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The most rewarding part of my job as a psychiatrist is practicing psychotherapy, particularly when I’m able to help patients with severe mental health conditions like schizophrenia. I am disappointed when I hear people suggest that psychotherapy is really not the right treatment for patients with schizophrenia1. My goal in this article is to inform patients, their families and practitioners that psychotherapy can be a very important part of a patient’s recovery plan from schizophrenia. The list of possible therapies studied as a treatment for schizophrenia is vast, and choosing a type of therapy depends on you and your unique personal therapeutic goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the most widely studied therapy for schizophrenia, and involves first being more aware of your thoughts (cognitions), feelings and behaviors. You then work with your therapist to normalize and understand that some of your previous or current symptoms of schizophrenia (such as delusions, hallucinations or disorganized thinking) are part of your psychiatric condition. You can share these troubling experiences without being judged and use CBT to improve your understanding and coping skills. Published studies report that patients receiving CBT show improvements in positive (i.e.psychotic) symptoms (hallucinations, delusions), negative symptoms (lack of motivation, blunted facial expression, social withdrawal), functioning, mood, hopelessness, and social anxiety2.
Supportive therapy (ST) can provide you with a warm, supportive relationship where current problems can be discussed freely and worked on in partnership with your provider. It is generally less structured than other forms of therapy, and the scientific evidence for its effectiveness is not as strong as other treatments3.
Social Skills Training (SST) is a therapy focused on learning and practicing specific social skills in an effort to improve your life, and also involves making and achieving your individual goals towards recovery (i.e. getting a job, meeting new people, increasing enjoyable activities)4.
Cognitive Remediation (CR) works to improve or to find “workarounds” to the problems in thinking that often occur due to schizophrenia. Examples of CR goals could be improving concentration, memory, social awareness, or the ability to “think about your thinking” (metacognition)5.
Psychoeducation (PE) provides information to patients, and Family Intervention (FI) provides information to patients and their families about the diagnosis, realistic expectations and common issues or conflicts6.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy involves exploring your past life experiences and increasing your understanding into how previous emotional conflicts may be (unconsciously) influencing your current behavior. Studies show psychodynamic psychotherapy can provide improvements in a “target problem,” symptom level, and social functioning7. However, it might not be suitable for all patients.
In my clinical practice I usually use CBT for many of my patients. I have studied and learned other forms of therapy, but have found CBT to be the most flexible and efficient way to help my patients thrive. One patient of mine with schizophrenia (“Jeff”) has offered some comments about how psychotherapy has helped in his recovery journey, and I will close this article with his comments. It’s been a pleasure working with Jeff and I am incredibly proud of his progress!
“Therapy has helped me understand myself and my symptoms much better. I used to see the world as a much scarier place and feel much more paranoid than I do now. I still hear voices every day, but thanks to therapy I understand them, I react to them in a totally different way, and they bother me much less. Once I’m able to use CBT to tackle an issue that’s bothering me I notice a significant drop in my stress level. I’m much better able to keep calm in situations where there are a lot of people, noises, and bright lights. In therapy I get a space to discuss things that are very difficult for me to talk about. Building trust was essential for me, and it gave me the opportunity to get these things off my chest. Finally, there have been times in my life where it would have been very easy to just “give up,” but doing this therapy has helped me maintain hope and motivation. I don’t feel like I’m “cured,” but I’m handling my life so much better than I used to!”
- Kuller, A. M., Ott, B. D., Goisman, R. M., Wainwright, L. D., & Rabin, R. J. (2010). Cognitive behavioral therapy and schizophrenia: A survey of clinical practices and views on efficacy in the United States and United Kingdom. Community mental health journal, 46(1), 2-9.
- Wykes, T., Steel, C., Everitt, B., & Tarrier, N. (2008). Cognitive behavior therapy for schizophrenia: effect sizes, clinical models, and methodological rigor. Schizophrenia bulletin, 34(3), 523-537.
- Buckley, L. A., Maayan, N., Soares‐Weiser, K., & Adams, C. E. (2015). Supportive therapy for schizophrenia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (4).
- Granholm, E., & Harvey, P. D. (2018). Social skills training for negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia bulletin, 44(3), 472-474.
- Barlati, S., Deste, G., De Peri, L., Ariu, C., & Vita, A. (2013). Cognitive remediation in schizophrenia: current status and future perspectives. Schizophrenia research and treatment, 2013.
- Girón, M., Nova-Fernández, F., Mañá-Alvarenga, S., Nolasco, A., Molina-Habas, A., Fernández-Yañez, A., … & Gómez-Beneyto, M. (2015). How does family intervention improve the outcome of people with schizophrenia?. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 50(3), 379-387.
- Leichsenring, F., Rabung, S., & Leibing, E. (2004). The efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy in specific psychiatric disorders: a meta-analysis. Archives of general psychiatry, 61(12), 1208-1216. | <urn:uuid:7bda3e12-bba1-4af0-920d-6b6231cf4c59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://curesz.org/2020/07/01/talk-to-your-doctor-combining-psychotherapy-with-medications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.918287 | 1,342 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Chlorine dioxide. Smallpox ended by protests. Hemorrhagic J&J-fever. Face deficiencies. Rare earths
Lajv 21:00 om klordioxid, Protester utrotade smittkoppor, Hemorragisk J&J-feber, gruvor, hälsa, mm
🇸🇪 Kvällens lajv-sändning kl 21:00: https://www.facebook.com/HenrikWallinPage/posts/3105479436399696
#ClO2 #MMS #CDS #ChlorineDioxide #klordioxid
Curious Human Productions Brighteon.com Channel: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/curiousoutlier
Curious Human Productions Bit Chute Channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/vrPbyKTAWm0N
Andreas Kalcker said in the documentary that there are cases when it doesn't work and patients have died, but that isn't common. The ClO2 oxidize the body or body part which helps the body to turn harmful acids into safe alkalines.
ClO2, MMS, CDS also helps the body recorver after training.
"Chlorine Dioxide cures every ailment from colds, flu, parasites, COVID spike proteins and yes even Cancer. The Government, FDA and CDC are desperate to keep this information from people because Chlorine Dioxide is used in so many applications that they cannot take it off the market. This is what Trump mentioned as a COVID cure that made the entire establishment flip out and the MSM start attacking it as bleach. It is NOT bleach, ask any chemist. It is completely harmless unless you take a massive overdose. Most anything overdosed will kill you, If you drink to much water you will die."
Church of health and healing that uses the term MMS for ClO2:
Chlorine Dioxide Solution also known as MMS (Master Mineral Solution) is made of Sodium Chlorite 28% (22.4 Sodium Chlorite 5.6% Inert Salts and the remainder water) and an acid activator (usually 50% Citric Acid or 4% Hydrochloric Acid).
See links to the MMS Health Recovery Guidebook, which however isn’t available online, but this is:
Andreas Kalcker's channel with CDS and how to make it in different languages: https://odysee.com/@Kalcker:7
In English: https://odysee.com/@Kalcker:7/How_to_make_CDS:a
🇸🇪 Vatten 300-350 ml
🇸🇪 Natriumklorit 25%-ig: 5ml
🇸🇪 Saltsyra 4%-ig (andra syror kan användas också) 5ml
🇸🇪 Blir 1000 PPM
🇸🇪 Andra steget
🇸🇪+ 5ml NaCl + 5ml HCL
🇸🇪 => 3000 PPM (Japp, andra steget ger fler PPM med samma mängd)
The smallpox pandemic was ended with mass protests and new health measures that were opposed by the medical community
Eventually, one of the largest protests of the century occurred in 1885 in Leicester (an English city). Leicester‘s government was replaced, mandatory vaccination abolished, and public health measures rejected by the medical community were implemented. These measures were highly successful, and once adopted globally ended the smallpox epidemic, something most erroneously believed arose from vaccination.
Update: Smallpox is back in Yemen: https://vaccinefromhell.com/planet-lockdown-coming-smallpox/ Looks 99.999% like a bioweapon.
Get ready for the Hemorrhagic Fever pandemic with the cure!
I would take this with a grain of salt or maybe cholorine dioxide: According to Dr. Yan, there is already a cure and the CCP is in the process of procuring as much of it as possible. It is a Johnson & Johnson drug called Darzalex (daratumumab). According to Cancer.org, the drug is currently used to treat multiple myeloma, but Dr. Yan said the CCP discovered it is effective against their new bioweapon as well.
Darzalex costs 19 144 SEK ($20 500 USD) for 20 ml, but what is needed for the hemorrhagic fever? https://www.kronansapotek.se/DARZALEX/p/149279/
So there is an expensive product from J&J that is just waiting for a virus designed to be “cured” by it. What if there are much cheaper cures? No profit for the virus-makers - The same old opium empire that have worked for at least 400 years to profit from making people sick and controllable, and they own CCP and J&J.
Update: Natural news has some ideas about cheaper and better cures: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-02-14-shock-claim-china-has-released-another-bioweapon-during-the-olympic-games-hemorrhagic-fever-virus.html
Awaken With JP explains mass formation
Much more fun than listening to Dr Mattias Desmet or Dr Robert Malone:
This Canadian trucker gets the madness and that there is no retreat from this protest, and as the Trudeau regime can’t back down either, it has to fall:
Using your face instead of a lab test
Some good reminders from Dr Eric Berg about skin problems. B1 for problems under your eyes, B2 helps with dry lips, more omega-3 and less omage-6 helps with scaly pily flaky skin around the nose, and of course less sugar and carbs helps against acne and everything.
Good that things are going in the expected direction as the world is decoupling from CCP. As I’ve talked about before, the huge iron ore mines in for example Sweden, but also Brazil and Australia can produce enormous amounts of rare earth mineral if they just have access to cheap energy. Rare earth minerals aren’t that rare, but they are pretty evenly distributed in the crust and it’s rare to find them concentrated somewhere. So my prediction is that most rare earth minerals will come from other mines as their side products, but there are a lot I don’t know about mining or how cheap energy will be stopped by the governments, so I just want to put the idea out there so that we can move the mines and governments in the right direction.
Piike pretending to be a sheep in every summer:
Video: 350+ years of central banking shit-show
Moderna’s CEO banned himself from Twitter for thinking truth?
Moderna @moderna_txWhat if #mRNA could treat life-threatening #cardiovascular diseases such as #HeartFailure? We are collaborating with @AstraZeneca on an mRNA therapeutic (AZD8601) that encodes for VEGF-A to promote recovery of cardiac function through tissue regeneration. https://t.co/qkEesxsmhO https://t.co/3f3HUdbMWT
And he has sold some 12% of his Moderna stock. That seems like it was a smart move:
Dags att börja lyssna på fritänkande sjuksköterskor och läkare i stället för på politiker, byråkrater, kriminella företag och deras väl tränade slavar med “läkarexamen”: | <urn:uuid:5b4e1401-d8c2-4e6f-afaf-73be86e9b941> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://heddahenrik.substack.com/p/jjfever | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.89353 | 1,683 | 1.578125 | 2 |
How does Detroit compare to other bankrupt cities?
It's been just over a week since Detroit became the largest city in American history to file for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 9.
Until now, that unwanted distinction belonged to Stockton, California.
Earlier this year, Bridge Magazine writer Ron French wrote an article about his visit to bankrupt Stockton and Vallejo, a California town that has emerged from bankruptcy.
As Ron puts it, if Stockton is an example of a city just being diagnosed with fiscal "cancer," Vallejo is a community that has finished chemotherapy. And so far nobody seems particularly thrilled with the results.
Ron French joined us today.
According to French, Detroit, Stockton, and Vallejo have a lot in common. For example, all were very generous to city employees.
“What you had were very generous benefits in both Stockton and Vallejo for city employees that ended up being unsustainable once the housing market collapsed. And in these cities the housing values, a lot like in Detroit, dropped between 50 and 70%,” he said. “So your property taxes take a nose dive, and suddenly there’s no way to pay the pensions and pay the health care and pay the salaries that you’re offering to the city employees.”
In Stockton, a loophole allowed for some city employees to get paid more in retirement than they did while working.
In both California cities, crime has become a major problem as a result of the bankruptcy. In Vallejo, police stopped responding to burglaries and citizens had to form neighborhood watches to try to make up for it.
“The city manager of Vallejo said if he had any piece of advice for Detroit, it's that if you declare bankruptcy, don’t be timid about it,” said French. “If you’re going to rip the bandage off, do it quickly and cut even more than you think you need to.”
French said that Kevyn Orr’s goal of getting city services up to an acceptable level is incompatible with the bankruptcy.
“It’s a very tough process. Vallejo said if there’s any way to avoid it, don’t do it. Obviously, Kevyn Orr chose to feel that there isn’t a way to avoid it,” he said. “As far as getting city services increased at the same time that you’re trying to cut all this, I think it’s going to be tough if you use Vallejo and Stockton as an example.”
According to French, no one in Stockton or Vallejo had anything positive or encouraging to say about bankruptcy.
-Michelle Nelson, Michigan Radio Newsroom
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Australia’s peak community sector and youth affairs bodies have welcomed a joint bipartisan parliamentary committee finding that two of the Government’s proposed changes to youth payments are incompatible with Australia’s human rights obligations.
In a report published last week, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights chaired by Liberal senator Dean Smith, found that both the proposal to deny young people income support for six months of every year, and to lift the age of eligibility for the Newstart Allowance from 22 to 25 years, breach Australia’s human rights obligations.
The Australian Council of Social Services and the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition said the report is a final indictment on the flawed legislation which should now be dismissed by the Senate.
‘The Senate should today reject any compromise deal which would deprive young people of income support for any period, whether it is one or six months. As the joint committee found in its report, the Government has failed to explain how young people are expected to survive, let along participate, with no income”, ACOSS chief executive Dr Cassandra Goldie said.
‘With estimates that more than 100,000 young people would be affected, any brokered deal would have devastating impacts on those affected.
‘This measure would see the government breach its part of the mutual obligation deal. Governments have a duty to provide income support and to help people to get a job, while people who are unemployed are required to search for jobs and participate in employment programs.’
Australian Youth Affairs Coalition national director Leo Fieldgrass said the proposed changes to income support would push young Australians into poverty and increase youth homelessness.
‘With youth unemployment rates at sky-high levels, punishing young people for not having jobs is inconceivable,’ he said.
‘The Prime Minister recently told the United Nations that Australia leads by example. By rejecting this legislation, senators can lead by example and show how highly we value our young people and their human rights,’ Mr Fieldgrass grass said
Dr Goldie said excluding young people from eligibility for income support altogether was ‘a breach of the government’s side of the social contract under our safety net system and a breach of international human rights law, as the joint committee has found’.
‘We urge the government to respect the findings of this important committee established to protect fundamental human rights. We are pleased to hear a number of cross-benchers give assurances that they won’t accept any compromise deal and we urge other Senators to do the same,’ Dr Goldie said. | <urn:uuid:0bce0829-afd3-4241-a21d-e55062ff11e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.echo.net.au/2014/09/govts-proposed-dole-changes-breach-human-rights/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956307 | 522 | 1.78125 | 2 |
A Scalable Tree-Based Approach for Joint Object and Pose Recognition
Recognizing possibly thousands of objects is a crucial capability for an autonomous agent to understand and interact with everyday environments. Practical object recognition comes in multiple forms: Is this a coffee mug (category recognition). Is this Alice's coffee mug? (instance recognition). Is the mug with the handle facing left or right? (pose recognition). We present a scalable framework, Object-Pose Tree, which efficiently organizes data into a semantically structured tree. The tree structure enables both scalable training and testing, allowing us to solve recognition over thousands of object poses in near real-time. Moreover, by simultaneously optimizing all three tasks, our approach outperforms standard nearest neighbor and 1-vs-all classifications, with large improvements on pose recognition. We evaluate the proposed technique on a dataset of 300 household objects collected using a Kinect-style 3D camera. Experiments demonstrate that our system achieves robust and efficient object category, instance, and pose recognition on challenging everyday objects. | <urn:uuid:f12dfd31-2656-4c9e-b68d-f7aa8259d389> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/7986 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.898893 | 211 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Henry Charlier of Boise, Idaho on hoists a 34.0-pound Common carp caught from the Snake River below C.J. Strike Reservoir. The large carp was big enough to land a new rod/reel certified weight state record.
Congratulations to Henry Charlier of Boise on landing a 34-pound common carp from the Snake River. Henry wrangled the lunker carp while fishing the stretch below CJ Strike Reservoir on May 3, 2021. The fish beats the previously-held record of 30.4 pounds, set by Alexander Veenstra last December. As an avid angler, Henry enjoys the challenge of chasing big carp, which can be very challenging to catch on conventional tackle.
Most of Idaho's record carp have typically been landed using archery (bow fishing) equipment. In 2016, Idaho Fish and Game separated the archery records, opening the door for new rod/reel records for carp, suckers and other non-game species. While carp are an extremely popular sport fish in Europe, carp fishing in the US has been slow to catch on. Common carp reach huge sizes, fight hard and are challenging to catch, making them a favorite among anglers willing to learn how to hook them.
Common carp are native to Asia, but were introduced to Europe somewhere in the 12th -13th century, where they were widely domesticated and farmed for food. Historical accounts suggest carp were imported to the U.S. from Germany somewhere around 1877. They were soon brought to Idaho to be cultured as a food source, and have since spread throughout the Snake River system. | <urn:uuid:f9ffd650-24bf-41d7-8b9b-138e92bd0524> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://idfg.idaho.gov/blog/2021/05/boise-angler-sets-rodreel-carp-record | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963186 | 328 | 2.25 | 2 |
Words by Nicola Manuel
Nicola has had to practice bravery at a level many of us can’t understand, she remains modest, driven and wonderfully stubborn.
At the age of 27 Nicola’s life was turned upside down. On no particular day, it might of been a Saturday, she’d gone for a coffee with a friend and they were busy chatting all things illustration when she had her what was to be first of many seizures. At the time Nicola had no idea what was happening and it was only when she awoke in the ambulance on the way to Kings hospital, London, that she began to realise what had happened. The obligatory tests were at first unclear, Nicola had never suffered anything like this before, but after a few more tests it became apparent that Nicola had a brain tumor. The unfortunate reality is Nicola has had to temporarily shift her aspirations. However, despite a complete change in the way Nicola now lives her day to day life, she remains incredibly positive with a great enthusiasm for life and has now become a advocate for all those experiencing similar circumstances. Nicola has had to practice bravery at a level many of us can’t understand, she remains modest, driven and wonderfully stubborn. We interviewed her on the topic of bravery, dissecting the word at the most challenging point in her life and in the aftermath of her brain tumour understanding how she continues to exercise bravery everyday.
I see people’s bravery reflected in the strength they use day-in-day-out, from overcoming fears of swimming or even going to the gym, to choosing to make a statement about what they wear.
I can’t think of anyone who would disagree you have had be incredibly brave but what does the term ‘bravery’ mean to you? Everything and anything! It means a hell of a lot when it comes to cancer, even more so if it’s a brain tumour, I really had to use all my strength to fight off my tumour, it took a hell of a lot of willpower. That’s bravery to me, the ability to persevere in face of it, to fight all the way. You mentioned it took a hell of a lot of willpower, where did you find that willpower? Did you know it existed within you before that point? I kind of knew it was there, and at that point in my life it had to come out! If not then, when? It was going to help with beating Terry’s butt… [Nicola modestly named her tumour - Terry] This may seem like a an obvious question now, but have you ever had to practice ‘bravery’? It was during my Terry time, I had to battle him to the ground! Bravery helped me do that, when I felt most vulnerable, my bravery allowed me to keep going and I am so glad it did, as I now have a significant amount happening in my life. Bravery was also the thing that allowed me to push boundaries, I have completed walks of 26 miles, presented on Sky News and donated my birthday money to charity. You have really had to practice bravery and a lot of people describe you as brave, but what do you think it means to have ‘bravery’? If you’re human then it’s a natural feeling really - that’s all that can be said. How you choose to implement it is up to you, but we all have it. You have had experiences in life that many can’t relate to and hopefully many will never have to experience, but how has your experiences changed your understanding of ‘bravery’? Oh, it’s changed completely! During my brain tumour - I had to find a bravery like I had never known before! Before that I thought the bravest I had ever been was when I was bullied at school. I was bit of a wimp but you need courage and a lot of strength when it comes to beating those who call you rude words and pick on you. Bravery helped me overcome that and helped to put me in a much better place, as it has again while fighting off cancer. What about other people, have you ever admired ‘bravery’ in another person - when and why? Yes of course! I’ve just watched Stronger, a film adaptation on Jeff Bauman, the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing attack survivor. In the film it showed him before and after the marathon and his support for Erin Hurley, now his wife. He was outstanding and continued his life no matter what, again it’s that bravery in perseverance that I really admire. But much closer to home I see people’s bravery reflected in the strength they use day-in-day-out, from overcoming fears of swimming or even going to the gym, to choosing to make a statement about what they wear. Do you think there is a difference between a men’s term of 'bravery' and a women’s? None at all! Finally, is there anything you that you haven’t been brave enough to do - why? Having had a cancerous brain tumour helps put things into perspective, I now am in the frame of mind that I can’t not take any risks throughout my life - so with that in mind I’m strong enough to try everything and anything and that is an incredible feeling.
Nicola is a strong woman who doesn't take ‘no’ for an answer! Independent minded she is a patient and driven, whilst supporting anyone or anything to do with brain tumours. She has a degree in Graphic Arts: Illustration and she dived straight in to world of work after graduating and made her way into one of the top creative agencies. She loves creative books - making, feeling, creating and smelling them and plans to one day have a library in her house. And she adores orange. Anything orange.
The purpose of Artemis is to increase the range and diversity of stories shared and written by women. Therefore, Artemis has one rule, nominate! To write for us you must either nominate someone or have been nominated, so if know you a woman who has a great story to share, fill in the details below! | <urn:uuid:4a7abfed-5a4c-49c8-9267-334ea5809b05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thisisartemis.com/practicing-bravery.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.988258 | 1,297 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The aims of PAVE are
The basic concept is to establish new strategies and approaches for cancer vaccines as a primary objective, in conjunction with modulation of the tumour microenvironment (TME), in the treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). In the PAVE project, we will use a new generation of nanoparticle (NP)-based vaccines for long-term immunity. In tandem, one of our study goals will be to also improve the availability of relevant experimental animal models that are replicative of the human immune system, where currently new cancer immunotherapies need to be evaluated.
Our hypothesis is that by manipulating the TME by the components of the first nanoparticle (NP1) and incorporating multiple immunomodulating components into a second nanoparticle (NP2) to make a nanovaccine, we can achieve both activation of the immune system and penetration of T cells to its site of action as illustrated in the following figure
As there are very limited human models, and at best, only inadequate mouse models available for testing all the aspects of immunotherapy, porcine models will be developed for the proposed work to help create new generation vaccines with enhanced anti-tumour potency.
Preliminary research by our partner DTU demonstrated the pig as an ideal model for human vaccine development (Overgaard NH et al, Frontiers in genetics, 2017). Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase and Ras homolog gene family member C, which are also important for human cancer development and progression, were shown to respond very well in the pig model.
These preliminary data will accelerate our understanding of how the cancer evades current (chemo -and radiotherapeutic) state-of-the-art interventions, which allows cancer to progress unchecked. Ultimately, the translation of cancer vaccines into clinical applicability will require overcoming the immune tolerance and suppression of the immune system in the TME. The similarity of the porcine model to human pathophysiology will allow testing innovative NP-based vaccines with multiple, rather than single, encapsulated immunomodulating components. This will provide more accurate translation of host-tumour interactions and tumour immune escape mechanisms towards understanding the process in humans. This is essential to prevent late stage failures in immune-therapeutics and to develop more effective cancer vaccines.
- to elicit long-term immunity against PDAC, using multicomponent nanovaccines;
- to produce adequate preclinical models and assays, which will be more relevant for testing these new immunological approaches; and
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Species with ecological (habitat, dietary) specialization and low reproductive output may be at particular risk from anthropogenic habitat disturbance. We studied growth, reproduction and diet of the threatened broad-headed snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides), a small nocturnal elapid from sandstone habitats in south-eastern Australia. Our data suggest that the life-history traits and diets of broad-headed snakes contribute to their vulnerability. Rather than searching actively for prey (like most sympatric elapids), broad-headed snakes wait under rocks to ambush prey. In consequence, these snakes feed infrequently, grow slowly, mature late and reproduce infrequently (compared with other sympatric snake species). Because of an ontogenetic shift in food habits, populations of broad-headed snakes require access to high densities of velvet geckos (in rock outcrops) as well as small mammals (in adjacent woodland). The specialized diet, reliance upon two distinctive habitats, low rate of growth, delayed maturation and low reproductive output may have exacerbated the vulnerability of broad-headed snakes to habitat destruction. All of these traits may be due to the species' reliance upon ambush predation rather than active foraging. A broader analysis supports the hypothesis that foraging mode may contribute to endangerment: a disproportionate number of 'threatened' species of Australian elapid snakes rely on ambush predation. | <urn:uuid:97b98728-286b-4e06-8201-d1d343efc1b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/ecological-characteristics-of-a-threatened-snake-species-ihoploce | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.899589 | 288 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Acoustic Emission (AE) is a term normally associated with high frequency sounds or vibrations that are emitted from materials or structures under load and potentially approaching failure. The high frequency sounds or vibrations are the stress waves produced by the sudden internal redistribution of stress within the materials caused by changes in the internal structure of the material. Crack growth due to fatigue, hydrogen embrittlement, stress corrosion, and creep can be detected and located by the use of AE technology. AE technology is also widely employed in the non-destructive testing for structural integrity of materials and structures made from composite materials. Fiber breakage, matrix cracking, and delamination are three mechanisms that can produce AE signals when stress is applied to the material or structure.
AE techniques have been in use for decades to detect leaks in pressurized piping. If the surface of the pipe is exposed, the location of the leak can sometimes be determined by visual methods. If the pipe is coated or buried or otherwise concealed, one can sometimes estimate the approximate location by measuring the amplitude of the acoustic emission signals produced by the leak. If a leak occurs due to the growth of a fatigue crack at high pressures, it tends to “weep” one drop at a time (for liquids) and does not leave much visual evidence of its presence. In this situation the leak is easily detected by acoustic emission techniques but not so easily located based on the amplitude of the acoustic emission signal or visual methods without sophisticated signal processing techniques.
Several different signal processing techniques are routinely employed in order to properly capture, analyse and interpret AE events. Different AE sensor and signal processing techniques are used based on the component and structure under test and the expected signal level of the noise or vibration of interest. AE equipment can be specifically tuned to respond to frequencies normally associated with the leakage of pressurized fluid or gas through a small opening to a lower pressure area inside a pipe or valve and is thus an effective tool for detection of leakage (passing) in valves that are expected to provide tight shutoff. Score has taken this one step further by developing algorithms that can estimate the actual leakage rate in many applications. | <urn:uuid:b58f67c0-fa18-4cb1-8bdf-e7b786a3524d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.midasvalvediagnostics.com/acoustic-emissions/what-is-ae.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.939072 | 428 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Archdiocese Educates on Support for Those with Special Needs
February 20, 2013
In the Catholic Church, the faithful are called to live out the virtues of faith, hope and love. This is also the theme of the Archdiocese of Washington’s fifth annual Faith, Deafness and Disabilities Conference. The conference will begin with Mass, celebrated by Bishop Martin D. Holley, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, and will be followed by several workshops.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
The Catholic University of America
Pryzbyla Student Center
620 Michigan Avenue, NE
Mark K. Shriver, Vice President of U.S. Programs for Save the Children, will offer an afternoon keynote address on how the good work of those advocating on belief of the special needs community is fostering a future of hope
The conference will educate participants on how archdiocesan programs and local communities can work together to support those with special needs. Information about new community-based programs, Catholic faith-based programs, and resources readily available for persons who are deaf and persons with disabilities, their families, friends and advocates will be presented. The conference will address a broad range of topics, including sibling support, health care planning and recreation programs, estate planning, support for veterans, new resources in sacramental preparation and adult faith formation.
The conference offers the workshops in English, Spanish and American Sign Language. Additionally, free care will be available for children with special needs and their siblings, allowing their parents to focus on the workshops.
The primary sponsor of the conference is Potomac Community Resources, Inc., which provides recreational and social opportunities for teens and adults with developmental differences. Other sponsors include the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Institute of Catholic Charities; which has provided services and support for infants, children and adults with disabilities for more than 50 years; the Catholic Coalition for Special Education, Catholic radio station WMET 1160 AM, and the Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind.
The general registration fee is $25 and scholarships are available. For more information, contact [email protected] or 301-853-4560, or go to by clicking here.
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Now here is a typical pub quiz question for you, albeit not an easy one.
What is the connection between the small town of Crickhowell in South Wales and the Pen Y-Gwryd hotel in North-West Wales?
If you do not know the answer, then read on…
On the fourth of July 1790, George Everest was born at his family estate of Gwernvale Manor, just outside Crickhowell. He was educated at a military school and joined the East India Company at the age of 16. He eventually joined the Great Trigometric Survey as an assistant, the survey covering about 2,400 kilometres, from southernmost India to Nepal.
Everest was appointed superintendent of the survey in 1823 and in 1830 was promoted to Surveyor General of India. The survey was completed in 1841 and Everest resigned and returned to England in 1843. He had previously been a Fellow of the Royal Society and he was knighted in 1861.
The survey identified the highest point on Earth as being 8849 meters, and after much resurveying and recalculation, it was named Peak XV, pending an official naming. Normally a local name would have been allocated, but the borders of Tibet and Nepal were closed at that time, and there was much disagreement about what the name should be, due to multiple local names. Eventually Everest’s successor, Andrew Waugh, proposed that the peak be named Mount Everest after his predecessor, and it was made official in 1865.
It is ironic that Everest never saw the mountain, nor did he want it to be named after him, but the name persisted. He died the next year.
Despite several attempts, the first being in 1921, Mount Everest was not conquered until 29 May 1953, when Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) and Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986) made the first successful ascent. It was Tenzing Norgay’s sixth attempt.
The team that made the first successful attempt on Everest, was led by Colonel John Hunt (1910-1988), and was sponsored by The Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club. In all the team would eventually include eleven chosen climbers, only four of whom were selected to make the final ascent, plus about 350 porters and support staff.
For their preparations for the attempt, the climbing team was based in the Pen-Y-Gwyrd hotel, in Snowdonia, and it was on the nearby mountains they trained and tested out their equipment. The Pen-Y-Gwyrd Hotel is about 7 km west of Capel Curig, at the junction of the A4086 and the A448. It was built in 1810 as a farmhouse, later becoming a coaching inn and hotel.
Now you may wonder why a team about to attempt to climb Mount Everest for the first time should have based their training and the testing of their equipment in an area of what appear to be cuddly little hills. Indeed, as the photo of my two eldest sons can attest, scaling the highest point in Snowdonia, Mount Snowdon, on a beautiful summer day, would hardly present much of a challenge to future conquerors of Everest.
But the weather in Snowdonia can quickly change and become extreme, especially during the winter months, as I well know from my own experience, when I went hiking there with a Welsh friend during a late December break. Before starting out, I asked the parking attendant about the weather prospects for that day and he replied ‘Rain, rain, and more rain!’ But we were well equipped, so no worries.
On the way back from Snowdon, we decided to take the more challenging route along the ridge, via Crib Goch. Despite the rain, the weather did not seem threatening, but after thirty minutes, the wind suddenly dramatically strengthened, the rain turned to snow, the temperature dropped, and visibility was reduced to near zero. And each time we scaled what we thought to be Crib Goch, another ascent loomed ahead.
Finally, we started to descend and kept going rapidly down, until I realized that we were no longer on the correct path, visibility being obscured by the snow. I checked my map, compass and altimeter and we were obviously way off course. We retraced our steps back up to the ridge, assumed the correct path, and by the time we returned to the car, it was quite dark.
My sons are adult now and scattered around the globe. They have inherited my love of the mountains and between them they have hiked in the French and Swiss Alpes, in the Rockies, Andes, Kilimanjaro, in New Zealand, in Wales and possibly a few others that I have not yet been told about.
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Italian – the language of lovers?
Learn to speak this wonderful language in brilliant Italian lessons in Bishops Stortford or online in your home.
Italy has a special magic for many people.
Is it for the wonderful cities, the rural landscapes, the food and wine, or perhaps the operas? Whatever the reason now is the time to immerse yourself in the language too.
Learn Italian to be able to communicate effectively – for business, travel or social occasions. Enjoy the highest quality Italian lessons from our teachers who just love to share their language. Our lessons are fun, interactive and all about communicating at whatever level and in whatever context.
Learning to Speak Italian
Our focus is on helping you communicate comfortably in Italian. The group classes are small so you get to practise and ask questions. The atmosphere is fun, relaxed and yet really focused. You will be with like-minded people and often the class becomes an important part of our students’ social life.
People often ask me how long does it take to learn Italian – the impossible question! All I can say is that we will help you get to the level you want to achieve as quickly as we can – how much work you put in and how naturally it comes are outside our control!
When can you start?
Absolute beginners should start in September or January when we begin new groups. All others can start whenever they can – we accept people throughout the year. Our courses are open-ended so you just stay as long as you want or until you have achieved the level you aim for. You can have brilliant Italian lessons in Bishops Stortford or in your home with our Zoom video classrooms.
- Daytime, evening and weekend group lessons
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Have you completed a short beginner’s course?
Do you feel that you have only just begun to scratch the surface? Maybe the course you took has been focused on grammar and you want to be able to speak the language?
Whilst everyone of our classes goes at its own pace so that all the students master the content, the following is what we expect our students to be achieving:
BEGINNER’S LEVEL (A1)
At the end of this course you will be able to maintain a basic conversation in a restaurant or café, express likes and dislikes, tell the time, get and give directions and buy something in a shop. You will also be able to use the present tense of regular verbs confidently and some irregular verbs. Topics include: professions and nationalities, family, food and drinks, daily routine, colours and clothes.
This course starts by consolidating and expanding the contents taught in the A1 level. At the end of this course you will be able to make, accept and decline invitations, make plans for the future, advise and make recommendations and talk about your last holidays. Topics include: physical and psychological descriptions, human body and health, holidays, traditional fiestas and recipes in Italy.
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL (B1)
This course starts by consolidating structures taught in the A2 level. At the end of this course you will be able to understand the gist of small excerpts of news bulletins and short articles from newspapers. You will also be able to express your opinion and argue using conjunctions, to speculate using the conditional, to talk about a film or a book you liked and to refer to events in the past. Topics include: entertainment, sports, travelling and the environment.
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Although about 25% of European farmland is under some sort of agri-environmental contract, these schemes have provided only moderate benefits for biodiversity until now. In the Swiss agricultural lowland regions, the greatest biodiversity potential lies within extensively managed meadows, which are by far the main type of biodiversity promotion areas (BPA), equivalent to the European agri-environment schemes (AES).
Currently we have two long-term research projects running that investigate experimentally (full-block design with random allocation of treatment to field) and at the field scale alternative management practices (project 1) or active restoration measures (project 2) within extensively managed lowland meadows declared as BPA. Our ultimate objective is to provide end-users, notably farmers and authorities, with easily implementable, evidence-based recommendations for future grassland restoration and management strategies that can improve habitat conditions for farmland biodiversity.
(1) Reinstating spatio-temporal management heterogeneity in extensively managed grasslands
In this ongoing project (2010-2022), we experimentally modified the management regime of extensively managed meadows under BPA regulations, so as to increase spatial, temporal, structural and hence ecological heterogeneity. Specifically, we investigate alternative mowing regimes with the main aim to understand how these small management changes can contribute to promote plant and field invertebrate communities. So far results have shown that herbivores, e.g. orthopterans and plant- and leafhoppers, as well as pollinators, e.g. wild bees, hoverflies and butterflies increase in diversity and abundance, sometimes massively, when the first mowing date is delayed by one month (from 15 June to 15 July) or when an uncut grass refuge is left over after mowing operations. Predators like spiders are also favoured by delaying the first possible mowing date.
Nevertheless in these lowland meadows the plant communities seem not to benefit from the alternative mowing regimes. This indicates that in fragmented cultivated landscapes, where source populations (ancient grasslands) are rare and isolated, full restoration of grasslands requires measures that go beyond the mere extensification of farming practice that relies on passive restoration. Our hypothesis is that the main factor of recovery is missing: the seed bank or seed input.
(2) Active restoration of species-poor, extensively managed grasslands
In this new (2018-2022/26) large-scale restoration research project (60 grassland fields across the Swiss Plateau) we will experimentally evaluate pro-active reseeding methods that rely either on hay transfer from biodiversity-rich meadows, or on locally produced commercial seed mixtures, for pushing poor grassland plant and invertebrate communities towards species-richer stable states. We shall collect baseline data in 2018 (before interventions) and monitor subsequent changes (following reseeding) of various biotic and abiotic components using different metrics on multiple plant and animal taxa (species richness, diversity, functional traits, community analyses, etc.) and hay productivity and quality.
Jean-Yves Humbert & Raphaël Arlettaz
Stöckli, A., D. Slodowicz, R. Arlettaz & J.Y. Humbert. 2021. Transfer of invertebrates with hay during restoration operations of extensively managed grasslands in Switzerland. Journal of Insect Conservation 25: 189-194. (PDF, 1.3 MB)
Slodowicz, D., J.Y. Humbert & R. Arlettaz. 2019. The relative effectiveness of seed addition methods for restoring or re‑creating species rich grasslands: a systematic review protocol. Environmental Evidence 8: article 28. (PDF, 779KB)
van Klink, R., M.H.M. Menz, H. Baur, O. Dosch, I. Kühne, L. Lischer, H. Luka, S. Meyer, T. Szikora, D. Unternährer, R. Arlettaz & J.Y. Humbert. 2019. Larval and phenological traits predict insect community response to mowing regime manipulations. Ecological Applications 29: e01900. (PDF, 267KB)
Humbert, J.Y., P. Buri, D. Unternährer & R. Arlettaz. 2018. Alternative Mähregimes zur Förderung der Artenvielfalt von Wiesen / Des régimes de fauche alternatifs pour favoriser la biodiversité des prairies. Agrarforschung Schweiz / Recherche Agronomique Suisse 9: 314-321. (PDF, 194KB), (PDF, 196KB)
van Klink, R., S. Boch, P. Buri, N.S. Rieder, J.Y. Humbert & R. Arlettaz. 2017. No detrimental effects of delayed mowing or uncut grass refuges on plant and bryophyte community structure and phytomass production in low-intensity hay meadows. Basic and Applied Ecology 20: 1-9. (PDF, 520KB)
Meyer, S., D. Unternährer, R. Arlettaz, J.Y. Humbert & M.H.M. Menz. 2017. Promoting diverse communities of wild bees and hoverflies requires a landscape approach to managing meadows. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 239: 376-384. (PDF, 562KB)
Buri, P., J.Y. Humbert, M. Stańska, I. Hajdamowicz, E. Tran, M.H. Entling & R. Arlettaz. 2016. Delayed mowing promotes planthoppers, leafhoppers and spiders in extensively managed meadows. Insect Conservation and Diversity 9: 536-545. (PDF, 214KB)
Bruppacher, L., J. Pellet, R. Arlettaz & J.Y. Humbert. 2016. Simple modifications of mowing regime promote butterflies in extensively managed meadows: Evidence from field-scale experiments. Biological Conservation 196: 196-202. (PDF, 577KB)
Kühne, I., R. Arlettaz, J. Pellet, L. Bruppacher & J.Y. Humbert. 2015. Leaving an uncut grass refuge promotes butterfly abundance in extensively managed lowland hay meadows in Switzerland. Conservation Evidence 12: 25-27. (PDF, 434KB)
Buri, P., J.Y. Humbert & R. Arlettaz. 2014. Promoting Pollinating Insects in Intensive Agricultural Matrices: Field-Scale Experimental Manipulation of Hay-Meadow Mowing Regimes and Its Effects on Bees. PLoS ONE 9: e85635. (PDF, 294KB)
Buri, P., R. Arlettaz & J.Y. Humbert. 2013. Delaying mowing and leaving uncut refuges boosts orthopterans in extensively managed meadows: Evidence drawn from field-scale experimentation. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 181: 22-30. (PDF, 444KB)
Humbert, J.Y., J. Pellet, P. Buri & R. Arlettaz. 2012. Does delaying the first mowing date benefit biodiversity in meadowland? Environmental Evidence 1: article 9 (13 p.). (PDF, 646KB)
Humbert, J.Y., J. Ghazoul, N. Richner, & T. Walter. 2012. Uncut grass refuges mitigate the impact of mechanical meadow harvesting on orthopterans. Biological Conservation 152: 96-101.(PDF, 302KB)
Daniel Slodowicz, 2018-2022. Active restoration of species-poor, lowland grasslands: current knowledge and research gaps
Buri, P. 2013. Designing tomorrow’s farmland: alternative mowing regimes for promoting biodiversity in extensively managed meadowland. PhD Thesis, University of Bern. (PDF, 4.9 MB)
Hold, A.G. 2021. Effects of a flexible first mowing date on the biodiversity of extensively managed meadows - a case study from canton Bern, Switzerland. Master Thesis. ETH Zürich, University of Bern & Berne University of applied sciences PDF
Auberson, C. 2021. Grassland restoration and soil disturbance: the effects of harrowing and ploughing on ground beetle communities. Master Thesis. University of Bern. (PDF, 1.6 MB)
Stöckli, A. 2021. Nesting incidence of groundnesting bees in Swiss lowland perennial wildflower strips. Master Thesis. University of Bern. (PDF, 5.3 MB)
Ferreira de Carvalho, E. 2021. Mid-term effect of active grassland restoration methods with soil disturbance on ground-dwelling spiders. Master Thesis. University of Bern and University of Neuchâtel. (PDF, 3.7 MB)
Enz, G.B.C. 2021. Auchenorrhyncha and host plant networks in extensively managed grasslands in the Swiss lowlands. Master Thesis. University of Bern. PDF
Roth, R. 2019. Determinants of invertebrate presence in extensively managed grasslands in the Swiss lowland. Master Thesis. University of Bern. (PDF, 1.8 MB)
Weinrich, M. 2018. Ecological quality in Swiss lowland meadows: does plant and invertebrate diversity correlate? Master Thesis. University of Bern. (PDF, 4.5 MB)
Lischer, L. 2016. Effects of altered mowing regimes in extensively managed meadows on ground and rove beetles. Master Thesis. University of Bern. (PDF, 1.0 MB)
Szikora, T. 2015. Promoting parasitic wasps among Swiss lowland extensively managed meadows: positive effects of delaying mowing and leaving uncut grass refuges. Master Thesis, University of Bern. (PDF, 1.3 MB)
Kühne, I. 2015. Landscape woody features, meadow plant composition and mowing regime shape moth communities in extensively managed grasslands. Master Thesis, University of Bern. (PDF, 190KB)
Unternährer, D. 2015. Leaving uncut refuges within lowland extensively managed meadows secures wild bee species richness and diversity. Master Thesis. University of Bern. (PDF, 865KB)
Bruppacher, L. 2014. Evidence-based mowing recommendations to restore butterfly populations in extensively managed grasslands. Master Thesis, University of Bern. (PDF, 649KB)
Tran, E. 2014. Effect of four different mowing regimes on ground-dwelling spiders in Swiss lowland extensively managed hay meadows. Master Thesis, University of Bern. (PDF, 609KB) | <urn:uuid:c988adea-846d-41a4-96fb-a7d7b3aa5564> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cb.iee.unibe.ch/research/lowland_grassland/index_eng.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.774551 | 2,313 | 3.03125 | 3 |
From the bestselling author of Communion comes the mysterious true story of how an unknown visitor barged into Streiber's hotel room late one night--and imparted extraordinary lessons in personal development and man's fate that challenge us to rethink every assumption about the meaning of life.
