 to 20 years — half of the lifespan of most electric furnaces. But Bloomington Heating & Air's heating services — whether maintenance check-ups or furnace repair — can serve to prolong the life of your system for years of toasty indoor air ahead.
The venting requirements of gas heating systems make the upfront costs — including installation — more than that of electric systems. The initial cost is offset by the efficiency of the gas system, which lowers the cost of utility bills.
How To Boost Efficiency With Gas Heating
While gas heating is generally more efficient than electric heating, there are a few ways you can increase the efficiency further. From questions about how a gas heating installation would work in a home or business or to schedule a maintenance appointment, Bloomington Heating & Air has you covered.
Regular maintenance is a win-win for residences with gas heating systems. Homeowners avoid the need for costly repairs by addressing any issues early and extending the system’s viability. When our technicians perform bi-annual maintenance on your residential gas heating system, you save energy and money, but more importantly, you have peace of mind that everyone in your home is safe from carbon monoxide and other dangerous byproducts of gas combustion. We will ensure that the air vents are unblocked, the ductwork is in good shape, and any cracks found in the heat exchanger are immediately repaired.
Seal Ductwork Leaks
Most homes use forced-air heating systems and ductwork regardless of the fuel source. But leaking and/or poorly connected ductwork can lose up to 30 percent of heated air. Sealing and repairing leaky ductwork not only saves money — it also facilitates efficient system function by preventing the system from working overtime to compensate for the air loss.
Cover Windows & Doors With Plastic
Windows are wonderful for bringing in natural light and heat during day, but they’re also responsible for up to 25 percent of residential heat loss. Covering windows and unused exterior doors, such as patio doors, with clear plastic film reduces the rate of heat loss and lowers utility costs. | <urn:uuid:cbb4726c-9685-4790-8ee1-fecae2e00402> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bloomingtonheating.com/gas-heating/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.926651 | 1,022 | 2 | 2 |
Updated: Jul 14
Editorial | Open Access | Published 14th July 2022
GUEST EDITORIAL : Unplanned events and interventions within Grade A: How much do you know about what has happened?
Author : Tracy Moore - TM Pharma Group Ltd
When you read a comment regarding an unplanned intervention within the Grade A area as part of the batch review (this could be the production review or QA review), is it crystal clear what exactly has happened to the point that the activity can be reconstructed from the information as required by the GMP Data Integrity requirements?
I have seen two cases whilst as a GMP inspector, where the companies, both based in the UK, had sterility test failures of in-house manufactured batches, where there was no indication from either the batch manufacturing record or the environmental monitoring data that something was amiss with the batch concerned. In each case, only upon significant investigation was it brought to light that an unplanned event and remedial intervention had occurred. In both cases, the extent of intrusion that occurred within the Grade A environment along with any indication of what items were used was missing from the documentation. Both batches were subjected to unplanned interventions that were simply not recorded in sufficient detail for any reviewer to pick up that an invasive remedial intervention had occurred. In both instances, it was engineers that had performed these, and, in both cases, neither company had provided the engineers with the required data integrity training or a robust mechanism to record, in the required level of detail, exactly what they had done to get the line back up and running.
These types of investigations are always high on the list for inspectors to review since it combines topics that always feature highly during inspections, aseptic processing technical and organisational measures and data integrity. Unplanned interventions are not expected, inherent interventions, required as part of the process. These are usually something different altogether and consideration and discussion are needed to ensure the correct actions are taken. The problem these companies had, however, was that they didn’t know what had happened, how it was corrected or what items were used and therefore they were unable to take the appropriate corrective action.
An English author, Matthew Syed wrote the book ‘Black Box Thinking’ which was written as a leadership performance book. After reading this it got me thinking, Syed, relates the aviation industry to the healthcare industry and describes how the healthcare industry would benefit if they were not afraid of failure. Developing Syed’s concepts to apply to GXP data integrity requirements, it is clear that there is a significant correlation between the requirements for data integrity recording in GXP environments and the black box function from within an aircraft. This then led me to the reality that we all know, which is that we put our trust in aviation engineers and pilots to perform correctly as our lives depend on them being trained, having robust procedures and only using authorised componentry. Our lives as patients therefore absolutely rely on the engineers and production staff within our pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities based on the same principles and requirements.
An opportunity such as an unplanned intervention (usually because of a breakdown) can be used to learn from and understand so it doesn’t happen again but more importantly, it has to be described in significant detail for someone to be able to assess the activity and the contamination risks posed by it. It may be that the remedial work has produced a significant bioburden challenge to the validated cleaning and sterilisation/sanitisation processes or the items that were needed for the fix to be successful, using uncommon tools and consumables with unknown contamination levels. It was contamination vectors like those identified here that ultimately caused the contamination of the manufactured batches in these two cases.
During an inspection and now audit, I always ask for a full listing of every item that can enter Grade A and then ask for its sterilisation method and trace these items back to the vendor assurance and incoming cleanliness levels. Is the same information available for the control of the engineer’s tools, lubricants, and any other items they may need to ‘fix’ the machine? How do these items make their way into Grade A? We have an opportunity with the revision of Annex 1, and its imminent issue to ensure these details and requirements are captured by the Contamination Control Strategy (CCS) and ensure non-routine items are also captured and controlled to avoid any issues as seen by these two companies.
1. Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance, Matthew Syed.
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How Good A Lawn Mower With
One of the best ways to provide your lawn with organic fertilizer is through mulching and that will be effective if you use a lawn mower with mulching blade. Mulching is one way of using plant materials that you take away from the soil or from the plants and use it to cover the soil from drying while improving its condition. Once these plant materials decompose, this will provide the necessary nutrients to the plants or in this case, the grass.
Grasses are rich with nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus and other micro-minerals that the plants need. And aside from providing the essential elements your lawn grass needs, mulching can also reduce the growth of weeds, block too much sunlight which can heat up and dry the soil and it makes the soil cooler. And if we look at the economic benefits of mulching, this can save you some money in buying chemical fertilizers to fertilize your grass as well as saving you time and effort in applying these toxic chemicals into your property.
So if you are not familiar on the benefits of mulching using your grass clippings, we advise you to read this article and learn more about how your yard or lawn grass can benefit from your yard wastes as well as knowing which best lawn mowers for mulching can help you achieve a more enhanced lawn grass.
Best Lawn Mowers for Mulching
If you already own a lawn mower, you have already heard of the word “mulching power”. Well, all lawn mowers can cut grass efficiently be it the regular gas push mower, the electric type, or the self propelled lawn mowers. All of these can also be installed with mulching blades depending on the length of the blade and the size of your mowing deck. All you need to do is have a mulching kit which includes deflectors to keep the grass underneath the mowing deck and that would do you a good mulching process.
However, certain types of lawn mowers are designed not only for bagging and side-discharge but also for mulching. These best lawn mowers for mulching are made to provide an additional advantage over the regular lawn mower types. The regular lawn mowers which are also called 2-in-1 mowers can only do bagging and side discharge so you will be obliged to gather your grass clippings and dump it somewhere which is a hassle.
But with a lawn mower with mulching blade, there is no need to do these tasks because the shredded grass clippings will be spread out along the lawn which after 4 to 5 days will begin to decompose and the nutrients will be coming back to the soil for the grass to use. So can you imagine all the extra things that you need do with the regular lawn mowers? But with the best lawn mowers for mulching, you just mow your lawn and also fertilize at the same time. Here are the lawn mowers for mulching with 3-in-1 capabilities.
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The blades for mulching are more curved with more raised flaps at the back of the blades. There are two kinds of mulching blades and these are the regular and the gator (toothed) mulching blades. Each of these blades offers the same benefit and that is to mulch the grass clippings into shreds for quick decomposition. The standard mulching blades can give you a neater look with your lawn and you can see the stripes left by the lawn mower with these blades.
Moreover, the gator mulching blades are known to be the better shredders because they do not only shred the grass completely but can scatter it around uniformly on the grass. These blades can be installed on regular lawn mowers as long as they meet the requirements for installation. On the other hand, their lawn mowers are specifically made to be the best lawn mowers for mulching. These mowers have higher deck designs compared to the ordinary lawn mowers or with the lower deck but have cut height options which is necessary for allowing more airflow underneath the mowing deck.
So if you intend to search for the best lawn mower for mulching, check all the qualities first of the units before settling for one. Below are the tips to help you choose quicker.
Types of the Best Lawn
Different kinds of mowers come with mulching options so you can conveniently choose which of these can fit your needs and budget. These mowers with mulching settings include the following:
These lawn mowers can either be powered by gasoline or electricity. Choose one that has the 3-in-1 capabilities – bagging, side-discharge and mulching. You can find a lot of these that are a bit cheaper compared to the self-propelled types.
Self-propelled lawn mowers.
These are what they call the walk-behind mowers that are equipped with motors and so they turn their wheels to move forward. Some of these types can also have mulching capabilities and also available in gas and electric powered.
Riding mowers or lawn tractors.
Most of these large lawn mowers have two or 3 blades because they can accommodate more blades with their large cutting decks. For large lawns like parks, golf courses, and resorts, these are the best for mulching grass clippings as they generally have deeper and adjustable decks.
These are the other versions of the riding mowers which are best for corners and edges. Those with multiple blades, wider cutting decks and adjustable cutting heights are best for mulching.
So how do you choose among these types with the best mulching capability? Below are tips to find these mowers quickly.
Qualities of the Best Lawn
Design of the deck.
The best lawn mowers for mulching have a deeper mowing deck because this is necessary for the grass to get vacuumed, swirl around underneath the cutting deck, and be cut several times by the spinning blades. This feature is what we call the “recirculation and high-lift” feature. The higher the deck and wider, the better the grass clippings can be cut in small pieces.
Deck cutting width.
The cutting widths of the lawn mowers for mulching are wider to fit any type of blades. The wider the deck, the more air can circulate and for the grass clippings to go around the mulching blades. Mulching blades come in different lengths and width. Usually, they range from 18 inches to 23 inches long and up to 2 3/4-inch wide.
Power of the Motor.
Check the motor of the lawn mower. Lawn mowers for mulching have higher amps to help the motor spin faster. The faster the blades can spin, the better it can mulch grass in shreds. Take note that your mulching mower should have no less than 6 horsepower for the gas-powered and 10 amps for the electric type while the rechargeable should be no less than 40 volts with their batteries.
Curve of the blade.
As we mentioned, mulching blades are curvier than the regular mower blades for increased cutting capability. Basically, all mulching blades are curvy but you can find more effective mulching blades that are thicker, more aerodynamically designed, and feel tougher just by the feel of it. These blades can also be efficient in 3 ways (bagging, side- discharging and mulching). We have an article about the best mulching blades for your convenience.
To help you find the best lawn mowers for mulching, we have 3 of them that we have summarized features. These were some of the most tested units in terms of doing their jobs as mulchers and we have diversified them to give you a wider option.
Best Lawn Mowers for Mulching with
Unfortunately, the use of mulching blades may not always be necessary on certain conditions and we have identified them below so you know when not to use them.
If the lawn has lots of fallen leaves and sticks from trees, these may not decompose as quickly as the grass clippings leaving your garden looked messed up. But if you are not very particular with the appearance of your lawn, this may not be a problem.
Mowing wet grass even using the best mulching lawn mower blades may not be advisable because of the potential for the wet shredded grass to stick under the mowing deck and also onto the blades while leaving grass clumps around the lawn. Another problem is cleaning stuck up grass clumps from under the deck which can take a lot of time and effort.
If your grass and soil are not healthy and have lots of scalped spots, experts don’t recommend the use of mulching blades because it takes time for the mulched grass to decompose while leaving your lawn with a messier appearance. Let your grass be sustained first with other forms of organic fertilizer like liquid organic fertilizer and do proper irrigation to provide grass the fastest way of recovering. Once the grass spreads its roots and branched out all over the lawn, lawn mower mulching can now be considered.
Avoid using mulching blades on tall grasses because these can only clog up your blade and mess up your mowing deck while leaving clumps of unshredded grass clippings along the way.
If you think you have the best mulching blade types but your grass is full of long unwanted weeds with lots of seeds already, do not attempt to use mulching blades because you will only be recycling the growth of these weeds. So better to bag the grass clippings and throw it away then mow the lawn every 3 to 4 days using mulching blades.
This is an electric-type lawn mower equipped with a powerful 12 Amp motor that can go for hours and finish your small yard with ease. Why we choose this as one of the best lawn mowers for mulching is because of its tough 20-inch steel deck and 3-in-1 grass mowing capability. This may not look so high that we want to see on ordinary lawn mowers for mulching but you will like its 7-position height cutting adjustment options to let you cut grass from 1.5-inches to 3.75 inches long.
It also has a push-button start with a manual drive system and a foldable handle that makes it easy to store in your garage. So if you don’t like the gasoline-type lawn mowers because of the smoke emission, you could go for this unit. What more this very silent lawn mower can offer is its detachable bag so you can switch from mulching to bagging. Very versatile, eco-friendly and very easy to use even women can use it without the strain.
The only issue we see in this unit is it does not come with a long cable so you will need a long extension cord to cover a large yard. Not recommended for a large lawn though because you may find the inconvenience of having to tug the extension cord from time to time.
However, it offers a 4-year warranty which many consumers love.
We are trying to vary our presentation for the best lawn mowers for mulching so this time we want you to check on this rechargeable, 40V lawn mowing machine that can provide you maximum performance both for finer cut and also for mulching. It uses an intellicut technology that can deliver power on demand which helps in saving its power only whenever it needs to.
The handles are padded for a more relaxed grip and its single lever adjustments will enable you to choose your cutting heights quickly. According to the manufacturer, it can mow a lawn with up to 5,500 square feet with a single charge only but that is considering the grass is not too tall. For easy and ensured complete charging its batteries have also power level indicators.
If you don’t like the idea of mowing and mulching your grass with petrol because of the odorous and toxic emission as much as you hate towing the extension cord of an electric lawn mower, you should take a look at this unit. Even with its compact size, this eco-friendly rechargeable lawn mower is a breeze to use, no noise, no fumes, no cords and so perfect for small lawns and yards.
We chose this 4-stroke lawn mower because it is loaded with a Hyundai 139cc engine so we are confident that it will also do its 3-in-1 job. With a 42cm cutting width, this is also an ideal petrol-based lawn mower that can ease up your mowing job. We also think of it as one of the best lawn mowers for mulching because of its many features.
Being self-propelled, which are best for lawns with slopes and inclines, it has a single lever cutting height adjustment for 6 settings (25mm to 70mm). This machine has proven its mulching capability and it can deal with any tough grass that some mowers may not work well with. Low maintenance with very low emission, it offers an easy recoil start ignition system so expect that this will be easy to prime.
No need to push this lawn mower and it can climb even steep hills that cannot be mowed by riding lawn mowers. Assembly is fast and easy and there are no tools required. For safety features, it also has an operating presence control (OPC) so it won’t move accidentally unless you have to grab the OPC.
Lawn mowers are made mainly to trim the grass. But aside from the simplicity of their jobs, most of them are now designed with added features that will help the lawn owners improve their grass and soil, save them money from buying chemical fertilizers while saving them the time that requires watering and fertilizing.
So what we mean by added features are lawn mowers with mulching capabilities. Lawn mower blades are a great addition to improving our lawns for the benefits of not only to the property owners but also directly to the grass and to the soil where it grows. Lawn grasses have almost 85% water, 5% nitrogen and the rest are other minerals that can hasten the growth of grass and improve the condition of soils.
So the next time you mow your lawn, think about how much nutrients you are taking away from your grass which if you ask us should go back to where you get it from.
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How to secure your PDF documents with passwords (and how to crack them if needed)
Documents safety is a particularly sensitive matter due to the typical usage nature and possible value and importance of the contents. That said, users should be extra careful when sharing documents that shouldn't be leaked to other parties. Even when being careful though, this may go wrong and a shared document may fall into the wrong hands. For this reason, authors should always incorporate an additional safety net that could easily be password.
Setting up a password
Here's how to secure a PDF document with a password using LibreOffice:
You choose the “File/Export to PDF” option and navigate to the “Security” tab. There you will find the “Set Passwords” buttons that will let you set a password for opening the file, or/and a password for editing permission. After setting the passwords, you can click the “Export” button and you are done.
As simple and quick as this may be, most people out there don't add a password on their PDF files even in cases that require higher levels of security. One of the main reasons for this is the user's negligence while other reasons include the ability to crack the pass anyway, and with relative ease.
How to crack it
There is always the case that you forgot the password that you set a while ago, and now you can't open the document. Thankfully, there's a tool that is dedicated to finding passwords to PDF files that is named “pdfcrack”. Ubuntu users can install it by typing the following command on a terminal:
sudo apt-get install pdfcrack
and pressing enter.
Now open your file manager and navigate to the location of the password-secured document and open a terminal there (or navigate through your terminal by using the “cd” command to change directory). You may then use the “pdfcrack -f filename.pdf” command to let the tool run and try to guess the password. The average speed of this guessing process depends on your system resources and CPU abilities.
Now this may take ages to complete depending on your system and the complexity of the password. By pressing “ctrl+c” you can interrupt the process and save the state to savedstate.sav for resuming the process later. You can do this with the following command: “pdfcrack -f filename.pdf -l savedstate.sav”. To speed up the process, you can use some of
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday sent a message of sympathy to King of Tonga Tupou VI over the grave disaster caused by the recent volcanic eruption in the South Pacific island country.
In his message, Xi said he was shocked to learn about the volcanic eruption and the resulting tsunami and other grave disasters, which have caused heavy losses.
Xi, on behalf of the Chinese government and people, and in his own name, extended sincere sympathies to the Tongan government and people.
China and Tonga are comprehensive strategic partners who support and help each other, Xi said, adding that China stands ready to provide as much support as its capacity allows for Tonga to help the Tongan people prevail over the disasters and rebuild their homes.
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To remove all impediments in testing, Preeti Sudan, health secretary, and Balram Bhargava, director general (ICMR), urged the states and UTs to take immediate steps to facilitate and ramp up testing. They have reiterated that ‘test-track-treat’ is the key strategy for early detection and containment of the pandemic.
Pointing out that in some states and UTs, the capacity utilization of the testing labs, particularly the ones in the private sector, is grossly sub-optimal, states and UTs have been strongly advised to take all possible steps to ensure full capacity utilization of all Covid-19 testing laboratories in the states and Uts.
States and UTs have been advised to facilitate testing at the earliest by enabling all qualified medical practitioners, including private practitioners, to prescribe Covid test to any individual fulfilling the criteria for testing as per ICMR guidelines.
ICMR has strongly recommended that laboratories be free to test any individual following the ICMR Guidelines. State authorities must not restrict an individual from getting tested, as early testing will help contain the virus and save lives. While RT-PCR is the gold standard for diagnosis of Covid-19, ICMR has recently approved the use of a point-of-care Rapid Antigen Test for early detection of Covid-19. The test is quick, simple, safe and can be used as a point-of-care test in containment zones as well as hospitals, as per criteria specified by ICMR for testing. More such kits are being validated by ICMR to increase the available options to the citizens. ICMR has so far approved a total of 1,056 laboratories for Covid-19 testing. Of this, 764 labs are in the public sector and 292 are in the private sector.
To facilitate testing, states and UTs have also been advised to make efforts in ‘campaign mode’ by setting up camps using mobiles vans in high incidence areas to collect samples of all symptomatic individuals as well as their contacts and get those samples tested by using rapid antigen tests. The positive individuals should be treated according to the treatment protocol, and the negative ones should be tested for RT-PCR. Also, the rate for RT-PCR tests by private labs should be finalized by the states and UTs. They have been further advised to make it mandatory for all labs to upload the testing data on the ICMR database as well as report to state, district, city authorities for surveillance and contact tracing.
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Yak Doh 4oz – Yak/Cow Milk Cookie Dough for Dogs
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Yak Doh made from Yak and Cow milk has an ideal balance of calcium, phosphorus, and other essential vitamins and minerals. Calcium is a major structural component of bones and teeth. Meat is naturally deficient in calcium, as are most vegetables and grains. Without adequate calcium, painful bone deformities may arise. .
100 % Natural Ingredients -made from 100% from Yak milk with no artificial ingredients and chemicals, as well as they do not contain any preservatives.
FRESHNESS MATTER: What can be more fresh than baking directly out of your oven. Not mass produced and stored in warehouse, you can make homemade cookie treats for your dog, that’s packed full of nutrients and natural minerals. No sugar, NON-GMO, and etc.
RIGHT SIZE: Mass produced treats gives you their standard size, not necessarily the RIGHT SIZE that’s best for your dog. Whether you have a 3 lbs terrier or a 70 lbs retriever, Dog Doh allows you to adjust the size of your treats for your specific dogs so that it’s just right! Looking for the right training treats to reinforce good positive dog behaviors – look no further than Dog DOH.
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Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has initiated the phase 2 and phase 3 clinical study to evaluate the safety and immune response of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Covishield, across the country later this week after it got approval from Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) earlier this month for the human trials, reports ANI.
The phase 2/3 clincal trial of the SII's Covid-19 vaccine candidate, which has been developed by Oxford University and pharma company AstraZeneca and called ChAdOx1, will be observer-blind, randomised and controlled study to determine the safety and immunogenicity of the Covishield in healthy Indian adults, according to the Clinical Trial Registry India.
It should be noted that Serum Institute, which is the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume, has partnered with AstraZeneca to produce Covid-19 vaccine.
For the study being conducted at 17 sites in India, a total of 1,600 volunteers of age more than or equal to 18 years will be enrolled.
The study sites include AlIMS Jodhpur, Government Medical College Nagpur, PGIMER, Andhra Medical College in Visakhapatnam, Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital in Mumbai, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research (Mysore), Jehangir Hospital in Pune and ICMR - Regional Medical Research Centre in Gorakhpur among others.
Of the total 1,600 eligible participants, 400 will be part of the immunogenicity cohort while the remaining 1,200 will be part of the safety cohort.
The Covishield, according to the CTRI, will be administered as two doses schedule on day 1 and 29 as 0.5 ml dose instramuscularly.
"Placebo will be administered as 2 doses on scheduled Days 1 and 29 as 0.5 ml dose intramuscularly," the CTRI said.
Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate ChAdOx1, a chimpanzee adenovirus vaccine vector, has shown encouraging results in early human trials. The results of the phase 1/2 trial published in the scientific journal, The Lancet, showed that the vaccine induces strong immune responses against the novel Coroanavirus and shows no early safety concerns.
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- reducing the Presidential term of office to five years;
- lowering the voting age;
- provision for same-sex marriage;
- review of the electoral system;
- amending the clause on the role of women in the home;
- increasing the participation of women in politics;
- removal of the offence of blasphemy from the constitution; and
- an optional issue, to be submitted by the public.
Each topic is deliberated at a weekend meeting. The outcome is non-binding: The convention submits a recommendation to both houses of the Irish parliament, which they have to debate within four months. If the parliament and the government adopt the recommendation, a referendum will be held on the issue.
The convention comprises 66 citizens, who were randomly chosen by a polling company to represent a cross-section of Ireland’s electorate. 29 members of the Irish Parliament, representatives of the Northern Ireland assembly, substitutes and a chairperson add up to the overall number of 100 members.
The convention resumed office in December 2012 and is to complete its work within 12 months. It already met on the role of women in the home, the voting age and the length of the presidential term. The convention decided to amend the role of women in the home. It voted in favour of lowering the voting age to 16 but rejected reducing the presidential term from seven to five years.
Like any other meeting, also the impact of the convention’s vote on same-sex-marriage is open. As the Irish Times reports on 14 April, the Irish government has promised to decide on whether to accept the recommendation after a debate in both houses of the parliament later this year.
The website of Ireland’s constitutional convention at www.constitution.ie
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Jenney History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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Jenney is one of the many new names that came to England following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The name Jenney comes from the personal name John. The feminine name Jenny was initially a masculine form and modification of the personal name Jenin.The Norman name Jenney descended from Guisnes near Calais in Normandy. The family name Jenney was brought to England after the Norman Conquest, when William the Conqueror gave his friends and relatives most of the land formerly owned by Anglo-Saxon aristocrats.
Early Origins of the Jenney family
The surname Jenney was first found in Suffolk where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor of Bredfield in that shire where they were granted land by Duke William for their assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D. Conjecturally, they are descended from Peter who held his lands from Hervey de Bourges, tenant in chief. The village was rated in the Domesday Book Survey as a village, a Church and 3 oxen or teamlands. There is also a moated site which was known as Bradfield Castle, although the village is Bredfield. The name Jenney was descended from Guisnes near Calais in Normandy.
The Hundredorum Rolls had only entry for the family, that of Alan filius Jene in Lincolnshire and the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 had the following in a variety of early spellings: Ricardus Gene; Thomas Genne; and Agnes Gine. All held land there at that time.
Early History of the Jenney family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Jenney research. Another 93 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1563, 1330, 1460, 1477, 1623, 1636, 1644, 1565, 1583 and 1565 are included under the topic Early Jenney History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Jenney Spelling Variations
Multitudes of spelling variations are a hallmark of Anglo Norman names. Most of these names evolved in the 11th and 12th century, in the time after the Normans introduced their own Norman French language into a country where Old and Middle English had no spelling rules and the languages of the court were French and Latin. To make matters worse, medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, so names frequently appeared differently in the various documents in which they were recorded. The name was spelled Jenney, Jennie, Jenny, Genny, Gennie, Gynney and others.
Early Notables of the Jenney family (pre 1700)
Outstanding amongst the family at this time was Edward Jenney of Bredfield House; Sir William Jenny, one of the Judges of the King's Bench in 1477 and John Jenney, early American settler from Leyden in 1623 aboard the Little James. He built the original Jenney Grist Mill in Plymouth Colony in 1636 and was run by him until his death in 1644.
Thomas Jenye (fl. 1565-1583), was a rebel and poet, "whose name appears also as Jeny, Jenny, Jenninges, Genys, Genynges, seems to have been...
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In the United States, the name Jenney is the 14,585th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name.
