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Short stories come in all shapes and sizes, but most fall into one of two categories. There are the stories which are essentially tales, anecdotes, the kind you can imagine yourself re-telling. Others are atmospheric pieces in which the narrative line is muted. Maupassant, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Maugham and Angus Wilson were masters of the first kind, Chekhov, Pritchett, Hemingway and William Trevor of the second. Of course, the distinction is neither clear nor fixed; the two types of story overlap, but it is still worth bearing in mind.
Bernard MacLaverty is a master of the second sort of story, writing it better than almost anyone else. By that I mean I can’t think of anyone who does it better, not even Alice Munro, one of the few to have won the Nobel for a body of work principally composed of short stories. MacLaverty could well follow her. He would surely be a more worthy winner than some recent recipients of the prize.
MacLaverty is a poet of loneliness, of people making do in hard times. Born and reared in Northern Ireland, he has lived most of his adult life in Scotland, viewing his divided homeland from a short distance with an acute and sympathetic perspective. He is alert to prejudice, but, like Alexander McCall Smith, values the kindness that can deflect it. In the last story here a poor Catholic labourer who makes such a living as he can by doing odd jobs and fashioning walking-sticks, contracts septicaemia when a thorn pricks his wrist. The doctor, a pillar of the Orange Order, is at a loss. But it is wartime and there is an American camp nearby. He tells its chief medical officer of his dying patient. The American has a supply of the new wonder drug, penicillin and procures some, against regulations. The American himself is prejudiced, having no time for the Black troops in the camp. But duty and humanity prevail.
Kindness is at the heart of the first story too. It too is set in wartime, 1941. A mother has heard that her son’s ship has been torpedoed and sunk. It is believed there are no survivors. She us falling apart, her distress portrayed with tender sympathy. Then her niece returns from the cinema to say that the newsreel showed some rescued sailors arriving in Galway and she thinks, though the image wasn’t clear, that one was her cousin Frank. The mother sets out for the cinema, hoping there will be a second house. But all is darkness, the only person there being the manager who is closing up. She tells her story and he agrees, out of kindness, to run the newsreel for her, though it is a long time since he acted as a projectionist.
There are two stories, “Soup Mix” and “Wandering” which, though different in tone and content, both address the problem experienced by so many of coping with or caring for a mother in advancing stages of dementia. They are notable not only for the adult children’s sense of responsibility, but also for MacLaverty’s understanding of how the demented parent is a burden, an impediment to the daily life of the offspring. It’s no surprise that the daughter of one takes on more responsibility than the son of the other – though MacLaverty does not condemn him for his more perfunctory attention. He lives and works in another country, his attendance on his mother being therefore occasional.
There is not a dud in this collection. Each story demands the reader’s close attention. Each invites a second reading which in every case will deepen one’s understanding. There is humour in most of them too, even if it is sometimes the humour that comes from the sad and weary recognition that this is how life is. MacLaverty has a fine sense of place and is excellent on weather, both ways of establishing a story’s mood. He has never been an author who sought the limelight, but by shedding a sympathetic light on difficult moments in people’s lives, he enriches our experience of each other.
Blank Pages, by Bernard MacLaverty, Jonathan Cape, 261pp, £14.99
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As the Ethiopian government works towards revitalising higher education to meet growing demand by boosting investment in education under the country’s Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP), India, with its long experience in the education sector, could help invest in Ethiopia, officials state.
This was stated at a three-day international seminar on “India and Africa: Developmental Experiences and Bilateral Cooperation”, and the Sixth Doctoral Scholar International Conference in African Studies that started here Monday.
The three-day seminar is being organized by the Wolkite University of Ethiopia in collaboration with the Policy Research Institute of African Studies Association (PRI-ASA) of India and the Centre for African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
“This seminar can contribute ideas or innovations in this field so that we can incorporate this officially to the second phase of the GTP that we are now preparing”, Admasu Shibru, president of Wolkite University, told IANS.
“It is very important for us to realise the educational vision and transform the socio-economic situation of this country even as we are trying to benchmark all possible innovations in terms of developing each sector.”
The seminar under the theme of “Development, Diaspora and International Relations of African Countries” is being attended by academicians from India as well as the business community, civil society organisations and NGOs from Ethiopia.
“The very important thing that we are doing today is establishing the collaboration so we are just starting and once it is established we have to continue strengthening by shaping the partnership strategies that we are going to have,” Shibru further stated.
“This conference that has brought experts from across the world will explore the various faces of their bilateral cooperation from different paradigms,” said Aparajita Biswas, president of ASA, Mumbai.
“It is not only contributing to the global discourse on India and Africa but it will hopefully alter the existing narratives of this complex relation,” she said.
“This initiative is certainly the beginning of a fruitful relationship between ASA India and Wolkite University as we can work together for an enriching partnership to promote the exchange of the knowledge and people across the Indian ocean.”
India is known for its knowledge economy, it is known for its contribution to the world economy in areas of knowledge in modern science and technology and in social science and literary writing, says Dubey, director of Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai.
“Exposing them to African countries and establishing interaction with them will enrich their own experience as well as give access to African academics and help postgraduate students link up and see developing countries’ academics how they are seeing the world and how the situations are in similar paradigms,” he said.
“Different countries were confronting almost similar issues of development, proper action in healthcare and negotiating globalisation from a developing country’s perspective”.
According to Dubey, India’s policy on Africa needs to first look at the basic educational sectors. “As a knowledge-based economy, our scientists, our academicians, and our literary writers are making a difference all over the world. Therefore, it gives an opportunity to share this experience with Africa and the world”, he asserted.
This seminar that has so far been organized every two years was previously held in Kenya along with the University of Nairobi and in Durban, South Africa.
“Seminars like this have the power to fill the serious lack of academic interaction amongst academicians and scholars of India and Africa,” a participant of the seminar told IANS.
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Non-starchy veggies, nonetheless, could be loved in large portions. Like with tea, it’s what you add to your brew that issues most. For adults, as much as four hundred milligrams (mg) per day of caffeine is taken into account secure, based on the Mayo Clinic. For reference, 1 cup — 8 fluid ounces (oz) — of espresso accommodates about ninety two mg, per the USDA, while a tall coffee at Starbucks contains 245 mg, in accordance with the company website. You may as nicely get different well being advantages while going keto.
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New research indicates increased pessimism around race relations progress, despite positive trends toward awareness of systemic racism
TORONTO, November 3, 2021— The results of a nationwide survey conducted by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) and the Environics Institute for Survey Research and sponsored by Pfizer Canada, confirm the reality and scope of racism in Canada and its effects on Canada’s racialized population. While most Canadians feel that race relations both in the country and in their local community are generally good, they are less likely to believe this than two years ago. This worsening perspective is most significant for Black Canadians (49% of whom now say race relations are generally good, down 23% from 2019), and just over half of Indigenous Peoples (51%) are least likely to describe race relations in Canada as generally good.
The survey also reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to increasing anti-Asian sentiment, with many who are Chinese, South Asian, or with other Asian backgrounds reporting racially-motivated harassment in the form of people acting uncomfortably around them, being subjected to slurs and jokes, and fearing someone might threaten or physically attack them. Some also say other people have gone out of their way to express support since the pandemic began. Such experiences – both positive and negative – are as likely to be reported by Canadians who are Black or First Nations for whom such treatment has been a more persistent experience. Notably, a majority (59%) of Canadians recognize that the pandemic has led to rising discrimination against Chinese people, but fewer believe this has affected those who are South Asian (38%) or East or Southeast Asian (26%).
The Race Relations in Canada 2021 survey is a follow-up to the inaugural Race Relations in Canada survey conducted by CRRF and the Environics Institute in 2019 and documents Canada’s progress on issues related to racial discrimination across the country. This research is the most comprehensive of its type in Canada, and captures the opinions, perceptions, and lived experiences of the country’s major racial-cultural groups and how they are evolving over time.
“We’re honoured to have supported this research by the CRRF, which revealed many important insights about the existing inequities in the treatment of racialized Canadians within the healthcare system,” said Cole C. Pinnow, President, Pfizer Canada. “It is clear that there is much work to be done to address this and we are here to help as partners. At Pfizer, we live by the value of equity, which means that we believe everyone deserves to be seen, heard, and cared for.”
The survey shows that discrimination and mistreatment because of one’s race is a common experience, with one in five Canadians reporting this happens to them regularly or from time to time. Not surprisingly, such experiences are most widely reported by those who are Black (57%) or First Nations (45%), but also among those who are South Asian (48%), Chinese (40%), East or Southeast Asian (40%), Métis (36%), or those with other racialized backgrounds (35%).
Over the past two years, an increasing number see the problem as stemming from systemic inequities in the country’s laws and institutions rather than individual prejudice. As well, there is a growing belief – among both racialized and non-racialized Canadians, that people of colour are treated less fairly in specific settings and circumstances, especially when dealing with the police, but also in the workplace, in the courts, in stores, and restaurants, and when receiving health care services.
“This research documents increasing awareness and acknowledgment of the reality of systemic racism among non-racialized Canadians since 2019,” comments Keith Neuman, the lead researcher at the Environics Institute. “This is a positive development in that meaningful change toward racial equity and justice requires expanding recognition of this reality across the population.”
There are significant gaps when it comes to how police treat one’s own ethnic or racial group. Only one-third of those who are Black (26%) or First Nations (33%) rate police highly on this dimension, compared to non-racialized Canadians (73%). The public is divided on whether police need to do a better job of what they currently do (40%) or require a fundamental change in how they operate (32%), with the latter position most widely voiced by those who are First Nations, Black or South Asian.
“Events like the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent anti-Asian racism born from it, as well as the global protests spawned from the murder of George Floyd, exposed the long-simmering trauma that many racialized communities have felt for years, and this report confirms that,” said Mohammed Hashim, Executive Director of CRRF. “While increased awareness on the domino effect of systemic racism in Canada is a good thing, the results of this poll show that progress has been slow and that there is much to be done to create systemic reforms to make Canadian communities more equitable for all.”
The 2021 Race Relations in Canada report research consisted of a survey conducted online between May 13 and June 11, 2021, with a sample of 3,698 Canadians ages 18 and over. The sample was stratified to ensure representation by province, age, and gender, and included over-samples of individuals who self-identify as Chinese, Black, South Asian, East or Southeast Asian, or Indigenous (First Nations, Métis or Inuit).
The Canadian Race Relations Foundation was created in 1996 to reaffirm the principles of justice and equality for all in Canada. The mandate of the Foundation is to facilitate throughout Canada the development, sharing, and application of knowledge and expertise to contribute to the elimination of racism and all forms of racial discrimination in Canadian society.
About the Environics Institute:
The Environics Institute for Survey Research was established in 2006 to promote relevant and original public opinion and social research on important issues of public policy and social change. It is through such research that organizations and individuals can better understand Canada today, how it has been changing, and where it may be heading.
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Why do you do what you do?
I want to make a difference for people and my job gives me the perfect opportunity to do just that. In my research programme, I want to create technologies that help engineers solve challenging new problems, do things that have never been done before, or understand things that they previously couldn’t understand, such as non-linear vibration or rotating machinery. I like teaching because I get to interact with students when they are at a crossroads in their lives, deciding what they will be and what contribution they will make to the world. I want to inspire them to aim higher – to tackle difficult concepts, learn new things, and be good people.
“I like teaching because I get to interact with students when they are at a crossroads in their lives, deciding what they will be and what contribution they will make to the world.” Matt Allen Associate Professor, Engineering Physics Department, University of Wisconsin
What are the unique challenges you face in your work?
Trying to solve extremely difficult problems in non-linear dynamics, problems that others have worked on for years and not solved, by bringing together new methods to tackle these problems.
Company and Job Title: Associate Professor, Engineering Physics Department, University of Wisconsin
2001 – 2005: PhD/MS in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
1994 – 1995,1998 – 2001: BS in Mechanical Engineering: Magna Cum Laude, Brigham Young University
2005 – 2006: Postdoctoral Appointee, Sandia National Laboratories
2000 – 2001: Patterned fibre composites/New Revolution Golf, carbon fibre composite test and design engineer.
In his free time, Prof. Allen enjoys downhill skiing, hiking, mountain biking and he recently took up small boat sailing.
What are the most challenging things about what you do?
Research is extremely difficult. We are competing with brilliant people all over the world to be the first to solve hard problems. But when we succeed it is really rewarding. For example, I began working on non-linearities due to bolted joints 10 years ago. We would try to simulate basic finite element models with bolted joints and the computations took a long time, even on a computer cluster. When the simulations were finally done, we found that the response looked a lot like that of a linear system. Now, 10 years later, we have methods that exploit the quasi-linearity of these systems to estimate the dynamic response in fractions of a second. We can now thoroughly probe these models to understand how the joints may affect a structure.
Similarly, in 2006, we began to revisit substructuring methods that had been proposed since the 1960s as a way to experimentally model substructures and combine experimental models with finite element models. We found a new way of coupling subcomponents that made them much more robust to measurement errors and allowed us to couple subcomponents even when the interface between them was continuous.
This is now called the transmission simulator method and is beginning to be used by researchers all over the US and Europe.
What is your greatest achievement and why?
Perhaps the transmission simulator method mentioned above – it has had the broadest impact so far on the community. The method of “quasi-static modal analysis” (mentioned above for joints) is also becoming significant.
But the highest satisfaction comes from my interactions with students and seeing them go on to do great things. That isn’t really my achievement but theirs.
Any personal ambitions?
Yes, tons! There is still so little we can do to experimentally probe and understand non-linear systems. There are some good methods, but all are limited to certain types of systems and none is all that effective for the common non-linearities that we encounter in industry. The same could be said for simulation of non-linear systems. Methods exist but they are slow (computationally expensive) and don’t provide the insight that we’d like.
What are the best and worst decisions you have ever made?
Best: marrying my wife and having two children, accepting a post-doc position at Sandia and accepting a job at UW-Madison. Worst: saying yes to far too many things!
What’s your latest project?
Bolted joints (see below) and a project on non-linearities of aircraft skin panels.
Tell us a bit about your work with NASA’s Loads and Dynamics technical team at the NASA Engineering & Safety Center.
I am part of an oversight team that considers all the testing and analysis that is done for the new space launch system and other programmes. We seek to assure that the best methods are being used and that work is done well, so we can assure the safety of astronauts and the success of the programme. I interact with some of the most brilliant aerospace engineers in the world and have enjoyed seeing how they think about difficult problems regarding loads and the linear and non-linear dynamics of launch vehicles.
The most recent IMAC tagline was, “It’s not just modal anymore”. What are the trends in tools, test methods, and simulation now and in the future?
I think that being able to address non-linearity is big. Most people don’t believe that modes exist for non-linear systems, but we’ve found this concept to be really useful. I think that modal analysis – test, analysis, etc., continues to be a big challenge in industry. Non-linear simulation is becoming much more commonplace – we need corresponding test methods and to really understand what non-linear simulation means for a design. We can collect far more information – high spatial resolution with LDV or DIC – and we need to know how to really use this more effectively to answer important questions. | <urn:uuid:f5b33247-65eb-4783-8053-d9e6ace68511> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bksv.com/de/knowledge/blog/perspectives/dynamic-problem-solver | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957018 | 1,203 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Increased use of natural gas in the Asia-Pacific region could bring substantial local and global benefits. Countries in the region could take advantage of newly abundant global gas supplies to diversify their energy mix; the United States, awash in gas supplies thanks to the fracking revolution, could expand its exports; and climate change could slow as a result of gas displacing coal in rapidly growing economies.
However, many Asian countries have not fully embraced natural gas. In previous decades, the United States and Europe both capitalized on low gas prices by investing in infrastructure to transport and store gas and by creating vibrant gas trading systems. By contrast, Asian countries have not invested in infrastructure, nor have they liberalized gas markets. Strict regulations, price controls, and rigid contracts stifle gas trading. The window of opportunity for making the transition to gas is closing, as slowing Asian energy demand and copious global supplies are reducing prices and discouraging global investment in infrastructure for gas trading and distribution. If supply dries up, prices could increase markedly, making gas unattractive to Asian countries, especially when compared to coal.
Still, this scenario is not inevitable. If global gas demand increased modestly over the next decade, raising prices enough for production to be profitable but not so much that consumption became unaffordable, Asian countries could invest in infrastructure and enact reforms to enable a large increase in gas consumption. However, because of sluggish global economic growth, the Asia-Pacific region itself is the only plausible source of an initial uptick in new gas demand that can support a sustained surge.
A simulation of global gas markets finds that a 25 percent increase in gas demand in both China and India, compared with current market forecasts, could help stabilize prices. The 25 percent increase would represent just a 2.9 percent increase in global demand but would be enough to boost Asian gas prices by more than 20 percent over the next decade. Such an increase in demand is plausible in both China and India, because they are large and growing economies that use relatively little gas today as a share of their energy mix and are motivated to use more gas to displace the burning of coal, which causes air pollution. At the same time, because China is the world’s largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and India is the third-largest and fastest-growing source, gas use that replaces coal would slow global GHG emissions.
Such demand increases are not necessarily favorable for U.S. strategic interests. Still, the United States stands to gain more than it loses by promoting a transition to gas in the Asia-Pacific. Whether the initial increase in gas demand materializes will depend largely on domestic policy decisions—for example on infrastructure investment or on caps on local gas prices—in China and India. The United States can encourage Chinese and Indian governments to make these decisions by providing technical assistance to implement reforms and recommending that international institutions provide financial assistance. U.S. policymakers should also coordinate competing proposals from China, Japan, and Singapore to establish a thriving gas trading hub. Finally, to secure the environmental benefits of a transition to gas, the United States should develop best practices for measuring and minimizing methane leakage from natural gas infrastructure built in the region. | <urn:uuid:9a9270dd-72d7-408c-a164-a06aa1ae8261> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cfr.org/report/increasing-use-natural-gas-asia-pacific-region | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.93585 | 658 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Kids teach = kids learn
In VIVITA kids and youth accelerator, during technology-, science and creative workshops kids both learn from and teach other VIVITA members aka Vivinauts — kids aged 9–14.
School holidays are a great time to try something new and exciting, both for children, parents and all family-friendly businesses. Georg Ots Spa Hotel in Saaremaa, Kuressaare, is undoubtedly one of the most popular places in Estonia among families. GOSPA boldly says that they love everyone, big and small, spa lovers, and everyone who has even once partaken of their hospitality will probably agree with that.
A special part of what GOSPA offers is without a doubt the children’s program during school holidays, especially considering younger spa visitors. Their workshops include exciting activities such as crafts, cooking, exciting sports activities etc. While the parents are enjoying the spa pleasures, the children get to have an exciting time in the workshops.
GOSPA approached VIVITA with a proposal to bring technology, science and creativity workshops to Saaremaa during the school holidays. In order to approach the children’s program in a VIVITA-like way, we agreed that VIVITA members, aka vivinauts, could also be the facilitators of the workshops. The VIVITA team only had a supporting and technical role while conducting the workshops.
At VIVISTOP Telliskivi studio, we have repeatedly experienced how well the learning process works, when children pass on skills and knowledge to other children. Receiving information and knowledge is quite different if it is received from peers vs. authorities such as teachers, parents. Peers share similar knowledge, use of language and also challenges. Thereby, it is easier to understand what is being said. However, for a child who conducts a workshop and shares his knowledge, it is a great opportunity to consolidate knowledge and gain essential skills for the future in public speaking. It is also helpful to get a good experience in expressing his thoughts clearly at an early age. Furthermore, it’s a great way to build children’s self-confidence, showing that you don’t have to wait until adulthood to share your skills and knowledge with others.
The workshops were conducted by four vivinauts: Karolin (12), Lydia Maria (14), Heloise (12) and Olivia (10). The workshops took place with pre-registration, where ten children from the age of 8 could register for each workshop.
VIVITA inventor science workshop — Colour-changing lemonade
Vivinaut Karolin (12) has previously conducted several science workshops, one of her and other children’s favourites is the colour-changing lemonade science workshop. During the one-hour-long workshop, the participants made their own lemonade and then tried to see if the colour of the lemonade could be changed. They also learned about the theory of mixing different colour shades. What happens when you mix blue and yellow? Is there any way to get the resulting colour back to blue? But what happens when you add “a little” too much of an ingredient? All this fun experimentation was accompanied by Karolin’s explanations of why the different reactions happened and the science behind this experiment.
VIVITA inventor’s creative workshop — Anime drawing workshop
Vivinaut Lydia (14)’s passion is drawing, especially in anime style. Lydia has started to create her own video game in the VIVITA Vista program, the characters of which are all drawn by her. Drawing in anime style was also very interesting to other kids. The workshop was quickly sold out and people were even added to the waiting list. During the workshop, Lydia taught step-by-step how to draw in anime style and everyone had the possibility to create the character they wanted in their sketch book. Since the kids took the sketch books to hotel room, it was very nice to see later in the restaurant and the hotel lobby, how they continued to draw, inspired by the workshop.
VIVITA inventor’s workshop — Fun science learning by making slime
The third science workshop was making slime, which is extremely popular among children. In the workshop, participants found out what is the science behind making slime. Vivinaut Karolin started conducting slime science workshops when she was 9 years old. Today she has started her Mastermind startup in the VIVITA Vista entrepreneurship program, which aims to make science learning through DIY and experimentation interesting for children. In the workshop, the children listened with interest to what a non-Newtonian fluid is, why slime sometimes flows and the next moment breaks etc. And then, under the guidance of Karolin, a perfect slime was made, which you can play with for a long time later, and most importantly — the slime according to this recipe does not stick to the carpet, nor does it stain anything during the game! When the slimes were ready, the children came up with different challenges, trying to find out whose slime stretches the best, whose slime bounces the best, or can the slime make a parachute?
VIVITA inventor’s design workshop — Designing and making unique tote bags using a digital cutter and heat press
Vivinauts Heloise (12) and Olivia (9) are sisters who are very fond of design and sewing. Olivia has previously conducted an online workshop for other vivinauts, teaching how to easily design a birthday card for a friend in the Canva program. In the workshop at GOSPA, Olivia taught how to create a unique design in the Canva program, which can then be cut out with a digital cutter under the guidance of Heloise and pressed on a tote bag using a heat press. Using the Canva program was the first time for most of the participants, but when you are guided by someone your own age, who thinks as similarly as you, and uses familiar words, designing in the new program is easy and logical. Using a digital cutter was also something completely new for the children, and everyone waited patiently for their turn, when Heloise explained how to cut out the finished design on the tablet and then transfer it straight to the bag.
VIVITA inventor’s science workshop —a weather phenomenon in a jar
In the next workshop, vivinaut Karolin took on the weather phenomena of clouds and rain. She showed how to easily create a cloud in an ordinary glass jar, while explaining how clouds are formed. Then, together, we explored how rain starts to fall from the clouds, and in the same way, all the participants in the workshop could try it themselves and make as colourful rain in the jar as their heart desired. The weather phenomenon workshop was very popular with the children. Creating and studying clouds was tried plenty of times. Later on, the children excitedly explained to their parents why clouds form and how rain starts to fall from the clouds. It was great to see that when another child explains scientific phenomena, everything seems somehow simple and logical!
In addition to the workshops conducted by vivinauts, VIVITA designers Vera and Joonas also got to teach new work methods and technology. The principles of engineering became clearer when looking at the construction of a simple Picking Chicken. The participants learned the principle of the crankshaft. By trying to build it themselves, they understood how important attention and precision are in a simple crankshaft mechanism.
Children’s natural playfulness and creativity took on a new dimension when a mini world was created by using a vacuum press. With the help of a vacuum press and tiny 3d printed objects, the figures were completed. The completed abstract forms were filled with a plaster mixture, and when the cast plaster had dried, the individual mini-worlds were ready! Perfectly suitable for Kuressaare, where GOSPA is located.
VIVITA’s mission is to increase children’s self-confidence and courage to fantasise and teach them the skills to implement their ideas and thereby create the future they would like to live in. We believe that creativity is the foundation of future innovators, entrepreneurs and change makers. Today’s children and young people are the generation under whose leadership we will see a positive change in the future. By giving children the opportunity to take a leadership role in their own world, we will already see brave, confident and responsible young people in the coming years.
The great success of the GOSPA workshops was also made possible by the help and professionalism of the GOSPA team — the entire organisation was smooth and even minor issues were quickly resolved. Many thanks Liisi, Marju and the whole background force! We also thank Elisa Eesti, whose tablets produced various designs!
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You do not need to crack the window of your vehicle while sleeping. Not only is air continually circulating, but there is also generally enough air inside the car to sustain someone for a long time. … Even so, for personal safety reasons, it is best only to open the window as far as necessary.
Can you sleep in a car overnight with the windows up?
You might be tempted to roll the windows all the way up. But that isn’t a good idea because the difference in temperature between your body and the air in the car will ultimately produce moisture that will complicate your attempts to stay warm.
Is it safe to sleep in your car while it’s on?
If you take a nap in your car with all the windows closed and the AC running, there is an increased risk that the same air will be recycled inside the vehicle, and fumes from the engine will make their way into the car through the cabin.
Can you suffocate from sleeping in a car?
If the mechanical features of the car are not up to par, the possibility of a leakage of the car’s exhaust into the vehicle’s cabin while a person is sleeping can further increase the risk of suffocation as it would lower the oxygen level inside the car, said Dr Shershad.
What are the rules for sleeping in your car?
Is it illegal to sleep in your car in California? According to the California State Department of Transportation, it is legal to sleep in your car in rest stops for up to eight hours. Cities and counties have varying laws, but most don’t allow sleeping in cars overnight.
How can I sleep in my car overnight?
Sleeping in a Car Safety Tips
- Text somebody your location before going to sleep. …
- Never park on the side of the road.
- Try to create a sleeping surface that is as flat and long as possible. …
- Do not leave the car running or leave the key in the “on” position overnight to use the climate control.
How much does it cost to crack a window sleeping in a car?
It doesn’t have to be much, though: For one person, a quarter-inch opening in one window is sufficient. (It doesn’t seem like enough, but I have learned from experience that it is.) If you fail to open a window, you might sleep okay for a couple of hours, but you’ll eventually wake up gasping for breath.
How long can you survive in a car with the windows up?
By the time that the carbon dioxide levels in the air that you breathe reach 15%, you’ll effectively die. Assuming the box is about 4 cubic metres, it would take about 16 hours or so. But you would actually start to feel ill and probably die a lot sooner than that.
Can you get carbon monoxide from sitting in your car?
Trouble comes when: Cars, trucks, or other engines are left running in enclosed spaces, such as garages. Carbon monoxide can build up in a garage and leak back into the house. Even sitting in an idling car in an open garage can be dangerous.
Is sleeping in a car warmer than a tent?
Tents are smaller in volume which means they can get warmer faster plus they have double the insulation. They also happen to be made of specific fabrics that keep it from getting as cold as the aluminum your car is made from. In short, it’s warmer to sleep in a tent.
Where is the safest place to sleep in your car?
Here are ways to stay safe when sleeping in your car:
- Park near a light pole.
- Park in the shade to help keep the car cooler.
- Avoid sleeping on the side of the road because it’s less safe, and you could get hit while parked.
- Bring any bikes or interesting belongings on an outside rack inside your vehicle if you can.
How cold is too cold to sleep in a car?
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PhD Label Mathematics in Economics and Business
The PhD Label Mathematics for Economics and Business provides a high level structured PhD education in the field of Mathematics in Economics and Business. The program is supported by the faculty of the Institute for Statistics and Mathematics at WU together with colleagues from Production and Supply Chain Management.
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Research within the label is interdisciplinary with a strong link to applications in economics, finance and business. Our scientific work covers the entire "mathematical production chain", ranging from model building and theoretical mathematical analysis to numerical implementation and statistical estimation of models.
Graduates have many opportunities. Potential employers include scientific institutions and public and private sector companies using mathematical and statistical tools such as regulators, financial institutions, consultancies or logistics and production companies.
Students within the label are in general predocs at WU and hence fully funded (but there are some teaching duties).
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MBABANE: Sisana Gumbi, a widow was allegedly assaulted at kaNgcamphalala Royal Kraal for taking the Chief and Umphakatsi to court after the traditional leaders interfered in the operations of a sugar-cane scheme.
Speaking to this Swaziland News, Gumbi, the Chairperson of Tikani Investments said she believed the traditional leaders were harassing her merely for being a woman, she had previously taken the authorities to court and later appealed a judgment by Justice Nkosinathi Maseko who sided with the Umphakatsi.
“I challenged them in court after they tried to interfere with the operations of our company that deals with sugar-cane schemes in the area, they tried to remove me by imposing the election of their friends into the Committee so they can benefit from the scheme, however, Judge Nkosinathi Maseko sided with them. We then appealed the judgment by Judge Maseko, however, I’m now receiving death threats and I was beaten at the Umphakatsi premises recently” she said.
Reached for comments, Asa Shongwe, the Indvuna of KaNgcamphalala umphakatsi asked to consult the area’s authorities before commenting.
“Can I please consult with Labadzala(elders) before commenting. I am an Indvuna and I cannot speak to the media about such issues without consulting”he said.
Speaking to this Swaziland News, Colani Hlatswako, the One Billion Rising Africa Regional Coordinator said cases of women who hold high positions in company schemes in the rural areas were escalating, she strongly condemned the harassment of Sisana Gumbi.
“We normally encourage women to occupy high positions but most of the time, they face harassment merely for being women. We encourage other women in the area and men who are against this to rise up and support Sisana. We will also make a follow-up to monitor her situation”, said the One Billion Rising Coordinator.
Eswatini, a tiny Kingdom situated in Southern Africa has about 70% of the population living below the poverty line, women's rights are disregarded by traditional leaders despite the existence of a Constitution that promotes same. Life is literally a struggle for most women in the rural areas who survive through subsistence farming, they are deprived their right to land by traditional leaders who disregard the Constitution while using the Swazi Law and Custom that undermine the rights of women on issues of land.
It has been disclosed that Judge Nkosinathi Maseko presided over a matter where Sisana Gumbi was challenging the Umphakatsi for conducting elections of the Tikani Investment with the aim of illegally removing her from her position as Chairperson.
She later ran to court to challenge the decision of the Royal Kraal, however, Judge Maseko ruled that the legitimate Commitee was the one supported by Umphakatsi saying the scheme was on Swazi Nation Land.
But Sisana Gumbi later appealed the judgment and won, she was later harassed by the traditional leaders and residents who wanted to remove her so they can benefit from the sugar-cane scheme.
“One of them even told me called me saying he will kill me so he can benefit from the shares in the scheme, I am now living in fear” she said.
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Posted on July 15, 2020
The Architecture of Indianapolis
Indianapolis is a unique place. Its identity is partially tied to its architecture. There is so much to see, so many sights to admire, especially for visitors. You have several reasons to love and appreciate Indianapolis architecture, including:
1). The Size
The structures in the city are renowned for their size. Admittedly, their impact has waned over the years as much larger structures have arisen elsewhere. However, some of Indianapolis’ gems were truly spectacular when they were first completed. One example is The World War Memorial Plaza. This is one of the best memorial created – not a death chamber.
When it was first constructed, there was no larger WWI memorial. You also have the West Baden Springs Hotel with its domed structure and the impressive concentration of Masonic temples in Downtown Indianapolis.
2). The Beauty
Indianapolis architecture isn’t renowned simply because of its size. The city has some of the most beautiful structures in the country. Just look at the Scottish Rite Cathedral which was designed to mirror some of Europe’s massive cathedrals. There is also the Museum of Arts which is guaranteed to take your breath away with its scenic landscapes.
3). The History
The city is filled with buildings and structures that encourage visitors to remember and appreciate the distant past and to reuse. For instance, Veterans Memorial Plaza’s aesthetic was copied from the funeral structures that Egyptian pharaohs favored.
The Tomb of King Mausolus (Halicarnassus) inspired architects to design the Indiana World War memorial. The Murat Temple also bears heavy Egyptian influences. Even if you know nothing about history, you cannot fail to enjoy the homage the city has chosen to pay to ancient cultures.
4). The Limestone
The beauty for which Indianapolis architecture is known can be partially blamed on the limestone exteriors which add an element of dignity and class to the city’s streets though not perfect protection against the elements. A multitude of churches, schools, and libraries feature Indiana’s famous Bedford limestone.
5). The Roman Buildings
Indiana had a lot of public buildings boasting a distinct Romanesque style. That is no longer the case. Many of these buildings have been torn down. However, a significant number has survived. Structures like the Union Railway Station are an amazing sight to behold.
Equally impressive are the Greek revival landmarks. The Greek Revival period did not have as lasting an impact on Indianapolis. But the few remnants of this period are a reminder of Indianapolis’ architectural ingenuity. One notable example is the mansion that Francis Costigan designed for James F.D. Lanier in 1844. You can still find the exquisite house in Madison, an Ohio River Town.
Along with the Italianate houses, Neo-Classical Public buildings, English Tudor, and Islamic Architecture, you would be hard-pressed to find a rival to Indianapolis architecture. Some specific places that you might want to see if you ever visit the city include:
1). Repertory Theater
Back in 1927, it was a movie palace and ballroom. It became a historical site in 1979. Today, the building is still standing strong. The concrete structure is six stories high with a 3,200-seat auditorium. Some of the building’s distinguishing marks include Spanish Baroque-inspired plaster ornamentation in the auditorium and a ballroom with an elliptical dorm.
2). Test Building
Another example of Indianapolis’s historical relevance, anyone with a fascination for 1920s architecture shouldn’t look any further than the Test building. It began as a six-story structure. It became a nine-story building later on. Like many of the city’s most notable buildings, this one uses Indiana limestone. It also manifests Neo-Classical elements.
3). City Market
The City market doesn’t sound like the most exciting of attractions but it is another example of memorable Indianapolis architecture. First of all, it has been around since 1886. Secondly, it was influenced by German styles of construction and design. It doesn’t have the original flanking towers and pilasters but what remains paints a decent picture of what they looked like centuries ago.
4). Old National Center
This is another ancient building that will transport visitors to a different era. The Old National Center has been around since 1884. The Freemasons founded it. The most impressive aspect of this structure is the Murat Theater. This is what most people come to see, along with the Egyptian Room. It is a special place, and not simply because it became the Freemason’s base of operations back in 1909.
5). Freemason’s Hall
This building also makes use of Indiana limestone. Though, that isn’t necessarily the reason for which it is known. The building is eight stories tall and it has everything from ballrooms to auditorium, and lodges. It came into existence in 1909 which is why it is historically relevant in the eyes of some people.
The design has been imputed to Rubush and Hunter Architects. They used Greek, Roman, and Neo-classical styles in their design.
6). Union Station
Union Station has been around since 1853. It was the first of its kind when it opened all those years ago. The granite and brick structure is charming, boasting brick arches, a massive rose window, and a clock tower that stands at 185 feet. It is a fascinating complex that deserves all the praise it gets.
7). Indiana State Library
The State Library (and Historical Bureau) is the state’s largest library. It was created in 1934. Over the years, it has accumulated quite the impressive collection of literary materials, including sixty thousand manuscripts, a million and a half images, and a thousand maps.
The Indiana Historical Bureau, which began as the Historical Commission, is housed within the State Library. Besides operating a gift shop, the bureau is concerned with placing new historical markers and educating people about the state’s history.
8). Circle Tower
This structure has a ziggurat peak. This is the building’s most notable element. It was constructed in 1930. The building’s appearance is further enhanced by the Indiana limestone that was used to make it. If you pay close attention, you will notice the Egyptian elements in the entrances.
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Let’s look at what is gothic literature, how supernatural elements can tie into gothic fiction, and explore the most famous examples of gothic literature.
From Frankenstein to Dracula, gothic literature is a mainstay of many college and high school English classrooms.
First introduced in the 1700s, gothic literature embodies supernatural, mystery, and horror themes. Since its inception, the genre has split into several sub-genres, including gothic romance. Authors and readers enjoy working to solve a mystery, especially when supernatural factors throw in an unexpected twist.
Some gothic authors are traditionally associated with gothic literature–such as Edgar Allen Poe and Mary Shelley–while others are typically associated with other literary genres. Some books, such as Jane Eyre, blend the genres of romance, gothic literature, and self-discovery.
Here, we’ll explore how gothic literature is defined, and we’ll take a look at a few of the most famous gothic novels and novellas.
- What Is Gothic Literature?
- Common Themes And Characteristics Of Gothic Literature
- Examples Of Gothic Literature
- 1. Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
- 2. Dracula By Bram Stoker
- 3. The Castle Of Otranto By Horace Walpole
- 4. Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
- 5. The Mysteries Of Udolpho By Ann Radcliffe
- 6. The Fall Of The House Of Usher By Edgar Allan Poe
What Is Gothic Literature?
Gothic literature is a type of European fiction that started in the 1700s. The name Gothic wasn’t originally associated with horror and gore; instead, it was simply a style of medieval architecture. Many gothic novels were set in old castles and monasteries, and the word gothic eventually became associated with mystery and horror.
The general aesthetic of fear, haunting, and mystery is associated with gothic literature and often allows events from the past to haunt the present.
Often, old buildings are used in gothic literature settings to create a sense of the past, with authors creating a claustrophobic, dark environment that lends itself to nervousness and anxiety. Gothic literature protagonists can be either male or female and are often highly relatable, encouraging readers to root for the main character as they work through terrifying scenarios and try to get to the root of the story’s problem.
Common Themes And Characteristics Of Gothic Literature
While the word gothic itself refers to a type of architecture, gothic literature often embodies the same themes as gothic buildings–dark, mysterious, morbid, and even criminal. Supernatural themes tend to permeate gothic literature. Readers may have an uneasy or eerie feeling as the story unfolds, blending elements of real-life and supernatural fiction to make it hard to figure out what’s real and what should be attributed to the supernatural.
Often, elements of witchcraft or wizardry are connected with gothic novels. While wizards and witches may not physically be present in gothic tales, spells and potions are often used to move gothic stories forward. Characters in gothic novels may have visions or dreams that predict the future or warn them of nefarious people who will enter their lives.
Gothic literature settings vary widely. Many gothic novels and novellas are set in Europe, where countless old castles and mansions are old. In the 1900s, some gothic novels began to occur in the Southern United States. Many horror stories written in America today continue to occur in this area.
Examples Of Gothic Literature
1. Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
“All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me.”
