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The world is getting images of our universe as it was billions of years ago, thanks to the most powerful telescope ever launched into space. The $10bn telescope can “see backwards in time just after the big bang by looking for galaxies that are so far away, the light has taken many billions of years to get from those galaxies to ourselves,” said Jonathan Gardner, deputy senior project scientist at NASA. The telescope, a joint endeavor with the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency, is currently about 1m miles from Earth, using lenses, filters and prisms to detect signals in the infrared spectrum. It is watching “the universe turn the lights on for the first time”, says Webb program scientist Eric Smith. “As we are ourselves made of the material synthesized in stars over the past 13 billion years, JWST has the unique ability to trace back to our own origins in this remarkable universe," says Richard Ellis, professor of astrophysics at University College London.
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Pakistan’s problems don’t seem to end anytime soon. India’s neighbour is already facing a severe financial crisis, and on top of that, they also have a major power cuts in Pakistan. After failing to reach an agreement on a deal for the supply of natural gas for next month, Pakistan is now dealing with an escalating power crisis. According to Geo News, the tender for the month of July was cancelled due to the high cost and low participation, as the country is already making continuous efforts to combat widespread blackouts. According to traders with the knowledge of the situation, the state-owned Pakistan LNG Ltd. cancelled a purchase tender for liquefied natural gas shipments in July after receiving an offer that would have been the most expensive shipment ever sent to the country.
Protests against Power-cuts
Massive demonstrations unfolded across Karachi amid an 18-hour power outage. People in Pakistan got into fights with police over load-shedding. People claimed that the extensive and frequent power outages that have been occurring during the current hot and humid weather have come without warning. A policeman and several demonstrators were hurt as protesters and police battled earlier in the day, turning the peaceful demonstration into a violent one. Syed Murad Ali Shah, the chief minister of Sindh, has directed Imtiaz Sheikh, the provincial energy minister, to see to it that the city’s electricity load-shedding crisis is quickly under control.
Syed Murad Ali Shah, the chief minister of Sindh, has given Imtiaz Sheikh, the province’s energy minister, instructions to see to it that the city’s electricity load shedding crisis is promptly managed. He instructed Sheikh to speak with K-Electric about this and inform the corporation that the city’s ongoing load shedding is threatening law and order. “K-Electric needs to make system fixes. How much more hardship can the people take?” CM Shah stated that the city’s electrical crisis should be solved as a matter of importance. The protest had earlier in the day turned violent after participants engaged in combat with LEAs, injuring a police officer as well as numerous protestors. Even though they were paying their power bills, the demonstrators said that the region was always experiencing load shedding. However, the demonstrators would not back down and continued to throw stones at the police and Rangers as they made attempts to manage the situation. There is a shortage of 5,500 megawatts, which has caused several hours of power disruptions, sources in the National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC) told local media.
The country’s supply is 22,500 megawatts, but its demand is 28,000 megawatts. Asif Bughio, the City SSP, denied claims that an old woman had passed away after suffering injuries during the protests in a statement. He denied rumours that she had passed away during the demonstration and stated that the woman was 70 years old and that the police had been in touch with her relatives to arrange for a post-mortem. “The neighbourhood has had a power outage lasting longer than 12 hours. According to the SSP, the locals are requesting that a first information report (FIR) be filed in connection with her passing.
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Power shortage to continue in Pak
KE CEO Moonis Alvi was contacted by Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Shaikh. He said that load shedding has made people’s life miserable and asked that the power company deal with the situation urgently. He informed the KE official that “the security situation is deteriorating due to prolonged load shedding” and urged the federal government to pay the power utility’s debts because it “does not have the means to produce power using furnace oil.” In addition to Karachi, Punjab is also witnessing worsening load shedding as there are now six to eight hours of power cuts per day across the province. The situation in the rural areas is, even more, worse as power is provided there for only a few hours. The country may experience greater load shedding in the upcoming month of July, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told MNAs from the PML-N and affiliated parties a day earlier. After failing to reach an agreement on a deal for the delivery of natural gas for the next month, Pakistan is now dealing with an escalation of its power crisis. As the country fails to ensure Power supply and is going through a period of financial instability, it is the citizens who are suffering the most.
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Whilst California Governor Gavin Newsom did not have a coronavirus news convention on Thursday, there was continue to a lot of news. The state described a grim new history: The amount of each day fatalities from the virus rose to 157. The former superior, 149, was viewed on July 12.
That means the full amount of COVID-associated deaths in the point out has now topped 8,000, with 8,027.
The state also observed a large 12,040 new COVID bacterial infections in the prior 24 hrs. That is just beneath the report, set on Wednesday, Newsom which was 12,807 new conditions. Newsom explained this total was “the maximum in the nation.”
The state counted 6,825 coronavirus people in the hospital as of Thursday and 1,978 contaminated men and women in the ICU. Luckily, those quantities have been down 4.8 p.c and 3.9 p.c, respectively.
California State Senator Calls For Return To Remain-At-Property Get Amid History Coronavirus Dying, Scenario Counts: “It really is Obvious That We Have Lost Manage”
Also on Wednesday, California had the unwanted difference of surpassing New York as the condition with the most COVID-19 bacterial infections. California’s 413,576 confirmed situations of COVID-19 topped the 408,886 found in New York Condition as of Wednesday.
Of course, California is the most populous state in the U.S., with about 2 times as quite a few citizens as New York Point out, so people totals ought to be taken in the context of the states’ overall populations. But it is telling supplied that New York was earlier the epicenter of the virus in the country and, at one particular position, the entire world.
In accordance to a calculation by the Sacramento Bee, about 1 in 96 point out citizens have or have had the virus.
On Thursday, California experienced 425,616 verified situations of COVID-19. The number of COVID-19 diagnostic check final results in California achieved a overall of 6,778,304, an enhance of 113,306 checks about the previous 24 hours. The charge of favourable tests in excess of the final 14 times is 7.6 %.
The Well being Director of the state’s biggest county, Los Angeles, stated on Wednesday, “COVID-19 appears to be on monitor to claim extra life in L.A. County than any other disease than coronary coronary heart ailment.” Flu, she claimed, is nowhere close to as deadly as COVID-19. In the initially 6 months of 2020, COVID-19 killed twice as lots of people in the location as did the flu more than the 8-month flu year this yr and final.
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Every piece is a masterclass in prose style and a reminder of how he earned such widespread popular affection…His moral courage shines through from the start.
This is inspirational thought delivered by graceful language about politics and aesthetics that will continue to attract and influence readers.
The Epoch Times
… A brilliantly stimulating selection of the journalism by the late Sir Roger Scruton… These are little masterpieces of philosophical polemic.
The writings expertly collected in Against the Tide go a long way to illuminating Scruton's humane and dignified conservatism.
Law and Liberty
On every page, the reader encounters a mind passionately at work, seeking to reconcile everyday problems with a moral sense.
The Washington Free Beacon
Against the Tide is a concise but rich selection of some of Scruton's writings for various journals, magazines, and newspapers … What a pleasure to see so many of these pieces back in print … it is hard to imagine a better introduction to Scruton's work than this wonderful, endlessly readable volume.
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“We congratulate the CRTC for its report on the future of programming in Canada, released earlier today. It is a comprehensive take on the challenges facing Canadian media and how they could be addressed.
“Ottawa needs to take this advice to heart and act quickly in the face of the crisis in Canadian local news and storytelling.
“The CRTC has now joined a broad and vocal chorus calling on the government to require foreign internet broadcasters to contribute fairly and equitably to the creation and promotion of Canadian programs, just as their Canadian competitors are required to do.
“The report also suggests the government permit Canadian companies to deduct the cost of ads placed only on those foreign online platforms that have committed to the Canadian media system, including financing of Canadian content. This recognizes that the government’s current approach of allowing full deduction of advertising expenses on all foreign tech giant platforms is draining precious resources from Canadian media at a time when they are starving for those same ad dollars.
“We would have liked the Commission to focus also on the survival of severely threatened local television stations, especially in small and medium-sized markets where 50% of local stations are forecast to close as early as 2021.
“With these thoughtful recommendations in hand, Ottawa has no excuse to delay action. Canadians expect and deserve a decisive response now.”
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The Sofa Troops
An army of optimists.
This is so inspiring it had to be passed on.
It's by one Natalia Osipova. It's basically a 'machine translation'. But it shows that Russian people, despite being one of the most shat-on peoples in human history, are capable of incredible intelligence and generosity.
It's worth passing on.
All around us, suddenly and very quickly, there were huge opportunities to do good.
And not alone, but individually, when, after watching a video about a sick child, you transfer money to a charity fund, responding to someone's personal misfortune. Now a big problem has come, and people - without commercials, agitation, appeals - instantly built their own chains of mutual assistance. They chose who they wanted to help and how they wanted to help, and started to act. By the way, this refutes all the long-standing arguments about a passive, lazy, patriarchal people of Russia who won't get up from the couch without a shout from their superiors. Many people have been feeding on this analysis and journalism of whining and losers for years. Life has refuted the propagandists of our inferiority and being defeated.
It turns out that people in Russia can organise themselves collectively, quickly, and powerfully if they see a worthy goal.
Just one story. Activist group helps refugees from Ukraine - you won't see them in promoted blogs, TV discussions, and streams, they are just ordinary, non-public people who aren't involved in political battles. Assistance to refugees is effective: food, things, employment, registration in Russia, books, toys, and sometimes just a kind word. So that they do not despair, so that they know that everyone in Russia really needs them. In the course of their voluntary work, group members monitor marketplaces to buy things and household items at the best prices. And they accidentally find deposits of propaganda products. Combat 'merch' is presented in the assortment: 'Slava Ukraini', 'holy javelins', glorification of the Azov regiment, Zelensky's advertising with a demand to give him weapons to bomb the Russians, insulting chants against Russia and its president. In general, the classic set of Ukrainian Goebbels droppings.
Outraged by such unscrupulousness of online merchants, activists start throwing messages in the comments of popular public sites. But not finding understanding there and not wanting to wait for a big scandal to unfold, they decide to act on their own and throw complaints at the technical support of the marketplace. Because we need to act quickly and effectively. And the IT giant gives up. In less than a day, all the neo-Nazi 'Slava Ukraini' and 'I am Zelensky Give Me Weapons' on T-shirts, mugs, and stickers are swept out. Almost the same 'invisible hand of the market' that liberals prayed for in the 90s. Only now it doesn't work quite as planned. When people understand that the fate of the country depends on their choices, they act as responsible citizens, forming demand in this way: the marketplace issues Russian-Ukrainian phrasebooks, recipes for Ukrainian cuisine, and Ukrainian suggestions for the word 'Ukrainian'. When you enter 'Glory to Ukraine T-shirt' in the search box, T-shirts with the Soviet poster 'Glory to the liberators of Ukraine' appear, where a soldier with a red star on his helmet hugs a girl.
Splendid, isn't it? And without complaining to the authorities.
It all started almost immediately after February 24. People have decided that they want and can work for a common cause.
In the DPR, humanitarian convoys with necessary supplies - food, medicines, children's and adult items, hygiene items, and gifts - were sent to the LPR. As well as cargo for warriors. Everyone quickly understood the nomenclature of this new charity: drones, silencers, armours, helmets, glasses, scopes.
It seems that now charity collections are conducted by everyone who has a bank card and a desire to serve people.
Telegram channels that have gathered tens of thousands of subscribers under their umbrella make fees of several million in three to five hours. Unprecedented speeds and amounts. The e-wallet is filled online, and there is a sporting excitement: it is fascinating to watch the process and participate in it. Everything is documented in detail, and lists of purchased products are kept. Reports are laid out - with photos of the purchased items, unpacking boxes, and video recordings in which soldiers thank them for the equipment and ammunition sent to help. Although no one demands anything, it is a good form to report, and it is a voluntary commitment.
Openness, an active position, mutual accountability, the institution of reputations - all that progressive human rights activists have long wished for and complained about - are emerging before our eyes. Civil society - the one that was so long awaited - emerged almost immediately after February 24. And this is not a society of grant recipients and whistleblowers of the 'regime'. Ordinary, really ordinary, people - from the next building, from the bus, from the store. Me, you, him, her.
Take a good look around. Surely at least half of your friends and acquaintances are involved in charity fundraising. They either participate in organising shipments or transferring funds.
Profession, occupation, wealth, and marital status are unimportant. The movement engulfed almost everyone.
A long-time friend guides several refugee families: she helps them in difficult situations, is constantly in touch, and monitors their condition, housing, money, and clothing. He doesn't give up after dropping off the parcel and calling a couple of times. 'People from Ukraine should know that they are needed, that they are ours, and we are theirs. And that we are normal, that we are all our own here.' Without loudly declaring himself admirable, he continues public work. Only sometimes he is happy: he managed to help a family register in a small Russian city, despite the resistance of local authorities, managed to help a person find work, managed to quickly send a parcel to Lugansk. And in response, he sometimes receives messages: 'My daughter laughed for the first time when she saw the toy sent. Thank you.' No one has commissioned them, and no one is a member of any volunteer movement - it's just because they feel that way.
A popular artist sends valuable cargo to the front - armours, glasses, scopes. A famous pianist buys a pile of children's clothes and brings them to the humanitarian aid collection point. The director of a large enterprise goes to a creative meeting with a famous writer whom he trusts, and passes money from hand to hand for purchases. The author of a popular Telegram channel has turned into a front-line quartermaster and collects money on an already very serious scale. A famous poetess helps animal shelters and puts up former 'kittens' (now cats) all over the country.
A well-known architect has already sent a couple of lorries to the DPR. In the past, he was a scout for a modeling agency, knows a lot of beauties from the industry. He shares his impressions: if some of his rich friends ignored the request for money, then almost all the models supported and chipped in - some for 300 and some for 500 rubles. Although, it would seem, that's really who lost from the SVO, so it's them, the beauties, the infantry of globalisation - they need these Parisian shows and bags from fashion boutiques. But no, models are collected for armoured fighters.
An influential political scientist has figured out the drone market and conducts targeted fees. A team of subscribers gathered around him, who enthusiastically finishes off the necessary amounts. They even came up with the idea of giving drones names to make it easier to track their path, and names are more interesting. Subscribers compete with each other in creativity: Whack, Thunder, Thunderstorm, Coconut, Mosquito, Sonnet, Lyre, Harpy, Sauron. And then a famous writer comes to the comments and rolls out options: Dante, Byron, Keats, Shelley. The Russians turn everything into literature, even the collection for combat drones.
All those who spend their time on charity and volunteering are doing even more than just helping the army and volunteers. They help anyone who would like to participate but doesn't know how. Everyone who is at home, busy with the usual family and work activities, but feels that a great story and a great drama is happening right now. To all those who have no other opportunity to touch the real common cause.
The divan army - 'Group D', as aptly defined by journalist Andrey Medvedev - is large and active. Hundreds and thousands of rubles are being transferred to bank cards, huge sums are being collected, and valuable cargo flows from Russia to the southern lands.
The good old medical charity could not have imagined such a scale - usually for fees you need advertising, commercials on TV, on websites, on the radio. Without good marketing, the idea doesn't work. Now we are seeing how one ad on the network causes a wave of donations. And more often, you don't need ads. Citizens themselves are looking for where and to whom to transfer. A typical question for those who are a little late: 'So, tell me, who can you trust from those who are collecting? I want to participate.'
And all these people know that they will not receive gratitude and glory, they will not be called 'good Russians'. Our opponents are waging their campaign even against the assistance provided by Russian citizens to refugees. In the Ukrainian agitprop, refugees who voluntarily left for Russia are called 'deported', and children are called 'abducted'.
So our caring and noble people who give their small but such large funds on the scale of the usual family budget to help victims, often make their choice not because of, but in spite of. Despite all the pressure, manipulation, and accusations, volunteers and philanthropists participate with the most precious things - their lifetime and a good name. Participation in training camps is like putting a personal signature on the fact that our cause is just.
During the Great Patriotic War, people raised funds for the Defence Fund. Every sixth tank or plane was built at the expense of citizens. One day, historians will count and weigh our small donations in a scientifically accurate balance.
But it is already clear that, by helping others, we always save ourselves. From despondency, fear, disbelief. Volunteers are a real army of optimists. A civil society that works for victory and is guided by the ideals of humanism - this is what happened to us after February 24.
Postscript: Natalia Osipova
Natalia’s often on point.
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By Andrew Dodson on March 9, 2015 at 10:50pm
Being a mother lynx is stressful.
"Shelter 2" was developed by game studio Might and Delight and is the sequel (sorta) to the first "Shelter" game which came out in 2013. In "Shelter," the player controls a mother badger who must keep her litter of cubs alive. "Shelter 2" follows that same recipe, but this time around, the player controls a lynx.
Right off the bat, "Shelter 2" starts off much more dramatically than the first game. The cubs have not yet been born, and the player is immediately thrust into a survival situation where they have control of a very pregnant lynx being hunted by wolves on a cold, stormy night. This part is essentially a very fast-paced tutorial - there are wolves right behind you, and you have to learn how to run, move and jump very quickly. Luckily, the controls are very simple.
That is the big thing about Might and Delight's "Shelter" games. It isn't about points or learning new moves or getting power-ups or combos. They are very simple. You are a lynx, and you can do lynx things.
If you do lynx things poorly, you will die.
In the first "Shelter," the game starts with the badger cubs having already been born and you just lead them out of the den. In "Shelter 2," you help guide (sort of) the lynx to a safe den and then, and the next morning, the cubs are born. You are also given the ability to name the four newborns, which is an action that you couldn't take in the original game. As silly as it sounds, naming the cubs gave me an instant emotional connection with the lynx family. I wanted these animals to survive, whereas in "Shelter," I didn't feel all that attached to the badgers.
Another big different between the two games, is that "Shelter 2" feels much bigger and is a lot less linear. You are given huge areas of land to explore, and you can go any direction that you want, which is in contrast with the first game.
As you bring food back to the newborn cubs in the den, they grow stronger and start following you into the wilderness. From this point forward, the game is very much about exploration. You simply choose a direction and go - there isn't a good or bad path. Might and Delight were very focused on making game that simulated the simplicity of nature: All you have to do is survive. You do that by moving forward, and occasionally chasing down a rabbit or deer to feed your cubs.
It is mostly deceptively easy. I say mostly because there were a few times while playing, where I simply couldn't find any food. I'd look and look, never straying far from the four little lynxes that were struggling to keep up but all I could find was a field mouse and that isn't nearly enough meat for all of them. At this point, it was night and a thunderstorm was picking up. One of my cubs collapsed from hunger and started crying out. I turned around and picked her up, eager to find more fertile hunting grounds. Then another cub collapsed. I put the two little ones together, and started running into the forest, desperate to find a rabbit or a frog....or anything. I could hear them both meow-ing pathetically behind me as I raced into the night.
I caught a fat, white rabbit and rushed it back, but I had taken too long. One of the cubs had died of starvation. Within the first twenty minutes or so of playing, I had already lost one of the cubs. It was much more emotionally devastating than I'd like to admit. I felt like a failure. I had to stop playing for a while, and I considered restarting the game entirely. But, in the end, I pushed forward with my game and my three remaining cubs.
As you explore the vast world, and become more successful at hunting, your cubs start to grow and at one point, they mature into adolescents. At this stage, they still follow you around and depend on you for most of their food, but they are much faster and a lot less helpless (they'll even grab their own food on occasion). There was something very cool about stalking up on a herd of deer with your teenage lynx children crouched up right next to you.
The game progresses by echoing the seasons, and towards the "endgame," your now mature lynx cubs will slowly leave you - venturing off into the wilderness to form their own families. I really appreciated this aspect of the game, as I felt that it provided a nice cap on that whole "circle of life" vibe that the game provides. At this point, "worn and weary" (as the game puts it), Mother Lynx returns to Rest.
I would be remiss not to mention the gorgeous hand-drawn style that the entire game is rendered in. From the moment you start playing, the game looks like a moving, patchwork painting. The colors are soft and blend nicely into one another, There was more than one occasion where I made it to the top of a rock, and got to behold an entire meadow with mountains in the distance and all I could do was say: "...wow." I've heard some complaints that the patchwork style makes it hard to see things, but I did not feel that way. Everything just looks nice, and in the instances where a rabbit was blending into it's surroundings too well, you were able to use your lynx senses (smell and hearing) to pick out hidden prey.
As far as downsides of the game, it is very short - I completed my first run-through in just about an hour. I don't really see this as a bad thing though, as the game provides you a story that you literally live through and, at the end, it feels meaningful. There are a number of collectibles in the game (in the form of golden leaves and twigs and such), and while I found a few, they really weren't a driving force for me.
Another thing I didn't like was the lack of real threats. You start the game being chased by a pack of wolves, so I assumed that wolves would be a major predator - but they really weren't. I encountered a pack once, and while it was super intense moment and I ran away as fast as I could with my cubs, the wolf pack kind of just ran right by me and into the distance. They didn't really chase us or do anything threatening at all. I was almost disappointed because I was totally ready to fight some wolves if they tried to eat one of my cubs. The lack of threat makes the game much less intense, because without the possibility of wolf attacks, the lynx really feels like the alpha predator in "Shelter 2."
I enjoyed my experience playing "Shelter 2," but it is also a game that I'm not sure I need to play again. At the end of the game, you have the option of starting another playthrough as one of your cubs (now mature and pregnant) and continuing the in-game family tree and see how many generations you can take this lynx family. Maybe I'll get the urge one day to get some collectibles, and I'll take another lynx family out on a journey, but for right now, I enjoyed the experience and I don't really need another one.
Overall, Might and Delight have provided us another gorgeous life-simulator with "Shelter 2." The game is short, but it tells the story that it wants to tell: The life of Mother Lynx and her cubs. With "Shelter 2," MIght and Delight nail both sides of Nature - the beautiful simplicity of it all and the raw, unforgiving unknown that drives us to survive. If you're a fan of artistic gaming experiences and sneaking up on rabbits before tearing them to shreds so you can feed your young, then "Shelter 2" is definitely a title you should look into.
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Many people might be aware of the Sun God of Ancient Egypt called Ra that is believed to be the creator of life on Earth. But, you may not be aware of the modern message of Ra, revealing the true nature of consciousness: The Law of One.
Conveyed through a Q and A conversation with a professor of physics and an investigator of UFOs, Don Elkins, that occurred between 1981 and 1984, Ra speaks in the form of a 6-dimensional consciousness or social memory complex.
What this conversation explains is the lost message of ancient Egyptian culture originating from the 2.6 billion-year-old Ra species on the planet Venus.
Find out what is The Law of One, why it has remerged in our time, and how it is the catalyst for the dawning of a new age.
One Infinite Creator
If you had to explain The Law of One meaning it would need to begin with the concept of one infinite creator. Do not confuse this with a monotheist religion where a god controls and rules a world as a separate supreme being. It is quite the opposite.
Instead, the one creator is a macrocosm of the individual. Or rather, the individual is a piece, projection, and expression of this one whole source of creation.
Ra calls the knowing creator the “infinite intelligence,” a presence that exists within each soul that has the potential to unlock its all-knowing capabilities. To do this it must accept and understand The Law of One and realize the self, as well as others, are all the same; are all one.
Illusions and Distortions of Duality
In The Law of One, Ra explains the need for the human experience using a set of illusions and distortions. The illusion of separation creates the ultimate lessons for the creator through as many conscious life forms as possible.
The main part of this Law of One illusion is the perception of duality: the good and the bad. Our minds classify everything we see and experience as a polarity. These are called distortions of which there are three primary ones:
- Free Will
Our free will initiates unique experiences for the benefit of the creator by disallowing intervention. Ironically, free will often seems absent as we look to outside forces for answers, retributions, comforts, and solutions. However, it is our free will that allows us to choose various pathways back to knowing who we truly are.
Also ironically but not coincidentally, the very revelations of our free will dissolves this distortion, allowing individual experiences to unlock our full potential as free souls.
Otherwise called love, Logos are the manifestation of form in our reality. For example, our galaxy is a logos for it is the largest manifestation in scale. A sub-logoi would then be pieces of the main logos like the sun. Humans and other life-forms are then considered to be sub-sub-logoi.
Each logos is a creation of insurmountable experience. As such, logos, sub-logoi, and sub-sub-logoi act as separate vessels to gain as much experience as possible. This, as we shall see, is a cycle of creation, experience, transcendence, and creation again.
The third piece of the distortion puzzle is the means that allows our reality to exist: light. It is the energy field of light that gives shape to the illusions of space and form as well as time.
Although light acts as a distortion by serving the illusion it is also the force that is used for ascension to the source. Therefore, it is an essential piece of our evolution to oneness.
Moving Through Densities
This Law of One summary cannot be complete without a discussion of the levels of density.
There are seven realities or densities with the eighth density being that which creates the other seven. Each density represents a time period of reality in relation to the awareness and unity of the self. This is the process by which any new logos comes into being.
This is the first step toward the emergence of a reality as time begins to exist as a physical manifestation. Here we see the existence of primal elements of earth, air, water, and fire. This takes about 2 billion years to cultivate.
In the next 4.6 billion years, the second density of biological life forms using complex cellular matter and the implementation of DNA in its primitive state.
For most humans, this is the reality we have experienced in our written and ancient histories. It is the development of consciousness and the manifestation of the “soul” into physical form. This is the turning point for the creator as it begins a direct connection through experience with its creation. This phase only takes 75,000 years.
The souls found in the third density can choose to ascend into the fourth density by using love as a means of union. This is what creates, as Ra calls it, a “social memory complex” that unites consciousness under a goal of love for one’s self or for the love of others. A fourth density lasts about 30 million years with lifespans lasting about 90,000 years.
In the fifth density, light prevails as the individual is filled with the creator’s wisdom. This is a graceful reality where the individual can manifest and manipulate their physical self and surroundings.
This is the density of Ra, where the union of wisdom and love exist. Those on the path of self-love realize the need to open up to the love of others in order to serve universal awakening. This phase of sixth density lasts for approximately 75 million years.
Acting as a gateway, this is the destiny of ascension where the seventh and eighth densities meet and become one with the source.
Here is the home of creation and the creator. It is also where the formation of a new first density, after a cycle, is completed. The new logos incorporates the experiences from the other densities to create another evolved reality from the beginning.
The Veil of Experience and Harvest Graduations
In order to experience as much as possible in form, the creator places a veil upon itself in that form. By being born as a blank slate, the soul gets to experience life as a new.
Slowly, through lessons; the veil is lifted. As the veil lifts through each density a harvesting occurs.
A harvest is a transcendence into a new density after learning what it needs to from the previous density. If the lesson is not learned then the individual forms repeat the density in a cycle of karma until it is ready to move on.
Once a certain number of souls move to another density a new reality is formed on their planet. According to Ra, humans are in the process of moving into a fourth density.
Those still in third density will be reincarnated on another planet or sub-logoi to continue their learning. The new fourth density Earth will consist of first, second, and fourth density beings only. This will birth a new paradigm on the planet.
Invoking The Law of One
Knowing what is the Law of One is the first step toward embracing it. For you will know only when your karmic soul is prepared for the next leap forward.
Now is the time to choose a path of either self love through healing (the negative) or service to others by expression (the positive). Both are equally important and will eventually lead you to the same ending of a union as one.
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In our home we always had rules about screen time, especially computer time. We also highly regulated what our kids could watch on television. Our kids weren’t even allowed to get cell phones until they were teenagers! None of these rules harmed my kids. They grew up to be well-balanced, responsible young adults who know how to create and maintain healthy boundaries in their lives.
Unfortunately, many children growing up today are not learning those same life lessons. A main reason for this is the fact that they lack human interaction because their nose is always buried in a screen. Often, we as adults are just as guilty. We all need to set limits to our screen time to maintain healthy relationships.
I was excited to read Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World, and I’m even more excited to loan my copy to friends of mine who desperately need to read this book and make some drastic changes in their current family/screen dynamic.
About Growing Up Social
Children today are no longer playing hide-and-seek outside or curling up with a good book—instead they’ve been introduced to a world of constant digital entertainment through television, video games, and mobile devices. And while technology has the potential to add value to our lives and families, it can also erode a sense of togetherness and hinder a child’s emotional and social development.
In Growing Up Social, Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane will empower you with the necessary tools to make positive changes…starting today. Through stories, wit, and wisdom, you’ll discover how to take back your home from an over dependence on screens. Plus, you’ll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every healthy child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention.
- Equip your child to be relationally rich in a digital world
- Replace mindless screen time with meaningful family time
- Establish simple boundaries that make a huge difference
- Discover what’s working for families that have become screen savvy
- Learn healthy ways to occupy your child while you get things done
Now is the time to equip your child to live with screen time, not for screen time. No phone, tablet, or gaming device can teach your child how to have healthy relationships—only you can.
Mom Maven’s Thoughts
Every parent with a child of any age living in their house needs to read this book! Yes, I mean you! Go ahead and order it from Amazon right now. Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World is the best book I have read on digital parenting. It cites not just the relational reasons for limiting screen time but also the developmental and educational reasons.
I love that this book focus on what they call the A+ Skills of Affection, Appreciation, Anger Management, Apology and Attention. All of these skills are severely diminished in people with excessive screen time and part of this book focuses on how to raise relational kids who have mastered these important skills.
The book also has a quiz at then end titled “Does Your Child Have Too Much Screen Time?” Chances are, the results of this very short quiz will open your eyes to an issue in your home.
This book is not all doom and gloom and shaming parents who up to this point have not be consistent in limiting screen time. It is full of suggestions, ideas and reasons of why and how you can handle this area of parenting better. This book is great to read alone, with your spouse or in a book club setting. There are discussion questions for each chapter to help you dig deeper into the topic.
The Growing Up Social Giveaway
One winner will receive their own copy of Growing Up Social. The winner will be chosen by Rafflecopter and verified. The winner will be notified via email and they will have 48 hours to claim their prize. This giveaway ends at 12:00am on 11-21-14.
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The Blackeyed Susan is a hearty flower. I know because they’re growing by a rock wall, next to my house. I didn’t plant them and I do nothing to care for them.
Unfortunately, I have come to face the fact that I’m a plant killer. I don’t mean to, but somehow I forget about them. Even when I try to nurture plants, they seem to linger a little while, but eventually fail to thrive.
Maybe the flower fairy felt sorry for me one day. Flying over my barren property, she may have dropped a little fairy dust in the form of seeds. Walking past the rock wall this summer, I noticed a profusion of happy daisies with golden petals and dark, come hither eyes - the non assuming, but in your face, Black-eyed Susan.
Black-eyed Susans symbolize motivation and encouragement. They’re not fragile and won’t wilt with the first frost. I wouldn’t call them exquisite like an orchid, or lovely like a rose, but they are fun, flirty and dependable.
By the way, ever wonder where the name, Black-eyed Susan came from? An old English poem was written by Poet John Gay (1685-1732), who penned the name. The poem was about a young man named William who was setting sail for the high seas. Before his embarking, his true love, Susan, came on board to say goodby.
“ All in the downs, the fleet was moored,
Banners waving in the wind.
When Black-Eyed Susan came aboard, and eyed the burly men.
"Tell me ye sailors, tell me true
Does my Sweet William sail with you?"
In any case, I’m very glad the sweet Black-eyed Susan popped up in close proximity. For their own sake, I will leave them alone and admire from a distance.
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What is authentic Catholic social doctrine?
Since the Encyclical (Rerum Novarum) in 1891, the Church has spoken many times on social justice. In 2004 the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace published a 300 page document titled the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church which exhaustively reviews all Catholic teachings on social justice in all spheres, not just economic. The Compendium reaffirms Rerum Novarum is “a lasting paradigm” for the Church’s social doctrine.
The institution closest to the conditions on the ground should handle responsibility for overseeing and controlling that activity. In other words, if a municipal government can handle a social responsibility, such as community planning, or water supply, it should do so rather than a national government.
Protect property rights
- Socialism is not a remedy to social ills.
- Private property is an unalienable right.
Respect for work and the worker
- The fruits of one's labor are to be the sole property of the individual. No one has a right to take your property.
- Wage negotiations should be free agreements between the workingman and the employer.
- Employers owe their workers a just wage sufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage earner.
- Workers owe your employer a fair and honest days work.
- “The free market is an institution of social importance because of its capacity to guarantee effective results in the production of goods and services.”
- “Freedom is the highest sign in man of his being made in the divine image and, consequently, is a sign of the sublime dignity of every human person.”
- No Christian, in light of the fact that he belongs to a united and fraternal community, should feel that he has the right not to work and to live at the expense of others (cf. 2 Thes 3:6-12). Rather, all are charged by the Apostle Paul to make it a point of honour to work with their own hands, so as to “be dependent on nobody” (1 Thes 4:12).
Work for the Common Good
The common good is "the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily" (Pope John XXIII: Pacem in Terris 55)Pope John Paul II said:
[The Common Good] "is not simply the sum total of particular interests; rather it involves an assessment and integration of those interests on the basis of a balanced hierarchy of values; ultimately, it demands a correct understanding of the dignity and the rights of the person" (Centesimus Annus 47).
Participation and Solidarity
Participation and solidarity are two other fundamental principles of Catholic social thought. Participation is defined by the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church as when each
[C]itizen, either as an individual or in association with others, whether directly or through representation, contributes to the cultural, economic, political and social life of the civil community to which he belongs. Participation is a duty to be fulfilled consciously by all, with responsibility and with a view to the common good. (189)
But the state should not make the people dependent financially upon it:
[Solidarity is not a] feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good. That is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all. (John Paul II: Sollicitudo Rei Socialis 38)
Peace or Just War
We should pursue peace at almost all cost. These are the conditions under which a nation may take up arms:
- [T]he damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave and certain;
- all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
- there must be serious prospects of success;
- the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.
The power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition. These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the "just war" doctrine. The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good. (CCC 2309)
Deference to the poor
Almsgiving is a core principle of Catholicism. Give to the poor. The state should not overreach their jurisdiction in this, and become a "Nanny" state.
Malfunctions and defects in the social assistance state [or welfare state] are the result of an inadequate understanding of the tasks proper to the state. Here again the principle of subsidiarity must be respected: A community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to coordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good. (Centesimus Annus48)
The Catholic Church stands against socialism. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, know first hand the consequences of socialism, communism and fascism. John Paul II suffered first under Nazis fascism and then Soviet communism in Poland and was instrumental in liberating Poland from Soviet Communism and in the fall of the Soviet empire. Benedict XVI grew up in Nazis Germany and risked his life in resistance to the Nazis regime. The Catholic Church promotes personal Christocentric love and respect of your neighbor in all affairs and social dealings under the principle of subsidiarity and has strongly opposed all Government efforts at socialism as an unacceptable remedy for social ills.
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My name is Doug Wykstra, and this is some of the stuff I've read and watched.
Let’s get this out of the way immediately: Darren Aronofsky’s adaptation of the story of Noah from Genesis takes major liberties with the story, in a way that can be hard to stomach if you’re religious, even if, like me, you’re religious in a way that finds more value in Genesis as a moral guide than a historical document. It’s not just that Aronofsky alters things like the age of Noah’s children, the death of his father, and other non-trivial details in the text: it’s how he alters them, making the characters’ choices more cruel, and their decisions more horrifying, than anything we find in the text. It’s almost as if Aronofsky, who grew up in a Jewish tradition before losing any serious religious convictions, has decided that the major flaw of the Old Testament is that its God is insufficiently sadistic for his purposes–which might be a conclusion we could understand the creator of Requiem for a Dream arriving at.
And yet, as the film goes on, you see that these changes are not arbitrary, or cruel without purpose: like a scientist altering some of the parameters of an experiment to find an answer to a specific question, Aronofsky has altered his story in a manner necessary to communicate his message. It’s a strangely pure gesture, as though Aronofsky knows that his concerns are different than those of the biblical text, and alters them accordingly.
The changes and embellishments Aronofsky adds to the story basically have a single large change at their root: God reveals His commands to Noah (played by Russell Crowe) without hinting at their purpose. Noah, therefore, believes that God intends to remove humans from the world and create a new Eden, preserving only those animals who did not fall in the first one. Their task, as he sees it, is to deliver the land-dwelling animals to safety, and then to die, leaving no offspring: “Your mother and I will die, and you will bury us in the ground. Shem and Ila, you will die, and Ham and Japheth will bury you. Then, Ham, you will die, and Japheth will bury you. And you, Japheth, will be the last man, and will die in your turn.”
Of course, in order to sustain this idea, the text must be changed: Noah’s children are younger, so that Ham and Japheth have no wives, and Shem’s wife, Ila (played by Emma Watson), is barren. If Aronofsky wants to plausibly create a Noah who believes humanity’s final end is to shepherd all the world’s creatures into an Eden of which humanity itself is unworthy, he must have a family that seems unlikely to procreate.
The question that naturally follows is, why does Aronofsky want to give Noah this belief? The answer lies in how Aronofsky depicts the great majority of humanity, which in his telling are the descendants of Cain. While Noah and his ancestors “only collect what we can use, and what we need,” the children of Cain spread throughout the earth, consuming, burning, building, until they fill it in massive numbers. They create enormous slaughterhouses of meat, yet millions still starve, and the breathtakingly evil acts they commit are done in such a din of chaos and blood that people hardly seem able to pay attention to them. One of the most horrifying moments in the movie is an extended sequence where Noah walks through the wicked tents of the Cainites and glimpses the perversity and evil born of the constant need to consume and multiply.
You could argue that this is a misanthropic view of humanity. And yet, if you follow environmental causes, if you’ve seen graphs of the exponential growth of the world’s population in just a few short centuries, the conception of humanity Aronofsky creates is probably not something entirely alien to your own thoughts. And it’s easy to see Noah’s disgust with humanity as a larger disgust at the human need to kill, consume, and multiply. With the view of humanity Noah has, it’s no wonder he believes mankind is destined for destruction.
Only Aronofsky doesn’t necessarily think that Noah’s God shares this view of humanity. The second breathtaking moment sequence in the film is when, as they sit within the ark, Noah tells his children the creation story from the first chapter of Genesis, and we see the whole creation unfold: chaos becomes light becomes water becomes land, and animals swim through the ocean and crawl out of the sea and eventually culminate in humans. The beauty of the progression is a counterpoint to the previous sequence of Noah among the Cainites, and suggests a flaw in Noah’s thinking: would God annihilate the final stage of His own creation?
The film is balanced between these two understandings of humanity, and the struggle between them comes across as an environmentalist struggle to consider humanity’s place in the global ecosystem: are we destined to destroy the earth and ourselves with over-consumption and war? Or is there a way we can be the stewards of the earth, protecting its animals and taking only what we need, only what we can use?
Which side does God come down on? You’ll have to see the film. And then, you might have to think for a while. And even then, you might talk with a friend and find out you disagree.
There’s a ton of stuff in Noah that is good: the performances by Crowe, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, and Jennifer Connelly, the last of whom is not given nearly enough to do. There’s crazy rock-embedded angels that seem like an original invention, but actually turn out to be from the Book of Enoch, one of the apocryphal texts in the Bible (one of the really cool things in the film is how Aronofsky weaves a variety of biblical stories and parallel myths together, and it contributes to the idea that this is Aronofsky attempting to tell his own story with biblical materials, not a literal re-telling of the Bible).
However, at the end of Noah, I didn’t feel triumphant, or joyful, or any of the feelings you tend to feel upon seeing an undisputed masterpiece. I felt slightly troubled, like I’d been given something serious to think about, and would need some time to piece it together. And as this article shows, I still haven’t: the stuff I’m talking about here is only a thin slice of the film as a whole, one narrative among many. And as far as conventional storytelling goes, Noah doesn’t provide the same sense of catharsis as Requiem for a Dream or The Wrestler or most of the films Aronofsky has made up to this point.
But maybe that’s appropriate for the film he set out to make here. When you get right down to the troubles that plague humanity, things aren’t as simple as just wiping everyone out and starting over. We’re here, we want to survive, and we want others to survive, and we want the earth to survive. Making all of those things come to pass will require some thought, not to mention a great deal of action.
