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Energy company Jemena has completed the 622 km Northern Gas Pipeline (NGP), opening up the supply of gas from the Northern Territory fields to Mount Isa in northwest Queensland, Australia.
The gas is to be used as a crucial feedstock by local businesses – including Incitec Pivot’s Phosphate Hill and Gibson Island facilities, as well as mining and other commercial operations throughout Queensland’s northwest, Jemena said.
Jemena’s Managing Director, Frank Tudor, said around 80% of the NGP’s capacity has been contracted; testament to the real need for additional gas across Australia’s east coast.
“Today we have taken a significant step towards ensuring Australian homes and businesses have the gas they need, when they need it,” Tudor said.
“I commend the Northern Territory Government for commissioning the NGP project in 2015 and am proud that the territory is now well-placed to become the home of Australia’s gas industry alongside Queensland.
“We know that the Northern Territory has enough gas to meet Australia’s future supply needs for the next 200 years or more, and our pipeline is the crucial, missing, link that will connect this gas with Australian homes and businesses.”
Tudor said Jemena was well-advanced in planning the expansion and extension of the Northern Gas Pipeline so that it further integrates with the east coast gas market.
“Provided gas is proven as commercially viable in the Northern Territory, Jemena will be able to increase the NGP’s capacity from around 90 TJ/d up to 700 TJ/d. To put this in context, this is enough gas to meet the average daily gas needs of Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide combined.”
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Today’s Independence March in the Polish capital Warsaw – organised by fascist and ultranationalist groups – was big, nasty and emboldened.
It took more than two hours to pass the starting point. The organisers claimed that 200,000 marched – a number later confirmed by the police. Whatever the precise number, this was the biggest march the far right has led in Europe in decades.
And, shockingly, the Polish president Andrzej Duda spoke at the demonstration. The idea that a leading government official would address a protest led by fascists is unprecedented.
Just as depressing was the fact that the leadership of Solidarność (Solidarity), the independent trade union movement that led the heroic resistance to the Stalinist regime of the Polish Communist state in 1980, supported the protest.
Some of its members joined the march – although socialists and antifascists launched a petition calling on the Solidarność leadership to drop support for the fascist-led event.
Every year on 11 November Poland celebrates its Independence Day – and this year the date is even more significant as it marked the 100th anniversary of independence.
It’s hard to exaggerate the importance of the day in Polish society. It is a massive celebration of the creation of the modern Polish state and its independence from the German, Russian and Austrian empires. The day is marked by huge parades, festivals and church services.
After the collapse of the Stalinist regime in 1989, the parades and rallies were led by mainstream political parties and the Catholic church.
The 2017 march sent shockwaves across Europe. The police estimated that the march attracted around 60,000 people – a huge increase on the 500 that attended the first march organised by the fascist groups in 2009.
Organisations behind the demo
This year – as in previous years – the Independence March was organised under the umbrella of the National Movement (Ruch Narodowy – RN), a fascist organisation formed after the 2012 Independence March by the ONR and MW groups (see below).
The two founding groups are largely paramilitary in nature, but after the formation of RN they were able to gain parliamentary seats, albeit under the cover of the populist Kukiz’15 party.
Much of RN’s propaganda and bile is directed towards Muslims, the left and the LGBT community. It is also deeply antisemitic and targets Roma people.
The National-Radical Camp (Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny – ONR) is the modern successor to a pre-war Polish fascist movement of the same name. On the demo today many of its supporters wore a SA-style uniforms while others wore armbands or carried flags bearing a swastika-like sword symbol, the falanga.
The All-Polish Youth (Młodzież Wszechpolska – MW) is the other key organisation behind the Independence March. This fascist group is deeply homophobic, anti-abortion and has connections with fascist groups across Europe and far right elements of the Polish Catholic Church.
Its green flags, with a long sword wrapped in a red and white ribbon, were also prominently on display – the video below shows the MW flags at the front of the march as it assembled.
Even more hardline white supremacist and nazi groups were on the demo including the National-Socialist Congress, the so-called Szturmowcy (Stormtroopers) and a small group wearing Combat 18 T-shirts.
As in Germany and Britain, Polish football hooligan firms play an important role in mobilising for the right. This time the adherents of different clubs largely wore Polish colours – although there were also team hats and scarves on show. There were big delegations from Legia Warsawa, Lechia Gdańsk and Lech Poznan.
Battle for control
In the run up to this year’s march there was a major attempt to wrestle control of the demo away from the fascist organisations.
On Wednesday Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Warsaw’s outgoing mayor and a leading figure in the opposition Civic Platform (a liberal conservative party) announced that the march would be banned.
Within hours, Andrzej Duda, Poland’s president from the far right populist PiS, declared that the Polish state would be organising its own march at the same time and along the same route as the banned march.
The organisers’ response was fierce. They declared that the march would go ahead despite the ban – with such large numbers expected to take part, the prospect of the state successfully enforcing a ban looked highly unlikely – and they also launched and won a legal challenge.
After late-night negotiations yesterday between the fascists and Duda, the president agreed to back the demo, and the fascists agreed to march with red and white Polish national flags rather than under their own colours – a move aimed at keeping the fascist symbols, white power signs and other paraphernalia that might embarrass the government out of sight.
In the event, there were plenty of fascist flags, banners and symbols on show and it was quite clear that the fascist organisations were leading the event.
It was poor journalism by the Guardian and others to claim that Duda had “taken control” of the demonstration. In fact the demo saw the fascist tail wagging the far right PiS government dog.
Duda has over the past year courted the groups behind the march, with the latest conciliatory move an announcement of new laws targeting LGBT people, made just a day before the demo.
But Duda was effectively forced into backing the event, with a ban totally unworkable. And his active presence legitimised the fascist-led march.
How the day unfolded
The day began when priests, groups of fascists, football hooligan crews and middle class types gathered at the Monument of the Home Army and the Polish Underground State.
A Catholic mass was held and then the congregants group marched to the assembly point of the demo. A large group of Polish far right motorbikers attended the mass – joined by members of the Hungarian fascist “Goy” bikers, whose name is meant to signal their antisemitism.
From 12 noon the protest gathered in the heart of Warsaw opposite the Palace of Culture and Science, a huge imposing Stalinist era skyscraper.
Dotted around the area were a number of stalls selling religious and national artefacts. But among them were vendors selling nazi badges and books.
One stall sold copies of The Camp of the Saints, the favourite novel of former Donald Trump aide and international far right activist Steve Bannon, along with numerous biographies of Nazi leaders. Another stall sold Holocaust-denial texts including Carlo Mattogna’s The Myth of the Extermination of the Jews.
The protest finally headed off at 3pm, following a speech by Duda, and a rally and music festival was held at a stadium on the east bank of the Vistula.
The demo was a sea of red and white Polish flags and football scarves. The organisers agreed with Duda to tone down the fascist banners and symbols in order to create a “united” patriotic march.
But scattered throughout the demo were fascist flags and emblems. There were “white power” Celtic crosses, falanga symbols and the black sun symbol used by the SS in Nazi Germany.
In a further sop, Duda also rewarded the organisers by allowing a section of the army to march at the front carrying flags – in addition to the soldiers deployed to “keep order”. The sight of the nation’s army marching alongside fascist groups has stirred huge concern among progressive people in Poland.
Duda also hurriedly made a new pay deal with the police on the eve of the protest to ensure their attendance.
The march was well organised, with different organisations and groups in their own clearly defined sections. The fascists held back the main bulk of the demo slightly to create a gap between them and Duda’s group at the front, ensuring their display of strength retained full focus.
It was a well choreographed event. All along the route men wearing masks set off fire crackers and flares, filling the air with acrid red smoke.
Regular chants included “God, honour, fatherland” and “Refugees not welcome here”. Some demonstrators chanted, “Pure Poland, white Poland!” One old priest who was on the march told me they he was marching for “God, Poland and family”.
The key themes of the speeches were Polish nationalism, anti-Communism, opposition to Europe’s elites and hatred of migrants. A number of speakers talked about the need to restore “family traditions” and oppose abortion – already severely limited in Poland. Speakers also talked about the need to oppose the “Amsterdam system”, which is a coded reference to LGBT+ rights.
The Warsaw protest has also become a crucible for fascist and far right parties across Europe.
Once again there was a large delegation of fascists from the Hungarian Jobbik. There was also a smaller delegations from Italy’s Forza Nuova, the Slovakian nazi organisation Kotleba – People’s Party Our Slovakia, and an array of small nazi and ultranationalist groups from across Europe.
Also present this was a group wearing clothing labelled “British Polish youth”, members of a fascist front group.
On the evening before the demo, Ruch Narodowy hosted a dinner in Warsaw for its Polish members and supporters living outside the country.
And Britain-based members of the Polish fascist group Link (Ogniwo) – who disturbingly have gained access to schools in Britain – also travelled to Warsaw for the demo, with a trip to a shooting range to use machine guns and other automatic weapons planned for the day before.
Each year the Independence March has grown in size – and so have the fascists. While most of those who turned out to march are not themselves members of fascist organisations, the fascist groups have shown their capacity to pull huge numbers behind them – and to drag behind them Duda and sections of the ruling PiS. Sunday’s protest takes this to a new and terrifying level.
The fascist groups are relatively weak in electoral terms – although they have substantial paramilitary organisations – but they are growing both in size and confidence. They are aided and legitimised by the increasingly rightward moves of Duda and the PiS.
The PiS is also growing increasingly authoritarian. Since its election victory in 2015 it has undermined Poland’s independent judiciary, attempted to cut the already very limited abortion provision, made it illegal to accuse the “Polish nation” of complicity in the Holocaust and encouraged racism.
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1851 chapel openings and more
Index of 1851 Primitive Methodist Magazine accounts of chapel openings, re-openings and foundation-stone laying
There are 34 chapel openings, re-openings and foundation stone layings listed in the 1851 volume.
A chapel was certainly needed at Thurston Magna which was “proverbial for wickedness; moral darkness and vice of almost every kind prevailed to an awful extent.”
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(www.MaritimeCyprus.com) During London International Shipping Week 2017, the UK Government launched the âCyber Security Code of Practice for Shipsâ (the â2017 Codeâ). The 2017 Code presents a framework and a series of steps which it recommends those operating in the maritime industry take to make the industry more resistant to cyber attacks and more attuned to cyber security threats.
Nick Shaw and Christian Ayerst, of Reed Smith, provide a breakdown of the 2017 Code and shed some light on the cyber security vulnerabilities unique to the shipping industry.
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Click on below image to download UK Cyber Security Code of Practice for Ships:
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Family Planning Investments Could Reduce Maternal Deaths In 4 Ways
Huffington Post: Dollars and Sense … Investing in Mothers
Jay Gribble, deputy director of family planning/reproductive health at Palladium’s Health Policy Plus
“…Scientists have identified four ways that family planning can reduce maternal deaths. The first one is simple: if a woman does not become pregnant (through contraceptive use) then she avoids the risk of pregnancy-related complications that can lead to her dying. Second, by avoiding unplanned pregnancy (through contraceptive use) fewer women will seek abortion … Third, for young women who are not yet developed sufficiently from a physiological perspective, use of contraception can avoid life-threatening pregnancies that occur at an early age. And fourth, for older women who have already had many pregnancies, the risk of additional, high-parity, high-risk pregnancies can be reduced through contraceptive use. … [Family planning] is a straightforward intervention that already saves the lives of hundreds of thousands of women each year, and can help save thousands more. It’s also smart economics. The return on investment for lowering rates of maternal and infant mortality through reducing unplanned pregnancies alone is estimated to [be] between $30 and $50 for each dollar invested. … [Family planning is] an investment that … makes dollars … and a lot of sense” (5/10).
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Due to the increasing importance of producing and consuming energy more sustainably, Energy Informatics (EI) has evolved into a thriving research area within the CS/IS community. The arti- cle attempts to characterize this young and dynamic field of research by de- scribing current EI research topics and methods and provides an outlook of how the field might evolve in the fu- ture. It is shown that two general re- search questions have received the most attention so far and are likely to dominate the EI research agenda in the coming years: How to leverage infor- mation and communication technol- ogy (ICT) to (1) improve energy effi- ciency, and (2) to integrate decentral- ized renewable energy sources into the power grid. Selected EI streams are reviewed, highlighting how the re- spective research questions are broken down into specific research projects and how EI researchers have made con- tributions based on their individual academic background.
Goebel, Christoph; Jacobsen, Hans-Arno; del Razo, Victor; Doblander, Christoph; Rivera, Jose; Ilg, Jens; Flath, Christoph; Schmeck, Hartmut; Weinhardt, Christof; Pathmaperuma, Daniel; Appelrath, Hans-Jürgen; Sonnenschein, Michael; Lehnhoff, Sebastian; Kramer, Oliver; Staake, Thorsten; Fleisch, Elgar; Neumann, Dirk; Strüker, Jens; Erek, Koray; Zarnekow, Rüdiger; Ziekow, Holger; and Lässig, Jörg
"Energy Informatics - Current and Future Research Directions,"
Business & Information Systems Engineering:
Vol. 6: Iss. 1, 25-31.
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Cumberland County students scheduled to return to schools on March 15
Students in Cumberland County Schools will return to in-person classes March 15 under a plan presented to the Board of Education on Tuesday by Superintendent Marvin Connelly Jr.
The board voted in November for in-person instruction to begin this month, but gave Connelly authority to delay the opening if COVID-19 cases were high in the area. Connelly said the metrics used to measure the amount of disease are not low enough for students to return to school buildings now.
Connelly said he hopes the levels will be lower in March. He said COVID-19 vaccinations, which some educators are expected to receive later this month, also could make it more likely for in-person classes to start. The county health director believes nearly all school staff members will have an opportunity to get the vaccine by the first week of March, Connelly said.
March 15 is the beginning of the fourth quarter of the school year for schools on the traditional calendar, which will provide a good academic transition from remote learning to classes in school buildings, Connelly said. In-person instruction is scheduled to begin for year-round schools in April, after an intersession ends, he said.
School board members asked Connelly questions but generally seemed to approve of his plan. He indicated that school officials would revise the plan if directed to do so by the board.
The most direct questions were asked by Nathan Warfel, who was elected to the board in November after indicating that he favored re-opening the schools.
Warfel said he wasn’t clear about what metrics school officials were using to determine whether to return to in-person classes.
Connelly said one factor is the rate of positive COVID-19 cases in the county. The rate, which was 7% at one time, is now more than 15%, he said.
School officials indicated in earlier meetings that the target for positive cases was 5%, based on public health guidelines.
Warfel also wanted to know if school officials considered a presentation to the board’s Curriculum Committee last week by Dr. Ibukun C. Akinboyo, assistant professor of pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine and a member of the ABC Science Collaborative.
Akinboyo said studies have shown that schools are not “super spreaders” of COVID-19, but that if there are higher rates of the disease in a community, there will be higher rates in schools. She said schools tend to do a good job teaching students to follow the Centers for Disease Control’s protocols for COVID-19, such as wearing masks, physical distancing and washing hands.
Connelly said school officials did take the information into account in the plan.
Warfel also wanted to know what might happen if a lot of staff members decide not to get the vaccine.
Connelly said he hopes that the staff members will be motivated by the desire to return to in-person classes and concern for their own health to take the vaccine. He said he plans to take it.
School board Chairwoman Alicia Chisolm said she hates shots, but still plans to get the vaccine.
Warfel also asked if school officials had considered the possibility of bringing students back before March 15.
Connelly said an earlier date was discussed, but school officials decided that the beginning of a quarter would give students a fresh start when they came back to in-person classes.
“It’s the best instructional transition point,” he said.
The plan calls for a staggered return to school for students. They will be divided into two groups, which are called cohorts.
Cohort A will come to classes at the schools on Mondays and Tuesdays, while those in Cohort B are taking classes virtually. The groups will reverse roles on Thursdays and Fridays.
All students will have assignments to complete remotely on Wednesdays.
School buildings will be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected on Wednesdays and on weekends.
Parents will have the option for their children to continue to take classes remotely.
The plan calls for end-of-course and career and technical education tests to be given to students at the schools March 8-11. The tests had been scheduled for December, but were delayed by the high COVID-19 rates.
School board members attended the meeting virtually on Tuesday. It was shown on the the school system’s YouTube channel, with more than 1,000 people watching at one point.
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A policy specialist presents some of her key findings from an official Higher Education report that calls for greater flexibility on Indian student numbers coming to the UK post-Brexit.
The Higher Education Commission is set to publish its sixth inquiry titled 'Staying Ahead Are International Students Going Down Under ' this September. The inquiry was initiated with the aim of assisting the Government to achieve its ambition of boosting the value of international higher education to £30 billion by 2020, but this will not be easy given the continued ambiguity around the welcome given to international students and migration targets.
The report therefore seeks to assess the best routes to achieve growth including what the government needs to do to support the higher education (HE) sector. The report examined issues with immigration policy and the regulatory regime, which resulted in over-reliance on particular markets abroad, to the detriment of other source countries like India.
Between 2011/12 and 2015/16 enrolments in the UK increased by only 0.8 per cent. In the same period global mobility grew 16.6 per cent. Graph 2 suggests the recruitment of Chinese students to the UK has compensated for losses from other source countries: 22 per cent of first year non-UK enrolments in HE in 2016-17 were Chinese (HESA, 2018). The relative growth in Chinese students has been accompanied by a fall in the number of
. Since 2012-2013 the number of first year enrolments of Indian students in the UK has decreased by 26 per cent (HESA, 2018). This is not a sustainable approach in the long term, not least as China's 18-22 year old population is set to decline over the next decade.
Much of the decline in Indian students is attributed to the closure of the Post-Work Study route. An analysis carried out by
assessed the impact of the closure of the Post-Work Study routes. This suggests that closing off this route to work in the UK after graduation led to a 20.3 per cent decline in enrolment at undergraduate level.
Where are Indian students going
Universities UK (2018) has concluded that
, a competitor nation which has seen a 15 per cent year on year growth in
between 2016 and 2017, has 'picked up' part of the UK's former share of the Indian market due to the attractive post work study options on offer in Australia. This raises concerns about the sustainability of the UK's source countries and the danger of over reliance on particular markets. Currently over 50 per cent of India's population is under 25 years old and by
, India will outpace China as the country with the largest tertiary age population.
Patterns of Indian enrolments show that the UK's competitors are claiming a greater share of the Indian market. UNESCO reported that in 2015 233,540 Indian students enrolled in higher education abroad, representing an overall increase of 23 per cent since 2013 (ICEF, 2016). However, since 2012/2013 there has been a 26 per cent decrease in the number of Indian enrolments in UK higher education institutions. Meanwhile, Indian student enrolments at competitor countries have increased: US Indian enrolment grew 62 per cent, Canada 40 per cent, and Australia 50 per cent over the period 2013-2015.
Indian students are increasingly choosing other destinations, with surveys of prospective students showing that attractive visa policies and post-study employment options are a major factor in this decision. After the meetings between Prime Minister Theresa May and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took place, the then Indian Commerce and Industry Minister [Nirmala Sitharaman] noted:
“I did raise the issues of visa fees, student visas, and how Indian students no longer prefer to go to UK universities, which was the top priority earlier, because of the nature of visa regulations and requirements.”
The most notable aspect of the changes in immigration policy was the decision to remove the Post Study Work route in April 2012. This policy enabled graduates to remain and work in the UK for up to two years after graduation. The Commission was told the closure of the Tier 1 Post Study Work route is likely to have been a 'significant factor' in the reduction of students from Commonwealth markets like India, Pakistan and Nigeria. Evidence drawn to the Commission's attention included the fact that at the same time as South Asian intakes into the UK were falling, numbers were increasing to competitor countries that have improved their Post Study Work offer, notably Canada and Australia.
Current Post Study Work opportunities are limited. Under the (now closed) Tier 1 Post-Study Work route graduates had the right to remain in the UK one year after graduation. Now graduates have only four months to secure graduate level jobs with a Tier 2 sponsor and must meet minimum salary thresholds. This has had a significant impact on take up. In its final year of operation 38,505 students took the opportunity to work in the UK two years after graduation. These numbers have crashed significantly under the new Tier 2 route: in 2016 there were 6,037 graduates.
Open Post Study Work routes are particularly attractive to Indian students, and with demand set to increase globally from Indian students, it is vital that the Government rethinks Post Study Work options, bringing our regime in line with our competitors. Otherwise there is a real risk that in this more competitive environment the UK's declining intake of Indian students will penalise the country and UK institutions heavily.
The immigration and regulatory regime, in its focus on zero visa refusal rates, discourages institutions from attempting to recruit students from 'non-traditional' source markets. The Commission also heard that this regime encourages institutions to take a risk averse approach to recruitment, and potentially withdraw or reduce recruitment from certain markets.
In summer 2016 the government relaxed the student visa regime for Master's students at four pilot universities in the UK: Bath, Cambridge, Imperial, and Oxford, as a test of a 'differentiated approach'. Under the pilot scheme:
- Universities were made responsible for eligibility checks, reducing the number of supporting documents students have to submit as part of their applications
- Students within the pilot were allowed to stay in the UK for six months after their course to find a graduate level job. Although this was a welcome change, it did not re-introduce the post-study work visa, as the pilot was only designed to give students time to find employment via the Tier 2 skilled work visa (THE, 2016).
The original four pilot institutions were chosen because of:
“...their consistently low level of visa refusals. The pilot is intentionally narrow in scope in order to monitor the pilot outcomes against the stated objectives and to minimise the risk of unintended consequences before considering rolling it out more widely.”
Times Higher Education (2016)
When the Government expanded the pilot, the Home Office said that the additional 23 universities were selected because their visa refusal rates were “consistently the lowest in their area or region”. The focus on low visa refusal rates as the rationale for joining the pilot means universities would have to reduce their visa refusal rates. The Commission heard from witnesses that this can only be done by cutting back on recruitment from 'risky' markets, such as India.
Top 10 fastest growing 18-22 year old populations (000s)
Source: British Council (2018)
The report concludes that the Government should create a new international student growth list which strategically focuses on countries which have the fastest growing youth populations, as identified by the British Council (2018) in Table 1. This should consider nations who do not feature in our top-10 source countries, such as Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Kenya. In addition, this growth list should consider nations in our top-10 source countries such as India, who may be considered 'high risk' to the Home Office but have been identified by the British Council (2018) as the top countries with the fastest growing 18-22 year old populations.
Successive governments have based their immigration policies on recruiting the “brightest and the best students around the world”. Since 2014 there has been an emphasis on recruiting
international students through the tightening of the visa regime, this has resulted in institutions avoiding 'risky' students, but in turn has led to institutions moving away from markets that have great potential, such as India. This issue is very significant for the UK economy, not just in relation to HE but also to long term patterns of trade and business cooperation.
projections show that the economy of India will be the second largest in the world by 2050.
has projected that the total growth in student mobility internationally is expected to slow between 2015-2027 but numbers of
overseas is predicted to buck this trend - increasing by 185,000 to 439,000 by 2027. A key reason for this increase in Indian student numbers is that India is seeing a demographic boom in the peak education age groups.
The UK's current visa and regulatory regime has reversed the growth in students coming to the UK for their education, putting UK universities at a disadvantage to their competitors in other nations. At worst, government policy has sent a message globally that UK PLC is closed for business. Against Brexit and a backdrop of uncertainty for our future trading relationships with other countries, the UK must address this issue. Growing the UK's market share internationally will increasingly centre on the competition for the Indian market. Given the numbers of Indian leaders who were educated at UK universities - such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Manmohan Singh - it is vital to both the UK's national interest and soft power diplomacy that the Government creates an international higher education strategy that welcomes Indian students.
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A Reuters article highlights the fact that U.S. Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack is praying for rain to help relieve droughts in the Midwest. The drought is having a significant impact on farmers and their crops. The negative affect will of course inevitably lead to higher food prices as the supply is cut. Experts say it could be the most severe dry spell since 1950.
The lack of rain and heat is really a simple reminder of our lack of control over the created order. Even with all of our technological advances and gadgets, we are still dependent on God. Sometimes it seems our culture and society has forgotten the source of life. Secretary Vilsack recognizes the need for prayer, and often times, governors, especially of farm states, will issue declarations for citizens to pray for rain.
God of course uses rain and droughts to get the attention of His people. The Old Testament is full of teaching on God’s use of droughts and rain to teach theology, obedience, judgment, and favor.
On the Ricky Skagg’s album Ancient Tones, there is a song titled “Give Us Rain.” Part of the lyrics to the tune certainly speak to us today,
Grandpa raised a family on a worn out cotton farm
Borrowed money on his word, he never did nobody harm
Sometimes he’d get discouraged when a dry spell came around
He’d go out in the cotton field and he’d kneel down on the ground
Give us rain on this dry old ground today
Give us rain, wash the troubled times away
I believe you’re faithful, I’m not meaning to complain
But Lord we sure could use a little rain
Lord we sure could use a little rain.
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Anamzoya Alhassan Suleman
- University of Ghana
This study investigates the private lives of Dagomba chiefs in Northern Ghana, breaking away from the largely institutional academic work on chieftaincy in Ghana. Concentrating on the private lives of three Dagomba chiefs, the study explores how they negotiate their everyday lives in their palaces, as husbands to their numerous wives, and, as fathers to their many children. It focuses on how they marry, control, and socialise their children, and how they undertake the daily administration of their households. The study also considers actors who influence the chiefs’ daily behavior. Data is collected from the three chiefs, their wives, their children, their elders, and their drummers. Methodology includes focus group discussions, observations, and in-depth interviews, using tools such as interview guides. | <urn:uuid:2fec2f12-69df-4585-83c0-8d4bc1ef6935> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/anamzoya-alhassan-suleman/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965896 | 183 | 1.929688 | 2 |
For the last two years a group of communities of faith and local non-profits have gathered to discuss ways to address the issue of Food Insecurity in Lower Merion. We know that this issue is found in every community and just because of the relative affluence of Lower Merion does not mean that there are not those who suffer from food insecurity.
Our efforts have focused on the reality that roughly 800 children take part in the free and reduced lunch program in the Lower Merion School District. During the summer, many of these families do not have options for these children. One wonderful program, lead by Zion Baptist Church in Ardmore is the Box Lunch and a Book. This program serves roughly 75 children in the Ardmore and Bryn Mawr communities. But that still leaves the majority of the 800 underserved.
In an attempt to address this disparity, we joined with other concerned groups to create the Lower Merion Summer Cafe. With this effort, we reached an additional 25 children, but it is not enough.
Recently, a meeting was held with clergy of GPC, Main Line Reform Temple and Bethel AME Church meet with representatives of local family trusts to explore a community study that would help identify the need, scope of need and possible impediments, so that we can more fully address food insecurity in our community.
The support from the GPC community has been amazing as we have attempted to join together with others to provide food to those without. Continue with that support as we begin our next steps to address the issue. | <urn:uuid:c41d32ac-b76a-490f-a545-56c373945548> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gladwynepres.org/2020/01/29/food-insecurity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973296 | 310 | 1.914063 | 2 |
The poodle is an iconic, beloved dog breed. Their hypoallergenic coats, affectionate personalities, and show-style hairdos set them apart from other dogs and, for some people, make them the breed of choice. Although the poodle has become a popular half of many mixed breeds like the labradoodle and the goldendoodle, there are also other types of poodles. In fact, the American Kennel Club and British Kennel Club recognize three sizes of the breed: standard, miniature, and toy poodles. Although the differences between a standard and the others may seem obvious, one may wonder about the toy poodle vs. miniature poodle.
Here's a deeper look at the differences between these tiny poodles.
Origins of the Poodle
Despite being the national dog of France, the standard poodle hails from Germany, according to the American Kennel Club. The breed's protective coat, swimming skills, and intelligence made it an ideal hunting companion, specifically for ducks. Over time, smaller versions of the poodle were bred. According to VCA Animal Hospitals, the miniature poodle arrived on the scene in the 1800s, becoming a popular addition to French royal homes. The U.S. began breeding the third poodle variety--the toy poodle--in the 20th century. Because their small size was ideal for small spaces, the toy poodle is marketed toward city dwellers.
Toy Poodle vs. Miniature Poodle
The biggest difference between the toy and miniature poodle is their size. While their standard counterparts stand at 15 inches, a miniature poodle stands between 11 and 15 inches tall at the shoulder. A toy poodle only reaches around 10 inches.
Poodle coats come in a variety of colors, but do not differ by breed. Common coat colors include gray, blue, brown, silver, cream, white, apricot, and cafe-au-lait. Poodle coats can also come in a variety of patterns.
Toy and miniature poodles' fur has the same texture and length. Their coats are full of curly, thick hair. Unfortunately, because the fur tends to mat, poodles need daily brushing and regular trips to the groomer to keep their locks looking fresh. While no dog is truly hypoallergenic, poodles do shed less than other breeds, making them a good option for people with allergies.
Poodle Traits, Lifespan, and Health Issues
Toy and miniature poodles have similar personalities, since they both originate from the standard poodle. Their biggest difference comes down to size. A high-energy breed, poodles require daily exercise to be happy. According to Barkercise, toy poodles need 20 to 25 minutes of walking daily, while miniature poodles need around 30 to 40 minutes. Water sports are also an option, as poodles love to swim. They are an intelligent breed and will benefit from regular mental exercises, such as dog puzzles and other brain games.
Poodles' natural intelligence makes them one of the easiest dogs to train, as long as you use positive reinforcement. Poodles are sensitive pups, so constant praise and treats will be your best friend when training either a toy or miniature poodle.
These companion dogs are very loyal to their owners, but can become a little too attached and may have to work on overcoming separation anxiety. A poodle puppy needs proper socialization to avoid issues with strangers and other dogs. They also should be supervised around small children, as they are delicate dogs and kids can be a bit rough.
Toy and miniature poodles are not known for having major health issues, but there are some illnesses to look out for. Poodles are at a higher risk for the following health issues:
- Hip dysplasia
- Von Villabrand's disease
- Addison's disease
- Sebaceous adenitis
- Atrial septal defect
Toy and miniature poodles specifically have issues with the following:
- Luxating patellas
- Legg-Calve Perthes
- Muscular dystrophy
- Cardiovascular disease
Responsible breeders will run eye, hip, and patella evaluations, and well as a PRA (Progressive Retinal Atrophy) DNA test to check for any retinal diseases. Keeping up with vet visits and following the proper vaccine schedule will help owners keep their pets healthy. Toy poodles live between 12 and 16 years, while miniature poodles will live around 15 years.
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Skateboarding Is An Awesome Sport
During the late 90s and into the 2000s, skateboarding was one of the most exciting transitions from "real-life" to "video games" ever. While many had released games in the past, it wasn't until Neversoft's Tony Hawk Pro Skater series that catapulted the sport into the mainstream. I honestly believe that were it not for the groundbreaking success of the series, the culture and its borders would not have been as intense. There have been fans of the series who picked up a board, invested themselves in its history, and so much more thanks to THPS.
Needless to say, there have been many imitators and very few were able to take on the king, much less decapitate its head. This would all change in 2007 when EA Black Box would dedicate their time to developing Skate. Of the many in-house studios Electronic Arts had, Black Box was their most prolific. Having come off a very successful Need For Speed run, including the Underground titles, Most Wanted, and Carbon, skateboarding was their next crusade.
At The Time, Skate Was The Most Realistic Game Of Its Kind
It would have been easier to follow the leader, mimicking the control scheme of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and similar skating games. Black Box decided to invent their own system known as "Flick It." Using the right analog stick to control the skater's flip controls, something as simple as popping an Ollie felt rewarding. Each leg was assigned to a button, with X and A being the left and right leg respectively. The left stick controlled the skater's body, turning left and right as well as power sliding and reverting. Every control could be paired with each other to create interesting lines.
Skate was a game that encouraged discovery and rewarded creativity, much like real-life skateboarding. This translates well with the game's plot, or rather, its lack of a coordinated plot. You're a skater who, in the middle of their line, runs right into a bus. As the doctors perform surgery on you, in the form of a character creator, you achieve a complete recovery. Time to be the best skater in San Van I guess.
Skate Is Your Story, Whatever That May Be
One of the most interesting things about the game was its sense of immersion. Following the player at all times is a cameraman, Redda, who is always close by. He serves as the game's narrator, instructor, guide, mouthpiece, and all of the above. In short, he does not shut up at all. You're doing great? He'll let you know. Did you bomb a run? You'll definitely hear from him. It became such an issue that in its sequels they limited his vocal tracks. His own annoyance became a plot point, but you won't find a more faithful cameraman.
This leads to an interesting camera angle that shakes as a real camera would. As the player increases in speed, the camera will struggle to keep up. There are times when this camera immersion is broken, but it was a cool idea at the time. Thankfully the later games improve the camera by a lot. The camera, controls, and aesthetic give Skate a rugged "street" appeal over the glitzy glam that THPS was going for. Ironically, it was more Underground than Tony Hawk's Underground.
The "Souls" Game Of Skating, Even Though It Dates It By Two Years
I remember the discussions on the GameFAQs message boards with many saying this game sucked. The controls were "too hard" and it would "never dethrone Tony Hawk." I wish I could still find the forum threads, but looking back at them, it made sense. This was a huge risk that EA was banking on, back when taking such risks was a thing. This was the same company that made an impressive parkour game in Mirror's Edge. The same company that thought combining rappers and wrestlers was a great idea in Def Jam Vendetta.
Over a decade later and the Skate community remains strong, thanks to the YouTube era. Content creators and their love for Skate 3 began an entire neo-skater movement. This was enough to give us a new Tony Hawk Pro Skater years after THPS 5 almost killed the series. Indie games like Skater XL and Session were born from the ashes of Skate and its phoenix decided to take flight. In 2020, EA announced a new game in the series. While the news is scarce, there's a promise that the devs are "hard at work."
Whatever may come from this, replaying Skate brought me to an innocent time. During bad days at high school, I'd come home and spend a few hours having a skating session. It'd be enough to get my mind off of things, much as it has 15 years later. I can't believe this game is 15 years old. I'm old. But this game is eternal and a much-needed detox from SpongeBob's silly game.
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As someone who has worked in the hospitality industry, non-profit, and private industry, I find that people tend to hide their past if they have worked in the industry. I don’t think its anything to be embarrassed about – in fact, I tend to think the opposite. So if you see a resume with someone who had to wait tables, or bartend, give them a second look.
Some of the most valuable life skills I have learned came from my days behind the bar. This is my small head nod to that industry and a small thank you for the people still out there. Special thanks to the Pour Boys & The Professional Bartending School of Arlington VA.
