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1 Corinthians 12:10, “…to another miraculous powers”
The next gift of the Spirit Paul mentions is the “gift of miraculous powers.” The gift of miraculous powers is, “a supernatural display of God’s infinite power.” This gift can come in many different forms but every time the effect is the same- people acknowledge God is real.
A modern day example of this gift would be in 1995 when God’s Spirit came in mighty power at a church service in Pensacola Florida and for the next five years over 1 million people were saved just in one church! People would spend the night in the church parking lot just to get a seat for the weekend services because everyone who went to the church could tangibly feel the Holy Spirit and be convicted of sin. Literally, people from all over of the city and region were made area of God’s power because of the revival.
One of the Biblical examples of the gift of miraculous power was when a deadly poisonous snake bit Paul and he did not die. The local pagans who knew the snake’s deadliness were so amazed at God’s power that they actually thought Paul was a “god,” Acts 28:3-6. Other examples would be Jesus turning the water into wine, Peter finding a gold coin in a fish’s mouth, and the feeding of the five thousand.
Though the gift of miraculous power may be more rare and less seen, disciples are to always be willing and ready for God to show His power for His glory. Imagine if God were to use you just once in this gift and it result in hundreds of people getting saved- it would be worth the wait!
- Have you ever witnessed God’s miraculous power? (Separate from seeing healings and demons being cast out. Think of miraculous power having more to do with changing the natural order of things in the physical world.)
- Are you willing to let God use you to display His power?
- Ask God to give you the gift of miraculous power.
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Editor’s Note: This post is adapted from a white paper co-authored by Bryan Langlands and Durell Coleman, Founder/CEO of DC Design, and originally published by the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI). The white paper is based on the “Reimaging the ED” workshop sponsored by FGI and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and held at the 2017 Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo in Austin, TX, where more than 100 ED clinicians, design professionals and students gathered.
Today in the United States, nearly 50 percent of all hospital care begins in the emergency department (ED) and, over the last 20 years, ED patient volume has increased by 23 percent as many Americans use the ED to access primary care services. Many factors have contributed to these trends, including:
- The aging of the baby boomer generation
- Increased longevity of people with chronic diseases
- Gaps in provision of care for behavioral health patients
- Limited operating hours of primary care providers
- Lack of affordable insurance and other issues affecting individual access to medical care
- Requirement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) for EDs to treat everyone, whether they have insurance or not
While the U.S. health care system struggles to determine how to address these difficult and complex issues, there are changes that can be implemented now to improve the function and flow of emergency department services and facilitate quality patient care: by (1) improving arrival and front-end operations, (2) reducing patient length of stay, and (3) improving the experience of behavioral health patients.
(1) Improve arrival and front-end operations with technology.
Technology could be deployed to make patient arrival, sorting, and waiting processes more efficient. One idea: providing a registration kiosk for low-acuity patients. Another idea is a vitals-monitoring bracelet that could be used to assess and monitor patients in the waiting area. Such approaches could result in reduced stress and better flow for triage and front-end operations.
(2) Reduce low-acuity patients’ length of stay.
A significant problem is the treatment of low-acuity, non-emergency patients in spaces designed for patients who require a bed. Some solutions: smaller treatment spaces for these “vertical” patients, or treatment rooms that could easily and quickly be converted to hold multiple low-acuity patients during peak hours. Such spaces would speed up delivery of care for low-acuity patients and reduce the amount of time they — and consequently all patients — spend in the ED.
As one way to identify these low-acuity patients, the ED could be zoned by Emergency Severity Index (ESI) level. Creating ESI zones would support more flexible and efficient use of space and could decrease patient waiting times. Each area in the ED would be designed with patient care stations sized appropriately for the type of patient seen there.
(3) Create spaces for behavioral health patients.
There are many concerns surrounding behavioral health services provided in the ED setting, including the tendency to hold these patients in the ED for two to three days before placement in an inpatient unit or transfer to a psychiatric hospital. Spaces are needed that better suit this patient population. Because the ED is not specifically designed to provide care for the behavioral health population and the typical patient stays longer and requires different attention than typical ED patients, the flow and throughput of the entire emergency department is negatively affected when suitable behavioral health facilities are not provided.
It is important to remember the ED is not a “place” but a “process,” a point that underscores that many problems seen in EDs are the result of operational processes rather than design issues. Further, the primary factors of many problems are neither design nor operational, but issues that result from demographic changes, behavioral health and insurance deficiencies, and EMTALA requirements. For this reason, quite a few problems might not require specialty operational or design solutions if the overall health care system were doing a better job of addressing the larger issues that bring many patients to the ED.
Nonetheless, it is an important first step when health care organizations and designers work together to address operational and design problems through careful project planning.
Banner image courtesy of Frank Oudeman/NBBJ.Follow nbbX
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What is the contribution of organic agriculture to sustainable development?
20 Mar 2021
There is ample evidence to show that dominant agricultural management practices are not sustainable for the future. Therefore, several alternative production systems are proposed, including agroecology and organic agriculture, due to their environmental and social benefits.
Studies carried out in temperate environments (especially in Europe) have established the benefits of organic farming practices over conventional ones. However, several questions remain about the performance of organic systems under tropical conditions. The project “Comparison of Agricultural Systems in the Tropics (SysCom)”, implemented by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) , aims to establish a scientific basis for discussions on the yield and potential of conventional and organic agricultural production systems in the tropics. It has been running since 2007. In three tropical countries – Bolivia, India and Kenya – long-term agricultural system comparison field trials have been established, along with participatory on-farm research focusing on a different cropping system in each country. .
This report provides a detailed synthesis of SysCom’s scientific results, presented in a way that is easy for a “non-expert” audience to understand. The results address the differences between alternative production systems (organic and agroforestry) and conventional ones in terms of productivity, profitability, soil fertility, quality and the resilience of the agroecosystem.
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Kancera is awarded € 950,000 for the development of drugs to treat severe parasitic diseases
Earlier this year Kancera successfully completed the EU SEtTReND project in which compounds were developed that kill the Schistosoma parasite. These substances will be further developed in the new A-PARADDISE project towards a new and much needed drug for the treatment of one or several major parasitic diseases that cause significant global morbidity and mortality. WHO estimates that 480 million people suffer from the four parasitic diseases that the project focuses on and that they cause about 900,000 deaths per year.
The substances developed to date are highly potent inhibitors of two epigenetic target proteins in the parasite Schistosoma. The project will develop inhibitors against further epigenetic target proteins in these parasites. Kancera is the only pharmaceutical development company in the A-PARADDISE consortium and is well positioned to commercialize the drug candidates that the company develops and owns together with its partners.
Inhibitors against the corresponding epigenetic human target proteins constitute possible therapies for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases..
A-PARADDISE (Anti-Parasitic Drug Discovery in Epigenetics) is an EU-funded project (contract n ° 602080), which aims to identify new drug targets for anti-parasitic drug discovery as well as to develop already available lead compounds to candidate drugs against schistosomiasis. The project will also develop lead compounds and possibly drug candidates against targets in the following parasites (diseases): Leishmania (Leishmaniasis), Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease) and Plasmodium falciparum (malaria). The A-PARADDISE project builds on the recently completed and highly successful SEtTReND project which was focused against schistosomiasis.
About Kancera AB (publ)
Kancera develops the basis for new therapeutics, starting with new treatment concepts and ending with the sale of a drug candidate to international pharmaceutical companies. Kancera is currently developing drugs for the treatment of leukemia and solid tumors, based partly on blocking survival signals in the cancer cell and partly on metabolic strangulation. Kancera’s operations are based in the Karolinska Institutet Science Park in Stockholm and the company employs around 7 people. Kancera shares are traded on NASDAQ OMX First North and are held by around 1700 shareholders. Remium Nordic AB is Kancera’s Certified Adviser.
For additional information, please contact:
Thomas Olin, CEO: Tel +46 735 20 40 01
Karolinska Institutet Science Park
SE 171 48 Solna,
Please visit the company’s web www.kancera.comBack
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Children with individual sensory issues or who have autumn spectrum disorder often feel overwhelmed at the dentist. Even regular oral health at home can be challenging. For these kids, sounds, sights, sensations, and smells can be distressful or even painful. Their responses can include crying, hitting, or biting. What are their dental options?
Dental Care at Home
For kids who dislike how brushing their teeth makes them feel, an oral health routine can be hard. They might not like the flavor of the toothpaste, so look for unflavored options. If that’s still too overwhelming, brush with water and no toothpaste. Some kids with sensory issues actually like brushing their teeth, so your job is to make sure they’re brushing all their teeth for 2-3 minutes.
Getting Ready for a Trip to the Dentist
Most people have a little bit of dental anxiety, but it’s stronger for kids with sensory issues. You can make things easier for them in a couple of ways. First, schedule a tour of Sunshine Pediatric Dentistry’s office. Your child can become more familiar and comfortable with our kid-friendly environment. You can also describe what an appointment will look like, so your child is better prepared for what to expect. Patiently answer any questions they might have.
At the Dentist
When you make your appointment, please let us know that your child has sensory issues. At Sunshine Pediatric Dentistry, we’re equipped to work with kids with special needs and will make accommodations. Let us know what specific sensitivities your child has, whether it’s problems with the bright overhead lights, loud noises, and so on. If your child’s dental anxiety is severe, we offer three kinds of sedation dentistry and follow industry standards for safe administration to young patients.
Kid-Friendly Dental Care at Sunshine Pediatric Dentistry
As a parent, you care about your child’s oral health. Sensory issues can make dental care more challenging, but don’t give up hope! Our team of pediatric dentists is here to make appointments as comfortable as possible and give advice for at-home hygiene. If you have any questions about our San Antonio office or want to book an appointment, please get in touch!
We provide gentle dental care for kids with sensory issues!CONTACT US
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Clinics & Services
Various forms of help can be offered around problems with alcohol, other drugs and gambling and we are happy to lend advice and support.
Generally, these should be done every three (ages 25–49) or five (ages 50–64) years. A reminder will be sent when your test is due. An appointment can then be made. Your test result will usually be posted to you within 10 weeks. It is quite common for a minor abnormality to require a repeat smear; it is important to attend but we fully understand you will wish to arrange a conversation to discuss this.
The smear test is intended to look for very early signs of cancer of the cervix (the entrance to the uterus or womb), a condition that usually takes many years to develop and is quite easy to treat if found early. For this reason we would encourage all our eligible patients to take up the offer of this free checkup.
Child Health Surveillance
Held weekly by the health visitors on Monday afternoons from 1.00pm until 3.00pm, please call 01709 423333 to book an appointment. Please do not bring ill children to the clinic as they may pass on infection to others.
There are now very few reasons why your child should not be immunised, so please make sure your children receive all their injections.
The routine set of immunisations is altered every year or so, but currently involves injections at 2,3,4 months of age, then at 12–15 months and before entry to school. Further boosters are given before leaving school.
You will receive a letter from the Primary Care Trust on each occasion that a course is needed but feel free to check with our nurses, the Health Visitors or School Nurse.
Contraceptive Services and Family Planning
All the doctors are fully trained in this field and can offer advice on all aspects of contraception including cap and coil fitting, morning after pills etc. We choose not to restrict this service to a particular clinic, preferring to offer you consultations during normal surgery hours which ensures confidentiality. Some of the doctors are able to fit long–term contraceptives such as IUD ('coils'). For implanons you will need to ring Integrated Sexual Health on 01709 427777. Sister Sue Kelly also has a special interest in this field which includes "natural" family planning.
Whilst some degree of upset and unhappiness is a natural part of life there are occasions when some specialist input can be of value, and we have a variety of counselling staff attached to the practice. You can self refer to the IAPT service 01709 447755 or speak to one of our receptionist who can refer you to our mental health worker.
Dr Thorman with Sister Lyca Downing, Verity Ryczek, Jayne Fields and Karen Weldon run the practice diabetic programme. This aims to provide full diabetic care for uncomplicated diabetics on diet and/or tablets, together with shared care for diabetics with complications or those requiring insulin. Full diabetic care means good day–to–day control of blood glucose and annual screening for complications. If you are diabetic or think you might be, and are not yet in the practice programme, please contact the surgery.
Sadly it can be difficult to find a dentist providing NHS dental care, due to changes made to the NHS dental contract. We do not have the expertise or equipment to deal with dental problems at the Practice, and if you cannot get a dental appointment you should ring the emergency telephone number (0845 1550845). We are of course happy to give advice if you are having difficulty.
NHS Dental care is free for children up to their eighteenth birthday, students in full–time education up to their nineteenth birthday, expectant and new mothers and those receiving income support or family credit or their adult dependants.
The district nurses provide qualified nursing services in your own home, including care to the acute and chronically sick and the terminally ill. The nurses offer a range of clinical treatments, holistic assessments, medical, surgical and palliative care. They also offer health promotion, advice and support within the home and clinic appointments. The District Nurses can be contacted on 01709 426600.
Our practice nurses have undertaken special additional training in aural care and are able to treat most conditions affecting the external ear. Rotherham's Ear Care Service – a training and teaching organisation – also provides a weekly ear care clinic with specialised nurses. They also take referrals from our clinical team including adult hearing tests and can refer on to the Hospital specialist team. You can contact this service on 01709 304987.
Health and Wellbeing Coach
If you need advise about your weight or blood pressure you can see our Health and Wellbeing Coach. Please ask reception for details or to book an appointment.
The health visitors offer advice and support to persons of all ages on a wide range of health issues at home or in the clinic setting. They have a particular role concerned with families with pre–school children. This includes input from the antenatal period onwards in relation to parents and babies, health, child development, advice on infant feeding, immunisation, behaviour issues and family planning. The team can be contacted on 01709 423333.
We offer free 'flu vaccinations, commencing in October, to all our patients over 65 years. Younger patients, particularly those on our registers of heart or chest complaints, and all diabetics, will also be offered the vaccine. The exact list of those invited depends upon Department of Health guidance and can vary from year to year. We try to get the bulk of these injections done on one or two Saturdays in Autumn and are grateful for the efforts and forbearance of those who attend.
Some of our doctors will do special examinations such as HGV licensing in their own time – see Private Services. A simple 'check–up' or health MOT to look at your general health is best arranged with an initial nurse appointment if you are otherwise well.
Community midwives are here to help, advise and support you throughout your pregnancy, and likewise for you and your family in the early weeks after delivery.
Your midwife would like to meet you between the eighth and tenth week of pregnancy (there is no need to see a GP first) and will contact you to make an appointment if you leave your contact details with reception.
If you are planning a pregnancy remember to take folic acid supplements, continuing them until at least 12 weeks advanced. They can be bought from the pharmacist without a prescription. They have been proven to reduce the incidence of neural tube defects (spina bifida and hydrocephalus). The doctors and midwives are happy to discuss other aspects of preconception are during a routine surgery appointment. The health visitors are also in attendance at the antenatal clinic to help you prepare for your baby.
Dr Grafton performs some minor surgery on behalf of the practice We only have the facilities for the removal of skin lesions, bumps under the skin, and some joint injections. If you think your problem might require a small operation it is probably best to see one of these doctors in the first instance.
Dr Grafton also runs a weekly skin clinic with Isobel Melia our physician associate for acne, moles and skin lesions . Please speak to reception for more details.
Ophthalmic (Eye) Care
This can be provided by an Optometrist or an Ophthalmic Medical Practitioner. A free eye examination is available for children under 16 years, full time students up to 19 years, those on income support or family credit, those registered blind or partially sighted, patients with diabetes or glaucoma, or aged 40 or over and closely related to someone with glaucoma.
Some of those eligible are also entitled to vouchers which can be used towards the cost of spectacles if these are required.
First Contact Physiotherapy
The practice has two First Contact Physiotherapists and you can see them for back, spinal, neck , shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee or ankle pain and for Sprains, strains and twisting injury. You can book an appointment through reception.
We also have NHS physiotherapy available at the Kiveton Park Primary Care Centre. The community physiotherapists can visit patients at home who are too ill to attend the surgery. Certain cases may be referred directly to the physiotherapy department at hospital. Appointments are made following consultations with the doctors.
The podiatrist can deal with anything from corns, calluses and nail problems, to minor surgical procedures. Self treatment, using corn pads or solvents, is best avoided as it can cause serious problems in the elderly, diabetics and those with poor circulation.
Podiatry is available from both private practice and the Health Service. Private patients may see the chiropodist of their choice either at his/her surgery, or at home. Health Service treatment is available at both surgeries and at home but is usually restricted to senior citizens, the disabled, expectant mothers, diabetics and children after a variable waiting period and only after referral by a doctor. Our local service) is moving away from simple routine nail care/cutting but has great expertise in some complex areas of foot mechanics and minor foot surgery. Only State Registered Chiropodists may work within the Health Service.
Pregnancy testing is widely available from chemists and kits may be purchased from chemists and larger supermarkets. We do not routinely offer this service as home testing is just as reliable, considerably quicker and more convenient. If you think you might be pregnant and have concerns please feel free to arrange to see a doctor to discuss things. If you simply need to book for routine pregnancy care you can arrange this directly with the relevant midwife without a doctor appointment.
The school nurses can be contacted on 01709 423333.
They work with parents, teachers, family doctors, health visitors, nursery nurses and all schoolchildren attending mainstream schools. The school health screening programme is offered at the start of full–time education and will continue until leaving school. Louise is able to visit a child in school for a variety of reasons and is also able to visit children and/or parents at home to discuss a variety of issues on request. She will also arrange hearing checks for school–age children.
Social Prescribing - over 18 years of age
Patients can be referred by a clinician or self refer to our social prescriber. The social prescriber can support around one or more of the following: lifestyle, looking after yourself, managing symptoms, work, money, family, friends, feeling positive
If you are a smoker, stopping smoking is the best thing you can do for your health. Giving up will reduce your chances of an early death – one sixth of all deaths between 35 and 64 years are caused by tobacco! Any of our doctors or nurses will be happy to discuss the various ways in which we can help if you are thinking of quitting – patches and other aids are available on prescription.
A tetanus booster is recommended a couple of times after leaving school at 10–year intervals; if in doubt ask one of our nurses. Certain wounds might need some additional cover, again, just ask.
This is drop in clinic for 11- 22 year olds from Kiveton, Dinnington, Swallownest and Thurcroft Surgeries. The clinic is held in Waleswood Lodge, next to the main surgery on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3.30pm to 5pm term time.
Alcohol advice for young people and parents
Cool information site for young people all about sex and how it really is
Drugs advice for young people and parents
For childhood weight management.
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Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District, the entity that regulates groundwater in Montgomery County, has asked county commissioners to support its management goal for the Gulf Coast Aquifer System.
LSGCD’s proposed management goal does not include subsidence, or the gradual sinking of the earth that can be due to excessive groundwater withdrawals, as a limiting factor, despite many residents and stakeholders request that this be included.
LSGCD is part of Groundwater Management Area 14, which is composed of several groundwater conservation districts. GMA 14 is tasked with establishing a long-term goal for the aquifers, known as desired future conditions, or DFC. The DFC indirectly establishes how much water groundwater conservation districts in the area are allowed to pump.
On April 9, GMA 14 adopted a proposed DFC, which will be voted on in January. The proposed DFC statement restricts districts within GMA 14 to no less than 70% median available drawdown remaining in the aquifer system in 2080 and no more than 1 additional foot of average subsidence between 2009 and 2080.
Although LSCGD General Manager Samantha Reiter, who was representing LSCGD in the GMA 14 meeting, was opposed to this proposed DFC and offered various other proposed DFCs, her motions were not supported by other GMA 14 members. GMA 14 did eventually unanimously vote to adopt the DFC, except without the language of a formal resolution.
The language of the DFC can still be changed before it is formally adopted, and the public comment period ends July 19.
At the May 25 commissioners court meeting, LSGCD President Harry Hardman asked commissioners to adopt a resolution supporting a DFC with the 70% drawdown metric but without the subsidence metric.
Hardman said the subsidence factor is not applicable to Montgomery County, as model runs have shown that the county’s limiting factor is the 70% available drawdown. This means that models simulating various groundwater use amounts show that the aquifer hits 30% drawdown before it reaches 1 foot of subsidence.
“The [70% drawdown] metric is a confirmed limiting factor for the county, which means once we approach that 30% drawdown, the district needs to evaluate whether cutbacks are appropriate,” he said.
He also said the county has limited subsidence monitoring equipment, and most of the equipment is located in the south of the county, which is experiencing more subsidence because of pumping from Harris County.
“Our metric would be artificially skewed higher and artificially restrict us in the future,” he said. “Think of an aquifer as a bathtub with a piece of string sitting over the center of it representing a county line. If you start to remove water from one side, water on the other side goes down because aquifers don’t know or respect county lines.”
Hardman also emphasized LSCGD's stance to protect private property rights.
“This arbitrary [subsidence] metric restricts residents’ choice on how and when to use their water,” he said. “[Our proposed DFC] protects the freedom of Montgomery County residents to choose how and when they use their groundwater rights rather than having it dictated it to them.”
However, many residents and stakeholders, particularly in The Woodlands, have pleaded with LSGCD to keep a subsidence metric in its DFC. Residents have cited property damage from shifting ground levels, and data from Harris-Galveston Subsidence District shows subsidence is occurring across the county at various rates.
Montgomery County commissioners did not comment at the May 25 meeting whether they would consider a resolution.
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People will often tell you to ride your motorcycle like you’re invisible. This is pretty good advice because most people don’t see you. Many of them don’t see anything except the cell phone glued to their face and whatever their peripheral vision happens to catch. A lot of people do notice you, and many of them will make a little extra space for you. Some of them will make a lot of extra space for you, and while I appreciate the thought, I’m going to have to ask you to not do that.
When I’m on my motorcycle, I want everything to go how I expect it to go. I want other drivers to do the things they usually do, and I want the road, my bike, and my gear to all do the things they’ve always done. Predictability makes traffic move. It is what allows thousands of barely involved drivers to navigate at about 97 kmh, inches away from each other without constant carnage.
Being too nice is unpredictable. Being too nice is when we’re at a four-way stop and it’s your turn, but you wave at me to go ahead. Or when I’m splitting lanes and you move way over into the median to give me space. I appreciate the thought, I really do, but it does a couple of things that make it unsafe.
The first is that it throws me off. It makes my brain go, “Hey that guy isn’t doing what he’s supposed to be doing, now we have to re-evaluate everything.” It also throws everyone else off. The other people at the stop sign are expecting you to go, and if you don’t, maybe they just go while looking at you and don’t notice that I’ve already started into the intersection.
When you move over too far, it may signal to other drivers that they can merge where you were, through the lane that I’m splitting. They see an opening in the faster-moving lane, flip on their turn signal and merge a nanosecond later, right into my path. It also sometimes kicks up rocks into the air, which is not great.
Sure, a little bit more room is nice, and I appreciate that you are paying attention. The safest thing to do is often to just do what you were going to do anyway. Unless what you were going to do involves your phone, then don’t do that. Even though now that seems to be the most predictable thing.
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Blood tests are an essential part of diagnosing what is ailing your pet, just as they are in human medicine. Blood tests can tell the veterinarian a myriad of things, from whether your pet is dehydrated to whether he or she has anemia to whether your cat or dog is suffering from cancer.
Common blood tests used by veterinarians
Red blood cells are used to determine a number of factors. The packed red blood cell count can detect a condition called polycythemia. A high count indicates dehydration, while a low count can be an indicator of anemia. The hemoglobin concentration test measures the oxygen-carrying capacity of your pet's blood, and the red blood cell count can tell your vet how well your pet's body is functioning. Testing the white blood cells is equally useful. A high white blood cell count is indicative of infection, whereas a low white blood cell count can mean a weakened immune system.
Benefits of in-house diagnostics and bloodwork
In-house diagnostics are an invaluable tool that our veterinarians can use to diagnose and monitor health conditions as well as determine organ function and health before procedures. Most test results are available within minutes and can make the difference in circumstances where results are needed immediately.
Your veterinarian will determine a plan based on the patients health condition and risk factors to determine which test is right for them. In certain cases your veterinarian may determine that in-house bloodwork may not be the most comprehensive and cost effective way to check or diagnose your pet.
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How to craft an Iron Axe in Survival Mode.
- 1. Open the Crafting Menu. First, open your crafting table so that you have the 3×3 crafting grid that looks like this:
- 2. Add Items to make an Iron Axe.
- 3. Move the Iron Axe to Inventory.
In the crafting menu, you should see a crafting area that is made up of a 3×3 crafting grid. To make an iron axe, place 3 iron ingots and 2 sticks in the 3×3 crafting grid.
How do you make an iron axe in Minecraft?
In this video I’ll be showing you How To Make An Iron Axe In Minecraft. This should work on any platform and version of Minecraft. Yes, it will be the same o…
How to make mini axe?
· Minecraft – How To Make an Iron Axe. Minecraft – How To Make an Iron Axe. Watch later. Share. Copy link. Info. Shopping. Tap to unmute. If playback doesn’t begin shortly, try restarting your device.
How to craft wooden axe in Minecraft?
How to make a stone axe? Open the crafting table: Open your crafting table to begin crafting an axe with the obtained ingredients contained in your inventory. Once you open … Place the sticks: Place 3 cobblestone blocks: Place the stone axe in your inventory:
How to craft an axe?
This requires: open chat (press “T”) write command /give @p minecraft:iron_axe. press “ENTER”. You can also specify the number and who iron axe will be given: /give @p minecraft:iron_axe …
· Ever wondered how to make a Iron Pickaxe in Minecraft (PC Game)Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CyberGamingSharkTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/CyberGamin…
How do you make iron tools in Minecraft?
To make an iron pickaxe, place 3 iron ingots and 2 sticks in the 3×3 crafting grid. When making an iron pickaxe, it is important that the iron ingots and sticks are placed in the exact pattern as the image below. There should be 3 iron ingots placed in the first row.
How do you make an iron battle AXE?
Players can make an iron battleaxe with the smithing skill at level 25 using three iron bars, giving the player 75 Smithing experience. It is a slashing weapon, which makes it good for monsters with a slash weakness. It can only be used in combat.
How do you make an axe in Minecraft for beginners?
0:201:08How to Make an Axe in Minecraft – YouTubeYouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipSo you’re going to take your sticks by left clicking and then right clicking here and here and thisMoreSo you’re going to take your sticks by left clicking and then right clicking here and here and this is the middle middle and this is the bottom middle and now you’re going to take some cobblestone.
How do you make an axe in Minecraft 2021?
To craft an axe, open the crafting table, place two sticks in the second and third box of the middle column. Then, place two blocks of a material, either Wood, Stone, Gold, Iron, Diamond, Netherite, in the first two boxes of the first row and finally one block in the first box of the second row.
How good is the iron war AXE?
It has the ability to damage multiple mobs in one swing. There’s also a small chance of landing a critical hit when using this weapon, meaning the attack will deal 50% more damage. Its damage can be increased by leveling up the Heavy Melee skill.
How do you make an axe in survival?
1:082:52How to make a Wooden Axe in Survival Craft – YouTubeYouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipNow just hold on your blank until the sweating surrounds it and now place the of wood in such Oh inMoreNow just hold on your blank until the sweating surrounds it and now place the of wood in such Oh in the way I’m doing it right now. So that it can make the axe or hatchet whatever you want to call it.
How do you make a sword and axe in Minecraft?
1:525:39How to Make Wooden Tools in Minecraft Survival (Axe, Sword …YouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipNow let’s go back to our crafting location press l2 on it. Now let’s go ahead and make an axe. SoMoreNow let’s go back to our crafting location press l2 on it. Now let’s go ahead and make an axe. So take your sticks. And put them in a formation like this take your wood planks. Put them like this.
How do I make a stone axe in Minecraft?
0:262:27HOW TO MAKE A STONE AXE MINECRAFT – YouTubeYouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipTable put the freebets of stone in sort of right angle and then the two wooden sticks and that willMoreTable put the freebets of stone in sort of right angle and then the two wooden sticks and that will give you a stone axe brilliant.
How do you make an axe?
To Make an Axe:Trace the pattern on the next page on annealed (temperable) steel, 5/16-thick.Cut out the axe head with a hacksaw.Smooth all edges with a file, and file the bevel to make the cutting edge. … Drill two rivet holes.The face should be slightly hollowed, like a shallow gouge.More items…
How do you make a diamond axe in Minecraft?
Add Items to make a Diamond Axe In the crafting menu, you should see a crafting area that is made up of a 3×3 crafting grid. To make a diamond axe, place 3 diamonds and 2 sticks in the 3×3 crafting grid.
How do I craft a sword in Minecraft?
Crafting a sword is easy – line up a stick and two planks, cobblestone, iron ingots, gold ingots or diamonds in a line in a crafting grid. You can also “acquire” them from zombies, husks, zombie pigmen, pillagers and vindicators. With powerful magic in your hands, you might have a chance of getting one from a vex, too.
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Irritable bowel syndrome more commonly called IBS can have a huge impact on your life. People with IBS can experience abdominal pain, bloating, constipation, cramps, gas, and diarrhoea and IBS outbreaks can leave you feeling miserable. These symptoms can anything from a few days to weeks.
Whilst there is no cure for IBS, there are options to stop you from suffering. Your GI doctor can prescribe medication if needed and there are dietary changes that will help to manage your symptoms.
We have created a list of ways IBS sufferers can minimise their outbreaks and get back to enjoying a healthy lifestyle
Whilst there are certain foods known to trigger IBS attacks (we will get into these in more detail later) everyone is different and if you are struggling to manage your IBS symptoms it will really help to keep a diary of foods you eat and your reactions. Try to write down everything you eat and drink for a few weeks and monitor when your IBS is flaring up. This will help you identify foods to avoid and triggers personal to you.
Try to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.
Keeping hydrated has many health benefits and it is especially helpful if you have IBS. Drinking water is one of the best ways to prevent chronic constipation which is one of the key symptoms of IBS. Even if you are having an IBS outbreak and if you are experiencing diarrhoea, drinking lots of water will help to replace lost fluids making you feel better quicker.
Water is proven to soothe stomach distress so try and ensure you are drinking water regularly throughout the day.
Make sure you are getting enough exercise
Whilst a session of intense cardio might seem daunting for IBS sufferers exercise is incredibly beneficial and can help you feel better. A 2018 study of IBS sufferers found that low to moderate activity could help with IBS symptoms and various other studies have concluded that exercise has health benefits.
Exercise increases your production of endorphins leading to less stress leading to a happier healthier you. If you are looking to add some gentle exercise to your routine we suggest jogging or even increasing your walking distances is a great way to being to build up your physical fitness and take control over your IBS.
We all know getting stressed is unpleasant but for those with IBS stress can aggravate symptoms making you feel worse. An article in the World Journal of Gastroenterology suggests that IBS is a “stress-sensitive disorder”. Therefore managing your stress levels is vital to leading a happy healthy life. If you are prone to stress try to look at ways of managing them,
As we mentioned exercise is beneficial to manage your IBS symptoms and if you are prone to stress or anxiety yoga could be a great exercise to help manage both your mind and your body. Other ways to manage stress levels could include, meditation, pleasant walks and ensuring you make time to do something for your own happiness. Laughter has many benefits so have you considered listening to some of the many comedy podcasts that are available. There is no one size fits all for stress so try and find a solution that works for you.
Whilst the traditional breakfast, lunch and dinner work for some of us we are all different and for IBS sufferers it is worth experimenting. Some people find smaller more frequent males can help to manage symptoms. Consider trying this and marking it in your food and symptoms diary to see if it will help. Try to eat slowly making time to thoroughly chew your food as rushing your food can upset digestion. Finally try avoid eating late at night so you have time to digest your dinner before sleeping.
If you suffer from IBS it could help to increase the amount of fibre in your diet. This will allow food to move more easily through your digestive tract which should minimise stomach troubles. Chocolate, caffeine and processed fatty foods can often trigger bouts of IBS. These foods are high in fat and sugar and are best to limit in order to feel your best. If you can’t resist a sweet treat try to limit portion size and satisfy your sweet tooth with fruits where you can.
Finally, try and be kind to yourself. IBS is just one part of who you are. Take control of your IBS make positive changes and remember we are always here to help if you are struggling to manage your symptoms.
At GI Doctors we have expertise in treating all gastro related problems. Book a consultation with us today. We will discuss your symptoms and get you the best treatment so you can get on with living and enjoying your life.
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Situated in southeastern Oklahoma, Coal County is bordered by Hughes County on the north, Pittsburg County on the northeast, Atoka County on the southeast, Johnston County on the southwest, and Pontotoc County on the northwest. At the turn of the twenty-first century incorporated towns included Centrahoma, Lehigh, Phillips, Tupelo, and Coalgate, the county seat. The Clear Boggy and Muddy Boggy rivers (creeks) drain the county, which has a total land and water area of 521.3 square miles. Generally, the county has forest in the east, where the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains begin, and open prairie in the west and lies generally in the Sandstone Hills physiographic region. Coal County lies within a region that has been little studied by archaeologists. However, a 1983 published archaeological survey report indicates that the county has sixty-three known sites, none of which have been tested.
