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In vertebrate embryos, motor axons originating from a particular craniocaudal position in the neural tube innervate limb muscles derived from myoblasts of the same segmental level. We have investigated whether this relationship is important for the formation of specific nerve-muscle connections, by altering the segmental origin of muscles and examining their resulting innervation. First, by grafting quail wing somites to a new craniocaudal position opposite the chick wing, we established that the segmental origin of a muscle can be altered: presumptive muscle cells migrated according to their new, rather than their original, somitic level, colonizing a different subset of muscles. However, after reversal of a length of brachial somitic mesoderm along the craniocaudal axis, or exchange or shift of brachial somites, the craniocaudal position of wing muscle motoneurone pools within the spinal cord was undisturbed, despite the new segmental origin of the muscles themselves. While not excluding the possibility that muscles and their motor nerves are labelled segmentally, we conclude that specific motor axon guidance in the wing does not depend upon the existence of such labels.
The specificity of motor innervation of the chick wing does not depend upon the segmental origin of muscles
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R.J. Keynes, R.V. Stirling, C.D. Stern, D. Summerbell; The specificity of motor innervation of the chick wing does not depend upon the segmental origin of muscles. Development 1 April 1987; 99 (4): 565–575. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.99.4.565
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An introduction to wireframes for your next web design project
January 17, 2022
Wireframes are a crucial step in our three stage design process. They help provide a clear overview of the page structure, layout, information architecture, and intended user behaviour for your website. If you previously read An Introduction to Sitemaps for Your Next Web Design Project, then you’ll recall that wireframes are the second step in our three stage design process at Simplistics. During our design process, your project will go through three main stages: Sitemap, Wireframes, and Design.
Once you’ve determined what message you want to deliver to your users in the Sitemap phase, Wireframes are then developed to begin structuring each page of your website. In this stage, it is important to establish exactly how you want your pages to flow.
Why use Wireframes?
Your website design should reflect your brand, and highlight your content in a way that is clean and concise. The Wireframe stage is an important part of this process, as it allows you to determine what content is relevant, and the placement of that content. This will give users the ability to access the desired information, in just a few clicks. Think of Wireframes as a stepping-stone between the sitemap and designs.
It’s important to note that Wireframes won’t display the look and feel of your website, so branding won’t be taken into consideration at this stage. Wireframes are a visual representation of the sitemap for each page of your website. This will help you better understand how your pages flow, and where your content and visuals will be displayed.
Our priority during this phase is to ensure the message you want to convey on your website has a place in the third and final Design phase.
What do Wireframes look like?
Similar to the Sitemap phase, Wireframes lack personalization and branding. They are designed solely for the purpose of reviewing the structure of your website, and what message you want to portray. Wireframes are often in greyscale, which helps you focus on structure, as opposed to fine details. In the Design phase, colours and branding will be implemented after the Wireframes have been approved.
So, what can you expect the first draft of your Wireframes to look like? Here’s an example of a homepage:
Following best digital practices, this example includes; an upper navigation with space for a logo, homepage banner, offered services, and quick links. As seen in the example, the wireframes lack personalization, but gives you the opportunity to focus on your content, and the relevant components of how you envision showcasing this information.
During this phase of the project, it’s important to gather all assets you’d like to use in the design. This includes high resolution images, logos, copy, colours, and anything else relevant to your brand. Your account manager will help you review your content, and provide recommendations to help make sure your project is a success. | <urn:uuid:00a481e4-7388-4874-be7c-981d643029bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://simplistics.ca/an-introduction-to-wireframes-for-your-next-web-design-project/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.916961 | 626 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Actinopteri (ray-finned fishes) > Aulopiformes
(Grinners) > Paralepididae
Etymology: Paralepis: Greek, para = the side of + Greek,lepis = scale (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Risso.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Marine; bathypelagic; oceanodromous; depth range 50 - 1032 m (Ref. 56504), usually 200 - 600 m (Ref. 35388). Deep-water; 65°N - 30°N, 77°W - 21°E
Atlantic Ocean: restricted to the North Atlantic and adjacent seas.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 50.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 35388)
Depth range from 50-1000 m (ref. 04473) and up to 1032 m in the eastern Ionian Sea (Ref. 56504). Epipelagic to bathypelagic (Ref. 58426); also mesopelagic (Ref. 5951). Feeds on fishes, crustaceans and occasionally planktonic organisms (Ref. 5759). Spawns from March to September, larvae near the surface (Ref. 35388).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Larvae are found near the surface.
Post, A., 1990. Paralepididae. p. 373-384. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1. (Ref. 4473)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 125652)
Threat to humans
Fisheries: of no interest
ReferencesAquacultureAquaculture profileStrainsGeneticsAllele frequenciesHeritabilityDiseasesProcessingNutrientsMass conversion
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969
): 2.2 - 14, mean 7.4 °C (based on 462 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82805
= 0.5625 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00224 (0.00090 - 0.00555), b=3.14 (2.92 - 3.36), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Subfamily-BS (Ref. 93245
Trophic level (Ref. 69278
): 4.1 ±0.70 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref. 120179
): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153
): Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100) .
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649
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This project is made possible by the European Fund for Regional Development in the context of OPZuid.
TrueSort – dynamic scan sorting system for high quality fruit & vegetables
The method of quality assessment within the fruit and vegetable processing industry currently consists of an internal quality assessment e.g. an internal scanning system that can look into the product and an external quality assessment by cameras or employees. Due to the high processing speeds and the structure of the products, external defects such as rotten spots or cracks are getting more difficult to detect. As a result, millions of products worldwide are assessed incorrectly every day.
Through this OPZuid project, Ellips BV (expert in the development of optical assessment and sorting technology) would like to develop a total solution that can combat food waste and achieve high-quality products at a good price.
The intended development is a dynamic scan sorting system that can reduce the incorrect assessment of products by at least 33%. This includes the following concrete developments:
- Development of a new scanning system for the external quality (weight, size, appearance, damage) of the products;
- Development of a dynamic gripping arm which offers the product to the scanning system in such a way that a complete quality check can be carried out. This makes it possible to also assess products with a pit.
The above developments may seem relatively simple, but are a major innovation for the sector, especially with low-yield crops such as apples and pears. The products will not only translate, but also rotate. The high speed, very small error margins, vulnerable products in very large numbers make it technically challenging, whereby the cost price is also decisive for a successful machine. The fruit and vegetable processing industry works with minimal margins and is a fairly conserved industry that requires proven technology with very high reliability. This means that here is a big challenge for Ellips, but with great potential.
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"There is a trend to promote energy efficiency and sustainable buildings," he added. Habitat for Humanity programs in Butte, Helena and Great Falls have all moved toward more efficient buildings.
New pump will offer biodiesel to Missoula – & – Extra grease from Atlanta restaurants fuels the city’s growing biodiesel industry.
Sustainable Systems L.L.C., which makes and supplies the biodiesel used in the University of Montana Bio-Bus, is planning to install a public pump at a Missoula Cenex station, said Shannon Therriault, air-quality specialist at the Missoula City-County Environmental Health Division.
Modern conservationists call this wild country "the American Serengeti." But unlike the African Serengeti, Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, a 100-mile stretch of glacier-sculpted peaks and valleys held by the US Forest Service and the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM), has only temporary protection against oil and gas drilling.
Harnessing the sun’s power – Utilities have $500 million to help pay for large alternative energy systems
"It sends a message to the solar industry that California is in this for the long haul,” "When we look back in 10 years, we’ll say these programs made fundamental changes in the general energy picture,”
"The great thing about this project is that it had to compete with every other form of electrical generation — and it won," said Jan Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Portland, Ore.-based PPM Energy.
The Alternative Energy Technician/Engineer Program that Williamson has in mind would be offered at the COT in coordination with Montana Tech.
Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman today signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) http://www.nreca.org/ to identify and advance cost-effective, voluntary opportunities for rural…
Three weeks after the ribbon cutting, a wind farm in New Mexico has signed up 780 residential and 18 commercial accounts, nearly reaching what it hoped to achieve in three months.
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Governor Judy Martz announced today that a Governor’s Carbon Sequestration Working Group comprised of industry, economic development groups, farm organizations, environmental and conservation interests has been formed to advance a voluntary market-based approach to sequester…
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USS Arcturus (AF-52)
as SS Golden Eagle|
R2-S-BV1 hull, MC Hull 184
|Laid down:||8 December 1941|
|Launched:||12 June 1943|
as USS Arcturus (AF-52), |
18 November 1961
|Decommissioned:||16 May 1973|
|Struck:||9 December 1985|
|Fate:||sunk as a target, 24 July 1997|
|Length:||469 ft (143 m)|
|Beam:||63 ft (19 m)|
|Draught:||26 ft (7.9 m)|
|Propulsion:||cross-compound turbines, single propeller|
|Complement:||as (T-AF-52), 64|
USS Arcturus (AF-52) was an Alstede-class stores ship acquired by the U.S. Navy. Her task was to carry stores, refrigerated items, and equipment to ships in the fleet, and to remote stations and staging areas.
The fifth Navy vessel to be named Arcturus, AF-52 was laid down on 8 December 1941 at Oakland, California, by the Moore Dry Dock Co. under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 184) as Golden Eagle; launched on 15 March 1942; sponsored by Mrs. John B. McKee; and delivered to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) on 23 April 1943. She was operated under WSA charter by the United Fruit Co. until 1946 and, thereafter by the Sword Line and the United States Lines.
Assigned to the Army Transportation Corps
Between October 1948 and early 1950, she served the Army Transportation Corps as USAT Golden Eagle.
Assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service
Designated AF-52 and run by a Navy crew, Golden Eagle operated out of New York carrying supplies to American bases in the North Atlantic Ocean, Europe, and the Mediterranean. During November and December 1950, she was deployed to the Mediterranean for provisioning operations and, through the first six months of 1951, carried cargo to Bremerhaven and Liverpool. Following a second stint of service in the Mediterranean, she departed New York on 3 August for logistics duty off Thule, Greenland. Returning to New York on 13 September, she resumed transatlantic service on the 19th.
Between 1952 and 1961, Golden Eagle made regular runs to ports in western Europe. Operating out of New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Norfolk, she steamed to Bremerhaven, Liverpool, and Rotterdam. During August and September 1952 and 1953, she supplied ships participating in Operation Blue Jay at Thule. Cargo missions in the North Atlantic sent her to Newfoundland, Iceland, and Baffin Island.
Following her return from European waters to New York in the summer of 1961, Golden Eagle entered the New York Naval Shipyard to begin modifications to prepare her to become a commissioned ship. She was renamed Arcturus on 13 October 1961 and placed in commission at New York on 18 November 1961, Capt. Maxie B. Davis in command. Shakedown training in the West Indies and post-shakedown repairs at the Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Baltimore, Maryland, occupied her until the summer of 1962.
In June 1962, Arcturus stood out of Norfolk, Virginia, on her first deployment to the Mediterranean as a unit of the U.S. 6th Fleet. Over the next decade, the ship provided logistics support for Navy forces operating in the Mediterranean Sea and in the West Indies. During most years, she served three tours of duty resupplying ships of the U.S. 6th Fleet. In between those assignments, Arcturus made logistics support voyages to the West Indies, conducted type training, and participated in multiship exercises. Regular overhauls periodically interrupted that schedule and, when they occurred, usually limited her to one or two deployments to the Mediterranean for the year in question.
LTJG Dorsey served as Supply Officer from 1964-1966. LTJG Curry served as Deck Officer, then Navigator from 1965-1968.
Late in 1972, as she prepared for the 24th Mediterranean deployment of her Navy career, her refrigeration compressor system broke down completely. Early in October, the Navy decided to inactivate her. On 2 November, Arcturus began preparations for decommissioning. She was placed out of commission at the Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Virginia, on 16 March 1973. On 18 October 1973, Arcturus was transferred to the Maritime Administration and berthed with the National Defense Reserve Fleet's contingent in Virginia's James River. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 1 October 1976. In December 1985, she was authorized for use as a target to destruction. Final Disposition: sunk as a target, 24 July 1997. Sunk by Naval Gunfire from the USS Cole (DDG-67) at 35°48'35"N 073°06'57"W.
Military awards and honors
Her crew was eligible for the following medal:
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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10 Dreadful Places Named For Horrifying Events
There are some places that have a very tainted past. Maybe people died there, or still do. Whether it’s through human activity or the forces of nature, many of these places earn a creepy nickname for their reputation. These are 10 places whose nicknames encourage you to stay away and whose pasts do everything to reinforce the message.
10 The Railway And Road Of Bones
Soviet Russia was not a very nice place. Two legacies of the hell inflicted on people under Stalin’s regime are the Railway of Bones and the Road of Bones. While they’re different places, their stories are very similar.
The railway was part of Stalin’s plan to conquer the Arctic, egotistically named the “Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature.” Stalin wanted to build a 1,600-kilometer (1,000-mi) railway through Siberia linking two cities. Unsurprisingly, he chose to use 300,000 political prisoners for labor. One-third of them died. Temperatures during winter plummeted to -50 Celsius (-58 F). The workers had to build their own log cabins, though some were forced to sleep in canvas tents.
During the summer, the area was plagued with mosquitoes. Guards would strip workers naked and tie them up among the insects as a punishment. Only 595 kilometers (370 mi) of the railway were completed between the project’s start in 1940 and Stalin’s death in 1953. Though it is currently rusting into nothing, there are plans to rebuild and finish it.
The M56 Kolyma highway is known as the Road of Bones. It also crosses Russia from east to west. It is almost possible to use due to the mud and rain in the summer and the snow and ice in the winter. It’s considered a deadly challenge for extreme off-road enthusiasts, yet it is the workers that were shot and buried underneath the road for not working hard enough that earned it its nickname. It’s very literally built on human skeletons.
9 The Diver’s Cemetery
The Blue Hole in the Red Sea sounds like a nice colorful place. Its nickname gives away the true nature, though. The Diver’s Cemetery is so-called because it’s the most deadly dive site on Earth. It’s located just off the coast of Dahab in Egypt. Despite—or perhaps because of—its reputation, it attracts a lot of extreme scuba enthusiasts. Many don’t leave.
The dive has been compared to Mount Everest. It’s seen as a challenge that divers want to undertake. However, many of them simply aren’t capable, and it becomes their final resting place. The number of people who have died there in the recent past is hard to pin down, but the minimum estimate is around 130 in the last 15 years.
One of the biggest killers is a false sense of security. The water is calm and it’s just off the beautiful sunny beach, yet the hole is very deep. The record for the deepest dive there is held by Tarek Omar at 209 meters (686 ft). At that depth, pressure is 20 times what it is at the surface. Omar knows more about the hole than anyone else, but that’s because he needs to—it’s his job to retrieve the bodies. He once found a pair of divers clinging to each other on the bottom. At least one person hasn’t been found at all.
One of the hole’s biggest killers is nitrogen narcosis. This particular medical condition has its own eerie nickname, “rapture of the deep.” The increased pressure of the air causes nitrogen to be absorbed by the brain and nervous system. This leads to feelings of lightheadedness combined with euphoria and a sense of being carefree. This means that the ability to make rational decisions becomes impaired, so people are more likely to dive deeper than they should.
If you’re curious what it’s like to get into trouble and die there, you can watch the video above. It’s from the camera of Yuri Lipski, who perished there in 2000. Omar recovered the camera along with Lipski’s body. Around six minutes into the video, Lipski begins to panic. For a minute, he grunts and kicks up sand. Then, stillness.
8 The Tower Of Death
The Kalyan Minaret in Bukhara, Uzbekistan is a beautiful building. Standing at 46 meters (151 ft) tall, the tower used to be part of a mosque, and the call to prayer would be given from the top. The mosque is long gone, but people still flock to see the tower today. Even Genghis Khan was a fan. When he ransacked the city in 1220, he liked the tower so much he ordered it should be left intact.
There are 105 steps to the top of the tower, where you can look out over the city—or, alternatively, be thrown out to your death. That particular method of execution earned the minaret its nickname, “The Tower of Death.” Genghis himself is said to have killed people that way. One ruler had criminals sewed up in a sack before being tossed out so that they didn’t make a mess of the square below. The practice is said to have been going on as recently as 1920.
One legend around the tower involves the wife of an unnamed ancient ruler. It’s said the wife gave charity to people behind her husband’s back, and when he found out, he ordered she be thrown to her death. The wife made a last request to be able to wear all of her clothes at once during the execution. When she was tossed to her doom, all of her skirts flared like a parachute and she drifted safely to the ground. Her husband was impressed by this display of cunning and she was pardoned, but we can’t help but think their relations may have been a little strained after that.
7 The Death Cave
The so-called Death Cave is appropriately located in Devil’s Canyon, Arizona. The US Forest Service recommends the area for its “picturesque rocks.” The rocks in question are said to “resemble distorted human forms,” which allegedly earned the canyon its name, but its haunting history may have something to do with it, too.
In the 1870s, the canyon was used by Apaches raiding Navajo settlements in the area. The Navajos attempted a new strategy to combat the raiders—when the Apaches attacked, they sent men to block off the exit to the canyon at the southern end. The raiders never reappeared and a search of the canyon failed to turn them up. It was as if they’d vanished without a trace.
In 1878, Apaches raided a settlement, killing everyone except for three girls they took prisoner. Navajo chiefs from the district raced south again to ambush the raiders. Once again, the Apaches vanished. Scouts were dispatched to scour the place. The Apaches’ secret was discovered when a scout felt hot air rising from the ground. He found a crack and heard voices. He realized that there was an underground cavern and that the Apaches were in it.
The Navajos descended on the area in force and found the entrance in Devil’s Canyon. It was hidden by a stone ridge and just wide enough for a horse to pass through. The Navajo killed the two guards outside and plotted their revenge. They filled the entrance of the cave with dry grass and wood while riflemen picked off any Apaches that tried to escape through the small passage. When the entrance was full, they set it alight.
The first fire didn’t kill all of the Apaches, and the next day, they sent someone to negotiate for their freedom. The Navajos agreed to let the Apaches go in return for the three captive girls, but the girls had already been tortured and killed. The Navajos began the fire anew. It took two days for the rocks to cool down before they went inside.
The Apaches had tried to block the smoke and heat by stuffing their horses into the cave entrance, but it didn’t work. Around a dozen Apaches had suffered burns and the rest were found suffocated in a second chamber further back. A total of 42 people were killed.
The cave is located almost directly below the Arizona ghost town of Two Guns, so it’s a popular stop off for people interesting in a bit of historical exploration. The story has a more impact when you hear it from someone while walking through the cave, pointing to the piles of rocks that the panicking Apaches piled up at the entrance and inviting you to imagine how terrified they must have been.
6 The Fort Of Death
The Ninth Fort was built by the Russian Empire in the Lithuanian city of Kaunus in the 19th century. It was actually one of several numbered units that made up a larger fort. It was used through WW I and saw off a German attack in 1915, so it was no stranger to death. However, it didn’t earn the name “Fort of Death” until 1941, when it was under the control of the Nazis.
The Nazis took Kaunus in June 1941, when Soviet forces retreated. Within weeks, a Nazi killing squad had rounded up thousands of Jews to be systematically shot. The majority of the murders were carried out in the Ninth Fort. The rest of the Jews were forced to live in a ghetto. By August, there were 29,000 Jews being forced to live in a squalid part of the city.
The event that sealed the nickname Fort of Death occurred on October 29, 1941. During the day before, 9,000 Jews had been rounded up from the ghetto and taken to Ninth Fort. Nearly half of them were children. They were stripped, lined up beside mass graves, and gunned down in groups. By the end of the day, they had all been killed. Later, the Nazis attempted to cover up the crime by burning the bodies, forcing Jews from the ghetto dig open the graves. When the work was complete, the Jews were all shot.
5 Deadly Mountains
The Eiger, which translates as “the ogre,” is the deadliest mountain in the Alps. Its northern face was the last in the range to be conquered. Its German name, Nordwand, means “north wall,” but its deadly reputation has led climbers to change that to Mordwand, or “murder wall.” It was first conquered by a combined team of Germans and Austrians in 1938, an achievement that was a bit of a propaganda win for the Third Reich.
As deadly as the Eiger may be, it’s nothing compared to Nanga Parbat. That Himalayan beast belongs to an exclusive club of mountains with peaks over 8,000 meters (26,247 ft) tall and is the ninth highest in the world. It wasn’t conquered until 1953, by which time it had already claimed over 30 lives. It’s known locally as “Maneater” and “Mountain of the Devil” due to the regularity of deaths there. Even local road signs refer to it as the Killer Mountain.
Climbing Nanga Parbat became an even deadlier prospect in 2013. The Taliban attacked the mountain’s base camp and murdered 10 climbers. When claiming responsibility for the attacks, a Taliban spokesman said that they were carried out by an arm of the organization specifically aimed at killing foreigners in Pakistan, yet that hasn’t stopped people from trying to accomplish the mountain’s final challenge, a climb in winter.
Only two “eight-thousanders” have never been climbed successfully during winter. One is the infamous K2, itself nicknamed “The Savage Mountain,” and the other is Nanga Parbat. On top of being a difficult climb, the height from base camp is about 1000 meters (3,281 ft) more than it is on Everest and the weather is worse. Simone Monro, an Italian climber, has a good chance at being the first. He’s already done the first winter ascent on three other eight-thousanders—a joint record—and isn’t put off by the Taliban. He tried the ascent in 2012 and is having another go in 2014. Even though he’s probably the most likely person on the planet to be able to do it, he rates his own chances at around 15 percent.
A slightly safer adventure up a mountain with a scary nickname is Huayna Picchu in Peru, known as the “Hike of Death.” While most people make it up and down safely, the video above will give you vertigo alongside an idea of where the nickname came from. It’s even scarier than it looks—the bush under the stairs isn’t growing from the ground, but on the side of a sheer drop. Stone steps, just a few inches wide, stick out the side of a mountain thousands of feet in the air. It’s probably worth buying a ticket and making the ascent, though, for the spectacular view. Make sure to show up early—authorities limit the climb to 400 people each day.
4 Tunnel Of Death And Blood Alley
Not content with having a road that earned an unsettling nickname during construction, Russia has a stretch of highway beneath Moscow that’s been called “The Tunnel of Death” since it opened. The reason for that can be best summarized in the video above, which shows car after car skidding around a corner into the concrete walls. The 2.2-kilometer (1.4-mile) tunnel is underneath a river, which leaks onto the road. Moscow’s harsh winters freeze the water leaking from the river, creating terrifying driving conditions.
On the other side of the Cold War, America has the highway California 46, specifically a stretch nicknamed “Blood Alley.” The road claimed the life of James Dean in 1955 before it was upgraded in the 1960s. The name refers to a particular 35-kilometer (22-mi) section, which killed dozens of people during the 1990s. The toll peaked at 14 deaths for the year 1995.
The most unusual deaths on the highway also occurred in 1995. A truck carrying broccoli accidentally dumped 22 crates of the vegetable onto a car. The smaller vehicle was crushed, buried in a sea of green. A man inside was killed, while a woman received serious injuries. It sounds like an urban legend, but it at least meets the Internet’s minimum criteria of “pics or it didn’t happen.” The same thing happened again on a different road in California in 2012, suggesting that the state just isn’t very safe at moving groceries.
Many bridges in the world are known as popular suicide spots, yet two of them are so strongly associated that locals actually refer to them as “Suicide Bridge.” The Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California has seen over 100 suicides since it was built in 1913. The city council have put up signs to discourage people from jumping, but the local Pasadena Sun is never short of headlines that begin “Body Under Bridge.”
Pasadena’s Suicide Bridge has nothing on the Nusle Bridge in Prague, though. The Czech bridge wasn’t finished until 1973, yet the lowest death toll estimates since then come in at 250. The bridge passes above a residential area and locals are used to finding crumpled bodies on the pavement. One teenager explains that blood on the ground is a normal sight on his walk home from school and that “one time, my neighbor took home a part of someone’s brain in a cup.”
In 2007, the city installed a sheer metal barrier along the length of the bridge to prevent people from being able to get over. They hired a professional climber to do his best, but he gave up after 10 tries and declared that climbing the barrier was “impossible.” The fact that fewer people now jump means that fewer people now die, but the name “Suicide Bridge” probably isn’t going away for some time.
2The Slaughter Rivers
The word matanza roughly translates from Spanish as “slaughter.” There are two rivers that take their name from the word, the Matanza River in Argentina and the Matanzas River in Florida. They earned their names in very different but equally awful ways.
Matanzas in Florida earned its name in 1565, when control of Florida was being contested by the French and the Spanish. Philip II of Spain was annoyed when 200 Frenchmen established a fort in what was regarded as Spanish land, conveniently ignoring the 35 groups of Native Americans that lived in Florida at the time. Catholic Philip sent General Pedro Menéndez de Aviles with 800 men to clear out the French Protestants.
The French sent 600 more men to bolster their defenses against the Spanish reinforcements, but were thrown off course by a hurricane and washed up south of where they’d planned to be. In the meantime, Menéndez and his men had wrecked the French fort. When the General learned about the shipwreck survivors from some natives, he sent a translator to encourage them to surrender.
When the French eventually reached the Spanish fort, Menéndez said he would let them live if they converted to Catholicism. A few agreed, but Menéndez had the rest slaughtered beside the inlet of the river. In total, he killed 245 men, and the river earned its name as a result.
The Matanza River in Argentina got its name from the tanneries and slaughterhouses that dump their waste there. In recent years, its name has become sadly more appropriate. The river is one of the most polluted places on Earth and 12,000 people along its banks live in conditions deemed unfit for habitation. Diarrhea, cancer, and respiratory diseases are major problems. It’s the only place on this list that didn’t earn its name through the deaths of humans, yet it currently threatens to kill more than all the others put together.
1 The Pit Of Bones
The Pit of Bones combines an eerie discovery with immense scientific value. It’s a cavern at the bottom of a sheer vertical shaft of around 13 meters (43 ft) in a mountain in Spain. Any animal that happens to stumble into the hole is going to die down there. Scientists have found the remains of 160 cave bears, along with wolves, lions, and other big cats. They have also found thousands of human bones, which come from at least 30 individuals.
Researchers are pretty certain that the animals fell down there by mistake. Many of the bones, even those of the large predators, have been gnawed. That suggests their bodies became a last desperate meal for the next animal to survive the fall. While it’s certainly possible that a person could’ve met the same fate, scientists believe the cave was actually used to dispose of the bodies of people that had already died.
Calling the bones human is potentially misleading. While the remains are very similar to ours, analysis of the 400,000-year-old DNA suggests that they belong to a species more closely related to Neanderthals. Then again, Neanderthals had the capacity for speech, intelligence, culture, and the use of tools that typically define us. Some people even consider them a subgroup of the same species. While the Pit of Bones may not necessarily have given us the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever sequenced, the popular description of “oldest human genome” seems pretty reasonable.
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Qualified Providers in the Community
What is a Qualified Provider?
The Department of Developmental Services (DDS) has more than 195 Qualified Providers to support individuals in residential, day and a variety of other services in the community. Of these providers, 119 providers have been in existence since 2000 and 78 since 1995. In fact, some of the providers have been providing qualified services in the community for more than thirty years. These long term relationships have been developed through a partnership and respect between DDS and the provider agencies. The quality of services is the most important aspect of our joint efforts.
How does an agency become a Qualified Provider for DDS?
There is a detailed process in place to qualify an agency with DDS which includes:
- Providers must meet DDS requirements in the development of their procedures.
- DDS does an extensive review of the history of the provider.
- Personal interviews with the provider’s administration are conducted by DDS to ensure they understand the mission and guidelines of the agency.
- A background check is completed on the Executive Director and he or she is personally trained by the department on policies, procedures and expectations.
How does the agency monitor the provider once they start providing services?
DDS has developed a system that measures the quality of supports delivered by a Qualified Provider and assesses the individual’s satisfaction with the supports. The Quality Service Review (QSR) meets all requirements by the federal government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and holds each provider to the same high standards that are expected at other federally funded facilities like STS.
How does QSR work?
- DDS reviewers use the Quality Service Review to obtain data in seven focus areas;
- Planning and Personal Achievement
- Relationships and Community Inclusion
- Choice and Control
- Rights, Respect and Dignity
- Health and Wellness
- Community Living Arrangements (CLA)- All locations, every two years on the licensing off-year
- Continuous Residential Supports (CRS) – All locations, every year
- Day Support Options (DSO) - All locations, every year
- Sheltered Workshops (SHE) - All locations, every year
- In Home Supports (HIS), Supported Employment, Individualized Day – A sample of locations are reviewed annually.
Additional Regional Oversight
Each of the three DDS Regions has an Assistant Regional Director (ARD) dedicated to providing oversight of the private providers in their regions. The ARD and his/her team oversee contracted services including assisting individuals in finding programs in the community. In addition, this team is responsible for the quality of the programs and monitors them as well as addressing any concerns.
How does DDS respond to problems with a qualified private provider?
DDS has developed a process for responding to identified problems with a provider.
- DDS will meet with the agency to discuss the problem as soon as possible and develop a plan of correction for any problems.
- If DDS believes it is a serious problem, the provider will be placed on Enhanced Contract Monitoring and the following steps will be taken by DDS:
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- Require the provider to develop a plan to fix the problem.
- Increase the number of visits to the program to ensure that the individuals are safe if any of the problems are associated with their health and safety.
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Urban decline is when a previously functioning city or neighborhood falls into disrepair and decrepitude. An abandoned or declining city has little or no income… Read More »Reasons behind the abandoning and declination of North American cities
Once a bustling industrial city, the city of Gary in Indiana is now a ghost town with 30% of the buildings unoccupied and abandoned.
The Route 66 Museum in Clinton, Oklahoma tells the fascinating story of America’s most iconic road and the towns left behind when it was abandoned.
Cass Technical High School was once regarded as one of Detroit’s landmarks but the facilities became dated and the building was demolished.
Once regarded at the most modern mental facility in the USA, the Metropolitan State Hospital was closed in 1992 and was later demolished.
Danvers State Hospital was a mental institution opened in 1878 in the town formerly known as Salem Village, the site of the legendary Salem Witch Trials.
Aiden Lair is an abandoned lodge in upstate New York. Theodore Roosevelt stopped at Aidan Lair on his way to take the oath of president.
Old Lodge was built around 1890 in Tomkin’s Cove, New York and has been a hotel and private residence over the years. It is now abandoned.
The Hotel Charlevoix was opened in 1905 and was one of the oldest hotels in Detroit. It was closed in the 1980s and demolished in 2013.
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The recent pandemic affected people's lives in countless ways. For some, it was a case of adapting and surviving, while others relished being thrust into the unknown. The forced changes in society led to businesses collapsing, but it also paved the way for new opportunities for women to start their own businesses or work online. Today, Teton Women’s Health Center shares everything you need to know.
A few common areas in a woman's life affected by the pandemic include:
• Career. According to recent reports, during COVID-19, female unemployment was nearly double the rate of male unemployment. This forced women into seeking alternative work opportunities, many of whom found creative ways of making money.
• Child care. Women still bear the brunt of child care, and the lack of support from the schooling system during the pandemic forced many families to reassess their situations. There was the expectation that parents needed to homeschool their children, which required a balancing act. This led to many women leaving their careers to be at home with their kids. Work-from-home jobs increased in popularity.
• Mental health. Because of social isolation and too much time at home, many women were forced to think about a new career direction. Many women prioritized mental health by reaching out and finding support groups.
• Physical health. The combination of social isolation and working from home during the pandemic have made it remarkably easy for one’s weight to grow into unhealthy ranges.
Working OnlineIf you've had to change course due to the pandemic, consider working online. Doing work from home gives you more flexibility and opens up a world of inspiration to start your own business. Popular online vocations include transcription services, online content writing services, virtual assistants, and online tutoring.
Starting and Marketing a Business
Women who establish their own companies should identify potential opportunities in their area. Starting an online business is one thing, but if you'd prefer to offer a service, consider creating a hiking group, dog walking, or boot camp.
If you do start your own business, consider forming a limited liability company (LLC). An LLC has many benefits, such as tax advantages, limited personal liability if something goes wrong, and less paperwork. The easiest route is to hire a formation company to file the paperwork and state rules. It’s also wise to invest in a cloud accounting system. This will make keeping track of your business’s finances straightforward, and you won’t have to worry about losing backups.
Once you've finished the business administration portion, the marketing begins. Marketing your new business is key to success. Outsource your website and logo design to a graphic designer or web designer, and ask them to create a media kit. If you're going to send images, compress them without losing quality when you use a free tool to convert JPG to PDF online. This method will allow you to convert multiple files into one PDF.
Next, select a few relevant social media platforms and post regularly. Consider using a small budget to promote your posts to your target market. Depending on your business type, recruit friends and family to start promoting you online.
The Positive Effects of the Pandemic
The pandemic certainly affected women differently, from their home lives to their careers. Although these changes haven't been easy, many have used the opportunity as a springboard into alternate careers where they're discovering their creativity. If you found that your world was turned upside down by the pandemic, look for ways that you can transform it into a positive. COVID may have changed the world, but that doesn’t mean you can’t carve your own path as well.
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Down-conversion refers to a material that absorbs energy at a higher level (lower wavelength) and emits energy at a lower level (longer wavelength). Most fluorescent materials operate this way. The typical longwave UV paints that glow in the visible when illuminated with a longwave UV or blacklight are down-conversion paints. The human eye naturally is not very sensitive to the UV light so we don't see the UV light well, but we do see where the paints glow in the visible well.
IR down-conversion materials convert visible or infrared light to another infrared frequency. We have two types of IR down-conversion materials.
Down conversion refers to a material that absorbs light at a higher energy (shorter wavelength) and emits light at a low energy wavelength (longer wavelength). Most materials that fluoresce will exhibit down conversion because the energy is flowing from a higher level to a lower level. To fluoresce, the material must absorb energy at one wavelength which temporarily bumps some of its electrons to a higher energy orbit. When the electrons fall back to their normal energy level, a photon is emitted which is the fluorescence.