Here are a few reasons why I think Bartenders or Servers are amazing hires in other types of jobs:
You learn a certain amount of respect and patience for people when you work customer service. This applies to any other job that involves people skills. After being yelled at or completely ignored, I tend to make sure to say hello to everyone I meet or work with. It goes a long way to recognize a person in the midst of doing any type of business. I am always confident that someone with customer service background understands how customers want to be treated, and how I personally want to be treated as well. They are often really good team players.
2. Great Multi-taskers – Entrepreneurial:
You have to do everything when you work in service. There is never a down moment. You clean, cook, make drinks, and entertain. One of the first things you learn in bar-tending for efficiency is to use two hands. Double the service means, more tips, etc. You end up working smarter because its in your own self interest. Each bartender is in charge of building their customer loyalty base so that they can bring in a few extra bucks every night of the week. They are self starters and responsible. If my till ( cash drawer ) did not match up at the end of the night, I was responsible.
Lastly on this point, they do awesome under pressure. I remember when I started my design job at GW I had 2-3 requests at once. Compared to having 10-20 drunk people yelling at you, it was a piece of cake. You just learn to prioritize, organize, and execute.
3. Infotainment Masters & Storytellers:
Bartenders are notorious for entertaining and educating their guests about anything. They have to sell themselves, the product, and make the customer feel special at the same time. This is the foundation of customer service – helping a guest and fulfilling a need. They are able to create, think outside the box, and think on their feet. One could almost venture to say that Bartenders end up as “User Experience” (UX) system designers. Every night they prototype experiences for several groups of types of people, over and over and over.
4. Never Boring
They always have a story – or 50.
5. Bonus: Karma
Bartenders support us all throughout our entire life. Graduations, Birthdays, or just those really crappy days. They are always there for us, and barely ever ask for a thank you. Most people work with them transactionally, and a few lucky of us get to experience the culture and develop relationships. And the people are amazing. I feel that people always want to put public service on a pedestal, but customer service should be a subcategory of that. Hospitality IS public service by definition.
I am truly lucky to have worked with so many people in this space, and learned so much from them. I still am inspired by the space, and feel fortunate to have friends that still work in the industry.
Hope this gives some perspective to those of you who have not been a barista, waiter, or bartender in your lifetime.
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The activity of earthworms, especially "night crawlers" often contributes to a rough and bumpy lawn surface that can be both annoying and dangerous. Another "problem" associated with earthworms is the movement of large numbers to places where they are unwanted (such as, on sidewalks or patios, and in swimming pools).
To hear the passion with which people seek a "control" for earthworms you could believe that worms are the worst pests on earth (or more appropriately, in earth). Of course, earthworms are beneficial and valuable to the overall health and tilth of the lawn. Their activity improves the growing environment by increasing air and water movement in the soil and they help decompose thatch. They also help alleviate compaction.
There are no pesticides labeled for the control of earthworms. Although some pesticides and fertilizers are known to have an impact on earthworms, none can be recommended as a control. Compared to the pesticides (especially insecticides) used one or two decades ago, today's pesticides have relatively little impact on earthworm populations, in part because of the registration process that examines adverse environmental effects such as mortality to beneficial, nontarget organisms (including earthworms).
Various lawn care practices can help reduce the problem of a bumpy lawn. Bumpiness in sparse, thin lawns will be less noticeable if a healthy thick turf is reestablished through reseeding with a turfgrass species / variety suited to the site, and through proper fertilization mowing and irrigation.
Mechanical means to reduce bumpiness will be necessary to eliminate existing roughness. Core aerifying, power raking and verticutting are all mechanical processes that will break down some of the bumps in the lawn. Roughness accumulates over several years and it should be gradually removed instead of all at once.
Use of a heavy roller is not recommended. While rolling may remove some roughness, it also damages the turf by compacting the soil. Compacted soil reduces turfgrass vigor and eventually leads to a thinner lawn.
Although rough bumpy lawns and earthworms on the driveway are annoying, destruction of earthworms in not advised.
This article originally appeared in the May 21, 1999 issue, p. 65.
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Perm rods are a type of hair straightener that uses heat to make the hair straight. They are not just limited to curly hair, and they can be used on any type of hair.
Perm rods come in different sizes and shapes - from small round ones to long rectangular ones. The size and shape depend on the person who is using it. There are two main types of perm rods:
- One that heats up quickly and cools down quickly
- One that heats up slowly and cools down slowly
How to Apply Perm Rods
Perm rods are used to apply permanent waves to hair. They can be used on curly or straight hair. The most common way of applying the perm rod is by using a comb and then wrapping it around the rod.
Step 1: Apply the perm rod vertically on your head, with the teeth facing outwards in a comb-like fashion.
Step 2: Wrap the perm rod around your head, making sure that it reaches all corners of your head and ends at the back of your neck.
Step 3: Comb through your hair with one hand while holding onto the end of the perm rod with your other hand to make sure that you have applied enough pressure so that you don't damage any strands of hair or leave any gaps in between them as you put it down on top of them.
Why is It Hard to Apply Them Correctly?
A perm rod is a tool that is used to apply a perm to hair. It is also known as a curling iron. However, it can be difficult to use one correctly.
The main reason why it is hard to apply them correctly is that they are not designed for all hair types and their size can vary. Another reason why it can be difficult to use them properly is because of how long they are - they are quite long and can get tangled in the hair when being used incorrectly.
How to Stop the Feeling of Pain With Natural Techniques for Your Hair
With the right natural hair care products, you can stop the feeling of pain in your hair.
If you are experiencing a dull and dry scalp, try using apple cider vinegar mixed with water to wash your hair. This will help to remove any build-up that might be causing the problem. If you have a lot of split ends, try using honey mixed with olive oil as a leave-in conditioner. These products will also help to restore moisture levels in your hair and make it shiny again.
Some people also swear by coconut oil for their dry and frizzy hair. It helps to moisturize and add shine to your tresses without making them too greasy or heavy.
How Long Should You Leave Them in for?
Perm rods are those plastic rods that are used to style hair into different hairstyles. They are usually left in the hair for a certain amount of time before they need to be removed.
The question is, how long should you leave them in for? This is an important question because when you remove the rods too soon, your hair can get damaged and it can be difficult to style your hair again.
The best way to know how long you should leave the rod in your hair is by checking its packaging.
Perm rods are a great way to remove pesky knots from your hair. There are many different types of perm rods available with varying degrees of effectiveness.
The best way to get rid of tangles and knots is by using a perm rod. This product has been used for decades, but it’s still very popular in the beauty industry today.
A perm rod is a tool that helps you untangle your hair without damaging it. It also helps you remove any tangles and knots that might be in your hair, like dreadlocks or even those annoying curly strands at the bottom of your head.
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Birthplace: Carskerdo, Scotland
Location of death: Edenton, NC
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Buried, Christ Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Judge, Politician
Party Affiliation: See Note
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Supreme Court Justice, 1789-98
The American statesman and jurist James Wilson was born in or near St. Andrews, Scotland, on the 14th of September 1742. He matriculated at the University of St. Andrews in 1757 and was subsequently a student at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 1765 he emigrated to America. Landing at New York in June, he went to Philadelphia in the following year and in 1766-1767 was instructor of Latin in the college of Philadelphia, later the university of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile he studied law in the office of John Dickinson, was admitted to the bar in 1767, removed first to Reading and soon afterward to Carlisle, and rapidly rose to prominence. In August 1774 he published a pamphlet Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament, in which he argued that parliament had no constitutional power to legislate for the colonies; this pamphlet strongly influenced members of the Continental Congress which met in September. Wilson was a delegate to the Pennsylvania provincial convention in January 1775, and he sustained there the right of Massachusetts to resist the change in its charter, declaring that as the force which the British Government was exercising to compel obedience was "force unwarranted by any act of parliament, unsupported by any principle of the common law, unauthorized by any commission from the crown", resistance was justified by "both the letter and the spirit of the British constitution"; he also, by his speech, led the colonies in shifting the burden of responsibility from parliament or the king's ministers to the king himself. In May 1775 Wilson became a member of the Continental Congress. When a declaration of independence was first proposed in that body he expressed the belief that a majority of the people of Pennsylvania were in favor of it, but as the instructions of the delegates from Pennsylvania and some of the other colonies opposed such a declaration, he urged postponement of action for the purpose of giving the constituents in those colonies an opportunity of removing such instructions. When independence was finally declared the unanimity of all the colonies except New York had been obtained. Receiving a commission as colonel in May 1775, Wilson raised a battalion of troops in his county of Cumberland, and for a short time in 1776 he took part in the New Jersey campaign, but his principal labors in 1776 and 1777 were in Congress. In January 1776 he was appointed a member of a committee to prepare an address to the colonies, and the address was written by him; he served on a similar committee in May 1777, and wrote the address To the Inhabitants of the United States, urging their firm support of the cause of Independence; he drafted the plan of treaty with France together with instructions for negotiating it; he was a member of the Board of War from its establishment in June 1776 until his retirement from Congress in September 1777; from January to September 1777 he was chairman of the Committee on Appeals, to hear and determine appeals from the courts of admiralty in the several states; and he was a member of many other important committees. In September 1777 the political faction in his state which had opposed Independence again came into power, and Wilson was kept out of Congress until the close of the war; he was back again, however, in 1783, and 1785-1786, and, advocating a sound currency, labored in co-operation with Robert Morris to direct the financial policy of the Confederation.
Soon after leaving Congress in 1777 Wilson removed to Annapolis, Maryland, to practice law, but he returned to Philadelphia in the following year. In 1779 he was commissioned Advocate-General for France, and in this capacity he represented Louis XVI in all claims arising out of the French alliance until the close of the war. In 1781-1782 he was the principal counsel for Pennsylvania in the Wyoming Valley dispute with Connecticut, which was decided in favor of Pennsylvania in December 1782 by an arbitration court appointed by Congress. Wilson was closely associated with Robert Morris in organizing the Bank of North America, and in the Act of Congress incorporating it (December 31, 1781) he was made one of the directors. In 1782 the legislature of Pennsylvania granted a charter to this bank, but three years later it passed an act to repeal it. Wilson responded with a famous constitutional argument in which he sustained the constitutionality of the bank on the basis of the implied powers of Congress.
As a constructive statesman Wilson had no superior in the Federal Convention of 1787. He favored the independence of the executive, legislative and judicial departments, the supremacy of the Federal government over the state governments, and the election of senators as well as representatives by the people, and was opposed to the election of the President or the judges by Congress. His political philosophy was based upon implicit confidence in the people, and he strove for such provisions as he thought would best guarantee a government by the people. When the constitution had been framed Wilson pronounced it "the best form of government which has ever been offered to the world", and he, at least, among the framers regarded it not as a compact but as an ordinance to be established by the people. During the struggle for ratification he made a speech before a mass meeting in Philadelphia which has been characterized as "the ablest single presentation of the whole subject." In the Pennsylvania ratification convention (November 21 to December 15, 1787) he was the constitution's principal defender. Having been appointed professor of law in the university of Pennsylvania in 1790, he delivered at that institution in 1790-1791 a course of lectures on public and private law; some of these lectures, together with his speeches in the Federal convention, before the mass meeting in Philadelphia, and in the Pennsylvania ratification convention, are among the most valuable commentaries on the constitution.
Wilson was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1789-1790, and a member of the committee which drafted the new constitution. In 1789 Washington appointed him an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and in 1793 he wrote the important decision in the case of Chisolm v. Georgia, the purport of which was that the people of the United States constituted a sovereign nation and that the United States were not a mere confederacy of sovereign states. He continued to serve as associate justice until his death, near Edenton, North Carolina, on the 28th of August 1798.
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Wife: Rachael Bird (m. 1771, d. 1786, 6 children)
Daughter: Emily Hollingsworth
Wife: Hannah Gray (m. 1793, 1 son)
University: University of St. Andrews
University: University of Edinburgh
University: University of Glasgow
Teacher: Philadelphia College
Teacher: College of Philadelphia
US Supreme Court Justice (1789-98)
Delegate to the Continental Congress (1785-86)
Delegate to the Continental Congress (1783)
Signatory to the US Declaration of Independence 4-Jul-1776
Delegate to the Continental Congress (1775-77)
Signatory to the US Constitution
Debtor's Prison New Jersey (1797)
Debtor's Prison North Carolina (1798)
Proxy Baptism: Mormon St. George, UT (21-Aug-1877)
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The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L.L.D.: Late One of the Associate Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Professor of Law in the College of Philadelphia (1804)
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05 May 2022, Ireland: Over the next 40-50 years, the world will need to grow the same amount of food as in the last 10,000 years combined to feed everyone on Earth. That equates to 70% more food worldwide. We cannot meet this goal without sustainability and innovation. The need to support sustainable global food production is the result of not just one, but several factors.
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On 1 June 2017, President Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, which was followed by the formal communication to the United Nations of its intent to withdraw. At the same time, important initiatives have emerged as direct and indirect responses to changes in government policies. The election of President Trump and the withdrawal of U.S. federal government from its various global and national competencies in climate and environmental protection and sustainable development have mobilized social movements and the private sector in the United States. In addition, to the improvement of the capacity of non-profits and civil society groups, the 2016 election of President Trump has led major corporations and business groups to take a clearer position on supporting climate protection and environmental integrity. In addition, several U.S. cities and states have announced that they will adhere to the climate agreement by looking at ways to reduce emissions, including negotiating contracts with local utilities to supply more renewable energy, building rapid transit programs and other infrastructure projects like improved wastewater treatment. These silverlinings are interesting that require integrated analysis. | <urn:uuid:9ac40416-ab08-4337-b566-b965e5719486> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.idos-research.de/en/others-publications/article/trumps-usa-and-climate-negotiations-quo-vadimus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97032 | 215 | 2.5625 | 3 |
On October 19, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada released the highly-anticipated decision in R. v. Cole, on appeal from the Ontario Court of Appeal (see “Ontario’s top court rules employees have privacy interests in content on work computers”). In a 6-1 majority decision, the Supreme Court held that employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the information contained on a work-issued computer where personal use of the computer is permitted or reasonably expected. Canada’s top court stated that workplace policies and practices may diminish that expectation of privacy, but they do not operate to nullify it.
Richard Cole was employed as a high-school teacher when he was charged with possession of child pornography, and unauthorized use of a computer, under the Criminal Code. The charges arose after a school computer technician remotely accessed the hard drive of Cole’s school-issued laptop and found sexually explicit images of an underage student. The Crown later alleged that while monitoring students’ e-mail in the course of his duties, Cole found the images and copied them to his laptop.
When the technician discovered the images on Cole’s hard drive, the school’s principal directed the technician to copy the images onto a disc for use as evidence. The principal then required Cole to turn over the laptop. School board officials searched its contents and copied the temporary internet files onto another disc. The laptop and the two discs were then turned over to police, who reviewed them without obtaining a warrant.
On a pre-trial application, the trial judge excluded the evidence on the basis that the warrantless police search of the computer was an infringement of Cole’s Charter right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure. On appeal, the trial judge’s decision was overturned. The Court ruled that the accused had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the school-issued laptop. Cole appealed this decision to the Ontario Court of Appeal.
The Court of Appeal held that there was a limited modification to Mr. Cole’s expectation of privacy in the contents of the computer due to the school technician’s access to the laptop. Nevertheless, this diminished expectation of privacy did not justify the warrantless police search. Although the laptop and its contents were in the hands of third parties, the accused did not abandon his privacy interest in the personal information stored on the computer. The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and sent the matter back to trial, with the laptop and temporary internet files excluded as evidence. The Crown appealed the decision to the Supreme Court of Canada.
BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA
Justice Fish, for the majority, cited the 2010 decision in R. v. Morelli in which it was definitively held that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in information contained on a personal computer. Fish J. stated that the same principle should apply in the context of a work computer, at least where personal use of the computer is permitted or reasonably expected. In the majority’s view, computers that are used for personal purposes, whether at home or in the workplace, “contain information that is meaningful, intimate, and touching on the user’s biographical core.” There is a constitutionally-protected expectation of privacy in information of this kind. The Court did note, however, that the expectation of privacy is somewhat diminished in the case of a work computer.
THE TOTALITY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES TEST
The Supreme Court stated that the determination of whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy involves the application of the “totality of the circumstances” test from the Supreme Court decision in R. v. Edwards (1996). The totality of the circumstances test involves four lines of inquiry:
- an examination of the subject matter of the alleged search;
- a determination as to whether the claimant had a direct interest in the subject matter;
- an inquiry into whether the claimant had a subjective expectation of privacy in the subject matter; and
- an assessment as to whether this subjective expectation of privacy was objectively reasonable, having regard to the totality of the circumstances.
In applying the above test, the Supreme Court identified the subject matter of the alleged search to be the data, or informational content of the laptop’s hard drive, its mirror image, and the disc with the internet files. The Supreme Court stated that Mr. Cole’s direct interest and subjective expectation of privacy could “readily be inferred from his use of the laptop to browse the Internet and to store personal information on the hard drive.”
The Court went on to consider the fourth component of the test – whether Mr. Cole’s subjective expectation of privacy was objectively reasonable. It cited the decision in R. v. Plant (1993) in which Sopinka J. stated:
In fostering the underlying values of dignity, integrity and autonomy, it is fitting that s. 8 of the Charter should seek to protect a biographical core of personal information which individuals in a free and democratic society would wish to maintain and control from dissemination to the state. This would include personal information which tends to reveal intimate details of the lifestyle and personal choices of the individual.
In the Court’s view, the more personal and confidential the information in question, the more likely there is a constitutionally protected privacy interest.
Computers that are used for personal purposes, regardless of where they are found or to whom they belong, “contain the details of our financial, medical, and personal situations” (Morelli, at para. 105). This is particularly the case where, as here, the computer is used to browse the Web. Internet-connected devices “reveal our specific interests, likes, and propensities, recording in the browsing history and cache files the information we seek out and read, watch, or listen to on the Internet”
This sort of private information falls at the very heart of the “biographical core” protected by s. 8 of the Charter.
The Court noted that although ownership of the property is a relevant consideration, it is not determinative. Similarly the policies, practices and customs of the workplace, although relevant in the analysis, are not determinative of a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy. In the Court’s view, the workplace policies of the school operated both for and against the existence of the reasonable expectation of privacy. The policies permitted Mr. Cole to use the work computer for personal purposes, thus favouring the reasonable expectation of privacy. On the other hand, the fact that Cole did not have exclusive control over the computer diminished that expectation. Nevertheless, in considering the totality of the circumstances, the Supreme Court held that Cole did in fact have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his internet browsing history and the informational content of the work-issued computer.
WARRANTLESS POLICE SEARCH A BREACH OF THE CHARTER BUT EVIDENCE STILL ADMISSABLE
Having found that Mr. Cole had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the information stored on the work computer, the Supreme Court held that the warrantless access by the police to the information was a breach of s. 8 of the Charter. In the Supreme Court’s view, the receipt of the computer from the school did not afford the police warrantless access to the information on it. Similarly, the Court held that the employer could not validly consent to the search, or waive the constitutional protection afforded to Mr. Cole on his behalf.
Despite these findings however, the Supreme Court ruled that the admission of the unlawfully obtained evidence would not bring the administration of justice into disrepute. This decision was based on the diminished reasonable expectation of privacy of Mr. Cole and on the fact that the evidence in issue would have ultimately have been discoverable due to the existence of reasonable and probable grounds to conduct a search of the computer. The Supreme Court also noted that excluding the evidence would have a “marked negative impact on the truth-seeking function of the criminal trial process.”
The Supreme Court allowed the appeal and set aside the exclusionary order of the Court of Appeal. A new trial was ordered.
In Our View
The Supreme Court’s decision in Cole makes it clear that where an employer permits personal use of a work computer, or, where personal use of the work computer can be reasonably expected, employees will have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the personal information stored on the computer. This expectation may be diminished, but is nevertheless sufficient to be afforded Charter protection. The employer cannot waive this protection on behalf of the employee. It is interesting to note that the employer’s access to the information stored on Mr. Cole’s work computer was not a violation of his privacy interest. The school board’s access to the contents of the computer was seen to be acceptable based on the workplace policies and the provisions of the Education Act which require school boards to ensure a safe environment for students. The lesson for employers is that they should implement clear and unambiguous written policies which address both permitted employee usage of computers, as well as access and monitoring of the computer by the employer. The policies should clearly put employees on notice as to the circumstances in which the employer will access information on its computers or its network more broadly. The policies should confirm that data sent over the network remains the property of the employer, and that employees who wish to maintain privacy in personal communications or other information should not send them over the employer’s network.
Although such policies will not guarantee that monitoring or review of employee personal information will be upheld as reasonable and not privacy-invasive, they are an important step in reaching that objective.
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B.C. has expanded access to free rapid tests to people aged 60 and over beginning March 7.
Rapid tests are available at pharmacies across the province. Eligible individuals can access one test kit which contains five rapid tests, only one test can be obtained every 28 days. Individuals must display their personal health number when picking up a test kit.
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Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akinci on Monday welcomed an agreement to revive Cyprus settlement talks. Speaking to reporters in Berlin, Akinci said he had a positive trilateral meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his Greek Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades.
“I believe that today’s meeting has been a positive step forward. We have managed to get the train back on track,” he said.
Akinci underlined the importance of Guterres’ pledge to increase his efforts and facilitate the beginning of negotiations at the earliest feasible opportunity.
“We are not talking about an open-ended process anymore,” Akinci said, adding the talks would be phased, meaningful and results-oriented and aimed at reaching a strategic agreement.
He also expressed hope that a five-party Cyprus conference involving guarantor powers Turkey, Greece and the U.K. would convene in 2020 and pave the way for a settlement.
Monday’s informal meeting between Akinci, Guterres and Anastasiades was the first trilateral meeting between the three leaders since UN-led talks collapsed two years ago in Switzerland.
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What is that mean in his bosom and he cried out father Abraham, have mercy on me. Lazarus send letter to finger in water and Abraham said you talking so they could communicate so other English's going on why I remember you at gunpoint in the past thing that it wasn't really Abraham.
For them it was a metaphor for life heaven or paradise, and not confuse me because clearly Abraham is speaking as an individual in the packing I got was to compute the flight I said in a bosom is a chest area and a body. If you have a lot either shoulders or his arms, legs, the bosoms refer to the base with the chest so that he doesn't end the chest of Abraham that from Sanko.
I think it's a metaphor to an expression I think what it basically try and fail. The beggar was like being held or embraced by I think most people interpret that to mean is that you are the okay I and I had another another question for you. If you have time, I didn't.
I didn't tell it to the call screener but also about the author heard you say that in again. None of you that you had anything to do with is really my opinion, essential doctor and I'm just trying to clear something about that. I've heard you say you said you when John the Baptist baptized you that he did it by sprinkling well this is my view my view, tell you is not a popular view within Christianity, and is within orthodoxy, but it's not the popular view is is next 15 Virginia Jesus so John baptized with water, but you'll be baptized in the Holy Spirit many days from now.
All right, when we look at the phrase baptized with the Holy Spirit and you analyze what it is you find out that it's in reference to the pouring of the spirit, the Holy Spirit is said in the Old Testament to be poured forth. That's just how it's used on with your familiar with that.
Are you familiar with at all. I'm not dumb, but looking reclamation. Okay so today what limit do my notes open and Rico to do a find of the verses will show you but the pouring forth of the spirit came from the Old Testament and the so you know, for example, in Joel 228 God prophesies a pour out my spirit in verse 29 a poor forth my spirit Peter quotes that are next to 17 and $0.18 to pour forth the spirit and he goes verse 29 poured forth the spirit and find other was to hold the hunch actually quickly in acts 1044 to 48. The speaking in tongues is a demonstration of the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles. I got it so Isaiah 3215 until the spirit is poured out upon us.
Isaiah 44 30 pour out my Spirit on your offspring. Ezekiel 3929 I will have poured out my spirit in the house of Israel went to Joel 228, 29, 217 to 18 and to 33 X2 33 of the promise of the Holy Spirit is poured forth next Saturday with Jack to X 1045 the gift of the Holy Spirit in poured on the Gentiles and X to X3526 says that he saved is not on the basis of deeds what you've done in righteousness, but according was mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out upon us, and so that is how the Holy Spirit is said to be my but I've been poured right.
Would you agree I agree okay/15 John baptized with water, but you'll be baptized in the Holy Spirit is what is were baptized meaning in the context baptized in the Holy Spirit means they say that again please start okay so John baptized with water, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit's was mean to be baptized with the Holy Spirit. According to Scripture means what you have your report on you. I guess I make sense does not so listen to John Willie mercy with water, but you'll be poured on with the Holy Spirit.
That's that consistent it. We say John baptized with water beads immersion with school. John emerged with water. You'll be merged with the Holy Spirit. That's not the biblical position that the Holy Spirit is 500. I understand that I yeah but I want and how that deal. The question of how the method that John the Baptist used to baptized either came so John baptized with water, you be baptized in the Holy Spirit if we, to say the blocking reaches if this word is means the same thing. Then we have a problem if John emerged with water you be merged with the Holy Spirit. It doesn't work. John poured with water to be part of the Holy Spirit that can work. Furthermore, Jesus was said you said to John that the requirement of his baptism was a court of law to fulfill all righteousness. Matthew 315 and if you go to number chapter 4 Leviticus chapter 8 and Exodus 29 in those three chapters. You can see some of the things that needed to be done to a priest to a man in order to for him to enter into the priesthood and Jesus was a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. So when Jesus says that his baptism had to fulfill the Old Testament where you go to find that was fulfilled.
You'll find out that his baptism, God the father said is my beloved son, whom I will pleased with. That's part of the requirement of a verbal blessing given to man to become a priest. Jesus the high priest. He had to have oil applied to him. That seems to be representative of the Holy Spirit in the first John 227 for that had me 30 years of age, Jesus of course was 30 when he started his ministry and had to be sprinkled with water that was number 67 and so therefore to be consistent and we look at Jesus doing fulfilling Old Testament. There is no place where it says anyone who goes in the priesthood. That's what Jesus was doing there and that he does it via immersion. It's by the sprinkling of water that's the command so I have a question about that. Tom came up out of the water. How do you when John the Baptist got hi them if they should know how to how you yeah you that okay when you go to acts okay.
The Ethiopian eunuch and Philip says next three or 836. It went on the road to came to the water eunuch said, look water. What prevents me from being baptized me from being baptized, and they got out of the chair and went down they come in and virtually nine when they came up out of the water. If you think the phrase came up out of the water means he was immersed. Then when it says they sent reference to Philip and the eunuch then both of them were immersed in the water when they came up out of the water. It doesn't make any sense you can be up to the water in your water to your knees, you're in the water. People make the mistake and they just do this all the time.
Oh, they were. It came about what it means he was immersed. No, it doesn't.
It could be possibly that was immersed. It can also be use. It means up to his waist. When I was in Southern California, Mike little girls would go out of the water on the beach. We will keep a good sharp eye on up there be up to their ankles or knees would take him up on the water, water is the same phraseology in the proof of this is in acts 339 when they came up out of the water if you want to say came up out of the water means immersed then Philip was also immersed with the eunuch. It doesn't make any sense okay walk into the Jordan and John wrinkled water and when he was up to his weight and water that kind of how you envision it. Yes, I now think about this thought. Think about this still had about 3000 people were added to the church. The 12 disciples in acts chapter 1, they were gathered actually to the 12 disciples were there 3000 were added that not to go outside the building to a place where they have the fountain in order to baptized that would being filthy water and that would that's a town drinking water. You'll do that you had to go someplace else of the Jordan River or some local body soda taken them couple hours, three hours to walk to that place to get baptized. So this during the night so we get back and put some math on this show you some stuff to get you to think guys hold on to what they voted right back after these messages. This could get interesting. With a lot of stuff people don't know about this, people assume so many they will be right back.
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I didn't math other smaller people Becton so they can go to the river if 12 disciples went to a river to baptize if they were to do 3000 for eight hours nonstop.
That means that to be in the water for eight hours and it had to baptize roughly every person every two and 20 seconds, I've been the Jordan it's on the cold side you think you be okay for eight hours, standing in the water. Hypothermia, probably not.
Well, what if they were only clear knees when you had a problem of their backs giving out because they could dip someone down in my way hundred pounds going down and then clothing is sopping wet on the way up is like 103 pounds hundred 405 pounds of water of weight total. They go down up for eight hours. Sorry, it just doesn't add up. It does make sense as it was in the Old Testament that they would take hyssop branches and sprinkle people. That's how it was done. Also, this is the whole saw the whole region of Jerusalem was going out to Jerusalem and Judea was going up John the Baptist to be baptized. So I did some research on and granted my notes. I don't do that and fill in that black my blitz. I did research is like 200 300,000 people in the area.
This is the whole region was going out to be baptized by John. Okay. If that's the case let's use looking for the reference but it's no big deal because it says all Judea and Jerusalem right and so that's that's all in… A 300,000 people… All of them are going out there. We know this mean every single individual, but it does mean not a lot of people are going out there to see John the Baptist a lot.
So if they were if he is only baptizing. Let's say no. 10,000/300,000 people that he's doing this for a year. The math means he'd be extremely busy baptizing 10,000 people know if you do this like hundreds right now. 10,000 okay, divided by 365 day. That's 27 a day.
27 a day.
That's just 10,003 or 55 days is no rest, and that means roughly what you know roughly one every three hours on the play. 727 a Davis roughly 21 hour okay more than one in our them.
That's all the time that's 24 hours, but is not to be 24 is good to be if we say eight hours will housing to do do this in eight hours is 27 solicitor is good be 50, 60 people were talking no one every every five minutes. 10 minutes 365 days this add up. And that's only if you do 10,000 people. So we start looking as you go in a minute.
These things aren't adding up.
It was by immersion.
It just doesn't add up.
If Jesus had to fulfill the Old Testament law. He was sprinkled. In fact, I can show you aware of that city baptism is for me, I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you the Holy Spirit.
The same word in Greek is Matthew 311 the baptism of the Spirit. There is the point fourth in spirit. John one 3320 baptized in the Holy Spirit, there it is again.
The point fourth and it says when it came the marketplace. They do not eat unless they cleanse themselves. Word classes baptize the exact same word from debtor to a baptize of the Holy Spirit to baptize themselves they have to cleanse themselves. Does that mean in the market that they take all the close optical get immersed in water.
Of course not see it is people just what in my opinion what's happened is people just bought into this hook line and sinker.
And I don't do any cross myelination of it. I do think that we focus on the gospel account appear as though immersion of being is I got. I want to go but I don't think that the defense will doctrine but doesn't well see this clearly you walk what well because of the traditional depiction of the people being baptized in rivers. They are fully immersed so that using traditional price. I people. Is it biblical Lee assume it is. Maybe it is. Maybe it is what is it that's the question I just ask people all the time. If you go to. I think it's a Hebrews you read. It's really interesting what happens when you go to Hebrews I think it's Hebrews this tooth this way it's toxic and he was six to, and he was here this he was 10 or nine town okay which really interesting. It says since talks information. Read Romans or Hebrews 9 and it talks about sprinkling and talks about the verse 13 the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more the blood of Christ, who through the eternal offerings off of it cleanse you will if you know the biblical theology of the temple and redemptive work. The blood was sprinkled with how it was in the temple. It was sprinkled on John Jahnke for the high priest going is freckle blood on the mercy seat and people were sprinkled with blood sprinkled with white sprinkled with water.
This is what is talking about and Hebrews 9. But this is what he says. So the whole verse eight. The Holy Spirit is signifying this it the way to the holy place. This is Old Testament contempt tabernacle tempered the temple with the holy places not yet been disclosed while the outer tabernacle still standing, which is a symbol to the present time.
According to both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make the worshiper perfect his conscience since the day relate to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of of reformation when they appear, the regulations, the washings and the drink something like this that talks about the issue of having oil water blood sprinkled on you washing your hands and things like this in the word washings is Bob T's must listen reference to the context of sprinkling and application of stuff. It's right there in Scripture got on well there's an argument Eric and I can see that again II want to reiterate that I I don't think that the defense will doctrine, but it is interesting and I think it's right to try to get it right. From a biblical standpoint so I will thank you for your acclamation that you think so doesn't it.
Yeah. So that's good enough to get Bob think about all that more okay see you got bless you noticeably controversial folks but so what I do with this is I should not shake people up.
You know how much of what we've been taught. Is this something we just assume it is true, sit down everything I'm saying Jack just to subject then that is what we should do. I take one faith we have for Valencia McCall 87720776 we write back after these messages. Mats like why call 770-7276 charismatic leg back to so it through the lines it wanted to be a call 772072276 Spencer from North Carolina. Welcome around here about or energy healing. That's called stuff Michael does talk about energy healing in there that I get the Bible does not talk about energy healing.
It's a new way. Not all called right anything about your now when people talk about music does separate great energy or the power of God in the great energy is getting very very very very very careful because it's New Age philosophy discrete thing in the Christian church is making a comeback that I just released to two or three, four hours ago. Coasters are quotes from the physics of heaven of book. It's a cold, New Age book, but it's social Christian book written in support of new apostolic Reformation theology. So here's a quotes okay help us bring God's kingdom to this earth. The Lord is ready to use sound, light and energy in ways we never dreamed about all the contributors in the book to chapters a sense that God is on the verge of releasing something new on the earth, and that the new thing somehow walls vibrations frequencies energy sounds like and taking quantum leap of faith God used faith substance and word energy to create the universe see what happens is you take a word like energy and its use their energy and to work and things like that.
It's in the Bible then little do they can go back in this it will. God said, let there be light. Let's energy what he spoke. That means energies in his words, and we can say those words. Therefore, we can have energy. Okay so this is in that book, Peter carried the spirit of God within him. He carried original power of B light energy power light within him.
That's what we should be doing this he did just you to be careful because everything is energy at the foundational level of existence and all energy vibrates at a certain frequency. Well, I think, vibrates at a frequency and you get to with a frequency that you can control the energy.
It's all cultists and so this is just occultism, it's New Age idiocy that these people do not have the sense to stay away from. In fact what they do say this a viscous and part parcel what's going on with all say is that the New Age has things that are good and we just have to learn how to separate it from the bad joke.
The bitter thing is we can start looking at the New Age to see what things are biblical was looking to do it. It's not, let's examine the word of God. Let's look at the new agency with biblical in the new way.