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BFNA Title: Fabroniaceae
XX. FABRONIACEAE Raddi
Terry T. McIntosh
Plants very small, in green, yellow- or gray-green, often silky mats. Stems sparsely and irregularly branched, branches terete-foliate, often erect-ascending, often sub-julaceous, radiculose in scattered tufts. Leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, rarely lanceolate, subulate to piliferous, rarely blunt, often somewhat concave; margins plane, denticulate, dentate, or ciliate-dentate, rarely entire; apices acute, acuminate, or long-acuminate; costa single, 1/3--2/3 leaf length, sometimes ending in a small spine; basal cells rounded-rhomboidal to rhomboidal, quadrate to transverse-rectangular in a few rows along margins; alar cells quadrate in several rows; medial and distal laminal cells rhombic, rhomboidal, or elongate-rhombic, 30--45 x 9--12 \um, smooth; apical cells linear. Specialized asexual reproduction apparently by foliose pseudoparaphyllia. Sexual condition autoicous. Seta single, erect, yellowish, smooth. Capsule 0.35--1 mm, often flaring at the mouth with aging, neck short, wrinkled when old; exothecial cells more or less isodiametric, walls sinuose, suboral cells transverse-elongate, angular, with straight walls; stomata present in neck; annulus absent; operculum conic, umbonate to mammillate; peristome single, rarely absent, incurved when moist, erect-spreading, sometimes recurved when dry, of 16 teeth usually fused in pairs, broad-lanceolate, blunt, to 0.36 mm, red-brown, densely papillose-striolate. Calyptra cucullate. Spores 10--16 \um, coarsely papillose or smooth.
Genera 5, species ca. 17 (1 genus, 2 species in the flora): North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Atlantic Islands, Pacific Islands (Hawaii), Australia.
1. FABRONIA Raddi, Atti dell'Accademia delle Scienze di Siena 9: 231. 1808. * [For Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni, 1752--1822, Italian naturalist]
Stems prostrate. Leaves loosely appressed when dry, spreading when moist. Capsule ovoid to pyriform.
Species ca. 11 (2 in the flora): North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Atlantic Islands, Pacific Islands (Hawaii), Australia.
Fabronia is characterized by its very small size, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate, usually toothed leaves tipped with linear cells, rhomboidal laminal cells, and relatively short costa. However, because of the wide degree of morphological variability, especially within the F. ciliaris complex, Fabronia is taxonomically difficult. Discussions of Fabronia by H. A. Crum and L. E. Anderson (1981) and W. R. Buck. (1994) are enlightening with respect to the problems facing its taxonomy.
W. R. 1994. Fabroniaceae. In: A. J.
Sharp, H. A. Crum, and P.M. Eckel. 1994. The Moss Flora of
1. Leaves acute or acuminate, dentate to entire, non-ciliate, teeth consisting of one cell
. . . 1. Fabronia ciliaris
1. Leaves long-acuminate, ciliate-dentate, teeth often consisting of more than one cell..............
. . . 2. Fabronia pusilla
1. Fabronia ciliaris (Bridel) Bridel, Bryol Univ. 2:171. 1827
Hypnum ciliare Bridel, Musc. Rec. Suppl. 2:155. 1812; Fabronia ciliaris var. polycarpa (Hooker) W. R. Buck; F. ciliaris var. wrightii (Sullivant ex Sullivant & Lesquereux) W. R. Buck; F. ravenelii Sullivant; F. wrightii Sullivant
Capsules mature summer. Bark of trees and on rock; low to high elevations; Ariz., Ark., Calif., Colo., Ga., Ind., Kans., Ky., La., Mich., Minn., Mo., N.J., N. Mex., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Oreg., Pa., S.C., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex., Va., Wis.; Mex.; West Indies; Central America (Guatemala); South America; Europe; Pacific Islands (Hawaii, Japan, New Zealand); Australia.
This treatment of Fabronia ciliaris generally follows that of W. R. Buck (1994) although the varieties delimited there for F. ciliaris are not applied here though the varietal keys and associated discussions there are very useful. That work underlines the high degree of morphological variability within this species. Although many species and varieties have been described within the concept of F. ciliaris, examination of the variation between and within populations, especially with respect to the degree of leaf margin dentition, does not support the acceptance of most of these taxa. Few of the specimens that were examined could readily be sorted into any of the three varieties recognized by Buck, and the identification on a herbarium packet was often not consistent with the characters exhibited by the specimens within the packet. Thus, it appears that the interpretation of species or varieties remains subjective.
2. Fabronia pusilla Raddi, Atti Accad. Sci. Sienna 9: 231. 1808
Leaves 0.4--0.85 mm; margins ciliate-dentate, teeth often of more than one cell; apices acute to long-acuminate; medial laminal cells 30--45 X 9--12 \um. Capsule 0.5--0.8 mm; peristome to 0.36 mm. Spores 9--14 \um.
Capsules mature late spring--summer. Rock. bark at bases of
trees; low to high elevations; B.C.,
Fabronia pusilla is a tiny but beautiful moss, unmistakable because of the long-acuminate and ciliate-dentate leaves.
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Dates being the “superfood” that they are, are conveniently available throughout the year but people generally consume them in Ramazan only as per the sunnah of the Prophet (SAWW). Well, here I am telling you why you should include dates in your daily diet and get the maximum benefits out of them.
Here are 5 amazing facts about Dates (Khujoor) that might change your perspective towards them:
1- Instant Energy & Maximum Nutrition
Dates are an excellent source of a wide range of nutrients. With a caloric content of only 20-25 Kcal per khujoor, they have an abundance of other vital nutrients including carbs, protein, lots of fibre, calcium, iron, potassium, copper, vitamin B6 and magnesium. Eating 2-3 dates everyday not only boosts energy levels but also helps in having a better productive day with reduced episodes of tiredness and fatigue.
Mothers, take notes! Dates can be an excellent snack for your kids who always complain of feeling tired and uninterested. Semi-dried and dried khujoor has slightly more calories and definitely a lot more nutrients including certain essential minerals making it an excellent food for underweight people.
2- Helps With Your Gut Problems
Every other person is facing constipation or other gut related issues today. Bodies are under-nourished and lifestyles are mainly sedentary. Dates with their high fibre content and local availability can definitely be a promising ticket to a fruitful trip to the bathroom (pun intended). Dates are a good source of prebiotics that will also help keep your gut healthy, happy and free of inflammation.
Nutritionist’s Tip For Gut Health
Nutritionist’s Tip For Chronic Constipation
Soak 2-3 dates in water and eat them with prolonged chewing on an empty stomach!
3- Helps with Overall Health
When I say overall health, YES, I mean overall health. Dates are called superfood for a reason!
Dates can do wonders to your bone health. Yes, you heard us right! The excellent proportion of calcium, potassium, copper and magnesium are just the right things for your bones to help fight off osteoporosis. For anaemic girls, dates along with their iron content can help improve your Haemoglobin!
Well, let’s talk about the most magical benefit, i.e., it’s anti-ageing properties. Vitamins and minerals present in dates help in improving skin’s elasticity and makes it smooth. Note that dates are a little hard to digest and have a relatively garam taseer, therefore, it’s better not to load up on this fruit unless you are okay with frequent breakouts, boils, acne, heartburn. 2-3 dates are really enough for you to get the maximum benefits out of them!
4- Aids in Weight Loss and/or Weight Gain
With a low caloric content, this fruit is magically dense in nutrients. It can really be a good mid day or evening snack, even during your weight loss journey. Trust me on this, dieting ki kamzoriyon se bacha lay ga ye fruit! Pair it with cucumbers, lemonade or other thandi taseer items.
5- Satisfies Your Meethay ki Cravings
Important Points to Remember
- Diabetics need to monitor their blood sugar level before indulging in this treat.
- Renal (kidney) patients should consult their doctor or dietitian as this fruit might lead to a nutrient overload.
- People having IBS/IBD might not tolerate this fruit well.
- In severe case of diarrhoea or loose stool, it’s better to avoid eating dates.
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Sprinkler nozzles work on the basis of several factors; these are nozzle orifice diameter to allow water to pass through, discharge flow rate, and pressure. For a given nozzle size, it is the pressure that governs the amount of water that is forced through the nozzle and it is the pressure that provides the force to create the diameter of throw of the water stream.
Nozzles can be tested to determine if there is a pressure at which they provide a good distribution profile. When found, the nozzle diameter, its angle from the horizontal, its operating pressure and radius of throw are recorded. This information is used for design purposes. It is the information found in catalogs and nozzle charts.
A sprinkler catalog generally shows performance for a sprinkler and nozzle combination. Shown will be a chart giving for several pressures the pressure, nozzle orifice diameter, discharge rate in gallons per minute (gpm) or liters per minute (lpm), and the radius of throw, in feet (ft).
Sprinkler distribution patterns will be poor for too low a pressure and for too high a pressure. Too low a pressure causes the water to come out of the nozzle in a stream that falls heavier in one place along the radius of throw; a donut pattern is formed. Too high a pressure causes the water stream to break up too much when passing through the nozzle to create a mist that falls heavier close to the sprinkler head.
As a learning exercise, go to a page in Rain Bird’s catalog to look at the specs for the Rain Bird 20JH sprinkler or Rain Bird 20JH metric. General specs for the sprinkler are given on the spec sheet on the left under the photo as:
Trajectory Angle: 23° (degrees above the horizon of the water stream)
Operating Range: 35 – 80 psi (pounds per square inch)
Flow Range: 2.0 – 5.47 gpm (gallons per minute)
Radius: 35 – 44 ft (feet)
In the chart for Straight Bore Nozzle (SBN-1) there are four nozzle sizes that cover the range given in the sprinkler specs. Note in column one for the 7/64 inch nozzle that both the radius of throw (Rad.) and the flow rate (gpm) of the nozzle increases as the pressure (psi @ nozzle) increases. These four nozzles apparently give an acceptable distribution pattern with pressures from 35 to 60 psi. The radius of throw increases a small amount. The application rate increases for the higher pressures.
The information tells the system designer that sprinkler spacing can be about 30 to 50 feet maximum apart (40% to 60% of diameter), depending on wind and specific nozzle size and operating pressure. It is important that this information be used designing the system.
Another point to observe here is that if a 7/64 inch nozzle wears and it becomes a 1/8 inch nozzle, the water demand increases and the pump may not be able to supply more water at the same pressure. Most irrigation pumps have a pressure – flow rate relationship that changes, often inversely, so a greater demand for water (the larger nozzle) results in the pump supplying the greater flow at a lower pressure. This leads to a distorted water application pattern and non-uniform application.
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Welcome to Christian Forums, a Christian Forum that recognizes that all Christians are a work in progress.
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English: American Standard Version
22 And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them, saying, 2 The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, 3 and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the marriage feast: and they would not come.
11 But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment: 12 and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless.
16 And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou regardest not the person of men.
23 On that day there came to him Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him, 24 saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not [the God] of the dead, but of the living.
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|A magical device for general protection and good fortune. An amulet differs from a talisman in that talismans are made and ritually consecrated for specific tightly focused purposes, while amulets are more general, and are often not formally consecrated at all.
The use of amulets goes back far into prehistoric times, and the oldest known civilizations are rich in amulet lore. The ancient Egyptians fashioned amulets of gold, precious and semiprecious stones, as well as less expensive materials. The ankh, the hieroglyph for "life," was among the most common Egyptian amulets, but there were many others, including the Udjat or Eye of Horus and the scarab beetle, a symbol of the sun. The ancient cultures of Mesopotamia had a rich amulet lore of their own, as did ancient Greece and Rome. In the Greek world, the ephesia grammata or "Ephesian letters" were among the most important ingredients in amulets.
The great monotheistic faiths of the Piscean Age??"Judaism, Christianity, and Islam??"brought their own traditions to bear on the lore and use of amulets. Texts from various sacred scriptures came to play a large part in amulets; in Christianity, which did not forbid the use of sacred images, pictures, or statues of the Trinity or the saints had a similar role. To this day many conservative Catholics keep a plastic statue of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or a patron saint in their cars to ward off auto accidents.
In modern ceremonial magic, amulets are somewhat neglected in favor of talismans and other, more focused magical devices. The modern Pagan scene, on the other hand, has made much more use of amulets, with the silver pentagram as the most common amulet. Amulets from other magical traditions, especially mojo bags from hoodoo, are also much used in the Pagan scene in North America.
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The expertise of the physicians and surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital benefits patients well beyond New England. Through Partners in Health, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization, specialists from the Brigham travel to hospitals in developing countries around the globe, offering patient care as well as training for local doctors.
Over the past decade, Brigham otolaryngologist Anthony A. Prince, MD, has made a number of trips with his colleague, Robert Boucher, MD, MPH, to Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais (HUM), in Mirebalais, Haiti. At HUM, he works with local otolaryngologists and general surgeons in providing a range of surgical services to treat head and neck disorders. On their most recent trip in November 2018, Dr. Prince and Dr. Boucher treated children, adolescents and adults for problems including sinonasal masses, thyroid goiters and malignant salivary tumors.
HUM is a modern, 300-bed facility that delivers primary care services to about 185,000 people and sees as many as 700 patients every day in the outpatient setting. As a university hospital, it also provides training and education for the next generation of Haitian nurses, medical students and resident physicians. Many other members of the Brigham community spend time at HUM, offering training and patient-care services in internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology.
“Haiti has a population about the size of New York City—more than 10 million people—but there are only about 20 fully trained otolaryngologists in the whole country,” Dr. Prince said. “Access to otolaryngology services is quite limited for a variety of reasons, including lack of providers, cost and geographic distance to clinics and hospitals. Due to these constraints, many patients end up presenting with advanced disease. This can make treatment challenging and surgeries complex.”
At HUM, Dr. Prince and his U.S.-based colleagues support and supplement the care provided by the university’s sole otolaryngologist, who is available at HUM only on a part-time basis. Their support of HUM’s otolaryngology services includes donating surgical equipment and supplies that allow the team to safely perform a broad spectrum of head and neck surgical procedures, some of which were not possible in this part of Haiti a few years ago.
“It’s very busy, but it’s rewarding at the same time, especially seeing patients after surgery and knowing that we’ve made a difference in their lives,” Dr. Prince said. “Many of these patients have waited a long time to have these surgeries.”
Due to the lack of otolaryngology specialists in Haiti, transfer of surgical skills is an additional and important goal of Dr. Prince’s visits. During each visit, he teaches, advises and assists general-surgery resident physicians as well as the local otolaryngologist in contemporary head and neck surgical techniques.
“There are cases where they feel uncomfortable doing these procedures, but I think it’s helpful that I’m able to provide that level of expertise for them, as well as to help with their surgical volumes,” Dr. Prince said. “As the number of general-surgery training programs in Haiti far outnumber the sole otolaryngology training program, it is important that we take opportunities to transfer current head and neck surgery techniques to the general surgery trainees.”
Dr. Prince and his colleagues hope to eventually work with trainees in the country’s sole otolaryngology residency and training program in Port-au-Prince, which is about a 90- minute trip via winding, mountainous roads. For now, however, they’re focused on working with the local otolaryngologist and general surgeons to develop surgical plans for the more complicated cases. Eventually, Dr. Prince would like to bring some of Haiti’s otolaryngologists to Boston so that they can receive further training at the Brigham.
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Cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) is one of the most common types of birth defects occurring in approximately 2 in 1,000 live births in Singapore. The most common type of cleft deformity is complete cleft lip and palate.
Most babies with cleft lip and/or palate are otherwise healthy with no other birth defects. Some babies who have clefts may have other medical conditions.
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For anyone who isn’t an expert in rendering, creating an environment like one that the Princess Yacht X95 is set in, is a lot. There’s no hiding it, it looks overwhelming; but a large part of the reason why we write these blogs is to allow anyone to learn and start using NX render. This part is going to be split into two mini parts, both focusing on the lighting and the environment. This instalment is going to focus more on the lighting and how that affects the interior of the yacht and the façade. Stick around for the following part to this, as Gavin McCambridge will take us through the creation of the ocean and how to customize your environment.
Environment Set Up
You can probably guess that this environment involved a different set up to previous models we’ve looked at. For consumer products and even vehicles, scenes are often set in an internal studio environment. However, when you think of a huge scale yacht, I’m going to take a guess and say you imagine it outside, on the ocean – and this is exactly what Gavin and the team had to consider.
“A lot of that was researching and looking at nice pictures of yachts in the ocean. So part of it was actually researching, finding out how we want it to look and then coming up with the techniques that we needed to actually create that as an environment for the rendering.”
Creating Customized Environments
For such a specific environment, setting up a custom environment is recommended. This allows the user to really tweak and manipulate how they want the scene to interact with the model, lighting, and camera angles. We will discuss the process of creating the ocean in the following blog, but at this stage it’s important to plan. To think about the relationship your textures and materials have with the model to create the surrounding environment.
“So, when we say environment, we’re saying about what you see behind the model and around the model. This scene itself is a little bit different.”
Siemens NX allows you to plug in your own HDRI’s (high dynamic range images), which are those that Gavin has used in this model for the lighting and the environment. In this case, having an environment that captured the lighting and movement of the ocean and how this was reflected on the model’s exterior. To have this created so specifically, a HDR was created from scratch with the ocean underneath and the sky above so the lighting could the be worked to get the reflections and depth correct.
Representing Luxury through Lighting
From our other instalments so far, we’ve really drawn attention to the need for research into the company and how they market their own products. This comes into play again here when wanting to showcase that high-end, luxury vibe to the model. Something to think about is, what’s the best way to display this product? What’s going to look great? Let’s see if Gavin has any top tips here to consider when planning this step.
A key question to ask yourself here is the time of day you want your scene to reflect. What I’m looking for at this point is the highlights as well as the shadowing, this makes it look 3D. If you don’t have enough of different types of depth, then often your image will look flat. In this instance, a sunny day best represented the detail and extravagance in the interior and exterior of these yachts.
So, let’s say you’ve now decided on your environment, the time of day and how your model will exist in it; you can now move your attention to how your lighting can be adjusted to interact with the details and objects on the model. This detail will enhance the reality of the scene by creating more depth and contrast in the shadows and highlights.
Different Lighting for Different Shots
With your own NX workflow, you may or may not be liaising with customers. In this example, Gavin and the team had close engagements with the customer and really wanted to show to them what was possible in NX Render. A key feature that was essential to highlight here is the fact that all the shots in this project are done with the same lighting set up for the interior and exterior.
In conjunction to this, visualization projects can often have totally different set ups for lighting depending on whether it’s an interior or exterior shot. With interiors for instance, you’ll be focusing on brightening up your lighting, paying attention to how it bounces off objects to make the scene feel warm and inviting. However, what Gavin has done here is used the HDR to light the exterior, and the model lights from the yacht itself and then applied emissive materials.
“We’ve used a material that gives off light and then we’ve controlled the power of this, the emissive-ness of that material to actually give us a lit effect inside of the yacht.”
By using the actual lights from the yacht, the model is getting a much more realistic feel and is representative of how it would be in the physical world. You can see on the interior shots how this has created washes of light on the wall, and other similar effects due to this clever and creative decision.
Beginning as a Novice
A huge reason why we have these NX Render blog series’, is to (hopefully!) allow beginners to start their NX workflow with confidence and guidance for each step. One thing to keep in mind, is that NX offers a lot of in-built system scenes to help you. Obviously in this specific example Gavin has created a completely custom environment. However, something to remember is if you do want to go down the route of custom scenes then start looking at environments, researching scenes and how to add your own customization into this.
“For anyone starting out in rendering I would start with opening up NX Render and look at changing the environments. The system environments that come shipped with NX will show you different types of techniques and how things are lit. The next thing you could do at this point is rather than going down the route that we took, research styles available on other websites that you can go and download for free. I would go there and grab one of those and then put it into NX.”
The more these blogs are posted, we really hope it gives you all insight into how these stunning models and scenes have been created; and helps you begin your own NX visualization workflow. Keep an eye out for the next mini part in lighting and environments as we’ll be diving into customizing the ocean!
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iW+ provides the ability to add front panel controls and numeric's to any page, as shown in the following picture. For a concise summary of User Defined Popups, Edit Fields, Dynamic Text, Buttons, and Pages; click here; and for details, please continue reading.
iW+ provides regions within the main window, called "pages", which are selected with a tab at the base of the instruNet World window, illustrated above. Record, Network, Test, and Script are standard pages included with instruNet. Additionally, the end user can create new pages that contain a text editor in the center of the window surrounded by buttons (which execute scripts when pressed), popup menus, text fields, and panel meters.
The standard Record, Network, Test, and Script pages (illustrated below) are heavily documented here. In summary, the Record page displays waveforms that are selected for recording in the Network page, the Network page shows and allows for the adjustment of channel settings, the Test page displays a list of installed hardware, and the Script page is used to develop iW+ scripts. One can hide any or all of these pages to simplify an instrument, as described here.
User Defined Text Editor Pages
Text Edit regions, as illustrated below, enable one to view and edit text in a manner similar to that done with a word processor. With commands in the menubar, one can Clear (File > New), Save (File > Save As), View (View menu), and Print (File > Print) the Text Editor contents. Also, one can type and edit text with the standard Cut, Copy, and Paste commands available in the Edit menu and from the Control X, V, and C keys. The Test page contains a Text Edit region, yet one can create more with the Create Panel Item > Page command in the Setup menu. For example, in a simple case, one might create a page called "Help", that when selected, displays documentation on how to use your instrument. The example below shows 2 user defined pages, labeled "Page 1" and "Page 2", where Page 1 is currently selected and contains a text editor region that shows the text "One can type ·".
To create a new page that contains a text editor in addition to optional popups, edit fields, panel meters, dynamic text fields, and buttons; select Create Panel Item > Page in the Setup menu. Subsequently, a Page Options dialog appears, as described below. To edit an existing page, select Edit Panel Item > Page in the Setup menu; and to delete a user defined page, select Delete Panel Item > Page in the Setup menu.
The Page Options dialog, illustrated below, is opened for an existing user defined page by selecting Edit Panel Item > Page in the Setup menu.
Page Name has dual uses -- it appears in the tab bar at the bottom of the window (and therefore used to select and show the page), and it is used to reference a page in script code (with spaces replaced by underscore characters "_"). For example, the Print script command prints to the currently selected page unless a page is specified as the first parameter. For example, if one creates a new page called "Data", then Print Data "abc" will print "abc" to the Data page. The following script commands all reference pages by their name: Print, Append, Copy, Execute, Digitize, Table, Show/Hide Page, Select, Clear, Erase, NewPage, NewButton, and Press.
Show enables one to show or hide a page and its corresponding tab. One can adjust this field programmatically via the A HREF="scriptreference.html#show_hide_page">Show/Hide Page script command.
Tab Space determines the number of characters between each tab. For example, if tab space is set to 16, then tabs are created every 16 characters at positions #17, #33, #49, etc. When printing text to pages from the script language, "\t" refers to a tab character and "\r" refers to a carriage return. These two special characters enable one to build tables.
Word Wrap determines if text automatically wraps to the next line when it hits the text edit region right edge, or extends out of view.
If Save Text is ON, the current text is embedded inside the .prf instrument file when one saves the setup (i.e. press Network Save button, or select Save Setup As under Setup); and restored when one loads that setup. For example, one might want to save instructions on how to use the instrument in a page called "Help", yet not save the text in a page called "Data" that is used to collect digitized data in a table.
Popup Menus, Edit Fields, Dynamic Text fields, and Panel Meters are collectively known as "Panel Items". For a brief summary of each, click here. Panel Items are created by the end user and can appear on any page, and in any one of the 4 quadrants within a page (i.e. Left, Right, Top, and Bottom). Shown below is an example of one Popup in the Left quadrant and one Edit Field in the Right quadrant of the Test page.
Shown below is a second example with one dynamic text field in the Top quadrant and one Panel Meter in the Bottom quadrant of the Record page.
Panel Item Position Options
The Options dialog for each panel item (e.g. Popup, Edit Field, Dynamic Text, and Panel Meter) contains several positions fields which control the placement of the item, as illustrated above, and described below.
Position determines the quadrant, which is one of Left, Right, Top, Bottom; or Hide panel item.
Page determines the page in which the panel item appears (e.g. Record, Network, Test, User Defined Pages, etc).
Order is an integer between 1and 1e9 that determines the order in which panel item appears within the specified page and quadrant. Items appear in numerical order, indexed by this field, where 1 appears first. For example, if Pop1 order is 1000, Pop2 is 20, and EditField3 is 100; and these three items are in the same quadrant on the same page; they would appear in the order Pop2 (since its Order field is the lowest), EditField3, and Pop1.
Creating, Editing and Deleting Panel Items
To create, edit, or delete user defined Popups, Edit Fields, Dynamic Text fields, Buttons and Pages; one must select Create Panel Item, Edit Panel Item, or Delete Panel Item in the Setup menu.
Dynamic Text & Edit Fields
Dynamic Text and Edit fields, as illustrated to the right, display a short segment of text at a specific quadrant within a specific page. The difference between these two is that Edit fields can be edited by the end user on the iW+ window (like a text editor), and Dynamic text cannot. In the above example, Field 1 is Dynamic Text (not editable), and Field 2 is an Edit field. We will refer to these two types of fields collectively as "Text fields". Note that editable fields will appear within a box.
Accessing Text fields from within Scripts
Text fields can be easily updated with a line of script code. For example, if a text
field was named "Field1", then Field1$ = "abc" in a script would cause the field to display "abc". From a script's point of view, a Text field is like a string variable that can be read or written via its user name suffixed with a "$" character, and with space characters converted to underscore characters (e.g. field name "temp 1" is referenced in script code as "temp_1$").
Creating Text fields
To create a Text field, select Create Panel Item > Text Field in the Setup menu (to open the Text field options dialog, shown below); set the Editable field to Off if creating a Dynamic Text field and On if creating an Edit field; set the Position field to one of Left, Right, Top, or Bottom; and then set the Page field (page in which field is displayed, e.g. Record) as desired. For details on panel item positions, click here.
After adjusting the position options, select General in the Settings popup to view the Text, Name and Label fields, illustrated below.
Here, one can view and/or edit the field's displayed text (i.e. the Text field), adjust the Label that precedes the displayed text in the iW+ window, and adjust the Field Name that references the field within the script code. For an example of an instrument that uses text fields, click here.
Panel Meters, as illustrated to the right, show a channel's engineering units value, or a function of that value (e.g. "abs(value) * 10"). Each input and output channel (analog or digital) has its own Panel Meter that is hidden until turned on by the end user (i.e. Panel Meter Position field is set to one of Top/Bottom/Left/Right instead of Hide). When one sets up a panel meter, they must specify the page in which it appears, the Top/Bottom/Left/Right position within that page, and whether or not the units label is shown (e.g. "Volts", "C", "µStrain"). In the above example, three Panel Meters are shown with their unitsâ labels, each of which have been set to "Volts" in the channel General setting area.
Panel meters update at the rate set in the Script Options User Rate field (accessed by selecting Script Options in Script menu) in units of updates-per-second; and update whether or not you are digitizing. A typical rate is 2 (i.e. twice a second). Recall that User Events are similar to Control Events, except they update at all times whereas Control Events only run while digitizing (e.g. after pressing Start button in Record page).
Panel Meter Calculation
The Calculate field within the Panel Meter options dialog enables one to display a function of a channel's value. For example, if one wanted to display the absolute value of a channel's value times 10, they would place "abs(Value) * 10" into the channel's Panel Meter Calculate field. The "Value" keyword in a channel's Panel Meter or Control Calculate field refers to the current engineering units value (e.g. Volts, degrees C, µStrain) of that channel, which is the same value as that displayed in the Network page Value Input column. If one leaves the Panel Meter Calculate field empty, the channel's value is displayed in the panel meter. For a list of math functions supported in the Calculate fields, click here. For information on output channel panel meters (e.g. D/A), click here. For examples of Panel Meters, click here.
Panel Meter Options
To view or edit panel meter options, as illustrated below, select a channel in the Channel Options submenu within the Hardware menu, and then select Panel Meter in the Settings submenu within the Channel Options dialog. As noted above, to turn on a Panel Meter, one sets the Position field to something other than "Hide".
A front panel popup menu allows one to select one of several choices in a list, as shown to the right. One line of script code reads or sets the position of the popup, where 1 refers to the upper-most item, 2 the one below it, etc. For details on accessing a Popup from script code, click here. Popups are created, edited, and deleted in the same manner as that done with Text fields, described above. The only difference is the Popup Options dialog, shown below, has an Item List field that contains a list of items in the popup, separated by commas. For example, if one wanted a Popup that showed two options, "On" and "Off", Item List would be set to "On, Off"; and a setting of On would be read as 1 and a setting of Off would be read as 2 in script code.
Detecting a change within a Popup or Edit Field
In some cases, one might want to execute script code when a Popup or Edit field is adjusted by the user within the iW+ window. To do this, one would check for a change with the code, similar to that shown below, which detects a change to popup menu "Pop1":
If (Pop1_last! != Pop1!)
Pop1_last! = Pop1!
... process change ...
If one wanted to execute this check periodically, whether digitizing or not, it would be placed into the User script; otherwise, to make this check only while digitizing, it would be placed into the Control script. To initialize the Pop1_last! variable, one might set it to -1 in the Before Script Engine script.
User Defined Buttons
One can easily create buttons that execute scripts when pressed. These buttons appear at the top of the window, in a specified page, in a quantity only limited by available window space. One might have room for 10 to 20 buttons per page, depending on the size of the monitor. In the above example, all buttons in the Record page have been hidden, except Start and Stop; and a new button called "Button 1" has been added. For information on how to hide any button, click here. For information on how to set up any button to execute a script, click here.
Creating, Editing & Deleting Buttons
To create a button, select Create Panel Item > Button in the Setup menu and adjust the options as needed. To edit the options of an existing button, select Edit Panel Item > Button in the Setup menu; and to delete an existing button, select Delete Panel Item > Button in the Setup menu.
The Button Options dialog, illustrated below, is described as follows:
Button Name determines the button's text, as it appears inside the button rectangle. In the above illustration, for example, the right-most button is named "Button 1".
Page determines which page the button appears on (e.g. Network, Record).
View determines whether or not the button is shown or hidden.
Link to Key optionally specifies a function key (F1 · F10), which when pressed, executes the button's script.
Pressing Jump To Script opens the script editor for the button's corresponding script.
Accessing a Button's Script
One can access a button's script in one of two ways. One method is to select Edit Panel Item > Button in the Script menu and then press the Jump To Script button in the Button Options dialog; and the other method is to select the Script page (i.e. press Script tab at bottom of window) and then set the script selection popups at the top of the window to "After Press Button PageName ButtonName". Related Topics: Script Page Reference.
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Puerto Rican creates mobile app simulating stopping Trump's US-Mexico wall
The professor said he decided to create the app because of the lack of economic support provided by the Puerto Rican government to local filmmakers to produce…
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Puerto Rican Prof. Carlos Marcial Torres has created a mobile application called "StopTheWall" in which players do everything possible to stop construction of US President Donald Trump's proposed border wall along the US-Mexico frontier.
"The game is 'reactionary.' Reacting to Trump's xenophobic, racist and hate phrases and thoughts. We use technology to combat all that," Marcial Torres, 33, said Wednesday in an interview with EFE.
As a creative endeavor, Marcial Torres added real and - to many - offensive phrases uttered by Trump at different events.
That is why the phrase "Welcome to the world of the media" is heard when "StopTheWall" begins.
And during the game, when the user manages to destroy lines of blocks, one hears phrases such as "The wall just got 10 feet taller" and "I would build a great wall and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me."
Other expressions that may be heard during the game include "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best" and "First of all, I don't believe anything Telemundo says."
And, when the game ends, one hears the phrases "Build that wall, build that wall, build that wall" and "Mexico will pay for the wall, and they're going to be happy about it."
"The immigration issue is one of the most important and significant of the moment, and Trump is one of the most followed guys in the world," Marcial Torres said, referring to the attention being paid to the at times brash and controversial US leader.
The app also includes songs such as "La Cucaracha" and "Cielito Lindo" and, as Marcial Torres said about 500 people in countries such as Taiwan, Australia, the US, Mexico, China, Norway and the United Kingdom have already downloaded the app to their mobile devices.
The professor said he decided to create the app because of the lack of economic support provided by the Puerto Rican government to local filmmakers to produce film projects.
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How to Educate At-Risk Students Regardless of Trauma: To Build a Culture of Learning, Keep It REAL
“Culture” is derived from the Latin word cultus, which means to care and honor. As schools scramble to develop new operational plans, they need to ensure that their foundational beliefs, perceptions, relationships, and attitudes are all deeply rooted in honoring and caring for all students. It will be those factors that transcend into the written and unwritten rules and polices that influence how the school will function in the midst of a pandemic. COVID-19 has changed the way we do business as a school. The outbreak of coronavirus continues to negatively impact a school’s ability to reopen in the traditional model that families and students have grown to depend on. COVID-19 has challenged and changed many aspects of how our school systems operate. One aspect of our school’s systems and afterschool programing that we must strive to keep intact is the school and program culture.
In the past six months, students were rapidly pulled from the learning environment and asked to stay home and socially isolate. They were not able to interact in person with their class peers, nor were they able to participate in the normal activities that signal the end of the school year. Top this with any dramatic and rapid loss they may have experienced in their personal lives, and you have a perfect recipe for emotional and psychological trauma. For the sake of today’s conversation, let’s define trauma as “the response to a deeply distressing event that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope, causes feeling of helplessness, and diminishes their sense of self and their ability to feel the full range of emotion and experiences."
As school leaders spend more time checking on the well-being of the students they serve, the impact of poverty has become apparent. When the effects of poverty aren’t managed correctly, it can even become traumatic. ”Poverty” is an ongoing lack or shortage of something you need and is tied tightly into your emotions. Poverty can come from lack of love, time, attention, or knowledge, and that lack can begin to develop into a mentality. For example, when a person lacks the knowledge for self-help and believes he or she isn’t capable of becoming self-sufficient, over time a poverty mindset can evolve. The poverty mindset can lead to the belief that it is the responsibility of others to take care of their basic needs.
When a person remains in a state of negative thoughts due to a lack, they may develop adverse emotions and feelings that, in turn, evolve into chronic stress. Families have lost their jobs, homes and lives during this pandemic. Stress levels are high. Unfortunately, this stress can lead to depression and emotional separation, or even toxic behaviors such as verbal, physical and mental abuse. These elements may have found a way to seep into the homes of the children you serve, adding to any trauma students may already be experiencing.
In these times, it is imperative for educators and school leaders to build a culture of learning that aids all students in maintaining their ability to learn at a rigorous rate. For at-risk students, this culture of learning is built and maintained by simply keeping it REAL. Now “REAL” is not just a colloquialism. It is an acronym that stands for relationship, academic, expectation and love. When teachers keep it REAL, they provide a tangible road map for breaking down barriers and learning How to Educate At-risk Students Regardless of Trauma (HEART). When you keep it REAL with kids, you align yourself to the matters of the HEART, and that alignment is the magical key to unlocking an unmotivated, nonperforming student. So, let’s get REAL.
R = Relationships
The R stands for “relationships” — the foundation for keeping it REAL. The first thing educators must do is establish a relationship between themselves and their students. Teacher-student relationships can be an asset or a liability. The ability to cultivate a relationship with students will determine the level of success teachers will have in the classroom or in your afterschool program. No child wakes up, gets dressed and shows up in your classroom with the mindset of, “I came to school today to do absolutely nothing but fail.” Often, there is something that is causing a mental block, and it can block you from inspiring that child to be the best that he or she can be. It is our job as educators to spend a little time figuring out what those possible barriers are so we can create changes. As you begin to build relationships with students, you may find out about past traumas that are consciously or subconsciously impacting student success. Use the “What? So what? Now what?” reflective model to help students identify what is currently impacting their ability to be successful, so what do you do now that you know and now what do you do to move past it?
Forming healthy educator-student relationships creates an easy transition to the next step in keeping it REAL, which is the E for expectations.
E = Expectations
We must not make exceptions for our students. We must set expectations for them. Les Brown said “Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss but because they aim too low and hit.” How can you set expectations in an afterschool environment where students are at different levels doing different assignments?
- Create a rigorous schedule from academic assistance to activities. Do not allow students to get stuck doing homework for the entire afterschool session. Instead, make sure to plan high-quality activities that promote exploration, and ensure that all students participate.
- Stimulate thinking by asking facilitative questions to draw out more of your students’ thoughts. All students should be encouraged to expand their thoughts by clarifying or expanding on their answers. Also, have processes in place to ensure that all students are called on and given the opportunity to answer questions. Using techniques like the random name selection in Class Dojo or picking names from a jar ensures that all students are reached, which is important because everyone has something to bring to the table.
- Have daily group reflections to ensure that things students learned were digested, and that students know how to utilize new knowledge. Set the expectation that everyone must share one takeaway from the day because everyone is responsible for learning something.
When keeping it REAL, having those healthy teacher-student relationships that are governed by high expectations sets the stage for fostering quality academic experiences.
When keeping it REAL, academics should leverage the cultural experience of your students. Plan lessons that reflect all cultures. Culturally relevant activities make students feel like they are part of the community, and such activities send the message that students are important and they matter. When students can learn about people who look like them and experiences that relate to them, then they are motivated to learn more. It also allows students to activate their prior knowledge and have something to help anchor their learning and enhance new learning experiences. Finally, make sure the resources within the classroom or program represent students’ experiences and cultures.
When the students return this fall, whether remotely or face to face, we cannot start with the immediate focus on ABC’s or other academic content. Students have been out of school for five months dealing with the effects of a pandemic and watching the world around them suffer from cultural divides. Stay away from stereotypes and refrain from implicit bias as you devise your plan for discussing and dealing with a room full of students where some may be coming from homes that support Black Lives Matter and some may be coming from homes that support the Confederate flag.
Teachers must create a sense of community that respects and understands what every child brings to the community. So, establish a common ground that is free from personal bias, and create a common denominator that will be followed in the classroom community. After establishing the classroom community, begin to learn and know each student. Create opportunities for students to share their likes and dislikes, and use this information to better serve the students. Make the learning relevant by designing activities that highlight the likes and challenge the dislikes.
The greatest part of keeping it REAL with students is having the opportunity to serve and show love to all students. As I thought about ways to show love to at-risk students who’ve experienced trauma, I decided to consult one of the oldest books around, which has managed to remain on the best-seller list for years. I think the advice found in that book in 1 Corinthians 13 applies to our program’s work with at-risk students in a number of ways:
Love is patient, so when students need our help and ask the same question for the 99th time, just smile and repeat those directions.
Love is kind, so there is no place for sarcasm when speaking with challenging students.
Love does not envy, and it does not boast, so refrain from telling students, “I got mine so if you do not want to get yours, that’s on you.” Instead, find ways to motive and inspire students to want to do better and to achieve, just like you.
Love is not proud, and it does not dishonor others, so praise in public and discipline in private. Take students to a quiet area to discipline versus making them a victim of class mockery.
Love is not easily angered, so as educators, always remain in control of your emotions. Even when the child wins the power struggle, do not seek revenge. Instead, seek to positively change student behaviors so that they are more aligned to what you want in your classroom.
Love keeps no record of wrongdoing, so wipe every child’s slate at the end of the day and start the next day with a fresh start.
It always protects, so fight for all your students to be successful.
It always trusts, so be empathetic for your students and not merely sympathetic.
It always hopes and perseveres, so never give up on any of your students.
Remember: For some kids it just takes “HEART.”
Stacey Owens-Howard is an educator and entrepreneur who is passionate about helping at-risk students. She specializes in training educators to foster student success by helping students develop the skills and self-assurance they need.
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Are Millennials as Brand-Biased as We Think?
By Lindsay Pietroluongo - 6 min read
Millennials shop at stores that their parents have never heard of, that require an app or a social platform to access, that don’t carry clothing anyone over the age of 40 would wear. Right? Not at all.
The stores that are popular with millennials will surprise you: JCPenney. Walmart. Kohl’s is a big one. And Amazon – Amazon is the store, which is more platform bias than brand bias.
This is not to say that millennials aren’t shopping at other retailers, but just that they’re shopping at traditional retailers more than we may assume. They’re also shopping at traditional retailers in an untraditional way. According to The Robin Report, “A large proportion of younger consumers spend most of their money on fashion categories in e-commerce channels, with clothing the highest penetration.”
Before we move on, let’s quickly define millennials. They were born between the very early 80s and the mid-90s, which makes them in their early 20s to late 30s as of 2019. Some have just graduated from college, some have started families, and all of them are going through life changes that spark financial changes that then impact the retail industry.
Millennials are starting to make more money, which is influencing where they’re shopping. Their go-to brands are changing as their wallets get thicker, and spending is expected to grow by almost 40% over the next decade or so.
What Do Millennials Want from Retailers?
The last couple of Love List reports from Condé Nast and Goldman Sachs, which cover the future of retail, have pointed out that both female and male millennials love Nike – a lot. Why, though. Simply because it’s Nike? Because it’s what athletes wear? Is it that checkmark-like swoosh? Or is Nike doing something that other brands aren’t – and if that’s the case, what can competitors learn from them?
The point here is that to simply say “millennials like [insert brand]” is misleading. Today’s 20- and 30-something consumers want much more than stuff. Their true preferences aren’t in the physical products at all. Instead, they want authenticity, convenience, technology, transparency, value…
Their investment is in the experience – the experience offered throughout the shopping process, the experiences they’ll reap once they purchase the products – but not in the things themselves.