Jenney migration to the United States +
Because of this political and religious unrest within English society, many people decided to immigrate to the colonies. Families left for Ireland, North America, and Australia in enormous numbers, traveling at high cost in extremely inhospitable conditions. The New World in particular was a desirable destination, but the long voyage caused many to arrive sick and starving. Those who made it, though, were welcomed by opportunities far greater than they had known at home in England. Many of these families went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations of Canada and the United States. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Jenney or a variant listed above:
Jenney Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
- John Jenney, who landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1623
- John Jenney, his wife Sarah, their daughter Abigail, and son Samuel Jenney, who arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1623, aboard the "Little James"
- Richard Jenney, who settled in Virginia in 1639
- Richard Jenney, who arrived in Virginia in 1639
Jenney Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
- Robert Jenney, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1714
Jenney Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
- Henry Jenney, who arrived in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822
Contemporary Notables of the name Jenney (post 1700) +
- Ralph Edward Jenney (1883-1945), United States federal judge and attorney, Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California (1997-1945)
- Walter P. Jenney, American military officer, known for their scientific expedition sponsored by the United States Geological Survey to map the Black Hills of South Dakota, better known as the Newton-Jenney Party of 1875
- William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907), American architect and engineer, who designed the first skyscraper in 1883, nicknamed the Father of the American skyscraper
- Neil Jenney (b. 1945), American self-taught artist
- Lucinda Kingsbury Jenney (b. 1954), American actress, known for her roles in Rain Man (1988), Thelma & Louise (1991) and Thirteen Days (2000)
- Truman Eliot "Jack" Jenney (1910-1945), American jazz artist of the 30's and 40's, best known for instrumental versions of the song "Stardust"
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The Jenney Motto +
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Deus Mihi Providebit
Motto Translation: God will provide for me.
- ^ Shirley, Evelyn Philip, The Noble and Gentle Men of England; The Arms and Descents. Westminster: John Bower Nichols and Sons, 1866, Print.
- ^ Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
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In your organization, what happens when highly relational people collide with highly transactional people? What happens when people-oriented workers intersect with task-oriented workers? Stress? Anxiety? Anger? Gossip? Under-performance?
On one end of the relationship continuum are people who are highly relational. For these people, the relationship is the most important part of everything they do.
On the other end of the continuum are highly transactional people. For these people, It’s not usually that the relationship is not important to them; it’s just that getting the job done is far more important.
What would happen if highly relational people had the tools to become more transactional without giving up their natural inclination to be relational, and highly transactional people had the tools to be more relational without giving up their natural inclination for transaction. One of your primary jobs as a leader is to provide these “tools” to your people so they can get along well and get the job done well.
The main challenge in leading people with such diverse personality styles is that you also have a default style. But in order for your organization to perform at a high level, it’s not enough to rely exclusively on your default style of leadership. It is important to lead both relationally and transactionally. This is called Relactional Leadership.
As you model this relactional approach, the people in your organization—whether two people or many—will become happier and more productive as a result. Relactional leaders produce relactional teams. They cultivate organizations in which the people get along well and get the job done well. In order for this transformation to start happening in your organization, it must begin with you, the leader.
Yes, you are a leader. If you have influence with at least one person, that makes you a leader. And when two or more people are in relationship, that makes them an organization.
The Tools, Ingredients, and Behaviors of a Relactional Leader
As I have traveled to many cities and countries around the world, I have found that nearly every person I meet is smart, gifted, or talented in at least one area—often, in multiple areas. I have also found that nearly every person I have met has a huge heart. So, years ago, I started asking myself, If so many people are smart, gifted, or talented and are also good-hearted, why are these not the sort of people we hear about in the media more often?
As I wrestled with this question, I began to realize that many have never been given the who, what, when, where, why and how of leadership. Most have been given the what, but few have been taught the practical tools and processes of effective leadership. I then realized that leadership is like baking a cake.
Baking a cake requires different ingredients, tools/utensils, and a recipe manual. Also, in the best-tasting cakes, there are many ingredients that don’t taste good on their own as well as others that do. But, for some reason, when they are mixed together in the right proportions in the right way and cooked at the right temperature, the cake tastes really good.
Many leaders have been taught how to manage people, yet few have been taught the practical tools, ingredients, and behaviors to lead people and manage processes, policies, systems, and procedures around them effectively. Relactional Leadership will help you to acquire these tools, ingredients, and behaviors needed to become a relactional leader who can develop teams that thrive relationally and transactionally.
Ford Taylor is leadership strategist, keynote speaker, and author of Relactional Leadership. As the Founder of Transformational Leadership, he is known as a man who can solve complex business issues, with straightforward practical solutions, while maintaining his focus on people. His career has taken him around the globe and continues to thrive on the foundations of interpersonal focus, agility, adaptability, and innovation required in today’s dynamic marketplace. Ford and his wife of 37 years, Sandra, live in College Station, Texas. They are blessed with three lovely daughters, Whitney, Emily, and Quincy. Ford can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Transformational Leadership helps you identify, address and remove personal, team and process constraints. Removing these constraints allows transformation to occur and encourages healthy, trusting relationships to grow.
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Fraction Addition & Subtraction Problems with Solution
A fraction is a way of representing division of a ‘whole’ into ‘parts’.
A fraction represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts.
For Example : examples: 1/2 and 17/3) consists of an integer numerator, displayed above a line (or before a slash), and a non-zero integer denominator,displayed below (or after) that line.
Steps for adding Fractions
Step 1: Make sure the bottom numbers (the denominators) are the same
Step 2: Add the top numbers (the numerators), put the answer over the
Step 3: Simplify the fraction (if needed)
Fraction Addition and Subtraction Problems
Example 1: Add 1/4 and 1/4
Example 2: Add
Example 3: Subtract
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OBJECTIVE: The objective of this investigation was to establish the safety of high-dose (HD) acyclovir for the treatment of neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) disease. In addition, an estimate of therapeutic efficacy was sought, both with respect to mortality and to morbidity. Virologic efficacy of HD acyclovir was also assessed. PARTICIPANTS: Infants who were =28 days old and whose disease was considered to be caused by HSV were enrolled in this study. Patients with central nervous system (CNS; N = 28) or disseminated (N = 41) HSV infection were offered participation in the trial. A small number of patients with HSV disease limited to the skin, eyes, or mouth (SEM; N = 10) or whose disease was clinically consistent with HSV but who did not have virologic confirmation of infection (N = 9) also were enrolled on a compassionate basis. Only patients with virologically confirmed HSV disease were included in efficacy analyses. All enrolled patients were included in safety analyses. METHODS: The study was an open-label evaluation of intravenous acyclovir at dosages higher than the 30 mg/kg/d standard dosage approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. The first 16 patients enrolled received intermediate-dose (ID) acyclovir (45 mg/kg/d), and the next 72 patients received HD acyclovir (60 mg/kg/d). Acyclovir was administered in 3 divided daily doses for 21 days. Neonates were assessed prospectively throughout treatment and at scheduled follow-up visits for the first 4 years of life. Data were compared with those of a previous National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Collaborative Antiviral Study Group trial in which patients received standard-dose (SD) acyclovir for 10 days and in which identical methods (with the exception of acyclovir dosage and duration of therapy) were used. RESULTS: Six (21%) of 29 HD acyclovir recipients whose HSV disease remained localized to the SEM or CNS experienced neutropenia. One of the 6 had an absolute neutrophil count <500/mm(3), and 5 patients had an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) between 500/mm(3) and 1000/mm(3). In all 6 cases, the ANC recovered during continuation of acyclovir at the same dosage or after completion of acyclovir therapy, and there were no apparent adverse sequelae of the transient neutropenia. No other drug-related adverse events were reported among ID or HD recipients, and no other laboratory aberrations could be correlated specifically with antiviral therapy. The survival rate for the patients with disseminated HSV disease treated with HD acyclovir was significantly higher than for those in the previous study treated with SD acyclovir, with an odds ratio (OR) of 3.3 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.4-7.9). For patients with CNS disease, however, survival rates were similar for the HD and SD groups. To assess the effect of HD acyclovir on survival for the entire population with neonatal HSV disease, the Cox proportional hazards regression analysis was performed with stratification for disease category (CNS versus disseminated). In performing this analysis, differences in mortality for each disease category were weighted to allow statistical comparison of the treatment dosage groups (HD, ID, and SD). This analysis indicated that the survival rate for patients treated with HD acyclovir was statistically significantly higher than for patients treated with SD acyclovir (OR: 3.3; 95% CI: 1.5-7.3). Recipients of HD acyclovir had a borderline significant decrease in morbidity compared with SD recipients, after stratification for the extent of disease (SEM vs CNS vs disseminated) and controlling for the potential confounding factors of HSV type (HSV-1 vs. HSV-2), prematurity, and disease severity (seizures). Patients treated with HD acyclovir were 6.6 times (adjusted OR; 95% CI: 0.8-113.6) as likely to be developmentally normal at 12 months of age as patients treated with SD therapy. CONCLUSION: These data support the use of a 21-day course of HD (60 mg/kg/d) intravenous acyclovir to treat neonatal CNS and disseminated HSV disease. Throughout the course of HD acyclovir therapy, serial ANC determination should be made at least twice weekly. Decreasing the acyclovir dosage or administering granulocyte colony-stimulating factor should be considered if the ANC remains below 500/mm(3) for a prolonged period. | <urn:uuid:4a8ac538-3eb0-456c-b32f-3f20f31df8ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholars.uab.edu/display/pub733881 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965916 | 1,014 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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A dermatologist can diagnose, investigate, treat and manage the conditions of children and adults with skin disease, as well as hair and nail complaints.
The root word for dermatology is derm, or dermis. This comes from the Greek word derma, which means skin or hide.
Dermatology is a special area of medicine that focuses on conditions that affect your skin. In addition to your skin, dermatology also includes conditions that affect your nails, hair, and the delicate lining of your eyelids, nose, and mouth.
Your skin is your body’s largest organ. It contains nerve endings, sweat glands, hair follicles, pores, blood vessels, and many other structures. Caring for it is important to your overall health.
While general practitioners and internal medicine doctors may be able to diagnose and treat these same conditions, a dermatologist has a deeper understanding and greater experience. In fact, many primary care doctors will refer their patients to dermatologists for specialised care.
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Dr Varghese has acquired extensive experience and expertise in dermatology, having worked and trained in two countries, four large teaching hospitals, and several district general hospitals throughout the UK – all within dermatology departments. He completed his dermatology training in South West England, and underwent intensive training in skin cancer surgery, including Mohs micrographic surgery at the prestigious Welsh Institute of Dermatology in Cardiff. Throughout his training, he worked alongside leading dermatologists.
Dr Varghese has wide interests and skills in the diagnosis and management of HI skin cancers, undertaking laser treatments, Mohs micrographic surgery, cosmetic dermatology, dermoscopy, hair disorders, eczema, psoriasis, biological therapies, and general dermatology. Apart from various dermatological skills and techniques, such as laser treatments, wrinkle-smoothing injection, cryotherapy, curettage and cautery, Dr Varghese is fully competent in various aspects of dermatological surgery, including complex skin flaps, full thickness skin grafts, and advanced skin closure techniques.
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Hawks are raptors, birds of prey which are one of the most feared predators in the sky. Though they are predators, hawks are not immune to becoming prey themselves. While hawks are certainly powerful predators, there are a few animals that can scare them off. But what are hawks afraid of?
Hawks are not generally afraid of much, but there are a few animals that can scare them off. Let’s see what hawks will go out of their way to avoid.
The Short Answer…
Hawks are not naturally afraid of anything, but they will avoid predators like owls, eagles, wolves, crows and larger hawks.
What Are Hawks Afraid Of?
While hawks are fearsome predators, they are not without their fears. One of the most common things that hawks are afraid of is other birds of prey. Here are they.
One of the most feared animals by hawks is the owls. These massive birds of prey are more than capable of taking down a hawk, and they have been known to steal hawks’ kills.
Hawks are constantly on the lookout for other hawks, as they are one of their main predators. While owls are not as large as hawks, they are very skilled hunters and can take down a hawk with ease.
While Hawks are incredibly powerful predators, capable of taking down animals much larger than themselves, they are not invulnerable. In fact, Hawks are actually quite afraid of Eagles.
Eagles are larger than Hawks, and their talons are much sharper. This gives them a significant advantage in a fight. In addition, Eagles tend to hunt in pairs, which means that a Hawk will often be outnumbered if it tries to take on an Eagle.
Eagles are larger than hawks, and they have no qualms about preying on hawks. In fact, eagles will often chase hawks away from their nests in order to protect their young. Hawks will also avoid areas where they know eagles are present.
Hawks are also afraid of being caught by humans. This is likely due to the fact that humans have been known to hunt and kill hawks, particularly those that have become a nuisance by preying on livestock.
Hawks are often killed by cars or caught in traps set for other animals. In addition, they are frequently shot by people who view them as a threat to livestock or simply enjoy hunting them for sport.
As a result, hawks tend to be wary of humans and will avoid areas where they are likely to encounter them.
However, if a hawk does become aggressive towards humans, it will attack and act violently.
What Eats A Hawk? What Animal Can Kill A Hawk?
Hawks are powerful predators that can take down animals much larger than themselves. So, what eats hawk? Surprisingly, there are a number of animals that are capable of preying on hawks. Large birds of prey, such as eagles and owls, will sometimes hunt hawks for food.
Likewise, snakes, coyotes, and foxes have been known to kill and eat hawks. In addition, large mammals such as bears and jaguars will also target these birds. Hawks typically avoid these predators by perching in high places and staying alert for signs of danger.
What Time Of Day Do Hawks Hunt?
Hawks typically hunt between dawn and dusk, although they may also hunt at night if there is enough light. Hawks hunt during the day, when they can use their excellent eyesight to spot prey. Hawks typically hunt alone, although sometimes they will form hunting parties with other hawks. When a hawk spies its prey, it will swoop down and seize the animal with its powerful talons.
Why Do Crows Fight Hawks?
A crow and a hawk are both birds of prey, so it’s not surprising that they sometimes come into conflict. Hawks are generally larger than crows, and they have sharper talons and beaks.
This gives them an advantage in a one-on-one fight. However, crows are social animals, and they often hunt in groups. When a hawk threatens a flock of crows, the crows will work together to chase the hawk away.
Their numbers give them strength, and they can mob the hawk until it is forced to retreat. Crows will also warn other birds when a hawk is nearby, so that they can take cover or fly away to safety. In this way, crows use their intelligence and social skills to protect themselves and other birds from the threat of hawks.
Are Hawks Afraid Of Humans?
Hawks are not naturally afraid of humans, but they will become wary if they feel threatened or harassed. If you approach a hawk too closely, it may fly away or become aggressive. However, if you observe hawks from a distance and give them space, they will usually go about their business without paying much attention to you.
What Do Hawks Eat?
Hawks are carnivorous birds of prey, meaning that they primarily eat other animals. The majority of their diet is made up of small mammals such as rodents and rabbits, but they will also eat reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates.
While some species of hawk will eat carrion (dead animals), most prefer to kill their prey themselves. In order to do this, they have powerful talons and beaks that are designed for tearing flesh. Hawks will usually eat their prey whole, although they may sometimes remove the head or feet first.
When Do Hawks Hunt?
Hawks typically hunt during the day, when they can take advantage of their excellent eyesight to spot their prey. However, there are some exceptions to this rule.
Why Do Hawks Fight With Other Predators?
Hawks are one of the most widespread birds of prey, with species found on every continent except Antarctica. Hawks are known for their keen eyesight and powerful talons, which they use to hunting small animals.
But hawks are not just predators – they are also skilled fighters. Hawks often engage in aerial battles with other birds of prey, such as owls, eagles, and falcons. These fights can be brutal, with both birds using their sharp talons to wound or kill their opponent. So why do hawks fight with other birds of prey?
There are several reasons why hawks engage in these fierce battles. One reason is territory – hawks will fight to defend their territory from intruders.
Another reason is food and hawks will sometimes steal prey from other birds of prey. And finally, hawks will also fight for protecting their nest.
Will Hawks Attack Small Dogs, Cats, or Even Human Baby?
Hawks are predators, and they will attack anything that they perceive as prey. This includes small dogs and cats, as well as human babies.
Hawks have sharp talons and beaks that can cause serious injury, and their attacks can be fatal. The best way to protect your pet or child from a hawk attack is to keep them away from areas where hawks are known to hunt.
If you see a hawk in your yard, make sure that your pets are inside and that your children are supervised. Hawks are fascinating creatures, but they should be respected and feared.
How to Scare Away Hawks From Your Yard, Bird Feeder, or Farm?
Hawks are a common sight in many yards and gardens, and while they may be beautiful to look at, they can also be a danger to small birds, pets and children.
Remove Any Potential Nesting Sites & Bird Feeder
While there is no guaranteed way to scare away all hawks, there are some steps you can take to make your property less attractive to these predators.
First, remove any potential nesting sites, such as piles of brush or abandoned birdhouses. Second, use bright flagging tape or Mylar balloons to create a visual barrier around your bird feeder.
Hang Shiny Objects
Hawks are skilled predators that can pose a serious threat to small animals. While there are many ways to scare away hawks, some methods are more effective than others.
One effective method is to hang shiny objects in trees or other high points. The reflective light will startle hawks and discourage them from entering the area.
Another method is to place loud noises near the perimeter of your property. Hawks are very sensitive to sound and will avoid areas where there is a lot of noise. Finally, you can also try using visual deterrents such as scarecrows or Mylar balloons.
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B♭ minor or B-flat minor is a minor scale based on B-flat, consisting of the pitches B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, G♭, and A♭. Its key signature has five flats. The harmonic minor scale would use an A♮ instead of A♭.
B-flat minor is traditionally a 'dark' key." Some important oboe solos in this key in the orchestral literature include the second movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, which depicts "the feeling that you get when you are all alone", in Tchaikovsky's words. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 is also in B-flat minor.
The old valveless horn was barely capable of playing in B-flat minor; the only example found in 18th century music is a modulation that occurs in the first minuet of Franz Krommer's Concertino in D major, Opus 80.
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Freshwater aquifers along the Atlantic coast of the United States are bounded at their seaward margins by saltwater. Ground-water withdrawals from these aquifers can cause lateral and vertical intrusion of surrounding saltwater, and incidences of saltwater intrusion have been documented throughout the eastern seaboard (figure 1). Withdrawals also can change the patterns of ground-water flow and discharge to coastal ecosystems, which may alter the nutrient budgets and salinity of coastal waterways and wetlands. Projected future growth in population along the coastal areas of the United States will likely increase stresses on coastal aquifers and ecosystems in the next century. As part of the Ground-Water Resources Program, the USGS is conducting an assessment of freshwater-saltwater interactions and issues along the Atlantic coast, focusing on saltwater intrusion into freshwater aquifers and ground-water discharge into coastal ecosystems. | <urn:uuid:8e223243-b6d8-4dbc-a800-2daeeb7b8888> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://water.usgs.gov/ogw/gwrp/saltwater/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.9153 | 256 | 2.953125 | 3 |
How do I boot from a CD-drive?
My computer keeps restarting. It doesn't let windows 2000 start all the way before it shuts down and restarts again. It keeps going through the same cycle. It does not say anything before it just shuts down and tries to restart. I tried safe mode but I get the same thing. I have the original windows 2000 disc to reinstall but I can't get the computer to start from the cd rom drive. It wants to boot from the 3.5 floppy. How do I get the cd rom to start so I can reload windows 2000? I do not have a reboot disc for the floppy.
This question was answered on December 7, 2005. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.When the computer first boot before windows starts You need to tap the F8 or F12 key (it should be called boot menu or setup menu) This will take you to CMOS; from there you can change the boot order to CD-ROM first.
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An 18-year-old woman presents as a new patient to your clinic for “seizures”. On review of her medical records, you find that she has had numerous ED visits and inpatient admissions for generalized shaking spells. Several of them have been captured on video EEG recording and there was no EEG correlate with the behavior, suggesting that they are psychogenic non-epileptic attacks/spells (PNEA/PNES). She says she is seeing you today because “I need someone to refill my seizure medications.” Which of the following basic principles of medical ethics could be best applied to this scenario?
You have recently diagnosed an asymptomatic 45-year-old man with Huntington’s disease based on genetic testing which was requested based on a family history of the disease. The patient was informed of these findings in the clinic with his wife by his side. On the following day, you receive a phone call from the patient’s 23-year-old son asking what the results of the testing were. What is the most appropriate response to this question?
Which of the following is characteristic of a left internuclear ophthalmoplegia?
A 56-year-old woman with recent open-heart surgery develops sudden onset, painless right eye vision loss. On funduscopic examination, the optic disc appears swollen and pale. No other significant findings were appreciated on the funduscopic exam. Damage to which of the following structures is the most likely cause of the patient’s symptoms?
A 36-year-old woman presents with facial weakness. She states that symptoms started on the right side of the face one week ago, but since then the left side has also become progressively weak. Other pertinent complaints include dry cough, shortness of breath, and joint pain. MRI of the brain shows bilateral contrast enhancement of the facial nerves. Chest X-ray reveals bilateral hilar adenopathy. A diagnostic lymph node biopsy is performed. Which of the following is most likely appreciated on pathologic analysis?
A 27-year-old woman presents with recurrent episodes of tinnitus, vertigo, and hearing loss. She denies any associated headaches. Episodes typically last between 2 and 6 hours in duration. MRI of the brain with and without contrast did not reveal any pathology. Physical examination is unremarkable except for sensorineural hearing loss appreciated in the right ear. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
A 25-year-old female presents with anisocoria; her right eye is significantly more dilated when compared to the left eye in ambient light. The right pupil is also irregular in shape, does not respond to light, and is sluggish to constrict to near accommodation. When dilute pilocarpine (0.125%) is administered to the right pupil it constricts but the left eye doesn’t react at all.
Which of the following is the most likely cause of the patients’ symptoms?
At a national conference, a pharmaceutical representative reaches out to you and offers you an all-inclusive trip to the Bahamas to hear about their newest available preventative migraine therapy. As a resident, which is the most appropriate response:
Which of the following is the most accurate statement regarding driving with epilepsy?
A 24-year-old weight-lifter presents after sudden-onset neck pain. On exam, there is right eye ptosis and asymmetric right pupil constriction. Additionally, the patient appreciated decreased sweat production on the right side of his face. 1% hydroxyamphetamine eye drops are administered to the right eye and it dilates. Where is the most likely site of the patient’s lesion?
A 38-year-old man presents with frequent headaches over the past year and recent development of polydipsia and polyuria. He has also been complaining of a dry cough, shortness of breath, and erythematous nodules along his shins bilaterally. MRI of the brain shows a contrast-enhancing lesion of the hypothalamus. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
A 59-year-old woman presents to the emergency room with dizziness and left ear fullness. The symptom is described as a spinning sensation that is present at rest and with action. She has had comparable events before, which have self-resolved over time. The patient is ataxic on the exam and has difficulty hearing out of her left ear. An MRI brain with and without contrast was normal. Which of the following is the most appropriate line of therapy that will decrease the risk of future recurrent events?
A 38-year-old man with a past medical history of chronic cough, and shortness of breath presents with a three-week history of recurrent headaches, confusion, and difficulty with speech. On exam, there are difficulties with attention and mild aphasia. Additionally, there appear to be erythematous nodules along his shins bilaterally. Brain MRI shows a contrast-enhancing lesion in the left hemisphere. Due to the patient’s chronic pulmonary complaints, a chest X-ray is also performed. Which of the following is most likely seen on a chest X-ray?
A 72-year-old man with a history of right-sided carotid stenosis was transferred from an outside hospital to your institution to have a carotid stent placed after experiencing a mild right-hemispheric ischemic stroke. The patient was sent to the angiography lab and had a carotid stent placed, however, it was done so on the unaffected (left) side. What is this an example of?
A 48-year-old woman presents with acute onset of seizures, myoclonus, ataxia, and rapidly progressive dementia. CSF analysis reveals an elevated protein and mild pleocytosis. Brain MRI with and without contrast is unremarkable. Further investigation reveals elevated thyroid-stimulating hormone levels and anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies. Which of the following is the most appropriate therapy?
Which of the following would not constitute or be concerning for a HIPAA violation?
Which of the following is the relay center for hearing?
A 45-year-old patient presents with complaints of new-onset double vision. On the general neurologic exam, you note the patient tilts their head to the left. The remainder of the physical exam is unremarkable. Which of the following is the most common underlying pathologic cause of this issue?
Bilateral exotropia is typically seen with which of the following lesions?
A patient with end-stage amyotrophic lateralized sclerosis (ALS) presents to the emergency room from a nursing home alone. His vitals show hypoxemia and he appears tachypneic on examination. On examination, he is also paraplegic with significant weakness in the upper extremities and mild dysarthria. His mental status examination appears intact. Between short breaths, he says that he does not wish to be intubated. This is consistent with the end-of-life discussions documented in the outpatient clinic notes. As his hypoxemia worsens his wife arrives at the bedside and with urgency asks you to intubate the patient. What is the most appropriate response?
A 35-year-old woman with a past medical history of ocular and oral dryness presents with a 5-month history of progressive difficulties with ambulation. On exam, there is diminished vibratory sensation along the plantar/dorsal surfaces of her feet, 1+ ankle reflexes bilaterally, and a positive Romberg sign. Strength is normal. A tissue biopsy confirms the diagnosis. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
Initiating HAART therapy for a patient with poorly controlled HIV places them at an increased risk for which of the following?
Which of the following is the thalamic relay center for auditory stimuli?
A 68-year-old woman with no significant medical history presents in the emergency room with acute aphasia and right-sided weakness. Her wife who is in the room states the patient was last seen well one hour prior to arrival at the hospital. A CT scan of the head showed no acute hemorrhage. After screening the patient and discussing the risks and benefits of acute pharmacological therapy with her significant other the patient was given intravenous tPA. Thirty minutes later the patient had an acute neurological decline. She was sent for a repeat CT scan which showed a new 16 cc intraparenchymal hemorrhage in the left hemisphere. What is this an example of?
Which of the following is most commonly associated with NMDA-receptor encephalitis?
Which of the following findings on a Head-Impulse-Nystagmus-Test-of-Skew (HINTS) test is consistent with central vertigo?
A 62-year-old woman presents to your clinic with complaints of dizziness. She states that about 2 weeks ago she had some dental work done including a root canal, and ever since then has had spells of extreme dizziness. She describes that the room spins and she becomes sick to her stomach. The sensation is improved by sitting very still. It completely resolves in between episodes, and episodes happen about once or twice a day. She noticed that it happens consistently when she tries to back out of the driveway in the early morning. She had a CT head one day ago that was read as normal. On exam, she has inducible nystagmus. The otoscopic exam is normal. Which of the following is the most accurate statement?
A 38-year-old female presents for 5 weeks of worsening encephalopathy, and blurred vision. An MRI Brain with contrast is performed and shown below (T1 post-contrast, multiple axial sections). Of the following, what is the most likely diagnosis?
A 53-year-old Spanish-speaking woman comes to your clinic for the first time with complaints of memory loss. She is accompanied by her 16-year-old daughter who is bilingual. You quickly realize that the patient does not have a strong grasp of the English language. After proposing to use a professional translator the daughter says that she feels comfortable translating for her mother. What is the most appropriate next step?