Hello, this was at what was is not logical illusion is not a rough quote from that. You will also present at the end of the meeting and apostolic leader spoke and said God is beating getting to release kingdom building codes. I looked up as an angel standing right in front of me. I'm not an angel type of guy that suddenly there was an angel speaking to me saying I'm sent by God to answer your questions about the energy crisis find the energy Angel Angel went back with me to my hotel room and began talking to me about energy, you know, this is when you say they don't have all deposit the litter box. Something's wrong with him and I just wish to just stop stop stop you home. That's what it is all right listen the line here with Patrick from Charlotte North like a 12 or 15 different categories. So you going to look at them. I want to say thanks to him I want to see the whole name I guard people's privacy but Tracy, I want to thank you for running for the arts and Carl and Michael, and let's see who else would have thought one person. Tracy really lettuce Dr. Tim and let's see let's see, Blake, Jim, lot of people have been sending stuff in there is Brian and Jeanette. You know, and Jeff and all kindest of Roger so and Steve littlest soap Emily have with you a list. There's a lot of people been sending me stuff and I've really appreciated. Please continue to semi-documentation you can send it to firstname.lastname@example.org and I do tell you, though it takes a while for me to go through all the stuff that you see is that works okay check with you computer guy.
The producer this evening and be back on online. I rebooted and I've been connection. Yes okay good alright well it happens folks through real radio would happen sometime biggest serve until he got hung up on. I thought that we just lost your you never call back if you want the skin to Patrick from Charlotte North Kelowna Patrick welcome hello Matt, I want to talk a little bit about the baptism thing you're speaking about. Okay, in John 131 to 34. You can read. I believe that Scripture explains why John the Baptist baptized in water okay do not recognize and what benefits it is like a baptizing lottery. He did baptized in water, we totally agree with you.
All one 31 to 34. John testified saying I have seen Mr. descending as a dove out of heaven remained on him but did not recognize him and sent me to baptized in water.
You, upon whom you see the Spirit descending meeting on him. This is the one who baptizes the Holy Spirit. I myself seen it testified there is no problem yeah because it it said that God had given him instructions that the one the dog comes down is the one will baptized in the Holy Spirit will I John was putting people underwater, looking for a dog because he had to testify that Jesus was the son of God, and I think that's what the question was all about. Here's a question, does it say he was immersing him.
Doesn't baptizing as people say baptism means immersion not always Wally had Jesus came up out of the water. It almost has to be under Murdoch doesn't thought at all is not logically necessary, you can walk into water up to your hips and begin the water come out of the water without being fully emerged as I was saying in acts chapter 8 when it talks about the Ethiopian eunuch and Philip says they both came up out of the water soak so they all baptism today should be sprinkled. No, I didn't say that.
I'm just saying I don't what I am saying is just like sprinkled one declared everybody should be cycle. Not necessarily.
I would like to let Sir let me insert. Let me answer you keep asking the questions I start to answer the keep jumping and again so 100 time. Okay, it does not necessitate that every individual must therefore be sprinkled or poured upon.
I'm just saying that in the Scriptures.
You can't make the case that baptism only means immersion. That's what I'm trying to say okay I will baptized in the heavens open up the air and land on Jesus. Yes. Okay. So that goes along with Scripture. John 133 were the one who sent me to baptize told me one where the defendant on so John was making a bite and that Donnie was completing his testimony and for that reason, like this one baptized John the Baptist because Jesus had to let John baptize him in order to see the dog and the truth about John no no no no no no no no, it wasn't so that he could see the dove reason he was baptized, Jesus says, is to fulfill all righteousness. That's Matthew three brightening to fulfill means Old Testament to fulfill the right not know that it needs to hear the high priest of what church he's a high priest as of the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 620 and Hebrews 725 says so well jailed local works in order to be thoughtful and I'm pretty close on of God is is where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us having become a high priest forever after the order my cousin. Hebrews 620 is a hold on you to submit the Scripture okay hold on me right back folks after these messages that would Patrick. It should be interesting.
We have one of the line 87720776 max Y call 770-7276 pairs mats like Colorado ready walk back to the show. Patrick yeah I'm here right okay so okay you there so that all right will will you. Hebrews 626 20 says that is a high priest after the ordinal cousin Dick. This is why he entered this way was baptized to fulfill Old Testament law requirements. Some people say it was to identify with sinners. That's not the case is said to fulfill all righteousness to fulfill the Old Testament and go to Leviticus 8 members for exit 29 we look at those chapters will see that he did those things necessary, in part because not every individual things mentioned to him entering the priesthood is very simple. Everything article on it have all documentation. There can well I John 134. It said that John had baptized Jesus and then Ian fulfill his testimony so that testimony is brought up in acts 531 to 34 all over you, but I'm just not quite like the pros.
Yes, but I was showing how they relate to your naturale related because July 30 John or license doesn't deal with baptism.if you can read John 531 to 34.
You'll understand will switch your point, we were going to say while my John the Baptist water baptized to find Jesus the son of God, he saw the dog and that's reason he was baptized. John G.
Baptism is not easy. I agree he will head to baptize Jesus. The question is did the baptism constitute immersion sprinkling or pouring that's the question the point because of what you may not remove on Patrick. That's what we have callers waiting swing get on the colors.
It's good to Todd from Ohio, I taught welcome where you will break the question put it out like that.
Sure, if I die from 500 looking at a calendar what your day.
Why don't because Internet calendars well did but my question is will.
How did you see happening went after Jesus came about.
Did everything get rewritten backward for no no people would have people in different dating systems in different cultures you like from the day of the Exodus or might be a different culture, the day when certain battle happened zero 18 moons or 18 sons. Whatever might be what we see in this issue or talk about with calendar is when Western civilization began to coalesce and calendar time, times and dates became more necessary and so they just codified it all and used Jesus a birth as the year zero. Both PCs before Christ. Afterwards that that's all for us whatever that had to be private. I'm kind of time. Between all the event in the day.
No course well. How I did it. You can look at the Bible and the BC X amount of years I was always been computers on how they came up with a timeline count backward. I didn't count backwards. No no no the writers would say that this happened.
The archaeologists in modern people would look at is six. This happened like a the decree to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem was March 14 445 BC will hardly know that because I don't have it because archaeologists can date certain events and the related like tree rings, you know she related here that they can cross reference certain things and they say will. It was 320 years before this one event. In this one event was to 28 years after that event, but that that other event occurred 300 years before this event. In this event, we have time this event we know what happened exactly when it was so then they just do the math and they say all happen for 45 BC. It's that kind of thing. It wasn't that the people at 445 BC were like it's 445 BC. It wasn't like right. It will live in that time. What would let you know how old they were, you know how to set you is 20 years old hundred years old, as measured by the system that we don't use like the Muslims go by the moons and we go by the Solomon's mother, things then the nurse issue lies at 360° it looks like it was because the calendars all of the world were 360 days, and then roughly around 701 BC. There was a change in the cost. The calendars all over the world. Nobody knew what you're there. They know what year they were born in the year they were born in. They didn't related to the future idea BC they just knew what I hear.
They report 18 years ago was the year they were born at the new that okay I okay I think of less. Okay, let's get to know we just lost eternal salvation when talking with Atlas get on with Alberto. Okay Alberto your own body.
We got him out. Okay, what a big Mac like the question why the Christians want what I didn't approve of creation is not a Christian. One of them will make a statement when we when you in the world wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait you going way too fast. I don't understand what you're saying and recently why do Christians what why do crazy OHI did you not a child I got what? The moment you live in the wait wait wait wait wait just to commit a premise at the address the premise first you said why do Christians always try improve. People are not saved. That's not the case. What not not not, God will Christian world that never appalled when the mommies at the Laurie get anything you recognize them or or or or or or I'm out from the Nancy concept Alberto I'm not following what you're saying.
I understand quite well what that will mean brought in the world live know Christ never told me about it neatly cut. I got the moment the Lord here… Opposition to anything.
All you will you not that you not even the church members all you know it pastors you know Randall, I'm not going on the following what you're saying you seem to ask a question where a narration is is inserted into a question, a narration of a bunch of violence at 80 miles an hour all against all acts difficult. Okay okay well well why don't we could win the mommies that the Lord not before the I don't understand what you're asking, why not, God will moment who you or leave believers or believers Alberto Liebert, Alberto, Alberto, we gotta move along okay and that was going on a beetle. The coffee I'm not able to follow what he saying, trying to get him to slow down and focus but is not the case. Let's get to Monty from Raleigh North Carolina money welcome here. Yeah you you my brother. Thank you. I would, I would wondering on resurrection day and I tried to find the Scripture to support the question I would.
Jesus is on the cross. Obviously, God is having good. Steve why have you forsaken me where where can we placed the Holy Spirit that day. Where was the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is by definition everywhere.
Okay, okay, so I get. Your answer would be that he was there with Jesus on the cross.
Well, there's different sentences which we can understand what it means to be somewhere in the sense of God's existence, he can be in a sense look localized in my heart and that he is indwelling me the way he's not indwelling in unbeliever, but he's also at the same time, everywhere in the universe I don't know how to work and so the Holy Spirit it, but because the Holy Spirit is divine and divinity has the property of omnipresence, then we have to say that the Holy Spirit is everywhere in the yes I appreciate that would fit neatly what I got with it what you with physically on the cross, which places him I would on the cross for their God would've allowed them to try to deceive, though there would've been some idea about the president of the Spirit. But if you think you know you did not contact.
I understand. Don't forget to arise were discussing Jesus when he was baptized.
Holy Spirit came down upon him as a dog not in the form of a dove, but as a domain. What kind it is flitter down and so that's that's seems to imply a kind of a localization we cannot say that the Holy Spirit stopped being everywhere all the time and was located in that little whatever it was it came down as a dove is a dove flies down the sink and so you can say that so there's there's two census, which would deal with the presence of the Holy Spirit. There one is there seems to be kind of a localization refocus and the other is that while by his nature.
Yes to be everywhere all the time. Furthermore, this gets more interesting when we look at the natures of Christ to just two natures divine and human, so that the divine nature, stopping everywhere it cannot be otherwise. The attribute the property of omnipresence was no longer part of the word, but that's can't be because properties emanate from the essence or the Entente's and the.
The essence of God is divinity, which has logically has necessary properties. One of them being omnipresence so that would mean that since Jesus had two natures of divine and the human the divine nature had to have omnipresence that human nature did not have omnipresence. This is where there's a mystery. We have paradoxes here. How can we have two seemingly opposite things. I'm Nisha omnipresence and not omnipresence both abide in the one person of Christ. The solution seems to be to say that the attributes of both natures are ascribed to the person and yet at the same time, he emptied himself clippings 2528 so we don't know what it means when Jesus emptied himself, we don't know to what extent the relationship is of the properties of both natures in the one person we can't solve it because God doesn't tell us some movies do is to say he had those attributes describe the single person and yet he spoke a single person and then we get into other things that relate to this I do with these questions semi-regularly going about okay, that one would think about what the Greek word for baptism. The pizza piece my spot, but they who the verb forms by pizza okay and and that will will is that means what it means in context.
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Credit cards offer a higher credit limit as compared to the Buy Now Pay Later options. Credit Cards can provide you with a credit limit of up to 10 lakhs per month or even more, but you won’t get such a high limit with the BNPL options ever. For example, Flipkart allows you to avail of credit up to Rs. 10,000 under Flipkart Pay Later facility.
The cardholders can use their credit card anywhere and make any type of purchase, but this is not in the case of the Buy Now Pay Later option. Generally, online shopping apps and digital payment services-based apps like Paytm provide you with the BNPL facility and you can use this for selected purchases only. For example, you can use the ‘Amazon Pay Later’ facilities to make purchases on Amazon only, and similarly ‘Flipkart Pay later’ can be used to make purchases on Flipkart. However, Paytm Postpaid can be used for a lot of purposes, including mobile/DTH recharges, Departmental store purchases, ticket bookings, and many more.
With credit cards, you can avail of an interest-free period of up to 50 days, including 30 days of the billing cycle and 18-21 days of the grace period. But, Buy Now Pay Later options generally don’t provide you with such a long interest-free period, but it will only be of up to 35-45 days. However, some Buy Now Pay Later providers may even offer you a longer interest-free period, but it will hardly be longer than that provided by the credit card issuers.
Impact On Credit Score
Using both, Credit Cards and Buy Now Pay Later options, can impact your credit score equally. Therefore, you should make sure to pay the bills on time, no matter if you are using credit cards or BNPL. You should also keep other factors like credit utilization ratio, the average age of accounts, etc in mind in order to maintain a good credit score. It is always better to use both, credit cards and Pay later facilities so that you can maintain a good credit mix.
Suggested Read: Everything You Need To Know About Credit Score
Now, you might have understood the difference between Credit Cards and Buy Now Pay later options. Both are advantageous in their own ways. Buy Now Pay Later options can be used to make selected purchases only whereas you can use credit cards to make any purchase of your choice. Also, you get a lower credit limit with BNPL, but it doesn’t make the facility disadvantageous by any means. Even if you are using credit cards, you can consider signing up for the BNPL option on different platforms in order to maintain a good credit mix. It will only help you build your credit score if you use it responsibly and make the payments on time.
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Victoria Cristofis was just 28-years-old when she had to undergo a full hysterectomy after being diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2014.
She might be cancer-free now, but nerve damage inflicted by the hysterectomy means Victoria will have to learn to self-catheterise- she is also on a waiting list to receive botox treatment on her bladder.
The brave mum-of-three maintains the shock diagnosis and its after-effects could have been avoided if she hadn’t put off vital cervical smear testing due to being scared and embarassed.
She has since urging women to get checked regularly through her campaign “Vicki’s Right to Fight”, distributing informative leaflets and posters as well as holding talks at venues across Worksop.
“If I can stop just one woman going through this horrible drawn out process, I will,” said Victoria.
“I want to remind women everywhere that this could have been prevented.
“Even after having the cancer is removed, the illness can still have a huge impact on your life.”
According to Cancer Research UK, around nine cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed in the UK each year.
But smear tests prevent at least 2,000 cervical cancer deaths annually, detecting abnormal cells before they ebcome cancerous.
“I can vouch for the fact that nothing can prepare you for a cancer diagnosis- all I could think about was the fact I might not see my little girls grow up,” added Vicky.
“But I can also vouch for the fact that a cervical screening test can save lives. If I had kept putting it off, I might not have still been here today.”
Find more information on Victoria’s campaign on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/VickiRightToFight.
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Most association studies focus on disease risk, with less attention paid to disease progression or severity. These phenotypes require longitudinal data. This paper presents a new method for analyzing longitudinal data to map genes in both population-based and family-based studies. Using simulated systolic blood pressure measurements obtained from Genetic Analysis Workshop 18, we cluster the phenotype data into trajectory subgroups. We then use the Bayesian posterior probability of being in the high subgroup as a quantitative trait in an association analysis with genotype data. This method maintains high power (>80%) in locating genes known to affect the simulated phenotype for most specified significance levels (a). We believe that this method can be useful to aid in the discovery of genes that affect severity or progression of disease.
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Supporting Young Children’s Development and Family Resources
Every family treasures the development of their children and Danbury offers a wealth of services to promote your child’s development. During a time at which we are maintaining social distancing and avoiding large crowds, families may think about putting off medical visits for their children.
Every family treasures the development of their children and Danbury offers a wealth of services to promote your child’s development. During a time at which we are maintaining social distancing and avoiding large crowds, families may think about putting off medical visits for their children. I have recently been seen by my group of doctors and have been impressed with the extra caution being taken to prevent transmission of the coronavirus. I feel everyone in the medical and educational fields is doing their part to make sure we stay healthy.
Maintaining the schedule of check-ups provided by your child’s doctor is important, not only for their physicals and immunizations but also to check for developmental milestones. Developmental milestones build skills in discreet ways that foster higher-level skills. If you are concerned about your child’s development, there are many internet sites that can provide you with information. For online developmental information, visit https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/childdevelopment/facts.html.
If you continue to have concerns about your child’s development, a trip to your child’s doctor is always advised to rule out any medical issues. Your health care provider can provide you with the Ages and Stages Questionnaire developmental screening tool for you to complete. This screening tool documents that your child’s milestones are progressing naturally and within the time they should develop. If your child shows a lag in their development, there are resources to help you. Place a call to the Connecticut Birth to Three Program (B23) at 1-800-505-7000. http://www.birth23.org/. When you call the B23 Program, they will ask questions about your child’s development and may send you an Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ). If you have already filled it out at your doctor’s office, let the intake person know. Services for children ages birth to three take place in the comfort of your home or now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the services are virtual. If your child is 3 years or older, your local public school is responsible to screen your child. Call your local Board of Education.
Not only regular doctor’s appointments are important. Danbury has a wealth of other services to help your family. The local food collaborative provides food pantries and food trucks at different locations throughout Danbury. The information is available at https://www.uwwesternct.org/sites/uwwesternct.org/files/_UWWC/files-pdfs/FoodGuides/DanburyFoodGuide-Eng-10_15_2020.pdf.
Other resources for heating assistance, mental health and COVID-19 testing are available at
https://www.danbury.k12.ct.us/family_and_community_resources, live tutorials on Google Classroom, navigating Danbury Public schools and newcomer programs can be found at https://www.danbury.k12.ct.us/home and virtual infant/toddler preschool playgroups are organized through our Morris St. Family Resource Center and the Danbury Family Learning Center. Danbury Public Schools will be hosting the Community Forum on the DPS Re-Opening Plan, on Wednesday, December 9 at 7:00 pm. A panel of experts will answer questions previously submitted by families and the forum will be live-streamed through Hatter’s TV.
Please hug your babies a little tighter, and read to and with them every night. I wish you all a happy and healthy Holiday season.
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Gonorrhea is a STD that can trigger infection in the genitals, anus, and also throat. It is very usual, especially amongst youngsters ages 15-24 years. Symptoms Of Mouth Gonorrhea
Exactly How Typical Is Gonorrhea?
Gonorrhea is an extremely typical contagious condition. CDC approximates that around 1.6 million new gonococcal infections occurred in the USA in 2018, and more than half happen among young people aged 15-24.
Gonorrhea is the second most typically reported microbial sexually transmitted infection in the USA.2 Nonetheless, many infections are asymptomatic, so documented cases only record a fraction of the true worry.
Just How Do Individuals Get Gonorrhea?
Gonorrhea is transmitted through sex-related contact with the penis, vagina, mouth, or anus of a contaminated partner. Climaxing does not have to take place for gonorrhea to be transferred or obtained. Gonorrhea can also be spread perinatally from mommy to infant during giving birth.
People that have actually had gonorrhea and received therapy may be reinfected if they have sexual contact with an individual contaminated with gonorrhea.
What Are The Complications Of Gonorrhea? Symptoms Of Mouth Gonorrhea
Without treatment gonorrhea can trigger severe as well as permanent health issue in both ladies and guys.
In females, gonorrhea can spread out into the womb or fallopian tubes and trigger pelvic inflammatory illness (PID). The signs might be rather moderate or can be very severe as well as can consist of stomach pain and also fever. PID can cause internal abscesses and also chronic pelvic discomfort. PID can also damage the fallopian tubes enough to trigger infertility or enhance the danger of ectopic maternity.
In males, gonorrhea may be made complex by epididymitis. In rare situations, this might lead to infertility If left untreated, gonorrhea can likewise infect the blood and cause distributed gonococcal infection (DGI). DGI is typically characterized by joint inflammation, tenosynovitis or dermatitis. This condition can be serious.
Is Gonorrhea Infectious? Symptoms Of Mouth Gonorrhea
Gonorrhea is transmittable and also spreads out quickly during sex.
However, you can not spread out gonorrhea via laid-back touching, such as kissing or hugging. You likewise will not spread it with sharing restrooms or plates as well as flatware.
One Of The Most Typical Sexually Transmitted Disease
Gonorrhea is a very typical sexually transmitted infection, specifically for teenagers and also people in their 20s. Gonorrhea is in some cases called “the clap” or “the drip.” Gonorrhea is spread out through vaginal, anal, as well as oral sex.
The infection is brought in semen (cum), pre-cum, and also genital liquids. Gonorrhea can contaminate your penis, vagina, cervix, anus, urethra, throat, as well as eyes (but that’s rare). The majority of people with gonorrhea don’t have any type of signs and symptoms and also feel entirely great, so they may not also recognize they’re infected.
Gonorrhea is generally easily cured with antibiotics. However if you do not treat gonorrhea early sufficient, it can lead to more severe health issue in the future. That’s why STD screening is so vital the faster you understand you have gonorrhea, the faster you can do away with it. Symptoms Of Mouth Gonorrhea
You can assist protect against gonorrhea by using prophylactics whenever you have sex.
Just How Soon Do Signs And Symptoms Appear?
In men, symptoms typically appear two to seven days after infection however it can take as long as thirty day for symptoms to start. Often, there are no signs and symptoms for individuals contaminated with gonorrhea; 10 to 15 percent of men as well as about 80 percent of females may have no signs.
Individuals without signs and symptoms go to threat for developing difficulties to gonorrhea. These individuals also spread this infection unconsciously.
What Are The Signs And Symptoms Of Gonorrhea?
Numerous men with gonorrhea are asymptomatic. When present, signs and symptoms of urethral infection in males consist of dysuria or a white, yellow, or green urethral discharge that usually shows up one to fourteen days after infection.
In cases where urethral infection is made complex by epididymitis, men with gonorrhea might additionally suffer testicular or scrotal pain.
The majority of females with gonorrhea are asymptomatic. Also when a female has signs, they are often so mild and nonspecific that they are misinterpreted for a bladder or genital infection. The initial symptoms as well as check in women consist of dysuria, raised genital discharge, or vaginal blood loss in between periods. Symptoms Of Mouth Gonorrhea
Females with gonorrhea are at risk of creating significant difficulties from the infection, no matter the visibility or severity of signs.
Can STD Be Cured?
Some viral Sexually transmitted diseases remain with you permanently, such as herpes and HIV. Others, such as liver disease B as well as human papillomavirus (HPV), can be avoided with vaccinations but can not be treated. Symptoms Of Mouth Gonorrhea
It’s also possible for the immune system to beat hepatitis B infection and HPV however in some cases, these infections have the ability to resolve in for the long haul, causing chronic infections that can endure for life as well as even lead to cancer.
Left untreated, syphilis can eliminate, and gonorrhea can cause the inability to conceive.
Non-viral Sexually transmitted diseases, like chlamydia and also gonorrhea, can be healed. Nonetheless, they generally do not have signs and symptoms, or signs and symptoms can go and come, making it feel like an infection vanished when it actually really did not.
You can not know your sexually transmitted disease standing without obtaining evaluated, as well as you can not self-diagnose a STD based upon signs and symptoms and then assume the infection vanished when signs and symptoms go away. Getting tested can reveal a trouble and clear the way for therapy.
If you’re not obtaining on a regular basis tested, that’s every 3 months to a year, depending upon your age and also sex-related predispositions you may intend to rethink your position, since you might actually be putting your sex-related health which of your partners in jeopardy.
It can have significant long-term consequences if an STI isn’t diagnosed as well as treated. For ladies, for instance, some infections bring a danger of causing pelvic inflammatory condition, an excruciating chronic ailment that can possibly endanger your fertility.
In males, persistent infections can trigger a selection of issues that disrupt fertility as well as possibly enhance the risk of impotence.
That Should Be Tested For Gonorrhea?
Any sexually active person can be contaminated with gonorrhea. Anybody with genital signs such as discharge, burning during peeing, uncommon sores, or rash needs to stop having sex as well as see a health care supplier promptly.
Also, anybody with a dental, rectal, or genital sex partner who has actually been lately identified with a sexually transmitted disease should see a healthcare provider for evaluation.
Some individuals ought to be checked (evaluated) for gonorrhea even if they do not have signs and symptoms or understand of a sex partner that has gonorrhea. Any person who is sexually energetic should review his or her threat elements with a health care supplier and ask whether she or he ought to be examined for gonorrhea or other STDs.
CDC advises yearly gonorrhea screening for all sexually active ladies more youthful than 25 years, in addition to older ladies with risk variables such as brand-new or multiple sex companions, or a sex partner who has a sexually transmitted infection.
Individuals who have gonorrhea must likewise be examined for other STDs.
Gonorrhea Protection Symptoms Of Mouth Gonorrhea
Take these steps to secure yourself from gonorrhea:
Condoms. They help keep you from getting Sexually transmitted diseases. They act as an obstacle and keep germs from infecting you. Spermicide will not prevent you from obtaining gonorrhea.
Have your sex-related companions obtain examined. Ask them whether they have actually been checked for gonorrhea. If they haven’t, talk with them regarding getting tested.
Don’t have sex with someone who has signs and symptoms of gonorrhea. Has your companion suffered a burning feeling while peeing or sores in their genital location? Relax from sexual activity up until they obtain their signs checked and you should obtain examined as well.
Obtain routine testings. Get evaluated for gonorrhea yearly if you’re:
A guy that makes love with guys
A sexually active woman under age 25 Symptoms Of Mouth Gonorrhea
A lady that has a brand-new sex partner, numerous partners, or a partner with a sexually transmitted disease
Gonorrhea Treatment Solution
Your physician will provide you prescription antibiotics to kill the germs. Some pressures are becoming immune to specific antibiotics, so you’ll possibly obtain 2 sorts of medicines: a shot and pills. Make certain to take all of your medicine, even if you really feel better rapidly.
Since December 2020, the CDC advises a solitary 500-milligram (mg) intramuscular dosage of the antibiotic Rocephin (ceftriaxone) for uncomplicated gonorrhea.
Treatment for coinfection with Chlamydia trachomatis with oral doxycycline (100 mg twice daily for seven days) should be provided when chlamydial infection has actually not been left out. Symptoms Of Mouth Gonorrhea
Be sure to inform those that you make love with that you are being treated for gonorrhea so they can be dealt with, as well. This will certainly help you stay clear of passing it backward and forward to every various other.
You ought to not make love for 7 days after therapy, and also you should avoid making love with partners who have actually not been treated for gonorrhea until after they have been tested and also, if needed, treated.
With the best therapy, gonorrhea is treatable. But one successful treatment method won’t shield you permanently. You’ll need to keep exercising risk-free sex to avoid getting it once again.
Exactly How Does Gonorrhea Affect An Expecting Lady And Also Her Infant?
If an expectant woman has gonorrhea, she may give the infection to her infant as the baby goes through the birth canal during distribution. This can cause loss of sight, joint infection, or a serious blood infection in the infant.
Remedy of gonorrhea as soon as it is identified in expectant women will certainly lower the risk of these issues. Expectant females should consult a healthcare provider for appropriate evaluation, testing, and treatment solution, as required. Symptoms Of Mouth Gonorrhea
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On a gray day in November, 41 third graders from Catlin Gabel School joined the Green Street Steward Program to spruce up green streets in southwest Portland. In just one hour, the students, chaperones and a local Green Street Steward volunteer cleaned up 222 gallons of leaves and other debris and 10 gallons of litter! Looks like they had some fun in the process.
Thanks Caitlin Gabel students for helping us keep the swales and rain gardens looking good, and most importantly, doing what they’re designed to do: soak up stormwater and keep pollution out of our streams and rivers.
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Banned Books Week takes place September 24 through October 1. In celebration of Banned Books Week, book lovers around the country are encouraged to make a YouTube video of themselves reading a banned book. From the School Library Journal:
Librarians, bookstores, and others celebrating the freedom to read from September 21 to October 1 are encouraged to take part in this year’s Virtual Read-Out on YouTube. The criteria are simple: create a video that’s less than two minutes long of anyone reading a book that’s been banned. If you choose to talk about a personal experience battling censorship, then feel free to extend the video to three minutes.
Comic books are often challenged in libraries, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is a sponsor of Banned Books Week. Imagine your library without graphic novels such as Craig Thompson’s Blankets, Jeff Smith’s Bone, or Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home — CBLDF helped protect these books and more when they were challenged. Now, you can film yourself reading these books to celebrate Banned Books Week!
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New year, new you (for more than a month...)
Written on the 25 January 2018 by Arrow
Did you have New Year's resolutions last year? Can you even remember what they were? If the answers to those two questions were 'yes' and 'no', there's a chance it's because you gave up on your promise to yourself within a matter of weeks. In fact, stats from some surveys suggest that only 4% of people who make a resolution stick with it for the whole year, or reach their goal before the year is out.i For many of those, they were already in the right frame of mind to make a big decision. The timing was just a coincidence.
What makes for a successful resolution?
First things first: whatever goals you set should be S.M.A.R.T. If you're not already familiar with this acronym, it stands for 'specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound'. Ideally, 'specific' means something definite and not broad. For example, instead of saying "I'm going to get fit," you could say "I'm going to go make a weekly appointment with a personal trainer" (side note if you're financially committed, that helps).
'Measurable' ideally means something you can put a number on. But if that's not possible, try explaining your vision of success in your goal to someone else. If they get it, chances are it's fairly objective. Your goal should be achievable (challenging is OK impossible is not), and relevant to your values or self-interest.Finally, it should be time-bound. Setting a timeline is simpler for common goals such as weight loss and other health improvements (lower cholesterol, etc.). For more complex resolutions, try at least putting deadlines on the individual tasks that make up your goal. For example, say you resolved to upskill so you can move up in your organisation. You might set yourself a short-term goal of enrolling in a course by a certain date.
Got lots to get done? That's understandable. Self-criticism and the drive for self-improvement is natural. So when someone asks you "what's your resolution for 2018?", chances are you've got a few options up your sleeve. The key to not getting overwhelmed is to set priorities. When you're planning ahead to achieve your goals, you can see whether the time and effort for a high priority item conflicts with a low priority item. Then you can adjust your plans as necessary.Get by with a little help from friends
There are two different schools of thought regarding involving your mates in your resolutions. Some psychologists think that telling people what you plan to do (and being congratulated) gives you the warm, fuzzy feeling of achievement meaning you don't actually do the thing. Others say it's essential to have a support network around you to help stick to your goals.
If your goals are related to your social circle or family, it may be worth asking for their help. Want to have one fewer pint at after-work drinks? Ask your best work friend to keep an eye on your ordering. Want to spend more time with your kids or older grandkids? Ask them to organise outings and remind you ahead of time, in case you don't get around to it. Feeling a bit shy about your chosen resolution? Chances are there's an online community you can reach out to for support. Try visiting a forum site like Whirlpool or Reddit, and searching for on-topic discussions.iiHowever you frame your resolution, remember: ultimately, you're the only one responsible for your success or failure. But you can do it.
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In 1969, Michael Reynolds graduated from Architecture School and moved to Taos, New Mexico. Inspired by television news stories about the concerning issue of global garbage accumulation and the lack of affordable housing, Reynolds put his education and imagination to work. He developed the “can brick” out of discarded steel and tin cans. The can brick is ten empty cans wired together to make a single building block. When used to form structures, the empty cans provide units of space that become the building blocks of light, but strong concrete walls.
The most recent design principle added to the Earthship concept is in-home, organic food production. An Earthship plant specialist has experimented with the best plants for the interior gray-water botanical cells. She has also designed mini- hydroponic planters in suspended buckets that have added vertical growing space in the greenhouses and have tremendous yields of herbs, peppers, tomatoes, kale, beets, cucumbers, and more.
Though they were not as sophisticated as today’s models, the early structures Reynolds developed, dubbed Earthships, quickly gained press coverage as “homes made of garbage.” As Reynolds envisioned, Earthships are a type of house built with energy conservation in mind, using natural and recycled materials designed to produce water, electricity, and food for its own use.
Over the next decade, designs constantly evolved to incorporate thermal mass, passive solar power, and natural ventilation.
The Earthships of today are now built with earth-rammed tires and are so strong, no building foundation is required. This strength creates load-bearing walls as well as thermal-mass storage. Excessive garbage is a global concern, with tires being a major contributor. Tires are highly damaging to the environment when left in nature, with 2.5 billion tires currently stockpiled in the US. Another 2.5 million are discarded every year, making them the perfect “natural resource” for building.
At their most fundamental, Earthships are structures that heat and cool themselves without using electric heat, fossil fuels, or wood. Thirty percent of all energy produced in the world is used for heating and cooling buildings. By using thermal mass and solar gain, Earthships are capable of maintaining a comfortable temperature in any climate, without additional fuel. Each structure is surrounded by densely packed walls on three sides, while the south side of the building is comprised of windows. Sun enters in through these windows, heating up the floors and walls. In the evening, when the air temperature drops below the stored wall temperature, heat is naturally released into the space. During the hot summer months, the building remains cool with the constant temperature of the earth. Cooling efforts can be enhanced when needed with natural ventilation in the form of buried cooling tubes and operable vent boxes.
Each Earthship has its own renewable “power plant” with photovoltaic panels, batteries, charge controller, and inverter. Efficient lighting, pumps, and refrigeration help lower the electrical load, as does the absence of electric heat and air conditioning. An Earthship’s entire electrical needs are about 25 percent of that of a conventional home. Most residents can meet their demand with one kilowatt or less of energy from solar panels, with some opting to add a small windmill to the system for gray, stormy climates.
Earthships also collect all of their water from rain and snowmelt by storing roof run-off in cisterns. Each inch of rain collected from one square foot of roof is equal to 2/3 of a gallon of water. (Multiply that by the total square footage of the roof and the inches of rain per year in a given region to determine approximate annual collection.) The cistern feeds a pump and filter system that cleans the water, which then sends it to a solar hot water heater and a pressure tank. From there, as in a standard home, water is used for bathing, washing dishes, and laundry.
The used “gray” water flows to interior botanical cells, where plants use and treat the water. When it is filtered enough, it is collected in a well at the end of the planter unit and pumped on- demand to the toilet tank for flushing. With 40% of water in conventional homes going toward toilet flushing, this is a sustainable and cost-saving system. The toilet water then goes to a conventional septic tank, which overflows into an exterior rubber-lined botanical cell. This cell is filled with exterior landscaping plants. Every drop of water that lands on an Earthship roof is used four times, allowing homes to subsist independently and thrive without taking water from the ground or municipal sources.
The most recent design principle added to the Earthship concept is in-home, organic food production. An Earthship plant specialist has experimented with the best plants for the interior gray-water botanical cells. She has also designed mini-hydroponic planters in suspended buckets that have added vertical growing space in the greenhouses and have tremendous yields of herbs, peppers, tomatoes, kale, beets, cucumbers, and more. Aqua-botanical systems in the newest Earthship enhance food production capabilities with fish and nutrients from their waste.
With enormous monthly savings in comparison to the average US household, Earthships are an intriguing living option for the environment and the bank account. Monthly spending on electricity and gas is $25, water is $0, and food is $300. You can lower your food, energy, and water bills with an Earthship, while gaining organic produce, independence, and self-sufficiency.
Do Earthships seem too idyllic to be a reality? Make a trip to Taos, New Mexico and see for yourself!
