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''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.'' Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The long curly locks in his Wanted poster are shorn, though he wears earrings. He still has tattooed on his neck the rainbow-and-lightning Weathermen logo that appeared on letters taking responsibility for bombings. And he still has the ebullient, ingratiating manner, the apparently intense interest in other people, that made him a charismatic figure in the radical student movement.
Now he has written a book, ''Fugitive Days'' (Beacon Press, September). Mr. Ayers, who is 56, calls it a memoir, somewhat coyly perhaps, since he also says some of it is fiction. He writes that he participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, the Pentagon in 1972. But Mr. Ayers also seems to want to have it both ways, taking responsibility for daring acts in his youth, then deflecting it.
''Is this, then, the truth?,'' he writes. ''Not exactly. Although it feels entirely honest to me.''
But why would someone want to read a memoir parts of which are admittedly not true? Mr. Ayers was asked.
''Obviously, the point is it's a reflection on memory,'' he answered. ''It's true as I remember it.''
Mr. Ayers is probably safe from prosecution anyway. A spokeswoman for the Justice Department said there was a five-year statute of limitations on Federal crimes except in cases of murder or when a person has been indicted.
Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as: ''Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at,'' is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. And he says he doesn't actually remember suggesting that rich people be killed or that people kill their parents, but ''it's been quoted so many times I'm beginning to think I did,'' he said. ''It was a joke about the distribution of wealth.''
He went underground in 1970, after his girlfriend, Diana Oughton, and two other people were killed when bombs they were making exploded in a Greenwich Village town house. With him in the Weather Underground was Bernardine Dohrn, who was put on the F.B.I.'s 10 Most Wanted List. J. Edgar Hoover called her ''the most dangerous woman in America'' and ''la Pasionara of the Lunatic Left.'' Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn later married.
In his book Mr. Ayers describes the Weathermen descending into a ''whirlpool of violence.''
''Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,'' he writes. But then comes a disclaimer: ''Even though I didn't actually bomb the Pentagon -- we bombed it, in the sense that Weathermen organized it and claimed it.'' He goes on to provide details about the manufacture of the bomb and how a woman he calls Anna placed the bomb in a restroom. No one was killed or injured, though damage was extensive.
Between 1970 and 1974 the Weathermen took responsibility for 12 bombings, Mr. Ayers writes, and also helped spring Timothy Leary (sentenced on marijuana charges) from jail.
Today, Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn, 59, who is director of the Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University, seem like typical baby boomers, caring for aging parents, suffering the empty-nest syndrome. Their son, Malik, 21, is at the University of California, San Diego; Zayd, 24, teaches at Boston University. They have also brought up Chesa Boudin, 21, the son of David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, who are serving prison terms for a 1981 robbery of a Brinks truck in Rockland County, N.Y., that left four people dead. Last month, Ms. Boudin's application for parole was rejected.
So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ''I don't want to discount the possibility,'' he said.
''I don't think you can understand a single thing we did without understanding the violence of the Vietnam War,'' he said, and the fact that ''the enduring scar of racism was fully in flower.'' Mr. Ayers pointed to Bob Kerrey, former Democratic Senator from Nebraska, who has admitted leading a raid in 1969 in which Vietnamese women and children were killed. ''He committed an act of terrorism,'' Mr. Ayers said. ''I didn't kill innocent people.''
Mr. Ayers has always been known as a ''rich kid radical.'' His father, Thomas, now 86, was chairman and chief executive officer of Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, chairman of Northwestern University and of the Chicago Symphony. When someone mentions his father's prominence, Mr. Ayers is quick to say that his father did not become wealthy until the son was a teenager. He says that he got some of his interest in social activism from his father. He notes that his father promoted racial equality in Chicago and was acceptable as a mediator to Mayor Richard Daley and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966 when King marched in Cicero, Ill., to protest housing segregation.
All in all, Mr. Ayers had ''a golden childhood,'' he said, though he did have a love affair with explosives. On July 4, he writes, ''my brothers and I loved everything about the wild displays of noise and color, the flares, the surprising candle bombs, but we trembled mostly for the Big Ones, the loud concussions.''
The love affair seems to have continued into adulthood. Even today, he finds ''a certain eloquence to bombs, a poetry and a pattern from a safe distance,'' he writes.
He attended Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Ill., then the University of Michigan but dropped out to join Students for a Democratic Society.
In 1967 he met Ms. Dohrn in Ann Arbor, Mich. She had a law degree from the University of Chicago and was a magnetic speaker who often wore thigh-high boots and miniskirts. In 1969, after the Manson family murders in Beverly Hills, Ms. Dohrn told an S.D.S. audience: ''Dig it! Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim's stomach.''
In Chicago recently, Ms. Dohrn said of her remarks: ''It was a joke. We were mocking violence in America. Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.''
Ms. Dohrn, Mr. Ayers and others eventually broke with S.D.S. to form the more radical Weathermen, and in 1969 Ms. Dohrn was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer during the Days of Rage protests against the trial of the Chicago Eight -- antiwar militants accused of conspiracy to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
In 1970 came the town house explosion in Greenwich Village. Ms. Dohrn failed to appear in court in the Days of Rage case, and she and Mr. Ayers went underground, though there were no charges against Mr. Ayers. Later that spring the couple were indicted along with others in Federal Court for crossing state lines to incite a riot during the Days of Rage, and following that for ''conspiracy to bomb police stations and government buildings.'' Those charges were dropped in 1974 because of prosecutorial misconduct, including illegal surveillance.
During his fugitive years, Mr. Ayers said, he lived in 15 states, taking names of dead babies in cemeteries who were born in the same year as he. He describes the typical safe house: there were usually books by Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, and Che Guevara's picture in the bedroom; fermented Vietnamese fish sauce in the refrigerator, and live sourdough starter donated by a Native American that was reputed to have passed from hand to hand over a century.
He also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to ''smash monogamy.'' The Weathermen were ''an army of lovers,'' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend.
''Fugitive Days'' does have moments of self-mockery, for instance when Mr. Ayers describes watching ''Underground,'' Emile De Antonio's 1976 documentary about the Weathermen. He was ''embarrassed by the arrogance, the solipsism, the absolute certainty that we and we alone knew the way,'' he writes. ''The rigidity and the narcissism.''
In the mid-1970's the Weathermen began quarreling. One faction, including Ms. Boudin, wanted to join the Black Liberation Army. Others, including Ms. Dohrn and Mr. Ayers, favored surrendering. Ms. Boudin and Ms. Dohrn had had an intense friendship but broke apart. Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn were purged from the group.
Ms. Dohrn and Mr. Ayers had a son, Zayd, in 1977. After the birth of Malik, in 1980, they decided to surface. Ms. Dohrn pleaded guilty to the original Days of Rage charge, received three years probation and was fined $1,500. The Federal charges against Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn had already been dropped.
Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn tried to persuade Ms. Boudin to surrender because she was pregnant. But she refused, and went on to participate in the Brink's robbery. When she was arrested, Ms. Dohrn and Mr. Ayers volunteered to care for Chesa, then 14 months old, and became his legal guardians.
A few months later Ms. Dohrn was called to testify about the robbery. Ms. Dohrn had not seen Ms. Boudin for a year, she said, and knew nothing of it. Ms. Dohrn was asked to give a handwriting sample, and refused, she said, because the F.B.I. already had one in its possession. ''I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive,'' she said. For refusing to testify, she was jailed for seven months, and she and Mr. Ayers married during a furlough. | <urn:uuid:7503e078-f9ca-4030-afe7-7b7a772d6e3b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/know_enough.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.982374 | 2,229 | 1.679688 | 2 |
India is a country of rich heritage. Its diversity and rich heritage need no introduction. People around the world recognize it as the 'Land of Diversities'. The diversity is manifest in its language, weather, climatic conditions, traditions, and culture. It is not just the diversity that remains the talk of the town, it is also the kind of outfits that are famous all around the country.
Traditional outfits differ at almost every 10 kilometers in India. What you see at one place would be different from the other place. Although the difference would not be very much notable when you travel within the states. However, traveling from one state to another would get you highly noticeable fashion change. This change can be credited to our varied preferences and of course our handloom industry.
Indian handloom industry has a name all around the world. Handwoven fabric from India is exported to almost all the countries around the globe. It is due to the adept skills and quality of fabric that is produced here. Credit for this high demand for Indian fabric goes to the weavers. These Indian weavers toil day in and day out to bring to you the best raw material for the fabric to be woven. These raw materials are then processed to convert them into fine yards of threads. These threads or yarns are weaved together to make a fabric.
What is most worthy to note is that in India still traditional methods of extracting and processing raw material are used. It is due to this that the quality of fabric remains intact and subsequently leads to a better output. This is all because of the level of human touch that remains in making the final fabric. Anything that has a human touch involved in it would reap better results than a machine-made thing.
Traditional hand weaving has kept the Indian textiles afloat against the other countries. In fact, now even the foreign countries have started to switch back to the traditional forms because of the elegance they reap for the fabric.
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United States has a GDP per capita of $59,800 as of 2017, while in Nigeria, the GDP per capita is $5,900 as of 2017.
How does Nigeria compare to the US?
Nigeria is about 11 times smaller than United States. United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 9.39% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~332.6 million people (118.6 million fewer people live in Nigeria).
Is Nigeria an ally of America?
Nigeria–United States relations are bilateral relations between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the United States of America. Nigeria and the United States have long been close allies. The United States is Nigerias main trading partner and is its most important diplomatic partner.
Is Nigeria a high income country?
The economy of Nigeria is a middle-income, mixed economy and emerging market, with expanding manufacturing, financial, service, communications, technology and entertainment sectors. It is ranked as the 27th-largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP, and the 24th-largest in terms of purchasing power parity.
Why does Nigeria have no electricity?
The country has been unable to meet demand because of its policies, regulations and management of operations. Nigerias shortage of reliable power supply is a constraint on the countrys economic growth. The country needs to diversify its economy beyond oil and gas revenues, because that market is volatile.
What is good salary in Nigeria?
Average Salary of Workers in Nigeria 2021: The average monthly salary a worker in Nigeria earns is about N516, 995 including transport, housing, and other benefits. The salary is different, depending on the kind of job.
Is Nigeria a beautiful country?
Nigeria is known for its natural landmarks and wildlife reserves. Its a great country with lots to offer – wonderful wildlife, magnificent mountains, large forests and beautiful cities. Youll be inspired by Nigerian passion and love for celebration.
Why Nigeria is not safe?
There is a high level of crime throughout Nigeria, including armed robbery, kidnapping for ransom, home invasions, carjacking and violent assault. Criminal activity is high in urban areas, including the city of Lagos, as well as on the northern border with Niger and Chad.
Is Nigeria the richest country in Africa?
Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, and Kenya followed, establishing the five wealthier markets in the continent .Total private wealth in Africa as of 2020, by country (in billion U.S. dollars)CharacteristicWealth in billion U.S. dollarsEgypt282Nigeria207Morocco111Kenya909 more rows•Jun 9, 2021
What percentage of Nigeria have electricity?
62 percent In 2019, about 62 percent of the population in Nigeria had access to electricity. The highest percentage of population without access to electricity was located in rural areas. | <urn:uuid:b6573d4d-443e-4439-9405-a6322b3cf6e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://explorepassages.com/hygajev40502.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.953457 | 606 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Beautiful scenery, excellent education facilities and a vibrant valley life – all of which you can expect from the city of Dehradun. After all, that’s why you moved here. And as you settle into your girls’ hostel in Dehradun, you can’t wait to learn and explore as much as possible. But then you look around your hostel room and find a blank, and rather boring space, looking back at you. And that just won’t do. If you’re going to have the time of your life in this city, the space you’re living in must reflect it. But how do you go about giving your hostel room a makeover? Well, with our easy and amazingly attractive DIY projects, you’ll be able to take your hostel room to a whole new level. Check it out.
Accent a wall
The walls of your hostel room are the largest blank elements around you. You can easily customise your furniture, bedding, and accessories to suit your tastes but what do you do about those boring white walls? Well, we’ve got a simple hostel warden-approved idea for you. Contact wallpaper! This easy to peel stuff is great for creating an accent wall in your room. Pick a colour of pattern of your choice and go ahead and transform your room into a much cooler version of itself. If you’re not ready to go the whole hog and transform an entire wall, experiment with a patterned decal or a quote that you can stick over your desk or bed instead.
DIY a garden
It’s easy to feel like you’re missing out on the outside world if you spend a lot of time inside your hostel room. So, why not bring a bit of the outside world indoors. If you’ve got a windowsill in your room that receives regular sunlight, it’s the perfect place to set up an indoor garden. You can easily and inexpensively buy some low maintenance plants that will instantly brighten up your room. Head to a nursery and grab some spider plants, money plants, or succulents or grow your own plant babies from scratch by planting seeds from chillies, lemons etc. Repurpose some old mugs, glass jars or containers to create a quirky and completely personal set of planters for your green friends.
Make your own pinboard
When you live in a hostel, you’re going to have a bunch of knick-knacks, reminders, to-dos, post-it notes, shopping lists and more lying around. And you’ll find yourself wishing that you had somewhere to put them all without misplacing or losing them. Well, this hack is the perfect project for you to try. Because you don’t have to spend a tonne of money and effort buying and installing a pinboard in your room. All you need is a thermocol sheet and some double-sided tape. Select a thermocol sheet in the size that you want your board to be. You can leave it plain, cover it in a pattern paper of your choice, and then attach it to your desired surface with some double-sided tape. Then all you need are your standard board pins and you’ve got a pinboard that’s endlessly customizable. And once you’ve got some stuff up on the board, no one’s going to be able to tell it apart from the real thing.
Replicate the taste of home
We’re big fans of the cafes in Dehradun, and you will be too, but there will still be times when you miss the food of your hometown. Well, there’s no reason to starve those cravings. Just set up a condiment and snack shelf or cupboard in your room. Then fill it up with the snacks, savouries, pickles, sauces and chutneys that are staples in your house. This will round out your meals and become a great source of comfort when you’re missing home too. Plus, it’ll definitely become a talking point in your room when you have friends over.
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Due to COVID-19 restrictions, a selection of on-campus papers will be made available via distance and online learning for eligible students.
Find out which papers are available and how to apply on our COVID-19 website
Registered nurse students synthesise knowledge integrating assessment, diagnostic skills, clinical reasoning, applying treatments and consolidating prescribing practice under the guidance of an authorised prescriber.
The aim of this paper is to enable the student to integrate, critique and synthesise previous learning (in research, theory, philosophy, ethics, clinical care, education, and leadership) and its relation to the competencies required of the nurse practitioner.
|Paper title||Nurse Practitioner Prescribing Practicum|
|Teaching period||Semester 2 (Distance learning)|
|Domestic Tuition Fees (NZD)||$2,825.25|
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- NURS 405 or NURS 416
This paper is designed for registered nurse students studying for the Master of Advanced Nursing Practice toward nurse practitioner registration in New Zealand.
Every applicant shall normally be required to satisfy the University's and Nursing Council of New Zealand’s requirements such as:
- Be a New Zealand registered nurse, with a current New Zealand practising certificate and be in good standing with the Nursing Council of New Zealand
- Have completed three years equivalent full-time practice within the last five years (with at least one of those years in New Zealand) in an area of practice she/he will undertake supervised clinical practicums
- Have approved access to area of clinical practice in which to develop their prescribing skills
- Have completed an approved Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences or equivalent with grades averaging a B or better
- Teaching staff
Staff from the Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies
- Paper Structure
Registered nurse students synthesise knowledge through theoretical content and clinical practice integrating:
- Health assessments
- Diagnostic skills
- Clinical reasoning
- Applying treatments
- Consolidating prescribing practice (150 hrs) under the guidance of an authorised prescriber
- Teaching Arrangements
Prescribing practice under the guidance of an authorised prescriber
DiPiro J. et al. (2014). Pharmacotherapy: A pathophysiologic approach. (9th ed.). Sydney: McGraw-Hill.
Guyatt G., Rennie D., Meade M., and D. Cook (2015) Users' Guides to the Medical Literature. Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice. Third Edition. New York : McGraw-Hill Medical
Keenan, R. (2016). Health care and the law (5th ed.). New Zealand: Brooker Publishing.
Ram,S., & Chesney, S. (2014) Pharmacy Law Guidebook (3rd ed.). New Zealand: Thomson Reuters.
Webb P., Bain C., & A. Page (2017). Essential Epidemiology: An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals . Third edition. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship,
Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy,
Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.
- Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes reflect the Nurse Practitioner Competencies of Nursing Council of New Zealand (2017)
The competencies and elements:
- Align with the role and activities described in the nurse practitioner scope of practice
- Build and expand upon the competencies required for registered nurses and for nurse prescribers
- Apply across diverse practice settings and client populations
NB. In addition students also meet the NCNZ competencies for RN Prescribing (2016).
By the end of this paper the student will be able to:
- Synthesise advanced nursing assessment including history taking, psychosocial, economic and cultural aspects, advanced physical examination incorporating advanced pathophysiology to determine clinical diagnoses and appropriate client management plans for long term and common conditions incorporating health promotion
- In conjunction with advanced nursing assessments, demonstrate sound clinical judgements leading to diagnosis, treatment, care planning, including safe prescribing under supervision and appropriate documentation
- Integrate, critique, synthesise knowledge and experiences to apply evidence based interventions in their practice
- Demonstrate achievement of the Nursing Council competencies for the nurse practitioner scope of practice including articulation of the autonomous nurse practitioner role
- Apply the regulatory framework and principles associated with prescribing; under the supervision of the prescribing mentor prescribe and administer interventions, appliances, treatments and medications within legislation, codes, scope and specific area of practice, and according to established prescribing process and guidelines; development of a personal formulary
- Propose appropriate diagnostic tests and treatment plans including evaluation and review of patient response based on sound physiological/ pharmacological/non pharmacological rationale and current best practice
- Synthesise knowledge enabling individualisation of dosages and regimes, taking into account factors such as cultural, body mass, gender and age variations
- Demonstrate safety and accuracy in drug prescribing practice and administration, accounting for variance in body mass and altered pharmacokinetics
- Demonstrate and apply a working knowledge of pharmaco-economics and preferential prescribing incorporating antibiotic stewardship
- Appropriately address other important considerations that will include issues of polypharmacy, drug dependency and client adherence to treatment, which will entail education of clients/client groups
- Demonstrate and apply a comprehensive understanding of the use of medication in combination and with alternative/complementary medicines and over the counter medications/appliances whilst incorporating a risk and benefit analysis
- Demonstrate knowledge of adverse reaction monitoring, management and reporting to make safe and appropriate prescribing decisions
Professional Accountability/Leadership Outcomes
- Clearly articulate their nurse practitioner or expanded area of practice and communicate the application of their advanced nursing knowledge and expertise in clinical, political and professional contexts
- Demonstrate an advanced ability to integrate legal and ethical concepts into their clinical practice including responsibilities, documentation, regulatory framework, auditing and ethics of drug treatments
- Practice in accordance with national and local professional standards and protocols (Including the Treaty of Waitangi) relevant to nurse practitioner practice
- Demonstrate advanced nursing practice within their area of practice (encompassing health consumers, whānau and diverse communities) while working collaboratively with interdisciplinary professionals across health care environments
- Demonstrate leadership in quality assurance processes such as clinical audits, risk management processes including delegation and direction, and case /peer reviews
- Identify opportunities for change and act as a change agent where appropriate
- Demonstrate nursing leadership in a range of situations across practice environments and serve as a supervisor/mentor to enhance the professional development of others
- Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning through critical reflection and self-monitoring, participate in research activities and utilise research to underpin evidence based practice
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has had a Moderna Covid-19 vaccine months after turning down an AstraZeneca jab over fears that it wasn’t safe.
DR Congo politicians have been reluctant to promote the use of vaccines.
Only about 1% of the population has been vaccinated.
In July, President Tshisekedi said he did not want to take the AstraZeneca jab because of concerns about blood clots, but would take another one when it became available.
He added that he had lost relatives to the disease, and vaccines were the best way forward.
DR Congo last week received its first batch of about 250,000 doses of Moderna.
Official data says just over 1,000 people in DR Congo have died as a result of the virus.
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The world of civil construction is changing. Over the past 10 years across Europe, Scandinavia and the US, one of the most popular trends has been towards the mass adoption of tiltrotators. In some areas of the world the adoption has been so widespread that it’s unusual for a Contractor not to have a tiltrotator!
But why are engcon tiltrotators so popular? One word – Profit.
It comes down to simple economics, if you complete more work in a week, you’ll earn more money. Do more, earn more.
How does an engcon tiltrotator make your excavator more profitable?
An engcon tiltrotator makes an excavator easier to use, more flexible and up to 50% more efficient.
- Complete work faster with the flexibility of a 45 degree tilt and infinite 360 degree rotation
- Use one machine for multiple types of work
- Reduces the number of machine re-positionings to a minimum
- Reduces the size of the area that needs to be fenced off onsite
- Less machine wear and tear over time
- Lower fuel consumption
- Reduces the amount of spoil
- Reduces material spill
Work smarter in tight spaces
An engcon tiltrotator enables you to work more efficiently in a confined area, completing a wider variety of tasks without having to move the machine. For instance, excavating for water supplies and drains frequently involves working in limited spaces, in certain cases access to the site can be tricky and there may only just be enough space to drive in and out with the machine and very little space to do the work.
With a tiltrotator you can excavate at any angle and the ability to dig around a manhole or a stop-end is instantly there, without having to reposition the machine multiple times.
Minimal machine movements
Reducing the need to move your excavator means it becomes many times more efficient, you save fuel, reduce wear on the machine, the workplace becomes safer and you help protect the environment. Not only does actual excavation become so much more efficient and profitable with an engcon tiltrotator – thanks to its ability to tilt and rotate the bucket into positions previously impossible – it also minimizes the number of machine re-positionings thereby reducing damage to land and safety risks onsite.
Engcon’s tiltrotators enable you to rotate the bucket 360 degrees infinitely and you can also angle it to 45 degrees in both directions. This enables you to really maximise the flexibility of your excavator and work more precisely especially in urban environments or sites with confined working spaces.
There’s an engcon tiltrotator to suit just about every make and model of excavator from 1.5 – 33 ton.
Engcon have a huge range of attachments available, further expanding the type of jobs your excavator can deliver and maximising the usability of your machine. For instance, say you’re working on a subdivision earthworks job that also needs trenching, they’d be no need to call in another machine when you’re already onsite and able to do both jobs. Completing more work on each site you work on means that over time you save a significant amount of transportation expenses.
The engcon EC-Oil system automatically connects hydraulics, power and central lubrication between the quick coupler of the excavator and under the tiltrotator. It’s the only system on the market that can connect hydraulic tools at full system pressure!
Change hydraulic tools in just 10 seconds
Time is money and when your earthworks project requires multiple attachments it’s easy to waste a lot of time stopping work to swap between buckets, compactors, grapples and grabs. If it takes 10 minutes to change a bucket or attachment manually, and you do 6 changes in a day, that’s an hour wasted every day.
One of the key benefits of the engcon quick hitch is the ability to change hydraulic tools in just 10 seconds, without even needing to leave the cab. Simple, hassle-free and very very fast!
Engcon tiltrotators deliver up to 50% more efficiency!
Engcon are a world-leading manufacturer of tiltrotators, they focus on innovation and technical features designed to maximise your excavator’s efficiency.
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The following was written a few years back. It was written more about the discourse within the autism community and not about autism awareness or acceptance. In actuality, I suppose it could be looked at as a piece supporting the awareness, acceptance and respecting the differences in the ways parents view autism. There is far too much hostility.
I am re-posting now, in this, the month of April. With all of the added awareness and supposed acceptance that has taken place over the last few years, really not too much has changed in this, our little corner of the world, or in my friend’s corner of the world. Not very much at all.
If anything; things have become more difficult….
Dear Abby – Feeling Chastised in New England
Let me just begin by saying that since I began writing this blog I have had the pleasure of meeting a few Autistic Adults. They are amazing individuals that do a great deal to raise awareness about autism. I “speak” with one in particular often enough to consider him a friend. He is a wonderful human being and it makes my day to “talk” with him or just read his posts. He is truly an inspiration to parents of children with autism, other teens and adults with autism. But above all that, he is a glowing example of the good things that can be found in today’s young adults in general. I don’t think of him as having autism, I think of him as my friend, plain and simple. I’m honored to have him as my friend.
My son’s autism or level of autism is not like my new friends’. Autism affects each person differently. Therefore, parents should not be made to feel inferior or chastised for their own beliefs. Everyone is different, everyone. There is no right or wrong when it comes to autism, just a lot of people arguing with each other, it seems.
Today I received this private message on my face book page from a friend of mine who is pretty much in the same boat as I am “level-wise”.
The fact that she did not feel comfortable posting it publicly, speaks volumes about the environment we find ourselves in with the hostility that she (and I) knew would have ensued had she posted it publicly.
(The following message is used with permission. The names have been changed to protect the innocent)
Dear Abby (Vickie)…I think I’m missing something. Why is it wrong to feel like I’ve lost something in having an Autistic son? Why are we supposed to not want a “cure” or something that helps them handle this world we live in a little better? I look at the video of Bob from birth to 18 months and there were signs, but he was still there. It was June of 1996 – he was 18 months old – all of a sudden he disappeared. He is lost to me. He will never have a normal life. He will constantly need care and supervision. There are many people that are on the much higher functioning side of the spectrum that can navigate the world today. Bob is not one of them. Why am I supposed to not want that to be different? People say you don’t miss what you never had – but I know what could have been. I know what life he could have had and now for sure will not. He will find happiness somehow; he will be as productive as his disability allows him to be. But the sky is not the limit for him. The opportunities for him are not the same as they are for my daughters. Why am I supposed to celebrate that? With all this hullaballoo about celebrating autism over the last few months, I’ve been feeling like a minority. I think these kids are lost – lost to the life that could have been, lost to the possibilities that would have been. I feel they have a disability because they are “not able” to process and handle what happens in life the way others do. Why are we getting lost on the rhetoric? Am I missing something Vickie?
Feeling Chastised in New England
I have said this many times and in many different ways:
- I celebrate my son as an individual
- I celebrate my son because he is my son and I love him more than words could say.
- I celebrate his accomplishments, no matter how large or small they may be.
- I celebrate him because he is wonderful.
- I do not celebrate the part of his autism that will keep him from being safe and out of danger.
I write stories about my son because:
- He is wonderful.
- I’m very proud of him.
- I’m very proud of his progress.
- He makes me laugh every day.
- He makes me smile every day.
- He makes me worry every day.
- I believe these stories shed a little bit of light on autism and the way his mind works – not all autism, but his.
I don’t believe anyone should be made to feel “less than”. I don’t consider my son “less than” but there is an issue. There is that life he could have had. Maybe it would not have been a better life, maybe it would have been, but at the very least he would have been able to understand it and navigate through it.
Individuals should be celebrated, not the diagnosis.
Like “Feeling Chastised”, my son will never be able to live on his own. He will never be able to take care of himself. He will not know when/if he’s being taken advantage of. He does not understand danger or safety. He is verbal but really not able to communicate if something might be wrong.
My suspicion is that many of these parents in celebration have younger children or children that can function at a higher level than mine. They still have hope of great progress, and they should have hope, there is always hope. I still have hope for more progress, but living in the real world I know that even though he continues to make progress, none of the issues listed above will improve enough that I will not spend every day and night worrying about what will happen to him when I am gone. This is the stuff our nightmares are made of. What’s going to happen to them when we’re all done celebrating autism? Our “kids” are going to outlive us, people. Who’s going to take care of them? Will they be cared for in the same fashion that we have cared for them? How drastically will their life change then? Think about it.
If I haven’t said it a hundred times, then let this be the hundredth; if I were to live forever, I would not change a thing about my son. He’s happy almost all of the time. He loves his life. He is in his own little happy world, but he won’t always be able to live in his own world, he will someday have to live in the real world. Then what?
When your child with Autism becomes an adult with Autism and your own mortality begins to slap you in the face, come back and talk to me then about this celebration we are supposed to be having.
Those of us with adult children that will not be able to live or navigate the world with out constant support, that have been in the trenches for many years, long before there was a “spectrum”, long before there were many of the services available today, deserve a little bit of respect and deserve to be able to voice our opinions as you are allowed to voice yours; to want something more than a celebration.
I believe in raising awareness. I believe in trying to make people understand Autism. I believe that INDIVIDUALS and accomplishments should be celebrated. I also believe some of us need more than that.
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The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has been working for years to lower the cost of electricity from solar and ease grid integration through its SunShot Initiative. And while most of the work done to date has focused largely on short- to mid-term problems, today the agency took a step towards the longer term.
DOE has announced awards for 10 small-scale solar PV research and development (R&D) projects through its Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS) sub-program, which seeks to lower the cost of electricity from solar to $0.02-0.03 per kilowatt-hour by 2030.
Through SIPS DOE will fund year-long projects in “novel or emerging” areas of PV research, and the agency says that this will allow researchers to test a concept, and, if successful, develop data to support further research. DOE notes that this is an approach which has worked with its SunShot incubator program, but that this is one of the first times it has funded early-stage, high-risk research.
“This is one of our first funding opportunities that looks to a post-2020 goal,” notes DOE.
Nine of the ten projects are at universities across the United States, and the tenth awardee is Nliten Energy Corporation in Mountain View, California. Most of the projects involve III-V semiconductors or perovskites, however two seek to improve cadmium indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) and cadmium telluride (CdTe) technologies, which have already been widely commercialized.
Finally, Arizona State University will receive $179,000 to evaluate and develop a method for sound-assisted low-temperature spalling to enable low-cost, kerfless silicon wafers.
In the same announcement, DOE made $9 million available to improve collectors for concentrating solar power (CSP) technology.
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As an Inspector Calls was written after World War Two, most men went away to fight during the war, so many jobs that were traditionally performed by men, had to be filled in by women. This switch in roles enabled everyone to see that women were equally as capable as men. It helped to change the existing perceptions about what a woman can and can’t do. Consequently, many women experienced a new kind of independence that working and therefore earning money allowed them to entail. Yet, unfortunately, not all men were accepting of this new change in gender equality and continued to remain firmly in the beliefs about the capabilities that women have from the past. In an Inspector Calls Priestley develops ideas of gender roles through the freedom and individuality of Eva Smith and the sexist views of Mr Birling.
Before World War Two, Britain was not only divided by gender but also by class. The Upper and Middle classes were filled with capitalists, people who owned wealthy land and large successful businesses, whereas the lower/working class consisted of the poor workers that were treated with little or no respect by the upper classes. The war meant that these three classes had to unite together as all classes were eating the same food and were even having to dress the same due to rationing. Yet, the divide was still evident so Priestly wanted to emphasise the inequality and differences that still existed between the upper and lower classes.
Sybil begins to dig herself deeper when she speaks about how all the blame should be going to Eva and the man who got her pregnant. For example, in the quote “, I blame the young man who was the father of the child she was going to have. If, as she said, he did not belong to her class.” This shows how she has not joined the dots that it is her own son she is talking about. She lacks common sense and sympathy as she just cannot seem to accept that she might actually play a part in the death of an innocent girl that she could have helped. She doesn’t care even now that she could have saved her life, all due to the fact that the man that got her pregnant was from a higher class and she did not have a husband. She did not believe a single word that came out of Eva’s mouth, as she “didn’t like her manner,” she is assuming that everything Eva says is “a whole lot of silly nonsense,” before she even knows Eva as she has trained her mind to think that anything Eva will say is stupid and false.
The quote, “And he ought to be dealt with very severely- “shows that Mrs Birling has not yet worked out that it is Eric that needs to be dealt with very severely, she full on drops Eric under the bus. These words that she has said will brutally haunt her later when she finally realises that she is talking about Eric. In some ways this quote uses foreshadowing as we can know purely by the way the play is written and the reactions of the other family members that it was Eric that got Eva pregnant, so by her saying this it creates a tense atmosphere within the audience and readers.
From an audience’s point of view Mrs. Birling fully deserves the consequences and ridicules that will eventually come her way. Mrs. Birlings actions really help to engage the audience in what Priestley is trying to convey through ‘An Inspector Calls’ as we see that her actions are cruel and ignorant and this is something that we all -hopefully- don’t want to be. Priestley is trying to get to all be responsible for our own actions and how they can and will affect other people, whether is directly or not. Mrs. Birling almost adds a comedic value to this part of the play as it is so obvious to the audience and readers that she is talking about Eric, that it is almost painful and unbearable to watch/read. Mrs. Birling also really helps to add a dramatic tone and atmosphere to the play as the tension changes when she repetitively puts all of the blame on other people, its almost like she is happy that Eva is dead, she talks that she spoke nonsense and was silly so to her it might not be so bad that she is dead; which is horrible and extremely capitalist of her.
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We humans like to think we are super rational and our behaviour is really pretty sensible and pretty reasonable. Does that ring true?
Unfortunately, in the last few years research has shown that we are less logical that we’d like to think and that more of our responses are automatic rather than carefully planned. Often this works really well (who wants to stop and think about digestion, breathing or our immune system!) But sometimes, our automatic responses hide what is really going on.
This great post from @sethgodinblog gives us pause for thought – are some of our responses driven by fear? If they are, then are we really getting the results we want or the live we desire?
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The family of Muhammad Sa'id Isma'il Musallam, the 19-year-old from Jerusalem that ISIS claims to have detained for spying for the Mossad has confirmed that he travelled to join the Islamic State group three months ago.
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In Issue No. 7 of the Islamic group's magazine, Dabiq, ISIS published what it called an "Interview with a Spy Working for the Israeli Mossad." According to the article, the subject is Musallam, who is cited as saying that he used to work as a firefighter.
Musallam lived with his family in East Jerusalem. He completed 12 years of schooling and did indeed work as a national service volunteer with the firefighting services. His father, Said Musallam, told Haaretz that his son told him three months ago that he was travelling to a course in the city of Rishon Letzion, and asked him for money.
"He left that morning and the next day I tried to call him and the telephone was turned off. I thought that maybe he was busy. After a week we got an email that he wanted to be a martyr and he was giving up everything in his life and his family.
"My children told me that he was in Syria and I believed it."
An Israeli security official said Musallam traveled to Turkey on October 24 in order to fight for Islamic State in Syria, Reuters reported.
After another week Muhammad made contact directly with his family. At first, he denied writing the original message, but said he joined ISIS and began to study religion and learn how to use weapons.
"One day, I saw his picture on the computer and he had a beard and long hair. I asked him how he was doing and he said he was fine."
"I told him if you want to come back, come back. After a while, he told me that he wanted to come back and asked if I was able to send him money. I sent him $200 to an Egyptian address that he gave me."
However last month, a man approached the family and told them that he saw their son in an ISIS prison in Syria. According to that person, their son was caught trying to leave ISIS and flee to Turkey. Since then, the family had not heard of their son's fate until Thursday's publication.
Muhammad Musallam after he joined ISIS. Courtesy photo.
"He wasn't religious, he was a regular kid, everyone loved him," his father said.
"He is not a spy, he went over on his own - they recruited him on the internet. I don't know what they said to him or how they got into his head, but he is not connected with the Mossad, the Shin Bet security services or anyone else."
The Islamic State's claims
According to the article in Dabiq, Musallam was recruited to Israeli intelligence by a Jewish neighbor who was a police officer. The article also claimed that Musallam said that when he took the job, he met with a man named Eli, an intelligence official responsible for checkpoints in the West Bank, who offered him at least 5,000 shekels ($1,250) per assignment.
Screenshot from Dabiq.
"The bigger the assignment and the more valuable the information, the more they would pay me and the more bonuses I would receive," Dabiq cited him as saying. Dabiq said he was trained to obtain information from others, survive an interrogation and use weapons, and he was expected to turn in weapons dealers and potential infiltrators into Israeli territory and report on any operations planned for Jerusalem.
He says the Mossad then sent him to Syria via Turkey to spy on Islamic State. He said the Mossad wanted the locations of weapons, missiles and bases and the names of Palestinians who traveled "to Islamic State from Palestine."
The magazine asked him how he was found out. According to the interview, he was behaving in a way "not typical of an [immigrant,] despite the training I had received from the Mossad." And he says he failed to follow certain orders, which prompted Islamic State to monitor him. Dabiq also claimed he was "moved from one prison to another" and confessed during interrogations. | <urn:uuid:a6b06656-a5a0-41da-b2da-6be378c365e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.haaretz.com/2015-02-12/ty-article/.premium/he-went-to-syria-but-hes-no-mossad-spy/0000017f-db86-df9c-a17f-ff9e91a90000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.992801 | 920 | 1.71875 | 2 |
An American industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the highest profile philanthropists…
Henry Phipps (1839-1930) was born the son of an immigrant cobbler in 1839. He grew up in poverty stricken conditions in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with Andrew Carnegie. It was Henry Phipps' friendship with Mr. Carnegie that led him to invest, in 1861, in an iron works operation. In 1901 the Carnegie Company was purchased by J.P. Morgan, and it became US Steel. Mr. Phipps retired, affluent beyond his expectations, and devoted his life to philanthropy.
Charles Michael Schwab (February 18, 1862 – October 18, 1939) was an American steel magnate. Under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world. Schwab began his career as an engineer in Andrew Carnegie's steelworks and in 1897, at only 35 years of age, became president of the Carnegie Steel Company. Schwab became the first president of the U.S. Steel Corporation.
July 1, 1892 Homestead Steel Strike begins with a worker lockout by bossman Andrew Carnegie! The Carnegie Steel Works housed mostly two kinds of workers: European immigrants who were unskilled and skilled steel workers. Skilled workers earned $4 to $7.60 but the unskilled workers only made about $1.20 for a 12 hour long day. The 1892 strike involved all workers in the plant. Workers customarily labored 7 days a week with only the Fourth of July as a holiday.
Remember that Andrew Carnegie made about 26 million dollars a year while the average worker earned about 489 dollars. Women and children would make about half that. Wages were even less in the South. This picture was taken in Macon, GA in 1909. This photo shows the dangers workers especially children suffered during the Gilded Age. These boys are standing on crates balanced on a textile machine. One boy doesn't even have any shoes.
Andrew Carnegie Whitfield Missing since April 17, 1938 from Long Island, New York. Classification: Missing Vital Statistics Date Of Birth: 1910 Age at Time of Disappearance: 28 years old Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'8"; 155 lbs. Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Dark hair, streaked with gray; blue eyes. Marks, Scars: The only scar on his body was that resulting from an appendectomy. Clothi
Margaret Morrison Carnegie - Born 1809 in Scotland. Married William Carnegie in 1834. Lived in Dunfermline where their sons Andrew & Thomas were born. In 1848, when William could not find enough work, Margaret supported the family & organized the move from Scotland to Pgh. After making a fortune in steel, Andrew founded Carnegie Institute of Technology (now CMU) and created Margaret Morrison Carnegie School for Women in honor of his mother.
Andrew Carnegie He started as a telegrapher and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks. He built further wealth as a bond salesman raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He earned most of his fortune in the steel industry, founding Carnegie Steel Company in 1870. By the 1890s, it was the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world. Carnegie sold it in 1901 for 480m dollars to J.P. Morgan, who created U.S. Steel.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie were among the passengers on the steamship "Fulda" on the night of April 22, 1887, as they departed for their honeymoon in England and Scotland. For her quiet wedding at 8pm that same evening, Louise Whitfield had chosen to wear a gray wool traveling suit. This suit consists of a skirt and two bodices for day wear, as well as an extra set of cuffs, collar, and front insert (or plastron) of gold embroidery on red ground to adapt the suit for more formal occasions.
Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie (circa 1902). Andrew Carnegie was a member of the South Fork Fishing & Hunting Club, which owned the dam that caused the Johnstown flood. He donated $10,000 to rebuild Johnstown's library (that building is today the Johnstown Flood Museum), which became one of the world's first Carnegie libraries.
Cassie Chadwick, a Canadian-born woman who became famous for defrauding banks in Cleveland, Ohio by claiming to be the illegitimate child of Andrew Carnegie. Chadwick was the mistress of lying and performing. She knew how to cover her tracks and she honed fraud into an art form. Andrew Carnegie attended her trial, wishing to see the woman who had successfully conned the nation's bankers into believing that she was his heir. On 10 March 1905 a Cleveland court sentenced her to 14 years in prison.
Jennie Dean was born a slave in northern Virginia’s Prince William County, but by the late 1880′s she finagled enough money from people like tycoon Andrew Carnegie to build an entire educational campus: classrooms, dormitories, dining halls, libraries and shops to teach both academic classes and trades like carpentry, animal husbandry, cooking and sewing to male and female black students from across the region, who had few other options for continuing their education. | <urn:uuid:8551fc27-d62d-40d1-8b79-1cb5ef6e9dc9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tr.pinterest.com/cwaters102/andrew-carnegie/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977191 | 1,134 | 3.34375 | 3 |
This toolkit provides information and resources needed to create a successful farmer network. It is intended for farmers, extension agents, community organizers, and other agricultural professionals.
A farmer network—sometimes called a discussion group, gathering, or conference—is a way for farmers to exchange information, socialize, learn, and connect with peers on a regular, ongoing basis. What is most important about a farmer network and sets it apart from, for example, traditional Extension-based classes, is that the farmers decide what they want to learn and create together.
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“Rewilding is a return to our essential nature. It is an attempt to reclaim something of what we were before we used words like ‘civilized’ to define ourselves.” —Micah Mortali
In his long-awaited book Rewilding, Kripalu director Micah Mortali brings together yoga, mindfulness, wilderness training, and ancestral skills to create a unique guide for reigniting your primal energy—your undomesticated true self—and deepening your connection with the living earth.
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived intimately with the earth. We were in the wild and of the wild. Today, we live mostly urban lives—and our vital wildness has gone dormant. As a result, we’re more isolated, unhealthy, anxious, and depressed than ever, and our planet has suffered alongside us.
With Rewilding, Mortali invites us to shed the effects of over-civilization and explore an inner wisdom that is primal, ancient, and profound. Whether you live in the middle of a city or alongside the woods, the insights and practices on these pages will bring you home to your wild, wise, and alive self.
- Practice-rich content—mindfulness exercises, guided meditations, yoga and pranayama, inward sensing, forest bathing, and much more
- The “life-force deficit”—explore how our separation from nature affects us physiologically and spiritually
- Ancestral skills—such as tracking, foraging, building fires, and finding shelter
- Develop a sense of calm, clarity, connection, and confidence in both your daily life and the great outdoors
- What you can learn from nature’s teachers—lessons from mountains, rivers, trees, and our animal kin
- Rewild in the wild—guidelines around safety, preparedness, appropriate gear, and packing lists
- A mindful rewilding flow—put everything together in an immersive, step-by-step rewilding experience
- Awaken your authentic spiritual connection with the natural world as you come home to your true self
- Understand the relationship between our health and the health of our planet—and how we can begin to heal both
Part celebration of the natural world, part spiritual memoir, and part how-to guide, Rewilding is a must-read for anyone who wants to embrace their wild nature and essential place in the living earth. is a must-read for anyone who wants to embrace their wild nature and essential place in the living earth.
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FAQ About SAGE-Student Advancement through Gifted Education
What is SAGE?
SAGE is the Deer Valley Unified School Districts program of Gifted and Talented students in grades 3-8. Students receive instruction in the area of math and reading daily. Below is a brief description of the Districts 3-6 program.
Enriched with problem based learning units and Accelerated at least 1 grade level based on student readiness.Mastery of grade level standards is insured first.
3-6 Language Arts
The Language Arts Program replaces reading content with literature studies and units of study from the College for Gifted Education of William and Mary. Processes include critical and creative thinking skills, discovery learning, passion projects,open-ended problem solving, choice of learning activities, small group interaction, greater variety, and Socratic Seminar Discussions.
Is there a lot of homework in the SAGE classes?
No, when students use their time wisely there is only about 20 minutes in math daily and probably about the same or less in language arts besides independent reading time.I believe that homework is an opportunity to practice and master concepts introduced in the classroom and not busy work.I also believe in quality versus quantity .Students must have time to unplug ,give their brains a rest and participate in unstructured down time so they can be ready for the next school day.
How does a students qualify for the program?
Students qualify by scoring in the 97 percentile or Standard Age Score of 132 on the Cognitive Abilities Test or another test accepted by the Arizona Department of Education for gifted identification. Deer Valley will accept students scoring 95th percentile in verbal or quantitative provisionally for one subject area. Deer Valley Schools provide testing using the Cognitive Abilities Test three time during the year. Students may be referred by teachers, parents, or themselves for testing. More information can be obtained from classroom teachers.
How can I prepare my child for the test?
You can't. Because this is a test of reasoning skills there is no way to prepare. Just make sure they are rested and relaxed.
If my child is in SAGE do they retest each year?
No. Once a student qualifies with the above criteria they do not retest.
Testing DVUSD Students
DVUSD offers testing for gifted identification three times per year at all K-6 and K-8 schools. We honor parents requests for gifted testing but recommend that parents first read Characteristics of Gifted Students. Should you decide to have your child tested, contact the SAGE teacher or Gifted Coach at your school. For more information about the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) and the testing process, visit DVUSD's Gifted Services page.
Testing Students Not Enrolled in a DVUSD School
DVUSD provides testing for a fee for students enrolled in a charter or private school or neighboring district schools. We will schedule out of district students for testing at the DVUSD District Office. Please call 623-445-5000.
DVUSD accepts any gifted identification assessment that is approved by the state board of education and administered by a trained and qualified administrator. Submit your report to Mrs. Schubert and it will be submitted to the district for varification.
Students New to DVUSD
When you enroll your student in a DVUSD school, it is important that you notify the office staff and of your child’s gifted status. Services can continue without delay if you provide documentation of gifted test scores. With a verified gifted identification report, your child will be placed in a gifted cluster classroom upon enrollment.
If you are new to the state and your child was tested using an identification tool that is not acknowledged in Arizona, you will need to refer your child to take the Cognitive Abilities Test. Please bring any documentation that you have, and communicate with the school's registrar and SAGE teacher or Gifted Coach regarding your child’s status and history with gifted identification.
What If Your Child Does Not Qualify for Gifted Services?
Test administration guidelines require that 12 months pass before the same test is administered again. It is generally recommended to wait two years before retesting. If the student scores are in the high 80’s to mid 90’s, parents and teachers may consider retesting in the future. Retesting a child more than twice usually does not provide drastically different results. Keep in mind that high grades and/or high scores on standardized achievement tests are not necessarily indicators that a student is gifted. You may find the following article informative:
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We all know that light can be both harmful and beneficial for our vision and our overall health, especially sleeping. Natural sunlight contains both UV and blue light. We all know the dangers of UV or Ultraviolet light and we often wear sunglasses to prevent long term damage. But, what do we know about Blue light? Blue light, which is part of the visible light spectrum, reaches deeper into your eye and its cumulative effect can cause damage to your retina and it is connected to the development of age-related macular degeneration, worst of all, it makes your brain wide awake when you are about to go to bed. This is a must have software for those that works late into the night for a better eye protection, health and productivity.
Apple and Microsoft have tackled this issue by baking new features into their operating systems. You can now turn on nighttime settings to filter out the blue tones that trigger the nervous system to become more wakeful, interfering with sleep for people who use the devices before going to bed.
The science behind these features is convincing, according to James Stringham, a psychology researcher at the University of Georgia. “There’s a plausible rationale for blue light filters to work,” he says. “Fundamentally, if you reduce blue light with a yellowish filter, that certainly would help.”
f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you’re in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again. Tell f.lux what kind of lighting you have, and where you live. Then forget about it. f.lux will do the rest, automatically.
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Patricia Stahn, Hubert H. Lim, Marius P. Hinsberger, Katharina Sorg, Lukas Pillong, Marc Kannengießer, Cathleen Schreiter, Hans-Jochen Foth, Achim Langenbucher, Bernhard Schick & Gentiana I. Wenzel
Scientific Reportsvolume 9, Article number: 4171 (2019)
Hearing impairment is one of the most common sensory deficits in humans. Hearing aids are helpful to patients but can have poor sound quality or transmission due to insufficient output or acoustic feedback, such as for high frequencies. Implantable devices partially overcome these issues but require surgery with limited locations for device attachment. Here, we investigate a new optoacoustic approach to vibrate the hearing organ with laser stimulation to improve frequency bandwidth, not requiring attachment to specific vibratory structures, and potentially reduce acoustic feedback. We developed a laser pulse modulation strategy and simulated its response at the umbo (1–10 kHz) based on a convolution-based model. We achieved frequency-specific activation in which non-contact laser stimulation of the umbo, as well as within the middle ear at the round window and otic capsule, induced precise shifts in the maximal vibratory response of the umbo and neural activation within the inferior colliculus of guinea pigs, corresponding to the targeted, modelled and then stimulated frequency. There was also no acoustic feedback detected from laser stimulation with our experimental setup. These findings open up the potential for using a convolution-based optoacoustic approach as a new type of laser hearing aid or middle ear implant. | <urn:uuid:6f65b89b-9613-444e-a89e-5776774cd75f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.singerinstruments.com/citation/frequency-specific-activation-of-the-peripheral-auditory-system-using-optoacoustic-laser-stimulation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.886981 | 342 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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About the Delta Society
Delta Therapy Dogs™ Program involves temperament testing volunteers’ pet dogs and training the volunteers to become Therapy teams.
All of the teams are clearly identified - the volunteers wear attractive monogrammed polo shirts and their dogs wear stylish bandannas -
and have a high community profile.
Volunteers and their Delta Therapy dogs will visit any institution where re-establishing contact with a companion animal enhances the quality of
the patients’ and residents’ lives.
The joy and therapeutic benefit that our visiting volunteers and their Delta dogs bring to our clients – from small children to frail elderly nursing home residents - really has to be seen to be fully appreciated.
What are Delta Therapy Dogs?
The Delta Therapy Dogs program is the largest of its kind in Australia.
Every week, Delta’s amazing and devoted Volunteer Therapy Dog teams bring joy to the lives of those who need it most. The teams brighten the lives of an estimated 20,000 Australians in hospitals and health care facilities.
They currently support over 1,000 volunteers and their special dogs who make regular visits to hospitals, aged care facilities, mental health units and disability services to offer the wonderful benefits of pet therapy.
The teams spend time with patients and offer a chat,
a floppy ear to listen and a paw to shake.
Delta Therapy Dogs
Delta Therapy Dogs is a heart-warming program that brings the joys of
animal companionship to those who need it most.
Delta’s amazing and devoted volunteer Therapy Dog Teams
brighten the lives of an estimated 20,000 Australians
in hospitalsand care facilities every week.
Our world class program is the largest of its kind in Australia with over 1000+ volunteers and their special dogs making regular visits to health care facilities to offer the wonderful benefits of pet therapy, spend time with patients and offer a chat, a floppy ear to listen and a paw to shake.
There are currently over 850 facilities involved nationally ranging from aged care through to acute care hospitals for children and adults as well mental health, prisons and dementia specific facilities.
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Hayao Miyazaki's animated films maintain a fragile balance between menace and innocence. Some of his features, like My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service, take place in a sunny wonderland where there are no villains, apart from doubt. More recent efforts, like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, adopt a darker tone, but still hold to the idea that everyone has some good in them, and that evil mostly stems from fear and misunderstanding. Still working its way through the back catalog of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli, Disney has released three more anime features that once again take up this theme, though an unpleasantly crude translation in one case upsets that balance that makes Miyazaki's films such elegant wonders.
Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind was one of Miyazaki's earliest efforts; he started it as a long-running comic epic, but in 1984, he produced a two-hour animated version. The visuals are dated by comparison with his more recent works, but all the Miyazaki hallmarks are in place: rapturous explorations of natural vistas, a fascination with flight and flying machines, and a spunky female lead out to change the world, or at least hold her corner of it together through sheer love. Nausicaä is the princess of a rural valley that lives at peace on the edge of a deadly fungal wasteland, until a ship carrying a weapon from a bygone industrial age crash-lands nearby. When warriors from a far country come to retrieve the artifact, their invasion draws Nausicaä and her people into a sprawling political conflict. Part epic adventure, part environmental tract, part early testing ground for the themes and characters of Princess Mononoke, Nausicaä is in some ways a grim and serious film, but it mixes a sweet optimism into its horror-filled lessons.
The shorter 1992 feature Porco Rosso is a little more grown-up, but even more buoyant in its conviction that everybody's a hero at heart. The film centers on a '30s-era seaplane pilot who was, for vaguely explained reasons, cursed to become an anthropomorphic pig; now he serves as a bounty hunter in the Adriatic, running down air pirates for hefty fees. Eventually, the squabbling pirates hire an American blowhard to shoot Porco down, which launches a loose, low-key plotline in which romance and airplane design feature prominently. Porco Rosso was initially conceived as a short film for Japan Airlines, and its roots show in its delight with aviation and the experience of flight, but also in its somewhat shapeless plot.
First-time Studio Ghibli director Hiroyuki Morita took the helm for The Cat Returns, a barely connected spin-off of the Miyazaki-scripted, unavailable-in-America 1995 Ghibli film Whisper Of The Heart. Whisper is a sweet, low-key romance between two kids finding their own identities; by contrast, The Cat Returns is a frantic fantasy in which a klutzy, self-doubting teenage girl saves a cat from being hit by a truck, and consequently learns that he's the Prince Of Cats, and she's engaged to marry him. Over the course of 75 rambunctious minutes, she enlists the aid of a handful of odd characters voiced in the English language version by the likes of Elliott Gould and Peter Boyle, but eventually she's kidnapped to the Kingdom Of The Cats, where she's menaced by Tim Curry as the Cat King. The results are disappointingly conventional for a Ghibli film—the film is good-hearted, energetic, and full of Ghibli's characteristically beautiful hand-rendered animation, but it's also lightweight and hyper, with none of Miyazaki's more resonant themes.
Disney's casting, scripting, and direction of the English dubs for Nausicaä and Cat Returns is generally solid and respectful, though the two-disc packages of each seem unnecessary, since the extras are minimal and the additional discs are devoted entirely to storyboards. Though Disney does well by the material overall, Porco Rosso is an odd exception. The extensive rewrites of the dub script insert gags and jibes that seem unnecessary and awkward by comparison with the more staid subtitled translation, and while Michael Keaton as Porco does okay even in growly Beetlejuice mode, other cast members—including Cary Elwes, Susan Egan, and David Ogden Stiers—seem to mistake silly accents for characterization. But the degree to which goofiness and snideness throw the movie off-center just emphasizes the admirable delicacy of Miyazaki's style: No one else in animation so successfully makes happiness into cogent entertainment, or puts such a uniquely joyous spin on stories that could just be rote action-adventures if placed in the wrong hands. | <urn:uuid:278874b6-731e-4255-b161-cd823b5a1669> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.avclub.com/nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind-1798200446 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954223 | 1,005 | 1.671875 | 2 |
How gaming will influence the construction industry
The Chartered Institute of Building has developed a construction game which will provide players with relevant skills and supply key knowledge towards processes which could be utilised within a construction role. Amongst increased concerns that over 400,000 UK Construction workers are set to retire between 2018 and 2023, there is a vital need to find ways to attract and engage a younger and impressionable market into the construction industry by developing their knowledge and skills base, alongside an interest within various roles within construction.
The “global games market [is] expected to grow from $91.8 billion in 2015 to a total of $118.6 billion by 2019” (source: UK Interactive Entertainment). ‘Craft your Future’ has been incorporated within the already popular game ‘Minecraft’, which has been purchased over a staggering 18,000,000 times since its original release. The game is aimed at 12-14 year olds, where they encounter real life issues and scenarios within the construction industry, designing, collaborating with others and building effective solutions for potential real-life construction tasks. The game is freely accessible through the Minecraft Education Platform and is popular within educational institutions, of which the lessons are split into four sectors: construction, restoration, maintenance and new build and refurbishment.
Bridget Bartlett, Deputy Chief Executive at the CIOB said: “Combining Minecraft and a thorough curriculum for the teacher makes for a unique and immersive experience and will help reveal why the industry is important and why a career in construction can be so rewarding […] these young learners will not only have fun but also develop their communication, team working and mathematics skills; skills that construction has a high demand for.”
For more information: http://ciobmc.org.
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|The World R:1||The World R:X|
|Japanese Voice||Atsuko Enomoto|
|English Voice||Sandy Fox|
- "I'm looking for people to go with me, but when they find out where I want to go, they won't come."
- — A-20 —
A-20 is a small orange-haired girl who wears a short pink dress. The dress is decorated with her wave symbols. Her most noticeable feature is her eyes, which are almost always kept closed.
Despite being a bit of a newbie, A-20 is a very determined person. Her hobby in The World is collecting Golden Grunties, a rare item that she prizes because of how ugly it is. She can usually be found with one of her classmates (A-17, A-19, etc.), or Mimiru who is one of her close friends.
A-20 is a student in Junior High. She started playing The World so she could prove her strength to her classmates who also play the game. She is in class A with class number 20, hence her name A-20.
A-20 first appears in the .hack//SIGN episode Reason. In it, she gets Mimiru to join her in tackling a high-level dungeon in Carmina Gadelica. She complains about how boring and pointless the game is. When she reveals that she had only played the game for one week instead of the two weeks she originally said, Mimiru ditches her in the dungeon. Later in the episode, Mimiru has a change of heart and returns to the dungeon, saving her, and the two reach the bottom level where they find a Golden Grunty. Mimiru gives it to her and tells A-20 to keep playing The World and see if she winds up liking it. A-20 makes another appearance in a later episode, partying with Mimiru when Tsukasa couldn't make it.
A-20 appears in a few special dungeons, so she hasn't quit playing. At this point, she is now collecting Golden Grunties despite the fact that she thinks they're ugly. A-20 also appears as one of the SIGN Phantoms. She begins to wander the Root Towns near the end of Quarantine.
- A-20's name is written the same in both English and Japanese
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The Covid-19 death without underlying health issues is a 50-year-old female in Hoc Mon outlying district. She was tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on June 22. She was succumbed to coronavirus disease because of breathing and multi-organ failure, septic shock, and pneumonia relating to SARS-CoV-2.
Another elderly woman, 85-year-old, in District 1 died of the disease. She has been suffering from stroke and lying down for years.
The three deaths in the Mekong Delta Province of Dong Thap were a 43 -year- old woman and a 54 -year- old woman and a 59-year-old woman with diabetes, high blood pressure, Thalassemia - an inherited blood disorder caused when the body doesn’t make enough of a protein called hemoglobin, an important part of red blood cells. | <urn:uuid:22b41fde-1297-43bb-95c3-ee30099fa721> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sggpnews.org.vn/health/covid19-deaths-with-and-without-underlying-health-conditions-in-hcmc-dong-thap-93308.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974051 | 185 | 2.28125 | 2 |
8 Everyday Foods That Help Boost Your Energy
Food that gives you energy helps raise your metabolism and battles fatigue. Here are eight foods you can eat today to recharge your battery and feel better.
Nodding off in meetings? Napping after lunch? While getting inadequate sleep and failing to exercise can contribute to feeling sluggish, what you eat contributes more to your energy level than you may realize. Technically speaking, all food provides fuel for your body, but the food that gives you energy contains a higher percentage of the protein, vitamins, fiber and complex carbohydrates needed to sustain that energy throughout the day. Up next, don’t miss these 30+ protein-packed snack recipes.
In addition to a healthy dose of complex carbohydrates, brown rice is a good source of magnesium. Just one cup provides 25 percent of the daily magnesium needs for women and 20 percent of the amount recommended for men. Low magnesium levels hinder the body’s metabolism, so dig into this Brown Rice Chutney Salad to spice up your energy and your taste buds.
Yogurt is also high in magnesium, which is essential for releasing energy. High levels of calcium and vitamin B are an added bonus. Work yogurt into your diet as a substitute for sour cream and a thickener for chilled soups, or start your day with a Mango Smoothie.
The high level of protein in beans helps stabilize blood sugar levels throughout the day. High levels of vitamin B help your body turn food into energy. Widely available and inexpensive, beans are an easy way to introduce energy-boosting meals into your diet. Take a container of Colorful Corn & Black Bean Salad to work, or cook up some Hearty Baked Beans for supper.
A handful of almonds might just be the perfect snack. Nutrient rich and boasting healthy unsaturated fats, nuts are also packed with protein. But don’t overindulge—nuts are high in calories, too. A moderate helping of Coconut Almond Granola would be a great way to start the day.
Known for being packed with vitamin C, oranges also contain lots of potassium and folate. Oranges dole out energy over time, so try this Strawberry-Orange Spinach Salad with Toasted Walnuts for lunch and you may be able to avoid wanting a mid-afternoon nap.
Spinach is considered a superfood for good reason. An all-around nutrition powerhouse, spinach is a great source of iron, which helps combat fatigue and increases mental and physical endurance. The tyrosine in spinach also helps improve alertness, so if you’ve got a final exam or a heated round of Trivial Pursuit in the near future, fill up on Orange Vinaigrette Spinach Salad (the vitamin C in the oranges helps boost iron absorption).
For sustained energy, lay off the coffee, energy drinks and sugary sodas and brew yourself a cup of green tea. It does contain caffeine, but not as much as coffee, which helps you get the boost without the buzz. One of the real benefits appears to come from an amino acid, L-theanine, which has been shown to increase mental alertness. Drink it hot, or switch it up with Iced Melon Moroccan Mint Tea.
(It’s pronounced “keen-wah.”) If you haven’t leapt onto the quinoa bandwagon, jump now. Packed with protein, amino acids, magnesium, folate, manganese and more, this could be the easiest whole grain—seed, really—to add to your diet. It cooks in minutes and provides a long-lasting energy boost. If you need inspiration, try these 20 quinoa recipes.
How to develop an energy-boosting lifestyle
Keep your energy going with these tips:
- Avoid consuming overly processed and artificial food, refined sugars or energy drinks that give you a momentary boost but send you crashing later.
- Eat a balanced diet.
- Consume food that’s in season and grown locally.
- Stay hydrated throughout the day.
- Adhere to a regular exercise regime.
- Get a good night’s sleep.
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Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Richard P. Feynman was born in Queens, New York, on May 11, 1918, to Jewish (although non-practicing) parents. By age 15, he had mastered differential and integral calculus, and frequently experimented and re-created mathematical topics such as the half-derivative before even entering college. Feynman received a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1939, and was named Putnam Fellow that same year. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1942, and in his theses applied the principle of stationery action to problems of quantum mechanics, laying the groundwork for the "path integral" approach and Feynman diagrams.
While researching his Ph.D., Feynman married his first wife and longtime sweetheart, Arline Greenbaum, who was already quite ill with tuberculosis. At Princeton, Robert W. Wilson encouraged Feynman to participate in the Manhattan Project. He did so, visiting his wife in a sanitarium in Albuquerque on weekends until her death in July 1945. He then immersed himself in work on the project and was present at the Trinity bomb test.
Hans Bethe made the 24 year old Feynman a group leader in the theoretical division. Although his work on the project was relatively removed from the major action, Feynman did calculate neutron equations for the Los Alamos "Water Boiler," a small nuclear reactor at the desert lab, in order to measure how close a particular assembly of fissile material was to becoming critical. After this work, he was transferred to the Oak Ridge facility, where he aided engineers in calculating safety procedures for material storage so that inadvertent criticality accidents could be avoided.
After the project, Feynman started working as a professor at Cornell University, and then moved to Cal Tech in Pasadena, Calif., where he did much of his best work including research in quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and a model of weak decay. Feynman's collaboration on the latter with Murray Gell-Mann was seen as seminal, as the weak interaction was neatly described. He also developed Feynman diagrams, a bookkeeping device that helps in conceptualizing and calculating interactions between particles in spacetime, notably the interactions between electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons.
He later married Gweneth Howarth and had a son, Carl Richard, and a daughter, Michelle Catherine. In 1965, Feynman, along with Julian Schwinger and Shinichiro Tomonaga, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for work in quantum electrodynamics. Feynman's popular lection series was published in "The Feynman Lectures," while his personal side was captured in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
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2020 Georgia Code
Title 45 - Public Officers and Employees
Chapter 12 - Governor
Article 5 - Gubernatorial Transition
§ 45-12-192. "Governor-Elect" Defined
As used in this article, the term "Governor-elect" means the apparent successful candidate for the office of Governor who is declared duly elected by the State Election Board.
(Ga. L. 1971, p. 769, § 3.)
Disclaimer: These codes may not be the most recent version. Georgia may have more current or accurate information. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or the information linked to on the state site. Please check official sources. | <urn:uuid:f72aa8c4-7955-4b26-a96f-153013902dc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2020/title-45/chapter-12/article-5/section-45-12-192/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.859665 | 151 | 1.914063 | 2 |
In this article, you will know everything about tips for writing scholarship essays, this article is very important for students who want to get their dream scholarship.
Scholarship essay examples and tips will help you get started with a good business school scholarship essay. Make sure to plan ahead and start writing early so that you will have more time to adjust your essay for the requirements of the institution. Read the essay statement and come up with ideas that relate to yourself and to the question.
What should you not write in a scholarship essay?
Rule of thumb, you should demonstrate the reasons you are the right candidate for the institution and reasons they must select you, especially with the qualities you have.
Speaking of qualities, you may want to check out your target school’s official website so that you can have a clear idea of the characteristics they are looking for students, their mission and vision that are aligned with your goals and their culture and guiding principles that also happen to be matching with your personality, characteristics and qualities. This is one of the best article on tips for writing scholarship essays.
- Phrases like needless to say…, in conclusion….in order to…nevertheless…
- Words like quite, very, totally, actually, already, much, like, dark…
- Non-related experiences
- Sounding like a freshman (teen speak)
- Adventures (sky diving, scuba diving…)
Learning of the best ways to write your essay will help you in winning an. Remember, start early and write early, too. In the process, you will have enough room to improve your essays until you reach perfection.
Tips for Writing Scholarship Essays
After you know how to write an essay, make sure that you read your paper a couple of times before submission make sure it does not contain any mistakes. Learn about the best ways on how to write MBA essay today! Here you will find tips for writing scholarship essays.
1. Be concise
Concise and clear writing will allow you to have an effective scholarship essay. The goal is to eliminate any unnecessary words from your sentences and structure them in the most efficient way possible.
2. Use outlines
One of the challenges in developing an essay is to make sure it is different from other students that are why you need to take your time in developing your outline. If you do not have outlines, you tend to repeat what you are saying or writing.
3. Think of your essay as evidence based document
In here, you need to give specific setting and time together with project titles and formal positions. If you are leading in your team before, tell it for the readers to know about it. Understanding when to use them effeciently, as well as which types of evidence best support different points, can help you write a more good scholarship essay.
4. Use simple language
This is one of the tips that you should always follow in writing an essay. There are thousands of applicants every year that is why you need to make sure that your essay has simple language for the readers to easily understand it. Keep in mind that beautiful writing will not appreciate the committee alone because you need to make sure you are not just writing in English, but you are presenting your goals.
5. Give your professional or academic goal
Writing your focused goal statement in your opening and closing is a good approach. In here, you need to make it concise and clear again.
Writing a good goals essay or leadership essay for the application can make you a big difference because it lets the admissions committee into your mind, your ideas and your perspectives.
It lets them learn about the person behind the achievements. In short, they get to know that driven and motivated person who wants to reach those goals.
6. When it comes to community impact
If it is about community impact, tell them how much time you spend for your chosen activities in the community. You also have to discuss why such are important to you. Also, you should tell them the importance of such activities for the community and what difference they do for your community. You can also discuss what you have gained from such activities.
7. Look into industry-specific scholarships
Make sure that you look into industry-specific scholarships. You can also ask around and make sure that you select where to apply based on your interests and goals.
Also industry-specific scholarships are ideal for prospective or existing graduate students who are already working in a specific field or those who are going to university for a different degree but have a clear sense like where they want to go with their careers.
8. Your unique selling points
What are your unique selling points? Reflect and make sure to include these in your essay. You should also tell the committee how you are going to enrich the program.
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The Commerce Commission's initial report on the factors affecting competition for key building materials and how that affects housing costs will be out next month, just as pressure on the sector mounts due to the Gib supply crisis.
One construction sector chief wants the Government to axe Fletcher Building's 94 per cent hold on the plasterboard market, saying it was wrong that it ever got to that.
Shane Brealey, managing director of builder/developer Simplicity Living, said Winstone Wallboards should never have become so dominant.
It was now time for the Government to act, he said.
"There was a playing down of the crisis and how long it might last," he said after Friday's meeting between critics and Fletcher chiefs.
"I would love to think that they are right and that this will all blow over in two to three months' time but I just can't see it."
Winstone had under-estimated the amount of damage the crisis had caused, he said.
What New Zealand needed was a long-term solution where the country was not so beholden to Winstone, with 94 per cent of its plasterboard market, Brealey said.
"Hopefully, the Government can get some action around that so we're not so dependant on one source. They hadn't taken it as seriously as they should have. This has now got to go to the politicians," Brealey said.
Building and Construction Minister Megan Woods has also expressed concern: "The plasterboard shortage is a high Government priority, with ministers directing officials several weeks ago to look into what could be done to alleviate the impact on construction projects."
On December 17, the commission said it "expects to release a draft report for consultation around July 2022 and its final report by December 6."
That comes at a time when the construction sector is under pressure, Driving builders and developers to Australia and Thailand for plasterboard due to desperation from shortages here.
A commission spokesman said today the draft report would be out later next month and everyone will get to see it, just as they have with other market studies lately including that into supermarkets.
High plasterboard costs were Highlighted by Simplicity Living's Shane Brealey, who said this month Thai imported plasterboard was much cheaper than Gib, even by the time all the shipping costs were included.
Thai board cost $11/sheet in shipping costs. But even then a standard Thai board sheet was only $19.50/sheet compared to Gib at $25/sheet, Brealey said.
"For standard board, [Thai] is 20 per cent cheaper and for moisture-resistant, it's around 40 per cent cheaper when we buy in the larger volumes we are," Brealey said of Bangkok plasterboard compared with Winstone Wallboards' product.
Gib's pricing has come under less attack than its shortage.
"Gib will lose a hell of a lot of loyalty," predicted Naylor Love chief executive Rick Herd.
"Smaller companies who aren't as resourceful as Naylor Love will go under because of it. Absolutely they will. They won't be able to get Gib. Jobs will run late," he said.
The commission said that in July it will publish a draft report that sets out its preliminary findings about competition for residential building supplies.
"If we make preliminary findings that competition is not working well, we may develop some proposed options to improve competition."
Feedback will then be sought on the preliminary findings and any proposed changes to the industry.
Anna Rawlings, commission chairwoman, said house building was an important part of our building and construction industry and vital to ensuring housing supply can meet demand.
"Various reports on the industry have raised concerns at rising building costs and this study allows us to consider the industry's approach to key building supplies and how effectively competition is working within the industry, and where it may be able to be improved," Rawlings said.
"The broad terms of reference invite us to look up and down the supply chain and across product lines, at the industry structure and nature of competition for key building supplies, at pricing practices or acquisition requirements that may impact on competition, and anything that may be impeding new or innovative building supplies, such as 'green' building supplies or novel prefabricated products.
"We will be inviting views on the areas of focus for this study, in terms of both the 'key building supplies' to focus on and the issues to explore," Rawlings said.
Twenty-five submissions have been made to the commission from many different parties including companies and trade entities.
Fletcher Building, Bunnings, Carter Holt Harvey, Concrete NZ, Frame & Truss Manufacturers Association, Invercargill-headquartered HW Richardson Group, Infrastructure New Zealand, Master Plumbers, NZ Construction Council, Metal Roofing Manufacturers' Association, Property Council and Master Builders were some submitters.
Monopoly Watch took a swipe at Fletchers and Carters, saying the industry "has performed fabulously for investors who own vertically integrated supply chains but not so for consumers or tradesfolk.
"Monopoly Watch predicts submission after submission blaming councils, MBIE, Kāinga Ora, the weather - everyone and everything except a thoughtful review of industry structures precluded by vested interest lenses," that said.
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Tiotropium bromide and Formoterol fumarate combination drug is involved in making breathing easier for the people suffering from, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder. It is available in the dosage form of capsules containing a dry powdered formulation of the two drugs Tiotropium and formoterol that is intended for the oral inhalation only with the help of an inhalation product.
Tiotropium bromide is an anticholinergic bronchodilator that relieves the discomfort caused by COPD i.e. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (chronic bronchitis and emphysema). Formoterol on the other hand is a long-acting bronchodilator.
THE AILMENTS IT IS USED FOR:
This combination therapy is used for long term management of severe COPD to treat symptoms but it is not used for acute exacerbation.
HOW IT WORKS?
The drug acts as a bronchodilator, producing the dilatory effect on smooth muscles and increases the mucus secretion from the nasal passage and bronchioles. Formoterol and Tiotropium bromide both are rapid-onset and long-acting selective beta-agonist and bronchodilator that relaxes the muscles of the small airways of the lungs (bronchioles) to widen the airways.
WHEN SHOULD YOU AVOID IT?
You should not take this drug if you:
Are pregnant, the doctor must be consulted in an urgency to take the medicine to avoid any harm to the fetus
Hypersensitivity to Ipratropium or Tiotropium
Are younger than 10 years of age, as the safety of the medicine is not yet established in children
Have any type of renal or hepatic impairment
Having angioderma(swelling of lips, throat and tongue)
HOW MUCH TO TAKE?
The dose intake is prescribed by the Doctor depending upon the severity and demand of the disease condition. Always follow doctor?s instructions.
WHAT ARE THE STRENGTHS AVAILABLE?
The drug Tiotropium bromide and formoterol fumarate is available in the following strength:
Duova inhaler 9mcg + 6mcg
WHO IS THE MANUFACTURER?
This drug Duova and its various dosage forms are manufactured by a well known pharmaceutical company, Cipla. It is available on our websites in various pack sizes of 200, 400 and 600 doses.
HOW TO USE?
Do not swallow the capsules as they are for inhalation purpose only. Following are the ways to take the medicine:
Always check the mouthpiece before using, it should always be clean and dirt free
Place the inhaler in and upright position and shake well
Now empty your lungs by exhaling the air completely out of the lungs
Put the mouthpiece in your mouth and close your lips
Take a deep breath through your mouth and press the canister to get puff of the medicine
Remove the inhaler and hold your breath for 10 seconds
Now breathe out through nose
Replace the cap and if needed take the second dose by repeating the steps as mentioned above.
WHEN TO TAKE?
Take your drug dose at the same time every day as this will become a habit and will be less forgotten by the patient. Take your doctor?s advice about the time of dosage if there is any confusion about the dosage time.
FOR HOW LONG SHOULD IT BE TAKEN?
This medicine controls your condition, but does not cure it. It is thus advised to take the drug as long as recommended by the doc tor even in the case you find yourself well. Do not stop the drug without doctor?s advice.
WHAT IF YOU TAKE TOO MUCH (OVERDOSE)?
Too much this drug may be disturbing or serious in many cases. Due to the overdose of the drug you may have a fast or irregular heartbeat; dry mouth or blurred vision. In such a case visit nearest healthcare center or call your doctor.
WHAT IF YOU MISS THE DOSE?
In case you forget to take the dose, take it as soon as you remember, as long as it is at least 12 hours before your next dose. Do not double up the dose for the missed one.
SIDE EFFECTS OF DUOVA INHALERS:
• Breathing difficulty or worsening of your breathing problems
• Bilateral conjunctivitis
• Dry mouth
• Pounding heart beat
• Wheezing or troubled breathing
• Stuffy nose, nosebleed
• White patches in your mouth or throat.
ARE THERE ANY POSSIBLE DRUG INTERACTIONS?
You should ask your doctor about the full list of the drugs to be avoided or that you should be careful of while taking this drug. There are very few adverse drug interactions encountered with this drug yet the co-administration of this drug with other may cause harmful sideffects to other people.
WHAT ARE THE THINGS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF?
Rinse your mouth after using the inhaler to prevent dry mouth and throat irritation.
Do not swallow these Rota caps by mouth
Clean the device once in a month with water
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Operational Tram List
The Museum’s operational fleet not only includes an extensive collection of Sydney trams from 1896 to 1997, but also trams from Brisbane, Melbourne, Ballarat, Adelaide, San Francisco, Nagasaki, Berlin, Munich and Milan, enabling comparisons between the different tramcar designs. A double-deck tram from Hobart and a Brill-built bogie car of 1902 from the Western Australian gold-mining city of Kalgoorlie still have yet to be restored.
Please note – trams cars can and do get regularly moved between the display hall and the running shed. Unfortunately members of the public are not able to inspect trams in the running shed due to safety issues.
The first examples of electric Sydney trams were of single truck saloon cars imported from America. It was this design that would influence locally built cars to be made likewise. Eventually, single truck and bogie truck examples of “California Combination” type trams would be introduced. As the popularity of the trams grew, capacity on these cars would become limited, and other design options would be considered. Most of the Victorian era cars however, would go on to have a second life as works cars to maintain the system. It was this example of repurposing that allowed many trams of this era to survive into preservation.
C 290 Built in 1896 by Bignall & Morrison. Acquired in 1955. Restored to original passenger condition from 1996-97. Display hall; operational for special events. Oldest operational electric tramcar in Australia.
C 29 Built in 1898 by Hudson Bros. Acquired in 1961. On loan to the Old Spaghetti Factory from 1972 to 1989. Restored to static display in 1995. Made operational in 2001. Operational in occasional service.
F 393 Built in 1902 by Clyde Engineering. Acquired in 1953. Display hall; operational for special events. Only F class car remaining, owing to its use as a driver training tram.
The Edwardian era saw a progressive return to the cross-bench design of trams that had seen success with the Steam Tram trailers. The layout allowed for high passenger capacity and fast unloading/loading times, which proved reliable during special events or the peak hour rush. Colloquially, the cross-bench design came to be known as “toastracks”, due to their aesthetic similarities with the kitchen item. The toastracks came to be the dominant form of tramcar design in Sydney, lasting until the closure of the Bondi and Bronte lines in 1960.
J 675 Built in 1904 by Meadowbank Manufacturing Company. Acquired in 1996. Restoration completed in 2009 by Bendigo Tramways. Operational in occasional service. (2016: Currently out of Service.)
N 728 Built in 1906 by Meadowbank Manufacturing Company. Acquired in 1953. Display hall; operational for special events.
O 1111 Built in 1912 by Meadowbank Manufacturing Company. Acquired in 1958. Operational in regular service.
Prosperity in the twenties brought a new sophistication amongst the population calling for some improvements in styling and passenger comfort, though demand for high carrying capacity remained a priority. The result was the P class car; a design that provided better visibility and weather protection for passengers plus some advances in technical features as well. Other trams came to be modified to this design too, whether as a result of accidents, or just to increase general capacity.