At two-thirty in the morning of June 6, 1998, Whitley Streiber was awakened by somebody knocking on his hotel room door. A man came in, and everything he said was life-altering.
This is the unsettling and ultimately enlightening narrative of what happened that night. Strieber was never really sure who this strange and knowing visitor was--a "Master of Wisdom"? A figure from a different realm of consciousness? A preternaturally intelligent being? He called him the Master of the Key. The one thing of which Strieber was certain is that both the man and the encounter were real.
The main concern of the Master of the Key is to save each of us from self-imprisonment. "Mankind is trapped," the stranger tells Strieber. "I want to help you spring the trap." In a sweeping exchange between Strieber and the stranger--which takes the form of a classical student- teacher dialogue in pursuit of inner understanding--the unknown man presents a lesson in human potential, esoteric psychology, and man's fate. He illuminates why man has been caught in a cycle of repeat violence and self-destruction--and the slender, but very real, possibility for release.
In its breadth and intimacy, The Key is on par with contemporary metaphysical traditions, such as A Course in Miracles, or even with the dialogues of modern wisdom teachers, such as D.T. Suzuki and Carl Jung.
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Facebook recently announced that it is launching its version of a metaverse with the goal of creating a platform that functions as a holistic, virtual ecosystem in an immersive digital world. It’s less of an online casino or a social networking site and more of a virtual realm where you interact, experience new encounters and skills and step out of the real world into a digital universe.
For esports gamers and fans, the question is, will these two entities co-exist? How? Will our gaming be redefined? Grande Vegas casino promo codes Casino has begun to explore this question which promises to become more relevant in the coming months and years.
A number of companies have been working on the concept of a universally standardized virtual landscape – the metaverse. The metaverse is envisioned to offer visitors the ability to experience apps as more robust virtual digital experiences. As the metaverse expands users will be able to more fully integrate the entirety of their digital lives – entertainment, social media, commerce and entertainment – as visual experiences.
Metaverse and the Gaming World
For gamers, the question involves the way that gaming will become part of this new metaverse. Gaming has grown tremendously these past few years as pandemic lock-downs and social distancing have driven people to explore entertainment options that they can experience from home.
The ways that people interact with gaming has also changed as live streaming has made both gaming participation and viewing more accessible to more people. There’s no longer a need for professionals to broadcast and comment on games – everything is at everyone’s fingertips thanks to streaming technology.
In many ways, those streams, where audiences view, comment and chat with the gamer and with each other have paved the way for the introduction of the metaverse. The gaming world is responsible for the growth of platforms like Twitch and Discord which have led the way in showing how the gaming community interacts in ways that may shape the future of other digital human connections.
In addition to attracting users, the metaverse can signal brands on where to invest. Through experiences that users live out through their avatars, users build their alter-egos in order to be seen in the way that they want others to view them so that they can better direct their experiences in the gameworld.
Gucci is one of the first brands to take advantage of this phenomena through a partnership with Roblox in which they integrated Guccu products into Roblox games and sold virtual Gucci items to players who wanted them for their in-game avatars. Some of the add-ons were simple and free but others were exclusive and quite pricy – a purse resold in the game’s marketplace for $3,400. Burberry, Balaciaga and Louis Vuitton have also collaborated on virtual collections inside video games.
Roblox sponsored a virtual Lil Nas X concert that drew 33 million views. “Our developers were impressed with the concert venue and were excited about the resources they’ll be able to use in their own games,” Jon Vlassopulos, Global Head of Music for Roblox commented to VENN. “We believe we now have a blueprint for future music events on the Roblox platform.”
The Fortnite game has been one of the most proactive in leveraging the metaverse for commercial gain. Fortnite started out as an online-based video game but has now advanced to a space where gamers enter private codes to meet in customer worlds and spread out.
Completing tasks is no longer the only objective of Fortnite – in a metaverse experience, the game has begun to hold concerts where players experience musical performances from top artists such as Travis Scott as part of in-game interactive experiences. Other branded experiences within Fortnight promote other brands including Ariana Grande and Marvel superheros.
Interactive experiences “March Through Time” (TIME) introduced players to historical events such as the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King.
Edge Founder and CEO Adam Whyte who wrote, “Fortnite is the closest thing we have got to the metaverse. This means that brands can be a core part of the gaming experience since simulated reality can be full of commercially interesting and viable events that improve the gamer/ consumer experience – just like the real world.”
Metaverse and Esports
Esports is redefining the entire gaming landscape. Not only is the field driving participation and engagement through gamification but esports competitors are now considered athletes in every sense of the word. Regardless of your body type or your physical capacilities you can compete and even become a star.
That mentality of participation, engagement and accessibility is one of the underlying themes of the metaverse. esports is leading the way thanks to is delineation as a tribal community or clanship. It’s those kind of micro-communities which were created by the gaming industry that will thrive in the digital metaverse.
Gaming is not only becoming a part of the metaverse – the way that small gaming evolve into a larger and far more complex organism which continues to adapt as the cycle continuously starts anew is what the metaverse is all about.
eSport leaders are well aware of how easy it would be to keep fans, brand partners and support organizations under one roof. Today there are “mini esports metaverses” which are working on building such communities. Some metaverse/esports initiatives include:
EspoWorld was developed with the goal of creating friendly competition while raising funds and awareness of esports teams. EspoWorld is made up of esports team “districts.” Team HQs are built on virtual plots of land within these districts. Non-fungible tickets (NFTs) can be bought, customized and sold while wins within the mini-games that are located within the districts “upgrade” the district. EspoWorld has launched with six teams participating.
In the DeathRoad online racing game/metaverse, users rent or buy cars using a BEP-20 token called $DRACE that the user can trade within the Binance ecosystem. Users vote on developmental decisions in a city hall with the most weightage for the votes of users who have more cars. Users race their cars and those who complete races earn more $DRACE. .
The NAVINATION blockchain platform was created by DMarket and Natus Vincere (NAVI), a Ukranian esports organization to enable NAVI fans to participate in leaderboards, buy, sell and craft digital items and receive gifts and prizes from the team and its partners.
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The Cuban Crow, Corvus nasicus, is one of four species of crow that occur on a few key islands in the West Indies. Two of these species (The White-necked Crow, Corvus leucognaphalis and the Jamaican Crow, Corvus jamaicensis) share similar features to the Cuban Crow and are obviously very closely related whilst the third, the Palm Crow differs in certain key features and is a later arrival in evolutionary terms and shows characteristics more akin to the North American species such as the Fish Crow (which it is probably closely related to).
A stocky, medium sized (40-42 cm in length) forest crow, this sociable bird can be found quite commonly over most of the large island of Cuba and on the nearby Isla de Pinos in woodland and areas that have been cleared for agriculture. It is frequently found around farms and villages where it seems to have adapted quite well to living in relatively close contact with man.
The bill of this species is long and deep with a gentle curve towards the tip giving a large headed profile. The nasal bristles sweep forward then upward and frequently reveal the nostrils which are hidden in almost all other members of the genus Corvus. There is a patch of dark grey bare skin behind the browinsh-red eye and at the base of the lower mandible. The black plumage has a bluish-purple gloss in good light. The bill, legs and feet are black.
Food consists of fruit and insects though it does appear to take human food readily and will scavenge for scraps where the opportunity arises. Large noisy flocks can be seen feeding in trees and it will also readily feed on the ground especially where grain and other seeds have been spilt or left unprotected on the surface of a field.
The voice is quite remarkable and is rather un-crow like, with strange liquid bubbling notes and high ringing sounds produced in various combinations. It also produces a thin screetched "aaaaauh" that rises in inflection.
The nest is built in tall trees, though little further information about breeding is recorded as yet.
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Reviewed by Geoffrey W. Sutton
It’s the second word in the title, memory, that first grabbed my attention. Then I noticed the word, reliability. Like many clinicians, I’ve administered many memory tests and discovered an incredible range of memory capacity. I've tested preschool children and senior adults. I used the best available tests covering a wide range of human memory. And, as a Christian thinker about integration, I wondered about the scant attention given to the role of memory and reliability in understanding the interplay between biblical texts and psychological science. So, I come to Keener’s latest cornucopia with considerable curiosity.
Craig S. Keener is professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary. Together, his works have sold over a million copies. He describes his scholarly vantage point as to the right of center. A scholar to the left of center would be someone like Marcus Borg.
This review is based on an academic review--I'll provide links to that below.
Christobiography is a lengthy tome of 743 pages! However, the text ends on page 501, and many pages contain footnotes that can cover nearly half a page. I read the work in five days and that includes making copious notes in the margins to help me remember key points to put in my review. I would note that Keener repeats many of his points and includes some details in the text that could be placed in an Appendix.
Christobiography consists of 17 chapters divided into five parts. At the risk of oversimplifying this considerable work, Keener demonstrates by reference to many examples that the synoptic gospels (Mark, Matthew, Luke) are more like ancient biographies than like fictional works (that is, ancient novels). The gospels also share some features in common with ancient historical works. These examples help set the stage for contemporary readers to be reasonable in what they should expect when they read the gospels. Following are somethings you will find in the five parts.
Part 1: Biographies about Jesus
Keener examines the differences and similarities among documents written close to the time of the synoptic gospels, which he places in the middle to late first century. This is where he concludes that the gospels are more like ancient biographies than like ancient novels. More specifically, the gospels are similar to biographies of sages or philosophers, which contain many of their sayings.
Part 2: Biographies and History
Considering examples of early historical manuscripts, it seems reasonable to view the gospels as having some features in common with ancient works of history. That is, the gospel writers refer to historic events. And, there may be similarities between ancient biographies and ancient historical works. A key difference between ancient biographies and historical works is of course the focus on one main person.
In both histories and biographies, the ancient authors had some flexibility in writing about events. They may structure the content in different ways but readers in that era expected writers to present history in a fair and honest manner. The gospel of Luke is close to a history especially considering the companion work of Acts; however, Luke also has much in common with ancient biographies.
Part 3: Testing the Range of Deviation
Part 4: Two Objections to Gospels as Historical Biographies
1. The miracle stories are unique and are not similar to other biographies.
2. The gospel of John is very different from the other three gospels.
Keener acknowledges the lack of ancient biographies of miracle workers before the gospels. He offers several arguments about the accounts of healings and exorcisms. For example, even today we find people in many cultures claim they have experienced or witnessed miraculous healings and exorcisms. To risk a paraphrase of Keener's argument, we can have confidence in the events reported as healings and exorcisms even if we do not accept the explanation that the reported results were caused by divine/supernatural intervention.
Keener provides a fairly detailed look at many similarities and differences between John’s gospel and the synoptics. He argues that despite John’s differences, the fourth gospel still appears to be an account of events similar to those expected in ancient biographies.
Part 5: Memories about Jesus: Memories before Memoirs
In part five, Keener demonstrates his acquaintance with relevant psychological studies documenting the fallibility of human memory and particularly the problems of eyewitness testimony, which is the likely source of information about the works and sayings of Jesus presented in the gospels.
Keener argues based on personal experience and psychological research that what people accurately remember and pass along in oral cultures and ordinary experience is the gist of an event. Dialogue may be paraphrased or reconstructed but is rarely verbatim. He notes an exception—anecdotes uttered by a respected teacher, such as Jesus, may very well be verbatim.
Keener invites readers to consider that Jesus' disciples, who had great respect for their teacher, might be more attentive to learning what Jesus taught than would be a casual observer.
He also notes that, in primarily oral cultures, students were expected to pass along a sage’s teachings as spoken. Ancient storytellers may have some liberty in retelling a historical event, but an ancient audience would not have tolerated variations on essential details. Once again, the gist remains the standard for stories in a reliable ancient biography.
Keener’s Christobiography is relevant to clinicians and psychological scientists interested in the integration of faith and psychological science. I would suppose it is of interest to many religious scholars, including seminary students, but that is not my area of expertise.
Keener is clearly a conservative religious scholar, but I think he fairly addressed many of the reasonable questions one could ask about the reliability of the gospels. I agree with Keener that his arguments are not likely to convince highly skeptical scholars who are inclined to consider the gospels as works of fiction. I also agree with his belief that this book is not likely to be appreciated by those who insist that the gospel writers reported Jesus's words verbatim and that the variations in details such as chronology of events are of little consequence in a true account.
As a psychologist, I would like to have seen Keener use more primary sources when reporting memory research. He does cite Loftus, Nucci, and Hoffman (1998) but seems to rely on summary sources (e.g., McIver, 2012).
To psychologists, reliability implies consistency. Highly reliable measurement should yield similar scores. To the extent that repeated use of a test yields similar scores, we have a high degree of confidence in the results. Examining ancient works is a different task than testing, but if the "score" is analogous to the gist of an event and not the details, then it seems we can have a high degree of confidence in the gospels.
Psychologists also consider the validity of their measures. It's one thing to say a test usually produces similar scores (reliability), but it's quite another thing to say a test usually produces valid scores. Validity deals with purpose.
Therefore, I think we need another volume on the validities of the gospels. I use the term validities on purpose. Any use of a test or set of data (think gospel texts as data) may have a variety of valid uses, but there will be limits on what constitutes a valid use. Perhaps some Bible commentaries address the issue of validity. If you know of a scholarly work, that provides an overt link between reliability and validity, do comment.
Now, here's my comment on spiritual humility. Have you heard Christians pontificate about what people ought to believe and do in order to be a Christian? I dare say there are limits on flexibility on the concept, Christian. However, I venture to say that given the evidence of variations in the ancient words and phrases in the gospels and other biblical texts, it would be wise to be less arrogant in dictating what are mandatory beliefs and morals if such statements are based on a few ancient words or the interpretation of a phrase.
Keener, C. S. (2019). Christobiography: Memory history and the reliability of the gospels. Grand Rapids, MI: Erdmans.
Loftus, E. F., Nucci, M., & Hoffman, H. (1998). Manufacturing memory. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 16, 63–75.
McIver, R. K. (2012). Eyewitnesses as Guarantors of the Accuracy of the Gospel Traditions in the Light of Psychological Research. Journal of Biblical Literature, 131(3), 529–546. https://doi.org/10.2307/23488253
Sutton, G. W. (in press). [Review of the book Christobiography: Memory, history, and the reliability of the gospels by C. S. Keener]. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, XX, pp-pp. Accepted for publication September 16, 2019. See Researchgate or Academia
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SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework
The SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework was developed by UN-Water. In early 2020, HLCP welcomed and took note of the Framework and expressed support for its further development and implementation through UN-Water. It was subsequently welcomed by the CEB in May 2020 and launched at a side event in the margins of the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on sustainable development in July 2020, which included the participation of the UN Secretary-General and other 10 Executive Heads.
The SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework is a new, unifying initiative that aims to deliver fast results at an increased scale. It is part of the UN Secretary-General’s Decade of Action to deliver the SDGs by 2030.
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Maple class have been so busy since coming back from our half term holiday! Last week we finished our Traditional Tales unit by looking at the story of the Gingerbread Man. We thought of different ways that the story could have ended, and even designed and made our own gingerbread men! They were delicious. Our handwriting is getting better and better, and we are working really hard to make sure we write on the line, and remember our finger spaces and full stops. This week we have been looking at rhythm and rhyme, particularly in nursery rhymes. We have been creating our own nursery rhymes by changing the ending of the sentences! Encourage your children to recognise rhyming words by seeing if they can finish the sentences in the stories you're reading at home (Julia Donaldson stories are particularly good for this).
In maths we have tackled place value and looked at tens and units within numbers. We have done lots of practise but some of us are still finding it a little tricky. We need to keep practising this at home mums and dads! Perhaps Maple children could be given the task of buying something small at the shops using the right number of 10p and 1p coins. There are also many place value games on the internet. Here are some to try...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/maths/games/place_the_penguin/big_sound/full.shtml (LEVEL 1)
We have also been thinking of our Hindu friends this week as they have been celebrating Diwali. We looked at the different ways in which we celebrate, and how there are similarities and differences in the way people celebrate special occasions. We enjoyed making Diva lamps, drawing Mendhi patterns and creating a big Rangoli pattern outside!
This week has been a special time for remembering aswell, and we created some beautiful poppy pictures to remember all those who have given their lives for our freedom.
Well done on all your hard work and good behaviour Maple class.
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- Having examined Document ITH/12/7.COM/14,
- Recalling its Decision 5.COM 6,
- Further recalling that the Convention calls upon the international community to contribute to the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in a spirit of cooperation and mutual assistance,
- Considering that intangible cultural heritage is often shared by communities on the territories of more than one State, and that multinational inscriptions of such shared heritage on the Lists constitute an important mechanism for promoting international cooperation,
- Decides to establish an on-line resource, the Mechanism for Sharing Information to Encourage Multinational Files, as described in Document ITH/12/7.COM/14, through which States Parties can, on a voluntary basis, announce their intentions to submit files and other States Parties may learn of opportunities for cooperation in elaborating multinational files;
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By Tom Perry and Ellen Francis
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s plan to tackle a financial and economic crisis will meet IMF recommendations and will be ready in weeks, the finance minister said on Thursday, adding that any recourse to an IMF program must be politically agreed and its terms should not cause suffering.
Speaking days after the heavily indebted state declared it could not meet coming debt payments, Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni also told Reuters the official exchange rate of the Lebanese pound would be maintained for the “foreseeable future”, saying this helped control inflation among other factors.
The plan being drawn up by Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s government will form the cornerstone of efforts to pull Lebanon out of the worst financial crisis since independence in 1943. It will cover banking, financial and other economic reforms.
Lebanon has so far requested technical assistance from the IMF but not financial aid that would typically come as part of a program of reforms. A team of IMF experts visited Lebanon last month.
IMF spokesman Gerry Rice, speaking before Wazni’s remarks, underscored the need for Lebanon to draft a comprehensive plan.
“Given the severity of economic conditions in Lebanon, it’s important that the government designs and implements properly a comprehensive package of reforms to effectively address the economic challenges and improve Lebanon’s economic prospects,” he said.
Wazni said the IMF was ready to send experts back to Lebanon once the plan was ready. The government’s plan would meet “the recommendations of the IMF” and include a plan that Beirut is drawing up with the World Bank.
Wazni said Lebanon was in need of $25 billion to $30 billion of assistance over the next five years to get out of the crisis.
“Lebanon welcomes all international financial assistance without exceptions. But when it comes to the IMF, this depends on several matters: that the understanding with the IMF – if Lebanon resorts to it – … does not negatively affect the political situation in Lebanon,” Wazni said.
The terms should also not affect “the social situation and livelihoods” and there should be “political understanding” on any program, he said. The Fund should not impose “traditional conditions” such as tax increases or privatization.
Many analysts believe an IMF program is the only way for Lebanon to secure financial support, but it has been opposed by the powerful Hezbollah group, which backs the government.
There has been no sign of a bailout for Lebanon from states that have provided support in the past. They say the government must reform before any assistance is forthcoming this time.
KEEPING THE LEBANESE POUND RATE
Lebanon has suspended payment of a $1.2 billion Eurobond that was due on March 9, saying foreign currency reserves are critically low and needed to pay for essential imports, and called for debt restructuring talks with creditors.
Wazni said the government plan would also be presented to bond holders with whom preliminary contacts had started via its financial adviser, U.S. investment bank Lazard.
“When you want to communicate on the issue of the public debt or its restructuring, you have to present the creditors a convincing, credible, comprehensive program,” he said.
“If the negotiations reach an orderly path … and there is agreement with creditors, then we can avoid lawsuits,” Wazni said.
The long-brewing crisis came to a head last year as capital inflows slowed and protests erupted against the ruling elite over decades of state corruption and bad governance.
The Lebanese pound has lost around 40% of its value on a parallel market relative to the official exchange rate pegged at 1,507.5 pounds to the dollar, which is still used for the purchase of fuel, wheat and medicine.
“Currently, we will keep (the currency peg) in order not to increase inflation … and we will consider a flexible policy later on,” Wazni said.
But it was “very difficult to determine the time frame” for when Lebanon would move away from the peg, he said.
“This depends on Lebanon’s ability to improve public finances, debt, the situation of the banking sector and the capital inflows that will come,” he said.
Wazni said the government took a step last week in the direction of reforming the electricity sector, a major drain on state coffers, by approving the construction of facilities that will switch power generation to natural gas from more expensive fuel oil.
Costs of servicing the debt in Lebanese pounds had also been reduced by 25%, he said.
Wazni also said central bank governor Riad Salameh, who has faced criticism from some politicians over central bank policies, would remain in his post. “He is staying,” he said.
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Do you know how your dishwasher is clogged? If it does not drain very well, or if an inch or more of standing water continues to gather in the bottom of the tube, you probably have a clogged dishwasher. With all the little daily worries, the last thing you need is a broken device. Who has the time or flexibility to wait for a service call?
Fixing the clogged dishwasher before calling an expert.
Step 1: Start with the filter
The most likely reason of a clogged dishwasher is a filter. Stubborn food debris, such as popcorn or damp pieces of paper from labels on the container, can get stuck in the filter and prevent water from escaping from the dishwasher.
To find the filter, remove the lower basket and look at the bottom of the tub. Some models have the bracket in the rear corner and others near the bottom of the syringe.
Step 2: Remove it
Generally, The filter is covered with a cage or grid. You can generally remove the filter from the dishwasher by hand, but some require a screwdriver.
Once the coating is removed, you can remove the filter. If yours is clogged, you will probably see food particles, dirt, or other visible debris on the small net.
Step 3: Rinse and replace it
You can remove most of the dirt only by placing the filter under the sink. Use a soft brush, such as an old toothbrush, to scrub off scratched debris. However, do not use hard or abrasive agents as they may damage the filter.
When you are done, replace the now clean and shiny filter and replace the cage or strainer.
Step 4: Look for other culprits
If you have cleaned the filter and the dishwasher still does not drain properly, there may be another reason why it is clogged. Check the drain valve. You should be able to move the drain bracket manually. If it is stuck, it means that the valve’s electrical parts are probably burnt out and need to be replaced.
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Top insights for Meat Markets:
Some analysts expect the meat substitutes market to reach $140 billion by the end of the decade,
which would constitute 10 per cent of the $1.4 trillion global meat market.
For 2020, red meat and poultry production is forecast to increase over 3 percent to 108.8
billion driven by record production of beef, pork and broiler meat.
Total red meat and poultry production in 2019 increased to a record 105.2 billion
pounds, the fifth consecutive year of increase.
The per capita consumption of poultry meat increased slightly by 2.9%, from 38.1
kg in 2017 to 39.2 kg in 2018.
Overview per country:
- UBS predicts the US sales of plant-based protein and meat alternatives will increase
from $4.6 billion in 2018 to $85 billion in 2030, while the sales of plant-based dairy
could reach $37.5 billion in 2025.
- China: China consumes 27% of all global meat, with 62% of China's meat consumption being pork.
- China: China's total imports of beef are forecast to increase by 15% from record
levels seen last year, which should lend price support to Australian red meat exports
and buoy demand during the months of uncertainty ahead.
- Europe: The Commission forecasts that EU meat consumption will decline slightly,
from 69.8 kg to 68.7 kg per capita by 2030, because of growing social and ethical concerns,
environmental and climate worries and health claims, but also because of the ageing
population (eating smaller portions) and lower meat availability on the domestic market.
- Ireland: Cattle supplies at Irish export meat plants totaled 25,964 head during the week
ended 2nd May 2020, which represented a decline of 5,596 animals on the equivalent week last year.
Top view datapoints for Meat Markets:
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- Red Meat Consumption in the US - 1909 to 2019
- Red Meat Consumption Forecast in the US - 2019 to 2023
- Global Broiler Meat Consumption by Country - 1960 to 2019
- Global Broiler Meat Consumption Forecast by Country - 2019 to 2023
- European Poultry Meat Market Size (in volume) by Country - 2009 to 2019
- European Poultry Meat Market Size Forecast (in volume) by Country - 2019 to 2023
- European Red Meat Market Size (in volume) by Country - 2009 to 2019
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680814 - Lecture SB 07.09.10-11 - Montreal
Revision as of 03:08, 15 July 2020 by RasaRasika
Prabhupāda: (chants Govindam prayers, with devotees responding)
- cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
- lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
- govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
- (Bs. 5.29)
- veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣam-
- barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
- govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
- (Bs. 5.30)
- advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam
- ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca
- vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau
- govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
- (Bs. 5.33)
Thank you very much.
- manye tad-arpita-mano vacanehitārtha-
- prāṇaṁ punāti sa kulaṁ na tu bhūri-mānaḥ
- (SB 7.9.10)
So simply by becoming proud that, "I have got so much material acquisition," nobody can compete with Kṛṣṇa. That is not possible. Anor aṇīyān mahato mahīyan (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.20). Kṛṣṇa, if you compare Him, then you'll find He's greater than the greatest. Just like generally, transcendentalist, they have got idea of Brahman. What is that Brahman? Bṛhatvāt bṛhaṇatvāt iti brahma. Bṛhat means the great. God is great. Brahman, the great. Nobody can be greater. Bṛhatvāt bṛhaṇatvāt. And Brahman can expand to unlimited extent. Just like sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma (Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.14.1)
You see the expansion of Brahma. Parasya brahmaṇaḥ śaktir (Viṣṇu Purāṇa 1.22.53). Whatever we are seeing, the manifestation, expansion, this is Brahman. You can have little idea of the sky, but the sky which you are seeing, it is very little fraction, fragment, of the whole sky, Brahman sky.
So Brahman is so great, and Brahman can expand. Bṛhatvāt. That which is greater than the greatest, and that which can expand unlimited, that is called Brahman. But in the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find Kṛṣṇa says, brahmaṇo 'haṁ pratiṣṭha (BG 14.27), That "I am the resort of Brahman. Brahman is resting upon Me." So who is greater? Kṛṣṇa or Brahman? You'll find in the Bhagavad-gītā, brahmaṇo 'haṁ pratiṣṭha.
Just like the sunshine. The sunshine is distributed all over the universe. According to Vedic knowledge, the sunshine is distributing its shining all over the universe, and the stars or the moons, they're glittering, being reflected by the sun. Just like in the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find, nakṣatrāṇām aham śaśi (BG 10.21). Kṛṣṇa says that "Out of the many stars, I am the moon." That means moons and the stars are on the same category. As the moon is a reflection of the sun, similarly the stars are also a reflection of the sun.
So this shining you can see, it is expanded all over the universe. And whoever is coming in front of that shining, sunshine, it is glittering. Just like you can see sometimes an aeroplane running very high on the sky. As soon as there is reflection of the sunshine, it glitters. So everything in touch with sunshine, it glitters.
So now, the sunshine is expanding all over the universe, but where is the rest of the sunshine? The sun planet. The sun planet, you can see that it is lying in one corner of the sky. But because the sun planet is lying in one corner of the sky, does it mean that sunshine is greater than the sun? No.
Similarly, Brahman may be very great. There is no question about it. But Brahman effulgence is resting on Kṛṣṇa. That you'll find in the Brahma-saṁhitā (sings):
- yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi-
- koṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi-vibhūti-bhinnam
- tad brahma niṣkalam anantam aśeṣa-bhūtaṁ
- govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
- (Bs. 5.40)
Yasya prabhā: "I worship the Supreme Lord, the prime, the primal Lord, Govinda." Why? Yasya prabhā prabhavato: "By expansion of whose bodily luster or effulgence, jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi, many, many millions and trillions of universes are generated in that brahma-jyotir." Exactly like the . . . within the sunshine, the effulgence, there are millions and trillions of planets, similarly, in the effulgence of Kṛṣṇa, bodily effulgence, there are millions and trillions of universes.
Yasya prabhā prabhavato. On account of His bodily luster being expanded, there are creation of so many millions and trillions of universes. But if you take it for granted that each star is a universe—no. That, according to Vedic literature, that is not accepted. But in each and every universe, there are millions and trillions of planets. Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi-koṭiṣv aśeṣa. Aśeṣa means there is no end. Millions and trillions there is counting, but here it is mentioned, aśeṣa. Aśeṣa means there is no question of count.
Aśeṣa-vasudhādi. Vasudhā means planet where the living entities can reside. This is the meaning of vasudhā. No planet is without any living entities. Every planet is full of living entities. Vasudhādi-vibhūti-bhinnam. But each planet is particularly opulent in a particular way. Just like you can see the moon planet is particularly opulent by some particular feature: it is very cold. Similarly, sun planet, it has got a particular feature: it is very hot. So each planet has got a different particular type of feature. Vasudhādi-vibhūti-bhinnam.
So this is the creation. Sarvam idam. Therefore the Vedic injunction, sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma (Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.14.1): "There is nothing except Brahman." But the Māyāvādī philosophers, they do not accept the varieties. They accept varieties as false. But we Vaiṣṇava philosophers, we don't accept varieties as false, but it is temporary. That is the difference. Actually it is so. Just like your body. Now if I say: "Your body is false. Let me kill you," will you agree? Then why should you call it is false? If it is false, then don't mind whether it is killed or it is left. No, it is not false. The theory of the Māyāvādī, brahma satyaṁ jagan mithyā . . . jagat, this material world, they say it is false. We don't say it is false; it is temporary. That is the real termination, or terminology, that it is not false.
So because it is temporary, so we have to make the best use of this temporary body. Don't take it as false. Just like a train . . . you have no experience in your country. In India we have got experience. When there is a little more stoppage of a mail train . . . the people of India, they are accustomed to take bath daily. So immediately they take some advantage, and they begin to take bath. And there are so many water taps in the station, and every tap is engaged. So to make the best use. Because they think that, "We have got a half an hour at our disposal, so let us finish it properly." So once taken bath, then the whole day's journey is pleasant.
Similarly, this body is not false. Not only this body; everything material. We don't take it is false. We take it as temporary. And temporary, how it should be utilized for our best purpose? Just like the mail passengers in the train, they are using the half an hour time for taking bath, utilize. Similarly, although this body is temporary, we can utilize it for the best purpose. What is that best purpose? Realization of Kṛṣṇa. If we can utilize this temporary body for utilization . . . for understanding Kṛṣṇa consciousness and be fixed up in that Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is the best use of the bad bargain.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja therefore says in this verse, prāṇaṁ punāti sa-kulam (SB 7.9.10). One who has engaged himself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, aravinda-nābha pādāravinda, lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu, he purifies himself as well as his family. Purifies his whole family. Sometimes a Vaiṣṇava born in a village, he purifies the whole village. These are statement in authentic scriptures.
So apart from village, a Vaiṣṇava born in a family can give the best service to his family, because he purifies. Sa-kulam. The host of his ancestors and forefathers, everyone is purified. Na tu bhūrimānaḥ. But the person who is simply proud of being born of a brahmin family, and even if he has all the good qualities of a brahmin, but if he's simply proud, he has not engaged his qualification in understanding Kṛṣṇa consciousness, Prahlāda Mahārāja says that he is useless.
Better than him is he who has engaged his everything, prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā (SB 10.22.35). "Everything" means I have got my body, I have got my mind, I have got my words. I can serve you by my words, just like I am serving you. Somebody can serve by his mind, somebody can serve by his bodily service. So everything should be engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then he is glorious. He is glorious. He is better than that person who is simply materially qualified and proud of his material qualification and acquisition but does not engage himself in the service of the aravinda-nābha, Viṣṇu.
So somebody may question, "What is the profit? Suppose I am prepared to engage my life, my mind, my words, my wealth and everything in the service of the Lord. Then what is my profit? I become insolvent, because I give everything to Kṛṣṇa. Then what I keep myself, for me?" So Prahlāda Mahārāja is very . . . Kṛṣṇa yei bhaje sei baḍo catur. Anyone who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he's very intelligent. So this question he is replying.
Because the next question should be like this: "Suppose I am prepared to engage everything, whatever I have got, in the service of Kṛṣṇa. Then what is my profit?" Because we are always after profit. That should be. Any intelligent man should not do anything without any profit. But they do not know what is that profit.
That is also answered by Prahlāda Mahārāja somewhere else: na te viduḥ svārtha gatiṁ hi viṣṇum (SB 7.5.31). The foolish human society, they do not know that their real profit is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa conscious, the same thing. Durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ. They are trying to be profitable by the external world. They are thinking that "I shall make profit by becoming a very big businessman," just like Ford and Rockefeller and so many; in our country, Birla. No. Durāśayā. That is your . . . what is called, durāśayā? The hope which is never to be fulfilled. What is called that in English language?
Prabhupāda: Huh . . .
Prabhupāda: No. The hope. Suppose you are hoping something, but will never be fulfilled. What is called?
Prabhupāda: No. Utopian, yes. That is the exact word. You are thinking something, building castle in the air. So Bhāgavata says durāśayā, utopian theory (chuckles). He's thinking that "I shall be very great by doing this business or doing . . . having this education," or this or that. So many things. Everyone has got his own plan. But Bhāgavata says durāśayā, "This is utopian." Why this utopian they have taken? They are so much educated, they are so much wealthy, beautiful and intelligent. Why durāśayā, utopian? Because bahir-artha-mānina (SB 7.5.31): they have taken their basic platform the external energy.
So what is the fault there? Because external energy is itself temporary. The Māyāvādī philosophy, it is called false, but we say temporary. So what is the profit by temporary achievement? Just like . . . there are many instances. President Kennedy, with great endeavor he became a president. Temporary. The post is temporary, say five years or four years. But still, the people, they exert so much energy.
And even if he is president, if there is something wrong in somebody's mind, he is killed. So is it not utopian? His energy should have been utilized for self-realization, "What I am?" But if somebody wastes his energy to capture some utopian post which will be finished at any moment, so is it not utopian?
Therefore Bhāgavata says they do not know their self-interest. Bahir arthaḥ maninaḥ, "being captivated by the external energy." Na te viduḥ svārtha gatiṁ hi viṣṇum durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ. But why they are so much captivated?
- andhā yathāndaiḥ upanīyamānās
- te 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ
- (SB 7.5.31)
Because they follow rascal leaders. Their leadership is andha. Andha means blind. And they are following the blind leadership. They are themselves blind. Why blind? They cannot see future. They do not know what is going to . . . because they have no understanding that "I am eternal." This temporary body is only a flash in my life. I've changed so many bodies. Just like in this present existence I have changed my body so many times, from my childhood to this old age. Similarly, I am changing my body.
So this life, this body is temporary. Durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ. Andhā, and I do not see my future; therefore I am blind. And the leader which is leading me, he is also blind. So a blind man leading other blind men, what is the result? The result is catastrophic. Therefore in spite of so many great leaders, politicians, scientist, educationist, the result is that problematic. The whole world is full of problems. They do not know what is their interest. The interest is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That they do not know.
So it is the task of the members of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness to preach this. Caitanya Mahāprabhu therefore has ordered, yāre dekha tāre kaha kṛṣṇa upadeśa (CC Madhya 7.128): Whomever you meet, your business is just try to make him convinced of the instructions as given by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā. That is the best service to the humanity. So Prahlāda Mahārāja says:
- naivātmanaḥ prabhur ayaṁ nija-lābha-pūrṇo
- mānaṁ janad aviduṣaḥ karuṇo vṛṇīte
- yad yaj jano bhagavate vidadhīta mānaṁ
- tac cātmane prati-mukhasya yathā mukha-śrīḥ
- (SB 7.9.11)
It is very nice. So the question may be that, "Because everything has to be offered to Kṛṣṇa, so does it mean that Kṛṣṇa is hankering after my riches? Because I have amassed so much money by hard labor, and Kṛṣṇa is very clever that He's trying to take it away?" Yes. (laughs) Yes, that is the fact.
Kṛṣṇa says in Bhāgavata that, yasyāham anugṛhnāmi hariṣye tad dhanaṁ śanaiḥ (SB 10.88.8). The Pāṇḍavas, they were friends of Kṛṣṇa, and they were put into so many difficulties. Their kingdom was stolen, their wife was insulted, they were forced to live in the forest, giving up the kingdom—so many difficulties. Their house was set in fire the other party, his cousin brothers. So Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja, the elder, the eldest brother of the Pāṇḍavas . . .
Practically this question was raised by Parīkṣit Mahārāja to Śukadeva Gosvāmī. That question was that Viṣṇu, or Nārāyaṇa, He's the supreme opulent, Lakṣmī-pati, the husband of the goddess of fortune. So persons who are Viṣṇu-bhakta or Vaiṣṇava, why they become poorer? Why this contradiction?
And the devotees of Lord Śiva . . . Śiva presents himself as the poorest man. He has no dwelling house even. He lives underneath a tree. And his wife, Durgā, she is the proprietor of this universe. She is also following the husband. She has also agreed to live underneath the tree. Never complains, "Oh, my dear Śiva, you don't construct a house even. What is this?" She also agrees. That means they live very . . . in a wretched, poor condition.
So this was the question of Parīkṣit Mahārāja, that those who are worshiper of this wretched Lord Śiva—not wretched, but he places himself in such condition—they become very opulent materially. They have got very nice estate, very nice wife, very nice foodstuff. And the Vaiṣṇavas, who are worshiper of Viṣṇu, the most opulent, the controller of Lakṣmī, lakṣmī-sahasra-śata sevyamānaṁ (Bs. 5.29), Whom not only one, but millions and billions of goddess of fortune are always in His service, such opulent Kṛṣṇa and Viṣṇu, those who are worshiper of Viṣṇu and Kṛṣṇa, why they become poorer?
This contradiction was inquired by Mahārāja Parikṣit to Śukadeva Gosvāmī, and Śukadeva Gosvāmī said that . . . this is the process of great personality. He said: "I'll not answer this question, but this very question was inquired by your grandfather, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, to Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. And it is better to take the answer directly from Kṛṣṇa."
So similar question was put. Because Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was little doubtful that, "I am known as Dharma-rāja, the king, personified religion, because I never tell anything lie, and my life is so pious. So . . . and my brothers Arjuna and Bhīma, they're the greatest warrior. And our wife, Draupadī, she is personally the goddess of fortune. So we are combined together—religion, goddess of fortune, greatest warrior—and above all, the greatest friend, Kṛṣṇa. Why we are in difficulty?" This question was asked.
Kṛṣṇa . . . this question was asked not for their personal benefit, just to teach us that sometimes in Kṛṣṇa consciousness you may be put in difficulty, but don't, I mean to say, be agitated. Fixed up. You should know Kṛṣṇa's mercy. Why? Kṛṣṇa says, yasyāham anugṛhnāmi hariṣye tad dhanaṁ śanaiḥ (SB 10.88.8). He answered to Yudhiṣṭhira, "My dear Yudhiṣṭhira, the first test of a devotee is that I, if I show him special favor, then I take away all his wealth."