Earthship offers nightly rentals in 6 of its one-of-a-kind structures. Set on a stunning mesa 14 miles Northwest of Taos, Earthship’s rentals were voted in the Top 10 Eco Stays of 2014 by Lonely Planet. Whether you stay in the first Earthship, the Hobbit House, built in 1979 and newly refurbished, or the Vallecitros, the newest and most updated Earthship, your experience will be incomparable. You can also choose from the Waybee, Picuris, Phoenix, and Lemuria Earthships. Every Earthship allows its guests to experience a luxurious vacation while living off-the-grid. Each structure is equipped with all the amenities of a conventional house or hotel, including internet, flat screen TVs, Netflix, and all the kitchen accoutrement you will need for your visit. Book a stay to see that you truly can live and enjoy your life without harming nature.
If you want your own Earthship after experiencing its way of life, there are two ways to obtain one for yourself. Earthship’s own Biotecture crew can be hired to build your structure from start to finish. If you’re more inclined to learn about the process, apply to the Earthship Academy and become part of the training program that will teach you how to build your own Earthship home. The month-long training alternates theory and practice to give you all the tools you need to become an Earthship builder. With training at Earthship headquarters in New Mexico, the academy also holds global sessions around the world.
This year, starting on November 5th, Earthship is hosting a training Academy in Japan. Held in Mima, Tokushima, the build will take place in an untouched location, focusing on earthquake resistant structures. In addition, Earthship will be taking their Academy to Uruguay in February, 2019.
In September 2017, Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria. Homes were destroyed, and thousands of people were left without water and electricity. Earthship partnered with Biotecture Planet Earth to build a hurricane-resistant disaster-relief demonstration building to be used as a shelter in Puerto Rico. Biotecture Planet Earth is a non-profit organization focused on expanding the use of affordable and sustainable buildings throughout the world. With the housing crisis still ongoing today, and entire communities still without power, the need for self-sustainable homes in Puerto Rico is immediate and dire. The build seeks to help residents feel safe in a hurricane-resistant home that can provide them with power, water, and food. With autonomy and architecture designed for the environment, the goal of the project is to help create a more self-reliant and resilient future in Puerto Rico. The first stage of the project began in February of this year, with a second phase already completed that incorporated solar power installation and water catchment system implementation. Join the upcoming third phase next year from January 9th-21st to continue the project and help the island’s residents to face the future in a more sustainable way!
Whether you’re looking for a different vacation experience, an educational opportunity, a new way to live your home-life, or a way to give back, Earthship offers it all. Explore what it means to live self-sufficiently while leaving our planet intact. Pack your bags for Taos, New Mexico, and relax in the resourcefulness and beauty of Earthship. | <urn:uuid:62d3edf1-659c-42d6-acd5-1c145344d359> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://facethecurrent.com/earthship/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951234 | 1,887 | 3.375 | 3 |
Although clinician burnout is widely recognized, not enough has been done to systematically address this apparently growing problem. One reason for this is a lack of understanding and then awareness of the economic costs and consequences associated with clinician burnout and why investing in efforts to combat burnout could have a positive impact on the fiscal health of organizations.
Costs Associated with Clinician Turnover
Data suggest that the underlying causes of and resultant burnout is a major driver of clinician turnover. Over time, increased turnover adds up to substantial financial losses to organizations through direct costs associated with recruitment, revenue lost while finding a replacement, and the additional time it takes for new staff to get caught up in a new environment. Some studies suggest that costs to replace a physician are 2-3 times their annual salary. A 2012 report from the Association of Staff Physician Recruiters estimated that the actual lost revenue for one client was $990,000 for each full-time equivalent physician. Similarly, the cost of replacing a nurse is estimated at $37,700 to $58,400. The cost of replacing subspecialty clinicians is likely to be substantially higher, with estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to more than $1 million. Stanford University estimates that if nothing were done to address burnout, almost 60 physicians would leave Stanford within two years. This economic loss could range from $15.5-55.5 million.
These numbers do not account for the disruptive impact turnover can have on other members of the care team, including an increased risk of burnout for both direct colleagues and other members of the care team. Burnout in individual clinicians can drain work teams and the prevalence of burnout-producing factors and individual manifestations can best be perceived as infective and painfully synergistic. These numbers also do not account for costs associated with patient safety and care. One study found that hospitals in which burnout among nurses was reduced by 30%, had a total of 6,239 fewer patient infections, for an annual cost saving of up to $68 million.
Costs Associated with Decreased Productivity
Although difficult to fully quantify, large costs associated with clinician burnout can stem from the loss of productivity in clinicians who are experiencing burnout. In a study of 2,500 physicians at the Mayo Clinic, every 1-point increase in burnout and 1-point decrease in professional satisfaction was associated with a 30-50% increased likelihood that physicians would reduce their professional work effort (e.g. the amount of time they spend in patient care activities) in the following 24 months. While reducing work effort as an adaptive coping mechanism may reduce medical errors and illnesses, small changes in productivity can have large effects on an organization’s bottom line. In academic medical centers, costs associated with productivity losses are even harder to quantify, but one estimate suggests that burnout can lead to a 15% decrease in productivity for faculty who are involved in academic work writing grants and authoring publications.
Resources on Health Care Costs
The Business Case for Investing in Physician Well-Being
Published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the following article aims to provide a business case for investing in solutions that promote physician well-being and combat burnout. Authors do so by providing conservative...
Addressing clinician burnout is not only an ethical responsibility of health care organizations-it's a fiscal one as well. Health care leadership has a duty to patients and the public at large to act.
Medical Errors, Malpractice Suits, Presenteeism, and Absenteeism
Self-reported medical errors are also associated with burnout in both clinicians and trainees and may indirectly contribute to health care costs, although this research is still limited. Medical malpractice suits can also contribute to rising costs associated with burnout for physicians, nurses, trainees, and other health care professionals.
Additionally, risks and costs associated with those who work while sick should not be dismissed. Presenteeism, which refers to working while sick, has been implicated in the transmission of diseases from staff to patients in health care settings. Despite recognizing that working while sick might put patients at risk, a recent survey found that physicians, nurses, and physician assistants frequently work while sick. Working while sick is often viewed as a moral obligation and is driven by policies and logistical issues that do not support absenteeism. Many health care organizations have no mechanism for what to do when a clinician can’t come to work. Usually, co-workers must assume some of the sick clinician’s workload, adding to their already-strenuous schedule. Cultural norms and ambiguity around what constitutes “too sick to work” also contributes to the conflict health care professionals face in deciding whether to come to work while sick or to stay home completely. While presenteeism poses a safety risk to patients, it also contributes to enormous productivity losses. Mental health issues, like depression, can also contribute to worker presenteeism and may result in increased productivity losses and higher health care costs. A 2012 study among nurses found that depression was significantly associated with presenteeism and that presenteeism was significantly associated with a higher number of patient falls, a higher number of medication errors, and lower quality-of-care scores. Baseline estimates indicate that increased falls and medication errors caused by presenteeism are expected to cost the United States just under $2 billion annually. Similarly, a recent study found that an added cost of $1.2 million can be attributed to depression-related presenteeism in medical residents, suggesting that depression in trainees is a hidden source of higher health care costs nationwide.
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A new EU directive for copyright was announced this week. At the time of writing this, Britain is still in the European Union (although we may crash out any day). After years of debate and negotiations, politicians have passed sweeping changes following a final vote in the European Parliament. The changes are controversial, with critics citing two specific parts (Article 11 and Article 13) of the legislation as damaging for creative industries.
To add more fuel to the fire, a story in the Guardian claimed that several MEPs said they accidentally voted the wrong way on a key amendment to the copyright directive, meaning the most controversial aspects of the law might have been removed. Before I explore what the implications are for educators, let’s take a look at the key elements.
This targets news aggregators such as Google and Apple who each have news services which curate the most important news stories of the day. Those snippets you see when you google a news story. In favour of the Directive are industry bodies representing content producers. These include the Society of Authors, and the UK-based Alliance for Intellectual Property and Proponents.
Google post a preview of what search results could look like in Europe, if Article 11 in enacted.
No summaries of stories, no headlines or pictures… A bit dramatic from Google, but from a UX perspective it’s hard to see how this will benefit users. No one is really sure how this one would work either. How much of an article has to be shared before a platform has to pay the publisher? The Directive states that platforms won’t have to pay if they’re sharing “mere hyperlinks which are accompanied by individual words,” but since most links are accompanied by more than a couple of words it seems that many platforms and news aggregators would fall foul of this rule.
Article 13 – This may affect educators.
This the part of the new EU Copyright Directive that covers how “online content sharing services” should deal with copyright-protected content, such as television programmes, movies and images.
Article 13 says content-sharing services must license copyright-protected material from the rights holders. If that is not possible and material is posted on the service, the company may be held liable unless it can demonstrate:
- it made “best efforts” to get permission from the copyright holder
- it made “best efforts” to ensure that material specified by rights holders was not made available
- it acted quickly to remove any infringing material of which it was made aware
If you work in education and you want to incorporate a video in your teaching material and decide to share it on YouTube, fair use would have previously had you covered. Fair use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticise, or parody a copyrighted work. Such uses can be done without permission from the copyright owner.
Post Article 13, you should seek permission from the copyright holder in the first instance. Even including a small section of video without consent may cause a problem.
In its defence, the directive does state that “in no way affect legitimate uses” and people will be allowed to use bits of copyright-protected material for the purpose of criticism, review, parody and pastiche. In reality, the temptation will be for platforms to err on the side of caution and simply deny or remove posts they consider questionable… The article seeks to shift the responsibility for protecting the rights of artists and writers to platforms such as YouTube. Companies would have to prevent copyrighted materials from being uploaded, or seek licenses from the people who created them.
When is all this happening? Although the Article 13 vote has been passed by the European Parliament, this doesn’t mean its provisions take place straight away.
It will now be up to the EU’s member states to enact Article 13 and the Copyright Directive. Each country within the EU will be able to interpret the law and how it should be implemented. One country may decide that “upload filters” are appropriate, while another may interpret the law in an entirely different way. Either way, educators need to watch this space. | <urn:uuid:4e317b72-1478-4d88-8a82-904c2d5e0fcf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tomtomlinson.uk/implications-of-eu-copyright-directive-for-educators/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955118 | 855 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Disturbing Mexican Classic Asks, “Who are the Bad Hombres?”
DIRECTED BY FELIPE CAZAL/SPANISH/1976
BLU-RAY RELEASE DATE: MARCH 14, 2017/THE CRITERION COLLECTION
It’s always a nice surprise to come upon a completely unfamiliar film that is in fact a seminal entry in its national cinema history. It’s all the more surprising, upon first viewing, to find oneself a bit stunned by that designation.
Such is the case with my recent exposure to filmmaker Felipe Cazal’s 1976 Canoa: A Shameful Memory. Being admittedly unfamiliar with most Mexican cinema outside of crossover faves Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (the former two participate on this disc’s bonus features), a large amount of ignorance must be pleaded. But that said, the film’s predominant static, faux vérité quality did prove testing.
Based upon actual accounts of a 1968 lynch mob assault on a small group of visiting University of Puebla students in the humble village town of Canoa in Mexico. Cazal’s film cultivates no shortage of dread.
The screenplay, a daft work in its own right, courtesy of Tomás Pérez Turrent, accomplishes this upfront, opening in a city room as a reporter receives breaking details of the incident. After several minutes of frantic details, we then see disturbing footage of the violence itself, albeit through the distancing filters of black and white, and silence. Eventually, we will be hit with full impact.
Cazal’s film is, in terms of narrative audacity, an admirably odd duck. Experimental at its core, Canoais a bold genre-hopper, remaining absolutely tonally consistent all the while.
Eventually, it lands in what could be considered a horror movie-esque category, although not the kind of horror film that could ever be sequelized or remade. With historical senseless paranoia fueling the attack on these supposed Communists (they’re not Communists) the story is more evocative of the true horror of 2012’s The Act of Killing. Yet, it’s a winding and form-shifting path that eventually takes us to the bloody conclusion. The opening minutes, with the reporter on the phone, play as though it will be a newspaper film. Instead, that character disappears from the film.
Following the disturbing black & white attack footage, the film switches gears, jumping back in time to before the students ever set foot in their destination of Canoa. They seem an innocent and lively bunch of guys, simply eager for a little travel and hiking. Having just seen their future, one of mangling and maiming, the rest of the narrative carries a considerable amount of dread as we make our way to that point.
Utilizing a fourth-wall breaking style of vérité realism told via longwinded and long-lensed static shots, these naive would-be nature lovers inch their way closer to their unjust fate. Whether one is familiar with the actual “shameful memory” which the film is about, one knows all one needs to know after the first two sequences.
Following eighty-plus minutes of static documentary-style presentation of information, history, and varying opinions, the stage has been set for what can be described as a grindhouse shocker of a finale. The cinematic style abruptly switches into a bloody and confrontational mode, utilizing quick cuts and explosive gore. It’s a visceral and impactful sequence, one that understandably sent its local 1976 audiences reeling from the theater.
It’s structural surehandedness is Canoa‘s greatest attribute, sharply followed by its social and political immediacy. Released only eight years following the real life incident upon which its based – a lesser known incident that was the harbinger of a much larger massacre only a few weeks later – the damning impact of the film couldn’t help but resonate. Both del Toro and Cuaron say as much in the Criterion bonus features.
Likewise, as such events fade from collective memory, one can grasp why Canoastruck a chord in its moment, but could fall beneath the radar for those elsewhere. Despite the testimony of Cuaron, del Toro and Criterion itself, a quick survey of several online lists of “Best Mexican Films” altogether fail to include Canoa (or much of anything older than 2000’s Amores Perros, although a few do go back to the 1940s). Yet, the message it imparts regarding the senselessness of xenophobia, the horror at the heart of intolerance and the insanity of blind religious fervor cut deeply. Unfortunately at the moment, in the U.S. and elsewhere, these messages hit home far more resoundingly than they ideally should. Clearly, these are not the ways to make any country great again.
Criterion’s presentation of this new 4K digital transfer looks pretty impeccable, particularly for a film of this era that probably has seen it’s share of wear and tear. Although it’s now cleaned up and looking nice, it retains that gruesome grainy 1970s look, complete with inky pools of shadowy blacks and oily, glaring complexions. Canoa is not a pretty picture, but that is most obviously by design.
The bonus features are few, but worthy: Guillermo del Toro speaks for a few minutes about the importance of the film, and in a separate piece, Alfonso Cauron, who had his mind blow by Canoaas a boy of fourteen, chats with the director for an hour. The printed essay is also very good, although I can take or leave the packaging artwork.
The memory of watching Canoais not one of shame, but rather one of shock. I may not be returning to it anytime soon, but it’s something to have experienced it. The big screen aside, this is the way to take this difficult trip.
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Success in osteopathic practice lies in early training for professional autonomy. Liberal education must help students build confidence and cultivate osteopathic reflective abilities. Based on this theory, teaching palpation is entirely sensible. Applying one’s hands to another’s body, "touching the other", "being touched" reveal emotions seldom verbalized and experienced unconsciously in the student/learner’s palpation and proprioception. The exercise we use to introduce our students to palpation techniques consists in asking students to alternate roles as patient and therapist. As practitioners they are invited first to perform "palpatory listening", then to exchange roles and partners to finally work in silence and respect in groups of 2 and 3 therapists and a single patient. The exercise unfolds like a ballet with scenes of hesitation, delayed separations, glances exchanged, laughter, sighs, variable hand positions... Following this exercise, students’ feelings are noted on a chart by an instructor careful to maintain a neutral attitude. Students describe mobility, tissue qualities, pleasant or unpleasant sensations arising from applied pressure, therapist or patient characteristics, palpated areas and discomfort, palpitations, drowsiness... The reactions and emotions elicited are then openly discussed. Possible links with the subject's history and palpations associated with psychic and somatic childhood development are explored. The approach allows the instructor to develop patient practitioner relations, conscious and unconscious projection and transfers and student teacher duality. By introducing the palpation process in this way we demonstrate the values of osteopathic liberal culture, our philosophic heritage and the reality of the socio-economic-cultural environment.
Christiane Leclaire (Osteopath) An osteopath since 1992, Christiane Leclaire teaches applied anatomy, urogynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics and fascial techniques at the College of Osteopathy of Provence (Marseille, France). She conducts training sessions for midwives and attends postgraduate seminars (dissection, Neurology, fascial techniques ...) to further her knowledge. She earned a UD (Academic Degree) in Psychosomatics in 2010. Simon-Henri Girard (Osteopath) An osteopath since 2005, Simon-Henri Girard teaches anatomy and spinal and pelvic musculoskeletal techniques at the College of Osteopathy of Provence. Chairman of the Thesis Committee and a member of the Research Department, he earned a DUHEPS, (Advanced Studies in Social Practice) with a specialty in osteopathic training in 2011. | <urn:uuid:f492eb39-4e86-46f1-8029-d81bdbb8cb79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.osean.com/events/open-forum-conference/open-forum-cooperation/conferences-on-osteopathic-education-quality-and-teaching-palpation/teaching-palpation-programme/134-a-coaching-method-for-teaching-osteopathic-palpation-symposium-d-practical-approaches-presentation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.910376 | 518 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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Health & Safety Executive GS38 guidance note is aimed at people (including electricians, electrical contractors, test supervisors, technicians, managers, tradespeople and/or appliance retailers/repairers etc) who use electrical test equipment on low voltage electrical systems and equipment. The document provides advice and guidance on how to work safely and ensure the right equipment is used and maintained properly.
In June 2015, the fourth edition of Guidance Note GS38 was published. While it has fundamentally remained the same as the previous version, there are some key additions that could affect the way you test, or the equipment you are using.
We look at the key changes in the fourth edition, the full version of which can be downloaded at the end of this article.
The guidance note has been amended to reflect the wide range of people who work on electrical systems, particularly those where electrical testing is not a primary activity such as gas installers and alarm installers.
A footnote has been added to clarify that live working is defined as any testing or fault finding on live systems.
A new section has been added entitled “Test Equipment”, this was previously entitled “Design Safety Requirements”. This section has some in-depth points regarding correct equipment selection.
Other changes include the use of proving units, non-contact voltage detectors and installation category ratings.
Updates regarding the causes of accidents
This section has been expanded on to include additional issues that have been raised since the previous publication:
- Inadequate insulation of connectors
- Removal of the manufacturer’s insulation on test leads and probes
- A multimeter being set to the wrong function, eg set on a current range when measuring voltage
- Using inadequately maintained test leads with visible damage, cracking, fraying or cut insulation or where normally insulated metal parts are exposed (these should be discarded or replaced)
- Using test leads that have become contaminated with conductive materials
- Severing of a test lead by a shearing effect
- Exceeding the CAT rating of the test equipment (including test leads, probes or clips), eg using CAT II rated equipment on a CAT III installation.
There are several points highlighted here that should be considered closely when it comes to test equipment selection.
GS38 & Safe Isolation
The fourth edition of GS38 has included some important points which apply particularly to safe isolation procedures, both with the test equipment used and the way the process should be carried out.
Firstly the Guidance Note has been amended to reflect relevant changes to the standard for two pole voltage indicators, BS EN 61243-3. This standard, which came into full effect in May 2013, is the standard that all new two pole voltage indicators should comply with. When it comes to buying new voltage detectors, you can be sure compliance with GS38 if the unit you are buying complies to BS EN 61243-3.
An important point raised in the causes of accidents is the use of multimeters. When it comes to proving dead this has always been advised against by Electrical Safety First (previously the Electrical Safety Council). Setting the multimeter to the wrong voltage range will lead to a false reading, but having it set to measure current or resistance can result in excessive current being drawn through the test probes, leads and multimeter.
Under the “Safe Systems of Work” section, a new paragraph has been added covering the use of proving units. This section states:
“Any device used to prove dead may fail to indicate danger (eg a faulty lamp not indicating a live circuit). Such devices should be proved before and after use. This should be done preferably on a voltage proving unit (some devices have built-in proving units) or otherwise on a known live source of similar voltage to the circuit under test (providing precautions are taken to prevent danger arising).”
A final note in regard to safe isolation comes under the newly added “Test Equipment” section. This has a new paragraph added regarding the use of non-contact detectors, or volt sticks:
“Single-pole or non-contact live-circuit detectors sometimes referred to as ‘voltage sticks’ should only be used for identifying live equipment, not for proving that it is dead. There are particular requirements for the use of non-contact devices in coalmines. Only devices which make contact with the conductor (ie not proximity devices) should be used for proving dead. However, non-contact or proximity devices can be useful in indicating if something is live, eg when attempting to remove a single cable installed in trunking containing many single cables.”
GS38 & Installation Categories
In the previous edition, measurement categories were never specifically mentioned. This has changed in the fourth edition, emphasising the importance of using test leads and test equipment that is suitable for the category of the installation.
This is an important safety issue as using equipment that is not correctly rated for the installation category can and has resulted in serious injury and death. It’s also important to understand that test instruments and test leads are to be treated as separate entities. Using CAT II rated test leads connected to a CAT III rated instrument would not be suitable for testing a CAT III installation. This approach would derate the measuring equipment to the lower rating.
These regular references to CAT safety ratings in the fourth edition of GS38 highlight the importance of ensuring that you have the right equipment and test leads for the job. Clarification of the different installation categories (BS EN61010-1 CAT ratings) is included in the guidance note as a reference and a visual guide is available to download at the end of this article.
Specific requirements for test leads
In line with changes made to the standards that cover the manufacture of test leads, there are some specific requirements that leads should comply with added in the fourth edition:
- Conform to the requirements of BS EN 61010-031 or in the case of a 2 pole voltage detector to BS EN 61243-3,
- Be marked with the rated installation category – CAT II, III or IV
- Be marked with the manufacturer’s name or identifying mark;
Test leads can often be overlooked when it comes to testing. If your leads break during testing it can be easy to swap them for another set from a multimeter or clamp meter. However, if those leads are not rated to the same category as your installation, you could be putting yourself at risk.
A final change regarding test leads relates to the use of fused leads. For multimeters, fused leads should have a high-breaking capacity fuse (hbc or hrc) with a current rating that usually should not exceed 500mA. For loop impedance, RCD or multifunction testers, the fuse will typically be 10A.
If you are unsure as to what test leads you need to use, speak to our technical team on 01923 442244.
Precautions before testing
This section has been expanded upon to recognise additional test processes covered by the guidance note. A newly added paragraph touches on the importance or carrying out risk assessments, putting into place relevant safety measures and the use of appropriate PPE.
Throughout this section, revisions have been made to include the need for ongoing risk assessments to ensure safety is maintained as well as re-emphasis of the need for selecting the right CAT safety rating for the installation under test.
Examination of equipment
The changes here are mainly with the wording, however this section does highlight the need to maintain regular checks of test equipment and that these should be carried out by a competent person.
Two key points have been added to the examples of common problems to look for:
- Damaged spring-loaded retractable covers to the tips of probes
- Failing to verify correct function of illumination (eg indicator / lamp / neon)
The use of a suitable proving unit will help in checking for voltage indicator and test lamp faults
Will I need to replace my old test equipment & leads?
Whenever there are changes made to legislation and best practice, questions are often raised regarding existing equipment and whether it can still be used.
The fourth edition of GS38 makes two important points regarding the purchase of new equipment and the use of older equipment.
1. As a general rule, GS38 states that any equipment or test leads that conform to BS EN 61010 or BS EN 61243-3 will meet the requirements and be compliant, provided you have taken into consideration the installation category.
2. For existing leads and equipment predating these standards, or manufactured to a different standard, GS38 states they must be maintained to prevent danger and should comply with the guidance probes and clips in paragraph 9 (download the full guidance note below).
Provided your existing equipment or leads meet either of the above there should be no need to replace anything until they need it.
If you find you have leads or test equipment that no longer meet these requirements, or have been damaged, it would be advisable to replace them to ensure your ongoing safety.
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CLEVELAND -- Older Americans are overmedicated — and it’s increasing the potential to make them sick.
As members of the baby boomer generation enter their sixth decade and beyond, chronic diseases associated with aging are growing in prevalence as people live longer with their conditions.
Our health care system doesn’t permit the time needed to coordinate care that will keep seniors as healthy as possible. Medical providers spend 20 minutes once or twice a year to understand complex conditions, which are typically addressed with a variety of medications. Some medications are essential, but many patients stay on drugs long after their intended purpose. Many others are prescribed new medications without consideration of ongoing treatments. This has led to a growing problem: polypharmacy.
The American Academy of Family Physicians defines polypharmacy as a condition where a patient is taking five or more medications every day. Taking multiple medications is sometimes necessary to address the needs of seniors with multiple co-morbidities, that is, for people who have one or more other diseases or disorders along with a primary one.
It’s also common: Thirty-six percent of adults over the age of 65 take five or more medications daily. But the problem transcends pill counts. Every day, my colleagues and I see new patients taking duplicate classes of medications, medications for conditions that have been resolved, or prescribed regimens that cause complex side effects.
The burdens associated with polypharmacy for patients and their caregivers cannot be overstated. Medication adherence, that is, remembering to take one’s medicine in the prescribed amounts and at the right times, is time-consuming and adds complexity in a season of life that already has its own unique challenges.
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It’s important for seniors and their caregivers to understand and manage prescribed medications. However, polypharmacy is a problem that needs the engagement and expertise of a health care provider to solve effectively and safely.
How to diagnose polypharmacy?
Primary care physicians will often start this process through a "brown bag" check. In my practice, first-time patients arrive at my office with a tote or shopping bag filled with pill bottles and blister packets of meds. I go over each medication, explaining its uses and side effects. This achieves two-way understanding: I know what the patient’s medical history is, and the patient has new knowledge of the state of his or her health.
As I review medications, I ask myself these questions:
1. Is this still an appropriate medication?
2. Is it providing a benefit?
3. Is it causing adverse reactions that outweigh the benefit?
4. Is the total number of medications and their instructions too complex for the patient to understand or reasonably comply with?
5. Can the medication be replaced by a lower-cost, lower-risk alternative that provides the same results?
Understanding the answers helps to determine if de-prescribing is needed. Once a consensus is reached, seniors should work with their primary care physician on a plan to taper off medications if abruptly stopping can cause additional health concerns.
In Ohio, providers have an advantage in the de-prescribing process thanks to the nonprofit health information exchange, CliniSync. This system allows care teams to review patient records across hospitals, health systems, and private practices. This is a game changer - it ensures smoother transitions in care and access to the decision-making process that led to the prescription in the first place.
Modern science has given us the unprecedented ability to treat the effects of aging. Diseases that were once quickly fatal are now managed, extending life but requiring long-term medication. In my practice at Oak Street Health, we work alongside seniors and their caregivers to bring awareness to the risks and challenges of polypharmacy. We strive to make sure medications are only prescribed for the right patient, conditions, and length of time. With a renewed focus on prescribing, we can make a positive impact on the health and safety of our patients and our seniors.
Dr. Olaoluwa Fayanju is the senior medical director at Oak Street Health, a network of primary care centers for Medicare patients in Cleveland. A physician at Oak Street Health for three years, he specializes in family practice medicine and epidemiology.
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Shawn Shinneman | Longreads | November 2017 | 23 minutes (5,753 words)
Richard Miles has no preternatural pull toward stuff, but after he received his compensation from the state of Texas for a wrongful conviction, he did make one purchase of minor extravagance: a majestic-looking chess set, which he had installed at the entryway to his Duncanville, Texas, home. This is what greets his guests: a wooden board checkered in alternating shades of stain, fit with a hand-chiseled animal kingdom (a few bishop-giraffes now missing ears), sitting in a floodlit display case. The base of the display is solid wood, painted a soft white and about the size of an oven. Atop that, the board rests on a circular platform, about six inches tall and fitted with a small motor. In theory, it rotates. In actuality, the function remains turned off. When it’s engaged, the board spins too swiftly, and kings and their men veer off and collapse.
To Miles, the game of chess is the game of life: You have to be on the move while thinking ahead. A chess player should be simultaneously offensive and defensive, productive while defending what’s theirs. Miles developed a taste for the game in prison. “It was either checkers, chess, dominoes — or you’re talking about somebody,” he says.
More than a dozen years into Miles’ sentence, he learned the prosecution had been playing cards with a trick deck. He was freed in 2009. Three years later, when he was fully exonerated of the murder and aggravated assault for which he’d been put away, the state of Texas’ apology came in the form of a $1.2 million check. Now come monthly annuity payments totaling $71,000 a year. As of this writing, the state has paid Miles about $1.5 million.
Those numbers, however, tell a slanted tale. Like most prisoners who do substantial time, exonerees depart life behind bars for an intimidating new world. Things like completing menial tasks and finding and keeping a job — not to mention the prospects of building a fulfilling career and life — prove difficult. But unlike most prisoners who do substantial time, exonerees often don’t have access to the various re-entry resources that await convicts. That can make the process seem a bit like receiving a good luck slap on the back and a check to take home.
People who have been wrongfully imprisoned experience a unique type of mental fallout. A few years ago, when a dozen Dallas exonerees agreed to check in with a psychiatrist, all 12, including Miles, were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Not one was found mentally healthy, and not one has since received serious treatment. Various family members have expressed differing levels of concern about Miles’ state of mind, and his mother’s assessment has been painfully blunt: “A part of him is still dead,” she says one afternoon, “still incarcerated.”
For some of Miles’ exoneree brethren in other states, financial reparations and even the detached sense of regret that accompanies them remain a pipe dream. Texas — Red Texas — has one of the most progressive compensation laws in America, and yet it’s difficult to tell whether the money is spurring mental or emotional recovery. Even a king can topple from a spinning foundation. At different moments, in different lights, the compensation granted to Miles can seem either extraordinarily beneficial or, given the enduring impact of wrongful incarceration, remarkably futile.
* * *
Miles has fed his compensation into a few different ways. He bought a house for himself and another for his mom, he made a sizable tithe to help remodel his late father’s church and he put a 2011 Jaguar XJL in his garage. He then took $150,000 and started a nonprofit he named Miles of Freedom.
Several well-compensated exonerees have ended up pursuing nonprofit work, but Miles chose not to cater his organization exclusively to exonerees. He has aimed his assistance at all those struggling with re-entry, keeping close to heart his brothers behind bars. One hazy Texas winter afternoon, Miles was working his way toward the Dallas campus of Texas A&M University–Commerce to speak to a group he hoped could help him expand Miles of Freedom’s reach and resources. It was a social work class taught by Jaimie Page, who was instrumental in unifying exonerees to fight for increased compensation. Page invited Miles so he and her students could compare notes, with the goal that they could set a more robustly funded path forward.
Miles was optimistic about what the meeting could bring. The refreshing thing about Page was that she didn’t seem to want anything out of Miles, or Johnnie Lindsey, or Christopher Scott — guys who in the drop of a gavel had gone from convicted killers and rapists to innocent men, in certain eyes, something entirely different: dollar signs. Page has more than once turned down money from exonerees for her help. Now, she was inviting Miles to her classroom not as Guy Who Had Bad Thing Happen to Him, but as the head of an organization.
One of the central struggle in Miles’ first life was rooted in a yearning to experience the freedom outside his sheltered upbringing, and in his second he grappled with a stinging guilt associated with his conviction. The tension of his third is in a search for an identity deeper than Richard Miles, exoneree. Turning out of his South Dallas office in a black Cadillac CTS (he bought it after seeing the bill for his first bit of maintenance on the Jag), he was feeling good.
One of the first things Miles had done when he had gotten out was enroll in college. Still awaiting his compensation at the time, he had lived on student aid. He hadn’t known how to use a computer, which had been embarrassing, and he had taken a public speaking course, which had been terrifying. But from the latter he gained confidence, and he was soon telling his story over and over — in classrooms, conferences and on a book tour. That story ends well: Miles has been let out of prison and is now in front of you, speaking. This is remarkable and inspiring. But that basic narrative suggests no plan of action. No purpose. Our feature presentation, The Life of Richard Miles, has now ended. Enjoy your evening.
“I think now, more so it’s trying to walk away with a plan,” he says in the car. “That makes me have to study more. It makes me kind of forget about myself.”
Miles arrives early for class. He’s directed to wait in the library, where he settles momentarily and then gets up and paces the hallways talking on his cell phone.
By the time Page gets there, he’s been on three separate calls with Aubrey Jones, his wise and always beaming former prison-mate, now his right-hand man at Miles of Freedom. In class, he sits up front in a black blazer, a silver watch showing, chic as usual. At about 1 p.m., Page calls class to order and introduces her guest, turning to Miles. “So,” she says warmly, “maybe you can start with a little bit about your story.”
* * *
May 16, 1994, early morning: A couple of minutes after 19-year-old Miles is dropped off near the neighborhood in which he’s staying, he crosses the street in front of a stopped police car and suddenly finds himself under the glow of a helicopter’s beam. Ground police appear in flocks, surround Miles and arrest him. Not far away, at a Texaco gas station near Dallas’ Bachman Lake, two men have been shot several times at close range. One is dead. The other will be permanently disabled. A witness has told dispatchers the shooter is wearing something similar to Miles’ attire.
Still, even sitting in the back of the police car, Miles isn’t nervous. He figures the cops will call the people he’s been with all evening, realize he’s telling the truth and release him. Trying to elicit a confession, Detective B.J. Hooker spends 10 hours in and out of questioning Miles, whose premonition is partially correct: The police call the alibis, and the alibis check out.
As the day wears on, the police charge him anyway.
There’s hardly any evidence to convict. Under closer examination, Miles’ clothes don’t quite match the description. He’d been in dark-blue Dickies pants; witnesses say the shooter was wearing dark-colored shorts. He had on a black derby hat with a rigid felt brim and a feather; the shooter was described as wearing a “floppy” hat. (Miles’ hat would disappear before trial.) Miles is light skinned and about 5 foot 6, relatively short; the shooter is said to be tall and dark skinned. Seven witnesses are shown a photo lineup of Miles and five others. In it, Miles is the only one wearing a white tank top, which matches the description of the shooter. Only Marcus Thurman identifies Miles. Thurman, whose initial description to cops had led to Miles’ arrest, had still been at the Texaco that morning when police, in an odd move, brought Miles to the scene, took him out of the car and swabbed his hands for gunshot residue. Thurman got a look at Miles then, before his positive ID during the photo lineup. Prior to taking the stand—he will later say—Thurman is coached as to the defendant’s whereabouts in the courtroom. He serves as the prosecution’s star witness, pointing to Miles as the killer. Lab tech Vicki Hall’s testimony stretches the significance of trace levels of residue — minuscule enough to be found in the dirt — that show up on Miles’ right hand. Miles is left-handed. She will later say she would have testified differently if she had it over.
But it’s not the reversal of those two key testimonies that gets Miles out of prison; those come later, triggering his exoneration. One day in 2007, Miles is in his cell during lockdown when he gets a delivery, volumes upon volumes upon volumes: his trial transcript, the trove of valuable documents he could never afford, which had made it nearly impossible to make a compelling case for a new trial. In Miles’ world, he’s on a deserted-island quest for innocence and this is the flare gun to signal help, the thing he’d held out hope for during his darkest moments. He could change his situation, if only he could get his hands on the transcript.