Brick-and-mortar stores that are easy to navigate, have a large selection of big name brands and have great prices and frequent sales. Deals and discounts so money can be invested in other experiences, like travel. (This opens up an interesting marketing question for fashion brands – how can their clothing contribute to the experience the customer is looking for?) Eco-consciousness. Having something shipped is considered wasteful. Between transportation and the packaging, the carbon footprint is a concern.
The “It Girl” or Guy
The “It Girl” and the “It Guy” are defined as fashion-conscious men and women, usually affluent, who spend more money in physical stores than the typical millennial. Interestingly, the more wealthy the shopper, the higher the savings they want. For these shoppers, the in-store experience is part of the appeal, from customer service to events.
The It Girl tends to be on Instagram, too, sharing her outfits as she tries them on in the dressing room or as an OOTD. She’s browsing Instagram, too, checking out the fashion influencers she’s following and connecting with brands on her favorite social platform. Some are even highly aware of how many times they’ve worn the same outfit on Instagram, which is a driver for looking for better deals – they want to buy more clothing.
The All-Encompassing Need for Convenience
Shoppers who are invested in fashion are more likely to go into a physical store than order online. Why? It’s pretty simple – trying on clothing lets you see the fit, which is an easier process than ordering, trying on, not liking how something looks, sending it back…
Convenience is king when it comes to shopping, but it has to be balanced. In-store shoppers don’t get the convenience of ordering online and therefore want curated options, lower prices and better promotions – and if they don’t get that type of experience, they’ll go elsewhere.
It works the other way, too. The inconvenience of ordering clothing online and then having to return it can be balanced by offering free shipping or free return shipping (or both).
Millennials like many of the same stores that older consumers like. By assuming that there’s brand bias even when the statistics don’t back that up, companies run the risk of alienating an audience they didn’t even realize they have. The key is in the focused marketing – millennials are still on the younger end of shoppers and they have to be catered to in a specific way.
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What was the 9th of Thermidor?
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This massive, squat crocodilian has forward facing eyes, jutting teeth, and a pronounced snout.
Kaprosuchus CR 5
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Init +5; Senses low-light vision; Perception +13
AC 19, touch 9, flat-footed 18 (+1 Dex, +10 natural, –2 size)
hp 59 (7d8+28)
Fort +9, Ref +6, Will +4
Speed 30 ft.
Melee bite +11 (2d6+7), tail slap +5 (2d6+3)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Special Attacks ramming snout
Str 25, Dex 12, Con 19, Int 1, Wis 14, Cha 2
Base Atk +5; CMB +14; CMD 25 (29 vs. trip)
Feats Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Skill Focus (Perception), Weapon Focus (bite)
Skills Perception +13, Stealth +6; Racial Modifiers +8 Stealth
When a kaprosuchus charges, it can ram an opponent with the calcified tip of its snout. This attack has the same attack bonus as the kaprosuchus’s bite attack, and it deals an amount of bludgeoning damage equal to the kaprosuchus’s bite damage. If the attack is successful, the kaprosuchus can attempt a trip combat maneuver against the target as a free action.
Environment warm forests
Organization solitary, pair, or colony (3–6)
Despite its close resemblance to other types of crocodilians, the kaprosuchus is a terrestrial predator, not an aquatic one. Squat and powerfully built, these creatures hunt for prey in forests.
The adults can grow up to 20 feet long and weigh as much as 2,500 pounds.
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When a person dies his body will be buried under the earth within a wooden box. And the directors who judge this work about the work should be done from start to its end. So without the help of the funeral director, it is harder to safely bury the dead man, because those people who are relations and neighbours for the dead person will not be active for a month of this dead. In that case, they do not know what are the processes to be completed as per government rules? Here come, the directors who are experienced in their profession. By this we can see, what are all the rules and regulations are kept for the relations by Funeral Directors Harold Wood ?
Every funeral director’s work is to give some advice when their clients are in critical situations. In that case, they should make them focus on the dead person’s family members’ situations after years. While working they should be given some personal advice to their clients. Most people think that it is unnecessary to hire funeral directors, those people who are thinking that it is unnecessary; they would understand their worth after years ago. Some of the directors will go home if a person dies in their home. Two directors go to their house and the caring with which they bring out the person from their home and relations is a critical one. So, every worker would take enough time before during and after the time of needs which makes you walk through the process.
Every passion has its license to show the best workers among the others. This is why most people would prefer only the licensed workers whatever work they wish to do because those licensed workers will have a guarantee in their work. Likewise, check out while funeral director whether he is licensed or not. In New York, those directors who are licensed in their funeral profession have a dual opportunity, which means they have dual options as a funeral director and also a licensed embalmer. This does not mean that the person is expertise in both works. But if they are, they can work legally without acting illegally for their country’s government. So, these rules may change according to the country.
Are there any graduations to become a funeral director?
Yes of course without any graduation as a funeral student you cannot apply for certification. Some countries have a separate mortuary school which helps the student who wishes to about funeral and their types of work they do. When he/she passed out their national board exams then they are allowed for a year of apprenticeship. Only here they get newly experienced while getting into their profession as a worker. At this time as a trainer, you should come forward to learn about your work in any case you should not get stuck into preparation and arrangement rooms. Only by knowing about your work completely will make as an all-rounder. So, these are methods to become a mortuary funeral director. Picking up their knowledge depends upon their involvement.
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The great movie costume designer, born Emiko Noguchi on March 18, 1937 in Japan, died at the age of 84. She received an Oscar in 1986 which rewarded her work on Ran by Akira Kurosawa.
In 1986, she received an Oscar, the supreme Hollywood award, for having masterfully designed the costumes for the film. Ran directed by an undisputed master of the seventh art, Akira Kurosawa. The great costume designer Emi Wada passed away on November 13, 2021. She was 84 years old. The family, who gave the information of his disappearance to Reuters, did not specify the causes of death.
Born Emiko Noguchi in Japan on March 18, 1937, attended the Kyoto City University of the Arts. Before working for the cinema, she began to hone her mastery of costume design for theater troupes and dance companies in her native country.
Inspirational designer for master Kurozawa
In 1986, she reached her Grail by receiving the Oscar for the most beautiful costumes she designed for the film. Ran from Kurosawa. Recognized then worldwide, she will work with renowned filmmakers like Peter Greenaway (Prospero’s Books in 1991, 8 ½ women in 1999), or Zhang Yimou (Hero in 2002, House of Flying Daggers in 2004).
Tireless, dedicated to her art of costume making, at 80 years old, Emi Wada was still one of Ann Hui’s essential collaborators on the film Love after love, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020.
Ran by Kurosawa in 1985, costumes signed by Emi Wada
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to the legal restriction of small scale mining to nationals (Akabzaa & Darimani, ). Currently, there are eleven large scale mining companies operating eight gold mines, one bauxite, one diamond and one manganese mine, in various communities in the country. With the exception of Anglo Gold Ashanti, which still operates an
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Mineral exploitation contributes significantly to economic growth and development in most world economies. In Africa, Ghana is the second largest gold producer, contributing to about 5.7% of the country's GDP. The mining sector in Ghana consists of both smallscale and largescale mining, each of which has varying environmental impacts. This paper provides an exposition on the environmental
Tabforest Mines Ltd. Established intabforest miningltd is a gold exploration and mining company in ghana west africa with one hundred plus 100 gold concessions including fifteen 15 large scale concessions and over one point two million plustons of above ground tailings located in ghanas prolific gold mining belts the companys nearterm objective is to process its above ground
large scale gold mining in ashanthi ghana. The Edikan gold mine is located in the Ashanti Gold Belt of southwestern Ghana West Africa It can be accessed via a public road from the town of Ayanfuri The mine is situated on the Ayanfuri and Nanankaw mining leases covering an area of 93km² and located 107km away from the city of Kumasi
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“She’s big as a man’s fist,
Big as a black-pepper shaker
Filled with gris-gris dust,
Like two fat gladiolus bulbs
Grown into a burst of twilight.
Lumpy & fertile, earthy
& egg-shaped, she’s pregnant
With all the bloomy hosannas
Of love hunger. Beautiful
In a way that forces us to look
At the ground, this squat
Venus in her braided helmet
Is carved from a hunk of limestone
Shaped into a blues singer.
In her big smallness
She makes us kneel.”[i]
[i] Komunyakaa, Yusef; Talking Dirty to the Gods; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; New York, New York; 2000; p. 17.
It could have been a reference to an ancient or biblical theme, the good shepherd or the calf bearer. An image of a man carrying a calf or a sheep on his shoulders, having just rescued it, and returning it to the flock. Pablo Picasso used many such themes and ideas in his work, however, he usually denied it in reference to this particular piece. “The man could just as well be carrying a pig as a sheep! There is no symbolism in it. It is just something beautiful.”[i]
Shifting back and forth from serious to playful, perhaps he is being sly or evasive? Or surrealistic and poetic like his friend of more than forty years, Max Jacob? Picasso and Jacob met in 1901 and became fast friends. Jacob was the first Parisian to teach Picasso French. And, as an early art critic, he wrote enthusiastically about Picasso’s work. Jacob was also a painter, cubist/surrealist poet, bon vivant, homosexual and a Jew. As described by Roger Shattuck, the beginning of the 20th Century was an exhilerating time: “In its early demonstrations the avant-garde remained a true community, loyal to itself and to its time…. Painters, writers, and musicians lived and worked together and tried their hands at each other’s arts in an atmosphere of perpetual collaboration.”[ii]
“When you paint a picture, it completely changes with each brushtroke, turning like a cylinder, almost interminably. When it stops turning, it’s finished. My latest was a Tower of Babel made of lighted candles.”[iii]
Max Jacob was originally from Quimper in Brittany, France. A street, a bridge, a high school and even the courtyard of the house at 8, rue de Parc, in Quimper bear his name. The Musee des Beaux-Arts in Quimper even has a room dedicated to Jacob featuring his drawings, paintings, and manuscripts. It was there, during the summer of 1997 that I first learned about several details of his life. In Quimper and in Paris during the summer of 1994—the 50th anniversary of Jacob’s death, there was an exhibition documenting this almost lifelong friendship between Max Jacob and Pablo Picasso.
“All it takes is a five-year-old in pale overalls drawing in a coloring book for a door to open into the light, for the house to be built again and the ochre hillside covered with flowers.”[iv]
Picasso claims to have completed “The Man with the Sheep” in a burst of spontaneous energy in just one day. It was first in plaster, with the legs a bit too thin to support the upper half, so he and an assistant hoisted it up with ropes, he finished what needed to be done, and then had it cast in bronze right away. However, there are several drawings made as studies for this piece from the previous year. Not only was the position of the sheep not to his liking, but the head of the figure went through several stages: a younger man, then an older one; a clean shaven figure, then a bearded one, and so on.
At the end he, Picasso, modelled the face of his friend Max Jacob onto this figure. When the piece had been cast, Picasso placed it at the top of the stairs to his studio on the rue des Grands-Augustins. Often SS Officers would climb just to the top of the stairs in surprise inspections and be met by the “Man Holding a Sheep.” They looked quickly around and returned down to the street, not realizing that Jacob had been looking down on them. Max Jacob had been arrested by the SS earlier, and was in the process of being shipped to Auschwitz, however, he died from bronchial pneumonia while in one of the deportation camps at Drancy, France.
“The Yellow Star Again”
“Are those beets your dog’s eating?”
“No, it’s a Jew who fell in the snow.”
“They could find some other place to faint instead of my sidewalk.”[v]
[i] Bernadac, Marie-Laure; Picasso Museum, Paris: The Masterpieces; Reunion des Musees Nationaux and Prestel; Paris and munich; 1991; p. 162.
[ii] Shattuck, Roger; The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France 1885 to World War I; Vintage Books, Random House; New York, New York; 1968; p. 28.
[iii] Kulik, William, editor and translater; The Selected Poems of Max Jacob; Oberlin College Press; Oberlin, Ohio; 1999; p. 57.
[iv] Kulik, William, editor and translater; The Selected Poems of Max Jacob; p. 129.
[v] Kulik, William, editor and translater; The Selected Poems of Max Jacob; p. 122.
“Here is the test of wisdom,
Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,
Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it,
Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,
Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,
Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things;
Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.”[i]
Our students at the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in 1995 and 1997 often asked us, having seen pre-historic sites for the first time: how did these people know that they could build something that would last over a thousand years? The site of the Alignements at Carnac in Brittany, France is possibly one or two thousand years older than Stonehenge and constructed by what we now know to be a pre-Druidic culture. Stone constructions known as dolmens are found throughout Brittany and in Carnac proper there are alignements of stones, as many as two or three thousand, always arranged on an east to west axis, which allows for each stone to annually throw its shadow on its neighbor at both sunrise and sunset during the summer solstice.
“That grosbois is oak, ash, elm,
beech, horsbeche & hornbeam
but of acorns tithe shall be paid
For every lamb a penny
time out of mind
one lira per sheep nel Tirolo
sale must be in place overt
not in a backe-room
& between sun-up & sun-down
ut pena ad paucos
metus ad omnes perveniat
of 2 rights the more ancient preferred
Following my teaching assignments in France in 1995 and 1997 we went on several family trips to Alaska and Canada and to the Four Corners area of the lower forty-eight. Near Moab, Utah there is the site known as Newspaper Rock, which contains dozens of images inscribed into the surface of the rock face over hundreds of years. There are examples of at least three successive Native American cultures, including Anasazi, Navajo and Ute. They are pictographs and petroglyhps: images full of meaning. Similar images seem to appear in several other cultures around the world. In Wrangell Bay, Alaska, there are stones containing petroglyphs which can be seen only at low tide. They are approximately 8,000 years old and carved by the ancesters of today’s Tlingit people.
“What do you think endures? . . . .”
“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.”
“Than this nothing has better served, it has served all,
Served the fluent-tongued and subtle-sensed Greek, and long ere the Greek,
Served in building the buildings that last longer than any, . . . .
Served the mound-raiser on the Mississippi. . . .
Served the Albic temples in woods or on plains, with unhewn pillars and the druids. . . .
Served those who time out of mind made on the granite walls rough sketches of the sun, moon, stars, ships, ocean waves,
Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths. . . .
Served the long distant Kelt. . . .
Served the making of helms for the galleys of pleasure and the making of those for war,
Served all great works on land and all great works on the sea,
For the medieval ages and before the medieval ages,
Served not the living only then as now, but served the dead.”[iii]
Time out of mind.
[i] Whitman, Walt; Selected Poems; Gramercy Books; New York, New York and Avenel, New Jersey; 1992; p. 153.
[ii] Pound, Ezra; The Cantos of Ezra Pound; New Directions Publishing Corporation; New York, New York; 1979; p. 769.
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What can I take for pain after flu shot?
“If you always experience soreness or swelling after a flu vaccination, take an ibuprofen about 2 hours prior to vaccination,” suggests Dr. Mora. “You can also try icing the injection site to reduce redness and swelling and taking another dose of ibuprofen to ease any soreness or swelling.”
What medications interact with the flu shot?
Interaction between a vaccine and a drug has been reported only with influenza vaccine and four drugs (aminopyrine, phenytoin sodium, theophylline, and warfarin sodium), and with BCG vaccine and theophylline. Some of these interactions still are unconfirmed.
Can you take aspirin after flu shot?
What you should do about this interaction: Let your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know if you have been taking any products that contain a salicylate, such as aspirin, before getting your flu vaccination. Do not use any salicylates to treat any side effects from your flu vaccination.
Can I take Tylenol after flu shot 2020?
It’s best to avoid common pain relievers after a flu shot because they can dilute the power of the vaccine, according to research conducted at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Should you massage arm after flu shot?
To ward off soreness, massage the shot area immediately after the injection and move your arm around to keep the muscle moving and help your body absorb the medicine.
How long does fatigue last after flu shot?
“More of a low grade fever, maybe some body aches, occasionally a little bit of a cough and a runny nose,” said Lance Watson, MD, Mercy Hospital. Also, headache, fatigue and soreness are common side effects that can last up to three days. Rarely, people with certain allergies can go into anaphylaxis after the flu shot.
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Antibiotics May Make the Flu Vaccine Less Effective by Disrupting Gut Microbes. A new study suggests that oral antibiotics may reduce the body’s immune response to the vaccine.
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But will taking acetaminophen or ibuprofen affect how well the vaccine works? The side effects show that the vaccine is teaching your immune system how to recognize and attack SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, if it encounters it. Experts say do not take pain relievers before your vaccine.
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Giving babies Tylenol to prevent fever when they get childhood vaccinations may backfire and make the shots a little less effective, surprising new research suggests. It is the first major study to tie reduced immunity to the use of fever-lowering medicines.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea has strong technical reasons to carry out another nuclear test but may be hesitating because it would anger China, a prominent United States scientist who has often visited the reclusive Asian state said on Wednesday.
Stanford University's Dr Siegfried Hecker, who was shown a previously undetected uranium enrichment facility when he was last there three years ago, said the North had "everything in place" for what would be the fourth-such explosion since 2006.
The impoverished country conducted its third nuclear test in February, prompting stiffer United Nations sanctions against it.
Like the United States and South Korea, China - North Korea's sole major diplomatic ally - has urged Pyongyang to take steps to end its nuclear programme and to return to dialogue.
Dr Hecker said North Korea "needed additional tests in my opinion to miniaturise", referring to the effort to develop a bomb small and robust enough to fit onto a delivery vehicle such as a missile.
The outside world tries to monitor North Korea's nuclear advances largely via satellite images.
Dr Hecker said the North's tunnel preparations had caused speculation that there could be two tests back in February, but this did not happen and one tunnel remained ready.
"There are strong drivers for them to test again," said Dr Hecker, believed to have been the last Westerner to visit North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex.
"They have a tunnel that's ready to go if they want to test again," he told a seminar held by an international nuclear-test-ban treaty organisation in Vienna.
But China's displeasure was an important reason "why I think they are hesitating now... The price they have to pay is mostly determined by China", Dr Hecker said.
China is North Korea's most important economic and political backer, but the two are uneasy allies and tensions have grown.
Some Chinese banks have frozen out North Korea's main foreign exchange bank amid frustration in Beijing over the North's continued pushing of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes.
Earlier this month, US Secretary of State John Kerry said China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi assured him that Beijing had been "very firm" with Pyongyang on its need to end its nuclear programme.
Dr Hecker said he believed the North was weighing the benefits and costs of further testing: "The important part is to increase the cost... and the Chinese are absolutely key to that."
North Korea said this month it would not give up its nuclear deterrent until Washington ends its "hostile policy" towards Pyongyang, but it was ready to revive international talks on its nuclear programme frozen since 2008.
Dr Hecker, a former head of the US Los Alamos National Laboratory, said he was concerned about the possibility of cooperation between North Korea and Iran, which denies Western allegations that it is seeking nuclear weapons capability.
Any sharing of the North's test data would be dangerous, he said, adding: "That would be very, very troublesome and indeed could give the Iranian programme a significant boost."
An Iranian diplomat in the audience took issue with Dr Hecker's comment, saying Teheran "does not need any nuclear weapon".
Dr Hecker said he believed Iran had developed a nuclear weapon option. "Iran ... has put all the things in place to be able to develop the bomb should it decide to do so," he added.
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“To go hungry or get my medications is a choice I have had to make this year,” writes “R.M.” from South Carolina, a Social Security recipient who is being hammered by soaring food and drug prices. There’s not enough money for both.
“R.M.” — who was responding to a survey by the Senior Citizens League (SCL), a nonprofit advocacy group — is hardly alone. With inflation running at its highest levels since the Reagan era—40 years ago—seniors are having to make difficult, and dangerous, choices each day, as the price for both of these essentials jumps.
Here’s the state of things. According to a survey by the SCL, inflation has caused half of seniors to burn through emergency savings. Nearly half—48%—have had to visit a food pantry or apply for food stamps. More than two-in-five—44%—have run up credit card debt to get by, trading rip-off interest rate payments tomorrow so they can have food and meds today. And 23% need help with their energy bills.
It is a very painful time.
“I was shocked at the rise in numbers of people reporting they had applied for SNAP (the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) or visited a food pantry,” SCL policy analyst Mary Johnson tells me. “The percentage reporting they have done so doubled from our October survey.”
The latest survey included some 1,800 Social Security recipients, most of whom said food was the fastest-rising category over the past 12 months.
“This should not be happening,” Johnson says. “It’s a terrible thing to watch those numbers tick upward, knowing this big jump in food insecurity occurred during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.”
Social Security recipients got a 5.9% cost-of-living adjustment this year, but the Labor Department said last week that the closely watched Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose at a 7.5% pace in January. Which means Social Security recipients, despite that 5.9% bump, are already losing ground.
Many economists think that until the global pandemic is brought under control, supply chains in the United States and abroad will continue to be stressed. It’s Econ 101: Not enough goods are reaching the market; when demand tops supply, prices rise.
It’s difficult to overstate just how important food stamps are to tens of millions of Americans. Dating back to 1933, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched what is today known as the SNAP program, which helps keep nearly 41 million Americans fed.
But SNAP is just one federal program that’s available to help hungry seniors. Here are some others:
The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) provides reimbursements for nutritious meals and snacks for adults over the age of 60 or living with a disability and enrolled in daycare facilities.
The Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) is designed to provide low-income seniors with access to locally grown fruits, vegetables, honey and herbs; increase the domestic consumption of agricultural commodities through farmers markets, roadside stands, and community supported agricultural programs;
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) works to improve the health of low-income persons at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA Foods.
In terms of private sector assistance, I’m sure you know about Meals-on-Wheels. There’s a box where you enter your ZIP Code, which will take you to a local provider.
For any older American reading this article who worries about getting enough to eat, please look into these programs, and share them with friends and neighbors. In the United States—the so-called “land of plenty”—it is outrageous that anyone has to worry about something as basic and essential as food.
Meanwhile, what about drug prices? Pharmaceutical companies raised wholesale prices on more than 450 prescription medicines by a median 4.9% to start the year, reports Kaiser Health News. Median, of course, means that half of those increases were more than that, half less. That 4.9% is about what price hikes have been for the past several years, Kaiser adds.
One drug alone tells the painful story here: Insulin. Last year, diabetes deaths topped 100,000 in the U.S. for the second year in a row, a number likely to soar in the years ahead, given that more than 100 million Americans are either diabetic or prediabetic.
Insulin is a life saver—for those who can afford it. Introducing President Biden at a drug price event in Virginia last week, a 12-year old boy, Joshua Davis, said he has diabetes, as does his father. Even though the Davis family has insurance, it still spends between $6,000 and $7,000 per year on insulin. To save money, the family sometimes uses expired insulin.
Got that kind of money lying around? Millions of seniors, heavily if not utterly dependent on Social Security, certainly don’t. Food or insulin? Why, in America, are people forced to make such choices?
At that Virginia event, Biden repeated one of his goals: To cap insulin costs at $35 per month, per person. That would lower the Davis family’s annual insulin spend to $840, a huge savings. But the insulin cap is part of the president’s giant “Build Back Better” legislation (BBB) that, after passing the House, has gone nowhere in the Senate.
The White House is weighing breaking up BBB into smaller parts. A cap on insulin prices is such an urgent—and literally lifesaving—matter, that it should be a stand-alone piece of legislation. The drug lobby would fight it, as they do every cost-cutting measure. I say create a separate bill, and let’s force members of Congress vote, on the record, for whom they support: Constituents who need cheaper, lifesaving drugs, or pharmaceutical companies, who contribute millions to keep those lawmakers in power.
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Back on the launch pad
NASA’s massive Artemis 1 rocket is back on the launch pad as of Monday (June 6) for a second try at what the agency calls a wet dress rehearsal. During that process, which will begin on June 19 and last about two days if all goes well, NASA personnel will fill the rocket and its launch infrastructure with more than 700,000 gallons (2.65 million liters) of cryogenic fuel, then conduct a series of countdown rehearsals, including practicing for holds and aborts.
This week’s arrival marks the Artemis 1 rocket’s second visit to launch pad 39B, after NASA attempted a wet dress rehearsal in April. Assuming the agency can complete the test, the rocket will roll back to the massive Vehicle Assembly Building one more time before launching on an uncrewed mission around the moon.
You can watch live footage of the rocket (opens in new tab) courtesy of NASA.
Artemis 1’s second rollout is underway
NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission is on the move again. The Artemis 1 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule left the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) a little after midnight EDT (0400 GMT) on June 6, heading for KSC’s Pad 39B. The roughly 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) trek is expected to take 8 to 12 hours. You can learn more in our rollout preview story.
Artemis 1 is headed to Pad 39B for a “wet dress rehearsal,” a crucial series of tests that includes fueling of the SLS and the performance of several simulated launch countdowns. The 48-hour wet dress is expected to begin on June 19.
This is Artemis 1’s second rollout ahead of a wet dress attempt. The stack first headed to Pad 39B in mid-March and initiated a wet dress on April 1. Artemis 1 ran into some technical troubles on that try, however, and rolled back to the VAB for maintenance work on April 25.
Artemis 1 stack rolls off launch pad
NASA began rolling its Artemis 1 moon mission off Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida this afternoon (April 25). The Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule that will fly Artemis 1 are on their way back to KSC’s Vehicle Assembly Building, where team members will address a few issues identified during the Artemis 1 “wet dress rehearsal” earlier this month.
The 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) journey to the VAB is expected to take 8 to 12 hours, NASA officials said (opens in new tab).
NASA halts 3rd attempt at fueling Artemis 1 moon rocket
NASA did not finish fueling the core stage of the Artemis 1 moon mission’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as planned today (April 14), calling it off after noticing a leak of liquid hydrogen. Read our full story here.
It was the agency’s third attempt at SLS propellant loading, one of the most important parts of the Artemis 1 prelaunch “wet dress rehearsal.” Technical issues scuttled the first two tries as well. It’s unclear when the Artemis 1 team will resume the multi-day test, and which procedures they still want to do; we’ll have to stay tuned for updates, which NASA officials said will be coming shortly.
NASA pauses fueling of Artemis 1 moon rocket
NASA has paused the fueling of the Artemis 1 mission’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket after encountering an issue during a “fast fill” of liquid hydrogen, or LH2.
“After fast fill on LH2 began, a surge in pressure automatically stopped the flow of liquid hydrogen,” agency officials wrote in an update (opens in new tab) at 2:10 p.m. EDT (1810 GMT) today (April 14). “Teams are working to troubleshoot this issue and the rocket is in a safe configuration. In the meantime, liquid oxygen flow was paused on the core stage to ensure the tanking operations for LOX and LH2 remain synchronized.”
LOX, or liquid oxygen, is the other propellant for the SLS.
These operations are part of the Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal, a crucial series of prelaunch tests that began on Tuesday (April 12) and are slated to wrap up this afternoon. Keep checking back here for more updates about the test.
Fueling underway for Artemis 1 moon rocket
NASA is proceeding with liquid oxygen fueling of the Artemis 1 moon rocket after temperature readings slowed their work earlier today.
“After troubleshooting an issue with the temperature of liquid oxygen during early stages of propellant loading into the rocket’s core stage, launch controllers have resumed operations,” NASA wrote in an update (opens in new tab) at 12:25 pm ET. “Teams performed chill down operations again before liquid oxygen began flowing into the tank and adjusted pump speeds as necessary during flow to help ensure temperatures remain below limits. They also opened valves to bleed off any warm liquid oxygen.”
NASA has also begun filling the Artemis 1 core stage with the super-cold liquid hydrogen propellant the rocket will use, in all, Artemis 1’s Space Launch System rocket will use 537,000 gallons of propellant during its launch to the moon. — Tariq Malik
Artemis 1 moon mission test runs into oxygen snag
NASA has continued its work testing hardware that will fly on the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission later this year. This morning, mission personnel worked to cool oxygen lines in preparation for fuel loading, but as liquid oxygen began flowing into the rocket, teams noticed that the temperature had crept too high and paused the test, which had been targeting a “launch (opens in new tab)” time of 3:57 p.m. EDT (1957 GMT).
“As teams began the liquid oxygen (LOX) slow fill, a temperature limit was exceeded,” Jeremy Parsons, deputy manager of the Exploration Ground Systems team at Kennedy Space Center, wrote in a tweet (opens in new tab). “Teams believe they understand the issue and are working a solution that will allow operations to resume. These are all important aspects of test conditions in complex environments.”
NASA powers up Artemis 1 rocket’s core stage, Orion spacecraft
Overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday (April 12 to April 13), the Artemis 1 team powered up the core stage of the mission’s huge Space Launch System rocket as well as its Orion spacecraft, NASA officials wrote in an update Wednesday (opens in new tab).
This work is part of the Artemis 1 “wet dress rehearsal,” a practice run of critical prelaunch procedures such as rocket fueling. The team remains on track to fill the tanks of the SLS core stage (but not the upper stage) on Thursday (April 14), as planned, agency officials said.
The wet dress is scheduled to wrap up on Thursday. If everything goes well, the Artemis 1 team will then proceed toward gearing up for the mission, which will launch an uncrewed Orion on a journey around the moon, perhaps as early as June.
NASA resumes Artemis 1 moon mission’s wet dress rehearsal
NASA has resumed a key prelaunch test of its Artemis 1 moon mission.
The Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal began once again at about 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) on Tuesday (April 12), when team members arrived at their stations at the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
The wet dress will unfold over the next 48 hours, with the big events — fueling of the core stage of Artemis 1’s huge Space Launch System rocket, for example, and the performance of several simulated countdowns — occurring on Thursday (April 12).
The weather looks good for tanking operations on Thursday, NASA officials wrote in a blog post on Tuesday (opens in new tab).
This isn’t the first attempt at Artemis 1’s wet dress. NASA began the test on April 1 and aimed to finish it on April 3, but technical issues and the April 8 launch of the private Ax-1 astronaut mission pushed things back to Tuesday.
One of the technical issues, a faulty valve on the Artemis 1 mobile launch tower, led to the modification of some wet dress procedures. NASA had originally intended to fuel up both stages of the SLS, for example, but will now focus on tanking just the core stage. Read more in our story here (opens in new tab).
NASA resuming Artemis 1 moon rocket test Tuesday
NASA plans to resume the crucial “wet dress rehearsal” of its Artemis 1 moon mission Tuesday (April 12) after a more than weeklong delay.
The test — a practice run of the most important Artemis 1 prelaunch activities, including rocket fueling — began on April 1 and was supposed to wrap up 48 hours later. Technical issues pushed things back a few days, however, and the team then had to stand down for the launch of the Ax-1 private astronaut mission, which lifted off Friday (April 8) from a neighboring launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
But the wet dress is slated to pick up again Tuesday with a “call to stations” at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT). The big-ticket items, including fueling of Artemis 1’s huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, will occur Thursday (April 14), if all goes according to plan.
Only the core stage of the two-stage SLS will be fueled, however. The original plan called for fueling the upper stage as well, but NASA nixed that part after discovering a problem with a valve on Artemis 1’s mobile launch tower. Read our full story here.
Artemis is back to work on Saturday
NASA has announced that it will resume work on the Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal, a crucial pre-flight test for the uncrewed moon-circling mission due to launch this summer. The agency began wet dress rehearsal activities on April 1, but had to stop procedures twice. Then, NASA personnel stood down from the rehearsal in order to permit the Ax-1 mission to the International Space Station to launch on Friday (April 8).
Now, NASA has a plan to get back to work on the rocket check. Agency personnel will begin work on Saturday (April 9) at about 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT). The Artemis 1 team will work through each task of launch preparations, straight through to just under 10 seconds before what would be launch time on a real flight. If all goes well, the team will reach that “T-0” time on Monday (April 11) at about 2:40 p.m. EDT (1840 GMT), NASA officials wrote in a statement (opens in new tab).
NASA halts fueling of Artemis 1 moon rocket due to valve issue
The “wet dress rehearsal” of NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission has hit another snag.
The crucial three-day test was supposed to wrap up Sunday (April 3) with the fueling of Artemis 1’s huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, but a problem with the fans on its mobile launch tower pushed things back to Monday (April 4). The Artemis 1 team began loading 700,000 gallons of supercold liquid propellants into the rocket on Monday but had to halt after discovering a problem with a vent valve on the mobile launcher.
“Due the vent valve issue, the launch director has called off the test for the day. The team is preparing to offload LOX and will begin discussing how quickly the vehicle can be turned around for the next attempt. A lot of great learning and progress today,” NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems program said via Twitter Monday afternoon (opens in new tab). (“LOX” is liquid oxygen, one of the two SLS propellants. The other is liquid hydrogen.)
Stay tuned for more updates.
NASA sets new Artemis 1 “launch” time of 6:02 p.m. EDT
NASA has set a new “launch” time for its Artemis 1 moon mission — 6:02 p.m. EDT (2202 GMT) today (April 4).
The huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule that will fly Artemis 1 won’t actually get off the ground today, of course; NASA is currently conducting a “wet dress rehearsal” that simulates many of the activities leading up to launch, including fueling of the SLS. This crucial trial started on Friday afternoon (April 1) and was supposed to wrap up on Sunday (April 3), but several technical issues pushed some work to today.
Keep checking back here for updates. And you can see live video of the SLS-Orion stack on the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center here (opens in new tab).
NASA ‘go’ to fuel Artemis 1 moon rocket
NASA launch controllers cleared the Artemis 1` moon rocket to proceed with “tanking” (or fueling) the Space Launch System booster today at 7:40 a.m. EDT (1140 GMT). Later, officials are expected to give a “go” to actually start the fueling process.
NASA reports that the test team is in a hold currently as they work to resolve an outage with a vendor that provides gaseous nitrogen that is needed for the tanking process.
“Nitrogen is used to prepare for, and during tanking operations, to provide a non-flammable environment inside of the SLS. When the issue is resolved, the countdown clock will pick back up with T-6 hours, 40 minutes on the clock (L-7 hours, 20 minutes) remaining in the countdown, (opens in new tab) beginning with chilling down the liquid oxygen lines for the core stage,” NASA wrote in an update (opens in new tab).
Earlier, NASA was targeting a planned T-0 “launch time” of 2:40 p.m. EDT (1840 GMT) in which to conclude today’s test. We’re awaiting word from NASA if that time will change.
NASA to try Artemis 1 fueling test again
NASA will make a second attempt to fuel the Artemis 1 Space Launch System moon rocket today after a ground systems equipment problem on the rocket’s mobile launcher prevented the test on Sunday (April 3).
The Artemis 1 moon rocket is standing atop Pad 39B of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where it has been undergoing a critical “wet dress rehearsal” to practice a full launch countdown ahead of its moon mission later this year.
At 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT), the launch control team was expected to meet and review the rocket’s status before deciding whether to begin loading fuel at around 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT). If approved, the team would then proceed to fuel the SLS rocket with the 700,000 gallons of super-cold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen.
NASA plans to countdown to a T-0 “liftoff” time of 2:40 p.m. EDT (1840 GMT).
Scrub! NASA calls off Artemis 1 fueling test
NASA has called off its planned “wet dress rehearsal” fueling test of its first Artemis 1 moon rocket over safety concerns with the rocket’s mobile launch platform.
NASA announced the scrub on Twitter at 12:06 p.m. EDT (1606 GMT), nearly five hours after fueling was originally scheduled to occur. The reason, NASA officials said, was a pressurization problem on the mobile launcher that houses ground crew systems.
“Teams have decided to scrub tanking operations for the wet dress rehearsal due to loss of ability to pressurize the mobile launcher. The fans are needed to provide positive pressure to the enclosed areas within the mobile launcher and keep out hazardous gases,” NASA wrote in an update today. “Technicians are unable to safely proceed with loading the propellants into the rocket’s core stage and interim cryogenic propulsion stage without this capability.”
NASA is now working to determine if ground crews can make another attempt to fuel the Artemis 1 mission’s Space Launch System rocket on Monday, April 4.
A media briefing on NASA’s plans is expected later today.
Fueling day for Artemis 1 moon rocket
It’s fueling day for NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket as the agency nears the main event of its “wet dress rehearsal.”
At 6:45 a.m. EDT today, NASA’s Artemis 1 launch director gave the “go” to begin fueling the Artemis 1 Space Launch System rocket at 7:20 a.m. EDT (1120 GMT).
Strong storms overnight caused about an hour of delays for crews working at Launch Pad 39B, according to Jeremy Parsons, NASA’s deputy manager of the Exploration Ground Systems, who is live Tweeting the test.
Four lightning strikes occurred in the vicinity of the Pad 39B site, including the strongest strike to the pad’s protective catenary wire and tower structure designed to shield the Artemis 1 moon rocket from direct lightning hits.
“1 of the strikes last night was the strongest we have seen since we installed the new lightning protection system,” Parsons wrote. “It hit the catenary wire that runs between the 3 towers. System performed extremely well & kept SLS and Orion safe. Glad we enhanced protection since Shuttle!”
(1/4) 1 of the strikes last night was the strongest we have seen since we installed the new lightning protection system. It hit the catenary wire that runs between the 3 towers. System performed extremely well & kept SLS and Orion safe. Glad we enhanced protection since Shuttle!April 3, 2022
Artemis 1 SLS rocket core stage powered up for test
NASA’s three-day launch countdown and fueling test for its Artemis 1 moon rocket is in full swing, with engineers powering up the Space Launch System’s core stage at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT) this morning, NASA reports.
The test, called a “wet dress rehearsal,” is practicing launch countdown and fueling procedures for the Space Launch System rocket that will be needed when NASA launches the actual Artemis 1 moon mission with this booster around late May or June.
You can see live views of the Artemis 1 Space Launch System on the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Newsroom YouTube Channel, which is embedded above.
Here’s what NASA has on tap for today: “Around 3 a.m. on Saturday April 2, at approximately L-35 hours and 20 minutes, the Artemis I launch control team powered up the Space Launch System rocket’s core stage (opens in new tab), which will be loaded with more than 700,000 gallons of propellants during the tanking phase of the countdown (opens in new tab). During the day, teams will charge Orion flight batteries, conduct final preparations on umbilical arms, and conduct a final pre-launch walkdown,” the agency wrote in a status update (opens in new tab).
At 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT), NASA will conduct a weather briefing, at which time the agency will release a new update. Jeremy Parsons, NASA’s deputy manager of the Exploration Ground Systems program at @NASAKennedy (opens in new tab), is providing live updates via the agency’s NASA Exploration Ground Systems Twitter account. — Tariq Malik
Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal press conference
NASA will hold a teleconference today at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) to discuss the agency’s critical first fueling test for the Artemis 1 moon rocket currently standing atop Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. You can watch it live at the top of our homepage.
Called a “wet dress rehearsal,” the multi-day test will begin on April 1 and end on April 3 and serve as a launch day dress rehearsal for NASA’s Artemis 1 uncrewed moon mission. Artemis 1 is scheduled to launch no earlier than late May or early June.
Speaking in today’s conference will be:
- Tom Whitmeyer, deputy associate administrator for common exploration systems development, NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis launch director, NASA Exploration Ground Systems program, NASA Kennedy
- John Honeycutt, manager, Space Launch System program, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama
- Howard Hu, manager, Orion program, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston
- Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, NASA Headquarters
Tune in at 1 p.m. EDT to find out more about NASA’s Artemis 1 fueling test plans.
There’s a rocket there, we promise!
Space.com senior writer Chelsea Gohd is on the scene in foggy early-morning Florida checking out the Artemis 1 rocket on the launch pad. She’s live-tweeting the visit so follow along to hear all the latest and see tons more photos:
Hey look! It’s Artemis 1 on the launch pad! 😂 pic.twitter.com/SqSS0wnROLMarch 18, 2022
NASA’s Artemis 1 megarocket is on the launch pad
It’s a milestone space fans have been waiting for for ages: NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket reached the launch pad in the early morning of Friday (March 18). The rocket will undergo about a month of testing, retreat to the Vehicle Assembly Building, roll out again and launch no earlier than late May.
NASA chief Bill Nelson speaks during Artemis rollout
The Artemis 1 rollout featured an appearance by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, who gave a 13-minute speech as the agency’s Space Launch System megarocket and Orion capsule rolled slowly by in the background.
“Ladies and gentlemen, the world’s most powerful rocket ever right here,” Nelson said. “It’s back to the moon and then on to Mars!”
Artemis 1 clears the VAB!
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule that will fly NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission this summer emerge from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 17, 2022. The SLS-Orion duo are on their way to the launch pad for testing, a 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) journey that’s expected to take 11 hours. Read more.
Rollout has begun!
NASA began rolling its Artemis 1 moon mission out to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (March 17) at 5:47 p.m. EDT (2147 GMT). The agency’s crawler-transporter 2 vehicle is carrying the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule on a 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) journey that’s expected to take about 11 hours. Read more here.