P 1497 Built in 1922 by the NSW Department of Transport. Acquired in 1959. Operational in regular service.
L/P 154 Built in 1900 by Clyde Engineering as an F class car. Converted in 1910 to an ‘L’ type tram, and again in 1926 as an ‘L/P’ type. Acquired in 1950. Currently representing trams from the Newcastle system. Operational in occasional service. Known as the oldest preserved tram in the Southern Hemisphere.
Increasing use of motor cars made it evident that public transport would need to become more competitive. Comfortable seating and ease of entry would be more important on some routes than seating capacity. Certain routes also needed improved braking. The answer was seen in the new R class cars which boasted soft leather seats and a drop-centre section. A further modification to this design – known as the R1 – saw the removal of this drop centre; allowing for more seating capacity. Both the R’s and the R1’s were first introduced in the early-mid 1930’s, with a further 100 R1’s introduced in the early 1950’s. It was these types of cars which saw out the closure of the tramway network in 1961.
R 1740 Built in 1933 by Clyde Engineering. Acquired in 1959. Operational in regular service.
R1 1979 Built in 1936 by Clyde Engineering. Acquired in 1972. Operational in regular service.
R1 2001 Built in 1951 by Commonwealth Engineering. Acquired in 2001. Restored by Bendigo Tramways for a proposed tourist tram line in Canberra. Operational in regular service.
Modern Light Rail Vehicles
In 1997, trams returned to Sydney, with the opening of the Pyrmont Light Rail line from Central Station to Wentworth Park (later extended to Lilyfield, then Dulwich Hill). The new line brought with it, a brand new form of tram that heralded a game changing step forward in tram design and technology in Australia. Known as Variotrams, they were the first ‘low floor’ trams in Australia, with five articulated sections, and a total length of 28.9 metres. Seven were built, and operated successfully for 17 years before being retired.
2107 Built in 1997 by ADtranz. Withdrawn in 2015 and placed in storage for three years. Acquired by Transport Heritage NSW for the State Moveable Heritage Collection in 2018. Placed on permanent loan to STM. Arrived at Loftus in October 2018 and slowly being returned to service. Operational but not yet certified for traffic.
‘Dreadnought’ 180 Built in 1924 by T Gardiner and Son. Acquired in 1958. Operational in regular service, mainly during the Summer months.
‘Dropcentre’ 295 Built in 1935 by Brisbane City Council. Acquired in 1968. Operational in regular service.
‘Phoenix’ 548 Built in 1963 by Brisbane City Council after a fire at Paddington tram depot destroyed 65 trams. One of 8 new trams that were built using salvaged and spare parts. Acquired in 1969. Operational in regular service.
‘Single-Truck’ 12 Built in 1908 by Meadowbank Manufacturing Company. Acquired in 1974. Display hall; operational for special events. Remains in “as is” condition.
‘Dropcentre’ 37 Built in 1916 by Duncan and Fraser. Acquired in 1971. Underwent 12 year refurbishment that was completed in 2016. Operational in regular service.
Note: The Melbourne Z2 link goes to an external web site – www.vicsig.net, a site with an extensive database of Victorian Railway rolling stock and infrastructure.
W2 249 Built in 1924 by James Moore & Sons for the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board. Acquired in 1996. Restored for a proposed tourist tram line in Canberra in 2001. Operational in regular service.
Y1 611 Built in 1930 as one of four one-man trams. Acquired in 2005. Restored by Bendigo Tramways in 2014. Arrived at Loftus in early 2015. Operational in regular service.
Z2 111 Built in 1979 by Comeng. Acquired in 2003. Operational in occasional service, mainly during the Winter months.
H 358 Built in 1929 by A. Pengelley & Sons. Acquired in 2006. (September 2019 – Out of service, waiting parts)
San Francisco PCC “Torpedo” 1014 Built in 1948 by St. Louis Car Company. Bicentenary gift from Sydney’s sister city San Francisco in 1987. On permanent loan from Muni. Last remaining “Torpedo” PCC in original condition. Operational in occasional service.
Nagasaki 1054 Built in 1952 by Nigata Iron Works. Operated on Sendai and Nagasaki tramway systems. Acquired in 1992. Operational in occasional service.
Berlin 5133 Built in 1969 by the East German Railways. Acquired in 1996. Operational in occasional service.
Rail Grinder No.3 (ex-No.2) Built in 1927 by the S.& E. Co. in Bath, England. Sent to Newcastle in 1935. Returned to Sydney in 1950 upon closure of the Newcastle system. Sold to Melbourne in 1958 and renumbered No.3. Acquired by the museum in 1971. Loaned to MOTAT in Auckland, New Zealand for six years, where it was fully restored for works purposes. Returned to Loftus in late 2017. Display Hall; operational for special events. Remains in its Melbourne form.
11(W) (ex-139s) Sydney and Melbourne Scrubber Car. Built by Meadowbank Manufacturing Company in 1908 as K class passenger tram 797. Converted to scrubber car in 1953. Sold to Melbourne in 1959 when it became surplus to the shrinking Sydney tramways. Continued use as a Melbourne works vehicle until withdrawn from service in 2002. Donated to STM in 2003. Arrived on site in 2015. Overhauled and brought into museum service in 2019.
24s Sydney Freight tram. Built in 1903 to transport supplies between Randwick workshops and the multiple service depots. Withdrawn in 1949. Acquired in 1955. Restored to static display in 1997. Returned to operating condition in 2017. (November 2019 – Out of service, awaiting armature exchange)
42s Sydney Ballast motor. Built in 1907 by the NSW Government Tramways. Used by the NSW Government Railways as L707 Overhead Line car from 1926 to 1980. Acquired in 1981 and relaunched in 2009. In use as a Works Car.
99u Sydney Overhead Line Car. Built by Meadowbank Manufacturing Company in 1913. Acquired in 1958. In use as a Works Car.
134s Sydney Scrubber Car. Built by Ritchie Bros. in 1899 as D class passenger car 102. Converted to a scrubber car in 1930. Scrubber cars use Carborundum blocks to ‘scrub’ the railhead clear of debris. Acquired in 1961. Used in 1978/9 to clean the Eastern Suburbs Railway tracks. Used in 1983 for a similar purpose along the Cronulla line. Used in 1997 to ‘scrub’ the tracks around Haymarket for the new Light Rail line. Operational when required.
141s Sydney Breakdown Car. Built by Meadowbank Manufacturing Company in 1911 as O 1030. Converted to a Breakdown car in 1955. Acquired in 1962. Operational in occasional service.
Buses & Trolley Buses
Leyland Tiger Single-Deck Half-Cab No.(1)275 Built in 1937 by Waddingtons. Sold for private ownership in 1952. Acquired by the museum in 1970. The last remaining pre-war Leyland half-cab in the world.
AEC Regent 3 Double-Deck Half-Cab No.2619 Built in 1952 by Clyde. One of the last traditional double-decker motor buses in Sydney upon withdrawal. Acquired by the museum in 1976. Restored in 2016. Operational for special events.
AEC 3-Axle Double-Deck Trolleybus No.19 Built in 1937 by Ritchie Bros Pty Ltd. Acquired by the Museum in 1978. Re-built and partly fitted out, by apprentices of the then State Rail in Chullora from 1982-1988. Sydney’s last remaining double-deck trolley-bus.
The Museum’s Souvenir Guide contains more information on these trams and on other trams in the Museum’s collection.
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This virtual professional training explores anticipatory grief, the grief that takes place prior to, but in connection with, a significant loss that is expected to take place, but has not yet occurred. Being forewarned of a potential loss may affect the quality and intensity of one’s grief. It may affect post-loss grief and a person’s adaptive strategies to loss. We will consider anticipatory grief associated with long-term illness, brief illness, and non-death losses. Please join us to deepen a discussion on coping with anticipatory grief.
About the Presenter:
Pamela A. Malone, Ph.D., LCSW-S, FT, Clinical Director, The Austin Center for Grief & Loss
Dr. Malone is a Fellow in Thanatology and a renowned expert in the field of grief and loss. Dr. Malone’s clinical social work experience spans over 30 years, providing mental health services to individuals, couples, and families. She has held teaching positions at the University of Texas Arlington, the University of Texas at Austin, St. Edward’s University, and Texas State University. Dr. Malone has developed and taught courses on death and dying, grief and loss, and suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. She brings with her local and national recognition in the grief and loss field through her many publications, presentations, trainings, and professional conferences.
Objectives, participants will be able to:
1. Identify anticipatory grief in caregivers
2. Explain the impact of anticipatory grief related to long-term illness, brief illness, and non-death loss
3. Describe various coping needs and strategies
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Shows your public IP
My Public IP is a utility to let you know through which internet IP the world sees you.
|My IP screenshots - click image to zoom|
EASY TO USE
- Small and fast to launch
- Instant result available after launch
- Shows public IP address behind a modem router with a shared IP
- Works where usually other utilities fail showing just your LAN IP
|Can use 4 different servers to calculate your public IP||Instant result available at launch|
|Useful to know your public IP address behind a modem router with a shared IP
Able to show your public IP where usually system utility fails showing just your LAN IP
|Can log your ip at regular time interval or only when it changes. Log can be saved on disk and maintained over relaunch|
|works also when in background showing the IP in the menu bar and you can copy the IP from within other applications.||We develop for Mac from a long time. We use only Apple native technology to create macOS apps because we love the Mac and and we love pure true macOS apps|
|Sandboxed and Gatekeeper signed respecting all the Apple rules for first class macOS apps||Includes a full User Guide in PDF accessible under the Help Menu inside the application.|
|Uses Resume, Auto Save, Versions, and Full Screen.
If you quit, on relaunch you will be returned to the same state. There's no need to save, the application does it for you. Always.
You can use the Versions feature from macOS to return to an earlier version of your work.
Full screen natively supported.
|Using the new Universal Binaries format running as 64 bit in full native mode both on Intel Mac and on the new Apple Silicon Mac|
|Optimized for macOS 12 and in Universal Format native for Intel and Apple Silicon|
- 4 different servers to calculate your public IP
- Can check for IP change at regular intervals from 5 seconds to 1 hour
- Can log the IP and its changes on a log on disk
- Can optionally alert you flashing the status icon in the menu bar when the IP changes (works also when in background)
- Can copy the Ip in the clipboard while working with other apps
- Includes embedded PDF User Guide
- Has also a similar native version for the iPhone , 'My Public IP' available on iTunes
- Optimized for macOS 12 Monterey
- Works also in Dark Mode
Read the full My IP Online User Guide
For general questions about our product, visit our Ecleti Generic OS X FAQ.
You may also read what's new in each version by going to My IP Releases.
MORE INFO ABOUT THE PUBLIC IP
Your public IP is the address at which all the other users in the world see you. This 'Public IP' some time can be 'static' and not variable, but more often is 'dynamic' and a different one is assigned to you by your provider anytime you connect. Knowing this public IP it is not always easy, specially if you are beyond a modem-router which usually serves many devices, in that case My Public IP will let you know the common public IP assigned to all your devices on the net via your modem connection.
Do not make confusion between your public IP and your LAN IP (the IP the world see you and your internal IP inside your Local Area Network are two completely different things)
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The Volt is an electric vehicle that will recharge on a normal 110-volt outlet and have a range of 40 miles on battery power and an impressive 640-mile maximum when the one-liter gasoline backup engine kicks in.
Vice chairman and red-blooded sports car lover Bob Lutz was the force behind the striking (and Camaro-resembling) Volt, which he says wasn't an easy sell in the boardroom. "I have never been more excited about a car in my entire career than the Volt," he told me.
The Volt is built on GM's new E-Flex platform, which uses electricity to drive the wheels and can accommodate different types of propulsion systems--gas, ethanol, bio-diesel, or hydrogen. However, it relies on a large lithium-ion battery, which isn't likely to be ready and affordable for a mass-market car before 2010 to 2012. I hope GM remains focused on such long-range--and costly--technology; the world is watching. | <urn:uuid:7b28e52a-495e-4b78-b766-54f9d905187e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0702/gallery.newcars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963091 | 205 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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The Obsidian Tang has a dark black body colour with a faint yellow mask over the eyes and yellow tip to the pectoral fins, a white collar in seen aroun the caudial fins base.
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DeWine: No statewide mandate for trick-or-treaters in Ohio; communities will decide
There will be no statewide mandate for trick-or-treaters this Halloween, Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday.
Instead, the decision to trick-or-treat -- or not to -- will be left to individual communities and parents.
The governor said the Ohio Department of Health will release guidance for Halloween events on Friday, but there will be no statewide mandate on permitting (or not permitting) trick-or-treating.
“Halloween historically in this state has been a very community event – Beggars Night has been a community event," the governor said. "Communities set the time themselves and they will make the determination about that. That will not change. The local (community) will decide if there’s a Beggars Night, and what time the Beggars Night is. They will do that in consultation with their local health departments.”
DeWine said ultimately, the decision will come down to parents.
“Parents, in turn, will do what parents do and make a decision if their child will go out trick-or-treating," he said.
The governor said his office has been bombarded with questions surrounding Halloween celebrations during the coronavirus pandemic. Many parents just want an answer to the question: Will it happen or not?
The answer to that question will not come from his office, the governor said, but intoned that it should look different in 2020.
"Halloween celebrations this year will not look like those in years past. Face coverings must be worn, social distancing should be practiced, large groups should be avoided," DeWine said.
“Hayrides and haunted houses are a lot more problematic," he added, saying more information will be released shortly.
A press releases is expected Friday, detailing further recommendations.
There have been countless questions about trick-or-treating during the pandemic. As health experts project an autumn surge in coronavirus cases, some cities are working to prevent future outbreaks -- some taking aim at the trick-or-treat tradition.
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Not too long ago, some Dropbox accounts were hacked. Dropbox has since told press that the hacks likely came from intercepted passwords. In an effort to prevent future attacks, Dropbox has now implemented a two-step signing process. This process will make it a lot tougher for hackers to snag account information. If you currently have a Dropbox account, you may find that it takes a few extra seconds to sign into your account now that the new measures are in place. But, in the long run, the two-step process that’s been implemented is really for your own good.
What a Two-Step Process Means
Before Dropbox changed its sign in process, users simply had to enter a password in order to access an account. Now, that password must be combined with another form of identification. This could be a word or phrase that accompanies your current password. Sure, it’s one more thing that you’ll have to remember in order to sign into your Dropbox account, but it’s also something that will give any lurking hackers a tough time. After all, it’s difficult to figure out what someone’s favorite food is or where someone went to school.
This two-step process is similar to what banks use when logging into a bank account. More often than not, your bank will ask you to verify you are who you say you are by logging in with a password and then answering a simple question that you have chosen. In fact, two-step password logins are likely to become the norm now that more and more sites are being hacked. Simply put, passwords are no longer enough to keep hackers at bay.
If You Have the Option, Take It
Many websites give users the option to set up a multiple login process. Unfortunately, most people never bother to activate this option. While it is a lot easier just to use a password, setting up an answer to a question that only you know will prevent any account tampering. As was the case with the recent Dropbox attack, one user had a file in his account that listed many additional accounts and passwords. Once hackers got into that user’s account, a number of additional files were then hacked.
Internet security is now more important than ever. The number of hacks that have happened over the past few months is high. This means that you really have to make sure that all of your accounts are secure. Otherwise, you could wind up a victim of a hacker, and, really, that’s no fun. The new Dropbox sign in process should be available now. Whether or not Dropbox will make this login mandatory is unclear at the moment, but I urge you to head to your Dropbox account and set up that additional security measure.
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There are 6,500 languages out there, so why would you choose an intensive English course in San Diego? Well, if you aren’t sure, just think of the language you need when you travel or when you apply for a new job.
Do you struggle to stay motivated to learn English? You’ve been taking California international English language courses for some time, and you feel like you’ve reached a point where you can’t force yourself to practice anymore. All these exercises exhaust you, no matter how fun they seem.
There are many international English language courses in California specially designed to help you polish your skills. If you’re planning to start one soon, you’ll need someone to guide you in your English language learning mission. But did you know that if you want to master English, you’ll also need to practice independently within the comfort of your home?
Have you noticed you make many grammar mistakes while practicing English in your California international English language school? They sometimes make you feel embarrassed, so you’ve been wondering how you can circumvent these unpleasant situations and stop sounding awkward once and for all?
The English language is known to be one of the most challenging languages to perfect. You may confirm this as well if you’ve been struggling with it for some time while attending courses at various Los Angeles language schools.
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The Bible is America’s best-selling book, annually outpacing the top 20 best sellers combined. Yet a single Chinese company has a near monopoly on Bible printing, meaning that any rupture in the supply chain—say, from U.S. or Chinese government policies—would lead to a Bible shortage in America. This poses a serious threat both to American Christians’ fundamental religious liberty rights and to national security.
More than 20 million Protestant and Catholic Bibles are printed annually by America’s largest Bible publishing companies. But few are aware that most of these Bibles are printed in China, by Amity Printing Company. (Bible publishers that don’t print in China include InterVarsity Press [IVP], St. Ignatius Press, St. Benedict Press, Cambridge University Press, R. L. Allan & Son, and Schuyler Bibles.) Thanks to American publishing decisions, American Christians rely on a state that represses Christianity for their Bibles. While China intensifies religious persecution at home and is considered by U.S. Intelligence to be “the greatest threat to America today,” this Bible supply chain is increasingly precarious. Yet the Bible publishers have no plans to use alternative printing presses.
The supply chain was tested in 2019, when the Trump administration proposed broad trade tariffs to better balance U.S.-China trade relations. As the plan included tariffs against Bibles, America’s Bible publishers found themselves alongside Beijing vociferously lobbying Washington against the measure. HarperCollins Christian Publishing (HCCP), now the world’s largest Bible publisher (having acquired Zondervan and ThomasNelson), uses Amity to print most of its Bibles, as does Tyndale House, America’s largest privately-owned Christian publisher. HCCP CEO Mark Schoenwald denounced the proposed tariff before the U.S. Trade Commission last year. He called it a “Bible tax,” and argued that it would force his company to reduce sales and discontinue some Bible editions. The Trump administration quickly exempted Bibles from the China tariffs.
Christian ministry publishers lobbied as well, arguing that the tariffs would curb First Amendment rights. Stan Jantz, president of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, declared that the tariffs would do “significant damage to Bible accessibility.” He stated before the Trade Commission that “[s]ome believe such a tariff would place a practical limitation on religious freedom.” Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, asserted that “the proposed tariffs will impact all Christians' ability to exercise their religious freedom in the United States.” Pastor Ben Mandrell, CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources, declared: “I am troubled that the Word of God would ever be taken hostage in an international trade dispute. These past months have strengthened our resolve to get Bibles to the people who need them. Our mandate is built on obedience to Christ, regardless of any policy proposal from Washington, D.C.”
It’s not difficult to imagine that if the Chinese government put a bit of pressure on the supply chain, American Bible publishers would be motivated to lobby against other policies that are similarly tough on China, effectively making them soft power assets of Beijing. The tariff threat is over, but the Bible continues to be at risk—most imminently from Chinese Communist Party policies, not Washington. National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe notes that many of China’s prominent companies offer only “a layer of camouflage to the activities of the Chinese Communist Party.” Amity is no exception. It is linked to the China Christian Council (CCC), which came under direct CCP oversight and guidance in 2018.
In the 1980s, Chinese Anglican Bishop Ting, then CCC president, proposed Amity as a joint venture between his new Amity Foundation and the United Bible Societies (UBS) to supply Bibles to Chinese churches. The UBS agreed and donated the start-up capital, printing presses, and Bible paper, which it continues to supply for Chinese-language Bibles. In 1988, the CCC president laid the foundation stone for Amity Printing in Nanjing. Today, Amity’s plant in Nanjing is 85,000 square meters, operates 24/7, and is the world’s largest Bible printing press. It boasts of having printed over 200 million Bibles (up to 25 million hardbound Bibles annually) in over 130 languages, for 147 countries.
Amity is both cheap and efficient, with state-of-the art printing technology and presses acquired from foreign companies. But Amity’s reputation may soon take a major hit, thanks to a recent Chinese government directive. It was in Amity’s hometown of Nanjing, in 2018, that Beijing announced it was launching a plan to retranslate or reinterpret the venerable Chinese Union Bible in order to align it with CCP policies. This was part of a new five-year plan to “Sinicize” Christianity. Chinese Christian experts have reason to fear that the forthcoming version will drop the book of Revelation and distort moral lessons through new scriptural commentaries—the account of Jesus forgiving the adulterous woman in John 8, for example, was already altered in 2020 Chinese textbooks (used in government-run secondary vocational schools) to claim that Jesus stoned the woman.
How did Amity react to this alarming directive? It sponsored a celebratory event, dedicated to “the theme of Chinese Bible and Christian Sinicization.” There, officials of the CCP’s United Front Work Department and the CCC, along with the UBS, were photographed joined in a circle dance, toasting the company and receiving VIP treatment. Amity plans to print the new, distorted Bibles. They will be the only Bibles approved by the communist party, effectively denying religious freedom to tens of millions of Chinese Christians. This comes after regulations two years ago that censored the Bible from the Chinese Internet, banned youth from church services and Bible camps, and authorized the burning of Bibles possessed without state authorization.
So far, there has been no vociferous protest from the American publishers. They have not used their leverage to stop the ongoing crackdown on house churches. Nor have they used it to free Pastor Wang Yi of the Early Rain Covenant Church, now serving a nine-year prison term; Christian bookseller Chen Yu, sentenced in October to seven years; and Catholic democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, who is facing possible life imprisonment in Hong Kong.
Though they started with good intentions, the publishers are now in a bind. Protecting this supply chain will become untenable as the CCP continues to tighten its control. American Bible publishers can best preserve Americans’ First Amendment rights—and their own reputations—by immediately shifting their printing out of China.
Nina Shea is director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom.
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Let’s just get to the most important news right away: If, for any reason, you have a turkey emergency this Thanksgiving, Butterball has more than 50 experts on call to help you through your cooking crisis. The Butterball Turkey Talk Line is available at — I’ll wait while you get a pen and paper — 800-877-3456.
Now on to less dramatic but more interesting holiday news.
This year, San Franciscans will gather for Thanksgiving meals everywhere from the Fairmont hotel to the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center. Houses and condos and apartments and those weird shared micro apartments will be filled with the smell of roasting fowl or the Impossible version thereof.
Three different NFL games will be played throughout the day, though none of them will feature a California team. Therefore everyone at your holiday gathering will be looking for something else to amuse them until they’re ready for pie, so why not entertain them with interesting facts about Thanksgiving?
IN THE BEGINNING
In October 1621, 90 Native Americans of the Wampanoag tribe gathered together with 53 European immigrants to celebrate survival through a harsh year. The feast was a decidedly nonvegan affair that included deer, fowl, and corn.
This combination of peoples was important, because a Native American named Squanto had helped the Pilgrims catch and grow food. Though the English and the Wampanoag would later fight a vicious war that included kidnappings, mass murders, and much destruction — including a head on a stick — the beginning of the relationship was at least hopeful.
That is generally cited as the first American Thanksgiving, but another story has some Virginia settlers celebrating one in 1619. The Washingtonian reports that they had to settle for a gluten-free meal of oysters and ham. But that probably didn’t bother them much; first, they were English and weren’t used to good food; second, Thanksgiving was primarily about prayer and, well, giving thanks, rather than stuffing oneself with deep-fried turducken.
Whichever date you use as your “first” turkey day, it should be noted that it did not become a regular occurrence for a long time. More than 150 years after those initial gatherings, the country’s first president, George Washington, proclaimed a Thanksgiving to take place on Sept. 24, 1789. He did so again in 1795. His successor John Adams did so a couple times, but the third occupant of the White House, Thomas Jefferson, refused to do so because he was skeptical of the idea of deities intervening in the country’s life.
The creation of Thanksgiving as an annual national holiday, however, would wait until President Abraham Lincoln decided it should take place in late November, beginning in 1863.
Lincoln was persuaded by Sarah Josepha Hale. Thanks to her parents’ belief that girls deserved to be educated just as well as boys, she was well educated and grew up to be an accomplished writer and editor. She had begun to push for a national holiday back in 1846, but Presidents Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan all failed her; only when Lincoln took up the cause did she finally get her national holiday.
True fact: Hale is also the author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” which might be why we don’t roast lambs on this holiday.
THE DAY TODAY
Now, we’re not the only country to celebrate Thanksgiving. It turns out that Canadians, Liberians, Germans, Australians, British, Indians, Japanese, and others also celebrate it. However, they generally aren’t all that worked up about celebrating a band of Pilgrims on America’s East Coast; they do so for their own reasons, though most of them seem to be days of marking successful harvests.
Our modern Thanksgivings are typically a feast of turkeys (stuffed or not stuffed with ducks and chickens), cranberries, bread stuffing, potatoes, and pie. Bon Appetit’s website also lists 65 vegetarian recipes for the holiday, ranging from mashed potatoes with “crispety chuncheties” to butternut squash steaks with brown butter-sage sauce. So whether you’re a meat eater, vegetarian, or vegan, there are lots of food options out there, which makes it only more curious that so many millions of Americans stick to the relatively unimaginative turkeys, cranberries, etc. None of that was in either version of the original Thanksgiving.
In 1999, a new food was introduced into the Thanksgiving canon. It includes a layer of ladyfingers, jam, custard, raspberries, more ladyfingers, beef sauteed with peas and onions, bananas and whipped cream. That’s an entire meal in one dish! OK, so it was invented by a woman named Rachel Green in a Thanksgiving episode of Friends when two pages of her cookbook got stuck together. But it’s time Americans started innovating away from the same-old, same-old of turkey and the fixin’s.
Thanksgiving is still a month away at the time this article is being written. The holiday coming up first will be Halloween, so forgive me for wanting to cover some of the scary and dangerous things that can happen during Thanksgiving.
NBC News reports that nearly 3,000 homes have fires on Thanksgiving, making it the worst day of the year for such occurrences. So be careful! Remember: the deep-frying turkeys trend is over, so don’t be the last person to die in that war, as John Kerry might have told us.
People also have lots of questions about what they can feed their dogs and cats. There’s a lot of food on the typical turkey-day menu that animals can eat, but beware that much of it is very fatty and packed with calories. If you have any questions about a specific food and your pet, check with your vet. Your dog won’t stop loving you just because you refuse her sad eyes while you put the leftovers into the refrigerator. One thing you definitely should never do is give your dog turkey or chicken bones to chew on; these can splinter in their mouths or digestive tracts.
If you’re a worry wart and the above facts haven’t given you enough satisfying worries, then you can wonder about food poisoning. How long has that food been sitting out on the table before it ended up on your plate?
TAKE IT TO THE BANK
Enough with the worries.
Back to the Butterball hotline: Reader’s Digest informs us that a woman in Colorado called the Butterball Turkey Talk Line with a problem that we won’t have to worry about here in San Francisco. She wanted to know how to thaw her frozen turkey. It seems she had stored her bird in a snow bank outside her home. It snowed overnight, and the woman realized she had no idea which snow bank was the one with her turkey.
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There was a lengthy thread on twitter recently about autistic-specific dislike of phones. One of the replies was researcher Felicity Sedgewick who provided a link to this (free to read) paper: ‘Anything but the phone!’: Communication mode preferences in the autism community'
The research explores different communication methods - face-to-face, phone call, letter, email, text message and online instant messaging, involved in different scenarios - accessing services, employment, education, research, family, friends and when seeking customer services, and rated each one.
"It is estimated that 70%–80% of autistic people experience mental health difficulties (Lever & Geurts, 2016), with anxiety being experienced by most autistic people (Croen et al., 2015). Anxiety is known to influence communication preferences for non-autistic people, with higher levels being associated with a preference to use text messages as opposed to phone calls (Reid & Reid, 2007). It therefore seems likely the levels of anxiety an autistic person experiences may further influence their communication mode preferences and may exacerbate any avoidance of anxiety-provoking situations."
"There is a clear message that mode of communication can be either enabling or disabling for autistic people. A reliance on phone calls can create barriers to access, yet the option to adopt written forms of communication can improve accessibility. For known connections, the preference for face-to-face communication is dependent upon how close and accepting the relationship is."
"Conclusion: Overall, our data highlighted the challenges around communicating with services and organisations when these rely on phone call–based methods. There is a clear preference for written communication in many scenarios, as this provides structure, increases thinking time and reduces both sensory issues and anxiety. This work also highlights the ways in which autistic people and their networks adapt to support them, and that it is possible for autistic people to interact successfully and positively when the situation supports them to do so."
I found the research is quite interesting and I recommend taking a look. There are certainly implications for our group as people will have different preferences and some may wish to participate in only the aspects of the group that suit their personal preferences and not get too far out of their comfort zones.
There may be people who will join just to discuss issues in the forum or chat with other members online but don't necessarily wish to meet in person. And as noted, if individuals would like to get together in person or attend activities but don't wish to interact online, they can email email@example.com with their interests and I will maintain a mailing list and notify them when an appropriate meeting or event is scheduled.
I expect there are some autistic people who do use the phone as their communication method of choice so I'm hoping there will be another member of the group who won't mind being responsible for making and receiving phone calls for us.
For me, I would say my experience is in line with the research. I don't like to use the phone. If I can't avoid it, I prepare by writing down everything I'm going to say and trying to imagine what the responses will be. I also make notes while I'm on the call as I usually get so anxious I have no idea what was said. And when the call doesn't go as I expected, I'm really lost and overwhelmed and liable to agree with anything just to get off the phone, executive function problems I guess.
Meeting people in person is another experience I find stressful, especially if I don't know the people well. For example, I don't have my own doctor, so if I go to a clinic I end up seeing different doctors. I usually spend a lot of time prior to the appointment writing down everything I want the doctor to know. Then if the doctor is not interested in that and just wants me to answer his questions, I have a hard time explaining my issue. But as was highlighted in the research, when communicating with someone close to me I would most like to be in person.
Additionally, I have social anxiety so for me communicating with strangers by any method is not in my comfort zone...sometimes I wish people could just read my mind although that probably wouldn't be socially correct :) But I try to find and use the communication methods that cause the least stress and I hope everyone will be able to find a way to connect that they don't find too stressful as well.
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Were your plants damaged by the winter storm? If you’re unsure where to begin in the recovery process, we can help. Before you dig, cut, prune or chop let these local experts guide you through the aftermath of Winter Storm Uri.
Many resources have become available in the last week. We’ve included a short list of archived videos and articles below. If you are looking for a live seminar on plant recovery, register today for the March 10 presentation by Bob Dailey, Texas Master Gardener.
Bookmark these timeless articles and refer back for quick tips on plant care over the next few months.
A quick read to get you started on your plant recovery process. The biggest take away: Patience is key.
This article starts with step one: triage. Learn what to look for, identify what needs to be removed and what indicates your plant has survived. Read about specific approaches to your citrus, vegetables and fruits.
Notable author and host of Houston’s GardenLine radio, Randy shares his expertise on how to approach a post-freeze cleanup. The advice doesn’t stop with these 9 rules. Listen to archived radio shows for more tips or call in for a Q&A during a live broadcast.
A roundtable of lawn and garden experts answer the tough questions including: what does turf grass need after a freeze, how to be patient with your palms and how much to prune your shrubs.
Aggie Horticulture dives into what impact Winter Storm Uri had across the state of Texas. This video reviews all the factors that made this storm especially damaging including the freezing temperatures, the duration of low temperatures, the wind and precipitation. Speakers walk around the garden and review best care practices for a variety of plants you may find in your landscape.
Now that you know how to care for your freeze-damaged plants, have you given any thought on how to be better prepared for the next winter storm?
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If you’re a parent, you want your children to be healthy.
To accomplish this goal, you encourage them to be active, avoid too many fatty and sweet foods, take baths and wash their hands. However, you may have a picky eater.
Here are some do’s and don’ts of encouraging children to become healthy eaters.
It’s not unusual for children to have bad diets, unfortunately. When they’re little and we can control what they eat, we can ensure they’re eating healthy foods.
As they grow up, however, they develop their own tastes as far as food is concerned. They may only like to eat macaroni and cheese or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
How do you get them to eat fruits and vegetables, too?
Children learn by example in almost everything. If they see parents, siblings, and friends eating potato chips and drinking soft drinks, they’ll want to eat those as well.
The reverse is true; if they see everyone eating fresh fruits and vegetables they’ll be more likely to follow suit. So, if you want your children to become healthy eaters, the adults in the family will want to set the pace.
Tips to help your child learn healthy eating habits
- Offer your child healthy foods for snacks. Rather than giving them cookies or candy for a snack, offer fresh fruit like apples, oranges, or grapes, depending upon your child’s age. If you don’t have junk food in your home, your child won’t learn to eat it.
- Experts say to offer your child a new food at least twenty times before they’ll eat it. If you’re introducing a new food, put just a bite on their plate. Ask them to taste it; if they don’t want to try it immediately, don’t push them. Each meal you serve that food, continue to put a bite on their plate and ask them to taste it. Before too long they’ll do at least that.
- Be sure you’re not introducing too many new foods at once. In fact, it’s better if you only introduce one new food at a time until your child starts eating it. This means that if you’re trying to get your child to eat peas, wait until you’ve had success with those before you introduce Brussels sprouts.
- If the food is on their plate, let them play with the food. They may roll the food around on their plate, make faces in it by putting other food into it, or some other creative idea. If you allow them to play with the food, it won’t seem so intimidating.
- Even though you might be tempted, don’t hide vegetables in something you fix. This might backfire on you. Although your intention to get your child to eat vegetables is good, they may decide to stop eating whatever you’ve hidden the vegetables in from now on.
- Your own parents probably made you finish everything on your plate “because there are poor, malnourished children all over the world.” You don’t have to follow in your parent’s eating style. If your child doesn’t want to eat anymore, don’t make them finish their plate.
- Give them what they like, to a point. If they like eating hot dogs, look for ones that have lower fat content. If they want ice cream buy the single serving sizes so they won’t be tempted to eat more than they need.
It’s not easy having a child who’s a picky eater, but you can survive it. Follow these do’s and don’ts of encouraging children to become healthy eaters. It may not happen overnight, but if you’re persistent it will happen.
Keeping Your Child Healthy
When parents think about their child’s health, it is important that they not only consider the physical wellbeing of the child, but the psychological and social health as well.
This broad field of children’s health includes psychological issues surrounding mood, behavior, learning, and concentration, as well as physical areas such as appetite, bedwetting, fever, sleep, chicken pox, tantrums, weight loss, and more.
It even includes complicated, and increasingly diagnosed behavioral health issues like Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, and Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Learn more about natural remedies and your child’s health now!
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This is an installment of a series of posts on BDSM. The first post can be found here.
This week is about discipline. As I mentioned previously, discipline is considered psychological restraining, often by the use of punishments or rules. Spanking and humiliation are examples. Discipline is frequently used in other aspects of BDSM, especially in Dominant/submissive (D/s) situations.
When utilizing physical discipline on a partner, it is important to do so in a safe manner. For instance, spanking certain areas of the body – especially with an item such as a paddle – may cause severe injury, or even death, if done with too much force.
Always be prepared to use a safeword. Regardless of the type of BDSM play you are engaging, this is important.
Alex in Spankland has a great post about spanking. While written for newbies, it is a good read for all interested parties, regardless of your level of experience.
All that is needed for spanking play is a willing hand and a willing ass, but it can be more enjoyable for all when using an item such as those on the list below.
- Leather & Glass Riding Crop – This is a two-in-one kind of toy. The glass handle is perfect for insertion.
- X-PLAY Large Black Paddle – A sturdy paddle that will have you saying, “Thank you, sir. May I have another?”
- Studded Paddle – A paddle with a bite, one side has metal studs, while the other is smooth.
- Fetish Fantasy Bad Teacher Ruler – If you and your playmate like to engage in teacher/student scenes, this is the perfect prop for you!
- Fetish Fantasy Ltd Feather Crop – Have a little slap and tickle fun! One end is a crop and the other a feather, opening the play to all kinds of sensations.
- Leather Corset Flog-HER in Black – This is a heavy duty flogger, perfect for couples who are getting more serious about their discipline play.
Humiliation in this regard may best be described as enjoyable embarrassment. The activities involved are varied. It might be as simple as dirty talk, calling your partner a “slut” or a “little bitch”; or it might be more elaborate, such as leading her around by a leash or making him talk in a falsetto voice and dressing him in women’s clothing.
Many may wonder why in the world someone would find sexual pleasure in being humiliated. That’s a great question. It is also one that is expertly answered by Franklin on his blog.
Looking for credible sources for additional information?
- Whip Me, Beat Me, Make Me Write Hot Sex by Tymber Dalton (see my review here)
- A Submissive’s Initiative – an educational BDSM community
- The Loving Dom – The Repository – The back catalogue of educational notes relating to alternative relationships + interesting threads from The Loving Dom – The Help Page.
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China’s global foreign policies have changed from a keeping a low profile to one. That is striving towards achievement since the 2008 global financial crisis. China’s diplomatic practice and thinking has been shaped by its political, economic and symbolic capital. It is not only concerned with the short-term economic gain. It has emphasized the long-term effects of its actions on both international system outlook and country’s position within it.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one way it is attempting to do this. Also known as the 21st century Silk Road, The BRI was officially announced in 2013. It brings together many pre-existing and new elements to strengthen. The link between China’s global imperatives as well as its domestic imperatives. It is now a central point for China’s ideas, resources, and institutions.
The BRI is an idea with Chinese characteristics. It is characterised in incrementalism, inductive thought, and experimentation. It is not one project. The different sections and legs of the project differ greatly from each other. For example, it includes a significant China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that has a significant developmental component.
On May 14-15, dozens of heads and other representatives from governments around the globe gathered at Beijing’s BRI Forum. While initially announced with a focus on Asia, Europe, and parts of Africa. The BRI now aims to include the Americas as well as Oceania.
China has experienced economic growth over the past four decades through its integration in the global economy, and gradual improvement in its position around the world. Without the growth of others, China’s economic growth would not have been possible.
China is today the second-largest country in the world (and poised to surpass the US in the very near future), and the engine of the global economy. It is the key to global economic growth. China is expect to play a greater role in shaping the future global economy. The BRI is just one of many ways it will do so. The BRI promotes strategic economic partnerships and multilateral lending to address investment, employment, and economic development. This is in the interest of reinvigorating global economy growth.
China’s main concept is production capacity cooperation. This can be describe as pooling resources to meet one another’s needs. This is a way to strengthen trade routes and supply chains and ensure sustainable flows for goods and services. This global initiative surpasses all other plans and is seven times more than the post-second World War US Marshall Plan.
Global Market And State
Chinese policymakers have used their own experiences of reforming and opening up as well as the evolving ideology of Communist Party of China (CPC) to develop the BRI. The BRI is based on the core tenets and principles of Sinified Marxism today: The state is responsible for bringing about prosperity and the market is the primary instrument to achieve this.
Alvin Y., a developmental sociologist, used the term state-market nexus to describe the complex state-market nexus that exists in China. So and YinWah Chu suggest the deliberately self-contradicting term, state neoliberalism, as opposed to Western-styled market neoliberalism.
It states that party-states must be strong and politically stable to be able act decisively in fine-tuning market flows (both advancing, and reversing), the scope and intensity regulation, and to create exceptions such as free economic zones.
