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But what’s important to focus on? What determines success vs. failure? What impacts the cost and time frame of success?
While 95% of the world’s buyers lay outside the U.S., most American manufacturing companies don’t export. (Only about 1.5% of all US companies export outside of NAFTA). Those that do, statistically do so most often when a large existing domestic customer repeatedly requests that they support them internationally.
And then, when they do take tentative initial steps to grow international sales, they focus disproportionately on “transactional” issues (foreign currency, receiving payments, logistics) and overlook or ignore key strategic drivers that will determine long-term success.
We’ve made lot’s of stupid (in retrospect) and expensive (in any respect) mistakes along the way - for example, simply opening a company in India because that was a big market. Our scars and bruises translate to savings for you and a headstart on growth.
There’s always some form of “tech support” for the transactional issues. The big business drivers are where companies succeed or fail - and that’s where we focus planning and execution.
Companies don't succeed as 'accidental exporters.' Profitable global sales are built on a strategy rather than opportunistic transactions.
The why, where and what of an international sales growth initiative must inform the strategy. And realistically most companies simply lack the expertise internally to manage the discussion around those topics.
Actual, on-the-ground business management experience in developed, emerging & frontier markets is critical to framing an effective and implementable initiative.
And equally important are realistic expectations for timetable, cost, outcomes and value of international sales.
Starting by responding to random rep internet inquiries is a recipe for frustration.
Simply thinking about foreign exchange (fx) and foreign receivables credit risk is enough to dissuade many mid-size manufacturing companies from even considering export sales growth. And yet those are technical issues which can be transparently managed by any number of experts. Just because your commercial banker doesn't understand L/Cs doesn't mean you can't easily overcome the hurdles.
But discussions about the finance of international sales growth should explore strategic opportunities to benefit the business. Examples include:
Real experience with the finance challenges AND opportunities of international sales growth enables companies to optimize export initiatives
Too many companies take poor or average domestic marketing....and translate it. The result is predictable.
Innefective, and often absurd marketing
And the predictable outcome is ridicule and minimal sales!
But great digital marketing is the fondation for both robust domestic business growth and effective international marketing. Consilium helps companies plan and execute the localized inbound marketing approaches which are critical to international sales growth. And by refining the domestic program and then building on it, sales qualified leads are generated across the enterprise and globe.
The real risks are the ones of which companies are unaware. Focusing narrowly on currency fluctuations and credit risk creates critical exposures in areas such as:
Accidental exporters often find themselves blindsided by unexpected complications in their pursuit of international sales growth. In response they become disillusioned and often curtail export sales efforts.
Far preferrable, though, is the perspective to enable a robust matrix of risks and exposures and tactics for mitigation. Here, for sure, the aphorisim that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure applies. And only the scars and bruises of experience help to readily identify risk factors.
Companies are very careful in recruiting and hiring employees today...and alarmingly casual in designing, building and managing their sales channel. And yet in an international sales growth initiative what could be more pertinent than the tip of the sales spear?
Optimal model, ideal partner profile, management framework and ongoing improvement are all phases of a proactively managed global sales channel.
From a mutually compelling business model executed creatively through local acquisitions, JVs or partnerships to continuous improvement through effective communication, sales channel management is often left to sales managers despite being strategically important to an international sales growth program.
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In this article I will look at setting up Nightwatch.js in a project and getting started with writing tests.
To install Nightwatch.js you should have a npm project. This can be an existing project, but Nightwatch.js can be easily installed as a standalone application; which is useful if you just want to get familiar with the system.
Creating a new, empty, npm project can be done with the following command.
npm init -y
You can now include Nightwatch.js as a development dependency into your project.
npm install nightwatch --save-dev
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First Published: The Forge, Vol. 6, No. 15, April 17, 1981
Transcription, Editing and Markup: Malcolm and Paul Saba
Copyright: This work is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons Common Deed. You can freely copy, distribute and display this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line as your source, include the url to this work, and note any of the transcribers, editors & proofreaders above.
The TV screen showed an almost empty auditorium with dejected Liberal Party members mulling over their defeat. But watching the election results in Workers Communist Party offices in Montreal and across the province were hundreds of enthusiastic supporters, satisfied with the success of the WCP’s first entry into Quebec provincial elections.
Just over 5,000 votes were picked up by the WCP’s 33 candidates. “it’s a very good total, especially considering the strong polarization that occurred as many workers voted for the PQ, which was seen as the ’lesser evil’,” said WCP Chairman Roger Rashi.
“We campaigned hard on issues like the protection of union rights – especially the right to strike which came under attack from the Liberals and the PQ, the improvement of working people’s living standards and the defence of Quebec’s national rights,” Rashi said. “And we popularized our socialist option among Quebecois fed up with a system that puts profits before people.”
WCP candidates turned in a good showing in ridings in Montreal, due to the party’s active work in the unions and its experience in community organizing.
Hospital worker Suzanne Lorne picked up 204 votes in St. Jacques. In the 40-per-cent Greek riding of Laurier, daycare worker Raymonde Lebreux racked up 467 voles, no doubt helped in part by widespread distribution of the party program in Greek.
In Mercier riding, WCP leader Roger Rashi pulled in 250 votes. In the east-end riding of Maisonneuve, site of some of the city’s largest heavy industrial plants, Louis Lavoie, a worker at the MLW-Bombardier factory, got 283 votes.
Elsewhere in the province, Denise Beauchesne – who was arrested along with other workers during the occupation of a cabinet minister’s office in a protest against cutbacks – received 266 votes in the Quebec City riding of Taschereau. The WCP ran in the Saguenay region for the first time, and Edouard Lavalliere polled an encouraging 235 votes in the PQ stronghold of Jonquiere. And Marc Laviolette, a well-known trade unionist in the city of Valleyfield, came through with 287 in Beauharnois.
These totals are obviously not massive compared to those received by the major parties. But each vote came as a result of hard, patient discussions and education by teams of dedicated party workers and supporters.
And the 5,005 vote total reflects a growing bloc of working people who, despite the barrage from the pro-capitalist parties, consciously opt for a socialist alternative.
Significantly, the WCP came out well ahead of other so-called left groups. With 40 candidates, the police goons of the CPCML received under 3,400 votes; while the pro-Moscow CPC’s weak campaign of only 10 candidates garnered only 748 votes.
Moreover, the WCP averaged 152 votes in each riding – just about double the average received by the largely-phantom candidates of the CPCML or the CPC.
In the 28 ridings where WCP candidates ran against representatives of these and other smaller parties, the WCP finished ahead of of them in 26 cases.
What distinguished our campaign was the high degree of education and popularization we did around basic principles – socialism, our party and our criticism of the capitalist parties,” explained Rashi.
Interest in the workers’ revolt in Poland, for example, allowed party workers to explain the WCP’s opposition to the repressive regimes in the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites, while showing how a real socialist country would guarantee workers’ power.
The tendency of many trade union militants to vote reluctantly for the PQ as a ’lesser evil’ despite its anti-worker record led to instructive debates on the need for independent working class political action and a revolutionary party.
There were other strong points in the WCP’s campaign as well.
Workplace organising during the elections was also done more effectively than in the last federal elections. Election committees, uniting party members with friends and supporters, were set up at a number of workplaces to coordinate the campaign work.
A special pamphlet on union rights was also widely distributed in the hospitals. Inroads among immigrants were made with the publication of a special program for immigrant workers in several languages and the campaign of WCP candidate Luigi D’Alonzo in a Montreal district where the Italian community is concentrated.
A wide variety of forms of education were called into play. Distribution of The Forge doubled. Tens of thousands of leaflets were handed out, reaching close to one in ten voters. And meetings were held ranging from small conferences on specific subjects like women’s issues to several large public rallies.
Party sympathisers and friends as well as people coming into contact with the WCP for the first time pitched in daring the campaign. Omer, a 57-year-old retired construction worker, put it this way: “I’ve been reading The Forge for some time so I had made up my mind to vote communist. But I’ve helped out the party by talking to my friends. Many have been through the same things I have, and they can see we need a party for workers that fights for what rightly belongs to us.”
Door-to-door canvassing was especially intensive. Wide sweeps of ridings were done, followed up by selective visits to the many people who expressed an interest in talking more about the party’s program. In some ridings in Montreal, upwards of 50 to 60 people would be involved in these blitzes every evening, some of them working with the party for the first time. Over 10,000 were visited in this door-to-door canvassing throughout the province.
Despite a virtual blackout from the Montreal media, the WCP campaign was helped by coverage in community newspapers and the local media in the rest of the province. In addition, for the first time the WCP bought air time on radio to reach even wider audiences.
“We ran a good campaign, but there are things we can improve on for next time,” said Rashi. “One weakness was that we started late. In the first week of a short four-week campaign, we were busy producing our election material and working out organizational details.
“As a result, we reached full throttle only by the end of the third week. By the end of the campaign, for example, more door-to-door visits were carried on in one evening than in the entire first week of the elections.”
“Of course, our total vote shows that our party is still small and young. But the WCP’s future prospects are very encouraging,” said Rashi. “We came in contact with literally thousands of people who had never heard of our party and its socialist alternative before,” he said.
He noted that many working people who voted for the PQ did so with little enthusiasm, more as an anti-Ryan vote than as an endorsement of Levesque. Indeed, in several ridings workers said they were going to vote PQ but contributed money to the WCP’s campaign or gave their phone numbers to be contacted for future activities.
“These workers are not going to give up fighting for their rights – and this creates a very good base for developing the WCP even more,” Rashi said;
An incident In the Beauharnois riding on election night, perhaps best sums things up.
A journalist interviewing WCP candidate Marc Leviolette on radio asked: “Well, I guess we’ll see you around in the next elections?” “No,” Laviolette replied quickly, “you’ll see me around starting tomorrow, fighting alongside my fellow workers against this system and building the workers’ alternative.”
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There are many oblique exercises commonly performed to lose weight by means of toning the abdominal muscles. Some of the widely held routines include cardio workouts, quick squats, hula hoops, and side-leg lifts. Several oblique crunches are also incorporated for optimal physical fitness results.
Oblique Workouts – To Shape-Up the Love Handles
One of the fundamental oblique workouts for quick and effective body fat burning is the cardio exercise which is recognized to be a great warm-up routine at the same time an aid in boosting up one’s metabolism. Some of the most popular cardio exercises are the jump-ropes, swimming as well as running. Aside from that, quick squats are effective oblique workouts too. It is an excellent love handle exercise that builds up the butt, sides, abs, and even the leg muscles. Usually, this particular exercise begins by standing on the floor at shoulder-width distance, keeping the hands at one’s sides, continuously going up, and then down rapidly for five minutes.
Oblique Crunches – Basic Exercising Techniques
The oblique crunches that use stability ball are generally carried out by initially positioning oneself onto the object where the middle back portion rests on it and the feet lies flat onto the ground. The hands are then kept behind the head, and the upper body slowly raised and tilted; twisting to the right. One goes back to the first position and performs the twist to the left. The simple oblique crunches, on the other hand, are performed by first lying down onto one’s back, keeping the feet flat onto the ground, and then raising the knees. After this, the right foot is moved over the left knee, and the hands placed behind the head with the elbows pointing to the sides. The upper body is then slowly raised and curled through a diagonal movement to the right. The same movements are then repeated for the left side after the several repetitions.
Exercises for Obliques – Other Options
The other known exercises for obliques are the hula hoops which only involve getting hold of the object and then continuously rotating it in the waist. It is a fun exercise for both kids and adults, and can be easily performed in the living room whilst watching TV, or in the park while unwinding. Aside from that, the side-leg lifts are popular exercises for obliques as well. It is specifically suitable for women, and can be performed by initially lying down on an exercise mat on the single side. This is followed by raising the leg as high as one can, holding it for a couple of seconds, and then lowering it down. The steps are repeated on the opposite side after completing 20 reps.
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You’ve been working out hard, but you keep getting injured. It’s frustrating when you’re trying to improve your health and fitness and you keep getting injured. You might feel like you’re doing something wrong, or that your body is just not meant to be healthy.
Chiropractic care can help heal your injuries and get you back to your workouts faster. Our chiropractors will work with you to create a treatment plan that fits your needs and helps you reach your fitness goals.
How to Keep a Healthy Lifestyle with Chiropractic Care
An active lifestyle improves overall health in many ways. Living actively can reduce stress, it improves the body’s ability to burn fat, and it strengthens the body. Considering the positive benefits of an active lifestyle, everyone should be interested in becoming more active.
An active lifestyle can reduce stress, the body’s reaction to external pressure, worries or anxiety. Stress can kill if allow to persist. An active lifestyle is a way to reduce stress. Physical activity causes the brain to release endorphins, chemicals that contribute to a feeling of well-being. This is known as the “runners high.” Simply stated, being active helps an individual feel better mentally.
Physical activity also helps the body burn fat. Regular physical activity like walking and weight bearing exercises help the body build lean muscle mass. Lean muscle mass actively burns fat when the body is at rest. What this means is that on those days when one might decide to enjoy a treat like a hot fudge sundae or several slices of pizza, if he or she engages in regular physical activity, the body will burn the extra calories with no problems.
Strengthening the body is another goal of an active lifestyle. Physical activity not only builds lean muscles and burns fat, it also helps build strong joints and bones. This is important because as people age, the bones may become brittle and weak, making them more susceptible to dangerous fractures. Likewise, joints can weaken and the result can be pain and discomfort even when attempting simple tasks.
Considering the relationship between an active lifestyle and overall health, it makes perfect sense to set a goal of having a more active lifestyle and here is how to do it.
First, an active lifestyle is just that–it is a lifestyle. That means setting goals to be active everyday. The good news is that an active lifestyle does not need to be regimented.
For example, it is not necessary to purchase an expensive gym membership or follow a rigid daily plan to engage in physical activity. Research shows that engaging in short intervals of activity throughout the day will add up and pay off big by way of better health.
People who are usually not active can start by walking for 10 minutes a day most days of the week. Setting simple, attainable goals is a way to be more active without feeling overwhelmed by the challenge.
Achieving a more active lifestyle
Achieving a more active lifestyle should include doing things that are fun. People who enjoy dancing can turn up the music and dance up a sweat, all the while building a healthy heart and toning the Group workouts like high impact aerobics and similar group exercises are popular with people who enjoy socializing as much as exercising.
The benefits of an active lifestyle cannot be understated. They include reduced stress, a healthier body with less fat and stronger bones and joints. Additionally, an active lifestyle can prevent or delay the debilitating effects of chronic conditions like diabetes, cancer and stroke. The time to begin an active lifestyle is now. Start by walking a few minutes each day, taking the stairs rather than the elevator and using any opportunity to engage in physical activity.
What if you’ve been working out hard, but you keep getting injured?
It’s frustrating when you’re trying to improve your health and fitness and keep getting injured. You might feel like you’re doing something wrong or that you just can’t catch a break.
Chiropractic care is the answer to your injuries. With regular chiropractic care, you can heal from injuries faster and prevent them from happening in the first place.
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In yet another shocking admission the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) admitted, in response to a RTI (Right to Information) query, that it does not certify the identity, address, date of birth, resident status or existence of any individual or any Aadhaar number. The UIDAI has in a previous RTI had responded making it evident that it cannot identify anyone.
The admission that the UIDAI does not certify anything is a blow to every organisation and process that relies on the UIDAI for certifying the identity, address, date of birth, resident status or existence of any individual. It is now evident that not only is nothing identified, nothing is certified by the UIDAI.
The UIDAI also admitted that the biometric data of an individual does not pull up a unique record. This is an admission that the biometrics does not uniquely identify any person. This completely demolishes the myth of providing a unique identity to Indians.
The UIDAI has no idea about the identification documents used to assign an Aadhaar number to enrolment packets submitted by the enrolment agencies. This has damning repercussions for the genuineness of the entire Aadhaar database. In a previous RTI the UIDAI had admitted that the Aadhaar database or the processes of reduplication had never been subject to verification or audit. Now an admission that even the data about the documents submitted for enrolment are not known to the UIDAI. Private agencies were paid for each enrolment packet they submitted. Private agencies also benefit by being able to use ghost identities that they may have created to claim subsidies, park black money, do benami transactions, and launder money.
The RTI replies call to question the very basis of using the Aadhaar as a means to identify anyone, to use it to establish age, resident status, address or even existence of a person. It calls to question the use of Aadhaar in governance and financial systems.
The UIDAI has refused information about the enrolment operators and supervisors registered with the UIDAI. Only 20 registrar’s 8 state governments and 12 PSUs (public sector undertakings) had hired enrolment agencies who hired these operators. The 20 Registrars put together do not have a geographical reach to the 707 districts, 600,000 villages and 5,000 towns and cities of India. With the information of enrolment operators being withheld, the entire enrolment process to create the world’s largest biometric database is called to question.
The Supreme Court of India is hearing more than 22 PILs challenging the use of Aadhaar. The RTI replies make it evident that two successive governments have been taken for a complete ride by private interests controlling the Aadhaar ecosystem. The entire Aadhaar database is not worth the cost of the media used to store it and is the biggest technology scam since the invention of computers. It possesses the biggest risk to national security as every database in the country capable of identifying the citizens and beneficiaries is being replaced or destroyed by the Aadhaar database. Linking, seeding or using Aadhaar to construct or replace existing databases will make it impossible to protect the country’s economic, social, security and governance processes as they fail to identify threats, frauds, corruption, money laundering, and cyber war.
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Civil-rights icon lends support to preserve MLK home
CAMDEN - A blighted Camden home where activists believe Martin Luther King Jr. stayed during a pivotal period in his life received a high-profile visitor Monday: John Lewis, the Georgia congressman and civil-rights icon.
Lewis, a friend and contemporary of King’s who helped organize marches on Washington, D.C., and Selma, Alabama, that are still considered turning points in the civil-rights movement, added his voice in support of the effort to preserve the house at 753 Walnut St.
MORE COVERAGE: Race against time to save Camden home
Recalling his childhood in rural Alabama and meeting King, who called him "The boy from Troy," Lewis talked about getting into "good trouble" – the kind that led him to lead marches and sit-ins, and the kind that led Haddon Heights activist Patrick Duff to research bits of South Jersey history until he came upon the discovery of King's time here.
Pointing to Duff and Colandus "Kelly" Francis, whose efforts spurred the movement to preserve 753 Walnut, Lewis said, "The two of you are getting in trouble; this is good trouble, this is necessary trouble, to save this place.
"This place of historic real estate must be saved for generations unborn. Martin Luther King Jr. didn't just help change America; he helped change the world."
In the region to receive the Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia Monday night, Lewis was joined by U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, Mayor Dana Redd, Francis of the Camden County NAACP and Richard Smith of the state NAACP. The dignitaries were also joined by members of Camden's clergy, Jeanette Lilly Hunt (who owns the home) and the parents of Gabrielle Hill-Carter, the 8-year-old girl who was fatally shot in the same neighborhood.
Calling King "a wonderful, unbelievable human being" who "inspired me to stand up by sitting down," Lewis said it was important "for this city, this state and this nation to save this noble place."
Bob Considine, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection (which oversees the Historic Preservation Office) said in an email that "we’re actively trying to assist in getting this application to a point where we have the necessary, documentary evidence to support a National Registry listing."
He added: "Last month, we started soliciting state university’s history departments to see if they can assist in the efforts to build data for the case. When we have something to announce on that front, we will. We are also sending Historic Preservation Staff to Boston University for further study."
Considine said preserving the house was a priority for the department.
"These are things that are kind of above and beyond what the State Historic Preservation Office normally does. But as we’ve stated before, the idea that we could commemorate a location associated with Dr. King to New Jersey is something that excites us.
"(DEP) Commissioner Martin also had a good dialogue with Congressman Lewis this morning and he had some good suggestions to help us along the journey. So we’re appreciative of that."
"I was surprised, excited, happy, thankful. It means so much to have (Congressman Lewis') support," Hunt said as she sat at the front of the tent meant to keep the morning rain at bay. "It's a blessing."
In August, Norcross wrote the state Historic Preservation Office urging it to designate the home as a historical site.
The home, vacant for about a decade, is in dire need of repairs: Its roof is falling, its windows have long been boarded up and it sits on a blighted block where addicts wander and other houses are held up by wooden braces.
But in a 1981 Courier-Post story, its late owner Benjamin Hunt – the father-in-law of Jeanette Lilly Hunt – recalled King’s time there while studying at Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania
“In those days, anyone was welcome in this house,” Hunt, then 81, told the Courier-Post. "It had what we called a swinging door. My cousin Walter (McCall) was King’s friend and the two of them lived in the back room upstairs on and off for two years while they were in school.”
MORE ON 753 WALNUT: Norcross lends support to home's preservation
Norcross, a city resident and Democrat representing New Jersey's 1st District, in his letter cited Camden’s “unique and rich history … that grows stronger as new historical sites are found and invested in.”
Some, including Duff, an amateur historian, Father Michael Doyle of Sacred Heart Parish in South Camden and Francis, believe King’s interest in civil rights was sparked by an incident in nearby Maple Shade that occurred while he was living at the Camden home.
The incident, well documented in contemporary news reports, began when King, McCall and two female companions were refused service by the owner of Mary’s Place, a corner bar. When King and his friends refused to leave, the bar owner fired a gun into the air; McCall called police and while charges were filed, they were later dropped. King’s address was listed on the complaint as 753 Walnut St., Camden.
Speaking to the Courier-Post Friday, Duff said he felt a measure of vindication after a long, sometimes dizzying journey through city and state bureaucracies. "I would sometimes wonder, am I crazy?" he said.
“The mission I was on originally was to change the culture in (Maple Shade),” he added. “But then to find out that Dr. King lived in Camden, one of the poorest and most dangerous cities in America …”
“I think if people there knew that, it would give them hope that they can change the world, too.”
The Bergen Square neighborhood where the home sits has seen tragedy recently. Eight-year-old Gabrielle Hill-Carter was shot Aug. 24 while riding her bicycle nearby. She died two days later; the shooter is still at large.
Friday, Duff pointed out the area’s rich history: “I don’t know if people there realize it used to be the center of South Jersey’s civil-rights community. But I hope it will help them to see something positive in their neighborhood.”
As the rain began to fall again Monday after a brief respite, Lewis urged Duff, Francis and their fellow activists to press on, promising to talk to King's family to see if they might have documentation of his time in Camden.
"I would love to come back here and visit, and (see) a marker, this place, this building is restored, and it will be a day of jubilee," he said.
His voice rising, he exhorted, "Don't give up. Don't get lost in a sea of despair. Keep the faith."
Later, Norcross and Lewis joined Camden Mayor Dana Redd, at a forum with community leaders on gun violence at Odessa Paulk-Jones Community Center on Ferry Avenue.
Phaedra Trethan: (856) 486-2417; email@example.com
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Shia Rights Watch expresses its deepest concern for the lives of the Hazara population in Afghanistan following the recent bombings in Kabul. For far too long have the Hazara people lived with targets on their back while the world turns a blind eye to the violence that plague their lives.
On Saturday, May 8, a bomb detonated outside Kabul’s Syed Al-Shahda school for girls in Dasht-e-Barchi, killing 80 and injuring 147 others. The school was filled with students of the 11th and 12th grade.
The majority of those killed were students between the ages of 13-18.
Dasht-e-Barchi is largely populated by Shia Muslim.
Violence against Hazara Shia Muslims
The targeted nature of the bomb points to motivations based in extremism against Shia Muslims. The Hazara people are a population long identified as members of the Shia Muslim identity.
Hazara have faced very harsh and inhumane treatment throughout history. Once the largest ethnic group in the country, only make up 9 percent of the Afghan population today.
An estimated 60% of their population was exterminated during the 1890’s genocide of Hazaras in Afghanistan. During and after the genocide, Hazaras lands were confiscated and distributed , and tens of thousands of Hazaras men, women, and children were sold as slave. It is also reported that tens of thousands of Hazara captives were sold.
Labeled as ‘heretics.’ extremist groups including but not limited to the Taliban and ISIS, continue to dehumanize the Hazara and justify their brutal killings.
Local and National Responses
Afghan president Ashraf Ghani tweeted his condemnation after the attack, by casting responsibility on the Taliban. He noted the group’s unwillingness to support peace agreements.
No acknowledgement of the Hazara populations endangerment and failure to protect the population have been made by any of the country’s officials.
The Constitution of Afghanistan has several clauses which provide protection to minorities, including the Shia Hazara. The citizens of Afghanistan, man and woman, have equal rights and duties before the law. The Afghan government is responsible for protection and safety for all of the nations populace regardless of race or creed.
None-the-less, Shia populated areas of the country face the highest rates of violence and are supported with disproportionately less resources aimed at violence prevention.
President Ashraf Ghani along with all other national and local officials in Afghanistan are responsible for every life lost as a result of extremism in the country.
Call for Change
While the Taliban has denied involvement on Twitter through the group’s spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, sources report an increase in violence across the country following the announcement of withdrawal of NATO and U.S. forces on May 1. Taliban perpetrators have attacked cities and towns they identified as most vulnerable.
And given the vulnerability of Shia populated areas of the country, Shia Rights Watch expresses concern for the future of the Hazara population.
Shia Rights Watch calls on the international community to hold the Afghan government responsible for failing to protect members of the Hazara community.
It’s time for Afghan officials to do more than tweet condemnation to violence against the Shia minority.
It’s time for real change that protects innocent children against violence.
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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell to a seven-month low last week, but the pace of decline has slowed and further improvement could be limited by a raging COVID-19 pandemic and lack of additional fiscal stimulus.
Other data on Thursday showed consumer prices were unchanged in October as moderate gains in the cost of food were offset by cheaper gasoline amid slack in the economy. The frail economy is one of the major challenges president-elect Joe Biden faces when he takes over from President Donald Trump in January.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell by 48,000 to a seasonally adjusted 709,000 for the week ended Nov. 7. Data for the prior week were revised to show 6,000 more applications received than previously reported.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 735,000 applications in the latest week.
Despite claims dropping to their lowest since March, they remained above their peak of 665,000 during the 2007-09 Great Recession. Weak demand, especially in the services sector, is forcing employers to shed workers. Layoffs could accelerate as new coronavirus cases explode across the country.
Daily new COVID-19 infections are exceeding 100,000 and hospitalizations are surging as cooler weather draws people indoors, prompting some state and local governments to impose new restrictions on businesses. Even without restrictions, many consumers are likely to stay away from places such as bars, restaurants and gyms, fearing exposure to the illness. Restaurants and gyms moved outdoors during summer.
Unadjusted claims fell 20,799 to 723,105 last week. Economists prefer the unadjusted number given earlier difficulties adjusting the claims data for seasonal fluctuations because of the economic shock caused by the pandemic. Including a government-funded program for the self-employed, gig workers and others who do not qualify for the regular state unemployment programs, at least one million people filed claims last week.
Major U.S. stock indexes opened mixed as investors kept a wary eye on the coronavirus infections. The dollar slipped against a basket of currencies. U.S. Treasury prices rose.
Unemployment claims peaked at a record 6.867 million in March. Much of the improvement in the labour market came from businesses recalling laid-off and furloughed workers as companies and the unemployed accessed their share of more than US$3-trillion in government coronavirus relief.
But fiscal stimulus has run out, which will make it harder for the economy to generate enough jobs to absorb the millions of unemployed Americans. The number of people receiving benefits after an initial week of aid declined 436,000 to 6.786 million in the week ending Oct. 31. That partly reflected many people exhausting their six months of state benefits.
A total of 4.143 million people filed for extended unemployment benefits in the week ending Oct. 24, up 159,776 from the prior week. About 21.2 million people were receiving jobless benefits in late October.
The government reported last week that non-farm payrolls rose by 638,000 jobs in October, the smallest gain since the jobs recovery started in May. That followed 672,000 jobs added in September. Only 12.1 million of the 22.2 million jobs lost in March and April have been recovered.
In another report on Thursday, the Labour Department said its consumer price index was unchanged last month after a 0.2-per-cent increase in September. A 0.2-per-cent rebound in food prices was offset by a 0.5-per-cent drop in the cost of gasoline.
In the 12 months through October, the CPI climbed 1.2 per cent after increasing 1.4 per cent in September. Benign inflation could allow the Federal Reserve to keep its ultraeasy monetary policy for a long time to aid the recovery from the COVID-19 recession.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI would nudge up 0.1 per cent in October and advance 1.3 per cent on a year-on-year basis.
Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the CPI was also flat in October after rising 0.2 per cent in the prior month. Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence, which is what a homeowner would pay to rent or receive from renting a home, rose 0.2 per cent after ticking up 0.1 per cent in September. That offset a 0.4-per=cent decline in the cost of health care.
The so-called core CPI increased 1.6 per cent on a year-on-year basis after gaining 1.7 per cent in September.
The Fed’s preferred inflation measure, the core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index rose 1.5 per cent in the 12 months through September. The central bank has a 2-per-cent target, a flexible average. October’s core PCE price index data are scheduled to be released at the end of this month.
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LONG SICHUAN ROUTE ESTABLISHED IN TRIBUTE TO FOWLER AND BOSKOFF
Posted on: November 8, 2007
At the end of October, Joseph Puryear and Peter Inglis climbed this route (seen from the southeast) on Peak 5965m in the Genyen Massif, Shaluli Shan, Sichuan Province, China. in honor of Charlie Fowler and Christine Boskoff, who perished nearby. It is likely that the peak has never been climbed before, despite its moderate terrain; the pair roped up minimally for the easy rock and mixed climbing. [Photo] Courtesty of Joseph Puryear
This fall I had the chance to explore a number of mountainous regions of western Sichuan, China. In mid-October, Jay Janousek, Michelle Puryear, Peter Inglis, Julie Hodson and I made our way toward Mt. Genyen (6204m), in the Shaluli Shan Range. Following the extensive research of Tamotsu Nakamura, our objective was the unclimbed peak of elevation 5965m just west of Mt. Genyen, the second highest peak in the massif. Peter and Julie were good friends of Christine Boskoff and Charlie Fowler (who both were killed on Mt. Genyen the previous fall) and wanted to venture into the area to pay tribute to them.
Peter Inglis in the initial couloir. [Photo] Courtesty of Joseph Puryear
After bumping along on a three-day ride by hired van from Chengdu, we arrived at the small town of Sanla, southeast of the Genyen massif. With only a rough map provided by Mr. Nakamura and a picture of his taken from far away to the west, we were able to guess our way up into a hidden, remote valley that concealed the peak's southeastern aspect. Having already acclimatized from earlier weeks of attempting other peaks, we made quick progress and established basecamp within three days, thirty miles beyond Sanla. The trip took us through a vast wilderness, where we made friends with the nomadic people and generally took a step back in time on this distant region of the Tibetan plateau.
We set up basecamp at 4200 meters on October 19. The next day, Peter, Julie and I left for high camp, which we established at 5000 meters, below a glacier on the mountain's southeastern aspect. We climbed high into the basin below the peak to discover—for certain—that we were looking at the mass of rock, ice, snow and hanging glaciers we had set out for.
On October 21, we made an attempt by taking the path of least resistance up an easy glacier south of the peak. We made quick progress but eventually came to a major impasse, where a cliffy sub-summit impeded our progress. We retreated to high camp to scout out an alternate route. In retrospect, we could have ascended an easier route by approaching via the next major valley to the west, but such are the tribulations of first ascents.
We had seen two rocky couloirs (which we had hoped to avoid) that led to the ridge crest on the other side of the sub-summit. One looked easy, one hard. After much thought and discussion, we decided that the easy one didn't go anywhere (in hindsight, a very good assumption). So we decided to take the more challenging couloir. Early the next morning, October 22, Peter and I began climbing. Temperatures were cold, and the weather was unsettled but not threatening. Because of the short days and the length and unknown nature of what was ahead, we mutually decided to solo as much terrain as possible for the sake of speed, which translated to safety. Luckily, most of the chossy gully was frozen in place, and we quickly gained elevation. Just past mid-height, some 5th class rock and moderate mixed climbing provided some entertainment; above, some steep snow led us to the crest of a ridge, which took us to a steep snow headwall and the final east-trending summit ridge. We continued up over a large snow hump and were forced to down-climb exposed 60-degree snow on its backside. This led to a flat col where we took a small break.
Peter Inglis on the final summit ridge. [Photo] Courtesty of Joseph Puryear
We continued up an avalanche chute to the bergschrund below the upper south-facing headwall. Snow conditions on the entire climb had been perfect so we continued un-roped up the 55-degree headwall for about 200 meters to the ridge crest. The summit ridge was quite a surprise; it was very sharp and slightly corniced to the other side—very Alaskan in style. We decided to rope up for a 200-meter traverse to the small summit. We arrived just before noon, said a prayer for Charlie and Christine and began the uneventful descent. We carefully retraced our steps along the summit ridge, down-climbed the headwall, and climbed back to the top of the gully. In the gully we made four double-rope rappels down the steeper sections and downclimbed the rest. We had made the probable first ascent of the peak (moderate 5th class and mixed, ca. 1765m), the second highest peak in the massif. Once back in high camp, we rushed our packing so we might reach basecamp before dark.
The climb was a tribute from all of us to Charlie and Christine. As Peter said to me on the summit, "They died in the most beautiful place in the whole wide world. And we miss them dearly."
We spent another four days trekking, exploring around the north side of Mt. Genyen and visiting the 600-year-old Lengo Monastery before returning to Lamaya. In all, it was a prime ten days with striking mountains, excellent weather and great friends.
Joe Puryear, triumphant, on the summit of Peak 5965m. [Photo] Courtesty of Joseph Puryear
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How many hours should the pool pump and filter run? You’d think it would be a straight answer — X number of hours a day — end of story! But the swimming pool contractors from A Clear Choice Pool & Spa Service in Menifee CA explain there are many factors that go into determining the just right answer.
We do urge our clients to not “set it and forget it” with the pool pump and filter. We do urge people to use timers to ensure the pool pump and filter turn on when you want them to and off when they need to. Running the equipment during the overnight hours is also more cost-effective for you and is a lower draw on the electrical grid.
How many hours should the pool pump and filter run?
Running the pool pump and filter all day, every day would be ideal for the pool water quality, but not ideal for your wallet!
- The pool pump circulates the water and the chemicals. If the water didn’t move, it would become stagnant and become an ideal host for algae and bugs! The pool pump pulls the water in, pushes it into the filter, then pushes the filtered/cleaned water back into the pool. The pool water — all the pool water — needs to circulate entirely at least once a day — that is called “turnover.”
- Ask us to calculate the volume of water in the pool because that is the first step in determining how long the pool pump and filter need to run in order to turn the water over daily.
- Keep in mind that bigger isn’t always better when it comes to the pool pump. The pump needs to be sized correctly for your pool. A larger faster pool pump may turn the water over more quickly, but that doesn’t mean it’s efficient.
- An average amount of time to run the pool pump and filter is at least eight hours a day.
- Add the pool chemicals once the sun goes down to prevent evaporation of them and then turn on the pool pump and filter to fully circulate the chemicals through the water.
- The pool pump and filter, for example, may need to run eight hours a day, every day, but that doesn’t mean it always has to be consecutive hours.
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In this spirit of transparency, we admit we’re totally biased when we say “the most clever.” Why’s that? Because we created them. At any rate,
7 Magic Words That Help Reveal a Lie
In this 60 second video, you’ll learn a way to increase your chances of getting an honest answer from the folks you deal with every day — from buyers, to sellers, to vendors… to other real estate pros.
A Cornell University study reveals there are seven “magic words that help reveal a lie.” According to this video summary of the research, most people lie when speaking via telephone vs. communicating through email.
Also, according to the study, 14% of people will lie in email, 21% in a text message, 27% face-to-face, and 37% over the phone.
Because people are less likely to lie “on paper”, Richard Wiseman suggests the best thing to do is to say these 7 words, “Can you just email me about that?”
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CCTV and control rooms: Intelligent image analysis
A CCTV system provides service in different phases of a security process. As a fixed and visible element it has a deterrent effect and impacts the prevention phase, while the recorders facilitate the forensic analysis of incidents and enable solutions to be designed to mitigate security vulnerabilities. However, it has traditionally been used in support of other detection systems, which require significant investment. Eduardo Hernandez Ledesma, Security and Safety Manager at Metro Bilbao, S.A., explains how intelligent analysis of CCTV images has enabled them to minimise costs whilst maximising effectiveness.
Traditional CCTV systems require constant supervision yet provide a reduced image vision because an operator cannot monitor multiple images simultaneously. In the case of holdings with a large number of cameras, such a security system therefore becomes unviable. For this reason CCTV systems are usually used to support other detection systems, such as infrared barriers, motion detectors, door sensors, etc.; these elements are those that detect the event and define the time and place allowing the event to then be verified by the CCTV system.
This type of conventional solution – one supported by CCTV for the verification of alarms – generates a significant investment in both the purchase of the equipment, its installation and later the maintenance and constant monitoring of each element.
With the aim of minimising investment and eliminating physical components of the system that generate maintenance, Metro Bilbao has chosen solutions that base events detection on intelligent analysis of images generated by the cameras.
Where cameras have already been installed, their analysis software is able to perform the function of detection without the need for any additional installations at those locations. In areas not covered, only the necessary cameras to support the system required with previous solutions have been installed.
Metro Bilbao has opted for this solution, removing the previous equipment and replacing it with this type of technology. Previous experience showed that earlier systems generated a large number of unwanted alarms and that the elements had a high level of damage that, in turn, generated a process of intensive maintenance.
Currently we have implemented this solution in the perimeters of the workshops, emergency exits in tunnels, in the areas of transition from outside tunnel sections and in other certain sensitive external points.
For the intelligent analysis of images they are using, as support, conventional cameras and thermal cameras. The decision of whether to use of this type of camera over others is determined by different parameters that are analysed to adopt the most optimal solution. Such considerations include:
- Location – is it an interior space where conditions are stable or outdoors where the atmospheric situation affects or modifies the image generation?
- The distance that needs to be protected: conventional cameras have a range of 0-50m, while thermal cameras can successfully cover greater distances of up to 150m and 200m. In some cases they have been programmed for yet greater distances, although these types provide images of very low quality.
The use of thermal cameras facilitates detection in areas where you have to discern different objects such as the inside of tunnels, where it is necessary to distinguish between an object (train/machinery) and people owing to the different range of temperature.
Weather conditions substantially alter images generated by conventional outside cameras which causes failures in the schedules. Thus, for the purpose of effective image analysis it has become advisable to use thermal cameras that are more stable in climate change. However, the visual output of a thermal camera does not have the same definition that is generated by a conventional camera, resulting in a loss of the quality of person identification but not in the quality of the event definition.
The software configures the image through algorithms, being able to detect a person who wants to enter the facilities which generates an alarm that is sent to the control centre which is manned by security staff. The image marks the areas of detection by associating them with each other and creating larger groups.
Three types of detection are used: excision, pre-alarm, and inhibition and uses cycles of measurement of time (40ms, 160ms) up to 2.5 seconds for detection of behaviours of people.
For Metro Bilbao this solution has provided extra support to the control centre operators who currently view the tool in a very positive way. There are fewer unwanted alarms, fewer breakdowns and therefore greater equipment availability, easier detection of anomalies in the equipment which, in turn, generates a faster recovery of them, as well as greater speed in decision-making when it certifies a detection.
The use of images, both with thermal and conventional analysis, as elements of detection provided very satisfactory results. However, in order to adjust the system and achieve its maximum effectiveness by reducing unwanted alarms requires an initial effort in its design and programming. Experience has shown that deciding the installation area and the image that will be performing the analysis is essential to obtaining results. It then requires a test to gather trial and error results to get the most optimal configurations. It is important to have an in-depth knowledge of the space that you want to protect and the behaviour of people who act in the environment. In general it is a process that takes time which should be dealt with first, but, on the other hand, the experience in programming enables it to provide knowledge that is applicable for the following facilities.
These systems are currently evolving a lot and providing better and more economic solutions in all its range of components: thermal cameras, video recorders and analysis software.
Another factor that must be taken into account when assessing the installation of this type of technology is that they are monitored in real-time and all teams can detect faults and troubleshoot which greatly reduces the time of non-availability.
The overall assessment from Metro Bilbao is that the use of these systems has improved the detection of events and decision-making that is generated before alarms are raised, with reduced response times, reduced numbers of unwanted alarms, reduced costs of maintenance of equipment and increases in the time in which they are available.
Eduardo Hernandez Ledesma has studied Technical Industrial Engineering and has a bachelor’s degree in Civil Protection and Emergency Management as well as in Development and Implementation of Self-protection Plans in the University of Valencia. Besides a Master degree in Industrial Organisation Engineering, he has completed the ’Security Director’ course organised by the university of V.I.C. as well as other courses in fire protection and tunnels safety. Eduardo is currently the Security and Safety Manager at Metro Bilbao, S.A. and previously from 2002 to 2008 within the same company he acquired knowledge of railway operations through working in the operational area. His experiences elsewhere includes maintenance, production and quality management. Eduardo has been a Member of the UITP’s SecCom from 2009 and he has been a speaker at several conferences and participant of several security related European projects.
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The Ellen Pao-Kleiner Perkins trial shone a light on discrimination in the tech industry, but for a more immediate look at the challenges women face in corporate America, look no further than a Google Images search.
Doing a search at the site for “CEO” reveals just one female face in the top results: CEO Barbie. The doll (which may not even be a real Barbie product) appears way down in the results, under a sea of male, mostly white faces.
It’s not really the fault of Google, whose algorithms in many ways reflect the pervasive culture: Most of the top images labeled CEO at popular sites apparently are men. But it’s an indication of how under-represented woman are at the top of the corporate ladder.
Nor is Google alone in its results, noticed earlier by The Verge. Search for “CEO” on Bing and the service offers to refine your search to “women CEO”—using the same picture of Barbie. Much lower down, Bing shows an image of former Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts.
The results offer a glimpse into a male-dominated corporate culture, but they are also skewed against women. For the aforementioned Google search, 11 percent of the faces depicted in the top 100 results are women, but 27 percent of U.S. CEOs are female, according to researchers at the University of Washington, who published results of a study on the issue Thursday.
It works the other way, too. Do a Google Images search for “telemarketer,” and women dominate the top results, even though that occupation is split evenly between men and women, the researchers said.
The search results aren’t inconsequential, according to the study: They influence how people view the real world.
“In a few jobs—including CEO—women were significantly underrepresented in Google image search results … and that can change searchers’ worldviews,” the researchers said.
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This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors.
War changes people, however a less explored question is how different societies want people to change as they are turned into warriors. When societies go to war they recognize that a boundary is being crossed. The participants are expected to do things that are otherwise prohibited, or at least governed by different rules. This edited volume analyses how different cultures have conceptualized the transformations of an individual passing from a peacetime to a wartime existence to become an active warrior. Despite their differences, all societies grapple with the same question: how much of the individual’s peace-self should be and can be retained in the state of war? The book explores cases such as the Nordic berserkers, the Japanese samurai, and European knights, as well as modern soldiers in Germany, Liberia, and Sweden. It shows that archaic and modern societies are more similar than we usually think: both kinds of societies use myths, symbols, and rituals to create warriors. Thus, this volume seeks to redefine theories of modernization and secularization. It shows that military organizations need to take myths, symbols, and rituals seriously in order to create effective units.
