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Our optometrists carry out comprehensive eye examinations, checking not only your standard of vision but your full ocular health. This includes examining your eyes for signs of cataracts, glaucoma and macular degeneration.
Following the examination we will let you know if you would benefit from glasses and if updating your current pair would make a worthwhile difference for you.
Why are checks important?
Regular eye examinations are an important part of your healthcare as many eye diseases do not show obvious visual symptoms until damage has already started. Early detection is the key to controlling eye disease and retaining as much vision as possible. Intervals between eye examinations are recommended on an individual case by case basis, therefore, one size does not fit all. We recommend you have an eye examination as often as necessary and base the frequency on the advice of our Optometrist.
Please contact us if you have any questions or would like to book an appointment.
When to have an eye examination?
Regular eye examinations are an important part of your healthcare and are easy to forget about if you’re not having any problems. Eye diseases can start to develop with no pain or obvious symptoms and your eyes work for you from the moment you wake up to when you go to sleep (it is the most valuable of all your senses). Early detection is the key to helping preserve your vision and eye health. Your eyes are more valuable than your teeth and should be examined every 6 months to ensure you know what’s going on.
More frequent tests
We may ask you to come in for an eye examination even more often than usually recommended. This can be for a number of different reasons when deemed clinically necessary for the health of your eyes.
If you are worried about your eyes and would like to have an examination sooner than advised please get in touch with us right away.
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Build a Dry, Risk-Free Finished Basement
Capturing this additional living space correctly and confidently requires a careful approach to the site and foundation.
Synopsis: It’s no surprise that finishing a basement is a popular project. It can add living space to a house at far less cost and complexity than building an addition. At the same time, because of the heightened threat from water and moisture, a basement remodel can create problems if it’s not done correctly. With that in mind, architect Steve Baczek shares his approach to finishing basements, which begins with an assessment of the risk from water and moisture. Drawings demonstrate typical strategies for detailing basements with low, medium, and high levels of risk, and a sidebar discusses code considerations. Through a drawing of the exterior of a house and its site, Baczek shows the steps to take for managing water before even beginning work on the basement.
Finishing a basement can create extra living space with far less cost and complexity than an addition that expands the home’s footprint. Perhaps for that reason alone, finishing a basement is a popular project for many homeowners. But a well-designed basement remodel is much more than an assembly of studs and drywall thrown up over a foundation wall, then trimmed and painted. Understanding and managing the risk of moisture and bulk water are imperative to developing a successful basement design, as is getting the insulation and air-sealing details right.
By assessing your site and basement accurately, and detailing your foundation floor and walls appropriately, not only can you improve the comfort, health, and efficiency of your home, but you can tackle the fit and finish of your basement with complete confidence in its durability and longevity.
Economics of performance
As with all construction projects, risk and performance in a basement remodel exist on a sliding rule of cost. Minimizing risk, providing durability, and ensuring proper performance come with a price. But when is good enough really good enough? It is easy to think of a basement as “cheap” space, but if the remodel is not well planned, it could easily be an inexpensive project that leads to expensive problems down the road. Improper water management can lead to health and durability risks; improper thermal management can lead to comfort risks. When it comes to considering the budget for a basement remodel, it’s helpful to follow the general guideline that as cost decreases, risk increases. The challenge is to find a suitable balance between cost and risk.
Rating the conditions
Because of the below-grade location of most basements, the existence of water is generally the measuring stick of risk. I typically rate existing foundations as having low, moderate, or high levels of risk. To me, low-risk foundations are not challenged at all by water infiltration. They are most often located in a high, well-drained area, and they have no evidence of water problems from the walls or the slab. Remodels should still be detailed carefully, though, since dramatic weather-related water events could occur at any time. I have also seen basements compromised because site conditions changed naturally, or more frequently, because neighboring properties were developed.
A basement with a moderate risk level has seasonal challenges. In colder climates, water from the spring thaw can saturate the ground. In warmer climates, water might become a problem during the rainy season. Regardless of the source, a moderate-risk scenario has water issues for up to half of the year. If you’ve lived in the house for a period of time, you certainly know if and when water issues are a problem. If you’re working on a home without historical context, look for evidence of bulk water in the basement in the form of staining on the slab and/or mineral streaks along the foundation walls. Your new neighbors might also be able to provide some insight into existing conditions, but keep in mind that every property is unique. Just because your neighbor’s basement is dry doesn’t mean yours is.
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How to navigate in the first place, what should you expect, and how to manage it all before your home is destroyed
It’s a recent phenomenon. The past was when most homes were built to last for decades or even centuries. These homes that were built with materials that could last for long periods of time are replaced by the modern and more efficient model referred to”construction reset” or “construction reset” or “construction turnover.” The concept of “construction reset” has become more common in recent years as builders make use of the latest developments in construction techniques and materials. Today, builders are replacing old houses every day because they are torn down and rebuilt from scratch. This process is called construction reset as it resets the amount of times a home is built before it starts to show signs of deteriorating. The following is everything you have to know about construction reset and the way you can prepare your home to avoid it’s destroyed through it.
What is construction reset?
This is a method in where a house is torn down and rebuilt from scratch. When a structure is taken down, it ceases being an active construction location. The house that was there becomes “demolished.” If a new house is constructed in its place, then the area where the old house once stood is now an “active construction site.” When the construction of the new house is finished, the area is “reconstruction-ready.” Construction reset resets the number of times a house can be built before it begins to show signs of deterioration. It means that following house that is built on the same site can remain for a long time longer than the one before it.
How long will it take for a home to be destroyed by construction reset?
The process of resetting construction can be completed quickly or it can be a drawn-out process. The length of time required for your home to be destroyed depends upon a myriad of factors such as the condition of your home at the time the construction crew gets there as well as the overall quality of construction and weather. In the majority of cases, the process of construction resets destroy a house in a matter of months or, at most, two or three years. The speed at which construction resets take place also depends on the type of house which needs to be rebuilt. A modern structure such as an entire house constructed of steel, concrete or sheetrock could last only a short amount of time when unlike a traditional home built from wood, stone, or brick. The structure of a home is not the only factor things that affect how long the home will last. A house may be constructed properly or poorly, the weather can be hot or cold, there can be an earthquake, or there may additional factors that drastically diminish the lifespan of a house, such as building reset.
Why does construction reset occur?
Construction reset is really nothing more than a result from the progress of home construction. Houses used to last decades, sometimes even centuries and a brand new home constructed on the same site usually was built to replace the previous one. Now, we build new homes nearly every day, and in most instances, the old home is replaced with a new one pretty soon after the old one is demolished. Construction reset is when builders replace their old buildings with new ones on the same site. It is becoming more common and, as a result that we’re now reset less often than previously.
Tips for protecting your well-being during construction reset
If you reside in an older city or in a city with a lot of people, or a city that is undergoing many construction sites, you might want to relocate to a different spot before construction reset takes over your neighborhood. If you’re able, try to find a new home for your family that is free of construction noise. This will safeguard your peace and quiet and allow you to focus on your studies and other activities. Be sure to not let your children to be outside during construction reset. Keep them indoors only to basic chores like walking the dog , or mowing the lawn. If you own pets, confine them to the home or inside a fence when construction is taking place. You do not want your pets to wander into an unfinished construction site, and possibly be injured or even killed. – If possible, find an alternative place to live before construction reset begins. You should have a plan for where your family members are going to go in the event of it happens to strike. If you reside in an apartment building determine if your community has a place where residents can gather in case there’s a catastrophe. If you’re living inside a mobile park, find out if there is the designated area for meeting where residents can gather in the event of disaster. – Ensure that the family members of yours know which actions to take in scenario of a natural disaster or a possible terrorist attack.
Methods to fight against the destruction of the construction reset
If you are in an older city or a big city or in a city that has lots of construction then consider moving to a new location before construction reset hits your neighborhood. If possible, choose an alternative location for your family that is free of construction noise. This will guarantee peace and tranquility and allow you to focus on your studies and other activities. Be sure to not let your children to go outside during construction reset. Make sure they are limited for chores essential to them, like walking your dog or mowing the lawn. If you own pets, keep them in the house or inside a secured area during construction. It is not a good idea for your pets to be able to walk into the construction area and get injured or even killed. If you can, try to find an alternate location prior to construction restarting. Be sure to make a plan for where your family members are going to go in the event of an event of natural disaster occurs. If you’re in an apartment building Find out if the complex has a meeting place for residents to gather in the event of the worst happens. If you reside in a mobile home park, check if there is an area designated for meetings for residents to gather in the event of a catastrophe.
There is no way of securing your health from harm caused by construction reset. The best you can do is shield both your children and you from the devastation that will occur with a construction reset and learn how to deal with it as best you can. Resets to construction are an inevitable part of modern-day life and is something that every person will encounter at some moment in time. If you’re protected from the dust and noise from construction, and ensure that you’re protecting your family from the hazards of construction, you will be able to lessen the damage that could be caused by construction reset.
know more about finished basements here.
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There’s much more to this festive food than just those cute little houses.
Did you know that cinnamon comes in three distinct varieties? Or that it was once considered more valuable than silver?
It’s served as currency. It’s fed soldiers during war. It’s even been (falsely) hailed as a cure for smallpox.
Learn everything from how to carve a jack-o’-lantern to where the world’s first 2,000-pound pumpkin was grown.
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RESTful APIs can make fetching data pretty hairy sometimes, but fetching data doesn’t have to be so difficult. Enter GraphQL… the query language where you can ask for exactly what you need with a single HTTP request. Come learn what all the buzz is about!
What is GraphQL? How does it differ from REST? In this session, I’ll answer these questions as well as give you an overview of the ecosystem. Of course, an introduction would not be complete without a demonstration of how to use GraphQL, including queries, resolving, and more!
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Brother to Charles Giles Knowles and brother in-law to George Robert Hughes.
KNOWLES – At his home in this city, May 26, 1889 Warren Perley Knowles aged 48 years 2 months and 10 days.
Mr. Knowles was born in Canterbury, New Hampshire and in 1856 came to this city which has since been his home.
In 1861 he enlisted in the Hudson City Guards and was mustered into the 4th Wisconsin Infantry with the company which was known as Company G. The regiment was afterwards changed by order of the war department to cavalry. He received his first commission as lieutenant for gallantry at Port Hudson and later as captain of Company G. From the fall of 1863 until the close of the war he was in command of Gen. Canby’s special scouts and did some effective work in breaking up the bands of guerrillas and smugglers of contra band goods and in scouting in front of Gen. Canby’s army on the march from Fish River to Mobile.
On his return at the close of the war he was married in November 1868 to Miss Francis Nichols of this place.
His acquaintance was almost universal in the St. Croix Valley and he made many warm friends. He was bright, apt and genial and full of grit and gumption and was noted as a gallant and daring soldier.
He leaves a most esteemed wife and two engaging children, Miss Faith a young lady of 19 and Warren a lad of 11.
The funeral last Tuesday was largely attended. Rev. J. D. Whitelaw performed the religious services at the house and the Grand Army Post of this city with comrades from the surrounding towns took charge of the remains and conducted services at the grave according to the beautiful and impressive rites of the order.
From The Prescott Journal, July 11, 1863:
Source: Mike Hughes
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By : Scott Millar
May 29, 2014 11:01 PM
Cash is on its last legs? Don't believe the hype. With $4.6 trillion of cash and coins in circulation, cash is as relevant and important to our lives and economy today as ever before, according to the Bank of International Settlements.
No, cash is not on its last leg. It's just that its role is changing and adapting to the disruptive effect of modern technology, such as mobile and electronic payments in general.
Many people have been quick to dismiss cash as something that is “in the past,” especially as the use of cards and online payments take center stage. Mobile payments and other alternatives steal all the headlines, while cash quietly goes about its business.
The US is a great example. As an advanced economy with a huge reliance on plastic cards, widespread access to the internet and a very high smartphone adoption rate, the country should - if we take things at face value - be ripe for ditching cash. Far from it.
Cash dominates small transactions
A new Federal Reserve study shows exactly the opposite. "Cash plays a dominant role for small-value transactions, is the leading payment instrument for many types of purchases, and stands as the key alternative when other options are not available," explained the authors of the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice.
We even see cash used for large-value transactions among the relatively less well-off. Millions of Americans have no bank account. For them, cash certainly remains king, even if things like prepaid cards are proving very useful.
It's the sheer versatility of cash that appeals. At 40 percent, cash makes up the single largest share of consumer transactions. Debit cards are next at 25 percent, with credit cards at 17 percent. When all is said and done, you can always rely on those greenbacks being accepted.
Flexible and faithful cash
For businesses and consumers, cash is the default option when all else fails. According to a recent RBR report, "Global ATM and Market Forecasts to 2018” (September 2013), $13.2 trillion was withdrawn from ATMs in 2012. This flexibility is particularly important at the lower end of the market, and we see that cash remains the major payment method for low-value transactions.
The Federal Reserve report shows Americans make lots of low-value transactions each month, and they are using cash for the bulk of these transactions. Even when other options are available, people regularly use cash.
To sum up, the RBR report notes that "while debit and credit cards are growing strongly, and cash's share of total consumer transactions may well be declining ... cash still plays a very significant role in the consumer payments landscape." A significant role indeed -- and one that will continue to evolve in the years ahead.
Learn more about NCR Financial Services.
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by Mark Brooks
A citizen, worried that the pandemic is being used as cover to reward insiders, writes a letter to his Liberal MP. The reply he received was laced with misinformation and should worry every Canadian. It highlights the lack of leadership and wishful thinking now delaying the development of new infrastructure in Canada. In this case the project in question is Pickering Airport.
Thanks to social media, the spread of false or misleading information has become easier than ever before. From local lobby groups spreading rumours for profit, to foreign powers with sophisticated divisive propaganda campaigns, the use of misinformation has skyrocketed. The result of this blizzard of falsehoods is confusion and indecision. Misinformation is muddying the waters of Canada’s democratic system and could be a growing threat to our government’s ability to function.
Our elected officials, along with reporters, are prime targets of misinformation campaigns. Too often, unknowingly or not, they participate in spreading falsehoods. This misinformation feeds on wishful thinking, what you want to hear and fear.
Together Canadians can combat misinformation by listening to a diversity of viewpoints, and by being skeptical of what you read and watch. We need to demand and support strong professional journalism and, as consumers, reduce financial incentives for those who profit from disinformation. But most of all we need to be active and engaged with those we elected to govern. If you see an elected official deceived by disinformation or utilizing misinformation to achieve a political goal, speak up. In a democracy silence is complicity.
Sending a letter to your local MP (Member of Parliament) is a time-honoured way of communicating issues and concerns. A local Pickering resident did just that when he believed something was amiss with the ongoing procrastination over building a new airport in his community. When he received what appeared to be an inaccurate response, he asked for my help with a fact check. As a concerned citizen and a volunteer moderator of PickeringAirport.org, I reviewed the MPs statements.
I found that the MP misrepresented three key facts published in a multi–million-dollar government consulting report called the KPMG ASA report. These mistakes are critical to our communities’ future and raise important questions:
- The MP incorrectly states that the report was released in June 2019. In reality it was released on March 5th 2020 just as the pandemic is taking hold. But this does beg the question, did the MP share a still confidential government report with an anti-airport lobby group before it was released to the public?
- The MP incorrectly summarises the results of the report by saying that a new airport is not needed before 2038. The date of 2038 is created out of thin air and is not in the report. Also, the report clearly states that new aviation capacity is needed sooner, and the only way to avoid building Pickering airport is to build that capacity elsewhere, primarily in Waterloo and Hamilton, hours away from where it is needed. To date, these airports and their communities have wisely declined that burden.
- The MP speculates, without facts or expertise, that the pandemic will delay the need for new aviation infrastructure. While anything is possible, the opposite is far more likely. The aviation industry is in the process of implementing new international biohazard and hygiene guidelines that will require more time on gate and more terminal space for each flight. These two infrastructure deficiencies where already identified by KPMG ASA report before the pandemic and will now become even more acute. Building a new airport in Pickering would rectify these constraints.
What follows is the email exchange between Bob Wilson and his federal MP for Pickering – Uxbridge, Liberal Jennifer O’Connell. At his request, I pointed out the misinformation in her statement in a follow–on email Also included below. The MP has unfortunately failed to respond to the request for a correction. We are publishing these emails in the hopes that the MP will take this opportunity to recognize and correct her misstatements. Alternatively, the voters can hold the MP to account in the next election.
Your letters and vigilance matters. Democracy is not a spectator sport. We must demand that our elected leaders have a disciplined and open mind to see the world as it really is. They need to listen to and protect the interest of ordinary Canadians, not a select few or their lobby group. Together we can help by communicating with our elected officials to help them stay grounded in the world of real facts.
Bob Wilson’s original note:
From: Robert Wilson
Sent: July 24, 2020 11:09 AM
To: O’Connell, Jennifer – M.P. <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Subject: Airport Lands
As we emerge from the Covid fog I would like to bring your attention to this ongoing situation.The airport lands just north of us, here in Pickering that is, need to be converted into an actual airport. Soon.
It has been brought to my attention that the lands are leased, at bargain prices from Transport Canada, and then, sometimes, sub leased again and again.
Of course if you have a rock bottom lease you would not want the airport built.These are probably the very people that shout the loudest against the airport.
We need an enquiry into who has these leases and at what price they are getting the lease for.This could be another corrupt situation, e.g. WE program, that our government finds itself in.
Bob Wilson<Address redacted for privacy considerations>
The email reply from Jennifer O’Connell, MP for Pickering Uxbridge :
Date: July 31, 2020 at 2:11:05 PM EDT
To: <Email redacted for privacy considerations>
Subject: RE: Airport Lands
I am sorry I missed you when I called back to speak with Margaret, but I let her know I would send you the information replying to your email.
I am happy to provide you with the latest information regarding the lands in Pickering which were expropriated for an airport nearly 45 years ago. Unfortunately there has been a lot of misinformation spread about these lands and I am happy to have the opportunity to share the facts with you.
I’ve seen as of late this idea that Transport Canada has leased the agricultural lands at “bargain” prices. I do not know where this idea is coming from because it actually is not factual. For 20 years those lands for agricultural purposes were leased at $40 per usable farmable acre on a year to year basis. In 2018 our Government changed that and charged $120 per usable farmable acre, bringing the lease rates up to the comparable rates for the GTA, and these are now 10 year leases. The suggestion for an inquiry into the rates of these leases is one I don’t understand because at the time of the change it was made public and the rate increased was 3 times that of the rate for the past 20 years in order to make them consistent with Provincial lease rates or the rates in the Rouge Park for example.
In regards to the idea that an airport is needed now, Transport Canada commissioned a Needs Assessment study based on capacity of air travel in the GTHA and in particular looking at the capacity of Pearson airport. KPMG was hired to do this study and it was determined that a need for a reliever airport would not be prior to 2038. And it is commonly understood that the development of an airport, (from design and approval process through to construction) requires 8-10 years. The government also committed that a Pickering airport would not be built without a strong business case, but given the needs assessment has the need for a reliever airport nearly 20 years from now, it would be premature to look at the business case given the economic conditions for something nearly two decades from now would not be relevant information. The KPMG report was released to the public in June 2019, which was obviously prior to Covid and since then many in the airline industry have stated they anticipate it taking 3-4 years for the industry to return to pre-covid levels, therefore it might be safe to assume the KPMG study would need to add this downturn to the capacity projections.
I hope this information has clarified the situation regarding these lands. If you would like to read more about the leases, including how many there are and the rates, it is all available online at the following link. Also, included on that link is the KPMG study I’ve referred to and the background on these lands.
https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/operating-airports-aerodromes/airport-zoning-regulations/pickering-lands#toc1I hope you have a nice weekend, it was great chatting with you this week.
My email pointing out the erroneous facts in the MPs statement:
From: mark brooks
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2020 9:28 AM
Subject: Correcting your misstatements on Pickering Airport
To: Jennifer O’Connell, MP Pickering-Uxbridge
From: Mark Brooks, Friends of Pickering Airport.
Bob Wilson, a Pickering resident and like myself a longtime supporter of aviation, has asked for a comment on the accuracy of an email you recently sent him. On that basis, and as a citizen of our democracy I always do my best to help out. In this instance to politely point out the errors and omissions being made and warn of the coming storm.
I am especially worried that you may not understand the extent of the misinformation in your email to Bob. I will do my best to give a quick summary:
“The suggestion for an inquiry into the rates of these leases is one I don’t understand “
The request is for transparency into who has the commercial, residential and farmland leases as well as the lease rate (only a general farm lease rate is known). As almost all are not original landowners, their identities are not known. Who are the corporations and individuals who have leases and to what extent have they embedded themselves or are connected to the civil servants and politicians ( including yourself) who influence the lease terms?
Some leaseholders are using the pandemic as cover to lobby for changes to the terms of their leases from 10 years with a 1-year cancelation clause to 20 years with no cancellation clause. If implemented, it would dramatically increase the value of each lease. It could be an incredible windfall for the current lease holders, while blocking the potential for a higher and better use of these lands. So their identity has now become a very important question.
It could also require the government to spend millions of dollars in the near future to buy back the leases in order to build an airport. If we have private investors ready to start building Pickering Airport, why would we even contemplate extending these leases?
“KPMG was hired to do this study and it was determined that a need for a reliever airport would not be prior to 2038.”
The KPMG report actually says that new airport capacity is needed between now and 2036 and that the only way to avoid delaying Pickering airport beyond 2036 is to build billions of dollars of new aviation infrastructure in other locations. To date, there are no indications whatsoever that Hamilton and Waterloo are interested in the extensive expansions suggested by the KPMG ASA report for their respective airports. In addition there appears to be no private investors interested in doing so to the extent required.
The KPMG report never mentions the year 2038. Although interesting enough that is the lease extension date now being lobbied for by some of the current lease holders.
You stated: “Pickering airport would not be built without a strong business case”
The KPMG report spends 100+ pages to layout a strong business case ( 8% IRR) for the new airport and suggests building it in stages, breaking ground in 2026 (5 1/2 years from now), to maximize private investment and minimize the cost to the taxpayer.
In addition, all interested airport investors will prepare extensive business cases to support their development proposals. The federal government simply needs to start the Pickering Airport development process in order to receive them. Why not do that now?
You stated: “The KPMG report was released to the public in June 2019, which was obviously prior to Covid”
The report was completed in June 2019 but not released to the public until March 5th2020 just as the pandemic hit. You were the first government MP to release a statement on the contents of the report to the public. You did so on March 5th, only two hours after the report was public. A group representing the leaseholders’ interests (Land Over Landings) released a statement at the same time quoting you. How was this possible? Did LOL receive the report in advance of its public release? What is your relationship with them? Your statement then, as now, misrepresented the KPMG reports findings in line with LOLs interests.
“ airline industry have stated they anticipate it taking 3-4 years for the industry to return to pre-covid levels, therefore it might be safe to assume the KPMG study would need to add this downturn to the capacity projections.”
You have confused predicted passenger volumes with predicted maximum capacity.
While IATA is projecting passenger volumes will return to 2019 levels by 2024, returning Pearson Airport’s capacity to 2019 levels of 50 million passengers is something else entirely. It is even possible that Pearson may not be able to handle 50 million passengers safely and economically again, although my bet is that the GTAA’s world class team is up to it.
Around the world the aviation industry, including the GTAA and Transport Canada, is charting a course to recover from COVID-19. IATA and ICAO are in the process of setting new standards for hygiene, screening, and operational procedures to enable the removal of international quarantines that have crippled the Canadian and global economy. With these new standards, IATA is projecting a full recovery to 2019 global passenger levels by 2024, but this is also expected to reduce an airport’s maximum capacity, and will create a customer experience challenge.
These efforts are expected to place new demands on terminal space and gate time. Even with a spartan teardown, the GTAA is expected to reduce its maximum passenger capacity estimates at Toronto Pearson airport.
From onsite COVID testing and social distancing standards to optimizing at-risk passenger and staff interactions, terminal space will be at a premium. New vigorous aircraft cleaning efforts between unloading and reloading of passengers will require more time on gate for each aircraft. New risk management standards may also make the efficient utilization of wide body jets less possible. This will accelerate the industry’s pre-existing move to narrow body jets. It can take three 737s, on three gates to equal the passenger load of one Boeing 777 on one gate.
Unfortunately, the Toronto region was already forecasted to be constrained by a shortage of gates and terminal space before the pandemic thanks to procrastination over building new infrastructure. The KPMG ASA report called for the addition of 5 million sq. feet of terminal space and 256 new gates between now and 2036 just to handle Toronto’s forecasted population and traffic growth.
With new hygiene and risk management demands on its infrastructure, can Pearson airport once again safely handle the 50 million passengers it managed in 2019? What is its new maximum capacity? How can it handle the new traffic created by the region’s growth forecast of 100,000+ new citizens every year? How can Toronto recover from the economic destruction created by the pandemic without being efficiently connected by air to the Canadian and global economy?
With all of these questions and challenges the last thing the Toronto region needs is an elected member of the governing party misstating dates, misinterpreting facts and dismissing offhand the challenges created by COVID19. You need to understand that this supports an anti-airport agenda that would potentially benefit a select and unknown local few at the expense of the greater good of millions of Canadians.
Canadians need leadership on these difficult issue, not incorrect information supporting wishful thinking. Those opposed to the airport need to clearly state the reasons for their opposition ( lifestyle, financial gain, ideology), not be allowed to hide behind erroneous or made-up facts.
I remain able and willing to volunteer a pro-aviation voice to balance your understanding of the facts and issues.
Friends of Pickering Airport,
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This December, we've been pushing back against the tidal wave of holiday stress & commercialism… and learning to practice the 4 tennants of the Advent Conspiracy: Worship Fully…. Spend Less….Give More... and Love All. This week, we're focusing on how to GIVE MORE in this season of gifting.
So, how exactly do you give more while also spending less? Remember: God’s answer for the world’s problems has never been material things. In fact, at CHristmas, God gave us the ultimate gift: His son Jesus! This was the most personal and priceless gift anyone could ever give. At the heart of it, God demonstrates for us that giving at Christmas should be all about giving more relationally.
See, at Christmas we celebrate Jesus the baby boy born in a manger – but in John 1:1-14, we learn that’s not where Jesus identity ends. He’s the Creator of the Universe who came down to Earth to make his dwelling place among us… to become ONE OF US! Talk about a relational gift...
The incarnation of Jesus show us, in very practical terms, what it means to give relationally. See, the gift of Jesus was:
In Luke 2:11, we read the words “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.” Yes, God came for the whole world – but he also came for you, personally. Now, to make this lesson practical, relational giving means you slow down and pay attention to the other person. You think about who they are and what they care about – and then you make your gift personal.
God's gift of Jesus in the manger is also a gift of presence. In Matthew 1:23, the words from the prophet Isaiah say "The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Emmanual (Which means “God with us")... Here, we learn that the Incarnation is when God broke through and gave us his presence in a flesh-and-blood way. For thousands of years, God was invisible –the Jewish people knew his name, but not his face. Then, when Jesus came, suddenly God had a face… a voice… a mother…he lived with real people! This Christmas, is there someone who craves your presence? What would happen if you gave someone special in your life just the act of showing up and spending time with them?
Last but certainly not least, we know God’s gift of Jesus cost Him everything. Jesus wasn’t just born into existence on Christmas morning. In fact, the book of John says God the son was in loving union with His Father from all eternity. So, when Jesus left his Father’s side to be with us, He left the splendor and majesty of Heaven to humbly enter human history as a helpless baby.
The truth is, God's gift gets even priceier later in the New Testament of the Bible. Phlippians 2:6-8 tells us that Jesus “being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death – even death on a cross!" Guys, giving relationally wasn't just pricey... it cost Jesus everything. Jesus was born in a cradle and died on a Cross to give you the Gift of Eternal Life - now, that is the price of love.
This holiday season, know that love doesn’t always mean spending more money – it’s about making a meaningful sacrifice. Will you sacrifice your time, effort and creativity to bless your family and friends with a relational gift? Don’t be overwhelmed… just start with one person this year! Give relationally and resist the temptation to buy whatever is quick and easy or on-sale.
Let’s re-claim the true heart of the original Advent this season... and discover deep moments of connection with family and friends that you’ll remember for years to come!
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David Bowie and Freddie Mercury were both proper showmen and performed incredible music until their deaths. Famously, the pair joined together with Queen to perform their hit single Under Pressure. However, Brian May opened up about how that went down, and a bust-up between the singers.
Were David Bowie and Freddie Mercury friends?
Before the pair even worked together Bowie and Mercury knew one another from around.
According to Rolling Stone, while Mercury was studying at Ealing Art College in the late 1960s, he discovered Bowie would be performing at a lunchtime show at his college, though at that point neither of the pair were well-known.
The Queen frontman was impressed and even offered to help set up the stage and carry equipment for Bowie, who at the time was almost a folk musician with only flops to his name.
Mercury was keen to become a musician and finishing college but to pay the bills had to sell second-hand clothes at Kensington Market and started his own stall with future Queen drummer Roger Taylor.
After Space Oddity had become a hit for the singer, Bowie headed to Kensington Market, having made very little money at this point, looking for boots from Alan Mair’s stall, at which Mercury was now working after his stall failed.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Mair said: “So there was Freddie Mercury, a shop assistant, giving pop star David Bowie a pair of boots he couldn’t afford to buy.”
While this was their first meeting, it was not until the Under Pressure sessions in 1981 when the pair started working together properly.
However, this was not without its bust-ups, as Brian May revealed in an interview with Mojo magazine.
He said: “Freddie and David locked horns, without a doubt. But that’s when the sparks fly and that’s why it turned out so great.
“It wasn’t easy because we were all precocious boys and David was very… forceful, yes.
“[They fought] in subtle ways, like who would arrive last at the studio. So it was sort of wonderful and terrible.”
- Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert: Queen charity show to stream
However, it was not just Mercury who Bowie squabbled with during those sessions.
May told the Daily Mirror the Space Oddity singer also had some bust-ups with bassist John Deacon.
May said: “What was that riff, you had, Deacy?’ says David B. ‘It was like this,’ says John Deacon. But Bowie protested: ‘No it wasn’t, it was like this.’
“This was a funny moment because I can just see DB going over and putting his hand on John’s fretting hand and stopping him.
- David Bowie’s words to first wife before wedding – ‘I don’t love you’
“It was also a tense moment because it could have gone either way.”
Clearly Bowie was quite the perfectionist with his music, but in the end, it turned out pretty well as the music was a major hit.
Bowie and Mercury had an interesting friendship having known each other since the early 1970s until Mercury’s death in 1991.
Before his death, Mercury confirmed the pair were still friends despite some musical disagreements, telling a talk show: “Oh, we’re speaking to each other, we’re just in different parts of the world.
“He’s alright, he’s okay. We’ve been friends a long time back.”
In his autobiography, Me, Sir Elton John even revealed how Mercury was still teasing his friend and rival Bowie on his death bed.
He said: “He was too frail to get out of bed, he was losing his sight, his body was covered in Karposi’s sarcoma lesions, and yet he was still definitely Freddie, gossiping away, completely outrageous.
“(Freddie would say) ‘Have you heard Mrs Bowie’s new record, dear? What does she think she’s doing?'”
The superstar added: “I couldn’t work out whether he didn’t realise how close to death he was or if he knew perfectly well but was determined not to let what was happening to him stop him being himself.
“Either way I thought he was incredible.”
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School attendance anxiety: Tips to support primary school aged children
- Wed Jan 27 - Thu Feb 11 2021
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DEP PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR POMPTON LAKES RESIDENTS
AFFECTED BY MUNITIONS PLANT POLLUTION
(10/P3) TRENTON - The Department of Environmental Protection is redoubling its commitment to the residents of Pompton Lakes by working with its state and federal partners to ensure a prompt and thorough cleanup of contamination from the DuPont Pompton Lakes Works site.
The DEP, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Senior Services and the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry are holding a public meeting tonight to update borough residents about completing the cleanup of contamination from the now-closed DuPont munitions plant.
“The DEP is committed to making sure the residents of Pompton Lakes finally get the peace of mind and full protection from pollution they deserve,” said Irene Kropp, assistant commissioner for the DEP’s Site Remediation Program. “Along with our partners, we will build confidence in the residents and assure them that we are working hard to protect them and rid the community of this pollution once and for all.”
The DEP welcomes the support of the EPA, which has enhanced its longstanding efforts at the site by becoming the DEP’s co-lead in the cleanup. Assistant Commissioner Kropp outlined a strategy to involve the community in the cleanup. The DEP will:
- Work with the EPA in forming a community advisory group to actively engage a broad cross-section of residents, local officials and environmentalists in cleanup discussions.
- Recommit to transparency and community outreach in all phases of cleanup.
- Respond to any residents’ concerns about the installation and operation of systems to prevent vapors from a plume of contaminated groundwater from entering homes. The DEP and EPA strongly urge residents in the affected area get the systems installed.
- Ensure that DuPont meets its cleanup obligations in a timely and transparent manner. This includes making sure DuPont develops a scientifically sound and thorough plan for cleaning up the groundwater plume.
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Governing Law and Regulations
Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Environmental Protection Division Land Protection Branch Hazardous Waste Management Program
See national section for basic information and federal regulations.
Comparison: State vs. Federal
• Rules. Georgia adopts by reference the federal biennial report rules for large quantity hazardous waste generators (LQGs) and hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facility (TSDF) owners and operators. Georgia uses the federal Hazardous Waste Report Forms 8700-13A and 8700-13B. LQGs and TSDF owners and operators in Georgia must submit the biennial report to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) by March 1 of every even-numbered year. The DNR will mail out forms packages early in the even-numbered year for the reporting year (the previous odd-numbered year).