Why? Why this sort of special favor? Because this material attachment is so great that one cannot go to Kṛṣṇa. So anyone who is engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, at the same time he wants material enjoyment, Kṛṣṇa sees his foolishness. Foolishness. Anyone who is making progress in Kṛṣṇa consciousness should not be envious, "Oh, he is so great. He is so rich man. He has got so nice palace. He has got so nice wife. I haven't got anything."
Don't be. Because it is completely different life. Don't be captivated by the material opulence, even you are put into great difficulties. Because you are not this material body. You are spirit soul. So your progress should be steady on the spiritual platform. So we shall discuss this point more. The time has passed. So Prahlāda Mahārāja will explain that why one should offer everything to Kṛṣṇa. That we shall discuss in the next meeting.
Thank you very much. Any question?
Haṁsadūta: A devotee, he can be very poor, but is it okay if he's hankering after something for Kṛṣṇa? He sees, "Oh we haven't got anything. We need a house," or something like that? Why can't we . . . can a devotee think like that, "Why can't we get a nice house like these people, for Kṛṣṇa"? Is that all right?
Prabhupāda: Devotee thinks, "Why shall we not have a nice house?"
Haṁsadūta: For Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: Oh, for Kṛṣṇa he can have anything. That is a different thing. Not for himself. For himself, he should be satisfied whatever Kṛṣṇa offers. That's all. But for Kṛṣṇa he'll try to . . . just like the example is Hanuman. Hanuman, he fought with Rāvaṇa. Why? Not for his personal sake. He did not fight with Rāvaṇa to take the kingdom of Rāvaṇa, become king there. No. He fought for Rāma. So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness person's endeavor should be to give everything to Rāma. Not . . .
But for himself he's completely dependent on Kṛṣṇa, whatever position he may keep. It doesn't matter. He has no such perception, "Whether I'm . . ." He's always happy. Kṛṣṇa's service is so nice that he has no other idea what is happiness except Kṛṣṇa's service. So why shall he desire this or that? Naturally, he has no desire because he's already fulfilled his desire, being in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
But those who are thinking that, "Becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious I shall become very rich, I shall become one of the richest men," that is his foolishness. That means he's not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. He still requires to be more advanced. But actually one who is Kṛṣṇa conscious, that very consciousness is so happy that he doesn't want anything more. That very consciousness is happiness.
Ahaituky apratihatā (SB 1.2.6). There is no other cause. A real Kṛṣṇa conscious person does not become Kṛṣṇa conscious for any other purpose. That Kṛṣṇa consciousness is his purpose. That is the end; that is the means. It is not a means to achieve something else. Bhakti is such thing. Therefore bhakti is transcendental. It is not material, that . . . in the material world, in exchange of something you get something else, but in the spiritual world the endeavor and the achievement, the same thing. So actually, a person who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he has no such desire.
Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam (Brs. 1.1.11). The exact definition you'll find in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam. Śūnyam means completely devoid of any other desire. Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam (CC Madhya 19.167). And uncovered by the activities of knowledge or fruitive action. Ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānuśīlanam. Simply acting in favor of Kṛṣṇa: "Kṛṣṇa wants this, I shall do it." "Kṛṣṇa wants this fight"—Arjuna did it. Not for himself.
We shall keep always in mind that Arjuna was engaged into fight not for his personal self. For his personal self he denied: "Oh, what shall I do with this kingdom by fighting with my brothers and grandfather? No. Kṛṣṇa, excuse me. I cannot fight."
But when he understood that the fight is to be done for Kṛṣṇa, he took all the responsibility. Similarly, a Kṛṣṇa conscious person will not aspire anything for his sense gratification, but he will aspire for all the world for Kṛṣṇa's service. Is that clear? Yes.
Guest: Supposing if I were to become a devotee and I might be influenced to try to live like Śiva, because richness doesn't appeal to me. But the problem is that in a country like this the winter is extremely cold, and if I try to live like Śiva I would freeze to death. So . . . (break)
Prabhupāda: I have understood. I have understood. Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not mean that you falsely make some attempt. The . . . just like Arjuna. Arjuna understood the Kṛṣṇa philosophy, and it does not mean that he became a naked fakir and went away from the fighting place, and without any clothing he began to travel. Is it that? No. The only thing is that he changed the account. The account was on behalf of Kṛṣṇa.
So you haven't got to make such renunciation that you have to live underneath a tree or give up your dress, become naked. No. That is not . . . you have misunderstood. You should dress himself properly, you should eat properly, you should work properly—but not on your account, but Kṛṣṇa's account. That is the thing. That's all.
- Nirbandhe kṛṣṇa-sambandhe
- yukta-vairāgya ucyate
- (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.255)
That is the difference between Vaiṣṇava philosophy and Māyāvādī philosophy. The Māyāvāda philosophy says that brahma satyaṁ jagan mithyā, "This world is false and Brahman is truth. So let me become renounced of all this worldly relationship and try to be one with the Brahman." That is Māyāvāda philosophy.
We don't say that. We say that because Brahman is satya, truth, and because the world is created by Brahman, so this is also truth. This is also truth. Pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate (Īśopaniṣad). That is the version of Upaniṣad. The thing is, difference between Māyāvādī and Vaiṣṇava, they do not know the proprietorship. We know the proprietorship. We don't accept anything as "I am the proprietor." This is mistake. This is māyā. Actually . . . if I take, "It is Kṛṣṇa's," then I am liberated. Just try to understand. You are sitting here. You know that this apartment or this loft belongs to somebody. So there is no harm sitting here, hearing here. But if you think that, "This is mine," and if you want you take something out of this, then there is trouble.
Similarly, this world belongs to Kṛṣṇa. If you have always that consciousness that it belongs to Kṛṣṇa . . . just like a bank cashier. He knows that millions of dollars is coming to him, but he knows that "This is belonging to the bank. I am simply cashier." Similarly, you can deal with all the worldly things, but if your consciousness is Kṛṣṇa, then you are free.
- Nikhileṣv apy avasthāsu
- jīvan muktaḥ sa ucyate
- (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.187)
In every condition of life if one is Kṛṣṇa conscious, he's always liberated. He's not affected.
So that is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not teach you to become a false renouncer. What is the use of becoming a renouncer? After all, you have got this body. How can you renounce it? Either you cover it with underwear or either you cover it with costly dress, you have to cover it. So that covering also belongs to Kṛṣṇa.
So we have to be situated under the consciousness that "Everything is Kṛṣṇa's. Nothing belongs to me." That is the actual fact. But by illusion we are accepting, "This is mine," "This is mine," "This is mine." We have to give up this consciousness and accept the Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is our preaching. Is that clear?
Mālatī: Swāmījī, I don't understand when you say that you worship Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu. I don't understand if Kṛṣṇa is Viṣṇu or Viṣṇu is Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṛṣṇa . . . there are several categories of living entities. Kṛṣṇa is also living entity. Viṣṇu is also living entity. You are also living entity. Lord Śiva is also living entity. Every one of us. But there are categories. Just like in your Montreal city, there are hundreds of millions of people. But someone's status is higher than the others. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa is the original living entity. Govindam Adi-puruṣam. Adi-puruṣam means original. And from Him everything has expanded. Eko bahu śyāma. He has expanded Himself in many.
So some of them are in the Viṣṇu category. The Viṣṇu category means they are almost equal to Kṛṣṇa. It is estimated the Viṣṇu categories, They have ninety-four percent opulence of Kṛṣṇa. And the next category is Śiva category. The Śiva category has eighty-four percent of all the opulence of Kṛṣṇa. And the next category is Brahmā category. Brahmā.
Brahmā category means living entities, when they are perfect, they can obtain seventy-eight percent of the opulence of Kṛṣṇa. So Kṛṣṇa is cent per cent, Viṣṇu or Nārāyaṇa is ninety-four percent, Lord Śiva is eighty-four percent, and we, in our perfection, we are seventy-eight percent. Is that clear?
Mālatī: Well, I don't understand then why you'd worship Viṣṇu and not Kṛṣṇa.
Mālatī: I don't understand why then you'd go to Viṣṇu and not to Kṛṣṇa if Kṛṣṇa is higher?
Prabhupāda: Why you . . . why do you, I mean to . . . take care of your child? Why not other child? They are also children. Why don't you take care? Answer this?
Mālatī: Because this child was given to me.
Prabhupāda: You love him. That's all. Similarly, if you love Kṛṣṇa, that's all right. If you love Viṣṇu, that is also all right. But you cannot derive the same result by loving Kṛṣṇa and by Viṣṇu. Therefore it is your selection, whom should you love.
Kṛṣṇa is cent per cent and Viṣṇu is ninety-four percent. So if you want to worship or love ninety-four percent, that is also almost Kṛṣṇa. But Kṛṣṇa is cent per cent, pūrṇam. Mattaḥ parataraṁ kiñcid asti dhanañjaya (BG 7.7).
In Bhagavad-gītā you'll find that He is the supreme.
- ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ
- mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate
- iti matvā bhajante māṁ
- budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ
- (BG 10.8)
"I am the origin of everything, including Viṣṇu, Brahmā, Śiva, living entities, everything." Iti matvā. So intelligent persons, if I have to love, why not love the greatest personality, Kṛṣṇa, who is cent per cent perfect? That is your selection. If you select ninety-four percent, there is no harm, but best thing is why not cent per cent.
Is that all right? Not yet clear?
Mālatī: That part I understand. What I don't understand is why . . .
Mālatī: . . . would they take . . . why would they take less than Kṛṣṇa?
Mālatī: Why would you take less than Kṛṣṇa? If Kṛṣṇa is cent per cent, why take less?
Prabhupāda: I don't follow what you say. What is that?
Haṁsadūta: Why would someone take less? Why would someone choose Viṣṇu and not Kṛṣṇa if they know that Kṛṣṇa is cent per cent and Viṣṇu is ninety-four percent?
Prabhupāda: That I . . . we have already answered. Why you like this child?
Mālatī: No, what I mean . . . what I mean is . . .
Prabhupāda: That is your selection.
Mālatī: Then what I want to know is, if you worship Kṛṣṇa and you go to Kṛṣṇaloka.
Mālatī: And if you worship Viṣṇu, what happens to you? Where do you go? What happens to those people?
Prabhupāda: He goes to Viṣṇuloka.
Mālatī: And it's not . . . is it eternal?
Mālatī: Is it eternal?
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is also. Any . . . any . . . any place in the spiritual sky, they are eternal. That is . . . if that is your question . . . now, either Viṣṇu planet or Kṛṣṇa planet, they are all in the spiritual world. Or the impersonal Brahman, that is also in the spiritual world. So somebody wants to be merged into the Brahman effulgence, so that is also a spiritual world.
Somebody wants to go into the Viṣṇu planets, that is also in the spiritual world. And somebody wants to go to this Kṛṣṇa planet, that is also in the spiritual sky. But there are differences even in the spiritual sky. The difference between spiritual sky and material sky is that everything in the spiritual sky, they are eternal, and everything in the material sky, they are temporary. That's all.
Oh, so many? You, you.
Gurudāsa: Isn't brahmajyoti temporary in the fact that you can come back down to the earth? Back to the material world?
Prabhupāda: No. Brahmacārī . . . (indistinct) . . . brahmajyoti means spiritual sky. This material sky means brahmajyoti is covered by material cloud. Actually, everything is brahmajyoti. Just like clear sky, but some portion of the sky is sometimes covered by cloud. Some portion only. The whole sky is never covered by sky. Similarly, some portion which is covered by this material atmosphere, that is called material world. That's all.
Actually, the original sky is spiritual. Original sky is full of sunshine, but the covered portion means we cannot see the sunshine. Covered portion by cloud means we cannot see the sunshine. And similarly, this material sky means where we cannot see the spiritual effulgence. That is the difference. Otherwise, even this material sky is also a spiritual sky. The spiritual sky is the original status. Yes.
Guest: . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Yes, any question you can ask.
Guest: I have noticed when everybody touches their head to the floor. And this I find so disturbing . . . (indistinct) . . . another man and kiss their boots. I found that . . . (indistinct) . . . and to tell you frankly, I find it quite shocking, too, that people place their head on the ground before another man. And you are a man like that. You are a man of knowledge, and you're . . . (indistinct) . . . but yet I can't see the point of people touching their heads to the floor . . .
Prabhupāda: You have been asked to do that?
Guest: Nobody asked me, but I see everybody else does it.
Prabhupāda: Then why you are feeling so disturbed?
Guest: Because to me, people are people, and there's . . . no man is a God, and it's just appearing as if you were . . .
Prabhupāda: But as you are thinking that they should not, they are thinking that you should. (laughter) As you are thinking they should not do like that, they are thinking you must do that. Then what is it? Difference of opinion. Your vote is single and they are so many. So you have to follow the greatest majority vote.
Guest: Unless I am given a very good reason to do so . . .
Prabhupāda: No, I am answering your question. As you are thinking in that way, they are also at liberty to think otherwise. So you cannot encroach upon their thinking.
Guest: I will not do that.
Prabhupāda: So therefore as you are thinking that they should not have done, they are thinking you should have done. The real question is that they are following a system. So in that system, the spiritual master is offered respect in that way. There is a system. And they don't feel any uneasiness by doing that.
Guest: But if I were to enter politics and . . . (indistinct) . . . and suppose I were to attack some people who have actually the leadership of foreign powers or something like that, and a newspaper man would tell my opponents that that man has . . . (break)
Prabhupāda: Newspaper man has poor vision. He's seeing "Indian" and "American" and "Canadian." So his vision is poor. If anyone thinks that "This Swāmījī is coming from India, and the Americans or Canadians, they are offering their respect in that way," so he has to expand his vision in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That . . . just like it is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā that:
- brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā
- na śocati na kāṅkṣati
- samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
- mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām
- (BG 18.54)
So these obei . . . (break) . . . is taught, just like Kṛṣṇa is asking everybody, Arjuna, that mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66). This is our system. Just like anyone who comes to the temple, he at once offers by falling flat, offering respect to the Deity. And the spiritual master is accepted as representative of the Deity. He's the living representative.
That is the system everywhere. Just like in our India somebody was going as viceroy, representative of the King in England. Oh, he was being offered all the respect of a king. Nobody bothered, "Oh, he's coming from England. Why a brahmin should offer respect to the viceroy?" No. They never grudged. That is a system. The representative of a king, if he can be offered such respect, then how much respect should be offered to a person who is representative of Kṛṣṇa?
Devotee: Swāmī, is the idea that matter is neither created nor destroyed, but the substance is eternal but the form is temporary? Is that . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. That is the way. Everything here in the material world is temporary. Anything you take, anything material, that is temporary. Similarly, this body is temporary, this house is temporary, this country is temporary. Say some five hundred years ago, this was not Canada—it was something else. Similarly, in some other time, it will be different. So nothing is fixed up or permanent in this material world.
Guest: Some time ago, I . . . (break)
Prabhupāda: . . . either belonging to the Indians or to the Canadians. It belongs to Kṛṣṇa. (laughter) Actually, that is the fact. Everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. We simply falsely say that "This is, belongs to Canadian," "This is, belongs to Indian," "This is, belongs to Englishman." This is māyā. Actua . . . (break) (end) | <urn:uuid:c18057e4-5755-4798-b630-c39ff03b5aa0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vanisource.org/w/index.php?title=680814_-_Lecture_SB_07.09.10-11_-_Montreal&oldid=675951 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.96131 | 10,779 | 1.609375 | 2 |
In flow state, you feel locked in, focused, and cocooned from the world. Flow occurs when you’re working on something or performing some task at a level of consciousness in which time dissolves, worries abate, and the work seems effortless, even joyous.
Named by Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi, a Hungarian-American psychologist who passed away in 2021, his 1990 book, “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” popularized the concept. His model depicts flow in a zone where a task is challenging, but not too difficult, with your abilities able to conquer it with just enough effort to be pleasant. Make the task too easy, and it gets boring, keeping you from achieving flow. Make it too difficult, and it won’t lead to flow but instead to frustration and task abandonment.
Achieving flow state requires a lot of things to go right, and arranging those elements can take some care. Your own path to flow may vary, but mine has become pretty reliable over the years, and matches what others seem to find, as well.
But your mileage may vary.
For me, one of the major elements is music.
Music while I write, read, cook, or drive is “table stakes” for flow state.
Familiarity is another element. Driving a familiar route, listening to familiar music, or having familiar things at hand all contribute to the ability to enter flow state, where conscious thinking is not welcomed except as summoned by the flow.
One of the best innovations of modern online writing platforms is the “auto-save” feature, in which pauses in writing provoke the system to save your progress, with versioning occurring seamlessly. Being able to confidently write without having to worry about saving contributes to flow.
The “shuffle” feature for playlists is another great invention, allowing the proper blend of familiar and variety necessary to provide a musical backdrop for extended flow states.
Other approaches that might help include having a clear goal, ingesting some caffeine gradually as you work, and having a mental cue or ritual before entering flow state.
The caffeine tip seems most relevant, and the goal makes sense, but I can’t think of a time when I’ve had an invocation involved.
There is a state that precedes flow state for me — a state of preparation and practice. For a writer, a lot of this can go on in your head, after a fair amount of reading and research. I came across this intuitively, after years of writing at a young age. I remember shooting hoops in my parents’ backyard one sunny afternoon when my Mom came out to remind me that I had a paper due the next morning. I reassured her that I was “working on it” as (I’m sure) I hit a sweet turnaround jumper from an impossible angle. I continued to shoot baskets. She rolled her eyes and went inside.
But my limbic brain was hard at work, synthesizing the information I’d gathered for the paper, and putting it in some order. That evening, flow state welcomed me as I sat down at the computer to bang out a 7-page paper. I think I read through it once before hitting “print,” turned it in the next day, and got a decent grade.
Flow state can be shared. My experience with this is music, but it can come in other forms — dance, sermons, walks, and other repetitive physical actions that address the oscillator we all have in our brains. Synchronizing this primitive time-keeper with others’ lets crowds of thousands share the same flow state, whether this resembles a trance, a sense of transcendence, or a sensation of shared belief.
A flow state does feel a little like a trance, and getting snapped out of flow state can be a jarring experience. The dog barks, someone calls your name, or a siren wails — these and myriad other interruptions break flow, and a broken flow often precedes a dark mood. Being in a flow is a lovely experience, and people often want to return to it quickly. But recovery can be difficult.
And so we land at the era of headphones, with over-ear phones providing the most reliable protection against interrupted flow. Not only do they guard against outside sounds, but their visual prominence warns others that you are not to be disturbed.
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InterMine items XML is a generic format that encodes data the matches InterMine class definitions.
Here, the root element is always <items>.
Within <items> each object has id within a separate <item> element.
Each <item> has an id with the format <NAMESPACE_SUBID>. For simple cases, the namespace can always be '0'. These IDs are used to signify connections between items within the item XML file - once the data is loaded into InterMine its own serial IDs are used instead and these Item XML ids disappear.
The child elements of an <item> are either
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Example scripts used to generate InterMine Items XML can be found at intermine_items_example.pl.
The data formats required for attributes in InterMine Items XML for the most part are fairly obvious and match internal Java types (e.g. strings are UTF-8, doubles are 64-bit IEEE 754 floating point).
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In Percussion Pedagogy, author Michael Udow offers a practical guide for students interested in teaching percussion as well as improving their technique. Udow first introduces the bouncing ball system, a technical analogy that teaches students to resist the effects of inertia. Throughout the book, the bouncing ball analogy develops into a core performance principle based on integrated motions resulting in refined tone quality and meaningful musicianship. The book applies this principle to several instruments including snare drum, timpani, marimba, vibraphone, multiple-percussion, tambourine and triangle, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tams, and a variety of Western concert and world percussion repertoire. In particular, Udow addresses the importance of coupling stroke types with stickings to set the foundation for precise rhythmic playing and expressive musicality. Chapters also focus on integrated rhythms, breath, and pulsed rhythms, anatomy and physiological health, psychological health, purposeful listening, and the importance of singing when practicing. Offering solutions to common performance problems, the book's many examples serve as a paradigm for future problem solving. A comprehensive companion website complements Udow's teachings with a wealth of video tutorials and listening examples.
More than eighty years have passed since Edgard Varèse’s catalytic work for percussion ensemble, Ionisation, was heard in its New York premiere. A flurry of pieces for this new medium dawned soon after, challenging the established truths and preferences of the European musical tradition while setting the stage for percussion to become one of the most significant musical advances of the twentieth century. This 'revolution', as John Cage termed it, was a quintessentially modernist movement - an exploration of previously undiscovered sounds, forms, textures, and styles. However, as percussion music has progressed and become woven into the fabric of Western musical culture, several divergent paths, comprised of various traditions and a multiplicity of aesthetic sensibilities, have since emerged for the percussionist to pursue. This edited collection highlights the progressive developments that continue to investigate uncharted musical grounds. Using historical studies, philosophical insights, analyses of performance practice, and anecdotal reflections authored by some of today's most engaged performers, composers, and scholars, this book aims to illuminate the unique destinations found in the artistic journey of the modern percussionist.
Percussion instruments such as drums, cymbals, gongs, and xylophones comprise one of the largest and ever-expanding areas of music performance, composition, and sound effects. Profusely illustrated, A Dictionary for the Modern Percussionist and Drummer is an essential resource for any student, professional, or amateur musician who wants to delve into the vast world of percussion and drumming instruments and terminology. With an emphasis on modern terms in many languages and genres, James A. Strain has defined, detailed, and explained the use of percussion instruments and drums not only for classical genres (such as orchestra, symphonic, band, and opera) but also for popular styles (such as jazz, rock, music theater, and marching band). Also included are those world music instruments and ensembles commonly found in public school and university settings (such as steel drum bands, samba bands, and gamelan ensembles) as well as historical genres related to rope and rudimental drumming. Written for professional and amateur percussionists as well as non-percussionist educators, this book includes valuable topics on instrument construction and tuning and specific playing techniques, as well as instrument setup diagrams with models and ranges of keyboard percussion instruments. With more than 300 images and examples, it is the ideal reference book to enable any musician to better understand the extensive world of percussion and drumming.
Percussion music is both the oldest and most recent of musical genres and exists in diverse forms throughout the world. This Companion explores percussion and rhythm from the perspectives of performers, composers, conductors, instrument builders, scholars, and cognitive scientists. Topics covered include percussion in symphony orchestras from the nineteenth century to today and the development of percussion instruments in chapters on the marimba revolution, the percussion industry, drum machines, and the effect of acoustics. Chapters also investigate drum set playing and the influences of world music on Western percussion, and outline the roles of percussionists as composers, conductors, soloists, chamber musicians, and theatrical performers. Developments in scientific research are explored in chapters on the perception of sound and the evolution of musical rhythm. This book will be a valuable resource for students, percussionists, and all those who want a deeper understanding of percussion music and rhythm.
The drum kit is ubiquitous in global popular music and culture, and modern kit drumming profoundly defined the sound of twentieth-century popular music. The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit highlights emerging scholarship on the drum kit, drummers and key debates related to the instrument and its players. Interdisciplinary in scope, this volume draws on research from across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences to showcase the drum kit, a relatively recent historical phenomenon, as a site worthy of analysis, critique, and reflection. Providing readers with an array of perspectives on the social, material, and performative dimensions of the instrument, this book will be a valuable resource for students, drum kit studies scholars, and all those who want a deeper understanding of the drum kit, drummers, and drumming.
Designed as a core text for college level courses in percussion methods and pedagogy, Teaching Percussion is a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to teaching methodology and performance techniques. Now updated, Teaching Percussion helps students and performers develop musical understanding and performance skills on some fifty percussion instruments. The Second Edition includes coverage of new developments in world music instruments and performance. In addition, Norman Weinberg, cofounder of the PAS World Percussion Network, has contributed a discussion of electronic percussion and new technology. The outstanding exercises, musical examples, photographs, illustrations, practical advice, and bibliographies - popular features in the first edition - have been retained and enhanced. Teaching Percussion, Second Edition, is an invaluable resource for students, faculty, and performers alike. | <urn:uuid:f4e78d7a-94ea-4550-b893-09f4b11c94a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ssimonechavous.com/file/percussion-pedagogy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.934197 | 1,251 | 3 | 3 |
A few years ago, Carol and George Snyder sold their longtime home in Lincoln, Neb., and decided to retire 270 miles away, to some acreage outside the town of Long Pine, Neb., population 320. By some measures, they didn’t go about it the right way.
They couldn’t be happier.
The Snyders don’t think of themselves as being on the leading edge of any trends, but they are. They’re part of a movement that a recent federal study suggests will see significant numbers of retirees moving from cities and suburbs to the countryside and tiny rural towns.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicts that baby boomers are heading for green acres, where in the next decade they’ll swell the rural and small-town retirement-age populations by two-thirds, from 8.6 million to 14.2 million.
To be sure, statistically speaking, the typical boomer expects to stay right where he or she is and "age in place." But John Cromartie and Peter Nelson, who authored the USDA report, "Baby Boom Migration and Its Impact on Rural America," say significant numbers are headed for the hills, many of them motivated by a desire to be near places where they’ve vacationed or near longtime second homes. Many of them are going in order to be near family or friends.
In any case, significant numbers will be moving, and the principal magnets for them are scenic amenities (such as water access, warm winters and comfortable summers), recreation and/or cultural opportunities, and manageable housing costs, according to the study.
But there are other considerations, according to Bill Roiter, a Massachusetts psychologist who specializes in retirement issues.
"When most people start to think about retiring, the first thing they ask is, ‘Do we have enough money?’ " he said. "Then they say, ‘We want to travel.’ And then, for at least half of them, it’s ‘We want to move someplace.’ "
After the novelty of moving "out there" wears off, retirees might find themselves missing some things they now take for granted: easy access to daily needs, to doctors and to airports. Or even to other people. Maybe they’ll rue losing access to another job.
Roiter, 59, knows whereof he speaks. Recently he and his wife bid adieu to decades in Boston and moved to their longtime vacation home on Cape Cod, Mass., outside the small town of Chatham, Mass.
"The pace here is unbelievably better," he said in a telephone interview. "Chatham has a village center — a main street with stores on both sides. It runs half a mile, and that’s it.
"We sit between two ponds," he said of his current home. "I look out my office window and see trees and swans and ducks."
But Roiter is still working part time, and says that ducks aside, that’s a factor that would-be ruralites ought to consider, especially with baby boomers’ penchant for working as consultants after "retiring." …CONTINUED
Transportation is important, he said, not only for consultants and other part-time workers, but for anyone who wants to be out and about for any number of reasons.
"Retirees say they want to be rural, but they shouldn’t be buried in the woods," Roiter said. "They should think about where the local grocery store is. How far away is a religious community that they want to be part of? Where’s the airport?"
He said access to cultural offerings tends to show up on retirees’ retirement checklists.
"There’s a lot of talk about cultural features, but there’s less activity (in the long run) than they plan," Roiter said. "They just want to have the choice."
Most retirees want to socialize in their new communities, but they need to poke deeply first to decide whether there are enough opportunities for clubs, volunteerism, etc., he said.
An increasingly important thing over time: Even the most able-bodied retiree needs to ask hard questions about the availability of medical care — especially from specialists, he said.
"We have great ambulance service near Chatham," Roiter said. "The fire department is great, so we have that for emergencies. But my (regular) medical care is basically out of Boston," about 90 miles away.
If those criteria are absolute, the Snyders readily admit they flunked parts of the exam when they moved to Long Pine. Health care and transportation options are not tops.
"There are hospitals in both directions, no more than 10 miles away," Carol says. But those facilities probably wouldn’t be their top choices, she admits.
"There are limited physicians, so that could be a major concern if we had health problems," she said. George says he drives an hour to reach a Veterans Administration hospital.
Trips to many other places can represent a major trek, too.
"If we want to fly, we have to drive four-and-a-half hours for a two-hour flight" to visit our daughter Erica, who lives in Dallas, she said.
"The nearest McDonald’s is more than 60 miles from Long Pine," says the daughter. She was none too happy — her mother used the word "furious" — when her parents announced their intention to move to several acres in the countryside near where they had owned a vacation home when she was young. …CONTINUED
"The four-county area celebrates ‘Middle of Nowhere Days’ each summer," she said. "Not kidding!"
But that’s exactly what the couple was seeking. "We were expecting culture shock, but we were hoping for a good culture shock," Carol said.
They say they got it.
"You can hear coyotes and you can see stars and you’re not fighting with city lights," said Carol, 62. "On our acreage, there are ponderosa pines and a cedar ridge. There are two creeks. It’s ‘canyony.’ "
Yes, winters are sometimes brutally snowy, they said. But on the ridge where their three nearby neighbors live, "we have four-wheelers and tractors with blades and we help each other get out," explained George, 64. "When we have a snowstorm, it’s kind of like a party, a community thing. We have hot chocolate."
Eventually their daughter, who rues the 13-hour car ride to see them, became a reluctant convert, she says.
"The move simplified everything for my parents," she said. "Where they bought their groceries: only four stores in a 40-mile radius. Where they worked out: only one gym. It even affected how they communicated with each other. The simple life that Long Pine offers has improved my parents’ relationship tenfold."
The Snyders decided that in retirement they’d find a way to visit their daughter, even if the distance was great. But for many retirees, moving to be closer to their children and grandchildren is a priority.
Be careful what you wish for, Roiter says. Being near the offspring is yet another adjustment that might hold surprises, he says.
"I had a client who had kids in Chicago and in Pittsburgh," he said. She couldn’t decide which one to be close to, and she also wanted a rural locale. "I suggested she rent a place to live for a month near each, to find out what she liked and didn’t like."
In any case, don’t make a geographic change immediately after leaving the workforce, he said.
"What I recommend is to wait six months before you make that decision. Go on a trip, but don’t pack up and move."
Mary Umberger is a freelance writer in Chicago.
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Yakult Vs Lassi Vs Butter Milk: What’s The Difference?
Yakult, lassi, and buttermilk are all popular fermented milk drinks. They have many similarities, but there are also some important differences. This article will compare and contrast these three drinks so that you can decide which one is right for you!
Yakult is a fermented milk drink that originated in Japan. It is made by adding a special strain of bacteria to milk, which ferments the lactose into lactic acid. This makes Yakult easier to digest than regular milk.
Yakult has a slightly sweet and tangy flavor, and is often enjoyed as a refreshing beverage. It is also a good source of probiotics, which are beneficial for gut health.
There’s no denying that Yakult is a delicious probiotic drink. But what exactly is it? And what sets it apart from other probiotic drinks like lassi and butter milk?
Yakult is a fermented milk drink that originated in Japan. It’s made by adding a special strain of bacteria to skimmed milk, which is then fermented for several days. This fermentation process gives Yakult its characteristic tangy taste and thick, creamy texture.
The bacteria used in Yakult, Lactobacillus casei Shirota, is known for its ability to survive the harsh conditions of the stomach and reach the intestines alive. Once there, it can help replenish the good bacteria that may have been lost due to illness or antibiotic use.
So, what’s the difference between Yakult and other probiotic drinks? Unlike lassi and butter milk, Yakult contains only one strain of live bacteria. This makes it easier for the body to absorb and may explain why some people find it more effective than other probiotic drinks.
If you’re looking for a delicious and easy way to get your daily dose of probiotics, Yakult is a great choice!
Lassi is a delicious, refreshing drink that originates from India. It is made by blending yogurt with water and spices, and it can be enjoyed either sweet or savory.
Lassi is a traditional Indian yogurt-based drink that can be either sweet or savory. It is usually made by blending yogurt with water, spices, and sometimes fruit.
Lassi is a refreshing and cooling beverage that is perfect for hot summer days. It is also a good source of probiotics and calcium
There are many different types of lassi, but the most common is the plain variety, which is simply yogurt and water. Other popular versions include mango lassi (made with mango pulp), rose lassi (made with rose water), and salt lassi (made with salt and spices).
No matter which type of lassi you try, you are sure to enjoy its refreshing flavor and creamy texture. So next time you are looking for a healthy and delicious drink, be sure to give lassi a try!
Buttermilk is a type of fermented milk that is made by adding bacteria to milk and allowing it to ferment.
The bacteria used in buttermilk are different from the ones used in yogurt or cheese, and they give the milk a slightly sour taste.
Buttermilk is high in calcium and protein, and it has been shown to help improve digestion.
Buttermilk is a type of fermented milk that is made by adding bacteria to cream or skimmed milk. The fermentation process gives it a slightly sour taste and thicker consistency.
Buttermilk is traditionally used in baking recipes, as it helps to tenderize the dough. It can also be enjoyed on its own as a refreshing drink. Like Yakult and Lassi, it is also a good source of probiotics.
Difference Between Yakult, Lassi, and Butter Milk
When it comes to fermented milk drinks, there are three main types: Yakult, lassi, and buttermilk. So, what’s the difference between them?
Yakult is a Japanese fermented milk drink that contains live bacteria. It’s said to improve digestion and boost the immune system.
Lassi is an Indian fermented milk drink that’s often made with yogurt. It can be sweet or savory and is said to aid in digestion.
Buttermilk is a type of fermented milk that’s popular in South Asia. It’s made by curdling milk with yogurt or lemon juice and is said to be good for gut health.
Which One Should You Choose?
When it comes to choosing a probiotic drink, you may be wondering what the difference is between Yakult, lassi, and buttermilk. Here’s a quick breakdown of each one:
Yakult is a fermented milk drink that originated in Japan. It contains the probiotic Lactobacillus casei Shirota, which has been shown to improve gut health and boost immunity.
Lassi is a yogurt-based drink from India that is traditionally made with water, yogurt, spices, and sometimes fruit. Like Yakult, it also contains beneficial probiotics that can promote gut health.
Buttermilk is a type of fermented milk that is popular in many parts of the world, including India and Pakistan. It is made by adding bacteria to milk and allowing it to ferment. Like Yakult and lassi, buttermilk contains probiotics that can benefit your health.
So which one should you choose? If you’re looking for a probiotic-rich drink to improve your gut health, all three options are good choices. However, if you’re looking for a refreshing beverage to enjoy on a hot day, lassi or buttermilk would be a better choice than Yakult
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It’s an eel!!! Dr. Matt McTammany (Bucknell Biology)and his students were sampling a Union County stream last week to document its conditions before a streambank stabilization project takes place this summer. During their electrofishing they found an eel!!!
Eels were once common in the Susquehanna River watershed but hydroelectric dams began preventing their migration in the 1920s. Several years ago US Fish and Wildlife released juvenile eels in Buffalo Creek and Pine Creek. The eels have spread beyond those drainages as this photos documents. | <urn:uuid:6c9013c9-333a-495a-b2e2-c5bd53a88642> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://npcweb.org/its-an-eel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965689 | 116 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Lost your sense of taste and smell from COVID? It could take up to a year to get back, study finds: Latest COVID-19 updates
COVID-19 survivors who lost their sense of taste and smell may have to wait up to a year to fully recover, a new study found.
Researchers followed 97 COVID-19 patients who lost their sense of taste and smell for an entire year and asked them to complete a survey every four months, according to the study published Thursday in JAMA Network Open.
Out of 97 patients, 51 of them also were asked to undergo objective testing to corroborate the self-reported surveys. At eight months, 49 out of the 51 patients had fully recovered their sense of taste and smell.
One of the two patients who had not recovered was able to smell, but abnormally, while the other still couldn’t smell by the end of the study. While 46 COVID-19 patients did not undergo objective testing, they all reported a full recovery after a full year.
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► A “no-spectator games” remains an option for the Tokyo Olympics, which open officially in four weeks, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Friday. Medical experts say the safest Olympics would be with no fans because the coronavirus.
► More than 15 months into the coronavirus pandemic, tens of thousands of seafarers vital to the global shipping industry remain stranded at sea or in ports, unable to leave their ships or get to new assignments due to global travel restrictions.
► The first cruise ship to board passengers at a U.S. port in 15 months is set to sail Saturday from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in a symbolic stride toward normalcy that will be watched closely by health experts as vaccines curb the coronavirus’ spread in the country.
► South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill Thursday preventing people from suing companies over COVID-19. The new law protects businesses and other groups as long as they follow guidelines to protect people from the virus. Dozens of other states have passed similar measures.
► The city of San Francisco told its 37,000 employees they must either be vaccinated against COVID-19 within 10 weeks of the Food and Drug Administration giving final approval to a coronavirus vaccine, or lose their jobs. This would make San Francisco the first large U.S. city to require vaccination of all city employees.
► Britain on Thursday added 17 countries and territories, including Dominica, Barbados and the Turks and Caicos Islands, to its “green” list of safe travel destinations amid pressure from airlines and travel companies to relax COVID-19 restrictions.
📈 Today's numbers: The U.S. has more than 33.6 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and at least 603,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The global totals: More than 180 million cases and more than 3.9 million deaths. More than 151.3 million Americans have been fully vaccinated — nearly 45.6% of the population, according to the CDC.
📘 What we're reading: College applications soared for the 2021-22 school year as thousands of students took advantage of relaxed test score policies during COVID-19. America's colleges, on average, experienced a jump in applications of at least 11%. Read more here.
Visiting Hawaii is about to get easier for vaccinated travelers.
Beginning July 8, the state will end its pre-travel COVID testing requirement for visitors from the U.S. mainland who are fully vaccinated, Hawaii Gov. David Ige said Thursday. Travelers will need to show their vaccine card as well as upload it to the state's Safe Travels website.
"I know that this change has been widely anticipated and it will make it easier for residents to return home and for visitors to come and enjoy our islands,'' Ige said at a news conference.
Ige has said for weeks that Hawaii would lift travel restrictions for vaccinated visitors when 60% of the state's population was fully vaccinated. The figure has been stuck at 57% and Ige said earlier this week that it wouldn't meet that level ahead of the July 4th holiday weekend. He said Thursday it expects to reach the benchmark on July 8. Read more here.
– Dawn Gilbertson
The White House says it will provide Afghanistan with 3 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine to help with a coronavirus outbreak fueled by the Delta variant.
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre made the announcement aboard Air Force One on Thursday as President Joe Biden flew to Raleigh, North Carolina, to encourage Americans to get vaccinated. The announcement also came a day before Biden meets with Afghanistan’s leaders at the White House on Friday.
Jean-Pierre says the Johnson & Johnson vaccines — only one shot is required — could be shipped as soon as next week. The U.S. is also providing oxygen and other supplies to Afghanistan.
The 3 million doses are part of an overall donation of 55 million doses to the world that the White House announced earlier this week.
After leading the world in vaccinations, Israel is once again requiring people to wear masks in indoor public spaces after the arrival of the highly contagious Delta variant drove new coronavirus cases.
The country had lifted nearly all restrictions after vaccinating about 85% of its adult population in its initial vaccine rollout. But Dr. Nachman Ash, who is leading the coronavirus response, said 227 new cases were confirmed on Thursday, according to Israeli media.
The Health Ministry said masks must be worn indoors in public places starting midday Friday. Earlier this week, the government had already postponed the planned reopening of the country to vaccinated tourists, originally set for July 1, until the beginning of August.
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Emerging technology platforms raised more questions for marketers than it answered in 2012. In the past year, we saw further innovation in mobile advertising, valiant attempts to tie online activity to offline purchases and creative ways to measure the influence of social media. Buzzwords of the year: gamification, key influencers and earned media.
These tech companies are forging ahead with new methods for brands to track behavior, reward loyalty and capture the interest of fans.
“Modern customer loyalty is as much about the customer as it is about the brand. Just like frequent-flyer programs revolutionized loyalty when computers were able to store data about repeat purchases, today we can store masses of data on user behavior across all of your digital experiences. This provides many new ‘behaviors’ to reward.”
“CrowdOptic leverages technologies resident in smart phones such as GPS, compass and tilt (accelerometers), and it combines these technologies with its own proprietary algorithms to create a new way to track interest of fans anywhere. Location is good. Focus is better. Focus allows the fan to engage with ads that are personalized based on what the fan finds interesting.”
“We’re tying digital activities back to actual purchases, whether they happen online or in the store. This is extraordinarily valuable for anyone selling anything today in the real world because they can see what it means for their bottom line when a customer brings in 20,000 new Twitter followers.”
“Visual analytics platforms do not rely upon URL matching to determine a relationship between images and brands. Instead, Curalate relies upon actually recognizing images. As a result, brands can continue to capitalize on images that are shared and discovered on image-centric sites like Pinterest.”
“We’re able to create profiles of consumer mobile phone location data collected through either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth signals the consumers’ mobile phones are emitting…Imagine being able to understand not only every shopping trip not resulting in a purchase, but also who these shopping trips represent — or being able to know how your advertising campaign affected different demographic groups in your brick-and-mortar stores.”
“Our Social Operating Platform matches offline media buys with social audiences to measure their impact and viral amplification, letting brands and agencies quantify a value against the investments they are making in offline media and directly align those metrics with their social advertising expenditures.”
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Expanding COVID supports for all Albertans
All Albertans are now eligible to receive self-isolation supports to help limit the spread of COVID-19.
Prior to this expansion, only Albertans in Edmonton and Calgary were eligible for the $625 payment when they completed self-isolating in their assigned hotel.
Now, Albertans across the province – including First Nations individuals living both on and off reserve and people living on Metis Settlements who cannot isolate safely in their own home – are eligible.