We have many sorts of down conversion materials. We materials that have excitations:
- Excite in short UV wavelengths and fluoresce in longer UV wavelengths
- Excite in the UV and fluoresce in the visible
- Excite in the visible and emit in the visibel
- Excite in the visible and emit in the infrared
- Excite in the infrared and emit in the infrared
Materials tend to be either organic or inorganic. Organic materials may have solubility such as our IR Ink #1 or #2 which have ethanol solubility, and inorganic materials which are very fine ceramic crystals with no solubility. Organic materials will fade in sunlight while the inorganic materials will not. We can make dispersions or suspensions of our inorganic materials into a type of paint.
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Arizona is already ranked the 10th worst state for residential electricity burden. And with every major monopoly lined up hat in hand for a rate increase, things are bound to get worse. But for AARP somehow, nothing is broken! AARP’s cavalier attitude is hurting Arizonans and harming the state’s economic development.
Utilities charge for electricity via rates, but bills are what households pay every month. Low-income households are especially vulnerable as they face three times higher energy burden because they spend a larger percentage of income on energy costs. Arizona, a top retirement destination, has many seniors — and likely AARP members — on a fixed income or with medical conditions. For them, the electricity bill determines how much money is left for food and medicines. If not, there is a price to pay like Stephanie Pullman did.
Worse yet, climate change will only exacerbate the energy burden in a large swath of Arizona. Besides, many are already on the best rate plan, so the captive ratepayers are powerless to do anything. So why is AARP advocating that they remain beholden to the monopolies and not have a choice in deciding their electricity provider?
America Is Built on Competition
America is built on the fundamental economic principle that competition and customer choices provide a win-win-win for the consumers, the companies, and for the U.S. economy. The reverse is equally true: Reduced competition leads to higher prices, lower quality goods or services, or less innovation.
Without any competition to keep them honest, the monopoly utilities live large on the ratepayers’ dime and pass through to them their exorbitant cost of service — with a hefty rate of return tacked on to it. In this broken and outdated system, ratepayers become sacrificial lambs to appease the monopoly’s shareholders.
The cash-strapped and understaffed regulators, like at the Arizona Corporation Commission, are either unable or unwilling to stem the tide of repeated rate increases. No wonder then that every one of the largest 25 electricity price increases over the last decade all occurred in the monopoly states, with Arizona being a prime example.
Wouldn’t it be better for the free market to determine reasonable rates rather than overwhelmed regulators rubberstamping monopoly requests?
Reversal of Fortunes: Sinking Arizona, Rising Texas
Arizona has been going in the wrong direction for a while now. And it is on track to be a Top-10 most expensive state for the all-sector electricity price, reflecting residential, commercial, and industrial sectors.
Arizona wasn’t doing so great in 2008 either. It was already in the bottom half — ranked only 31st cheapest among the 50 states. In 2013, Arizona slipped to the 34th rank and by 2018, it sank lower to be 37th, based on the Energy Information Administration data.
Texas was doing even worse than Arizona in 2008. But it restructured its electricity market and “unbundled” vertically integrated utilities into three separate entities: a power generation company, a transmission and distribution utility, and a retail electric provider.
In 2013, after market restructuring took effect, Texas leapfrogged Arizona to become the 15th cheapest state. By 2018, there was another jaw-dropping transformation: Texas jumped to the 8th cheapest spot while Arizona was now occupying the lowly 37th rank that Texas had held back in 2008!
While the electricity price dropped 23% in Texas over that time, it instead jumped by 19% in Arizona. Imagine the enormous economic stimulus Texas received compared to the economic albatross around Arizona’s neck of a paltry 3% increase in consumption that now cost a whopping 22% more.
Restructuring Has Resulted in Huge Savings
The average price in the U.S. increased by 8% during 2008-2018, but the price increase in Arizona was 19% — 2.4 times that of the U.S. average. On the other hand, every restructured state had a smaller price change than in Arizona.
Like Texas, as more and more states like New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Illinois rejected the monopoly model and restructured their electricity markets to allow free-market competition, there was a complete turnaround.
Not just in Texas, but in several restructured states there was a price decrease over the decade: In Delaware, the price dropped by 15%, in Maryland and New York by 11%, and in New Jersey by 8%. States like Connecticut and Illinois saw a modest increase of only 4% — but considerably lower than the U.S. average. Researchers estimated that savings in Ohio would be around $3 billion per year as long as anti-competitive actions did not undermine the deregulated energy markets.
Restructuring is the Best Antidote
AARP is dreaming if it thinks that the broken monopoly system will improve and doing disservice to its own members with its misguided opposition to restructuring. It is hurting all Arizonans by burying its head in the sand.
Bureaucratic, regulatory mechanisms or other options at the commission’s disposal are incapable of changing longstanding economic principles. The regulators must follow the compelling evidence in support of restructuring, ignore the noise created by monopoly sympathizers like AARP, and unleash the free-market competition to improve lives of Arizonans through lower electricity rates and statewide economic growth.
Full restructuring of electricity markets in Arizona offers the best antidote for the outdated monopoly model.
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Further to Fiona’s post, Schedule 10 of the act specifies that “between a husband and wife residing together the wife shall be entitled” and that “between two persons residing together who are parents of the child but not husband and wife, the mother shall be entitled.” This is one area of family law where the legislation is openly discriminatory. When the parents separate the allocation continues, and, as Fiona says, the benefit is intended to be cheap to administer and so cannot be split.
Where care is shared equally the rules (Regulation 20 of the Child Support (Maintenance and Special Cases) 1992 No. 1815) demand that one parent must still be deemed the “absent” parent and must therefore pay child support. Absence is therefore a legal status, not a description of reality, a lesson the Prime Minister needs to learn.
Other benefits and child support tended to follow child benefit, this was ruled discriminatory by the court in Hockenjos v Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, as was the regulation that only one parent could be responsible for a child. The court commented that to allow a father nothing for the maintenance of the child when he shares care virtually equally is so unfair that no reasonable secretary of state could countenance it. Lord Justice Ward observed,
“To be forced to treat only one [parent] as responsible where there is a shared residence order in operation is grotesque.
“It is degrading to fathers who actually - and lovingly - tend to their children. A law so framed is so far removed from reality that it brings the law into disrepute.”
The Government’s shameful response was to replace the Dependent Children’s Allowance with Child Tax Credits in April 2004; in which the test for eligibility is not who is in receipt of Child Benefit but with whom the child normally lives. The European Directive 79/7/EEC which the Government breached in the Hockenjos case does not apply to family benefits. Sadly the “grotesque” discrimination against fathers continues.
All I can advise, Mwahppet, is to lobby your MP remorselessly and join the mothers and fathers who represent the equal parenting movement.
An alternative is for the parent with the lower income to claim the child benefit so that the children have a similar standard of income in both households. I know one separated family with the children half time in each household where this has been done by agreement. The better off parent also pays CSA level child support to the other, in addition to her having the child benefit, for the same reason.
After a week away with OH and his children on a shoe string budget, no shopping, no arcades, no fairs, no meals out, we did have some glorious days at the beach and walks along the coast with packed lunches but my other half broke down and sobbed his heart out because he couldnt even buy his kids a treat.
Things looked really bleak and my very despondant other half was a rock bottom.
Then yesterady, he got really good news, after an appeal to the HMRC he has been awarded child benefit for one child out of three reflecting his share of time with the children. Only £20.30 a week but this will be well spent on his children and will cover a few excursions during the summer and now they can have their swimming lessons in September again.. Dad is smiling for the first time in a long time..
Moral of the story... never give up hope.. this opens a wonderful door for dad!!
Does your receipt of £20 open other doors to you now mwhappet, such as child tax credit, housing allowance and working tax family credit. I wouldn't be surprised if you are entitled to something more because you are in receipt of child benefit for one child.
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You will apply important microeconomics concepts toward the competitive strategies of an organization that operates in an industry of your choice. You will evaluate the differences between market structures and identify a group of competitive strategies consistent with the market structure that best aligns with the market in which the organization competes. You will assess how the market structure positively and negatively affects the organization’s ability to earn an economic profit over time and evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s competitive strategies.
Select an industry. Identify an organization in that industry. Your selected organization must be submitted for instructor approval.
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Describe the level of competition the organization will face if under each of the following market structures:
Identify three or more competitive strategies of your choice that may be used by the organization to maximize its profits over the long run. Evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies in the market structure you identified. Consider the following:
Make recommendations related to the strategies the organization might consider to maximize its profits and consider the following:
Cite a minimum of 3 peer reviewed sources.
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Written Assignment: The Cold War and Presidential Doctrines
Due Week 7 and worth 300 points
Select a president from the table, “Presidents and Their ‘Doctrines,’” in Roskin, Chapter 4. Then write at least a six-eight-page paper on the doctrine that president used according to Roskin. Your research must include at least seven credible sources, apart from your textbook. Your paper must address the following:
- Fully define a doctrine and identify why the president of your choice announced a doctrine while he was in office.
- Describe the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, with reference to specific actions or events that occurred.
- Describe the effect that the presidential doctrine has had on regional or global affairs since it was announced during the Cold War.
- Cite at least seven reputable sources, excluding Wikipedia, encyclopedias, dictionaries, blogs and other material that does not qualify as reputable academic sourcework.
Your assignment must:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- NOT INCLUDE AN ABSTRACT, but do include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
- Acknowledge that graphs, tables, drawings and photographs do not count toward the length of the paper; only what you have written as text itself.
- Will receive a SafeAssign file that shows you what percentage of your writing has been copied and pasted from other sources, including those found on the Internet. I will not accept any paper that has a reading over 30%, so if yours falls within that parameter, you will have to paraphrase those highlighted portions of your paper to get that figure down to 30%. | <urn:uuid:bb651abb-f804-4a0a-a58c-e3911c63802a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://topgradetermpapers.com/revise-this-paper-reagan-doctrine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.937297 | 443 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Do you live in a region with sandy soil that makes growing grass on your lawn difficult? Looking for advice on achieving a healthy, thriving turf on sandy soil?
Will grass grow in sandy soil?
Yes, grass can grow on sandy soil, albeit only under specific conditions. Naturally, sandy soil is not its most-preferred growth medium, as grass typically requires high amounts of moisture to sustain proper growth. This is difficult to achieve in sandy soil, which typically has poor moisture retention properties. What’s more, sand reduces soil fertility while also minimizing the capability of the soil to hold nutrients that are crucial for turfgrass development.
The final reason why it’s difficult to grow grass in sandy soil is that sand creates sizable air pockets that inhibit root development since the thin and feeble roots of turfgrasses typically require soil particles that are sufficiently compact for improved penetration and stability during root establishment. To successfully grow a beautiful, lush green turf on a lawn with sandy soil, you can make various adjustments to the soil; while also settling for a turfgrass variety known to do well in sand. We discuss both of these aspects in the subsequent sections.
What grass grows in sand?
For a visually-attractive lawn on sandy soil, you need to select a befitting turfgrass species with specific characteristics such as good drought tolerance and deep root penetration. Since sandy soil has poor moisture retention, a drought-tolerant turfgrass variety is the most likely to survive these relatively dryer soil conditions. Meanwhile, turfgrasses with strong and deep-penetrating roots can penetrate the air pockets for improved moisture and nutrient intake. We discuss the top turfgrass species/varieties with such characteristics below:
The table below summarizes the five types of turfgrasses discussed below as being suitable for planting on sandy soil. The table includes details on the required soil type, water requirements, growing season, sunlight requirements, and pH preferences.
|Type of Turfgrass||Required soil type||Water requirements||Is it a warm or cool-season grass?||Sunlight requirements||pH|
|Zoysia Grass||Prefers loamy soil- but can grow in sandy soil||At least one inch of irrigation per week||Warm-season grass||Prefers direct, full sunlight exposure but can withstand partial shade.||Between 5.8-7.0|
|Bermuda Grass||Prefers deep sandy loam soil||Requires about 1- 1.25-inches of moisture per week to thrive||Warm-season grass||Requires at least 7 hours of daily direct sunlight exposure||Between 5.5-6.5|
|Kentucky Bluegrass||Prefers medium-textured, limestone soil||Requires at least two inches of water per week to thrive||A perennial, cool-season grass||Prefers direct, full sunlight exposure but can withstand mild shading.||Between 6.0- 7.5|
|Tall Fescue||Prefers sandy and heavy-clay soils||Requires about 1- 1.25-inches of moisture per week to thrive||A cool-season turfgrass species||Requires between 4-6 hours of dappled/filtered sunlight per day||Between 5.8-6.5|
|Bahia Grass||Prefers acidic soil||Requires between 0.25- 0.5-inches of moisture per day to thrive||A warm-season turfgrass||Prefers full-sunlight exposure but can withstand light shading||Between 5.5-6.5|
1. Zoysia Grass
Landscaping professionals often recommend this warm-season turfgrass for lawns with sandy soil due to its deep-penetrating roots. Typically, Zoysia grass requires hours of daily sunlight exposure but could still thrive under partially shaded conditions. Since its a drought-tolerant grass variety, Zoysia grass has minimal water requirements.
2. Bermuda Grass
Also known as ‘Devil’s Grass, ’ Bermuda grass is a popular warm-season grass, especially amongst homeowners in the Southern states. Its` most outstanding feature that makes it great for sandy soil is its deep-rooting nature. What’s more, Bermuda grass is adapted to thrive in both drought and rainy conditions.
On the flipside, Bermuda is not shade-tolerant grass variety and requires a sufficient amount of daily, direct sunlight exposure to maintain its beautiful, lush green appearance. Finally, Bermuda grass has a short stature, which is great for sandy soil, as taller grass varieties suffer from instability in such soil conditions.
3. Kentucky Bluegrass
Scientifically referred to as Poa pratensis, Kentucky Bluegrass is a perennial turfgrass that can also thrive in sandy soil, albeit under the right soil fertility conditions. This is due to its ability to thrive even in dry soil conditions. In terms of light requirements, this grass species requires partial to full sunlight exposure and is also great for regions with highly humid climates.
This grass variety also needs an adequate water supply to thrive, especially during the warmer seasons. Under optimum conditions, your Kentucky bluegrass will grow to form a dense turf that will enhance your curb appeal.
4. Tall Fescue
Fescues are a cool-season turfgrass genus, and some species of this turfgrass group are adapted to sandy soils, including tall, hard, and red fescue. These three fescue species are the most drought-tolerant, and tall fescue- in particular- boasts good shade tolerance.
5. Bahia Grass
This perennial turfgrass species has unmatched drought resistance, with some varieties boasting deep-penetrating roots that go as far as 12-feet into the ground. Bahiagrass, therefore, is capable of surviving in sandy soil that can barely hold moisture. Its low-growing nature also enables easy stabilization, while its ability to thrive on minimal nutrients makes it great for nutrient-deficient, sandy soil.
How to grow grass in the sand?
To successfully grow grass in sandy soil, consider the strategies discussed below:
- Boost the soil’s moisture retention capabilities– sandy soil can barely hold water long enough to allow for adequate absorption by the roots of your planted grass. You can boost grass growth by top dressing lawn or adding loamy topsoil/ organic garden compost onto your sandy soil to boost its moisture-retention capabilities.
- Establish the turf via seed or sod– for higher chances of success during turf establishment on sandy soil, seeding or sodding are the recommended options over sprigging and plugging. When sodding, ensure that the roots of your sod grass come into contact with your topsoil during installation while also ensuring daily irrigation post-installation. If you’re planting your grass via seed, ensure uniform distribution by using a broadcasting machine. You can also mulch the lawn post-seeding to encourage moisture retention.
- Water frequently, but avoid overwatering– while you may need to water your sandy soil lawn frequently to keep it adequately moist to support grass growth, you should only water for relatively short durations during each irrigation session, as too much water can wash away some of the planted seeds. This would then leave you with unsightly, bare spots on your lawn once the seeds germinate and the grass grows.
- Fertilize your soil– this is especially important if you live in an area that rains often, as the excess rainwater will most likely have washed away most nutrients present in the soil. A slow-release fertilizer, applied atop the sandy soil at least once per month, can significantly boost turfgrass development. Follow manufacturers’ instructions to avoid over-fertilizing your sandy soil, as this will most likely lead to contamination of the water table.
- Mow at the appropriate height- mowing turfgrasses on sandy soil at a height of between 2.5-3.5-inches is an excellent way of encouraging deeper root establishment.
What grass is best for sandy soil in Florida and Texas?
Florida and Texas are both Southern states, where the weather is typically warm and sunny for most parts of the year. Under such conditions, you typically expect less soil moisture due to increased evaporation. Add to that sandy soil that can’t hold moisture for long, and what you need is a deep-rooting, drought-tolerant, warm-season turfgrass variety that can withstand these seemingly harsh conditions. Below is a list highlighting some of the best warm-season turfgrasses adapted to thriving in sandy soil, which you may find suitable for your Florida or Texas lawn:
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- Blackjack Bermuda Grass
- Yukon Bermuda Grass
- Riviera Bermuda Grass
- Zenith Zoysia Grass
- Compadre Zoysia Grass
- Centipede Grass
- The ‘Buffalo Supreme’ variety of Buffalo Grass
- Carpet Grass
- Bahia Grass
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Advocates for changing punitive school discipline policies that are disproportionately affecting African American and Latino students can claim at least a partial victory at the end of this year’s legislative session, with five bills signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown last month that raise awareness and pave the way for alternative approaches to out-of-school suspensions and expulsions.
However, the governor vetoed two of the strongest measures that potentially would have reduced the 700,000 suspensions given to students each year. In addition, some of the bills – including the two that were vetoed – had been softened during the give-and-take of the legislative process to give districts more options rather than requiring them to implement alternatives.
Although the five bills that became law affect fewer numbers of students, they are significant, said Laura Faer, education rights director for Public Counsel, a pro bono law firm based in Los Angeles that sponsored the legislation. “They will move California forward. They address critical pieces of the puzzle.”
Some of the stronger language in the original bills was opposed by organizations representing the administrators and school trustees who ultimately must implement school discipline policies – the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) and the California School Boards Association (CSBA). ACSA and CSBA representatives said they agreed that inflexible discipline policies should change, but feared that the bills would place too much of a burden on administrators and teachers in this era of budget cutbacks. They urged funding for more training in alternative disciplinary measures, rather than forcing top-down change through the education code.
The governor appeared to agree. In his veto messages for the two bills, he said that he preferred to leave the matter of student discipline to “local school boards and the citizens who elect them.”
The bills were introduced against the backdrop of a recent federal report showing that in nine out of California’s ten largest school districts, African American and Latino students are expelled at rates far exceeding their numbers.
Although in many ways ACSA and CSBA got what they wanted, the two organizations are working with advocates to move forward in putting together training sessions and encouraging alternative approaches.
“To me, one of the biggest benefits is that we got this conversation started, and that conversations are continuing and not just stopping,” said Erika Hoffman, a lobbyist for CSBA.
Sherman Garnett, director of youth services for the San Bernardino County Office of Education, said the new laws promoting a more positive approach toward student discipline will serve as “reminders” and “guidance” for principals and other administrators involved in correcting students.
“Principals get frustrated, tired – they want to send kids home,” said Garnett, who also served as a principal for 16 years. “These bills are a reminder that they need to be proactive and do what’s best for kids, not what’s best for adults.”
Although Faer considers getting five bills passed in one session “an extraordinary victory,” she said “at the same time we are very disappointed two of the bills were not signed into law.”
She was particularly disappointed the governor vetoed Senate Bill 1235, introduced by Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and two other senators. Originally, SB 1235 would have required districts that suspended more than 25 percent of their students – or a similar percentage of a numerically significant subgroup – to reduce that rate using alternative disciplinary approaches. The bill that passed instead encouraged such districts to implement evidence-based systems of positive behavioral interventions or other strategies designed to address the school climate. It also required the state superintendent of public instruction to invite those districts and their schools to attend regional forums to provide assistance and training in positive approaches to discipline.
The bill “does exactly what school administrators have been asking for – more training,” Faer said. California “could have taken on this issue and rolled out transformation in a very positive way.”
By the time Brown vetoed Assembly Bill (AB) 2242, introduced by Assemblymember Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento), it would have affected only about 2,500 students who are expelled each year for “willful defiance” or “disruptive behavior.” Originally, the bill would have prevented districts from not only expelling, but also giving out-of-school suspensions for these reasons. Altogether, about 300,000 students – more than 40 percent of all suspensions – are sent home from school for being defiant or disruptive each year, Faer said, with a disproportionate number of them being students of color, particularly African Americans. The term “willful defiance” is subject to misuse and misinterpretation, she said.
But Laura Preston, a lobbyist for ACSA, had opposed AB 2242, saying that although she agreed “willful defiance” has been overused, it is not a good idea to take away the ability of administrators to remove disruptive students before the principals and vice principals are trained in alternative approaches. These approaches can range from in-school suspensions so students don’t fall behind in classwork to restorative justice programs, which emphasize respect, empathy, and the importance of building relationships. Rather than focusing on punishment, the restorative justice approach asks how the person was harmed and what the offender can do to make it right.
The five bills that willl become law in January follow:
- SB 1088, introduced by Sen. Curren D. Price, Jr., D-Los Angeles, prohibits administrators from denying students admission to a school just because they have been involved in the juvenile justice system.
“Thousands of children have some sort of contact with the juvenile justice system,” Faer said. “If they are not allowed to return to school, that’s basically an off-the-record expulsion with no due process.” Faer pointed to a recent report to the Legislature by the California Department of Education. CDE found that of the 56,492 students served in juvenile detention by the state’s Neglected or Delinquent program, only 24 percent enrolled in their local district school within 30 calendar days after leaving the juvenile detention facility.
Disproportionality is an issue. African American and Latino youth comprised 81 percent of the total student enrollment in California’s juvenile court system during 2010-11.
- AB 1729, introduced by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), encourages districts to use alternative disciplinary methods and describes what some of those methods could be. Despite the lack of a mandate, Faer said that “for the first time in the education code there are actual alternatives listed that are evidence- and research-based.” The law also adds a section about documentation, authorizing administrators to document alternative methods used and place the documentation in the student’s record.
The requirement to document has always been in the law, said Garnett, referring to Education Code 48900.5. But, he said, AB 1729 makes the education code clearer and “reminds administrators that you have to document, document, document.”
- In California, there are only a few things a student can do, such as brandishing a knife or bringing a gun or explosive to school, that require an automatic expulsion. However, there is a second tier of offenses, ranging from possession of a knife or controlled substance to assault on a school employee, that currently give administrators discretion to expel a student. AB 2537, introduced by Assemblymember V. Manuel Perez (D-Coachella), clarifies the language and nudges administrators toward trying alternative measures. In addition, students no longer have to be expelled for possession of imitation firearms, such as a toy gun, or prescription or over-the-counter medicines, such as aspirin. Although administrators are expected to notify police if a student commits an unlawful act, AB 2537 changes the law so that they are no longer punished with an infraction and a fine if they do not do so.
Kelly Avants, spokesperson for Clovis Unified in Fresno County, said the new law will probably not change the outcome for students in her district, but it will likely modify procedures. For example, in the past, if a student brought a toy gun to school, administrators at the school would have to initiate an expulsion process. But, Avants said, at an expulsion hearing before the school board, the board would say if the gun was clearly a toy, the student should not be expelled. Now that AB 2537 has passed, administrators at the school could resolve the issue without requiring an expulsion hearing, she said.
- AB 2616, introduced by Assemblymember Wilmer Amina Carter (D-Rialto), allows administrators discretion in determining whether a student has a valid excuse for being tardy, such as his or her parent’s car broke down. The bill also says that the first time a truancy report is issued, the student and his or her guardian may be required to meet with a school counselor or other school personnel to discuss the root causes of the problem and develop a plan to improve attendance rather than reporting the student to police.
“Truancy and suspensions go hand in hand,” Faer said. “This law moves us closer to an approach that focuses on parent and school partnership rather than police as the first approach.”
- AB 1909, introduced by Assemblymember Ammiano, aims to focus more attention on and provide more safeguards for foster children. It requires the agency that places a child in foster care to notify the education liaison of the child’s school district at the time of placement. It also requires the agency to invite the pupil’s attorney to any disciplinary hearing that may involve expulsion if the expulsion is not required by law.
When something goes wrong at school, children rely on their parents to support them, Faer said. Foster children, who often change homes, need to depend instead on social workers and their attorneys, who often know them the best. These advocates also have access to counseling and other wraparound services to support the child and keep him or her in school.
Faer intends to continue to push for the changes sought in the two vetoed bills. In the meantime, she is working with ACSA and others on joint trainings and connecting districts that are implementing alternative approaches with those who need help.
Although many districts throughout the state have already implemented the ideas encouraged by the new laws, some teachers, administrators, and parents are concerned that suspending fewer disruptive students will interfere with the education of other students. Faer argues that more positive methods encourage early intervention before students get out of control and support a change in culture at a school that emphasizes respect, responsibility for your actions, and fairness – something that will benefit all students.
Schools with the most suspensions have far lower rates of academic achievement, Faer added. “These schools are chaotic. All the children are harmed.”
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"Special disinformation in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, period 15 April-15 May, carried out by the DIS, with the contributions of AISE, AISI and MAECI". The full document The persistence of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict shows a transversal diffusion of the narrative between the various platforms, but with different levels of involvement and ability to propagate the message due to the peculiarities of each media channel. The significant spread of the phenomenon on Telegram is confirmed, through which disinformation – at national level – is conveyed by groups and channels with an average adhesion detected among 50 thousand users (for the most visible and structured), up to a minimum of 10 thousand. These groups are characterized by the profiles of contiguity with the anti-system movements no-vax/no-greenpass, as well as with local associative forms that expose a clear pro-Russian and Eurasian ideological position, overlapping with narratives of sovereignist and nationalist matrix. Through the same instrument, the activities carried out by the media Russia Today and Sputnik, which are committed to circumventing the interdiction measures adopted against them at European level, also find continuity. A similar behavioral pattern is also recorded on the Facebook platform, where numerous groups – both public and private – collect on average the interest of 10 thousand users each, mainly conveying messages of pro-Russian propaganda and widespread sympathetic support for Russia and its political summit, often idolized and placed in positive opposition to the Italian Government. The content disseminated on Facebook also finds elements of continuity with the misinformation about the Covid-1 9 pandemic, as well as with the strand of conspiracy theories. Even the social media Twitter is confirmed as a sounding board for fake news and propaganda, with the dual purpose of increasing the propagation of the message – especially if originated from official channels – or to increase the background noise, thus hindering the search and verification of the source of the information itself. Among the most significant moments observed in the period under review stands out the interview given by the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs LAVROV to "ZonaBianca", which has long catalyzed the debate on the main social platforms / (and not only on these), in which several passages of the intervention have been taken up and instrumentalized in a disinformation key. Among the most recent trends, we note: • a reversal of the trend of Russian disinformation, which has suffered a sharp slowdown in its intensity and the adoption of a defensive posture. On the merits; the Kremlin in recent weeks has mainly implemented activities aimed at a counter-deduction of Western narratives and the expansion of internal and external consensus, through the engagement of high-level figures with social profiles characterized by a large following, together with the involvement of valuable personalities abroad; • a general slowdown also in Chinese influence activities.