The BRI emphasizes that the state is responsible for stimulating innovation, which is key to economic growth. This form of governance allows the state integration in global neoliberalism while also developing a particular, neoliberal governmentality, or rather political technology, within the web of laws and policies.
The example of China and the so-called China Model are often mention as examples in the debate about bringing back the state in the economy. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate, has described the rise of China as a wake up call for how we view the global economy. This has been use by Chinese policymakers to increase their legitimacy and soft power.
The notion of a strong, stable state has led to debates about the impact of China’s BRI. Upon democracy around the world. However, Chinese scholars and policymakers have also argued against universal blueprints. They repeatedly stressed the inability to replicate China’s experience. They urged all countries to exercise their sovereignty and decide what development model is best suit to their particular circumstances. | <urn:uuid:0256c802-cd92-4648-bdb1-4f6ab9b285d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hollywoodfilmcompetition.com/china-the-potential-driver-of-a-new-wave-of-global/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954198 | 928 | 3.015625 | 3 |
A truce has been reached between Israel and Hamas, ending a week of fighting which cost the lives of at least 155 Palestinians and five Israelis.
The violence between Israel and Gaza flared after Israeli drones targeted and killed a Hamas military chief on November 14, marking the start of cross-border exchange of fire. Gaza militants fired rockets into Israel, which bombarded Gaza from land, air and sea.
According to the ceasefire, brokered by Egypt, Israel will stop all hostilities against Gaza, which will end “rocket attacks and all attacks along the border.” If this truce holds for the next 24 hours, Israel would have to start procedures to end the Gaza blockade by opening border crossings and allowing the movement of people and goods.
Online, anticipation has been building up for the declaration of a ceasefire.
Andy Carvin notes:
@acarvin: Apart from new year's, I don't think I've ever seen so many people tweet what time it is. #gaza #ceasefire
While Iyad El_Baghdadi remarks:
@iyad_elbaghdadi: 9:08 local time, explosions still being heard in #Gaza, sirens still being sounded in #Israel.
Soon, the sound of celebratory gunfire filled the air in Gaza.
On Audioboo, BBC Middle East Bureau Chief Paul Danahar, who is in Gaza, shares a sound track:
Nayef describes the scene:
@TheNElectric: Gaza streets are full of celebrations. Satisfaction, pride & glory are drawn all over Gazans faces
While Majed Abusalama notes:
@MajedAbusalama: We do not trust #Israel but we can enjoy this moment of #Peace. in #Gaza people are so strong, I really #love them. #resistance
Egyptian Mostafa Hussein jokes:
@moftasa: Congratulations Bibi. You made Khamas stronger.
Shadi Hamid tweets:
@shadihamid: So Hamas got: greater regional legitimacy, spike in popularity, end of assassinations, easing flow of goods into Gaza & a weaker PA to boot.
@shadihamid: In asymmetric battles such as this one, it's very hard for a group like Hamas to ever actually “lose,” as long as it survives.
Israeli Elizabeth Tsurkov says:
@Elizabeth: Bibi kept talking about weakening Hamas and removing them from power for years, and this agreement solidifies their rule
Lauren E. Bohn, who is in Jerusalem, adds:
@LaurenBohn: Talking to handful of #Israel analysts who all say #Hamas came out of this a winner: more international recognition + credibility #Gaza
And journalist Gregg Carlstrom tweets:
@glcarlstrom: My Twitter feed variously informs me that the real winners today are Israel, Hamas, Egypt, the US and Iran. (but everyone agrees Abbas lost)
Praise for Egypt
On Twitter, Palestinians heaped praise on Egypt, for its role in mediating a ceasefire.
Yaser Alzaatreh writes [ar]:
مصر رئيسا وحكومة وشعبا كانت معنا. وقفت دون تردد. صرخ الصهاينة ألما من وقفتها. عادت مصر إلينا وعدنا إليها، فهي قائدة العرب وعنوان عزتهم.
@YZaatreh: Egypt, its President and people, were with us. They did not hesitate in supporting us. Their stance hurt the Zionists. Egypt has returned to us and we have returned to it. Egypt is the leader of Arabs and the sign of their pride.
And, from Gaza, Ola Anan adds:
من كل قلبي .. شكرا مصر :)
@olanan: From the bottom of my heart, thank you Egypt!!
For many, the ceasefire is a welcome relief.
Karen Knox, from Tel Aviv, tweets:
@KarenAbroad: So thankful for #ceasefire tonight as I tuck my little girl into bed here in #TelAviv.
But many are left wondering how long the peace between Gaza and Israel will last for.
Palestinian Hasan Karajah says:
البعض سيذهبون لشرب نخب الانتصار بعد تعبهم في كتابة التغريدات و رجال المقاومة يكونوا في اجتماع الان لوضع خطة الضرب القادمة #المقاومة_مستمرة
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Depending on how you grew up and how you’re wired, the word budget either makes you want to run in fear, run some numbers, or run to the mall before it’s too late. But creating a budget is all about perspective. Start by viewing your budget as a tool to empower your spending and saving, rather than a weapon to destroy your fun. Next, get practical. Here are four simple steps to make it happen:
List out your life.
Building a budget requires taking careful inventory of your financial life. First, list out your income. (This is the fun part.) Include everything from your paycheck or business income to allowance, gifts, and even that $20 from your sister’s I.O.U. Then, consider your expenses. Your cell phone bill, fast food splurges, school supplies, and the occasional movie ticket should all be included.
Pay yourself first.
When building your budget, there’s one category that takes priority over all the rest. Think it’s food? clothes? How about those absolutely poppin’ new sneakers? Nope. It’s you. And by you, we mean your savings account. Before you fork over your hard-earned income to all the brands and experiences clamoring for it, prioritize your own financial future. Say it with me: pay yourself first! Then, when you’ve amassed enough money in your savings account, consider moving it to an investment that earns more interest.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Each week, sit down and see how you’re doing at sticking to your goals. Is your entertainment budget laughing back at you after your trip to the movies? Is your spending column having buyer’s remorse? Make adjustments to your spending to stay on track. If possible, seek out ways to make additional income. Your neighbor’s lawn could use a mow, after all.
Hit the drumroll and grab the calculator.
Okay, you budgeting guru, you. The time has come for your hard work to be revealed. At the end of the month, open your trusty calculator app and run the numbers. How much did you spend in each category? Now, how does that compare to what you budgeted? If you stuck with your budget, give yourself a huge pat on the back. If you didn’t, ask yourself if your budget was realistic. If it was, make adjustments to your spending next month. If not, increase the category you missed and give it another shot.
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Blurring The Racial Lines On Prostate Cancer
An increased survival benefit for African-American men with advanced prostate cancer and a stronger response to hormone therapy were the centerpieces of key racial disparity studies presented by researchers from Duke’s Prostate & Urologic Cancer Center at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
African-American men are underrepresented in clinical trials for prostate cancer, despite an almost two-fold greater incidence and mortality of disease in African-American vs white populations.
In a study led by Susan Halabi, PhD, researchers pooled data from nine randomized phase III trials of more than 8,000 men with advanced prostate cancer who received chemotherapy. Surprisingly, the results showed that chances of survival are as good for African-American men as for white men on clinical trials. While the median survival was the same (21 months), African-American men had a 19 percent lower risk for death than their white counterparts when adjusting for important variables.
“By pooling data across clinical trials, this study provided a unique opportunity to evaluate how race might affect prostate cancer survival and response to treatment,” said Halabi. “The results of this analysis suggest there might be biological variations associated with race in either the disease or response to treatments that need to be further explored. Our study highlights the importance of minority groups participating in medical studies.”
study led by Daniel George, MD, researchers enrolled equal numbers black and white men with metastatic, resistant prostate cancer who were treated with the anti-hormone therapy, abiraterone, and the steroid, prednisone. African-American men had a greater response to therapy, characterized by more dramatic declines in a tumor blood marker called prostate-serum antigen (PSA) and had a longer median time to PSA progression than white men (16.6 vs 11.5 months).Similarly, in a prospective, multi-site
“In this setting we demonstrated that African-American men may be more responsive to specific hormonal intervention,” said George.” “There is an urgent need explore the underlying genetic differences associated with treatment response.”
Duke researchers believe the study suggests a potential strategy for new therapies and hormonal treatment plans that could narrow the disparity between survival rates for blacks and whites in prostate cancer.
In North Carolina, the rate of prostate cancer-related deaths among African-Americans is higher than the national average. Researchers at the Duke Prostate & Urologic Cancer Center have a particular incentive to address these disparities because African-American men make up more than 25 percent of the Center’s patient population (compared to the national average of 12.4 percent).
“These two independent studies suggest that African-American men with prostate cancer can benefit the same or even more than white patients to drug treatments,” explained George. “We could close the gap in outcomes by race simply by using these widely available therapies in African-American patients on a more routine basis.”
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Today's topic is Never Give Up On Your Dreams
Audio Contributed by Our Friends at MotivationHub
In today's audio, we have an amazing message encouraging you to never give up on your dreams.
Let’s embrace the reality that you’ll get knocked down and beat-up. It takes endurance and grit. The path to your dreams is like running a marathon. The race takes only a few hours, but it takes months to prepare and train.
Here are six tips to be more resilient and never give up on your dreams.
1. Adversity is not failure.
Every successful person has a story of adversity. You’re not the only one who faces hardship. Don’t confuse adversity with failure. Look for ways to grow and learn through hardship. Be prepared to fight when adversity strikes!
2. Grow your resilience
Now that you’re prepared to face adversity, you can start to grow resilience. In other words, resilience is the ability to bounce back stronger when knocked down and faced with adversity, and it’s a trait that anyone can develop.
Here are three ways to build resilience.
1. Take care of your mental and physical health.
2. Focus on your strengths.
3. Keep an optimistic attitude.
3. Have a reasonable timeline
I’ve found that people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in 3-5 years. Dream big but make sure to take it one day at a time. Set clear daily goals that you know will get you closer to your long-term goals.
4. Some days will suck.
Don’t expect to be fired up and super productive every day. When you have a bad day don’t let this throw you off course. Everyone gets off track at times but the successful person doesn’t get lost. They find their way back on track.
5. Find people who are light in the dark.
When I have doubts or feel stuck, it’s important to be around supportive people who won’t let me give up. Sometimes I need a reminder that I have great potential and that I’ve made progress. Use the YHAC community for support, create a mastermind group, or get a personal coach.
6. Don’t let problems keep you stuck.
When people are stuck, it’s often because they don’t want to face a problem. You can’t simply wish your problems away and pretend they don’t exist. Take accountability and full ownership of problems and face them head on! Give yourself time to achieve your big desires. Surround yourself with supportive people and realize that problems won’t last forever.
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The wildfires across California have been covered extensively by the news and social media lately. The Lion wildfire had burned 15,450 acres by early 13 Oct 2017 in Tulare County in central California. This wildfire was in a remote area in the southern Sierra mountains in the Sequoia National Forest, so firefighters would let it burn. It’s position in the middle of the Kern River valley and abundant smoke provided a great visualization of up-valley/down-valley winds (Fig. 1).
At night well after sunset and under an inversion, draining of cold air off the slopes (katabatic winds) converges in the valley and creates relative high pressure, accelerating down-valley. During the day, the slopes and valley floor are heated, creating relative low pressure and upslope and up-valley flow. The smoke from the Lion fire could be seen flowing down-valley just after sunrise in GOES-16 visible imagery (Fig. 2). After a few hours of heating under clear skies, the smoke reverses course and begins to move up-valley. The inversion eventually breaks leading to smoke being dispersed out of the valley as well. The high temporal (5-min) and spatial (0.5 km) resolution from GOES-16 visible imagery and presence of wildfire smoke allowed for this mountain meteorology process to be clearly visualized. Such a reversal of winds in the vicinity of a wildfire is important information for firefighting efforts.
-Bill Line, NWS
“The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. Users bear all responsibility for inspecting the data prior to use and for the manner in which the data are utilized.” | <urn:uuid:f27e537d-14a0-44f8-b63e-8b1df739608f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://satelliteliaisonblog.com/2017/10/13/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.931167 | 358 | 3.328125 | 3 |
| Electronic Arts develops, markets, publishes and delivers games, content and services that can be experienced on game consoles, PCs, mobile phones and tablets. Co.'s portfolio includes brands that Co. either wholly owns (such as Apex Legends, Battlefield, and The Sims) or licenses from others (such as Madden NFL, Star Wars, and the 300+ licenses within Co.'s global football ecosystem). Co. develops and publishes games and services across diverse genres, such as sports, racing, first-person shooter, action, role-playing and simulation. Co. also provides its EA Play subscription service on consoles and PC. Co.'s packaged goods games are sold to market retailers. |
When researching a stock like Electronic Arts, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from EA Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for EA stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of these ways is called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI. This popular indicator, originally developed in the 1970's by J. Welles Wilder, looks at a 14-day moving average of a stock's gains on its up days, versus its losses on its down days. The resulting EA RSI is a value that measures momentum, oscillating between "oversold" and "overbought" on a scale of zero to 100. A reading below 30 is viewed to be oversold, which a bullish investor could look to as a sign that the selling is in the process of exhausting itself, and look for entry point opportunities. A reading above 70 is viewed to be overbought, which could indicate that a rally in progress is starting to get crowded with buyers. If the rally has been a long one, that could be a sign that a pullback is overdue. | <urn:uuid:623599dc-e870-4080-984f-13f2f002a81b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stockrsi.com/ea/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961358 | 428 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Scale F first aid kit
The table included in the link specifies the minimum medical supplies and equipment needed to treat minor medical conditions and injuries, or to temporarily stabilise a patient until they can be transferred to medical assistance. A medical cabinet stocked with appropriate supplies may also be required.
The supplies and quantities may need to be increased based on the level of risks to the voyage, the length of the voyage, access to medical facilities, the cargo and the number of people on board. Owners and operators should determine appropriate additional medical supplies for their vessels based on a first aid risk assessment or medical advice.
If you are unsure of the nature or seriousness of an illness or injury, you should seek radio medical advice where a helicopter evacuation could be initiated. If a child requires treatment, you should seek radio medical advice as the medical supplies and equipment are only designed for adults.
Please note the following:
- Persons administering first aid should possess as a minimum a current first aid qualification in accordance with the NSCV Part D.
- Medical supplies must not exceed the expiry date specified by the manufacturer or supplier of the product.
- Antibiotics must always be supplied in original packages or patient courses. Other products such as analgesics and creams will be considered adequate if an opened package contains at least 50 per cent of the original quantity, and the remaining product is uncontaminated and unaffected by any expiry date as a result of any seal being broken.
- Medication should be provided in original, sealed blister or foil packs where possible.
- All products must carry instructions and directions for use in English and clearly state the adult dose where applicable to enable safe and effective use of the medication for the intended purpose(s).
The Health Departments in each State and Territory provide advice on the process for commercial vessel Masters and Chief Officers to obtain restricted drugs for the purpose of restocking first aid kits and medical cabinets. Please contact the Department of Health in your respective state to confirm their particular requirements.
First aid kits
All vessels must carry at least one portable first aid kit as specified in the table below.
This kit must be:
- Located adjacent to the master’s accommodation, or in the wheelhouse. In small partly open vessels, the kit must be stowed so as to protect it from incoming spray and weather.
- Stored in a weather-tight, portable case of a non-corrosive material of suitable strength and size to accommodate the first aid stores. It should be fastened securely with quick-release closures.
- Labelled FIRST AID on the lid and at least two sides for quick identification. The storage location of the kit must be clearly identified with an appropriate sign or sticker.
- Cleaned and checked every three months. | <urn:uuid:ba08de2d-c0fb-446d-8795-2423f63c0c61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.amsa.gov.au/vessels-operators/domestic-commercial-vessels/scale-f-first-aid-kit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.929521 | 565 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Your Three Keys to an Allergy-Free Spring
Dr. Chacko Featured on the Cover of
Atlanta's Top Doctor Magazine
If you suffer from allergies related to indoor allergens like dust, mold, and pet dander, spring cleaning is a perfect opportunity to remove allergens from your home while improving overall air quality. Read on for three key strategies you can use to ensure your spring cleaning produces an allergy-friendly living space for you and your family.
1) Clean fabrics that can trap allergens, particularly in heavily used rooms such as the bedroom and living room
To effectively clean allergens from the bedroom and living room, vacuum mattresses, furniture, and carpets, and wash curtains, hypoallergenic pillows, and throw rugs in hot water. If you are not already using allergen barrier covers on your mattress and pillows, consider adding them now. If you are already using such covers, check them for damage and replace them if worn through. Ensure your vacuum has a small-particle or HEPA filter so that allergens are trapped and not recirculated into your environment.
2) Remove mold and mildew from bathroom and kitchen surfaces
Because of moisture, mold and mildew can thrive on bathroom and kitchen surfaces. Minimize moisture by fixing leaks, drying surfaces after showering or doing dishes, and ensuring proper ventilation, including dusting or rinsing exhaust fan covers. Replace shower curtains if there are signs of mold or mildew. Wash throw rugs and towels in hot water, and thoroughly clean surfaces of mold and mildew with a bleach-based cleanser.
3) Clean meal preparation and dining areas of food waste that enables pests and mold to thrive
Food debris becomes a source of allergens when it is allowed to grow mold or become a fuel source for allergen-producing household pests such as mice or cockroaches. Mop floors, thoroughly clean the refrigerator and mop up all excess moisture, discard all expired food items, and clear cupboards of crumbs and other food debris.
Do keep in mind that if you are the allergy sufferer in your family, spring cleaning may trigger your allergic symptoms, so you may want to ask someone else to do the cleaning instead.
Are You Ready to Do More Than Avoid Your Spring Allergies?
Take these three steps to help reduce your spring allergies. If you want more relief, Dr. Chacko can give you treatment options. Schedule an appointment with the Chacko Allergy, Asthma and Sinus Center at one of our clinic locations in Alpharetta, Atlanta, Canton, Cumming, Duluth and Johns Creek. Call us at (678) 668–4688. | <urn:uuid:5cda2cca-b2b3-4806-8edd-8e487a1671b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://atlantaallergydoctor.com/blog/your-three-keys-to-an-allergy-free-spring/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.907799 | 559 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Middle School Summer Enrichment Program
Registration is now closed. If you are registered for courses, please use the catalog for reference to dates, times, and locations.
San Juan Unified is proud to offer a summer school program of enrichment style courses to any and all middle school students. Our goal is to offer unique learning opportunities and classes in a wide range of subject areas. Many of our classes have a hands-on component with a focus on being creative. Some examples are Woodworking, Painting, Creative Writing, and various sports Sports Camps. Most of our classes are "in-person" but a few may be available over Zoom. Classes are offered at most middle school sites in our district, taught by San Juan USD teachers and are open to any San Juan USD middle school student regardless of your school of enrollment. Courses are offered at various times and dates through the summer. Best of all these classes are FREE! Please read through our catalog and pick a few classes to take this Summer. | <urn:uuid:adfe4c5c-285f-4e13-80f6-d9524f6bf5ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sanjuan.edu/Page/51578 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961109 | 204 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Game of Real Life
A one-of-a-kind card game rooted in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, The Game of Real Life uses mindfulness to teach emotional problem-solving and interpersonal skills—plus a 96-page pocket guide to DBT.
Be mindful. Solve conflicts. Live better. A fun and accessible way to learn how to cope effectively, The Game of Real Life is based on the principles of DBT, which incorporates mindfulness with therapeutic life skills to combat anxiety, promote active listening, and prevent burnout. But you don’t have to go to therapy to play. How does The Game of Real Life work?
The Wise Mind—or judge for the round—presents a Conflict Card, revealing a hypothetical situation.
Players respond to the conflict by playing a Skill Card from their hand.
The Wise Mind awards the player whose Skill Card best resolves the conflict.
The player who resolves the most conflicts wins!
The Game of Real Life includes a 96-page pocket guide with instructions for gameplay and further information on all of DBT’s life-changing skills, from self-validation and self-soothing to identifying emotions and coping ahead for stressful situations. By discussing real-life situations with friends and learning from others, you’ll master the skills for staying present, regulating emotions, improving relationships, and, ultimately, increasing your happiness. | <urn:uuid:1fff95f9-ccbd-4739-a7b0-c481a24e95d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://atelerietheshop.com/collections/collection-books-games/products/gameofreallife | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.9268 | 285 | 3 | 3 |
Beyond the Shine Text Review: Self-Care Simplified
While the Shine app might be a great tool to help improve your mental and emotional health, there are many things you can do on your own for better self-care. Below, I’ll explore what you should know.
- Follow Some Basic Mental Health Tips
- Consider a Gratitude Journal
- Consider Other Self-Care Apps
- Get Into Yoga
- Develop a Growth Mindset
Follow Some Basic Mental Health Tips
Caring for yourself doesn’t have to be difficult. It can be surprisingly simple. Just follow some basic mental health tips:
- Make time to just breathe and enjoy living in the moment. Mindfulness helps you experience all that life has to offer, not just the major milestones.
- Physical exercise is good for both your body and your mind. It helps you decrease stress and build muscle, and it releases feel-good endorphins like serotonin in your brain.
- Meditate regularly. Even as little as five minutes of meditation per day can yield significant benefits in terms of mood, mental agility, and stress.
- Start a daily routine. While it might sound boring, routines help your brain and body deal with stress, improve energy levels, and fall asleep faster.
Consider a Gratitude Journal
There are many proven benefits of journaling for mental health. It can help you handle stress, deal with anxiety, and so much more. One thing that it’s exceptionally good at is building a sense of gratitude in your life. As Psychology Today writer Amy Morin explains, “Whether you choose to write a few sentences in a gratitude journal or simply take a moment to silently acknowledge all that you have, giving thanks can transform your life.”
Consider Other Self-Care Apps
As highlighted in the review, the Shine text app offers a lot of benefits. However, it’s predominantly female focus, and the fact that you need the premium app to access all of those benefits, means that it might not be right for everyone. Thankfully, there are tons of others motivation apps out there, all of which can be contenders. Some of the top considerations include:
- Plum Village: Focusing on meditation and the practice of Zen, this free app was designed following the teachings of Zen master Thich Nhat Hahn.
- Headspace: There’s a free version of this renowned app that allows you to explore guided meditation. However, you’ll want the paid subscription if you intend to go deeper.
- Calm: Calm is one of the top-rated apps for mental and emotional health today and has won several awards over the years. However, it does require a monthly or annual subscription.
- Happify: This app goes beyond relaxation meditation to offer mood training. It’s psychologist-approved, too. The app is free to use, and you’ll get access to games, gratitude prompts, and more.
Get Into Yoga
The benefits of yoga are well-established. You can tone muscles, improve your balance and coordination, and increase flexibility. However, did you know that yoga can also help with mental and emotional health?
While people in the West might be most familiar with yoga as a form of exercise, it originated as part of Buddhist tradition and integrates smoothly with meditation. If you’re looking for a way to improve both physical and mental health, there’s nothing quite like exploring what this ancient modality has to offer.
Develop a Growth Mindset
You’re not stuck with the traits you were born with. You’re not stuck with anything. Everything about you changes over time, from the cells in your body to the way you see the world around you. Developing a growth mindset allows you to change the paradigm, take control of your growth and development, and become a happier, healthier person on your own terms.
Let’s Review: Shine Text App and Creating a Healthier, Happier You
As you can see from this review, the Shine text app has a lot to offer. For many people, it can be a gateway to a happier, brighter future with less stress and more enjoyment of every moment. However, it might not be right for everyone.
Thankfully, there are tons of other self-care apps out there. Additionally, there are a host of simple things you can do right now in your life to help you cope and improve your mental, physical, and emotional health. You can get regular exercise, start a meditation practice, explore self-care apps, or create a growth mindset. You are in the driver’s seat, and there’s no reason to hit the brakes. | <urn:uuid:fc167145-a0ad-4336-8fd0-3d145e57c78a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.1and1life.com/reviews/shine-text/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943288 | 971 | 1.789063 | 2 |
itibaren Lodipur, Uttar Pradesh 228001, Hindistan
Biraz hayal kırıklığına uğradığımı itiraf etmeliyim ki bu benim en sevdiğim yazarlardan biri olduğu için söylememi acıtıyor. Kısa öyküler Blackbird House'da olduğu gibi güzel bir şekilde iç içe geçmedi ve yazı ondan beklediğim kadar güzel değildi.
The year is 1848, and the place is Ireland, devastated by the potato blight that has swept the countryside and left the poor farmers without their main source of food. Twelve-year-old Fiona McGilray and her family are among the lucky ones - her father has a job working on the landlord's flax farm. But when the landlord decides the farm is not making a profit, all the workers, including Fiona's father, lose their jobs. After Fiona's older sister dies, her parents decide the only way to protect their children is to send them to their relatives in America. When Fiona's father is arrested, Fiona's mother decides to just send Fiona and her older brother Patrick immediately. They flee in the middle of the night and board a ship for Boston. The voyage takes many weeks, and many do not survive. Fiona and Patrick arrive in America strangers in a strange land. Unable to find their relatives, they live in a tiny basement room, taking whatever work they can find to survive. Fiona fights to overcome hunger and prejudice, and to work toward the day when she will see her parents and younger siblings again. This book was over all an enjoyable read. Parts of it seemed to perfect or happy given the hardships most immigrants faced. But this book (and others in the Journey to America series) should appeal to young girls who enjoy historical fiction such as the Dear America series.
I loved this book! Erik Larsen has a way of weaving page-turning tales out of historic fact, even though you know what happened and how it's going to end. I've read this and Devil In The White City; Isaac's Storm is next on the list and then I'll read In The Garden Of Beasts. I highly recommend Mr. Larsen's books!
An excellent companion to the previous Heir books. The Dragon Heir brings together all of the characters and story lines previously introduced and combines them into another fast-paced, high-action book. There are several surprises, and, while it provides a satisfying ending to this particular chapter in the wizard's war, the conclusion leaves it open to more interesting places to explore within this world. | <urn:uuid:7f507d54-42c1-48b2-8311-f68194931764> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sesli-kitaplar-ucretsiz.info/almustakhdimin/465-a4982756505654/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.9239 | 577 | 1.695313 | 2 |
- 1 What does a 0 below a number mean?
- 2 What does a subscript number mean in math?
- 3 What does subscript do to a number?
- 4 How do we use zero today?
- 5 What is subscript example?
- 6 What does a subscript tell you?
- 7 What does a subscript 2 mean in math?
- 8 What are the steps to apply subscript?
- 9 What does Ctrl key effect?
- 10 What is the little number above a number called?
- 11 What is called Sequence?
What does a 0 below a number mean?
In the real number system, a negative number is a number that is less than zero. Negative numbers are often used to represent the magnitude of a loss or deficiency. Negative numbers are used to describe values on a scale that goes below zero, such as the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales for temperature.
What does a subscript number mean in math?
A small letter or number placed slightly lower than the normal text. Examples: • the number 1 here: A1 (pronounced “A sub 1” or just “A 1”) • the letter m here: xm (pronounced “x sub m” or just “x m”) Often used when we have a list of values.
What does subscript do to a number?
What does a subscript tell you? Chemical formulas use letters and numbers to represent chemical species (i.e., compounds, ions). The numbers appearing as subscripts in the chemical formula indicate the number of atoms of the element immediately before the subscript.
How do we use zero today?
Today, zero — both as a symbol (or numeral) and a concept meaning the absence of any quantity — allows us to perform calculus, do complicated equations, and to have invented computers.
What is subscript example?
Subscript is the text which a small letter/number is written after a particular letter/number. It hangs below its letter or number. It is used when writing chemical compounds. An example of subscript is N2.
What does a subscript tell you?
A subscript tells you how many atoms of each element are present in a compound or molecule.
What does a subscript 2 mean in math?
2. The subscript denotes what term of the sequence you are considering; first, second, third,, nth, In the instant case, Fn is the nth Fibonacci number; F1 is the first Fibonacci number, 1; F2 is the second Fibonacci number, 1; F3 is the third Fibonnaci number, 2; etc.
What are the steps to apply subscript?
Use keyboard shortcuts to apply superscript or subscript Select the text or number that you want. For superscript, press Ctrl, Shift, and the Plus sign (+) at the same time. For subscript, press Ctrl and the Equal sign (=) at the same time.
What does Ctrl key effect?
In Microsoft Office, the effect of Ctrl + = key is Subscript. A subscript is a character that is usually a number or a letter, a subscript is written below or below and to the right or left of another character. A letter, symbol, or figure written or printed above the line is known as a Superscript.
What is the little number above a number called?
The power (or exponent) of a number says how many times to use the number in a multiplication. It is written as a small number to the right and above the base number. But power can also mean the result of using an exponent, so in the previous example “64” is also called the power.
What is called Sequence?
A sequence is a list of numbers in a certain order. Each number in a sequence is called a term. Each term in a sequence has a position (first, second, third and so on). | <urn:uuid:84ee042f-81d6-4a13-842f-de1a7cef7c16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thespiritualmovements.com/meaning-of-the-number/often-asked-what-is-the-meaning-of-a-number-with-a-subscript-0.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.90207 | 812 | 3.6875 | 4 |
THE world’s first fully cultivated bluefin tuna raised from eggs will shortly be shipped to market – but is this the saviour of the sportfish industry, or just false economy?
The success story raises hopes that pressure on wild bluefin tuna stocks could be alleviated – giving hope to anglers in many parts of the world that the prized fish could still be available to be caught on rod and line.
Researchers at the
The researchers plan to ship three 1m long bluefin tuna, each weighing about 20 kg, and said that while the fish are relatively small, when compared with their wild counterparts, they are rich in fat, which is prized as a delicacy.
The laboratory began fish-farming research in 1970 and succeeded in getting tuna to lay eggs in an artificial environment, for the first time in history, in 1979. But for about a decade after 1983, the laboratory made little progress after tuna stopped laying eggs inside fish-farming nets.
Supplies of bluefin tuna in the
However, reports state that, while it takes three tons of wild fish to produce one ton of salmon and five tons to produce one ton of cod, it takes a massive 20 tons of fish to produce one ton of tuna. So the new technology might preserve bluefin for a few more years, but what is going to happen to the rest of the world’s fish stocks?
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Put the question “why are pensions guaranteed?” into google and you will not get an answer. I reckon it’s because no-one asks the question.
Why is nobody asking the question?
Is someone guaranteeing the value of your house?
Is there a guarantgee that your share portfolio won’t go down in value?
Are you guaranteed a job for life?
So what makes your retirement income any different?
Somebody has chosen that you needed those guarantees why?
What would you do then? Would you go out and blow the money, or sit on it or invest it or would you buy yourself a guaranteed pension? I suspect that most of us would not chose to buy ourselves a pension.
So when we get to retirment and go and buy a pension, we are doing something strange to us and we’re doing it because that’s what you have to do.
Almost all the problems we have in this country with pensions are created by the guarantees that are offered in retirement. Sure, from time to time, the marekts in which pensions are invested don’t give the expected returns but this is small beer compared with the problems created by pension promises.
The question is really relevent today as we are in a period of crisis created by the economic crisis. The low interest rates which we are enjoying as mortgage payers are crucifying the guaranteed rate at which insurance companies and company pension shcemes put aside money to cover the pension promises they are making. The cost of reserving is driving some companies offering staff guaranteed pensions out of business. For those of us who have to buy the guaranteed pensions ourselves (eg all of us in DC pensions), it’s us who will have to pay for these guarantees and we have to do so by taking less retirment income than we were expecting.
Now it may be that you are prepared to pay this price but it may be, when you are told that these guarantees are costing us a 30% cut in our retirement income, you may think again.
The 30% figure refers to the anouunt of pension that you can get by buying an annuity in the UK compared with how much pension you’d get from an equivalent Dutch pension which you can’t buy into (unless you live and work in Dutchland -sorry Netherlands/Holland whatever).
Now I’m led to believe that certain high-ranking pension people including the minister for pensions Steve Webb, have been looking into these Dutch pensions and have decided they are a little flakey for us in the UK. Why? Why- because the Dutch pension doesn#t have guarantees.
Let me provide you with a difficult choice. I wll pay you £70 for certain for next five years – £350 in total. Or I will pay you £100 this year, £105 next year, £110 the year after, £115 the year after but only £100 in year five- that’s £530 altogether or £180 more overall. You’d take the £530 over £350 wouldn’t you?
You wouldn’t worry too much that your payment in the final year was £30 less than a year before.
Now I may exagerate a little – ok a lot – but it’s for a reason. I would like you when you finish reading this to ask yourself just why we Steve Webb and the Government Actuary and the civil servants at the DWP are so worried about us adopting something like the Dutch system where we seem certain to get more money overall, albeit in a slightly less certain way.
Because the Government seem quite happy for us to have all kind of uncertainty about houses, jobs and not least the funds we build up in these DC pensions but they are adament that our pensions should never be allowed to go down.
This looks like something you should be looking into eh? Something worth asking some questions about? I don’t know the answer but I’m going to keep asking the question. | <urn:uuid:f4903b45-4d43-4489-8893-bd853b05fd41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://henrytapper.com/2012/01/15/who-made-that-choice-for-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970569 | 840 | 1.601563 | 2 |
When Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki appeared in Boruto, fans had a strong deja vu, remembering how his relative Kaguya caused a lot of trouble in the Naruto manga. Now, while Momoshiki certainly is a powerful character, which cannot be denied, he is also a very big enigma, as we still don’t know a lot about him, especially considering the fact that he manifests through Boruto Uzumaki at this moment. In this article, we are going to explain the powers and abilities of Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki.
Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki is one of the strongest members of his clan, at least among the ones that have been introduced thus far. The Ōtsutsuki is known for its very strong members, and Momoshiki is no exception. His powers are somewhere near those that Kaguya possesses, which speaks enough for itself.
The rest of this article is going to focus on Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki, but not on all of the aspects related to his character, but rather just his powers and abilities. Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki has a lot to offer in terms of powers and abilities, which is why we reckoned that he deserved a proper treatment in a standalone article.
Momoshiki was an extraordinarily powerful being. Along with Kinshiki, and Urashiki in the anime, and based on the preparations Kaguya made in preparation for their arrival, Sasuke speculated that they were a greater threat than her. In the anime, Momoshiki stated that he could have single-handedly defeated Kaguya.
He demonstrated enough power to effortlessly destroy an unknown world and its entire population, even though he stated that they were a low level civilization. He was capable of holding his own against multiple Kage-level opponents simultaneously, as well as defeating a perfect Jinchūriki. After absorbing Kinshiki, he created a powerful and massive gust of wind that cut the God Tree from the world from him, in addition to which he was able to defeat four Kage at the same time with extreme ease, being able to fight even against Naruto and Sasuke.
As an Ōtsutsuki, Momoshiki was gifted with vast amounts of very powerful chakra and displayed the ability to fly. Thanks to his chakra, he could fight Kage-level opponents at the same time for a long time. The mere power and pressure of his chakra after absorbing Kinshiki allowed him to create shock waves capable of splitting his planet’s God Tree in two, as well as deflecting barrages of Sasuke’s lightning-charged shuriken.
In his normal form, Momoshiki has shown to be quite proficient in taijutsu. He possessed exceptional physical strength, effortlessly causing Naruto to break through the wall of the Chūnin Exams stadium with a single kick of his foot and fly a considerable distance. Also, Momoshiki was skilled enough with his black receivers as weapons to fend off Sasuke and Darui’s attacks, though he was still at a disadvantage.
However, after absorbing Kinshiki, Momoshiki’s physical strength reached incredible heights. His physical strength proved to be enough to defeat Darui, Gaara, Chōjūrō, and Kurotsuchi with a few blows before the God Tree could even fall, as well as to defeat Naruto in his normal state in hand-to-hand combat.
Momoshiki demonstrated a taijutsu similar to the Gentle Fist, but much more brutal, with which he hit Naruto’s tenketsu and his internal organs; in addition, his weapon skills have improved. Due to both his physical attributes and weapons, Momoshiki was able to evenly withstand Naruto in Six Paths Sage Mode and Sasuke using the full power of his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and Rinnegan.
Even while inside the Chibaku Tensei, Momoshiki didn’t take much damage and was able to fight his way out. Like other Ōtsutsuki, Momoshiki can fly and his chakra is extremely powerful. Its numbers are so great that he could fight for a considerable amount of time against numerous Kage-level opponents.
After absorbing Kinshiki, Momoshiki’s chakra became so strong that it could create shock waves that could cut the God Tree in half. Momoshiki’s spirit is amazingly strong, as he was able to interact with the living world for some time after his death, giving him the ability to make Boruto his vessel.
Momoshiki possessed the Byakugan, which gave him a nearly 360° field of vision (with the supposed exception of a small blind spot in the upper thoracic vertebrae) and the ability to see the Chakra Channel System. Using it, he could see Kurama’s chakra that was sealed within Naruto. Momoshiki, with the help of the Byakugan, could see into the future of other people, although he could not foresee his own fate.
Momoshiki also possessed the Rinnegan, which uniquely resided on both palms of his hands and was originally dyed red instead of light purple. He could absorb ninjutsu with his right eye and then use his left eye to release these techniques with increased power, stating that he could create them endlessly.
Using the Rinnegan, he was able to turn any target into a chakra fruit, allowing him to maintain his youth as well as all of her chakra and abilities after consumption. In Kinshiki’s case, it also increased his muscle tissue and caused a transformation in his entire body.
Upon absorbing Kinshiki and then transforming, the Rinnegan in Momoshiki’s palms also turn purple (yellow in the manga and anime adaptations), and a third Rinnegan of the same color appeared in his forehead. In addition, he could create black receivers, which he used either for melee combat or to shoot them at the enemy and thus immobilize him.
At the cost of the large amount of chakra gained from eating the pills, Momoshiki was able to use space-time ninjutsu, which allowed him and Kinshiki to travel between dimensions. He gained access to Kinshiki’s ability to form red glowing weapons after absorbing it. He also had some knowledge of fuinjutsu, as seen during his attempts to extract Kurama from Naruto.
Momoshiki could control his hair, using it to bind and strangle his opponent, and their speed was enough to bypass Gaara’s Sand Shield defenses. With his Rinnegan, Momoshiki could easily use all five nature transformations by absorbing the elemental chakra from his enemies’ techniques.
He was able to create huge elemental monsters such as a demonic fire pheasant, dogs, and a golem that was able to fight Kurama while wearing the Susanoo armor. Momoshiki’s Fire Release was strong enough to overcome Sasuke’s Susanoo and severely burn him. Momoshiki was also able to use elemental techniques such as absolute zero blizzard and meteorite rain.
After being killed by Boruto, Momoshiki made the decision to make the boy a vessel for his chakra, leaving Kama on him. This gave Boruto access to mysterious powers and, as the seal evolved, allows Momoshiki to take complete control of his body for short periods of time during which he is free to act.
It is possible that over time, Kama will continue to progress and eventually turn Boruto into a complete vessel, causing him to awaken as the “Ultimate Ōtsutsuki.” Eventually, Momoshiki’s genetic data would completely overwrite Boruto’s, after which Kama would disappear and Momoshiki would resurrect, taking over Boruto’s body and erasing his personality.
As the capture process was sped up due to Boruto’s contact with Kawaki, who was the carrier of Isshiki’s Kama, Momoshiki is able to manifest himself when Boruto is weakened enough. It is also revealed that he retains access to Boruto’s knowledge and skills.