Upon referral by Alberta Health Services, Albertans who must isolate or quarantine and cannot do so safely at home are eligible for a free-of-charge hotel room stay of up to 14 days, complete with culturally appropriate food and other supports.
COVID Care Teams will continue to provide on-the-ground supports and interventions to limit the spread of the virus. Supports include care packages with masks, sanitizers and information translated in multiple languages. Safe transportation to COVID-19 assessment and testing facilities is also available.
“Today’s expansion builds on the effective outreach efforts of COVID Care Teams. No matter what they earn, what community they live in or what language they speak, all Albertans should be able to isolate safely to protect themselves, their families and their neighbours from COVID-19. Reducing the spread means we can get Alberta’s economy back on track while we protect both lives and livelihoods.”
Ric McIver, Minister of Municipal Affairs
“Expanding the isolation supports to include people on First Nations and Metis Settlements is the right thing to do. Everyone should have the chance to isolate safely while having the financial support to cover expenses while they recover.”
Rick Wilson, Minister of Indigenous Relations
“Our community needs this kind of support to stop the spread of COVID. Having come from an area that has been particularly hard hit, we are grateful to the province for providing a means for our residents to access a place to isolate safely. Knowing they will be able to cover their bills when sick will make a world of difference for the Samson Cree Nation and all other Indigenous communities.”
Chief Vernon Saddleback, Samson Cree Nation
Alberta’s government is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by protecting lives and livelihoods with precise measures to bend the curve, sustain small businesses and protect Alberta’s health-care system.
- The COVID Care Team program launched in December 2020 as an integrated way to reach communities with particularly high levels of COVID-19 spread.
- The Government of Alberta also developed an outreach campaign to communicate important public health information directly to Albertans who may have English language barriers through expanded access to translated materials and other supports.
- Messages are being delivered in 10 languages through radio, television and print advertising, as well as through various social media channels and web platforms.
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Farmers should pay attention. In the process of using layer cages to raise chickens, it is necessary to know the light requirements of the layer hens. The use of natural light often fails to achieve good results. So sometimes lighting equipment is used. What are the precautions for using layer chicken cages to raise chickens?
1. The light should be stable: Generally, the time when the farmers choose to compensate for the light for the laying hens starts from the 19th week of the laying hens, and the time when starting to set the light time should be added slowly from short to long, and added every week. Half an hour is appropriate. Farmers should pay attention to when the light is added to the 16 hours a day, they should maintain a stable light, and then the daily light cannot be long and short. A good way is to make up for the light every day sooner or later.
2. The intensity should be appropriate: farmers should pay attention to the light intensity of the lighting equipment. For normal laying hens, the required light intensity is generally 2.7 watts. Regarding the chickens on the bottom layer, it is easy to not feel the light, so when setting the light intensity, it should be increased, generally 3.3 to 3.5 watts per square meter.
3. The illumination should be uniform: farmers should pay attention to the installation of lighting equipment. The bulbs in the chicken coops of the farmers should be 40-60 watts, and the height of the lights should generally be set to about 2 meters, each bulb The distance between them is recommended to be about 3 meters. Scrub the bulbs once a week to keep the proper brightness in the chicken house.
4. Red light should be used: There are many light colors of the lighting equipment, and farmers should pay attention to the difference in the light color of the lighting equipment when choosing. When other conditions are the same, the egg production rate of hens raised under red light is higher than that of hens under other colors of light. Therefore, the editor recommends that farmers choose red light lighting equipment. | <urn:uuid:215f86e6-9e9e-4b35-9815-6758f501060c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.livipoultryequipment.com/precautions-for-using-layer-cages-to-raise-chickens-with-light/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.92177 | 429 | 2.546875 | 3 |
sunflower seed oil processing production machiner
Durable using easy maintain machiner to make edible oilDurable using easy maintain machiner to make edible oilmachiner to make edible oilAccording to the different raw material, we do use different technology and equipment, according to customers’ requirement or needs, you can choose pressing technology, pressing solvent extraction technology or extruding solvent extraction technology. With our suggestions ,you will find the most suitable technology and equipment here.The pretreatment of machiner to make edible oil
Before the material is pressed or solvent extracted, the material shall be processed, first, it shall be cleaned, a cleaning sieve is needed to remove the small, bigger sizes of impurities. The destoner is needed to remove the stones in the material, the magnetic machine is used to remove the small metals like iron, and others. Then the material shall be crushed, soften, flaked, then cooked, all the processing is to make sure the oil in the material will be extracted out easily and thorough.
The pressing of machiner to make edible oil
As for the high oil content material, such as, peanut, sesame, sunflower seed, coconut, castor seeds, we do use pressing solvent extraction technology. There shall be some residual in the cake after the material is pressed, usually, the residual by using pressing technology is 6-8%,it is a waste of the oil if we d...
China machiner to make edible oilChina machiner to make edible oil We supply different machiner to make edible oil with different oil content.
1.Generally, for high oil plants such as rapeseed, cottonseed and peanut, we adapt to mechnical press method for edible oil production line.Working process:Main detail process introduction:1) Metering process: with special equipment, the stable measuring scale is used to regulate the flow and measure total production. Moreover, it can achieve accumulated measurement, transient measurement and cost accounting, with accurate measurement and high precision.2) Cleaning process: use magnetic selector to remove iron impurity, vibration cleaning sieve to remove straw, and gravity stoner to remove stones, bricks and other impurities. The dedusting system uses single union cyclone and centrifugal fan to remove dust effectively, so as to to ensure hygiene and clear light impurities. 3) Crushing Process: mainly used to crush many kinds of large oilseed . 4)Softening process: with YPHW series horizontal softening pot, material enters softening drum through feeding auger, and turns over with the rotating drum. The rotating drum is equipped with heating tube, and there is steam in the tube. When material turns over continuously with the rotating drum, soy is heated to 50-70°C and is fully softened, which ca...
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1. sunflower oil machine ,sunflower oil production equipment -Introduction of sunflowerseed oil pretreatment equipment: Pretreatment and prepressing section is a very important section before extraction. It will directly affect extraction effect. The set of pretreatment and prepressing equipment includes cleaning, dehulling, separating, drying, crushing, softening, germ pressing, steaming, roasting and prepressing sections and so on.
1. Cleaning of sunflower oil making machine ,sunflower oil production equipment 1).According to different particle size between oilseeds and impurities,remove big and small impurities from oilseeds with vibrating screen. 2). Stones removal. According to different specific gravity and suspended velocity between oilseeds and stones, stones fall down and oilseeds suspend under the action of air flow to separate stones from oilseeds. 3). Magnetic selection. It uses magnet to remove metal impurities from oilseeds. Strong and uniform magnetism attract metals automaically and remove metals to prevent oilseeds carrying stones away, attracted metals by permanent magnet fall down automatically when metals reach non-magnetic area. 4). Remove impurities whose size is similiar to oilseeds according to different mechanical performance between oilseeds and clods, crush clods and then separate them through screen selection or wind selection.
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sunflower oil production line/Big capacity edible oil production line /Low loss edible oil production lineSunflower oil production line/Big capacity edible oil production line /Low loss edible oil production line Oil process plant introduce The big capacity edible oil process plant is widely use to produce Grade one and Grade two peanut oil ,sunflower oil ,soybean oil ,cotton seed oil ,rice bran oil etc .Edible oil process plant can be divide as following step .Part one :pre-pressing plant The pre-pressing can be divide to two parts ,one is oil content raw materials pretreatment part ,the other is oil pre-press part . The raw materials pretreatment include clear ,take off soft nap ,shell ,drying,softening ,flaking and steaming and frying ,etc . About the oil pre-press ,general we use the screw oil press to press . The oil press by mechanical action approch ,squeezing the raw materials with a high pressure ,when pressure enough big ,the oil leaking from the kernel cell. That is crude oil.Part two : leaching plant Leaching is a manner is applied the principle of extraction ,choose the organic solvent ,and let the solvent contact with the pretreatment oil cake --immersion or spray . Then the oil dissolution from the oil cake .This method make the solvent and the oil combined as a solution ,this solution is called mixed oil . Using the different boiling point between the solvent and the oil ,to evaporation and steam stripping . Evaporate out the solvent ,and get the crude oil . The solvent after evaporate and condensation can recovery and use again.S...
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3.refiningpretreatment of peanut oil press machine:clean→cracking →flake →cooking and steaming →pressingit aims to get rid of the impurity in the oil seeds and adjust the water content and temperature to make the oil seeds at the best condition to make oil advantages of pretreatment:a.to reduce the damage to the subsequent machineb.to improve the oil yieldpressing: by physical squeezing to get natural oil,the oil nutrition wont be destoried.after pressing there would be 5-7% residue in the cake. solvent extraction of peanut oil press machine :solvent extraction is by using the solvent to dissolve the oil in the flakes to get miscella.and then separating the oil and the solvent,finally get crude oil.advantages:
1.improve the oil yield.the oil residue would be less than 1%
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Biodiesel Production Equipment, Biodiesel Production Plant, Biodiesel Processing Production LineNon-acid Biodiesel EquipmentBiodiesel is used for chemical industry field, it makes bio-oil into biodiesel. Bio-oil can be plant oil,animal oil or high acid value waste oil. In today's growing petroleum tension, biodiesel has much market instead of petroleum and other fossil suels. The raw materials of biodiesel is more environmental. can offer 5-1000T/D biodiesel project, including engineering design, equipment manufacturing, technicel services, product research and development ect.Materials: Vegetable oil ,Refined offcuts of oil plant (soap stock , oil foot, deodorized extract matter, waste bleaching clay),Jatropha seed oil,animal oil , used cooking oil or other oil. Non-acid method Biodiesel Preparation Project introduction:In order to reduce the biodiesel production process "acid residue" and "sodium waste,", the company technical staff and experts conduct a long-term domestic oil research trials and developed a new biodiesel preparation process - Biodiesel non- acid-catalyzed production technology. The process uses a fatty acid containing a large amount of oil, under a certain pressure, temperature and special alloy catalyst pre-esterification reaction with industrial grade glycerol. Generating monoglycerides, diglycerides, triglycerides mixture.Non-acid catalyzed biodiesel production process adva...
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1. Sunflower seeds pretreatment Sunflower seed, as one kind of oilseeds with high oil content, need pretreatment for pre-pressing and then with extractor to extract oil from pressing cake. Pretreatment process mainly includes cleaning, de-stoning, shelling, crushing, flaking ,cooking and other processes.1).Cleaning. Use magnetic selector to remove metal impurities and remove other impurities with cleaning screen, specific gravity stoner and dust remover. If it’s sunflower seeds for oil usage, shelling is not required; if for edible type, shelling is required.2).Crushing. Use crusher to crush sunflower seeds into pieces so as to get smaller particle size for flaking.3).Fla...
sunflower oil production plant /Rich experience sunflower oil production line factory/High quality edible oil produce machineSunflower oil production plant /Rich experience sunflower oil production line factory/High quality edible oil produce machineOil process plant introduce The big capacity edible oil process plant is widely use to produce Grade one and Grade two peanut oil ,sunflower oil ,soybean oil ,cotton seed oil ,rice bran oil etc .Edible oil process plant can be divide as following step .Part one :pre-pressing plant The pre-pressing can be divide to two parts ,one is oil content raw materials pretreatment part ,the other is oil pre-press part . The raw materials pretreatment include clear ,take off soft nap ,shell ,drying,softening ,flaking and steaming and frying ,etc . About the oil pre-press ,general we use the screw oil press to press . The oil press by mechanical action approch ,squeezing the raw materials with a high pressure ,when pressure enough big ,the oil leaking from the kernel cell. That is crude oil.Part two : leaching plant Leaching is a manner is applied the principle of extraction ,choose the organic solvent ,and let the solvent contact with the pretreatment oil cake --immersion or spray . Then the oil dissolution from the oil cake .This method make the solvent and the oil combined as a solution ,this solution is called mixed oil . Using the different boiling point between the solvent and the oil ,to evaporation and steam stripping . Evaporate out the solvent ,and get the crude oil . The solvent after evaporate and condensation can recov...
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Pakistan’s central bank is ‘carefully studying’ CBDCs, says governor
The Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, Reza Baqir, has indicated that the institution is carefully studying the possibilities opened by central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs.
In an interview with CNN reporter Julia Chatterley on April 8, Baqir noted that countries such as China are “already showing the way” when it comes to CBDC issuance, further outlining the motivations behind the central bank’s interest in CBDCs:
“The benefit for us is twofold: not only does [potential CBDC issuance] give another boost to our efforts for financial inclusion, but, second, if the central bank issues a digital currency it allows us to make further progress in our fight towards anti-money laundering, towards countering terrorism financing. So we are at a stage where we are studying it, we hope to be able to make an announcement on that in the coming months.”
Baqir added that the central bank has already given the green light for a framework within which digital banks can begin to operate in Pakistan, among them challenger or neobanks that don’t necessarily have a brick-and-mortar presence.
In response to a question regarding Stripe, the world’s largest fintech, and its reported interest in the Pakistani market, Baqir said that the company would be “very welcome.” He emphasized that Pakistan is a market that is home to the fifth-largest concentration of people worldwide, with high levels of tech literacy and a relatively young population. The country, in his view, is “waiting to burst as far as digitization is concerned.”
Bagir also noted that during the coronavirus pandemic, the central bank had moved to eliminate fees on interbank transfers, which led to a 150–200% growth in mobile banking transactions for the quarter ending December 2020 as compared with the previous year.
The State Bank of Pakistan had announced back in spring 2019 that it aims to issue a CBDC by 2025. As reported, regional Pakistani legislators have meanwhile been advocating for more movement on the decentralized digital currency front, with a resolution passed recently in the northwest of the country calling on the government to legalize cryptocurrency mining in the country. | <urn:uuid:7967649b-83db-42d0-85e0-4e4e16f83b39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cryptoinvestment.at/2021/04/09/pakistans-central-bank-is-carefully-studying-cbdcs-says-governor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964238 | 484 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Research shows there may be a link between COVID-19 and the symptoms of depression. Here’s why it happens.
Whether you’ve lost a loved one to COVID-19, experienced financial difficulties, or had a hard time adjusting to all the changes, the pandemic likely impacted you in some way. If you feel like you’re living with depression resulting from all of this, you’re not alone.
Between 2020 and 2021, diagnoses of anxiety and depressive disorders jumped from 36% to 41%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
But are these symptoms of depression a result of external factors only, or is depression a residual effect of the disease? So far, the research is pointing toward both.
Mental health symptoms of COVID-19
Scientists are learning more about the new coronavirus every day. But, for now, there’s limited information about the long-term effects of COVID-19.
But there’s some indication that there may be a link between the disease and symptoms of depression.
One study suggested that the coronavirus indirectly creates blood clots, which can cause brain damage.
Another study suggested that our body’s immune system could indirectly be injuring brain cells while fighting the virus. Indeed, increased inflammation in the body is linked to depression.
The coronavirus’s effect on the brain increases the risk for mental health challenges. About 1 in 5 people will develop a mental health condition 14 to 90 days after being diagnosed with COVID-19. For 5.8% of patients, it will be their first one.
Mental health symptoms that developed as a result of COVID-19 also seem to persist 6 months after recovery.
There also appears to be a link between COVID-19 symptoms and common symptoms of depression. For example, the loss of taste and smell were associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms.
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After finding bugs in the code they were testing, Ethereum’s core developers have decided to postpone the network’s scheduled hard fork, which was supposed to happen next month, until 2019. The delay of the software upgrade, called Constantinople, will give the group more time to stew over a controversial proposed change to the network’s monetary system.
The contentious proposal is related to something called the “difficulty bomb,” a piece of Ethereum’s code that steadily increases the difficulty of mining new blocks. The bomb was originally conceived as part of a larger plan to transition the Ethereum network from the energy-intensive process it uses to agree on its ledger, called proof of work, to a more energy-efficient one called proof of stake. It’s supposed to deter miners from continuing to mine the old chain once the network switches.
But developing a proof-of-stake system is taking longer than expected, so the difficulty bomb must be delayed. And since that will make mining easier, Ethereum’s core developers have decided they must reduce the reward to counterbalance this effect. How to do this is a matter of some dispute. Unlike Bitcoin, which has a capped supply, Ethereum’s currency is uncapped and has no formal monetary policy. There are a range of opinions in the community about how best to adjust the issuance rate to account for delaying the bomb. Ultimately, the core developers had landed on changing the block reward from three ether to two, but now the upgrade is delayed until at least January. Decentralized decision-making is hard.
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Accessibility guide Mezquita
The accessible Mezquita Mosque-Cathedral is a must-see when visiting Córdoba. In this comprehensive guide, you find everything you need to know about the Mezquita in Córdoba and its accessibility. The historic complex has a long history that you can spot in every aspect of the building. ‘Mezquita’ is Spanish for ‘mosque.’ This name refers to the function of the building before it became a cathedral. Both the historic center of Córdoba and the Cathedral are on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Click on the subjects listed here, to find your way through the guide more easily:
- About the Mezquita
- Visigoth Basilica of San Vicente
- Original mosque of Abd al-Rahman I
- Expansion of Abd al-Rahman II
- The intervention of Abd al-Rahman III
- Expansion of Al-Hakam II
- Expansion of Almanzor
- Royal Chapel
- Parroquia del Sagrario
- Bell Tower
- The main Chapel, choir and transept
- Patio de Los Naranjos
- Significant doors
- Accessibility of the Mezquita
- Wheelchair Accessible Tours in Córdoba
- How to get there
- Ticket information
The accessible Mezquita is an extraordinary complex. It is classified as a Mosque-Cathedral. At first, it served as a mosque; later, it became a cathedral. To this day, the Cathedral is being used and is almost completely wheelchair accessible. Construction started in the eighth century. Even though the structure has a turbulent history, it is a pleasure to walk/roll around in it.
The 860 columns in the complex leave a big impression, as well as the many other sights you find in the building. The mosque consists out of multiple styles. The reason for this is that different monarchs added parts over time.
Inside the cathedral, you find a lot of artistic masterpieces. These were meant to bring God closer to the people and make His message clearer. The Cathedral became a center of cultural expression in the city of Córdoba. Some of those masterpieces are the Mural painting of the Baptism of Jesus, The Incarnation, and the Processional custody of Corpus Christi. Moreover, you find the Altarpiece of Ieshu Verde and Saint Nicholas of Bari, the Pax-board of the Marquis de Comares, and The Holy Supper. Other pieces are the Main Altarpiece, Saint Eulogius, the Altarpiece of Our Lady of the Rosary, Saint Sebastian, Saint Michael, the Choir stalls, Saint Raphael, and much more.
Visigoth Basilica of San Vicente
Underneath the original mosque of the accessible Mezquita, they found remains of the Basilica of San Vicente. Excavations in the basement led to discovering walls and floors of the Visigoth Basilica of San Vicente under the original chapel of Abd al-Rahman I. One of the most important finds here are the mosaics. They match with the flooring of a room from the original Visigoth Basilica. Besides that, archeologists found an inscription that describes where the used materials came from. Because of these findings, the construction probably started as early as in the 6th century.
Original mosque of Abd al-Rahman I
Abd-al-Rahman I built the Primitive Mosque in the 8th century with the intention of it being a sign of power. The architecture has clear Hispanic-Visigothic influences. This phenomenon makes sense since the architects used materials and columns of the Visigothic Basilica of Sant Vicente. It is a beautiful place that deserves your attention during your visit to Córdoba.
Expansion of Abd al-Rahman II
Abd al-Rahman II started expanding the complex during the first half of the 9th century as an answer to the demographic development that was happening in Córdoba during that time. The original mosque of Abd al-Rahman I already had eleven cores, but here, they added eight more. A notable highlight of this building is the use of sediment materials that define the character of the structure.
The intervention of Abd al-Rahman III
Expansions under Abd al-Rahman III did not take place. However, he did leave a distinct impact on the building by making some adjustments in the first half of the 10th century. On the Blessing Arch or the Door of the Palms, archeologists found an inscription that describes how the emperor worked on the façade of the chapel overlooking the patio. This intervention included overlapping of the original façade with horseshoe arches. Besides that, he also constructed the new minaret.
Expansion of Al-Hakam II
You recognize the contribution of Al-Hakan II from the middle of the 10th century by the brightness, innovation, and creativity of the building. These aspects represent how Córdoba developed at that time. The Monarch used the existing building as a starting point and turned the room into an example of universal architecture. He introduced various new features, such as a beautiful concept that uses marble, plant motifs, and mosaics. Al-Hakan II added twelve new segments to the complex. Most of the attention in this part gets drawn to the Mihrab because it is such a breathtaking feature.
A mihrab is an Islamic prayer nook in the wall of a mosque that shows the direction of prayer, the qibla. At the Mezquita, you find it in the central area that was modified by Al-Hakam II. Besides being an indication for the direction of prayer, it is also the area where most visitors direct their attention. The Mihrab is covered in brilliance, which leaves you speechless.
Expansion of Almanzor
The development of Almanzor took place at the end of the 10th century. He wanted to show his power as a dictator but did not want to undermine previous Rulers. That is why he did not demolish anything. The architects copied Al-Hakam II’s structure when adding eight new centers. The result of this is that the building gained unity and a feeling of discipline. The most important aspect of Almanzor’s contribution was space: he constructed a large and proportioned complex.
The accessible Cathedral of Córdoba is proof of how the monarchs of Spain wanted to present their religiosity, power, and wealth, and so is the Royal Chapel. The highlight of this space is the elaborate decorations. It is a striking combination of Arab and Moorish styles. Unfortunately, the Royal Chapel is not accessible to the public. Keep in mind that the architecture of this building influenced the grandeur of Córdoba during this period. It became the new architectural style for the local elite.
Parroquia del Sagrario
The place where the Parroquia del Sagrario is currently situated originally had other functions. It used to be a chapel and later a library. Since the last part of the 16th century, this site has been an essential sanctuary of the Cathedral. Your attention immediately goes to the walls since they are covered in magnificent murals.
When the first mosque was built, the bell tower was a Muslim minaret. But after the Christians conquered the complex, they made a bell tower out of it. That tower existed until the 16th century when an earthquake affected the stability of the building, and it was torn down. After the earthquake, they built a new one and added multiple aspects. Today, it is the most prominent tower in the city with its 54 meters.
Villaviciosa Chapel, choir and transept
The Villaviciosa Chapel is the original main chapel of the accessible Mezquita complex. Moorish artisans built it in 1371. The complexity of this part of the building is a real piece of art. It provides a perfect combination of Gothic, Renaissance, and Mannerism art. In the 16th century, a project started that changed the whole chapel. The first architect focused on creating Gothic vaults on one side of the choir. Later, his son continued his work by, among other things, raising the transept walls. He strengthened them with buttresses. The last architect finalized the choir and transept by giving them spectacular ceilings.
Patio de Los Naranjos
The Orange Trees Courtyard, or Patio de Los Naranjos, is the first thing you see when entering the complex. Its functions and forms have changed over the years. When the Mezquita served as a mosque, rulers used the patio as a place for ritual purification and Muslim prayer. Once it turned into a cathedral, the courtyard became a sacred area for Catholic ceremonies. The difference in form can be found, for example, in the prayer hall. During the Muslim period, this was an open area. When the Christians took over, they closed the room. In the 16th century, the patio changed the most. The former bishop decided the place should be used as a garden. He planted orange trees, palms, and cypresses in straight rows as if the columns from inside continued.
The Door of the Deans
The Door of the Deans is one of the entrances to access the inside of the Patio de Los Naranjos. This old gateway dates back to the first mosque, built by Abd-al-Rahman I, so it is one of the older doors. This entrance got his name due to the function of the dean in ancient times. It consisted of taking care of the church while the bishop was away. When a dean took on this responsibility, he would be invested as the new dean in an official ceremony. Through the Door of the Deans, he entered the cathedral together with members of the Cathedral Chapter. This event gave the entrance its name.
The Door of the Palms
The second door is the Door of the Palms. Its original name is the Arch of the Blessings and gives you access to the original mosque. This doorway is named after its use in ceremonies. Each new royal got the blessing of the royal banner by walking through the door. For easy access, they placed a ramp over the steps to make this part wheelchair accessible.
The Door of Forgiveness
The third gate, the Door of Forgiveness or la Puerta del Perdón, is a beautiful gateway with big doors of almost ten meters. On the door, you see the remains of mural paintings that represent Our Lady of the Assumption, Saint Michel, and Saint Raphael. This doorway leads you into the Patio de Los Naranjos.
The Door of Saint Catherine
The fourth door that is worth mentioning is the Door of Saint Catherine or la Puerta de Santa Catalina. It received its name because of the nearby convent of Santa Catalina. When going through this gateway, you also arrive on the Patio de Los Naranjos. On the walls of this gateway, there are also mural paintings found that represent Saint Catherine, Saint Acisclus, and Saint Victoria.
Accessibility of the Mezquita
There are multiple entrances to get inside the accessible Mezquita. However, the only accessible one is called the door of Deans or la Puerta de Los Deanes. It is the closest one to enter the first mosque, and it is at the beginning of the visit. You find this entrance on Torrijos street.
Once you are inside, you find yourself at the Patio de Los Naranjos. From here, you go through the Door of Palms to access the interior of the cathedral. A ramp is placed over the steps to give you easy wheelchair access.
Inside the cathedral, there are ramps placed wherever needed to give you easy access to all parts of the complex. However, the choir is not wheelchair accessible.
Along the route, supports and benches are placed, in case you need a break. Besides that, there is enough space to maneuver with a wheelchair.
Inside of the exposition halls, the minimum height of the exhibition cabinets is 90 cm.
The complex has wheelchair adapted toilets with enough space, a folding support bar, and free space under the sink for easy use.
Wheelchair Accessible Tours in Córdoba
The wheelchair-accessible city of Córdoba in Andalucía has a lot to offer. Do you want to see this beautiful city for yourself? We provide the perfect tours for you. Experience the accessible city together with a private licensed guide that picks you up at your accommodation.
How to get there
The wheelchair-accessible Mezquita is situated in the heart of Córdoba. Depending on your starting location, it is accessible by foot, but you can also take public transport. Via bus 3 and 12, at the bus stop ‘Puerta del Puente”, you can reach the accessible Mezquita. 98% of the busses used by Aucorsa, the bus company in Córdoba, are wheelchair accessible. There is a ramp available for wheelchair users and inclination that reduces the height between the bus and the ground. Every bus stop has a personalized QR-code. By scanning this, you receive more information about the stop.
There is also the possibility to reserve adapted transport through us, if necessary. Click on our transfers for more info.
The address of the complex is Calle Cardenal Herrero, 1, 14003 Córdoba, Spain.
Depending on what you want to see, you can opt for different kinds of tickets. For almost all the tickets, reduced prices are available for people with disabilities when presenting official documents. The different types of tickets give you entrance to the Mosque-Cathedral, a night visit to The Soul of Córdoba, a visit to the Mosque-Cathedral and the Bell Tower, a visit to the Bell Tower, and a visit to the Route of the Fernandina Churches.
When are you planning your next visit? The majestical, accessible Mezquita should defenititely be on your list.
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On August 11, 1997, almost 400 prisoners in California's New Folsom prison staged a one-day work strike to protest continuing elimination of privileges and programs. Six members of the Men's Advisory Committee were placed in administrative segregation, suspected of leading the strike.
"The [prisoners] were rather frustrated with things occurring to them in general," said Lt. Jay Schievelbein, a prison spokesperson. Schievelbein said the strike was apparently prompted by a statewide prison regulation prohibiting prisoners from wearing personal blue jeans, gray tee-shirts, and athletic shoes to visits. Prisoners are now forced to wear only state-issued denim pants, chambray shirts, and brown work boots.
Although seemingly inconsequential, this is just one of many restrictions the Department has imposed or plans including a ban on weigh-lifting, family visits, rehabilitation programs, vocational training, packages from home, and canteen.
"The [prisoners] in that facility have been a little bit uneasy with the taking of some of the things back from the prisoners," Schievelbein said. "This was a thing that broke the camel's back." The strike was the first known since a work stoppage by hundreds of prisoners at the maximum security prison in Lancaster, California, two years ago. The one-week strike there was in response to the ban on family visits for most of the state's 155,000 prisoners.
Guards fired tear gas on three occasions on prisoners who refused to lock up on the administrative segregation yard in September of 1997. Schievelbein said the sit-down strikes in segregation were probably related to the earlier work stoppage.
"There was one [prisoner] from the strike, from the [Men's Advisory Committee], who was a very vocal leader from out on the yard," he said. "That might have had something to do with it. They had a list of complaints they wanted addressed. [The complaints] ranged from food condiments they wanted placed in their lunches to additional items for the canteen list."
The MAC at New Folsom's C Facility distributed a list to state lawmakers, reporters, and others, detailing the programs and privileges the Department has banned or planned to ban. The MAC pointed out that all the targeted programs and privileges were begun to reduce violence in prison, and that they believe the Department intends to spark a new wave of violence inside in order to justify getting more tax dollars from the Legislature.
In one sit-down strike, nine prisoners refused to leave the small concrete segregation exercise yard for seven hours before guards fired tear gas at them. In another, a dozen prisoners stood off guards for nearly five hours before being gassed. On the third occasion, seventeen prisoners refused to leave the yard.
While the sit-down strikes were going on, prisoners in 56 segregation cells covered their windows with toilet paper to prevent guards from conducting the count. When special teams of guards wearing bullet-proof vests, helmets with visors, steel-toed boots, and carrying plastic shields attempted to forcibly extract prisoners from their cells, they found every door tied shut with sheets, and the floors slick with water and soap.
Prison authorities said 38 prisoners were transferred from segregation at New Folsom to the Security Housing Units at Pelican Bay and Corcoran prisons as a result of the incidents between September 10-13.
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When rolling out changes to your application, it is possible to release production changes to only a portion of your Kubernetes pods as a risk mitigation strategy. By releasing production changes gradually, error rates or performance degradation can be monitored, and if there are no problems, all pods can be updated.
GitLab supports both manually triggered and timed rollouts to a Kubernetes production system using Incremental Rollouts. When using Manual Rollouts, the release of each tranche of pods is manually triggered, while in Timed Rollouts, the release is performed in tranches after a default pause of 5 minutes. Timed rollouts can also be manually triggered before the pause period has expired.
Manual and Timed rollouts are included automatically in projects controlled by
Auto DevOps, but they are also configurable through
GitLab CI/CD in the
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Manually triggered rollouts can be implemented with your Continuous Delivery methodology, while timed rollouts do not require intervention and can be part of your Continuous Deployment strategy. You can also combine both of them in a way that the app is deployed automatically unless you eventually intervene manually if necessary.
We created sample applications to demonstrate the three options, which you can use as examples to build your own:
It is possible to configure GitLab to do incremental rollouts manually through
.gitlab-ci.yml. Manual configuration
allows more control over the this feature. The steps in an incremental rollout depend on the
number of pods that are defined for the deployment, which are configured when the Kubernetes
cluster is created.
For example, if your application has 10 pods and a 10% rollout job runs, the new instance of the application is deployed to a single pod while the rest of the pods show the previous instance of the application.
First we define the template as manual:
.manual_rollout_template: &manual_rollout_template <<: *rollout_template stage: production when: manual
rollout 10%: <<: *manual_rollout_template variables: ROLLOUT_PERCENTAGE: 10
When the jobs are built, a play button appears next to the job’s name. Click the play button to release each stage of pods. You can also rollback by running a lower percentage job. Once 100% is reached, you cannot roll back using this method. It is still possible to roll back by redeploying the old version using the Rollback button on the environment page.
A deployable application is available, demonstrating manually triggered incremental rollouts.
Timed rollouts behave in the same way as manual rollouts, except that each job is defined with a delay in minutes before it deploys. Clicking the job reveals the countdown.
It is possible to combine this functionality with manual incremental rollouts so that the job counts down and then deploys.
First we define the template as timed:
.timed_rollout_template: &timed_rollout_template <<: *rollout_template when: delayed start_in: 1 minutes
We can define the delay period using the
start_in: 1 minutes
timed rollout 30%: <<: *timed_rollout_template stage: timed rollout 30% variables: ROLLOUT_PERCENTAGE: 30
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Severe weather has become more common these days, and unfortunately, severe weather often causes power outages that could last for several hours or several days. Life will come to a standstill when the power goes out in your Marion, SC, home, and there’s not much you can do about it. Most daily household tasks cannot be done without electricity, and finding something to entertain yourself and your family can be challenging when the power is out.
The best way to prepare for the next power outage is to install a backup generator on your property. These generators kick on automatically when the power goes out and will shut off on their own when the power is restored, and you won’t have to do anything.
If you aren’t sure if a backup generator is worth the cost, you should consider why it’s a good idea to have one.
#1 You Have Kids
Many kids today don’t spend all their time outside playing as they once did. Even if your children do, they cannot go outside during severe weather. Going outside after the storm ends can also be dangerous because there could be downed trees, power lines, or debris scattered, which could put your kids at risk.
Nothing is worse than a kid cooped up in your home for hours or days without power. They need electricity to play video games, watch TV, power the internet, and charge their devices. In addition, your house will be very dark at night, which many kids find frightening. You can light candles or use flashlights, but neither of the options will illuminate the entire house.
A backup generator will power your entire home when the power goes out, keeping your children busy until the power is restored. The generator will also power every light, and it will be as though the power never went out.
#2 You Work From Home
Many people today work from home, and some finish their work at home after work. If the power goes out, your computer, internet, and other essential office equipment won’t have power, and you can’t get your work done. Not only will the power outage affect your ability to make money, but you can also miss deadlines, which will reflect negatively on you.
A backup generator will power your office equipment, and you can keep working during the power outage.
#3 Prevent Your Food From Spoiling
When the power goes out in your Marion, SC home, your refrigerator will stop working. If you keep the fridge closed, the food will be safe for up to four hours before it starts to spoil. The food in the freezer is also at risk, and if the freezer is half-full, it will stay frozen for 24 hours and begin to thaw. The food will remain frozen for 48 hours if the freezer is full. If the power outage lasts for days, you’ll have to throw out the entire contents of the refrigerator and freezer, which could be hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of food.
A backup generator will keep your refrigerator and freezer running during the power outage, keeping the food safe and saving the money it would cost to restock the fridge and freezer.
#4 You Can Cook At Home
When the power goes out, your stove and microwave won’t have power, making it impossible to cook. Also, the refrigerator will be out, so you may not have anything to cook. Some people grill outside when the power is out, but this is impossible during a severe storm. If you don’t have a grill, you can’t prepare food. You can eat at restaurants, but it can be expensive to take your family out to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Also, if there’s a widespread power outage, finding a restaurant with power can be challenging.
A backup generator will power everything in your home, including the stove and microwave, and you can prepare meals the way you usually do, and it won’t cost a fortune to feed your family.
#5 Added Home Security
When the power goes out, your home security system and the cameras will also go out, whether the system is hardwired into the house or you have a Wi-Fi system. Also, the outside lights will go out, leaving your home’s exterior dark and unprotected. Many intruders use the dark of night to hide, and a widespread power outage is a perfect opportunity.
A backup generator will keep your cameras, lights, and security system running, ensuring your home and family are safe until the power is restored.
#6 No Need For Storm Prep
When severe weather is in the forecast, Marion, SC, residents flock to the stores to prepare for the storm. You will need several things for a power outage, such as bottled water, canned goods, a cooler with ice, candles, flashlights, and batteries. If you start preparing too late, it can be challenging to find everything you need.
If you have a generator, you won’t have to worry about preparing for the storm because the generator will power your entire home. It will be as though the power never went out, and you won’t need any storm supplies. A generator can avoid the shopping trip, saving you time and money.
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Last year Apple re-hired Doug Field to work on its self-driving car project, called Project Titan
Apple Inc has sharply increased its efforts to test self-driving cars on public roads but lags far behind market leader Waymo on a key safety metric, according to data released on Wednesday by the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
Apple, which has kept details of its self-driving program under wraps, put in 79,745 miles (128,337 km) of testing in California in 2018, still far short of 10 million miles of testing on roads around the world by Alphabet Inc’s Waymo. But the miles put in by Apple last year far surpassed the 838 miles of testing that the iPhone maker did the previous year.
The data was part of California regulators’ annual so-called “disengagement reports,” which track how often a human safety driver must intervene to take control from a self-driving system during testing on public roads.
In the complex world of self-driving technology where road-test data is a closely guarded secret, the number of miles between disengagements has become a key metric for industry watchers to indicate how far any player’s technology has progressed.
Waymo led the industry with 11,017 miles between disengagements in 2018, a 50 per cent improvement from 5,595 miles the year before. Waymo said the improvement came despite driving 1.2 million miles in California, where roads are much busier than other areas where it is testing vehicles, such as suburban Arizona.
“A lower rate of disengagements shows that our cars are getting better at recognizing and handling a wide variety of driving situations, including ‘edge cases’ across the cities we’ve been testing in: those unusual situations that a human driver might see only once (or never) in a lifetime of driving,” Waymo said in blog post.
Apple, by contrast, came in dead last, logging just over one mile per disengagement. In a letter to regulators, Apple said its approach to reporting disengagements had been “conservative” and that its report was “over-inclusive.”
Apple said it changed how it categorized disengagements starting in July 2018. Since then, the company said it had driven about 2,000 miles between what it calls “important disengagements,” which it defined as “situations that might have resulted in a safety-related event or a violation of the rules of the road.” At least two of those “important disengagements” happened when other human drivers hit its test vehicles, Apple said.
Apple declined to comment beyond its public documents, but even its re-worked disengagement numbers put it below other firms testing the technology.
General Motor’s Cruise said it had driven 447,621 miles in California autonomously in 2018, with a disengagement every 5,205 miles on average, an improvement over every 1,236 miles last year. Cruise has yet to meet a target it set for early 2018 of driving 1 million miles autonomously per month.
Apple, which has only talked in general terms about its interest in self-driving, is a relative latecomer to the field, having only secured a California permit to conduct testing in 2017.
Last year Apple re-hired Doug Field to work on its self-driving car project, called Project Titan, with longtime executive Bob Mansfield. Field had previously left Apple to become senior vice president of engineering at Tesla Inc.
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EU leaders meet in Brussels to save euro
European leaders were wrestling Thursday over how much of their sovereignty they are willing to give up in a desperate attempt to save the ambitious project of continental unity that grew from the ashes of the Second World War.
At stake at the summit in Brussels is not only the future of the euro, but also the stability of the global financial system and the balance of power in Europe.
To convince financial markets that Europe's economy-crushing debt crisis is a one-time event, countries will have to give up significant powers, such as some decisions on borrowing and spending, to a central authority.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel want to convince the other 15 eurozone leaders to agree to a plan that would require their governments to balance their budgets and accept automatic sanctions if they don't.
Eurozone crisis explained
At the same time, the currency bloc's largest economies are being pushed to commit more money to boost the eurozone's firewalls as the crisis threatens to pull down Italy and Spain.
The overall plan must be good enough to convince the European Central Bank to intervene in the government bond markets in a manner large enough to stop the panic there, said Paul De Grauwe, an economics professor and EU expert at the Catholic University of Leuven, in Belgium.
The president of the ECB said the bank currently has no plan to increase the scale of its bond interventions, which could keep down the borrowing costs of weak countries like Italy and Spain, as markets had been hoping.
Stocks and the euro fell, while the borrowing rates for Italy and Spain skyrocketed.
ECB chief Mario Draghi had hinted last week that if governments agree to tighter budget controls, the central bank might step up support.
Analysts said his comments on Thursday served to keep pressure on politicians to reach a deal.
Merkel and Sarkozy want to enshrine the tougher budget oversight in a treaty, either by changing the existing EU treaty or creating a new one for the 17 eurozone nations that others could opt into.
An EU official said that in the first hours of the summit, leaders agreed that national debt brakes should limit deficits before debt and interest payments to 0.5 per cent of annual economic output. The official was speaking on condition of anonymity because the talks were ongoing.
The 0.5 per cent limit, which could only be exceeded in exceptional situations or to counteract a recession, is stricter than the three per cent cap set out in current EU law, although the three per cent also includes interest and debt payments.
'Never has Europe been so necessary, and so much in danger.'—French President Nicholas Sarkozy
"Words alone are not believed anymore because too often we did not live up to our words," Merkel told a rally of fellow European conservatives in Marseille, France, ahead of the summit.
Sarkozy also issued a grand call for action, and many leaders admitted the situation was urgent, but it remained unclear how Friday's negotiations would proceed.
"Never has Europe been so necessary, and so much in danger," Sarkozy told the rally earlier Thursday.
But huge divisions remain.
Some countries resist the idea of giving up some of their control over national budgets. Furthermore, the 10 EU countries that don't use the euro are worried about being left out of important decision-making if eurozone countries adopt a new treaty of their own.
European Council president Herman Van Rompuy and some smaller countries that have stuck to the budget rules in the past, meanwhile, are pushing for much more intrusive powers for European institutions to essentially take over wayward states' fiscal policies that even France and Germany are unlikely to accept.
At the same time, the Germans are still opposing an attempt to strengthen the eurozone's crisis firewall.