The Choctaw began arriving in the area in the 1830s. They had been removed by treaty from the American South and began to settle in their new homeland beginning in 1831–32. Present Coal County was carved mostly from Shappaway County (later Atoka County) of the Pushmataha District, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (I.T.). The western three-and-one-half mile strip of Coal County was taken from the Pontotoc District of the Chickasaw Nation.
Organized at 1907 statehood, Coal County, claimed 15,585 residents. In that year Boone Williams of Lehigh, a Democratic representative to the first state legislature, persuaded the representatives to select Lehigh as the county seat. However, many individuals objected, and a special election was held in 1908. Citizens selected Coalgate over Lehigh and Centrahoma. Because more people voted than were registered, Lehigh sued, but the courts refused to hear the case. Coalgate celebrated its victory with a visit from Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs and a barbecue on July 4, 1908. Peter Hanraty, Oklahoma's chief mine inspector, was Coalgate's first mayor. The county courthouse was built in 1909.
Coal mining and agriculture have been the major sources of employment. In the 1870s mining began around McAlester, and mines were soon opened in present Coal County. Large numbers of Eastern European immigrants who worked in the mines obtained permits costing five dollars annually from the Choctaw Nation in order to live and work in the area. The first coal mine was opened on Choctaw leader Allen Wright's land at Midway, located between Atoka and Coalgate. His sons Eliphalet Nott and James Brooks Wright founded the town of Olney. Eliphalet Wright was Oklahoma historian Muriel Wright's father. Other coal mines opened at Lehigh and Coalgate in the 1880s. Railroads were built to serve the mines and were responsible for the location of Clarita and Centrahoma.
Mining reached its peak between 1910 and 1916 with thousands working daily in the mines. The Coalgate, Lehigh, Phillips, and Cottonwood economies boomed. Italian, French, Mexican, Slovakian, and Magyar immigrant workers lived in company houses and used the company's stores, doctors, and hospital. Although strip-mining companies moved into the area after World War I, mining continued to decline. The mines closed in 1921, and years of crop failures followed. The county's population, which peaked in 1920 at 18,406, declined to 11,521 in 1930 and reached its lowest points in 1960 with 5,546 and 1970 with 5,525. The mines that were reopened during World War II were closed by 1958. The population hovered around six thousand for the next three decades.
In addition to coal mining, agriculture provided income to county residents, although farming was not a major economic activity. In 1910 the county numbered only 1,166 farms. During the 1940s more income was derived from livestock raising than from crop production. The major crops included cotton, peanuts, pecans, corn, wheat, and fruit. The number of farms declined from 1,769 in 1935 to 586 at the turn of the twenty-first century. However, the number of acres of farmland increased from 249,220 acres in 1935 to 272,894 acres at the turn of the twenty-first century. In 1978 Amish families from Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, and Canada moved into the Clarita-Bromide area. They established dairy farms, buggy shops, and farms without electricity. The newcomers continued to speak the German language at home.
At the turn of the twenty-first century Coal County had 6,031 citizens who gained their livelihood through wholesale and retail services, health care services, farming, and livestock production. The county is served by U.S. Highway 75 north and south and by State Highways 3, 31, 43, and 48. The 2010 census reported a county population of 5,925, of whom 74.3 percent were white, 16.7 percent American Indian, 0.5 percent African American, and 0.2 percent Asian. Hispanic ethnicity was identified as 2.6 percent. From 1957 until its closure at the turn of the twenty-first century, the Blue Bell Clothing factory at Coalgate employed more than three hundred. The Coalgate Record-Register, established in 1911, continued to serve the citizens.
Prominent Coal County residents have included U.S. Secretary of War (Gen.) Patrick J. Hurley and historian Muriel H. Wright. Historic properties in Coal County listed in the National Register of Historic Places include the Benjamin Franklin Smallwood House (NR 82003676), near Lehigh and the Coalgate School Gymnasium-Auditorium (NR 88001382), a WPA–built facility in Coalgate. A small section of Lake Atoka, created by impounding waters of a tributary of the Muddy Boggy River in neighboring Atoka County, provides recreational access in southeastern Coal County. The Coal County Mining and Historical Museum, Coalgate, interprets the area's history.
"Coal County," Vertical File, Research Division, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City.
Jerome Frank Coling, "The Historical Geography of Coalgate, Oklahoma" (M.A. thesis, University of Oklahoma, 1966).
Betty Poe, comp. and ed., History of Coal County, Oklahoma (Dallas, Tex.: Curtis Media Corp., 1986).
A Social and Economic Survey of Six Counties in Southeastern Oklahoma: Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, McCurtain and Pushmataha Counties (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1946).
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James C. Milligan, “Coal County,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CO002.
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Bill Watterson retired from writing and drawing "Calvin & Hobbes" about 18 years ago, but the timelessness of his message -- to always remain thoughtful, imaginative, and playful -- will stick in our culture forever, if we're lucky. Case in point: Cartoonist Gavin Aung Than, who pens comics on his blog Zen Pencils, created this tribute to Watterson that has struck a chord with the Internet over the last few days.
Than took the text from a commencement speech Watterson delivered at Kenyon College in 1995, and illustrated it in the style of "Calvin & Hobbes." He explains that this is the first time he's intentionally attempted to mimic Watterson, although the man has been an inspiration for his art as well as his career.
If you want to buy a print of Than's cartoon, you may be out of luck. He explains that since Watterson famously refuses to license his work, preferring to let his art speak for itself, selling this "would be against the whole spirit of Calvin and Hobbes." However, you can (and should) click over to his site and browse his other, non-Watterson related artwork.
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SEN & DISABILITIES
To make sure that our provision meets the needs of each individual child, we take account of any special needs a child may have. We work to the requirements of the Special Educational Needs & Disability Code of Practice: 0 to 25 years (2015).
Our Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator is Dawn Rogers
Fountains Playgroup and Pre-School offer places for children with special educational needs / disabilities.
We know and appreciate that all children have individual needs; and from time to time an individual might need additional help or support to help them learn and develop to their full potential. Our aim is to support you and your child, to ensure their individual needs are met, no matter how big or small.
The staff will support each child in our care so they have fun, enjoy their early years and learn through their play.
The following explains how we aim to support families of children with special needs and/ or disabilities in helping them to understanding the provision we make accessible.
If a child’s needs are different or additional to the needs of other children of a similar age, we may describe them as having special educational needs. We also support the additional needs that the children with disabilities may have in a similar way, which is why we describe the support available as being for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
Every child at Fountains Playgroup and Pre-School is allocated a key person, this person will be close to the child, and their family, and the key person will know him/her and will be the first contact in the setting. We understand the partnership with the child and their family is vital and to help build this relationship we, amongst other things, hold settling in plans, create a learning journal that is shared with parents frequently and engage in daily contact with the parents/ carers.
How does the setting know your child is in need of extra support/ has SEND?
What do you do if you, the parent/carer thinks your child has SEND? All children at Fountains Playgroup are assessed using the developmental stages in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). If you are concerned and think your child has additional or different needs to other children, then please have a chat with their allocated key person. Your key person may be able to put your mind at rest and assure you that there is nothing to worry about. Children develop at different rates depending on their abilities. However, if you are still concerned, your key person will suggest that you both discuss this with the groups Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator (SENCo) This named person is Dawn Rogers, or if it is a behavioural issue then Emma Spick is the named Behavioural co-ordinator. We will all work closely together to decide the right pathway for your child and decide what is the correct level of support we will put in place.
How will Fountains Playgroup staff support my child?
You, the parents, your child's key person and the SENCo will all meet together and agree an individual learning and provision plan (ILPP). This plan will set out appropriate and achievable targets that will be worked on over an allocated time scale, usually 6 to 8 weeks. At the end of this period we will arrange a meeting to review achievements made and celebrate together, we may then set new targets, or we may at that point decide no further action is needed, perhaps we will decide to monitor your child to ensure the improvement continues. If your child has not reached targets, we may seek advice from other professionals who can provide additional support for both you and the setting to help with planning.
How will we prepare and support your child to join the setting, help transition to a new setting or the next stage of education and life?
Transitions are extremely important to us at Fountains and we recognise that all children will not be able to learn and develop to the best of their ability if they are not feeling safe and emotionally secure. We encourage parents and children into the setting before starting and meet their key person and SENCo. This allows you to discuss any concerns you have, or your child’s individual needs. It is important to us that your child meets their key person and begin to form an attachment before they start with us and leave their special and loving parents/carers. ALL settling in periods are based on individual needs and we work with both parents and the children’s needs to achieve the best possible transition possible during the Covid19 pandemic. We are also happy to meet and welcome into the setting any professionals you already have contact with that can support us in working with your child. We aim to have everything needed in place before your child starts to allow the smooth transition.
If your child has additional medical needs, we will work closely with you to write an individual medical plan, this will reassure you everything is in place to meet the individual needs of your child. We review medical plans regularly and whenever there is any change.
How do we support transition to primary school?
When it is time for your child to move into school we will arrange a meeting with the reception teacher from your chosen school; this will ensure we pass on all relevant information. You are invited to attend any stage of any transition. We will do everything we can to explain to the primary school your child’s every need; the primary school teacher will be invited to attend review meetings so that they are aware of your child’s current abilities and individual learning needs.
Who can I contact for more information?
Your key person and SENCo are your first point of contact. However, if you are unhappy with information given to you please contact the Inclusion Officers for North Yorkshire Children and Young Peoples Service. Ripon Children's Centre will be able to give you their contact details. You may wish to follow our complaints procedure; this is available in our policy file, available by email on request. You can also contact Ofsted directly on 0300 1231231. You can identify staff through our photographs on the parents’ notice board in the cloakroom.
What are the settings responsibilities in enabling and supporting inclusive practice?
Every member of staff is committed to inclusive practice. The manager, Dawn Rogers has overall responsibility for inclusion. Dawn attends special educational needs and disability (SEND) network meetings to ensure her knowledge is current and up to date. Appropriate training is sought when required. We also continually reassess our ethos, policies and practice to ensure that our environment is inclusive and that the resources reflect diversity positively and that we celebrate our differences.
How will I know how my child is doing?
We will ensure that you are informed of your child’s progress regularly and a member of staff will speak to you on collection of your child to explain how he/she has been through the session. You will be invited to all review meetings that are held and also any other meetings involving other professionals. You will be informed of any professional that is coming into the setting to see your child. Our aim is to always involve and include parents at all times. Your child’s ILPP will have clear targets and you will be able to see whether your child is achieving their targets; you will be invited to review these with us and set new ones. Every 2 year old has a progress check written on them (between 24 and 36 months); this will help identify any concerns at an early age. You are free to take home/ have a look and write comments in your child’s individual progress file. Parent evenings and daily conversations take place. Please feel free to talk to your key person at any time, we are always happy to listen.
What support is there for my child’s physical and emotional wellbeing?
We ensure any child with additional medical needs has an individual health care plan. Parents are involved in writing this, your input is valuable and also any advice from professionals involved with your child. It will be reviewed regularly and when any changes occur. You will be informed of anything we are doing to support your child’s health needs and who is responsible for this. You will also have contact with staff members to discuss any medicines that need to administered. A record needs completing on administering medication. You will be informed of how your child’s personal care will be carried out. Children’s emotional wellbeing is paramount to us and we take every care to ensure that children feel safe and comfortable with us at Fountains. Any inappropriate behaviour will be dealt with and discussed with you. Emma Spick will work with your child to turn any negative behaviour into positive behaviour.
What specialist services/expertise is available or can be accessed by the staff at Fountains?
Staff are highly trained and have experiences in a broad range of additional needs. Dawn Rogers attends SEND training, when available. We have had training and cared for children with autism, downs syndrome, cerebral palsy, developmental delay and behavioural issues. Fountains Playgroup staff work closely and hold good relationships with professionals involved with these children to name a few, portage, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, autism outreach, speech and language therapist.
How will staff help me to support my child’s learning?
You will be given a copy of your child’s ILPP so you know exactly what we are working on and you will be able to work on these targets too. You will be invited to attend ILPP meetings as we value your input. Your key person will explain to you how the targets are best being implemented. You can access their learning journal at any time, this shows your child’s day to day learning and development as they learn through play at Fountains.
Will my child be included in outings/ learning outside the setting?
We have planned 3 trips over the school year, in recent years; due to Covid19 this will be reviewed. NO child would ever be excluded from our organised outings, trips or when visitors are in the setting. Staff will chat with you to decide on the best way that your child can be included. We complete risk assessments for every outing this helps to reduce risks to any child’s safety.
How are children supported that speak English as an additional language?
We aim to support any child that speaks English as an additional language (EAL) and can use translation services as required. We aim to use key words from the child’s home language, if this is what parents want. We would ask parents to assess their child’s communication ability in their home language so that we can ensure that their speech is developing well if they don’t yet speak English. We would encourage families to tell us about their home culture and invite them in to share celebrations and special events.
How accessible is the setting?
Our building is on one level and is wheelchair accessible. We provide small toilets for the children; this builds their independence and self-esteem. We also have a disabled toilet in the playgroup building. We welcome children into Fountains that are still wearing nappies or toilet training and we work closely with parents following their preferred way of working. We work together to reduce any barriers for the child or their family. We can access additional Inclusion Funding, if required and parents can access 2 year old funding.
How are the settings resources allocated and matched to children’s special educational needs?
If specific resources are required to meet a child’s individual needs, we can apply to access funding from local authority. We always aim to meet every child’s individual needs.
At Fountains Playgroup and Pre-School we are committed to supporting the inclusion of every child and work closely with parents and other professionals involved to ensure that every child’s needs are met so they can learn, develop and achieve to their full potential.
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Invoices are a crucial part of any business. Emailing/faxing invoices has replaced the traditional paper invoicing. However, online billing softwares have recently taken over. Online Billing softwares have not been a new concept in IT. Its definition is constantly changing due to the constant transformations, advances, and upgradations. Instance, when billing applications first got online, few thought that a billing application could allow them to generate reports, keep a back-up, customize reminders & alerts and manage inventory. It was initially intended to allow users to send and get invoices. Today, these applications are an integral part business transactions.
These applications are particularly beneficial for small businessmen because they may not have thought to use a billing software that could view invoices reports and track revenues (sales). It isn’t just an invoicing tool for them; in the absence of financial planners and book-keepers, the application also helps them in money management by tracking payment for products/services and outstanding and received bills.
They were not only designed for you, but they are also priced for your benefit. How you spend your hard earned money matters. It is important to not spend large sums of money on things such as business invoices. Priced at $9.90 this reasonably priced documents will get your business rolling. Software that allows you to create invoices and other documents is also available. Easily create forms for quotes, work orders, delivery orders and receipts of all types – all at with a click on the mouse.
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Chlorine is a commonly used chemical, added to the water of swimming pools across the globe, but is it actually safe?
Chlorine has a bit of a complicated reputation: while it’s known as a highly toxic chemical that’s harmful to humans, it’s actually one of the most widely used substances on the planet, and has multiple uses in cleaning and sterilising products. Without chlorine, tonnes of water would not be safe to drink, and air-freighted salads would go rotten before they reached the plate.
So why the bad rep? Well, you certainly wouldn’t want concentrated chlorine on your skin, or indeed anywhere near you! Breathing chlorine gas can result in extreme difficulty breathing, lung and eye irritation and even pulmonary oedema.
But chlorine gas is generally not something you’d come across in your daily life. And the way it’s used in public swimming pools, chlorine isn’t any kind of threat to life. The balance between the effective sterilisation of water used by hundreds of bodies, and need not to harm those swimmers, is carefully worked out by pool maintenance companies. This means that jumping into well-diluted chlorinated pool water is very unlikely to cause major problems for most people.
Having said that, it’s true that chlorine is a skin irritant, and it’s pretty hard to avoid if you’re literally swimming in it. The properties that allow chlorine to neutralise viruses, bacterial and fungal infections also mean it’s rough on the skin barrier; prolonged contact can lead to chlorine rash, an itchy and uncomfortable condition which can manifest in spots, weals and soreness.
Chlorine, even at low dilution, can also make existing skin conditions worse, triggering eczema or psoriasis flare-ups, or making sore or broken skin sting. It’s counted as a cause of contact dermatitis, and can provoke an inflammatory response if it gets through into the bloodstream.
So while it’s safe, in as far as it will do no lasting damage, chlorine in swimming pool water can be extremely uncomfortable to those with sensitive skin.
In conclusion, chlorine is usually seen as too useful a chemical not to use in swimming pools; the benefits of keeping water clean and safe for thousands of users are thought to outweigh the drawbacks to those who find it problematic. (Although, it's worth noting, some people with eczema do find the low concentration of chlorine in swimming pool water can help manage skin infections in the way that bleach baths for eczema do! As with anything to do with eczema, everyone's skin is different... )
We’d suggest taking proactive steps to help protect sensitive or eczema-prone skin from chlorine rash. Check out our article How To Protect Skin From Chlorine Rash for more information!
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If you require medical advice we recommend you always contact your healthcare professional.
If you or someone you are caring for seems very unwell, is getting worse or you think there's something seriously wrong, call for emergency services straight away. For general medical advice, please contact your healthcare professional, this article does not contain or replace medical advice.
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Did You Know?
Save Chicago bike parking!
Chicago’s new on-street parking scheme has drivers reeling. But replacing parking meters with pay-and-display kiosks has a very serious impact on bike parking.
Losing 36,000 parking meters essentially means cyclists are losing 36,000 bike parking spots.
We have written to the city urging it to put some of the money generated by the lease with LAZ Parking toward bike parking.
June marks the start of the City’s budget process. It is important to let your aldermen know that you want him or her to make bike parking replacement a priority. Be sure they know that bike parking is vital to your life as a resident in their ward.
Questions? Contact Rob Sadowsky at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ithout doubt people become ignorant and astray when they depend on their own viewpoints and do not consult the people of true knowledge. So, the ignorant person goes astray in the methods of ignorance. However, he thinks that he is knowledgeable in the true religious law.
There was a debate between al- Sadiq, peace be on him, and an ignorant person who affected knowledge in truthfulness. Al- Sadiq himself has told us about this debate. He has said:
“Indeed, whoever follows his desire and admires his idea becomes like that person whom ignorant people regarded as great. I saw a group of people surrounding him. So, I wanted to meet him. He deceived that group of people, then he left them. I followed him. Soon, he passed by a baker. He made the baker heedless and took two loaves of bread from his bakery.
I was astonished at him, then I talked to myself: Perhaps, he is his customer. Then, I said: Why has he stolen the two loaves of bread? Then, I went on following him. Soon, he passed by pomegranate seller. He made him heedless and took two pomegranates.
I was astonished at him, and then I said to myself: Perhaps, he is his customer. Then I said: Why has he stolen them? Then I went on following him till he passed by a sick person. He put the two loaves of bread and the two pomegranates before a sick person.
Then I (al- Sadiq) asked him about his act. He said: ‘perhaps, you are Ja’far b. Mohammed?’ ‘Yes,’ I said. He said to me: ‘What does your noble origin avail you while you are ignorant?’ ‘Which verse of the Koran am I ignorant at?’ I asked. He said these Words of Allah, the Great and Almighty.’ Whoever brings a good deed, he shall have ten like it, and whoever brings and evil deed he shall be recompensed only with the like of it.'(6:160)
‘When I stole the two loaves of bread, they were two evil deeds. And When I stole the two pomegranates, they were two evil deeds, too. So, these are four evil deeds. When I gave each one of them as alms, Allah has subtracted 4 evil deeds from 40 good deeds. So, I have 36 good deeds.’ I (al- Sadiq) said: ‘May your mother lose you! It is you who are ignorant at the Book of Allah. Have you not heard that Allah said:
“(Allah) accepts (deeds) from the pious only.’ When you stole the two loaves of bread, they were two evil deeds. And when you stole the two pomegranates, they were two evil deeds, too. And when you gave them to other than their owner without the permission of their owner, you have added four evil deeds to four evil deeds, and you have not added four evil deeds to forty good deeds. So, he began looking at me. Then I left him and went away.”‘
Al- Sadiq, peace be on him, said: “They (the ignorant) mislead (people) and go astray with this ugly, hateful explanation.”(Wasa’il al- Shi’a, v.2, p.57)
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Caring for People by Caring for Animals & Nature
Nourishing Hearts Wellness Care Farm is a social work based therapeutic farm that offers child, youth and adult mental health counselling. Services include a unique blend of in-office counselling, animal-assisted therapy, nature assisted therapy and play therapy.
As a registered social worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers and the founder of Nourishing Hearts Wellness Care Farm, Julie has a unique approach to supporting mental health where she combines the care of nature & animals with the care of people. She has completed both Bachelor and Master of Social Work degrees in addition to a Developmental Services Worker diploma. She is a trained Animal Assisted Therapist and is currently completing her Canadian Association of Play Therapy Internship. Julie has enjoyed over 20 years working & volunteering in a variety of care settings, supporting individuals & families with different abilities across the lifespan who have experienced mental health, crisis, addiction, & disability challenges. Currently, she is a registered provider for the Indigenous Non-Insured Health Benefits Mental Health program, Victim Services for Elgin and Chatham-Kent, and the BOOST for Kids ~ Child Internet Exploitation program, in addition to providing services to several Children’s Aid Societies, Ontario Works, and private clients.
The Farm Approach
Nourishing Hearts Wellness Care Farm is a social work-based private practice that offers children, youth & adult counselling that includes traditional in-office talk therapy along with animal & nature assisted counselling and play therapy. A therapeutic relationship is utilized to support, treat and prevent mental health challenges and needs. Here on the farm, Julie provides a client-centred approach that encourages people to lead her to where they feel comfortable talking, this may be sitting in the snuggle stall within the barn while cuddling and grooming animals or with a support animal with them in the office counselling space. For others, they may feel more comfortable talking while doing arts & crafts, exploring the wetland, walking the meadow trail or sitting around a campfire.
We have many hooved, pawed and feathered friends that offer support. This includes Bambi our smoochy horse, Nutmeg, Blossom and Yoda our cheeky goats, Sweet Pea & Baa Baa our darling sheep, Cornelius our belly scratching loving pig, Clubhouse Chloe and Earl our adventurous kitties, Umka & George our lovable protector dogs, Jenny, Jozie, Grandma, Moe, Sunny, Ella snd Ellouise, Gladys and Clare our feathered explorers.
The Counselling Approach
The empowerment that comes from this humanistic approach cultivates trust and safety to embrace personal challenges while also identifying strengths, discovering individual uniqueness & ability to problem-solve, overcome challenges & succeed in life. The counselling techniques of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT), play therapy, animal-assisted counselling, mindfulness, self-love & compassion are creatively woven into sessions to assist with validation, re-framing personal experiences, challenging unhelpful thoughts, developing healthy coping strategies and cultivating a healthy sense of self and belonging.
Children, Youth & Adults with...
For people impacted by anxiety, Julie helps people to be curious about what their body is communicating rather than being fearful. she helps to increase their ability to embrace the experience of anxiety, identify their patterns of "twisted thinking" (cognitive distortions) and teach them how to question & challenge their internal dialogue while broadening their understanding of themselves, others, and the world in which they live. The inclusion of animals into this process is a non-threatening way to explore and develop insight into anxiety since animals are often hypervigilant to their environment out of concerns of becoming prey to predators. The animals not only provide a supportive and enriched environment that stimulates an oxytocin surge (a natural calming hormone in humans), the animals become objects of projections in which clients can witness non-verbal hypervigilant body language, project their self-talk and apply a variety of coping strategies.
Trauma, Depression and Loss
For people who struggle with depression, trauma, and loss, the farm offers a quiet and gentle place to rest, heal, and to regain strength. Nature and animals create a safe space for people to come and develop an understanding of all that has happened to them and how it has impacted them physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. With this awareness and understanding, people are empowered with coping tools to create a new of being and insight necessary to forgiveness and self-compassion while also regaining a sense of safety and trust within themselves, others, and the world they live in.
ADHD, ASD, FASD and Developmental Disabilities
For children & youth on the autism and fetal alcohol spectrums and for those experiencing symptoms of ADHD or for those with a developmental disability, out of necessity, these kids are often constrained by rules and expectations in order to fit within social environments which can impact their sense of self, but here on the farm, they are encouraged to be their own selves. Julie believes in setting children up for success and for this reason the farm is organized to be supportive of fast minds and fast bodies. The farm and therapeutic relationship offer a place of belonging for those who struggle to fit in and to be accepted just as they are. The farm environment is empowering with the attitude and approach of "yes we can", "let’s give it a try", and “how can we make this work?”, as Julie is curious to the strengths, abilities, and esteem that can be discovered and strengthened through a positive therapeutic relationship of acceptance, curious exploration and a place to belong.
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Proverbs 16:3 (NAS) - Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be established.
Ephesians 1:8-10 (MSG) – [God] thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.
Jeremiah 10:23 (NLT) - "I know, Lord, that a person’s life is not his own. No one is able to plan his own course."
Isaiah 5:19 - (Woe) ...to those who say, "Let God hurry, let him hasten his work so we may see it. Let it approach, let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come, so we may know it."
Philippians 3:13-14 (NAS) - Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NAS) - 'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
Matthew 6:33 (NAS) - "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."
Proverbs 21:5 - The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.
Proverbs 15:22 - Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 16:1 - To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue...In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Proverbs 19:21 - Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.
Isaiah 55:6 - Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
Proverbs 20:18 - Make plans by seeking advice; if you wage war, obtain guidance.
Galatians 6:4-5 (MSG) – Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.
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Six German entrepreneurs have joined forces and built a new company with over 500 cows, 800 hectares of land and a manure digester installation. After six months the scale yields advantages. Further growth over the next few years is likely.
Situated in Bovenden, in the German district of Göttingen, Plesse Milch looks like a regular large dairy farm to the passer-by. There is a lot of activity going on, but the cows do not seem to mind much. This is no ordinary company, however; only six months ago the animals were housed at six different locations. Now, they have been ‘merged’ to one herd of over 500 animals. “The big move took place in November,” tells Herbert Hardege. He, together with Jürgen Wolff, is responsible for the daily management: Hardege is responsible for the cows and Wolff for the land. The other four entrepreneurs (Lars Beinhorn, Werner Beinhorn, Burkhardt Düvel and Thomas Vogel) each have specific tasks such as rearing young animals at their own locations.
Company: Jürgen Wolff (62) and Herbert Hardege (52) are two of the six entrepreneurs in Plesse Milch in Bovenden, in the German state of Lower Saxony. About 500 milking cows, 815 ha of land and a manure digester installation of 530 kW. Strategy: Optimise production, then scale up.
A total of 23 people work at the company, some temporarily, because of the construction of the company. It is operational, but clearly some things still need to be finished. The construction was conducted with the use of their own people and staff as much as possible. It is a huge project, especially for his small-scale area regarding livestock farming; three parallel barns have been built on the 7.5 ha building site.
Four groups of approximately 130 cows stay in the holding pen, the largest barn. This has a covered corridor connected to the barn with the waiting area, milking parlour and treatment stalls. Another corridor leads to the pen for dry and newly calved cows and the straw stalls for animals that need attention. In the distance, three typical pointed roofs of the digestion installation protrude above the immensely high stockpile of maize.
The plans to found a new company with six dairy farmers stems from 2006. They already knew each other through partnerships. Expansion was necessary for some of the farmers but proved to be impossible. Hardege: “And we all thought the same thing: how we couldn’t keep milking in those old barns until our retirements.” Thus the idea was born to put it all together and build a completely new company.
In 2010 the company Plesse Milch GmbH & Co (named after a nearby castle) was established. The legal company format limits the liability of the partners. It also simplifies partners joining or resigning. The individual entrepreneurs each have inserted assets into the joint company; the grounds are rented. The arrangements are fixed for twenty years. Partners can stop working, but the assets remain in the company for that period.
Legally, everything can be pinned down, but the entrepreneurs are aware that this cooperation also has a human aspect. This is why they hired a coaching agency. A mission statement has been drafted and individual and joint coaching sessions prepared the six farmers for this big step. A joint vision is of vital importance, emphasises Wolff: “All decisions have to comply with that.” The six partners strive to have weekly consultations on operational matters. They have not succeeded to do that thus far due to the bustle surrounding the finishing of the company, but they do realise that it is necessary.
In developing the structure of the company it was quickly decided to place a biogas installation. Germany has energy regulations for power from biogas with a guaranteed yield for twenty years. Companies that process their own manure, get a plus on the price. At the moment, the price is €0.22 per kWh. Only liquid and straw manure from the young cattle barns go in the digester. At first, 30 hectares of maize were also intended for the digester, but because the production is vastly higher than expected, the input is reduced.
An additional advantage of the biogas installation lies in the sharing of the cost. The biogas installation pays for 30% of the costs of manure storage. The total investment is estimated at €5,000 per stall. “Without biogas that would have been more,” said Hardege. The biogas installation would have cost the entrepreneurs approximately €1.3 million.
It takes one employee a few hours of work to feed the installation every day. Via a pump and underground piping, the manure from the collector of the barn goes directly to the digester. There the manure is mixed up with straw manure and left over feed from the barns. Soon, a second generator will be placed and the capacity will increase from 265 kW up to 530 kW. The entrepreneurs cannot explain the high gas production. “It is possible that the high production rate of the cows is related to it.” Because much less corn is needed, they save up to €50,000 in costs per year.
Interesting trading party
The new company has been up and running for about six months now. One of the goals was to work easier, and the two entrepreneurs consider this goal reached. The six entrepreneurs now have weekends off and are better able to plan their leisure time.
It does however take some getting used to: to allow for each other’s wishes, to plan vacations, and to manage personnel. They said goodbye to companies and people with whom they worked individually. Now, for instance, they work with a veterinarian specialised in larger companies. “This was not easy for everyone, but it is for the best.”
The entrepreneurs acknowledge the advantages of this scale; they are an interesting party when it comes to buying products and it is more efficient to work in groups. Another thing they have noticed is that this scale works as a catalyst. In the planning phase, the company added up to 550 ha; a few years later it has grown to 800 ha. “We can accomplish more, because we are bigger.”
The circumstances in this new barn are better than before, resulting in already increasing production after the stressful period for the cows. Udder health is good and fertility goes well with support of activity monitoring. Point of focus for the short term is calving management; there are still too many cows with calf disease and afterbirth problems. Meanwhile the feed regime during the dry period has been modified by providing two rations.
Expanding the company
The question for the near future is whether the entrepreneurial differences between the partners are going to play a role. The sum of six companies may be 500 cows, but this is not the same as one company that has grown to 500 cows. Sufficient entrepreneurial strength is needed to successfully develop the company. Hardege is capable and visionary enough to lead the way. He already dreams of expansion; the design took into account that the two holding barns can be mirrored. The space between the huge silage pit and the current barn is reserved for just that purpose. Growth becomes a lot cheaper, just like in the Netherlands, in an era without quota. Roughage is sufficiently available and disposal of manure is not a problem thanks to the manure digester. “There is however, more political and social resistance. If we choose the safe option, the barn might be there sooner than we think.”
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Cummins Inc. announced that it has been selected as one of the world’s “Most Ethical Companies” for 2009 by the Ethisphere Institute. In all, 99 companies were selected for the recognition from an initial pool of more than 10,000 companies.
This is the third year Ethisphere, which describes itself as an organization “dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability,” has compiled its list of most ethical companies. Cummins has been recognized each of the past two years.
“Cummins is honored to be recognized by the Ethisphere Institute,” says Marya Rose, vice president and general counsel for the Columbus, Ind.-based company. “This type of recognition is a credit to the ongoing efforts and values of Cummins employees around the world.”
Reviewers for the Ethisphere Institute examined a wide range of information in selecting the companies for its list, including codes of ethics; litigation and regulatory infraction histories; investment in innovation and sustainable business practices; activities designed to improve corporate citizenship; nominations from senior executives, industry peers, suppliers and customers; and feedback from consumer action groups.
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Our new photocatalytic facade
The façade of the historic factory, nestled in the splendid town center of Mandello del Lario, has turned pink.
It’s a tribute to our female-led history but also a contribution to the sustainability journey, in which we want to play a leading role.
One of our goals is to raise awareness among residents about the importance of implementing behaviors that benefit the community and the environment in which we live.
In fact, to create the façade, a special photocatalytic paint was used, which is able to remove pollutants, unpleasant odors, and bacteria from the air.
It’s as though a forest of tall trees now covered a surface area of 500 m2 in the center of Mandello, capable of clearing the smog of approximately 16,000 cars per year.
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Installation Troubleshooting for Google Chrome (Windows)
Are you having trouble installing the desktop app while using Google Chrome? There are a couple of things that you can try.
Restart the download.
On the Launcher page, click download & run GoTo Webinar in the blue box on the launcher page. You should then see the "GoTo Webinar Opener.exe" file begin downloading and display at the bottom of your screen.
Run the GoTo Webinar Opener file.
The "GoTo Webinar Opener.exe" file should have appeared in the lower-left corner of your browser. Click to open it, then click Run to launch GoTo Webinar.
- Press Ctrl + J on your keyboard.
- In the Downloads folder, click GoTo Webinar Opener.exe.
- Click Run to launch GoTo Webinar.
Approve the External Protocol Request.
If you see the Launcher screen and it is covered by an "External Protocol Request" pop-up window, you'll need to click Launch Application to continue.
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What are the facts about opioids?