This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, war studies, sociology, religion, and international relations in general.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. Symbolic and Mythological Perspectives on War and Peace join the Archaic with the Modern, Peter Haldén and Peter Jackson
2. A Portrait of the Warrior as a Beast: Hunter, Man, and Animal in Sophocles Trachiniae and Schwarzenegger’s Predator, Johan Tralau
3. Cycles of the Wolf: Unmasking the Young Warrior in Europe’s Past, Peter Jackson
4. "Laughing I shall die!" The Total Transformations of Berserks and Ulfhednar in Old Norse Society, Andreas Nordberg and Frederik Wallenstein
5. Professionalization of Transformation: From Knights to Officers in the Renaissance, Gorm Harste
6. Transformation into Manhood: Sex, Violence and the Making of Warriors, Women and Victims in Early Modern Europe, Maria Sjöberg
7. Japanese Warrior Transformations: Bushidō as the Continuation of Death by other Means, Dan Öberg
8. Mystical and Modern Transformations in the Liberian Civil War, Ilmari Käikhö
9. Transformation into Nature: Swedish Army Ranger Rites of Passage, Jan Angstrom
10. From Total to Minimal Transformation: German Oaths of Loyalty 1871-2014, Peter Haldén
11. The Warrior on the Edge of Tomorrow, Christopher Coker
12. The Haunted Road: Failed Transformations and the Return from War or, A Historical Sociology of War Veterans, Gorm Harste
13. Conclusions. The Transformations of the Future, Peter Haldén
Peter Haldén is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University (SDU) in Stockholm. He is the author of Stability without Statehood (2011), Geopolitics of Climate Change (2007) and co-editor of New Agendas in Statebuilding: Hybridity, Contingency and History (2013).
Peter Jackson is Professor at the department of History of Religions at Stockholm University. He is the author of The Transformations of Helen: Indo-European Myth and the Roots of the Trojan Cycle (2007), and editor of Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice: Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond (2015).
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A new GLO Discussion Paper finds a decreasing trend in subjective poverty in 16 of 28 countries. Conversely, the official relative income poverty indicator exhibits increasing trends in eleven countries, with decreasing trends in only four countries.
GLO Discussion Paper No. 892, 2021
Trends in subjective income poverty rates in the European Union – Download PDF
by Želinský, Tomáš & Mysíková, Martina & Garner, Thesia I.
GLO Fellow Tomas Zelinsky
Author Abstract: When developing anti-poverty policies, policy makers need accurate data on the prevalence of poverty. In this paper, we focus on subjective poverty, a concept which has been largely neglected in literature, yet remains a conceptually appealing way to define poverty. The primary goal of this study is to re-examine the concept of subjective poverty measurement and to estimate trends in subjective poverty rates in the European Union. Our estimations are based on a minimum income question using data from a representative survey, EU-SILC, and we find a decreasing trend in subjective poverty in 16 of 28 countries. Conversely, the official relative income poverty indicator exhibits increasing trends in eleven countries, with decreasing trends in only four countries. We believe that these trends may reflect changes in societies which have not been previously captured, and our results thus enrich the existing data on general poverty trends in the EU.
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It is suggested to avoid the diffusers that use high levels of heat so as not to alter the aromatic properties of the important oils. Otherwise, these diffusers can be an affordable and quiet alternative. launch the oil in sectors, depending on air flow to press the aroma into the room rapidly (Innogear Aromatherapy Diffuser Humming Sound).
How To Use An Oil Diffuser The finest place for an oil diffuser is in the center of the room so that the oils are uniformly dispersed. Place it on a flat surface and plug it into a close-by power outlet. The type of cases differ in between various designs, but normally, the top will need to be taken off in order to fill it with water.
Few people know that these items are only expected to have a run time of 15 to 20 minutes, she says. After diffusing for brief durations, Tamlyn advises turning your diffuser off for at least an hour to provide your body a rest from the important oils. Tamlyn states that passive diffusion utilizing an ultrasonic design is the best technique of using important oils in your house.
She recommends using less essential oil if you're diffusing in a small area, particularly if people or pets remain in close proximity. Innogear Armoatherapy Diffuser. She advises to do your research study when acquiring essential oils and always keep it out of reach of kids and family pets. There have been few clinical research studies on essential oils and the market has not been controlled by the FDA.
ASPCA lists the issue as complex and recommends caution if you prepare to utilize important oils around your pets. "As long as the oil diffusers are kept in a protected place where animals are unable to knock them over or consume any of the contents," states Leslie Brooks, Doctor of Veterinary Medication and veterinarian specialist for betterpet.
If you utilize an oil diffuser and after that observe your feline or canine coughing or sneezing or having watery eyes, it might be because of the oil diffuser. Felines might be specifically delicate if they currently have asthma." The oils are believed to be the most dangerous in their most concentrated kind prior to diffusing and your animal could suffer if the concentrated oil is consumed or gets straight on their skin.
"When you initially use a diffuser, remain at house and monitor your family pet," says Ochoa. "If you notice any issues, turn the diffuser off and air out your house. Initially use, just a little bit of the oils as family pets have a more powerful smell than human beings." Other Vital Oil Diffusers We Evaluated More Articles You Might Enjoy Monitoring our work.
(4. 5/ 5) The Inno, Equipment 100ml Important Oil Diffuser is rapidly taking over the charts of best important oil diffusers on Amazon lately. This little diffuser unit is a major contentder for novice vital oil users. It's an too! Have actually a gone through this review and see if this might be! Contents What's The Best Feature Of This Vital Oil Diffuser? At a price point of ca.
While diffusing the oils, to prevent dry, stuffy air and flu/cold bacteria. It has: constant mist, lights just, and periodic mist at 30 seconds on, then 30 seconds off. The oil isn't burned like a standard candle burning oil diffuser or anything, which indicates the aromatherapy benefits of the oil you're utilizing are maintained completely.
100ml nevertheless is a pretty basic size, which will offer you ca. 3 hours of diffusing time, and up to 6 hours of diffusing time on the periodic setting that is 30 seconds on/ 30 seconds off. On the note of that 30 seconds on/ 30 seconds off mode, I personally do not discover it that incredible and never ever use mine.
or in a space like an office that has perhaps radio music in the background currently anyways. Then, it's rather beneficial due to the fact that it basically, which may desirable if you choose a not so strong scent in your environment, and you don't wish to have to refill the water every 3 hours either.
Filling this diffuser is easy by getting rid of the top cap, and filling the inside cylinder with water. Does It Have An Auto Shut-off Mechanism? Yes, this diffuser will turn off immediately when the water runs out another really basic standard feature that you can anticipate from any essential oil diffuser.
For light sleepers, this is a consideration however since you may not like to have any sound when trying to go to bed. However, all essential oil diffusers will have a small humming noise, it's simply not something you can navigate at all - Using Innogear Diffuser. As this diffuser runs at a whisper-quiet level, it is still ideal for night time usage for many people.
It says to utilize Citric Acid in water and let it set for 5 minutes. You may have a difficult time discovering Citric Acid locally, but it can be purchased on Amazon too, so you might wish to consider purchasing it at the exact same time when you buy the diffuser.
What's The Service Warranty Or Refund Policy? The company provides an outstanding 45 days Cash Back guarantee and 18 months of guarantee on their diffuser - Do You Have To Get Special Oils For Your Innogear Diffuser. From consumer evaluations, you can find out that they appear to be truly excellent about replacing units that are malfunctioning, which might or might not need to happen from time to time in electronic products.
What remains in The Box? 1 x Fragrance Diffuser1 x Wall Charger1 x Measuring Cup for Filling Water1 x User Manual, Note: Oil is not included in this package Consumer Reviews I love diffusers, and this one is a terrific size! It's just the best size to fit on my counter - Innogear 100ml Diffuser How Many Drops.
A few individuals note that the diffuser manual is tough to understand due to the fact that of some translation spaces, but with an easy 2-button operating procedure, the diffuser is not difficult to utilize at all and has actually thrilled numerous customers already! In Summary The Inno, Gear Important Oil Diffuser is! It includes all the basic features you would anticipate form a diffuser, such as misting ability and mood lighting choices.
In addition to an easy on-off switch, it also has an intermittent working mode of 30 seconds on/30 seconds off, which enables you to leave the diffuser on for a longer time without needing to refill it. It comes in handy that the diffuser includes a measuring cup for the water so that you will not overfill it by mishap.
Mothers wanting a fresh, relaxing area in their home may wish to spritz their area up using the Inno, Equipment Vital Oil Diffuser. The diffuser can add an enjoyable scent in any space and is small to medium in size. It actually uses up little room on the counter top offered the large task that it does.
Twist off the leading and fill the water canister inside to the fill line. A determining cup, marked in milliliters, likewise features the diffuser. The fill cup is fantastic for easily including water inside. Other diffusers that I've had actually needed me to put the diffuser under the spigot or to grab a cup to add water to the fill line.
The diffuser runs up to 10 hours, using an intermittent mist, and immediately shuts off as soon as the water in the tank has been diffused. Continuous mist is another choice, but the diffuser just runs for five to six hours on this setting. Due to the fact that the mist is cold, this diffuser is safe to use around youngsters.
The business sells a variety of diffusers, more than 60 variations, in addition to solar lights and, who would've believed microphone sets and stands. Innogear® 100ml Aromatherapy Essential Oil Diffuser Portable Ultrasonic Cool Mist Aroma Humidifier. Copyright 2020 Tribune Content Agency.
The Spruce/ Brie Dyas On the front of the diffuser, there are two buttons: one that controls the color settings and one that handles the mist. We found that the biggest issue with the design is the cap. Screwing the cap on and off is a little tough, and we weren't able to do so without spilling water.
The other problem with this diffuser is the size of the water tank (Innogear 150ml Diffuser). Keep in mind how we pointed out how compact the device is? That comes at the expenditure of a larger water tank. With an optimum capacity of 100 ml of water, it can run constantly for 3 to four hours.
By pressing the mist button, you can toggle in between the diffuser's periodic and continuous modes (How Long Do I Have To Let The Innogear Diffuser Run For For The First Time). The mist button turns green when in periodic mode and turns red in constant mode. With a complete water tank, the diffuser will run continuously for three to four hours. On periodic mode, the diffuser runs for about 7 hours, misting every 30 seconds.
After screening in the house, we discovered this was a pretty accurate description as it had the ability to adequately scent a little bedroom, however it wasn't obvious in the corridor. When the diffuser is running, it is entirely silent. It's so quiet, in truth, that we might see it being used as a night light as well.
Still can't choose on what you want? Take a peek at a few of the best whole-home humidifiers you can buy. The Inno, Gear Aromatherapy Necessary Oil Diffuser is indisputably well-priced. At less than $20, the unit is a bargain and the money you conserve on it can be put toward vital oils.
It's so peaceful, in fact, that we might see it being utilized as a night light too. We compared the Inno, Equipment Aromatherapy Essential Oil Diffuser to a number of other aromatherapy diffusers on the marketplace and discovered that though it's a standard design, the rate is ideal. The one feature that the Inno, Gear diffuser lacks is a timer setting.
It features color changing lights that include green, dark blue, red, yellow, light blue, pink, and white. The LED lights are dimmable and can be run without the mist, meaning this can double as a night light. This makes it a nice choice for a bedroom. This aromatherapy diffuser likewise has 3 working modes: periodic mist (30 seconds on and 30 seconds off), constant, and lights just.
The 3 different modes are controlled by a green/red/off-mist buttons. The green dot indicates a continuous cycle which lasts for as much as 3 hours, while the red dot sets off a periodic mist mode that varies 30 seconds both on and off, and will last for approximately 6 hours. When you choose the off choice, the diffuser will provide light with no mist.
You can conveniently sleep during the night and be sure it will be off in the morning if the water has actually gone out. There are 3 running functions: intermittent mist of 30 seconds on and 30 seconds off; you can choose to leave it on continuous mode; or lights just with no mist - Innogear 200ml Diffuser Online User Manual.
The off button, on the other hand, is utilized for the light changing colors without mist. For more interval options, have a look at the Innogear Real Bamboo Diffuser. See specifications on next tab. The diffuser is little so you can easily bring it along on a trip or move it from room to room.
9" in width and 5. 7" in height, and can easily fit on the tiniest shelf in any space. The diffuser will immediately turn off when the water in the tank runs out and does not require tracking which makes it hassle-free for usage over night. The motor of the diffuser is peaceful making it excellent for bed rooms, or meditation spaces.
The diffuser provides intermittent mode and constant mode for more control - What To Do If Innogear Essential Oil Diffuser Stops Producing Mist. Unlike some diffusers, the Inno, Gear oil diffuser does not heat your oils, which can trigger uneven evaporation. Sometimes leaks water The diffuser tends to diffuse a lower volume compared to other models The diffuser has a shorter life expectancy Some have actually discovered the diffuser tough to open, which makes it difficult to fill the water tank.http://www.eduwiselanguage.com
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I seem to return again and again to Pic du Midi de Bigorre, a pole around which some of my memories rotate, collect, and coalesce like the dust of a primordial solar system or galaxy, perhaps to come to life again.
Just recently, an article in The Guardian with readers’ recommendations for out-of-the-way European travel spots suggested visiting the Pyrenees and highlighted the mountain range’s clean air. The Pyrenees have been somewhat ignored by foreigners, except for eccentric Englishmen like Count Henry Russell.
The fact that for a third of the twentieth century the mountains were a land frontier with a country under a dictatorship did not encourage drop-in visitors and was a factor, though in the south many British pensioners stretched their incomes by moving to the Costa del Sol.
As for mountain scenery, the Alps are much higher, have big glaciers, are closer to large population centers, have more snow and longer lasting snow, and were an early center for climbing for the French and the English.
The Pyrenees are much more wild, and far less developed, particularly in the eastern part of the range, where French government and European environmental groups have been trying to reestablish a self-sustainable bear population. That effort has met vocal and vigorous opposition from pastoralists who must deal with occasional depredations on livestock. Transhumance in the Pyrenees has been an important part of the local economy from at least the Middle Ages.
Hitchhiking through the Pyrenees in the mid-sixties, I seldom encountered cars with foreign license plates, and all the rides that I received were with French drivers.
More recently, however, British writers have produced some excellent guide books in the Ciceron series of mountaineering and climbing guides.
Recently, French newspapers have reported on the discovery of micro plastics in the thin air of that Pic du Midi. This should come as no surprise since plastic particles have been found from pole to pole. Plastics have contaminated the food that we eat, and through food, our bodies. A huge mass of plastics floats in the Pacific, while I, myself, cannot go down to the shingle beach behind my house without seeing all varieties of plastic items, the flotsam and jetsam of life in our modern age.
What did come as a surprise to some scientists studying the plastic nanoparticules on the summit of Pic du Midi was their origin: the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, suggesting vast transport mechanisms.
Plastics are ubiquitous on earth, to the extent that some have suggested that a new geological age be created and named the Plastocene. We don’t have to search for irony in the scene from the movie, The Graduate, where an adult friend of the protagonist’s father approaches young Benjamin, and shares his important life secret: the future is in plastics.
The Graduate was released in 1967, the same year I trained for the Peace Corps. At that time in Morocco, grocers used old newspapers and bags made of cheap and coarse blue paper to wrap beans, rice, and other bulk items. In Tangier, an expatriate Englishman, who offered fish and chips from a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the medina, served up his take-out food wrapped in newsprint as was the custom in Britain. Still, change was on the horizon. In the short four years of my first stay in Morocco, thin plastic bags slowly replaced the old paper ones and newspaper wrappings became ever less common.
In those days, municipal dump sites consisted largely of organic waste materials. Tin cans, glass, and plastic bottles were picked out of the waste sites by scavengers. Rather than a mound, waste sites in Morocco were often flat empty places, picked clean by people and animals. As in the account of life in a Mumbai slum, All the Beautiful Forevers, where some of the book’s characters earned their living by scavenging trash, so did some Moroccans. I have a photo somewhere of the municipal dump site of Chauen, from the mid-nineteen seventies, that shows a strikingly flat and barren place, picked clean of everything.
In the States and Canada, the term waste management is somewhat of an oxymoron, and now manifests itself as an industry with a few very giant players. Recycling is common, encouraged by environmental interests as well as governments hoping to preserve landfill space and perhaps make a bit of money. Much waste is shipped abroad where it ends up burned or otherwise inappropriately disposed of. Better waste management would include reducing the amount generated in addition to recycling and various disposal solutions.
Not too long ago, a U.S. forest services employee, who had tested the Colorado air for years for certain predetermined substances, decided out of curiosity to look at his samples under a microscope one day, and, to his surprise, saw tiny black particles. Need I tell you what they were?
Today Morocco has joined other nations of the world in the fight to reduce and manage waste and keep it out of the environment. The effort is expensive and Morocco’s progress has been slow. Perhaps, if Peace Corps returns to the country after the pandemic, it will bring young waste management experts. More likely is that giant waste management firms will eventfully find the Moroccan market profitable and move in with their own people.
The chemical giant DuPont used to have an advertising slogan, “Better living through chemistry.” While there is no doubt that the modern world is dependent on plastics, there is also little doubt that non-recyclable plastics, used indiscriminately and disposed of improperly, are ruining the planet. Yes, a Moroccan farmer in Taounate can produce cheaper tomatoes using drip irrigation from plastic tubes, but there always remains the question of where the plastic goes after it is used, not to mention the environmental cost of producing it.
Modern life is unimaginable without plastics, but we might all be better served by their more judicious and less frivolous use.
In the wake of the latest IPCC report on climate change, I noticed an item in the French press about recent temperatures recorded on the summit of the Pic du Midi. Now, there are actually two sites called Pic du Midi in France, both in the Pyrenees. Pic du Midi d’Ossau sits near the Spanish border.
Detached from the rest of the range, the mountain towers over the valley of Laruns, and its silhouette immediately attracts the eyes of those strolling on the Boulevard des Pyrenees in Pau.
The Pic du Midi de Bigorre is also visible from Pau, though one must look to the southeast. This 9,500 foot mountain is on the northern edge of the Pyrenees, well in advance of the main crest which marks the frontier with Spain, and higher than most of the mountains around it.
The Pic du Midi de Bigorre has several claims to fame. An observatory on the mountain is famous and many years ago telescopes there captured photos of the moon used by the British astronomer Patrick Moore to create a detailed atlas of our satellite’s surface.
When I was 11 or so, I developed an interest in astronomy, and I actually knew who Patrick Moore was when I arrived in Pau, as well his role in astronomy. On the other hand, I hardly knew anything about France, especially the southwest. The discovery of big mountains and proximity to the ocean was a joy.
A few days ago, the press noted that the temperature on the summit of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre had just equaled the previous record high temperature for an August night and approached the all time nighttime high for any month. On the night of August 13–14 the temperature reached 58° F (14.5° C), only equaled once before in August, 2012. None of these temperatures can be described as balmy, but the mountain is almost 9,500 feet high. The record high of 58.8 (14.9° C) was recorded in June 2019, and the climate on the mountain is clearly warming. Incidentally, the annual nighttime low for mid-summer is 35.4° F (1.9° C).
The article on the Pic du Midi reminded me of my own youthful encounter with the summit many years ago. In the summer of 1965, I was studying French at a summer program for foreigners in Pau in southwest France. I had come to France that summer to extend my stay in Europe, occasioned by an autumn semester abroad in Montpellier. The trip to Europe was my first and I was determined to make the most of it. Learning French was the goal, but after that I had no clear idea about what I wanted. I had never heard of Pau until the summer program there was recommended by an upperclassman at my college. Despite having had 4 years of French, my command of the spoken language was minimal, and my ignorance of the history and culture of France was immense.
Around July 1, Canada Day, I took the train from Niagara Falls to Montreal, and left the next day on a Cunard liner bound for Liverpool. As I remember, the ship took well over a week to arrive. The route up the St. Lawrence River and out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence took two days by itself. The ship didn’t stop in Quebec City, but it slowed down and took on passengers from a motor launch.
The ship passed through the strait of Belle Isle between Newfoundland and Labrador, rounded northern Ireland, and stopped briefly to unload passengers in Greenock, Scotland. There were a lot of Scots on the trip including a table full of Scottish Canadians from Toronto with whom I took my meals. Scots make up Canada’s third largest ethnic origin after the English and the French.
After leaving the St Lawrence, whales and icebergs were the only sights till Scotland. There wasn’t much to do aboard. The ship, in its last years of service, was definitely not a luxury liner, but it was as inexpensive as the cheapest air travel, and gave me an opportunity to experience a transatlantic ship passage. At Christmas, I flew back on an Air Canada flight to Toronto, seated beside Italian immigrants.
Arriving in Liverpool, I took the train to London and spent a couple of days sightseeing. By chance, standing outside Westminster Hall, I saw a carriage with the Queen and President Eduardo Frei of Chile, in London for a state visit. I suppose that this event was a highlight. Otherwise, I saw only a small selection of the standard tourist sights. I knew a lot about how parliament operated from my Canadian studies, but virtually nothing about Great Britain.
On July 14, I took a train to France and arrived at the Gare du Nord, the streets still displaying litter in the aftermath of Bastille Day. I then caught an overnight train with couchettes to Pau, arriving on a brilliant summer morning. I don’t think it rained more than a day during my six-week stay. Pau deserves its reputation for a mild and pleasant climate. One of the least windy areas of France, Pau was a center for training paratroopers.
I didn’t live in a dormitory. I rented a room from a wonderful elderly widow who took in students studying in Pau during the summer. The other lodgers were older than me and I didn’t socialize much with them. By the third week I hadn’t made any friends, and was beginning to feel a bit lonely.
Though I had a room in Madame Pineaud’s house, I took my meals in the communal dining hall at the summer school, a lycée during the regular scholastic year. I still remember the entrance to the school building, which had a quote from the Roman playwright Terence over the doors: “Je suis un homme, rien de ce qui est humain ne m’est étranger.” (“I am a man, nothing that is human is foreign to me.”)
One night at dinner I met a Finnish student and asked her if she’d like to go out for coffee. Sitting on the terrace of a cafe, we conversed in somewhat halting French until the subject of where we were from came up. When I said that I was from Niagara Falls, she replied that she had grown up in Niagara Falls, Ontario. From that point, we spoke English which she spoke just as well as I did, though with a softness from her native Finnish. Her family had moved to Canada after WWII, when she was very young, then moved back to Finland when she was in her teens. She had spoken enough English by then to affect her Finnish.
Terry and I spent much of the rest of the summer together, hitchhiking around the local countryside. In those times it was easy to get rides, and we carried flags that identified us as foreigners. The French were gracious about picking us up.
Wednesday afternoons were free from classes so it was easy to visit places within 30 to 40 miles or even more, though sometimes we got back to Pau as dark was falling. Weekends offered the chance to go much farther, and on one of them we decided to visit the Pic du Midi.
The 6,000 foot high pass, le Col du Tourmalet, on one side of the mountain, is part of a famously difficult bike segment of the Tour de France, but Pic du Midi’s real renown comes from its observatory as well as the summit, which was then accessible by auto for visits to the observatory and a spectacular panorama.
One Saturday Terry and I set off for the mountain. Though it was the beginning of August and the roads were full of tourists, we did not arrive at the Col du Tourmalet until late in the afternoon.
Without much thought about the time, we decided walk up the toll road to the top, about 3,000 feet above the pass. The road had already closed for the night so we knew we would have to walk up and back down.
We arrived just before dark. The valleys were clouded in, but the sunset view was spectacular. We knew that we had a long, but downhill walk back to the main road and there might not be much traffic there when we reached it, but we took the chance. We were rewarded by a breathtaking sunset on the deserted mountain.
The temperature was beginning to drop, and at 9,000 feet in the Pyrenees the nights are quite cold. On an earlier trip to the Lac d’Artouste, we descended on the last cable car of the day in summer attire and the trip down and back to Pau was chilly. We were lucky. This August night was not especially cold, and though the air cooled rapidly, our walk kept us warm enough. Terry had a light jacket. I just had a sweatshirt.
From Tourmalet down, the few cars that passed us did not stop. We had decided to head to the closest ski resort, La Mongie, a few thousand feet and four kilometers away. The clouds evaporated. The night was clear and a full moon lit the ridges and valleys. The heights cast deep shadows, and the sky was full of stars despite the moonlight. We were very tired when we reached the resort, but not exhausted. When we arrived, the desk clerk expressed surprise that he had not heard a car—few guests arrived without one. The hotel was virtually empty. La Mongie in those days was a place for winter fun, and today is one of the largest ski centers in the Pyrenees. Since the road we walked to the summit is now closed, most of today’s visitors take a cable car from La Mongie.
The next day we headed back to Pau by the same route. A French family picked us up, and took us back up to the top of the mountain with them and, as the weather was clear, we got to see the expansive panorama of the central Pyrenees that the mountaintop offers visitors.
We had little trouble hitching back to Pau that fine Sunday afternoon, and were satisfied with an excursion that turned into an adventure, a long moonlit walk through rugged and deserted mountain scenery.
Climate change has indeed come to the Pic du Midi. Daytime summer temperatures there used to reach 68° F (20° C) only about once every twenty years. That temperature has now been exceeded for three years in a row: 2019, 2020, and 2021.
The largest glacier in the Pyrenees, le Glacier d’Ossoue, stretched 5 kilometers when Count Henry Russell, an Englishman who fell in love with the Pyrenees, climbed Vignemale and surrounding peaks.
Today it is only 1.3 kilometers long, and the glacier is likely to disappear by mid-century, if not much sooner. When it disappears, the caves that Henry Russell had blasted into the side of Vignemale will only be accessible to skilled climbers. In his day, Russell had them stocked with food and wine, threw elaborate dinner parties, and spent nights in them from time to time.
The Pyrenees are about as high as the northern Rockies in the United States where the glaciers of Glacier National Park are melting. Mountain glaciers around the world are receding rapidly. In some cases, the effects may be catastrophic. The demise of the Himalayan glaciers will have tremendous impacts on India and Pakistan, where the great rivers that flow from those mountains into the plains of the Indian subcontinent provide irrigation water during the dry season of the monsoons. Tens of millions of small farmers will face disaster, ironically, in the very area where one of the earliest civilizations arose.
Everyone should take a course in historical geology, coupled perhaps, with another on the history of science. Few people seem to be able to grasp the scale of geologic time. The earth is about 4.5 billion years old. A million years is a relatively short period.
I try to explain geologic time this way: the earth’s climate has been rising rapidly due to man-made activity since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-eighteenth century. The change has accelerated substantially since the 1950s. What we are talking about in our discussions of the causes of climate change has happened over only a century or two.
The meteorite that created the Chicxulub crater sixty-five million years ago created immense damage in a few days. The power of the collision of that meteorite with the Earth really staggers the imagination, and I doubt that even the best efforts of Hollywood special effects artists could capture it. The extent of plant and animal extinction, and, especially, the total disappearance of sea animals, such as the hitherto highly successful ammonites, as well as all non-avian dinosaurs testifies to the effects of habitant disruption by a climate change that happened virtually overnight, though we can be certain that the effects of the Chicxulub meteorite continued on for hundreds and thousands of years before the climate stabilized. If one measures a few days up against a few centuries on a geologic scale that is measured in millions, the difference becomes almost insignificant, particularly in view of the fact that the effects of current climate change, like those of the Chicxulub strike, will continue long after the causes have disappeared.
There is an old joke about a man who tries to talk with God. One day, at long last, his efforts are finally rewarded when God answers.
“What is it that you want from Me?”
The man replies, “Please tell me, God, how long is a million years to you?”
God replies, “A million years is as a second.”
“And how much is a million dollars to you?” asks the man.
God answers that a million dollars is as a penny.
Finally, the man asks God, “Can you lend me a million dollars?”
God replies, “Of course. Just a second.”
People must adjust their thinking to time frames far beyond quarterly profits and election cycles to have any chance of managing climate change. Time has almost run out for limiting the rise of the earth’s temperature to 1.5° C. Should climate change continue unchecked and global temperatures continue to rise, the world as we know it will be gone forever.
Last week scientists noted the first rainfall ever on the Greenland Icecap. Rain had never been witnessed there before. Indeed, the scientists had no rain gauge among their meteorological equipment to measure the amount, since none had ever fallen.
My theory is that it wasn’t rain at all, but tears shed by God as He looked down upon what man has done to His creation.
Here in America, Netflix has just premiered a Spanish series, Love in Times of War, which takes place in Morocco in the nineteen twenties, during the Rif uprising by Abdelkrim. Filmed in Morocco, much of the series is situated in the Spanish enclave of Melilla.
Not well known outside of Morocco, except in Spain, the Rif rebellion was an unmitigated military disaster for the Spanish, and an episode of Moroccan history that showcases Berber resistance in the North, never a popular subject with the Makhzen, the Moroccan government. The Rif remains a region where the government is unpopular and its rule is heavy-handed.
The Rif War was marked with corruption and incompetence, and fought with conscripts so poor they sometimes sold their weapons for food and clothing. Against common sense, the Spanish set up a series of forts extending west from Melilla, through the dry hills and rugged mountains of the Rif. Many were located in spots without permanent water sources. In the hot summer of 1921, the Riffians, after warning the Spanish not to advance deeper into their territory, struck simultaneously along the line and cut off each fort from resupply. The rout in the battle of Annual is immortalized in the Spanish novel by Arturo Barea, The Track (La Ruta), part of his larger work, The Forging of a Rebel. Over 13,000 Spanish soldiers died, and for a long time afterwards the Spanish army was confined to Melilla. Barea sought asylum in Britain after the civil war, and his wife and friends helped him translate his autobiographical novel into English. An interesting footnote to this story, Barea lost the Spanish copy after the translation. The Spanish version of his book, La forja de un rebelle, is a translation of its English translation.
In only two battles of the war, the Spanish suffered casualties of roughly 30,000 men. The next disaster was Chauen.
In the retreat from Chauen in 1924, with the weather turning bad and fear that the army would be trapped in the mountains without supplies for the winter, the Spanish attempted withdraw to Tetuan through narrow mountain valleys with poor roads.
The weather was rainy and the road turned into mud. The Riffians waited until the Spanish column was strung out, then attacked along its whole length.
It was a slaughter for the Spanish and a major victory for Abdelkrim. Franco was an officer involved in the debacle. Indeed, Spanish Morocco might be seen as the incubator for the Spanish Civil War.
Abdelkrim’s succes was also his downfall. The French, deciding that he had become a threat to their interests, intervened massively, put down the rebellion, and sent Abdelkrim into exile.
My first encounter with the Rif was early in my Peace Corps service. My job often took me to the pre-Rif as Fes Province extended north.
By the winter of 1968, I was sharing a house in the Sefrou medina (old city) with another volunteer, Gaylord Barr. He had decided that he needed a 35 mm SLR. He had brought over an 8 mm movie camera from home, but found it insufficient. I had been taking color slides, and he wanted to do the same. We decided to hitchhike to Ceuta from Fes. Ceuta was a free port: no taxes. The route was straightforward, north of Fes, along the western edge of the Rif Mountains. It went through the hilly country of the pre-Rif, where I occasionally worked, and by Chauen to Tetuan.
We did it in one harrowing ride. It really was a dark and stormy night. There were rockfalls along the route from the recent earthquake and all the usual mudslides from the winter rains, and the driver had been drinking!
The ride was scary, but we arrived safely in Tetuan and Gaylord got his new camera in Ceuta. Sadly, it got lost on the train crossing Algeria in 1971. Gaylord was a good photographer, but most of his Moroccan slides seem to have been lost.
If you decide to watch Love in Times of War, perhaps you may reflect on the drama playing outside of Melilla today. NPR just feature the story of an African migrant trying to get past the fences and barriers, hoping for refugee status.
In the This American Life program, look for this reportage:
There are two tiny Spanish towns on the African continent protected by multiple layers of razor wire, cameras and guards. A man from Cameroon tells producer David Kestenbaum about his attempt to get through the obstacle course and onto European soil. (19 minutes)
Morocco might be called an outlier. Until modern times, it has always been a place on the marches. It has always existed on the edge of large empires, but it was never part of them. Arabic historians traditionally referred to Morocco as the place of the Farthest Sunset (المغرب الأقصى), where the sun set in the Atlantic, an immense, unknown ocean.
The Phoenicians set up trading posts in Morocco. They were more traders than colonists or empire builders, though in Carthage, in the middle of the Mediterranean, they produced an empire that rivaled and threatened Rome.
The Romans had client states in the north of Morocco, where Rome eventually took full control during the Empire, but it left most of Atlantic Morocco untouched. The Byzantines had only nominal control, and the Ottomans never got past Algeria.
Some Moroccan dynasties reached across North Africa and into Spain, but none were long lived. The Mediterranean world was focused on the basin of its sea, and had its own dynamics. Morocco had an inhospitable Mediterranean coast with mountains crowding the shore. Most of the country, and its richest agricultural lands, faced the Atlantic. Morocco was barely part of the Mediterranean, the world of the “sea between the lands.” Mare Nostrum, our sea, the Romans called it, because it indeed was theirs at the height of Rome’s power.
The natural continuation of Morocco is Spain, not the Sahara or the rest of Africa. Only 15 kilometers wide, the Strait of Gibraltar can be crossed in one-half hour by car ferry. The Strait of Gibraltar posed few difficulties for the Vandals, who invaded Morocco in Byzantine times or for the Arabs and Berbers who invaded the Iberian peninsula a bit later. Today it poses few problems for migrants swarming into Europe.
After the Spanish Reconquista, the Strait took on a new role as a moat, protecting from invasions, much like the English Channel protected England. It separated Christian Europe from Muslim Africa. The Spanish and Portuguese tried to establish toeholds on the African continent, but ultimately were repulsed except at Ceuta and Melilla.
Barbary pirates harassed European ships, but technology favored the Europeans. Now technology enables migrants, desperate for work and a better life, to cross cheaply and relatively easily into Europe.
As European sea power grew, the Mediterranean Sea became even more inhospitable. Morocco’s connections to the east were more and more by land, and there were no longer roads as in Roman times, but only horse and camel tracks until the advent of steam ships and cheap air travel put the Hajj within the reach of those with better means.
Trade continued via new routes. The British brought tea, and Queen Anne style teapots. But despite trade connections, Morocco became more and more landlocked until the twentieth century, when the French seized control and established a protectorate, a system under which the Moroccan sultan was relegated to a ceremonial role, while the French ran the colonial government as their own interests dictated. With independence and modern technology, the isolation is broken forever, for better and for worse.
When I lived in Morocco, I always thought of it as a backwater, and I suspect many Moroccans, proud as they were of their country, may have felt some inferiority. Important events in the Arab world took place in the east. Important history in Maghreb had taken place in Al-Andalus. The greatest monuments of western Islamic Art are in Al-Andalus.
None of this is said to disparage Morocco, which is a place I love dearly, but simply a recognition that Morocco is an outlier, and has been for a very long time. Yet another example: Morocco was one of the first, if not the first, countries to recognize the new United States.
If someone asked me where to see the ruins of a Roman city in North Africa, I would say, without hesitation, Timgad in Algeria or Leptis Magna in Libya. Perhaps I would suggest that they go to El Djem in Tunisia, and visit the largest arena outside of Rome. If western Islamic architecture were their interest, I would suggest going to Córdoba to walk under the superimposed, multicolored arches and through the marble columns of the Mezquita, and then go to Granada, to wander through the rooms of the Alhambra and the gardens of the Generalife. I once did that at night. The palace was dimly lit, and virtually empty. It was as close as I could ever get to Washington Irving’s vision. You would be fortunate, indeed, to have that experience today.
Still, there are virtues that arise from being off the beaten track. Morocco’s most important Roman site is Volubilis, a short drive from Fes, north of the Massif of Zerhoun, just a short distance from the town of Moulay Idriss. The Arab leader, Moulay Idriss established the first dynasty in Morocco at Volubilis, before building his capital a short distance away, partly from stones quarried from the Roman city. After the fall of Rome, it was common practice to reuse stone from the abandoned Roman cities.
Today there is a large shrine devoted to him.
When I visited Volubilis in the late sixties and mid-seventies it was virtually without tourists, even on weekends.
One could wander through the ruins, step into and out of Roman houses, climb the forum stairs, and do it all in complete freedom, with no crowds to distract from the quiet of the place.
Tourist facilities were limited to a tiny cafe that served simple, but delicious, food.
It may be different today when Morocco has twice as many inhabitants and the tourism industry has grown substantially, but then it was a place lost in time and space. The city of Volubilis, wrecked by earthquakes, quarried for building materials, seemed to float over the rich agricultural lands that surrounded it, a stone oasis.
One could wander through it, dreaming of the life and people of that ancient place, reflect on history and the passage of time, and do it alone, in the quiet of the countryside.
There were no guards to remind you to keep to the path. There were no tourists to jostle you. You were really alone.
Volubilis was not a big or important center. It was an outlier. It grew to prominence just before the Empire entered its long decline. Still, to a young person, new to North Africa, it was a truly magical spot.
There are many other places to see larger and better preserved triumphal arches.
There are larger, better preserved, and much finer mosaics elsewhere.
There are spectacular aqueducts, great temples, immense baths, and fantastic amphitheaters scattered all over the Mediterranean. Volubilis lacks all that, but at Volubilis you felt and heard the wind, and you breathed the scent of the fields around you, while the only footsteps that echoed from the 2,000-year old stones were your own.
If you’re a movie fan, and, in particular, a Brit, you may be thinking Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, but this blog post is more mundane and less amusing, and it also lacks the sadder, darker undercurrents of their comedies.
In a Walk above the woods I mentioned that Peace Corps vacation policy for Morocco volunteers was basically travel within Morocco, or anywhere in Africa, or Spain. Most of us had numerous opportunities to travel within Morocco, and, much as we loved Morocco, many of us wanted a change of scenery, and, perhaps, a bit more freedom. Algeria was officially considered a hostile country, so a visit there was out. That was unfortunate, because the Algerian people were friendly and happy to meet Americans, and Algeria is full of interesting places to visit. Airfare to the rest of Africa, or, to Europe for that matter, was limited and expensive. Spain ended up the place of choice by default. According to the Peace Corps, the cultural affinities and mutual histories made Spain a perfect visit. Some volunteers discovered even quieter and cheaper vacations in Portugal, but many of us went to Spain.
What you did in Spain depended a lot on your personality. Did you want to see historical sites, major cities, Islamic monuments? Lounge on the beaches, eat tapas in the bars, look for romance? Ski or hike the mountains? Appreciate art? Catch a recent movie? Spain already had an enviable tourist infrastructure, and the south coast had become an important destination for British pensioners. Spaniards were friendly and accommodating, and the food and wine was great.
And what you could do depended on where you went. Ceuta or Melilla were for duty-free shopping and a visit could be as short as an afternoon or an overnight.
If you lived near these enclaves, they were only a bus ride away! The peseta was cheap, and the hotels were inexpensive.
Once in Spain, the possibilities were unlimited. If you were going to peninsular Spain, you could take ferries from Tangier to Algeciras or Malaga. You could also go to Gibraltar, but during much of my stay in Morocco, Gibraltar, because of Spanish territorial claims, was blockaded, and you could not get into Spain from the Rock. The shortest, cheapest route was Ceuta to Algeciras on the passenger/car ferry. It only took an hour and a half. Once in Algeciras, the train would take you north to any big city.
One summer I took my vacation in Chamonix.
This was, of course, against the rules, but I didn’t care. It was 1970. Perhaps the rules had even changed by then. The downside of making stupid rules is that no one pays much attention to them. Most organizations, even the most benevolent, have a penchant for making stupid rules.
The French had a special program for kids and young adults under the auspices of the Union Nationale des Centres de Plein Air. You could spend a couple of weeks learning and participating in just about any summer sport imaginable. The French government subsidized it heavily. During the previous year, I had been corresponding with a member from a Club Alpin Français section in the Pyrenees, and he suggested that I try it. I love the Pyrenees, and hope to return while I can still walk, but I chose Chamonix over the Pyrenees (and other Alps sites), because, frankly, Chamonix was more historical (the place where French climbing was born) and more spectacular (the highest mountain in Western Europe, and lots of high, vertical granite rising amid glaciers). I spent a month there, something I could never have done on my very limited Peace Corps budget if I hadn’t been subsidized by the French Government. Remerciements à l’UNCP!
I will be forever grateful, too, and I am happy to learn that the UNCPA still exists after all these years. Thus I spent a month living with a group of fifty or so French kids, roughly my age, and I had a ball. It was co-ed, and we were housed in comfortable chalets. In the mountain refuges, when the weather was bad, we ate, told jokes, and played cards
The food was fine, as you might imagine, certainly far better than French cité universitaire cuisine. This was a holiday in France! Would anyone tolerate bad food? Bon dieu!
Now if you are wondering what this has to do with Spain, remember that I was living poor and had few resources. I figured I could save and scrape up enough for the train trip, but fortune shined. Jean, a young French kid from Brive-la-Gaillarde, had been touring North Africa in his Peugeot 404, and was passing through Fes just about the time I was about to leave. He was hoping to find someone to share expenses and driving as he returned home. How he found me, I don’t recall, but there weren’t that many foreigners in Fes, and I worked there. He met someone who knew me and knew that I needed to get to France.
We drove up to Ceuta or Tangier and crossed to Algeciras. It was late, and we were tired and we spread our sleeping bags out on the beach facing refineries in La Linéa.
I would not try this today when crime in the region is a problem. Even then, though it was summer, it was damp and uncomfortable and the lights of the towers and burning gas lit up the beach with an unappealing industrial glow. The next day we drove up the coast, taking time to swim in the Mediterranean before turning inland.
There were fewer roads, then, and even the main north-south routes were not very good. We skirted Madrid, and, after dark, pulled off the road into the stubble of a wheat field somewhere in Castile.
The following day we continued north, stopping briefly in Burgos to admire the Gothic cathedral.
We crossed the French border at Irun and Hendaye. I had been there once before, when I lived in Pau.
The Mediterranean weather gave way to that of the Atlantic, and, entering the pine forests of the Landes, it began raining. It was now dark and wet, and we were exhausted, so we found a small, inexpensive roadside hotel that had one room left, but with only a double bed. Sharing a bed with a stranger was odd, but not a problem: we were beat, and neither of us had slept in a bed for two days. Outside it was raining.
When we got back on the road the next morning, we were fresh. For Jean it was the homestretch. Brive-la-Gaillarde was only a few hours away.
That day began with some excitement. The Peugeot was beat up, made a lot of noise, and needed brake work. About midmorning, we drew the attention of a gendarme, who directed us off route to a police station. The police, finding that we were returning from Morocco, were interested in whether we were carrying drugs, which we were not, and, after a short interrogation, they released us to continue on our way. The route continued through the Dordogne. I would have liked to stop, but Jean was tired and eager to be home. He had done his sightseeing in Africa. Once in Brive-la-Gaillarde, I caught a train to Chamonix.
I can never think of Brive-la-Gaillarde without hearing the Brassens song, Hécatombe, in my head. Its anarchist message resonated with my younger self, though I am happy that Brassens eventually made his peace with the police in a later song, L’épave. If you can understand French, you may, depending on your sensibilities, find the songs hilarious or offensive. According to Wikipedia, Hécatombe is now associated with Brive-la-Gaillarde throughout France! And, of course, every place in France has something named after Georges Brassens. Rightly so!
So that was another Peace Corps volunteer experience with Spain. The following summer I got a postcard from Jean, who was then touring the Middle East in his car, but we never stayed in touch, which I regret because I enjoyed his good company, and he really had done me a big favor. The train ride home to Sefrou was far less interesting and totally uneventful. But Sefrou was home, then, and it felt good to be back.
This article is about Christmas, of course, not the Prophet’s birthday, the Mouloud, which Moroccans, and most Muslims celebrate. This year the Mouloud fell in December, within a month of Christmas, which my wife and I just spent in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her brother and his wife. While there I reflected on the holidays that I spent abroad, though there have not been very many. Of them, the Christmases and Thanksgivings come to mind first, most likely because they involve iconic symbols, and childhood memories. Christmases also fall within a week of New Year’s Day, and often make up part of a larger period involving school semester breaks and intermissions, important in the lives of young people and probably producing more intense and lasting memories.