Global markets hit
An early draft of conclusions for the summit, which was seen by The Associated Press, says that a permanent $670 billion US bailout fund, which could come into force as soon as July, should not be diminished by loans already given out by the bloc's existing rescue fund.
Those commitments, which already include the bailouts for Ireland and Portugal, could reach around $267 billion US by the time the new fund takes effect.
Markets have mostly risen since last week on hopes that an agreement among European governments on the Franco-German plan would pave the way for the ECB to intervene more aggressively to support eurozone bond markets.
However, investor optimism was deflated on Wednesday, when a German government official said it could take up to Christmas to clinch a deal, and then again on Thursday, when ECB chief Draghi lowered expectations that the central bank might step in with more help.
An ECB rate cut, and more support for banks to get money flowing through the banking system were not enough to keep investors happy.
Markets were hit again a few hours later, when a European regulator said banks have to raise about $154 billion US to meet a new standard meant to inoculate the lenders against market turmoil, including bad government debt.
That's about $10.73 billion more than what the European Banking Authority previously estimated, and bank stocks around the continent plummeted.
With so much at stake on the summit's results, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was zipping across Europe on a three-day trip to press the region's leaders to solve their differences.
Reforms to deal with the debt crisis are "vital" but their implementation will take some time, Geithner said in Milan, where he met Mario Monti, Italy's new premier.
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You have one chance to make a great first impression. Nowadays, that first impression is made over miles of fiber-optic cables.
Whether or not that feels impersonal to you, the phone interview has become quintessential to the modern interview process. Since an average job will generate around 250 applications, employers simply don’t have time to set up in-person interviews with every appropriate candidate. Like it or not – you have to expect that your next foray in the job market will be met with a telephone interview.
You are going to have to ace the phone interview if you want to make it to the in-person interview. We’ve gathered tips and tricks, along with mock examples, that you can employ for a successful phone interview.
Before you even pick up the phone, you have much to consider. First, is your environment. Be in a quiet area where you are certain to be far from interruptions. Children, passing cars, barking dogs, televisions or other appliances won’t sell you as a potential employee – so make sure the recruiter doesn’t have to listen to them.
Next is your attire and appearance. “But they aren’t going to see me!” you might say. Unless it is a video call – yes, you are absolutely correct. But being dressed up as if you were in the in-person interview will put you into the proper mindset. If you are at a desk, sit up at the edge of your chair.
Be ready at least 10 minutes in advance. Have everything at the ready: phone, note pad, pencil, glass of water. Check your email and be on the lookout to see if your interviewer has requested to push back the call, or advance it forward. Having this cushion of time will allow you to calm any nerves, and focus your mind.
All these smaller factors may sound insignificant, however, being in the zone mentally starts with you and your environment.
The First 15 Seconds
Keep your ears open. You will have to take in a lot during this short time – as it will set the tone for the remainder of the call.
First, make sure you pick up on how your interviewer identifies himself. First name only? Mr(s). X? Be sure to use that name. Not doing so can show lack of respect, and that is a great way to ruin your first impression.
Next, you need to pick up on their temperament. Depending on who is conducting the interview, how many calls they have already had that day, what the weather is like, or if their favorite team is having a bad season – your interviewer can have any emotion between angry, and ecstatic. Their rhythm might be slow, with a conversational and informal tone, or they might be hurried, and eager to get through the call as quickly as possible. You will need to respond in a complementary manner for the duration of the call.
Before your interview, do some research to find out who you are interviewing, and their role within the company. Depending on the size of the organization, you may be speaking to your future direct report, or you may be speaking to a recruiter. Come prepared with an effective interview for either.
If your call is with the recruiter or HR generalist, you should avoid getting too technical or avoid the jargon related to the functional area. It is possible that the recruiter will not be well versed in the subject matter, therefore you should be prepared to speak more about your impact within an organization, your Problem-Action-Resolution (PAR) stories, and your cultural fit.
Keep in mind that the HR generalist is more likely to have the following goals in mind:
- Confirm you have certain skills that might not be on your resume, even if they might be a given (word/excel/powerpoint)
- Assess your cultural fit
- Ascertain how much you want the job
If you are speaking to the department manager, now is your chance to show a bit of subject matter expertise. They will still most likely be interested in the aforementioned items, but they will be more inclined to dive into the minutia to confirm you have the right chops for the job.
During the interview, remember to achieve an appropriate balance of delivering facts, being conversational, and not talking the interviewer’s ear off.
Like any interview, do further research so you can be prepared to show how you can solve their pain points. Prepare your PAR stories (you should rehearse these – but DON’T read from a script!), learn how their organization functions, and have questions prepared for your interviewer.
The Final 15 Seconds
Before you exchange pleasantries and hang up, you have a few important items left!
It sounds silly – but after you have spoken with your interviewer, and hopefully had a chance to learn about the company or role, tell them you want the job (assuming you do). Don’t be desperate, but reiterate that with all you have learned from the call, you know you are a great fit for the role, and that you want to help bring the company to the next level. Remember that part of the reason for having a phone interview with a potential new hire, is to determine how serious they are about the opportunity.
And last but not least: nail down the next steps. Make sure both you and your interviewer have established what is to be expected. If a follow-up call with a different hiring manager or recruiter is needed, make sure you have all the details about who, what, and when. If the next step is an in-person interview, make sure you have confirmed all details about location, date and time. | <urn:uuid:6a17c590-c51f-4f2b-aa5a-279705d3cd1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ivyexec.com/career-advice/2014/how-to-ace-the-phone-interview/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958085 | 1,183 | 1.570313 | 2 |
What if Japanese Whiskey you know isn’t actually made in Japan?
Japanese whiskey, despite the shortage, has enjoyed a sales boost. However, we wonder, are we actually buying Japan-made whiskey?
Recent information from The New York Times reveals that the liquor of many Japanese whiskies we know is not exactly made in Japan. And even “some are not even whiskey,” says Mamoru Tsuchiya in an article by Clay Risen (The New York Times).
Of course, for many whisky experts this is a fact that they do not overlook. But for many new fans, it can go unnoticed. In fact, there is a lot of Japanese whiskey that uses imported Scotch or Canadian whiskey. And many distilleries have clarified the origins, like Chichibu, of their whiskies called “World Blend”.
Why is this? A world as rigid as that of whisky distillation hardly allows the rules of preparation to be broken. That is why Mamoru Tsuchiya has decided to propose new rules in the creation of Japanese whisky. In Japan, companies can buy spirits abroad in batches, bottle them and call them “Japanese whiskey”. Some distilleries don’t even distil, in fact they import the whiskey in batches and hire another company to bottle it.
The “World Blends” Label
To avoid this confusion about the origins of whiskies, the “World Blends” label has been standardised. That is, a combination of domestic and imported products.
Among the rules that Tsuchiya proposes are that distilleries only use grain in their recipe, fermented with yeast, distill it in Japan in its entirety, and age it at least two years in wooden barrels instead of three, since unlike Scotland the climate is much more temperate in Japan and can age faster.
These rules are pushing distilleries to be more transparent about the origin of their whisky. For example, the renowned distilleries Suntory and Chichibu. However, all distilleries need to share these rules.
Only the distilleries can begin to change this distorted view of what a good part of Japanese whisky is. “They must decide whether their interests are good for the industry or good for consumers. Said Yoshitsugu Komasa, founder of Kanosuku Distillery, who has encouraged other artisanal producers to be more transparent. “If these rules are not adapted, I think things will get worse.”
Alexandre Vingtier, specialist and journalist for Rumporter and Spirits Hunters gives his opinion :
The crossroads at which Japanese whisky finds itself: on the one hand, an international reputation based on great whiskies, 100% Japanese single malts and exceptional blends sometimes including Scottish malts. And on the other hand, it is mainly consumed as ‘whisky’ based on only 10% aged malt, the rest being light alcohol, for the taste and the price.
In between, opportunists use this international legitimacy to export pseudo Japanese whiskies, either imported Japanese whiskies, or grain shochus …
Tsuchiya San’s proposal is reasonable and goes in the direction of a GI Japanese Whisky useful for premium versions especially for export. There is still time to act…see J for Japanese Whisky.
Don’t drink and drive. Enjoy responsibly.
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Recently, I discovered a wonderful website called Go Teen Writers run by authors Jill Williamson and Stephanie Morrill. The blog is full of writing advice. They also have a book on writing also titled Go Teen Writers. It is the kind of website I wish I’d had as a teenage writer. I sometimes felt so lost at times with no one giving advice for young writers.
One of the things that Go Teen Writers does is host word count challenges to spur young writers into writing daily. Right now, they are hosting a 100/100 challenge. This is a challenge to write 100 words a day for 100 days. This is the last day to sign up.
I wish I’d had someone like Go Teen Writers to push me along at that age. I didn’t start a daily word goal until my final year in college when a college professor gave us an assignment to write 200 words a day for a week. From there, I worked my way up to the 1000 words a day that I write now.
If I’d done something like the 100/100 challenge years ago, would I have written more back then? Would I perhaps have finished my first manuscript long before this year? I’m not sure.
I encourage all of you to at least try a daily word count for a week or two to see if it is something you can sustain. You might surprise yourself! I certainly did the first time I tried it!
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Ciye is a California company looking to develop smart glasses and smart goggles for competitive sports and other applications.
UI / UX Design & Strategy, App Development and Web App & Design
Customer Experience Strategy
Responsive UX Design
Java Spring Boot
Mobile: React Native was used for building both the iOS and the Android apps. React Native is a cross platform framework that allows the generation of both apps from the same code base.
Backend: Firebase, Nodejs, and Java Spring Boot on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) were used for authentication, push notifications, monitoring released apps, engaging the users, hosting, data processing, and several other services.
Database: Firestore was used to store all the user's data. We used functions and triggers to automate integration with mobile apps and other API services.
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Optimal arousal is a psychological construct referring to a level of mental stimulation at which physical performance, learning, or temporary feelings of wellbeing are maximized (Smith 1990). It can also be described as the degree of energy release and the intensity of readiness.
- 1 What is meant by optimum arousal quizlet?
- 2 How do I get optimum arousal?
- 3 What does optimal arousal depend on?
- 4 How does optimal arousal affect performance?
- 5 What is optimal arousal AP Psychology?
- 6 What is the arousal theory?
- 7 What does high arousal mean?
- 8 How do you change arousal levels?
- 9 What causes arousal in the brain?
- 10 What is optimal level theory?
- 11 How flow represents a state of optimal arousal?
- 12 What is the optimal level of arousal for performance?
- 13 Why is optimal arousal important?
- 14 How do you maintain optimal arousal in sport?
- 15 What is the individual zone of optimal functioning?
What is meant by optimum arousal quizlet?
Terms in this set (3) optimal arousal theory. A theory of motivation stating that people are motivated to behave in ways that maintain what is, for them, an optimal level of arousal to stay away from high stress levels. arousal level. degree to which emotion is reflected in being active, engaged, or excited.
How do I get optimum arousal?
Getting up and moving, listening to high-energy music, and engaging in thinking and self-talk which you find energizing should help you increase your arousal so that it moves toward your optimal level.
What does optimal arousal depend on?
Researchers Robert Yerkes (pronounced “Yerk-EES”) and John Dodson discovered that the optimal arousal level depends on the complexity and difficulty of the task to be performed (Figure 4).
How does optimal arousal affect performance?
At medium arousal levels, sporting performance peaks. This can be described as optimal arousal and might be experienced when a boxer gets themselves in the right ‘zone’ to perform at their best. At high arousal levels, performance quality deteriorates.
What is optimal arousal AP Psychology?
Optimal arousal theory. suggests that humans are motivated to maintain a comfortable level of arousal. Optimal arousal theory helps explain the Yerkes-Dodson law, which states that performance is best when arousal or stimulation is not too high, and not too low.
What is the arousal theory?
The arousal theory of motivation suggests that people are driven to perform actions in order to maintain an optimum level of physiological arousal. Other people may do better with much lower arousal levels, so they might feel compelled to seek out soothing and relaxing activities.
What does high arousal mean?
High activation or arousal is characterized by feelings of energy for pleasurable states (e.g., excitement), or tension for unpleasant states (e.g., fear). These can be distinguished from low arousal states such as calmness and depression.
How do you change arousal levels?
Strategies to control arousal levels should be specific to whether it’s physical (somatic anxiety) or mental (cognitive anxiety). Arousal inducing techniques:
- Increase breathing rate.
- Act energized.
- Use mood words and positive statements.
- Listen to music.
- Use energizing imagery.
- Complete a pre-competitive workout.
What causes arousal in the brain?
The serotonergic system has almost all of its serotonergic neurons originating in the raphe nuclei. This system projects to the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex. Stimulation of these axons and release of serotonin causes cortical arousal and impacts locomotion and mood.
What is optimal level theory?
By. any theory which stresses living beings’ strife to reach optimal levels of some attribute, like arousal or stimulation, tension, foraging, or motion. OPTIMAL LEVEL THEORY: “In accordance with optimal level theory, motivation and striving to attain achievement are primary.”
How flow represents a state of optimal arousal?
Flow theorists define a state of flow as a state in which people reach a genuinely satisfying peace of mind. In this state, they are completely absorbed in whatever the activity may be. This has been known to be especially true when people are able to involve their creative abilities.
What is the optimal level of arousal for performance?
Optimal Levels of Arousal (i.e. Stress) Research shows that moderate arousal is generally best; when arousal (stress) is very high or very low, performance tends to suffer.
Why is optimal arousal important?
Optimal Arousal Arousal is an emotional and physical response which relates to a particular event or moment. This positive feeling can energise the athlete, significantly increasing their drive to succeed. Not every sport or athlete will have the same arousal level.
How do you maintain optimal arousal in sport?
Going through a good warmup with lots of activity will help increase arousal. Athletes generally experience high arousal when dealing with pressure and expectations related to sport competition.
- Deep breathing.
- Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR).
- Self-talk & Imagery.
What is the individual zone of optimal functioning?
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Understanding the particle-wave duality of electromagnetic radiation (light) is fundamental to understanding quantum theory and other phenomena as well as the nature of light. One of the biggest scientific developments in the previous century was the discovery that very small objects did not obey the same rules as everyday objects.
What Are Electromagnetic Waves?
In plain terms, electromagnetic waves are simply known as light, though the term light is sometimes used to specify visible light (that which can be detected by the eye), and other times is used more generally to refer to all forms of electromagnetic radiation.
To fully understand electromagnetic waves, it is important to understand the notion of a field and the relationship between electricity and magnetism. This will be explained in more detail in the next section, but in essence, electromagnetic waves (light waves) consist of an electric field wave oscillating in a plane perpendicular (at right angles) to a magnetic field wave.
If electromagnetic radiation acts as a wave, then any particular electromagnetic wave will have a frequency and wavelength associated with it. The frequency is the number of oscillations per second, measured in hertz (Hz) where 1 Hz = 1/s. The wavelength is the distance between wave crests. The product of the frequency and wavelength gives the wave speed, which for light in a vacuum is approximately 3×108 m/s.
Unlike most waves (such as sound waves, for example), electromagnetic waves do not require a medium through which to propagate, and hence can traverse the vacuum of empty space, which they do at the speed of light – the fastest speed in the universe!
Fields and Electromagnetism
A field can be thought of as an invisible array of vectors, one at each point in space indicating the relative magnitude and direction of a force an object would feel if placed at that point. For example, a gravitational field near the surface of the earth would consist of a vector at each point in space pointing directly toward the center of the earth. At the same altitude, all of these vectors would have the same magnitude.
If a mass were to be placed at a given point, then the gravitational force it feels would depend on its mass and the value of the field there. Electric fields and magnetic fields work the same way, except they apply forces dependent on an object’s charge and magnetic moment respectively instead of its mass.
The electric field results directly from the existence of charges, just as the gravitational field results directly from mass. The source of magnetism, however, is from moving charge (or equivalently, changing electric fields).
In the 1860s, physicist James Clerk Maxwell developed a set of four equations that completely described the relationship between electricity and magnetism. These equations basically showed how electric fields are generated by charges, how no fundamental magnetic monopoles exist, how changing magnetic fields can generate an electric field, and how current or changing electric fields can generate magnetic fields.
Shortly after the derivation of these equations, a solution was found describing a self-propagating electromagnetic wave. This wave was predicted to move at the speed of light, and indeed turned out to actually be light!
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Electromagnetic waves can come in many different wavelengths and frequencies, so long as the product of the wavelength and frequency of a given wave equals c, the speed of light. The forms of electromagnetic radiation include (from longer wavelengths/low energy to shorter wavelengths/high energy):
- Radio waves (0.187 m - 600 m)
- Microwaves (1 mm - 187 mm)
- Infrared waves (750 nm - 1 mm)
- Visible light (400 nm - 750 nm; these wavelengths are detectable by the human eye and often subdivided into a visible spectrum)
- Ultraviolet light (10 nm - 400 nm)
- X-rays (10-12 m - 10 nm)
- Gamma rays (<10-12 m)
What Are Photons?
Photons are the name for quantized light particles or electromagnetic radiation. Albert Einstein introduced the notion of light quanta (photons) in an early 20th century paper.
Photons are massless, and they do not obey number conservation laws (meaning they can be created and destroyed). They do, however, obey energy conservation.
In fact, photons are considered to be in a class of particles that are force carriers. The photon is the mediator of the electromagnetic force and acts as a packet of energy that can be transferred from one place to another.
You are probably thinking that it’s rather strange to suddenly be speaking of electromagnetic waves as particles, since waves and particles seem like two fundamentally different constructs. Indeed, it’s just this sort of thing that makes the physics of the very small so strange. In the next few sections the notions of quantization and particle-wave duality are discussed in more detail.
How Are Electromagnetic Waves or Photons Produced?
Electromagnetic waves result from oscillations in electric and magnetic fields. If a charge moves back and forth along a wire, it creates a changing electric field, which in turn creates a changing magnetic field, which then self-propagates.
Atoms and molecules, which contain moving charge in the form of electron clouds, are able to interact with electromagnetic radiation in interesting ways. In an atom, the electrons are only allowed to exist in very specific quantized energy states.
If an electron wants to be in a lower energy state, it can do so by emitting a discrete packet of electromagnetic radiation to carry off the energy. Conversely, in order to jump into another energy state, that same electron must absorb a very specific discrete packet of energy as well.
The energy associated with an electromagnetic wave depends on the wave’s frequency. As such, atoms can absorb and emit only very specific frequencies of electromagnetic radiation consistent with their associated quantized energy levels. These energy packets are called photons.
What Is Quantization?
Quantization refers to something being restricted to discrete values verses a continuous spectrum. When atoms absorb or emit a single photon, they do so at only very specific quantized energy values described by quantum mechanics. This “single photon” can really be thought of as a discrete wave “packet.”
An amount of energy can only be emitted in multiples of an elementary unit (Planck's constant h). The equation that relates the energy E of a photon to its frequency is:
Where ν (the Greek letter nu) is the photon’s frequency and Planck’s constant h = 6.62607015 × 10-34 Js.
You will hear people use the words photon and electromagnetic radiation interchangeably, even though it seems like they are different things. When speaking of photons, people are typically talking about the particle properties of this phenomenon, whereas when they are talking about electromagnetic waves or radiation, they are speaking to the wavelike properties.
Photons or electromagnetic radiation exhibit what is called particle-wave duality. In certain situations and in certain experiments, photons exhibit particle-like behavior. One example of this is in the photoelectric effect, where a light beam hitting a surface causes the release of electrons. The specifics of this effect can only be understood if light is treated as discrete packets that the electrons must absorb in order to be emitted.
In other situations and experiments, they act more like waves. A prime example of this is the interference patterns observed in single- or multiple-slit experiments. In these experiments, light travels through narrow, closely spaced slits, which act like multiple in-phase light sources, and as a result, it produces an interference pattern consistent with what you would see in a wave.
Even stranger, photons are not the only thing that exhibit this duality. Indeed, all fundamental particles, even electrons and protons, seem to behave in this way. The larger the particle, the shorter its wavelength, and the less this duality will appear. This is why you don’t notice anything like this in everyday life.
About the Author
Gayle Towell is a freelance writer and editor living in Oregon. She earned masters degrees in both mathematics and physics from the University of Oregon after completing a double major at Smith College, and has spent over a decade teaching these subjects to college students. Also a prolific writer of fiction, and founder of Microfiction Monday Magazine, you can learn more about Gayle at gtowell.com. | <urn:uuid:8a7dbf6b-ddec-454c-b930-b4fd1500a364> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sciencing.com/light-physics-what-is-it-how-does-it-work-13722566.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.937343 | 1,746 | 4.28125 | 4 |
It's often reported that more than half of small businesses fail during their first year in operation. However, Small Business Administration (SBA) data on business failure shows that only 20% of new businesses fail during their first year in operation, with this number increasing to 30% during the second year of operation.
From there, the failure rates increase. Businesses in operation five years have a 45% failure rate and 65% during the first 10. The SBA goes on to state that only 25% make it to 15 years or more. About 75% of U.S. venture-backed start-ups fail, according to Harvard Business School research.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this situation for small businesses of all ages, and you’re probably familiar with many reasons why the pandemic has proven so devastating. Government-mandated closures and lockdowns, less consumer spending, high unemployment rates, consumers mostly staying home – it doesn’t paint a pretty picture for small business failure rates.
These labor statistics reflect all businesses in the private sector. Looking at the numbers industry by industry gives more information.
Why the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Causing More Business Failures
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of what was once ordinary everyday life, so there’s no shortage of reasons why the pandemic has led to more business failures. The most significant of these reasons include:
- Additional public health and safety demands. Retail locations and other businesses still open to the public have had to stock up on face masks, plexiglass dividers, and hand sanitizer, all of which were previously unexpected costs. For establishments with large teams or large amounts of space, these costs can prove especially prohibitive.
- Hazard pay. Many employees have demanded hazard pay for in-person work during COVID-19, and some local governments have mandated this increased pay for several categories of employees. Many companies unable to pay their employees more than their pre-pandemic salaries have thus closed.
- Government-mandated closures. State and local governments have often forced businesses considered non-essential to close their in-person locations. These companies, which include restaurants, bars, venues, and retail stores, thus lack the daily foot traffic vital to their sales. In turn, many such businesses have ceased their operations.
- High unemployment rates. According to one study, the number of people not in the American workforce quadrupled from January 2020 to April 2020 (the month after COVID-19 began rapidly spreading in the U.S.). Employers are less productive when their workforces are diminished, which means lower output and thus fewer opportunities for revenue. The result is an increased likelihood of small business failure.
- Less consumer spending and activity. The high unemployment and small business failure rates that have accompanied the pandemic have led to a chain effect of additional small business failures. Every business that fails leads to more unemployed people with no discretionary income, leaving fewer consumers who can buy from businesses. This means fewer revenue opportunities and more failure potential for small businesses.
- Highly competitive government relief programs. Many applications for government COVID-19 relief programs such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) never hear back. Additionally, the recently launched Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program temporarily went offline after technical difficulties. The resulting delay can be long enough that some applicants fail before learning their application’s fate.
Differences Between Pre-Pandemic and Pandemic-Era Failure
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, most small businesses failed due to poor practices around everyday business considerations such as hiring, marketing, product offerings, and competitor research. Amidst the pandemic, business failure instead stems from the tricky balance that businesses must strike among public safety, government intervention, hazard pay, and decreased consumer spending. These factors were mostly irrelevant before the pandemic.
Although the long-term impacts of these pandemic-era small business failures remain to be seen, short-term statistics have been concerning. A sample of 5,800 small businesses just after the pandemic’s outset found that 43% of respondents were temporarily closed. Between March and July 2020, 80,000 businesses closed. Small business failure rates for the entire pandemic rate are not yet available, though pre-pandemic rates remain helpful to know.
What Is the Business Failure Rate?
The small business failure rate increases as companies grow older. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) business failure statistics show that small businesses of the below ages have the following average failure rates:
- One year or younger: 20%
- Two years or younger: 30%
- Five years or younger: 45%
- Ten years or younger: 65%
Of course, as with all general small business figures, these numbers paint a broad picture. That’s why it can be more meaningful to look at the small business failure rates for several industries.
Breakdown Per Industry
You can break down business failure more by looking at specific industries. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that health care and social assistance businesses also have high survival rates and growth projections.
For a breakdown of strong industries, review this slideshow from Entrepreneur: The 15 Most Profitable Small-Business Industries. Interested in what types of business you should avoid? Check out this article from The Balance: 7 Small Businesses You Don't Want to Start.
Why Businesses Fail
Starting a business can be risky but rewarding if done right. There are a multitude of things that can crush a business. A CBInsights analysis interviewed founders of 101 startup businesses that didn’t make it. Here are the top reasons they discovered for business failure.
- 42% of small businesses fail because there’s no market need for their services or products.
- 29% failed because they ran out of cash.
- 23% failed because they didn’t have the right team running the business.
- 19% were outcompeted.
- 18% failed because of pricing and cost issues.
- 17% failed because of a poor product offering.
- 17% failed because they lacked a business model.
- 14% failed because of poor marketing.
- 14% failed because they ignored their customers.
Small businesses may also fail for additional reasons, such as:
Beyond the reasons outlined in the CBInsights survey, small businesses may fail if they don’t hire qualified employees. At first, you might think you can’t control your hiring abilities, but sometimes, poor employee hiring practices don’t reflect the talent pool or your job description. They can also be consequences of your company’s benefits and culture.
Think about it like this: If you don’t provide much in the way of vacation or other benefits, prospective employees have fewer reasons to take a job with you. As such, they may accept job offers elsewhere.
Let’s say someone to whom you extend a job offer does accept. If this new employee quickly discovers that your workplace is toxic, they may leave before they even truly get started. Whether you struggle with hiring due to a company culture issue such as this one or a poor benefits package, your employee retention – a statistic that correlates positively with better business – decreases.
Poor competitor research
Small businesses can also fail if they neglect to perform meaningful competitor research. Without conducting competitor research, you and your team may miss important insights into the reasons why people prefer other brands to yours. As such, you won’t have the knowledge you need to make product changes that attract these potential new customers.
Without performing competitor research, you might also miss obvious industry trends that you capitalize on with new products and services. Such missed opportunities can prove detrimental to your bottom line – every potential dollar you miss is a small step toward failure.
According to a Failory survey of failed startups, the following are prominent reasons for failure:
- 34% failed due to a lack of product-market fit
- 22% failed due to marketing problems
- 18% failed due to team problems
- 16% failed due to financial problems
- 6% failed due to tech problems
- 2% failed due to operations problems
- 2% failed due to legal problems
Of course, no two startups are alike. Small business failure and survival rates vary significantly by industry.
Small Business Survival Rates by Industry
According to the aforementioned BLS data, healthcare and social assistance companies are the most likely small business successes. Only 15% of businesses in these fields fail within the first year, giving them a business survival rate of 85%. Within the second year, the business success rate in this industry decreases to 75%. After five years, the percentage of small businesses that survive is 60%.
This BLS data also shows that the most likely industries for failure are construction, warehousing, and transportation. 75% of small business owners in these sectors survive their first year, with this rate dropping to 65% after two years. After five years, only 35% of construction businesses and 40% of warehousing and transportation companies survive.
Of course, small businesses that fail exist in other industries too. Below are some first-year business failure statistics for other sectors:
- Restaurants and food service: 15%
- Real estate: 12%
- Finance and insurance: 16.4%
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation: 11.6%
- Professional, scientific, and technical services: 19.4%
Regardless of sector, a 2019 Startup Genome report found that 11 in every 12 startups fail. This and the above statistics may seem concerning, but if you take certain steps, you may be more likely to avoid failure.
How to Avoid Business Failure
There’s not one tried and true way to keep a business thriving. But there are solid steps you can take to avoid becoming a sad statistic. These include.
- Have a Business Plan: A well thought out business plan is the bedrock for business success. A business plan is a formal statement of goals, reasons they are attainable and plans for reaching them. Often, a business plan is required when applying for a small business loan. (Note: SmartBiz does not require a business plan when seeking an SBA loan).
Even if you’re already running a business, a business plan is a good idea. You don’t need to hire a professional. Check out this post for step-by-step instructions: How to Write a Business Plan for Your Small Business.
- Build Your Credit: With less access to business credit, your cash flow can take a hit. And without cash flow, paying for basic expenses – payroll, inventory, equipment – becomes impossible. As such, failure becomes a more realistic prospect.
- Keep Your Expenses Low: On the other hand, if your expenses are low, a lack of credit or cash flow may not prove that dangerous to your business. For example, if you’re trying to break into the ecommerce market, dropshipping may lessen your chances of failure as compared to other retail models since you’ll have no on-site inventory costs.
- Utilize And Build Your Network: Like all things in life, you can’t go it alone in business.
That doesn’t just mean hiring employees – it means making connections in your industry. The more connections you have, the more likely you are to find trustworthy suppliers and high-paying new clients. You’ll also have access to vital business and industry knowledge you might not find elsewhere.
- Train Employees Well: As mentioned earlier, poor employee hires provide a direct path toward business failure. You can avoid this trap by properly training your employees from the jump. The more prepared your employees are to handle the everyday demands of your job, the higher your productivity and thus revenue. And if you’re keeping your costs low as well, higher revenue more quickly leads to more profit.
- Know Your Industry: Have you done research? You’ll need to know the ins and outs of your industry to carve out your unique niche. BPlans has a comprehensive article outlining how to do an industry analysis: Know Your Industry Before You Start Your Business.
- Get a Loan: Taking on debt might not sound like a solid business strategy. However, low-cost funds can help strengthen your business in a number of ways. A popular use of a loan is to refinance or pay off high cost debt. This can drastically reduce your monthly obligations, putting you in a stronger financial position. Loans can also be used for a number of business building initiatives like hiring, equipment purchases, buying inventory, increasing marketing and more.
If you’ve been in business two or more years and have good credit, consider an SBA loan. With low rates, long terms, very low monthly payments, and no pre-payment penalties, SBA loans are known as the “gold standard”. Visit the SmartBiz Loans website to discover if you’re prequalified with no impact on your credit score. For a list of documents you’ll need to apply, visit the SmartBiz Small Business Blog: Application for a Business Loan: What You Will Need.
Have you had a business failure? The good news is that you're more likely to succeed if you've failed than if you've never tried. Entrepreneurs who have failed at a prior business have a 20% chance of succeeding versus an 18% chance of success for first time business owners.
As Thomas Edison famously said, “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Entrepreneurs learn from failure and can come out the other side stronger and ready for their next venture.
That said, failure should never be the end goal – and if you follow the steps listed in this guide, you should be in good shape to avoid failure. If you believe in your products and services and reckon with all the potential pros and cons of your business, survival should be realistic for you and your team. So don’t be afraid to start your dream business – there are ways you can make it last. | <urn:uuid:5ffdc776-e2d0-49a9-8fdb-31860270b29e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://resources.smartbizloans.com/blog/business-finances/percentage-of-businesses-that-fail-and-why/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.951352 | 2,950 | 2.390625 | 2 |
June 27th is Financial Health Matters Day! In honor of Financial Health Matters Day (or FinHealthMatters Day), hundreds of personal finance experts around the country will be educating their communities on financial literacy. As a part of this partnership, today’s post will be outlining what financial health means to me.
My Facebook status eight years ago today was: “I am having the worst week ever.”
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a warm Thursday during the summer of 2009. I was feeling lost, afraid, and confused. I just lost my job and was wondering how I would pay my bills.
Thankfully I had a small amount of money saved – only about $1200. In addition, I was owed one full paycheck.
Immediately I set a plan into action for survival – financial survival. I made a budget based on the money I had in savings and what was owed to me in my paycheck to figure out how long I could survive. Even though I didn’t have many bills (just rent, utilities, and my cell phone), I would still need money for food. In addition, the money I was able to come up with would only last two months at most but I wasn’t sure how long it would take to find another job.
Today we are going to be discussing 25+ free activities to enjoy this summer. The other day I asked my Twitter followers what they do in the summer to save money? Some of the answers I received included: I don’t save money in the summer, I just count the summer as an L, and that I avoid my bank account for the summer.
Although I was saddened by the answers, I am not going to lie. When it is nice outside, it is tough to stick within your budget. If you are anything like myself, then you want to enjoy the happy hours, rooftops, and other activities after work as well as on the weekend. On top of that, there are concert announcements and flight deals every week! The thing is, you can’t let all of your good financial habits throughout the year go to waste over a few month in the summer.
That is why I decided to come up with this list of 25+ free activities to enjoy this summer.
Check out this latest guest post by Dan Miller regarding 4 reasons you should increase your credit score. See his bio at the end of the post.
A good credit score makes one’s life much easier. It paves the way towards financial independence and aids in money-saving endeavors. On the other hand, a shabby history of credit use reflects in less than stellar rating and inhibits your credit management. It goes without saying that there are plenty of reasons to get on the right path to a clean credit rating. There is a variety of prudent steps to take and best practices to adhere to. Basically, to hold the reins over your finances and life, you have to stay on top of credit management and make on-time payments.
Check out these 4 reasons that you should want to increase your credit score.
Everyone around me bought a home in the past 2 years or is in the market for a home in the next 2 years. It is crazy! Although we may be at that stage in life, purchasing a home isn’t for everyone. Personally, I did a ton of researching before I realized that it was time for me to buy a home instead of continuing to rent. I weighed the pros and cons, read lots of articles, and asked a ton of questions!
In order to help others that may be considering buying a house, a created the following resources:
If you are on the fence about renting versus buying, check out these 8 reasons you should keep renting (instead of buying a house).
There are a couple of ways to make extra money quickly. Of course, you could try a side-hustle like driving for Uber or freelance writing. You could even try to open up a new credit card or checking account that comes with a bonus for signing up. Typically, though, those options can take time to actually receive the money. However, you may be able to find extra money by selling items that you have at your house. Like the saying goes – one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Check out these 6 items that have the best resale value.
Congrats to all of the 2017 graduates! It is awesome to scroll down social media and see all of the beautiful family pictures. Now that you have walked across that stage it is time to welcome you to the real world. By real world, I mean the world of additional bills and responsibilities. Although personal finance is typically not taught in a traditional school setting, you are in luck. I have created this ultimate guide to money for recent college grads. | <urn:uuid:b96ad0e4-5865-498b-9de7-ef742df5866b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.financiallyfitandfab.com/2017/06/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.97626 | 994 | 1.625 | 2 |
Green Watchdog Touts NY Climate Initiative’s $46 Million In Consumer Energy Savings In New Report
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Helps NY Homeowners Save Energy & Money While Reducing Climate Pollution
(ALBANY, NY)—Environmental Advocates NY today released a new report revealing how homeowners across the state are benefiting from investments made with Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) auction revenue. The multi-state RGGI was created to reduce climate-altering pollution from power plants. Carbon dioxide credits, also called “allowances,” are traded at auction and resulting auction revenue is invested in energy efficiency and clean energy programs statewide through a variety of programs. The report gives several examples of how RGGI investments are freeing New Yorkers from the burden of their monthly utility bills.
“Contrary to critics, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is not causing New Yorkers’ energy bills to skyrocket,” said Ross Gould, Air & Energy Program Director at Environmental Advocates NY. “Our review of RGGI investments proves that cutting climate-altering power plant pollution benefits New Yorkers’ pocketbooks and will help homeowners save about $46 million on their energy bills over the next decade.”
To date, New York State has raised $362 million from auctioning RGGI allowances. More than $32 million of these RGGI dollars are currently helping homeowners reduce electric bills and invest in weatherization and energy conservation measures, such as sealing air leaks, installing insulation, energy efficient windows, and doors, and mounting solar panels. RGGI investments are also encouraging New Yorkers to install more efficient heating and water heaters. As a result of these investments, New Yorkers will save $46 million on their energy bills while adding value to their homes. Millions of dollars in additional RGGI investments are in the pipeline.
Despite a slow start due to a polluters’ lawsuit, RGGI investments are making New York’s homes more energy efficient. According to the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA), $22 million plus investments in energy efficiency will lead to more than twice that amount in annual bill savings for consumers.
RGGI Energy Conservation Efforts
Green Jobs Green New York is subsidizing energy audits for single family, multifamily, small business, and not-for-profit building owners. Green Jobs supported the installation of energy efficiency improvements in 550 homes in the Hudson Valley and Westchester County during 2011. These projects resulted in average annual savings of more than $800 per household. Over the next decade, participating homeowners are projected to save nearly $4.5 million on their utility bills.
The Multifamily Performance Program provides incentives to repair or replace space and water heating systems, insulation, air sealing, and building shell energy efficiency improvements. More than $2,221,000 in RGGI investments have already resulted in 122,193 MMBTu in oil savings, and combined with other energy programs resulted in 3,260,057 kilowatts in electricity savings. That adds up to 10-year utility bill savings of more than $28 million.
The Green Residential Building Program provides incentives to owners of new homes and existing residential buildings renovated to reduce energy use by up to 30 percent. In Rochester, NY, a home builder completed more than 20 RGGI-funded projects built new homes 30 percent more efficient than conventional new home construction thanks to RGGI incentives. The homes received the National Green Building Standard Program’s “Gold Standard,” and feature continuous ventilation systems, tankless water heaters, and highly efficient furnaces.
Empower New York helps low-income New Yorkers cut energy costs by funding energy efficiency improvements such as insulation, blower-door assisted air sealing, and heating systems repair and replacements. To date, NYSERDA has invested more than $550,000 of a planned $3,000,000 in energy education, energy audits, and on-the-spot energy efficiency upgrades in low-income households. These investments are anticipated to save hundreds of dollars a year for those hit hardest by energy prices.
In Watertown, NY, a family used EmPower resources to insulate their attic, seal doorways, install a programmable thermostat, reduce air leakage from recessed lights, repair a bathroom vent, and vent the clothes dryer. The family estimates savings of approximately $670 a year in the cost of home heating oil.
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Elastin, as one of the major extracellular matrix (ECM) components, is essential to accommodate physiological deformation and provide elastic support for blood vessels. Elastin is a long-lived ECM protein and it can suffer from cumulative effects of exposure to chemical damage, which can greatly compromise its biomechanical properties. The mechanical properties of elastin are related to its microstructure and the chemical environment. Glucose is an important carbohydrate in human body. The effect of glucose on the mechanical properties of blood vessels is especially magnified in diabetic patients . Glucose can directly condense with amino groups of proteins by nonenzymatic glycation, which is one of the main mechanisms of aging .
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Glyphanostomum pallescens can be up to 35 mm long. It has a characteristic annulated tube. It can be found in the Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, around Svalbard and northern Norwegian coast south to Møre at depths between 100 and close to 3000 meters.
Kara Sea, 75o40’N 78o40’E, 45 m.
Measurements: Up to 35 mm long.
Number of thoracic chaetigers: 14
Number of thoracic uncinigers: 11
Number of abdominal uncinigers: About 30.
Prostomium: Without ridges or lobes; with one visible pair of depressions (nuchal organs).
Mouth tentacles: Smooth.
Branchiae: Three pairs of branchia in two widely separated groups; branchiae in each group in transverse row.
Special features: Thoracic segments gradually increasing in length posteriorly; notopodia gradually shifting to a more dorsal position.
Pygidium: With two long lateral cirri and several small papillae.
Tube: Long, thin, and distinctly annulated; thin layer of organic secretion with layer of mud often with sponge spicules attached.
Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, Svalbard, northern Norwegian coast south to Møre; from deep (close to 3000 m) in Norwegian Sea to shallow (about 100 m) in Svalbard and Northern Norway.
The annulated tube, in combination with the prostomium without ridges or lobes and three pairs of branchiae in two widely separated groups, makes it unlikely to confuse adult complete specimens of Glyphanostomum pallescens with any other Ampharetidae in Norwegian waters.
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The Department of Homeland Security is hiring in Silicon Valley — for drones.
Last week, technology entrepreneurs filled a Menlo Park conference room, where officials spelled out their needs — drones small and light enough to launch easily and fly over vast stretches of desert. The machines would look for questionable activity, scan faces of suspects and compare them against a database for prior criminal history.
Drones already operate along the border. Eight large Predator drones, each with a 66-foot wingspan, help agents with monitoring. Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, told a Syracuse newspaper in April that he wanted to expand the use of drones at the border, in addition to the wall he wants to build. | <urn:uuid:e368c217-7fd5-4697-94e8-9fd0936a8036> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://skyfront.com/2016/08/04/homeland-security-to-silicon-valley-we-need-drones/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944112 | 139 | 1.804688 | 2 |
So, how’s humanity doing?
Good question. One way of answering is to look at global per-capita GDP — that is, the average amount of economic activity per person in the world. From that perspective, humanity is kicking ass:
We’re getting richer!
Here’s the thing, though: While GDP has come to serve as a stand-in for human welfare, it was not originally developed for that purpose. What’s more, it kind of sucks for that purpose. Objections to GDP as a measure of human welfare are as old as GDP itself; I’ve written about them before. It doesn’t distinguish between welfare-enhancing economic activity and the welfare-degrading kind. It doesn’t value natural capital. It doesn’t incorporate life satisfaction or economic inequality. And so on. Any true measure of human welfare should be far more nuanced.
So what to use instead? One alternative measure is the Genuine Progress Indicator, or GPI, an attempt to combine personal consumption expenditures (what GDP captures) with a few dozen other positive and negative indicators, including crime, pollution, inequality, the loss of ecosystem services, the value of domestic labor, self-reported happiness, and so forth.