Despite all the hype new substances of abuse get by the media, opioids are still around and still taking a deadly toll on people who abuse them. But what are the facts about opioids?
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SASMHSA), in 2016 all U.S. overdose deaths involving opioids, including unintentional, intentional, homicide and undetermined totaled more than 42,000. They warn that anyone who uses opioids for long-term chronic pain management is at risk for opioid overdose as are those who use illicit opioid substances or who have a substance abuse disorder.
Also at risk for an opioid overdose are those who have completed detoxification either voluntarily, through a treatment facility, or by incarceration. During their time of abstinence, their tolerance level has decreased, and if they use again at the previous level they were using prior to detoxification, overdose can occur.
Understanding how to prevent opioid overdose death is important. If you or someone you love is at risk it is important to know up-to-date information about the use of opioids as well as steps to prevent overdose. SAMHSA offers information for laypersons on how to prevent and manage overdose at Prevent and Protect http://prevent-protect.org/.
Opioid overdose deaths can be prevented when naloxone is used. Naloxone can reverse the effects of opioids in the system by displacing opioids from receptor sites in the brain and reversing respiratory depression which is usually the cause of overdose deaths. Naloxone sometimes requires multiple doses for the more potent opioids such as fentanyl or carfentanil.
It is important to know what to do if you think someone has overdosed on opioids.
Get medical help immediately. Call 911 and let them know the person is unresponsive and not breathing. Don’t wait. Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia have statutes that prevent a “Good Samaritan” who is seeking help for someone who has overdosed from being prosecuted for possession of a controlled substance.
Residential treatment programs help.
Explore treatment options that are available and find the option that best fits your needs. All programs are not the same. Opioid addiction is not easy to kick, but with professional care, recovery is possible.
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This fall tree painting is a fun painting activity for kids to celebrate fall and all of the beautiful colors of the season! Painting with q-tips is a great way for kids to learn about creating texture and layering colors in art. I love the way the fall leaves really pop in this art project!Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Need an estimate for your tree project in Nokesville VA? Call us atour Nokesville tree pros are ready to start on your project today!
Location: Nokesville,VA. Nov 05, Q Tip painting is a fairly mess-free way for kids to paint. This simple Q Tip Painting fall tree craft is perfect for preschool & kindergarten. Kids will have fun recreating the beautiful colors of bushtrimmers.buzzted Reading Time: 3 mins.
Once dry, add a few dollops of paint to a plate/pallet of your fall colors. Step 3: Grab a handful of q-tips (about ) and wrap an elastic around the bundle in the middle. Step 4: Take one end of the q-tips and dip a few in one color, turn the bundle and dip it in another color and so on until all of the q-tips have paint on them. Step 5. Oct 07, Cut out the tree and glue it to some white construction paper.
Fill some cups with fall colored paint. We used yellow, orange, brown and red. Place a q tip in each cup. Have the kids use the q tips dipped in paint to make leaves on their trees. B used specific colors for each branch of the tree.
It's so interesting to see the process kids use Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. This Q-tip painting is geared toward children ages 6 and older with adult supervision.
It takes about 20 minutes to complete. For this simple kids' DIY project, you will need green and brown construction paper, watercolor paper, scissors, a pencil, Q-tips, glue and yellow, orange and red paint.
If you enjoy making a Q-tip fall tree with me. Family Tree Experts is a family owned and operated Nokesville, VA tree service with the experience needed to do the job right. We specialize in total tree service: Large and Small tree removal, stump removal, crane work, tree bracing, trimming, dead wood removal, thinning, cleaning, brush removal, pruning (without spiking), and 24/7 around the clock emergency damage clean-up and insurance Location: Lonesome Rd Nokesville, VA
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Spheres of Influence: All, Animal, Creation, Divination, Elemental,
Habbakuk is the god of all creatures on land and sea. Rangers and
sailors pay homage to Habbakuk. He made all the creatures in his
likeness, including in them his fierceness. Habbakuk is the son of
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Description: A vigorous sprawling Geranium which makes excellent ground cover. Dark leaves are deeply cut and form the background to the large single purple blue flowers with each petal having dark magenta veins and a cream central blotch. The flowers can be seen from May throughout summer so provides excellent long term interest.
Uses: Ground cover, edging of sunny borders.
Climate/Position: Full sun
Height/Spread: 80cm x 1 metre spread
Soil Requirements: Any fertile soil but particularly tolerant of dryer soils
Pruning: Cut back the old stems in autumn or late winter
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Adds mushroom cellar, worm farm and aquaponic growing room
Case Western Reserve University’s Squire Valleevue Farm in Hunting Valley, which harvests food for the campus dining halls, now is supplying healthy fare to another kitchen: the one that feeds the animals at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.
“Animals, like humans, get diabetes and heart disease,” said Christopher Bond, the farm’s horticulturalist. “They need to eat healthy.”
The first shipment held 13 pounds of greens. As production revs up with the warming weather, the zoo will receive a weekly order of more than 300 pounds of greens and hay. The request includes 57 pounds of endive, 78 pounds of dandelion greens and 209 pounds of romaine lettuce. Bond also plans to dedicate 20 acres to produce hay for the zoo’s grazers.
Last fall, Bond approached the zoo about providing food for the animals. They liked the idea and told the farm which ones they would want us to grow.
The CWRU farm also is adding more features:
The original hillside root cellar is now a temperature-controlled mushroom cellar.
It’s already filled with a hanging garden to grow blue oyster mushrooms, tolerant to cold weather, and white pearl mushrooms that favor warmer conditions. Slow-growing shiitake mushrooms will also be cultivated throughout the year.
The mushrooms soon will head to campus, Bond said, and will be sold this summer at the university’s weekly farmer’s market or to Community Supported Agriculture subscribers.
The mushrooms grow on the outside of special bags that contain materials needed to produce “a flush,” or crop of mushrooms. Depending on the weather, each bag can produce up to three flushes over 20 weeks. Of the sized bag, each flush should yield approximately one pound of mushrooms.
Next up is a new worm farm, for which Bond has enlisted the advice of Paula Simpson, 2013 alumna of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and avid organic gardener.
The worms will convert plant matter into rich compost and “a liquid tea” that leaches through the layers of soil to produce a nutrient-rich organic fertilizer.
“We should have enough liquid tea from the worms to put into the irrigation system and feed everything we grow,” Bond said.
Aquaponic Growing Room
The green brain (formerly the chicken barn) is getting an aquaponic growing room of plants and fish.
In the future, Bond plans to introduce tilapia fish in the current hydroponic (water) growing system to create the new environment. The fish and plants develop a symbiotic relationship that benefits both, he said. The fish thrive on the plant material, and the plants benefit from the nutrients left by the fish. And as fish grow, they can be harvested as food.
Also, if you are looking for farm products, visit the campus bookstore for plants, books and other nonperishable items (like dried herbs). Bon Appetit Management Co. also is selling farm plants at Tomlinson Hall’s cafeteria, and other locations will follow.
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Books for Kids Donation Drive
Now through October 15, 2021, donations of new children’s books can be made to the annual Books for Kids campaign spearheaded by Buffalo’s Project Flight, Inc. The books will go directly to local children in need in hopes of helping them build a pathway to a better future. Nearly 2.9 million donated books have been given to children, families and service organizations over the past 26 years.
Books for Kids donation bins are located in all 37 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries, at all Wegmans stores in Erie and Niagara Counties and at The Buffalo News, located at Washington and Scott streets in Buffalo. The Books for Kids campaign is a collaborative effort with support from The Buffalo News, Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries, WGRZ-Channel 2, Wegmans, Townsquare Media (WBLK and WYRK), Buffalo State College and Project Flight, Inc.
Watch the video media release for Books for Kids with Dr. Geraldine E. Bard, cofounder and co-director of Project Flight, Inc.: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w609yXKjqYE
Books for Kids tax-deductible financial donations can be made to:
Books for Kids/Project Flight c/o Donations
7954 Transit Road, PMB 205
Buffalo, NY 14221
For more information, visit www.projectflight.org
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DIFFERENT PLACES, DIFFERENT FACES: PRESENTING BHUTAN
CAPTURING THE SOUL OF A DESTINATION
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Local people, their attire and practices are the soul of a place. During a journey, every location generates certain emotions; it is important to understand and feel the emotion of the place and your feelings. My favorite way to capture the emotion of the place is through its people. I like to present the beauty of a destination through its own people. People carry the geographical, cultural and traditional identity of a place.
Taking picture of people seems to be easy and fun but it is also a challenge to visually present a place through its people. Capturing a person’s soul demands a wide set of skills and practice; it demands personal vision and photography style. It requires to push yourself from the comfort zone to get the right image but avoid being too desperate. Build a rapport with your subject, try to learn about them beyond the picture. Capturing the soul of a person is the decisive moment in portrait photography.
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Using CBD to Treat Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms
The benefits and research around CBD are still emerging
Colleen Travers writes about health, fitness, travel, parenting, and women’s lifestyle for various publications and brands.
Verywell Health articles are reviewed by board-certified physicians and healthcare professionals. These medical reviewers confirm the content is thorough and accurate, reflecting the latest evidence-based research. Content is reviewed before publication and upon substantial updates. Learn more.
Diana Apetauerova, MD, is board-certified in neurology with a subspecialty in movement disorders. She is an associate clinical professor of neurology at Tufts School of Medicine.
With the legalization of medical marijuana, many states are approving the use of it in a non-traditional way to treat the symptoms of certain conditions, including Parkinson’s disease. Marijuana has two major components to it—tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). Both may help with nausea and muscle pain or spasms, but unlike THC, CBD doesn’t give you the “high” feeling marijuana is most commonly known for. This makes it an enticing, natural way for many to help treat their Parkinson’s disease symptoms. What’s more, is that because CBD is a natural compound from the Cannabis sativa plant, using it may also leave you side effect-free, unlike many prescription medications.
The body of research on using CBD for Parkinson’s disease symptoms is rapidly growing, as Parkinson’s disease affects 1% of the population over 60 years old. Parkinson’s disease is a neurological condition, affecting the nervous system. Parts of the brain that produce dopamine, which is responsible for sending messages to the body in order to direct movement, become damaged or die. This results in tremors, muscle stiffness, the inability to use facial expressions, and trouble balancing.
In connection with Parkinson’s disease as well as other movement-related disorders, CBD may help improve motor skills. In one study published in Frontiers in Pharmacology CBD was shown to have a more preventative role in delaying abnormal movement symptoms in animal models of Parkinson’s.
Since Parkinson’s disease can take some time to properly diagnose when the symptoms are already prevalent, using CBD once diagnosed may not offer much benefit. With early detection combined with the use of CBD together the possibility of reducing movement-related symptoms increases.
Those dealing with Parkinson’s disease may also have trouble sleeping due to REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), a condition in which patients ‘act out’ their dreams while asleep. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics found that four patients with Parkinson’s disease who also suffered from RBD had a decrease of RBD symptoms during sleep with the use of CBD.
In some cases, people suffering from Parkinson’s disease may also have symptoms of psychosis, ranging in hallucinations to vivid dreams and illusions. Research has found that CBD may be able to help. In research out of University of São Paulo in Brazil, patients were given a dose of CBD starting out at 150 milligrams (mg) per day in addition to their current treatment plan of therapy for four weeks. The use of CBD showed no adverse effects, no impact on worsening motor function, and a decrease in their reported psychosis symptoms, meaning that not only can it help with the physical setbacks of Parkinson’s disease, it can also play a part in the cognitive challenges as well. This was however an older study and current clinical trial evidence to support the use of CBD is minimal.
More research out of Brazil suggests CBD can improve the overall quality of life of those with Parkinson’s disease. In a sample of 21 patients, those who were treated with 75 mg to 300 mg of CBD per day reported a significant increase in quality of life, though no significant differences were noted in motor and general symptoms or neuroprotective effects. This goes to show how much results can vary when it comes to the effects of CBD, requiring larger studies to be done in order to get more definitive answers to this treatment option.
Uses and Safety
Parkinson’s disease can impact cognitive function and memory, particularly in those whose symptoms progress to Parkinson’s disease dementia. Because of this, medical marijuana with both THC and CBD may not be recommended, as it can impair thinking and brain function even more so. CBD by itself may be a safer route.
CBD has been discovered as an effective way to help treat Parkinson’s disease symptoms because it interacts with two cannabinoid receptors in the body found on certain cells called CB1 and CB2. By interacting with one or both of these receptors, CBD may delay tremor development as well as have protective neurological benefits. But as seen with the above studies, there is no uniform approach or conclusion on this treatment method. This means that patients may react differently to using CBD, some having tremendous success while others seeing little difference. But regardless of whether or not CBD is an effective treatment option for you, you always need to consult your treating physician to make sure this treatment will not cause side effects.
What can cause side effects is if a patient decides to mix medical marijuana with their treatment plan that consists of certain prescription medications. If you plan to use medical marijuana as opposed to CBD by itself, it’s smart to consult a healthcare provider or your pharmacist before you start mixing it in with other medications to make sure it’s safe for you.
Should You Use It?
While the research on CBD to treat Parkinson’s disease symptoms is largely inconclusive, its mild effect on patients as a whole makes it enticing to try in addition to an existing traditional treatment plan. Parkinson’s disease has no cure. But with prescription medication, therapy, and now perhaps the use of nontraditional options like CBD, patients may be able to experience less frequency and severity of symptoms that affect their motor skills.
If you’re interested in trying CBD for Parkinson’s disease, talk to your healthcare provider about it. They will be able to point you to the latest research and provide recommendations on how much you should take. They will also be able to monitor your progress with the rest of your care team in order to come to a conclusion if this is the right treatment plan for you.
5 Best CBD Oil For Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s is a neurological disorder that develops progressively. Early symptoms of the condition include slow movement, inability to smell, tremors among others. This disease can grow to advanced levels leading to reduced arm swing when walking and mobility among other factors.
While there is no clear treatment for Parkinson’s, CBD has come out as a front runner in managing the symptoms related to the condition. Studies in this area are still at very preliminary stages. As a result, anyone using CBD for management of Parkinson’s should be based on a personal basis since it is not yet approved or proven to work.
In this post, I will be looking at CBD for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Keep reading to learn more about the available CBD oils for Parkinson’s and how they compete against each other.
Top 5 CBD Oils for Parkinson’s Disease Patients
One study published by the NCBI has suggested that CBD may be helpful in the treatment and management of CBD. This study does not conclusively show how, but it indicates that CBD may help with muscle movements, a problem caused by Parkinson’s disease.
Below are the top CBD brands that may be used to treat Parkinson’s disease:
- CBD Genesis
- Joy CBD Oil
- Pure CBD
- Spruce CBD
In my review of the top CBD oils for Parkinson’s disease, we use several factors. We look at the quality of oil, its potency, its purity, and the reputation of the brand behind the oil among others.
CBD Genesis Oil
CBD Genesis oil for Parkinson’s disease is one of the best options in the market. It is loved due to its strength and diversity. This oil is produced by one of the most trusted American brands. Being a 100%organic oil made with US-grown hemp, it can be trusted by users.
The full spectrum CBD by CBD genesis comes in 3 potencies. We have the 550mg, 1000mg, and 3000 mg options. All the options are available for purchase on their website.
- Full-spectrum CBD with flavonoids and terpenes for effective action
- American grown hemp is used
- Third-party lab tested product for quality assurance
- Several potency variances for different CBD users
- They only have full-spectrum CBD, which may not be ideal for others
- No flavor variations
USDA Organic Hemplucid Full-Spectrum CBD in Hemp Oil
It doesn’t get better than this. Hemplucid stacks all the best qualities to provide a potent and effective CBD tincture.
Their full-spectrum oil contains a wide variety of terpenes that provides the well known entourage effect.
But unlike most CBD tinctures, Hemplucid can boast an organic oil. If that wasn’t good enough already, their products are all lab tested for utmost transparency.
Give them a try, you won’t be let down.
- Hemp oil includes omegas
- Full Spectrum CBD
- Lab Tested
Active CBD Oil – CBD/MCT Tincture (300 – 2500mg)
This broad-spectrum CBD tincture brings out the entourage effect, while the MCT oil provides a bioavailability boost. The result is a world-class, hemp-derived tincture oil from Active CBD Oil that maximizes potency and therapeutic effects.
Active CBD Oil uses a broad-spectrum hemp extract containing an array of cannabinoids, but zero THC, making it safe for drug tests. Their unflavored and aroma-free tincture is ideal if you need discretion, and they only use non-GMO hemp. Third-party tested and approved.
Sizes available: 300mg (10mg/ml), 1250mg (20.8mg/ml), 2500mg (41.6mg/ml)
- Pure organic oil
- Full-spectrum CBD with terpenes and flavonoids
- Third-party lab tested
- 90 day return period
- Limited variances
- No options for broad-spectrum and CBD isolate
EcoDrops Relief 30ml
One of the best CBD oil for Parkinson’s disease is EcoDrops. This oil is trusted for its quality and potency. The oil comes in one flavor and is produced by one of the most trusted brands in the world.
The oil undergoes a process that makes it more bioavailable according to the manufacturer.
EcoDrops comes in one strength, 1500mg.
- High 1500mg potency
- Extracted from American grown hemp
- Third-party lab tested product
- Full spectrum CBD
- Not available in diverse flavors
Spruce CBD Oil
The fourth product on my list is Spruce CBD Oil. Spruce CBD is a brand that has established itself in producing quality CBD products for various uses. Its CBD oil for Parkinson’s is one of the best in the market. Their oil is 100% natural and does not contain additives. It is extracted from natural American-grown hemp without pesticides.
Spruce CBD Oil comes in a pleasant peppermint flavor. It also comes in two potencies; the 750 mg and the 2400mg per ounce options. With this wide range of CBD, both small and large dosage users have an option.
- Pure organic oil without additives
- Full-spectrum CBD
- Sweet peppermint flavor
- Comes in diverse potencies
- Up to 80mg per serving potency
- Only has one flavor
- No options for broad-spectrum and Isolate CBD
Why is CBD Amazing For Parkinson’s?
CBD oil for Parkinson’s disease is an amazing option for various reasons. The fact that there are no other drugs that can successfully treat this condition makes CBD an amazing alternative. This does not mean that CBD is the only option available for this condition. Parkinson’s disease has some medical options.
Side effects of Parkinson’s disease treatments:
- The available Parkinson’s disease medications are reported to cause medical-related tremors
- Some of the Parkinson’s disease medications are not as effective
- If a person suffering from Parkinson’s disease experiences tremors, they can make the situation worse than it was in the beginning
Due to these challenges, CBD has turned out to be an amazing alternative. Although not yet fully proven to work, a study linking CBD to Parkinson’s disease has given many people suffering from this condition some hope.
Studies That Support Use of CBD for Parkinson’s Disease
Due to the increasing demand for medical solutions to the Parkinson’s disease problem, many researchers have been trying to look at CBD. The available results are not conclusive and cannot be relied on to conclusively say that CBD works. Nonetheless, they show that CBD may be used in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
Studies I have found to support management of Parkinson’s disease:
- A study published by the NCBI found that using cannabis can help improve pain associated with Parkinson’s disease. Although the study was only conducted on 22 individuals and used cannabis, it is an indication that CBD might help.
- A review of animal studies has shown that CBD helps reduce pain and inflammation. These are the two factors that affect people with Parkinson’s disease the most. CBD may therefore be helpful in managing pain associated with Parkinson’s disease.
- A different review of studies has also indicated that CBD alone may help with sleep disturbances. One of the most frustrating symptoms of PD is sleep disturbances. Although this does not prove it can be treated with CBD it shows that may be helpful.
Parkinson’s disease is quite complex and only a few scientists can understand how it works. Studies have tried to find a cure for the condition, but few results have been instrumental. Even as CBD becomes an option for patients, it should be used cautiously. Its use is not based on concrete data but anecdotal evidence.
How to Effectively Use CBD Oil for Parkinson’s
CBD for Parkinson’s disease can be administered in various forms. It depends on the type of CBD you choose to purchase. If you purchase CBD oils like the ones discussed above, they can be applied orally or topically.
Common types of CBD used for Parkinson’s:
- CBD Edibles: These are sweet foods such as gummies that are enriched with CBD. They are often taken as snacks but can be used to administer CBD orally.
- Topical Applications: Topical applications are products such as CBD salves and lotions that can be applied to the skin. This type of CBD may also be used by PD patients.
- CBD Capsules: CBD capsules and tablets are taken orally like is the case with other medical tablets. They can be taken by patients as long as they fall within a person’s dosage range.
The most common way of using CBD is by administering CBD oil. CBD oil can be purchased in small 30ml bottles like the ones discussed above. If you purchase your CBD oil like the ones above you need to take it accordingly. Below are the steps we recommend for Prkinson’s disease.
The steps for using CBD oil for Parkinson’s disease:
- Check expiry date: Before using CBD oil, read the packaging to establish that the oil is yet to expire.
- Shake well: Shaking helps mix the oil to ensure that the compound is well distributed throughout the bottle.
- Measure the drops: Depending on the potency, you may be required to take one or two drops. Measure the drops and drop them under the tongue.
- Hold to absorb: The drops of CBD oil under the tongue should dissolve naturally. Let them penetrate into the skin in about 30 seconds.
The ideal option for those taking CBD for Parkinson’s is oral. This involves dropping the oil under the tongue and giving it time to get absorbed.
Finding Your Dosage
There is no specific CBD dosage. Different people require different doses of CBD. As a result, each person has to find a dosage that works for them.
Steps to follow to determine your CBD dose:
- Find the right brand of CBD and purchase
- Choose a low potency option
- Start at 10mg per day
- Increase it by 5mg per day until you find an effective dose.
Some people can feel the effect of CBD at low doses of 10mg per day while others will require up to 200mg per day.
Full Spectrum vs Isolate
Full-spectrum CBD is a CBD extract that contains terpenes, flavonoids, and other nutrients from the hemp plant. This type of CBD is more effective due to the entourage effect. Isolate CBD does not contain flavonoids, terpenes, or any other cannabinoids.
While full-spectrum CBD is loved due to its effectiveness, it does contain trace amounts of THC. However, the traces are usually below 0.3% as required by law.
CBD is generally and is less likely to cause serious side effects to users. Even so, users should not take it alongside other drugs. It may affect the uptake of drugs.
The other possible side effects of CBD are:
- Weight loss
- Low appetite
These symptoms vary from person to person but are more likely to occur in case of overdose. I recommend taking a rest if you experience fatigue or the immediate side effects.
Where to Buy High-Quality CBD Oil
You have two options when shopping for high-quality CBD for Parkinson’s. The products can be purchased online or at a local store. All high-quality brands have legitimate websites where their products are sold. They also supply products to reputable local vendors.
In either situation, request to see the certificate of third-party lab results, look at labels to determine quality and ingredients used. I only purchase products that have been tested by third-party labs.
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BEIJING (AP) — China appealed to Washington on Thursday to "meet each other halfway" and settle a trade war instead of going ahead with planned tariff hikes Beijing warned will trigger retaliation.
Exporters are preparing for a Sept. 1 increase in U.S. duties in a fight over trade and technology. Those are due to go ahead on more than $100 billion of Chinese goods despite the Trump administration's decision to postpone some other planned increases to mid-December.
New U.S. tariffs will "lead to an escalation of economic and trade friction," a Ministry of Commerce spokesman, Gao Feng, said at a news briefing.
The United States is pressing China to narrow its trade surplus and roll back plans for government-led development of global competitors in robotics and other technologies. Beijing's trading partners say those plans violate its market-opening commitments. Some American officials worry they might erode U.S. industrial leadership.
Negotiations are deadlocked over how to enforce a deal. Beijing says punitive tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on Chinese products must be lifted as soon as an agreement takes effect. Washington wants to keep some to ensure Beijing carries out any promises it makes.
"We hope the United States and China can meet each other halfway and find a solution," Gao said.
U.S. and Chinese negotiators are due to meet in September in Washington. The last round of talks in Shanghai in July ended with no indication of progress.
Negotiators talked by phone Aug. 13 and agreed to talk again within two weeks, Gao said. He gave no details of the conversation.
Gao repeated a Chinese threat of unspecified "corresponding countermeasures" if Trump's tariff hike goes ahead.
The United States has imposed 25% tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese products. Beijing retaliated with its own penalties on $110 billion of goods from the United States.
Trump earlier announced plans to impose 10% duties on $300 billion of Chinese goods, extending penalties to almost everything China sells the United States. He later postponed the tariff hike on about 60% of those goods to Dec. 15.
Due to their lopsided trade balance, Beijing is running out of goods for retaliation but has tried to pressure Washington by delaying customs clearance for U.S. companies in China and postponing issuing licenses in insurance and other fields.
Gao also said Beijing is working on a planned corporate blacklist of "unreliable entities" that might face curbs on their operations but gave no timeline.
China announced plans for that list after Washington imposed curb on sales of U.S. technology to telecom equipment producer Huawei Technologies Ltd.
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Lake Huron House sees local “cabin country” architecture completely reimagined to create a modern family retreat on the banks of one of North America’s five Great Lakes.
Taking a contemporary architectural approach, the residence maximises its breath-taking lakeside views, while remaining sensitive to its surroundings and sustainability impact in the extremes of the Canadian climate.
To achieve its statement aesthetic and enhance the beautiful natural setting, one of the key components of the design is the use of glass. Glass not only provides distinct visual features throughout the home, functionally it serves as a robust external surface that plays a vital role in maintaining the building’s energy efficiency.
With many demands on the crucial material, the architects turned to the Pilkington product portfolio, to ensure the perfect glass solution was delivered.
Waterside living with a view
Lake Huron House uses a clean and simple material palette throughout. The ceramic façade tones are intentionally varied and, alongside the glass, they accentuate the distinct elements of the build.
The lake-facing side of the house features a double-height glass wall that maximises natural light in the interior of the building and also offers expansive views towards the lakeside.
Pilkington Suncool™ 70/35 OW T was specified for the project to help bring the outdoors in by creating the perfect balance of natural light, while minimising solar heat gain. Having an eye on sustainability was key, and this specification delivers excellent thermal properties that can help reduce the homes energy consumption.
By combining the Pilkington Suncool™ coating with extra clear true low iron Pilkington Optiwhite™, it ensures that the neutral appearance does not spoil the beautiful views of the landscape and creates a bright and airy internal living space.
The glazing ensures that the occupants can enjoy the vistas and are comfortable all year round, while reducing the need for constant air conditioning, in turn cutting energy bills and making the home more environmentally friendly.
Michael Carew, North American sales director at CareyGlass, said: “The architect took great care to keep the design unobtrusive and sensitive to its setting, while making an architectural statement.
“It was important that the project played on the surrounding landscape by opening up the building to the outdoors at the same time as providing an excellent energy performance, and that’s exactly what this installation does.”
Jason Eggerton, specification sales manager Pilkington UK, said: “Lake Huron House successfully integrates a number of different glazing properties to ensure energy efficiency while providing endless views of Lake Huron, the second largest of the Great Lakes of North America.
“The project is one-of-a-kind and we’re hugely proud that our glass helps to define the building’s appearance and create an outstanding home.”
Project: Lake Huron House, Ontario, Canada
Client: Private homeowner
Main contractor: MCI Design-Build Corporation
Architect: Matter Architectural Studio Inc.
Lead Designers: SAOTA
Glazing distributor: CareyGlass
Photographer: Adam Letch
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Brands need to pay attention to the unprecedented growth in the recommerce market that’s being propelled by consumer demand for sustainability as well as e-commerce and massively scalable traceability technology.
Consumers’ growing attention to sustainability issues is driving significant growth in the recommerce space, particularly online clothing resale. Already gaining momentum prepandemic, the trend has been juiced by store closures and tightened budgets over the past year. Research firm Cowen
The forecast figures show that the recommerce opportunity is too big for fashion companies to ignore and is quickly becoming a core component of the consumer-brand relationship. For those who may have felt resale was antithetical to what brands are all about, it’s time to wake up and engage the new world. But while the likes of Stella McCartney, Levi’s, Lululemon and Patagonia have moved on the trend, and while sustainability-based startup brands such as Another Tomorrow are founded around it, scaling recommerce is a whole new challenge. Many brands have neither the technology nor the know-how to address it—and they risk being left behind as a result.
The dismal statistics are likely familiar to most. The World Economic Forum estimates that clothing production has roughly doubled in the last 20 years and that people bought 60% more garments in 2014 than in 2000, but kept them for only half as long. According to the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, “the equivalent of one garbage truck full of clothes is burned or dumped in a landfill every second.” On the face of it, the data suggest consumers are not focused on sustainability issues. Otherwise, why would they be buying more and using it less?
But there’s also no shortage of anecdotal and research data showing that Gen Zers and millennials in particular are values-driven consumers who are increasingly looking for brands that are transparent about their sustainability bona fides. A 2019 consumer survey from First Insight found that 62% of both Gen Zers and millennials prefer to buy from sustainable brands. Some of these younger consumers now shop almost exclusively secondhand for apparel and footwear because it gives them access to higher-quality products they might not otherwise be able to afford, while also allowing them to minimize their consumption footprint and reinforce their social credentials.
Consumers’ definitions of “sustainability” vary dramatically by region and demographic. In some markets, brands’ environmental impact and manufacturing processes are top of mind for shoppers. In others, ethical labor practices and animal welfare are bigger concerns. Younger consumers are especially interested in having access to information about the provenance of products and how companies treat their employees and the environment—and they’re pushing brands to be more transparent about their sustainability commitments and actions.
With the pandemic underscoring the fragility of our species and environment, consumers across all age groups seem to be showing more concern about the effects of their purchasing decisions. A recent survey from Boston Consulting Group found that sustainability’s impact on the buying decisions of consumers of all ages grew from 38% in 2019 to 53% in 2020. The increase was smaller among Gen Zers (48% to 52%) and millennials (46% to 57%), but from higher base points. According to First Insight data, a majority of every generation now says they shop secondary markets for goods. That’s a pretty big message when the brand-consumer relationship has been all about “what’s new” for the past 50 years.
Getting into Recommerce
Fashion and apparel recommerce marketplaces such as The RealReal
It’s notable that these early movers are all retailers selling branded products. Brands are beginning to respond to this invasion of primary market demand by both partnering with emerging secondary market power players and working with technology and logistics providers to set up their own secondary market operations. The Renewal Workshop and Trove enable recommerce for leading brands in a way that lets the brands maintain more control.
The Renewal Workshop, with facilities in Oregon and Amsterdam, has developed a zero-waste system that turns discarded clothing into renewed products that can be resold and upcycles or recycles items that cannot be resold. The company provides a technology platform and fully branded site for its brand partners, which include The North Face, Carhartt, Pearl Izumi and Prana, and shares data on the goods that flow through its system to help brands improve their product development and design practices. Trove powers branded resale for companies that include Patagonia, Levi’s, REI, Eileen Fisher, Arc’teryx and Taylor Stitch.
As Trove CEO Andy Ruben says, “The world produces 100 billion items for 7 billion people each year. Our platform helps brands keep their quality items in circulation longer. When brands and retailers do that, we all win.”
Brand engagement in recommerce is also about extending customer relationships and building new ones, finding shoppers who might not have purchased new items from them at full price and who are likely to become long-term, loyal customers. The cost-effectiveness of recommerce as a customer acquisition channel, combined with the ability it gives brands to build their sustainability credentials, is an appealing formula.
The Power of Authenticity
With the value for brands in the recommerce and secondary market space being heavily concentrated in the data—what’s being sold to whom, what’s being reprocessed or upcycled, and the ESG metrics achieved—the question is how brands can tap into it. Levi’s recently launched Levi’s Secondhand, a buy-back and resale program that lets customers purchase preowned Levi’s apparel online and exchange items in-store for a gift card that can be used toward a future purchase. The offering essentially turns the brand’s brick-and-mortar stores into environments that double as a sourcing channel for resale or recycling. Levi’s can reclaim its own goods and authenticate them immediately, while strengthening its customer relationships at the same time. Setting up and scaling an in-house recommerce platform is one strategy, but it’s unlikely to secure the lion’s share of the flow, given the fragmented nature of supply and the growing power and reach of secondary market retailers.
It seems clear that authentication and traceability technologies will play a key role in solving this issue. Authenticating product has been a major challenge for marketplaces, consumers and brands alike. How do consumers trust a branded item is the real McCoy when they’re purchasing it in a secondary market? Lack of consumer trust in product authenticity is an impediment to pricing items appropriately and capturing margin. A flurry of lawsuits between brands and secondary marketplaces has highlighted the issue, with brands contending that marketplaces cannot validate the authenticity of a product without the input of the brands themselves. “Only Chanel can tell you it’s Chanel” is a quote bandied about the industry. While many marketplaces have invested heavily in expensive inspection and assessment processes, the statement is hard to get away from.
Digital identity and traceability technologies are coming to the rescue. The World Economic Forum is facilitating an industry initiative to demonstrate how digital identities can be applied to products to scale recommerce. The model makes use of the digital identities brands attach to their products as they’re made to provide a means for automated authentication when the products find their way to a recommerce platform. The recommerce platform can scan a product’s identity—a unique QR code, for example—on the label of the item and authenticate it with the brand directly as the product is processed.