PRO-KREMLIN NARRATIVES SPREAD VIA SOCIAL MEDIA Since the second half of April, the narratives spread on online channels by Russian propaganda have continued to concern the presence of Western biolaboratory in Ukraine, the use of chemical weapons by the latter as a pretext for false flag operations, the denazification of that nation, Russophobia, the brutality of the Kiev army as opposed to the alleged heroic deeds of Russian soldiers, as well as the instrumentalization of polls related to the war and the constant attacks on Zelensky's image. In this context, the following unpublished narratives were recorded: • criticism of the work of Prime Minister Mario DRAGHI, held responsible – with the line of action adopted by his Government – for the increase in food and energy prices, the closure of numerous companies, as well as for having hit the Italian people with unnecessary health measures and dragging the country into war. In this perspective, we highlight the contrast, emphasized in a divisive key by some social accounts, between Germany's choice not to give up Russian gas, thus protecting the German people, and that of Prime Minister DRAGHI, described as aligned with American decisions and disinterested in the fate of his people; • the conviction of an imminent entry into the war of the Atlantic Alliance, which would be deploying military equipment and personnel on the borders with Ukraine, thus suggesting a wider development of the conflict; • the preparation, on the Ukrainian side, of offensives involving the use of chemical substances, including those based on chlorine, for which to place the responsibility on the Russian military (so-called false flag operation); • the delegitimization of the information activity of the Western media about the ongoing conflict. In this sense, the Russian Embassy in Italy shared the statement of Dmitry POLYANSKIY, Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN, accusing the Western and Ukrainian media of engaging in an "information war" in favor of the Kiev Government, citing an alleged Western and Ukrainian "fake news factory", together with a series of events described as "Ukrainian provocations" in which the Western media would have had the consensual role of filming and disseminating events created in art; • the press statements of the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria ZAKHAROVA, who said that 'I want Italian citizens to know the truth. Because Italian politicians are deceiving their audience [...]. The initiative to conduct interviews did not come from the Russian Foreign Ministry, but from Italian journalists" defined by the same as "insistent" in requesting the interview; • the discontent and distrust of captive Ukrainian soldiers towards their army, accused by them, during alleged interviews with Russian propaganda media, of using civilians as human shields, or of planning mass executions in the Kharkiv region, for which the Russian army should be blamed; • the planning of the conflict by the United States, which would have sent Switchblade drones to the Kiev army, after having trained, months before the beginning of the conflict and on American territory, the Ukrainian operators responsible for their use; • Russian support for Marine Le Pen's election campaign for the presidential elections in France, while continuing to stigmatize the effects of sanctions, propagating, with a view to overturning, news on the heavy consequences they would have on the members of the European Union. • the frequent use of decontextualized audiovisual information and products and artifacts, often re-proposed in the original language, with the intention of polluting and overloading the internal debate, deconstructing the narrative of the national and Western media in general, hindering the process of verifying the information itself – aware of the difficulty in finding the evidence on the ground – leaving ample room for doubt and uncertainty, i.e. preparing public opinion to welcome the narrative favorable to Moscow; • the attempt to discredit the work of international organizations including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine, engaged in identifying potential violations of international humanitarian law by both armed forces engaged in the conflict. In particular, following the publication of a report produced by the OSCE from which no humanitarian violations attributable to the Ukrainian armed forces would emerge, the diffusion, both on the main counter-information blogs and on social networks in Italian, of content relating to: the use by Ukrainian armed formations of armoured vehicles forcibly removed from the OSCE Mission', an event hidden by that leadership; the admission, by an OSCE employee detained in the "Luhansk People's Republic", about the transmission of confidential information to Ukrainian and foreign intelligence services; the prolific production by foreign NGOs' of millions of fake information content about the Russian special operation in Ukraine; the alleged discovery, in the garage of the OSCE headquarters building in Mariupol, of several Italian-made mortar launch charges, then sold to one of the parties to the conflict; the seizure by the troops of the "Donetsk People's Republic" of the OSCE archive in Mariupol, which allegedly contained evidence of the 2014 Kiev crimes, covered up by the OSCE, which would not have reported it in its reports; • the viralization of the interview given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergei LAVROV, to the program "White Zone", broadcast on Rete4, during which that Minister declared that "the fact that Zelensky is Jewish does not mean anything, Hilter was too , the worst anti-Semites are the Jews- . This statement was then relaunched by various national journalistic sources (Il Fatto Quotidiano, Giornale, Corriere della Sera and by numerous sources of disinformation on the subject ("maurizioblondet.it" and the well-known anti-diplomat"); • the killing on Ukrainian territory of numerous war journalists; according to Alberto FAZOLO, economist enrolled in the register of journalists of Lazio as a publicist and intervened during the program "DiMartedì" (broadcast on La7), the number of reporters killed in Ukraine in the last eight years would amount to about eighty, thus introducing a consequential link between the high number of deaths of journalists and the presence on that territory of para-military formations of neo-Nazi matrix (such as the Azov Battalion)/;
MAIN NARRATIVES SPREAD VIA TELEGRAM The @Sptnkita channel, probably attributable to the Sputnik Italia newspaper and created after the blackout on European territory of the government media of that country, has recently distinguished itself for the assiduous sharing of content in Italian to support the pro-Russian narrative. However, that activity did not go unnoticed, incurring the closure of the same channel by Telegram itself. In its replacement, the backup channel "BAOSPTNK" (@Baosptk) was promptly opened. The Russian Cultural Center in Rome has intensified its activity on its Telegram channel, aimed at amplifying the official propaganda related to the conflict in Ukraine. Equally noteworthy is the pro-Russian demonstration promoted by the 'Ukrainian Anti-Fascist Committee (Red Star)', a non-profit organization active in solidarity works for Ukraine and the Donbass, held on April 25 in Piazza Venezia in Milan to "celebrate the liberation from Nazi-fascism" and ask for "peace in Donbass and Democracy in Ukraine". The Facebook group connected to this event is administered by Rolando DUBINI, one of the most active users in publishing content on pro-Russian Italian channels dedicated to the support of the "special military operation" in Ukraine, which includes users belonging to the no-vax galaxy. Particularly relevant is the creation of a group called "United Information Front", apparently used to coordinate the joint actions of the "Cyber Front Z" group, born with the aim of countering the anti-Russian propaganda of Western countries. the Italian declination of this group has taken the name of "Committee for the anti-Nazi Donbass", active in unmasking Ukrainian disinformation and countering the so-called "anti-Russian hysteria". Significant, moreover, the diffusion, on channels in Italian, of numerous documentaries in support of pro-Russia propaganda, including: – 'Donbass yesterday today and tomorrow', documentary on the disputed region, subtitled in English; or a 2018 documentary made by the Arab satellite television channel Al Mayadeens and focused on the main biolaboratory active worldwide, gold instrumentalized to corroborate the current disinformation narratives in this regard; -a documentary on the theme of Russophobia, broadcast on russia Today with an Italian translation, in which direct reference is made to MEP Francesca DONATO, described as the one who voted against the sending of weapons to Ukraine; -a documentary, shared by the Russian Embassy in Italy, which denounces the political situation in Ukraine following the 2014 "coup" (in the West qualified as the "Maidan revolution"), the alleged war crimes committed by Ukrainians in the Donbass, violations of international law for the treatment of Russian prisoners of war and Ukrainian fake news about the conflict. Unpublished narratives have been recorded relating to the introduction of huge Russian incentives for the opening of new commercial and industrial companies, operating for example in the metalworking sector, in contrast to what happens instead in Italy, where the ventilated energy cuts approved by the Draghi Government would determine, instead, a heavy penalization of the country's industrial system. The channel "Giubbe Rosse" (@rossobruni), known for its Eurasian ideological matrix, has strongly criticized the work of Senator Alfonso URSO (in truth Urso is called Adolfo, ed) and his party (Fratelli d'Italia), after the latter announced with a tweet the opening of an investigation of COPASIR and the hearings of the Agcom and Rai summits, following the statements of LAVROV's spokesperson, Maria ZAKHAROVA. Some of the contents produced by "Giubbe Rosse" were then relaunched by the channel referable to Giorgio BIANCHI, a well-known Italian freelancer present in Ukrainian territory with the purpose of pro-Russian political-propaganda activism. The channel of the Italian disinformation website "VisioneTV" has, instead, exploited the Pontiff's statement in relation to the alleged responsibility for the conflict on the part of the Atlantic Alliance, calling it a "brutal criticism of NATO by Pope Francis". This content was then also relaunched by the Russian digital newspaper "gazeta.ru", in turn taken up by the "Roberto Nuzzo" channel, previously emerged in relation to the No-Vax and No-GreenPass movements. Finally, the channel "RA — Russia Amica", particularly active in the dissemination of content within the main no-vax online communities, is carrying out a disinformation campaign within Italian and French communities. The contents, mainly related to conspiracy theories and anti-government, report both true news, commented on in a pro-Russia key, and tendentious, or otherwise unverified, presented as if they were true. In particular, this channel relaunches information extrapolated from Twitter accounts attributable to the Kremlin, mainly related to the discrediting of NATO, the presence of US biotechnology laboratories in Ukraine, the justification of the military operation in defense of the Russian-speaking populations oppressed by the Ukrainian "Nazis". MAIN NARRATIVES SPREAD VIA TWITTER "The Russian Embassy in Italy said in a post that it had suffered an act of vandalism at the gate of its headquarters, smeared with red paint; the author of the gesture would have been stopped by the soldiers of the Army present to guard the perimeter of the institutional headquarters. On the merits, it is worth underlining how the "red paint" used in demonstration gestures of this type, within the social debate, would metaphorically represent the "blood" shed in Ukraine. The account of that Embassy then gave wide visibility to the numerous interviews given by Russian institutional representatives on Italian television stations. Above all, it is worth mentioning those of the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria ZAKHAROVA, as well as that of Minister LAVROV to "ZonaBianca". Following the latter, the hashtogs #Rete4 and #ZonaBianca immediately acquired importance , in association with which there are both positions in favor and against what was claimed by that Minister. In parallel, the hashtag #Draghi, following the press conference on May 2, was included in over 38,000 tweets in multiple languages, including Italian, and in relation to which there are both posts in support of the positions expressed by the President of the Council of Ministers regarding the interview with LAVROV, and several posts where it is believed that the Premier himself does not protect the interests of Italy and has a dictatorial approach. Also part of this frame is the interview with the Russian Ambassador to Italy Sergey RAZOV released to the program "Staseraitalia", also on Rete4, in which the same diplomat recalled the commitment and proactivity of Moscow in identifying and "replacing" Italian companies in Russia (about 4001 with companies of other nationality, with the likely intention of exacerbating the sense of concern of public opinion in relation to the future of national companies and the economy. the presence on Twitter of various Russian institutional figures, such as those mentioned, was also perceived by users most similar to Moscow's positions, as an opening to dialogue demonstrated by the Federation with the main European counterparts, including Italy. With particular reference to our country, narratives have also emerged that tend to put in antithesis the figures of foreign minister DI MAIO and LAVROV, praising the high diplomatic qualities of the latter, allegedly not fully grasped by the Italian public. Equally relevant is the anti-Atlanticist narrative gravitating around the figure of the President of the Council of Ministers Mario DRAGHI, in relation to which we note an interview with Rosangela MATTEI, granddaughter of Enrico MATTEI, released on April 25 to "La Verità" and relaunched on social media by well-known anti-government and pro-Russian influencers. In this context, mattei's death is exploited and interpreted in an anti-government and anti-NATO key; Premier DRAGHI is described as "too friendly with the Americans", while NATO is accused of colluding with the aim of eliminating the Italian entrepreneur. The interview ends with claims that Algeria supplies gas to Italy only thanks to Mattei's work and that, after his death, Russia would be the only country to help the Algerian nation. A steady stream of stock images of DRAGHI wearing a jacket pin with the NATO emblem has also emerged, once again instrumentalized to justify an alleged personal aspiration of the Prime Minister to become Secretary General of the Alliance, for which he would put the security of his own nation at risk. MAIN NARRATIVES SPREAD VIA FACEBOOK Sergey MARKOV, political scientist, journalist and former adviser to the Russian President, shared on his profile the image of the alleged bunker under the Azovstal steel mill, actually extrapolated from the board game Blackout. the image, then shared by the TV broadcasts "Piazzapulita" and "Controcorrente", and the whole affair were exploited by pro-Russian social accounts and national disinformation for criticize the work of the Western media and, in particular, of the aforementioned broadcasts and their broadcasters. The narrative according to which the media attention developed after LAVROV's observation on Hitler's alleged Jewish origin actually represents a trick of the mainstream media to distract Italian public opinion from the actual contents of the interview is becoming increasingly important on pages attributable to the sovereigntist matrix. In this sense, numerous Facebook profiles interpret the media event as a striking example of press freedom — as opposed to alleged political censorship and national journalism considered biased and controlled — as well as an authoritative point of view on the reality of war and political events. The same profiles also accuse Premier DRAGHI of having participated in similar television programs in the past with the intention of spreading fake news. Among the trends detected more recently by the observation of the phenomenon, the following emerge: • There would be a slowdown in Russia's online activism in favor of a defensive position based on the counter-deduction, in a pro-Kremlin key, of news from Ukraine and the West, defined as foke news. For example, in view of the prominence given in Europe and the rest of the world to the news that Russia does not rule out a nuclear intervention, the Russian Federation reacted by spreading the news of the acquisition by Ukraine of drones equipped with chemical and bacteriological weapons; • the Kremlin is reportedly recruiting the main members of the intelligentsia to build consensus among the Russian population. This is done by hiring public figures characterized by a medium-high cultural level, such as professors and researchers, as well as online, where the well-known Cyber Front Z group would have started a recruitment campaign of Telegram channel managers or other partners / with a significant following; • It is interesting to note that the same technique has also been used by Ukraine, through the legion "freedom to Russia" – Ukrainian military unit, formed by political opponents, former prisoners of war and Russian deserters – which would be involving young Russians acculturated to spread Putin-anointed messages and to organize demonstration actions. In addition to this, Ukraine is reportedly launching a recruitment campaign within Russia to carry out small sabotage actions, for example in the railway network; • Russian interference and manipulation of information continue to decline into two technical-communicative directions: one oriented inwards, which leverages national pride to awaken the nationalist sentiment of the population. the other towards I external characterized by sophisticated, adoptive activities, also aiming at the use of valuable intellectual resources, in the form of Russian citizens residing abroad; • during the same period there was also a general slowdown in the activity of influenza of Sinic origin.
EXCERPT FROM THE CORRIERE DELLA SERA ARTICLE ON COPASIR, SECRET SERVICES AND PRO-PUTIN The network is complex and varied. It involves social networks, TV, newspapers and has as its main objective the conditioning of public opinion. It is active in key moments of the conflict, attacking politicians aligned with Kiev and supporting those who advance the pro-Russia theses. The pro-Putin network is now a well-established reality in Italy, which alarms the security apparatus because it tries to orient, or worse boycott, the government's choices. And it does so by relying on parliamentarians and managers, lobbyists and journalists. The investigation launched by Copasir has entered the crucial phase. The material collected by intelligence identifies the channels used for propaganda, reconstructs the contacts between groups and individual characters and above all the choice of the moments in which the network, using multiple social platforms together — from the best known ones such as Telegram, Twitter, Facebook, Tik Tok, Vk, Instagram, to niche ones such as Gab, Parler, Bitchute, ExitNews — initiates counter-information. In early May, when the Russian army appears to be in trouble on the ground, the privileged topic is the sending of Italian weapons to Ukraine. The campaign of instrumentalization via social media focuses on the image of the shipping slips of military devices, emphasizing the date of March 11: a week before the approval of the decree in Parliament that will take place on March 18. Leading the attacks is Maria Dubovikova, a Russian journalist who lives in Moscow and has over 40 thousand followers on Twitter with the account @politblogme. Pietro Benassi, Italy's diplomatic representative to the EU and Conte's former diplomatic adviser at Palazzo Chigi, is in the crosshairs. But the real target of the ambushes via social media is Draghi, whose majority has three leaders, Salvini, Berlusconi and Conte, who have not sided without ifs and buts with Ukraine, the country attacked by Putin. "Not in my name" is the motto relaunched on dozens of pro-Russian profiles of the extreme right, who often cross paths with Covid deniers and no vax, to challenge Palazzo Chigi for having sent weapons "without the consent of the Italian people". The recurring accusations against Draghi range from "sending us to war" putting the nation's security at risk "for the ambition to become secretary general of NATO", to "having caused the increase in the cost of food and energy and the closure of numerous companies". On May 3, when Draghi harshly criticizes at a press conference the interview given by Russian Foreign Minister Sergej Lavrov to Rete4, on Twitter – which according to the report often acts as a "sounding board for fake news" – the posts are unleashed. "It does not protect Italian interests and has a dictatorial approach", is the accusation against the premier, which bounces on social media in harmony with Lavrov's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, who accuses "Italian politicians of deceiving their audience". The bombardment of anti-government and pro-Putin messages increases at the politically decisive steps. So it was when the first vote was taken on the sending of weapons and so it will be on June 21, when the resolution on the war invoked by Conte's M5S will be voted. In this vein, Giorgio Bianchi is noted, defined by the periodic reports that the security apparatus sends to the government "a well-known Italian freelancer present in Ukrainian territory with the purpose of pro-Russian political-propaganda activism". Bianchi manages the Telegram channel Giubbe Rosse (@rossobruni), which has at least 100 thousand members and has repeatedly targeted the president of Copasir, Adolfo Urso. That of ukrainians branded as "neo-Nazis" is a trend much beaten by Putin's supporters and often relaunched by Alberto Fazolo. He is an economist and publicist who on TV and facebook claimed that "the journalists killed in Ukraine in the last 8 years are 80 and this high number is related to the presence of paramilitary formations of neo-Nazi matrix". In fact, the analysts point out, "the journalists killed since 2014 are about half, but Fazolo's post has recorded many shares both on pro-Russian Facebook profiles and on Telegram channels". Manlio Dinucci is 84 years old, he is a geographer and writer promoter of the committee "No War No Nato". An article of his claiming that "the Anglo-American attack on Russia and Ukraine was planned in 2019" has become a kind of manifesto "of Russian state media and utilities supporting the invasion of Ukraine." Passages from his book La guerra – È in gioco la nostra vita, published by ByoBlu Edizioni – publisher of a digital channel and TV repeatedly accused of "disinformation" – were cited by Putin in his speech on May 9 for the Celebrations of Victory Day. Dinucci's theses were taken up by Bianchi himself, Alessandro Orsini – the professor fired from Luiss University after the uproar aroused by his television appearances – and Maurizio Vezzosi: 32 years old, he is a freelance reporter who tells the conflict from Ukraine and invites readers and viewers "to inform themselves by not remaining to the news on the surface because many Ukrainians think that Zelensky is responsible for the situation, many consider him a 'traitor'". The network moves in public, but also confidentially. In early May, when anti-government grillino Vito Petrocelli refused to leave the presidency of the Foreign Affairs Committee despite Conte's explicit ultimatums, pro-Putin activists mobilized for an email bombing campaign against Senate email addresses. At the forefront are no vax and pro-Russia Telegram channels such as @robertonuzzocanale, @G4m3OV3R and @lantidiplomatico, a site that collects documentation to support Petrocelli's choice to remain nailed to the chair, against the indications of the party. On Antidiplomatico, which in the years when Grillo looked with sympathy at Putin was close to the positions of Manlio Di Stefano and Alessandro Di Battista, the freelance Laura Ru is also active. Her name is Laura Ruggeri who lives in Hong Kong and writes for the Strategic Culture Foundation, considered by analysts to be an "online magazine traced back to the Russian external intelligence service SVR" and which, together with Russia Today, is the author of a massive campaign against sanctions. The thesis of the spokeswoman Zakharova – "the EU is the real victim of the measures against Russia" – is periodically relaunched by the "well-known journalist and spreader of disinformation" Cesare Sacchetti, who on his Telegram channel has over 60 thousand subscribers: "The EU is forced to retrace its steps and pay for gas in rubles". On these issues move, under the radar, even characters close to those parties that break away from the line of Draghi. The iron Putinian Claudio Giordanengo, who in 2019 ran for the League in the municipality of Saluzzo, on social media attacks Draghi, Speranza, Biden. This is his message via chat of June 2: "NOTICE TO TERRORISTS – It informs that Ukraine is selling various stocks of weapons of all kinds. Visit the sites!! (Dark Net). Below cost original US Javelin anti-tank missiles at 30 thousand euros per piece. Great deal, the original price is 250 thousand dollars each. But what does they care? Western imbeciles give them to him." And since the network of Putinians in Italy goes beyond the boundaries of party and alignment, Giordanengo relaunches the attacks on Draghi by the founder of Italexit: "Gianluigi Paragone nails the prime minister on the war: "He moves like an associate of Biden". Italy submissive on the war"». To swell the army of italy's pro-Putins, there are movements acting through Russian-language sites. On VKontakte (VK) we find the Network of Patriots, which posts (in Italian) messages against Salvini, perhaps with the aim of "stealing" proselytes from the League. | <urn:uuid:9900f327-b410-4d19-982e-63c7286ddac7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.technosolution.org/report-of-the-secret-service-on-pro-russian-disinformation-in-italy-the-full-text/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955293 | 5,999 | 1.742188 | 2 |
This new, third edition of Bradt Travel Guide: Romania: Transylvania remains the only standalone English language guide to this legendary and enchanting region. Comprehensive chapter-per-county coverage is offered, including details to cater for the diverse range of travellers to the region, from city breaks to rural escapes, ski enthusiasts to charity volunteers. Thoroughly updated, this new edition reflects all the changes of the past few years, from improved transport infrastructure (in particular the regional airports at Cluj, Sibiu and Târgu Mures) to the completion of new motorway routes, such as that between Sibiu and Deva. Also covered are a number of striking new accommodation options: for example the sustainable guesthouse in Valea Zalanului owned by HRH The Prince of Wales, and the mountaintop retreat of Raven's Nest in the Apuseni Mountains. More attractions have opened up, such as Baroque palaces formerly owned by Hungarian aristocrats, seized under the Communist regime and now being restored by the descendants of their original owners. And the region is developing its offer for new types of tourism, such as summer rock festivals, notably the Untold Festival at Cluj and Electric Castle Festival at Bontida.
Transylvania, literally the 'land beyond the forest', is a wild, wooded, intensely romantic region, filled with mountains, gorges and valleys, myths and legends, dragons, bears, wolves – and vampires. Bram Stoker called it 'one of the wildest and least-known parts of Europe' a description which remains true today. One of the most beautiful regions in central Europe and home to three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Transylvania preserves its cultural and artistic treasures in a unique landscape, bordered on three sides by the Carpathian Mountains. The hay meadows of the lower Carpathians form a man-made, high nature-value grassland ecosystem of extraordinary diversity, offering a beautiful display of wild flowers. The Carpathians are home too to lynx, wild boar, and one of Europe's largest populations of brown bear. Other natural phenomena include the Scarisoara ice cave in the Apuseni Mountains and the Sfanta Ana volcanic crater lake in Harghita.
Whatever your interests, with Bradt Travel Guide: Romania: Transylvania, you can discover all of the region's many and varied attractions.
PART 1 GENERAL INFORMATION
Chapter 1 Background Information
At a glance, Geography, Climate, Natural history & conservation, History, Government & politics, Economy, People, Language, Religion, Education, Culture
Chapter 2 Practical Information
When to visit, Highlights, Suggested itineraries, Tour operators, Red tape, Embassies, Getting there and away, Health, Safety, Women travellers, Travelling with children, Disabled travellers, Gay and lesbian travellers, What to take, Money, Budgeting, Getting around, Accommodation, Eating & drinking, Public holidays & festivals, Shopping, Arts & entertainment, Castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins, Spas, Sports and activities, Media & communications, Maps, Business, Buying property, Public toilets, Cultural etiquette, Travelling positively
PART 2 THE GUIDE
Chapter 3 Brasov County
Brasov, Places to visit en route from Bucharest to Brasov, Brasov County
Chapter 4 Covasna County
Sfântu Gheorghe, Covasna County
Chapter 5 Harghita County
Miercurea-Ciuc, Heading south and west, Heading north
Chapter 6 Mures County
Târgu Mures, Heading east, Heading north, Sighisoara, Around Sighisoara
Chapter 7 Sibiu County
Sibiu, Heading south and west, Heading north, Heading east
Chapter 8 Hunedoara County
Deva, Hunedoara County
Chapter 9 Alba County
Alba Iulia, Heading south, The Apuseni Mountains, Heading north and east
Chapter 10 Cluj County
Cluj-Napoca, Heading west, Heading north, Heading southeast
Chapter 11 Bistrita-Nasaud County
Bistrita, Bistrita-Nasaud County
Chapter 12 Salaj County
Zalau, Salaj County
Appendix 1 Language
Appendix 2 Further Information
Born and educated in the UK, Lucy Mallows worked for 12 years in Budapest as a reporter. She first visited Transylvania in 1997, but her links with Romania go back to the late 1980s when she worked as a volunteer for Operation Romanian Villages, and to an early childhood fairytale The Lost Princess, written in 1924 by Queen Marie of Romania. Lucy Mallows is also the author of the Bradt guides to Bratislava and Slovakia. She now lives in Brighton from where she works as a freelance photojournalist and translator.
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"Mallows brought with her a defined sense of the historical and cultural context of all the places she wrote about."
– The Oldie
"If there is one word, which characterises this guide to Transylvania it has to be 'enthusiasm'"
– Lucy Mallows
"[...] passion for the place shines through the pages of her guide, generating interest and curiosity on the part of the reader."
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When a state's highest elevation is only 345 feet above sea level, you wouldn't expect it to boast a 73-foot waterfall. But Florida, the flattest state in the nation, has an incredible waterfall aptly named Falling Waters. Falling Waters State Park is a 171-acre park, known for sinkholes, early American history, an abundance of wildlife and the largest waterfall in Florida. Located about an hour from Panama City Beach and two-hours from Florida’s state capital, Tallahassee, the waterfall is an easy detour off I-10.
Said to be heard from 100 yards away, the waterfall is accessible via a wiregrass boardwalk that gives visitors an up close view of the falls. If you're nervous about being so close to the sinkholes, there is an elevated platform for viewing.
While the state park is beautiful and open year-around, plan your trip after a heavy rainstorm to get the most waterfall. And don't forget to bring your camera -- the spray from the falls creates the gorgeous rainbows.
Wait. Did you say sinkholes?
Yup! But don't worry, if you stay on the trail you should be just fine.
Jacob Strickland, Falling Waters park manager, says "Most people know sinkholes as road pavement or backyards caving in. At Falling Waters, you get to see what real sinkholes look like. The awesomeness of them can take your breath away.''
While the waterfall is beautiful, the history of the land of the state park is actually very interesting. The park has many sinkholes that were used as hideouts by the Seminole Indians during the Seminole War. Later, it was the site of a Civil War gristmill, powered by the waterfall. In the early 1900s, it was the site of the first oil well in Florida, although it never produced enough oil for production.
Other than the waterfall, visitors can enjoy hiking, swimming, camping and fishing in the vicinity. The two-acre lake is home to bass, catfish and bream, and with a valid Florida fishing license can be fished year-around. For families traveling with kids, bring a few water toys and paddle around in the lake. If you want to extend your trip overnight, the park offers 24 camping spots with renovated bathrooms and showers. | <urn:uuid:b99e4bf5-a0c3-46f0-80b5-11a5cf29c954> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iexplore.com/destinations/florida/waterfalls-in-florida | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955983 | 480 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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This section of the Long, Long Trail will be helpful for anyone wishing to find out about the fighting in the ill-fated campaign at Gallipoli.
British forces involved at Gallipoli
(Mediterranean Expeditionary Force)
29th Division (landed 25 April 1915)
Australian and New Zealand Corps (landed 25 April 1915)
Royal Naval Division (landed 25 April 1915)
42nd (East Lancashire) Division (landed May 1915)
52nd (Lowland) Division (landed June 1915)
13th (Western) Division (landed 6-16 July 1915)
10th (Irish) Division (landed 6-7 August 1915)
11th (Northern) Division (landed 6-7 August 1915)
53rd (Welsh) Division (landed 9 August 1915)
54th (East Anglian) Division (landed 10 August 1915)
Battles and engagements
Gallipoli is the most frequently used name for the peninsula to the west of the Dardenelles Straits, and the fighting that took place there between British and French troops of the Allies against Turkish troops between April 1915 and January 1916. Most famously, it was where the soldiers of the first ANZAC – the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps – went first into action during the Great War.
Once the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders settled into siege warfare that defied attempts by both sides to break through, some British politicians became entranced by the idea of attacking Germany ‘by the back door’. Despite pre-war Naval planning that suggested a passage of the Dardanelles Straits was impossible, the lure of an easier route to the defeat of Germany became irresistible. The pro-‘Westerners’ in the high Army command were overruled and eventually acquiesced.
The Gallipoli peninsula lies in Turkey, forming one land side of the Dardanelles Straits, an historic waterway that links the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. The peninsula is only 10 miles at the widest point and is about 45 miles long. Cape Helles lies at the southernmost tip. The terrain is inhospitable: it is a rocky, scrub-covered area with little water. The hills are steep-sided and are cut into deep gulleys and ravines. Among the hills which lie along the spine of the Peninsula, there are many peaks and valleys. The most important heights are the summits of Achi Baba (709 feet), which overlooks all of Cape Helles; and Sari Bair (971 feet) from which can be seen ANZAC beach and the Asian side of the Straits. At the southernmost (Aegean) tip are a number of small sandy beaches, and there are some small stretches of beach on the Western side too. There are no such beaches on eastern (Straits) side. To the North-West is a flat area surrounding a salt lake. There are no towns on the peninsula (although today holiday houses are being built around the coast). There are a number of small settlements, of which Krithia in the south and Bulair in the north are the most important.
Now quiet again, the landing beaches of Gallipoli. This view of part of Anzac is couresty of kale1915 at Panoramio, with thanks
The planning of the Gallipoli operations was makeshift to say the least, but it was based on land operations only being required in support of a naval breakthrough of the Dardanelles Straits.
The naval attempt to bombard the Turkish guns and forts failed, as did a half-hearted attempt to push through the Straits minefields. The Royal Navy now called on the army to capture the guns from the land side, and the door was thus opened to disaster.
- The Naval bombardment of the Straits Forts (9 February – 16 March)
- The Naval attempt to force the Straits (18 March)
- The Landings at Cape Helles and ANZAC Cove (25 April)
- The deployment of the RMLI to Gallipoli
- Vice-Admiral Sir John de Robeck’s Despatch about the landings
- The First Battle of Krithia (28 April)
- The Turkish night counter-attack (2 May)
- General Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch on the landings and the opening battles
- The Second Battle of Krithia (6 May)
- The Third Battle of Krithia (4 June)
- The Battle of Gully Ravine (28 June)
- General Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch on the fighting of May and June
- The Landings at Suvla Bay and the ANZAC attack on Chunuk Bair (6 – 9 August)
- The Battle of Scimitar Hill and attack on Hill 60 (21 August)
- General Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch on the fighting of July and August
- General Sir Ian Hamilton’s Final Despatch (corrections and addenda)
- Evacuation of ANZAC bridgehead and Suvla Bay (10 – 19 December)
- Evacuation of Cape Helles bridgehead (10 December 1915 – 9 January 1916)
- Vice-Admiral Sir John de Robeck’s Despatch about the evacuation
- Sir Charles Monro’s Evacuation Despatch
It is easy to forget, given the quite proper place that Gallipoli has in Australian and New Zealand legend, that Gallipoli was by no means purely an ANZAC affair; in fact, both the rest of the British, and the French army contingents on Gallipoli outnumbered the ANZACs in terms of men deployed and casualties lost. The British contingent included large numbers of Indian troops, too.
It has proven to be very difficult to determine the losses of both sides in this most appalling and costly theatre: perhaps the most realistic estimates are that the Turkish army suffered 300,000 casualties (including the many sick) and the Allies, 265,000. The consequent effect of diverting troops and supplies sorely needed on the Western Front, particularly for the assault at Loos, is impossible to quantify.
Conditions on Gallipoli defy description. The terrain and close fighting did not allow for the dead to be buried. Flies and other vermin flourished in the heat, which caused epidemic sickness. In October 1915, winter storms caused much damage and human hardship, and in December, a great blizzard – followed by cataclysmic thaw – caused casualties of 10% (15,000 men) throughout the British contingent, and no doubt something similar on the Turkish side. Of the 213,000 British casualties on Gallipoli, 145,000 were due to sickness; chief causes being dysentery, diarrhoea, and enteric fever.
Other useful information
Please note that the various despatches named below are in the process of being converted to the new Long, Long Trail style and will reappear shortly.
Australian Official History Volume I (Australian War Memorial, downloadable full copy)
Australian Official History Volume II (Australian War Memorial, downloadable full copy)
General conclusions of the Dardenelles Commission 1917 (National Archives)
Gallipoli diary Volume I (Sir Ian Hamilton, free download of full book)
Gallipoli diary Volume II (Sir Ian Hamilton, free download of full book)
The Dardanelles (with maps) (Sir Charles Callwell, free download of full book)
Gallipoli (John Masefield, free download of full book)
The New Zealanders at Gallipoli (Frederick Waite, free download of full book)
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with healthful, plant-based foods.
As coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted communities around the world, many people have wondered whether there are steps they can take to stay healthy. Everyday preventive measures—such as handwashing, avoiding contact with sick individuals, and good hygiene—can go a long way in reducing your risk for viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens.
But studies have also shown that healthful diet and lifestyle habits can help boost the body’s natural defenses:
Eating a low-fat, plant-based diet may help give the immune system a boost. The immune system relies on white blood cells that produce antibodies to combat bacteria, viruses, and other invaders. Vegetarians have been shown to have more effective white blood cells when compared to nonvegetarians, due to a high intake of vitamins and low intake of fat.1
Eating a low-fat diet may also be protective. Studies have shown that limiting dietary fat helps strengthen immune defenses. Research also shows that oil may impair white blood cell function and that high-fat diets may alter the gut microbiota that aid in immunity.2,3
Maintaining a healthy weight can also benefit the immune system. Obesity has been linked to increased risk for influenza and other infections such as pneumonia.4 Plant-based diets are effective for weight loss, because they are rich in fiber, which helps fill you up, without adding extra calories. Fiber can also lower BMI, which is linked to improved immunity.5 A plant-based diet has also been shown to reduce inflammatory biomarkers.6
Vitamins, Minerals, and Antioxidants
Studies have shown that fruits and vegetables provide nutrients—like beta-carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin E—that can boost immune function. Because many vegetables, fruits, and other plant-based foods are also rich in antioxidants, they help reduce oxidative stress.7
Beta-Carotene: Beta-carotene is a powerful antioxidant that can reduce inflammation and boost immune function by increasing disease-fighting cells in the body. Excellent sources include sweet potatoes, carrots, and green leafy vegetables.
Vitamins C and E: Vitamins C and E are antioxidants that help to destroy free radicals and support the body’s natural immune response. Sources of Vitamin C include red peppers, oranges, strawberries, broccoli, mangoes, lemons, and other fruits and vegetables. Vitamin E sources include nuts, seeds, spinach, and broccoli.
Zinc: Zinc is a mineral that can help boost white blood cells, which defend against invaders. Sources include nuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, beans, and lentils.
Our bodies need sleep to rest and recharge. Without a sufficient amount of sleep, we increase our risk for developing serious health problems—like heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and obesity. Inadequate sleep has also been linked to suppressed immune function. One study found that those who sleep fewer than five hours per night are more likely to have recently suffered a recent cold compared with those who sleep more.
Need help falling asleep? Try adding healthful fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans to your diet. One study found that diets rich in fiber and low in saturated fat can lead to deeper, more restorative sleep. Learn more about how a plant-based diet can lead to better sleep.
Reprinted with permission from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
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The material jet – which does not occur in Scandinavia – was used to make jewellery. Jet is a black, lustrous variant of bituminous coal or lignite. It can be compact enough to cut, file and turn and polished to a beautiful lustre.
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I've Been Doing It This Way For The Past __ Years - 12/13/2010
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Monday, December 13, 2010
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I've Been Doing It This Way for the Past __ Years
When it comes to changing how we handle safety, many of us put a lot of effort into
justifying why there is no reason to change how we are doing it.
One reason I've heard time and time again from experienced employees is "I've
been doing it this way for the past __ years and I'm still here." Sound familiar?
How do you respond when people say this? They do have a point, don't they?
Here's what I say . . .
For the past 11 years, I have helped businesses when they have received OSHA
citations, and more often than I prefer, I have dealt with fatalities. One Friday
afternoon, I received a call from a client's Superintendent. He told me that an
employee of their roofing subcontractor had been blown from a flat roof. The
man was only 20 years old.
The Superintendent went on to say that before lunch he had advised the
subcontractor's Foreman that winds were supposed to pick up in the afternoon. The
Foreman needed to make sure that materials like roof panels were secured properly
and that the people on the roof were properly tied off.
When he received the call on his cell notifying him about the incident, the
Superintendent was at lunch. He went back to the site and found that the young
man had been working near the edge of the roof without being tied off properly.
High winds had blown a piece of unsecured decking upward knocking him off the
At this point in my story I usually stop. I might hear something like this: "Young
people today don't understand how they need to protect themselves. Since I've
been doing it this way for the past __ years that would never happen."
That's when I move to another story about an employee that was 2 weeks away
from retirement when he fell off a roof to his death.
Don't let "I've been doing it this way for the past __ years" be an excuse for
not accepting new ideas to ensure on-the-job safety. This simple change in attitude
may be the difference between enjoying your retirement or not.
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Unidirectional Data Flow is the new hotness in UI architecture, but how do we apply this to mobile apps? The easy answer is “Use React Native”, but who would want to take the easy road? Instead, in this talk we’ll go through the key elements of the unidirectional data flow style and look at how to architect this for mobile using an example Swift iOS app.
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- Defining core application state and leveraging change events to update the view layer
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Attendees will gain a clear conceptual understanding of the Unidirectional style, and the practical benefits & drawbacks they’re likely to encounter using it in a mobile app.
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We have some good news to share. Even though it is not all that we might hope for, this news is a step forward for dogs made to live primarily outdoors.
There are now more tools animal protection agents can use to help ‘outdoor dogs’.
In November of 2020, the Solicitor General of Ontario, the Honourable Sylvia Jones, invited various stake-holders to participate on a “technical table” to improve animal welfare across the province. Animal Alliance of Canada was invited to be part of the committee and we accepted the invitation. We believe it’s important to advocate for animals whenever there is an opportunity.
Throughout 2021 the committee dealt with several issues chosen by the government. Most recently improvements to protect outdoor dogs was discussed. A broad range of representatives participated, including humane societies, advocacy groups such as Animal Alliance, veterinarians and commercial dog interests. The government wanted to hear from those impacted by the regulations as well as those assisting in their enforcement.
The Ministry of the Solicitor General has now released new regulations under the Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act 2019 (PAWS Act). These new regulations come into effect on July 1, 2022.
The new regulations provide animal protection agents with legislative tools to help ‘outdoor dogs’ – tools that did not previously exist. They also make it more difficult for businesses and individuals to maintain the poor conditions that many dogs endure. For example, guardians of dogs must now provide:
“Water at all times that is not frozen, does not contain dirt, feces, urine or toxic substances and is replaced at least once every 24 hours.”
During cold weather, a heated water dish will be necessary to keep water from freezing, so some form of electrical infrastructure will be required. This requirement alone means that commercial dog operations including puppy mill operations and those in the sledding business must invest in improved infrastructure to ensure dogs always have access to liquid water. For businesses that keep large numbers of dogs this will likely present a challenge if they intend to continue to tether the dogs.
It will be easy for an animal protection agent to determine if dogs who are outside have unfrozen, clean water available, regardless of the weather. There can be no room for interpretation on this: either the dogs have unfrozen, clean water “at all times” or they do not. In cases where dogs are not properly accommodated, it will now be possible to lay charges with significant fines attached. This requirement may convince owners unwilling to invest in improved housing and water provisioning systems to get out of these exploitative businesses.