A 35-year-old male presented for sudden onset painless central vision loss. An outside hospital emergency room physician suggested he may have had a CRAO, but recommended immediate ophthalmology outpatient evaluation. The patient was unfortunately lost to follow-up for a few months. He presents today due to a sudden onset of central vision loss in the other eye.
On your ophthalmologic exam, you note hyperemic optic nerve and tortuous central retinal vessels, without evidence of vessel cutoff. He has a central scotoma bilaterally, with peripheral vision intact. He has red color desaturation as well. MRI brain w/ and w/o contrast with fat suppression and thin cuts through the orbits is performed, and normal.
This disorder is caused by which of the following pathologic processes?
A patient with newly-diagnosed early state amyotrophic lateralized sclerosis (ALS) presents to your multidisciplinary clinic for the first time. After discussing the effectiveness and side effects of riluzole and endavarone, the patient informs you that he doesn’t want to start either medication. Which of the following basic principles of medical ethics could be best applied to this scenario?
Opsoclonus-Myoclonus Syndrome (OMS) is associated with which autoimmune antibody?
389 Patients who had acute unilateral optic neuritis were enrolled between 1988-1991 in a study and followed for 15 years to assess their risk for developing multiple sclerosis (MS). They found that the probability of developing MS within 15 years was 50%. What type of study was this?
A 65-year-old female presents to the clinic with painless double vision that started abruptly 5 days ago. On exam, pupils are equal, round, and reactive to light bilaterally. On extraocular muscle testing, the left eye has a normal range of motion but the right eye is unable to adduct or elevate. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the patient’s symptoms?
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Street smarts vs. book smarts – which side has the most advantage?
The book smarts have their knowledge as their main weapon. They learned everything they have to know in school and excelled in it, too!
Pop quizzes? Final exams? Aptitude tests? Book smarts can ace them all while half-asleep.
Street smarts also have a few tricks on their sleeves. Their years of experience have awarded them with the wisdom of the world, and they know how to make the best of every situation.
When two strong competitors fight against one another, it is a battle of two brains. In this case, it is a war between street smarts and book smarts.
Who wields more power?
Street smarts vs book smarts?
Book smarts speak better, but they have less to say. Street smarts are more talented, and they do not need to study things out of a book. Borrowing ideas from other people is their skill.
But the question is, which of these two smarts have the bigger advantage? Who is more likely to make it through life’s pitfalls and hurdles?
And more importantly, which type are you?
Read on to find out who trumps over the other—the brainiacs or the know-hows.
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The Brainiacs: Who are Book Smarts?
Book smart—the name says it all.
These people have spent most of their lives with their noses deep inside a book—literally!
They’re the top-placers in an exam, the scholars with an outstanding degree, and the intelligent person who is most likely to win in a trivia game.
By definition, book smarts are those who have flourished in an academic environment. If you identify as such, you’re the type who thrives in learning environments. You love lectures and have no problem reading textbooks from cover to cover.
As a book smart, you solve problems using your broad knowledge about the whats and whys. You stick by facts and approach matters from an intellectual point of view.
The main advantage of book smarts is that you’re a sponge when it comes to information. That means it’s easy for you to understand concepts and fill in the blanks of test papers. This skill gives you an edge when it comes to achieving graduate degrees, acing college applications, and creating a handsome résumé.
The Know-Hows: Who are the Street Smarts?
Street smarts may not always have straight A’s. But you can count on their first-hand experience to get things done.
Street smarts are not afraid to get their hands dirty. If you identify like this, you believe that the best way to learn it is to do it!
As a street smart, you’re an expert in handling practical situations in your day-to-day life. Your main advantage is your years of experience. This has trained you to adapt and be confident in whatever situation you stumble on.
Even though you weren’t a born genius, you’ve managed to gain insight from being in the real world. In fact, you don’t need to have a Ph.D.—you can rely on your gut instinct and skills in situational awareness.
Having situational awareness means that you have a good grasp of your environment. You can interpret social cues and make sound judgments to solve problems. When the circumstance requires it, you can think fast on your feet and make improvisations on the spot.
Can’t Have It All: Weaknesses of Street Smarts vs. Books Smarts
Street smarts and book smarts each excel in their careers through their own ways. But like any other human being, they have their weaknesses.
Here are some of the weaknesses that street smarts and book smarts experience:
- Book smarts have trouble with dealing with ordinary, everyday tasks. Their practical skills and common sense needs a little more improvement.
- Book smarts are not so good at analyzing their environment. Because of this, they may come off as naïve and easy to manipulate.
- Book smarts are harshly called “smartest dumb people.” This is because they can have difficulty in ordinary situations.
- Street smarts are often underestimated in work environments. The reason is that they lack high academic degrees.
- Learning environments can be a hard place to flourish in for street smarts.
- Academic requirements and school settings can be quite a challenge for street smarts.
Of course, not all of them are always true.
Some book smarts are good at handling practical circumstances. There are also street smarts who are knowledgeable about their practice. It all depends on you and how you handle yourself in this demanding world.
Who’s the better genius? Street Smarts Vs. Book Smarts
The debate on who is a better genius has been a subject of conversation for the longest time. But based on the opinions of people from the internet, the majority is swaying to the side of street smarts.
Author and speaker Scott Berkun believes that street smarts have always had the upper hand. He says that street smarts are survivors—they’ve been to the heart of the battle and came out alive.
“You’ve been tested and have a bank of courage to depend on when you are tested again.”
Berkun also adds that street smarts don’t need other people to show them the road. They pave their path towards success. That initiative awarded them with a great experience.
Book smarts, says Berkun, are merely good followers. They can abide by the rules and answer questions. But, they can be inadequate when it comes to applying what they know.
Even Ashley Fern echoes the same sentiment. Fern shares that she knows a lot of people who went to school. But those people aren’t precisely Einsteins and Edisons when it comes to the actual job.
“A college degree may help to open the door to a better job, but street smarts are what allow you to succeed once you walk through that door.”
To her, having the skills of a street smart is more significant. They can think logically, adapt to their surroundings, and work well in socialization.
For most people, street smarts certainly have the edge. Indeed, your expertise is not tested by how well you memorize information. It’s measured by your ability to roll with the punches of life outside the book.
Who are well-known Street Smarts?
Are you still unconvinced that street smarts are the big dogs? Well, these people might prove you just that. Here are some street smarts whose names are now star-studded with success:
The Face of Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
When Mark Zuckerberg was in his college, he started to code Facebook in his dormitory room. After realizing its potential, Zuckerberg then dropped out of college to focus on the social media website. He was a sophomore then.
Even though Zuckerberg didn’t finish his degree immediately, he was a tremendously skilled engineer. But as a street smart, he had an instinct that what he had in his hands was an opportunity. Zuckerberg grabbed that chance and capitalized on his discovery.
A Record of Success: Richard Branson
Richard Branson’s headmaster in school once told him that there were two ways he could end up: in prison or as a millionaire.
All his life, Branson had a tough time coping with school because of his dyslexia. It was at the age of 16 that he decided to drop out of his academics completely. But that doesn’t mean that he gave up—no, he was looking to become an entrepreneur.
At 16, he started a magazine entitled “Student,” which was his first-ever business venture. That got the ball rolling.
In 1972, he co-founded the British record label called Virgin Records. This became the home of various famous artists and performers. Later on, he would open numerous Virgin Records stores that would soon be known as Virgin Megastores.
But his entrepreneurial gift didn’t end there. In 1980, he started a British Airline called Virgin Atlantic Airways. His success in these businesses has now made Branson a multi-millionaire.
The Dream That Worked: David Geffen
Shrek, Madagascar, and Kung Fu Panda are movies that wouldn’t be possible without David Geffen.
Geffen’s school performance wasn’t good enough for Brooklyn College and the University of Texas. Just like Branson, his school difficulties were due to his dyslexia.
But despite this setback, he was still able to bag the gold as a businessman. His first job was a talent agent, but with the help of his colleagues, he was able to start his management company.
He later founded DCG Records, Geffen Records, Asylum Records, and Dreamworks Studios. Today, he has a net worth of 9.7 billion US dollars. It seems that flunking school wasn’t such a bad thing after all!
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How to become street smart
If you’re book smart, then it must be driving you crazy to see everyone on the street smart’s side. But don’t worry. The good news is, being street smart is something that you can learn.
Here are some tips to become more of a know-how about practical things:
1. Don’t stay in your comfort zone.
Tough situations can be challenging, but learn how to embrace them. They may be uncomfortable to be in, but they will allow you to grow.
2. Be present.
Be aware of the things going on in your surroundings. When you are present, you become more in touch with your instincts. Not only does this make you safer, but it will also allow you to soak up more information about your environment.
3. Find ways to gain experience.
The only way to master your craft is to practice what you know. Be an active learner. That means getting your nose out of the book and getting to the actual work!
4. Grow your circle.
Don’t shy away from conversations with people of different backgrounds. Being open to opinions and new perspectives can improve your critical thinking. Get as much insight and advice from them so you can enrich your point of view.
5. Be disciplined.
You’re going to encounter a lot of hurdles and challenges as you go about life. But when you’re knocked down, you should always get back up. Focus on your goal and keep working hard.
Born Entrepreneurs: Are Street Smarts Better in Business?
You might have noticed that the wealthiest businessmen and the most successful entrepreneurs are street smarts. But if you think that only street smarts can win the entrepreneurial game, you’re only half right.
For Tim W. Knox, being book smart or street smart isn’t the determiner or the key to success.
He says that it doesn’t matter if you have years of experience. Nor does is it essential if you have a high level of education. What truly measures you as an entrepreneur is your achievements.
Knox explains that education might make you look good in job interviews, but it doesn’t automatically grant you your victories. The same goes for the experience. An entrepreneur may have a lot of experience, but those experiences may be failures.
And so the question stands: Who can do better in business?
According to Knox, having both education and experience under your belt can boost your chances of success. But, if you only have one of the two, or none at all, you can still make it as an entrepreneur.
A lot of multi-millionaire business people today never stepped into college. But a lot of scholars with advanced degrees aren’t exactly living the life they wanted either.
So how does one get to the top? The answer lies in your hands.
You may possess tools such as money, experience, education, connections, or luck. But it’s how you use these tools that will give you the advantage.
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The best of both worlds: Becoming a Book Smart and a Street Smart
It’s time to throw in the white towel.
Instead of pitting one against the other, why not be a mix of a book smart and a street smart? Each smart comes with its weaknesses, but each has significant advantages, too. Adapting the best characteristics of both sides can make you a well-rounded person.
Excelling in academics and having a broad knowledge can size you up. But if you don’t apply what you’ve learned, it will be all for naught.
Having years of practice gives you wisdom and strength. But without studying the technical aspects of your work, you can be lost.
Street smarts aren’t guaranteed to win all the time. Neither are book smarts. But if you strike a balance between both, you will get to where you want to be.
Study hard and study well. And after that, go out in the real world and test your abilities. The journey to success always starts with a step.
How about you? Are you more of a street smart or a book smart? Share your thoughts in the comments down below!
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NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE IN DR M DJAMIL HOSPITAL PADANG 2017
Prima Prima,Gustina Lubis,Didik Hariyanto,Nice Rachmawati
Bagian Ilmu Kesehatan Anak Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Andalas
Background : Malnutrition has been recognized as common systemic complications of congenital heart disease (CHD). The global prevalence of CHD related malnutrition varies widely from 27% up to 90.4%. Study in Jakarta in 2009 got the prevalence of undernutrition in CHD children was 51.1%, with 22.3% severe malnutrition. This study was aimed to identify the nutritional characteristics in children suffering from CHD in Dr. M. Djamil Hospital Padang.
Material : A retrospective study of children with CHD from patient’s medical records treated from January to December 2017. Diagnosis of congenital heart disease was obtained based on echocardiography and nutritional status was established by using WHO charts for children younger than 5 years and CDC 2000 for children aged over 5 year.
Results : We had total 50 cases with 70% were aged 1-59 months and 52% of them were male. Thirty-six patients were acyanotic and 14 patients with cyanotic lesions. Wasted patients were 84% and stunted were 74%. Prevalence of undernutrition in children with CHD was 30%, and 24% patient with severe malnutrition. There are only 7 cases (14%) has been done the surgery. Weight was affected more than length in acyanotic (60% vs 48%). But in cyanotic, weight and length affected equally (24% vs 24%). Eleven of 36 (30,5%) acyanotic patients are with undernutrition and 10 of 36 (27,7%) are severe malnutrition. In cyanotic, patients with mild malnutrition and severe malnutrition are equally 3 out of 11 (27,2%).
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Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC), the global leader in heat transfer technologies introduces the Nexus Modular Hybrid Cooler, the world’s first intelligent, plug-and-play, modular, hybrid fluid cooling system – engineered to simplify system design and optimize water and energy savings, while providing the lowest installation, operating, and maintenance costs. “This product highlights our leadership position in innovation, as we have created the world’s first truly smart hybrid cooling solution, with the ability to switch between evaporative and dry cooling in a modular compact footprint” said Don Fetzer, BAC President. “As our customers’ needs evolve and intensify, we push ourselves even harder to innovate with more intuitive, intelligent, efficient systems that yield even higher cost and resource savings. The Nexus Modular Hybrid Cooler promises to delight our customers who want to simplify the design and operation of their systems and also dramatically reduce their total cost of ownership,” added Dave Klee, BAC Director of Sales and Marketing for North America.
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A while back when I first started this blog, I put out a freebie and instructions on how to make a floor-sized 100’s chart/numberline.
We’ve been working crazy on subtraction problems lately. This is a simple game that I’m adapting this week to coordinate with my dinosaur theme.
The student standing is the ‘stomper.’ He or she shows the other players a number sentence which they record and figure out on their own. Once they have the answer, they show it to the stomper. The stomper then ‘stomps’ out the problem moving along the number line to find the answer.
This week I’m adding some cute recording sheets and dinosaur hats from the dollar tree to get them into the dino stomping mood.
I got mine like the ones above from the Dollar Tree. If you click on the picture it will take you to the link or just hike on down to your local Dollar Tree and pick a couple up.
If you’d like to get a copy of STOMPING OUT SUBTRACTION which is tiered for you to meet the different needs of your students and addresses common core standards, just grab it by clicking on the picture below.
and if you’re thinking that a floor-sized number line would be a GREAT summer project. Then click below to get a copy of the printables and instructions needed to make your own.
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone!
It has been great to be back at school and see everyone. This term we are learning lots of new things. Our new geography topic is ‘Extreme Environments.’ We have been identifying extreme environments around the world and are looking forward to a visit from explorer, Nigel Vardy, AKA ‘Mr Frostbite’ next week.
To start the new year we have also thought about our resolutions and wishes for 2022. 6RJ chose to present these in a pop art style and you can see some photos below of what we produced.
This is how we did it: first we wrote 2022 on a sheet of paper, then we cut it out and put it on a newspaper background, we trimmed the background and put it on another bright colour then used blue tack to stick it on the wall.
In English we have learnt about the subjunctive mood. Here are some excellent examples of how to use the subjunctive mood by Ellie and Elsie:
If I were Prime Minister, I would instruct everyone to eat more carrots.
Socks decreed that her food be less lumpy and with jelly.
She decreed that the cheese be eaten at that very moment.
If I were a hippopotamus king, I would write an auto biography.
If I were the cheese, I would not enjoy being eaten by her.
If I were about to die, I would jump up and do an Irish gig.
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As of now we are investing in clothing manufacturing machines and will continue to add more packages to invest in.
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Sex Education Series: how having Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome affects more than just the menstrual cycle
A weekly series on the stigma surrounding sex and sexual health
When I first started my period, I was nine years old. It disappeared for months after that first time, and in all the years following, I can’t ever accurately tell you what day I will actually be on it. Since I started puberty, I have suffered with moderately severe depression and severe anxiety, as well as more body hair and back acne (aka bacne) — the latter two having brutally impacted my self-esteem and body image. I remember in school, some boys telling me I was ugly and mocking me for having a girl-stache, resulting in me shaving it with an actual razor (not a good idea) and then deciding to remove the rest of my body hair, out of shame.
It took years of dealing with irregular periods, poor mental health and mocking comments on my body until I was diagnosed with an illness I never even heard of, when I was fifteen or sixteen years old. I’d been on my period for a month and was referred to a gynaecologist who did an ultrasound. He told me I had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and sent me back to my GP, who prescribed me birth control pills. I was sent on my way. No support, no further information.
According to the NHS website, 1 in 10 women suffer from Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) — but a few short weeks ago, when I spoke to a gynaecologist, I was told the number was actually 1 in 3 women. An estimated 70% of sufferers are currently undiagnosed. There is no treatment or cure for PCOS, so for many of us, we are made to deal with it on our own. The debilitating, painful and upsetting symptoms of PCOS range from irregular periods to constant fatigue and exhaustion.
PCOS presents itself in many ways, from embarrassing and seemingly superficial ways that, personally speaking, have long term mental effects like body hair in places we don’t want them and hair loss from the one place we actually want our hair to grow (our scalp). The effects of excessive body hair is something many women from ethnic communities have to deal with growing up, from being the brunt of a bully’s cruel words to being taunted by the spiky-haired wannabe-football-player at school. Because of this, many women are increasingly turning to private clinics in their desperation to find relief from this one particular symptom. Shireen Khan, an awareness advocate for PCOS and founder of aesthetics clinic Hannah London, has been offering a specialised PCOS membership at the clinic, which she has kept open over the lockdown to ensure that women with PCOS are still able to access the important treatments that help to ease their symptoms.
Bringing PCOS into the spotlight is essential as far too many women go without the right support and information. “I’ve battled PCOS myself and experienced first-hand the range of painful symptoms it causes,” Shireen tells me. She goes on to say there is a need for increased awareness of the link between PCOS and mental health, as well as the stigma felt by all the women who cope in silence with the devastating symptoms of the condition. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) say “PCOS may have significant impacts on quality of life and may be associated with a higher risk of mood disorders. PCOS is a multi-faceted condition with impacts on many aspects of general health, reproductive health and wellbeing.”
Women with PCOS experience symptoms such as excessive hair growth, acne, weight gain, hair loss and excessive body hair, and so much more. Naturally, this can have an extremely damaging effect on self-esteem. Shireen has worked closely with women at her clinics in London since 2015, where she offers a vast range of beauty treatments carried out by expert aestheticians, as well as access to nutrition and fitness advice. A lot of these treatments, like laser hair removal and facials, can be used to manage the symptoms of PCOS, and, noticing a trend in the number of women accessing her clinic to treat these symptoms, Shireen offers a PCOS membership to support the clients in need of longer-term treatments. The PCOS membership has been specially created to ease the physical, mental, and emotional impact of PCOS. It offers an initial consultation and assessment, and up to 50% off treatments that target and treat the aesthetic side effects of PCOS. The clinic also hosts private events across London, aimed at bringing women together in a comfortable and supportive environment.
Having a community where a woman can feel safe, trusted and supported is crucial, especially when a 2018 study found patients with PCOS were given less effort and support by healthcare providers and had an overall distrust of their primary care physicians. PCOS is normally given more importance in cases where women want to conceive, rather than all the other issues it causes — such as mental health and the excess androgens, causing body image sensitivity and even leading to issues related to food and disordered eating due to the societal expectations of the ideal body type for women, as well as comments from peers. “The lack of self-esteem due to concerns about body image and appearance aggravated by any concerns about fertility can lead to depression, eating disorders, psychosexual issues, and relationship problems,” writes Dr Anne Connolly, chair of the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum. Whilst many other factors may also contribute to a negative body image and eating disorders, PCOS plays a huge role; the often misconstrued idea of people primarily being overweight with PCOS and the comparisons to the bodies of other women stigmatises the illness further as being a ‘fat person illness’. This leads to being told to lose weight, resulting in a lack of proper nutrients being taken in and excessive exercise in order to take on board the advice offered in a cruel way, instead of a more helpful suggestion. Where weight gain can be a result of insulin resistance and increased desire for junk food and sugar, it is more important to discuss the risk factors of certain food groups, instead of dehumanising a person because of their weight.
Katie Farrell, a transformation coach and healer, has suffered with heavy, irregular periods, excess hair on the face and stomach, insulin resistance and weight issues due to PCOS. She goes on to say, “the information from GP’s at the time (when I was diagnosed) was very scant, however I did manage to see a specialist in the early days and even though he seemed to have greater knowledge about the hormonal imbalances causing the PCOS (rather than the other way around as the NHS advised at the time), my symptoms were dealt with largely through medication and dietary advice. I was put on Metformin (normally used to treat diabetes) but took myself off this after a while as it wasn’t suiting me (I suffered with nausea from the day I started taking it) and within a month discovered I was pregnant.” Online forums were beneficial for Katie receiving information and support regarding PCOS, and whilst the specialist she saw worked alongside a nutritionist, the low GI diet provided and the guidebook of foods that were recommended with recipes, helped only to a certain degree. “But as the core issues weren’t properly addressed, managing the symptoms became a frustrating cycle of some things getting slightly better and others getting worse.”
Now, in the face of COVID-19, Shireen is committed to increasing awareness on the impact PCOS has on mental health and the many ways this has been aggravated by the pandemic. Stress affects the body in many ways and can have a significant impact upon the menstrual cycle, leading to shorter or longer cycles, or even missed periods. Cortisol (the primary stress hormone) is deregulated in people with PCOS, causing increased abdominal fat and insulin resistance. Struggling with irregular cycles, the ever-changing COVID restrictions and Tiers (only causing more tears) is mentally and emotionally draining, further exacerbating these problems further, leading to a vicious cycle of stress wreaking havoc on mental health. Understanding this, Shireen has kept her clinic and PCOS membership open, essentially creating a safe haven for people with PCOS, giving them a protected place to talk and share their experiences as a community, with a community that understands. Her goal is to empower women to take back control by giving them access to therapeutic treatments to boost their confidence, while creating an environment fuelled by empathy, where people can relax and feel safe.
Stephanie* tells me about the support she’s received from her new doctor, after the lack of care from her GP, late last year. “Switching doctors has been amazing, as I now have a doctor who listens to me. I was diagnosed partly due to tests (blood tests and internal ultrasound) to try and find the cause for my pain and irregular periods. My doctor was thankfully incredibly supportive and gave me links to a few different websites where I could read up on it and has answered any questions that I have had,” she explains. “I continue to have appointments with her regularly and we have been trying different treatments to deal with the symptoms, especially the acne. The appointments are also partly to check in on my mental health which has been affected by everything also. I’m twenty-two years old and whilst I’m not currently thinking of having children, I know it’s something I may want in the future and my doctor has been incredibly supportive and willing to explain the fertility issues I may face and why options will be open to me if I need them.” She explains that she’s open about her diagnosis with PCOS and regularly has “catch ups and discussions with friends, who also have PCOS or endometriosis, about our wombs and ovaries on Zoom.”
The RCOG recommends healthcare professionals and primary care doctors to be aware of the full range of the signs of symptoms of PCOS and ensure that appropriate attention is given both to their management and their impact on an individual’s mental health. “Women are at an increased risk of psychological and behavioural disorders, such as depression and anxiety, as well as reduced quality of life. Therefore, psychological issues should be considered in all women with PCOS. Depression and/or anxiety should be routinely screened for and further assessment, and appropriate counselling should be offered by a qualified professional,” they further explain.
It is also important to understand that with PCOS, there is the added risk of getting diabetes due to the inane sugar cravings (related to insulin resistance) and high cholesterol, as well as chronic oligo-ovulation (irregular or infrequent ovulation — and is usually classified as having 8 or less periods in a year) or anovulation (the lack or absence of ovulation and the common cause of infertility). However, this is not to say that people with PCOS will not be able to have children, as they do — though for some, it may just take more effort and trying than most.
Understandably, fertility is important for many people and creating a family is special, but for PCOS to be de-prioritised by healthcare professionals until a person wants to conceive is especially harmful. “When they go to their primary care physicians, particularly if it’s not a gynaecologist, the physician often isn’t going to be educated about what they have,” Dr Andrea Dunaif, chief of endocrinology, diabetes, and bone diseases for the Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City, says. “And so, the physician is going to think the patient’s complaints about irregular periods and difficulties losing weight don’t make sense.” Too often, there is a lack of knowledge with doctors regarding PCOS. When I asked my primary doctor about how best to manage to manage the symptoms and increase chances of fertility, they didn’t have any answers for the questions I was asking, therefore having to resort to independent research, like Katie.
Symptoms of PCOS include:
- Hirsutism (unwanted hair growth) which is usually seen on the face, back, arms, chest and stomach.
- Weight gain. It can be difficult to control weight and some people struggle with obesity problems.
- Irregular periods or a total lack of periods.
- Acne. Hormonal changes can cause acne breakouts. Oily skin may also be a factor.
- Tiredness/fatigue. Low energy and feeling fatigued can be an indicator of PCOS (zinc supplements can help to combat this).
- Depression and/or anxiety.
- Difficulty getting pregnant. PCOS is one of the most common causes of infertility or reduced fertility. (Note: this differs from woman to woman and some are able to conceive naturally).
The effects of PCOS on anxiety and depression is something not many people speak about — my own experience with the mental health disorders could be a result of my past trauma, but it can also largely be due to PCOS and the body image issues from fears of weight gain and body hair in excessive amounts everywhere, and hair loss, the stress of infertility and the incessant irregular periods. With my anxiety levels higher than before, being left to research PCOS on my own and finding results telling me about the number of food groups I was no longer allowed to eat (goodbye my beloved cookies and Krispy Kremes, you will be missed!), I often turned to these various support groups online and to Shireen Khan’s PCOS membership group chat. The truth is, having PCOS is a very isolating illness, where we are often seen as being overly dramatic and told to “just deal with the lady problems”, not realising that it causes many other problems. It would’ve been better being taught about PCOS and all the other menstrual cycle and vagina related illnesses, such as endometriosis and vaginismus, instead of being left to our own devices and having to plead and badger our doctors to take us seriously. Many of us are forced to deal with the pain of not being listened to, and feeling isolated — so having a system of supportive women, in the very same situation, may very well help to reduce some of that stress and anxiety.
The importance of having a supportive community, when information surrounding PCOS is so little and it is even more difficult to get appointments with doctors in light of the global pandemic, is necessary. It helps to understand your symptoms a little better, through research and talking things through with other people, as well as swapping ideas and advice. Through being in support groups myself, and being part of a community, I learnt more about PCOS and what helps with the hormone levels more than I ever did from the doctors I’d visited. On Clue, many people have shared their personal experiences with getting diagnosed, with advice. I also got further information from Dr Anna (@nutrafemmerx), a PCOS hormone coach, and Shireen who has gone above and beyond to help other women with PCOS and built a support system for people to feel safe and talk. Through treating myself with Hannah London’s 50% off PCOS membership, I am also slowly beginning to accept my body and learning to love myself, even with the body image issues attached to the extra hair growth.