In addition, Georgia requires LQGs and TSDFs that pay hazardous waste management fees to keep a hazardous waste management fee record and to submit the record to the DNR by March 31 of each year.
• Administration and enforcement. DNR's Land Protection Branch administers and enforces the biennial report requirements in Georgia.
ANNUAL FEE RECORD
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Jeremiah 31:31–34 (NRSV)
Verse 31The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Verse 32It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt-a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. Verse 33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Verse 34No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, "Know the Lord," for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.
God makes four covenants in the Old Testament with human beings: with Noah (Genesis 9); with Abraham (Genesis 12, 15, 17); with Israel at Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19–20); and with David (2 Samuel 7). But here in Jeremiah 31, God speaks of making a “new covenant” with Israel—but not the older covenants such as at Mt. Sinai, which the Israelites broke. This new covenant will be written on hearts instead of on stone tablets. Stone tablets gather dust and moss. Hearts are living organs, and what is written on the heart gives life to the whole body. And this time God will do it all—“I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.”
We Christians believe that this new covenant—the new relationship established by God with all of humanity—is sealed at a Passover supper we will remember and celebrate in a few short weeks: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me” (1 Corinthians 11:25).
Gracious God, the new covenant in Jesus’ blood frees us from bondage to sin and death. Write your name on our hearts, so that we may know you and love you more and more as we walk in the way of the cross. Amen.
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“We’ve got two problems. First, the mother Archaeopteryx will never come back if she knows the Allosauruses are nearby. And second, if they find us they definitely will eat us!” Tamiko. –The Secret Explorers and the Jurassic Rescue
The Secret Explorers and the Jurassic Rescue
Secret Explorers #4
by SJ King
Traveling back millions of years in the past, The Secret Explorers must rescue a precious dinosaur egg. In their quest, Tamiko and Cheng attempt to fend off angry Allosauruses, but what will they do when the egg starts to hatch?
In The Jurassic Rescue, dinosaur expert Tamiko and geology expert Cheng team up to save a dinosaur egg. The two kids go on a fast-paced adventure where they must avoid becoming a dinosaur’s snack. The two must hide from a group of Allosauruses and at one point they even cover themselves in poop in order to hide their smell! Tamiko and Cheng use a combination of knowledge and teamwork to save an archaeopteryx.
Young readers will enjoy the story that is packed with plenty of dinosaur facts, suspense, and a happy ending that unites a newborn dinosaur with its mother. The story highlights the importance of one Archaeopteryx. Tamiko explains that the Archaeopteryx “can thrive, and have more babies. And those babies will have babies, and THOSE babies will have babies for a thousand generations—and that plays a part in the whole evolution of modern birds!”
The Jurassic Rescue has large black and white illustrations that break up the text and help readers understand the plot. Characters’ thoughts are easy to distinguish because they are in bold text. While younger readers may struggle with some of the difficult vocabulary and the length of the book, the book’s educational value makes it worth parents’ time to read The Jurassic Rescue aloud to their children. The book ends with 11 pages of a dinosaur timeline, glossary, and quiz.
Full of suspense and snapping dinosaurs, The Jurassic Rescue teaches about the Jurassic period in a fun and educational way. The Jurassic Rescue will entertain readers with the storyline and please parents with the educational value. Readers will be eager to read the next book in the series, The Secret Explorers and the Rainforest Rangers. Dinosaur-loving readers can also get more suspense-filled dinosaur action by reading the Dino Rider Series by Will Dare.
- When Tamiko and Cheng are transported to the Jurassic time period, a “creature bumped into the side of the Beagle, and it rocked again. . . The Plesiosaur lifted its head from the water. Tamiko caught a flash of teeth in a huge, yawning mouth.” The two kids drive away.
- The two kids watch eight Allosauruses “prowling toward the Stegosaurus herd. . . An Allosaurus darted in and nipped at the mother Stegosaurus. With surprising speed, the Stegosaurus’s spiky tail thrashed down. One of the spikes caught the Allosaurus on the rump. It yelped with pain and quickly backed away.”
- An Allosaurus “snapped its jaws at the Archaeopteryx. The Archaeopteryx shrieked and took off, gliding away through the trees.” The Archaeopteryx leaves its egg behind.
- A Pterosaur tries to bite the kids. “The large predator swooped down from the branch and dive-bombed the cave mouth, snapping its long beak. Tamiko felt the brush of a leathery wingtip against her leg as she scrambled back into the cave.”
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- The Secret Explorers can travel through time. Tamiko goes to a fossil shop and “opened the shop door. But instead of the usual glass cases full of crystals and fossils, Tamiko walked into a dazzling white light. A strong wind whipped her short black hair around her head. She felt as if she were flying—and then the light faded.” Tamiko is magically transported to the Exploration Station.
- The Exploration Station picks two Secret explorers for each mission. When the kids’ badges “lit up” they knew they were chosen to go on the mission.
- The Beagle can change into different types of transportation and magically takes its occupants to where they need to go.
- When Tamiko starts the Beagle, “the steering wheel transformed beneath Tamiko’s hands into a sturdy set of handlebars, and the old seats became deep and comfortable.”
- When the mission is over, all of the kids return to the exact location that they left. “There was a flash of light, and a jolt. Tamiko thrust out her hand to steady herself in the fierce blast of wind.” Tamiko is returned to the fossil shop.
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Web Application Firewall rules integrated with cPGuard is a powerful feature to fight against web attacks. The rules are carefully crafted and updated frequently to ensure that the new types of attacks can be prevented before it is reaching your websites. Also, the rules are carefully tested against Apache, LiteSpeed, OpenLitespeed, and Nginx web servers and are fully compatible with all of them.
Since nowadays many people use WAF rules from various servers and configure their servers accordingly, we turn off WAF by default during installation which the user can turn ON at any time. This is just to ensure that there will not be any conflict with the existing rule sets.
You can modify more WAF settings from the UI by opening a server on the app portal and going to Settings >> WAF
You can use the following commands to enable/disable WAF on your server.
cpgcli waf --enable
cpgcli waf --disable
You can additionaly enable or disable optional WAF modules by listing the modules you want to enable like
cpgcli waf --enable=scanner,webshell,capthca,rbl
cpgcli waf --disable=scanner,webshell,capthca,rbl
You can whitelist certain WAF rules which are causing issues on your server or reporting false positives by getting the rule id from the WAF logs (UI) or the id from ModSec/Webserver logs
To add to whitelist use
waf --whitelist --add 4500006
To remove a rule from whitelist
waf --whitelist --remove 4500006
Please note that updates to WAF configuration is applied only after a time delay and is mostly followed by a web server restart.
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Business writer Jennifer Hickey recently spoke with Charles H. Green, who spent 30 years in the commercial banking industry and is now the executive director of the Small Business Finance Institute, an Atlanta, Georgia-based nonprofit that helps business owners improve financial management and access to funding through annual conferences, monthly workshops, and a weekly webinar series on various topics. He is also the author of the SBA Loan Book, now in its third edition.
JH: What role does a bank or lending institution play in administering SBA loans?
CG: The Small Business Administration (SBA) does not make the loan directly but serves as a guarantor for the loan up to a certain percentage depending on the program. The intention of the program is for lenders to make loans under their existing lending criteria or policy. If a loan can be approved without the guaranty, it should be. If it cannot be approved due to being outside loan policy and is a prudent loan likely to be repaid, the lender can proceed with the guaranty. The guaranty is intended to shore up a loan for borrowers who would not otherwise be able to get a small business loan, as their collateral levels, requested leverage, credit score, or repayment terms, etc. fall outside that criteria.
CG: Traditionally, bank regulators have discouraged financing beyond the horizon of which would be a safe risk. SBA-backed loans allow for longer term financing that banks would be discouraged from giving based on existing lending criteria. For example, an SBA loan allows a company that wants to purchase a building for manufacturing or retail purposes to finance the loan for up to 25 years. Bank regulation sees that as a long time to take a risk and commit money without knowing what the cost of funds will be, how well the business will do over time, etc. Yet, it’s impractical to think an asset that will be useful over 20 years can be repaid in three years. The SBA guarantee encourages the bank to make loans that would otherwise not be possible due to the regulatory environment.
JH: What types of provisions must be met for the most common types of SBA loan programs?
CG: The most commonly used is the 7(a) program, which provides a 75 percent guarantee for loans up to $5 million and up to 85 percent for loans under $175,000 until the loan has been paid in full. A loan backed by the 7(a) loan program can be used for any business purpose and the maturity is based on the use of proceeds. The loan can have a maximum term of up to 25 years if used for property and up to 10 years for equipment financing and seven years for working capital.
The second most used program is the Certified Development Company (CDC)/504 loan program, which provides subordinate financing directly to the small business and is administered locally through SBA-licensed nonprofit CDCs. A 504 loan can only be used for capital improvements, like the acquisition or construction of capital assets such as property or major equipment. It is not a guarantee like the 7(a) program but a funding augmentation. The SBA actually participates in the funding of this program by selling debentures, which serve as a subordinate piece of the total financing (up to 40 percent), while the CDC funds a minimum of 50 percent of the transaction.
The SBA Express program allows for the funding of much smaller initiatives, up to $350,000 ($500,000 for qualified veterans) and carries a smaller guarantee by the SBA, generally 50 percent (75 to 80 percent for veterans). While the program target is working capital, it can be used for any business purpose. Express loans are fast-tracked; there are fewer forms required from lenders to the SBA, and lender is allowed to use their own loan documents to close the deal.
JH: What’s the difference between a preferred, standard, and certified SBA lender?
CG: This refers to the status or recognition of the lender by the SBA. A “standard” lender is one that is qualified to make an SBA loan, having entered into an agreement with the agency that allows it to submit transactions for review and receive a guarantee on the credit if approved by the SBA. Once the lender gets some experience and demonstrates its ability to follow the rules and generate decent volume, it can become “certified,” which puts its deals in the front of the line. With “preferred” status, the SBA actually allows the lender to make the decision whether to use the guarantee or not, and in many cases, the loan can be approved the same day. With standard and certified lenders, the SBA checks for eligibility and also reviews the lender’s application to ensure the loan is underwritten with a high degree of certainty that it meets SBA credit standards. With a preferred lender provider (PLP), the SBA only checks the lender’s justification of eligibility for the borrower, not their underwriting.
JH: Explain some of the different eligibility requirements for obtaining an SBA loan?
CG: A small business has to be “active,” meaning that it is directly involved in economic activity. Businesses involved in passive investments, third-party financing, or speculative business activity would not be eligible. And the loan must be used for legal business purposes, of which there are restrictions; it cannot be used be used for gambling-related activities, lending, multilevel marketing, real estate investment, charities, among others.
A borrower has to fall under the SBA’s definition of a small business, as described under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), which places a limit on specific industries based on number of employees and revenue levels. In general, businesses with fewer than 500 employees, or less than $7.5 million of annual revenue, are considered small businesses, though there are hundreds of differences within those generalizations, depending on the industry. Some have more or fewer employees, while others have a lower or higher revenue ceiling. For example, a car dealership can have up to $33 million in revenue and still be eligible for an SBA loan. It depends on the relative numbers in that particular industry.
The borrower must be a legal U.S. resident (i.e. a citizen or approved status) and has to be current on his/her income taxes and/or child support. In the SBA Business Loan Application, applicants must acknowledge and confirm they are in compliance with several statutes ranging from the Lead Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act to the Right to Financial Privacy Act. The “other resources” rule states that if a borrower has a certain level of resources available to them, they would not be eligible for SBA financing. So, if a business has more than $2 million in cash, it would not be eligible for an SBA loan since it would qualify for financing elsewhere.
JH: Is there any additional documentation or collateral required for an SBA loan vs. a traditional business loan?
CG: The “paperwork” reputation of the SBA is overblown and concerns lenders not borrowers. The credit decision to make the loan is ultimately made by the bank, although the SBA can decline guarantee for a standard program lender if the borrower really wasn’t eligible or didn’t demonstrate the ability to repay the loan adequately. A loan may be rejected if, in the view of the agency, the projected financial results can’t be justified by either past performance of the business or with the accompanying business plan that sets forth how the financial objectives will be achieved.
The SBA loan program stipulates that if borrower collateral is available, it must be put toward the loan. For example, if the borrower is using loan proceeds to buy a building for its business, then that building would be put up as collateral for the loan. But there’s no firm rule on how much collateral is adequate. The SBA expects the bank to apply the same requirements as they would for any other type of business loan; however, there’s more flexibility with an SBA loan when it comes to collateral, credit scores, etc., if the financial projections are sound and based on real numbers.
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It’s been a busy season for the Alberni District Secondary Christmas tree farm.
“It’s been really good—good Christmas tree season, good educational season with the kids, they’re learning all sorts of stuff,” said ADSS project based learning forestry teacher Ryan Dvorak.
This is the third year the ADSS kids have sold Christmas trees at the farm, which was originally built by Shawn Flynn and Dave McBride—who made up Greenmax—in 1997.
“We cleared the land, planted the trees and started the farm,” said Flynn. Last year, Flynn sold the farm and now helps the school with the project based learning class.
“It gives them their first chance to get exposed to real work and to do the things that you can actually get paid for. And it’s volume—they go through 1,000 trees a season.”
“This is our Project Based Learning program and our forestry program so this is a good opportunity to get the students out and show them what actual work is and what business is,” said Dvorak.
“The fact that the school district owns it provides an extra level of impetus in terms of understanding how to go from a seedling to this,” he added, gesturing around the eight-hectare farm.
“They look at profit, expenses, the whole business behind it.”
It also provides a different way to learn. Students in Grades 9–10 are involved in the project based learning program. The students are out on the farm for two days a week per program.
“We’ve got a Grade 9 program, which is an academic-based program for outdoor learning. That program has 24 students that look at math, English, science and social studies,” said Dvorak.
“But this is their classroom for half the year—out here on our Christmas tree farm and on the woodlot.”
The Grade 10s take that one step further. “It’s looking at connecting students with an idea of where they might want their future to go in terms of trades or post-secondary opportunities around schooling,” said Dvorak.
“Specifically, it looks at the business behind how this runs—digging really deep into the idea of what running a business takes, a little bit about entrepreneurship, trades associated with working in natural resource management.”
The end result is to leave the students with an education that looks at both theory and practice.
“The purpose of the program is to make the theory real. Here’s how you calculate the volume of a cylinder and now we’re actually going to go scale the log—and that’s a job you can get paid for.”
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With a mix of practical experience, the program gives kids interested in all sorts of different career fields ideas for their futures.
Jimmy Hassle has already gotten a head start on a career in natural resources.
“I do heli-logging and shake blocking on the weekends and firewood in between,” said the Grade 10 student. This is just another opportunity for Hassle to get out of the classroom and apply the skills he’s learning.
“You value the skills a lot more than being at a desk all day,” he said.
But even students who aren’t looking at a career in forestry are inspired by the program.
Elyse Warm joined for the opportunity to explore a subject she otherwise wouldn’t have—and to pick up some tips.
“My passion is teaching,” Warm said. “It shows me a different way to teach—makes it a lot easier and nicer to learn.”
With an ever changing education system, she sees taking a new type of class as getting in on the ground floor. “This is starting to develop but there might be more opportunities to teach like this.”
The Christmas tree farm acts a source of revenue for the school as well.
All of the proceeds go back to ADSS and last year, the girls’ rugby team toured Ireland as a result.
“We have a partnership with the ADSS rugby club—they take over the u-cut part of the operations and this crew deals with the wholesale application.”
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Introduction If you have a disability, and you have an animal that helps you with that disability, you may have the right to bring that animal into places where you wouldn’t be allowed to bring a pet.
Introduction The Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2016 is a law that may allow many combat-injured veterans to claim a refund or credit from the IRS. This article is a brief summary of who may be eligible, and how to find help and more information.
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This is the second part of our guide to Child Protection proceedings in Maine. It covers what can happen when DHHS investigates a household because they believe that a child may be at risk of being harmed.
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Jurnal Pendidikan Islam is an Islamic religious education journal published by the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka. This journal is a semi-annual journal published in May and November to develop the scientific quality of Islamic religious education. The editor can accept scientific articles in the form of research, the results of a literature review, the results of the analysis of thinking in accordance with Islamic religious education.
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Bodmin Moor, the largest of the Cornish granite uplands, has long been recognised to have exceptional preservation of archaeological remains. The Moor has been the subject of detailed archaeological survey and is one of the best recorded upland landscapes in England. The extensive relict landscapes of prehistoric, medieval and post-medieval date provide direct evidence for human exploitation of the Moor from the earliest prehistoric period onwards. The well-preserved and often visible relationship between settlement sites, field systems, ceremonial and funerary monuments as well as later industrial remains provides significant insights into successive changes in the pattern of land use through time.
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Have you heard that it costs an organization 150% of an employee's salary to replace them? Although that statistic may seem high, it's not even the peak. Research shows that it costs between 30% and 50% of an entry level employee's salary to replace them. For mid-level employees, that figure goes up to 150%. And for high-level or very specialized employees, the cost can be a staggering 400% of their salary!
If you're wondering why it's so expensive to replace employees, the answer is there are a lot of hidden costs that go into this equation. While that may sound like bad news for businesses, there's actually a silver lining. Any company that's able to increase their employee retention can save quite a bit in these costs. So with that in mind, let's look at some of the surprising ways employee retention can save money:
One of the reasons it's expensive to replace a mid-level or high-level employee is it generally takes quite a bit of time to even identify candidates who are qualified for the job. And once those candidates are identified, they're going to have to be taken through multiple rounds of interviews. Keeping employees in an organization will prevent a company from needing to dedicate any additional resources to the process of scouting and interviewing.
The significant costs associated with new hires don't stop at finding the right candidates. From there, substantial resources have to be invested in training and bringing a new hire into the fold. Employees with specialized roles require much more attention in this area, which is why keeping those employees can minimize this cost.
Even though this cost is often overlooked, it's actually quite significant at all levels. If entry-level employees are constantly coming and going, it can create a culture where everyone is always concerned about losing their job. And if retaining mid and high-level employees is a challenge, it can cost a company a lot in regards to not having strong leadership.
Those issues tie directly into employee productivity, which can cause employees to become disengaged. Given that disengaged employees cost the United States $450 to $550 billion a year in lost productivity, this is definitely an area that's important to counteract via retention.
No amount of documentation can retain all the knowledge that an expert employee has about their role. The only way for a company to keep that knowledge instead of having to invest in building it up again is to retain the employees who have it.
By making retention a top goal in 2016, your business will be able to benefit from the savings covered above and many others.
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THE beef industry’s new Eating Quality Graded (EQG) cipher is allowing producers to fine-tune their operations in line with consumer demands, and represents a core advantage for the Australian red meat industry, Central Queensland beef producer, Ian McCamley says.
Introduced in August last year (click here to view earlier Beef Central story), the EQG cipher relates exclusively to the eating quality of a meat sample, disregarding any reference to dentition.
For Mr McCamley, its adoption reflects a concerted effort to shift the industry away from reliance on dentition as an indication of eating quality.
“Historically, the first thing slaughter cattle were graded on was dentition,” Mr McCamley said.
“There was this industry-wide belief that the less teeth the animal had, the better the eating quality would be,” he said.
“When MSA was being developed, the science quickly showed that the number of permanent incisors had no real relevance to eating quality, and as a result this indicator wasn’t included in the MSA program.”
It was Mr McCamley’s first-hand experience having cattle MSA graded since 2007, that initially raised a query around the relevance of dentition to eating quality.
He and his wife Kate run 7000 head of cattle across their PCAS and MSA accredited operation north of Rolleston, Queensland, a third of which is also EU accredited.
Purchasing weaner steers, they grow them to liveweights around 600kg before selling them into the premium grassfed market.
“Back then, getting an animal into boning group one was the holy grail as a producer,” Mr McCamley said.
“But the processor we were selling to at the time was providing us with feedback on every beast – not just those with milk and two teeth. What this revealed was that the very first steer we ever got into Boning Group One had six teeth. Of course, this meant that despite passing the MSA and grassfed tests with flying colours, we were savagely discounted based on dentition,” he said.
“This got me started on a crusade to try and move the industry away from applying premiums and discounts based on an indicator that had no real relevance to eating quality. I didn’t think dentition was relevant, the scientists didn’t think it was relevant, and it was costing producers and the industry a lot of money.”
“Meat & Livestock Australia has now done some great work quantifying what the reliance on dentition is costing the industry, but I suspect the cost is even higher than they concluded. A lot of producers simply won’t bother sending their cattle in to be graded if they fear they might have too many teeth, and some processors won’t MSA grade cattle with more than two or four teeth.”
There was unnecessary animal and human stress caused by mouthing large cattle for no good reason, and producers often sent cattle in before they reached their optimum finish and full eating quality potential, just in case they cut too many teeth, Mr McCamley said.
“Everyone loses, including the consumer.”
Potential outcome of the Australian Beef Language Review
Mr McCamley’s role as the producer representative on the Beef Language Steering Committee in 2014 and 2015 was instrumental in the development and introduction of the EQG cipher.
“One of the key recommendations to come out of the Language Review was the introduction of a cipher based on eating quality, being MSA, with no reference to dentition. It was a major turning point,” he said.
With the industry having relied on dentition as an indicator of eating quality for so long, Mr McCamley was surprised at the pace of uptake of the EQG cipher.
“We probably underestimated the adaptability of some of the processors and brand owners, and we expected there to be more resistance than there has been,” he said.
Despite this, he acknowledges that the benefits of the EQG cipher are still yet to fully reach producers.
“Right now, we’re still selling our cattle on the old ciphers and being discounted based on dentition – despite processors selling a growing proportion of the beef based on the EQG cipher,” he said.
“As producers, we’re not quite there yet, but I feel the change is coming. I’m optimistic that soon we’ll start to see price grids coming back to the producer that include the EQG cipher and don’t reference dentition. I’ve been waiting more than a decade, but I’m hopeful I’ll be alive to see it.”
Reflecting on the impact of MSA to his business, Mr McCamley said it had been ‘transformational.’
“On reflection, when I think back to what we were doing pre-MSA, we’ve come leaps and bounds. In addition to the market premium we’re able to obtain, we like the whole concept of MSA,” he said.
“At the end of the day, we’re not producing just any commodity, like gravel, or coal or rubber. We’re producing food for people to eat. The more we can learn at our end to make that a better experience, the better.”
For the broader industry, Mr McCamley believes that by starting at the consumer end and working backwards, the MSA program had enabled the development of a more sustainable supply chain. It’s a strength that he feels is important to protect.
“It’s important now that we don’t take our eye off the ball. The science and data is constantly evolving, and we can’t rest on our laurels,” he said.
“If we can keep improving MSA and the understanding of various factors that impact on quality, then we’ll be better placed to sharpen our competitive edge.”
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Mucosal fluid, sodium and chloride transfer were measured in everted sacs of rat, guinea pig and hamster jejunum, and in rat ileum and colon, and in guinea pig gall bladder. After treatment of the animal with ovine prolactin, a highly significant enhancement of fluid and NaCl absorption was observed in rat, hamster and guinea pig jejunum. Prolactin treatment caused a significant increase in fluid and NaCl transfer in rat ileum, but not in guinea pig ileum or rat colon. Prolactin administration had no consistent effect on fluid and NaCl absorption by the guinea pig gall bladder. The several regions of the mammalian gut appear to differ in their responsiveness to prolactin.
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Can Eye Supplements Help in Macular Deterioration?
Macular deterioration is an eye problem that influences the retina, the inner eye cells. It creates vision to deteriorate, progressing from slight modifications in sight to complete loss of sight. Some proof recommends that particular supplements can help reduce progression of the problem.
Macular deterioration is the most usual reason for vision loss in developed nations, making up 8.7% Trusted Resource of loss of sight around the world. It is additionally the leading cause of vision loss in older grownups. Currently, there is no treatment, and also therapies intend to minimize the rate at which macular degeneration proceeds, to delay the results on vision. Proof suggests that dietary supplements may help in reducing the opportunities of establishing macular deterioration.
In this article, we will review which supplements may assist slow down macular degeneration.
Macular degeneration interpretation
Macular degeneration, or age-related macular deterioration, is a problem that impacts over 10 million individuals in America. It is boosting in occurrence, and study recommends the condition will certainly influence 288 million individuals worldwide by 2040. Macular degeneration affects the retina, which is the section of the eye that records what we see and sends out the pictures to the mind.
There are two scientific forms of macular degeneration. These are: damp, or neovascular, and also completely dry, or atrophic. Dry macular deterioration develops slowly and also represents 85– 90% of cases. Wet macular deterioration happens when new members vessels develop under the macula, which can create blood and liquid to leakage. This is the much more significant kind and can cause serious vision loss. The wet kind additionally develops quicker.
What supplements may help?
Many individuals may think about nutritional supplements to aid protect against or slow the development of macular degeneration. The National Eye Institute conducted the Age-Related Eye Condition Research Studies (AREDS and also AREDS2) Trusted Source to examine and also evaluate the effects of vitamins on the development of macular degeneration and other eye problems. Proof indicates that dietary supplements with antioxidant vitamins and zinc might be helpful.
The findings of these researches suggest that while no current therapies exist for very early macular degeneration, supplements might aid stop additional vision loss in advanced situations. Supplements might be particularly useful for intermediate cases or for those that have late cases in one eye. The initial AREDS research recommends that the adhering to supplements may help to reduce the development of macular degeneration:
The AREDS2 research explored alterations to the initial supplement formula in individuals with macular degeneration who went to threat for advanced phases of the problem.
The results indicate that changing beta carotene with other carotenoids such as lutein and also zeaxanthin might boost the combination. Carotenoids are a class of pigment that can profit eye health. Other searchings for from AREDS2 suggest that omega-3 fatty acids do not provide any kind of benefit for avoiding macular degeneration.
In addition to the above supplements, other proof additionally recommends the possibility of vitamin A, selenium, and anthocyanins. Similar to carotenoids, anthocyanins are a class of pigment that may be useful for eye health and wellness.
Regardless of their all-natural origin, individuals should take nutritional supplements with care. Including nutrients such as vitamins, antioxidants, as well as minerals, via either diet or supplements, can aid enhance general wellness, as well as eye health and wellness. However, it is essential to consult a physician before making any drastic changes to the diet or taking supplements.
Some people may experience side effects from higher dosages of specific supplements. For instance, too much consumption of vitamin A might cause poisoning. Signs and symptoms can include dry skin, migraines, and also obscured vision. Furthermore, vitamin E poisoning is likewise possible, potentially causing boosted blood loss, liver and also gallbladder problems, and poor absorption of various other nutrients.
Some proof also recommends that supplements with beta carotene can raise the risk of lung cancer cells in present as well as former smokers. Zinc toxicity may also trigger a range of symptoms, including nausea or vomiting, looseness of the bowels, as well as frustrations.
Currently, scientists are still uncertain of the exact cause of macular deterioration. Nonetheless, proof highlights a number of potential danger elements for developing the condition. Those who are most likely to create macular deterioration include:.
individuals with a family history of macular degeneration.
those that smoke.
individuals that eat a diet regimen high in hydrogenated fat.
individuals with excessive weight.
those with hypertension.
people older than 50.
Because of this, the National Eye Institute recommends the complying with suggestions to aid reduced danger or reduce the development of macular deterioration:.
quitting cigarette smoking.
obtaining regular physical activity.
keeping healthy and balanced high blood pressure and also cholesterol levels.
consuming a healthy and balanced and nutritious diet.
Macular degeneration is an eye condition that can cause people to experience blurred vision as well as progression to vision loss. It is a usual problem that occurs adhering to damage to the macula, which belongs to the retina. The macula is the part of the eye that regulates sharp, straight-ahead vision.
While there is currently no treatment for macular deterioration, people can try to stop or slow down the development of the problem by taking specific supplements, such as antioxidant vitamins as well as zinc. Nevertheless, individuals ought to consult with a doctor before taking any type of supplements. In addition, people can additionally adhere to various other prevention pointers, such as stopping smoking, obtaining regular workout, and having a healthy and balanced diet.
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‘Sexual form of monkeypox’ blamed for global spread of virus
By Jennifer Rigby
The Sydney Morning Herald
London: The World Health Organisation said it expects to identify more cases of monkeypox as it expands surveillance in countries where the disease is not typically found.
As of Sunday, 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported from 12 member states that are not endemic for the virus, the UN agency said, adding it will provide further guidance and recommendations in coming days for countries on how to mitigate the spread of monkeypox.
“Available information suggests that human-to-human transmission is occurring among people in close physical contact with cases who are symptomatic”, the agency added.
Australia reported its first confirmed cases of monkeypox on Friday in a traveller who had recently flown from Britain to Melbourne and a Sydney man who had returned from Europe.
Monkeypox is an infectious disease that is usually mild, and is endemic in parts of West and Central Africa. It is spread by close contact, so it can be relatively easily contained through such measures as self-isolation and hygiene.
“What seems to be happening now is that it has got into the population as a sexual form, as a genital form, and is being spread as are sexually transmitted infections, which has amplified its transmission around the world,” WHO official David Heymann, an infectious disease specialist, told Reuters.
The first case of monkeypox, a rare virus from Africa that’s spreading through Europe, has been identified in Victoria.
Heymann said an international committee of experts met via video conference to look at what needed to be studied about the outbreak and communicated to the public, including whether there is any asymptomatic spread, who are at most risk, and the various routes of transmission.
He said the meeting was convened “because of the urgency of the situation”. The committee is not the group that would suggest declaring a public health emergency of international concern, WHO’s highest form of alert, which applies to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said close contact was the key transmission route, as lesions typical of the disease are very infectious. For example, parents caring for sick children are at risk, as are health workers, which is why some countries have started inoculating teams treating monkeypox patients using vaccines for smallpox, a related virus.
Many of the current cases have been identified at sexual health clinics.
Early genomic sequencing of a handful of the cases in Europe has suggested a similarity with the strain that spread in a limited fashion in Britain, Israel and Singapore in 2018.
Heymann said it was “biologically plausible” the virus had been circulating outside of the countries where it is endemic, but had not led to major outbreaks as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns, social distancing and travel restrictions.
He stressed that the monkeypox outbreak did not resemble the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic because it does not transmit as easily. Those who suspect they may have been exposed or who show symptoms including bumpy rash and fever, should avoid close contact with others, he said.
“There are vaccines available, but the most important message is, you can protect yourself,” he added.
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The function of steroid receptors isn’t only regulated by steroid hormones, but also by multiple cellular signaling cascades activated by membrane-bound receptors that are stimulated by growth factors or cytokines. of JAK2 to advertise ubiquitin-dependent proteasomal degradation of ER. Furthermore, we discovered an upregulation of JAK2 manifestation upon long term estradiol treatment, which recommended a potential physiological function of the kinase in regulating the autoregulation of ER manifestation level in hormone reactive tissues. Additional JAK isoforms weren’t linked to this system. The potential part of STATs with this negative aftereffect of JAK2 on ER continues to be to become clarified. 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7 Secrets to Healthy Habits that Last
Are you beating yourself up about your unhealthy food/drink habits?
Do you find yourself brewing a cup for an afternoon pick-me-up and feel a little guilty for having coffee late in the day?
Do you enjoy a glass of wine, or two, in the evening, only to turn around and make yourself wrong for such indulgence?
If you answered yes, you’re not alone. I love my Pete’s coffee and my Chardonnay!
And I’m a yoga teacher.
I’m supposed to swear off meat, alcohol, sugar, and caffeine, right?
But when I’m drinking a glass of wine every night, or dare I say…two glasses, I’m out of balance. I don’t feel good about myself. I don’t sleep well, I’m dehydrated, I wake up in a fog. And my vibrant energy is drained.
Whether you lean toward coffee and a muffin for breakfast, a sugary snack in the afternoon, or sipping your favorite glass of wine while cooking dinner, if you’re starting to feel bad about the choices you’re making, its time for a change.
The challenge is that by feeling bad about yourself, and your habits, an emotional desire for more of the very thing you’re trying to avoid is triggered.
This is the cycle of addiction and it can be one of the hardest patterns to break.
But break it you can and these 7 Secrets can take you down the path to healthy habits that last…
So what are the secrets?
Your 7 Chakras!
The word Chakra, in sanskrit, means “wheel” or “disc”; it refers to the vortex of energetic activity flowing from the major nerve gaglia of the spinal column.
There are 7 major chakras that align the spine from the crown of the head to the base of the spine. Each Center is represented by an element, is associated with a color, has a name, and relates to aspects of consciousness, psychology, archetypes, and philosophy.
The chakras are the energy of yoga, harnessing this energy, both on and off the mat, will take you down a path to vibrant health, dynamic balance, and a creative life you love!
Follow these 7 Chakra Steps to healthy habits that last:
Step 1: Connect with the Divine through Meditation:
Step 2: Vision Your Vibrant Health and Wellness
Step 3: Speak About Your Wellness Goals
Step 4: Love Yourself, Return to Balance, Find Your Wellness Tribe
Step 5: Take Action in the Direction of Your Wellness Vision
Step 6: Tap into the Pleasure and Passion of a Juicy Life
Step 7: Take Good Care of Your Body Temple and Thrive
Step 1: Connect with the Divine, is related to the 7th chakra; this is located at the top of your head. Sahasrara is the name given the crown chakra. It means “Thousand Petaled Lotus.”Meditation enhances the balance of this energy center and allows Universal wisdom to enter to top of the head. Connecting with your Spirit gives you much needed resolve for getting off the wine, sugar, and caffeine.