Frankenstein’s monster has gone down in history as one of the most recognizable gothic literature figures. Mary Shelley expertly uses the monster’s story to explore themes of ambition, life, and humanity while creating the first science-fiction novel. Shelley’s addition of fantastical elements opened the door for other authors to include supernatural scientific elements in their stories, creating a new world for readers to explore.
2. Dracula By Bram Stoker
When all was ready, Van Helsing said:—
“Before we do anything, let me tell you this; it is out of the lore and experience of the ancients and of all those who have studied the powers of the Un-Dead. When they become such, there comes with the change the curse of immortality; they cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world; for all that die from the preying of the Un-Dead becomes themselves Un-Dead, and prey on their kind. And so the circle goes on ever widening, like as the ripples from a stone thrown in the water.”
Plaguing the nightmares of many for centuries, the story of Dracula was based on European folktales and Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century prince of Romania. He eventually took on the name Dracula. The prince was known for torturing his victims, often driving a wooden stake through their bodies. Like many gothic authors, Stoker took real-world inspiration and combined it with fantastical elements to strike horror into the hearts of his readers.
3. The Castle Of Otranto By Horace Walpole
“But alas! my Lord, what is blood! what is nobility! We are all reptiles, miserable, sinful creatures. It is piety alone that can distinguish us from the dust whence we sprung, and whither we must return.”
Regarded by many literary experts as the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto was published in 1764. The general scene set in the book has remained the backdrop for many horror stories to this day. The book tells the tale of a cursed royal family dealing with the consequences of an ancient prophecy. A nightmare inspired the author that he had in his own home, a Gothic Revival building in London.
4. Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love – I have found you. You are my sympathy – my better self – my good angel – I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my center and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
Known as a gothic romance, Jane Eyre includes themes of belonging, love, family, religion, and the role that a belief in the spiritual and supernatural can play in a person’s life. While the story of Jane Eyre does delve into many of the elements typically associated with gothic novels, the coming-of-age tale also grapples with the struggle between desperately wanting the love of someone else and learning to love oneself unconditionally.
5. The Mysteries Of Udolpho By Ann Radcliffe
“A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”
One of the first gothic romances, The Mysteries of Udolpho, explores the life of Emily St. Aubert. As the protagonist works through her romantic life, she’s also faced with the death of her parents, moving across the country, and eventually having to live in a castle plagued with supernatural problems. In addition to both humorous and horrific takes on love and life, readers also enjoy seeing Emily eventually escape her difficult life in the arms of a secret lover.
6. The Fall Of The House Of Usher By Edgar Allan Poe
“It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled luster by the dwelling, and gazed down — but with a shudder even more thrilling than before — upon the re-modeled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.”
Known for his haunting poems and short stories, Edgar Allan Poe’s name is synonymous with gothic literature. The narrator believes that his friend’s home has taken on evil energy in the short story. Poe expertly describes the home’s environment and the strange events that happen inside during his visit. Both mysterious illnesses and changing personalities are complex for the narrator to explain, allowing the reader to move back and forth between the real world and Poe’s fantastical imagination.
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Often when people think about their gardens, they think about the bloom time and the flowers. However, there is much more to a cohesive and inspiring garden. The textures and colors of each planting are one of the most important aspects to consider when designing a garden. It is the repeating of texture and color that can tie the garden together as a whole.
Colors play a role in everyone’s lives. People have their own favorite color as well as colors they can’t stand. It is important to think of those factors when creating a garden because you do not want to create any negative connotations with something beautiful you just created. So really take the time to understand what colors you really love or what colors bring joy or add calmness. Those colors are the ones you need to include in your garden. There are specific plantings that add subtlety or the feeling of groundedness which can evoke certain moods while you are outside. Those colors would be some of the lighter colors such as pastels, purple, lavender, etc. Other colors such as orange and yellow or bright colors can give you the feeling of joy or sunshine and make you happy. Depending on what you are looking to take from your garden, whether it be a place that makes you happy or a place you are looking to relax, choosing the correct colors is the basis to achieve those moods.
The texture of plants and leaves is also another important aspect to consider. If all you have are green leaves, they can blend into each other giving a dull, emotionless look to your space. Focus on the leaves when thinking about texture. However, mixing needled evergreens, lavenders and sedums add character and dimension. Gives your eyes more to look at so you will never get bored in your garden. Just like colors, the more variety you have the better (however not too much). It turns a boring space into a multi-dimensional area that brings out the best in you. | <urn:uuid:3793e3d4-3bbe-472c-bd5c-cbeb9074d807> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.moodscapesdesign.com/texture-and-color-gardens | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.961967 | 402 | 2.1875 | 2 |
The current study investigated links between students' level of perceived challenge (being over- or underchallenged) and students' career aspirations. We hypothesized indirect effects of over- and underchallenge on career aspirations via academic self-concept and academic trait boredom and tested our hypotheses in a sample of N = 662 Swiss eleventh grade students in the domains of German, French, and mathematics. Our results were consistent across all three domains and showed that being overchallenged had a negative impact on academic self-concept. Lower academic self-concept, in turn, was associated with decreased career aspirations. Being underchallenged enhanced academic self-concept, which was positively related to students' career aspirations. Further, both being over- and underchallenged enhanced students' domain-specific boredom experiences resulting in a decrease in their career aspirations. As such, the effect of being underchallenged was of particular importance as its influence on career aspirations via academic trait boredom was negative, whereas via academic self-concept there was a positive indirect effect. | <urn:uuid:57c2b523-29ca-43d0-8b55-798bd5108a28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/170991/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.981302 | 208 | 1.632813 | 2 |
April 30, 2022
In the spring of 1890, Republicans were convinced they would win the upcoming midterm elections.
Thanks to their management of the economy, they insisted, the United States was on its way to becoming the most advanced nation in the world. Technology had brought new products to the country—bananas, for example—and upwardly mobile Americans had enough leisure time and money to celebrate weddings with special dresses and cakes, and to give their children toys on their birthday. Massive factories like that of industrialist Andrew Carnegie in Homestead, Pennsylvania, churned out steel to make buildings like Chicago’s Home Insurance Building, completed in 1885, its 10 stories making it so astonishingly high it could only be called a “skyscraper.”
This innovation was possible, Republicans believed, because they had protected the ability of men like Carnegie to run their businesses as they saw fit. With tariff laws guaranteeing that domestic industries would not have to compete with foreign products, businessmen could both innovate and collude with their colleagues to raise prices, bringing profits that would enable them to develop their businesses further. That development paid the country in jobs, permitting all Americans to enjoy a rising standard of living.
Indeed, Carnegie wrote in 1889, “Individualism, Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition” were the very height of human achievement. While the new economy created great disparities of wealth, he thought those differences were inevitable and a good thing. The money flowing up to the top meant that the country’s wealthiest men could build libraries and concert halls and universities and art collections to raise the cultural standards of the whole country.
Newspapers celebrated the leading industrialists as the nation’s heroes, and Republicans took credit for creating the environment for them to work their magic. Across the country, men served by the new economy cheered on its leaders.
But plenty of Americans could see that the nation was not in the rosy shape Republicans claimed. On shop floors in eastern factories, workers shoveled coal or worked looms for fourteen to sixteen hours a day for pennies, and if their health broke down or they lost a limb, they were out of both work and luck. In the West, rains had failed for five years, and the hot winds baked crops dry in two days. “This would be a fine country if only it had water,” a hopeful farmer said in a western joke. “Yes, and so would hell,” was the punch line. Farmers were saddled with high-interest mortgages, middlemen who skimmed the profits when crops went to market, and freight charges from railroad monopolies that took the rest.
To those asking for the government to address the needs of workers and farmers, Carnegie said: “The Socialist or Anarchist who seeks to overturn present conditions is to be regarded as attacking the foundation upon which civilization itself rests.”
In the summer of 1890, Republican lawmakers, too, pushed back on those criticizing their pro-business policies. Hardworking farmers were doing just fine, they said; reports of high mortgages that farmers couldn’t repay were “a libel upon the thrift and economy, as well as the honesty and intelligence of the Western farmer.” Those few farmers who really were in trouble had only themselves to blame. They had “extravagant notions,” rejecting pork and potatoes in favor of chicken and angel food cake.
Ultimately, farmers were lazy, wanting “a sort of paternal government” to take care of them. President Benjamin Harrison assured an audience in Topeka, Kansas, that life was made up of averages, and that their poor year should not dash their hopes for the future (although he didn’t have any suggestions for how they should feed themselves in the meantime).
Far from the policy struggles of the Republicans and Democrats back East, in the summer of 1890, a new movement began, quietly, to take shape. In western towns, workers and poor farmers and entrepreneurs shut out of opportunities by monopolies began to talk to each other. They discovered a shared dismay over a government that seemed to work only for the rich industrialists, and anger that they seemed to be working themselves to the bone only to have the fruits of their labor taken by the rich. “Wall Street owns the country,” western organizer Mary Elizabeth Lease told audiences. “It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.”
Westerners suffering in the new economy began to come together. Reviving older Farmers’ Alliances, they distributed literature across the country explaining how tariffs worked and how railroad monopolies jacked up prices. Existing newspapers began to echo their arguments, and where there weren’t local newspapers, Alliance members began to print them.
They offered a different vision of the country’s political economy, defending the idea that the government should treat everyone equally. Alliances declared that they shared the same interests as workers, and called for “the reform of unjust systems and the repeal of laws that bear unequally upon the people.”
They also redefined what it meant to be a success in America. Rather than the cutthroat individualism of those like Carnegie, they called for reviving an older tradition, one in which “manliness” meant honesty, generosity, community-mindedness, and dignity. They called for “a manly, honest defense of popular rights, a clear cut expression of principles, a bold demand for the restoration of that of which they have been despoiled under the deceitful forms and names of law.” Their emphasis on reason and honorable conduct meant that they rejected the era’s political fights for dominance, and so there was room in their political coalition for women and often, despite the era’s Jim Crow walls, for Black farmers.
Those who listened to this movement were not radicals. They didn’t want to change the American system so much as return it to its traditional promise of equality before the law and equality of access to resources. Their solution to the industrialists’ control of the government was to require direct election of senators—so industrialists could not buy up legislatures to pick the man the industrialist wanted—regulation of railroads, lower tariffs, a graduated income tax, easier credit, better working conditions, and higher wages.
Back east, politicians were aware enough of the rising anger that Republican leaders prodded President Harrison himself into a western tour—“It will be a tiresome trip and I… dread it,” the president wrote—but they weren’t terribly concerned. They weren’t reading the new newspapers or going to the picnics and barbecues. They dismissed news about the growing groundswell as impossible.
They missed the major political story of the year.
While congressmen and eastern newspapers fought over every scrap of Washington political gossip, western farmers and workers and entrepreneurs had organized. New newspapers, letters, barbecues, lectures, and picnics had done their work, educating those on the peripheries of politics about the grand issues of the day. When the votes were counted after the November 1890 election, the Alliances had carried South Dakota and almost the whole state ticket in Kansas, and they held the balance of power in the Minnesota and Illinois legislatures. In Nebraska and Iowa, they had split the Republicans and given the governorship to a Democrat. They controlled 52 seats in the new Congress, enough to swing laws in their direction.
While the Alliance movement itself wouldn’t last, its demands would shape not only the laws of the Progressive Era, including the graduated income tax, the direct election of senators, and the regulation of business, but also the concept of “manliness.” President Theodore Roosevelt, who spent his life defining what it meant to be a powerful man, worked to defend ordinary Americans from the overreach of corporations, and to use the government to help everyone rather than a select few.
This letter is for the musician I met this week whose work takes her all over the country. She said that in her travels lately she feels something powerful building under the radar, and asked me if such a thing had ever happened before.
The Carnegie quotations are from The Gospel of Wealth (1889). The political history of the Farmers’ Alliance is well-covered, including in two of my own books, but the material on how its members focused on a new kind of masculinity is from Gregg Cantrell, The People’s Revolt: Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism. Here’s a link to an interview with him about it: https://magazine.tcu.edu/summer-2021/gregg-cantrell-texas-populist/ | <urn:uuid:701f940e-319b-40bf-82d6-4c155a4bf2e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-30-2022?s=r | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.978923 | 1,844 | 2.875 | 3 |
A gout diet may help reduce uric acid levels in the blood. A gout diet isn’t a cure, but it may lower the risk of recurring gout attacks and slow the progression of joint damage. People with gout who follow a gout diet generally still need medications to manage pain and lower levels of uric acid.
A gout diet is intended to help you:
Gout is a painful form of arthritis that occurs when high levels of uric acid in the blood cause crystals to form and accumulate in the joint. Uric acid is made when the body breaks down a chemical known as purine. Purine occurs naturally in your body, but it is also found in certain foods. Uric acid is removed from the body in urine.
The main principles of a gout diet follow typical healthy-diet recommendations such as:
Obesity increases the risk of developing gout. Losing weight lowers the risk of gout. A study suggests that decreasing the number of calories and losing weight lower uric acid levels and lessen the times of gout attacks. Losing weight also lessens the overall stress on joints.
A good gout diet will help you lose weight and maintain a healthy weight, which is important because being obese increases the risk of having frequent gout attacks.
HCG Diet is a very low-calorie diet plan meant for weight loss and maintenance of the immune system in the body. The HCG diet is targeted towards losing weight by following a certain plan. The first phase of the HCG diet plan lasts between 26 and 43 days.
HCG is administered along with a strict diet during this phase. Dietary loading and HCG injections are part of the first two days. On day 3, a 500-calorie diet is started which continues until the end of the phase. The HCG phase will end 3 days before the end of the phase so the 500-calorie diet can continue until the HCG is completely gone from the body.
Within the next three weeks, you will eat a regular diet, except you will avoid sugars and starches. The third phase involves adding sugars and starches slowly over 3 weeks. You can expect to lose 0.5 – 0.75 pounds/day for women or 0.65 – 1 pound/day for men if you follow strict guidelines.
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A New Day
The Democratic president-elect's victory against Republican Senator John McCain is being called "a day shimmering with history" by The New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune says Tuesday, November 4 was a time to marvel at a "once inconceivable moment."
A supporter from the beginning, Oprah says President-elect Obama's election marks a new day for America. "May I just say, for those of you who have been loyal viewers who voted differently than I—and 52 percent of the country—did I respect your choice and understand how you might be feeling somewhat disappointed today," she says. "So I do understand. But my deepest hope is that in the days and weeks ahead, we will all come together with the same renewed spirit that we took to the polls, because we need each other now more than ever."
Throughout the past nearly two years of campaigning, Oprah says she vowed not to use her show as a platform. "So I kept my mouth shut and supported Barack Obama as a private citizen," she says. "Today, though, the election is over—and I'm unleashed!"
Although she arrived with Gayle and Stedman, Oprah says she ended up crying on someone else's shoulder. "Friends called me around the country and said, 'Who was with you?' I said, 'I don't know him, but he was very nice to me,'" Oprah says. "At one point I was just sobbing on his shoulder, mascara everywhere."
"Thank you, Mr. Man, for letting me cry on your shoulder."
Photo: Associated Press/Morry Gash
Oprah says for her, that was the highlight of the night. "That was my favorite moment because he is a unifier," Oprah says. "He will unify and bring [this] country together. Can't wait for all the possibilities."
U.S. Rep. Lewis is an American hero who's had a front-row seat to history, marching alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement. He also just won re-election for his 12th congressional term.
Election night was one of the most moving moments of his life, U.S. Rep. Lewis says. "I had what I call an out-of-body experience. I jumped so high, I started shouting, I was at Ebenezer Church and I just embarrassed myself. I was just overcome," he says. "It reminded me of all of the struggle, all of the pain and suffering. And to see this day come, it was just too much."
The long lines to vote on Election Day reminded U.S. Rep. Lewis of the first time South Africans got to vote and elected Nelson Mandela president. U.S. Rep. Lewis says he also thought about Dr. King. "The days that we marched on Washington in 1963. The time that we marched in Selma for the right to vote. When we stood in those immovable lines that people had to pass a so-called literacy test," he says. "And there were hundreds and thousands of black Americans in the heart of the Deep South never had an opportunity to register and to vote."
A longtime friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, U.S. Rep. Lewis publicly shifted his support to President-elect Obama midway through the campaign. "It was very difficult for me," he says. "But I had what I called an 'executive session' with myself, and I saw the Barack Obama campaign as a movement. It was very similar to the civil rights movement, and I said I wanted to be on the right side of history, and that's why I made that change."
The 2008 presidential campaign wasn't just a political movement—U.S. Rep. Lewis says it was also spiritual. "It was something about this man,"he says. "I felt that Barack Obama had been tracked down by the spirit of history and was aligning himself to be used for the common good."
Watching President-elect Obama's speech, David says he was reminded of Dr. King's last speech in Memphis before his assassination. In that speech, Dr. King spoke of the Promised Land but said he might not reach it with his followers. "And Barack Obama, this young man, comes along and calls Martin Luther King the Moses of our time. And now this is the Joshua generation that he's heading up," David says. "Just as it was with King and John Lewis and others who marched, and they were so young and changed the nation, now along comes a new generation, a fresh generation that offers new hope."
As evidence of generational change, David points to election results among young voters. "Four years ago the Democrats won the young vote—that is, between 18 and 29—they won it by about 9 percent," he says. "Yesterday the Democrats, Barack Obama, won the youth vote by 32 percent."
David says President-elect Obama's victory is truly a step forward for our entire nation. Growing up in the '60s in North Carolina, David says he witnessed firsthand the positive effects the civil rights era had on culture. "What I learned then is something that Lincoln said way back earlier: That when one group advances in this country, we all advance," he says. "I can't tell you how much of a debt we in the South owe to John Lewis and Martin Luther King and others who opened our eyes and really lifted whites as much as blacks. ... When the walls came down between the races in the South, the walls came down between the South and the rest of the country. Today the South is much better off than it was some years ago."
While her side may have lost, Peggy says this election was an extraordinary event. Seeing the large crowds and celebrations full of exuberant young people reminded her of another presidential election. "I thought of how it was for me when I was a little girl in 1960 when something new and astonishing had happened: A Catholic—an Irish Catholic—had been elected president," she says. "I thought of Jack Kennedy and that extraordinary night that was so important to me as a child and thought the breakthrough I felt then is the breakthrough so many are feeling now. And it is a beautiful thing to see history regenerate and move forward and broaden itself and surprise us and take its turns."
Peggy says one thing that impresses her about President-elect Obama is his grace. When Governor Palin was announced as Senator McCain's running mate, some in the press zeroed in on her unwed teenage daughter's recently revealed pregnancy. "They went to Barack Obama for his reaction. ... He said, 'My mother was 18 when she had me.' And he took the wind out of the sails of the critics and he also shamed people who were being unkind. He just stopped them going down that road," she says. "You know, in politics you sometimes see grace, but it's mostly when they have to be graceful. That was grace when he didn't have to be. And it was a very touching and lovely thing."
David says instant change probably isn't the right course to take anyway, considering the serious issues President-elect Obama will inherit the minute he takes the oath of office. One of the most pressing issues, he says, is our economic mess—the worst since Franklin Roosevelt was president.
"It's worth remembering that Roosevelt's genius was not in bringing instant change," David says. "It took a good number of years to bring us out of the valley. But Roosevelt built a bridge of hope across the valley for millions of Americans. It made the times easier, psychologically, to get through. To me, that's one of the challenges for Barack Obama—to build that new bridge of hope. To take these masses of people who are out supporting him and make them a force for hope for the longer haul. ... Hope has to keep winning."
In his essay "In Our Lifetime," Henry says the first of these moments was the Emancipation Proclamation, which was announced on New Year's Day in 1863. The next came on June 22, 1938, when African-American boxer Joe Louis defeated German Max Schmeling. Dr. Gates' third moment was on August 28, 1963, when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech before a huge crowd at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. "But we have never seen anything like we witnessed last night, when Senator Barack Obama was declared President-elect Barack Obama," Dr. Gates says. "Each of us will always remember this moment. All I can say this morning is: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound." You can read the full essay at TheRoot.com.
Dr. Gates says this election is a crossing of the ultimate color barrier. "It is the culmination of a century-and-a-half campaign for the freedom of our people's rights and a campaign against racism in America," he says. "I can't believe it. Frederick Douglass couldn't believe that Lincoln actually was going to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. And 3,000 people waited in Tremont Temple in Boston Common for the news to come—it didn't come until 11 p.m. on New Year's Day. And the news of Barack's election came at 11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time last night. I wouldn't let myself go until we actually heard the news. I was with a bunch of Harvard professors. When they announced it, we jumped up, we wept, we hugged each other, we whooped and hollered, we went totally crazy. It was great—the greatest night of my life."
Gloria says the article has earned her a "big reward and a little punishment too," but she's glad she did it. "What I was trying to say is that the women's movement is about content, not about form. It's not about biology as destiny; it's about making life better for everybody," she says. "So, though I fiercely defend Sarah Palin's right to be wrong, we're really talking about a single standard here. She shouldn't be criticized for her clothes or her children, but she also has to meet the standard for being a vice president, much less a president, which she did not."
Gloria says Governor Palin was chosen as the Republican vice presidential candidate in order to attract a certain demographic, but she says that plan ultimately failed. "She was a temporary benefit because ... everyone was curious about her. [But] as more and more of the content of her policies and her actions and her lack of experience was revealed, she became a liability. And if you look statistically now, you do see that more people left McCain than arrived because of Palin."
The election of President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden was a big victory for women, Gloria says. "To have two men in the national leadership ... who actually are the first two in my lifetime to talk about male responsibility for children through policy and also personally, that is of huge, huge importance to women."
Now that the presidential election is over, Gloria says she's just relieved it went smoothly. "I'm very grateful for the way it happened—without contentiousness, without having to march in the streets to get our votes recounted, without hanging chads," she says. "It's a big thing."
Gloria says that while she supported Senator Clinton, she knew she would be happy if Barack Obama were elected president. "We kind of had an embarrassment of riches," she says. "I feel as if I got my future back in a funny way, because I was in my 30s when I thought my country was moving toward democracy, and then two Kennedys were killed and then Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and it's as if the future died. Now I feel as if our future has come back and in an even better form because the Kennedys and Clintons tried to be inclusive, but this isn't about being inclusive. It is the thing itself. It is actually happening."
David says that even though a woman was not elected this time around, it is clear that it's on the horizon. "[Hillary Clinton] put those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, as she said, and women did not make it through the door this year," he says. "But two things happened. One is Hillary Clinton was a real soldier for Barack Obama; she made 70 different appearances for him. She deserves a lot of credit for that. And women rallied behind Obama."
In the 2004 election, Democrats won the female vote by only three points. In 2008, President-elect Obama won the female vote by 13 points. "That says a lot about women in this country," David says. "Their time will come too."
Dr. Gates says his 95-year-old father called him on election night to talk about the moment's significance. "He said, 'Boy, this is the greatest day in the history of the Negro, and I'm glad I lived to see it.'" he says. "That's when I broke down.'"
David adds that he thinks President-elect Obama's campaign was also set apart by its connection to the younger generation, its use of technology and its reliance on the principles of community organizing. "I think it will go down as the best-run campaign in modern times, certainly going back the last 40 or 50 years," David says. "Because of community organizing, along with the Internet, 6 or 7 million people were out there working their tails off. They sent in small amounts of money. It worked."
Peggy says that in Senator McCain's concession speech, he set the stage for the entire country to rally around President-elect Obama. "[Senator McCain] is a great American, an authentically great one," she says. "This is a man who suffered for five and a half years in a prisoner of war camp, and this is a man who has given his life to the rough to and fro of politics in America. I think his statement last night that we must gather round and support the new president was a beautiful thing and a good way to begin."
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Online Safety Advice
Online safety is a core part of our PSHE curriculum and is taught to all pupils so that they are aware of how to keep safe online. We also join in with Safer Internet Day each year and have a day where we focus purely on the latest advice being sent to schools about keeping children safe on the internet.
Making sure our children are safe online is becoming more and more important in a world where everyone can be contacted at the touch of a button. Simple advice and guidance on how to keep your child safe online can be found in many places, and helping teach your child why its important to be safe online is essential. Here are a number of websites to help parents keep their children safe online.
Remember these simple rules about staying safe online:
1. Never share your password.
2. Think before you post.
3. Adjust your privacy settings and review them often.
4. Only accept friend requests from people you know personally.
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WordPress is software that you use to create stunning websites or blogs. With WordPress, you can create a beautiful website, blog, or app without any technical knowledge. You simply add and arrange content and features using WordPress' stylish & intuitive interface.
Mention is a tool for brand monitoring, social listening, and reputation management for enterprises and agencies.Mention Integrations
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WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS. used to create blogs, websites and web applications. It is the most popular CMS on the World Wide Web. WordPress is free to use and install. As of May 2016, over 60 million websites are running the platform worldwide.
Mention is a social media monitoring top that helps users gain insight from their online reputation. It allows companies to monitor the conversations about their brand across various channels such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
WordPress is the leading CMS in the world. With its integration with Mention, companies can now monitor and measure their online reputation. This integration gives users an easy way to see how they are performing online and improve their digital presence.
The integration of Mention and WordPress makes it easier for users to view mentions, messages, shares and conversions from all sources across all platforms. By integrating these two platforms, users can perform keyword searches for a specific term on Mention and see the results on WordPress using custom post types.
Companies can also monitor their social media engagement through this integration. For example, a company can create multiple pages and assign different social media accounts to each page. Then, this company can set up notifications for mentions on each page or even send out emails to individual staff members who are responsible for responding to user queries and comments.
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Startup Sucks Carbon From the Air, Turns It Into Rock
The technology that enables engineers to strip carbon out of the thin air has been around for decades, but it is only in recent years that billionaires have joined the ranks of climate philanthropists to fund it as the warning tolls of global warming become louder.
Elon Musk has most recently announced a $100 million prize for the best carbon capture technology, and such highly engineered solutions might help humanity to reverse some of the effects of climate change.
A startup in Iceland, Carbfix, is not only capturing the carbon from the air but also injecting it into the ground where it turns into stone. This allows the greenhouse gas to be contained safely rather than escape into the atmosphere and trap heat.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Carbfix CEO Edda Sif Pind Aradottir stated, "This is a technology that can be scaled—it’s cheap and economic and environmentally friendly. Basically, we are just doing what nature has been doing for millions of years, so we are helping nature help itself."
A growing technology
The startup is partnering with Climeworks AG that builds machines to capture CO₂ directly from the air. The duo will be scaling up their projects at the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant to capture carbon emissions as they are released.
Each roughly the size of a shipping container, eight carbon collectors are being installed in Iceland to expand the plant. It's already capturing and storing 50 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, but this move will raise its capacity to 4,000 tonnes annually, Reuters reports.
After the air is sucked in through fans and the carbon dioxide is extracted with filters, the startup then combines the carbon with water. This enables them to achieve a mild acid that they pump below ground, into basaltic rock.
Aradóttir told Reuters that 95 percent of what was carbon dioxide was turned to rock within 2 years.
One of the reasons why carbon capture technology hasn't caught up is because it can be expensive. Aradottir has stated that the Hellisheidi plant can capture carbon at a cheaper cost than buying carbon credits, which are created when a project verifies they have reduced, avoided, or destroyed one metric tonne of greenhouse gasses.
Carbfix's website states that the process costs about $25 a tonne which is far less than the current price of about 40 euros ($48) a tonne on the EU’s Emissions Trading System, per Bloomberg.
Carbfix is working with researchers to make the technology work on other types of rocks and aims to permanently store 1 billion metric tons of CO₂ in 2030.
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Let there be no divisions among you.1 Cor 1:10
Can two people walk together without agreeing on the direction?
Let me be united with all who fear you, with those who know your laws.
Our hostility toward each other was put to death by means of his death on the cross. Eph 2-13-18John 17:20-26Psalm 119:79 Amos 3:3
“I do not pray for those alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word’ That they all may be as one, as You, Father , are in Me and I in You. That they also may be one in Us, that the world May believe that you sent me”
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand
The bible makes it very clear that we are to conduct ourselves in love- and love is the glue of this oneness! Peace and Love keep us knit together. Why is it important to be one? Because it is a testimony to the world- so that all would believe in Jesus and understand how much the Lord God loves them.
Jesus came to make us one, taking away the dividing line of jew and gentile. How can we be one body if we continue to fight?
Oneness is the work of the Holy Spirit– He gathers us together as one and filling us together with His Holy Power to do good works. How can the toe go off by itself and what good is the mouth if it has no hands? And what good is the hand if it has no mind!
What does Christ want of us? That we live pure and holy lives, gathering in the lost and preparing the way for the coming of the Lord.
Consider what the disciples did to those who caused much confusion and strife– these trouble makers were not of God’s spirit, even though they sat among them in the congregation. They let them go back to Satan in hopes of them coming to their senses and repenting. That can’t be easy to do- arguing a biblical truth with someone who does not have the spirit of God in them is like arguing with a wall. I have found that sometimes silence is best instead of flipping out, keeping calm and bringing it captive to the Lord.
We need to gather in the lost and prepare ourselves and those around us for the coming of the Lamb of God. It is time to unite and be strong together with One Mind- the Mind of Christ and with One Spirit- the Holy Spirit. We can no longer be divided as the world falls into darkness. We must stay united as One for Christ- not wavering in any way, making sure we are not living lukewarm lives. As we live accordingly, the World will see the Power of God in us. The works Jesus did will flow out from us like rivers of running waters. Stand together, warning others in love, spend time in the Word and pray in the Spirit at all times for all believers everywhere.
As the days draw closer to the Lord’s return, we will see clearer than we did before- for the light shines out of darkness and woe to those who think their darkness is light. Seeking out those who have fallen off the path- now we will see it more clearly, and as you do, you must reach out and help them- do not hate them or become proud – but bring them back.
Of course we have people who don’t agree with us, but with opposition, the Lord has taught me a good thing. – to be loving and compassionate with those who angrily disagree. As I prayed to the Lord about how to handle these situations, the Holy Spirit brought this prayer out of my heart : Dear Father, I forgive the words of this person, fill me with love and compassion for them. Help me understand why they believe this and give me understanding as you understand each one of us because you made our hearts. ” Suddenly it disappeared from my thoughts and I continued on, amazed at the lesson the Lord just taught me-be considerate of others with love and compassion- even if we don’t agree on some things.
He will not shout or cry out or raise his voice in the streets, a bruised reed he will not break. Isaiah 42:2 Matthew 12:19
A bruised reed he will not break means that we are to consider the weakness in others. Sometimes we may get angry at someone and not realize that on the inside they are hurting badly. These are the bruised reeds we are not to break- consider their feelings even though it may not show on the outside
Guidelines for Biblical Oneness
1- Love one another. Love binds us together Col 3:14, Col 2:2 (Love is Longsuffering & Patient)
2- Agreeing wholeheartedly with each other with one mind and one purpose Phil 2:2
3- One body in Communion. We are united when as we break the bread, sharing in the body of Christ. When we bless the cup at the Lord’s Table, aren’t we sharing in the blood of Christ? And when we break the bread, aren’t we sharing in the body of Christ? And though we are many, we all eat from one loaf of bread, showing that we are one body. Think about the people of Israel. Weren’t they united by eating the sacrifices at the altar? 1 Corinthians 1;16 -18
4- Live holy lives as citizens of heaven Conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Good News of Christ
5- Being one in spirit and in purpose– fighting together for the faith, which is the good news (Phil 1:27)Be united in Christ – not in the World and the concerns of this world. Remember you must therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ and “no soldier gets entangled with civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him”
6- Put on your Shoes of peace. Peace binds us together and it is also protection from demonic attacks (eph 4:3)
7- Let each one do it’s special work so other parts may grow – in other words You are not the only one assigned to work- let each one do his part in the body of Christ. One person can’t be the hand, the food, and the mouth. Let the Lord assign each man his place and work hard so that you will please the Lord. “Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.” Acts 20:28
8- Be united in Christ – not in the World and the concerns of this world. Remember you must therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ and “no soldier gets entangled with civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him”
9- There is power in unity. Gen 11:6, Numbers 16:3, This is a powerful way we can fight the darkness that has come upon our land. There is power in oneness. Consider this verse: “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them!” If the enemy uses this tactic against God’s holy one’s, how can we fight back unless, we, too, are united as one people. Remember Jesus said – – Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand Matt 12;25. (see matt 3;25)
10- United with Christ brings spiritual blessings : Ephesians 1:3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ11- Be united with others to Fear the Lord and know His laws Ps 119;79
12– It is a testimony to non believers : Oneness , unified as one people with one mind and one purpose is a testimony to the World of Jesus Christ and the love of the Father. Notice Jesus’ words after he prays that we be one together “so that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me Father” John 17:6-26 and “And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me
13– Christ holds the whole body together with its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it Col 2 :19, Jesus died for this reason -to bring together and unite all of God’s children Mt 19:5 Jesus wants us to be unified and one as He and the Father are one- John 17:6-26 Jesus prays to the Father and 4x in one prayer He requests that we be one together and unified.
14- Be united in prayer with others Acts 1;14
15- Having the same mind and same judgment. Now I plead with you brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. I Corinthians 1:10
16- Jew and Gentile = One, Slave or Free= One, male and female = One! For we are all ONE in Christ Jesus Galatians 3:226-29 and Eph 2:13-18 “He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups. Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death. He brought this Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far away from him, and peace to the Jews who were near. Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.
17- There is only ONE body! It’s not you alone against the world J There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all, and in you all. Ephesians 4:4-6
18- Live for others – not ourselves – For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. II Corinthians 5:14,15 (This reminds me of a verse in Jeremiah when the Lord says to Baruch, the scribe “Are you seeking great things for yourself? Don’t do it!”- that lesson goes deeper, but just something to think about)
19– That totally annoying person you’ve been arguing with is a fellow citizen with you, the saints and members of the household of God (hopefully) and you both are being fit together growing into a holy temple of the Lord. and you both also, are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Now therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Ephesians 2:19-22
20- Unity is sharing all you have. “ All the believers were united in heart and mind. And they felt that what they owned was not their own, so they shared everything they had. The apostles testified powerfully to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God’s great blessing was upon them all. There were no needy people among them, because those who owned land or houses would sell them and bring the money to the apostles to give to those in need.”
21– We were joined with Christ in baptism and in His death: (and remember peace and love keep us together) “have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives. Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was…. Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace. Romans 6:1-14 and Galatians 3;26
22– We are united with Jesus and now we can produce a harvest of good deeds Romans 7:4 So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God
23– Christ has not divided us into factions to quarrel over what teacher we do and do not follow. 1 Cor 1:10-17 Be of One mind, united in thought and purpose “My pastor is better than yours”=not unity. “ I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose. For some members of Chloe’s household have told me about your quarrels, my dear brothers and sisters. Some of you are saying, “I am a follower of Paul.” Others are saying, “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Peter” or “I follow only Christ.” Has Christ been divided into factions? Was I, Paul, crucified for you? Were any of you baptized in the name of Paul? Of course not! I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, for now no one can say they were baptized in my name. (Oh yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas, but I don’t remember baptizing anyone else.) For Christ didn’t send me to baptize, but to preach the Good News—and not with clever speech, for fear that the cross of Christ would lose its power.
24– God united us with Christ 1 Corinthians 1:30:God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin
25- . We are all true children of Abraham through faith in Christ, united in baptism, : For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you. Gal 3:26-29
26- Oneness is also a tactic of the enemy ; Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the LORD and against his anointed one
27– Consider the power of unity and oneness when the Israelites gathered together to rebuild with Nehemiah, consider the power of oneness in the book of Ester when all the people fasted and prayed to the Lord, consider the power of Oneness when the apostles gathered on the day of Pentecost Nehemiah 10:39The people and the Levites must bring these offerings of grain, new wine, and olive oil to the storerooms and place them in the sacred containers near the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers. “We promise together not to neglect the Temple of our God.”Esther 4:16“Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.”
BEWARE OF DIVISIONS:
Division brings chaos and confusion. Remember the Tower of Babel…. Their divided language caused division and confusion. If you search the scriptures you will find division and confusion go hand in hand with noise- too much talk! This confusion is deadly and needs to be taken out of our churches. WARNING: “Watch out for people who cause divisions and upset people’s faith by teaching things contrary to what you have been taught. STAY AWAY FROM THEM. Such people are not serving Christ our Lord; they are serving their own personal interests. By smooth talk and glowing words they deceive innocent people. I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose. 1 Corinthians 1:10 Romans 16:17-18
Hear the Word of the Lord
Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect. Agree wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose. You must live as citizens of heaven, conducting yourselves in a manner worthy of the Good News about Christ. You must stand together with one spirit and one purpose, fighting together for the faith, which is the Good News Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love. Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it.
Well, my brothers and sisters, let’s summarize. When you meet together, one will sing, another will teach, another will tell some special revelation God has given, one will speak in tongues, and another will interpret what is said. But everything that is done must strengthen all of you. But that does not mean we want to dominate you by telling you how to put your faith into practice. We want to work together with you so you will be full of joy, for it is by your own faith that you stand firm. We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself together with you. The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work. Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering. They all met together and were constantly united in prayer, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, several other women, and the brothers of Jesus. On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place. And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had.They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord’s Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity. They all met together and were constantly united in prayer, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, several other women, and the brothers of Jesus.Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death. For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future. He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups.