Connecting with other people when it comes to chronic diseases is vital, because not only are people designed for human connection, but knowing you’re not alone is one of life’s greatest gifts. It helps to deal with the loneliest parts of PCOS and understanding your body just a little bit more. Having a group of other women to talk to about this really helps.
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The ring once reserved for bulls’ nostrils has made its way onto celebrities Rhianna and Lady Gaga. Septum piercings, the hoop that goes in between a person’s nostrils, have become a trend.
Like all trends, though, be wary before you take the plunge. Piercing this area takes skill. The best way to minimize pain and support healing is to pierce the area between the cartilage and bottom of the nose. Reputable and experienced piercers, such as the ones at licensed tattoo shops, will be able to find that fleshy area. Like all piercings, there is the risk of blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis and HIV. Make sure your piercer is using sterile, single-use needles.
After you get your septum pierced, it requires some care. Alcoholic beverages can cause inflammation and swelling, so hold off on going out for drinks right after your piercing is complete. It’s also a good idea to avoid drinking before getting the piercing done. Alcohol thins the blood, making it more likely that you’ll bleed during or after the piercing.
But alcohol in your cocktails isn’t the only kind that can cause a problem. Facial cleansers can contain rubbing alcohol, which can irritate your piercing and cause redness and inflammation. You still need to clean new piercings, though. Wash your hands before using antibacterial soap on the area twice a day.
Your septum may take six to eight weeks to heal. If you see that the area is continually red, swollen or oozing pus, contact your piercer immediately.
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Social Studies Curriculum PagesThe Social Studies Curriculum Committees of Erie’s Public School recognize the diversity of our students. We have students in our schools from over 25 countries, with language and cultural backgrounds that are equally diverse. We strive to harness our cultural diversity and engage all learners in preparation for higher education or the work force. This work is founded on the Pennsylvania Common Core and Content Standards. Additionally, the curriculum will align with the stated aim from the National Council of Social Studies (NCSS).
“The aim of social studies is the promotion of civic competence—the knowledge, intellectual processes, and democratic dispositions required of students to be active and engaged participants in public life. By making civic competence a central aim, NCSS emphasizes the importance of educating students who are committed to the ideas and values of democracy. Civic competence rests on this commitment to democratic values, and requires that citizens have the ability to use their knowledge about their community, nation, and world; to apply inquiry processes; and to employ skills of data collection and analysis, collaboration, decision-making, and problem-solving. Young people who are knowledgeable, skillful, and committed to democracy are necessary to sustaining and improving our democratic way of life, and participating as members of a global community.” | <urn:uuid:b82e1180-2ff7-41e4-80f9-e72b101295be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eriesd.org/Page/110 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.935014 | 263 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Examining YouTube’s ‘suggested’ videos that sit visibly alongside children’s TV programmes such as Peppa Pig, Rastamouse and Dora the Explorer, researchers found that on average users are just three clicks away from content suited to an adult audience.
Music videos featuring violence, guns and nudity, and clips of post watershed television programmes are such examples within these three clicks and highlight the risks such sites pose if parental controls are not activated or children are left unattended while browsing
“It’s worrying to see just how simple it is for children to access videos of an adult nature on YouTube. Safer Internet Day is all about educating and promoting safer, more responsible behaviour for young people, but adults must take responsibility too.
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How a lone blue spruce tied up Toronto councillors for nearly an hour -- and what that says about city hall
The final days of a spruce in a Weston backyard show why arguing over the fate of trees on private property takes up so much of councillors’ time.
April 11, 2022
In a northwest neighbourhood of Toronto, a single Colorado blue spruce loomed over an unassuming backyard pool.
By some estimates, the spruce measured 51.5 cm in diameter and was older than most of us, here long before there was a Raptors or a SkyDome and certainly before the pool was dug.
“The Colorado spruce is notable for its beauty,” wrote horticulturalist Henry Teuscher about the species. Teuscher, who designed Montreal’s botanical gardens, described the spruce’s branches of “dark green or blueish green” needles with precision and awe, spreading out “more or less horizontally in very evenly spaced whorls.”
But to understand how this particular suburban spruce captured the attention of the government of the fourth-largest city in North America earlier this year, taking up 44 minutes of debate at a city hall wrestling with a deadly pandemic and historic financial crisis, you need to start at the root of the problem.
In this case, the actual roots in a backyard on John Street in Weston -- of a tree that was a nuisance and possible danger to some and “a valuable part of the urban forest” to others.
The fate of trees on private property is an evergreen area of contention at council -- it was the second-longest discussion topic at the March meeting after COVID-19 mask mandates, according to analysis by Star columnist Matt Elliott.
But should it be?
The way city hall deals with tree removals is in many ways a prime example of how it handles democratic issues out in the open, not behind caucus doors. Some say tree removals are better dealt with at a community level where differing urban and suburban values could be better reflected. Others would rather give expert city staff the authority to make the final decision on issues with a citywide impact and not leave things to local politics.
The life -- and death -- of any tree is dictated by the city bylaw that spells out what can be done with them on city-owned property and in residents’ backyards. It’s a detailed guide that’s also clear on the punishment for breaking the rules: fines between $500 and $100,000.
To remove a tree, residents must submit a detailed permit application to the city, and pay the fees. They also have to pay an arborist to provide a report to the city, create a landscape/replanting plan and supply photos.
The city’s forestry staff review the application, visit the tree in person and decide whether or not to issue a permit.
In this case, staff found the spruce was healthy and maintainable, and denied the removal.
But this blue spruce’s tale didn’t end there: the bylaw allows for the appeal of staff decisions.
The first step of the appeal -- the lower court, if you will, in these death row cases -- is the community council.
Councillors sit on one of four community councils in the city. These deal with everything from newly proposed developments to neighbour fence disputes -- and requests to remove trees on private property.
On Jan. 5, homeowner Andi Kasapi’s appeal of his request to remove the spruce landed on the Etobicoke York Community Council agenda.
A December 2021 report by city staff noted that Kasapi said the spruce was “destabilized because tree roots have been impacted by landscaping work that took place within (two metres) from the base of the tree.”
But the private arborist Kasapi hired had reported the tree in good condition and it was “unclear” if it was destabilized.
The city’s arborist found the tree was “healthy and maintainable” and asked Kasapi to provide more evidence about the tree being destabilized, but “none was received,” said the report.
Kasapi attended the meeting virtually, giving several reasons for wanting to remove the tree.
Think of this like the closing arguments in front of a jury -- except in this case, the city is representing the tree.
“The main reason why we’re trying to remove this tree is it’s outgrown the area,” Kasapi told the council.
“The shadow that it’s casting -- it’s now killing the trees on our neighbour’s side ... In addition, the needles that this tree is dropping -- it’s changing quite a bit the acidity of the soil, so gardening on both sides of our neighbours’ is causing a major issue as well.”
He went on to explain that under the tree is a play area for his young daughter: “It’s really not useful at this point, because it’s needles everywhere.”
Kasapi also said there were concerns about the branches encroaching on overhead wires and it being a risk to nearby structures, like a garden shed.
The tree’s roots were also causing a walkway to shift, leaving him to relevel the area to fix “tripping hazards.”
Kasapi stressed he would be more than happy to replace the tree -- but it would be an immature sapling compared to the blue spruce’s lush canopy.
Staff said five trees would be more appropriate, if the removal were allowed. That requirement could be met by a combination of on-site planting and cash in-lieu of planting that goes toward a reserve fund for tree planting across the city.
After Kasapi concluded, a forestry staffer told the community council that while all the concerns he raised were “reasonable,” under the bylaw they were not reasons to remove a healthy tree.
In its report, staff wrote that the tree “is a valuable part of the urban forest that provides numerous aesthetic, social and economic benefits to the property owner and local community.”
Increasing urban tree cover can “mitigate exposure to extreme heat events,” according to the report. “Toronto’s urban forest provides $55 million in environmental benefits every year including improved air quality through pollution removal, lower storm water management costs by reducing runoff, and carbon sequestration that lessens the impacts of climate change.”
The local councillor, Frances Nunziata, deferred the item to the next community council meeting to give her office time to speak to Kasapi about his application. Council agreed.
The tree’s fate would have to wait.
Coun. Frances Nunziata moved a motion in community council to allow the blue spruce to be removed without any replacement trees.
On Feb. 24, Nunziata told the reconvened community council she’d talked to Kasapi.
There was “severe damage” on a walkway as a result of the spruce’s roots, she said, and moved a motion to allow it to be removed -- killed -- without the replacement trees called for in the staff report.
Without debate, the council agreed.
But community councils do not have final say on the removal of trees -- that is left to city council, much like an appeal to a higher court, only in this case, it’s automatic.
The tree would have one final hearing.
On March 9, the spruce was again on the stand, this time in front of the entire city council.
As part of the appeal process, the last stop is at council, a citywide forum to debate both major policy issues like transit and smaller, neighbourhood items like tree removals.
Community council items that come to council allow members from outside that area to act as a check on how citywide policies are being implemented and weigh in on issues like, in this case, environmental protection.
Gord Perks, councillor for Parkdale-High Park and previously an environmental activist, asked council to debate the fate of the spruce in York South-Weston. He asked staff to explain why the application said the tree was destabilized, but they found no evidence of it.
After questions from other councillors, Perks added a motion requiring five trees as replacement if the blue spruce was removed -- in line with the earlier staff recommendations.
Nunziata urged the other councillors to vote against Perks’s motion. She added one of her own requiring only a single tree as replacement -- in line with Kasapi’s proposal.
“The yard isn’t big enough for five trees,” she said.
In the end, after 44 minutes in front of public bodies and an uncalculated amount of staff time, no one voted to save the Colorado blue spruce.
In fact, the main debate was over what the felled tree’s legacy would be -- one sapling or five.
Nunziata’s motion failed on a 12-12 tie. Perks’s motion to require five trees was approved 17-8.
City staff later told the Star that the cost per tree is $583, if paying cash in lieu of planting.
Coun. Gord Perks settled for getting five saplings to replace the spruce over possibly getting defeated in an attempt at saving the tree.
The Star asked Nunziata recently about the March vote and whether she found the lengthy process frustrating.
She rejected the suggestion. “It’s a process that’s been in place for a while,” she said. “That’s fine with me.”
Perks -- who defends the time council spends debating items in public as a marker of good democratic government -- told the Star he thought the process could be streamlined.
“I would be quite happy if council didn’t have any authority to overturn staff decisions on trees,” he said.
In this instance, he said he would have preferred to save the blue spruce, but had to consider the risk of losing that vote versus removing the tree and getting more saplings to replace it.
Council’s decision doesn’t actually replace what’s lost, he added.
“Young trees do not afford the canopy cover and other environmental benefits such as stormwater protection ... you have to wait 30 years for that.”
The debate over the Colorado blue spruce also highlighted an urban/suburban divide on council. Councillors in the old city of Toronto are steadfast in their environmental protection principles, while suburban councillors allow for exceptions for constituents’ individual needs.
Coun. Stephen Holyday, who represents the suburban ward of Etobicoke Centre, is often vocal about tree removal applications.
He said even allowing community council the final decision on tree removals could simplify the process.
Local councillors have a “greater understanding of the look and feel of the area,” he said, noting issues like fences are decided at the community council level.
He also disagreed with Perks, saying there should be an opportunity for residents to appeal staff decisions.
Coun. Stephen Holyday said he thinks tree removals could be streamlined by giving community councils final say over what happens to them.
For him, the bylaw is actually too restrictive in some situations. “The very essence of these appeals often brings in other factors for consideration,” he said.
For example, if someone dreams of putting a pool in, but a tree sits in the middle of their backyard, why should that stop them? “Because of this policy, their dream of having a pool is over,” he said.
Asked about a councillor’s responsibility to the greater good, like the environmental benefits of trees, Holyday questioned whether the number of applications for removal that come to council even make much of a difference.
In the past year, 29 appeals of tree removal applications denied by city staff have come to community and city councils, according to a Star analysis of public agendas. Of those, community councils chose to allow removal in four cases and city council overturned only one of those to save the tree. In other instances, city council added replacement requirements.
The Colorado blue spruce wasn’t the only tree to have its day in court at that March session.
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What is massage therapy?
When I talk about massage therapy, I am referring to the Western model of therapeutic, soft tissue massage.
(Looking for relaxation massage? You’ll want my Swedish massage page instead.)
During a massage therapy session, a variety of different methods and techniques of bodywork are used. The goal of therapeutic massage is to optimize the health and function of the body.
In practical terms, massage therapy is commonly used to bring about rehabilitation and recovery. Often I use massage therapy to help clients treat a specific problem.
We may focus on:
- Repairing damage caused by an injury, or...
- Treating an ailment, such as chronic back pain or headaches.
Massage therapy can also be used in a preventive manner. This is particularly appropriate for helping high-performing individuals, such as athletes, perform at their best.
The role of soft tissue in massage
I find massage therapy to be a powerful and valuable addition to my massage toolbox.
Western massage therapy provides me with a strong medical model that is built around understanding, treating, and caring for soft tissue. (Soft tissue includes muscle, connective tissue, tendons, joints, and ligaments.)
Put another way, RMT training provides a practical and scientific knowledge of soft tissue.
The knowledge provided by massage therapy helps answer questions such as:
- Where is the muscle located?
- What does the muscle do?
- How does the muscle feel when it is well?
- How does the muscle feel when is it in need of rehabilitation?
You may have noticed these are very practical questions. That’s one of the main benefits of massage therapy. It provides very real answers to very real questions.
Okay, I can hear you thinking...“But why is this important? How does it help treat my problem?”
Put simply, this knowledge gives me direction. It helps me to read your body. It helps me understand the state of your soft tissue, of your musculature. This knowledge gives me a roadmap to follow to repair damaged tissue.
And that means you get an effective, efficient recovery plan.
How is massage therapy performed?
Massage therapy is a therapeutic method of hands-on bodywork. In Canada, massage therapy is administered by a Registered Massage Therapist, also known as an RMT.
RMTs use their hands to manipulate the body to improve overall health. A particular focus is given to the muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, and joints. These are known collectively as soft tissues.
To gain their certification, RMTs in Ontario go through rigorous, hands-on training. Many RMTs (myself included) continue their education year after year to stay on top of new techniques and scientific studies.
Massage therapy techniques
Part of the training to become an RMT includes learning bodywork methods and techniques. During a massage, different techniques are used to solve different problems.
You may have heard of some of these techniques. They include:
- Trigger-point therapy (also known as neuromuscular therapy)
- Muscle energy technique (MET)
- Myofacial release
- Therapeutic exercise
- Sports massage
- Pregnancy massage
Don’t worry, you don’t need to remember which technique does what!
Just know that each technique offers different benefits, often with differing levels of pressure. I commonly use more than one technique during a single massage therapy appointment. It all depends on your unique situation.
No two massage appointments are exactly alike. I draw upon all of my education and experience to create an individual treatment plan designed just for you.
Remember, regardless of the techniques I use, my goal stays the same: to provide you with the most effective care possible.
Did you know?
As the name suggests, massage therapy is a therapeutic style of massage. Often it is used to treat a specific problem, such as back pain or headaches.
Benefits of massage therapy
During a massage therapy appointment we are usually focused on helping you treat a specific issue.
For example, your treatment goals may include:
- Rehabilitation from a recent or recurring injury
- Recovery from chronic muscular pain
- Reduction of pain caused by inflammation
- Increasing joint mobility/flexibility
- Reduced physical and mental fatigue (often caused by stress)
Massage therapy can help you meet these goals.
Some of the work we do will focus on:
- Relaxing soft tissues, such as muscles and tendons
- Improving the flow of blood and energy to affected areas
- Increasing the rate of healing of damaged tissue
- Repairing the overall functions of different systems to promote natural well-being
Everyone is different. We all have different bodies, different ailments, and we live different lives. But in my experience I find that the benefits of massage therapy are felt my almost everyone.
I witness these benefits first-hand, again and again.
During follow-up, I hear feedback such as...
- “I have less pain/discomfort ”
- “I’m sleeping better than I have in years”
- “I feel less stress and anxiety”
- “I’ve had fewer and less intense headaches”
- “My mobility and posture have improved”
- “I just feel... better”
Healthy tissue doesn’t hurt
Are you living with pain, stress, or anxiety? Do you carry around stiffness, inflammation, or fatigue? It’s time to book a massage therapy session. Life is too short to not feel your best.
– Massage Therapy – Frequently Asked Questions
Can you help me decide which service is best for my needs?
Absolutely! The more info you can provide me the better I can help you determine a treatment plan.
Think about the experience you’d like to have.
Maybe relaxation and/or stress relief is what you need. Or perhaps you have a very specific issue such as a back ache, or a recent occurrence such as a stiff neck or injury.
Don't hesitate to contact me before booking a treatment so we can determine the best plan for your needs.
What should I wear to my appointment?
Wear clothing that you are comfortable in.
If you prefer to be clothed during your massage you can do so without restriction. If you prefer to remove clothing, you will be covered throughout the entire treatment. Only the area being massaged will be undraped.
If your service is a hand or foot treatment you will be clothed. I still suggest you wear stretchy pants or top so that you can roll up your sleeve or pant. This gives access to as much skin surface as possible without cutting off circulation or getting oil on your clothes.
Will my treatment hurt? Will I be sore afterwards?
It depends – everyone has a different response to pressure.
The important thing to remember is that you are in charge. I can adjust the depth and pressure of the massage at any time. I encourage you to communicate your needs during your treatment.
The amount of pressure that is comfortable for you may depend on what we are working on. For example, you may be able to tolerate deep pressure on your feet, but a lighter pressure on your shoulder.
So you only have to speak up. I want you to feel comfortable to share your needs with me throughout your session.
After some treatments you may experience a little pain. This is normal. I will provide you with instructions on what to do to for after care.
Do I need to fill out an intake form?
If it is your first visit, yes. Our industry requires that you complete a thorough health history to assure both of us that it is safe to massage you.
You can fill out the form in one of three ways:
Have you seen me before? I ask that you update your existing file to inform me of the nature of your visit and the focus of the session. This will give me more time to spend administering treatment during your appointment.
– Massage Therapy – Packages & Pricing
Need a hand choosing a package? No problem! Please contact me before booking.
We’ll chat and make sure you select the package that is right for you.
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Human Trafficking Part II: Labor victims
Part two of a series on a pressing issue for our region, and on the Catholic response to it.
By Walt Schaefer
They pour across our southern borders from Mexico and Central and South America.
They come from India and Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are drawn from the Middle East. All search for a land of promise, if not the Promised Land.
Immigrants still seek the prosperity, freedom and liberty symbolized by that statue in New York Harbor. But, often enough, these people become victims of predators — human traffickers who trap them in their webs and force them into a modern-day form of slavery as vile as the one abolished in the 1860s.
Human trafficking, much like the viper it is, has two fangs: sex trafficking and labor trafficking. At times, they overlap.
“Labor trafficking, in general, would involve people on some sort of expired immigration status, here completely illegally or even here legally,” said Specialist Nate Young of the Cincinnati Police Vice Squad, responsible for investigating labor and sex trafficking crimes along with the FBI.
These victims are most often in service jobs such as restaurant workers, nail salon employees, crop pickers and domestics. “Locally, there is a large contingent of Hispanic workers that draws my attention,” Young said. These pickers can be working anywhere there are farms and crops ready for harvest.
Erin Meyer of End Slavery Cincinnati, an agency offering aid to human trafficking victims, said most labor trafficking victims are brought in from abroad, although poorer United States citizens are not exempt.
“Most of these victims are brought in through the (illegal trafficking) trade from other countries — many smuggled in” on the promise of a bright future, a well-paying job and comfortable life.
“It sometimes happens that someone is going to get a legal work permit visa to work in agriculture or domestic service,” Meyer said, “and they are tied to traffickers in the sense that the trafficker has control of the visa. Then the trafficker has the ability to use that as a threat” to exploit people in the country legally. Others come legally but overstay their visa, Meyer continued, and meet up with smugglers who traffick them with similar threats.
Those smuggled into the United States often pay the smuggler a hefty fee to get here: “It’s going to cost you $10,000 to cross the border and $20,000 more when you arrive,” Meyer said. “If you don’t have the money, [they say] ‘You can work it off at a sweatshop or at my uncle’s brothel.’
A Glaring Case
Perhaps the most glaring case in southwest Ohio involved Harold D’Souza and his family, who came here from India in 2003. They were caught in a trafficking web that saw D’Souza and his wife, Dancy, working 15-hour days at a Blue Ash restaurant while living in a tiny apartment where their children, Rohan, then four, and brother, Bradly, then seven, slept on the floor. The restaurant has since closed.
Following the ordeal, in December 2015, President Barack Obama appointed D’Souza to the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.
“I have a lot of education in human trafficking — particularly in Asian countries like India, Pakistan Nepal, and also in Mexico,” D’Souza said. “I teach about human trafficking in the community and I don’t want any innocent victim to be involved in human trafficking in the United States.”
“The victims lose their life; they lose their courage; they lose their hope, and they lose their faith. You would be surprised at the stories and be amazed. It happened to me in Cincinnati. It happens elsewhere. You go to a restaurant, and a victim is serving and nobody talks. You go to a gas station. It happens in motels and hotels.
“Profit is the motivation. The risk factor is very thin. If you talk to the law enforcement agencies, the perpetrators are not prosecuted. That is very common. There are so many loopholes where perpetrators can get away,” D’Souza said. The man who allegedly trafficked D’Souza’s family has never been prosecuted and walks the streets of Hamilton County today.
D’Souza eventually sought help from End Slavery Cincinnati and later was put in contact with agents of the FBI in 2007 — four years after his family’s ordeal began.
“By then, most of the evidence was gone, and many times law enforcement agencies are not very keen to prosecute. They make charges against perpetrators but nobody goes to jail,” D’Souza said. “In my case, my perpetrator hired a guy to shoot me.
“I’m writing a book about human trafficking. I’m doing it because I want to do something good for my community. My parish has helped me. I have a lot of regard and respect for the community. There are a lot of community services out there and it was through the community agencies that I was able to get out. Law enforcement could not do it. We struggle to prosecute through the law enforcement agencies.
“The biggest issue is that nobody complains,” he said. “Victims don’t have the courage to stand up and allow their trafficker to be prosecuted. I went through so much suffering. I’m going to continue to fight for my wife and my children, but so many victims do not have the courage to go to the law enforcement agencies.
“People who deal in human trafficking are not considered criminal. The problem is the process is so slow the perpetrators are one step ahead of the game. They know how to traffic and they know how to get out of it,” D’Souza said.
“The victims are criminalized,” D’Souza said, explaining that his trafficker forced him to take out a large bank loan. The trafficker got the money and D’Souza, who said he was not allowed to make payments on the loan, got the debt. “I thought I was a criminal,” he said. “But when someone forces you to lose something, it doesn’t mean you’re a criminal.”
The D’Souza family experience is heart-wrenching and it is hard to comprehend it happened here.
They trusted the man who promised them a better life in America. They were told a nice house, a lucrative restaurant job, and better lives for their children were waiting. Even the prospect of someday owning the restaurant was suggested.
They received nothing but empty promises. Their wages were withheld to “repay accrued debt,” their visas taken for “safe keeping,” and they were threatened with deportation by the trafficking restaurant owner if they sought help from law enforcement or agencies.
At one point, D’Souza’s life was threatened, but the shooter mistakenly focused on someone else. While the FBI investigation stalled for lack of evidence, End Slavery Cincinnati successfully placed the family in its trafficking assistance program. D’Souza did odd jobs and accepted assistance from area churches and other outreach organizations. Although an FBI complaint was filed, the investigation faltered because evidence was lost during the lengthy time span involved.
Today D’Souza today works at Children’s Hospital Medical Center. His family’s experience, he said, is not unique. “Most victims are humble, honest, and good human beings, and the perpetrator knows how to use that,” he said. “Traffickers are in it for the money. They live a good life, and they use people.”
A sad statistic: More than 25 labor trafficking complaints are reported in greater Cincinnati a month. The number is increasing.
The remaining stories in this series will cover police and charitable responses to the challenges of sex and labor trafficking.
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Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
Mai 14, 2015 – Januar 3, 2016
National Geographic brings new perspectives on the much-loved classic story of Indiana Jones, in an exhibition that promises to let guest “walk in the footsteps” of this cult hero of film. As well as an extensive collection of real props from the Indiana Jones film series, and concept art and set designs taken straight from the Lucasfilm archives, visitors can see real-world remains and artefacts, many of which come from the National Geographic Society archives.To put some of the myths of the films in context, the exhibition also includes an interactive tour of legendary archaeological sites, as well as interactive experiences that offer a chance to gain a deeper and more enjoyable understanding of the world of archaeology. | <urn:uuid:08504ac8-8704-4c61-ac2d-d72e9734ea10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://touringexhibitions.org/event/indiana-jones-and-the-adventure-of-archaeology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.897003 | 181 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Living in the charming Southern town of Clarksville, Tennessee means never needing to sacrifice modern amenities for a peaceful existence. Residents of Clarksville can enjoy a variety of recreation provided by the area's ample natural resources. Whether hitting the fairways or kayaking the blueways, outdoor recreation knows no bounds in the Clarksville, Tennessee. Nestled along the Cumberland River, the rugged bluffs and rolling hills provide a scenic backdrop to an amazing life.
The serenity offered by the area's untapped wilderness extends nightward as starlight pours down through the branches of overhanging trees. Savor the gourmet meals at area restaurants or indulge in the flavors offered up by the award-winning Beachaven Winery. For entertainment, residents may take in a show at the local theatre or enjoy once of the family-friendly concerts, events or festivals held throughout the year.
The charming and hospitable Southern city is a wonderful place to call home. The city continues to grow as more people discover the quality life provided by the Clarksville area. Home buyers relocating to the area will be surprised to find a quality of life that is rarely matched.
History Of Clarksville
The city of Clarksville has a long and rich history. The area of Clarksville was originally designated as plantation land, but after the civil war the land was sold in parcels. In 1871, a former slave, Charles Clark, moved to the region and established Clarksville. The enterprising gentleman envisioned a community where free men could reunite with their friends and families and create a peaceable existence.
The early residents of Clarksville constructed simple wood-frame houses. The settlers were attracted to the land for its fertile soil, ample wildlife, and access to the river. The pioneering settlers created a promising tight-knit community that laid the foundation for the current day town of Clarksville.
Today, the town of Clarksville is home to a community with a unique and diverse population that is able to straddle a range of cultural and historical identities. The town's strong sense of community and amazing quality of life continues to drive the success of Clarksville towards a promising tomorrow.