Another new regulation could provide some relief for continually tethered/chained dogs if agents find a way to enforce it. It is now required that any chained dog must be removed completely from their chain for one hour out of every 24-hour period for exercise and enrichment:
“Dogs tethered outdoors for 23 hours in a 24-hour period, whether the 23 hours are consecutive or not, must be taken off the tether for at least 60 continuous minutes to allow for exercise and enrichment (with exceptions).”
What those ‘exceptions’ might be is not explained. And, of course, 23 hours out of 24 is still far too long to be tethered. (This is only one of a number of requirements based on the Five Domains Model for Animal Welfare that must be met for dogs kept primarily outdoors.)
Improved shelter requirements are also included in the new regulations and add to the expense and difficulty of keeping dogs outdoors, which will help to weed out neglectful ‘owners’:
“Size of the Shelter must allow all dogs using it to turn around, lie down with their legs extended and stand with their head at normal height.”
(These dimensions are larger than many of the dog houses that ‘outdoor dogs’ are routinely provided.)
“Housing Pen and Tether Area: Must provide enough space for natural behaviours and distinct areas for feeding and drinking and defecating and urinating.”
“Dogs must not be forced to stand, sit or lie in feces, urine, mud or water; area must be cleaned as needed to prevent the accumulation of waste; keep sanitary and minimize parasites.”
These requirements allow an agent to write enforceable orders for housing improvements. There is a reasonable chance of motivating some businesses or individuals to surrender the dog(s) if they don’t want to invest in improved housing and heated water dishes with electrical infrastructure during winter months.
The fines for violations of the new standards are significant, and give enforcement officers a meaningful tool to gain compliance:
“In the case of individuals, a fine of up to $75,000 and/or up to six months imprisonment for a first offence and a fine of up to $100,000 and/or up to one year imprisonment for a subsequent offence. In the case of corporations, a fine of up to $100,000 for a first offence and a fine of up to $250,000 for a subsequent offence.”
The July 1, 2022 date for the new regulations to come into effect will place pressure on those who make dogs live primarily outdoors.
Anything that requires guardians of animals to take meaningful steps towards improved welfare is a step forward. It’s now up to members of the public to report suspected abuse, and it is up to the agents who enforce the PAWS Act to use the new regulations to help dogs.
Every one of us now has a better chance of helping ‘outdoor dogs’ by reporting violations of the new standards by calling the Ontario Animal Protection Call Centre at 1-833-926-4625 (1-833-9ANIMAL)
We urge you to report suspected violations of the new standards. We must never be frivolous in our reporting, but we now have clear standards that we can observe and report when we believe the standards are not being met. We need to inform PAWS agents whenever there are dogs in need of help.
It’s clear that we still have work to do. Nevertheless, those of us who care about dogs made to live outdoors, especially those in the dog sledding industry, now have a better chance to help them.
Let’s all keep watch to ensure ‘Outdoor Dogs’ benefit from these new regulations.
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According to a group of concerned citizens and civil society organizations, the Joveles pig farm outside of Ilobasco, Cabañas is contaminating the Titihuapa River with urine, feces, blood and other waste. For nine years they have asked the Ministry of the Environment, municipal governments, the Police, and Attorney General to intervene, but the only thing officials have managed to do is to test the water and confirm that it is polluted.
The Titihuapa is a beautiful tributary of the Lempa River, cutting west to east through the middle of El Salvador, serving for a stretch as the border between Cabañas and San Vicente. In places, the river has carved out large canyons that are full of dense tropical undergrowth, caves, and petroglyphs from indigenous peoples that inhabited the region for thousands of years. According to Rhina Navarrete from ASIC (Friends of San Isidro), “the Titihuapa River is part of our identity and culture.”
Mario Guevara, a coordinator for the Movement of Victims Affected by Climate Change says, “many communities in rural areas depend on rivers [like the Titihuapa] for gathering water and to engage in activities such as fishing, as part of their economic subsistence. In addition, the rivers are ecosystems that permit abundant life and reproduction of a number of wildlife species.” He says, “it is inconceivable that businesses would dump their contaminated waste in the rivers with total impunity. Its not just the importance of the environment, but the life of the people.” Ms. Navarrete from ASIC also emphasizes that the Titihuapa is “the source of life for many families that fish and bring nourishment to their homes.”
Waste from the Joveles farm affects more than more than 25,000 people in rural communities on both sides of the river (in Cabañas and San Vicente), and there is little question that the Titihuapa is contaminated with pig and chicken waste. Studies by the government and civil society organizations have shown as much. As early as 2008, the Ministry of Health and Pan American Health Organization identified Los Joveles as a major risk to the region’s water and environment because their waste treatment system is insufficient. Only representatives from the Joveles pig farm claim that nothing is wrong.
Los Joveles is located in Canton Santa Lucia on the main road between Ilobasco and San Isidro, just up the hill from the Titihuapa River. It is a large facility with more than 60,000 pigs and poultry, and several lagoons (see the photos above) that are supposed to hold the farm’s waste. According to locals, these ponds frequently spill over sending its contents straight into the Titihuapa.
Residents of Santa Lucia and other communities near the Titihuapa report that it smells of waste and its color has turned a putrid yellow-orange. There is a school nearby that is overrun with flies when the wind blows the wrong way. People first noticed there was a problem with the river in 2007 after rain washed waste from the lagoons into the river.
Pig farms are known to have significant environmental and public health impacts on their host communities. A literature review by the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production concluded that “ammonia emissions from hog farms pose a serious public threat,” and that “air emissions from lagoons, sprayfields, and hog houses have been linked to neurological and respiratory problems.” The study also reports that communities have to be concerned about hydrogen sulfide emissions, and that “hog waste that is ending up in the river contains disease-causing pathogens and increases antibiotic resistance.”
ADES, ASIC, Mufras-32, CESTA, and other environmental groups have worked with residents Cabañas and San Vicente to report the issue to the Ministry of the Environment and other government agencies, but they have had little response. The Ministry of the Environment came and studied the river in 2015 and confirmed that the river is contaminated with waste, which is decreasing the amount of oxygen in the water and killing off fish and other species. After completing the study, the Ministry and other government agencies and officials held an assembly to discuss some of the findings and how they would follow up. One frustrated assembly participant responded that, “the officials make a lot of promises, but they do nothing at all.”
The communities and organizations challenging the Joveles pig farm are seasoned activists that stood up to Pacific Rim Mining Company and closed down the El Dorado mining project in San Isidro. Prior to that, these same activists stopped a group of powerful mayors from opening a garbage dump near the Titijuapa River. And just as Pacific Rim had its supporters in Cabañas, so does Joveles. The pig farm is popular with many in the region because it provides jobs, and some people are willing to sacrifice the river and their own well-being for the hope of more jobs.
But many others agree with Ms. Navarrete and Mr. Guevara, that the river provides life and should be protected. These activists did not back down when their fellow activists were killed taking on Pacific Rim, and it is unlikely they will back down now.
Civil society organizations cannot do it all, however. The Ministry of the Environment and other government agencies have to do their jobs, which means going beyond water tests, writing reports, and holding community assemblies. It means holding those who pollute El Salvador’s water supplies accountable.
Sadly, that seems unlikely anytime in the near future. The government’s shortcomings have been on full display in the past two weeks since the Magdalena Sugar Mill spilled 900,000 gallons of molasses into the Magdalena River in Santa Ana. There is no question that the Mill is responsible for the spill, and that the damage caused to the river and nearby communities is extensive, but all the Ministry of the Environment can do is order the mill to issue a public apology and design a cleanup plan.
The Titihuapa and Magdalena Rivers are just two examples of a big part of El Salvador’s water crisis – 90% of surface waters are polluted because government agencies like the Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, and others will not or cannot stop or punish polluters.That gets us back to Mr. Guevara’s point that pollution makes it difficult for rural families. This week, Léo Heller, the UN Special Rapporteur for Water reported data obtained from ANDA that at least 618,000 Salvadorans in rural communities do not have access to potable water. He recommended expanding the current state of emergency for San Salvador due to a great water shortage to rural areas as well.
While that would be a positive step, any real solution has to include government agencies doing their job in protecting the country’s natural resources, like the Titihuapa River. Until they do, Salvadorans will continue to live in crisis. | <urn:uuid:7f6a8d7e-fc0e-400b-b9a7-450d7000aa33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://voiceselsalvador.wordpress.com/tag/san-isidro/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96437 | 1,473 | 2.8125 | 3 |
I came across this map while reading up on Hurricane Dorian:
It is a map showing the tracks of every known hurricane in the North Atlantic (1851-2013) and in the Eastern North Pacific (1949-2013). Major hurricanes (category 3 or higher) are shown in yellow and tropical cyclones (intensity less than category 3) are shown in red.
The map is from the National Hurricane Center. Some of their other maps include the points of origin for tropical cyclones (here is August 21-31 from 1851-2015) and the total number of hurricane strikes by U.S. county (here is Florida from 1900-2010).
What has happened is a catastrophe. UBS is already estimating the insured damages in the Bahamas to be between $500 million and $1 billion. But as is usually the case, the total economic losses will likely exceed the insured losses. | <urn:uuid:33b4d05e-6d1f-410f-95ba-ac70e09044cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brandondonnelly.com/2019/09/03/every-major-hurricane-in-the-north-atlantic-and-eastern-north-pacific/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951378 | 182 | 2.59375 | 3 |
WASHINGTON – Chinese leadership recently moved toward overhauling its judiciary system, while reaffirming that the Communist Party will remain above the law.
China concluded the Fourth Plenum – a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party top leaders – at the end of October. The meeting, focused on “ruling the country according to law,” served as an opportunity for party officials to confer and propose a set of reforms to the Chinese legal system in the plenum document, known as the Decision.
“The document coming out of this plenum was very frank about the depth and breadth of problems China faces in its legal system,” said Robert Daly, director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center. “It had almost a confessional quality to it.”
Speaking at a panel hosted by the Wilson Center, Donald C. Clarke, a Chinese law expert at the George Washington University, said the Decision did show some signs that China wants to move towards positive reforms to its legal system. But the Decision introduced no fundamental reform of China’s legal system and “still puts party first, law second,” he added.
In spite of this, Clarke said it would be mistaken to label the set of reforms outlined in the Decision as “meaningless” because it is not “advancing China towards some ideal of the rule of law that we have.”
In particular, Clarke praised China’s efforts to establish a career civil service model for the judiciary.
“There is not now a good system for identifying promising low-level judges and promoting them to different courts at higher levels,” he said, noting that junior-level judges can only make the jump to senior positions by starting at the same high-level court and working their way up.
Currently, judges and courts officials are generally selected more for their loyalty to the Communist Party than for their competence.
Clarke, however, said some of the reforms seem to conflict with each other.
The Chinese government said it will try to recruit lawmakers, judges, and prosecutors who are qualified as lawyers and law experts. This is similar to the U.S. system in which some lawyers are appointed to federal judiciary positions.
Clarke said the problem with this proposal “is that it contradicts the other idea of having the career civil service model” since many of these experienced lawyers will not have to start at a low-level court.
The Chinese government has demonstrated some commitment following through with its reform agenda. One area where the government has shown particular resolve is fighting corruption.
When Xi Jinping became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2012, he soon began a drive against corruption by officials and promised to snare both “tigers and flies” in his campaign.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection – the party’s watchdog – handled 172,000 corruption cases and investigated 182,000 officials in 2013.
By October 2014, the Xi leadership had purged 55 ministerial and provincial level leaders on corruption charges, including seven members of the Communist Party’s Central Committee – a body that comprises the party’s top leaders.
Andrew Wedeman, a professor of political science at Georgia State University, said corruption in China has worsened over the last decade.
As examples, Wedeman cited a series of recent corruption scandals that highlight how endemic the issue is in China.
In May, investigators detained a deputy director of the National Energy Administration. It took 16 machines to count the more than 200 million yuan he had stashed in his home, according to Xinhua.
When investigators searched in March the Beijing home of Xu Caihou, one of China’s highest-ranking army generals, they found so much cash and precious gems they needed a week to count it all and 15 trucks to haul it away.
“If you look at these scandals the easy conclusion is that this is about politics,” Wedeman said.
By going after the big tigers Xi Jinping is trying to consolidate his own power, Wedeman said. “[Xi] is showing that he is willing to take on anybody, regardless how high up they might be.”
But Xi is legitimately trying to stamp out corruption in China even though some of his objectives have been political, Wedeman said.
“This campaign is two years old. For two years, I keep expecting it to begin to wind down,” he said. “Some have suggested that this campaign is now the new normal and will keep going on.”
Wedeman said if the Chinese government were to continue on this path, it might have the positive effect of mounting pressure on officials and forcing them to be more careful.
Wedeman, however, does not expect corruption in China to disappear overnight, noting that the U.S. has had its own problems dealing with graft.
“The political machine in the U.S. was the norm before we became serious about fighting corruption around 1870. Guess what? We’re still fighting it,” he said, citing the recent case in which former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife were found guilty of corruption. | <urn:uuid:78730e5e-3772-457c-b674-2e5fe4c53447> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pjmedia.com/blog/rodrigo-serme-o/2014/12/07/chinas-fourth-plenum-puts-party-first-law-second-law-expert-says-n6762 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.978037 | 1,067 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Packaged foods come in elaborately designed boxes , which have been scrutinized and tweaked by well-funded marketing and advertising departments for decades so that they stand out and say “buy-me”, in the canyon like supermarket aisles where they’re found. Not only do these designs move shoppers to buy them, their bright and attractive colors, and bold patterns make interesting art pieces when framed in black. The contrast with black makes those colors and patterns come alive even more.
I recently gathered some packaged food boxes (and a couple of other boxes) that were destined for recycle, framed each in black paint and then stacked them – a Tower of Packaged Food Boxes. I normally work with silver, orange, black and white, but like the colors already found in these boxes.
I recently read an article in Good Magazine titled “Zero-Packaging Grocery Store to Open in Austin, Texas“. The new grocery store is In.gredients and shoppers fill their own containers with food rather than purchasing them pre-packaged. Great sustainability concept but not great for my recycled art. If this concept takes of, I’ll need to find different materials. | <urn:uuid:4f5f68d9-b7c5-4e6f-bc8c-346f8738cf28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://johnnorwood.com/tag/packaged-food/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949709 | 244 | 1.695313 | 2 |
With the world rapidly going cashless and contactless, especially the global COVID-19 outbreak, account-based ticketing (ABT) has become the golden standard of the public transportation industry and a much-desired solution for the vast majority of municipalities around the globe. No wonder why this topic gets increasing attention at a large number of conferences and exhibitions.
So What is Account-Based Ticketing?
ABT, to put it simply, means ticketing without any ticket. It shifts all data and ticket information away from any physical media (e.g., traditional smart cards) to the cloud (back-office) and links it to personal accounts. Thanks to ABT, all tariff calculations, and payment processing can be performed online, ensuring that the system is constantly up-to-date and synchronized with backoffice.
What are ABT’s Main Advantages?
Multiple Media Acceptance
Most transit authorities around the globe work hard to promote the use of public transport and try to improve the passenger travel experience. Today, having as many payment options as it is technologically possible is not a whim but a necessity. ABT enables passengers to use their contactless credit and debit cards, NFC-enabled smartphones as well as QR codes for payments. That all makes public transport inclusive and more attractive for all passengers.
Advanced Fare Structure
One of the most welcomed and distinctive features of ABT is the flexible fare structure. To get an overall idea, take a look at these different fare calculation types:
- Standard Fare – when routes have their predetermined standard tariff that does not change in accordance with time, distance, or zone.
- Transfer Fare – when passengers pay for their first trip as they would normally do but then get either a discount or do not pay anything at all for the next trip during a certain period of time.
- Concessionary Fare – when the municipality grants different types of passengers (e.g., students, the elderly, the disabled) the opportunity to use public transport with a discount (full or partial).
- Check-in / Check-Out Fare – when passengers pay the predetermined full price when they enter a vehicle and get back a portion of what they spent (based on the travel distance) when they tap their cards again at the exit.
- Off-Peak Time Fare – when the municipality decides to restrict the use of specific card types during peak hours.
- Temporary Tickets – when the municipality decides to introduce special rates for holidays, weekends, or any other occasion.
- Fare Capping – when passengers get rewarded with free rides after they reach the fare equivalent of a daily, weekly, or monthly pass.
Want to learn more about kentkart’s latest-generation intelligent transportation solutions related to ABT? Visit our automated fare collection page and contact our team if you want to schedule an online meeting with us. | <urn:uuid:676b6037-540a-4a80-bfb6-2d1505b3e2b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kentkart.com/account-based-ticketing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929868 | 593 | 2.109375 | 2 |
When viewing the Earth from space, many astronauts experience overwhelming feelings of awe, transcendence, and connectedness with humanity and the planet, commonly referred to as the Overview Effect. Space for Humanity Executive Director, RachelLyons, discusses how this view could be the post important perspective of the time, and is becoming accessible to more than just professional astronauts and the ultra-wealthy.
RachelLyons is a key advocate of the space movement. She is Executive Director of Space for Humanity, a non-profit organization which aims to use the spaceflight experience as a way to expand the perspective on Earth. Under her leadership, Space For Humanity has received public support from some of the space industry's most prominent and influential leaders including Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, NASA astronauts and other industry leaders.
Ultimately, Lyons believes that if we, as individuals, take on a grander perspective, we can contribute to greater societal change. She works to expand her perspective every day through leadership training, spending time in nature, learning about space, movement and dance. It is her wish that people from all over the world understand we are part of something much greater and in turn use that perspective to treat each other and the planet with deeper respect. spaceforhumanity.org/ This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx | <urn:uuid:e3f9a2da-a0e6-43cf-8ce0-e64501201022> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://people.best/to-space-for-earth-for-all-rachel-lyons-tedxstgeorge.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950818 | 285 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The Temperate Database is in the process of being updated, with new records being added and old ones being checked and brought up to date where necessary. This record has not yet been checked and updated.
Common Name: Three-Leaf Corydalis
Corydalis ternata is a perennial plant that can grow up to 0.15 metres tall.
It is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine..
Although no specific mention has been seen for this species, there is a report that Corydalis species are potentially toxic in moderate doses[
E. Asia - China, Korea.
Fields and low mountain slopes[
We have very little information on this species and do not know if it will be hardy in Britain. The following notes are based on the general needs of the genus.
Prefers a moist, well-drained rather light soil, thriving in semi-shade[
]. Grows well in a woodland garden or peat bed.
Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits[
The tuber is anodyne and also stimulates energy and blood circulation[
]. A decoction is used in the treatment of stomach ache and abdominal pain, hernia-caused pain, poor circulation of blood and energy, body aches, headache, dysmenorrhoea, post-partum pain due to clots and traumatic injury pain[
Seed - best sown as soon as it is ripe, the seed rapidly loses viability if it is allowed to become dry[
]. Surface sow and keep moist, it usually germinates in 1 - 3 months at 15°c[
]. Germinates in spring according to another report[
]. Two months warm, then a cold stratification improves the germination of stored seed[
]. Sow the seed thinly so that the seedlings can be allowed to grow undisturbed in the pot for their first year. Apply liquid feed at intervals during their growing season to ensure they are well fed. The seedlings only produce one leaf in their first year of growth[
] and are very prone to damping off[
]. Divide the seedlings into individual pots once they have become dormant and grow them on in a partially shaded area of a greenhouse for at least another year. Plant them out into their permanent positions when they are dormant.
Division after flowering. | <urn:uuid:6381b6f0-7f04-464c-babe-aa2128119a80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://temperate.theferns.info/plant/Corydalis+ternata | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.925539 | 603 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The method involves the injection of a tiny dose of sterile water under the skin where the pain is. This is a relatively unusual way of alleviating pain in child birth. Women who wish to avoid pain-relieving drugs often choose acupuncture. For the first time, the effects of these two methods have been studied scientifically.
The study covered 128 birthing women at the delivery ward at the Kärn Hospital in Skövde, Sweden. At the start of labor the women were asked to indicate how much pain they were experiencing on a scale between no pain at all and the worst imaginable pain. In the same way, the women were asked to say how tense they were. Half of the women had their pain alleviated with acupuncture, while the other half received injections of sterile water. The women were then asked several times during labor how much pain they were experiencing and how tense they were.
“Injections of sterile water proved to be significantly better when it comes to alleviating pain, but the method was also better in terms of the women’s degree of relaxation,” says Lena Mårtensson, a midwife.
It has not been scientifically elucidated just how sterile water relieves pain, but one theory is that the injection triggers the body’s own pain-inhibiting system. The researchers believe that the most sensitive nerve cells are stimulated and send a more rapid signal to the brain. This results in other pain impulses not reaching the brain.
Injections of sterile water were more common in the early 1990s, but many women experienced pain from the injection itself.
“Now we have devised a way to administer the injections that doesn’t hurt as much. When we jab a bit deeper and administer a somewhat larger dose, we can achieve the same positive effect without the shot hurting,” says Lena Mårtensson.
Today acupuncture has taken over as the most popular alternative method for relieving labor pain. A questionnaire among Swedish midwives indicates in the dissertation that 25% of women giving birth are now treated with acupuncture, whereas only 2% are given shots of sterile water.
“Like many other midwives, I have been able to see that injections of sterile water are extremely effective for labor pains. Now that we have refined the injection technique, I hope more women will dare to request the method again,” says Lena Mårtensson.
The dissertation is for the degree of doctor of medicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy, Department of Clinical Sciences, Section for Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Title of dissertation: Sterile Water Injections and Acupuncture as Treatment for Labour Pain
The dissertation will be publicly defended on Friday, September 29, at 1:00 p.m., in the auditorium of the Women’s Clinic, SU/East, Göteborg | <urn:uuid:970c58de-4ae0-4f28-b2da-902e2e56bbc2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.expertsvar.se/en/pressmeddelanden/injections-of-sterile-water-better-than-acupuncture-in-child-delivery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968265 | 590 | 2.828125 | 3 |
We inquire into the importance of local neighbourhood communities as a source of collective action. We analyse the importance of meeting places, local networks, identification with the neighbourhood and the presence of a local community, as possible preconditions for collective action. Local collective action was quite frequent in the past (Tilly 1997). In this contribution, we inquire into the question to which degree collective action still can be found in Dutch neighbourhoods, and what conditions on the level of neighbourhoods as well as individuals explain differences in these actions.
Please address all correspondence to Beate Völker: mailto:email@example.com
Juno Blaauw – University of Amsterdam
Robert J. Mokken & Jean Tillie & Meindert Fennema – University of Amsterdam
This paper studies the conceptualization of the idea of an ethnic good civic community within the context of Fennema and Tillie’s (1999; 2000) ethnic civic community perspective. This perspective enables us to formulate normative concepts fitting that idea. We introduce then two clearly operationalised concepts of good civic community — well-connectedness and an egalitarian degree distribution — which together define what makes a good civic community in terms of the required network between organisations. A new evaluative network
criterion is presented, followed with the result of an application in a study of the Turkish civic community in Amsterdam between 1994 and 2000.
Please address all correspondence to Juno Blaauw: firstname.lastname@example.org
Ethnic boundaries in students’ networks in Flanders and the Netherlands
Chris Baerveldt – Utrecht University
Bonne Zijlstra – University of Amsterdam
Muriel De Wolf – Ghent University
Ronan Van Rossem – Ghent University
Marijtje Van Duijn – University of Groningen
Ethnic boundaries were tested in students’ networks in 34 Flamish and 19 Dutch high schools. Each network consisted of a school cohort in an intermediate level of education (track). While students from the native majority predominantly had friendships within their own ethnic category, minority students often had more inter-ethnic than intra-ethnic friendships. However, a multilevel p2 model for analyzing the networks showed that this was caused mainly by the quantitative dominance of native students in the networks. Native students were much less inclined to choose for inter-ethnic friendships than minority students. We found ethnic boundaries to be stronger in the Dutch networks than in the Belgian networks. Although this may be partly due to methodological reasons, it is still surprising that the boundaries in the Belgian networks were not stronger. The Dutch data stem from the pre-9/11 days when the Netherlands were still known for its tolerant climate; while the Belgian data stem from 2005 when one out of every five Flamish voted for an ethnocentric party.
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Peter Groenewegen – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The study of scientific communication has elucidated structural aspects of specialist communities. Outside science studies, in knowledge management for example, the concept community has been used to delineate groups of actors that share views and action frames. Social network approaches have been used to analyze the interaction within communities. Research results from two PhD projects using social network analysis will be presented.
The first project studied open source software development and marketing. Through snowballing and interviewing a list of central actors was drawn. The network of heterogeneous actors was derived from a network survey. This study suggests that collective action is important for legitimacy.
The second project was based on mining the web presence of semantic web researchers; in this project both cognitive and social network elements were used to derive networks. Social network analysis suggests lessons from both studies about the communication functions in communities. Bringing these approaches together it can be asked how social network analysis can be developed as a key aspect of to understand expert communities.
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About three weeks ago we checked the hutch of our female rabbit and found some new arrivals there. Eight little rabbits had arrived. And this time they thrived. The female rabbit had already given birth earlier to some young some weeks earlier, but that being her first litter the little rabbits had not survived. This time round the motherly instinct has worked better and the little rabbits have grown. Our children assured us that they had not put the male and female rabbits together again, but at some point they must have been in contact. The little rabbits normally huddle in colour-coded groups: dark grey on one side, white-grey on the other. The children, of course, are excited that this happened and eager for the little rabbits to grow a little bit, so that they can play with them. The rabbits already are starting to run around a bit and to explore the world.
Those rabbits are really very cute and I can still remember all the fun we’ve had with little rabbits during my childhood. Of course at the same time we do have a rabbit crisis in parts of Otago, where rabbits destroy significant parts of the land. But just because some rabbits are doing damage in one area doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy them at home.
I have just read some “speculation” by C. S. Lewis about the role of animals. He wrote that some may regard “the taming of an animal by a man as a purely arbitrary interference of one species with another. The ‘real’ or ‘natural’ animal to them is the wild one, and the tame animal is an artificial or unnatural thing. But a Christian must not think so. Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise, or a sacrilegious abuse, of an authority by divine right. The tame animal is therefore, in the deepest sense, the only ‘natural’ animal—the only one we see occupying the place it was made to occupy, and it is on the tame animal that we must base all our doctrine of beasts” That is an important consideration. On the other hand we read in the Bible that God rejoices in wild animals, in those that are beyond the control of humans. I think that we have to care for both. That also means, for example, that if we do have domestic animals we need to ensure that they do not destroy the wild. As the son of lizard conservationist I do know how destructive cats can be for lizards. It is also in our interaction with animals that we can show our gratefulness and our sense of responsibility. | <urn:uuid:e36f63b1-5b6c-49d0-a371-101b31c29e6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://stpaulspapanui.org.nz/rabbits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.976645 | 558 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Archive for October 17th, 2020
Clergy shortage grows to more than 14k Catholics for every priest, Vatican data shows / Religion News Service
The reasons for the steady hemorrhage of Catholic clergy worldwide are varied, from secularization to the church’s ongoing sexual and financial scandals. And the COVID-19 pandemic has brought its own challenges. (Religion News Service)
“Catholic missions are struggling amid dwindling vocations and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released by the Vatican ahead of the World Mission Day this Sunday (Oct. 18).
“The number of priests and ordained leaders has dropped significantly, especially in Europe and America, according to the report issued on Friday (Oct. 16) by the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, charged with distributing clergy and coordinating missions around the world.
“The total number of priests in the world decreased to 414,065 in 2018, with Europe registering a drop of 2,675 priests compared to 2017. The report also reveals a slight decrease in the number of Catholic faithful in America, Europe and Oceania. Meanwhile, Africa and Asia continue to show signs of growth, according to the data.
“‘We mustn’t be afraid! Mission goes on thanks to the power of the Holy Spirit,’ said Archbishop Protase Rugambwa, the secretary of the evangelizing congregation, during a press conference at the Vatican on Friday.
“However, the diminishing number of clergy coincides with an increase in the global population, putting pressure on priests who must minister to larger numbers of people. As of December 2018, the report shows, there are 1,328,993,000 Catholics in the world.”
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Understood both in a wider and more narrow sense, burghers were always a strongly diversified social group, differing in terms of ethnicity, financial standing, professional situation, religious and national affiliation, as well as tradition and culture. High and low culture met and intersected in towns, while the mobility and entrepreneurship spirit of their inhabitants created a favourable environment for artists and thinkers. At times, the burghers would generate a culture of their own, along with their own customs and the systems of values and ethic norms considered an important feature distinguishing them from other social strata. In other cases, the burghers would be satisfied by merely adopting the cultural patterns of other groups, preferably the nobility and aristocracy. The Burgher Culture Trail connects the historical monuments of urban architecture and showcases the history of towns and their culture in the District of Jarosław. | <urn:uuid:150398fe-c804-457b-97cb-f7eae8535770> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jaroslawski.pl/en/the-burgher-culture-trail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964886 | 170 | 3.375 | 3 |
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There are two ways to travel from Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An: by plane and by train.
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The travel distance from Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An is 937 km. There are two options to travel from Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An: taking a flight or a train.
How long does it take to get from Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An?
It takes 1 hour 20 minutes to get from Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An by plane, 17-18 hours by train. The flight and the train take you to Da Nang Airport and Da Nang Railway Station located in the city center. From the airport or the railway station you will need to take a bus or a taxi to reach Hoi An, which takes another one hour.
What types of airlines operate the route from Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An?
There are three domestic airlines operating route Ho Chi Minh to Da Nang: Vietnam Airlines (VN), VietJet Air (VJ) and Bamboo Airways.
How much does it cost to get from Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An by plane?
The price of the flight ticket from Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An varies depending on the airline and how long you book in advance. It starts from 600,000 VND.
Full-service carriers are more expensive but usually depart on time. Meanwhile, low-cost carriers are cheaper but often suffer delay.
For more information about travelling by plane, please read our Flight Guide in Vietnam.
What types of trains operate the route from Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An?
There is one type of train service running the route Ho Chi Minh to Da Nang that is managed by Vietnam Railways.
Vietnam Railways: the state-owned railway company operates its own set of passenger coaches on the trains SE1/2, SE3/4, SE5/6 and SE7/8. Passenger cars are divided in four classes: Hard seat, Soft seat, Soft bed in compartments for 1-4 passengers and Hard bed in compartments for 1-6 passengers.
For more information about travelling by train, please read our Train Guide in Vietnam.
How much does it cost to get from Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An by train?
The train ticket with Vietnam Railways costs from 378,000 VND for Hard seat, 439,000 VND Soft seat, 626,000 VND for Sleeper 6-berth and 681,000 for Sleeper 4-berth.
Where does the train from Ho Chi Minh to Hoi An depart?
Trains on the North-South railway line depart from Saigon Railway Station, located at 09 Nguyen Thong, Ward 9, District 3, Ho Chi Minh.
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Hola, amigos! Today, we visited two coffee plantations, and they were amazing. I must be honest; I did not expect it to be that interesting, but I learned so much information in such a fun way. The first plantation was called “Doka,” and they are a family-owned business that’s been around for over 50 years. They grow, roast, and sell their own coffee. In this post, however, I want to focus primarily on the second plantation we visited: Café Britt.
Café Britt is a corporation with a few owners that is currently run by the founder’s son (CEO). Café Britt’s business model differs from Doka’s model in many ways, which begins with them only roasting and selling their coffee. They play a few different roles in the supply chain, depending on the time frame we are focusing on. For instance, in the beginning, they need to purchase raw materials such as green coffee beans and banana seeds. In this case, they are a buyer; however, their primary roles in the overall supply chain are making and selling.
Making the finished product costs a lot of money and is obviously a huge expenditure for the company. Therefore, they must make a lot of management decisions when it comes to this process. They need to figure out where they can create the best coffee and how they can make it taste better than their various competitors’ coffee. They measure success in this area by conducting intense taste tests, which involve trained professionals (Taste test training takes 5 years and involves much traveling!) making sure the taste is persistent and the aroma is recognizable and sweet. They also need to make sure they are being efficient and buying cheap raw materials but not sacrificing quality. Many of Britt’s financial decisions are left to the CEO and Board of Directors. Britt puts a lot of thought into which suppliers they will deal with, and they stressed the importance of a strong mutually beneficial relationship. Now, one important term for a company such as Britt is process enhancement. At the end of the day, selling roasted coffee is how they make money. They need to make their supply chain as efficient as possible by planning and mastering logistics. In my opinion, they have the most expertise in this area of the two plantations we visited, and it showed in their presentation.
Selling the product is where Britt thrives, and I could see why today. They are excellent marketers. From the second we walked onto the plantation to the second we boarded the bus, their associates were very engaging, and their tour guides and other workers were all very personable. Marketing is essential in earning the trust of consumers and influencing their decisions. Management decided to stop using television marketing and switched to social media to save money. According to their manager, they target tourism the most, and I could see it in their style of presentation (related much to American traditions/vernacular).
Besides marketing, one reason that Britt is so successful in selling is because they conduct a lot of market research. This allows them to understand the industry better and come up with new ways to differentiate their product. Management has funded research that has led to the creation of many blends of coffee. This is a good idea because it allows them to capture multiple market segments and increase their market share. It also increases customer loyalty, since people seldom become bored when flavors are constantly being created. Also, because of this research, the company has been able to diversify their business model in a variety of ways, including an expansion to many international areas and a decision to take advantage of franchising opportunities with airports and restaurants.
This business is well-thought-out and ran excellently. As a business model, it is perfect because it raises profit in many ways: Selling coffee, conducting site tours, franchising, etc. They also leverage their ecommerce website well by encouraging tourists to purchase coffee from them online when they make it back to their home countries. This easy-to-use website creates an ease of possession for the consumer, which is always a sales driver!