Colossians 3:14 Philippians 2:2 Philippians 1:27 Ephesians 4:3 Ephesians 4:16 Romans 8:17Acts 4:26 Acts 1:14Acts 2:1 Acts 2:44 Acts 2:462 Corinthians 1:24 2 Corinthians 4:14 1 Corinthians 3:8 1 Corinthians 3:16 1 Corinthians 14:261 Corinthians 12:27 Ephesians 2:21 Ephesians 2:20 Acts 1:14 Ephesians 2:16 Ephesians 2:14 Ephesians 5:32 Ephesians 4:4 Ephesians 2:15
Oneness used as Enemy tactic : The kings of the earth prepared for battle; the rulers gathered together against the LORD and against his Messiah.’“Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them! They united against Moses and Aaron and said, “You have gone too far! The whole community of Israel has been set apart by the LORD, and he is with all of us. What right do you have to act as though you are greater than the rest of the LORD’s people?” “In fact, this has happened here in this very city! For Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate the governor, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus, your holy servant, whom you anointed. But everything they did was determined beforehand according to your will. Genesis 11:6 Numbers 16:3 Acts 4:27
Oneness in Old Testament Prophecy: But the LORD will have mercy on the descendants of Jacob. He will choose Israel as his special people once again. He will bring them back to settle once again in their own land. And people from many different nations will come and join them there and unite with the people of Israel .Then the people of Judah and Israel will unite together. They will choose one leader for themselves, and they will return from exile together. What a day that will be—the day of Jezreel —when God will again plant his people in his land Isaiah 14:1Hosea 1:11
Spurgeon quote CHSpurgeon Sermon #668 “Unity in Christ Jan 7, 1866
“There are in the visisble churches a certain number of God’s elect, and these are of the body of Jesus Christ. But their fellow professors, if unconverted, are not in the mystical union. Christ’s body is not made up of denominations, nor of presbyteries , nor of Christan societies – it is made up of saints chosen of God from before the foundation of the world– redeemed by blood, called by His Spirit and made one with Jesus. …. They have all been quickened by the same Spirit and made to live by the same energy. And though they knew it not, they were still one. No, more. All true believers are supported by the same strength! The live which makes viatl the prayer of a Believer today is the same life which quickened the cry of a Believer two thousand years ago. And if this world shall last so long as another thousand years, the same Spirit which made the tear trickle from the eyes of a penitent then is that which this day makes us bows before God Most High.
Tell to sinners round
What a Savior you have found
Does God dwell in you, and do you dwell in Him? Then, my dear Brother give me your hand! Never mind about a thousand difference if you are in Christ and I am in Christ! We cannot be two, we must be one. Let us love each other fervently with a pure heart. Let us live on earth as those who are to live together a long eternity in Heaven. Let us help each other’s spiritual growth. Let us aid each other as far as possible in every holy, spiritual enterprise which is for the promotion of the kingdom of the Lrod.
And let us chase out of our hearts everything which would break the unity which God has established. Let us cast from us every false doctrine, every false thought of pride, enmity, envy, bitterness that we, whom God has made one, may be one before man as well as before the eyes of the heart searching God.
May the Lord bless us, dear Friends as a Church. May He make us one and keep us so. It wil be the dead stuff among us that will make divisions. It is the living children of God that make the unity! It is the living ones that are bound together. There will be no fear about that – Christ’s prayer takes care of us, that we shall be one. As for those of you who are joioned with us in visible fellowshop and are not one with Christ, may the Lord save you with His great salvation, and His shall be the praise.
And now, O Lord, hear their threats, and give us, your servants, great boldness in preaching your word. Stretch out your hand with healing power; may miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
John 17:51- He did not say this on his own; as high priest at that time he was led to prophesy that Jesus would die for the entire nation. 52 And not only for that nation, but to bring together and unite all the children of God scattered around the world
Jesus Prayed : “Father, you have given me your name; now protect them by the power of your name so that they will be united just as we are. During my time here, I protected them by the power of the name you gave me. I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold. “Now I am coming to you. I told them many things while I was with them in this world so they would be filled with my joy. I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. They do not belong to this world any more than I do. Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world. And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by your truth. “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began! “O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me. I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.” John 17:20-26
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2. AmlaAmla or Indian gooseberry according to Dr. Dhanvantri Tyagi can also do wonders to your immunity system. You can have them as murabbas or juice. Juice should preferably be avoided during winters. Packed with immunity boosting Vitamin C, Amla can help keep infections at bay.
4. TurmericThe immunity boosting spice could be the companion you are seeking for in this nippy weather. Power of Curcumin makes Turmeric one of the most treasured spices of Ayurveda.
Turmeric has anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal agents that helps stimulate the human immune system. You can use the wonder spice to make yourself the nation's favourite- 'Haldi doodh'. Take a teaspoon of the spice powder in a glass of warm milk daily and your chances of catching a flu could drop remarkably.
5. GheeThis good fat could prove to be your magic elixir for immunity this nippy weather. Ghee is extensively used in various winter food preparations. From gajar ka halwa to panjiri to gondh ka ladoo, all the winter special delights are packed with ghee. This is because ghee is one of the most easily digestible fat, which generates instant heat and energy. In addition to keeping your body warm, ghee contains essential fatty acids, and is a great immunity booster.
Ghee is one of the most easily digestible fatDr. Dhanvantri also says, "In winters, one must ensure the perfect Vayu balance. So apart from taking immunity boosting foods, you must also take energy boosting foods."Load up on these foods and keep cough and cold causing infections at bay.
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The measure provides a 14 per cent increase in price for caloric and non-caloric sweetened beverages
Manila: The World Health Organisation praised the Philippine government for imposing higher taxes on sugar-sweetened drinks, saying that the move was a “great step forward in protecting the health of Filipinos”.
“The WHO commends the Philippines as it passed a landmark law today with new tax provisions for sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB),” the world body said, adding the initiative makes Philippines the first country in Asia to introduce SSB tax in its national agenda.
SSBs are drinks with added sugar, which included soft drinks, sports and energy drinks and sweetened juice drinksthat provide unnecessary or empty calories with little or no nutrition.
The measure that made higher taxes on sugar-sweetened drinks possible, the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Act was ordered implemented recently by President Rodrigo Duterte. It provides a Peso 6 per litre (Dhs 0.438) tax (approximately 14 per cent increase in price) for caloric and non-caloric sweetened beverages
“Evidence has shown that SSB tax can reduce consumption of sugars and help prevent overweight, obesity, and non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In the Philippines, overweight and obesity rates have been steadily increasing and diabetes and cardiovascular disease now cause four out of every 10 deaths among Filipinos,” it said.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, Jr said WHO’s statement is a resounding affirmation that the government is making the right moves.
“With this development, we hope to contribute to our national health agenda and hopefully prevent the risks associated with overweight and obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and tooth decay,” Roque said during a palace press briefing.
He added that the SSB excise tax, as a health measure, will encourage the public to make healthy choices to ensure a healthier and more productive lifestyle.
Aside from direct effects on the health of Filipinos, the move will also aid the country in addressing concerns over tooth decay.
“With 87 per cent of Filipinos suffering from tooth decay, the reduction of sugars intake will also reduce this risk. The revenue to be generated from the SSB taxation also has the potential to be utilised for health-promoting purposes,” WHO added.
It added that as per experience of countries that imposed higher taxes on SSBs, the decision showed positive results in improving the health and well-being of people.
“Mexico, for instance, implemented 10 per cent excise tax on SSBs in 2014 and demonstrated an average reduction of 7.6 per cent in purchases of taxed beverages in its first two years of implementation. The reduction in consumption is predicted to have positive impacts on health outcomes and reductions in health care expenses in Mexico,” WHO said.
Aside from increased taxing on sugared beverage, other reforms under TRAIN law include higher taxes on tobacco products, alcohol, motor vehicles, fossil fuels, among others.
Proceeds from these tax measures will be used to finance the government’s ambitious infrastructure expansion projects to address traffic congestion through better mass transport and new road networks.
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When little Johnny or Molly asks for a puppy for their birthday, parents may want to give in. New research in England suggests children whose families own dogs are more active than those without a furry friend running around.
The research could have implications for childhood obesity in the United States, where 17 percent of 2- to 19-year-olds are obese, according to a 2007-2008 survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among 6- to 19-year-olds, obesity has tripled over the past two decades, according to the CDC.
The researchers from St George's, University of London used activity monitors to record movement levels of 2,065 children ages 9 and 10 over the course of seven days. The kids came from 78 schools in London, Birmingham and Leicester, 202 of whom owned dogs.
Results showed children with dogs spent an average of 325 minutes (more than five hours) doing physical activity per day, 11 more minutes than those without household dogs. This included time spent in light, moderate, moderate to vigorous, and vigorous activity. Dog owners also spent 11 fewer minutes (562 minutes over the seven-day stint) in sedentary behavior each day. The pet owners were found to take 360 more steps (4 percent) than the other kids.
"The more active lifestyles of children from dog-owning families [are] really interesting – is it that owning a dog makes you more active or that more active families choose to have a dog?," said lead researcher Christopher Owen, senior lecturer in epidemiology, in a statement. "It's a bit of a chicken and egg question. Long-term studies are needed to answer it, but it may be a bit of both."
Owen noted that previous studies comparing adults' activity levels before and after getting a dog have found people do tend to become more active afterward.
"If children really are going for walkies with their dog, this may be one way to encourage more kids to be active," Owen said.
The exercise boost may also help the pups, as recent research has shown dogs are also battling the bulge and that human diet tricks may help.
The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, was carried out as part of the Child Heart And health Study in England (CHASE), a St. George's project examining the health of about 5,000 primary school children living in London and the Midlands. The study is being undertaken with the support of The Wellcome Trust.
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I would say there is NO sport where you see a diversity of body types the way you see in running.
I am the person that says “you exercise to be better at exercise” so this makes me very happy.
But if you are a larger runner here is something I think you need to hear.
You are almost certainly under eating unless you are super conscious your energy output versus calorie intake. Why does it matter if you under eat? Let’s take a look:
We talk a lot about this but your bodies built in mechanism for balance called homeostasis adjusts to what you give it. Here is what that means in a few bullet points…
1. Without the appropriate amount of food and protein you are more prone to lose muscle
2. Some resistance training helps a lot in terms of building and holding onto muscle and in the off season there is a case for drastically reducing your volume of running to regain some of the muscle you may have lost.
3. The more you run, the more you should eat.
Yesterday a runner reached out to me that isn’t as lean as they would like to be and is trying to cut while in season and is getting real frustrated at a lack of progress.
The problem is that, for this person, we didn’t know what they were eating previously so I quizzed them a bit and as it turns out we were trying to get blood from a rock.
THEY CAME TO US UNDER EATING and running a lot.
That’s pretty much the reverse of the formula I mentioned above.
Furthermore, if you are looking to get leaner IN SEASON where weight loss would be possible you will have MUCH better success with an abundance of food. A lot of this comes down to rest and recovery, without the raw materials for recovery there are a lot of bad downstream effects. BUT THERE IS ONE THAT IS THE MAIN CULPRIT….
Lack of sleep. Without sleep and without the appropriate amount of food the muscle and tendons you are breaking down don’t repair.
This makes you more susceptible to over use injuries.
Much of what I am saying is DIETING 101 but let’s be real, running is about effort and mentally sometimes we can push ourselves beyond our capabilities.
When you don’t listen to your bodies signals eventually your body just gives up and that becomes the new norm. Most overuse injuries are simply that person using things too far for too long and ignoring very obvious signs along the way.
There are lot’s of great tools that can help, Heart Rate Variability is more widely available and can give you some indication on whether or not you should workout or lower intensity from day to day.
Getting a Dexa Scan for bone density can give you some indication on whether or not you are feeding yourself appropriately for your output (and also whether or not you are recovery well also).
If you are a bigger runner and your journey is no longer about weight loss I think that’s awesome but that’s just the first step.
The next step is to make sure your are truly taking a more healthFULL approach. Ironically having more of a fat layer does provide you some protection but that’s just an insurance policy that should only be used when necessary.
The rest of the time you should be eating an appropriate amount for what you do and if you are a bigger runner that probably means you need to eat a lot more than you think and specifics matter.
If the goal is weight loss eventually I support that too but you will have A LOT more success with reducing calories out of season.
RUNNING is a very stressful endeavor and just in case you don’t know I RUN, I don’t know that I can be called a runner per se but I used to run 20 miles every Sunday just a few years back. So this isn’t someone giving you advice that doesn’t understand what you do and why.
Dieting is also stressful so if you eventually decide you want to lose some weight you are WAY better off doing that out of season with only one stressor (I am speaking to physical stressors for this article but outside stressors also play a role).
Also if you don’t have a coach helping you with amounts you are almost certainly going to miss the mark.
With all that said, if you just want to run, you enjoy it and you want to stay the exact same as you are now I support that whole heartedly.
But you might need to add in some food with significant calories that might currently be on your “naughty” list because it’s hard to chicken and kale your way to enough calories so that you can get better at running long term.
Lastly and maybe most importantly is that WEIGHT is your best asset when it relates to holding onto muscle when you are moving. This confounds many heavier runners that feel they should be losing weight faster when in fact running acts as a defacto resistance tool holding muscle and potentially even building some. So if you lose 20 pounds but GAIN 5 pounds of muscle that is like losing 25 pounds of fat. That’s important and is likely the case for pictures in addition to scale weight.
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Death Toll from Floods in Western Germany Rises to 45
The death toll from floods caused by heavy rains in the western German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia rose to 45, media reported.
Twenty people have lost their lives in Cologne area, according to police estimates seen by Die Welt daily. At least 19 people have died in Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate. Roger Lewentz, the interior minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, said between 50 and 70 people were missing.
Rhineland-Palatinate premier Malu Dreyer said her administration agreed to unlock 50 million euros ($59 million) in emergency funding after calling it "a very bad day" for the entire region.
The latest grueling find was the bodies of two people aged 74 and 78 who were discovered in a flooded cellar in the town of Geilenkirchen on the Wurm river in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Focus online news magazine said.
A mass evacuation was announced in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis district in North Rhine-Westphalia over fears that a dam on the Steinbach river could overflow its banks. The German news agency dpa said some 1,500 people were due to be evacuated.
Valentina Matviyenko, the speaker of the Russian parliament's upper house, expressed her "deep sympathy" over the tragic aftermath of flooding, in a message addressed to her German counterpart, Bundesrat's Reiner Haseloff. (ANI/Sputnik)
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Li-on batteries gradually deteriorate as they’re repeatedly drained and recharged. But now researchers from University of California, Irvine have developed a new nano-wire battery that can survive hundreds of thousands of charging cycles.
Over time, lithium becomes irreversibly deposited to the electrodes in li-on batteries. These build ups are called dendrites and they’re what causes the batteries to degrade and ultimately fail over time, as they make it harder for charge to be effectively stored within the cell.
Scientists have wondered if nanowires could help boost the capacity of batteries for a while now, because their large surface area in a small volume could allow them to hold large quantities of charge when used as electrodes. But because they’re so fine, they’ve proven particularly susceptible to the damage caused by dendrites of lithium.
Now, though, researchers from University of California, Irvine have created electrode nanowires using a thin core of gold, surrounded by layers of manganese dioxide and a Plexiglas-like electrolyte gel. In three months of testing, the team found that they were able to charge and discharge a simple cell made from the wires over 200,000 times without any damage or loss in capacity. For a little context, most modern li-on cells begin to give up after a few thousand cycles. Their results are published in ACS Energy Letters.
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Are you tired of paying substantial electrical power costs month after month? Going solar is your best bet for huge savings, and now, thanks to SunPower, it is more affordable and simpler than ever before.
This is what you are about to discover:
Let’s get started…
What Is SunPower?
SunPower is an American energy business established by Richard Swanson & Richard Crane in 1985. It started as EOS Electric Power. In 1988 it was relabelled SunPower. In 1990 the business received moneying to start manufacturing solar batteries. In 1992 began delivering them to customers.
SunPower is known to design, manufacture, and provide a wide range of high-performance solar electrical systems across the USA, for business and domestic functions.
It is likewise worthwhile to mention that NASA likewise has utilized SunPower’s cutting edge cell technology for their space programs.
But NASA is not the only one who has actually trusted SunPower products. Solar Impulse 2, a zero-fuel airplane, set a world record for becoming the very first solar airplane to fly around the world, likewise uses SunPower solar cells.
There are plenty of case studies out there utilizing SunPower items, from house owners, markets, and schools, saving millions $$ in the process of going solar.
SunPower has actually recently decided to convert its manufacturing division into a brand-new company called Maxeon Solar, while SunPower will focus solely on the consumer and service side, setting up solar panels.
The department started with a $298 million investment by SunPower’s partner and the world’s leading provider of silicon wafers, Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor Co. (TZS).
Why The Creation Of Maxeon Solar?
The objective is to enhance the core operations of the two business without blending them. “This transaction will also simplify both organizational structures, reducing costs, while improving efficiency and creating more agile businesses,” SunPower CEO Tom Werner said throughout a November 11 conference call.
Maxeon Solar will take on production and technological development, offering SunPower the capability to focus solely on broadening its market share versus its rivals, such as Canadian Solar.
Fixing The Problem Of Solar Energy Consumption
SunPower is engaged in the production and sale of photovoltaic panels, and they use a vast array of product selections.
Photovoltaic panel are alternative sources of energy. They are made up of solar cells that transform sunshine (and not just light) into electrical energy.
A total set consisting of photovoltaic panels, inverters, controllers, and batteries is called a Solar Power Plant. All this can be bought from the company.
Moreover, they provide a warranty for 25 years, unlike others who provide just 10 years. Also, when ordering from them, they will bring and install batteries and everything you require for free.
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Products That SunPower Offers
SunPower produces several items, all related to solar power, like photovoltaic panels, total systems, solar cells, total roof-integrated solar systems, and solar battery storage.
Let’s dig in …
SunPower Solar Panels
SunPower offers 4 series of solar panels. They are optimized for various applications:
Do you wish to optimize your life time savings? Then SunPower A-Series panels is for you. A-Series provides the most powerful cell and greatest wattage panels you can put on your roof.
SunPower introduced the world’s very first 400-watt photovoltaic panel, which indicates you can have more power than ever before in a small space with less panels on your roof.
A solar panel is only as good as the cells inside. The A-Series panels use SunPower® Maxeon® Gen 5 solar cells, which are 65% larger than previous generations. This implies they are able to convert significantly more sunlight into electricity while taking up less space overall.>
SunPower X-Series photovoltaic panels provide 44% more power per panel, resulting more power in smaller sized areas, with less panels. In this manner you can broaden energy production merely by utilizing additional roofing space to include more panels later on if you desire.
These state of the art panels transform more sunshine into electrical power, producing 75% more energy per square foot over the very first 25 years.
They likewise provide the highest performance readily available in a property solar panel today, at a record-breaking 22.8%.
That means homeowners get more electrical energy, more flexibility, more assurance, and lower electrical energy costs.
SunPower E-Series deliver 36% more power per panel than conventional panels. Basically, they convert more sunlight into electricity
E-Series are constructed with Maxeon solar cells, delivering up to 20% effectiveness and comes in 320W, 327W, or 435W options.
SunPower P-Series are developed with an innovative shingled style solar batteries that eliminates many of the reliability difficulties of standard front contact panels.
P-Series panels offer 7% greater panel efficiency and as much as 19 %more energy over the very first 25 years of operation.
However that is not all: SunPower Performance Series( P-Series) panels were named as a leading entertainer in all those 5 dependability tests conducted by DNV GL, the world’s biggest resource of independent energy experts and certification body. Those tests include:
Benefits Of SunPower Solar Panels
There are many advantages of going solar by utilizing SunPower products:
SunPower has actually remained in solar power business for more than 35 years. The business was founded in 1985. Ever since, SunPower has been refining photovoltaic panels for industrial and residential market. In this market and lots of others, there are plenty of companies that reoccur.
Given that the investment in solar panels is considerable, you better trust on a business that has shown to be here for many years.
One of the most essential consider recording solar energy is the efficiency ranking of a panel. Not all photovoltaic panels are the same. A higher efficiency ranking indicates fewer panels to capture the very same quantity of energy.
SunPower offers an market leading 22.8% effectiveness rating, which is roughly 60-70% higher than the competitors.
Photovoltaic panel are a considerable financial investment for both, house owners and commercial businesses. So, they require to understand that they will last. SunPower panels exceeded competitors in reliability, energy production, destruction rates, and shading impact.
SunPower panels are developed with resilient covers to remove UV degradation, copper structures for added strength, and they offer a single 25-year warranty that covers the whole panel and all its components.
SunPower solar panels are environmentally friendly. Anyone who is not indifferent to the health of the world, of course, will consider his responsibility to purchase harmless energy sources. Many people stop at wind turbines, the problem with them is they produce special sounds; solar panels are quiet.
Other people select any solar panels that are out there in the market. Nevertheless, the scenario here is similar to that of electrical vehicles: the batteries are environmentally friendly, however they utilize hazardous damaging compounds in the process of their production of batteries, power plants, conductors, etc. As a consequence, they end up polluting the environment.
SunPower has long been the market leader in sustainability and utilizes a complete closed loop sustainability strategy. Their viewpoint is to drive sustainable organization practices at every stage of the product life process and beyond.
This strategy led the way for SunPower to become the winner of pv publication’s very first annual sustainability award.
SunPower offers an extraordinary 25 years complete confidence guarantee. They cover everything on your Roof. They will repair, change or repay faulty parts, and you get the market’s best power warranty. Each part goes through weeks of testing, quality, and aging control before assembly and final examination. After all, a much better product implies a better warranty.
Remember: with traditional solar, even a small problem can end up being a big headache, separate guarantees for each part (racking, panel, tracking, inverter), unpredictable service fees (setup of replacement not consisted of, shipping not included), low power output, lots of paperwork, numerous providers. It is enough to make your head spin.
Pros & Cons Of SunPower Solar Panels
- SunPower provides one service warranty that covers item quality, power production, and service for your whole system.
- Your panels won’t lose more than 8% of their original power output in 25 years.
- You have three various payment choices to select from: solar leasing, buying with cash, and funding with a loan.
- SunPower has been on the cutting edge of solar technology for more than 30 years. You can be confident that you will have the highest-quality solar items and high-efficiency panels.
- The SunPower X Series solar panels master regards to power generation, providing 44 percent more energy per watt than competitive items.
- SunPower panels are extremely attractive and aesthetically pleasing.
- Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) payment option just available to industrial customers. Although the business’s solar lease alternative is offered at a flat rate.
- Some customers have offered negative feedback relating to SunPower’s customer support.
How Much Does SunPower Cost?
There isn’t a fixed cost for a solar power system. It depends on the area, your house and your cars and truck energy use
To have a concept, normally a SunPower solar energy system expense in between $3.20 and $4.50 per watt. A 6-kw SunPower system can cost approximately $30,000 or more prior to rewards.
For your convenience, SunPower offers 3 payment options:
- Purchase. You own the system and the energy it produces. Getting your SunPower system directly can maximize your savings. In time, your system can pay for itself through your energy bill cost savings
- Loan. You own your planetary system and pay for it with a loan. There are numerous loan payment terms and conditions available, including optional complete prepayment without penalty.
- Lease. SunPower owns the system on your roof. You pay a monthly total up to” lease” the system and utilize the energy you produce.
Keep in mind: those worths are simply approximated. For a comprehensive and more accurate quote, click here to fill out an easy 3-step form. A SunPower agent will contact you (this is not an agreement and you do not have any commitment.)
What SunPower Customers Are Saying?
Here you are some homeowners that share why they chose SunPower and how going solar has actually altered their lives. You can find more reviews on SunPower website
It pays to install solar panels now. Over the course of their life time, they will provide you with advantages about 10 times their cost.
Purchasing solar panels is a smart decision. This financial investment resembles buying energy performance procedures and to reduce heat loss in your home. Any home appliance that takes in less energy immediately starts making you cash by saving energy.
The cost of additional insulation for your house starts to save you on air conditioning and heating right away. By now, lots of currently understand that buying energy efficiency steps is a fantastic investment.
Likewise, bear in mind that in addition to saving from installing solar panels, you are also adding to the battle versus pollution and global warming. This is because you decrease the energy usage from standard, environmentally dirty, fuel-fired power plants.
Solar panels increase the value of your home. And in some cases, they increase its attractiveness among buyers because even if the increase in the value of the house is less than the cost of a solar power plant on the roof of your house. It will be easier to sell such an “advanced” house.
Solar panels increase the value of your home. And sometimes, they increase its beauty among purchasers since even if the boost in the value of your home is less than the cost of a solar power plant on the roof of your house. It will be simpler to sell such an “advanced” home.
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A car’s battery is something you’ll have to change at least once in its lifetime, but there’s a whole lot of confusion about what to do with the battery once it’s come out.
Unlike your average household waste, a car’s battery can’t just be thrown out so easily, and it’s up to the car’s owner to dispose of it responsibly.
How do you dispose of a car battery? In the UK, a car’s battery must be taken to a designated recycling facility, car garage, or scrap metal facility if you want to dispose of it.
These batteries contain harmful products that can’t be thrown away with your regular waste so don’t simply put them in with the rubbish.
So that you can be prepared for taking care of your car’s battery and know how to remove it correctly, we’ve created this simple guide to do just that.
We’ll show you how to take the battery out, where you can dispose of it, and the signs you need to know that could indicate it’s time to get a new one.
The Importance of Correct Car Battery Disposal
A car battery isn’t like a regular household battery you might have in your TV remote and it requires a special approach when disposing of one.
The average car battery contains things like acid and lead so it’s not to be dealt with lightly.
In addition to the dangerous contents, a car battery can potentially shock someone or even explore. The battery acid can leak out through holes or when it’s tipped over and burn the skin, or lead to blindness in severe cases.
Therefore, it’s not safe or responsible to throw it away with your household rubbish and you should never attempt to do so.
Safety First When Removing Batteries
With the potentially dangerous contents that are housed in a car battery, they need to be treated with care.
Whenever you plan on handling one of these batteries, follow these tips to make sure you do it safely.
- Before you look at the battery for signs of wear and damage, disconnect it from the car entirely.
- When transporting the battery, check the weight first, and don’t attempt to lift it on your own if it’s a struggle. Dropping the battery is dangerous and isn’t worth the risk.
- Check the battery for damage by using a torch and look carefully at all areas. You’ll need to look for signs of dents, corrosion, leaks, and marks.
- If you do find leaks or dents, leave them alone and take the car and battery to a mechanic so a professional can take care of it. While transporting it, keep the battery upright and cover its terminals.
- Wear gloves if you’re going to touch the battery or any part of the car’s engine, and consider wearing protective clothing. Battery acid is dangerous and can burn the skin so it should never be handled without protection.
How to Disconnect an Old Battery
Learning how to disconnect a car battery is a handy skill to have, but even more important is knowing how to do it safely.
These are the steps to follow to do the job yourself and without help from a mechanic.
- Open the hood of the car and keep it up using the safety catch. Look for the battery there and if you can’t find it, it might be located in the back. If you’re unsure, check the owner’s manual of your vehicle and see where to find it.
- Find where the positive and negative terminals are on the battery. The positive will be marked with a “+” and the negative a “-“. Remove the plastic caps that are covering these terminals so you can get access to the battery and remove it from the vehicle, as well as the cable clamps that have to be disconnected.
- Select the wrench or wrenches that will fit the battery, with sometimes just an open-ended wrench being all you need. The wrench will be used to disconnect the cables that keep the battery attached to the car, so it has to be the right size to maneuver the bolt from them.
- Go ahead with your protective gear, including putting on gloves and wearing long sleeves. Double-check that the car’s ignition is off and the key is out.
- Unbolt the negative battery cable first and then lift it off to disconnect it. Remove it from the area completely. You don’t want the wrench to be touching both negative and positive terminals otherwise it can create a spark. Then, do the same to unbolt remove the positive cable.
- Finally, remove the clamp that holds the battery in place inside the tray. Pull the battery out and store it upright before moving onto the next part.
Disposing of a Car Battery the Right Way
Once you’ve completed all of the checks to make sure the battery is safe to get rid of, now you have to decide where and how to do it.
The two options here are to recycle or throw away, and usually, the battery will end up at the same place.
Throwing away a car battery means finding a designated area to do so safely and responsibly.
The best choice is at a car garage, and this may be done for you if a mechanic is changing the battery. Otherwise, there are disposal spots at stores like Halfords or scrap metal facilities.
Before throwing it away, double-check to make sure it’s okay to do so.
Usually, these facilities have their own recycling or disposal program or have partnered up with another organization that does.
If you do choose to recycle, there are a host of ways you can do this and lots of free online resources that can point you towards your closest collection facility.
Ultimately, recycling a battery is better than simply disposing of it, and if you’re able to do this, it’s a greener option and will ensure the parts of the battery can be used again are done so.
Up to 95% of the lead from these batteries can be recovered so it means less strain on resources in the future and it’s simple to do.
Signs That You Need a New Battery
There’s no obvious way to tell that your car’s battery needs replacing but rather a few signs to look for that give you a hint.
If you notice any of these, it’s worth removing the battery to inspect it further, or taking it to a mechanic who can do it for you.
- Physical signs on the battery like dents, holes, and corrosion.
- A bad smell coming from the car can be traced to the battery upon closer inspection.
- An engine that starts slower than usual or fails to start altogether.
- Corrosion on the connectors or cables that keep the battery attached to the car.
- Ongoing electrical issues with the car and noticeably dimmer lights due to a malfunctioning battery.
Play It Safe and Smart With Your Car’s Batteries
When the unavoidable time comes to get a new battery for your car, it’s not just about getting it out, but knowing where to dispose of it safely as well.
Whether you choose to recycle it or throw it away, there are plenty of options for either, so there’s no excuse not to get this one simple task right.
A car’s battery is just one part that needs replacing or repair over the vehicle’s life, so ongoing maintenance and regular servicing are important for keeping everything in check.
If you have more questions about car batteries and what’s required to keep them running, we’ve got the answers to some FAQs that might be able to help.
How Long Can a Car Battery Last Without the Engine On?
Depending on the condition of the car battery, it should stay in good shape for around two weeks without having to start the car to keep it charged.
If you plan on storing your car for a while, it’s a good idea to still start the engine and run the car for a short amount of time to keep the battery charged.
Does Driving A Car Charge Its Battery?
A car’s battery is charged by the alternator of the car which runs when the engine is on, so it’s important to turn it on every now and then even while in storage.
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Clothing changed through history under the influences of cultures, fashion and wealth. From crude, simple and not too attractive pieces of clothing which only purpose was to protect from weather conditions until today we have a wide spectrum of different clothing items.
To be able to adapt to different climates human race needed clothing. From the prehistory, we used materials that we could found in nature to make clothes for ourselves. With time technology of making of clothes progressed.
From the earliest time human race had a need to protect from natural elements like heat, cold and rain. Neanderthals were the first who used clothes although their clothes were very primitive. Cro-Magnon men used much sophisticated technology to make their clothes.
With rise of technology and human mastery in manufacturing of textiles, clothing becomes more sophisticated than simple sewn leather parts. It becomes more practical and esthetically pleasing and it changed with culture and fashion sense. Ancient time was a first period where such clothing appeared.
Fashion of Ancient Egyptian was simple but practical for the climate in which Egyptians had to live. It was also strictly divided by quality and esthetic value between higher and lower classes.
Clothing in Ancient Greece didn’t change much during time. No clothes have survived from this period butt there are descriptions and artistic depiction of how it looked like. Although we thing that most of the clothing in Ancient Greece was white, they were of elaborate design and of bright colors.
Clothes of ancient Romans were not too diverse but were very strictly regulated in terms who can wear what. They also marked class to which the wearer belonged. Only near the end of the Roman Empire clothes start to change toward the extravagant.
Cloak is one of the oldest parts of clothing. There is evidence that they were used in prehistory when they were made in very simple forms. Their main use was for protection against natural elements but in time they become fashion statements.
Chiton is a simple type of clothing from Ancient Greece. It was made from one (maximum two) piece of fabric, some sewing and a girdle. It was a clothing for both men and women but who wore which length changed through time.
Clothing in Byzantine Empire was made with an idea that the whole body should be covered because of the Christian view on the sin. Byzantine dress is much more elaborate than Roman or any before that
Loincloth is one of the simplest pieces of clothing and one of the oldest. It appeared in about the same time in many cultures and in some is still used. You can find more about loincloths here.
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Ncluding providing cash to a needy stranger. While these findings surprisingly suggest that good impact might market charitable giving greater than damaging impact does,they do not clarify no matter whether impact can also influence the good results of loan requests. Additional,even when psychological mechanisms alter the behavior of people in the laboratory,their influence might not generalize to larger market place settings that involve significant financial incentives (Levitt List. Inside the current research,therefore,we particularly aimed to establish regardless of whether affective mechanisms could account for microlending inside a big Net information set involving important monetary incentives,and much more frequently aimed to identify whether neural and affective responses could predict microlending not only at the person level,but in addition at the marketplace level.Genevsky,Knutson the lending rate (i.e dollars raised per hour). Parallel analyses carried out on a second index of loanrequest success (i.e binary “funded” vs. “not funded” loan outcomes) yielded comparable benefits (see the Supplemental Material available online). Two options in the loan requests had been identified as possessing the possible for affective effect: (a) the text description introducing and describing every borrower’s individual circumstances and requires and (b) the photograph from the borrower prominently displayed at the prime of each and every loan request. Offered our assumption that microloan requests and charitablegiving appeals most likely recruit related mechanisms,we predicted that the photographs’ good affective impact (as indexed by valence and arousal ratings) would market loanrequest good results (Genevsky et al,but we also tested the option possibility that adverse affective influence may possibly boost loanrequest success. We acquired in depth information on microloan outcomes from Kiva Microfunds (www.kiva.org),an Internetbased international microfinance organization. Kiva’s Internet website permits users to PubMed ID:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23675775 offer modest financial loans to folks in want. Loans are funded in increments but are by the borrower only when the requested quantity is successfully raised inside days on the initial loan request. We initially applied the Kiva application programming interface to sample ,loan requests from those posted through the calendar year,the most recent period that could assure complete loanoutcome outcomes in the time of initial analyses. We then excluded loan requests with numerous borrowers (remaining n ,),to lessen heterogeneity in photograph Hesperetin 7-rutinoside cost ratings arising from variations in the size on the borrower group; loan requests without having text (remaining n ,),because they could not be scored with respect to affective words inside the text; (c) loan requests that were fully funded within the last days of eligibility (remaining n ,),to limit prospective confounds as a consequence of shifts in lender’s motivations and behavior because the deadline for loan expiration approached; and (d) loan requests with more missing data points (remaining n ,). In the remaining ,loan requests,,had been randomly sampled for evaluation (i.e ,funded and ,not funded). Given the massive size on the out there information set,we sampled as a great deal information as possible to accurately estimate underlying impact sizes within the constraints of available computational sources. The ,chosen loan requests conservatively achieved a energy of . for an impact size of . at an alpha level of Affective content with the loan text was assessed together with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) method (Pennebaker,Francis, Booth,an. | <urn:uuid:21cc65dd-5a85-43d4-ac00-277469149c0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pkcinhibitor.com/2018/11/02/7976/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.917472 | 738 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Objective: Few studies have evaluated long-term outcomes after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). This work analyzes the experience of nearly 2 decades by the same team in a single center. Outcomes of OLT and factors affecting survival were analyzed. Methods: Retrospective analysis of 3200 consecutive OLTs that were performed at our institution, between February 1984 and December 31, 2001. Results: Of 2662 recipients, 578 (21.7%) and 659 (24.7%) were pediatric and urgent patients, respectively. Overall 1-, 5-, 10-, and 15-year patient and graft survival estimates were 81%, 72%, 68%, 64% and 73%, 64%, 59%, 55%, respectively. Patient survival significantly improved in the second (1992-2001) versus the era I (1984-1991) of transplantation (P < 0.001). Similarly, graft survival was better in the era II of transplantation (P < 0.02). However, biliary and infectious complications increased in era II. When OLT indications were considered, best recipient survival was obtained in children with biliary atresia (82%, 79%, and 78% at 1,5, and 10 years, respectively), while malignant disease in adult patients resulted in the worst outcomes of 68% and 43% at 1 and 5 years, post-OLT. Further, patients <18 years and nonurgent recipients exhibited superior survival when compared with recipients >18 years (P < 0.001) or urgent patients (P < 0.001). Of 13 donor and recipient variables, era of OLT, recipient age, urgent status, donor age, donor length of hospital stay, etiology of liver disease, retransplantation, warm and cold ischemia, but not graft type (whole, split, living-donor), significantly impacted patient survival. Conclusions: Long-term benefits of OLT are greatest in pediatric and nonurgent patients. Multiple factors involving the recipient, etiology of liver disease, donor characteristics, operative variables, and surgical experience influence long-term survival outcomes. By balancing and matching these factors with a given recipient, optimum results can be achieved.
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|Journal||Annals of surgery|
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Antonio Messina was in high school when he was abused by the Reverend Don Giuseppe Rogolo. “It happened from 2009 to 2013, a very long time ago. I finally made sure it stopped,” he says today for the first time. “Where I lived, in a small town in Sicily, it was not easy to come up with something like that.”
In 2014, Messina gathered up his courage and took his testimony in front of another priest. “In spite of everything, I didn’t lose my faith. I was convinced it was a good idea to stand up for yourself when you’re going through something like this, hoping to make the church better.”
This hope proved to be futile. When the local bishop heard Messina’s complaint, he offered him silent money. Don Giuseppe Rogolo was transferred, but kept in touch with the youth. Only in 2021, after the Italian judiciary received several indictments, was his trial announced.
Messina’s story is one of many collected by Rete L’Abuso, an organization that paints images of sexual abuse by priests in Italy. After conducting independent investigations into the scale of the scandal in France, Germany and Portugal, among other countries, Rete L’Abuso wanted a similar investigation to be conducted in Italy. Many organizations and victims united under the hashtag #Italychurchtoo.
Today there was a protest against sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Italy:
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Blueprints were initially paper-based representations of technical drawings, used primarily in architecture and engineering fields. More recently, the name has been appropriated in design and organizational fields, used to describe detailed plans and structures displaying both digital and physical elements and how they interlink with one another.
In the Cities-4-People project, blueprints are being used to both demonstrate and plan how the whole project has evolved, illustrating how events, actions and activities, and which groups stakeholders and communities, have being deployed towards mobility and transportation solutions to fulfil the project goals. This visualization tool serves as an illustrative guideline of the project frame and steps required to bring it to life, facilitating the process of planning and replicating similar projects in other locations and cities. The tool also aids institutions to have a quick access of a knowledge that tends to be ‘tacit’ and withheld by the employees directly involved in the project development. These employees will still carry the knowledge about the learnings from the sessions and the events, however, even some of these aspects can be illustrated on the blueprints, such as cost, human resource heavy, complexity, etc. Also, the blueprint will help avoid ‘missing’ steps or underestimations, which could jeopardize the project at any stage. Furthermore, by providing an overview of the whole project process, the blueprint can aid planners and developers to identify untapped opportunities that can be well exploited during the project deployment.