Life In Clarksville
The picturesque city of Clarksville is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, and is earning a reputation as an ideal place to call home. The city's recent economic growth has elevated both the regional population, as well as the quality of life for all Clarksville residents.
The city of Clarksville is nestled in the gorgeous scenic area of Middle Tennessee. Located only 40 miles from Nashville on the banks of the Cumberland River, the city of Clarksville is able to provide a home with great amenities that is close to a wide array of outdoor recreation.
The livable city of Clarksville is able to offer big-city convenience and amenities in a small-town package. The charming region represents the best of small town hospitality and values. The city's hospitable and friendly character has been a big draw to the area. The city has been nationally recognized for its livability and has been ranked among Business Week Magazine's list of Best Place to Raise Your Kids.
Parks and Recreation
The beautiful community of Clarksville is home to many natural attractions. The area offers miles of trails for hiking, biking, running, as well as rivers for kayaking boating, and canoeing. The many recreational options available in the area enhance the quality of life for all Clarksville residents.
The community of Clarksville extends the recreation available in the region by committing itself to the maintenance of more than 700 acres of parks and recreational facilities. With more than 22 park facilities the city provides a range of amenities, including playgrounds,swimming pools, pavilions, and picnic areas.
- Ashton Park
- Barbara E. Johnson Park
- Bark Park
- Bel Aire Park
- Billy Dunlop Park
- Burchett Park
- Burchwood Park
- Coy Lacy Park
- Dalewood Park
- Dixon Park
- McGregor Park
- Mericourt Park
- Patriot's Park
- Robert Clark Park
- Sevier Station
- Sherwood Forest Park
- Trice Landing Park
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Contact A Clarksville Real Estate Professional
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A recent report from marketsandmarkets.com forecasts that the global battery recycling market will grow from US$8.1 billion in 2016 to US$11.83 billion by 2022, an annual growth rate of 6.5%.
Driving this growth is the increase in the number of batteries in use, and an expected tightening of environmental regulations by local and national governments.
While these figures suggest a steady and welcome increase in battery recycling volumes, that growth may not be enough to keep up with battery waste generation.
For example, Randell Environmental Consulting estimates that, between 2016 and 2036 and just in Australia, the volume of waste lithium ion batteries of all types (handheld, electric vehicle and grid storage) will grow at 20% per annum.
Ecocycle’s Business Development Manager Daryl Moyle views both sets of figures positively.
“Clearly there will be both increased need and greater demand for battery recycling, and these figures validate our decision to invest heavily in expanding our battery recycling capability,” he said.
Even so, Mr Moyle said we have a long way to go when it comes to recycling batteries.
Lead acid batteries, which already enjoy a high recycling rate, will account for the largest share of that increase in recycling.
Meanwhile, just 3% of handheld batteries are recycled in Australia. The rest go to landfill.
Some states are taking action to prohibit disposal of electronic waste to landfill, but that may simply see waste shipped to other states that don’t have such bans in place.
Stemming the flow of batteries into landfill will therefore require the support of all players in the battery industry.
“The industry-backed Australian Battery Recycling Initiative (ABRI) is working to increase battery recycling, but we need more supermarkets, office suppliers and hardware chains to act as collection points to improve the convenience of battery recycling,” said Mr Moyle.
“Some councils are doing a good job on battery recycling, but others could be doing much more in this space.”
Mr Moyle also expects battery waste to become the target of a government-backed, industry-run product stewardship scheme, along the lines called for by ABRI CEO Libby Chaplain.
“Such a scheme would see more money available to support responsible recycling, promotion of collection programs and much greater public awareness,” he said.
Volume creates opportunities
The other area of evolution is the battery recycling technology itself.
As more batteries are returned for recycling the growing volumes will make it more economical to undertake a greater range of the recycling steps in Australia.
And that, Mr Moyle said, will create a significant number of new jobs.
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Demands from prominent Indigenous experts at this week's national summit have led to a Federal government commitment to develop a specific national plan to tackle family violence in Indigenous communities.
Professor Sandra Creamer, chair of the government's advisory panel, welcomed the move after previous plans neglected the needs of Indigenous women and children.
"Of course it's failed, that's a proven fact. But now it's time to move forward," she said.
Ms Creamer, a survivor of family violence and said it's vital that those with lived experience have their expertise highlighted.
The Waanyi and Kalkadoon woman said addressing violence is complex and multifaceted and requires commitments from governments across the country.
"It's about a safe place and safe communities. That is created by housing, jobs, education and having the right to just have a good life as Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander peoples," Ms Creamer said.
Dr Hannah McGlade, a human rights lawyer with an extensive background in women's safety and family violence, said social inequity, racism and violence are connected and must be considered.
"We need culturally appropriate responses to Indigenous women which we are simply not seeing in this one size fits all approach," Dr McGlade said.
"We have always been very clear, that we can't participate in tokenism measures to address violence, because at the end of the day this is our women and children's lives at stake — and we are losing too many."
Minister for Women's Safety Anne Ruston said the government was collaborating with advocacy groups and elders to create a National Plan for Indigenous women.
"They were very keen to develop an action plan that was absolutely specific for Indigenous women... There will be a plan that is designed by Indigenous leaders," Senator Ruston told NITV News.
The commitment comes after the Minister ruled out a separate plan earlier this year and acknowledged previous plans did not adequately take into account the different experiences of Indigenous women.
"We heard loud and clear that Indigenous women don't believe that the previous plan, addressed the issues that were specific to their communities and that's why we've done all this consultation."
She said the government would work with Indigenous communities and elders to create a new plan that focused on Indigenous solutions.
Professor Marcia Langton, June Oscar and Ms Creamer were panelists at the national summit this week.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar told the panel Indigenous women must be a priority.
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A simple Web3 Guide for musicians
In an age where the internet rules the world, it was only a matter of time before things like NFTs, Web3, cryptocurrencies, and the like infiltrated the music space. In this post, you’ll learn exactly what Web3 is, as well as its relationship between music NFTs, royalties, and more.
by Jonathan Carmel of Symphonic Blog
Let’s talk basics…
Web3 is a term used to describe a new form of the internet that embraces decentralization and ownership. The evolution of the internet has been described in 3 phases:
Web1 (“read-only”) // mainly static websites owned by companies, close to zero interaction between users. Example being Internet Explorer
Web2 (“read-write”) // Instead of companies providing content to users, they also began to provide platforms to share user-generated content and engage in user-to-user interactions. (Example being Facebook / Social Media)
**As more people came online, a handful of top companies began to control a disproportionate amount of the traffic and value generated on the web. Web 2.0 also birthed the advertising-driven revenue model. While users could create content, they didn’t own it or benefit from its monetization.**
Web3 (“read-write-own”) // Web3 has become a catch-all term for the vision of a new, better internet. At its core, Web3 uses blockchains, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs to give power back to the users in the form of ownership.
What about NFTs?
One very important aspect of Web3 is ownership of digital assets. The vehicle for this ownership are NFTs (aka Non-Fungible Tokens).
“Non-fungible” is an economic term that you could use to describe things like your furniture, a song file, or your computer. However, these things are not interchangeable for other items because they have unique properties.
That being said, NFTs are the tokens that we can use to represent the ownership of these unique items. They let us “tokenise” things like art, collectibles, even real estate. The big thing about these (that you’ve probably heard a million times) is that they can only have one official owner at a time and are secured by the Ethereum blockchain – which means no one can modify the record of ownership or copy/paste a new NFT into existence.
Fungible items, on the other hand, CAN be exchanged because their value defines them rather than their unique properties.
For example: ETH or dollars are fungible because 1 ETH / $1 USD is exchangeable for another 1 ETH / $1 USD.
What are some examples of these in action?
To help you visualize these, check out these real NFT use cases below:
Proof of Ownership
How do royalties work with NFTs?
When creators sell their content, funds go directly to them. If the new owner then sells the NFT, the original creator can even automatically receive royalties. This is guaranteed every time it’s sold because the creator’s address is part of the token’s metadata – metadata which can’t be modified.
NFTs in Music
Musicians can utilize NFTs to release anything from songs to music videos to even concert tickets. They allow fans to invest in artists who they enjoy and believe in, while receiving benefits in return. Conversely, they allow artists to fund their music projects directly through the support of their fans.
One way that musicians are upping the incentives for fans/investors to buy music NFTs is by offering holders special perks, and entrance to an exclusive community of fans.
Another way musicians are utilizing Music NFTs is by offering a share of revenue generated from a song, helping create a true fan-centric ecosystem.
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More random thoughts and opinions on children’s books....
PULL IT, SIR
The Pulitzer Prizes will be announced tomorrow afternoon. Since I’m still trying to read all the old fiction winners, I’ll be very anxious to learn what title wins the award this year.
Over at the Pulitzer Prize First Edition Collecting site, a “research scientist and Modern Firsts/Pulitzer Prize book collector” has posted a list of predictions that includes MY FATHER’S TEARS AND OTHER STORIES or THE MAPLE STORIES both by the late John Updike, LARK & TERMITE by Jayne Anne Phillips, THE LACUNA (Barbara Kingsolver) and LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN (Colum McCann.)
I was surprised that a few readers in the blogosphere have suggested ELI THE GOOD by Silas House as a possible Pulitzer contender. If it wins, it would be the first time that a book published for young adults won the award...though certain past winners, such as THE YEARLING and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD were originally published for adults and later became YA standards. Last year I had hoped that M.T. Anderson’s THE KINGDOM OF THE WAVES : THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING, TRAITOR TO THE NATION, VOLUME II stood a chance of winning, but it was ignored. Too bad, as I still think that in terms of story, characterization, and brilliant prose it stands head and shoulders over the actual winner, OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout.
Incidentally, here is a fun game for tomorrow. If you hear the Pulitzer news reported on the radio or TV, listen to how many ways the word is mispronounced. Some say “PEW-litzer,” others says “Pool-itzer.” From what I understand, the correct pronunciation sounds most like “Pull-itzer.” I’ve heard that every year when the press gathers at Columbia University for the Pulitzer announcement, some mischievous reporter will approach the bust of Joseph Pulitzer and grab his nose, to cries of “Pull it, sir!” from the other journalists in attendance.
Then the winners are reported on the radio and, invariably, the newscaster says, “PEW-litzer.”
PULITZER WINNERS WHO HAVE WRITTEN FOR KIDS
This weekend I began wondering how many winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction have also written books for children. Here is my chronological list:
Booth Tarkington, who won Pulitzers in 1919 (MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS) and 1922 (ALICE ADAMS) wrote the “Penrod” books for young readers.
Pearl Buck, who won the 1932 Pulitzer for THE GOOD EARTH, also wrote the juvenile stories THE BIG WAVE and THE WATER BUFFALO CHILDREN. Boy, these books used to be in every library when I was a kid, but I think they are no longer popular with children. (I have to admit I never cared for them myself.)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939 winner for THE YEARLING) received a posthumous Newbery Honor for THE SECRET RIVER in 1956.
A.B. Guthrie won the 1950 Pulitzer for THE WAY WEST. I don’t think that he ever wrote a book specifically for young readers, but at least one or two of his adult titles were re-published in edited versions for young adults.
1970 winner Jean Stafford (THE COLLECTED STORIES OF JEAN STAFFORD) wrote ELEPHI, THE CAT WITH THE HIGH IQ for kids.
Eudora Welty, who won THE OPTIMIST’S DAUGHTER in 1973, wrote a children’s novel called THE SHOEBIRD. I believe she also wrote the original New York Times book review for CHARLOTTE’S WEB.
John Updike, who won a pair of Pulitzers for two of his “Rabbit” novels (RABBIT IS RICH, 1984; RABBIT AT REST, 1991) also wrote A CHILD’S CALENDAR, which has been illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkett and Trina Schart Hyman; the latter received a Caldecott Honor for her work.
Alice Walker, who won the 1983 Pulitzer for THE COLOR PURPLE, saw her first published adult short story, THE HELL WITH DYING, reprinted as a children’s book in 1988. Other Walker books for young readers include LANGSTON HUGHES : AMERICAN POET, FINDING THE GREEN STONE and WHY WAR IS NEVER A GOOD IDEA.
Alison Lurie, who won the 1985 Pulitzer for FOREIGN AFFAIRS, has taught children’s literature at the university level and published titles both about children’s books (DON’T TELL THE GROWN-UPS) and for children (CLEVER GRETCHEN AND OTHER FOLKTALES.)
Toni Morrison won the 1988 prize for BELOVED, then wrote THE BIG BOX (1999) and THE BOOK OF MEAN PEOPLE (2002) with her son Slade Morrison.
1989 winner Anne Tyler (BREATHING LESSONS) wrote a children’s book called TUMBLE TOWER, which was illustrated by her daughter Mitra Modarressi.
Oscar Hijuelos won the 1990 Pulitzer for MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE, and then entered the field of young adult fiction with DARK DUDE in 2008.
1992 winner Jane Smiley (A THOUSAND ACRES) recently published a children’s horse story titled THE GEORGES AND THE JEWELS.
Michael Chabon, who won the 2001 Pulitzer for THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY also wrote the young adult fantasy SUMMERLAND.
Can you think of any I have missed?
There are the writers who have won in other categories, such as Dave Barry, who received a Pulitzer for Commentary in 1988, and now writes children’s books with Ridley Pearson, such as PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS.
And there are several many editorial cartoonists who also illustrate children’s books. How about Jules Feiffer, who won the 1986 Pulitzer for cartooning, but is best known among children’s book fans for illustrating THE PHANTOM TOOLBOOTH by Norton Juster and writing a number of his own books for kids. His latest illustrations can be found in Lois Lowry’s new book THE BIRTHDAY BALL.
I guess I’ll save those lists of other Pulitzer winners/children’s book creators for another Sunday....
THE EYES HAVE IT
I recently came across this series of dragon books by Chris D’Lacey:
I always think it’s nice when the titles and dustjacket illustrations of a series are consistent...and I’m sure the young readers of these books can tell them apart...but I’m just glad I’m not in charge of shelving them in a library or re-ordering them in a bookstore. I’d never be able to tell them apart!
(It doesn’t help that I’m somewhat colorblind.)
WHAT’S THE PUNCHLINE?
I’m always entertained to see what search terms people have used to reach this blog. Yesterday someone came here seeking “Alton Raible stag joke.”
What is that all about?
Alton Raible is primarily known as the illustrator of Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s middle-grade novels.
One of my favorite Snyder novels is A FABULOUS CREATURE, the story of a teenage boy’s obsession with a wild deer. My copy of this book is now packed away for moving, so I cannot check and see if Alton Raible did the dustjacket illustration; if so, did he include some kind of “inside joke” in the illustration? Does anyone know.
Or does “Alton Raible stag joke” just mean someone was searching for the text of joke Mr. Raible told at a stag party many years ago?
I guess I’ll never know until I move, unpack my books, and take a good look at the cover of A FABULOUS CREATURE to see if there is a joke hidden in the dustjacket illustration.
TEA PARTIERS AND PICKET SIGNS
The other day I had a nice e-mail chat with Monica Edinger of the Educating Alice blog.
Because I know of Monica’s interest in ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, I told her my disappoint that the phrase “tea partiers” has now changed in the public consciousness from this:
That set me to wondering what kind of protest signs Alice and her friends might carry at their tea party.
It wasn’t until later in the week that it dawned on me that I actually had seen an Alice-related protest sign once before.
Back in 1971 Atheneum published a young adult novel about the suffrage movement called NEVER JAM TODAY by Carole Bolton. I don’t recall ever seeing the book in hardcover, but I do seem to remember an Aladdin paperback version which showed a girl on the cover holding a protest sign that read “NEVER JAM TODAY.”
Of course the title is a quote from Lewis Carroll’s White Queen, who famously said, "The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today” and I believe it was used in Carole Bolton's novel to illustrate the elusive nature of women’s rights during the suffrage era. However, I'm now curious: did Ms. Bolton use this quote simply as a fictional device in her novel -- or did the real-life suffragettes actually utilize this phrase during their marches?
Does this sound familiar to anyone or did I dream it up?
If anyone remembers this book, I’d love to hear your recollections of it.
And if you have a copy of the paperback cover, I’d love to see it.
SPEAKING OF SUFFRAGE....
Does anyone else find it odd how few children’s and YA books focus on the suffrage movement and women’s rights?
There are literally thousands of children’s books about the quest for civil rights for African Americans, but I can think of very new novels or nonfiction books for young people that explore the issue of civil rights for women. (One notable -- and excellent -- exception is CROSSING STONES by Helen Frost.) The same is true for books about the “women’s lib” movement of the late sixties and early seventies.
I wonder why this is.
I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M WRITING SOMETHING ABOUT TORI SPELLING
I must admit that I’m a fan of the Lifetime Movie Network. True, very few of their movies are Oscar-worthy. Many are formulaic. But there is something kind of satisfying to sitting down on a Saturday night and watching a suspense-filled flick full of scares and chases and the bad guy getting hauled away in handcuffs at the end.
Last night I happened to watch a 1995 movie starring, of all people, Tori Spelling. It was called AWAKE TO DANGER and concerned a teenage girl who witnesses her mother’s murder, goes into a coma, and then awakes to discover that the killer may be after her next.
I was surprised to discover that this movie was based on Joan Lowery Nixon’s young adult novel THE OTHER SIDE OF DARK.
A lot of TV movies are based on adult suspense novels, but those books frequently run 400 or more pages and are stuffed with subplots that have to be cut. But many YA novels are lean, tight, and just the right pace for a concise 90-100 minute TV movie. I wish the networks would option more YA books for television.
Joan Lowery Nixon’s got a batch of other books that would make good TV movies.
So does Lois Duncan.
And don’t forget M.E. Kerr’s FELL.
BOB AND FUSE #8
Congrats to School Library Journal for their successful 2010 “Battle of the Kids’ Books” contest. Was everyone else as surprised by the winner as I was?
And I hope everyone has been counting down the “Top 100 Children’s Novels” on SLJ’s Fuse #8 blog. Elizabeth Bird has been doing yeo-woman’s work compiling the list and annotating the entries. The titles have been presented in reverse order and we’re now down to #2, A WRINKLE IN TIME.
Can you guess what #1 will be?
I have a feeling I know, but the answer will officially be revealed this week on Fuse #8’s site on the...er...Web.
Was that a hint?
Hush, Hush Sweet...er...readers. I don’t know a thing.
I’m just making a guess.
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Review of proposed amendments Issued by International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) of16 ‘Property, Plant and Equipment’.
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has issued an disclosure draft ‘Property, Plant and Equipment — Proceeds before Intended Use (Proposed amendments to IAS 16)’ on incomes from selling the items produced while bringing an asset into the location and condition necessary for it to be capable of operating in the manner intended by management.
The issue was originally raised with the IFRS Interpretations Committee that had initially intended to develop an interpretation of IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment to deal with it. However, during the progression of debates the Committee decided that a narrow-scope alteration to IAS 16 would be a better solution.
Property, Plant and Equipment — Proceeds before Intended Use (Proposed amendments to IAS 16) suggests to amend IAS 16 to forbid subtracting from the cost of an item of property, plant and equipment any incomes from selling items created while transporting that asset to the location and condition essential for it to be capable of operating in the manner planned by management. Instead, an entity would recognise the incomes from selling such items, and the cost of producing those items, in profit or loss.
Analysis of Amendment of IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment
The planned amendment is narrow-in-scope and, once informed, is expected to have an influence on the manufacturing, extractive, and other similar industries. Presently, diverse reporting approaches have been applied by these industries. Some entities subtract only incomes from selling items produced from testing, though others deduct all sales incomes until the asset is available for use. For some entities, the proceeds subtracted from the cost of PPE can be important and outdo the costs of testing. The planned amendment aims to eradicate this diversity in practice.
For foremost time adopters of IFRS, the exemptions in IFRS 1, First-time Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards offer a believed cost exemption for PPE, specific deemed cost exemptions for entities working in the oil and gas sector and for entities tangled in rate-regulated operations. Accordingly, if a first-time adopter of IFRS does not avail of the estimated cost exemption, it would be required to apply all the requirements of IAS 16 retrospectively.
Comment Letters against Amendment of IAS 16 ‘Property, Plant and Equipment’ Proceeds before Intended use
1. Deloitte comment letter on the IASB’s proposed amendments to IAS 16
Delloite one of the most renowned organisation didn’t agree with the planned amendment to IAS 16 and share several of the worries expressed in the Different View on the exposure draft. They do not consider that the recognition of revenue with no depreciation and slight or no other associated cost would be a suitable outcome. Similarly Delloite do not believe that consumption of property, plant and equipment in development can be assumed to be ‘negligible’.
2. Global IFRS Leader The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) has issued a draft comment letter on the IASB exposure draft ED/2017/4 ‘Property, Plant and Equipment — Proceeds before Intended Use (Proposed amendments to IAS 16)’.
Analysis of Comment Letters
EFRAG welcomes and backs the amendment offered in the ED, as we consider it will lessen diversity in rehearsal and, consequently, improve the value of financial reporting under IFRS in regard to property, plant and equipment. However, EFRAG sees no need to comprise a meaning for ‘testing’ as the suggested amendments do not differentiate between net proceeds from selling items created during the testing phase from any other proceeds prior to the item of property, plant and equipment being presented for use.
As per Delloite , the offered amendment is expected to have an influence mainly on entities operating in the energy and extractives industries, where construction of an asset can be a long and multifaceted process with several costs (including those of testing) attributable to getting the asset to the condition essential for it to be capable of operating in the method anticipated by management. Proceeds from, for example, power generated through the commissioning of a new power station, precious metals created prior to completion of a processing plant or minerals removing during construction of an underground shaft for a mining process can be important and can arise over an extended period of time. But I disagree with that and there should be no any consideration although Delloite predicts that the issues arising from such activities (for example, the unit of account for property, plant and equipment relating to a large mining development and the point at which such an asset is determined to be available for use) and similar issues arising in other industries is necessary prior to making amendments to specific IFRSs as a very limited scope amendment such as the one proposed in the exposure draft cannot address those issues and carries the risk of unintended consequences.
I back the proposal of the IASB to forbid the deduction of incomes generated in the process of making an item of property, plant and equipment (PPE) ready for its intended usage by management from the cost of that item. I that those proceeds and connected costs should be accounted for in agreement with other appropriate Standards, generally IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers and IAS 2 Inventories. However, I see no need to comprise a definition for ‘testing’. I back the proposed transitional provision because I considers that the cost and difficulty of reiterating items of PPE that are operating before the start of the earliest period offered would outweigh any profits of full retrospective application.
I support the Board’s objective of decreasing diversity in the action of all proceeds from the sale of items created before an asset is ready for its intended use by needing them to be recognised in revenue. However, I am worried that the proposed amendment flops to address the resulting more important issues of: a) the allocation of costs; and b) determining while an asset is ready for its intended use. Cost allocation: The projected amendment offers clear guidance on how to treat this type of revenue and decreases diversity. However, I am concerned that not providing direction on the allocation of costs among property, plant and equipment (PP;E), inventory and profit or loss could lead to arbitrary determination of profit and will not essentially improve financial reporting. In particular, without cost allocation guidance, the anticipated amendment could end in artificially high reported margins on this kind of sale as the cost of sales would not normally include any depreciation of the underlying asset.
Also, it will not essentially provide users with a clear picture of the real cost of an item of property, plant and equipment given the ongoing diversity in how costs are allocated. If the provision of supplementary guidance is not something the Board wants to entertain, precise disclosures may be needed in order to see the objectives of providing users with a clear image of total revenue and also of the actual cost of PP;E. When an asset is ready for use We note that the practice for making this determination differs expressively between industries and countries and can aggravate the accounting concerns about the treatment of proceeds before an asset is ready for its intended use. While I also understand the Board’s foundation for deciding not to illuminate this issue, we believe it is of enough importance to warrant a wider project. However, addressing the issue only is not likely to eradicate the cost allocation issue. Therefore, whether or not the Board addresses the subject of when an asset is ready for its intended use, we believe the Board should report the issue of how to allocate costs.
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In this brief article, we will provide you with the answer to the question:”What kind of fruit is a mango?”, discuss the health benefits of mango consumption, the possible negative effects and recipes with this fruit.
What kind of fruit is a mango?
Mango is a drupe with a luscious pulp and a pit within. Drupe is distinguished by exterior soft fruit (exocarp and mesocarp) encircling a rigid endocarp with seed.The bark is thin and ranges in color from yellow to green to reddish.
The mango tree (Mangifera indica) is a tall tree that may grow to be 30 meters tall. It is shaped like a pyramid and has dark green leaves. It belongs to the Anacardiaceae family of plants, which also contains the cashew tree.
The hose root pivots, which means it penetrates deep into the earth and provides enough support. This trait allows for survival during periods of drought, i.e. when there is no rain.
The mango tree’s blossoms are relatively petite, measuring around six millimeters in diameter. Depending to studies, the blossoming and ripening of mango vary according to climate, although the duration is normally between 100 and 150 days.
What are the health benefits of mango consumption?
It boosts immunity
A cup of diced mango has around a fourth of your daily vitamin A requirement. In other words, this is a vitamin that is required for the immune system to operate properly (including the production and activity of white blood cells). As a result, a lack of vitamin D is linked to an increased susceptibility to infections.
Mango has anti-cancer properties
The fruit includes about a dozen different kinds of polyphenols. As a result, the antioxidant action of these plant chemicals protects cells from DNA damage, which can lead to degenerative illnesses. Type 2 diabetes and cancer are two examples. Mango antioxidants inhibited the development of breast cancer cells in animal studies.
Skin and hair benefits
Vitamin A is also necessary for the growth and maintenance of various tissues, including the skin, hair, and sebaceous glands. They are therefore connected to the hair follicles, aiding in the maintenance of moisturized and healthy hair.
As a result, a cup of mango offers approximately 75 percent of the recommended daily consumption of vitamin C. This vitamin is required for the production of collagen, which provides skin suppleness and helps to prevent wrinkles and drooping.
In a study of persons with persistent constipation, eating the fruit was more beneficial than taking a comparable quantity of fiber alone. They might induce gas and bloating in some people. Click here to check other fruits that help to relieve constipation.
Controls blood sugar levels
It may seem implausible that such a sweet snack might enhance blood sugar levels, but that is the finding of a study conducted at Oklahoma State University in the United States. For 12 weeks, 20 obese men and women consumed 10 grams of pulverized freeze-dried mango pulp (equal to roughly half a fresh mango) daily.
The individuals’ blood glucose levels were lower at the end of the study than when they began. Experts believe that the fruit’s bioactive components, such as antioxidants, are the cause.
Helps to protect the vision
Mango contains the antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin, which benefit the eyes in a variety of ways. The two natural substances that protect the retina and lens improve visual range, minimize glare discomfort, boost visual contrast, and shorten the time it takes for the eyes to recover from the stress of bright lights.