Despite being so successful with tourists and other international consumers, Britt does not have much success selling to local Ticos. I am not sure exactly why, but perhaps, most Ticos don’t drink Café Britt because they don’t feel that they are the ones being addressed in Café Britt marketing. The owner said that their focus is not international but local sales of coffee, yet I find this hard to believe. Ticos actually drink Doka coffee, and I know this because I showed my hostess, Abuelita, the coffee that I bought from Doka, and she recognized the bags and brand immediately; she exclaimed, “¡Ayyyy! Este es coffee muy rico [delicious]!” I asked her if she knew of the plantations, and she seemed to be a little bit more familiar with Doka. Perhaps, it is because the company has been around longer, but I believe it is because they have more Tico consumers.
I will admit that once I saw Britt’s presentation, I could tell that they were more profitable, and their presenter knew more about the business and industry; however, in terms of a good genuine image, I think that Doka has them beat, and maybe, Ticos respect this. Either way, I was lucky enough to taste some great free coffee and learn a lot about the processes. Until next time… | <urn:uuid:ce5519c7-7b7b-4182-b3d5-ae01deee1ac9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pittplus3.blog/2017/05/09/cafe-britt-day-cuatro/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.982676 | 1,137 | 1.773438 | 2 |
THE WORD "QUEER" is about as divisive as terms come. It took me a long time to accept my own identity as a “bisexual” human, and then, some years later, as a “queer” person. I guess I always thought I wasn’t “queer enough,” since my personal dating history was with (mostly) cisgender men. It took finding my community of bisexuals on the internet to really feel at home in own skin, and embracing the word “queer” was another big step in my personal journey of accepting myself without shame.
Language is powerful. It can destroy and cause pain, or uplift and validate. "Queer" has long been used as a slur—a word to bring LGBTQIA+ people down and harm us. Its first known usage in this context was during the famous trial of playwright Oscar Wilde, wherein homosexual men were referred to as “snob queers.” "Queer" took on a shade of disgrace; it meant something shameful, wrong, disgusting, or ungodly. Basically, being gay made you bad, and queer represented society’s hatred.
In the 1980s, as activists united during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the LGBTQIA+ community began to reclaim the word queer. Taking it back signified the defiance and resilience this community had—and still has—in the face of discrimination and violence. We took it back because it is ours, and our alone. (Read more about the history of the word "queer" in our LGBTQIA+ Language and Media Literacy Project.)
It is in the reclamation of the word queer that many of us in the LGBTQIA+ community have found our voices, communities, and comfort in our identities. We are never fixed; we’re never stagnant. Human beings are beautifully complex, and being able to own, love, and embrace a word like "queer" has the power to bring together all of us “others,” the ones who don’t fall on the more straightforward—pun intended—binaries. But each LGBTQIA+ person’s relationship with the word "queer" is unique. Not everyone enjoys or uses the word, and that is perfectly OK. We don’t necessarily need labels to make us feel seen or understood.
We decided to give voice to people within the community to tell us exactly what "queer" means to them. [The following quotes have been edited and condensed for clarity.]
Carlos Dominguez, 28, he/him, Art Director atDelish
"When I came out to my mom, I remember feeling so anxious and nervous that I couldn’t fully tell her that I was 'gay.' I told her that I was bi. For some reason, I felt that bi would be a somewhat normative or a safe zone. Eventually, I fully came out as gay later in life, but even then, I struggled to find myself. Fast forward to today, where being queer allows for so much liberation to be who you are and reclaim your own identity. Now, I identify as a queer gay man, which makes me really feel who I am. I know that the term 'queer' can have many interpretations and also have a dark past to the older queer community, but I believe it needs to be part of how the LGBTQIA+ community identifies because even within our community we are all different."
Dot DeVille, Drag Queen
"A a cis gay man who crossdresses, identifying as queer is a more fluid reclamation of a word I grew up recognizing as a slur. To me, the word 'queer' is an all-encompassing descriptor that easily conveys I'm 'other than' without specifying how. When I'm out of drag, I'm gay. But when I'm in drag, anything regarding sexuality and gender is thrown out the window--but not necessarily in an asexual and/or nonbinary way. Associating myself as 'queer' in a blanket context allows me to float between my two moods with ease."
Sean Abrams, 30, he/him, Senior Editor at Men's Health
"To me, 'queer' is more of an all-encompassing term that was reclaimed to act as an identifier for anyone that isn't straight or a cisgender person. Especially if you're still questioning or are uncertain of your specific orientation, it's a 5-letter word that allows you to be a part of this incredible LGBTQ+ community without putting pressure to pigeon hole yourself one certain way over another."
Jake Hall, 29, they/them, Freelance Sex Writer and Author of The Art of Drag
"I personally love describing myself as queer! I’m 29 years old, though, which is an important context—I didn’t really hear the word thrown around too much as a slur. To me, its usage is twofold: it’s an umbrella term for LGBTQ+ people, and it’s a radical reclamation of a slur that’s inherently political. I think of ‘queer’ and I think of groups like ACT UP and Queer Nation, who were anti-assimilationist and wore their queerness as a subversive badge of honor. It’s a term that embodies fluidity, and that’s how I use it: I use it to describe both my gender (I’m non-binary) and my sexuality (I’m pretty sexually fluid).
"This is my relationship to it, but I’m more careful when talking about other people. For example, I’ll say ‘queer communities’ and ‘queer histories’—using queer as an umbrella term—but I wouldn’t usually describe individual people as queer unless they self-identify that way, as I know it’s still a term that can bring up trauma for some. Personally, I’d say I’m queer as f*ck, but there are plenty of others within the LGBT+ community who wouldn’t, and I think that’s okay too. Queerness is inherently political, though—that’s why I name it as such, as a refusal to be boxed in."
Julieta Chiara, 25, she/her, Sex Blogger & Coach
"The world 'queer' embodies the joy I have to explore my sexuality without labels or restraints. While it indicates being outside of the 'straight' label, it feels like an empowering word that gives me safety, freedom, and community. Looking back with the knowledge I have now, I know I’ve always been Queer, although I didn’t adopt 'Queerness' until a few years ago. Growing up, Queer traditionally meant an insult, or strictly gay or lesbian, which I didn’t resonate with at all. As things have progressed, the word 'Queer' is something I’m really proud to use since it includes the massive spectrum that is sexuality. We are free to evolve and explore as we wish, embracing the flows of our experiences. Now, as a proud and out bisexual, I use 'Queer' as part of my daily vocabulary to discuss my lifestyle, experiences, and connections with a sense of deep understanding and confidence."
Miss Toto, Drag Queen
"'Queer,' to me, means many things, but I generally think of it meaning something different from 'the norm.' 'The norm,' in this context, is being a cis-het individual, and I am neither of those things, so being queer to me is ingrained into who I am fundamentally as a person. The word 'queer' often has negative connotations because of how it's been used as a slur in the past, but I take being queer as a badge of honor and pride. I am proud of who I am as a queer individual and proud of my community of other queer people who are living in their truths. Furthermore, I am also proud of those queers who have yet to come into their own but are working towards becoming their true selves."
Tawny Lara, 36, she/her, The Sober Sexpert
"I struggled with embracing my bisexuality out of fear that I wasn't 'bisexual enough'— whatever the hell that means. I had an even harder time with the term 'queer.' That word is still so loaded for me. I have two gay family members, so I remember the word 'queer' being used to convey hate and negativity. I'm honestly blown away at how our community has truly reclaimed a word that was so vile and turned it into a celebration. Queer is now synonymous with LGBTQIA+. How cool is that?!?! I rarely use the word queer to describe myself, as the word bisexual still has a taste of imposter syndrome, but I'm honored when I'm included in conversations like this about The Queer Community as a whole."
Nick Gilbert, 37, he/they, Creative Director at Olfiction and Boujee Bougies.
"Queer is the kaleidoscopic umbrella which those of us who are not cisgender and heterosexual stand under, but it means more than that. Queer is counterculture, and rebelling against the status quo. Queer is as much explosive joy, as it is righteous anger. Collective liberation and creative expression. Queer is anything we want it to be. Queer is me."
Ryn Pfeuffer, 49, she/her, Sex & Relationships Writer
"I don’t like rigid labels, roles, or expectations. When you say you’re gay/bi/lesbian, people have a pretty good idea of what you’re talking about. So, for me, being queer means I can show up in the world—unapologetically and undefined—however I wish. Right now, my gender is fixed (female); the same for my sexual orientation (pansexual). But my queerness allows me the freedom and flexibility for that expression to ebb and flow, and doesn’t box me into a fixed identity. It gives me space to allow new parts of me to emerge, and gracefully let go of parts that no longer serve. It also lets me tear down capitalist, patriarchal, and heteronormative expectations to create an intentional life filled with love (self and otherwise), abundance, and curiosity. Ultimately, it gives me the autonomy to grow. My life isn't perfect. But it's fiercely authentic and by no means ordinary. Fuck normal. I want magic—big queer magic."
Cale Jones, 36, he/him, founder of The MŌN App
"I have a long, complicated relationship with the word 'queer.' Growing up in the '90s, many of my generation may remember that ‘gay’ was used as slang for 'that sucks.' It was a hurtful word that was then adopted by the 'cool kids,' and as a result, no longer felt like a pointed slur. 'Queer' always stuck with me as a very negative word—one that hit harder than faggot. Faggot meant 'gay,' which seemed tolerable, but 'queer'... It was applied with an extra dash of confused hate. Many years later, now in my 30s, I feel very at home with the word 'queer.' I do, on occasion, still second guess myself when typing 'queer' into an email, but how could I not with all of the years of heteronormative hate speech skewing my definition? It's now a word used to include all of us in the LGBTQIA+ community, and no longer categorizes us by who we're f*cking.
"Through founding MŌN, I’ve learned so much about sexuality. Not just for others, but my own as well. I’m now part of a community that gives me a vocabulary I never knew existed and its helped me define my own identity, sexually and otherwise. While I consider myself sexually fluid and homo-romantic, I am also queer. And I couldn’t be more proud to know myself as what I am. Gay. Queer. Proud. I sometimes laugh at how full circle I’ve come in terms of my own self acceptance, from a deeply closeted gay man in the south who hid from words, to launching a community that provides a safe and inclusive space for EVERYONE, but especially queer folk, to talk openly and encouragingly about their sexuality and experiences."
Tiffany Lashai Curtis, 28, she/her, Journalist and Sex Educator
"I remember hearing the word 'queer' on shows like Sex and the City as a kid, growing up reading about the word being used as a slur, and learning that the "Q" in LGBTQ+ stood for queer or questioning and feeling like the Q always seemed to speak to me more. I proudly use the term 'queer' to describe myself. Even though I am specifically pansexual, I use 'queer' because it implies a limitlessness to how and who I love. I also use queer in the political sense, to signify to other people that I am not only a part of the community but that I stand with everyone who is a part of it, although not every queer person does. I didn't start openly identifying as queer until around 2017/2018, and I haven't had to face the intolerance or violence that other queer people have so my ability to use the word proudly and be open about it is a privilege that I don't take for granted. To me, 'queer' means expansiveness in gender and sexual identity, in love, in friendships, and in relationships of all kinds, and I use it because I'm not interested in existing within neat, societal boxes."
Stephen Quaderer, 38, he/him, CEO of ThotExperiment and Creator of Headero
"Queerness, to me, means liberation. A strident, joyful defiance of the societal 'norms' that mean to dictate who we may love, how we must express our gender, what we may wear, and fundamentally what we can or cannot do with our own bodies. An act of defiance made all the more powerful because it is done simply by living our truth.
"To me, queerness extends to anyone who steps outside of traditional norms. Because that framing is definitionally open-ended, queerness extends to many for whom more narrowly-defined sexuality or gender labels may not fit perfectly. For instance, I identify as both gay and pansexual, a fact that I recognize is both logically inconsistent yet true to who I am. So to speak of myself in terms of those specific labels introduces some tension. But queerness carries no specific definition or connotation. And so it is an incredibly liberating and spirit-expanding concept to apply to oneself. It is a powerful and essential avenue of liberation from the systems of oppression that are holding each of us back from spiritual growth and true connection, individually and collectively."
Mr. Fabulous (Jay Kamiraz), he/him, TV Personality, Creative Visionary, and Keynote Speaker
"Growing up an '80s/'90s child, I was what now has been reclaimed, celebrated, and identified as being born with the 'Queer Persuasion.' I identify as being 'Queer': the characteristics of being sensitively emphatic, visually androgynous, and sexually provocative, with an altruistic attitude, unafraid and unapologetic for having a genetic makeup, brave enough to celebrate an existence freely in a word full of prejudice and perceived assumptions.
"However, growing up, the word 'Queer' was not as sweet as we know it as today. The word itself and its identity was taken out of context, used to condition the likes of me to think it was wrong. It was described to make my sexual orientation and existence feel as though I didn't fit in or belong to a heterosexual, heteroromantic norm.
"In a recent keynote spring conference to the fire and rescue service, inclusion was the on the agenda. I spoke openly about my my Queer inclusion and identity. I spoke of how the word was used with unconscious bias, and the need to rectify the hurt caused. Rewriting the wrong and reclaiming the word 'Queer' back into the norm is what all sweet dreams are made of. Reaffirming its rightful inclusion in the world happily fills my Cup with all sorts of fabulousness. The word 'Queer' was not anyone's to take in the first place. It should and always, from now on, be used to celebrate and embrace with immense warmth."
Gabrielle Kassel, 28, she/her, Queer Sex Educator & Host of Bad in Bed: The Queer Sex Education Podcast
"I came out as gay when I was 16, on the heals of smooching the hockey captain in the girl's hockey locker room. (For what it's worth: This started my deep-seated belief that hockey players are heartbreakers!). In college when I learned the meaning of queer during my Queer Studies class, I started using the term queer.
"Currently, the most accurate label for me is 'queer bisexual dyke'. (I say currently to name the fact that I'm always leaving room for my identity labels to evolve and shift as the language we have access to evolve, and my attractions and gender shape-shift). I say bisexual because I am attracted to people all across the gender spectrum. I say dyke because of the rich lineage of lesbians, WLW, and gender-bending women it connects me to. And I say queer because it nods to the fact that I am not the status quo (a.k.a. straight). And also, to name that I actively fight for the rights of people who are not cisgender, not allosexual, and not heterosexual. In other words, there's political power in the term that brings me great pride and power. Sure, queer bisexual dyke may be the most accurate term for how I navigate the world as a gendered and desirous person. But as short-hand I simply say queer. Why? Because it gives just enough information to satisfy the curiosity of strangers, while inviting friends to engage in further conversation with me about it."
Melissa Vitale, 29, she/her, Founder of MAVPR
"Falsely convinced I was straight for about half my life, growing up the word queer wasn’t something I had aversion to beyond thinking it was a derogatory term similar to bitch. Just as the feminists reclaimed that term, the LGBTQ+ community was starting to empower the use of queer about the same time I realized my attraction to all genders wasn’t 'just a phase.' Growing up, I was taught there was gay and straight. There was no 'in-between,' which—being attracted to folks of all genders—was the sandbox I played in.
"Being a publicist for sex-positive brands and industry leaders, there was tons of opportunity to explore labels when I was figuring out the big question of 'what am I?'. I tried on pansexual and bisexual for a bit, but those didn’t fit. Finally I realized that it wasn’t gender I was attracted to, but rather, who that person is individually. I felt queer best encompassed the fluidity of attraction. The year I came out, I must have said 'I’m here, I’m queer' thousands of times, many as a confidence-boosting mantra. While I use the word 'queer' for myself, I’m all about consent. Just like if a boss babe doesn’t like the term Boss Bitch, I won’t apply a term to someone who is uncomfortable or dislikes the association. We’re all different and it’s an exercise in communication and consent to assess comfort level with terms associated with their identity."
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Look at how the raisins in the jar with baking soda and vinegar are moving, while the raisins in the jar of tap water don’t do anything. I will definitely use this with our pre k children in chapel . according to his power that is within us. Sometimes, He answers with a yes. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Do you think that’s enough toothpaste? So don’t be afraid to face your giants. Children’s Sermon: In the World, but Unique (John 17:1-11) Bible Object Lesson, Beach Bible Object Lessons for Kids Church, Children's Sermon (John 14:23-29) Holy Spirit Object Lesson, Children's Sermon (Luke 16:19-31) Lazarus & Rich Man, Back to School (Sunday School Lesson) Armor of God, “Back to School ” Children’s Sermon (Jesus, the Sin Eraser), “Back to School” Object Lessons (School Supplies Backpack). It burns up that stuff from our minds, and allows our eyes instead to turn towards the will, the sovereignty, the beauty, and the love of God. I brought in two jars. Now, we’ll light the candle and place the glass over top of the candle, so that the rim of the glass rests in the coloured water in the saucer. David had to face a huge giant: Goliath. Now, lift up the balloon. Talking to “someone” you can’t see may be uncomfortable and isn’t as natural as a teacher would expect. The first object lesson on prayer I want to do for you is taking one glass, the balloon, and a match, and illustrating how a prayer of thanksgiving and adoration draws us closer to God. There are no missed calls or lost messages with God. This second little object lesson on prayer will use two glass bottles, two eggs, and a couple of matches. Yes, it’s finally full! Great advice and how to demonstrate it! Repentance takes a lot of humility, as we admit our own weakness, failure, and wrongdoing. Tell group to take the balloon and rub it on the hair to create static electricity. Maybe we’re asking for healing. Prayer isn’t magic. No, believe it or not, it’s not yet full! Praying to God works both ways. BetterBibleTeachers is dedicated to teaching the Bible to kids in crazy interesting ways. ADDRESS: Ministry-To-Children He hears every word clearly. That’s never easy. So how do we explain it? We believe that God is the loving Father of all kids. Tell them that God’s phone line never gets dropped. Remember those prayer requests that we wrote down? All of these demonstrations are based on the principle of a flame inside of a glass creating a vacuum. How to Explain “Faith” to Sunday School Kids They should say, “John (or the child’s name) can you hear me?” Tell the child to only answer his Mom or Dad. One jar has tap water. Psalm 145:18 – The Lord is close to all who call on him, yes, to all who call on him in truth. 430 Oak St. Sellersburg, IN 47172, © 2020 Ministry-To-Children.com | Read our. 10 May your Kingdom come soon. But the other jar of raisins looks alive. The egg over the wider mouth will get sucked into the glass bottle. | Matthew 14:22-32, Youth Bible Lessons: “The Wedding Invitation” Matthew 22, Youth Bible Lesson: “Face Your Fears!” Psalm 34, 4 Encouraging Short Devotions on “Generosity”, Youth Bible Lesson: “The Lord’s Will be Done.”, Some coloured water (water + food colouring) in a small dish, It can include thanksgiving, adoration, requests/petitions, repentance, intercession, God might answer our requests with a yes, no, or maybe/wait. And it took just one little stone and a little sling to make a 9-foot-tall giant fall. How to Choose the Best Sunday School Curriculum 13 And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one. The child will respond! Praying without ceasing doesn’t mean you should literally pray all day long. Key Thought: Submit all your problems to the Lord in prayer. Whatever you do throughout the day, you should always pray. Is it really his toothpaste? Prayer is a way of growing closer to God, of having a mind like His, of aligning our own will with the will of God. Put pebbles into the jar until it’s completely full. And the other jar has water with baking soda and vinegar in it. There’s lots of debate on “prayer” out there. We have things and objects in our lives that we think are important. No, that would be impossible! Look at all that foamy toothpaste! Another important way to pray is to present our requests or petitions to God. This simple prayer object lesson is to remind us that it makes a difference in our spiritual lives as we stay in communication with God throughout our day. You might also be interested in checking out an object lesson on pride, or this one on forgiveness, that also deal with the idea of repentance. Not only does He get to know our voice, we learn to identify His. Have another child call his name. You can freely license our resources under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. The glass lifts with it. We can trust Him with our needs. My variation on a common method of teaching faith to kids. A great way to start a discussion with your group on the power of prayer, and what God intends as the purpose of prayer. This glass represents our life, or our life situation. Loved all your Lessons and activities. A complete Sunday School lesson on Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. This match (light the match) represents our prayer. Please use our childrens ministry curriculum and Sunday School material for any purpose that brings honor to Jesus. Tell kids about this hidden benefit. We read in Luke 6:12, “One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.”. Let me divide you into a group. This object lesson on prayer looks at prayers of thanksgiving, adoration, requests, and repentance, and how each is similar but unique. And as we pray thanks and as we adore him, He comes closer to us, just as you saw the balloon draw inwards into the glass. During your call, tell kids how frustrating it is to have your chat interrupted. Finally ask the Mom or Dad to say the phrase. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 – Never stop praying. Put rocks into jar until it’s completely full. Talking to God will become a joy, not just something parents do. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere. Before class, choose a volunteer to help you. Beside the last glass, place the saucer with the candle in the middle of it. As before, let the glass bottles represent our lives, or our life situations. God sees us. There are many things we like to do to have fun. The flame will burn for a little bit, and then will go out as it uses up all the oxygen. Some objects that might be important to us include: TV’s, video games, candy, and toys. The bottom of the balloon will get “sucked into” the glass a little bit, as a vacuum is created inside the glass. The match will burn for a short time, then it will go out. One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. He hears our prayers. Matthew 6:9-13 – 9 Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. We get so busy doing “things.” Jesus, on the other hand, never got too busy to remember what’s important. Ask group to write down their prayer requests on the tissue paper. And just because we received “no” or “wait” as an answer to our request, it doesn’t mean God isn’t listening, and it doesn’t mean we didn’t receive an answer. There are no missed calls or lost messages with God. Praying is a natural activity once that connection is established but getting there can be a bit of a challenge. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. Some important things in our lives might be our parents, school, and church. Adam & Eve Lesson Your email address will not be published.
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The tips for winning the lottery lie inside having the right attitude, strategies and system. Read on to know more tips on winning the lottery plus about how you can perform the lotto in order to success.
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Retired Pope Benedict has chided those Catholics who have not accepted his decision to resign as “fanatical”, telling them that there is only one pope and it is Francis.
Pope Emeritus Benedict, now 93, in 2013 became the first pope in more than 600 years to resign instead of ruling for life, saying he no longer had the strength to govern the 1.3 billion-member Church.
Some hard-line conservatives unhappy with the more liberal Pope Francis have often voiced doubts about whether Pope Benedict stepped down willingly, even though he has said several times in the past eight years that he did.
“It was a difficult decision. But it was a fully conscious choice and I think I did well (to resign),” he told Italy’s Corriere della Sera in an interview published on March 1.
“Some of my more fanatical friends are still upset, they have not accepted my choice.”
Pope Benedict, who lives in a house in the Vatican gardens, said those who refuse to accept his resignation nursed “conspiracy theories” that he had been forced to quit because of scandals such as the leaking of some of his documents by his butler.
“They don’t want to believe that it was a conscious choice,” he said. “My conscience is clear.”
Apparently addressing those who still look up to him as the real pope and are hostile to Pope Francis, he said: “There is only one pope.”
The interviewer said Pope Benedict had emphasised the point by thumping the armrest of his chair.
The presence in the Vatican of both a pope and a former pontiff with the title “pope emeritus”, also wearing white, has irritated some Catholics.
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Birds are among the most endearing and flimsy creatures that fly from here to there and sometimes can drag your attention. You can also find the interest of different individuals in having birds as their pets. These pets are different from other animals. Hence you should also place extra care when keeping them in your nearby location. These birds will require a clean and tidy cage and healthy food that will help you to have these lovable pets without difficulty. You should also keep them away from excess heat, cold, or other climate conditions that will offer your pet a prolonged life.
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Arranging proper shade for the cage
These gorgeous pets need to put in a cage made from metal and other resilient bits and pieces. It also comes with the tendency to work for a long time, but you should keep it under an appropriate temperature to prevent it from heating in excess. During the summer seasons, the sun goes far above the ground with the excess heat emission. Thus, you can look for a suitable shade to put the cage underneath to prevent the favorite from getting agitated.
Placing wet towels above the cage
Birds also love the cool and airy atmosphere. You can also offer by using one or two wet towels. You can drape these towels in a way so that they can cover the top position of the cage and can offer them a fresh and darkest shade. It will not only help your pet to take pleasure in the coolness, but it will also enable comfort by offering ease from excess heat.
Minimizing the anxiety
Your pet might not love all the animals at their nearby, but some might keep him under stress. Hence it is your responsibility to keep these animals out of the cage that might be the reason for further anxiety. Any stressful situation might increase the heart rate that might drag your pet under the herd circumstances.
Offering them showers
These pets love to have some showering mist around them that can help them in reducing body temperature. Though this condition is not the same for all the birds, but you should first check it with your pet. You can take a spray bottle available in your home to offer showering mist. If your bird starts stretching feathers, that means they love your activity, and you can use it as their favorite option to keep them cool and amusing.
Fill your birdbath with fresh water
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Place their cage in a low height
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The bright side is that thoughts like these are examples of defective thinking– malfunctioning belief systems that keep you stuck in perfectionism. By recognizing the specific ideas and beliefs that keep you stuck in perfectionism, you can begin to construct new, more useful idea patterns and belief systems.
I also stumbled upon another trick for getting rid of perfectionism.
The secret is that I became fine with being average. I worked to accept average.
If youre a perfectionist, you know that being called typical feels like the end of the world. Its an awful word to hear.
As a teen, a twenty-something, and even a thirty-something, my world would have come to an end if I had accepted being typical.
In some cases life has a way of making you much better.
Life has a way of putting things into your course and it provides opportunities for you to grow. Everybody has these chances at one point or another, but you need to see them and select to make the most of them.
There was a time not too long ago when I went through a truly hard time and needed to rebuild my life.
Looking back, I can see that the situation was an abrupt “lane-changer”– a push in a brand-new direction to make a change. I was not living my finest life and I wasnt suggested to remain stuck in that lane. I had problem with depression and anxiety, much of which was set off by perfectionism.
By working on ideas like the ones I listed above, and working to accept decreasing my standards– the ones that informed me that achievement and success were the only method I would deserve anything– I gradually discovered to change my old standards with this one:.
Just more than happy.
Discovering to make this my standard led me to a place where I am all right with being average. Eek! I said it. Typical.
Today, I can truthfully say that Im pretty pleased with being average. While its created more space for me to stop working, at the same time its developed the space for me to be successful.
The distinction is that my self-respect isnt connected to whether I fail or are successful.
Heres how I look at it:.
Im really proficient at some things, however Im not great at other things. You are really good at some things. And you arent excellent at other things too. The good and the not-so-good all balance out.
At the end of the day, we are all simply average humans. Were people attempting to live the best life we can.
Dont you think that if we all dropped our quest to be best, or better than everybody else, we d feel a little better? Do not you feel like we d all be a bit more connected?
If you struggle with perfectionism, I welcome you to take an appearance at the list of restricting beliefs above and see what resonates for you. Attempt on those new beliefs and develop them up with new proof to support them.
And along the way, deal with accepting that you suffice, even if youre average.
Perfectionists obsess over mistakes, even when its not likely that anybody else even discovered.
Their self-confidence depends on being ideal.
They think in white and black– things are either good or bad. Perfect or failure.
When they do not satisfy them, they have impractical expectations and crazy-high standards for themselves and beat themselves up.
They put up a front that everything is best, even when its not, due to the fact that the idea of another person seeing their flaw is intolerable.
Despite their quest for perfection, they dont feel anywhere near to ideal.
They cant accept being second-best at something. Thats failure.
They spend excessive time on projects due to the fact that theyre constantly improving one last thing.
They invest a great deal of time searching for external approval.
No matter what they do, they dont feel sufficient.
About Kortney RivardKortney Rivard is a licensed life coach living in the Washington, DC location. A former aerospace engineer who discovered herself desiring a more fulfilling life, she is devoted to assisting women who are all set to stop brushing their dreams aside find the guts to pursue their dreams and produce a life theyre thrilled to awaken to. Have a look at her podcast, Real, Brave & & Unstoppable HERE and discover more about her work at kortneyrivard.com.
“A significant life is not being abundant, being popular, or being perfect. Its about being real, being simple, having the ability to share ourselves and touch the lives of others.” ~ Unknown.
Hey there, Im Kortney, and Im a recovering perfectionist.
Like so much of us, I invested the majority of my life believing that unless something was ideal, it wasnt proficient at all. There was truly no in-between. If it wasnt perfect, it was a failure.
One of the problems with perfectionism is that its common to believe its a positive thing. In our society, individuals tend to value it. You should be accomplished if youre someone that intends for excellence. Driven. Smart.
Have you ever had a sense of pride over being called a perfectionist?
Have you ever considered why?
Promoting my own experience, when someone called me a perfectionist, I seemed like even though I didnt think I was perfect, it implied that they were perceiving me as being perfect. They saw me as being one of the finest, or as somebody who was gifted. It was validation that I was seen as somebody who was proficient at things.
My wild thirst for this sort of recognition fed the perfectionist machine for several years.
If youre wondering what it suggests to be a perfectionist, here are a few characteristics:.
At one point in my life, all of those bullet points described me well. I squandered a lot time stressing over approval and validation so that I might feel like I was amazing. However I never ever felt even near to amazing. I never felt sufficient at anything.
Sure, there were times when I seemed like I was proficient at something, but then I needed to raise the bar. Simply being excellent at something wasnt enough. There was always another level to reach. The bar kept getting higher and higher, which isnt always a bad thing for individuals who are making every effort to make enhancements in a healthy method, however for a perfectionist whose self-regard hinges on reaching the bar every time its raised, its not a favorable.
It was exhausting.
After a lot of battle in my life, I understood I needed to explore my perfectionist methods and find a method to be more caring toward myself. Perfectionism was holding me back from loving my life.
I began to recognize that I had many beliefs that were engraved into my brain that werent handy. Beliefs that I never believed to concern. These beliefs also seriously impeded my capability to be happy and to live the life I wished to live.
We all have belief systems that we dont truly think to concern. If we actually take an action back to discover that these thought patterns that hinder our ability to grow and advance are there, we can begin to question them.
Some common limiting beliefs that keep people stuck in perfectionism are:.
Individuals reward me for having high standards. They are amazed and I acquire approval.
When I am aiming for big things or accomplishing, the only time I get favorable attention is.
If I slip up, Im a failure.
If just I can make so-and-so proud with my achievements, he/she will enjoy me, and Ill enjoy.
If I stop working, I am useless. Failing is not alright.
If I do not examine over whatever numerous times, Ill miss something and appear like an idiot.
My accomplishments are worthless if theyre not best (i.e.: getting a “B” rather of an “A” in a class is a failure),.
If others see my defects, I wont be accepted. They will not like me.
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“A meaningful life is not being abundant, being popular, or being ideal. Like so many of us, I invested the higher part of my life believing that unless something was perfect, it wasnt great at all. After a lot of struggle in my life, I understood I needed to explore my perfectionist ways and find a way to be more compassionate towards myself. These beliefs also seriously prevented my capability to be delighted and to live the life I wanted to live.
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I recently learned about design-thinking, a process by which all good creatives arrange and plan their work.
The process was described to me as A-c-d-B: or ‘listening’ (A) followed by imagining (B) then by planning (c) and creating (d).
The first step is to LISTEN. By listening well one begins to understand one’s context and environment. Listening entails paying attention to all the factors and elements of ones reality. Active-listening entails listening to people in the environment and their narratives and motives. This builds empathy.
From here one can begin to feel an ache – the ache that takes the creative to the next phase – IMAGINE. One can begin to dream and visualise how things should be and could be. One dreams of the solution to the chaos, confusion, pain or inconvenience of the now.
Just as proper listening yields empathy, then true empathy yields good imagining. From here we move to PLANNING and CREATION – the logical steps in which one prioritises and brings imagination into reality. This moves the ‘now’ forward towards the imagined ideal solution.
At every stage one can pause again to listen and imagine. Good listening yields good imagining and then more planning and more creation.
Architecture, engineering, graphic-design, illustration, storytelling – when all these follow good design-thinking they yield nuanced creations situated in reality, responding to the lived environment and meeting the needs of this environment.
What will you listen to, imagine and create today?
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Why is sleep so important?
- Recover and prepare – Sleep helps our bodies and our minds to recover from the day and prepare for tomorrow. Too little sleep and those tomorrows will be tougher.
- Sleep promotes a healthy mind – Scientists have found that there’s a strong relationship between getting enough sleep and feeling well and happy. Not getting enough sleep can cause low mood and even make depression and anxiety worse.
- Focus – Scientists have shown that having a good sleep will help you concentrate during the day and also helps your brain to organise and store the information you have learned during the day. Clever.
How much sleep do you need?
The Sleep Council recommend the following hours of sleep according to your age:
- 10-11 hours of sleep a night for 7-12 year olds
- 8-9 hours of sleep for 12-18 year olds.
The above is a useful guide but it can vary by person and the changes your body is going through. If you feel tired during the day and lack energy, it maybe that you are not getting enough sleep. Check out healthy sleep tips here
Worried you're not getting enough sleep?
If you feel that you are not sleeping well most nights, struggling with waking up and with day to day activities, then you may need to talk to someone like your GP to get yourself checked out. What you eat and drink can also have an impact on sleep, and if you struggle to get enough sleep you may want to try to avoid drinking tea, coffee and other caffeine products, particularly with meals.
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- Pakistan announced plans to regulate cryptocurrencies with immediate effect.
- The action taken had come in accordance with recommendations form the FATF.
Pakistan has drafted plans to regulate cryptocurrencies, this comes in accordance with recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). These regulations are set be introduced immediately.
Previously Pakistan had taken a stern stance against cryptocurrencies. The country’s central bank had issued warnings that banks and other financial services providers against offering services which supported virtual currency transactions.
As a recap, in April 2018, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) via their official Twitter account issues a reminder to the general public that they are overseeing and regulates domestic and international payment and money transfer services.