Artemis 1 rollout is live!
NASA TV has begun livestreaming the rollout of its Artemis 1 moon mission to the launch pad at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center for testing. Watch it live and read more here.
NASA opens VAB doors for Artemis 1 rollout
NASA has opened the massive bay doors on the Vehicle Assembly Building to begin today’s planned rollout of the first Space Launch System megarocket that will be used to launch the Artemis 1 mission to the moon. Rollout will begin at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT).
Space.com Senior Writer Chelsea Gohd is at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida where she is covering the rollout live. Here’s some of her photos so far.
Slow and steady is the name of the game today pic.twitter.com/V4uHvuaJ1lMarch 17, 2022
It’s rollout day for Artemis 1 moon rocket!
It’s finally here: rollout day for NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket.
As Space.com Senior Writer Chelsea Gohd reports, NASA’s first Space Launch System megarocket will roll to Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT). You’ll be able to watch it live at start time on this page and on the Space.com homepage, courtesy of NASA TV. It will take up to 12 hours to reach the pad. Gohd is at the Kennedy Space Center and will cover the rollout overnight for Space.com.
The Artemis 1 mission will launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the moon no earlier than late May 2022. Today’s rollout is a debut of sorts for the rocket and will kick off a month of pad tests that, NASA hopes, will include a “wet dress rehearsal” to fuel the rocket for the first time.
Today’s rollout marks the biggest move in years for NASA’s massive crawler carrier vehicle as well. The Apollo-era vehicle, originally built to move Saturn V rockets, weighs 5.75 million pounds (2.60 million kilograms) and was used to move NASA space shuttles and the Ares I-X test rocket to the pad.
Space.com’s Spaceflight Editor Mike Wall has this explainer of the crawler carrier vehicle.
Artemis 1 rollout media teleconference today
Today (March 14), NASA will be hosting a live media teleconference discussing the details of the upcoming rollout of the Artemis 1 vehicles.
Rollout of the vehicles, the Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and the Orion spacecraft, will take place on Thursday (March 17) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The pair will be carried by the agency’s crawler-transporter 2 vehicle on a slow, 4-mile journey to Launch Pad 39B.
Join the media teleconference (opens in new tab)live today at 5:30 EST (2230 GMT) at Space.com or directly via the agency’s Youtube channel. You can watch the event live at the video above.
Send your name around the moon on Artemis 1
You can send your name around the moon on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, an uncrewed flight that’s scheduled to launch in May or June. Just sign up for a free “boarding pass” at this NASA page (opens in new tab) — that’s all there is to it! Read more here.
Artemis 1 rocket rollout set for March 17 for May launch
In a press conference today, NASA announced that it will roll out the Artemis 1 moon rocket, the agency’s first Space Launch System megarocket, on March 17 at the Kennedy Space Center in a major milestone for the agency’s return to the moon.
Artemis 1 will roll out to Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center for up to a month of pad tests and a “wet dress rehearsal” in which the rocket will be fueled as if for launch. The tests will set the stage for an Artemis 1 launch sometime in May 2022, but that could slip to June or July, NASA officials said today.
You can read the full story, including details on the wet dress rehearsal, rollout and launch window plans, in our wrap story by Mike Wall.
NASA Artemis 1 mission update today
Update for 1:30 pm ET: NASA is now targeting 2:30 p.m. EST (1930 GMT) for its press teleconference today on the Artemis 1 moon mission update.
NASA will hold a live teleconference today to discuss its plans to launch the Artemis 1 moon mission as early as April. The teleconference will begin at 1:30 pm ET (2030 GMT) today and you can listen in live here.
Artemis 1 is NASA’s first mission to the moon under the agency’s Artemis program, which aims to send astronauts to the moon by around 2025 or so. That crewed moon landing will occur on the Artemis 3 mission.
As the first to fly, Artemis 1 will not carry a crew, but will fly on a trip around the moon with instruments, cubesats and more aboard. The mission will use the new Space Launch System to launch an Orion space capsule to the moon and back.
The rollout of that SLS moon rocket is expected sometime in March, with NASA due to give an update on that process today.
NASA fires up Artemis 1 moon rocket’s first-stage engines again
NASA appears to have ironed out the kinks with the core-stage engines of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the Artemis 1 moon mission this spring.
A faulty controller on one of the SLS core-stage engines required some troubleshooting recently, pushing the launch of Artemis 1 — an uncrewed journey around the moon — back to April. Those fixes appeared to work, for the SLS core stage engines performed as expected during a recent series of tests, NASA officials announced on Friday (Feb. 18). Read our story about these developments here.
And speaking of developments: We’re going to get another Artemis 1 update soon. NASA will hold a media teleconference on Thursday (Feb. 24) at 1:30 p.m. EST (1830 GMT) to discuss the latest progress toward launch. You can listen to it live Thursday here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency.
Artemis 1 rollout delayed, NASA says
NASA’s first Artemis moon mission will launch a little later than expected.
Today (Feb. 2), NASA announced that the rollout of its Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion capsule will be pushed from February to March, though the agency has yet to announce an exact date.
“Ultimately, we’re going to launch this flight hardware when the flight hardware is ready and when the team’s ready,” Mike Bolger, the program manager of exploration ground systems at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, told Space.com during a news conference held today.
While the exact rollout date and new launch date have not yet been announced, Mike Sarafin, the Artemis 1 mission manager at NASA Headquarters, said during the news conference that if the launch is pushed to April or May, a launch window would extend from April 8 to April 23; another would open May 7 and close May 21.
Learn more at Space.com here.
Artemis 1 status briefing starts soon
NASA officials are holding a news conference today (Feb. 2) at 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT) to discuss the delayed rollout of the SLS rocket. You can listen to the teleconference live in the window above, courtesy of NASA.
“While the teams are not working any major issues, NASA has added additional time to complete closeout activities inside the VAB [Vehicle Assembly Building] prior to rolling the rocket out for the first time,” agency officials wrote in a statement (opens in new tab).
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Attorney Gen. Scott Harshbarger wants Massachusetts to become the first state in the country to use its consumer-protection laws to issue regulations on handgun sales.
It makes sense to treat guns like other consumer goods that pose risks. As Mr. Harshbarger says, "We regulate the safety of caps for toy guns, fireworks, and everything from bicycles to baby rattles, but not handguns."
Under the proposal, the sale in Massachusetts of cheap handguns made of inferior materials - known as "Saturday Night Specials" - would be banned. All handguns for sale in the state would be required to carry improved, tamper-resistant serial numbers and to include child-proof features such as trigger locks or increased trigger pressure.
Harshbarger, gun-safety advocates, and others aren't saying consumer-protection regulations alone will solve the problem of gun violence in Massachusetts or any other state. They do believe, however, as we do, that such regulations, if part of a comprehensive gun-control effort, would be a small step in the right direction.
A study conducted last year by Boston police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms found that the often-defective Saturday Night Specials account for 7 out of 10 guns traced in criminal cases in the US. These guns are particularly appealing to young people.
The ATF and Boston police also found that nearly 1 in 4 guns seized from Boston street gangs between 1991 and '94 had obliterated serial numbers. Current law requires manufacturers to place a visible, imprinted serial number on all guns. The new regulations would require them to put an additional number on a nonvisible spot - inside the gun, for instance - that can't be easily located and obliterated by criminals. Clearly this would make tracing weapons easier.
Child-proofing handguns is another important - and common-sense - step. According to a recent poll, fewer than half of Americans who own guns take steps to keep those weapons from children. Child-proofing guns would not and should not absolve adults of their responsibility to keep guns out of the hands of children. But it would reduce the risks to young people and would send a message to manufacturers that they have a responsibility of their own.
Once public hearings on the proposal are held in Massachusetts this fall, the state could become the first to use its consumer-protection laws this way. We hope it won't be the last.
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It’s just after 7 p.m. on June 17 on the eve of the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, and the Wild Duck Café is packed and overflowing with track-crazy patrons eating dinner, clanking beer glasses and reacquainting with old friends.
Located about three blocks from the Hayward Field track stadium, “The Duck,” as it is known colloquially, is where people gather before and after each day’s events at the Olympic Trials, just as it has been during big track meets for decades. While there are plenty of random fans who have traveled far and wide to be at the Trials — which were, of course, delayed a year along with the Tokyo Olympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic — it’s also a who’s who of the running industry and the sport of track and field.
A quick glance across the room on this night, it’s easy to spot Brooks Beasts coach Danny Mackey, two-time U.S. 5,000-meter run champion Lauren Fleshman, Hansons-Brooks Distance Project coaches Keith and Kevin Hanson, three-time Australian Olympian Lee Troop, and noted track historian Mike Fanelli, among many other athletes, coaches, race directors and more.
“As always, ‘The Duck’ is the place to be,” says Fanelli, who was also in Eugene for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, as well as the 1980 event that was held even though the U.S. had already boycotted the Moscow Olympics. “Every time you walk in here, it seems like old times.”
Although you wouldn’t know it if you visited The Duck, this year’s U.S. Olympic Trials are still under strict COVID-19 health and safety regulations dictated by the State of Oregon and Lane County Public Health. Oregon was able to relax its public gathering and events standards in early June as COVID-19 case prevalence dropped and vaccination rates increased, but USA Track & Field (USATF) still has to follow rigid protocols at the newly reconstructed Hayward Field. According to Lane County Public Health, in the week before the Olympic Trials opened, 136 people were COVID-19-positive, 11 people were hospitalized with it and six residents were killed by the virus.
Athletes have been sequestered away from fans and media, both at the behest of USATF and by their own coaches to reduce the risk of contracting the virus. COVID tests are mandatory every 48 hours for athletes, coaches, officials, broadcasters, journalists and others who have access to the stadium and temperature checks are mandatory for all fans entering the stadium on race-day. With the Tokyo Olympics teetering on cancellation up until the past few weeks because of COVID-19 concerns, the virus is being taken seriously in and around Hayward Field.
Last Sunday, Dr. Robert Chapman, USATF’s director of sports science and medicine, announced to athletes via email that one athlete, one coach and one meet official were forced into quarantine, along with one other unvaccinated athlete who came into contact with one of the infected. That’s a horrible way to miss out on what might be a once-in-a-lifetime experience to compete in this Olympic-qualifying meeting in a stunning new track and field facility.
Even the media interview process is different. In the past and at most major international track meets, athletes leave the track and pass through what’s known as the “mixed zone,” where reporters ask questions before athletes are then shuttled through to drug-testing stations and eventually to an athletes-only area where they can connect with coaches. But this year, because of COVID-19 precautions, the mixed zone interviews are done via Zoom, with reporters, like me, tuning in from wherever we are: In the stadium, at the coffee shop next to Hayward, on the street with a phone. While it’s not an ideal process — submitting questions via the chat function on Zoom — the interface has been pretty smooth and USATF has handled it well.
One big difference, however, is that during other years, most athletes are usually available for additional interviews after they do a cool-down run or on their off days, and are often found hanging around at local restaurants, doing shakeout runs on Pre’s Trail and at brand events. But athletes have generally been more scarce in Eugene this week because of the COVID-19 concerns, especially those who are competing in additional events or have already made the team.
One other COVID-19 effect: the new stadium, built to be a world-class track facility with 12,650 spectator seats, has been less than half full. Only 5,519 fans were admitted for Monday’s Day 4 events — but they were vociferously engaged in every event just as in previous years when the old Hayward Field was at full capacity (more on that in a bit).
Despite these restrictions, the Trials have largely been deemed a smashing success. Although the weather has been unbearably hot at times — peaking at 94 degrees on Monday during the women’s 1,500-meter finals — the running, jumping and throwing action through the first four days of the eight-day meet has been exceptional in both prelims and finals.
There have been many extraordinary individual efforts. Among the moments, too many to note, a few that stand out include Abbey Cooper running solo and achieving the Olympic-qualifying standard in her 5,000m preliminary heat on June 18, Elle Purrier running away with the women’s 1,500m final in a Trials record time of 3:58.03, Clayton Murphy winning the men’s 800m in a world-leading 1:43.17 and Sean McGorty recovering from a shoe mishap to barely make it to the finals of the 3,000m steeplechase.
Hayward Field is Dead, Long Live Hayward Field
About that new stadium: Many purists had lamented the demise of the original Hayward Field, which was considered a grand old cathedral of track and field akin to Wrigley Field or Carnegie Hall, and fused with the indomitable spirit and mystique of the late Steve Prefontaine. The venue for hundreds of collegiate and international track meets during nearly a century of service that began in 1921, the facility was badly in need of renovation, especially after Eugene was awarded the opportunity to host the 2021 World Championships (which were pushed back to July 2022 because of the pandemic).
A fast and furious reconstruction process began in 2018 and was completed last summer. Where historic wooden grandstands and bleachers once stood is now a state-of-the-art steel, concrete, glass and wood facility poised to keep Eugene “Track Town USA” for the next 100 years. Athletes have given the facilities high marks, not only because the track is fast and energetic but because, like old Hayward, the fans are intimately close and the acoustics are loud and invigorating.
“It’s a masterpiece,” says Murphy, who won the 800m at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials at Hayward Field and went on to earn a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics. “It’s the best facility I’ve ever run in. I have run in Olympic stadiums in London, Rio and the Bird’s Nest (in Beijing) that were built for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics and huge crowds. The new Hayward Field feels like old Hayward, which was intimate and small, but with a bigger stadium around it. When you’re running, you feel like you’re running in an Olympic stadium, but with the Hayward crowd in it. It was loud and rocking during the 800 final even though it might have only been half full.”
The attention to detail paid in the design of the new facility is remarkable, with unobstructed sightlines and cushioned seats for all spectators in a two-tier, theatre-style bowl configuration. Plus the pedestrian walkways and steps are covered with the same all-weather material that’s on the nine-lane track. There’s a six-lane, 140-meter straightaway and a 280-meter loop in the lower levels of the stadium, plus discipline-specific warm-up areas for long jump, triple jump, throws and pole vault, as well as underwater treadmills, treatment rooms, meeting rooms and athlete lounges.
You’ll find plenty of bathroom facilities — something that old Hayward lacked — plus themed food stations named after prominent athletes, including Ashton’s Eatins (named for two-time Olympic decathlon champion Ashton Eaton) and English’s Garden (named for 2016 Olympic gold medalist English Gardner). There’s also the striking Hayward Hall museum that includes shrines to Prefontaine, Bill Bowerman and Nike founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, who were the largest benefactors of the new facility.
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
But because no one can hang out at Hayward after each day’s events conclude, a large contingent of spectators wind up back at The Duck. That’s where fans, coaches and even athletes relive the day’s competitions, catch up on gossip and rumors and, of course, recall the good ol’ days. On Running used the venue to introduce its On Athletics Club elite athlete team, Brooks held a private party upstairs for coaches, athletes and agents and Athletic.net and RunnerSpace.com have been onsite producing live podcasts.
Not long after the men’s 10,000-meter run finished on the evening of June 18, BYU athlete Connor Mantz, who finished sixth in the race in 27:59, met up with friends at the Duck at the end of his cool-down run still wearing his racing kit and race bib. Although Mantz quickly blended into the scene, Ryan Crouser brought down the house when he showed up, also still wearing his competition gear and bib, two hours after winning the men’s shot put with a world-record toss of 76 feet, 8 ¼ inches. The crowd recognized him when he walked in, and broke into a vigorous “USA! USA! USA!” chant.
Only in Track Town USA could something like that happen.
“There is no better place for an Olympic track and field trials than Eugene, where you have that European feeling of a small enough stadium where the athletes are surrounded by the most knowledgeable track and field fans in America,” Fanelli says. “In the old stadium, you could hear the thunderous pounding on the boards. It’s kind of hard to make that same sound (in the new Hayward), but regardless, the energy and the clapping and the whole experience. It’s still Hayward Field, it’s still Eugene.
“If I had my druthers and I was the head of USATF, I would put forth a bill to state that all Olympic Trials into perpetuity be held right here in Track Town.”
Here’s how, who and what to watch during all the rest of the excitement in Track Town this week: PodiumRunner’s Guide to the Olympic Team Trials.
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|9/11 - Die Frage nach den Tätern|
Wenn CIA und die Regierung nicht in die Anschläge vom 11. September verwickelt wären: was würden sie tun?|
Artikel von Michael C. Ruppert vom 2.11.2001 in 'From The Wilderness Publications' (FTW)
"Oh Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta ‘Splainin To Do"
A TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN’T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
Bin Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked Away
FTW, November 2, 2001 - 1200 PST [Revised, Nov 27, 2001] -- On October 31, the French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official - presumably the Chief of Station. The meeting, held in bin Laden’s private suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time when he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S. embassies and this year’s attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for execution according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued by President Bill Clinton before leaving office in January. Yet on July 14th he was allowed to leave Dubai on a private jet and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him down.
In 1985 Oliver North - the only member of the Reagan-Bush years who doesn’t appear to have a hand in the current war - sent the Navy and commandos after terrorists on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. In his 1991 autobiography "Under Fire," while describing terrorist Abu Abbas, North wrote, "I used to wonder: how many dead Americans will it take before we do something?" One could look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden is alleged to have killed before September 11 and ask the same question.
It gets worse, much worse. A more complete timeline listing crucial events both before and after the September 11th suicide attacks, which have been blamed on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in their execution. It also makes clear that the events which have taken place since September 11th are based upon an agenda that has little to do with the attacks.
One wonders how these events could have been ignored by the major media or treated as isolated incidents. Failing that, how could skilled news agencies avoid being outraged, or at least even just a little suspicious?
1. 1998 and 2000 - Former President George H.W. Bush travels to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th largest defense contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with the Saudi royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal, Sept. 27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No 7 - "The Best Enemies Money Can Buy," - http://www.copvcia.com/members/carlyle.html.]
2. January, 2001 - The Bush Administration orders the FBI and intelligence agencies to "back off" investigations involving the bin Laden family, including two of Osama bin Laden’s relatives (Abdullah and Omar) who were living in Falls Church, VA - right next to CIA headquarters. This followed previous orders dating back to 1996, frustrating efforts to investigate the bin Laden family. [Source: BBC Newsnight, Correspondent Gregg Palast - Nov 7, 2001].
3. Feb 13, 2001 - UPI Terrorism Correspondent Richard Sale - while covering a trial of bin Laden’s Al Q’aeda followers - reports that the National Security Agency has broken bin Laden’s encrypted communications. Even if this indicates that bin Laden changed systems in February it does not mesh with the fact that the government insists that the attacks had been planned for years.
4. May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43 million in aid to the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers who are starving since the destruction of their opium crop in January on orders of the Taliban regime. [Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001].
5. May, 2001 - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a career covert operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a publicized tour while CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with Pakistani leader General Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep Pakistani intelligence connections and he is the recipient of the highest civil decoration awarded by Pakistan. It would be reasonable to assume that while in Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as "an unusually long meeting," also met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad, head of the ISI. [Source The Indian SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001.] 6. June 2001 - German intelligence, the BND, warns the CIA and Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists are "planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture." [Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 2001.]
7. July, 2001 - Three American officials: Tom Simmons (former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren (former State Department expert on South Asia), meet with Pakistani and Russian intelligence officers in Berlin and tell them that the U.S. is planning military strikes against Afghanistan in October. A French book released in November, "Bin Laden - La Verite? Interdite," discloses that Taliban representatives often sat in on the meetings. British papers confirm that the Pakistani ISI relayed the threats to the Taliban. [Source: The Guardian, September 22, 2001; the BBC, September 18, 2001.The Inter Press Service, Nov 16, 2001]
8. Summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain’s The Guardian, correspondent David Leigh reported that, "U.S. department of defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January. The Guardian’s Felicity Lawrence established that US Rangers were also training special troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and Uzbek special troops were training in Alaska and Montana."
9. Summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI Chief General Mahmud (see above) orders an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, who was according to the FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings. Mahmud recently resigned after the transfer was disclosed in India and confirmed by the FBI. [Source: The Times of India, October 11, 2001.]
10. Summer 2001 - An Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to warn of an imminent attack on the World Trade Center in the week of September 9th. German police confirm the calls but state that the U.S. Secret Service would not reveal any further information. [Source: German news agency "online.ie", September 14, 2001.]
11. August 2001 - The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked to bin Laden in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that the man is a key member of bin Laden’s network and the FBI learns that he has been taking flying lessons. At the time of his arrest the man is in possession of technical information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source: Reuters, September 13.]
12. Summer 2001 - Russian intelligence notifies the CIA that 25 terrorist pilots have been specifically training for suicide missions. This is reported in the Russian press and news stories are translated for FTW by a retired CIA officer.
13. July 4-14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden receives treatments for kidney disease at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA official who returns to CIA headquarters on July 15th. [Source: Le Figaro, October 31st, 2001.]
14. August 2001 - Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian intelligence to warn the U.S. government "in the strongest possible terms" of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings. [Source: MS-NBC interview with Putin, September 15.]
15. August/September, 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops nearly 900 points in the three weeks prior to the attack. A major stock market crash is imminent. 16.Sept. 3-10, 2001 - MS-NBC reports on September 16 that a caller to a Cayman Islands radio talk show gave several warnings of an imminent attack on the U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior to 9/11.
17. September 1-10, 2001 - In an exercise, Operation "Swift Sword" planned for four years, 23, 000 British troops are steaming toward Oman. Although the 9/11 attacks caused a hiccup in the deployment the massive operation was implemented as planned. At the same time two U.S. carrier battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani coast. Also at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than 23,000 NATO troops in Egypt for Operation "Bright Star." All of these forces are in place before the first plane hits the World Trade Center. [Sources: The Guardian, CNN, FOX, The Observer, International Law Professor Francis Boyle, the University of Illinois.]
18. September 6-7, 2001 - 4,744 put options (a speculation that the stock will go down) are purchased on United Air Lines stock as opposed to only 396 call options (speculation that the stock will go up). This is a dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many of the UAL puts are purchased through Deutschebank/AB Brown, a firm managed until 1998 by the current Executive Director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard. [Source: The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, http://www.ict.org.il/, September 21; The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal.]
19. September 10, 2001 - 4,516 put options are purchased on American Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: ICT - above]
20. September 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines show any similar trading patterns to those experienced by UAL and American. The put option purchases on both airlines were 600% above normal. This at a time when Reuters (September 10) issues a business report stating, "Airline stocks may be poised to take off."
21. September 6-10, 2001 - Highly abnormal levels of put options are purchased in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re(insurance) which owns 25% of American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies are directly impacted by the September 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above; FTW, Vol. IV, No.7, October 18, 2001, http://www.copvcia.com/members/oct152001.html. ]
22. It has been documented that the CIA, the Israeli Mossad and many other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real time using highly advanced programs reported to be descended from Promis software. This is to alert national intelligence services of just such kinds of attacks. Promis was reported, as recently as June, 2001 to be in Osama bin Laden’s possession and, as a result of recent stories by FOX, both the FBI and the Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S. intelligence gathering through at least this summer. This would confirm that CIA had additional advance warning of imminent attacks. [Sources: The Washington Times, June 15, 2001; FOX News, October 16, 2001; FTW, October 26, 2001, - http://www.copvcia.com/members/magic_carpet.html; FTW, Vol. IV, No.6, Sept. 18, 2001 - http://www.copvcia.com/members/sept1801.html; FTW, Vol. 3, No 7, 9/30/00 - www.copvcia.com/stories/may_2001/052401_promis.html.
23. September 11, 2001 - Gen Mahmud of the ISI (see above), friend of Mohammed Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the Taliban. [Source: MS-NBC, Oct. 7.]
24. September 11, 2001 - For 35 minutes, from 8:15 AM until 9:05 AM, with it widely known within the FAA and the military that four planes have been simultaneously hijacked and taken off course, no one notifies the President of the United States. It is not until 9:30 that any Air Force planes are scrambled to intercept, but by then it is too late. This means that the National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before scrambling aircraft, even though it was known that four simultaneous hijackings had occurred - an event that has never happened in history. [Sources: CNN, ABC, MS-NBC, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times.]
25. September 13, 2001 - China is admitted to the World Trade Organization quickly, after 15 years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source: The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2001.]
26. September 15, 2001 - The New York Times reports that Mayo Shattuck III has resigned, effective immediately, as head of the Alex (A.B) Brown unit of Deutschebank.
27. September 29, 2001 - The San Francisco Chronicle reports that $2.5 million in put options on American Airlines and United Airlines are unclaimed. This is likely the result of the suspension in trading on the NYSE after the attacks which gave the Securities and Exchange Commission time to be waiting when the owners showed up to redeem their put options.
28. October 10, 2001 - The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post reports that U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on the Pakistani oil minister. A previously abandoned Unocal pipeline from Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to the Pakistani coast, for the purpose of selling oil and gas to China, is now back on the table "in view of recent geopolitical developments."
29. Mid October, 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average, after having suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its pre-attack losses. Although still weak, and vulnerable to negative earnings reports, a crash has been averted by a massive infusion of government spending on defense programs, subsidies for "affected" industries and planned tax cuts for corporations.
Now, let’s go back to the October 31 story by Le Figaro - the one that has Osama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai this June.
The story says that, "Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama Bin Laden received visits from many family members [There goes the story that he’s a black sheep!] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities of status. During this time the local representative of the CIA was seen by many people taking the elevator and going to bin Laden’s room.
"Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his friends about having visited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative sources, this CIA agent visited CIA headquarters on July 15tth, the day after bin Laden’s departure for Quetta…
"According to various Arab diplomatic sources and French intelligence itself, precise information was communicated to the CIA concerning terrorist attacks aimed at American interests in the world, including its own territory."…
"Extremely bothered, they [American intelligence officers in a meeting with French intelligence officers] requested from their French peers exact details about the Algerian activists [connected to bin Laden through Dubai banking institutions], without explaining the exact nature of their inquiry. When asked the question, "What do you fear in the coming days?’ the Americans responded with incomprehensible silence."…
"On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain plans that had been put together between the CIA and its "Islamic friends" over the years. The meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with ‘a certain American policy.’"
Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed with hospital staff that bin Laden had been there as reported, stories printed on November 1 contained quotes from hospital staff that these reports were untrue. On November 1, as reported by the Ananova press agency, the CIA flatly denied that any meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama bin Laden at any time.
In the most ironic twist of all, FTW has learned that Le Figaro is owned by the Carlyle Group, the American defense contractor which employs George Bush Sr., and which had as investors - until they sold their stake on October 26 - the bin Laden family.
Who do you believe? In coming stories FTW will prove to you that this war, which according to Dick Cheney, may not end in out lifetimes, has been in the works for at least four years.
COPYRIGHT 2001, All Rights Reserved, Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. May be copied and distributed for non-profit purposes only.
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Artikel von Clara Thümmler in 'Ossietzky' Nr. 22 vom 3.11.2001
Alle Beiträge zur Frage nach den Tätern im Überblick:
Notizen zum 11. September 2001 und den Anstrengungen zu seiner Aufklärung
Noch am Tag der Tat steht der Täter fest|
Was uns über die Medien suggeriert werden soll - Ein Beispiel: 'Express' vom 12. September 2001
Einige offene Fragen|
Artikel von Clara Thümmler in 'Ossietzky' Nr. 19 vom 22.09.2001
Reichstagsbrandstiftung in New York|
Artkel von Boris Kagarlitzky in 'junge Welt' vom 24.9.2001
Ist die Kriegsgeilheit größer als der Wunsch nach Wahrheit?|
Eine Betrachtung von Regina Schwarz vom 3.10.2001
Weitere offene Fragen|
Artikel von Clara Thümmler in 'Ossietzky' Nr. 20 vom 6.10.2001
Insiderhandel - Wußten Investoren vor den Anschlägen Bescheid?|
Artikel von Barry Grey in 'junge Welt' vom 16.10.2001
Pentagon-Dementis geplatzt - Selbstmordpiloten ... vom US-Militär ausgebildet|
Artikel von Rainer Rupp in 'junge Welt' vom 19.10.2001
Terrorangriffe oder gut geplante geheimdienst-militärische Luftangriffe?|
Offene Fragen und andere Merkwürdigkeiten - Ausführungen von Cora Simon vom 3.11.2001
Wenn CIA und die Regierung nicht in die Anschläge vom 11. September verwickelt wären: was würden sie tun?|
Artikel von Michael C. Ruppert vom 2.11.2001 in 'From The Wilderness Publications'
Immer noch offene Fragen|
Artikel von Clara Thümmler in 'Ossietzky' Nr. 22 vom 3.11.2001
Bin Laden und die CIA|
Artikel von Alexandra Bader vom 5.11.2001 im Frauen-Online-Magazin CeiberWeiber
Anschläge in Amerika und Krieg in Afghanistan|
Ausführungen von Daniel Schulz über Tat und Täter vom 12.11.2001
Fragen, Antworten, neue Fragen|
Aus einem Artikel von Clara Thümmler in 'Ossietzky' Nr. 23 vom 17.11.2001
"Amerikaner bis zur Tat völlig ahnungslos"|
Andreas von Bülow (SPD), ehem. Bundesminister, in 'Konkret' 12/2001
Geheime Wurzeln des Krieges|
Artikel von Mumia Abu-Jamal in 'junge Welt' vom 29.12.2001
"Da sind Spuren wie von einer trampelnden Elefantenherde"|
Andreas von Bülow (SPD), ehem. Bundesminister, im 'Tagesspiegel' vom 13.1.2002
"Die amerikanische Darstellung ist falsch - 7 der 19 Attentäter haben nach dem 11. September noch gelebt"|
Andreas von Bülow (SPD), ehem. Bundesminister, in 'Oberhessische Presse' vom 5.4.2002
Fragen & Widersprüche zum 11. September|
Artikel von Rainer Rupp, 25.6.2002
Was weiß Rumsfeld über den 11. September?|
Andreas von Bülow (SPD), ehem. Bundesminister, in 'junge Welt' vom 8.2.2003
"Ich glaub nicht an den Klapperstorch"|
Andreas von Bülow (SPD), ehem. Bundesminister, in der 'Frankfurter Rundschau' vom 23.8.2003
Heiße Fragen zum 11. September - Britischer Ex-Minister bezweifelt offizielle Version|
Artikel von Rainer Rupp vom 10.9.2003
Internationaler Terrorismus: Mischten USA in Beslan mit?|
Andreas von Bülow (SPD), ehem. Bundesminister, in 'junge Welt' vom 11.9.2003
Bin Laden nicht wegen 11. September gesucht|
Eine Veröffentlichung der 'Süddeutschen Zeitung' vom 9.5.2006
"Die größten betrügerischen Akte in unserer Geschichte als Vorwand für einen Krieg gegen den Terror inszeniert"|
Ein Leserbrief von Lauro Chavez zum 11. September 2001
Wer darf behaupten: Der Holocaust hat nie stattgefunden|
Betrachtungen zu Horst Mahler und Eric Hufschmid, 27.11.2006
Ablenken, verwirren, tabuisieren, stigmatisieren|
Pod, Flash und Pentagon - Betrachtung über Desinformationsstrategien in der 9/11-Aufklärungsbewegung und die Beweiskraft der Bilder, 9.1.2007
BBC-Meldung über den Einsturz von WTC7 vor dem Einsturz|
Artikel von Gerhard Wisnewski, BBC-Stellungnahme vom 27.2.2007 und Online-Petition an die BBC
Wer ist der echteste Scheich?|
Betrachtung zum Pentagon-Geständnis vom 14.3.2007 mit Äußerungen einer Chalid Scheich Mohammed genannten Person
Der 11.9.2001 im Urteil von Sachverständigen|
Ausgewählte Zitate aus der Homepage der Gruppe 'patriots question 9/11' - Zusammenstellung und Übersetzung: Andreas von Bülow
Der 11. September 2001. Bilder zur Meinungsbildung. Augenschein am Tatort.|
Ein Versuch von Andreas von Bülow, dem unbefangenen Beobachter eine eigene Beurteilungsgrundlage zu geben, ob die Rechtfertigung eines Jahrzehnte dauernden Weltkrieges gegen den muslimischen Terror auf Grund der Ereignisse des 11.9.2001 in sich stimmig ist oder auf einem Lügengespinst aufbaut
9/11 - Habt Ihr das vielleicht selbst gemacht?|
Video und Text des Songs der Hip-Hop- und Rap-Band 'Die Bandbreite'
Blind, taub und stumm|
Andreas von Bülow über das Urteil des Oberlandesgerichts Hamburg vom 8.1.2007 gegen den angeblichen Terrorhelfer Mounir El Motassadeq - 20.9.2007
Gegen das Einknicken von Gewerkschaftern vor den Kriegstreibern des 'Spiegel'|
Offener Brief von Claudia Karas an den Pressesprecher der IG Metall Bayern, Matthias Jena, 2.12.2007
Operation 9/11: ein Musterbeispiel für synthetischen Terror|
Julius Streichers 'Stürmer' ist bescheiden verglichen mit dem heutigen Propagandaapparat gegen den Islam - Elias Davidsson im Interview mit Muslim-Markt am 2.8.2008
Es gibt keine Beweise dafür, dass Muslime am 11. September 2001 Flugzeuge entführten|
Analyse von Elias Davidsson vom 10.1.2008
Ruf nach Gerechtigkeit|
Gerechtigkeit für die Opfer des 11. September - Gerechtigkeit für Mounir El Motassadeq - Aufruf, initiiert von Elias Davidsson
"Es handelt sich um Anschläge, die von Geheimdiensten begangen wurden."|
Interview mit Andreas von Bülow über den 11. September 2001 - veröffentlicht bei telepolis am 11.9.2010
Die Medien müssen sich entschuldigen, daß sie ohne jeden Beweis behauptet haben, Muslime hätten die Anschläge vom 11. September begangen|
Aufruf anläßlich des neunten Jahrestages des 11. September 2010
Wenn Hochhäuser in sich zusammenfallen|
Rainer Rupp in Ossietzky 4/2011, 18.2.2011
Meine Reaktion zum Tod von Osama Bin Laden|
Noam Chomsky am 7.5.2011
Lynchmord Obamas an Osama - Staatsterrorismus versus Privatterrorismus – Terroristen unter sich|
Jürgen Rose am 09.05.2011
Osama bin Ladens nützlicher Tod|
Paul Craig Roberts, 3.5.2011
Osama und die Geister des 11. September: Der Beweis, dass Obama lügt|
Michael C. Ruppert, 7.5.2011
Zur Ermordung von Osama bin Ladens|
Kommentar von Elias Davidsson, 3.5.2011
Die Anschläge am 11. September 2001 und die Orwellsche Neudefinition der "Verschwörungstheorie"|
Paul Craig Roberts, 20.06.2011
Doch Thermit! - Wissenschaftler weisen Thermit im Staub der 9/11-World-Trade-Center-Katastrophe nach|
John S. Hatch, 14.04.2009
False Flag Terror|
Anneliese Fikentscher und Andreas Neumann zum 10. Jahrestag des 11. September 2001
Zwei Leserbriefe von Anneliese Fikentscher und Andreas Neumann zum 10. Jahrestag des 11. September 2001 - 7.9.2011
Nachdenken tabu? - Unsere politische Schlacht gegen die Lüge muss beginnen lang bevor die erste Bombe gefallen ist|
Vortrag von George Pumphrey - gehalten am 30.9.2011 in Heidelberg aus Anlass des 10. Jahrestages der Anschläge vom 11. September 2001
Freilassung eines unschuldigen Gefangenen|
Aufruf zu Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit, 24.11.2014
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A nation’s stories play a large part in its future. Established ideas become conventional wisdom in social institutions. The institutions then draw on this wisdom when enacting public policy. Or: Those who own the stories own the future.
Pod Point the “UK’s leading provider of electric vehicle charging” are attempting to shape a new story in which electric vehicles are adopted in the UK and London air quality does meet EU regulations.
The slide above (larger version here) is interesting because:
1) Its projection is optimistic, but based on research and evidence.
2) It’s using humour – which makes it more persuasive. “Jeremy Clarkson buys first EV in 2024”.
3) The layout is easy to understand – it’s an accessible story.
Key dates on the slide include:
2019 – Government announces 2040 ban on ICE (Internal Combustion Engine – petrol / diesel) cars in the UK
2023 – Long range electric vehicles cheaper than ICE cars
2026 – Driving an ICE vehicle becomes socially unacceptable
2030 – First major oil company goes bust
2038 – 50% of all cars are electric
2040 – Sales of ICE vehicles are banned
Watch Erik Fairbairn, CEO of POD Point, chat about the “electric vehicle tipping point” and the current barriers to electric vehicle adoption.
See the slides here:
The battle for Britain’s story
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Since uprisings swept the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, Tunisia has long been regarded as the lone democratic success story. But nearly 10 years later, volatile party politics and authoritarian legacies continue to plague the transition. The October 2019 election cycle, marked by low voter turnout, demonstrated Tunisians deep disenchantment with the political class for its failure to address the grievances that sparked the ouster of longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. After the elections, a government was not formed until February 2020. But months later, Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh resigned over allegations of conflicts of interest. In recent weeks, the political landscape has shifted rapidly. USIP’s Leo Siebert examines the political wrangling and Tunisia’s post-election political struggles.
What happened after last year’s fall elections?
The October 2019 parliamentary elections swept in a broad range of new and lesser-known political parties—none of which received more than 18 percent of the vote. Tunisians demonstrated they were by and large fed up with the extant political class.
A parliament comprised of 20 parties with disparate ideologies and a smattering of independents made forming a cohesive governing coalition particularly challenging. The only party from the previous government to maintain a significant vote share was the Islamist Ennahda party, securing a plurality with 52 seats but far shy of the 109 needed for a majority. After Ennahda failed to win confidence in its proposed government in January, President Kais Said appointed Elyes Fakhfakh, a former minister of finance, to form a government as prime minister.
If Fakhfakh’s proposed government had failed to receive confidence of the parliament, the legislature would have been dissolved and snap elections held. To avoid this scenario, all parties that Fakhfakh invited to participate in the government, including Ennahda, reluctantly agreed to do so. It would only be a matter of time before this coalition of necessity began to break down. A number of underlying issues made it unsustainable:
- Vast ideological differences between the coalition members, including sworn enemies of Ennahda such as the leftist People’s Movement.
- Ennahda, the largest coalition member, was not happy with the government’s composition. They wanted to hold more influential positions and wanted Qalb Tounes to be a part of the coalition. (Qalb Tounes won the second most seats and is led by controversial businessman Nabil Karoui, who came in second in the 2019 presidential election.)
- Newly powerful parties besides Qalb Tounes—namely the Dignity Coalition and the Free Destourian Party—were excluded from the coalition. This sowed resentment that would begin to surface after the COVID-19 lockdown and play in favor of the eventual move to push Prime Minister Fakhfakh out of power.
- Fakhfakh’s government did not represent the coalition members proportionate to their vote share in parliament.
- Ministers appointed to address important issues like anti-corruption, good governance, and human rights were seen as committed reformers but also as personal allies of Fakhfakh and Said, which some parties perceived as a potential threat.
How did the coronavirus pandemic impact Tunisia as political wrangling over the government formation went on?
In mid-March, mere days after the Fakhfakh government was seated, the rate of COVID-19 transmission began to grow exponentially. To prevent catastrophe, the new government acted swiftly by instituting a nationwide stay-at-home order that lasted through May. This devastated the economy but effectively prevented further spread of the pandemic.
As the confinement lifted in early June, parliamentary politics quickly became volatile with a host of parties—including some within the government coalition—launching an assault on Ennahda President and Speaker of Parliament Rachid Ghannouchi over his phone calls with Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Fayaz al-Sarraj, the prime minister of Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Accord. This raised the ire of many who saw this as Ennahda mixing the international interests of their party and the Muslim Brotherhood movement with the affairs of state and international relations that are reserved for the president and others in the executive. Opponents accused Speaker Ghannouchi not only of overstepping his role but also of damaging Tunisia’s position as a neutral player in the Libya conflict.
Meanwhile, the Free Destourian Party—a significant opposition party molded in the image of the old regime party led by Ben Ali—called on the government to investigate Ennahda for terrorism, designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, and consider any Tunisian affiliated with it a terrorist criminal as per the counterterrorism law.
As Ennahda felt more pressure from inside and outside of its government coalition, it began to look elsewhere to strengthen its position. Rumors circulated of a possible new government coalition led by Ennahda, the Dignity Coalition (a new far-right religious conservative party), and Qalb Tounes. Days later, headlines broke that Fakhfakh may have been involved in a conflict of interest concerning his shares in businesses that hold contracts with the state.
Why did Fakhfakh resign?
By June, Fakhfakh was under heavy pressure to resign over alleged conflicts of interest that led to a row with Ennahda. He was being investigated for alleged failure to hand over control of shares he owns in private companies that have won public contracts.