Step 2: Vision Your Vibrant Health and Wellness: 6th chakra is located in the middle of your forehead just above your eyebrows. This chakra is called Ajna which means both to “perceive” and “command.” Welcome to the command center of your life! See your way into your new healthy lifestyle. Dream about what you want, use your imagination, see the changes you want to make in your life in vivid color, texture, and shape.
Step 3: Speak about Your Wellness Goals; Speaking your truth ignites the power of your fifth chakra, vishuddha, which means “purify” in English. One of the best ways to get what you want is to talk about it. Share your vision of optimal health and wellness with trusted friends and family members. Be specific about what you want, why you want it, and by when you want to accomplish your goals.
Step 4: Love Your Self, Find Your Wellness Tribe: We’re in the heart chakra! Governed by air, Anahata chakra, translates to “unstruck,” and is all about love, balance, and relationship.Love is practicing patience and kindness as you make changes in your life. Buddy up with a friend, or group of friends, and lean on your wellness tribe for support and accountability. As you reciprocate this support for them, your heart opens to change.
Step 5: Take Action in the Direction of Your Wellness Vision and awaken your personal power! Chakra 3, Manipura, is known as the power chakra, it’s element is fire. It means “lustrous gem.” Taking small steps toward your vision stokes the fire of chakra 3. Action sparks momentum, gives you power to resist temptation, and burns through inertia. When your power chakra is balanced you’re ready to get up and go!
Step 6: Tap into the Pleasure and Passion of a Vibrant Yoga Body! Second charka is called swadisthana which means “sweetness.” It’s element is water. This is about movement, creativity, sensation, desire, sexuality. Getting into the flow of good choices goes beyond diet and exercise, this chakra teaches us to re-awaken our passion and pay attention to what delights our senses.
Step 7: Take Good Care of Your Body Temple and Thrive! We’ve journeyed down the chakra path to the base of the spine, the root chakra. It’s sanskrit name is Muladhara, which translates to “root support.”This is the energy center that governs your body and your physical world. Caring for your body as the temple of your Spirit leads to vitality and an experience of thriving. This includes nourishing your body with healthy meals and rituals as well as caring for your surroundings. This chakra balances when you take care of your body, your home, your car, and your bank account. Root chakra loves organization and taking care of business.
If you’re ready to experience vibrant health, dynamic balance, and creative living, alongside other women who share your wellness vision, join our community!
Click the button below and get your free yoga class with the Ultimate Healthy Habit Getting Started Guide.
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Walking in the prophetic language of dreams is a form of tapping into the mind and heart of God and can be an exciting and exhilarating journey. But understanding and interpreting your dreams and other revelatory spiritual encounters can often be a complex and even confusing process.
I encourage you above all else to keep interpretation simple! Keep the big picture of the dream and overarching theme in mind.
With too much detail you could miss the interpretation. This is a lot like not seeing the forest for the trees.
Here are some basic principles of dream interpretation presented in concise statements that will help bring clarity to the revelation you receive.
15 Keys for Interpreting Your Dreams
1. Most of all, dreams should be interpreted on a personal basis first (John 10:3).
2. Most dreams should not be taken literally. They need interpretation (Daniel 1:17; Genesis 40:8).
3. God will use familiar terms that you know (Matthew 4:19).
4. Ponder on the dream or revelation and ask the Holy Spirit for insight (Daniel 7:8; 8:15-16; Luke 2:19; 1 Corinthians 2:12-14).
5. Ask the Holy Spirit what the central thought, word, or issue is in the revelation. Reduce the dream to its simplest form. What is the main thought?
6. Search it out in the Word. Dreams from the Lord will never go against His written Word (Proverbs 25:2).
7. What did you sense and feel from the dream? Was it a good or evil presence? What was the primary emotion?
8. Relate the dream to your circumstances and spheres of influence.
9. Consecutive dreams often have similar meanings (Genesis 41:1-7, 25-31). God will speak the same message more than once in more than one way.
10. What are the colors? Is everything black and white with one main object in color?
11. Interpretations can be on three levels: personal, church, or national and international.
12. More than one interpretation can come forth in one dream. Just as with Scripture, there is the historical context as well as the personal, present implication. So it is with dreams. It might be a general word for the church with specific applications for yourself (or others).
13. Some dreams may only be understood in the future. They unfold over time. Details will make sense down the road.
14. Write down in a journal the summary; date it; write down where you were, the time (if you woke up from it), the main emotions, and a possible interpretation.
15. The key to proper interpretation is to ask questions, questions, questions!
Dream Interpretations Belong to God
Finally, remember that dreams are significant to all!
To receive a dream is the first step of a divine purpose moving from the mind of God to become reality in human history.
Dreams and visions are where space and time are pushed away, where God allows our inner selves to see beyond and behind the conscious plane and where possibilities and hopes come out unrestricted by natural limitations.
Remember, God wants to help you with interpreting your dreams. So don’t forget to invite Him into the process.
Father, we know that dreams and visions and their interpretations belong to You. With honor coupled with a deep hunger, we ask You to give us Your wisdom applications to understand the revelation you are giving us, in Jesus’ great name, amen.
Keep Interpretation Simple!
James W. Goll
This article has been adapted from Lesson 8: “Keep Interpretation Simple” in James Goll’s book, The Scribe.
If you want to receive practical tools for recording, interpreting and applying what God is saying to you in your dreams, then you’ll love James Goll’s NEW Curriculum Kit: The Scribe! It contains The Scribe book, complementary Study Guide and 6 Message Set in DVD, CD, Streaming or Download. For a limited time, save up to 58% (only $99)! Order your curriculum kit and begin receiving and retaining revelation through journaling today!
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Established in 1758, Leesburg (population 37,500) is the seat of government for Loudon County. The town’s rich history spans three centuries. Originally a settlement called George Town in honor of the reigning British monarch, Leesburg was renamed to honor Francis Lightfoot Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, who owned property nearby.
During the War of 1812, Leesburg served as the temporary capital of the United States when the valuable papers of the Federal Archives (including the Declaration of Independence and Constitution) were brought to town for safekeeping. President James Monroe resided just south of town at Oak Hill, where he wrote the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. Leesburg was the site of the 1861 Battle of Ball’s Bluff, a bloody Confederate victory which claimed the life of Col. Edward Baker, a close friend of President Lincoln, and spawned a Congressional committee to investigate the conduct of the war. The battlefield is marked by one of America's smallest national cemeteries.
In the 20th century, Leesburg was the home of World War II General George C. Marshall, architect of the famous Marshall Plan that re-built Europe after the war, and radio personality Arthur Godfrey, who donated land for the town's first airport. Today Leesburg continues to serve as the center of government and commerce for Loudoun County, the fastest growing county in the nation. From 1990 to 2001, Leesburg doubled in population from 16,000 to 32,000, a phenomenal growth rate that shows no sign slowing down.
One of the signature heritage preservation projects in the community has been the restoration and interpretation of General George C. Marshall’s home, Dodona Manor, a National Historic Landmark gracing the entrance to downtown Leesburg. General Marshall purchased Dodona Manor in 1941, after being named Army Chief of Staff. It provided a retreat from the tremendous demands of Marshall’s work, after he led the largest mobilization of World War II and during the implementation of the work for Europe’s economic recovery. During Marshall’s residence, Dodona Manor received prominent world leaders as guests, including President Truman, Madam Chiang Kai-shek, Field Marshall Sir John Dill, and Bernard Baruch.
When faced with the imminent sale of the neglected property for redevelopment in 1995, dedicated citizens raised the funds to purchase the property. Funding for restoration has come from a great variety of public and private sources, including the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Federal Republic of Germany, a community development grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a Save America’s Treasures grant, a Department of Transportation grant, the Marshall Family, the Garden Club of Virginia, and many others. Countless volunteer hours supported the restoration and support current daily operations. Now a major heritage tourism site, Dodona Manor has attracted attention from national and international travel writers.
Leesburg’s Old and Historic District, one of the best-preserved and most picturesque downtowns in Virginia, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and expanded its boundaries to include late 19th century and early 20th century resources in the 1990s. The historic downtown offers Colonial and Civil War themed walking tours and an eclectic mix of specialty shops and eateries housed in historic buildings. Leesburg is also a member of the Virginia Civil War Trails program, and the “Journey Through Hallowed Ground” corridor. More information about the Civil War in Loudon County can be found at the Loudon Museum in downtown Leesburg, also known for its collection of southern textiles and schoolgirl samplers. A published guidebook and new wayfinding signage system help direct visitors to city heritage sites and area attractions, including Oatlands Plantation and Morven Park.
Designated a Preserve America Community in Novembr 2006.
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Module 4 The Power of Words
A ship travels across the ocean; its course is controlled by a very small rudder. Your tongue is like that rudder; its small, but it controls the words that come out of your mouth. Our words greatly influence the course of our life—from our relationships to our career. Words are powerful! What we say counts and how we deliver them is vital. In this training you will learn words that are negative and irritating to your listeners. You will be given alternatives that will help you to change what you say with a more positive and proactive approach. You will be able to use this information not only in the workplace, but at home with your family and friends. When we are careful with what we say and how we say it, we can make a difference and turn what could be a negative situation into a more positive outcome.
What is the need for this course?
Learn to understand that your words matter and how you can create more interesting communication and selling statements with your words. When prospecting you only have your words, make them more effective to win your prospect over.
Who should take this course?
Anyone that interfaces with people that need to improve their level of communication and use of words.
What makes your course unique?
The course goes into negative words and then gives positive word replacements. Additionally, this course provides phrases that create interest to the hearer and helps the learner to avoid negative and irritating words and phrases. This course provides alternatives for more effective communication.
Course Package :
- 1 PowerPoint Presentation of 50 slides
- 1 Online test
Who would be target audience for the course?
Call Center Agents, Inside Sales Agents, Sales People… Basically anyone who wants to improve their communication skills.
Does this course prepare learners for some examinations / certifications?
At the end of the 17 modules the learner will receive a certification of completion from Kathy Sisk Enterprises, Inc.
What topics would you cover in this course? (Please provide a detailed breakdown of topics/ chapters)
Emotion Impact Words, Negative Influence Words, Words that describe Positive Qualities, Words that Loses its power and confidence, Words that Create Positive reactions and interaction, Action Verbs designed for Marketing and Sales and Accounting and Finance, Power Words from A to Z.
Would there be a book / study material recommended as part of the course?
Everything is on the PowerPoint for the learner that includes audio teaching
What would be the outcomes of the course, once a learner completes it?
To gain more awareness of their words and how it can change the way others perceive you.
Language of instruction: English
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Mexican Congress approves use of medical marijuana
April 29, 2017 03:43 PM NPT
MEXICO CITY, April 29: Mexico's Lower House of Congress passed a bill on Friday to legalize the use of marijuana and cannabis for medical and scientific needs, a step closer to outright legalization in a country long scarred by warring drug cartels.
The bill sailed through the Senate in December and will now be sent to President Enrique Pena Nieto, who is expected to sign it.
"The ruling eliminates the prohibition and criminalization of acts related to the medicinal use of marijuana and its scientific research, and those relating to the production and distribution of the plant for these purposes," the Lower House said in a statement on its website.
The measure passed in a general floor vote with 371 in favor, seven against and 11 abstentions, and now classifies the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as "therapeutic."
Speaking in April 2016 at a special session where world leaders gathered to rethink global strategy in the war on drugs for the first time in two decades, Pena Nieto said drug use should be addressed as a "public health problem" and users should not be criminalized.
Pena Nieto, once a vocal opponent of drug legalization, has said the United States and Mexico should not pursue diverging policies on marijuana legislation. Last year, he proposed a bill to allow Mexicans to carry up to an ounce of marijuana, a measure that has since stalled in Congress.
Since a 2015 court ruling, the government has allowed the importation on a case-by-case basis of medicine with cannabidiol (CBD), an active chemical ingredient of the drug.
Recreational marijuana is still broadly prohibited in Mexico, but in 2015 the Supreme Court granted four people the right to grow their own marijuana for personal consumption, opening the door to legalization.
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Don't Let FOMO Stop You from Achieving Financial Goals
FOMO (or fear of missing out) may cause you to spend money on things when you may not have the funds to do so. Sometimes friends will influence you into purchasing things without really thinking about how much you truly want or need it.
And rather than being the only person in your peer group without the latest smartphone, you purchase a new device. Or you decide to splurge on a vacation with your friends because you don't want to be the only one left behind. While these experiences may be enjoyable, they shouldn't stop you from achieving financial goals when it comes to long-term saving.
Here's how to keep your finances on track when dealing with FOMO.
Prioritize Your Wishlist
Of course, you don't want to miss out on everything your friends are doing. The objective is to pick and choose what makes the most sense for you. Determine which experiences you'll regret missing out on the most. It can be helpful to make a checklist of your goals and rate which ones are most important to you.
In other words, if you love to travel, add money to your budget for vacations or new luggage while cutting back in other areas. Ideally, you won't be lured into spending money on expensive items that won't give you as much satisfaction, like concerts or sporting events.
Save for Large Items
If you want to purchase expensive electronics or take a big trip, understand that you may need to spend time saving. Don't be tempted to pay a nonrefundable vacation deposit if you're not sure where the remainder of the balance will come from. Weigh your options and be prepared to give something up, like exchanging shorter weekend getaways for one larger vacation with friends. Open a savings account designated for a special purpose and put a specified amount in there each week to help you reach your goal.
Do it Because You Love it, Not Because of FOMO
Buyer's remorse is real; no one enjoys the regret that comes with spending money on things that only bring short-term satisfaction. A study by Credit Karma found that millennials often overspend on experiences, like nights out with friends. If you find yourself accepting weekly invitations to new brunch spots that are out of your budget range, you may need to find ways to make these social events more affordable.
Set a limit before heading out the door and stick to it by only bringing cash. Suggest restaurants that are more affordable, and let your friends know you're trying to stick to a budget. If you choose to spend money on something, do it because you will derive satisfaction from it, not because you're afraid of missing out or feel pressured into it.
Set up a Budget that Includes Discretionary Spending
On the flip side, once you have a handle on your budget, you don't need to turn down every invitation or fun purchase. When planning your budget, include a line for discretionary spending. After meeting your savings goals and paying necessary household expenses, determine what's left for you to spend on nights out, new gadgets, or vacations. Find ways to stretch your dollars by taking advantage of discounts and sales. Wait for trade-in specials to upgrade your phone.
Fear of missing out can make you temporarily unhappy, but the stress that comes with overspending can have a large effect as well. Striking the right balance with saving and spending means learning to live within your means and prioritizing your spending on the things you enjoy most.
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A measure coming up for a vote this fall would require San Jose employers to offer more hours to part-time workers before bringing on new hires.
The City Council on Tuesday, in its final meeting before the summer recess, will vote on whether to run the full text of the “Opportunity to Work” initiative on the November ballot and whether to allow rebuttals, which would up the cost.
Silicon Valley labor leaders asked the council to adopt the proposal as an ordinance, which would save the $928,000 it costs to bring it to voters. But it looks like it’s headed to the General Election ballot.
The proposal, backed by the South Bay Labor Council, exempts businesses with fewer than 35 employees. Proponents say it would up wages for 64,000 part-time workers in San Jose. Those employees are predominantly women and minorities, according to a study published earlier year.
Critics, including the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce, fear the measure would hurt businesses by limiting their ability to hire a workforce that meets their needs.
Councilman Johnny Khamis urged voters to kill the measure and said the city should pay the extra cash to include a rebuttal on the ballot. The proposal, he said, should more aptly be called the “Opportunity to Destroy Jobs” initiative.
“The initiative will eliminate job opportunities for non-privileged students who, like me, work part-time to put themselves through college so that they can make a better life for themselves and their families,” he wrote in a scathing memo.
Proponents argue that the initiative remedies an abusive employment practice, which businesses take advantage of to avoid paying benefits. The result is a crisis of under-employment that forces part-time workers to take on multiple jobs with no benefits.
More from the San Jose City Council agenda for June 28, 2016:
- The city has identified a possible site for a "tiny home" community to house the homeless, a property on Evans Lane near Curtner Avenue in south San Jose.
- Churches and other religious organizations will be able to offer temporary shelter to the homeless if the city suspends permitting requirements.
- The city plans to spend $5 million over the next three years to house homeless veterans. According to the latest homeless census, Santa Clara County is home to the fifth largest population of homeless military veterans in the nation.
WHAT: City Council meets
WHEN: 1:30pm Tuesday
WHRE: City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose
INFO: City Clerk, 408.535.1260
This article has been updated.
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11/25/2020 / By Ethan Huff
Because its trial designs do not meet even the basic minimum criteria set forth by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for new vaccines, AstraZeneca’s adenovirus-vector vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) will “never be licensed in the U.S.,” says SVB Leerink health-care analyst George Porges.
Despite claims that the jab is 70 percent effective – or 90 percent effective, depending on which skewed dataset you look at – AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 injection, known formally as ChAdOx1, is neither safe nor effective.
The drug giant “tried to embellish” its early reporting on the jab by claiming 90 percent efficacy in a limited subset of subjects who received a “modified” dose. These individuals had not yet received the “full dose,” which came four weeks later and produced less-stellar results.
In Porges’ view, ChAdOx1 will never be licensed in the United States for a number of reasons, perhaps the most significant being that the basic FDA thresholds for scientific proof of safety and efficacy have not been, and never will be, met.
Not only that, but AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is harming trial participants by giving them serious neurological conditions that are far worse than anything the novel virus itself could produce.
Porges’ own thesis that “all spike protein vaccines are created equal” has been confounded by the findings of these halted trials, which also calls into question other adenovirus-vector vaccines being produced by Big Pharma competitors such as Johnson & Johnson (J&J).
On the flip side, Porges is focusing his sights on adjuvanted protein sub unit vaccines such as those being develop by Novavax and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). These engineered synthetic virus vaccines, he says, could be more effective at “boosting” immunity to COVID-19.
“… but it appears that the occurrence of pre-existing or post-vaccination immunity to the vector has a significant dampening effect on the efficacy of the vaccines (and may confer risk as well) and for this reason we believe these products are likely to be regarded as relatively marginal suppliers in the COVID vaccine market of the future,” he adds.
AstraZeneca’s ongoing clinical trial is still claiming 70 percent vaccine efficacy following 132 infection events. Meanwhile, the media is admitting that the results are “a little bit more mixed” than those put out by the likes of Pfizer and Moderna, and are also more “confusing.”
This is saying a lot, seeing as how Pfizer and Moderna’s “amazing” results are completely bogus and backed by nothing more than empty promises.
Big Pharma, the mainstream media, and other key players in the COVID-19 vaccine game continue to pretend as though they are perplexed about mass public resistance to all of these vaccines, no matter their respective technologies.
At least half of the American public says it will not be getting jabbed with any COVID-19 vaccine because they are being rushed onto the market at “warp speed” while their manufacturers hold zero liability for any adverse events that may result.
“I don’t understand this concern people have that a multi-billion dollar global corporation would rush a product to market in order to sell it for untold billions in profits despite potentially harmful side effects, knowing they cannot be sued due to the law protecting vaccine manufacturers,” wrote one Zero Hedge commenter sarcastically.
“Some people are just tin foil hat conspiracy theorists, I guess.”
Another echoed that sentiment, noting that Moderna itself admitted back in 2017 that mRNA vaccines, which is the type it is currently developing for COVID-19, “will never be safe enough for use in humans.”
To keep up with the latest news about the COVID-19, be sure to check out Pandemic.news.
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In a much-ballyhooed spontaneous interview with The New York Times, President Trump stated on Thursday that he had complete authority over the Department of Justice – a constitutional fact. This led the media to lose its collective mind, however.
Trump stated, “I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department,” adding, “But for purposes of hopefully thinking I’m going to be treated fairly, I’ve stayed uninvolved with this particular matter.” Trump said that Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School agreed with his legal analysis.
Now, Trump is right. The executive branch is unitary – meaning that if you work for the executive branch, you work for the president. To suggest that the DOJ is immune to the president is akin to saying that the Environmental Protection Agency is immune to the president – and ever since the expiration of the Office of the Independent Counsel in 1999, there’s been no Congressional challenge to that basic idea.
That’s not to say that Trump can’t obstruct justice. Were Trump to lie to the FBI, for example, or direct the DOJ how to conduct an investigation, he’d be running into murky legal waters. But he has the power to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, to instruct Attorney General Jeff Sessions to initiate an investigation, and so on. Democrats never challenged this sort of presidential authority, not even when Attorney General Eric Holder called himself President Barack Obama’s “wing-man,” and said he was “there with my boy.”
Nonetheless, Democrats and the media have taken Trump’s comments as evidence of his dictatorial nature. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who spends his days on-call at CNN, said that Trump didn’t have the authority to direct the DOJ. He tweeted:
Schiff, of course, has been busily making unsubstantiated claims of Russian collusion for months; he stated weeks ago, “The Russians offered help, the campaign accepted help, the Russians gave help, and the president made full use of that help.”
Here’s the reality: Trump would be a fool to interfere in the Mueller investigation. And he knows that. But for the Left to deny presidential authority over the DOJ is a recipe for the unworkability of the executive branch.
via Daily Wire
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This video is called Maryam Al-Khawaja on the Struggle for Human Rights in Bahrain.
Salafism is an ultra-orthodox tendency in Sunni Islam. It is linked to the absolute monarchy in Saudi Arabia.
In neighbouring Bahrain, at first sight, one might expect salafists not to get along well with the royal family.
As at least one Bahraini royal prince was drunk and disorderly on an airplane during the Islamic holy month Ramadan …
However, relationships between Bahraini royals and Bahraini salafists are a lot better than what one might suppose from this. Both hate democracy.
Bahraini salafists participate in the puppet parliament and in the dictatorial government.
In the parliament, salafists act like equivalents of Dutch Islamophobe Geert Wilders, viciously attacking poor immigrant workers.
Both royals, like the torturing prince His Highness Shaikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, and salafists support making war in Syria.
Bahraini Salafists in Spotlight
By: Husain Marhoon for Al-Monitor Posted on June 18.
At the beginning of 2013, 19-year-old Abdurrahman al-Hamd left Bahrain for Syria, driven by a desire to fight in the jihad and to heed the many calls issued by Islamic centers for people to fight against the Syrian regime. On May 28, Abdurrahman returned home in a coffin.
His father, Sheikh Adel al-Hamd, a Salafist preacher and the imam of a mosque in the al-Rifa’ region south of the capital Manama, said in an audio recording, “He fulfilled his wish.”
Just a few days passed before further news emerged about the deaths of four more young men, which pushed the death toll to five Bahrainis killed in the span of just one week. Websites subsequently published photos of one of them, Abdul-Aziz al-Uthman, wearing the military uniform of the Bahraini Defense Forces in one of the areas controlled by the Syrian mujahideen.
Until recently, it was believed that the prominent Salafist movement in Bahrain was a traditional one that swore absolute obedience to its leader and forbade all forms of political activities. Even with slight modifications to this line of thought — which lifted the prohibition on political action under the religious premise of allowing “an evil to occur in order to prevent a greater evil from occurring” — absolute obedience to the ruler remained a central tenet of Bahraini Salafism.
The Al-Asalah Islamic Society, which was established in 2002, is considered the most prominent faction espousing this line of thought, and is the main Bahraini Salafist movement.
Al-Asalah, which has close ties with Saudi Arabia, is represented by four MPs in the Bahraini parliament and controls one cabinet portfolio in the current government. Throughout its 10 years of overt political work, Al-Asalah exhibited great synergy with the Bahraini regime. …
As a result, Bahrainis never before participated in any operations carried out against the outside world.
But between 2003 and 2012, the Bahraini Interior Ministry announced the uncovering of numerous Salafist cells that it accused of “raising money” for al-Qaeda and “training with the aim of striking against Western interests” as well as “taking photographs of vital installations.” Reports confirmed the incarceration of six Bahraini Salafists in the prison at the US Guantanamo Bay naval base on the island of Cuba, two in Saudi Arabia and one in Kuwait for similar infractions. Despite that fact, it remains difficult to prove whether any of those people actually participated in operations carried out by al-Qaeda.
All of those men were subsequently released, including the ones that were taken at different intervals to Guantanamo after having been sold out by clans inhabiting the Pakistani border region.
Another face of Salafism
The deaths of five Bahraini Salafists in the course of one week in Damascus had a never-before-seen impact in Bahrain, reopening the debate about whether the previously mentioned “spotless” image that the Bahraini Salafist movement enjoyed was true, or whether it only represented the visible part of its hidden, real identity.
In August 2012, a delegation of Bahraini MPs belonging to the Islamist Al-Asalah Society snuck into Syria through Turkey to meet with militants from the Soukour al-Sham (Hawks of Greater Syria) faction, and announced that they “delivered donations sent by the Bahrainis to the Syrian people.”
On May 29, the Salafist preacher Sheikh Adnan al-Aroor, known for his extremist and anti-Shiite views, visited Manama and took part in a campaign held at a mosque in the Al-Buhair region south of the capital, to raise funds from Bahraini Salafists in solidarity with the Syrian people.
Local newspapers later stated that Aroor was able to auction off his religious robes, known in the Gulf as al-Bisht, to a wealthy Bahraini for the sum of 15,000 dinars (approximately $40,000).
These activities did not seem to go beyond humanitarian efforts to include the training of local fighters who were sent to Syria.
On one occasion, a campaign in August 2012 to raise contributions for Syria made a claim that was grossly misinterpreted. In that case, organizers urged donors to contribute money that would be used to “train the hero invaders.” They set the cost of one contribution share to 1,000 dinars ($2,600). The common belief was that the contributions raised would be delivered to Syrian opposition factions. Once again, the view that prevailed was that Bahraini Salafism supported the Bahraini regime.
An emerging new nucleus
In his first comment about the death of Abdurrahman, Sheikh Adel al-Hamd revealed that his son “had prepared his weapon, obtained military uniforms and took part in training exercises held in Bahrain itself” before he went to fight in Syria. He pointed out that Abdurrahman left school once the jihadist mentality took hold in him, and that he alone in the family knew about this occurring.
Last week, another young Bahraini man, Abdel Menem Ali, was killed fighting alongside Jabhat al-Nusra. It was revealed later on that he was a field commander. Subsequent to the news of Ali’s demise during battles in Hama’s countryside, Sheikh Mohamed Khaled, a former MP and member of the Al Menbar National Islamic Society (Islamic National Tribune), which is the political arm of the Bahraini Muslim Brotherhood, stated, “He was a field commander in Syria.”
These facts point to the emergence of a new nucleus within the Bahraini Salafist phenomenon, the philosophy of which has converged with that of international jihadists. It also reinforces concerns of a jihadist blowback on Gulf states after the Syria war.
Husain Marhoon is an independent Bahraini journalist. He has worked as a columnist and coordinator of the cultural pages for the Bahraini newspapers Al Waqt and Al Ayam. He covered the events of the Bahraini Spring since 2011 for several media outlets, and his articles have been published in a variety of Arab newspapers and periodicals, including Al-Akhbar, An-Nahar and Al-Jazeera. On Twitter: @marhoon
Bahrain Salafists Increase Involvement in Syria War: here.
Syrian refugees find little help in Greece: here.
CIA secretly providing training for Syrian rebels: Los Angeles Times: here.
Washington ships arms to Al Qaeda-linked forces in Syria: here.
- Bahraini regime doesn’t care about workers’ health (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
- Bahrain torture false confession, video (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
- Anti-regime protests continue in Bahrain (rinf.com)
- Suspicious Filipina woman’s death in Bahrain (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
- Festering Injustice in Bahrain (consortiumnews.com)
- Federal Parliament debates Bahrain’s human rights crisis (workersbushtelegraph.com.au)
- 2nd Commemoration Of The Invasion Of Bahrain (deliberation.info)
- Bahraini tortured teenager jailed for 80 years? (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
- Bahraini women anti-dictatorship photographers (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
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My step-father is Indiana Jones.
Well, OK. His name is actually George Bey, but he’s like Indiana Jones.
He’s Dean of Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Millsaps College in Jackson Mississippi and is currently on a whirlwind tour of Southeast Asia looking for gold and secret mystical skulls that will vanquish tyranny from the face of the earth and give the New Orleans Saints a Superbowl victory.
Well, OK. So maybe that’s impossible; the Saints will always stink. But he really is in Southeast Asia right now and he really is a Dean and a Professor and an archeologist, and he even owned a whip, and although he’s too young to have ever actually fought Nazis, if he did meet some Nazis, he would seriously kick their butts.
He’s a fantastic teacher and a wonderful father and he runs this totally freaking AWESOME biocultural reserve, Kaxil Kiuic: The Helen Moyers Biocultural Reserve.
Located in the Bolonchen District of the Puuc region of Yucatan, Mexico, the Helen Moyers Biocultural Reserve is a privately owned entity managed by Kaxil Kiuic, A.C. It consists of 4,000 acres of dry tropical forest and contains within it the ancient Maya center of Kiuic as well as the remains of the historic community of San Sebastian. The abundant and diverse flora and fauna found within the reserve make it one of the best remaining zones of dry tropical forest in the Yucatan Peninsula. The ecological and cultural resources of the reserve are protected, and 50 hectares of the Maya center of Kiuic have been officially donated by Kaxil Kiuic to the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Kiuic is one of the first archaeological sites that has been acquired officially by the INAH in Yucatan and will be preserved in its entirety within the protection of the biocultural reserve that surrounds it. This initiative represents a new model for development in Mexico to manage its ecological and cultural resources.
It’s a private organization, on privately owned land and supports a growing number of research projects, educational programs, and efforts to contribute to the development of long-term productivity and sustainability for nearby communities.
USA Today did an article on him and the site in Kaxil Liuic last June. (There’s a great photo gallery that accompanies the article too.)
I say he’s Indiana Jones, but the truth is, he’s cooler than Indiana Jones. He’s cooler because he’s real and because I know him and love him and grew up with him and because, well… because he’s a searching for meaning and truth. USA Today also interviewed him and they asked him about Indiana Jones. This was his answer,
Indiana Jones is a myth about archaeology and archaeologists. And like most great myths, it does at some level reflect a truth about what we do and our identity. Maya archaeology has a great history of adventure and most Maya archaeologists can tell you at least one hair raising tale that might find its way into an Indiana Jones film. And I don’t think we would be living and working in the jungle if we didn’t at some level enjoy the whole idea of exploration and adventure. Yesterday morning as I was leaving Stairway to Heaven, I put my hand on a tree only to find it occupied by a very long tree living snake looking me in the eye. Its skin perfectly mimicked the color and texture of tree it occupied. However, although the moment was Indiana Jones-esque, my reaction was not to yell or curse the beast and kill it, but pull out my dvd recorder and record the snake’s movement from tree to tree. I am a scientist and the moment was thrilling both because snakes are a little bit scary, but also because it was very cool to see this type of snake close up and have a chance to record what I was seeing.
I think this is one of the main things that distinguish the myth from the reality, the thrill is based on a combination of discovery and exploration from a scientific perspective. The moment of discovery, whether of an ancient tomb, or building or cache of pottery is one of the things that drive us to do what we do. It is a rush, no doubt about it. But the rush comes from unearthing a piece of the past that will aid us in understanding the questions of the past, not about cosmic powers or aliens, but about things like, how did the economic system operate, or what evidence is there for changing patterns of elite political organization. So, unlike Indy, we don’t grab things and run, we spend weeks and months and years, carefully unearthing things, most of which are very mundane. My team is out in the field excavating houses, and garbage dumps and plaza floors, systematically recording the data with cameras, and drawings. Carefully bagging and tagging each set of artifacts from a particular context. Others are collecting soil samples to try and extract information on plant and animal remains that might tell what an object was used for or what the Maya diet consisted of. These field archaeologists then send the work back to our field lab for analysis, so we can find out the dates for our buildings, or plazas and what they might have been used for. From there select material is sent to professional laboratories for chemical analysis or C14 dating. The end result are papers and presentations and books that interpret all the data in an effort to answer both the small and large questions that drive our discipline. It is from this data that our project is rewriting the history of Maya civilization in the Puuc region.
Photos from the Kaxil Kiuic website:
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Gonorrhea could also be a standard Sexually Transmitted Disease caused by a bacterium called gonococcus and it is often very stubborn to treat, and it affects mostly the moist areas of the body.
A person may develop noticeable symptoms for several weeks while some men may never develop symptoms, but this post will expose you to a special method by which you will be ready to use to treat gonorrhea naturally, by using natural crops like garlic or turmeric.
The first symptoms of gonorrhea in men are often feeling of burning or pain during urination., while afterward, greater urgency of urination and a pus-like discharge from the private part and afterward pharyngitis.
And for the women, it’s hard for them to notice once they catch it, though the primary symptoms can appear very almost like common vaginal yeast or bacterial infections. Then the later symptoms, are watery or colorful discharge from the private, pain or burning sensation while urinating, and urge to urinate most frequently.
Also feverish conditions and heavier periods or pharyngitis and also pain during intimacy and sharp pain within the lower abdomen.
See How to use turmeric as a cure
One way to cure it is to make a tea out of raw turmeric, just cut a base of turmeric in pieces, make sure you wash it well, add some boiling water to it. Later the turmeric will sink down and make sure you drink all through the whole day, it has a nice taste without any sugars.