Furthermore, the pair shields the eyes from damaging UV radiation and fights or delays the onset of cataracts and macular degeneration.
What are the negative effects of mango consumption?
According to research, consuming mangoes has little negative effects. However, because it has a high percentage of carbohydrate, persons with diabetes do not consume a large amount of the fruit at once. For example, a 100 gram mango contains 15 grams of carbohydrate.
Because of the fruit’s high fiber content, those with dysregulated or loose stools should avoid eating it. Excessive consumption might have a laxative effect.
What are some recipes with mango?
When the mango is ripe, it has a highly sweet flavor. Nutritionists often recommend that it be consumed in its natural state in order to benefit from the nutrients and fiber. Mango, on the other hand, may be utilized in both sweet and savory dishes.
Mango may be used in a variety of sweets, including cakes, buns, mousses, ice cream, and cheesecakes. Jellies, which may be created at home or purchased commercially, are another choice for a sweet dish using mango. Mango may also be found as an artisanal candy in a dehydrated version. Mango juices are also a refreshing option.
Fruit may be used in savory meals, particularly with meats like pork, poultry, and fish. It may also be used as a distinctive element in risottos, soups, and pasta dishes.
Finally, mango can be used to sweeten salads. Mango with dark green plants, such as arugula and watercress, are a popular combination in tropical salads.
In this brief article, we provided you with the answer to the question:”What kind of fruit is a mango?”, discussed the health benefits of mango consumption, the possible negative effects and recipes with this fruit.
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Maintaining their busy release schedule, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (also known as the Bank of Russia) has released two new silver commemorative coins this month.
The first coin is a 1oz 3 Rouble piece very similar in theme to the “300 years since the founding of Omsk” coin that was released only two month prior, this time however it is the city of Orel that is being commemorated is silver. The second silver coin released is a new addition to the Russian “Treasury of World Culture” series paying tribute to the works of French sculptor Etienne Maurice Falconet, the full review of that coin can be viewed HERE.
The 1oz silver 3 Rouble coin commemorates the 450th anniversary of the founding of Orel, The city of Orel(or Oryol) is located in the east of the Russian Federation about 360 km(22 miles) southwest from Moscow, and serves as the administrative centre for Russia's Oryol Oblast district.
After the region was incorporated into Tsardom of Russia in the 16th century, Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of a fortress at Orel in 1566. Then by 1702 Orel had grown in status and population to the point where it was officially recognized as a town. Orel was under German occupation for nearly three years during the Second World War. The German Wehrmacht captured the city on October 3rd, 1941 and only lost it again after the Battle of Kursk on August 5th, 1943. Like so many other cities Orel was devastated by the war, with significant parts of it being completely destroyed. Today Orel is a modern city of nearly 130 square kilometers(50 sq miles) with a population of 317 747(according to the 2010 census).
The reverse design of the coin depicts a city view of Orel from an elevated viewpoint, with the Orlik river to the bottom right of the coin. Alexander bridge can be seen entering the city to the right just in front of Orel's Assumption cathedral, which is dedicated to the Archangel Michael. The only inscription on the coin appears to the top and reads : “ОРЕЛ” and then “ОСН. В 1566 Г.” in slightly smaller lettering. This translates as “OREL” and “FOUNDED IN 1566”.
The obverse prominently displays the wonderfully detailed relief image of the crowned two headed eagle clutching an orb and scepter in it's talons, which represents the Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation. The words “РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ”(Russian Federation) appear in a semi circle to the top half of the coin.
To the bottom, below the Coat of Arms, the issuing authority, denomination and date of issue are indicated in three lines. These read “БАНК РОССИИ” (BANK OF RUSSIA), “3 РУБЛЯ” (3 ROUBLE) and “2016”. To the lower left “Ag 925” is written indicating that the coin s struck from sterling silver, or Silver .925 Fineness. The mintmark of the Moscow Mint appears to the lower right along with the number “31.1”. This indicates that the coin was struck at the Moscow Mint and that it contains 31.1grams of metal, or exactly 1 Troy ounce.
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Yotsuya Medical Cube, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Materials for reconstructing skin defects in the Achilles tendon area need to form thin and strong skin flaps. There is no need for sensory function.
The first consideration is reconstruction with a local flap using skin from the area surrounding the defect, but in many cases this is difficult because of crushing injury to the surrounding tissue.
As an arterial island flap, medial pedis flap, a reverse peroneal flap and a lateral calcaneal flap using a V-Y shape are the most practical. This can mean that the operating area becomes much larger, but combining the lower calf fascia as a turn-over fascial flap and a skin graft is a simple and stable procedure. As the free tissue transfer, either of a temporal fascia flap or a combination of a muscle flap and a skin graft, that decreases in by atrophy, is an excellent choice. A free musculocutaneous flap is too thick and not suitable. If a free skin flap is chosen, a flap should be selected where thinning is possible.
In the case of transplanting free tissue, end-to-side anastomosis is performed to the posterior tibial blood vessels in the medial malleolus region.
Selectable Flaps and Surgical ProceduresMedial pedis flapLateral calcaneal flap (conventional method)Lateral calcaneal sliding flapReverse flow peroneal flapReverse turn-over fascial flapReverse flow sural arteryskin flapSupra malleolar flapFree temporal fascia flapFree abdominal perforator flapFree latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap (serratus anterior muscle flap) transfer
The difficulty level of each surgical procedure is shown subsequent to the procedure title (e.g., Level of Difficulty: 2). The levels range from 1 to 5, with level 1 indicating a preliminary level and level 5 indicating a very advanced level.
17.1 Lateral Calcaneal Flap (Conventional Method) (Level of Difficulty: 2)
Vascular pedicle Lateral calcaneal artery (Mostly distal end of peroneal artery. At times the distal end of the posterior tibial artery is used, but it is always available)
Size width 4–5 cm, length 8–15 cm
Advantage Similar texture, has sensory function
Disadvantage Skin graft is required for donor site closure but it is difficult to take.
Donor site scar is obvious
(Reproduced from Yuichi Hirase, et al.: Long-term follow-up of a patient with lateral calcaneal flaps for bilateral posterior heel necrosis. Ann Plast Surg 26: 474–478, 1991)
17.1.1 Operation Procedures
Procedure 1: The position of the lateral calcaneal artery is confirmed prior to surgery using the Doppler blood flow measurement, and the skin flap is designed slightly longer than the necrotic area between the lateral malleolus of the fibula and the Achilles tendon
When the reconstruction area for the Achilles tendon extends to the heel, a longer skin flap that curves slightly forward is designed. The patient is often in the equinus position when the design is being conducted, so a ruptured suture can easily occur at the flap edge following surgery. Therefore it is essential to create a longer skin flap in consideration of correction of the position of the feet.
Procedure 2: Patient is placed in the lateral recumbent position or abdominal position. Incision is made from the distal end of the flap, and the flap dissected from above the periosteum. The skin flap is elevated towards the proximal end while confirming the blood vessels and nerves on the reverse side of the flap
The lateral calcaneal artery runs above the periosteum. Because it runs along the thick part of the tissue and not directly underneath the skin flap, it gives an impression that the distal part of the flap is comparatively thick, but if the artery is not fully included then an arterial flap cannot be created.
Procedure 3: The skin flap is transferred above the necrotic area and sewn in place. Care is taken to make sure the ankle joint is not in the equinus position
Procedure 4: A split-thickness skin graft is conducted on the donor site, and a tie-over bolster dressing applied. A cast is applied to the lower leg
Although there are few problems with the flap itself following surgery, with regard to the skin graft to the donor site, because the graft is conducted directly onto the periosteum, hematoma tends to occur beneath the skin graft, and occasionally it is difficult to take. It is preferable to leave the cast on for 2–3 weeks following surgery. In the case that it doesn’t take, multiple skin grafts can at times be required.
The disadvantage of the lateral calcaneal flap is the donor site
Grafting is conducted directly above the periosteum, and if there is incomplete pressure, a hematoma can tend to occur.
A small hole is opened in the skin graft so that hematomas can be discharged, pressure applied and plaster left on for longer than usual.
Although the depression that forms at the donor site improves over the longterm, a comparatively obvious scar remains. For small skin defects of the Achilles area, a lateral calcaneal sliding flap using a V-Y form is preferred.
17.2 Lateral Calcaneal Sliding Flap (Level of Difficulty: 3)
Vascular pedicle Lateral calcaneal artery
(Mostly distal end of peroneal artery. At times the distal end of the posterior tibial artery is used, but it is always available)
Size Width 3–5 cm, length 5–8 cm
Advantage Similar texture, has sensory function. Skin graft is not required.
Disadvantage The transfer distance for the flap is short, and is not suitable for covering large areas.
17.2.1 Operation Procedures
Procedure 1: A triangular flap is designed adjacent to the skin defect area on the Achilles tendon
This is to be kept in mind when deciding the width of the flap for enabling the nutrient vessel to run between the Achilles tendon and the lateral malleolus of the fibula. It is possible to determine for certain if confirmed using a Doppler blood flow measurement.
Procedure 2: An incision is made surrounding the flap, and the lateral calcaneal artery & vein running above the periosteum confirmed. The proximal and distal sections of the vascular pedicle of the skin flap are confirmed and retained and the skin flap completely dissected from the surrounding area
In many cases the sural nerve also runs alongside. The vascular pedicle is deep and runs above the periosteum.
Procedure 3: The skin flap is transferred laterally in accordance with the V-Y plasty technique, and sutured to the surrounding area
The first choice skin flap when reconstruction areas are not too large
In this case the skin texture with the surrounding skin is extremely good, and the inconspicuousness of the scar tissue after reconstruction is striking. The area of surgery is small, and the volume of blood loss is also minor. However the vascular pedicle is at a deep layer above the periosteum, so it is necessary to elevate a thick skin flap. Do not dissect the thinner layer.
17.3 Reverse Peroneal Flap (Level of Difficulty: 4)
Vascular pedicle Peroneal artery and its skin perforator
Pivot joint Difficult to increase to a more distal position than 5–6 cm proximal of the lateral malleolus of the fibula
Size width 10 cm; length 20 cm
Advantage Skin texture is similar. Can perform surgery in same operating area.
Disadvantage If skin flap is large, skin graft becomes necessary and is obvious.
17.3.1 Operation Procedures
Procedure 1: In prone position, prior to surgery, Doppler measurement is conducted of the perforators of the peroneal artery positioned at the rear margin of the fibula, distal of the middle of the lower leg, and the peroneal flap is designed with that cutaneous branch included. Surgery is performed under a tourniquet
Ordinarily 3–4 perforators to be included in the skin flap, are located at intervals of 2–3 cm from the middle of the fibula. Perforators proximal from the middle of the fibula are perforators for the muscle and not for the skin, so even if they are picked up by Doppler measurement, they cannot be used for a vascular pedicle for the skin flap.
Procedure 2: An incision/detachment is made to the anterior margin of the skin flap (front of fibula) including the deep fascia and the front section of the skin flap elevated. It is then possible to confirm the perforators heading toward the skin through the thin fascia at the rear margin of the fibula
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The skin perforators rise up from behind the skin, so it is possible to confirm the perforators when starting to elevate the front margin of the flap.
Procedure 3: An incision is made in the posterior margin of the flap, and the flap dissected from the soleus muscle with the soleus fascia attached on the flap side. When the soleus muscle is moved aside the flexor hallucis longus muscle can be seen. The fibula blood vessels that become the vascular pedicle for the skin flap, are located in this flexor hallucis longus muscle, so with care, the vascular pedicle on the posterior side of the fibula are detached
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Out of sheer necessity, medical environments are controlled environments.
Sterility and a vast array of medical devices – from procedural instruments to monitoring systems – are critical to ensure the best possible patient outcomes.
Operation Smile care centers and surgical program sites are no exception.
The unintentional results are environments that can also evoke the nonmedical definition of “sterile” – stark and uninviting.
They can also strike fear and anxiety in young patients and their families, some of whom have never before stepped foot inside a medical facility.
Understanding that patients’ and their families paths to cleft surgery are often emotionally overwhelming, Operation Smile leans on the help of volunteer psychosocial care providers in the care center and medical mission settings.
These certified professionals provide psychosocial care and educate patients and their families about the entire surgical experience, easing their fears and anxieties through therapeutic play and activities.
“(Psychosocial care providers) guide children through developmentally-appropriate activities to help them gain mastery and control over their situations,” said Kelly Raymond, a child life specialist from Canada. “Children coming into the hospital don’t get to wear their own clothes, eat what they want or see what they want. (Our work helps give) them a piece of control over their environment.”
For many children, medical equipment like anesthesia masks – or even just being in a hospital – can appear to be ominous.
Psychosocial care providers use these devices as props during therapeutic play sessions so that patients won't be surprised or frightened when those same surgical tools are used during their procedures. They also use this play time to help nervous parents understand what they can expect through every phase of the surgical process.
The psychosocial care area is also a place where silliness and fun is encouraged through age-appropriate play and activities, allowing kids to just be kids amid the stressful and unfamiliar environment.
“Receiving surgery can be a potentially frightening experience – (young patients) are exposed to strangers wearing strange clothes in a strange place. Play helps to normalize the health care experience for kids,” said Robert Wing, a volunteer psychosocial care provider.
“It empowers kids and gives them coping skills. Some of the kids leave the medical mission saying they had a fun time. That’s a powerful shift from being scared and frightened.”
The positive effects for children go beyond preparation for their individual procedures, explains certified child life therapist Sandy Forseth.
“In the playroom, children are seeing other children with their condition. They’ve been shunned or shamed by other people in their communities, so I think there is positivity when they get to meet other kids with cleft lip and cleft palate,” Sandy said.
She added: “From being a certified child life specialist, I've seen research that shows that when children are prepared ahead of time, they heal faster because they know what to expect.”
Building trust between children, families and the mission or care center team is another key function of psychosocial care providers.
Kelly recalled a challenging but also rewarding experience from a program to Ethiopia in which her skills were tested by a fearful child.
“She clung tightly to her mother while crying and wouldn’t make eye contact with me. Teaching children about what to expect when they go in the operating room is our priority, but without trust, this can’t be done,” Kelly said. “Instead, I pulled out two wind-up toys and positioned them on the ground so they could race. She slowly started to peer out as the ladybug toy went in circles and the giraffe wind toy hopped along.
“The girl started to laugh. When they finished racing, the girl looked at me, expectantly. So I wound the toys up again, setting them on another race. This time, the girl sat up so she could watch the path the toys took. After a few more wind-up toy races, the girl crawled off of her mom’s lap, and she started winding up the toys herself.
“Eventually, I was able to teach her about the anesthetic mask. We practiced blowing bubbles and then blowing up a balloon with the anesthetic mask. She proudly showed her mom what she learned and even brought the mask over to her so she could try.
“When it was her time to go in for surgery, she held my hand as we walked down the hallway into the operating room. That simple act of play can change a child’s perspective and lead to empowerment and confidence. It’s situations like this that keep bringing me back to Operation Smile medical missions."
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There are places that are well-known for their well-paying jobs — Silicon Valley, New York City, Boston. And then there’s Pittsburgh, which is … not.
In fact, the most recent report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released in July 2021 found that workers in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area earned an average hourly wage of $26.11 in May 2020, about 4 percent below the nationwide average of $27.07. And 14 groups had “significantly lower wages than their respective national averages,” including healthcare practitioners and people in technical fields.
But a new study from Dice — a career website that connects employers with tech workers — indicates that the gap is narrowing, for tech jobs at least. Pittsburgh’s average tech salary jumped 14% from 2020, the biggest increase in the country, to $98,304.
That salary still ranks only 19th out of the top 22 tech hubs in America. But its growth rate was ahead of big cities with strong tech scenes, such as Atlanta (13.9% increase) and Chicago (12.6% increase).
Silicon Valley is at the top spot with an average salary of $133,204 (a 5% increase) and Cleveland is at the bottom with a $95,120 average tech salary (an 8.6% rise).
Of course, the people who are really cashing in are the work-from-home employees of tech companies earning Silicon Valley salaries and the low cost of living in Pittsburgh.
That might be a good idea for companies, too. The technical interviewing company Karat released a study in December calling Pittsburgh the top city for hiring remote software engineers, topping the list for the second year in a row. The data was based on Karat’s interviews with prospective workers — which includes a coding test. Pittsburgh’s pass rate was 40%, tied at the top with Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Portland, Ore.
One Pittsburgh company that is entirely remote right now is Metafy, which just announced landing $25 million in venture capital to grow its marketplace for video game coaching. The company employs some of the top players in the world for games like World of Warcraft and Super Smash Bros. as coaches for people of all ages who want to improve their gaming skills. Metafy expects to double in size in the next year. While the bulk of its employees are in Pittsburgh, all of its open positions are remote.
According to the Dice study, the tech jobs that pay the best across the country (aside from C-suite jobs) are systems architect ($147,901) and cloud architect/engineer ($140,571). The lowest salaries go to help desk technicians ($52,259).
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Hey Kids! Looking for a safe, fun and interesting outdoor experience with a reward? Well, grab your water bottle, backpack and your family and head to Lory State Park!
The staff and volunteers at Lory State Park have made changes to one of Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s most popular outdoor educational programs to make it available to families who want to come to the park with an educational purpose.
The Lory State Park Junior Ranger Program is a handbook of outdoor activities prepared especially for 7- to 12-year-old visitors. Children and their families hike a trail in the park, complete the activities in the handbook, then turn it in to staff in the Visitor Center where the successful applicant will take the Junior Ranger Pledge and receive a Junior Ranger badge.
However, during this period of closures due to Coronavirus, access to all CPW offices and visitor centers may be restricted or limited, although rangers are still on duty and those offices will remain staffed and available for questions via phone or email.
So, as of April 29, 2020, the following changes are in effect:
- Families can pick up a Jr Ranger Handbook from the brochure dispenser just inside the Lory Visitor Center front door.
- Hike the Well Gulch Nature Trail and complete at least five, or all nine nature activities in the handbook.
- Option 1: return the completed handbook to a drop box in the Lory Visitor Center after filling out the back page with the name and address of the applicant to receive the authorized Junior Ranger Pledge certificate and a Junior Ranger badge in the mail in one or two weeks; OR
- Option 2: on your home computer, scan in the completed pages and email them, along with the name and address of the applicant to email@example.com to receive the authorized Junior Ranger Pledge certificate and a Junior Ranger badge in the mail in one or two weeks.
- The Junior Ranger Handbook is also available in a Spanish–language version
Based on guidance from government and public health officials, all Coloradans should take proactive steps to slow and mitigate the transmission of coronavirus to one another. Park visitors are encouraged to enjoy parks responsibly during the COVID-19 outbreak. Please consider the following when visiting a Colorado state park and comply with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) social distancing guidelines.
- If you are sick, stay home.
- Keep a social distance from others, a suggested 6 feet.
- Announce your presence to others. Signal your presence with your voice or a bell when passing others.
- Stay regional. Front Range residents should avoid traveling to the high country or small mountain communities that are closed to visitors.
- Avoid times and places of high use. To avoid creating large crowds at popular trails or outdoor areas, spread out to less popular spots, and avoid times of highest use if possible. Use COTREX to discover and explore other local trails in your area to help disperse traffic.
- Practice good hand hygiene. Wash your hands, use hand sanitizer and cover coughs with your elbow.
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To read the texts click on the texts: 2 Cor 9:6-11; Mt 6:1-6,16-18
Aloysius de Gonzaga was born in Castiglione, Italy in 1568. His father wanted him to join military service, but by the age of nine Aloysius had decided on a religious life, and made a vow of perpetual virginity.
A kidney disease prevented St. Aloysius from a full social life for a while, so he spent his time in prayer and reading the lives of the saints. Although he was appointed a page in Spain, Gonzaga kept up his many devotions and austerities, and was quite resolved to become a Jesuit. His family eventually moved back to Italy, where he taught catechism to the poor. When he was 18, he joined the Jesuits, after finally breaking down his father, who had refused his entrance into the order. He served in an hospital during the plague of 1587 in Milan, and died from it at the age of 23, in 1591, after receiving the anointing from Robert Bellarmine.
He was canonised in 1726 and is regarded as the patron Saint of youth.
The text chosen for today is from part of Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount. It concerns three pious practices that were prevalent at the time of Jesus: almsgiving, prayer and fasting. These are used as examples of what true and false righteousness means. In each case, after mention of the pious practice, the Matthean Jesus explicates how it must not be done and why, and then goes on to explain how it must be done and why. In each case there is a contrast between public and secret and between external and internal.
Jesus uses hyperbolic language when he speaks of how almsgiving must not be done and uses similar hyperbole when he states how it must be done. Almsgiving must not be ostentatious but in humility and secret. When speaking of prayer, a distinction is made between prayer which is done for show and prayer which stems from the heart. The former makes itself an end in itself, the latter regards prayer as a mean to reach God. Finally, in the third pious practice, fasting, a distinction is made between fasting that is done to impress others and fasting that is motivated by an inner conviction. If one is convinced from within, then one will want it to be as inconspicuous as possible.
The reason for the choice of this Gospel text is because Aloysius understood completely the words of Jesus. His motivation to do good came from within. His desire to serve the poor and the sick was without expectation of reward. The austerities he practiced were for the sole reason of ‘feeling with others’. His reaching out to the plague ridden of his time was because it was a need and he was willing to do all that he could to cater to that need. Indeed, Aloysius internalised every pious practice, because of which his righteousness was pleasing in the eyes of God. | <urn:uuid:f2222622-31c2-4420-a973-c16701c34c1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://errolsj.blogspot.com/2018/06/thursday-june-21-2018-st-aloysius.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.98658 | 629 | 3.09375 | 3 |
The most significant reason people move into aged care is due to a decline in health. In most cases, they need extra support, beyond what their loved ones can offer and because they are no longer able to live independently.
During 2015-16, more than 2 in 3 people who began using aged care services specifically moved into residential aged care facilities.
The expectation for residents and their loved ones when they move into care is that every effort will be made to ensure they will be comfortable and well cared for.
Despite being well cared for many aged care residents live with chronic pain.
In instances where residents are unable to communicate their pain, there is an expectation that aged care facilities will have trained staff to monitor and assess their needs.
It is the responsibility of aged care facilities to deliver a standard of care to all of their residents.
The Aged Care Act 1997 set guidelines to support aged care facilities in how they manage and care for residents. In terms of pain management, the goals are that ‘all care recipients are as free as possible from pain’.
And for palliative care, the aims include “the comfort and dignity of terminally ill care recipients is maintained” and the “core components of palliative care is the relief of pain and other distressing symptoms”.
As many residents will have multiple conditions that can cause pain, and with one quarter of all deaths in Australia occurring in aged care facilities, these standards of care need particular focus.
Different studies have estimated that between 45% and 80% of residents in aged care facilities have substantial pain that is undertreated.
An Australian study found that while the vast majority (90.7%) of residents were prescribed an analgesic, there is still room for improvement.
Pain management was often suboptimal; there was high use of anti-anxiety medication in combination with opioid analgesics, and indicators that pain management was suboptimal in patients with dementia.
The high prevalence of dementia, sensory impairments and disability make pain assessment and management challenging in this population.
It is important that staff at aged care facilities aim to address this challenge and make their facility a pain-vigilant facility.
Pain management goes beyond the drug therapies that people may assume is standard for pain – rather it includes the process of recognition and reporting of pain too. Pain management in aged care is often multimodal, which can include a combination of pharmaceutical and non pharmaceutical therapies.
The inadequate treatment of pain has clinical consequences. It is associated with functional impairment, a higher risk of falls, mood changes such as depression and anxiety, disturbed sleep, lower levels of socialisation and behaviour changes such as agitation and aggression.
When aged care residents are in pain, it’s the responsibility of the aged care facilities to make sure their residents are “as free as possible from pain”.
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Mission: To ensure a safe and positive learning environment for students of the Alvord Unified School District during the after school hours by providing daily educational, recreational, and enrichment activities.
Schools, community members and organizations partnering together to ensure opportunities for life-long learning by providing more educational, recreational and enrichment possibilities for students.
HALF-Time is an intervention program for elementary school students who have been selected based on academic need. Recommendations come directly from the principal and teachers at the school. Following the admission of targeted students, additional students are added to the program on a first-come, first served basis. The program offers an hour of homework assistance with trained staff, an hour of computer based reading and math intervention/tutorial, a nutritional snack, and an hour of indoor and outdoor activities that are both fun and educational. Some activities offered include: arts & crafts; recreation such as jump rope, hula-hoops, and dance; and a cultural awareness program designed to introduce children to different cultures across the United States and around the world.
PRIME-Time students receive homework assistance from trained staff. PRIME-time provides students with a nutritional snack; after which, students can choose from a multitude of enrichment and recreational activities that will be offered throughout the week. Students are welcomed to participate in activities such as organized sports (like soccer, football, and basketball), drawing, painting, dance, music, skateboarding, and many more. Any middle school student currently enrolled can sign up and participate in PRIME-Time after school programs, as space allows.
Contact EXPANDED LEARNING
The Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELO-P) provides funding for afterschool and summer school enrichment programs for transitional kindergarten through middle school.
“Expanded learning” means before school, after school, summer, or intersession learning programs that focus on developing the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs and interests of pupils through hands-on, engaging learning experiences. It is the intent of the Legislature that expanded learning programs are pupil-centered, results-driven, include community partners, and complement, but do not replicate, learning activities in the regular school day and school year.
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January 20th 2017, President Trump signed an executive order to waive, defer, grant exemption, or delay the requirements of the ACA, that would impose a burden on individuals or families, medical providers, or purchasers of health care. The executive order gives the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services the power to enforce or not enforce the laws requirements.
As it stands, the executive order has not had an immediate impact on health plans or coverages.
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While AFAST is not a comprehensive examination on its own, it can be part of any veterinary standard protocol to maximize diagnostic yield. This session will discuss the use of TFAST for assessing a variety of presenting issues, especially in emergency situations.
Describe and understand the normal apperance of basic abdominal ultrasonographic anatomy
Evalaute the abdomen using the AFAST technique
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Perio Edition Episode 8
[Andrew Johnston, RDH]
Welcome back, everyone. You are listening to another episode of Fast Facts- Perio Edition brought to you by A Tale of Two Hygienists in partnership with DentistRX. And now, please welcome your host, Katrina Sanders.