On July 15, under mounting pressure from Ennahda, Heart of Tunisia, Dignity Coalition, Ennahda-aligned independents, and, eventually, President Said, the prime minister resigned. This prevented a vote of no confidence which, if passed, would have given Ennahda and its allies the constitutional authority to form a new government. On July 25, President Said appointed a new prime minister designate, the current caretaker Minister of Interior Hichem Mechichi, a longtime government functionary and adviser to Said. He has 30 days to form a government.
What about the opposition to Ghannouchi?
Meanwhile, in early July, the Democratic Current and People’s Movement (the prime minister’s allies in parliament), with support from other anti-Ennahda blocs such as Tahya Tounes, submitted a petition for a vote of no confidence in Ghannouchi as speaker citing his inability to transparently manage the affairs of parliament. Separately the Free Destourian Party submitted their own vote of no confidence motion on Ghannouchi.
On July 30, the parliament held a vote on the motion. The motion failed to hit the 109-vote threshold needed to pass. But it was a close call for Ghannouchi, with 97 votes for withdrawal of confidence. In the lead up to the parliamentary vote, Ennahda took every measure possible to secure the support of swayable representatives. Accusations of influence by Gulf states, both for and against, Ghannouchi abounded.
Surviving the test of confidence restores some legitimacy to Ghannouchi and his party during a period of political upheaval. The effects of the vote will have limited impact on the street where Ennahda continues to suffer for the failures of previous governments of which it was a major player. As such, Ennahda will continue to advocate for a government of national unity, a tactic used by Ghannouchi and late President of Tunisia Beji Caid Essebsi to limit opposition to the government by encouraging the majority of parliamentary blocs to participate in the government and benefit from it. This has the added political benefit of sharing the blame for status quo politics.
Why did Said choose Mechichi to form the next government and why?
The president’s choice of Mechichi suggests that he is hoping a nonpartisan premier can prevent the political deadlock and internal strife that characterized the recently resigned government. It can also be seen as an attempt to ensure the prime minister remains allied to the president instead of Ennahda or others in parliament. Some analysts suggest that the Said’s turf war with Ennahda and his adversarial position toward Ghannouchi is motivated by his desire to delegitimize the current parliament and the major political parties in preparation for his direct democracy vision that favors grassroot governance structures. This remains to be seen.
While a purely technocratic government will likely not be acceptable to the major parties in parliament or the business interests that support them, a nonpartisan prime minister leading a coalition government with Ennahda and Qalb Tounes holding key ministries is conceivable. As such, Mechichi’s success may depend on his and President Said’s willingness to accept Ennahda’s and Qalb Tounes’ choices for key ministries, which may include putting picks from the far-right Dignity Coalition in places of power.
If Mechichi and the parliament fail to reach a deal, it remains unclear what would happen next. The 2014 constitution is unclear in this regard, and without a constitutional court, Said will determine whether to dissolve parliament or give it yet another chance to form a government under a prime minister of their choosing. If parliament were to be dissolved, the Free Destourian Party may be best positioned to gain in a snap election. This is something Ennahda will likely take every measure possible to avoid.
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Our mission is to help the broad user community with their needs regarding
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Patient Related Factors
Coexisting medical conditions negatively affect bypass procedures.
Low estimated GFR can result in poor prognosis in certain patients.
Overall benefit from infrainguinal bypass limited to very elderly patients.
Continued smoking after lower limb bypass surgery results in increased risk of graft failure.
Coagulation disorders are a risk factor for vein graft failure.
Patients with preexisting gangrene, ulceration and rest pain have poorer outcomes after procedure.
Bypass Related Factors
Inadequate distal outflow can lead to bypass failure.
Type of conduit used in a bypass procedure is also a major factor.
Quality of the vein used for grafting also determines the long term graft patency.
Graft patency is also determined by the size of vein graft. Small caliber vein increases the risk of graft failure.
Use of antiplatelet agents after surgical infrainguinal reconstructions reduces the risk of graft failure.
Heparin coating of ePTFE grafts reduces the risk of graft failure.
The longevity of femoropopliteal bypass grafts is affected by both patient and bypass related factors. Patients with CLI (critical limb ischemia) often also have other coexisting medical condition such as diabetes, chronic renal insufficiency that can negatively impact the outcome of the bypass procedure regardless of the success of the surgery alone. Advanced distal disease with poor runoff status also affects the success of this procedure. Low estimated GFR is an independent marker of poor prognosis after infrainguinal bypass in patients with critical limb ischemia. The overall benefit from infrainguinal bypass may, however, be limited in the very elderly because advanced age is associated with increased perioperative and postoperative mortality after vascular operations. Continued smoking after lower limb bypass surgery results in a threefold increased risk of graft failure. 1-year patency rate of 63% for smokers as opposed to the 84% rate for nonsmokers has been observed 1. Smoking has been associated with an increased risk of occlusion of femoropopliteal saphenous vein grafts. Coagulation disorders are a risk factor not only for early but also for late vein graft failure. Patients with hypercoaguable states had poorer primary and secondary patency rates after 5 years of bypass procedure 1. Degree of ischemia also plays an important role in determining the outcome of the procedure. Patients with preexisting gangrene, ulceration and rest pain have poorer outcomes after the procedure 1.
The distal run-off status is the single most important factor that decisively determines the outcome of bypass procedure. Surgical revascularization is impossible if a suitable outflow vessel is not present and bypass failure is very likely if inadequate distal outflow is present. The type of conduit used in a bypass procedure is also a major factor for its long term outcome. An autologous vein is superior to prosthetic grafts as bypass material for infrainguinal reconstructions due to long-term patency and resistance to infections 2. The quality of the vein used for grafting also determines the long term graft patency. Increased wall thickness, postphlebitic changes and varicosities are some of the several reported pre-existing pathological conditions of saphenous veins that predispose them to graft failure. Arm vein grafts are especially prone to stenosis development and aneurysm formation. The graft patency is also determined by the size of vein graft. Damage during vein harvest, dilatation and valve lysis are some of the problems with small-caliber veins. A greater risk factor for graft failure is associated with a small caliber vein 3. If the greater saphenous vein is less than 3.5 mm in diameter, an arm or composite vein graft should be preferred. Thrombotic graft occlusion after bypass surgery is contributed by platelet activation 4, and this can be reduced by the use of antiplatelet agents such as acetylsalicylic acid and ticlopidine 5. But low cost and absence of neutropenia as a side-effect make acetylsalicylic acid, the first-choice of antiaggregative agent after surgical infrainguinal arterial reconstruction procedures as compared to ticlopidine. Also Heparin coating of the graft is associated with significant graft failure reduction compared to average ePTFE with no coating, graft failure reduction was reported to be 50% in heparin coated ePTFE grafts as compared to other ePTFE grafts which are not coated with heparin 6.
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Dear Happy Investor, The cliché is true: investing in yourself is the best investment you can make. Inside, we know this. But emotions mostly get the upper hand and we often choose convenience: watching Netflix, an extra beer, et cetera. And it’s a good thing: as a Happy Investor we want to live a happier life with more satisfaction and freedom. Enjoyment is important. But so is investing in yourself. See yourself as an asset. The more you can do, the more valuable you are. This is the business perspective. And to achieve sustainable (financial) success, we will want to invest in ourselves frequently.
Below you will find inspiration for entertainment: 7 ideas about investing in yourself for sustainable success
7x The Best Investment in Yourself
Below we discuss 7 ideas for inspiration, entertainment, and insights:
- Train your Mindset
- Know your Why
- Learn to make more money in less time
- The right body for a marathon
- Habits for more knowledge
- Find a mentor
- Buy gifts for yourself (and your partner) once in a while
We'll look at these ideas from multiple perspectives. Finally, we end with some inspirational quotes about investing in yourself.
Investing in Yourself Idea 1. Train your Mindset
When it comes to achieving sustainable success, the first thing is to train your mindset. Humans are different for a reason: simply "superiority of mindset." Mindset is something different from the IQ level or the intelligence you have. You may be good at analytical reasoning, but it is useless if you don't have the will to perform.
The will to perform comes from your mindset. There are certain exercises to transform thinking and develop positive mindset for it is a must to achieve the goal. We write a lot about personal development because Mindset is the way to invest in yourself for sustainable success. But let's look at it from a different perspective. For example, there are psychologists who believe that there are some small exercises one can do to build a "champion mindset" or winner's mentality. Such a mindset is not necessary if you just want to enjoy life, but it is important within the business world. Like for entrepreneurs or investors. These are insights from psychologists.
Believe in Yourself and Follow the Gut
To achieve more in your life, you must have a strong belief system. It does not mean that only self-believes does the job. It is mandatory to research, learn, and practice before stepping into the arena.
Think Big and Long Term
Achieving big goals takes time. So, always think big and make small daily goals to achieve one big goal. There are no shortcuts to achieving sustainable growth; it takes time, commitment, and hard work.
"Invest in yourself to get the best interest." ― Debasish Mridha
Embrace the Change
Life is about survival of the fittest. Not about who is the strongest, the smartest, or the most beautiful. But about who can best adapt to life. This applies to everything: relationships, work, and new technologies. Put your Ego aside and think about how you can act optimally within a changing environment.
Attached to the Community of your Profession
To stay motivated and updated, it is good to be attached to the community of the same professionals you are working with. There are forums, pages, and communities over the internet to accommodate you 24/7.
Investing in Yourself Idea 2. Know your Why
Many of us have the goal of becoming more wealthy. But when you read about today's world richest like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet, you will find that they had purposes. The aim was not to be the richest; rather, it was to achieve something big, serve the people or solve the problem. The money comes in the by-product. They knew "Why" they were doing the job, and they had a strong belief in doing so.
I did not intend to get rich. I just wanted to get independent. – Charlie Munger
Investing in Yourself Idea 3. Learn How to Earn More Money in Less Time
As a Happy Investor, we recognize the importance of money in our lives. We consciously choose not to ignore it (as can be done according to Mindfulness principles). We choose to see money as a tool. A tool that can give us financial freedom.
If we want more financial freedom, we should focus on making more money. But not at the expense of our lives. After all, above all, we want to live happier lives. In my opinion, this does not mean to work 60+ hours for life. For a while this is fine, but not for life. (Note: I am also currently building my business 60+ hours a week, but this does not feel like work. This is a substantial difference. Moreover, I take plenty of time to relax, such as vacations).
Investing in yourself in relation to money can mean learning to make more money in less time.
In my opinion, the best way to do this is to learn to invest. Investing in stocks and real estate has risks. However, risk and return go hand-in-hand. It is possible to make a nice return at an acceptable risk. Moreover, it is fun to see "making more money" as a game. This is why I myself invest about 60% of my assets in individual stocks. I just find it super fun. And yes, I may be better off with ETFs in the long run. But we will only know this over a longer period of time (at least the last 5 years have been better for me, especially due the insights from the Capitalist Exploits review).
Investing in Yourself Idea 4. Physical Training
A sound body makes the sound mind. Without investing in your health, you can't get the desired results. When you work for long hours sitting on a chair, the blood circulation slows down, and your brain denies getting the necessary oxygen levels. Cardiovascular exercises and weight training are the solutions to this. When you begin physical training, you will feel tired initially, but you will find yourself efficient and quick as it comes into your routine.
More importantly, when you are a full-time trader and dealing with the forex and stocks, your mind would have teemed with a lot of pressure. Similarly, in your trading journey, you will face losses. To get rid of depression, exercise is a must. So, overall, training the body is one of the best investments one can do to achieve sustainable success.
Investing in Yourself Idea 5. Habits for more knowledge
Book reading is the feed of mind just like exercise is to body. You won't find a rich who don't read. Research showed that reading is necessary for a successful entrepreneur. There is a logic behind this. As all, we know that an entrepreneur has leading skills. A leader doesn't need to be skilled in every procedure that is going on within the premise of his production unit. However, there is no match to his decision-making and pressure handling. That comes from reading books. Entrepreneurs learn from other people's experience and their failures.
Investing in Yourself Idea 6. Find a mentor
Acquiring knowledge is an important way to invest in yourself. However, reading comprehensively is not for everyone. Alternatives include listening to podcasts or videos. But perhaps even better is to seek out a mentor. Someone who is 10 years ahead of you. Someone who wants to help you become successful, in every aspect imaginable.
Can't find a suitable mentor that you trust? In this case, you can also look for online mentoring. This comes for example in the form of courses. There are many courses for investing in yourself.
Investing in Yourself Idea 7. Buy yourself a present
Investing in yourself also means enjoying life. The goal is a happier life. Often we feel intense happiness in small moments. Therefore, buy a gift for yourself or your partner once in a while. Giving is often even more fun than getting. Admittedly, I hardly ever buy anything for myself. Instead, I enjoy going out to dinner with my girlfriend, or doing something like an activity or new experience. Moreover, we like to travel. Visiting other cultures to learn from other ways of thinking and life lessons.
Inspirational quotes about Investing in Yourself
Let's end with inspirational quotes about investing in yourself. Quotes contain much wisdom. Let's enjoy other people's rich lessons:
"Every penny NOT spent on investing in yourself (after basic needs of course) may be a wasted future opportunity from missing learns and connects." ― Richie Norton
"Invest time and energy in your well being. Create an atmosphere of emotional safety for yourself." ― Amy Leigh Mercree
"Invest in yourself to get the best interest." ― Debasish Mridha
"Stop blaming other people for your own behavior! Own the truth. If you don't like it, then invest the time and energy to change it." ― Akiroq Brost
"It's a small price to pay, but investing a little extra effort into the life you choose will move you from average — where all the competition is — to the top." ― Richie Norton
"Successful people don't earn more, then invest. They invest so they can earn more." ― Erin Hatzikostas
"Fearlessly embrace new technologies, learn new things, and demonstrate a willingness to invest in yourself." ― Germany Kent
"Income seldom exceeds personal development." — Jim Rohn
"The best investment you can make is in yourself." – Warren Buffett
"Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself." – Pitbull
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The Jones Act, the last gasp of the Prohibition, is passed by Congress. Since 1920 when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect, the United States had banned the production, importation and sale of alcoholic beverages. But the laws were ineffective at actually stopping the consumption of alcohol. The Jones Act strengthened the federal penalties for bootlegging. Of course, within five years the country ended up rejecting Prohibition and repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Originally published in 2000
Collects stories published between 1965 and 1978
Followed by The Complete Adventures of Feluda 2
This omnibus edition features the ever-popular adventures of Satyajit Ray’s enduring creation, the professional sleuth Pradosh C. Mitter (Feluda). In his escapades, Feluda is accompanied by his cousin Topshe and the bumbling crime writer Lalmohan Ganguly (Jatayu). From Jaisalmer to Simla, from the Ellora Caves to Varanasi, the trio traverse fascinating locales to unravel one devious crime after another.
Several weeks ago I stumbled upon an article on CrimeReads written several years ago that discussed Satyajit Ray’s Feluda stories. These were short stories written for a young audience, though they also had appeal to adult readers, several of which were adapted for film. I was intrigued by what I read and came away from the piece keen to give the tales a try for myself.
Pradosh C. Mitter, known as Feluda, is a private investigator who raised himself on mystery novels and is keen to test his abilities. He is assisted by his teenaged cousin Topshe and in later stories gains an additional, more comedic sidekick in the form of the writer Lalmohan Ganguly who writes potboiler thrillers as Jatayu. The stories are not dissimilar to Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories which are referenced in the introductions to this collection with Feluda deducing details of people’s lives from details of their dress and general appearance as well as frequent action scenes.
Unlike Holmes however many of the stories feature puzzles that the reader can solve for themselves. While the stories were written for younger readers, some of these are quite cunningly worked and a few may well pose a challenge for any adults who try to tackle them. One of my favorites of the puzzle-driven stories is The Key which is also one of the shortest stories in the collection. That case sees Feluda trying to solve the meaning of a riddle that should enable him to open a lockbox. It’s simple but clever and, perhaps most importantly, it is perfectly paced for the length of the story.
Other tales are driven more by their adventure and suspense elements. For example two of the stories feature tigers on the loose and threats against our heroes made over the telephone are a recurring plot point in many of the earlier stories collected here. Ray writes these sequences well, conveying a sense of the action and building tension superbly. Many of the stories are quite cinematic in scope, no doubt explaining their success on film, though I am a little puzzled as to why Trouble in Gangtok (my favorite story in the collection) has not been adapted when it seems so ideal for film treatment.
This volume, the first of two published by Penguin, collects the stories in chronological order. It is a pretty hefty tome – 785 pages – which makes it a solid contender for the longest book I have reviewed on this blog to date. Happily the quality is pretty consistent throughout and while Lalmohan Ganguly is introduced later in the series, the stories with just Feluda and Topshe are every bit as entertaining as the later ones.
Were I looking for issues I might note that there are some recurring themes in the stories, reflecting that the author was trying to stay away from what he considered to be more adult themes. Art and jewel-based crimes feature heavily here and readers may want to plan to spread out their reading to allow the stories to have their maximum effect. In spite of those common elements though each story has its own elements of setting that help to define it and add some additional interest and appeal.
I had a thoroughly good time reading this and I already have my copy of the second volume so I will look forward to seeing how Ray continued to develop the character. Had these stories been available in translation when I was a preteen discovering Sherlock Holmes, I am sure I would have devoured these exciting, funny and mysterious stories.
The Verdict: I loved this collection of short stories which offer intriguing situations, exciting action and a memorable cast of heroes. While intended for younger readers, I appreciated the stories’ settings and found the puzzles much stronger than expected. The standard of the stories in this first volume is consistently high and, at nearly 800 pages, it offers tremendous value for money.
This first collected volume offers tremendous value and the standard of stories is consistently high.
The stories in this volume are presented in order of publication so we kick things off with the very first Feluda adventure, Danger in Darjeeling. This story begins with Topshe recounting a conversation he witnessed between two men while he was sat waiting for a band to play on the Mall. One of the two old men, Rajen Babu, was telling the other, his lodger, about a threatening letter he had received. Feluda, who fancies himself a detective, decides to visit Rajen Babu to investigate.
Ray writes in one of his Author’s Note at the start of this collection that he had enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes stories growing up and that influence comes over strongly in this first outing for the character. It’s not just that we have in Feluda and Topshe an investigative pair similar to Holmes and Watson but in some of the story beats here. One of the clearest influences comes in a little moment where Feluda demonstrates his deductive skill to Topshe by working out exactly where he must have sat on the Mall.
One of the things that impressed me most about this first story is that Ray manages to provide several credible suspects to have sent that letter in just a handful of pages. While I think adult readers will guess the culprit, I confess I missed the motive and was very pleased to be surprised. I also really enjoyed the way a mask is used in this story. All in all, a good start – it’s easy to see why the character would return…
That return happens in The Emperor’s Ring, a significantly longer and more complex story about the attempted theft of a priceless ring that had once belonged to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. Feluda quickly turns his attention to some of the people living near the victim, encountering several interesting figures including an actor, a collector of exotic animals, and a sannyasi.
As with the previous story, Ray does a fine job of making several plausible suspects and even if you instinctively guess the culprit, as I did, the tale is told very well. One of the other notable changes in this story is that we get significantly more action with Feluda not only getting to have a bit of a showdown with the villain but being afforded the use of some gadgetry too. All in all, a very strong second installment!
In Kailash Chowdhury’s Jewel, a well-known shikari writes to Feluda after seeing one of his advertisements. When Feluda and Topshe arrive at his home he explains that he has received a threatening note concerning a valuable jewel he found in some ancient ruins.
This is a much shorter story than the last but this allows us to quickly rattle through the facts and focus on figuring out what is happening. I think it was perhaps unfortunate that we get two jewel-focused stories back-to-back in the collection as it does invite a direct comparison and obviously the characterization and plotting here is significantly simpler.
The explanation provided for what happened is tidy enough but does contain a few rather corny elements that I think add to the sense that we’ve seen this before. I might also say that while both of the previous Feluda tales clued with a gentle touch, here I feel an important idea just appears which isn’t entirely satisfying…
The Statue of Anubis is another antiquity theft story but while the lack of variety in these early stories may be a bit disappointing, I really enjoyed the simplicity and cleverness of this tale.
Feluda is contacted by a man who tells him how since winning a lottery jackpot he has retired and devoted himself to collecting antiquities. Recently he has received several strange notes written in what Feluda identifies as hieroglyphics though he does not recognize the meaning. He does however suggest that these notes may have something to do with a Statue of Anubis that his client recently purchased at auction.
Previous stories had balanced multiple suspects well but this one has a much simpler approach, identifying a rival collector. The solution is logical and quite clever, though one of the clues isn’t entirely fair (ROT13: Sryhqn frrf fbzrguvat jr qba’g orpnhfr Gbcfur zvfvqragvsvrf n cvrpr bs rivqrapr naq qbrfa’g tvir n shyy rabhtu qrfpevcgvba).
I also really enjoy some of the other Holmesian flourishes to this story. Not only do we get a bit of action at the end, there’s also a sequence in which our hero disguises himself and some entertaining antagonism with a police officer. It makes for one of the most entertaining stories so far.
The next story, Trouble in Gangtok, is another longer one and it sees our heroes travel north to the mountainous region of Sikkim to experience some Tibetan culture. On the flight they meet Mr. Bose, a businessman who is traveling to the region to meet with his business partner. They travel together to his hotel only to learn that the man had died a short while before when a car he was traveling in was hit by a rock in a landslide.
I enjoyed this story a lot, both for its interesting setting (the geography and culture of the area is important to the story) and for the elements at play here. The story is paced well, offering multiple problems to be solved and its solution is both clever and satisfying. It’s a shame that this one has yet to be adapted on film as between the travelogue elements and some of the action toward the end, it could be quite interesting visually!
The Golden Fortress is a landmark story, introducing the thriller writer Lalmohan Ganguly who will be a regular in the subsequent tales. This one concerns the attempted kidnapping of a child who may have the gift of recalling experiences from a past life – in this case recalling the burying of treasure near a fort.
It’s a solid adventure though it was the first of the stories in the collection that dragged a little for me. Part of the reason for that is one avenue for misdirection doesn’t work when you know that a character goes on to be an ally for the hero. It probably doesn’t help either that it follows one of the sharpest tales in the collection, however I did enjoy the action leading up to the story’s conclusion though and I appreciated the interesting concept.
I really enjoyed the next story, Incident on the Kalka Mail, in which Feluda is hired to locate the owner of an Air India bag after two near-identical bags get switched during a train journey. One of the things I liked most about this is how it begins with a trivial incident that seems unworthy of Feluda’s involvement but grows into something larger and more complex. There are some wonderful surprises along the way and I think the solution and the story’s payoff are very satisfying.
A Killer in Kailash concerns thefts of statues from ancient temples that are being sold to wealthy overseas visitors. Uncle Sidhu asks Feluda to look into the matter, pointing out that few in the media or police will appreciate the cultural value of those artefacts which don’t have an obvious market value.
It’s a bit of an odd story in that it reads more like an adventure than a detective story yet it doesn’t feature the sort of exciting action or suspense that can be found in some of the previous stories. I did enjoy Feluda getting to show off his ability at disguising himself again though and Ray’s message about the importance of retaining historical sites in tact is communicated effectively.
The Key is a shorter and simpler work but one of the most pleasing in this first collection of stories. Feluda is hired by a man whose miserly uncle died leaving no money but a room filled with instruments. He also left a dying message, saying ‘in… my… name… key… key…’.
The construction of this one is very neat and the length is just about perfect for the type of story being told. I also appreciated that the reader is given everything they need in this one to solve the case for themselves and enjoyed the very neat and tidy conclusion.
Feluda is tasked with solving a riddle to find a treasure when visiting a famous shikari in The Royal Bengal Mystery. Among the complications he will have to deal with is the rumor that a man-eating tiger is living in the forest and before the case is done he will have to explain a man’s death. That aspect of the story is quite compelling, adding suspense and a promise of some action it and certainly was one of the most memorable aspects of the adventure for me.
While this certainly reads as an adventure, the detective story elements here are also quite strong. The solution has some clever features and I once again found strong Holmesian parallels in the payment Feluda extracts from his client at the story’s end.
The Locked Chest is a very short story in which Feluda is summoned to the home of an elderly man who wishes to give him some detective novels. In the course of their conversation he challenges Feluda to solve a puzzle that will enable him to work out the combination to a locked chest. It’s a pretty simple problem perfectly pitched to its target audience.
The Mystery of the Elephant God concerns the theft of a statue of Ganesh from within the home of a man who, just days before, had been offered a sizeable sum for the piece. It’s a solid enough effort and I enjoyed both the way that it pushes Feluda to doubt his own abilities and also an element of the story’s punchline but it is one of the slower-paced stories.
The next story, The Bandits of Bombay, stood out to me as one of the highlights of the collection. It focuses on Lalmohan’s excitement over two film producers looking to acquire the rights to one of his novels with one looking to make a Hindi language version, while the other wants to make a Bengali one.
There is more to the case than that but the focus for me was not on the plot but rather my appreciation for how this story gives Lalmohan an opportunity to appear competent and successful. For those who prefer the character’s more bumbling behavior rest assured that business will swiftly return to usual…
The Mystery of the Walking Dead sees our hero and his friends travel to a remote village where his client’s father has been receiving threats from a mysterious correspondent. There are further complications in terms of a spirtualist and a burglary that takes place a few days later in the story.
I found this story to be less engaging than many of its predecessors though there were some elements of the plot I enjoyed. One of those was the remoteness of the setting which I felt was communicated well, and I also quite liked an initial mistake that the villain makes in their plan which reminded me of one of my favorite crime films.
The penultimate story, The Secret of the Cemetery, finds our heroes visiting an old graveyard where they find the soil of a very old grave disturbed, an unconscious man with their wallet lying on the ground some distance from his body. The situation is intriguing, even though the puzzle element to the story takes a while to come into focus.
What I really liked about the story though was the way it created complexity in the interpersonal relationships and the family histories of the characters we meet and I enjoyed the brief snippet we get of a séance that takes place. The puzzle element of the story isn’t the cleverest or most flashy of the stories found in the collection but it was interesting and I liked the tone of the resolution.
An escaped tiger is on the loose in a village in The Curse of the Goddess. Meanwhile Feluda tries to understand the riddles and coded messages found in the diaries of a dead man who claimed to have been cursed.
This is another story that succeeds in its depiction of character relationships. There are quite a few secrets to uncover even in a relatively short work like this and I found all of them satisfying. Happily though the interpersonal relationships do not come at the expense of the puzzle element of the story which is really strong, packing numerous riddles and word games into the short page count. While many of them could be solved by the target audience, they are cleverly constructed and several explanations eluded me.
Throw in another really satisfying ending and it makes for a great conclusion to this first volume of stories.
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Now, let’s review
We Americans are famous for forgetting. In fact, author Studs Terkel says we suffer from a “national Alzheimer’s disease”—a kind of historical amnesia wherein we’re capable of forgetting anything that doesn’t fit neatly into our perception of our own lives and the life of our country. In hopes that Terkel is wrong and that we are still occasionally capable of taking the long view, SN&R hereby offers a few essential memory-refreshing observations about the war in Iraq.
“ America, with a population of 280 million, has a $400 billion defense budget. Iraq, with a population of 25 million, had a $1.4 billion defense budget. When the big country attacked the little one, it took three weeks for the little one to be toppled. Given the numbers above, are we supposed to have been in doubt about the outcome?
“ The war was carried out in the name of homeland security—to protect the United States from the Iraqi regime’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. Before the war, President George W. Bush’s justification for war and absolute focus was on these weapons and the danger they posed. Now that hardly any such weapons have been found, 58 percent of Americans say that finding them was not necessary. Neither was finding Saddam Hussein. The only thing that mattered, apparently, was that the war have a successful outcome.
“ There remains no credible link between the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, the group behind the awful attacks on the World Trade Center. Ergo, the recent war did not assail those who perpetrated 9/11. In fact, many believe terrorists have been strengthened by the Iraq war because it has served to enrage about a billion Muslims, thereby ensuring the rise of more Islamic violence against American targets.
“ CNN showed Iraqis dancing in the streets when the Iraqi regime was toppled. (A deposed brutal dictator is always a good thing.) But CNN’s 24-hour news coverage did not show the smashed and bloody bodies of innocent civilians (sure to number in the thousands) who now crowd the hospitals and makeshift morgues of Iraq. A real turnoff.
“ Despite a famously wrecked domestic economy, Bush convinced Congress to cough up the requested $75 billion it cost to go to war in Iraq. The next expenditure? Experts say post-war reconstruction and occupation of Iraq will cost at least $100 billion.
“ A recent Field Poll noted that, unable to distinguish between criticizing the troops and denouncing the politicians who put the troops in harm’s way, nearly half of all Californians feel anti-war protesters are unpatriotic and were wrong to criticize the attack on Iraq when the war was ongoing. So, we’ll support and fight for freedom of speech in a remade Iraq but don’t much like it here.
They say those who forget the past are destined to repeat it, so let’s try not to forget the above. Otherwise, in the end, all that remains is a tragic loss of lives and a war that became its own justification for war.
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Almost everyone has encountered a zombie-like feeling after a night of minimal or no sleep. Even after just one night without enough rest, we can feel drowsy during the day with slowed thinking, lack of energy, and an irritable mood.
Sleep deprivation is when you don’t get the sleep you need, and it is It’s estimated to affect around one-third of American adults , a problem that has only worsened in recent years.
Lack of sleep directly affects how we think and feel. While the short-term impacts are more noticeable, chronic sleep deprivation can heighten the long-term risk of physical and mental health problems.
To avoid these problems, it’s important to avoid sleep deprivation. Understanding this condition, including its causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment can put you in a better position to ensure that you’re getting the sleep you need.
What Is Sleep Deprivation?
The term sleep deprivation refers to getting less than the needed amount of sleep, which, for adults, ranges from seven to nine hours of sleep per night. Children and teens need even more nightly sleep than adults.
Are All Definitions of Sleep Deprivation the Same?
In sleep medicine, sleep deprivation is defined based on sleep duration, which is the total amount of time a person spends asleep. In reality, though, being well-rested is about more than just how many hours you sleep. As a result, the terms sleep deficiency or sleep insufficiency are more frequently used to describe factors that reduce the quantity and/or quality of sleep and keep a person from waking up refreshed.
In this way, sleep deficiency has a broader application. For example, a person who sleeps for a total of eight hours but with many awakenings that fragment their sleep may have insufficient sleep even though their sleep duration technically meets the recommended amount.
This terminology can be distinct from everyday conversation in which the term sleep deprivation may be used with a wider meaning that refers to poor sleep overall and not just total sleep duration.
Even in the medical field, studies may use different technical definitions of sleep deprivation as some classify it as seven hours of sleep or fewer while others use six hours as the cutoff.
Are There Different Types of Sleep Deprivation?
Sleep deprivation and sleep insufficiency may be categorized in different ways depending on a person’s circumstances.
- Acute sleep deprivation refers to a short period, usually a few days or less, when a person has a significant reduction in their sleep time.
- Chronic sleep deprivation, also known as insufficient sleep syndrome, is defined by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine as curtailed sleep that persists for three months or longer.
- Chronic sleep deficiency or insufficient sleep can describe ongoing sleep deprivation as well as poor sleep that occurs because of sleep fragmentation or other disruptions.
Is Sleep Deprivation Different From Insomnia?
While both insomnia and sleep deprivation involve failing to get enough sleep, many experts in sleep science make a distinction between them. People with insomnia have trouble sleeping even when they have plenty of time to sleep. On the other hand, people with sleep deprivation don’t have enough time allocated for sleep as a result of behavior choices or everyday obligations.
An illustration of this difference is that people who are sleep deprived because of a busy work schedule usually have no problems sleeping longer on weekends to try to “catch up” on sleep. Someone with insomnia, though, still struggles to sleep despite having the opportunity to do so.
There can be considerable overlap between how sleep deprivation and insomnia are described, but patients should be aware that their doctor or a sleep specialist may use more specific definitions.
Multiple factors can cause or contribute to sleep deprivation including poor sleep hygiene, lifestyle choices, work obligations, sleep disorders, and other medical conditions.
Sleep deprivation is often driven by voluntary choices that reduce available sleep time. For example, a person who decides to stay up late to binge-watch a TV series may experience acute sleep deprivation. An inconsistent sleep schedule may facilitate these decisions and make them feel less intentional in the moment.
Work obligations are another common contributor to sleep deprivation. People who work multiple jobs or extended hours may not have enough time for sufficient sleep. Shift workers who have to work through the night may also find it hard to get the amount of sleep that they really need.
Sleep deficiency may be caused by other sleep disorders or medical conditions. For example, sleep apnea, a breathing disorder that induces dozens of nightly awakenings, may hinder both sleep duration and quality. Other medical or mental health problems, such as pain or general anxiety disorder, can interfere with the quality and quantity of sleep.
The primary signs and symptoms of sleep deprivation include excessive daytime sleepiness and daytime impairment such as reduced concentration, slower thinking, and mood changes.
Feeling extremely tired during the day is one of the hallmark signs of sleep deprivation. People with excessive daytime sleepiness may feel drowsy and have a hard time staying awake even when they need to. In some cases, this results in microsleeps in which a person dozes off for a matter of seconds.
Insufficient sleep can directly affect how a person feels during their waking hours. Examples of these symptoms include:
- Slowed thinking
- Reduced attention span
- Worsened memory
- Poor or risky decision-making
- Lack of energy
- Mood changes including feelings of stress, anxiety, or irritability
A person’s symptoms can depend on the extent of their sleep deprivation and whether it is acute or chronic. Research also suggests that some individuals are more likely to experience symptoms after a lack of sleep and that this may be tied to a person’s genetics. Stimulants like caffeine can also mask the symptoms of sleep deprivation, so it’s important to note how you feel on and off these substances.
What Are the Consequences of Sleep Deprivation?
The effects of sleep deprivation and sleep deficiency can be serious and far-reaching.
Acute sleep deprivation raises the risk of unintentional errors and accidents. Drowsy driving, which involves slowed reaction time and the risk of microsleeps, can be life-threatening. People who are sleep deprived are more likely to struggle in school and work settings or to experience mood changes that may affect personal relationships.
Chronic sleep deprivation can contribute to a wide range of health problems. Sleep plays a fundamental role in the effective functioning of nearly all systems of the body, so a persistent lack of sleep creates significant risks to physical and mental health:
- Cardiovascular disease: Studies have found strong associations between sleep deficiency and cardiovascular problems including high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, heart attack, and stroke.
- Diabetes: Insufficient sleep appears to affect the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar, increasing the risk of metabolic conditions like diabetes.
- Obesity: Research has found that people tend to consume more calories and carbohydrates when they don’t get enough sleep, which is just one of several ways that poor sleep may be tied to obesity and problems maintaining a healthy weight.
- Immunodeficiency: Sleep deficiency has been shown to lead to worsened immune function, including a poorer response to vaccines.
- Hormonal abnormalities: Sleep helps the body properly produce and regulate levels of various hormones, potentially increasing susceptibility to hormonal problems in people with sleep deprivation.
- Pain: Sleep-deprived people are at a higher risk of developing pain or feeling that their pain is getting worse. Pain may cause further sleep interruptions, creating a negative cycle of worsening pain and sleep.
- Mental health disorders: Sleep and mental health are closely intertwined, and poor sleep has strong associations with conditions like depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.
Given these diverse and important impacts of sleep deprivation, it comes as no surprise that studies have found insufficient sleep to be tied with a greater overall risk of death as well as a lower quality of life.
On a society-wide level, the impacts of sleep deprivation are enormous. The CDC estimates that as many as 6,000 deaths each year are caused by drowsy driving, and sleep deprivation has been calculated to incur hundreds of billions in added healthcare costs as well as over $400B in productivity losses per year in the United States alone.
Doctors can often diagnose sleep deprivation by discussing a patient’s symptoms and sleep patterns. This may involve reviewing a sleep diary or taking a sleep questionnaire that offers a detailed look at sleep patterns and daytime symptoms.
In some cases, additional testing with sleep tracking technology, known as actigraphy, or with an overnight sleep study may be conducted if further information is needed or if a doctor suspects that the patient may have an underlying sleep disorder.
Treatment and Prevention
If you have ongoing or worsening problems with insufficient sleep or daytime sleepiness, working with your doctor is a good first step to getting relief. Your doctor can assess your situation and recommend treatment that best suits your needs.
In most cases, a focus on sleep hygiene — your sleep environment and daily habits — is a central component of preventing and treating sleep deprivation. The following sections outline some key sleep hygiene improvements for people who get insufficient sleep.
Address Sleep Deprivation, Don’t Cope With It
Many people get insufficient sleep because they accept sleep deprivation as normal. Rather than take the necessary steps to sleep more, they drink caffeine or energy drinks, nap, or simply try to “power through.”
None of these approaches is a sustainable solution to sleep deprivation. They may help get through the day, but the cumulative effects of sleep deficiency will still take a toll both in the short- and long-term.
For this reason, it is important to refuse to accept a lack of sleep as normal and instead focus on sleeping more and getting higher quality rest.
Make Sleep a Priority
Chronic insufficient sleep often occurs when people choose to sacrifice sleep in favor of work, leisure, or other obligations. To counteract this, it’s critical to take steps to make sleep a priority:
Customize Your Bedroom Environment
Design your bedroom environment to be ideal for your relaxation. You’re less likely to avoid going to bed if your sleep setting is inviting and suits your comfort preferences.
The best mattress and pillow for your needs and preferences should offer plenty of support, and your bedding should help you feel cozy while maintaining a moderate temperature.
To minimize potential sleep disruptions, try to make sure your bedroom is as quiet and dark as possible.
Avoid Things That Can Interfere With Sleep
A useful step in addressing sleep deprivation is to avoid things that can, often unbeknownst to you, negatively affect your sleep:
- Electronic devices: TVs, cell phones, tablets, and computers can keep your mind stimulated, leaving you still wired when you want to go to bed. The light emitted by these devices can also interfere with your circadian rhythm. As a result, it’s best to avoid using electronic devices for an hour or more before bed.
- Alcohol: Drinking, especially at night, can disrupt your normal sleep cycle, reducing overall sleep quality and consistency.
- Caffeine: As a stimulant, caffeine makes you alert, and because it can stick around in your system for several hours, it’s best to avoid it in the afternoon and evening.
- Naps: To keep naps from interfering with sleep at night, keep them short (30 minutes or less) and never take them in the late afternoon or later. If you are struggling with insomnia, it’s best to avoid naps altogether.
Make the Most of the Day
Getting frequent sunlight exposure during the day supports a healthy circadian rhythm that helps you be alert during the day and sleepy at night. Regular physical activity can also contribute to a normal sleep schedule, so try to engage in at least moderate exercise every day.
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Bollards, barrier posts
They warn, protect, demarcate areas, and keep paths clear: bollards and barrier posts allow you to secure traffic routes and set up easily comprehensible guidance systems. Discover models for different areas of use at KAISER+KRAFT – from flexible plastic barrier posts to stylish stainless steel bollards.
Bollards and barrier posts for cordoning off and securing
Whether indoors or outdoors, in underground garages, warehouses or production halls: bollards and barrier posts block off access routes, keep parking spaces free, clearly indicate barriers, and secure danger spots. This means they help ensure safety and easy orientation.
At KAISER+KRAFT, we offer bollards and barrier posts in many different designs, such as ones that come in warning colours, or as an imposing steel version. When using warning colours, remember that red and white is intended for temporary barriers and yellow and black for permanent ones. Bollards made of stainless steel or city bollards, on the other hand, are a stylish way to demarcate highly visible public areas.
Removable, tilting or anchored to the ground: the range of bollards
Which bollard or barrier post is the right choice depends on how you intend to use it. If you would like to use a bollard to permanently block off an access route or secure a car park, a post that is permanently installed may be the best solution. Removable bollards ensure that anyone with the right key has easy access: simply unlock, pull out the bollard and put it aside. Tilting bollards, also known as folding bollards, make this easy to do. You fold them down after unlocking and place them upright again later on.
If you choose retractable barrier posts for concreting in, they disappear right into the ground. This means that no trip hazards remain, and the bollards are firmly anchored and safe from theft. As an alternative, there are also bollards for bolting in place.
Do you need to draw attention to low-hanging beams or low ceiling heights, and this in garages in particular? Our barrier posts for ceiling and floor mounting can be installed at eye level to ensure they are clearly visible. In tight spaces, flexible barrier posts with integrated tension springs or guide pins are also a good choice. The bollards yield when they are drive in into, and straighten up again automatically afterwards. FlexPins are even more flexible. These bollards can also be driven over in an emergency, e.g. by fire brigades or ambulances.