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DBCACF: A Multidimensional Method for Tourist Recommendation Based on Users’ Demographic, Context and Feedback
: Data Mining
Alireza Nikravan shalmani
Decision Support Systems,
By the advent of some applications in the web 2.0 such as social networks which allow the users to share media, many opportunities have been provided for the tourists to recognize and visit attractive and unfamiliar Areas-of-Interest (AOIs). However, finding the appropriate areas based on user’s preferences is very difficult due to some issues such as huge amount of tourist areas, the limitation of the visiting time, and etc. In addition, the available methods have yet failed to provide accurate tourist’s recommendations based on geo-tagged media because of some problems such as data sparsity, cold start problem, considering two users with different habits as the same (symmetric similarity), and ignoring user’s personal and context information. Therefore, in this paper, a method called “Demographic-Based Context-Aware Collaborative Filtering” (DBCACF) is proposed to investigate the mentioned problems and to develop the Collaborative Filtering (CF) method with providing personalized tourist’s recommendations without users’ explicit requests. DBCACF considers demographic and contextual information in combination with the users' historical visits to overcome the limitations of CF methods in dealing with multi- dimensional data. In addition, a new asymmetric similarity measure is proposed in order to overcome the limitations of symmetric similarity methods. The experimental results on Flickr dataset indicated that the use of demographic and contextual information and the addition of proposed asymmetric scheme to the similarity measure could significantly improve the obtained results compared to other methods which used only user-item ratings and symmetric measures.
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Located at Chashama Matawan, August 13-September 19, 2020
Thoughts & Prayers, Another Round of Vacant Stares is an analysis of the American gun culture. This exhibition highlights artwork that examines the impact guns have within our nation, as a symbol of power and freedom, or as an instrument to incite fear and cause harm. Firearms affect all American populations and demographics. The artwork featured in this exhibition is meant to facilitate a dialog on the divisive iconology of guns, the power or fear they represent, as they allow some to become empowered, while suppressing others. | <urn:uuid:d953f1fa-d0ee-498e-83b7-c3fdf89272e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arthustle.net/thoughts-prayers-another-round-of-vacant-stares/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963126 | 118 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Android users can now text from their computers—here’s how
Great news for Android users! Google developed a feature to let them text from their computers.
Check out how you can do it below.
According to The Verge, you can now use Android Messages on your computer and other mobile devices, including iOS products, as well as your phone.
To set it up, you need to open the website and scan a QR code through the Android Messages app on your phone.
According to The Verge, to scan the code on your phone, you should click the three vertical dots at the top of the app. On the menu, there's a "Messages for web" option.
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What do you write in a early Valentine's Day card?
Here are a few ideas on what to write:
- I love that you're my Valentine!
- Muah! Happy Valentine's Day!
- I was never a fan of this holiday until meeting you, my sweet Valentine.
- I've loved getting to know you and spending time with you. Happy Valentine's Day!
What were the first Valentines cards decorated with?
The first Valentine's cards were sent in the 18th century. Initially these were handmade efforts, as pre-made cards were not yet available. Lovers would decorate paper with romantic symbols including flowers and love knots, often including puzzles and lines of poetry.
Which profession receives most Valentines cards?
How many cards are purchased on Valentine's Day?
What is the oldest valentine still in existence today?
The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his very young wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt.
What does Valentine mean?
1 : a sweetheart chosen or complimented on Valentine's Day. 2a : a gift or greeting sent or given especially to a sweetheart on Valentine's Day especially : a greeting card sent on this day. b : something (such as a movie or piece of writing) expressing uncritical praise or affection : tribute.
Which bird symbolizes Valentine's Day?
What is the most popular Valentine's Day symbol?
Which country has banned Valentine's Day?
Is Valentine Day made up by Hallmark?
Holidays that have been referred to as "Hallmark holidays" include Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Grandparents Day, National Son's Day, National Daughter's Day, Sweetest Day, Boss's Day, Administrative Professionals' Day, and Teacher Appreciation Day.
Who founded Valentine's Day?
Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine's Day.
Why is it called Valentine's Day?
Valentine's Day is named after Saint Valentine, a Catholic priest who lived in Rome in the 3rd Century. There are many stories about St Valentine and over time these stories grew into the legend we know today.
When did Valentine's Day start in the US?
Was St Valentine a killer?
Valentine beheaded. On February 14, around the year 270 A.D., Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was executed. Valentine was arrested and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. ...
Why did Claudius kill Valentine?
The very brief vita of St Valentine states that he was executed for refusing to deny Christ by the order of the "Emperor Claudius" in the year 269. Before his head was cut off, this Valentine restored sight and hearing to the daughter of his jailer.
What the Bible says about Valentine's Day?
1 John 4:7-12. Dear friends: let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Is Valentine a Catholic saint?
Although the Roman Catholic Church continues to recognize St. Valentine as a saint of the church, he was removed from the General Roman Calendar in 1969 because of the lack of reliable information about him. He is the patron saint of lovers, epileptics, and beekeepers. By some accounts, St.
Who is Valentine and why did he die?
For Valentine, it was most important that with the new Christian religion that sexuality was kept within the sacrament of marriage." Valentine defied the edict and continued to perform marriages. He was arrested, beaten and beheaded. He was executed on Feb.
What should I do on Valentine's Day 2021?
37 Things to Do on Valentine's Day for a Romantic Date Night
- of 37. Make Dinner Together. ...
- of 37. Craft Delicious Cocktails. ...
- of 37. Have a Movie Marathon. ...
- of 37. Write Each Other Letters. ...
- of 37. Bake Heart-Shaped Treats. ...
- of 37. Take a Scenic Walk. ...
- of 37. Book a Staycation. ...
- of 37.
What miracles did St Valentine?
Valentine worked miracles. The most famous miracle attributed to St. Valentine occurred through a letter he is said to have written to a young blind girl before his martyrdom. The girl miraculously gained her sight to read the note.
Who is the saint for love?
Who is the saint of epilepsy?
It's a little known fact that while St. Valentine is widely associated with love and the giving of 'valentines', he is also the patron saint of people with epilepsy.
Why is Saint Valentine important to Ireland?
St Valentine is the patron Saint of love, a happy marriage, bee keepers, plague and epilepsy. He is recognizable by many attributes associated with him. He is associated with love especially that of courtly love in the Middle Ages. Saint Valentine is also associated with curing blindness.
Does Ireland have Valentine's Day?
St Valentine's Day is celebrated in Ireland, as throughout many other countries, as a time for love and romance. ... The weddings may have had something to do with Valentine being associated with love, but it's unlikely that this was the same Valentine who was later executed on February 14.
Who celebrates Valentine's?
In addition to the United States, Valentine's Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France and Australia. In Great Britain, Valentine's Day began to be popularly celebrated around the 17th century.
Is Valentine an Irish name?
English and Scottish: from a medieval personal name, Latin Valentinus, a derivative of Valens (see Valente), which was never common in England, but is occasionally found from the end of the 12th century, probably as the result of French influence.
Is Valentine a French name?
The name Valentine is a girl's name of French origin meaning "strength, health".
How common is the name Valentine?
Though Valentine hasn't been in the U.S. Top 1000 for over half a century, it's currently in the Top 100 in France and Belgium.
What nationality is the surname Valentine?
This interesting surname is of English and Scottish origin, and is from a medieval given name, derived from the Latin "Valentinus", a derivative of "valere", to be strong, healthy. The personal name was never common in England until the end of the 12th Century; this was probably a result of French influence.
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New Feature For Flight Simulator “Snowfall”
Microsoft Flight Simulator, which has a real-time weather system, eventually included snowfalls in this system. Microsoft Flight Simulator now adds real-time snowfalls to the weather system.
The Flight Simulator, developed with revolutionary new technologies, adds it to the simultaneous weather system. At the same time, the map keeps getting more and more details, and expanded with updates published for the game; which brings the real world to the virtual environment using satellite data. This causes the size of the game to grow. However, users are satisfied with the result.
Microsoft Flight Simulator already has a real-time weather system. Players who want can download it live from the servers; and proceed according to the weather in the region they fly. Players can change the weather during the flight and adjust it as they wish.
VR Support for Microsoft Flight Simulator has recently arrived. Previously, new airports and attractions added in the form of Mount Fuji and the rest of Tokyo. With an update released before, 4 handmade airports for the USA became available for the game. The world of the game is getting richer and detailed day by day.
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Yes, it’s that time of year: head into any store, even a supermarket, and you’re likely to find displays of amaryllis bulbs (botanical name: Hippeastrum). This huge bulb produces trumpet-shaped flowers and is very easy to grow and flower… the first time, at any rate. Since they take about three to eight weeks to bloom from the time you pot them up, if you want amaryllis flowers for Christmas, this is a good time to start.
Amaryllis bulbs already contain the buds of the flowers to come when you buy them, so even black thumbs will have no trouble getting them to bloom. In fact, even if you don’t pot the bulb up and just leave it lying on a shelf somewhere, it will still bloom. How easy is that?
Growing an amaryllis is also a great little project for introducing children to gardening. Even 5-year olds will be impressed by the speed at which the plant grows.
Picking a Winning Bulb
An amaryllis bulb is most often sold in a kit that includes a pot, potting soil and the bulb itself. And that does work, but… the bulbs sold in kits are usually lesser-quality bulbs that give fewer and smaller flowers compared to dry bulbs. Also, kits often include pots that are too small to adequately support the bulb, don’t have drainage holes (which makes watering tricky) or are so light the top-heavy plant tends to flop over. So even if you do purchase a kit (and they’re all you’re likely find in supermarkets, box stores, and other non-specialized venues), you’d do better to at least pot the bulb up in a more appropriate pot. More about that below.
The best quality bulbs are kept for bulk sale – open displays of dry bulbs – for obvious reasons. Rather than dealing with a closed box where you can’t even see the bulb you’re buying, you actually get to hand pick your bulb… and would you pick a skinny, weak-looking, second-quality bulb over a huge, heavy, robust, top-quality one? In spite of its superior quality, a dry bulb will usually cost less than a kit, at least in most stores. Locally you aren’t likely to find dry bulbs anywhere but in nurseries and garden centers. Mail-order nurseries will also ship them to your home if you order early enough.
Choose the color and shape of the flower from the photo that accompanies the display: amaryllis flowers can be red, pink, salmon, white, yellow, green or bi- or tricolor, single or double, large or small.
Look for a big bulb, firm to the touch: it will produce the most flowers. A very large bulb will surely give two flower stalks, sometimes three. Also, take a good look at the bulb at the time of purchase: if you see not one but two or three flower buds just poking out of the bulb (see photo), you have a winner! Each visible bud is the first sign of a future flower stalk,
Of course, you can also buy an amaryllis that is already potted and in the process of flowering, but that will cost you more… and you’ll be paying top dollar for a plant whose flowering is perhaps already in decline.
Potting It Up
Once you have a bulb on hand, look for an appropriate pot. The belief that the amaryllis likes to be pot-bound is a myth. They have a substantial root system and it needs room to grow, choose a pot at least 2 to 3 inches larger than the bulb. It should also have one or more drainage holes. If it’s made of a heavier material, like clay, that will help hold the plant up. If not, don’t worry: you can insert a lighter pot into a heavy cache-pot later.
Half fill the pot with houseplant potting mix (if you moisten it ahead of time, it will be easier to work with) and center the bulb on the mix, spreading its thick roots out somewhat. Now fill the pot with more mix to about 1 inch (2 cm) or so below the rim and press down firmly to settle the bulb in its pot. This will result in the bulb being only half-buried, which is great because that leaves more space in the potting mix for the bulb’s future root development. Place the pot on a saucer or in a heavier cache-pot and water lightly.
You can also grow amaryllis without soil, in stones, gravel, or marbles, typically using a transparent container. If so, you’ll need a pot without a drainage hole so the pot’s bottom can act as a water reservoir, as the substrates mentioned hold no moisture. There are even special amaryllis vases designed to hold an amaryllis bulb above water using no stones at all. Be aware, though, that if you don’t use potting soil, this will weaken the bulb and it will only be good for the compost bin after it has bloomed.
Finally, a quick note for our friends in the South: in zones 9 to 11, you can simply plant amaryllis bulbs in the garden, just barely covering the bulb, and they will then act like perennials, coming back year after year and sometimes even blooming several times a year.
Water sparingly at first, then more abundantly as the flower stem grows. Let the soil guide you: water thoroughly when it is dry to the touch.
Curiously, the long, narrow, strap-shaped leaves often don’t appear until the plant is in bloom or even after it has finished flowering.
Amaryllis are perfectly adapted to average indoor temperatures of between 15 and 80˚F (18-27˚C) and can even tolerate temperatures down to 40˚C (5˚C) if necessary. The soil should be slightly moist at all times. A sunny location is ideal, since intense light will lead to a shorter, stronger flower stalk less likely to need staking.
The bulb will start to flower in as little as three weeks, but more likely five to eight. If its flowering is coming along too quickly for your liking, you can delay it by placing the bulb in a cool spot. If you want to speed up its bloom, increase the temperature.
While the plant is blooming, don’t hesitate to move it to a spot where it is more visible, even if gets less light for a while. A few weeks of lower light won’t hurt the plant too much.
After plant stops blooming, though, move it back into the sunniest spot possible, at least if you want to see it bloom next year. You can cut the flower stalk after the blooms fade if it bothers you, but for the health of the plant, it’s better to leave it standing until it dies back on its own. Then you can remove it. That’s because, as long as it’s still green, it will carry on photosynthesis and thus helps feed the bulb.
Note that it is possible that your amaryllis blooms again out of season, maybe later in the winter or spring or even summer. If so, just enjoy the repeat performance!
Getting Your Amaryllis to Bloom Again
Let me be brutally honest and say that, while getting an amaryllis to bloom the first time is almost a sure thing, the same can’t be said of future blooms. So if you just want to toss the bulb into the compost bin after it blooms and buy a new one, that’s perfectly all right. Still, most people can get their amaryllis to rebloom if they put a little effort into it. Your goal will be to try and get the bulb, which will have shrunk considerably in size after it blooms, to plump up again.
To do so, you’ll need plenty of sun, regular feedings, and a modicum of other care. Here’s a link that shows what to do when your amaryllis stops blooming. | <urn:uuid:be780cc1-5e85-42af-af90-84f8ceae60dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://laidbackgardener.blog/2015/11/10/its-amaryllis-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947722 | 1,740 | 1.96875 | 2 |
In a previous post, we discussed pregnancy checking our 10 heifers and discovering that we were 10 for 10. All 10 of our heifers were pregnant.
At that time we were in mid-November and winter was getting a slow start in northern Maine. I mean a real slow start: We were still grazing! No winter hay had been consumed on our farm yet.
Our hay bale grazing sites were patiently waiting….
Mother Nature may have gotten a late start in our neck of the woods but in the end, she more than made up for her slow start and when we thought we had seen the last of her, she popped in for a surprise visit, just in time for the start of calving season.
This would be our first winter with cattle on the farm and we were a bit anxious of all the what if’s and unknowns that come along with overwintering livestock in snowy, cold regions. To our way of thinking, we had three primary components of animal welfare to consider and manage for during the winter: 1) Animal Health, 2) Nutrition, and 3) Shelter/Cover and Pasture Safety. We wanted to manage our herd in such a way that would lead our heifers into their calving season strong and healthy and in the best body condition possible.
All 10 heifers received the following three vaccinations during their pregnancy check: 1) Decotmax for parasites, 2) MultiMin90 as a mineral supplement, and 3) Bovi-Shield Gold 5 for a range of respiratory diseases.
Having a consistent vaccination schedule, with the appropriate vaccinations for the needs and requirements of your herd, is critical for your animals’ health. Furthermore, when dealing with pregnant cattle, keeping current on shots is important for the welfare of the mother cow and her unborn calf. Vaccinations, while important, are no replacement for good animal husbandry, though. It was our responsibility to ensure that our heifers received the care needed to sustain a harsh, northern Maine winter.
To assess our heifers’ health and condition on a daily basis, we continued with our twice-daily herd checks over the winter months. Whenever we approached the herd, it was an automatic act for us to immediately get a head count of the herd.
Once everyone was accounted for, we would check on each heifer individually. Since our heifers were pregnant, we were paying special attention to any signs of a miscarriage, such as bleeding.
At one point during the winter, we noticed that our herd was having a major lice problem. So, we applied a pour-on delouser to each heifer. This is something we may not have noticed if not for our herd checks.
On our farm, we strive to maintain a grass/roughage-only diet with mineral supplements and when needed, protein such as barley. Therefore, throughout the winter, our heifers had access to hay and a mineral supplement high in copper and selenium, which our soils in northern Maine are deficient in. Prior to hay feeding in the fall, we provided 1-2 lbs/head/day of barley to supplement the lower quality grass that our cattle were feeding on in late fall.
By providing our pregnant heifers with a consistent supply of high-quality hay and mineral throughout the winter, we hoped for them to be in the best possible condition coming out of winter. Springtime would bring calving and shortly thereafter, another breeding season. We wanted our heifers to be strong and healthy, with the endurance required to handle labor and delivery, the summer breeding season and hopefully, another pregnancy while still providing milk for their calves.
Springtime would also bring green grass and a return to our rotational pasture grazing; it is at this time that we expect to see an increased rate of gain as compared to the winter months. The amount of food consumed during the winter months tends to slow down, with animals displaying compensatory gain in the springtime when on pasture. They are eating to make up for any losses they incurred, weight wise, during the winter.
Shelter/Cover and Pasture Safety
Through the course of the winter, our heifers hay bale grazed in three separate sections on our farm. In each of these three sections, they had access to hay, water (mainly in the form of snow), mineral and shelter.
Since we currently do not having any housing for animals on our farm, our heifers sought cover/shelter during inclement weather in wooded areas (e.g., fir, spruce, cedar, dogwood, alder, birch, aspen and willow stands).
As we did during the grazing season, we continued with our pasture and fence checks. We repaired fence as needed and checked for any dangerous objects and removed them.
In particular, we wanted to remove any objects that the heifers could get tangled up in such as twine and string from the bales and tarps and the tarps themselves.
In addition, we had daily maintenance with our hay bales, and shoveling snow and chipping away at ice was an almost daily task.
To help organize our thoughts and observations during the winter months, we continued with our note-taking and record keeping for both the cattle (health, nutrition, etc) and the property (fence damage, snow level, temperatures, etc).
We made notes when the fence line disappeared under the snow pack, when the voltage on the electric fence plummeted with high snow pack and so on.
It takes work to tend to a cattle herd – no matter the size – during the winter months and when your winter season lasts half your year, the daily grind can become pretty monotonous and tiring.
On days when the wind was blowing and the snow was piled high, I would remind myself, as I was trudging my way to the herd, that I signed up for the whole kit and kaboodle when I became a cattle owner. Not just the sunny and warm days. It is not supposed to be easy.
That doesn’t mean we don’t enjoy what we are doing. You have to love this way of life – hard knocks and all. Jeremiah and I embrace that this way of life is hard. Life as a cattle owner will stretch your limits, your pockets and your patience beyond what you thought you could ever handle. It will break some and make others. We hope to be in the latter category. 🙂
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The elevator door lock is the locking device for car door and landing door (usually refers to landing door). Normally, the landing door does not be opened without unlock device, which it is protecting the passenger safe. So the door lock is the important safety device for elevator.
Today, ElevatorVip.com will take the SELCOM Elevator Door Lock as an example to introduce in following:
Structure of SELCOM Elevator Door Lock
The elevator door lock is mainly composed of look hook, lock ring, force unit, roller, door wheel for unlocking, electrical safety contact, and triangular door lock.
- Lock Hook and Lock Ring consists of locking results, which ensures the landing door does not be opened, the meshing depth up to 7mm, and the endurance over 1000N.
- Force Unit is used to reset door lock automatically after landing door opening, which is the resetting device, even if it fails, gravity will not unlock the door.
- Roller and Door Wheel of Unlocking are used for unlocking door, when elevator arriving, the door motor transfers power through a series of mechanisms, and eventually the door vane drives the roller and door wheel to open the landing door.
- Electrical Safety Contact is used to detect hook and lock ring is meshed together up to 7mm, or not. Once the electrical safety contact is opened, the elevator shall not be run.
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I’ve written about both 225Ac-DOTATATE targeted alpha therapy (TAT) and Capecitabine before but never as a concomitant pair (combo). So, when this Indian study came up on my radar, I felt it was a useful addition to my website adding to my existing targeted alpha therapy portfolio of information. India appears to be using more of this type of PRRT than any other country.
Read more about targeted alpha therapy by clicking here or on the photo below.
Read more about Capecitabine (combo with Temozolomide) by clicking here or on the photo below.
The abstract from the Indian study is posted and cited below.
Rationale: Although the short-term results of targeted alpha therapy (TAT) with 225Ac-DOTATATE in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) have proven effective, none have assessed the long-term outcome results. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the long-term outcome of 225Ac-DOTATATE targeted alpha therapy (TAT) in patients with somatostatin receptor (SSTR)-expressing advanced-stage metastatic gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs). Methods: Patients with 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT scans showing moderate-to-high SSTR expression were recruited. Systemic TAT was performed in 91 adults with GEP-NET [54 males, and 37 females] mean age 54 years (y) (range: 25-75y)] using 225Ac-DOTATATE (100-120 kBq/kg body weight). All patients were given capecitabine therapy as a radiosensitizer (dose 2 g/day) from day 0 to 14 of every 225Ac-DOTATATE treatment cycle. Patients were categorized into three groups based on the status of prior 177Lu-PRRT: prior 177Lu-PRRT-refractory-group; prior 177Lu-PRRT-disease-control group; and 177Lu-PRRT naïve group. Primary endpoints were overall survival (OS), and secondary endpoints included progression-free survival (PFS), objective tumour response, clinical response, and the assessment of treatment-related toxicities. Results: Among the 91 patients, 57 underwent prior 177Lu-DOTATATE therapy [24 disease controlled (PR/SD), 33 progressive diseases (PD)]. A total of 453 225Ac-DOTATATE TAT cycles were administered [median four cycles per patient; range 1-10] in a median follow-up duration of 24 months (range 5-41mo). Median OS was not attained with a 24-month overall survival probability of 70.8%. In multivariate analysis, prognostic factors associated with a poor OS included, the presence bone metastases [HR: 2.501; 95% CI: 1.826 – 5.791; P<0.032], and 225Ac-DOTATATE therapy refractory disease [HR: 8.781; 95% CI: 3.843 – 20.062; P<0.0001]. Median PFS was also not reached with a 24-month progression-free survival probability of 67.5%. The multivariate analysis revealed only 177Lu-PRRT refractory disease significantly associated with a reduced PFS. [HR: 14.338; 95% CI: 1.853 – 97.698; P = 0.011]. Two of 79 patients (2.5%) with assessable disease experienced complete response; 38 (48%) had a partial response, 23 (29%) had SD, and 16 (20.2%) had PD. PD was observed in more patients from the prior 177Lu-PRRT-refractory group (11/33; 34%) as compared to 177Lu-PRRT-naïve patients (4/24; 11%), P-0.056. Patients from the prior 177Lu-PRRT-refractory group had the highest risk of poor PFS [HR:13.91; 95% CI: 4.45 – 42.271; P = 0.0009]. A significant clinical benefit was achieved post 225Ac-DOTATATE therapy with minimal treatment-related toxicities. Conclusion: The long-term results reveal 225Ac-DOTATATE TAT has shown promising results and improves overall survival, even in patients refractory to prior 177Lu-DOTATATE treatment, with transient and acceptable adverse effects.
Survival Outcomes in Metastatic Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Patients receiving Concomitant 225Ac-DOTATATE Targeted Alpha Therapy and Capecitabine: A Real-world Scenario Management Based Long-term Outcome Study | Journal of Nuclear Medicine (snmjournals.org)
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became world-famous, with palatial quarters which culminated in the consolidation on Fifth avenue a few years ago. It is doubtful if the world ever saw a finer equipment under one roof.
The first professional regularly appearing journal issued in America was in 1850, and is called the Daguerrian Journal, redacted by S. D. Humphreys. The first two volumes intact are preserved in the public library, Manhattan. It appeared semi-monthly; and the scribe, in going through the old tomes, found them more interesting than one would imagine. Each issue is entertaining to the person interested in the lore of the profession.
Among the earliest advertisers, are the Scovill Manufacturing Co. daguerreotype materials, with the Anthony Company in close contact with their advertisement. They announce more daguerrian goods as being stocked than their friendly rivals. The Scovill firm was then a small place on Maiden Lane, later on Beekman street; the Anthony people had a more pretentious-looking establishment near St. Paul's church, with a stoop outside. There is a good view, full page print, of it in the public library. It looks very quaint to-day, when we think of the colossal buildings now on and about the spot.
The word "photograph” does not occur in this the first professional journal in America. Everything is "daguerrian" or "daguerreotype," even all through the advertisements of which these are numerous. The subscription was $3 per annum. There are no illustrations; the few plate-pictures announced, disappeared kleptomaniacally, no one knows when. I was surprised to learn from an official source in the library, that the greatest sinners in the book-mutilating line were reverend divines and ladies.
In these days, "daguerreotype” was the word. Look up old Manhattan directories of the '40's and '50's, and the word "photographer" will not be found, but there are dozens of "daguerreotypers.” After the '60's, "photographer” began to appear. It makes quaint reading to-day tu run over that column of studio operators of half a century ago.
EARLY ACHIEVEMENT IN PHOTOGRAPHY.
S AN interesting demonstration of Mr. Scandlin's refer
ence in a previous issue to the perfection of results in early photography we print in this number two illustrations from his collection of waxed paper negatives made by Victor Prevost in 1853.
These illustrations are from direct silver prints from the original negatives without artist work of any kind and the plates are untouched except to remove blemishes incident to reproduction.
Neither of these photographs has heretofore been reproduced. They form a part of a series made by
the French savant with the evident purpose of illustrating by the newly discovered process of photography, Alexander Dumas' famous novel “Twenty Years After.” Both views are in the forest of Compeigne, France, and others of the group show the Cathedral town of Soisson and places on the route taken by D'Artagnan, the hero, to the Castle Pierrefonds in his search for Porthos to join him in the great war of the Empire. Several of the views show the Castle Pierrefonds as it then stood, in a state of picturesque ruin. An interesting feature of the collection is to be found in the fact that the journey of Prevost over the routes taken by D'Artagnan was just two hundred years after the scene of the novel, which was laid in the spring of 1653. The negatives bear dates and titles unmistakably establishing their authenticity and form one of the most important and interesting exhibits of early photography extant. Comment upon their artistic and technical value is unnecessary. LAMPLIGHT EFFECTS OBTAINED BY DAYLIGHT ONLY.
BY H. ESSENHIGH CORKE, F.R.P.S.
OME time ago I contributed an article to this journal describing and giving illustrations to show how the effect of firelight could be successfully imitated and photographed by means of daylight only as the illuminant. The method was, briefly, to place the sitter close to a small clear space of window. Since then I have devised a rather novel method of producing the effect of lamplight in a similar manner, which will enable the operator after a very little trouble, to make perfect results every time. Such subjects as these firelight, lamplight, and other novel effects will prove very interesting for the amateur worker to experiment with and they will provide
the professional worker with excellent specimens which when exhibited in his window or gallery will at once attract considerable attention by reason of their novelty.
For professional use, also in actual practice, I have found them to make a very good sale as a special line such as for Christmas card work and moreover, for such work the professional can legitimately charge a slightly higher fee, both of which points will be found of great service in the end.
The chief difference between the production of lamplight effects and firelight effects, is that whereas in a firelight effect it is not necessary to show the actual (or supposed) fire, yet in a lamplight-effect portrait it is necessary that the actual lamp itself must be included in the picture and what is more, it must appear to be the actual source of light from which the lighting of the whole subject must proceed. This makes the production of such subjects rather more complicated than the production of firelight effect. The actual effect of lighting upon the sitter only is very much the same as it is in a firelight effect only instead of the light proceeding from a small space on a level with the sitter's feet it must proceed from a small opening in the window at about the normal level of the lamp. So that if we
block up all the window and only leave a small clear space of about one foot square to admit the light we shall at once obtain the correct effect upon the sitter. Then comes the most important and difficult part, that is the inclusion of the lamp. If we place an ordinary lamp between the source of light and the sitter we shall find we have two grave defects. Firstly, the lamp will be so lighted by the strong and concentrated light coming in the window that it will photograph like Fig. I, which certainly does not give us the effect of its being a light and being the source of light. And secondly, it will cast a distinct and large shadow upon some parts of the sitter which also will be entirely wrong. To obviate these two defects I have devised the following plan of working by which the same and correct effect can be obtained. We first take an ordinary lamp with a pretty silk shade and take it into a darkened room,remove the chimney and hang inside the shade upon a piece
of wire one-quarter of an inch of magnesium ribbon. Focus this in the camera and whilst the magnesium ribbon is burning make an exposure. For the correct exposure of such a subject be sure to use one-quarter of an inch ribbon and a well-backed fast plate, the lens being stopped to about 16.
Then from the negative make a bromide enlargement to the same size that the actual lamp used is. Mount the enlargement upon stiff cardboard and then cut away all the background, and put a strut back upon the cardboard so that it can be made to stand upright. Thus we have then a dummy lamp which may be placed in any desired position, and no matter at what angle the light falls upon it, it will always photograph if it
an actual lighted
lamp. Then by placing the lamp and the sitter in position as I have describel, we can make a perfectly straightforward exposure by means or ordinary daylight only.
As regards the length of exposure this must of course depend entirely upon the conditions under which each particular user works.
As a rough guide I may say that personally I use about one square foot of light, a rapid or extra rapid plate, and lens at f6, and find that upon a clear day about two seconds gives me good results.
Prints of these subjects give a better effect if printed in carbon and transferred on to an orange-colored final support, or they may be made in bromide and when dry stained by immersion in a suitable dye.
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Blogging for Beginners Vol. 4: The Optimal Sidebar
So far, our small series "Blogging for Beginners" has dealt with choosing the right domain and web host, and it also gave good advice on an essential equipment of plugins and a theme. On top of that, we have also compiled lots of useful tips, tricks, and resources for excellent content for you. Today, we'll talk about something that even experienced bloggers like to forget - the sidebar. The sidebar is the element that most blogs from all over the world like to neglect. Most of the time, it's either overloaded with tons of widgets or filled to the brim with advertisements. It seems like nobody puts thought into what makes a sidebar useful, and how it should be structured. That's why I'll give you a recommendation on what makes sense and what doesn't. But first, let's take a look at the things that can easily be done incorrectly.
Common Sidebar MistakesFor many bloggers, the sidebar seems to be the panacea for an extreme variety of features. However, this is not a good strategy. So, let's take a quick look at all the mistakes you can make when working on your sidebar:
1 - Too Many WidgetsA sidebar should not be overloaded. Not every widget that exists should be used. Here, you should precisely filter what's imperative. Tag-clouds, calendars, latest articles and comments, author biography, social media buttons, the latest videos, multiple newsletter forms, and ad banners. Your visitors will be overwhelmed by the mass of information, and won't perceive any of the features.
2 - Confusing Variety of WidgetsIf like mentioned in mistake number 1, you simply have too many functions and widgets in your sidebar, it can become confusing very quickly, resulting in the sidebar completely failing its purpose. Additionally, there might be visitors that will be scared off by a "messy sidebar." Visitors will struggle to find the purpose of the sidebar. Many people will then assume that the rest of your blog is likely the same.
3 - Keep all Default Widgets ActivatedWhen installing WordPress or activating a new theme, it's no surprise when many of the default widgets move into your sidebar. I recommend checking that, and removing all widgets.
4 - The Infamous Blog NetworksBlog networks might be great, but most of the time, they don't do much for you. These backlink banners don't belong into the sidebar. In my opinion, they don't even belong on a website at all. You will barely notice any traffic that comes from these networks, but in return, you give them a follow link to their website. They gain more visibility in the search results while you lose, as you don't receive any value in return. In addition to that, these buttons give your visitors a wrong impression, as they could easily assume that you were dependent on these networks. So, stay away from them! You don't need them.
Google Ads in the Sidebar? No![caption id="attachment_77322" align="alignnone" width="640"] No Google Ads in the Sidebar, it Won't do You Any Good![/caption] This is easily the worst mistake that novice bloggers can make. When starting a blog, you shouldn't put out any ads at all. Your goal is to gain readers. But that will only work when these readers can trust you. This can only be accomplished when they feel like you want to help solve a problem, entertain them, or transmit knowledge. On top of that, using Google Adsense will ruin your blog's loading time, which is a part of the Google index' ranking factors. There's only one reason to use advertisements on a blog: You have to make a living off of blogging. That's the only justification for ads on a blog. My personal blog, for example, is a (still rather small) part of my income that I need to make by writing. That's why you will find one single ad block of Google in the articles. There's also a static ad block for my eBook listed in the sidebar. That's it, and it will stay like that for a long time.
When, Where, and Why to Implement Google Adsense?In General: If you use Google Adsense ads, place them within the post, and only place a single one. For one, that's the best spot for ads, generating the most clicks, and second, users tolerate one Google ad. This space is already sufficient to produce a nice, passive income. However: Google Adsense is only worth it when you already have a decent amount of traffic on your blog. You definitely should avoid that for the first year, and even then, only implement an ad block when you have at least 20,000 visitors on your website each month. It won't be worth it below that since you'll only get a couple of cents. As there's a payment limit of 70 Euro at Google, you could also wait two years for the first money, given a moderate amount of visitor traffic. Is it worth it? Better stay away from ads. Very Clear: Google ads don't belong into the sidebar, neither do similar ads. That would be the best way to put off your visitors, getting less and less traffic, instead of gaining any. However, if you want to use an ad block within the articles, copy it, add this code, and place it in your theme's | <urn:uuid:ae813122-a1c3-451d-be9a-4f7b9ace4360> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.noupe.com/business-online/blogging-for-beginners-vol-4-the-optimal-sidebar-99135.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944185 | 1,154 | 1.640625 | 2 |
On July 8, according to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, China has added another two geological parks to its list of UNESCO World Geoparks. Now, the number of China's world geoparks has risen to 41, more than a quarter of the world's total geoparks, ranking the first in the world.