Consumers can similarly authenticate an item when they receive it from a marketplace. The model extends the application of digital identities linked to products that brands such as Ralph Lauren, Yoox Net-a-Porter and Puma are already deploying and it enables brands to participate directly in the recommerce process, gathering data, potentially connecting with the consumer and sharing in the value of the resale transaction. It’s a powerful model, analogous to the role Mastercard
As World Retail Congress Chairman Ian McGarrigle says, “Digitization is what allows brands to track the lifecycle of a product, which is a building block of the circular economy.”
New Models for a New World
Stella McCartney has long supported recommerce and rental models as a way to reduce waste and extend the life of products. Her brand is an official partner of The RealReal and she explained her participation in the secondhand market to Vogue in 2019, saying, “There’s $500 billion worth of waste in the fashion industry every year, and that, to me, is a business opportunity.”
Sustainable luxury brand Another Tomorrow is equally committed to supporting a circular economy and has personalized transparency by labeling every garment it produces with a QR code linked to a unique digital ID. Consumers can scan the code to verify an item’s authenticity and learn about its provenance, from the farm where the wool or cotton was harvested to the factory where the piece was manufactured. “Technology is really the foundation of a circular economy,” says Vanessa Barboni Hallik, the brand’s Founder and CEO.
With real consumer demand for sustainable recommerce models, brands are presented with an opportunity to score a win-win: address shoppers’ sustainability concerns by extending the useful life of products and moving toward a circular economy, while generating additional profits, protecting their brand equity, gathering crucial data and increasing customer lifetime value. It’s a powerful and important revolution that will play a fundamental role in determining which brands thrive and which survive in the post-pandemic world.
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The computer code SEARCH-1 for the optimal design of steel structures is described. The algorithm is based on a gradient projection method with step correction of active constraint violations. The optimal design of prestressed steel structures is considered. Four numerical examples are presented. The programming language is presented. The programming language is FORTRAN-77, an IBM-PC/XT/AT with 512 K memory is required. © 1992.
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Making Corruption Cosmic
In this week’s Spot Sadhguru talks about corruption and how the core of corruption is limited identification; “The whole spiritual process is just to take an individual from a limited identity to an all inclusive possibility……There is nothing here that is “me” or “mine.” If one becomes meditative, if one becomes a devotee, they are incapable of being corrupt”.
Dear Sadhguru, as I move into a position of power, how can I avoid becoming corrupted by it?
P ower doesn’t corrupt, people are corrupt. When they get empowered, it becomes super visible. When the microscope is not on them, you don’t see it. But someone who is not corrupt will not become corrupt.
First, let us understand what corruption is. If there is something called “me” and there is something called “you,” corruption has started because what is “me” is more important than what is “you.” Once “me” comes, “what is mine” and “what is not mine” will come. Once “this is mine” and “this is not mine” comes, corruption is deepened. If you get very attached to “what is mine” and “what is not mine” then it becomes well established. Like this it goes on.
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That is why, all these years, I have been saying, “Let us make corruption cosmic!” The nature of who you are is such that you have to identify with something. If you identify with just the body, one level of corruption. When you get married, you identify with two bodies -- corruption multiplied. When it becomes two, the corruption becomes a little bit bigger; people can see the conspiracy. Family is the first form of corruption. I am not speaking against it, I am just telling you. Suddenly, “what is ours” and “what is not ours” becomes important. Then comes community, nation, race, religion…different levels of corruption.
Essentially, corruption means, with whatever acts of wellbeing a human being commits, he is excluding somebody. If you have something, you want to give a little more to this person, and a little less to that person. This is corruption. The question is whether it is a socially acceptable form of corruption or not. For example, if something happens to your children, buckets of tears will come. But when other children are on the streets without clothes or food in their bellies, and not even a teardrop comes to you, you are corrupt. If we make you the prime minister, your corruption will be reported in the media. Right now, your corruption is not worth reporting because it is not of much consequence to other people. Anything that you empower gets blown up into a larger dimension of corruption. But don’t wait to become a prime minster and then check out whether you are corrupt or not.
Most of the corruption on the planet is because you are identified with something limited. Limited identity is corruption. If you make your identity yourself, you will rob the person next to you. If you make your identity for your community, you will do things for your community at the cost of some other community. If you are identified with the nation, you will do good things to your nation at the cost of another nation. That is not perceived as corruption, but it is corruption. Corruption is not a lack of morality. Corruption is essentially a limited identity.
The whole spiritual process is just to take an individual from a limited identity to an all inclusive possibility, not just intellectually but experientially. When you say, “I am a devotee,” it means that “I have either dissolved” or “I am willing to dissolve.” There is nothing here that is “me” or “mine.” That is why we are striving so hard to reach the powerful in the world. If one becomes meditative, if one becomes a devotee, they are incapable of being corrupt.
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Don’t Forget to Smile!
In mid-May, the Czech-German-Russian co-production documentary entitled Under the Sun won the Golden Kingfisher Award for the best documentary film at the Finále Plzeň film festival. This is not the first (most probably also not the last) award the film has garnered. Vitaly Mansky’s documentary work depicting the life of a seemingly ordinary North Korean family is also the winner of the award at the 19th Jihlava IDFF’s Between the Seas section, the Best Director award at Tallinn’s Black Nights festival, the Best Documentary Award at Trieste festival – and its winning streak is far from over.
Mansky and his director of photography defied Korean propaganda by secretly preserving all of the captured video recordings. Every day, they were asked to hand in the recordings for approval to Korean officials, who immediately deleted unacceptable footage and returned the card containing only approved images. However, none of them realised that modern technologies are able to save the recorded footage on two memory cards simultaneously. Mansky thus managed to show a look behind the scenes of the making of his documentary in Communist North Korea following a script, praised even by the venerated leader Kim Jong Il.
International reviewers have suggested that the film could be easily renamed to “Don’t Forget to Smile!“ (Straight.com). Mansky leaves the camera running to capture Korean “filmmakers” preparing a perfect film set – instructing children to smile more, ordering dairy workers to clap hands to celebrate their success and tell little Zin-Mi, the main protagonist, not to be afraid and act naturally as if she were at home. The central topic of the majority of both Czech and foreign reviews is the clash of the artificial “happy” and colourful reality and that as could be expected in the streets of North Korea – empty streets, sunless sky, greyness and silence.
A review published in September 2015 in Screen notes that: “This film is a high-quality package about a newsworthy but little-seen subject: a life beyond the festival circuit seems certain.” It praises Mansky for his ability to – in spite of the strict control (and perhaps thanks to its rigidity) – to show the everyday and ordinary aspects of the life “in the best country in the world”. Mansky himself stated he had been disappointed to have failed to find ordinary people living ordinary lives in Korea and so he decided to make a film about fake Korean reality. This false reality can be best represented by the final scene showing an eight-year-old girl forced to tears by the omnipresent drill, cameras, her parents and other governmental officials; when she is asked to recall some funny or nice moments, she starts reciting a poem in praise of the Supreme leader.
However, many reviewers have been misled into putting Mansky’s work on an uncritical pedestal, without giving it a more thorough thought. Indeed, the director spent a year in North Korea risking his life thus undoubtedly manifesting great courage and investing a remarkable amount of energy in the film’s production. Nevertheless, this fact overshadows Mansky’s brilliant ability to intensify the film’s atmosphere through long takes that allow the viewer to get more absorbed in the images making the presented topic more tangible and immediate.
Some critics have even made a daring claim that they can see the numerous festival awards transforming into a great international distribution and broadcasting (TV) success (The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, Cineuropa). Once these predictions are fulfilled, some Korean governmental officials will certainly be summoned to give a detailed explanation to their Supreme leader.
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REQUIRED READING: Blumberg, L. J. & Holahan, J. (2019, March) The pros and cons of single-payer health plans. The Urban Institute. Retrieved from Link: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/99918/pros_and_cons_of_a_single-payer_plan.pdf
The Affordable Care Act was one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever enacted regarding health care in the United States. It continues to be a contentious policy and will likely have some kind of modifications made to it or a new policy to replace it.
Review Longest Appendix 1 and the RAND document in the background materials. Choose one of the options listed below from the RAND report and write a persuasive essay on why this is the best policy choice to pursue.
- Repealing the ACA with No Replacement
- Replacing ACA with a Single Payer Plan
- The Patient CARE Act
- The American Health Care Act
- Modifying the ACA (Please note that there are several suggested ways to modify the ACA. You may choose one or multiple ones to address.) (RAND, n.d.)
You must do additional research. Be sure that you are using scholarly, academic, and government sources to support your position. Keep in mind that this is not an opinion piece, but a supported persuasive essay.
In drafting your paper, you must use the outline presented at the following link:
Laviolette, J. (n.d.) Persuasive essay outline. HCC Learning Web. Retrieved from https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/jason.laviolette/persuasive-essay-outline
SLP Assignment Expectations
- Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to justify/support your analysis.
- Limit your response to a maximum of 4 pages (title and reference page is not included in page number count).
- Support your paper with peer-reviewed articles, with at least 3 references. Use the following link for additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals:
Angelo State University Library. (n.d.). Library guides: How to recognize peer-reviewed (refereed) journals. Retrieved from https://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php
- You may use the following source to assist in formatting your assignment:
Purdue Online Writing Lab. (n.d.). General APA guidelines. Retrieved from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
- For additional information on reliability of sources, review the following source:
Georgetown University Library. (n.d.). Evaluating internet resources. Retrieved from https://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/evaluating-internet-content
- This assignment will be graded based on the content in the rubric.
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Looking to improve on the massively successful 550, Porsche developed the 718 to follow the winning formula laid down by the previous car. The 718 RSK was an immediate success, and just like the 550, was a winner from the beginning, taking its class at the 12 Hours of Sebring and 24 Hours of Le Mans. Chassis 718-024, the example shown here, is "Lucybelle III", driven in the 1959 Le Mans by American driver Ed Hugus. The traditional American racing colors of white and blue along with the name of Hugus' business partner's wife make this 718 RSK special. The was sold on and raced in SCCA and USAC events during the 1960s before eventually receiving a top-shelf restoration by Mark Allins' Rare Drive, Inc. The car goes to auction at Gooding & Co.'s Pebble Beach event this summer.
Photos: Gooding & Co.
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A place to love
You could use all the big words to describe this city: stuning, breathtaking, amazing, overwhelming…
But despite its size of 1.830,92 km² populated by (officially) more than 13 Mio. people (wikipedia says) Istanbul is much more about the small things. They give character and charme to the city by the Bosphorus. But you need some time, proper working feet, a good eye, some basic knowledge of turkish and never the less a sense to explore. Just do not be afraid of crowds of people and huge traffic occurences or you will not enjoy yourself very much here.
Istanbul can scare and amaze, intimidate and inspire you. The food, the people, the architecture. Everything has a certain touch of the middle eastern culture, although in my opinion it is one of the most modern cities you can find in Europe without having a huge number of new houses or skyscrapers. The history only adds to its attractiveness.
This city is really worth discovering! I am sure you will find your very own Istanbul wandering around.
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When we think of video content on the internet we all think of YouTube. But I wonder, Is YouTube a social networking site? I have found a lot of debate on the subject on forums and across the internet. Nobody has a clear answer for it. There are many out there that agree to the concept that it is a social media site. We will see today what YouTube actually is from a social kind of point and why is it important.
Is YouTube a social networking site?
A social networking site provide social networking services and according to Wikipedia that means a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections. It requires that each user has a presentation profile with social links and a variety of additional services. They provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and private messaging. A social networking site allows users to share ideas, content and interests with people in their network.
I am not sharing my videos with him !
The first aspect that might make you consider it’s not a social networking site is that you can’t share a video with a restricted group of people. You post a video on YouTube and anybody can find it and watch it. Right ? Wrong.
Each time you upload a video you can choose who to share it with. How initially YouTube was used as a video sharing site, the default settings it’s on public. You can choose to make it private or unlisted. Unlisted means that you are the only one that sees it until you make it public. Sort of if like write something on your Facebook wall but you want to make for your eyes only.
The Private option gives the opportunity to choose who sees it. You can add each contact individually if know their email address or their G+ account. Or you can add Google circles all together. It’s basically the same as the privacy settings of your status on Facebook. And just as easy. Plus this idea can be transformed at a higher level. The same privacy settings can be established for your whole channel. You can find it on Channel Settings -> Defaults -> Privacy. So from this point of view I think we have established that the answer to “Is YouTube a social networking site? ” is YES.
The merging of Google plus and YouTube
The second issue for which we had doubts if YouTube is or isn’t a social networking site, was cause it has no private message system. Taking into account the latest changes that Google has made to YouTube there is no reason to have it. Meaning you need a Google plus account to create a channel or comment so if you want to send someone an email or a private message you do it through Google plus.
There have been lots of negative reactions to YouTube’s close relationship with Google plus. You need to have clear and relevant information about the people that interact with your content and it’s not a surprise that Google used it’s social media platform for it. I’m not saying that forcing peoples hands to become more active on Google plus is a great thing, but as long as people can use YouTube as a video search engine without an G+ account it’s ok.
Why is YouTube important in a SEO strategy ?
There are two main reasons. First is that it is a social networking site. Which means that people commenting on your video content will matter within the social media factors Google takes into account. People tend to give a video more time than to a written an article. (You can read more about that here.) Plus it’s more engaging and fun for your audience.
The second reason is the rising importance Google plus has in SEO. How they are so connected, it easy to build content on YouTube but have activity on Google plus. All your comments on YouTube are posts in Google plus. And people commenting at your videos brings more traffic from G+.
So in the end it has been proven that YouTube is a social networking site. It is important to give it the attention it requires and make your mark in this territory with videos that will be embedded in your articles. Play around with videos. It’s so easy to create them now.
So Is YouTube a social networking site or just a video sharing platform ? What are your experience and opinions ? The comment section is waiting.
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Minimum Wage Hike, Sales Tax Cut Could Be On 2018 Massachusetts Ballot
Voters in Massachusetts in 2018 may decide on a major tax cut, raising the minimum wage, and putting a surtax on the state’s highest earners along with several other issues that have been cleared legally as potential ballot questions.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has certified 21 proposed questions for the 2018 ballot. The determination by Healey that the initiatives are constitutionally acceptable means activists can move on in the multi-step process toward creating law.
One question that qualified would require presidential candidates to make their tax returns public in order to appear on the presidential ballot in Massachusetts. Voters might also decide to put restrictions on euthanizing stray dogs and cats at animal shelters.
Healey’s office said the certified initiative petitions covered 18 topics because some sponsors submitted multiple questions. The Massachusetts Retailers Association filed four measures to reduce the state’s 6.25 percent sales tax.
Jon Hurst, the president of the trade group, said the aim is to help small businesses.
" They are under fire with a lot of new competition. The vast majority of online sellers today are tax free," said Hurst.
Another question that could appear on the 2018 ballot would raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022. Sponsors of that initiative are backing another question that would require employers to provide qualified workers with paid family and medical leave.
Petition backers must now collect 64,750 signatures from registered voters by Dec. 6. If the legislature fails to enact the proposals by May, an additional 10,792 registered voters’ signatures must be gathered by July 2018 to put the question on the November 2018 ballot.
One question that has already secured a spot on the ballot in 2018 is the so-called millionaire’s tax. It would amend the state Constitution to put an additional 4 percent tax on annual taxable income above $1 million. The question was certified two years ago, but as a Constitutional amendment the road to the ballot is longer.
Noah Berger, president of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, a left-leaning research group, said raising taxes on the wealthy is the best opportunity the state has to raise the money needed to improve schools and transportation.
"It does it in a way that improves the overall fairness of our tax system," said Berger.
Eileen McAnneny, president of the business-backed Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation said legislating through the Constitution is a big mistake.
"The downside is that if there are problems with this new tax increase, the legislature does not have the ability to change it," said McAnneny.
In 2015, Healey certified 32 initiative petitions, but just four made it to the 2016 ballot. Voters last year legalized recreational marijuana and rejected raising the ceiling on the number of charter schools.
Four questions appeared on the 2014 statewide ballot after 28 petitions were initially certified.
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With the beginning of the trail of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin this week, the mainstream media narrative will force feed Americans more talk of racism and policing. But a recent USA Today poll shows that trust and support for police has steadily climbed to 69% while trust in “Black Lives Matter” has plummeted to barely 50%.
In fact, now that America’s cities aren’t burning every night from violent unrest, most Americans now trust police unions to “to promote justice and equal treatment for people of all races” than Black Lives Matter – by two percent!
Americans’ trust in the Black Lives Matter movement has fallen and their faith in local law enforcement has risen since protests demanding social justice swept the nation last year, according to an exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll…
Last June, amid accusations of systemic racism in law enforcement, 60% of Americans expressed trust in the Black Lives Matter movement to promote justice and equal treatment of people, compared with 56% who trusted local police to do that.
Now, however, attitudes have shifted significantly. Trust in Black Lives Matter has fallen to 50%; trust in local police and law enforcement has risen to 69%.
Note the language above. Police aren’t tasked with “promoting justice and equal treatment of people.” Their job is to enforce the law and arrest criminals.
It surely looks like the accusations of systemic racism against law enforcement haven’t held water with most Americans. A majority see police as protecting the average law-abiding citizen from criminals and those who prey on others. And after watching violent protests for much of last year, that’s exactly what most Americans want.
USA Today continues by highlighting the difference in viewpoints between black Americans and white Americans.
Black Americans and white Americans now express very different views: 75% of Black people but just 42% of white people express trust in Black Lives Matter, while 77% of white people but just 42% of Black people trust local police.
The McPaper laments that attitudes of both groups “have moved in the same direction” when it comes to growing trust in local law enforcement and growing distrust of “Black Lives Matter.”
But viewpoints in both demographic groups have moved in the same direction compared with the June 2020 survey. Among Black respondents, trust in Black Lives Matter has fallen by 12 points and trust in local police has risen by 14 points. Among white respondents, trust in Black Lives Matter has fallen by 8 points and trust in local police has risen by 12 points.
Obviously, all of America will be watching what happens in the aftermath of the Chauvin trial. Already the city of Minneapolis has taken extraordinary measures to secure the courthouse and surrounding government buildings from more violence that could result, depending on the verdict.
Will those measures be enough for the battle-hardened Antifa and Black Lives Matter agitators who have had months of riot experience in America’s big cities? Time will tell.
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The following is a brief summary of the mandates of the four committees of the Board:
The primary mandate of the Audit Committee is to review the financial statements of the Corporation and public disclosure documents containing financial information and to report on such review to the Board, to be satisfied that adequate procedures are in place for the review of the Corporation’s public disclosure documents that contain financial information, to oversee the work and review the independence of the external auditors, and to review any evaluation of the Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting. The Audit Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of, and compliance with a number of policies of the Corporation, including the Global Anti-Bribery Policy. In performing its duties and exercising its powers, the Audit Committee considers and addresses the risks related to the establishment, maintenance and implementation of disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting and the risks related to cyber security that would reasonably be expected to have a material effect on the Corporation.
Number of meetings in 2021: 4Audit Committee Charter
The primary mandate of the Human Resources Committee is to approve compensation policies and guidelines for employees of the Corporation, to approve compensation arrangements for executives of the Corporation, to recommend to the Board compensation arrangements for the Directors and for the CEO, to oversee the management of incentive compensation plans and equity compensation plans, to consider the implications of any risks associated with the Corporation’s compensation policies and practices, and to review succession plans for senior management, taking into account the objectives of the Corporation’s Diversity Policy.
Number of meetings in 2021: 7Human Resources Committee Charter
The primary mandate of the Governance and Nominating Committee is to oversee the Corporation’s approach to governance issues, to recommend to the Board corporate governance practices consistent with the Corporation’s commitment to high standards of corporate governance and to address potential risk related to governance matters. The Governance and Nominating Committee is responsible for identifying new candidates for Board nomination and, after considering the objectives of the Corporation’s Diversity Policy, for recommending to the Board those candidates who possess the qualifications, competencies, skills, experience and level of commitment required to fulfill Board and Board Committees responsibilities. The Governance and Nominating Committee is also responsible for assessing at least annually the performance and effectiveness of the Board, Board Committees, and individual Directors to ensure that they are fulfilling their respective responsibilities and duties. It also oversees Director orientation and education.
The Committee has responsibility for monitoring the implementation of the Corporation’s policy and strategy with respect to corporate social responsibility which includes environmental and social matters. The Committee is also responsible for periodically reviewing the Corporation’s mission statement and, after discussion with management, recommending any changes to the Board of Directors that it deems appropriate.
Number of meetings in 2021: 1Governance and Nominating Committee Charter
The primary mandate of the Related Party and Conduct Review Committee is to recommend to the Board procedures for the consideration and approval of transactions with related parties of the Corporation and to review and, if deemed appropriate, to approve such transactions.
The Related Party and Conduct Review Committee considers transactions between the Corporation and the following parties: (i) Directors and officers of the Corporation or any of its affiliates (and spouse and minor children of such persons); (ii) the Corporation’s controlling shareholder; and (iii) any entity, other than a subsidiary of the Corporation, in which a party listed in (i) above beneficially owns or controls (A) securities representing more than 10 per cent of the voting interests, or (B) securities representing more than 25 per cent of the equity interests. Generally, the Corporation and its subsidiaries are prohibited from entering into a related party transaction if the transaction is not on terms and conditions at least as favourable as market terms and conditions.
In performing its duties and exercising its powers, the Related Party and Conduct Review Committee considers and addresses risks related to any proposed transactions with related parties of the Corporation.
Number of meetings in 2021: 2Related Party and Conduct Review Committee Charter
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There are many books available which say that they are the best book for SSC CGL English Vocabulary. But toppers have recommended that you should not study all of them. You should study Vocabulary from only best books .These books will help you in Tier 1 and Tier 2 preparation. You should have one previous year question book and one authentic text book. I am first going to list down some books and how to study them.
Best Book for SSC CGL English Vocabulary :-
- Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis
- Kiran Chapter wise English for SSC
- S. P. Bakshi – Objective English
At the end of this article I will also write down some other way to improve your vocabulary besides these list of Best book for SSC CGL English vocabulary.
Here is the best books for vocabulary section for SSC CGL with some special features:-
1. Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis – This is the most famous book for vocabulary. You may have this book in your study room and must have seen in your friends’ study room. This is a red color book. This book is divided into sessions. And after every sessions you get many exercises to practice and revise the vocabulary.
2. Kiran Chapterwise Previous Year English Book – This is must have book if you are preparing for any exam of SSC like CGL, CHSL, MTS, CPO. This book contains all the vocabulary and grammar questions asked in different SSC exams asked till now.
3. S.P.Bakshi– Objective English book by Arihant Publication – You can study from this book. This book can be referred as complete English textbook. This book contains both sections of grammar and vocabulary.
4. The Hindu Newspaper – Read The Hindu newspaper daily. If you do not have much time read at least two editorials. And the write down important word meaning from those editorial into your notebook. You can take help from The Hindu Vocabulary App available on Google Play Store for free.
Now there is one important question that every aspirant asks : –
Is Word Power Made Easy enough for SSC CGL ?
I would say just Word Power Made Easy Vocabulary book is NOT enough for SSC CGL vocabulary section. Because SSC CGL exam has become highly competitive. Students who are preparing from 3-4 years have read so many books. I will suggest you to study from this book and Kiran Previous Year Question Papers as well.
Even if you do not buy this book but you should study phrasal verbs section from this book. There are around 250 phrasal verbs. I must say that phrasal verbs of this book is complete.
In my opinion you must study from :-
1.Kiran Chapterwise Previous Year Question + Word Power made Easy ( English Medium students)
2. Kiran Chapterwise Previous Year Question + S. P. Bakshi ( English Medium students )
3. Kiran Chapterwise Previous Year Question + Plinth to Paramount by Neetu Ma’am ( Hindi Medium students )
Now as I have said you earlier that besides the above best book for SSC CGL English vocabulary, I will also tell you some other resources to improve your vocabulary. These are as follows:-
- Read at least two editorials from any newspaper and write down words which you find difficult. ( if you do not have habit of reading newspaper you can start from any newspaper and eventually move to The Hindu newspaper. )
- Use The Hindu Vocabulary App -. This dictionary is also available on android version at google play store. It is free. Download link – The Hindu Vocab App. You will get Word Meaning in Hindi and English both.
- You must register for daily SSC vocabulary quiz/test. Or you can give daily test at SSCTRICK. We are going to start quiz very soon for your SSC CGL, CPO, CHSL and MTS exams.
Conclusion for best book for SSC CGL English vocabulary – Study from authentic source only. Do not fall in the trap of buying every book available in the market and making your room a mini library. Try to make your resources of vocabulary limited. Daily learning and revision is the key to success.
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Cedar Breaks National Monument may be relatively unknown, but it is a major natural wonder in itself. It features dramatic red rock formations and 1,600 years old Bristlecone Pine trees. Thunder and lightning made us shorten our hike to just three miles. But what awesome three miles they were.
The Campground & Ramparts Trail
Location: Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah
Start: Point Supreme Campground
Distance: 3 miles (4,8 km) roundtrip
Elevation gain: 380 ft
Time: 2 hrs
Note: lightning hazard
Cedar Breaks National Monument
Cedar Breaks National Monument is a nice hideout from the crowds and the summer heat that you’ll experience at nearby Zion National Park. Located at 10,350 feet elevation, summer temperatures are low and camp sites are easy to find at Point Supreme Campground. We arrived early to find a choice of first-come-first-served sites.
Camping at this elevation can be surprisingly cold, even mid summer. At a stormy night we needed all our clothing (including woolen hat and down jacket) to get a comfortable sleep. The camping has very nice big spots, each with a picnic table and a fire pit. There are also restrooms with showers, chopped firewood, and water spigots.
But more importantly, the view here was so impressive I did not think of all these facts at all. I stood there with my loved one and we could only respond to the majestic beauty in silence.
The Visitors Center and Point Supreme
Just a few steps further on the wheelchair accessible trail we found the Visitor Center, a tiny cabin constructed in 1937 by the famous Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). This historic building was designed to resemble the classic National Park Service rustic architecture.
From Point Supreme we looked down into Jericho Canyon, where we made up names for the towering rocks, like The Pope, Santa Claus and many others. We tried to estimate the height of the rocks, comparing them to the trees, but the depth of the canyon was hard to imagine.
Speaking of trees, as many 75% of the trees in the monument – which are not Cedars at all but Juniper trees the early settlers mistook for Cedar – were killed by a spruce beetle outbreak in 1986–1998.
Such a shame that most visitors to the park seemed only to glimpse through their smartphones and leave Point Supreme within minutes. On the other hand, this left us mostly all alone to enjoy the views – and the upcoming thunderstorm.
Along the trail we came to the highest point of the trail (10,478 ft / 3.194 m) on the cliffs edges near a weather station.
The Bristlecone Pines that grow on the cliffs edges are looking half dead, but are very much alive. These trees are a 1,000 to 1,600 years old. We took a moment to let that sink in.
Although hiking on to the Ramparts Overlook would have been just two miles extra, the thunder and lightning came really really close again and the slippery mud began weigh heavy on our boots. Time to get back!
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Many websites use HTTP. However, back in 2014, Google recommended that sites switch to HTTPS. Until then, only sites with e-commerce pages really bothered to use HTTPS.
As an incentive for switching over, Google announced that it would be providing HTTPS sites with a minor rankings bump, in effect punishing sites that did not switch over by giving an edge to competitors that did.
Now you’re probably wondering – why is it so important that you switch over to HTTPS? Is it really worth the hassle to do so? What even is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?
Will using one over the other affect your SEO efforts at all? The following guide will break everything down for you, not only answer these common questions but giving you a much better understanding of HTTP vs HTTPS in general.
Here’s a quick video summarizing the points if you’re in a rush:
The first thing that we should go over is what HTTP and HTTPS actually are. It’s going to be difficult to understand the impact of switching from one to the other or how to choose between HTTP vs. HTTPS without a general understanding of both.
HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. At it’s most basic, it allows for the communication between different systems. It’s most commonly used to transfer data from a web server to a browser in order to allow users to view web pages. It’s the protocol that was used for basically all early websites.
HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. The problem with the regular HTTP protocol is that the information that flows from server to browser is not encrypted, which means it can be easily stolen. HTTPS protocols remedy this by using an SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate, which helps create a secure encrypted connection between the server and the browser, thereby protecting potentially sensitive information from being stolen as it is transferred between the server and the browser.
The most important difference between the two protocols is the SSL certificate. In fact, HTTPS is basically an HTTP protocol with additional security. However, this additional security can be extremely important, especially for websites that take sensitive data from its users, such as credit card information and passwords.
How do HTTPS works? The SSL certificate encrypts the information that users supply to the site, which basically translates the data into a code. Even if someone manages to steal the data being communicated between the sender and the recipient, they would not be able to understand it due to this encryption.
But in addition to adding that extra layer of security, HTTPS is also secured via TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol. TLS helps provide data integrity, which helps prevent the transfer of data from being modified or corrupted, and authentication, which proves to your users that they are communicating with the intended website.
Users can identify whether a site uses HTTPS protocol by the web address. The very first part of the web address (before the “www”) indicates whether the site uses HTTP or HTTPS protocols.
So, to recap, the difference between HTTP vs HTTPS is simply the presence of an SSL certificate. HTTP doesn’t have SSL and HTTPS has SSL, which encrypts your information so your connections are secured. HTTPS also has TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol that HTTP lacks. HTTPS is more secure than HTTP.
If you’re looking at the main difference between HTTP and HTTPS, HTTPS obviously has a big advantage. After all, wouldn’t you want your site to be as secure as possible? The thing is, if you don’t have an e-commerce page and you’re not accepting potentially sensitive information from your website’s visitors, then you might be thinking that switching over to an HTTPS site isn’t that necessary and that doing so is a bigger hassle than it’s worth.
However, the security advantage isn’t the only benefit of using HTTPS. In fact, switching over to HTTPS can end up boosting your SEO efforts as well. The following are a few ways in which HTTPS can help to improve your SEO:
If you are wondering, is HTTPS good for SEO? Heck yeah, HTTPS matters to SEO!
Because besides the fact that Google itself has announced that sites switched to HTTPS will receive a small bump in rankings, doing so can lead to you website’s ranking boost over time in any event because visitors will be more likely to browse through sites that they know are secure.
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Also, the use of an HTTPS site makes Google Analytics more effective. This is because the security data of the website that referred to you are saved with the use of HTTPS – it’s not with HTTP sites. With HTTP sites, referral sources will just appear as “direct traffic”. This gives HTTPS a big advantage for SEO in itself.
Because an HTTPS site encrypts all communication, visitors will have protection on not only their sensitive information, like passwords and credit card information, but also their browsing history. Knowing that they will retain their privacy while browsing your site and knowing that anything that they download, sign up for or purchase won’t put them at risk due to a lack of security is going to help you to build trust, which is vital to capturing leads and closing sales.
Additionally, HTTPS protects your site from security breaches, which can end up damaging your reputation and even costing you money if they do occur.
If you want to be able to use AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), then you’ll need to have HTTPS.
AMP was created by Google as a way to load content onto mobile devices at a much faster rate. At its core, AMP is kind of like a stripped-down HTML. AMP content is featured prominently on Google’s SERPs to create a better mobile experience for smartphone and tablet users.
While there are many benefits to switching over from HTTP to HTTPS, there are still a few potential problems that you could run into when doing so. The following are some of the tips you should be sure to keep in mind when switching over to HTTPS to prevent potential SEO-related issues:
Now that you understand the benefits of switching to HTTPS and how to avoid any issues while migrating, it’s time to actually switch from HTTP to HTTPS. The process of switching to HTTPS may take a number of steps to accomplish, but overall, it’s actually not that difficult – just a little bit time-consuming. The following are the steps that you will need to take in order to switch to HTTPS:
It may take a while to get your site completely migrated to HTTPS, but it’s worth it in the end. Just make sure that you check all of the links throughout your site to make sure that they are properly updated or else they will break after migration.
You want your website to be secure for a number of reasons. Not only do you want to protect potentially sensitive information, but you’ll want to make sure that your visitors are comfortable browsing through your site.
These reasons alone are a good reason to switch from HTTP to HTTPS. However, when you consider the effect that switching to HTTPS will have on your SEO, it becomes a no-brainer.
If you have yet to switch your website to HTTPS, then you should take the time to do so. Yes, there are a number of steps involved, but the effort it will take is well worth the result.
HTTPS has already become the standard protocol, which means that the longer that you hesitate, the more of a chance there is that you’ll fall behind your competition.
If you have already switched your website to HTTPS, know that this is only just a beginning to building your website SEO.
Then again, HTTPS setup is only one of the factors affecting your ranking. You also have to look at how your content and website fare against the Top 20 pages ranking in the SERPs.
The latest key that determines if your website or content ranks for your keyword is if it is relevant to your context.
This is driven by Google’s latest implementation of word2vec that looks to improve performance in NLP. However, these high dimensional word vectors have been very difficult to interpret manually.
The best we could do is to analyze your website content against the current top 10 rankings for the keywords and see if there is any content gap or relevant information missing from our own.
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It actually provides real-time content analysis and compare your content against the Top 10 rankings for your keyword and let you discover the areas you can improve and optimize.