If you want to find out more about blueprints in the Cities-4-People project, you can download the Report on Cities-4-People Deployment Toolkit & Replication Guide (D6.9).
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Academic Support from the ASE Team
- It can take a while to get used to studying at university. You will have classes from a leading expert in your subject. But you won’t have a teacher telling you what to do, when and how, in the way you had at school.
- So you will need a new set of skills. The Academic Skills Enhancement team – ASE for short! – are ‘learning advisors’ who provide 1-2-1 and small group support for all new students throughout the first year. You and the people you study with can book tutorials to help develop a range of skills including:
- Academic writing
- Effective reading
- Note-making and lecture skills
- Presentation skills
- Working in groups
- Exam and revision skills
- Time management
- Using feedback
- Referencing and Academic Integrity
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As a young Christian, it is understandable for there to be difficulty in our walk with Christ. This is one reason why maturity is important. As a child it can be easy to be swayed by careers, marriage, friends and so much more. As young Christians, how can we can we make the most of life whilst keeping our eyes focused on Christ?
Success doesn’t equal evil
As Christians, it is important for us to understand that success in this world does not equal evil. Yes it is true God wants us to live and have eternal life in the world to come. However, He doesn’t speak ill about success. What He does speak ill about however, is the misuse of the success He has gifted us. King David, the man after God’s heart was a successful man, as was King Solomon – and yet they were still counted as people of God. God graced Job with double of everything that was taken away from him (Job 42:10), is this not an example of earthly success?
To have a goal set for our future doesn’t mean that we will or should love God any less. If He is at the centre, first and last in our hearts, all that we do will be for Him.
Refocus your eyes
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
To be practical in your walk with Christ is also of importance. This doesn’t just mean making time tables for when you will read your Word, or scheduling times to pray – our works can only get us so far. Instead we should reframe our focus. We need to realise we need God to live not just to become successful; setting our minds on the things above and not the things of this Earth (Col 3:2). This doesn’t mean you should forget the future ahead of you, but rather that you should not allow them to become the joy of your life. Regardless of career, marriage, life itself – your joy should always reside in God. This is because joy is not found in the things of the world, but in the Living Word Himself. At the end of the day, it is okay not to have everything because our life is in Christ, and He is everything.
Trust in the Lord
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.Proverbs 3:5-6
The taunts of life will come and go, it’s a never-ending cycle. The aim of life however should not be on things which will fade away (i.e. our career, success, our romantic relationships or money). The aim is to set our eyes on Christ, to lean on Him in everything and to trust Him wholeheartedly. As we do this, He promised to make our paths straight, to make us secure in the purpose He has given to us. The God who is capable of making the heavens and earth in 6 days is more than capable of making our lives honourable before Him. This is not to say that we should be complacent, rather it should be a reminder that in our past, present and future; our successes and failures are guided by the One in whom we can find our ultimate joy. | <urn:uuid:51ecb893-cece-49a3-a485-64e916abf129> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ourgodgivenmission.com/can-the-world-still-be-your-oyster-if-you-serve-god/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.96608 | 685 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Most people identify as monosexual, which means they feel attracted to only one gender (i.e. heterosexual or homosexual). However, many feel an attraction to multiple (and, in some cases, all) genders. Many call it polysexuality.
Just like the rest of the LGBTQ community, polysexuals have a unique flag to represent their sexual orientation. Keep reading to dig deeper into the polysexual pride flag, its history, and its meaning.
What is polysexuality?
Polysexuality is a sexual orientation that describes people who feel attracted to more than one gender. The prefix “poly” comes from the ancient Greek word for “many”. This contrasts with monosexuality, which is attraction to only one sex.
Because multisex attraction is not fixed and can vary from person to person, polysexuality can be difficult to define or categorize. As Cameron Glover, business coach and sex educator, said Cosmopolitan“Usually when we talk about sexuality it’s very rooted in binaries – so male/female or non-binary people… But I think there’s a conversation that can be had by looking at sexuality at the beyond that.”
Polysexuality vs Pansexuality
The prefix “poly” means many but not necessarily all. Meanwhile, pansexuality is just a subcategory of polysexuality where the person is attracted to people regardless of gender.
For pansexuals, gender does not affect their attraction – they are attracted to the person, not what they identify with. In contrast, a polysexual person may consider gender when it comes to sexual attraction, sometimes preferring certain genders over others.
Polysexuality vs Bisexuality
Bisexuality is defined as an attraction to two or more genders. According to the Bisexual Resource Center, bisexuality is part of the polysexual umbrella. This means that while some polysexual people may identify as bisexual, some may not.
The History of the Polysexual Flag
Tumblr user Samlin, who identified as polysexual, created the Polysexual Pride Flag. They first submitted the design on July 11, 2012 to the fuckyeahpolysexuality account.
Colors and Meaning of the Polysexual Flag
The most commonly used polysexual pride flag has three horizontal stripes colored pink, green, and blue. The pink band represents women and individuals who identify with women. The green band represents fluid and non-binary individuals, while the blue band is for men and individuals who identify as men.
In the original Tumblr post, Samlin explains the rationale behind the history of the flag colors:
“As a poly individual I was very saddened that we don’t have a flag… so I made one 😛 I made it similar to the bi and pan flags since they are all under the multi-sex umbrella.”
The seven-stripe version of the polysexual flag
There is an alternate version of the polysexual flag with a similar meaning to Samlin’s original design but with seven stripes instead of three. The additional stripes are light pink and blue, with white stripes sandwiching the light green stripe down the center. The white and light green stripes represent transgender and polysexual people.
People who identify as polyromantic often use this version of the polysexual pride flag.
Myths about polysexuality
Polysexual people currently face many unfair stereotypes and assumptions about their sexual identity. According to Amney Harper, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Career Counseling at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, there are three major misconceptions about polysexual people:
- Polysexual people are promiscuous: Although polysexuals are attracted to many genders, they do not necessarily act on this attraction at every opportunity. Sexual activity and drive are not related to sexual orientation.
- Polysexual people are attracted to everyone: In the same way that heterosexuals are not attracted to everyone of the opposite sex, polysexuals are not attracted to everyone in the world. Types, tastes and other preferences always come into play.
- Polysexual people don’t know what they really want: some people may identify as polysexual and later identify with a monosexual label. However, this does not mean that polysexuals must eventually “choose” who they are attracted to.
How you can be an ally of polysexual people
- Accept and validate their identity, even if you don’t understand it.
- Approach them with genuine curiosity and learn about their personal experiences.
- Listen to your polysexual friends or loved ones when they open up to you.
- Learn more about polysexual identity and the challenges faced by polysexual people.
- Speak up when you see someone invalidating the identity of a polysexual person.
Polysexuality describes a growing number of people who experience sexual attraction to many genders, but not all. The polysexual pride flag is a reminder that sexual attraction and orientation are not monolithic. While most members of society identify as monosexual, there are many who do not – and that is perfectly valid and normal.
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A former kindergarten teacher. A passionate outdoor enthusiast grandfather.
They are two of six known victims of Monday’s mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, whose lives were cut short when a gunman opened fire on the local 4th of July parade in the affluent suburb of Chicago.
For the Toledo family, going to the parade is a family tradition. The Toledos pack their lawn chairs and coolers and go to the same place every year, outside Uncle Dan’s outdoor store near Second Street and Central Avenue.
On Monday, a gunman began firing from a rooftop near where the family was watching the parade, killing Nicolás Toledo, believed to be 70, and injuring others nearby.
“It’s just awful,” Toledo’s grandson David Toledo said, recalling the time his cousin called to tell him. “No one should ever get that call.”
Nicolás Toledo was a loving father and grandfather who spent most of the last three decades in Highland Park after immigrating to the United States, said David Toledo, 30.
“He was a funny guy,” he said. “Always playful, always cracking jokes and playing with his grandkids. He always made us laugh.
He said his grandfather emigrated of Morelos, Mexico in the 1980s, settling alongside family members in the Chicago area. Nicolás Toledo loved being outdoors, especially fishing at Fox Lake. Relatives told The New York Times that Toledo has dual Mexican-American citizenship and had recently moved from Mexico to Highland Park so his family could better care for him as he battled health issues.
David Toledo, who lives in Chicago, said the last time he saw his grandfather was at a gathering at his aunt’s house in Highland Park. The family watched over him together, sharing the responsibilities of caring for him – but that didn’t stop the jokes and the playfulness, David Toledo said.
“I would ask him if he needed help. He’s like, ‘No, I’m fine. I’m fine,” he said. “And I was like, ‘Are you sure? I mean, you’re getting old now.”
Those who knew Jacki Sundheim, one of the first identified victims among those killed in Highland Park on Monday, described her as warm and tirelessly devoted to those around her.
North Shore Congregation Israel, where she worked as a special events coordinator, said in a statement that Sundheim has been a lifelong devotee and a cherished member of its staff for decades. “Jacki’s hard work, kindness and warmth have touched us all, from her early days teaching at Gates of Learning Preschool to guiding countless of us through the joys and sadness of life,” the statement said.
Sundheim leaves behind her husband, Bruce, her daughter Leah, her sister Tracy and her niece Becca, the chief rabbi of the synagogue, Wendi Geffen, said in a letter to the faithful. “Due to this immense loss, all NSCI programs, classes and meetings for tomorrow will be cancelled,” she said.
In the coming days, David Toledo said he and his family will focus on reuniting, watching over each other and planning his grandfather’s funeral.
They could also go down to Fox Lake to catch some fish to fry for a family meal – which his grandfather would have liked, he said.
David Toledo said he doesn’t know if the family will feel safe at future parades.
“It’s such a horrible memory, so I don’t know if we’ll go back,” he said.
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Toward an era things were
“works” of craftsmen
Achieving the aspect of one of a kind thing
by hand work of Sabae craftsmen
The skill and the spirit of Sabae eyewear craftsmen with history of over 100 years.
Every eyewear that has essence of manufacturing by hand work of Sabae craftsmen is
delicate and precise, but yet none of them are the same.
Emotionally exposed “Unevenness”, that expresses the philosophy they have cultivated,
has sublimated things into the works.
The metal core installed in the ear hook bar of eyewear, called the temple, serves not only for fitting, but also beautiful and delicate patterns were engraved on it in the past, and many of them were highly designed.
The engraved pattern delineated by advanced craft skill clearly emerged, enhancing the value of eyewear.
ShinbariCraftsmen called the temple crafting method that mainly features the metal core, that is sandwiched inside.
However, Shinbari that requires labor, time, and high skill, declined gradually, with the change to the generation that demands the productivity, and the number of skilled craftsmen decreased drastically.
Currently, there is the only one craftsman in Sabae, who continues to inherit Shinbari, that is disappearing from the world.
Life was beautifully and dynamically brought to Shinbari series by this craftman.
Hole engraving on plastic sheet
Creating foundation for sandwiching metal core
in plastic sheet
The groove hole is engraved on one side of the strip shaped plastic bar, matching the shape of metal core to set in. The plastic and the metal core are located precisely to fit each other.
Metal core embedding
Installing metal core
on engraved hole and semi lamination
The metal core is installed on the hole side of the plastic bar, upon melting the surface slightly by solvent. Then clear plastic is layered on top, and the entire plastic bar is temporarily fastened with a clip.
Metal engraving core inspired by American vintage design
Engraving pattern design on the temple core combines the straight lines and the smart curves to give a geometric image. The luster of plastic and the sharp texture of metal combine delicately to enhance high quality vintage feel.
fastened plastic bar with core in dedicated mold
Visual check is done for piece by piece if solvent has infiltrated, neither peeled nor floated, and additional solvent is poured if necessary. Afterwards, the plastic bar is set in the dedicated mold for heat treatment.
Steel plate to prevent sticking
Inserting steel plate in between to prevent plastic bars
from sticking each other
The steel plate is inserted between the plastic bars to avoid sticking each other caused by heat treatment. Longtime experience and knowledge lead him to execute this extra effort.
Heat treatment and cooling
Heating plastic bar set
in dedicated mold, and cooling it
The metal core is embedded firmly into the plastic by repeated heat treatment and cooling. It is one of the most delicate and high skills that craftsman makes sure the metal core is not bent irregularly by pressing process. Since the condition of plastic material varies depending on color and production lot, craftsman maximizes his sense and intuition to adjust time, temperature and pressure.
Taking out of mold
Taking plastic bar out of mold
The lid of the mold is removed by the dedicated tool. Then the pressed plastic bar is taken out to be inspected carefully for every single detail, checking if there is no separation of the plastic, as well as the adhesion failure.
Checking by sight if there is not bubble melded
Another careful inspection is done for piece by piece in detail to check if bubble that occasionally gushed during heat treatment and could not be removed properly.
Removing steel plate
The steel plates, set between plastic bars, are removed one by one, Craftsman uses the dedicated tool that he made only for this process.
Forming temple shape by carving plastic bar
The strip shaped plastic bar is machined into the temple shape to make it comfortable on ears. There are limited numbers of craftsmen who can handle this old school machine that is rarely used, while productivity is required in these days.
Polishing temple to
make it shine, and finishing by caulking pins
to install hinge
Once the temple shape is formed, it is set in tumbling barrel, called “Gara”, and polished to make the surface glossy. Afterwards, the finish is completed by calking pins of hinges. Finished temple with gorgeous engraving patterns projected makes the whole frame exist beautifully constructed work.
Born in Minami Echizen, Fukui prefecture in 1947, and moved to Sabae in his childhood, then his father started eyewear workshop. After graduating high school, he started discipline under his father, spending over 50 years operating Fujita Shinbari workshop. He is one and only craftsman who continues to inherit Shinbari skills.
Achieving the aspect of one of a kind thing by hand work of Sabae craftsmen.
The complete production
process of P-501
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans, by 56% to 38%, support a reduction in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. Democrats are most inclined to support it -- saying they would vote for such a law if they could -- while Republicans are about evenly divided in their views.
A March 2-3 Gallup poll asked Americans how they would vote on a number of potential issues, most of which President Barack Obama raised in his recent State of the Union address, including U.S.-Russian nuclear reductions. Obama is considering a plan for further reductions in U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons, beyond those agreed to in the 2011 New START treaty.
Gallup asked about that treaty -- also in the referendum format -- in December 2010 and found results similar to those from the current poll, with 51% saying they would vote for the treaty and 30% against it.
However, Gallup has found much greater support for U.S-Russian or U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms reduction agreements in the past, typically above 70% in a variety of question formats asking about proposed or agreed-upon nuclear deals. For example, 82% supported a 2002 agreement signed by U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 1987, 74% said they approved of the proposed U.S.-Soviet INF treaty to eliminate intermediate-range weapons from Europe and Russia signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Americans may be less inclined now to have the U.S. reduce its nuclear weapons along with Russia because they do not view Russia as favorably as they did in the past. Currently, Americans' views tilt negative, with 44% holding a favorable opinion of Russia and 50% an unfavorable one, according to Gallup's Feb. 7-10 World Affairs poll. Americans tended to be much more positive toward Russia during the times the countries made past nuclear agreements, such as in 1991 and in 2002. Gallup did not ask this version of country ratings prior to 1989, when the Cold War was still ongoing.
Americans may also be less inclined to want to enter into an arms reduction deal with Russia not because of the threat Russia poses, but because of the perceived threat from countries like Iran and North Korea. Americans rated those two countries' nuclear capabilities the most critical threats to the U.S. among nine foreign policy matters in a Feb. 7-10 poll, conducted just days before North Korea conducted a nuclear test. Americans in the same poll viewed Russian military power as much less of a threat.
Americans may also be less likely to support nuclear cuts now, given that the U.S. has already made significant reductions in a series of past U.S.-Russian treaties and agreements.
President Obama favors a new agreement to cut U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. Most Americans continue to favor nuclear arms reductions with Russia, but the level of support for that appears less now than in prior years.
Obama has many other issues to address in his second term, so it is not clear how high a priority he would make a new arms deal. But he has argued that reducing the U.S. nuclear arsenal would save the country billions in the cost to maintain those weapons. And while cutting government spending is a clear priority for Obama and most government leaders, his ability to reach an agreement may depend on the relative benefits of potential savings compared with the potential risks to U.S. security.
Results for the item on nuclear arsenals from a Gallup poll based on telephone interviews conducted March 2-3, 2013, on the Gallup Daily tracking survey, with a random sample of 1,028 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Results for the remaining items are from a Gallup poll based on telephone interviews conducted Feb. 7-10, 2013, with a random sample of 1,015 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
For results based on these total samples of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 50% cellphone respondents and 50% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by region. Landline telephone numbers are chosen at random among listed telephone numbers. Cellphones numbers are selected using random digit dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted to correct for unequal selection probability, nonresponse, and double coverage of landline and cell users in the two sampling frames. They are also weighted to match the national demographics of gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, population density, and phone status (cellphone only/landline only/both, cellphone mostly, and having an unlisted landline number). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2012 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older U.S. population. Phone status targets are based on the July-December 2011 National Health Interview Survey. Population density targets are based on the 2010 census. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
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Dramatically staged Peters ice-cream, elegantly presented Swan Lager, and strikingly posed models wearing the latest fashions - these are just some of the iconic advertising moments captured by Stevenson, Kinder & Scott Corporate Photography. This online exhibition brings together advertising and promotional photographs from the State Library’s diverse collection of photographs by Stevenson, Kinder & Scott Corporate Photography.
Taken between the late 1960s and the 1990s, the featured photographs paint a visual story of life in Western Australia during this period. The post-World War II period was a time of great social and economic change in Australia. A sense of optimism increased consumer confidence and advertising of goods and services expanded. In this environment,Stevenson, Kinder & Scott were commissioned to photograph consumer goods ranging from household groceries to furniture, vehicles, fashion, fast food, drink, and leisure and fitness activities.
Stevenson, Kinder & Scott’s photographs un-mask the careful staging decisions made to create the most desirable images for ‘the sell’, while the subjects of the photographs provide a unique insight into the products and services advertised and sold to Western Australians at this time. With changes in marketing tactics,Stevenson, Kinder & Scott increasingly documented places and events associated with brands.
Staged to Sell presents just a fraction of this giant collection to illustrate how iconic brands have been staged and how they shape Western Australian consumer culture.
The Stevenson, Kinder & Scott Collection is one of the State Library’s largest contemporary photographic collections.It includes over 26,000 images. The collection was digitized as part of the State Library’s Historical Records Rescue Consortium (HRRC).
The remainder of photographs from the Stevenson, Kinder & Scott Collection traverse a broad range of subjects including retail, trade, mining, industrial development, sports, public relations, business publicity shots and government photography commissions.
Explore the themed stories to find out more.
Providing a window into Western Australian consumerism and public relations from the 1960s to the early 2000s, the Stevenson, Kinder & Scott Corporate Photography collection is an expansive collection of over 25,000 images. Shots range from retail trade, mining, industrial development, sport, public relations events, to real estate.
The late 20th century was marked by dramatic shifts in food culture and advertising. Eating moved from being a largely private activity, to becoming a more prominent and public pre-occupation. Increased affluence resulted in greater disposable income for special treats. This period saw the rise of 'fast food' in Western Australia, and a growth in advertising of food and dining experiences.
The late 20th century was an age of convenience. Shopping for groceries was revolutionized by the domestic refrigerator and growing vehicle ownership. Self-service supermarkets flourished and the availability of a variety of non-perishables and frozen food essentials, reduced shopping trips to once a week or less.
Timed with the cultural shift from gymnasiums for bodybuilding to health clubs for general health and fitness, Laurie Potter rode the wave of fitness culture that swept Australia in the 1970s to build a health club empire in WA. Formerly a household name, Laurie Potter's Health Clubs epitomised 1980s excess. The photos reveal aspects of 1970s and '80s health and fitness culture, which seem far removed from the contemporary fitness landscape.
Made in WA
Australian beer consumption increased with post-World War II optimism. The 1970s and 1980s saw the Swan Lager brand, together with the black swan emblem, become synonymous with sports sponsorship, business tycoon Alan Bond and with the America's Cup Yacht Race victory (1983).
A tuck shop lunch at school, a snack at the football, eaten with one hand, or with chips and peas in a restaurant. The meat pie is as versatile as a sandwich. Although an imported invention, the pie has become an Australian cultural icon.
A Modern Home
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What are the three teams that have survived since the NBA was founded?
The Boston Celtics and New York Knickerbockers are two NBA teams that started and still play in the same NBA city and have the same team name.
A Chronology of the Teams in the NBA.
|LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS||Buffalo Braves (1970-78) San Diego Clippers (1978-84) Los Angeles Clippers (1984-present)|
Which NBA franchise has never relocated?
|1946||New York Knicks||94%|
Who were the original 8 NBA teams?
The original 11 teams were the Boston Celtics, Providence Steamrollers, New York Knickerbockers, Philadelphia Warriors, Pittsburgh Ironmen, and Washington Capitols were the East Division and Cleveland Rebels, Detroit Falcons, Toronto Huskies, Chicago Stags and St. Louis Bombers were the West Division.
Who was the first black NBA player?
Charles Henry Cooper (September 29, 1926 – February 5, 1984) was an American professional basketball player. He and two others, Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton and Earl Lloyd, became the first African-American players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1950.
Who is the youngest team in the NBA?
Rebuilding franchise the Oklahoma City Thunder are the youngest team in the league, holding a slim lead over the Memphis Grizzlies and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Who is the oldest person in NBA history?
Nat Hickey, 45 years old
The oldest NBA player of all-time dates back to 1948. Nat Hickey coached the Providence Steamrollers in the 1947-48 season, but moved himself to the active roster after the team got off to a 4-25 start.
Did Vancouver have an NBA team?
They were part of the Midwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
|History||Vancouver Grizzlies 1995–2001 Memphis Grizzlies 2001–present|
|Arena||General Motors Place|
|Location||Vancouver, British Columbia|
|Team colors||Turquoise, bronze, red, black|
Why did Hornets move to New Orleans?
Due to the devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina upon the communities of southeastern Louisiana, the Hornets franchise temporarily relocated their operations to Oklahoma City in 2005–06 and 2006–07. During this time, the franchise was known as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets.
What does NBA stand for?
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.
Who was the first player to dunk a basketball?
In 1944, Kurland and the Aggies were playing at Temple. When the ball fell under the basket Oklahoma A&M was attacking, Kurland picked it up, followed his instincts, and became the first player to dunk.
Who hit the first 3 pointer in NBA history?
Chris Ford of the Boston Celtics is credited with making the first three-point shot in NBA history on October 12, 1979.
Has a girl ever played in the NBA?
She played professional basketball with the Houston Angels of the Women’s Professional Basketball League (WBL) and was the first and only woman ever officially drafted by the National Basketball Association (NBA), a men’s professional basketball league.
Who is the youngest NBA player to score 10000?
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Danya Al Hamrani has been telling stories for as long as she can remember.
In 2008, she and her business partner, Dania Nassif, started the production company, Eggdancer - the first company in Saudi Arabia, to be owned and run by women.
Danya was instrumental in getting Anthony Bourdain, host of the series "No Reservations' to come to Saudi Arabia, thereby "shining a light on a place, people don't get to see much of."
Eggdancer has produced their first long documentary "Rise: The Journey of Women in Saudi Arabia."
Danya tells us her story.
Title music: Bells in the Wind by Daniel Birch (www.danielbirch.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution-Non Commercial 4.1 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Animals are beautiful people - Warner Archive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1fqy3eY5q8&t=33s
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Frank Noschese to Receive 2018 Paul W. Zitzewitz Excellence in K-12 Teaching Award
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College Park, Maryland, United States, March 19, 2018—The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) announced today that the 2018 Paul Zitzewitz Excellence in K-12 Physics Teaching Award winner is Frank Noschese, a physics teacher at John Jay High School in Cross River, NY. This award is in recognition for contributions to pre-college physics teaching and awardees are chosen for their extraordinary accomplishments in communicating the excitement of physics to their students.
Regarding his selection for this award Noschese said, "I am honored to receive this award, which recognizes that being a great teacher is about fostering inquiry, taking risks in the classroom, and sharing ideas. I am thankful for the tremendous support I've received from my administrators, my colleagues (both real and virtual), my students and their parents."
Educated at Cornell University with a BA in Physics and an MAT in Science and Mathematics Education, Noschese is an inspiration for hundreds of physics teachers across the world. His very popular teaching blog, ActionReaction, is a treasure trove of excellent teaching ideas, and lessons that are useful for both novice and experienced teachers. His ideas have had a tremendous influence on the larger teaching community. For example, his Noschese 180 teaching blog, which he started by taking one photograph related to his teaching each day, and posting it with a short caption turned out be incredibly powerful—these short reflections shared tremendous teaching ideas. Many of these ideas were taken up by physics teachers around the world, and the blog became a powerful tool for professional growth for dozens of teachers.
He is a member of the New York State Master Teacher Program which fosters collaboration among New York's outstanding STEM educators and offers high-quality professional learning. He was given the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. In 2017 he received an AAPT Fellows Award.
Noschese has been incredibly active in engaging larger conversations about teaching pedagogy. He is outspoken defender of inquiry learning and the thoughtful use of technology. His post explaining how using $2 whiteboards made from tile board can be powerful tools for dialogue and collaboration in class, even more than $2000 interactive whiteboards won an Edublogs award for the most influential blog post of 2010. In addition to many sectional AAPT invited talks and a TEDxNYED talk, Noschese has been featured on numerous news programs, including MSNBC discussing the power of actively engaging students in inquiry. In all of his communication and advocacy, Noschese is a positive voice for the pivotal role of the teacher in the classroom.
Prior Award Winners (link: http://www.aapt.org/Programs/awards/Paul-Zitzewitz-Award-for-Excellence-in-K12-Physics-Teaching.cfm)
About the Award
Established as the Excellence in Pre-College Teaching Award in 1993 then renamed and endowed in 2010 by Paul W. and Barbara S. Zitzewitz, the Paul W. Zitzewitz Award for Excellence in K-12 Physics Teaching recognizes outstanding achievement in teaching pre-college physics.
AAPT is an international organization for physics educators, physicists, and industrial scientists—with members worldwide. Dedicated to enhancing the understanding and appreciation of physics through teaching, AAPT provides awards, publications, and programs that encourage practical application of physics principles, support continuing professional development, and reward excellence in physics education. AAPT was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in the American Center for Physics in College Park, Maryland.
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Najib quickly shut down Malaysian investigations into 1MDB in 2015. Yet external agencies and media sources have since tracked what they believe is an international chain of transactions enabling billions to allegedly be siphoned out of the fund, through foreign banks, funds, shell companies and the prime minister’s personal contacts.
The Wall Street Journal believes that 1MDB funds were used by Najib’s ruling party United Malays National Organisation (UNMO) to campaign in the 2013 general election — a contest in which UMNO’s popular vote collapsed to an all-time low. The 2013 result tested UMNO’s credibility as well as public trust in the electoral process. In 2015, the Malaysian authorities imprisoned opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on sodomy charges after he accused Najib of having stolen the election.
With one prominent accuser sidelined, Najib is now preparing the party for the next election, which he might call at any time in 2017. During UMNO’s recent general assembly one of the key messages delivered was that only total loyalty to Najib will deliver an UMNO victory. But according to former prime minister and now opposition figure Mahathir Mohamad, any such victory will be bought with ‘tons of money’ — money he alleges will continue to be sourced from 1MDB’s missing funds.
Najib has worked hard since the scandal first broke to neutralise all domestic disloyalty to him, both inside and outside UMNO. Najib purged Mahathir and his allies from UMNO earlier this year when they criticised the party’s electoral performance and international reputation.
Najib and his allies have also increased their attacks on the opposition parties with which Mahathir has since aligned himself. They assert that the alliance is dominated by the largely Chinese Democratic Action Party (DAP), whom they present as hostile to and even at ‘war’ with Islam and Muslims. UMNO further accuses Malay Muslims who work with the DAP of being ‘liberal extremists’ — pushing values that clash with those purportedly held by the majority, represented by UMNO.
Najib has also been expanding his arsenal of legislative instruments that enable crackdowns on such alleged extremists. This includes the National Security Council Act, which came into effect in August. The Act permits Najib to personally designate a ‘security area’ in which he can deploy the National Security Operations Force that he established in October. This legislation also allows for the use of lethal force without judicial oversight. The other instrument is the Prevention of Terrorism Act of 2015, which allows for indefinite detention without trial.
These new instruments now operate in addition to the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act of 2012, under which Najib’s government recently detained Maria Chin Abdullah — the head of electoral reform movement Bersih — for 10 days. The authorities have also recently used the Official Secrets Act to silence their critics. Under this Act Rafizi Ramli of the opposition People’s Justice Party has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for releasing information sourced from a 1MDB investigation shut down in 2015. The sentence could be sufficient to disqualify him from holding political office.
Meanwhile Bersih and other monitoring organisations have criticised the government’s latest exercise in re-delineating electoral boundaries — an exercise they warn will further favour UMNO and rural, Malay Muslim voters. To scale up UMNO’s efforts to appeal to these voters, the party has launched slick new advertisements via its social media channels showing the benefits of government welfare schemes.
On top of this, new street tactics are now being deployed by UMNO figures including Jamal Yunos — a party division chief who leads a group known as the Red Shirts. The Red Shirts have recently marched and performed martial arts displays in opposition to Bersih, ostensibly to show that they will protect both Islam and democracy from the movement and its rallies.
With so many resources available to him, it would appear that Najib has the next election — and with it, his position as party president and prime minister — securely in the bag.
Yet Najib’s constant railing against Mahathir, and exhortations that UMNO members must remain vigilant against internal enemies, undercuts this impression — and effectively confirms the continued presence inside UMNO of dissatisfied party members. Should the opposition parties develop a competitive message before the election is called, such members could defect to the new Bersatu party recently formed by Mahathir — or at least this is what UMNO appears to be afraid of.
To hedge against this possibility, UMNO has been making public overtures to the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) for an electoral alliance. UMNO has offered to support a Private Member’s Bill tabled by PAS leader Abdul Hadi Awang that seeks to increase the severity of sentences passed by Malaysia’s Syariah Courts. Observers fear that this legislation may be paving the way for hudud sentencing, including amputation of limbs and stoning, which PAS is also known to favour.
Najib’s investment in racial and religious bloc tactics, along with ample new tools that could be used to stifle political competition, are signs that the coming election’s course remains unpredictable.
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Buying Back a Vehicle That Has Been Written Off
Cars can be written off and classified as damaged or broken for several reasons and fall under categories based on the area of the car affected, whether that’s the bodywork, engine, parts or interior.
Many car owners don’t realise that they can actually buy back their written off vehicle from their insurance company. In fact, it’s often a wise move, especially if the damaged car can be easily repaired.
Here’s our guide to everything that you need to know about buying back a vehicle that has been declared a total loss.
Why Does it Benefit a Car Owner to Buy Back a Damaged Vehicle?
If your insurance company believes that your car will cost more to repair than it is worth, they will typically declare the vehicle to be a total loss and give you a cash pay-out, rather than paying for the repairs.
However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that your car is beyond repair. Insurance companies evaluate a damaged or broken vehicle differently to how a car owner would. For example, if your car has been written off by an insurance company but it can still be driven and can be repaired, it could be worth your while buying the car back to fix it or sell it for salvage.
Even if the car isn’t worth repairing, if just one element of the car is damaged, it could be sold on for its parts or sold as salvage, depending on the damage.
A car is often sold on as a salvage vehicle if it requires a certain level of work that is simply not feasible for you.
To help car owners to understand the differences between broken and damaged cars, different salvage categories are used: A, B, S or N
This is the rating given to vehicles that aren’t suitable to be repaired. No parts from the car can be reused and the vehicle must be disposed of immediately.
Category B is given to vehicles that are not suitable for repair, but some of the vehicle parts may be reused. These vehicles can be used for salvage.
Category S refers to vehicles with damage to the structural frame or chassis. The repair costs for the vehicle are greater than the pre-accident value of the vehicle. These vehicles can be used for salvage.
A category N vehicle does not have any structural damage, the damage is to Non-Structural parts of the car or van only, but the repair costs outweigh its pre-accident value of the vehicle. These vehicles can be used for salvage.
Can I Buy a Vehicle That Has Been Written Off?
If a car has been written off, either your insurance company can offer to keep it in return for an insurance pay-out, or you can keep the vehicle yourself, sometimes at a slightly reduced pay-out, and then either repair the it yourself or sell it for salvage.
For example, if your car is written off due to a total loss, you can opt to keep the vehicle, repair it and continue using it. If the vehicle has been written off as a Category S then you would need to inform the DVLA and register it again. In order to do this, you’ll need to send your v5c document or logbook to your insurance company and then apply for a free duplicate log book using a V62 form.
If you decide to buy a car that has been written off, you should consider the following:
An accident that is enough for an insurance company to declare a vehicle as a total loss means that there is also likely to be a lot more damage to the car than meets the eye. Following any accident, a lot of damage can often go undetected.
This means that if you purchase someone else’s car that has been written off, it could end up costing you a lot more in repairs than it is worth. At the same time, although you are perfectly within your rights to sell your car on once it is road worthy, a car that has been a category write off can sometimes be a lot more difficult to sell on or trade in.
The same applies for repairable vehicles, so if you decide to sell your car on, you should always be wary of the potential financial implications involved.
Do I Have to Take the Car Insurance Buy Back Amount?
You don’t have to accept the buy back or salvage deduction amount you are offered by your insurance company. You can also get quotes for how much it would cost to repair your vehicle, so that you can decide whether to repair the car yourself or sell it on.
As your insurer may quote a figure below what they can achieve for the vehicle it’s a good idea to use our salvage calculator to check this.
Here at Scrap Car Comparison, we specialise in buying both damaged and broken vehicles for salvage.
Price quotations for damaged and broken cars are reviewed on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis in order to generate the best quote for your vehicle.
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Introduce your students to a live theater performance through the Center’s curriculum-enhancing performing arts series. Center Stage spans a variety of subjects, including history, science, and social studies. Each performance is accompanied by a study guide and genre-specific activities that connect to Common Core, Visual and Performing Arts and California State Curriculum Standards. Contact the Box Office at (800) 988-4253 to reserve your seats today! All tickets are $5 each unless otherwise indicated.
2019/20 Season Lineup:
March 6, 2020, 12:00pm
Concert Hall, $6 per ticket | Recommended Grades 3-12
The sounds of classical violin and hip-hop combine to create the musical phenomenon, Black Violin. Their one-of-a-kind sound is sought after by hit recording artists. The duo of Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste come to the Center Stage series to share their signature sound as they challenge stereotypes. They will inspire us with technique and style through music. Photo Credit: Brian Stollery
TICKETS ON SALE MAY 1, 2019
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The Financial Services User Group | FSUG was created by the European Commission to involve users of financial services in the policy making, having as main goals:
- Advise the European Commission on the preparation and implementation of legislation or policy initiatives that affect users of financial services;
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If you’re stuck and wondering how to write an A-level history coursework, you’re not alone. History is not as straightforward as some people think. But with the help of this article, you can learn how to identify a topic, develop a question, analyze sources, and write a citation. Read on to discover how you can approach this challenging task. Once you have completed the basics, you’ll be well on your way to achieving a top grade!
Identifying a topic
Identifying a topic for a Level History coursework is an essential part of the examination. This is a non-exam assessment, also known as a Historical Investigation, and you will be expected to use a range of sources to make your essay as informative as possible. If you want to achieve top marks, you must use primary and secondary sources. Primary sources are those written during the time in question. Secondary sources, by contrast, are scholarly books or articles written by historians. The latter is essential as they provide the framework for your argument.
To make the most of this type of assessment, you must consider how different historians interpret the same subject. You should also consider how different interpretations of the same topic were formed. Try to use evidence and analysis from different perspectives to counter the arguments of each. For example, you could use documents that are more recent than other historical documents to argue for your own view. This is a great way to create an interesting essay.
Once you have identified a topic for your A Level History coursework, you must make sure that you have enough time to research and write your essay. You should also leave some time to read history essays. By doing so, you will be exposed to the writing style and content of academic essays. In addition to books, academic journal articles, and other scholarly sources, it is also useful to consult a scholarly work related to the topic. Be sure not to use websites that target school students.
Developing a question
Developing a question for your historical investigation is vital if you want to secure high marks. This type of coursework requires you to use a range of primary and secondary sources to support your argument. Primary sources include documents written during the time in question. Secondary sources, by contrast, are scholarly books and articles written by historians. Historians call secondary sources interpretations. The primary sources provide the basis for an investigation, whereas secondary sources are simply scholarly books or articles written by historians.
When developing your question for your A-level history coursework, you should think about the historical context in which the topic took place. A ‘What’ question requires a student to analyse two historical interpretations and place them within the context of the last hundred years. The question may be based on British history or non-British history, or it can be global. It should not duplicate the content studied in the first two components of the course.
The SAT test is a great way to practice analyzing sources when writing coursework. Although you aren’t expected to know about minor details, like the author, class, religion, or time period, this information can help you support your arguments in the essay. You can add captions or labels, as well as comparisons between two different historical events. And you can use analogy to compare unlike things.
To analyse sources, you must first know their purpose and audience. Every source has an intention behind it, and knowing this will help you judge its relevance and reliability. A piece of ancient pottery, for example, might have been made to show off Charles’ wealth to other European monarchs. However, even a pop song could have been written to make an important political statement. In either case, the purpose behind the source is important.
Primary sources often lack context and are incomplete. You may need to combine multiple sources in order to write an effective essay. You should also test your assumptions about the past by finding other primary sources or secondary sources with the same information. And you should always ask for specific reasons for your conclusions. And remember that good analysis doesn’t happen overnight. And even the most renowned historians spend hours studying and analyzing a single primary source.
There is no single, right or wrong method for citing sources in A level history coursework. Rather, students must choose the most appropriate method for each course. The length and style of sources may vary. In general, students should use at least three primary sources per assignment, and they should choose a wide range of sources to present different points of view. Despite the wide range of sources available, students should choose sources with substantial content, provenance, and a critical perspective.
Generally, historians use the Chicago Manual of Style, but history coursework requires a different format. This style isn’t compatible with APA or MLA, so students should check with their professors for details. Regardless of the style, citations should be consistent and accurate. However, students should make sure to use the style that suits their course and major. When in doubt, a good rule of thumb is to choose the style that matches the nature of the course.