Well, from what we have been able to deduce, Momoshiki is a truly formidable character and one of the strongest characters in the whole franchise. Not only is he a great fighter, he has enormous chakra reserves and special techniques that make him a tough opponent. His level of power is somewhere near the level of Kaguya, another member of his clan, so we can deduce that he is quite strong and one of the more powerful characters in the series. | <urn:uuid:f4501f3b-5493-488f-864e-1e9ad587b43b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://animesnews.com/how-strong-is-momoshiki-powers-and-abilities-explained/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.985019 | 1,825 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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How to cook
Oven - 300°F (150°C) with grill
Flat baking tray covered with baking paper
Peel the almonds by soaking them in boiling water for about 5 minutes. Strain them and rub them in a dry cloth. The peeled almonds are left for about 1 hour at room temperature to dry very well.
Put the powdered sugar and dried almonds in a blender and grind them into a paste. Remove and place them into a bowl and add melted butter at room temperature, vanilla and a pinch of salt. Add the yolks one by one and knead by hand.
Finally, add the baking powder on top and knead again with your hands. The fingers are dipped in the orange water, pieces of about 1 oz (27 g) each are torn off and a ball is formed between the palms.
The balls are placed in a bowl with powdered sugar and are rolled on all sides. Arrange them in a tray lined with paper at a distance from each other. The oven is heated to the highest degree - 480°F (250°C) with grill.
Place the tray on a medium position in the oven and immediately turn off the heat. Bake for 10-12 minutes. After 12 minutes the biscuits are checked, because they burn easily, the balls should remain white.
The Arabic Specialty - Moroccan Biscuits is ready.
Note: High quality Moroccan biscuits, which are served only on special occasions, weddings, baptisms and the like. They are always accompanied by a cup of Moroccan mint tea. | <urn:uuid:ef6019b1-6e4e-40d4-93ac-f51cfbe0d3af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tastycraze.com/recipes/r-219351-Arabic_Specialty_-_Moroccan_Biscuits | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951897 | 319 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The significance of trauma is that it is that which refuses to be known, not only because to remember the thing would be to be terrified, but also because there is something about it that remains irreducible to being spoken about. What gets repeated therefore is the relation to this irreducibility, even if the form of the repetition is constantly changing. The ethical challenge therefore contains a double challenge within it. Not only must that which is terrifying be faced and borne, but also the insistence of that about it which is irreducible. Not to accept this challenge is to be reduced to being the trauma’s victim.
This is to invoke Lyotard’s notion of the victim: “What constitutes victimhood is precisely that one is in a situation in which one unable to speak – not because it is disallowed or legally barred, but rather because the nature of the suffering cannot be spoken in the particular idiom that is entrenched in law.” (Lyotard, Jean-François. 1988. The Differend: Phrases in Dispute. Trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele. University of Minnesota Press).In this sense, the member of the flock/community is rendered a victim of the structure of affiliation offered by the church hierarchy or religious orthodoxy insofar as they displace their anxiety onto it.
Accepting it is to accept that the work of repairing can never be finished.
The allusion here, or course, is to the understanding of humanity’s role as ‘Tikkun Olam’.
But what kind of challenge is this in practice? Not only must the whole formation within which the nature of the present moment is approached be held in question, but also the formation of the moment itself. We see this challenge particularly clearly when approached within a religious frame.
Borowitz (Renewing the Covenant: Eugene Borowitz and the Postmodern Renewal of Jewish Theology) calls it a ‘covenantal relationship’. Momany speaks of it in relation to Wesley as conjunctive. (Wesley’s General Rules: Paradigm for postmodern ethics, by Christopher P. Momany). The following shows us how a person is implicated in how they interpret the moment, represented here by the biblical text:
“… the text is a sign that has its meaning (or refers to its object) for some interpretant (or some interpreting mind or context of interpretation). Each interpretation of the biblical text would thus represent a particular, triadic relation among sign, meaning, and interpretation. Criteria for truth would be particular to each relation, engaging biblical text and interpreter in what Borowitz would call a covenantal relationship.” (Peter Ochs, quoted from a review of Borowitz’s book above. What is being invoked here is a Peircean logic of vagueness, the modality of the relational (in this case, covenantal) rule being that of vagueness, rather than of either universality or particularity.)
What this triadic relationship means is that the individual is always personally implicated in the way s/he gives meaning to what-is-going-on, and although there are always ready-made interpretative frameworks that can be used to avoid being personally implicated, it is in trauma itself that the individual is brought up against the limits of this.
What, then, is the ethical challenge of the case? In working together, trying to pay attention to that about which we do not speak, the reflexive work is to use these silences to question our ways of interpreting the truth of what-is-going-on.
Vagueness being that which is held acritically because indubitably, i.e. without doubt. The meaning of somethign vague can only be established by reference to the speaker, and Peirce refers to the encounter with (what is experienced as) irremediable vagueness as an encounter with a limit to what may be known… the equivalent to that which remains irreducible to being spoken about. | <urn:uuid:cc3621cb-fa5d-483c-80a3-a17bd87c11df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lacanticles.com/2005/02/04/the-ethical-challenge-of-the-case/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955135 | 851 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty and critical environmental areas
Why is it important?
Maintaining the memorable and unique landscape features of our communities just makes sense. Unfortunately, valuable natural and agricultural areas are some of the most affected by poor planning and automobile-focused development. While the benefits of the landscape can be hard to measure and challenging to communicate, there are many good reasons to preserve such areas. Open spaces are critical for recreation and have a positive impact on public health through active living. Conserving land and soil that is useful for agriculture is necessary not only to sustain future access to healthy food but also to maintain our culture and a way of life that many find meaningful. Preserving environmental features such as streams, wetlands, prairies and woodlands is essential for clean air and water and necessary for maintaining diverse and healthy populations of fish and wildlife. As much as we may use and value these areas, preserving them is a sizeable challenge requiring considerable community will and dedication, especially where there is development pressure and high land values. Yet the effort to preserve the land we’ve inherited is essential to ensure that future generations have a high quality of life and access to the beauty and meaning found in nature.
B. STRATEGIESIdentify critical landscape features and character
Deciding what’s most important to the community is a first, important step to conserving it. Often, we take for granted the special aspects of our communities and don’t think much about them until they’re threatened. Devising an inclusive process to identify the places that your community finds meaningful is a good first step.Promote and incentivize dense, infill development in existing town centers
There are lots of good reasons to focus on developing our existing town centers including that they promote walkability, benefit existing commercial development and reduce infrastructure costs (and therefore taxes). But one of the most important reasons to promote infill development is to prevent unnecessary, poorly planned development from destroying valuable environmental features and farmland. Every residence or business that’s built in town is one more that isn’t built on the farms, fields or woodlands that make our rural areas so special and compelling.Consider a growth or services boundary
Growth or services limits are controversial but in some cases they can be a means to limit encroachment upon natural and agricultural areas. In some communities, natural boundaries such as rivers and flood plains can limit development and force a community to build more compactly. Where these natural boundaries don’t exist, it may be necessary for a community to limit its long-term infrastructure costs by establishing a judicious service boundary. In all cases, annexation of new land into existing communities should be carefully weighed against the long-term environmental and financial costs associated with extensive suburban land development.Consider compromise solutions through design
We can’t save every natural or agricultural area nor do we want to make development so expensive that it prices many of our citizens out of the market. It’s important to prioritize and to consider some compromise solutions through design. Cluster development is one approach that can allow owners to develop their property while still preserving the most critical environmental or agricultural features. New communities can be designed to conserve natural features, incorporate agricultural components and provide a high quality of life for residents. But it’s important that these new developments are dense, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods that contribute to the community’s long-term quality of life.Manage stormwater to preserve our streams and water bodies
Impervious surfaces increase runoff. This increase can cause erosion and flooding, damaging waterways and property. Development can also cause stormwater to become contaminated with pollutants. Fertilizers, pesticides, sediment, pet waste and heavy metals from automobiles or roof shingles all can affect water quality. Managing and treating stormwater on-site is the best way to mitigate these impacts. Communities should consider ordinances that can protect against non-point source pollution and that require each new development to limit impervious surfaces and retain stormwater. When designed properly, rainwater becomes a resource and not a waste product and our streams, lakes and wetlands are protected for future generations. | <urn:uuid:894dec9d-8aa2-4d2d-869d-f7ff76458445> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ext.msstate.edu/smart-growth-for-small-towns/preserve-open-space-farmland-natural-beauty-and-critical-environmental | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.937937 | 854 | 3.25 | 3 |
Poster Set #S016
Inspire girls with this exciting and motivational girls sports poster set of 10 from Youth Change Workshops. With engaging images of girls working out, playing hard, and being strong, any girls who see it will understand the fun message: “Silly boys, sports are for girls.” Especially designed by education experts who understand how to motivate girls, this fun set of 10 posters is the perfect way to encourage girls to get more involved in sports and fitness at school or on their own.
If you run a gym, after-school program, youth sports league, locker room or P.E. classroom, then this motivational girls sports poster set is a must-have for the walls of your locker rooms and workout spaces. By showing girls that they are welcome in all fields of sports, you open up a world of fitness and achievement that can stick with them for life. Displaying images of strong girls running, doing martial arts, boxing, playing team sports, and more, you are creating an environment that welcomes girls and sends a powerful motivational message that girls are welcome in all sports.
Creating an inclusive space for girls to play sports is key to supporting their dreams of athletic success. In school gyms and locker rooms, the messages on these motivational girls sports posters show students that you believe in them. The set also conveys that girls can hold their own in sports. For teams, this great motivational girls sports poster set is the best way to boost team morale and to encourage hard work in the weight room or out on the field.
This fantastic motivational poster set contains 10 colorful and inspirational classroom posters. The posters are sold individually or you can opt to purchase the whole set. The set of 10 posters sells here at a very discounted price, or you can choose which individual series posters you want to purchase by looking at Posters #75-84.
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Squadron of Comte de Ternay (Army of Rochambeau)
Le Duc-de-Bourgogne, 1780 – 1783
The Duc de Bourgogne (“Duke of Burgundy”), launched October 20, 1751, was an 80 gun ship of the line of the French Royal Navy.
She was refitted twice, in 1761 and 1779, when she received a copper sheathing.
On May 2, 1780, she departed Brest as the flagship of the 7 ship and 3 frigate Expédition Particulière, under Admiral Ternay, escorting 36 transports carrying troops to support the Continental Army in the War of American Independence.
The squadron comprised the following seven ships of the line:
— 80 gun Duc de Bourgogne, under Ternay d’Arsac (admiral) and Médine (flag captain)
— 74 gun Neptune, under Sochet Des Touches
— Conquérant, under La Grandière
— 64 gun Provence under Lombard
— Ardent under Bernard de Marigny
— Jason under La Clocheterie
— Éveillé under Le Gardeur de Tilly
and the three frigates:
— Surveillante under Villeneuve Cillart
— Amazone under La Pérouse, the vanguard of the fleet, arrived at Boston on June 11, 1780. | <urn:uuid:3e09a5c2-3483-4d6b-bc60-538b668c0044> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://expeditionparticuliere.com/ships/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.838005 | 324 | 2.296875 | 2 |
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Exploring the use of online digital storytelling among Bangladeshi young learners in English classrooms
(Brac University, 2021-09)
Digital storytelling has evolved into a modern teaching method that incorporates computer technology and multimedia elements such as photos, videos, and audio. Though widely used in many developed countries’ classrooms, ... | <urn:uuid:0c94068f-3be6-428b-858a-ec32eb2d605e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dspace.bracu.ac.bd/xmlui/handle/10361/13/discover?filtertype_0=subject&filter_relational_operator_0=equals&filter_0=Bangladesh&filtertype=author&filter_relational_operator=equals&filter=Ahmed%2C+Sarah | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.897064 | 76 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Gender Affirming Health Clinic (16+)
The Gender Affirming Health Clinic is a free service that aims to create a safe, confidential, and inclusive space. We provide culturally competent and gender-affirming care to trans and gender diverse people. We work collaboratively with our community partners to ensure supportive and comprehensive care to clients and their families. Our team uses a holistic and compassionate approach when providing services and supports.
Who is This Program Intended For?
- People who identify as trans, gender diverse, non-binary and/or questioning
- 16 years of age or older
- Residents who live in York Region or South Simcoe
The Gender Affirming Health Clinics Offers
Physical & Sexual Health Care
The Nurse Practitioner is committed to providing competent, dignified and welcoming primary health care services for trans and gender diverse people.
- Comprehensive health assessments
- Health promotion/disease prevention
- Medication/treatment management
- Sexual health services
- Transition support
Hormone Replacement Therapy
The counsellors support trans and gender diverse people in exploring all topics related to their gender identity and expression.
The clinic team is trained in gender affirming care and utilizes a person-centered and non-judgmental approach.
- Discussing / exploring gender identity
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When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker took on his state’s public-sector unions last January, it seemed to require no explanation. Republicans are sympathetic to corporate interests and opposed to organized labor, and challenging public-sector workers’ pay and benefits appeared to be just one more skirmish in a longstanding ideological battle.
But Walker went one crucial step further. He deliberately sparked a dangerous, months-long war by proposing to end the public-sector unions’ collective bargaining rights entirely. Why take that risk?
Here’s why: Politics in the United States is a game played on multiple levels, and ideology is only the first. Walker was playing on a second, deeper level, where the issues are secondary. Here, the goal is not so much to advance one party’s agenda, but to actively undermine the infrastructure that allows the opposing party to exist at all. And on this level, one of America’s two political parties routinely outplays the other: Defunding the left is a longtime goal of the smartest and savviest Republican strategists, and they’ve pursued it for decades.
The old-school version of this tactic began in the ’70s and ’80s with the right’s campaign to undermine private-sector unions, traditionally one of the Democratic Party’s biggest sources of funding and campaign support. In the early ’70s, a newly aggressive and politicized Chamber of Commerce, joined by newcomers like the Business Roundtable and a new breed of “union avoidance” consultants (PDF), took advantage of divisions on the left and the decline of manufacturing industries to block labor reforms and gut rules against union-busting. All this made it nearly impossible to organize new workplaces in the growing service sector, which led to unions’ long, steady decline: Since 1970, private-sector union membership has dropped from 29 percent of the workforce to less than 7 percent. And with that decline, the Democratic Party has lost a major source of its funding.
Organized labor wasn’t the right’s only target. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Republican strategists approached the NAACP with offers of free mapping software to help them create majority-minority congressional districts that would be more likely to elect black and Hispanic members of Congress. But this tactic, dubbed “Project Ratfuck” by one of its chief architects, had nothing to do with increasing minority representation. Rather, it was designed to pack lots of liberal-leaning minority voters into a single district, leaving the surrounding districts as easy pickings for Republican challengers.
A similar dynamic fueled the tort-reform push of the mid-’90s. This one was a twofer: Tort-lawyer bashing had always been a reliable applause line for Republican politicians, but in 1994 conservative ur-strategist Grover Norquist pointed out that the big losers in tort reform are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers contribute huge amounts of money to the Democratic Party. “The political implications of defunding the trial lawyers would be staggering,” he wrote. After that, the tort-reform movement exploded.
You can think of this triumvirate—unions, minority redistricting, and tort reform—as Defunding 1.0. And most of it hasn’t stopped: Republicans are still battling private-sector unions and pressing for tort reform. But private-sector unions have mostly been beaten, and tort reform has turned out to be a tough nut to crack. So the GOP has moved on to Defunding 2.0, with a brand new trio of pet projects.
One of the prime obsessions of the conservative movement over the past decade has been passage of voter-ID laws at the state level (PDF). This is not because Republicans think citizens should have to identify themselves to government authorities and Democrats don’t. Nor is it because the United States has seen a wave of voter fraud recently. The Brennan Center for Justice has been tracking cases of electoral fraud diligently for years, and its conclusion is clear: Actual voter fraud is virtually nonexistent. In case after case where fraud has been alleged, the number of verified episodes amounts to no more than a tiny handful, typically less than one-thousandth of 1 percent of the votes cast.
This makes perfect sense. Retail voter fraud, in which someone tries to vote under a fake name, is hard to pull off and invites serious penalties. It’s almost inconceivable that anyone would try to do it on a large enough scale to swing an election. So why has voter fraud become a cause célèbre among conservatives? Here’s a clue: In 2007, a University of Washington study found that among whites, the middle-aged, and the middle income, about 90 percent of registered voters had access to a picture ID as required by a new voter law in Indiana (PDF). Among blacks, the young, and low-income residents, the number was just 80 percent. These are among the most loyal Democratic Party demographics in the country. A law that makes it harder for them to vote makes it harder for Democrats to win elections.
Yet the Supreme Court—even though it acknowledged that actual voter fraud is vanishingly rare (PDF)—upheld Indiana’s law in 2008. By 2009, a dozen states had introduced (PDF) new voter-ID laws, and conservatives had a second target in their crosshairs: ACORN, much of whose work involved running voter-registration drives targeting poor and minority citizens. ACORN had long been a bête noire of the right, and so when conservative activist Andrew Breitbart released James O’Keefe’s video sting purporting to show ACORN staffers advising a flamboyantly dressed pimp on how to run a child prostitution ring, the right-wing noise machine went ballistic. The videos turned out to have been deceptively edited (among other things, O’Keefe never wore his pimp costume when talking to ACORN), but the damage was done: A few ACORN staffers had indeed acted badly, Congress passed a law defunding the group, and ACORN disbanded. (O’Keefe has since moved on to attacking NPR; see “Pimps, Lies, and Videotape.”)
Most recently, of course, a third target has appeared front and center in the battle to defund the left: public-sector unions, the only sector of organized labor still thriving. New Jersey governor and presidential almost-hopeful Chris Christie was one of the first to gain notoriety for taking them on, but by February, the spotlight had turned to Wisconsin.
That fight, despite Walker’s protestations, had almost nothing to do with the state’s budget deficit and everything to do with decimating a pillar of Democratic Party support. Longtime DC reporter Howard Fineman explained the raw math: Republicans had hoped to take away as many as 20 governorships from the Democrats in the 2010 elections, but in the end they only won 12. Why? “Well,” reports Fineman, “according to postgame analysis by GOP strategists, the power and money of public-employee unions was the reason. ‘We are never going to win most of these states until we can do something about those unions,’ one key operative said at a Washington dinner in November.”
In a similar vein, New York Times statistician Nate Silver analyzed recent election polls and concluded that even in their current emaciated state, union households overall voted Democratic in big enough numbers to add about two percentage points to Democratic vote totals in the 2008 election. And in terms of raw dollars, three public-sector unions (AFSCME and the two main teachers’ unions, the NEA and the AFT) were among the top five donors to Democratic candidates in the 2010 election cycle—and that doesn’t include individual union members.
Put it all together—the funds public-sector unions provide to Democrats, the votes they bring, and the doorbell-ringing and phone-banking they do—and it becomes obvious why Republicans want to cripple them. The Wisconsin Senate’s Republican majority leader made it crystal clear. “If we win this battle, and the money is not there under the auspices of the unions,” he said, “certainly what you’re going to find is President Obama is going to have a…much more difficult time getting elected and winning the state of Wisconsin.”
There’s nothing illegal about the right’s efforts to defund the left. As they say, politics ain’t beanbag. But the left is fighting with one hand tied behind its back if it doesn’t understand exactly what’s going on and doesn’t make sure that the public understands it, too. Unlike the fights over funding for NPR or Planned Parenthood, these aren’t just—or even mainly—fights over liberal versus conservative priorities or principles, regardless of how often the right likes to portray them that way. They’re really fights over raw, naked power, with Republicans trying to permanently tilt the political playing field and restore their Bush-era dream of a permanent majority.
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese chief Xi Jinping on Thursday issued potent backing for Afghanistan at a regional meeting, though building no point out of human rights abuses by the country’s Taliban leaders.
Xi pledged China’s guidance in a concept to a accumulating of associates from Afghanistan, China, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in a central Chinese town that spotlights Beijing’s aspirations to play a primary position in Afghanistan pursuing the withdrawal of U.S. forces past August.
A “peaceful, secure, formulated and affluent Afghanistan” is what Afghans aspire to, which “serves the popular pursuits of regional nations and the worldwide local community,” Xi mentioned.
“China has all along revered Afghanistan’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, and is dedicated to supporting Afghanistan’s peaceful and steady development,” Xi said in his message to the accumulating in Tunxi, a center of the tourism marketplace in Anhui province.
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Xi gave no specifics, despite the fact that China has previously transported unexpected emergency assist to Afghanistan and is in search of to create copper mining there.
China follows what it calls a rigid plan of “non-intervention” in other countries’ interior affairs, such as opposing these staged for humanitarian applications until sanctioned by the United Nations. Inspite of that, Beijing is commonly accused of meddling to even further its personal domestic and intercontinental interests.
Particular envoys for Afghanistan from China, the United States and Russia, a group recognised as the “Extended Troika,” were also conference concurrently in Tunxi.
While it has but to acknowledge the Taliban government, China has moved promptly to shore up its ties with the radical Islamic group.
A month before the Taliban took energy, Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted a high-run delegation from the team for a July 28, 2021, assembly in the Chinese port metropolis of Tianjin. Wang referred to the team as “pivotal” power important to peace and reconstruction in Afghanistan.
On that and other situations, Chinese have pushed the Taliban for assurances they will not allow functions inside of Afghanistan’s borders by associates of China’s Turkic Muslim Uyghur minority intent on overthrowing Chinese rule in their indigenous location of Xinjiang.
Wang also built a surprise quit in Kabul last week to satisfy Taliban leaders, even as the worldwide group fumed around the difficult-line movement’s damaged assure a working day before to open schools to women beyond the sixth quality.
China has studiously prevented mentioning the boundaries on girls’ instruction and other human legal rights abuses, specifically those focusing on ladies, whilst keeping its Kabul embassy open.
The international ministers of Qatar and Indonesia have been invited to the conference of neighboring states as friends. Taliban-appointed international minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, is symbolizing Afghanistan at the assembly.
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On May 5, 1988, Adele Laurie Blue Adkins MBE was born in London. She is an English singer-songwriter and multi-platinum-selling artist. When Adele graduated from the BRIT School of Music and Drama in 2006, she was signed to XL Recordings.
“Chasing Pavements” and “Make You Feel My Love” were both UK top-five hits from her debut album, 19, released in 2008. Album sales in the United States have topped one million copies. Adele was the recipient of two prestigious awards: the Brit Award for Rising Star and the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
After the release of her first studio album, 19, Adele returned with her second, 21. With over 31 million copies sold, it became the best-selling album of the twenty-first century. Platinum in the UK and Diamond in the US make it the highest-selling solo album ever. “21” has been Billboard’s best-selling album in the United States for 24 consecutive weeks (the longest for a female artist ever). Rolling in the Deep, “Someone Like You,” and “Set Fire to the Rain” all topped the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time as lead artists, making her the first female artist in the history of the chart to achieve this feat as a solo artist.
To explain her divorce after a six-year sabbatical, ADELE released a new album with a special dedication to her son, who is nine years old.
During the last decade, the singer has been one of Britain’s best-kept secrets, and she has lost a significant amount of weight since she initially rose to fame. Here’s a look back at how she’s evolved throughout the years.
Adele, although having a stunning physical appearance, made the decision to change her lifestyle after suffering a vocal haemorrhage in 2011
She abstained from drinking, smoking, and consuming caffeine, as well as avoiding “spicy, lemony, and acidic” flavours in meals.
“It’s f***ing dull,” she said, “but I don’t think you take your voice seriously until you have an accident,” she said.
“I’m scared all the time that I’m going to harm my voice,” she continued
Adele, pictured here in 2015, made a conscious effort to improve the quality of her voice by living a more balanced lifestyle.
Adele’s public persona seemed to shift once she announced her separation from her husband in April of this year.
Instagram post by her trainer Geracimo reveals how her personal life has impacted her physical progress.
He penned the following: “Since moving to Los Angeles, she’s been widely reported to have through a series of difficult personal transformations. You should expect a new self-image and the desire to be your best self to accompany each major life transition.”
Only during her performance on Saturday Night Live did Adele publicly admit to losing weight
She jokingly said, “I know I’ve changed a lot since you last saw me Because of all the Covid restrictions, though, I’m unable to do so . Only half of me could fit in my luggage, so this is the half I chose to bring.
How did Adele manage to shed whopping tens of pounds?
Rumours have been circulating that the pop star’s weight loss has been aided by gruelling diets. But Adele dispelled the accusations by pointing out the way that was genuinely beneficial to her career. Her metamorphosis began with tough and frequent workouts, which eventually resulted in a stunning physique.
In her view, any rumour linking her weight loss to a particular diet is baseless. In an interview with British Vogue, the singer denied all knowledge of a diet. “There will be no intermittent fasting. “Nothing,” she stated emphatically. After that, she explained why she was eating more than usual: she was training her body to the point that it was overworked.
Adele’s Way of Life Changes
Her achievement can be attributed to a variety of lifestyle adjustments in addition to her fitness regimen. But these changes did not take place suddenly. Prior to embarking on a tour in 2016, the musician stated in an interview with Vogue that she was going to make some lifestyle changes before she left. Stamina, according to her, was an absolute necessity for her on her voyage. As a result, she knew she needed to lose weight.
In order to do this, Adele began by making minor but important adjustments to the way she lived. When asked about his daily tea regimen, the actor famously admitted to drinking 10 cups of black tea, sweetened with two sugar cubes. However, she was able to break this habit by fully cutting off sugar from her diet. After giving up sugar and tea, Adkins says she feels more energised than ever before!
In addition to sugars, she progressively gave up smoking, drinking, and taking too much coffee. Spicy and zesty dishes were among the first to go for a while as well.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- North Carolina, like many other states across the country, is seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases.
The Waren County school board voted unanimously to require all employees and student-athletes to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and for student-athletes to be tested for COVID-19 at least once a week.
Employees and student-athletes have 30 days (until Oct. 9) to get their first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine and 60 days (until Nov. 8) to get their second dose, if it's needed to be fully vaccinated.
If there is a medical or sincerely held religious reason why they cannot receive the COVID-19 vaccine, they may request an exemption to the vaccination requirement.
Exempted employees will be required to be tested once a week. Exemptions for student-athletes will require them to be tested twice a week, whereas vaccinated student-athletes are only required to be tested once a week.
As a further incentive to get vaccinated, student-athletes who are fully vaccinated and not showing any symptoms of illness will not be required to quarantine if they are exposed to someone with COVID-19. This provides the best chance for a team to complete its season without having to forfeit games because players are quarantined.
Gov. Roy Cooper begged for North Carolinians to step up and get vaccinated to end the COVID-19 pandemic during a news conference Thursday.
"How many people need to get sick and die because people don't get this miraculous vaccine?" Cooper said. "How many people need to witness the cruel death of a loved one?"
He added that the vast majority of hospitalizations are happening in people who are not vaccinated. "If you're hesitant, get off social media and get on the phone with your doctor," he added.
State Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen echoed Cooper's sentiments, laying out the latest COVID-19 data for the state.
She pointed to the rapid rise in cases over the summer due to the Delta variant--the sharpest increase in cases the state has seen thus far during the pandemic. She added that the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 was extremely worrisome and that more than a third of people hospitalized were younger than 49.
While more than 59% of North Carolinians older than 12 have been vaccinated, just 35% of teenagers and 40% of young adults between 18 and 24 have gotten the vaccine. Cohen recommended that people add layers of protection, given the high rate of community spread, such as wearing a mask.
"We are 18 months into this pandemic and almost 9 months into the time that vaccines have come onto the scene," Cooper said. "The key to ending this pandemic of course is the vaccine. There's still time to protect yourself."
Cooper added that more than 96% of students in North Carolina schools are in districts where masks are required. Just three school districts are not requiring masks at this time.
"We know that keeping kids learning in the classroom is the most important thing for our students right now. Getting vaccinated, wearing a mask in public indoor settings and following the science is what we need to do," Cooper said. "The faster we put this pandemic behind us, the sooner we can all rest easy and stay healthy."
Thursday's briefing, meanwhile, comes ahead of another weekend of big outdoor events, including college football and kickoff to the NFL season. Asked if he would attend events like that, including the North Carolina State Fair, the governor said he would - because he's vaccinated.
"If I go, I am going to be careful and if I am around a lot of people outside, I am going to have a mask on," Cooper said. "I am not immunocompromised. Everyone should look at their own situation and make decisions for themselves, particularly for people who have not gotten a vaccination."
6,290 new COVID-19 cases were reported in North Carolina on Thursday.
The percent of positive tests in the state is 11.3%.
3,815 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in North Carolina.
That's 25 more people than Wednesday.
North Carolina surpassed 15,000 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday.
110 more people were reported from Wednesday.
There are currently 919 adult ICU COVID-19 patients.
456 COVID-19 patients were admitted in North Carolina hospitals in the last 24 hours.
A popular music festival in downtown Raleigh will be a completely outdoor event because of current COVID-19 metrics.
The Hopscotch Music Festival will have two main stages, more than 30 bands and more than 90 vendors.
The shows begin at 3:45 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and then at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Festival officials said they expect the rain to slack off before the shows begin. Any possible delays or changes due to weather will be announced on the festival website and social media pages.
People who attend the festival will have to provide proof of vaccination or provide a negative COVID-19 test from the past 72 hours. Masks will be required in any indoor setting and are strongly encouraged regardless of vaccination status and seating location during the outdoor shows.
Last year, organizers canceled the event because of the pandemic.
If you already bought tickets but you do not want to attend because of the updated protocols, you can receive a refund or roll your tickets over to next year. For more information click here.
Some South Carolina cities are bringing back indoor mask requirements as the state's coronavirus outbreak rivals the height of the pandemic last winter before vaccines were widely available.
The cities of Columbia, West Columbia and Cayce in central South Carolina have all adopted requirements that people wear masks in indoor public places except while eating and a few other exceptions.
South Carolina has never had a statewide mask mandate but it allowed local governments to do so in 2020. Most of the mandates faded away after Gov. Henry McMaster ended a 14-month COVID-19 state of emergency in June when the state was seeing about 150 new cases a day.
Now, South Carolina is seeing about 5,400 new coronavirus cases a day, similar to the pandemic's peak in January.
President Joe Biden is toughening COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers and contractors as he aims to boost vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant that is killing thousands each week and jeopardizing the nation's economy.
That's according to a person familiar with the plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Biden has signed a new executive order to require vaccination for employees of the executive branch and contractors that do business with the federal government. The step comes in advance of a speech Thursday afternoon outlining a six-pronged plan to address the latest rise in coronavirus cases and the stagnating pace of COVID-19 shots.
Biden has encouraged COVID-19 vaccine requirements in schools, workplaces and university campuses. The White House hopes the strengthened federal mandate will inspire more businesses to follow suit.
President Joe Biden will unveil a new strategy for battling the spread of COVID-19 today.
The plan will be centered around six points, including vaccinating the unvaccinated.
There will be a focus on furthering protection for those who are vaccinated, keeping schools open safely and stepping up requirements for COVID testing and the wearing of face masks.
Finally, the president will focus on protecting the country's economic recovery and improving care for those who have been infected with the virus.
United Airlines says more than half its workers who weren't vaccinated last month have gotten the shots since the airline announced it will require proof of vaccination.
The airline is detailing rules around its requirement that employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 by late September. United officials say employees with an exemption from vaccination because of medical conditions or religious beliefs will be placed on unpaid leave in early October. Those whose exemption requests are denied, and who still refuse to get the shots, will be fired.
United is citing "dire" statistics around the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States in explaining its new policy.
THURSDAY MORNING HEADLINES
One in four new COVID-19 cases are among children, according to new data from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
That new stat has Durham Public Schools considering taking classes outside.
The company Hobbs Architects proposed new outdoor learning spaces that could be built in a way to take more classes outside during the pandemic and long after.
The company said the proposed outside learning centers could be engineered in a way that protects the children from natural elements.
Durham students recently filed a petition for more virtual classes, due to the uptick in COVID-19 cases.
In Wake County, it will likely be another two weeks before the school board makes a decision about mandatory COVID-19 testing and vaccines.
Tuesday night's board meeting was emotionally charged and members said they have a lot to consider before casting their vote.
Meanwhile, at Appalachian State University in Boone, all unvaccinated students are now required to get weekly COVID-19 tests.
The university said 52 percent of students and 89 percent of employees are fully vaccinated. That means more than 9,000 students are unvaccinated.
Wake County Health officials are warning there has been a rise in COVID-19 cases among children.
Wake Epidemiology Director Dr. Nicole Mushonga says transmission remains high in the county.
"What we have seen, during our Delta surge, is that the number of cases for 5-9 (age group) has gone up significantly, ranging anywhere from 200 to over 360 cases per week," she said.
Strides are being made elsewhere.
"We've had a pretty good increase in our 12-17 population vaccinations," said Mushonga.
Raleigh mom Emily Rosar spent a portion of Wednesday afternoon in Moore Square entertaining her 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter.
"I was working this morning and then I took the half-day," said Rosar.
Her toddler, Ruth, is on a two-week hiatus from daycare. Her room closing after a classmate got COVID-19.
Rosar said she wishes she could take precautions to protect her little one from the virus.
"If I could get her vaccinated today, I absolutely would. She's getting vaccinated for everything else," she said.
Rosar said, for now, she can only manage expectations and see what this school year holds. She says the situation is worrisome to a degree.
"We're been doing it for a year and a half," said Rosar.
State and local leaders are continuing to urge kids 12 and older to get the vaccine.
Wake Health says it is also preparing to offer boosters shots to teachers and staff.
At least two children in South Carolina have died of COVID-19 this month as schools have reported thousands of cases among students and staff. The Aiken County coroner confirmed a 9-year-old and a 15-year-old died from the virus on Sept. 1. Aiken County Public Schools had previously announced the deaths of two students in fourth and tenth grade. The state's current coronavirus surge has continued to infect more children and younger people, and affect them more severely, than earlier in the pandemic. Health officials tracked more than 20,000 cases between Thursday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that it is seeing a sharp increase in COVID clusters among school sports teams. From July 1 through Sept. 2, clusters among school sports teams accounted for 45% of all clusters in North Carolina middle and high schools.
NCDHHS also said children age 17 and younger made up 31% of the state's new COVID-19 cases for the week ending Sept. 4,
"We need everyone, including our student-athletes and their coaches, to increase layers of prevention to fight this more contagious Delta variant: Don't wait to vaccinate and urge others to do the same," NCDHHS Chief Medical Officer and State Health Director Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson, M.D., MPH. "Tested, safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are the best tool for preventing the spread of COVID-19. Student-athletes who are fully vaccinated do not need to quarantine after a close contact with someone with COVID-19."
4,752 new COVID-19 cases were reported in North Carolina on Wednesday.
The percent of positive tests in the state increased to 15.8%.
3,790 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. There are 928 adult ICU COVID-19 patients.
356 confirmed COVID-19 patients were admitted in the last 24 hours.
The head of the World Health Organization is calling on rich countries with large supplies of coronavirus vaccines to refrain from offering booster shots through the end of the year, expanding a call that has largely fallen on deaf ears. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said Wednesday that he was "appalled" at comments by pharmaceutical manufacturers who said vaccine supplies are high enough to allow for both booster shots and vaccinations in countries in dire need of jabs but facing shortages. The WHO chief says "I will not stay silent when companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines think the world's poor should be satisfied with leftovers." The U.S. and other nations have already begun some vaccine booster shots for vulnerable people.
WEDNESDAY MORNING HEADLINES
North Carolina health officials on Tuesday released a report showing 170 ongoing COVID-19 clusters in K-12 schools or child-care settings.
While the state Department of Health and Human Services said it does not have data on the number of pupils quarantined statewide or the share of those forced to miss school without a remote learning option, districts without mask-wearing requirements are seeing substantially more spread of the virus and hours of lost learning among students.
Union County Public Schools, which voted down a proposal last month to require mask-wearing in the state's sixth-largest public school district, reported about one in 8 of the more than 41,000 students in the district were under quarantine, as of Friday. The more than 5,200 students were placed under quarantine after 337 pupils tested positive for the virus last week.
Meanwhile, the Wake County Public School System, which is four times larger than Union County Public Schools, has less than a fourth of the number of students quarantined. Data from the Wake County district shows less than 1,300 of its more than 161,000 pupils were quarantined last week.
In Durham County, where face coverings are also mandatory, the public school district with nearly 31,000 pupils learning in person reported 97 new cases among students last week.
The weekly report state health officials updated on Tuesday shows the Union Academy Charter School in Monroe has the worst cluster in North Carolina, with 111 positive cases, including 98 among children. This amounts to about one in 20 of the charter school's students being infected. Charter Day School in Brunswick County has the next highest cluster of 81 infected children, followed distantly by Emereau Charter School in Bladen County with 31 infections among students.
Education leaders, health experts and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper have all strongly encouraged districts to require mask-wearing, even as the governor has refused to require it statewide and instead chosen to leave the decision to local school boards.
Dozens of districts entered the school year with optional mask-wearing policies, and nearly all of them have reversed course over the past month as the spread of the more contagious delta variant has hit their communities.
But five of the state's 115 K-12 public school districts, which include the Avery, Onslow, Polk, Union and Yancey county school systems, are still holding out.
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Bill Gates’ slides are overwhelming in content, the colors look dark and dreary, and as I scan the slides, I have no idea what main message (point? take-away? idea? belief? action?) he wants his audience to leave with. Granted, I am a huge fan of the business prowess of Bill Gates, and he undoubtedly said some interesting and challenging things while presenting, but I was not at the conference. I only have the slides, and reviewing them now does not help me at all. If anything, it has the opposite effect–what is he talking about? When they get printed and/or electronically distributed (as is happening here and at countless desks around organizations), they lose their meaning. That is not what a communicator wants.
Steve Jobs’ are clean, straight-forward, and more compelling. They follow what Seth Godin suggests with minimal text on slides so they help to reinforce the speaker’s message. Great for the audience that is there, perhaps, as long as they are primarily auditory learners. However, I have another reservation here–I was not in the audience at the time, and while the slides may indeed reinforce the presenter, that doesn’t do anything for me. Is Steve suggesting Apple is aiming at all-in-one? They have already achieved it? They want to ultimately sell only one all-in-one product? I am not sure. Once again, without message titles, I am clueless and left to my own thoughts.
Yes, presentations still have that “had to ‘been there” quality. BUT, as social media changes the way we work, it is also having an effect on how we communicate and consider the primary and secondary audiences we face. Message titles, even if they are just scattered through a presentation with the other slides filled with images and other engaging devices, will definitely help the various audiences far into our digital futures.
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Once upon a time—during the early years of America's space program—"computer" meant "person who does manual calculations." This was considered rather menial labor, particularly when a woman did it—and lots of women did it. Though they were as smart and as educated—and often did much of the same work—they were paid less in money and in respect than their male counterparts (who held titles such as "engineer"). Anything done by black women was, obviously, barely worth mentioning.
And barely mentioned at all has, outrageously, been the fate of so many black women who were essential to the U.S. space program of the 1960s. You know Alan Shepard (first American in space) and John Glenn (first American to orbit Earth). But you have probably never heard of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson—who were pioneers in, respectively, mathematics, computer programming and engineering at NASA—without whom those guys never would have flown.
Hidden Figures is an about-damn-time true story that smashes the notion that the only people who had the Right Stuff in the moon-shot effort were white and male. This is no dry history lesson, though, but an often funny, ultimately feel-good triumph of geeks who faced even more absurd obstacles than any white boy with a pocket protector. It's disgraceful that it has taken this long for its like to come along. Now that it's here, Hidden Figures is cause for celebration.