Besides, it’s easy to use. Just paste your target keyword and URL page and you will be able to identify the most critical on-page SEO issues on your content and fix them with the optimization suggestions to get the traffic that your content truly deserves.
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Descripción del sitio
A five or ten-minute walk through the "Jungle of the Jordan" leads into a clearing marked by a modern pool and the sheltered remains of the 7th-century Church of John the Baptist. Beneath a shelter is the altar and mosaic floor, which was originally raised up on an arched vault to protect it from flooding.
Byzantine stairs, three of them black marble, interspersed with white marble from Asia Minor, lead from the apse to the Spring of John the Baptist. A marble fragment inscribed IOY. BATT.
was found in the church wall.
Learn more: The Baptism Site (Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan)
Explore more: Sacred Sites of Jordan
Category: Biblical Sites
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The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens traveling to or living in Haiti about the lack of adequate emergency medical facilities, and the security environment in Haiti. This replaces the Travel Warning dated December 4, 2014 and provides updated information regarding the changing nature of crime involving United States citizens in Haiti.
The Department of State urges U.S. citizens to exercise caution when visiting Haiti given Haiti’s weak emergency response infrastructure. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens safely visit Haiti each year, but the poor state of Haiti’s emergency response network should be carefully considered when planning travel. Travelers to Haiti are encouraged to use organizations that have solid evacuation and medical support options in place. (Please see the Country Specific Information page for Haiti.)
Haiti’s emergency management infrastructure remains in poor condition. We strongly encourage visitors to Haiti to obtain evacuation insurance. A new private air ambulance company has opened recently, representing a significant advance in response services, but its service is limited. Those traveling in rural areas of Haiti should verify service to where they are traveling. Additionally, medical facilities in Haiti, including road ambulance services, are particularly weak. Some U.S. citizens injured in accidents and others with serious health concerns have been unable to find necessary medical care in Haiti and have had to arrange and pay for medical evacuation to the United States.
Reports of kidnappings have fallen off sharply, with just one incident involving a U.S. citizen reported to the Embassy so far in 2015, continuing a dramatic decline in such crimes since 2011. While the Government of Haiti, however, has made progress in arresting and disrupting perpetrators, kidnapping for ransom can still affect anyone in Haiti, most particularly those maintaining long-term residency in the country.
We urge U.S. citizens to remain aware of the possibility of robbery, especially in the Port-au-Prince area and in particular soon after leaving the airport. While Haitian authorities have taken serious measures to improve airport security and the frequency of these crimes is down, from May to October 2014 there were 64 reported cases of U.S. citizens being robbed shortly after departing the airport, a spike associated with the busy travel period during the summer. Three of these robberies resulted in the death of U.S. citizens. In almost all cases reported to the Embassy, the victims were U.S. citizens of Haitian descent visiting family and friends. Therefore, we urge U.S. citizens to be circumspect in sharing specific travel plans, and we recommend that U.S. citizens have their host or organization meet them at the airport upon arrival and/or have pre-arranged airport transfers and hotels. The Embassy is currently monitoring the occurrence of airport robberies as we move into the busy summer travel season.
We also urge U.S. citizens to exercise caution when visiting banks in Port-au-Prince. Robbery crews have been known to surveil banks and rob customers shortly after departure.
Regions of Haiti outside the capital have reported fewer incidents of crime. The Haitian authorities’ ability to respond to emergencies is limited, however, and in some areas nonexistent. Embassy employees are required to adhere to certain required security and safety measures when traveling outside of Port-au-Prince, and they have restrictions on travel in certain areas or times. Additionally, U.S. Embassy personnel are under an Embassy-imposed curfew from 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. and must remain at home or another safe facility during curfew hours. This may constrain the Embassy’s ability to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens outside of Port-au-Prince. For additional details on restrictions on staff travel within Haiti, please see ourCountry Specific Information for Haiti.
While the United Nations’ Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) currently supports the activities of the Haitian National Police (HNP), their numbers will decrease during 2015 as mandated by the U.N. Security Council. The HNP, with assistance from MINUSTAH, is responsible for maintaining order and rendering assistance. Given the possibility and unpredictability of spontaneous protests, however, their ability to assist U.S. citizens during disturbances is very limited. U.S. government-facilitated evacuations, such as the evacuation that took place from Haiti in 2010, occur only when no safe commercial alternatives exist. Please see our website for additional information on how the Department of State assists U.S. citizens during a crisis.
We urge U.S. citizens who choose to travel to Haiti to review our Country Specific Information page. U.S. private sector organizations with operations in Haiti can obtain additional information on the security situation in the country through the U.S. Department of State’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC). OSAC’s mission is to promote security cooperation between U.S. private sector interests worldwide and the U.S. Department of State. OSAC also maintains an active Country Council in Haiti to promote the exchange of security-related information. The Council is comprised of security professionals and is co-chaired by the Regional Security Officer at the U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince and a private sector representative. U.S. private sector entities can obtain additional information on OSAC by visiting the OSAC website.
We strongly urge U.S. citizens to enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) in order to receive the most up-to-date security information. While the Embassy’s ability to provide emergency consular services is extremely limited, travel enrollment will enable you to receive security messages via email. Current information on safety and security can also be obtained by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the United States; callers outside the United States and Canada can receive the information by calling a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444. These numbers are available from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except U.S. federal holidays.
The U.S. Embassy is located in Port-au-Prince at Boulevard du 15 Octobre, Tabarre 41, Tabarre, Haiti, telephone: (509) 2229-8000, facsimile: (509) 2229-8027, email: firstname.lastname@example.org American Citizens Services (ACS) Unit office hours are 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The Consular Section is closed on U.S. and local holidays. After hours, on weekends and on holidays, please call (509) 2229-8000 and an automated attendant will connect you with the Embassy duty officer. U.S. citizens can also stay informed about conditions in Haiti by following the Embassy and ACS on Twitter and Facebook.
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Wait, what's that feeling? Oh, it's the rarely experienced deep winter happiness
WAUSAU - A mile into my three-mile bicycle ride to work a recent Friday morning, a weird feeling started to come over me.
It took me a few moments for me to identify this sensation. Hungry? No, I just ate breakfast. Tired? No, I'm an early riser so mornings are the best time of the day for me. Angry? Nope. Well, no more than the usual levels.
I was gliding along the gravel pathways in Pine Grove Cemetery at that moment. Often, I cut through the cemetery for a more peaceful ride and to lessen the chances of getting hit by a car. A snow had fallen a day or two earlier, and everything around me was coated with white. It looked fresh and pure. The sun was shining. And it was 29 degrees. Above zero.
"Wait a minute," a voice inside my head said, "I think this might be joy."
I thought about this for a minute.
And then another voice inside my head said, "You know, I think you might be right. Wow, that's strange."
It was strange because it is at this time of the year that the charms of winter begin to wear thin for me.
I like winter. It's a very pretty time of the year. I like winter sports, what with all the sliding around and all. And I appreciate the lack of mosquitoes.
But there are aspects to winter that are hard to admire, such as the cold that bites like a rattlesnake, the gunky sludge that collects on the sides of streets and the general lack of color. And all this negative stuff seems to gang up on me and pile on this time of year, late January and through February.
I've come to call this period of time the Winter Doldrums. "Doldrums" was originally a nautical term that sailors called a windless area of the Atlantic where sailing ships would bog down on their journeys. But in the modern era, it's come to mean "a spell of listlessness or despondency" according to Merriam-Webster.
Some people also call it SAD, or seasonal affective disorder. I've never probed deep enough to get a medical or psychological diagnosis of SAD, but the symptoms of it regularly show up in my psyche year after year.
Some people deal with this time of year and the difficulties associated with it by nesting, cocooning, or traveling somewhere warm. I would never argue against that strategy. But I've found, for me, that the best cure is to go counter-intuitive, to get out there and in winter's grill. Smack talk it a little bit.
That's why I was riding my bike to work that day to get through the doldrums. Being physically active, anything to get the blood moving through my body gives me a lift. If I am doing it outside, in the fresh air, sun or snow, the effect is magnified. It's the #optoutside cure.
It also helps that my canine running partner, Henry the Doodler, loves, loves, loves winter. It's kind of catching.
Even so, the feeling of well-being and joy that hit me on my ride caught me by surprise. It was a sensation that is commonly referred to as a "runner's high", and researchers say it's caused by the release of feel-good hormones into your system when you are active.
I'm lucky, I think, because I find if I put myself in the right frame of mind, and push myself a bit, but not too much, I can regularly get that feeling.
But this one was different both because it caught me by surprise and because it was such an intense feeling. That put me off my guard. The voices in my head were discussing this, when one said, "Let's go for a longer ride," and the other voice said, "Yeah!"
So I continued along the Wausau's pathway that runs along the Wisconsin River. One big, great advantage to my job is that there is a great deal of flexibility and self-direction, and 15 minutes one way or another is fine.
But still, I was later than I had planned, and as I cycled along the river, an old familiar feeling rose up. Guilt.
Ah. That's more like it.
I turned my bike around and rode to the office.
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With internet shopping, mobile banking and instant messaging, gadgets have taken over our lives, but it’s not just the adults who have been affected, it’s time to get kids off gadgets too. From toddlers using tablets to teens obsessed with Snapchat, our kids are always using gadgets. If you are worried about the impact then you are not alone, as recent evidence shows that more kids are becoming addicted to technology.
If you have ever tried to sit down and spend some time together as a family or have a lovely family meal, then you will know all too well how much phones, hand-held games consoles and tablets get in the way.
You could try to encourage your kids to get some fresh air and go outdoors. This is easier if you have little ones, as you can create fun games and activities, but if you have older children, it can become a bit of a challenge. To help get them outdoors, here are some ideas to get your kids off gadgets.
A great gadget-removing idea is to introduce your kids to new hobbies specifically ones which encourage them to go outdoors. Ask them if there is something they would like to try and offer to help them do it. This could be anything from dance classes and music lessons, to surfing and buying skates or a scooter from Skate Hut – just make sure to remember the protective gear!
Activities with Friends
Although most children use their gadgets to talk to their friends, online interaction is no substitute for real face-to-face time. Recent research has shown that regular social media users are at an increased risk of loneliness, with young people particularly affected. Encouraging your kids to meet up with their friends outdoors can help to boost mental health and reduce gadget use.
Open a Dialogue
Getting your teenager to open up can be easier said than done, but creating a dialogue is a great way to prevent gadget addiction. When you do this, remember to think like your teen. Discuss gadget addiction in a friendly way, talk to them about body image and social media, why it’s a good idea to have time away from the screen, and let them know that if they have any concerns, they have a safe place to talk.
There is no doubt that gadgets make our lives easier and can be a great way to stay in touch with people, but using them too much can cause our children to experience loneliness and mental health problems. Try these suggestions to try to limit time spent on gadgets.
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How can you pray for the students and the schools in your community?
Pray for the campus: Students are in the most strategic position to reach their schools with the message of the gospel. Pray for the salvation and safety of students and staff; pray for effective campus missionaries and clubs; pray that everyone on campus will receive a clear presentation of the gospel.
Pray for the community: Students' lives are influenced by more than just their schools. Pray that God would bless their homes with peace; pray for safety in the places students like to hang out; pray for the businesses that are in position to have a positive influence on students.
Pray for the church: Students who make a decision to follow Christ must be incorporated into a healthy, Bible-believing church. Pray that students will be loved and accepted by your church; pray that the adults in your church will become role models and spiritual mentors; pray for all the ministries in your church that deal with students (Sunday school, Youth ministries, etc.).
More ways to pray:
* Pray for your lunch everyday
* Pray silently for the students sitting around you at the beginning of every class
* Pray as you walk between classes (Prayer Walk)
* Pray for your school during See You at the Pole every September www.syatp.com
* Kneel and pray for 30 seconds, every day, in the hallway or in front of your locker www.30kd.org
* Develop a school of the week rotating prayer list. List one school a week in church announcements and distribute to prayer
* Pray for the School of the Week at home
* Pray as you drive through a school zone
* Distribute Prayer Zone Partners brochures and stickers to increase awareness in your church
* Schedule a Sunday service to promote prayer for students, schools, and the community through the Prayer Zone Partners
FIND A PRAYER GROUP FOR YOUR CHILDS SCHOOL: WWW.MOMSINTOUCH.ORG
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To carry out electronic informal tracking effectively, an audience’s understanding abilities ought to be actually excellent. This is actually why latest investigation pertaining to analysis versus listening closely understanding comes to be pertinent to social networking sites surveillance.
Understanding is actually a method discussed through listening closely as well as reading through tasks. Paying attention and also checking out abilities are actually educable, as well as each possesses various as well as good knowing high qualities; lots of folks are actually much better at some procedure than the various other. It could be claimed that ideal method health conditions for the surveillance of social media sites tasks, on a social networks listening closely dash over stretched time frames, will be actually to make use of analysis as well as paying attention tactics.
These on the internet discussions remain in some scenarios reacted to, held, and also studied through experts (qualitative as well as measurable experts).
This strategy will extremely be actually beneficial to social media surveillance facilities, due to the fact that the incorporated investigation can easily be actually effortlessly achieved online. In addition, their research study will likely find valuable chat strings, influencers, informal intent, semantic understanding (demographics, involvement, influencers, activities, emotional states), and also area task that will profit a brand name’s on-line purposes.
As buyer talk expands as well as ends up being denser online, the rise in social media sites paying attention modern technology is going to end up being commonplace in firms tiny and also sizable. Companies associated with this task will definitely likewise need to have to possess a reproducible, foreseeable design for excellence.
Research study has actually revealed that audiences as well as audiences recognize various component of details in different ways. Listening closely is actually described as understanding, analyzing, as well as examining what an individual speaks with a sound speaker; analysis alternatively whtasapp spy apps is actually an intricate intellectual procedure of deciphering icons along with the objective of acquiring or even designing significance (analysis understanding).
Understanding is actually a method discussed through listening closely and also reviewing tasks. It can easily be actually asserted that greatest method problems for the surveillance of social media tasks, on a social media paying attention dash over prolonged durations of opportunity, would certainly be actually to utilize analysis and also paying attention tactics.
Among the factors of the results design is actually for companies to include listening closely as well as going through methods in to their social networks surveillance settings. It is going to assist create a center-of-excellence strategy to involving as well as knowing along with their company’s consumers online.
Social network demand facilities in huge enterprises including Dell and also Gatorade (Pepsi) screen individual involvement along with experts as well as viewers. These viewers, occasionally referred to as audiences, review huge volumes of informal relevant information created through folks interacting on different electronic systems.
Social media site tracking techniques are actually, in truth, checking out information, interaction, as well as understanding study techniques that typically entail the adhering to 4 various online account styles: consumer, item, project, as well as rival tasks.
This method would certainly quite be actually helpful to social media tracking facilities, due to the fact that the incorporated research study may be actually conveniently achieved online.
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Sunday May 7th saw the first bird-walk for the Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery. It was a bird song identification walk led by Linda Jenkinson of Start Birding. A group of about 25-30, seven of whom were “Friends”, the others more experienced bird watchers, had assembled in the car park by 9.00 a.m where a red kite was flying overhead.
Linda took this mixed ability group through the varied habitat in the older part of the cemetery. The floor of the woodland glade was carpeted with wild flowers e.g. wild garlic, wood anemones and primroses. The Victorian cemetery, with its stunning memorials proved perfect perches for the show-off robins and wrens! The open lawns at the entrance and the Cross, in the Memorial gardens provided a different habitat in which we saw a pied wagtail, blackbirds and other ground feeding species. But it was the trees that provided the most sightings – a great spotted woodpecker on a dead branch, nuthatches and tits (blue and great) attracted to the many oaks, the conifers were host to a stock dove (heard but not seen) and a tiny goldcrest …a total of 23 species were seen/heard.
Different calls and songs were pointed out and tips given on how we can develop our own skills in their identification. We learned the difference between songs – for most species only used in the Spring/early Summer to attract a mate. We learned about the breathing system in birds which allows them to sing, without having to stop and gasp for breath! We understood why some birds – e.g. the bittern and the wren have such loud songs – especially for the size of the latter.
Not only did we learn about bird songs/calls, we also got to see the birds. If one can recognise birds by their songs, one can start to look for them – and thus see a far greater number of species. This didn’t apply particularly to the tit family as they were simply too busy feeding their young to sing. I had not realised that they had a very small time in which to fledge their chicks…whilst the tree leaves are just emerging. The chicks are fed on grubs, caterpillars etc. found on leaves. The grubs feeding on older leaves ingest tannins, produced when the leaves turn dark green, which is fatal to the chicks. In fact we learned that being a chick is pretty perilous – most don’t survive the first year many ending as food for larger birds.
I feel sure that everyone on the walk learned a great deal – the more experienced asked questions – and we learned facts about migration, that “early fledglings” could be the female being fed by the male (a courtship ritual in which the female pretends to be a chick, so she can assess how well he cares for her, before accepting him as her mate…clever bird!) and why some species were under threat – mainly due to their feeding or breeding grounds being decimated – intensively farmed or turned into housing, as well as direct threats encountered in their migratory patterns.
Linda was a very accessible and extremely knowledgeable guide and I’d encourage anyone to check out her website www.startbirding.co.uk for details of walks and the classes she runs.
Ann Lightman (Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery)
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The nation's century-long effort to save the American deer population from extinction has been so successful that, well, deer are becoming pesky.
From major cities to suburbia, on highways and in forests, the surging deer population is causing increasing damage and rising popular discontent. The leap is causing many to ponder a still-unanswered question: How many deer are too many?
At the turn of the century, fewer than 1 million white-tailed deer ranged in the US and Canada, according to estimates. Today, thanks largely to restocking programs and limits on hunting, there are an estimated 17 million to 20 million - almost as many as roamed the area when Columbus set foot in the New World, researchers believe.
For conservationists, deer represent a remarkable success story, yet fewer and fewer people are cheering.
Here in Pennsylvania, which reportedly has the largest deer population of any state except Texas, overall deer numbers have surged in the past 15 years. The resulting damage has been widespread and is causing howls of protest among some groups.
Every year, Pennsylvania has 40,000 known deer-car collisions. The real number is probably twice that, says Bill Shope, supervisor of the forest wildlife research section at the Pennsylvania Game Commission. In addition to the occasional fatality, damage to cars totals tens of millions of dollars a year.
On farms, deer eat an estimated $80 million worth of crops. In many suburbs, they chew up ornamental trees and shrubs and destroy vegetable gardens. Even Philadelphia, the state's largest city, has felt the impact.
At the University of Pennsylvania's Morris Arboretum, for example, horticulturists have tried everything from deer repellent to a Jack Russell terrier to protect their rose garden. Finally, two years ago, they erected a 9-foot-high fence. Still, the deer can be seen wriggling on their bellies to get under it.
"Nearly every major city ... is experiencing problems from either white-tail deer or mule deer," says Jay McAninch, a deer research biologist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. He reports having gotten calls from, among other places, Bismarck, N.D., and Rapid City, S.D. But "I think we have a national opportunity," he says. "We have an opportunity to set a different tone for how we live with wildlife. How we deal with deer is going to be an example of how we deal with everything else."
Here in the forests of northwest Pennsylvania, however, evidence of deer damage is dramatic. For 10 years, David deCalesta of the US Forest Service has fenced off forested plots and maintained various-size herds within them. He found that forest biodiversity declined dramatically when deer populations got too high.
In plots with more than 20 deer per square mile, for example, the animals munched so many tree seedlings that many species, including the sugar maple, white ash, yellow poplar, and hemlock, disappeared. Even the number of songbird species declined precipitously when dense deer populations munched the low-lying branches that those species typically call home.
"The evidence is overwhelming," says Mr. deCalesta. "Too many deer hurt the forest."
Unlike other parts of Pennsylvania, where deer populations are on the upswing, deer densities here have fallen from 60 deer per square mile in the late 1970s to about 30 today. And deCalesta wants it cut to 10.
But Charles Bolgiano, director of the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania, is skeptical. Drought, insects, and rodents also cause damage to seedlings, he says, but deer get blamed because they're easier to control. In some hunting areas, he wants more deer, not fewer.
The state agency charged with deer control - the Pennsylvania Game Commission - falls somewhere between these two extremes. Officially, it has set a statewide average goal of 21 deer per square mile. But the commission has consistently failed to meet its deer-population target.
Critics charge that this is because, unlike other states where game commissions are part of a larger environmental or natural-resource department, Pennsylvania's commission is an independent agency beholden to hunting interests. "We have a game commission that sees its role as providing deer for the hunters," says Ann Rhoads of the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia. "Meanwhile, the deer are destroying the forest."
The real reason, counters Mr. Shope of the game commission, is that hunting can't quickly reduce the population, no matter how many licenses are handed out. Every year, Pennsylvania hunters kill more than 3 out of 4 bucks in the forest. But the remaining male deer impregnate so many does that by the time the next hunting season rolls around, the overall population has increased 40 percent.
Because other control efforts, such as contraception, haven't proven to be cost-effective, killing deer remains the method of choice, wildlife managers say This is causing its own controversy in suburbs across the US. For every homeowner with deer-stripped shrubs, there are others who oppose hunting.
Often, the result is a stalemate, says Bryon Shissler, a natural-resource-management consultant in Fort Hill, Pa. "It's not palatable to most citizens to see deer being killed," he says.
Some communities have begun to move forward, however. In Minnesota, at least 25 communities have set up deer-control programs, says Mr. McAninch. To avoid guns going off in their neighborhoods, some groups have turned to bow hunters, who last year held six hunts in suburban parks and wooded areas. The practice is controversial, but it is far cheaper than the $175 to $300 per deer to bait, shoot, and remove the animals.
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Mathania is a town in the Jodhpur district of Rajasthan, India. The fiery heart of the Thar Desert finds itself in the bright and fiery symbolic produce of this region – the Mathania mirchi. Belonging to a land where many a bloody battle was fought for honour, the Rajastahni cuisine reflects the stoic and spirited temperament of the Rajput warrior, in its simplicity and liberal use of chillies, especially the Mathaniamirchi – the highly flavoured red chilly found only in the western region of Mathania.
With conducive weather conditions in Mathania, the region finds itself the chosen ground for these chillies which flourish during the tropical months between March and July. In its uniqueness, this chilly grows only in Mathaniain Rajasthan and has, therefore, come to be known as “Mathania lal mirch”. Rajasthani cuisine not only appreciates this particular spice but has traditional dishes cenred around its flavour and colour – laalmaas and kairsangri being two of them. Simmered with dry Mathania mirchi, laalmaas has the sharpness of the chillies contrasting with the tender and sweet desert goat meat. The pungent, flavourful preparation is a beauty on the plate with its red hues making it a feast for the eyes too.
In its past, Mathania was also known for the industrial production of malmal, but the textile trade soon withered away. Today, Mathania has resident families working on harvesting, drying, grinding the chillies, while the ladies of the house also make the very Rajasthani, very intense mirchiki chutney with chillies soaked overnight and then ground with garlic and a few other spices.
In Marwari and Rajput cooking, the Mathania mirch is used mostly as a dry spice which lends colour and body to the dishes. There is also the culture of soaking the chillies, when fresh, in mustard oil and consuming it later as a pickle. But this ‘boutique spice’ is also expensive, owing to limited production and burgeoning exports to Arab nations, and to the restaurants. While there is little to spare, local kirana shops are careful of quantities of the ‘Lal Badshah’ being sold.
With changing soil and weather conditions, this red beauty is facing challenges in the near future, According to a report by Central Arid Zone research Institute, Mathania chilly is said to be on the verge of extinction and the best way to keep it alive is to use it abundantly in your kitchen. Buying it locally will be another encouragement for the trade, so look out for it on your next trip to Jodhpur. In fact, make the famous M.V. Spices Shop a must visit on our itinerary. A local landmark, this shop is named after Mohanlal Verhomal – credited with starting the spice craze which characterises this city as well – and is now run by his daughter daughter Usha Verhomal, oldest of seven sisters. The store stocks more than 100 spices including its signature Maharaja curry, a 15-spice blend from her mother’s secret recipe.
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In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political. Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Author(s): Ann Cvetkovich: Published: November Pages: Illustrations: 38 illustrations, including 14 in color: Sales/Territorial Rights: World.
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Permission to Photocopy coursepacks If you are requesting permission to photocopy ann for classroom use, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center at copyright. Provide feedback about this page. Amazon Second Chance Pass it on, trade it in, give it a second life. While some of her early work is historical, dealing with Victorian literature and mass culture, most of her work engages with more contemporary cultural texts and political issues.
This course will explore the increasing visibility of creative non-fiction in fostering public debate and making social and political interventions. A Conversation,” Art Journal 72, no. We will read contemporary fiction, mostly by women of color, with particular attention to how migration is shaped by gender and sexuality. She has published three books: Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
A Public Feeling Duke, Ann Cvetkovich grew up in Canada, being raised in Vancouver and Toronto. This course will explore the combined impact of the affective turn and the archival turn in literary and cultural studies with particular emphasis on queer studies. While many scholars in cultural studies draw distinctions between affect, feeling, and emotion, Cvetkovich does not emphasize the differences between these categories.
From Dispossession to Radical Self-Possession: We will also consider the role of the contemporary writer as public intellectual in contributing to cultural and historical understanding. Ann Cvetkovich Professor — Ph. An Archive of Feelings is perhaps Cvetkovich’s most influential work, and has been taken up in several academic fields.
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We will consider the history of grassroots archives, such as the Lesbian Herstory Archives, as well as new LGBTQ collections in universities and public libraries. Global Cultures; Writing Restrictions: By melding the personal and the academic, Cvetkovich is creating an important new forum for how we discuss depression. Methods of Literary Research Course objectives This required, one-semester course will: How do scholars read now—and how did they read then?
A Public Feeling The Twentieth Century and Beyond Volume 6a: You must obtain permission directly from the owner of the image. The course is open to all and aims to encourage self-reflection and dialogue around gender and sexual differences and to promote the work of being an ally to LGBTQ-identified people.
Along the way we will ask a number of urgent questions: A Public Feelingthough, has also received much positive attention, being a finalist for the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Required texts may include: Through critical readings and written assignments that construct a range of archival sources the personal, the historical, the ethnographicstudents will be encouraged to situate their own experience within a broader historical and transnational context. We will also briefly survey the making of modern understandings of sexual and LGBTQ identities in the last one hundred years and the implications of this history for broader understandings of gender and sexuality.
The material is totally fascinating.
Most of the writers we will read are women, and we will seek to articulate feminist and queer accounts of creative non-fiction. Not only are ephemera, ephemerality, and memory fundamental to both of these archives, but both also challenge the very concept of the archive. Tammy Rae Carland’s photographic project entitled An Archive of Feelings takes its name from Cvetkovich’s cvetklvich by the same name. This course will be organized into modules, each of which will center on a specific mode of research or criticism.
Cvetkovich’s scholarship is wide-ranging and interdisciplinary. Importantly, while this approach never undermines the experience of depression by positioning it only as a construction, it still draws attention to commonplace assumptions about feeling sad, being political and getting better. PAR Office Hours:
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Determinants of Food Security in Nigeria
Keywords:Food security; Bank Inclusin; Environmental quality
The aim of this study is to examine the determinants of food security in Nigeria. In this study, a multiple regression model was specified, which captured the effects of labour input (measured using employment in the agricultural sector), domestic capital investment (measured using gross fixed capital), bank inclusion (measured using bank lending to agriculture), environmental quality (measured using percentage of carbon dioxide emission to gross national income, and oil revenue. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method was adopted for analyzing the model, while pairwise granger causality was used to provide robust results. The results from the regression estimates found that only domestic capital had significant positive impact on food security in Nigeria; whereas bank lending only had significant positive impact on food security in Nigeria during the short run period. Based on the results the study recommends that: the Nigerian government should provide a conducive environment in the agricultural sector, for private participation; the CBN needs to look into bank lending policies and iron out gray areas that inhibit bank lending to the agricultural sector; the CBN, the Federal Ministry for Agriculture, the Ministry of Finance and the private sector should convey and design a short-long term plan for the growth and development of the agricultural sector in Nigeria; it is important to make agricultural subject a compulsory one in secondary schools; and the Nigerian government should reduce dependence on non-renewable energy.
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Bridging the suburbs of Cannon’s Creek and Whitby, photographic artists David Cook and Leala Falesuega have worked with students of two schools and their local communities to offer new views of each, and articulate their shared visions for the future – 2020. Building on Cook and Tim J Velling’s acclaimed Freeville School Project (TEZA 2013) Cook and Falesuega explore a collective documentary process with the merging of photographs, moving image, words and drawings, producing large public presentations of the work, culminating in its presentation in the windows of The Old McDonalds, 1 Cobham Court.
Click here for a blog documenting the process.
David Cook is a photo-documentary storyteller who traces the journeys of communities and ecologies as they face big challenges. His 20 year Rotowaro project looked at the relocation of an entire mining village, resulting in the publication ‘Lake of Coal’, a finalist in the 2007 Montana NZ Book Awards. Recently David revisited his hometown of Christchurch, participating in a TEZA project where he and Tim J. Veling collaborated to make a billboard art project with a primary school located in post-earthquake New Brighton. David is based in Wellington and lectures in photography at Massey University’s College of Creative Arts.
Leala Faleseuga is a student at Whitireia, undertaking the GradDip Applied Arts (Photography). She is also a graduate of Victoria University (BA Pacific Studies) and an online tutor for The Photoschool. Leala’s art practice is founded in (but not limited to) photography, and she is interested in the power of art to tell stories, uncover the past and as visual research. Leala is a Levin native, and lives there currently with her son and whanau.
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from Somerset, Devon and Dorset
© Andrew Templer 2022
James Templer II Mary Templer nee Buller
James Templer II of Stover (1784 -
[Research by Stephen Coombes of Chudleigh, Devon, 2002] Swete Family Tree
The eldest son James was baptised at Rotherhithe on 29 December 1748 aged 15 days, three years after his parent’s marriage. For thirty years he was in the Crown Office Court of King’s Bench in London, and at the time of his death described as Master of the Crown Office. This was one of the highest judicial offices at the time. He was in fact the King’s Attorney and Coroner, acting as the King’s Prosecutor. His education, training and experience, however, did not prepare him adequately for the responsibility and management of a large estate, numerous commercial enterprises, the work in progress for the development of Teigngrace and a large invested fortune.
In 1768 James Templer of Westminster bought a large piece of land of the demesne of Somerhill Park at Tonbridge. He still owned it in 1782
Our first sign of his activity in Devonshire is seen in 1775 when he bought the Manors of Hennock and Knighton, though some doubt exists from certain sources as to whether or not these purchases were made by his father.
In 1776 he married Mary Buller (1740 -
By his father’s death in 1782 James inherited the Stover estates and the following year became Patron of Teigngrace. His inheritance of Teigngrace Manor, acquired by his father, brought with it the usual manorial customs. It is not clear, however, whether the old custom of the Lord of the Manor having the right of capital punishment still existed under the Templers. Other manors owned by the Templers in the neighbourhood e.g. Ilsington, Goodrington and Westerlanid at one time possessed similar rights. It would appear to be this James Templer who, on 21 September 1785, was granted the Freedom of Totnes.
In 1787, continuing his father’s policy of developing Teigngrace village, in conjunction with his brothers George and Reverend John, he endowed it with a new church. It was built like the House in granite. The memorial plaque reads-
James was not averse to seeking Private Acts of Parliament in connection with his estates. In 1788 (28 George III cap 27) a Private Act for vesting part of the settled estates of James Templer Esq. in the County of Devon in him and his heirs in exchange for another estate of greater value in the same county to be settled in lieu thereof’ was initiated. Four years later, another (32 George III c 41) was promoted ‘to charge part of James Templer’s settled estates in Devon with a sum to be applied as therein mentioned.’ The consequences of these two Acts are at present shrouded in mystery!
Clay mining was rapidly expanding and James realised the local opportunities that were waiting to be taken if a line of transport could be engineered into the heart of the valley. The transport of clay from Heathfleld and that from the north-
So around 1789 James Templer decided to build a canal at his own expense and cutting began in January 1790. It was intended to construct the canal to Jewsbridge near Heathfield and thence to Bovey Tracey with a branch to Chudleigh. After two years work with more than £1000 of his own money spent, James had yet another Private Act passed in 1792 to enable him to raise £5000 by mortgage of the Stover estates for its completion. The canal had already been carried to Ventiford before this Act was passed, and since he never extended the canal further, he did not need to use its powers.