The WKU History Department has produced a helpful page with information on footnotes. While this page should be a good starting point, it’s not a replacement for a guide such as A Manual for Writers of Theses and Term Papers. The latter is based on the CMS. Whether it is a book or an article, there are guidelines that should be followed when citing sources in A level history coursework.
Keeping all requirements in mind
Keeping all requirements in mind when writing an AP history coursework can help you write an excellent paper. The AHA collaborated with history professors to create a list of skills students should develop while writing this course. Make sure your coursework provides examples of the type of writing you expect from your professor. Regardless of whether you are writing for a test or an essay, you need to make sure you have samples of your work to show the professor.
Getting an A
A level history coursework is the non-exam component of the course, but it’s far from impossible. There are a few tips you can use to get an A. First of all, choose a topic you are passionate about. Because you’ll be working on it for months, choose something you are particularly interested in. It will also help if you can pick an interesting topic to study. You can find some excellent A-level history coursework examples online.
A level history is about understanding past events and their consequences. It looks at political, economic, social and cultural issues. While it doesn’t cover everything, you’ll learn enough about the subject to gain some context and an historian’s approach. The central question in any history course is, “why”? It’s the basis for any investigation and is ultimately the purpose of study. In addition, it teaches you how to argue in a persuasive way in both class and in written work.
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Thracian Culture – The
Bronze Age /year 3200 – 1200 BC/ and the Early Iron Age /year
1200 – 500 BC/
is assumed that with the beginning of the Bronze Age when
the metallurgy of bronze was introduced the Southeastern Balkan
Peninsula has already been populated by the ancient Thracians.
On the left side of the hall are exhibited
artifacts from the dwellings that have been sunken under the
waters of the Varna Lakes dated back to the early Bronze
Age. Obviously, after a short period of termination the pile
dwellings were reestablished over the remnants of the earlier
ones from the Eneolithic Age and even some new ones have been
built as nowadays 13 such dwellings along the coasts of the
Varna Lakes are known from the Bronze Age.
Especially significant is the development
of the bronze metallurgy during the late Bronze Age /second
half of the 2nd Millennium BC/. Widely spread are the bronze
objects buried in the earth as treasures such as bronze axes,
sickles, etc. Of special interest is the bronze sword excavated
by the village of Tcherkovna, Varna Region dated 13th –12th
On the other side of the room are exhibited
materials from Thracian necropolises of the Early Iron Age.
These are typical for Northeast Thrace necropolises with graves
cut in the rock or covered with burial mounds. As cremation
was a basic funeral rite, manufactured were big clay funeral
urns decorated with tongue like handles, swastikas, crosses,
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ancient Thracians have also adopted the potters' wheel. Iron
became the basic material for working out tools and weapons.
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Why do I have such a hard time remembering the graciousness of God in the midst of His discipline? For some reason, I always think that every lesson He is teaching me has to be harsh and painful. I know that there is a balance and that He never promised life would be easy. But I tend to be all or nothing in my rememberance of God; all Old Testament law or all New Testament grace. But as Jesus said,
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. -Matthew 5:17
And as John stated,
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. -John 1:17
With that being said, I think this post is less of a statement and more of a question.
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Can You Cook Frozen Ground Beef, Meat, Poultry, and Pork? Yes! It is perfectly safe to cook meats from frozen. Cooking time will be approximately 50% longer than the recommended time for fully thawed or fresh meat and poultry.
Do you have to defrost ground beef before cooking?
Thaw ground meat if you want to shape it into patties or make meatloaves. While you can safely cook large frozen roasts or whole turkeys, it’s best to thaw them first because the outside of the meat might dry out and become overcooked before the inside cooks completely.
Why should you not cook meat that isn’t fully defrosted?
Usually the cooking process will require a lower temperature to defrost the food and then a higher temperature for a longer time to cook it through. However some foods cannot be cooked from frozen and must be thawed fully before use. … This increases the risk of harmful bacteria contaminating the food.
How long is ground beef good after thawing?
After thawing, use ground meats, poultry, and fish within one or two additional days, and use beef, pork, lamb or veal (roasts, steaks, or chops) within three to five days. For more information about thawing, please see The Big Thaw.
Can you put thawed ground beef back in the fridge?
According to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, if you thawed your ground beef in the refrigerator and it’s only been in there for a short time (three days or less), it’s perfectly OK to refreeze it.
How can I defrost ground beef quickly?
For days when what to make for dinner is the last thing on your mind, you can use the microwave to quickly defrost ground beef. Remove all packaging, then place the meat on a plate and microwave it at 50% power for 2 to 3 minutes, rotating and flipping the beef every 45 seconds, until it is fully thawed.
What is the best way to thaw out ground beef?
Thaw in cool water. Set the zip-top bag with the frozen meat in a sink or large bowl, cover with cold water, and weigh the package of meat down with something heavy, like a skillet or big platter. You want to keep the meat submerged in the cold water. The meat should thaw in less than 15 minutes; cook immediately.
Can you leave meat out all night to thaw?
It’s definitely not recommended to defrost meat at room temperature. In fact, you are not supposed to leave meat at room temperature for more than an hour. However, defrosting in the refrigerator can take a long time and require you to plan at least one day ahead of time.
Can you cook frozen meat without thawing?
Is it safe to cook frozen meat without thawing? Cooking frozen meat is not rocket science. … The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) says meat is safe to cook without thawing and that it will “take approximately 50% longer than the recommended time for fully thawed or fresh meat and poultry.”
Is it safe to thaw meat overnight on the counter?
Perishable foods should never be thawed on the counter, or in hot water and must not be left at room temperature for more than two hours. … When thawing frozen food, it’s best to plan ahead and thaw in the refrigerator where it will remain at a safe, constant temperature — at 40 °F or below.
How can you tell if thawed ground beef is bad?
Raw ground beef should be bright red on the outside and brownish on the inside. If its surface has turned thoroughly brown or gray or grown mold, it has gone bad and should be discarded.
How long can raw ground beef stay in fridge?
It is safe to store ground beef in the refrigerator for 1–2 days, and eat leftovers within 4 days. A person can store ground beef in the freezer for up to 4 months. When cooking ground beef, the minimum internal temperature as measured with a food thermometer is 160°F (71°C).
What happens if you leave ground beef out overnight?
If a perishable food (such as meat or poultry) has been left out at room temperature overnight (more than two hours) it may not be safe. Discard it, even though it may look and smell good. Never taste a food to see if it is spoiled. Use a food thermometer to verify temperatures.
Can you refrigerate ground beef after defrosting it in the microwave?
Once the meat is defrosted thoroughly, cook it immediately or within 2 hours. Due to warm spots occurred from the microwave, the bacteria may start grow rapidly. If needed, put it in the fridge if you are considering to use it later. Avoid refreezing the raw ground beef once it is thawed in the microwave.
How can you tell if beef is spoiled?
Beef that has gone bad will develop a slimy or sticky texture and smell bad or “off.” If beef develops a grayish color, that doesn’t necessarily mean it has gone bad. Don’t taste meat to determine if it’s safe to eat or not. Call the USDA’s hotline.
Can you eat mince 2 days after defrosting?
Never refreeze raw meat (including poultry) or fish that has been defrosted. You can cook frozen meat and fish once defrosted, and then refreeze them. … Frozen raw foods can be defrosted once and stored in the fridge for up to 24 hours before they need to be cooked or thrown away. | <urn:uuid:461b70ae-2240-4c6b-a9b3-81845ad5e99b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gutomna.com/fry/can-you-cook-thawed-ground-beef.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938234 | 1,201 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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We find that the size of the fixed-route bus system (measured as real per capita operating expenditures) is negatively related to employee turnover rates [for local employers]: An increase in bus systems’ per capita operating expenditures is associated with a decrease in employee turnover. Decreases in employee turnover represent cost savings to businesses by reducing the costs associated with training new workers and rebuilding firm-specific knowledge or better employee-employer matches. These results suggest that access to fixed-route bus transit should be a component of the economic development strategy for communities not only for the access to jobs that it provides low-income workers but also for the benefits accruing to businesses that hire these workers.
This also means that new employers need to read this before they choose their location!
I could wish that they had measured transit quantity using revenue hours rather than expenditures, because revenue hours are a better measure of service to the customer. But still, this is a big deal. Eric Jaffe also has the story at Citylab. | <urn:uuid:bdac5044-04ab-41d2-b20b-58b3212614d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://humantransit.org/2015/05/local-bus-systems-reduce-employee-turnover-quote-of-the-week.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960521 | 214 | 2.25 | 2 |
Physicians are being increasingly called upon to engage in leadership at all levels of modern health organizations, leading many to call for greater research and training interventions regarding physician leadership development. Yet, within these calls to action, the authors note a troubling trend toward siloed, medicine-specific approaches to leadership development, and a broad failure to learn from the evidence and insight of other relevant disciplines, such as the organizational sciences. The authors describe how this trend reflects what has been called the “Not-Invented-Here Syndrome” (NIHS)—a commonly observed reluctance to adopt and integrate insights from outside disciplines—and highlight the pitfalls of NIHS for effective physician leadership development. Failing to learn from research and interventions in the organizational sciences inhibits physician leadership development efforts, leading to redundant rediscoveries of known insights and reinventions of existing best practices. The authors call for physician leaders to embrace ideas that are “proudly developed elsewhere” and work with colleagues in outside disciplines to conduct collaborative research and develop integrated training interventions to best develop physician leaders who are prepared for the complex, dynamic challenges of modern health care. | <urn:uuid:ed735687-dbb9-4251-9750-e51960536a27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://christophergmyers.net/publication/2019-myers-acadmed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.945819 | 227 | 1.867188 | 2 |
MICRORNAS IN NORMAL AND CANCER CELLS: A NEW CLASS OF GENE EXPRESSION REGULATORS
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that negatively regulate gene expression at posttranscriptional level. They are involved in cellular development, differentiation, proliferation and apoptosis and play a significant role in cancer. This review describes miRNA biogenesis, their functions in normal cells, and alterations of miRNA sets in cancer and roles of antitumorigenic and oncogenic miRNAs in cancer development.
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Usually, individuals with healthy skin, that do not have any type of signs of psoriasis, notice mature skin cells appear on their skin once in a month or so. Those, that have psoriasis, see these skin cells as soon as in every 2 weeks.
There are several therapy choices available for psoriasis, however the most effective ones include using topical creams and also lotion to the affected area. Currently, considering that CBD, the fantastic chemical compound removed from marijuana plant has anti-inflammatory homes, scientists are considering it as an efficient treatment for psoriasis signs.
The reviews worrying the results of CBD for psoriasis are rather much mixed. Although there is anecdotal proof recommending that products like CBD soap and also oil are valuable for people experiencing psoriasis, research studies conducted thus far have verified to be inconclusive.
Using CBD for Psoriasis
Our body works with its own internal endocannabinoid system. There are many receptors which bind endocannabinoids, and also make sure harmony within the system. Currently, when we drop ill, or are tired as well as just stressed, our body is unable to produce adequate endocannabinoids. Nevertheless, this gap can be full of the aid of phytocannabinoids, which is just endocannabinoids removed from plants.
Well, CBD is by far one of the ideal cannabinoid removed from the hemp plant. Since endocannabinoid system is also a part of our skin, when CBD interacts with endocannabinoid receptors of skin, it most definitely has some therapeutic effects.
There are several research studies which sustain that a efficient and prospective phytocannabinoids can as well as will certainly help battle skin problems like browse around these guys psoriasis For circumstances, a research performed in 2007 found that cannabinoids like CBD decreased the development of skin cells, and thereby assisted in minimizing psoriatic skin breakouts. One more study conducted in 2019 confirmed that CBD lotions decreased psoriasis symptoms.
Many CBD topical customers around the world record that they are pleased to see exactly how reliable CBD has actually been for their condition. Numerous individuals effectively relieved the inflammation, itching, peeling off of skin as well as swelling with the assistance of CBD. Some record that they took care of to eliminate the signs of psoriasis permanently.
Other advantages of using CBD for individuals experiencing psoriasis.
Psoriasis is usually seen to manifest in locations like:
Joints like arm joints, knees, etc
. Scalp or the edges of scalp
People dealing with psoriasis likewise experience a problem referred to as psoriasis joint inflammation. As the name recommends, an individual struggles with chronic body pain in smaller joints of hands as well as feet. One is anticipated to experience pain, swelling in joints, as well as stiffness.
Currently, in addition to anti-inflammatory properties, CBD has some fantastic discomfort eliminating buildings too. This indicates, when people used CBD to treat psoriasis, they even deal with psoriasis arthritis in the procedure.
In conclusion it can be claimed that there is yet a whole lot to learn more about health and wellness advantages of CBD. So, if you are thinking about the concept of utilizing CBD for psoriasis, we suggest you do so after consulting your skin specialist.
Normally, people with healthy skin, that don't have any kind of signs of psoriasis, notification fully grown skin cells show up on their skin when in a month or find more info so. Those, who have psoriasis, see these skin cells once in every 2 weeks.
One more research study conducted in 2019 confirmed that CBD lotions lowered psoriasis signs.
Several CBD topical individuals around the globe record that they are completely satisfied to see exactly how reliable CBD has actually been for their condition. People suffering from psoriasis likewise suffer from a problem recognized as psoriasis arthritis.
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From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level : Kisan Suryodaya Yojana
Mains level : Not Much
PM has launched the ‘Kisan Suryodaya Yojana’ aimed at providing day-time electricity to farmers in the State of Gujarat for irrigation and farming purposes.
Try this question from CSP 2017:
Q. The term ‘Domestic Content Requirement’ is sometimes seen in the news with reference to-
(a) Developing solar power production in our country
(b) Granting licences to foreign T.V. channels in our country
(c) Exporting our food products to other countries
(d) Permitting foreign educational institutions to set up their campuses in our country
Kisan Suryodaya Yojana
- Under the scheme, farmers will be able to avail power supply from 5am to 9pm for irrigation purposes.
- Around 234 transmission lines are to be installed under the scheme. Each line is to carry the power of 66 KW. They are to be erected to a total length of 3,490 km.
- Dahod, Patan, Mahisagar, Panchmahal, Chhota Udepur, Kheda, Tapi, Valsad, Anand and Gir-Somnath have been included under the Scheme for 2020-21.
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- Michael L LaCroix-Fralish, Jean-Sebastien Austin, Felix Y Zheng, Daniel J Levitin, and Jeffrey S Mogil.
- Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1B1.
- Pain. 2011 Aug 1;152(8):1888-98.
AbstractExisting microarray gene expression profiling studies of tonic/chronic pain were subjected to meta-analysis to identify genes found to be regulated by these pain states in multiple, independent experiments. Twenty studies published from 2002 to 2008 were identified, describing the statistically significant regulation of 2254 genes. Of those, a total of 79 genes were found to be statistically significant "hits" in 4 or more independent microarray experiments, corresponding to a conservative P<0.01 overall. Gene ontology-based functional annotation clustering analyses revealed strong evidence for regulation of immune-related genes in pain states. A multi-gene quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction experiment was run on dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and spinal cord tissue from rats and mice given nerve (sciatic chronic constriction; CCI) or inflammatory (complete Freund's adjuvant) injury. We independently confirmed the regulation of 43 of these genes in the rat-CCI-DRG condition; the genetic correlates in all other conditions were largely and, in some cases, strikingly, independent. However, a handful of genes were identified whose regulation bridged etiology, anatomical locus, and/or species. Most notable among these were Reg3b (regenerating islet-derived 3 beta; pancreatitis-associated protein) and Ccl2 (chemokine [C-C motif] ligand 2), which were significantly upregulated in every condition in the rat.Copyright © 2011 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Flood Crisis Hits Three Australian States, 30 Dead
MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia, January 19, 2011 (ENS) – Floodwaters from weeks of rain in Queensland spilled over the state’s southern boundary into neighboring New South Wales last week, and now the disastrous floods are inundating dozens of towns and hundreds of ranches in a third state further to the south.
The state of Victoria in Australia’s southeast corner is the latest victim of the flood emergency that has lasted since early December, claiming at least 30 lives.
At Horsham, the flooded Wimmera River runs under a bridge on the main highway between Melbourne and Adelaide, January 17, 2011 (Photo by Flora Haggis)
Across Victoria, more than 3,500 people have fled their homes, with 60 towns submerged by the rising waters. Horsham was inundated Tuesday as the Wimmera River burst its banks, flooding about 500 homes in the town of 14,000 people.
Floodwaters are now affecting most of eastern Australia, causing what Prime Minister Julia Gillard is calling “the country’s most expensive natural disaster.”
In Queensland, floodwaters have receded in some places, but not in others, so the full extent of the damage to infrastructure and buildings is not yet known.
After many visits to flood-affected areas, Prime Minister Gillard said, “For me there’s a lot of sorrow, a lot of sorrow, but also a lot of pride seeing how Australians responded and a lot of determination about how we’re going to get through this and how we’re going to rebuild from it.”
Prime Minister Julia Gillard with Brisbane residents, January 12, 2011 (Photo by Max Wedge)
Gillard had projected a federal budget surplus in 2012-2013 and today she said that surplus is still on the books, even with the expense of flood recovery.
“We will rebuild Queensland definitely, full stop,” the Prime Minister said today. “We will rebuild Queensland and we will make the difficult decisions necessary to bring the budget to surplus in 2012-13. This is not either/or, this is both.”
“Communities in Northern New South Wales are feeling the flow-on effects of severe flooding in southeast Queensland,” said Gillard. “The flooding in these communities has caused considerable disruption, including the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes.”
The Prime Minister is offering assistance in the form of a Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment of $1,000 per eligible adult and $400 per eligible child to help flood-affected residents of all three states.
The federal government also is offering grants of up to $15,000 for small businesses and primary producers affected by flooding in New South Wales.
High water level in Pamamaroo Lake, Menindee, January 17, 2011 (Photo by Andy Chan)
As recently as a week ago, water officials in New South Wales were rationing water and urging conservation measures, but today, state Water Commissioner David Harriss said Menindee Lakes in the Lower Darling River Valley are already at 105 percent of normal capacity and large volumes of water will be released downstream.
“The recent very heavy rain in the Menindee, Wilcannia and White Cliffs area has resulted in inflows to the lakes that could not be planned for, even a week ago,” said Harriss.
The wealth of water is good news for parched areas that have been drier than normal for years, but the NSW government has declared some disaster areas and thousands of people have fled their homes.
In Victoria, Premier Ted Baillieu said today, “These are the worst floods ever to hit northern and north-western Victoria. They have caused widespread devastation to local communities and massive long term assistance will be required to help these communities recover and rebound.”
Government clean-up grants for flood victims such as businesses, not-for-profit organizations and primary producers will increase to $25,000 from $15,000 and will be made retroactive to include those affected by the floods last September and December, Baillieu said.
Victoria Minister for Agriculture and Food Security Peter Walsh said a statewide Incident Management Team has been established by the Department of Primary Industries to co-ordinate urgent flood recovery efforts for Victorian farmers.
“DPI officers will travel through the affected areas as they become safe to do so, to identify urgent animal welfare requirements such as animal health needs, feed for livestock and carcass disposal. They will also be providing details on support packages available,” Walsh said.
EPA Victoria’s Tim Eaton warned, “The burning of dead stock must be avoided,” due to health and environmental issues. Eaton said EPA would consider allowing disposal of animal carcasses in licensed landfills or the agency might issue one-off approvals for burial in large pits.
Soldiers from the Royal Queensland Regiment help Brisbane residents Barbara and John Iwanko clear debris as part of the Australian Defence Force Operation Queensland Flood Assist, January 16, 2011. (Photo by Cpl. Janine Fabre courtesy ADF)
Prime Minister Gillard announced Tuesday that her government will establish a Business Taskforce chaired by Wayne Swan, deputy prime minister and treasurer, to support the immediate recovery effort.
The Business Taskforce will gather 10 Australian business leaders from a range of industries to mobilize business efforts across the country, leverage corporate donations of dollars and in-kind donations, and use Australia’s best business expertise to help with business recovery and rebuilding efforts.
Business Council of Australia President Graham Bradley said today, “Our CEO members, many of whose staff, customers and operations have been directly affected by the floods, are part of these communities. They are both professionally and personally committed to the reconstruction of those communities.”
“While the devastation reinforces the importance of maintaining a strong economy to withstand such drastic unforseen events, it also shines a light on the role large businesses can and should play,” Bradley said.
Companies are contributing to the logistical effort in accordance with their particular strengths, said Bradley. “Companies are deploying equipment and personnel to clean up sites; transporting food and other essentials into affected areas, and providing tailored support measures to affected staff and customers.”
From left: Queensland Police Inspector Mark Kelly briefs Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Head of the Queensland Flood Recovery Task Force Major General Mick Slater, and Queensland Premier Anna Bligh in Grantham. (Photo by PO Damian Pawlenko courtesy ADF)
Gillard is calling for consistent definitions in insurance policies across the country between companies and across states to help solve the problems of people who had been paying their insurance premiums for years, believing that they had flood coverage and are now finding out that the definition in their flood policies does not cover the flood that they had.
In Queensland, Premier Anna Bligh has established a Royal Commission of Inquiry to examine the state’s devastating and deadly floods, government preparedness and the emergency response. The $15 million inquiry, to be headed by Justice Cate Holmes will investigate the adequacy of forecasts and early warning systems, particularly regarding the flooding in the inland city of Toowoomba and the Lockyer and Brisbane valleys.
Premier Bligh issued an appeal for funds to help flood survivors in her state that received a boost on Sunday from Powderfinger, a Brisbane band that played its last show together in November. While declining pleas to reunite to raise money for flood relief, Powderfinger said the band will release a previously unheard song to aid the Premier’s Flood Appeal.
Premier Bligh said that some areas are “all clean and starting to look normal again, but behind everyone’s doors people are in clean houses with nothing. No furniture, no clothes, it’s a long, long road here and we need everyone to be helping out.”
Australian Conservation Foundation President Professor Ian Lowe is warning that the current floods as well as the devastating bushfires that swept Victoria in 2009 are both “what climate science has been warning us about.”
“The Queensland floods are another reminder of what climate science has been telling us for 25 years,” said Lowe. “As well as a general warming and increasing sea levels, it predicted more frequent extreme events: floods, droughts, heatwaves and severe bushfires.”
“It is still too early to say with certainty that climate change is responsible for the strong El Niño event which brought devastating drought to eastern Australia and the equally strong La Niña event which has produced the terrible floods,” Lowe said. “But they are exactly what climate science has been warning us about. If we don’t want to see more events like the 2009 Victorian bushfires and the floods now happening, we need a concerted program of action to reduce greenhouse pollution.”
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WWF-Australia and BCG Digital Ventures launched a revolutionary new digital platform that uses blockchain and other technologies to track food and products, and that will help people and business to avoid illegal, environmentally-damaging or unethical products.
Austral Fisheries, based in Perth, were chosen as the industry partner for this launch, whose ‘Glacier 51 Toothfish’ will be the centerpiece in displaying the platform’s ability.
The global platform, called OpenSC, enables anyone to scan product QR codes with a smartphone camera, which automatically takes them to information about where a specific product came from, when and how it was produced, and how it journeyed along the supply chain.
OpenSC enables businesses to track their products by attaching to products a digital tag (such as an RFID tag) at their original point of production and linking these to a blockchain platform.
The blockchain, which cannot be tampered with, records the movement of the product and can also store additional information, such as the temperature of food in storage.
OpenSC has been launched following an award-winning pilot by WWF and its partners that used blockchain to track tuna caught in the Pacific. It draws on 30 years of WWF’s leadership in supply chain transformations to improve environment outcomes and BCGDV’s expertise in developing blockchain-enabled supply chain traceability and launching innovative start-ups.
“Through OpenSC, businesses and consumers will have a whole new level of transparency about whether the food we eat is contributing to environmental degradation or social injustice such as slavery,” said WWF-Australia CEO Dermot O’Gorman.
“OpenSC is fantastic for businesses that are committed to sustainable and ethical operations. In addition to providing transparency about the origin of an item’s production, OpenSC helps optimize business supply chain operations, reduces costs, and enables producers to manage issues such as product recalls,” said BCGDV Managing Director and Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Consumption, Paul Hunyor.
“We have developed technology that can reliably pinpoint the exact location where each Toothfish was caught and then use machine learning to demonstrate that it was caught legally in an MSC-certified sustainable fishery, and in particular that the fish was not caught inside an established marine protected area or in an environmentally sensitive area,” added Mr Hunyor.
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TOKYO -- Analysis by Japanese supercomputer Fugaku, which was recently named the world's fastest, has found some 30 existing medications that could be effective COVID-19 treatments, Kyoto University professor Yasushi Okuno announced on July 3.
According to the supercomputer's assessment, the candidate drug with the most potential was not known to be effective for coronavirus treatment. Professor Okuno, a specialist in computational science for pharmaceutical development, says a Japanese firm holds the patent for this existing drug. He hopes to launch clinical research and a drug trial after negotiating with the manufacturer.
Okuno and a team of researchers ran simulations using Fugaku to see how 2,128 existing drugs, including anticancer agents and common cold medicine, bind to proteins unique to SARS-CoV-2 -- the novel coronavirus' scientific name -- and looked into how the drugs worked in the body on the molecular level. It appeared that the longer the agent stayed locked inside the keyhole-like spaces of the proteins, the stronger the binding and thus more likely the drug would be effective. The research team ranked the medications based on how long the agents were connected to the proteins.
The 12 drugs currently being tested overseas as potential COVID-19 treatment all ranked high in Fugaku's simulations, including antiparasitic drug Niclosamide, which came in second place. The medication that connected with the SARS-CoV-2 proteins the longest was Japanese, but Okuno says he can't name the drug due to potential patent infringement. Many other medications, whose efficacy as coronavirus treatments had been unknown, also ranked high in the simulations.
The protein targeted in their research was the main protease of SARS-CoV-2. This enzyme works to replicate viruses in a human cell.
The team plans to conduct simulations on three other types of SARS-CoV-2 proteins and compile data by the end of the summer. It took Fugaku 10 days to run calculations on 2,128 drugs, but it would have taken at least a year if it was done by Fugaku's predecessor, the Riken research institute's K supercomputer, according to the team.
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Job Description of a Water Resource Engineer
Water resource engineers help plan for water use and treatment. Water resources engineer jobs are found in local, state or federal government agencies and in private corporations. They usually spend most of their days planning and mapping for a specific location's water needs, and may need to occasionally travel to more accurately assess the local water resource situation. Like other engineering occupations, these positions require years of rigorous education and training.
Water Engineer Job Description
The duties of a water resource engineer can vary between positions and locations, but generally, water resource engineers work on designing pump systems, pipelines and treatment plants for handling wastewater, or black water as it is known in the industry. Water resource engineers also work on flood control projects and help map out drainage systems for dealing with water flow. They may also work on fresh water supply systems, such as those used for drinking water.
Water Resource Engineer Education
Civil engineering job categories include water resources engineer jobs. The minimum requirement for most positions in water resource engineering is a bachelor's degree, usually in civil engineering or related field. Some states require that a successful candidate also pass a written test to be licensed for public engineering. Education beyond the bachelor level, such as a master's degree, will give candidates an edge over other applicants.
Training and Certification
When beginning work, water resource engineers are expected to know the basics of water management and planning. Some companies may offer additional training or subsidize additional certifications. The American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, a technical group of the American Society of Civil Engineers, awards a Certificate of Special Knowledge to civil engineers who meet its requirements.
Work Hours and Conditions
Most water resource engineers work in an office environment. Travel to production sites may be called for, in addition to work performed in a laboratory. Water resource engineers usually work a 40-hour week, although overtime may be required during an emergency, such as a flood or major storm.
Water Resource Engineer Salary
In May 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS, reported that civil engineers, including water resource engineers, made a median salary of $88,570 per year. There were approximately 329,200 civil engineering jobs in the United States around that time.
For purposes of salary comparison, the job search website PayScale reported in 2021 that water resources engineers earned an average salary of $68,500 exclusive of annual bonuses and incentives totally up to $8,000 per year. Most of these professionals annually earned somewhere between $56,000 at the 10th percentile to $98,000 at the 90th percentile.
Water Resource Growth Trend
Job growth for civil engineers is not expected to keep pace with the expected 4 percent growth of all occupations in the years ahead. Specifically, the BLS expects that jobs for civil engineers may decline 2 percent through 2029 due to budget constraints placed on government funded infastructure projects. Opportunities will be strong in the renewable energy sector. A graduate degree can offer a competive advantage in the job market because of the increasing complexity of civil engineering standards and regulations. | <urn:uuid:4f876030-e8ba-41c6-b91a-1499ede1050d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://work.chron.com/job-description-water-resource-engineer-15689.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.955238 | 620 | 2.90625 | 3 |
From 2014 to 2021, the Atwater Library and Computer Centre is conducting an important project funded by Status of Women Canada aimed at preventing and eliminating cyberviolence against girls and young women. Cyberviolence (e.g. cyberbullying, internet luring and cyberstalking) and sexual violence are complex problems that requires nuanced and multi-pronged approaches. There is a pressing
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Content Warning: These articles include descriptions of sexual assault. This brilliant NPR investigation shines a light on people with disabilities and how sexual assault affects them. Most importantly, it debunks myths about how sexual assaults affects people with disabilities and raises awareness within the general public.
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I’m going to let you in on a little secret: there’s an easy way you can reduce pests, boost growth, and even help wildlife. And it all depends on the company your plants keep.
Companion planting is when two plants are grown near each other for the benefit of one of those plants, or both. Companion planting could be as simple as growing flowers near your crops to attract pollinating insects or growing two vegetables alongside each other to confuse or repel pests. Let’s look at a few examples that I intend to use this season.
Using Companion Planting to Reduce Pest Problems
My first companion planting combo should help to tackle the green peach aphid. This aphid – which, despite its name, can colonize more than 400 different plants – is resistant to over 70 pesticides. Its particularly destructive because it transmits more than 100 different plant viruses, which can severely crimp your crop! But there’s one vegetable, above all others, they just can’t stand: garlic.
With this in mind, I’ll be planting garlic around those crops that are most susceptible to attack, for instance by growing potatoes between rows of garlic to serve as pungent bodyguards. I’ll also be saving some to plant alongside my lettuces, together with alyssum to attract aphid-eating hoverflies.
Tomatoes and basil are not just natural companions in the kitchen, they’re best friends in the garden too. Basil repels insects such as thrips and whiteflies, and if you’re in the US, basil has also been shown to disorientate the adult moths which produce tomato hornworms.
As with garlic, there’s loads of research backing up these claims. One study by the folk at Iowa State University found that insect damage on tomatoes was less when basil was grown alongside them. Researchers also found that interplanting tomatoes with basil resulted in less egg-laying by armyworms.
Next up are those plants we can grow to take the brunt of a pest attack so that our more precious crops are left undisturbed. For me, there’s one plant that stands head and shoulders above the rest for this purpose: nasturtium!
Several insects, especially cabbage family-eating caterpillars, just love the mustard oil that nasturtiums produce, so it makes sense to grow nasturtiums close to brassica crops such as kale, cabbage, and broccoli. Nasturtiums often self-seed, resowing themselves from one year to the next, so this is one of those flowers that will pop up here and there – but it’s a welcome sight, believe me!
There are plenty of other flowers well worth including in the vegetable garden. Any nectar-rich flowers will attract pollinators such as bees to the garden, helping to boost the pollination of flowering crop plants like tomatoes, beans, and squash: flowers such as sunny-side-up poached egg plant, ageratum and zinnia. But flowers have benefits beyond attracting pollinators too.
One of the most powerful flowers is tansy. This obliging bloom is a real draw to pest-eating bugs such as ladybugs, predatory wasps, and minute pirate bugs – which plunder not the sea but unsuspecting insect pests! At the same time, tansy repels many of the common baddies – what more could you want? Tansy is a perennial, which means you only have to plant it once for it to provide summer after summer of blooms, so it’s a yes for this flower in my garden! Do be aware though that tansy can be invasive, and is banned for this reason in some areas. It’s often best grown in a container to curb its garden-grabbing tendencies.
Other flowers I’ll be including alongside nasturtiums and tansy in my garden are marigolds and calendula, whose flowers also draw in those pest-hungry beneficial bugs.
Companion Planting Using the Garden Planner
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(Bloomberg) — In today’s China, behemoths like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. are out of favor, but the “little giants” are on the rise.
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It is the designation of a new generation of startups that have been selected as part of an ambitious government program aimed at fostering a technology industry capable of competing with Silicon Valley. These often obscure companies have demonstrated that they are doing something innovative and unique, and they are targeting strategically important sectors like robotics, quantum computing and semiconductors.
Wu Gansha won the Little Giants title for its self-driving startup after a government review of its technology. This gave Beijing-based company Uisee an extra dose of credibility and financial advantage. Last year, he raised more than 1 billion yuan ($157 million), including money from a public fund. It’s also become a unicorn, with a valuation of at least $1 billion.
“It’s an honor to wear the little giant label,” Wu said. “The essence of the project is that companies should have a specialty that others don’t.”
The program has been around for more than a decade, but it took on new prominence after Beijing launched a sweeping crackdown on top companies like Alibaba and Tencent. The Little Giants label has become a popular measure of government approval, a signal to investors and employees that companies are safe from regulatory sanctions. President Xi Jinping gave his personal blessing to the program.
“It’s helpful for startups in many ways: It’s a grant. It’s a grant. It’s an honor. It’s a stamp of approval,” said Lee Kai-Fu, founding CEO of venture capital firm Sinovation.
The program is key to the Communist Party’s ambitious strategy to reposition the country’s tech industry. For two decades, China has largely followed the Silicon Valley model, allowing entrepreneurs to pursue their ambitions with little government control. This has led to huge hits including e-commerce pioneer Alibaba, social media giant Tencent and ByteDance Ltd., creator of the hit short video app TikTok.
But in a series of regulatory moves over the past year, Beijing has made it clear that the tech industry needs to realign itself to align with government priorities. Alibaba and Tencent were quickly forced to eliminate anti-competitive practices, while gaming companies had to limit minors to three hours of online play per week. More broadly, the government has signaled that more flexible Internet services are no longer in vogue.
Instead, Beijing aims to shift resources to strategically important technologies like chips and enterprise software. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has named 4,762 Little Giants since 2019, many of them in the semiconductor, machinery and pharmaceutical industries. The designation usually comes with lucrative incentives from the central government or provincial authorities, including tax cuts, generous loans, and favorable talent acquisition policies.
“What the country is trying to promote is more hardcore technology,” said Yipin Ng, founding partner of Yunqi Partners, a venture capital fund that invests in small giants. “In that sense, it’s more in line with what they’re trying to promote — things that make China more competitive.”
Governments from the United States to Africa have programs in place to support small businesses, but China’s efforts eclipse them in scale, resources and ambition. Xi, the country’s most powerful leader since Mao, has implemented half a dozen programs that will collectively shell out trillions of dollars in pursuit of economic might, social stability and technological independence.
The US trade war strengthened the Communist Party’s determination to build a self-sufficient industry. The country’s vulnerability was revealed when Donald Trump’s administration blacklisted national champions like Huawei Technologies Co. and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. This prevented them from buying American components such as chipsets and industrial software, crippling operations.
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The concept of little giants dates back at least to 2005, when the local government of Hunan province instituted policies to support small businesses. The central government’s powerful MIIT endorsed the Hunan campaign, which included land grants and financial support, as a model for private sector development. Local governments in places like Tianjin have launched their own initiatives.
It was in 2018, with the trade war, that the central government began to seriously push the program. MIIT announced a plan to create about 600 little giants that would develop core technologies. The procedure for obtaining the designation has been designed to foster competition and identify the most promising companies.
Applicants apply with a six-page form detailing financial status, number of patents, and research achievements. In the first round of selection, each province could only name about ten companies. The country’s three main tech hubs – Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai – had a combined quota of just 17 applicants.
Guan Yaxin, chief operating officer of Beijing-based ForwardX Robotics, said the process was relatively smooth for her company as it has a proven track record, with 121 patents worldwide, including 25 in the United States.
“This government approval is very helpful as I grow the business because customers will understand that we are not just a random startup,” she said.
MIIT has since expanded the program to thousands of companies, with about 1,000 “priority little giants” at the top of the hierarchy. Members of this rarefied club, which includes Wu’s Uisee, receive direct funding from the central government. In January, the Ministry of Finance earmarked at least 10 billion yuan to fund small and medium-sized enterprises through 2025, with the lion’s share directly funding priority research for startups. The goal is to create 10,000 little giants by 2025.
“It’s clear that this is a selection of companies that are highly subordinate to China’s specific industrial policy and needs,” said Barry Naughton, a Chinese professor and economist at the University of California, San Diego. . “They were selected partly because they are good companies, but an equally important criterion is that they meet the government’s pressing policy needs at this time.”
There are significant risks. The success of China’s tech industry over the past 10 years has come from entrepreneurs like Alibaba’s Jack Ma and ByteDance’s Zhang Yiming giving free rein to building their businesses. Flipping the model to focus on government priorities risks leading to waste and failure, Naughton said.
“It is small companies that are encouraged because they can potentially be alternative suppliers. How do you feed them? You throw money at them,” he said.
The smaller giants have become popular targets for venture capitalists, many of whom lost money on their portfolio companies during Beijing’s crackdown. A VC said some startups in the program have been able to raise capital in the past six months while increasing their valuations by 50% to 75%. Another VC would only invest in companies identified as small giants by the government.
Zhang Hui, co-founder of Guizhou Changtong Electric Ltd., applied for the program in Guizhou Province in 2020 and received the award last year, based on his company’s electrical equipment technology. The startup quickly landed more than 100 million yuan in state-backed funds, and other investors knocked on its door to offer additional capital.
“Of course, venture capitalists will chase smaller giants to invest,” he said. “It would be a surprise if they didn’t.”
Venture capital investment in China hit a record high last year despite the crackdown. The value of deals increased by around 50% in 2021 to $130.6 billion, according to research firm Preqin.
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EcoFlow Inc., a portable battery startup in Shenzhen, announced a 100 million yuan fundraising led by Sequoia as the company won the small giant label from MIIT. The four-year-old company now plans an initial public offering in its hometown within three years.
The government also facilitates the IPO of these startups, another incentive for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. China set up a dedicated stock exchange in Beijing last year to help small businesses raise capital.