See How to use garlic as a cure
Garlic has a strong smell and it is likewise known for the antibacterial properties it has, so it is majorly a regular usage for many home solutions which have bacterial complications.
Just pick three of four raw pieces of garlic and take them this way like this one when you wake up in the morning and one in the evening. The dosage is just to take 2 all through the day, make sure you are touching your privates and exercising it, and continuously swallow it with water.
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Parents, let’s play together
Message and call for action on World Play Day (28 May) and International Children’s Day (29 May) 201
Did you know that playing a lot as a child also helps you to have a better job when you are an adult? Play helps children to have higher IQ, to have better self-control and also to relax, thus play is essential for all children and they should not be deprived of it at any circumstances, it doesn’t matter if they are refugees or attending expensive private schools.
If you remember the last time you engaged in a good game of Activity or Scrabble, you will agree with the opinion that it is very similar in the case of adults. This is why European parents applaud the choice of topic for World Play Day 2016, ‘Play for all ages’. Playing definitely is not only for children, and we are doing our best to encourage parents and grandparents to play. As WPD is the day before International Children’s Day, this weekend should all be about children and playing.
We are calling parents and guardians to share what they are playing to celebrate the day with the #WorldPlayDay and #ParentsPlay hashtags this weekend. (Please protect the privacy of your children and do not post photos with their faces in it.)
Dear Member, help this campaign by sharing on your own social media sites.
Read more on the EPA blog.
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Reviewed by Ryan Griggs
In this pathbreaking tour de force, Professor Walter Block of Loyola University, New Orleans, and Peter Nelson, an engineer out of Colorado specializing in water resources, lay down the case for full-throttle Water Capitalism. In free-flowing, inter-disciplinary form our authors provide a jam-packed foundation (and I do mean jam-packed; the bibliography alone is 35 pages long) for future advocacy of free markets in all things aqua.
Block and Nelson address the moral case for privatization of all things early on:
“Whatever the necessity of violence against innocent taxpayers, in terms of ethics, it is difficult not to give the nod to the private sector. After all, taxpayers are necessarily exploited; they are compelled at the point of a gun [footnote excluded] to pay the amount of money required of them, whether they wish to do so or not. In sharp contrast, while the private sector surely experiences fraud, it is not at all a necessary condition; the overwhelming majority of commercial interactions in the market are voluntary. … So, in terms of sheer morality, privatization is justified as it transfers economic activity from the government towards relatively moral private actors” (16).
The particular problem of government management of resources is known as the “tragedy of the commons.” This means that when a resource is removed from the private domain such that there is no longer a particular owner or group of owners of it, over-consumption abounds. Without private ownership, there is no incentive to preserve a resource for one’s own future consumption. Rather, the incentive under government management is precisely the opposite: consume as much of the resource as possible before it’s all used up, or at least until it’s no longer worth using in the first place.
The tragedy of the commons is the bedrock principle behind current law governing oceans.
“The UN Law of the Seas Treaty (1982, 25) reads in part as follows:
‘… the area of the sea bed (sic) and ocean floor and the subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, as well as its resources, are the common heritage of mankind, the exploration and exploitation of which shall be carried out for the benefit of mankind as a whole, irrespective of the geographical location of States…’” (emphasis added, 49).
Our authors rightly point out the absurdity of the collectivist dogma underlying this language. After all, if it works so well for the oceans, “[w]hy not assert that the land, too, is the ‘common heritage of all mankind.’ Of course a scheme of this sort was actually employed in the USSR not only with Sovietized agriculture, but included all basic factors of production” (50). If it didn’t work out for land in the Soviet Union, why is it still the reigning legal paradigm for oceans?
Whatever the answer, it wasn’t always this way. In fact, “admiralty law, also known as maritime law, and the law merchant” was a private legal system under the common law tradition that “held sway for several centuries, mainly during the medieval period” (50-51). Admiralty law was “a distinct subset of overall law that [dealt] with the proper relationship between shippers, dock-owners, marine commerce, transportation by sea, insurance, salvage and other matters affecting those who use bodies of water” (50). Here we find application to present day discussion of the feasibility of order without a central state. A common barb against advocates of free markets is that a private order society absent a coercive government authority has never been tried–the implication being that it therefore could not possibly work. But as we see here, non-state legal institutions were the norm in seafaring activity long before land-based governmental institutions corrupted the natural order.
But what about piracy? Aren’t bodies of water just swaths of rampant chaos without government there to restore proper order? The question is already poorly framed. The problem with piracy in the past, and in current times, was not the legal status of the medium upon which the nefarious pirates floated, but rather the mechanism used to combat them–that is, state-run navies. “For the libertarian, the state navy will not do. The sailors and their political bosses have no real interest in safe-guarding (sic) the property of merchant ship owners. [After all,] [t]hey exist to protect the state and enhance its power” (124). Furthermore,
“[s]tate navies are supported by conscripted funds, or ‘money’ that is created out of thin air by government fiat. So a person living in the middle of Nebraska who has never seen the sea, is forced against his will to pay for a bunch of excessively expensive floating weapons of war. The libertarian disapproves of this kind of violence. Others should too” (125).
Lastly, “there is also the question of personnel. A state navy is manned either by slaves or mercenaries. Conscripted sailors fall into the former category. They ‘serve’ under the threat of sanctions like fines, jail, or worse” (125). In short, one must be careful not to throw out the privatized baby with the pirate-laiden bathwater, especially since it is the morally and economically defective mechanism (state navies) that are truly at fault when it comes to abolishing piracy.
However, it is not in the nature of our authors to merely account for what won’t work, without giving guidance as to what will. Piracy can be dealt with on privatized oceans. Block and Nelson suggest that “[m]ore acceptable is a navy financed and owned by one or more entrepreneurial parties. A shipping company could own warships as well as merchantmen” (127). “Besides the trading a firm, a sea police company could provide constabulary services on a fee basis. There are at least two plausible fee structures: subscription, and fee for service” (128). In any case, “[t]he point of a private navy is that they would be equipped to provide the services required. There would be no aircraft carriers sporting planes with nuclear tipped rockets” (128). Nor, I might add, would the employees of these maritime protection firms be deceived into contractually-bound, years-long service in their formative high school years, the breaking of such an agreement to then be punished by time served in a government cage.
Suppose the UN Law of the Sea Treaty were tossed out though, what would private ocean ownership look like in practice, outside of protection services? For that matter, what about private ownership of other bodies of water, e.g. rivers (potamological ownership), lakes (limnological ownership), and aquifers (hyrdogeological ownership)? Our authors provide a comprehensive overview of three main contemporary views, known as: riparian, in-toto, and prior appropriation.
Let’s deal with the first view, the riparian system, since even our authors disagree on which of the latter two is correct from the libertarian perspective. “The concept is that ownership of the adjacent land includes the riparian zone [the water frontage zone, i.e. shore] … typically to the centerline (unless he has holdings on both sides …) as well as the water [itself]” (34, bracketed comments added). “Pure riparian ownership gives the proprietor the privilege of drawing water … as long as there is any [to draw]” (34). Notably, “this system tended to evolve where water was plentiful” (34).
Where the riparian system begins to break down is under conditions of water scarcity. Since water seeks a level surface, if an owner on one side of a body of water has a riparian property right, then he can continually draw water from the given source. This will deplete the amount of water on the other side, which in cases where property owners are sufficiently close to each other would be owned by someone else. In short, because the riparian system gives nearby property owners of a given body of water an absolute right in the amount of water contained in one half of the body of water in front of him, conflict over allegedly owned water is inevitable. Since the purpose of property rights is to eradicate conflict over scarce resources, rather than set the stage for it, “neither author subscribes to the riparian concept” (34).
Nelson comes down in favor of the Prior Appropriation conception of rights in water resources. This view combines the Lockean notion of “mixing one’s labor” with a given resource in order to establish ownership of it, and the first-user principle, which states that the first to homestead (establish ownership over) a given unowned resource is the legitimate owner of it. As our authors (likely Nelson) explain:
“This type of ownership both involves the water and measures it. The first user constructed the device(s) necessary to utilize and/or divert what he needed [footnote excluded]. In so doing, he mixed his labor with a natural resource. But what exactly does he own? It is not geometric in nature. The flow of water is what he possesses” (33, emphasis added).
Regardless of its merit when held to a strict libertarian standard, this is an ingenious conception–a property right in a rate of flow! Who would have thought? Yet to the present writer, it seems that a rate per se cannot be owned, and thus, the prior appropriation conception of water rights, despite its Lockean and first-user bonafides does not hold water, so to speak. After all, a rate is simply a ratio. My hunch is that Nelson, who in Chapter 14 presents a worthy argument in favor of prior appropriation, has confused a usage right with a property right. The difficulty becomes apparent when we inquire as to who owns the resource that the given ratio concerns. Consider a truck that moves at 60 miles per hour; does the property owner in this case own 60 miles-travelled-by-truck per hour, or does he own the truck? Well, the truck itself, of course!
Professor Block comes down in favor of the in toto conception of property rights in water resources. “Here, control would be over the physical components that direct and contain the water molecules as well as the aqueous resource itself” (32). Relying heavily, and justly, on Professor Murray Rothbard’s elaboration of the technological unit as set forth his 1982 Cato Journal article entitled “Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution,” Block explains that the relevant technological unit in aqueous resources will vary case to case. However, the central thesis seems to be that independent, stand-alone bodies of water (e.g. a river, a lake, an aquifer) must be owned by one, and only one entity. Of course, as with large infrastructure projects on land, this single entity may consist of more than one owner or shareholder. Thus, for Block, the appropriate conception of water rights does not consist of rate-ownership, despite the flowing nature of water.
Applied to oceans, in toto ownership becomes less clear, but so too do all rights conceptions of oceanic ownership. The issue here is scarcity. Recall that the purpose of property rights is to solve the problem of scarcity. In other words, without scarcity, there is no need for property rights. Even in modern times, the ocean remains so vast that conceiving of potential conflicts, e.g. of mineral miners on the ocean floor versus fishers at the surface, is difficult from the outset.
Yet for those considering a future of human occupation of oceans, fear not, for our authors have something in store for you too. “[A]s indicated by commercial and recreational choke-points, [the ocean] is being filled up with people, boats, oil rigs, etc., more and more; and soon conflicts over its usage will abound” (61). What to do in such a case? I consider this to be the most fascinating and insightful part of the text. First, a classification of the strata of the ocean itself:
“The oceans are composed of four aspects: the surface (for shipping, whales, and other air-breathing aquatic mammals), the water below the surface (fish, submarines, scuba divers), material on the ocean floor (manganese nodules, [footnote excluded] methane clathrate crystals), [footnote excluded] and the resources under the ocean floor such as oil” (62).
Second, consider the various economic activities that may take place in these four areas:
“[Each] initiative would involve a certain expanse, depth, and/or path to implement. In developing [the] enterprise, the value, now a ‘resource,’ would become an extension of the [proprietor’s] personhood. It would become ‘his.’ Starting with the current unoccupied seas, at first there would be no concern about delineating the exact extent of his possession.
As increasing activity of such creators impinge on neighbors, boundary definitions would necessarily become imperative. Methods for demarcation would evolve [footnote excluded]” (64-65).
Notice how only once scarcity comes into play is the notion of establishing property rights, and therefore boundaries, a concern. Under relatively light usage, where proprietors are spaced far enough away from each other such that conflict does not arise (a condition of non-scarcity), the ocean is essentially an open frontier. Thus, the third step:
“However, should the usage become intense, priority in terms of initial time of homesteading would take effect. [For example,] if the shipper was there first, the fishermen would have to yield. If multiple shippers found themselves in conflict, specific paths would necessarily be staked out with the better routes going to the earliest homesteaders. Without limiting the possibility of future improvements, routes can even today be accurately identified using global positioning. In earlier times, [Long Range Navigation], lighthouses, and marker buoys ascertained locations. In the future, technologies only dreamed about at present will become a reality” (65).
In other words, when ocean usage ramps up to the point of scarcity, the first-user principle of homesteading would apply in order to allow people to discern who owns what.
Finally, our authors compare this progression of open frontier to well-demarcated private property to the development of land itself:
“Only when the land became so intensely used did precise property lines develop. For an example from the relatively recent past, the reader is referred to the historical map of the Arabian Peninsula and Vicinity (Undated). On it, he will see nations, but except very close to the coast, he will find dashed, indistinct or non-existent borders. We, the authors, envision a similar process, not of countries, but of homesteaders gradually filling in the oceanic territory with ever more detailed and exacting definitions of proprietorship” (66).
Of course, in order for humankind to extend his domain over the oceans in such an orderly fashion, the barbaric UN Law of the Sea Treaty, which drowns prosperity founded on private ownership before it has a chance to breath, must either be repealed or ignored–with haste.
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Efficient Lottery Ticket Finding: Less Data is More
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 139:12380-12390, 2021.
The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) reveals the existence of winning tickets (sparse but critical subnetworks) for dense networks, that can be trained in isolation from random initialization to match the latter’s accuracies. However, finding winning tickets requires burdensome computations in the train-prune-retrain process, especially on large-scale datasets (e.g., ImageNet), restricting their practical benefits. This paper explores a new perspective on finding lottery tickets more efficiently, by doing so only with a specially selected subset of data, called Pruning-Aware Critical set (PrAC set), rather than using the full training set. The concept of PrAC set was inspired by the recent observation, that deep networks have samples that are either hard to memorize during training, or easy to forget during pruning. A PrAC set is thus hypothesized to capture those most challenging and informative examples for the dense model. We observe that a high-quality winning ticket can be found with training and pruning the dense network on the very compact PrAC set, which can substantially save training iterations for the ticket finding process. Extensive experiments validate our proposal across diverse datasets and network architectures. Specifically, on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and Tiny ImageNet, we locate effective PrAC sets at 35.32% 78.19% of their training set sizes. On top of them, we can obtain the same competitive winning tickets for the corresponding dense networks, yet saving up to 82.85% 92.77%, 63.54% 74.92%, and 76.14% 86.56% training iterations, respectively. Crucially, we show that a PrAC set found is reusable across different network architectures, which can amortize the extra cost of finding PrAC sets, yielding a practical regime for efficient lottery ticket finding.
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From Jennifer Reversible 11-20 Tracing and Number Counting Board
The Reversible 11-20 Tracing and Number Counting Board from Oskar's Wooden Ark is all about learning numbers from 11-20. On the 'Counting Side' your child practices their fine motor skills, carefully filling up each hole with a wool ball. On the 'Number Tracing Side' your child follows the grooves with their finger or the included tracing stick, building muscle memory and awareness of number placement for each of the numbers.
In identifying the value each number represents, this board gives a quick visual. Each number begins with a full set of ten balls in two columns. Now see eleven is 10+1 and twelve is 10+2, etc.
Reversible 11-20 Tracing and Number Counting Board is made from precious maple wood and engraved with gently curved grooves. Measurements: 42 cm x 22cm x 1,3 cm
Warning! Not suitable for children under 36 months. Choking Hazard due to small parts.
Please note that Treasures from Jennifer are handmade in the US and due to different temperature, climate and humidity in Australia occasionally this item may experience a slight bow/curve in the wood.
From Jennifer is an outstanding family run business that specialize in all natural and original handmade wooden toys. Everything is usually made to order and crafted with attention to detail, design, and quality. Over the past few years Jennifer and her husband Joseph have fine-tuned their skills in woodworking, painting and sewing in order to be able to offer an amazing collection of toys that perfectly combine learning and playing. Whilst Joe is working hard to craft the pieces in their newly built workshop, Jennifer is responsible for the creative part of their business. Her endless creativity and constant state of inspiration for designing new toys has given parents the opportunity to give their children something that is not only beautiful and fun but is also educational and timeless.
As the first stockist in Australia, Treasures from Jennifer is the perfect addition to our existing range of high quality wooden toys. Treasures from Jennifer are perfect not only for homeschooling but also for family day care centers, early learning centers and of course for every family who is interested in high quality educational handmade wooden toys that combine fun and learning at the same time.
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The world's largest iceberg has broken off an ice shelf in Antarctica.
The enormous iceberg, named as A-76, measures around 4,320 sq km in size.
It is about 170 km in length and 25km wide - making it slightly larger than the Spanish island of Majorca.
It has been calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf lying in the Weddell Sea.
It was spotted in recent images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.
The European Space Agency (ESA) says this berg easily takes the prize as the world's biggest.
"The enormity of the berg makes it the largest in the world, snatching first place from the A-23A iceberg (approximately 3,880 sq km in size) which is also located in the Weddell Sea.
"In comparison, the A-74 iceberg that broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in February earlier this year, was only 1,270 sq km."
The iceberg was spotted by the British Antarctic Survey and confirmed from the US National Ice Centre using Copernicus imagery.
The Sentinel-1 mission consists of two polar-orbiting satellites that allow year-round viewing of remote regions like Antarctica.
Icebergs are traditionally named from the Antarctic quadrant where they were originally sighted, then a sequential number, then - if the iceberg breaks - a sequential letter.
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Plastic surgery has made great progress, with better results and minor incisions.
When the breasts are so large, that they generate imbalance in the posture, with discomfort and pain in chest, shoulders and back, it is advisable to reduce breast tissue.
Various factors contribute to this type of pathology, from genetic and hereditary, through hormonal and metabolic, to defects acquired during the patient’s life. Pregnancy and breastfeeding are frequently associated causes.
Outpatient surgery or one-night stay at hospital.
HOW LONG MUST THE PATIENT STAY IN CALI?
After the surgery, the patient must wear a post-surgery bra even for sleeping, applying cold compresses, not smoking, or exposing yourself to sunlight for 4 months and not raising arms or carrying heavy objects during the first month.
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Instructions for today’s lab are at MCB5472_computer_lab_10.
pptx slides for lecture are at MCB5472_lecture_03_31_2014 (links only work, if you are in presentation mode)
Slides of what we actually covered are at MCB5472_lecture_03_31_2014 short
pdf summary is at MCB5472_lecture_03_31_2014.pptx
Homework for next week is on slide 73 or at Homework for 4_6
Sample scripts for oligos scanning are at Homework_for_3_31 :
tetra.pl: scans genome and lists tetramers (both to table and screen)
nmerfreq.pl: scans genome and lists n-mers (n-mer size specified in script)
nmerfreqMod.pl: scans genome and lists n-mers and calls an R-script that produces a histogram
histogramScript_pdf.R: R script that produces histogram from a list of numbers and also compares the observed frequency to the frequency expected under a normal distribution. Documentation in histogramScript.R.read_me.doc
Please send scripts and figures for the in class assignment (ZIP archive of script and figures as jpg, png or excel file) to firstname.lastname@example.org. Please indicate the genome you used to create the figures.
Assignment9 (pptx slides).
Please email answers to email@example.com before class on Monday.
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Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the world’s first floating wind farm: The Hywind pilot park offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
This will entail investments of around NOK2bn ($235m).
Statoil will install a 30 MW wind turbine farm on floating structures at Buchan Deep, 25 km offshore Peterhead.
This will provide renewable energy to the Scottish mainland. The wind farm will power around 20,000 households. Production start is expected in late 2017.
Irene Rummelhoff, Statoil’s executive vice president for new energy solutions, said, “Statoil is proud to develop the world’s first floating wind farm. Our objective with the Hywind pilot park is to demonstrate the feasibility of future commercial, utility-scale floating wind farms. This will further increase the global market potential for offshore wind energy, contributing to realising our ambition of profitable growth in renewable energy and other low-carbon solutions,”.
The pilot park will cover around 4 sq km, at a water depth of 95-120 m. The average wind speed in this area of the North Sea is around 10 m per second.
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China announced a program of accelerated training of fighter pilots
The first Air Force cadets trained on the J-10, a Chinese fighter-bomber, have just received combat training in three years instead of six, according to Beijing.
The Chinese Air Force has prepared the first batch of young J-10 fighter pilots, 23-year-old cadets who will join operational squadrons, Chinese state media reported on Saturday, July 23.
Shijiazhuang Aviation Academy was supposed to receive its first training J-10s in 2020. Thanks to this, the cadets, whose number is not reported, will receive combat readiness in three years, compared to six earlier when training on various devices. «The share of tactical training has been increased, such as combat operations with several aircraft and live firing», – the website of the Central Military Council (CMC) of the Communist Party of China says.
This statement was made against the background of the fact that tensions around Taiwan are as high as ever. In the air, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) faces two tasks. He needs to recruit enough competent staff to support his brilliant modernization — he will have about 1,300 fighters, but most of them are outdated. She is also summoned by the party to better prepare for the fight.
It was only in the late 1990s that the Air Force recovered from the dark years of Maoism, when almost all technical schools were closed. Today, Beijing is tempering its pilots in real situations, sending huge squadrons to penetrate the identification and defense zone of Taiwan — 969 invasions in 2021, already 600 in 2022.
«Testing new training methods is an important step in strengthening the armed forces [taking into account] the acceleration of the emergence of a new generation of combat capabilities», – thus boasts the CMC. It was with this in mind that in September 2021, Chang Dingqiu, a 54-year-old general, a fighter pilot, was put at the head of the Air Force.
Manufactured in Chengdu (central-western China), the J-10 multipurpose aircraft, developed using Russian (Sukhoi) and Israeli (Lavi) technologies, entered service in the basic version in 2004. Since then, the Chinese fourth-generation fighter – Bomber continued to appear in new versions, until in 2021, a national, and not a Russian engine, was first noticed on the J-10C. It is said that Beijing sold twenty-five copies to Pakistan to replace the J-17 produced jointly, and two were delivered.
The aircraft will be the first fighter that will stand comparison with the American F-16 or Russian MiG-29, even if its real characteristics have yet to be proven. The PLA announced that it wants to make it the basis of its forces, having about 250 combat copies.
The Pentagon, which has excellent aviation facilities, takes this aspect of China’s military growth very seriously. Because with its J-10C, tanker planes, electronic warfare planes, J-15 aircraft on aircraft carriers and J-20 stealth bombers, the PLA can now conduct long-range operations in the Pacific Ocean.
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When it comes to WordPress, there can seem to be a ton you need to learn to become successful. The truth is that a few good tips can get you well on your way. This article has some of the best advice available, so read on to find out all you can.
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On Wheels, With An Eye On People And Mustangs
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Question: What do people on the street in downtown Salt Lake City have in common with wild horses in the West Desert? Answer: Both provide inspiration — and a sense of purpose — for a man who’s lived most of his life without being able to walk.
“Mind if I just take a couple of quick ones?” Dirk Johnson said, pointing his camera and rolling his motorized scooter toward a man he had never met. “What’s your name?”
“Phillip,” the man responded. “Phillip, my name’s Dirk,” the photographer said, zooming in to snap a close-up.
Johnson spends a lot of his time on wheels, much of it armed with a camera. A rollover car accident in 1980 left him paralyzed from the waist down. A few years ago, the difficulties of his paralysis—combined with a sense of loneliness after his children grew up and left home— pushed him to a low point.
“I just couldn’t find anything to make my life worth putting up with the hard stuff,” he recalled. “I was depressed. I’d given up. I’d gone to bed and said, ‘Lord, I’m ready. Just take me anytime.’ And he didn’t. So, I had to come up with another plan.”
His new plan evolved from a gift; a friend gave him an inexpensive still-camera which gave Johnson new life finding subjects for his pictures.
“It forces you to look around,” Johnson said, cruising through downtown Salt Lake City. “I found that this was a beautiful city. Lots of fun things to take pictures of.”
“Sorry,” said a woman who rolled by on her own motorized wheelchair, apologizing for inadvertently driving directly in front of Johnson’s lens. “No,” he reassured her, “I’m taking pictures. Can I take a picture of you?” As she said “no” and zipped away, Johnson called after her, “I love your chair!”
With his camera he documents the life and rhythms of downtown Salt Lake City, pausing here and there to capture some of its visual poetry. But mostly when he’s on the streets he shoots people. He rolled up to three women sitting in a bus shelter, oozing politeness.
“I never embarrass anybody, I promise,” he said, handing them a business card. “I post ’em on my Facebook page. If (your photo) is there you’re welcome to it.”
The women agreed to be photographed and Johnson snapped away.
“Beautiful,” he told them. “Three beautiful ladies. How can I go wrong?”
To Johnson, the special people—some of his most frequent photographic subjects— are those who are on the street because they have no choice.
“I do take a lot of pictures of the homeless and people living on the street, ” he explained. “Panhandlers, I’ll talk to them and get to know a lot of them.”
After several years of observing their struggles, he learned to feel compassion for those who can get around better than he can but have no place to go.
“That taught me that there’s a lot of people that really, really don’t want to be on the street,” he said, “that would like to get off.”
His favorite camera subjects, though, are a long way from the downtown streets. Periodically he gets behind the wheel of a Jeep — he needs an aide to help him climb into the driver’s seat — and drives an hour or two to the dusty desert roads near the Army’s Dugway Proving Ground. It ‘s wild horse country and the Onaqui herd really gets his photographic juices flowing.
“I love it,” he said, clicking away at a waterhole from the seat of his Jeep. “They’re easier than people. They’re a lot of fun, and they’re real active when they come to down to water. That’s what makes it fun.”
The Onaqui herd is well-known for being easily approached by people. In the last three or four years, as others have discovered the herd’s relative lack of shyness, Johnson is usually joined by other photographers. But he’s typically the only one who stays in his vehicle.
“It’s a joy to come sit and just take pictures all day and watch them,” he said, snapping more photos through the driver’s window. “It’s my passion. It started out as photography and it’s morphed into a love of these wild horses.”
One night about four years ago, he was lucky enough to capture photos that briefly gave him a bit of internet fame. As evening light faded into night, he used a flash to record a photo sequence of a mare giving birth to a foal. After he posted a slide-show on Facebook, and later on You Tube, it went viral.
“I was actually concerned that it might be a little too graphic,” he said, “but it ended up having about 650,000 views.”
He’s kept an eye trained on that foal ever since. “The one that was born,” he said, “she’s got her own baby this year.”
He doesn’t shoot for money, just for Facebook. For him, it’s all about the living things—in front of his camera—or behind it.
“Anything that keeps me distracted from the day-to-day grind,” he said. “It’s just a pleasure to watch ’em run free. It makes me jealous. I like that feeling of running.”
Johnson’s photos can be found on Facebook at “Dirk Johnson Photography.”
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A simple modification to the stock N5X circuit is to add heater elevation. The idea is to reduce a small amount of 50/100Hz hum I was hearing with the power control above 5. This could be due to where my heater wires are running, but chopsticking didn’t make any difference. It could also be due to the filter caps on the power supply circuit. But I thought it wouldn’t hurt to add in elevation.
Usually, this elevated voltage would be supplied from the cathode of the power tube. But when using VVR this approach is complicated by the fact that the HT+/B+ varies, as does the cathode voltage. So our elevated voltage would vary too. This might not matter but to be safe it would be better to take it from a non-varying HT+ voltage.
In my case, I decided to take the power feed from the junction of R26 and C16 – so the same feed as goes to the preamp and which doesn’t scale.
The values of resistors are chosen to give a voltage within 10-50V:
where , and . This gives . Close enough.
To make the changes I needed:
- 5-way tag strip
- 220k resistor
- 56k resistor
- 47uF/100V capacitor
- short stretch of wire
- De-soldered the connections to the 3-way tag strip (the heater feed from the power transformer, the centre tap and the earth connection from the power board)
- Replaced the existing 3-way tag strip with the 5-way
- Connected the wires and components as below.
Checking the DC and AC voltages of the heaters I get 51.8V – so bang on.
Unfortunately, all this made no real difference to the level of hum I get with the power control above 5, so it may be my lead dress or power filter caps.
Here are a couple of before and after shots. 1st the power section as stock:
A close up of the existing tag strip:
A close up of the new tag strip. The red wire runs over to the R26 / C16 junction, under the board to keep the wire out of the way.
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The financial market is complex with the presence of huge number of investors and a variety of investments. With the availability of historical data and the basic economic principles, some indicators help to analyze the market movements. The experience and available data make market experts identify stock market movements more significantly. Here are some parameters and indicators that are base to analyze the ups and downs in the stock market.
Market analysts believed that interest rates impact the stock markets primarily. When the interest rates are high, investors would prefer fixed income investments as they are getting a good amount of returns without taking a risk. Whereas when interest rates decrease, investors move towards stocks over fixed interest-bearing investments in the low-interest-rate environment because inflation is factored into the equation. In a nutshell, an increasing interest rate impacts the stock market negatively and it comes down.
The State of the Economy
It is a bigger-picture summary than other parameters to drive the stock market. When an economy is in good condition with a healthy growth rate in GDP, investors are more likely to invest as there is no drip in income. On the contrary, a recession or slowdown in an economy’s results generally reverses all positive dynamics and the net effect will be a downtrend in the market.
International Capital Flows
A downfall in a major economy will be a favourable occurrence for another economy. If a foreign country deteriorates, the capital moves to other countries. Here one should understand the impact of the US dollar downfall internationally. US dollar is an internationally traded currency. A drop in the US dollar is impacting a large number of emerging markets positively. If the US dollar is underperforming then most of the other economies in the world would receive capital that has left the US stock market.
Growth of major segments
A decline in the major industries of an economy may pull down the entire market and major market indices will be affected at worst. Stock markets are majorly impacted by the major segments because they create new investment opportunities in an economy. When major industries are in trouble, it weakens the economy that causes falling stock prices.
For example, in 1990s, the rapid growth in IT sector boomed the dot-com boom that set the stock market graph higher. Ad In 2007, two major sectors, banks and mortgage lenders, were in financial trouble at worst. Stocks of companies engaged in three sectors are decreasing rapidly.
Demand and Supply
The most basic indicator is demand and supply. In stock market, demand is the number of securities that investors want to purchase and supply is the number of securities that providers want to sell. The price movement of the securities can be identified by a temporary difference between supply and demand.
When the demand is higher than supply, the buyers bid higher for the stocks to convince the sellers to sell them. And, when the supply is high, sellers decrease the stock price to convince buyers to purchase.
However, it is also considerable, the performance of the issuing company (private or government) also affects the stock price movements. Various factors affect demand and supply such as:
- Inflation or deflation
- Fiscal and monetary policy
- Technological Advancements
- Natural disasters or other natural fluctuations
- Corporate or government performance etc.
In a nutshell, a general direction in which the stocks are moving called market trends that can move upwards or downwards. This movement for a specific timeframe is considered a trend. An investor should understand the market trends before making an investment in the stock market. The longer the trend, the more easily it can be identified. An investor asking how to do share trading should include this practice in his/her daily life.
How to open demat account online
Opening a demat account online is an easy process. Find out a registered broker and fill in the demat account opening form online at their website. You need your PAN card, KYC documents, passport size photo and signature. All should be digital form to get uploaded with the demat application form for the verification process. You can find various reputed brokerage firms offering low brokerage trading accounts.
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What is intriguing about this article describing the likelihood of more synthetic CDO woes is that no one has a grip on how big a problem this might be and who might be exposed. From the Financial Times:
Synthetic CDOs, the risky and complex debt products that are based on pools of corporate credit derivatives, are under increasing pressure after suffering a wave of default-related losses on top of general credit market deterioration.
Synthetic collateralised debt obligations based on exposure to corporate bonds through the derivatives market have already seen $24bn of losses from the recent defaults of Lehman Brothers and other financial institutions, according to analysts at JPMorgan.
Deals worth $103bn have been left in what the analysts call a “binary” position and could see a quick descent into losses if more defaults materialise….Between $32bn and $56bn of these mezzanine, or middle ranking, tranche deals are at risk of high capital losses with the next default.
JPMorgan estimates there are about $757bn outstanding of synthetic CDO tranches based solely on corporate debt derivatives…
Synthetic corporate CDOs were instrumental in driving down spreads, or risk premiums, on credit default swaps during the height of the credit bubble, because the banks that created these products hedged them by selling contracts for protection against default on hundreds of individual companies referenced in the CDOs.
The main concern for credit markets is that a flight by investors away from CDOs would lead to a reversal of this process, whereby banks would be forced to buy back huge volumes of protection and so push spreads dramatically wider from their already elevated levels.
The JPMorgan analysts expect the rate at which investors look to unwind their trades will remain slow and gradual for now…
“Having said that, the size of this market remains significant and investors experience of the first capital losses could be a turning point in their decisions around holding these trades,” said Yasmine Saltuk of JPMorgan.
At the moment, market value losses exceed credit losses by most estimates. Analysts at Citigroup put market value losses on an estimated $584bn of outstanding synthetic CDOs at $67bn by November 10. This is a recovery from the $81bn loss position on October 24 when CDS spreads were around their widest.
The private nature of the CDO industry makes estimating even just the size of the market difficult, hence the difference between the Citi and JPMorgan estimates.
Ms Saltuk and her team estimate market value losses on about $436bn of remaining mezzanine tranches to be in the region of 30-40 per cent, or up to $174.4bn.
Michael Hampden-Turner of Citi is more sanguine about the pace of unwinds, saying that investment grade defaults in the near future are not likely to be as numerous as during the recent weeks of extreme financial crisis. “The pace of [CDO] unwinds and restructuring has increased, but it still remains low and orderly given the overall size of the market,” he said.
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All day, every day, you receive the message that being thin is a virtue.
The smaller your waistline, the greater your value as a person.
You want to be the thinnest one in the room.
But you feel it already: slimness is not happiness.
When you live with anorexia nervosa, the mirror you look at every morning does not reflect the real you.
The mirror lies.
You and the mirror collaborate to create an illusion based on your internal emotional state, not on your external physical reality.