[Katrina Sanders, RDH]
Welcome back to another episode of Fast Facts: Perio Edition with Katrina Sanders.Today, we are going to be talking about an outlier. You see, in previous episodes, we looked at the green, yellow, orange and red complex bacteria, but there is one guy who, for whatever reason, is just considered an outlier and doesn't necessarily fit in with the other complexities of these bacterium as they've been classified by Socransky, and that, my friends, is our good old friend, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans. Now this bacteria, lovingly termed AA, is classified almost as a pink complex bacteria because of the ways that it simply does not align with the other strikingly related measures of some of the other bacteria that we were looking at. Now Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is an interesting bug because this particular bacteria is also gram negative and is anaerobic. However, we have found this specific type of bacteria associated with endocarditis and we also believe that it may be a trigger for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, but I think we all remember from dental hygiene school that Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans AA was associated with aggressive periodontitis.
For a long time. It was believed that individuals who had rapid rate episodic diseases of the periodontium had higher levels of this type of a bacteria and so we actually had an entire classification system in 1999 that classified people with aggressive periodontitis, assuming that they had high levels of this type of bacteria.
However, in 2017, the American Academy of Periodontology came together and looked at the research, and although there were some pieces of evidence that did point to the fact that there was some plausibility that AA could be present in rapid rate episodic cases, we also saw that P. gingivalis showed up to the party and along with her, she brought her buddies Tannerella forsythia and Treponema denticola. And so the Academy could not say for certain that there was a specific pathophysiology, which is just a fancy term for saying this is a bacteria linked to this disease, associated with AA and aggressive perio.
So what do we know about AA? Currently this bacteria, we believe, is linked to other systemic diseases when it is able to create a systemic burden by entering the bloodstream and circulating through the body and more so, this particular bacteria, we have now agreed, is not specifically associated with rapid rate onset progression of periodontal disease, but rather a combination of bacteria in tandem with risk factors. This is where we've begun to adapt the grading aspect of the AAP staging and grading.
Thank you so much for joining me today for Fast Facts: Perio Edition with Katrina Sanders. Enjoy the rest of your week and I will see you at the same time, same place, right here for more Fast Facts.
This has been another episode of Fast Facts - Perio Edition with Katrina Sanders, RDH. Please feel free to reach me on Instagram @thedentalwinegenist or on my website www.KatrinaSanders.com Cheers.
[Andrew Johnston, RDH]
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The National Unitarian Fellowship has the function of reaching out to people who are too far from a nearest Unitarian chapel or who don't wish to attend the nearest chapel or chapels. A video has been put out of worship on 20th February at Great Hucklow in Derbyshire where Unitarians meet at their own Nightingale Centre. NUF people may want to view this.
It was edited quickly, and the worship was put together by individual contributions rather than as a more coherent service as would be put together by an individual. There was also no rehearsal. Apparently it is one done of two to edit. I can't say I recognise many in the short video, and whilst I might mumble about content (because it doesn't have coherence) I think they might have combined some inside sound with outside filming - the location is lost for those who don't know the setting.
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The Bible’s answer
There is no direct reference to dinosaurs in the Bible. However, the Bible credits God with having “created all things,” so it is evident that they were among the things he made.* (Revelation 4:11) Without mentioning dinosaurs specifically, the Bible does refer to groups of creatures that may include them:
“Great sea creatures,” or “monsters.”—Genesis 1:21; New American Bible.
“All the creeping animals of the ground.”—Genesis 1:25.
“The wild animals of the earth.”—Genesis 1:25.
Did dinosaurs evolve from other animals?
Rather than appearing gradually as if by evolution, dinosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record. This harmonizes with Bible statements showing that God created all the animals. For example, Psalm 146:6 describes God as “the Maker of heaven and earth, of the sea, and of all that is in them.”
When did the dinosaurs live?
The Bible describes sea and land animals as being created during the fifth and sixth days, or epochs, of creation.* (Genesis 1:20-25, 31) Thus, the Bible allows for the appearance and existence of dinosaurs over a lengthy period of time.
Were Behemoth and Leviathan dinosaurs?
No. Although these animals mentioned in the book of Job cannot be identified with certainty, Behemoth is generally identified as the hippopotamus and Leviathan as the crocodile. These identifications match the descriptions of them given in the Scriptures. (Job 40:15-23; 41:1, 14-17, 31) In any case, the terms “Behemoth” and “Leviathan” cannot refer to dinosaurs. God told Job to observe these animals personally, and Job lived long after the dinosaurs had passed off the scene.—Job 40:16; 41:8.
What happened to the dinosaurs?
The Bible does not comment on the disappearance of the dinosaurs. However, it does state that all things were created “because of [God’s] will,” so God clearly had a purpose for making dinosaurs. (Revelation 4:11) When that purpose was fulfilled, God allowed the dinosaurs to become extinct.
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The Ralston FieldLab is a revolutionary pressure calibration platform that transforms the way field and laboratory technicians do their job. By putting the instructions on how to do the test directly onto the FieldLab the user is now in much better control of the situation.
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How Can You Improve Your Performance?
Do you ever:
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A Review of One Nation Under God by Kevin Kruse: Many of the current candidates for the Republican Presidential nomination have already made pilgrimages to evangelical colleges and to conferences of fundamentalist religious groups. You don’t make it onto the list of GOP presidential possibilities unless you are able to proclaim that you would like to lead a God-loving, God-fearing nation to greatness and that your deep faith and personal piety are some of your strongest attributes. Some of the more extreme candidates profess that they would like a constitutional amendment that would proclaim that Christianity is the official state religion, this despite two hundred years of history in which there has been by law if not by fact some separation between church and state. Even Democratic candidates from the party perceived as more secular have to acknowledge their faith, put an American flag on their lapel, and end a speech with the familiar “God Bless America,” a practice that only became part of the public ritual during Ronald Reagan’s administration. One can recall that at the Democratic convention in 2004, the first-term Senator Barack Obama leaped into prominence by his proclamation that those in both the red and blue states worshipped an awesome god and the all Americans had been bequeathed by their creator the audacity of hope.
Liberals are both amused and troubled by the Christian right’s attempts to provide its own distorted vision of America’s past, insisting that the Founding Fathers, creatures of the Age of Enlightenment that exalted Reason more than Faith, were eager to place America’s laws in alignment with divine law. Though the deity is barely mentioned in America’s foundational creeds, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, today’s “strict constructions” believe that we were, have been, and must continue to be a Christian nation. The failure to uphold these beliefs will, according the Jeremiahs, leads to quick and inevitable decline.
It’s one of the great gifts of Princeton historian Kevin Kruse’s One Nation Under God (2013) to provide us with another forceful argument that delegitimizes the claims of the righteous politicians. Kruse’s work focuses primarily on the post-WWII decades, on a period when religion worked its way into political life in ways both subtle and bold. Beneath the supposedly placid surface of national life in the 50s, he sees many powerful social forces roiling, few stronger than the impulse for a new awakening. He focuses on a number of pieces of legislation, significant Supreme Court cases, and on a number of prominent actors in the contest between a secular and sacred America.
The place of religion in America’s political life was an outgrowth, in part, of an ntensifying Cold War. The godless Soviet Union was the world’s other post-war superpower, and one clear way to distinguish the differences between the US and its rival was to underscore the Christian foundations of American life and the deep religious faith of the American people. The Cold War was a battle between competing economic models, but it was also an ideological struggle that had a strong religious component. To be sure, many of the nation’s clergy volunteered for or were recruited into the struggle. Church attendance and declarations of religious affiliation swelled during the 1950’s.
What Kruse adds to the explanation is the role played by America’s business leaders and captains of industry, powerful men fearful that Soviet-style socialism would infect an already unruly American labor force and curtail the profiteering possible in an open, unregulated capitalistic system. The Depression was a foretaste of a possible greater catastrophe and New Deal legislation designed to increase dependence on an ever-expanding government needed to be rolled back. The Social Gospel, invoked to reduce the hardships of life under capitalism, needed to be challenged by a different kind of scriptural reading. Thus, as the subtitle of Kruse’s history indicates, Corporate America Invented Christian America.
America’s plutocrats, not always a demonstrably religious lot, jumped in bed with the preachers and Protestant church leaders to address the alleged spiritual crisis facing American, suggesting that obedience to God’s law would ensure the survival of capitalism and the defeat of the Soviet Union. Spiritual Mobilization movements spread through the years after the end of WWII and evangelical ministers like Billy Graham rose to prominence and commanded considerable influence in conservative America political circles. Graham is the best known of these clergymen given both his ability to fill football stadiums for religious revivals in the 50s and for his life-long intimacy with Republican presidents, especially Richard Nixon. From Kruse’s perspective, Graham and his evangelical brethren provide the religious cover for the animus against working people and later against student anti-war protesters. It was a particular brand of Christianity that Graham preached, one that placed emphasis on those passages in the scriptures that stressed obedience to authority, belief in God’s abiding providence in times of social turmoil, and a soft nostalgia for the more stable days of the past. On more than friendly terms with bankers, corporate boards and Hollywood story tellers (like Disney and DeMille), Graham provide the piety that was easily fused with patriotism and profit.
The emergence of the National Prayer Breakfast, initiated during Eisenhower’s administration and brought to a kind of perfection in the Nixon and Reagan presidencies is also a telling indicator of the push to sacralize American political life. Meant as displays of national unity, they were often read by outsiders as exercises in endorsing an exclusionary brand of Christianity: white, male and rich. Kruse finds it relevant that the public relations managers – Haldeman for Nixon, Mike Deaver for Reagan – both came to political life from big advertising agencies like J. Walter Thompson, which provided creativity and cash to the spiritual mobilization movements. Kruse restrains his desire to call out hypocrisy. Nevertheless, there’s the suggestion that events like the National Prayer Breakfasts were a part of the cynical symbol-making strategies used by not too pious Presidents who saw the need to give the public a bit of “the religion thing.” The public could be easily led to believe that a divorced ex-actor who rarely went to church was a deeply religious man.
Kruse provides a sharp accounting of the ways in which “In God We Trust” appeared on our currency and “Under God” got inserted in the Pledge of Allegiance. Both of these manifestations of “ceremonial deism” came about in the 1950s during the administration of Dwight Eisenhower, who given his late 19th century religious upbringing in rural Kansas, was sympathetic to religious nationalism. In his farewell address, Eisenhower warned us about the rise of the “military-industrial complex.” He would not have thought to warn us about the emerging “religious-political complex.” He was an enthusiastic general in the vigilant army battling spiritual malaise.
Easy passage of the legislation on additions to the currency and the pledge emboldened evangelicals to seek ratification of legislations promoting school prayer, displaying the Ten Commandments in courthouse, and criminalizing the desecration of the American flag. This was not to be the case. All of these causes have been used to great advantage by voter-seeking conservative politicians, but once in office, they have not been able to move the bill. Although the American public had come to accept the interaction between religion and politics, it was not ready to complete shelve the First Amendment. On issues like school prayer, it was often religious leaders who lead the opposition. They worried not only about the different faith traditions in an American classroom but also about the superficiality and the ineffectiveness of a routinized school exercise. Fundamentalists were able to win a few skirmishes and were left to whine that there was a perpetual War Against Christmas.
At a time when more and more Americans are “unchurched” or identify themselves as atheists or secularists, the evangelicals seem to have become more robust in their energies, more passionate in their convictions. While the Epilogue to Kruse’s history takes us into the 21st century presidents, Bush 43 and Obama, he makes no predictions for the future. But aware of how successful the evangelicals have been in making more permeable the wall of separation between church and state, it’s safe to say that he would not expect a sudden disappearance.
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I've discovered pigpio and am starting to learn to use it with Python. I thought I would use it to "discover" the pullup status of a pin before setting it, but while mode has both
.get_mode() methods as shown in this documentation, there is only the
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Question: Is there a way to read the pullup status of a GPIO pin in python with, or if not, without pigpio?
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Smart City Strategy: Barcelona (Spain)
The City of Barcelona has been using ICT to improve urban functions for more than a decade now, with dispersed projects running in various departments. It also has a long experience in developing Living Lab initiatives. Today the City of Barcelona is in the process of developing a formal smart city strategy. After a major organizational reform, the Urban Habitat Department (the ‘Smart City’ department) was created. It is a new umbrella structure to coordinate services previously provisioned by individual City Departments regarding infrastructure, ICT, urban services, urban planning, environment, housing, architecture, energy and water, etc.. Thus, previously siloed governmental departments are called to synchronize their strategies to achieve common goals. In addition, the formal strategy has a global outlook, seeking to forge an open environment for the collaboration among government, industry, academia and citizens. It comprises three individual axes: ‘international promotion’, ‘international collaboration’ and ‘local projects’. The number of local projects is over 100 –some examples are the New Municipal Network, Energy efficiency in buildings, Smart Lighting, Smart Water, Smart Transportation, Smart Citizens, O-Government & efficiency, Optimized Waste Collection.
Figure: The three axes of Barcelona’s Smart City strategy (source)
Access the website of Barcelona smart city here.
Suggested readings about Barcelona Smart City:
- Ajuntament de Barcelona (2013). Barcelona Smart City; The vision, focus and projects of the City of Barcelona in the context of Smart Cities. Available here.
- Ajuntament de Barcelona (2012). Barcelona Smart City Tour. Available here.
- Bakici, T., Almirall, E., & Wareham, J. (2012). A Smart City Initiative: the Case of Barcelona. Journal of the knowledge economy. Special Issue: Smart Cities and the Future Internet in Europe, 135-148. doi: 10.1007/s13132-012-0084-9. Available here. | <urn:uuid:ececdb59-82ca-462b-8f62-53db2ccd4624> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.urenio.org/2015/01/15/smart-city-strategy-barcelona-spain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.857131 | 415 | 2.421875 | 2 |
7 Practical Ways to Make You Look Sharp in Your Clothes
Have you ever been to a place and immediately felt awkward because you became “the overdressed guy”. Yes, you did not do it on purpose, you just wanted to make a good first impression.
There’s a difference between dressing up and looking sharp and today’s goal is to help you look sharp and avoid overdressing. Here are the basic principles.
READ ALSO: PART 2: Things Every Sharp Guys Should Own
- Know The Dress Code: Where you are going to is as important as knowing the dress code. The environment matters a lot. This does not mean you must dress exactly like everyone, but be aware of the dress code. Always refer to what is acceptable so you don’t stick out wherever you go.
- Upgrade The Quality: Clothes with better quality sharpen your look further with emphasis on the small details but remember that not all occasions call for top-quality clothing. Sometimes it’s about how modest you are.
- Understand Your Fit: Knowing that fit is the number one rule to wearing anything well cannot be overemphasized. Clothes that are too big make you look shorter, sloppy and bigger. Whether you are on a budget or not, slimming your shirt down, or tucking a pair of jeans changes everything.
- Find Your Colors: Everybody has the colours that look best on them. The best way to find that out is by referencing your skin tone. Colours that flatter you the most create a strong contrast with your skin. Studies show black, white and grey are neutral colours – meaning most clothes don’t look strikingly odd in them.
- Use Accessories: Accessories are not only for women and you need to know that people might notice an accessory( wristwatch, bag or pair of sunglasses) before they look at anything else. So accessories to bring the best out of your clothes.
- Pair your outfit with confidence: No matter how much we go on and on about dressing up nicely, it will all be for nothing if your personality does not carry just as much weight. Clothes don’t tell the whole story, they alone don’t fully impress, you must be personable as well.
- Wear Versatile Outfits: There are cases when you’re not 100% sure how to dress as you might be heading to different places on the same day. The solution is to wear an outfit that can “transform” into something less formal while still looking good and your options are a jacket or fancy tie. These are items you can easily take off or put back on and they make a huge difference.
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The Weighty Issue of Two-Handed Greatswords
By J. Clements
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Popular media, fantasy games, and uninformed historians frequently give the impression that these immense weapons were awkward, unwieldy and ponderously heavy. The facts confirm an entirely different understanding.
Identification - Definition of the Two-Handed Great Sword
To understand what we are discussing it is important to first have a working definition. The respected work, Swords and Hilt Weapons, offers this description of the weapon:
"The two-handed sword was a specialized and effective infantry weapon, and was recognized as such in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Although large, measuring 60-70 in/150-175 cm overall, it was not as hefty as it looked, weighing something of the order of 5-8 lbs/2.3-3.6 kg. In the hands of the Swiss and German infantrymen it was lethal, and its use was considered as special skill, often meriting extra pay. Fifteenth-century examples usually have an expanded cruciform hilt, sometimes with side rings on one or both sides of the quillon block. This was the form which remained dominant in Italy during the sixteenth century, but in Germany a more flamboyant form developed. Two-handed swords typically have a generous ricasso to allow the blade to be safely gripped below the quillons and thus wielded more effectively at close quarters. Triangular or pointed projections, known as flukes, were added at the base of the ricasso to defend the hand." (Coe et al, p. 48)
In contrast to longswords, technically, true two-handed swords (epee's a deux main) or "two-handers" were actually Renaissance, not Medieval weapons. They are really those specialized forms of the later 1500-1600s, such as the Swiss/German Dopplehänder ("double-hander") or Bidenhänder ("both-hander"). The popular names Zweihander / Zweyhander are actually relatively modern not historical terms. English ones were sometimes referred to as "slaughter-swords" after the German, Schlachterschwerter ("battle swords"). While used similarly to longswords, and even employed in some duels, they were not identical in handling or performance. No major historical teachings detailing fencing with these specific weapons are known. These weapons were used primarily for fighting among pike-squares where they would hack paths through knocking aside poles, possibly even lobbing the ends off opposing halberds and pikes then slashing and stabbing among the ranks. Wielded by the largest and most impressive soldiers (Doppelsoldners, who received double pay), they were also used to guard banners and castle walls. The Italian humanist historian Paulus Jovius writing in the early 1500s also described the two-hand great sword as being used by Swiss soldiers to chop the shafts of pikes at the battle of Fornovo in 1495.
Many of these weapons have compound-hilts with side-rings and enlarged cross-guards of up to 12 inches. Most have small, pointed lugs or flanges protruding from their blades 4-8 inches below their guard. These parrierhaken or "parrying hooks" act almost as a secondary guard for the ricasso to catch and bind other weapons or prevent them from sliding down into the hands. They make up for the weapon's slowness on the defence and can allow another blade to be momentarily trapped or bound up. They can also be used to strike with. Certain wave or flame-bladed two-handed swords have come to be known by collectors as flamberges, although they are more appropriately known as flammards or flambards (the German, Flammenschwert). The wave-blade form is visually striking but really no more effective in its cutting than a straight one. There were also huge two-handed blades known as "bearing-swords" or "parade-swords" (Paratschwert), weighing up to 10 or even 15 pounds and which were intended only for carrying in ceremonial processions and parades.
Dr. Hans-Peter Hils in his 1985 dissertation on the work of the great 14th century master Johannes Liechtenauer noted that since the 19th century many arms museum collections typically feature immense parade or bearing greatswords as if they were actual combat weapons ignoring the fact they are not only blunt edged, but of impractical size and weight as well as poorly balanced for effective use. (Hils, p. 269-286). Though never intended for actual fighting, examples of such ponderous specimens are still occasionally cited incorrectly as having been actual combat weapons.
One source tells us that among 16th century armies the adoption of the two-handers was very limited and in comparison with the pike or the halberd did not play a meaningful role. “In the infantry unit, the German and Swiss Landsknechts positioned the Doppelsöldner (Soldiers who received double pay for wielding the two-handers) in the front ranks for a long time to strike down the opposing pikes and to hack out breaches into which one's own soldiers could penetrate. However it would become unusable, as soon as the opposing forces collided with one another, and there would be increased pressure from the back ranks onto the front ranks, which created a thick melee.” Thus, “sometime around the middle of the 16th century it (the two-hander) disappeared from war and mutated into a form of guard and ceremonial weapon with a symbolic character.” (Kamniker and Krenn, p. 130).
As one writer says of the weapon, "Among the smaller countries where mercenary bands were likely to develop---the Low Countries, the Italian city states, and the free cities and states of the German lands---the Swiss became premier two-handed swordsmen for hire from the 14th century until well into the 16th century. The two-handed sword and the multipurpose polearm, called the halberd, were familiar Swiss trademarks. The Swiss and Germans made their own two-handed swords. The Italians made a basic two-hander that they exported throughout Europe. Two-handed swordsmen were perimeter shock troops, trained to lay into approaching knights or infantry and break their stride. By the end of the 15th century, however, the Swiss had turned almost exclusively to the 17- to 18-foot pike as their weapon of choice, becoming the premier pikemen of Europe. The two-handed sword was considered incompatible with the pike and was actually outlawed as a frontline weapon by many confederation members--though the Swiss kept making them. The two-hander remained a popular weapon among many other European mercenaries, in Italy and particularly in Germany." (William J. McPeak. "For a Swordsmen with Muscle as Well as Skill, Two Hands Could be Better Than One." Military History, Oct 2001, Vol. 18. Issue 4, p 24).
Answering the Weight Question - how much did the actual historic weapons really weigh?
Nothing answers the question of genuine weight better than sample evidence of actual historical specimens. Sword collector and author Dr. Lee Jones possesses a very fine specimen of a 16th century German two-handed great sword, that this author had the privilege of exercising outdoors with, had length in excess of five feet and a weight of 7.9 pounds (3490g), but handled easily with superb balance. Curator of arms for the Hungarian Military History Museum in Budapest, László Töl, describes a very fine specimen of another 16th century German two-handed great sword of 53.4 inches length, which this author also had the privilege of examining, as weighing only a little over 8 pounds. Again, the piece's size and weight betrayed a functional and well-balanced weapon. László Töl adds: "The full length of the sword is 1808 mm, the full length of the blade is 1355 mm, the edge of the blade is 936 mm long, the length of the hilt is 306 mm, and the diameter of the cross-guard is 502 mm. The width of the blade is 46 mm, and its thickness is 7.5 mm. The 'neck' of the blade is 8.6 mm thick and 32 mm wide. The centre of gravity is 616 mm from the pommel. The sword weighs 3650g. The blade's cross-section is rhomboid in shape."
A 15th century two-handed Federschwert (practice sword) of 51.5 inches in length now at the Swiss National Landesmuseum weighs in at only 3.12lbs (1.415kg). Another warsword there of 48 inches in length weighs 4.63lbs (2.10kg), and an acutely tapered one of a length of 46.7 inches weighs in at only 3.018lbs (1.369kg). By comparison, a single-hand sword of 38-inches in the same collection weighed 3.28lbs (1.495kg).
The author has handled two-handed greatswords at the British Royal Armouries in Leeds that were distinctly identifiable as fighting weapons. The current curator of European edged weapons, Robert C. Woosnam-Savage, at the Royal Armouries writes:
Arms authority, David Edge, former head curator and current conservator of the famed Wallace Collection museum in London, similarly states for us:
ARMA consultant Henrik Andersson of the Livrustkammaren, Swedish Royal Armoury of Stockholm, provides a table with the following measurements on two-handed and greatswords in the collection there. The author and his colleagues have handled several of these pieces:
Note that unlike ceremonial specimens, none of the fighting weapons exceeded 4 pounds and the heaviest ceremonial was less than 11. The catlog of the famous arsenal in Graz, Austria, contains similar weights for its two-handed great sword specimens.
Historical fencing researcher and author, Grzegorz Zabinski, observes, "It can be assumed that the two-handed infantry swords were a culminating point of one of the directions of the evolution of swords, that aimed to increase their efficiency against plate by means of increasing their dimensions and weight, and, quite naturally, their impact." Zabinski offers sample data for a range of two-handed infantry swords from the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries at the excellent collection of such weapons housed in the State Art Collection at the Royal Castle of Wawel, Krakow, Poland:
A practical explanation for the futility of especially heavy weapons is that they are slow. In physics terms, doubling the mass of a weapon can provide twice the strike energy, but doubling the velocity of a strike provides four times the energy.
Below is a table of measurements from 69 two-handed great swords from the 16th century in the famed Austrian arsenal of Graz (K. Kamniker and P. Krenn, p. 139-152). Note that the average weight is less than 8 pounds at an average length of 67 inches. The weapons in the collection range up to 5 pounds difference in their weight. The lightest weapon, a slender blade, is just over than 3.3 pounds (at roughly 57 inches long) while the heaviest, a large and elaborately hilted piece, is no more than 13 pounds (at about 78 inches a long):
A sword's weight cannot be judged just from its size or blade width. Hilt style and blade cross-section are determining factors in a weapon's mass. Just because a blade is thinner does not mean it is necessarily lighter. For example, an Italian side-sword from circa 1550-1560 of 43.5 inches length weighs in at only 2 pounds 6 ounces, while a typical rapier that is much more slender bladed from the same era but just a few inches longer, weighs 2 pounds 9 ounces and still another only 5 inches longer at 3 pounds 3 ounces.From the late 1400s, a large double-handed Kriegsmesser (or "war knife") of 49.5 inches length is listed as weighing only 3.8 pounds (see the Metropolitan's 1982, Art of Chivalry, p. 90 & 93-94 for samples).
One historian states, "The true two-handers really did require two hands, though their overall weight averaged only about 8 to 10 pounds. With blades of up to 45 inches or more, the hilts had to be at least 9 inches to counterbalance such a long blade. The crossguard's length also helped in distributing weight." (William J. McPeak. "For a Swordsmen with Muscle as Well as Skill, Two Hands Could be Better Than One". Military History, Oct 2001, Vol. 18. Issue 4, p 24).
Despite the facts above, many are convinced today that these large swords simply are, or even have to be, exceptionally heavy. The view is not one limited to modern times. For example, Thomas Page's otherwise unremarkable 1746 military fencing booklet, The Use of the Broad Sword, exclaimed nonsense about earlier swords that became largely accepted as fact in the 19th (and 20th) century. Revealing something of how much things in that period had changed from earlier skills and knowledge of martial fencing, declared how their: "Form was rude, and their use without Method. They were the Instruments of Strength, not the Weapons of Art. The Sword was enormous length and breadth, heavy and unwieldy, design'd only for right down chopping by the Force of a strong Arm." (Page, p. A3). Page's views were not uncommon among fencers then used to featherweight smallswords and the occasional saber and short cutlass.
European sword making technologies throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance were quite capable of producing high-quality, lightweight, and flexible steel blades for cutting swords that could hold keen edges. These weapons were not intended to defeat heavy plate armor with powerful cuts but did evolve from those longswords that were developed for use against armors by thrusting rather than cutting. Handling real specimens of some of these enormous but beautiful weapons [such as seen in the three images to the right] is enlightening, for their size betrays their exceptional balance. It very quickly becomes clear they were intended for large fighting men to deliver not only powerful slashing blows but great stabbing attacks as well as pole-weapon-like techniques. Large as they were, they were not ridiculously heavy.
For more than a century two-handed greatswords were used less for fighting against armors and more for open battlefield where pike and halberd formations were combined with firearms. Accordingly, just as with its shorter single-hand cousins, the late 15th and early 16th century two-handed greatsword was not a crude excessively heavy bludgeoning weapon but a fairly agile and balanced weapon designed for close-combat in war and occasional duel.