In Morocco, volunteers would often travel at Christmastime. The Moroccan calendar had all kinds of holidays, and accommodated as well as it could both Christians and Jews. Many foreigners still worked in the GOM in the sixties. If PCVs had vacation time, it enabled them to visit remoter parts of Morocco, or to go to Spain. When my cousin, who was studying in Angers, France, visited me in 1968 or 1969, I traveled with her and Gaylord Barr to Meknes, Rabat, Marrakech, and over the Atlas and across the pre-Sahara to Ouarzazate and Boulemane and Erfoud. Another time, I went to Gibraltar with administrator and volunteer friends.
Ceuta was still another possibility for those of us in northern and eastern Morocco.
Just as often, volunteers would get together in larger centers and big cities, where they were often numerous, and have parties. Those traveling would look up friends for places to stay and for good cheer. By the time I got to Morocco, there were fewer and fewer churches, and I do not recollect any volunteers going to them to pray.
Actually the celebration of Christmas and Thanksgiving usually had little religious significance to the volunteers whom I knew. Christmas had attained an almost secular status in the United States, and was, and is today, dominated by commercial rather than religious sentiments. Recently some right-wing Republican politicians have argued that there has been a “war against Christmas” by more secular politicians in the center. They point out attempts at what they see as “political correctness” as well as a more consistent effort to keep religion and the state separated, as the Constitution requires, though they do not see it exactly that way.
There is a real argument here over all kinds of issues, and if you are very religious you may be offended. My own opinion is that though most Americans are nominally Christians, government institutions should be secular. Am I making war on Christmas? I say Merry Christmas where appropriate, attend religious services, give gifts, and assiduously attend to the customs associated with Christmas. Do I care if there is a crèche in front of City Hall? Not much. And it certainly should not be there if it offends my compatriots.
Christmas is not the central focus of Christianity. Indeed, many early American religious denominations, such as the Puritans, did not hold Christmas sacred, did not celebrate it, because they considered it a pagan holiday. After all, it aligns with the winter solstice, which was widely celebrated in pagan religions of the ancient world, and it isn’t clear exactly when Jesus was born anyway. The real essence of Christianity, all true Christians would agree, is in the death of Jesus and his resurrection as the Christ, and the redemption of the sins of mankind by his death on the cross. Indeed, these very beliefs set off Christianity from Judaism and Islam. Though most Jews believe Jesus existed, and all Muslims revere him as a prophet the message of Judaism and Islam is elsewhere.
Christmas retains its religious significance for many, but in the United States today, as in the United States 50 years ago, Christmas is largely a children’s holiday involving family get-togethers, food, and, above all, gifts. I came from an Italian family, and my Aunt Mary and Uncle Bill would follow a Sicilian custom, though their ancestors did not come from Sicily, and serve guests a Christmas Eve dinner where seven different kinds of fish were offered. Those who were observan often fasted until after they attended Midnight Mass. Then one could eat and open presents, while relatives and friends talked and drank and often played cards.
The social aspects of religious holidays are so important, not just to Christians, but to Muslims and Jews as well as adherents of other faiths. I remember with fondness the kindness of Muslim friends and neighbors, who invited me to their homes for all the major feasts. Indeed, I think I looked forward to Muslim holidays as much as my Moroccan friends!
As a volunteer in the sixties, celebration of Thanksgiving and Christmas was dependent on mood and who was around or would be visiting. The first Christmas, having moved into the house in Seti Messaouda, Gaylord and I actually dragged a 12-foot cedar up the winding stairway and into the courtyard (where it touched the ceiling), and decorated it with homemade ornaments and garlands. The popcorn strung together in garlands eventually got stale and the hanging tangerines mildewed, and our Moroccan friends probably thought we were nuts or idolators. Only the cat really enjoyed the tree, climbing in the branches, and, there were no more trees after that.There were no religious celebrations, and I don’t remember exchanging gifts, either.
There was also a Thanksgiving or two when we cooked a turkey. One took place in 1970, when a couple of female volunteers, Ruth and Jan, were then teaching English in Sefrou. They lived next door in the house of the Hadja, a widow, so there was, with Jan’s boyfriend, a critical mass of Americans. Seti Messaouda for a while had a small American quarter within it, just within the gate. We invited friends, Moroccan and volunteers, and tried our best to put together a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Two ingredients were difficult or impossible to come by: cranberries were nonexistent and the turkey posed a problem. With more foresight we could have probably got the cranberries through someone we knew with PX privileges at the base in Kenitra.
Turkeys were a different matter. Turkeys were not common in Morocco. They are not part of traditional cuisine. They are harder to raise than chickens and less hardy. Where I lived, they were known as bibi, though in the former Spanish zone they were often called by the Spanish name, el pavo (from the tail, perhaps, as a peacock is el pavo real.) Turkeys have various names in the languages of the world. A late import from America, part of the Colombian exchange, the English named the birds after the country of Turkey. They were exotic beasts that merited an exotic name. In France, India was apparently more exotic as the birds were said to came from India. D’Inde became dinde eventually.
Whatever turkeys were called, they were not common. In Sefrou we were able to get one relatively easily, maybe from Fes, but, later, living in Chauen, I had to scour the countryside, driving to Ouazzane to find one.
Roasting the turkey also proved difficult. We had no oven, and, even if we had had one, it probably couldn’t have contained a large turkey. We decided to cook our turkey in the neighborhood ferran, the communal oven, where Khadija baked our bread daily. We always has a Muslim man kill animals for us so the meat was halal. The recipe called for basting it every twenty minutes with butter. After a couple of hours, the baker, the mul el ferran, said safi, enough is enough. The ferran was busy and it wasn’t helping his business to keep opening the oven and taking the turkey out. Luckily, with the hot temperature of the bread oven, the turkey was properly done, crispy and cooked through.
And so we ate turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, and other dishes, and celebrated our American holiday with Moroccan friends. And what was left over, and there was a lot of it, went to the poor outside the main mosque, where excess food often went if Khadija didn’t take it all home.
Peace Corps volunteers who taught English as a foreign language were tied to their schools during the academic year, but had long summer vacations. A few undertook special projects, but many took the opportunity to travel. Outside of what was then called TEFL, volunteers had to take time when they could, though many had jobs that gave them a lot of freedom. The Moroccans often described our jobs using the French word stage, essentially meaning training, and didn’t always expect much from us.
As Peace Corps volunteers in Morocco, travel to Europe, except for Spain, violated the Peace Corps country rules that were in place in the sixties. Many volunteers simply ignored them as they did other rules that they thought were unreasonable such as owning motorcycles. Volunteers seldom got caught and there was no real punishment. Staff probably found the rules restrictive, too, and often looked the other way. Without examining your passport, how would Peace Corps know what you did last summer?
There was a problem for volunteers, however, and that was Morocco’s location. Where could one go? It is not without reason that Morocco is known as the land of the farthest sunset. With an ocean to the west and a desert to the south, Morocco was a cul-de-sac.
Algeria was off limits as a hostile country in the sixties, sadly as my experience in Algeria suggested that Algerians were friendly and eager to meet Americans. Anywhere else required expensive airfare or a daunting trip across the Sahara. If you follow this blog, you can read about my Saharan adventure later. A few of us actually did the trip, crossing the Algerian desert by truck, but it was not a casual affair.
I think that these rules may have loosened up over the years. Some volunteers had families with the means to provide funds for European trips. In the sixties, the Peace Corps was definitely elitist, just as the foreign service has always been, with many members coming from the Ivys. In any case, given the historical connections with Morocco, the Peace Corps judged Spain to be acceptable, but put the rest of Europe off limits.
By July, the heat had settled into Sefrou. The grain fields around the city had been harvested, and the country had taken on the thatch and earth colors that it would keep until the winter rains.
Bouiblane disappeared into the haze at the horizon, and the streets became dusty. Melons were on sale in the market, and life slowed down a bit.
Gaylord Barr, the volunteer with whom I shared the house in Seti Messaouda, and myself had persuaded one of the Peace Corps administrators, Don Brown, to come to Sefrou. Don had served in Oujda. He had never learned much Arabic, and wanted to improve his command of the language. We had a woman, Khadija, who cooked and cleaned for us. I fixed Don up with a tutor, my friend Hammad Hsein, and Don moved to Sefrou for a couple of weeks, where he had a chance to immerse himself in dialectical Arabic. Khadija would take care of Don and the pets. Off we went. I don’t know how much Arabic Don learned, but I know he enjoyed his time there that summer. Old Sefrou was lovely with its gardens and country walks.
It always gave me a lot of pleasure to see women taking strolls past the old Jewish Cemetery or students walking together, studying for their exams.
Hammad was an elementary school teacher. He lived in Seti Messaouda, as did his extended family, just outside the city wall and down the street from me. I had gone to his and his brother, Hassan’s wedding, and I often ate at his house on feast days. I was told that he emigrated to France, as many other people I knew have done.
In early July, the mesetas of central Spain bake in the sun, just like much of Morocco. Oleanders flower in the dry water courses, but the only green is where farmers can irrigate. The early Arab invaders surely felt at home there. For them, Spain might have been Syria. And when the Abbasids wiped out the Umayyads in the East, the Umayyad kingdom in Spain survived and continued as the caliphate of Córdoba until overrun by successive waves of Berbers from the Atlas.
The previous summer Gaylord and I went off individually and traveled in Spain, making short forays into southern France and visiting Carcassonne, Albi, and Pau. By coincidence or by the nature of things we traveled much the same routes though we were not traveling together. In retrospect, I think I might have suggested the French sites as I was interested in visiting them myself.
Carcassonne needs the least introduction. The fabled walled city, heavily restored by Viollet-le-Duc, justly deserves its reputation as an icon of medieval military architecture, though if you would like to see a more authentic walled town, you might visit Aiguës Mortes instead.
I had wanted to visit Carcassonne, when I lived in France in 1965, but never made the time. In December 1965, I was living in Castelnau-le-Lez, and a neighbor and host to another foreign exchange student took us along with his daughter and dog, Blackie, to see the sun set on the walls of the city. I have returned a couple of times since. The last time my wife, Liz, and I walked the entire circuit of the wall, then dined on mussels at a little restaurant just outside the main gate.
Aiguës Mortes was built as a port for the Crusades, in a very short period of time, but it was never used as the French soon acquired more territory on the Mediterranean gaining better ports. It soon silted in, and lost all importance, for which we have to thank for its extraordinary authenticity and preservation.
Albi is probably known to most Americans as the birthplace of Toulouse-Lautrec, and the place that gave its name to the Albigensian heresy, though it was never controlled by Cathars.
The center of Albi is occupied by a fortified, red brick gothic cathedral, and the adjacent bishop’s palace is a museum for Toulouse-Lautrec art. The buildings in Albi are distinctively red brick, and strech along the banks of the Tarn.
Pau would be the least known for most Americans. It sits on a hill that gives it an expansive view south to the Pyrenees.
Henri IV was born in the Renaissance château in Pau, and cradled in a giant turtle shell. A statue of him stands outside the château, with the inscription, «Lou nostre Henrico », and the locals remain rightly proud of their native son. To ascend to the throne of France, he converted to Catholicism, and is known for the apocryphal quote, « Paris is well worth a Mass. » This cynical comment belies his success in putting an end to the religious wars that were tearing France apart, as well as for a public works program that helped modernize his kingdom.
Unfortunately, Henry was assassinated by a Catholic fanatic, and the regency of Louis XIII began, which, you may remember, was the setting for Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. Its protagonist was the hotheaded D’Artagnan, a Gascon. Pau is in Béarn, a part of Gascony, a traditional term that applies to the lands south and east of Bordeaux. In Pau people appreciate armagnac as opposed to cognac, and local cuisine is shared with the Basque provinces next door.
Pau was a nineteenth-century watering spot for the British and a few Americans. The climate is mild and the atmosphere is calm. So much so that France trains paratroopers there. Today it is a regional administrative center with a university. I studied there in the summer of 1965, and my reason for returning was to see my former landlady, Madame Pinaud, who fed me a nice dinner, set me up with a date, and put me up over night. She was a widow, and the boarders she took in were an important source of her income.
Pau was the setting for a movie with Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and a young Omar Sharif. Behold a Pale Horse is worth a watch. Banned in Spain during the Franco years, it dealt with a bitter Catalan anarchist, veteran of the Spanish Civil War (Peck), and a corrupt officer of the Guardia Civil who is out to catch him (Quinn).
It never gained any popularity as Peck’s character is dour and bitter, the movie was in black and white, there was no love interest other than Quinn’s mistress, and the setting is obscure. Peck usually played a hero and nice guy, and his fans expected roles with those attributes. In his final trip to Spain, Peck enters Spain through the Brèche de Roland, of which more later.
The château of Pau also served briefly as a prison for Abdelkader, the Algerian patriot, known for military acumen as well as his chivalry. At the height of his power, Abdelkader controled much of western Algeria and even some of eastern Morocco.
From Pau, the easiest route back to Spain was by rail through Canfranc. The second largest railroad station in Europe, Canfranc is perched high in the mountains. Trains had to switch from one gauge of track to another, as the gauges differed between France and Spain. Trains do not pass there any longer. The station was shuttered in the early nineteen seventies, and today is just a curiosity, rusting away in the wilds.
I think that the idea of crossing the Pyrenees through the Brèche had been in my mind for a while. I knew that the site was spectacular as I had visited Gavarnie, and I had watched Behold a Pale Horse, probably one of the late night movies CBC Toronto used to show after the 11:00 p.m. news. It is said that the Spanish government blocked its showing on American TV networks. Over the winter of 1968-1969, I began a correspondence with a member of the French Alpine Club in Tarbes. I had wanted to get some serious climbing experience, and he counseled me to enroll in the Union Nationale des Centres de Plein Air, a summer sports program for French kids. I asked him about crossing the the Pyrenees from Torla to Gavarnie, and he recommended the hike, saying that it was not difficult. If you research it on the Internet, you may find it described as one of the finest treks in the world.
I cajoled Gaylord into going with me. He did not share my passion for wandering about high mountains, but he loved nature and appreciated Spain.
We set off in early July 1969, taking the train from Fes to Tangier. Crossing from Tangier to Algeciras, we took a night train to Córdoba, where we spent the next day looking at the medieval center and the Mezquita. I had been there before, and have gone back since. The Mosque is a gem. The previous summer I got off a night train from Algeciras and wandered at 4:00 a.m. through the twisting and turning streets of the old quarter. Here and there were lights of a bar or hotel, but most was shadow and dark and quiet. It felt very much as if I were at home in Sefrou.
Spain did not have many fast trains in those days, and second class ticket holders were crammed six or eight to a compartment. The weather was sweltering, but we were used to it and it didn’t bother us. I remember Águila beer was eight pesetas a bottle. With roughly seventy-five pesetas to a dollar, it was easy to quench our thirst. Águila was a pale lager, and, on the train, at least, it came in small bottles, cheap to buy and easy to drink. It has sadly disappeared, swallowed up by big European breweries.
The long rides afforded some time to read and I think I read Hugh Thomas’ The Spanish Civil War, still one of the best books on the subject sixty years later. The previous year I reread The Lord of the Rings. I remember riding a bus through the Catalonian Pyrenees on the way to Andorra. It had piped music, and the driver was playing the Concerto de Aranjuez. It was a grey day, a bit misty, and the forests appeared in various shades of green. As the bus climbed toward Andorra, the peaks moved in and out of the clouds. It was a magical way to take in the spectacular scenery.
Arriving at the Atocha Station, we got a room at the Hotel Atocha. I had stayed there before. The rooms were threadbare and ratty, but it was conveniently located near the center of Madrid, across from the station, and the staff were friendly and used to dealing with budget travelers. I had come down with something, and had a fever. I remember going to see Walt Disney’s Fantasia, which I had never seen, in a big theater with chilling air conditioning. I ended up spending a day in bed while Gaylord saw sights in the city. I made a quick recovery, though, and we soon left for northern Spain by rail.
Torla was a little mountain village and not on any rail line. I think we got off in Jaca, and had to hitch hike through Sabiñánigo to get there. It sits in a small valley, between the National Park of Ordesa and the town of Broto in the valley below.
At the time, Torla wasn’t as developed as it is today. Near the entrance of the National Park of Ordesa, if you were wealthy, you could stay in the Parador in the valley of the park. That was something like staying at the Ahwahnee in Yosemite, and just as expensive. We stayed in a pension in Torla, paying five dollars per day for room and board. At the time, you were able to drive to the park, and we hitchhiked. Today there is a shuttle bus, and the park is closed to automobile traffic.
The food in Torla was local, fresh, and tasty, and was served with plenty of local wine. Gaylord remembered it, a few years before he passed away, as some of the best food in his life! There was a bar which had a TV, and one could sit and watch the Tour de France while drinking cheap Spanish brandy and expresso. There wasn’t much night life in Torla. With the windows open, you could hear the Río Ara.
We hiked around the valley for a few days before continuing.
We climbed the canyon walls to the clavijas of Cotatuero one day, but we had no harnesses or ropes so we couldn’t proceed.
Unfortunately, I had left my boots in Madrid. I desperately looked for replacements, but the choice was limited to either ski boots or canvas shoes with rope soled interiors, a cheap and popular choice in Spain.
My French correspondent had not factored in difficient footwear nor large amounts of snow, and, though the canvas shoes were comfortable, neither they, nor the heavier work boots that Gaylord wore, were really suitable to the task. Most of the way from Góriz to Gavarnie I walked in the equivalent of wet tennis shoes! We should have suspected a lot of snow as we found the Río Ara with an ice bridge over it in the lower part of the canyon. Ice axes would have been handy. The previous winter had been a snowy one.
The National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido has been designated as a World Heritage site by UNESCO, and certainly merits the distinction. A steep glaciated canyon, with hanging waterfalls, lush beech and pine forests, and snowy uplands, the Park may not be huge, but it is breathtaking. It reminds me of Yosemite, with its waterfalls and vertical cliffs, but the rock is limestone and just above the canyon walls are snow-covered peaks.
Our plan, and a very reasonable one we thought, was to climb to the Góriz Hut, above the end of the valley, stay overnight, then to cross through the Brèche de Roland and descend to the town of Gavarnie, which I knew from a visit in 1965. We had no reservations at Góriz, but if you were to plan this trek today, you would probably need them. All we had to guide us was a rough trail map handed out by the park people. Today there are excellent maps. Góriz to Gavarnie is a long day’s hike.
The hike up the valley was easy, and we soon left the forest of beeches and pines behind.
At the Góriz Hut, there was a group of young Aragonese kids, dressed in local colors, who played flutes, sang, and danced after dinner.
I think they climbed Monte Perdido the next day, and I remember looking wistfully in that direction the next morning, before setting off for the Brèche. We would have been totally unprepared for that ascent.
We had left most of our clothes in Torla, to be retrieved on the way home, so that we could travel light. The proprietor of our pension packed a copious lunch and dinner of roasted chicken and sandwiches and, of course, wine. That was our food for the hike, and we didn’t buy food again until we reached Gavarnie.
We had sleeping bags, but I don’t remember real outdoor wear of any sort. We just had jeans and shirts with sweaters and light jackets in our packs. I had an old wool Pendleton shirt that my uncle Bill had handed down.
Luckily, the weather cooperated. The sun was brillant until we crossed through the Brèche. The French slope had damp clouds rising out of the valley, but no real precipitation.
We didn’t think finding that route would be difficult.
Had the weather turned, it might have been a problem, but the Spanish slopes are sunnier than those of France, and we had luck with us.
From Góriz we headed to the Grotte de Casteret, named after Norbert Casteret, the famous French caver.
There was a group of hikers there, and, at that time, you could easily enter the cave. At about 9,000 feet, the cave has a frozen lake and waterfall. That itinerary took us out of the way.
We decided that we would descend to the basin under the Brèche and climb back up. This turned out to be trickier than we had reckoned. It was around noon, and the snow on the Spanish slope had melted and become slippery. We plodded up to the Brèche, slowly and carefully.
The Brèche is a imposing natural feature, a gap in a knife-thin rock face, about 120 feet wide and 330 feet high. It sits at 9,100 feet, above and to the left side of the Cirque de Gavarnie. It cannot be seen from Gavarnie, but it is clearly visible from many high points of land. From the summit of Pic du Midi de Bigorre, it appears as a tiny notch on the horizon.
The Spanish call it La Brecha de Rolando, and the locals attributed it to the times of Charlemagne. Roland was Charlemagne’s best knight, who accompanied the king to Spain to fight the Moors. Roland was mortally wounded, and fearing that his magic sword, Durandal, would fall into enemy hands, he tried to break it against the rock. The rock was split, but the sword did not break.
With some trepidation, we arrived at the Breche. Looking back was Spain.
Looking down into France, we saw a steep snow slope.
A couple of hikers were on their way up to the Brèche. They had ice axes, and we wished that we had had them, too.
The view to the east, into the cirque was spectacular.
To the right, clouds floated in the cirque. With no ice axes, we zigzagged back and forth, carefully traversing the slope, until we reached the hut.
I did not expect all the snow, and was relieved when we finally reached the hut, and got off the slope. A fall would have meant a long slide, and possibly an injury.
My canvas shoes had been soaked all morning, and my feet were wet and cold. We needed a break and ate some of our provisions while the clouds rolled up from the cirque. I was able to switch to a dry pair of socks.
There was a French couple with children at the Sarradets. I think that they were surprised to find foreigners, who did not seem very well prepared for what they were doing, and they eyed us suspiciously. Maybe they thought we’d walk off with their ice axes?
Having rested, we began the trip down to Gavarnie. The snow, which had caused so much consternation, soon disappeared, replaced by a broad stone trail. We met a young Frenchman coming up the trail to Sarradets, and said hello. He asked where we hailed from and was visibly surprised to find that we were Americans. The day turned darker as we continued down, and when we finally trudged into Gavarnie, it was almost night. We found a place to stay, showered, and went to bed. I think we were too tired to eat, and very sore to boot. I wanted out of those soggy canvas shoes much more than food.
The next morning we arose late to find the clouds parting. Sitting on a cafe terrace, we enjoyed café au lait, croissants, and a magnificent view of the cirque.
A rock wall rising thousands of feet, with a myriad of small waterfalls, the cirque has the highest waterfall in Europe. Victor Hugo described it as a coliseum, and, enclosed on three sides, it resembles an amphitheater. During the last ice ages, huge mountain glaciers occupied the cirque and hollowed it out. Layered strata form ledges and collect snow, and the snow provides horizontal banding that contrasts with the vertical walls adding contrast to the overall effect.
Since it was cloudy and dark, I took no pictures on the way down, but I have a couple from 1965 that give an idea of the trail and show the cirque from a different angle.
If I were to do this trip today, I think I would return to Torla on foot via Bujaruelo, or a more scenic route. I’d also be dressed for the trip. But that summer we were just happy to have arrived, and still tired. After eating we hitched down the valley. We wanted to get to Pau, but hitchhiking wasn’t easy and we only got as far as Lourdes. With nothing else to do and stuck for the night, we poked around the souvenir shops and went to a Truffeau movie, Mississippi Mermaid. The next day we bussed to Pau to catch the train to Spain. Picking up our belongings, we traveled back to Morocco, stopping in Madrid to get my boots at the Atocha Hotel. My big adventures were over till the next Peace Corps summer, the subject of yet another blog post.
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What is relevant in a text document a machine learning based approach
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Text Documents often contain valuable data. But not all data is relevant. That is why extracting relevant data from text documents is an essential task. Extracting relevant data from text documents refers to the study of classifying text documents into such groups that describe the contents of documents. There are many methods to find out relevant data from a cluster of text or a text document. Classifying extensive textual data helps to organize the records better, make the search easier and relevant and simplify navigation. That makes this task still an open research issue. This paper uses three techniques of classifying text documents: convolution neural networks (CNN) with deep learning, Gaussian Na¨ıve Bayes and support vector machines (SVM). With these three algorithms, the text we want to classify goes through three layers of checks. So, it gives us more reliability.
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2015 Summer Project Week:Astronomy
- Davide Punzo, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Steve Pieper, Isomics
Upcoming HI (neutral Hydrogen) surveys will deliver large datasets, and automated processing using the full 3-D information (two positional dimensions and one spectral dimension) to find and characterize HI objects is imperative. In this context, visualization is an essential tool for enabling qualitative and quantitative human control on an automated source finding and analysis pipeline. Visual Analytics, the combination of automated data processing and human reasoning, creativity and intuition, supported by interactive visualization, enables flexible and fast interaction with the 3-D data, helping the astronomer to deal with the analysis of complex sources. 3-D visualization, coupled to modeling, provides additional capabilities helping the discovery and analysis of subtle structures in the 3-D domain.
- proper visualization of astronomical data cubes: using data astronomical data formats, such as FITS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS), and astronomical world coordinates system (WCS);
- generation of flux density profiles, moment maps and position-velocity diagrams linked with the 3-D view;
- enabling interactive smoothing in all three dimensions and multiscale analysis, such as wavelet lifting;
- interactive 3-D selection of HI sources;
- interactive HI data modeling coupled to visualization;
- introduction of the SAMP protocol (Simple Application Messaging Protocol) to enable interoperability with Topcat, and other VO (virtual observatory) tools and catalogs.
- discuss the best approaches;
outcome from 1st day: coordinates, labels and units.
- VTK_FITS reader (and writer) and the Slicer AstroVolume module done;
- data probe coordinates: factorize getPixelString in the logic of the volumes and use the WCSlib in the logic of AstroVolume;
- ruler widget: takes units properly -> OK;
- text on slices view: takes units properly -> OK;
- "spacing annotation" (horizontal widget showing the physical spacing): problem, makeScalingRuler method is hardcoded with mm and cm. Moreover we'd like a different design -> is factoring the class vtkPVScalarBarActor in the logic of the volumes a solution?;
- units: we have different unit for the third axes and we have also units for flux (pixel intensity), how to handle these?;
- question on AstroVolume and wcs: AstroVolume module allocates a vtkMRMLScalarVolumeNode, therefore I am adding the *wcs (it is a struct) in the vtkMRMLAstroVolumeStorageNode. Is this adequate? or it is better to do a vtkMRMLAstroVolumeNode child of vtkMRMLScalarVolumeNode and store the *wcs there (in this case it is not possible to use anymore CLI modules, but allows a better infrastructure)?
outcome from 2nd day: deeper investigation on units module.
- unitsLogic->AddUnitNode add a MRMLUnitsNode to the Scene, but from an interface point of view in Settings only two quantities are allocated qSlicerUnitsSettingsPanelPrivate::setMRMLScene -> quantities << "length" << "time"; (in principle adding "length1" << "length2" << "length3", should update automatically the interface).
- AstroVolume and wcs: let's do an vtkMRMLAstroVolumeNode and for the moment lose the skill to use CLI modules. In future we can see some tricks in the COMBOBOX to allow the use of them if they will be required from the users.
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- vtkMRMLAstroVolumeNode with *wcs struct integrated in SlicerAstro extension.
- working on modifications to the Units module for adding velocity and intensity quantities.
- Engineering solutions for data probe and slice view annotations hardcoded features will be addressed after the Units module.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Coronavirus pandemic has changed the lives of many across the globe, especially healthcare workers who are on the front lines. Recently healthcare workers have seen a shortage of face masks and other supplies. People at Florida Southwestern State College say the decision to help was easy.
“The respiratory folks reached out to us, knowing that we have the same machines that we train on, that they use in the hospital. So we drew up an agreement and 3 of them are in use and now 1 of them is in use”, said Greg Turchetta, Executive Director of Marketing and Media at Florida Southwestern State College.
They are lending not only ventilators but other equipment healthcare workers so desperately needed.
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Ancient Japanese trial of strength between 21st century robots
Ancient Japanese trial of strength between 21 st century robots
After two months of workshops, James Cook University’s Robotics Club will stage its next battle: a Sumo competition between robots its students and members have built over the semester.
The group was developed by a number of JCU’s Electrical and Electronic Engineering undergraduate students under the mentorship of Associate Professor Mohan Jacob.
JCU’s inaugural robot wars competition was held in March this year.
JCU Robo Club President Chris Roberts, an Electrical & Electronic Engineering undergraduate student, said after a great response to the first competition, 53 robots had been registered for tomorrow’s event.
“Tomorrow, we will be seeing the best of our competitors duking it out for supremacy,” Mr Roberts said.
There are two main categories, those that are autonomous (the robot does all the work itself) and those that are manually controlled (remote controlled robots).
Mr Roberts said the robots would be using the same chassis as last semester, and they compete on an 80 cm dohyo (sumo wrestling ring).
“This is in compliance with international miniature sumo rules. A slight relaxation to the international rules’ size restrictions has allowed certain extra physical modifications, so there are a number of robots utilising sensors to ‘see’ other robots, as well as a couple with flipper arms and what-not.”
In order to meet the international rules’ size restrictions, the robots have a 10cm x 10cm footprint, as seen in many of the large international competitions. Such competitions draw huge crowds, with audiences clamouring to see the highly entertaining spectacle.
Mr Roberts urged people to come along and have a laugh and enjoy the show.
Date: Friday 31st October, 2014
Location: Undercroft of Building 14 (Electrical and Computer Engineering), JCU Townsville
Chris Roberts, 2014 President JCU Robo Club / IEEE JCU Student Branch, m: 041 77 22 013 or e: firstname.lastname@example.org
JCU Media Liaison: Caroline Kaurila, tel: (07) 4781 4586 or 0437 028 175
First published October 30, 2014
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The Monastery as a Medium of Tibetan Culture
The Buddhist monastery has traditionally served as a primary locus for the generation and preservation of Tibetan culture, both material and intellectual. That function of the monastery has been gravely threatened by the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950 and the subsequent oppression and destruction during the periods of "liberation" and of the Cultural Revolution. After a brief period of modest revival, beginning in 1979, the monastery is again in jeopardy in the wake of the events of October 1987.
Tibetan Buddhism's Roots
In order to appreciate the gravity of the present desperate conditions that exist under Chinese colonial rule, it is important to have some understanding of the relationship between Tibetan culture and Buddhism. The eighth century closed with two events, the legendary accounts of which provide a useful introduction to Tibetan Buddhist culture. The first is the founding of the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet at bSam-yas in 779 and the ordination of the first Tibetan monks. These events took place under the direction of two renowned Indian masters - the Madhyamika philosopher and abbot Santaraksita, and the tantric madasiddha Padmasambhava. The presence of these two figures at this momentous event in Tibetan history is noteworthy for many reasons, not least for the metaphor it provides for the dynamic between the scholastic and the tantric madasiddha Padmasambhava. The presence of these two figures at this momentous event in Tibetan history is noteworthy for many reasons, not least for the metaphor it provides for the dynamic between the scholastic and the tantric in the development of Tibetan Buddhist thought and practice. But for our purposes, their presence signals the centrality of Indian Buddhism and the north Indian monastic model for the development of Tibetan culture: art, architecture, philosophy and practice. Some two decades later, bSam-yas formed the field for the second landmark event, the controversy that took place between Santaraksita's disciple, Kamalasila, and the Chinese Ch'an monk Ho-shang Mo-ho-yen on the question of sudden versus gradual enlightenment. Although the nature, format and context of the debate remains a subject of scholarly scrutiny, the tradition records that Kamalasila was pronounced the victor by the king and that thereafter the teachings of Nagarjuna would be held as orthodox. The precise philosophical implications of the proclamation are unclear, especially since Nagarjuna's works had yet to be translated into Tibetan. Yet the king's decision certainly meant that Tibet thereafter would look to India rather than China for its cultural model.
Thus began a period of cultural transmission, most visibly through the translation of the Buddhist canon, which continued until the establishment of Muslim hegemony in northern India. During this period, it can be argued that culture was for the Tibetans the Buddhism they brought from India, literature was the sutras and sastras and art was iconography. The religious and philosophical ethos of eleventh-century Buddhist India became the object the Tibetans sought to replicate in their snowy land. Hence, Tibetan Buddhism is essentially conservative, with its adherents seeking to put into practice the teachings of the Buddha as received from the Indian commentators, toward the eventual end of the duplication of his experience of enlightenment. Culture and religion in the case of Tibet are, thus, inseparable, if not synonymous.
The Tradition of the Monastery
Let us turn to the more recent past, to the Tibetan monastery of 1950. In a nation in which an estimated 25 percent of the male population were monks, the centrality of the monastery to Tibetan culture is difficult to overestimate. However, it is not easy to generalize accurately about monastic life across sectarian and regional lines. Therefore, I will confine my observations to the three great d-Ge-lugs-pa monasteries in the vicinity of Lhasa, all founded at the beginning of the fourteenth century. Drepung in 1950, with some 10,000 monks, was the largest Buddhist monastery in the world. Sera had a population of approximately 6,000 and Ganden, 4,000. Thus, living in the environs of the capital, which prior to the Chinese occupation had a population of 60,000 were some 20,000 monks, in addition to the students and faculty of the medical college, the tantric colleges and those who staffed the Potala, the Jokhang and the scores of smaller shrines and temples in the city.
The three great monasteries of Lhasa served in many respects as centers for the preservation of literate culture for the Inner Asian world, drawing students from all regions of Tibet, as well as Ladakh, Nepal, Inner and Outer Mongolia and the Mongol regions of the Soviet Union, such as Kalmuck and Buryat. Young men, often second sons of their families, would receive education in reading and writing at a local monastery before embarking for Lhasa, where they would enroll in one of the colleges of the monastic universities and live in communal houses with other monks from their home region.
Perhaps one-fourth of the monastic community of these centers was engaged in the philosophical program, a curriculum that took approximately 20 years to complete and was built around the study of five Indian texts. These texts, dealing with such subjects as logic, cosmology, epistemology, ethics and the structure of the paths of enlightenment, were approached from two directions. One was memorization. It was not uncommon for a scholar who had completed the curriculum to have committed several thousand pages of these texts and their commentaries to memory. The other approach was that of forensic debate in which two monks, following a strictly fixed format, would dispute technical points of Buddhist doctrine in a spirited exchange.
Central to both memorization and debate was the tradition of oral commentary. The best scholars often did not return to their native provinces after their education but stayed on to teach, providing an instruction that consisted primarily in the explication of terse and difficult textbooks, works that were not intended to be read without much oral supplementation. It was here that the richness of the subject was revealed and the positions that would serve as the catalyst for debate identified.
These teachers were the primary educators of male Tibetan society, representing the democratizing effect of Buddhism on Tibetan culture. It was the monks who completed this curriculum, who became lharampa geshes and who, with other revered teachers of other sects, were the intellectual virtuosi of Tibet. Theirs was a status gained through learning. Monks from the hinterlands of Tibetan society, the sons of farmers and nomads who were often unrefined in diction and demeanor, went on to become the savants of that society.
The monasteries, however, were not only centers of scholasticism (although that was certainly the hallmark of Drepung, Sera and Ganden). They were also centers for the study of painting, sculpture, embroidery, music, dance, chant and ritual. They were the repositories of the treasures of Tibetan art and the libraries of the vast Tibetan literature.
All of this has changed in the generation that has passed since the uprising of 10 March 1959. The Dalai Lama was followed in his flight from the Chinese by some 250,000 Tibetans, one-fourth of whom arrived safely in India, Nepal and Sikkim. Among that group were approximately 2,500 monks. They worked to reestablish monastic training in exile, first from a tuberculous British prison camp at Buxadour and later at relocated monasteries in southern India with the names of Drepung, Sera and Ganden. The traditional curriculum has been restored in an abbreviated form and the geshe degree in granted each year. The monasteries, lacking the patronage of a Buddhist government and a large lay community, must seek support through the cultivation of farmland, cleared and worked by the monks. The luxury of time enjoyed in the old Tibet is lost in India, but a facsimile of the old has been forged.
Religious Life in Tibet Today
The situation in Tibet today is far more ominous. Between 1959 and 197 all but a dozen of the approximately 6,000 monasteries, temples and shrines in Tibet were physically destroyed, often by dynamiting the ceilings, a grim attestation to the connection between religion and culture in Tibet. The Chinese apparently believed that traditional Tibetan culture could be obliterated by razing the material manifestations of Buddhism. Among the monasteries destroyed was Ganden; Drepung and Sera were left standing. Since 1979, when limited reforms were introduced prior to the Chinese opening of Tibet to Western tourists, Drepung and Sera have been reopened and young men allowed to apply to the government for admission to the monastery. Today Drepung and Sera each have approximately 300 monks, about 50 of whom in each case were monks prior to 1959; the rest are young men who have joined the monastery since 1979.
In the months after the 10 March 1959 uprising, the monks and nuns of Tibet were forced to give up their vows. Those who resisted were either killed, imprisoned or put on road gangs. Hence, some of the older monks at Sera and Drepung today have spent two decades in prison, often in solitary confinement. Today they are broken men, working silently as care-takers of the temples of the monasteries. Others are actively engaged in trying to rest ore a modicum of the scholastic curriculum; prior to the uprising of October 1, classes were held for those monks who were not engaged in construction work by the Chinese. Monastic debate was reinstated, and the young monks could be heard in vigorous disputation on the elementary topics of logic and epistemology. In the summer of 1987, the most advanced classes at Drepung monastery had begun to study the first of the five texts that serve as the basis of the traditional curriculum. At that time, there wee three teachers at Drepung, none of whom held the geshe degree. The system of monastic colleges and houses (Drepung had four colleges and 22 houses), which served as the organizational structure of the monastery, had been dismantled by the Chinese. The unfortunate condition of monastic education in Tibet since 1979 can be gauged in part by the fact that in the last three years 1,600 monks have escaped to India in order to pursue their studies at the refugee monasteries.
Sera and Drepung remained active pilgrimage sites, with trucks arriving on holidays filled with Tibetans who had come to make offerings of butter to the lamps that illuminate the hundreds of Buddha images of the monasteries. Thus, after 1979, the monasteries, even under the constraints of Chinese rule, provided a medium for the survival of Tibetan culture, housing the remains of their vast libraries as well as the relatively few art treasures that had not been looted or destroyed by the Chinese. Tibetans continued to come from afar in pilgrimage to the monasteries. The few scholars who remained were attempting to reclaim, at a modest level, their scholastic tradition. The young monks of the monastery who have joined the monasteries since they reopened are nationalists, in keeping with their forebears, many of whom took up arms against the Chinese in the 1950s. These young monks have been leaders of the demonstration, both violent and nonviolent, that occurred in the streets of Lhasa in October. The monasteries have remained both symbols of Tibetan national identity and centers of resistance.
Tibetan Buddhism's Future Prospects
The fate of the monks and their monasteries is difficult to predict. In the wake of the October incident Sera and Drepung were closed to visitors and patrolled by plainclothes police and the monks were subjected to political reeducation. In the month of December, one heard numerous reports coming out of Kathmandu concerning the punishments of Buddhist monks. In one incident, the entire debating class of Sera monastery was taken into the mountains where they were severely beaten and tortured with electric shock.
The future thus remains darkly obscure. If Tibetan Buddhism is to be a cultural relic for the diversion of the tourist, there seems to be little fear that the monasteries that remain will figure in the survival of Tibetan culture. But if cultures is a tradition, something that is passed on, the prospects are far more ambiguous. Tibetan Buddhism has mistakenly been called "Lamaism," often with the implication that it is not directly connected to the Buddhist tradition of India but is instead some strange hybrid of pure Indian Buddhism and primitive Tibetan demon worship. This view has long ago been proved to be unfounded. Yet one cannot underestimate the role in Tibetan Buddhism of the lama, the Tibetan word for the Sanskrit guru, the teacher. Like all Buddhist traditions in Asia, Tibetan Buddhism traces its roots back to India and the Buddha himself, but unlike other Buddhisms, that of Tibet had retained an unbroken lineage of teacher to student that could be traced back at least as far as eleventh-century India. That lineage was broken in Tibet in 1959. Over the next decades a generation of teachers was lost to death, imprisonment or exile.
The teachers who remain in Tibet today are aged men, many of whom spent 20 years in prison, where they had no opportunity to teach or study. The absence of the teacher, most notably the Dalai Lama himself, is acutely felt by the Tibetan people. On visits to Sera and Drepung in 1985 and 1986, I was asked repeatedly by the senior monks of the monastery to implore the Tibetan scholars living in exile to return to teach. And it is in anticipation of an eventual return to Tibet that the monks in exile have worked to preserve their tradition over the past three decades. Such a return, however, remains impossible under the current conditions of Chinese rule. It is in this return of the exiles to their snowy homeland that hope for the survival of Tibetan culture resides.
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Upper Fort Garry Heritage Park Experiential Signage
The Upper Fort Garry Provincial Park by HTFC Planning and Design is awarded the Jury’s Award of Excellence by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) - March 12, 2018
Category: Experiential Signage
Photography: Lindsay Reid
Landscape Architects Client: HTFC Planning & Design
Experiential Signage: StateCraft Architectural Fabricators
Contractor: Westland Contructions Ltd
Heritage Wall: Cohlmeyer Architects, Pattern Interactive
The Upper fort Garry located between the Red and Assiniboine rivers in Winnipeg Canada become an established fur trade post in 1822. To aid client HTFC Planning and design for the Upper Fort Garry Heritage Park project, StateCraft created experiential signage. Like many contributors to the project, we were dedicated to revitalizing the historical significance this space held.
StateCraft contributes to this project a couple large scale experiential signage. The materials of Corten and stainless steel provide a contrast that lures the viewer to observe the finer details. The techniques of laser etching and waterjet cutting fine letters into a 1’4” Corten material summarize the historical overview. The variety of metal 3D inserts, stainless steel inlays, and negative space allows for depth to the project, showcasing the attention to detail our staff incorporates with precision.
Today, this site offers a new vision from heritage eagerly told by the landscape architects. A multi-faceted interpretation of many voices that uses contemporary material and media to reflect a story while simultaneously inviting participation and finds new meaning in the complexities of history.
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Jesus is the Truth about who God is. Throughout John’s Gospel, Jesus says that if we see Jesus, we see the Father.
“But I have a greater witness than John’s; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish—the very works that I do—bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe.” (John 5:36-38)
“It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.” (John 6:45-47)“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” (John 14:7)
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. (John 14:9-10)
“He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’” (John 15:23-25)
Jesus perfectly represented the heart of the Father. If I want to know who the Father is, we ned to look at the Son. Jesus showed us God the Father.
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. (Hebrews 1:1-4)
In the Greek, the word for “express image” is “character” which means “an exact copy.” The Father is like Jesus, Jesus is like the Father. He is an exact copy of the Father. If we want to perfect our theology, to perfect our truth, we have to get to Jesus. Jesus is perfect theology.
Not only is Jesus the truth about God’s identity, but Jesus is also the truth about who we are. The moment we come to Christ, we enter a re-education camp called the church. The primary role of the church outside of discipleship, community, presenting the gospel, helping those in need, is to awaken the kingdom identity in our lives. “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.” (Philippians 3:20-21) Our earthly journey is the awakening of our identity through a relationship with Christ. Knowing the real God and knowing who He made us be is vital to our walk.
If we know who God is and don’t know the truth about ourselves, we will limit what He can do for and through us. We see this in the life of the spies that Moses sent out — we may see ourselves like the Israelites did, as grasshoppers. But God says we are His children.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 15:7)
God wants us to discover the new us. The New Testament is the revelation of who we are in Christ. We are sons and daughter of the King. Our journey is to discover and experience this new identity he has given us.
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” (Romans 8:15)
Inheritance follows identity. The natural consequence of identity is the realization and attainment of what we have in the family we belong to. People who don’t know their identity in God will never know what they have in God. When we know that we are sons and daughters of the King, the promises in the Bible will come alive and we will be able to receive them and walk in them.