Empire's Taraji P. Henson is completely marvelous as Johnson, who does a lot of standing at blackboards chalking out calculations and making that process genuinely thrilling, not only because—geeky squee—she is trying to invent the math needed to put a ship into orbit and return it safely to Earth. She lets us feel the gears turning in her head, and we share how transporting it is for her to escape into numbers when so much of her day is spent merely convincing the white men around her that she can do the job. Director Theodore Melfi (St. Vincent) wrings a lot of wry humor out of simple visual moments, such as when Johnson hesitates while typing a report for reasons that have everything to do with her agitating for validation. Melfi also makes sly visual allusions to iconic moments from The Right Stuff: Johnson does a lot of running around NASA's Langley, Va., campus à la Jeff Goldblum in the 1983 film, though for wildly different reasons.
Melfi's use of the "victory walk," which The Right Stuff director Philip Kaufman all but invented, has the always-wonderful Octavia Spencer as Vaughn leading her "colored computers" to a plum new assignment at NASA that she has made possible. It's clearly meant to elevate these women (and rightly so) to a realm as rarefied as the one the Mercury 7 astronauts have enjoyed, thanks in part to Kaufman's visual iconography. Melfi might be the first filmmaker to have truly recaptured the power of those images, with characters who have actually earned the right to be proud of their achievements. It's a glorious moment in the film.
Then there's Jackson, whom Janelle Monáe makes the spikiest of the three as she faces an actual legal battle to get into NASA's engineering training program. And so Hidden Figures makes up for another omission of cinema: We've barely seen onscreen the realities of day-to-day workplace life under segregation, a shameful period of the nation's history that demands much more examination in pop culture. Here, through the interconnected stories of all three women, we feel the weight of the the ignominy of separate public facilities and the pressure to not complain about it, lest one be tagged as a troublemaker. Johnson does finally snap in a scene that is devastating.
Some white folks do get woke over the course of the narrative, but they are not the focus of the story; they are merely listening to the voices and experiences of black women being heard, really heard, at long last. And therein lies the beauty of Hidden Figures. This shouldn't be a rarity. It's a hugely entertaining movie, but it's also an important and necessary one. | <urn:uuid:770f05c5-198e-465a-ad3f-77a18309aa03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://m.cityweekly.net/utah/math-effect/Content?oid=3569195 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97166 | 863 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Modern Oushak Rugs
Collection Of Modern Oushak Rugs: Centuries Old Tradition with a Contemporary Style
There’s something magical and almost mystical about carpets. Their beauty and elegance have graced the floors of palaces and estates around the world for centuries. Traditional carpet weaving centers, such as Oushak, have a tradition of creating these masterpieces for the world to enjoy. Now, this fine tradition continues, and the weaving centers of old are now bringing their gorgeous works of art to the world once again. Only now, they are giving them a contemporary and updated twist. Nazmiyal is proud to present to you our modern Oushak rug collection.
Oushak and Its Long Carpet Weaving History
Oushak is an ancient city in the central Aegean region of what is now modern-day Turkey. Oushak is a city of industry, and carpets are one of its biggest and oldest commodities. The production of Oushak rugs goes back to the 16th century. Oushak carpets were often featured in Renaissance paintings, such as those by Hans Holbein the Younger.
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Oushak was a major center of carpet production from the early days of the Ottoman Empire until early in the 20th century. Oushak carpets were highly prized in Europe, and they were often used as political gifts. They were the carpets of noblemen and the Royal Courts. They were a sign of wealth and station in society.
Design History Of The Modern Contemporary Oushak Carpets
Carpets from Oushak have historically been easily recognized by a distinct family of designs. However, Oushak weavers have also been known for their ingenuity and extensive range of colors and patterns. Historically, Oushaks were classified as Anatolian rugs, but today scholars now know much more about the traditional patterns that are attributed to the weaving schools established there.
Many of the traditional designs found in Oushak rugs can be found in the carpets of other surrounding areas. The success of Oushak as a carpet weaving center had an influence on the area’s designs of other villages and tribes in the area. They continue to influence modern designers today.
Oushak carpets underwent the greatest years of development up through the 17th century. They were favored in both the European and early American market. For a brief time in the 17th century, European carpets became more popular, and Oushak production declined, as did the development of new Oushak rug designs.
The Oushak Rug Weaving Renaissance
At the end of the 19th century, European interest began to pick up. oriental carpets became popular once again, and the Oushak carpet works scrambled to find weavers who still knew the traditional techniques to teach others and meet the growing demand. Since that time, Oushak carpets have become an interior design staple.
Now, the looms of Oushak are once again being revived, and skilled hands that hold centuries of tradition are once again tying knots of beautiful colors. The weavers of the new contemporary modern Oushak rugs have found inspiration in the patterns of old, but they are now giving them a refreshing update.
Changing Times In Oushak
The older Oushak carpets have left their mark on carpet weaving design throughout the centuries, and the new Oushak rugs work that is coming from the city once again promises to have an influence on modern design, just as it did in the past. One of the characteristics that set Oushak rugs apart is quality. They are known for using strong, durable wools, and expert dye techniques. The modern weavers of Oushak continue their tradition of quality with these modern works of art.
Traditional Oushak carpets include vibrant colors and unusual color combinations. Motifs in traditional carpets include angular designs, florals, and traditional motifs. Throughout the years, Oushak has shown an incredible ability to adjust to changing trends and tastes.
One example of this is the introduction of larger motifs in the field in response to the popularity of carpets created by Ziegler and Company in the latter part of the 19th century. During that time, the designs became bolder and more rustic in nature. Throughout the years, Oushak designs have continued to evolve. Throughout these design changes, they have kept their tribal character and appeal.
A Millennia of Tradition
As nimble fingers once again tie countless knots on the warps of the Oushak looms, they pay homage to a millennium of carpet weaving design and tradition. Oushak carpets are known for their softness and supple feel. This tradition of softness, quality, and breathtaking designs continue with our latest collection.
The collection relies on traditional designs. You will still find a few things that are familiar, such as bold stylized florals and brilliant colors. The proportions between the field and borders stick to tradition. You will see the reflections of cloud bands, Shah Abbasi palmettes, and other familiar favorites. Sometimes, they are recognizable, and sometimes, they are an abstract reflection of the past.
In some pieces in this collection, you will see the bold, traditional colors for which Oushak carpets are known. In others, the colors and patterns are distinctly modern and perfectly suited to today’s design trends. This beautiful collection pays homage to the past, but as Oushak has done in the past, they created an updated and contemporary feel that is in perfect alignment with contemporary tastes.
New Designs Spark Your Creative Side
The Modern Oushak Collection is an exciting design concept. Within each piece, you can see a reflection of the past, only in a way that is colorful and contemporary. These rugs feature modern colors that are perfectly suited to rooms in neutrals and earth tones. Some of them have an earthy and organic feel in their colors and garden designs. They bring a touch of nature indoors. They call for accessories such as baskets, plants, and other pieces that reflect the natural world.
The craftsmen created an organic feel and allowed the colors to drift gently from one to the next. This accentuates the old world feel of the carpet. You will find pieces with shades of bronze and steel, making them perfect, more recent trends that allow you to mix metals within the space. Some of the carpets use a washed-out effect, which also gives them an aged or distressed look.
The neutral colors of this collection are sometimes muted and sometimes saturated and brilliant. This allows you to find one that is perfectly suited to your mood and tastes. Some of our favorites in the collection appear as if the traditional motifs have been expanded in scale, giving you a macro view of the carpet’s details. This technique makes them perfect for modern color-blocked rooms where they will create a sense of scale.
The oversized motifs and design elements of these carpets are perfectly suited for smaller spaces. They will make the space look more expansive and roomier. The scale of the design means that they can easily support larger architectural elements such as vaulted ceilings, stone fireplaces, and glass walls. The versatility of these carpets and the ability to transform the space shows the design skill and artistry that has allowed the Oushak weavers to remain world favorites over the centuries.
What Is Your Style?
The true beauty of these modern Oushak rugs is that regardless of your style, you can find a rug to match. If neutrals are your favorites, you will find a wide selection of browns, grays, and greens to suit. If you are into bolder, trendy colors such as corals and more saturated tones, the collection has many choices to offer you, too.
Even though the Oushak weavers have updated their style to match the times, this collection still embodies a reflection of its tribal past. This collection has a rustic quality, combined with modern colors, making them perfectly in place in a Boho chic or more eclectic space. They have a global appeal that can easily hold their own among more dynamic color palettes and patterns.
This collection has an underlying traditional feel, but it is also completely contemporary. These rugs will create the perfect accompaniment to a room that features retro-inspired furniture with minimal legs and color blocking throughout the space. The patterns and colors of the rugs will create a playful yet well-curated look. In a minimalist room, these rugs will serve as an energetic feature piece. In a Swedish modern room, they will bring in a natural element, only in a way that is fresh and invigorating. There is something for everyone in this collection, regardless of your style.
Enjoy Exploring this Exciting New Collection Of Modern Oushak Rugs
Once again, the weavers of Oushak have shown their versatility and ability to create pieces that reflect hundreds of years of tradition, but that is refreshed and modern. You can see a reflection of these time-honored design traditions in the brilliant color combinations and a shadow of traditional styles that continue to shine through. These rugs are soft and durable, as you would expect from an Oushak carpet. Some antique Oushak carpets that are over a hundred years old still look as new as the day they were created. You can expect rugs from this collection to last for many decades to come.
We invite you to explore this new collection of modern rugs and see if one of them sparks the inner contemporary designer in you. They are a fun collection that holds many possibilities for creating a space the reflects the past but in a way that is bold, new, and fresh.
How to Decorate with Modern Oushak Rugs From Turkey
The ancestral roots of our modern Turkish Oushak rugs give them a traditional feel with updated designs and colors that also make them perfect for contemporary rooms. The Turkish rugs that were woven in Oushak are some of the most versatile in terms of design and can be used in any traditional or modern room style. The modern area rugs in this collection can take on a more traditional role in the room, only with a color palette that is more aligned with modern color trends. Some of the area rugs and carpets in this collection have a more edgy, modern feel.
Here are a few ideas for using these beautiful area rugs in some of the most popular design trends of today.
Casual Elegance Of The Modern Oushak Rugs
The Turkish antique Oushak rugs have been a part of traditional rooms for centuries. Modern Oushaks allow you to blend traditional and modern elements for an updated look. Modern Oushak rugs are the perfect touch for a formal dining room or in a room that features leather wingback chairs and hardwood floors.
This rug collection features pieces that use traditional design in a way that is subtle and suited for modern tastes. They still have the feel of the original antique rugs, only with a wider and more varied palette of gentle color schemes and a distinctively modern abstract flavor. Many of them reflect traditional colors and rug designs only the artist used the concept of artistic abstraction to a greater degree than was typically found in vintage rugs. This makes them perfect transitional rugs for rooms that blends vintage and modern pieces.
Edgy and Modern Look
The diversity of designs in this modern rug collection is one of the features that make it stand out. The pieces range from those that resemble traditional, antique Oushak pieces to ones that are edgy and modern. Modern rug color combinations that include blue and charcoal gray create a graphic quality that fits perfectly into the modern design landscape.
These edgy pieces are perfect for creating a West Coast feel that is expressive and makes use of contrast within the space. If your space is a refurbished New York warehouse or modern industrial interior design space, you can find a rugs in this collection that add character and creates an aged feel to the space. Many of these modern rugs are perfectly suited to complement concrete or bare brick walls with industrial lighting. They are also perfect for steel-framed glass walls that provide a view of the cityscape.
That said, they can also work pretty effortlessly in interior designs that are more traditional as well as modern.
Modern Organic and Natural Feel Of The Oushak rugs
Pieces that reflect the colors and patterns found in the natural world play an increasingly important role in the design world. Rugs that feature earthy colors such as browns, stone grays, watery blues, spicy reds, and rusty oranges bring a feeling of being in nature to the interior space. They create the same feeling as being in nature, which is why interior designers are turning to them to create a space that is perfect for relaxation and recharging the spirit. Styles, such as Eco-chic, Wabi-Sabi, Swedish modern, and other Nordic styles, favor pieces that have a natural, organic feel.
Oushak rugs are known for their abstract, casual designs. The designs of the new Oushak rugs have a spontaneous feel that reflects the whims and self-expression of the artist. They are often asymmetrical and seem to evolve along the length of the design, which enhances their reflection of the natural world. This gives them a primitive, folk art rug character that creates a garden-like feel within the space.
These features make modern Oushak rugs perfect for designs that feature natural materials, such as hardwood floors, driftwood, stone tiles and soft, textured accents. They have a primitive, tribal rug feel that is perfect for a Boho chic or eclectic decor style. The modern Oushak rugs in this collection are versatile enough to bridge modern and traditional decor styles to create a unique space that expresses your artistic tastes.
This delightful collection draws inspiration from ancient traditions but presents them in a way that serves as design inspiration for a wide range of style trends. Whether your home is a historic brownstone or a Baja-style ultra-modern space, you can find the perfect rug in this collection to suit your needs.
We encourage you to explore this collection that brings fresh, new ideas to traditional design. If you see that special piece that is the perfect finishing touch for your style, or if you would like to create your very own bespoke custom rug, then feel free to contact Nazmiyal’s friendly, knowledgeable staff, and we can make your design dreams a reality.
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- A sac-like protrusion of mucosa through the muscular colonic wall .
- Protrusion occurs in weak areas of the bowel wall through which blood vessels can penetrate.
- Typically 5–10 mm in size.
- Diverticula are really pseudodiverticular (false diverticula), as they contain only mucosa and submucosa covered by serosa.
Diverticular disease consists of:
- Diverticulosis: the presence of diverticula within the colon
- Diverticulitis: inflammation of a diverticulum
- Diverticular bleeding
Types of diverticular disease:
- Simple (75%), with no complications
- Complicated (25%), with abscesses, fistula, obstruction, peritonitis, and sepsis
Prevalence by age :
- Age 40: 5%
- Age 60: 30%
- Age 80: 65%
Prevalence by sex:
- Age < 50: more common in males
- Age 50–70: slight preponderance in women
- Age > 70: more common in women
Diverticular disease in the young (< 40)
Diverticular disease is far more frequent in older people, with only 2–5% of cases occurring in those under 40 years of age. In this younger age group, diverticular disease occurs more frequently in males, with obesity being a major risk factor (present in 84–96% of cases) [2,3]. The diverticula are usually located in the sigmoid and/or descending colon.
Management of this subset of diverticular disease patients remains somewhat controversial. The concept of diverticular disease being a more virulent condition in the young remains widely debated. The natural history still shows a trend towards recurrent symptoms and an increased incidence of poor outcomes ultimately requiring surgery . Surgery is often the treatment of choice for young symptomatic patients (approximately 50% compared with 30% for all patients).
In young patients with no co-morbid conditions, elective surgery after a single episode of diverticulitis is still a reasonable recommendation.
Low alimentary fiber was first described as a possible etiologic agent for the development of diverticular disease by Painter and Burkitt in the late 1960s [6,7]. Although this initially met with some resistance, its role in the condition was demonstrated by publications such as the Health Care Professionals Follow-Up Study .
- The relative risk of developing diverticular disease is 0.58 for men with low alimentary fiber.
- Diverticular disease is less common in vegetarians .
The present theory that fiber is a protective agent against the development of diverticula and subsequent diverticulitis holds that insoluble fiber causes the formation of more bulky stool, which leads to decreased effectiveness in colonic segmentation. The overall result is that intracolonic pressure remains close to the normal range during colonic peristalsis [1,10].
Development of diverticular disease. There is no evidence of a relationship between the development of diverticula and smoking, caffeine, and alcohol consumption. However, an increased risk of developing diverticular disease is associated with a diet that is high in red meat and total fat content. This risk can be reduced by a diet high in fiber content, especially if it is of a cellulose origin (fruits and vegetables) .
Risk of complications. Complicated diverticular disease has been noted with increased frequency in patients who smoke, use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and acetaminophen (especially paracetamol) and those who are obese and have low-fiber diets . Complicated diverticular disease is not more common in patients who drink alcohol or caffeinated beverages.
Location of diverticular disease. The most typical form is a pseudodiverticulum or pulsion diverticulum (a diverticulum does not contain all the layers of the colonic wall; the mucosa and submucosa herniate through the muscle layer and are covered by serosa). There are four well-defined points around the circumference of the bowel at which the vasa recta penetrate the circular muscle layer. The vessels enter the wall on each side of the mesenteric teniae and on the mesenteric border of two antimesenteric teniae. Diverticula do not form distal to the rectosigmoid junction, below which the teniae coalesce to form a longitudinal muscle layer.
Distribution . There is sigmoid involvement in 95% of cases; involvement of the sigmoid alone in 65%; involvement of the entire colon in 7%; and the diverticulum is located near the sigmoid (but with a normal sigmoid) in 4% of cases.
Natural history. Diverticulosis is symptomatic in 70% of cases; leads to diverticulitis in 15–25%; and is associated with bleeding in 5–15% .
The vasa recta penetrating the bowel wall create areas of weakness through which a portion of the colonic mucosa and submucosa (covered by serosa) can herniate. Segmentation can occur as a result of raised intracolonic pressure in certain areas of the colon. Such segmentation represents strong muscular contractions of the colonic wall, which serve to propel the luminal content or to halt the passage of material. Individual chamber pressures are temporarily elevated above those found when the colonic lumen is unsegmented. Segmentation in diverticulosis is exaggerated, causing occlusion of both “ends” of the chamber and resulting in high intra-chamber pressures .
The sigmoid is commonly affected, probably due to its small diameter. Laplace’s law explains their development, with the equation P = kT/R. Most complications are therefore also located in this area. In the sigmoid and other segments, the bowel becomes non-compliant in diverticular disease through several mechanisms:
- Mycosis — thickened circular muscle layer, shortening of the teniae, and luminal narrowing.
- Elastin — increased elastin deposition between muscle cells and teniae coli. Elastin is also laid down in a contracted form that causes shortening of THE teniae and bunching of THE circular muscle.
- Collagen — connective-tissue diseases such as Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, Marfan’s syndrome, and autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease result in structural changes in the bowel wall, leading to decreased resistance of the wall to intraluminal pressures and thus allowing protrusion of diverticula.
This term represents a spectrum of inflammatory changes, ranging from subclinical local inflammation to generalized peritonitis with free perforation. The mechanism of developing diverticulitis centers around the perforation of a diverticulum, whether it be microscopic or macroscopic. The old luminal obstruction concept is probably a rare occurrence. Increased intraluminal pressure or inspissated food particles may erode the diverticular wall with resultant inflammation and focal necrosis, leading to perforation (micro/macro). The clinical manifestation of the perforation depends on the size of the perforation and how vigorously it is walled off by the body. Perforations that are well controlled result in the formation of an abscess, while incomplete localization may present with free perforation.
- Simple diverticulitis: 75% of cases
- Complicated diverticulitis: 25% of cases (abscess, fistula, or perforation)
Diagnosis. The majority of patients have left lower quadrant pain. An element of rebound tenderness implies some degree of peritoneal involvement. Fever and leukocytosis are other important but nonspecific findings.
Examination. The examination may be relatively unremarkable, but most commonly reveals abdominal tenderness or a mass. Urinary symptoms may further suggest a pelvic phlegmon.
- Carcinoma of the bowel — pyelonephritis
- Inflammatory bowel disease — appendicitis
- Ischemic colitis
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Chest/abdominal radiography usually shows no specific findings for diverticular disease, but a pneumoperitoneum can be seen in 11% of patients with acute diverticulitis.
- The abdominal radiograph is found to be abnormal in 30–50% of patients with acute diverticulitis.
- The most common findings include: — Small-bowel and large-bowel dilation or ileus — Bowel obstruction — Soft-tissue densities suggestive of abscesses [13,14]
A diagnosis that is made solely on a clinical basis will be incorrect in 33% of cases. From the investigational standpoint, computed tomography (CT) is better than ultrasound. Diverticulitis is often regarded as a predominantly extraluminal disorder, and CT offers the benefit of evaluating both the bowel and the mesentery with a sensitivity of 69–98% and a specificity of 75–100%. The CT findings most commonly noted in acute diverticulitis include:
- Thickening of the bowel wall
- Streaky mesenteric fat
- Associated abscess
In a series of 42 patients with diverticulitis, the following CT findings were noted :
- Inflamed periodic fat: 98%
- Diverticula: 84%
- Thickened bowel wall: 70%
- Pericolic abscess: 35%
- Peritonitis: 16%
- Fistula: 14%
- Colonic obstruction: 12%
- Intramural sinus tracts: 9%
- Ultrasound findings may include thickening of the colonic wall and cystic masses.
- Contrast enema: the use of a contrast enema in the acute setting is mainly reserved for situations in which the diagnosis is not clear. The enema has a sensitivity of 62–94%, with a false-negative rate of 2–15%. Meglumine diatrizoate is a hyperosmolar contrast agent that may assist in relieving partial obstruction if present.
- Endoscopy, proctosigmoidoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy. The use of endoscopy, involving air insufflation, is relatively contraindicated in the acute setting due to the increased chance of perforation.
- Complete colonic obstruction due to diverticular disease is relatively rare, accounting for approximately 10% of large-bowel obstructions.
- Partial obstruction is a more common finding and results from a combination of edema, bowel spasm, and chronic inflammatory changes.
- Acute diverticulitis can lead to partial bowel obstruction due to edema (colonic, pericolonic) or compression from an abscess.
- Recurrent progressive fibrosis and/or stricturing of the bowel may lead to high-grade or complete obstruction (it is often difficult, but important, to distinguish between a diverticulum-induced stricture and neoplasm).
- The formation of a complicated diverticular abscess depends on the ability of the pericolic tissues to control (localize) the spread of the inflammatory process.
- In general, intra-abdominal abscesses are formed by:
- Anastomosis leakage: 35%
- Diverticular disease: 23%
- Limited spread of the perforation forms a phlegmon, while further (but still localized) progression creates an abscess.
- Signs and symptoms: fever with or without leukocytosis despite adequate antibiotics, tender mass.
- Small pericolic abscess: 90% will respond to antibiotics and conservative management alone.
- Percutaneous abscess drainage (PAD) is the treatment of choice for small, simple, well-defined collections. A group at the University of Minnesota published an overall success rate for PAD of 76%.
- 100% of simple unilocular abscesses resolved with PAD and antibiotic therapy. Factors identified as limiting the success of this management strategy include: multilocular collection, abscesses associated with enteric fistulas, and abscesses containing solid or semisolid material .
Perforation (free perforation)
Free perforation is fortunately uncommon. It occurs more frequently in the immunocompromised patient. Free perforation is associated with the highest mortality rate, in up to 35% of cases. Urgent surgical intervention is required in most cases.
Fistulas occur in 2% of patients with complicated diverticular disease. The formation of the fistula results from a local inflammatory process that results in an abscess, which spontaneously decompresses by perforating into an adjacent viscus or through the skin. The fistulous tract is commonly single, but multiple tracts are found in 8% of patients.
Fistula are more frequent in men than in women (2 : 1); in patients with previous abdominal surgery; and in immunocompromised patients.
Types of fistula related to diverticular disease:
- Colovesical: 65%
- Colovaginal: 25%
- Colocutaneous: data not available
- Coloentero: data not available
Diagnosis. The diagnosis of fistulas may require multiple investigations, but they are most commonly identified with CT, barium enema, vaginoscopy, cystoscopy, or fistulography.
Trends. A group at Yale noted the following trends with regard to intra-abdominal fistulae:
- Fistula from diverticular disease — older patients with pneumaturia
- Fistula from neoplasms — fecaluria, gastrointestinal symptoms, and hematuria
- Fistula from Crohn’s disease — younger patients, pain, abdominal mass, pneumaturia
Apart from hemorrhoids and other nonneoplastic perianal disorders, colorectal cancer is the most common cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Diverticular disease remains the most common cause of massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding, accounting for 30–50% of cases. It is estimated that 15% of patients with diverticulosis will bleed at some time in their lives. The bleeding is usually abrupt, painless, and large in volume, with 33% being massive, requiring emergency transfusion .
Despite this, bleeding stops spontaneously in 70–80% of cases. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have been shown to increase the risk of bleeding from diverticular disease, with over 50% of patients with bleeding diverticula receiving NSAID treatment at the time of presentation. Angiodysplasia accounts for 20–30% of lower intestinal bleeding.
Mechanism. Diverticular disease is responsible for colonic bleeding because as a diverticulum herniates, the penetrating vessels responsible for the bowel wall weakness become draped over the dome of the diverticulum. In this configuration, these vessels are only separated from the bowel lumen by a thin mucosal lining. The artery is thus exposed to injury from luminal contents, and bleeding occurs .
Histologic examination of these ruptured vessels reveals an architecture in keeping with this theory of diverticular bleeding. Asymmetric rupture of the vas rectum (the vessel draped over the diverticulum) occurs towards the lumen of the diverticulum at its dome on the antimesenteric margin. Injurious factors within the colonic lumen produce asymmetric damage on the luminal aspect of the underlying vas rectum, resulting in segmental weakness of the artery and predisposition to rupture into the lumen. Rupture is associated with eccentric thickening of the intima of the vessels and thinning of the media near the bleeding point. There is also a notable absence of inflammation (diverticulitis) in this process .
Although the anatomic relationship between the penetrating vessels and the diverticula is similar on both the right and left sides of the colon, the right colon is the source of bleeding in 49–90% of patients [17–19]. In those with an initial episode of bleeding, 30% go on to have a second bleed, and of those 50% will have a third bleed.
The source of bleeding is not identified in up to 30–40% of cases. Methods of locating the area of hemorrhage include:
- Selective angiography:
- The minimum rate needed is 1.0–1.3 mL/min.
- This modality has the advantage of allowing interventional therapy to be carried out in the form of vasopressin, somatostatin; embolization; and marking the area with methylene blue for future investigation.
- Radioisotope scanning:
- Bleeding can be detected at rates as low as 0.1 mL/min.
- Several types of isotope can be used, including: 99mtechnetium-labeled sulfur colloid, which clears within minutes, pools in the lumen, and has the advantage of only taking a short time to complete the study; and labeled red blood cells, which have a longer circulating half-life and allow scans to be repeated for up to 24–36 hours.
The accuracy of bleeding studies varies widely, from 24% to 91%.
- Colonoscopy is best reserved for self-limited bleeding. In patients with moderate bleeding that has stopped, colonoscopy can be safely done within 12–24 hours.
- In patients with less severe bleeding, colonoscopy is a reasonable option as an outpatient procedure.
- Colonoscopy continues to be an important investigation for excluding neoplasm (32%) and carcinoma (19%) as the source of bleeding.
- Emergency colonoscopy after aggressive bowel lavage has been suggested by several authors [20,21]. Therapeutic interventions, with local injection of epinephrine or sclerosant or thermocoagulation of specific bleeding diverticula that are identified may lead to decreased rebleeding rates in the early phase. The presence of other diverticula and their inherent propensity to bleed makes acute endoscopic intervention unlikely to affect the overall rebleeding rates in the longer term.
Urgent surgery for bleeding. Urgent surgery for diverticulum-related bleeding only controls bleeding in 90% of patients. Indications for urgent surgical intervention include:
- Hemodynamic instability not responsive to conventional resuscitation techniques
- Transfusion of blood > 2000 mL (approximately six units)
- Recurrent massive hemorrhage
5. Medical and surgical management
Medical management (diverticulitis)
Outpatient treatment. Patients with mild abdominal pain/tenderness and no systemic symptoms:
- Acute low-residue diet.
- Antibiotics for 7–14 days (amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim, or quinolone + metronidazole for 7–10 days).
- After initiation of therapy, expect improvement in 48–72 hours.
- It is important to cover for Escherichia coli and Bacteroides fragilis.
- If there is no improvement in 48–72 hours, look for a collection intra-abdominally.
In-patient treatment: Patients with severe signs/symptoms (1–2% of cases):
- Admit the patient to hospital.
- Ensure bowel rest.
- Intravenous antibiotics (Gram-negative and anaerobic coverage) for 7–10 days
- Intravenous fluids
- Analgesia (meperidine). Meperidine is preferable to morphine, as the latter may lead to increased intracolonic pressure in the sigmoid.
- If there is improvement within 48 hours, then continue management, starting a low-residue diet in the acute period. Antibiotics may be switched to the oral form if the patient is afebrile for 24–48 hours and there is a decreasing white blood cell trend.
- If there is no improvement, phlegmon or a collection (abscess) should be suspected and investigated accordingly.
Some 15–30% of patients admitted for the management of diverticulitis will require surgery during admission, with an associated mortality rate of 18%.
- Barium enema is inaccurate in 32% of cases of acute diverticulitis.
- Colonoscopy in the acute setting is associated with a theoretical increase in the risk of colonic perforation, due to insufflation of air during the procedure. For this reason, this investigation is often not used. Technical difficulties with colonoscopy in diverticular disease include:
- Bowel spasm
- Luminal narrowing due to prominent folds
- Fixation of the colon due to previous inflammation, pericolic fibrosis
Surgical management (diverticulitis)
Between 22% and 30% of patients with an initial episode of diverticulitis will go on to have a second episode . Urgent surgical intervention is mandatory if complications occur, which include:
- Free perforation with generalized peritonitis
- Abscess not amenable to percutaneous drainage
- Clinical deterioration or failure to improve with conservative management
Elective surgery is a more common scenario. Surgery is undertaken after adequate bowel preparation has been performed. The indications for surgery most frequently reported include:
- Two or more episodes of diverticulitis severe enough to cause hospitalization
- Any episode of diverticulitis associated with contrast leakage (Ba), obstructive symptoms, or an inability to differentiate between diverticulitis and cancer
Resection is usually carried out 6–8 weeks after any acute episode of inflammation. The surgical options vary depending on whether the indication is urgent or elective. Elective surgery most commonly involves resection of the sigmoid colon. Resection is performed after mechanical and antibiotic bowel preparation has been completed. The procedure can be performed either as an open procedure or laparoscopically. Inflammation and scarring may technically preclude the laparoscopic route.
There are numerous options exist for urgent surgical intervention in patients with acute diverticulitis and its complications. Controversy with regard to the surgical options historically involved the need for primary resection at the initial operation and performing a staged procedure, as against a single operative plan. Primary resection is now the accepted standard and has been shown by a number of studies to be:
- Associated with a shorter hospital stay [23,24]
- Associated with reduced morbidity than with colostomy alone and drainage [25,26]
- Associated with a lower mortality than with colostomy alone versus resection (26% vs. 7%)
- Associated with a survival advantage
Hartmann’s procedure, originally described in 1923 , was initially intended for the treatment of cancer of the rectum. It represents a staged procedure in which the sigmoid colon is mobilized and resected, with the rectum being closed and a colostomy formed. The colostomy is closed at a later date (often around 3 months postoperatively), with restoration of bowel continuity. This staged procedure posed problems, including a second operation, rectal scarring, and difficulty in completing the anastomosis.
Transverse colostomy and drainage is another staged procedure (without primary resection) in which an initial colostomy is formed, followed by resection of the diseased segment and later closure of the colostomy. This procedure is associated with a morbidity rate of 12% and a mortality rate of 5–29% [27,29,30].
The concept of primary anastomosis arose out of the inherent problems with staged revision of the Hartmann procedure. Primary anastomosis is the preferred procedure in the majority of patients with adequate bowel preparation, but is contraindicated if the patient is unstable, has feculent peritonitis, or is severely malnourished or immunocompromised.
Resection with primary anastomosis and proximal stoma is a modified procedure used on an individualized basis. It allows easier reversal of the colostomy via a less invasive second (staged) operation. A single-stage procedure with on-table gut lavage can also be used in the acute setting to allow for primary anastomosis of a less than ideally prepared bowel.
6. Other forms of diverticular disease
Recurrent diverticulitis after resection
- Recurrent diverticulitis after resection is rare, ranging from 1% to 10%. In general, the progression of diverticular disease in the remaining colon is approximately 15%.
- The reoperation rate for diverticular disease ranges from 2% to 11% and depends on the procedure chosen at the time of resection. The use of the rectum as the distal margin decreases the rate of recurrence (in comparison with the sigmoid as the margin).
- Care must be taken to exclude other causes of symptoms/signs suggestive of diverticular disease, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or ischemic colitis.
- Diverticulitis and Crohn’s disease — especially in the aged
- Diverticulosis and IBS
- Up to 30% of diverticular disease patients have IBS
Diverticulosis in Asia is predominantly a right-sided phenomenon, occurring in 35–84% of cases. The early age of onset suggests a genetic basis, although this is still under investigation. Right-sided diverticular disease is also more commonly associated with multiple diverticula, while right-sided diverticular disease in the Western hemisphere is usually a single diverticulum.
Diagnosis. Right-sided symptomatic diverticular disease can be difficult to distinguish from appendicitis. It may present with:
- Right upper quadrant pain.
- Nausea, emesis, fever.
- An abdominal mass is found in 26–88% of patients on clinical examination
- Leukocytosis is commonly present, but is a nonspecific finding. CT is able to diagnose appendicitis with a sensitivity of 98% and a specificity of 98%.
Treatment. The treatment of right-sided diverticular disease follows that outlined under the heading of medical management above (section 5). Surgical options are as outlined above, but may also include a diverticulotomy for disease confined to a focal area or a right hemicolectomy.
Subacute diverticulitis represents moderate to severe episodes of diverticulitis with some resolution on antibiotics and conservative treatment, but which does not resolve completely. The problem continues in a smoldering fashion with low-grade fever, left lower quadrant pain, and altered bowel habit.
Smoldering diverticulitis consists of abdominal pain and a change in bowel habit, without obvious fever or leukocytosis. This condition can persist for 6–12 months.
The condition is often diagnosed by the presence of:
- Chronic left lower quadrant pain
- Diverticulosis on history and investigations
- An absence of signs of diverticulitis
Treatment. Sigmoid resection provides complete resolution in 70% of cases.
Diverticular disease in the immunocompromised patient
Conditions that represent an immunocompromised state include:
- Severe infection
- Diabetes mellitus
- Renal failure (45–50% of patients)
- Chemotherapy/immunosuppressive agents (13%)
The clinical findings are usually very subtle. The condition is associated with:
- An increased rate of free perforation (43% vs. 14% in immunocompetent patients)
- An increased need for surgery (58% vs. 33%)
- Increased postoperative mortality (39% vs. 2%)
Giant diverticulum (colon)
This is a rare condition, first described by Bonvin and Bronte in 1942.
- Sex: as frequent in men as in women.
- Age: usually occurs in patients over the age of 50.
- Size: must have a diameter > 13 cm
- Location: the sigmoid is almost exclusively involved.
- Mechanism: there is a ball-valve effect, with air being trapped in the diverticulum
- Types: type 1 is a pseudodiverticulum, type 2 is a true diverticulum.
7. Global aspects
In the developed world, the prevalence of diverticular disease ranges from 5% to 45%. The majority of this population (90%) is made up of patients with distal bowel disease. Only 1.5% of cases involve solely the right side of the large bowel .
In contrast, individuals in Africa and Asia who develop diverticular disease have predominantly right-colon involvement (70–74%), especially in the ascending colon.
In Singapore, only 23% of patients have sigmoid involvement, and 70% of those with right-sided diverticulosis are under 40 years of age [22,31]. The early age of onset and the location suggest a genetic basis for the development of diverticular disease in Asia, but this requires further investigation.
Despite the increasing westernization of the diet, Japan still has a higher prevalence of right-sided diverticular disease (although cases involving the left colon are increasing).
Hong Kong still has a 76% prevalence of right-sided diverticulosis.
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9. Useful web sites
- Standard Taskforce, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS). Practice Parameters for the Treatment of Sigmoid Diverticulitis. Supporting documentation guideline by Douglas Wong and Steven D. Wexner. This is a comprehensive overview of the topic dated March 2000 with 83 references. The full-text document is available free from the ASCRS web site at: http://ascrs.affiniscape.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=124
- Stollman NH, Raskin JB. Diagnosis and management of diverticular disease of the colon in adults. Ad Hoc Practice Parameters Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology. Am J Gastroenterol 1999;94:3110–21 (PMID: PMID: 10566700). This is a full overview of the topic for and on behalf of the Ad Hoc Practice Parameters Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology, dated July 1999. The document is available for free via the ACG web site at: http://www.acg.gi.org/physicians/guidelines/DiverticularDiseaseoftheColon.pdf
- Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT): Surgical Treatment of Diverticulitis. This patient care guideline is written primarily for primary-care physicians to assist with decisions on whether or not to refer a patient for surgical consultation. It is a basic outline dealing with symptoms and diagnosis, treatment, risks, expected outcome and qualifications for performing surgery for diverticulitis. The document is available for free from the SSAT web site at: http://www.ssat.com/cgi-bin/divert.cgi
- American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS) annual meeting in San Diego, California, 3 June 2001: webcast by Tonia Young-Fadok of the Mayo Medical School on “Core Subjects — Diverticular Disease”. Free registration at www.vioworks.com; go to the ASCRS 2001 Annual Conference lectures area and choose this one.
10. WGO Practice Guidelines Committee members who contributed to this guideline
- Prof. R.N. Allan (Birmingham)
- Prof. Franco Bazzoli (Bologna)
- Dr. Philip Bornman (Cape Town)
- Dr. Ding-Shinn Chen (Taipei)
- Dr. Henry Cohen (Montevideo)
- Prof. A. Elewaut (Ghent)
- Dr. Suliman S. Fedail (Khartoum)
- Prof. Michael Fried (Zurich)
- Prof. Alfred Gangl (Vienna)
- Prof. Joseph E. Geenen (Milwaukee)
- Dr. Saeed S. Hamid (Karachi)
- Prof. Richard Hunt (Hamilton, Ontario)
- Prof. Günter J. Krejs (Graz)
- Prof. Shiu-Kum Lam (Hong Kong)
- Dr. Greger Lindberg (Stockholm)
- Dr. Hou Yu Liu (Shanghai)
- Prof. Juan-R. Malagelada (Barcelona)
- Prof. Peter Malfertheiner (Magdeburg)
- Prof. Roque Saenz (Santiago de Chile)
- Dr. Nobuhiro Sato (Tokyo)
- Prof. Mahesh V. Shah (Nairobi)
- Dr. Patreek Sharma (Kansas City)
- Dr. Jose D. Sollano (Manila)
- Prof. Alan B.R. Thomson (Edmonton)
- Prof. Guido N. J. Tytgat (Amsterdam)
- Dr. Nimish Vakil (Milwaukee)
11. Queries and feedback
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The palace Special children who received treatment at the Barrier-Free Life Village Special Education and Rehabilitation Center, established by the municipality with the Foundation for the Protection and Education of Persons with Disabilities (EBKOV), now have a greenhouse where they can grow crops and receive gardening therapy for four seasons. . The first seedlings were planted together with the children in a greenhouse established by Konak Municipality and EBKOV with the support of SKZ Logistics and Şenol Automotive at the Barrier-Free Life Village Special Education and Rehabilitation Center. Kanak Mayor Abdul Batur, one of the former mayors of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, EBKOV President. Burhan Ozfatura, members of Konak Municipality Council, Muammar Akpazu, President of Izmir Stage Workers Association, Association Manager, Center Instructor, children and their families were present.