The canal left the Teign by means of a deepened tidal leat, the Whit Lake (later Whitelake) whose original function had been to drain JettyMarsh; it was not bridged, as there was then no direct road from Kingsteignton to Newton Abbot. It then turned sharply northwards through a pair of staircase locks to avoid the marsh. These locks were originally constructed without conventional side walls, but were left with sloping earthern sides, like some which still remain on the Rivers Kennetand Wey. The top lock later received wooden sidewalls, the bottom brick. The lower lock is a wide structure, being 215ft long and 45ft wide, but since its west wall is inscribed ‘Duke of Somerset 1841’, it is likely that it was enlarged from normal lock size to this width later, so that barges could wait in it like a basin for the tide to rise. Its gates, as throughout the canal, were 15ft wide. The depth on the cills of the locks was 5ft 9ins for these two locks, 4ft 3ins for locks 3 and 4, and 5ft 6ins for lock 5. All the locks except lock 4 could take two barges at once, end to end. Above lock 2, 118ft long, an excess water weir was provided, leading down to the tidal channel. After rising 6ft 6ins through these two locks, the canal then made in a direct straight line for Teignbridge, where it approached most nearly to the clay works at Fishwick, and then passed under the then main road from Newton to Exeter. Rising a further 6ins through the last of the originally unwalled locks (lock 3, 110 ft long), it realigned itself and headed for Teigngrace. The canal never had a horse-
A contemporary, M. Dunsford, waxed eloquent about the immediate economic and social benefits:
‘This little canal, the first in Devonshire, and at the sole expense of Mr Templer..... is the means of great benefit to the inland country by the return of coal and other necessary and useful commodities and the land around appears in consequence like a new creation from the wide chaos around it and, with the produce of the canal, afford(s) many increasing advantages to the inhabitants of the adjacent district as well as to the public spirited projector and cultivator.’
William White, in his History, Gazetteer arid Directory of Devonshire published in 1850, remarks on other benefits, perhaps unforeseen:-
‘Since the opening of the Stover Canal. . . the leeches and morasses of the Heathfield have disappeared and with them have gone the ignis fatuus and the ague.
In all James had spent £8000 on the canal, clay cellars and barges. In spite of the lack of a formal towing path, the barges from Ventiford to Teignbridge were hauled by horses and this part of the canal was intended for the transport of granite. The barges operating from Teignbridge were the most unusual on any canal. They were about 50ft long with the square ?Viking? sail to a 40ft mast. They sailed directly to the ships anchored in midstream at Teignmouth. These barges also carried farm produce and, on the return journey, brought in timber, coal and other commodities. Once each week a barge carried the local people of Teigngrace and their produce to Newton Market and brought them back in the evening.
Canals had always handsomely paid those who used them, but experience proved that the builders of canals made little or no profit at all. The Stover Canal was a poor investment for James, however, the land drained by this canal inceased rapidly in value, and this to some extent compensated James for his outlay.
James Templer had more original plans for improving transport to and from his estates than the Stover Canal or an improved river navigation. He was particularly attracted by two inventions of Captain Schank, ex-
‘Whenever my work is done, I will immediately adopt it (the invention of the sliding keel) in the coasters from this harbour, as they will not only he able to get up quite to Newton, or even up the canal, with a cargo, but can get in and out of the harbour at any time in spite of the bar’ which in season will prove very advantageous to me, especially if I can carry stone from Barbicomb (Babbacombe) Bay up the canal, and Bovey coal in wartime’
Whether because James was occupied with other matters, whether, as he said, ‘people are so unfortunately grounded in favour of old fashions’, or whether -
In 1795, James owned 10 of the 17 barges trading on the Teign including the Largest with a capacity of 35 tons.
He continued the work started by his father by building the terrace at Stover House, forming the great Stover Lake and landscaping the gardens. He built Teigngrace Church, several workers’ houses at Ventiford, Manaton and Haytor. He also completed the pleasure garden but at this time the country was threatened by invasion by Napoleon. As in other places similar to Stover, preparations were being made to resist, or hide, or escape with life and belongings. James made similar preparations. At the northern end of the pleasure garden buildings there is an annex. This was for stabling horses secretly and from the house basement at least two underground passages were excavated to the south and to the west. The basement passages have been sealed and the connection to the stables filled in. When the danger had passed James erected the portico to Stover House to celebrate the victory of Trafalgar.
At the beginning of the 19th century, James owned and at times lived at Compton Castle in the neighbouring parish of Hennock. The castle was a castellated manor house, but he sold it about 1808.
James’ interest in boats reflected itself in another small way beside that of the canal and Captain Schank’s activity. In September 1808, he gave two silver cups for a boat race, which was to have tragic consequences. A Mr Buller of Saltash and a Mr Baker of Plymouth were competitors. Unfortunately Mr Buller’s boat foundered off Bolt Head and a. Mr Josias Thompson, Mr John Foster of Saltash and his apprentice were drowned. They had started in their pleasure boats on the Monday morning and were caught in a tremendous squall. Mr Buller, nearly exhausted, was picked up by Mr Baker’s boat. Mr Thompson left a widow and five children.
James died on 21 June 1813 at Lesnes, Kent, the seat of a Mr Wheatley. His wife Mary survived him for a further 16 years. He was highly respected, a very generous man and loved by all.
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Before starting into the how-to guide, you may want to learn the history and rationale of today’s nonprofit news movement. This is a reprint of a long 2010 post, originally titled “Sleeping Around: The Nonprofit Edge,” by Scott Lewis, editor in chief of INN member Voice of San Diego.
A for-profit news startup in San Diego helps make the nonprofit case when survival is the goal.
Here’s one version of a joke I often hear. This one came from the editor of a new nonprofit news effort: “Yes, it’s strange being in the nonprofit world, but I ran a site before this that might as well have been nonprofit.”
There’s also this adaptation: “You’re a nonprofit? I guess that’s not strange. Aren’t most newspapers nonprofit now?”
It’s funny, I suspect, because not a lot of people really know what it means to be a nonprofit or they do but it’s still fun to read it as “no profit.” It becomes a distinction that just means your organization doesn’t — or can’t — make much money and you’ve decided to be legally OK with that.
It’s a joke, yes, but it’s also a misunderstanding that frames the entire discussion about where nonprofits fit in the future of journalism.
Here was how Jack Shafer, the curmudgeonly but brilliant media columnist for Slate began what is so far the reigning and still undefeated supreme take down of nonprofit news efforts:
“The nonprofit news business–if that isn’t a contradiction in terms–is spreading like a midsummer algae bloom.”
Translation: It’s suspect whether a nonprofit can be a business.
But it can be an algae bloom.
San Diego sees its share of midsummer algae blooms. It has also been lucky to host part of the bloom of this nonprofit news business. Our organization, voiceofsandiego.org, has been thrust into the national conversation about the future of civic media. And that we’re mentioned as leaders in this nonprofit algae bloom is an honor.
I’d like to think that our efforts also played a small part in inspiring a bunch of different people to launch online news efforts here in San Diego. There were the students at Lincoln High School. And there was a lawyer, active in the Republican Party, who wanted to give it a go as well.
But the biggest and boldest entry so far into the San Diego digital media scene — the San Diego News Network, or SDNN, also became its biggest flame out so far. It was a for-profit.
To me, SDNN’s experience as a news venture is illustrative of the limits (currently) of trying to solve a news problem with a for-profit. It was a news experiment, running parallel to our own. I decided to explore San Diego’s experience with both two experiments — one a for-profit and one a nonprofit — to help explain why so many people who are worried about good media in their communities are choosing the nonprofit route when they decide to do something about it.
It is not because nonprofits don’t need money. And it is not, in fact, because nonprofits are more holy or pure than for profits. In fact, it has to do with promiscuity.
Revenue Promiscuity vs. Monogamy
Let’s do a quick review: A for-profit organization is owned by an individual or shareholders and its purpose, its mission, is to deliver dividends and value to them.
A nonprofit, on the other hand, has no shareholders, no owners. Instead, it has a mission. Bringing in money is a big factor in whether the organization fulfills that mission.
Both nonprofits and for-profits need money.
Not long ago, my friend and mentor, John Thornton wrote this post. Thornton, a venture capitalist and brilliant dude, is the founder and chairman of the board of The Texas Tribune, which itself is a kind of brother to voiceofsandiego.org.
In the post, Thornton coined the term “revenue promiscuity” to communicate the root business model The Texas Tribune and voiceofsandiego.org share.
“Revenue promiscuity” has its problems as a slogan, as you can imagine. No, it does not mean our organizations will sleep with every type of revenue. We have our standards, thank you very much. But it does mean we have no interest in going steady with just one. We’re young and free!
Revenue promiscuity means that we have a mission — to do public service journalism — and we’re cultivating an ever-growing collection of ways to pay for it. Most of us are obsessively pursuing all kinds of revenue sources, from syndicating content, to donations from the masses, to major contributions and grants, to corporate sponsors and advertising.
Revenue promiscuity is the product of a survival instinct. When you want to survive, you do things differently than if you want to make money for shareholders.
For instance, a for-profit start-up and its funders do not usually have much patience.
Entrepreneurs come up with a plan. They find investors. They give it a go. Maybe they stumble a bit so they find more investors and on and on and then, one of two things happen: 1) the idea works, revenue comes in and they send the kids to private school. Or 2) they fail for the last time, and unable to find more investors, decide to bury the idea. All of it can happen very fast.
The calculus of a for-profit’s success is very simple. Is it making money? Or does it show promise of making money? If both of those come up as a no, the enterprise folds.
A for-profit enterprise cannot ask donors for money. Well, let’s be clear, it can, as the Miami Herald did. But it’s kind of awkward, right? How do you make that sell? “Give us money! Our shareholders need their dividend!”
And you can’t take in foundation grants. Well, yes, you can, but again that creates awkwardness. The Knight Foundation (a generous supporter of many of us that make up the nonprofit news world) has been crafting a way to handle this for more than a year.
So right away, if you’re starting a news operation, you’re tying your hands eliminating chances at survival. It’d be like being stranded on a desert island but refusing to eat coconuts.
For-profit efforts definitely generate more initial investment. But it comes with impatience and expectations of a return.
And it leaves for-profit news endeavors with only one source of revenue: advertising. OK, yes, there is a second source of revenue. You can charge people to access your content.
But only a handful of news sites in the world have dared do this so I’m going to pretend it’s not yet real.
The journalism professor Jay Rosen, from NYU, has compiled a menu of all the “sources of subsidy” a news entrepreneur could choose. And I eagerly await the results of for-profit experiments with some of the more creative ones. But SDNN promised to remake San Diego’s media landscape with an old one: advertising.
SDNN: A Media Bull Bursts Onto the Scene
In March 2009, SDNN, came online.
It was a self-proclaimed bull bursting into San Diego’s media china shop and it was grunting nothing less than threats about what it was going to do. The company’s leaders made it clear to investors and interested reporters that they believed that the legacy newspaper, The San Diego Union-Tribune, was dying along with its still very popular website, SignOnSanDiego.com.
They planned to dance on its grave.
But just this summer, abruptly, and barely a year after its launch, SDNN.com stopped posting stories and laid off its staff. Several sources have reported that the entity raised and spent more than $3 million in little more than a year. (For scale, VOSD’s 2010 budget this year is $1.1 million).
To me, SDNN’s experience as a news venture is illustrative of the limits (currently) of trying to solve a news problem with a for-profit. It was exactly the for-profit’s limitations, not freedoms, that I believe left it with no chance to survive after three or four stabs at a business model.
Before I go on, I did try to reach Barbara Bry for comment on this post. She had a lot of titles at SDNN.com but basically she and her husband — Neil Senturia — were in charge of it. They had been the initial investors and partners in the venture, which was the brainchild of Ron James, who had run the Union-Tribune’s website.
James left only days after the site launched.
(Full disclosure: Bry was also the first editor and CEO of voiceofsandiego.org and got me my job there, as a writer. I like and respect her a lot. She’d remained a financial supporter of VOSD after she left. Even days after SDNN.com launched, she sent in a $150 donation using an SDNN.com check. “Best wishes from the team at SDNN,” read an accompanying note.)
Bry said, in an e-mail, she would love to talk about SDNN.com and her experiences … in a couple of months. She said that “lots in flux right now.”
Ron James’ idea was a good one and it was simple. Across San Diego, dozens of community newspapers, radio stations and other entities were producing content but didn’t have a prominent presence online. Why not launch a good website, put the content from those smaller sources online, ask them to help you promote the new network, have a small, cheap staff to cultivate it and, finally, add some original elements? Then, sell advertising and share the profits with the entire group.
It’d be a win for everyone. SDNN.com, of course, would win by presenting a diversity of content that rivaled any other source in town. It would ostensibly then attract the traffic to sell serious advertising.
The partners would get more exposure for their work and would benefit financially from putting it online without having to sell the online ads and host the content themselves. And they would all benefit from the combined power of a synchronized marketing campaign done largely for free based on the companies reach in their communities.
In fact, they’d all benefit from this network lighting up on the day of the launch — a synchronized fireworks show that would forever redefine San Diego’s media landscape.
It fell kind of short. The website wasn’t quite as attractive as many of us thought it would be. The network didn’t really light up. It just sort of started.
And the founder, the guy whose idea it was, James, was done with it. Only a few days in and he was out. He said he was asked to leave but wouldn’t go into details about it. Senturia and Bry settled with him and took the operation over themselves.
If you think about it, at the heart of James’ idea was a total reliance on banner advertisements. His idea, in fact, was basically that there was a quicker, cheaper way to build a web property popular enough to attract major advertising revenue. Quicker and cheaper, that is, than, you know, having a major newspaper, with all of its costs.
In the end, though, it all came down to advertising. Banner advertising. In other words, the entire effort would be successful if businesses decided to give the new website money, in exchange for getting an image and link on the site.
This has defined the core effort of most of the for-profit online news ventures.
It’s not revenue promiscuity. It’s revenue monogamy. And it’s loyalty to a source of revenue that is still not making anyone rich.
Even at SDNN, though, it wasn’t long before there was marital strife.
With Ron James out, Senturia deferred to his roots as a technology entrepreneur. He and Bry began telling bloggers that SDNN.com, in fact, was not a news company. It was news company AND a technology company. SDNN.com had customized WordPress to create its website and now it was marketing itself as a provider of this technology to others.
Soon, entrepreneurs making noise about starting a local news site could expect a call from Senturia.
No doubt this was a folly. And an exploration of the issues around content management systems deserves its own post — or year-long series of posts. The fact is that managing a content management system and providing your customers the service they would need sounds to me like a dreadful and costly undertaking and its challenges must have become clear immediately. But I do understand Senturia’s angst to break bonds with his banner-advertising spouse.
One source of revenue will not pay the bills of a small news operation.
But selling this technology (never mind supporting it with customer service and keeping it updated) would take time to develop as a revenue source (it never did). So, the core emphasis was still on trying to get more people to the site and therefore more advertising. Almost as soon as James had walked out the door, Senturia and Bry began de-emphasizing his central thesis: that the network’s partners would provide most of its content and therefore do it cheaper than a hired staff would. Within a few months, the effort was clearly underway to find an even more efficient route to increase traffic for less money.
With sites all across the country finding ways to aggregate others’ content, for a while at least, SDNN.com tried to do much of its own work or cull it from dozens of contributors. It had a decided entertainment and booster fetish, and some of the posts, like the write ups of American Idol contestant Adam Lambert, made it through the search engine worm hole and landed in whatever stream it is that crashes your servers and makes you giddy.
When the Lambert stories caught fire, you could almost sense how it changed the organization. It was as though they’d been scratching everywhere and finally found the part that itched. They zeroed in on that particular recipe for stories: one part entertainment news, one part San Diego angle and another part culled from national reports. And out flew a flock of stories: San Diego’s take on Miss California, Tiger Woods, and the death of Michael Jackson.
Many of them placed well in search engines too. The site’s traffic soared (though the majority of it came from outside Southern California) and that brought the bombast to a new level.
Here was Senturia in Forbes magazine:
“We secretly think that if we hang around long enough we’ll be the paper of record in San Diego,” he says. With the larger Union-Tribune’s Web site in his sights, “We will relentlessly peck away at them,” he promises.
By May 2010, SDNN.com decided to launch a print newspaper. It told advertisers it was now reaching 400,000 online readers (it cited statistics from Quantcast.com, but that line graph never peaked that high). Its strategy had gone full circle: From wanting to leverage its good relationship with community papers to directly competing with them.
This was just a change of medium. Money would come from advertising and advertising only.
But 400,000 is a lot of readers. How many more could a small operation just finishing its first year hope to get? If advertising is the goal and getting traffic means you get advertising, why didn’t it work?
It didn’t work because traffic didn’t do the trick. Advertising didn’t do the trick. It’s just not enough money. Revenue monogamy let them down.
No doubt there would be those who conclude, legitimately, that this is not an indictment of advertising or of focusing on web traffic as a business model.
They would blame SDNN.com’s focus, its quality, its management or its unchecked ambitions. One of those people, of course, is Ron James, whose had to watch helplessly as his idea evolved and died as it did.
It may not have run the way he and others would’ve dreamed. But its experience does damage the notion that through traffic you get advertising and through advertising alone you can fund even a small news operation.
And this is exactly why so many people concerned about the media in their communities are choosing to set up new entities as nonprofits. A nonprofit is not dependent on any one source of revenue. Not only that, but a nonprofit actually has the benefit of being able to merge its business model with its mission.
In other words, look at voiceofsandiego.org’s mission statement:
- To consistently deliver ground-breaking investigative journalism for the San Diego region.
- To increase civic participation by giving residents the knowledge and in-depth analysis necessary to become advocates for good government and social progress.
Presumably, if we pursue this mission well, we will endear ourselves to San Diegans. They will see us as a service they value and they’ll decide to pay us for providing it. What’s more, unlike a for-profit fee for access, we don’t set the rates. Readers can choose to pay what they believe it’s worth to them according to their means. That could be $5 or it could be $5,000. For-profits don’t have that latitude.
They’re married to advertising.
But also, if we perform our mission well, presumably we’ll also engage a community — one that is attracted to the quality of the effort. And that will be attractive to sponsors who want to be associated with the community and the mission.
We may not always be the best distributors of the content we produce. We may not be able to engage certain communities with it. But other media companies might be. They purchase some of our content or services through syndication deals that bring more revenue to the organization.
This is revenue promiscuity. Get a good mission. Pursue it well and see how many different ways you can fund it. Through diversity you survive and thrive.
We have had some success and we continue to grow, but we have a long way to go to reach our potential. We don’t have all the answers but we’re working hard to figure it out and reach ultimate sustainability.
What is sustainability? We believe sustainability is actually defined by developing such a diversity of revenue sources that no matter what happens to one of them or a group of them, your organization can survive. It’s like a well diversified investment portfolio: set up to grow but absorb losses without catastrophe in bad times.
Again, diversity, not dependence on one source. Yes, we can get advertising just like everyone else. But it’s only one of many things. In fact, if we had to rely only on advertising, we’d probably be out of business. You see, being monogamous is just deadly.
At our core, our ability to appeal to the entire community to support our effort and mission is itself our most valuable asset. And it is one that a shareholder owned — a for-profit — entity does not have available.
One of the most frustrating things for me to watch is the decline of well-respected newspapers, many of which are still well read and liked in their communities. Obviously, I’m not alone here. But what bothers me is that they don’t ask for money.
Here these journalists are writing piece after piece about why what they do is so valuable. And yet, as the ship is sinking, their leaders just let it drown. It’s almost as if pride prevents them from raising money for a service of which they spend hours extolling the public benefits.
But it’s not pride. It’s revenue monogamy.
I do not doubt that for-profit entrepreneurs will soon come up with ways other than advertising to pay for good bloggers, researchers, investigators and moderators of community debate. But even the most interesting innovators in the for-profit arena seem to be directing their efforts at making advertising easier to get or more valuable.
Some flirt with the idea of charging fees to read or engage. Perhaps that will work and I eagerly await the results of that experiment.
But for now, we are stuck watching for-profit revenue monogamists deteriorate.
It was somewhat surreal when The San Diego Union-Tribune reported the story that SDNN, the entity planning to overthrow it, was dying. Actually, the first story was about SDNN putting itself up for sale. It had laid off some staff and was letting it be known that its “properties” were on the market.
Senturia told staff that he hoped any eventual buyer would keep them employed.
This was their version of an SOS — a plea to the market to rescue them so they might survive.
You can bet that when a nonprofit news operation starts to go down, it will send an SOS out to the entire community it serves. And the community will be given a chance to decide whether it should survive.
For something as important as news, this is a choice the community deserves to have.
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Wood, A. (2018) 'Afterword : landscapes, memories and texts.', in Remembering protest in Britain since 1500 : memory, materiality and the landscape since 1500. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 237-244.
This volume forms a powerful antidote to the view that human life is determined by apparently impersonal forces such as price movements and demographics. Rather, it represents a decisive statement as to the political agency and cultural creativity of working people over five hundred years of English history. Throughout, the radical imagination is at work. Memory appears as politicised: detailed examples of early modern commoners and nineteenth-century radicals mustering memories of earlier struggles in the legitimation of their own conflicts demonstrate the point.
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|Publisher statement:||Wood A. (2018) Afterword: Landscapes, Memories and Texts. In: Griffin C., McDonagh B. (eds) Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74243-4_10|
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China doesn’t want a trade war with the United States. However, if President-elect Donald Trump goes through with his promise of implementing tariffs on foreign goods, that’s what could happen, according to China’s state-run Global Times newspaper.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to bring American jobs back to the U.S. To do so, candidate Trump promised to implement a 45 percent tariff on foreign goods. Were the president-elect to do this, China’s ready to implement similar policies.
Were the president-elect to do this, China’s ready to implement similar policies.
China will take a tit-for-tat approach then. A batch of Boeing orders will be replaced by Airbus. US auto and iPhone sales in China will suffer a setback, and US soybean and maize imports will be halted. China can also limit the number of Chinese students studying in the US.
With this being said, China doesn’t expect Trump to implement the tariffs once in office. They call Trump a “shrewd” businessman.
Trump cannot change the pattern of interests between China and the US. The gigantic China-US trade is based on mutual benefits and a win-win situation. Even as president, Trump can exert limited influence on it.
If Trump wrecks Sino-US trade, a number of US industries will be impaired. Finally the new president will be condemned for his recklessness, ignorance and incompetence and bear all the consequences. We are very suspicious the trade war scenario is a trap set up by some American media to trip up the new president.
It will be interesting to see how U.S. trade policy changes under Trump. While I don’t see a trade war on the horizon, I do think that Trump can convince Apple and other technology companies to add more jobs in the U.S. that would have normally gone overseas.
How China would react to this is anyone’s guess.
Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States on Friday, Jan. 20.
Would you be willing to pay more for iOS devices if it meant more jobs in the U.S.?
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Important and exciting milestones for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and 20 years with the UMass Medical School!
We are celebrating our 50th Anniversary!
The Shriver Center was founded in 1970 in Waltham, Massachusetts at a time when many disabled students were excluded from attending public school. Two years later, the Massachusetts Legislature passed Chapter 766, requiring free and appropriate educational opportunities for children with disabilities. Chapter 766 became the model for the federal Education of Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990), which set the standards for inclusive special education in the United States. Research by the Shriver Center’s Dr. Murray Sidman, then-Director of the Behavioral Sciences Department at the Shriver Center, was published in a seminal 1974 paper entitled “Acquisition of Matching to Sample via Mediated Transfer.” This paper demonstrated the learning capabilities of two boys with Down syndrome with significant learning challenges, and thus supported the importance of educating children with disabilities. With heightened awareness of intellectual and developmental disabilities among the general public, educational institutions, and state and federal agencies, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center became a nationally recognized source of clinical expertise, groundbreaking research, and training and education in the field.
While many advances in the field since then have improved the lives of people with disabilities, people with disabilities continue to face many challenges, including poor health, fragmented care, family stress, low employment, a medical/clinical workforce that is often unaware of and unprepared to meet their needs, a myriad of co-occurring medical and psychiatric disorders for which refined treatments have not been developed, and social exclusion, to name a handful of ongoing issues. Thus, the Shriver Center’s work remains as important today as it was a half-century ago when it was first established.
We are celebrating our accomplishments over the past half-century and look forward to the next fifty years with excitement and optimism for improving the lives of all people with disabilities and working toward their full inclusion in community life.
Celebrating 20 years with UMass Chan Medical School!
The Shriver Center was originally a free-standing non-profit organization that was housed on the grounds of the Fernald State School in Waltham, MA. For the first three decades of its existence, the Shriver Center had many partnerships and connections to area universities, organizations, and agencies, many of which continue today. However, the changing landscape of research and research funding made it clear that being part of a larger entity would best position the Shriver Center to capitalized on its strengths. To that end, in 2001 the Shriver Center became a part of UMass Medical School and was designated as a Center of Excellence, devoted to scholarship, research, and service to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. The medical school is also well-known for its outstanding educational and service programs. The merging of these two fine institutions strengthened and unified a mission to pursue excellence in research, education and service in the disability field.
Please help us celebrate by considering making a donation to the Shriver Center to help us continue our important work to support people with disabilities. Every penny counts, and we are very grateful for every contribution we receive.
To make a general donation or to specify a specific program at the Shriver Center that you would like to support, please click this link: Support the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center
Thank you for your support!
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The Swedes really don't like cash. First, consider that Sweden is the only country in the world that I'm aware of where reliance on paper money is in decline. Second, no country's central bank has produced a nominal deposit rate as negative as Sweden's, for as long. Yet even at -0.85% per year, Swedish banks who own those deposits haven't fled into 0% cash, providing some indication of the degree to which they hold banknotes in disdain.
ABBA won't accept paper
As the chart below shows, cash outstanding continues to grow in almost every country except Sweden. Japan and Denmark are the only countries that come close to pacing the Swedes, although both nations continue to show incremental growth in demand for banknotes. Even Kenya, where m-pesa has taken hold, shows strong cash demand.
Sweden reached "peak-cash" somewhere between 2007 and 2008. The reason for this change of heart is public preferences, not government diktat. The monetary authorities can only indirectly influence the demand for cash, say by introducing/removing various banknote denominations, or altering the quality of its note issue (say by making notes harder to counterfeit). By virtue of deposits being convertible into cash whenever the depositor desires (and vice versa), the allocation between cash and deposits is primarily up to the public, not the monetary authorities.
One theory is that Sweden become more law-abiding in 2008, thus reducing their demand for paper kronor. Cash is typically demanded by criminals and tax evaders to avoid creating a paper trail. That Sweden's underground element suddenly decided to go legit doesn't seem very plausible to me. Demographics is a more likely contributor to peak cash. As a nation's population growth slows, the demand for cash peters off with it. This can't be the entire explanation, however, since other countries that also suffer from poor population growth profiles (like Canada) show rising cash demand. This leaves technology as the most likely culprit. As electronic payment options improve, it makes little sense to endure the hassle of withdrawing and holding a small horde of dirty paper in one's wallet.
According to a MasterCard study, 89% of transactions in Sweden are cashless, compared to 80% in the U.S. Situation Stockholm, the street paper sold by homeless vendors in Sweden's capital, can be purchased with a card rather than cash, and while London's buses went cash-free earlier this year, bus fares disappeared several years ago in Stockholm. Unlike the U.S. and other laggards, Sweden has a near real-time person-to-person payments system called Bankgirot which has been active since 2011. Bank customers can download an app called Swish, which allows them to make immediate mobile payments over the Bankgirot network. In southern Sweden, Vicar Johan Tyrberg has installed a card reader to make it easier for worshipers to make offerings. And finally, despite having a hit song entitled Money, Money, Money, ABBA refuses refuses to accept cash at the ABBA Museum. Apparently ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus is leading a crusade against banknotes after his son's apartment was burgled twice.
No zero lower bound, at least not yet
As a second illustration of Swedish cash abhorrence, consider that no other central bank has maintained a negative deposit rate as low as Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, for as long. The Riksbank reduced its deposit rate to -0.85% this month after having maintained it at -0.75% since October 2014. A few nations come close. The Swiss, for instance, reduced rates to -0.75% in January, as have the Danes—but both are behind the pace set by the Swedes.
The key point here is that with Riksbank deposits being penalized 0.85% per year, one would assume that that they'd be quickly converted into Swedish banknotes. Cash, after all, pays 0% a year, superior to -0.85%. But that hasn't happened. As the chart below shows, cash left on deposit at the Riksbank stands at around 150 million kr, roughly the same level it has been at for the last twelve months (and far above 2008-2012 levels).
Who keeps funds on deposit at the Riksbank? As the business day progresses and Swedes make payments among each other, banks who maintain settlement accounts at the Riksbank will find themselves in a surplus or deficit position. While those in surplus can elect to park their excess at the Riksbank's overnight deposit facility, they'll usually try to lend these positions to deficit banks in the interbank lending market or participate in Riksbank fine-tuning operations at the end of the day, both of which provide superior returns to the deposit rate. For whatever reason, Swedish banks typically leave a small portion of their surplus in the deposit facility, bearing the awful return on deposits for the sake of enjoying whatever conveniences the deposit facility offers.
That this 150 million kr in -0.85% yielding deposits hasn't been converted into cash is an indication of just how low Swedish opinion on cash has sunk. Consider the myriad number of costs a bank that wants to cash out its balance will have to incur. A Brinks truck must be hired in order to transport the cash to the bank's vaults. The cash must be counted, requiring a diversion of tellers' resources from other important activities. With the majority of Swedish bank branches having gone cashless, they may need to reinvest in handling infrastructure before they can take delivery of a truck full of banknotes. Next, that cash needs to be vaulted, which means displacing other valuables from being safeguarded (like a client's jewels), forcing the bank to forfeit a vaulting fee. Finally, the cash needs to be insured from theft. No wonder Swedish banks continue to use the Riksbank's deposit facility, even at a -0.85% rate; like the public, banks don't consider cash to be a convenient option.
Could Swedes one day re-embrace cash?
Swedes are proud of their move towards digital payments, but this trend could very rapidly come to an end. In an effort to hit its inflation target, the Riksbank may have to push interest rates even deeper into negative territory. At much lower levels, even the most cash-hating Swedes will have to re-consider their aversion to paper. The consequences could be significant. While only a small quantity of deposits are kept in the Riksbank's deposit facility, much larger amounts—around 30 billion krone—are invested at the Riksbank via overnight fine-tuning repos, which currently pay -0.2%. If the Riksbank reduced the fine-tuning rate much lower (say to around -1.5%), these repos would be rapidly converted into cash by banks. The public holds many hundreds of billions more worth of deposits at Swedish commercial banks. Should Riksbank rate reductions force banks to respond by ratcheting down their own deposit rates to -1 or -2%, how long before Swedes empty out their bank accounts, turning Sweden into a cash-only economy?
To avoid reverting to a cash-only economy at extreme negative rates, the Riksbank would do well to hitch itself to the cashless trend. One way to go about this without calling in all banknotes would be to reign in the number of paper products the central bank currently offers consumers, in particular high denominations of notes. Just stop allowing conversions into the 1000 krona note, and maybe the 500 krona note too, or consider canceling these large denominations outright. Not only would this reduce the central bank's printing costs, but it would provide more room for further rate cuts into negative territory—without the threat of a mad dash into Swedish cash.
As for the rest of us...
As in Sweden, I'm pretty sure that cash demand in places like Canada and the US will eventually peak as continued advances in payments technology and a more rapid adoption of those technologies lead consumers to demand less of the stuff. Central banks might consider adapting to this trend ahead of time by reducing the number of paper products they offer to the public. Do the Swiss really need a 1000 SFr note? Do Europeans need a €500 note, and Canadians $100 notes? Alternatively, why not do what Bill Woolsey advocates? Let's gradually privatize the issuance of paper currency. If anyone can make cash relevant again, it's innovators in the private sector. And if they can't, then maybe the banknote deserves to die a slow death.
Secondly, Sweden shows that the so-called zero-lower bound isn't actually at zero, but some distance below that. Cash is awfully burdensome, as evidenced by Swedish banks who are willing to hold deposits at -0.85% despite the option to earn 0%. Central bankers at the Federal Reserve, ECB, and elsewhere would do well to heed this Swedish data point. If they need to loosen monetary policy in order to hit their targets, they can go well below -0.5% before having to fear mass conversion into cash. The world's central bankers have much more interest rate ammunition than they let on.
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Eni East Africa has selected RINA Services to act as Certification Authority for the design and fabrication of subsea structures and equipment and to provide technological validation services for the company’s floating LNG (FLNG) unit intended for the Coral South Development Project.
The unit will be one of the only three existing globally and will be installed in the South Part of Area 4 offshore Mozambique in the deep waters of Rovuma basin.
The FLNG unit will have a capacity of around 3.4 million tpy. Besides being the Certification Authority for the design and fabrication of the riser and flowlines, the umbilicals and the subsea production system, RINA Services has been contracted to provide technological validation of those technologies that Eni deems unproven and could represent major criticalities for their implementation.
Read the article online at: https://www.tanksterminals.com/storage-tanks/27092017/rina-to-support-flng-project/
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|History ||Captured by the German when still under construction. Transferred to the Italian Socialist Republic on completion in late 1943. Scrapped in 1947|
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|G.M. Danilo Colucci||Jan 1945||May 1945|
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|8 Sep 1943||Trieste||8 Sep 1943||Trieste||Seized by the Germans at Trieste.|
|Colucci, Danilo||29 Jan 1945||1800||Pola||29 Jan 1945||Date?||Pola||Sailed for Trieste, but was damaged in a collision with the German F-lighter F-1043 and turned back. The German lighter was only slightly damaged.|
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'How can you be moral?': Here are 9 questions you don't need to ask an atheist
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Every marginalized group has some question, or questions, that are routinely asked of them — and that drive them up a tree; questions that have insult or bigotry or dehumanization woven into the very asking. Sometimes the questions are asked sincerely, with sincere ignorance of the offensive assumptions behind them. And sometimes they are asked in a hostile, passive-aggressive, “I’m just asking questions” manner. But it’s still not okay to ask them. They’re not questions that open up genuine inquiry and discourse, they’re questions that close minds, much more than they open them. Even if that’s not the intention. And most people who care about bigotry and marginalization and social justice — or who just care about good manners — don’t ask them.