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Many scholarly social networking sites targeting an audience of academicians and researchers have appeared on the Internet in recent years. Their vision is to change the way researchers connect, share and collaborate to solve real world problems. Despite the hype, however, their impact on higher education is unclear. Studies exist that address the benefits of these sites, but studies that investigate the implications of how scholarly social networking systems vet information, including data related to user profiles and uploaded content, is nonexistent. This paper chronicles the system management of user information for an inactive user of a scholarly social networking site. The paper shows what can happen to user profile data when a user remains dormant and data correction is reliant upon system users. The quality and accuracy of information provided on a scholarly social networking site are paramount to its success and effectiveness.
Murray, Meg, "ANALYSIS OF A SCHOLARLY SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE: THE CASE OF THE DORMANT USER" (2014). SAIS 2014 Proceedings. 24.
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Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. Most investors and startup advisors I know hate them, and refuse to sign them. Who is right?
Let me try to put this question in perspective. If you are totally risk-averse, then push to always get signed NDAs. You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. On the other hand, if you intend to patent an idea, you need a signed confidentiality agreement from everyone knowing details, or you will legally lose patent rights.
The format of an NDA is simple, and you can download a sample from many websites. Here are some rule-of-thumb considerations that should help you decide when an NDA is really required, or actually has negative value:
- Trusted professional. If you want advice or funding, and the person you are about to pitch to is a certified investor, or a senior business advisor, skip the NDA. These people value their professional integrity, like your doctor or lawyer, and they are not competitors. Asking for an NDA is an insult and will jeopardize your case before you start.
- Unknown interested party. If you meet someone through Internet networking, or if someone with no visible professional standing contacts you with interest in your plan, an NDA is the least you should do protect yourself. Verifying credentials through multiple sources is even better.
- Strategic partner. The line between competitor and partner is a fine one these days. An NDA is highly recommended before you talk to a similar company about a joint venture, white labeling, or any investment options. I recommend a mutual non-disclosure, with a non-compete clause, for protection in both directions.
- Prior to patent application. As I mentioned earlier, you should never disclose details of a potential patent to anyone without getting a signed and dated NDA. That doesn’t mean you can’t talk in general terms about your idea, and even pitch to investors. Investors don’t need to hear the details anyway, until the due diligence phase.
- Trade secrets. A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not patentable, but gives you an economic advantage over competitors or customers. When someone needs to know the details, get an NDA, even with your own employees.
- Period covered. Typically NDAs have terms of two to five years. In today’s fast moving world, a longer term makes no sense, and is viewed by the signor as an unreasonable restriction on future activities. You can always renew the NDA before it expires, if it is still relevant.
Venture capitalists and angel investors won’t sign NDAs for two reasons: 1) they don’t want the constraints or litigation a few have faced from rogue entrepreneurs, and 2) they feel that if by simply describing the problem you solve, you give away your business, there is almost no chance you will be able to create a defensible position in the market.
There will be some companies who, for perfectly valid business reasons, do not wish to sign an NDA. This doesn’t mean that they are dishonest, but simply that they may not wish to manage the risks involved. As an example, they want to avoid any future conflict with products they may already be working on.
Sharing original work which you intend to commercialize with a startup requires a high degree of mutual trust. Remember that without an NDA, you can still explain what your idea does, but not how it functions or how it’s made. That should be enough to excite interest at a first meeting, and the feedback is worth more than the risk.
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This virtual four-workshop series will allow attendees to gain experience with tools and data from the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). The Research Center facilitates text and data mining uses of the HathiTrust corpus. HathiTrust is a partnership of research libraries, and it is a digital library containing 17.3 million items digitized at the partner libraries. HTRC tools and data range from off-the-shelf options to more advanced offerings for experienced scholars.
The workshops will be held via Zoom and will include a mix of hands-on, discussion, and presentation. We will utilize breakout rooms to support hands-on activities. You will not be required to install any software to participate in the workshops. The workshops are open to faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, librarians, and other academic staff.
Librarians who attend all four workshops will be invited to join a cohort of other librarians who are teaching with and about the Research Center. This cohort has access to additional support from HTRC, further training opportunities, and a community of their peers who are interested in HTRC.
In this third of four workshops, we will introduce you to the HTRC’s capsule environment and how it can be used by intermediate and advanced researchers. An HTRC Data Capsule is a virtual machine with special security settings that allows researchers to access text data from HathiTrust, analyze it using the text and data mining methods of their choice, and then export only the results of their analysis. This session will include a hands-on activity using an HTRC Data Capsule.
Prerequisites: either the “ Introduction to HTRC for Text and Data Mining ” workshop, or some previous experience with HathiTrust or HTRC.
To request disability-related accommodations for this event, please contact firstname.lastname@example.org at least 3 working days in advance.
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By pooling their brightest minds and best research, ten big drug companies hope to decipher diseases in ways each hasn't been able to do on its own.
Under a five-year collaboration the ten companies together with the National Institute of Health (NIH) have agreed to share scientists, tissue and blood samples and data. The diseases that are under joint investigation are Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus.
Drug companies are traditionally secretive about their discoveries as they rush to patent any new drugs. This cooperative effort allows them to use discoveries only after the information has been shared with the public, similar to the "open source" movement in the software world.
The pharmaceutical companies cooperating in the NIH project that research drugs for diabetes are Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer and Sanofi. These companies hope to catalog genetic changes that raise or lower a person's risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. The research has timetables and benchmarks to ensure accountability so it doesn't become last in government bureaucracy.
Source: National Institues of Health
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“All students who are desirous of associating themselves with The 'Gilmorehill Globe' are requested to meet the editor at the University Union any afternoon. […] Experience is not a vital factor in filling the posts.” – Thus read the very first and now familiar call for Glasgow Guardian “contribs”. In this respect (essentially an appeal to complete amateurs to pick up the pen) very little has changed since six well-heeled young men and one woman launched the “Gilmorehill Globe”, as it was then known, at the beginning of the academic year of 1932. A transitional time for sure, the students paying one penny for that issue must have felt the thrust of the changing world around them; growing up through an uncertain decade in the wake of a traumatic war, these young men and women would live on to see a yet greater bloodbath, the deepening of the Great Depression, alongside the end of Britain as a country of empire, and Glasgow as a city of industrial might. It is chilling to think that less than half a year after issue one hit the newsstands, a small man with an even smaller moustache would address baying thousands as the new Chancellor of Germany.
Considering the mass of history since that year, one quickly appreciates the immense privilege of having access to what is certainly the most complete set of archives of any British student paper. As we scoured these, on the eve of our 85th birthday, in order to put together this special retrospective piece, we’ve become firmly convinced that, as students, it is surely a memorable experience to view such a turbulent century as it was witnessed, and reported on, by people like us. However much student demographics may have changed from the days of mid-century exclusivity, our student paper has always been an organ of inquisitive young amateurs, transcribing the world for the first time – just as it is today. Many of these amateurs have went on to become anything but; Andrew Neil and Fraser Nelson both work at the highest level of journalism, Donald Dewar took the helm at the onset of a new era in Scottish history, and William Boyd has collected awards and acclaim for his fiction. If we’ve done our job right, what follows should be an amusing and eye-opening tour through great events, changing attitudes and Maureen (get to know her better on the back page).
The sixties, that decade of noted student unrest from Berkeley to the Sorbonne, seemed like an excellent place to start. One issue in the febrile year of 1968 (which disappointingly revealed nothing like the events in Paris that year) reported the effect that had been made on campus by Enoch Powell’s infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech. Powell famously seethed: “We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants… It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre” - and Glasgow students came out in force, both for and against. The Guardian reported then “Cracks in the hitherto generally smooth surface of Glasgow student apathy”; it became clear we were a little more set in our ways than those upturning cars on the streets of Paris.
Indeed, the paper would have fooled no one as progressive when, a year later, the front page offered up “Maureen”, a smiling pin-up girl, promising readers the chance to “get to know her better on the back page”. Although striking a pose that would scarcely clear “suggestive” today, Maureen no doubt set the heart of many a libidinous young student racing. “With compliments of the editor” read the caption, that editor being none other than Andrew Neil himself. Sordid stuff.
The March of 1979 saw the GUU finally decide to mix genders. In a historic general meeting there was a unanimous vote in favour of mixing both unions, although an amendment to include in the vote the mixing of boards of management was defeated. After the vote, a throng of some 200 students marched down to the GUU, and Margaret Jamieson, one of the two women to first experience the union quipped, “the beer here tastes better”, and nothing has changed since. Though, as you might expect, not all were overjoyed at the prospect of a male and female union. The Guardian reported that some bar staff walked out and one drinker already in the beer bar charmingly quipped “don’t worry, they’re only poofs, lesbians, and communists”, thus supplying the memorable headline. In addition, two students were forcibly removed after a confrontation occurred following the appearance of the then GUU President. As a result of the action taken by students on that day, the SRC President resigned his position on the GUU board of management, citing specifically the issue of mixing in the unions. Positive change can be a bitter pill.
Readers may remember our rector elections this year. They have often been a cause for hot debate on campus, then as now. Academic year 1986/87 saw Winnie Mandela take the helm as rector of Glasgow University, six months after her nomination. Despite the neat 25 years since her husband’s imprisonment, and her being an extremely well-known individual in her own right, the turnout for student elections that year were even lower than this year’s display. In 1987, less than 25% turned out; in 2017, 31% of all students cast their vote. The “generally smooth surface of Glasgow student apathy” once more. Mandela, however, did command a large portion of the vote, taking over half of the 1350 votes cast. Forbidden from leaving South Africa, she sent on her behalf Amanda Kwadi, a recipient of the Nelson Mandela Scholarship at the London School of Economics. Ms Kwadi had herself been incarcerated by the South African government and gave a speech that had been sent via Telex by Mandela only half an hour before the installation. Some three years later, Nelson Mandela would walk free and apartheid would be over within the year.
The Guardian perhaps reached its apogee as an investigative force in 2004 with a unique intersection with the world of Cold War espionage. "The spy who lectured me…" revealed that, unbeknown to the university, a former CIA agent began working as a politics lecturer. Professor Richard Mansbach, originally of Iowa State University, joined Glasgow for the academic term 2002/2003, keeping quiet the fact that he’d been caught up in one of America’s biggest university scandals. In 1984, as tensions heightened between the US and Soviet Union, Mansbach was instructed by the CIA to create a secret research term dubbed the "The European Non-State Actors Project". This he did, staffing it with oblivious Iowa students who believed they were undertaking a research project for academic credit, not gathering intel on the Soviets. The Guardian reported that this lent credence to the suspicion that the University were not conducting so much as cursory checks on incoming staff - a quick google would have revealed the shady past of this CIA operative.
It would likely take a little over our perennially limited word count to illustrate the true gamut of history and nonsense which has been the story of this paper, but a double spread is perhaps enough of a masturbatory victory lap as we’re allowed at this stage. Maybe once we hit the big one hundred, when our troubled world is troubled still, Britain has limped out of Europe and Scotland out of Britain, some new clown sits in the White House and looks to Beijing for leadership, we may mine the archives once more for stories that chart the world through the eyes of youthful, educated Glasgow. Perhaps we’ll have enough to fill our special hologram edition on whatever mad dystopian technology the year 2032 will bring us. A lot can happen in 15 years and, for sure, we are still doing what we’ve always done - do pop along whenever you like. As it was put in a delightful piece of doggerel in that first issue back in 1932:
“We’ll write a perfect testament
Without a ruddy rudiment
Tho’ it be much to your own sorriment
Our Object is Sublime”
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reclaimed wood and steel coffee table – The coffee table that has become an indispensable furniture especially in the family area is often a long low table that’s used in front with the sofa. It functions as being a resting location for beverages, magazines, a coffee table book or two, occasionally perhaps the feet.
In nowadays, these tables of this type are made of various materials or even a combination of materials helping to make this piece of furniture more appealing with designs that are the simple leggy types to people with ornate designs that show the artistry with the table’s maker. This table come in many colors too and shapes like round, rectangular, square, and irregular shapes for example the kidney bean.
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Here are the top 9 resting places for coffee depending on material or materials used, color, and shape, starting from the most popular.
1. Wood Coffee Tables
Wood is the most famous material in a coffee table, these are perfect for anyone who has rustic or traditional design themes within their home. There are also many wood selections which a furniture buyer can select and they are: oak, pine, cherry, oak, walnut, cypress, and teak. If you’re will make your own table, the selection of form of wood will be based on the utilization (and abuse) the table will incur and the design you will be making (simple or carved). For robust use, you can select strong wood if you are being just using this type of table just as one accent piece, then you can decide softwood.
2. Glass Coffee Tables
You can buy a great glass table or possibly a glass table followed by wood or paired with wrought iron. Glass provides the room an illusion of width because you are able to forecast it which is great if you reside in a small apartment or house. The author will not recommend glass on homes high are younger children as glass contains the tendency to destroy. When buying glass tables always be sure that you may ask for tempered or treated glass because when this kind of glass breaks it does not have sharp edges unlike untreated glass which has the tendency to destroy in large shards.
3. Noguchi Coffee Tables
Designed by Isamu Noguchi 50 plus years ago, table resulted from your match stated in heaven by sculpture and furniture. This table features an interlocking wood base as well as a glass top. This is so popular it’s design can often be imitated, so if you are searching for one, checkout the glass edge along with the wood base to the artist’s signature. The Herman Miller Company is the individual that exclusively manufactures Noguchi tables.
4. Stone Coffee Tables
Different forms of stones can be used in constructing a stone table: marble, granite, and slate. The most widely used may be the marble. If you want a Victorian style theme, this furniture will be the best table to do front of the sofa.
5. Bamboo Coffee Tables
This material is three things concurrently: strong, beautiful, and sturdy. This material is popular as this is suitable for establishing an island or Asian design theme or possibly a traditional theme for that living room. Furniture who use this material will probably be very expensive because this grass does not grow locally, they need to be imported. Moreover, the operation of preparing bamboo for constructing any type of furniture is really a long method that involves stripping bamboo, boiling the strips and gluing the strips together is also why bamboo furniture expensive.
6. Wrought Iron Coffee Tables
“Wrought” is an Old English term for “work” therefore literally it’s “worked iron”. When you purchase a wrought iron furniture, it is possible to be sure that artistry is incorporated in that piece because wrought iron is hammered and bent healthy by very skilled master craftsmen making the iron long-lasting and more proof against corrosion than other types of metals. Wrought iron tables are elegant pieces by themselves on the other hand beauty is enhanced (or they enhance the beauty) of another material paired for them. For instance wrought iron and glass or wrought iron and stone.
7. Lucite Coffee Tables
If you’re looking for your perfect table that is certainly visually appealing and increases the eye the illusion of space but that you have reservations having a glass table, then Lucite ends your quest. You can now showcase that beautiful Persian rug with a coffee table created from Lucite a fabric that is also known as acrylic which is stronger and clearer than glass.
8. Black or White Coffee Tables
Tables for your coffee can really be many colors but the most used of the colors may be the black or even the light tables. This is because these colors go along with any design theme.
9. Round and Rectangular Coffee Tables
Lastly, a coffee table irrespective of any material or color does are available in many shapes. The most widely used shapes are rectangular and round. Choosing a table’s shape depends on how much space space, suitability of the fit around the opposite furniture, and/or if you’ve got small children in the home who might accidentally bump onto rectangular table edges.
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It turns out that it’s possible to develop film in a mixture of instant coffee, washing soda and vitamin C. This is, to me, amazing. Here’s the recipe.
12 oz. water
5 teaspoons instant coffee crystals
3 1/2 teaspoons washing soda
1/2 teaspoon vitamin C powder
Dubbed cafenol (its a geeky photochem joke), the developer is used just like a regular developing solution, only you can make it by raiding the kitchen cupboard (apart from the instant coffee, of course. We know you all have French presses and espresso machines). You will still need a real fixer solution to deactivate the light sensitive materials, and you’ll need to take the same care in loading the film into a developing tank as you would if using regular ol’ Perceptol, but the results are surprisingly good.
Cafenol will turn any film into a black and white negative, similar in effect to cross processing (developing a slide film in color print film chemicals, for example), and you’ll still want to keep the extractor fan running. Despite the ingredients, this mixture is foul smelling. Photojojo:
Holy frijoles! How can things that smell like coffee, nothing, and nothing combine to smell like grim death?
Also, don’t drink it. One thing about this hack that isn’t surprising is that there is a Flickr group dedicated to cafenol photos. And it goes without saying that if you do try this at home, post your results to the Gadget Lab Flickr pool.
How to Develop Film Using Coffee and Vitamin C! Srsly! [Photojojo via Lifehacker]
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Headache is one of the most common complaints of women, and unfortunately, it does not bother you even if you are breastfeeding and have small children. Read How You Can Help Yourself!In high heat, before a storm, when you are stressed, when you are not sleeping, when your menstruation is near, when the front comes, headaches can be a frequent occurrence. If you are affected, I do not need to explain what you are up to and how difficult it is to deal with children in such a state.
The simplest solution seems to be to get a pill. You should know that this is not forbidden during breastfeeding! Choose a drug that contains a single active ingredient.
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Burning with mild to moderate painThe most common type of headache is the tensus typhus without exception, we can achieve improvements by eliminating certain sources of problems:
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Here’s a bright idea: GE is marrying the ordinary light bulb, the company’s oldest business area, with the Internet of Things, the company’s newest, to rethink the most basic of products in your home.
“Lighting is going to be about more than light,” said Beth Comstock, President and CEO of GE Business Innovations, at a panel the company hosted in New York City Monday morning. “It’s pretty exciting to think that something you’ve taken advantage of for the past 100 years is being reborn.”
Thanks to integrated sensors that can detect key information about their surroundings, tomorrow’s light bulbs will be vastly more intelligent than the bulbs you’ve got buried in a drawer in your kitchen. They’ll forecast the weather, improve parking in cities, heighten security, and facilitate communication. They’re boldly going where no light bulb has gone before.
“You can make those brilliant machines do much more, be much smarter, and basically help businesses work better,” Comstock said. “GE has been working hard over the last four years to bring this to the industrial world.”
Up to 50 percent of consumers will adopt LEDs over the next five years, Comstock explained, and adoption will be even greater for businesses and municipalities. The conversion to LED — ostensibly something that saves us money — is a gateway to the intelligent home, she said. Sweeping installations in San Diego, California and Jacksonville, Florida, point the way to the future.
Over 4,000 LED lights have been rolled out across San Diego already, explained David Graham, Deputy Chief Operating Officer for the city. Sensors in the GE bulbs and the company’s Predix technology will facilitate security and improve parking across the city. And yes, they’ll still help the bottom line.
“We’re saving over a quarter million dollars a year, and that doesn’t even count the maintenance,” Graham said. But the sensors go beyond the business case: Networked LED street lights will have the ability to direct drivers to available spaces with the help of built-in sensors and wireless transceivers, GE explained. The same street light could serve as a sensor and give warnings in the event of a hurricane or other events through a public-address speaker concealed within the light post. Or direct first-responders.
Since people are likely unaware that the sensors exist in street lights, the city is able to collect “more pure,” more accurate data, Graham said. “It’s going to be useful for the consumer…. this will be something they’ve never had and never seen before.”
“The response has been pretty tremendous so far,” he added.
People will be able to transform their behavior based on the info the city will collect, he said. But will that be a security nightmare? Will street lamps suddenly know where you are and what you’re up to? Will that lamp you’re parked under issue you a ticket if you overstay your welcome? Both GE and Qualcomm insist that privacy will not be a concern.
“This is less The Matrix and more The Truman Show — without the dome.”
“You have to work with your partners and be quite clear as to what the concerns are and build the right kind of technology that preserves the right to privacy,” Comstock said. “You need a flexible system.”
“This is less The Matrix and more The Truman Show — without the dome. Where your environment understands you and you understand it. We see this opportunity as really changing the quality of life in our city,” said Graham.
Jacksonville is about to begin a similar roll out, though the city has yet to begin the infrastructure overhaul that San Diego is in the middle of.
“We are just this next year going to be entering into a multiyear conversion of our street lights,” explained Jim Robinson, Director of Public Works for the city of Jacksonville.
A few downtown streets that have been “nagging” in terms of enforcement and turn-over of spots have been selected for the pilot program. The city plans to fix that … with light bulbs. Jacksonville also aims to cut the power bills as dramatically as those in San Diego.
“I want to ensure that around the big city we serve, those big issues that really need a fast response, that we know about it so we can respond. That’s… where we are with this technology, and very anxious to get started with the pilot,” Robinson said.
But GE’s plan stretches beyond the streetlights in the city and into businesses, shopping malls, and even your home. A partnership with Qualcomm, also unveiled at the New York City event Monday morning, means a different type of technology embedded in a bulb, which alters the light from the bulb itself.
By pulsing the light rapidly thousands of times per second, Qualcomm is able to create a unique ID that can be read by front-facing cameras and can very, very accurately read locations, down to the foot. Chips that make this happen will be embedded into GE light bulbs, explained Cormac Conroy from Qualcomm. It can transform retail locations, he said.
“Where are people spending their time? What items are they finding?” he asked. By pinpointing their location in a store using this technology, a business can better understand its shoppers. And imagine what it could do for you home: The lights in the kitchen could come on when they sense you’re nearby (because your nose is glued to your smartphone, of course), or the drapes could slide shut if you sit down and turn on the lamp near the TV. Voila: The Internet of Things!
GE also announced a partnership with Apple’s HomeKit, bringing its Align technology — which can alter the hue of light from a bulb — to that platform.
This type of technology may seem futuristic, but it’s also something savvier, younger consumers are just coming to demand.
“Connectivity is just the baseline for the younger generation,” explained Graham. “Connectivity is an absolute imperative. It’s just expected.”
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Hotspot Shield has a browser extension, which is available for Google Chrome on; Windows, Android, Mac OS X, macOS, and the iOS operating systems. There is also an add-on for the Firefox web browser. Price Sep 05, 2018 · HoRNDIS (pronounce: “horrendous”) is a driver for Mac OS X that allows you to use your Android phone's native USB tethering mode to get Internet access. It is known to work with Mac OS X versions 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) through 10.14 (Mojave – see notes below), and has been tested on a wide variety of phones. Although you should be careful Techkey Wireless USB WiFi Adapter, 1200Mbps Dual Band 2.42GHz/300Mbps 5.8GHz/867Mbps High Gain Dual 5dBi Antennas Network WiFi USB 3.0 for Desktop Laptop with Windows 10/8/7/XP, Mac OS X 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,626 Mar 05, 2011 · Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5) does it use a lot of battery power if you leave the hotspot on all the time? or is it better to turn it off after using it?
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We implement our strategy and business model at the intersection of three key megatrends: urbanization, mobility and energy efficiency. For Techem, innovative, sustainable technologies are the focus of attention to make buildings green, smart and healthy.
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. We at Techem are aware of our responsibility and are therefore working on solutions for a successful energy transition in buildings.
One thing is for certain: it is only with the help of digitalization that an almost climate-neutral building stock can be feasible and financed. With digitally networked solutions and devices, we can reduce energy consumption, increase efficiency and network renewable energy generation across sectors.
Digitization makes the management of real estate more economical, reliable and more comfortable. For us at Techem, climate protection, process efficiency and legal compliance go hand in hand.
The resulting data base creates clarity and awareness of energy consumption and energy flows – among owners and residents. In this way, we make optimal planning and control as well as energy-efficient generation and distribution possible. Consumers can thus save energy more easily.
As an energy service provider and measurement service provider, we at Techem consider it our responsibility to create smart, digital and resource-saving solutions for the real estate industry of tomorrow. Our services and devices are therefore always designed with a clear goal in mind: We want to achieve lower CO₂ emissions in real estate.
Our modern digital technology sensor infrastructure serves as the basis for the necessary data overview and the additional values based on it. The benefits? It is durable, interoperable, remotely readable, data-safe and self-monitoring.
Additional solutions will be added as they are developed, especially with regard to digitalization and the increased use of sensor technology. Examples of further possible fields of activity include the digital and energy-efficient operation of elevators, the verification of air quality and other services in the networked building. Buildings and quarters of the future must be a climate-friendly, networked and healthy living and working space. We will contribute to this.
Our clients are housing associations and real estate investors as well as cooperatives, classic property managers as well as owners of apartment buildings.
Sales in financial year 2020/21 (October 01, 2020 - September 30, 2021)
Sales *: 818.6 mio. Euro
Matthias Hartmann (born in 1966) has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Techem GmbH since 16th January 2020. As Chairman of the Management Board, he is responsible for the development of the Eschborn-based company, which operates in more than 20 countries, together with Dr. Carsten Sürig, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Performance Officer, and Nicolai Kuß, Chief Sales Officer. Until he joined Techem, Matthias Hartmann was Chairman of the Management Board of IBM Deutschland GmbH and General Manager Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Previously, he was, among other things, CEO of the market research company GfK SE. He was responsible for the transformation of the company into a global provider of products and solutions as well as the digital orientation of the company. Prior to this, he held various management positions at IBM in Germany and the US, where he expanded the global services business for strategy, digital transformation and business development.
Nicolai Kuß (born in 1974) has been serving as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and a member of the management team of Techem GmbH since December 2016. In this position, he is responsible for Techem’s business operations. These include the areas of installation, reading and billing, but also supply chain, purchasing, IT and quality assurance. The Business Administration graduate began his professional career with the consulting firm Ernst & Young in 1999 and subsequently gained extensive experience in the real estate industry. He was a member of the German management of Fortress Investment Group and was responsible for the operational business of the GAGFAH Group as COO and a member of the management team for six years. Most recently, he was Chief Investment Officer and a member of the Management Board of Deutsche Immobilien Chancen Group.
Dr. Carsten Sürig (born in 1966) has been Chief Financial Officer and Chief Performance Officer (CFO & CPO) since the end of March 2019 and is a member of the Management Board of Techem GmbH. In this function, he is responsible for the entire finance area as well as the areas of Techem Energy Services that have a direct influence on operating performance. This includes in particular the areas of installation, meter reading and billing, purchasing, supply chain, quality & methods, infrastructure, Bautec as well as IT infrastructure and IT development. Dr. Sürig studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and earned his doctorate immediately afterwards. As a consultant at McKinsey, he has more than 20 years of experience in the energy industry and was a senior partner in the Düsseldorf office of the management consultancy as well as a member of the management group of McKinsey’s European Electric Power & Natural Gas Practice.
Andreas Umbach is Chairman of Techem’s Board and within the board a subject matter expert on Smart Grid/Smart Metering.
Between 2002 and the IPO in 2017, he was President and CEO/COO of Landis+Gyr Group AG. Since 2017 he has been the non-executive Chairman of its Board. Before his activities at Landis+Gyr, he led the Metering Division within the Power Transmission and Distribution Group of Siemens.
Since the IPO of SIG Combibloc Group AG in 2018 he has been its Chairman of the Board. He has also served as President of the Board of the privately held Rovensa SA since 2020.
Andreas Umbach holds an MBA degree from the University of Texas in Austin, USA, as well as a Master of Science degree (Diplom-Ingenieur) from the Technical University of Berlin.
Andreas Umbach was born in 1963 and has German and Swiss citizenship.
Dr. Eric Strutz is Vice Chairman and Lead Independent Director of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG and Chairman of the Risk & Audit Committee established by the Board of Directors. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Partners Group’s portfolio companies Techem and Global Blue. Furthermore, he is a member of the Board of Directors of HSBC Bank plc. and Chairman of the Risk and Audit Committee of HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG. Until March 2012, Dr. Eric Strutz was Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank AG, prior to which he was a member of the management team of Boston Consulting. He earned a PhD in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
He was born in 1964 and is a German citizen.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Ann-Kristin Achleitner has been a member of the Advisory Board since October 2020. The economist holds a PhD in Economics from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and, after holding the Chair of Entrepreneurial Finance there from 2001-2020, is Distinguished Affiliated Professor at the Technical University of Munich. The former management consultant is also active as a venture capitalist and has many years of experience in advisory boards and supervisory board work in German and international companies, such as the French energy company Engie SA. She is currently a member of the boards of Linde and Munich Re and on the International Advisory Board of Investcorp. She chairs the Nomination & Compensation Committee (NCC) on the Techem Board.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Ann-Kristin Achleitner was born in 1966 and is a German citizen.
Dr. Jürgen Diegruber is a Partner of Partners Group AG, Baar, Switzerland, heads the Partners Group office in Munich, Germany, and is part of the European Private Equity Business Unit. Among his other positions, he is a member of the Board of Partners Group’s portfolio company Hofmann Menue Manufaktur. He started in consulting in 1991, was co-founder and Managing Partner of Bossard Consultants GmbH and has been active in the private equity industry for over 25 years. Until the end of Sept 2020, he chaired the Nomination & Compensation Committee (NCC) of Techem’s Advisory Board. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen (HSG).
Dr. Jürgen Diegruber was born in 1961 and is a German citizen.
Michael Barben supports the development of portfolio companies of the Partners Group Private Infrastructure business. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Supervisory Board of Fermaca and VSB Holding as well as of the Advisory Board of Techem, here as an expert for energy contracting and decentralized supply solutions. Prior to that, he worked for Partners Group since 2000 in various functions, most recently as Co-Head of the Private Infrastructure Business Department and Chairman of the Private Infrastructure Investment Committee. He has 27 years of industry experience and has worked for Zurmont Management and SBC Warburg, among other firms. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland. He is also a CFA charterholder, a certified Swiss equity trader and holds the title of Financial Risk Manager.
Michael Barben was born in 1967 and is a Swiss Citizen.
Lukas Bucher is a member of Partners Group's European Private Equity Services Business Unit. He has been working at Partners Group since 2008 and has 19 years of industry experience. Since 2018, he has been part of the Techem Advisory Board. He represents Partners Group on the boards of Foncia, International Schools Partnership and Key Retirement Group. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked for The Boston Consulting Group. He holds an MBA degree from INSEAD, a private university in Paris, and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
Lukas Bucher was born in 1976 and is a Swiss citizen.
Andreas Holzmüller is Managing Director of Partners Group (EU) GmbH and has been with Partners Group since 2008. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of Techem and the toy manufacturer Schleich and was a member of the Advisory Board of the real estate service provider Foncia from 2016 to 2019. He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers prior to joining Partners Group. He holds a Master’s degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland.
Andreas Holzmüller was born in 1982 and is a German citizen.
Albrecht von Alvensleben is Managing Director of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and leads its private equity activities in Europe. He has over 15 years of experience in majority and minority investments in private and listed companies and joined CDPQ in London in 2017. Prior to that, he worked for Wendel, a listed long-term investment holding company based in Paris, and for Lehman Brothers. Albrecht von Alvensleben holds an MBA from INSEAD, Paris, and an MSc in Management from ESCP-EAP European School of Management.
Albrecht von Alvensleben was born in 1978 and is German citizen.
Marvin Teubner has been with Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in London since 2011 and has more than 15 years of experience in private equity. He has been involved in various transactions and led the acquisition of CeramTec, Synlab, and Lowell, among others, of which he is currently also a Board member. Prior to joining Ontario Teachers’, he worked for Rhône Capital, a medium-sized private equity fund, and Warburg Pincus. Marvin Teubner holds a BA degree in Economics and Operations Research from Columbia University.
Marvin Teuber was born in 1978 and is a German citizen.
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INFLUENCE OF FATIGUE IN THE SELECTED KINEMATIC PARAMETERS OF HURDLE CLEARANCE IN 400 METRE RACE - IN SEARCH OF AN ACCURATE TRAINING TEST
Keywords: hurdle clearance, 400 m hurdle races, kinematic parameters
AbstractThe paper describes a initial study on the effects of fatigue on the selected kinematic parameters of hurdle clearance. Original test involving a hurdles race over 5 hurdles on a curve was used. The analysis concerned clearing the third hurdle in the initial and final (after the 200 m hurdles race) phase of the race. The study analyzed 15 parameters in five phases of hurdle clearance estimated using the particle swarm optimization algorithm. The material was recorded with a 100 Hz industrial camera. The results indicate that the basic parameters in the changes of a hurdling technique influenced by fatigue include: length of the hurdle clearance and landing distance past the hurdle.
Authors can retain copyright, while granting the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS) the right of first publication.
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All about Gastric Plication in Turkey: Cost & Reviews
Morbid obesity is a challenge for both affected people and surgeons who treat them. It is one of the most serious health condition in the world recently.
Bariatric surgeries witness a significant boom in Turkey thanks to their high success rate, low complication rate and the advanced technologies. Another kind of bariatric surgery has arisen in recent years which is called gastric plication. We will help discover this emerging intervention, its cost, its results as well as its pros and cons.
Stomach Reduction without cutting
70 percent of the stomach size can be reduced by gastric plication without ablation, as it is the case in gastric sleeve. The surgery that lasts between 1 and 2 hours is performed after making tiny cuts of 0.5 cm in the patient’s abdomen that allow the doctor to attain the stomach and employ a small camera or a laparoscope. In order to shorten the stomach extent, the surgeon bends it through dissolvable stitches.
The restriction of the stomach is the common aspect of the gastric plication procedure and gastric sleeve. This procedure does not involve the ablation of a part of the stomach.
After the intervention, one or two days of hospitalization are required. You can undergo another bariatric surgery with Turquie Santé, such as:
Who is a good candidate for this Bariatric Surgery?
Your doctor may advise you to undergo a stomach reduction surgery if you correspond to the following description:
BMI over 30 kg/m²
Your body mass index must be equal or superior to 30 kg/m², which means you are over-weighted. This is inferior to what most weight loss surgeries require. Indeed, the BMI required in most of these surgeries is 35 kg/m² or more, associated with health problems related to obesity.
Diet & sport didn’t work for you
You have tried noninvasive treatments to lose weight, but have not achieved enough weight loss. This may include:
- Physical activity;
- Cognitive behavioural therapy;
- Weight loss with medications.
You have strong determination
You have shown involvement in losing weight, ameliorating your health, and changing your lifestyle habits forever. This includes respecting permanent healthy eating habits, practising physical activities and changing your daily behaviour. It will also involve assuming a lifelong need to reduce the amount of food and change food choices.
Is it possible to have this Bariatric Surgery in Turkey & Istanbul?
You have a gastric plication procedure in Turkey because it is an intervention that is available in many large cities such as Ankara, Antalya, Izmir, and Istanbul. You should have a thorough idea about gastric plication by asking many surgeons in order to find the most skilful one who is able to meet your expectations.
In order to be healthy, Turquie santé provides you with gastric plication that will help you fight obesity and get rid of extra kilos even for patients under 18.
From a financial point of view, gastric plication is usually the cheapest treatment of all bariatric surgeries in Turkey and Istanbul, and therefore it is an option available for people who are overweight or obese.
Gastric Plication Results and Complications: Pros & Cons
The Pros of this weight loss surgery: The Results
Several outcomes may appear after this surgery such as:
- Weight loss is achieved
- Small quantity of nutrition is consumed.
- Satiation can be felt rapidly.
- Threads may be eliminated if the doctor or patient deems it necessary
- Stomach and digestive process continue to function normally.
- Operation scars are barely visible.
It is important to highlight that weight loss can be maintained through following a healthy lifestyle and practising some sports activities. The expected results cannot appear quickly which may make this surgery less convincing than other types of bariatric surgery.
This restrictive procedure aims at restricting the volume of the stomach in order to reduce the quantity of food. A decline in the uptake of food cannot be caused by this surgery. Satiety can be felt exponentially and for long hours and hunger may reduce.
The Cons of this Obesity Surgery: the Complications
This intervention does not have only benefits it also may cause some complications. Gastric plication can be useless if the patient continues to eat large amounts of food which would end the surgery and its intentions.
There are several risks that are linked to gastric plication like a stomach hole, haemorrhage, and inflammation that can be experienced after any bariatric surgery. Added to that, short-term hair loss and a stomach ache are other results that may arise after this intervention. Since this new bariatric surgery is still able to demonstrate itself, long-term results cannot be determined.
Cost& Price of this Surgery with Turquie Santé
A number of fees can be included in the cost and the price of gastric plication operation such as:
- The hospital or the clinic charges;
- The costs of the tests;
- The cost of anesthesia;
- The surgeon's fees.
A customized price is offered to our patients who have had gastric surgery, cryolipolysis or tummy tuck.
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fáilte | croeso | welcome
Llŷn Iveragh Ecomuseums
What is LIVE?
LIVE is a collaboration between Welsh and Irish community organisations, academic departments and local governments. LIVE aims to enable coastal communities to promote their natural and cultural assets, creating opportunities for sustainable tourism, especially outside of the traditional peak tourist seasons.
LIVE will use the Ecomuseum model of co-operative marketing to create a powerful suite of digital and non-digital resources for eco and educational tourism. These resources will be underpinned by knowledge of the local environments of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd and the Iveragh peninsula in Kerry.
The project will facilitate workshops, education programmes and knowledge exchange sessions to build a cohort of active Ecomuseum ambassadors and citizen scientists on both peninsulas who are skilled in digital marketing and engaged with their local environments.
LIVE builds on work already underway to create a strong identity and sense of place for both peninsulas. LIVE is part funded by the Ireland Wales co-operation programme.
Keep up to date with all the happenings from Iveragh, Pen Llŷn and beyond
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Throughout Justice Department Inspector General
An early draft of the 2016 FBI report on the email scandal was reportedly subjected to linguistic surgery to exonerate the former secretary of state, who at the time was the Democratic nominee for president. Clinton was originally found to be "grossly negligent" in using an illegal email server. That legalistic phrase is used by prosecutors to indict for violation of laws governing the wrongful transmission of confidential government documents.
Yet the very thought of a likely
FBI investigators also had concluded that it was "reasonably likely" foreign nations had read Clinton's unsecured emails. Comey intervened to mask such a likelihood by substituting the more neutral word "possible."
The FBI hierarchy under Comey tried to hide the embarrassing details of Obama's conduct. As a result, the FBI deleted Obama's name from its report. In its place, the FBI inserted the laughable "another senior government official" -- as if the president of
According to Comey's congressional testimony, then-Attorney General
One of the oddest mysteries of the IG report is the FBI's delay in addressing the fact that disgraced former
Stranger still, Comey asserted his ignorance of the Weiner-Abedin marriage in an Orwellian manner: "I don't know that I knew that [Weiner] was married to
What were the common themes in the FBI's linguistic distortions?
Two realities: One, the FBI made sure that Obama, the boss of most of the wayward FBI and DOJ officials, was not to be entangled in any scandal.
Two, seemingly everyone at the
The inspector general's report on the Clinton email covers just one scandal. Presumably, the IG and other investigators will issue reports on a number of other ongoing scandals that involved the 2016 campaign.
How did government officials, by hiding information about the so-called Steele dossier, mislead the
How was it decided that the Clinton campaign would pay
How was an FBI informant inserted into the Trump campaign?
How were names of
If the IG report on the Clinton email scandal is any guide to these upcoming investigations, expect widespread abuse of the English language to warp reality.
The media is using the antiseptic "informant" in place of the cruder but more accurate "spy" or "mole."
The off-putting but accurate "wiretapping" has become the more professional "surveillance."
The sanitized "improper" always sounds cleaner than the more accurate "illegal."
In sum, "2016" could make a logical sequel to "1984."
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Went with my family to the California Railroad Museum in Sacramento a few weekends ago.  If you haven’t gone, it is worth the trip. It’s an incredible collection with a knowledgeable and passionate staff, and a large toy train area for younger children.
Exploring the history and evolution of the railroad in California had several pertinent lessons on innovation. For instance, I learned a civil engineer, Theodore Judah, had the vision and audacity to suggest a transcontinental railroad.
Judah had the sense of mind to gather around him several wealthy financiers to help bring his dream to birth. Leland Stanford was one backer of Judah’s crazy dream. Though Judah died before the railroads met on 10 May 1869, his vision drove huge changes in the economic, social, and technical landscape of America.
“Gee John, that’s an interesting bit of trivia. But, what does this have to do with endurance? Come on, Judah died of yellow fever…”
In the early days of the railroad every local community and railroad company set their own standards of operation, including the track gauge cars rode on. This was incredibly important to the market and supply chain.
Typically cars from one gauge could not run on another gauge of track. [Gauge is the distance between the railroad track rails] This meant that as railroads expanded and eventually met other railroads, there was a good chance their gauge was incompatible. This required laborers to shift cargo from the cars on one railroad to another. It inserted delays in shipping, increased threat of theft and breakage, and required most rail transit to act like the first dot matrix printers – returning to the start before shipping something out.
Eventually, the cost of maintaining separate rail ecosystems exceeded the benefit. As a result there was tremendous consolidation in standards. A few standards emerged, but there were many losers. This resulted in huge losses by railroad builders but led to a tremendous growth in innovation resulting in a standardized, stable rail platform. We still use that platform today to ship most freight in the United States.
Winning the standardization race is a long term strategy for companies training for the innovation marathon. Firms that treat this as a sprint will not reach the finish line. The question to ask yourself is: based on your offering and the target market, what kind of race are you running, and are you training to win or just to finish.
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Enterprise companies rely on data scientists from a range of geographies and backgrounds. To help keep analytics teams on the same page, it’s useful for analytics team members to use the same analytics tools. This can and should include tools that offer local language support for data scientists who speak Chinese, Russian, Japanese, etc.
The ability for companies to build and draw upon geographically-dispersed collaborative analytics teams has become essential to business success, if not survival. A Frost & Sullivan report reveals that collaboration is a cornerstone of business performance. For instance, 36% of a company’s business performance is tied to its “collaboration index,” according to the report. By comparison, this is more than two times the impact of a company’s strategic direction (16%) and more than five times the impact of market and technological turbulence influences (7%).
Local language support can also help geographically-dispersed analytics teams collaborate on solutions for addressing and targeting local market issues. For instance, analytics teams can use the same set of analytics tools and applications to help identify customer needs and preferences in a particular market (e.g. 18-to-29-year-old females in Tokyo) and then use demographic, transactional, and other customer information to identify the right types of offers and marketing campaigns.
Local language support can help bolster collaborative analytics in other ways. Thanks to the widespread availability of high-speed networks across the globe, companies are increasingly relying upon virtual employees with specific skills who are able to do their jobs well regardless of location.
Because of this, organizational staffs are becoming more geographically dispersed. As such, when companies have decision-support issues to tackle, they don’t necessarily have to rely on fixed teams of data scientists in the same location. The work can be parsed out based on skill sets, time zone synchronization, etc. As a joint paper on the topic by Carnegie Mellon University and Singapore Management University illustrates, globally distributed software projects like these can yield multiple productivity and financial benefits.
And as a recent white paper by Verizon Business notes, “geographically dispersed teams work more cohesively and make better and quicker decisions when they can connect on the fly.” Further, virtual teams “can operate with greater agility to navigate through difficult market conditions and explore new opportunities.”
When far-flung analytics team members can use the same set of tools to communicate and work in concert with one another, the likelihood of achieving successful outcomes is greatly enhanced.
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This past spring in Lansing, during an act of governance which received little publicity, the legislature crafted — and the governor signed into law — the “Funeral Representative Act of 2016,” which now bestows the moniker of “fiduciary” on whomever you choose to represent your final wishes after you’ve cross into the hereafter.
Senate Bill 551, also known as “Public Act 57 of 2016,” simplifies the process for effectuating funeral arrangements in Michigan; the law took effect on June 27, 2016.
As a result, people in Michigan now have the ability to appoint a “funeral representative” who may make arrangements and decisions regarding the disposition of their last remains after death.
The appointment of the representative can be made through a will, patient advocate designation or in a separate document. Before SB 551, the “next of kin” was granted the legal authority to make decisions regarding the funeral process, yet had no legal obligation to follow any codified last wishes of the decedent.
In addition, the previous legal framework never addressed situations where next of kin disagreed regarding funeral arrangements or final disposition decisions, or where next of kin refused to follow the known directions of the decedent.
Clearly, this law is in actuality a benefit to the decedent’s survivors — no more squabbling over dear, departed Uncle Harry’s ashes – since the decedent is just that…deceased. However, one’s wishes about funeral arrangements may be very important to people emotionally, religiously, culturally or with regard to family legacy and tradition.