The Xiangxi World Geopark in central China's Hunan Province and Zhangye World Geopark in northwest China's Gansu Province were approved as UNESCO World Geoparks by the Executive Board of UNESCO at its 209th session.
The Xiangxi World Geopark boasts 160 Paleolithic and Neolithic cultural heritage sites, which witnessed the history of human civilization. This is the main settlement area of Tujia and Miao peoples, whose long history and cultures have created unique folk customs. The geology of this area records the formation process of the Yangtze Platform and the multiple tectonic evolution. The Zhangye World Geopark features color hills, composed of colorful folds of mudstone and sandstone, unique Danxia landform formed by natural erosion on the mountain and ophiolite suite. | <urn:uuid:e0698512-4dad-451b-a152-6c29dc6d345a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.cits.net/china-travel-news/china-adds-another-two-world-geoparks.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.928893 | 233 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Marwan's Gift to the Palestinian People
Fifty years after the Nakbe, world-renowned Syrian artist Marwan Qassab-Bashi has offered 74 of his works to the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah and Birzeit University. He donated these lithographs and watercolors in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in commemoration of the Nakbe.
According to Marwan, his main objective today is to build bridges between cultures all over the world. He himself embodies this principle, as a Syrian painter living in Berlin since 1956, where he is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. Arab and European influences fuse in his works. Although he sometimes desires to visit Syria more often he doesn't regret his move to the West. In Marwan's opinion, someone in exile often knows his homeland better than those who remain, because the exile knows what he has lost.
Marwan's greatest source of inspiration remains the experience of Syrian nature. As a child he often went to the countryside and frequently met with peasants and Bedouin. These were among the most important experiences of his life and influenced his career profoundly.
In the works he has donated to Palestine it is it is clear that nature, in the shape of landscapes and human faces, plays an important role. Marwan's landscapes however are neither realistic nor naturalistic. Ingeniously, he processes the contours into faces, leaving the viewer unsure if the form is a face or a landscape or both. His pictures are like clouds in the sky, seeming to shift and change - to become human or topographic or architectural in form. See in them anything you like. Marwan's pictures are a guide, stimulating the viewer's eye and imagination to create what they will.
Emotion plays an important part in this process. The pictures 'eat' into the soul. Those who look on begin to feel the loneliness of human existence as they see his androgynous creatures with their big frightening faces and gloomy gaze. Eroticism, violence, and loneliness are connected in his work and together create a pathetic image of man.
Marwan once told a German Professor, Jon Merkert from the Berlin Modern Art Museum, that some of these terrifying pictures were inspired by what he had seen in Palestinian refugee camps. Some portraits of boys, which are exhibited in Birzeit University, show extremely well how alarming life can be.
Undoubtedly Marwan feels connected with the Palestinian people and their struggle. Although he couldn't be present at the opening of the exhibition - he was unsure how the Syrian government would react - he was following the event from Amman. He even sent a message to the audience in which he stated, "I feel like a Palestinian ... your shame and honor are my shame and honor." He encouraged the Palestinian people by saying: "The Nakbe will end and joy will come."
During the opening of the exhibition at Birzeit University, on 15 April 1998, Hanan Ashrawi Minister for Higher Education, was presented with one of Marwan's pictures - a personal gift from the painter. For those who also would like to have his paintings at home but were not as lucky as Ashrawi to get one for free there is a beautiful catalogue called Marwan - For the children of Palestine. The proceeds of this catalogue will benefit local children's charities because according to Marwan, the children are the future of Palestine. | <urn:uuid:ce0189b8-6994-4667-a905-8b9c6c3f94af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.birzeit.edu/en/news/marwans-gift-palestinian-people | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979758 | 699 | 2.640625 | 3 |
If you or a loved one has been recently diagnosed with dementia, this article may be of some assistance to those who remain at home and do not go for aided care. It may be beneficial to keep on living at home as long as physically safe, as it provides comfort and a feeling of safety and control. We'll start with some general tips for a better quality of life, and then provide you with some specific tips and tricks you can start applying to your home today! In my opinion, everyone could benefit from some of the tips as they just make life easier.
What is the Difference Between Alzheimer's and Dementia?
Dementia is an umbrella term for a group of symptoms that impact memory and other cognitive skills such as communication, the daily performance of household activities, and awareness of surroundings. People who suffer from dementia may forget where they are or how they got there, how appliances work, they may experience troubles with mobility, and changes in hearing, vision, and perception of depth and temperature. The tips in the article are meant to cater to the needs of people who, despite those difficulties, can still manage themselves at home.
Alzheimer's disease can be included in the many symptoms of dementia. It mainly affects memory and cognitive functions. Patients will often feel disoriented or depressed. In the advanced stages of the disease, there will be difficulties speaking, swallowing, or walking.
Another important thing to know about the differences is that unlike Alzheimer's, dementia doesn't have a predictable development timeline, so the progress of the disease is different for each individual.
General Changes Around the Home
- When you first start making changes in your home, the best tip we can give you for guidance is to focus on prevention rather than caution. Instead of walking around a rug, for instance, remove it altogether.
- Make sure your house is well lit. Open the curtains, cut any vegetation outside the windows that could be over-shading your home, and if needed, add some lamps that will also contribute to the feeling of warmth.
- Keep family photos and happy memorabilia around the home for good spirits. You might be facing some struggles along your journey, and looking back on happy memories will keep you in good spirits. You can stroll down our many nostalgic posts as well.
- Spending time outside will be beneficial. If you have a garden and you enjoy it, consider adding a birdbath or a bird feeder to attract some welcome avian visitors. Make sure your outdoor sitting area is well shaded so you can spend the time comfortably and safely.
- Research how can you use technology to help you. Nowadays there are sensors for gas leaks, smoke, water temperature, and many more potentially hazardous incidents that will alert or switch off your devices before anything bad happens. You can even purchase an automated feeder for your pet.
- Call in your family and host a de-cluttering day. Your home should be organized, easy to navigate, and clutter-free. These projects will do the trick in no time!
Some Specific Tips
- Labels, labels, labels! Tag any and everything you can. Post-it notes will be of good use here.
Mark on every light switch what it controls and where the on and off ones are. Label the hot and cold water on the faucet as well.
- Speaking of post-its, these will come in handy with any and all storage solutions. You can keep a shortlist of the content of a drawer, or use a post-it that says "socks" for example. Keeping a kitchen cabinet inventory list will also be helpful.
- Keep a phonebook by your phone with large font numbers and names. You can also include photos for easy recognition.
- Pop on some colors to help you distinguish between things. We recommend painting all sorts of knobs, doors, or door frames, and purchasing brightly colored pillows to put on the couches.
- Purchase a large face clock and calendar to keep up with the times. Alternatively, choose a smart/digital one that will always display the correct time and date and will update to daylight savings automatically.
- Install grab rails around the stairs and inside the shower.
- Hang a sign on the bathroom door to signal to yourself (and visitors) where it is. Consider using brightly colored tissues, paper rolls, and a brightly colored toilet seat. The bright colors will help you find these items if you experience difficulties with vision.
- Have a designated area to drop the mail and keys, and a designated brightly colored box for all remotes. Label all remotes. You can tape down with black tape any buttons you don't use and keep only the on-off, volume, and channel buttons visible.
- If you're considering a heavy-duty renovation, make sure to not choose shiny flooring. When choosing a color for the walls, avoid patterns as they are confusing. In the garden, you can install raised flower beds for easy gardening.
- Make sure your garden is enclosed and secure to prevent wandering off.
- Use clear containers for food you store in the fridge. If you want to go the extra mile you can even tag them with post-it notes. You might want to replace your plates with a lightweight, breakproof material.
- Hang all your clothes in a hanging closet, so that browsing will be easy.
- Avoid harmful chemicals. You can either lock them away if you have a caregiver that helps with cleaning or simply switch to harmless natural cleaners. We have plenty of DIY alternatives for you:
A natural all-purpose cleaner
An oven cleaner
A rust stain remover
A dishwasher detergent, a fabric refresher, and a laundry soap
A window cleaner
- You may notice reflections and mirrors bother you. You can simply cover those with a fabric.
And finally, help yourself to a collection of resources:
1. Information source for Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
2. Information and tips for caregivers.
3. An online book for tips in the format of an Ikea catalog.
4. An online booklet on further tips for making your home dementia safe.
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After many years of driving the same old surpass-up clunker of the automobile, it offers eventually divided. If you listen to the phrase transmission emerge from the mechanic’s jaws, you understand it’s time and energy to begin shopping for a new motor vehicle. This situation may seem familiarized. When it comes time and energy to invest in a used or new automobile, many possible buyers ponder regardless of whether leasing or buying the car is the best choice for them.
Each purchasing and renting has positives and negatives. Getting an automobile in full has been the conventional technique for most American citizens. Nonetheless, because the fee for getting a car has risen, so has the size of car financing. In past times it used to be probable to get rid of a new car in a few years. However with the growing price ranges, to help keep the monthly obligations very low, it now will take lengthier and much longer to settle a funded car. Despite that, lots of people favor owning a vehicle completely to leasing because of the mobility. A vehicle proprietor can sell the car whenever he wishes. Also, right after the monthly payments are produced, the consumer may have whole acquisition of your vehicle. In addition, there are actually no mileage penalties if you purchase an auto.
Leasing a car is often a more sensible choice for individuals who desire to push a nicer auto, but don’t have the cash to get it in full. Typically renting needs little if any advance payment and monthly premiums are decrease. Leasing also makes it possible to drive a brand new car every single several years, rather than driving a vehicle till it wears out. Even so, a problem with leasing is the fact that car dealership will frequently have miles regulations in the Auto abonnement voor Seat leased car. Also, somebody by using a leased car becomes no worth from your auto. The home equity in the vehicle is among the dealership as soon as the rent is up, the user will be without having an auto. Prior to selecting both strategies, be sure to analysis every choice very carefully to discover which the best is for you. | <urn:uuid:074b9f42-81be-4b66-bfe2-d174bf573bc9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.lilolipo.net/2022/automobile/getting-a-car-or-leasing-a-car/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966867 | 430 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The basic technique of English Paper Piecing is that of folding pieces of cut fabric over a paper template of a particular, usually geometric, shape (square, hexagon etc), which is then sewn to others of similar or complementary shapes, to make up a quilt block and subsequently a whole quilt. I won’t go into detail about the process here because there are so many helpful posts and videos on Utube and Pinterest showing you how to do it and also because some people like to do it slightly differently from others. I stick to the traditional way but shortcuts have been found that might suit you better. I feel it’s best to check out as many tutorials as you can and find your own way. However, if you have a question, please ask and I will try and help.
Here is a video clip from Sew Easy by Fons & Porter on Utube to give you a general idea about EPP as a technique. They are piecing hexagons which is the most popular EPP shape for beginners but if you get hooked you can tackle lots more shapes.
Advantages of EPP
- It is portable. You can sew while you watch television, sew while you sit on a park bench as your children play or sew on long car journeys. All you need is a small box to hold all your supplies.
- No specialist tools are necessary. All you really need to get started is a needle, thread, fabric and scrap paper.
- Fabric is folded over a precisely cut shape and so precision can be achieved more readily using this technique
- It lends itself to modern as well as to vintage fabrics.
- Inset seams are not a problem, your paper pieces don’t have to work with the grain of the fabric and small adjustments can easily be made as you go. Seam ripping, when necessary, is easy and projects where mistakes have been made, rarely need to be abandoned. Adjustments are easy without having to rip out everything.
- The paper pieces act as a stabiliser so that you don’t have to worry about stretching occurring along the bias edge.
- It’s simpler. Much less measuring is needed which is great for those of us, like me, who are not great with numbers.
- You don’t need a pattern to follow. You can work out what you need to do from a picture and just adjust the size to your liking. And it’s easy to create your own designs.
- Hand stitching is relaxing, therapeutic even.
- It is a technique that can be used to create applique motifs.
- Many different shapes can be used. Although the hexagon has become the most well known, many other shapes can be used, such as squares, rectangles and triangles, elongated hexagons (which include coffin shapes), half hexagons, pentagons (which include jewel shapes) diamonds, tumblers, octagons and curved shapes such as apple cores and clamshells. From my experiments I have found that almost any shape can be used. You can make a Crazy Quilt out of EPP shapes.
Disadvantages of EPP
I can’t think of many disadvantages…but then I’m biased!
- It is all done by hand.
- It looks different from machine work. I prefer the look of hand stitched work but others may not.
- The stitches can show, especially until you get more experiences. Some people don’t like this. There are ways of making the stitches less visible but this may be slower at first. Whipstitch is the stitch recommended for strength and durability but some people prefer ladder stitch or flat back stitch because stitches are less visible (you can find videos on YouTube). As you can see from the video above the trick with whipstitching is to catch a few stitches at the top only and not to dig down into the fabric and to “pull them snug” as they say. It help if you keep your nails pinching the fabric just above the paper piece inside, then your stitches can’t go lower.
- It is not fast. It is hand work, relaxing, therapeutic and takes the time it takes. You can make up time by being able to do it anywhere your sewing machine can’t go.
- Paper pieces need to be made or bought. (For a small amount of money buying your pieces does eliminate all the measuring, tracing and cutting involved in making your own templates and the purchased pieces can be reused several times over.)
- You can’t finish projects very fast. If you are someone who likes to whizz through projects over a weekend, EPP probably isn’t for you.
- Some shapes such as those on art quilts might be difficult
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Martin Evans, last week awarded the Nobel prize for medicine, is rethinking his retirement plans. The discovery of embryonic stem cells in mice was groundbreaking, but creating "knock-out" mice to isolate and identify particular genes earned him and his colleagues the career-crowning prize. When the beaming "father" of stem cell research proclaims, "We will have the therapeutic medicine without the embryos. And it’s not a matter of if, but when," one wonders why he seems not to acknowledge that there are already existing stem cell cures and therapies for an impressive number of conditions, including sickle cell anaemia, and various cancers… without the embryos.
There is enormous potential for adult stem cell therapies. Earlier this month, the Michigan Catholic Conference launched a slick stem cell education campaign featuring a newly produced DVD and letters to hundreds of thousands of homes across the state. Other state Catholic Conferences are following Michigan's lead. By no means is this just a "Catholic thing". Pioneers in bio-tech industry and legislators from local districts up to Washington have joined the crusade. A new Federal bill, The Patient’s First Act of 2007, which single-mindedly promotes adult stem cell research with the intent to expedite the development and delivery of cures and therapies to patients — awaits review in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Recently, MercatorNet spoke with Dr Alan Moy, CEO of Cellular Engineering Technologies (CET), and Director of the recently formed John Paul II Stem Cell Research Institute (JP2SRI), a not-for-profit, non-denominational organisation which educates the public about adult stem cell sources and promotes research by providing adult stem cells and bio-engineered tissues. Based out of Iowa City, the institute will become a centre of cooperative research where biotech industry, private organisations and academia can establish adult stem cell treatments. In short, it will be a center for research in an ethical environment.
MercatorNet: Dr Moy, what led you to step out of the safe world of government funded research at the University of Iowa and to add exponentially to your work load as a private-practice physician and CEO of an emerging bio-tech company, to found the JP2SRI?
Moy: Part was circumstance and the other was identified need for JP2SRI.
My company, CET, had developed the methods to isolate just about all of the major adult stem cells and stem cells from placenta and cord blood. These stem cells are approved for pre-clinical research and not for clinical use. Clinical research is outside the scope of CET. A company like CET is looking at short-term investments and clinical adult stem cell research requires a long-term horizon.
Adult stem cell research is not conducted by many scientists because scientists do not have access to adult stem cells because it requires significant resources (recruiting patients, collect tissues, storage, processing and growing stem cells). This is a daunting task which is a barrier for scientists. So CET provides that work so that scientists can work on adult stem cell research.
Presently JP2SRI works to advance adult stem cell research by providing select researchers with adult stem cells at no charge from CET. These scientists that we collaborate with do not perform embryonic stem cell research.
MercatorNet: Virtually everyone has heard of stem cells, but few are aware of the very basic distinction between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells sources…
Moy: Adult stem cells offer these advantages: no ethical controversy, none to minimal risk of immune rejection, and reduced cost and time to harvest and grow up an initial stem cell line from adult tissue than from embryonic sources. They have some potential disadvantages: restricted ability to become more diverse tissue cells, and -– although an advantage in terms of genetic stability, they have a restricted lifespan in culture. Stem cells derived from human embryos offer these advantages: they can be maintained in culture for a long time and they have wide diversity. But, they have their problems: genetic instability, rejection potential, ethical controversy, difficult to culture and expensive and laborious, and they form tumours.
MercatorNet: Autologous stem cell therapies have taken off like a rocket, producing results impacting a wide range of diseases. Cardiology has been notably affected by adult stem cell therapies -– surgeons are promising new, living heart valves for children with heart defects. A recent news item featured a story about a child with an otherwise hopeless blood disorder, infantile osteopetrosisa, treated successfully with T-cells from his father. Why the hype over embryonic stem cells? Will it ever lead to real cures?
Moy: It's a big leap for embryonic scientists to promise that embryonic stem cells will lead to cures. There are too many scientific, ethical and business hurdles that have to be overcome for embryonic stem cells to be considered a therapy that will be adopted by industry. You have to clone to overcome rejection and cloning has never been accomplished in humans or primates. In addition, you have to overcome to tumour formation.
The bottom line is that they are over-excited by a behaviour observed in a Petri dish, and several more steps have to be proven before embryonic stem cells can be considered promising.
Embryonic stem cells are not well designed for large scale production, unlike adult stem cells — so there are significant cost and manufacturing constraints. There are major ethical hurdles that prevent them from being adopted by the public. If you somehow could clone and eliminate the tumour risk, 70 per cent of the public is against cloning. This restricts the market for such companies to jump into such commercial activities. Finally, cloning is not a solution for treating a genetic disorder like juvenile diabetes.
MercatorNet: So why the focus on funding embryonic stem cell research?
Moy: Because the media and the most vocal scientists talk up embryonic stem cell research. This has nothing to do with reality.
MercatorNet: What are the biggest obstacles to adult stem cell research?
Moy: The biggest challenges are: access to tissue donation, such as cord blood, and financial support from philanthropic donors towards JP2SRI. You can't conduct clinical research without substantial financial support.
MercatorNet: Why does tissue donation remain an obstacle? Don’t we have public blood and tissue banks?
Having banks is only part of the solution. There is still insufficient tissue that is donated to such banks. The bigger need is processing the tissue and purifying and growing up adult stem cells. Adult stem cells represent a very small fraction of cells within an organ –- fewer than one per cent. It's essentially like finding a needle in a haystack. The amount that you isolate is too small for pre-clinical and clinical research applications, and thus processes must be developed to grow those stem cells for researchers to conduct experiments. Once you increase the number of stem cells, you don't know whether they behave like the original stem cells.
MercatorNet: Why do we need to privately fund adult stem cell research. Doesn’t the government fund it anyway?
Moy: The government funds research to an extent, but the amount of money devoted towards adult stem cell research as a percent of the nation's research budget is quite low. Also, there are few stem cell scientists in the US. So many states are creating their own stem cell initiatives, which are supporting both adult and embryonic -– with some tilting more to embryonic. This creates major problems in which secular institutes are being supported with public tax-paying dollars to support bio-medical research that is unethical. Further, many private foundations are now supporting embryonic stem cell research. So there is a need for a pro-life counter.
MercatorNet: Your specialty is pulmonary medicine -– have your experiences as a physician played a part in the founding of the Institute?
Moy: I care for many patients on a day to day basis with diseases that theoretically could be treated with stem cells that are kept in a freezer in my lab. It's hard for me to sit on these stem cells and not try to advance these treatments.
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Banks to open “once normalcy restored”
In an ongoing Twitter debate which began on Oct. 24, commentators vented anger on behalf of Lebanon’s population, which has been without banking services for more than a week.
Following civil unrest, banks everywhere closed their doors. Six working days later, a senior banking executive said the status quo would continue until conditions improved.
“Once normalcy is restored, we are very confident that we can resume servicing our customers in full capacity,” Salim Sfeir, head of local lender Bank of Beirut, told Reuters on Thursday.
Previously, long queues were seen at ATMs as worried consumers attempted to access their wealth. Around 65% of Lebanon is banked, figures say, leaving two-thirds of the country cut off from personal funds.
Taleb: shutdown “most potent case for crypto”
For well-known Lebanese statistician, former trader and author of “The Black Swan,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the government’s policy was enough to directly endorse cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
“The most potent case for cryptocurrencies: banks are never there when you need them,” he summarized in a tweet. Taleb continued:
“And they are trying to bully the public so they avoid accountability and profit disbursements. Bankers are legal crooks.”
The anger is reminiscent of other recent episodes of economic chaos, during which states have withheld money for their own purposes. In addition to Hong Kong this year, an infamous example is India, which in 2016 began a series of botched currency reforms which left hundreds of millions of people holding worthless notes.
India’s taste for Bitcoin soon increased dramatically, before a hardline policy saw its exchange sector all but evaporated last year.
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Stevie Nicks, rock icon, songwriter, feminist… and a witch? Those familiar with the singer will also be familiar with the Rumours that plagued the singer from the beginning of her career. With allegations of critics hearing her speak in archaic tongues, to enchanting crowds and her penchant for black and witchy outfits, Nicks never seemed to be able to escape the conspiracy theories. Now at age 73, we can look back at her glorious career and see where all the witch stuff came from!
The singer had always had an affinity for Halloween since she was a small child. Dressing up was one of her favourite things to do and with her mother as a talented seamstress, Nicks revelled in all her handmade costumes and even dyed some of them black. In her late 20’s the singer, along with then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham would create the chart-topping and timeless band, Fleetwood Mac. Nicks achieved stardom primarily through her role as lead singer and as a songwriter for the band.
Her excellent songwriting contributed largely to the band’s global success, and we can thank her for songs such as Dreams and Landslide. One of the bands’ hits, Rhiannon, became the smoking gun in the witch conspiracies. When performing the song she would introduce it as a song about a witch and the critics went crazy for it and this is where the rumours really spiralled.
It was upon the release of the album ‘Rumours’, that, ironically, the rumours reached a point that Nicks actually did begin to worry as she started receiving concerning letters that made her fear for her life. She even said in the LA Times, “In the beginning of my career, the whole idea that some wacky, creepy people were writing, ‘You’re a witch, you’re a witch!’ was so arresting. And there I am like, ‘No, I’m not! I just wear black because it makes me look thinner you idiots.’”
People were so eager to infer more from Nicks’ mystical stage persona and with Fleetwood Mac under financial and critical stress, she dropped the aesthetic almost completely, swapping her beloved black outfits for apricot ones. Alas, the rumours never truly died down but have become a favourite topic for interviews and talk shows.
Fortunately, it appears that Nicks, now 73 and with no plans of retiring on the horizon, has since embraced her style and witchy vibe. The icon even appeared in ‘Coven,’ the third season of American Horror Story, as herself playing a witch with renditions of Rhiannon, Seven Wonders, and plenty of shawl twirling. She even blessed us with another appearance in the eighth season, ‘Apocalypse,’ and a rendition of Gypsy.
Regardless of rumours, Nicks has been cemented as an icon for witch-lovers and shawl twirlers everywhere. During the Covid-19 pandemic, things have become a bit quieter around Nicks. She takes the pandemic extremely seriously and has cancelled a tour voicing concerns about her safety. She has said that the risk of not properly recovering from Covid and therefore no longer being able to sing and perform, would kill her. Stevie Nicks’ magical voice and aura will hopefully soon enchant and inspire the public again!
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Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a Martial Art that teaches you to honor yourself and others through physical and mental growth. The art promotes a healthy lifestyle for any age or gender as it will teach you how to develop your physical, as well as, mental strength. It will increase confidence and leadership skills by strengthening your ability to problem solve and building the mental fortitude to enhance grit. Jiu Jitsu will improve your physical endurance and agility, as well as your focus. We offer a variety of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu classes in a group setting, which are separated by age group for kids, as well as, private one-on-one sessions.
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January 4, 2018 – John Stonestreet “That Which We Have Seen With Our Eyes”
What do a Greek-speaking Egyptian rebel and an ancient king of the Nabateans have in common? They both point to the reliability of the Bible.
One of the most popular topics we cover at BreakPoint is the way that archaeology and related disciplines are continually confirming the biblical narrative.
It’s easy to see why so many Christians respond to this topic: unlike other faiths, Christianity is rooted in real human history. It tells the story of God’s actions in the same world that you and I occupy, as opposed to some mythical “once upon a time.”
The September/October 2017 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) presents the latest entry in a series of articles listing biblical figures whose existence have been confirmed in extra-biblical historical sources and/or archaeology.
The editors of BAR have told the author, Lawrence Mykytiuk of Purdue University, that his previous entries are among the most popular articles ever published in the magazine, whose readership is a combination of scholars and very well-read laymen. In his last entry, Mykytiuk focuses on political figures named in the New Testament. Some of them, like the four Roman emperors named in the New Testament, are obviously well-attested. Something similar can be said about the plague of the Herodians that feature prominently in the Gospels and the book of Acts.
But the New Testament writers don’t stop at the obvious. They, especially Luke and Paul, provide details that only someone who lived through the events or spoke to an eye-witness could provide. One confirmed example is found in 2 Corinthians 11. Paul tells the Corinthians that “At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me.”
Aretas, “a contemporary of Herod Antipas,” was a real person whose existence has been documented by both extra-biblical sources and archaeology. Coins and other artifacts bearing his name have been found from what’s now Jordan to Italy. What we know of his life and reign outside of the Bible argues for the historicity of Paul’s account.
A more obscure example is found in Acts 21. Paul has returned to Jerusalem, where he knows that imprisonment and possibly death await him. He is attacked by a mob at the Temple and only survives because he is rescued by Roman soldiers. The commander, upon hearing Paul speak Greek, says “Are you not the Egyptian, then, who recently stirred up a revolt and led four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?” Paul replied that no, he was a Jew from Tarsus, which he called “no mean city.”
This exchange was a reference to a rebellion chronicled by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. There was an Egyptian, who would have spoken Greek, who lead a violent uprising involving thousands of men in the wilderness at around the same time as the events in Acts.
While the Romans put down the insurrection, the Egyptian escaped and was believed to be in or near Jerusalem. Thus, what Luke records in Acts is exactly the kind of exchange that would have taken place at that time between Roman troops and suspicious Greek-speaking strangers.
These are just two examples of many, written in both parchments and in the very ground of the Holy Land, that attest to the reliability of Scripture and the historical nature of Christian revelation. You see, instead of being myths and fables or even disembodied ideals, Christian proclamation is about, as 1 John says, that “which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched . . .”
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The roles of teacher and students via blended problem-based learning: Improving students’ mastery of three representation levels of chemistry
The current practice in teaching Chemistry subject is found to be teacher-centered where teachers engage actively in transmitting knowledge while students act as passive recipients of knowledge. This might affect students’ mastery in learning three representation levels of Chemistry (macroscopic, microscopic and symbolic). As a result, students tend to form a non-scientific understanding and develop an alternative concept. The shift to Blended Problem-based Learning (BPBL) is therefore potential to help overcome this problem. Thus, this study is aimed at investigating the roles of teacher and students in overcoming the formation of alternative concepts for three representation levels of Chemistry in BPBL. This study applies a case study research design. Two teachers and 20 students from two different Fully Residential Schools are selected using purposive sampling technique. Data are collected through observations and students’ documents, and analysed thematically. Overall, the findings of this study shows that teacher acts as mediator in giving immediate feedbacks and corrections on students’ alternative concept while students act as evaluator in analyzing and evaluating other group’s answers. As a conclusion, the implementation of BPBL is found beneficial to overcome the formation of alternative concept and thus helps to improve students’ mastery of three representation levels of Chemistry.
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EU-funded project looks at gut microbiome’s influence on health and well-being (MyNewGut)Last Updated : 01 June 2014
Gut microbiota and health
Currently there is a lack of detailed understanding of the role of the gut microbiome in health and well-being. In-depth knowledge of the gut microbiome could lead to the development of dietary interventions, allowing more control of the functions of the gut microbiome, preventing diet-related and behavioural disorders.
The gut microbiota is the population of microbes living in the human intestines. A large body of evidence supports the notion that the gut microbiota and its genome (the microbiome) play a role in human development and physiology. Microbiome-related functions depend on many lifestyle factors which in turn help to determine a person’s health status and their risk of developing diet- and brain-related disorders. These factors include a person’s diet, eating habits and even the method of how a baby is delivered at birth, etc. – age and gender features also play their part. These factors may influence the communication and function of the gut, brain and peripheral tissues such as in the liver, pancreas and adipose tissue (body fat).
Aims of the MyNewGut project
The MyNewGut project (http://www.mynewgut.eu) will make the findings from basic human microbiome science useful for promoting healthier lifestyles to the public. This is a five-year project that started in December 2013. MyNewGut will address questions regarding the role and impact of the microbiome on human health in four main areas:
- Investigating the role of the gut microbiome and its specific components in nutrient metabolism and energy balance.
- Understanding the influence of environmental factors on the gut microbiome, in pregnancy and during a baby’s development, and its impact on brain, immune system and metabolic health.
- Identifying specific gut microbiome components and associated metabolic functions that contribute to and predict obesity, eating disorders and co-morbidities.
- Developing new food ingredients and food prototypes, by collaborating with EU food industry, that target the gut ecosystem and contribute to reducing the risks of metabolic- and brain-related disorders.
The MyNewGut project will achieve its aims by undertaking tightly controlled epidemiological (that look at the incidence and distribution of disease in a population) and human intervention studies (that test the effectiveness of specific treatments or preventive measures). Large-scale technologies and computational techniques will also be used. This will enhance understanding of the extent to which gut microbiota and gut microbiome are modified by diet.
Anticipated outcomes of MyNewGut research
The MyNewGut project is focused on providing strong scientific evidence of the role of the gut microbiome in the development and function of brain, gut and peripheral tissues. The outcomes of the project fall into three categories: enhancing scientific knowledge, enhancing public health recommendations and improving industrial innovation and competitiveness.
MyNewGut plans to enhance scientific knowledge by defining the components and metabolites of the gut microbiome, which regulate metabolism of consumed foods and energy balance. The project will also study interactions between the gut microbiome, the human body and lifestyle factors that influence the risk of diet-related disorders such as obesity and behavioural disorders. The impact of gut and brain interactions in childhood and adulthood will also be explored. This robust scientific evidence and knowledge will enhance public-health recommendations.
Furthermore, the knowledge gained from the project will be used to produce new food products and ingredients with potential benefits to consumers’ health and the generation of scientific data will support industrial innovation, contributing to health claims substantiation.
The MyNewGut consortium
The MyNewGut project is a multidisciplinary research consortium, comprising 30 partners from 15 countries and is led by Prof. Yolanda Sanz of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The project brings together experts in brain research, computational modelling, immunology, microbiology, nutrition, physiology, and omics-technologies, such as metagenomics and metabolomics, from EU and non-EU countries.
The MyNewGut project (Microbiome's influence on energy balance and brain development/function put into action to tackle diet-related diseases and behaviour) has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration. Grant Agreement no: 613979. | <urn:uuid:ecf14d97-5f69-423d-9925-983799137eae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eufic.org/en/collaboration/article/eu-funded-mynewgut-project-looks-at-gut-microbiomes-influence-on-health-and | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.905155 | 894 | 2.84375 | 3 |
School and law enforcement officials in Central Florida’s Volusia County are to be commended for their efforts to prepare sheriff’s deputies and other first responders for a possible school shooting.
Shortly after the 1999 Columbine massacre, the sheriff’s department began training to preserve life and property with an emphasis on being able to get kids safely away from a school where a shooting incident was in progress.
One officer said: “We started to prepare for what we thought of as unthinkable.”
Since then, the department has grown ever more sophisticated in its preparations. Working closely with the school district, the department now has aerial photos of the county’s school campuses, as well as blueprints of about 95 percent of the schools. The department continues to update its databases as campuses expand or contract.
Deputies engage in training with live gunfire at their own training facility. And recently, they conducted a four-hour simulation of an active shooter-hostage situation at a local high school. In order to free 50 “hostages“ from five make-believe terrorists, the department made use of SWAT teams, sniper units, armored cars, grenades, and other simulated firepower.
The practice event involved law enforcement from six regional counties and included police officers, firefighters, emergency medical personnel, paramedics, and hospital staff.
This is the type of cooperation between school and law enforcement officials that should be taking place in every community across the country.
Patrick Fiel is public safety advisor for ADT Security Services and a former executive director of school security for Washington, D.C. Public School System. He also served 22 years in the Army Military Police Corps, where his responsibilities included day-to-day security operations at the West Point Military Academy. During his time with ADT, Fiel has conducted more than 100 television, radio, newspaper, and magazine interviews as a public and school safety expert.
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A research team led by Prof. CAO Hongbin from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the catalytic reaction mechanism of O3 activation and singlet oxygen (1O2) generation on N-doped defective nanocarbons.
This work was published in Environmental Science & Technology on May 26.
Catalytic ozonation is promising for water purification due to its excellent performance in pollutants abatement, which generally relies on the efficient conversion of O3 into reactive oxygen species. However, the reaction mechanism of catalytic ozonation remains unclear.
In this study, the researchers chose eight representative configurations of N-doped defective nanocarbons (N-DNCs) and 10 active sites, and systematically mapped out the O3 decomposition processes on these active sites by density functional theory (DFT) calculations.
They found that O3 could decompose into an adsorbed atomic oxygen species (Oads) and an 3O2 on the active sites. The Oads may not only act as an initiator for generating reactive oxygen species, but also directly attack the organics on partial sites.
On the N site and C site of the N4V2 system (quadri-pyridinic N with two vacancies) and the pyridinic N site at edge, O3 could be activated into 1O2 in addition to 3O2. The N4V2 system is predicted to have the best activity among the N-DNCs studied, said Dr. YU Guangfei from IPE.