In his cell, Miles works through thousands of pages over several sittings, trying to read as if he’s guilty so as to overcorrect for his own bias, a tip he acquired from a writ writer in the prison law library. The police report is here, too, but Miles saves it for last. That, he figures, he’s seen already. Except, as it turns out, this version is much different. The file provided to Centurion Ministries, the organization that has taken on Miles’ innocence case and sent him the files, is more than three times the size of the one given to William Lloyd, Miles’ father, years earlier. It contains evidence that the defense never saw, including a promising lead that appears to have been ignored by police in the pursuit of Miles. He and his lawyers hadn’t known that a woman had called police one day in May 1995, talking about a shooting at a Texaco not far from where Miles was picked up, with the time frame to match. They were about to try a man in connection, she told them, but the real shooter was her ex. She reluctantly provided the name of the suspect, Keith Richard, but did not give her own name and feared she’d be killed if her former boyfriend was questioned. She also identified the gun as a 9 mm pistol, a detail that hadn’t been publicized. Another report described an encounter the two victims had had outside a Kroger a few days before the shooting, during which the surviving victim, Robert Johnson, had threatened a man with a gun, the same one found on the floorboard of the car after the shooting, thus further discrediting Johnson’s claims in the courtroom that he was a random victim, that the gun was merely for defense and that the two had no enemies.
Already well versed on the state’s duty to disclose exculpatory evidence, Miles discovers the missing documents from inside his prison cell. A confusing mix of anger and elation envelops him. It is in this moment he knows he will be free.
On what sort of submarine explorations has Miles’ mind since embarked? He has been scared, angry, tired, and soaked in guilt. He has fought; he has prayed. He has considered what dying could do for him and how to achieve it. He has learned the key to forgetting about yourself: to account for every minute, never to be idle. Will he be able to unlearn this? More hours in law books, working in the infirmary. More hours lifting weights, playing chess. Sleep eat work eat exercise study play eat sleep. Repeat. Do not sit; do not sink. Never leave a moment free, lest reality come bubbling to the surface.
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August 26, 1995, late evening: Welcome to the coldest hunk of concrete in America.
Miles had just twice heard the word “guilty.” The jury had deliberated for eight hours, a good sign, and then the foreman — a young, Black woman — rose to her feet in the courtroom and said it, and while some of the jurors wept, Miles had fallen to his chair, stood, and was carried away to this concrete slab in a holding chamber. After a long day, the chamber was otherwise clear. Miles was alone.
The truth shall set you free.
Miles’ parents stopped by. Thelma, the uplifter, mother of four, forever of hope. William, a Vietnam veteran: spiritual, serious. Dad. Miles and his older sister, LaShawnda, have a different father by blood, but it is William who raised them, along with the two boys, William and Emanuel, he and Thelma had together. The rules of his house were smothering. Miles was boisterous, a jokester. The way his classmates’ laughter fed something inside him assured his constant presence inside detention. He developed an interest in girls, and a smile. “A little lover,” Thelma calls it. Meanwhile, William’s religious vision required considerable devotion. The family participated in revivals, meaning nightly trips to the church. Home life offered little leisure. Miles yearned for more. He was not even allowed to play checkers or chess.
He had been arrested once before. That first time had been a year and a half after a fateful conversation with his father. The talk had taken place during the evening, out back behind the house. He had been sitting in William’s beat-up Chevy truck, on the wrong end of a three-hour lecture about abiding by the rules of this house so long as you live in this house. Miles decided not to live in this house. His supervisor at his job at McDonald’s, who went by L.A., offered to take him in, and a guy named Tori picked Miles up.
“Man, you know, it’s good!” Tori told Miles. “You’re moving out! You’re staying on your own!”
Tori lived with his mom.
He did not take Miles directly to L.A.’s. Instead, he took Miles to a corner, where they met a drug dealer. The group Miles would fall in with kept two hotel rooms, a place at Raw Suites Hotel — the chill-out spot — and a place across the street at the Deluxe Inn, where the transactions went down. They sold crack and smoked pot. Soon, Miles found himself entranced by this new street life. He dropped out of school late during his senior year, and the following year, on March 1, 1994, police got clearance to search the room at Raw Suites and found about half a gram of crack cocaine atop the trash can’s heap. Police did not find cash on Miles, and therefore — his lawyer suggested — he might have a chance in court. Instead, a month in, he pleaded guilty in exchange for probation, sure he’d be able to avoid further trouble. He distanced himself, he says, from the Raw Suites crew. On April 26, he turned 19. Three weeks later, everything changed.
So there were Miles’ parents. They’d always insisted that should their children get in trouble with the law, they would not be there to help. They would not put up bail or fund a lawyer. They would not visit. Miles was staring back at the owners of the home he abandoned, who raised him until he decided that their services would no longer be needed, that he was a man.
The walls were down and Miles was reduced, naked.
Under William’s faith, the family had spoken of this date in August as the endpoint, refusing to legitimize the possibility of a conviction. Once the day came, conversation rang hollow. Thelma wondered what to say. She did not want to make Miles feel as if his parents were doubting their faith in God. “But we looked at what, 80 years? 60 years?” she says now. Miles picks up on something. “My dad was like, ‘Man, your court-appointed lawyer is going to do what he’s supposed to do,’” he says. “‘The word of God says that the truth shall set — ’ So he was more like that.”
Relaying the story, 40-year-old Miles is wearing a white T-shirt, sitting on his leather couch, the light above illuminating the grays on his closely cropped head. A room over, his year-old daughter, Raelyn, starts to cry. Miles checks on her and returns.
“It was me, too,” he says. “I know I had to go to God: ‘What is this? Man, this makes no sense.’”
Miles’ lawyer, Ed Gray, had been sure the jury would show mercy — given the tears — all the way up until Miles confessed during the sentencing hearing to dealing drugs, providing the missing motive. Miles was sentenced to 40 years and 20 years, respectively, and a judge tacked on another 20 for his violation of probation. All three sentences could be served concurrently, setting his maximum sentence at 40 years. But Miles’ release would come much sooner, 15 years after his arrest, in October of 2009.
By that point, much damage had been done. Miles moved in with his mother, and Thelma Miles quickly took note of all the new traits her eldest son had acquired. He would sit very straight and still, so as to not extend outside his personal space. He would seldom leave the house, and he struggled to make friends or connect with others. When he needed to go to the bathroom, he would ask. “I’m like, ‘Richard, just get up and go!’” Thelma says. “He said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m just so — ’ ‘I know, baby, you’re just so used to it.’”
One day Miles was mowing the yard when an alarm sounded, the weekly test of the emergency system. From inside, Thelma noticed the lawnmower motor had quieted, and she stepped outside to check on her son. Miles had hopped up on the porch and snapped to attention. The alarm had transported him back to the prison yard, its strict schedule, the unforgiving guards.
Miles struggled with the college classes he’d enrolled in — although he managed to earn praise along the way from professors who knew his story. He’d taken college courses in prison, where the teachers taught. Out here, they instructed: read this, analyze that, come to class ready to discuss. The medium through which he was to study changed, too, and suddenly involved a screen. The Blackboard app was baffling. “When I left, beepers,” Miles says. “When I came back, iPhones.” His peers were warm to his story, but he quietly wondered how many times he could reasonably request simple technological assistance.
For Miles and other exonerees, struggles to assimilate into modern culture are compounded by the psychological impact of wrongful incarceration. “They feel like they’re Martians landing on Earth,” says Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey, whose organization counts Miles among its 54 successful exonerations over 37 years. “It’s so difficult for any of us to really understand the pain and suffering that they’ve gone through and their psychological structure, and how they view the world and people.”
Cautionary tales abound. In 2008, CNN found Wiley Fountain — a Dallas exoneree who’d been compensated $190,000 under a prior iteration of the law — had become homeless just five years after he was released. Last year in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, police found Darryl Hunt dead in a pickup truck. A dozen years after DNA proved he wasn’t the rapist and killer who took a young life in 1984, Hunt was the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Dallas exonerees are overwhelmingly Black and male, a demographic that, according to Page, the Texas A&M University-Commerce professor, is historically overrepresented in institutionalized mental health care and historically underrepresented in outpatient mental health care. In a society already squeamish about treating the mind, this is a population more resistant than most. When Page secured the money for evaluations, the men in the group she was working with had strict demands: The psychiatrist had to be a Black male over the age of 50, and he had to be willing to meet each of the exonerees at their individual homes. Page knew of no one, but her intern uncovered a man named Charles Mathis. He worked his way through the group and eventually diagnosed every one of them with post-traumatic stress disorder.
According to Miles, Page says it’s possible the exonerees are actually dealing with a more serious form of PTSD called C-PTSD. The C stands for “complex” and signals a more serious version resulting from long-term or repeat trauma, such as consistent sexual or physical abuse.
Either way, Mathis’ diagnoses largely did not result in treatment. Page says not a single exoneree from her group received treatment, although Miles later submitted to a couple of therapy sessions through Centurion Ministries. By and large, the men were guarded about sharing something so personal, let alone with someone who could have little grasp of the impossible emotions with which they’d dealt. “I think they’re more baffled by us,” says Miles. “The tables tend to turn.”
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Across the country, the likelihood that an exoneree will be compensated in any significant way depends heavily where in the U.S. they were found guilty.
Today, 18 states don’t have any law guaranteeing exonerees compensation for the time they spent in jail. Options in those states might include arguing in front of a state commission, lobbying legislators or filing a civil claim against the state. If you win a civil claim, you could fill your bank account with $15 million or $20 million — but you’ll be in the vast minority, as winning a civil case for compensation is rare. Success is most likely for exonerees whose stories have gained national followings.
Of the states that have standards, the restitution they promise exonerees varies wildly. Most cap compensation. The state of Wisconsin provides a maximum $25,000 lump sum, about enough to buy a 2017 Honda Accord Coupe. Florida tops out at $2 million. California pays $100 per day spent behind bars, and Iowa $50.
Restrictions and caveats make an impact, too. Even after Louisiana (compensation cap: $330,000) finds reason to grant an inmate’s release, the state puts the burden of proof back on the exoneree — guilty until proven innocent — for the purposes of a payout. Under Florida’s “clean hands” provision, only exonerees with felony-free records prior to their wrongful convictions are eligible to receive compensation. One notorious case saw a man denied because of an unrelated prior felony conviction for possession of a single quaalude pill. Because of his earlier drug arrest and guilty plea, Miles, too, would’ve been stonewalled.
And the same politics that drive states not to pay exonerees are in play when it comes to freeing them in the first place. This is one explanation for why the states with the most exonerees also tend to have the most progressive compensation laws. Tom Sullivan, a defense attorney in Arkansas, says politicians in his state have long refused to see the wrongs their justice system is capable of inflicting. “We aren’t going to set up a system of compensation, because we don’t ever make errors,” he says, characterizing the attitude of legislators in his state.
Sullivan worked on the case of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, native Gyronne Buckley. In late 2013, the Arkansas Claims Commission voted to do something it had done only once before: The commission unanimously granted Buckley $460,000 for the 11 and a half years of a life sentence he served for a drug offense that was later expunged. It seemed the state was taking a step forward. But with tax dollars on the line, politics can interfere. As it happened, Arkansas’ then–Attorney General, Dustin McDaniel, rallied a legislative subcommittee to reverse the commission’s decision. Buckley, who didn’t respond to several attempts to make contact for this story, hasn’t seen a penny.
Separated by just a three-and-a-half-hour drive on I-30, the realities that greeted Miles and Buckley outside prison bars were vastly different.
In Texas, momentum to transform state policy into one of the country’s most progressive did indeed start with the state’s massive community of exonerees. Under Dallas County Prosecutor Craig Watkins, who championed a proactive approach to freeing the jailed innocent, the number of Texas exonerees inflated. They had numbers, but lacked organization and leadership. In 2007, Page volunteered for a boss’s vague offer to work with former inmates, and fell hard into the world of wrongful incarceration. She was moved by the stories of dozens of Dallas exonerees and, in time, became a trusted figure within their community.
“Here I am, a White woman trying to help a large group of these men just be able to talk to each other,” Page says. “It’s not the day room in the prison, where you kind of talk above each other and there’s all these prison dynamics.
“How do we have a conversation? A productive meeting? That took, really, about six months.”
Patience paid off, and with a united group, Page picked up grant money, which helped put exonerees in front of lawmakers. More than a dozen of the men Page worked with went to Austin. Meanwhile, several other circumstances drew attention to the cause. Acting on behalf of some exonerees, a couple of attorneys joined in lobbying efforts (perhaps with slightly less-pure intentions than Page’s, as would be revealed later when the lawyers charged exonerees for the work). Media coverage was heavy. Black leaders rallied at the state capitol.
It all crescendoed in 2009, when legislators passed the Tim Cole Act, named for a man who’d been posthumously exonerated the year before. Under it, exonerees get a lump sum equaling $80,000 per year for each year they spent behind bars, plus monthly annuity payments totaling up to $80,000 a year, ostensibly for life. As of November, Texas has paid $111 million to exonerees.
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By now Miles’ story is presented like a well-oiled machine, and this afternoon in Page’s class it takes him 18 minutes and 12 seconds to tell it. Watching him tell his story is like watching a crane operator lower cargo, meticulously and with perfect precision. He rarely projects pathos, and today there is not a shade of indignation. His arrest, wrongful incarceration and exoneration comprise one big footnote to the endeavor in which he is currently engaged: building Miles of Freedom.
Miles makes sure to mention that he wants his story to take a back seat to the organization’s goals. The “Miles” part of the nonprofit’s name, Miles tells the class, is actually an acronym: Motivated, Inspired, Law-abiding, Enthusiastic, Successful citizens. That’s what they’re trying to pull from the wreckage.
“Keep that in mind,” he says. “Please don’t connect ‘Miles’ with Richard Miles.”
Page is quick: “How are people not going to do that!” she says, to the class’s laughter. “Come on.”
“Well, I guess for the sake of the organization,” he says. “If someone were to ask you, ‘What does Miles mean?’ those are the steps to successful citizenship.”
After class, Miles folds his materials away and heads for his car. The meeting has gone well, and it feels feasible to Miles that he could soon have a paid staff. “That evolution — you go from incarcerated to exoneree to, now, I’m founder of an organization,” he says, steering the Cadillac away from campus. “That feels good.”
Miles enters a place of reflection, eyes fixed on the road ahead. Conversation turns to chess. Miles doesn’t play anymore, but lately, he’s been thinking about bringing a set to his regular meetings with Dallas youth. “I like the art of chess because chess to me is life,” he says. He talks about his family, about the pull he felt to write them checks after he received his compensation; he couldn’t see the sense in being stingy with the people who’d seen him through his worst. He gave each of his siblings $10,000. “We’re all going to be blessed, because we were all incarcerated,” Miles says. He mentions his father, whose funeral he didn’t get to attend.
Eventually, the highway grows congested, and Miles exits for the solitude of the side streets.
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In 2010, Miles left college and traveled with other exonerees to promote Tested, a book about their experiences. The group appeared on Larry King Live that October, and though there were many voices to get to, King asked Miles a direct question about how he was able to move on from the injustice of the withheld evidence.
“Weren’t you angry and bitter when you got released?” King said.
“Yes, sir, I was,” replied Miles. “But if I dwell on the anger, I can’t get past it.”
The family and friends who surround Miles say they’re impressed by the way he’s been able to shirk bitterness and approach life with a pure heart. “Every person wants to believe that we are actually free,” says Miles. “Every person wants to believe that all men are created equal.” When you run smack-dab into evidence to the contrary, he says, you can let it turn you cold. Or, you can do your small part to stop the injustice.
Miles is as busy as ever, and some who know him worry about how his tendencies toward reclusiveness might mix with his constant eyes-forward approach. “What is he now, 39?” his mom says, a year off at the time. “That’s too young to close down.” McCloskey, the Centurion Ministries founder, says Miles’ authentic charisma and genuine love of people have made him a “star exoneree, in terms of his ability to adapt and develop a whole new life once he got out.” But “beyond that exterior, he’s going through a lot, too,” McCloskey adds. “It’s difficult.”
Miles’ house buzzed on a recent Saturday morning. A crew was installing insulation in the attic. Raelyn had turned two, grown five of the cutest braids in America and started running full speed into love seats, letting her momentum carry her tummy into the leather while her legs bent up behind her. Raelyn was in all pink, and her dad was in flip-flops and cargo shorts.
And then there was Latoya Miles, who appeared every so often to corral her daughter. Latoya, who works at a local hospital, met Miles in 2012. By that point, his schoolboy charm had been dampened by the elongated stay in prison. But at a car wash one afternoon — a hangout where guys looked to impress — he tried his hand. Latoya ignored him on first walk-by but engaged him when she walked out. Somehow, Miles pulled a number. About two and half months later, the two were headed to a happy hour when Miles got a call about a meeting of exonerees that night. He tried to be cryptic on his end of the phone conversation, but Latoya still pushed for an explanation, so he pulled the car over and told her his story — all of it.
Uneasiness stung the air. He’d been fully exonerated just a short time before meeting her, but his perspective only strengthened her feelings. Here was a guy who’d been dealt one of life’s toughest hands and come out the other side, not angry, not bitter, not even content to forget — but bent on doing his part. She latched onto his ambitions. She was also genuinely unimpressed by the check. “It was never: ‘Oooh, you’re going to get this compensation?’” she says, insinuating a wink-wink. “It was like, ‘OK, so what are you going to do with that once you get it? Are you going to invest?’ Those were my questions.” Miles appreciated Latoya’s independence and the fact that she looked out for him. They got married in 2013, splitting the tab on the wedding.
William Lloyd died from complications related to thyroid cancer on May 27, 2009, several months before Miles was released. The small saving grace was that William had at least seen his son’s freedom appear likely. On June 3, after Thelma laid her husband to rest at a morning funeral, she retreated to her room for a nap. She awoke to a call from McCloskey, who had good news: He’d come away from a first meeting with the district attorney’s office surprised at how sure investigators already were as to Miles’ innocence. “The Bible says that once a seed is planted into the ground, then will come life,” Thelma says.
What does the future hold for Richard Miles? He has a faint vision to eventually recede from his full-time role at Miles of Freedom, perhaps 10 years from now, stepping into a role as chairman and president and relinquishing his title as CEO. Ten years after that he could see himself merely as chairman. He already took some weight off his shoulders earlier this year, when Miles of Freedom at last took on its first paid staff. Miles wants to go back to finish his degree, but in his wildest post-exoneration and post-CEO and postgrad dreams, the only sort of job he can envision is one that allows him to go to work for his community. “I have to tell him sometimes,” says his sister, LaShawnda, “take a minute to live.”
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If you’re thinking about starting a business or expanding your investment portfolio, then you may be considering trading Forex as a potential option. Forex is really a hybrid between both opportunities and in this article, you will learn why and also what you need to get started!
Forex as an Investment
Unlike stocks and shares, Forex trades tend to last a much shorter period of time. Whilst there are opportunities to hold trades long-term (swing trading), the majority of forex traders take advantage of shorter term moves.
Forex traders hold their trades anywhere from minutes to weeks, but very few traders hold these trades for months or years as you would with stocks, which is the first significant difference from traditional trading.
Another difference is that you are not buying the asset as such. A currency pair is two currencies paired together, for example, EUR USD. From here, you are almost ‘betting’ on whether you think the EUR will gain value against the dollar.
This allows you to buy or sell the pair, which is another difference from stock trading. You can effectively make money whether the currency is rising or falling.
However, there are some similarities between forex and stocks. Both are leveraged products, meaning you can expose yourself to a bigger portion of the market than the capital you have available. Stocks tend to have smaller leverage than forex.
Both also require technical analysis to learn to do it well, but there are more opportunities to trade forex as the market is open 24 hours per day.
Forex as a Business
Forex (unlike stocks) can have a more hands-on approach as it’s not just a case of buying and holding. This means if you want to trade daily and treat it like a business then you can absolutely do that.
In addition, HMRC has some grey areas when it comes to taxation and uses a system called ‘badges of trade’ to determine if you are an investor or a trader. Investors pay capital gains on their profits whereas traders are subject to income tax. Whilst many forex traders submit a tax return for capital gains tax only, the reality is that, in many cases, they would fall into the trader category. This is primarily because most forex traders trade on a regular basis, buying and selling often, as opposed to buying, holding, and selling in the distant future for a one-off profit.
In a nutshell, HMRC can consider forex trading as a business rather than an investment as well.
Things You Will Need to Trade Forex
If you are just starting out in Forex, you should spend some time learning to chart and perfecting your strategy prior to trading live. Demo trading is also a great way to hone your skills. There are loads of websites offering free courses for trading such as Baby Pips which will teach you the basics.
You’re also going to need some good charting software like Trading View (which has a free plan) and also a decent computer. Lenovo desktops for trading are a good option for this.
You don’t need a really powerful computer as charting software is often cloud-based and your execution platform such as MT4 doesn’t need a huge amount of processing power, but a good quality everyday desktop will work great.
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The Boxer dog is a beautiful, short-haired and medium to large sized breed of working dog. It was originally bred to be a medium-sized guard dog. But most of the Boxers find homes as loving family companions. They are also known as German Boxer and Deutscher Boxer.
The Boxer dog breed was developed in Germany. It was bred from the Old English Bulldog and the now extinct Bullenbeisser which became extinct by crossbreeding rather than by a decadence of the breed.
The Bullenbeisser was used as a hunting dog for centuries for hunting bear, wild boar and deer. Their task was to catch and hold the prey until hunters arrived. Over time Bullenbeissers lost their jobs on estates and began to be used by farmers and butchers for guarding and driving cattle.
The Boxer is part of the Molosser group. This group is a category of solidity built, large dog breeds that all descend from the same common ancestor, the large shepherd dog known as Molossus.
The Boxer dog we know today was developed in the late 19th Century. A Munich man named Georg Alt bred a brindle-colored female Bullenbeisser named Flora with a local dog of unknown origin. In the liter was a fawn-and-white male that was named Lechner’s Box. This is believed to be the start of the line that would become the Boxer we know today.
The first Boxer club was founded in 1895, with Boxers being first exhibited in a dog show for St. Bernards in Munich the next year.
Based on AKC statistics on 2013, Boxers held steady as the seventh-most popular breed of dog in the United States for the fourth consecutive year. However, according to the AKC’s website, the Boxer is now the eleventh-most popular dog breed in the United States.
Boxer Dog Characteristics
The Boxer dogs are very beautiful, and are medium to large in size. They have smooth and tight-fitting coat. Their common coat colors are fawn, brindled, or white, with or without white markings.
The Boxers have broad and short skulls, a square muzzle, an underbite, very strong jaws and a powerful bite which is ideal for hanging on to large prey.
The head is the most distinctive feature of the Boxer dog. The head must be in perfect proportion to the body and above all it must never be too light.
The Boxer dogs are medium to large in size. Average body height of the mature dog is between 22 and 25 inches at the withers for the males, and between 21 and 24 inches for the females. Average live body weight of the mature dog is between 29 and 34 kg for males, and between 25 and 32 kg for the females.
As the Boxer dogs are guard dogs, so they are alert and watchful. When they are not clowning for you, they are dignified and self-assured. They are generally playful and patient with children. Strangers are greeted with a wary attitude, but they respond politely to friendly people. They are aggressive only in defense of their family and home.
Like other dog breeds, temperament of the Boxer dog is affected by a number of factors, including heredity, training and socialization. Puppies with nice temperaments are curious and playful, willing to approach people and be held by them.
Like other dogs, the Boxers also need early socialization. Exposure to many different people, sight, sounds and experiences are important, especially when they are young. Socialization helps to ensure that your Boxer puppy grows up to be a well-rounded, outgoing, friendly dog and stays that way.
Average lifespan of the Boxer dogs is between 9 and 15 years.
How much a mature dog eats depends on it’s size, age, build, metabolism and activity level. Dogs are individuals, just like people, and they don’t all need the same amount of food.
The Boxer dogs are medium in size and are very active. So, their diet should be formulated for a medium sized breed with high exercise needs. You can consult with a vet in your area for better feeding recommendations.
Taking good care of the animals is very important for raising Boxer dogs. They are actually house dogs. Their short noses and short coats make them unsuited for living outdoors. Although, they will enjoy having a fenced yard to play in.
The Boxer dogs love to play. They need regular exercise for keeping their muscles toned and keeping them satisfied. You can plan for playing with them or walking them at least twice a day for half an hour.
Training is essential for the Boxer dogs. They are so big and strong that they can accidentally hurt people by knocking them over if they don’t learn to control their actions.
The Boxer dogs are generally healthy. But like all other dog breeds, they are also prone to certain health conditions.
Their common health problems include cancers, heart conditions such as aortic stenosis and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (the so-called “Boxer cardiomyopathy”), hypothyroidism, hip dysplasia, and degenerative myelopathy and epilepsy. Always try to keep good contact with a vet in your area.
|Other Names||Also known as German Boxer and Deutscher Boxer|
|Breed Size||Medium to large|
|Height||Between 22 and 25 inches at the withers for the males, and between 21 and 24 inches for the females|
|Weight||Between 29 and 34 kg for males, and between 25 and 32 kg for the females|
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It would have been near-impossible to predict that a Chicago South Side girl, the granddaughter of slaves, would end up firing pointed questions at U.S. presidents, serving as a critical information conduit for Black newspaper readership, and opening doors for Black and female journalists. Ethel Payne followed her passion for writing and storytelling from her high school English classes, into her job as a social director at a military base in post–World War II Japan, and onto a permanent position with the venerable African-American newspaper the Chicago Defender. There her coveted White House press pass put her face to face with chief executives, many of whom found themselves cornered by her questions about civil rights policies (“Ethel wrote the stories that the mainstream media refused to. It was her questions to presidents that finally made readers of all races pay attention to the plight of African Americans”). Parra’s stylized acrylic paintings place figures with the knife-edged crispness of paper collage against the textured surfaces of illustration board, and intersperse well-placed vignettes that suggest the length and breadth of Payne’s long career. This is a solid treatment of an important but little-known figure, and it may prompt kids to think about the role and composition of a free press. An author’s note expands information, and source credits, a brief adult bibliography, and a list for further reading are included. EB
– BCCB, December 1, 2019
Chances were few for young women of color around the Great Depression, but when Ethel L. Payne’s (1911–1991) Chicago high school wouldn’t let a black student work on its newspaper, she got it to publish her first story; then, during college, she took writing classes at a local school that offered free tuition. After organizing locally during WWII, she seized the opportunity to become a correspondent in Tokyo and found herself with sudden global influence: “One of Ethel’s articles about black soldiers stationed in Japan had made its way across the seas.” After several years writing for the Chicago Defender, a black newspaper, she was issued White House press credentials and served through four administrations. “I’ve had a box seat on history,” she said, “and that’s a rare thing.” Folk-style portraits by Parra couple maturing images of Payne with historical emblems, and Cline-Ransome tells her story with economy and drive. “Somebody had to do the fighting,” she quotes Payne saying, “somebody had to speak up.” An author’s note and bibliography conclude. Ages 4–8. (Jan.)
– Publishers Weekly, November 18, 2019
CLINE-RANSOME, Lesa. The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne. illus. by John Parra. 48p. S. & S./Paula Wiseman Bks. Jan. 2020. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781481462891.
Gr 2-5–African American journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911–91) “collected the stories of people who followed a path paved with dreams.” Her interest in oral histories started at an early age—her grandparents shared their experiences laboring in the cotton fields under slavery, and her parents told stories of their sharecropping days. Payne may have grown up poor, but her childhood was rich in language and love. Every Saturday, Payne’s mother took her daughter and her five siblings to the libraries on the white side of town. Payne’s English teacher encouraged her to write, and, eventually, the all-white school newspaper published her first story. Payne lost her father at an early age and endured bigotry and discrimination. But none of these hardships stopped her from pursuing her dreams. She went to college, fought racism, and shattered barriers to become the only black female journalist in the White House briefing room. She fearlessly asked tough questions of the elected officials and helped to enact change in the country. In Payne’s quest for civil rights, she became known as the “First Lady of the Black Press.” Told in a matter-of-fact style, accompanied by rich acrylics, Payne’s biography is brought to life for young students who may not know about the impact she made for journalists of color. VERDICT A strong addition to an elementary library biography collection.–Annette Herbert, F. E. Smith Elementary School, Cortland, NY
– School Library Journal, January 2020
Ethel L. Payne grew up on the South Side of Chicago surrounded by stories from her parents and from her grandparents, who had been enslaved. These stories, weekly trips to the library, and encouragement from teachers and family helped Payne become a strong writer. Believing that “somebody had to do the fighting, somebody had to speak up,” Payne became a journalist and used her work as a tool for action and activism throughout her life. She captured the stories of Black soldiers stationed in post–WWII Japan, which led to a job with the Chicago Defender. She began covering the presidency, “one of only three black journalists issued a White House press pass,” and worked through the Carter administration, becoming known as “The First Lady of the Black Press.” The moments from Payne’s life that Cline-Ransome chooses to highlight, paired with Parra’s textured, iconographic acrylic paintings, create a powerful story that demonstrates the ways someone with a gift for writing can use it as a tool for fighting injustice. In an author’s note, Cline-Ransome discusses her own attempts at being a journalist and the fearlessness it takes to be an effective one. A bibliography and further reading list are appended.
– Horn Book Magazine, March/April 2020
This picture book biography of Ethel L. Payne, one of the first African American press correspondents for the White House, is a comprehensive look at the life of a journalism pioneer. From integrating a Chicago school during her childhood, through her reporting on Black soldiers in Japan, to her coverage of the White House during the Civil Rights era and beyond, Payne's life was full of important evens, and Cline-Ransome (Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams, 2018) presents the story with clarity and purpose. Parra’s (Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos, 2017) distinctive, folk-art-style acrylic paintings in bold colors are an appealing complement to Cline-Ransome's text . . . A solid account of a lesser-known figure and a worthy addition to children’s biography collections.
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Last year one of WEC’s ArtsRelease teams opened a creative arts studio at a church premises in Leeds. New members joined and the artists took turns to lead each weekly session based on a passage of scripture. They held an exhibition on 2nd May, attended by local dignitaries while WEC’s Resonance Band played music. Since lockdown, the ‘studio’ has continued online, sharing their creations in various mediums. This has given birth to a similar group connecting across Southeast Asia and another in Suffolk. Pray for these artists to be inspired and encouraged, to share their faith effectively through their work.
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These days it is pretty much impossible to In case you missed it, the latest news concerning opioid overdoses in America is not good. Just this week a report was released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that only reminds us of just how horrific the opioid epidemic is. In most of the country, this crisis continues to get worse.
While we still don’t have a complete picture of the death toll in 2017 concerning opioids, the most up-to-date data shows that overdoses have spiked nationwide. Examining reports from hospital emergency rooms, the report compares the overall increase in opioid overdoses from the third quarter of 2016 up until the third quarter of 2017.
According to this data, opioid overdoses to increase by 30% in only a year.
Rising Overdose Rates by Region
In every age group, with both men and women, opioid overdoses are increasing, according to CDC Director Anne Schuchat. The Midwest has been the hardest hit region in that 12 month period. According to the CDC report:
- 7% increase in opioid overdoses in the Midwest
- 3% increase in the West
- 3% increase in the Northeast
- 2% increase in the Southwest
- 14% increase in the Southeast
All this may not come as much of a surprise for many Midwesterners. When you look at the last few years, the opioid crisis has not been kind to these communities. Of the counties with the highest overdose death rates per capita over the last few years, we consistently find some of the top spots going to states like West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky.
Needless to say, these devastating figures aren’t exclusive to the Midwest. A few more examples include:
- 109% increase of opioid overdose in Wisconsin
- 105% increase in Delaware
- 6% increase in Pennsylvania
- 34% increase in Maine
Luckily, not all areas are experiencing record highs. Some states are actually fortunate enough to see a slight decrease in overdoses, including:
- New Hampshire
- Rhode Island
Even in Kentucky, which has been a Midwestern state hit pretty hard over the years, the CDC analysis saw a 15% drop.
The CDC report does not specify as to why certain regions are experiencing overdoses differently, but one factor experts say has most likely played a key role is the availability of more potent opioids. The synthetic opioid fentanyl has been making its way onto the streets more and more over the last couple years, and supply of drugs like fentanyl has increased much faster in certain areas, which probably has a lot to do with the difference in overdose rates per region.
Analyzing Opioid Crisis
The recent report was meant to take a closer look at the opioid crisis by analyzing overdose reports in emergency rooms instead of opioid deaths like the CDC had previously focused on. CDC Director Anne Schuchat said these numbers lag behind the emergency room reports, and that the agency wanted “more timely information” to work with.
The data utilized for this analysis came from:
- Approximately 90 million emergency room visits
- Reports from July 2016 to September 2017
- 52 jurisdictions in 45 states
- 142,577 suspected opioid overdoses
That survey found an increase of 29.7% in opioid overdoses. The research also analyzed:
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- Reports from July 2016 to September 2017
- 16 States
- 119,198 suspected opioid overdoses
This analysis shows a 34.5% increase during the same period, but those increases vary drastically from state to state.
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3d edv. England - The English Civil Wars – Restoration Drama Considered one of history’s all-time greatest writers of comedies. Restoration Tragedy. If the age of Restoration () A.D. is one of the most splendid periods in the records of English Drama, it is on the account of Comedy of so-called Heroic Tragedy which had a brief run concurrently with the Comedy of Manners had also a little of popularity, but was too unnatural and artificial and merely a type of French soil.
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Robert challenges the assumption that a "ladies' faction" played an important part in encouraging the playhouses to present a more moral, less bawdy or "satirical" style of comedy, thus changing the course of English drama.
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Restoration literature, English literature written after the Restoration of the monarchy in following the period of the Commonwealth. Some literary historians speak of the period as bounded by the reign of Charles II (–85), while others prefer to include within its scope the writings produced during the reign of James II (–88), and even literature of the s is often spoken.
Read this book on Questia. A History of Restoration Drama, published inwas intended as the first of a series of volumes designed to trace the fortunes of English dramatic literature from the accession of Charles II to the close of Victoria's reign.
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The authorities of the West Midlands metropolitan county plan to invest around 18 billion euros in multiplying the local light rail system. According to the declared programme, the West Midlands Metro network will be extended from the current 21 kilometres to 263 kilometres in 2040. This means that the public transport system will be increased by more than twelvefold.