The mirror shows your fear and insecurity. It doesn’t show you. It shows what you think about yourself, deep inside. You think you aren’t skinny enough, so that’s what you see: someone who’s not thin enough.
And you believe what you see.
You believe it because at some point you got off track. You stopped believing in yourself. You started comparing yourself with images from social media, entertainment, and advertising.
When you compare, you despair.
Despair leads you to a place where what you think and see do not match what is. Your disordered eating becomes a mental illness fueled by painful emotions. You develop coping mechanisms that help you numb those emotions – but those coping mechanisms are not sustainable, because they deprive you of the true sustenance you need to live and thrive.
You eat less and less. You hurt more and more. Which causes you to eat even less, which causes you to hurt even more.
Now here you are. Stuck in a cycle you want to escape. You feel alone. Trapped by your own habits, behavior, and emotions.
You need help finding the way back to the real you.
At Backcountry Wellness, we know the way – and we’re honored to be your guide.
Anorexia Nervosa: Signs and Symptoms
No two eating disorders look exactly alike, because eating disorders are more about the person with the disorder than how they appear to people who observe them from the outside. However, all eating disorder share similar characteristics. Beneath them is a desperate need for control. People with eating disorders seek control through food. This maladaptive drive to be thin – above all else – reveals itself in a variety of behavioral, emotional, and physical signs and symptoms.
Behavioral and emotional symptoms of anorexia nervosa include, but are not limited to:
- Extreme preoccupation with thinness
- Intense focus on weight loss and dieting
- Overwhelming need to look and feel skinny
- Denying hunger
- Skipping meals
- Fear of gaining weight
- Lying about eating
- Aversion to eating in front of others
- Constant weighing
- Constant measuring (wrist/upper arm)
- Restricting food intake
- Excessive exercise
Physical signs and symptoms of anorexia nervosa include, but re not limited to:
- Extreme thinness
- Sudden weight loss
- Muscular weakness
- Very low weight (adolescents and children)
- Bluish fingers
- Gastrointestinal problems
- Yellowish skin
- Abnormal or absent menstruation
- Thin, dry hair (may fall out)
- Presence of fine, downy hair on body
- Abnormal lab results
- Sudden weight loss
Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa
Evidence shows the most effective treatment for anorexia addresses the biological, psychological, and social factors at play for each patient. This integrated treatment model incorporates individual therapy with family therapy, group therapy, and complementary supports such as yoga, mindful meditation, and other somatic or expressive therapies.
The integrated treatment model works. It works best when a treatment center has ample time, experienced clinicians, abundant resources, and a staff-patient ratio that facilitates a comprehensive, patient-centered, family-oriented implementation of each customized treatment plan.
Not every treatment center has all that.
At Backcountry Wellness, we have all that – and more. Customization is our calling card. Elite-level service is our ethos. Superior quality is our defining characteristic. Treatment begins with a full, deliberate, and careful biopsychosocial evaluation. We pace our treatment. We take the time to get things right. Patients meet their therapists, counselors, nutritionists, yoga teachers, and meditation coaches in a warm, open, stress-free environment. We ask our clinicians to give of themselves every day, and we ask our patients to be themselves every day. Together, they establish resilient, durable relationships that lead to the kind of open, honest communication that fosters growth and change.
That’s how we create a successful treatment plan for a child or adolescent living with anorexia nervosa: through this evidence-based, humanistic approach based on mutual trust and grounded in support, empathy, and understanding.
We watch and learn. We follow your lead.
What sets our programs apart is that we know more: we get to know the person behind the patient or diagnosis.
We get to know you.
Once we know you – we’ve got you covered.
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Russian President has urged to lift “a considerable amount of people” out of it
NOVO-OGARYOVO, September 25. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged to bring poverty to a minimum in the country and lift “a considerable amount of people” out of it.
“We all have numerous common challenges and common tasks. It is necessary to bring the poverty level in the country down to a minimum and to help a considerable amount of people out of it. It is necessary to improve the conditions of life, development and education, and simply the nutrition of children in low-income families, to raise for everyone the level and accessibility of quality modern education, healthcare and to continue transformations in the structure of the economy for cutting-edge high-tech industries,” Putin said on Saturday in a video conference with leaders of the parties that have won seats in the lower house of Russia’s parliament (State Duma).
As the president noted, it is “extremely difficult, but an absolute priority.”
“It is necessary, of course, to boost the economic growth. Those are not simply general, but uniting us goals. I am convinced that the experienced traditional parliamentary parties and the new political forces, which will be represented in Duma, will be aware of their responsibility to Russia and will do their utmost to justify the confidence – high confidence – shown by voters to them,” the president added.
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US Fire Administration Emergency Vehicle Safety Initiative
WHY YOU NEED TO READ IT:
Are you tasked with leadership, supervision or education of firefighters, police or EMS providers that operate motor vehicles. All hands up? Great, then this document is for you! READ ON:
From the introduction:
“If you polled the public and asked people during which portion of a firefighter’s job would that firefighter have the greatest chance of being killed, most would likely respond that this would be when firefighters are actually fighting a fire. Incidents in which firefighters are severely injured or killed while conducting tactical operations tend to draw more attention and news coverage. The truth is that firefighters are more likely to die in a motor vehicle-related incident than during the course of a firefighting operation.
The same situation is true for law enforcement officer . Most people would likely assume that gunshots are the most common cause of fatal injuries to law enforcement officers. However, at the time of this report, vehicle-related fatalities were the leading cause of death to law enforcement officers in the United States for 11 of the 12 previous years.”
WHAT IT’S ABOUT:
To reduce preventable death and disability from motor vehicle collisions the US Fire Administration convened meetings with every emergency service related agency that can be made into an acronym and they worked together to provide a unified standard for training and operations for emergency vehicles.
Pretty much what you read above.
2) Statistics and Case Studies
The original “Emergency Vehicle Safety Initiative” report (2004) reviewed fatality data related to fire departments . This report expands the data to include injuries and fatali- ties for fire departments, law enforcement and EMS and covers data available for the years 1992 to 2012, where available .
The numerical data and statistics on injuries and fatalities related to response and road- way scene operations give a sense of the magnitude of the problem . However, it is also important to review specific incidents in order to identify factors involved and show the personal side of these tragedies .
3) Common Crash Causes & Prevention
When looking at vehicle response crash data, statistics and case histories for fire, law enforcement and EMS, it quickly becomes evident that the causes of vehicle crashes across these disciplines are, for the most part, notably similar .
- Excessive Speed
- Leaving the Road Service
- Negotiating Curves
- Passing Other Vehicles
- Unfamiliar with Vehicle
- Inclement Weather
- Poor Negotiation of Skids
- Vehicle Spacing
- Driver Distractions
- “Siren Syndrome”
- Seatbelts (not used)
4) Impact of Vehicle Design and Maintenance
Safety begins with the vehicle itself . It is incumbent on agencies in all the disciplines to procure and maintain safe and effective vehicles from which their members can do their jobs . While the vehicles will typically vary significantly between the services, the basic factors that go into their selection and use are generally similar in nature . Agencies must seek to select vehicles that maximize service delivery, are as safe as possible, and balance with the fiscal capabilities of the organization .
- Vehicle Design
- Conspicuity (coloring & reflectivity)
5) Improving Response-related Safety: Internal Factors
All employers have an obligation to provide the safest working conditions possible . However, once emergency personnel leave the stations and go on the streets, they are exposed to a considerable array of hazards . That said, significant reductions in hazards could be made if there is a commitment from both the organization and the individu- als serving within it .
- Prioritized Dispatch
- Response Matrix
- Alternative Response Policies for FD’s
- Alternative Response Policies for EMS
–Vehicle Occupant Safety
6) Improving Response-related Safety: External Factors
This chapter focuses on aspects related to response safety that are external to the daily workings of a department . The topics of this chapter are the DOT ITS, traffic signal pre-emption systems, Traffic Management Centers (TMCs), and the use of private ve- hicles to respond in an emergency mode .
–DOT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program
- Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) .
- Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) .
- Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems .
- Integrated Vehicle Based Safety Systems .
- Integrated Corridor Management Systems .
- Clarus, the Nationwide Surface Transportation Weather Observing and Forecasting System .
- Emergency Transportation Operations .
- Mobility Services for All Americans .
- Universal Electronic Freight Manifest .
–Traffic Pre-Emption Systems
–Traffic Management Centers
7) Regulating Emergency Vehicle Response and Roadway Scene Safety
In addition to the necessary department SOPs discussed in earlier chapters and state and local requirements, departments/agencies need to be aware of and conform to relevant standards related to emergency vehicle response and roadway scene safety . This chapter will focus on NFPA standards related to the fire service and the DOT MUTCD, which applies to all emergency disciplines .
– NFPA Standards
–DOT “Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices”
8) Roadway Incident Scene Safety
One of the leading causes of injuries and deaths for firefighters, law enforcement personnel, EMS responders, transportation department workers and tow truck operators remains being struck by a vehicle while operating at roadway incidents . Fortunately, the tide has begun to turn in recent years as responders recognize the staggering loss statistics that occur when operating on roadways and have begun to take measures to reduce the frequency and severity of these incidents .
–Agencies That Respond to Roadway Incidents & Their Responsibilities
- Emergency Management
- Coroners / Medical Examiners
- Animal Services
–Respecting Each Other’s Roles
–Managing Roadway Incident Scenes
9) Summary & Recommendations
- There must be continued effort at the local, state and federal levels to support research and provide new information on this topic to emergency responders .
- Agencies that operate emergency vehicles and/or operate at roadway incident scenes shall use the information contained in these various research reports to strengthen their SOPs, training programs and incident operations .
- Design all new emergency vehicles to meet, as a minimum, the appropriate national consensus standards for that type of vehicle . Use the information con- tained in the various research reports regarding enhanced emergency vehicle visibility, conspicuity and lighting as a guide to exceed minimum standards and improve vehicle and scene safety, where applicable .
- Fully train all emergency vehicle drivers for each type of vehicle that they are expected or assigned to drive .
- All agencies within a given jurisdiction must work together to ensure that roadway incident response roles, policies and procedures among the agencies are defined, consistent, applied and enforced . Interagency training sessions are useful for ensuring appropriate handling of emergency incidents .
- Train all personnel who operate at roadway incident scenes to perform their roles according to local SOPs; mutual-aid agreements; and applicable local, state and federal laws and national standards .
- Ensure that all personnel wear appropriate personal protective clothing and retroreflective vests or garments when operating at incidents on or adjacent to a roadway . The only exceptions to wearing retroreflective vests or garments are when personnel are required to wear chemical protective suits or SCBA during the course of their duties .
- Thoroughly investigate all emergency vehicle response and roadway scene incidents to determine the circumstances and causal factors that played a role in the incident . This should include all near-miss, injury, fatal or otherwise unusual incidents . Use this information to amend policies and procedures, if necessary .
- Use the NIMS-ICS at all roadway incident scenes, and ensure that all agencies and personnel operate within the command structure .
- Develop departmental regulations that require that all emergency vehicles op- erate at a safe and controllable speed and that all members be seated and belted when the vehicle is in motion .
- Ensure that all vehicles that respond to roadway incidents are equipped with the appropriate types and amounts of traffic control equipment and at least one retroreflective vest for each person riding on the vehicle .
WHERE TO GET IT:
USFA.fema.gov at Emergency vehicle and roadway operations safety
HOW TO USE IT:
While there is a huge amount of information here and much, much more available through the references listed in the Summary, not all of it will be immediately relevant to every agency, but it is all good to know.
Using this report as intended, this is one-stop shopping to see how many different aspects of emergency vehicle safety affect your operations. While there are surely sections of information and recommendations that will be both pertinent and timely for your organization, probably the greatest take away is how interconnected all of the listed factors are, as well as how important it is to understand the operations of the other agencies with whom we work.
“ It is important for the members of each discipline to understand both their own role and the roles of the other disciplines at the incident .”
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By Janet Hammock
For many years, many of us have been outspoken about the Crandall University situation, the history of which was explained with great clarity by Eldon Hay in today's online article.
"I guess my brother showed people that it isn’t the quantity of life but the quality of the life you live. It’s what you do with that short moment that we have here to make a difference that is important. Raymond definitely made a difference."
Kathleen Wynne Becomess First LGBTQ Premier in Canada
by Bryn Jones-Vailancourt
By Sara Mukherji
By Gerard Veldhoven
By Eldon Hay
Upcoming events for Halifax's 50-and-over social, education, and activist group!
Do you identify as LGBTQ? Are you 20 or older?
Are you interested in talking to researchers about how you think religion & spirituality connect with well-being for LGBTQ individuals and communities?
The news packed FINAL paper issue of Wayves is ready! Just click the cover at the right, here.
It's available on the stands in Halifax-Dartmouth now, and will be at all 150 distribution points around Atlantic Canada soon. Links to lists and maps of our physical distribution points are at the bottom of this note.
This is a special edition of Wayves: the very last issue on paper!
Transgender Nova Scotians' right to equality and fairness will be made clear with proposed amendments to the provincial Human Rights Act. The amendments, tabled on Nov. 20 - Trans Day Of Remembrance - by Justice Minister Ross Landry, will add “gender identity” and “gender expression” as protected grounds in the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act. The bill is being fast-tracked by the provincial government, with it heading to Law Amendments Committee for just one day of public hearings two days after being introduced .
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The continuing alarming spate of kidnapping in Nigeria calls for careful thoughts by leaders and the led; though more is expected of the leaders.
Burgeoning as a nascent industry in Nigeria, the art (for it is fast becoming one) of capturing for ransom now daily calls for innovation on the part of its patrons and its potential victims. Nigerians and foreigners resident in the country are having to fashion ways and means of beating kidnappers to their game.
But it would surely take more than that to win this battle. Think of this scenario, for instance:
How do you combat a scheme, to kidnap for ransom either you or any member of your nuclear and extended family, deviously contrived by a member of your family inexplicably aggrieved by your alleged refusal or failure to finance his/her dreams on the understanding that you are financially buoyant enough to do so?
The Yorubas will always warn that the vegetable- killing ant resides in the bosom of the vegetable. The desperate race for quick wealth has its foothold in most, if not all, Nigerian families. But the blame for this rot is that of the leaders and the led, in equal proportion.
Kidnapping, and other vices, is symptomatic of a decaying society composed of morally bankrupt and value-deficient families. Mr. Lagbaja (not the faceless entertainer) is quick to admonish his son to tow Mr. Tamedo’s son’s money making ways without inquiring as to the true source of such over night wealth. A flirting Ms. A drives a “tear-rubber” baby Benz and has just resettled her family in a three-bedroom flat somewhere in Ikorodu; Ms. B’s parents are gutted by the fact that while their daughter’s mate is come of age and “responsible”, theirs keeps one boyfriend and wants to be a university graduate!
And what do you do when your neighbour, a public office holder, has more cars than his garage can accommodate; and has had to mark his kid’s coming of age by buying him a corolla? How much does he legitimately earn that he’s got a child schooling in Britain, another in North America while the last attends one of the costliest private schools in the country?
What do you suppose Mr. Lagbaja does in the face of all this? Aren’t Ms. B’s parents justified in their position? Isn’t legitimate gain suppose to equal selfless effort? Why do thieving members of our society receive chieftaincy titles, get called ogas, sit on the front pews in religious houses and enjoy the most public privileges? What lessons do we expect the youths, now mostly unemployed kidnappers, to learn from all these?
My point is that no sane society expects an unemployed university or polytechnic graduate to sit and fold his arms waiting for manna from heaven. Kidnapping, like advance fee fraud, militancy and commercial sex working, is a deserved response to the void created by bad governance, immorality, corruption and the upliftment of the individual above the collective.
Ours is an ingloriously bad precedent setting approach to governance.
While Nigeria’s response to advance fee fraud and corruption was the once potent Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC], rendered impotent by the present administration; the Yar’ Adua government has chosen to pay sixty thousand naira monthly to ten thousand militants, instead of creating employment for them. Now, there is the clamour for the extension of same largesse, including amnesty, to kidnappers.
But what kind of brains designed this policy? What society repays evil doers with benefits? Why hasn’t the government thought of creating financial support services for suffering unemployed graduates who are not into crimes?
And why are advance fee fraudsters, commercial sex workers and armed robbers not included in the list of beneficiaries?
Clearly, the government-sanctioned route to partaking in the ‘national cake’ party is recourse to crimes; particularly militancy and kidnapping. Education, like being law abiding, is old school. Consequently, having put in six years to become a lawyer in Nigeria, I feel wasted by a society that prioritizes criminals above law abiding citizens. And being from a Niger-Delta state, I feel discriminated against for being left out of the list of ten thousand beneficiaries of this government windfall.
Though I didn’t take to arms to publicize the travails of my people, I have been vociferous in articulating my people’s position via social and political commentaries. In that regard, I am a ‘militant’ deserving of sixty thousand monthly, call it whatever you like, salary.
If the capacity to foment trouble is all it takes to attract government’s attention, I, like every well-educated peaceful Nigerian, have the means, albeit civilized, to destabilize the Yar’ Adua or any other government through my powerful pen.
On behalf of every well-meaning Nigerian left out of the largesse, I demand that Yar’ Adua negotiate with our “Moses Team” for the extension of the ‘national cake’ to us. Our demands are a return to true democracy, adherence to structural fiscal federalism and an immediate amendment of the constitution to reflect modern democratic trends world over: independent candidacy, independent electoral body, non-partisan judiciary, institutionalization of anti-corruption mechanisms etc.
Should my demands not be met, and my name not included in the list of ten thousand militants including the immediate payment of the arrears of my sixty thousand naira, I shall continue to write (and might have to consider kidnapping of politicians as a quicker way) about the ills of the Nigeria nation; its un-schooled leaders and her fast socio-economic and political decline. Surely, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Ohioze resides in Edmonton, Canada.
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Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. Now a Canaanite woman came from those borders and began to cry out, «Lord, Son of David, have pity on me! My daughter is tormented by a demon». But Jesus did not answer her, not even a word. So his disciples approached him and said, «Send her away: see how she is shouting after us». Then Jesus said to her, «I was sent only to the lost sheep of the nation of Israel».
But the woman was already kneeling before Jesus and said, «Sir, help me!». Jesus answered, «It is not right to take the bread from the children and throw it to the little dogs». The woman replied, «It is true, sir, but even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their master's table». Then Jesus said, «Woman, how great is your faith! Let it be as you wish». And her daughter was healed at that moment.
What a wonderful encounter! Both coming out from one region to the other, and at the borders. These place and time are important to understand the depth and the consequence of this encounter. For us particularly today, with two explosions in the heart of the capital of the same county, which is in trouble, does speak a volume of their suffering and the need of our support and compassion.
The cry of this poor lady, and the holy silence of the Lord, particularly his clod response may disturb the contemporary world, which is still seeking an immediate response. Why this persistent cry which is responded with a cold answer? We don’t have a clear answer. It’s quite normal that even in this scientific world that we may not have all the answers for our just questions. Anyway, why should we have answers to all our questions? There is always a place for mysteries. Shouldn’t we have patience to understand the plan of God?
Jesus is affirming the quality and the depth of her faith. Faith is not a fruit of external events, rather our capacity to internalize the external events, which are pure spiritual gifts. Can these explosions be an event to reveal a divine plan? Who knows? We should imitate the faith of this lady and in this tempting moment, we have to express the depth of our faith; still holding on to the Lord, like Job. By our faith we should affirm to the world that God is still alive in this world and in our personal life.
Action of the day: Put your trust in the Lord.
«Woman, how great is your faith!»
Fr. Jordi CASTELLET i Sala
(Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà, Barcelona, Spain)
Today, we often hear the expression “faith has been lost”, and the same people who ask our communities the baptism of their children or the catechesis for their infants or the sacrament of marriage, say it. These words depict the world in a negative way while trying to convince us bygone times were better and that we are now at the end of an stage where there is nothing left for us to say or to do. Evidently, these are basically young people who, in its majority, watch rather sadly how the world has changed from their parents' times, who used to live perhaps a more popular faith, which they have not known how to adapt to. This experience leaves them unsatisfied and without any capacity of reaction when, in fact, they might find themselves at the gates of a new stage they could very well take advantage of.
This passage of the Gospel draws the attention to that Canaanite mother that demands grace for her daughter by recognizing in Jesus the Son of David: «Lord, Son of David, have pity on me! My daughter is tormented by a demon» (Mt 15:22). The Master is surprised: «Woman, how great is your faith!” and He can do nothing but to act in favour of those persons: «Let it be as you wish» (Mt 15:28), although this does not seem to fall within his schedule. However, God's grace is manifested in human realities.
Faith is not a privilege of a few, nor is it the property of those who thing they are so good or of those who have ever been good, and have this social or ecclesial label. God's action precedes any Church's action and the Holy Spirit is already acting upon persons we would have never suspected could bring us a message from God, a request in favour of the needy. St. Leo says: «My beloved, the virtue and wisdom of Christian faith are our love of God and of our neighbour: it does not miss any obligation to any pious works procuring to render God worship due to him and to help our brethren».
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CFRP Research and Development - CFRP Tensile Test Breakage Observations via High-Speed Video Camera -
CFRP Tensile Test Breakage Observations via High-Speed Video Camera
In the development of composite materials, in addition to performing static strength tests to verify functionality, it is becoming increasingly necessary to assess impact strength and the breakage progression process to ensure dynamic safety. Accordingly, observations were made of the tensile impact breakage of a CFRP test specimen using a combination of a high-speed video camera and a high-speed tensile impact tester.
Example of CFRP Tensile Test Breakage Observation
The high-speed video camera was positioned approximately 450 mm in front of the test specimen. Filming was then performed using an external trigger system, with a filming start signal, synchronized with the tensile load, delivered to the camera from the tester. A strobe illumination system synchronized to the filming timing was used.
The image shows eight consecutive frames. There is a 4 microsecond gap between frames. By combining a high-speed video camera with a materials tester, it is now possible to simultaneously evaluate the physical properties of the material and observe the breakage state, thereby supporting a wide range of materials development, from functional resins themselves to composite materials.
Observations of the breakage of a CFRP material are introduced here as well.
Observation of Failure in CFRP Materials
The HITS-T10 Hydroshot High-Speed Tensile Testing Machine allows tensile testing of various materials at any speed up to a maximum 72 km/h (20 m/s) providing a wide range of dynamic strength information, such as stress-strain curves, maximum test force, energy, and displacement data.
Takes 100 consecutive images at up to one million frames per second. Maintains a constant 312 x 260 pixel resolution up to the maximum frame rate. A single PC can control synchronous imaging with a maximum of four cameras to observe the phenomena from multiple viewpoints. Synchronizing imaging with a tensile testing machine enables comparative observations of stress data and high-speed images.
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Following news that HMRC repaid nearly £5bn in Corporation Tax receipts to companies last year, a leading accountancy firm has urged companies to check to see if they are due a refund following a profits shortfall.
Although the economy is clearly on the mend, some firms are still experiencing challenging trading conditions. As a result, a significant number of companies are due Corporation Tax rebates. In fact, a total of £4.6bn was repaid to 286,000 companies for the year ending 31st March 2013.
There are a number of reasons why a company may be due a refund:
1. Larger firms (those making £1.5m of more in annual profits) tend to pay Corporation Tax in instalments, based on their projected profits for the current year. Should these profits fail to come in as expected, then they will have overpaid when it comes to year-end.
2. If a firm incurs losses, they may be offset against profits made during previous periods, reducing the overall Corporation Tax liability.
3. If a company invests in equipment during the year, this will reduce its overall CT liability. This could be an indicator of a company’s health, despite the reduction in taxable profits for the year in question.
Roy Maugham, Tax Partner at UHY Hacker Young, commenting on the latest figures said that “it shows how important it is for companies to regularly review any overpayment of tax as HMRC will not be looking to see if they owe them money.”
Given the sizeable sums involved (an average of £16,000 per claimant), Maugham says that firms shouldn’t waste any time when applying for a refund – especially when some firms have to wait between 12 and 24 months for a repayment (although 2-3 months is more typical).
Cash-flow management can also become an issue if large sums are owing to struggling firms – “It’s not unheard of for some to simply fold under the pressure in the meantime, as cash-flow dries up.”
The trouble for many firms lies in predicting profit levels for the year ahead. If you underestimate profits, HMRC will charge interest on the difference.
If your overestimate – you will end up overpaying Corporation Tax, and then be forced to wait for a repayment at the end of the tax year.
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a.k.a. Suzuki Early Childhood Education (SECE)
Give your baby or toddler the gift of MUSIC and JOY! Joyful Tots music classes are interactive and parent-involved, for children aged 0-4. Enjoy bonding through song and movement, while your child builds character, confidence, and musicality in a nurturing environment. Children develop skills that ensure success in learning and in life.
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Joyful Tots is an effective way to promote social skills, cooperation, and sharing.
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Through the Suzuki Method, your child develops musical fluency such as rhythm, pitch, and dynamics. This mother-tongue method is based off of the way every child learns to talk.
This one-on-one time with your child fosters connection. Your child will feel special and most importantly, have fun!
This class is unique in providing simple and repetitive methods that make music accessible for little learners. The SECE methods are designed specifically for this young stage of development.
Interaction and participation in musical classes builds foundations of learning, creating exponential growth in the young mind.
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Veemon is a Digimon from the Japanese Digimon media franchise that comprises anime, manga, toys, video games, trading card games, and other media. Veemon is the name that all members of this particular Digimon species share Veemon is a superior member of the combat species, possessing hidden power and tremendous ability when armor Digivolved. It has a naughty and playful side, but also holds a strong sense of justice. Its special move Veemon Headbutt defeats enemies with a powerful headbutt
Veemon is a Dragon Digimon whose name and design are derived from the letter V. It is a new species of Digimon that was discovered recently. As a survivor of a species that flourished in the Genesis of the Digital World, it is able to perform Armor Digivolution, a pseudo-digivolution using the Digi-Eggs Veemon is a Dragon Digimon whose name and design are derived from the letter V.It is a new species of Digimon that was discovered recently. As a survivor of a species that flourished in the Genesis of the Digital World, it is able to perform Armor Digivolution, a pseudo-digivolution using the Digi-Eggs. Among others, Veemon is an excellent Combat Species, as it possesses hidden power. Veemon is a Digimon in the mobile game Digimon ReArise. A newly discovered species of Digimon. The last of a species that flourished in the genesis of the Digital World, it can use Digi-Eggs to undergo a pseudo-evolution called Armor Digivolution. Veemon is a superior member of the combat species, possessing hidden power and tremendous abilities when Armor Digivolved. It has a naughty and. V-mon is part of that army. A V-mon was one of the legendary Digimon who became the DigiMemories. V-mon's DigiMemory was never used, but he was revived along with the other DigiMemories at the climax of the battle against Darkness Bagramon, and subsequently participated in forming Shoutmon X7 Superior Mode Everything you need to know about Veemon from Digimon World: Next Order. General information, digivolution requirements, item drops and more
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Level: Rookie Type: Vaccine Attribute: Dragon's Roar Element:Light Found at: Crag Digivolves from: DemiVeemon Level: 11+ Age: 3+ Happiness: 50+ Digivolution(s): ExVeemon Level: 22+ Age: 6+ Happiness: 65+ Flamedramon Item in Digimon Inventory: Digimental of Courage Level: 22+ Brains: 50+ Age: 6+ Happiness: 65+ Raidramon Item in Digimon Inventory: Digimental of Friendship Level: 22+ Brains: 50. ExV-mon is a Mythical Dragon Digimon whose name and design are derived from X and V. It attained Veemon's natural power and digivolved. ExV-mon is a pure breed of Veedramon, and it is said that the variant species is Veedramon.The attacks it unleashes with its developed arm and leg strength are tremendous, and are powerful enough to destroy a mountain of rock without leaving a trace
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Straight from my veemon guide for the game. The only way to get Veemon as part of your team is go to his DRI Agent. This mission is perhaps one of the hardest to do due to the low-level requirement. Make sure you have the Byakko Badge before doing all this. Your rookie Digimon's combined level must be under 30. You can take all 3 o Veemon is the main protagonist of Digimon Adventure 02 and Last Evolution Kizuna. He is partner of Davis Motomiya. 1 Appearance 2 Personality 3 History 3.1 Digimon Adventure 02 4 Digimon: The Movie 5 Digimon: Revenge of Diaboromon 6 =Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna 7 Epilogue= 7.1 Attacks 7.2 Trivia 7.3 Navigation Veemon is blue skin with underbelly of white under his chin to back of. . It is a new species of Digimon that was discovered recently. As a survivor of a species that flourished in the Genesis of the Digital World, it is able to perform Armor Digivolution, a pseudo-digivolution using the Digi-Eggs. Among others, Veemon is an excellent Combat Species, as it possesses hidden power.
Veemon (ベーコン, Buimon) is a Dragon/Fighting type, Free, Rookie class Mon that was introduced in Generation II. It was the first Mon to be confirmed at this time, and it is speculated that it was meant to be a Generation I Mon at one point. Veemon is an descendant from the Ancient Monz, meaning it.. Veemon Digimon Mouth Custom Face Mask Limited Edition, Fashion Face Protection, Cloth, Comfortable Machine Washable Christmas Gifts legendaryprint. From shop legendaryprint. 4.5 out of 5 stars (292) 292 reviews. Sale. Veemon: Main Skill. Vee Headbutt: Deals 220/360% damage to 2 enemies. 40% chance to inflict Stun on two enemy targets. (2 Turns) ncrease one's own PWR by 30%. (2 Turns) 125 seconds All Digivolutions Sub Skill. C-Charge Eruption: Deals 140/210% damage to 3 enemies
Paildramon Digimon : Ex-Veemon + Stingmon Type : Physical MP Cost : 100 Accuracy : 127 Power : 500 Element : None Effect : None 2. Phoenixmon Digimon : Taomon + MagnaAngemon Type : Heal MP Cost : 200 Accuracy : 127 Power : 0 Element : None Effect : Revive and fully heal all digimons 3 Search - The #1 source for video game sprites on the internet Appearance. Veemon is a humanoid lizard-like creature.He has mostly blue skin, with a white belly and mouth. Veemon's head is large and roughly spherical, with two conical fleshy appendages attached to the back, possibly acting as ears.A small horn pokes where his nose would be.. Veemon has large, 5-fingered hands with short white claws, as well as 3-toed feet with stout claws
Find information and stats for Veemon in Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory. This Neutral Free Digimon is number 53 on the Field Guide. On this page you can find a list of Digimon this Digimon digivolves from, digivolves into, basic stats such as memory usage and equip slot count, and what moves it learns Veemon (ブイモン Buimon?, V-mon) is a Digimon creature from the Japanese Digimon media franchise that comprises anime, manga, toys, video games, trading card games and other media. Veemon is the name that all members of this particular Digimon species share Freshly changed Veemon, who seems to enjoy his condition a bit more.. let's blame the earlier hypnosis for that :p Still commissioned by the anonymous Veemon enthusiast ExVeemon is the Champion form of Veemon. His known attacks are Vee-Laser and Critical Crunch. He can DNA Digivolve with Stingmon to become Paildramon. He is voiced by Derek Stephen Prince in the English version and Junko Noda in the Japanese Version. 1 Appearance 2 History 2.1 Digimon Adventure..
Overview. Veemon is a Dragon Digimon.It is a new species of Digimon that was discovered recently. As a survivor of a species that flourished in the Genesis of the Digital World, it is able to perform Armor Digivolution, a pseudo-digivolution using the Digi-Eggs.Among others, Veemon is an excellent Combat Species, as it possesses hidden power, and demonstrates tremendous abilities by Armor. . Word lid van Facebook om met Veemon Kim en anderen in contact te komen. Facebook geeft mensen de kans om te delen en maakt de wereld toegankelijker 1 Digivolution Requirements 1.1 Veemon 1.2 Kotemon 2 Notes Weight: 1G+ Sufficient Energy Level: 11+ Attack/Offense: 15+ Defense: 14+ Special Attack: 13+ Special Defense: 13+ Speed: 14+ Age: 5D+ Happiness: 50+ Weight: 1G+ Sufficient Energy Level: 11+ Attack/Offense: 15+ Defense: 14+ Special Attack: 13+ Special Defense: 13+ Speed: 14+ Age: 5D+ Happiness: 50+ Model by Tanadin Texture by Yasee Veemon, deep down, shows traits of a powerful battle species, and will demonstrate its concealed powers and explosive abilities through Armor Evolution. It has a mischievous personality and loves to play tricks, but it also has a strong sense of justice. It likes to attack with Boom Boom.