The act also provides clarity to family members regarding who is responsible for handling the post-death decisions regarding funeral, burial or cremation. If the bereaved are fortunate, a funeral representative will have been appointed prior to death and they will have priority over decisions. Of course, planning for any outcome, a successor funeral representative may also be named to act in post-death decisions if the initial funeral representative is unable or unwilling to act.
Because the bestowment is not binding, a funeral representative does have the right to forfeit the position if, for example, they are unwilling or unable to assume the financial responsibility for costs incurred while exercising those rights. The law stipulates that a funeral representative’s rights are forfeited if the person fails to act within two days after notification of death.
Perhaps the biggest cudgel the law swings is the bestowment of “fiduciary” on the funeral representative, with obligations to follow the known directions of the decedent. It means that there is no ambiguity when it comes to following directions. The representative must act in the best interest of the deceased, in this case meaning following directions.
If you’re like most of us and have put off the thought of what you want done with your remains, and haven’t designated a funeral representative — just as under the old law, the first person with priority to make your funeral decisions is your surviving spouse, followed by the majority of your surviving adult children. If no surviving spouse or adult children act, then the decision falls to the majority of your grandchildren. After that, then it is the majority of your parents, then grandparents and then your siblings. After that, well … potter’s field might be your final resting place.
The takeaway here is that your final wishes can now be codified into law, as long as you have made your wishes clear in advance plans. Your estate plan is a perfect place in which to designate your funeral preferences.
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🍂 Fall 2022 Electives 🍂
1:10pm–6:10pm / Pouya Ahmadi / Building on a collection of texts at the intersection of language, identity, and societal conditioning, this course examines the extent to which typography can engage in world building and the production and dissemination of proposals for alternative systems. Through a series of parallel assignments including reading, writing, and making, we will individually and collectively explore different strategies and mediums through which we can activate a multitude of voices and approaches that comprise our complex world of many worlds.
UX Research & Strategy
8:00am–1:00pm / Aaron Simmons / In this course students will explore a series of UX research and strategy methods and processes that build towards a cohesive body of work on a specific topic area of their choosing. By exploring a variety of UX tools and methods, students will ultimately develop their own process that they can articulate throughout their work at RISD and beyond. In addition to exploring a diverse range of research methods, the class will read, write, and engage in discussion on texts related to research in the design space. Throughout, there will be an emphasis placed on professional practice, and developing skills that will be applicable in a professional setting. Practicing UX researchers and designers from a number of sectors will critique and evaluate students' projects throughout the course.
Reframing the Poster
1:10pm–6:10pm / Nancy Skolos / This course will invite you to explore future possibilities and contexts for the poster—as paper and as screen—building on its singular capacity to transform ideas into iconic picture planes, and examining the dynamics of typography and image, both still and in motion. Prompts will progress from individual posters, to sequences, to site-specific installations that explore the potential for interactive discourse in public space. Studio assignments will be supported with presentations and readings about poster history and contemporary poster design.
Image, Data, and Identity
1:10pm–6:10pm / Livia Foldes / Today, all images are computational. This studio elective grapples with the aesthetics, ethics, and social and cultural implications of images that are always, already data, and contextualizes them within broader fights for algorithmic justice. From emotion recognition to nudity detection, how have machines been taught to understand and misunderstand our images, our bodies, and the identities attached to them? Conversely, when we open the black box of automated image analysis, what can we learn about the logics and ideologies embedded in the computational gaze, and the artists and designers who subvert or disrupt them? Some familiarity with code is recommended, but we will focus on using code-free tools like Runway ML to create, deconstruct, and talk back to computational imagery. GD seniors and grads only.
8am–1pm / Anther Kiley / In this combined seminar/studio course we will survey and engage some of the critical conversations that shape graphic design thinking and practice today. Through collective reading, discussion, and research, we’ll unpack and question the critical lenses and conventions that shape contemporary design discourse, confront design’s relationship to structures of power, and look at some of the ways designers and thinkers have proposed rethinking design’s position. We’ll explore all of this through a series of studio projects that interpret, test, and extend ideas from our research and discussion. Taken together, our activities in this course will model a design practice that engages its context in informed and intentional ways.
1:10pm–6:10pm / Ramon Tejada / How do designers respond, think about and make for equitable futures? How much do we need to scrap or throw under the proverbial bus (ourselves included)? Unmaking studio is a space that explores possibilities through collaborative experimentation and reflection on how we can design in pluralistic ways. We will intentionally break habits, structures, tools, methods, and models of thought that have become canonized as the way to make Graphic Design. Along the way, we will experiment, at times in collaboration, with a series of prompts that explore analog and digital outcomes — forms, images, stories, languages, publications, the unknown, the emergent — thinking about the stories our work tells about ourselves (our lineages, our choices, and our values), our communities, and how all of this has the potential to radically and joyfully shift how we engage as human beings.
Motion, Sound, Vision
1:10pm–6:10pm / Rafael Attias / This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of motion graphics, as well as the implementation of video, and sound design. Students will learn a variety of motion graphics software, such as Adobe After Effects and Premier, as well as studio tools like Ableton Live, and/or other audio-visual programs. Students will learn how to capture, manipulate, mix and optimize audio visual material for final production and implementation. Through a series of in-class and multi-week assignments, students will create animated projects that include motion design real-world assignments, as well as experimental exercises, with the goal of exploring intersections between graphic design, story telling, visual composition, and the realms of rhythm and sound. Adobe After Effects will be the primary production tool for this class. Each student will propose a long term project, this project will be developed throughout the semester and presented as the final project for the class. In addition to our software tutorials, there will be a series of short weekly lectures to review specific histories, and also current practitioners who are using motion graphics and sound to create works in the worlds of design, fine art, and performance.
Design for the Anthropocene
11:20am–4:20pm / Justin Cook / No shortage of crises vie for our attention: climate, pandemic, injustice, nuclear war, collapse. Some call this era the Anthropocene. In the first quarter of the 21st Century, society mounts its response to these crises with the dominant institutions such as the UN that were largely designed in the 19th century. These institutions are faltering. They are not up to the task of helping humanity transit through the discontinuity of this century. Whether you believe that they are no longer fit for purpose, that they have been made unfit for purpose, or that their purposes were never legitimate in the first place, there seems to be growing consensus that they are not up to the challenges that face us today — challenges they created. As a global civilization, they have been better at generating existential threats than they are at managing them. Afterall, institutions can be places that sustain humanity’s worst ideas such as racism, illiberalism, colonialism, and dominion to name a few. Whether we say, “burn it down, nothing of value will be lost,” or seek opportunities for renewal, renovation and adaptive reuse, there is an urgent need to describe what should come next. This is the work of artists and designers. In this studio, we will do some of that work. Advancing significant and transformative change in these arenas means confronting the core questions about how we organize our society and the institutions that make it. What are the roles, norms, values, that will enable humanity to flourish? What materials, technologies, cultures, logics, operations, practices, and social and natural systems will bring those abstract ideals into reality? What alternate models might we adapt and adopt? How will they be set up? How will they be maintained? Centuries from today, will the Anthropocene be notable for humanity’s failure to address the threats it created, or for being a turning point for planet and people alike?
Brand Identity Design
8:00am–1:00pm / Richard Rose / Designing an identity and identity system is a critical skill practiced by today’s designers. In this course, students will create two identity systems: one for an arts organization and one for a socially constructive campaign. While a traditional identity system is defined as a logo and a set of rules for governing that logo's application across a range of media, the goal of this class is to expand upon the ways an identity can be conceived through the manipulation of language, materials, and audience expectation/participation.
8:00am–1:00pm / Richard Lipton / This elective is an opportunity for students to immerse themselves in the process of designing a typeface; to consider all the design decisions that are a part of this creative exercise, and to learn the finer points of letter structures and systems, serif and sans, spacing, kerning, and all the other details of execution which turn a roughly-formed idea into a more complete, rigorous and polished digital design. This course will provide a fundamental understanding of how typefaces work in addition to understanding a tool that can further your design goals.
Virtual Space and Interactivity with Unity 3D
1:10pm–6:10pm / Ed Brown / This course will lead students through the entire game design process, from sketch to publishing, in both 2D and 3D. Students will be introduced to Unity 3D, software that creates interactive designs and publishes them as desktop, web, and mobile applications. The course will also consider media theory and address video games' influence on our culture. Topics to be covered will include: analog and digital history of games; their ritualistic and symbolic origins; their use in contemporary art; an analysis of gaming subcultures; an analysis of the male gaze, hyper masculinity and violence in commercial gaming; a critique of the lack of diversity in the game development workforce; video games' influence on other mass media; and their role in how we perceive the world around us. There will be special focus on the graphic designer's role in a professional game development team. Once familiar with the Unity environment, the course will open up to other kinds of interactive software including AR and VR mobile applications. Unity 3D is free to use. There are no prerequisites but experience with 3D modeling is desired.
Graphic Design for the Web
1:10pm–6:10pm / Fri / Lois Harada / This workshop will use the ideas from Risograph (RISO) printing to combine practical pre-press skills, encouraging experimentation formmaking. The aim of this introduction workshop is to teach students to consider the craft and value of well-planned files to produce high-quality outputs that can be replicated and shared. Students will work within a series of technical constraints that will require creative solutions as well as an understanding of this particular printing process, color, paper, and file preparation.
Workshop: Letterpress & Inkjet
1:10pm–6:10pm / Fri / Franz Werner / From Letterpress to Inkjet: this workshop will offer the students a unique opportunity to connect the dots. Two technologies more than 500 years apart will inspire the students in finding either harmony or discord. Neither is proven wrong. Students will be introduced to the Type Shop through the techniques and procedures for setting and printing metal and wood type on the Vandercook proofing presses. Engaging in this historic craft, newly developed skills will be transformed into contemporary results. The students will unite the digital with the analog technology, for example by feeding a letterpress print through the inkjet plotter or to digitize hot metal type. The options are endless. Specifications on paper selection will be discussed and samples of letterpressed books will be shown for inspiration. Any such targeted integration of science and art goes beyond the sheer structural and aesthetic qualities of given "product." But as regards graphic design "product," it must contain the conscious integration of the human factor, technology, and aesthetics to prove effective.
Workshop: Photo & Lighting
1:10–6:10pm / Fri / Tom Wedell / This workshop is an introduction to the methods involved in studio photography for designers with an emphasis on lighting-bringing objects to life by articulating their shapes and surfaces with various lighting sources: soft/hard, direct/reflected, focused/diffused, etc. Additional attention will be given to digital file preparation and printing. Throughout this workshop, students will explore the use of DSLR cameras, lenses, exposure meters, and related equipment to create original images of selected 3D objects.
1:10pm–6:10pm / Fri / Tycho Horan / This workshop will focus on establishing a basic understanding of a variety of screen printing techniques and how to make use of those techniques in your work. Through in-class demos and out-of-class assignments, this workshop will encourage experimentation with screens and ink. The class will start with simple paper stencils and move quickly into making screens from images and text generated digitally.
Workshop: Web Programming
8am–1:00pm / Fri / Gabriel Drozdov / This workshop will use the processing programming language to introduce students to programming concepts. Students will not only learn the fundamentals of the processing language but will research contemporary working methods around programming and explore the ways in which algorithms affect the design process. The aim of this workshop is for students to develop procedural literacy and to open their design work to indeterminacy, interactivity, generative processes, participatory working methods, and new opportunities afforded by technology in general.
Mondays or Tuesdays / Course, Timing, and Instructor TBD
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According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, there are many forms of maltreatment that can be considered childhood neglect.
Physical neglect can be defined as the failure to provide for a child's basic survival needs, such as nutrition, clothing, shelter, hygiene, and medical care. Physical neglect may also involve inadequate supervision of a child and other forms of reckless disregard of the child's safety and welfare.
Educational neglect can be defined as parent negligence to enroll a child of mandatory school age in school or to provide appropriate homeschooling or needed special education training.
Medical neglect is the failure to provide or to allow needed care as recommended by a competent health-care professional for a physical injury, illness, medical condition, or impairment. It also includes the failure to seek timely and appropriate medical care for a serious health problem that any reasonable person would have recognized as needing professional medical attention.
Chronic neglect is any type of child neglect that occurs on a recurring or enduring basis.
H&H Child Care Training Center provides several courses which cover related topics to both abuse and neglect:
Those courses will cover basic outcomes like the following, which we believe provide basic understanding of the responsibility and the process associated with our job as educators:
Finally, we hope that you (and your staff) will benefit from those trainings and always welcome your feedback.
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Finally, cells were resuspended and washed in PBS and analysed in the Beckman Coulter EPICS XL-MCL movement cytometer. fine PM small fraction (PM2.5; aerodynamic size??2.5?m) with an increase of threat of cardiovascular mortality [5,lung and 6] tumor [7,8]. Nevertheless, the knowledge of the systems where PM exerts its different adverse effects continues to be incomplete and comprehensive research are highly required. Urban atmosphere PM is certainly a heterogeneous combination of numerous kinds of contaminants from different resources. Combustion contaminants emitted from automobiles consist generally of spherical major carbon contaminants with diameters which range from 20 to 30?nm, which have a tendency to aggregate in PM2 and PM1.5 [9,10]. The tiny diameters of the principal carbon contaminants give a high surface per mass device fairly, which facilitates the adsorption of varied components towards the contaminants, including metals, organic substances and natural elements like bacterial endotoxins [11,12]. On the other hand, larger size contaminants as PM10 frequently are found to become arbitrarily-shaped mineral contaminants from road use and garden soil dusts . The structure of metropolitan atmosphere PM varies with period also, and each one of these factors have an initial function in the advertising of the natural effects. That is evidenced by research showing that, based on composition, PM can cause discharge of inflammatory mediators including different chemokines and cytokines [11,14], genotoxic results [15-17] and cell loss of life [11,18]. research have got confirmed that PM might inhibit cell development, by reducing proliferation and/or leading to cell loss of life [19-21]. The decreased proliferation continues to be associated with an arrest in a variety of steps from the cell routine [20-23]. Cell routine progression could be obstructed and/or postponed in response to different genotoxic stresses, but to structural dysfunctions of varied proteins also. DNA-integrity checkpoints G1/S, G2/M and metaphase-anaphase (M/A) changeover determine delays from the cell routine [24,25]. The protein kinases ATM (ataxia telangiectasia mutated) and ATR (ATM and Rad3 related) donate to the DNA harm response and activate the checkpoint protein kinases Chk1/2, which might bring about cell cycle arrest with a -independent or p53-dependent pathway . Both these pathways regulate the FGF2 experience of G1/S or G2/M changeover promoters cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk)/cyclin, such as for example Cdk1/cyclin B1, which drives the development from G2 towards the mitotic stage [26,27]. In the p53-reliant pathway, Chk1/2 phosphorylates p53 (Ser 15) which, through the transcriptional activation of downstream mediators p21 and 14-3-3, inhibits Cdk1/cyclin B1. In the p53-indie pathway, Chk1/2 phosphorylates Cdc25 and Wee-1, which decrease Cdk1/cyclin B1 activity cooperatively, resulting in G2 arrest and stopping admittance into mitosis . The passing from metaphase to anaphase (M/A changeover point) needs the disassembling from the Cdk1/cyclin B1 complicated. The anaphase-promoting complicated (APC) is in charge of the ubiquitination and following degradation of CY-09 cyclin B1 . The spindle set up checkpoint (SAC) works in the mitosis hold off on the M/A changeover point, avoiding the activation of APC before mitotic spindle is certainly shaped [26 properly,30]. The inhibition of APC by SAC leads to the stabilization of cyclin B1, which stops the anaphase karyokinesis and onset until all chromosomes are correctly mounted on the bipolar mitotic spindle [29,31]. If the spindle isn’t mounted on the chromosomes within a precise time frame correctly, the cell might enter a loss of life procedure or may leave from mitosis without dividing the hereditary CY-09 materials, a process called mitotic slippage. Cell loss of life during mitosis or after mitotic slippage is certainly termed mitotic catastrophe, an atypical setting of cell loss of life, which is CY-09 because of premature or CY-09 inappropriate entry into mitosis frequently. An unusual spindle structure could be a outcome of DNA harm or could be straight originated by spindle-poisons. Hence, the id of the precise stage of which a specific agent inhibits cell routine development, through the G1/S, M/A or G2/M changeover factors, includes a pivotal function in the knowledge of the systems as well the ultimate outcome. We’ve noticed that contact with 25 Recently?g/cm2 of Milan wintertime PM2.5 for 20?h induced a mitotic arrest leading to cell loss of life by apoptosis in individual bronchial epithelial cells (BEAS-2B) . Results involved with DNA-damage response, such as for example Chk2 and H2AX over-expression, were discovered at the reduced dosages 5 and 7.5?g/cm2. An additional characterization of PM-induced cell routine and mitotic modifications is essential when trying to describe PM-induced chromosomal modifications, aswell as its association with an elevated threat of lung tumor [1,7,8]. In today’s study, the consequences of Milan wintertime.
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My arms sigh in relief as I lay the paddle on my lap. It has been a long hard slog as we worked desperately to catch up with the gill net vessel that now lies just 200 metres off on our port side. We’ve been trying to catch this vessel for ten days now, but each time we saw her she slipped away before we could get close enough to film her. Not helped by our maximum kayak speed being somewhat slower than the Cummins-diesel powered speed of our quarry.
I pull the night vision goggles down over my eyes. The vessel shape looks familiar to me. I’ve seen her up close in port on several occasions, not to mention photographing her from the air and from a couple of Observation Points on land. Experienced hands work away on the floodlit deck, slinging fish in various directions as the catch is sorted. There is the whine of her hydraulic motor as another section of giant net is winched in.
I wonder if we’re going to see any dolphin caught tonight. Unlikely I guess. But actually catching one of these blokes with a dead dolphin and fishing illegally would see them nailed to the wall. We know dolphin get caught on a regular basis here, but actually proving it is almost impossible. As one of the researchers commented, it is like trying to see a car accident. We know they happen, but it is not so easy to go out and actually film one.
Gill nets are the number one killer of dolphin in New Zealand. Well according to Commercial fishermen at least. My brother told me once how the vessel he was working on caught an amazing 5 hectors dolphin in one night. In the end they were just thrown overboard dead and never reported. Which is what still happens today. If you inadvertently kill an endangered animal, well you’re hardly going to go home and tell ya missus about it, let alone tell fisheries Officers. So, the industry continues to hide their dolphin by-catch to ensure their fishing areas remain open to them.
“What do we do now Pete”, Nick says in a whisper, bringing me back to reality. I look across at the fishing vessel.
“Well I reckon we just sit tight about this distance away. The boat is gradually moving north, so I think we’ll just run a parallel course. If we get any closer he’ll spot us and run. We need to complete this mission without him knowing we’ve been filming him.”
I’m about to pull out our GPS when a wave comes rolling in. I can hear it rushing over the wind. I look around just as it spills over our spray skirts and rolls over the top of us. Nick rotates his hips and the wave passes harmlessly by. But it does put us on edge. You tip in a kayak 4 miles offshore in the dark and with building seas and you have some challenges on your hands. I look where the wind is coming from. Probably North-North-East. Roughly what the forecast was – Although the forecast strength was for just 10 knots.
“Wind is getting up”, I say slowly. “Be a good 15 knots now, and the odd gust to 20.” Nick remains silent. “If it gets any stronger I think we’ll have to call it a night.” I can tell Nick is nervous – As well he should be. I’m asking a lot of him. In fact I originally had my doubts about his fitness for this, but thus far he’s been fantastic.
“Nick if you can swing our bow into the wind, and I’ll see about getting some footage and GPS data.”
We rotate a little and I manage to dig out the GPS without any water sneaking under the spray skirt. I hold the GPS down in the dry bag and turn on the screen. It shows our trail over the last hour or so, and a distance back to land. “Well Nick, according to my calculations, we are now 3.5 nautical miles offshore, which places that guy inside the area where gill nets are banned.”
There is suddenly a great deal of light flooding around our kayak. It feels like a spotlight. We freeze where we are, barely moving a muscle. We’d be hard to spot in our hybrid digital-camo wetsuits specifically designed for this type of mission. But the bright yellow kayak we’re in will be sticking out like a set of dog’s balls. I look over at the boat where the light is coming from. She has rotated her stern towards us and her giant floodlights have us in their intimidating glare. A full minute passes by as we sit there wondering if we’ve been detected. Her hydraulic winch starts up again and we hear her groaning as more net is pulled in. Further time passes and then we’re back in the dark as her stern rotates again.
“Man that was close”, Nick says as he breathes a sigh of relief.
“Yeah it was. Maybe we should slide a little further away.”
We follow the vessel for a further forty five minutes. She reaches the end of her net and is suddenly all packed up and heading back offshore at about 15 knots. The ocean we’re sitting on goes quiet – just the whistle of wind, and waves slapping against the hull of our kayak.
We sit there in silence waiting to see what else turns up. The moon sneaks out from behind a cloud, and our ocean is bathed in soft light. I remove my night vision and sit back. I really love working at night. You see the world in a different way. In recent years I’ve done a lot of work and training after dark, and it never ceases to amaze me how different the world becomes. I remember doing some reconnaissance from a beach in West Africa, and during the day, it was devoid of wildlife. Yet at night it was a regular playground and battlefield for all manner of animals and birds.
A dolphin surfaces right beside us. There’s a little pfffft as it takes a lazy breath of air. Its movements are slow and deliberate as she checks us out. Five others turn up, wondering perhaps what we’re doing out here in the middle of the night. These are the lucky ones I imagine. For a long time this area has been unlucky for hectors. Numbers plummeted in the 80s and nineties due to increased gill netting and trawling in areas such as this. Some measures have since been put in place to try and address the slide, but from what we’ve seen tonight, and in talking to Researchers, certainly not enough.
Two trawlers well offshore start heading in towards the sanctuary. We’ve seen this on several other nights – Pairs of trawlers coming in to about 1nm of shore then heading back out. We’re not sure if they’re pair trawling (illegal in these waters) or just working together in some way. Thus far we just haven’t gotten close enough to find out. Nick and I grab the paddles and our arms dig in for another long slog to try and catch them. Kayaks might be good for covert surveillance, but they sure aren’t the best chase boats.
It is 6:30 am and the sun has greeted us on the horizon as we finally clamber back aboard the Black Pearl – a vessel Blackcat Cruises in Akaroa have donated to us for the night. My legs can barely function as I stumble onto her stern. It’s been a long and difficult night here. But worth it I reckon. Our GPS data, images and video will be handed over to Fisheries Officials and hopefully it’ll lead to some prosecutions.
From what we’ve seen over the last 2 weeks here, vessels fish legally during the day, but at night, a couple of them sneak into areas where they are banned. Secondly, and this has only just become apparent, is the pathetic nature of the sanctuary here, even if the regulations are adhered to. Protection supposedly goes all the way out to 12nm, but they then allow gill nets in to 4nm from shore, trawlers to 2nm from shore, and amazingly, small trawls (1.5m head height) are allowed all the way in to land, and right through the heart of where these dolphin live.
This isn’t a sanctuary, but rather a killing field. It’s also a scab on New Zealand’s conservation record that needs to be addressed.
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Easy, uncomplicated interaction with interactive art installations and an entertaining approach to attract visitors opens up room to learn the story behind the art. These are the main goals of my projects and a big part of the two introduced works User Generated Server Destruction1 and your unerasable text2. Both works invite visitors to destroy something. One time a text message is printed out and shredded, and the other time it is the destruction of a server by the force of hammers. The two installations are available for 24 hours each and can also be operated by users not in the venue, creating an independence of opening hours. While your unerasable text is displayed in a shop window (depending on the exhibition venue), User Generated Server Destruction can be followed via a webcam, which is part of the installation. The server is filmed and viewable via stream on a website specifically created for that purpose.
Both installations are easy to interact with. your unerasable text is operated by short messages and User Generated Server Destruction provides three buttons on the website to push. Behind this surface of fun and interactivity, the user is invited to question the background of these technologies. Why do the pieces work this way? What data is generated? Who has access to it? Where is the data?
Visitors of the website www.ugsd.net can trigger six hammers and drop them onto a server that is located in the exhibition. This server hosts the website, a single site that shows three buttons to release the hammers and a video stream to follow what’s happening with the piece. The installation ends, once the server is destroyed and can therefore no longer host the website.
If you are connected and looking at a website like this, it seems to appear out of nothing. But there is data -- zeros and ones compiling an image, text or a video. It is tempting to think there is no physical connection to any hardware. The physical, sculptural attendance of the work User Generated Server Destruction typifies the coincidence of the virtual, the intangible world of data, and the physical world, where we, the humans, exist. The installation visualizes very directly that behind the virtuality that we attribute to the data on the Internet, there actually is tangible reality and actual physical hardware.
The Internet is a continually growing network of servers spread all over the world. On the one side are the users and on the other side the suppliers of the network. Usually, it is only possible for computer viruses and very qualified users to attack and destroy highly protected servers that are locked in well secured places.
These places are data centers, where the big 'Data-Farmers' are saving all the information we are providing them with. Looking like factories, these centers have big tube systems to cool all the computers. They are strategically built near rivers, guaranteeing enough water for this process. You will always find a power plant close to it, feeding electricity to computers, which are not only hungry for data but also for electrical power. Highest standards of security protect the data from loss by any means. The risk of losing the data is not to be taken, no matter how important the data is. One never knows for what or whom it might be useful for some day.
As users we can control our computers and are able to easily destroy hard drives. But the data we feed to clouds and websites is impossible for us to control and erase. Spread over many hard drives and servers across the world, there is no access for us. User Generated Server Destruction poses a counterpart to this. It is something that works in the other direction and hands the power back to the users, who are all of a sudden in a position to decide freely what happens to the data. It becomes possible to erase one of the servers and thereby shrink the worldwide network for the blink of an eye. What is left is a sculpture created by destruction, typifying the physical presence of the Internet.
So far, 27 servers in several exhibitions all over the world have been destroyed. Although employing similar hardware every time, it took from 2 to 1002 hits for the hammers to finish the destruction. Some servers stopped working after a short period of operating and some worked for several days, although being hit permanently. For some curators this is hard to exhibit, since the installation can be destroyed at any time, leaving a non-functioning artwork behind. That creates a fear of disappointed visitors, not able to participate in the process of destruction. Given the common notion that an interactive artwork has to function non-stop, this is difficult.
The concept is to destroy the server and only leave a sculpture and a video documentation behind, archiving the process. The server is not supposed to be fake, and there is no intention to make it more robust than it initially is. This would make the artwork weaker. Each server receives an individual, ascending number, and the hits are displayed on the website for every server in one exhibition. Nevertheless, replacing the server after destruction makes the piece more interesting for galleries and museums. A solution for longer exhibitions, like the one in the Ars Electronica Center in 2013, which lasted around three months, is to only operate the server during a certain time of a day. The server will be active 24 hours, but the time of operation is limited.
At the Node festival in 2015, the curators agreed to just show one server and host a “launch event” following an artist talk. This provides the time to generate curiosity and create attention, as everyone wants to have the first, and maybe already final, hit on the server. A lot of people waited to finally hear the sound of the 800 grams heavy sledgehammers smashing the metal cover of the computer.
your unerasable text is an interactive installation dealing with the topics of data storage and elimination. The installation can be placed in an exhibition, but is ideally exhibited in a window in public space, where it can be used by people passing by 24h a day.
The participant is asked to send a text message to the number written on a sign next to the installation: “send your unerasable text message to +43 664 1788374”
The receiving mobile phone transfers the data to a computer, which layouts the message automatically. It is then printed on to a DIN A6 paper, falling directly into a paper shredder. There, the message remains readable for a few moments and is then destroyed. The shredded paper forms a visible heap of paper on the floor, growing with every message.
your unerasable text works via SMS, as it is the easiest and most comfortable way for the participant -- and almost everybody owns a mobile phone. The standard for the short message service was implemented in the early 1990s and is still used and integrated in every mobile phone, even in smart phones. Another advantage is that users don’t have to be close to the installation, messages can be sent from all over the world, and they don’t need any additional software or access to the Internet to participate.
When your unerasable text is used, the sent text message isn’t erased. The data is passing by the mobile carrier of the sender and receiver, the mobile that is integrated in the installation and the computer processing the text and sending it to the printer. At each of these points the data can be saved. The installation stores a file of each message consisting of the sent text, the phone number of the sender, and time and date when it was sent. The only thing that actually is erased, is the print, which is just a visualization having no effect on the data itself.
The storing of data is a rather current topic, given the discussions on bringing back the “Vorratsdatenspeicherung” (data preservation) in Germany, along with discussions in the Austrian parliament about passing the “Staatsschutzgesetz” (state protection law) including points to bring back the previously overturned “Vorratsdatenspeicherung”, under the guise of this new law.
Also very recently, the Safe Harbor law was declared illegal by the Court of Justice of the European Union, creating the need for re-negotiation between the EU and the US to change this law.
This also raises questions about the locations of the servers we are using and the law applied to the data stored on hard-drives all over the world. There has to be a definition of who legally has access to our data and is able to pass our information on to third parties. This is also a significant topic in the installation User Generated Server Destruction.
As far as exhibitions and other possibilities for exhibiting these works are concerned, maintenance is a crucial point. Both installations have a high frequency of usage, 27 servers have already been shown and destroyed in 10 exhibitions. By November 2015 more then 27.400 short messages were collected.
Stefan Tiefengraber’s (AT) artworks go from performances to interactive installations to sound art and time based media such as experimental video and documentaries. These works have been exhibited at Ars Electronica Festival 2014 (Linz/Austria), O'NewWall Gallery (Seoul/Korea), 16th Media Art Biennale WRO 2015 (Wroclaw/Poland), ...Dr. Michael Sonntag: Third Person Data
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I have got two sets of data.
Classified data - I have got around 800 rows of Classified data.
Based on Positive and Negative signs and based on the description it has been classified into Different account types.
This is the data which needs to be classified based on the above logic. I have got around 200 rows. I don’t need 100% of the data to be classified, even if 40% of the data is classified I will consider that as win.
Similar to this I have got around 100 more files in which I need to do the same exercise but these classification’s varies industry by industry and can also vary client by client.
As a I am noob in machine learning and AI, I am not sure where to start form. Can someone tell me what I need to look at so that I can start working on this workflow.
Any reference to the books will also be appreciated.
I understand this problem can be solved using create a classification word and then searching it against the each line items and then classifying it but as I want to learn more about machine learning/artificial learning I want to use these to solve this problem.
I am a Accountant, I know most of the data wrangling and Dashboard stuff but I don’t have much knowledge about machine learning and AI. I want to learn this so that I can further automate some of the boring task.
In this case in general you might have to clear the data from numbers and then define special words that would contain meaning (or let an algorithm find them) like “printer”, “storage”. And if your classification would be different for various clients you might have to construct several model (or one model per industry).
If you could provide some sample data (without spelling any secrets) someone from the forum might be able to explore further.
A final workflow for labeling might look something like this. Though you will have to make some adaptions:
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Biography of Dharma Master Cheng Yen
Dharma Master Cheng Yen was born in 1937, in a small town in Taiwan called Qingshui. Since her uncle was childless, she was offered to his family and adopted, so perhaps the seed of her desire to help others was at play from the start. During World War II, air raids and the reality of human violence left a deep impression. She then saw the suffering of sickness and pain while caring for her ailing brother in the hospital for months. When her mother needed a risky operation, she prayed and offered to give up years of her own life in exchange for her health. Her mother recovered without surgery, so in gratitude, she became a vegetarian. Her spiritual calling intensified when her father died within hours of falling ill, and she was left bereaved and full of questions about the meaning of life. Her auspicious first contact with Buddha Dharma at this critical moment offered the wisdom and guidance she was seeking.
Soon after her father’s death, she ran away from home to become a Buddhist nun, needing to expand the love for her family to all of humanity. Her relatives found and brought her back, but she left again, this time traveling further away, to Hualien. The conditions there were harsh, but her commitment to Dharma only grew stronger. Following a nontraditional path, she shaved her own head to formally renounce lay life – unaware tradition dictates one do so under the tutelage of a teacher. Serendipitous circumstances led her to Dharma Master Yin Shun, who became her spiritual mentor, and she was formally ordained as a Buddhist nun at age 25. Master Yin Shun then gave her these concise and profound instructions: “Now that you are a Buddhist monastic, remember always to work for Buddhism and for all living beings.” And this is precisely what she has been doing ever since, with self-discipline, diligence, frugality, perseverance, and at root, expansive love for all.
Mother Teresa of Asia
Master Cheng Yen leads by example, and firmly believes that true compassion is more than passive sympathy for another’s plight: It is concrete action aimed at relieving suffering directly. In founding Tzu Chi, her wish was to give ordinary people the chance to actualize their compassion, and find inner peace and joy while saving the world. She is often called the “Mother Teresa of Asia”, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and honored on TIME 100: The Most Influential People in the World list. But worldly accolades cannot encompass the full impact of the immense and tangible relief Master Cheng Yen and Tzu Chi bring to those in need and distress around the globe.
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The world of the internet is a complicated one and it is relatively easy to wind up lost among the incredible amount of information that is now available to anyone with a PC, laptop or cell phone. Of course the objective is to be found by people looking for what you do and offer, but you also have to help them quickly or it is off to the next name resulting from their Google or other search.
A Sustainable Packaging “Fork in the Road”
We have launched a new web site, www.recycledpackaging.com
, and its purpose is really quite simple. It serves only to help visitors determine which of our business web sites (www.salazarpackaging.com
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Stock versus Custom Eco Friendly Packaging
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The new Humber Surveyor joins the fleet of survey vessels on the Humber Estuary.
ABP Humber Estuary Services (HES) has purchased a new £600,000 survey vessel. The Humber Surveyor has joined the survey fleet that includes the Humber Sounder and the Humber Charter.
The Humber Surveyor is fully equipped with first-rate survey technology including a £200,000 multibeam sonar, two single beam sonars, side scan and forward scan sonar. The kit is capable of three dimensionally mapping the ever-shifting sediment within the Humber Estuary. The vessel is also able to digitally model marine structures such as quaysides, buildings, bridges and even shorelines utilising a laser scanner mounted to the roof.
The Humber Estuary drains one fifth of the area of England and the movement of channels within the Estuary is a continuous process.
Each year, HES undertakes over 600 individual surveys and due to the rapidly changing river bed, some surveys need to be completed on a weekly or fortnightly basis. The resulting survey charts are then distributed and annually more than 5,000 copies are made freely available to all river users. The information displayed on the charts is fundamental to the safe movement of over 33,000 vessels on the Humber Estuary every year.
The Humber Surveyor was built over the last year by Blyth Catamarans in Essex, and ABP HES took delivery in early June. The vessel is complimented by the Humber Scout, a high-performance rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) that can be lifted on-board larger vessels and delivered to site. The Humber Scout is the smallest coded multibeam-capable vessel in the UK. Its size and manoeuvrability enable HES to survey areas as far upstream as Gainsborough, where the River Trent can be too shallow for a larger vessel. By using the Humber Scout in this area, a survey can be completed in two days rather than nine.
Simon Bird, Regional Director for ABP Humber said: “This new state-of-the-art vessel will ensure we continue to map the Humber Estuary efficiently, providing essential information to those navigating the estuary.”
The HES team, comprising of the Hydrographer Humber, three Coxwains and five Hydrographic Surveyors, are responsible for surveying over 145 square miles of the rivers Humber, Ouse and Trent. Along with providing essential information to allow safe navigation, the team and their surveying fleet also carry out contract survey work for third parties. For more information, contact [email protected].
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Bear in mind that in baseball one must be match fit. You will need a lot of power in equally your top and decrease bodies, and the endurance to perform for 90 minutes with little sleep, to be able to obtain achievement at the highest level. You will end up better off creating objectives you understand you can meet to improve yourself small by little. And you will end up prone to remain on target. You are able to depend the amount of associates you do, and improve by 15 percent by the end of the month. That is realistic. Increasing it by 75 per cent? That’s not likely realistic.
For global baseball academies that have an associated instructional curriculum, you’ll need to take into account the language element also. If you are starting yet another state with an alternative language, you will need to work towards a basic understanding of that language. Touring to a different place to review baseball, language, and lifestyle will make for a well-rounded knowledge and increases your qualified marketability. Being bilingual is an evident advantage in just about any business.
Collection objectives for equally academics (linguistics) and football. If you are continuing senior high school academics and you are starting an environment where you haven’t spent time talking the language, your purpose should really be returning time one with simple conversation skills. Get acclimated to the language around possible, studying, hearing, and talking beforehand. And most importantly, show responsibility, regard, and work while understanding abroad. Sometimes those added initiatives produce the difference in obtaining a driving grade or not!
The NIKE mantra, “Just do it,” applies nicely here. Everyday personal instruction discipline is the most obvious crucial to success. It’s about what you do when no one otherwise is around. Sticking with your program is the most crucial part of your preparation. Once you put a training program into place for yourself, it’s easy to allow it to slide whenever you do not feel like training. It’s simple to say things such as “I am also exhausted, therefore I think I’ll miss that two hours I put aside for language or academics.” Or allow yourself get diverted by buddies or planning to the films rather than training ข่าวบอลไทย.
This is where 95 percent of people do not succeed: they do not stick to the program they put in place. One difference between the professionals and those who don’t allow it to be: advantages stay with the program. Just the athletes with correct determination and perseverance make it to the greatest level. Think about to be that specific player (and student) by showing serious commitment and determination. You are able to do it if you are psychologically disciplined enough to commit fully!
It’s simpler to attain instruction targets or targets when you are within an international football academy program. People have less difficulty keeping the baseball training routine since somebody else (the football coach or manager) is setting up the training plan for you. Everyone else around you is forcing one to perform. You have teammates doing the exact same thing.
Participating an international football academy is significantly more challenging than some other academic or cultural change plan abroad. You’re doing yourself to being ready, psychologically and actually, to participate as a footballer in the football growth academy. You will be teaching daily over a nine-month period. Use it in your mind that the job begins the day you make to join up to have the most benefit. What this means is you need to appear ready and prepared to obtain the most out of your global baseball academy experience.
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YC-backed climate tech startup Pina Earth has closed a $2.5 million seed funding round a year after its inception and months after its presentation at the Accelerator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day in march.
The seed is led by Franco-German VC XAnge, with participation from London-based venture capital firm Nordstar, as well as a number of business angels and serial founders, including Gustaf Alstromer (partner at Y Combinator ), Sundeep Ahuja (partner at Climate Capital), Lea-Sophie Cramer (founder of Amorelie) and Anselm Bauer-Wohlleb (Alasco, Stylight).
As we reported in February, when we took a first look at Munich-based startup Pina Earth, which is building an online platform for European forest owners to be certified to sell carbon credits – with particular emphasis on encouraging landowners to increase forest biodiversity and sustain their forests.
This is important as climate change increases the risks to tree survival, with more droughts, wildfires, disease and other extreme weather events predicted. But the startup’s premise is also that more sustainable forest management can also generate additional carbon credits for forest owners.
As a first step, the Pina Earth platform helps forest owners register their forest for carbon credits. It then sells, essentially, a high-tech forest management service – helping landowners make adaptations to their forests, such as the planting of climate-resistant tree species, which should, over the years, generate additional carbon credits compared to if they had not taken the sustainability-oriented measures that will allow the forest to absorb more carbon.
Startup uses AI modeling to predict how climate change will affect future forest growth, combined with remote data capture to monitor client projects and verify forest improvements to improve quality carbon credits.
It’s also important given the proliferation of shoddy or bogus carbon offset projects during the ‘greenwashing’ rush over the past decade+, as companies rushed to claim that ‘they were taking action to reduce their company’s climate impact – when, too often, not actually taking meaningful action.
The reputation of offsetting as a tool in the fight against climate change remains low – while tree-based offsetting attracts particular skepticism given the timeframes involved and the difficulty of long-term monitoring to ensure that the claimed carbon sequestration is actually happening – but given the scale of the challenge facing humanity, rapidly reducing carbon emissions in order to avoid climate catastrophe, offsetting will undoubtedly have a role to play in the mixture of solutions.
When we spoke to Pina Earth co-founder and CEO Dr. Gesa Biermann earlier this year, the startup was operating two pilot projects on 1,200 hectares in its home market of Germany and preparing for a commercial launch this year. .
Since then, she says she has focused on moving from initial pilots to expanding her reach in Germany. The commercial launch is still pending.
“We also recently recruited new team members for key positions, in technology, forestry and business,” she told TechCrunch. “We are moving from initial pilot projects – which helped us develop our core technology – to adding thousands more acres of forestry projects to our pipeline. We are currently in private beta with the owners of the respective forests – testing key features ahead of our public launch of the platform later this year.
Regarding product development, Biermann says the seed funding will be used for “critical stages of carbon project development, including project area eligibility verification, data collection, carbon optimization potential and finally the project documentation”.
“After completing the process of our first projects, we translate our learnings into repeatable processes, automating the bottlenecks of carbon project development,” she continues. “We have already built software to predict the effect of climate change based on a digital twin of the forest. Next, we aim to replace the information traditionally requested from forest owners with third-party data sources to increase speed and independence. We are further expanding our carbon project toolbox, learning how to simulate the effect of different types of forest adaptation methods in our software. This will help us meet the needs of a wide range of forest owners.
When asked if the startup expects to launch into other European markets or would it need to relaunch before taking that step, she brings up the prospect of imminent expansion without offering a yes or a no. unclear – suggesting that it is taking advantage of being able to rely on its new networks of European investors to “build links with key players”, before adding: “We are also approached by forest owners and developers of projects around the world and want to bring our product to other regions. After all, more than half of Europe’s forests are vulnerable to climate risks — a pressing problem to be solved.
“Our priorities for the next 12 months are to automate other parts of the carbon project development process, to expand to thousands of additional hectares of forest in Germany and to sell our first carbon credits to financially incentivize forest owners to adapt their forests to climate change. These priorities are guided by our mission: to provide landowners with the most accessible way to be rewarded for making their forest climate resilient. »
Commenting on the Pina Earth seed lift in a joint statement, Nadja Bresous, Partner (Paris) and Astrid Moullé-Berteaux, Partner (Berlin) of XAnge, said: “XAnge is proud to continue to invest in climate technologies and to support the adaptation of European forests. Pina Earth’s technology generates high-quality nature-based European carbon credits, for which demand will continue to grow. This investment is a contribution to protecting the financial and environmental value of forests.
Although there are a number of other more established startups focused on expanding access to carbon markets – such as SilviaTerra (now called NCX) in the US – Biermann says Europe remains a “ blue ocean opportunity” for forest carbon markets.
“Part of this is due to the challenge of a more fragmented ownership structure, which means smaller carbon projects. As a result, the low barriers to entry for forest owners, automation and the efficiency are at the heart of our product strategy,” she suggests.
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Among the most typically asked inquiries in the e-mail and forum neighborhood is, “Do Vaping Supplements work?“ There are lots of reasons individuals believe it might be a excellent concept to offer your body dietary supplements to assist you with giving up smoking cigarettes. Smoking is bad for your health. It creates cancer cells, heart disease and also various other troubles. However it may likewise influence your lungs.
The body requires a range of necessary nutrients to keep things running correctly. Not all vitamins are developed equal. Even if you consume a healthy diet, you might not get all the vitamins and minerals your body demands. The liver is typically really efficient at obtaining things where they require to go, however often it can not produce enough to meet the body‘s demand. That is when it requires a little increase.
Often there is simply no chance your body can produce all the nutrients it needs on its own. In this case, the body should depend on an outdoors resource. By using tobacco or various other dangerous drugs to aid fill out the gaps, the body is able to enhance its body immune system as well as thus battle disease a little bit extra easily. Pax 2 Vaporizer
Nevertheless, smoking, along with various other abused substances do not improve health. Actually, in time, smoking decreases the body immune system‘s capacity to eliminate off various other illness. When you utilize a health supplement to help boost your body‘s vitamin production, you are enhancing your wellness, protecting against illness, and alleviating your lung cancer.