ForwardX Robotics’ Guan pointed out that founders retain control of their companies even if they participate in such government programs. His company, which makes mobile robots used in manufacturing and logistics, has about 300 employees and plans to expand into Japan and the United States. She sees government support as a big plus as the little giants try to grow.
“A lot of them are very small now compared to multinationals,” she said. “But the government sees the potential for them to one day become true giants.”
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Sambalpur: A symbol of religious sanity, secularism, ideals, ahimsa (non-violence) and truth, the Gandhi Mandir here with Mahatma Gandhi as the presiding deity is one of its kind.
While Bapu presides as the deity in the temple, the priest is a Dalit. The worshippers are from all religions, creeds and castes.
Situated at Bhatra, a Harijan suburb in Sambalpur, the temple has a 3.5-foot-tall bronze ‘idol’ of the Father of the Nation in a squatting position inside the sanctum sanctorum. The entrance of the temple is guarded by Ashoka Stambha (National Emblem), symbolic of peace and goodwill.
Instead of religious sermons, teachings and writings of Gandhiji are read out to the congregation every day.
The temple was built by Abhimanyu Kumar, a victim of untouchability who decided to build the temple in memory of the ‘Bapu – the man who abolished the untouchability’, when he was elected MLA in 1971. It was inaugurated in 1974 by the then Chief Minister, Nandini Satpathy.
Apart from daily rituals, the temple committee organises health camps and cleanliness drives.
“The temple preaches equality and tolerance, which is of paramount importance in contemporary times when different faiths are at loggerheads,” says Richard Chen, a Christian of Chinese origin who has made Sambalpur his home.
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Chemists present a way to infer the enigmatic temperature variations inside a reactor.
Most chemical products start their lives as oil. And most of the conversion processes used to turn the black stuff into plastics, fuels and the rest rely on catalysts. Given the sensitivity of catalysts and Earth’s dwindling supplies of oil, you might think that these reactions would be among the most studied and the best understood in the chemist’s cookbook.
Unfortunately not. In fact, for many chemists and chemical engineers — those who work with bucketloads of reactants rather than the contents of pipettes — what goes on inside an industrial reactor is something of a mystery. It’s a black box. Indeed, when some textbooks and academic papers on the subject show flow charts of chemical processes, they actually represent the reactor, the beating heart of our industrial society, as a black box. If process engineers want to know what happens inside — and so how to make it more efficient, safer or more environmentally friendly — they measure what comes out, compare it with what goes in, and make an educated guess.
As computing power has grown, this educated guesswork has been renamed ‘modelling’. Reconstructions of the catalytic processes that occur in reactors use complex mathematics to represent the relationship between reactants, products and everything in between. Heat transfer, fluid dynamics and surface-reaction kinetics all offer a theoretical platform for such models, but, like all models, they rely on observations from the real world to make them realistic. Which takes us back to the black box and, often, to the most basic of questions — just how hot is it in there?
Anyone who has cooked a soufflé will know that the temperature, and how it fluctuates inside the oven, has a crucial bearing on the result. They know that the temperature selected and that the oven reaches can disagree. And they know that, even with the best temperature circulation, cool spots can lurk between lower shelves or above a baking tray. Now imagine that your precious pudding relies on the random collisions of a fizzing tempest of high-pressure gas and ageing, unpredictable catalysts. And that you are being asked to deliver 3,000 puddings an hour.
A reliable temperature map of the guts of a working chemical reactor would be valuable. People have tried to achieve this, most often by placing sensors at strategic points. The problem is the age-old paradox that the measurement disturbs what is being measured.
On page 537 of this issue, chemists offer a solution. Nanette Jarenwattananon at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues describe how they use the magnetic field of an nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanner to accurately infer the hot and cold spots of a reactor carrying out the hydrogenation of propylene. And they report that, under the right conditions, hotter parts of the reactor signal narrower peaks on the NMR spectra.
There is a pleasing symmetry here. In the 1970s, NMR was handed to biologists and renamed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The biologists worked out a way to use MRI to sense the temperature inside the human body remotely. Now the chemists have reclaimed both the tool and the function. It is a proof of concept at this stage, but it does go some way towards opening that mysterious black box.
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Name: Hagan Bayley
Position: Professor of chemical biology, University of Oxford, since 2003
Experience and Education:
— Professor and head of department of medical biochemistry and genetics, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, and professor of chemistry, Texas A&M University, 1997-2003
— Associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, later also physiology,
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— Senior scientist, then principal scientist, Worcester Foundation, 1988-1996
— Associate professor, center for neurobiology and behavior, Columbia University, 1987-1988
— Assistant investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, 1985-1988
— Assistant professor of biochemistry, Columbia University, 1981-1984
— PhD in chemistry, Harvard University (group of J.R. Knowles), 1979
— BA in chemistry, University of Oxford, 1974
Hagan Bayley, a professor of chemical biology at the University of Oxford, has been studying protein nanopores for more than 20 years. In 2003, he returned to his alma mater after almost 30 years of research in the United States.
Two years later, he and Reza Gadhiri from the Scripps Research Institute won a five-year, $4.2 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute’s $1,000 Genome
program to work on single-molecule DNA sequencing using engineered protein nanopores.
Also in 2005, he founded Oxford NanoLabs (see In Sequence 4/8/2008), recently renamed Oxford Nanopore Technologies, to develop the technology commercially. In Sequence visited Bayley at his lab in Oxford last week to find out more about his research.
What are your general research interests?
Basically, I work on membrane proteins. We are an interdisciplinary research group, so I have chemists and biochemists and biologists in the group, and also people with more of a physical chemistry or physics background, and the occasional engineering student. We try and apply all these techniques to understand how membrane proteins work. I think what differentiates us from a lot of other research groups is [our focus on] applications of engineered membrane proteins. There is lots of work on engineered enzymes and engineered antibodies, but not as much work on [engineered] membrane proteins.
We have put a lot of effort into the α-hemolysin, which happens to be the same protein that some groups have been using for [nanopore-based] DNA sequencing. But [we have also been working on] other proteins. There are two major classes of membrane proteins: β-barrels, of which α-hemolysin is one, and α-helix bundles, which potassium channels represent. We work on both these different classes.
Do you study their structure and their function?
Mainly their function. We look for small-ish proteins that are relatively stable but tractable experimental subjects, and then we look at their properties. But also, we do a lot of protein engineering on them, so we try to choose simple proteins that maybe have simple properties, and engineer more sophisticated properties into them. And at the same time, we look for applications of these proteins, both in basic science and in biotechnology.
Tell me about α-hemolysin. How did you get interested in this protein, and when did it first occur to you to use it for sequencing DNA?
Initially, we were interested in that just as a basic science problem, because this is a soluble protein that is secreted by a gram-positive bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, and it assembles into target membranes. This was a very interesting question of how you could get a very highly water-soluble protein to assemble into a lipid bilayer. I had just one student working on that in the 1980s. And then, right around 1989/1990, we decided to engineer this protein to give us some useful properties. Basically, it's really a blank slate, it just makes a hole in lipid bilayers and those holes stay open. We wanted to use it to, say, permeabilize cells, or kill cancer cells, or maybe for some sort of narrow filtration. There were lots of applications that we envisaged. One of them, at the time, was sensing, and in particular, we had this idea of single-molecule sensing. There is obviously a lot of work on single-channel recording for membrane proteins, [so we wanted to] engineer them in some way, [so] the analyte, the molecule you wanted to look at in solution, would bind inside the protein, and would change the current flow. We basically started with some basic science, but pretty soon got into these applications and this so-called stochastic sensing became quite a big area for us. We were able to show that the protein can act as a single-molecule detector for metal ions, organic molecules, proteins, DNA, really just about anything.
As long as it's small enough to fit in the pore?
Actually, it doesn't have to be small enough to fit through the pore because we also have this trick of designing a pore that has a kind of fishing line inside, so when it binds something on the outside, this is also registered in the current flow. So they don't have to be small molecules, they can actually be quite large molecules as well. And, really at the same time, [Daniel] Branton and [David] Deamer dreamed up this idea of sequencing DNA. They made some steps forward using the un-engineered protein, just the wildtype protein, but it seemed obvious to me all the way along that you would have to use some sort of engineered protein, because you need to slow down the DNA and get the protein to recognize the DNA in some way. When the $1,000 Genome initiative came along, Reza Gadhiri at [the] Scripps [Research Institute] said, ‘We really ought to write [an application] for this.’
How do you know Reza Ghadiri?
I have known him for a long time. We had grants from the same funding agency, like the Office for Naval Research, so we were at a lot of meetings together. We didn't really start working on this until, really, a couple of years ago [when we won a $1,000 Genome grant].
So what have you done in the last couple of years? How far along have you developed this technology?
I think when I started, I was a bit skeptical, because people worked on it for 10 years, and really, had not made much progress in terms of sequencing. So we took a fresh look at the situation, and I think the one thing missing was the protein engineering, and that's what we are real experts at.
It also seemed to us, as well as pulling the strand of single-stranded DNA through [the pore], and trying to sequence the bases as they go through, [what we call strand sequencing], we could revive this idea of exonuclease sequencing that really came from [Richard] Keller [at Los Alamos National Laboratory]. Around 1980, he had the idea of taking a DNA strand and making a complementary strand with a polymerase in which all four bases were labeled with different fluorescent dyes. And then you would put this in some sort of flow tube, maybe on a bead with optical tweezers or something, and then add an enzyme, exonuclease, that would cleave off one base at a time. Their idea was that this base would flow downstream past a laser and you would use single-molecule fluorescence detection to see which base had been cleaved off. I think the two major problems with that were that it's very hard to make this strand of DNA completely substituted with four fluorescent bases, and also, a tiny amount of fluorescent background can mess you up. Also, in retrospect, it would be very hard to make that highly parallel as well.
[We had] the idea that maybe we could revive this exonuclease sequencing by using our single-molecule detection that we had already developed for other things. For example, we had been able to show previously that you can even distinguish between the two enantiomers of a molecule like ibuprofen using a pore with a so-called adaptor in it. So we put cyclodextrins inside the pore to act as adaptors.
How far have you developed strand sequencing?
Most of the published work, so far, is from Ghadiri's group. One of the real problems of the strand sequencing is that the DNA goes through the pore very quickly, too fast for the usual techniques of single-channel recording to register the bases. They take one to five microseconds to go through the pore, which is very fast. And also, the base recognition was not solved. That base recognition also has to be done in the context of the neighboring bases. So while a particular base, say A, is in the pore, there are going to be 15 other bases on each side also in the pore also changing the current, if you are not very careful. There have been, really, two major pushes there. One is to recognize the bases, and we have been able to show that we can recognize bases when the DNA has stopped moving, when it's still. When you hold it within the pore, you can recognize the bases. I think more work has to be done to make sure that the neighboring bases don't interfere with the recognition. So we are continuing work on the recognition, and so is Reza.
The second thing you need to do is to slow the DNA down, probably about 100- to 1,000-fold, to enable you to do this recognition while the DNA is on the move. There are various different ways of doing that. One is to engineer the protein to grab onto the DNA in some way and slow it down, but the other one that many people have suggested is to use some enzyme to pull or push the DNA through the pore. Ghadiri's group has done some nice work on that, showing that DNA polymerase, when it makes a second strand, you can use that to pull the DNA through the pore. Both Ghadiri's group and our group are actively working on all these issues involving strand sequencing.
What about exonuclease sequencing?
On the exonuclease sequencing side, to get back to that, we were able to show, in a paper published in 2006, that we can indeed recognize all four bases very, very cleanly. We just used the bases themselves; we have not actually gotten the sequencing to work. We were able to put a cyclodextrin molecule, a cyclic oligosaccharide, inside the pore, and the nucleoside monophosphates bind inside. When they bind, they change the current that flows through the pore. And we were able to show that you could get a different current amplitude for G, A, T, and C. That, I think, was a really significant paper. In other words, we are able to identify the bases without any fluorescence, so it's the native, natural bases that we can identify.
Right now, what we would like to do — and Oxford Nanopore Technologies are working on this now actively — is to attach an [exonuclease] enzyme on top. DNA would come along, and what you would like to do is have it snip off bases one at a time, and then you need to drive them into the pore. You need to make sure 100 percent go in, and then you need to make sure they come out the other side. I think we have solved the recognition, and we have shown that they come out the other side. What we really need to show now is that 100 percent of these are actually pulled into the pore.
How do you split up the work between your academic group and the company?
In the lab, we have a $1,000 Genome grant, and we also have four postdocs funded by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. But [these postdocs] are working on basic science projects. And then we have some students who are on training grants. Altogether, it's probably about eight people in the lab working on this. And they work, really, on research problems that need to be solved, or new ideas involving DNA sequencing.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies are taking things that we have demonstrated and then trying to reduce them to practical use. In the case of the DNA sequencing, they have been refining the base identification, for example, and they are also making chips. Obviously, we have to make this highly parallel, so they have been making chips where you can have 100 pores operating at once, and eventually, we envisage many more than that. So basically, we are the research side, and they are the development side, although there is not an absolute strict partition between the two.
What do you think the first commercial nanopore sequencer will be capable of doing?
I think it would have to be somewhat parallel, so you would have maybe 100 pores. It would depend on what application you wanted. I think if you wanted to do microbial genomes, then you could have one or very few pores operating, but if you want to do human genome sequencing, then you would have to have maybe 100 or more pores working in parallel.
I think if it all pans out, what would differentiate us from the current sequencing technology, what we would hope for, is longer reads. And potentially, these reads could be very long, 10,000 bases. The new technologies, with the exception of the 454, all are short-read technologies, 25- to 35-base reads that you have to try to fit all together. So [they are] very good for resequencing, but [they] still have [their] problems [with] assembling all this. We would hope to do much longer [reads], and we would be competitive, initially, in terms of the speed and cost of sequencing. I think in the longer term, when we can make bigger chips with these pores on them, it would be very much cheaper than present technologies, because we don't have to use optical detection, which is turning out to be cumbersome and expensive.
What would you expect the error rate to be like?
I think the error rate in all the current systems is higher than [in] Sanger sequencing, which has an amazingly low error rate. It's a little hard to say where [ours] will stand compared to the new technologies. We would certainly hope to get up into that area. I think based on the base identification that we have done, we should certainly be better than 98 percent. The question is whether we will miss any bases, or, for some reason, miss a whole little sequence of bases. I think when you are resequencing, this is somewhat less of a bother, because you might have a run of, say, 300 bases, then a little gap for some reason, then another long run. So in some ways, it's a bit like paired-end sequencing. You might have runs that are actually connected on the same piece of DNA. So I think the error rate will be competitive, and, with time, improve, but I don't think it would ever get up to the level of Sanger sequencing.
Other groups are working on solid-state nanopores rather than protein nanopores. What are the pros and cons of both approaches, and why did you choose to bet on protein nanopores?
I think a lot of it is history, because I am a chemist, and a protein chemist. But I think in favor of the protein pores, I think we are fortunate, in a way, that the α-hemolysin is just the right size. Otherwise, you would have to engineer a pore of the right size. And then, these can be made completely reproducibly. We can just make billions of pores that are identical, which is very hard to do, if not impossible, with the solid-state systems.
And also, you can engineer these at the sub-nanometer, or Angstrom, level by genetic engineering or site-directed protein modification, chemical modification. These [protein] pores are [also] very stable. I think that's something that people working on the solid-state pores almost always start a lot of their papers with, saying that their pores are tremendously stable. But the α-hemolysin pore will work just as you come to the boiling point of water, 100 °C. It's a very, very stable protein. And in fact, in my other life of basic science, one of these hypotheses I have is that membrane proteins are, if not thermodynamically, tremendously kinetically stable to denaturation.
So the pores are very stable, you can produce uniform pores, which is very important for a single-molecule technique, and they can be engineered with exquisite precision, so I think they have a lot going for them.
I think one potential advantage of the solid-state pores is that you can array them very easily, although no one has actually demonstrated that, and it might be more difficult to make arrays of protein pores. But we think we have developed ways to do that, too. We have developed methods for putting single copies of pores into bilayers. So I don't think the manufacturing advantage for solid state pores is there, either.
And then, I think in terms of detection, we haven't sequenced DNA yet, but you can actually see how you will. In the case of the exonuclease, we can detect the four different bases, and I think we can see that at least with the immobilized DNA strands. With the solid based pores, their methods of base detection, at this point, are pretty much entirely theoretical. They say they have these transverse electrodes, and they will measure a tunneling current or a change in capacitance. To my knowledge, although there are many theoretical and computational papers, no one has actually experimentally demonstrated that they can do that. I hope I am correct in saying that, but I don't actually see that anyone has done that in a convincing way. I suppose that if what they think is true, it may be that you don't have to make such uniform pores when you have their somewhat mysterious detection method. So they may be able to get around that. Maybe they will be able to sequence much faster than we can. We are projecting one millisecond per base at best. Maybe they can sequence even faster; it remains to be seen.
I think right now, the protein pores are very obviously at the forefront, but it may be that something comes along for the solid-state systems that kind of blows us out of the water, but not really at this point.
What is your best guess for when the first commercial nanopore sequencer will be available?
That is very hard to say. I think once we demonstrate sequencing, even only five or 10 nucleotides, then it will just come very quickly after that. And you can see with these other companies that one day they almost had nothing, and then, very quickly, once you got a handle on these things, you can get to the market pretty quickly. If you go back, look at the first pyrosequencing papers from 454, or at Solexa. These guys just had a few of their spots on their slides, or a few of their wells, behaving, just doing very few bases. But once they got to that point, they realized they could put a huge amount of energy behind it and get something to market pretty quickly.
Do you have a rough timeframe for when you hope to demonstrate sequencing?
I don't know. I think it's really something that could come very quickly. It could just suddenly come in the next month, or it could take several more years. It's a bit like, I don't think you would ask a mathematician when he would solve a particular problem. It could be that they are having a shower in the morning and they got it, or it could take several more years. I think it's that kind of thing, but more at an experimental level. But I think everything is in place. On the protein side, everything is in place to have this work. Exactly how long it will take, I can't say. But there is nothing to suggest that it can't be done. | <urn:uuid:5af1fcc5-6e69-4e3b-b003-738c3e7bf8b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/oxford%E2%80%99s-hagan-bayley-sequencing-dna-engineered-protein-nanopores | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.979506 | 4,304 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Have you ever wondered why kilts and bagpipes became part of fire fighter traditions? A huge wave of Irish immigrants hit the eastern United States in the 1840s. Facing massive discrimination and signs that read “No Irish Need Apply”, often the only jobs they could get were extremely dangerous and often deadly – fire fighters and police. Their Celtic traditions became part of fire fighter culture. But they switched from traditional Uileann Irish pipes to larger Great Highland bagpipes because they were louder.
Many WSCFF members belong to pipes and drums groups around Washington State. Visit these Facebook pages for more information: Puget Sound Firefighters Pipes and Drums, Bellingham Firefighters Pipes and Drums, Spokane Pipes and Drums, and Seattle Firefighters Pipes and Drums to find out more about specific events. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all! | <urn:uuid:403a013e-3fef-4c46-93ea-a7504655aa7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wscff.org/pipes-kilts-and-fire-fighters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.968397 | 182 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Water scarcity is a growing problem in Europe. MEPs want to secure the EU’s freshwater sources by promoting water reuse in agriculture.
Population growth, urbanisation and tourism have all contributed to the water shortages and droughts that are increasingly affecting many areas of Europe, especially the Mediterranean region. Water sources are under stress and the situation is expected to get worse because of climate change. According to an estimate, by 2030 half of Europe’s river basins could be affected by water scarcity.
In order to secure Europe’s freshwater supplies for the years to come, MEPs approved new rules for the reuse of wastewater on 13 May.
In order to ensure safety of the crops, the new rules introduce minimum requirements for water quality, require frequent monitoring and oblige wastewater treatment plants to draw up risk management plans. Member state authorities would issue permits for the treatment plants and check for compliance of rules.
Uniform EU level rules would level the playing field for operators of reclamation plants and farmers and prevent obstacles to the free movement of agricultural products. | <urn:uuid:32beb57d-9c33-4640-a1bc-a9389fc898e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20190206STO25114/new-rules-to-promote-water-reuse-in-farming | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942243 | 216 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Get a fix of adventure and sightseeing on this full-day trip to Jinja from Kampala. Take a tour of the town and have the chance to see the source of the River Nile. Visit Sezibwa Falls, Mabira Forest, Owen Falls Dam, and more.
Explore the Ugandan countryside and discover the town of Jinja on the shore of Lake Victoria with this full-day tour from Kampala. See a range of sights, including the source of the River Nile, Sezibwa Falls, Mabira Forest, Owen Falls Dam, and more. Get insights from your guide, and enjoy included lunch and hotel transfers.
After pickup at your hotel in Kampala, drive for approximately 80 kilometers (around 50 miles) to Jinja. Visit the authentic, original source of the Nile site where the British explorer, John Hanning Speke, first discovered the River Nile (of course the Africans knew there was a river, but anyway). Stand where he stood, and take a picture with the monument.
Next, go for a boat ride across the river and into Lake Victoria. See monkeys, monitor lizards, pythons, and maybe even an authentic African Witchdoctor. Admire a truly spectacular natural setting that is ideal for birdwatching and allows for nature walks.
This tour is thoughtfully put together and the efficient itinerary also packs in Sezibwa Falls, a walk in the Mabira Forest, and Owen Falls Dam. All transportation and entrance fees are included. | <urn:uuid:134d792b-4254-4f56-a751-c0f83b9d07cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://excellentafricansafari.com/st_tour/from-kampala-jinja-the-source-of-the-river-nile-day-trip/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.912638 | 321 | 1.570313 | 2 |
ANCESTRY OF THE QUAKER I’ANSONS
(Transcription of an Extract of)
BY NORMAN PENNEY F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION BY HEADLEY BROTHERS BISHOPSGATE, E.C., AND ASHFORD, KENT, 1920
Note: Original at The Friends Library in London
(Pages 202 219)
THE IANSON FAMILY
For knowledge respecting the early history of this family I am indebted to a gentleman who, like myself , comes from the Ianson stock, Mr. Bryan I’Anson, of London, author of The History of the I’Anson Family, 1915, wherein is much information of the various branches of the family descended from ancient times.
The martial ancestor who came over from France and fought at Bosworth in 1485 (see page 150), was John I’Anson, who is stated to have been captain of a man of war in the reign of Henry VIII., to have settled down at Hawkswell, in Richmondshire, and to have died at Ulverston, Co. Lancaster, in 1546.
John I’Anson had two sons, Christopher and James, from both of whom are many descendants known. Leaving my direct line for the moment I state briefly the line of descent from James, who was born in 1505. He married Anne (Agnes), daughter of William Carlyll, and removed to London. He had a son, Bryan (1560 1634), who lived at Ashby St. Ledgers, in Northants. The followed Bryan, afterwards Sir Bryan (1590 1657/8), and from him, through his eldest son, came the Rev. Sir Thomas Bankes I’Anson (1724 1799), rector of Corfe Castle, Dorset. From William, another son of Sir Bryan, first baronet, descend the Iansons of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Reverting now to my direct ancestry, I find that Christopher, elder son of John the warrior, married Isabel Moore, daughter of Robert Moore. His Will was proved in 1577, and he was buried in Hawkswell churchyard. His eldest son Ralph (c.1545 1623), by his wife Anne (d. 1613), had a second son, James (d. 1625). His wife, and widow for thirty two years, Janet (Edin) was buried in 1657. They had a son, Leonard (1599 c.1663), and another, William, baptised at Hawkswell, 23 November, 1604. From Leonard come the I’Ansons of Saltburn, Yorkshire, among them the author of the I’Anson history.
All the Ianson pedigrees known to me prior to the above printed history begin from William Ianson, of Leyburn, Yorks., who married Margaret Dent, and state that any connection with John, temp. Henry VIII., is “merely conjectural.” Mr. Bryan I’Anson takes the following entry in the Hawkswell Register to refer to this same William :
1604, 23rd Nov., Wm. Hianson the sonne of James Hianson, baptized.
He thus forges the link, previously “conjectural”, with the descendants of John I’Anson, the immigrant warrior.
All the above information prior to the marriage of William Ianson and Margaret Dent is given here on the authority of The I’Anson Family.
All pedigrees agree that William Ianson married Margaret Dent at Wensley, 6 May 1634, and so states the Wensley Register.
“On the death of his father, James I’Anson in 1625, Leonard I’Anson, the older brother, apparently took over the farm at Hawkswell, and William moved to Leyburn,” the adjoining parish (History). William died at the early age of fifty five and was buried at Wensley, 30 June 1659, Margaret surviving him thirty years.
Of the four children of William and Margaret Ianson, one only is known to have had descendants the eldest son, James, baptised at Wensley, 27 September 1638. He was the first of the line to become a Quaker, his adherence to that despised and persecuted people taking place prior to his marriage with Jane Horner, 19 xii. 1664. Sufferings consequent upon his zeal in promoting the cause he had espoused are recorded under the section The Horner Family. He was a preacher in the Quaker meetings. Jane Ianson died 1699/1700. Her husband was still living early in 1702.
John Ianson, born 30 i. 1666, was the eldest child of James and Jane. He married, at Carlton in Coverdale, 23 xii. 1697/8, Anne Hudson, of Helme in Kildwick. He was a linen weaver.
John Ianson had a sister, Mary, who married John, son of Arthur Thistlethwaite, of Carperby, and then Henry Pratt, of Redmire, both Wensleydale farmers.
John and Anne (Hudson) Ianson had six children, all sons. Four sons married James (b. 1701), the third son, married Deborah Harker and had three children; Isaac (b. 1710), the sixth married Rebecca Parker and had children. The two remaining must receive more attention. Joseph, the fifth, born 1704, left Yorkshire for London, where in 1752, he married Sarah, daughter of Edward Halsey, of London. Husband and wife were buried in the Friends’ Burial Ground, Bunhill Fields, in 1766 and 1762 respectively. From their one child, Edward, through his marriage with Mary, daughter of Thomas Horne, of Southwark (see The Horne Family), in 1777, came numerous stock, known as Halsey Jansons, the surname Ianson being changed to Janson when the southern migration took place.
Joshua Ianson, eldest surviving son of John and Anne, was born 9 v. 1700. His marriage with Beatrice Hedley at Masham, 22 xii. 1729/30, brought in the noted family of Hedley, of ancient Northumbrian origin. Joshua and Beatrice removed from Wensleydale, long the home of the I’Ansons, and settled at Blackwell, near Darlington, about 1749. He was engaged in the linen weaving business, for which Darlington had become famous. The parents of Beatrice had also removed to Darlington a few years before. Beatrice Ianson died 29 xii. 1770, and was buried in the Friends’ Burial Ground, Darlington. Her husband died 25 iii. 1786.
Ten children were born to Joshua and Beatrice Ianson. The migration southward noted in the previous generation increased in this. Daughters of the family became Emson of Poplar, Waddington of London, and Knight of Essex. The eldest daughter, Ann, married William Kitching, of Darlington. Joshua. the eldest surviving son, married Hannah Moses, of Cockfield, Co. Durham; from one of his four children descend the Jansons of Tottenham and Reigate. This child, William, was not a Friend by birth, his mother being a non member, but he joined Friends shortly before he went south in 1792. He was of Lloyd’s shipping firm. He married Mary Hill, of London, and resided at Bruce Grove, Tottenham. His granddaughter, Elizabeth, married James Hack Tuke, the banker and philanthropist of York and Hitchen, and another granddaughter, Sarah Jane, married Cornelius Hanbury, Junior., of Stoke Newington.
James, the next son of Joshua and Beatrice Ianson, trod a troublesome course in connection with the Society of Friends, and came into a wide notoriety in connection with his appeals to the Yearly Meeting, the final court of judgement in matters of dispute. The following précis of the case is taken from Leeds (after residing there many years and having been married to a personal a Friend), to London, and desired a certificate from Stockton Meeting but it was refused him on the ground that he had forfeited his privilege of membership and so could not be recommended to London. He appealed to the Quarterly Meeting, but before his appeal was heard his M.M. disowned him, in Twelfth Month, 1777, but did not sign the “denial” till the next meeting. The appeal was decided against appellant. Several Friends were appointed to visit J.I. in London, but they reported him not sufficiently repentant. The appeal was carried on to the Yearly Meeting, which decided that the M.M. acted rightly but too hastily in disownment, and ordered the minutes of the M.M. and Q.M. in this case to be expunged and the condition of the appellant to be regarded as before any action was taken.
“A paper of denial” against J. Ianson was signed by Stockton M.M., 8 ix. 1778. He again appealed to the Q.M., which upheld the M.M., and the matter came again before the Y.M. (1779). The Y.M. once more decided that the M.M. was to blame this time for not consulting the M.M. into which he had moved and hence the “denial” was set aside and the M.M. in which the offence was committed (viz., of marriage at Leeds contrary to Quaker order), and that in which he lived in London, were recommended to deal with the him, but the latter refused on the strength of the Y.M. decision. James Ianson was reinstated in 1781 by Devonshire House M.M., and in consideration of his reform and of his having married a Friend, Stockton M.M., on his return to Darlington, accepted his certificate and that of his wife, Miriam.
In 1799, other trouble arose; after his wife Miriam’s death in 1797, he became entangled in another matrimonial offence and was disowned by Friends, 19 viii 1800.
James Ianson’s first wife was Judith Wade; his second was Miriam, widow of Robert Bell, of London, and daughter of Henry and Hannah Umfreville, of London; and his third wife was Jane Brockhill, of Richmond. Three children of James Sarah, William and Beatrice were received into membership by Stockton M.M. in 1791, as “offspring of marriage contrary to rules”, but a few years later all three were disowned for “marrying out”!
John Ianson, fifth son of Joshua and Beatrice Ianson, left his home in the north in 1768, “in the station of a servant” (perhaps, assistant), for London. In 1770, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Umphreville, and, later, Mary Clayton. From his only surviving son, James (1777 1827), come the Umphreville Iansons.
The sixth son of Joshua and Beatrice Ianson was William, born at Blackwell, near Darlington, 16 x. 1751. He was a linen manufacturer, of Darlington, and an active in the interests of the Society of Friends, and was an Elder for some years. He married Mary Kitching, in the Friends’ Meeting House, Darlington, 15 x. 1778. Henry Howson and Jonathan Hedley were appointed by Stockton M.M. to see to the orderly holding of the meeting on the occasion. William Ianson’s death, 31 x. 1822, is said to have been accelerated by a fall down some steps.
William and Mary (Kitching) Ianson had six children, of whom a son and daughter died in infancy. The eldest son, John, followed his father’s occupation. It is said that he was the first private person in Darlington to drive a pair of horses and that he named one “Huckaback” and the other “Diaper.”
The two remaining sons, James and Joshua, married sisters, daughters of John Dixon, of Cockfield. James married Sarah Dixon in 1808, and they had two children, a son and a daughter. James Ianson was in the same line of business as his father and elder brother. My great uncle left a written communication addressed to his children giving some particulars of his early life and religious experience, most of which narration has been transferred to the pages of Piety Promoted. He wrote:
As I grew up an inclination for drawing and reading drew me from my more childish amusements. Entomology was, I think, my first pursuit, but botany and ornithology held me longest engaged. The excess of ardour with which I at times pursued these studies almost precluded the possibility of attending seriously to anything else, and the most important of all pursuits, that which affects all our eternal well being, was, alas ! often entirely neglected.
Of him the editor of Piety Promoted wrote:
“He was a man of unassuming, retiring character, amiable in his private life, and of unspotted integrity . . . . He was not of a strong constitution, and for several years suffered much from poor health.”
With his friend and relative by marriage, William Backhouse, he prepared a little volume of quotations from the writings of Archbishop Fénelon, Lady Guion and de Molinos, which was titled A Guide to True Peace, or, a Method of Attaining to Inward and Spiritual Prayer, first printed at Stockton in 1813. It contains seventeen short chapters under headings such as On Faith, On Prayer, On Spiritual Dryness, On Defects and Infirmities, On Mortification, On Conversion, On Virtue. The little book met with ready acceptance and passed through twelve editions between 1813 and 1878, printed at Stockton, York, London, Manchester, Frome, Hobart in Tasmania, and at Stavangar in Danish. James Ianson died at Croft at the early age of thirty seven. He was, apparently, not a Minister, but for some years an Elder. His widow survived him for a quarter of a century.James and Sarah Ianson’s son, Charles was a well known and greatly respected inhabitant of Darlington, of which town he was mayor in 1871. He was an Elder among Friends. In 1834, “cousin Charles” married Gulielma Coventry, of London. They had six children; the one best known to me was the youngest son, James, who was interested in family history. He was a J.P. for Darlington, Governor of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Director of the local Technical College, and partner in the firm of Charles Ianson& Co., of the Whessoe Iron Foundry. He lived with his unmarried sister, Sarah Jane, who survives him. Most of the descendants of Charles and Gulielma Ianson left the Society of Friends.
Mary, the sole surviving daughter of William and Mary Ianson, married William Cudworth, grocer and druggist, of Darlington, whose widow she remained for over fifty years, and whose business she carried on for many years.
William Cudworth was the eldest son of Abraham and Mary (Fitton) Cudworth, of Painthorpe, near Wakefield, and was born prior to the time when his parents became Friends. See Some Account of the Family of Cudworth, compiled by Joseph J. Green, 1898.
We now come to the youngest child of William and Mary Ianson my grandfather, Joshua Ianson. He was born at Darlington, and was apprenticed to a farmer, William Stickney, of Holderness, within Hull Monthly Meeting. Prior to his marriage, 27 vii. 1810, with Ann Dixon, he returned to the land of his nativity and established himself as a farmer at Low Walworth, near Darlington, within Stockton Monthly Meeting. The following is copied from the official Quaker records of liberation for marriage. The Edward Pease mentioned was the “father of railways” and supporter of George Stephenson. Edward Robson was a descendant of the Hedley clan.
Joshua Ianson, son of William and Mary Ianson, of Darlington, has laid before us his intentions of marriage with Ann Dixon, daughter of John and Elizabeth Dixon, of Cockfield, and having produced a few lines from the young woman and her parents signifying their consent, and his father, being present [his mother had died a few months previously], informs us that it has his consent, we appoint Edward Pease and Edward Robson to publish the same in Darlington Meeting on the first day, and also to enquire into his clearness, and report to our next. The clerk is desired to give him a few lines certifying his orderly proceeding with us [for him to present to the Monthly Meeting to which his intended belonged].
Stockton M.M., 15 vi. 1810
Edward Pease reports that enquiry has been made respecting the clearness of Joshua Ianson from other marriage engagements, and the needful publication having been made in Darlington Meeting and nothing appearing to obstruct the accomplishment of his intended marriage, this Meeting directs the clerk to give him a certificate of his clearness, addressed to Staindrop M.M.
Stockton M.M., 19 vi. 1810.
The various moves and removes of my grandparents can be traced in the birthplaces of their children, provided, of course that they were all born “at home.” The first two were born at Low Walworth and the next two at Lynesack, near Cockfield, in the Dixon country, within Staindrop Monthly Meeting, into which the parents removed in August, 1813. The fifth child was born at Black Boy.
In 1824, the family moved northward into Newcastle Monthly Meeting, and settled at Sunderland, where the sixth child was born my mother. In May 1838, the last change of residence took place to Bishop Auckland.
I do not know exactly when Joshua Ianson exchanged a farm for a colliery; it was probably when or soon after he left the neighbourhood of Darlington. His interest in coal mining was, I believe, disposed of to the Peases, who worked the pits with greater success than did my grandfather.
Joshua Ianson was a member of the first committee in charge of the Friends’ Boarding School, at Great Ayton, in Cleveland, and he attended the first General Meeting in 1842 as a representative from Darlington Monthly Meeting. At the Jubilee of the institution in 1891, his daughter, Ann, was one of the four survivors of the first list of subscribers (History of Great Ayton School, 1891, pp. 41, 86).
Joshua Ianson died comparatively young, 6 xi. 1842; his widow, who was born a few days before her husband, lived on till 27 ii. 1856, with her two married daughters, Sarah and Ann.
The eldest child of Joshua and Ann (Dixon) Ianson, Mary, died at Ackworth School in her fourteenth year. The second child, Elizabeth, lived to be eighty four. She married John Dodshon , in 1838, and had a large family, born at Stockton on Tees, one only now living Mary Ann, the second daughter. William, the third son, was for a long time a prominent figure in the civic and religious life of Stockton. Under him the wholesale grocery business developed considerably. He was a bachelor and had the misfortune to lose his right arm in middle life. John Dodshon, Junior., was the eldest and his two unmarried sons are the only representatives of the family in the next generation. Of John, Junior., we read in The Annual Monitor for 1873:
It was his let to mix much with men greatly absorbed in business, and he was exceedingly jealous of being himself led away by an undue devotion to secular engagements . . . He often spoke of his enjoyment of the little, quiet gatherings of Friends in some country districts where he delighted to spend his First days when on business journeys.
He was a tea merchant and lived at Leytonstone. My father visited him there while attending the Yearly Meeting in 1870.
Sarah, the third daughter of Joshua and Ann Ianson, married in 1870, William (Henry) Brewin, of Cirencester. She was a recorded Minister and was a thorough Dixon in mental make up. While residing in the West of England I was a frequent visitor at her home, Birchfield, Cirencester. She presented me with silver teaspoons on my first marriage. There is an account of William Brewin in The Annual Monitor for 1883.
John Dixon Ianson was the first son. He married twice, his second wife being Jane Tace, a daughter of George Dixon of Newcastle. He had twelve children, of whom Elizabeth Ann became Applegarth and Fanny became Warne. Several of the sons are married and there are descendants. They are not Quakers. Uncle John was a farmer living at Hallowell. He had much of the Dixon about him.
The younger son was James. While he was engaged in the construction of the Maryport and Carlisle railway my mother kept house for him at the former place. He married Mary Rutter, of Swansea, and settled in Darlington as a civil engineer. He was a recorded Minister. His seven children were the companions of our childhood, but all are now deceased and there are but two of the next generation.
Ann Ianson was the fourth daughter of Joshua and Ann Ianson, a maiden lady living with her sister, Sarah, at Bishop Auckland until the latter’s marriage , and then residing at Darlington.