(There is a long, involved, and contentious literature on GPI and other alternative metrics. Needless to say, no aggregate measure of welfare is precise; all reflect their own contestable assumptions; all have their shortcomings. But it seems to me that almost any of them, including GPI, are preferable to simple GDP, which after all includes contestable assumptions of its own.)
In a new paper in the journal Ecological Economics, a team of researchers attempts something novel: to aggregate all the available GPI data in various countries into a global per-capita GPI.
Their top-line finding is pretty astonishing: Global per-capita GPI peaked in 1978 and has declined since. Put another way: Some time around 1978, the rise in aggregate global economic activity ceased enhancing global economic welfare — GDP and GPI parted ways.
Why do they split? The critical difference between the two is that GPI incorporates the spending down of natural capital as an economic cost — it’s no coincidence, the authors note, that 1978 is also about when “global Ecological Footprint exceeded global Biocapacity” for the first time.
What’s more, the researchers found that GDP/capita and GPI/capita rose together until the former hit about $7,000; at that point, GPI stops rising alongside it:
It’s important to be careful with conclusions here. It’s not necessarily that making more money than $7,000 makes people less happy. I know I’d be happier with $700,000 than $7,000. Rather, at that level of global economic growth, the cumulative cost of negative indicators like lost natural capital, inequality, and pollution start to cancel out the welfare gains of growth.
Just as a thought experiment, let’s say we capped global per-capita GDP at $7,000 (none of us reading this would like that much, I suspect) and total global GDP at its current level, $67 trillion. How many people could the earth support at that level? “No more than 9.6 billion” (for reference, we are at 7.1 billion, headed to 9.6 billion by 2050, so it’ll be a tight fit). The authors note, rather wryly I thought, that to reach this exalted state, “variations in income would need to exist between and within nations, however these disparities should be much smaller than they are today.” Yes. Much.
This is the radically egalitarian message of this kind of research: maximizing global economic welfare from this point forward will involve more redistribution than growth. The simple, headlong, unequal growth on the 20th century is no longer working.
Of course each country has it’s own GDP/GPI story to tell. There’s lots of good stuff in the paper about individual countries, and also how GPI stacks up against other indicators like ecological footprint, the Human Development Index, life satisfaction, the Gini coefficient, and so on. Dig in if you like that kind of stuff.
By way of discussion, it’s worth noting that this paper’s results tack somewhat against a good bit of current research showing that the correlation between rising income and rising happiness holds pretty much forever, though it loses strength higher up. This is the new hip stance in these matters: “Yes, money really can buy happiness.” (Or put another way: that there may be no Easterlin Paradox.)
What explains the disparity? Can we increase our welfare by growing more, or can’t we? Again, I think the key difference is that GPI is scoring the loss of natural capital as a cost. As the authors put it:
Economic activity, it should be recognized, is undertaken to generate a level of economic welfare greater than what can be provided by natural capital alone. For the GPI to properly reflect this reality, it is necessary to subtract the permanent loss of natural capital services.
This explains the apparent contradiction. As finite resources are consumed, the welfare (and happiness) of current people rises, while the natural capital necessary to sustain economic activity declines. GDP will only pick up on the former; GPI incorporates the latter.
It ends up, as so many things do, coming down to how much value one places on the welfare of future generations. Is the “humanity” whose welfare we are attempting to maximize currently alive humans, or the species in its whole great arc on this planet?
To some folks, the unsustainability of running faster and faster through finite resources seems self-evident. Others, however, hate this sort of thinking. They believe that market forces will push human beings to discover new or more sustainable natural resources, or squeeze more out of current ones (as we are doing now with oil). They believe that economic growth, not necessarily defined as material throughput but simply as increases in welfare brought about by mutual trade, has no limit because human ingenuity has no limit. There is no petri dish for humanity — or rather, there’s no reason our petri dish can’t go on expanding, forever. Man Will Overcome.
The way I think about the question is: Are we a biological species or an economic species? Set aside an hour or two some day and read Charles C. Mann’s magnificent “State of the Species.” It frames the question in the clearest possible terms.
It would be no surprise at all for a biological species to expand its population into overshoot, destroy its habitat, and go extinct. It’s what you would expect of an organism with few competitors. Mann discusses the work of scientist Georgii Gause, working in the 1920s. Gause’s original experiment was simple but brilliant: five test tubes, each with a few drops of broth, each containing five single-celled protozoans of a single species. After a week’s observations, here’s what he found:
What Gause saw in his test tubes is often depicted in a graph, time on the horizontal axis, the number of protozoa on the vertical. The line on the graph is a distorted bell curve, with its left side twisted and stretched into a kind of flattened S. At first the number of protozoans grows slowly, and the graph line slowly ascends to the right. But then the line hits an inflection point, and suddenly rockets upward—a frenzy of exponential growth. [See: global GDP graph at the top of this post.] The mad rise continues until the organism begins to run out of food, at which point there is a second inflection point, and the growth curve levels off again as bacteria begin to die. Eventually the line descends, and the population falls toward zero.
In nature, as Darwin so perspicaciously noted, natural selection keeps this process in check. Organisms have competitors and limited ecosystems. But in a petri dish or test tube, free of competitors, a species will race to the limit and shoot past it. It is the nature of life, to propagate itself. Mann writes:
By luck or superior adaptation, a few species manage to escape their limits, at least for a while. Nature’s success stories, they are like Gause’s protozoans; the world is their petri dish. Their populations grow exponentially; they take over large areas, overwhelming their environment as if no force opposed them. Then they annihilate themselves, drowning in their own wastes or starving from lack of food.
In short, a biological species as dominant as ours, largely free of competitors and still with large stocks of natural capital to burn through, should be expected to hit limits and suffer catastrophes. And it won’t be pretty:
If we follow Gause’s pattern, growth will continue at a delirious speed until we hit the second inflection point. At that time we will have exhausted the resources of the global petri dish, or effectively made the atmosphere toxic with our carbon-dioxide waste, or both. After that, human life will be, briefly, a Hobbesian nightmare, the living overwhelmed by the dead. When the king falls, so do his minions; it is possible that our fall might also take down most mammals and many plants. Possibly sooner, quite likely later, in this scenario, the earth will again be a choir of bacteria, fungi, and insects, as it has been through most of its history.
However. If we are an economic species — a welfare-maximizing species, a rational species — we will look ahead, anticipate problems, and innovate solutions. We will decouple economic growth from material throughput and grow without limit, eventually into space, bounded only by our own imaginations. “To seek out new life and new civilizations / To boldly go where no man has gone before.”
I’ll admit to being somewhat schizophrenic on this question. I’m very much attracted to the notion of boundless ingenuity. But the raw truth is that we are not, in fact, looking ahead, anticipating problems, and innovating solutions — not on a broad scale. We are not taking the kind of drastic action necessary to shift to long-term sustainability. In fact, it’s proving difficult for us even to talk about it sensibly or govern in the right direction. Mann again:
Not only is the task daunting, it’s strange. In the name of nature, we are asking human beings to do something deeply unnatural, something no other species has ever done or could ever do: constrain its own growth (at least in some ways). Zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, brown tree snakes in Guam, water hyacinth in African rivers, gypsy moths in the northeastern U.S., rabbits in Australia, Burmese pythons in Florida—all these successful species have overrun their environments, heedlessly wiping out other creatures. Like Gause’s protozoans, they are racing to find the edges of their petri dish. Not one has voluntarily turned back. Now we are asking Homo sapiens to fence itself in.
What a peculiar thing to ask! Economists like to talk about the “discount rate,” which is their term for preferring a bird in hand today over two in the bush tomorrow. The term sums up part of our human nature as well. Evolving in small, constantly moving bands, we are as hard-wired to focus on the immediate and local over the long-term and faraway as we are to prefer parklike savannas to deep dark forests. Thus, we care more about the broken stoplight up the street today than conditions next year in Croatia, Cambodia, or the Congo. Rightly so, evolutionists point out: Americans are far more likely to be killed at that stoplight today than in the Congo next year. Yet here we are asking governments to focus on potential planetary boundaries that may not be reached for decades. Given the discount rate, nothing could be more understandable than the U.S. Congress’s failure to grapple with, say, climate change. From this perspective, is there any reason to imagine that Homo sapiens, unlike mussels, snakes, and moths, can exempt itself from the natural fate of all successful species?
In his conclusion, Mann compares what’s necessary to a species-wide form of what the Japanese call hara hachi bu: “belly 80 percent full.” The brain receives the body’s signal of satiety long after it is sent; during its transmission, we eat to excess. So the way to stay healthy, to eat the appropriate amount, is to stop eating before feeling entirely full. One way of looking at these new results on GPI is that they are an early indicator: we are hara hachi bu. We have enough, if we would share it more equitably. But GDP shows that we’re still eating furiously.
Can a successful species stop before it is stuffed and sick? It’s never been done before, but humans have done lots of things that have never been done before. Maybe human intellect and imagination are something truly new in the world. After all, concludes Mann …
… it is terrible to suppose that we could get so many other things right and get this one wrong. To have the imagination to see our potential end, but not have the imagination to avoid it. To send humankind to the moon but fail to pay attention to the earth. To have the potential but to be unable to use it—to be, in the end, no different from the protozoa in the petri dish. | <urn:uuid:9b23918a-873a-4274-a537-b328d2cde0c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://grist.org/climate-energy/is-humanity-smarter-than-a-protozoan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.947901 | 2,912 | 2.421875 | 2 |
(HealthDay News) — Few American adults know about the risk factors for and symptoms of head and neck cancer (HNC), according to a study published online June 5 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
Alexander L. Luryi, from the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, and colleagues conducted an online survey of 2,126 randomly selected U.S. adults to examine subjective and objective knowledge of HNC. The assessment of knowledge included symptoms, risk factors, and association with the human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.
The researchers found that self-reported HNC knowledge was low, with two-thirds (66%) of respondents reporting that they were not very or not at all knowledgeable. There was no significant variation in self-reported knowledge according to tobacco use, education, sex, or race (P=0.92, 0.053, 0.07, and 0.02, respectively). A total of 22.1, 15.3, and 2.0% of respondents correctly identified throat, mouth, and larynx cancer, respectively, as sites comprising HNC, while 21.0% incorrectly identified brain cancer as HNC. More than half (54.5%) and 32.7% of respondents identified smoking and chewing or spitting tobacco as risk factors for mouth and throat cancer, respectively. HPV infection was identified as a risk factor for mouth and throat cancers by 0.8% of respondents, but 12.8% were aware of the correlation between HPV infection and throat cancer on specific questioning. Most respondents (70%) were aware of the HPV vaccine.
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It has become a big question lately: Are social media platforms negatively affecting users’ mental health? And if so, how and to what degree? Now, a new study conducted by an online therapy directory service finds a majority of Americans -- 58% -- say they have experienced negative mental health effects from using social media.
The study from OnlineTherapy.com, which is based on a survey of 1,250 U.S. adults conducted via Pollfish on October 7, found only 25% said their mental health has not been negatively affected, while 10% said they were unsure and 7% said they don’t use social media at all.
The findings follow numerous recent reports about social media’s harmful effects, including documents leaked by former Facebook Product Manager Frances Haugen, who in September showed Facebook’s attempts at hiding the platform’s harmful effects on users, especially teenage girls.
According to OnlineTherapy.com’s report, anxiety was the leading side effect of social media use, with 64% of those negatively affected. Other side effects included depression (56%), dissatisfaction with life (52%), fear of missing out (52%), and body-image issues (51%).
More negative feelings correlated to more time spent on social media, the report found. 64% of users who spent 4+ hours on social media per day experienced depression, compared to 44% of users who spent 3 or less hours per day on social media.
Fifty-seven percent of the former group reported feeling lonely, while 35% of the latter group reported loneliness as a side effect of app use.
Unfortunately, social media has been shown by some studies to be incredibly addictive, mostly due to the predatory purposes of platform algorithms. With uncontrolled targeting of this kind, users are likely to experience misinformation, leading to a lack in critical thinking abilities.
OnlineTherapy’s report showed that 71% of those who experienced mental health issues from social media blamed misinformation and disinformation.
Other causes amongst those surveyed included one’s perception that others’ lives are perfect (60%), cyberbullying (59%), and unrealistic body standards (57%).
Seventy-four percent of respondents named Facebook as the most harmful platform to their mental health. Second was Instagram (66%), then TikTok (51%), Twitter (47%), and YouTube (45%).
The survey also collected specific information surrounding the levels of harm that social media has inflicted on users of various ages, genders, races, and ethnicities.
Sixty-five percent of men reported that social media use negatively affected their mental health, compared to 49% of women.
Seventy-three percent of Asians said social media had a negative impact on their mental health, followed by 62% of whites, 43% of Hispanics/Latinos, and 40% of Blacks.
Sixty-five percent of Americans between 25-44 years old said social media was harmful for their mental health, followed by 51% of 45-54 year-olds, 49% of 18-24 year-olds, and 35% of people 55 and older.
Body image issues were another area of interest in the report, which were affected by social media at a similar rate for men and women. Fifty-two percent of men, and 49% of women, who experienced negative mental health effects from social media name body image issues as a challenge they’ve undergone.
The survey found that more men (64%) than women (51%) were negatively affected by cyberbullying. Uncivil discourse, as well, was cited by more men (57%) than women (43%) to cause mental distress. Seventy-five percent of men were also more negatively affected by misinformation and disinformation than women (64%).
Younger users were more susceptible to depression and loneliness due to social media use than older users. Of users whose mental health suffered due to social media, 59% between 18 and 44 years old experienced depression, compared to 44% of users 45 and older. Fifty-five percent of the former group experienced body image issues, compared to 33% of the latter group.
Three in 4 millennials (75%) negatively impacted by social media named misinformation and disinformation as the most harmful element of the social media platforms. Compared to 52% of users 18-24 years old and 63% of users 45 and older.
Black social media users reported that unrealistic body standards were the greatest source of harm, while whites, Asians, and Hispanics/Latinos named misinformation and disinformation as the most damaging aspect of social media platforms.
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Why was ancestor worship important to the Chinese?
The ancestor worship cult is still an important part of the belief system of Chinese people. It is based on the belief of reciprocity between the living and the dead. The living needed to sustain their ancestors as the ancestors were able to influence the gods to bring them good fortune.
Can your ancestors choose a husband for you?
Your ancestors can choose who they want you to marry and will remove any obstruction to that happening for you. However, its something you can choose to fight them on of which they are understanding!”
How do ancestors communicate?
Through daily prayer, mediation, creation of art, music, food and ceremony, the ancestor spirits can communicate, guide, protect and heal the living. Connecting with them can transform the past and heal future generations.
Why do we burn ancestor money?
The burning of spirit money allows for it to be transferred to ghosts, gods, and ancestors to be used as real currency in the other world. The offering of food serves to bring our ancestors and other beings in the other world closer to us. It serves as a bonding tool to bring both worlds together.
What is ancestor money worth?
This is no one’s fault just me overlooking how much the ancestor money is worth. They are of low numbers $100, $500, etc and I like to burn millions of dollars for my ancestors daily….
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Why do Vietnamese burn money?
These are a form of joss paper resembling legal tender bank notes burnt as offerings to the deceased. It is essentially a way of showing respect to the dead that has become an important part of the culture.
What does it mean when ancestor money burns green?
Ancestor money burns quickly and you may get a bright green flame which is said to mean your loved one has received your offering and accepted it (I love when this happens!) Ancestor money may also be used as an altar offering.
What happens when you burn a piece of paper?
When a piece of paper is burnt, entirely new substances like carbon dioxide, water vapour, smoke and ash are formed. Hence, burning of paper is a chemical change.
Why is ash left after burning?
Ash is the solid, somewhat powdery substance that is left over after any fuel undergoes combustion. Incomplete combustion means that there is not enough oxygen present when the material is burned to completely consume the fuel.
Is it dangerous to burn paper?
Magazines, junk mail and colored gift-wrapping paper may seem like harmless items to burn in a backyard fire pit. But the ink printed on the paper releases toxic fumes when burned. Recycle magazines and junk mail instead.
Is it safe to burn paper in a fire pit?
The fire pit is not a trash incinerator. Do not burn paper, trash, or anything manmade. These release carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, and a number of other toxic chemicals into the environment. You also shouldn’t burn treated wood.
What is the best fuel for a fire pit?
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Thirty-one died in the suicide attack on Zion evangelical church in Batticaloa on 21st April 2019, of which 14 were children. To date the church remains locked with a notice on the gate claiming it is an “army construction site”. A memorial billboard picturing the victims has been turned inwards so it cannot be seen from the outside. With the state doing little, parents Praba and Sutha who lost their child will join with other families this April 21 to unveil a monument at 5.30pm near Kalladi Bridge. In neighbouring Kattankudy, around 130 Muslim children from families who authorities have implicated in the attacks struggle with social ostracization and live in abject poverty. A few have dropped out of school, and some do not have much to eat. This much is clear: Two years after the Easter attacks, victims have not seen justice, and their suffering is coopted to distract from ill governance. While the state delays accountability for those actually at fault, it collectively punishes the Muslim community at large with zero due process guarantees.
On 12th March, President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa unveiled new regulations under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) by Extraordinary Gazette. Entitled De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology, they permit the Ministry of Defence to create “Reintegration Centres” designed to rehabilitate those who cause or intend to cause “acts of violence or religious, racial or communal disharmony or feelings of ill will or hostility between different communities or racial or religious groups.” This gazette will strengthen the already draconian provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
The world has watched in recent years as China detained a million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslims in secret “re-education centres,” described as the largest mass-scale internment of ethnic and religious minorities since World War Two (New Yorker (Feb. 26, 2001), https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/china-xinjiang-prison-state-uighur-detention-camps-prisoner-testimony). Chinese officials have claimed that a third of Xinjian’s Uyghurs are “polluted by religious extremist forces” and need to be cleansed of their ideology, not merely punished for their actions. Forced internment, travel restrictions, suppression of religious practices, and sterilization programs have led the U.S. and others to label China’s repression as genocide. The U.S., E.U., U.K. and Canada sanctioned Communist Party officials who shaped the internment policy, and barred cotton and tomato imports from Xinjiang.
Potentially emboldened by China’s policies in Xinjiang – which senior Sri Lankan officials have publicly defended – Sri Lanka has embarked on a similar path. As with China’s “re-education centres,” the camps to be established under Sri Lanka’s new regulations would go beyond punishing overt acts and instead proscribe thoughts. The current deradicalization gazette is vague in what it prohibits and open to subjective enforcement, facilitating overbroad application and the deprivation of fundamental rights. Human rights activists have raised these objections in a fundamental rights petition now pending before the Sri Lankan Supreme Court.
It is easy to see how the new regulations will lead to arbitrary enforcement against Muslims, who are already being targeted for mass arrests under the PTA. In Kattankudy alone there are over 125 Muslims, including 15 women and 02 infants in detention. Many of them have been locked up in overcrowded facilities since the 2019 attacks with no hearings or access to counsel.
Muslim poet Ahnaf Jazeem
In Mannar, 26-year-old Muslim poet Ahnaf Jazeem was arrested last year under the PTA for promoting “extremism.” His arresting officers clearly never read his poetry, which was criticized that very thing. His arrest was apparently made because a photograph of a person in Taliban-style dress appeared beside a poem that decried Islamic terrorism. To date Jazeem has not been produced before a magistrate, and he has languished in appalling prison conditions where rats have bitten him. His lawyers received just 20-minutes to meet their client, and officials recorded even that meeting, in violation of Sri Lankan law and basic principles of due process.
Jufaithiya, a 55-year old cancer patient, has been denied treatment and is currently in Tangalle Navy camp. She was arrested because she listened to a banned National Thawheeth Jamath bayan (sermon) on a single occasion. In that same camp are 15-month-old Yunoose and 12-month-old Imara, who are spending their toddler months in custody alongside their mothers who have been detained under the PTA. When baby Yunoose’s hand got burnt, mother Nushra could not tell relatives how it happened because detainees were forbidden to speak to visiting relatives alone.
What “rehabilitation” means
As bad as things already are for the Muslim community under the PTA, the new deradicalization regulations make matters worse, expressly codifying the power to detain a person on nothing more than an official’s subjective (and often erroneous) interpretation of a detainee’s words or actions. The regulations are silent as to what “rehabilitation” means, or what procedures will be adopted to achieve it. Perhaps most alarmingly, they remove even the inadequate judicial oversight and safeguards that exist under the PTA. Police may commence an investigation after arresting a person, without providing the reason for arrest. Detainees may be deprived access to counsel or the right to receive the evidence to be used against them. If the Attorney General’s Department believes the person is suitable for rehabilitation that person may be detained for a year (with possible extension for another year), with approval by a magistrate as the sole form of judicial scrutiny. Even war on terror detainees held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay have the right to challenge their designation as enemy combatants and seek habeas corpus relief to contest their continued detention. Such basic protections will now be denied to Sri Lankan citizens detained within Sri Lankan territory.
It is easy to see that the so-called rehabilitation camps are not meant as a counterterrorism tool. Describing her prolonged detention in China in a startling New Yorker piece, Uyghur Anar Sabit recalled being kept alongside women having no connection to religious extremism or violence. She slowly came to realize that China’s camps aimed not at counterterror but rather at breaking cultural bonds and knowledge transmission (Khatchadourian, Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang, supra note 3). The same is already apparent in Sri Lanka.
These mass detentions have nothing to do with justice for victims. Three men who were charged on 12th November 2020 in a Los Angeles federal court with aiding and abetting the Easter attacks – Mohamed Naufar, Mohamed Riskan and Ahamed Milhan – are being indicted in Sri Lanka only on the 20th April 2021, though they have been detained by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) of the police for long. Surprisingly the new terror finance list the government released last month, which includes over 400 Tamil diaspora activists and organisations involved in human rights advocacy, does not have the names of these men who have actually been indicted in the U.S. for terrorism. Meanwhile last week, a working-class man named Mohamed Irfan was arrested because he once carried food in his tuk-tuk to one of the main suicide bombers in Kattankudy. As the killers escape justice, arrests of large numbers of ordinary Muslims for vague and arbitrary alleged transgressions have silenced an entire community.
Sri Lanka has tried rehabilitation camps before, and its example is deeply concerning. Anyone who had been a member of the LTTE for even a day—forcibly recruited or otherwise—was required to submit to rehabilitation at the end of the war. Thousands of young men, women and children were placed in state-run rehabilitation camps. At least several dozens of them disappeared. One Tamil mother, Jeyakumari Balendran, identified her missing teenage son in a photograph depicting the rehabilitation of former LTTE cadres. She demanded answers, noting that her son was in the custody of a government rehabilitation centre, and met with the then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. The government silenced Jeyakumari by ordering her arrest on unsupported allegations that she had harboured a terror suspect. She spent a year in prison while her teenage daughter was sent an orphanage. For too many families, “rehabilitation” has proved a euphemism for disappearance, and seeking answers only compounds the punishment.
As many Tamil women learned, there is also a cost for those who do make it out of rehabilitation. Women’s groups and community activists worked closely with rehabilitated women cadres in the north and the east, helping them rebuild their lives after the war especially in 2010 to 2019. For many women, particularly the war-disabled, conservative Tamil society left them no place to return to. Having chosen a path that challenged traditional gender norms, these women were shunned by the community and struggled to marry, raise children, and negotiate culturally accepted women’s work. Rehabilitation policies only exacerbated their challenges. With former cadres visited at all hours by young military men, the community ostracized these women for their perceived promiscuity, or avoided them so as not to invite further surveillance upon themselves. The badge of being “rehabilitated” sows mistrust and division within already marginalized communities, further breaking down family and community.
Tamil Yesterday; Muslims Today
Yesterday Tamils were the target; today it is Muslims. In China, Uyghur Anar Sabit described how her family was labelled as “focus personnel” to be watched when she was being detained in Chinese re-education camps. Her relatives had to entertain officials with alcohol (to show a departure from Muslim norms) and attend weekly flag-raising ceremonies (to prove their patriotism). After Sabit was released, former friends and relatives kept their distance, fearing that any association with her would only land them there too (New Yorker (Feb. 26, 2001), supra). Similar patterns are already emerging here, with the Muslim community shunning PTA detainees for their perceived ties to religious extremism or avoiding them to ward off unwanted CID attention. In Mawanella (Kegalle district), a large number of Muslims have been detained under the PTA. Families there are suffering in silence and isolation. Even their own community members do not want to talk about them or show their homes to anyone who wants to gather information or assists them. In this way rehabilitation camps break down not only a detainee but also his or her broader community. And with prolonged detention inevitably facilitating enforced disappearance, some families will forever be broken and searching for answers.
Deradicalization regulations: just a first step
The deradicalization regulations were just a first step. On 13th April the government issued new PTA regulations banning eleven organizations on national security grounds. In addition to ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and various Thowheedh Jamma’ath groups, charities supposedly linked to the Easter attacks we banned. Some of these groups may indeed have links to terrorism, and these links should be properly and lawfully investigated. However, with the banning of eleven Muslim organizations, there is an imminent threat of many followers of these groups (jamaath) being sent for rehabilitation. To put international terror organizations like Al Qaeda and ISIS in the same basket as local faith groups is a tactic for this government to deflect Western concern over growing islamophobia in Sri Lanka. And the composition of the list can change too. In 2014, the administration of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa banned 16 Tamil diaspora organizations and 424 individuals on grounds of “financing terrorism”. Several names were de-listed by the subsequent government, only to be relisted again this year, with a recently surfaced document adding over 50 Muslim names to the list for the first time. Upon proscription, individuals have few means of challenging their ban, denying their membership of the listed groups, or questioning whether the group indeed has terrorist links. Their rights of free movement and association are restricted with no judicial oversight, on little more than the government’s assertion that proscription furthers national security.
Today, with journalists choosing between exile and self-censorship and investigators and political, social and human rights activists under attack, it seems likely that broad proscription powers will be used to further stifle dissent. With little civil space or official mechanisms to challenge a group’s proscription, or contest alleged membership of a proscribed group, recent regulations invite the sweeping abuse of power and diminishment of basic civil rights.
Sri Lanka is on a dangerous path
In short, the PTA is bad, but recent regulations make things far worse. Sri Lanka is on a dangerous path, shielding actual terror suspects from accountability while inflicting mass punishment on a minority population at large. Two years after the horrific attacks, victims and society at large deserve and demand better.(SL-Brief)
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The Victorian construction sector has been reminded to review its passive fire protection measures, ahead of legislative changes coming into effect in September 2022.
FyreCHOKE mixed service fire collars are lined with an intumescent material that expands with the heat of a fire to seal the gaps around services inside a fire collar.
FyreSHIELD PLUS is an access panel system that is designed to be built into plasterboard ceilings.
The fire protection industry is frequently traced back to the Ancient Romans. Through technological innovation, these ancient principles have been transformed.
The ACT Emergency Services Agency has signed an agreement with Rosenbauer for an electric fire truck, featuring a range of safety benefits for Fire & Rescue firefighters.
Following the success of AFAC21 Virtual Conference and Exhibition, plans are underway to host AFAC22 in a face-to-face environment in Adelaide.
At AFAC21 (5–8 October), more than 100 conference presenters across seven immersive streams will take a holistic approach to emergency prevention, management and recovery.
Brisbane-based fire protection maintenance software provider FireMate has partnered with Standards Australia to deliver an integrated fire safety solution.
A major commercial building company has been chosen to lead Project Remediate, NSW's cladding remediation program.
COREX is a lightweight fire-rated board designed for steel protection in the event of a fire.
A Gold Coast jumping castle hire business has been fined $50,000 for exposing two workers, who were burned in a fire, to the risk of serious injury.
Victorian volunteer firefighters will receive virtual reality training to help them grow accustomed to a range of emergency firefighting scenarios.
Research into the health effects of the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire has revealed an increased risk of death in smoke-impacted areas during and after the fire.
With industry leading design, product and service expertise, Workwear Group tailor solutions to meet each of our Emergency partners' unique requirements.
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FACT SHEET: The U.S.-Palestine Relationship
Tomorrow, President Biden will announce a number of initiatives to support the Palestinian people by:
- Improving access to health care and technology;
- Deployment of long-awaited 4G digital connectivity in Gaza and the West Bank;
- supporting economic growth;
- Provide essential services to Palestinian refugees;
- Reduce food insecurity;
- Foster dialogue between peoples to support peace.
President Biden will also announce new contributions totaling $316 million to support the Palestinian people. This is in addition to the more than half a billion dollars the United States has provided to the Palestinian people since the Biden administration restored much-needed funding to the Palestinians.
Improving access to health care for Palestinians
- During his visit to Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem, the President will announce that the United States intends to provide a new multi-year American contribution of up to $100 million for the East Jerusalem Hospital Network (EJHN ), subject to Congressional approval. The EJHN is a consortium of six hospitals in East Jerusalem providing specialist services, including oncology, dialysis, neonatal intensive care and specialist maternity, ophthalmology and emergency services to 50,000 patients from East Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza each year. Funding is provided by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and coupled with health system and hospital reforms.
Strengthening the digital economy to improve Palestinian economic growth
- To boost Palestinian businesses and improve connectivity for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, Israel has pledged to accelerate the long-awaited transformation from 3G to 4G in the West Bank and then from 2G to 4G in Gaza. Israeli and Palestinian teams will work together immediately to initiate technology studies, with the goal of deploying advanced infrastructure for 4G by the end of 2023. This engagement will accelerate digital transformation and foster a better-connected Palestinian economy. It will also generate jobs, increase productivity and increase online operations in the health and education sectors.
Improving travel experience from the West Bank to Jordan
- President Biden supports the creation of a more self-sufficient, efficient and reliable Palestinian experience of foreign travel. He will announce that Israel is prepared to take steps to increase the efficiency and accessibility of the Allenby Bridge for the benefit of the Palestinians. In order to upgrade the facilities, Israel has agreed to allow 24/7 access by September 30, 2022. A working group will assess several measures, including the use of biometric passports, and will complete its assessments within the next month. and discuss findings with US partners. In addition, the task force will consider steps to establish the Palestinian Authority’s presence on the Allenby Bridge while maintaining Israel’s security considerations.
Support essential services for Palestinian refugees
- The United States believes that Palestinian refugees deserve to live with dignity, to have their basic needs met, and to have hope for the future. President Biden will announce an additional $201 million for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to continue providing essential services to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, the Lebanon and Syria. UNRWA’s comprehensive services remain a lifeline for millions of vulnerable Palestinians – in line with its mandate to provide assistance and protection to Palestinian refugees pending a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These services contribute directly to maintaining regional stability, which benefits the interests of the United States, our allies, and our partners. This contribution cements the status of the United States as UNRWA’s largest donor. These new funds bring total U.S. assistance to UNRWA under the Biden administration to more than $618 million. The United States is committed to helping UNRWA provide the most effective and efficient assistance possible and to continuing to improve its operations and delivery. UNRWA’s work must be carried out in full respect of the UN principles of neutrality, tolerance, human rights, equity and non-discrimination.
Reviving Israeli-Palestinian Economic Discussions and Promoting Measures to Improve Lives
- President Biden will share with President Abbas that Israel intends to convene the Joint Economic Committee with the Palestinians. The resumption of discussions through the Joint Economic Committee is a long-standing request of the Palestinian Authority. The committee last met in 2009 and is the entity mandated by the Oslo Accords for the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority to meet to discuss common economic issues, including sewage, clean energy and other measures that impact the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank. President Biden also announced that Israel had agreed to increase to 15,500 the number of permits granted to Palestinians from Gaza to work and do business in Israel. The Biden administration strongly supports increased access and movement for Palestinians, and this is a positive step towards that goal. In addition, Israel agreed to approve the registration of 5,500 previously unregistered Palestinians in the Palestinian population register.
Ensuring food security for Palestinians
- In response to growing Palestinian food insecurity following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Biden will announce that the United States is providing $15 million in additional humanitarian assistance to vulnerable Palestinians. With funding from the United Nations World Food Program and two nongovernmental organizations, the United States is providing electronic food stamps, general-purpose cash assistance, and emergency livelihood support, helping more than 210,000 people in food insecure to meet their household food needs in the coming months. This funding is part of President Biden’s pledge of additional U.S. government resources at the G7 leaders’ summit in Germany in late June to protect the world’s most vulnerable populations from an escalating global security crisis. eating.
Foster interpersonal ties
- To build grassroots support for peace through an eventual negotiated two-state solution, President Biden will announce two new grants under the Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act (MEPPA) . The MEPPA authorizes up to $250 million over five years to implement projects led by both Israelis and Palestinians that establish the environment necessary to achieve long-term peace. First new grant, $2.21 million to the Peres Center for Peace, will support collaboration and professional exchange between the Palestinian and Israeli health sectors as they work to build mutual trust and understanding between the two companies. The second new grant, in the amount of $5 million to AppleSeeds, will offer young Palestinian and Israeli professionals the opportunity to work together and learn essential technology and leadership. For more information on these and other activities under MEPPA, please visit https://www.usaid.gov/west-bank-and-gaza/meppa. | <urn:uuid:fda8be3d-959e-403b-84dc-e4d9c832b4e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://besttoplink.info/fact-sheet-the-u-s-palestine-relationship/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.931456 | 1,357 | 1.75 | 2 |
Consumer credit is any type of credit extended to an ordinary consumer. Credit, broadly defined, is the provision of a resource (usually money) from one party to another, where the first party does not expect to be immediately compensated. Instead, the parties arrange for payment to come at a later date, or over time, in installments. Many people in Old Saybrook, Connecticut deal with 1 type of consumer credit almost every day: credit cards. These little pieces of plastic are one of the biggest sources of consumer debt in the United States.
Why can't I Get Credit in Old Saybrook, Connecticut?
If you can't get credit in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, the most likely reason is that you have a poor credit score. Credit scores in Old Saybrook, Connecticut are compiled by private companies known as "credit bureaus." These companies compile all the available information about a person's finances, and then assign them a numerical score, which provides a quick assessment of the risk they represent to a lender. The exact formulas that these companies use to generate credit scores are closely-guarded trade secrets.
U.S. law states you are entitled to one credit report per year for free. This will allow you to see your credit score, and any factors that might be hurting it, which can help you improve it in the future. You should be aware, however, that many websites offering a "free" credit report will begin charging you a monthly fee a month after you register, and then make it very difficult for you to cancel your membership, requiring you to do so over the phone rather than online. They also sometimes only tell you about this fee in the fine print.a
How Can I Improve My Credit Score in Old Saybrook, Connecticut?
To improve your credit rating, you can do a few relatively simple things. First, you should check your credit report for errors, and report them to the credit bureau so they can be corrected. Also, it's good to show that you know how to use credit responsibly. For example, a person in Old Saybrook with no credit history can quickly build up a good credit rating by getting a credit card, making a few small purchases with it, and then paying the whole balance at the end of each billing cycle.
Credit reports are a tool for lenders to assess how risky it is to loan money to someone. Therefore, showing that you routinely pay your debts in a timely manner is the best way to maintain a good score.
How Can a Old Saybrook, Connecticut Lawyer Help?
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The opening of the Neues Museum marked a key chapter in the history of 19th-century art, museum design, and technology. Designed by Friedrich August Stüler and built from 1843 to 1855, the building suffered severe damage during World War II, after which it was left as an abandoned bombsite. Emergency measures to secure the structure were only taken in the 1980s. Painstaking restoration work got under way in 2003 and was undertaken by the offices of the British architect David Chipperfield. The building’s façade and interiors were carefully preserved, the scars of the war were not patched over but rather incorporated into the restoration of the landmarked building. What emerged was a restored historical building that is simultaneously a modern museum. Chipperfield thus managed to lend this extraordinary building and former ruin a unique and wholly authentic splendour. The museum reopened its doors to the public in 2009 and combines geographically and thematically related exhibits pooled together from three separate collections at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: the collection of Egyptian art from the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, of prehistoric objects from the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, and of classical antiquities from the Antikensammlung. This joint exhibition featuring exhibits of unparalleled breadth and diversity allows visitors to trace the development of prehistoric and protohistoric cultures, spanning from the Middle East to the Atlantic, from north Africa to Scandinavia.
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Filed by the giant from Cupertino a patent that will make Apple Glass adaptable to different defects of vision, allowing you to wear them without additional lenses or contact lenses
Apple Glass is one of the most anticipated products on the market in recent years. For some time now, there has been online speculation about the physical characteristics of the product. What is certain is the impact that glasses will have on our routine making the world of augmented reality accessible to everyone. The last detail is provided by patent No. US010686922, filed on June 16, 2020.
In the text of the patent, the last in a long series, they describe a system for modifying the configuration of the optical components of the key device of the glasses. In practice, the company has patented a new method that modifies the characteristics of the display according to each medical needs. This improvement would allow Apple Glasses to be gilded without having to wear contact lenses or eyeglasses at the same time.
The latest information leaked talks about the product launch in mid 2021. The market price is expected to be around $500 (approximately €450). The other characteristics of the glasses should be defined instead. Confirmed the presence of a LIDAR scanner for distance recognition, fundamental for augmented reality. The possibility of having cameras on the glasses, instead, is going away, due to evident privacy problems. We just have to wait and be ready for what will be a revolution in our way of life. | <urn:uuid:d3412864-1b96-4e2d-9e7e-0aa6aa472916> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thepatent.news/2020/06/19/thanks-to-a-new-patent-apple-glasses-will-be-graduated/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.947733 | 300 | 1.9375 | 2 |
What is Burn Contractures?
Burn contractures surgery is used when the person is suffered from a serious burn accident, Burn contractures is the tightening of the skin after a second or third degree burn. When skin is burned, the surrounding skin begins to pull together, resulting in a contractures. It needs to be treated as soon as possible because the scars can result in fetter of movement around the injured area.
Recovery and Results after surgery
Patient should recover quickly after split-thickness skin grafting, except in case of major burns. The skin graft must be protected from trauma, such as being hit, or heavy stretching for at least two to three weeks. Depending on the location of the graft, you may need to wear a dressing for one to two weeks.
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Example Referral Questions:
As a forensic mental health professional, what factors need to be considered in your psychological testing for the forensic assessment report?
What behavioral observations do you make about the client by reading the case vignette?
What are your assessment options in working with the client?
What standards and accepted psychological tests might you apply to your client in forensic settings? Select from the instruments you researched in M3 Assignment 2 RA.
How will you recognize and evaluate your client’s offender behaviors associated with malingering and deception?
What theoretical orientation do you want to use in this case for your treatment recommendations?
What is the case scenario you have selected?
What is the reason for referral?
What is the purpose of the forensic assessment and report?
What is the nature of the problem presented in your selected case vignette?
What is the context in which the forensic assessment report will be used?
What is the background of your client? What are the symptoms displayed by your client and the significance they have in this case?
What is the mental status of your client? Be sure to elaborate on every major component addressed in the mental status examination.
What interview type and approach did you use with your client?
What tests are appropriate to use in your forensic assessment report? Identify one intelligence test, one objective personality test, and one projective test.
What collateral information will you use in the process of the evaluation?
How will you present your impressions of the client?
Write a Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report. Use the Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report template (you can download the template from .
Evaluate and interpret the information provided to you in the case vignette that you have selected in M1 Assignment 3. Synthesize the information you collected to create a Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report. Your findings should be in a report format.
In a 10- to 12-page report, include only the following components:
Reason for Referral: Explain the objective of your case vignette analysis, clearly bringing out the aspects or reasons that motivated you to carry out the study.
Presentation: Create mock interview data and collateral information (you are to identify the questions to ask in the interview). Provide a synopsis of the interview. Provide data to support the mental status of your client, based on your forensic assessment report and the mental status components you have identified.
Current Life Situation and Background Information: Explain the problem provided in your selected case vignette using the interview and mental status data. How does the data relate to the background of your client and your behavioral observations?
Objective Testing: Identify the assessment instruments you would recommend to evaluate the client and explain the rationale for your recommendations. Describe the objective tests you have selected and their use. How did you apply these tests to your selected case vignette? Based on your study, what is your analysis of the symptoms displayed by your client? What ethical and multicultural issues do you need to address? You will apply what you have learned from M3 Assignment 2 RA into this section.Assessment Categories and Tests:
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NATIONAL SURVEY: NEARLY HALF OF VOTERS SAY COST KEEPS THEM FROM GETTING DENTAL CARE; 8 OUT OF 10 WANT ABILITY TO SEE DENTAL THERAPISTS
Dramatic Shortage of Minority Dentists Makes It Harder for Children, Families of Color To Get Dental Care
Boston, Mass.– In a new survey, 45 percent of U.S. voters said they go without needed dental care because of cost or lack of insurance. But eight out of 10 respondents said they favor a way to mitigate this problem: adding midlevel dental providers, such as dental therapists, to dental care teams.
Health care improvement advocate Donald Berwick strongly supports this option.
“Dental therapists can offer much better access to care, for the most underserved populations, at considerably lower cost to the system,” said Berwick, former administrator for the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “I have rarely seen a change to the way we provide care that rings truer to the spirit of the Triple Aim, the simultaneous pursuit of improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations and reducing the cost of health care.”