Prar: A valuable live therapy
Kanak Municipality Barrier-Free Life Village Manager Bahar Bozarslan Onsell took the first floor of the event and explained the importance of greenhouses for the center and pointed out that garden therapy is a very valuable and lively form of therapy for such individuals. Special needs. Noting that children take on important responsibilities in the care, development and collection of plants planted in the garden during therapy, Onsell said: “This method is a proven method in the world. It is extremely beneficial for children’s self-care and cognitive development, enabling children with disabilities and their environment to develop self-awareness and has been scientifically proven to be beneficial in cases such as concentration disorder and lack of motivation. For this reason, the establishment of the Greenhouse was invaluable to us. “Öncel thanked everyone who contributed to the establishment of the Greenhouse, especially Chairman Batur.
Batur: The best thing I’ve ever done is here
Konak Mayor Abdul Batur noted that greenhouses would play an important role in children’s development. President Batur, who said “we are doing a very good job today”, recalled that they had done the same thing at the Nerlider Center and had seen many benefits and said:
“The project that we started here, the work that we do here is really important for Konak. The self-sacrificing efforts of our educators, municipalities and foundations really make us happy to make our children happy and hold on to life. As Kanak Municipality, we have inaugurated 11; We were open three or four the other day. Work on about 15 service buildings has been completed. Ask me, ‘What’s the best thing you’ve ever done?’ They wanted to know. This is where the joy, the happiness, the contribution we make to our children and their families is very important to us. ”
Promise to be better
Batur thanked everyone who contributed to the establishment of the center, its work and ultimately the creation of the greenhouse, especially EBKOV, Mayor Ozfatura, the Conak City Council Unhindered Commission, council members and business representatives who supported it. It is important to pass. Everything is very good here … I promise here that we will do our best to take our center to a more active point by making our work more active with the new project. “
Ozfatura: An example institution
Ibikov President. Burhan Ozfatura, on the other hand, explained that he was proud to work with Kanak Mayor Abdul Batur during his tenure in the Izmir metropolitan municipality. . Ozfatura said that in the first days of his appointment as mayor of Konak, he talked to Mayor Batur about the Konak Barrier-Free Life Village project. According to investigators, this is an exemplary installation. We don’t take money from anyone here. Kanak Municipality covers all expenses and provides all kinds of facilities. We have a very good, high quality coaching staff, “he said.” I am proud of the success of all the students who have made progress in the village for life without hindrance. The parents of these children are truly heavenly. It can be tackled. We would be very happy if we could contribute a little bit to it. Education, health, that is, the greatest reward is to serve humanity.
Four seasons production
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Now, more than ever, business operators should have a plan in place to manage during uncertain times. Even if your business is not directly impacted, it’s likely your customers, your supply chain, and your workforce will be to some extent.Understand where you stand now
Businesses fail (or fail to thrive) for a myriad of reasons, but the precursor is often a failure to understand what is occurring and what to monitor. Strategically, managers need to be on top of their numbers to identify and manage problems before they get out of hand. If you do not know what the key drivers of your business are - the things that make the difference between doing well and going under - then it’s time to find out.Understanding your cost structure
Do you know what your real cost of doing business is? Your breakeven point is the level of sales activity where your business is neither making a profit or a loss. Calculate your breakeven point by dividing your fixed expenses by your gross profit margin. This figure represents the level of sales income you need to breakeven.
Not only will your breakeven point assist you to monitor business performance, it’s critical when deciding whether or not to offer a discount. If your breakeven point is well below your current operating level then you have a good buffer in your profits to manage growth, invest in further capital opportunities, and to protect yourself against further downturns in operating performance. And before you say “I know that,” ask yourself how many people actually put this theory into practice. Even some of the largest businesses have been caught out on this one and tie up valuable resources in unprofitable projects and products.
Putting up your prices during down times is not an act of social betrayal. If your prices have increased you should flow these through unless you are comfortable making less for the same amount of effort, or you are in an industry that is so price sensitive you have no choice but to follow the lead of larger businesses. Discounting creates a leverage impact on profits. By discounting you are giving away some or all of your profits. The key is to understand the impact and just how far you can go. If your business needs cash and needs it quickly, discounting might be the only way to shift stock but understand the implications.
Plan, review and adjust
Your budget should be your best estimate of what is likely to occur based on current knowledge. To manage change, you can scenario plan where your budget forms the baseline, but you also forecast best and worst case scenarios based on potential risks and their likelihood (for example, the impact of another lockdown). Or, the simplest method is to use your budget as a baseline and regularly review and adjust depending on current conditions.
The greatest risk to your profit is unlikely to come from your cost structure. It is more likely to be revenue volatility. Keep your eye on your cost structure and make sensible cuts where appropriate. But, in your search for savings don’t remove your essential revenue generating capacity that you need.
A lack of profit will eventually erode your business, but not enough cash will kill it stone dead. Businesses will fail because they don’t manage their cash position. Plan, track and measure your cashflow. This not only means closely monitoring your debtor collections and inventory but also running a rolling three month cashflow position. This should provide an early warning of brewing problems.
Manage your debt levels carefully (your bank is likely to). While there is nothing wrong with debt, it is likely that the banks will be closely watching customer accounts. Where you have loan facilities in place make sure that you understand the loan terms and any debt covenants that you have entered into. These covenants could include regular reporting to the bank, debtor and working capital ratios, or debt to equity ratios. Where the banks may have been more relaxed about these in the past, this year will be different. If you believe that you need additional funding, talk to your bank early and don’t wait until the last minute. You’ll need to present your case on why you need it, how much, for how long and when it will be repaid.
Cash flows, operating budgets, cost control and debt management all need to be part of your business management. The more in control you are the lower your risk position.
Understand the external environment
The COVID-19 pandemic has implications well beyond the economy; it has changed how business operates and how consumers act. While comparisons are made to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s, the reality is, we have no case study. There is no rule book for the post pandemic road to recovery as this is not an economic event. The pandemic pulls the economy up short curtailing both supply and demand; businesses are not operating at capacity and fewer people are working.
The Federal Budget is released on 6 October and we’re expecting to see the Government invest heavily in job creating projects. Many of these will be focussed on infrastructure. Each of these projects will have a flow through effect to the broader economy. We’ll bring you our insights the day after the budget and you should loom to see if there are opportunities your business can capture.
When it comes to demand, there is no instant fix. The RBA suggests the decline in GDP in the first half of 2020 is around 7% and the contraction in hours worked around 10%. The economic impact of the restrictions in Melbourne extend well beyond Victoria and are impacting more generally on consumer sentiment. This week we expect Australia to have a formal “recession” label added to our economy, formalising what most business operators already know.
But it is not all bad news with confidence lifting on early signs that revenue is no longer declining for the majority of Australian businesses. The latest ABS data on the impact of COVID-19 shows fewer businesses reported a decline in revenue in August (41%) compared to July (46%), and fewer still expect a decline in September (28%).
However, 35% of businesses expect it to be “difficult or very difficult” to meet financial commitments over the next three months, with small and medium businesses almost twice as likely as large businesses to fall into this category. Understandably, the response to this question is heavily weighted towards those operating under Government required restrictions and lockdowns. | <urn:uuid:2032a551-45c4-40a8-8f61-55cde04af591> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fortunepartners.com.au/forecasting-during-a-pandemic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956072 | 1,315 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Reducing Lead Times is Always Smart
Written by Hans Dittmar
It's true that lead times always play a role in the manufacturing of any product. This gains visibility quickly when the supply chain faces unplanned disruptions.
There are many different methods to help reduce lead times for components, and they can vary based on the product type, complexity and demand. Often during times of increased uncertainty - like during the pandemic - a simple part may cause the largest issues. Common fasteners, for example, can become problematic when there are many businesses looking for that same item. Strategies for custom components present very different issues.
Capital equipment manufacturers tend to have components of all categories at risk, including custom mechanical and electronic components, off-the-shelf components, raw materials, consumables and possibly even tools needed for product manufacturing and test.
During unpredicted supply chain turbulence, another thing that may be in short supply is the human resources needed to solve these issues. It's true that when there are issues, the time required to manage parts - especially in a JIT environment, increase exponentially. It can benefit a capital equipment OEM greatly to tap the resources that might be available at a trusted contract manufacturing firm.
Here are a few options to consider to alleviate some of the supply side issues:
Leverage multiple sources
Tapping multiple distribution options can help (and should be used to keep things competitive), common components in short supply will likely disappear at all distributors in a condensed period. Often other consumers of that part are already using multiple sources to find and buy what they can, so speed is often the best mitigation.
If you are working with a contract manufacturer, try to help them help you by finding a way to pre-purchase the at-risk components where possible. This may require some sort of special commitment from you to cover the possible waste - but remember the contract manufacturer is likely working with all of their customers on similar issues.
Use alternate items
An natural extension of leveraging multiple distributors is offering multiple options wherever possible. Going back to the fastener example cited above, adding several options for both source and multiple manufacturer options can increase the odds of finding a suitable part exponentially.
Clearly this is only an option for off-the-shelf parts; for the custom parts you need, alternates are generally not possible. Custom parts will suffer more from raw materials shortages or delays than from the fabrication process. That's not to say fabrication shops aren't extremely busy during supply chain turbulence - many are in fact short on both machine availability and human resources as well.
Use your supply chain's global reach
This can bring two distinct benefits - sourcing internationally can offer better timelines and sometimes items are available in one region but not another. If you do not have a global supply chain, you can leverage your suppliers' international supply chain if they have it. Longer term, if your direct supplier does not offer the option, you might consider setting up your own during less chaotic times.
Stocking programs can represent a significant way to protect from issues in the supply chain - especially extended lead times. Consider stocking subassemblies or allowing your suppliers to manage a logical budget to keep parts, assemblies or complete products in stock to offer a cushion. Most contract manufacturers have some sort of option for this - it's in their best interest as well. They want to keep your product coming, since that's what they do to stay in business.
Pick the right contract manufacturer
Some contract manufacturers offer sub-tier component management services. They can also help you discern which parts of your BOM should be considered for special emphasis. CMs that work with OEMs regularly generally have boilerplate agreements that can be used as a baseline to get started. As mentioned above, you should also consider access to a global supply chain a real benefit when choosing where to go for manufacturing support.
Blanket POs offer risk mitigation
If your supplier has a longer-term commitment from you, they will have more flexibility to adhere to EOQs and order parts as they see the need arise. This is very different than presenting forecasts or uncommitted orders - because they do not offer coverage for the supplier and thus the opportunity to order risk parts. Without firm commitments from you, the supplier cannot simply buy custom parts on an assumption of eventual usage.
Robust relationships with suppliers at all levels
The better the relationship is, the more information you will be armed with. It is important to consider your suppliers as partners in your lead time reduction efforts. While it is possible to call a supplier and simply demand a shorter lead time, it may not help in the case of custom products. If you do not have the resources to create and maintain these critical partnerships, let your supplier help you manage them. At a minimum, they can help with sub-suppliers that your product relies on and involve you as needed.
As a contract manufacturer for tier-one, multi-billion-dollar global companies, GMI understands the issues that can arise when trying to balance a consistent supply of product during uncertain times. 2020 represented a whole new level of disruption and the upswing in demand in 2021 holds the promise of keeping the instability for quite some time. It's critical to work with a contract manufacturer that has a long history of working with OEM capital equipment manufacturers - there is no better teacher than experience.
We realize that our OEM partners value our logistics management, and we plan to continue our vigilance through 2021 and beyond. It is critical that forecasts are updated and orders are placed as early as possible, with as much coverage as possible. Let us know how we might help protect you!
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AWS Solutions Architect is one of the most popular and sought-after careers. They are responsible for managing the entire cloud computing architecture of a company. These experts have a thorough understanding of the architectural concepts and technologies that are used to build and maintain the technical cloud strategy. They aid with successful cloud initiatives and analyze workload designs.
Aside from the increasing demand for AWS solutions architects, professionals in this sector may further their careers by transferring to higher positions within a firm or to other companies. Isn’t it fascinating?! Well, have you considered what the role of an AWS Solution Architect entails? Let’s talk about it today. In case you want to get certified and learn AWS skills, take a look at this AWS Solution Architect Certification training course.
Here are the key roles and responsibilities of AWS Solutions Architect that you need to know. Take a look at it.
Collaboration With Team and Clients
AWS Solution Architects collaborate with the development team at every stage of the project. The main objective of the AWS SA would be to offer clients a safe, reliable, cost-effective, flexible, and simple solution. They create ideas, develop them and then execute depending on client needs. They’ll figure out which technology is ideal for you as well as make judgments to come up with the finest potential solution. They supervise the project and provide direction to the team members. They also adhere to their consumer’s feedback and requirements at every stage. Hence, The importance of collaboration throughout the process cannot be overstated and it is one of the key responsibilities of AWS Solutions Architect.
Fulfill Business Objectives
A solution architect is a critical component of any AWS project. They are project planners who plan the project according to the requirements of both the customers and stakeholders and communicators who look toward the broader vision. From designing to implementing the solution, solution architects are keenly interactive and fulfill the business objectives. They assure the achievement of project objectives in advance and lay forth a comprehensive strategy for the developers to adopt. They continuously monitor that the project is working according to the budget, time, and requirements also. Their unique skill set enables experts to build and design cloud infrastructure specifically for your company.
Attention on Stakeholders’ Needs
Meeting Stakeholders’ Requirements is one of the most important goals to achieve while creating a software system. A solution architect’s job is to ensure that all specifications are carefully met. They have to keep stakeholders up to date on the procedure, strategy, and expenses of a software system on a regular basis. They are also in charge of translating detailed overall intricacies into straightforward ones that everyone can understand. They make sure that stakeholders understand the idea and they are negotiable to it. In this way, they frequently contact the stakeholders as part of their role.
Solution Architect is indeed the professional to whom stakeholders approach for help with cloud-related issues. The capacity to offer a strong, clear viewpoint with certainty ensures that the organization is in excellent hands. It also shows that the cloud-based solutions they have advised are safe, robust, cost-effective, and maintained with continuous improvement. They are responsible for making decisions regarding the solutions, strategies and in fact, everything related to the project. They make sure that the right product or solutions are developed to solve the business issues. These AWS Interview Questions will help you crack your interview as an AWS Solution Architect.
On AWS, you’ll undoubtedly invest most of your working days designing and arranging robust, highly accessible systems. However, they are also responsible for some other things such as figuring out how to move an application to AWS. They should also find solutions to issues like data interpretation, data loss, or security issues. They have to prevent data from leaking. They must account for common errors as well as application downtime. They may also be asked to advise on topics like projects’ efficiency and budget-related problems. In this way, They must deal with technological risks, issues, and ideas on a regular basis.
Interaction with the Sales team
As part of the overall sales team strategy, AWS Solutions Architects is responsible to establish active interaction with the sales team and customers. They collaborate and work with salespeople to discuss needs and demonstrate products. By interacting with the sales team, they understand the needs of the products the customer is expecting. They also find out the possible solution that a customer will be satisfied with. They share the strategies and the best practices of the product they have launched so that it will be easy for the sales team to improve the sales.
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On average, newlyweds often see women that become 3 decades older and guys who will be 33 years old when they get married. This sets Germany in eighth place in the list of European countries your typical age initially relationship. Many studies show that marriage is being ever more popular because of German sites for dating in which lonely minds find a very good complement on their own.
Information from the German Federal Statistical workplace reveal that the full total amount of marriages increasing from 373,655 in 2013 to 416,615 in 2018, accounting for 11.5%. Registered partnerships of same-sex or heterosexual partners is legalized in 2017. Thus, relationships will be the best kind legal union in Germany.
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Fintechs democratising access to banking services, supporting financial inclusion, says FITC CEO
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Financial Institutions Training Centre, Chizor Malize, in this interview, talks about the necessity of financial technologies (fintechs) as tools for deepening financial inclusion, reducing the number of the unbanked and reducing poverty. GEOFF IYATSE was there.
Technology is widely defined as the application of scientific knowledge to simplify life issues and challenges. How are technology and innovation changing the world around us?
The advent of technology and its consequent adoption globally,has changed the way we live for the better. From transportation to education and healthcare, technology has improved service delivery and enhanced ease of access across many facets of our daily life. This is particularly true of financial services.
Today, thanks to financial technology, one need not be physically present at a bank, for instance, to initiate transactions or receive funds. Services such as e-wallets, and other payment infrastructure that makes sending and receiving money conveniently, along with tools for activities like budgeting, investing, microlending, insurance and more; mean that individuals and businesses can actively and conveniently participate in the global economy.
It is no longer news how the various Fintechs such as Paystack, Flutterwave, Piggyvest, Remitta, Kuda, etc. are disrupting the Nigerian Financial industry. Even though the rise of Fintechs has not been fully adopted in the country, especially by older generations, who still really trust in our traditional banking system, the trust in fintech is growing among lower-income segments, with 51% of youth and mass-market customers (according to Mckinsey). SME owners also say that they increasingly trust fintech because of its speed in operations. With technology, many of these Fintechs have expanded the reach of agency banking across suburban areas in Nigeria, providing many with access to much-needed financial services. These are just some of the many ways that technology is redefining the norms and changing our world.
Fintechs have emerged as unicorns leveraging technology to design new financial solutions. How has this changed the financial services landscape?
Fintech has democratised access to banking and financial services, providing even more Nigerians with benefits beyond just savings and payments. More importantly, Fintech is helping to close the gap that currently exists for the unbanked.
According to a 2020 EFInA report, over 35 per cent of Nigerian adults are excluded from financial services. Put starkly, more than forty million Nigerian adults do not have access to any kind of financial services, from savings and payments to pensions and insurance. Conversations around financial inclusion for the unbanked, as well as its importance for economic growth, are not new. The World Bank has stated that financial inclusion is a crucial tool for poverty eradication and economic growth, especially for those at the bottom of the economic pyramid. This is particularly the case for emerging economies like Nigeria, where there is significant income inequality across socio-economic classes.
However, the financial services landscape is rapidly changing as a result of the disruption and innovation introduced by fintech, anyone with an Internet-enabled phone can access a plethora of financial services, from payments to insurance, all at the tap of a button. This means that a significant number of Nigerians can participate in the digital economy: businesses and opportunities have been birthed that a few short years ago would not have been feasible, thanks to the rise of fintech adoption. All of these point to significant growth in the volume of transactions within the financial services sector, as well as the consequent gains in economic activities.
Additionally, the entrance of telcos into the financial services sector means that they can take important financial services the last mile simply by riding on their existing infrastructure, especially in rural areas. This has also significantly changed the financial services landscape, along with the many other benefits such as the many jobs being created.
Financial inclusion is one of the objectives of the World Bank. In Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has a target of reaching 80 percent inclusion by the end of this decade. How are fintechs contributing to meeting these targets?
In addition to enabling ease of access to financial services, Fintech contributes to meeting the targets of both the World Bank and the CBN in several ways. The first is through solutions such as SMS banking and agent banks, which deepen the reach of financial services, especially in rural areas. As stated earlier, not only do these services bring financial inclusion to the last mile, but they also create employment, which in turn contributes to nation-building and economic growth.
Secondly, fintech enables SMEs to plug into the digital economy, with tools to not only access capital, but also manage and run their businesses and operations. These services and tools support business processes, enabling efficiency and profitability.
All of these point to significant growth in the volume of transactions within the financial services sector, and the consequent gains in economic activities. One can confidently say that fintech has significantly expanded the scope of the financial services sector beyond its traditional service offerings. The growth of the fintech space in Nigeria, therefore, can be said to be directly related to an increase in economic activity and wealth creation, invariably adding to the targets of both the World Bank and CBN.
What would you say is the impact of financial inclusion on economic growth and stability?
Interestingly, while financial inclusion can have both positive and negative influences on financial stability, the positive influence and impact it has on economic growth and stability cannot be overemphasised. These include diversification of bank assets, increased stability of deposit base, and increased monetary policy transmission. On the flip side, a decrease in loan standards, bank reputational risks, and inadequate regulations are some of the most common negative influences.
Exclusion from financial services severely limits economic participation and hinders an individual’s ability to grow wealth and rid themselves of poverty. In developing economies like Nigeria, the people who are typically excluded from financial services are ironically the ones who desperately need financial inclusion and the benefits it offers the most. These are the people found at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
It is remarkable to note that they represent a significant percentage of the population: nearly 40 per cent of adults, in Nigeria’s case, according to 2021 data from EFInA. With such a high percentage of our population excluded from access to financial services, the economy and GDP suffer as a result. We are effectively leaving money on the table so to speak when nearly half of the adult population cannot contribute meaningfully to the GDP. It also means that so long as this segment of our population remains unable to grow wealth and rid themselves of extreme poverty, the Nigerian economy cannot reach its full potential.
Thanks to the proliferation of tools and platforms created by fintech, many more individuals and small businesses can conveniently access a plethora of financial services, and participate in the digital economy, building more businesses and opportunities as a result of the adoption of fintech adoption.
How does FITC contribute to the attainment of these goals while supporting the vision for a stable financial system?
Financial stability is extremely important for economic growth, as most transactions in the actual economy are made through the financial system, and the best way to understand how important financial stability is is to experience periods of financial instability.
As an innovation-led and technology-driven organisation, FITC remains the leading knowledge solutions provider to consumers, operators, and investors within the financial services sector and other sectors of the economy. Our mandate remains to equip our clients with relevant skills and knowledge for business performance, organizational growth and success. Through our Advisory services, Executive Education, BoardLeadership and bespoke programmes, as well as our thought leadership conferences, research and industry reports, FITC provide actionable insights and knowledge to players and operators in the financial services sector and particularly within the fintech space.
To actualize the vision of a financially stable economy, FITC has remained committed to supporting all players in the financial services sector with the relevant knowledge and skills to meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving sector. We have designed programmes and workshops, to specifically address all identified gaps. These programmes help regulators understand the fintech space: the opportunities, associated risks and how to create frameworks to safeguard consumers while enabling operators to remain innovative and profitable.
For instance, FITC designed the Risk-BasedSupervision for Fintech programme to enable regulators to effectively address the risks and challenges inherent in the growth of the fintech sub-sector across Africa. This programme focuses on the most vulnerable areas and risks associated with fintech operations. It also addresses the financial stability of the industry, as well as key principles and methodologies for building supervisory frameworks. The first edition of the programme was launched in February in Rwanda, and the second in Dubai with participants from central banks from across Africa.
What other steps is the company taking to deepen the knowledge industry and help in proffering solutions to challenges facing the financial services sector?
In addition to our innovative programmes for fintech, we firmly believe that the financial services sector performs best when there is synergy through several innovative initiatives, one of which is our thought leadership Programmes and conferences for all players and regulators alike.
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I haven’t studied Civil War tents for authenticity’s sake; this is the culmination of different methods I wanted to try. I’ve been reading about making oilcloth, this is treated with boiled linseed oil, turpentine, and beeswax. I thought that oilcloth was made from heavy canvas, and maybe some is; but I watched one video that said a finer cloth is better at repelling water. He said to use a 300 or 400 thread per inch cloth, if that’s not available, then 200 is minimally acceptable.
This is two 200 count king sized sheets, triple stitched together. The seam is along the top ridge pole. The store had finer thread count sheets available, but they were in sets, which made them cost a lot more. I sewed them with a Brother brand sewing machine that was given to us. It has a round sticker on it that says $25, which looks to be from a garage sale. What’s amazing is that you can pick a machine like this up at a local store, and it works so well. It has this mover pad like thing beneath the foot that holds the fabric down. The pad thing is steel, and has little teeth on it. It grabs the cloth, moves it along, then grabs again, constantly moving the cloth while the needle sews the thread into place. It has two spools of thread, which it uses together, so that the stitch is doubled.
It has different settings for stitch pattern and how fine of a stitch you want. To me, it’s really neat how a machine that works so well is available as a common thing. I put brass grommets along the bottom edge with one of the primitive grommet making kits. You have to supply your own hammer, but it works really well, with impressive results, for cheap.
In the picture below, you can see the metal box that I used to apply the liquid formula to the cloth. I did this after stitching, but before the grommets. In all the online videos I saw, the liquid was applied with a brush. I knew there was no way I wanted to spend that much time on that step. This thing is about 8 foot 3 inches wide by 17 feet long. The pour on method was initially done in desperation, but turned out to work well. After the first application, I wrung out the excess, and saved it. There was just enough liquid to make a second application.
It might have worked with one application, had my liquid been thicker. As it was, while I was heating the ingredients, I became concerned that there might not be enough of it to complete the job. So I added thinner, just to be sure some got on all the cloth. I’m guessing that there was maybe 5 quarts of liquid. I wasn’t following anyone’s formula; I’ve been painting stuff with oil based paint for 30 years or more, so I had some idea of what I could get away with. I gathered up all the ingredients in the shop, and made a go of it. It’s a pound and a half of beeswax, a couple quarts of boiled linseed oil, a couple quarts of turpentine, and a quart of mineral spirits. That’s my recollection, if you do this be sure to make enough, and be sure to heat it outdoors, away from the house or anything flammable.
Also, and this is a big warning, hang this to dry away from anything you wouldn’t want to be in a fire. Linseed oil WILL go into spontaneous combustion. Which means it can burst into flames without anyone lighting it. I have seen this with my own eyes. I had rags in the back of a camper shell which burst into flames while I was walking by. If I hadn’t been there, I would have lost the whole truck.
I found one end while it was still in the metal box, them carefully lifted it onto the rope where I dried it, this kept it out of the dirt. It took a couple of days for each application to dry. The rope was between two trees. The trees are green, and wouldn’t catch fire easily.After it was dry, I took it in my shed, and lettered it. I did the first word Friday night, and the rest on Saturday morning. That’s how it could be rolled up the way it is in the picture. If you’re familiar with hand lettering, this is trickier than most surfaces.
I selected the name based on a previous project. I restored the paint on the old Mississippi Locomotive, and the man who brought it back to life after the Civil War was J.A. Hoskins, who was a Confederate artillery captain in the war. I hurriedly erected the tent expecting rain, which didn’t fall. So it hasn’t been water tested yet.
The poles are about an inch and a half by one and three quarters, by seven feet tall, they’re eight sided, as I didn’t take the time to round them. They were from an Ash wood plank I bought for this purpose, more than a year ago. I wasn’t sure whether to make a teepee, or this. This was easier to design in terms of the cloth. Besides, I really wanted to make a tribute to Captain Hoskins. I still have what I think are walk boards he made.
As I said, I don’t know what authentic proportions are, but to give you an idea how roomy this one is, see the picture below. I’m lighting a ceramic pipe, and I’m about six foot, one inch tall. there’s plenty of room.
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New licences for killing of wild birds issued by Defra
Defra updated the information on 1st Jan 2022. The GL41 (General License 41 – Wild Birds: Licence to take or kill for public health or safety) is valid for 2 years. The links in this article take you to the latest updates. These updates are from Defra and apply to England. Differences may apply in devolved administrations. Jackdaws remain on the list.
There has been long running confusion amongst chimney sweeps as to whether it is legal for them to remove “live” Jackdaw nests from chimneys.
Defra issued new licences on June 14 2019 after a ‘call for evidence’. The Guild of Master Chimney Sweeps responded to this call for evidence and also sent their submission to other sweep trade associations in the hope it would be forwarded by them too. The previous licences were revoked in April 2019 after a legal challenge by Wild Justice.
For chimney sweeps the important new licence is GL41 (updated 1st Jan 2022) – to preserve public health or public safety. Jackdaws, commonly found in chimneys, are listed within the scope of this licence.
In a statement to the Guild of Master Chimney Sweeps, Defra stated: “The licences can be used by those who come within the definition of an “authorised person”.
With regard to removing a live Jackdaw or pigeon nest an ‘authorised person’ means— “The owner or occupier, or any person authorised by the owner or occupier, of the land on which the action authorised is taken”. Authorisation may be verbal.
To fact check this, please see the GL41 – Wild birds: Licence to take or kill for public health or safety.
So if there is a risk to public health or safety, an “authorised person” may remove a nest as long as the bird species is included the list and they observe the other requirements such as humane dispatch* etc. A basic written record is recommended and there is a list of what you might record – see GL41. Defra added: “You do not need to apply for a general licence but you must meet its conditions and follow its requirements, as you may be committing a criminal offence if you fail to do so.”
Defra also said: “You can use this licence only where the presence of birds causes a demonstrable risk to human health or increases the risk of accidents, for example by increased risk of transmission of disease to humans.”
The Guild would clarify that for the purposes of removing a live nest, demonstrable risk to humans obviously extends to situations where a combustion appliance – fire / stove / cooker etc. might be used, giving rise to the possibility of risk to humans from fire hazard or the possibility of preventing the safe transit of poisonous combustion gasses through the chimney, again giving rise to potential risk to humans.”
Defra said: “You cannot use this licence to kill birds because they are damaging your property, such as your car or house, or if they are a nuisance.”
Get informed – view the GL41 license and conditions here.
Nests can contain large amounts of material which completely block chimneys / flues.
Please note the tea and biscuits on the table in this picture. Although not essential, tea and biscuits are very useful during the removal of any nest.
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Have you notices a series of 3- to 5-inch, rounded ridges across the surface of your lawn that are followed by little volcanoes of soil? It looks like your lawn has a mole around! I know what you are thinking: “what are moles and how do I get rid of moles?” These small mammals can cause a lot of damage in a short amount of time because their tunneling ruins any plants and roots in their path. You need to get rid of moles in your lawn before they do extensive damage, here’s what you need to know about moles.
What Is a Mole?
Moles are small mammals that dig tunnels and live underground. They have round bodies, tiny ears and eyes, reduced hind limbs but short and powerful forelimbs with large paws adapted for digging.
What Is a Mole’s Diet?
A mole’s diet consists of small insects, including grubs and worms. Because of their diet, moles will dig underground and create tunnels to find food.
How Do I Know If I Have Moles?
The most obvious sign that you have moles if your lawn has mounds of dirt that are round, symmetrical, and cone-like, resembling almost like volcanoes. A mole mound can be more than a foot in diameter. Just because moles eat insects does not mean they do not cause damage to your plants. The tunnels they dig can cause problems to your plants and grassroots and can destroy your lawn.
How Do I Prevent Moles?
To help prevent mole infestations, make your yard as mole-unfriendly as possible. Use products season long that controls worms, grub, and other insects in your lawn to limit food supply.
How Tee Time Lawn Care Can Help
A mole can be a tricky critter to evict because it lives underground. We advise against using repellants and fumigants, especially if you have pets or children that may get exposed.
At Tee Time, we use a 2-Step Mole Control Program to eliminate moles from your lawn. Moles like to eat grubs and worms so we would eliminate their food source by applying an insecticide. Our technicians will bait the tunnels with a product that mimics their food source. This bait will eliminate the moles in the lawn. Our second treatment will follow exactly how the first treatment runs.
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A contract is an agreement offered by one party and accepted by another. Contracts are almost always written documents in Washington, but it is not impossible to have an exclusively oral contract. Breach of Contract is when a contract is not fulfilled by one or more parties. In the course of business, a party might choose not to live up to its bargain, and in some situations it may even be impossible to do so. The circumstances for a breach of contract determine what will happen as a result. Sometimes the party that breached might be ordered to pay the other for damages, and bringing the case to court can achieve an order of this kind.
What If Someone Fails to Honor Their End of the Contract in Ephrata
Breaches of contract in Ephrata are usually handled by the party who breached paying the other party monetary damages. The exact amount of damage awards, however, is often a matter of disagreement. The matter might be taken to court if disagreements of this type are not resolved privately. If this happens, the court will require you to state in the initial complaint the amount of damages you feel you need to redress the wrong.
What If I Can
If money cannot redress the harm suffered, courts in Ephrata,Washington might grant injunctions, which are orders for the party at fault to do what it agreed. If your concerns seem to fit this remedy, you must voice the complaint to the court properly so that it can consider the issue. Not every breach of contract involves someone doing something wrong. Courts recognize this, and aside from the question of whether a violation of a contract actually occurred, when and how the agreement was breached are also factors in Washington contract law.
How Can an Attorney Help?
If a party intends to violate a contractual agreement, it must proceed cautiously in making its intention known to the other party. If voiced improperly, statements of intent to breach a contract might be taken as wrong doing. When fulfilling a contract becomes impossible, it is important to be aware of the unique ways that Washington law may impact your case. Ephrata, Washington When contracts are violated, the affected parties should contact an Lawyer. Delicate questions of timing can often be conclusive in contract disputes. An Lawyer practicing in contract law in the Ephrata, Washington area will know how to best proceed. | <urn:uuid:4a0a9cd6-2215-44af-9d90-a2474cf9c3e0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businessattorneys.legalmatch.com/WA/Ephrata/breach-of-contract.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.957463 | 473 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Banks shuttered more than 3,300 branches in 2020. That’s a concerning number of closures. Yet as the chief experience officer of a company that offers payment and financial technology solutions for credit unions, I believe the pandemic has accelerated the adoption and brought home the value of digital banking for millions.
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Thanks to the availability of online and mobile banking, digital payments, virtual tellers, and other banking-by-screen solutions, a sizable percentage of people usually don’t require their primary financial institution to have a physical presence although they may continue to appreciate the branch for more complex engagements.
Essentially, financial providers should anticipate consumers’ needs and be ready to serve them right where they are.
Fintech firms are getting very good at delivering on that expectation. In a study commissioned by CO-OP Financial Services and conducted by EY in January and February of 2021, 30% of the 3,000 credit union members surveyed said their primary financial relationship (PFR) is with a fintech firm.
Nearly one-quarter chose PayPal as their most trusted financial brand.
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It’s clear — a big part of the desire for human interaction is about trust, and financial institutions should earn it by understanding the needs of those they serve.
Interestingly, trust in financial institutions has dropped as digital engagement has increased. Accenture research reported by The Financial Brand found that in 2018, 43% of consumers said they trusted their bank to look after their long-term financial well-being. In 2020, just 29% said the same.
The State Of Financial Cooperatives
I believe our need to connect human-to-human with the institutions handling our money is one of several reasons credit union membership has continued to grow steadily, as Statista data illustrates.
As financial cooperatives owned by their members, many credit unions have strategically maintained this connection even as they have digitally transformed the member experience.
When credit unions are excellent at both human and digital interactions, they can position themselves well to provide meaningful alternatives to those living and working in bank deserts.
Many people are already members of credit unions in the U.S. — 126.6 million in 2020, according to Statista. Yet in my experience, even those who already have that relationship don’t often think of their credit union as a resource for new, high-tech, digital payments and other banking experiences. In many cases, this is simply a problem of awareness.
Especially if bank deserts become more of a concern, I think we can expect to see credit unions step up their games in terms of driving awareness of their digital solutions.
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That’s because doing so could not only stimulate the growth of the credit union movement but could also help more communities struggling with a lack of people-centric financial providers to access the services they need.
How Credit Unions Can Help More People Thrive
The question of how to earn a deeper relationship with more consumers is the subject of several strategic conversations happening right now within the credit union movement. Here are two ways credit unions can do so.
1. The first of these is needs-based segmentation. This strategy calls for credit unions to consider the complete lifestyle of a member or prospective member.
This differs from strategies of the past in which financial institutions focused on key milestones in a person’s life — life-stage moments like buying a house.
In a world changed by Covid-19, lifestyle moments often happen at a distance. Consumer needs now often hover around things like touchless, remote, and digital transactions.
Credit unions can examine their data about existing member deposit accounts to spotlight gaps in lifestyle-oriented services that they can fill. For instance, person-to-person (P2P) transactions might indicate comfort with fintech providers and digital payments.
The credit union can then consider better promoting or incentivizing the use of its own P2P service for those members with heavy P2P activity.
Changes to ACH activity can indicate a recent job loss or deferment of a credit card, auto loan, or mortgage payment. Navigating everyday financial decisions can become especially difficult when unexpected crises hit an individual or family.
Credit unions can proactively reach out to vulnerable members with programs that may help alleviate their current financial struggle.
2. The second strategy centers on transitioning passive member relationships to active ones. Whereas credit unions are typically strong in terms of passive relationships (ranked No. 1 for loans, savings, and checking in the EY survey), I believe fintech has achieved primacy inactive relationships.
Credit unions can focus on developing payment products like contactless tools, P2P payments, and mobile wallets to create greater numbers of active relationships.
Again, it’s about being there for the everyday lifestyle moments, not just the occasional life-stage ones. (Full disclosure: My company offers technologies like the ones mentioned in this article.)
It will be important to ensure any payment products they develop offer the level of digital sophistication and personalization consumers have come to expect from fintech providers.
Enhancing credit and debit card loyalty programs by incorporating features like real-time cashback reward redemption, for instance, could provide just enough incentive to move a ho-hum card into top-of-mind positioning.
Beyond digital payment products, credit unions can also create financial wellness ecosystems that provide relevant wealth-building opportunities for the distinctive needs of different member segments.
In fact, 2019 Gallup research found that among consumers who agreed with four or more of eight statements that signify their banks support them, 77% of them are engaged with their financial institutions.
I believe the credit union of tomorrow will have personal relationships at its center and will offer a compelling mix of human and digital services designed to help members achieve their financial ambitions.
As cooperatives, these distinctive financial institutions typically already hold strong incumbent advantages, such as their ability to offer outstanding service, trusted advice, and secure banking solutions.
By pushing forward on the initiatives above, credit unions could become the partner that all people — not just those living in banking deserts — need to thrive financially.
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A white former administrator at Norfolk State University is suing the school, saying she was the victim of discrimination that included being called "cracker" and "white devil" by fellow employees.
Edie Rogan alleges in a federal civil rights lawsuit that she was treated differently because of her race, then fired from her six-figure job in retaliation for reporting problems at the historically black university.
Rogan, who lives in Chesapeake, worked as NSU's head of human resources from 2012 to 2014. She was the only white department head or senior manager, as well as the only white person in the president's Cabinet, according to her lawsuit.
A NSU spokesman, Stan Donaldson, said: "It would be inappropriate for the university to discuss pending litigation." E. Lewis Kincer Jr., an assistant attorney general representing the school, cited an office policy in declining to comment.
Rogan, now 47, referred questions to her lawyer, Raymond L. Hogge Jr. He didn't respond to a call and emails seeking comment.
The introduction to Rogan's lawsuit alleges that "racial animus against white employees is widespread among black NSU employees, including members of NSU management. ... NSU attempts to disguise and justify this unlawful discrimination and retaliation against whites by characterizing it as part of its culture as a Historically Black College or University."
During a 2012 job interview, then-school President Tony Atwater warned Rogan her race could pose problems at a university where 94 percent of employees were black, according to the complaint. Reached by phone Thursday, Atwater declined to comment.
According to 2013 statistics, NSU's full-time staff was 86 percent black and 8 percent white, while faculty was 63 percent black and 24 percent white. As of fall 2014, the student body was 82 percent black and 6 percent white.
Rogan's lawsuit says she was treated differently from the start, such as when the Finance Department delayed reimbursing her for travel expenses but repaid a black employee for similar expenses. She says she heard an employee make a disparaging racial comment about her afterward.
Rogan also faced hostility from senior executives, and her bosses failed to take action when she complained, the lawsuit says. The university president, Atwater, was sympathetic but said it would take time to change the culture of the school, according to the lawsuit.
Rogan's first boss at NSU, Deborah Fontaine, told her the "black-only culture" of the school needed to change, according to the complaint.
But when Rogan later told her about problems she was experiencing, the complaint says, Fontaine replied, "Now you know what it's like to be a minority. Doesn't feel good, does it? Some people are going to dislike you just because of your skin color."