And then, lastly, came Maria, my mother, born 27 viii. 1828.
My mother was more of an I’Anson than a Dixon, being of a retiring disposition, and illustrating “the I’Anson reserve.”
It has been said that Maria I’Anson met her future husband at the house of her aunt, Mary (William) Backhouse, in Darlington. | <urn:uuid:200ecfbb-426d-4ffc-a049-bb612e0fcdff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ianson.one-name.net/roots-and-branches/branches-of-the-family/ancestry-of-the-quaker-iansons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.983709 | 4,726 | 2.3125 | 2 |
CHN: Getting to 60 on Health Reform
Senate consideration of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009, H.R. 3590 – the health care reform bill assembled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) – has been a slow-moving process. Debate on the bill began on November 29 after the Senate, during a rare Saturday session on November 21, voted 60-39 along party lines to proceed to debate. Getting the 60 votes to open up debate was a challenge. The struggle is finding a middle ground that satisfies enough moderates and liberals to secure the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. Thus far, over 300 amendments have been filed and just a little over a dozen have been voted on.
The bill put forth by Senator Reid is estimated to cost $848 billion over ten years and has many of the basic elements of the bills approved by the Senate Finance and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees. H.R. 3590 would expand Medicaid, making it available to people with incomes below 133 percent of the federal poverty line (FPL), and establish a health insurance exchange where the uninsured could shop for coverage. Subsidies would be provided on a sliding scale to people with incomes up to 400 percent of FPL so that they could purchase health insurance in the exchange. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), originally set to expire in 2013, would be extended through 2019. Individual and employer mandates are included, as well as consumer protections and insurance market reforms banning lifetime limits and denials of coverage for preexisting conditions. And, in a bold move Senator Reid also included a public insurance plan option with an opportunity for states to opt out if they do not want to participate. The public insurance option has been one of the more contentious issues during the health reform debate.
Human needs advocates have been focused on making sure no ground is lost on the affordability provisions and on making improvements to the bill through the amendment process. Two amendments of particular interest to advocates would strengthen health coverage for children and access to affordable coverage for lawfully residing immigrants. An amendment introduced by Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and five other Senators would give states the option to eliminate the five-year waiting period for lawfully residing immigrants who need access to Medicaid. Another amendment introduced by Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) would protect and improve CHIP by providing full funding for the program through 2019, setting a floor for income eligibility for children at 250 percent of FPL starting in 2014, guaranteeing Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) for CHIP children, and streamlining the enrollment process. It is unclear when the amendments will be voted on at this point. Part of the uncertainty has to do with an announcement made earlier this week.
In an effort to come to some consensus on the public plan option, ten Democratic Senators (5 moderates and 5 liberals) were assigned by Senator Reid to negotiate a compromise. On Tuesday, December 8 they announced that they had developed an alternative to the public insurance option. Little details of the compromise have been divulged up until now, but the proposal is said to create a new system of private, national insurance plans to be administered by the Office of Personnel Management, the entity which manages health benefits for federal employees, and to open up Medicare to individuals ages 55 through 64. Currently Medicare is only open to people 65 and older. The new proposal has been sent to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for a cost estimate and debate on the bill has been suspended while the Senate waits for the CBO analysis.
Timing on the bill is unclear at this moment. Much will depend on the results of the CBO score and whether Senator Reid is able to garner the 60 votes needed for cloture. The Senate hopes to complete action on the bill before the holiday recess. | <urn:uuid:83a8b6be-89b2-4e1f-a21d-cfb09bfd2c33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chn.org/articles/getting-to-60-on-health-reform/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966694 | 781 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Hotan climate guide, China
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The National Highways Authority of India’s proposal to replace manual toll collection at highway toll plazas with electronic toll collection (ETC) will result in an estimated combined annual saving of around 22 billion due to plugging of toll leakages and savings on fuel. The government has announced that the system will be in place at all highway toll plazas by March 31, 2014.
In India, toll revenues from highway stretches have played an important role in encouraging private participation in the roads sector. The introduction of tolled stretches and the increasing prevalence of annuity and BOT-based models for private participation have led to a substantial rise in the number of tolled roads. As of 2011-12, CRISIL Research estimates that around 8,600 km of highways in India are tolled (around 4,300 km of national highways and around 4,300 km of state highways).
In future too, with private participation expected to go up, there will be a considerable increase in the incidence of tolled stretches, the efficacy of which will be the cornerstone of future highway infrastructure development. Under the circumstances, a well-maintained toll collection system will play an extremely crucial role by closing loopholes in toll collection.
Toll leakages occur when a vehicle does not pay the requisite toll or when booth operators under-report collections. Based on the current industry estimate of about 10 per cent leakage, annual losses for road developers are estimated to be approximately 12 billion. An automated tolling system can effectively address this area of grave concern for road developers and lenders with exposure to road projects.
Toll leakages directly affect the base traffic estimate, which is one of the key assumptions made by developers when they bid for a particular stretch. Toll leakages reduce the estimated base traffic number as toll is not collected from all vehicles that are actually part of the traffic. CRISIL Research believes that even a marginal change in base traffic estimates has a profound effect on project returns. Though setting up an ETC plaza (based on RFID-passive technology) entails marginally higher expenditure as compared to a manual toll collection plaza, the operating costs are significantly lower.
The savings in operating costs, coupled with the potential revenue upside from reduced toll leakages, will lead to an increase in the IRR of the project. We reckon that a 10 per cent reduction in base traffic estimate for a particular stretch can reduce project returns by as much as 200-250 basis points.
Another equally important benefit will be in the form of savings on fuel worth around Rs. 10 billion per year due to the elimination/reduction in the waiting time of vehicles. The savings in fuel will far outweigh the initial cost of 100 per vehicle that the system requires from vehicle owners.
According to latest estimates, there are close to 525 toll plazas, operating on national and state highways in the country. On an average, over 20,000 vehicles cross each of these toll plazas daily, each queuing up for approximately 5-10 minutes awaiting their turn to pay the toll fare. Each vehicle consumes almost 0.5-1.0 litre of fuel in an hour. Collectively, these vehicles spend around 1,800-3,600 hours at toll plazas, which results in a daily wastage of Rs. 30-60 million, translating annually into 10 billion.
The ETC system, a nationwide automated collection system, is a tried and tested technology that has been successfully implemented in many countries and resulted in increased toll revenues. Based on radio frequency identification (RFID), it comprises a wireless on-board unit (OBU) fitted into a vehicle and a stationary roadside unit (RSU) placed at the toll plaza.
There are many technologies available globally that provide higher bandwidth and range but we believe that RFID-passive systems are powerful enough to handle the volume and speed of traffic seen on Indian roadways. Moreover, the extremely low cost of the on-board unit (which will be borne by the final consumers) is a major advantage in a developing country such as India.
However, for the system to be truly effective, a single on-board unit should function at all toll plazas across the country. This is crucial because if ETC implementation takes place only at individual stretches, the OBUs will correspond only to those specific roads. As a result, a vehicle travelling across different stretches would require several OBUs, which is not feasible.
The system will require the government to invest in two major system components to enable collections to flow to toll operators – a central database where the clearing-house will store account information, and networks that will connect toll plazas to the database. Revenues from tolled stretches will flow directly to the involved operators via the central clearing-house.
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VFFC's Heart of Vermont Agriculture development project will address the region's need for agricultural infrastructure to support local farmers and value added food businesses to reach larger markets and innovate new products. We will construct a new facility for centralized aggregation, storage, and distribution, as well as rehabilitate an existing historic structure for commercial kitchen space and processing facility for culinary education and value added food products. The project will turn VFFC into a truly regional food hub while providing more business opportunities and jobs for the Rutland area.
We will construct a Produce Packing Center and Commercial Kitchen on our 2.93 acre campus, at 251 West Street in Rutland, Vermont. Located on a former industrial site with four existing buildings, these two facilities will form the Heart of Vermont Agriculture Food Hub within an Opportunity Zone adjacent to downtown Rutland.
Our Food Hub’s goal over the next five years is to help over 50 farm business and local food entrepreneurs generate $2 million dollars in annual sales by increasing profit margins and/or decreasing per unit costs and prepare 25 students for the culinary job market.
Other site facilities:
Farmers Hall, approximately 15,000 square feet, includes a large multi-use event space, which hosts the Rutland Winter Farmers Market and which can seat 500 individuals and 1,100 individuals standing; a Community Learning Kitchen, available not only for VFFC's Farmacy and other cooking classes, but also for events which take place in the Hall.
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Partisan Group in Naliboki Forest
This group of partisans operated in the Naliboki forest (Baranowicze region) of Poland.
Photo credit: Meczenstwo Walka, Zaglada Zydów Polsce 1939-1945. Poland. No. 506
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Taiwan’s repeat DUI offenders get ‘corpse cleaning’ as punishment
Repeat DUI offenders in Taiwan will get an unorthodox punishment by working in the morgue to help clean up corpses as part of their community service, the city’s latest move to curb its increasing and often deadly DUI cases, reports Taiwan’s United Daily News.
The new policy will be implemented as early as next month, according to the Taipei government.
Lin Meina, secretary general of the Taiwan Against Drunk Driving association, said giving these DUI offenders lectures had little effect in the past. Many Taiwanese are superstitious about ‘seeing death’, putting these offenders in a situation that deals with death directly, at least is a “core-shaking educational experience” to help prevent drunk driving in Taiwan.
In Taipei, out of 100 offenders caught driving under the influence of alcohol, 16 are repeat offenders, and a few have at least five prior convictions, the report said.
According to figures released by Taipei Police Bureau, there have been 23,751 DUI cases over the past 10 years, which comprises 16% of all cases that led to revoking of a driver’s license.
The government said it has reached an agreement with the city’s prosecution team. Offenders will be ordered to assist with cleaning duties in the morgue, but “won’t see the bodies directly,” the government said.
In addition to sending these repeat offenders to morgues, the city’s Directorate General of Highways also enlisted other punishments such as sending offenders down to a charity group called Genesis Social Welfare Foundation to visit patients in vegetative state, the report added.
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Author of "Red Legs of the Bulge: Artillerymen in the Battle of the Bulge," CJ is passionate about history and the people who make it.
Trading Post Scandal
Every nation has its heroes and battles that become part of the national culture. A myth builds up around them. New lexicons emerge. Books are written. Movies made. Nowhere is this more the case than in the legend of George Armstrong Custer and The Battle of the Little Bighorn. Better known as Custer’s Last Stand, it is still embedded in the national psyche the way Pearl Harbor and Gettysburg continue to be.
The death of Custer and his battalion of 210 men from the 7th Cavalry Regiment shocked the nation. Occurring on the late afternoon of June 25, 1876, just days before the Centennial celebration, the timing could not have been worse.
Since his death, he has been viewed as a hero, patriot, egomaniac, racist, good soldier and most recently, just a man of his time. Thankfully, his Native American opponents have come to be viewed in a different light as well. Once seen as a wild band of savages, the Sioux nations are now considered to have been a people just fighting for their existence in a rapidly changing world. The overwhelming victory gave Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Sioux Chief, notoriety. But that only forestalled the inevitable. It also made him public enemy number one. The battle had been a long time coming, and it was really the Sioux’s last hurrah on the open plains.
In some ways, Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn was his destiny. He was always a bit reckless in action and words. His boldness was based on military insight, something innate that did not reflect in his poor academics at West Point. Many of his officers commented on how he studied a battlefield, getting to know the terrain intimately.
A Far Away Look
This last campaign was different. He underestimated his opponent, and many spoke of his changing demeanor during the march from Fort Lincoln. What was bothering him? The usual military matters troubled him: supply, horses and disagreements over strategy; nothing unusual about that.
A self-reflection seemed to be creeping into his psyche in late May and early June of 1876. Was he just tired? There were his fellow commanders, Major Reno and Captain Benteen. Both disliked their flashy colleague. Was he just tired of it and keeping his distance? One officer described speaking to Custer in his tent days before the battle. There was an empty stare that lingered too long. The men had never seen that before in their usually confident, talkative commander. Something weighed on him.
The ups and downs of the past two months had taken their toll. But there were others, mostly the enlisted men, who saw Custer as the same old swashbuckler they had come to know and love. Several times throughout June, he had talked about pulling away from the expedition and winning a great victory. Could he have been driven by an obsession to make amends for humiliation from the President? To find an answer, one has to study the man himself and his changing fortunes in the first half of 1876.
Custer was always described as a man with a flair for publicity. The long blond hair and thick mustache that came down around the corners of his mouth made him stand out even in an era of almost ubiquitous facial hair. The collars on his cavalry uniform were upturned, and he wore his hat rakishly, usually tilted to the right. Despite the histrionics, he was a complex figure. Equal parts chivalrous and vain, he could be ruthless towards his enemies (both Confederate and Indian). Depending on whom you spoke to, he was both loved and hated. That was not surprising. He was also obsessed, many thought, with being the hero.
Despite graduating near the bottom of his class of 1861, he emerged a hero from the Civil War, becoming the Union’s answer to Jeb Stuart, the famed Confederate Cavalry commander. Some historians feel he saved Gettysburg for the much-criticized General Meade. He cut swaths through many a skirmish line. He finished the war a general, but that was a brevet rank, and he soon returned to the rank of captain.
The next ten years were filled with as much adventure, despair and turmoil as any man could have. In 1867, he was even court-martialed for being AWOL. He had left the post to go see his fiercely loyal wife Libby, who was sick. He got off with a year’s suspension, but he had a powerful friend in General Phillip Sheridan, so Custer was able to come back by mid-1868.
In the struggle for the West, being unconventional was the only way to be. The 7th Calvary needed a man like Custer, flaws and all. Charging headlong into his opponent had become a way of life for him. At the Battle of the Washita in 1868 (Oklahoma), it almost cost him a command. Many of his fellow officers felt he needlessly risked the lives of his men by just taking off into the fight. One of those officers, Frederick Benteen, would be with Custer at the Little Bighorn, but survive. Though he was later credited with saving the remnants of the regiment, it was Benteen’s refusal to take bold action that many believe led to Custer’s death.
The 19th Century western frontier was a tough place. Life could be short and brutal. The US Army reflected that. Corruption was rife, as was drunkenness. There was the usual collection of desperate men and glory-seekers, sprinkled with the occasional idealist out to do his duty. And that was just the officer corps. The enlisted ranks read like a foreign legion, with the ranks filled out by newly arrived Irish and Germans, along with a few Italians. It was not unusual to find men who had fought with Garibaldi in Italy during their war of unification. In fact, one of Custer’s most trusted officers, Myles Keogh, an Irish immigrant, had fought in the Papal Army during that conflict.
Custer had almost left the army several times in the wake of the Civil War, but he persuaded himself to stay each time. As the mid-1870s came, he lived his life like a man possessed. He needed one more big battle to silence his critics and rivals. Then he could leave the Army and go work for the all-powerful railroads or maybe a mining company. A fortune was just waiting to be made. He and Libby could live a life of luxury. All he needed was one last glorious campaign.
But in 1876, a new problem surfaced, one that has been overlooked by many: the Trading Post Scandal. New enemies emerged in the form of Washington Bureaucrats and even the President, Ulysses S. Grant. When politicians and the military tangle, the result is usually the damning of reputations. This time, it may have cost lives.
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In March of that year, Custer left Fort Lincoln (South Dakota) for Washington to testify before Congress about the scandal involving the Secretary of War, William Belknap. It involved a kickback scheme in which Secretary Belknap and a civilian contractor to the military received payments from a merchant at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. As a result of the hearings, the campaign against the Sioux was put on hold.
We hear the term “civilian contractor” a lot these days when it comes to the military, particularly for the Army. They now handle much of the mess duties, transportation and even external security in some hot spots. Many would be surprised to hear that the US Army of the 19th Century used them as well. They were called sutlers. Sutlers were private contractors who were awarded what were termed traderships at Army posts. This wasn’t a candy store franchise; these men ran the supply store. It was akin to being the de facto quartermaster on post. It was a lucrative business and became even more so during the Civil War. Goods were sold at higher than market prices. The soldiers had no other options. They couldn’t run to the mall in the next town. The traders also did illicit business with the tribes, selling them weapons and other goods that were later used against the troops. In an ironic twist, the Sioux warriors at the Bighorn were better armed than Custer’s men. In the early 1870s, Congress gave the exclusive power to appoint post sutlers to the Secretary of War.
In 1870, at the urging of his then-wife, Belknap gave the trading post contract for Fort Sill to a man named Caleb Marsh. But there was one problem: the Fort already had a sutler named John Evans. They came up with an ingenious solution. A partnership was formed in which Evans kept the trading post, with the provision that he give Marsh $12,000 a year in profits (through quarterly payments). Marsh then had to split that in half with Belknap’s wife. This was an enormous amount of money for that time. $12,000 a year in 1870 converts to about $120,000-130,000 annually today. Like all good schemes, news eventually would leak out.
Belknap’s wife died later that year, but her husband kept accepting payments for the “care of their child.” Then the child died in 1871. Still, Sec. Belknap kept receiving money. After he remarried, the cash flow continued. The plot was finally exposed in 1876, leading to Belknap’s resignation. Articles of impeachment were drawn up, and a trial ensued. Amazingly, the Secretary was acquitted, based mostly on a technicality about the timing of his resignation. But the investigation into the matter strained relations between Custer, Grant and many others.
A series of articles in a New York newspaper exposed the schemes, using what we would term today as anonymous sources. One of those sources was rumored to be George Custer, with an accusation that he may have even authored one of the articles. He was called to testify for the first time on March 29, 1876, and then on April 4. His testimony was earth-shaking as he went on to describe what he felt was going on at his own post, Fort Lincoln. During the prior year, he noticed that his men were paying higher than normal prices for their goods and supplies. Upon looking into the matter, he found that the sutler was only getting $2,000 for every $15,000 of profits. Custer made the connection that the other $13,000 was going to either some illegal partnership or the Secretary himself. But then came the real dirt. He stated that Orvil Grant, brother of the President, was one of the culprits. Orvil had been an investor in what appeared to be legal partnerships with three trading posts, one of them supposedly Fort Lincoln. I think it’s safe to assume there were audible gasps in the committee that day. He told the committee that a fellow officer, who had tried to expose these arrangements, had been transferred against his wishes. Even his staunchest ally, Phil Sheridan, was angered with this last bit.
As his testimony ground on, Custer continued with accusations. Major Lewis Merrill of the 7th Calvary, a Civil War veteran (brevetted brigadier general) and the man who was given credit for almost destroying the KKK in South Carolina after the War was accused of taking a bribe many years before at Fort Leavenworth. Merrill responded vociferously, with letters to the editors of many newspapers. The dominant members of this committee were Democrats with Southern sympathies. Merrill was not popular with these men. His promotions had already been held up because of his tough stance during Reconstruction. So this charge may have been a way for Custer to ingratiate himself further with those Congressmen. In all likelihood, Custer truly believed that Merrill had taken the money. He had previously accused Merrill of stealing band equipment in 1874. There was never any evidence of a bribe. Merrill was vindicated and went on to continue his stellar career. However, he did not receive his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel until the year he retired.
Custer also testified about the “corn story.” A shipment of corn had arrived at Fort Lincoln earlier that year. Custer determined at the time that it was meant for the Indian Department, which ran the reservation nearby. Apparently, he saw this as an attempt to sell the corn to the Army for a profit because the Army could have been charged at a much higher price. But the real problem was his claim that he wrote a report and passed it on to General Alfred Terry (his immediate superior), who supposedly passed it up through the normal channels (Sheridan, Sherman, etc.). Custer claimed that he received orders from Belknap (through Terry) to receive the corn. The problem was that Terry never sent the report out to anyone. Terry stated he made an inquiry on his own and determined the corn shipment to be valid. This was a slap in the face for a man such as George Custer, to whom honor was everything. Terry made Custer look silly by not sending the report and letting Custer believe he had.
The attitude of the press was mixed. Many newspapers in those days did not hide their political biases. It was not uncommon for editors or reporters to sway a story at the behest of a Congressman or Senator. Insinuations were made throughout an article. Payments to the press were not all that unusual. So it’s not surprising to read the press clippings about Custer’s testimony and see him called a liar. Speaking with reporters after the testimony, the Secretary stated that Custer had testified “like one spurred by a grievance.” Some of his testimony was called a “virtuous story.” At best, Custer was portrayed as an overly chivalrous officer who had taken offense too easily. One story published in the New York Times called his chances for promotion dim.
Whether or not Custer knew immediately of the hornet’s nest he had just stirred up, we don’t know. It’s hard to imagine him not being aware of the criticism. Reporters would have certainly sought him out during his stay in the Capital. His testimony had the desired effect, at least temporarily. Belknap was indicted. After waiting in Washington for almost two weeks, Custer was told by Congress that he was no longer needed. He had friends in New York, and with the Centennial celebration upon the country, he decided to make a couple of stops. He was back in D.C. by the 21st and prepared to leave for Fort Lincoln. However, he was stunned to find out he had been accused of perjury by some members of the press. As per usual, his fellow officers were leading the charge against him. Nevertheless, Sherman asked the Secretary of War for his release to Fort Lincoln in order to get the campaign underway. Grant, who by now was furious, personally stepped in and told Secretary Taft (who replaced Belknap) to appoint a new commander of the expedition. Custer was going nowhere. To accuse the relative of a sitting President of illegalities was beyond contempt to Grant. He had given his blessing to the deals. In his mind, they were perfectly legal.
Sherman informed General Terry, who had been appointed to lead the expedition against the Sioux, that he would have to make do with a new commander of the 7th. Custer was shocked. He was going to be robbed of his chance for redemption. Desperate, he sought out members of the committee to secure his release. Before he left, Custer was told by Sherman to see the President. Through an intermediary, Custer sent word to the White House requesting a meeting. Grant refused. Left with no place to go, he departed for Chicago, and then on to Ft. Lincoln.
The drama did not end there. Upon arrival in Chicago, he was arrested per orders of Sherman. Sheridan not only had the distasteful duty to arrest an officer he admired and a onetime protégé’, but he had to order the soon-to-be infamous Major Marcus Reno to replace Custer. Custer was brought to Fort Snelling, Minnesota, to meet with General Terry. The look of despair on Custer’s face was stunning. A sense of pity fell over Terry. A man of such boundless energy and confidence had been reduced to pleading for his career. And Terry wanted Custer back. Polar opposites in temperament, he knew defeating the growing numbers of Sioux who were leaving the reservations required boldness. He would plead for Custer’s return. Sheridan and Sherman endorsed the effort. As was true throughout his career, Custer's luck turned just when things looked darkest. Public pressure of the perceived poor treatment of an American hero caused Grant to reverse his stance. With the Centennial upon the nation, America needed to fulfill its destiny to tame the wild lands of the American West. Grant had misgivings about the treatment of Native Americans, but politics was politics. Failing to secure a victory against the Sioux that summer would erode his public standing even more. Putting aside his moral sympathies, he acquiesced. By the middle of May, Custer was back in command. Within days he was back at Fort Lincoln and prepared to lead his men against the Sioux and Cheyenne.
Riding Into History
Trouble had been brewing in the Great Plains all spring. While the Army was immersed in the politics of Washington, Sitting Bull was growing in strength. Rumors were rife all over eastern Montana territory. Young warriors began flocking to his growing band. Cheyenne warriors began arriving as well. No one seemed to know where Sitting Bull was. The Army sent out patrols to no avail. Ascertaining the size of his band was impossible. Long depressions in the grasslands were seen, and the trail was picked up. They lead nowhere. Tepee poles were found strewn along the route. Still no sign of life. How big could they be? They could not challenge the 7th Calvary, could they?
The plan was for a large pincer movement with the 7th Calvary coming from the east, Colonel John Gibbon coming from the northwest, and George Crook coming up from Wyoming. While the 7th marched due west, on May 28th, General George Crook led his men in the Battle of the Rosebud just south of the Bighorn, where approximately 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Crazy Horse took on Crooks’ 1,000. The fierceness of the Indian resistance caused Crook to withdraw with heavy casualties. He then retreated to Fort Sheridan. Word never reached Custer. Gibbon was somehow delayed as well. The now bloodied Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, full of confidence, prepared for more fighting.
Within a month, Custer was dead. So were two of his brothers and many of his long-serving men. A reporter along to record the great victory (despite orders to the contrary) had been killed as well. The reasons for the disaster are many. Like so many great historical events, there was not just one factor but a confluence of events that led to the defeat. How much Custer contributed to his own demise is still up for debate. He was mercurial; that’s not always a great quality in a military man leading a complex campaign. Was he really a desperate man? Certainly. Did the delays in getting the campaign started allow Sitting Bull to muster enough men for one last battle? There’s no doubt about that. If the campaign had started in late April, the Battle of the Little Bighorn would have been a footnote in history, if it had happened at all.
Was Peace the Goal?
Characters like George Custer have existed for centuries. Yet there is a more modern parallel to Custer. A man of ambition, boundless energy, equally poor grades and one who had a knack for getting into trouble with his superiors: General George S. Patton. Joining the cavalry right out of West Point, Patton quickly developed a reputation similar to Custer’s: an arrogant publicity seeker with a flair for the dramatic. It was said soon after World War II ended in Europe in May 1945, that peace would be hard on Patton. A man of such drive would get bored and probably talk his way into trouble. And he did. His deeds awed, and his words angered. I think the same could be said for Custer. Could we have imagined it any other way? Custer, the gentleman farmer or corporate executive, is hard to fathom. Peace would have been hard on him.
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On the web: http://www.shapell.org/manuscript.aspx?169434.
“Notes from the Capital.” New York Times. April 7, 1876. Via the King County Library database at kcls.org.
“General Custer’s Testimony-His insinuating corn story: A complete examination in which Custer appears to little advantage.” New York Times. May 5, 1876. Via the King County Library database at kcls.org.
“Gen Custer and Gen Merrill.” New York Times. April 19, 1876. Via the King County Library database at kcls.org.
Allan Clayton on November 13, 2016:
These pics are great! It's always good to see some well preserved pictures from that long ago. Will Hutchison's book Artifacts of the Battle of Little Bighorn have some stunning photos of items of the day and from the battle. Very cool!
Norma Lawrence from California on July 15, 2016:
No problem. I always try to read your articles. They are so informative. My husband served in Korea and Vietnam. He was in what they called special forces.
CJ Kelly (author) from the PNW on July 15, 2016:
Thx, NL. Always glad when someone stops by and reads this one. So many unknowns about Custer. Stay well.
Norma Lawrence from California on July 15, 2016:
Great article. I learned things I did not know. Your research was very good. Thanks
CJ Kelly (author) from the PNW on July 04, 2015:
Thx, Tamara. Appreciate it. We always need to look beyond what we already know. Stay well.
Tamara Wilhite from Fort Worth, Texas on July 04, 2015:
Intriguing theory and well documented, voted up
CJ Kelly (author) from the PNW on May 20, 2015:
Thanks, Mr. Garrow. That means a lot. It's one of my least read, but favorite hub because I learned so much writing it. The one thing I was shocked to learn: Congresional hearings in 1870s were the same as they are today, mostly grandstanding. Stay well.
Colin Garrow from Inverbervie, Scotland on May 20, 2015:
This is amazing CJ, fantastically well researched and beautifully written. I've always thought Custer was a pretty interesting guy, but I've never heard a lot of what you cover here. Great Hub. Voted up.
CJ Kelly (author) from the PNW on January 19, 2015:
Hi Antonio. You can try starting here: http://cherokeeregistry.com/index.php?option=com_c.../. The other nations were the Choctaw, Muscogee, Chickasaw and Seminole. Not all of the nations stopped in St. Augustine. So you should be able to narrow it down eventually. I will keep looking.
CJ Kelly (author) from the PNW on January 19, 2015:
Hi Antonio. I know the Cherokee were a large majority of the Trail of Tears, although there were two other tribes from the area. I will check it out and get back to you.
Antonio on January 19, 2015:
My great great great grandmother was one of the chdrilen (survivors) that was brought to St Augustine Florida from the Trail of Tears. I would like to know what the tribe was called, my grandmothers family left the Seminole reservation in the 1930s. I have not been able to trace my heritage since the reservation did not start keeping roll till 1951.I know she and her whole family were full blooded indian, but no one is left I know of. When I was small we would go to reservation twice a year but stopped when I was 10 , I am now 62. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. Debra Barrett
CJ Kelly (author) from the PNW on July 18, 2014:
Thx Wilderness. That means a lot. I love to analyze decision-making in history and this was my first foray into that era.
Dan Harmon from Boise, Idaho on July 17, 2014:
A fascinating analysis and obviously well researched. Thank you for a great read.
Like so many others I knew of Custer and the Little BigHorn battle, but that's all. Virtually nothing of the man himself, and you have helped correct that situation.
CJ Kelly (author) from the PNW on April 09, 2014:
Thanks very much, Mr. Rankin. I can truly the say the word "gifted" and my name have never been used in the same sentence. So you just got my commenter of the year award.
Larry Rankin from Oklahoma on April 09, 2014:
Very informative read. I had the pleasure of visiting the place of Custer's Last Stand. They used the description of Custer as "a man of his time." On that I respectfully disagree. There's a difference between being a man of your time ingrained with beliefs that don't seem PC today and being an arrogant jerk. I feel Custer was the Latter regardless of his time. Love the comparison of Custer to Patton. They both had their faults, but I still feel Custer is the more reprehensible of the 2. You are a truly gifted historian.
CJ Kelly (author) from the PNW on June 07, 2013:
Much appreciated, Frank. It's my least read, but I'm very proud of it. Stay well.
Frank Atanacio from Shelton on June 06, 2013:
Lions Ill take this as a well written educational and historical hub.. voted awesome and shared :) | <urn:uuid:c6dbd63a-f0b0-4405-b242-7cb7b0063985> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://owlcation.com/humanities/georgecuster | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.988237 | 5,713 | 2.578125 | 3 |
CAPTURING WITCHES: HISTORIES, STORIES, IMAGES
400 YEARS AFTER THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY 2012
DRAFT PROGRAMME: Please click here to download the draft programme as a PDF.
Please be aware that the programme is subject to change.
Joseph Delaney is the award-winning author of the Spook’s Series of books.
The latest title, The Spook’s Blood: Book 10 (Wardstone Chronicles), is forthcoming.
Diane Purkiss (Keble College, Oxford) is the author The Witch in History: Early Modern and Late Twentieth Century Reputations (1996), Troublesome Things: a history of fairies and fairy stories (2000), Literature, Gender, and Politics during the English Civil War (2005), Shakespeare and the Supernatural (2008), A History of Food in England (2008), The dissolution of the English monasteries (2010).
She reviews for the TLS, the Sunday Telegraph, the Telegraph and the Guardian, and appears frequently on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and on BBC TV.
Robert Poole (Reader in History at the University of Cumbria) is the editor of The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories (2002) and the author of The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (2011), an edition of the 1613 book of the trial with an extended introduction. He is consultant historian to the Lancashire Witches 400 Programme and has lectured and broadcast extensively on history. Website: www.lancashirewitches.com. | <urn:uuid:a6373171-9798-4264-b988-b91f9089cf9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.transculturalwriting.com/plenaries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.827927 | 402 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The book Nourishing Traditions changed the way I looked at food. It sent me on a trip down the nutritional food rabbit hole.
When I was a kid, I was constantly hearing about low fat foods. My family bought margarine, egg whites in a carton, skim milk. There was a constant reminder to be skinny. It led to an unhealthy relationship with food.
CHANGING FOOD HABITS
Over the years I’ve made improvements along the way in how and what we eat. When my son was small, I started looking into food dyes. The jury is still out (officially) if food dyes affect behavior in children but I know with my children, it did.
I’ve always cooked homemade meals but my level of homemade has changed over the last 20 years. When I first started cooking, I thought homemade and from scratch meant throwing cream of mushroom soup over a beef roast in a crockpot. This is no longer the case. It took many years to get here though.
Now, to me, homemade means using flour, butter, onions, mushrooms, etc. to make that same cream of mushroom soup for that roast. It only takes an extra couple steps and keeps all the extra ingredients out of our food.
My entire life I was told I was lactose intolerant. Milk, cheese, ice cream…all the good things in life were off limits because they made me miserable. When we moved to SC, buying raw milk was no longer illegal. That’s a whole other issue BTW. I started buying raw milk and no longer had any of the issues I’d dealt with my whole life. I’ve found a wonder raw milk supplier and buy raw cheese, pasture raised butter and other goodness in my monthly co-op order. I can now make raw milk ice cream at home, it’s so nice to be able to enjoy ice cream again!
FINDING NOURISHING TRADITIONS
Several years ago I started looking into organic and nongmo foods. I started looking into the difference between conventional and grass-fed meat. Raw milk became a staple in our diet. I started making big changes.
Finding Nourishing Traditions sent me down a deeper road. It’s more than a cookbook. It explains the science behind how our body is affected by fats. It gives us the specific dangers of soy. It’s biology 101. It taught me that there are over 30 different names for MSG. That number is ridiculous! I knew I had to make even bigger changes.
The book tells us that our food is full of terrible things. It asks the questions that need to be asked. Specifically, is there a major connection between the foods we eat and the chronic illnesses that are plaguing us as a species? Right now we are suffering from cancer, diabetes, heart disease, physchological and physiological issues, nervous disorders and neurological issues at an alarming rate. Could our food be causing this?
MY MAD SCIENTIST KITCHEN
I’ve learned about fermented foods and now my sourdough starter has a permanent spot on my kitchen counter. We now have kombucha brewing in our kitchen. Finding local, organic produce has become a priority. We’ve stopped buying garbage hydrogenated oils and embrace butter. The changes in our health have been wonderful. Better blood pressure numbers. Less stomach issues. Clearer skin. Better sleep! It’s been amazing!
This book is a must for any homestead kitchen, even the backyard ones 🙂
What do you think? Have you went down the whole foods rabbit hole? Have you read Nourishing Traditions? I’d love to hear in the comments below!
Let’s continue the conversation! Join me in the 5 To 9 Mamas group! We discuss homemaking, homesteading, homeschooling and natural living!
I read each and every comment and I try to respond to questions ASAP, so ask away! If you’ve made a recipe, I would love to hear about! Please come back and share your experience and give the recipe a 5-star rating so other people will know how much you loved it!
CHECK OUT OTHER MEAL PLANNING IDEAS
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GEORGE MARVIN KESTER, 65, passed away on April 22, 1983 at his
home in Crete, Illinois where he was born and lived his whole life.
He was retired from Wyman-Gordon Forging Company in 1974. Over the
years he collected many gasoline engines, blacksmithing tools and
The dream of his life came true when we purchased the Russell 20
HP portable steam engine, serial no. 17155 in September 1979. (A
picture of the engine was shown in IMA July/August
1980, page 9). He loved to steam the engine up at home and was
delighted to have kids of all ages’ stop to visit and see his
pride and joy.
He was a member of the Northern Indiana Historical Power
Association and had shown the Russell at their Labor Day weekend
show for the past four years.
We miss him very much and hope to continue sharing the
tradition, the knowledge and love that he could express to his
family and friends.
Submitted by son Robert C. Kester and Kester
ELLSWORD GRAHN, one of the most active members of Western
Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion, was killed about noon, April 3,
in a logging accident about a half mile from his rural Vergas home.
He was a professional sawyer and supplied much custom ordered
hardwood lumber in the area.
Grahn had been active in many phases of WMSTR almost from its
inception. He was in charge of the lumbering operations on
Hill. He had supplied and often donated lumber for many of the
buildings. He was a licensed steam engineer and also exhibited a
scale model steam engine. The blacksmith shop at the grounds is
named the Ells word Grahn building and he also served many years as
a director of the organization.
Submitted by Bill and Darrell Dey, Vergas, Minnesota
OSCAR E. NORBECK, 79 of Tamarac, Florida, formerly of Bristol,
Pennsylvania, passed away September 19 in University Community
He enjoyed visiting many steam shows with his son Jack C.
Norbeck the author of the Encyclopedia of American Steam Traction
Engines. Oscar’s constant encouragement, patience, wisdom and
faith motivated his son during the long arduous years researching,
photographing and compiling his Encyclopedia. He will sincerely be
missed by his family and many friends.
Oscar Norbeck retired as a General Secretary of the Lower Bucks
County Y .M .C .A. He had 36 years of service with YMCAs and YMCA
camps in the state of Pennsylvania. He was the author of four
editions of the book Authentic Indian Life Crafts. Before he went
into YMCA work, he studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology
and was a director of theatrical shows across the nation. He was a
member of the Bristol Rotary Club, the Lions Club, the Kiwanis, was
a longtime member of the Trevose Horticultural Society and a 32nd
degree Mason. Oscar was a member of All Saints Lutheran Church,
N. M. (MIKE) BAKKEGARD died recently as the result of a car
accident. He was 75 years old. Following his retirement in 1973,
Mike pursued his lifetime hobby of restoring and showing his
collection of steam and gasoline engines.He also had
‘N.J.S’ Wrench House, a museum of antique wrenches, located
at his home in Fullerton.
He will be missed by all.
Submitted by Bill and Darrel Dey, Vergas, Minnesota
S. L. ‘Red’ Emery, 77. Summer-field, Florida passed away
on October 8, 1983 at Ocala, Florida. He was a lifelong lover of
steam enginesgrowing up in the Stanton-Dundas-Northfield area of
Minnesota and later moving to Flint. Michigan and finally to
He was a regular attendee of the National Thresher man’s
Reunion at Wauseon, Ohio; Western Ontario Show at Brigden, Ontario;
and the Zolfo Springs show in Florida.
He completely restored a 1903 12 HP Huber traction engine. He
was the man on the ‘new Huber’ vintage 1903 front cover
May-June 1976 and the subject of an article written by his son
Dennis in the May June 1983 issue.
He will be sadly missed by all.
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Tulsa Firefighters Train To Use Elevators For High-Rise Rescues
Friday, September 29th 2006, 10:14 am
News On 6
Tulsa firefighters are gearing up for high-rise rescues and they're adding a new tool to their arsenal.
News on 6 anchor Terry Hood says until now, elevators have been off-limits during fires. Firefighters say there's a good reason why. But now they say Tulsa buildings have the technology to make elevators work in their favor.