At the end of 2019, the West Midlands Metro has appeared in the news headlines due to its innovative tram extension. In the mid-December, the new catenary-free section, the first one in the United Kingdom, was launched. Now, the mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street declared another innovation. On Tuesday, 4 February, he unveiled the extension plan for the light rail network in the metropolitan county. “In recent years, we have made great progress… But now is time for the next stage of ambition,” he said at the presentation.
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Indeed, the mayor’s plan is ambitious. By 2040, he wants to construct eight new lines and approximately 380 new stops on the West Midlands Metro network. Besides them, Andy Street has an intention to build 21 new railway stations in the county. The estimated value of this huge project is 15 billion British pounds (around 18 billion euros) or 750 million pounds (around 900 million euros) a year during the 20-year period. As a result, the 21-kilometre West Midlands Metro system will get 150 miles of new lines (around 242 kilometres) and will become similar to London’s Tube network. However, Street has not mentioned the sources to fund this enthusiastic plan. “No idea if funding it is even remotely plausible, but dreaming big is good,” the CityMetric title noted.
Besides the funding, Street needs to win in the upcoming mayor elections to take place in May. Meanwhile, there is another handicap. The infrastructure projects require much more time than the politician think. And the West Midlands Metro network confirms it. For instance, the Planning Inspectorate granted permission for the 1.7-kilometre extension from Bull Street to a new terminus at High Street Deritend at the end of January. It will provide the connection to the planned HS2 train station and will serve the Eastside regeneration area in Birmingham. Despite it, the project terms have not defined finally yet. And the key question is still without answer: what is the fate of the HS2 long-pending project? | <urn:uuid:f8d7f478-8d5a-4038-9b0d-f2ec1d3e1326> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.railtech.com/infrastructure/2020/02/06/west-midlands-metro-may-be-extended-twelvefold/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93591 | 518 | 2.109375 | 2 |
By Richard Just, MD
The fact that the term “Cancer Survivorship” is now part of our vocabulary is a testimony to advances made in management of these diseases. Most cancer survivors, however, are not unscathed by the experience. As I tell my patients, they won’t be entirely as they were before treatment. How these issues are dealt with varies from person to person. But, awareness that chronic problems may persist long after treatments end signals that even though we’ve won the battle, the war is not necessarily over. We may need to address problems in the physical, mental/emotional and/or spiritual spheres. After all, quality is as important as quantity.
Certainly, health care professionals are well trained to deal with physical issues. Attempting to address the totality of needs in an organized manner is a recent phenomenon. Certainly, in thinking about programs that have been successful in supporting people mentally, emotionally and spiritually, 12-Step Programs come to mind. The Steps are compelling as they are for anyone affected by the disease alcoholism, including the alcoholic (A.A.) and the “caregiver” (Al-Anon). Substitute “cancer” for “alcoholism.” The value of The Steps is that they provide a guideline through the process of recovery. In fact, I prefer the designation “recovery” over “survivorship” as it implies an ongoing process with relapses and remissions along the way.
At first glance, the verbiage doesn’t seem to be appropriate. But, The Steps suggest four primary ideas:
- “We Are Powerless Over the Problem of Alcoholism.” This notion of powerlessness is difficult for healthcare professionals, especially physicians, to accept. The intention is that we as individuals have no ability to change attitudes and behaviors of others, but we do have control over ourselves. Think the Serenity Prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.
In fact, this is a very empowering concept that releases each of us from worrying about issues that don’t concern us and address our energies to our own lives.
- “We Can Turn Our Lives Over to a Power Greater than Ourselves.” Many find the idea of a Higher Power difficult to embrace, while others already believe in a Power greater than themselves, but feel that “God has deserted” them. Both viewpoints hinder recovery as they tend to foster a victim mentality. Personally, I dislike the designation “cancer victim” for this reason.
The slogan: “Let Go and Let God” can also be very liberating, recognizing that The Higher Power is in charge of our lives and we are not victims. The 11th Step provides details:
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- “We Need to Change Both Our Attitude and Our Actions.” Both the cancer and its treatments can result in distorted thinking. Some are left with severe fatigue and pain; others with long-lasting memory deficits called chemobrain. Anxiety and depression are not uncommon. The possibility of recurrence is always present. Some become angry and blame their situation on others. Obviously, these behaviors can be self-destructive and ruin relationships. In these difficult situations, a useful tool in 12-Step programs is sponsorship. Having someone who has lived through similar circumstances and recovered always there for support and guidance is crucial for recovery.
- “We Keep the Gifts We’ve Received by Sharing Them with Others.” Probably the most important concept. Several studies have shown that participation in cancer support groups improves outcomes. But many patients still are reticent to join. Some prefer the privacy of one-on-one sessions with a therapist. On the other hand, they lose the personal experiences of people who have experienced what they’re experiencing. One compromise is to have a mentor or sponsor who has personal knowledge of the treatment guide the patient and family through the process.
For this reason, 12-Step programs rigidly subscribe to anonymity to encourage participation in meetings and sharing experiences with others. The most important item in the success of these programs has not been identified, but several reports have suggested sharing at meetings as the major one.
I’m thrilled that we’re talking about Cancer Survivorship these days. The fact that more people are living longer is very gratifying. Therefore, formally addressing quality of life issues is the logical next step. Incorporating 12-Step program concepts into Cancer Survivorship Programs, proven successful in other diseases, merits serious consideration. | <urn:uuid:89803e47-f313-4fb6-8abc-146b6e8068c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://justoncology.wordpress.com/tag/recovery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961091 | 1,000 | 1.75 | 2 |
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Summary: Shayla’s palms start to sweat whenever she thinks she’s about to get in trouble. As she starts seventh grade, she tries to blend in and avoid trouble whenever possible. She feels good that her two best friends always have her back–Puerto Rican Isabella, Japanese American Julie, and African American Shayla call themselves the United Nations. But junior high brings lots of changes–Julie starts hanging around with the “Asian kids” and sometimes ditching Isabella and Shayla; Shayla discovers a love of running and joins the track team; boys enter the picture in a variety of ways; and Shayla’s older sister encourages her to become part of Black Lives Matter when a trial for a police shooting brings about a wave of protests. Shayla ends her first year of junior high with her friendships changed but intact, a new sense of confidence, and the knowledge that sometimes it’s worth getting into trouble to stand up for what you believe. 368 pages; grades 4-7.
Pros: This is a great late-elementary and middle school alternative to Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give. Shayla is a character many kids will relate to. First-time author Ramée doesn’t back down from the racial issues, but she also makes it clear there are no easy answers. The three girls are open about the issues they face because of their race/heritage, but don’t let them stand in the way of their friendship.
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A geographically congruent "diabetes belt" with high prevalence of diabetes exists in the United States, according to a study published online March 8 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
TUESDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- A geographically congruent "diabetes belt" with high prevalence of diabetes exists in the United States, according to a study published online March 8 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Lawrence E. Barker, Ph.D., of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and colleagues examined data from CDC estimates of diabetes prevalence to identify a diabetes belt. They compared its residents and their risk factors to those of the rest of the country, and calculated the fraction of excess diabetes risk associated with living in the diabetes belt that is attributable to modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors. The diabetes belt was defined as counties in close proximity with an estimated prevalence of diagnosed diabetes greater than or equal to 11 percent.
The researchers identified a diabetes belt composed of 644 counties in 15 states, mostly in the southeastern United States. Compared to people living in the rest of the country, people in the diabetes belt were more likely to be non-Hispanic African-American, live a sedentary lifestyle, and be obese. Modifiable risk factors, such as sedentary lifestyle and obesity, accounted for 30 percent of the excess risk; whereas, 37 percent was due to nonmodifiable risk factors, such as age, gender, race/ethnicity, and education.
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WITH the summer holidays fast approaching the Strule Arts Centre has a variety of activities to keep children entertained throughout the summer months.
Among the activities on offer is ‘Click and Collect’ Summer arts and crafts which include online tutorials and materials for five arts and crafts lessons. These are available to purchase from the Strule Arts Centre website.
The kits cover the following lessons:
Lesson 1: Create your Summer ice pop themed bunting to hang in your bedroom or home. Watch the tutorial as it takes you through how to create your own ice pop bunting. Use the paints and paint brush, string and templates to create the bunting.
Lesson 2: Draw and paint a palm tree, beached themed landscape following the accompanying tutorial.
Lesson 3: Learn how to draw and paint two different ice pops using paint and crayons/oil pastels
Lesson 4: Create your own summer themed postcard and send it to a friend to let them know you are thinking of them. Use your literacy skills to share your summer 2021 experiences.
Lesson 5: Watch the time lapse for inspiration on how you can add colour and patterns to your camper van and surf boards. Then you can create your own beach scene using whatever art materials you prefer to use.
The kits are priced at £20 per pack, are suitable for age 4 years and upwards and available to order via the Strule Arts Centre website.
Creative Pottery Claymation kits and tutorials are also available for click and collect.
Claymation is a form of stop-motion animation where each animated clay model, including characters and some background, is constructed out of coloured clays or plasticine.
Each frame is recorded on film and then played back in quick succession to give the appearance of movement.
"Using the kit you will create your own characters and take photographs to make a claymation movie. This is a fun way to involve the whole family," said a spokesperson.
"Kits are available to order from the Strule Arts Centre website at a cost of £15."
Taking place from Monday, July 19 to Friday, July 23 for seven to 11-year-olds, Gobblefunk Summer Scheme will provide a range of exciting activities throughout the week including dance, drama, music and art.
Each day participants will be visited by a guest tutor; Relax kids Omagh; Shine therapy; Devine Music; Dance Revelation and Liam the Prove it Guy.
Full supervision each day from 9am to 5pm with breakfast, lunch and healthy snack each day included in the price. The cost is £120 per child (£24 per day), second child+ £110 each for the week. Please note numbers are limited.
Meanwhile, a Music Academy will take place from Monday, July 26 to Friday, July 30, from 9am to 5pm for children age 12 to 17.
Music Academy aims to develop skills and build confidence in performance and collaboration but, most of all have a fun, creative week picking up tips from professionals in the industry.
Coordinated by ‘Together in Music’ the talented pool of tutors includes natives of Omagh who live and work in the area including: Calvin Davison - Vocals and Keyboard. Calvin attended Omagh Academy Grammar school before studying singing and Opera performance at The Royal Northern College of Music. Calvin is currently teaching at Dungannon Integrated College.
Aidan (Nardo) Dunphy - Percussion and Drums. Aidan studied at Trinity College of Music London. He has played at Ronnie Scotts and with English National Ballet and recorded with Declan O’Rourke amongst many other wonderful singers over the years.
Matt McGlinn – Guitar. Matt is a member of the McGlinn musical dynasty who grew up creating and performing. Matt has years of experience teaching the guitar and now, along with Owen McNulty, runs the very successful ‘Guitar Studio’ in The Old Market Yard Omagh.
There will be full supervision each day from 9am to 5pm. Breakfast, lunch and healthy snack are included in the price of £150 (£30 per day). Second child+ £130 each for the week.
An Art, Photography and Creative Writing Academy takes place from Monday, August 9 to Friday, August 13, from 9am to 5pm for 12 to 17-year-olds.
This programme aims to develop skills in each art form. Participants will look at light, composition and shadows. For those interested in the arts this will be a wonderful week of learning and having fun with skilled tutors including Master Photographer of the Year 2018 Tony Moore Fine Art Photographer, artists including Pauline Harte and Rory O Laughlin and Creative Writer, Andrew Maguire.
"Participants will have the opportunity to explore all three art forms in interesting bite size tutorials suitable for their age group, providing them with knowledge that they can then take with them and develop further as they progress through life," continued the spokesperson.
"It is anticipated that they will be able to explore along the Strule Riverside Walk and Omagh Town Centre for this programme.
"Full supervision each day from 9am to 5pm. Breakfast, lunch and healthy snack are included in the price of £150 (£30 per day). Second child+ £130 each for the week.
"The above Summer Academies, developed in partnership with local artists and musicians, will provide participants with the opportunity to meet local professionals within the industry who will share their expertise and provide guidance and encouragement to participants.
"All activities will be undertaken in accordance with Covid-19 restrictions and public health guidance."
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Wills & Estates
The death of a partner, parent or other loved one is always distressing. If a will is challenged and claims are made by others to share the estate this can put a great deal of pressure on those left behind.
Kidd Spoor Taylor’s areas of wills and estates service include: Wills Life Interest Trust Wills, Estate Planning and Court of Protection. We also provide advice regarding Inheritance act claims, Will disputes, Claims involving property, Disputes with executors, Claims regarding lack of mental capacity, Contested Court of Protection and Burial disputes.
Why is it important to make a Will?
If you want to make sure that your estate goes to the people you want it to on your death it is essential you consider making a Will. A Will allows you to do a number of things including the following:
– You can name those who you trust to handle the administration of your estate include dealing with property, finances and possessions
– If you have children, you can say in your Will who you would like to be appointed to look after them if you died (known as “Guardians”)
– You can control at what age young adults can receive sums due to them from your estate
What if I died without having a Will?
When a person dies without a Will, the Rules of Intestacy determine who is automatically entitled to inherit your property and possessions. The rules also determine who is entitled to deal with the administration of your estate.
The Rules of Intestacy do aim to take care of spouses, civil partners and biological children.
However, provisions are not made for unmarried partners, stepchildren, friends, pets and charities. The intestacy rules in relation to entitlement to inheritance is presently as follows:
The Rules of Intestacy may result in your property and possessions being inherited by those that you would not wish to benefit.
Why it is important to have your Will professionally written
Wills are important legal documents and the slightest error in executing the Will properly or an incorrectly worded Will can cause significant difficulties in dealing with your estate. It is therefore always important to seek professional advice when making a Will.
Do I have to update my Will regularly?
You may have already written a Will; perhaps when you bought your first house or when your children were young. However, if you have had a change of circumstances i.e. marriage, had children, bought a property or acquired more assets it is important to check your Will still reflects your wishes and/or it is still valid.
Life events such as marriage or divorce mean that parts of your existing Will (or even all of it) will automatically become invalid making it necessary to rewrite it.
Steps Forward with Kidd Spoor Taylor
At your first appointment with us, we will discuss with you the structure of your Will and provide you with the necessary advice and information which you may not have considered and may require your thought and consideration. We don’t seek to make your Will too complicated for you to read and understand and we will guide you through every step of the process.
Single Wills – Our fee for preparing a basic Will is £120.00 plus VAT making a total of £144.00.
Mirror Wills – Our fee for preparing a basic mirror Will for you and your partner, is £200.00 plus VAT making a total of £240.00
Costs for Probate and Estate Administration
Our costs for obtaining probate and the collection and distribution of the deceased’s assets
Dealing with the affairs of a deceased person is often more complicated and time consuming than people expect. Our specialist team can deal with as much or as little as you require in the course of the administration of an estate. The administration of an estate can be complicated by factors such as the payment of Inheritance Tax, missing beneficiaries, assets held abroad or in trust, executors who do not wish to act, Trusts, contested Wills & claims against an estate, and difficulties in establishing the estate assets and liabilities.
We will charge for the work carried out on the basis of our hourly rates which range from £120 plus VAT to £250 an hour (plus VAT at 20%) depending on the experience of the fee earner involved. We will provide a fee estimate at the beginning of the work based on the number of hours we anticipate the work will take. We would usually have an initial meeting with you to obtain the relevant information and then provide a fee estimate. The fees’ estimate will include the initial meeting.
Example fee estimate
As a guide the costs for obtaining probate and collecting and distributing assets in a straightforward estate may be between £2,530 and £6,725 (plus VAT at 20%) on the basis of an anticipation of 11 to 30 hours at an average hourly rate of £225 (plus VAT at 20%) The exact cost will depend on the individual circumstances of the matter. For example, if there is one beneficiary and no property, costs will be at the lower end of the range. If there are four beneficiaries, a property and three bank accounts, costs will be at the higher end.
The above estimate of costs applies where:
- There is a valid will
- The executors are prepared to act
- There are no difficulties in establishing the assets and liabilities
- There is only one residential property. The cost of dealing with the sale or transfer of any property is not included
- There are no more than three bank or building society accounts
- The assets do not include shareholdings (stocks and bonds)
- There are no business or agricultural assets
- There are no more than five pecuniary legacies
- All assets are in the UK
- There are up to four residuary beneficiaries, who can be contacted easily
- We are not instructed to deal with the clearance or distribution of chattels (personal possessions)
- There are no life policies, pensions or death in service payments
- There are no disputes between beneficiaries on the division of assets. There is no Inheritance Tax payable and the executors do not need to submit an IHT400 to HMRC
- There are no claims made against the estate
In addition, the following disbursements may be incurred (and are not included in the above estimate):
Disbursements are costs related to your matter that are payable to third parties, such as court fees. We handle the payment of the disbursements on your behalf.
- Probate application fee – £155 plus £1.50 for each additional copy of the Grant required (one per asset usually)
- Bankruptcy-only Land Charges Department searches – £2 per beneficiary
- Statutory advertisements in The London Gazette and a local newspaper, which protect against unexpected claims from unknown creditors – £200 to £300 (plus VAT at 20%)
- Certainty Will Search to confirm that the most recent will is being proved – £95 (plus VAT at 20%)
How long will the work take?
It takes on average 6 to 12 months to deal with estates that fall within the above fee estimate. Typically, obtaining the grant of probate takes 12 to 16 weeks. Collecting assets then follows, which can take between 4 to 8 weeks. Once this has been done, we can distribute the assets and finalise the administration which can on average take up to 16 weeks.
As part of the above fee estimate we will:
- Provide you with a dedicated and experienced legal adviser to work on your matter
- Identify the legally appointed executors or administrators and beneficiaries
- Accurately identify the type of probate application you will require
- Obtain the relevant documents required to make the application
- Complete the probate application and the relevant HMRC forms
- Draft a Statement of Truth for you to sign
- Make the application to the Probate Registry on your behalf
- Obtain the probate
- Collect and distribute all assets in the estate
Who will work on your case?
Typically, a solicitor, associate or the Principal will work on your case and they may be assisted by a paralegal, a trainee solicitor or a solicitor apprentice. Supervision of the work will be undertaken by a Principal in the Probate and Estate Administration team.
Get in Touch
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Admission Procedure for Higher Studies in Germany
Germany is known for its incredible environment and quality of life, and provides a range of study and research opportunities. German institutions of higher education are state-funded. Germany boasts to hold on an array of universities. Germany possesses one of the strongest economies in the European Union.
The eligibility criteria may differ from university to university.
According to the German educational system, you need to complete secondary education in order to get admission in bachelor’s degree and a three year bachelor’s degree to apply for master’s degree. Besides, some universities demand for a four year programmes equivalent to consider you for any master's disciplines.
Along with completing academic essentialities, English and German Language are also essential criteria for admissions.
The academic requirements (including evidence of English and German language skills) will vary depending on the level of education and province in Germany. Universities can have different entry requirements, so read the course information on their website carefully and contact them. Entry requirements for the different levels of study:
Diplom– To get into Diplom courses, you need to hold minimum higher second class in HSC. However, some courses may have specific pre-requisite subjects.
Higher Education Bachelor- To gain entry into a bachelor course you will need to hold a German higher secondary certificate of education (Year 12), or the overseas equivalent. Some bachelor courses may also have specific pre-requisite subjects.
Higher Education Master - As well as the satisfactory completion of at least one degree at bachelor level, the institution may get hold research ability or relevant work experience into consideration. You need to hold any of the following: bachelor, magister, diplom or state examination to get into the master’s programme.
Higher Education Doctoral- The doctoral degree is the highest award offered by German universities. You need a diplom (from a Universitat), magister, master's or Staatsexamen to get into doctoral programme.
Application ProcedureIf you are planning to apply to a university, then you must start few months in advance i.e. before the commencement of the session. Any queries regarding the details of the course must be put forth during the early stages of applying procedure.
Abide by the following steps:
- Shortlist the university & course from databases such as www.daad.de or www.hrk.de
- Make a list of all requirements & application deadlines
- Take the required language proficiency tests or subject tests.
- Fill out the application either online/offline
- Research and apply for scholarship if information available
- Dispatch the application well in advance with necessary documentation. You will need to prepare supporting documentation to send with your application. The documents vary depending on the course, provider, province and qualification you're studying for. The most significant documents include:
- Academic Records: This includes scores, GPA and official certificates.
- Attested transcripts, such as, semester mark sheets, transfer certificate, awards of distinction, technical paper presentation, project work, special courses relevant to the field of study undertaken, letters of appreciation / achievement if any, special skills and proof of leadership qualities
- Bachelor’s or master's degree certificates/provisional certificates.
- English and Germany language proficiency certificates.
- Standardized test scores, if any.
- Work history (for postgraduate and doctorate programmes)
- Admission essay or covering letter justifying why you should be given admission and statement of purpose.
- Recommendation letters from university staff / corporate executive who has supervised your work.
- Certificates or documents which verify previous study or work experience if you are seeking course credits.
- Enclose proof of application fee payment if any
- Follow up with course coordinator to cross verify if the application has reached
- Start making arrangements for financial backing. Apply for educational loan, if needed
- If the application is successful, you will receive an ‘Acceptance Letter. On receiving this, you need to pay a portion of the fees within a stipulated time period, to confirm your admission and sign and send the letter indicating your willingness to join. The payment of fees varies according to the university you have chosen. The acceptance letter is a contract between you and the institution. It sets out the course you will be enrolled in, enrollment conditions, the fees you need to pay, and the refund payable if you don’t finish your course with that provider. This contract is very important – if you don’t start your course, or finish your course, this written agreement will be used to determine if you will get a refund. | <urn:uuid:943461ca-33fc-466e-8a3c-50248715093a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.germanyeducation.info/admission-requirement | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.913594 | 951 | 1.929688 | 2 |
There was a time when I was teaching how to draw. I really liked the so-called ‘right brain drawing’ principles and I used them when teaching drawing. These principles are practical but also deeply spiritual. One of the five principles is Gestalt: seeing the ‘whole’. Interestingly, seeing the whole is only possible when you are empty. You cannot see until your mind is full off ‘concepts’ of how it should be.
What you are dawning, be it a Mandala or anything else, is already perfectly present in your consciousness. You only need to ‘download’ it and give it a physical manifestation.
When drawing, the artist basically co-creates with the Divine Idea inside. When you look at the Mandala drawings they are deeply expressive and unique. Not even one is like another. Participants often report that their creations are unexpectedly ‘well-done’. It is because they were able to ‘channel’ the image onto the paper! 🙂 Gestalt, the last principle of a great artistic work, is about focusing into the ‘whole’ and manifesting it.
Michelangelo once said, that he saw David in a piece of marble and all he did was chipping away all that was not David. He held the Gestalt in his mind eye and matched it to the marble. Wherever it did not match, he chipped it away from the marble and allowed David to emerge. | <urn:uuid:410013e2-ae78-4c48-9e71-f17ef212a62c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://site.ildikokudlik.com/2021/03/gestalt-seeing-the-whole/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974426 | 306 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Bamboo gives life to and sustains the 'Uravu Bamboo Grove' in Wayanad. The people behind the initiative have demonstrated that a society can thrive on around 50 varieties of bamboo. The Thrikkaipatta village entered the world tourism map thanks to the handcrafted items made out of bamboo by the local people of Uravu.
Now people from northern parts of the country as well as abroad stay up to five months in Wayanad to learn more about Uravu and the handicrafts created here. Uravu is a fine example of promoting traditional handicrafts of a village to 'responsible tourism' status.
The Swiss connection
The Uravu Bamboo Grove Resort has a Swiss lady born in Berne as its tourism head. She married Sivarajan, a native of Wayanad, and made Thrikkaipatta her home. To understand the life of Corinne Karlaganis, the biography of Sivarajan, the managing director of Bamboo Grove, has to be known.
Sivarajan was interested in social service ever since he was a student at Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode. When Sivarajan ventured into the hilly forests of Wayanad to learn about the residents there, Sreelatha, a classmate, gave him company.
In Wayanad, they formed an organization that brought together people earning a livelihood from bamboo and gave it the name 'Uravu.' Interior designing with bamboo and crafts with the plant soon attracted international attention. Foreigners rushed in learn about bamboo art and craft.
Meanwhile, Sivarajan invited Sreelatha to his life and they were blessed with a son named Siddharth. However, Sreelatha, who was working at a college in Wayanad, fell ill and passed away. Left alone, Sivarajan dedicated his entire time and energy to the activities of Uravu.
It was at this time that Corinne reached Wayanad to learn about life in the district. She soon joined Sivarajan in his trips to understand Wayanad's life and culture. Corinne and Sivarajan soon decided to live together.
Now it has been 14 years since Uravu came into being. The fame of Thrikkaipatta village also has been spreading all these years. Corinne explains, "Uravu Bamboo Grove was opened to tourists five years ago. It is a sort of a university where various items are created with bamboo. We call this place 'Art gallery.' The Uravu package includes visiting Mannikkunnu hill, bird watching, trekking, spending a day with farmers, Ayurveda treatment, training in local cuisine and spending time at the bamboo nursery. Guests can also stay at the Bamboo Grove resort, which is built with bamboo in the middle of the bamboo forest providing all modern facilities."
50 varieties of bamboo
The hills on the boundary of the Thrikkaipatta village are teeming with bamboo varieties of several hues. They are known by names like 'Elli,' 'Valli,' 'Neelan,' 'Manja,' 'Kullan,' 'Kutti,' and others. The nursery at the village grows such 50 varieties of bamboo.
In the past, villagers made a living by creating mats, baskets, and other items from bamboo. Uravu gave them a platform to display their ware and artistic skills. Thrikkaipatta villagers over the years crafted innovative products like a book of bamboo, a pipe that emits the sound of rain, a musical instrument that resembles a gramophone and other decorative pieces with bamboo. Around 200 villagers now make a living, thanks to the initiatives of Uravu.
A most innovative product of Uravu is created by dipping young bamboo shoot in an organic solution and drying it. This process increases the life of bamboo to 20 years. Houses have been built in the area replacing steel with this treated bamboo. Another unique item is a bamboo curtain. Others include a bow and arrow, houseboat, and jewellery.
The nursery here has bamboo varieties from all over India, while there is a community centre also. The architectural techniques employed for building the community centre rival an opera theatre. Engineers at Uravu set up the centre with coir rope and bamboo.
Bamboo Grove Resort
When planning a trip to Wayanad, ensure a booking at Bamboo Grove resort. Its pillars, walls and roof are of bamboo. Bamboo was grown on the hill slopes and the resort set up between the greenery. Birds of several species and squirrels thrive in the bamboo forest but the interiors of the resort are modern. There are bedrooms, verandahs and washrooms. The structures are supported by bamboo stems filled with cement.
There is a honeymoon cottage designed by Indo-Swiss architects, 'eco nest' resembling a treetop house, 'rock the jungle' built on a rock and 'style in wild' which gives a real feel of the jungle.
The package to visit Uravu lasts 24 hours from 12 noon. However, most visitors spend around a week. Food for the guests is served by the housewives of Thrikkaipatta.
Uravu package tour
Includes trekking at Mannikkunnu, bamboo craft class, painting class, bird watching, yoga, cooking class, Ayurveda therapy and art gallery tour.
How to reach
Nearest railway station: Kozhikode
Nearest airport: Kannur
Well-connected to Bangalore and other cities by regular state-run and private buses.
Guests at Uravu resort can also plan trips to various attractions in Wayanad like Edakkal caves, Banasurasagar dam, Soochippara waterfalls, Meenmutti falls, Karappuzha dam, the Jain Temple at Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad heritage museum, Kuruva island, Chembera peak, Karlad lake, Pookkode lake, Muthanga forest, Tholpetty wildlife sanctuary, Thirunelly temple and Brahmagiri hills. | <urn:uuid:135f1bc0-0d95-4337-bbca-085656751f08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.onmanorama.com/travel/kerala/2019/07/02/wayanad-community-uravu-bamboo-grove-handicraft.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957566 | 1,291 | 1.8125 | 2 |
BC issues progress update on old-growth, worker supports
December 17, 2021 By CFI staff
The B.C. government says its making progress on the recommendations of its Old Growth Strategic Review Panel and working with First Nations to either immediately defer old-growth harvesting in their territories, or to continue discussions.
The province released a progress update yesterday laying out the steps that have been taken since they announced in early November that harvesting would immediately cease in 2.6 million hectares of old-growth forests.
B.C. Forests Minister Katrine Conroy said in the update that the province is, “working in partnership with First Nations rights and title holders to implement additional deferrals of B.C.’s most at-risk old-growth forests and to develop a new approach to sustainable forest management.
“We recognize there is a diversity of perspectives on this issue and some First Nations are more involved in forestry. In line with our new vision for forest care, the steps we are taking together today will ensure we can all share the benefits of our forests for generations to come,” Conroy said.
Over the past month the government has contacted all 204 First Nations in British Columbia, asking them to indicate a preference on the proposed deferrals, and heard back from 161. Their options were:
- Implementing immediate deferrals within their territories.
- Discussing deferrals through existing treaties, agreements, or other government-to-government arrangements.
- Asking for further engagement and inclusion of local and Indigenous knowledge into the maps.
For those First Nations that chose to immediately defer harvesting, the government said that happens in two ways: “by licensees agreeing to voluntarily pause harvest; or by a minister’s order under Part 13 of the Forest Act, rescinding approved permits and preventing new permits from being issued.”
The deferrals will be announced as soon as they are implemented.
In early December, Huu-ay-aht First Nations announced they would uphold their right to log old-growth in four per cent of the province’s proposed deferral area, agreeing to defer 96 per cent.
Read the province’s update below:
“To support the deferral process, BC Timber Sales has paused advertising and selling licences in areas that overlap with the 2.6 million hectares of B.C.’s most at-risk old-growth forests. This pause covers almost 570,000 hectares or roughly one-quarter of the deferral areas recommended by the Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel.
Roughly half of the 2.6 million hecatres of at-risk old growth is outside the Timber Harvesting Land Base and not threatened by logging for the foreseeable future. There are only approximately 50,000 hectares that overlap with the priority deferral areas with previously approved cutting permits, or 1.9% of the total. A harvesting permit can take on average 12 to 18 months to conclude. Many forestry companies have indicated to the Province that they will not proceed with harvesting these areas while discussions with First Nations are ongoing.
“These deferrals allow us to maintain options that could otherwise be irreversibly lost as we develop the new approach to sustainable forest management that prioritizes ecosystem health and community prosperity throughout B.C.” said Garry Merkel, co-author Old Growth Strategic Review. “They are also being implemented in a way that respects input that Al Gorley and I heard from the overwhelming majority of those we spoke to – in partnership with Indigenous Nations.”
The vast majority of First Nations have expressed an interest in engaging further and indicated they require more time to review the shared technical information and/or to incorporate local and Indigenous knowledge on the proposed deferral areas prior to making a decision. Many First Nations with existing treaties, agreements or other government-to-government agreements have indicated these are the preferred avenues to continue this engagement.
New capacity funding of up to $12.69 million over three years is available to support First Nations in these engagements and in developing a new approach to managing old-growth forests as described in the Old Growth Strategic Review.
The Province is bringing together co-ordinated and comprehensive supports for workers, communities and First Nations to offset any economic impacts that may follow from new restrictions on harvesting old growth forests.
“As a former pulp mill worker and someone who witnessed the forestry downturn in the early 2000s, I know how hard it can be for families and communities impacted by job losses,” Conroy said. “Unlike the previous government, we will ensure comprehensive supports are in place for workers and communities as we work together to build a more sustainable forestry industry and shift to more value-added, made-in-B.C. manufacturing.”
The Province is making nearly $19 million in new funding available for the remainder of 2021-22 to provide enhanced supports to eligible workers, contractors and communities as deferrals are implemented. These include:
- the Forestry Employment Program to provide short-term employment opportunities for impacted contractors and their employees;
- Community Transition Rapid Response Teams to provide on-the-ground economic development and community support services; and.
- Bridging to Retirement funds to support eligible workers and contractors 55 and older with up to $75,000 to transition to retirement, helping to open up jobs for younger workers.
The Province is also developing new programs that will support forestry workers and communities over the next three years, to be announced in the new year. These programs will support workers in finding new jobs and careers, including through education and skills training. They will also help industry innovate and create jobs through value-added forestry and made-in-B.C. manufacturing, provide strategic advisory services to rural businesses, and support infrastructure and economic development projects in rural communities to create new jobs. Government will also establish an internal office to co-ordinate across ministries and drive forward rural economic opportunities and diversification.
To provide advice on program development and implementation, the Province will be striking a forestry worker and community supports advisory council. The council will include industry, labour, Indigenous and municipal leaders, and will help ensure programs are targeted and providing supports where they are need most. The council will complement the engagement already underway.
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Introduction: Clinical studies conducted in the early to mid-twentieth century, and recent self-reports by some maternal placentophagy practitioners, suggest that human maternal placentophagy improves breast milk quality and quantity, although little research has evaluated this claim. Some placentophagy providers and advocates suggest that increased prolactin levels after placenta ingestion could account for the purported lactation benefits. The current study was conducted to evaluate these claims by comparing plasma prolactin levels of women consuming steamed, dehydrated, and encapsulated placenta with those of women consuming a placebo. Neonatal weight gain was also compared between the 2 groups.
Methods: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial was conducted in which postpartum women (N = 27) were given a supplement containing their dehydrated placenta (n = 12) or placebo (n = 15). Plasma prolactin concentrations were measured 4 times across late pregnancy and early postpartum, and neonatal weights were recorded 3 times over the first 3 weeks postpartum.
Results: The results showed no statistically significant (P < .05) differences in either plasma prolactin levels or neonatal weight gain between groups.
Discussion: Maternal consumption of steamed, dehydrated, and encapsulated placenta postpartum does not appear to affect maternal postpartum prolactin or neonatal weight in the first 3 weeks postpartum. Further research is needed to investigate the possible effects of variation in placenta preparation methods or daily intake on human lactation.
Keywords: encapsulated placenta; placentophagia; placentophagy; postpartum supplement.
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Queen Cassiopeia in Greek mythology was beautiful and knew it. But her vanity turned out to be her downfall. She claimed that both she and her daughter, Andromeda, were even more beautiful than the sea nymphs. That claim did not sit well with Poseidon, the god of the sea, who promptly sent the sea monster Cetus to destroy their country.
Cassiopeia and her husband, Cepheus, then did what any loving parent in mythology might do – they chained Andromeda on the seashore to be eaten by the monster, hoping that would appease Poseidon. Fortunately, Perseus saved the day and rescued Andromeda so he could marry her, and they all got put in the sky for us to remember the story every time we see these constellations.