If you're not sure which bollards and barrier posts are the ideal solution in your case, then just make contact with us. We will be happy to advise you on which bollards to purchase and on any type of barriers and markings as well.
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In the wake of Hurricane Ida and the resulting blackouts, many New Orleans-area healthcare providers are operating only limited services or are temporarily closed. But the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks remains high, public officials and health experts have warned.
Dr. Sen Pei, who does COVID transmission modeling at Columbia University, told The Lens on Saturday that “the most important thing is to test.” Knowing if you have COVID will help prevent further outbreaks as people across the region gather to obtain necessary supplies, cool off, and move into temporary shelters.
COVID testing appears to be available in at least some state-run shelters, based on a report The Lens received from one person who took advantage of a post-storm evacuation program on Saturday. The Lens has requested additional details from the state.
Locally, here’s what’s available, and closed, in and around New Orleans. We will update the list periodically as options reopen.
On Friday, Ochsner Health resumed drive-through COVID PCR testing at its Center for Primary Care and Wellness on Jefferson Highway. Details on cost weren’t immediately available. The center is closed on Sundays and some holidays, including Labor Day. No appointment needed. 1401 Jefferson Highway. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are also available at the site.
Ochsner’s Mid-City Urgent Care has rapid tests available, per an Ochsner spokesperson. Details on cost weren’t immediately available. No appointment needed. 4100 Canal St.. 8 a.m to 7:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Open Labor Day.
In and Out Urgent Care has antigen tests. Cost is $200 without insurance. No appointment needed. 6225 S Claiborne, New Orleans, LA 70125. 9 a.m to 5 p.m.. Open Labor Day.
As of Sunday, LCMC is not conducting COVID testing at any of its facilities.
A spokesperson for LCMC said that the system didn’t have a timeline on when testing will resume. “But things are moving fast, so we could soon.”
The city of New Orleans does not have tests available at its resource centers either, although a spokesperson said that the city was working on sourcing tests. The challenge, she said, was refrigeration for those supplies. City and Louisiana National Guard-run testing sites at UNO Lakefront and Mahalia Jackson are also closed.
The Urgent Care clinic at 231 N. Carrollton Ave. did not pick up the phone, and its website says that it is closed.
All Baptist Community Health Services locations were closed as of Sunday, according to the BCHS website.
DePaul Community Health Center’s COVID testing is also currently closed. According to their triage line — 504-207-3060 — centers won’t reopen until Sept. 13.
The Walgreens at 4400 S Claiborne Ave, which had previously been providing PCR tests, is also closed.
Healthcare providers offering COVID testing, to be added to this list, please email [email protected] and provide your hours, address, what types of tests you offer and any other relevant information.
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Back in November of 2020 I blogged a New York Times story about the PCR testing cycle thresholds and how we were testing at such a high rate that the test was capable of finding virus that has no chance of infecting anyone. In this blog post there was also video from Dr. Fauci where he says a PCR test run above 35 cycles is useless. Now, from the CDC, comes a document that says they’re recommending labs to use a PCR cycle threshold, for vaccinated people, of less than 28. My guess is they’re doing this to find fewer cases so the vaccines look more effective.
COVID-19 Vaccines are Effective
Vaccine breakthrough cases occur in only a small percentage of vaccinated persons. To date, no unexpected patterns have been identified in the case demographics or vaccine characteristics among people with reported vaccine breakthrough infections.
COVID-19 vaccines are effective. CDC recommends that all eligible people get a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as one is available to them.
CDC recommends that fully vaccinated people continue take steps to protect themselves and others in many situations, like wearing a mask, maintaining an appropriate social distance from others, avoiding crowds and poorly ventilated spaces, and washing their hands often.CDC.gov
In case you didn’t know… COVID-19 vaccines are effective. They said it twice in the same blurb just to make sure you know it. Three times would have been magic but maybe they didn’t want to be so obvious.
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This DIY flamingo bookmark is a fun paper summer craft for kids and teens! Find my DIY paper sunflower template here. This post contains affiliate links.
Only almost 1/3 of the way into the summer, it feels like it’s just running away as I try to get all my summer craft ideas out there for you to enjoy. But there’s always next year…
These flamingo bookmarks are so fun for the summer and they are just full of sunshine! They’re friendly and full of character, ready for you to make one – or a dozen!
A free template makes flamingo bookmarks so easy to craft.
These are fabulous for a summer book club activity! Why just discuss a book when you can discuss it over a book-related summery craft project! And since all you need to craft these is paper or cardstock, it’s so cheap to make too!
The bookmark portion is made of a slip of paper, attached to the body of the flamingo. The legs are left separated from the body so that you can slip the book between the two.
This helps it stay in place better as well, since the page kind of wedges in the place where the two parts connect.
So craft this flamingo with attitude to celebrate summer time reading!
Download the template
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What your need for this flamingo craft
How to make a paper flamingo bookmark
1. Select colored craft papers (primarily pink) for the flamingo paper bookmark. Trace the body, the wing, wing detail and the blush patterns on 2 or 3 different shades of pink colored craft papers. Trace the legs on black or brown colored craft paper and trace the beak on white paper. Cut out the traced patterns carefully.
2. Attach the blush cutout near the bottom of the head portion of the main flamingo. Attach the wing detail cutout along the scalloped border of the wing cutout.
3. Use a black marker to trace and fill in the flamingo beak detail on the white beak cutout. Attach the beak to the front of the head.
4. Use the marker to draw the eye of the flamingo, above the blush.
5. Attach the wing cutout to the body , keeping the scalloped border facing the tail of the main body. Prepare the bookmark base from cardstock.
6. Attach the 2 leg cutouts along the bottom side of the main flamingo body.
7. Attach the bottom of the main body pattern to the top of the bookmark but make sure to keep the legs free from glue.
To use the flamingo as a bookmark, slide a page between the bookmark base and the legs of the flamingo.
I hope you enjoyed making a flamingo bookmark! Are you making yours for a special occasion? Comment below!
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The situation in Palestine is now critical. The Israeli occupation has stopped all fuel deliveries into Gaza, resulting in electricity shortages to health facilities, schools and quarantine centres. This infrastructure is critical to containing another deadly outbreak of coronavirus.
In the face of a deadly second wave, ActionAid has had to double its emergency response. With your urgent support we can reach more of those in need by:
Communicating life saving prevention information
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Analyzing your revenue trends.
It seems obvious to say that you can’t achieve financial success without a healthy and consistent line of revenue. No matter what you do on the expense side, if there isn’t enough money coming in, you’re in trouble.
But how do you know if you’re approaching a revenue problem? How do you figure out what exactly is wrong?
That’s a little less obvious. But proper revenue analysis will give you a clear sense of the real value to your practice of your procedures, providers, patients, and payers. It will also demonstrate those things in your practice that are working and those that aren’t.
Here’s how to do it.
Measure days in A/R
First, measure and pay attention to your days in accounts receivable, also known as days in A/R or DAR. You can slice this basic measure of how long it takes to receive payment any one of several ways, including by payer, service, specialty, provider, and place of service, depending on which of these applies to your practice:
All this data can be easier to interpret if you can pull it into a single graph. Do so periodically to measure changes in revenue over time.
Cost of slow pays
The number of days in A/R sets an important benchmark, because the faster you can obtain payment for your services, the better. With your overhead costs rising, your revenue becomes less valuable to you the longer it remains in someone else’s hands. In the chart to the left, you can see how $100,000 in claims loses about $800 in value after 30 days, and more than $2,300 in value after 90 days.
Examine your real collection rates
It’s one thing to be able to pull in revenue in fast, but you also need to make sure you are picking up all the money you’ve earned. Knowing how much your different payers and patients are truly paying you for your services and how that compares with your posted rates is key to predicting future revenue.
We look at collection rates in two ways - gross collections and net collections. Net collections is the amount you actually collect from payers and patients. Gross collections are what you theoretically should collect - your posted rates - for the services you’ve performed. Comparing the two is a common practice in any business, as it’s an effective way to determine where you can best focus your efforts to increase your collections. However, many practices make the classic mistake of setting unrealistically high rates for their services, believing this will help them negotiate better rates with payers and increase patient collections. But doing so can skew a practice’s financial analyses by artificially inflating its gross collections.
Our experience also suggests that patients are actually less likely to pay even a portion of their bills when faced with astronomically high rates.
Bottom line: Set reasonable fees, and concentrate on bringing in what you’ve truly worked for rather than playing with your charges so you feel better.
Revenue realization rate
Tracking how long it takes you to realize most of your revenue for a given month is a great way to begin identifying the areas in which you tend to have lingering balances. Revenue realization is the process of resolving all outstanding receivables into cash or adjustments. What part of that payment came from the patient? From the insurer? And how much was adjusted - or worse, written off?
We recommend charting revenue realization for the past six to 12 months including your total charges, payments, adjustments, and bad debt. The trend over time should be increased realization. A completely resolved or realized claim is one that has been entirely paid by all appropriate parties. Under typical circumstances, you realize a portion of a claim when you see the patient and collect his copayment, then realize more of the claim when you receive that patient’s insurance payment. What’s left, if anything, is usually transferred and billed to the patient. In such a case, the claim isn’t fully realized until you receive that second payment from the patient.
So, say you heed this advice and are getting money in fast and tracking how and when it is realized. Everything looks great now, but how will things look in six months, after you purchase that DEXA machine? You have to project revenues as your practice tries to add to its patient base, build additional facilities, hire more providers and staff, or perhaps change its focus. When doing these analyses, evaluate and assess your production and reimbursement cycles as well as your costs.
For example, if a practice is considering adding a physician, it should know whether that physician will bring along a patient base or not, what facility costs that provider will require, and other individual operating costs such as insurance, staff, and supplies. Then, with a solid grounding in the practice’s revenue realization cycles, the management team can assess the potential provider’s unit costs and his projected production to determine if these factors will allow the practice to meet its current profit margin. The same type of analysis would also be appropriate when a practice is considering purchasing high-cost diagnostic equipment. You must ensure that providing the services that equipment enables is more cost-effective than outsourcing.
Fruit for the picking
Conducting revenue analyses is a great way to find the low-hanging fruit that can boost your bottom line. Determine what pays well, and you can do more of it; figure out what pays poorly, and you can fix it or stop doing it.
In addition to the no-brainers you will find, good revenue analysis practices will yield great benefits as a practice develops its overall ability to make sound business decisions. Basing such decisions on sound revenue projections and a detailed understanding of the factors affecting your revenue stream is fundamental to your business’s long-term growth and success.
Alan Morrison is an engagement manager for athenahealth, a revenue cycle management company for medical practices whose database of billing information is the statistical basis for this series. He can be reached via firstname.lastname@example.org.
This article originally appeared in the October 2006 issue of Physicians Practice.
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When it comes to winter wear, people are always looking for new options that can make them look even more stylish and fashionable while at the same time keep the chills at bay. One of the fabrics that are getting extremely popular nowadays is the vegetable flannel. The vegetable flannel fabric goes a long way back, and while shirts made of these clothes have been worn by men and women for many years, it is only recently that a number of leading brands have come forward and enhanced its fashion prospects. So let’s take a look at some of the distinct features of vegetable flannel.
History Of Vegetable Flannel
During the 1800s, the vegetable flannel was invented by a man known as L. Léopold Lairitz. Unlike conventional flannel fabric that is made out of cotton, the vegetable flannel is made by using fibers from Scots pine trees. Raw fiber known as waldwolle or forest wool was collected from the pines and pine oil was separated from them. After that, this waldwolle was converted into yarns or threads which were then used to make shirts. The vegetable flannel was mainly promoted as an alternate hypoallergenic option for people who found it difficult to wear wool. The fabric was thought to be particularly good for people having neuralgia and rheumatism.
Vegetable Flannel Shirts And Their Mainstream Acceptance
Over the years, the vegetable flannel shirts have developed a strong market of their own with many people preferring to wear them even more than the cotton versions. A vegetable flannel shirt manufacturer company designs and develops these shirts in a number of different styles and colors which are popular among both men and women. Apart from shits, vegetable flannel is also used for making jumpsuits which are also equally popular.
Vegetable Flannel Clothing Offer Lucrative Business Options
If you are the owner of a clothing store, then you should focus on creating a nice collection for vegetable flannel shirts this winter. A wholesale cotton flannelette dealer can provide you with both cotton as well as vegetable flannel products. You can also contact a flannel jumpsuit supplier to get cool jumpsuits in a range of nice colors.
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- Thailand’s military in 2021 finds itself with several principal tasks: reinforcing the police against youthful anti-government protestors; solidifying monarchical control of the country; assisting the police in arresting those suspected of violating Thailand’s lèse majesté law; conducting counterinsurgency warfare against Malay-Muslim insurgents in the country’s Deep South; and securing the 2, 416-kilometer-long Thai-Myanmar border.
- While reducing the number of generals in the Thai armed forces is a stated priority, the recent mid-year military reshuffle did not further that goal.
- Partisanship influenced the reshuffle, exhibiting continued military factionalism rooted in military-academy-class and unit bonds, financial interests, family ties and personal loyalties.
- Wide-ranging proposals for military reform, covering such areas as conscription, soldiers’ welfare, military landholding, civilian control, laws bearing on national security, and procurement have been made. But few if any changes have occurred.
- In 2021, the palace continues to dominate Thailand’s military.
* Paul Chambers is Lecturer and Special Advisor for International Affairs, Center of ASEAN Community Studies, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand, and, in March-May 2021, Visiting Fellow in the Thailand Studies Programme of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
2021 has thus far been an eventful year for Thailand’s armed forces. Those forces have been principally tasked with reinforcing the police against youthful anti-government protestors. Soldiers have stood behind police lines and, wearing civvies, mingled with pro-government counter-demonstrators. The armed forces have also laboured to solidify monarchical control of the country, assisting the police in arresting anyone suspected of violating Thailand’s lèse majesté law. Further, the military is in its fifteenth year of counterinsurgency warfare against Malay-Muslim insurgents in the country’s Deep South. Finally, it sought to secure the 2,416-kilometer-long Thai-Myanmar border to stem both the spread of COVID-19 and the flow of people fleeing persecution into Thailand.
Meanwhile, Thailand’s 1 April 2021 mid-year military reshuffle, which was supposed to reflect the Ministry of Defense’s plan to cut the size of the military’s top-heavy senior officer corps, failed to see that objective materialise. Indeed, in early 2021, the ministry estimated that there were 1,400 generals or their equivalents in the country’s armed forces, with 400 flag officers serving in the Army, 250 in the Navy, 190 in the Air Force, 250 at the Royal Thai Armed Forces headquarters and 300 in the Office of the Permanent Secretary of Defense. Though the military has been seeking to cut the number of generals and other flag officers by 25 per cent by 2029, planners considered making cuts of only 5-10 per cent in 2021. The idea was to incrementally diminish the number of appointments of military “experts” or “specialists”, each of whom receives monthly salaries (and are considered superfluous), and then to not replace military retirees—with some officers urged into early retirement. But the 2021 mid-year reshuffle, which involved 238 personnel, included approximately 124 generals and colonels to be appointed as military experts or specialists. If anything, this outcome implies that the plan to begin trimming Thailand’s bloated cadre generals has stalled.
Nevertheless, the mid-year re-shuffle has brought a number of changes worth noting. First, Commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters General Chalermpol Srisawat has advanced the careers of soldiers whom he favours. Thus, General Wattana Polchan, a member of muak daeng or “red hat” unit or Special Forces faction and a pre-cadet academy Class 21 peer of General Chalermpol, as well as commander of the Counter-Terrorism Center, was elevated to become the chief of the Armed Forces Security Center, which handles intelligence. Succeeding Wattana as counter-terrorism chief is another Chalermpol associate, General Suwit Ketsiri, of pre-cadet academy Class 23. Suwit hails from the Burapha phayak faction of Prime Minister General (ret.) Prayut Chan-ocha and Deputy Prime Minister General (ret.) Prawit Wonguwan). Like Chalermpol, he previously served as deputy commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division, Royal Guard, and in the 904 Royal Guard Special Task Force. Suwit was also deputy command for the First Army Region. He is expected to succeed Chalermpol as commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters when the latter retires in 2023.
Another noteworthy element of the reshuffle was the demotion of General Rachit Arunrungsi, Army Welfare director, to the post of deputy director, Integration and Practice Office of the Internal Security Mission. In March 2020, it was publicly revealed that Rachit had allowed a boxing match to proceed at a stadium run by the Army Welfare Department despite the cabinet’s ban on state agencies holding crowded events to stanch the spread of COVID-19. Over 200 people, including Rachit, contracted COVID-19 as a result of the event. Although he was initially dismissed from the stadium’s board, Rachit’s demotion came only a full year later. Rachit’s replacement as Welfare Department director is General Fuengwit Laohasurayothin, a pre-cadet Class 22 classmate and friend of Army Commander General Narongphan Jitkaewthae. Two other classmates of Narongphan have also gained in the reshuffle. General Noppadon Srichansuk, deputy director of the Royal Thai Army Ordnance Department, was appointed as the department’s director, while General Thitichai Preecha became the director of the Coordination Center 5, Army Office of Internal Security.
Yet another key appointment was that of General Dechapol Suwan. From director of the Department of Information Technology and Space Defense, he has become special adviser to the Office of the Permanent Secretary of Defense. Though his is an advisory position, Dechapol’s appointment signifies the growing importance to the Thai military of the space domain. In August 2019, Thailand launched a space operations centre tasked with consolidating Thai national security in outer space. The centre is to be the foundation for “space operations, outer space patrols, satellite communications and international engagement” in space. Dechapol is a peer and pre-cadet Class 20 classmate of the former Army chief, current Deputy Secretary of the Royal Household General Apirat Kongsompong.
RAMPANT MILITARY FACTIONALISM
This latest reshuffle illustrates the push-and-pull of the factionalism that persists at different levels of Thailand’s armed forces: principally among powerful extra-military personalities, units and pre-cadet and service academy classes, but to a lesser degree involving the families and personalities of active-duty commanders. Indeed, the military has lacked factional cohesion since 2001, and such fission has intensified since the beginning of the current monarch’s reign. Today, the conflict between military extra-military personalities principally pits King Vajiralongkorn against Prawit, with less involvement from Prayut and Interior Minister General Anupong Paochinda. Prawit, Prayut and Anupong dominated military promotions from 2007 until 2016. In 2018, the king established a three-month Royal 904 military training course, whose graduates obtain a certificate and the right to wear a kho daeng or red-collared T-shirt under their uniforms. Senior officers completing the course could also be better assured of promotion. The king was at the same time creating a new faction which could encompass soldiers of diverse factional origins, including the leading factions rooted on units: the traditional Wongthewan or Royal Progeny faction, representing the 1st Division (Kings Guard), within which the king began his own military career, and the Burapha phayak or Eastern Tigers faction, representing the 2nd Division (Queen’s Guard). Prayut, Prawit and Anupong belonged to that latter faction.
In the event, the monarch’s attempt to bring senior kho daeng officers cohesively under his sway has only succeeded in intensifying sub-factions. Thus, palace-preferred senior officers today tend to be not only kho daeng but also previously Wongthewan. In 2021, while this group dominates the military, as in the case of Army Commander General Narongphan, a lesser number of others favoured by Prawit, such as First Army Region Commander General Jaroenchai Hintao, remain prominent as well.
Besides extra-military personalities, a second variant of factions has been shared military units. These are the strongest types of factions because they are less limited in numbers of members, involving generations of active-duty and retired officers across time. Besides Wongthewan and Burapha phayak, other leading unit factions include the Sura dam or Black Panthers, the Muak daeng and the Tahan ma or Cavalry. Current Privy Council Chair General (ret) Surayud Chulanond belongs to the Muak daeng faction while his predecessor the late General Prem Tinsulanond was from the Cavalry. The aforementioned Suwit Ketsiri is a member of both the Burapha phayak and Cavalry Ma factions.
A third faction type is the comradery shared among members of the same graduating class — both of the pre-cadet school, officially the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School, and of service academies including the Army’s Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy. The former institution is more important in the emergence of factions because its students include individuals who go on to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Police. (Thai coups and the juntas that they put into power have often been led by soldiers from the same class faction, as was the case in both the 1991 and 2006 coups). Thai service branch commanders also prefer to place classmates in strategic leadership positions to maximise trustworthiness.
The final variant of factions oscillates around the persona of active-duty commanders. The basis of the linkages in question may be family, financial or commercial pursuits, or barami (charisma). Such cliques are small and difficult to sustain over time because they tend to be limited by kinship, financial success, social skills and time on active duty. Only commanders with relatives in the military and long postings are able to build these connections. A rare example was General Prayut, who was Army commander for four years and whose brother Preecha became permanent secretary of the Ministry of Defense.
THE STATE OF MILITARY REFORM EFFORTS
The current upswing in military factionalism in Thailand has paralleled revelations in civil society about problems endemic to the armed forces: an excessive budget, corruption, impunity and insufficient accountability and transparency. Following the March 2019 general elections, every major party in the country’s lower house of parliament save the junta’s proxy Phalang Pracharat insisted on military and police reform of one kind or another. With the coalition dominated by the Phalang Pracharat party—itself beholden to 2014-2019 junta leaders Prayut, Prawit and Anupong—and the Senate appointed by the junta, most reform proposals met a quick end in Parliament. Nevertheless, the parties continued to push for security sector reform and streamlining, with the loudest calls coming from the Future Forward Party, which morphed into the Move Forward Party after its dissolution in early 2020. That latter party has continued to advocate military reforms originally called for by Future Forward.
There have been generally eight proposed reforms. The first concerns the defence budget. Future Forward sought to reduce the budget by US$1.6 billion, while the Thaksinite Phuea Thai Party advocated diverting 10 per cent of the budget, or US$638.9 million, to assist new businesspeople. The Seri Ruam Thai Party supports transferring parts of the military budget to spending on welfare, while the Democrat Partysupports cutting all unnecessary budgetary expenses.
A second proposal has been to reduce the number of armed forces personnel. Future Forward supported reducing Thailand’s 330,000 troops to 170,000, decreasing the number of generals and other flag grade officers from 1,600 to 400, and abolishing the Thai Reserve Officer Training Corps. Seri Ruam Thai has called for reducing the number of generals, advisors and experts in the military and abolishing brigades as well as the Armed Forces Headquarters. The Democrats have proposed reducing military personnel to 60-70 thousand troops. Phuea Thai has also supported personnel reductions, though it has been ambiguous about the scale of cuts that it favours.
A third proposal has been to abolish conscription. Phuea Thai, Seri Ruam Thai and the Democrats and the dissolved Future Forward have all supported this reform. They take this position because, since Thailand is not at war with any country, the country should limit itself to an all-volunteer military. In addition, some conscripts have been abused. General Pongsakorn Rodchompu, formerly of Future Forward, has specifically proposed that Thailand establish a corps of “voluntary smart soldiers” who possess a military-subsidised “professional education” that includes a curriculum on democracy, civil rights and civilian control of the military. At the same time, soldiers must be promoted based upon merit, rather than factional connections. Finally, in his view, there must be determined, civilian-led, enforceable investigations of conscripts’ deaths at the hands of other soldiers.
A fourth proposal involves reforming military landownership. The Thai military is the largest landowner in Thailand. The Future Forward Party called for utilising military land to build public housing. Phuea Thai also wants to put military land to greater social use. Seri Ruam Thai wants to use military land to build schools, hospitals, housing and public parks.
A fifth proposal is the improving of the welfare of individual military soldiers. Future Forward advocated providing scholarships for soldiers and their children, offering larger pensions as well as loans, and making available accident and family insurance. Phuea Thai has suggested providing more military education, focusing on technology, to soldiers.
A sixth proposal for reform of the Thai military is to enhance elected civilians’ control over the military. Future Forward proposed that the commanders of the service branches and of the armed forces’ headquarters be put under the Ministry of Defense. Seri Ruam Thai wants to ensure that elected prime ministers can remove members of the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters’ Personnel Management Committee and better combat military corruption. The Democrat Party seeks to bring greater public transparency to the military, including the establishment of more centres at which soldiers can lodge complaints.
A seventh proposal is the reform of laws relating to national security. This proposal applies to the Martial Law Act (1914), the Emergency Decree Law (2008) and the Internal Security Act (2008). Future Forward sought to forbid the military from trying civilians in military courts. It also tried to revise Article 6 of the Martial Law Act, which allows military personnel to overrule civilian authorities. Seri Ruam Thai has called for abolishing all military courts and amending the Ministry of Defense Organization Act so that elected civilian prime ministers must endorse military reshuffle decisions—which currently involve only armed forces commanders and the king. Phuea Thai has sought to diminish the number of days that the Emergency Decree Law allows the military to detain people; the current limit is 37 days. It has also supported placing the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) under the authority of civilian agencies.
An eighth proposal regards defence procurement. Thailand’s military procurement process has traditionally been close to opaque—with no elected civilian oversight. The Future Forward Party sought to reform the process, proposing effective oversight on the part of Parliament as well as academics, other civilian groups and journalists that would see them participate in every stage of the weapons-buying process. Indeed, there should be more parliamentary oversight, with civil society input, to address kickbacks that senior military and police officers receive during the procurement process.
Meanwhile, following a February 2020 massacre by a deranged Thai soldier in Nakhon Ratchasima and revelations that he had been drawn into a shady military business scheme, then-Army Commander Apirat promised immediate reforms. These included the following:
- Eliminating arrangements whereby Army officers receive commissions for leasing military land to businesspeople.
- Increasing transparency regarding public real estate assets and Army-owned businesses, to channel income to the Army’s welfare fund. The Army signed a memorandum of understanding with the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance, providing for the transfer of Army-owned land and businesses to the ministry.
- Requiring retired Army officers to move out of Army-owned houses.
- Ending the rights of soldiers to personally own various types of weapons.
- Launching a complaint hotline for soldiers to allege Army irregularities such as corruption.
By the time Apirat retired in September 2020, these reforms had yet to materialize. The payment of commissions for leasing of property has continued. The MOU with the Treasury Department has only led to a few military-administered companies and properties being handed over to the department, and even those remain heavily influenced by the armed forces. Apirat did eventually dismiss the members of the Army board overseeing Lumpini Boxing Stadium events because of the March 2020 COVID-19 outbreak there, but the Army continues to run the stadium. Regarding welfare housing, the Army made so many exceptions to its new policy that a long list of more than 100 retired generals has remained in rent-free, Army-administered housing on the rationale that they are “contributing to society”. The complaint hotline is not anonymous. After an Army sergeant used it to reveal an allegation of army corruption, he was fired and never reinstated. The hotline programme faded away.
Military reform is necessary in other areas as well. For example, there should be more transparency and elected civilians’ monitoring of military detention areas to reduce potential military torture and enforced disappearances. In addition, postings of military and police officers to the boards of corporations should be abolished. At the same time, there is no reason why the military should hold shares in private-sector firms—the TMB Bank, for example. Moreover, soldiers engaging in illegal activities should be vigorously prosecuted. Also, the military should not be allowed to use criminal defamation suits against civil society organizations which voice dissent against potential military abuses. Furthermore, organisations promoting development, such as the Five Provinces Forest Preservation Foundation (FPFPF), should not be dominated by the military. Indeed, of the 25 members on FPFPF’s board, 18 are military officials. Finally, there should a reduction in the number of tasks assigned to the military which are also already performed by civilian agencies. Duplicated responsibilities include disaster relief, teaching farmers how to farm and others.
Ultimately, amidst Thailand’s 2021 mid-year armed forces reshuffle, the military finds itself highly factionalised, with enormous tasks at hand, and in need of reforms. While it is promoting its own kho daeng faction, the palace otherwise seeks to balance military factions in order to enhance its influence over the armed forces. Except perhaps for force modernisation, there is little likelihood of any military reforms sticking. No elected civilians possess the clout to compel reform, while internally-driven military reform has never been successful in Thailand. For the future, Thailand’s bloated, divided and politicised military looks likely to endure. The armed forces themselves need to more ardently push for reform, if only to improve their effectiveness in carrying out their mission.
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With her installation “Die bewegte Leere des Moments” (The Void of the Moment in Motion), Alicja Kwade opens up a space of its own for the viewer, a space that offers possibilities for new perspectives and considerations, increases the viewer’s powers of concentration, and sharpens all his senses. What do time, motion, and space mean for the individual? To what extent do scientific findings provide orientation and support in this specific constellation?
Edited by Matthias Ulrich and Max Hollein. With a preface by Max Hollein and an essay by Donatien Grau.
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Psychotherapy is a treatment that focuses on the relationship between you and the therapist and which provides a supportive environment that allows you to talk openly with someone who’s objective, neutral and nonjudgmental. You and your therapist will work together to identify and process the thought and behaviour patterns that are keeping you from feeling your best. Likewise you will not only sort out the issue that led you to therapy in the first place but you will have learned new skills that support you to cope better with future challenges.
There are many myths surrounding the need for therapy. Many believe that therapy is only necessary for people passing through severe psychological or psychiatric conditions; at times psychotherapy is actually confused with psychiatry. In reality therapy can also help many everyday life situations like anxiety, relationship issues such as marital breakdown, parent-child conflicts, work-related problems, loss and grief and self issues like lack of self esteem and problems with image.
Signs that you could benefit from therapy include:
- You feel an overwhelming, prolonged sense of helplessness and sadness.
- Your problems don’t seem to get better despite your efforts and help from family and friends.
- You find it difficult to concentrate on work assignments or to carry out other everyday activities.
- You worry excessively, expect the worst or are constantly on edge.
- Your actions, such as drinking too much alcohol, using drugs or being aggressive, are harming you or others.
What is Gestalt psychotherapy?
Gestalt is a word derived from German which means “an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts“. That is, in fact, the rationale of Gestalt psychotherapy where the resultant growth and change from the therapeutic experience is not only the result of all the experiences put together but also that extra experience coming from your internal processing and the new awareness and perception you have of yourself and and world.
The mainstay of Gestalt psychotherapy is awareness that comes from genuine contact in the form of the therapeutic relationship. It is through the new experience in relating that old ways of relating, and the resultant unhealthy contact with ourselves and our world, that is the way we affect our world and are in turn affected by it, are revisited and worked through with the support of the therapist.
During a session the therapist primarily focuses on the setting up of the relationship with you both to give you support and to understand better how you function in your world. Therapy is mainly done through talking but there are times when the therapist chooses to do certain interventions called experiments both to understand you better and to help you get better awareness of yourself and your situation. Such interventions are done only with your permission and only if you feel comfortable. In the case of young children and adolescents parents and other family members are sometimes asked to join in some sessions to get a better idea of the environment the child lives in.
A psychotherapy session usually lasts one hour unless there is a specific arrangement between you and your therapist. This timing of the session is important in supporting the therapist’s assessment of your behaviour – whether you tend to come late or whether you find it hard to leave for example and this information can be processed with your therapist during the sessions. Although at times hard to accept any issue needs its time to process and there is a limit to how much processing can be done at one go as that can hinder your natural growth and awareness.
It is important that sessions are done on a regular basis, not less than a week, unless there is a specific reason and not more than three weeks’ interval as then too much distance can hinder the establishment and maintenance of the therapeutic relationship and the work done in previous sessions. Most of the time the timing of the sessions are decided between you and your therapist depending on the issue/s you would be working on at the time.
The therapist is duty bound to be on time for the sessions and to inform the client if there is any delay or cancellation as soon as possible. You must be made aware of the cost of the sessions and of what is expected of you, as the client during the first session.
As a professional, the therapist is also duty bound to keep himself/herself abreast with the latest developments in the field and by attending regular supervision to ensure optimal work with you. It is also important that the therapist is of sound moral background and lifestyle; this however must not in any way impede him/her from accepting you in a non-judgemental way.
It is your choice, as a client to start therapy and as such it is your responsibility to attend the sessions booked on time and inform your therapist within a specified time-frame decided between the two of you at the start of therapy. Your therapist might deem it necessary to charge you a cancellation fee.
Though considering that it might be hard to divulge certain information about yourself, it is important that you avoid as much as possible giving wrong information to your therapist as this will then hinder the therapeutic relationship and the process of your work together.
You are the one who decides to start therapy. It is a decision taken from a need to reach out for support and awareness. Once you decide to start therapy the next step is choosing the right therapist as this will greatly affect the outcome of your therapeutic process.
The first session is usually about introducing yourself and your issue and setting the contract – that is terms of payment, time of sessions and cancellation policy – with your therapist. This is important as it gives the necessary structure and guidance to your therapeutic process.
You can stop therapy whenever you choose; ideally however this should be discussed with your therapist so that adequate closure is reached for the time even if you might intend to resume therapy in the future.
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Lumbar Sympathetic Block
What is a Lumbar Sympathetic Block?
A lumbar sympathetic block is an injection of medications into or around one or more sympathetic nerves in the low back. Sometimes, these nerves can transmit pain signals from peripheral tissues in the lower body to the central nervous system. The pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory medications contained in a lumbar sympathetic block can inhibit the ability of lumbar sympathetic nerves to transmit pain signals from the lower body.
Lumbar sympathetic nerves, which extend from both sides of the lumbar spine, belong to the sympathetic nervous system, which is involved in maintaining homeostasis. Sympathetic nerves begin as preganglionic neurons in the middle and lower regions of the spine. They synapse, or terminate, in a bundle of neurons called a ganglion, where they send their signals across a gap to a second group of neurons that travel to peripheral body tissues.
Injection of medications into lumbar sympathetic nerves may alleviate lower-body sympathetically mediated pain and other symptoms characteristic of sympathetically mediated conditions, such as swelling, numbness, skin discoloration, poor circulation and impaired mobility. Examples of such conditions include Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and herpes zoster (shingles) affecting the lower limbs. Other conditions treated with this type of block are neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease.
Lumbar Sympathetic Block Procedure
The lumbar sympathetic block is an outpatient procedure that takes less than an hour to perform. The patient is given light sedation and the skin over the area to be injected is cleaned and numbed with local anesthetic. Using fluoroscopy (real-time x-ray) for guidance, the physician directs the injection into or around the target nerve. Then, after a short period of observation, the patient is released.
A successful lumbar sympathetic block is characterized by relief of pain and other symptoms of sympathetically mediated disorders. The duration of symptom relief varies between patients.
Since the block is impermanent, the patient will need another injection when symptoms return. The patient may also become a candidate for more complex treatments that quell pain and other symptoms over longer periods.
Lumbar Sympathetic Block Benefits
The lumbar sympathetic block:
- Can provide relief of pain and other symptoms in sympathetically mediated disorders, which are often difficult to treat.
- Can be conducted quickly, on an outpatient basis, due to the minimally invasive nature of the treatment.
- Involves very little, if any, recovery time.
Lumbar Sympathetic Block Risks
Since a lumbar sympathetic block is a minimally invasive procedure, it is safer than more invasive interventions such as surgery. However, even minimally invasive procedures can produce complications. Some of the reported complications associated with this procedure include:
- Damage to surrounding tissues, such as blood vessels and spinal membranes.
- Temporary tenderness around the injection site.
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To help bring fans back into the stadiums to watch matches the Premier League is looking at “clinical passports”, says Richard Masters, chief executive.
In June the English top-flight restarted without supporters, because of the coronavirus pandemic, to complete the 2019-20 season.
Masters, writing in The Times, said the Premier League is “willing to see how we can support the development of ‘clinical passports’ – an app-based system that looks at all the symptoms and other contributing factors for Covid-19.”
The season 2020–21 is scheduled to begin on September 12.
Professor James Calder chaired the cross-sport working group on the entry to sport with government and health officials.
He lately told BBC Sport that this year’s sporting events are extremely dubious to have large crowds.
He added if chanting proves to increase the risk of transmission crowd sizes could be further impacted and the whole of England’s next football season could be played in front of reduced capacities.
Masters said the Premier League had a club working group liaising with the Sports Grounds Safety Authority and medical experts looking for “practical solutions” for supporters coming back.
He added that there was also a “wide-range fan consultation” and their attendance at games would help to “boost the economic viability of the game as a whole in these challenging times.”
“We’re ready to help lead football through tests of what’s possible, investing in technology and best practice steps to reduce risk and make it sustainable for fans to return to the grounds,” Masters said.
“Test and trace will provide crucial support to get fans back to the stands. We’ll urge supporters to be responsible and participate with this program to help make football environments as safe as possible.”
“We are considering all areas of a match day, from ticketing solutions, configuration of stadium seating allocation and timed entries, to temperature checks and in-seat food and drink service for fans.”
“We will work with local authorities and clubs to find solutions to local transport challenges such as the introduction of additional parking spaces and secure bicycle spaces and the implementation of park-and-walk systems.”
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National parks are made to secure the Earth’s most assorted environments, enchanted scenes, and unimaginable untamed life.
There are a lot of approaches to explore these charming natural environments. Below is a list of some of the best National packs around the world.
1. Serengeti National Park
This is undoubtedly the most renowned national park in the world. It is situated in northern Tanzania with part of it falling into Kenya’s Maasai Mara. The Serengeti signifies ‘Unlimited Plains’ and it is quite possibly the most fascinating wildlife scene on Earth. It’s generally celebrated for being the world most popular national park where a host of animals migrate to looking for water and new grass.
2. Yellowstone National Park
The area has a huge number of mud pots and underground aquifers, and this makes the Yellowstone National Park appear to be strangely powerful. It is situated on the biggest volcano ever discovered, and it was set up in 1872. It was the first national park on the planet, made to secure the recreation centre’s entrancing wildlife and shocking characteristic excellence. Part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the recreation centre is wildlife watching heaven. There are dim wolves, wild bears, and mountain bears.
3. Galapagos National Park
This part is found off the coast of Ecuador. Galápagos National Park is quite possibly the most naturally different puts on earth. Established in 1959, it is Ecuador’s most established national park. It covers 97% of the Galapagos island archipelago, with the excess 3% home to possessed islands. The recreation centre has an absolutely extraordinary biological system. There are animals, plants, and fish here that can’t be found elsewhere on Earth. It’s the lone spot where penguins exist in the Northern Hemisphere, and there are honestly a lot a greater number of iguanas than there are individuals. The Galapagos even has its own types of turtles, penguins, and reptiles. It isn’t only the wildlife that is protected as the waters are also secured and they are secured by the Galapagos Marine Reserve, and it incorporates the remarkable marine life like the Galapagos green ocean turtle, Galapagos ocean lion, and Galapagos marine iguana. The most ideal approach to explore the recreation centre both ashore and off is with a journey around the islands.
4. Banff National Park
Settled inside the Alberta Rockies district in Canada, Banff National Park is effectively quite possibly the most beautiful scenery on Earth. Tucked inside snow-tipped mountain tops and forested inclines, there are two high towns that make incredible bases for the recreation centre. in particular Banff and Lake Louise. Aside from these two areas of human civilization, the remainder of the recreation centre is generally immaculate, and the ideal spot to spot natural life undisturbed. Bighorn sheep, moose, mountain lions, wolves, and dark or wild bears call the mountains home.
5. Iguazu National Park
Situated on the boundary of Argentina and Brazil, Iguazú National Park is home to quite possibly the most renowned regular attractions on earth, Iguazu Falls. With a name that signifies ‘Extraordinary Water,’ this colossal and roaring arrangement of crescent cascades empties over into the two nations. There is something else entirely to the recreation centre than basically the delightful cascade. Iguazú additionally incorporates a part of the Atlantic Forest that is home to 2,000 types of plants and 400 types of birds. For the individuals who wish to explore the recreation centre by walking, there are freedoms to recognize some wild cats like ocelots and panthers, howler monkeys, goliath insect-eating animals, and surprisingly the uncommon wide snouted Caiman.
6. Fiordland National Park
7. Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park is South Africa’s leading park. It is an epic spot to recognize the Big Five in their normal environment. Panthers, lions, elephants, rhinos, and wild ox can be found at this park. It shares borders with Mozambique and Zimbabwe, the recreation centre covers 14 diverse ecozones, each giving a home to various wildlife. The banks of the Sabie and Crocodile streams in the southern part of the recreation centre are an extraordinary spot for wildlife watching, while the northern ranges are ideal for bird watching. Masorini, a reestablished Iron Age town, is another feature in the recreation centre.
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1. Will density.coffee help me with dialing in espresso?
Density.coffee will definitely help if you commit to this program.
Its works best if you keep a record of your grind settings at each density. With experience you can then fairly accurately predict what grind setting will be required for a given density. It’s linear so you only need a few points to generate the line.
The more you use it, the more you will find it gets it right pretty much first time 95% of the time. Dialing in almost becomes a thing of the past.
Because density.coffee varies all your tools of ratio, dose, yield, temp, time, grind, pressure relative to the density, it means there is less reliance on grind changes alone. You may find the range of grind settings that you commonly use reduces.