PC / Computer - Digimon Masters - Veemon - The #1 source for video game models on the internet Veemon is the main Digimon protagonist of Digimon Season 2. His known attack is Vee Headbutt. He can also use his bare fists to attack enemies. His fresh form is Chibomon and in-training form is DemiVeemon.He can Digivolve to ExVeemon and DNA Digivolve to Paildramon with Stingmon, Armor Digivolve to Flamedramon, Raidramon, and Golden Armor Digivolve to Magnamon This Digipedia Detail page lists all of the data available in Digimon World 2 for the digimon Veemon. Information includes rank, type, specialty, skill, stat gains, locations, evolutions, DNA Combinations, and images
. And when night began to fall, the furry youths presented their gifts to Roni. He and the Digimon seemed staggered by Paco's work of art. And they also expressed their gratitude to every guest of the party +++++ 4.1 Veemon Exclusive Armor +++++ Dramon Horn Stat Effect: +100 Strength +13 Defense +55 Charisma Where to get: You can buy this from the AM Heavy Armory for 60,000 Bits Veemon (BT3-021) card from the Digimon Card Database - Digimoncard.i Share your thoughts, experiences and the tales behind the art
Venmo is a company that most Americans have heard of at some point, even if they've never used it themselves. It can be a hugely convenient way to handle simple money transactions, but it isn. 27 ก.พ. 2017 - พินนี้ค้นพบโดย ScioniChaoz GTR ค้นพบ (และบันทึก!) พินของคุณเองใน Pinteres . We do our best for you!! [ Li-ion Battery ]. Japan Usage Item. [ Other Carrier ] Digimon Adventure 02 Veemon and decrease-Mont Keychain 2 pieces. Therefore it will be collected Veemon is a rookie level digimon. Veemon is a bipedal dragon Digimon with blue skin and red eyes. It has white coloration in its belly and snout, a small horn on its nose, two ear-like appendages on its head, a yellow V-shaped mark on its forehead, and two yellow upside-down triangle marks under its eyes. It has five fingers on its hands and three toes on each foot, and a claw on each finger.
New Digimon Added! WarGreymon (X-Antibody) Chain now available! [New Act Release] Season 2 Act Veemon Max Stats 80049BE8 03E7 80049BEA 03E7 80049BEC 03E7 80049BEE 03E7 80049BF0 03E7 80049BF2 03E7 80049BF4 03E7 80049BF6 03E7 80049BF8 03E7 80049BFA 03E7 80049BFC 03E7 80049BFE 03E7 80049C00 03E7. Mau lebih lengkap tentang cheat Digimon World 3 ? di sini tempat cheat/walkthrough High quality Veemon accessories by independent designers from around the world. Shop online for tote bags, backpacks, water bottles, scarves, pins, masks, duffle bags, and more Veemon screamed, Suddenly Veemon felt a pain in his back. Veemon noticed he was struck with a tranquilizer dart; He tried to pull it out but was struck by another then another. Veemon slowly was falling into a deep sleep as he fell to the floor he called the name of his tamer Veemon fell asleep but not before seeing the face of the man who would change his life forever
2.1 Rookies Agumon Guilmon Veemon Patamon Renamon Kotemon Monmon Kumamon 2.2 Champions Angemon: Hi Defense And Good At Healing. Devimon: Dark Digimon With Evil Techniques. Dinohumon: Can Heal. Veemon is a Digimon from the Japanese Digimon media franchise that comprises anime, manga, toys, video games, trading card games, and other media. Veemon is the name that all members of this particular Digimon species share. There are several different Veemon that appear in various Digimon..
Shop Veemon iPhone and Samsung Galaxy cases by independent artists and designers from around the world. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours Directed by Hiroyuki Kakudo. With Tifanie Christun, Brian Donovan, Doug Erholtz, Tom Fahn. The digital adventure continues as three new DigiDestined (Davis, Yolei, and Cody), receive their digivices and Davis meets Veemon, his partner. Veemon armor digivolves into Flamedramon to fight off a Monochromon being controlled by the evil Digimon Emperor Veemon called out, before he threw the second snowball at Hawkmon, this time Hawkmon was ready and quickly ducked, before he scooped up some snow and rolled it up into a ball shape in his wings and threw it at Veemon, however Veemon moved out of the way, just in time and when he turned around, he could see that Hawkmon's snowball had hit. Veemon - 30049BB8 0007. Submitted by: Seung on Jul 17, 2007 Verified by: pandu82, alanjiao. Infinite Bits (PSX) North America. Enter 80048554E0FF first, then 8004855605F5 . Jamming; ExVeemon. When evolving, you can put one of your Level 4 and below Digimon to Active. MetalMamemon <Reboot> [When Evolving] Return 1 [Virus] Attribute LV7 Digimon card from your Trash to your Hand; MetalGreymon <Pierce>
This little Veemon is super soft and has the cutest expression. Just looking at him makes me happy. Also, I included a pen in the pictures so that it's easier for others to visualize his size. Definitely would recommend this plush to other Digimon fans Find great deals on eBay for veemon and flamedramon. Shop with confidence
Be Unique. Shop veemon mugs created by independent artists from around the globe. We print the highest quality veemon mugs on the interne Veemon and Davis were able to consistently break through their limits and take down enemies that seemed undefeatable. 9 Renamon (Digimon Tamers) As one of the more experienced fighters in Digimon Tamers' lineup, Renamon and Rika were busting rogue Digimon before the season's plot started up Veemon is the cutest Digimon I had seened. Oke hes just stronger than Agumon and Agumon is mine favo becouse he tranformt into the Wargreymon. Yeah, WarGreymon is a cool, but I'm partial to WereGarurumon, myself. Imperialdramon Combat mode is the mon Setting/Location: The cave where veemon was first foundVictory Conditions: Death of the opposing characterMotivation: Motivated to killEquipment: St Buy the Veemon dual mount vanity, walnut, 48 online from Houzz today, or shop for other Bathroom Vanities for sale. Get user reviews on all Storage & Organization products
See more veemon GIFs! Create and share your own GIFs, amazing moments and funny reactions with Gfyca Veemon Errors, a Studio on Scratch. Updated 23 May 2014. veemon errors Demi-Veemon (Chibimon in Japanese) is Davis's In-Training digimon companion. His Rookie form is Veemon.. Davis has the egg of courage which this allows Veemon to armor digi-volve into Flamedramon and the egg of friendship which allows Veemon to armor digi-volve into Raidramon Lycus the Veemon Leon 13. 22 November 2020 at 21:18:15 MST I finally got around to making. Nova Skin Gallery - Minecraft Skins from NovaSkin Edito
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Light is Time Folds are Space
As artists we learn to follow our instincts, but often writing statements places our work into a critical frame that requires a level of logical thought that negates the instinctual aspect of making the work in the first place. Don’t get me wrong, but I just don’t want to translate the artwork with words this time, rather with this statement, I want to explain in a personal voice what I was thinking about before and when making the work. It’s impossible to transfer the moments of inspiration and discovery to you, but perhaps I can lead you through the intuition that drives my creative process.
I wanted to make a work that expressed an impossible to realise scale–the nano scale–and make it so large that it would totally encompass the viewer’s frame of view. This was inspired by my research into recent scientific developments in nano fabrication, particularly an area called DNA Origami which in scientific circles refers to the folding and binding of DNA into programmed shapes, an unnatural engineering approach to using natural material.
I wanted the viewers sense of time to be accelerated, and so the lighting cycle reflects a solar orbit that is far faster than the earth day. And to make a departure from Oribotics, a series of works that move folds, and rather move light across folds to cause a shift in the tonal perception of the folds over time.
I wanted to express a sense of calculated mathematical precision through formal accuracy of the folds, and through a continuous change in height of the peaks and shape of the folded form. I wanted to use the same DNA – the same fundamental pattern – for each fold as interlocking units. I wanted it to be systematic, and to have the work derived from one mathematical model, and use a laser to precisely score the folds.
From these wants, the work arose from late night studies of the fold; from folding countless sheets of paper, to revisiting vector mathematics to calculate the angles between folded planes, to visualisation of 3D software generated arrays of the units to see the effect of light. I concluded the work after arriving at a geometric formula, signifying an understanding of this fold’s DNA, it’s possible expressions and ideal system. Then I could stop thinking, and begin making: the meditation of making hundreds of pieces, fabricating part-by-part, transforming digital formula into form.
In some ways the work is monotonous, not only in the colour range, but also formally. I imagine the surfaces of new materials will be like this: precise and calculated. The work reminds me of the grayscale of electron microscope imaging. However the movement of light makes all the difference, it creates shadows that grow and shift in form, making highlights in the monotony through subtle formal changes.
Afterwards, I reflected on the use of the term DNA Origami, that it makes more sense to me to refer to Origami DNA, as in the program, or composition of folds, that construct a given shape and it’s variations.
Light is Time Folds are Space is a large scale installation of hundreds of folded forms with an algorithmic variance and lit with a lighting sequence intended to simulate the passage of the sun over the course of day.
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How exactly do scientists ever find exoplanets—planets beyond our solar system—and can we ever hope to know anything about these far-flung alien worlds? Those questions and more are amusingly and informatively answered in the Astrophysics Variety Hour, a new video released this week hosted by the actor Felicia Day and featuring celebrities including singer-songwriter Rachel Bloom and actor Wil Wheaton. In a series of segments that combines live acting with animation and music—including Bloom performing an original exoplanet-themed song—the Astrophysics Variety Hour explains in an accessible way how astronomers use the process of science to discover and analyze new worlds.
It was once one of the brightest stars in the heavens, easily visible to mariners navigating by the southern sky in the mid-1840s. But the star Eta Carinae quickly faded into obscurity after its brief outburst. Now, over a century and a half later, NASA space observatories (probing from infrared light through X-rays) have enabled astronomers and artists to assemble a three-dimensional model of the Homunculus Nebula and accompanying clouds of dust and gas enshrouding the petulant star. More than just an eye-catching visualization, the story of the 1843 Great Eruption and the history of the expelled nebula is designed to enrich astronomical learning, a key goal of NASA's Universe of Learning.
What can turn a seemingly perfect ocean-rich planet into an uninhabitable desert wasteland? Two future space explorers (actors from "The Expanse") aim to find out in "The Habitable Zone: Scorched Earth Enigma," a science grounded sci-fi video from the NASA’s Universe of Learning project. While the story is a work of fiction, the ideas are pulled directly from current exoplanet science and vetted by astronomers and education specialists.
Actors from the acclaimed sci-fi TV series “The Expanse” team up with Parry Shen of “General Hospital” to search for potentially habitable planets beyond our solar system in a new educational video series called “The Habitable Zone.” The videos introduce audiences to the science of exoplanets and their potential for habitability through a framework of short science fiction stories.
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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Nova Scotia? Are you interested in teaching English in Shelburne, Nova Scotia? Check out our opportunities in Shelburne, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT!
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Export and Import Permits Act
Marginal note:Definition of “originating goods”
6.1 (1) In this section, originating goods means goods that are entitled under the Customs Tariff to the United States Tariff, the Mexico Tariff, the Mexico — United States Tariff, the Chile Tariff or the Costa Rica Tariff.
Marginal note:When Minister may take measures
(2) If at any time it appears to the satisfaction of the Minister that any goods that are referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) and are not originating goods are being imported from a NAFTA country, from Chile or from Costa Rica, as the case may be, in such increased quantities, measured in absolute terms or relative to the domestic market, and under such conditions as to cause serious damage or actual threat of serious damage to domestic producers of like or directly competitive goods, the Minister may take the measures set out
(a) in the case of goods listed in Appendix 1.1 of Annex 300-B of NAFTA that are imported from a NAFTA country, in section 5 of that Annex in relation to those goods;
(b) in the case of goods listed in Appendix 1.1 of Annex C-00-B of CCFTA that are imported from Chile, in section 4 of that Annex in relation to those goods; and
(c) in the case of goods listed in Appendix III.1.1.1 of Annex III.1 of CCRFTA that are imported from Costa Rica, in section 5 of that Annex in relation to those goods.
Marginal note:Factors to be considered
(3) In determining whether the conditions referred to in subsection (2) exist, the Minister shall have regard to paragraph 2 of section 4 of Annex 300-B of NAFTA, paragraph 2 of section 3 of Annex C-00-B of CCFTA or paragraph 2 of section 4 of Annex III.1 of CCRFTA, as the case may be.
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- 1994, c. 47, s. 105(F)
- 1997, c. 14, s. 74, c. 36, s. 210
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Britannica Dictionary definition of AMAZEMENT
a feeling of being very surprised or amazed
The garden's beauty filled me with amazement. [=astonishment]
The crowd watched in amazement as the magician performed his tricks.
I applied for the job, and, (much) to my amazement, I was hired. [=I was very surprised to be hired]
Much to the amazement of her family, she left school to pursue her acting career.
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On entering to-day the second stage of our existence, we feel as if we had cast aside the dress of infancy and donned the garb of manhood we feel as if we had passed the uncertain and experimental age of youth, and, with the valuable support of our kind friends, successfully reached the years of maturity we feel the relief which follows the struggle (for struggled we have, and with energy,) to create a fair Chess periodical, and we cherish the belief that our efforts have not been nu rewarded. We are encouraged, at least, to think so, by the encomiums and ap proval, which our esteemed contemporaries, both here and abroad, have generous ly bestowed on us. It will be our aim to continue deserving this favorable opinion.
We have already set forth our programme in the last number, and we now only crave a continuance of our kind friends' support, in order to carry out our promises.
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This three-part article series discusses the cosmic "trickster," known as Mercury retrograde. In this article, we'll discuss the problems that you will likely experience when the planet Mercury goes retrograde from July 14 to August 8. In article number two we'll discuss "How to Use It For Positive Results." In article number three, "If Only They Had Listened!" we'll talk about the aftermath, when the Mercury retrograde period ends. We will chronicle all the public figures that were casualties of "Mercury retrograde" because they did not head the cautionary advice in this column.
Keep in mind that astrology is based on a simple understanding that all the planets in the sky exert their own unique influence on each of us, and the world we live in. If you are a skeptic, just pay attention to your life experiences over the next three weeks.
Let's discuss how the planet Mercury will have an influence on you. Mercury rules your intelligence, mind, memory and, all types of communication ranging from talking and texting to writing. It also rules your self-expression and communication style. In a more public sense, it rules commerce, computers, telephones, transportation and air travel. How Mercury functions in your birth chart explains a great deal about how you formulate ideas and how you share them. It indicates how you make sense of the everyday world you live in. Your faculties are not functioning well during these three weeks called Mercury retrograde.
When Mercury goes retrograde (three to four times a year), communications of all types go "haywire!" Under this planetary influence, you'll experience misunderstandings and communication failures like you've never seen. Here is just a sampling of some of the things that may go wrong in your life at this time: For example, no matter how well you and your spouse normally communicate, you will find yourself misspeaking, saying the wrong thing and having disagreements you don't normally have.
At work, even though you are sure that you've explained yourself clearly to the other person, they do the opposite of what you said; and they are sure they followed your instructions. Your fail-proof computer crashes, or software programs suddenly develop "glitches." You experience equipment and mechanical breakdowns of all types. You'll hearken back to the time you heard your car's engine make that funny noise, causing you to say: "I should have my mechanic check that out." Well, during Mercury retrograde, that is when your car will suddenly not work and you'll wish you had paid a visit to the mechanic.
The monthly check that is automatically generated by your bank and sent out doesn't arrive, and neither does that merchandise you ordered online. Since Mercury rules transportation, equipment is unreliable; so it's not an ideal time to buy a car because it may be a "lemon." In fact, it's a bad time to buy anything because you may eventually find out that it was "too big or too small," or it just didn't fit right and you'll need to return it. You can expect an unusual amount of last-minute flight cancellations, meeting postponements and long transportation delays.
It is a horrible time for negotiating contracts or making decisions; and if you "close the sale" during Mercury retrograde, suddenly, a few days later the client may call back to tell you that he's changed his mind.
Whatever you do -- it is not a good idea to accept a job during Mercury retrograde. I had one client disregard that advice. She accepted a new job and by the time she started the month after, when Mercury went direct, the company had changed her job so much that it no longer resembled the one that she had accepted. Her reporting relationship had also totally shifted from the great guy she was going to work for to the loudmouth, chauvinistic boss from hell! During Mercury retrograde, things are not what they seem to be.
What Is the Problem?
These sorts of problems arise during Mercury retrograde because all of sudden, normal communication becomes unreliable, filled with misinformation where important data is missing or misunderstood. The passage of information from one person to the other seems to be unintentionally cloudy, confused or unclear in some way. After all, Mercury does rule the mind, mental clarity, talking, self-expression and overall communication. During the Retrograde period, a person's intellectual, communication and mental processes are less acute. They become careless, mistake-prone and forgetful.
This explains why your actions and decisions during the retrograde often fail or seem "sabotaged." Or you may find that they will have to be re-done, re-structured or adjusted in some way when the retrograde period ends and Mercury goes direct.
Here are a few examples of "public" disasters and mistakes that occurred during past Mercury retrograde periods:
- Governor Rick Perry made a bad decision when he declared his presidential candidacy during Mercury retrograde (August 2011). He preceded, repeatedly, to miscommunicate -- "sticking his foot in his mouth," many times, gaffe after gaffe. Despite starting out briefly as the front-runner, eventually dropping out of the Republican primary race totally defeated because of his verbal mistakes.
The Best Advice: Wait until Mercury goes direct to make important decisions. When that happens clearer communication will return and necessary information will be more positively conveyed. Once again, important data can again be relied on and you'll see matters with 20/20 vision. Also, by waiting until Mercury is direct, you will possess important information that you did not know while Mercury was retrograde. This new knowledge will help ensure you are making a correct decision. If you heed this cautionary advice, you'll have less frustration, fewer mistakes and disappointing failures during these three weeks. Best of all, you'll be in a better position to make your efforts successful starting August 8, 2012 when Mercury goes direct.
Tomorrow's article: "Mercury Retrograde: How To Use It For Positive Results!"
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The Power of Story
Updated: Jul 31
My family has a story about me.
Everyone in our family knows it.
The story is that Marcy was a bad kid.
There are a handful of memories that are told to back this up.
No one means any harm in its retelling.
In fact, it’s often told with humor.
But those stories were not always humorous to me.
After hearing them repeatedly as a child, I internalized the belief, that I am bad.
And honestly, sometimes, my behavior could be interpreted by some as “bad.”
I could be very strong-willed, stubborn, and independent.
I had quite a temper and was a risk-taker.
I imagine that was very challenging for my parents.
But there is more to the story than is being told.
It’s also true that I was intelligent, funny, brave, kind, and so much more.
We are all so much more than the stories we tell.
We are whole people that cannot be defined by a particular characteristic.
Becoming aware of our stories is important because they determine how we feel and drive the way we live our lives.
When I believe I’m bad, I overcompensate to try and prove that I’m not.
I people please.
I try to fix.
I take responsibility for other people’s feelings and actions.
I put others before myself to an unhealthy degree.
I take on too much.
I don’t say no.
I don’t take care of myself.
I accept unacceptable behavior from others.
I exhaust myself with stress and overwhelm.
Most of the time, we aren’t consciously aware of our stories.
Noticing and being aware is the first and most important step.
Notice your stories.
Choose them carefully.
We all tell ourselves positive and negative stories.
Which ones are you spending the most time with?
How do they make you feel?
Are they serving you, or are they holding you back?
Are they serving your relationships? What other stories could also be true?
Be careful and aware of the stories you tell about yourself, your partner, your kids, and your life.
They have a powerful effect on us and others.
Once I was aware of the story that Marcy was a bad kid, and I noticed how it was driving how I show up in my life and my relationships, I did some work to heal.
Now I have a new story that I created with intention.
It’s a story that serves me, others, and the world.
My new story is that I was a kid who sometimes acted in ways my family thought were bad.
I am not and was never bad.
I was and am strong, independent, compassionate, and curious.
Sometimes I am selfish, grumpy, and bossy.
I am a whole, imperfect, complicated, wonderful person just like you.
Take some time today to ask yourself what stories you are replaying in your mind about you, your loved ones, your job, or the world that are holding you back from experiencing more passion, purpose, and peace.
At any moment you can decide to change it.
It’s just a story, after all. It’s all made up.
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FOOD SECURITY INNOVATION CHALLENGE that kicked of on the 19th – 21st February 2021 food security is a basic need and requirement for survival in drastic situations which encompasses several activities such as food availability, food access and food use.
Research has shown that lack of access to this can result in major health problems such as immune deficiencies in children, mental disability in adults, deteriorating body conditions and ultimately death affecting the social, environmental, and economic outcomes. In some cases, the lack of Food Security has the potential to cause civil unrest. In some parts of Africa, particularly Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia, and Mozambique achieving SDG 2; Zero hunger remains paramount although being challenged by factors such as climate change, overpopulation, and stunted economic growth to mention just but a few.
The World Food Program (2020) reported that more than 900,000 people northern of Capo Delgado in Mozambique are facing a crisis in the levels of food security whilst in Zambia, more than half of the population still live below the poverty datum line with most people depending on subsistence agriculture as a food source.
Tanzania and Namibia on the other hand, seem to have achieved significant progress in economic development and on a successful road to achieving zero hunger. However, rapid urbanization and high rates of unemployment pose a threat as youths and women have limited access to food and basic social services. Similarly, access to food in Malawi has been limited due to rapid population growth.
FAO (2019) suggested in a report that promoting sustainable food and agricultural systems around the world will reduce the spread of hunger and preserve natural resources thus the need to invest in various agricultural and food systems. Examples include shifting cultivation, commercial dairy farming, mixed farming, commercial farming just to mention a few. Putting in place the right systems is important to ensure food security, economic development and sustained farming for a community and country overall.
The following Tracks were considered in addressing the issue of food security and eventually achieving zero hunger:
1. Local Food Production – Solutions that amplify, promote, leverage, consolidate, and monetize already existing food production values and systems e.g., Ujamaa, Nhimbe, Mushandirapamwe, Umoja, Sabonet, Ubuntu etc
2. Smart Food Preservation – Solutions that take advantage of research to add value, package, store, market and distribute food.3. Programs and Community Initiatives,- Solutions that advocate for best practices in Smart Farming whilst building on already existing value systems. No Smart Farming without the Smart Farmer.
4. Life Skills – Solutions that discover, educate, motivate, equip, and support the young population in the Zambezi Basin countries towards sustainable food security whilst unlocking economic potential and creating employment.
5. Climate Change Adaptation – Solutions that help communities and countries to be resilient against the effects of Climate Change. Alternative Solutions to deforestation and solutions that are proponent to afforestation as well as land restoration. Also, to include Smart Water Management and Smart Energy solutions.
6. Finance – Solutions that address gaps around Finance when it comes to Food Security. These include Out grower Schemes targeting already existing food security value systems, among others.
7. Smart Mobility– Solutions that address problems in the movement of human beings, animals, supplies and produce especially addressing gaps around Food Security.
8. Urban Farming – Solutions that embrace modern-day technology such as soil testing and take advantage of innovative farming methods in urban areas to help families with extraordinarily little or no extra land to still contribute towards food security.
The Innovation Challenge that attracted a lot of speakers and mentors from different parts of the world was full of mind blowing innovations and ideas that gave the juries hard time to select the winners.
Here are the Event Metrix: 252 applications received 32 Teams registered 21 Teams Passed Day 1 Checkpoint 20 Teams Passed through Day 2 Checkpoints 17 Teams passed through Day 3 Checkpoint and submitted their final pitches representing Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The message was loud and clear, Africa’s young population carries the hope of the continent and if supported will help the continent to take the lead.
After the Jury, this is how the final scores were:-
2. Sustainable Protein
3. Mazi Horticulturists
4. Smart Village Agri Hubs
5. GrinHub Innovations
9. Alternative Energy
10. Enriched Foods
11. Love and Unity Farms
12. Lumwi Lwabala
13. Zambezi Bream Producers
14. Irrigation Farming
15. The Dreamers
16. Beyond The Green Screen
17. My Africa My Food
Massive thank you to all mentors and speakers who took their time to be with us.
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The SparkFun Inventor’s Kit (SIK) is a great way to get started with programming and hardware interaction with the Arduino programming language. The SIK includes everything you need to complete 16 circuits that will teach you how to read sensors, display information on an LCD, drive motors, and more. You don’t need any previous programming or electronics experience to use this kit. The kit does not require any soldering and is recommended for beginners ages 10 and up.
The full-color SIK Guidebook (included) contains step by step instructions of how to connect each circuit with the included parts. Full example code is provided and explained and even includes troubleshooting tips if something goes wrong.
Note: The mold used to create our SIK carrying cases broke during their last production when it moved from China to the United States. Therefore, all units of the SIK Special Edition will not have a the normal carrying case when you receive them, but instead one of our tried and true red boxes at a reduced price. Unfortunately, we have run out of our alloted amount of cases that we can send out after the fact. This version of the Special Edition SIK will NOT include a black carrying case and it will not be sent afterward. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, we hope to have our regular SIK back as soon as possible.
- Circuit 1: Blinking an LED
- Circuit 2: Reading a Potentiometer
- Circuit 3: Driving and RGB LED
- Circuit 4: Driving Multiple LEDs
- Circuit 5: Push Buttons
- Circuit 6: Reading a Photo Resistor
- Circuit 7: Reading a Temperature Sensor
- Circuit 8: Driving a Servo Motor
- Circuit 9: Using a Flex Sensor
- Circuit 10: Reading a Soft Potentiometer
- Circuit 11: Using a Buzzer
- Circuit 12: Driving a Motor
- Circuit 13: Using Relays
- Circuit 14: Using a Shift Register
- Circuit 15: Using an LCD
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Microscale sensor solution for data collection from fibre-matrix interfaces
DSouza, Royson; Antunes, Paulo; Kakkonen, Markus; Tanhuanpää, Olli; Laurikainen, Pekka; Javanshour, Farzin; Kallio, Pasi; Kanerva, Mikko (2021-04-16)
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Especially the applications of fibrous composites in miniature products, dental and other medical applications require accurate data of microscale mechanics. The characterization of adhesion between single filament and picoliter-scale polymer matrix usually relies on the experiments using so-called microbond (MB) testing. The traditional MB test systems provide unitary data output (i.e., converted force) which is enigmatic in resolving the fracture parameters of multi-mode interface cracks. As a fundamental basis, the momentary reaction force and respective local strain at the location of a non-ambiguous gradient are needed for a mechanical analysis. In this paper, a monolithic compliant based structure with an integrated Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensor is developed and analysed. The stiffness of the compliant structure is estimated by using mathematical and finite element (FE) models. Qualification experiments are carried out to confirm the functional performance: MB testing of synthetic (carbon and glass) and natural (flax) single filaments are successfully performed. Quasi-static and dynamic analysis of the MB testing is carried out by using the FE method to interpret the response of the compliant structure. The developed strain-sensing CBPM-FBG holder shows excellent sensitivity during the MB tests for both synthetic and natural filaments, even at a low filament diameters as low as 7μm, making the monolithic compliant structure the first instrument capable of force-strain data output for bonded filament-droplet specimens.
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In a new study published in the November issue of the journal Diabetes Care, the antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid (or ALA), taken in pill form, lessened pain in people with diabetic neuropathy, or nerve damage resulting from diabetes. Previous research has shown that intravenous ALA therapy can help to reduce pain and numbness due to diabetic neuropathy, but treatment with ALA in pill form has not been widely studied.
In this study, 166 people with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes were divided into four groups. Three of the groups received different doses of ALA, while the fourth group received a placebo (or inactive pill). After five weeks of once-daily treatment, all three groups that had been taking ALA experienced reductions in total neuropathy symptoms, stabbing pain, and burning pain compared to the placebo group. (There were, however, no significant differences between the treatment and placebo groups in numbness.)
Because all three doses of ALA were similarly effective and the side effects of treatment—nausea, vomiting, and dizziness—increased with the dose, the researchers concluded that the lowest studied dose of 600 milligrams once daily appeared to be the most effective.
ALA is a sulfur-containing compound that is made in small amounts in the body but is not found in food. Other studies have shown that its action as an antioxidant may not only help protect against neuropathy pain, but may also enhance insulin action, improve blood circulation, and decrease oxidative stress in people with diabetes.
If you are interested in trying ALA therapy, it’s important to discuss taking it with your health-care provider before you start. There is some chance that ALA could increase the risk of hypoglycemia (low blood glucose) in people who use insulin or certain oral diabetes drugs. It may also interfere with absorption of the vitamin biotin. Finally, keep in mind that ALA supplements, like all supplements, are not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for quality or effectiveness.
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Working from home is something we’ve all dreamed about. The perks are alluring: you work your own hours, there are financial benefits from no longer paying for gas or public transit, and you can wear pajamas all day while enjoying the freedom of doing what you want, when you want.
While the benefits of working from home or telecommuting sound incredible, it can be hard to avoid procrastinating with all the different distractions.
Working from home will be completely new to a lot of folks who are practicing social distancing. You’re thrown in at the deep end, thrashing about, and trying to find some stability in your day. How can you stay focused when your cute new cat is rubbing up against you just begging to be cuddled? How can you stay productive when in the back of your mind, a pile of dishes has been growing in your kitchen?
That’s why we wrote this post. Below, we’ll go over some simple ways you can be more productive while working from home.
Table of contents
- The importance of a productive home office
- How to work from home and stay productive
- How to work comfortably from home
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The importance of a productive home office
Whether you’re fortunate enough to already be telecommuting or you’ve been forced to work from home because of social distancing—working from home can be an incredible experience.
But that doesn’t mean it’s as easy and fun as everyone thinks.
It takes a lot of discipline to be able to work from home. With constant distractions, chores, and simply getting caught up in daily requirements, it can be hard to stay focused and productive.
Working from home will look different for everyone, so the most important part is understanding what works for you may not work for someone else.
But with the help of these tips and tricks, you’ll have a much better grasp on working from home—and how to do it comfortably and productively.
OK, so you might not be the tidiest person in the world, and that’s fine. Perhaps your home office has always been a clutter of books, sketches, notes, and external hard drives scattered across your desk.
To some, that might sound like total chaos and a living nightmare. But for others, that’s how they’re most productive.
Take this famous quote from Albert Einstein, for instance, and you might feel better about working in a cluttered workspace:
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
It’s important to find out for yourself what makes you productive. What sort of environment do you work best in?
I need everything to be organized. For me, a cluttered desk is a reflection of a cluttered and anxious mind. I know I’m not productive in that sort of environment.
But how do you work best? Do you need clutter? Is there organization behind your clutter?
There’s no right or wrong answer here. But it’s certainly worth trying different working environments every once to find the best fit for you.
With that in mind, let’s get into some of the different ways you can stay productive while working from home—no matter what type of worker you are.
How to work from home and stay productive
- Keep your workspace and personal space separate
- Organize clutter and save time
- Get dressed for success
- Invest in ergonomic and beautiful furniture
- Consider a coworking space
- Prepare meals for the week ahead
- Know when to call it a day
1. Keep your workspace and personal space separate
Blending your workspace with your personal space is not a good way to stay productive.
Sure, the idea of watching Netflix while working is great if you have some downtime—but it actually decreases your productivity tremendously. And, when these two worlds start to blend into one, it can be difficult to allocate time to one or the other. It’s a vicious cycle.
Worst of all, it’s hard to leave your work at the office after a rough day if you’re working from your bedroom.
A study by Porch asked business professionals about their biggest distractions when working from home.
Here are the top five answers:
- Having the TV on
- Personal tasks around the house
- Running errands
- Going out for coffee
Sound familiar? You’ve probably had to deal with one of those things at some point while working from home.
Here’s what you can do though: make a distinct boundary (either physically or mentally) between your workspace and personal enjoyment space. Whether that’s formed around allocating specific time slots in your day to working hours or even keeping any distractions out of arm’s length, either should help.
It may be difficult at first to remove yourself from situations that arise at home, but it’s well worth it. If you have the opportunity, try taking a spare bedroom and turning it into your office rather than working from your couch.
Consider this: Look into purchasing a room divider if your workspace isn’t a separate room from where you should be spending your personal time.
2. Organize clutter and save time
You’ve determined that you’re one of those people who just loves clutter. But have you considered trying to organize it?
Think of it like this: you have a lot of stuff. Books, notes, notebooks, pencils, pens—they’re all over the place. Even your desktop on your computer is cluttered with old screenshots, Word documents and more.
You do know where everything is (most of the time), but it's not a very pleasant working environment for you or for those around you at home.
However, what about those things you can never find? Do you know how much time you’re wasting looking for a document when you could be working on your business?
Here are a few steps to take if you think it’s time to declutter.
- Do a paper purge. Find any receipts, notes, papers—whatever you have laying around—and consider even just throwing them in a box.
- Find a home for your pens, pencils, and whatever tools you have on your desk.
- Do a weekly desktop purge: delete any files that are distracting or you no longer use, and be sure to empty your computer trash bin. Check out these productivity apps that can help your computer stay organized.
- Throw stuff out. If you have old bottles of Mountain Dew or empty chip bags on your desk, just throw them out.
Consider this: Have fun with your clutter and use a shredder to get rid of documents you no longer need.
3. Get dressed for success
In the past we’ve discussed the importance of a morning ritual and how it can increase your daily productivity—but what about when you’re working from home?
It can be tempting to spend your day sitting around in your pajamas, drinking coffee, and eating junk food—but that’s not healthy for your mind or body.
Take some time to wake up early and actually get dressed. Dress as if you were heading to a meeting or if you were working in an office.
It really does put you in a different mindset for your day.
An experiment by the team at A Life of Productivity found the following when looking into what sort of attire meant a higher level of productivity:
- Clothes are symbolic and hugely affect how you feel about yourself. Your pajamas might help you feel relaxed and ready to wind down to sleep, whereas some slacks and a button down shirt might help flip your mental gears and get you into “work mode.”
- The more time you put in your appearance the more you’re motivated to “get out there.” This is particularly helpful when interacting with more people will make you more productive, like at a networking event or a party.
- You can compartmentalize by changing your clothes when you get home. This helps you separate your work and home lives, particularly as more and more businesses adopt casual dress codes.
Of course if you feel more successful in your pajamas, by all means work in your pajamas.
Consider this: Create a morning routine that stops you diving straight into work as soon as you open your eyes each morning.
4. Invest in ergonomic and beautiful furniture
You might get up a few times for a break, but you may find yourself sitting down at your desk for hours on end once you get into a groove.