Cassiopeia is the W-shaped constellation (or M-shaped depending on the point of view) that is getting rather high in the northeastern sky in the evening. As long as the Big Dipper is very low on the northern horizon, Cassiopeia is the preferred way to find Polaris, the North Star. The points of the W open toward Polaris. The W is supposed to be the throne of Cassiopeia. Her beauty got her into the sky, and her vanity made it so she was forced to spend half of every night hanging upside down chained in her throne.
Cassiopeia is a great constellation to view through binoculars. It falls right along the center of the Milky Way and contains numerous open clusters, including the Messier objects M52 and M103. This rich star field also includes nebulosities (glowing gases) that show up usually only in long-exposure photographs. Some of these nebulae, such as the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) and the Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281), have been named much more recently than Cassiopeia.
The other constellations in the story are all less obvious. Cepheus is a rather dim constellation a bit to the west of Cassiopeia. It looks like an upside down house to me. Andromeda, to the south, consists of two lines of stars branching from the Great Square of Pegasus. Perseus, an abstract “Y” of a constellation, follows Cassiopeia and Andromeda around the sky.
Between Perseus and Cassiopeia are NGC 869 and NGC 864, a pair of similarly sized open clusters. They are together called the Perseus Double Cluster and are among the most rewarding clusters to be seen in binoculars or small telescopes. They can be found just under a fist width to the left and slightly below the bottom-most star in the W of Cassiopeia. Many astronomers have wondered why this pair didn’t make Charles Messier’s famous list of deep sky objects.
This monthOn the morning of Nov. 13, Venus and Jupiter will be within a third of a degree of each other. This extraordinary conjunction is of the two brightest things in the sky besides the sun and the moon. Look for them to rise together in the east a little after 6 a.m. when it is starting to get light. On the days before and after the 13th, they will be steadily approaching toward, or retreating from each other, so not too far apart.
The comet I mentioned last month, Comet C-2017/O1 (ASASSN1), has been much dimmer than expected. If you want to see it now, you will need at least an 8- to 10-inch telescope and an up-to-date star chart.
The Leonid meteor shower peaks on the nights of Nov. 18 and Nov. 19. Associated with the orbit of comet Temple-Tuttle, every 33 years this shower could be quite spectacular, but this is not one of those years. You can expect to see 10 to 20 meteors per hour starting in the early morning after Leo rises.
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Sparta High School history teacher Doug Hart has taught in multiple states and countries. Now he has worked with students and the district to develop a way he said he hopes “reinvigorates the school community by providing a common focus.”
Hart hopes the COVID-19 International Student Film Festival, hosted by Sparta High School, will be not only a fun, creative exercise but also one that helps students connect with the world and better understand their challenges in a broader context.
And the list of judges he’s amassed so far read like a who’s who of the film and media world, including professionals from the Washington Post, an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker and a New York Times director of cinematography, to name just a few.
“The idea sold itself,” Hart said. “Every individual I talked to is excited to see what the kids come up with. Other industries like filmmaking and broadcasting, there’s a larger interest in this historically significant event.”
Hart, who teaches both world and U.S. history, said he thinks living in the time of a global pandemic is “a big point in history, which will hopefully happen only once in a lifetime, but right now we are uniquely qualified to contribute to it.”
What: COVID-19 International Student Film Festival, spearheaded by Sparta Public Schools
Where: The festival will take place on YouTube, with the site announced on May 16
Who is eligible: Middle and high school students, schools and performing and film artists throughout the world.
Deadline: The local phase of the festival, which includes only Sparta entries, ends May 1. Worldwide submissions are due on May 15. International winners will be announced on May 22. Winners will be named in each school district first, then internationally, and in fiction and nonfiction categories.
Judging: Sparta films will be judged by district middle and high school students. If there’s a tie, a staff team will cast the deciding vote. International judges are being assembled, and a complete list will be added to the festival website.
Prizes: To be determined
Complete details can be found here.
How students and families are spending their time now will be a valuable piece of history, he said. “This is an opportunity to see the larger school community and the impacts of the pandemic.
“History teachers 100 years from now will be talking about it, and now is the time for kids — worldwide — to come out and give future generations a glimpse of their routines and how they felt (during the pandemic).”
What to Share
In the fiction category, students may submit any dramatization, including poetry and monologues. These may include genres and types such as musical, rap, animation, science fiction, Western, fantasy, silent films, gangster and animation.
“History teachers 100 years from now will be talking about it, and now is the time for kids — worldwide — to come out and give future generations a glimpse of their routines and how they felt.”— Sparta High School teacher Doug Hart
Non-fiction may include monologues, dialogues, interviews, docudramas, musicals, raps, animation, PowerPoints and Prezis.
Judging will take into account overall presentation, performance and content.
The festival allows films of up to two minutes, and can include family members of one household or collaboration with those in other households.
Hart has shared his idea with fellow teachers, administrators and locals in many countries, including where he has visited or taught. Hart said he has heard interest from schools in North Carolina, Florida, some states in Western U.S., plus Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Egypt and Japan.
“I really don’t know how many will participate, but I guess that is part of the fun,” he said.
He recognizes the task teachers and schools face to provide remote education “without much time for planning” as a possible obstacle.
“Teachers around the world are challenged by new online approaches to learning and in a real time crunch,” he said. “I know of some that said they want to make this (film festival) a significant part of learning, but they have work to do to understand how to fit it into their curriculums or integrate into other learning experiences. So we’ll just have to see how many participate.” | <urn:uuid:5018a4db-a160-482d-9285-8f7fcf6ec73c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.schoolnewsnetwork.org/2020/04/24/big-history-big-story-big-opportunity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961187 | 937 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The golf course management is defined to be extraordinary that lays out the best service ever. There could be anything whether being dining, amenities, and playing surfaces along with many others as well. Additionally, the golf course management handles the traditional origins held in sports. Therefore in this article, you get to know everything about golf course management. Also, what are their strategies along with some essential points? However, before proceeding ahead let us understand a few more things about golf course management. The term golf course management is also defined as a method to compete with other entertainment industries. However, it also aims to deliver the best experience and smooth operations with great facilities.
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The golf course management also reduces the cost and runs the system effectively as much as possible. Despite this, the golf course management develops marketing strategies with the help of social media. Thus the role of social media plays a vital role in everyone’s life.
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Well coming back to the strategies then several smart methods need to be analyzed. Knowing the yardages is another essential thing that needs to be managed on the golf course.in this, you have to hit a total of 10 shots.
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The Immigrants’ Creed
I believe in Almighty God,
who guided the people in exile and in exodus,
the God of Joseph in Egypt and Daniel in Babylon,
the God of foreigners and immigrants.
I believe in Jesus Christ,
a displaced Galilean,
who was born away from his people and his home,
who fled his country with his parents when his life was in danger,
and returning to his own country suffered the oppression
of the tyrant Pontius Pilate, the servant of a foreign power,
who then was persecuted, beaten, and finally tortured,
accused and condemned to death unjustly.
But on the third day, this scorned Jesus rose from the dead,
not as a foreigner but to offer us citizenship in heaven.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the eternal immigrant from God’s kingdom among us,
who speaks all languages, lives in all countries,
and reunites all races.
I believe that the church is the secure home
for the foreigner and for all believers who constitute it,
who speak the same language [of grace] and have the same purpose.
I believe that the communion of the saints begins
when we accept the diversity of the saints.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin, which makes us all equal,
and in reconciliation, which identifies us more
than does race, language, or nationality.
I believe that in the resurrection
God will unite us as one people
in which all are distinct
and all are alike at the same time.
Beyond this world, I believe in life eternal
in which no one will be an immigrant
but all will be citizens of God’s kingdom,
which will never end. Amen.
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What is a Reverse Mortgage Loan?
You may have heard about a lending option called a reverse mortgage loan for homeowners. If you are not familiar with it, a reverse mortgage is a loan for people at least 62 years old that converts a portion of their home equity into cash. The proceeds from a reverse mortgage can be used to pay for unexpected expenses, such as nursing home costs or long-term care. It could also provide you with additional cash flow for all the expenses you have. As long as all loan terms are met, the loan does not require repayment until the last surviving borrower permanently moves out of the home, or until the last person on title passes away. A reverse mortgage is a non-recourse loan that you do not have to pay monthly mortgage payments on, except for taxes and insurance and maintain the home.
Most, but not all, reverse mortgages today are federally insured through the Federal Housing Administration’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) Program. This blog talks about HECM loans only
- Generally, it will not affect Social Security & Medicare*
- You still can sell your home at any time, because the deed stays in your name
- You’ll never owe more than what the house is worth**
- Access a growing line of credit (applies to unused funds)
- Bridge the Medicare age gap from age 62 to 65
- Purchase a retirement home, investment property, or right-size home to increase monthly cash flow and free up funds for investments. (Not available in all areas)
- The property must be a single-family home, 2- to a 4-unit dwelling or FHA-approved condo
- Must meet minimal credit and property requirements
- Must receive reverse mortgage counseling from a HUD-approved counseling agency
- Must not be delinquent on any federal debt
- Must be a homeowner and either own home outright or have significant equity; must live in the house as the primary residence (live there 6+ months per year)
- One borrower must be 62 or better except in Texas, where both spouses need to be at least 62.
- Maximum allowed HECM FHA insured home value is $765,600 in 2020
For most people, your home is the most significant asset you have in retirement. You must take the time to understand the facts about a Reverse Mortgage loan.
What a Reverse Mortgage Is:
A Loan that Converts Equity to Cash for Many Different Uses:
A reverse mortgage can enhance your cash flow and/ or pay off (refinances) your current mortgage when mortgage payments are no longer as easy to make, the primary reason to use a reverse mortgage should be proactive, not reactive to a cash flow problem. When things are good, it is a great time to get a life preserver in case the economic waters get rough later in life.
Use for Lengthening or Increasing Retirement Cash Flow:
Create memories that you will be glad to have at the sunset of life. It is sad when folks sit at home on top of thousands of dollars in equity and miss vacations, grandchildren’s college graduations, or even a dinner out because the budget is too tight. No well-meaning child would ever ask you to pinch pennies so they could have a more substantial home equity inheritance when you pass away. They would rather have you enjoy life with them. Just ask them!
Opportunities that Need Cash NOW*:
In any rough economic times, there are many things that you can take advantage of if you have cash. You can purchase a vacation home in Arizona or a condo in Florida when you see below market prices! You could help a grandchild save their home from foreclosure or help them with college as costs soar over $20,000 per year at public universities. Think about it – if you had an extra $100,000 in your hand today, whom could you give it to, or what else could you do with it? With your wisdom and experience, we know you can think of lots of options.
Legacy for Charity or the Next Generation*:
If you work with a professional financial advisor in the life insurance industry, you may find there are many products designed for those with excess cash, including some that may accomplish more than a paid-off house could by itself. Talk to your financial advisor about products that may be available to you and your specific situation.
Using the loan proceeds from a reverse mortgage loan can potentially help all of your investments last longer. Talk to your financial advisor about how to incorporate this loan into your overall financial plan.
Why A Reverse Mortgage Might Be Right For You.
What Are The Payment Options For A Reverse Mortgage Loan?
There are a variety of options, including a lump sum, a line of credit, or a monthly cash flow payment such as tenure or term payment plan. You can switch between payment options at any time for a small one-time fee, and you could receive additional cash at a later date if you limit the first year’s cash payout.
How Do I Pay Back A Reverse Mortgage Loan?
Monthly payments are optional with a reverse mortgage. Housing expenses must continue to be paid, such as property taxes and insurance (and homeowner association fees, if applicable), and home must be maintained. The remaining balance is required to be paid back when you permanently move out of the house with interest agreed upon in the beginning. The loan will be paid back by the equity in the home, which may increase over time. If it does not, the reverse mortgage is insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and they will be responsible for the portion of the pay-off that exceeds the value of the house when the loan is repaid. You will not owe more than the value of your home, as long as you abide by the loan terms. Your heirs will have 6 months with two 90-day optional extensions to decide what they want to do. Your heirs are still entitled to the remaining equity balance, if any, after the loan has been paid off. If your heirs want to purchase the home, they can by paying 95% of the appraised value or paying off the loan balance, whichever is less. They can also choose to refinance the home into their name or walk away if the property is upside down.
What Is The Difference Between A Reverse Mortgage Loan And A Home Equity Loan?
A Home Equity Loan is a loan that requires you to make monthly mortgage payments on the principal and interest. Sometimes they require a balloon payment, and you’re not guaranteed access to the line of credit (LOC) funds. A reverse mortgage loan is a non-recourse loan that you do not have to pay monthly mortgage payments on, except for taxes and insurance and maintain the home. As long as all loan terms are met, the loan cannot be canceled or frozen and guarantees access to any unused funds.
What If I Already Have A Mortgage On My Home?
There may still be a reverse mortgage option for you, after reviewing your unique situation; your reverse mortgage planner can let you know what your options are.
If you have questions about whether or not a reverse mortgage loan is right for you, it never hurts to do a little research or ask a local Reverse Mortgage Planner. It’s important to know all the facts and features of a loan before approaching a lender or a bank. The critical thing to remember is a reverse mortgage isn’t just used as a loan of last resort anymore.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has validated what the WASH sector has long been saying; that WASH is the first line of defence against the spread of communicable diseases. In Nepal, the impact of lack of access to WASH services and facilities is even more acute in public areas and institutions.
In the Dailekh district for example, several public schools – closed since the start of the pandemic – had been converted into quarantine centres to accommodate returnees (mostly Nepali migrant workers). In an effort to manage the spread of the virus, the government has decreed for all returnees to spend 14 days in quarantine centres before they can be considered safe to reunite with their families and communities.
Building on SNV’s expertise in area-wide sanitation programming and hygiene behaviour change communications, SNV introduced a foot-operated handwashing with soap (HWSS) design. With SNV’s local partner Everest Club, local manufacturers were contracted to build and install foot-operated HWSS facilities across 26 priority public locations in Dailekh: schools converted into quarantine centres and health care facilities. To facilitate the proper use and operation of the handwashing stations, members of Quarantine Management Committees were trained to monitor facility use and functionality and maintain them.
Parallel to these efforts, hygiene messaging of SNV has remained strong. Through micro-level community messaging coupled with broadcasting messages via local radio stations, loudspeaker or hoarding boards, personal and institutional hygiene measures were reaching quarantine centre staff, schoolteachers, rural municipality officials, elected representatives and communities.
The handwashing stations are very helpful in managing quarantined places, especially during such hard situations. We appreciate SNV’s partnership with us. We envisage the installation of six more HWSS. If the (SNV) project support is not possible, we should be able to manage from our own budget.
– Elected RM Chairperson in Thantikandh
The 26 handwashing stations are expected to benefit over 9,800 people. In makeshift quarantine centres and health care facilities in Thantikandh alone, the six foot-operated HWSS facility is now being used by 1,300 people. Soon as Thantikadh schools open to its students – almost 1,500 students are expected to benefit from sanitation and hygiene improvements. The successful roll-out and functionality of the HWSS stations – with support from local manufacturers – had also convinced the Thantikadh government to scale up the designs. Six more strategic locations within the area are being considered for the installation of the handwashing stations.
Photo: Person in quarantine using handwashing station installed at the Bhagabati Secondary School, Suiya, Thatikandh-3, Dailekh, Nepal (Everest Club, Dailekh/Dan Bahadur Kadayat)
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Egg rolls are high in calories. So, if you are on a healthy-eating spree, limit the amount of egg rolls you eat, or choose healthier options to minimize the intake of calories. This article provides information regarding the calories in egg rolls.
Egg roll is a delicious appetizer and a staple Asian cuisine. It is one of the most common egg recipes in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Japan. It is a sumptuous variant of one of the best appetizer recipes, spring rolls. Egg roll recipes vary from region to region, and there are American, Mexican, and Indian variants as well. Generally, an egg roll is made using various chopped vegetables, noodles, and meat. All the ingredients are wrapped in a thin dough sheet to form rolls. These rolls are dipped in egg batter, also called egg wash, and then deep-fried. Due to the process of deep frying, egg roll calories are literally ‘sky high’, which is the reason why you need to limit their intake if you are a health-conscious person.
Most of the egg roll making methods and recipes seem delicious and tempting, but all those ingredients that are deep-fried in oil, make egg roll heavy on the stomach as well as your health. The best thing about eating these rolls is that they are filling and a great source of protein since they contain eggs. However, along with high amounts of proteins, they also contain cholesterol, carbohydrates, and saturated fats. Though all these nutrients are essential, excess of these nutrients may be harmful for you if you are affected by certain medical conditions like high-blood pressure, diabetes, heart diseases, obesity, etc. However, you can still control the calories by trying its variants that are shallow-fried, semi-fried, or even baked. You can also replace meat with more vegetables, which make the rolls healthier. Following are the nutrition facts of one-serving size egg roll that weighs about 57g.
|Nutrition||Amount||Daily Value (%)|
|Calories from fat||54||–|
|Total fat||6 g||9%|
|Saturated fat||2 g||10%|
|Total carbohydrates||15 g||5%|
|Dietary fibers||2 g||8%|
From the aforementioned table, it is clear that one-serving size egg roll contains about 100 calories. These calories might not be harmful if you limit it to only one egg roll. However, if you increase their intake, the number of calories will increase automatically. Also, the calories will increase with the stuffing which is used to make that particular egg roll. For instance, if it is a vegetable egg roll, then it might contain less calories than a meat or chicken egg roll.
You can easily make homemade egg rolls with healthy vegetables, and foods that contain less cholesterol and less calories. Following are the calories of egg rolls that are available at some of the popular restaurants across the US:
- 1 Chinese Egg Roll: 102 calories
- 1 Homemade Bacon and Egg Roll Sandwich: 318 calories
- 1 Vegetable Egg Roll: 160 calories
- 1 Chung’s Pork Egg Roll: 170 calories
- 1 Panda Express Chicken Egg Roll: 67 calories
- 1 Chinese Food Roast Pork Egg Roll: 113 calories
- 1 Starbucks Ham, Egg and Cheese Artisan Roll Sandwich: 370 calories
- 1 Jack In the Box Egg Roll: 134 calories
- 1 piece of Lumpia Philippine Style Egg Roll: 55 calories
- 1 Deli Bacon Egg and Cheese on a Roll: 420 calories
- 1 Chili’s Grill & Bar Southwestern Egg Roll W/O Sauce: 220 calories
- 1 box of Lean Cuisine Vegetable Egg Roll: 320 calories
- 1 Chung’s White Meat Chicken Egg Roll with Sauce: 150 calories
- 1 Egg Roll with Beef: 113 calories
- 1 Egg Roll with Shrimp: 105 calories
- 1 Chicken Egg Roll: 115 calories
Thus, the calories differ a lot as per the change in the stuffing ingredients. On an average, a medium-sized egg roll contains about 100 calories, that are palatable if you are not leading a totally sedentary lifestyle. Well, if you are, then you need to indulge in physical exercises, in order to eat and digest a lot of egg rolls!
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After Habibganj railway station in Bhopal was renamed Kamalapati railway station, questions are being asked if the condition of Ginnorgarh fort, which was home to the Gond queen, will also change for the better.
With the inauguration of the newly revamped railway station by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it is now expected that the fort, which is in ruins, will get a new lease of life.
The heroic saga of 18th century Gond queen Kamalapati continues to enthrall people even today, as she did not compromise to save her kingdom and life. She took jal samadhi to save her honour.
The district closest to Bhopal is Sehore, where the fort of Ginnorgarh is located. The fort was ruled by the Gond kings. The Gond kings merged 750 villages to form the state of Ginnorgarh. Gond king Nizam Shah had seven wives, of whom Kamalapati was the most beautiful. She became the last Gond tribal and Hindu queen of Bhopal.
According to folklore, Nizam Shah was poisoned to death by his cousin Chain Singh, who wanted to marry Rani Kamalapati.
The queen then went into hiding with her 12-year-old-son Nawal Shah and reached out to Afghan leader Dost Mohammad Khan, a mercenary in those days.
As per popular belief, Rani Kamalapati offered one lakh coins to Dost Mohammad Khan and asked him to kill Chain Singh. Dost Mohammad attacked the fort of Ginnorgarh, killed Chain Singh, and captured the fort.
But Dost Mohammad changed his mind and wanted to capture the entire princely state of Bhopal and also wanted to marry Kamalapati, enchanted by her beauty.
When Kamalapati’s son Nawal Shah came to know of his intention, he started a war against Khan at Lalghati, but was killed.
Now not being able to prevent Dost Mohammad from marrying her, the queen ended her life by taking jal samadhi in 1723 after dumping all the wealth, jewellery, ornaments in the palace in a small pond.
The Ginnorgarh fort still exists but its condition has been deteriorating with the passage of time. In the last three centuries, this fort has turned into ruins. After the independence of the country, several governments promised to renovate the fort, but nothing happened.
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Responsiveness, adaptability and flexibility are essential alongside embracing new skills.
The realities of senior public sector finance leaders’ management of the COVID-19 pandemic are shared in a new report from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and CA ANZ (Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand).
Published in Leading recovery: the evolving role of senior finance leadership in the public sector, attendees at various global roundtables identified three major areas where the public sector faces difficulties in the years ahead: recruiting and retaining finance professionals, preparing for reducing budgets for public services and adapting to wider societal changes.
Looking back, they reveal how professional accountants led with agility to enable their organisations to support governments’ aims of saving lives and protecting livelihoods. Increased spending, streamlined decision-making processes and better integration of the finance function epitomised the work of senior finance leaders and their teams during this time.
Building on the experience of the pandemic, ACCA and CA ANZ say there are six key lessons for public sector finance leaders to focus on. They need to transform systems to build organisational resilience and make better use of data. They must rethink leadership approaches, to empower staff and provide visible leadership. And they need to ensure their organisations adapt to new ways of working to focus on purpose, then place and break down barriers.
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ACCA and CA ANZ have also identified an ‘ABCD’ of skills which public sector finance leaders of the future will need to develop: adaptability, business sense, communication, and determination.
Md Sajid Khan, Director-India at ACCA says: ‘Reflecting on the experience and learnings due to pandemic, the public sector will be better prepared for the future. Most significantly, it will also ensure that senior finance leaders are equipped to navigate the wider challenges ahead. Additionally, aspiring senior finance leaders will need adaptability, business sense, strong communication skills and, most importantly, real determination to deliver the effective public services the world needs in the years ahead.’
Ainslie van Onselen, Chief Executive of CA ANZ adds: ‘Our report’s ABCD framework can help aspiring finance leaders in the public sector to ensure they broaden their horizons, from the traditional tasks of a finance professional to a wider organisational perspective. This breadth and depth helped leaders during the pandemic and prepares for future resilience too.’
At the roundtables, members of ACCA and CA ANZ also commented on the value of their professional bodies to help them understand the ‘basics’ and develop their knowledge in their careers through continuing professional development (CPD).
Sajid and Ainslie jointly conclude: ‘Professional accountants have a wider set of skills beyond technical knowledge, and bring strong strategic advice to support the organisations they serve; these skills can be developed and refined through experience and reflection.
‘Given the immense test of the pandemic, it’s wonderful to hear agreement from finance leaders and their teams that they were able to demonstrate their worth to the organisations and public they ultimately serve. We agree with this too.’
The report and its summary can be downloaded from here:
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Why Does Inflammation Matter?
Inflammation. Everyone’s talking about it, but what does it really mean? Think of inflammation as a message. It’s telling you that there’s a problem. If you twist your ankle, inflammation helps to isolate and protect the ankle and let you know to treat it. That’s called acute inflammation.
Chronic, systemic inflammation on the other hand doesn’t seem to have any single root cause, but rather, your immune system is in a constant state of flare-up. That then causes problems that weaken your entire body. Your system starts to break down as inflammation damages your cells, tissues and organs and it ages you prematurely and puts you at risk for a number of diseases. But the good news is that you can treat and even totally reverse chronic inflammation. Reducing systemic inflammation and reducing systemic and chronic stress is going to help you slow down the aging process and to live a longer, healthier life.
How Does a Keto Diet Lower Inflammation?
Enter our healthier take on the classic keto diet: A plant-rich keto diet is one of the best ways to eat to reduce inflammation. That’s because the keto diet specializes in one really key area: it eliminates two of the most inflammatory foods that we tend to eat, refined sugar and carbohydrates. By getting those out of your diet, you’re removing the inflammatory response.
But that’s not all a keto approach to eating can do. Along with removing sugar and carbs from your diet comes something called metabolic flexibility. What metabolic flexibility means is that you have the ability to burn both carbs (or sugar) and fats and synthesize your own ketones, an amino acid that’s synthesized in the liver from your own body fat.
What’s Metabolic Flexibility and Why Do I Want That?
Having metabolic flexibility means that you eat when you’re hungry, but you aren’t chained to eating all the time. See, many of us are slaves to our meals and don’t even realize it. We’re constantly in a state of trying to regulate our blood sugar through the food we eat rather than having really stable blood sugar and using stored fat for fuel instead. Doesn’t that sound so much more efficient and ideal? Who doesn’t want to use up stored fat instead of scarfing down yet another meal?!
How Do I Achieve This?
So, how do you lower inflammation and get metabolically flexible all at once? With a 4-week keto reset protocol. On October 18, join Clean Eating and chef, cookbook author, and avid cyclist Seamus Mullen for a 4-week Anti-Inflammatory Keto Reset.
Having suffered from a debilitating autoimmune disease for years, Mullen totally reversed his health. Mullen revamped how he was eating and his lifestyle habits, he lost more than 65 pounds and hasn’t had a flare-up in over 10 years. “I was extremely sick and unwell with an autoimmune disease and on tons of medication,” says Mullen. “I was very overweight and through readdressing my relationship with food, changing my diet, and embracing a low carb, high-fat way of eating I was able to lose 65-70 lbs, get off of all my medication and completely turned my health around. So I’ve lived it. I believe it. I know it’s true. I know that food is at the center of our wellbeing and if we change our relationship with food, we can really, really take control of our health.”
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I live in Florida, close to the ocean. Every morning I go to the beach to watch the sunrise, and every morning I pick up trash from the sand. Some days I pick up a lot, other days just a little. Some days I go well prepared, with gloves, bags, and my pickup tool. Other days I just bend down, collect items with my bare hands, and deposit them in the trash cans. But I have vowed not to leave the beach without picking up at least eleven items. And if you are asking “Why eleven?” the answer is simple: “It’s just because eleven is my preferred number.”
Being a surfer, I have developed great love for the ocean, especially the shoreline, and beach cleanup is not new for me: it’s an activity I have been engaged in for decades. I have made it my mission to collect the scattered rubbish people leave behind. Almost every day I hear a “Thank you for doing this” from a stranger, and it is not uncommon to engage in conversations about how much our careless littering is wounding our planet.
I am not saying all this to brag, but to bring up a reflection about the way we live. Perhaps we can pause and ask ourselves, “Am I aware of how my choices affect the planet and all life on it? Am I being selfish and lazy, doing what is convenient for me without considering the inconveniences I create for others?” Perhaps this reflection can inspire us to live differently, consuming less and wasting less. Perhaps we can be more mindful of the choices we make, and limit to a minimum the amount of disposable items we use.
I am trying to be more selective of what I buy, trying to reduce the consumption of products packaged in plastic and staying away from single-use plastic items, such as plastic forks, knives, spoons, plates, cups, straws, and bottles.
In an article published in the May 6th, 2019 edition of the Washington Post, Darryl Fears wrote: “One million plant and animal species are on the verge of extinction, with alarming implications for human survival, according to a United Nations report released Monday. The landmark report goes further than previous studies by directly linking the loss of species to human activity. It also shows how those losses are undermining food and water security, as well as human health. Oceana senior adviser Philip Chou called the report a beacon for more action to address a crisis. “We are seeing alarming increases in the deaths of fish, marine mammals and turtles ingesting plastics,” Chou said. “These plastics break apart in the ocean into microscopic particles [that are] consumed by fish, fish we now eat.”
Here it is, once again, my appeal for sanity: “We are all crew members and passengers of spaceship Earth, and we need to work together to preserve this vehicle that is taking us through the cosmos. We have to look at the big picture. We are all interconnected and interdependent. We are all in this together. We must stop all this ridiculous and pointless fighting, and cooperate unreservedly with each other, because we will either succeed and live, or fail and die, all of us together. Let’s change the focus, stop worrying about ourselves, and start thinking what we can do for others. Rather than asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’ let’s ask, ‘How can I serve?’ We are all responsible for preserving Planet Earth and building a sustainable future for all life. Let’s work together for the common good, for the greater good. And working together for common goals is completely possible. We just need to let go of fear and selfishness, and have the resolve to make it happen. So, let’s stop the nonsense and the pettiness! Heaven is here, if we want it to be.”
Piero Falci is an author and educator who believes that the inner work that leads to personal awakening and transformation is indispensable to create a better world for all. He is an explorer of the mysteries of life who loves to observe, reflect, and write, and who not only aspires to live a life that matters, but also hopes to inspire others to do the same. He is devoted to helping individuals have insights that may expand selflessness and compassion and lead to the growth of kindness and care for all sentient beings and the natural environment. He is a promoter of peace who believes in advancing the idea that Heaven is here if we want it to be. | <urn:uuid:565d7894-3752-4405-ae61-535f738971ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pierofalci.com/blog/2019/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950019 | 977 | 2.390625 | 2 |
|The main reason I wanted to learn how to do this was to make more realistic dress textures for Poser figures. This method is great for fairly uniform folds, but it obviously can’t beat hand painting the draperies. But for a fairly decent looking texture in a short period of time, it does pretty good. Plus, you can always enhance it with additional use of the Mesh Warp tool and hand painting. It can also be used for hand painting clothing on figures as well, as Will Dupre showed in this thread at Poser Pros (free membership required to view).|
|Okay, let’s start.
I’ve chosen to use the V3 Morphing Fantasy Dress from DAZ. I used UV Mapper to create a larger template than what is available on their site. I also selected to color the mesh by material.
This template is 2500×2500 dpi.
After opening the template in PSP8, I selected the Preset Shape tool, chose the triangle shape, made sure that Create as Vector was selected, and set the line width to 3.
After creating the triangle, I moved and resized it until it covered the area I needed.
|Next, I created a new layer, filled it with white, and applied the Jama 3D filter using the same settings as on the drapery and swag I did earlier.
After applying the filter, I lowered the opacity on the layer so that I could see the triangle below.
I decided that the folds were too far apart and would require more work, so I undid the plugin and reselected Jama 3D.
|In Jama 3D, I adjusted the width of the folds to get more of them.
There are two ways to adjust the width of the folds, either by moving the gold box at the top of the image window or by clicking on the up and down arrows in the bottom right hand corner of the panel.
Click on Apply to accept the changes.
|Select the Mesh Warp tool and set the horizontal and vertical mesh lines. Here I chose 10 horizontal and 3 vertical. This gives me enough room to adjust the folds horizontally while not requiring a lot of adjustments vertically.
Remember, you can always add or subtract mesh points as needed after you’ve started.
|Okay, here’s the mesh I’ve selected.|
|I began moving the top points over to meet above the point of the triangle, adjusting the points on the horizontal lines as I went.
I also made sure that the trough of a fold lined up with the side of the triangle.
For this one, I only adjusted four of the sections, but more can be adjusted to get a more dense drapery.
|Double-click on a mesh point to accept the changes.|
|Now, we want to be able to delete the folds outside the triangle, but since we created the triangle as a vector, you can’t select outside the lines.
Create a new vector or raster layer, doesn’t matter which. Hide the background template layer and the drapery layer and make sure one of the visible layers is selected.
|Choose Layers > Merge > Merge Visible from the menu.
The two visible layers will be merged leaving the background and drapery layers intact.
|Select the merged layer, then select the Magic Wand tool, and click outside the triangle.|
|Addition: if you create the vector shape with a fill color, then instead of creating a new layer and merging the two, simply select the layer the vector is on, then choose Selections > From Vector Shape from the menu, then continue to the next step.
(Thanks to Nanson at the Renderosity PSP forum for this tip)
|Select the drapery layer, then select Edit > Clear from the menu.|
|You’ll be left with just the section of folds that you want to keep.
Change the opacity on the layer back to 100 if you haven’t already done so.
|Make sure that the background layer is visible and deselect all.
Use the eraser tool to get rid of any areas of the drapery that you don’t want to keep.
|I had been going happily along without paying attention to what I was doing and lost the file I was working on so I had to redo it. This version has more folds in the triangle section than what you see above.
Anyway, here’s what I had left at this point.
Select the Magic Wand tool again and click outside the drapery area, then invert the selection.
|Create a new layer, set the Blend Mode to Multiply, then fill the selection with a pattern of your choice.
|Here’s a closeup of a section of the folds.
(fabric pattern is from the Fabric Shoppe II package by Mehndi Studios)
|You can now add more drapery sections using additional layers, then add trim, etc., etc., and so forth.|
|Did you know that you can save the mesh warps you create to use later on other images? On the Mesh Warp toolbar, there’s a save icon (floppy), select it and save the warped mesh to your hard drive. When you want to use it again, click on the open icon (folder), locate the saved mesh warp and load!
(Thanks to Will Dupre for this tip)
|Don’t be afraid to use different vector or free hand shapes and fit the drapery to match. Add or remove additional mesh points. Apply the Mesh Warp tool then move new points around. Use the Deformation Tool. Add hand painting to the folds to make them more natural looking. Have fun! Experiment!|
|Check out a few more examples.|
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A little history of Bagis townhouse
In the narrow rue de la Dalbade, the façade of this house is a fine instance of Renaissance style.
It is also known as hôtel de Pierre, "Stone house", because it's the only house in Toulouse made of stones instead of bricks.
Raised for the Parliament councillor Jean de Bagis, it was architect Nicolas Bachelier (who raised Assézat townhouse in Toulouse) who was put in charge of the construction: the legend says he was Michelangelo's disciple!
The house was composed of a nice decorated façade overlooking the street, a square courtyard and a little garden overlooking river Garonne.
Jean de Bagis died in 1570 and the house was sold to Nicolas Guerrier in 1601, an apothecary whose daughter married François de Clary.
This chap, first President in Toulouse Parliament, transformed the city house from 1610.
The legend says architect from Périgord Pierre Souffron raised the new house: oh, he moved in Toulouse in the beginning of the 17th century, and erected the Pont Neuf at the same time, so, why not?
You know what? People discovered marble columns vestiges in the river Garonne, from an Antic temple: Clary bought them and added them to the façade! Unfortunately, he died in 1615 and his town house wasn't finished...