Density.coffee also gives you a really powerful tool for the challening 5%. Those difficult coffees where it’s stubbornly sour by using addition or bitter by using subtraction. You can do subtle shifts 0.1 to really big shifts 0.4.
That pulls all your levers of ratio, dose, yield, temp, time, grind, pressure in unison, making it really effective.
Density.coffee also gives you a view on what’s going on with your aging. When you should probably wait before trying, how long it’s good for, and guidance on storage.
A lot of coffee is being made with no regard to extraction changes required for different Roast Levels. Consequently most coffee is consumed more bitter or sour than it could be. Sugar and milk mask the problems, and people just get used to it. When you can find the sweet spot at every roast level, you can be surprised that you enjoy a wider spectrum of roast levels. If you think you don’t really like dark roasts or light roasts, maybe you just haven’t experienced a sweet one yet.
There are so many advantages to had from measuring density.
Measuring density helps you make the best you can from the coffee you have.
A good quality 100ml cylinder is still really cheap, there is little reason not to give it a go.
2. Where can I get a 100ml Cylinder?
Measuring Cylinder, 100ml – Class A, Tolerance: ±0.50ml – Borosilicate Glass, Blue Graduations – Round Base – Eisco Labs: Science Lab Cylinders: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific
3. Density coffee assumes all coffee beans are a roughly average size, meaning blends and pretty common outliers pea berry, hard African beans or massive Pacamara wouldn’t necessarily fit the model or pack the same way.
Correct. Actually an earlier version of density.coffee included counting the number of beans in the 100mls, to factor in bean size variation. But it was found 95% of the readings resulted in marginal recipe change. Only 5% of the results delivered a significant benefit. The time taken to count the beans significantly degraded the user experience to the point of being completely off putting. In addition, with experience you can use your eyes, and expect that small beans will behave like a darker roast, they will have been roasted more thoroughly, so subtracting 0.20 from the measured density (extracting less) could improve results. Very large beans behave as if they are a lighter roast. They tend not to have roasted to the same extent all the way through, so adding 0.2 (extracting more) could improve results.
4. I’m almost as against volume based measurements as James Hoffman
When it comes to measuring your espresso YEILD, volume is a terrible method compared to using weight.
However, when it comes to measuring DENSITY of a substance, it is its mass per unit volume. You need both tools, volume and weight.
You have to use the right tools for the job. Trying to use one tool alone for every job, would be like a Builder using a hammer to grind coffee.
5. I’m not sure this will get it right any faster than weighing out 18g eyeballing.
Good to hear you don’t advocate eyeballing 18g and are at least using scales.
Likewise, a 150 point density measurement is guaranteed to give you better results 99% of the time than your eyeballs for the Roast level.
6. Is measuring density really the magic bullet?
Before you were blind, now you can see.
Using a fixed 1:2 or 1:3 ratio recipe, fixed 93c temp, fixed dose, for every roast level of coffee, and relying on grind adjustments alone is worse than playing blind man’s bluff. It limits usable roast ranges to different methods.
For a very light roast on espresso that really requires beyond 1:4 ratio, a fixed recipe simply hasn’t used enough solvent water to get to the sugars. No amount of grinding finer will help, and the coffee will be sour. This results in preventing consumers using espresso method for light roasts, relegating many coffees to filter methods alone.
By only using espresso for mid to dark roasts espresso consumers miss out on many wonderful taste experiences.
For a very dark roast on espresso that really requires a 1:1 ratio and a much lower temperature, the fixed recipe has used way too much solvent water and heat. It is over extracted, no amount of grinding coarser will help and the coffee will be bitter. Typically dark roast fans use a lot of milk and sugar to cope with the bitterness.
Varying the recipe to one appropriate for the roast level as indicated by the density measurement means every roast level right across the spectrum of very light to very dark, can hit the sweet spot, neither sour or bitter, for all methods. You are no longer limited to what you can use on espresso. It’s liberating and wonderful.
Measuring density is not a silver bullet, but it is a tremendous tool that helps you understand what your coffee needs, and guides you on how to get the best out of it.
7. Since I can measure whole and ground Agtron scores, do I really need the density?
Most home users are not going to have a tool to measure agtron lying around, they are kind of expensive ~$1500 USD for one thing.
They are useful for a roaster, because they already know how the beans bean roasted, they just need to now how far to go, when to stop.
But they are not much use for determining extraction. If you cook a roast at a real high temp, it might be black on the outside, but still tough on the inside. Coffee cooked high and fast will be dark, but still hold a lot of water, be dense and difficult to extract. A piece of meat cook long and low is not going to be black on the outside, but its going to be pull apart tender. Coffee roasted long and low wont be dark, but it will have lost most of the moisture, be brittle, porous and extract really easy. So colour is not the best tool to use. Measuring density is much better.
8. Measuring density without using displacement seems prone to error. But obviously displacement will destroy the roasted beans. It also looks like you are assuming settled density, not displacement.
You don’t need absolute density by measuring with displacement. What you need to now is relative density. If you have 2 coffees and you measure them both with settled density density, you know where they are relative to each other. If you have already measured thousands of coffees using settled density, you know where your coffee falls on the possible spectrum.
Settled density is the right tool to use, Agtron is not, displacement is not.
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A new study led by Professor Jonathan Rees, NDORMS will look into the benefits of shoulder surgery following first time traumatic dislocation of the shoulder compared to non-operative treatments such as physiotherapy in preventing further problems.
Professor Rees says: "We are delighted to have won this commissioned award from the HTA and look forward to answering this important UK shoulder healthcare question. The results of this study will provide very useful evidence and information to doctors treating this condition and to patients suffering with it."
Traumatic anterior shoulder dislocations are the most common form of joint dislocations seen in hospital A+E departments however there is still debate on the best treatment to take after the first incident.
In this form of dislocation, the humeral head (top end of the arm bone at the shoulder) is forced out of the shoulder socket frontwards. This can happen after sport injuries or falls and is most common in younger patients. The injury is very painful and the shoulder often stays dislocated until it is reduced or put back in hospital.
In addition to causing a lot of pain, stress and disability, this type of injury often causes the joint to remain unstable and more dislocations can occur. Due to the risk of further dislocations, surgery has become more common as a treatment, but it is still not known which patients are best treated with physiotherapy and which patients are best treated first with surgery.
The UK TASH-D (Treatment of first-time traumatic Anterior SHoulder Dislocation) team will be using information that is already available within the NHS on young patients aged 16-35 years who suffer with traumatic shoulder dislocations to determine whether shoulder surgery is better than non-operative treatments.
The study will also identify risk factors for re-dislocation such as occupation or sport that may influence the type of treatment.
UK TASH-D is funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme, with HTA Project Reference 14/160/01.
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By the end of this unit you should be able to:
understand the value of ‘commons’ or ‘free’ resources in facilitating innovation and creativity;
understand some of the key influences in policymaking on intellectual property and technology;
understand Lawrence Lessig's model of constraints on behaviour;
understand Yochai Benkler's ‘three layers’ model of the internet;
be able to critically analyse the material you read.
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Science supports responsible high-capacity well use
When it comes to water, farmers are passionate. Water is essential to growing crops. Preserving the ability to use water for future farming generations is just part of being a farmer.
Wisconsin is fortunate to enjoy an abundant supply for drinking, growing crops, nourishing livestock, manufacturing products and recreation.
So, when someone announces that our beautiful lakes, rivers and streams are drying up — and that there are no controls — we take notice.
And, when that someone blames those who rely on high-capacity wells, we cry foul.
There are “environmental activists,” and there are also “active environmentalists."
Farmers are the latter. They work on their land. They live on their land and they raise families on their land. They know full well that depleting the aquifer will threaten their livelihoods, their families’ future and Wisconsin’s wonderful natural resources.
A recent guest column published by Gannett Wisconsin Media titled, “Our groundwater needs stronger protections,” falsely, unfairly and irresponsibly characterizes the use of groundwater in the state and the regulation of that use.
The writers demanded more regulation over the use of these wells, claiming that the wells are being over-pumped — but they provided no evidence to back it up. They particularly targeted the Central Sands region in central Wisconsin where vegetable growers have a long and storied history of responsible food production and environmental stewardship.
Sandy glacial soils and the easily accessible aquifer make Central Sands ideal for growing vegetables.
With an average annual rainfall of 32 inches, the aquifer in the 1.75 million acre region is replenished with 1.5 trillion gallons of water each year. That keeps groundwater levels constant, with only minor fluctuations.
In Portage County, for example, a recent study found the same or higher levels of groundwater in wells drilled a half century ago.
Vegetable growers play a vital role in maintaining those levels. They use state-of-the-art equipment and techniques to conserve water when irrigating. Innovative technologies such as soil moisture sensors, continuous monitoring of irrigation equipment and off-peak watering to avoid evaporation ensure that water is conserved.
They also invest hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in research related to water conservation and work closely with the University of Wisconsin on innovations in areas such as root depth, landscape design and crop rotations that will guarantee ample groundwater and bountiful harvests in the future.
Today, farmers in the Central Sands grow 95 percent of the potatoes they did a decade ago on 20 percent fewer acres, which means that they have reduced water use by 25 percent in just 10 years.
Those efforts are a major reason why Wisconsin ranks first in the production of green beans, second in carrots and third in potatoes, sweet corn and peas, contributing greatly to the state’s diverse and vibrant $88 billion agricultural economy.
We agree that lawmakers need to act — but not with new, stifling regulations. We need legislation that provides the Department of Natural Resources staff with scientifically sound guidelines for approving new wells.
A current backlog of permit applications has left Wisconsin at a dangerous standstill that threatens massive investment in communities across the state, vital food supplies and an important piece of our heritage.
This is not a choice between family-supporting jobs and the environment. When we base our regulatory decisions on science, both can thrive.
Farmers are passionate about growing safe, nutritious food. We are equally passionate about protecting Wisconsin’s water.
We have proven our commitment time and again and will continue to do so.
Andy Wallendal is president of the Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association. Gordon Speirs is president of the Dairy Business Association.
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Date of Award
Honors College Thesis
Mohamed Elasri, Ph.D
The msaABCR operon regulates virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus, a Gram-positive commensal organism that colonizes healthy individuals but can also be a human pathogen. These virulence factors include biofilm development, pigmentation, and extracellular protease production. The operon consists of the msaB gene, which produces a coding transcript, the msaA gene and the msaC gene, which produce noncoding RNAs, and msaR, which produces an antisense RNA. The latter three transcript regions of the operon are referred to as untranslated regions (UTRs) and are essential for the function of the operon, but only msaB encodes a protein. The mechanism of regulation by which these individual genes from the operon contribute to MsaB production and regulate virulence factors is still unknown. The purpose of this study is to find the region of the msaABCR transcript that is required to regulate virulence factors. Truncated complement constructs were made with altered versions of the 5’ msaA region or the 3’ msaC region to determine which sections of the transcript are necessary to produce virulence phenotypes. Various assays were conducted using these constructs to determine the effect of the alterations on biofilm formation, protease production, and pigmentation. This was done by comparing the effects of the constructs to the wild type strain, msaABCR mutant strain, and msaABCR complemented strain. These results could contribute to the discovery of the regulatory mechanisms of the msaABCR operon, which is a critical component in preventing and treating S. aureus infections. The results showed that the 5’UTR (msaA) and 3’ UTR (msaC) region of the operon transcript are required for its full function in regulating virulence and biofilm development in S. aureus. However, we still do not know the exact mechanism by which UTR regions contribute to the regulation and functioning of msaABCR operon and/or MsaB production (Sahukhal & Elasri, 2014).
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Cothern, Cara L., "The effect of truncated complement constructs on biofilm formation, protease production, and pigmentation" (2020). Honors Theses. 716.
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Hampshire College Earns STARS Gold Rating for Sustainability
Hampshire College has earned a STARS Gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), recognizing the College’s sustainability achievements across academics, operations, leadership, and more. Only some 135 colleges and universities worldwide have earned a Gold or Platinum rating, out of more than 800 in 30 countries that have used the STARS tool, the most widely recognized framework for reporting sustainability performance in higher ed.
This year is the first time the College has submitted data for an official STARS rating. In recent years, the College used the system to relay snapshots of information to either the Princeton Review or Sierra magazine. Hampshire’s STARS report is publicly available on the system’s website.
On June 25 – 26, 2018, Hampshire will partner with AASHE and the Living Future Institute as host of the national Net Positive Symposium for Higher Education (visit the event registration site). The event gathers higher ed sustainability staff and faculty to share ideas and innovations and to explore case studies at Hampshire and nearby colleges of the Living Building Challenge and the Living Community Challenge and their approach to resiliency, health, innovation, and equity.
Since 2011, Hampshire has been focused on transforming its operations, curriculum, food systems, and culture to achieve sustainability. Building on its decades-long practice of environmental science, studies, and stewardship, the College has been steadily achieving its goals. In addition to earning the Gold STAR rating, Hampshire today is
- on track to supply 100 percent of its electricity, on an annualized basis, using on-campus photovoltaic systems, which are rated at 4.9 megawatts DC output
- fully divested from fossil fuels
- promoting sustainable design as the home of higher education’s largest certified Living Building, the R.W. Kern Center (watch the video A Living Laboratory: The R.W. Kern Center)
- increasing the use of its farm and local sources to supply campus food
- operating more efficiently after establishing a Sustainable Revolving Fund to increase investment in and implement energy-saving renovations
- reducing emissions and saving money by returning mowed lawns to natural meadows
- moving closer to achieving the goal of its Climate Action Plan, which is to make the campus climate neutral by 2022
After Hampshire submitted the data that earned its STARS Gold rating, it entered into partnership with four other New England colleges on the purchase of renewable energy from a future solar-power facility in Maine. The new collaboration will enable Hampshire to power its 15 off-campus properties using solar energy and to supplement its on-campus solar-power systems.
“This is the challenge facing our students as they reshape the workforce in the next 20 years: how to turn the U.S. economy into a low-carbon economy,” said Jonathan Lash, who is retiring as president of the College in June. “It may seem like a distant challenge, but for our students, it’s very real and immediate. Spending so much time on campus, they learn not only from what we teach, but also from how we choose to live.”
Unlike other rating or ranking systems, the STARS program is open to all institutions of higher education, and the criteria that determine a rating are accessible to anyone. This year’s submission by Hampshire was organized at the College by Steve Roof, Dane Olson, Todd Holland, Ed Melia, Carl Weber, Marge Dunehew, Joe Anderson, and David Gibson.
Reports from all participating colleges and universities worldwide can be found at https://stars.aashe.org/institutions/participants-and-reports/?sort=rating.
AASHE is an association of colleges and universities that are working to create a sustainable future. For more information, visit www.aashe.org.
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All children are intrinsically motivated learners and constructors of knowledge. All children can develop a deep sense of empathy and compassion for others. The IDEA School promotes these qualities and helps our students build upon them, for the benefit of themselves, their families, our community, and the world. The IDEA School models community expectations and community-based solutions. They hold each other accountable and understand the natural consequences of their choices. The adults at the IDEA School hold ourselves to this same standard, and model this level of accountability for the kids in everything we do. Educators don’t give false praise, but rather, descriptive feedback. There is not just one path to success at our school. The IDEA School is very clear: there are a number of ways to contribute to the community and to express ideas and expertise.
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By Cynthia Becker
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Men typically wear white clothing in the Ait Atta–dominated town of Tinghir. Photo courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, 1930–1959. Smithsonian Institution/04068800. 21. An Ait Khabbash man. Photo by Jean Besancenot, 1934–1939. Image courtesy of the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris. The woman felt that her son was not showing her the level of respect that she deserved by wearing clothing she considered inappropriate, and she admitted that she preferred men to wear the tajellabiyt of the past.
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I went until the other side of the river, and the rain made me come back. Oh God, the bride looks like the moon taking water to the community where she is going. The telγunja ceremony clearly connects women, especially newly married women, to fertility. The colors used in women’s textiles, those worn by the bride during the actual wedding, and those worn by ‘‘the bride of the rain’’ suggest a connection between the fertility of the land and the fertility of women, celebrating a woman’s reproductive power.
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Från automatisk uppräkning till automatiska avdrag
Finansieringsmodeller för högre utbildning 1958–2021
From automatic enumeration to automatic deduction. Financial models for higher education 1958–2021
The purpose of the article is to examine financial models for higher education. The economic governance of universities during different time periods is an underexplored area. Three models have been tested in Sweden: “universitetsautomatiken” (1958–1976), “sektorsanslag” (1977–1992) and “grundbulten” (1993–). The models are described, compared and related to overarching savings models for central government administration. During the first financial model, which was particularly generous, there were no such savings models. However, the less generous funding models implemented after the structural crisis in the mid-1970s interacted with increasingly severer saving models that makes annual deduction of appropriations: “tvåprocentaren” (1978–1992) and “produktivitetsavdraget” (1993–). A mechanism for resource erosion has been built into the financing system since 1977 according to the main result of the study.
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Molise is divided into two provinces, Campobasso and Isernia, and although there are cities and some industry, it remains to this day a mostly agricultural part of Italy.
In this exciting part of the country, you can explore a part of Italy that is virtually devoid of mass tourism. You can discover delightful flavors and homemade pastas, pickled vegetables, different types of cured meats, and caciocavallo cheeses. Go for a horseback ride, take a long hike, or visit the region’s national parks.
This culinary vacation is a true farm-to-table experience, including a six-night stay on a family farm in Molise. Your hosts will give you a warm welcome as they share this undiscovered corner of Italy with you. Discover the ancient perched villages, the stunning coastline, the “tratturi,” or centuries-old shepherd’s paths that bisect the countryside. Taste the local pastas, cheeses, and wines, and enjoy a unique and intimate culinary tour of Italy.
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THE CLERGY-MAN’S VADE MECUM: Or, and Account of the Antient and Present Church of England; The Duties and Rights of the Clergy; and of Their Privileges and Hardships. Containing Full Directions relating to Ordination, Institution, Induction, and most of the Difficulties which they commonly meet with in the Discharge of their Office. The Second Edition, with large Additions.
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Silk, as one of the most expensive fabrics in the world like cashmere. It often appears in major fashion shows and is loved by fashion brands.
But when shopping for a dress, a scarf, a bed quilt set, and compare the price of silk with the price of other fabrics like pure cotton, people cannot fail to notice to notice that silk is much more expensive. As a natural fabric, why is silk so expensive?
1. The Complexity of Silk Production
Compared with the production process of other natural fabrics, it needs more production process, it requires more manpower, and the output is relatively small.
The production process of silk mainly includes five processes: sericulture, silk reeling, weaving, printing or dyeing, and sewing.
Silkworms must go through three developmental stages: egg, larva, and pupa before they can be used for silk production. Under normal breeding conditions, it takes 20 to 28 days from hatch to spin silk, and another 3 days to form cocoon, and then 1 to 2 days to pupate, the whole process takes about 30 days.
Silk is extracted from the cocoons and becomes the raw material for weaving silk. A silkworm cocoon can extract about 1000 meters of silk thread, and several silk threads are combined into raw silk. The process of extracting silk from silkworm cocoons is generally called silk reeling, and the production process of silk reeling also includes cocoon coat reeling (cocoon coat is a layer of loose silk thread on the periphery of cocoons. This part needs to be removed in advance), select the cocoon (select the cocoon of good quality), cook the cocoon (separate the silk from the silkworm cocoon).
After processing, raw silk is divided into warp and weft, and is interwoven according to certain organizational rules to form silk fabric, which is the weaving process. The weaving process also includes winding (rolling up the silk), spinning (combining a single silk thread into multiple strands), twisting (processing the combined strands into threads with the desired twist direction and twist) and etc... In total, about ten processes.
The process mainly includes refining, bleaching, dyeing, printing and finishing of raw silk and fabrics.
If printed or dyed fabrics are to be turned into final silk products such as silk scarves, silk pillowcases, silk pajamas, etc., it also needs to be modeled, cut, sewn, ironed, quality inspected, and packaged.
A silk product, from raising silkworms to silk fabrics, dyeing and printing to cutting and sewing, if you count them carefully, there are no less than 30 processes.
The complexity of these craftsmanship and the hard work of the workers make the price of silk even higher! In addition to silk fabric requires so many complicated processes, there are many processes included (hand-painting, embroidery, etc.) ... The price can be imagined.
2. The Scarcity of Silk
The most common 20/22D silk produced by silk reeling is a combination of silk drawn from 6-8 cocoons, but the combined thickness is only close to our hair. Use more intuitive data to reflect the preciousness of silk, like making a silk dress, which need (70g/m2) crepe de chine 3.9 square meters, 364 grams of raw silk, 3000 grams of cocoons, 1500 silkworms, and 1800 silkworm eggs. A silk blouse requires (67 grams/m2) 1.7 square meters of silk habotai, 152 grams of raw silk, 1200 grams of silkworm cocoons, 600 silkworms, and 750 silkworm eggs. To make a silk headscarf, (63g/m2) 0.66 square meters of twill silk, 56 grams of raw silk, 460 grams of silkworm cocoons, 240 silkworms, and 290 silkworm eggs are needed.
So, we return to the initial question. Why is mulberry silk so expensive?
Well as you can see, producing the silk requires time, labor and it cannot be massively produced.
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A piece of a glacier breaks off in the Dolomites, taking several mountaineers with it on the way down to the valley. At least seven people are killed. The accident is likely to be related to the drought and heat in the country.
(dpa)/pop./cov. The number of victims after the glacier fall on Sunday in the Dolomites has now risen to seven. On Monday, the rescue workers had to rescue another alpinist dead from the Marmolada glacier. On the day of the accident, the authorities had assumed six victims.
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The U.S. Forest Service has released a long-awaited environmental study of a proposed 20-year copper mining moratorium on federal land near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Archaeologists have discovered prehistoric human remains, ceremonial artifacts and possibly the footprint of an ancient dwelling on the site of a planned 75-story residential condo tower in Miami, raising questions about whether the luxury project may face delays and modifications.
In the latest development surrounding PFAS, EPA has published a direct final rule endorsing use of the newly updated ASTM E1527-21 standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (“Phase Is”).
There have been some (more) developments with respect to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Some of the recent developments are potentially very significant.
First established back in 1993, Phase I Environmental Site Assessments have become a ubiquitous component of environmental due diligence supporting most commercial and industrial real estate transactions in the United States.
Real estate professionals are no doubt familiar with the use of Phase I environmental site assessments (Phase I ESAs) in the context of the sale, purchase or lease of real property.
The Biden-Harris administration is quickly establishing new federal environment requirements affecting commercial property owners and managers.
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Tuesday that the release date of the SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA)...
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Home & Health
How to talk to your kids about the coronavirus
The novel coronavirus epidemic is an unsettling, and fear-inducing time for many parents.
As the number of infected cases increases around the globe every day without a vaccine so far, the unpredictable nature of the virus is only making things more uncertain.
But despite the fact that no one has all the answers, there is plenty we can do as parents to help guide our kids in how they can deal with what’s going on around them in a positive way – from the worries they may have about others, to how they can best protect themselves and their loved ones.
According to family GP Dr Maria Boulton – who is a mum of two and an Australian Medical Association of Queensland council member – it’s important to keep kids informed and prepared but not alarmed.
These are her top tips on how to talk to your kids about what’s going on:
Be your child’s source of information
There is so much out there through the media and social media that I’m sure kids have heard about it and may already be anxious. Rather than wait for your child to make up the story in their head, ask them what their concerns are and get to the nitty gritty of what’s bothering them.
It might be they’ve had a school event or a family holiday cancelled and it’s left them with a lot of worries. Ask what they’ve heard already and acknowledge their feelings, not dismiss them.
If you don’t have the answers to their questions, be honest and say you’ll try to find out, or that it may be something that nobody knows yet.
It may be necessary to limit the sources of news in the household and discuss what’s happening with your partner when the kids are not present.
Stick to the facts
The media is reporting a lot of false information, so try to be well informed yourself so you can give your kids the proper facts. These can be found on the Queensland Health website and AMA Queensland Facebook page.
The coronavirus is called that because when it’s seen through a microscope, it sort of looks like a crown – and “corona” means crown in Latin. It’s reported as the novel (meaning new) coronavirus because it’s a strain that hasn’t been seen before and once scientists figured out what it was, it was named SARS-CoV-2. When someone gets sick from the virus, it’s called COVID-19.
As of March, 4, 2020, Australia is reported to have 33 cases of COVID-19 and there are 82,000 cases in the world so far.
Let your kids know that just because one person reacted one way to it, that’s not the case for others. Everyone’s immune system will fight it off differently. They might get a fever, cough, sore throat, fatigue or shortness of breath.
Your local doctor is also a great source of information, so check their social media page for updates.
Don’t discuss coronavirus with all your kids at once
Each child will be able to handle this type of information in different ways. One of my children is a little younger than the other and a little more anxious, so I’ll be sharing different information than what I would with the other child, so it’s important to tailor it.
Model how to be prepared
Novel coronavirus spreads between people, usually when a sick person coughs or sneezes, so washing your hands with soap for 20 seconds is the best protection. Do it in front of your kids and use antibacterial gel if you have it.
It’s also helpful to let them know that it’s safest for the time being not to hug others, to always cough or sneeze into their elbow, try not to touch their own faces, and not share anything that their mouths will touch such as water bottles and eating utensils.
Tired people get sick, so make sure the family is getting adequate sleep and nutrition.
Being prepared may also mean stocking up on the medication and must-have items like baby formula that your family needs – this will reassure kids that you have things under control, and that it’s not about panicking.
If they are forced to remain home from childcare or school due to quarantine, have some activities ready to go so that they aren’t so bored at home without their friends.
Keep calm and reassure them
Kids take cues from what we do, so if you’re anxious in front of them, it’ll make them anxious. Don’t forget to mention to your child that you’re all okay, and that grandparents and friends are okay and that you are prepared. Let them know you are always there for them no matter what if something is worrying them.
Don’t focus on the worst-case scenario
We don’t know where all this is going. The main thing is just to keep up with the information provided by the medical community and be confident with your kids that you will protect them as best you can.
At the same time, no one is perfect and it’s okay for them to see you crying. If you are in a panic, debrief with your kids and say, “I was worried, but now I’m okay and can move on.”
If you have concerns, call 13 HEALTH.
If your child feels worried and needs someone to talk to, remind them about Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800. Available for kids to call anytime and for any reason.
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Building education-industry partnerships that strengthen schools and communities
The Kenan Fellows Program for Teacher Leadership connects outstanding educators with mentors in local industry and business settings, creating opportunities that build meaningful relationships and help students understand how the concepts they learn in school apply in the workplace. Mentor companies provide an exciting professional development opportunity for local educators that take them behind-the-scenes in their companies and bridge STEM at work with STEM principles in the classroom.
Classroom to Career Connections
Kenan Fellows are high-performing K-12 educators who spend three weeks with their mentor company in a summer internship. Mentor companies select their fellow/s from a pool of qualified teachers following a competitive application process.
The full fellowship lasts one year, includes 80 hours of leadership-building professional development, and a capstone project based on the fellow’s internship experience. The capstone project is developed and implemented during the school year. Mentors are encouraged to visit fellows in their classrooms and to invite students to tour their facilities virtually or in-person.
It is so important for educators to have the information to teach students about agriculture, as the general public is many generations removed from the farm. Agriculture is our lifeblood, and through this partnership, educators get a front row seat to the agriculture in their county.Kenan Fellows Mentor Heather Willoughby, NC Farm Bureau Ag in the Classroom
500 + Fellows over 20 years
Capstone projects delivered by Kenan Fellows include STEM-based and other project-based learning curricula, community engagement initiatives, STEM outreach, and professional development and cross-curricular resources for schools and business partners.
Alumni serve in senior-level leadership positions in schools, nonprofits, and higher education across the state and nation.
Industry and foundation partners invest in Kenan Fellows because:
- NC ranks 23rd in science, engineering, and tech employment
- 100% high or extremely high student engagement in KFP lessons reported
- Alumni deliver 45 hours of professional development per year on average
- About 95% of Kenan Fellows remain in education five years after completing the fellowship
Ready to Partner?
Business and industry partners have the opportunity to participate in the yearlong fellowship program and/or become a STEMwork site host partner. Some companies have elected to do both.
To learn more about education-industry partnership opportunities contact, Darrell Kain at firstname.lastname@example.org.
“My internship at Eaton Corporation allowed me to examine the production of hydraulic hoses from formation to sales, and much more. At each stage of the process, I was able to interview a range of employees and gain insight into the skills that workers need. As an educator, I hope to better prepare students for the transition from school to work.”Kenan Fellow Jennifer Allsbrook
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The summer holidays are in full swing and finding ways to fill the time are surely high on every parent’s priorities. So at The Big Issue we’ve teamed up with science teacher and writer Alom Shaha as part of our Summer Survival Guide, helping parents across the country find cheap or free ways to have fun, cut costs and keep their little ones happy.
If there’s one thing most kids love it’s making lots of noise. So this week Mr Shaha shows us how to make a handy harmonica out of little more than ice-lolly sticks and rubber bands. (Top tip: damp toilet paper stuffed in your ears make great earplugs!)
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Make Mr Shaha’s handy harmonica
“According to NASA, the first musical instruments ever taken into space were a harmonica and some jingle bells,” says Mr Shaha. “Astronauts Walter Schirra and Tom Stafford smuggled the instruments on board the Gemini VI spacecraft in December 1965 and used them to play a surprise rendition of the Christmas song ‘Jingle Bells’ for a radio transmission back to Earth.
“You might not get the chance to take this home-made harmonica into space, but with a bit of practice, you might be able to play a song or two to surprise your friends and family.”
Ready? Here’s what you’ll need:
- 2 wooden ice-lolly sticks (clean and dry)
- 1 wide rubber band
- 4 small rubber bands
- 1 piece of scrap paper
Once you’ve got all the bits and bobs together, follow these directions to make your harmonica. And if you get stuck you can watch the video allow to help you along.
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How to Make a Rekenrek
Recently we shared a post called, 8 Ways to Make a Rekenrek. At the end of the post, we shared our own version of a rekenrek. (See photo below) In this post, we will share how we made it!
jumbo popsicle sticks
Hot glue 4 jumbo popsicle sticks together in a square.
Hot glue two pipe cleaners to the back on one side. I used white, but you choose the color you like.
Add 5 white and 5 red beads to each pipe cleaner.
Hot glue the other end of the pipe cleaner to the back side of the wood frame.
Cut off the excess pipe cleaner.
Now the rekenrek is complete and ready to use with your students!
I also created a similar rekenrek using woodsies.
I created this rekenrek exactly the same way as above.
The difference is that I wrapped the pipe cleaners around the woodsies instead of hot gluing them.
This version works fine, but is not quite as sturdy as the one using the jumbo craft sticks.
So, here are two simple versions of a rekenrek you can use at home or at school.
Looking for other ways to make a rekenrek?
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AFTER SCHOOL LINK UP
We took the summer off from the After School Linky, but we are back with tons of new ideas to support your children after the school day is done.
The After School Link Up is a great place to share ideas and to find new ideas to do with your children after school or in your homeschool. The After School Link Up goes live every Monday. So, if you are a blogger, an educator or just some one looking for some good ideas, be sure to stop by Boy Mama Teacher Mama (or the other co-hosts) on Mondays and see what others have to share.
We would love to have you link up your School-Age Post (Ages 5 and up) about your learning week after school including Crafts, Activities, Playtime and Adventures that you are doing to enrich your children’s lives after their day at school, homeschool or on the weekend! When linking up, please take a moment to comment on at least one post linked up before yours! By linking up you’re giving permission for us to share on our After School Pinterest Board or Feature on our After School Party in the upcoming weeks!
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The loom of antimicrobial resistance is a well-publicised crisis, one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity, with 10 million deaths per year predicted by 2050; equating to 1 death per 3 seconds – more than current cancer mortality. Thus, highlighting the desperate need to produce new antimicrobial medicines that can impact drug resistance, improve human health, and save lives.
A recently discovered antimicrobial called yanuthone (structurally different to most existing antibiotics) has been found to be effective against the superbug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and other human disease-causing pathogens. The production of the yanuthone antimicrobial occurs naturally in a common fungus and involves a pathway of several enzymes (nature’s catalysts) that build the drug in a stepwise manner from a central core, adding on constituents that give the antibiotic its unique properties. The characterization of several of these enzymes with allowing their engineering to change the way they construct the antimicrobials and produce new derivatives
This PhD project involves the initial biochemical characterisation and subsequent engineering of proteins involved in the latter stages of yanuthone production, aiming to produce new yanuthone derivatives with enhanced antimicrobial activity.
Please feel free to contact me directly [Email Address Removed] if you would like more information.
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Brilliant failed old man sons young man tells him he's clever but the child... Why bother if genius didn't help his hero failure and disappointment ultimate destroyers of families of respect of self- respect His work in graduate school lands him promising job that disappoints with its soullessness even at top of his game he couldn't who was he kidding, right You've got all the givens, they said his old woman over and over again, but the givens hadn't done squat for old man and hadn't done anything for him quite the opposite Disappointment follows hope follows disappointment follows same dirt road to hell that old man and his old man went down over and over again Every pebble sparkles, paved with good intentions and such love love of fairytale aspirations but they cut and tear his feet and he's ready to reach... The jagged rocks lacerate their soles but they keep on like broken Terminators from old man's favorite Schwarzenegger movie pushing forward until their feet wear down to bones break off, followed by their shattered ankles, shins, knees they crawl onward destroyed unable to stop because of young... To instill hope in children who watch their old men fail and fall, one after the next after a certain point, he merely wants to keep his misery at bay, to die not entirely destroyed by... Lives reformatted and reedited like Microsoft Word documents on shared network drives results of many monkeys' screeches hundreds of monkeys at laptops clacking away until banana time arrives and old man tells him to brush his teeth before bedtime Screw the miserable givens, without which he could have avoided blasted expectations that tore holes through his spirit left spirits frustrated long after... What a way to go; but really why not keep muck contained sloshing inside until his old man's body decomposes
d’Verse poetics prompt: Fractals
This free verse poem was written in response to today’s d’Verse poetics prompt.
Let’s write poetry together!
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.–Ben Harper (b. 1969)
Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!
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HIPAA was developed many years prior to social media networks such as Facebook being launched, so there are no specific HIPAA social media rules; however, there are HIPAA laws and standards that apply to social media use by healthcare groups and their staff. Healthcare groups must therefore put in place a HIPAA social media policy to lessen the risk of privacy violations.
There are many advantages to be obtained from using social media. Social media channels permit healthcare groups to interact with patients and get them more involved in their own healthcare. Healthcare groups can quickly and easily communicate important messages or supply information about new services. Healthcare providers can gain new patients using social media websites. However, there is also considerable possibilities for HIPAA Rules and patient privacy to be breached on social media networks. So how can healthcare groups and their employees use social media without breaching HIPAA Rules?
Social Media and HIPAA
The first rule of using social media in the healthcare sector is to never share protected health information on social media platforms. The second rule is to never share protected health information on social media. (see the definition of protected health information for further advice).
The HIPAA Privacy Rule outlaws using of PHI on social media platforms. That includes any text about specific patients including images or videos that could lead to a patient being identified. PHI can only be used in social media posts if a patient has provided their consent, in writing, to permit their PHI to be used and then only for the aim specifically mentioned in the consent form.
Social media channels can be used for posting health tips, details of events, new medical research, bios of staff, and for marketing messages, provided no PHI is included in the posts.
Staff Must be Trained on HIPAA Social Media Rules
During 2017, 71% of all Internet users logged on to social media websites. The popularity of social media networks along with the ease of sharing information means HIPAA training should include the use of social media. If staff are not specifically trained on HIPAA social media rules it is highly likely that violations will happen.
Training on HIPAA should be given prior to an employee starting work for the company or as soon as is possible following appointment. Refresher training should also be conducted at least once a year to ensure HIPAA social media rules are not forgotten.
HIPAA Breached on Social Media
In 2015, ProPublica released the results of an investigation into HIPAA social media violations by nurses and care home professionals. The investigation primarily focused on photographs and videos of patients in compromising positions and patients being abused.
In some instances, images and videos were widely shared, in others photographs and videos were shared only in private groups. ProPublica found 47 HIPAA breaches on social media since 2012, although there were undoubtedly many more that were not found and were never reported.
In most instances, the HIPAA violations on social media lead to disciplinary action against the employees concerned, there were several terminations for violations of patient privacy, and in some cases, the violations lead to criminal charges. A nursing assistant who shared a video of a patient in underwear on Snapchat was fired and served 30 days in prison.
It is not only workers can be penalised for breaching HIPAA Rules. There are also hash penalties for HIPAA violations for healthcare suppliers.
Typical Social Media HIPAA Breaches
- Publishing of images and videos of patients without written consent
- Sharing of gossip about patients
- Publishing of any information that could allow an individual to be identified
- Posting of photographs or images taken inside a healthcare facility in which patients or PHI are visible
- Posting of photos, videos, or text on social media platforms within a private group
Guidelines for HIPAA and Social Media
Detailed below are some basic HIPAA social media guidelines to adhere to in your organization, along with to further information to help ensure compliance with HIPAA Rules.
- Set up clear policies covering social media use and ensure all staff are aware of how HIPAA relates to social media platforms
- Show all staff what acceptable social media use is as part of HIPAA training and conduct refresher training sessions yearly
- Give examples to staff on what is acceptable – and what is not – to enhance understanding
- Share the possible penalties for social media HIPAA violations – sacking, loss of license, and criminal penalties
- make sure all new uses of social media sites are given the ok by your compliance department
- Look over and update your policies on social media yearly
- Put in place policies and procedures on use of social media for marketing, including standardizing how marketing happens on social media accounts
- Set up a policy that requires personal and corporate accounts to be totally different
- Design a policy that means all social media posts must to be approved by your legal or compliance department prior to publishing
- Review your organization’s social media accounts and communications and implement controls that can flag potential HIPAA breaches
- Keep a record of social media posts using your organization’s official accounts that saves posts, edits, and the format of social media messages
- Do not engage in social media discussions with patients who have shared PHI on social media.
- Ask employees to report any potential HIPAA violations
- make sure social media accounts are included in your group’s risk assessments
- Make sure appropriate access controls are implemented to stop unauthorized use of corporate social media accounts
- Review all comments made on social media platforms
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released guidance on HIPAA social media regulations, listing the specific aspects of HIPAA that apply to social media platforms. A HIPAA compliance checklist for social media can be viewed on the HHS website.
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Assisted living has emerged as a significant option for older adults seeking long-term care services. Yet a standard, national definition of assisted living has proven elusive. It is defined, in part, by companies and owners through their marketing efforts. It is also defined by state regulations governing the licensing of facilities, and there are wide variations among states in how assisted living is defined and licensed.
While the definition of assisted living varies widely across states, there are several core terms that appear in state definitions. Assisted living is generally viewed as home-like and offers residential units and the availability of supportive and health-related services available to meet scheduled and unscheduled needs, twenty-four hours a day. Assisted living is viewed as the consumer's home, and as such includes the amenities that people generally expect in a residence, including a door that locks, a private bathroom, temperature control, a food preparation area, and the freedom to make choices about the types of services that are available. In addition, twenty-eight states have included a philosophy of assisted living (up from twenty-two states in 1998 and fifteen in 1996). These statements describe assisted living as a model that promotes the independence, dignity, privacy, decision-making, and autonomy of residents, and supports aging in place.
Regulations specifically governing assisted living have grown rapidly. By 2000, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia had a licensing category or statute using the term assisted living, and four other states were in the process of developing such regulations. By contrast, only twenty-two states had such regulations in 1998. However, assisted-living facilities are regulated in the other states under rules that may use other terms, such as residential care facilities or personal care homes.
In 2000, states reported a total of 32,886 licensed facilities with 795,391 units or beds, a 30 percent increase over 1998. However, information was not reported by all states. Assisted living has developed primarily as a private pay market. However, by mid-2000, thirty-eight states covered services in residential settings—under either assisted-living or board-and-care licensing categories—through Medicaid, and coverage was being planned in three other states plus the District of Columbia. While the number of states covering services in residential settings has grown, the number of beneficiaries served remains limited with about 60,000 people served, a 50 percent increase in two years. Over 36 percent of the units (or beds) are located in three states: California (136,719), Florida (77,292), and Pennsylvania (73,075). Since 1998, the number of licensed facilities has soared in Delaware (by 214 percent), Iowa (144 percent), New Jersey (139 percent), and Wisconsin (119 percent). Ten states reported growth in licensed facilities of between 40 percent and 100 percent in the past two years: Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, South Dakota, and Texas.