Berwick has publicly called on his home state of Massachusetts to join the movement to authorize midlevel dental providers. Dental care is the single most unmet healthcare need in the country.
The survey by Lake Research Partners found bipartisan support for dental therapists and in every major U.S. region. It also showed support growing from 76 percent in 2011 to 81 percent as of November 2016. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation provided funding for the survey.
The survey indicates people of color face the greatest cost hurdles to dental care. Latino survey respondents were twice as likely as whites or African Americans to report that dentists refused to take their insurance coverage – 21 percent, compared to 10 percent for whites and 11 percent for African Americans.
A study released in November in the journal Health Affairs found dramatic shortages of minority dentists, making it harder for people of color to get dental care. The study, led by Beth Mertz, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, estimated that an additional 19,714 Black dentists, 31,214 Hispanic or Latino dentists and 2,825 American Indian or Alaska Native dentists are needed to eliminate national shortages of minority dentists.
“The burden of oral disease falls hardest on children and families of color. Since our founding in 1930, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has made improving oral health for children and families a priority, working with communities and dental professionals to spark innovations for increasing access to and improving oral health,” said Alice Warner-Mehlhorn, director of policy for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. “Across the country, states must do everything in their power to prevent more children from falling through the cracks in the current dental delivery system. That includes diversifying the dental workforce and adding dental therapists to dental teams.”
In 2016, tribes in Washington and Oregon launched pilot projects with dental therapists and close to a dozen other states are looking to authorize them to practice. One year ago this week, the Swinomish became the first tribe in the Lower 48 to use dental therapists to address the oral health crisis in Indian Country.
Dental therapist programs are designed specifically to help expand access to dental care in underserved communities. In Alaska, they have expanded access to 45,000 Alaska Natives who could not get regular dental care before. In Minnesota, dental therapists have significantly increased the number of underserved patients able to get care. Despite over a decade of success in the U.S., out-of-date laws prevent dental therapists from employment in most states.
“Good oral health is critical to overall health, yet policies to expand access to dental care do not reflect this,” said Tera Bianchi, project director of the Dental Access Project at Community Catalyst. “Dental therapists offer better access to care for the most underserved populations in a cost-effective way to the system. They are a smart, effective bipartisan way to improve access to care.”
Lake Research Partners, a public policy and opinion research firm, conducted telephone survey of 2,400 voters nationwide. The survey has a margin of error among adults overall of +/-2.0% at the 95% confidence interval.
Community Catalyst is a national, non-profit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1998 with the belief that affordable quality health care should be accessible to everyone. We work in partnership with national, state and local organizations, policymakers, and philanthropic foundations to ensure consumer interests are represented wherever important decisions about health and the health system are made: in communities, courtrooms, statehouses and on Capitol Hill. For more information, visit http://kauffmaninc.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0033d065eadb44cbd20725a3&id=bef393af24&e=bffc42c658. Read our blog at http://kauffmaninc.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=c0033d065eadb44cbd20725a3&id=b1df7ebfd7&e=bffc42c658. Follow us on Twitter @HealthPolicyHub.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.
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An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Moss, Todd; Pettersson, Gunilla; van de Walle, Nicolas
A number of proposals today support a substantial increase in foreign aid levels to sub-Saharan Africa even though this region already receives a historically unprecedented volume of aid. This essay reviews the evidence regarding the potentially negative effects of aid dependence on state institutions, a topic which has received relatively little attention. We note several pathways through which political institutions might be adversely affected and devote particular attention to fiscal and state revenue issues. In addition to reviewing the economic literature on the aid-revenue relationship, this essay brings in the longstanding political science literature on state-building to consider the potential impact of aid dependence on the relationship between state and citizen. We conclude that states which can raise a substantial proportion of their revenues from the international community are less accountable to their citizens and under less pressure to maintain popular legitimacy. They are therefore less likely to have the incentives to cultivate and invest in effective public institutions. As a result, substantial increases in aid inflows over a sustained period could have a harmful effect on institutional development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
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Dramatic changes are being made in the delivery of media coverage electronically to your PC desktop or PDA. This is a huge benefit for PR professionals. Maybe the ink-stained fingers are being replaced by “BlackBerry thumb”, but getting media coverage electronically is now easier and more mobile.
These changes have led to the development of new tools by content providers and software programs that help manage and analyze media coverage. Automation at the database level as well as the delivery of real-time news to both internal and external stakeholders is almost a given. The holy grail in PR is automation of media measurement and analysis. But where does software stop to allow for human analysis?
The media analysis program can help you save hours by analyzing and sorting media coverage in a variety of ways. Do you really need a computer program that analyzes each story to determine how it affects your company? This is a risky gamble that has little reward.
Simply say no
Some software programs already allow for the automation of tone or sentiment. But how accurate is it? Each story will have a different meaning and impact on different organizations and stakeholders. There are winners and losers behind the news.
Why Media Coverage Is Important for Your Business
If a negative news story about a strike at a bottling plant breaks, it can be a boon to its competitors. It is difficult to identify which companies have been negatively affected by news. It is difficult to determine the tone and bias of a reporter covering a particular issue. News is about more than just delivering facts. It is also about inducing a reaction or emotion in the reader. While media analysis tools can help to decipher the facts, the rest should be left up to a team professional in communications.
One of the arguments against toning media coverage is that it is subjective. If news can be interpreted differently by different people, won’t this lead to biased results? This is true, but it can be easily solved by introducing a consistent tone for each story. These scorecards can vary depending on what type of analysis you wish to provide at the end. Many companies will tone stories by putting them in a positive, neutral, or minus category.
Subjectivity problems can be introduced by the mere use of these three words. The C.B.S. is a quick solution to team brainstorming and training sessions about how to apply tone. Instead, use the Scorecard
- Instead of using Negative, use ‘Critical.
- Use ‘Balanced” instead of Neutral
- Use “Supportive” to replace Positive
It is easier to answer the question, “Was this story critical, balanced or supportive of our company?” after reading an article. Instead of asking “Was this story negative, neutral, or positive?” Tone is not always black or white. However, I would rather have grey areas left to trained communications professionals than to guesswork by a software program.
Your software solution can automate the rest of your analysis once each story has been toned. To determine the success of a campaign, the tone can be used separately by calculating the percentage of C.B.S. The tone can be used to determine the success of the campaign by the percentage of C.B.S. Your organization is constantly being analyzed by the media. Why not return the favor?
The media monitoring and analysis technology is changing the face and future of media relations. However, it’s important to recognize that human beings should still determine the impact of news stories on an organization.
33 Reasons to Do a News Release
Although news releases may not be the best way to gain major media coverage, they can increase the frequency that your company name is mentioned in the press. Press releases can help you get coverage in specific features, such as business notes and new personnel columns. Press releases are a great way to inform your customers, colleagues, and allies. Post releases to the company website, send them out via e-mail, or use one of the PR Newswire and PR Web services.
Below is a list of 33 reasons you might want to distribute a news release.
- * Brand New Products
- * Business Startup
- * Partnership
- * Strategic Alliances
- * A new or innovative business strategy
- * Company Restructuring
- * Going public/Going private
- * Company Recovers from Adversity
- * We are looking for new employees
- * Important Executive Retiring/Resigning
- * Business/Economic Trends: Executives Discuss
- * Promotions for employees
- * Opening New Branch Offices
- * New Divisions Established
- * Headquarters Relocating
- * Announcement of Research Results
- * A Major Anniversary
- * Significant New Client Acquisition
- * Increase in company revenue, sales, or profit growth
- * Change of Company Name
- * Receiving national recognition or major awards
- * Award presented by a company
- * Receiving important certification or accreditation
- * Free Seminars or Workshops
- * Employee Appointed To Civic/Government/Professional Board
- *Availability of Guest Articles or White Papers
- * Issue a Position Statement on a Topical Subject
- * Consumer Information Freely Available
- * Bureau of Company Speakers
- * Company Philanthropic Assistance
- * Major Company Milestone
- * A new Board of Directors
- * A New Website
Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility
The anti-corporate movement, including those against globalization, has seen some momentum in the last few years. Many people within the movement now support Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which is the idea that corporations should be accountable to society and the environment as well as shareholders. It is a shame that they have gained momentum. We would all be poorer without modern corporations. Few of us could even expect to retire comfortably. Modern corporations exist to provide income for pensions, more than anything else.
Yes, corporations were once owned by very wealthy people. With the widespread adoptions of mutual funds and pension funds, corporations are now owned mainly by working people. Although the average worker has less wealth than the average billionaire it is true that there are many more workers. This means that the government and company pension plans can invest large sums of money in capital stock, making the working-class the largest shareholders of many corporations.
Communication is important to me. I want to know why Corporate Social Responsibility receives so much media attention and coverage. I am also curious to learn what we can, as communicators from them. The anti-corporate movement’s message is simple: “Corporations have to much money and power; workers don’t have enough,” or a variation of that theme. However, I defend corporations above is not simple. Even though I am pretty good at writing words, it’s far from easy. Did your eyes glaze over as you read my description?
The anti-movement has the luxury of making an argument about whether rich corporations are better than poor workers. This is a moral argument that adds flavor to any news story. The ‘pro’ side is based largely on rational discourse and the ideas from economists. Third, protestors are passionate about the anti-corporate message. This is a fight of good against evil, after all. The prosaic science and economics of economists are the only way to defend modern corporations and globalization. Fourth, the anti-corporate movement also benefits from the label “Corporate social responsibility”. The name serves as a unifying point and implies that CSR can be a positive thing. Who could possibly be against’social responsibility’ and responsibility?
CSR advocates have a problem despite their media attention and widespread presence. Although they may have the ability to attract the attention of editors and reporters, they don’t have the power and influence that the real decision-makers need, which is the people who manage companies, pension plans and mutual funds. The decision-makers won’t be influenced. They are well-versed in the roles of corporations and know their responsibilities. CSR will not be popularized by the public because they are accountable to shareholders and not to the society as a whole. Perhaps the last lesson from today’s anti-corporate movement is that sometimes great communication can only get you so far.
Communication Analysis: Real-Time
The final results of your proactive media campaign to launch a new product or service have just been reviewed. These numbers are impressive: there were millions of media impressions, coverage was equally split between print and broadcast media and the launch was covered by three national papers-pretty impressive. Could it have been more? This is what you should do.
The first step to understanding the success or failure of communications is analysing issues and campaigns. Media analysis is often not done due to busy schedules or tight client budgets. It is expensive to gather media content. But it is not cost-effective to analyze and measure the trends, successes and areas for improvement. Many stories are filed away right away or given to a small group for analysis. Half the battle is won if you already do ongoing media analysis. If not, your client or director may demand it. Analysis is a must and not a requirement, thanks to new analysis technologies.
What’s the next step after you have determined the importance or necessity of an analysis? Here is where confusion can occur. Everyone has their own opinion on how media content should been analyzed, based on their experiences. The issue of PR standards or formulas is often a problem. This can lead to things sometimes coming to a halt. Before you can begin to plan how you will analyze data, it is important that you first identify what you want to analyze. These are some considerations.
- You can track your success in key publications or mediums based upon demographic suitability
- Evaluate key message penetration in media stories
- You can track the quality of coverage, not just its quantity
- Success is determined by your competitors
- The success of spokesperson pickup
- Calculate campaign ROI
- If you have to, measure advertising equivalency
- Monitor regional penetration comparisons
- Tabulate media impressions/audience figures
- Compare key issues and/or product penetration
- The editorial/other media commentary/letters to editor that result
There are many ways to analyze and cross-reference information. You should also note that all of these considerations can be accomplished without getting into complicated formulas or confusing PR multipliers. It is important to identify what you are interested in evaluating, and then create benchmarks for future comparisons. You can still add PR multipliers, provided you keep the same formula. No matter how much you multiply by, say 3, 5, 10, or 10, coverage can still be considered accurate and impartial.
Go Electronic, Go Real-Time
It can be valuable to look back at the success of a product launch, the effects of a crisis on your company, or even a monthly comparison, in order to gain insight into future planning. Imagine the impact you could make if real-time data was available at your fingertips instantly. You could monitor your environment with real-time data. Which regions have the greatest success?
- You can correct misinformation that is being spread.
- What publications require another follow-up call?
- What issues get the most attention?
- The coverage’s quality and tone
- Your organization’s impact
- Which tactics work and which don’t?
How to profit from recent media trends, competitors’ strategies or success
Real-time analysis has many benefits. It is an empowering feeling to know that you can influence the outcome of a product launch. Real-time analysis combined with benchmarking will give you the tools to improve campaign results mid-stream. You can also analyze the campaign’s success using a set of predetermined objectives and consistent criteria. Make 2005 the year that you benchmark your analysis. This will allow you to see the results of your communications strategies and provide valuable insight for many years. | <urn:uuid:1e7421ad-e918-4a56-b514-02782f8f417a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avigocapital.com/why-media-coverage-is-important-for-your-business/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949739 | 2,490 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Requirement that police tell a suspect in their custody of his or her constitutional rights before they question him or her. So named as a result of the Miranda v. Arizona ruling by the United States Supreme Court.
Source: U.S. Courts
Refers to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that says when a person is arrested or questioned by police, he or she must first be told about certain rights against self-incrimination (saying something that makes it sound like you are guilty).
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This August, NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research Division will host a webinar featuring the First Responder UAS Triple Challenge. PSCR Division Chief Dereck Orr will be joined by four panelists to discuss this exciting prize competition, with a total of $720K in awards, to help save lives faster and support advancing first responder search and rescue (SAR) operations. The challenge allows its contestants to use their ingenuity, hardware knowledge and expertise to create a concept for an unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) prototype through three different challenges.
The first challenge (FastFind) will focus on increasing the speed of search and rescue operations where direct visual contact with a potential subject may be obscured.
The second challenge (LifeLink) will center on the resilience of network connectivity in remote areas where access to network connectivity may be denied.
The third challenge (Shields Up!) relates to enhancing the security of both command and control as well as navigational communications between the drone and its ground station.
Read below to learn more about our webinar speakers.
Dereck Orr is Division Chief for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division at NIST, which serves as an objective technical advisor and laboratory to FirstNet, the Department of Homeland Security and public safety. Its mission is to accelerate the adoption and implementation of the most critical public safety communications standards and technologies. Since 2002, Mr. Orr has led the trajectory of PSCR’s research and impact by working closely with first responders, government(s), academia, and industry. In 2018, he testified as an expert witness for the Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Subcommittee of the Department of Homeland Security. In 2019, he was recognized by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) with the Leadership in Advocacy Award. He brings a Masters in Public Policy from the College of William and Mary and a Bachelor of Arts in American History from the University of Texas at Austin.
Michael Ogata has worked for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since 2005. Michael has served for the past 7 years as the co-lead for the PSCR Cybersecurity group. He has worked closely with members of the public safety community to explore security concerns unique to public safety and their technology. Prior to his work with public safety, Michael worked within NIST’s digital forensics research efforts, specializing in mobile application forensics.
Mr. Brooks joins Raspet with nearly 30 years of experience in design, testing, certification, and support of aircraft systems. Most recently, Mr. Brooks led the team responsible for certifying the world’s first commercial fly-by-wire rotorcraft. Mr. Brooks has provided industry leadership of regulatory reform efforts through aviation trade associations such as the General Aviation Manufacturer’s Association (GAMA), Aviation International Association (AIA) and the American Helicopter Society (AHS).
Mr. Brooks holds a Bachelor of Applied Aeronautics degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with post-graduate studies in feedback control systems, and airplane stability and control, and Aerodynamics at Mississippi State University. His technical paper detailing development and testing of a fly-by-wire flight control system for tilt rotors was published in the Journal of the American Helicopter Society. Mr. Brooks is the recipient of multiple industry awards and has several patents and patents pending for his work related to advanced flight control systems in both the U.S. and Europe.
Roger Blalock serves as the technical lead for the Resilient Systems portfolio within NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research division, which serves to advance communications and broadband technology for first responders. Prior to joining NIST, Roger worked in the telecommunications industry where he developed automated system integration test platforms and performed new feature deployments for domestic and international service providers. Throughout his career, he has planned and executed multiple lab and data center design projects; for the most recent of which he was awarded the prestigious Department of Commerce Silver Medal for leadership. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and several information security certifications. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Information Systems Security at the University of Denver.
Dr. R. Kurt Barnhart is Professor of Aviation and most recently the Associate Dean of Research at Kansas State University Polytechnic in addition to serving as the executive director of the Applied Aviation Research Center which he established; this center now oversees the Unmanned Aerial Systems program office. Prior to that Dr. Barnhart was Head of the Aviation Department at Kansas State University. Dr. Barnhart is a member of the graduate faculty at K-State and holds a commercial pilot certificate with instrument, multi-engine, seaplane and glider ratings. He also is a certified flight instructor with instrument and multi-engine ratings. Dr. Barnhart also holds an airframe and powerplant certificate with inspection authorization. Dr. Barnhart holds an A.S. in Aviation Maintenance Technology from Vincennes University, a B.S. in aviation administration from Purdue University, an MBAA from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and a Ph.D. in educational administration from Indiana State University. | <urn:uuid:e6485769-ba80-4b19-b05a-18385fdf589f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2021/08/pscr-webinar-uas-triple-challenge-drones-first-responders | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.949024 | 1,075 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Satisfies Humanities General Education Requirement
This course explores a distinctive mode of human creativity - religion. In particular, we will focus on the diversity and breadth of women's religious practice and thought in Goddess religions, Voodoo, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, and Native American religions. We will examine approaches to the study of religion, including psychological, anthropological, sociological, and phenomenological theories. In other words, we will talk about how to talk (and think) about religion. In addition, we will read diverse genres of religious expressions, including autobiography, theology, critical essays and ethnography. We will find out what religious women value about their religion and why they talk about it they way they do. We will discover how "outsiders" critique and/or value religion and why. We will analyze what these values tell us about human nature, society, and power. Prerequisite: sophomore standing; one prior course in Women's and Gender Studies or Religious Studies. | <urn:uuid:bafb7ea5-5df2-49a0-908b-48bcaaf85246> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wgst.missouri.edu/course/wgst-3750 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.915578 | 200 | 2.53125 | 3 |
GOTECFOR is an EIP-AGRI operational group that contributes to the bioeconomy by seeking to optimise the value chain of forest biomass, as a fuel for heating.
Projects & Practice
An EIP-AGRI Operational Group working together to increase the implementation of multifunctional hedgerows that offer environmental benefits as well as climate mitigation and adaptation.
Knowledge exchange network established to foster multi-actor collaboration and sharing around organic agriculture.
An example of an initiative promoting energy efficiency that addresses climate change through targeted actions at grassroots level.
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The Brain and Light Therapy
At the Harmonized Brain Centers our passion is to help our clients achieve their BEST BRAIN EVER by applying Drug Free, Non Invasive, Safe, Effective and Affordable modalities. Red Light and Near-infrared therapy is one of our modalities. Sometimes it is called Low Light Laser Therapy, Light Therapy or Photobiomodulation. Whatever you want to call it, it is using the light spectrum frequencies from 630 nanometers (nm) to 1,200 nm. For the best therapeutic effect the range we use is from 630 nm to 850 nm in our applications. Regenesis 3, PlatinumLED (BioMax series) and ClinicRed are the manufactures we use in our office for our applications. Light therapy has been around for many years and has more than 3,000 peer-reviewed studies investigating and verifying the benefits of this therapy. The PlatinumLED (BioMax) and the ClinicRed devises use combined frequencies while our Regenesis 3 works on the 850 nm frequency. As discussed below there are many uses for light therapy; however, our primary concern is help create the best environment for the brain to operate and the 850 nm frequency has been our frequency of choice for the brain at it penetrates the skull, actives the mitochondria in brain cells and increases blood flow.
The Therapeutic Spectrum:
The red light spectrum extends from approximately 620 nm to 750 nm which is visible to our eyes. The red light frequencies that have the most scientifically proven benefits are 630 nm and 660 nm. Near-infrared (invisible to our eyes) starts at 750 nm and extends all the way to 1,200 nm. Near-infrared frequencies that have been scientifically proven to yield benefits for humans include the 810 nm, 830 nm and 850 nm frequencies.
Frequencies outside of these ranges quickly decrease in their penetration and absorption capabilities. Not only this, but certain red and near-infrared frequencies are recognized as offering unique therapeutic and regenerative results for the body and brain. Various published scientific studies have shown that near-infrared in the lower range can penetrate the body and bones more effectively than higher frequencies. These two zones of absorption from 620nm - 660nm and 800nm-850nm are what's known as the "action zone". Although we are most concerned with deeper penetration with the Light Therapy to help the brain, discussed below are the benefits of each of the frequencies along with their benefits.
The 630nm Frequency (Red Light)
The 630nm frequency is ideal for targeting all manner of skin concerns. 630nm frequencies penetrate into the skin cells and sebaceous glands to rejuvenate the skin’s tone and texture by smoothing and evening out uneven pigmentation. This frequency has also been found to help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and can also stimulate hair regrowth.
The 630nm frequency offers the following benefits:
· Reduced fine lines and wrinkles: In one study, the 630nm frequency was combined with other beauty treatments such as microneedling to create a statistically significant improvement in photodamage, fine lines and sagging.
· An improvement in skin disorders such as psoriasis: One study showed that the use of the 630nm frequency used in conjunction with hematoporphyrin derivative (HPD) helped to eradicate the symptoms associated with psoriasis within 17 days.
· Hair regrowth: Red light therapy containing the 630nm frequency has been proven to be a safe and effective method of stimulating hair growth in both men and women. One study hypothesized that the light stimulated stem cells in the hair follicle, encouraging the hair follicle into an anagen or growth phase.
· Healing of superficial skin cancers: Frequencies of 630nm have been shown to help in the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers.
· The treatment of acne: The 630nm frequency has also been shown to help reduce inflammation and breakouts.
The 660nm Frequency (Red Light)
There is an abundance of literature outlining the benefits offered by the 660nm frequency. Penetrating just a little deeper than the 630nm frequency, the 660nm reaches into the entire range of the skin tissue to promote healing and regeneration.
Some of its diverse benefits include:
· Reduced training fatigue: The 660nm frequency teamed with the 830nm near-infrared frequency has been proven to delay the development of fatigue in the muscles, and enhance skeletal muscle performance.
· Reduced inflammation: In a study investigating the effects of red light therapy on pleurisy, the 660nm frequency was found to induce an anti-inflammatory effect.
· Improved bone healing: The 660nm frequency encourages resorption and formation in the bone cells around the location where repair is needed, without causing any change to the bone structure.
· Reduced swelling following injury: In one study, the 660 nm frequency was found to reduce both inflammation and swelling by reducing the number of inflammatory cells which lead to the formation of swelling.
· Reduced neuropathic pain: A study investigating sciatic nerve pain in rats found that the 660 nm frequency significantly helped to reduce pain.
· Accelerated wound healing: The 660 nm frequency has been proven to increase the formation of new blood vessels and enhance collagen deposition to help in the healing of wounds.
The 810nm Frequency (Near-infrared Light)
With an ability to extend through the skull into the brain, the 810nm frequency offers a unique array of neurological benefits. Many forward-thinking scientists are of the belief that light therapy for brain disorders will become a prominent medical treatment in the near future. Expect to reap the following benefits from the 810nm frequency:
· Improved healing and recovery: A study of soccer players showed that the 810nm frequency applied before activity enhanced muscular performance and post-exercise recovery.
· Accelerated wound healing: 810nm frequencies have been shown to help expedite wound healing, helping the tissue to granulate more rapidly.
· Improved recovery from stroke in certain patients: One study conducted among stroke patients showed that frequencies of 810nm provided neuroprotective benefits and improved recovery among sufferers of moderate to severe strokes. Five days after the stroke, there was significant improvement among those who had been treated with the 810nm light therapy, compared to those who hadn’t. Ninety days post-stroke, 70% of the treated patients had a successful outcome, compared with only 51% of the control group.
· Improved recovery from traumatic brain injury: 810nm has been proven in animal models to be particularly effective in fostering recovery from traumatic brain injuries, and reducing long-term neurological damage.
· Improvement in psychiatric disorders: Prescription drugs for psychiatric conditions have long been recognized as having a limited ability to assist individuals suffering from psychiatric conditions. What’s more, pharmacotherapeutic medication often carries a host of unwanted side effects, while near-infrared light therapy doesn’t. 810nm frequencies applied to the forehead have been shown to assist patients suffering from major depression and anxiety.
· Hair growth: Studies have shown the 810nm frequency can encourage significant hair growth in patients with androgenetic alopecia.
The 830nm Frequency (Near-infrared Light)
The 830nm frequency is not as readily absorbed by the body, therefore it is able to penetrate deeper through skin and tissue and into the bone. A greater quantity of photons are delivered into the tissue with the 830nm frequency.
· Accelerated healing and reduced infection: Like the 810nm frequency, 830nm accelerates healing in wounds of different severity and helps to ward off infection.
· Improved aesthetic outcomes following plastic surgery: Swift exposure to 830nm frequencies after aesthetic surgery hastens recovery, reduces downtime and enhances the results of surgery by reducing swelling, infection, bruising and pain, therefore leading to greater patient satisfaction.
· Increased “feel-good” endorphins: 830nm frequencies increases the release of endorphins.
· Improved bone repair and growth: An animal study demonstrated that 830nm light therapy improved bone repair by stimulating new bone growth.
· Faster return-to-play after injury: The ability to return-to-play as swiftly as possible after injury or trauma is a key concern for any amateur or professional athlete. 830nm LED light therapy has been proven to significantly and safely reduce the wait time before injured athletes can return to play.
The 850nm Frequency (Near-infrared Light)
In many cases, the 850nm amplifies the benefits provided by the 810nm and 830nm frequencies. This frequency has a range of therapeutic applications such as:
· Anti-inflammatory benefits: 850nm frequencies can help to reduce joint and muscle pain and diminish general inflammation in the body.
· Enhanced muscle recovery: A study observed the use of 850nm frequencies on athletes, and found that usage of the near-infrared light increased muscle mass after training, and decreased inflammation and oxidative stress in muscle biopsies.
· Healing of wounds in the skin: Lesions in the skin heal faster when exposed to 850nm frequency light therapy.
· Reduction of lines, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation: 850nm can support the production of collagen, assisting with plumper, more radiant-looking skin, and a more uniform texture.
· Orthodontics and tooth alignment: The use of the 850nm frequency can foster the speedy realignment of teeth for patients undergoing orthodontics.
The benefits of Light Therapy are far reaching, have been studied for a long time with no side effects and have been proven to be effective. If you have suffered from a Traumatic Brain Injury, a minor concussion, have been overly stressed, anxious or depressed you might want to consider using Light Therapy in your recovery.
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The technological innovations in all the sectors of medical specialty have improved not only clinical practice but also administrative work to a great extent. Along with clinical practice, modern technology has replaced traditional techniques of record-keeping and storing piles of paperwork. An anesthesia information management system (AIMS) is an electronic record system that allows the collection, storage, and presentation of patient data during the perioperative course. Anesthesia information management systems (AIMS) have implemented the smooth transition from simple, automated intraoperative record-keeping in a selected few institutions to widely adopted, modern and sophisticated hardware and software solutions that are integrated into a hospital's electronic health record system which contributes to the documentation of patient's entire perioperative experience. The availability of AIMS helps to proliferate and allows sharing of the data across multi-institutional collaborations. Visual analytics and advanced analytics techniques such as machine learning may be applied to AIMS data, to offer even more benefits. Our hospital is a tertiary care, Joint Commission International (JCI) reaccredited hospital, with technological advancement in storing health records in various hospital locations such as operation theaters, wards, Intensive Care Units (ICUs), administrative work, and billing systems.
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Sandberg WS. Anesthesia information management systems: almost there. Anesth Analg 2008;107(4):1100–1102. DOI: 110.1213/01.ane.0000289640.38523.bc | <urn:uuid:745ac3f3-4e0c-4850-9816-4a036c5ccca5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.riajournal.com/abstractArticleContentBrowse/JRIA/41/7/1/27255/abstractArticle/Article | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.737961 | 1,429 | 2.390625 | 2 |
This is just another image from a very large series of images I have of the Palouse that I photographed in June. As I have mentioned in previous posts the sky is so dramatic in the Palouse. I love the weather in the big sky and work hard to find cool images when I see it coming.
One of the things that are special about the Palouse is what I call the big sky. The sky is part of the Palouse and many times actually becomes the focus of the image. Whether the skies are blue with puffy clouds or dark and gray with an approaching storm, they are always special.
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I discovered a new place in April of 2016 while running a workshop with Art Wolfe and Ignacio Palacios. In northern Chile on the border with Bolivia, there is a region of great beauty called the Atacama. It’s got some incredible landscapes and great skies. We photographed both in Chile and Bolivia, sometimes at altitudes of 16,000 feet. This is one from the series of images I made. More to come.
I always like this image. I have been going through my files of the last few years prepping images for an online store. It’s a good exercise and every photographer should do it. This is one from one og=f my Italy trips. It tells its own story. Lonely trees, big field and giant sky with magnificent clouds. Shot with a long lens from a distance only makes it stand out even more.
I travel many places as you probably know. I am always amazed how the sky looks so much bigger out west. Why is that? Here’s proof. Shot in Monument Valley. We were shooting for a while with beautiful blue skies. This is notwhat a photographer wants, we want nice puffy clouds. Then within ten minutes this cloud shows up. Our Indian guides said the called up the cloud god just for us. Is there such a god? The guides took credit for the clouds and I’ll take credit for this photo. | <urn:uuid:ee71926d-cc0b-40cb-a07c-49b0f2805d07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kevinraber.com/tag/sky/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965307 | 437 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Spanish Citizen Arrested in Tenerife for Stealing Artworks from Swedish Churches
Police in Spain have arrested a 63-year-old Spaniard in his home in the Canary Island of Tenerife for allegedly stealing dozens of antique artworks from Swedish churches.
According to a press release issued by Spanish police, 43 works of art and artifacts—including an 18th-century bible, four 15th-century wood carvings, candelabra, and trays—have been seized.
The arrest is the result of a joint operation between Spain, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark. Swedish authorities tipped off Spanish police that the man was the prime suspect in recent investigations of art thefts.
During the operation, four additional wood carvings—which have been sold through an auction house in Madrid—were also recovered.
The man had previously served a five-year prison sentence for similar offences in Sweden, where he was known in the media as “the ravager of Swedish churches.” He is now expected to be extradited to Sweden.
Investigators said the man also had a storage room in Denmark, where further pieces of art allegedly stolen from Swedish churches were found.
Earlier this year, another Spanish citizen was sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing the Codex Calixtinus, a priceless 12th-century illuminated manuscript from the Santiago de Compostela cathedral in Galicia, northern Spain (see Spanish Electrician Who Stole Priceless Manuscript and €2.4 Million from Santiago Cathedral Gets 10 Years).
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From Page to Stage: Write a one-act playEvent Website
4 day creative writing workshop at Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset with tutor Paul Dodgson. Dates: Sept 17 & 18, Oct 30 and Nov 27. Starting with a blank piece of paper, you will develop an idea, and that will lead to you writing and rewriting a one-act play to be performed in a rehearsed reading at the Arts Centre. The course will begin with an intensive weekend workshop exploring the craft of writing for the stage with exercises and examples and plenty of opportunities to try things out and make mistakes. You will then go away and write a first draft of your short play before the group meets again to discuss the work produced in a mutually supportive atmosphere. There will then be an opportunity for rewrites before the group meets once more to read though the plays and make recommendations for change before the rehearsed readings. Whether you are an experienced writer wanting to try something different or have always wanted to write a play but don’t know where to start this is the course for you.
Paul Dodgson is a playwright, composer, radio producer and performer. The scope of his stage plays have ranged from intimate monologues to a large cast adaptation of the Robin Hood story for sixty-six performers. Paul has also written fifteen plays for BBC Radio 4, been part of the Eastenders writing team and has written music and lyrics for five musicals.
Course fees: £120 (£30 per day)
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How Neurological Physical Therapy Helps Brain Disorders
For people with neurological disorders – and that means mostly elderly people – neurological physical therapy can be a life saver. Done sensitively, it can work wonders by improving mobility, balance, coordination, and muscle strength for people with brain injuries.
At Fairview Adult Day Care Center our specially trained rehab therapists offer one-on-one physical therapy and other rehabilitation therapies. This is targeted at people who have had a stroke, brain injuries, or who have age-related neurological conditions. All therapies are tailored to the personal needs and individual circumstances of our clients. If you live in Brooklyn, NY, feel free to contact us if you would like to attend an adult day care.
What follows is a general overview of how physical therapy can benefit people with neurological disorders. For advice on treatments and therapy, talk to a doctor about what is most appropriate in individual cases.
How Does Physical Therapy Treat Neurological Disorders?
Neurological physical therapy can help people with disorders of the central nervous system. These include spinal cord injury, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, or cerebral palsy, and people with balancing problems. The therapy works by regularly and repeatedly doing movement exercises, and thus relearning certain motions.
This can help people with neurological disorders to become more independent. Gradual, small improvements can be made that help people with the tasks of daily living. This helps them become a little less reliant on help from others for things like dressing and washing.
Can exercise cure neurological disorders?
Neurological disorders are generally degenerative. Physical therapy is not a cure and cannot reverse symptoms entirely. The aim of neurological physical therapy is to improve the client’s quality of life, eliminate pain and make it the best it can be.
Experience has shown that regular physical therapy can improve and prolong the lives of people with mental disorders.
Neurological rehabilitation is especially valuable as a way of improving posture and balance. This can prevent falls, which are otherwise common in elderly people with brain injuries.
How does physical therapy affect the brain?
Neurological physical therapy can take many forms, from breathing and stretching exercises to aerobic heart and lung exercises. Such exercises can boost your mood, confidence and well-being, and strengthen resilience. By helping to deliver oxygenated blood to the brain, connections within the brain are improved. This improves brain function, with significant physical benefits, too.
This “neuromuscular re-education” helps the muscles, brain, and nerves work in tandem to improve flexibility, strength and balance.
Fairview Adult Day Care Center in Brooklyn NY treats all clients as one of the family and encourages recreation activities, banter, and social interactions. We work to make neurological physical therapy an enjoyable experience that helps adults and seniors to get the best out of life.
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Tax avoidance tools and strategies should be part of your estate plan to ensure that your estate doesn’t lose a significant portion of its assets to federal gift and estate taxes. At your death, your estate assets will be inventoried and valued. If the value of your probate assets exceeds the current lifetime exemption amount, your estate could owe gift and estate taxes at the staggering rate of 40 percent at the federal level and 16 percent to the State of Maryland. One estate planning tool that can provide tax avoidance benefits is a Grantor Retained Income Trust. If you are unfamiliar with a GRIT, our estate planning attorney, Richard L. Gershberg, explains what you need to know.
What Is a GRIT?
A Grantor Retained Income Trust is a specialized type of irrevocable trust that allows the Grantor (creator of the trust, also referred to as the “Settlor”) to transfer assets into the trust while retaining the right to receive all of the net income from the trust assets for a fixed term of years, referred to as the “initial term.” Income from the trust is distributed to the Grantor at least annually during the initial term. At the end of the initial term, the remaining principal is either distributed to the trust beneficiaries or remains in the trust for the benefit of those beneficiaries. The primary benefit of a GRIT is that if (this condition is important) the Grantor survives the initial term, the value of the principal held in the GRIT is excluded from the Grantor’s estate for federal gift and estate tax purposes.
What Makes a GRIT Such a Valuable Tax Avoidance Tool?
The tax avoidance benefit of a GRIT is found in how the value of the trust principal is determined because those assets are valued at a discount. The value of the discount depends on the length of the initial term of the GRIT, and the applicable federal rate in effect at the time the GRIT is established. The transfer of assets to a GRIT constitutes a gift equal to the total value of the assets transferred to the GRIT, less the present value of the retained income interest held by the Grantor for the initial term. If the Grantor survives the initial term, the assets comprising the GRIT will pass to the designated remainder beneficiaries at a reduced gift tax value.
An Important Note about Beneficiaries
Section 2702 of the Internal Revenue Code determines who you cannot name as a beneficiary in a GRIT. Excluded beneficiaries include your spouse, your ancestors or the ancestors of your spouse, any lineal descendant of yours or your spouse, any sibling of yours or your spouse, or the spouses of any of the foregoing persons. You can name lineal descendants of siblings, (nieces and nephews) relatives even more distant than nieces and nephews, or friends of yours or your spouse as beneficiaries of a GRIT.
Understanding How a GRIT Works in the Real World
Imagine that you establish a 15-year GRIT and transfer $100,000 of assets into the trust and that the applicable federal rate is five percent. As the Grantor, you will receive the income from the GRIT during the initial term. The present value of the retained income interest is $66,007, making the value of the gift $33,993. If you survive until the end of the initial term, however, the remainder beneficiaries will receive $100,0000 plus all capital growth. Your estate, however, will only need to acknowledge a lifetime gift in the amount of $33,993 (the applicable value of the gift at the time it was made)
What Else Do I Need to Know about a GRIT?
Just like most tax savings tools and strategies, there are some disadvantages to relying on a GRIT. First, it is an irrevocable trust, meaning if your personal circumstances change, you cannot make corresponding changes to the trust. Second, if you do not survive the initial term the advantages gained by creating a GRIT do not apply.
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Whole-School Restorative Justice (RJ) is a multi-tiered approach, guided by principles of engagement, individual and mutual responsibility, and restoration. These principles provide a lens to examine school climate and culture as well as a school community’s response to when things go wrong. Effective implementation of RJ practices have been shown to improve school climate, culture, and academic performance; they have reduced behavioral referrals, suspensions and expulsions.[i] Below is a brief description of the three tiers of the whole school RJ approach with a focus on substance use prevention and responding to substance use in schools.
Tier I: Build and Strengthen Relationships
RJ on tier one is focused on building relationships, community, and a sense of belonging throughout the school. Many teachers and schools engage in efforts to build relationship and a sense of belonging with students in a variety of ways. RJ provides a framework and practices to support and enhance these efforts. Beneficial outcomes associated with students’ sense of connection, belonging, and being part of the school community are well documented.[ii] Research repeatedly finds that youth who report high levels of connection to their school are less likely to binge drink or use drugs in young adulthood.[iii] “School-wide restructuring efforts emphasizing bonding between students and the school” have the greatest impact on preventing substance abuse.[iv]
Tier II: Repair Relationships
Rather than focus on punitive and exclusionary discipline responses to a rule or law violation, RJ at this tier uses processes to understand who was affected and how, their needs, and to develop plans to address them. The aim is to repair relationships when things have gone wrong. In terms of substance use, screening, brief intervention, and referral to assessment helps determine needs of the person using. RJ practices help us understand the needs of others affected, repair relationships, and plan to make things right. In a school, this promotes a sense of support and caring, which in turn reinforces the sense of connection and belonging.
Tier III: Welcome and Re-entry
When someone returns to school due to a discipline response—including substance use—the focus is typically on compliance via a threat of exclusion. RJ at this tier is focused on:
- Welcoming the student back into the community
- Engagement in the community and creating a sense of belonging,
- Identifying supports and resources—defined by the person returning—to address needs and to prevent it from happening in the future.
The aim of tier three is to take an acute incident that often fractures relationships and an individual’s sense of belonging and effectively repair and rebuild relationships so that everyone feels part of the classroom or school community.
[i] Kidde, J (2016) Restorative Justice in School: Outcomes and Indicators. http://www.greenomegal3c.org/category/restorative-justice/
[ii] See the following selected publications for further discussion:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2009) School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Resnick, M., et. al. (1997). Protecting adolescents from harm: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health. Journal of the American Medical Association, 278(10), 823–832.
Hawkins, J., et. al. (1999). Preventing adolescent health-risk behaviors by strengthening protection during childhood. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 153, 226–234.
Battistich, V., & Hom, A. (1997). The relationship between students’ sense of their school as a community and their involvement in problem behaviors. American Journal of Public Health, 87(12), 1997–2001.
Schaps, E., Battistich, V., & Solomon, D. (1997). School as a caring community: A key to character. In A. Molnar (Ed.), The construction of children’s character. Ninety-sixth yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (pp. 127–139). Chicago: National Society for the Study of Education.
[iii] Sacks, V., Moore, K., Terzian, M., Constance, N. (2014) School Policies, School Connection, and Adolescents: What Predicts Young Adult Substance Use? Research Brief. http://www.childtrends.org
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Kim Newman is something of an expert on horror and along with his Anno Dracula series of novels, he has written academically on the subject for many, many years. His love for all things gory and gross knows no bounds, but the character and the novel, Dracula, seems to be something of a healthy obsession with him and after over 25 years of the novel series, Newman released his first comic book series earlier this year.
Building a world in which his own inventions cross paths with other more better known Victorian literary figures (and long before a certain Mr. Moore did so in his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) such as the aforementioned Count Vlad, Lord Ruthven, and other such fanciful figures, has been over two decades in the making. He even now, in this collected edition, still has the time to introduce even more gothic-drenched vampires, villains and vagabonds. Like other shared worlds and alternative histories, the fun is not just the story and the outstanding, well informed art by Paul McCaffrey, but in picking out the recognisable characters from the literature of the era, or looking them up online for clarity and for a better understanding of their inclusion and/or their pedigree.