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Animals | Bees
Ever heard that without bees humans will become extinct? Okay so that’s not necessarily the case, but our diets would suffer tremendously. The variety of foods available would diminish, and the cost of certain products would surge. You can do the simple things outlined in this class, to encourage bees into your garden and to help them survive, so that you can keep eating the delicious foods that they are responsible for pollinating. Gourmets and gardeners - help save the bees and your Instagram pics will remain as colorful as they are now!
- Types of bees and what they do
- Why are bees important to our ecosystem?
- Tips for gardeners
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This post discusses:
- exposition in ethnography and SFF writing
- contextual distance, a new concept for understanding the need for exposition
- the uses of exposition in fiction
What does ethnography have in common with science fiction and fantasy writing? Extensive use of exposition is arguably one point of common ground.
SFF authors create new imaginary worlds. Ethnographers, meanwhile, describe social situations, events, rituals etc. – usually from a perspective that does not assume the reader is deeply familiar with that setting.
Ethnography’s ‘unlearning’ of the familiar, and description of the unfamiliar, can have a powerful effect on the reader: it can show them how society might be differently organised in the real world. SFF authors, meanwhile, often apply insights from this sociological imagination to their fantasy creations.
Describing a new fantasy world with new rules and logics involves lots of explaining.
As does describing the real world in a novel way that assumes nothing.
If you write a thriller set in 1990s Manchester for people familiar with the UK context of that time, you can pass over many details. You don’t need to explain who Oasis are, for example. If a novel is set in the 2040s, then the OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation), as in Ready Player One, needs to be explained in detail.
This is because the contextual distance between the reader and the text is large, or in some ethnographies, deliberately made large. What I mean here is that there is a lot of context, i.e. details about the setting, for the author to explain to the reader. This is different to narrative distance, whis is more about how immersed the narrator is in the fictional world.
You can overcome this contextual distance in various ways. Protagonists can explain through dialogue or through their actions. One obvious strategy is exposition, i.e. telling the reader all the information they need to know.
Unsurprisingly, both genres tend to fall back on telling when showing could immerse and engage the reader more. Exposition can work out OK too, unless you overload the reader too early on.
But as a word of warning, not all readers can take a lot of exposition.
Different genres can handle different amounts of it.
And so, rather than shouting out ‘show, don’t tell’, I prefer to emphasize getting the balance between showing and telling right, in the context of a story and an imagined audience.
Literary fiction, arguably a close cousin of ethnography, is known for including more exposition than genre fiction. Meanwhile, SFF is famous for its infodumps and can handle more exposition than some other genres.
Exposition’s uses in fiction
Now let’s consider how exposition is used in fiction, before looking at what insights can be applied to anthropology. I’ve used Beth Hill’s division (pp. 195–203) here from her excellent book The Magic of Fiction, which I recommend as a toolbox to dip in and out of when writing fiction or creative non-fiction.
Fiction uses exposition …
1) To reveal back story
You know those tv shows where something happens to a character and then we zoom back to a scene from their childhood or similar? In fiction, you can achieve this using exposition. You can use a framing device to do this (e.g. “Three summers ago …” / “Back when I was in the army …” and a change in tense). There are other subtle ways that you can handle this kind of exposition (especially in film), e.g. through a dialogue and discussion with a therapist.
Ethnography: As ethnography relies on a first person POV, we can only dip into the ethnographer’s backstory. For storytelling purposes, my guess is that this might come across as cheesy or contrived. It could work for analysing a ritual through a previous experience of another ritual though, and it might work in auto-ethnography. But as a rule, my guess is that ethnography uses it sparingly.
2) To fill in characters and readers
You can use exposition to convey other information about characters: a physical description, a description of their life situation etc. Sometimes, a narrator will provide contextual information about the world, (other) characters, or events.
Ethnography: Ethnography likely often does this for interlocutors who play a really important role in the story.
3) As a scene transition
In genre fiction, you want to keep the reader focused and immersed in the story. You can use exposition to transition forward to the next scene after, say, a boring hour.
Ethnography: Anthropologists don’t tell the reader every detail, e.g. “and then I walked 5 km back to my flat and spent 2.5 hours writing fieldnotes while drinking weak coffee.” This would be REALLY boring. How you use exposition as a scene transition may relate to how you encounter and deal with time in your ethnography.
4) To say what happened offstage
Here, you fill the readers in on important events that weren’t experienced directly. Instead of immersing the reader in a scene, you summarise and relay to the reader what happened elsewhere.
Ethnography: This sometimes happens in an ethnography, again, usually through the reported speech of others. It particularly suits interview material where you recount particular scenes. You could reconstruct events through an interlocutor’s speech in the field, if you made notes in that moment, or if the account was particularly memorable and a verbatim reconstruction was not necessary.
Where you haven’t recorded dialogues, you could reconstruct them from memory (if short), or you could rewrite a story as an extended description
5) As description
In SFF, these are the notorious ‘infodumps’. In ethnography, this can take the form of extended report-like writing or ‘quarantined’ boxes that deal with the historical and cultural context in a matter-of-fact way.
Ethnography: This is REALLY widely used in ethnography. There could be pages of descriptions of rituals, details of the historical context etc., in short, the kind of stuff that SFF authors love to write when worldbuilding, before they make some hard choices about what to reveal to the reader.
Exposition isn’t bad per se – it’s necessary. If you find yourself bored when reading excessively long descriptions of contexts, however, then fear not – there is another way!
I plan to update this blog post with examples at some point in the future, and watch out for a post on strategies to deal with exposition overload too.
In the meantime, I highly recommend these resources:
- The Magic of Fiction: Crafting Words into Story (Beth Hill)
- From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read (Kristen Ghodsee)
- Why Is Context Important in Writing? 4 Types of Context, Explained
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District Court exhibit photographs
Scope and Contents
Photographs taken in various Duluth locations for use as court exhibits. Some of the copies have case file numbers and most have names of Clerk of Court and photographers. John Owens, George F. Chester, J. P. Johnson, A. J. Taylor, are all Clerks of District Court. Photographers are: Louis P. Gallapher; Crandall and Fletcher, James Maher, Eclipse View Company, Zenith View Company.
The collection consists of 42 photocopies of the original prints and 42 copy negatives of the original prints.
- 1896-1907, 1951
- Majority of material found in 1896-1907, 1951
- Minnesota. District Court (St. Louis County) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for use in the Kathryn A. Martin Library, Archives and Special Collections.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
Judicial district boundaries change over time. St. Louis County was in the second district from 1856-1858, the first district from 1858-1866, the seventh district from 1866-1874, and the eleventh district beginning in 1874. Currently the county is in the sixth judicial district.
The state's district courts hear all types of civil and criminal cases. District courts were established in Minnesota counties shortly after the formation and organization of each county. Duluth/St. Louis County has been the Eleventh Judicial District since 1874. Several counties were cut from the district in 1887, leaving Carlton, Cook, Lake, and St. Louis.
84.00 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
Photographs taken in various Duluth locations for use as court exhibits. Some of the copies have case file numbers and most have names of Clerk of Court and photographers.
This collection is located at the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives. For more information about this collection or to make an appointment, contact us at email@example.com or 218-726-8526.
- Court records Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Courts Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Duluth (Minn.)--History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Government records Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Guide to the District Court exhibit photographs
- Finding Aid Authors: P. Maus.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Script of description
Collecting Area Details
Contact The University of Minnesota Duluth Archives and Special Collections Collecting Area
Kathryn A. Martin Library
University of Minnesota Duluth
416 Library Drive
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Dr. Lawrence Houston Scholarship Application
The New Jersey Chapter of The Association of Black Psychologists invites student members to apply for the Dr. Lawrence Houston Scholarship Fund by writing an essay on the topic below.
Essay Topic for 2022:
The COVID-19 pandemic was an exponential shock to much of the U.S., and exposed deep vulnerabilities across our fragmented health care system and levels of income. We know that people of African descent who suffer from racial and income inequalities, also suffered disproportionately from COVID-19 incidences and mortality. According to the CDC, while Black Americans comprise 13% of the country's population, they made up 30% of COVID-19 cases. With all of the loss that was experienced during COVID-19 - particularly by people of African descent - it is not surprising that there are expanding mental health needs among this population.
From your perspective, what is the psychological impact you are seeing in your work/research with Black individuals due to the COVID-19 pandemic? How does your current work or your future plans as a psychologist support Black Mental Health and or address healing for Black people in these trying times?
Place your name, school & department name, year in school, address, & e-mail on a title page. Do not put your name on other pages of your document.
Submit the essay to firstname.lastname@example.org no later than Friday, February 4, 2022.
The essay text is limited to no more than three (3) double-spaced, 12-point font, single-sided, numbered pages with one-inch margins, or 750 words.
Please only use a WORD Document, No PDFs
Previous First Place Winners not eligible to apply
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- $1 Bus Fare Day is coming back to Laval next week!
- The STL has even fitted buses with quick-tap credit card readers to increase efficiency.
- Plus, for every $1 ride, the city will plant a tree in Laval!
Public transit and the environment go hand in hand in a lot of ways. Buses take cars off the road and climate-conscious individuals are more inclined to take public transportation to get around their city. The Société de transport de Laval (STL) seems to have thought hard about this symbiotic relationship and for the past four years, taking an STL bus has helped plant trees all over the area.
On Friday, September 20th, the STL is inviting all Lavallois to leave their cars at home and take the bus! Why? Bus fare is only $1 all day long! And for each trip, Laval will donate funds to the Laval Environmental Society to plant a tree!
Launched four years ago, STL's $1 Bus Fare Day is an initiative that's planned to help stimulate and inspire current and potential users to take the bus and help fight the effects of climate change at a local level. The fare will apply to STL bus services only.
According to Éric Morasse, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the STL, the company has seen an "up to 4% increase in our ridership" since launching the initiative.
"By offering transportation for a fraction of the price," Morasse says, "and by giving back extra money for tree planting in Laval, the STL once again stands out as a facilitator in the life of Laval residents and a leader in sustainable mobility."
The STL is a huge bus network that covers 1,400 kilometres in the Laval area. With 46 lines, it's one of the biggest and most innovative bus networks in Canada.
To facilitate boarding, the STL has installed electronic credit card readers in 12 of its bus lines! If you don't have cash, don't sweat it. Just tap and you're good to go!
Nouvelle signature, nouvelles couleurs, même mission. Travailler en commun, pour le bien commun, voilà notre ligne… https://t.co/ieIA8OvHQ3— STL (@STL) 1559823705.0
Bus lines that have credit card readers are as follows:
For $1 Bus Fare Day, the STL is encouraging customers that find themselves on those bus lines to use their credit cards to make boarding a breeze!
So if you find yourself in Laval next Friday, leave the car at home and take the bus! Your contribution will help fight climate change at the local level.
STL $1 Bus Fare Day
What: All bus fares will only be $1 all day long and each contribution will go to plant trees in the city.
Where: Across Laval (only on bus lines).
When: Friday, September 20th, 2019.
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Often, trust issues have a long and storied history in relationships or are firmly anchored in past events. So, once they creep into your relationship, they can be hard to get rid of.
One of our favorite movie theories is the Jack and Rose one. It is believed by a group of people that Jack trusted Rose to give him the plank after a while but as we know it, Rose didn't and Jack became a very handsome ice cube. It is endearing and inspirational to see Jack entrust Rose with his life.
While that kind of trust is not something we endorse, trust is crucial for the growth of happy, healthy, and fulfilling relationships. Trust issues may open the door to negative attitudes, behaviors, or feelings of suspicion and envy. This can eventually develop into more serious issues like abuse on an emotional or physical level. If it is in its worst state, fixing it will need more than just the ritualistic couple gifts for the anniversary. Trust issues are the absolute worst.
Depresso That Cannot Be Sorted By An Espresso
Being in a relationship with someone you don't trust might make at least one or everyone involved, depressed. An event in the relationship, such as dishonesty or a spouse lying about their finances, might make the other partner feel insecure or vulnerable. When trust is lost in a relationship, one party starts to doubt the union as a whole. The partner may subsequently experience depression if they perceive the relationship to be deceptive.
The Worst of All Securities: Insecurity
A partner feels insecure when there is a lack of trust or communication in the relationship and insecure individuals tend to project negative actions and judgments frequently. You can notice some early signs of insecurity in a relationship. When people start to feel uncomfortable about their relationship and have doubts about their significant other, they start to act in a domineering way. Sometimes to monitor their significant other, they will even phone or text incessantly. This kind of insecurity leaves little room or space to breathe in a relationship. The worst part is the lack of closure for both parties once it ends because neither is wrong from where they stand.
The Devil Works Hard But Anxiety Works Harder
After a relationship's trust has been broken, anxiety levels generally rise. For instance, after an affair, the partner fears their spouse is still lying or cheating. Their other relationships are also impacted by this anxiousness. They may start to distrust or doubt their friends or coworkers, too. The anxiety that ensues from the lack of trust in a relationship can consume both parties in its wake. It may eventually need to be treated with medicine or counseling, but is it love when one inflicts such pain?
It’s A Not-So-Fun Passing The Ball Game
After the first shock wears off, it is possible to address trust issues and talk about how they have damaged the relationship, but long-lasting repercussions may persist or lead to the end of the relationship. The psychological trauma of trust concerns frequently leads to the couple separating sometime after the occurrence. It may be difficult for couples to deal with hurt, betrayal, and distrust. While a licensed therapist or counselor can be helpful, the couple may also need to consider splitting. The trust difficulties that one partner experienced and acted on may well be passed on to the other partner, who then projects the same concerns onto their subsequent relationships even after parting ways.
No Emotional availability = No Physical availability
When a relationship is under suspicion and loses its spark as a result, people frequently physically withdraw from their partner. When one is fixated on distrust and not on resolving the problem, intimacy is compromised. The offended partner withdraws physical affection because they are so intent on feeling vindicated that they are not focused on finding a solution to the problem. This could manifest in subsequent relationships too.
Some trust issues have a long and storied history in your relationship or are firmly anchored in past events. If you are actively trying to be more honest with one another but still can't seem to get past the mistrust, a counselor can help you go further into the problems. The counselor might be able to see a contributing factor that you are unaware of and provide you with exercises to assist you to get over those problems. Or if it's something small, you may resolve it on your own and send each other some special couple gifts for the anniversary even if it’s not your anniversary to spark things up.
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You are cordially invited to join us for the Behind the Scenes tour at Amsterdam Science Park. This event is a unique opportunity to peek behind the scenes at internationally renowned research institutes and innovative businesses.
September 17, 2019
15.00 - 17.30 hrs
Matrix VII, Science Park 106
During the tour, you will learn more about trending research topics at the park, the exciting applications that they produce and the super-fast pace of innovation in two of the main focus areas at Amsterdam Science Park; Digital Innovation and Sustainability.
First, we will visit the CWI, the Netherlands’ national centre for mathematics and computer science. Here, Joost Batenburg, Professor in Computational Imaging will give a demonstration of the FleX-Ray Scanner, a new research facility that belongs to the top of the world league. With this new scanner, it is possible to look inside objects in 3D during the scanning process and to adjust or zoom in while scanning. This scanner is able to retrieve more useful information from the scans -faster and with less harmful X-ray dose- than allowed by current technology. This research facility can be applied to a wide range of imaging in science, healthcare and industry.
The goal of Sensoterra is to empower better decision making for irrigation management through smart soil moisture measurements. They develop innovative wireless sensors that measures at the active root zone, ensuring crops are optimally irrigated. With 99.5% data accuracy, probes are compatible with all soil types, including clay, clay-loam, saline clay, sand, and peat. With applications in horticulture, agriculture, landscaping and smart cities.
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Understanding ports 5060 and 5061 that are associated to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
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Port 5050 is assigned to clear text SIP while port 5061 is assigned to encrypted SIP, also known as SIP-TLS or SIP over Transport Layer Security encrypted channel.
SIP or Session Initiation Protocol is used for Internet multimedia conferencing and communications (such as VoIP). It focuses on the management and negotiation of all the features of VoIP sessions such as setting up and tearing down VoIP calls.
SIP is a text-based request and response protocol that allows multiple request methods. Its messages are ASCII encoded and use standard Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) capabilities, which are integrated with Real-time Transport Protocol. SIP negotiates the ports used for RTP communications when a new VoIP or multimedia session is established. However, some providers do not use SIP over standard ports, which breaks down communication between providers. These may mean users ending up opening the ports in more firewalls and SOHO environments in order to use the service. | <urn:uuid:104ef85d-54b3-4d4c-b755-bf414606ee0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.supanet.com/sip-port-a18562.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.919157 | 238 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Background/aims The goals of this pilot study were (a) to demonstrate the feasibility of identifying patients with vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy (DR) in a provincial area of Myanmar and treating them with portable lasers and (b) to gather data specific to Myanmar to help design larger cross-sectional studies of DR prevalence in Myanmar.
Methods 97 consecutive patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) were identified by local ophthalmologists over a period of 1 month in Pyinmana, Myanmar and were referred to the pilot screening programme. Patients’ demographics were recorded and their eyes were examined. Those with vision-threatening DR were treated with panretinal photocoagulation (PRP).
Results Of the 97 patients with DM, 33 (34%) had evidence of DR, 23 (23.5%) had evidence of vision-threatening DR including 13 (13.5%) with proliferative DR and 33 eyes in 23 patients (23.5%) had PRP with portable green wavelength laser. Hypertension was a significant cofactor in the development of vision-threatening DR (p<0.01). The average time since diagnosis of DM was 6.0 years in patients with vision-threatening DR.
Conclusions This study demonstrates the feasibility of identifying and treating patients with vision-threatening DR in a provincial area of Myanmar and provides initial data to plan a larger study to assess true prevalence, a prerequisite for establishing broader screening/treatment programs.
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There is virtually no screening or treatment for diabetic retinopathy (DR), a potentially blinding condition, for the 45 million people who live outside of Myanmar’s two largest cities. The prevalence of DR in Myanmar is unknown. This pilot study found a high incidence of vision-threatening DR in a provincial area of Myanmar. The study also demonstrated the feasibility of identifying and treating patients with vision-threatening DR in Myanmar. This information should help in the design of a more definitive study of the prevalence of DR in Myanmar. Such a study is a prerequisite for a broad-based programme to screen for and treat DR in the country.
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a rapidly growing, worldwide epidemic. In Myanmar, a country of 60 million people, the prevalence of DM has been reported variously as 6.6%1 and over 10%.2 For comparison, the prevalence of DM in India and China, Myanmar’s immediate neighbours where DM prevalence has been studied extensively, is 8.7%3 and 11.6%4 respectively. As elsewhere in Asia, by 2030 the prevalence of DM in Myanmar is projected to grow by more than 100%.5 Globally, 34.6% of diabetics are estimated to have diabetic retinopathy (DR), a potentially blinding diabetic complication.6 7 With the predicted growth in DM comes an equally great increase in DR. This predicted increase is of great concern because DR is a leading cause of vision loss in middle-aged populations.
The goals of this pilot study were (a) to demonstrate the feasibility of identifying patients with vision-threatening DR in a provincial area of Myanmar and treating them with portable lasers and (b) to gather data specific to Myanmar that can help in the design of larger cross-sectional studies; there are presently no reliable prevalence data for DR in Myanmar.
Permission to participate in the clinical care of patients in Myanmar was secured through the Sitagu International Buddhist Missionary Association and the Sitagu Ayudana Hospital in Sagaing Hills, Myanmar and through the Myanmar Ministry of Health. Permission to record data from the screening study was also approved by these institutions and by local health officials. The study was performed in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. This pilot study took place at the Sangha Hospital in Pyinmana, a working city of nearly 100 000 people 2 miles west of the capital city Naypyidaw and was performed in conjunction with local ophthalmologists. All patients with DM examined by local ophthalmologists over the prior 1-month period were referred for the screening programme. During the 3-day screening programme, all patients had a full ophthalmic evaluation including slit-lamp and dilated fundus examinations by the authors (SP, RMK, AP) who are retinal disease specialists. Other data collected included: age, gender, years since diagnosis of diabetes, diabetic medications, brief medical history, history of smoking or betel nut consumption, spot blood glucose and blood pressure. Patients with DR were identified and classified according to the International Clinical Diabetic Retinopathy Disease Severity Scale.8 Other vision-threatening pathologies were also recorded. Patients diagnosed with vision-threatening DR (ie, severe non-proliferative or proliferative DR) had same-day panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) using a portable diode laser (Ellex, Australia) with indirect ophthalmoscopic delivery system. PRP treatment has for decades been accepted as safe and the most effective treatment for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).9 In addition, PRP has been shown to be a very cost-effective treatment for vision-threatening DR.10
Prevalence and percentages were calculated and descriptive data are presented. Additionally, stratified and bivariate analyses are presented as Odds Ratios and associations with appropriate p values using Fisher’s exact test. Epi Info 3.5.3 (Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, USA) was used for all data analysis. Patient records were dropped from bivariate analysis for missing data.
Diabetes and diabetic retinopathy
Ninety-seven referred patients with DM were entered into this pilot study. The average age was 59.2 years (SD 11.3). Thirty-three patients (34%) were male (table 1).
The average time since diagnosis of DM was 6.0 years (range 0.1–25 years), with 23 patients (24%) having been diagnosed within 1 year or less. The average spot blood sugar was 224 mg/dL (SD 102); longer-term control data, such as haemoglobin A1c levels were not available. With respect to medical therapy, 28 patients (29%) were not being treated for their diabetes. Fifty patients (51%) were being treated with the single oral agent metformin, while 17 patients (17%) were being treated with a combination of metformin and an oral hypoglycaemic. Only one patient (1%) was being treated with insulin, and one patient (1%) was taking a traditional oral herbal therapy alone (table 1).
The average visual acuity was 0.87 logMAR (SD 0.69, range (0–2)). The average intraocular pressure (IOP) was 17.0 mm Hg (range 10–52). Of the 97 patients with DM, 36 (37%) had evidence of DR; 23 (24%) had evidence of vision-threatening DR including 10 (10%) with severe non-proliferative DR and 13 (13%) with PDR (table 2). Thirteen (13.5%) patients had diabetic macular oedema.
Thirty-three eyes in 23 patients (23.5%) had PRP with portable green wavelength laser for PDR or severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Four of the 25 patients (16%) diagnosed with DM within 1 year required PRP laser, whereas 19 of 71 patients (26%) diagnosed with DM greater than 1 year required PRP laser (p value 0.22) (table 3). While those with DM for at least 10 years were twice as likely to require PRP when compared with those having DM less than 10 years, the difference was not statistically significant (p value 0.10).
The type of DM treatment of the patients did not correlate with the need for PRP. Of the DM patients not currently being treated, six of 27 (22%) required PRP. Of the patients using a single agent, 16 of 54 (30%) required PRP. Of the patients using two oral agents, two of 15 (8%) required PRP. The difference in PRP requirement among these three groups was not statistically significant.
Forty-seven (48%) of our subjects reported a history of hypertension. On physical examination however, of the 90 patients whose blood pressure was recorded, 56 patients (62%) were measured with stage 1 hypertension or worse; of these, 24 patients (27%) had stage 2 or worse hypertension. Of the 90 patients whose blood pressure was measured, PRP laser was required in 18 of 56 (32%) patients who had hypertension, but in only three of 34 (9%) patients who did not have hypertension (OR 4.9 (1.31–18.1), χ2 6.36, p value 0.01) (table 4).
There was a significant trend as well with respect to the severity of hypertension: three of 34 (9%) without hypertension received PRP, seven of 32 (22%) with grade 1 hypertension received PRP and 11 of 24 (46%) with grade 2 or worse hypertension received PRP (χ2 11.5, p value 0.003).
Other factors including age, gender, time from DM diagnosis and spot blood glucose were not correlated with the outcome variable of requiring PRP, and none of these factors affected the association of hypertension and the need for PRP.
Other ocular diseases
Of the 194 eyes examined, 26 eyes (13%) were pseudophakic. Of the 168 phakic eyes, 50 (30%) had a dense cataract with visual acuity <6/18, and another 35 eyes (21%) had a moderate cataract on examination with visual acuity between 6/12 and 6/18.
With respect to ocular hypertension, 10 eyes (5%) had IOP of 23 mm Hg or greater and only one eye had IOP over 30 mm Hg. Three eyes had immeasurable IOP due to severe hypotony. While the cup-to-disc ratio was not recorded for all patients, 29 eyes of 16 patients (14%) were found to have cup-to-disc ratios of 0.5 or greater. Only 3 of these 16 patients were currently being treated for glaucoma.
Other visually significant abnormalities diagnosed during this pilot study were hypertensive retinopathy (12 eyes), retinal vein occlusions (11 eyes), traction retinal detachments (nine eyes), age-related macular degeneration (seven eyes), epiretinal membranes (four eyes), diffuse retinal degeneration (four eyes), cystoid macular oedema (three eyes), severe hypotony (three eyes), non-arteritic ischaemic optic neuropathy (two eyes), posterior capsular opacities (two eyes), rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (two eyes), vitreous haemorrhage (two eyes), panuveitis (one eye), retinal tear (one eye) and pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (one eye).
One patient with a peripheral, localised retinal detachment was treated with laser retinopexy. Three eyes of two patients with ischaemic central retinal vein occlusions were also treated with PRP.
Although the true prevalence of DR in Myanmar is unknown, an unusually high prevalence of vision -threatening DR was found in our study patients (23.5%). In comparison, a systematic review and meta-analysis of seven studies in the neighbouring country of India revealed a pooled prevalence of DR of 14.8% in patients age 30 and over and 18.1% in patients 50 and older.11
The results of this study highlight the underdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, and undertreatment of both DM and DR in Myanmar. For example, PRP was performed for vision-threatening DR in 16% of those whose DM had been diagnosed within just 1 year. This fact is remarkable since DR is an advanced complication that only occurs many years after the onset of DM. Thus, delayed treatment of vision-threatening DR can result from either delayed diagnosis of DM or from delayed diagnosis of DR in known diabetics. Additionally, because there is limited treatment beyond metformin available to most diabetics in Myanmar, increased diabetic complications, including DR, are to be expected as a result of such undertreatment.
Hypertension was a significant risk factor for the development of vision-threatening DR in this group of patients. Patients who were diabetic with hypertension were more likely to require PRP than patients who were diabetic without hypertension (p value 0.01), and there was a strong trend correlation with grade of hypertension (p value 0.003). It is known that the incidence of DR is influenced by several important risk factors: poor blood glucose control, delay in diagnosis of DM, high blood pressure, obesity and smoking. A National STEPS Survey in 2009 in Myanmar recorded these significant risk factors: the prevalence of hypertension was 31.0% in males and 29.3% in females.12 Given the high correlation to the spot blood pressure, screening/treatment programs may add extra checkpoints to identify and treat higher-risk individuals and to reduce diabetic complications.
Although vision loss and blindness due to DM is to a large extent preventable with proper care, access to such care in Myanmar is difficult or impossible for most diabetics. Some of these access problems are unique to Myanmar, some not. It is a country made up of 135 national races speaking over 100 languages and dialects and thus has unique challenges due to administrative and cultural divisions. In addition, many people are prevented from accessing medical care by work obligations, personal financial straits, severe weather and transportation difficulties. For these and other reasons, many diabetics have historically turned to traditional forms of healing13 rather than seeking care from the medical system. Finding ways to address these obstacles, as well as developing a strong educational campaign to improve awareness of the dangers of DR,14 are therefore prerequisites to the success of a broad-based screening/treatment programme.
Another major obstacle to improving diagnosis and treatment of DR in Myanmar is a shortage of ophthalmologists. There are just 309 ophthalmologists to serve the 60 million people in Myanmar.15 These ophthalmologists are not able to keep up with the backlog of patients who need cataract surgery, much less keep up with the growing need for treatment of vision-threatening DR. A further impediment is the marked imbalance in the distribution of ophthalmologists between the biggest cities and the rest of the country. The two largest cities, Yangon and Mandalay, have 60% of the country’s ophthalmologists, but only about 25% of the country’s population.15 That means for the 45 million people outside of Yangon and Mandalay, there are only 123 ophthalmologists. If Myanmar is to develop an effective programme to prevent blindness from DR, its goals should be to train more ophthalmologists and to dedicate more resources to establish a robust screening/treatment programme throughout the country. The significant prevalence of other eye pathology in these study patients demonstrates an additional value of such a screening programme.
There are limitations to this pilot study, most notably its small size. In addition, the study was carried out at a single hospital with patients referred by local doctors. This referral process could cause selection bias towards more severe disease. Nevertheless, this pilot study demonstrated a rate of DR (37%) in line with that found around the world (34%).16 However, the rate of vision-threatening DR among those with DR (64%) in our study population was much greater than commonly reported (33%).16 This higher than expected rate of vision-threatening DR should therefore be investigated with larger studies. Additionally, given the large and growing number of diabetics in Myanmar, the design of future studies of DR prevalence in Myanmar should take into consideration all current local and regional data.
This pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of locating and treating patients with vision-threatening DR in a provincial area of Myanmar despite the obstacles particular to the country. These results are important because there is at present very inadequate screening/treatment for DR in Myanmar. They suggest that such screening/treatment, if expanded throughout the country, could greatly reduce the burden of diabetic blindness for individuals and for society in general. This pilot study also provides data that can help in the design of a larger cross-sectional study of the prevalence of DR in Myanmar.
Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Sitagu International Buddhist Association. A prime reason for the success of this pilot programme was the existence of a network throughout Myanmar of modern eye clinics (and affiliated local ophthalmologists) established by the Sitagu International Buddhist Missionary Association. We also wish to thank the staff of the Sangha Hospital, a provincial hospital affiliated with the Sitagu Association.
Our gratitude also goes to the staff of the Sitagu Ayudana Hospital, to SEE International, the Alcon Corporation and the many physicians in Myanmar who helped in this study.
Contributors All authors contributed significantly to the design and to the carrying out of the study. All authors contributed significantly to the manuscript preparation.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent No information is present in this study identifiable as being from a specific patient. Treatment modality and treatment indications used in the study represent the widely accepted standard of care for diabetic retinopathy.
Ethics approval Weill Cornell Medical College IRB.
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As the nation focused on whether Congress would exercise its constitutional duty to cut funding for the war, Bush quietly issued an unconstitutional bombshell that went virtually unnoticed by the corporate media.
The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, signed on May 9, 2007, would place all governmental power in the hands of the President and effectively abolish the checks and balances in the Constitution.
If a “catastrophic emergency” – which could include a terrorist attack or a natural disaster – occurs, Bush’s new directive says: “The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government.”
What about the other two co-equal branches of government? The directive throws them a bone by speaking of a “cooperative effort” among the three branches, “coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers.” The Vice-President would help to implement the plans.
“Comity,” however, means courtesy, and the President would decide what kind of respect for the other two branches of government would be “proper.” This Presidential Directive is a blatant power grab by Bush to institutionalize “the unitary executive.”
A seemingly innocuous phrase, the unitary executive theory actually represents a radical, ultra rightwing interpretation of the powers of the presidency. Championed by the conservative Federalist Society, the unitary executive doctrine gathers all power in the hands of the President and insulates him from any oversight by the congressional or judicial branches.
In a November 2000 speech to the Federalist Society, then Judge Samuel Alito said the Constitution “makes the president the head of the executive branch, but it does more than that. The president has not just some executive powers, but the executive power — the whole thing.”
These “unitarians” claim that all federal agencies, even those constitutionally created by Congress, are beholden to the Chief Executive, that is, the President. This means that Bush could disband agencies like the Federal Communications Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Reserve Board, etc., if they weren’t to his liking.
Indeed, Bush signed an executive order stating that each federal agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee. Consumer advocates were concerned that this directive was aimed at weakening the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The unitary executive dogma represents audacious presidential overreaching into the constitutional province of the other two branches of government.
This doctrine took shape within the Bush administration shortly after 9/11. On September 25, 2001, former deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo used the words “unitary executive” in a memo he wrote for the White House: “The centralization of authority in the president alone is particularly crucial in matters of national defense, war, and foreign policy, where a unitary executive can evaluate threats, consider policy choices, and mobilize national resources with a speed and energy that is far superior to any other branch.” Six weeks later, Bush began using that phrase in his signing statements.
As of December 22, 2006, Bush had used the words “unitary executive” 145 times in his signing statements and executive orders. Yoo, one of the chief architects of Bush’s doctrine of unfettered executive power, wrote memoranda advising Bush that because he was commander in chief, he could make war any time he thought there was a threat, and he didn’t have to comply with the Geneva Conventions.
In a 2005 debate with Notre Dame professor Doug Cassel, Yoo argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering that a young child of a suspect in custody be tortured, even by crushing the child’s testicles.
The unitary executive theory has already cropped up in Supreme Court opinions. In his lone dissent in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Justice Clarence Thomas cited “the structural advantages of a unitary Executive.” He disagreed with the Court that due process demands an American citizen held in the United States as an enemy combatant be given a meaningful opportunity to contest the factual basis for that detention before a neutral decision maker. Thomas wrote, “Congress, to be sure, has a substantial and essential role in both foreign affairs and national security. But it is crucial to recognize that judicial interference in these domains destroys the purpose of vesting primary responsibility in a unitary Executive.”
Justice Thomas’s theory fails to recognize why our Constitution provides for three co-equal branches of government.
In 1926, Justice Louis Brandeis explained the constitutional role of the separation of powers. He wrote, “The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the convention of 1787 not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.”
Eighty years later, noted conservative Grover Norquist, describing the unitary executive theory, echoed Brandeis’s sentiment. Norquist said, “you don’t have a constitution; you have a king.”
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Service to others is one of the pillars of Scouting for Troop 403. Scouting has, from its inception, been deeply rooted in the concept of doing for others. “Do a Good Turn Daily” is a core Scouting precept. Scouting encourages young people to recognize the needs of others and take action accordingly. Scouting works through neighborhoods, volunteer organizations, and faith-based organizations to help young people appreciate and respond to the needs of others.
Troop 403 in the Community
- Food Pantry – The troop helped plant a community garden for the Bowie Interfaith food pantry. The garden has helped provide fresh produce to clients
- We participate in the annual Scouting for food food drive, we collect ~1000 pounds of food on average. Scouting for Food is an annual food collection orchestrated by Scouts from National Capital Area Council. Local Scouts distribute plastic bags to homes across the region and return to pick up the bags, now filled with food, one week later.
- Big Purple Barn – The Troop supported the help a horse day clean up drive. The Purple barn is a non profit that provide quality, life-long care for horses/ponies who are unwanted/neglected, they have also developed and offer outreach programs utilizing their resident equines.
- Last year the Troop’s Eagle scouts have provided more than 1500 hours of community service. Community service activities included:
- Planting Azaleas at Holy Trinity
- Clearing hiking trails in the Bowie Community
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- Creating a camp fire ring at Largo Community Church
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