If you ask me, and also a number of other health and wellness specialists, the answer is, “Yes, they do!“ By using a health and wellness vitamin supplement, such as Vitamin A, E, C, B, or H, we are raising the quantity of vitamin H we have in our bodies. By raising the quantity of vitamin H within our lungs, we are raising the lung‘s ability to heal itself. By eliminating the signs of lung cancer cells, we are reducing the opportunity that it will certainly infect other parts of the body.
A health and wellness supplement is not simply something for old individuals on the decrease. Cigarette smokers can take advantage of a wellness supplement too. There is little evidence that supports the concept that cigarette smoking in some way reduces the efficiency of a health and wellness supplement. Lots of health specialists think that the boosted degree of vitamin C discovered in vegetables and fruits combats the unsafe results of nicotine. Nevertheless, it is unknown whether using these compounds alone will be enough to quit smoking cigarettes. Similar to anything else, professional aid is extremely suggested.
So, do vaping supplements function? The answer to that concern depends on the person. For some, yes; for others, no. There are several elements that go into identifying whether or not a health supplement will certainly work for a certain person.
When asking, “do vaping supplements function?“ it is important to think about all the variables involved. These aspects include your overall health, your existing smoking cigarettes practices, and also the kinds of supplements you are taking. It is also vital to ask on your own whether or not there is a medical condition triggering your signs. If there is a medical issue, only a physician can identify if a wellness supplement will certainly work in treating your signs and symptoms.
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Heart failure affects an estimated 4.9 million Americans,1 or 1 percent of adults 50 to 60 years of age and 10 percent of adults in their 80s.2 Each year, about 400,000 new cases of heart failure are diagnosed in the United States.1 This clinical syndrome is the most frequent cause of hospitalizations in the elderly and is responsible for 5 to 10 percent of all hospital admissions.1 Heart failure causes or contributes to approximately 250,000 deaths every year.3
The clinical syndrome of heart failure manifests when cellular respiration becomes impaired because the heart cannot pump enough blood to support the metabolic demands of the body, or when normal cellular respiration can only be maintained with an elevated left ventricular filling pressure.4
The Framingham,5 Duke6 and Boston7 criteria were established before noninvasive techniques for assessing systolic and diastolic dysfunction became widely available. The three sets of criteria were designed to assist in the diagnosis of heart failure. The Boston criteria (Table 1)8 have been shown to have the highest combined sensitivity (50 percent) and specificity (78 percent ). All of these criteria are most helpful in diagnosing advanced or severe heart failure, a condition that occurs in 20 to 40 percent of patients with a decreased ejection fraction.9
Early diagnosis of heart failure is essential for successfully addressing underlying diseases or causes and, in some patients, preventing further myocardial dysfunction and clinical deterioration. However, initial diagnosis may be difficult because the presentations of heart failure can change from no symptoms to pulmonary edema with cardiogenic shock. It is estimated that heart failure is correctly diagnosed initially in only 50 percent of affected patients.10,11 A systematic approach can improve overall accuracy in diagnosing this condition.
The first step in diagnosing heart failure is to obtain a complete clinical history. The patient should be questioned about dyspnea, cough, nocturia, generalized fatigue and other signs and symptoms of heart failure.
Dyspnea, a cardinal symptom of a failing heart, often progresses from dyspnea on exertion to orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea and dyspnea on rest. Cough, usually nocturnal and nonproductive, may accompany dyspnea and often occurs in similar settings (i.e., on exertion or when the patient is supine).
Nocturia, also a frequent sign of heart failure, occurs secondary to increased renal perfusion when the patient is supine.12 Generalized fatigue (caused by the low perfusion state) and peripheral edema with inability to wear usual footwear are frequent complaints.
As heart failure progresses, gastrointestinal symptoms (e.g., abdominal bloating, anorexia and fullness in the right upper quadrant) are occasionally seen. With severe, longstanding heart failure, cardiac cachexia (emaciation resulting from heart disease) may develop secondary to protein-losing enteropathy and increased levels of certain cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor. Cardiac cachexia may mimic the cachexia seen in patients with disseminated malignant disease.
Confusion and altered mental status may occur because of decreased cerebral perfusion or cardiac cirrhosis. In heart failure, cirrhosis develops secondary to chronic passive congestion of the liver.
The patient should be asked about previous chest pain or myocardial infarction because coronary artery disease is responsible for up to 75 percent of cases of heart failure with decreased left ventricular function.13 A history of myocardial infarction has a better combination of sensitivity, specificity and positive and negative predictive value for heart failure compared with other symptoms or aspects of the medical history.14
It is important to identify a history of hypertension, in that high blood pressure is the second most frequent cause of heart failure. Information about other possible causes of heart failure should also be sought (Table 2).
|Most common causes|
|Coronary artery disease|
|Valvular heart disease (especially aortic and mitral disease)|
|Infections: viruses (including human immunodeficiency virus), bacteria, parasites|
|Drugs (e.g., doxorubicin [Adriamycin], cyclophosphamide [Cytoxan], cocaine)|
|Connective tissue disease|
|Infiltrative disease (e.g., amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, hemochromatosis, malignancy)|
|Neuromuscular disease (e.g., muscular or myotonic dystrophy, Friedreich's ataxia)|
|Metabolic disorders (e.g., glycogen storage disease type 2 [Pompe's disease] and type 5 [McArdle's disease])|
|Nutritional disorders (e.g., beriberi, kwashiorkor)|
|Eosinophilic endomyocardial disease|
|High-output heart failure (e.g., intracardiac shunt, atrioventricular fistula, beriberi, pregnancy, Paget's disease, hyperthyroidism, anemia)|
|Dilated idiopathic cardiomyopathy|
A complete physical examination is the second component in the diagnosis of heart failure. The patient's general appearance should be assessed for evidence of resting dyspnea, cyanosis and cachexia.
BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEART RATE
The patient's blood pressure and heart rate should be recorded. High, normal or low blood pressure may be present. The prognosis is worse for patients who present with a systolic blood pressure of less than 90 to 100 mm Hg when not receiving medication (angiotensin-converting enzyme [ACE] inhibitors, beta blockers or duretics).16 Tachycardia may be a sign of heart failure, especially in the decompensated state. The heart rate increases as one of the compensatory ways of maintaining adequate cardiac output. A decrease in the resting heart rate with medical therapy can be used as a surrogate marker for treatment efficacy. A weak, thready pulse and pulsus alternans are associated with decreased left ventricular function. The patient should also be monitored for evidence of periodic breathing (Cheyne-Stokes respiration).
JUGULAR VENOUS DISTENTION
Jugular venous distention is assessed while the patient is supine with the upper body at a 45-degree angle from the horizontal plane. The top of the waveform of the internal jugular venous pulsation determines the height of the venous distention. An imaginary horizontal line (parallel to the floor) is then drawn from this level to above the sternal angle. A height of more than 4 to 5 cm from the sternal angle to this imaginary line is consistent with elevated venous pressure (Figure 1).
Elevated jugular venous pressure is a specific (90 percent) but not sensitive (30 percent) sign of elevated left ventricular filling. The reproducibility of the jugular venous distention assessment is low.17
POINT OF MAXIMAL IMPULSE
The point of maximal impulse of the left ventricle is usually located in the midclavicular line at the fifth intercostal space. With the patient in a sitting position, the physician uses fingertips to identify this point. Cardiomegaly usually displaces the cardiac impulse laterally and downward.
At times, the point of maximal impulse may be difficult to locate and therefore loses sensitivity (66 percent). Yet the location of this point remains a specific indicator (96 percent) for evaluating the size of the heart.14
THIRD AND FOURTH HEART SOUNDS
A double apical impulse can represent an auscultated third heart sound (S3). Just as with the displaced point of maximal impulse, a third heart sound is not sensitive (24 percent) for heart failure, but it is highly specific (99 percent).14 Patients with heart failure and left ventricular hypertrophy can also have a fourth heart sound (S4). The physician should be alert for murmurs, which can provide information about the cause of heart disease and also aid in the selection of therapy.
Physical examination of the lungs may reveal rales and pleural effusions. Despite the presence of pulmonary congestion, rales can be absent because of increased lymphatic drainage and compensatory changes in the perivascular structures that have occurred over time. Wheezing may be the sole manifestation of pulmonary congestion. Frequently, asthma is erroneously diagnosed in patients who actually have heart failure.
LIVER SIZE AND HEPATOJUGULAR REFLUX
The key component of the abdominal examination is the evaluation of liver size. Hepatomegaly may occur because of right-sided heart failure and venous congestion.
The hepatojugular reflux can be a useful test in patients with right-sided heart failure. This test should be performed while the patient is lying down with the upper body at a 45-degree angle from the horizontal plane. The patient keeps the mouth open and breathes normally to prevent Valsalva's maneuver, which can give a false-positive test. Moderate pressure is then applied over the middle of the abdomen for 30 to 60 seconds. Hepatojugular reflux occurs if the height of the neck veins increases by at least 3 cm and the increase is maintained throughout the compression period.18
LOWER EXTREMITY EDEMA
Lower extremity edema, a common sign of heart failure, is usually detected when the extracellular volume exceeds 5 L. The edema may be accompanied by stasis dermatitis, an often chronic, usually eczematous condition characterized by edema, hyperpigmentation and, commonly, ulceration.
Valsalva's maneuver is rarely used in the evaluation of patients with heart failure. Yet this test is simple to perform and carries one of the best combinations of specificity (91 percent) and sensitivity (69 percent) for the detection of left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction in patients with heart failure.19,20
Valsalva's maneuver is performed with the blood pressure cuff inflated 15 mm Hg over the systolic blood pressure. While the physician auscultates over the brachial artery, the patient is asked to perform a forced expiratory effort against a closed airway (the Valsalva's maneuver).
A normal response would be an initial rise in systolic blood pressure at the onset of straining (phase I) with Korotkoff's sounds heard (Figure 2). While the maneuver is maintained (phase II), a decrease in the blood pressure occurs with loss of Korotkoff's sounds. Release of the maneuver (phase III) is followed by an overshoot of blood pressure and the reappearance of heart sounds (phase IV). Abnormal responses occurring in patients with heart failure are maintenance of beats throughout Valsalva's maneuver (square wave) or lack of reappearance of Korotkoff's sounds after release of the maneuver (absent overshoot).
Diagnosing heart failure in elderly patients may be particularly challenging because of the atypical presentations in this age group. Anorexia, generalized weakness and fatigue are often the predominant symptoms of heart failure in geriatric patients. Mental disturbances and anxiety are also common.
When older persons become symptomatic on exertion, they decrease their level of activity to the point of becoming relatively asymptomatic. A cycle of symptoms on exertion and consequent decrease in activity frequently continues as the disease progresses, until the patient finally becomes symptomatic at rest (i.e., NYHA class IV).
The physical findings in older patients with heart failure may be difficult to interpret accurately. Resting tachycardia is uncommon, and pulse contour abnormalities are difficult to assess secondary to peripheral arteriosclerotic changes. At times, auscultatory findings on the lung examination are atypical because of concomitant pulmonary disease.21
Most patients with heart failure have normal electrolyte levels. However, extended use of kaliuretic diuretics can lead to hypokalemia, and the use of potassium-sparing diuretics and ACE inhibitors may result in hyperkalemia. Blood urea nitrogen and creatinine levels may become elevated, reflecting prerenal azotemia. Hyponatremia may be present in patients with advanced heart failure.
When the liver becomes congested, serum transaminase and bilirubin levels may become elevated, and jaundice may be present. With chronic congestive hepatomegaly, cardiac cirrhosis may occur and cause hypoalbuminemia, hypoglycemia and an increased prothrombin time.
The prognosis is worse in patients with hyponatremia or abnormalities secondary to congested hepatomegaly.
Anemia may contribute to worsening heart failure. When severe, anemia may even cause heart failure.
In all patients with newly diagnosed heart failure, thyroid function tests should be performed to rule out hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism.
It may soon be possible to routinely obtain serum measurements of two plasma enzymes secreted by the overloaded heart. Plasma atrial natriuretic peptide is secreted in response to increased intra-atrial pressure, and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) is secreted by the failing ventricle. Levels of these enzymes, but specifically BNP, are elevated in patients with dyspnea resulting from heart failure. In one study, elevated BNP levels had more than a 90 percent specificity and sensitivity for heart failure.22
An electrocardiogram (ECG) should be obtained in all patients who present with heart failure. No specific ECG feature is indicative of heart failure, but atrial and ventricular arrhythmias are common findings. For example, atrial fibrillation is present in 25 percent of patients with cardiomyopathy, especially elderly patients with advanced heart failure.23 The prognosis is worse for patients with atrial fibrillation, atrial or ventricular tachycardia, or left bundle branch block.16,24
Low voltage on the ECG in association with conduction disturbances may suggest the presence of amyloidosis.
Chest radiographs can be helpful in the diagnosis of heart failure. Cardiomegaly is usually manifested by the presence of an increased cardiothoracic ratio (greater than 0.50) on a posteroanterior view. However, patients with predominantly diastolic dysfunction may have normal heart size, one of the distinguishing markers of diastolic versus systolic dysfunction. Right ventricular enlargement is suggested by the loss of free space between the cardiac silhouette and the sternum on a lateral view.
Signs of increased pulmonary venous pressure seen on chest radiographs may progress from redistribution of blood flow from the bases of the lungs to the apices to linear densities reflecting interstitial edema (Kerley's lines) to a hazy appearance concentrated mostly around the hila of the mediastinum and presenting a butterfly pattern.
Chest radiographs are also helpful in detecting pleural effusion secondary to heart failure.
Transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiography with Doppler flow studies is highly recommended for all patients with heart failure.25 This test helps in the assessment of left ventricular size, mass and function.
Transesophageal echocardiography offers higher quality images than transthoracic studies. However, this technique is invasive and is best reserved for use when the quality of the two-dimensional echocardiogram is unacceptable.
Radionuclide angiography is another non-invasive method for assessing systolic and diastolic function. This imaging technique is used when two-dimensional echocardiography is not diagnostic because adequate images could not be obtained or the findings do not agree with the clinical picture. Radionuclide angiography provides a reliable and quantitative measurement of the left ventricular ejection fraction and the regional wall motion. However, ectopic activity and atrial fibrillation adversely affect the accuracy of its measurements.28
Left ventricular angiography can be used to assess the ejection fraction, the left ventricular volume and the severity of valvular regurgitation or stenosis. In addition, detailed measurements of ventricular filling pressures and indices of left ventricular diastolic relaxation rate can be helpful in confirming diastolic dysfunction.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)29 and ultrafast or cine computed tomography (CT)30 can measure the ejection fraction and assess regional wall motion. However, assessment of cardiac function using these studies is only performed in a limited number of centers, and the superiority of the studies to echocardiography and angiography has not been proved.
Sometimes coronary artery disease must be excluded as a causal factor in patients with heart failure. Cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography should be strongly considered in all patients with heart failure and angina who are candidates for interventional procedures. In patients with known coronary artery disease and heart failure but no angina, coronary arteriography or noninvasive testing (i.e., a thallium stress test or stress echocardiogram), followed by coronary arteriography in those patients with ischemia, should be considered. The intensity of the search for ischemic heart disease in patients with heart disease depends on the patient's probability of having coronary artery disease.
If imaging techniques cannot confirm the cause of cardiac dysfunction, an endomyocardial biopsy may provide important information in patients receiving cardiotoxic drugs and in patients suspected of having infectious (i.e., acute or chronic viral myocarditis), genetic or systemic diseases with possible cardiac involvement.25 However, the diagnostic yield of this procedure is typically less than 10 percent.31
Systolic vs. Diastolic Dysfunction
As many as 40 percent of patients with clinical heart failure have diastolic dysfunction with normal systolic function.32 In addition, many patients with systolic dysfunction have elements of diastolic dysfunction. With systolic dysfunction, the pumping ability of the ventricle is impaired. With diastolic dysfunction, ventricular filling is defective.
Ventricular diastolic function depends on the pressure-to-volume relationship in the left ventricle. Decreased compliance of the left ventricular wall leads to a higher pressure for a given diastolic volume. The end result is impaired ventricular filling, inappropriately elevated left atrial and pulmonary venous pressure, and decreased ability to increase stoke volume. These dysfunctions lead to the clinical syndrome of heart failure.
Findings suggestive of diastolic dysfunction on the two-dimensional echocardiogram are left ventricular hypertrophy, a dilated left atrium, a normal or nearly normal ejection fraction and reversal of the normal pattern of flow velocity (measured by Doppler flow studies) across the mitral valve (Figures 3 and 4).
Differentiating between systolic and diastolic dysfunction is essential because their long-term treatments are different33 (Table 434 and Figure 5). The treatments of choice in patients with systolic dysfunction are ACE inhibitors, digoxin, diuretics and beta blockers. In patients with diastolic dysfunction, the cornerstones of treatment depend on the underlying cause. Beta blockers and calcium channel blockers are frequently used when diastolic dysfunction is secondary to ischemia or hypertension.
The history, physical examination, ECG and chest radiographs provide some clues that can be helpful in differentiating systolic and diastolic dysfunction. For example, predominantly systolic dysfunction is suggested by a history of myocardial infarction and younger patient age, a displaced point of maximal impulse and an S3 gallop on the physical examination, the presence of Q waves on the ECG and the finding of cardiomegaly on the chest radiograph. In contrast, diastolic dysfunction is suggested by a history of hypertension and older patient age, a sustained point of maximal impulse and an S4 gallop on the physical examination, left ventricular hypertrophy on the ECG and a normal-sized heart on the chest radiograph.36 However, the findings can overlap considerably, and echocardiography of the heart is usually necessary.
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View of the interior of the Chapel at Haddon Hall (Bakewell, Derbyshire).
Etching on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 17 x 22,3 cm. Image size: 10 x 15 cm.
From the set of twenty etchings Cameron made for Walton’s ‘Compleat Angler’. Ref: Rinder 345.
Made by ‘David Young Cameron’ after own design. Sir David Young Cameron (1865-1945), painter and etcher (one of the leading practitioners of the Etching Revival). He was born and trained in Glasgow, Kippen and Edinburgh. His works were exhibited at the RA in 1886. Cameron began etching at 18, and is known for etched views of architecture and drypoints of mountain and moorland scenery. He etched a total of over 500 plates, 300 of which were done before 1900, including book illustrations and bookplates.
Condition: Very good, given age. Ghosting (from previous matting) around the image. Right margin uneven and with glue remains. Pencil annotations in the lower margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
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A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever, says the English actor Richard Briers, and he’s right. Beautiful garden landscapes appeal to our senses; the tremendous diversity and colours of design mixture, aroma, flavours, sounds from birds and insects attracted to the plants and variety of textures.
Garden landscaped designs put forward to you with a variety of decisions and numerous possibilities, whether beginning from a wild, feral bush or searching for perfection. And they are not like the home interiors, gardens live, breathe, grow and attract birds, insects, and little critters. All of this attracts us by appealing to our physical senses and engross our sense of wonder. They are an essential part of our fellowship with nature in an ever-increasing urbanizing society.
How to create a beautiful garden landscape
If you have never tackled a landscape design before, you might be overwhelmed by all the changes you can make. But, if you think of it more as a room inside your house, it makes it a lot easier. From selecting the right flowers to embellishing your garden shed, this post has 7 valuable tips that you need to know to create a beautiful garden landscape. These 7 tips will come in handy for you to use basic design concepts to create a gorgeous garden landscape.
1. Make a small garden look larger
If you have a small garden and you want to make it look larger, then use horizontal layers of various heights to make the illusion of depth, such as low shrubs before a little higher fence, flower beds, and an arbor beyond, and taller shrubs near the house. This will surely help your garden landscape to look larger and filled than it actually is.
2. Use a leaf blower to clear out leaves
By using a leaf blower in the garden can quickly transform your landscape into attractive, functional spaces for play and relaxation. You can enjoy using a blower when you discover their ease and efficiency. A good rule-of-thumb for operating leaf blowers is to use them as politely as possible. Leaf blowers come in many different types, when shopping always go for the best backpack leaf blower as they can be easily put on your back and they are ready for action.
3. Captivate the butterflies
Luring butterflies to your garden landscape, you will have to concentrate on plants with long blooming cycles, such as hollyhocks, coneflowers, nasturtiums, sunflowers, and also blossoming weeds. Blooming herbs are something really special, as appealing to butterflies as apple pie is to humans.
4. Make the most out of trees and shrubs
Clearly, the trees and shrubs are some of the most important stakeholders in a well-designed garden landscape. Using them to make a beneficial impact is quite easy, particularly when you select varieties that have vibrant foliage.
Go the extra mile with some creative pruning. As for example, sheared golden false cypress and columnar holly make for a congenial contrast against sheared purple barberry.
5. Control the weeds
Try to remove the weeds before they go to the seed. Compost some plants that compete with what you really want in your garden landscape. Why waste good money by sharing your plant food and nourishment with freeloaders? By adding an appealing and practical mulch will put off weeds from mounting the seed.
6. Plant some shades of green
By planting a variety of shades of green will help add depth to your plantings and make the garden landscape look even greener. The bright chartreuse greens, as seen in these ‘Frisia’ honey locust trees, attract the attention and stand out in the garden landscape, especially when matched to the darker, richer tones commonly found in evergreens. Blue-greens add softness and almost always co-ordinate well with other shades of the color.
7. Plant flowering plants
The best landscape design begins with structural plants infilled with beautiful, flowering plants. Adding flowering plants will give the much-needed splash of color to a sea of greens and rinsing of lovely aromas and attract more butterflies. These embellishments give a variety of focal points and contrasts which can be a feast for the eyes whenever you take a walk in the garden.
At last, the major purpose of listing these tips was to motivate the beginners to look for all the potential landscaping ideas that they can opt for and get started. Hence, handling a garden landscape design with the right plants that won’t overgrow, watering techniques, mowing, etc. is much more crucial than the design itself.
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The Irish Guards have taken over the responsibility of partnering an Afghan National Army (ANA) brigade from their colleagues in 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 SCOTS) this week.
It is the Irish Guards’ first deployment to Afghanistan as a formed unit.
Affectionately known as ‘The Micks’, the 1st Battalion Irish Guards have swapped their ceremonial bearskins for multi-terrain pattern camouflage to continue the work of 1 SCOTS who are returning to the UK.
The Irish Guards are part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, who are in the process of replacing 4th Mechanized Brigade as the lead formation of Task Force Helmand for the start of Operation HERRICK 13.
While the official ‘Transfer of Authority’ has yet to take place, new faces and fresh perspectives are flowing into Helmand on a daily basis.
1 SCOTS have spent six months with the warriors of 3rd Brigade, 215 Corps (3/215) of the ANA, and partnered them throughout the first Afghan-planned, ‑led and ‑executed operations (Op OMID DO and Op OMID SEY). The Irish Guards will focus on building and strengthening this success.
Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Ghika, said:
“We have a critical role to do in continuing to build on the success of 1 SCOTS and further develop the ANA.
“We have trained really hard to get here. We bring a lot to the campaign and are focused on what we have to do.”
The handover ceremony was conducted on 27 September 2010 at Camp Tombstone, the ANA base near Camp Bastion in Helmand.
With a lone Scottish piper playing, the Union Flag and Saltire of 1 SCOTS were lowered, and, to the tune of an Irish piper, the St Patrick’s Cross and Household Division Colour of the Irish Guards were marched on.
The job of the Irish Guards Brigade Advisory Group will be to partner their Afghan colleagues and share British Army know-how on leadership and planning with them. The Irish Guards will also be learning from their Afghan partners; they will live, eat, patrol and fight side by side with them for the duration of their tour.
Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Herbert, Commanding Officer of 1 SCOTS, said:
“It has been a privilege and an enormous pleasure to have commanded the 3/215 Brigade Advisory Group on HERRICK 12. We have been an unusual organisation, drawn from fifteen different regiments and corps.
“I could not have asked for a more dedicated, hardworking or courageous group to command, and I thank all ranks for what they have achieved over this tour.”
Ministry of Defence, UK
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1773 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild assembles twelve of his most influential friends, and convinces them that if they all pool their resources together, they can rule the world. This meeting takes place in Frankfurt, Germany. Rothschild also informs his friends that he has found the perfect candidate, an individual of incredible intellect and ingenuity, to lead the organization he has planned – Adam Weishaupt.
May 1, 1776 – Adam Weishaupt (code named Spartacus) establishes a secret society called the Order of the Illuminati. Weishaupt is the Professor of Canon Law at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, part of Germany. The Illuminati seek to establish a New World Order. Their objectives are as follows:
1) Abolition of all ordered governments
2) Abolition of private property
3) Abolition of inheritance
4) Abolition of patriotism
5) Abolition of the family
6) Abolition of religion
7) Creation of a world government
July, 1782 – The Order of the Illuminati joins forces with Freemasonry at the Congress of Wilhelmsbad. The Comte de Virieu, an attendee at the conference, comes away visibly shaken. When questioned about the “tragic secrets” he brought back with him, he replies: “I will not confide them to you. I can only tell you that all this is very much more serious than you think.” From this time on, according to his biographer, “the Comte de Virieu could only speak of Freemasonry with horror.”
The insigna of the Order of the Illuminati first appeared on the reverse side of U.S. one-dollar bills in 1933. One can read, at the base of the 13-story pyramid, the year 1776 (MDCCLXVI in Roman numerals). The eye radiating in all directions is the “all-spying eye” that symbolizes the terroristic, Gestapo-like, agency set up by Weishaupt. The Latin words “ANNUIT COEPTIS” mean “our enterprise (conspiracy) has been crowned with success.” Below, “NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM” explains the natureof the enterprise: a “New Social Order” or a “New World Order”.
1785 – An Illuminati courier named Lanze is struck by lightning, and killed while traveling by horseback through the town of Ratisbon. When Bavarian officials examine the contents of his saddle bags, they discover the existence of the Order of the Illuminati, and find plans detailing the coming French Revolution. The Bavarian Government attempts to alert the government of France of impending disaster, but the French Government fails to heed this warning. Bavarian officials arrest all members of the Illuminati they can find, but Weishaupt and others have gone underground, and cannot be found.
1796 – Freemasonry becomes a major issue in the presidential election in the United States. John Adams wins the election by opposing Masonry, and his son, John Quincy Adams, warns of the dire threat to the nation posed by the Masonic Lodges: “I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring.”
1797 – John Robison, Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University in Scotland, publishes a book entitled “Proofs of a Conspiracy” in which he reveals that Adam Weishaupt had attempted to recruit him. He exposes the diabolical aims of the Illuminati to the world.
1821 – George W. F. Hegel formulates what is called the Hegelian dialectic – the process by which Illuminati objectives are achieved. According to the Hegelian dialectic, thesis plus antithesis equals synthesis. In other words, first you foment a crisis. Then there is an enormous public outcry that something must be done about the problem. So you offer a solution that brings about the changes you really wanted all along, but which people would have been unwilling to accept initially.
1828 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who finances the Illuminati, expresses his utter contempt for national governments which attempt to regulate International Bankers such as him: “Allow me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who writes the laws.”
1848 — Moses Mordecai Marx Levy, alias Karl Marx, writes “The Communist Manifesto.” Marx is a member of an Illuminati front organization called the League of the Just. He not only advocates economic and political changes; he advocates moral and spiritual changes as well. He believes the family should be abolished, and that all children should be raised by a central authority. He expresses his attitude toward God by saying: “We must war against all prevailing ideas of religion, of the state, of country, of patriotism. The idea of God is the keynote of a perverted civilization. It must be destroyed.”
Jan. 22, 1870 – In a letter to Italian revolutionary leader Giuseppe Mazzini, Albert Pike – Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry – announces the establishment of a secret society within a secret society: “We must create a super rite, which will remain unknown, to which we will call those Masons of high degree of whom we shall select. With regard to our brothers in Masonry, these men must be pledges to the strictest secrecy. Through this supreme rite, we will govern all Freemasonry which will become the one international center, the more powerful because its direction will be unknown.” This ultra-secret organization is called The New and Reformed Paladian Rite. (This is why about 95% of the men involved in Masonry don’t have a clue as to what the objectives of the organization actually are. They are under the delusion that it’s just a fine community organization doing good works.)
1875 – Russian occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatskyfounds the Theosophical Society. Madame Blavatsky claims that Tibetan holy men in the Himilayas, whom she refers to as the Masters of Wisdom, communicated with her in London by telepathy. She insists that the Christians have it all backwards – that Satan is good, and God is evil. She writes: “The Christians and scientists must be made to respect their Indian betters. The Wisdom of India, her philosophy and achievement, must be made known in Europe and America.”
1884 – The Fabian Society is founded in Great Britain to promote Socialism. The Fabian Society takes its name from the Roman General Fabius Maximus, who fought Hannibal’s army in small debilitating skirmishes, rather than attempting one decisive battle.
July 14, 1889 – Albert Pike issues instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the world. He reveals who is the true object of Masonic worship: “To you, Sovereign Grand Instructors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees: The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.”
1890-1896 – Cecil Rhodes, an enthusiastic student of John Ruskin, is Prime Minister of South Africa, a British colony at the time. He is able to exploit and control the gold and diamond wealth of South Africa. He works to bring all the habitable portions of the world under the domination of a ruling elite. To that end, he uses a portion of his vast wealth to establish the famous Rhodes Scholarships.
1893 – The Theosophical Society sponsors a Parliament of World Religions held in Chicago. The purpose of the convention is to introduce Hindu and Buddhist concepts, such as belief in reincarnation, to the West.
1911 – The Socialist Party of Great Britain publishes a pamphlet entitled “Socialism and Religion” in which they clearly state their position on Christianity: “It is therefore a profound truth that Socialism is the natural enemy of religion. A Christian Socialist is in fact an anti-Socialist. Christianity is the antithesis of Socialism.”
1912 – Colonel Edward Mandell House, a close advisor of President Woodrow Wilson, publishes “Phillip Dru: Administrator”, in which he promotes “socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx.”
Feb. 3, 1913 – The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, making it possible for the Federal Government to impose a progressive income tax, is ratified. Plank #2 of “The Communist Manifesto” had called for a progressive income tax. (In Canada, the income tax is introduced in 1917, as a “temporary measure” to finance the war effort.)
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson publishes “The New Freedom” in which he reveals: “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
Dec. 23, 1913 – The Federal Reserve (neither federal nor a reserve – it’s a privately owned institution) is created. It was planned at a secret meeting in 1910 on Jekyl Island, Georgia, by a group of bankers and politicians, including Col. House. This transfers the power to create money from the American Government to a private group of bankers. The Federal Reserve Act is hastily passed just before the Christmas break. Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. (father of the famed aviator) warns: “This act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this act the invisible government by the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust Investigation, will be legalized.”
1916 – Three years after signing the Federal Reserve Act into law, President Woodrow Wilson observes:“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
1917 – With aid from Financiers in New York City and London, V. I. Lenin is able to overthrow the government of Russia. Lenin later comments on the apparent contradiction of the links between prominent capitalists and Communism: “There also exists another alliance – at first glance a strange one, a surprising one – but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists.”(Remember the Hegelian dialectic?)
May 30, 1919 – Prominent British and American personalities establish the Royal Institute of International Affairs in England and the Institute of International Affairs in the U.S. at a meeting arranged by Col. House; attended by various Fabian socialists, including noted economist John Maynard Keynes.
1920 – Britain’s Winston Churchill recognizes the connection between the Illuminati and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. He observes: “From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, Bela Kun, Rosa Luxembourg, and Emma Goldman, this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played a definitely recognizable role in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the nineteenth century, and now at last this band of extra- ordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads, and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”
1920-1931 – Louis T. McFadden is Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Curency. Concerning the Federal Reserve, Congressman McFadden notes: “When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by International Bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is – the Fed has usurped the Government. It controls everything here, and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.” Concerning the Great Depression and the country’s acceptance of FDR’s New Deal, he asserts: “It was no accident. It was a carefully contrived occurrence. The International Bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as the rulers of us all.”
1921 – Col. House reorganizes the American branch of the Institute of International Affairs into the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). (For the past 60 years, 80% of the top positions in every administration – whether Democrat or Republican – have been occupied by members of this organization.)
December 15, 1922 – The CFR endorses World Government in its magazine “Foreign Affairs.” Author Philip Kerr states: “Obviously there is going to be no peace nor prosperity for mankind as long as the earth remains divided into 50 or 60 independent states, until some kind of international system is created. The real problem today is that of world government.”
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Fire can track through areas not sufficiently fire stopped! Area beneath External fire escapes should be kept clear at all times Ensure dust covers are removed from smoke detectors Fire extinguishers are for fighting small fires NOT wedging fire doors open!!! What is the Fire risk here? Ensure your residents use proper ashtrays as using black bags has a high risk of fire starting. This is a good example of an Under drawn staircase leading to a Basement Bags are for shopping! not covering smoke detectors Burn marks on bed, carpet and full ashtray all contributes to serious risk of fire occurring Socks are for your feet! dont put your self or other residents at risk by covering smoke detectors Basement ceiling not fire resisting Will this smoke seal be effective? Hostel Which detector works? Electrics in a Shower! What type of key do you require to test emergency lighting Will this partition prevent the passage of smoke? Is the person in the image fumbling for the key? Bank of electrics, enclose in fire resisting construction Poor workmanship from contractors Is this acceptable for a single stair building? Will this provide 30 minutes fire resistance What risk does this pose? Only 1 screw on a fire door hinge! Can you spot the risks here? this was identified on a fire risk assessment! Careless disposal increases risk of fire Can you spot the issues here? Dispose of smoking materials correctly, this could have caused a serious fire The detector is there to give early warning do not cover Tell tale signs of poor disposal of smoking materials Try escaping via this exit! see next photo Dont think so! Above a fire door, not fire resisting, maintain your means of escape, provide 30 minutes fire resistance to escape routes Fire alarm sounder, will this raise the alarm? Wooden fire escape Hmmm Breaches of fire compartmentation Acceptable or not? fire stopping above false ceiling acceptable or not? Broken self closer Means of escape or escape? Loose bricks over a means of escape Dangerous Wall on means of escape Community Safety Breach of compartmentation Don’t put people at risk. Why should you have a fire risk assessment? Landlords ensure your residents do not hoard unnecessary items T.V. on surrounded by paper = high fire risk High fire loading in a bedroom in a hostel Do not store photo-copiers under stairs Dont forget to remove the dust covers What type of Fire Door is this?
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“We are called to live our baptism every day, as new creatures, clothed in Christ.” —Pope Francis
What reference point do you use when making decisions? Many times, impulse takes control and decisions are made based solely on emotion and desire. We all know that these types of decisions can often get us into trouble. When a person has a confident sense of who they are and a real understanding of what is important and of value, the likelihood of knee-jerk impulsive choices diminishes. Baptism gives us what we need to make well informed and purposeful decisions. By this simple gesture, God claims us as His own and provides us with the identity and purpose we need to properly live life.
It is tremendously reassuring, when we truly embrace this revelation and realize that we no longer have to wonder about the purpose of our lives or struggle to find our way. The answer of who we are in God has been given to us. We no longer have to fumble around, trip over ourselves or walk aimlessly about. Issues surrounding the sacredness of life, the meaning of death, the protection of those most vulnerable, care for the weak and the poor, offering hospitality to those in search of a home, the purpose and proper place of work, how to create a just social order, caring for creation, and understanding our roles as heralds and stewards are just a few of the wonderful gifts baptism brings. When we make decisions based on things such as these core Gospel truths we really act as Christ himself, revealing to others the new creations that we are. This is how we live our baptism.
It is difficult to walk against the tide. Yet, that is precisely what baptism calls us to do. Although we are sinners, in need of mercy and far from perfection we are called to order our life and make decisions based upon the wisdom and guidance of Almighty God. He alone is the one who can claim us as His sons and daughters. Standing up for our principles will not make us popular. But who ever said Christianity is a popularity contest? Baptism calls us to stand up for that which goes against the grain of secularism. Standing in line with other sinners, we have our anchor to steady us in the tempests of life and God is very pleased. Forge ahead. There is nothing to fear.BACK TO LIST
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The FSC Spiders fold-out guide features 40 common species of spiders in buildings and gardens.
The guide features beautiful colour paintings of each spider by Richard Lewington. We have sorted these paintings by habitat, so you can quickly narrow down the choices. Use this guide to hunt for spiders in low bushes and vegetation, in flower heads, on outside walls and fences, in leaf litter and under stones, and even inside buildings.
As well as the paintings, the reverse side of the Spiders guide includes concise identification notes for each species. This text covers the key characters to look out for, plus house/garden habitat and web shape or hunting strategy. Even if you cannot find the spider that made it, webs are a useful clue. So we have also included line drawings that show a range of webs, including orb webs, sheet webs and tube webs.
Spiders are invertebrates, that is animals without backbones. They are not insects, but part of the class Arachnida. Apart from spiders, other arachnids include harvestmen, false scorpions and mites. With eight legs and two distinct body parts, spiders are easy to distinguish from the insects. In addition, all spiders can produce silk, using special body features called spinnerets.
Unlike insects, young spiders hatch directly from eggs. They look like miniature forms of the adults. They grow and reach maturity through a series of moults. Most British spiders live for about a year, although some may last much longer. Adult spiders are most numerous in late spring, late summer and early autumn. Spiders are less conspicuous in early summer, as many individuals are still immature.
The FSC Spiders guide was produced in partnership with the British Arachnological Society.
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History and Philosophy of Rich Acres Elementary School
Rich Acres Elementary School is a public school that was built in 1966. It received extensive renovations in 1996. These renovations included an additions of eight classrooms as well as an upgrade of the existing building. It is one of the county's eleven elementary schools.
Rich Acres Elementary School educates children from preschool through fifth grade, including classes for Preschool-Handicapped, Learning Disabilities, and Educable Mentally Disabled. The current enrollment of all students is 361. The average class size for students in kindergarten through second grade is 16:1 and the average class size for students in third through fifth grade is 19:1. Students attend school from 8:05 A.M. to 2:40 P.M.
Rich Acres Elementary School is considered a Total Title 1 Project School. This is based on our large number of candidates for free and reduced lunch. Rich Acres' budget for the year totaled to $1,192,661. Plant operation was budgeted at $153,797. The "per pupil expenditures" was $_.
The administration, faculty, and staff at Rich Acres Elementary School are in agreement with the philosophy and objectives of Henry County Public Schools:
All Children Can and Will Learn
The staff recognizes and accepts the purposes of education for elementary schools as stated in the Standards of Quality for Public Schools in Virginia. Therefore, the purpose of Rich Acres Elementary School is to help children, youth, and adults become well adjusted, self-supporting, and actively participating citizens of the home, school, community, and country. The faculty is committed to providing learning experiences in the elementary school that will form the foundation of the total education program. Opportunities to develop to the highest capacity of their own ability are provided to each person, regardless of economic status or locality, thus strengthening our system of self-government and freedom as people.
Rich Acres Elementary Where Excellence Surpasses Standard
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Upgrading the technology behind WSSDA’s website had long been on the to-do list. But, in early November, it became clear that it couldn’t wait until January. The content management system and subscriber database were growing increasingly unstable, so an urgent upgrade was made to ensure services were not interrupted.
The website now runs on the most widely used (and up-to-date) web content management system on the planet—WordPress. In addition to WordPress, a new tool for managing subscribers was implemented. WSSDA members and some school district staff log in to the WSSDA website to access model policies, Policy & Legal News, and OnCall. The change to a new subscriber system may result in some users receiving new passwords.
This conversion to new technology also required a new format for the website. Because this change was abrupt, the navigation was left largely unchanged to minimize difficulty for people accustomed to the previous design. In the days ahead, staff will be combing through the site to ensure everything is formatted correctly and working well. Additional changes to the look and feel of the site may occur over the coming months. As this work progresses, WSSDA members can expect periodic updates.
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Cannabidiol, frequently referred to as CBD, is one of the fastest expanding products and sectors growing today. However exactly what is CBD as well as is its detoxified isolate form something you should be thinking about? Initially, let’s take a look at why people take CBD.
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Why is CBD taken in? There is still much study continuous concerning its efficiency for a variety of different persistent health problems and disorders however the present judgment is encouraging. CBD is taken frequently by individuals struggling with: chronic pain, anxiety/depression, problem sleeping or insomnia, as an hunger stimulator, among others. It is growing in popularity, specifically in the United States, where the opiate epidemic has been greatly brought on by effective prescription narcotics individuals require to take care of pain. CBD permits you to manage pain without any risk of addiction or death due to overdose. It works since CBD additionally minimizes inflammation a major reason for sign up with pain and also various other forms of persistent discomfort.
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Council recommendation on individual learning accounts to boost training of working-age adults
Employment and social affairs ministers, at the Council meeting of 16 June 2022, adopted a recommendation to support people’s training needs and thus increase the number of people engaged in training each year.
The Council is recommending that member states consider establishing individual learning accounts as a means for enabling and empowering individuals to participate in labour-market relevant training and facilitate their access to or retention in employment. And it recommends - if member states decide to establish individual learning accounts - to put in place an enabling framework.
Individual learning accounts would provide working-age people with a budget for training to improve their skills and employability throughout their lives, regardless of whether they are actually employed or not.
At the Porto Social Summit, which took place in May 2021, EU leaders welcomed an EU-level target of 60% of all adults taking part in training each year by 2030. This recommendation aims to help member states meet this target.
The enabling framework comprises measures to promote the effective take-up of the individual learning accounts. The framework includes actions ranging from ensuring the availability of career guidance services and validation opportunities to the establishment of an updated public training registry and the development of a national digital portal for accessing the learning account and navigating the registry.
New skills needed for the green and digital transitions
The Commission’s European Skills Agenda from July 2020 calls for a skills revolution to turn the ecological and digital transitions into opportunities for a prompt and fair recovery.
Skills for the green transition and the upskilling and reskilling of the workforce will be needed in the context of the shift to a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy. There is also a lack of workers with adequate digital skills. The EU wants 80% of its population to have basic digital skills by 2030.
Insufficient financial support for individuals remains one of the main barriers for participation in training activities. Many companies do not provide or fund training for their staff and individuals in atypical work have less or no access to employer-sponsored training.
Time constraints are also an important barrier. And where paid training leave arrangements exist, they often do not apply to atypical workers or to people experiencing periods of unemployment or low economic activity.
Individual learning accounts would provide people with direct support through training entitlements and would allow people to accumulate and use training entitlements over a set period. This would allow them to follow longer or more expensive training courses or to train for periods of reduced economic activity.
The Commission published the proposal for a Council recommendation on individual learning accounts on 10 December 2021 – alongside another proposal on micro-credentials. (Which has also been adopted by the EPSCO Council of 16 June.) Both proposals were part of the twelve flagship actions announced in the European Skills Agenda (July 2020) and the European Social Rights Action Plan (March 2021).
The monitoring of progress towards reaching the overall objectives of this recommendation, namely supporting working-age adults in accessing training and increasing individuals' incentives and motivation to seek training, will happen in the context of the European Semester reporting.
After five years the Commission will prepare a report for the Council with an assessment and evaluation of the progress in the implementation of the recommendation.
To access the meeting's page: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/epsco/2022/06/16/
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The lawsuit claims that PacifiCorp should have known to deenergize its power lines before a massive windstorm hit parts of Oregon.
Pacific Power and its parent company, PacifiCorp, are facing a class action alleging that their negligence caused a series of catastrophic wildfires.
According to OregonLive.com, the lawsuit was filed by three law firms located in the Pacific Northwest. The complaint’s lead plaintiffs—Jeanyne James and Robin Colbert, a Lyons, OR, couple—say they lost their home, four cars, and personal belongings during Labor Day weekend fires in and around Santiam Canyon.