So, for example, Lord Ruthven, the Prime Minister of Great Britain now under the dominant rule of Dracula, may be better known to some as the main character in Doctor Polidori’s precursor to Dracula, The Vampyre, said to have been written at the same retreat at which Mary Shelley created Frankenstein. And its his inclusion, along with more recognisable blood suckers like Nosferatu himself (in Chapter 3) that haunt the book and make a world in which vampires exist more sustainable and entertaining. Well, for the reader anyway. I imagine being a mortal running around vampire-infested streets of London can’t be too much fun.
Here, in a Britain where vampirism has spread and become something of the norm, Ruthven has done well. This is a Victorian Britain both familiar and frighteningly unfamiliar too, in which not all vampires are bad and, indeed, many have moral values that would make some humans blush.
Enter then, Kate Reed, a reoccurring character from the books (which I highly recommend you do seek out, as I did after reading this book; suggesting how good I thought it was) and a wily, tenacious vampire journalist and proto-feminist at a time when women and the Suffragettes were still, well, suffering, and repressed. She quickly gets embroiled into the action, along with a cast of equally strong, and sometimes sinister, women that sees foreign forces attempting to attack the UK in order to reign in the threat an empire the size of Britain’s was at the time ruled by a vampire overlord. All the while, there are problems closer to home and a plot to bring down the Establishment to contend with, too. That’s some pretty heavy plotting to juggle, and Newman does it with flair and expertise.
Along the way Reed takes up with–or gets embroiled with–more feisty female characters such as The Daughter of the Dragon, sporting ‘Chinese boxing’ moves that will ensure a swift and definitive defeat of even the gnarliest of vampires as she kicks ass and takes no prisoners, as well as Christina Light and Penelope Churchward (another vampire from the Anno Dracula books) and all four slowly coming together somehow, someway, along with the mysterious, anagrammatically named Irma Vep (geddit?).
It’s a story of espionage, politics (both international and domestic), rebellion and a rip-roaring yarn to boot, with a large cast of colourful characters that do not seem to clutter the book either. And, with Newman more than comfortable as an author, this book may seem to some to be a long read, but I can’t complain. The reliance on prose, like details and multiple voices (just as Stoker adopts as his own narrative style to great effect), only enhances the story while offering asides and exposition to help bring newcomers up to date with all that’s gone before in the novel and in this this fascinating, midnight world of Anno Dracula.
It’s a great comic book debut by Newman, and he couldn’t have found a better partner than McCaffrey on art, along with some crafty and cunning lettering from Simon Bowland. They create a beautiful balance on the page of prose and pictures, alongside suitably gothic colours from Kevin Enhart. McCaffrey’s artwork never suffers from the wordage; it never feels too cluttered. It’s a solid, satisfying, bloody good read and recommended to all fans of fangs, vamps, steampunk and good comics.
Anno Dracula 1895: 7 Days In Mayhem is out now from Titan Comics.
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Electronic Health Records frameworks (EHR) have progressed considerably in the few years, owing to the advancements of the Healthcare landscape. With this in mind, Physicians along with their medical billing and coding arrangements should get ready for some more progressions in 2017.
Doctor's facilities are keeping on overhauling their EHRs as the demands for Meaningful Use necessities (MU) and value based care activities keep on growing. Hospitals would want to incorporate some of these components into the system they utilize. Doctors and the in house attendants need EHRs that will make their lives simpler.
Here are some of trending topics that will require the attention of practitioner in 2017 with regards to EHR developments.
Expansion in cloud computing
Healthcare is no exemption to being one of the numerous enterprises that is making a switch into the world of apps and cloud computing. It's less costly for practices to execute and upgrade EHR modules and analytical tools on the cloud platform. It's likewise not important to purchase new equipment when you're utilizing the cloud. Besides, EHRs will get to be distinctly portable amicable. Social insurance laborers require consistent openness, and the least demanding approach to do this is from their cell phone. Having a cell phone or tablet close by makes their lives much more straightforward when making patient rounds. They also don't want to be inconveniently tied down to a computer throughout the day. And thus to make it happen, many EHRs will have updated interfaces for complete mobile friendliness on their cloud platform. This will lead to more convenience and efficiency for doctors and nurses.
Monitoring the Meaningful Use Progression
Five critical areas will be the focus for Physicians in 2017, when we speak about the trends for Meaningful Use requirements which are:
The government will keep on monitoring adoption, certification, progress, and EHR use and misuse. One likely result is that there will be new coding rules soon and it will be better for practitioners to align with expert medical billing and coding agencies to perform those tasks. Moreover, better clinical decision support and greater use of wireless remote outpatient monitoring are likely trends to see in 2017.
Building trust on the Influx of Data
The best opportunity for healthcare service providers to optimize their operation through EHR is by building a trust on the data that is being captured. Do remember that there is an internal connection between trust, data and value based care. What's more, it's the ideal opportunity for healthcare providers and technology companies to bridge the gap between the two. Legitimate wellbeing information trade requires share-accommodating strategies and shared motivating forces. Above all, it likewise requires trust between insurance partners. Without trust, stakeholders won't be willing to make data accessible for your practice that will make information effortlessly open, which will create various issues.
Electronic Health Records is the key to streamline your physicians practice and manage Revenue Cycle Management with Meaningful Use. Along these lines, monitoring the possible trends for 2017 can make your in hose staff ready to face the upcoming changes, and it will also make you aware as a practitioner of the latest medical billing and coding requirements.Back | <urn:uuid:5a523da0-958b-4a56-8c04-8f65a5edc457> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medicalbillersandcoders.com/articles/outsource-medical-billing/EHR-Trends-2017-:-More-Advancements-are-on-the-Cards.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.95109 | 632 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Functioning as both a seminal look into pop culture's past as well as a fun, technological romp, Ready Player One is a fantastic tale centered around Wade Watts, a teenager and dedicated gamer in the year 2044. Having almost no family, few friends, and seemingly even fewer avenues open to him to escape his downtrodden existence, Wade has had a difficult life, to say the least. However, what Wade does have is access to the OASIS; a cyber-reality which will change his life forever.
An astonishing facet of Ready Player One is its prescience: Cline's great, sprawling work was published in 2011. For perspective, this was only a year after the debut of Apple's 1st generation iPad and Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox (360, no less). Indeed, aside from the adventures had by the affable main characters, the laughs earned from its nigh-endless stream of game/movie/music references, Ready Player One also offers moments containing an almost Black Mirror-style commentary on the pace of technological advancements and the consequences which can arise when combined with humanity's penchant for greed.
An outstanding book (and hopefully equally wonderful movie), Ready Player One is a must-read not just for gamers and lovers of 80s culture, but also teens who can identify with that deep, driving need for escape. I also highly recommend the audio version, masterfully narrated by none other than Star Trek: The Next Generation's Wil Wheaton (yes, that Wil Wheaton)! | <urn:uuid:8e67ab64-b018-482a-b05f-ca25862b3c32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://beta.jocolibrary.org/we-recommend/reviews/ready-player-one-0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970388 | 307 | 1.953125 | 2 |
With the weather quickly plummeting to colder temperatures, it’s the prime time of year for all kinds of viruses as well as gastrointestinal infections (GI’s) to spread and rear their ugly heads.
“We tend to start seeing more viruses when the weather is making this kind of change,” said Dr. Ifeoma Achebe, a medical officer of health for Alberta Health Services (AHS) in a interview Oct. 3.
Common winter viruses can be broken up into two categories: respiratory and gastrointestinal.
Respiratory viruses that run rampant at this time of year include rhinovirus and influenza.
Seasonal influenza affects Canadians during the winter, typically between November and April, according to alberta.ca/influenza-the-flu.
Respiratory viruses are spread through infected people coughing or sneezing.
To prevent their spread, Dr. Achebe recommends the usual infection control measures of coughing into your sleeve, drinking lots of fluids and staying active, and staying at home if you do become sick to prevent spreading it to others.
A couple examples of GI’s are enterovirus and norovirus. GI symptoms may include vomiting or diarrhea.
GI’s are passed person to person, or through food.
To prevent catching a GI, follow good hygiene practices such as handwashing or the use of an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, says Dr. Achebe.
To prevent the spread, follow the same recommendations for a flu, but also make sure to clean and sanitize items used by an infected person.
AHS launches its influenza campaign in October each year.
Influenza vaccines are recommended for those six months of age and up.
When you receive a flu vaccination you’re also protecting your loved ones and other vulnerable groups such as young children, seniors and those with medical conditions says Dr. Achebe.
Starting on Oct. 21, people aged five and older in Alberta will be able to receive the influenza vaccine at pharmacies free of charge.
Influenza vaccines can also be received through your doctor’s office or at a public health clinic.
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Background. Culture is the gold standard for diagnosis and the sensitivity ranges from about 60 to 80% [2-5] (Table 1). However, growth of Histoplasma is slow, taking up to six weeks and culture rarely provides the initial basis for diagnosis. Demonstration of yeast morphologically consistent with Histoplasma supports, but does not prove the diagnosis and the sensitivity is comparable to culture . However, false positive results caused by other fungi or staining artifacts complicate diagnosis by pathology. Also, nonviable organisms persist in the tissues for years, and may not indicate active disease. Furthermore, obtaining specimens for culture and pathology may not be feasible in some patients and usually requires invasive procedures. For example, cultures were performed in 37% and pathology in 62% of patients . Antigen detection was the most sensitive method for diagnosis, about 70% in non-immunocompromised and 95% in immunocompromised patients .
Antigen was detected in the urine and serum of over 95% of immunocompromised patients [2-5] (Table 2). Uncertainty exists about the need to test both urine and serum, and some recommended only testing urine . In acute pulmonary histoplasmosis, urine alone was positive in 3%, serum alone in 38%, both in 41% and neither in 17% . Furthermore, we have observed negative results in urine but positive results in serum in patients with PDH (Table 3). Also, monitoring serum antigen levels provides the earliest evidence for response to treatment (Figure 1)
Recently antibody response in the CSF has been evaluated in patients with Histoplasma meningitis . IgG or IgM antibody was detected in 82% compared to 51% for ID or CF. While immunocompromise reduced the sensitivity of antibody detection, sensitivity was higher by EIA (68%) than ID or CF (38%). Combined antigen and IgG and IgM antibody detection provided the most sensitive method for diagnosis: antigen alone, 78%; IgG or IgM antibody alone, 82%; IgG or IgM antibody and antigen, 98% [9}.
Until now, results of IgG and IgM antibody detection in serum has not been reported in PDH. Here we present results in immunocompromised patients with PDH [3-5]. The number of cases in non-immunocompromised patients were insufficient to assess antibody detection.
Antigen was detected with comparable sensitivity in urine and serum in immunocompromised patients with PDH [3-5] (Table 2). Some patients had negative results in urine but positive results in serum (Table 3). Testing serum is essential in anuric patients. Even if both urine and serum are positive, concentration in serum may be higher than urine, providing the best marker for monitoring treatment.
IgG antibodies were detected in all patients treated with TNF inhibitors but was less sensitive in patients with AIDS and transplant patients (Table 4). A similar pattern was observed by ID. CF was performed in nine patients, precluding valid assessment.
The sensitivity of IgG detection by EIA and ID was similar, and combined IgG and ID testing provided the highest sensitivity (75%), including 15% positive for IgG only and 10% by ID only. The IgG and IgM assays are highly reproducible and permit accurate quantification (Figure 2) .
More than 100 studies report useful molecular methods for diagnosis of histoplasmosis, some which were reviewed recently . Most were small (20 patients or less) and the highest sensitivity was observed in tissues [12, 13]. PCR is offered as a laboratory developed test at several reference laboratories, but no FDA cleared test is available in the US. The recent small survey of infectious diseases or pulmonary physicians experienced in the diagnosis of histoplasmosis recommend molecular testing found that less than 10% recommended PCR (unpublished).
Testing for both urine and serum antigen provides the most sensitive method for diagnosis by antigen detection and serum is essential in anuric patients. Serum is also useful for monitoring treatment if the serum concentration exceeds that in urine. The IgG and IgM EIA combined with ID offers the most sensitive method for antibody detection, and EIA provides rapid results and accurate quantification.
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Do you know the benefits of taking pictures?
Picture-taking can be a pleasant hobby and artistic way out for many. It can likewise impact your well-being in countless ways. It enables you to capture a picture of the world, sharing to others your viewpoint.
Photography can be an enjoyable pastime to take and a very familiar art style. You can apply daily imagery in a new aesthetic statement through an artistic way of light and view. However, the picture you form isn’t the only approach photography can enhance your life.
Here are a few benefits of photography that can be great for both the body and mind:
Living in the Moment
Mindfulness is an especially efficient process for combating stress. Various kinds of art encourage mindfulness, and picture-taking does not vary. Photography allowed the photographer to relax and focus on the moment.
Mindfulness and photography correlate, and many researchers have worked to solidify this link. A study discovered that not only does photography encourage you to be at the moment, but it helps you to enjoy that moment further. The act of taking pictures can involve a group, driving them to concentrate on that moment.
Photography benefits are further associated with improving the healthy mellowing in the brain. Our brains act in a use-it or lose-it process. In general, we should energize our brains as we mellow to have them keen.
Participating in various kinds of art is a valuable idea of having the brain sharp. However, photography in itself has been a long-standing brain refresher.
Improves General Health
Taking photos has also proven to improve countless phases of our general welfare. One stage study had participants take one picture daily and share it on Instagram.
The results showed general development of the potential for recollection and social interaction. The conclusions of this study further involved other factors of health like self-care.
Acts as Therapeutic Recovery
Photography has more regarded as applicable to subdue mental health problems. PhotoTherapy is another mode of healing for various distress or mental health diseases. The healing benefits of photography are widespread and practiced in some group settings.
Practitioners use these ways to focus on improving self-esteem and inciting community skills. Photography works as a process to help those undergoing mental diseases express themselves. They further use photos to conduct therapy sessions.
Looking at and taking photos can help you relax more and release stress and anxiety. Consider heading to www.garsha18photography.com to get some inspiration.
Encourages You to Head Outside More
One variation linking photography is that photos are pictures of reality. Photography for beginners can begin around your home, but it’s best to go in the great outdoors for photography tips.
Nature photography needs you to go hike outside and explore the outside world. On the other hand, sports photography demands you to go outside, which supplements physical features.
Your Guide to the Benefits of Photography
Photography has a lot of benefits aside from capturing the moment and holding onto memories. Hence, not only is photography a pastime to take, it can be a potent healing and healthful venture for people of all generations. It’s become evident that photography is further relevant to your well-being.
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The Suburban Skating School provides nationally recognized Learn to Skate programming within our communities in a professional, inclusive and safe environment. Our passionate staff empowers individuals to pursue various avenues of skating and achieve their goals, be it in figure skating or ice hockey. Skating with us is a fun way to build confidence while finding health, happiness and opportunities on the ice.
Summer Session - 6 weeks
July 27th - August 31st
Fall 1 Session - 6 weeks
September 6th - October 15th
*Fall 1 Class Schedule Coming Soon
August 22, 2022
Tuesdays & Saturdays - 6 weeks
Fridays AM & PM - 5 weeks
*No classes September 16
Fall 2: October 25 - December 17, 2022
Winter 1: January 8 - February 20, 2023
Please be aware of these important changes to our Learn to Skate program for the 2022 - 2023 Season:
Learn to Skate will be scheduled on Tuesdays from 4:50pm-7:35pm (switching from Wednesdays)
Learn to Skate will remain the same on Friday mornings/afternoons (9:30am-10:30am and 2:00pm-3:00pm)
Learn to Skate will be shifted 15 minutes earlier from our regular schedule on Saturdays - 9:20am-11:35am
The ASPIRE Program and LTS Dance class will be moved to Friday from 5:40pm-6:30pm (this is a tentative time)
Please check this page for further updates.
*prices reflect 6 week sessions
Please be aware that helmets are required for skaters 6 & Under
ANNUAL LTS USA MEMBERSHIP ($17.25):
This fee is mandatory and will be automatically included in your first session fee each season.
The Learn to Skate USA Season Runs July 1 Through June 30
New Class Offerings!
Ice Explorers ($60): For children Ages 2.5 to 4 to ease into getting on the ice prior to Learn to Skate Snowplow Sam classes. Novi Ice Arena’s Ice Explorers combines off-ice and on-ice sessions to introduce children to the rink, ice safety, and beginner skating skills in a fun and safe environment. Although not required, we encourage parents to join the class with their children. Helmets are required in this class. Please note that the participating adult must already know how to skate.
Essential Off-Ice ($60 OR $40 if enrolled in Adult/Teen class or are a SCN Member. Contact Skating Director to receive discount): Essential off-ice is an off-ice training program for Learn to Skate teens and adults, Skating Club of Novi students and Novi Learn to Skate parents. Essential Off-Ice aims to help skaters improve their skating skills and use ice time more effectively by focusing on off-ice strength, flexibility, stamina, and agility. Make friends, have fun, and incorporate the Essential Off-Ice learning experience into your personal warm-up routine.
Fit Skate ($100): Fit Skate invites current or former competitive, professional, and recreational skaters alike to enjoy the benefits of a workout program while utilizing on-ice skills. The program includes high-intensity interval training methods with on-ice skating techniques to create fun and effective total body workouts that are inclusive for all skaters.
Hockey Stride ($100 OR $40 if enrollee is also currently enrolled in the Hockey Development Program): This class is a skating skill program for beginners to explore their interest in hockey while learning edge control, stride efficiency, power, and agility. Hockey Stride is also a valuable supplement for skaters in the Hockey Development Program. Hockey Stride is open to all skaters who have passed Learn to Skate USA Basic 3 or above. Hockey gear is encouraged but not necessary.
Parent Tot ($110): For skaters ages 3-5 with little or no skating experience. Learn basic balance and skating skills in a fun, introductory class with a parent or trusted adult. Helmets are required in this class. Please note that the participating adult must already know how to skate.
Snowplow 1 ($110): For skaters ages 3-5 with little or no skating experience. Learn the basics of skating skills in an age appropriate setting. Classes feature low student-to-instructor ratios. Helmets are required in this class.
Snowplow 2-4 ($100): For skaters ages 3-5 who have passed Snowplow 1 or equivalent. Once skaters pass Snowplow 3/4, they advance to Basic 2. Helmets are required in these classes.
Pre-Free Skate – Free Skate 6 ($135): Classes build on previous skills, providing skaters a strong foundation of all elements. Instruction will focus on more advanced figure skating skills including jumps, spins, and edge work. Free Skate Class include 60 minutes of instruction and do not include practice time.
Basic 1 ($100): For skaters 6 & older. Learn the basic fundamentals of skating to begin hockey, figure skating, and speed. Helmets are required for ages 6 and under. Helmets are highly recommended for all beginner skaters.
Basic 2-6 ($100): Skaters who have passed Basic 1 or Snowplow Sam 3. Classes cover the basic fundamental skating skills that will build on each level as the skater progresses. Helmets are required for children six and under. Helmets are highly recommended for all beginner skaters.
12 & Older:
Teen/Adult ($100): For skaters 14 & older. Classes are designed for the mature skater interested in learning how to skate. Helmets are highly recommended for all beginner skaters.
($100): For skaters ages 6 and up who have passed Basic 6 and above. Learn the prime components of ice dance such as basic edges and turns through learning the first six dance patterns in the U.S. Figure Skating test structure while performing and interpreting to different musical genres.
($150): Open to skaters who have passed Basic 5 and above who are ready to take the next steps to becoming a figure skater. Through the development of athleticism and artistry, skaters build a solid skill foundation that drives success on and off the ice. Program includes on-ice and off-ice training and is open to skaters of all ages. Aspire includes 1 hour of on-ice instructional time plus a 20-minute off-ice class. Aspire skaters may also enroll in corresponding leveled classes for 50% OFF. This additional class must be booked through the Skating Director, Danielle Gamelin. Email firstname.lastname@example.org to register. Please note that an ASPIRE or USFS Membership is required for participation in the ASPIRE Program. Please reach out to the Skating Director for more information.
Learn to Skate Private Lessons:
($25): 30 minutes of private instruction with one of our Suburban Skating School Instructors. Current Learn to Skate students will be given priority in booking a Learn to Skate Private Lesson. If you would like to register, please contact the Skating Director, Danielle Gamelin with your skater’s age, skating level, and desired lesson date and time (available on Wednesdays 4:50-7:35 PM or Saturdays 9:35-11:50 AM). Learn to Skate Private Lessons are offered on a very limited basis and must be booked at least 24 hours in advance.
Online Registration: Registration is available online through our website.
Current Student Registration: Current students may register for the next session after their evaluation the 2nd to last week of the session. It is recommended to do so to reserve their spot.
Open Registration: This is open to the public as well as skaters who were not enrolled in the previous session.
Skate Rental: Skate rental may be prepaid at the time of registration. Skates are also available for rental on a day-to-day basis. Skate Rental is non-refundable.
FREE Open Skate Pass: Enrolled LTS skaters receive a free open skate pass which can be used for one open skate session during the entire session that they are enrolled. The skater must present the pass to the front desk when paying for open skate. The pass will expire the last day of the LTS session.
Refund Policy: Please be aware there is a no refund policy.
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What is United Way?
United Way Worldwide is a network of more than 1,800 community-based, non-profit organizations that work to advance the common good by focusing on the building blocks for a better life: education, health, and income. By bringing together a broad range of financial and human resources, United Way is able to build partnerships and support local services that are accountable for delivering measurable results.
Who are we?
United Way of Blair County, located in Altoona, serves the people of Blair County by supporting programs that address the needs of our county residents in four locally identified focus areas: education, health, income, and meeting emergency needs. United Way of Blair County is governed by its Board of Directors, comprised of local business and community leaders, and assisted by more than 650 volunteers from the local community. Every decision at your United Way is made locally for the benefit of our community.
How were the areas of need (education, health, income, and meeting emergency needs) determined?
United Way of Blair County and the Blair County Human Services Office spearheaded a county-wide comprehensive needs assessment. Key stakeholders, including residents of Blair County, were asked for their input. The information that was gathered was used to identify our community strengths and challenges. The county-wide needs assessment is now conducted every three years under the Healthy Blair County Coalition. United Way uses this information to help focus donor dollars and other resources toward the identified issues to improve the quality of life in Blair County.
How does United Way of Blair County support programs?
United Way of Blair County raises money through the annual campaign. The money goes into a General Fund. Any 501(c)(3) agency in Blair County can apply for a grant from this fund to support programs they operate that address needs in one of the focus areas of education, health, income, and/or meeting emergency needs.
Who donates to the annual campaign?
Many businesses hold United Way employee campaigns. In addition to accepting one-time gifts of cash or checks, the business may offer payroll deductions as an option for giving. This is an easy way to give a significant donation because it spreads the total giving amount over a long period of time. For example, pledging as little as two dollars per week will translate into a $104 donation by the end of one year! Other donations come from corporations, individuals or groups hosting special fundraisers. For over 78 years, our community has been helping to provide for local needs by supporting United Way of Blair County.
Why should I give to United Way?
Each year, funding requests for valuable programs in Blair County far exceed the amount of money available to grant. Even with all the programs and agencies that United Way contributions support, there are still gaps in the services our community has to offer. Some essential services have waiting lists due to insufficient funding. Unfortunately, that often means that needs go unmet. If you want to see proven programs available for more people who need them, that is a good reason to give generously to United Way. None of us know when or if we will need the services of a United Way funded program. This year, United Way of Blair County’s impact will be felt by 38,000 individuals.
Can I really make a difference if I can’t afford a large gift?
Only you can decide how much you are able or would like to contribute. But remember that every gift counts! When your donation is added together with those of your neighbors, it can make a real impact. If every Blair County resident gave just one dollar a week, the results would be amazing. And with payroll deduction, it’s so easy.
Who decides where the money goes?
People just like you (bankers, teachers, union members, parents and retirees) right here in Blair County. These local volunteers are trained to review proposed programs and budgets, and then they decide how much money each program should receive, based on community needs and the program’s effectiveness in meeting those needs. The funded agencies are accountable to report program results. By the time the process is complete, more than 1,500 volunteer hours are devoted to making the best decisions possible for our community.
Will the money I give to United Way go outside the community?
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Applications of blockchain in the food sector are growing and the adoption of farm-to-fork traceability systems is at the forefront. We review applications of blockchain across different dimensions while focusing on how broad adoption of the technology might help address major challenges faced by the U.S. fresh produce industry. These challenges include food safety, food fraud, food loss and waste, and the general need for better traceability systems. We discuss whether blockchain technologies might play a role in enhancing the resilience of the produce supply chain and highlight limitations and challenges of the technology stakeholders might consider going forward. JEL CLASSIFICATION: L86; O32; Q13.
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A forum organized by EURACTIV with the support of the Mission of Switzerland to the European Union.
Freedom of movement for workers is one of the founding principles of the European Union but it has also created fears of unfair competition. How can we address these doubts, protect the working conditions and, at the same time, avoid distortions in the labour market?
The European Commission has proposed legislative measures related to free movement, in particular to avoid social dumping. Switzerland has a long experience in this field since the bilateral Agreement with the EU on the free movement of persons entered into force in 2002 (AFMP). What lessons can Switzerland and the EU learn from each other?
Boris Zücher, Head of the Labour Directorate, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
Jordi Curell Gotor, Director Labour Mobility, DG EMPL
Agnes Jongerius MEP, Vice-Chair EMPL Committee, European Parliament
Representative, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) tbc
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On Monday, a federal district court held that Escape Media, which operates streaming music service Grooveshark, was liable for copyright infringement, “creating a business model that was based upon the unlicensed sharing of copyright protected material.” According to the court [Opinion], Escape’s Chairman “bet the company on the fact that [it] is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permissionâ€Â — now he will get the chance to test that claim.
The lawsuit was filed in 2011 by Universal Music Group along with eight other record labels. 1Atlantic Recording Corporation, Zomba Recording, Elektra Entertainment Group, Arista Records, LaFace Records, Warner Bros. Records, Arista Music, and Sony Music Entertainment. Universal had earlier filed a lawsuit against Escape in a New York state court (more on that below). During those proceedings, Universal discovered evidence that Escape employees were personally uploading copyrighted sound recordings to Grooveshark. Universal, joined by the other sound recording plaintiffs, quickly filed suit in federal court following this revelation for copyright infringement against Escape Media and its two co-founders, Samuel Tarantino and Joshua Greenberg.
Universal moved for summary judgment this past February and now the court has released its decision.
Groovin’ on up
As the court explains, Grooveshark began in 2006 as a peer-to-peer network that allowed users to copy and distribute digital music files among other Grooveshark users. Tarantino and Greenberg formed Escape Media with the ultimate goal of creating a business around the network, a business that the company knew “depended upon the use of infringing content.” However, in its early days, “Grooveshark did not have a large user base to leverage as a source for content.” So Escape turned to its employees, instructing them “to create Grooveshark user accounts and to store hundreds of thousands of digital music files on their computers in order to upload or ‘seed’ copies of these files to other Grooveshark users.” 2One message from Greenberg written in 2007 that the court quotes is quite colorful. In it, he instructs employees to “Download as many MP3’s as possible, and add them to the folders you’re sharing on Grooveshark. Some of us are setting up special ‘seed points’ to house tens or even hundreds of thousands of files, but we can’t do this alone… There is no reason why ANYONE in the company should not be able to do this, and I expect everyone to have this done by Monday… IF I DON’T HAVE AN EMAIL FROM YOU IN MY INBOX BY MONDAY, YOU’RE ON MY OFFICIAL SHIT LIST.”
In June 2007, Escape switched from a peer-to-peer model to one using centralized servers. Not only did it update its software to “automatically copy every unique music file from each of its users’ computers and upload them to the storage library,” but it continued to instruct employees to manually add copyrighted content to the servers. In 2008, the company evolved from a file-sharing service to an on-demand music streaming service, its present form. Uploading infringing files remained “a regular part of Escape employees’ job responsibilities up and until the initiation of the present litigation.” In addition, “Escape’s senior officers searched for infringing songs that had [been] removed in response to DMCA takedown notices and re-uploaded infringing copies of those songs to Grooveshark to ensure that the music catalog remained complete.”
Universal specifically alleged that Escape is liable for direct infringement as well as indirect infringement in the form of vicarious liability, inducement, and contributory infringement. Universal also brought claims against Tarantino and Greenberg personally. If ever there was an open and shut case for infringement, this is it, a fact that even Escape seemed to recognize. The court notes:
In support of these claims, plaintiffs have created a substantial and largely uncontroverted record of evidence. Confronted with this body of evidence, defendants have chosen a purposeful litigation strategy. As discussed above, defendants have primarily mounted procedural and evidentiary challenges to plaintiffs’ copyright infringement claims. Defendants devote very little of their summary judgment memorandum to actually engaging with the substance of plaintiffs’ copyright claim.
And indeed, while the court discusses each of these claims, there is never any doubt as to its conclusions.
Though Escape has suggested an appeal is possible, its chances of success seem highly doubtful. The parties are now briefing on the scope of permanent injunctive relief.
This isn’t the only lawsuit Escape Media is currently facing. As mentioned above, this lawsuit resulted from a still ongoing New York state action brought by Universal for common law claims pertaining to pre-1972 sound recordings (which are not protected under federal copyright law 3See Federal Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings, A Report of the Register of Copyrights (2011). ). In April 2013, a New York state appellate court dismissed Grooveshark’s DMCA defense, holding that the federal safe harbors do not protect against state and common law copyright claims.
Last week, Universal moved for summary judgment on its claims that Escape infringed its common law rights of distribution, reproduction, and public performance (UMG is also seeking summary judgment on an unfair competition claim) — infringement alleged to occur independently of Escape employees and officers uploading copyrighted content themselves. Universal argues in its memorandum of law supporting the motion that “At all relevant times, Escape employed a business model for Grooveshark that was based upon the use of infringing content.”
[R]ather than obtaining… licenses, Escape made a calculated business decision to launch Grooveshark, utilizing infringing label content in order to grow faster, reduce costs and attempt to strike more favorable licensing deals… Indeed, Escape’s officers openly discussed the possibility that they would never have to pay for their unauthorized use of copyrighted content. Specifically, they hoped that by illegally growing their user base, they could collect valuable data about Grooveshark users’ listening habits, which they could then sell to the labels for more than Escape would have to pay in licensing fees.
Additionally, a separate federal lawsuit with Capitol Records (d/b/a EMI) as the sole plaintiff was filed against Escape in the Southern District Court of New York in 2012. EMI had previously sued Escape in 2009. The two companies settled and entered into a distribution agreement, “which granted Escape the right to distribute digitally EMI’s content on Grooveshark.” However, Escape repeatedly breached the terms of the license and failed to make payments, leading EMI to terminate the agreement. It sued again for infringement occurring after the termination.
The magistrate judge assigned to that litigation recommended this past May that Escape’s DMCA defense be rejected and summary judgment be “granted in favor of EMI on its claims for direct infringement of the right of performance under federal law, secondary infringement under federal law for both contributory and vicarious infringement, and direct and secondary infringement under New York common law for copyrighted works not covered by the Copyright Act.” Escape subsequently filed objections to that report, meaning a district court judge must review the findings de novo, a review that remains pending.
The recommendation is clear that even if employees didn’t personally upload any files, the service would still be liable for facilitating and profiting off of massive infringement. Most significantly, the magistrate judge found that Escape did not implement a policy for terminating repeat infringers, one of the conditions for safe harbor protection under the DMCA.
Courts have recognized a wide range of procedures and practices for implementing a repeat infringer policy that constitute “implementation†under § 512(i)(1)(A), and they should continue to do so. Thus, there is a high bar for a plaintiff to show that a service provider, as a matter of law, does not “implement†its repeat infringer policy within the meaning of the DMCA. The undisputed facts before the Court, however, point only to that conclusion. Escape does not have a repeat infringer policy or an alternative policy that serves the same purpose; does not keep records of repeat infringement sufficient to enforce an adequate repeat infringer policy; permits an extensive amount of repeat infringement to occur without taking action or making a record; depends upon a small number of repeat and flagrant infringers to supply a substantial amount of the content available on Grooveshark; takes action in response to copyright owners’ DMCA notifications of infringement that fails to actually make the song unavailable or prevent it from reappearing immediately on Grooveshark; prevents copyright owners from collecting the data necessary to issue DMCA notifications in a meaningful way; and, finally, has never terminated a repeat infringer’s account and has no policy or procedure for doing so. For these reasons in combination, the Court finds that Escape does not “implement†a repeat infringer policy under § 512(i)(1)(A) and is thus ineligible for DMCA safe harbor.
Groove is in the Shark
Monday’s decision should be welcomed by everyone. Even the most ardent copyright minimalist would agree that the law should, at the least, provide a remedy for intentional, wide-scale, commercial piracy. The real question is whether the DMCA, as it is currently interpreted, provides too much cover to companies engaged in this type of large scale piracy. Evidence of employee uploads was only uncovered after years of litigation by major record companies (never mind that employee uploads still only made up a minority of songs available through the site). Up til then, Grooveshark was able to operate a largely unlicensed commercial music streaming service in the open, with a plausible claim that the DMCA shielded it from legal liability because of how courts have interpreted the safe harbor.
Grooveshark is not that different from other online services. Escape’s belief that it’s “easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission” is as close to a Silicon Valley mantra as you will find, where “permission” is often considered a dirty word. Throughout its tenure, it has cloaked itself in buzzword-laden innovation talk. Its founders parrot the same “music should be free” talking points heard all too often and claim that the problem in the music industry is outdated business models, not rampant online infringement.
But this court decision reveals that this was all just a smokescreen to obscure the fact that Escape Media was illicitly profiting off the work of others, to the detriment of the public interest.
This illustrates how the DMCA has failed in its goal of providing “strong incentives for service providers and copyright owners to cooperate to detect and deal with copyright infringements that take place in the digital networked environment.” 4H. Rep. 105-796, 105th Congress (1997). Escape Media’s wanton infringement would not have been discovered had it not been possible for record labels to move forward with litigation in state courts because of the distinct treatment of pre-1972 sound recordings under the federal Copyright Act, a quirk unavailable to other types of copyright owners — makers of film and television programs, photographs and works of visual arts, or books, for example.
Earlier this year, US Representatives Judy Chu and Tom Marino wrote that the DMCA is not only ineffective but actually “favors non-compliance.” Grooveshark is the poster child for this effect. Media companies end up having to send millions upon millions of takedown notices and spend years in litigation just to be able to continue to create and distribute the works that consumers want. The situation is worse for small businesses and individual creators; they are faced with choosing between spending time and resources they don’t have going after infringers or giving up entirely, a point vividly make in last week’s Ars Technica article, Bugging Out: How Rampant Online Piracy Squashed One Insect Photographer by (former) professional photographer Alex Wild.
|↑1||Atlantic Recording Corporation, Zomba Recording, Elektra Entertainment Group, Arista Records, LaFace Records, Warner Bros. Records, Arista Music, and Sony Music Entertainment.|
|↑2||One message from Greenberg written in 2007 that the court quotes is quite colorful. In it, he instructs employees to “Download as many MP3’s as possible, and add them to the folders you’re sharing on Grooveshark. Some of us are setting up special ‘seed points’ to house tens or even hundreds of thousands of files, but we can’t do this alone… There is no reason why ANYONE in the company should not be able to do this, and I expect everyone to have this done by Monday… IF I DON’T HAVE AN EMAIL FROM YOU IN MY INBOX BY MONDAY, YOU’RE ON MY OFFICIAL SHIT LIST.”|
|↑3||See Federal Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings, A Report of the Register of Copyrights (2011).|
|↑4||H. Rep. 105-796, 105th Congress (1997).| | <urn:uuid:87a280aa-4630-4be5-93c8-fcf513fca294> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.copyhype.com/2014/10/grooveshark-is-done/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.94289 | 2,847 | 1.625 | 2 |
The Brik Buster Tower Toppling Game
The perfect game for family fun brik by brik!
Play by the rules, or make up your own, the direction it takes is up to you as children explore their new found sense of creativity. With five stories of fun to be had what new heights will your toppling tower reach? But who said it was the kids that get all the fun?
The Brik Buster offer a whopping 133 pieces, available from ages 3+, for 2 players or more it’s fun for the whole family! Sure to bring briks of laughter and learning into any home this toppling tower game was meant to be enjoyed together.
Strictly Briks® items are compatible with all major brands of large bricks, including LEGO® DUPLO® and Mega Bloks® brand sets. The Brik Buster Tower Toppling Game is available to buy online from Amazon for £26.99.
Iceni Magazine Review:
When I presented the box to the girls, they were both immediately excited – the picture of the hammer sold the game to them straight away!
They emptied the pieces all over the floor and attempted to set it up. My daughters are 3 and 5, so needed some support. We read the instructions, but using the photographs on the box proved a lot easier. Once fully assembled, my youngest was desperate to smash it up! A reminder of the importance of turn taking was vital at this stage.
Let battle commence…
The girls took it in turns (eventually!!!) to hit the plinths with the hammer (it’s plastic and perfectly safe!). The youngest needed to be told to hit with a little more force. Gradually, more and more parts were removed (though they needed some help with strategy otherwise it would have immediately tumbled). When the Briks finally hit the floor, much laughter echoed around the room and the girls started to reassemble the tower.
- helps develop problem solving
- supports turn taking
- simple to assemble (if you use the photos!)
- getting the pieces to fit back in the box was a mission and the box ought to have a proper closure so the flap didn’t reopen
- Instructions would be better with photos (print on the box, so they don’t go missing)
The girls rated the game 8 out of 10 and have played it many times since! Big kids enjoy it too!!! | <urn:uuid:d608b814-21b6-4c8b-bf14-47a4e76dd9ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.icenimagazine.co.uk/brik-buster-tower-toppling-game/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965412 | 512 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The Huichol are an indigenous people who live in the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains of western Mexico about 200 miles southeast of the city of Mazatlán. The Huichol successfully resisted the Spanish conquerors for many years due to the rugged, remote land in which they lived. Unlike almost all Mexican tribal peoples, the Huichol clung to their folk religion and did not accept Roman Catholicism of the Spanish. A whole Bible became available in 2020 in the Huichol's native language of Huichol.
Over 5000 of them have migrated to the Chicago area of the USA. Coming to the USA, the Huichol have had to change their traditional lifestyle.
The first priority of the Huichol arriving in the USA is obtaining shelter and food. Next, they learn English and put their children in schools. The jobs available to the Huichol tend to be ones that do not require a high level of education such as working in factories, as domestics, in restaurants and gardening. As their children learn English and gain new job skills their economic position will improve. Living in America, the Huichol want to be model citizens and at the same time preserve their traditional language and culture. Time will tell if the Huichol are able to retain their traditions and customs in their new home.
In Mexico the Huichol are animists and ancestor worshippers. Village shamans play a big role in the religious and physical lives of the people. These shamans connect the Huichol to the spiritual world and act as medical doctors. It is doubtful that the Huichol in the USA will give the shaman the same important position as the Huichol of Chicago gain access to modern medicine.
Believers can reach out and help meet the spiritual, social and physical need of the newly arrived Huichol. The Huichol will need much help integrating into modern society. Most of the Huichol need to see that only Jesus can forgive their sins and release them from their fear of evil spirits.
Pray that the leaders of the Huichol community in the USA are open to the claims of Jesus Christ. Pray the Lord moves believers to help meet the needs of the Huichol. Ask God to raise up faithful pastors and Bible teachers to train the Huichol in the ways of the Lord. Pray for a disciple making movement to begin among the Huichol of Chicago and Mexico.
Scripture Prayers for the Huichol in United States.
|Profile Source: Joshua Project|
|People Name General||Huichol|
|People Name in Country||Huichol|
|Population this Country||6,200|
|Population all Countries||58,000|
|Progress Scale||1 ●|
|Frontier People Group||No|
|GSEC||1 (per PeopleGroups.org)|
|Pioneer Workers Needed||1|
|Alternate Names||Huichol, De Nayarit Occidente; Huichol-Nayarit/Jalisco|
|Region||America, North and Caribbean|
|National Bible Society||Website|
|Persecution Rank||Not ranked|
|Location in Country||California, Naperville, IL Source: peoplegroups.info|
|Language Code||hch Ethnologue Listing|
|Language Written||Yes ScriptSource Listing|
Primary Language: Huichol
|Bible Translation ▲||Status (Years)|
|Bible-New Testament||Yes (1967-2009)|
|Possible Print Bibles|
|Forum Bible Agencies|
|National Bible Societies|
|World Bible Finder|
|Resource Type ▲||Resource Name|
|Audio Recordings||Audio Bible teaching|
|Film / Video||Jesus Film: view in Huichol|
|General||Gospel resources links|
|Mobile App||Android Bible app (Wycliffe)|
|Mobile App||Bible app direct APK download|
|Text / Printed Matter||Bible: Huichol|
|Text / Printed Matter||Download scripture in this language|
|Primary Religion:||Ethnic Religions|
|Major Religion ▲||Percent|
|Christianity (Evangelical 2.00 %)||
|Other / Small||
|Christian Segments ▲||Percent| | <urn:uuid:6ba307f5-ef57-4512-9401-e54b3b6a2ae1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/12141/US | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.828041 | 1,213 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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