Within the industry and among state officials, there is often a debate about where assisted living lies on a social-medical continuum. Hawes et al. found that some operators view assisted living as a nonmedical model (without RN staffing) that provides high privacy and low service. Others view it as a high-privacy/high-service model that offers a wide range of services, aging in place, and private units. Over half of all the facilities were considered low-privacy/low-service models that offered shared units and limited health services. The study also pointed out that many in the industry question whether privacy and service level were accurate variables to use in describing assisted living. The report concludes that there is no agreement at the operational level on what constitutes assisted living.
The Hawes report also examined whether facilities support aging in place, the ability to receive additional services as needs change. Fifty-four percent would not retain residents needing transfer assistance, 68 percent would not serve residents needing nursing care, and 55 percent would not retain people with severe cognitive impairment. Twenty-four percent of assisted-living residents received help with three or more activities of daily living (ADLs), compared to 84 percent of nursing-home residents. The authors note that these findings suggest that assisted living may not serve as a substitute for nursing-home care. However, in the absence of assisted living, it is likely that many residents with fewer ADL impairments would seek nursing home placement. The differences in impairment levels between residents of assisted-living facilities and nursing homes may in fact be due to the availability of assisted-living facilities to serve residents with relatively low needs.
Findings from Hawes et al. contrast with those from Mollica which indicate that 87 percent of state licensing agencies feel that assistedliving facilities are providing as high a level of care as allowed by regulation. Anecdotally, licensing-agency staff indicate that some facilities may be serving people longer than they should (based on their staff capacity and training), even though the level of need is consistent with what is allowed by regulation.
The 1999 U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) study of assisted living in four states (California, Florida, Ohio, and Oregon) concluded that these facilities support aging in place. Seventy-five percent of facilities included in the report said that they admitted residents who have mild to moderate memory or judgment problems, are incontinent but can manage on their own or with some help, have a short-term need for nursing care, or need oxygen supplementation. However, this level of care may be limited since it implies that people with severe memory loss who need more than occasional assistance with incontinence or who need nursing services for longer periods would not be served.
Privacy and living units
The size, layout, and shared nature of living units is an issue that often creates conflict in policy development. Older board-and-care rules allow shared rooms, toilets, and bathing facilities. Existing facilities that want to be licensed for assisted living often oppose rules requiring apartment-style units and single occupancy. Some states have grandfathered existing buildings or maintain separate board-and-care categories that allow shared rooms.
Single occupancy apartments or rooms dominate the private market. A 1996 survey of non-profit facilities conducted by the Association of Homes and Services for the Aging found that 76 percent of the units in free-standing facilities and 89 percent of units in multilevel facilities were private (studio, one-, or two-bedroom units). A similar survey by the Assisted Living Federation of America in 2000 found that 87.4 percent of units in ALFA member facilities were studio, one-, or two-bedroom units and 12.6 percent were semiprivate. Hawes et al. found that 73 percent of the units were private and meet the privacy aspect of the philosophy of assisted living, but only 27 percent of the facilities had all private units.
A 1998 survey of assisted-living facilities by the National Investment Conference (NIC) found that cooking appliances were more likely to be available in geographic areas where there was greater competition among facilities. The inclusion of stoves in living units is declining, however, and facilities are more likely to include microwave or toaster ovens in units. The survey also found that 17 percent of residents shared a unit. Fifty-two percent said that they shared their unit for economic reasons, 30.4 percent for companionship, and 14.9 percent because a private unit was not available. Just under 65 percent of those who shared a unit were satisfied with the arrangement, while 35.7 percent would prefer a single unit.
Nationally, consumer demand and competition are more likely than regulatory policy to determine whether studio or apartment-style living units are available. Licensing rules in eleven states and Medicaid-contracting specifications in four states require apartment-style units.
States seeking to facilitate aging in place and to offer consumers more long-term care options allow more extensive services. These states view assisted-living facilities as a person's home. In a single-family home or apartment in an elderly housing complex, older people can receive a high level of care from home health agencies and in-home service programs. Several states extend that level of care to assisted-living facilities.
The extent and intensity of services generally follow state criteria. Services can be provided or arranged that allow residents to remain in a setting. Mutually exclusive resident policies, which prohibit anyone needing a nursing-home level of services from being served in board-and-care facilities, have been replaced by aging-in-place provisions. However, drawing the line has been controversial in many states. In many states, some nursing home operators see assisted living as competition for their patients and oppose rules which allow skilled nursing services to be delivered outside the home or nursing-home setting.
Most states require an assessment and the development of a plan of care that determines what services will be provided, by whom, and when. Residents often have a prominent role in determining what services they will receive and what tasks they will do for themselves. A key factor in assisted-living policies is the extent of skilled nursing services that are allowed.
Hawes et al. found that nearly all facilities (94 percent) provided or arranged for assistance with self-medication; 97 percent assisted with bathing; and 94 percent offered help with dressing. Although nearly all states allow central storage of medications, 88 percent of the facilities provided or arranged this service. Arizona, for example, has three service levels that allow supervisory care services, personal-care services, and directed-care services. Residents in facilities with a supervisory care license may receive health services from home-health agencies. Facilities with a personal-care services license can provide intermittent nursing services and can administer medications. Other health services may be provided by outside agencies. Directed-care service facilities provide supervision to ensure personal safety, cognitive stimulation, and other services for residents who are unable to direct their own care.
One of the innovations of assisted living is the focus on consumer control and decisionmaking. At times, residents express preferences that raise concerns among facility staff. To mediate these differences, eighteen states use a negotiated-risk process to involve residents in care planning and to respect resident preferences that may pose a risk to the resident or other residents. Residents, family members, and staff meet to review issues about which there is disagreement. During this process, the parties define the services that will be provided to the resident with consideration for their preferences. The resulting agreement lists needs and preferences for a range of services and specific areas of activity under each service. To many regulators, negotiated service agreements are part of a philosophy that stresses consumer choice, autonomy, and independence, as opposed to a facility-determined regimen that includes fixed schedules of activities and tasks, which might be more convenient for staff and management. Placing the residents' needs and preferences ahead of the staff and administrators helps turn a "facility" into a home.
Selecting an assisted-living facility
Choosing a facility can be time-consuming and confusing. The Assisted Living Federation of America and the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging have consumer checklists that can be used to frame information people might want about a facility. Other resources exist within each state. The agency responsible for licensing facilities may also have a checklist. In narrowing down the list of potential facilities, consumers should ask the licensing agency about any problems with compliance with state regulations. The state department on aging may also have information about assisted-living facilities.
Perhaps the key area is understanding what one is buying—the living unit, services, and activities—and how much this will cost. When reviewing the resident agreement or contract, one should make sure it is consistent with the marketing materials. It is also important to read the agreement to see the circumstances under which the facility may ask a resident to move. Understanding what services will be available if a resident gets sick or needs more assistance than when he or she moved in is one of the most important aspects of entering an assisted-living facility. Another important issue is what happens if a resident spends all of his or her resources and no longer has enough monthly income to pay the fee. As the supply of facilities expands, operators may be joining the growing number of facilities that contract with Medicaid to serve residents who qualify. It is important to ask if the facility participates in the Medicaid program.
Assisted living is a welcome addition to the array of long-term care services. Yet the nature and level of services vary, and it is important for potential residents to do their homework. It is better to seek the information before there is an emergency requiring a quick decision.
See also Board and Care Homes; Financial Planning for Long-Term-Care.
Assisted Living Federation of America, Coopers and Lybrand. 2000 Overview of the Assisted Living Industry. Washington, D.C.: ALFA, 2000.
Gulyas, R. The Not-for-Profit Assisted Living Industry: 1997 Profile. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, 1997.
Hawes, C.; Rose, M.; and Philips, C. D. A National Study of Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly. Results of a National Survey of Facilities. Myers Research Institute, 1999.
Mollica, R. State Assisted Living Policy: 2000. Portland, Maine: National Academy for State Health Policy, 2000.
National Investment Conference and the Assisted Living Federation of America. National Survey of Assisted Living Residents: Who Is the Customer? Washington, D.C.: ALFA, 1998.
U.S. General Accounting Office. Assisted Living: Quality of Care and Consumer Protection Issues in Four States. Washington, D.C.: GAO, 1999.
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Regulation involves attempts by the government to monitor and correct any disorders in the workings of free markets. Formally, economic regulation refers to all types of taxes and subsidies as well as to governmental controls over prices, market entry, and other aspects of economic activity. Some regulation might directly impose monetary costs (e.g., taxes or fines on noncompliers), while other types of regulation might impose costs indirectly by mandating standards that might be costly to adhere to. Examples of regulation include limits on emissions from vehicles, fire-retardant materials used in children’s bedding, airline safety standards, smoking bans, food safety, and consumer protection laws.
While the extent of government intervention in economic activity remains a matter of heated debate, few individuals would argue for a complete absence of regulation. Two widely accepted issues deserving of regulation might be related to a country’s monetary system (smooth working of the banking system and the money supply) and national defense. These attempts might be focused on both buyers and sellers, or might be directed at one of the parties. Banking laws are examples of laws that affect both buyers and sellers, while regulations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) can be viewed as aimed directly at sellers. The disorders or imperfections that regulation seeks to rectify might be related to prices (too high prices), quantity or service (not all customers being served), reliability (failure to adhere to schedules), and fairness, among other issues. In practice, common instances of regulation include promotion of competition, safeguarding the interests of buyers or sellers (or both), protecting the environment, and defending national interests. For instance, the Clayton Act and the Sherman Act are two primary laws in the United States that deal with provision of fair market competition.
Historically speaking, regulations have changed over time with new technologies, new concerns, and new revelations (e.g., harmful environmental effects of certain known substances). Sometimes, however, certain unexpected events bring about a flurry of regulations (or deregulations) in a rather short period of time. Examples of such events include the Great Depression, the 1973 oil embargo, and certain natural calamities. The Great Depression prompted governments to better regulate their economies so they could prevent wide and sudden variations in the unemployment and inflation rates. In the United States, the Federal Reserve System, which governs the money supply and oversees the banking system, was a direct offshoot of the Great Depression. The oil embargo led to various regulations regarding oil conservation including provisions for minimum fuel efficiency on automobiles. Further, natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes can lead to tougher building codes in vulnerable areas.
Governments generally set up regulatory agencies to impose and monitor regulations. These agencies usually have semi-autonomous status to keep them relatively free of political pressures, although in a number of instances the regulated agencies end up enforcing the regulations passed by the executive branch. These agencies might be national (Federal Communications Commission), or they may be sub-national (Illinois Commerce Commission). In some instances, cross-national organizations such as the World Bank and United Nations impose codes of conduct across nations. However, such regulations generally are difficult to enforce and are usually less effective.
The theoretical underpinnings of regulation may be understood in the context of the three widely cited theories of regulation: (1) public interest theory; (2) capture theory; and (3) economic theory of regulation. According to the public interest theory, regulation is supplied or enacted by governments to correct inefficient and/or unfair market practices or outcomes. However, this theory implicitly assumes that regulators have the capacity and the willpower to determine what is fair and efficient. Since the late twentieth century, the public interest theory has been somewhat revised to recognize that regulatory agencies themselves might be inefficient. It is also unclear from this theory how public interest matters take the form of legislation. The capture theory of regulation can be seen as drawing from both economics and political science. According to this theory, regulatory agencies over time tend to be dominated or influenced by the industries they regulate. In other words, the integrity of the regulatory agencies tends to be compromised by their clientele. This theory, however, ignores special interest groups other than the regulated industries (e.g., consumers). The economic theory of regulation is primarily due to the work of the scholar George Stigler. This theory suggests that the economic laws of demand and supply can be employed to understand regulation. Alternately stated, the optimal amount of regulation would balance the demand and supply of government intervention. The demanders of regulation may be viewed as special interest groups (consumers) or parties being harmed by the current state of affairs (businesses unable to compete in protected markets). The suppliers of regulation are the regulatory agencies. This theory also recognizes that in the real world enactment of rules and regulations is not based purely on economic considerations. Rather, they are enacted in a political-economic context. The use of the laws of demand and supply enables efficiency in the provision of regulation. However, the economic theory of regulation has not been refined to the point where it enables us to predict specific industries in which regulation will be found.
In imposing various types of regulation, regulators should be mindful of equity or fairness aspects on the one hand and efficiency or wastage considerations on the other hand. Generally, there is a tradeoff between the two criteria. For instance, some regulatory intervention that is relatively equitable (e.g., minimum wage laws providing a “fair” wage to unskilled or less-skilled workers) is usually not efficient (i.e., minimum wage laws do not allow the markets to work efficiently and impose undue hardships on some businesses). Thus, regulators have to weigh relative pros and cons of intervention and impose the socially optimal level of regulation. The socially optimal level would generally be less than total regulation (e.g., there should be a socially desirable level of pollution; getting rid of all pollution would impose undue costs on the society in terms of sacrifices to be made, such as no electricity generated via nuclear or thermal power plants and no polluting vehicles).
The main benefit of regulation is that it corrects shortcomings in the workings of markets. Some benefits of regulation, however, might be diffused over time, while the costs might be upfront. In such cases, it becomes difficult for regulators to convince the affected parties of the desirability of regulation. An example of this may be environmental regulation. Regulations mandating the cleanup of toxic waste dumps impose costs up front but their benefits in terms of improvement in the environment and related health benefits would only be realized over time.
The costs of regulation include the costs of compliance and the costs of monitoring. Sometimes the monitoring costs can turn out to be very high with the result that in certain instances products might either not be regulated or not be regulated effectively. Other times there are unexpected consequences of regulation when markets are connected or are interdependent. For instance, tougher regulation ensuring the purity of the milk supply would affect the milk industry directly, but also related industries that make use of dairy products (restaurants, cheese, coffee, and ice cream, for example).
Price regulation might impose direct price controls on products (price cap regulation), or it might control prices indirectly (via rate of return regulation where regulated firms are free to set prices, provided they do not earn above a specified rate of return on capital). Price cap regulation can affect the regulated firm’s investments in research and development, while it has been shown that the rate of return regulation leads to overcapitalization (i.e., regulated firms would use more capital than they would in the absence of such regulation). Thus, one type of regulation does not seem suitable for all cases.
Sometimes regulation is uncertain and not all types of intervention are predictable. Such uncertainty might plague both suppliers of regulation (i.e., government) and the parties affected by regulation. Governments might not know a priori whether they would have to regulate a new technology (new supersonic airplane) because of some future undesirable side effects (new airplane too noisy for residential areas). The public is uncertain whether and when current or future products might face additional regulations. A case in point is the impending threat of restrictions on cell phone usage while driving.
In practice, even after regulators have determined that certain products or industries need to be regulated, there is generally a time delay (called a regulatory lag) between the realization of the need for intervention, the enactment of relevant laws and their implementation. This reduces the effectiveness of regulatory intervention as it affords the affected parties time to find ways to circumvent the regulations. In certain cases, the regulatory lag might be long enough to make rules unnecessary when they are finally put into place.
In conclusion, regulation seems essential in many instances. One could differ in one’s perceptions about the scope of regulation, but its desirability in many instances seems real. Over time government intervention needs to be dynamic to be efficient and effective. Certain industries might not need regulations over time, while new regulatory instruments might have to be developed in other instances, such as in the regulation of the Internet.
SEE ALSO Antitrust; Antitrust Regulation; Deregulation; Privatization
Kahn, Alfred E. 1971. The Economics of Regulation: Principles and Institutions. 2 vols. New York: Wiley.
Peltzman, Sam. 1967. Toward a More General Theory of Regulation. Journal of Law and Economics 19: 211-240.
Posner, Richard. 1974. Theories of Economic Regulation. Bell Journal of Economics 5: 335-358.
Stigler, George J. 1971. The Theory of Economic Regulation. Bell Journal of Economics 2: 3-21.
Rajeev K. Goel
Commercial space activities conducted by U.S. companies are regulated by the federal government in four major areas: space launches, remote sensing , communications, and limitation of the transfer of technology for reasons of national security and industrial policy.
Communications are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC was established in the 1930s to regulate radio (and later television) and the use of spectrum, assuring that the signals from one station would not interfere with those from another station. When commercial communications satellites arrived in the mid-1960s, the FCC had had three decades of regulatory experience.
The office within the FCC that issues licenses for satellites is the Satellite and Radiocommunications Division of the International Bureau. Licensing assures that any proposed new satellite will not interfere with other satellites or with any other operating radio applications, on Earth or in space. All commercial launches, reentries, or landings conducted by U.S. companies are regulated by the Commercial Space Launch Act (CSLA). Under the CSLA, each launch or reentry must have a license. FAA/AST, the Office of Commercial Space Transportation, is part of the Federal Aviation Administration and is the federal government agency that issues these licenses. Its web site (ast.faa.gov) contains all the relevant rules, laws, regulations, and documents needed to obtain a launch license. FAA/AST conducts a policy review, a payload review, a safety evaluation, an environmental review, and a financial responsibility determination based on the data in the license application before issuing or refusing a license. The purpose of a launch license is to assure that "the public health and safety, safety of property, and the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States" are properly considered.
Commercial remote sensing from space is regulated under the 1992 Remote Sensing Policy Act and its associated regulations and administration policies. The act directs the secretary of commerce to administer its provisions, and those duties have been delegated to the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the Department of Commerce. NESDIS runs the nation's weather satellites, and the International and Interagency Affairs Office (IIAO) within NESDIS issues the licenses needed to operate private space-based remote sensing systems (www.licensing.noaa.gov/).
NESDIS/IIAO reviews these applications in consultation with the Department of Defense (national security), the Department of State (foreign policy), and the Department of the Interior (which has an interest in archiving remote sensing data). Once an application has been determined by NESDIS/IIAO to be complete (all the required documents and data have been submitted), by law NOAA has to issue an up-or-down license determination within 120 days. Documents, background data, instructions, and examples are available at NESDIS/IIAO's web site to aid license seekers.
Under the law, a licensee must operate its space-based remote sensing system(s) so that the national security interests of the United States are respected and the international obligations of the nation are observed. A licensee must maintain positive control of its system(s) and maintain clear records of the sensing those systems have done. A U.S. licensee also must agree to "limit imaging during periods when national security or international obligations and/or foreign policies may be compromised." This is called "shutter control": The federal government can, in time of international stress (war or conflict) tell licensees what they can and cannot take pictures of.
The major law in the area of trade control is the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and its associated regulations, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Virtually anything involving space falls under ITAR. Equipment for ground stations for satellite control; transmitters; rocket engines; computer software for controlling a rocket, a satellite, or a ground station; rockets; and satellites are all subject to control and licensure under ITAR.
Licenses and regulation under the AECA and ITAR are administered by the U.S. Department of State and its Office of Defense Trade Controls (DTC), which is part of the Bureau of Political Military Affairs. These organizations are aided in their work by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the Department of Defense. DTC's web site (www.pmdtc.org) contains documents, background data, and instructions to aid license seekers, including electronic means for the filing and tracking of license applications.
The United States is a party to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), to which twenty-eight other countries, including Russia, Greece, Hungry, and Spain, also belong. Equipment and technology are controlled under this regime to limit the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction through efforts to control the availability of delivery systems (rockets). The State Department and the Department of Defense attempt to assure that space companies that export services or products adhere to the goals of the MTCR.
During most of the 1990s, space-related trade control was the responsibility of the Department of Commerce, specifically the Bureau of Export Administration (www.bxa.doc.gov) and the International Trade Administration (www.ita.doc.gov). Both of these agencies now play a reduced role in regulating the export of space-related trade products and services, but their main role at present is primarily to support the activities of the Department of State.
The shift of the regulation and licensing of space-related trade from the Department of Commerce to the Department of State resulted from a law passed by Congress, which wanted to eliminate what it felt was a looseness in U.S. trade control that had led to the transfer of sensitive space technology. This statutory change had unintended consequences, making it extremely difficult for a company such as Orbital Sciences Corporation to communicate with a division of its own company based in a foreign country. Under this regime, satellite engineers cannot talk to their counterparts in the United Kingdom without a license. These restrictions became so stringent that Orbital sold its Canadian-based division because of the difficulties presented by these mandated trade restrictions. Congress has since passed new legislation to address this problem.
see also Law (volume 4); Law of Space (volume 1); Legislative Environment (volume 1); Licensing (volume 1).
Timothy B. Kyger
Satellite and Radiocommunications Division of the International Bureau. Federal Communications Commission. <http://www.fcc.gov/ib/srd>.
A rule of order having the force of law, prescribed by a superior or competent authority, relating to the actions of those under the authority's control.
Regulations are issued by various federal government departments and agencies to carry out the intent of legislation enacted by Congress. Administrative agencies, often called "the bureaucracy," perform a number of different government functions, including rule making. The rules issued by these agencies are called regulations and are designed to guide the activity of those regulated by the agency and also the activity of the agency's employees. Regulations also function to ensure uniform application of the law.
Administrative agencies began as part of the executive branch of government and were designed to carry out the law and the president's policies. Congress, however, retains primary control over the organization of the bureaucracy, including the power to create and eliminate agencies and confirm presidential nominations for staffing the agencies. Congress has also created administrative agencies that exist outside of the executive branch and are independent of presidential control. President franklin d. roosevelt and the new deal plan he implemented created many new administrative agencies. Over the years administrative agencies have become more powerful participants in the overall federal government structure as Congress and the president have delegated more legislative and executive duties to them. Administrative agencies have also become responsible for many judicial functions.
The judicial and legislative functions of administrative agencies are not exactly like those of the courts or the legislature, but they are similar. Because regulations are not the work of the legislature, they do not have the effect of law in theory; but in practice, regulations can have an important effect in determining the outcome of cases involving regulatory activity. Much of the legislative power vested in administrative agencies comes from the fact that Congress can only go so far in enacting legislation or establishing guidelines for the agencies to follow. Language that is intrinsically vague and cannot speak for every factual situation to which it is applied, as well as political factors, dictate that the agencies have much to interpret and decide in enforcing legislation. For example, securities laws prohibit insiders from profiting against the public interest, but it is left to the applicable administrative agency, the securities and exchange commission, to define "public interest." The food and drug administration, another administrative agency, must keep unsafe food and ineffective drug products off the market, but further administrative refinement and interpretation is necessary for the agency to determine what products are "unsafe" or "ineffective." The federal communications commission must interpret laws regulating broadcasting; the treasury department issues regulations interpreting the internal revenue code; and the Board of Governors of the federal reserve System issues regulations governing the actions of Federal Reserve banks. The many other administrative agencies and departments make regulations to provide clarity and guidance in their respective areas of the law.
Administrative agencies carry out legislation in several ways, including enacting regulations to carry out what the agency believes is the legislative intent. Agencies generally formulate proposed regulations and then open up rule-making proceedings in which interested parties can testify and comment on them. The agency then issues a rule or policy that binds the agency in future cases just as statutory law does.
The administrative procedure act of 1946, 5 U.S.C.A. § 551 et seq., with its subsequent amendments, was designed to make administrative agencies accountable for their rule making and other government functions. It imposed a number of procedural requirements designed to make procedures among agencies more uniform. In administrative rule-making proceedings formal hearings must be held, interested parties must be given the opportunity to comment on proposed rules, and the adopted formal rules must be published in the Federal Register. After being published in the Federal Register, the regulations are subsequently arranged by subject in the Code of Federal Regulations. The Administrative Procedure Act has been criticized, however, because it contains a number of exemptions that allow the agencies discretion in whether or not they strictly adhere to the guidelines established in the act. Organizations such as the american bar association are working toward eliminating such discretion in administrative agencies.
Janosik, Robert J., ed. 1987. Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System. Vol. II. New York: Scribner.
The regulation of industries in the United States is based largely on a concern for the public interest. Industries, especially those with a high potential for monopoly (such as water, gas, and telephone service), will often be regulated by agencies of government for the benefit of the public, so that consumers can be assured of quality services and products at reasonable rates. The rationale for the regulation of all or part of an industry is that if a monopoly exists, and competition is inappropriate, then monopolies should be regulated to avoid possible abuses of uncontrolled monopoly power. Regulation is a public sector (government) guarantee that consumers should benefit from the built-in economies of any monopoly. Regulators seek to establish customer rates that cover production costs and yield a "fair" or "reasonable" return to the enterprise.
There are problems associated with the regulation of business by the public sector. First, a regulated firm may resort to accounting manipulation to overstate its costs to obtain higher unjustified profits. Second, some regulatory commissions of the government function inadequately, sometimes even making "deals" with the industries they are regulating. Third, it is often uncertain which industries should be regulated. The trucking and airline industries both claim that if they were less regulated, they would be more competitive. In addition to the regulation of near monopoly industries and natural monopolies (like water and electricity), since the early 1960s, the public sector also regulates the conditions under which goods and services are produced, as well as the impact of production on society, and the physical quality of goods. This kind of social regulation is applied across the board to virtually all industries. Examples of social regulation includes the efforts of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which regulates industries to protect workers against occupational injuries and illnesses, and the efforts of the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) which regulates minimum standards for potentially unsafe products. Though regulation itself can be controversial, few question whether it should exist. The primary question that any public sector regulation imposes is how and when it should be used.
See also: Monopolies, Monopoly
reg·u·la·tion / ˌreg(y)əˈlāshən/ • n. 1. a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority: planning regulations. ∎ [as adj.] in accordance with regulations; of the correct type: regulation army footwear. ∎ [as adj.] inf. of a familiar or predictable type; formulaic; standardized: a regulation Western parody.2. the action or process of regulating or being regulated: the regulation of financial markets.
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A child becomes an adult on their 18th birthday in New Mexico. At that time, the child can vote or buy cigarettes, among other adult activities. Minors can be emancipated or consider a legal adult despite being under 18 through several different routes: Marriage (even if subsequently divorced or annulled)
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According to 6.31. 2.13(K) of the New Mexico Administrative Code (NMAC): A persons age of majority begins on the first instant of his or her 18th birthday and a person who has reached the age of majority is an adult for all purposes not otherwise limited by state law.
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What age are you considered a grown man?
Men are considered to officially be adults at age 26, while women seem to hit adulthood three years earlier, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 Americans asked people to pinpoint the age at which they felt they fully became a grownup and saw women identify this feeling earlier in life on average.
Can a 16 year old date a 22 year old in New Mexico?
Statutes governing New Mexicos age of consent, associated criminal charges, available defenses, and penalties for conviction. In New Mexico, it is illegal for an adult (someone 18 or older) to have sex with a minor (someone younger than 16), even if the sex is consensual.
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This project was created for Dr. Steve Liu's CPSC462 (Microcomputer Systems) class at Texas A&M University.
Initially, we saw a neat paper by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on using LEDs as light sensors (Dietz, P.H.; Yerazunis, W.S.; Leigh, D.L., "Very Low Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDS", International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), October 2003). We decided we wanted to use this concept to implement something cool.
In this project, we designed, implemented, and constructed a DDR pad. A problem with most industrial designs is that over time, moving parts wear out and the pad no longer recognizes steps on a particular arrow. We designed our pad to have no moving parts. Instead, we chose to measure light reflectance off the user's feet to determine if one of the arrows was being stepped on or not.
Since a design with no moving parts offers little to no tactile feedback, we wanted to make sure the pad offered some other form of feedback, so the user would know when they had successfully stepped on the arrow. To this end, we chose to embed LEDs in the arrows themselves, and to have them illuminate when the arrow was pressed. We also decided we'd like to have these LEDs flash in time with the music.
The design consists of one master controller and four slave controllers. Each slave controls a set of 15 LEDs. Thirteen LEDs are placed around the border of the arrow and flash in rhythm with the music. The remaining two LEDs are used as an illumination and sensing pair - the LED pointing straight up acts as a permanent flashlight, and the LED at an angle serves to sense reflection of the previous LED off the foot of the player.
Readings are taken with the technique described in the MERL paper, summarized here. We place the interior sensing LED in reverse bias mode to allow the LED to charge up a capacitance in the LED junction itself. When a reading is to be taken, we set the cathode to input mode, disable the internal pull-up resistor, and time how long it takes the capacitance to discharge. Greater light input results in a shorter discharge time. As light from the illumination LED reflects off the foot of the player, the time the LED takes to discharge through the microcontroller decreases. By comparing this time to a threshold, the slaves determine if the arrow is pressed, and will raise or lower a line to the master accordingly.
The slaves can also read the voltage of a line from the master. When this bit is high, the slaves illuminate the arrow LEDs.
The master runs the main DDR pad controller program. It determines when the arrow LEDs should be on by and receives constant readings from the slaves. The master passes the readings from the slaves on to the Xbox 360 controller. The master can receive lighting commands from Stepmania running on a computer through a USB serial port, or it can just leech power from an Xbox 360.
The frame of the DDR pad was built using plywood and 2x4 pieces of wood to divide the pad into 9 equal squares in a 3x3 fashion. The bottom of the pad is a piece of plywood cut to 33"x33". The left and right edges were constructed using 33" pieces of 2x4 laid on their narrow side. The upper and bottom edges and the two horizontal dividing pieces were constructed with 30" pieces of 2x4 on their thin sides, so that they fit within the left and right edges. The vertical dividing pieces were constructed as 6 10" pieces of 2x4 on their thin sides to fit within the horizontal dividers. The 2x4 pieces of wood are screwed together at every meeting point and screwed into the plywood from the bottom. The four pieces that create the middle square had holes drilled in them before being screwed in, so that wires could pass underneath the 2x4. Similar treatment was given to the two horizontal dividing pieces of the top left and top right squares. 1" circular holes were drilled in the upper edge in the center of the top left and top right squares so communication and power cables could be run to the pad. After all holes were drilled and all the pieces were screwed together, the frame as a whole was spray painted with one coat of primer and two coats of black paint.
The top of the DDR pad was constructed using a 1/4" thick 33"x33" sheet of Lexan screwed to the four edges of the frame with twelve screws. A large heavy duty black handle was attached to center of the top edge.
The four arrows of the DDR pad were constructed out of the same plywood as the base of the pad. They were cut into the shape of arrows about 8" long and 4" wide at the base. 13 holes were drilled around the edge of the arrow for the LED leads to fit through, and a 1" circular hole was drilled in the center for all wires of the slave board to pass through.
The supporting pieces of the arrows were constructed out of four 2"x2" plywood squares; two stacked together each for the point and for the base of the arrow. The arrows were attached to the supporting posts with one screw from the top of the arrow and the posts were attached to the bottom of the frame with one screw from the bottom of the frame (through the plywood base). Before the pieces were assembled, they were painted. We applied one coat of primer to all the pieces, then painted the arrow with two coats of granite colored paint and the supporting square posts with two coats of black paint.
Adjusting wires. Note that each arrow has four connctors: power, ground, data from master, and data to master.
The Xbox 360 controller board was mounted in the top left square, along with the master chip (in the Aurduino development board), and the master board (with hardware used to interface the master chip and Xbox 360 controller board). The Xbox 360 controller was mounted on two 2"x2" pieces of 2x4 spray painted black and screwed into the bottom of the frame. The master chip was screwed onto 1" metal risers and hot glued to the bottom of the DDR frame. The master breakout was screwed onto 1/2" risers and hot glued to the bottom of the frame. A Dell desktop computer power supply was mounted in the top right square by screwing it to the right edge of the frame. All four slave boards were screwed onto 1/2" risers and hot glued to the top of the arrow above the 1" circular hole. All wires throughout the pad were either hot glued out of sight or hot glued to an edge and spray painted black.
Our electronics design consists of 4 slave boards located on each arrow and 1 master board that serves as the interface between the slave boards, the computer, and the Xbox360 controller. These slave boards each held an ATmega328P microcontroller, one 20 MHz resonator with internal capacitors, two ULN2004A LED drivers and 15 LEDs. A main design was used for all the slave boards. The only difference between the two slave board designs (one for blue LEDs, the other for red LEDs) are the resistors used in series with the LEDs to prevent them from passing too much current.
We calculated that, to keep current through the LEDs below 20mA (well within their maximum rating), we would need 50 Ohm resistors for the blue LEDs and 115 Ohm resistors for the red LEDs. Each slave board used two blue LEDs for sensing: one LED is kept constantly lit while the other is polled to detect light reflection.
Each driver is connected to VCC and GND. The drivers act as an open circuit when the pin from the ATmega328 is low. When said pin goes high, the circuit closes which allows the LED to turn on. Each LED, excluding the sensing LED, has the cathode tied to VCC and the anode tied to the LED driver.
The blue slave board schematic shows the pin configurations on the ATmega328P microcontroller, their connections to the LED drivers and the use of the 50 Ohm resistors.
The red slave board schematic shows the pin configurations on the ATmega328P microcontroller, their connections to the LED drivers and the use of the 115 Ohm resistors.
The master board schematic shows the pin configurations on the ATmega328P microcontroller, their communications to the slaves, and the communication to the Xbox 360 controller. Ordinarily, when a user presses a button on the Xbox 360 controller, it completes a circuit through a resistive pad. To emulate this, we have a transistor tied to the two sides of the resistive pads and connect the base to a pin from the master board. We use potentiometers as voltage dividers to adjust the voltage applied at the base to prevent over-volting the Xbox 360 controller. We raise a pin on the master board, the transistor activates, current flows, and the Xbox 360 controller thinks the button is pressed.
In parallel with this circuit we have an LED and current-limiting resistor to indicate to the user that their foot step is being registered. The whole Xbox 360 button control circuit is seen four times on our master board to accomodate the four arrows: up, down, right, and left.
Software designThe software portion of this project consists of three important parts:
- "Master" microcontroller code
- "Slave" microcontroller code
- Computer game code
Master microcontroller code
Part 1 is implemented as a simple infinite loop that samples the four input lines from the four slaves and writes matching values to the output lines to the Xbox360 controller. It also listens for serial commands - when it receives a '1' character, it will raise the four output lines to the four slaves to a digital HIGH, and it will drop them upon receipt of a '0'. The slaves, in turn, will see the line go high and illuminate the LEDs in the arrow.
Slave microcontroller code
Part 2 is a bit more complex. Each slave arrow has fourteen separately controllable LEDs on 14 different pins, and one LED that acts as a sensor taking up two pins.
Sensing involves applying a reverse bias to the sensing LED to charge the LED's internal capacitance, then swapping the anode to input mode and disables the internal pullup resistor. It then counts the number of times it goes through a busy loop before the anode reads a logical low again. The more light the LED receives, the lower the number of loops.
To ensure that the arrow responds promptly to changes in the line from the master indicating light data, each iteration through the busy loop checks the status of that pin, and updates the LEDs accordingly.
We experimented with different loop counts to determine a threshold below which our code assumes that a foot is present and above which our code assumes the foot is absent. We thus go through the busy loop this threshold number of times - if the anode input hasn't gone low yet, we assume no foot is present and begin a new sample. This allows us to keep a fast sample rate, which is important for a rhythm game like DDR.
Our current code will illuminate all the LEDs in the arrow when:
- The last sample of the sensing LED went low before threshold iterations (the button is "pressed"), or
- The master has indicated that the lights should be illuminated by raising that pin to logical high.
Since each LED can be individually controlled, it is possible to reprogram the atmega328 chips to display various patterns. Getting consistent timings may be difficult, due to the nature of the variable speed at which the slaves sample (since reading a low value takes less time than reading a high one). Such code has not been implemented yet, but would require no hardware changes to effect.
Computer game code
Part 3 consists of modifications to an existing open-source program, Stepmania to send light data to our master microcontroller. Stepmania already has support for the use of standard joysticks as input devices, so by using a USB HID device (like the Xbox360 controller), we did not have to modify any code to make Stepmania recognize our pad as an input device.
Our software development was done on Linux machines, but we also wanted to ensure that the DDR pad could be used on Windows machines as well. To this end, we implemented the serial-port lighting control for both platforms.
Since we were unsure what COM port the master board would appear as to the Windows systems, we also added a commandline switch to allow the user to specify which serial port Stepmania should use to send lighting data. Invoking Stepmania in the following manner will tell the program to send light data to COM10:
If Stepmania is unable to open the appropriate serial port, it will simply continue running without sending any lighting data to the pad, and will continue to function with the pad as an input device.
As Stepmania is open-source and distributed under the GNU GPL, we have provided our patches which apply against SVN r28063 at the time of writing (2009-05-10).
Challenges facedWhile the project has come together into a successful product, we experienced many trials along the way. This document serves to exhibit some of our failures, how we discovered them, and how we resolved them.
We discovered that the use of the LEDs as sensors was sensitive to wire length. Specifically, we found that six inches of 22-gauge wire had substantially more capacitance to charge and discharge than that of the LEDs that we were trying to measure. The signal-to-noise ratio, as measured with a multimeter, was about 1 to 20. This meant that we would have to use minimal wire to connect the sensing LEDs, which meant we'd need a microcontroller next to each sensing LED. As such, it became infeasible to have as many sensing LEDs as we had originally hoped for.
While we toyed with the thought of calibrating the wire lengths to serve as antennae, which would change capacitance depending on proximity of the player, the difficulty in implementing such an idea put it out of our consideration.
We were trying to create a breakout board on which to test the ATmega328 chips, as we would be needing them for the slave boards (which we needed because any significant length of wire would ruin our light readings). We failed to realize that the RESET pin (Pin 1) needed to be tied to 5V for the chip to operate properly. As we left that pin floating, the chip remained in a constant state of RESET, which meant that it wasn't doing much useful.
We also failed to attach a crystal resonator to the ATmega328s, which, compounded with the aforementioned problem, rendered the breakout boards fully nonresponsive. After rereading the spec sheets and reviewing the Arduino board schematics, we discovered our errors, and purchased the appropriate crystals and connected Pin 1 to power. Now our breakout boards would execute code and blink an LED.
We tried communicating with the slave boards via a serial port with a RS232 shifter to convert TTL voltage levels to those of RS232. Unfortunately, the data came through all wrong - an ASCII 'A' (0b01000001) came out as an ASCII 'Á' (0b11000001). It seemed that the timings were close, but slightly off. We realized that this was because the UART delays were calibrated for a 16MHz crystal clock, rather than the 20MHz crystals we were using. A one-line change in the Arduino dev environment configuration, and we had correctly-functioning serial communications again.
We purchased a sheet of 1/8th inch polycarbonate. It proved too flimsy, so we wound up having to purchase a 1/4th inch sheet, to the tune of 125 dollars. Now it's pretty, although polycarbonate scratches rather easily. We decided that players will be required to wear socks while using our pad, to ensure its longevity.
After we finished constructing all of the slave boards, we connected them all to the master, and tried to power them up. Some of the boards wouldn't power on. It turns out that we were trying to pull too much current from the power supply on the same pins, and the PSU couldn't handle that kind of sudden draw. By rewiring our connections to use different PSU pins, we got all the slaves to power on properly together.
Once we had all the arrows connected, and the slaves communicating successfully with the master, we discovered that our slaves sampled somewhat slowly and would not blink in time together. This was because a single sample of the sensing LEDs could take a quarter of a second if said LED had little illumination. Since the software only updated the arrow LEDs in between samples, if the state of the master TX pin changed during a sample, that slave would not update the lights until the end of that sample. This was resolved by having the slaves update the lights constantly during the sample-collection period, and adjusting the threshold constants accordingly. This resolved our last major problem.
While this project did successfully implement our original goals, there is still room for further development.
One improvement would be to fabricate Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) in the shape of arrows to allow for more uniform design and additional sensing LEDs within each square. This would provide greater reliability and a larger sensing surface.
A second improvement we might make would be to improve the light sensing routine to take more uniform time, or perhaps even drop the LED-as-sensor idea and just use a normal photoresistor or phototransistor for greater sensitivity. We could also make improvements to the algorithm to make the sensor more robust to different light conditions and footwear.
Another improvement would be to have more complicated blinking patterns of the arrow LEDS. They could show a circular pattern, a pattern that turned the LEDs on in order from the base to the head of the arrow, and other random patterns.
Bill of Materials
|Item||Quantity||Price per unit||Total cost|
|Arduino Dev USB Board||1||$29.95||$29.95|
|RS-232 Shifter SMD||1||$13.95||$13.95|
|AVR 28pin 20MHz 32K-ATMega328||6||$4.30||$25.80|
|Breakaway Female Headers||3||$1.50||$4.50|
|115 Ohm Resistor 1%||30||$0.05||$1.50|
|50 Ohm Resistor 1%||30||$0.38||$11.40|
|ULN2004A LED Driver||10||$0.64||$6.40|
|28 Pin IC Sockets||5||$2.01||$10.05|
|Single Turn Trimmer Pots 20KOhm||5||$0.75||$3.75|
|Small Signal Transistor||4||$0.08||$0.32|
|Wood, Lexan, Screws||~$75.00||$75.00|
|1/8" 33" x 34" Lexan||1||$84.00||$84.00|
|1/4" 33" x 34" Lexan||1||$120.00||$120.00|
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