We've all watched the elevator numbers tick down as we fly by floors. But firefighters say before now, they couldn't count on elevators. Tulsa Fire Captain John Marlar: "An elevator can be called inadvertently to a fire floor by heat and smoke. Some of those call buttons that are in hallways or landings can be affected by heat and smoke, that sort of thing."
Captain Marlar says stopping on a floor in flames can be deadly. That's why he's training fire crews with new keys to saving lives. Dozens of fire companies have been training at the CityPlex Towers at 81st and Lewis to put elevators to use in an emergency - with "fire recall." It's technology that wasn't available when the top two floors of the Petroleum Club caught fire in 1994. Crews had to run equipment up several flights of stairs to fight the fire.
Now, all the elevators in the city can be commandeered by fire teams. Crews turn a key, look up the elevator shaft for flames or obstructions, and then take the car to a safe floor to start the rescue. "You can read it in a book, and you can look at pictures, and you can discuss it, but until you actually get out here and put your hands on it that's when it really begins to sink in."
They're not a fire engine, but the elevator cars at go between 5 and 10 miles an hour. That puts crews on the scene much quicker than taking 30 flights of stairs. They say, often just getting to the top takes most of their energy and riding an elevator could be a life-saving lift.
It took 15 years and millions of dollars to update all the elevators in Tulsa with "fire recall." The city of Tulsa's elevator inspector says that puts Tulsa years ahead of other cities like Dallas and Oklahoma City. | <urn:uuid:55cb7324-090e-4894-81e4-21c14b41ff91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newson6.com/story/5e368aae2f69d76f620a17ee/tulsa-firefighters-train-to-use-elevators-for-highrise-rescues | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.964482 | 491 | 2.09375 | 2 |
What is secondary prevention?
Healthcare designed to prevent recurrence of events (in this case Acute Coronary Syndromes) or complications of ACS in patients diagnosed with heart disease. It involves medical care, modification of behavioural risk factors, psychosocial care, education and support for self-management (including adherence to prescribed medicines), which can be delivered in various settings.
‘Working together to improve lifelong outcomes for those living with heart disease’
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in Australia. Every year around 75,000 Australians are hospitalised due to a heart attack or unstable angina, also known as Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS). Of immense concern is the high number of repeat events that occur within the first 12 months. Repeat events are more likely to be fatal. In fact, the number of Australians either hospitalised or dying from largely preventable repeat events is rising and is expected to increase by up to 40% by 2020. Aside from the devastation CVD can cause families, employers and the wider community, the cost to Government is enormous. It is a matter of national priority that we work towards innovative and cost-effective improvements in the uptake and delivery of secondary prevention treatments and services.
In view of this, a National Summit for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease was hosted by The George Institute for Global Health in 2011 to consider ways to reform secondary preventive care in Australia. One of the key recommendations outlined in the Summit’s consensus report was to establish a multidisciplinary national secondary prevention taskforce. In May 2013, this taskforce was formally established as the Secondary Prevention Alliance and is made up of a broad group of national healthcare, consumer, government and non-government organisations, including the Heart Foundation, CSANZ, RACGP, ACRA and others. By uniting individual stakeholders within this Alliance it has provided a credible and powerful voice to advocate for change, including the delivery of key messages and solutions on improving secondary preventive care for all Australians, based on the Summit Recommendations.
The Secondary Prevention Alliance is currently co-chaired by Associate Professors Clara Chow and Julie Redfern.
To reduce mortality and morbidity from coronary heart disease by providing effective, evidence-based secondary prevention care to all Australians living with heart disease throughout their patient journey. | <urn:uuid:5f88ab61-05c4-4b05-9eb5-9631b4fd1138> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.secondarypreventionalliance.net.au/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.944671 | 485 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Selected from the recent open call for submissions for the upcoming Photoworks Annual Issue 24, Olga Lidia Saavedra's series uses photography and storytelling to explore the relationship between the family unit and transgender individuals in Cuba.
This work is the result of a participatory research project that assembles visual narratives and lived experiences through family portraiture and oral history. It offers an insight into family attitudes toward transgender experience in Cuba, one of the few countries in the world where gender reassignment surgery is state-sponsored. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Cuba in 1975. This legislation also encompassed decriminalisation for gender non-normative persons.
My work examines how family stories were used to create a gender narrative during the ‘revolutionary’ period. The production of the participant’s family portrait and their testimonies evidence a rupture in the way gender is assimilated and represented within the Cuban family. By reflecting on contemporary images of transgender individuals in relation to their family, I seek to focus on those spaces where being a transgender person has been the principal factor in the fragmentation of the Cuban family. It is not primarily about being transgender, but about how the experience of gender transitioning affects everyone.
These family portraits depict the apparently straight/hetero family as a space where sexual and gender difference is happening. It also provides a significant strategy for rethinking queer family spaces not as separate or subaltern but as implicated within seemingly normative family arrangements.
For this project, I used oral history narrative from 8 Cuban families whose members’ ages range from 25 – 80 years old. It facilitated a space for conversation about family and gender transitioning across generations.
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The Doe Run Company Invites Families To 15th Annual Fall Rocks Event
7 Oct 2019
ST. LOUIS (Oct. 7, 2019) – The 15th annual Fall Rocks celebration returns to the Missouri Mines State Historic Site Powerhouse Museum in Park Hills, Missouri, on Saturday, October 26 from 5-8 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Missouri Mines State Historic Site and The Doe Run Company (Doe Run), the family-friendly event features activities that teach children about Missouri’s natural resources. Fall Rocks is free and open to the public.
“We love that Fall Rocks gives us a chance to introduce children to the importance of minerals in our everyday lives,” said Brian Mangogna, general manager at Doe Run’s Southeast Missouri Mining and Milling Division (SEMO). “And, we get to instill pride in our region because Missouri mining helps supply vital minerals to the world, like the lead that is used in batteries to start our cars and that stores essential energy from solar panels and wind farms.”
Hard hat decorating, cookie mining, toothpaste making, and minerals trivia are just a few of the activities that families can look forward to this year. Free refreshments will also be provided throughout the event. Doe Run staff and volunteers will run the activity stations, and state park staff will be available to answer questions about mining and minerals in the Old Lead Belt. The Powerhouse Museum will be open for guests to explore exhibits about the history of mining technology.
The Missouri Mines State Historic Site is located at 4000 State Highway 32 in Park Hills, which is on the south side of Highway 32 at the Flat River Drive overpass, 1.5 miles west of U.S. Highway 67.
For more information, contact Art Hebrank at the Powerhouse Museum at (573) 431-6226 or Kim Midgett at (573) 244-8113, or visit https://mostateparks.com/event/82381/15th-annual-fall-rocks.
About The Doe Run Company
Based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, The Doe Run Company is a privately held natural resources company and a global provider of lead, copper and zinc concentrates. Dedicated to environmentally responsible mineral and metal production, Doe Run operates one of the world’s largest, single-site lead recycling centers, located in Boss, Missouri, and mines from one of the world’s largest lead mining districts, also in Missouri. The Doe Run Company and its subsidiaries deliver products and services necessary to provide power, protection and convenience. Doe Run has operations in Missouri, Washington and Arizona. For more information, visit www.doerun.com. | <urn:uuid:8d15cfe6-050f-49aa-9beb-b481bdef1d5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://doerundev.com/media/news/the-doe-run-company-invites-families-to-15th-annual-fall-rocks-event/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.91301 | 568 | 1.734375 | 2 |
If you’re considering arm lift…
The arm lift begins by marking the area of excess skin. This is usually done with the patient standing or sitting. The excess skin is then removed. The pattern of skin removal is usually an ellipse or a triangle with the base in the axilla. Because the skin is very mobile in the upper arm it is usually not necessary to undermine extensively. Some fat is left over the nerves and arteries for their protection but liposuction in Washington DC is sometimes performed to provide a smooth result.
After the fat and skin are removed the wound is stitched together and occasionally a drain is used. The operation is done under either a local anesthetic or a general anesthetic. It is most commonly done as an outpatient. This means you can be home within a few hours. Some surgeons shave the axilla others feel that this is not important.
After surgery you will have a bandages applied . This can be anything from an extensive absorbent bandage with elastic support to a simple dressing with paper tapes (steristrips).
As we grow older loose skin begins to develop on the upper arm. Sometimes this becomes so severe that it hangs down creating a “bats’s wing deformity.” In some patients this can even interfere with the use of the arm. The treatment for this is to remove the excess skin and fat (brachioplasty) but not everyone is a candidate for surgery. The operation leaves a scar which may go from the elbow to the armpit. This can be noticeable. Patients should not have the operation unless they feel comfortable with the scar or can wear clothes that hide it. Many patients will need to change clothing styles. Still the removal of the excess skin is worth it for many of them. An arm lift or brachioplasty is usually not suitable for patients who have had a mastectomy. The drainage of fluid (lymph) from the arm may already be damaged and surgery can lead to persistent swelling.
Patients who have repeated infections in the armpit or suffer from excess sweat formation (axillary hidradenitis) may also not be candidates for this surgery.
In some obese patients liposuction may be more suitable. Because of the thickness of the whole arm a brachioplasty may not achieve the desired result. | <urn:uuid:3ac9a42c-959f-4651-94ad-55e2b63ef9e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://drscroggins.com/arm-lift/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.942868 | 476 | 2.140625 | 2 |
When early field data showed that vaccinating people cuts transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, researchers were cautiously optimistic. But they warned that many of those studies, although promising, took place before the fast-spreading Delta variant proliferated worldwide. Now, reports from various countries seem to confirm what scientists feared after the variant tore through India with alarming speed in April and May: Delta is more likely than other variants to spread through vaccinated people.
Data from COVID-19 tests in the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore are showing that vaccinated people who become infected with Delta SARS-CoV-2 can carry as much virus in their nose as do unvaccinated people. This means that despite the protection offered by vaccines, a proportion of vaccinated people can pass on Delta, possibly aiding its rise.
“People who have a Delta virus and happen to have ‘breakthrough’ infections can carry these really high levels of virus, and can unwittingly spread the virus to others,” says David O’Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The findings underscore the importance of protective measures such as wearing masks indoors to reduce transmission. Researchers stress that COVID-19 vaccines are protective against serious illness and death, but the data on Delta transmission show that “people who are vaccinated still need to take precautions”, O’Connor says.
O’Connor and colleagues at the Madison and Dane County health department looked at infections in Wisconsin in June and July.
The team used PCR tests, which are widely used to confirm COVID-19 infections, to estimate the concentration of virus in nasal-fluid samples. The tests detect the virus’s genetic material by amplifying DNA until it is detectable as a fluorescent signal. The number of amplification cycles needed to get a signal — a measure called the cycle threshold value or Ct — serves as a proxy for viral concentration in the sample. The lower a sample’s Ct, the more viral genetic material present.
In a preprint study published on medRxiv on 11 August1, the researchers compared Ct values for 719 people between 29 June and 31 July, during which 90% of the 122 coronavirus samples they sequenced were the Delta variant. Of the 311 vaccinated people who tested positive for SAR-CoV-2 in that group, most had Ct values of less than 25, a level at which researchers expect the presence of infectious SARS-CoV-2. To confirm this, the team cultured 55 samples that had Ct values less than 25, from vaccinated and unvaccinated people, and detected infectious virus in nearly every one. Most unvaccinated people also had Ct values below this level.
“The bottom line is, this can happen — it can be true that vaccinated people can spread the virus. But we do not yet know what their relative role in overall community spread is,” says co-author Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Data from Provincetown, Massachusetts, suggest similar findings. An August report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that following large gatherings in the beach town, nearly three-quarters of 469 new COVID-19 cases that occurred in the state were in vaccinated people2. Both vaccinated and unvaccinated people had comparably low Ct values, indicating high viral loads, and of the 133 samples sequenced, 90% were identified as Delta. The findings prompted the CDC to update its guidance on 27 July and once again recommend that people in areas of high transmission wear masks indoors.
The Provincetown results were linked to big gatherings, but Wisconsin didn’t have similar activity, suggesting that small household gatherings could also help Delta to spread, Friedrich says.
In Houston, Texas, where a Houston Methodist Hospital team has been sequencing and logging SARS-CoV-2 variants for almost every COVID-19 case in the hospital system, about 17% of Delta cases are in vaccinated people since March 2021, nearly three times the rate of breakthrough infections compared with all other variants combined. Patients with Delta SARS-CoV-2 also stayed in hospital slightly longer than did people infected with other variants. “There’s potentially a slightly different biology to the infection,” says James Musser, a molecular pathologist and director of the hospital’s Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Diseases Research. His team found that Ct levels were similar in vaccinated and unvaccinated people3.
However, vaccinated people with Delta might remain infectious for a shorter period, according to researchers in Singapore who tracked viral loads for each day of COVID-19 infection among people who had and hadn’t been vaccinated. Delta viral loads were similar for both groups for the first week of infection, but dropped quickly after day 7 in vaccinated people4. “Given the high virus levels seen in the first week of illness with Delta, measures such as masks and hand hygiene which can reduce transmission are important for everyone, regardless of vaccination status,” says co-author Barnaby Young, an infectious-disease clinician at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore.
One massive analysis of Delta transmission comes from the UK REACT-1 programme, led by a team at Imperial College London, which tests more than 100,000 UK volunteers every few weeks. The team ran Ct analyses for samples received in May, June and July, when Delta was rapidly replacing other variants to become the dominant driver of COVID-19 in the country. The results suggested that among people testing positive, those who had been vaccinated had a lower viral load on average than did unvaccinated people. Paul Elliott, an epidemiologist at Imperial, says that these results differ from other Ct studies because this study sampled the population at random and included people who tested positive without showing symptoms.
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As human society enters an ‘urban age’, the need to interrogate the nature of cities and urbanization processes has become more imperative. To advance this endeavour, this article suggests that the entrenched epistemological distance between the political economy and everyday urbanism approaches must be addressed and bridged. It furnishes a theoretical approach which examines how political economic changes are shaped and contoured by sensibilities and relations around urban lifestyles, identities and the phenomenology of being urban. Above all, it is interested in how urbanization acts as an organizing logic for people to envision and build everyday projects, meanings and identities. This article illustrates these arguments by developing a reading of The Chronicle of Zhalie, a novel that is also a saga of urbanization, authored by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke. Working within the genre of mythical realism, Yan provides important points of entry into theorizing the co‐production, co‐evolution and mutual constitution of urban political economy and the social, cultural and political changes at the scale of the everyday and the local. Our analysis is conducted by way of two analytical registers: the urban desiring machine and a conception of power that is relational, performative and interactive. | <urn:uuid:7c91702b-aef0-4dad-93ad-706e08b12c7c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ijurr.org/article/urban-theory-between-political-economy-and-everyday-urbanism-desiring-machine-and-power-in-a-saga-of-urbanization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945456 | 242 | 1.953125 | 2 |
ITI - Industrial Training Institute
ITI stands for Industrial Training Institute. It is a government training organization that provides education related to industries to high school students, and some trades can also be practiced following the 8th standard.
Categorically, industrial training institutes are established to provide technical education to students who have recently passed the 10th standard and want to acquire some technical understanding more willingly than higher education.
The Industrial Training Institutes are established by the DGET (Directorate-General for Employment and Training), the Ministry of Skills Development and Entrepreneurship, and the Union Government to offer training in multiple trades.
Many ITIs are located in India, both Governmental and private that provide technical and vocational training to students. The aspirants have to appear for the All-India Trade Test (AITT). After the National Trade Certificate (NTC) is issued to qualified candidates. According to the recent records, 12,000 ITIs are located in all the states and union territories of India. 2,400 Institutes are directed by the Central or state government and 9,600 are private. 6 of these organizations provide specific coaching students that are visually impaired and 3 organizations teach students with special needs. The training is offered for 130 trades that include 80 engineering and 50 non-engineering trades.
The primary target of an ITI is to train its candidates for the industry and to make them ready for work. ITI also conducts apprenticeship courses to make this practicable.
Eligibility Criteria for ITI
The qualification demands vary from course to course. Following are some of the basic necessities for the course:
ITI Examination Pattern and Syllabus
Pattern for Entrance test: The test includes 100 multiple choice questions that have to be done within the time limit of 3 hours. The questions are framed from the following sections-
The entrance test is usually organized in the month of August in all the states. Some states also organize the exam two times a year - in April and August. The results for exams held in August are usually declared in the month of September.
Best ITI courses
The majority of the students get government and private jobs after the accomplishments of their studies. Students can opt as per their education. Following we are mentioning some of the best courses that are offered by ITIs:
The electrician is very known Trade in the ITI course and usually, every student is completely aware regarding this trade. The electrician trade offers a better opportunity to acquire government and private jobs quickly and this is the reason why students recently passed out from the school run towards the electrician.
The plumber trade is the most crucial ITI trade for the students due to the larger number of government jobs specifically on the railways and also the worth of plumber trade in the private sector can't be neglected. It also creates an opportunity for self-employment and independent business.
Fitter is the supreme in ITI courses and holds a unique position in the list of courses offered by ITI.
Carpenter ITI trade is one of the most essential courses provided and can be opted by the students just after they pass their 10th grade.
Many types of Welder trades are there. Under this, you will get training in gad welding, arc welding, and a lot more.
6. Tool and Die Maker
The training period for the Tool and Die maker trade course is for one year only.
Turner trade is the most preferred trade course of the students. The requirements for this course are higher in the railway department. The training period of this trading course is 2 years.
The machinist course is the best diploma course for 10th-grade students and opens the door to many governments and private jobs.
Moulder diploma course provides a good opportunity for employment to the students. The training period for this trade is only 2 years and can be done after the completion of the 10th standard.
10. Interior designing
There is a huge demand for Interior designing in today's modern era due to the continuous opening of shopping malls and shop day after day.
11. Cutting and Sewing
Cutting and sewing are the choicest trade for women. Furthermore, girls can obtain employment in ready-made clothes-producing companies.
12. Computer Operator
The computer operator course from all courses of ITI is considered as the best one and this is because generally, all the students from this branch can get jobs in various private companies.
13. Network technician
The course of network technician is usually not available in all the ITIs centers as it is a very new and trendy course. If we start talking about the career perspective of this course then it is very great. In the current market, there is a very good opportunity for diploma holders from the Network technician ITI trade.
14. Hair and skin care
In this modern era, hair, beauty parlor as well as dressing work is very famous. For any family function or party or any other celebration, most women or girls usually visit the nearest beauty parlor to get done cutting and makeup. Therefore, the demand for Hair and Skin Care ITI course is very popular nowadays.
15. Food Beverage
As we can look at the modern trend in food eating habits, we can say that Foord Beverage course is the most significant ITI course for everyone who is looking to pursue an ITI course. After getting this course done, one can easily get a job offer from a food manufacturing company in the private sector.
16. Instrument Mechanic
We can see that now demand for the instrument mechanic degree and diploma holders is increasing rapidly. Many companies from the private sector hireinstrument mechanic course holders with a very good salary and also give some very rich facilities.
17. Mechanic Diesel
A mechanic diesel or even we can say diesel mechanic ITI course is considered as the best alternative choice for the students who have only passed 8th standard.
Duration of course: Students can get done with Mechanic diesel ITI course only in one year from their nearest ITI center.
18. Architectural Draughtsman ship
Architectural Draughtsman ship ITI course is considered as the full-time diploma course and that's why it's very popular among the choices of ITI courses.
Painter ITI course is one of the classic choices of courses among all the students looking to pursue an ITI course. As of now, this course is very popular and has very high demand because of high vacancies available for this course, students even seeing a bright career in this course.
20. Travel and Tour Assistant
As the tourism sector is growing in India day by day, the demand for Travel and Tour assistants is increasing. Therefore, the ITI course for Travel and Tour Assistant has been so popular these days.
Indian Government has been providing many facilities to the students who are pursuing Travel and Tour Assistant ITI course so that they can enhance their learning and knowledge towards the tour and tourism industry.
Firemen ITI course is the classical and most popular choice among students opting for ITIs. This is because after completing this course one can easily get a job (in the public sector as well as in the private sector).
22. Sheet metal worker
A student holding the sheet metal worker ITI course does the task or work related to metal-like materials.
23. Radio and TV mechanic
We can clearly see that the demand for Radio and TV mechanic ITI course is very less as compared to many other ITI courses but that doesn't mean there is no job for radio and TV mechanic.
24. Laboratory Assistant
If we look at the government sector jobs, the demands for laboratory assistants are very high as compare to any other vacancies.
25. Spa therapy
If we can look around when we visit markets, we will find out that Spa and massage therapy business is growing and going so well these days. Many people now want to open a massage shop or salon by observing the current scenario.
26. Draughtsman Mechanical
Basically, the actual work of a student holding Draughtsman Mechanical ITI course is to draw designs for various machines.
27. Dental Laboratory Equipment Technician
There is a good number of opportunities in the market for Dental Laboratory Equipment Technician diploma holders these days. But the reason behind the less popularity of this course is that this course is usually not available in every ITI center and there is very little chance that you will get this course nearby you.
28. Food and Beverage processing
Since the current food and beverage market is changing day over day and that's why the demand for students pursuing Food and Beverage processing ITI course is increasing in private sector companies.
29. Computer Hardware and Networking
As the IT industry is booming in the current scenario, we can say Computer Hardware and Networking ITI course is one of the best ITI courses available. Students who are pursuing this course can easily get jobs in various private sector companies after completing their Diploma.
30. Marine Engine Fitter
This ITI course is the most suitable course for students who want to make their career as marine engine fitter.
The scope of the Wireman ITI course is very good and that's why students pursuing this course can expect a bright future after completing it. There are very good chances that one can easily get a government job who is holding a wireman diploma.
32. Rubber Technician
As per the current market scenario, the Rubber Technician ITI course is one of the major ITI courses which are in high demand in India. Many ITI institutes in Delhi, which are providing this course and also not only in Delhi, you can visit the nearest ITI institute to check if it is available and then you can enroll there too.
33. Escalator Mechanic
For the students who just got past matriculation, the job role of lift mechanic or escalator mechanic is a very good option for them. Mostly in the real estate industry, there are many job opportunities available for students who are holding escalator mechanic diplomas.
The stenography ITI course is considered the best course to get into government jobs or jobs in the news channel. One can easily get into government jobs after completing this course.
35. Tractor Mechanic
As the tractor market is also growing day over day, the demand for Tractor mechanic ITI courses is also increasing rapidly.
36. Mining Machinery Mechanic
All the mining industries in India search for the mechanic for their mining machines. For students who want to make their career in the mining field, the course of Mining Machinery Mechanic is very good for them.
Surveyor ITI course is one of the best diploma courses available in ITI institutes of India as per today's raising demand for surveyors. But the catch here is that this course is only available to very few ITI institutes and therefore it is very difficult for one to get enrolled in this course.
Other than the government ITI institutes, many private institutes also provide the AutoCAD course to all the interested students. ITI institutes also provide the ITI training course for AutoCAD and one can get the certificate after completing this course.
39. Welding gas and Electric
This is one of the ITI course options available for the 8th standard passed students. Job advantages and opportunities after completing the Welding gas and Electric ITI course are very high as compared to many other ITI courses.
40. Fashion design and technology
There is no doubt that the demands of fashion designers are very high these days and therefore the demand for Fashion design and technology ITI course is very high. As we can even guess that, the cost of pursuing this course is very high but at the same time after doing this course you can be a fashion designer.
In the terms of career perspective, the Electroplater ITI course is a very good choice for all the youngsters who are looking to make a career in it. In this course, as the name suggests, you will be taught about all types of coating such as gold coating, nickel coating, silver coating, etc.
42. Digital Photography
If we look at the current market scenario, the digital photography ITI course should be considered as one of the best ITI courses. This is because the demand for students who are digital photographers (having a digital photography diploma) is very high now.
43. Civil Draughtsman
We have already discussed a couple of draughtsman courses offer by ITI across India. Well, now we have one more draughtsman course i.e., Civil draughtsman ITI course.
44. Secretarial practice
Nowadays many students love to go for this course to get good knowledge about computers but this course is not available at all the ITIs.
45. Painter general
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Mothers in central Ohio discovered what looked like mold in sippy cup valves. WSYX/WTTE went to a private lab, Remedial Solutions, LLC to have a couple of the valves tested. Experts did not find mold but instead discovered thousands of colonies of bacteria growing in a petri dish over several days. That’s actually worse, said Kirk Ferchert, a bioengineer and mold expert with Remedial Solutions.
“As a parent, I would be very concerned,” he said. “There are lots of bacteria like staph, E. coli and other things that are not good things that aren’t mold.”
Despite washing the Tommee Tippee sippy cups that are designed to avoid spills, there’s no way to clean the valve without prying the plastic mouth piece apart. The company has since changed the design in recent weeks after receiving complaints across the country.
Mother Andrea O’Keefe was disgusted when she first discovered the discolored and smelly valve, after prying it open with pliers. She said she believes it’s what made her daughter sick for more than a month.
“I really want to know,” O’Keefe said. “It looks like mold, and that’s gross, and my daughter was drinking through it.”
Tommee Tippee, the company responsible for this style of sippy cups, apologized through a statement on Facebook. Now, the new sippy cups just launched to replace the old ones have see-through valves that come apart to clean. Tommee Tippee sent new ones to moms like O’Keefe.
“Check your kid’s cups,” she said. “Definitely check to make sure they don’t have the old valves.”
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A simple click or swipe on your laptop, tablet or smartphone to purchase a gift, buy sports and concert tickets, or book a trip may seem like the easiest way to shop this holiday season. Yet it’s important to protect your credit and your identity in the process.
Americans plan to spend just under $1,000 on gifts and holiday items this year, according to the National Retail Federation. Surveys show the majority of consumers will shop online for holiday gifts and use credit cards to pay for them. And, about 1 in 5 shoppers — including 38% of millennials — will use “buy now, pay later” services to make purchases instantly and pay for them over time with no interest, a Morning Consult survey found.
Whether you do your holiday shopping in a store, online or with an app, it’s important to keep these five tips in mind before making a purchase.
There are several federal mandates to protect you when you use your credit card. For example, if you are charged twice for the same item or are billed for items you never received or already returned and paid by credit card, you can dispute those charges. Also, if your card is lost or stolen, your losses may be limited to $50 as long as you notify your issuer promptly.
There may be some consumer protections with debit cards, but when money is debited from your bank account it’s just gone and it may take time to resolve the issue.
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“You’re almost certainly going to get money back with a debit card,” said Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at Lending Tree. “But there may be a short window where if there is a bill that comes due, there’s no money in that account.
“If it takes you a while to see the fraudulent transaction and you have autopay, you may potentially miss payments.”
Also, if online stores or sellers say they only accept payment by gift cards, money transfers (Western Union, MoneyGram) or cryptocurrency, the Federal Trade Commission warns that’s definitely a red flag. It’s nearly impossible to trace and reverse those payments.
Your credit card company may offer “virtual card numbers” that link to your account when you make online purchases. These are unique, randomly generated numbers that are only used once and can provide an extra layer of protection for your real credit card number. Capital One and Citi will let you create virtual card numbers when you shop online. | <urn:uuid:681340ac-f269-48ba-b282-76b2330bdf79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ourfinanceguide.com/here-are-5-ways-to-protect-yourself-against-credit-card-fraud-this-holiday-season-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.924693 | 581 | 1.984375 | 2 |
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
–Song of Solomon, 1:16-17
For the last two days, I’ve been looking at photographs of my new grandson. In a week or so, John and I will travel to Ottawa to meet him, to hold him, to congratulate his parents. I think of how my own grandparents must’ve longed for such immediate gratification — I do have some photographs sent by my mother to my father’s parents (they were among the small leavings I took from my parents’ home after their deaths) and there are notes on the back to provide context: age of the children, the location of the photographs. Yesterday Forrest and Manon sent several images taken in the hospital and in response to my observation that Arthur’s hair seems dark, another photograph arrived to show the top of his beautiful head:
Forrest’s hair was the colour of a peach when he was born. Soft faint strawberry-blond. And there wasn’t much of it. (Still isn’t! Though it’s more russety now…) So how fascinating that this little baby has what looks like red hair too! When Forrest was born, we tried to think of where the red hair came from. My father remembered one red-haired sister and also several sisters with blue eyes. They were half-sisters, sharing a mother — his mother. No one in my immediate family had red hair or blue eyes. In John’s family, his father had fair hair and blue eyes, as did his sister. (I say “did” for his sister because her hair darkened over the years, though her eyes are still blue!)
I tried to puzzle through the mysteries of genetics in my essay, “Euclid’s Orchard”, and re-reading it, I see that I was already wondering about this baby as soon as I knew he was in process! I was musing about what had happened with the peas I’d saved for three years from seed originally purchased at the Mendel Museum in Brno. The seeds were wrinkled and they produced strong vines with white blooms. For two years the peas were wrinkled and then, last spring, this was what I found in the dried pods I’d saved for planting in 2015:
from “Euclid’s Orchard”: In four generations, the Mendel peas have taken different directions, perhaps because of their proximity to the Mammoth Melting Sugars or maybe because mysterious calculations under their own particular skins. I’ve planted them and await their appearance with all the anticipation of awaiting the birth of a child. Which we are also anticipating, in October. A second grandchild; the first being Kelly Samra, born on July 17, 2014, to her mathematician father, Brendan, and her physicist mother, Cristen. She is beautiful, with clear pink skin, blue eyes, and not enough hair to determine its colour. She is lanky like her mother and father—and shares her mother’s blue eyes, which are also her uncle and aunt’s blue eyes from our side of the family, and from her great-grandfather Ben Pass. And who will the new baby be? She or he has a red-haired father, with blue eyes—my older son—and a dark-haired dark-eyed mother. The maternal grandparents have lived for many generations on either side of the Ottawa River, in Quebec and Ontario, and there is an Algonquin great-great-grandmother in the not so distant past.
I’m puzzled. Last year I grew three varieties of Italian pole beans. (Some years I find myself on Commercial Drive in late winter and the Home Hardware there has an amazing selection of Italian seeds. Not the McKenzie Gusto ones — though maybe they have those too — but Larosa Emanuele, from Bari. It’s hard to resist the beautiful packages which contain more seeds by far than their North American counterparts and are cheap to boot.) I planted a romano type, “Smeraldo”, a long green one called “Nano Fin de Bagnols” which is sort of like a French filet, and “Trionfo Violetta”. I’ve grown these before but last year’s crop was astonishing and as well as pickling and freezing many pounds of beans, I left some on the vines to mature so I could dry them for seed. I didn’t keep them separate because quite honestly I love them all and didn’t mind them climbing the poles together and providing many pickings of all three varieties. The seeds were different, though — some of them brown, some of them white. (And true to my careless nature, I didn’t keep track of which was which. More on this in a moment.)
When I planted my beans, I put a selection under each pole of the teepees I’d erected in the bed I call “Wave”. Nice deep soil, well-nourished with compost, mushroom manure, alfalfa pellets, a handful of kelp meal, and a handful of lime. The slugs were around as the seeds were germinating so I had to keep poking in more seeds to compensate for the sad little sprouts with the tell-tale silver trail leading away from them. And then it got warm and the plants went crazy. For the past two weeks, I’ve been picking colanders most days. And they’re delicious. But here’s the puzzle:
Today’s picking is unnusual in that there’s actually a green romano bean in the lot. Every other picking has been exclusively purple. I’d say that the mix I saved was about equal parts two greens — the long filets and the romano-type — and one part “Trionfo Violetta”. I am no botanist but I believe (and please please someone tell me if I’m wrong) that beans are almost entirely self-pollinating, that by the time the beautiful flowers open, they have pollinated themselves (the anthers are pushed up against the stigma inside the unopened flower), and that cross-pollination is very rare.
So why are my beans all purple? All of three kinds were vigorous last year. I saved seed from good strong pods and all the beans were dried on newspaper on my kitchen floor in exactly the same way. I don’t actually mind. These beans are fabulous. (Favourite way to eat them is steamed briefly, cooled, tossed with hazelnut oil and lemon juice, some clipped tarragon and chives, and then some toasted chopped hazelnuts over top.)
A few years ago I visited Mendel’s monastery in Brno and should have paid more attention to the details of his genetic experiments. Instead, I pushed my face against the case of his pruning tools — so elegant and so well-cared for — and looked for ages at the detailed notes he kept about weather. Walking through the garden, I kept imagining him with his magnificent patience and attentive mind, I kept wondering about his life, and, well, let’s just say it was an opportunity lost. I found out just how little I’d paid attention when I was trying to write about genetics in my “Euclid’s Orchard” essay this past year.
I’ve been working hard on a new extended essay and part of it is about genetics. Not in a scientific way — I barely passed Biology 12 — but more as a meditation on what we inherit and what we don’t. I’ve been growing peas I first obtained in the Mendel Museum giftshop in Brno in the winter of 2012 and keeping (very casual) notes on their progress. I’ve saved the seed each year since 2012. In 2012, 2013, and 2014, the seeds were smooth and yellow and produced vines with white flowers. Last fall, because I was busy, I simply dried some peas in their pods and saved them in an envelope, unshelled. When I opened them a few weeks ago to plant them, I was amazed to see what the 2014 peas produced as seed:
As I eagerly wait for each new photograph of my grand-daughter, and also anticipate the birth of her cousin in the fall, this extended project of saving seed and watching a cultivar gradually change and adapt over the years becomes all the more intriguing. So much can be predicted and so much is mysterious.
We’re in the middle of the Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival here on the Sunshine Coast. Last night audiences were treated to “String Theory”, an event of Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart. The musicians are truly fine — and it always astonishes me that people who gather together from all over — for this year’s festival, they’ve come from Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria, and New York City — for rehearsals on Monday or Tuesday play so wonderfully together by the first concert on Thursday evening. (That was “New Sensations” and it was sensational.)
Last night, listening to Mozart’s String Quartet No. 6 in E flat major, K614 beautifully played by Lara St. John, Joyce Lai, Yehonatan Berick, Ian Clarke, and Rachel Mercer, I was taken back to Brno. Music does that. It carries in it memory and history, our own and the culture’s. In 2010 we were in Brno for a lively conference at Masaryk University. We had a few days to explore the city and John and I both fell in love with it (and have returned, and will return again, I hope). In front of the Reduta — a theatre where Mozart performed at the age of 11 — there is a sculpture presiding over both the theatre itself and the Zelný trh, or Cabbage Market.
It’s Mozart, of course — half impish boy, half angel. I think of this sculpture every time I hear his music — the playful and the divine, in perfect balance.
On that visit to Brno, our hosts arranged tickets for an evening of chamber opera at the Reduta. We sat in this room —
— and watched Second Movement’s performance of Bohuslav Martinu’s “The Knife’s Tears” and two short operas performed by the Ensemble Opera Diversa: Lukáš Sommer and Václav Havel’s” Ela, Hela and the Hitchhiking” and Ondrej Kyas and Pavel Drábek’s “The Pumpkin Demon in a Vegetarian Restaurant”. (I can’t seem to get all the diacritics to work here…) It was an exhilarating evening, made even better by the huge table of delicious food and many bottles of beautiful Moravian wines provided for the audience, not to mention the pumpkin confit cooked on stage during the performance of the last opera — can you imagine this? A prep line, the smell of ginger and garlic deliciously filling that glorious red room, and the cast graciously serving the audience after the last notes? As we walked back to our hotel that night, our route punctuated with the soft lights illuminating the Baroque facade of St. Thomas church, I asked John to remind me just why we were leaving Brno the next day. I wanted to stay forever.
And I was transported last night, in a similar way, but driving home down the dark highway, I knew I wasn’t leaving.
I’ve been thinking of Andrew Marvell and his garden lately as I work in ours and begin to see the results of all the work of February, March, and April when we reconstructed the whole area after drain field repairs and replanted the potted herbs, flowers, and even an apple tree which had patiently (I can only see it that way!) waited for us to return them to the soil.
“…their uncessant labors see
Crowned from some single herb or tree,
Whose short and narrow-vergèd shade
Does prudently their toils upbraid.” (from “The Garden”)
Most of the plants are thriving.
And mostly we are too. It’s a pleasure to pick kale each day and salad in the evenings. A pleasure to pull up a clump of spring onions, as green as anything dreamed of by Marvell. To guide the bean vines up their teepees, to see the Mendel peas climb their wire and see them begin to bloom. Last year I loved steaming these peas — I brought home the seeds from the Augustinian abbey in Brno where Mendel conducted his experiments with peas — with garlic scapes and the timing looks good for the combination this year too.
A year ago, I published a memoir, Mnemonic: A Book of Trees. Of all the books I’ve written, this one is perhaps the most personal. I trace significant moments and patterns in my life set against a larger arboreal canvas. Trees are the equivalent of Cicero’s architectural spaces. In thinking about them, their natural history and the human history associated with them, I discovered that they have guided me and sheltered me in ways I hadn’t even realized. I write this at my pine desk, looking out the window to a cascara, some firs, an arbutus, several cedars, a mountain ash. Every view from every window of my house is framed by foliage. In some of those trees, I see my children at play, building a fort, or simply climbing for the challenge of reaching a half-way mark. At the back of the house is a copper beech I planted to commemorate my parents and the little bits of grit at its base are their remains, still not completely washed into the soil.
In many ways, the past year has been shaped by this book. I travelled a little to read from it – Vancouver Island, the Okanagan, Kootenays, even to Alberta. I read from it in Brno, Prague, Olomouc, Ostrava, Ceske Budejovice, meeting fascinating people along the way and hearing their stories of trees. I saw the spruces lining the road leading to the house my grandmother was born in which in turn have led me to the work of the great Czech photographer Josef Sudek – he photographed the Mionsi Forest in the Beskydy Mountains just above my grandmother’s village of Horni Lomne. All of this is contained in my current work-in-progress, in some ways simply an extension of Mnemonic. Maybe that’s the best way to look at my writing in general: a single ongoing work.
The other day I saw a child walking with his mother near Sechelt. He was trailing a huge maple leaf while his mother pushed an infant in a stroller. It reminded me of the day a young neighbour showed my children how to run with a maple leaf against her face like a mask. She raced along the trail with such energy and joy while the sun filtered through the bigleaf maples, part of this grove of trees, children and parents, the living and the dead held together by the intricate lattice of memory. | <urn:uuid:88255609-3a11-4ae6-b66c-d6080c6aa084> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theresakishkan.com/tag/brno/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972501 | 3,273 | 1.625 | 2 |
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