The lawsuit claims that PacifiCorp received warning of “extremely critical” fire conditions days ahead of the holiday weekend.
While the weather forecast warned of “historic” high winds, PacifiCorp left its power lines across Oregon energized. When storms hit the state, power lines in Santiam Canyon—and other areas—toppled, igniting brush and starting wildfires.
“Many of these fires were not ignited by lightning or careless campers,” said Daniel Mensher, an attorney and partner at Keller Rohrback. “Instead, these fires were whipped to their overwhelming size by a series of ignitions caused by these defendants’ power lines.”
OPB notes that fire officials have already blamed power lines for at least 13 of Oregon’s September wildfires.
Dry conditions, coupled with high winds, created what OPB calls a “furnace-blast effect.” The winds stirred up smaller fires and rapidly accelerated their spread down canyons and ridges.
“Defendants’ energized power lines ignited massive, deadly and destructive fires that raced down the canyons, igniting and destroying homes, businesses, and schools,” the class action states. “These fires burned over hundreds of thousands of acres, destroyed thousands of structures, killed people and upended countless lives.”
PacifiCorp has yet to offer any extensive comment on the class action to the media.
In the past, PacifiCorp Vice President David Lucas has defended the company’s actions. Lucas said that, in some rare instances, PacifiCorp does cut power to areas with high fire risks.
“As we’ve learned through extensive, local community engagement, public safety power shutoff events must be properly planned and coordinated, so that our loss of power does not have unintended consequences of actually increasing public safety risk,” Lucas said.
Lucas said that some parts of Oregon simply did not meet the company’s risk-assessment protocol for cutting power supplies.
OregonLive.com notes that PacifiCorp is “hardly alone” in its legal woes. Numerous other utilities and services have since been sued for allegedly—if unintentionally—facilitating the spread of the wildfires.
Other, more local power companies—including the Lane Electric Cooperative, the Eugene Water and Electric Board, and the Bonneville Power Administration—all operated live, high-voltage wires in affected areas.
While the current class action targets only PacifiCorp, OregonLive.com suggests that other operators may too be sued for damages.
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What is P10 P50 P90?
P50 is defined as 50% of estimates exceed the P50 estimate (and by definition, 50% of estimates are less than the P50 estimate). P90 and P10 are low and high estimates respectively. P90 means 90% of the estimates exceed the P90 estimate.
What is P10 estimate?
There should be at least a 10% probability (P10) that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the high estimate.
What is the difference between P50 and P90?
P50 means there is a 50% chance in any given year that production will be at least a specific amount. P90 production means that there is a 90% chance that in any given year production will be at least the specific amount. This means that there is only a 10% chance that production will be lower then the stated amount.
Is P10 better than P90?
In the oil and gas industry, P90 should be at least a 90% probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the low estimate; P50 should be at least a 50% probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the best estimate; P10 should be at least a 10% probability that the …
What is a P50 risk?
P50 is essentially a statistical level of confidence suggesting that we expect that the predicted solar resource/energy yield may be exceeded with 50% probability. This also means that with at same probability the expectation may not be achieved. P50 level of confidence may represent too high risk for some investors.
What is the 10th percentile?
For example, if a 4-year-old boy’s weight is in the 10th percentile, that means that 10% of boys that age weigh less than he does and 90% of boys that age weigh more. Being in a high or a low percentile doesn’t necessarily mean that a child is healthier or has a growth or weight problem.
What is better P50 or P90?
P50 is the most probable value, also called best estimate, and it can be exceeded with 50% probability. P90 is to be exceeded with 90% probability, and it is considered as a conservative estimate.
What does P50 estimate mean?
P50 – P50 represents the project cost with sufficient funding to provide a 50% level of confidence in the outcome; there is a 50% likelihood that the final project cost will not exceed the funding provided.
Is median equal to P50?
For an odd number of data, the median is the middle value once sorted (nickname: P50). P50 is not the probability at the 50th percentile. The Excel function is “MEDIAN.” The median porosity is 0.120.
What is a P50 budget?
For instance, a P50 cost is the Project cost with sufficient contingency to provide 50 per cent likelihood that this cost would not be exceeded. A P90 cost is the Project cost with sufficient contingency to provide 90 per cent likelihood that this cost would not be exceeded.
What are the cumulative probabilities for P50 P90?
Cumulative probabilities: P10 P50 P90 A given case might give a P90 oil recovery and a P10 gas recovery. In general there will be no realization that gives P90 results for more than one variable.
How can I find percentile P10, P90 for normal distribution?
Notes:In R, qnormis the ‘inverse Cumulative Distribution Function’ (inverse CDF), which is sometimes called the ‘quantile function’. If you have a statistical calculator, maybe you can figure out how to get percentiles from it.
How to calculate the uncertainty of the P90 distribution?
Simplified assumption of the normal distribution, the uncertainty at P90 can be calculated simply by multiplying standard deviation by 1.282, resulting in a slightly higher number calculated from the same cumulative probability curve (Figure 4).
Are there any meaningful P10, p50, or PX results?
There are only meaningful P10, P50, or Px results that must be determined from probabilistic analysis. Any valid question in reservoir modeling, regardless of the model used, must be asked to some number of cases, representing many combinations of the uncertainties, in order to obtain a probabilistic distribution of the answer.
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Just over three years ago, our eldest graduated from high school. The family took the new graduate and a few friends out to a dinner to commemorate the accomplishment. Feeling that the current public education system hadn’t fully introduced our young adult to Latin, I was compelled to offer a phrase for his consumption. “Quod Vitae Sectabor Iter” translates loosely into “What path in life will you take?” The suggestion is that one can either try to be something or do something.
To help illustrate the difference between being something and doing something, we gave the graduate two gifts. One was a nice, stylish dress shirt and the other a Leatherman utility knife. Both were given with the intent of being useful to and appreciated by the new graduate. However, the shirt was intended to represent being something while the utility tool was to represent doing something. Better to be useful than showy.
In an era where Social Media presents people at their best all the time, our natural inclination is to want to be something. Famous of some kind, attracting the adulation of the masses. A model, a Rockstar, an Athlete, a Internet Mogul, etc. We are consistently and constantly presented professional accomplishments like they are easy and attainable for anyone. Of course, this is also what we then want, or even expect to be able to achieve. What we see much less of is what was involved in accomplishing the end result that is presented. It becomes tougher to see the connection between effort and excellence. This disconnect is nicely revealed in Michelangelo’s quote “If people knew how hard I worked…it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”
Artist, Austin Kleon, observes “lots of people want to be the noun without doing the verb.” Sure, we want to Be More. The irony is that the only way to actually be more is to do more. What does do more mean? What does it look like? How can we try to implement ourselves?
The billionaire British businessman, Richard Branson, offered a perspective on the idea of doing more to become more. A quote often attributed to him, “Life is a hell of a lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.” This quote is typically presented as a suggestion to say “yes” to adventures or fun opportunities that may come your way. Say yes, to the latest party. Say yes, to an impromptu weekend getaway with girlfriends. Say yes, to a round of golf with friends. Perhaps, we could consider, instead of saying “yes” to fun things that are offered up, we said “yes” to opportunities or projects to do more at work.
Karl Pellimer, a Professor at Cornell University, initiated “The Legacy Project” back in 2004. It was and remains a ongoing survey of elders across a number of life areas. One of the areas studied involves how people feel about their careers looking backwards. A piece of advice offered is “say yes to new opportunities at work”. The people who adopt this approach seem to have had far more satisfying, fulfilling careers, while also having fewer regrets looking back.
“I’ve learned to treat the very act of saying yes as a victory; simply saying yes to the next step, the next task, the next conversation. If I do this enough times in a row, I will keep stretching myself out of my comfort zone, and I will eventually make something worthwhile.”
“I just decided that I was going to say yes to any opportunity that crossed my plate.”
“Soon David was working more hours than he’d worked in his life, but he was also deeply entrenched in work that was challenging and innovative. Because of his “yes” attitude, he became known as one of the go-to people inside the organization.”
“I suddenly had a much better sense of vision for how to help us be the best company that we can be. I also seemed to be much more valued by my manager and peers, because I had unique experiences from having put my shoulder to the wheel on such a variety of company-shaping projects.”
Whether it be taking on additional responsibilities, volunteering for new projects, leading a team, being open to relocating, etc., willing to do more, makes one more likely to develop new skills, separate themselves from others trying to just get by, and place oneself in the position of being the “go to” person for “getting things done”. Stepping up, leaning in, and moving forward when presented with an opportunity are all areas we can seek to do more in order to be more. Running away from the idea that “it’s not my job” towards “how can I help?” will result in more doors opening up.
The easy defense is what fool would let themselves be taken advantage of by never ending, yet escalating demands? If one is giving and giving day after day, month after month, year after year, and sees no upward trajectory in their responsibility, job title, or compensation, then this may be reasonable. But what example can we point to from our own experiences where we’ve seen someone, let alone been that someone who gives and gives above and beyond their basic job description for extended periods and goes unrecognized? It also would seem that if one is offering disproportional value relative to what one is receiving in return, their options in the marketplace outside of the current employer would be increasing. Eventually, somebody, somewhere will see those that outperform, those that are willing to step forward and take chances, and will tap them for desirable positions.
The 20th President of the US, James Garfield, offers a great guide. As a young student in University, he worked as a Janitor in exchange for free tuition. His work day was well underway by the time classes started. After a year, he got a job teaching classes. He taught a full course load while still pursuing his own studies. Within a couple of years, he became the Dean at the University. By doing more, he became more.
I have had the good fortune of watching a young man demonstrate the idea of Doing More consistently over the past seven or so years. As a recent graduate of a small town high school, this young man spent his weekends coaching with a ski racing program. Our youngest son was lucky enough to be introduced to the sport by Coach Will. Even as a still teenager, Will exemplified the idea of Doing More. He was always early, happy to stay late and do another run with the kids. He was always helping other coaches out as well. He made time to chat with the parents about their children and was rewarded with the odd Apres ski beer. Over the next couple of years, Will’s consistent willingness to step forward and do more, led to him receiving more opportunities and more responsibilities. He went from a weekend coach to a full time coach within a couple of years. He continued to do more by bettering himself with more education and certifications. He then got a job with Alpine Canada working as an equipment manager while still being a club coach on weekends and evenings. Doing more meant working harder and devoting more time, no question. He was then offered a job coaching with the National Team. He now has been around the world coaching high performance athletes chasing snow twelve months of the year. He has coached Olympians, World Champions, and has been nominated to receive several coaching awards. Barely old enough to rent a car by himself, Will, having just recently turned 26, has climbed to the highest levels with a consistent application of doing more. There’s no question his approach to saying yes, coupled with his enthusiasm and good nature has created the opportunities he’s received.
Regular readers may recall the 3Cs Framework to hiring and performance management introduced some months ago. The Do More idea, at its core, is simply a reflection of the 2nd C – Commitment. A quote by actress Sarah Bernhardt captures wonderfully the Do More idea, “It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
Seth Godin’s Linchpin is a book about doing whatever one can in their work world to become indispensable. Godin notes that not only is it more satisfying and fulfilling on a personal level, but it is the surest form of job security in today and tomorrow’s workplace. Moreover, Godin asserts that the world needs more Linchpins.
Robin Sharma’s The Leader Who Had No Title is a book written as a story following several people who demonstrate this philosophy in their day to day job. The core theme is that it is a personal choice to step forward and lead regardless of role or authority. No need to wait for permission. Doing more is always worth it.
Cal Newport’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You is another worthwhile read that revolves heavily on this subject. It is written as a bit of a manifesto encouraging those entering the workforce, but offers useful reminders for all of us. His core message is “What you do is far less important than how you do it.” . A quote from this book: “The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return. In other words, you need to be good at something before you can expect a good job.”
Finally, The Go-Giver is a book that also reflects this idea in a story like fashion. “The majority of people operate with a mindset that says to the fireplace, ‘First, give me some heat, then I’ll throw on some logs.’ And of course, it just doesn’t work that way.”
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Quinolines are the class of organic compound of the heteroaromatic series characterized through a double-ring structure comprised of benzene and a pyridine ring fused at two adjacent carbon atoms (figure shown below). The benzene ring includes six carbon atoms, whereas the pyridine ring includes five carbon atoms and a nitrogen atom (compare by the structure of Naphthalene below). The simplest member of the quinoline family is quinoline itself, a compound having molecular structure C9H7N.
Fig: Structures of Quinoline and Naphthalene (Hydrocarbon Analogue)
General Physical and Chemical Properties of Quinoline:
Quinoline is a colourless hygroscopic liquid having a strong odor. It becomes yellow on exposure to light and afterward turns brown. Quinoline is only slightly soluble in cold water however dissolves readily in hot water and most organic solvents. Quinoline is a slightly weaker base (pKa 4.9) as compare to pyridine (pKa 5.2).
The general properties are mainly based on those of the individual ring structures making that system. This can be predicted that the benzene ring in quinoline would experience electrophilic substitution by electrophiles however be resistant to oxidation and reduction even as the pyridine ring would act as a base, experience nucleophilic substitution and reduction however be resistant to oxidation and electrophilic substitution as electrophilic substitution of the benzene ring is easier. Moreover, by comparison by its aromatic analogue naphthalene, one would expect position 3 to be comparatively unreactive.
In practice, quinoline is a weak base (pKa 4.9). It generally undergoes electrophilic substitution at positions 5 and 8 of the benzene ring. Nucleophilic substitution takes place mostly at positions 2 and 4 of the pyridine ring. Reduction of the pyridine ring is fairly easy however reduction of the benzene ring is comparatively difficult. The oxidation of both rings is difficult.
Fig: General types of Reaction of Quinoline
Acids and Lewis acids react by quinoline at the basic nitrogen atom to form quinolinium salts, and there is a question over the nature of the substrate for electrophilic attack, that is, is it quinoline or the quinolinium substrate for electrophilic attack. The answer is not a simple one and appears to depend on the reagents and reaction conditions. Therefore while acetyl nitrate at 20ºC provides 3-nitroquinoline, fuming nitric acid in concentrated sulphuric acid having sulphur trioxide at 15 to 20ºC results a mixture of 5-nitroquinoline (35%) and 8-nitroquinoline (43% - Scheme 3). In case of acetyl nitrate, the reaction might carry on by the 1,4-addition of the reagent to quinoline, followed via electrophilic attack on the 1,4-dihydro derivative.
Fig: Reaction of Quinoline with Acetyl Nitrate
Fig: Reaction of Quinoline with Fuming Nitric Acid
Though, the rate of nitration of quinoline in 80 to 99% sulphuric acid is of the similar order as that of N-methylquinolinium salts, recommending that here the quinolinium cation might be the target for attack.
Sulphonation with oleum at approx 90ºC affords mostly the 8-sulphonic acid, however as this product is sterically hindered, at higher temperatures it rearranges to the 6-sulphonic acid (figure above). This rearrangement is identical to that illustrated by naphthalene-1-sulphonic acid, the kinetic sulphonation product of naphthalene that isomerizes on heating to the thermodynamically favored (less hindered) 2-isomer.
Alkyl and acyl halides react directly by quinoline to provide N-alkyl or N-acylquinoliniumm salts (figure shown below), while the N-alkyl salts are stable and can often be isolated as crystalline solids; the N-acyl analogues are unstable and experience rapid hydrolysis in moist air or in the aqueous solution.
Fig: Reactions of Quinoline with Acyl and Alkyl Halides
N-Acyl- or N-sulphonylquinolinium salts can be trapped via cyanide ion to form what are known usually as Reissert adducts. The simple elimination of the N-substituent in a subsequent reaction with a base gives access to 2-cyanoquinoline.
Fig: Reaction of Quinoline with Potassium Cyanide
There is a strong similarity between the reactions of the pyridines and quinolines towards nucleophiles. Addition takes place mostly at C-2 giving 1,2-dihydroquinolines, however the locus of the reaction can be diverted to C-4, specifically if there is a good leaving group placed at this position.
In a Chichibabin-kind reaction quinoline reacts by potassamide (KNH2) in liquid ammonia at 70ºC to provide 2-amino-1,2-dihydroquinoline and this is oxidized by potassium permanganate [manganate(VII)] at similar temperature to result 2-aminoquinoline (figure shown below). Whenever the temperature is allowed to increase to -45ºC the adduct rearranges to 4-amino-3,4-dihydroquinoline and on oxidation this product provides 4-aminoquinoline.
Fig: Reaction of Quinoline with Potassamide
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01 May A Refocus on Ghana’s Residential Real Estate Market.
The pre-independence and post-independence era of Ghana saw many extended families living together as a household, resulting in a relatively low demand for housing. This trend has altered with modernisation, as increasingly, more nuclear families prefer to live as a separate unit. Residential housing units are now a major part of Ghana’s real estate sector. Read more
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It is obvious that maintaining one’s hearing is important in everyday life using ESP hearing protection. Which is something many athletes and shooters ignore. Why? A hunter’s sense of honor is frequently manifested in intelligent decision-making.
To avoid looking ridiculous while shooting earplugs at the range or maybe reducing your hearing while hunting, consider the following. Your hearing will be harmed due to this decision because you will be exposed to dangerous sound levels.
Each bullet can emit 120 – 150 dB of noise, resulting in irreversible hearing loss. As a result, wearing hearing protection when shooting is crucial.
Why Is Electronic Shooters Protection Required?
Hunting entails certain dangers, particularly if you’re hunting with a friend who has clumsy fingers and struggles with his weapon. While gun accidents are a big cause of concern, what about other possible dangers like hearing loss? Did you know that the sound level can reach over 160 decibels when using a shotgun?
A newborn’s bottle cry is likely to be much louder than normal speaking or even the music in your car; this can be incredibly stressful on your ears when you’re out hunting for a long time. Because they didn’t always utilize proper ear protection, hunting enthusiasts like my father now rely on hearing aids.
Failure to wear protective hearing equipment while out in the field or practicing at the range can damage your eardrums. The damage can lead to gradual hearing loss over time if not addressed promptly and properly.
Types Of Hearing Protection
There are several methods for protecting your hearing senses when shooting a firearm. Earplugs or muffs designed for shooting ranges can be used as regular everyday earplugs. As a result, because they’re so good at filtering out all sounds, it’s crucial to take them out anytime you’re talking to your shooter-copilot.
Furthermore, they are worthless for hunters because they prevent you from hearing approaching game creatures. That’s why so many people steer clear of them. However, there is another possibility.
ESP provides cutting-edge digital earplugs that provide the best hearing protection. While wearing this fantastic electronic ear protection technology, which improves your hearing. You can also hear the familiar sounds you’d like to hear (e.g., chats with a hunting buddy, etc.).
When elk hunting, for example, you might hear a bull bugling from afar and anticipate a flushing game bird. You might notice a swarm of mallards approaching from afar and detect them much earlier than normal. These electronic earplugs protect your hearing from loud damaging noises (such as gunshots, rooster pheasant, and unwanted background noises) throughout the process. What sets it apart as the best choice for shooting hearing protection.
Why ESP Hearing Protection
Since 1994, ESP has been providing shooters with superior electronic hearing protection. Each pair of ESPs is custom-fit to your ears, ensuring all-day comfort and maximum protection. They’re so well-fitting to your body that you won’t even notice you’re wearing them.
ESP thinks that smart technology will give you an advantage over your opponents by allowing you to hear natural sounds that other shooters cannot hear, whether in a combat situation, when hunting or while competing in an event. Because you’re wearing your ESPs, you’ll be the first to hear whether a trap is set or a bird is flushed.
Duck blinds are great for normal talks, Sporting Clays courses are great for catching up with friends, and tactical circumstances make it easy to communicate with your team. ESP will appropriately protect your delicate hearing from potentially dangerous noises such as gunfire during this process.
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Because ESPs are made from custom-fit imprints of your ears, they are so form-fitting and comfy that you would forget you were wearing them if they weren’t helping you hear better. Almost all ESPs require a size 13 hearing aid battery (with orange packaging), widely available at pharmacies.
The ESPs have been treated with P2i Aridion nano-coating technology, making them sweat and weather resistant. This layer helps water bead up and roll away from your device (and your hearing) when exposed to adverse weather, allowing your device (and hearing) to stay safe for longer.
There’s also a volume control knob on the side that you may use to adjust the level of the music. Because of these characteristics, electronic hearing protection (ESP) is the best shooting hearing protection.
If you don’t want to permanently lose your hearing and require a decent set of hearing aids to hear your children and grandkids, you should seriously take hearing protection safety. Let’s face it: wearing large ear muffs on the range is ridiculous, and removing and changing cheap foam shooting earplugs in the field is a nuisance.
Why not stop such problems right now by keeping your hearing? Electronic hearing protection is the best option (ESP).
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On Monday, Texas AFT published a survey that revealed a shocking truth due to the not-so-secret struggles Texas educators have been dealing with during the pandemic.
Two-thirds of teachers have given serious thought to leaving their jobs in the past year.
That’s 66% of a 3,800 Texas AFT members survey.
“The fact that two-thirds of educators are thinking about quitting is really frightening. In addition to long-neglected low wages and the stress of increasing workloads, the Omicron surge has created unbelievable chaos,” Texas AFT President Zeph Capo said. “Educators witness every day the devastating effects on our students when schools have staffing shortages. It’s only going to get worse unless teachers’ concerns are addressed.”
Teachers are reconsidering their profession because of the low pays, increasing workload, and concerns for their safety.
The Texas AFT survey asked school employees what would make them stay in public education:
- 45% wanted pay incentives
- 35% asked for changes to workload (fewer responsibilities)
- 8% wanted workplace safety
- 8% asked for changes to benefits
Additionally, the survey shows how the surge in the pandemic increased the discontent among school employees. Teachers are paying out of their pockets for N95 masks, bus drivers cover two or three routes each day, nurses are left alone and spend 95% of their time testing students and staff for COVID.
None of that guarantees them they will get paid COVID leave if they themselves get sick.
“Our message to leaders and politicians is: Listen to teachers, to school staff, to students, and to parents,” the Texas AFT said. “We want to work together in developing solutions to the real issues in our school like safety, supporting students through a crisis, and retaining dedicated, qualified school staff members.”
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Many of our nutrition clients are surprised that we spend quite a bit of time addressing other aspects of our life besides food. But here’s the deal… it’s quite possible that there are other factors contributing to your symptoms of IBS, SIBO or acid reflux that have nothing to do with food.
This article is the second of three in a series about how stress, sleep and exercise can have a huge impact on our digestive health. Be sure to read the article on how stress can affect your digestive system, if you missed it.
Today’s topic is sleep. I think we can all agree that we feel pretty great after a good night sleep. And how crappy we feel after a night of poor sleep. There’s a reason for that. Sleep is vital for health and essential for gut healing.
What Does Our Body Do While Sleeping?
It may seem counterintuitive but while we are resting, our body and brain are active during sleep completing tasks we need to function properly.
- Sleep helps support our memory by clearing toxins from the brain.
- Our body’s cells are reenergized during sleep.
- Our immune system relies on sleep to make more white blood cells so it can fight bacteria, viruses and antigens.
- Growth hormones are released which help with muscle development and tissue repair.
What Does Our Digestive System Do While Sleeping?
Simply put, digestion slows down.
- Our digestive tract has a night job. It slows down in order to repair damaged cells of the digestive tract and focus on gut healing.
- When you eat late at night, you’re not giving your digestive system a chance to rest, so digestion continues (albeit slowly) while you’re asleep.
- Slowed and impaired digestion can lead to numerous digestive issues such as acid reflux, constipation, bloating, gas, and diarrhea.
- And what about gut healing? That’s hard to do when your intestines are struggling to digest food at a time in which it’s supposed to be repairing.
Moral of the story? Avoid eating after dinner and try to leave 12 hours in between your last bite of food at night and your first bite or sip the next morning.
How Much Sleep Do You Need?
It’s important to get between 7-9 hours of restful sleep each night because the quality of your sleep affects your mental and physical health. Sleeping less than the recommended time or tossing, turning and waking frequently can take a toll on your mood, energy, mental sharpness and ability to handle stress. And we already know what stress can do to our digestive health!
How To Get More Restful Sleep?
Take a look our top tips for more restful sleep and see where you can easily make changes.
- Turn off all screens at least 60 minutes before bed. The blue light emanating from our phones, I-Pads, and televisions is too stimulating and can actually decrease the amount of the sleep hormone melatonin your body produces.
- Keep your bedroom temperature “cool as a cave” as the drop in temperature signals to the body that it’s time for sleep.
- On that note, try taking a warm bath or shower before bed. Your body temperature will drop when the moisture evaporates when toweling off.
- Avoid caffeine late in the day as well as late afternoon naps.
- Try journaling before bed to help with anxious thoughts.
- Make your to-do list before bed so you aren’t thinking of tomorrow’s workday as your try to go to sleep.
- Create a quiet and dark space with comfortable bedding.
- Try to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day.
As I tell my clients, a gut-healing diet for IBS, SIBO, acid reflux or other digestive conditions can only do so much if you aren’t getting quality sleep.
By making restful sleep a high priority, not only will your digestion improve but I have no doubt that you will have more energy, more focus and experience a better mood throughout the day.
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We’ve all seen the patients roll in with EMS nasal cannula snug against their nares. “Why are they on oxygen?” EMS response, “I don’t know he was having chest pain.” EKG shows STEMI! The last thing you’re thinking is whether their nasal cannula should be adjusted but maybe they don’t need the oxygen at all.
According to the AVOID Trial 2015 (an RCT in 441 patients) oxygen may actually make things worse. The authors compared 8L/min of O2 to no O2 in STEMI patients. Their primary endpoint was measuring the myocardial infarct size based on surrogate markers–>cardiac enzymes troponin and CK. They did not find a significant difference in peak troponins but did find those who received oxygen had significantly higher peak CK levels.
Their secondary outcomes found: (1) increase in recurrent MI at hospital discharge in the O2 group [5.5% versus 0.9%; P=0.006], (2) increase in frequency of cardiac arrhythmia in the O2 group (40.4% versus 31.4%; P=0.05), (3) increase in myocardial infarct size found on cardiac magnetic resonance @ 6 months in the O2 group [20.3 versus 13.1 g; P=0.04)
Their research was based on earlier RCTs that showed a possible deleterious effect of O2 on compromised cardiac tissue most likely 2/2 to: (1) increase coronary vasoconstriction–>decreased coronary blood flow (2) increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS)–>reperfusion injury and increased vasoconstriction
No significant difference found in adverse events in the 2 groups at 6 mos (although there were more events in the O2 group 21.9% vs no O2 group 15.4%).
In Recap: I probably will opt for no O2 in my STEMI patients but for those other AMI patients stay tuned for the DETO2X-AMI Study!
- Stub, D., Smith, K., Bernard, S., Nehme, Z., Stephenson, M., Bray, J. E., … & Meredith, I. T. (2015). Air versus oxygen in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Circulation, CIRCULATIONAHA-114.
- Bradford, C. 2015. AVOID Trial. The Bottom Line. http://www.thebottomline.org.uk/summaries/icm/avoid/
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Arthritis is the second leading cause of disability in Australia with many sufferers so severely disabled that they cannot engage in basic everyday activities, new UNSW research has found.
The research was conducted by UNSW’s Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) for Arthritis Australia.
Arthritis is the most common cause of chronic pain in Australia and the most prevalent long-term health condition, affecting three million people of all ages or about 15% of the population.
The nation-wide study examined the lived experience of more than 800 Australians with arthritis and related conditions.
Nearly all participants (95%) reported arthritis limited their ability to manage daily activities with one third being unable to manage their home or garden, one in five unable to undertake domestic duties and five per cent requiring assistance with basic personal care, such as showering and dressing.
In particular, people’s capacity to work was affected, with two in three people reporting that arthritis had affected the type and hours of work or study they were able to do and one in four reporting they were permanently unable to work or study due to their condition.
“This is a very significant finding when you consider that two in three people with arthritis are of working age,” said Ms Ainslie Cahill, CEO of Arthritis Australia.
As a result, social exclusion is often compounded by financial hardship due to reduced income and the added costs associated with living with arthritis. One in five participants reported struggling to meet their day to day expenses with many reporting they had to go without or delay health care visits or compromise on other basics such as food to meet the high costs of medication.
“We are also concerned about the finding that two in three study participants experienced delays of more than one year to diagnosis and one in three experienced delays of more than five years,” Ms Cahill said.
“We know that early diagnosis and treatment is critical, especially for conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, where it has been shown to reduce associated disability by a third.”
“We know that much can be done to prevent or reduce the disability associated with arthritis by providing better care for people as early as possible in the disease course,” Ms Cahill said.
“This helps to keep people with arthritis in work and living life to the full – this is what Time to Move is aiming to address.”
Other key findings of the SPRC research
The disabling impact of arthritis varies, but is significant. Most people with arthritis report their condition limits their ability to engage in daily activities, with 37% reporting that they were always limited and 54% reporting that they were sometimes limited in their ability to engage in daily activities due to their condition.
Two-thirds of participants said they suffered financially because of their arthritis; 16 per cent reported that they struggled to meet their expenses due to the financial impact of their arthritis, while five per cent reported that they were much worse off and needed financial support.
People with arthritis-related disability may require short-term, long-term or permanent access to formal support, including both services and financial support. Responses need to be flexible to suit individual needs and circumstances and accommodate changes as the disease fluctuates or progresses over time.
Access to financial support, appropriate health care and formal care appears to reduce the barriers experienced by people with arthritis in their ability to engage in daily life activities.
Many people with arthritis are unaware of support services available, or discover them by chance, or have trouble accessing them because of limited recognition of the disabling nature of their condition.
SPRC chief investigator, UNSW’s Rosemary Kayess, says the report indicates that people with arthritis could benefit from the National Disability Insurance Scheme reforms.
“It’s important in this changing policy context that we understand what the disabling effects of arthritis are and what supports are required to keep people actively participating in society.”
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Today, the mutual optimization of design and technology provide key advantage in the highly competitive semiconductor market. Traditionally, when developing integrated circuits (IC), their design and technology were considered and developed separately. Looking to the future, this is no longer appropriate.
For the 18th time, the “International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT)” provided a forum for engineers, researchers, graduate students and professors to cross the boundary between design and technology .It provides an important international platform for interaction and collaboration of IC design and technology and is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
The organizer of this year’s ICICDT, which for the first time was held in a virtual format from September 15 to 17, was the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden, Germany. “We are proud to have hosted this year’s ICICDT,” says Fraunhofer IPMS deputy institute director and conference co-chair Dr. Wenke Weinreich. “Even though we were unable to welcome the total of around 90 international guests in person due to the pandemic situation, exciting lectures and workshops awaited the participants, offering plenty of room for interaction and exchange.”
The one-day tutorial program on plasma-induced damage, GaN power devices, neuromorphic computing for edge AI, and large-scale silicon photonic MEMS switches was followed by two days of technical presentations and workshops. An entertaining social program accompanied the conference, including a virtual city tour around Dresden.
Rui Shao presenting his work which was awarded with the “Best Student Paper” award.
The “Best Student Paper” award was presented to Rui Shao. His publication dealt with the topic “Robust Training of Optical Neural Network with Practical Errors using Genetic Algorithm: A Case Study in Silicon-on-Insulator-Based Photonic Integrated Chips”.
The next ICICDT will be held in 2023.
Report by Dr. Wenke Weinreich
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U.S. Supreme Court just gave federal agencies a big reason to worry
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions is likely to put a big chill on rulemaking by other federal agencies.
The justices, in a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, formally adopted a doctrine that has gained increasing currency over the last few years as a rationale for restricting agencies’ power. The major questions doctrine, as the principle is now formally known, holds that in “extraordinary” cases involving matters of great “economic and political significance,” federal agencies must be able to point to specific Congressional authorization for their actions. Courts should otherwise be “skeptical,” the decision said, that agencies have authority to set broad policy through novel statutory approaches.
At the very least, seven administrative law experts told me, the newly formalized doctrine will discourage regulators from pushing aggressively for innovative policies in politically charged matters, especially because the Supreme Court did not lay out a clear test for when the major questions doctrine should be invoked.
In the past, as Roberts wrote in Thursday’s decision, the court has relied on the reasoning of the doctrine to block the Food and Drug Administration from regulating cigarettes; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from barring evictions during the pandemic; and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from imposing Covid vaccine rules on large businesses.
The new doctrine, experts said, leaves substantial room for interpretation. “My fear is that anything that codes as ‘controversial’ in certain circles or that is politically salient more generally will strike the court as ‘major,’” said University of Michigan law professor Daniel Deacon in an email. “That will leave agencies with plenty of small-bore (though still important) responsibilities, but it may disable them from confronting some of the gravest problems facing the country, as we have seen now in the context of COVID-19 and the climate crisis.”
Added Scott Nelson of Public Citizen: “Right now, whether a case involves a major question seems to turn on whether Chief Justice Roberts and Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh think it does.”
Among the agencies likely to feel the chill are the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, both of which are engaged in aggressive rulemaking to address issues that Congress never contemplated in the decades-old statutes that created the commissions.
Both Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University and Evan Bernick of Northern Illinois University told me the SEC’s proposed rule to require climate-related disclosures from public companies is vulnerable under the major questions doctrine. Law professor Richard Pierce of George Washington University cited the FTC’s contemplated new rules for corporate mergers. Pierce said the Supreme Court’s major questions doctrine will make it harder for the FTC to defend new rules that opponents can characterize as unprecedented – a description, Pierce said, that opponents will surely apply to a vast swath of FTC initiatives.
A caveat: One expert, Daniel Farber of the U.C. Berkeley School of Law, dissented from the otherwise broad consensus about the new doctrine’s chilling effect. Farber said by email that the court seemed to raise the bar for invoking the major questions doctrine by emphasizing the EPA’s unprecedented attempt to use an obscure provision to venture into a new area of regulation. (The EPA case involved systemic rules for coal-fired power plants.)
But everyone does not agree on the decision’s consequences. Kent Barnett of the University of Georgia said via email that the major questions doctrine has been gestating for decades. “If I were advising agencies about the breadth of their rulemaking power, my advice would have been the same yesterday as it is today—the Supreme Court will be highly skeptical of capacious pro-regulatory interpretations,” Barnett said.
Regulatory skeptics, meanwhile, welcomed the decision for restoring power to Congress. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which filed an amicus brief backing challengers to the EPA’s potential emissions regulation, said in a press release that the ruling properly assures that “the major decisions affecting people’s lives are to be made by the people’s representatives in Congress, not by unelected bureaucrats.”
In the short term, you can expect a slew of challenges to Biden administrative policies under the major questions doctrine. Even if the Supreme Court intends the new test to apply only in extraordinary cases, as Roberts said in the opinion, challengers are not likely to be so discerning when they sue to block rulemaking.
“It’s a new arrow in the quiver,” said Case Western’s Adler. “You will see attorneys general trot this out in every case.”
Major questions challenges have the additional advantage of sidestepping the nuanced analysis required by the traditional framework for evaluating agency authority. The framework, from 1984’s Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, calls for courts to defer to federal agencies to interpret the statutes they enforce. But Chevron never even comes into play if the major questions doctrine applies, since the doctrine is premised on statutory limitations on agency authority. So, at least until lower courts begin to clarify the outer edges of the new doctrine, rule challengers will probably regard it as a blunter and more easily wielded instrument than Chevron.
“This is a significant threat to agencies’ regulatory power,” said law professor Nina Mendelson of the University of Michigan, who described the decision as “an anti-regulatory power grab by the court.”
When Congress passed laws creating agencies like the SEC and the FTC decades ago, Mendelson said, lawmakers used broad language that would allow regulators to respond to new issues. The major questions doctrine, by urging courts to look skeptically at agency rulemaking that is not specifically authorized in these old statutes, “will bar an agency from regulating unless Congress legislates twice by going back and passing a second, specifically-worded statute,” Mendelson said.
She’s not alone in warning of dire consequences. GW professor Pierce said the new doctrine “is going to stop agencies from taking lots of actions they would like to take.” With Congress stymied on major lawmaking, Pierce said, agencies have no choice but to rely on broadly worded statutes enacted before Congress had any inkling of today’s issues. Historically, that broad wording allowed regulators to adapt to new problems. But the Supreme Court’s major questions doctrine, Pierce said, turns the old laws into restrictions on agency power, instead of tools of flexibility.
“Fundamentally,” said Brian Frazelle of the Constitutional Accountability Center, “this in an anti-regulatory doctrine.”
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WASHINGTON – The United States warned Thursday of potential damage to U.S.-Egyptian relations unless President Hosni Mubarak's government relaxes its hard line against a defeated presidential candidate.
The Bush administration had hoped that Egypt, a major political ally and recipient of U.S. aid, would be a cornerstone of the U.S. drive to democratize the Middle East. It welcomed Mubarak's decision this year to amend Egypt's constitution to let opposition candidates run for president.
But Egypt's conviction of a defeated candidate, Ayman Nour, on forgery charges has produced biting criticism from U.S. officials.
"I think that this case as well as the Egyptian government's broader performance on democratic reform is going to figure significantly in the bilateral (U.S.-Egyptian) relationship," State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said Thursday. During a briefing he repeatedly made reference to America's relationship with Egypt in discussing Nour's treatment.
"The fact of the matter is, the case of Ayman Nour, not only on its own merits but also as a bellwether of commitment to political pluralism and openness and respect for the rule of law, has been of critical importance to the United States for at least the last year since his first arrest," said Ereli.
Nour was arrested last January and released in March apparently because of U.S. pressure.
He quickly announced he would take Mubarak at his word and oppose him in the election. Then, new charges were filed in May, and he was arrested again in early December.
Last Saturday, Nour was sentenced to five years in prison after a court in Cairo convicted him of ordering forged signatures to be added to petitions that put his name on September's ballot. He began a hunger strike two weeks before his trial to protest his treatment and was hauled out of a hospital bed to the courtroom, showing signs of the lack of food.
"Clearly, how they handle this individual case, how they handle more broadly speaking the process of political reform and the process of openness and the commitment to transparency and the rule of law, is of significance to the bilateral relationship," said Ereli.
Some critics of Egypt's handling of the Nour case have urged the Bush administration to consider cutting back the $1.8 billion in annual U.S. military and economic aid that goes to Egypt. No country receives more U.S. aid except Israel and, since Saddam Hussein's overthrow, Iraq.
Ereli refused to speculate Thursday whether that would happen. But he issued a warning.
"You've heard from members of Congress their distress at the developments in Egypt," said Ereli, alluding to legislators who approve foreign aid spending. "If I were an Egyptian, or an Egyptian government official, I'd be concerned at the kind of reaction that these latest actions will get ... regarding the (U.S-Egyptian) relationship."
Within hours of Saturday's verdict, White House spokesman Scott McClellan demanded that Nour be released "in the spirit" of Egypt's "professed desire for increased political openness and dialogue ...and out of humanitarian concern."
September's presidential elections where Nour got 8 percent of the vote and Mubarak received most of the rest, passed in relative peace.
Then came parliamentary elections in November and December where violence was widespread. Clashes often resulted when police and supporters of Mubarak's National Democratic Party blocked opposition voters from the polls.
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If you’re starting to see algae in your betta fish tank, you might be considering a few different tank mates to help clean up after your betta. It is important to remember that betta fish are aggressive fish and are often best kept by themselves. However, there are some fish that will do well as betta tank mates, like Corydoras, but this does not include Otocinclus catfish.
Keep reading to find out why members of Otocinclus don’t make ideal tank mates for bettas, and some other fish alternatives that will work better!
About Otocinclus Catfish
Otocinclus is a genus of freshwater catfish that contains 19 different species. These fish live in the well-oxygenated and moderate-flowing waters across the Andes mountain range in South America. They can be found schooling in the thousands, munching on leaves and rocks where algae is growing; most often, these fish are spotted in the upper water column
Interestingly, these fish have adapted the ability to breathe air. If oxygen levels are low in the water, otos will swim to the surface and take in atmospheric air to breathe.
In the community tank setting
In the aquarium setting, otos need a little more care and consideration than most other community fish. Though they only grow to be about 1 to 2 inches (3.8-5.0 cm), otos are active eaters and need plenty of surface area to graze in a school. It is recommended to keep Otocinclus in a well planted and matured tank that is at least 20 gallons (75.7 L) to ensure that there is enough natural food in the system.
One of the main challenges about keeping Otocinclus is that they heavily depend on the algae that is already present in your tank; if your system is relatively new, these fish are not for you! They are relatively picky eaters otherwise and will need to be regularly offered algae wafers and blanched vegetables. It is also important to keep in mind that these fish are very shy and will only do well in a community tank settings with other peaceful fish, like rasboras and tetras.
Can Otocinclus be kept with betta fish?
You might be looking to get something that brings some movement to the bottom of your tank and a species of Otocinclus is at the top of your list. Unfortunately, otos do not make good tank mates for betta fish.
Bettas are aggressive fish and need to be kept on their own when placed in smaller tanks; even females need to be carefully watched for aggressive behaviors. Otocinclus catfish are very shy and will get easily picked on and attacked by a more aggressive betta.
In addition, otos need to be kept in schools and will not be able to be kept in a 10 gallon (37.9 L) betta fish tank due to lack of space. Remember, in the wild, oto catfish tend to favor the upper water column just like your betta and the two will not be able to peacefully coexist in the same region of the tank.
Otos also require a moderate water flow in order to replicate their natural environment. Bettas are easily pushed around the aquarium by higher water currents and will not tolerate the conditions needed for keeping otos happy.
Lastly, most betta fish are known to pick at most plants in the aquarium setting. Since plants grow algae, which is the source for most of the food for otos, your Otocinclus could potentially starve and become stressed out due to a lack of natural hiding spots.
Is Otocinclus good algae eaters?
Otherwise, otos are amazing algae eaters that will keep most algae outbreaks from happening. Some hobbyists even need to lengthen their photoperiod and/or light intensities to promote algae growth in order to make sure that their otos are getting enough food.
Because of their large demand for algae, Otocinclus should never be placed in an unplanted or newly-set up an aquarium.
For a full list of algae eaters that can be kept with betta fish, make sure to check out our guide here!
What fish can you pair with a betta?
Some hobbyists have, in fact, had success keeping Otocinclus with betta fish, though there are definitely better pairings that have higher success rates.
Snails and shrimp
While not fish, some of the best tank mates for bettas include snails and shrimp. Not only will they keep your tank clean and add more movement to the aquarium, but your betta is more unlikely to bother them. Some colorful and peaceful shrimp you could get are cherry shrimp and ghost shrimp and will require little to no extra care or maintenance.
If you’re really wanting to try keeping another species of fish with your betta, one of the most popular choices is Corydoras, otherwise known as cories or cory catfish. However, these fish will need to be kept in schools and water temperature will need to be monitored as members of this genus do better in cooler temperatures.
We recommend a tank size of at least 20 gallons (75.7 L) to be able to house a school of six of the most betta-compatible Corydoras species, pygmy cories (Corydoras pygmaeus); other species are considerably larger and will most likely need a longer and/or larger tank in order to be kept with a betta.
For other ideas about stocking your betta fish tank, make sure to check out our guide on the top tank mates for betta fish here!
What fish can live with bettas in a 5-gallon tank?
None. 5 gallons (18.9 L) is barely enough room to keep one betta, let alone another fish. The most that you can add to a 5-gallon betta fish tank is one snail; shrimp may work, but such a small space will make it easier for your betta to mistake them as food.
While some hobbyists have had success keeping Otocinclus with betta fish, we think that they will do a whole lot better in a community tank with other peaceful species. Otocinclus are shy and need to be given special consideration due to their diet; tank conditions and aquascaping options are also largely incompatible between the two species.