Furthermore, based on the DFT results, the machine learning models were utilized to correlate the O3 activation activity with the local and global properties of the catalyst surfaces. Among several models, XGBoost performed the best, with the condensed dual descriptor being the most important feature.
“This contribution not only provides insights into the molecular mechanism of catalytic ozonation process on N-DNCs, but also demonstrates the power of combining the DFT calculation with machine learning for predicting catalytic performance of novel materials,” said Prof. XIE Yongbing from IPE. “This approach can be extended to search for and design efficient catalysts for environmental and other applications.” | <urn:uuid:47329406-7cec-4dc3-9477-6d548c7756dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.miragenews.com/study-reveals-reaction-mechanism-of-o3-799560/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934897 | 474 | 2.40625 | 2 |
So when it comes to this garden, we knew what our main job would be—WATERING the plants! After all, who knows how important water is better than two kidneys?! So this past weekend, several of our classmates planted the seeds for the fruits and vegetables that we intend to grow. And then, it was time for The Kidney Brothers to step in! Now, you know we like to have our fun, so we weren’t just going to water these seeds with a plain old hose or watering can. That’s just not our style! Nope, we used water guns! We spent an hour shooting each other and the garden. There’s no reason gardening can’t have a little excitement! Of course, afterwards, we did spray the garden with the hose for good measure, too!
Maybe next time we’ll try water balloons!
Make sure you get today’s coloring sheet!
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by Thomas Frey
When we think about the years ahead, there’s the future and then there’s the future future. Let’s talk about the immediate future first.
Recalibration is the Word
2021 will be a year of recalibration. As we’re gradually able to put the worst elements of 2020 behind us, it’s going to become clearer to all of us how far we’ve strayed from our habits, dependencies, and routines of the past, and not just in our daily tasks but in our entire way of thinking.
In just one year, our idea of “normal” has been run through a wood chipper and is unrecognizable in so many areas: our health, our government, our professional lives, our activities, our families, and our priorities.
As we move past the 2020 crisis mentality, 2021 will be a year of adjusting the dials, flipping the switches, and recalibrating our lives. But it’s not something we can simply press a button and regain our sense of normalcy. The first order of business will be to break our reactive habits that have built up over the past 10 months.
Covid is forcing us to change; so drifting back into our previous, comfortable state of normal will not be possible. We’ll often refer back to the “good old days” of 2019, 2015, or whatever year in the past we felt was most ideal, but that past was never as good as we recall, and we also have the opportunity to redirect ourselves, along with the rest of humanity, towards a far better future.
Choosing a Future Direction
In many areas, though, 2021 will be an opportunity to “futurize” our way towards new and improved ways of doing business, because we are wiser and better for having endured the shared crises of this past year. COVID and other events made 2020 a clear demarcation point. We were laid bare and personally vulnerable. In that state, it somehow feels okay to question our assumptions, experiment, try new things, and raise the bar on everything we think is ordinary.
The Future Future
Even our definition of the “future” will change in 2021. As our year progressed, fewer and fewer people were able to look past the immediate post-COVID future. “I can’t wait till we’re back to normal,” was a phrase I heard again and again. But as time in 2021 marches on, even those of us working as professional futurists will be working to recalibrate our collective perspectives on longer-term thinking. The rate of change, the speed with which we measure the number of moving parts currently in motion, has shifted into another gear. In these situations, changes that were already underway have been turbocharged due to 2020 events. In other cases, entirely new forms of change had their genesis in the chaos of 2020. Let’s look at some examples.
Recalibrations set to accelerate in 2021
One of the most obvious recalibrations to date has been the office workplace. Work-from-home was not unheard of before 2020, but it was a relatively big deal for a company to give certain teams the opportunity to work from home 1-2 days a week. Now companies like MasterCard, Intuit, Shopify, Siemens, and others seem committed to a predominantly work-from-home arrangement for a majority of their people. This recalibration will continue long into the future.
Along with this, our priorities change. Stemming from the work-from-home transition, we’re seeing a shift in personal priorities. Lives won’t be organized around work – it will be quite the opposite with work taking a second seat to personal commitments and pleasure. As this happens, people begin to realize they are more than just the sum total of their job, position, and title. Over time, this will lead to a deeper sense of purpose in other areas.
From a management standpoint, companies are now focused on outcomes. By focusing on outcomes, employers help people make time count, instead of simply counting time. That type of trust and empowerment actually makes staffers far more productive.
Also on the workplace front, we’ll see less corporate travel. We’ve learned we can be efficient and effective with virtual meetings. Even if employees go back to the office, they’ll continue to connect with out-of-town clients and customers virtually rather than face-to-face.
However, conferences and off-site retreats, for the most part, will resume and take place in person because none of us ever got used to day-long virtual sessions or online happy hours this year. The overall decline in business travel will be a long-term recalibration, much to the chagrin of the airline and hospitality industries.
Last, consider the recent, rapid decline of the oil and gas industry due to dramatic worldwide declines in demand. Yes, we were already moving steadily toward battery-powered cars and alternative energy sources, but this trend has significantly accelerated due to the cascading events of 2020. As a result, the worldwide economic collapse triggered global oil and gas industry retrenchments. As an industry, it clearly sees the handwriting on the wall with the end date of its energy reign looming in the distance. This recalibration will continue over the coming years.
Finally, we’ll put a greater emphasis on health and wellness, both from a personal and employer perspective. Flu and cold season will now be flu, cold, and COVID season as new variants of these viruses appear and reappear every year. Masks will become a fashion industry standard, and far more common during the Fall and Winter months. Family leave policies will be more liberal and generous, especially if companies want to keep mothers in their workforce. This will be a long-term recalibration.
Let’s Get on With It
So yes, let’s all get on with life as soon as we can in 2021, not fixated on going back to the way we were, but looking to the future with a clean slate and a desire to be and do things better. And those of us working as futurists can once again refocus on the future future and emerging technology trends like AI, robots, and flying drones!
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Thirty five km. to the north-east of Puri lies the World Heritage Monument, the Sun Temple of Konark. Twelve hundred craftsmen had toiled hard for 12 long years to erect this monumental wonder where 12 year’s revenue was spent. Modelled after the floating chariot of the mythical Sun God, the temple is a quintessence of imaginative craftsmanship of ancient Odisha. The temple architecture was designed as drawn by twelve exquisitely carved stone wheels and seven galloping horses. And the kings, queens, generals, foot soldiers, sages, priests, elephants, horses, courtiers and courtesans depicted on the walls and the panels with finesse open a window to the nostalgic times of medieval Odisha.
All types of tourist cabs are available from Bhubaneswar and Puri. Further tourist luxury coaches are being operated by Odisha Tourism Development Corporation.
Besides, OTDC is also offering Special Tour Packages from 1st to 5th December 2014 to witness the Konark Festival. Click here for more details..
|Manipuri||Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy|
|2.12.15||Satriya||Jatin Goswami & Group|
|Odissi||Suprava Mishra, Ahmedabad & Group|
|3.12.15||Odissi||GKCM Odissi Research Centre, Bhubaneswar|
|4.12.15||Bharatnatyam||Kalakshetra (Priyadarshini Govinda)|
|Odissi||Ashis Das & Group|
|5.12.15||Odissi||Orissa Dance Academy|
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About the TV Show
The Six Million Dollar Man
First Air Date: January 18, 1974
|First Aired on||:||1974|
|Created By||:||Kenneth Johnson,Martin Caidin|
|Genres||:||Sci-Fi & Fantasy,Action & Adventure,Drama|
|Seasons/Episodes||:||99 episodes in 5 Seasons|
Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains. | <urn:uuid:954ebc44-18ec-4c23-914e-0d4f3ac48f59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yourcinema.azurewebsites.net/TvShows/1663/the-six-million-dollar-man | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.874477 | 192 | 1.695313 | 2 |
October 29, 2018
We satisfaction ourselves on our massive collection of compact and DSLR cameras from the world’s main manufacturers, together with the most recent fashions from Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm, Lumix, Olympus, and more. The forerunner to the photographic camera was the camera obscura Camera obscura ( Latin for “darkish room”) is the pure phenomenon that happens when a picture of a scene at the other facet of a display screen (or for example a wall) is projected by way of a small hole in that display screen and types an inverted image (left to proper and the wrong way up) on a surface reverse to the opening.
In typical digital pictures, lenses or mirrors map all of the light originating from a single point of an in-focus object to a single level at the sensor plane. If you solely want to publish photographs on the web or have a delicate copy of the identical, you do not really want cameras with very excessive decision. Should you like the idea of an completed 5x zoom function, and the potential for beautiful nighttime photography, it’s a must to consider Huawei’s latest telephone.
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Food Not Bombs is a world-wide movement made up of over 1,000 independent chapters that provide free food to their local communities. The main ideology of Food Not Bombs is that food is a right, not a privilege. Food Not Bombs provides free vegan meals to the public, regardless of whether one is hungry or food secure. We recognize that there is so much food wasted in this country, and yet people are still starving. We see this as violence.
The National Coalition for the Homeless is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission: To prevent and end homelessness while ensuring the immediate needs of those experiencing homelessness are met and their civil rights protected.
The Dorchester Food Co-op is a grassroots initiative to build a community and worker-owned grocery store that makes healthy food accessible and advances economic opportunity through neighborhood engagement. The Dorchester Food Co-op envisions a diverse community with opportunities for employment, ownership, and access to healthy food. As a food co-op, we will serve and reflect the wide variety of ethnic, racial, and socio-economic groups that make up the neighborhoods of Boston.
GBFB is the largest hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country. Last year, we distributed 60.7 million pounds of nutritious food to people who struggle to have enough to eat. We are committed to increasing our food distribution to provide at least one meal a day to every person in need in Eastern Massachusetts while supporting healthy lives and healthy communities.
Rosie’s Place not only provides meals and shelter but also creates answers for 12,000 women a year through wide-ranging support, housing and education services. Rosie’s Place relies solely on the generous support of individuals, foundations and corporations and does not accept any city, state or federal funding. Thanks to these donations, 85 cents of every dollar raised goes directly to services for poor and homeless women.
Founded in 1987, Friends of Boston’s Homeless supports innovative, solution-oriented programs that help homeless individuals move beyond shelter to lead independent lives in our community. From basic emergency services to permanent affordable housing, the programs and services we support now help hundreds of people every year move beyond shelter to live independent lives in our community. | <urn:uuid:24586081-6926-49a0-8ccf-fa817ce2f1c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://simmons.libguides.com/c.php?g=860494&p=6173148 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95329 | 485 | 2 | 2 |
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has signed into law a new constitution voted in despite weeks of opposition protests, but on Wednesday he was left facing an economic crisis and international disquiet over his rule.
The Islamist-dominated senate convened on Wednesday to swear in 90 new members appointed by Morsi. It was expected to draft a law for legislative elections for the dissolved lower house that have to be held by the end of February.
The National Salvation Front opposition coalition said it would vie for seats in the parliament, which has powers under the new charter that could hamper Morsi's ability to govern.
"We will work together to enter the election," Front spokesman Khaled Dawoud said.
He also said the coalition would legally contest the referendum, which it claims was riddled by fraud. Its supporters had demonstrated since late November against the document, with some clashes with pro-Morsi supporters turning bloody.
The national electoral commission said late Tuesday that 64 percent of voters in the two-round referendum backed the new constitution. Turnout was 33 percent it said.
Morsi immediately afterwards signed into law the charter, which had been written up by his Islamist allies.
Christians and liberals boycotted the process in protest at changes they saw as weakening human rights, especially those of women, and possibly paving the way for the introduction of a form of fundamentalist Islamic law.
The United States, which gives $1.3 billion a year to Egypt's influential military, called on Morsi to work to "bridge divisions" with the largely secular opposition.
"We have consistently supported the principle that democracy requires much more than simple majority rule," acting State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said in a statement.
"We hope all sides will re-commit themselves to condemn and prevent violence," he said.
The political crisis has taken a heavy toll on Egypt's economy.
The state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper reported there was "Fear in the Egyptian street" after rating agency Standard and Poor's downgraded Egypt's long-term credit rating one notch to 'B-'.
It said reported that the government has restricted travellers from leaving or entering the country with more than 10,000 dollars.
Mona Mansour, chief economist at CI Capital, said a crucial $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan that had been scheduled for this or next month might be postponed until the new parliament is established in March.
The social volatility was seen as making difficulties for Morsi to meet financial reforms, such as tax hikes and subsidy cuts, the IMF was thought to have demanded in return for the loan.
"You need to comfort the public that it's not going to affect their pockets," Mansour said.
But she dismissed the possibility of the opposition in parliament scuppering the loan.
Essam al-Erian, the deputy head of the Brotherhood's political arm, said the constitution's adoption and upcoming elections would help solve the country's economic decline.
"Every country has a crisis. But crises end, and we are now on the right path," he said.
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NEW HOPE IS BORN
Obstetric fistula is a devastating childbirth injury most common in underdeveloped countries where women give birth without medical assistance. Caused by prolonged or obstructed labor, fistula plagues the mother with excruciating pain and incontinence, often resulting in shame and social isolation. Treatment for women suffering from fistula is far from a given. For every one who receives treatment, 50 go without.
While studying in the accelerated BSN program at Carolina, Ingrid Marzuola received funding through the Cronenwett Global Health Scholars endowment — a fund honoring Dean Emerita Linda Cronenwett and supporting student academic and clinical experiences abroad — to work to change this unfortunate reality. She traveled to Mali to work with IntraHealth International’s third End Shame: Restore Dignity campaign to repair the effects of fistula and help women regain their lives.
As Marzuola got to know the women affected by fistula personally, she gained greater understanding of their everyday struggles, both physical and emotional. She saw firsthand how the injury affected them and that more than surgery would be needed to care for their wounds. She enthusiastically joined an interdisciplinary team in screening patients for depression and other mental health conditions to arrive at the best holistic treatment approaches.
“[The] multidisciplinary and multilayered approach from the health-care team was my first glimpse of solidarity during my time with the fistula campaign, but it would not be my last,” she said. With donor support, we aim to ensure that Marzuola’s formative experience won’t be the last for fellow UNC School of Nursing students, either. | <urn:uuid:2ea7680d-c8f0-48cf-850c-1274b5e65814> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://campaign.unc.edu/funding-priority/improving-lives/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947697 | 343 | 2.640625 | 3 |
PART 5 SPEAKING AND LISTENING 5.2 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas Name Use Complete Sentences When Speaking Practice Print this page. Then write your answers on the lines. Copyright © McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. • Use complete sentences to write about a family activity. • Draw pictures of your family activity in the space below your sentences. • Tell your class about your family activity. | <urn:uuid:972a3334-2096-4166-8659-223782c259c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://studylib.net/doc/18089985/use-complete-sentences-when-speaking | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.834897 | 92 | 3.890625 | 4 |
St. Blanes Primary School is located in Fernslea Avenue. There have been 2 schools at this location. The former school coincided with the building of many new homes around it. It was part of a noticeable expansion of Blantyre in the mid 1950s.
Accommodation was for 340 pupils. An interesting feature being that it was built to a standard plan so that the Authority could have the best type of school in the shortest possible time.
The Architect was D.G Bannerman, County Architect and the Contractors were Lanarkshire Builders Ltd of Mossend.
It was opened in 1957 at the same time as St John the Baptist School in Uddingston at a total cost of £135,000. Teachers and pupils arrived on 3rd May 1957. The official opening ceremony by Councillor Walter Cameron took place on 10th May 1957. The school was also dedicated that dat by the Bishop of Mothwerwell, Right Rev James D Scanlan. The opening roll had 266 pupils
The first headmaster was Mr. Hugh McGhee, assisted by 6 teachers. In October 1959, the first infant mistress was appointed, Mrs. Margaret H McConnell.
Throughout the 1960s, the roll increased and the school gained an excellent reputation. In February 1969, Mr. McGhee died and in June of that year headmaster Thomas O’Neill was appointed, who would serve right throughout the 1960s and 70s.
St Blane’s PTA was formed in October 1969 with a very encouraging response from parents. The building of new homes in the area saw a steady increase in the number of children attending the school. Therefore, in 1971, four temporary classrooms were erected to accommodate the growing need for more pupils.
A large extension to the main school building, added a further 9 classrooms, making use of their owned land, and this was ready for use in September 1973. Further teachers were sought at that time. The school by then could accommodate 500 people.
Attendance was for RC pupils. By 1977, there were 18 classes and 20 members of staf, all housed in very adequate accommodation with ample playground space and excellent playing fields. The school continued to thrive with an excellent reputation.
By 2007, new plans were being approved for a replacement school as part of the new Scottish Government’s drive for upgrading and replacing Scottish Schools. The new school was to be built at Fernslea Avenue, which would replace the former St Blanes adjacent. Phase 1 work commenced on the new £5.2 million St Blane’s Primary School in July 2007.
Works included construction of the school, car parks and roads. The new school was built by Keir Construction on a brownfield site and handed over at the end of June that year, ready for August term opening.
It has 10 classrooms each with an interactive whiteboard, open areas, a library, a conference suite, a computer suite, a large gym hall and separate dining area. They also have a room called the Sunshine Room, which is used as a nurture room.
Phase 2 commenced in August 2008 when the existing school was demolished and the ground levelled in preparation for the MUGA pitch and bus turning circle, this phase completed by 2010.
Outdoors they now have two playgrounds with wooden play equipment and some tables and benches. The school is of a linear design, built in steel with a variety of finishes including a distinctive bright red and black cladding. The school incorporates a multiple use games area known as ‘the MUGA’. This is used for football, basketball, netball and many other activities.
St Blane’s is extremely fortunate in having within the playground their very own garden. They have grown their own vegetables and herbs and even ran an enterprise project where pupils grew plants for sale. This facility includes large planting beds and a poly tunnel/greenhouse.
Head teacher is Mrs Pauline Brown who took over from Mrs Anne Marie Reid. Principal teacher is Mrs Anne O Donnelly. The janitor is Mr. Alec Rankin.
The current school roll has 241 pupils.
In February 2012, plans were thwarted for a new SEBN school at the St Blane’s location, instead preferring to build the special needs school at Bardykes on the site of the former remand home. This protected the large playground and space adjacent to St Blanes. The School has an excellent reputation.
A large archive of school photos can be found on Blantyre Project website .
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Quinn Hillyer at National Review is calling the anticipated change in the U.S. $10 note “outrageous and ignorant.” The change entails removal of Alexander Hamilton’s portrait for that of an as yet unnamed woman. It’s not the woman that arouses Hillyer’s unhappiness, but the removal of his beloved Hamilton. I’m not a Hamiltonian myself, but that’s another argument.
In any case, it is neither outrageous nor ignorant. All U.S. currency needs to get spiffed up and if that means Hamilton goes, okay. (Our coinage, for that matter needs a makeover; get Kennedy off the half dollar and maybe we’d see some in circulation.)
Drop back to the nineteenth century. The National Bank Notes then in use were exotic, artistic, attractive, allegorical in many cases, always colorful, and some nearly unique.
Yet look them over. Even a casual look at the variety of national bank note designs shows that Hamilton was featured but rarely. He simply didn’t figure that much in national note designs.
When national bank notes were discarded in 1913, under the lash of the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Treasury went into the engraving business, well of course they chose a portrait of the first treasury secretary. Hamilton on the tenspot was little a mere act of bureaucratic chauvinism.
But he was a wonderful Founding Father, right? Listen, if he had his way, Congress would have had a veto over state legislative acts. (Or was that Madison; doesn’t matter.) Hamilton’s nationalism would have eradicated the states.
But, as Hillyer goes on, Hamilton “pretty much created our monetary system out of thin air.” Uh huh. That’s a recommendation? Thanks to thin air monetary policy the United States debased its silver coinage to copper-nickel in 1964. Now our monetized national debt is keeping interest rates artificially low and the markets quiver when the Fed talks about easing things. The logic of debased money is roughly the same as selling shares in the national debt, all Hamilton’s idea. The fix we’re in is Hamilton’s, is what it is.
National bank notes were characterized by eclectic, chaotic, charming, and wonderful designs. They were miniature works of art. Dump Hamilton and we might revive those iconic designs. Keep George on the $1; that's a given. But we could introduce an entire array of annual $10 notes devoted to authors, artists, civic figures, state vignettes, Native Americans, pioneers, national historic events, African Americans, and, sure, women. And if it’s a history of the Founders Hillyer wants, we could even include a series on the signers of the Constitution.
Russell E. Saltzman, a former Lutheran pastor transitioning to the Roman Catholic Church, is book review editor at Aleteia. His latest book is Speaking of the Dead. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org, and his previous First Things contributions are here. | <urn:uuid:4c3ab59e-04ed-4968-820f-c682ac15ef5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2015/06/dump-hamilton | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.955451 | 661 | 2.671875 | 3 |
A current USDA case involving a major antibody producer underscores the need for the research community to demonstrate its commitment to high standards of animal welfare. On August 18-20, 2015, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. (SCBT) went before Administrative Law Judge Janice Bullard in Washington to rebut charges of Animal Welfare Act (AWA) violations at its … Continue reading Caveat Emptor
We recently updated our Animal Research Statements page. Now, not only can you find whether your institution has a statement on animal research (and where to find it), you can also see some information about what an institution's animal research pages contain. We now have a list of 177 position statements and web pages on … Continue reading Animal Research Statements – Doing it Right
Kathy West, who recently sent us some stunning photos of Macaques at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), has now provided us with some pictures from the University of Texas, MD Anderson Center. Images are am important way of allowing people to understand more about how research animals are housed and cared for. We have … Continue reading Chimpanzees at the University of Texas MD Anderson Center
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to scientists whose research has led to therapies that have saved hundreds of millions of people around the world from parasitic diseases that can otherwise cause disability and death. William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura shared one half of the award "for their discoveries … Continue reading Nobel Prize 2015 – Protecting People against Parasites! | <urn:uuid:182d436c-2da6-431b-b0e7-7224c48dd9b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://speakingofresearch.com/2015/10/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.917065 | 311 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Summer Activities for Teens at the Library
Summer is finally here and what an awesome time to be a teen! After a year that pushed all the boundaries of patience and stress, you can finally breathe free and roam a bit! Better yet, you can breathe free inside and outside with groups of friends and in public places. It’s time to meet up with friends once again and make some fun plans. But now that you have all this freedom, what are you going to do with yourself? The library is here to help you find your new favorites in life, favorite things to do, favorite place to chill, favorite books to read, and favorite way to meet some new people! The Teen Zone is an open, yet cozy, place to hang out either with your friends or when you’re enjoying some solo free time. We have computers, video games, couches to lounge on, and tables for card games or just sitting around and chatting. Our board game collection fills half a wall and often there is someone nearby who is willing to teach you a new game! If you like to sit quietly and read or sketch in a peaceful place, the Teen Zone offers a place where you are welcomed and appreciated. The Teen Zone is open every day in the summer from 1pm – closing.
While the Teen Zone is a fun, friendly, non-judgy place to hang out, the library also has a veritable plethora of scheduled teen activities. Every month there is a book club for any and all age groups. These clubs offer all the most important factors of a book club: books, friends, and food. Laugh and groan along with others while discussing your latest read. Of course, anything you read will count toward prizes in the Summer Reading Program. So after you read this, go ahead and sign up on the ReadSquared app! Teens can earn up to 19 free books and prizes over the summer! You really need a new water bottle and squishy turtle in your life! We all do!
But the activities are not limited to those who love to read! There will be crafts, games, and activities all summer long! Learn how to make fabric stencils on bags or shirts. Go on a scavenger hunt. Nurture the artist in you while making your own pour painting. Use your brain to break out of the library escape room! Kick back and relax at a teen movie night or join us in a game of Among Us! And, of course, you don’t want to miss Anime Club because there is no substitute for watching anime with other true fans. Many of our programs repeat every month so there is never an end to the camaraderie and awesomeness. However, some of our programs are just one time events! You must watch the calendar to be certain you don’t miss anything absolutely essential to your summer plans!
Courtney, my fellow teen programmer, and I have been waiting impatiently for the day we can all begin to enjoy each other’s company again while doing some of our favorite things! This summer has so much promise and potential! You deserve an awesome summer! And we can’t wait to see you at the library! | <urn:uuid:4b6a30f9-41a7-4be9-9cd7-07a06f47001d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mrrl.org/blog-entry/summer-activities-teens-library | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94552 | 658 | 1.84375 | 2 |
It’s July and finally time to slow down and enjoy your garden, according to green-fingered volunteer Margaret Pollock:
The well-tended vegetable garden in July is an amazing sight. Gone is the frenzy of June and the early Summer months when there is a constant race to ‘get the plants into the ground’. Now there is time to linger over the swelling peapods, the perfectly formed miniature apples and the rich abundance of leaves and plants growing in their neat rows. A reward for all the earlier hard work – the sowing, the weeding, the hoeing, the watering and now, the picking.
There is satisfaction from going into the garden each day and returning with a full trug of vegetables and this is tinged with a sense of wonderment at the magic which is happening all around us as imperceptibly these vegetables and fruits change from day to day until suddenly they are ready to harvest and it seems we have done little to cause this change.
BURSTING WITH BERRIES
I have been picking fruit, gleaming jet black droplets of currant and luscious drupes of magenta raspberries, hanging from the laden branches straining under the weight of the swollen berries. This is part of the allure of gardening. A bare stick in the winter garden can flourish and turn into a branch bejeweled with raspberries like Christmas-tree baubles and then it is gone.
Recently, I was looking up different uses for berries and came upon this information. Cranberries, cherries and raspberries are great for brown hair to give a richness to the colour and create ‘auburn’ hues. If you fancy trying out fruit as a colouring agent, mash the berries with a small amount of water and some apple cider vinegar, and apply to damp hair, leaving on for 15-20 minutes. Be sure and let us know how you get on and if you can provide a before and after photograph, that would be even better!
BLACKBIRDS AND BLACKCURRANTS
This spring we planted about twenty blackcurrant bushes of two modern varieties, ‘Ben Connan’ and ‘Big Ben’. Although they flowered, I was not expecting any berries from them until a very energetic Blackbird leaping about underneath one of the shrubs caught my attention. On closer inspection, I discovered they were carrying generous bunches of some of the biggest berries I have ever seen.
There is much reason to preserve old bushes and heritage varieties for flavour and tradition, but blackcurrants have become unwitting victims of climate change. These berries need a specific period of winter chill to enable production of a healthy crop of berries in the following Summer. This is called ‘vernalisation’. The plant can require sometimes as much as 50 days of winter temperatures between -2C and 12C so that the flower buds are produced. A mild winter can prevent this from happening and the resultant crop can be much reduced as a result.
A BERRY GOOD HARVEST
If you have a few bushes in your garden this might not make much of a difference to your harvest, but we are talking about 10,000 tonnes of blackcurrants being the annual harvest in Britain – a £10 million pound food crop. Fortunately, the James Hutton Institute, a world leading research station in Aberdeenshire, has spent 20 years creating new varieties and now accounts for half of the blackcurrants grown in the world.
Hutton varieties are instantly recognisable as they are all named after Scottish mountains and have the “Ben” prefix. Their most recent variety, ‘Ben Lawers’ is being harvested for the first time this year and will be turned into ‘Ribena’ (other varieties of blackcurrant juice are available). Whilst this is all cutting-edge science, you can drink your juice knowing that they do not net their crops and freely allow the birds their share of the berries. Across the 35 participating farms that has amounted to 70 species and a total of 4,500 birds – and some of those will definitely have been leaping Blackbirds!
Here is a photograph of our varieties as the size difference is quite astonishing. The top fruit is ‘Big Ben’, the middle is ‘Ben Connan’ and the bottom one is an unknown, pre-existing bush already growing in the garden which we have kept because it carries a heavy crop.
FLYING THE NEST
Nature is ever present up at the house and this Spring seems to have been especially fertile. There is a veritable nursery in the woodlands and fields of Bannockburn House. There are wren chicks ‘churring’, baby goldfinches twittering everywhere and our resident buzzards are currently teaching their chick how to glide on the thermals. Apparently, this is difficult. First, Dad shows how it is done and effortlessly spirals up into the clear blue sky. Then Mum, encouragingly, follows suit only not so high and on a wider, slower circle, calling out to Baby who perches, seemingly paralysed on the treetop. Realising it is left behind and there is no way out, it takes flight. There are brief moments of gliding followed by frantic wing flapping, vocalising and a dramatic loss of height before it recovers some equilibrium and it starts all over again, and again, and again. Then, somehow, it works and the three birds slowly disappear on invisible thermals, another one safely fledged.
Normally, in summer, the deer vanish from our grounds and head up into the hills around Loch Coulter only to return in November. This year they have stayed around since Autumn most likely emboldened by the absence of humans. Those of us working in the gardens have seen them almost daily and on two occasions I have been privileged to see the newborn fawns.
The first time, I was wading through knee-high grass on my way to water the recently planted shelter belt when a tiny young fawn leapt up from the grass, approximately 2 steps away, russet brown and spotted – just like ‘Bambi’ – it landed on spindly little legs and with another two elegant leaps had put a huge distance between us. Then it spied Mum. With a few more balletic leaps and a quick dash it had disappeared to safety beside its mother – and was that another flash of russet brown? Did she have two babies? I couldn’t tell, but two mornings later as I drove through the front gate and turned down the slope, there she was, grazing the newly mown grass, with two beautiful little babies darting in and out of the longer grass, playing, just like any children do. I stopped the car and for almost a minute was held spellbound by the sight until, suddenly, she looked up, they were gone and I could breathe again.
Summer passes all too quickly. As I write this, our first aubergine flowers are blooming in the polytunnels, the cabbages are ready for picking and the first potatoes are about to be plucked from the soil any day. The year is turning and whilst there is time to rest, look around and really appreciate the summer garden. I can already hear the call of autumn. The nights are a little longer and cooler, the berries are sweet but fleeting visitors, the birds have moulted and their song is quieter now. Soon the combine harvesters will be cutting the barley and the oats, and the school year will start up again. What will be your memory of Summer 2020? It’s not too late to get out there and create a special outing or a memorable event. Go to the beach, climb an unknown hill, run barefoot through some garden sprinklers, you never know what you might see or do.
But if you just want to relax at home in the warmest month of the year then console yourself with the knowledge that July is National Ice Cream Month and treat yourself to some delicious frozen treats. What better way is there to spend a sunny afternoon, apart from gardening! | <urn:uuid:9cfd3344-bf4e-4d37-84f0-c58692c87b9b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bannockburnhouse.scot/summertime-and-the-livin-is-easy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964672 | 1,713 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Book Launch: Autonomy Cube by Trevor Paglen & Jacob Appelbaum
With Jacob Appelbaum, Keller Easterling, Edit Molnár and Marcel Schwierin
Autonomy Cube is a sculpture by Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum that was on display in the Edith-Russ-Haus in Oldenburg between October 2015 and January 2016. In the work a group of internet-connected computers creates an open wireless hotspot called “Autonomy Cube” wherever they are installed.
The network routes all wireless traffic through Tor, a global network of thousands of volunteer-run servers, relays, and services designed to help anonymize data. In addition, Autonomy Cube is itself a Tor relay, and can be used by others around the world. The future of the struggle to win the internet back and the complex ways in which art can join this discourse are thematized by the Autonomy Cube and its related publication. | <urn:uuid:0c21a494-2cac-4bbf-906b-11728cb745f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_123966.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929822 | 196 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The Irish name for Kinnagh is Cionn Eich
Kinnagh is on Logainm.ie: Kinnagh.
It is located at 52° 15' 44" N, 6° 49' 50" W.
Kinnagh has an area of:
Nationwide, it is the 14927th largest townland that we know about
Within Co. Wexford, it is the 360th largest townland
Kinnagh borders the following other townlands:
Curious to see who lived in Kinnagh in the past? Maybe even seeing scans of their handwritten census returns?
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The report shows that in at least 50% of cases, hospitals are not recording a patient’s diagnosis of dementia, despite having identified it on previous admissions.
This follows the launch of Alzheimer’s Society’s Fix Dementia Care campaign, which found further shocking variation in hospital care for people with dementia. The investigation revealed that too many people with dementia are falling while in hospital, being discharged at night or being marooned in hospital despite their medical treatment having finished. Alzheimer’s Society is calling for greater transparency in the quality of hospital care for people with dementia, and all hospitals to publish an annual statement on dementia care.
Other key findings from the HSCIC Focus on Dementia report include:
- A six-fold increase in prescriptions for dementia drugs over the past ten years
- An increase in dementia diagnosis rates, from 643 per 100,000 to 755 per 100,000 between April 2014 and December 2015
- 39% of carers spend more than 100 hours per week supporting a person with dementia
George McNamara, Head of Policy at Alzheimer’s Society, said “These new figures support Alzheimer’s Society’s new Fix Dementia Care campaign calling for greater transparency about dementia care in hospitals. For at least half of all hospital cases, a patient’s diagnosis of dementia is not being consistently recorded in subsequent admissions. This is a simple point that could so easily be addressed to ensure that people with dementia get the specialist care they desperately need.
“People with dementia who receive a timely diagnosis are more likely to benefit from the treatments currently available. This six-fold increase in prescriptions for dementia drugs over the past decade is an encouraging sign that more people are being diagnosed earlier.
“This report also highlights the plight of the UK’s overlooked army of carers. It’s often said that caring for a person with dementia is a full-time job, but these new figures show that it’s much more than that. Nearly 40% of carers are spending 100 or more hours looking after someone with dementia. It is essential that all carers receive comprehensive practical and emotional support from the health and social care system.” | <urn:uuid:c470821c-095a-4bb2-adc7-aaab3229c906> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.careindustrynews.co.uk/2016/01/hscic-report-highlight-inconsistencies-in-hospital-dementia-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.942478 | 458 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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