Here are nine questions you shouldn’t ask atheists. I’m going to answer them, just this once, and then I’ll explain why you shouldn’t be asking them, and why so many atheists will get ticked off if you do.
1: “How can you be moral without believing in God?”
The answer: Atheists are moral for the same reasons believers are moral: because we have compassion, and a sense of justice. Humans are social animals, and like other social animals, we evolved with some core moral values wired into our brains: caring about fairness, caring about loyalty, caring when others are harmed.
If you’re a religious believer, and you don’t believe these are the same reasons that believers are moral, ask yourself this: If I could persuade you today, with 100% certainty, that there were no gods and no afterlife… would you suddenly start stealing and murdering and setting fire to buildings? And if not — why not? If you wouldn’t… whatever it is that would keep you from doing those things, that’s the same thing keeping atheists from doing them. (And if you would — remind me not to move in next door to you.)
And ask yourself this as well: If you accept some parts of your holy book and reject others — on what basis are you doing that? Whatever part of you says that stoning adulterers is wrong but helping poor people is good; that planting different crops in the same field is a non-issue but bearing false witness actually is pretty messed-up; that slavery is terrible but it’s a great idea to love your neighbor as yourself… that’s the same thing telling atheists what’s right and wrong. People are good — even if we don’t articulate it this way — because we have an innate grasp of the fundamental underpinnings of morality: the understanding that other people matter to themselves as much as we matter to ourselves, and that there is no objective reason to act as if any of us matters more than any other. And that’s true of atheists and believers alike.
Why you shouldn’t ask it: This is an unbelievably insulting question. Being moral, caring about others and having compassion for them, is a fundamental part of being human. To question whether atheists can be moral, to express bafflement at how we could possibly manage to care about others without believing in a supernatural creator, is to question whether we’re even fully human.
And you know what? This question is also hugely insulting to religious believers. It’s basically saying that the only reason believers are moral is fear of punishment and desire for reward. It’s saying that believers don’t act out of compassion, or a sense of justice. It’s saying that believers’ morality is childish at best, self-serving at worst. I wouldn’t say that about religious believers… and you shouldn’t, either.
2: “How do you have any meaning in your life?” Sometimes asked as, “Don’t you feel sad or hopeless?” Or even, “If you don’t believe in God or heaven, why don’t you just kill yourself?”
The answer: Atheists find meaning and joy in the same things everyone does. We find it in the big things: family, friendship, work, nature, art, learning, love. We find it in the small things: cookies, World of Warcraft, playing with kittens. The only difference is that (a) believers add “making my god or gods happy and getting a good deal in the afterlife” to those lists (often putting them at the top), and (b) believers think meaning is given to them by their god or gods, while atheists create our own meaning, and are willing and indeed happy to accept that responsibility.
In fact, for many atheists, the fact that life is finite invests it with more meaning — not less. When we drop “pleasing a god we have no good reason to think exists” from our “meaning” list, we have that much more attention to give the rest of it. When we accept that life will really end, we become that much more motivated to make every moment of it matter.
Why you shouldn’t ask it: What was it that we were just saying about “dehumanization”? Experiencing meaning and value in life is deeply ingrained in being human. When you treat atheists as if we were dead inside simply because we don’t believe in a supernatural creator or our own immortality… you’re treating us as if we weren’t fully human. Please don’t.
3: “Doesn’t it take just as much/even more faith to be an atheist as it does to be a believer?”
The answer: No.
The somewhat longer answer: This question assumes that “atheism” means “100% certainty that God does not exist, with no willingness to question and no room for doubt.” For the overwhelming majority of people who call ourselves atheists, this is not what “atheism” means. For most atheists, “atheism” means something along the lines of “being reasonably certain that there are no gods,” or, “having reached the provisional conclusion, based on the evidence we’ve seen and the arguments we’ve considered, that there are no gods.” No, we can’t be 100% certain that there are no gods. We can’t be 100% certain that there are no unicorns, either. But we’re certain enough. Not believing in unicorns doesn’t take “faith.” And neither does not believing in God.
Why you shouldn’t ask it: The assumption behind this question is that atheists haven’t actually bothered to think about our atheism. And this assumption is both ignorant and insulting. Most atheists have considered the question of God’s existence or non-existence very carefully. Most of us were brought up religious, and letting go of that religion took a great deal of searching of our hearts and our minds. Even those of us brought up as non-believers were (mostly) brought up in a society that’s steeped in religion. It takes a fair amount of questioning and thought to reject an idea that almost everyone else around you believes.
And when you ask this question, you’re also revealing the narrowness of your own mind. You’re showing that you can’t conceive of the possibility that someone might come to a conclusion about religion based on evidence, reason, and which ideas seem most likely to be true, instead of on “faith.”
4: “Isn’t atheism just a religion?”
The answer: No.
The somewhat longer answer: Unless you’re defining “religion” as “any conclusion people come to about the world,” or as “any community organized around a shared idea,” then no. If your definition of “religion” includes atheism, it also has to include: Amnesty International, the Audubon Society, heliocentrism, the acceptance of the theory of evolution, the Justin Bieber Fan Club, and the Democratic Party. By any useful definition of the word “religion,” atheism is not a religion.
Why you shouldn’t ask it: Pretty much the same reason as the one for #3. Calling atheism a religion assumes that it’s an axiom accepted on faith, not a conclusion based on thinking and evidence. And it shows that you’re not willing or able to consider the possibility that someone not only has a different opinion about religion than you do, but has come to that opinion in a different way.
5: “What’s the point of atheist groups? How can you have a community and a movement for something you don’t believe in?”
The answer: Atheists have groups and communities and movements for the same reasons anyone does. Remember what I said about atheists being human? Humans are social animals. We like to spend time with other people who share our interests and values. We like to work with other people on goals we have in common. What’s more, when atheists come out about our atheism, many of us lose our friends and families and communities, or have strained and painful relationships with them. Atheists create communities so we can be honest about who we are and what we think, and still not be alone.
Why you shouldn’t ask it: This is a total “damned if we do, damned if we don’t” conundrum. Atheists get told all the time that people need religion for the community it provides: that persuading people out of religion is cruel or futile or both, since so much social support happens in religious institutions. Then, when atheists do create communities to replace the ones people so often lose when they leave religion, we get told how ridiculous this is. (Or else we’re told, “See? Atheism is just another religion!” See #4 above.)
6: “Why do you hate God?” Or, “Aren’t you just angry at God?”
The answer: Atheists aren’t angry at God. We don’t think God exists. We aren’t angry at God, any more than we’re angry at Santa Claus.
Why you shouldn’t ask it: This question doesn’t just deny our humanity. It denies our very existence. It assumes that atheists don’t really exist: that our non-belief isn’t sincere, that it’s some sort of emotional trauma or immature teenage rebellion, that it’s not even really non-belief.
And honestly? This question reveals how narrow your own mind is. It shows that you can’t even consider the possibility that you might be mistaken: that you can’t even conceive of somebody seeing the world differently from the way you do. This question doesn’t just make atheists mad. It makes you look like a dolt.
7: “But have you [read the Bible or some other holy book; heard about some supposed miracle; heard my story about my personal religious experience]?”
The answer: Probably. Or else we’ve read/heard about something pretty darned similar. Atheists are actually better-informed about religion than most religious believers. In fact, we’re better-informed about the tenets of most specific religions than the believers in those religions. For many atheists, sitting down and reading the Bible (or the holy text of whatever religion they were brought up in) is exactly what set them on the path to atheism — or what put the final nail in the coffin.
Why you shouldn’t ask it: As my friend and colleague Heina put it: “‘Have you heard of Jesus?’ No, actually, I was born under a fucking rock.”
Are you really not aware of how dominating a force religion is in society? In most of the world, and certainly in the United States, religion is impossible to ignore. It permeates the social life, the economic life, the cultural life, the political life. We’re soaking in it. The idea that atheists might somehow have come to adulthood without being aware of the Bible, of stories about supposed miracles, of stories about personal religious experiences… it’s laughable. Or it would be laughable if it weren’t so annoying. Religious privilege is all over this question like a cheap suit.
8: “What if you’re wrong?” Sometimes asked as, “Doesn’t it make logical sense to believe in God? If you believe and you’re wrong, nothing terrible happens, but if you don’t believe and you’re wrong, you could go to Hell!”
The answer: What if you’re wrong about Allah? Or Vishnu? Or Zeus? What if you’re wrong about whether God is the wrathful jerk who hates gay people, or the loving god who hates homophobes? What if you’re wrong about whether God wants you to celebrate the Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday? What if you’re wrong about whether God really does care about whether you eat bacon? As Homer Simpson put it, “What if we picked the wrong religion? Every week we’re just making God madder and madder!”
Why you shouldn’t ask it: There are so very many things wrong with this question. It even has a name — Pascal’s Wager — and I’ve actually written an entire piece on the many things that are wrong with it. But I’ll stick with two for today, the ones that aren’t just logically absurd but that insult the intelligence and integrity of both atheists and believers:
a) Are you really that ignorant of the existence of religions other than your own? Has it really never occurred to you that when you “bet” on the existence of your god, there are thousands upon thousands of other gods whose existence you’re “betting” against? Are you really that steeped, not only in the generic privilege of all religion, but in the particular privilege of your own?
b) Do you really think atheists have so little integrity? Do you really think we’re going to fake belief in God… not just to our families or communities in order to not be ostracized, but in our own hearts and minds? Do you really think we’re going to deliberately con ourselves into believing — or pretending to believe — something that we don’t actually think is true? Not just something trivial, but something this important? Do you really think we would pick what to think is true and not true about the world, based solely on which idea would be most convenient? How does that even constitute “belief”? (And anyway, do you really think that God would be taken in by this con game? Do you really think that what God wants from his followers is an insincere, self-serving, “wink wink, I’m covering my bases” version of “belief”?)
9: “Why are you atheists so angry?”
The answer: I’ve actually written an entire book answering this question (Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless). The short answer: Not all atheists are angry about religion — and those of us who are angry aren’t in a constant state of rage. But yes, many atheists are angry about religion — and we’re angry because we see terrible harm being done by religion. We’re angry about harm being done to atheists… and we’re angry about harm done to other believers. We don’t just think religion is mistaken — we think it does significantly more harm than good. And it pisses us off.
Why you shouldn’t ask it: This question assumes that atheists are angry because there’s something wrong with us. It assumes that atheists are angry because we’re bitter, selfish, whiny, unhappy, because we lack joy and meaning in our lives, because we have a God-shaped hole in our hearts. The people asking it seem to have never even considered the possibility that atheists are angry because we have legitimate things to be angry about.
This reflexive dismissal of our anger’s legitimacy does two things. It treats atheists as flawed, broken, incomplete. And it defangs the power of our anger. (Or it tries to, anyway.) Anger is a hugely powerful motivating force — it has been a major motivating force for every social change movement in history — and when people try to dismiss or trivialize atheists’ anger, they are, essentially, trying to take that power away.
And finally: The people asking this question never seem to notice just how much atheist anger is directed, not at harm done to atheists, but at harm done to believers. A huge amount of our anger about religion is aimed at the oppression and brutality and misery created by religion, not in the lives of atheists, but in the lives of believers. Our anger about religion comes from compassion, from a sense of justice, from a vivid awareness of terrible damage being done in the world and a driving motivation to do something about it. Atheists aren’t angry because there’s something wrong with us. Atheists are angry because there’s something right with us. And it is messed-up beyond recognition to treat one of our greatest strengths, one of our most powerful motivating forces and one of the clearest signs of our decency, as a sign that we’re flawed or broken.
The list of questions you shouldn’t ask atheists doesn’t end here. It goes on, at length. “How can you believe in nothing?” “Doesn’t atheism take the mystery out of life?” “Even though you don’t believe, shouldn’t you bring up your children with religion?” “Can you prove there isn’t a god?” “Did something terrible happen to you to turn you away from religion?” “Are you just doing this to rebel?” “Are you just doing this so you don’t have to obey God’s rules?” “If you’re atheist, why do you celebrate Christmas/ say ‘Bless you’ when people sneeze/ spend money with ‘In God We Trust’ on it/ etc.?” “Have you sincerely tried to believe?” “Can’t you see God everywhere around you?” “Do you worship Satan?” “Isn’t atheism awfully arrogant?” “Can you really not conceive of anything bigger than yourself?” “Why do you care what other people believe?”
But for now, I’ll leave these questions as an exercise for the reader. If you understand why all the questions I answered today are offensive and dehumanizing, I hope you’ll understand why these are as well.
If you want to understand more about atheists and atheism — that is awesome. Many of us are more than happy to talk about our atheism with you: that’s how we change people’s minds about us, and overcome the widespread myths and misinformation about us. But maybe you could do a little Googling before you start asking us questions that we’ve not only fielded a hundred times before, but that have bigotry and dehumanization and religious privilege embedded in the very asking. And if you do want to know more about atheism, please stop and think about the questions you’re asking — and the assumptions behind them — before you do. Thanks.
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When a needlefish is agitated and trying to escape, they can start to fight and their long, pointy jaw can easily pierce through organs and skin. Fry for 10 minutes or till the fish is nice and crispy. Since the fish likes to cruise near the surface, it will bite on the lure. eval(ez_write_tag([[468,60],'catchandfillet_com-box-3','ezslot_9',134,'0','0'])); This slender fish ranges in length from 1.2 to 37.4 inches. Needlefish like action rather than drifting dead bait. The color of the meat of the needlefish is green, which can be unattractive to some people. The female can lay as many as 100 eggs, which will hatch in 10-15 days. They are considered a delicious delicacy and have great nutritional content but a drawback is a large number of bones. Some of the species of the needlefish are referred to as garfish even though needlefish are related distantly to that particular fish. Crocodile needlefish is popular in sport fishing and can be attracted by the use of artificial lights. While you're here, why not follow us on Facebook and YouTube? If you are fishing for small long skinny fish, use small pieces of squid or fish for bait. ‘Cuda love needlefish. You can also use shiny spoons and jerkbaits such as the Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnow to lure the fish. This is why you should use lures with tail hooks in order to firmly snag them. Some will attack prey by leaping at a shallow angle to ambush small schools of fish. We receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post. When they are ejected, the eggs are about three millimeters in diameter. Their sharp beaks can cause deep puncture wounds. In many of the Pacific Island, they primarily fish from low boats on the reefs, making the risk of getting hurt by a needlefish a greater risk than being hurt by a shark. You need large rod/reel and large bait (quick hitter or rainbow). The male will mate with the female by riding her on the waves. The fish gets entangled in the hair-like material easily and cannot escape. Fishing Booker also provides more information on the shallow waters or ocean surfaces that needlefish inhabit. How to Catch Needlefish Needlefish aren’t known for superb sport—in fact, many anglers consider them a nuisance because they’re always snatching bait! Plus use a treble hook that is small enough to fit in their mouth. In addition to bait, you can also use lures. To lure the needlefish in, you can also use jerk baits and shiny spoons. Elongated upper and lower jaws which are filled with sharp teeth. The elongated thin-blade design of the Needlefish makes it a top performer for trout trolling at all speeds. The … Some selections are lures your granddad fished. They are most generally found in the subtropics but during the winter they may inhabit temperate waters. Most of these species live in cooler saltwater and some also venture into freshwater sources. The upper jaw is smaller than the lower one. 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Guide’s Secret Needle Stick When fishing for needlefish, fish for the giant ones, which can be found in fresh, brackish, and saltwater swimming near the top of the water. Heat cooking oil in a deep pan over medium heat until bubbling. During the winter, they migrate to deeper waters away from the coast. The entrails should come out with it. If it feels a strain on the line, it will let go without swallowing it. If … Could it be the killer fish of the croal reef...#RiverMonsters #JeremyWade #NeedlefishWelcome to the official River Monsters YouTube channel. When this happens, ships have to make sure they avoid them or they can cause the ship to run aground. They closely resembled the North American freshwater Gars fish family, as the needlefish has the same long, narrow jaws that are filled with sharp teeth and the elongated body. Use lures that have tail hooks to snag them firmly. Smaller fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods. If you are fishing for them make sure you are well protected. The Atlantic needlefish are frequently found in small schools, are easily seen from the surface and more active at night. The soft style of fishing ‘sticks’ is very similar indeed to ‘hard needlefish’ but each have their shiny sides where they excel in given conditions. CatchandFillet.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. If you catch them, handle them with care so you do not get attacked by their sharp teeth. Heat 3 cups of vegetable oil in a heavy frying pan and add the fish in the hot oil. But catching lots of bass, and happily, witnessing lots being caught as a professional guide, in addition to them generally being of a greater than average size in comparison to those caught and released on other lure types, wasn’t enough for me… The more I/we utilised, primarily, the wooden Jim’s Lures, and later, the plastic Super Strike Needlefish patterns, the more I came to wonder how a lure se… The Luhr Jensen Needlefish is a blade style bait designed to mimic small forage fish when trolling for trout. … Barracuda Flies / By Drew Chicone / November 14th November 18th Where there’s bonefish there’s barracuda … and when the conditions aren’t ideal for bonefish you better have a rod loaded up with steal leader if you want to wrestle with these toothy critters. Thanks to some notable catches on his lures, the needlefish craze was reborn. Where you will find them depends on the species. This fish can only be caught by the Golden Cliffs. If you use a hook to catch this thin fish, give the line a swift jerk to set it. One of the most spread species of this long and slender fish is called the houndfish which can be found across the globe in warm and temperate waters. Pacific and Barred Needlefish eagerly attack any bait or lure. Lay the thin fish on its side on the cutting board. They are considered a good sport fish using a light tackle. Dredge the fillets in breading mixture and place on parchment paper. There is much to ‘soft needlefish’ or sometimes called ‘senko’ fishing for bass that deserves a series of articles by itself. It is sometimes easier to use a lure to catch a needlefish than regular bait. They are usually long, narrow, between three to six inches with three hooks that dangle from the tail and underside. You also need to make sure that the hook is sharp enough to penetrate through its hard jaws. If they are feeding, they will generally be defended by males. A Little Bit of Needlefish History By Russ Bassdozer Who knows how long ago the first needlefish was made, and who really cares? In case you haven’t used a needlefish lure before, one of their primary attributes is the capability to present something (be it a squid, cuttlefish or inactive prey fish) that is both very subtle and naturally appearing – very much like you’d be able to achieve with a weightless soft plastic lure (such as a senko (Wave Worm Bamboo Stick), soft stick bait (OSP DoLive Stick) or … Allow the fish a couple of seconds to gulp the bait and then pull the rod back when it does. They may have been made for a long, long time, but they were unknown on the striper coast until a few were innocently taken to Block Island from Cape Cod in the late seventies. Atlantic and Timucu … eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'catchandfillet_com-large-leaderboard-2','ezslot_0',120,'0','0'])); In addition to humans, their biggest predators are mammals like dolphins and sharks along with larger fish. When you catch the needlefish, do not let it get near the rocks but let it jump around until it tires itself out so you can bring it onboard. The needlefish is blue to dark green along the back and silver on the side. In the adult, the upper jaw is full length but in the juveniles, they only have a half-beak appearance. Grab the head and pull it off the body. The shinny spoon attracts the needlefish by moving randomly and reflecting light. Complete Guide to Fishing in Ocean City, NJ, Best Saltwater Spinning Reels for Under $100. There is a substance on the eggs that helps them attach to the algae until they hatch. It appears to have seen light use. Remove those before cooking the fish and you should be good. Make sure it is not smoking when you place the fish inside. Shake the excess flour off the fish and lay it on a cookie sheet. Serve with lettuce leaves and lime wedges on top. If you fish for needlenose fish using lures, cast across the current and reel as fast as possible. Needlefish lures are most popular in places like Montauk and Block Island, where they have boulder fields and rocky bottoms, like shown in the photo below. The fish swims close to the surface and hunts smaller fish, crustaceans as well as cephalopods while young ones feed on plankton. For the tackle, use a lightweight saltwater spinning setup. If the needlefish feels a strain on the line, they will let go of the bait without swallowing it. There are also special lures that are made just for catching needlefish.eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'catchandfillet_com-box-4','ezslot_8',130,'0','0'])); When needlefish reproduce, they mate and then the female lays eggs. Place 1 cup of all-purpose flour in a paper bag and dredge the fish in it. Excited schools have been known to leap onboard boats leaving deep puncture wounds on flabbergasted anglers in their wake. The juveniles have a smaller upper jaw with an elongated lower jaw. When fishing a needle I’ll usually start with a slow steady retrieve, with the occasional pump or twitch of the rod tip. Irrespective of the species you catch, you will get a good table fish out of it. Many times, a fisherman will catch and release them after taking a picture of them with the needlefish just to say they caught one. Want to learn more? Plus, make sure it is sharp enough to penetrate the hard jaws. Giant Needlefish Family Belonidae HOME Other Species Giant Needlefish Description Giant Needlefish live in tropical areas all around the world. You can also use a slim wooden bobber for casting weight with an 18-inch leader. Giant Mexican Needlefish Fishing Tactics Use lures with tail hooks to catch houndfish. The needlefish is considered a piscivorous fish, which is a carnivorous animal that primarily eats fish. Make sure the bait does not remain stationary in the water. If you want a great catch, you should fish for giant needlefish rather than the puny variety. River Monsters. When they are hooked, they will jump out of the water like a marlin does, and will also put up a vicious fight to get away. It’s relatively new to the market, but looks promising. It is quite common in the western Atlantic from New Jersey to Brazil and in the east Atlantic, it can be found in Japan, Australia, and South Africa. Answer by commenting below and share this guide if you liked it. Yet, to make your job easier, use lures. When their beak fully develops, they will switch to eating fish. Rhode Island Poppers Classic Needlefish. At that point, you need to press B again quickly to reel the fish in. When sand eels are around, the needlefish lure provides the long thin profile that imitates the sand eel. Here is more about our approach. If you press B too early or too late, you'll lose the … The Needlefish from Luhr Jensen possesses a unique action that draws strikes from giant trout and kokanee. The female will eject the eggs in the shallow water where there are a lot of algae for the eggs to adhere too. Make shallow incisions on top of the head right behind the eye and make another one near the anus. Needlefish like to swim near the surface and often you will find small schools of needlefish. As far as I know, the Guide’s Secret Needle Stick is the only other plastic needlefish on the market besides Super Strike. Season the long-nosed fish with lime juice and salt. If you Google the word needlefish and then sit down and think about it, needlefish as a name for a type of lure we might use for our bass fishing doesn’t actually make that much sense. Luhr Jensen Needlefish. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc or its affiliates. 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I know Easter is a religious celebration but, like it or not, for a lot of people, it’s solely about chocolate. I’m happy to tell you I am not one of those people. I believe chocolate is for life, not just special occasions. I’m also happy to tell you I had a quarter of a chocolate cake for breakfast. I am not ashamed. If you like chocolate as much as I do, you might find these facts vaguely interesting.
1) Think you hate mosquitos? Think again
Mosquitos – yes, those disease spreading little gits – are the main pollinators of the cacao tree. So without mosquitos, there would be no chocolate. Think about that next time you declare that mosquitos should be extinct. (It’s possible to pollinate the flowers by hand but they’re tiny. It’s much less fiddly to just let a mosquito do his work. Sometimes, a monkey will get involved in spreading the seeds about too.)
2) Chocolate farms don’t exist
Of course they don’t! Chocolate is the end product, not the thing that grows on trees, silly! But you don’t usually get just cacao farms either. This is because the cacao trees really like the company of other trees. They like to be in the shade of bigger trees so they are often grown with other crops such as banana trees. This also gives the farmers two income streams – result! You’ve got to plant your larger trees well before you put your cocoa trees in, though, otherwise the bananas will take all the goodness out of the soil.
3) It looks weird when it grows
We all know cocoa beans grow in pods, but did you know they don’t grow at the end of a branch, hanging off like an apple or something? They grow ATTACHED TO THE TRUNK! Imagine that! Well, actually, you can look at that, below. I also find it weird that the flowers the pods grow from are tiny, white little things. In my mind, I think they should be large, red and tropical.
4) Cacao juice is a thing
And it’s soooo good! Not to brag or anything, but I’ve tried it. The precious beans are encased in the pods and around them is a white, fleshy, horrible looking pulp that was, for many years, discarded. However, some savvy farmers have started keeping it and selling it as beverages. I will try to describe it – it doesn’t taste at all chocolatey, but it does taste fragrant and exotic. It looks a bit like lychee juice and is a bit similar in taste as well, but it’s not as tart or sweet – it’s much less brash than lychee! It tastes well healthy.
5) Chocolate has more flavour compounds than wine
Fact. So why, then, is being a wine connoisseur considered socially acceptable – refined, even – but being a chocolate connoisseur is not held in such regard? In fact, when I tell people I’m developing my chocolate tasting skills, people laugh at me! Just like wine, a cocoa bean’s flavour comes where it’s grown. For instance, a bean grown in Java will have a smokyish flavour because the soil is ash-heavy (there was a volcano there, remember?). Different combinations of beans produce different flavours, and single estate bars can taste radically different to each other. Chocolate tasters have a wealth of descriptive words to use such as earthy, woody, spicy, citrusy and chocolatey (I added that last one).
Check out this video of cocoa farmers eating chocolate for the first time. It’ll make you appreciate your Easter egg so much more!
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This timepiece contemplates a contemporary blueprint which contains a cylindrical design not commonly used, it is extremely complex in its application and it is completed with perfect visual harmony.
- The Tourbillon Reflect by deLaCour
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How to Write Your Supplemental Essays
We meet again! Previously I covered how to write a personal statement essay, but this is all about the supplementals.
October 20, 2020
So, we meet again.
If you’re here, it’s probably because you finished the hardest part of college applications: the Common App Personal Statement Essay. Congratulations! I’m so proud of you.
Now we have the supplemental essay, which is a school-specific essay that allows admissions officers to get to know you even better. Not every major requires one, and not every school requires one regardless of majors. I personally have to do a supplemental essay for two schools (and one of them requires two… sigh).
Some colleges ask why you want to attend, others may ask why you’re interested in a specific major, and a few may pick different questions altogether, but it will be specific to the college.
As always, I’ve gathered up research on writing a great essay, and we’ll work through it all together!
Mistakes to Avoid
You know the drill: we get the “Don’ts” out of the way first, then move to the “Do’s”.
Common Mistakes People Make when Writing Supplementals
(Source: Haley Kang, UPenn undergrad student, has edited 100+ essays)
While supplementals don’t require you to dig deep into your memories to bring some wild and unique story, there is a certain way you should go about answering the question. Y’all know I love to go through the DON’T DO THIS’s first, so let’s begin.
1. Brochure Writing
This is truly one of the biggest, if not the biggest, mistakes you could make. None of the tips I’m going to give you soon will work if you don’t do research on your school. Don’t write about surface level details like sports teams, the architecture, school colors. These will only sound fake, and therefore bad; you are not a brochure, I promise you admissions already knows about these things. Write about the details that are specific to you and the question.
(This is also a good reason to not break your back trying to apply to 20 schools, especially if they all have supplementals! Trying to cram all that research would not really be a good idea.)
If it’s asking why you’re picking a certain major, talk about specific classes that really interest you, or their phenomenal study-abroad program. Etc., you know?
– Part Two. Generic Outline Format
Haley gives a beautiful example of this absolute no:
“_________ college would provide me with the education and opportunities needed to facilitate innovation. I believe that application of knowledge through research and collaboration is the cornerstone of innovation and at _________, I intend to pursue both with vigor while walking down ______ with my _______ and _______ gear.”
Don’t you DARE.
This is exactly what the admissions officers expect, don’t do it to yourself. What all of this has in common is that it can be said for any school, any major. The goal is to be specific, so officers can get a good look at your reasoning for choosing them.
2. Talking Too Much About Academics
Of course this is an important part about your school selection, but it isn’t all college has to offer. Talk about how you’d be a good fit socially—the college experience is also about community, and people coming together from all over to thrive during these four+ years together.
This can mean clubs (especially ones that are specific to the college and can’t really be found in other places), internships that may give extra attention to the school, and many other things too.
Side note: if you’re going to discuss clubs, don’t just go on for paragraphs and paragraphs about academic clubs like Model United Nations, Debate, Mock Trial, etc.. These are amazing clubs, but the point I’m trying to get at is academics = intelligence, but ≠ personality.
If academics were all schools needed to know about, they wouldn’t bother with essays. They already have all your stats and accomplishments.
3. Bringing Up Subjects with no Context
If you’re trying to be a communications major, don’t just talk about the classes and clubs you’re excited to be a part of, give some context on why you wanted to become that in the first place. Maybe in high school you were in broadcast and newspaper, or you did a summer internship with a news station.
All of this gives some context into why you’ve had this interest, and shows that you’ve had this interest for a long time, you didn’t just suddenly decide right before you started your application that you wanted to be a communications major. Continuity, narrative, and flow gives admissions officers a clear view into you as a person and potential student.
I understand some people just didn’t do extracurriculars, though, so try to connect this interest to something else.
Haley is majoring in STEM, yet she had no extracurriculars to do with this; although it made writing her supplemental a little harder, she worked around it. She discussed her participation in debate, and how she amassed a lot of research skills from doing this for three years. She said that she’d love to use these skills in internships and other opportunities at UPenn.
4. To Reiterate – Don’t be a Walking Brochure
I PROMISE the admissions officers will know more about the school than you do. Always. Don’t spend the entire essay spitting out facts and hyping up the school, tell them what you have to offer as a potential student. How will you positively impact the environment?
It is important to talk about what the school has to offer to you, but don’t leave out how this is a mutual relationship where both benefit.
5. Trying to Fit Too Much into the Essay
You’re going to need space to elaborate on every big point you mention, so trying to fit in too many things will look super cramped. Haley recommends 2 points for any essay up to 200 words, and 3–4 points for every essay up to 500 words.
When you stick to a few key points, readers have something to stick with. There’s a much less likely chance they’ll remember what message you’re trying to send when you gave them too many things to focus on. Jumping around too much also takes away from the personal touch these essays are supposed to have, so really be careful of that.
6. Saying What You Think They Want to Hear
I also mentioned this in the personal statement article, because truly, this is an extremely common mistake. Admissions officers have read enough essays to tell when you’re truly passionate about something and when you’re just typing to type. It’s okay to not spend all of your time volunteering at homeless shelters, tell the readers about where you really spend your time.
Of course it has a lot less real-life impact as volunteering, but it makes an impact nonetheless. And okay, let’s say (throw up a quick prayer or knock on wood after this lol) you were rejected. Would you rather be rejected knowing you were honest and true to yourself, or rejected and left wondering whether if you had been more honest, you would’ve gotten accepted?
Anddd Some More Mistakes to Avoid
You have no clue how many videos I found out mistakes to avoid.. We’ll be finished after this one, I promise.
I don’t want to fill up this entire article with what not to do, but I do want to include these last five tips because they’re really important!
5 Mistakes Students Make on Supplemental Essays
(Source: SupertutorTV, Stanford-educated, perfect SAT and ACT-scoring, ACT and SAT prep tutor.)
1. Don’t Repeat
If you wrote about your love for engineering in your personal statement, do not—do not—write about it in your supplemental essay. You don’t want to sound repetitive with your information, you have more to offer than just being an engineering student!
I’m not saying you cannot create a line throughout your essays that connects, you just don’t need to tell them “I want to be an engineer” over and over and over… and over again.
In fact, Supertutor recommends not making the basis of your personal statement your academic passion at all, because often that is what the supplemental essay is about.
2. Don’t Just Answer the Question
Okay, I know I told you earlier that supplemental essays is doing just this, BUT LET ME EXPLAIN. Yes you’re answering the question, but you cannot just give them a straightforward answer and be done. Sadly, it’s not that simple.
If you get the question, “How will you take advantage of the educational opportunities provided at ____?”, you’re not going to impress colleges by simply saying “I will major in engineering, take *insert 5 engineering classes that idk here*, study abroad in *enter dream country here*, and join *enter organization here*.”
You won’t impress them at all.
Supertutor stresses that “any time you have an essay, you have an opportunity… to share who you are, and what you love,” and she’s absolutely correct.
Essay form allows for you to tell a story about what matters about you, why it matters, and how your particular school fits in to that. Take advantage of it.
3. Don’t Tell That… Tell Why
This is already a common mistake for personal statements, so you know this is a problem with supplementals. Just because it’s a shorter essay, does not mean you still don’t have to give background!
Admissions officers get it: you love engineering, you’ve done three internships, started an engineering club at your school, blah blah blah. You didn’t just wake up one day and decide you wanted to be one.
How did you get there? What about it is interesting to you? How do your characteristics as an individual fit into this career path?
And this doesn’t just go for major questions, the same can be applied to the school as a whole.
If you’re asked “What do you look forward to at Unicorn University (this is not a real place, I wish it was)?”, or “How do you plan on taking advantage of the educational opportunities at Unicorn University?”, go with the why more than the that.