If wanting to get a fish to keep with your betta, consider members of Corydoras or adding a couple of snails or shrimp to the aquarium.
If you have any questions about Otocinclus, other tank mates for bettas, or have had experience keeping bettas with other species, don’t hesitate to leave a comment below!
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CHICO — “Let us rediscover the flavors and savors of regional cooking and banish the degrading effects of fast foods.”
So reads The Slow Food Manifesto, a document upon which an international food movement is based. It is aimed at promoting regional food and cultural identity.
“Slow Food cuts across the ideological and political spectrum. It”s neither right nor left. It is a way of eating and living,” said Lori Weber, an active member of the Chico chapter of Slow Food Shasta Cascade.
The Slow Food movement was started by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1986 in response to the “increasing industrialization of food and standardization of taste,” according to the organization”s written history. Petrini believed the rise of fast food was causing thousands of food varieties and food traditions to disappear and that people were losing the connection between “plate and planet.”
Slow Food aims to demonstrate alternatives to industrial food and farming, raise awareness of how food impacts the environment and support the people who grow and produce food.
There are more than 140,000 Slow Food members in chapters, called “convivia,” in 150 countries.
”Love to eat”
“I love to eat good food, lots of good food,” said Kathy Moore.
“There are foods that are just not available in regular stores — artisan cheeses, varieties of tomatoes and other vegetables. I realized that to save these foods, we have to eat these foods,” she said
“That”s why you just might want to pay a little extra at farmers markets for these local, fresh foods, delicious food rather than buy the tasteless varieties at the store.” Moore is a Red Bluff resident and founding member of Slow Food Shasta Cascade.
Moore, along with a handful of other “foodies” started the local chapter, which encompasses Shasta, Tehama and Butte counties, in 2005. The chapter”s mission is to encourage the enjoyment of locally grown and produced foods and to connect farmers and producers to each other and to consumers.
”Neat to learn”
“We believe in the local food movement and really enjoy the group of Slow Food people,” said Bob Steinacher, who, along with his wife, Karen, is a member and owner of Maywood Farms, a 172 organic fig orchard in Cottonwood.
Not only do the Steinacher”s enjoy the people and the food, they also enjoy the education that the Slow Food network provides.
“It”s neat to learn what other framers and producers are doing and all the special niche products produced in the north valley. To learn about the organic pork and beef production that the folks at Llano Seco Rancho are doing as well as their work with Fish and Game to develop wetland on their property; the way Loadstar Olive Oil is producing and marketing olive oil. The integrated farming practices at Chaffin Family Orchards is fascinating,” said Steinacher.
“There are many family farms that are using innovative practices and are on the forefront of farming. We never want to stand still. We always want to do it better and it”s wonderful to connect with others who want the same thing.”
Making the connections is a big part of Slow Food Shasta Cascade chapter. Through large and small food events at local farms, participation in county fairs and monthly meetings the group strives to share, learn and enjoy local bounty.
“People join because they believe in and support the cause and because it connects them in a very real way both socially and from a business standpoint to others who are like-minded,” said Weber.
”A slow way”
“”We have gotten too far away from a slow way of life, from taking time to be with one another. Life is too fast, too frenzied and slowing down to eat good food with good people returns us to our community and we all reap the benefits.”
It is that return to a slower way of life, at least at the dinner table, along with the business and health benefits that had Dewy Lucero, owner of Lucero Olive Oil in Corning, pull his chair up to the Slow Food table.
“The idea of what it stands for really appealed to me — the getting back to fresh, local product, cooking and eating healthy food at home,” said Dewy.
“There is also the trust factor. Knowing who grows or produces your food and that they use practices that are sound and healthy to do is important,” he said.
Dewy, comes from a long line of olive farmers: His grandfather on his father”s side started the olive oil business 45 years ago and his mother”s family has been growing table olive for four generation. That echoes another important aspect that Shasta Cascade Slow Food members point to: economics.
“The fresh factor is huge in supporting our local economy. We live in a great ag producing region and I think down the road it”s this industry that we”ll hang our hat on,” he said. “Slow food supports the local economy, local health and a real local community. Slow Food is a big circle coming around to benefit and bring everyone together.”
Slow Food Shasta Cascade will be celebrating Terra Madre Day, December 10, 2011 with Lucero Olive Oil at their Winter Crush Event. For more information go to lucerooliveoil.com and slowfood.com/terramadreday.
Blush Catering and Slow Food Present: A Moveable Feast
CHICO — “A Moveable Feast” is how Slow Food Shasta Cascade and Blush Catering are describing a meal showcasing local products and the farmers who grow them put on Dec. 4 at Arc Pavilion, 2040 Park Ave.
From 5-6:30 p.m. there will be appetizers and a no-host bar stocked with locally produced wine and beer before dinner. Then dishes made with products from Chaffin Family Orchards, GRUB, Morse Farms, North Valley Farms Chèvre, and Turri Family farms will be served. The people behind the food will be on hand to discuss their products.
Tickets are $40 at brownpapertickets.com. Deadline to purchase is 5 p.m. Dec. 3.
Prior to the dinner, a free boutique will feature several of the participating farmers and Slow Food USA”s Ark of Taste program. Other eco-friendly local products will also be available for sale.
About Slow Food
What it is: Slow Food Shasta Cascade is a nonprofit, eco-gastronomic organization that supports a bio-diverse, sustainable food supply, local producers, heritage food ways, and rediscovery of the pleasures of the table.
They are: Some 100 farmers, food producers and those who love to eat in Tehama, Shasta and Butte counties.
Go surfing: Slow Food Shasta Cascade at
Slow Food USA at www.slowfoodusa.org;
Slow Food International at www.slowfood.com
Around here: Lori Weber, Lweber@csuchico. edu or Kathy Moore 529-2729.
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Without CXCR5, Tfh cells are unable to localize to the B-cell follicle and cannot interact with GC B cells. Although administering a highly depletionary anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (mAb) to mice with established cGVHD resulted in peripheral B-cell depletion, B cells remained in the lung, and BOS was not reversed. BOS could be treated by eliminating production of interleukin-21 (IL-21) by donor T cells or IL-21 receptor (IL-21R) signaling of donor B cells. Development of BOS was dependent upon T cells expressing the chemokine receptor CXCR5 to facilitate T-cell trafficking to secondary lymphoid organ follicles. Blocking mAbs for IL-21/IL-21R, inducible T-cell costimulator (ICOS)/ICOS ligand, and CD40L/CD40 hindered GC formation and cGVHD. These data provide novel insights into cGVHD pathogenesis, indicate a role for Tfh cells in these processes, and suggest a new line of therapy using mAbs targeting Tfh cells to reverse cGVHD. Introduction Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a major obstacle following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.1,2 Clinically representative models have Rabbit polyclonal to MCAM increased our understanding of acute GVHD, but the dearth of relevant cGVHD murine models has limited our ability to interrogate its underlying pathophysiology.3,4 However, recent work with a novel murine model of multiorgan cGVHD that highlights lung pathology with the Dimethyl phthalate development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) has provided new insight into research on cGVHD.5,6 Even though the exact mechanism of cGVHD is unknown, B cells and pathogenic antibody production are clearly implicated in both human and mouse models. Patients diagnosed with cGVHD had elevated soluble B-cell activating factor and increased proportions of pre-germinal center (GC) B cells and post-GC plasmablasts.7 Furthermore, male patients who received grafts from female donors had an increase in antibody response to H-Y minor histocompatibility antigens, which correlated with cGVHD.8 In addition, we have shown that B cells are required to induce cGVHD and associated BOS in this clinically relevant murine model.5 Dimethyl phthalate Not only was the presence of B cells necessary but the development of tissue fibrosis was dependent on secretion Dimethyl phthalate of class-switched antibody. These data suggest that B-cell activation and maturation is necessary for cGVHD progression. The ability of B cells to create high-affinity antibodies is dependent on the GC Dimethyl phthalate reaction and extrafollicular B cells. Once B cells recognize cognate antigen, Dimethyl phthalate they can undergo somatic hypermutation and class switching with the aid of CD4 T cells in the B-T cell junction within secondary lymphoid organs. T cells are required to provide survival signals to B cells that are rapidly making random mutations to the complementary determining regions in the immunoglobulin (Ig) genes. This results in the negative selection of poor-affinity antibodies, while selecting for those B cells with mutations that increase antibody affinity. B cells that produce high-affinity class-switched antibodies are able to activate immune responses and, in the case of cGVHD, cause severe damage to the target tissues by activating complement or antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity. We sought to investigate the role of T follicular helper (Tfh) cells in the genesis of cGVHD in order to develop new interventions. Previously, we defined the role of antibody production by bone marrow (BM)-derived B-cell progeny in the initiation and maintenance of cGVHD in this clinically relevant murine model.5 The ability of B cells to produce class-switched antibodies and the need for lymphotoxin receptor signaling in the GC was highlighted, clearly defining the importance of GC maturation during cGVHD. Tfh cells are a subset of CD4+ T cells that are located in the B-cell follicle and express the transcription factor Bcl6 along with high levels of the chemokine receptor CXCR5 and programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1).9 These cells support the generation of GCs by providing signaling through interleukin-21 (IL-21),.
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St Osmunds is a magnificent late Victorian Gothic Church designed by local architect Percy Currie, brother of the first Vicar, Lancelot.
Visitors comment that the church has a real atmosphere of prayer.
It has a superb acoustic and is popular for concerts. The church has an unusual set of Stations of the Cross in plaster of paris and a striking Rood Screen. The beautiful Reredos was designed and painted by a former incumbent and has a surround of local Chellaston alabaster.
The Font is transitional Gothic (I think!) and is much admired as a piece of craftsmanship.
The Lady Chapel has very fine brick arcading.
The style of our worship is modern Anglo Catholic.
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In a World First, Yokogawa and JSR Use AI to Autonomously Control a Chemical Plant for 35 Consecutive Days
Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) and JSR Corporation (JSR, TOKYO: 4185) announce the successful conclusion of a field test in which AI was used to autonomously run a chemical plant for 35 days, a world first. This test confirmed that reinforcement learning AI can be safely applied in an actual plant, and demonstrated that this technology can control operations that have been beyond the capabilities of existing control methods (PID control/APC) and have up to now necessitated the manual operation of control valves based on the judgements of plant personnel. The initiative described here was selected for the 2020 Projects for the Promotion of Advanced Industrial Safety subsidy program of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
The AI used in this control experiment, the Factorial Kernel Dynamic Policy Programming (FKDPP) protocol, was jointly developed by Yokogawa and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in 2018, and was recognized at an IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering as being the first reinforcement learning-based AI in the world that can be utilized in plant management.
Given the numerous complex physical and chemical phenomena that impact operations in actual plants, there are still many situations where veteran operators must step in and exercise control. Even when operations are automated using PID control and APC, highly-experienced operators have to halt automated control and change configuration and output values when, for example, a sudden change occurs in atmospheric temperature due to rainfall or some other weather event. This is a common issue at many companies’ plants. Regarding the transition to industrial autonomy, a very significant challenge has been instituting autonomous control in situations where until now manual intervention has been essential, and doing so with as little effort as possible while also ensuring a high level of safety. The results of this test suggest that this collaboration between Yokogawa and JSR has opened a path forward in resolving this longstanding issue.
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Motorists of color on Illinois streets and highways continue to be stopped at rates higher than that of white drivers according to data collected and reported by police across the state. In 2021, Black drivers were approximately 1.7 times more likely to be stopped by police than white drivers. While Latinx drivers did not see a statewide disparity, they are more likely to be stopped in many jurisdictions.
Racial inequities in traffic stops have persisted statewide and in many jurisdictions for years. Black and Latinx drivers are often pulled over for low-level violations, whether it is changing lanes without signaling or having a broken taillight—offenses for which white drivers who violate the same laws are often not stopped.
The data for traffic stops in 2021 is contained in a recent report released by the Illinois Department of Transportation earlier this summer, as mandated by the Illinois Traffic and Pedestrian Stop Statistical Study Act (“the Act”). The Act requires all law enforcement officers in Illinois to record and report data about every motorist they stop, including the race of the motorist, the reason for the stop and the outcome of the stop. The Act was originally sponsored by then-State Senator Barack Obama and made permanent in recent years.
The Act was designed to provide law enforcement leadership across the state with a tool for addressing potential racial bias in traffic enforcement. In highlighting the data today, the ACLU of Illinois again calls on law enforcement leadership to review and focus on the data to seek improvement.
“Black drivers from across the state have raised concerns for years that police are more likely to stop them than white drivers – that remains true based on this data,” said Joshua Levin, staff attorney for the ACLU of Illinois. “This is not anecdotal or selective – this reality is based on data that police report themselves about traffic stops in their communities. And that data consistently shows that Black drivers are more likely to be stopped than white drivers. ”
The report makes clear that no single community is responsible for this disparity and some communities have improved in recent years. Still, some communities have a rate of racial disparities far worse than the statewide rate.
A number of communities across Illinois showed disparities:
Chicago: Black drivers were more than 5 times more likely to be stopped than white drivers; Latinx drivers were nearly 2.5 times more likely to be stopped;
Aurora: Black drivers were 7 times more likely to be stopped by police; Latinx drivers were nearly 4 times more likely;
Bloomington: Black drivers were 4.7 times more likely to be stopped by police; Latinx drivers were twice as likely;
Peoria: Black drivers were 6.8 times more likely to be stopped by police; Latinx drivers were 2.3 times more likely;
Springfield: Black drivers were 5 times more likely to be stopped by police, even though Latinx drivers were stopped consistent with their driving population in the community
“Black people who have lived in Springfield for any amount of time have noticed that Blacks were more likely to be stopped while driving compared to white drivers,” added Ken Page, a Black driver and President of the ACLU of Illinois Chapter in Springfield. “This data shows that we have more to do as a community to make everyone feel like policing is fair and even-handed. We will be calling on our elected officials and law enforcement leaders to address this situation.”
The data also shows that Black drivers were more likely to be asked for consent to search their car by police once a stop has been made. Black drivers statewide were more than 40% more likely to be asked for permission for such a search. In Chicago, Black drivers were more than 5 times more likely to be asked to allow police to conduct a consent search. Yet the data shows that Chicago police were more likely to find contraband in the automobile of a white motorist.
The ACLU’s Levin added: “Because Black and Latinx drivers are more likely to be stopped by police, they are more likely to experience invasive questioning, searches, humiliation, and, all too often, tragic violence at the hands of police. This is why we renew our call on police departments across Illinois to review and use this data to address these longstanding disparities. The Illinois legislature intended this data to be a tool for reform and improvement. Every police agency in Illinois should explain how it will change its policies to solve these stubborn racial inequalities.”
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Why your business need a mobile app in 2020? The complete guide
Small businesses serving customers face-to-face in their local area are the ones who have suffered most from lockdowns.
This is an excellent time to think big and expand beyond the limits of your local area.
Digital technologies make it possible for even the smallest companies to have a global reach. It may be time to start taking advantage of these opportunities and looking to market to a wider audience.
In today’s world, smartphones ? have become an inseparable part of our lifestyle. It is believed that approximately ? 80% of the population use mobile phones . They depend on mobile phones for fulfilling their day to day needs such as shopping, travelling, food delivery etc.
Mobile application development is necessary for every startup and every other kind of
business to succeed in the market. The points mentioned in the article make it clear that having
a mobile application can bring revenue and a lot of other benefits to your business. Having a
mobile app helps you to be updated with the current trends in the market and keeps your
business relevant. Planning and developing a customized mobile app will help you beat the
competition and stay ahead in the market.
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Kontrak Tukaran Matawang Asing Melalui Internet: Satu Tinjauan Hukum
Foreign currency exchange contracts or foreign exchange (forex) began to arise when there is an international trade transaction involves two countries using different currencies. The legal assessment of the said issue should apply methods of interpretation and understanding of the terms to be applied in the contract. Terms such as leverage, hedging (hedging) and swap are thoroughly evaluated based on a practical modus operandi allowing for the precise legal assessment. This article discusses the contractual issues and modus operandi of foreign currency transactions and its application from the practical aspects using the Internet. Discussion on the legal assessment is based on the Islamic law of transactions on applied type of contract ('akad), the use of hedging and leverage in foreign exchange contracts via the Internet.
Keywords: Contract, Foreign Exchange, Islamic Transaction, Leverage, Muamalat
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New project launches to bring more hydrogen fuel cells to eastern ChinaSeptember 3, 2018
The project’s goal is to promote the development of a hydrogen-powered vehicle industry.
China’s Ministry of Science and Technology has launched a hydrogen fuel cells project with the purpose of building a “hydrogen city” in Jinan, a city located in Shandog Province in east China.
The project has several goals in relation to hydrogen.
Among these objectives include advancing research and development of core technology, promoting the application of hydrogen fuel cells in vehicles, and pushing forward the development of a hydrogen-powered vehicle industry, reported Xinhuanet.
To help bring the project to life, Shandong Heavy Industry Group (SHIG), a Jinan-based heavy machinery and automotive manufacturing company, has teamed up with Ballard Power Systems and Westport Fuel Systems. Both Canadian companies are leaders in the industry, with Ballard specializing in the development of engines fueled by hydrogen and Wesport specializing in natural gas.
In addition to signing agreements with Ballard Power and Wesport Fuel Systems, SHIG is also cooperating with the local government to put hydrogen-powered buses on the road in the next three to five years.
China is aiming for the mass production of hydrogen fuel cells in vehicles by 2020
What’s more, automotive and equipment manufacturing group, Weichai Power, a subsidiary of SHIG, is also working toward furthering the improvement of fuel cells in the eastern Chinese province and the nation.
According to Weichai Power CEO and SHIG chairman of the board, Tan Xuguang, with an investment of 1.98 billion yuan ($290 million), Weichai will be working with 12 other companies, universities and research institutes to improve upon the adaptability and sustainability of fuel cells.
Weichai Power has also recently acquired a 19.9% stake in Ballard Power, making it the fuel cell company’s largest shareholder, reported Hydrogen Fuel News. Part of the new deal with Ballard will see Weichai gain exclusive rights to manufacturer the Canadian company’s next generation LSC fuel stack and specific LCS-based modules for China’s bust, forklift and commercial truck markets.
The launch of the hydrogen fuel cells project is part of China’s plan to promote research and development of fuel cells within the country, as well as accelerate the development of hydrogen stations and achieve mass production of fuel cell vehicles by 2020. This is according to nation’s guideline on strategic emerging sectors in the 13th Five-Year Plan.
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The value of vending machines
and the market value of vending machines by vending machine manufacturers We all know that vending machines have become more and more popular in recent years, and there are beverage vending machines with snake-shaped cargo lanes that sell bottled and canned beverages , There are general merchandise vending machines with spring spiral cargo lanes for snacks and daily necessities, as well as crawler vending machines with lifts for selling fruits and vegetables and lunch boxes. What are the operational advantages of investing in such a vending machine? The market value of vending machines 1. Reduce labor costs: no need for manpower, 24 hours of operation, and management is more convenient. Through the Internet, vending machines placed in various places can upload sales data to the back-end server in real time , the vending machine administrator can check the status and sales data of each machine anytime and anywhere through the background account, and bring the corresponding products to replenish the out-of-stock machines according to the out-of-stock prompt. The vending machine administrator can manage many machines at the same time, the efficiency is high, and the labor cost is naturally reduced! 2. Reduce operating costs: The powerful IoT cloud service platform supports real-time monitoring of commodity inventory and operating conditions, and operators can plan replenishment and equipment maintenance. The market value of vending machines 3. Reduce the cost of points: small footprint, flexible point distribution, can penetrate into the corridors, subway stations and other hard-to-enter spaces. Expand advertising value: Vending machines can be used as a natural advertising media source to further tap the value of offline traffic and have considerable advertising value. Moreover, the Internet intelligent vending machine can be equipped with a large touch screen and can play advertisements. For example, when it is placed in places with high traffic such as stations, airports, subways, squares, etc., the income brought by advertisements is still very high. 4. Expand online value: offline consumption through mobile payment, automatically attract fans, and divert traffic to online; online consumption, offline pickup; online points, offline redemption. The market value of vending machines In addition to the advantages mentioned above, vending machines can also output a huge data system for crowd and commodity analysis after operating for a long time, which can not only be used to optimize sales. The operation of cargo aircraft can also be used as a data guide to control the new cost of all vending machines in the future. The ultimate goal of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure is the profit margin obtained. I believe this reason is not difficult to understand. According to the current market map of vending machines and the development of the new retail industry, vending machines will be a hot product in the next 3-5 years, and will become more and more popular in first-tier cities to second-tier and third-tier cities and even the whole country. Overall, the trend of intelligent vending machines is unstoppable and cannot be ignored. It will greatly change product sales, supply chain management, user experience, and advertising business.
commercial vending machine vending machine, device for producing vending machine manufacturers, commercial vending machine, and other vending machine manufacturers, consisting of commercial vending machine.
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Haloo Automation Equipment Co., Ltd who primarily serve our consumers need to consider offering their products in an vending machine manufacturers such as vending machine to take advantage of the growing interest from consumers in supporting commercial vending machine.
If our brand is successful and consistent, it will be much easier to initially grab customers and encourage them to purchase vending machine further.
The global market is estimated to reach a value of almost vending machine manufacturers in the next decade. have a robust position in the commercial vending machine market because of its proven high potency in vending machine manufacturers.
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by Pauline J. Alama
Come away, O, human child!
To the woods and waters wild
With a fairy hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping
than you can understand.
–W. B. Yeats, “The Stolen Child”
Along the wooded bank above the shore, a few stray apple trees grew among the oaks and thorns. It must have been the remains of a neglected orchard, for someone had grafted a spray onto a stock: a thing against nature in nature’s own flesh, and thus, a break between worlds.
Around the grafted tree I set my trap: the rowan twigs I had gathered by moonlight, laid end to end with tiny wads of cobweb to bind them. The boughs made a circle open on one side, the side nearest the water.
As I set each piece carefully in place, I whispered the binding charm I had learned in my furtive studies in the abbey library. Thanks be to God and His Mother, my memory has always been sharp as Godfrey’s sword fresh from the whetstone, for I never faltered or missed a word of the spell or the prayer. When the chant was done, I littered dried oak leaves over the rowan twigs to hide them. I set out my bait: a flat hearth-cake round as the moon. It was not as fine as a raised loaf, but I had neither village bakery nor abbey refectory, only a poor campfire and my own unskilled hands to knead the dough. It would have to do.
My heart in my mouth, I hid myself in the brush, praying I could not be seen from the water–praying furiously in case anyone above might heed my prayer, faithless nun that I was.
The wind off the water scoured my skin red and tangled my dull brown hair, stripped of its nun’s veil but untamed by a matron’s headdress, bared to the wind like a child’s or a camp follower’s. Hunched against the chill, I stared at the sea and waited, my breasts aching with milk.
At last I saw the glimmer in the mist: a shining woman walking toward me over the surface of the waves. When I saw the babe asleep in her arms, I had to bite my fist to keep myself from calling his name aloud.
A year before, I’d had no idea of ever having a child–or a man, for that matter. I felt as immovably part of the abbey as the stones in its walls. Though there was no ardor in my calling–indeed, no calling, except my father calling it a waste of time to seek a husband for the plainest of his daughters–nonetheless I felt at home among the abbey’s books, copying and learning.
But the stones in the walls could be shaken, and so could I. War came to the abbey, a dispute we knew nothing about till the pillaging army came within sight of our door. Duke Reynard, in a quarrel with our own Duke Robert, decided to spite him by sacking the abbey where Robert’s sister was abbess. Our Duke sent men to defend his sister and her holdings–not, to her chagrin, his best lordly knights, but a company of hireling soldiers. On the other hand, these hirelings may have been his best warriors in truth, for among them was Godfrey.
I noticed him at once, how different he was from my sarcastic father and supercilious brothers: how patiently he explained what we must do, and explained again, and explained yet again to those too panicked to hear him, gently but unswervingly setting us about the needful tasks of a household under siege. He was firm as rock, a foundation I could trust.
Under his spell, I would have felt ashamed to cower in a safe chamber. I wanted to do something, anything–to protect the abbey, I told myself, but if these tasks brought me to Godfrey’s side, that was not an unwelcome turn of fortune. So all through the battle, I fetched water for the fighting men. When the enemy shot flaming arrows to set the abbey alight, I brought wet cloths to smother the fire. Once during the battle, I remember offering Godfrey the pitcher; his hand grazed mine. For a moment he smiled, and my heart blazed.
By day’s end, Godfrey and his company had driven off the enemy. We nuns settled down to make the best of our damaged abbey. Godfrey came upon me alone, mourning over the casualties of the library–ancient volumes soot-darkened, and the copy of Augustine I’d been laboring on for the past eight months quite ruined.
“Barbarians!” I was muttering.
“Beg pardon?” Godfrey said, striding into view.
“Oh, not you, Sir,” I said. “I mean Duke Reynard and his vandals. Let him copy every page they marred! If he can write.”
“He makes a cross for his name, just like Duke Robert,” Godfrey said. “I just came to say–sweet holy saints, have you read all these? I mean, that isn’t what I meant to say–”
“All of them?” I said. “Not a tenth of them! And now I’ll never have the chance to read this one.” I shook a damaged tome at him. He flinched back a pace. “All, indeed! Do you think I’ve been shut up in this place a hundred years?”
“No, of course not,” Godfrey said hastily. “I only thought you must be fiercely clever.” He smiled ruefully. “I make a cross for my name, too. My father thought grammar wasted on a boy not given to the Church.”
I looked at him clearly for the first time since he’d entered. He still had soot in his hair, and a cut on his arm hadn’t been bandaged.
“I’m sorry,” I said. “You’ve been bleeding, your men have been bleeding, and here I am, grieving over dead books! I must seem monstrous to you.”
“No, no. Never that,” Godfrey said. “You stood before the storm of arrows with us, you and your water pitcher, as brave as any knight–braver, for you were unarmed. I wanted to thank you.”
He took the ruined book from my hands, laid it gently aside, and stared at me for some moments as if unsure what to make of me. Then, rapidly, as if he had to hurry before his conscience caught up with him, he seized me about the waist and kissed me.
He later confessed to me that he’d expected to be smacked for his impudence. He was prepared for the blow; he was completely unprepared for what I did, which was to hold onto him like a falcon to its prey, returning his kiss with equal passion. After the shadow of a life I’d led, play-acting a calling I’d never felt, Godfrey was so real, so solid, I had to cling to him like a floating spar in a shipwreck.
The army departed, and I went back to the remnant of my library. Months went by, the damage to the abbey was repaired, and my belly swelled till no habit could hide my transgression.
For the good of my soul, I was condemned to stand barefoot at the pillory in my nun’s habit. No need for the constable to cry out my sin to passers-by in the marketplace, for my very flesh proclaimed it. There was a stiff north wind, and my bound hands and swollen feet were nearly numb by the time Godfrey happened to pass.
He swooped down from the saddle. “Maud!” he cried. “How–When–Oh, Christ’s wounds! Have I done this to you?”
I whispered hoarsely, “Godfrey, hush. People are staring.”
“Weren’t they staring before?” he said.
“At you, I mean. They don’t need to know –”
“Let them stare,” he said. “Let them do what they like, so long as I may take you away from here. Would you come with me, love?”
“Take me how? Come with you where?” I said.
“Never mind that. I’ll manage it,” he said. “What about you? Would you go back to the abbey if they let you? Or would you rather–could you love me?”
“Love you? Godfrey, I thought I’d already given ample proof of that,” I said.
“Then it’s settled. I’ll be back for you, brave Maud.” He rode off in a tearing hurry.
When night fell I stood at my post, my back knotted, my feet like clubs. The crowd of jeering passers-by was gone, and a sleepy, bored night watchman was the only witness when Godfrey returned–not with a company of defenders, not with a single ally, but with two horses and an extra cloak. Later he told me he’d gone to the abbey to ask for my release as a reward for his defense; failing that, he’d begged his lord for aid. But with no man’s blessing and no man’s help, he came for me nonetheless.
Ignoring the watchman, he rushed straight to my pillory and cut the ropes that bound me.
“Hey! What’re you about?” The watchman stumbled groggily to his feet as I struggled to move my stiff hands.
“I’m a dream, lad,” said Godfrey. “I’ve come to warn you of your soul’s peril. When you wake, repent and give a purse to the poor.”
“Get on, you rascal,” said the watchman, drawing his sword. “Dream, my arse. Get away from the wench.”
Sighing, Godfrey drew his own sword. “Don’t make me hurt you, Ned. I just want the woman. Tell them a fairy stole her; half of ’em will believe you.”
“Have some respect for the law!” Ned the watchman brandished his sword.
Godfrey disarmed him with one swift crack across the sword-hand. When Ned scrambled for his sword, Godfrey kicked him. It was nothing like the tales of chivalry that once fed my girlish dreams, but it was effective. Every time Ned tried to rise, Godfrey knocked him down.
“All right, then,” Godfrey said. “I’d hoped one person would be generous today. But all hearts are turned against us, Maud, except each other’s.”
He hoisted my awkward bulk into the saddle. I could not sit well on the horse he had brought for me, so I rode in his arms like a sack of plunder, jostled so violently that I thought my travail would come on that night. Praise be to God’s fair Mother, it did not. We were long on our road before Toby was born.
But alas, we were not far enough from home to be married, for a reading of the banns would have sent word back to our old home and revealed us as an outlaw and a nun. Nor were we far enough from the outraged Duke Robert or his venomous neighbor Reynard so that Godfrey could find service with another lord. There was no rest for us, but we must take our new child and flee into foreign lands. Like ravens, we must follow the wars, for a lord hard pressed in battle would not look for reasons to turn away a deft-handed soldier.
But war, ever plentiful where it’s least wanted, eluded us. Godfrey’s little money leaked away; at each way-station, our comforts dwindled. And so it chanced that in a strange country one night we slept in the open air under a grafted tree. I fell asleep with my month-old baby in the crook of my arm, and woke without him.
Godfrey, bless his heart, blamed himself, thinking some old enemy had tried to strike at him through his son. But I had read of such things, and I knew by the faint sound of distant bells what sort of foe I must pursue.
And now, there she was: the bright damsel carried out by the waves as if she were no heavier than foam. Tall and queenly, slender as a birch tree, graceful as a swan, she wore only a silken shift, her white arms bare, but the cold did not trouble her, nor the wind coarsen her face. Her hair, like mine, was unbound, but hers was a glory of gold, more splendid than any jeweled and embroidered headdress she might have worn. Her face was young and perfect, with the piercing beauty men forge into songs or wars.
She stepped from the water’s surface to the shore and smiled to see the hearth-cake on the bank above her. She flowed forward lightly as a wave and shifted Toby to the crook of one arm to pick up the bread, as wonderful to her folk as the rich spices of the East are to us.
I sprang from my hiding place, brandishing the last rowan wand in my left hand and an iron chain in my right. “By rowan and cold iron, I have you! Give me my child, or feel the weight of this chain.”
“Stop,” she said, her voice as melodious as church bells, as cold as the iron in my hand, “or your child will die.”
I froze in place. “Devil! You’d avenge yourself on a baby?”
“I have not said I would harm him. You would,” said the elfish woman.
“I would?” Rage filed my mouth, so I could hardly speak.
One corner of her perfect mouth twitched in cool irony. “Hear me out, Sister Maudeleyne. I’m sure we can come to an agreement. You are a woman, and can talk reason. A pleasant surprise: I expected your man.”
“I thought you might,” I said. “I sent him in the wrong direction. He was expecting a warrior to fight. He wouldn’t know how to fight the likes of you.”
“But you know better,” said the fairy in a patronizing tone. “I confess, you cloister-bred magicians are surprisingly resourceful. Such a cunning circle! What did you use to join the ends of the rowan wands?”
“Give me Toby back, and I’ll tell you,” I said.
“Is that why you think I took him? To learn your petty secrets? I’ve faced down sorcerers that could turn you inside out with a thought, little Maud.” As she spoke, the fairy crept closer to the opening of the circle.
Could she escape after all? I had no more of the herbs I’d used to cast the spell. If she broke free, I might never see Toby again. Heart in my mouth, I blocked her with my body, brandishing the chain. “Stand back, or cold iron will burn you!”
She flinched back a half-step, and I dropped the last rowan-wand into place at my heel, closing the circle. I could not bind this last wand like the others, or I might not be able to take Toby out of the circle; no doubt some fairy food had passed his lips by now, perhaps enough to catch him in any tighter spell I might spin for his abductor. I would have to guard the exit with iron and with my wits. “You’ll stay here till I have my son back. Whatever you want in exchange for him, name it and be quick! Or did you take him only to heap torments upon me–as if I needed any more?”
“Arrogant mortal! You think I do this because of you? It’s for the child’s sake,” said the fairy, raising Toby higher in her arms.
He didn’t wake, but I could see his belly rise and fall with deep slumbering breaths, and my own breath came easier. The sight of his little rosebud mouth, slack with sleep, made my heart tighten and my breasts swell painfully. “It’s for the child’s sake that I’ve come,” I said, reaching for him.
“He’s not for you.” She pulled him away.
“Not for me?” I cried. “What is he to you? I bore him in blood and pain. I nursed him till my nipples bled.”
The fairy retorted, “And for all that, do you believe him yours to save or kill as you please?”
“Who spoke of killing but you?” I said. “I love him.”
“Your love will kill him,” said the shining woman. “What can you give him but shame, suffering, want, disease, and in the end, death, always death? In my world, the flowers do not fade, nor the leaves fall, nor the beloved companions age and die.”
“How pleasant for you,” I said acidly. “But Toby is a human child. This is his world.”
“It need not be,” said the shining woman. “I can give him the milk of immortality and make him like us. Such a beautiful child, beauty more befitting my kind than yours.”
It was true: somehow from my plainness and Godfrey’s rough martial looks had sprung a beauty unexpected, like flowers from a rock.
The fairy saw me nod, and pressed on. “Such a fair one should never be allowed to die.”
“He is as fair as you say,” I conceded. “But why take a babe without his mother?”
“Only such a young thing as this can drink the milk of immortality,” said the fairy. “You will die, whatever I might do; and if he stays with you, so will he.”
My heart constricted. “Is he ill?”
“There is sickness in all your kind,” said the fairy impatiently. “I will take that burden from him.”
“A likely story. If your gifts are so wholesome, why didn’t you offer them openly, instead of stealing my child while I slept?”
“I know your kind,” said the fairy. “You say, ‘my child,’ like ‘my horse,’ ‘my gown,‘ ‘my land.’ In your cloister, you read of Solomon: remember his judgment. Would you cut the boy in half to possess your share of a dead child?”
“The Devil may quote Scripture,” I growled, though her words shook me. Who was I to cheat my boy of immortality? Did I do wrong, with my rowans and cold iron?
“Is that what you fear–that I am some sort of devil, trying to give your son the world at the price of his soul?” She saw me hesitate, then smiled her cold smile. “No, I don’t think that scruple would sway you. You must have had doubts, or you’d still be a nun, Godfrey or no Godfrey.”
I did not ask how she knew so much about me, but she was right: by the time I met Godfrey, my vows were a hollow shell. The longer I stayed in the abbey, the farther away God seemed, till I was not sure what I believed. Maybe in my secret heart I wanted everything that befell me: the child taking root in my womb, the shame, the pillory, the exile, the endless road, anything but to die sterile and cold within the abbey walls. All the same, I said, “It’s not so simple as that. I don’t doubt Toby has a soul. But I–I’ve heard too many who bleat about their care for others’ souls while they make hells on earth for them.”
“And so,” said the fairy, “will you consign your child to the hells of sickness, suffering, and death in hope of a heaven beyond?”
“Or should I give him up to you, and deprive him of heaven and mother-love at once, judging him too weak to bear human sorrow?” I countered, though her words sowed doubt in me. “Besides, sorrow’s not all there is to human life. There’s courage, which the deathless cannot know. There’s honor–”
“And dishonor,” the fairy cut in, inching closer to the weak link in my circle of rowan wands, “and poverty, and the ill name of bastard. What kind of life will you give him? You live among cutthroats and camp followers, traveling in search of war so your not-quite-husband can kill and maim enough to scrape together a living. He can’t choose the side of right, but must fight on the side that can pay, or you will all starve–with honor. Your son will know squalor and scorn–and war, constant war, and the hells on earth that war builds. And for that you dare pretend that your mother-love, and the hope of a distant heaven you half believe in, can compensate? If, indeed, he can reach that heaven. How will he keep his soul unstained in the muck you’ve borne him to? For that wan hope, you would cheat him of all I offer: the gardens of the Apple Isle, the music the moon sings to the sea, the comradeship of the fairest creatures in earth or sea or sky, and my love, the love of an immortal heart, forever. What gives you the right to deny him all this?”
I hesitated, my heart squeezed between tongs. Should I let him accept this gift, pass into a life of wonder and delight that I could never share? Would it be crueler to let him go, or to take him with me, knowing that along the road any of a hundred mishaps might end his life: smallpox, measles, a tumble from horseback, the hazards of war?
I remembered, too, the nights when all my nursing and rocking and singing could not comfort Toby, when I was so tired of his wailing that I was tempted to leave him at the church door for a better mother to find. Here was a better shelter than the church. I could even say truthfully that I didn’t abandon him: he was taken. Why wrest him back into my own clumsy hands?
And what did the hope of Heaven weigh in all this? Could anything I did endanger his soul? Saint Augustine said sin is an act of will; this choice would be no will of Toby’s. Perhaps if I took this sin on myself, he could spend a thousand years in innocent enjoyment of an Eden without temptation, and find his way blamelessly to God at the world’s ending.
I frowned, unable to tease out the tangle of moral uncertainties. Then I saw that, reading my frown, the fairy smiled, and the light that dawned in her face was a glow of pure triumph.
She will never doubt like this, I said to myself. She will never ask herself, have I done right by the child?
She will always be certain she is right. And I suddenly knew that as surely as Lucifer fell, anyone so ungodly certain of her own rightness would inevitably be wrong.
I swung the chain like a lash and caught her round one snow-white arm, murmuring a charm Solomon used to chastise unruly spirits. The fairy shrieked and recoiled, and the baby woke and wailed.
“Give me my son back, you smirking hypocrite!” I shouted. “I know your kind. If you cut a child in half, you believe with all your heart it’s for his good, and smile benevolently over the blade. Let go of him!”
The fairy struggled, but the chain obeyed my charm, creeping up like a serpent to her neck. I longed to snatch Toby at once, but to be sure of his safety, there was one more thing I must do. I plucked three golden hairs from her head and wound them around my finger for safekeeping. Then I pulled my son from her slackening grasp and clutched him to my heart, though he howled and thrashed against me.
The fairy clawed the air around her throat in agony, torn between the longing to tear off the chain and the horror of touching it with her hands. “Foul witch!” she shrieked, “Remove your curse!”
“Not till my son is safe,” I hissed. “Swear by your name you will not come near him again. By your true name!”
She swore, half choked with pain. The name she swore by was a gabble of sounds that I cannot set down here. I lack the gift of discerning names, and did not trust that she used her true name indeed. But I had what I needed to make sure of her.
“Beware crossing our path again,” I said. “With these hairs of yours, I will weave a charm to bind you even if your oath fails.”
She pleaded hoarsely, “You have what you want. Release me.”
I drew the chain back with a murmured counter-charm and kicked the last rowan wand out of place to break the circle.
Without a backward glance I ran and ran and ran, swollen breasts jolted painfully with each step, while Toby cried like a soul in torment. Only when I’d left the grafted tree far behind did I dare stop to feed him. He thrashed about in my arms, too distraught even to nurse till I forced his mouth to my nipple. He sucked furiously, and I sighed with relief to feel the milk flow out of me: not the milk of immortality, but of human life and death.
Soon his thrashing ceased and his body eased into a natural sleep, less peaceful than in the fairy’s arms. His breathing sounded thick and snorty. Was it croup or just heavy slumber? I wondered whether he’d grow up to snore like Godfrey. I wondered whether he’d grow up alive.
“Toby, my heart, my child,” I murmured, “I have chosen for you: a world, a life, a death. Did I do right? Oh, did I do right?”
Pauline J. Alama’s quest fantasy The Eye of Night was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award. Her short fiction appears in numerous anthologies, most recently Sword & Sorceress 31, Mysterion, Dragon Super Pack, and It’s Come to Our Attention. (For a full list, see sites.google.com/site/paulinejalama) A former medieval scholar with a weakness for folk music, she conceived the idea for this story while listening to Heather Alexander’s gorgeous musical setting of W. B. Yeats’ “The Stolen Child.”
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Drought Takes A Toll On Salmon
by Lacey Jarrell
Herald & News
July 30, 2014
The effects of drought are trickling down to Klamath Basin fisheries.
A recent survey of 90 miles of the Salmon River found 55 dead adult salmon and about 300 dead juveniles, according to Sara Borok, an environmental scientist for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Borok said the count was part of an annual Salmon River spring chinook dive by the U.S. Forest Service and the Salmon River Restoration Council.
“That’s higher than we’ve seen on past dives,” Borok said. “It’s worrisome that many fish have died.”
About 700 live fish were counted in cool pools fed by springs.
Flows in the estuary where the Klamath River meets the Pacific Ocean are half what they should be for successful chinook migration: As of Tuesday afternoon, flows were at 2,170 cubic feet per second (cfs), according to California Data Exchange Center reports.
“That’s low; it should be running at about 4,000 cfs,” Borok said.
Also as of Tuesday, at 2:30 p.m., the estuary temperature was 76.2 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the center. Borok said warm water holds less oxygen and encourages parasites; chinook seek out cold water refuge when water temperatures hit 72 degrees.
Borok said officials are hoping temperatures or some precipitation will drop soon.
“These fish usually don’t start spawning until early September. Peak spawning is in early October, so we have that much time until the fish complete their lifecycle,” said Tom Hotaling, fisheries coordinator for the Salmon River Restoration Council.
Borok said resource managers have been monitoring conditions since starting in May.
“All eyes are on the river and have been for a while now,” Borok said.
Borok said adult spring chinook are holding in cold water refuge areas along the Salmon River, but fall chinook beginning their inland spawning migration in August could soon add to the congestion.
Stakeholder organizations and agencies are meeting to troubleshoot the water shortage and the danger it poses to fish, Borok said.
Water is being released into the Klamath River in accordance with flows outlined in a 10-year joint biological opinion created by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service in 2013. The collaborative opinion provides management guidelines for protecting species on both sides of the Oregon-California border: Management operations are intended to meet the needs of coho salmon in Klamath River, while balancing the needs of listed suckers in Upper Klamath Lake.
Brian Person, area manager of the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) Northern California Area Office, said the Salmon River is not within BOR jurisdiction, but even if it was, there is no way to get more water into the river. The Salmon River is a tributary of the Klamath River and does not have any water control features or dams.
The Associated Press reported posters have been distributed asking people to report when they see an unusually high number of dead fish — more than 55 in a mile of river.
In 2002, a combination of remnant drought effects and continued agricultural water deliveries caused low, warm water in the Klamath River, resulting in a massive fish kill. More than one-third of the 181,000 chinook fall run died from gill rot disease that spread as the fish crowded into low and warm pools while waiting for higher water to move upstream to spawn.
Before the historic die-off, the annual Salmon River dive revealed only 22 dead adult chinook — less than half of the adult fish found this year.
Hotaling said the lowest run on record occurred in 2005, three years after the die-off: only 90 fish returned to the Salmon River.
“It certainly is a concern if you get too many low runs in a row,” he said. “You lower the possibility of rebounding.”
The Salmon River is a tributary of the Klamath River, and home to one of the last remnants of spring chinook salmon in the Klamath Basin, which return from the ocean in spring and stay in the river until October, when they spawn and die.
Borok said the fall chinook run is expected to be 92,000, not 60,000, which has been reported in other stories.
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