That’s why it’s important to invest in ergonomic furniture for your office. You can’t afford to have your productivity and health hindered by a poor workspace.
If you can, try and get an ergonomic chair or even a standing desk. Standing for a few hours while working will save your back and will make you more productive.
Don’t think it’s worth it to invest in a good chair? Think again. The team at Ergo Plus found the following:
- Ergonomics improves productivity. The best ergonomic solutions will often improve productivity by up to 25%. By designing a workspace to allow for good posture, less exertion, fewer motions, and better heights and reaches, the workstation becomes more efficient.
- Ergonomics improves quality. Poor ergonomics leads to frustrated and fatigued workers that don’t do their best work. When the job task is too physically taxing on the worker, they may not perform their job like they were trained. For example, if an employee’s work bench is too high for them, they may not be able to fasten a screw tight enough and this could create a product quality issue.
Consider this: Do a quick search on your favorite online furniture store to find an ergonomic solution that works best for you.
5. Consider working from a co-working space
Note: If you are unable to have contact with others due to social distancing, you can still try using different parts of your home for different tasks.
Some days working from home just doesn’t feel right. It’s good to take a break from your home office and get outside.
Luckily, you have the freedom to work where you want.
Consider working from a library, coffee shop, or even rent a co-working space to work from for a day or two a week. Not only will this help you reevaluate your efforts and give your mind a break from life at home, but it’s one way of getting rid of loneliness as an entrepreneur.
If you can, try working from somewhere that has a lot of natural light. A study published in Psychology Today found that beyond the health benefits, exposure to natural light increases workspace productivity tremendously.
Plus, if you do end up working in an official coworking space (something besides a coffee shop or library), there’s a chance you’ll be seated beside someone who’s able to help you out and vice versa.
Consider this: Try to use a specific location to perform certain tasks. For instance, respond to emails or do your data entry in a coffee shop, or use the quietness of your home for deep-focus work.
6. Prepare meals for the week ahead
Usually, if you’re working from home, you’ll have to take time out of your work day to cook for yourself. Or, if you’re lucky, you might have someone working from home with you that can help with cooking.
To avoid spending too much time in the kitchen when you should be working, try doing some advance meal prep on Sunday evening. The idea here is to cook something in large quantities, throw them in airtight containers and eat each meal throughout the week so you don’t waste time cooking during working hours.
Bodybuilders and athletes have been doing this for years. So why shouldn’t entrepreneurs?
Tim Ferriss, an entrepreneur, author, and podcaster outlines what UFC champion, Georges St-Pierre (GSP) did to meet the training and nutritional goals that supported him to become a champion fighter. In 2009, when the GSP experiment began Jennifer Nickel, chef at Bice and one of GSP’s personal chefs, had the entire professional kitchen of Bice to herself in the morning and prepared three meals for Georges: a post-workout meal that could be eaten cold, a dinner meal, and a breakfast meal for the next morning. Meal prep took between two to four hours.
You probably don’t eat as much as GSP does, so it may take you even less than two to four hours. Give it a shot! Also bear in mind that if meal planning or cooking aren’t your forte, there are meal delivery services that allow you to skip the grocery shopping and deliver the exact ingredients to you, and services that deliver pre-made healthy meals that you can simply reheat.
Consider this: Double the ingredients and portion size on your next Sunday meal and have some already-prepared healthy lunches ready to eat.
7. Most important: Know when to stop working
Working long, late hours may seem noble when hearing about entrepreneurs who worked hours on end to achieve their goal. But what you often don’t hear is that they do take time for themselves.
They know when to turn off. They know when to unplug.
It’s important to know that it’s OK for you to take a break. It’s OK for you to watch TV for a few hours. It’s OK to do what you want, when you want, when you feel as though you deserve it.
The team at Becoming Minimalist found some compelling reasons why it’s important to unplug:
- Powering down helps remove unhealthy feelings of jealousy, envy, and loneliness.
- Powering down combats the fear of missing out.
- Life, at its best, is happening right in front of you.
- Powering down promotes creation over consumption.
Consider this: Binge watch that new favorite Netflix show. Go for a run or a walk. Whatever you’d like! Just make sure it’s after you’ve done your work for the day.
How to work comfortably at home
Now that we’ve taken a look at seven ways to work from home comfortably and maintain productivity, it's important that you actually put them into practice. To make adjusting to working from home easier, try implementing at least one tip now and once you’ve mastered that choose your next one. It’s easy to get overwhelmed if you try them all out at once, and the result will be falling back into bad habits. Simple, small steps is how you’ll see success in learning how to work from home.
Note: If you’re interested, we also have some work from home job openings. It may take some time to adjust to a new way of working, but it really does pay off in the long run.
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DNR Presents Special Recognition Award to WVDL Staff
DNR Bureau of Wildlife Management Extends High Praise to TSE Staff
The Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Lab (WVDL) was recently honored for its exemplary service provided to the DNR and its Bureau of Wildlife Management. The WVDL’s Pathology Sciences Department has played an integral role in chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance over the years in addition to providing necropsy services to aid in the maintenance of wildlife health. Dan Barr, WVDL Pathology Sciences supervisor, and staff microbiologist Ben Johnson attended the awards banquet on June 13th and accepted the award on behalf of the WVDL as presented by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Management Team.
In 2016, The WVDL tested 6,127 samples from wild deer for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) for the WI DNR. A majority of the CWD positive samples (442) were from the Southern Farmland zone, 4 came from the Central Forest Zone and 1 from the Central Farmland Zone. In the last 12 months, the WVDL has tested 34,496 animals from 22 states for CWD, Scrapie or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, Mad Cow Disease).
The following was written and released by the DNR staff.
The Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL) has been a long standing partner with the DNR Bureau of Wildlife Management’s Wildlife Health necropsy program as well as chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance. CWD sampling has changed quite a bit throughout the years but one thing has remained constant and that is WVDL’s excellent service.
The wildlife program and WVDL have been able to form a great relationship through the years of CWD surveillance. We are fortunate to have the laboratory located in Madison which allows for routine face to face interactions and yearly planning meetings. Communication from WVDL’s staff is top notch. The TSE lab also processes samples from many other states but whenever they are contacted you can expect a reply back almost immediately.
WVDL goes above and beyond what would normally be expected. They worked with our program to set up automatic submissions of the results and spent their own time and resources working through the process. They have also worked with us on unique processes for our samples.
WVDL has a vested interest in the Wisconsin CWD data. Every year they have worked with our program staff to brainstorm ways to lower the CWD testing turnaround time. For the 2016 season the department, along with WVDL, was able to lower the turnaround time by over four days (13.9 to 9.6) from the 2015 season. The most pronounced improvement in turnaround time was for CWD positive results in the Southern Farmland Zone where the decrease was from 20.2 days to 8.2 days. This dramatic decrease was due to the DNR approving WVDL’s proposal to post results from the rapid CWD test (ELISA) directly to the website.
The Department of Natural Resources and our Wildlife Management Program are very fortunate to have a partner in WVDL. Our CWD data has been improved by their consistent and exceptional efforts. We would like to recognize their efforts with the 2016 Bureau of Wildlife Management Special Service Award.
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1. One of the greatest \”ecumenical\” difficulties the Orthodox Church has is that her thought forms and \”terms of reference\” are different from those of the West. And, since the ecumenical movement was shaped primarily by Western theological presuppositions and antecedents, its Orthodox participants were, from the very beginning, forced to express their positions and points of view within a theological framework alien to, or at least different from, the Orthodox tradition. This is especially true of ecclesiology. The Orthodox East has not been challenged either by the politico-ecclesiological controversies typical of the Western Middle Ages or by the Reformation. It remained free, therefore, from the \”polemical\” and \”definitional\” ecclesiology which underlies the Western De Ecclesia, whether in its Roman Catholic or Protestant form, and which conditions to a great degree the ecumenical debate on the Church. In our own \”sources\”– the Fathers, the Councils, the Liturgy – we do not find any formal definition of the Church. This is not because of any lack of ecclesiological interest and consciousness, but because the Church (in the Orthodox approach to her) does not exist, and therefore cannot be defined, apart from the very content of her life. The Church, in other terms, is not an \”essence\” or \”being\” distinct, as such, from God, man, and the world, but is the very reality of Christ in us and us in Christ, a new mode of God\’s presence and action in His creation, of creation\’s life in God. She is God\’s gift and man\’s response and appropriation of this gift. She is union and unity, knowledge, communion and transfiguration. And, since apart from the \”content\” the \”form\” has no meaning (cf. the reluctance of Orthodox theologians to discuss problems of \”validity\”), Orthodox ecclesiology rather than precise definitions or forms, conditions and modalities, is an attempt to present an icon of the Church as life in Christ – an icon which to be adequate and true must draw on all aspects and not only on the institutional ones of the Church. For the Church is an institution, but she is also a mystery, and it is mystery that gives meaning and life to institution and is, therefore, the object of ecclesiology.
2. Such an attempt must probably begin with the Church as new creation. Orthodox ecclesiology traditionally sees the beginning of the Church in paradise and her life as the manifestation of the Kingdom of God. \”The history of the Church begins with the history of the world. The very creation of the world can be seen as preparation for the creation of the Church because the end for which the kingdom of nature was established is in the Kingdom of Grace\” (Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow). Thus the basic dimensions of Orthodox ecclesiology are cosmic and eschatological.
On the one hand, in Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, the new Adam, creation finds not only redemption and reconciliation with God, but also its fulfillment. Christ is the Logos, the Life of all life, and this life, which was lost because of sin, is restored and communicated in Christ, in His incarnation, death, resurrection, and glorification, to man and through him to the whole creation. Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit, the giver of life, is not a mere establishment of an institution endowed with specific powers and authorities. It is the inauguration of the new age, the beginning of life eternal, the revelation of the kingdom which is \”joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.\” The Church is the continuing presence of Pentecost as power of sanctification and transfiguration of all life, as grace which is knowledge of God, communion with Him and, in Him, with all that exists. The Church is creation as renewed by Christ and sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
But, on the other hand, the kingdom which Christ inaugurates and the Holy Spirit fulfills is not of this world. \”This world,\” by rejecting and condemning Christ, has condemned itself; no one, therefore, can enter the Kingdom without in a real sense dying to the world, i.e. rejecting it in its self-sufficiency, without putting all faith, hope, and love in the \”age to come,\” in the \”day without evening\” which will dawn at the end of time. \”You are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.\” (Col. 3:3) This means that although the Church abides in the world, her real life is a constant expectation and anticipation of the world to come, a preparation for it, a passage into reality which in this world can be experienced only as future, as promise and token of things yet to come. The fruits of the Spirit (joy, peace, holiness, vision, knowledge) are real, but their reality is that of the joy which a traveler has when at the end of a long journey he finally sees the beautiful city where he is going – into which, however, he must yet enter. The Church reveals and truly bestows now the Kingdom which is to come, and creation becomes new when it dies to itself as \”this world\” and becomes thirst and hunger for the consummation for all things in God.
3. It is the mystery of the Church as new creation in its two dimensions – the cosmic and eschatological – that reveals to us the meaning and structure of the Church as institution. The nature of the institution can be termed sacramental, and this means not only a given or static inter-dependence between the visible and the invisible, nature and grace, the material and the spiritual, but also, and primarily, the dynamic essence of the Church as passage from the old into the new, from this world into the world to come, from the kingdom of nature into the Kingdom of Grace. The Church, as visible society and organization, belongs to this world; it is truly a part of it. And she must belong to it because she is \”instituted\” to represent and to stand for the world, to assume the whole creation. It belongs thus to the very \”institution\” of the Church to be a people, a community, a family, an organization, a nation, a hierarchy; to assume, in other words, all the natural forms of human existence in the world, in time and space. She is an organic continuity with the whole of human life, with the totality of human history. She is the pars pro toto of the whole creation. Yet she is all this in order to reveal and manifest the true meaning of creation as fulfillment in Christ, to announce to the world its end and the inauguration of the Kingdom. The \”institution\” is thus the sacrament of the Kingdom, the means by which the Church always becomes what she is, always fulfills herself as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, as the Body of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Spirit, as the new life of the new creation. The basic act of this fulfillment, and therefore the true \”form\” of the Church, is the Eucharist: the sacrament in which the Church performs the passage, the passover, from this world into the Kingdom, offers in Christ the whole creation to God, seeing it as \”heaven and earth full of His glory,\” and partakes of Christ\’s immortal life at His table in His Kingdom.
4. This sacramental nature of the Church reveals the real meaning of the universally-accepted notae by which we confess the Church to be One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Each of them applies to both the institution and its fulfillment, the form and the content, the promise and its realization. The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, and she must constantly fulfill herself as oneness, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity. Her visible oneness is to be realized as the very content of the new life (\”that they may be one as we are one\”) and as the unity of all in God and with God. The objective holiness of her life (the gifts of grace and sanctification which pour from all her acts) is to be fulfilled and realized in the personal holiness of her members. The catholicity (the absolute fullness of the gospel she announces and the life she communicates) is to grow into the \”wholeness\” of the faith and life of each community, of each Christian, and of the whole Church. Her apostolicity (her identity in time and space with the pleroma of the Church manifested at Pentecost) is to be preserved whole and undistorted by every generation, always and everywhere.
5. In this world the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church manifests itself as a plurality of churches, each one of which is both a part and a whole. It is a part because only in unity with all churches and in obedience to the universal truth can it be the Church; yet it is also a whole because in each church, by virtue of her unity with the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, the whole Christ is present, the fullness of grace is given, the catholicity of new life is revealed. The visible unity of all churches as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church is expressed and preserved in the unity of faith, the unity of sacramental structure, and the unity of life. The unity of faith has its norm and content in the universal tradition. The unity of sacramental structure is preserved through the apostolic succession, which is the visible and objective continuity of the Church\’s life and order in time and space. The unity of life manifests itself in the active concern of all churches for each other and of all them together for the Church\’s mission in the world.
6. The organ of unity in the Church is the episcopate. \”The Church is in the Bishop.\” This means that in each church the personal ministry of the bishop is to preserve the fullness of the Church, i.e., her identity and continuity with the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church; to be the teacher of the universal traditions; the offerer of the Eucharist which is the sacrament of unity; and the pastor of the people of God on its pilgrimage to the Kingdom. By virtue of his consecration by other bishops and of his belonging to the universal episcopate, he represents, he makes present and unites his church to all churches and represents all other churches, and therefore the whole Church, to his own church. In him each church is thus truly a part of the whole Church and the whole Church is truly present in each church. In the Orthodox tradition, the unity of the episcopate, and especially the organ of this unity, a synod or council of bishops, is the supreme expression of the Church\’s teaching and pastoral function – the inspired mouth of the whole Church. But, \”The Bishop is in the Church,\” and this means that neither one bishop nor the episcopate as a whole are above the Church, or (to quote here a famous formula) act and teach ex sese et non ex consensu Ecclesiae. It is rather the bishop\’s complete identification with and his total obedience to the consensus Ecclesiae, to her teaching, life, and holiness, as well as his organic unity with the people of God, that makes the bishop the teacher and the guardian of the truth. For in the Church no one is without the Holy Spirit, and according to the Encyclical of Eastern Patriarchs, the preservation of the truth is entrusted to the whole people of the Church. Thus the Church is both hierarchical and conciliary, and the two principles are not only not opposed to each other but are in their interdependence essential for the full expression of the mystery of the Church.
7. The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church must necessarily exist in the world as an orderly and visibly-united Church Universal, and it is the function and charism of the primacies to serve as centers of communion, unity, and coordination. There exist local and regional primacies (metropolitans, patriarchs) and a universal primacy. Orthodox ecclesiology has never denied that traditionally the latter belonged to the Church of Rome. It is, however, the interpretation of this primacy in terms of a personal infallibility of the Roman pontiff and of his universal jurisdiction power that led to its rejection by the Orthodox East.
8. The Orthodox Church claims to have preserved unaltered and full the faith and the traditions \”once delivered unto the saints.\” In face of the tragic divisions among Christians, she affirms that the only way to reunion is the restoration of that unity of faith which alone enables each church to see all other churches as the same and One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
9. The Church is both in statu patriae and in statu viae. As \”Christ in us,\” as the manifestation of the Kingdom and the sacrament of the age to come, her life is already filled with the \”joy and peace of the Holy Spirit,\” and it is this paschal joy that she expresses and receives in worship, in the holiness of her members, and in the communion of the saints. As \”we in Christ,\” she is in pilgrimage and expectation, in repentance and struggle. And above everything else, she is mission, for her belonging to the world to come, the joy that in Christ has entered the world, and the vision of the transfigured world are given to her so that she may in this world witness to Christ and may save and redeem in Him the whole creation.
*Paper read at the Institute for Contemporary Theology, Montreal, July 1965.
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We all know barking is a part of a puppy’s language; however, sounds like howling, whining, barking and crying can drive us, and our neighbors, crazy. If you live out in the country with few and distant neighbors, you might have a more relaxed view on puppy barking. Since most of us do not live in a rural area, puppy sounds are not funny.
Barking is as natural to dogs as talking is to humans. A dog barks to communicate with you but also with other puppies or dogs. Of course, barking is not the only way your puppy communicates with you. Your puppy uses all her body from the happy wagging tail to her beautiful eyes. However barking is your puppy’s immediate way to tell you about what she sees, smell, hears, feels and fears.
Here are some tips to help you decipher the different sounds your puppy makes and figure out what she means. In addition to that, here are the tools necessary to stop unwanted puppy barking, regardless of the reason.
The Science of Barking: Variations in Puppy Language
Most of us recognize the sounds a puppy makes when she’s excited because you come home. It’s not exactly barking, but a message your puppy sends by making powerful sounds. She may even start whining in anticipation when she hears you outside the door.
This sound will often turn into yelping as you come inside. A puppy is a pack animal and she will use whimpering or yelping to communicate distress to another pack member, including you. She’s basically telling you that it has been so awful being without you. Most animals want to please their family, other household pets like cats, and pack group members who react positively to this display of submissiveness and love.
Puppies and dogs make other sounds, too. It can be growling, which is often a warning you should stop what you are doing right now. Instead, back off and find out how you can make your puppy feel at ease again. But, it can also be the soundstage for a game of tug. It could also mean nothing more than a sign to let you know they are having fun.
Some dogs also howl, like the Siberian husky, for example. Certain breeds howl for several minutes when a police car, fire truck or an ambulance drives by with their sirens turned on. The dog is answering the sirens as they would answer a pack member howling far away to let them know they are not alone. Imagine how frustrating it must be that the police car just passes by (hopefully it passes by!)
Why You Should Not Shut Your Puppy Up Completely
All the above goes to show that your puppy has a voice. She tries to communicate with you all the time. In terms of communicating, barking is often the preferred voice for dogs. Because of this, you must neither expect to eliminate your puppy’s bark completely nor should it be your goal. So, how should you control the barking while reassuring your puppy by taking the responsibility away from her?
There is a way to train your puppy giving yourself, your neighbors and last, but not least, your puppy calm and tranquility. Keep reading and I’ll share my best training advice.
The Real Reasons Your Puppy Barks
In general, you can divide the reasons for a puppy’s barking into two categories:
First, to control the barking, figure out why your puppy is barking each time. If your puppy is barking because of worries, calm her down by reassuring her. By taking this step to let your puppy know you care and are in control, she’ll let go of her need to alert you and eventually she’ll be more calm and stop barking.
So watch your dog. If your puppy is barking because of excitement, you don’t want to talk to her. This will only get her even more excited and happy, prolonging the barking. Instead, you must ignore her to calm your puppy down, so you can communicate properly with her.
Of course, there are other reasons for barking, but these are the main categories so let’s take a closer look at the two – worry and excitement.
When Worries Make Your Puppy Bark
A puppy barks when she is frightened or worried because she wants to alarm you. A puppy will bark to let you know someone is coming, going or passing, whether it is on foot, on a bicycle or in a car. Some dogs will bark because they need food or water. Others make noises to let you know they need some human contact and want to start playing.
No matter what, your puppy is telling you something is going on and you should know about it. Even though one bark is enough, some puppies have trouble stopping themselves. Your main goal here is to reassure your puppy calmly, and she’ll respond by quieting down.
How to Train Your Dog to Be Calm and Stop Barking Because of Worries
How do you make your puppy understand you heard her the first time, so she can stop barking? Acknowledge her worrying first, and then tell your puppy to be quiet and, at the same time, lure her with the favorite treat.
Most puppies can’t bark and smell or chew something at the same time.
When your puppy keeps quiet, reward her. Because her mouth is busy she’ll not be able to bark again. You have interrupted her and now you just need to ask her for something, a sit or down to keep her mind of whatever made her bark.
Prolong the time she must be quiet before you reward her, bit by bit. Here’s how to make sure you wait long enough between barks the first time, so you don’t reward the barking:
- The first time, reward your puppy for being silent for just five seconds.
- The second time, withhold the treat for 10 seconds.
- Every time your puppy succeeds, wait a little longer before giving a treat.
- Eventually, you will simply train the behavior away.
Simple Steps for Staging an Unwanted Behavior
In some instances, to train a behavior away, you first have to stage it. And to stage it, you need to know what sets your puppy off. Next, stage the setting that makes her bark. If your puppy barks when strangers come over, ask a friend to come over a lot, so you can train her behavior away. If your puppy barks because your guests are outside, keep them there! Make them come and go a couple of times every day, for as long as it takes. It will take a few friends several days, but if you persist, your puppy’s behavior will change.
Don’t start your training at the door, because this is probably your puppy’s main concern. Instead, start away from the door, such as in the living room or kitchen. When your friend walks towards the house and your puppy barks, tell her to be quiet and give her a treat for obeying. When your pup succeeds, move closer to the door. Remember the closer your puppy is to the problem, the bigger it may seem to her.
Stop Barking inside the House: Why Variation is the Key
If your puppy barks when someone comes into the house, you can also train this behavior away. Be sure to involve more friends so your puppy does not get used to just one “stranger.” In this case, let your friends bring some tasty treats. When your friend arrives, your puppy will bark. Your friend must ignore her and not approach her until she is quiet.
When this happens your friend can pay her attention. However, he should not walk toward your puppy as this can frighten her even more. So he stays put, but offers her the tasty treats and praises her for being quiet. If she overcomes her fright and approaches him, he’ll feed her and talk calmly to her. If she starts barking again, he just ignores her.
As long as your puppy is quiet, your friends can feed her treats to show her someone coming through the door is a positive thing. Generally, you want your puppy to see strangers outside or inside as a possibility to get praise and treats, and not as a threat.
The Right Dose of Distraction
Your puppy might not be so worried that you need to lure her to stop paying attention to what is happening outside. Instead, you can divert her attention. Try it when you see your puppy picking up that someone is coming. The sure signs of this are when the ears rise and she lifts her head to look at the door or window. This is when you immediately ask your puppy to focus on you. Make her do some attention exercises. For inspiration, look at this helpful article, here.
When your puppy’s focus is on you, your friend can come all the way into your home without any barking at all. If this is the case, be sure to reward your puppy for being quiet and allow her to say hello to your friend in a calm manner. Remember, if your puppy is hard to divert, add a little distance to what troubles her. Distance makes the problem seems smaller to a puppy. So adding distance will enable you to divert your puppy’s attention more easily.
When Your Puppy is Alone in the House
What if someone passes by your home and you’re not there to calm, correct or distract your puppy? Over time, if you practice the training tips previously mentioned, your puppy will learn there is no danger. She’ll relax, even with people outside your home. But in the meantime, draw the curtains to keep your puppy from looking out into the street and to muffle the sounds. Also, leave your radio or television on to make it harder for your puppy to pick up on other sounds. This will help them relax and they’ll have a better time when they are alone in the house.
Barking Due to Excitement: All About Atlas
A puppy that barks out of excitement is a common experience. It can be cute; nevertheless, too much of it can become annoying, so you want to control this. Some dogs bark when you put on clothes or shoes that indicate an activity that normally includes them. As a dog owner myself, and for my pup, Atlas, it is when I take on my hunting clothes.
Atlas gets excited and may bark if I pick up my keys or I’m not wearing my everyday working clothes when I head for the door. He simply wants to make sure I remember to bring him along. He also wants to tell me how excited he is about us going out together.
Remember, for dogs barking, howling and whining are how they communicate.
I think it’s sweet when Atlas gets excited at the prospect of being with me. I live in the country and my neighbors don’t live close by. This is a good thing because Atlas has a terrible voice when he is excited. When he is worried, it’s a completely different and frightening bark, but that is okay – strangers must know I have dogs. However, Atlas has a bark of excitement that is terrible. It is loud and stridently and you much be his mum to endure it.
For this reason, I see the benefits of being able to control Atlas when he barks out of excitement. I will explain some of the lessons I’ve used below, so keep reading.
How to Train Your Dog to Stop Barking Because of Excitement
First, the main key to train a puppy not to bark out of excitement is to know the trigger. Every dog has different triggers they react to, so it is important to recognize them to effectively train them away.
Ignore Your Puppy to Get Them to Relax
Once you have found out the main trigger, seek it out. When your puppy starts barking, try to ignore her. Remember, your puppy barks at you to show you her joy and excitement. So, if you resist the urge to react, your puppy will lose her motivation to bark.
This kind of training takes patience and consistency, just like all puppy training. If your puppy barks every time you head for the door, don’t try to train when you are actually going out. It’s important that you are not in a hurry. If you really just need to get out of the door, crate your puppy before you leave – this is not the time to train.
This is because once you start training, you must not allow your puppy to get out of the door when she barks at it – ever. Instead, train her when you are not going out and have more time. If you want to be calm and relaxed with your puppy, you must have a lot of time on your hands and no other place to be. Your puppy will pick up on your calmness when you don’t feel the need to rush, which will relax her, too.
Turn Away When They Bark, Then Rinse and Repeat
It is necessary to ignore your puppy when she barks in excitement. If she barks when you head for the door, you must turn around and go back. This will make her go quiet (and disappointed!) Leave your puppy there for a minute or two, and then try again. If she starts barking again, turn around again.
Sit down, pick up a magazine and relax. This may confuse your puppy, but it’ll be quiet. Repeat until your puppy understands barking will not get her any closer to what she desires, and in fact to the contrary.
Cue Your Puppy to Be Quiet
Another way to control the barking is to cue your puppy to be quiet. Just as mentioned above, tell her to be quiet while holding out a great treat. As your puppy smells it instead of barking, praise and reward her. This type of positive reinforcement is a powerful training tool. Be consistent and you’ll see results over time.
Train to Go Fetch Instead of Barking
Many dogs like to carry things. You can teach your puppy to carry things instead of barking when she gets excited. Start by teaching your puppy to take something in her mouth when she gets excited. This must be something your puppy doesn’t have the opportunity to play with unless you give it to her. It must also be a real treat for your puppy to have. If your puppy is not a natural “carrier”, you might have to train this behavior before your “go fetch” training will work and for this a tug-toy works the best. The immediate reward for putting in the hours of training is the fact that your puppy can’t bark with something in the mouth.
However, for your puppy, this is also a big reward because she likes to carry this thing. You may allow your puppy to play a bit with you and the tug-toy. In time, your puppy will pick up anything lying on the floor when she gets excited instead of barking. This is how you know you’ve reached your goal.
Startle the Bark Out of Your Puppy
Finally, you can interrupt your puppy’s barking with a loud sound or sudden action. The sound must appear as if it has nothing to do with you. Make something fall to the ground with a noise to startle your puppy. This will make her quiet, even if it’s just for seconds. In this window of silence, praise and reward your puppy. Always remember when your puppy stops barking, reward her for this good behavior to help her make the connection.
For this to work, it’s important that your puppy doesn’t think you are the cause of the interruption. She must think it is because she barks that this happens. So, if you “drop” something to make the barking stop, don’t pick it up right away, and don’t drop it beside you. It’ll be best if it drops near your puppy, but be careful not to hit her.
As mentioned I trained Atlas to be more quiet and here you can see some of my training with quieting Atlas, [embedyt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIBFKo-s98[/embedyt] This will also help you understand why we needed to do the training 🙂
As you see, dogs all join in when just one starts barking. To stop this, you need to train every dog in your home on her own, just as I did with Atlas. Of course it would be best if the until now “untrained” dogs are so far away they do not spoil the training. However, even when it was still possible to hear them, Atlas did not bark, so it can work even with o ther dogs near by.
Boredom or a Call to Action: When Barking Happens for Other Reasons
Of course, your puppy will also bark for other reasons. Once in a while, puppies bark because they are bored or because they want you to do something. This may sound simple, but it is true. My other pup, Luca, sometimes barks to get the other dogs in motion. She often does this is to get their beds or their toys, but sometimes it seems as if it is simply because she is bored.
This typically happens when we have been trapped inside because of the weather or something else. It can also happen because I have not done enough to activate her. When you have a puppy that barks out of boredom, you must divert her attention. When she stops barking you should then activate her. Remember that mind games to a puppy are much more exhausting than being let out in the yard or garden. Buy an intelligent toy for your pup to play with or you can make one yourself (It is also healthy for humans to use our minds)
Luca also barks at me if she gets frustrated, such as while training. But, it’s easy to see and hear her frustration, either because she can’t understand what I want her to do, or she doesn’t want to do it. Her barking simply tells me she needs to know more, like how to do what I ask for or even if there will be praise or a treat – so, I tell her.
Your puppy probably barks at you for other reasons not covered here. If it is a single bark, that’s not too bad, but if it is more, try some of the solutions and training methods in this article.
To Sum It All Up
Barking is as natural to a dog as talking is to humans. And, as it is the case with humans, some dogs talk more than others, but few are completely silent. It can be easy to accept this when you imagine having to be quiet your entire life. That would not only be impossible, it would be unhealthy, too. So don’t shut your puppy up completely.
Try training your dog to be calm using the methods above, one by one. You may just need to do one of them, or you might have to use all of them before you reach your goal. Go for controlling the barking instead of shutting your puppy completely up. It’s a policy to get you more success, friendlier neighbors, tranquility, and a happy, content dog.
Remember, to teach a puppy, your best tools are calmness, persistence, patience and consistency. I hope my tips will help you learn how to create a relationship in almost silent harmony 🙂
If you’ve found value in this blog post, please let me know and please share it. If you have other tips, please share, so this blog post can be so helpful as possible – Thank you!
Q & A
Is there a tool that can make training easier?
There might be. If you prefer, you can use a head halter, which is also called a gentle leader. This way you can make your puppy be quiet by briefly lifting her head and bringing her to a sit, giving you the opportunity to praise her. Also, with this, you can hold it so your pup doesn’t open her mouth.
Also, you can search for an E-collar with sounds or scent, disrupting your puppy when she barks.
I have no personal experience with these tools. If you have, please comment, so we can all learn.
My puppy barks in her crate, so what can I do?
First, establish why your puppy barks. Is it out of fear, because she is excited or because she is bored? If your puppy is bored, activate her and make her feel tired before you try crate training.
If she is frightened, you should not crate her! To use the crate it is important that your puppy likes and feels safe in the crate. So if your puppy is afraid, you must stay with her until she feels safe. Cover the crate to shut out any distractions and to calm her down. This makes the crate feel more like a quiet, secure den, which may put your puppy at ease. This will also do the trick if your puppy is overly excited. Before you do anything, be aware that your puppy might bark because she needs to go outside to pee.
Please look here to learn more about correct crate training.
Can you calm a puppy down using medicine?
Of course, you can, and there might be a good reason to do so, in some cases. If you think your puppy may have troubles and training isn’t working for you, be sure to ask your veterinarian for advice. It could be a health problem or a dog behavior issue like separation anxiety,
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The Worst Of COVID-19 Should Be Over For 1 Hard-Hit Brazilian City. But It's Not
In Brazil's jungle metropolis of Manaus, nurse Francinete Simões thought she had seen the last COVID-19 death at the urgent care center where she works in July. Hospitals finally had space to take critical patients again after a violent initial wave of the virus left many of the city's dead in mass graves.
But in recent weeks, Simões says, hospitals are "filling up, and I'm seeing people die again." The state government has now ordered non-essential businesses to close between December 26 and January 10 as a virus containment measure for this city of 2.2 million.
The teeming port city's recent resurgence should sound an international alarm about how widely the virus can spread when poorly controlled, say researchers. One study, which tested blood donations over a series of months to count COVID cases, estimates the virus may have attacked as many as 76% of Manaus residents by October.
"Some people think that the virus will go away immediately once infections reach a herd immunity level," says immunologist Ester Sabino of the University of São Paulo, the lead researcher of the study published in the journal Science Magazine. "But for a while, it just moves slower, continuing to kill people."
While much of the world still faces long waits for a vaccine, says Sabino, if the virus is unchecked, "slower or faster, what's happening in Manaus can happen anywhere." For its part, Brazil's government has yet to announce a clear vaccination timeline.
An Inequality-Laced Petri Dish
A key factor behind Manaus's explosive outbreak is inequality — both in access to adequate housing and access to healthcare — says epidemiologist Jesem Orellana of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brazil's national health research institute. More than 53% of households are in tightly packed poor neighborhoods. At the start of the pandemic, Manaus was the only city in its state of 4 million that had intensive care beds, and it suffered from a doctor shortage. Most people seeking care in the city could only reach it via tightly packed boats, which "quickly spread the virus up and down the [Amazon] river," says Fiocruz microbiologist Felipe Naveca, who has sequenced strains of the virus across the state.