Fontaine's office said she was on extended leave and could not be reached for comment.
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Later, the complaint says, when Rogan told her new boss she had tried to be friendly and cooperative with colleagues, he told her, "It isn't enough. You are a threat. The culture here is not going to let you be successful. You will never be happy here."
After new President Eddie Moore took office, he appointed a special assistant to the president for human resources, a position Rogan says was unnecessary and meant to undermine her, according to the lawsuit.
Rogan was later given a negative verbal performance evaluation based on incorrect information – though never given a written evaluation – and her contract was not renewed in 2014, the lawsuit says.
She filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in late 2014 and filed her lawsuit last year after the EEOC declined to sue on her behalf.
The complaint alleges discrimination and retaliation in violation of federal civil rights law. It seeks $750,000 in compensatory damages, unspecified back pay and other damages. No trial date has been set.
The lawsuit was filed under seal in June, with Rogan's lawyer saying it had to be filed then to meet a deadline but that keeping the case private would make a settlement more likely. A judge unsealed the case in November after settlement talks went nowhere.
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Similar to universities in the United States, institutions in the United Kingdom has an online application portal that can be used to apply to 5 different universities at once. Even though it is not as advanced as the Common Application Portal in the United States, this application portal is very convenient to use when applying for universities in the UK. Known as UCAS, this acronym stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, and you can probably use this application portal to apply to any institution located in the United Kingdom. Not limited to undergraduate programs, you can apply for graduate programs, internships, and even gap years at this application portal. Available to all prospective applicants, many international students and local residents gain a place at one of the 391 UK institutions by using the UCAS Application Portal.
Various Options at UCAS
Unlike previous portals that we have looked at, UCAS offers you up to 16 different options for your future career, and numerous financial aid awards are also offered at UCAS Admissions Portal. However, these reasons were not why you are here since you are still interested in applying for institutions in the UK. The answer to your question is simple since you just select on the educational options ranging from undergraduate and conservatoires to postgraduate programs and teacher training. After selecting your option, you just need to sign in at the UCAS Application Portal and start your application by logging in to your registered account. All these steps might become confusing if you don’t have the right resources at hand, and to provide you with the right resources, I have created a video guide that explains step-by-step the application process for Cambridge University. | <urn:uuid:8ad72700-e453-486a-89ea-8bea2c06f4ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://authorityscholarships.com/application-uk-universities-ucas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957303 | 330 | 1.773438 | 2 |
In Nevada, business disputes commonly occur over a variety of different matters. Most often, businesses can disagree on the clauses of contracts and prior arrangements. Property matters and billing issues also frequently form the basis of disputes between businesses.
What to Do in a Business Dispute?
If involved in a business dispute in North Las Vegas, Nevada, reviewing any relevant documents, especially contracts, should be the first step. These documents might decide how the dispute will be resolved. Not all contracts have dispute resolution clauses, of course, and occasionally neither business has any documents relevant to the dispute at all. If that is the case, a court might be needed to resolve the dispute. Nevada courts may use legal principles to determine the outcome when the parties have not agreed beforehand about how to handle a dispute. In so doing, they look carefully to a specific case to discover the best resolution for all involved. The fields of contract law and dispute resolution are defined by local state law. North Las Vegas Lawyers are accustomed to handling disputes under Nevada law, and can offer personalized advice for all types of business disputes. Discussion with the other business about how to resolve the dispute might also proceed more smoothly under the direction of an attorney, avoiding the need to go to court.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Most contracts have terms that will decide how a dispute is handled. These are often referred to as Alternative Dispute Resolution or ADR clauses. These methods of resolution include Mediation and Arbitration, among others. ADR makes going to court unnecessary, because it is designed to reach the same result that a court would have. Still, some methods of ADR entail their own formal procedures, most enlisting a third party to determine a dispute based on local law just as a judge would do. In North Las Vegas, Lawyers practiced in ADR can help if your business dispute is to be resolved out of court. | <urn:uuid:3c1b31ef-8e9c-4e8c-b8d4-59ecdbe9202a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businessattorneys.legalmatch.com/NV/North-Las-Vegas/business-disputes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.952768 | 378 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Last week the international gravitational wave collaboration* announced its third very secure detection. Our new acquaintance GW170104 — named for its arrival date — passed through our two LIGO detectors and whispered to them about the coalescence of a pair of black holes in a binary system that had taken place almost three billion years ago. And then it raced on, hardly affected at all by its encounter with us and our planet. In that respect it was much like its two predecessors, GW150914 and GW151226. But every detection is special, and this one is very special indeed.
One reason is simple: it brought a big smile to all of us in the collaboration, and allowed us a big sigh of relief — our first two detections were not just a lucky fluke, nor a super-mysterious instrumental malfunction. The dates of the detections tell the story: the first two in 2015, this one at the start of 2017. The big gap is there because the LIGO detectors had been shut down for most of 2016 in order to improve their sensitivity. Once we started up again, with significantly modified detectors, Nature provided us with helpful reassurance: the waves keep coming, and they look just the same as they did in the previous version of the detectors. (Goodness knows what we missed during 2016!)
The second important thing about GW170104 is that it has started our transition from mainly doing fundamental gravitational physics to primarily doing gravitational-wave astronomy. The first detection GW150914 was the science event of the decade because it showed how right Einstein was with general relativity: his amazing fundamental theory of gravity had predicted gravitational waves and black holes, and in just one event, lasting only about two tenths of a second, both predictions were spectacularly confirmed. But now, as we continue to observe more such events, we become more and more focussed on what they tell us about the Universe. We will of course use all new data to further test our confidence in Einstein’s general relativity. But the new detections are going to explore more and more of what Kip Thorne, one of the founders of LIGO, famously called the Dark Side of the Universe.
A hint of spin
But the really special aspect of the new detection is the hint it gives us about the way the black holes may have been spinning. Black holes spin, as do all astronomical bodies. And the normal expectation is that the spins in a binary system of black holes will be in a consistent direction, just like the spins of planets in the solar system. The Sun and the planets all formed together out of a rotating cloud of gas, so it is natural that they inherited their spins from that cloud, so that these spins are all roughly in the same sense, which is also the same as the sense of the orbital rotation of the planets around the Sun, and indeed of the spin of the Sun itself. In our previous detection, GW151226, we found evidence that the more massive of the two holes was spinning, and the evidence was that its spin was probably aligned with the sense of the orbital rotation. But in GW170104, there is just a hint that the black holes’ spins were either anti-aligned with each other, or they were anti-aligned with the sense of their orbital motion about one another before they merged.
if this was the case, then it would suggest that the two black holes had not been formed together from a single primeval cloud of gas. Instead, they were probably unrelated single black holes, which just by chance linked up into a binary system. This ought to sound bizarre to you, wildly improbable. After all, black holes, even the rather massive ones in this system, are only something like 100 km across, maybe twice the size of London. How could two such small objects ever encounter one another if they were wandering through the vast emptiness of space between the stars in their galaxy? And you would be right: that just wouldn’t happen. But it would be much more probable if it happened inside the big dense clusters of stars that we call globular clusters.
These globular clusters are roughly spherical micro-galaxies, and in them heavy things like black holes sink, over millions of years, down toward their centers, where there can be thousands of stars in a volume that would contain just one star in neighbourhood of our Sun. In these conditions, near encounters between black holes do sometimes happen. What’s more, if a third object, even a normal star, is nearby, then sometimes the third object can be a kind of catalyst, helping the black holes to form a binary system by stealing and speeding off with some of their energy. So the hint that the spins in GW170104 don’t match up is a hint that this system might have been formed in this haphazard way.
The magnetic side of gravity
But here’s the amazing part: how did we get this hint in the first place, about how things spin in a system that is totally in the Dark Side? What did we read in the signal we call GW170104 that tells us about the spins? The answer lies again in the fundamentals of Einstein’s theory. Einstein predicted that spin creates a different form of gravity, a magnetic form. Think of a spinning charge, or of the electric current winding round and round through the coil in an electromagnet: this creates magnetism, which we know is the partner of the electric force in the theory of electromagnetism. Magnets exert forces on other magnets and on moving charges. In a closely analogous way, a spinning mass creates a form of gravity that we call gravitomagnetism, through which spinning masses exert gravitational forces on other spinning masses and on moving masses. So our spinning black holes are gravitomagnets, which interact with one another and with their orbital motion, and this slightly changes the orbital periods of the last few orbits before the holes merge together. We always look in our data for these changes, and in this case we found a hint not only that the spins were significant, but that they might be anti-aligned.
But it is only a hint. The odds are only 4-1 in favor of the spins’ being anti-aligned rather than their being consistently aligned. It could be simply a distortion in the signal caused by a slightly improbable level of noise in our detectors. But since we will never get any more information about this particular system, we will never be able to say for sure whether this was how GW170104 in fact formed. So GW170104 is not only special, it is also frustrating!
What sort of physics are we doing?
This frustration has pushed the global gravitational wave collaboration to confront the question of whether we are still primarily doing fundamental physics or whether we have started the transition to astronomy. One of the differences between these two disciplines is their expectation of how much uncertainty they can tolerate in a measurement. The observation of gravitomagnetism is of course very fundamental, even though this prediction of Einstein has already been verified by an experiment in orbit around the earth and by observations of the orbits of satellites themselves . A fundamental physicist wants to pin down the laws of physics, and that needs a great deal of certainty. As a measurement of gravitomagnetism, our hint of spin doesn’t do as well as the previous experiments have done, and is certainly not up to our standard for deciding we have detected something in the first place. While the actual detection of GW170104 has very high significance (odds of better than 70,000 to 1 that no chance noise-generated event this strong would have happened in coincidence between the two detectors in a whole year’s worth of data), the information we can glean about spin from the slight spin-induced nuance in the orbital motion has only 4-1 odds of being real. So a number of physicists in the collaboration did not want to see the spin result highlighted strongly in the announcement of our observation.
Astronomers, by contrast, have learned to live with uncertainty: you can never do a controlled experiment on a star, so you have to be content with whatever data it sends you. Some of the astronomers in our collaboration felt that the possible implications of this hint of spin for our understanding of the formation history of this system was interesting enough to deserve prominence in our announcement, even at this low significance level. The philosophy is to put the data out there so that other astronomers can judge whether they find it interesting or not. This clash of scientific cultures led to a rather lively discussion inside the collaboration on how to report the tantalising but rather uncertain measurement on the spins of the black holes, and it even delayed the announcement of the detection by some weeks. What you can read in the paper we wrote and the publicity we put out is, of course, our compromise. As you might guess from this post, I find myself on the side of the astronomers.
But it was already 5 months ago…
The detection we announced last week happened 5 months ago. Has anything else interesting been detected since then? Well, by the confidentiality rules of our collaboration, I can’t answer that question. But what I can say is that the increases in sensitivity that we looked forward to a year ago are taking more time than we hoped. These incredibly complicated detectors, with their astonishing sensitivity to such weak gravitational waves, are also immensely sensitive to all kinds of disturbances, from outside the detectors and especially from inside. The two LIGO detectors are indeed more sensitive now than they were before they shut down at the beginning of 2016, but they will need much more work before they reach the ultimate goal that we call Advanced LIGO. The Italian-French detector Virgo, near Pisa, has also had a number of challenges in improving its sensitivity. We are hoping it will start observations soon, finally giving us the three-detector network that is required in order to get accurate information about the location of events on the sky and their distances.
We can expect a further planned shutdown of LIGO, and probably of Virgo, late this year or early next year, and another long wait for data as the sensitivity is further improved. But this kind of wait should be worthwhile. A factor of 2 increase in sensitivity corresponds to a factor of 2 increase in the range of our detectors, in the maximum distance to which we can detect events. This implies an increase in the volume we can survey by a factor of 8, so it would bring us more events in 2 months than we presently get in a year.
Gold from gravitational waves
And higher sensitivity might also get us a new kind of event: mergers of neutron stars from binary orbits. They are less massive than black holes, so their signals are weaker, but they are no less interesting. Whereas black holes merge, well, blackly, neutron stars merge in a burst of color. They should produce a spectacular display of light, radio waves, X-rays, and gamma-rays, easily detectable by telescopes on Earth.
Besides all the physics and astronomy that we will learn from neutron star mergers, here is the really spooky part: when we finally observe such an event, we may be observing a re-run of our own cosmic history. Astronomers believe that most of the common heavy elements on Earth — gold, silver, platinum, mercury, uranium and many more — may have been created in just one such event, the merger of two neutron stars. They were ejected by the explosion triggered by the merger, polluting the nearby gas cloud that would eventually condense into our Sun and solar system. In fact the explosion might even have triggered that cloud to condense, setting off the long chain of events that led to our own existence. The rings on our fingers, and perhaps even our fingers themselves, may have come from a nearby gravitational wave event that happened long long before we were able to build detectors to observe it!
So there is much more to come, with patience.
* The collaboration consists of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and the Virgo Collaboration. Altogether there are over 1000 scientific members as authors to the papers.
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- The “myth” of the Holocaust was created solely for the financial benefit of Israel
Holocaust denial often asserts that the sole reason that the “Holocaust hoax” has been promulgated was that it created a financial windfall for the State of Israel. Deborah Lipstadt provides this information in “Denying the Holocaust”:
“Israeli officials detailed their claims against Germany in their communique of March 1951 to the Four Powers, and this document became the official basis for the reparations agreement. It contained an explanation of Israel’s means of calculating the size of the reparations claim. In the communique Israeli officials explained that Nazi persecution had stimulated ‘a second Jewish exodus’ of close to five hundred thousand. Based on the size of this exodus, Israel determined the amount of the reparations it would request:
The government of Israel is not in a position to obtain and present a complete statement of all Jewish property taken or looted by the Germans, and said to total more than $6 thousand million. It can only compute its claim on the basis of total expenditures already made and the expenditure still needed for the integration of Jewish immigrants from Nazi-dominated countries. The number of these immigrants is estimated at some 500,000, which means a total expenditure of $1.5 thousand million.
It seems hardly necessary to point out that since the money the state received by based on the cost of resettling survivors, had Israel wanted to increase the amount of reparations it obtained from Germany it would have been in its interest to argue that fewer than six million had been killed and that more had managed to flee to Israel.” (Lipstadt, 57) | <urn:uuid:77ca3c55-f1d7-49d2-8bf3-e6ef682a3ac6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nizkor.org/the-leuchter-faq-the-myth-of-the-holocaust-was-created-solely-for-the-financial-benefit-of-israel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97845 | 347 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Technology is crucial in saving lives, whether its on the road, in fires, on water or on land; and rescuers using new innovations and tools as part of their life-saving skills are key to preventing loss of life in tragic circumstances.
Thermal imaging cameras, the ‘Dan Buoy’, the Galway Safe phone app and new sonar technology which are all part of a multi-agency rescue initiative in Galway will be showcased at the upcoming emergency services seminar and exhibition; Blue Light Summit.
The cameras, which are the first of their kind in Europe, combine CCTV, thermal imaging and wireless technology to create a system where authorities are alerted once a body passes through sensors at certain points on the River Corrib.
The ‘Dan Buoy’ will work with the new thermal imaging technology, providing search coordinators with the most likely route taken by a body once it enters the water. It replicates the movement of a body in the water. Once it’s deployed within a short time of a person entering the water, it follows their trail. The device sends out signals, making it easier for rescue teams to locate a person. There’s one in the lifeboat station and one in the fire station.
Gardaí, Galway Fire and Rescue Service, Galway RNLI Lifeboat, Irish Water Safety, the Coast Guard and voluntary rescue groups are the multi-agency groups who respond to river rescues in the Corrib.
The system is a radical improvement, built significantly on the work that has been done between several state bodies and voluntary organisations.
Garda Superintendent Kevin Gately and Galway RNLI’s Mike Swan will demonstrate the new river rescue technologies and provide advice on how water rescue teams can use the technology to locate, save and return persons from the water.
Supt Gately says ‘In the event of an emergency on the water in Galway, all agencies now operate on one central communications channel called Tetra. This was a major step forward. We all work off a dedicated channel so when a call comes in, the message gets out quickly. When we started, it was taking 30-40 minutes to notify everyone of the need for a rescue operation. Now, the fire service can be in their swift water gear and in the water in less than two minutes, giving us the best hope of rescue” Supt Gately said.
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Jay-Z loves the Peace Corps. He’s never said so publicly, and there’s no reference to volunteerism in any of his two hundred and twenty-four songs. But Rajeev Goyal believes that he knows the rapper’s true heart. “Jay-Z and Beyoncé are both very interested in helping the Peace Corps,” Rajeev told me once. He said that last year he was on the phone with somebody who claimed he could arrange for Jay-Z and Beyoncé to speak at a Peace Corps rally that Rajeev was organizing in Washington, D.C. But their appearance fell through, which sometimes happens to Rajeev’s most ambitious plans. He was unable to get an audience with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala to request a letter from His Holiness asking Congress to give more money to the Peace Corps. Once, he asked Maureen Orth, a writer for Vanity Fair and Tim Russert’s widow, to contact Senator Barbara Mikulski, of Maryland, in a manner so roundabout that it was like driving from D.C. to Baltimore via the Deep South. “He asked me to ask James Carville to ask Bill Clinton to call Senator Mikulski,” Orth told me. “And that’s just one of four e-mails that I got from him in a day!” Orth didn’t telephone Carville, but on another occasion she called a senator on his cell phone in the middle of a meeting. “It was outrageous, but I did it for Rajeev,” she said—like everybody, she used his first name when talking about him. Orth admired Rajeev’s willingness to try anything, especially since he had appeared in Washington as if “he was dropped in there from a cloud.” She said, “Who else would fly on miles all the way to Hawaii to try to see Obama’s sister? And get it done! I wish he had been a reality series.”
Rajeev Goyal is thirty-one years old, but he could pass for a college student. He stands only five and a half feet tall, with dark skin and long-lashed eyes. He has the portable confidence of the second-generation immigrant—no matter where he goes, he knows there are benefits to being an outsider. In the part of eastern Nepal where Rajeev served as a Peace Corps volunteer from 2001 to 2003, people sometimes weep when his name is mentioned. Locals refer to him as Shiva, the god who is also the source of the Ganges River. Old folks turn on a tap and say, “This is what he gave us.” In the halls of Congress, most people have no idea what to make of him. For the past two years, he has approached the place as if it were just another Nepali settlement with a caste system to untangle. He figured out the Washington equivalent of village-well routes—hallways, hearing rooms, and coffee shops where anybody can hang around and meet a member of Congress. “He just picked off Democrats and Republicans one by one,” Sam Farr, a Democratic congressman from California, told me. “I don’t know lobbyists who are that persistent.” Others complained that his unorthodox approach was too personal, but even critics acknowledged the results. During the past two years, funding for the Peace Corps has increased by record amounts, despite partisanship in Congress and a brutal economic climate. “I’ve been in the Congress for seventeen years, and always lobbying for the Peace Corps, but I’ve never been as effective as I have in the last two sessions,” Farr said. “And I would attribute that to Rajeev.”
In March, the Peace Corps will turn fifty years old. The anniversary is bittersweet: despite the new funding, which has allowed for a significant increase in volunteers, the agency sends fewer than sixty per cent as many people abroad today as it did in 1966. Many Americans aren’t aware that the Peace Corps still exists. Its impact on foreign policy seems minimal, especially in light of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Rajeev told me that the agency might have a higher profile if former volunteers applied lessons from the developing world to U.S. politics, which is the opposite of how most people think of the Peace Corps. Instead of introducing American values to some benighted country, Rajeev wants to move in the other direction. “The way we organized this campaign was asking who was in the Peace Corps, and who cares about it. That’s your blood link; that’s your caste. You define your tribe.” He said, “Washington is a village. Decisions in Congress, some of the biggest decisions, are based on a personal act.”
Rajeev Goyal didn’t know his own caste until he joined the Peace Corps. He grew up in Manhasset Hills, Long Island, where his parents, Ravindra and Damyanti Goyal, had settled after immigrating from Rajasthan, India, in the early nineteen-seventies. They raised their three sons to speak Hindi, but they never told them that they were Vaishya, a caste known for its success in business. “To us, everybody is equal,” Ravindra Goyal, who is a pulmonologist, told me, explaining that he didn’t like the caste system. But after the Peace Corps sent Rajeev to Nepal, which has a system similar to India’s, he telephoned his mother. “He asked me, ‘Are we Brahmin, or Vaishya, or Kshatriya, or what?’ ” Damyanti told me. “He said, ‘People want to know what I am.’ So I told him.”
The Goyals had initially opposed their son’s decision to go abroad. They wanted him to become a doctor, and he took premed courses at Brown University before deciding to apply to law school. They didn’t see the point of deferring admission in order to live in an undeveloped country. Damyanti, who had recently undergone chemotherapy for breast cancer, worried about her son being far away, but his arguments finally swayed her. “He said that this country has given us too much,” she told me. “We have a nice house, nice car, we live in a nice neighborhood. It’s time to give something back. When he explained it like that, I liked the idea a little better.”
Rajeev was assigned to teach English at a school in Namje, a village of fewer than six hundred people, in eastern Nepal, where the Terai Plain gives way suddenly to the foothills of the Himalayas. At an elevation of more than five thousand feet, Namje villagers grow coriander, soybeans, radishes, and other vegetables. Traditionally, they also spent much of their time hauling water. Snowcaps provide Nepal with abundant water resources, but rivers are often inaccessible in mountain towns like Namje. The nearest source was the Saacho Khola, a spring that was more than two hours away by foot on steep mountain paths. People often made three trips a day, carrying sixteen-litre aluminum jugs. “You learn that not everything needs to be washed,” Rajeev told me. “Soap isn’t always necessary. You waste a lot of water with soap. Of course, I didn’t do this as well as they did, so I got sick.”
He caught a case of scabies so bad that it scarred his arm. After visiting a doctor in Kathmandu, he returned to the village and noticed other effects of the water shortage. “One day, a good student didn’t come to class, and I asked him why. He said he was getting water. I brought all the villagers together and asked, ‘If there’s a way to solve this problem, are you willing to donate your labor?’ They were willing to do it.”
Rajeev spoke with engineers in Kathmandu, and he read books about electric pumps, piping, and filtration systems. Using the skills he had acquired in premed physics classes, he learned to calculate water friction. He finally decided that the best option was a two-stage pumping system capable of lifting water thirteen hundred vertical feet. In the city of Dharan, he found a pipe salesman named Kishan Agrawal, whose ancestors came from the same part of India as Rajeev’s. After the two men discussed their family histories, Kishan agreed to order hundreds of pieces of three-inch galvanized-iron pipe on credit, interest-free. In order to raise funds, Rajeev returned to Long Island, where the Goyals invited their doctor friends to dinner, without mentioning that the night’s entertainment would involve Rajeev asking for money. Within ten minutes, he had raised eighteen thousand dollars, which was eventually supplemented by funds from the Peace Corps, U.S.A.I.D., and the American Himalayan Foundation.
For the twenty-two-year-old Rajeev, the most daunting challenge was organizing labor. The villagers had no power tools, and all materials had to be carried via mountain paths to construction sites. Women did much of the work, because many men had gone abroad as laborers. Through his research, Rajeev learned that one of the biggest threats was something called water hammer—the pressure that builds in a long pipe when an outlet is closed. He consulted with engineers, who suggested building a stone staircase more than a mile in length, which would pin down the pipe and also allow access for repairs. In designing the staircase and the pump houses, Rajeev relied heavily on Karna Magar, a villager who was naturally gifted but had only a ninth-grade education. Harka Lama, the headmaster of the local school, organized the village into twenty-five groups, each of which would help coördinate different aspects of the project.
Another teacher, Tanka Bhujel, handled village politics. “I’m only realizing now how much he taught me,” Rajeev told me recently. “We would go to a meeting and he would say, ‘If we can get this one guy, we’ll get everybody.’ And the guy would have three wives and things would be complicated. So much was based on ancestry and bloodlines. It’s the same in Washington. It’s identity.” Tanka was an outsider in the village, a member of an obscure sub-caste, and he relished the political maneuvering. “Tanka would be speaking in Nepali to a group, and then out of nowhere he would say, in English, ‘Po-litics is the dur-ty game,’ ” Rajeev said, mimicking a Nepali accent. “And he wouldn’t translate it! He understood Kathmandu, he understood the Maoists, the military, the family politics.”
At the time, Nepal was ripped apart by unrest. Since the mid-nineties, Maoist groups had been trying to overthrow the monarchy, and after peace talks failed in 2002 there were increased attacks on the Army. Often, the military responded with brutal violence as soldiers searched villages. Thousands of people were killed, and more than a hundred thousand were displaced. Guerrillas set off homemade bombs, which meant that anybody with a pipe was suspect. Rajeev got the local Army commander to issue a letter explaining why villagers were handling so much plumbing equipment, and everybody carried a copy at all times.
Five hundred and thirty-five people volunteered for the project. They built two pump houses, two holding tanks, three reserve tanks, and 1,236 stone steps—said to be the longest staircase in eastern Nepal. When an agent from the district engineering office visited, he couldn’t believe that an American like Rajeev would depend so heavily on the uneducated Karna Magar. “Our guy is as good as any engineer,” Rajeev said. But, after sixteen months of work, they turned on the power and nothing happened.
Rajeev had only a month left in the Peace Corps. After repeatedly failing to get the pump to work, he became so discouraged that he hardly listened when a local electrician suggested that the problem might be voltage. “All those bastards in India, they’re using too much electricity,” the electrician said. “We have to wait until the middle of the night, when all those people in India will be asleep.”
A group of men hiked to the lowest pump station, where they fished for salamanders while waiting for India to go to bed. Rajeev was so depressed that he stayed home. At three o’clock in the morning, a neighbor woke him up. “Pani aayo! ” he shouted. “The water has come!” Rajeev ran to the staircase, where he heard a sound like rain: water was rising in the pipes. He and others followed the noise up the mountain, step by step. It became louder at the summit, as water poured into the series of reserve tanks, which held almost twenty thousand gallons. Tanka Bhujel, who knew the politically correct response for any occasion, went out and slaughtered a goat.
People usually assume that the Peace Corps came out of a grand idea, but its beginnings may have had more to do with emotions associated with village politics. In October, 1960, during the third debate of the Presidential campaign, Richard Nixon attacked John F. Kennedy by claiming that Democratic Presidents had been responsible for leading Americans into every war of the past half century. Immediately afterward, Kennedy flew to Michigan, where, at two o’clock in the morning, he made an unplanned speech on the Ann Arbor campus. He challenged the students: “How many of you who are going to be doctors are willing to spend your days in Ghana?” Kennedy had never mentioned an overseas service program, and the comment surprised his staff. As Stanley Meisler describes it in his forthcoming account of the Peace Corps, “When the World Calls,” Harris Wofford, an aide who later became a senator, believes that Kennedy made the speech because he was angry about Nixon’s insinuation.
Thousands of students sent letters of interest to Kennedy, and the idea also tapped into the popular feeling that the United States needed more grass-roots efforts to fight Communism. After the election, Kennedy founded the Peace Corps and appointed his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, as director. In less than six months, the first volunteers were sent to Ghana, where they had an immediate impact on the education system. Without the Peace Corps, roughly a sixth of Ghanaian secondary schools would have had to shut down owing to lack of teachers. Soon, there were nearly five hundred instructors in Ethiopia alone. By 1966, more than fifteen thousand volunteers were working various jobs around the world, and the agency received forty-two thousand applications that year. Plans for expansion were ambitious: Kennedy once remarked that the Peace Corps would start to become significant when it reached a hundred thousand volunteers.
But 1966 turned out to be the high-water mark. Applications plummeted during the Vietnam years, when idealistic young people weren’t inclined to have anything to do with a government agency. During the seventies and eighties, volunteers continued to go overseas, where they often had a major influence on communities, but the agency’s U.S. profile diminished. Support depended on the whim of a President or a few politicians. Nixon, who hated anything associated with Kennedy, tried to kill the Peace Corps entirely. Reagan was surprisingly supportive, especially after a 1983 meeting with the Prime Minister of Fiji, who effusively praised the volunteers who had served in his country. A week after that meeting, a staffer presented Reagan with a proposal for slashing the federal budget. “Don’t cut the Peace Corps,” Reagan reportedly said. “It’s the only thing I got thanked for last week.”
Over time, though, the Peace Corps came to embody the empty campaign promise. Everybody had heard of it, and impressions were vaguely positive, but there was no real awareness of what volunteers did or how their activities were funded. Clinton claimed that he would increase the size of the organization from fewer than seven thousand volunteers to ten thousand; George W. Bush said he wanted fifteen thousand. Obama promised to double the Peace Corps by its fiftieth anniversary. But none of them pushed hard for more money, and volunteer numbers stayed at roughly half the level of 1966, despite the fact that applications increased significantly after 9/11. In 2008, the Peace Corps’s budget was $342 million—less than what the federal government spent on military bands.
To former volunteers, it seemed a wasted resource. The Peace Corps had sent Americans to Afghanistan for seventeen years, and more than forty-five thousand people had served in predominantly Muslim countries, but these things seemed to have no effect on post-9/11 policy. Kevin Quigley, the president of the National Peace Corps Association, a group for returned volunteers, believed it was time for a campaign to expand the organization. But this had to be done independently of the Peace Corps—by law, a government agency can’t lobby. Quigley told me that the community of former volunteers had been too passive. “You have to get organized,” he said. | <urn:uuid:0406399c-9b30-4332-a02f-1b0ee9764148> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/20/village-voice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.982876 | 3,752 | 1.578125 | 2 |
At an antique store in Santa Rosa, California, boxes of discarded photographs sit on counter tops curling in their old age as their subjects peer out from years that have long since faded and discolored. Those faces from from the faded past stare out to a time in which they’ve found themselves adrift, disconnected from the memory to which they were once attached. Who are these people? What were the stories behind these pictures?
I look at random photographs, checking the reverse side to see if there’s a clue to the story behind them. More often than not there is nothing, just the picture. People stood in front of a big car, a family perhaps? Two men carrying a line of fish, and in another, a man carrying a deer. A heavily faded classroom picture, the children stood in rows with not a smile between them. A young woman perched on the rear bumper of a car with her arm around a soldier, his uniform hat upon her head. And a portrait of a surly looking couple, their backs stiff, their expressions tempered, they look like the enforcers of a strict moral code. All of them disconnected from their characters, their identities, and the stories that distilled these moments in time.
A photograph of a girl pokes out of one box of pictures. Her friendly smile catches my eye today just as it would have back then, whenever “back then” was. She’s young, maybe 20 years old, perhaps younger, it’s difficult to say. She has a somewhat mischievous look in her eye, and she’s holding something in her hands that’s difficult to make out. A woman in the store guesses that the picture is from the 1920’s and might have been in an album due to its good condition. On the reverse of the picture a personal note gives little away. Written in pencil and an almost ornate swirling script the note is simple. “Lots of love. Maria.”
Who are these people? I’m fascinated by these pictures. We don’t print pictures nearly as much these days, so what will become of the photographs we take today? Will they forever be tethered to the memory that owns them, or will they too become detached, severed from their stories, floating through a binary ocean that may of may not lead to them being discovered in a hundred years from now?
When our memories fade, and a digital devices have long become obsolete, will the pictures we snap in a heartbeat today somehow find their own path into a future without us? I think I like the idea of being found in a photograph, far from now, floating free and open to the imagination of a mind yet made. | <urn:uuid:9e940d28-8039-4742-a60f-b66942055c97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.366pictures.com/2012/12/the-lost-stories/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975768 | 564 | 1.578125 | 2 |
We are daughters in our families. While this is not our entire identity, it is a title we cannot run from. Being a daughter in someone’s house can mean so many different things. It would be so valuable if being a daughter in a family meant being celebrated, championed, and honored.
Consent should be present, not wished for
Instead, so many girls find that being a daughter in a family means that the judgment of others is welcomed before compassion. As soon as we walk into the living room in new clothes, or express any sort of individualism outside of the family’s comfort zone, judgment can be found, waiting for us. Being a daughter means listening to comments being made on our weight, height, or hair before we have even left the porch. And being a daughter in a family is when most young girls learn about consent. Every time there is a father, uncle, aunt, or mother who touch her in any way; through a hug, a pinch, a squeeze to her midriff, or a ‘love tap’ on the butt, you are telling her that her consent does not matter.
You are telling her that men will still do whatever they want, regardless of how she feels, even though she is visibly uncomfortable or even verbally against it. Your desires and your impulses are more important than her being comfortable in her own home and around her own family. You are also informing her that in the world beyond her front door, it will take more than words of consent or non-consent to get her message through to people. If you have ever wondered why young girls hold on to their anger, I do not.
Any father who takes part in that teaching does not actually respect women. Placating your wife’s feelings, and paying the mortgage so that your daughters have a roof over their heads, is not the same thing as respecting them.
How to teach consent through actions
Making sure that all of the women in your life feel safe, at ease, un-triggered, listened to, and loved – that is respecting women. When they say no, listen to them. Recognize boundaries being set, especially by children. All of this is respect. And it is a great way to show your compassion, your understanding, and your love.
Having consent education early in your child’s life is essential to having a thread of communication with them. This education can include teaching your children the anatomically correct names for body parts, for all genders. That way, when your child is talking about their own body, you all share the same vocabulary, and there is no question as to what they are referencing.
Let’s normalize children setting boundaries
Allow your children to have control over their personal space. Every human should have the right to say whether they want to be touched, via hugs, kisses, or otherwise. This includes contact they have with their own family members. It’s not a personal attack on you if your child doesn’t want a hug. It doesn’t mean they hate you, or that you make them uncomfortable. Sometimes, it is less about you and more about what your child wants at that moment or what they are comfortable with in general.
As they get older, have conversations with your kids about the setting of boundaries and the expectations that they hold. Boundaries set by people should always be respected and discussed. If those boundaries are not being upheld in the home, you will give your child no reason to think that future partners or friends should respect them.
This is not a ‘one chat before bedtime and we’re done’ kind of talk. This will be an ongoing lesson for everyone involved, and it should be. Your child should feel just as comfortable approaching you with new thoughts and feelings when they are seven, as they are when they are twenty-five. When they say what they want and need, it is your responsibility to take that seriously and take them seriously. | <urn:uuid:f54f949a-60bb-49c4-bd48-ee3f7b94cac0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.womensrepublic.net/learning-consent-at-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975267 | 824 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Written by Api Sulistyo
June 11, 2020
On Monday afternoon I was in the kitchen getting ready to cook for dinner. I was excited to try something new, Sweet and Sour Chicken, that I have learned from YouTube. Suddenly I heard my daughter Ingrid sharing about her first day of her summer job with her older sister Megan. I could feel the excitement in her voice. She enthusiastically told the details of her experience. She is working for The Lazarus Project, providing therapeutic support to children with autism. https://www.lazarusprojectmn.net/
I decided to join them so that I could listen to her stories and continue cooking later. She really enjoys the job and after just one day she was able to describe the characteristic of each kid. She found it fun, stimulating, and tiring at the same time. This will be a great experience for her.
Our son David has a summer job with Conservation Corps. It’s mission is to “provide hands-on environmental stewardship and service-learning opportunities to young adults while accomplishing conservation, natural resources management and disaster response work.” https://www.conservationcorps.org/
Together with three other college students, he is building rain gardens for designated families in the Twin Cities. He said it is a lot of work but it is going well. The team is getting better at what they are doing and are completing each project faster. Rain gardens are designed to capture rainwater and prevent the rapid release of excess stormwater into municipal water systems. A well placed rain garden reduces runoff and flooding, and filters pollutants carried in stormwater runoff.
My Summer Job
I grew up in Central Java, Indonesia. Summer jobs are not very common there because we do not have a long summer break. However, one summer when I was in college, I wanted to do something to earn money. It was financially challenging for my family to send me to college. It was a private school, located about 20 miles from our home in a rural area. I stayed in a boarding house together with seven other students. Every weekend I rode my bike back home to stay with my family. It took me a little more than one hour.
“Mom, I want to work,” I told my mom.
“What work?” She was curious. I think she was worried that I would quit school.
“In construction like Uncle (Om) Welas.”
Om Welas was a carpenter who was working hourly in the city. I was also informed that his older brother, Sunar, was a Supervisor.
“What can you do? You do not have the experience as a carpenter” she said hesitantly.
“I don’t know, but I can learn.” I convinced her.
I walked to Om Welas’ house, 200 yards away from my home. He was relaxing in front of his house. It is very common in a rural community in Indonesia that people stop by without prior notification. Still, he was a bit surprised and invited me to join him sitting on a home-made bamboo bench. The name Welas in Javanese language means care and forgiveness.
Om Welas thought I was joking when I told him that I wanted to work with him. A college student working in construction as an hourly worker?! The hourly rate was very little. However, it would be good money for me. Om Welas asked me to start the next Monday. I was so happy to have the opportunity. My mom still did not believe it when I told her that Om Welas wanted me to start on Monday.
Before I left the house on Monday morning, my mom had prepared a special lunch for me in a plastic container. It was still warm. I opened the lid and it was steamed rice, stir-fried vegetables, fried egg and sambal (chili sauce). She also prepared a water bottle for me. I did not ask for it and she knew just what I wanted. She prepared my lunches almost every day before I left for work.
When we came to the work location I needed to register as a new worker. Om Welas took me to the gate after parking our bikes. He had a conversation with someone who looked familiar to me. He was Sunar, Om Welas’ brother. “You want to work here?” Sunar stared at me. He did not believe that I really want to work there. “What is your experience? Your hand looks clean and smooth. Go with Welas.” He finally instructed.
During the first week I moved bamboo poles from one place to another. We used tons of bamboos as the temporary support of the building and we got rid of them when we did not need them anymore. We were building a school called Akademi Pembangunan Masyarakat Desa (Academy of Rural Community Development). It was located outside Yogyakarta, Central Java. It was approximately seven miles from my boarding house. Some days, if I got too tired to bike back home, I would stay overnight in my empty boarding house. My mom did not like it when I did not come home. I had to explain to her why I did not go home.
When I received my first wage after working for two weeks, I showed the cash to her. My intention was to give the money to her. I insisted that she take the money. She left a bit for me so I could by a few packs of cigarettes. I was a heavy smoker at that time. I noticed the next day that my mom sent Auntie (Bulik) Biyem to the local traditional market, Kraguman market, to buy our daily needs such as rice, eggs, vegetables, chicken, etc. It was about two miles from our village. It made me smile to know that I had helped contribute to that.
One day I came to Om Welas. “May I work in a different area so that I can learn new skills?” He told me that he would find out. My next assignment was to assist a group of carpenters preparing the windows and the door for the school. Most of their tools were manual. Nowadays carpenters have more modern power tools. They asked me to measure the wood and mark it with a special pencil. The carpenters then review them and cut them. I enjoyed helping the carpenters build windows, doors, steps, fences, etc.
My summer job was only for four weeks. I wanted to stay for another week because I did not have to go back to campus yet. Sunar, the supervisor, said at the end of the day on Saturday that the company will no longer need unskilled workers. They kept the main workers who had the skills and relevant experience. So, I decided to spend the last week of my summer break with my family in rural Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia. My mom’s cooking is the best. | <urn:uuid:f4aef48b-9441-4dd5-afd1-a7acca1d9ca5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sulistyofamily.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/summer-job-my-mom-is-my-hero/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.988262 | 1,462 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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