Appreciation to Grzegorz Zabinski for sharing additional data and Stewart Feil for editing assistance. All quotes here are provided by permission of the sources.
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In John 15, we have the Lord’s blueprint for the “abundant life” (John 10:10) He promised each of us. And no, that life doesn’t involve expensive cars or vacation homes or buckets of cash or having Your Best Life Now! The abundant life in Him is defined by being able to bear His fruit and bearing it in ever-increasing quantities. Or, like Jesus said, “more” fruit, then “much” fruit, and finally “fruit that will remain.” Consider the following:
“Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away, and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” (John 15:2)
“By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.” (John 15:8)
“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.” (John 15:16)
Unless the church fully understands the importance of bearing the fruit of Christ, the Vine, this incredible teaching of Jesus will have little meaning or lasting effect on our lives. Or on the lives of those we try to influence with the Word, our spouse, our friends, our parents, children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. We must come to a clear understanding that the only purpose for the branch, the only reason you and I were created and chosen in Him (Eph. 1:4), is to bear the fruit of the vine. And the only one who benefits from the fruit we bear, is the Vinedresser, the Father. The one key to hearing “Well done, good and faithful servant” (Matt. 25:23), is our commitment to being nothing but branches, committed totally to bearing His fruit.
As we said last week, there is no other way.
The key to bearing His fruit is tied up in the single word, abide. Last week we defined the word abide (ménō) as to “remain, dwell, live”, but always, in John’s writings, with the idea of a relationship in view. However, in John 15, the definition of abide (ménō) expands to mean “to be and remain united with Jesus, one with Him in heart, mind, and will, and to remain steadfast, unwavering in that relationship.” That understanding of abide (ménō) puts this entire passage under a new, incredible light.
So how do we bear His fruit? Or what part do we play in this divine equation? Simple, abide. It’s hard to do in real life, but it’s simple, nonetheless.
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.” (John 15:4)
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5)
“If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.” (John 15:6)
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” (John 15:7)
“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.” (John 15:9)
“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.” (John 15:10)
Remember, this is only the beginning. If you can capture the joy of abiding in Him as a dependent branch, a life of abundant joy (John 10:10) is right around the corner. So buckle up! | <urn:uuid:5a618e0c-3921-4e17-9291-cf4cc4db9325> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://player.captivate.fm/episode/e3c80353-65a5-4a39-b0d5-7766fdb6dabb | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957085 | 901 | 1.5 | 2 |
S.B. Chandrashekharaiah has close to three decades of experience in the power sector. During this time, he has work ed on automation, SCADA systems, and power system communications. He has been working with Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) since 1991 and is currently superintendent engineer-SCADA at the SLDC, KPTCL.
On the current state of the sector, Chandrashekharaiah says, “Many changes have taken place over the past few years, the biggest being the growing penetration of renewable energy generation. Moreover, the country has moved from electricity shortage towards surplus.” He believes the next big change will be the growth of distribution automation and technologies such as IoT and use of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Further, microgrids and solar rooftop are expected to scale up significantly. According to him, the biggest challenges facing the sector are implementing proper communication technologies for automation and extending quality power to consumers.
Chandrashekharaiah is immensely proud of his organisation and lists some of its big achievements as such: “We have implemented SCADA across the entire network, along the length and breadth of the state, up to the 11 kV feeder level. We have achieved a high level of automation with respect to transmission and even sub-transmission.” Some of the planned initiatives of the company are the implementation of automatic generation control, improvement in infrastructure for load shifting, expansion of the transmission network, and addition of new transformers to strengthen the state transmission sytem.
Chandrashekharaiah’s most memorable assignments include the responsibility for renovating one of the oldest and biggest substations in the state, and the renovation and modernisation of one of the biggest SCADA networks in the country. “I have been a part of the design, execution and maintenance teams. Not one day has been monotonous in my career, which makes me happy as a professional.” In terms of management style, he believes that everybody should own their work and complete it within the timeline. Chandrashekharaiah studied electrical and electronics engineering at Mysore University and later taught at the Siddaganga Institute of Technology in Karnataka. He considers M. Visvesvaraya and Mahatma Gandhi as his role models and his mantra is “living a simple life”. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and farming. | <urn:uuid:1949f1be-c933-4a98-a55a-b7842d57eec4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://powerline.net.in/2021/11/08/s-b-chandrashekharaiah/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.960916 | 499 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Time to Unwind
Social distancing has some in a panic, and for others it’s been seen as a means to get things done, spend time with our families, and relax. The truth is we have no control over how we’re being asked to respond to this, but we can control how we use this time as we are forced to slow down.
The following are a list of things we can do to stay busy, keep moving, and remain connected – even when we are cleared to engage with others again.
Family Movie Night
Binge watching a series is fun, but when was the last time you actually set aside a few hours to watch a movie as a family? Get out the blankets and pillows, make a comfortable spot, get out the popcorn, and watch something you all love.
It’s just you and your partner? Perfect. Light some candles, and all of the above can be just as relaxing.
When was the last time you all got together and played a game? There is no better time than now to pull out the Monopoly, Jenga, Uno, Cards with Humanity, Scrabble, or whatever your favourite game is. A little healthy competition is a fun way to distract yourself and unwind with your loved ones.
If you’re feeling ultra competitive, make it into a tournament!
Clean out the Garage
Spring cleaning has not been cancelled. The weather is getting warmer and now is the perfect time to spend a few hours outside cleaning the garage, airing it out, and organizing all the things you’ve thrown in there over the winter.
If you use it for storage and garbage bins, it’s perfect weather for spraying down the bins and pulling out your gardening supplies.
If you use it for your car, power washing the salt off the floor and airing it out are a great way to begin a new season.
Open those windows and use your time to finally get that painting done. A fresh coat of paint is an inexpensive way to change the entire look of a room, or to brighten up an area that was beginning to lose its lustre. Don’t forget to get the family involved, painting is something that can easily be a group effort. Children over the age of 7 can be useful, and they’ll enjoy having some responsibility in the family’s redecorating efforts.
If you are lucky enough to live near a park or ravine, nature is putting on a show for us. Robins are out, foliage is growing, all of the dead leaves and plants are being replaced with life! Take a walk with your children, play a game of I spy, count the clouds, and sing songs. You’re making memories.
No children? You can still do all of the above, or enjoy the peacefulness of silence and a good book.
We Don’t Have to be Sedentary
The truth is, social distancing doesn’t mean you are sitting on your couch for an indefinite amount of time. It’s crucial that we keep our minds working, our bodies moving, and our mood elevated. This doesn’t mean filling every moment of the day with scheduled activities, rather find some sort of balance that works for your family or environment and work with that. This break from the everyday hustle can work in our favour by allowing us the opportunity to reconnect with ourselves, each other, and nature.
Until we are free to safely socialize again, let’s make the best of this time.
Simple Ways To Support Your Immune System
Reduce or eliminate sugar from your diet. Simple or refined sugars wreak havoc on your digestive and immune systems. It is possible to eliminate all simple and refined sugars from your diet, it just takes some time (I recommend doing this slowly) and adjustments to your lifestyle.
Get enough sleep. This looks different for different people, but 6-8 hours of solid sleep should be enough. If you are able to take a short nap in the afternoon, do so. If you feel yourself unnaturally tired in the afternoon and are unable to nap, you should be sleeping longer during the night. Your body needs good sleep in order to rest and rejuvenate itself adequately.
Vitamin D. Sunshine is our greatest source of vitamin D. Going for a long walk outside will increase your body’s vitamin D and provide a much needed change of events during your day.
Stay active. We can not stress this enough. Physical activity keeps your blood flowing, your muscles limber, your skeletal system strong, and your mood intact. All of which contribute to a strong immune system. Go for a walk, paint your home, do some jumping jacks, try an online exercise program, start a virtual exercise club with friends and challenge each other.
Enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables. It’s easy to slip into unhealthy eating habits during this chaos. That’s why you need to purposely make meals as healthy as possible and enjoy a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables during the day. Apples, squash, cucumbers, peppers, carrots, and sweet potatoes are just some of the fruits and vegetables that can last for a while without perishing.
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Life on earth is a rollercoaster ride of emotions and our reactions to these emotions. All too often, we coaster through life, unaware of our behavioral choices and even worse, unable to consider the possibility that we could have made better choices for ourselves along the way. According to Cindy Glass, Founder and Owners of Step Up Education Centres says, “Self-awareness is the first skill in emotional intelligence and it sets the precedent for the growth and development of all emotional intelligence skills. Being able to look at ourselves honestly, and without negative judgement, will enable and empower us to achieve greater success in all that we do. This, of course, applies to our children and their personal and academic learning as well.”
She adds that self-awareness skills will help your children become aware of their emotions and behaviours and make better choices in all that they do. They will also experience better personal relationships as they become aware of the emotions, behaviours and choices of others. “It is important to note that self-awareness includes skills in being aware of positive and negative emotions, behaviours and choices. It is about learning to own these choices, learn from the mistakes and consider what behaviours will be best in any situation,” Cindy explains.
She offers the following helpful tips to teach your child this essential life skill:
- Create an environment where your children are free to recognise and acknowledge their mistakes and achievements in a non-judgmental, non-frightening way. Remember that it is fear of negative consequences that often hold us back from admitting mistakes to ourselves. And yet, if we cannot own a mistake, how can we find a positive solution to fix it?
- Don’t allow the blame-game. Blaming others for the choices that we have made disempowers us and reduces our opportunity to grow and learn from our choices and experiences.
- You are your child’s first and most powerful teacher – set the example! Teach your children the power of self-awareness by being self-aware! Remember that we are all on that rollercoaster that we call life and learning is a life-long gift. Teach your children to be kind to themselves in their uniqueness and imperfections, just as you are kind toward yourself.
- Teach your children to recognise and honour their own talents and not to compare themselves to anyone else. We must remember that we are ALL on this journey and we all have interesting and wonderful ways in which we can choose to live our lives. Different is not less. Non-judgmental self-awareness is essential. Positive self-worth is everything!
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55pc of teens use voice search daily: Google
The Mobile Voice Study by the Mountain View, CA, provider of search, online-advertising technologies and other Internet products and services found that 55 percent of teens aged 13-18 use voice search every day, while 56 percent of adults said using voice search makes them feel tech-savvy. The study points to the importance of marketers understanding that mobile - especially with voice search - is a much more personal experience for people, and often they are not looking to immediately make that easily measurable conversion that informs budget planning and tends to define marketing success.
?Mobile searchers are looking for answers to questions they have in the moment, and the more that brands focus on building out content and marketing plans that allow them to listen thoughtfully and provide valuable responses, the more they can build the personal relationship with the consumer, even if that search doesn?t results in an immediate sale,? said Jeremy Hull, associate director of paid search at iProspect, Boston.
?It?s not about just shouting a marketing message at them - it?s about being part of the conversation.?
Google could not be reached for comment.
Examining search habits
The study was commissioned by Google and executed by Northstar Research, a global consulting firm. It examined the smartphone voice search habits of 1,400 Americans, age 13 and older (400 age 13-17 and 1,000 adults over 18).
Using voice search to shop for a car.
Both age groups talk to their phones while watching TV (38 percent) and wish voice search could help them find the remote control (41 percent).
The study also found that 40 percent use voice search to ask for directions, 39 percent use the feature to dictate a text message and 32 percent do so to make a phone call.
Among adult Americans, 23 percent use voice search when cooking. Fifty-one percent of teens and 32 percent of adults use voice search just for fun. Twenty-seven percent use voice search to check the weather.
Seventy-six of all Americans think voice search is great for multitasking. 59 percent of teens and 36 percent of adults use the their phone's voice search while watching TV and 22 percent of teens claim to use it "when I'm in the bathroom".
When asked to pick one thing they wished they could ask their phones to do for them, 45 percent of American teens selected "send me a pizza."
More pragmatic adults wished they could ask their phone to "tell me where my keys are," though "send me a pizza" was also popular among 36 percent of adults.
Among Americans of all ages, Northeasterners are the nation's most active voice searchers, with 50 percent using it at least once per day. New Yorkers are the likeliest Americans to use voice search to ask about the weather (43 percent). The trends in different age groups contain gold for mobile marketers.
?Depending on the age range of your target market, you should look at how people of different ages are using voice search and review your site content to make sure you?re providing valuable answers to the questions your audience is asking, in an adaptive format so the answers are easy to consume on smartphones,? Mr. Hull said.
The study?s revelation that much of voice search is focused on core functionality of mobile devices parallels the emergence of touchscreens as a revolutionary technology.
?It?s not surprising that so much of voice search is focused on core functionality of smart devices,? Mr. Hull said. ?Just as the touchscreen revolutionized smartphones, voice search is changing how users interact with their devices, and the point of entry for voice search is learning how to replicate typical activities on your phone by speaking to it.?
The most important thing for marketers is to ensure they have great quality data, and that they are distributing this data to the sources that provide answers to these questions, Mr. Hull said.
Google?s study comes as the company grapples with a challenge from retailers? struggles to streamline mobile purchasing and understand the mobile path to purchase as well as persistently lower cost-per-click rates on mobile.
In July, interviews with search experts in response to Google?s second quarter results, revealed that a year after Google introduced Enhanced Campaigns to make it easier for marketers to buy search ads across devices, the strategy appears to be driving higher paid search spends.
Mobile search growing
Mobile continues to grow as a percentage of overall paid search, with smartphones accounting for 30 percent of paid search in the first half of 2014 and expected to reach 40 percent by the end of the year, according to new data from Adobe.
Using voice search to find a midweek movie on the New Jersey Shore.
Marketers can learn from the way that voice search separates itself from the rest of the search tools by breaking the traditional starting point of search.
?Search is no longer a destination you go to,? Mr Hull said. ?Instead, it?s an activity that?s integrated into your daily life. The traditional big three in search (in the U.S.) are Google, Bing, and Yahoo, but if you look at voice search, there?s not a one-to-one correlation. Instead you have Google Voice Search, Siri, and Cortana.?
?Here?s an interesting experiment,? he said. ?Ask an iPhone user what search engine Siri uses. Unless you?re a power-user who has dug into the menus and customized your settings, Siri uses Bing, which most are surprised to hear.?
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Listen to your inner voice. Are you your own best friend or worst enemy?
Working in the gym I come in contact with a lot of people and most of the time, I can tell if someone is their own best friend or their worst enemy.
Have you ever thought about how we talk to ourselves, and how we can get in our own way when it comes to making changes and improving our lives?
When we think about it, it’s very eye-opening, because I think a lot of us say things to ourselves about ourselves that we would never think to say to someone else!
I am no better than anyone else. My inner voice isn’t always gentle and I can be guilty of being my worst critic, too, but I’ve learned to be a friendly critic and change some of my inner dialogue.
Today, I’m going to share how important it is to monitor that little voice in your head to help you FEEL better in your mind, body and spirit … and help make progress toward all your goals!
Best Friend or Worst Enemy?
Let’s be honest, friends can tell us things we don’t want to hear and still be our friends and sometimes being a little judgy can help us improve, right? But when does that go too far?
If you pay attention to that voice, and you know what one I’m talking about… you’re not alone. It’s probably the biggest stumbling block that we ALL have in making healthy changes in our lives!
That voice can nag at you, put you down, judge how well you do things or what you look like, constantly tell you all the things you should be doing versus what you’re actually doing, I would venture to say that there are a lot of occasions where you are saying things to yourself that you wouldn’t dream of saying to someone else!
How often have you had a setback or did something you didn’t think was “perfect,” then that darn little “voice” went on and blew things way out of proportion and turned into a rant about how your life – or at least one area of your life – is just one big failure?
This voice can be on autopilot, focusing only on the negative things in your life. It might write off anything positive that happens as a fluke. It can call you names, or label you in some kind of negative way. It can also make you set impossibly high standards so that you feel overwhelmed or defeated before you even do anything!
But there’s something to remember about that voice. Just like with our behaviors, you can get into habits with your thinking without even realizing it. It’s kind of like biting your nails or twirling your earrings!
Become your own BFF
We can change our relationship with ourselves if we can change our words and we can start by changing our habits. Habits aren’t hard and fast, with a little time and effort, we can CHANGE them! That nagging, critical inner voice can be there out of HABIT. And you ABSOLUTELY can turn it around.
It’s important to remember that you are NOT your thoughts. You have thoughts, and they come and go. And over time, as long as you’re paying attention, you can begin to put them in their place.
Eckhart Tolle has a great quote:
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
The real power you have is being able to consciously create and choose certain thoughts over others.
We can change our world if we can only change our thoughts.
Your body responds to your mind, so if you’re allowing your thoughts to run wild like a stampede, there’s no telling what the end result will be.
One thing that I say to my clients on a regular basis is:
Be careful what you say to yourself in your mind, your body is listening. If you say you can’t do it, you can’t. I promise you you can do whatever you set your mind to.
You can change the dialog in your inner voice and the things that you say in your mind slowly. Every time you catch yourself saying things like I can’t… or I’m not good enough to… tack on the word ‘yet’ at the end.
Change your thoughts and you can change your world
So, how do you change your thoughts?
- First of all, you have to pay attention to that inner voice and what it’s saying. Being “AWARE” of the conversation in your head is the most important piece of the puzzle.
- Every time you start to head down a negative or judgy road with yourself, stop and replace that thought with something positive.
- With practice, you can start changing your stories and begin telling yourself things like:
I am healthy and strong
I can try that
I will get better with practice
I’m getting better
I am not my past
I’ve got this
In a very short period of time, you can feel more motivated and confident in your abilities.
Can you think of some other ways that you can change your thoughts to help you feel better?
I realize that you may think this is frivolous or weird… but just in case it does, TRY it before you judge it. 🙂
When we can learn to love ourselves and be our best friend rather than our worst enemy we can change how we view the world and that will show in the goals we set and the steps we take to reach them.
Treat yourself with respect and love and you’ll start to feel more motivated almost immediately! You deserve it.
Are you in for paying attention to your inner voice today, and CONSCIOUSLY creating the thoughts that you want to embody? If you find yourself having a negative thought write it down and ask yourself, what would you say to your friend if it was your friend that had said that to you? Start changing your inner dialogue. You can change your entire world.
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Eastern Beach Gibraltar
Eastern Beach is a beautiful sandy beach on the northeastern coast of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located on the isthmus which joins the Rock of Gibraltar to Spain. The beach extends from the north of Catalan Bay to the runway of Gibraltar International Airport near the Gibraltar-Spain border. Although only several hundred metres long it is the largest beach on The Rock.
The surrounding urban area is both residential and industrial. Unlike most of Gibraltar’s other beaches, which are at times deprived of sunshine by the shadow of The Rock, Eastern Beach enjoys sunshine all day through until sunset.
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We at Bywater Books are deeply saddened to share the passing of author and journalist Jesse Blackadder. She lived fiercely and authentically and touched thousands with her words and actions, and her work with StoryBoard through the Byron Writers Festival inspired an entire generation of young queer Australian writers and readers. She passed away in hospice care on June 10, 2020, after a six-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 56.
Dr. Jesse Blackadder was an award-winning author of nine novels for adults and children, an emerging screenwriter, an inspiring public speaker, and a creative writing teacher. She was a passionate youth literacy advocate, and volunteered with Room to Read, a non-profit working to transform the lives of millions of children by improving literacy and gender equality in education.
She studied creative writing (along with film and photography) on her way to a BA in Communication at the University of Technology in Sydney. She also received a Master of Applied Science in Social Ecology and a Doctor of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University. And she joyfully spent much time as a writer in residence in Alaska, outback Australia, Byron Bay, Charles Sturt University Wagga, and Varuna, The Writers’ House.
Jesse was an adventurer at heart and was the recipient of the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship in 2011, which she used to research a historic novel titled Chasing the Light about Ingrid Christensen, the first woman to see Antarctica. The novel offers glimpses into the life of a woman on an Antarctic whaling ship in the 1930s, but it also explores the devastation wrought on the populations in the Southern Ocean by the whaling trade.
She was awarded a second Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship in 2018, which she used to spend a summer at Mawson Station where she collaborated with television writer, producer, and creator Jane Allen on an adventure novel about the first children’s expedition to Antarctica, and a contemporary television drama series about life on an Antarctic research station.
Jesse Blackadder was more than a fiction writer, and wrote extensively across a range of media, and shared the experiences of her Antarctic trips through social media and magazine articles and as the subject for her academic project, presentations and lectures. Her article “Heroines on the Ice” focused on female experiences of Antarctica and appeared in Australian Geographic in March 2013. Her essay ‘The first woman and the last dog in Antarctica’ won the 2012 Guy Morrison Prize for Literary Journalism.
In 2012, Bywater Books released the paperback and eBook versions of her stunning novel, The Raven’s Heart, a sweeping, imaginative and original tale of political intrigue, misplaced loyalty, secret passion and implacable revenge that is based on real free citation generator characters and events from the reign of Mary Queen of Scots.
Jesse Blackadder was much more than a woman of words—she touched so many hearts and lives and seized each moment and every opportunity, spreading joy, and offering inspiration to all who crossed her path. She leaves behind a loving partner, a favorite aunt, and a world full of adoring friends.
“The Hume clan will live and die, babies will be born, men will grow old, women will dance and plough fields, the stars turn in the sky, the rocks crumble and fall and still that river will run, no matter who claims it.
Black running water, water with no history, water that does not know its name. I turn my face away from Scotland and into the wind.”
From THE RAVEN’S HEART (page 440)
In the Blink of an Eye (published in the USA by St Martins Press & in Australia as Sixty Seconds by HarperCollins)
Chasing the Light (HarperCollins, 2013)
The Raven’s Heart (HarperCollins 2011 & Bywater Books 2012)
After the Party (Hardie Grant Books 2005)
Dream Riders Book One: Frankie by Laura Bloom and Jesse Blackadder (Walker Books)
Dream Riders Book Two: Storm by Laura Bloom and Jesse Blackadder (Walker Books)
Stay the Last Dog in Antarctica (ABC Books)
Paruku the Desert Brumby (ABC Books)
Dexter the Courageous Koala (ABC Books)
The Raven’s Heart
Winner: 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award for Historical Fiction (USA)
Winner: 2013 Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Historical Fiction (USA)
Bronze Medal: 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards Historical Fiction (USA)
Finalist: 2013 Lambda Foundation Literary Awards (USA)
Finalist: 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Gay/Lesbian (USA)
Winner: Varuna HarperCollins Manuscript Development Award 2011 (AUS)
After the Party
Australian Book Review list of all-time favourite Australian novels (2010)
Chasing the Light
Winner: 2011/12 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship
Winner: 2012 Guy Morrison Prize for Literary Journalism (for the essay ‘The first woman and the last dog in Antarctica’)
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When I realized that I hadn’t had a respiratory infection since 2001 after my Lyme “flu,” I had a fantasy that if there were ever an epidemic respiratory disease, the Lyme bacteria would protect me. Some people I spoke to said that the way Lyme disease changes the human immune system does two things: first, it suppresses the part of the immune system that tries to attack the Lyme bacteria; second, it provides its own protection by killing off various other infections in the host that grow faster than it does. I can’t say this person had any kind of immunological research to back up their theory, but it fit with my experience. There were two other pieces of circumstantial evidence that corroborated their idea. One was a thing I had read about pediatricians who treat Lyme who say that a child isn’t better until they’ve had a cold and gotten over it by themselves. This was evidence that the immune system was working again. The other started in 2013 for me when I had my first cold. Whenever I have a Lyme flare, my lungs are clear, my upper respiratory system is also clear. But as soon as I get the Lyme into some kind of remission, I immediately get a cold.
In 2014, my cough lasted for several months. It was at that point in time, that I started to deal with respiratory issues over and over. For the past several years, I get sick with colds and bronchitis chronically. So my fantasy is over. I’m not really even pretending to think that Lyme would protect me from covid–19.
To make my life more complicated, right after I started disulfiram, my housemate came down with a severe respiratory infection. She’s been working in Santa Clara at a grocery store, right in the middle of a county where community transmission is rampant. My housemate only lives here part-time, and my coil machine is in the room where she sleeps. She’s been to the ER with breathing trouble, but without a fever she couldn’t get a test. We are still working on getting her tested. In the meantime, I’m assuming that my coil machine is covered with potentially infected surfaces. Thus the complication: I was planning to use the coil machine in conjunction with disulfiram, and for now I can’t.
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Lyme disease is a little more tricky. It seems like I still need to do something, and for now that something is taking broccolinate (sulforaphane glucosinolate) twice a day, but skipping the dose when I take the disulfiram dose. It’s less than ideal, but it seems to be enough for now.
I can tell I’m herxing more with each subsequent dose of disulfiram. I didn’t notice this so much the last time I took it until I was at a much higher dose. Mostly it’s loose bowels and some headaches and nausea. I find it tolerable.
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My original plan was to start coiling for Bartonella as soon as I needed to, since disulfiram causes a Bartonella flare as the Lyme starts to calm down. This is already starting to happen. In addition to some Bartonella symptoms, such as tingling in my feet first thing when I wake up in the morning, I have the cough I get as Lyme starts to go into remission.
When I took disulfiram last autumn, I didn’t take the Bartonella flare particularly seriously until it was much worse than I had experienced in a long time. This time around, at the first Bartonella tingle, I’ve jumped into action. In order to suppress the Bartonella as best as possible until I have access to the coil machine again, I’m taking oil of oregano (six drops twice a day), reishi, cordyceps, and Japanese knotweed. I suspect these will make me herx more, but if they keep the Bartonella from getting too crazy, that’s good enough. If they aren’t enough, I don’t have a new plan yet.
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Facebook groups have become a hotspot for Covid conspiracies—and a busy marketplace for ivermectin, essential oils and other anti-vax remedies. MSNBC Medical Contributor Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton and Mother Jones Senior Editor Kiera Butler explain why the U.S. is dangerously close to “losing in this battle” to get people vaccinated.
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The Minnesota Department of Agriculture says it's found two emerald ash borer-infested trees in the southeastern Minnesota city of La Crescent.
MDA entomologist Mark Abrahamson said finding the first infested trees is like discovering the tip of an iceberg. He said La Crescent officials should decide within a year on a management plan to treat or destroy infected trees.
"Even though it may take several years to get to the point where it's really bad we don't want to just let it go in the meantime," he said. "Every year we let it go it will get harder to, kind of, pull it back."
Infestations have also recently been found at the Fort Snelling golf course in St Paul, near Nicollet Island in Minneapolis, and in rural southeastern Houston County. Emerald ash borers have killed millions of trees in 18 states.
They are spread by moving infected ash products, like firewood.
La Cresent officials have scheduled a meeting for Jan. 16 to tell residents how ash trees on their property will be effected.
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