Naveca also believes that a high number of virus strains were introduced to Manaus through its international airport; the city is a free trade zone with frequent business traffic from Europe and Asia. He sequenced four strains of SARS-CoV-2 in the state that have not been identified elsewhere in Brazil, but match strains identified in Colombia, Denmark and the United Kingdom.
Manaus first identified a case of the virus on March 13. City authorities responded with physical distancing measures such as moving non-essential city jobs to remote work and suspending licenses for large events. They also increased access to health services, including opening a field hospital, says health department spokesperson Renildo Rodrigues. Public schools closed on March 17, non-essential services were ordered to close on March 23, and nonresident foreigners were banned from flying into the country on March 30. Face masks were not required until May 11.
Orellana describes authorities' overall response to the virus as "slow and deadly." By the end of May, over 2,000 people had died of COVID-19, according to the government's count.
Cellphone data show only around half of Manaus residents practiced physical distancing in April and May. "Many people didn't believe the pandemic was real," says Simões, the nurse. Manaus is a stronghold of voters for Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly dismissed COVID-19 as a "little flu."
On June 1, the state allowed businesses to begin reopening. By the end of the month, COVID-19 deaths had fallen to around five per day from a high of more than 50 per day at the end of April.
Sabino and her fellow researchers, a group from Brazilian, U.K., and U.S. institutions, attribute the decreased deaths in part to growing population immunity.
In June, "the population was more aware, principally due to the high numbers of deaths in April and May 2020, which led them to better adhere to protective measures," says Rosemary Costa Pinto, director of the state's health department. She says that deaths may also have fallen due to an increase in the number of available hospital beds and health workers' improved understanding of how to deal with the virus.
Costa Pinto said she was aware of the study published in Science reporting much higher numbers than the government but would not comment on it. The state's official count of confirmed virus cases is 3.5% of the population.
Questioning The Data Collection Method
While Manaus's scientific community widely considers the state numbers an undercount, some have criticized the Science study's reliance on blood donors to draw conclusions about the wider population, even after the authors mathematically adjusted to account for donors' limited age range (16 to 69) and for the fact that most were men.
In June, a household survey by the Federal University of Pelotas found a much lower rate of residents with COVID antibodies than the blood donor study for the same time period. The Science authors mention the household survey in their article, writing that it was not carried out at a citywide scope and used a less sensitive test. Their own estimate also includes extra calculations to reflect the waning of antibodies over time.
Others, including microbiologist Natália Pasternak, say the study was "very well-conducted work" that acknowledges its limitations and now must be "well-interpreted." Pasternak directs the scientific literacy NGO Instituto Questão da Ciência. "It's not always possible to do a good population sample," she says. "This kind of study is one more scientific tool."
Blood donor studies are currently underway across the world to better understand the pandemic, including in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conducting a nationwide blood donor survey of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies that is directed by one of Sabino's co-authors, Michael Busch of the Vitalant Research Institute. Busch and Sabino are part of a 20-year partnership between U.S. and Brazilian blood researchers, the REDS Brazil program, backed by the National Institutes of Health.
There is scientific consensus in Manaus about one thing: the outbreak is far from over.
"Everyone must remain on alert," says Quezia Monteiro, an infectologist in the public health system. "People are relaxing, even saying that the pandemic is over in Manaus, which will cost more lives."
Catherine Osborn is a Brazil-based journalist and a frequent contributor to NPR.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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STEVE Hill MBE is a Shaw school teacher by day but in his spare time turns into a cross between Michael Palin and Bear Grylls.
And there’s no stopping a man who has run marathons in sight of Everest, along the mighty Amazon river, around the North Pole and climbed Russia’s highest mountain.
Next February, Steve, 46, who is deputy head of St Joseph’s Primary School, is on his travels once more – this time to run six marathons in five days in Sweden’s Arctic wastes.
There’s method to Steve’s apparent madness as if he maintains his quest for adventure and pushing back the boundaries of human endurance, he will have raised nearly £100,000 for charity.
“I preach to the kids about getting involved in sport and getting out of their comfort zone,” Steve told the Correspondent.
“So, I thought I’d better practice what I preach!
“It’s about opening receptive minds to a big world out there.
“Maths and English are important but there are other important things.
“Besides, the kids expect now so who am I to disappoint?”
Steve signed up for the five-day, 230 kilometres Ice Ultra through a UNESCO World Heritage site.
“We will be carrying all our gear and sleeping in tents during the night when temperatures get down to -20 degrees,” shivered Steve at the prospect.
“It sounds horrendous and dangerous. Only 15 finished last year from 30 starters, which was a wake up call when I found out.
“But when I start a race I want to to finish it.
“If it takes me a lot longer than elite runners, so be it. I am enjoying the ride and seeing things as I am going.”
The challenge is taking Steve from one extreme to the other after his Amazon adventure for his previous run.
“Again it was six marathons in five days, through the jungle carrying my own gear,” he explained.
“It was totally brutal. But I did come back with some great tales to tell the kids, albeit minus a few toe nails and a stone in weight.”
Steve’s blood, sweat and tears was worth the effort with £5,000 for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy added to his charity total which has now reached nearly £80,000.
“It’s a full team effort with all the kids, parents, family and friends getting involved,” added Steve, a teacher at St Joseph’s for 14 years.
“We have supported a lot of local charities since I started doing these challenges.
“I just want to show the kids that whatever your little Everest, you can do it.”
To keep in touch with Steve’s progress and fundraising efforts visit his Facebook page: www.facebook.com/mrhillschallenges
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- 1 What happens when your vitamin B12 is low?
- 2 What foods are high in B12?
- 3 What causes vitamin B12 deficiency?
- 4 Which fruits and vegetables have vitamin B12?
- 5 How long does B12 deficiency take to correct?
- 6 When should I take B12 morning or night?
- 7 Can you get B12 from vegetables?
- 8 Which form of vitamin B12 is best?
- 9 How can I get B12 without eating meat?
- 10 What medications should not be taken with B12?
- 11 How can I raise my B12 levels fast?
- 12 What does a B12 deficiency tongue look like?
- 13 Which vegetable is rich in vitamin B12?
What happens when your vitamin B12 is low?
Not having enough B12 can lead to anemia, which means your body does not have enough red blood cells to do the job. This can make you feel weak and tired. Vitamin B12 deficiency can cause damage to your nerves and can affect memory and thinking.
What foods are high in B12?
Milk and milk products are good sources of vitamin B12. Many ready-to-eat breakfast cereals are fortified with vitamin B12. Includes a variety of protein foods such as lean meats; poultry; eggs; seafood; beans, peas, and lentils; nuts and seeds; and soy products. Fish and red meat are excellent sources of vitamin B12.
What causes vitamin B12 deficiency?
However, the most common cause of vitamin B-12 deficiency anemia is a lack of a substance called intrinsic factor, which can be caused when your immune system mistakenly attacks the stomach cells that produce this substance. This type of anemia is called pernicious anemia.
Which fruits and vegetables have vitamin B12?
The top vitamin B-12-rich foods
- Clams. 84.1 mcg per 3 ounces.
- Beef liver. 70.7 mcg per 3 ounces.
- Fortified breakfast cereals. 6.0 mcg per 1/2 cup.
- Salmon. 4.8 mcg per 3 ounces.
- Trout. 3.5 mcg per 3 ounces.
- Milk. 1.2 mcg per cup.
- Yogurt. 1.1 mcg per cup.
- Ham. 0.6 mcg per 3 ounces.
How long does B12 deficiency take to correct?
Recovery from vitamin B12 deficiency takes time and you may not experience any improvement during the first few months of treatment. Improvement may be gradual and may continue for up to six to 12 months.
When should I take B12 morning or night?
You may need to take vitamin B-12 separately from the above drugs and supplements — say, one in the morning and one at night — so you can get the full dose of vitamin B-12. Don’t take vitamin B-12 supplements if you have sensitivities or allergies to vitamin B-12, cobalt, and any other ingredients.
Can you get B12 from vegetables?
Plant foods do not produce vitamin B-12, so it is vital that vegans find alternative sources of vitamin B12 to remain in the best health. Some foods that can be fortified with vitamin B-12 include: fortified non-dairy milk. meat substitutes.
Which form of vitamin B12 is best?
The body may absorb cyanocobalamin better, while methylcobalamin has a higher retention rate. Both can prevent B12 deficiency, but methylcobalamin should be combined with adenosylcobalamin for best results.
How can I get B12 without eating meat?
Top vitamin B12 foods for vegetarians
- Dairy products. Eating dairy products is one of the simplest ways to get enough vitamin B12 in a vegetarian diet.
- Eggs. Another source of B12 for vegetarians is eggs.
- Fortified foods.
- Nutritional yeast.
- Shitake mushroom.
What medications should not be taken with B12?
Certain medications can decrease the absorption of vitamin B12, including: colchicine, metformin, extended-release potassium products, antibiotics (such as gentamicin, neomycin, tobramycin), anti-seizure medications (such as phenobarbital, phenytoin, primidone), medications to treat heartburn (such as H2 blockers
How can I raise my B12 levels fast?
To increase the amount of vitamin B12 in your diet, eat more of foods that contain it, such as:
- Beef, liver, and chicken.
- Fish and shellfish such as trout, salmon, tuna fish, and clams.
- Fortified breakfast cereal.
- Low-fat milk, yogurt, and cheese.
What does a B12 deficiency tongue look like?
B12 deficiency will also make the tongue sore and beefy-red in color. Glossitis, by causing swelling of the tongue, may also cause the tongue to appear smooth.
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"Do not expect others to understand your journey, especially if they have never had to walk your path"
- Master, I am here because I feel so small that I do not have the strength to do anything. They tell me that I am useless, that I never do anything good, that I am clumsy and a bit dumb. How can I improve? What can I do to be appreciated?
The master, without looking at him, replied:
- I'm sorry son, I can't help you, I have to solve my personal problem first. Maybe later …
And, after a pause, he continued:
- If you could help me first, I could solve this problem quickly and, maybe, then I could help you.
"Willingly, Master," the young man stammered, but he felt again that he was being neglected and that his needs were being overshadowed.
"Well," the master asserted.
He took off a ring that he wore on the little finger of his left hand and, giving it to the boy, said - take the horse that's out there and ride it to the market. I have to sell this ring because I have to pay a debt. You must try to get the highest amount of money from it that you can, not accepting less than a gold coin. Go right away and get back with that coin as soon as you can.
The young man took the ring and left. Upon his arrival, he immediately began to offer the ring to the merchants. They looked at him with some interest, but only until the young man explained how much he wanted for the ring.
When the young man offered the gold coin as a price, someone laughed, others turned and walked away and only an old man was kind enough to explain to him that a gold coin was really too much for that ring.
Attempting to help him, a man offered him a silver and a copper coin, but the young man had precise instructions: he could not accept less than a gold coin; therefore he refused. After offering the jewel to every passerby (more than a hundred people), he was disheartened by his failure, mounted his horse and returned.
How he wished he had a gold coin! She could have given it to the teacher to free him from his concern and, therefore, receive his advice and his help. He walked into the room.
“Master,” he said, “I'm sorry, but it is impossible to obtain what you asked of me. Maybe I could earn two or three silver coins, but I can't fool anyone about the true value of the ring.
- It is very important what you said, my young friend - replied the teacher with a smile - first, we must know the true value of the ring. He gets back on his horse and go to the jeweler. Who can know better than him? Tell him you would like to sell the ring and ask him how much he can give you. But don't mind his offer, don't sell it to him: he comes back here with my ring.
The young man mounted his horse again. The jeweler examined the ring in the candlestick light, looked at it with the magnifying glass, weighed it and then said:
- Boy, tell your master that if he wants to sell his ring now, I can't give him more than 58 gold.
- 58 gold coins ?? Exclaimed the young man.
- Yes - replied the jeweler - with a little time available we could get almost 70 coins, but if you need to sell it urgently ...
The young man ran excitedly to the master's house to tell him what had happened.
- Sit down, - said the master after listening to him - you are like this ring: a precious and unique jewel. As such, only a true expert can recognize your worth. Why do you spend your life expecting everyone to realize what you are worth?
Having said that, he slipped the ring back on to the little finger of his left hand.
Today we told you this story because it is important not to judge. You know a person's name, not his story. Its merits and defects are not known.
Don't judge unless you have been in the same shoes as a person and behaved differently. The only thing that is known about a person is what they have told them and what they have learned. We do not stop even for a moment to look around. Each of us walks our own path, so su takes on the responsibility of appreciating yourself.
We hurt ourselves, thinking that what others believe about us is our real price. However, one must learn the lesson and not make this mistake again, be immune to the judgments of others. Our price is what we would be willing to pay and you have to play the part of yourself for the rest of your days.
The only way to feel free is to stop comparing yourself to others; no gold can pay our person. Our image is a reflection of our confidence and self-esteem, things that we can only find within ourselves. You cannot imagine how wonderful it is to stop looking outside for what you actually have inside.
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Last Friday, I celebrated the annual Mass for Schools in the Cathedral. We have 75 schools across the Diocese and the Mass was attended by representative teachers and students from many of them, near and far. It was the Memorial of St. Bernadine of Siena and here is the homily I preached.
Let me tell you a quick story. It’s a true story, about an Italian priest, a Franciscan friar, called Bernadine. He lived a long time ago in the early 1400s. Bernadine was a great preacher. He travelled up and own Italy and was so popular that huge crowds came out to listen to him, sometimes as many as 30,000 people. I’ve been doing some research: 30,000 people is bigger than many a football stadium. E.g. Fratton Park, Portsmouth 20,000; Bournemouth 11,000, the Madejski Stadium Reading 24,000. Old Trafford – no we won’t go there… But 30,000 is a huge crowd. Bernadine was a brilliant preacher. He invented the use of logos. He was the first person to use a logo, which is why he’s the patron saint of advertisers. I’m sure some of you know what this logo means – yes, no entry. What about this logo: M? Bernadine, when he preached, held up this one: IHS. IHS are the first three letters in Greek of the Name of Jesus and in church you often see now IHS on vestments, on covers, on books. Bernadine kept saying Jesus should be the centre of everything. Jesus should be the centre of our faith. Jesus should be the centre of our life. St. Paul said that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. Bernadine said, the name of Jesus is so holy that whenever we hear it we should bow our head in reverence: like when we say the Hail Mary (full of grace, the Lord is with thee; Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus). It was a very simple message: that we make Jesus the centre of our life, that we shew deep love for Him and that we bow our head at His Holy Name.
Now hold on to this, because we have just heard Jesus say in the Gospel: You are my friends. I call you friends. In fact, He says: You did not choose me; no, I chose you. Jesus was speaking here to His Apostles and they found Him to be the greatest Friend of all time. He was Someone Who loved them personally and passionately, Someone they could speak to about whatever they wanted, Someone who was great fun, Someone they could discuss things with. Jesus was the greatest Friend they ever had. They knew exactly what He meant when He said Love one another as I have loved you. Jesus wanted them to be as much friends with each other as He was with them. He had such a deep friendship with them, He even said: no-one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. That’s what He did, though when He said this He hadn’t yet died on the Cross. But when He did die, they understood instantly what He meant.
Let me go back to St. Bernadine. It’s his feastday today. The reason He was so successful was because He taught everyone a simple yet profound message: that Jesus wants us to be His Friend. Jesus, God the Son made man, invites us to know Him, to love Him, to serve Him. He invites us to listen to His Words, to respond to Him with our hearts and to enjoy that same friendship with Him that when on earth He shared with the Apostles. Indeed, He loves us so much that when He laid down His life on the Cross, He had you and me personally in His mind. That’s how much He loves us. So thank you for coming to this Mass today. When you leave, remember this: that Jesus invites us to be His Friend, that He wants us to get to know Him, to be with us in our daily life, to help us in sickness, suffering and sadness, and one day to be with Him forever in heaven. So let’s build up in our lives a friendship with him. Let’s find some time every day for prayer. Let’s love reading the Gospels. Let’s receive Him every week in Holy Communion. Let’s meet Him every month in Confession. And let’s do our best to love one another, just as He has loved us, especially caring for the poor and needy. If we can do this, we will change the world.
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Thousands of Afghans have started new lives as Londoners.
London Councils and Transport for London (TfL) have extended the capital’s trial of rental e-scooters from 6 June until 20 November this year, which will allow the trial to build on its successes and further explore how e-scooters could play a role in a sustainable transport network.
Boroughs are playing an instrumental role in delivering wraparound support to families living in hotels.
London Councils' response to the news that the government is making the National Transfer Scheme for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children mandatory.
London Councils, TfL and Camden Council have announced an expansion of the capital's trial of rental e-scooters, with e-scooters available to rent in Camden from Monday 27 September.
London boroughs are responding to the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Afghanistan by playing their part in supporting families fleeing persecution.
London Councils, Transport for London (TfL), and Westminster City Council have announced an expansion of the capital’s rental e-scooter trial, with e-scooters available to rent in Westminster from Monday 2 August.
London Councils, TfL and a core group of London boroughs announce the beginning of London's rented e-scooter trial.
London’s highways continue to suffer from chronic underinvestment, according to the fourth annual “State of the City” report.
London boroughs are championing Londoners who want to make the switch to electric vehicles through the delivery of more than 3,000 on-street charge points in residential areas. This makes up nearly half of the 6,500 charge point devices delivered across the capital in the last two years.
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Springboard to Learning is proud to announce it is the only affiliate of the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts in the state of Missouri. This internationally respected program of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, provides innovative arts-integrated teaching strategies embedded in a 16-session residency to early childhood educators, caregivers, and young children through the disciplines of drama, music, and dance.
During a classroom residency, a Teaching Artist and an early childhood educator partner together to translate instructional goals into performing arts strategies designed to meet the objectives of the teacher and the classroom curriculum. Within this collaboration, early childhood educators gain an understanding of the important connection between the performing arts and a child’s learning process. By observing and participating in the Teaching Artist’s lessons with the children, as well as developing and implementing their own arts-integrated lessons, the teacher gains the experience, confidence, and skills necessary to integrate the arts into the curriculum and daily routine. Classroom teachers learn how performing arts integrated strategies and techniques foster children’s growth in all development domains, including:
• Emergent literacy • Creative problem-solving and critical thinking • Expressive and receptive language development • Self-awareness, self-confidence, and self-regulation • Large and small muscle coordination and body awareness • Exploration of individual creativity • Social and emotional development • Motivation and enthusiasm for learning • Cognitive skills
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A 2014 Minnesota law (subdivision 7) requires the Minnesota Department of Human Services to use the Self-Support Index to monitor each county’s performance in assisting clients to become self-sufficient. Counties that meet performance targets receive a 2.5% bonus payment from the state, and counties that perform below the expected target must submit a performance improvement plan. In counties where “no improvement is shown by the end of the multi-year plan, the county or tribe’s allocation must be decreased by 2.5%” (Section 256J.626(7)(a)(2).)
A 2016 Minnesota law (Section 14, line 15.21) allows the state to use the savings achieved from reducing the sentences of minor drug offenders for evidence-based drug and mental health treatments for offenders still in prison or under supervised release. The evidence to support this law comes from the Department of Corrections’ own research, which found that providing offenders drug treatment reduces recidivism rates.
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The vitamins that one should take on a daily basis varies greatly according to the daily nutritional habits that a person has, their age, their daily activities, their natural deficiencies, their daily stress level and the drugs that one takes, doctor prescribed or otherwise.
However a good guideline is to take Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Vitamin B12, Vitamin K and additional minerals such as magnesium, Calcium, Zinc and Iron. Vitamins and minerals will create numerous benefits for your body if taken in the right amounts and properly with food.
However taking too much of a particular vitamin or mineral can cause adverse effects to the body. In conclusion, please be certain of what your body needs, pay attention to your daily symptoms and listen to your body.
Consult your family physician before taking any vitamin or mineral to make sure it is safe for your particular condition.
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COVID-19 in Brevard: 187 new cases, two deaths reported in latest data
Brevard County on Monday added 187 new coronavirus cases and two additional confirmed deaths to its total, according to the Florida Department of Health’s report issued Tuesday.
New numbers were released Tuesday evening based on data collected through Monday.
A total of 1,316 Florida residents in Brevard have been hospitalized since the pandemic began, up 23 since the previous day, according to state data.
Of 1,905 Florida residents tested in Brevard on Monday, 1,718 tested negative for a positive rate of 9.82%. The two-week average positivity rate for the county was 6.42% as of the latest data.
Health officials have said meaningful steps to stem the spread of the virus can occur when the positivity rate averages at 5% or lower for at least two weeks.
According to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Brevard had 81 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in its seven major hospitals as of noon Wednesday, down six from the previous day.
Of a total capacity of 1,316 staffed hospital beds, 350 beds (26.6%) were available in those hospitals. Of the 159 total capacity of adult ICU beds, 25 (15.7%) were available Wednesday afternoon.
FDOH no longer provides individual case data on those who have died of coronavirus, including their ages and whether they've been in contact with a known case.
At least 271 Brevard deaths were residents or staff of long-term care facilities such as nursing homes. Victims in Brevard so far range in age from 25 to 103.
Health officials have said a significant lag time occurs between death and its inclusion in state data.
FDOH added 9,439 new cases to the state total on Tuesday, bringing the cumulative count of cases to 1,143,794 since the beginning of the pandemic. Of those, 1,124,742 were Florida residents and 19,052 were non-residents.
Statewide, 20,082 Floridians have died from the virus—a daily increase of 79— and 58,619 have been hospitalized—a daily increase of 350—since the pandemic began.
State data showed 98,562 people tested negative in the most recent numbers, making for a daily percent positivity of 9.64%.
Here's the city-by-city count as of Saturday, although some of these may include unincorporated areas. Per FDOH, these are provisional. We are showing an increase from 24 hours ago.
Melbourne: 5,547, up 57
Palm Bay: 3,942, up 26
Cocoa: 1,609, up 8
Titusville: 1,310, up 10
Merritt Island: 1,227, up 15
Rockledge: 1,018, up 12
Satellite Beach: 555, up 20
Indialantic: 397, up 7
Cocoa Beach: 382, up 6
West Melbourne: 317, up 2
Cape Canaveral: 219, up 1
Mims: 203, up 1
Melbourne Beach: 220, up 5
Indian Harbour Beach: 205, up 2
Malabar: 142, up 1
Sebastian, Brevard: 120, up 2
Viera: 84, up 2
Grant-Valkaria: 79, unchanged
Missing, Brevard: 114, up 2
Barefoot Bay: 53, unchanged
Orlando, Brevard: 48, unchanged
Patrick Space Force Base: 41, up 2
Palm Shores: 24, up 2
Micco: 24, up 1
Port St. John: 6, unchanged
Valkaria: 4, unchanged
Scottsmoor: 2, unchanged
Kissimmee, Brevard: 1, unchanged
Sharpes: 1, unchanged
Contact Vazquez at email@example.com, 321-917-7491 or on Twitter @tyler_vazquez. Support his work by subscribing to FloridaToday.com.
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October 10 was recognized as World Mental Health Day but it’s fair to say mental health is something we should be talking about every day, not just on October 10. The real focus of World Mental Health Day is not only to recognize the prevalence of mental health and really put a face to it, but also to focus on the gaps in health services that people with mental health concerns have and the stigma still associated with mental illness.
Mental illness shows itself in so many ways during so many stages of life:
- In grandparents who have been isolated for so long and whose minds have started to wander.
- In parents who are experiencing something beyond the ‘baby blues’ or preparing for their children to head off to college or who are just trying to keep an unstable marriage alive for their children’s sake.
- In adults who are dealing with the constant pressure of living up to expectations, so often their own.
- In children who struggle to come to terms with the constantly changing world around them and where or how they fit in.
For those of us not amongst the almost one billion people who have a mental disorder, we’re affected because the people we love are personally affected.
I know it seems cliché these days but you never really know what someone else might be going through. That smile they give you in the hallway might be hiding suicidal thoughts. That purposefully avoided eye contact might be someone pleading to simply hear a ‘hello’. That overdose in the school restroom is a literal cry for help.
As you think about your own mental health today and the mental health of the people that matter most in your world, consider the strangers as well. And remember that you don’t know what journey they have faced, you don’t know what path they’re following, and you don’t know what makes them tick. Be kind to them. Give them some grace. And let them know you care. While you’re at it, do the same for yourself.
For some great resources on depression, suicide, and mental health in general, head to www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day/2021/
Beth Bangtson, HR Manager
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Keywords: hevel yavne | yavne | regional council | mo'atza ezorit hevel yavne | text: hebrew (blue) | coat of arms (landscape: blue) |
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image by Dov Gutterman and eljko Heimer
Regional Council Hevel Yavne (Yavne Region) is named after the
old town of Yavne (see also: Gan Yavne) and was established in 1950.
It is situated in the south shore plain and got 3,600 inh. in 6
settlements and 2,000 pupils in the many education institutes in
this area. The Regional Council reports that it has no large
flags [for hoisting] but only a desk flag. However the design of
the desk flag as a emblem on national background brought me to
draw a putative flag.
Source: letter from Mr. E. Greenwald, Regional Council Clerk and treasurer; desk flag.
Dov Gutterman, 25 August 2001
The municipal emblem was published in the official gazette (Rashumot),
YP 690, 30 July 1959.
Dov Gutterman, 4 September 2001
The Regional Council govern 8 entities: five settlements:
Kvutzat Yavne, Bet Gamli'el, Ben Zakay, Bene Darom and Nir Galim,
and three religious education institutes: Bet Raban (Giv'at
Washington), Kerem BeYavne and Neve Herzog.
A photo at <www.hevel-yavne.org.il> confirms that the flag has the same pattern as the desk flag, emblem on national background..
Dov Gutterman, 17 April 2005
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If you’re confused about whether soy, butter, meat, or dairy are good or bad for you, just follow the money, which is firmly in the hands of Big Food and the meat and dairy lobbies. A new documentary, What the Health, reveals shocking data about the funding by meat and dairy producers of programming for the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the Susan Komen Foundation, and other public health advocates. Sometimes it’s hard to know whom to trust when it comes to our health and proper nutrition.
The Soy Myth, or the word on the street that soy is a dangerous food that destroys your health, is almost as pervasive as the Protein Myth, which my friend Rich Roll wrote about in the past. And you should know that there is both older and brand-new data regarding soy and health that should put you at ease about eating organic tofu, edamame, and tempeh.
1. Soy and heart attacks
Chinese researchers studied 1,312 cases of first-time heart attack sufferers and 2,235 control subjects. An unhealthy dietary pattern increased the risk of heart attack while an increased intake of vegetables, fruits, and tofu were associated with a significant drop in heart attack rates.
2. Soy and prostate cancer
A meta-analysis of men diagnosed with prostate cancer found that the risk of this serious disease was cut in half by regular ingestion of soy and soy isoflavones.
3. Soy and breast cancer
Japanese researchers performed an evaluation of research and identified studies that showed everything from a slight to a significant reduction in breast cancer with increased soy food intake. Additionally, a meta-analysis of 35 studies from Asian countries was performed to examine soy intake and breast cancer risk. Soy intake significantly reduced breast cancer risk by 40 percent in both pre- and postmenopausal women in these countries.
4. Soy and ovarian cancer
In southern China, 500 women with ovarian cancer were compared to 500 controls, and the amount of soy products eaten was assessed. Regular soy intake was associated with a dramatically lower rate of ovarian cancer with a dose-response relationship, meaning the more soy the women ate the lower their risk became.
6. Soy and overall mortality
The Singapore Chinese Health Study examined more than 52,000 men and women free of chronic diseases at entry between 1993 and 1998 and followed them all the way through 2011. During that time, there were more than 10,000 deaths. A pattern of eating a vegetable-, fruit- and soy-rich diet was associated with up to a 25 percent lower risk of dying during the study period and was also linked to fewer heart and cancer deaths.
7. New data on breast cancer survival
In an analysis performed by investigators at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science at Tufts University, the intake of isoflavones—the plant-based estrogen or phytoestrogen found in soy—was related to survival in over 6,200 women with breast cancer followed for almost 10 years. In the women who had estrogen-receptor-negative cancer, the group with the highest isoflavone (soy) intake had a reduction in all causes of death by 21 percent. In women with estrogen-receptor-positive cancer or on hormone therapy, soy had a neutral effect on survival and did not increase any adverse outcomes.
In an editorial accompanying this new research, Omer Kucuk, M.D., of the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, commented that “we now have evidence that soy foods not only prevent breast cancer but also benefit women who have breast cancer. Therefore, we can recommend women consume soy foods because of soy’s many health benefits.”
The lead study author, Dr. Fang Fang Zhang, added “for women with hormone receptor-negative breast cancer, soy food products may potentially have a protective effect. Women who did not receive endocrine therapy as a treatment for their breast cancer had a weaker, but still statistically significant, association.” The totality of data on soy is that it’s a far better choice than animal products and need not be feared. In my restaurant, GreenSpace Café, we serve organic tofu and tempeh and it is reassuring to know that the Soy Myth can be declared a true myth.
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Today, the amount of rain exposed drainage problems in our new garden. Both beds were pools of water. Under the layers of topsoil and compost is a bed of clay on limestone. Since the site is so flat, the rain has no where to go.
Nancy dug a ditch around the communal bed today to give the water an exit from the garden bed. The ditch drains to the back of the site. We will have to take a look at the family plots. We may want to consider digging a ditch system there as well.
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While reports emerged about the termination of the Metro line from Sholinganallur to Siruseri, residents of OMR (Old Mahabalipuram Road) have urged the CMRL to continue the project as per earlier plan.
Federation of OMR Resident Associations (FOMRRA) pointed out that over 50 per cent of the workforce on OMR are migrants entirely dependent on public transportation. “Youth employed in white-collar jobs like IT/ITES prefer public transport. It’s evident by the widespread adoption of buses on OMR, including AC by MTC and private operators,” said Harsha Koda, FOMRRA.
He added that public transportation, especially a metro rail will ease traffic congestion on OMR and reduce emissions. “Logically, OMR should have been the first area that CMRL should have been implemented in. At the time, land was not as expensive and the supporting infrastructure could have been integrated together,” he pointed out.
FOMRRA urged CMRL (Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority) and the Chief Minister to ensure that the project on OMR will continue as per the original plan – from Sholinganallur to Siruseri.
When asked, CMRL managing director Pradeep Yadav clarified that the reports about the termination of the Metro line at Sholinganallur is not true. “There is no change in the original plan,” he said.
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The German origin of the surname Myers has the meaning “steward or bailiff,” as in the magistrate of a city or town. … A patronymic surname meaning “son of the mayor,” from the Old English maire (maior) meaning “mayor.”
Is Myers Irish?
English (mainly Yorkshire): patronymic from Mayer 1, i.e. ‘son of the mayor’. English: patronymic from mire ‘physician’ (see Myer 1). Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Midhir, probably a variant of Ó Meidhir ‘mayor’ (see Mayer 1).
What does Myers mean in Hebrew?
The name Myers is a Jewish Ashkenazic name that was originally derived from the Yiddish male given name Meyer. This personal name was in turn derived from the Hebrew name Meir, which means enlightener.
Where does Myers originate from?
The name Myers finds its origins with the ancient Anglo-Saxons of England. It was given to one who worked as a person who held the office of mayor. The surname was originally derived from the Old English word maire, which referred to the officer who was in charge of executing summonses and other legal matters.
Who are the Myers family?
The Myer family is an Australian retailing dynasty.
|Place of origin||Australia|
|Founder||Sidney Myer Merlyn Myer (née Baillieu) Sir Norman Myer|
|Members||Ken Myer Bailleu Myer Lady Marigold Southey Neilma Gantner Carrillo Gantner Sid Myer Rupert Myer|
|Connected families||Hordern family|
Is Myers a Viking name?
Myers as a surname has several possible origins, e.g. Old French mire (“physician”), Old English maire (“mayor”), and Old Norse myrr (“marsh”).
Is Meyers a Scottish name?
The surname Meyer is an English, Dutch, German, and Jewish surname. Many branches of the Meyer(s) family trace their origins to ancient Anglo-Saxon culture.
What is Myer in the Bible?
as a boys’ name is of Hebrew derivation, and the name Myer means “farmer; bright, shining; larger; bright one; farmer; bright one”. Myer is a variant form of Mayer (German, Hebrew, Latin): Latin respelling of Major. Myer is also a derivative of Meir (Hebrew): biblical name popular in Israel.
Is Myer a first name?
Myer is both a surname and a given name.
Is Myer a girls name?
Myer – Girl’s name meaning, origin, and popularity | BabyCenter.
What are the different ways to spell Myers?
Some forms of this surname would be: Meyerfeld, Meyerheim, Meyers, Meyerstein, Meyerhardt and Meyersicht; many may have been shortened to Meyer.
Is Myers a Welsh name?
Myers Surname Name Meaning, Origin, History, & Etymology
This is a primarily a North English (mainly found in Yorkshire) and Scottish last name with five origin theories.
What happened to the Myers family?
The Myers family remained in Levittown for four years after these protests took place, only relocating because William took a job in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, THR reported. However, their decision to move to – and remain in – Levittown in the face of threats and intimidation had long-lasting impacts.
Who is Tony Myers?
Tony is a passionate enthusiast, fundraiser, consultant, strategist, author, speaker, and coach who loves to raise money and help others do the same. Tony is a self-proclaimed student of fundraising, philanthropy, and leadership. …
Why did the Myers move to Levittown?
In mid-1957, the Myerses decided to move with their three children to Levittown, Pennsylvania. … Levittown residents who wanted the family to leave directed increasingly violent attacks towards them over nine days, including threats, harassment, and violence like cross burning and damage to the Myers’ property.
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