4. Don’t be Afraid to Overwrite and Cut
A big mistake students make when writing supplementals is underwriting due to the shorter word count of this essay. Don’t let that stand in your way, there is still much to be said here!
Don’t be scared of getting everything off your chest and then cutting it down to only the most important things once you finish.
It’s easier to figure out what points stand out more than others, and are more pertinent to the message you’re trying to convey, when you can read back through and cut as you go.
5. Don’t Settle for Boring Answers
Shorter essay ≠ settling for a boring answer. If 50 other people could’ve written the same thing as you, you should revise your work.
Admissions officers have to go through thousands and thousands of applications, so don’t be afraid to entertain. Give the reader something that will make an officer fight for your spot at this school.
Breaking Down The Supplementals
We have reached the “Do’s”! Honestly, as I write this article I’m learning too, so come on and take these notes with me.
Tips on Writing Your Essay(s)
(Source: CollegeEssayGuy, nationally-recognized college essay expert and admissions prep author)
Sometimes, the supplemental essays can be worth more than your personal statement. Neither you nor I will ever know when that is the case, so we have to make sure our supplementals are as amazing as possible regardless. Just to be prepared.
Before We Begin: Super Topics
A huge help for my stressed babies who are working on several supplementals for several+ colleges: choose a “Super Topic”. It’ll help you save a ton of time, as it’s an activity you’ve spent a lot of time doing. This means:
- It shows several sides of you
- Works for several essay topics
So let’s say you have to answer a community service essay, an essay on an intellectual idea that’s important to you, an an extracurricular activity essay. BOOM, three essays done, just like that. It’s not a crime, this is strategy!
Now back to our regularly-scheduled programming.
The “Why Us?” Essay
This is where you tell the school why y’alls relationship would be mutually beneficial. CollegeEssayGuy suggests thinking of this as “a third date.”
If you’re out on a date and the person looks at you and asks “Why are you interested in me?”, you’re not just going to say “because you’re sexy and it makes me look better.” That’s awful, and if you do this I hope they throw their drink on you. Trifling.
You’re going to tell that person about specific qualities that capture your heart. Similarly, you need to explain this to colleges.
Specific courses, opportunities, and even professors are the things you should be discussing here. And don’t forget to connect all of it back to you, because you are a little important here. Just a bit.
As this will be a 50/50 relationship, your essay should have a 50/50 focus: 50% you, and 50% the school. Don’t try to do 20/80, or 80/20, etc., it just never works as well.
The 150-Word Extracurricular Essay
CEG gives multiple ways to approach this essay:
a) The Fire Hose Approach: Spouting out tons of information. In this case it would be your accomplishments, and what your role was in each of them.
b) Creative High Flyer with Nothing to Prove: This is a good approach for students whose grades and test scores are just beautiful, so they don’t want to blend in with many students. In this case, they’ll focus on one moment, one quality, and underline that.
c) (CEG’s fav) Uncommon Connections Approach: Once you’ve picked your activity, brainstorm all the clichés people could come up with. Then, dump them. Think about 3/4 things you could speak on that would be different from what everyone else is going to say, and go from there.
The Community Service Essay
In CEG’s exact words: “Write your community service essay like Elon Musk pitches the Powerwall.”
If you take a quick minute to google “Elon Musk Powerwall Andy Raskin,” Raskin analyzes this pitch and points out five qualities included in this pitch that should be included in all pitches.
- Identify the problem you’re trying to solve (with the community service project you were doing)
- Identify why now (why was this an important problem that needed to be solved?)
- Describe your vision for the future (if we lived in a world where this problem was solved, how would it look?)
- Describe what you did on the project (obviously important since it’s your college application)
- Describe the impact of your project
The Short Answer Question “Essay”
This can be something as simple as: “What’s your favorite food?” and you have 2-15 words to answer it. Easy enough, right? NO.
Unless you have less than five words, this is a TRICK.
Do NOT just answer the question.
They want to see how you work with the small amount of space given, so try your best to attach a small story to it. I love my mom’s ribs, so if I have like 13 words max, I’d say something like “Saturday evenings eating my mom’s grilled ribs on the patio.”
Give that small little bit of context that gives your essay an extra sparkle.
Even if it’s a two-word answer: “Mom’s ribs.” This is sweet, and still answers the question.
The “Why *insert major here*?” Essay
If you don’t know what major you’re interested in yet, don’t fret! Pick a couple areas you’re interested in, and elaborate on what about them is interesting.
How’d your interest begin? What do you hope to do with it in the future? They won’t hold you to this answer, it’s okay. Don’t be afraid to not know something.
For those who do know, a great way to execute this essay is by creating a mini-movie. Recall some of the most important memories that brought you to your chosen major, and relay them in the submission box.
CEG includes an example on his blog from a boy who was interested in Electrical Engineering. He tied this interest to his childhood in Mexico, where his father’s restaurant security system was unable to protect them from robbers. It was this, and his cousin who taught him about Autonomous systems, that inspired him to pursue this career.
Now of course he worded it much better than me, but you get the point I hope.
The Describe/Define “Diversity” Essay
This also may appear in the form of the question, “Talk about a time when you interacted with someone who was different from you.”
Avoid the common mistake of describing a person you only met one time. If possible, discuss an unlikely relationship that has persisted over time.
Broaden your horizon of what “diversity” looks like: age, political beliefs, home location, cultural background, and the list goes on. This way, you’re much more likely to realize a friendship you have is less normal than you thought.
The “Create-Your-Own Class” Essay
CEG recommends taking a syllabus that already exists at the school, and using it as a template.
It’d be good to include a persuasive course description, required reading, hypothetical locations and times. And, though it may seem odd, CEG says to use a colon. Not only does it give room for a long title, but you can create a mix between fun:academic or vice versa.
If I wanted to do a class on unicorns, since I’ve become attached to my imaginary Unicorn University, I could include it on the syllabus for my class: “Myths and Legends: The Possibility of the Impossible”
(UC Schools) Personal Insight Questions
It’s very important that you ensure your answers connect back to the 14 Points of Comprehensive Review.
These are a quick google away, and are the 14 things these schools look for when evaluating your application. Don’t add any sparkle to these, be as straightforward as possible because you don’t have the room to do the most. CEG recommends bullet-pointing the content, and then writing the personal insight questions.
Oh don’t be so emotional (or is that just me..), you’ll see me again sooner than you know!
Wow, I can’t believe we’ve officially covered both personal statements and supplemental essays.
I feel so enlightened.
No but seriously, I hope these articles have helped you as they’ve helped me. So much work has gone into researching, piling up links to look through, and organizing the information. I’ve laid everything out in one place for a reason, so don’t be afraid to come back and view the article!
I swear I don’t go look at the traffic of my articles, nobody is judging you for having to reference the information. I’ll definitely be back to look over these myself.
This is where we part ways for a bit, but I’ll be back in a week or so. There are many more topics to be covered, we’ve only just scratched the surface. Good luck with your essays, see you soon!
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Dissociation and dissociative identity disorder (DID)
This section gives information about dissociation and dissociative disorders. It explains the different dissociative disorders, their symptoms and treatments. This section is for anyone with dissociation and dissociative disorder and their carers, friends or relatives.
If you would like more advice or information you can contact our Advice and Information Service by clicking here.
- If you dissociate you might have symptoms such as not feeling connected to your own body or developing different identities.
- Dissociative disorder is a mental illness that affects the way you think. You may have the symptoms of dissociation, without having a dissociative disorder. You may have the symptoms of dissociation as part of another mental illness.
- There are lots of different causes of dissociative disorders.
- You may get talking therapies for dissociative disorders.
- You may be given medication that may help with symptoms of dissociation and dissociative disorder.
What is dissociation?
Many people will experience dissociation at some point in their lives. Lots of different things can cause you to dissociate. For example, you might dissociate when you are very stressed, or after something traumatic has happened to you. You might also have symptoms of dissociation as part of another mental illness like anxiety.
Some of the symptoms of dissociation include the following.
- You may forget about certain time periods, events and personal information.
- Feeling disconnected from your own body.
- Feeling disconnected from the world around you.
- You might not have a sense of who you are.
- You may have clear multiple identities.
- You may feel little or no physical pain.
You might have these symptoms for as long as the event that triggered them, or for a short time afterwards. This is called an episode.
For some people these symptoms can last for much longer. If you have a dissociative disorder you might experience these symptoms for long episodes or even constantly.
What are the different types of dissociative disorder?
There are different types of dissociative disorder. There is more information on each of these below.
It‘s important to remember that you could have the symptoms of dissociation without a dissociative disorder. There is also a lot of disagreement among professionals over dissociative disorders.
What is dissociative amnesia?
If you have dissociative amnesia you might not remember things that have happened to you. This may relate to a stressful or traumatic event, but doesn’t have to.
In severe cases you might struggle to remember:
- who you are,
- what happened to you, or
- how you felt at the time of the trauma.
This isn’t the same as simply forgetting something. It is a memory ‘lapse’. This means you can’t access the memory at that time, but they are also not permanently lost.
With dissociative amnesia you might still engage with other people, such as holding conversations. You might also still remember other things and live a normal life. But you might also have flashbacks, unpleasant thoughts or nightmares about the things you struggle to remember.
You may have dissociative amnesia with dissociative fugue. This is where someone with dissociative amnesia travels or wanders somewhere else, related to the things they can’t remember. You may or may not have travelled on purpose.
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is sometimes called ‘Multiple Personality Disorder. But we have called it DID on this page.
If you have DID you might seem to have 2 or more different identities, called ‘alternate identities. These identities might take control at different times.
You might find that your behaviour changes depending on which identity has control. You might also have some difficulty remembering things that have happened as you switch between identities. Some people with DID are aware of their different identities, while others are not.
There is a lot of disagreement between researchers over the notion of DID.
We think of someone with DID as having different identities. But some researchers think that that these are actually different parts of one identity which aren’t working together properly.
They suggest that DID is caused by experiencing severe trauma over a long time in childhood. By experiencing trauma in childhood, you take on different identities and behaviours to protect yourself. As you grow up these behaviours become more fully formed until it looks like you have different identities. When in fact the different parts of your identity don’t work together properly.
What is other specified dissociative disorder?
With this diagnosis you might regularly have the symptoms of dissociation but not fit into any of the types.
A psychiatrist uses this diagnosis when they think the reason you dissociate is important.
The reasons they give include the following.
- You dissociate regularly and have done for a long time. You might dissociate in separate, regular episodes. Between these episodes you might not notice any changes.
- You have dissociation from coercion. This means someone else forced or persuaded you. For example, if you were brainwashed, or imprisoned for a long time.
- Your dissociation is acute. This means that your episode is short but severe. It might be because of one or more stressful events.
- You are in a dissociative trance. This means you have very little awareness of things happening around you. Or you might not respond to things and people around you because of trauma.
What is unspecified dissociative disorder?
This diagnosis is used where you dissociate but do not fit into a specific dissociative disorder.
Psychiatrists also use this diagnosis when they choose not to specify the reasons why you do not fit into a specific disorder.
Or if they don’t have enough information for a specific diagnosis. For example, after a first assessment in accident and emergency.
What are dissociative seizures?
Dissociative seizures are hard to get diagnosed. They are regularly wrongly diagnosed as epilepsy.
Dissociative disorders can also be known as non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD).
It can be hard to tell the difference between a dissociative and epileptic seizure. An EEG can read epileptic seizures but can’t read dissociative seizures. An EEG is a test that detects electrical activity in your brain using small, metal discs attached to your scalp.
Dissociative seizures happen for psychological reasons not physical reasons.
What is depersonalisation/ derealisation disorder (DPDR)?
The feelings of depersonalisation and derealisation can be a symptom of other conditions. It has also been found among people with frontal lobe epilepsy and migraines.
But it can also be a disorder by itself. This means it is a ‘primary disorder’. There is some disagreement among professionals whether DPDR should be listed with the other dissociative disorders at all.
DPDR has some differences to other dissociative disorders. In DPDR you might not question your identity or have different identities at all. You may still be able to tell the difference between things around you. And there may be no symptoms of amnesia. Instead, with DPDR you might feel emotionally numb and questions what it feels like to live. We have explained this in more detail below.
You might have these feelings constantly rather than in episodes. It doesn’t have to have been caused by a traumatic or stressful event.
Many people think that this disorder might be more common than previously thought. This might be because of:
- a lack of information about it,
- patients who didn’t report their symptoms, and
- doctors who don’t know enough about it, meaning they underreport the condition.
With DPDR you might have symptoms of depersonalisation or derealisation or both.
With depersonalisation you might feel ‘cut off’ from yourself and your body, or like you are living in a dream. You may feel emotionally numb to memories and the things happening around you. It may feel like you are watching yourself live.
The experience of depersonalisation can be very difficult to put into words. You might say things like ‘I feel like I don’t exist anymore’ or ‘It’s as if I’m watching my life from behind glass’.
If you have derealisation you might feel cut off from the world around you. You might feel that things around you don’t feel real. Or they might seem foggy or lifeless.
Jane started feeling the symptoms of depersonalisation after smoking cannabis. She felt like her eyes were fixed on parts of the room and that she was not connected to everything around her. She felt as if she was a spectator in her own life for many months, rather than actually living ‘in the moment’. It took Jane a long time to be diagnosed. To recover, she was helped to distract herself from the DPDR symptoms for long stretches with engaging activities. This then expanded into periods of time when she felt connected to the things around her again. Cognitivebehavioural therapy and mindfulness taught her to manage her anxiety and the distressing symptoms of DPDR.
What causes dissociation?
There are different things that can cause you to dissociate. For example:
- traumatic events,
- difficult problems that cause stress, and
- difficult relationships.
Other researchers have suggested that the use of cannabis may sometimes be a cause of depersonalisation/ derealisation disorder (DPDR).
How are dissociation and dissociative disorders treated?
Dissociation can be treated in lots of different ways. The type of treatment you get might depend on which type of disorder you have.
Can medications help?
At the moment, there are no medications for dissociative disorders themselves, although you may take medication for some symptoms.
If you have episodes of dissociation you might also have a condition such as depression or anxiety. Some medications could help with this. For example, antidepressants could be used for depressive symptoms and benzodiazepines for anxiety.
Benzodiazepines can be addictive and should be prescribed for a short period only. Benzodiazepines can make Dissociation worse.
You can find more information on:
What psychosocial treatments can help?
Talking therapies are usually recommended for dissociation. There are lots of different types of talking therapy. Different ones might be used for different dissociative disorders.
What is psychodynamic psychotherapy?
If you have DID, then your doctors may think about long-term relationally psychotherapy. This is a type of therapy where you talk about your relationships and thoughts. You might talk about your past. Your therapist can link the ways you think and act with things that have happened to you.
For DID, psychotherapy might be needed for a long time, with at least 1 session every week. This will depend on individual’s situations and on their ability and level to function, resources, support and motivation.
What is eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)?
DID may also be helped by eye-movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR). In EMDR you make side-to-side eye movements while talking about the trauma that happened.
Doctors must be careful when using EMDR because it could make your DID worse if not done properly. But EMDR can have benefits when it is used along with other treatment. The type of EMDR used for DID is slightly different to other conditions. So, it is important that your doctor knows about your DID before you start EMDR.
What is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)?
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is another type of talking therapy. You will talk about the way your thoughts and feelings affect you. And how your behaviours may make this worse. You focus less on the past and try to change the way you think and behave.
Parts of CBT are recommended to treat DID, by helping you to change your thoughts and behaviours that come from the trauma.
A CBT approach has also been suggested for long-lasting DPDR. If you have DPDR you might often worry about your symptoms and think you have a serious mental illness or that something is wrong with your brain. CBT may help to change this way of thinking. By reducing your anxiety and depression that comes with this worrying, it may also reduce your symptoms of DPDR.
You can find more information about ‘Talking therapies’ by clicking here.
What treatment should I be offered?
In the UK, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) publish guidelines on physical and mental health conditions. These guidelines are a standard for NHS treatment. At the time of writing, there are no NICE guidelines on dissociation or dissociative disorders.
But this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be offered treatment. If you think you are having any of these symptoms, then explain this to your GP. They may refer you to a psychiatrist.
You can find more about ‘GPs - What to expect from your doctor’ by clicking here.
What if I am not happy with my treatment?
If you aren’t happy with your treatment you can:
- ask for a second opinion,
- ask an advocate to help you speak to your doctor,
- contact the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS), or
- make a complaint.
There is more information about these options below:
How do I ask for a second opinion?
If you aren’t happy with your diagnosis or treatment, speak to your doctor. If they don’t offer you any other treatment options, you can ask for a second opinion. This is where another doctor will assess you and suggest diagnoses or treatment. You don’t have a legal right to a second opinion, but your doctor might agree to one.
What is advocacy?
An advocate can help you understand your rights to treatment from the NHS. They can also help you be fully involved in decisions about your care. An advocate is separate from the NHS.
You can search online to see if there are any local advocacy services in your area. Or the Rethink Mental Illness Advice Service could search for you. You can find their details at the bottom of this page.
What is the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)?
The Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) at your NHS trust can try and help you with any problems or issues you have. You can find your local PALS’ details at: www.nhs.uk/Service-Search/Patient-advice-and-liaison-services-(PALS)/LocationSearch/363.
How can I make a complaint?
If you aren’t happy with the way you have been treated, you can make a complaint. You have to make a complaint about the NHS within 12 months of what you want to complain about.
You can find more information about:
Self care & risks
What are self-care and management skills?
You can learn to manage your symptoms by looking after yourself at home. You will learn how to notice when you are becoming unwell and know what your triggers are.
Not all of the techniques here will work for everyone. It is important to try something that you enjoy and that you can commit to and that works for you.
Keeping a diary
You might find it helpful to keep a diary. You could write about how you felt over the day. Or you could write down goals that you want to achieve. You could use it as part of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Keeping a diary isn’t for everyone. If you have depersonalisation/derealisation disorder (DPDR) you might already spend a lot of time thinking about how other people see you. A diary may make you feel worse if it forces you to think about yourself. A diary can still help but talk to your GP or a counsellor first.
These techniques can be helpful for people who have been through trauma or who regularly dissociate. They can help to ‘ground’ you in the here and now. This may help when experiencing flashbacks.
Grounding works best when it is practiced regularly. Try practicing these things every day. There are different types of grounding techniques.
Using your surroundings
To use your surroundings, look around yourself. Focus on all the details of everything that is around you. Try describing this to yourself either out loud or silently in your head. Use all of your senses.
You could try positive words or phrases about yourself. For example, ‘I am strong’ or ‘I will succeed’. Write down a few things that are meaningful and positive for you. You could carry these around with you. Try reading them to yourself or aloud if your symptoms are bad.
This is similar to using your surroundings. Try thinking of a place that you feel peaceful and safe. This can be a real or imaginary place. If it is a real place, choose somewhere that is positive with no traumatic memories. Shut your eyes and imagine that place. Focus on all of the details and all of your senses.
Try moving into a posture that makes you feel strong. This could be standing up with your shoulders back or relaxing your shoulders. Try different postures until you find one that works for you.
Try choosing an object that is personal to you. You should try and pick something that only has positive memories attached to it. Carry it around with you and use it to remind yourself of who you are and where you are.
There are lots of different ways to relax. The important thing is to find something you enjoy doing. For example, cooking, reading or gardening. You might find that meditation or mindfulness helps.
Some relaxation techniques such as meditation and mindfulness may make some people feel worse. For example, if you have DPDR you might struggle with meditation. If this is the case, try and find something else that works for you. If you have CBT, you could tell the therapist. They could help you find something that works.
Exercise and diet
There are no specific exercises that can definitely help. But you could try jogging, swimming or just trying to walk more and something that suits your ability. Trying to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables can help. You could also try to reduce the amount of fat, salt and sugar you eat. Reducing the amount of caffeine, you drink can be helpful.
If you don’t sleep enough your symptoms might feel worse. It can take a few weeks for you to get into better sleep habits. Here are some tips for helping you sleep.
- Sleep when you feel sleepy.
- Keep your bedroom as a place for only sleeping.
- If you are lying awake in bed for a long period, get up and move around for a while.
- Avoid taking naps during the day.
- Try not to have caffeine for a few hours before you go to bed.
- Make sure you get up at the same time every day. This can help you get into a regular routine.
You can find more information about ‘Complementary and alternative treatments’ by clicking here.
What risks and complications can dissociation cause?
Some people with a dissociative disorder may also have another mental health condition, such as anxiety or depression. This is called a ‘comorbid’ condition. In some cases, this can make your dissociative disorder harder in day to day life. However, all these conditions are manageable and treatable.
You can find more information on:
Carers, friends & family
What if I am a carer, friend or relative?
What support can I get?
If you are a carer, friend or family member of someone living with a dissociative disorder you can get support.
You can get peer support through carer support groups. You can search for local groups in your area on the following websites:
- Rethink Mental Illness: www.rethink.org
- Carers: Carers UK: www.carersuk.org
- Carers Trust: www.carers.org
If you need more practical support, you can ask your local authority for a carer’s assessment. You might be able to get support from your local authority.
As a carer you should be involved in decisions about your relative’s care planning. But you can only be involved if your relative agrees to this. If they don’t agree, their healthcare professionals can’t share information about them with you.
You can find out more information about:
- Carer’s assessment and support planning by clicking here.
- Confidentiality and information sharing – For carers, friends and relatives by clicking here.
- Benefits for carers by clicking here.
How can I supporting the person I care for?
You might find it easier to support someone with a dissociative disorder if you understand their symptoms, treatments and self-care options. You can use this to support and encourage them to get help and stay well.
You should also be aware of what you can do if you are worried about their mental state. Keep the details of their mental health team or GP handy and discuss a crisis plan with them.
You can find out more information about:
Further reading & Useful contacts
Online training on dissociation and Dissociative Identity Disorder, webinars and literature.
Unreal reaches out to people of lived experience of depersonalisation and derealisation disorder and their carers and families and seks to raise awareness. They provide support and to promote involvement through providing up to date information, signposting, networking, the sharing of experiences and by celebrating success. The provide information and resources and peer support groups.
Clinic for Dissociative Studies
This organisation has lots of information on dissociative disorders on their website. They also provide care and treatment for dissociative disorders. They can accept referrals from the NHS. They offer general information about dissociative disorders but do not run a helpline.
South London and Maudsley Trauma and Dissocation Service
A specialist outpatient assessment, consultation and treatment service. It’s for adults who are experiencing psychological difficulties following trauma and/or dissociative disorders. The only NHS specialist service offering treatment for people presenting with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and severe dissociative disorders. Referrals are accepted from GPs and senior clinicians. All referrals have to be approved and funded by the local clinical commissioning group (CCG).
Phone: 020 3228 2969
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3.1 Chia Consensus Introduction
Decentralized consensus algorithms require Sybil resistance, using a resource that is both cryptographically verifiable and scarce (not infinite). In previous blockchain systems, two different scarce resources have been used: computing power (Proof of Work) and staked money (Proof of Stake).
Chia's Proof of Space and Time consensus uses storage capacity as the scarce resource. This comes much closer than previous systems to Satoshi's original ideal of “one CPU, one vote,” where a vote refers to a chance to win and validate a block, not an actual vote on-chain. For example, someone storing 500 GiB has 5 “votes,” and someone storing 100 GiB has 1 “vote.”
One other cryptographic puzzle piece is used to secure Chia's system: a verifiable delay function (VDF), which is a cryptographic proof that real time has passed.
A fair system can be created by combining proofs of space and time. In such a system, users store random-looking data on their hard drives. Their chance to win XCH is proportional to their allocated space. Furthermore, such a system scales to billions of participants in a similar way to the Proof of Work lottery. No funds, special hardware, registration, or permission is required to join, only a hard drive and an internet connection. The system is completely transparent and deterministic -- anyone can efficiently and objectively verify which chain is the canonical one, without relying on any trusted parties.
Some notes to keep in mind as you continue reading:
- Whenever the word signature is used, it refers specifically to a deterministic BLS signature, following the IETF specification with the Augmented scheme.
- The private keys performing these digital signatures are controlled and stored by the farmers.
- A unique private key is used for each plot.
- The hash function used is SHA256, except for the proofs of space which also use CHACHA8 and BLAKE3.
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London boasts a plethora of sights to see and attractions to visit, so if you have the luxury of hiring a private chauffer around the capital, where will you choose to go?
According to figures from Statista, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew was the most visited site in the city last year, with 1,963,000 people heading to the west London attraction.
It is not hard to see why as there are more than 50,000 living plants at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, despite being just half an hour from central London.
Within the amazing ecosystem here are fruits like pomegranate, spices like turmeric, and spring blooms. The Arboretum boasts 14,000 trees of 2,000 different types and stretches across two-thirds of the site.
Some of trees were planted in the 18th Century, while the biggest is more than 40 metres tall. One of the oaks in the Arboretum is 30 metres in diameter and is as tall as it is wide.
The Princess of Wales Conservatory is one of the most popular experiences at the gardens, boasting ten climate zones, from desert to jungle. Visitors can get up close to spiky cacti, break a sweat in the tropical area, and even take a look at carnivorous plants such as Venus flytraps and pitcher plants.
Next on the list of most popular London attractions is the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, with 1,571,000 people walking through its doors last year.
This was followed by the British Museum, the Tate Modern and Somerset House.
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A woman with Down's Syndrome has lost her battle with the High Court after she challenged a law allowing the abortion of fetuses found to have the same condition she has.
Heidi Crowter, 26, from Coventry, says that the legislation in question does not respect her life and right to live, according to the BBC.
Crowter has been fighting the law since July, and has since been trying to challenge people's perceptions of those with Down's Syndrome, saying that she is "just a normal person."
While her legal team argued that the law is discriminatory, the government has maintained that there is no evidence that the law discriminates against those who currently live with Down's Syndrome. The law provides for abortion to be available after 24-weeks gestation if the baby is found to have Down's Syndrome, or other maladies that would result in being "seriously handicapped."
"We face discrimination every day in schools, in the work place and in society. And now thanks to this verdict the judges have upheld discrimination in the womb too," Crowter wrote on Twitter.
Under the current abortion rules in England, Wales, and Scotland, there is a 24-week time limit on the procedure, unless "there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped," which includes Down's syndrome.
"The judges might not think [the law] discriminates against me, the government might not think it discriminates against me, but I am telling you I feel discriminated against," she continued.
According to the BBC, Lord Justice Singh and Mrs. Justice Lieven said at the start of their judgement: "The issues which have given rise to this claim are highly sensitive and sometimes controversial."
"This court cannot enter into those controversies; it must decide the case only in accordance with the law," they continued.
The judges said they have heard evidence that some families would "positively wish to have a child" even knowing it would be born with severe disabilities, but added that there was clear evidence that not all families would react the same way.
Iceland has nearly eradicated Down's Syndrome through aborting those that are found to have it in the womb.
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Will drop in adoptions abroad mean more homes for Mass. kids?
As international adoptions fall to their lowest level since the 1990s, an organization that helps find permanent homes for children in the Massachusetts foster care system hopes more families will consider adopting youths closer to home.
The number of children adopted from overseas plunged to 9,320 in the U.S. last year, the lowest point in at least a dozen years and down from a peak of nearly 23,000 in 2004, the U.S. State Department said in November.
The decline is largely a result of tighter restrictions in other countries, said Lisa Funaro, executive director of the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange, whose nonprofit works with the state Department of Children and Families to facilitate foster care adoptions.
“What we’ve seen is a lot of those families are shifting to considering adopting through foster care,” she said.
Funaro highlighted benefits to adopting one of roughly 600 foster children who need a home at any given time in the Bay State: No fee, state subsidies and local support networks.
“There are lots of incentives and unfortunately a steady stream of kids who need families,” she said.
The state has yet to see a major change in interest in adopting from foster care as a result of declining international adoptions, said Angelo McClain, state Department of Children and Families commissioner. But encouraging adoptions from foster care is a key goal for the agency, which holds roughly 50 events a year to drum up interest.
The department tries to connect people who are considering adoption with families that have already opened their homes to a foster child, McClain said.
“I have that discussion with so many people who just say it’s enriched their life and enriched their family,” he said.
There are about 7,500 children in state foster care who are removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect or unsafe conditions. That’s down from nearly 10,000 children about three years ago, largely due to the state adopting new risk assessment methods and focusing on removing children who are in imminent danger, McClain said.
Those in the system lived in nearly 4,000 foster homes across the state as of last year, according to the Department of Children and Families.
Most foster children ultimately can return to their homes, but roughly 2,400 are in some stage of the adoption process, including about 600 not yet matched with a family.
The state and Mass. Resource Adoption Exchange highlighted these children throughout November, which is National Adoption Month. Seven courthouses in the state also finalized adoptions for 149 children in foster care on Nov. 18, or National Adoption Day.
“They’re just kids who, no fault of their own, need a family,” McClain said.
Efforts to find more adoptive families continue year-round. Funaro’s organization stresses eligibility is flexible, open to both single and married parents, straight and gay couples, homeowners and renters, and everyone from grandparents to single couples, she said.
“We’re looking for families, every way, shape, color or form,” Funaro said.
McClain acknowledged that adoptive parents face challenges.
“Some of these kids have experienced trauma," he said. "They may have some deficits."
The state offers some support. Depending on a child’s needs, a family that adopts can get the same subsidy that foster parents receive of about $18-$20 a day. Many children also receive health care through the Medicaid-funded MassHealth program, Funaro said.
Massachusetts also offers to waive tuition and fees for children adopted from foster care to attend state colleges or universities, though recent budget cuts have made it difficult to cover the bill for later semesters, McClain said.
The state is planning a summit in the spring to gauge how the Department of Children and Families could better support families after they adopt, McClain said. “I think we could do more,” he said, particularly in preparing parents for common challenges.
While other adoption routes can be costly, adopting from foster care is “as economical as it gets,” Funaro said.
Visit www.mass.gov/dcf for more information on adopting children in foster care.
(David Riley can be reached at 508-626-4424.)
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According to Cohen and Swerdlik (2018), Reliability means to be consistent. In psychometric terms, the meaning of reliability is based on when something is said to be consistent. The book defines “a reliability coefficient is an index of reliability, a proportion that indicates the ratio between the true score variance on a test and the total variance” (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2018, p. 141). Moreover, in testing and assessment there exist three sources of error variance such as test construction, test administration, and test scoring and interpretation. The text state that a measurement error is everything that is associated with the process of the variable being measured instead of the variable being measured (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2018).
Internal consistency reliability coefficient = .92
According to Cohen and Swerdlik (2018), states that internal consistency reliability is when a one can obtain an estimation of a test being reliable without creating a different form of the test nor administering the same test twice to the same individual (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2018). Furthermore, a test that has an Internal consistency reliability coefficient = .92 means that the item on the test must relate to one another and it also means that there exists a strong relationship between the content of the test. As I mentioned at the beginning of the post reliability means to be consistent. The higher the coefficient, the more reliable the test is. A .92 means that the test has excellent reliability and it is acceptable.
Alternate forms reliability coefficient = .82
According to Cohen and Swerdlik (2018), states that alternate forms are different types of test that are built to be parallel. Hence, the reliability of the alternate forms refers to “an estimate of the extent to which these different forms of the same test have been affected by item sampling error, or other error” (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2018, p. 149). An example we can use is when a person is given two different versions of the same test at a different time.
Test-retest reliability coefficient = .50
According to Cohen and Swerdlick (2018), A test-retest reliability is when a test is administered twice at two different points of time. Moreover, one we have to evaluate the reliability of a test-retest that purport to measure is fairly stable over time (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2018).
The higher the coefficient, the more reliable the test is. .92 means that the test has excellent reliability and it is acceptable the higher, the greater. An Alternate forms reliability coefficient = .82 is still high reliability, and it is also acceptable. A test-retest is a correlation of the same test over two administrator which relates to stability that involves scores. The book states that the more extended time has, the higher the chances that the reliability coefficient will be lower. Therefore, the passage of time may be an error of variance (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2018). Thus, depending on what the individual has been through some traumatic event it may also create an error variance which will impact their score variance and which will change, and the reliability will be lower than if that individual did not have any traumatic event. Therefore, if it is below .50 is not considered to be a reliable test nor acceptable. The book also states that “If we are to come to proper conclusions about the reliability of the measuring instrument, evaluation of a test-retest reliability estimate must extend to a consideration of possible intervening factors between test administrations” (Cohen & Swerdlik, 2018, p. 146).
Cohen, R. J., Swerdlik, M. (2018). Psychological Testing and Assessment. [Capella]. Retrieved from https://capella.vitalsource.com/#/books/1260303195/
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Six months ago with the Walton Family Foundation, the Charles Koch Institute announced the launch of the VELA Education Fund to support and nurture educators and learners who are operating beyond the K-12 system.
Two of these innovators are Mikala Streeter and Khabral Muhammad, the founders of Zucchinis Home School Co-Op, a project-based learning pod for children ages 4 to 10 in Atlanta. The co-op was featured in a recent VELA Education Fund video. In the video, Streeter and Muhammad discuss how the demand for new education models has grown significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they responded to parents who needed a safe and vibrant place for their children to learn.
“Life does not stop,” explains Muhammad. “The need to provide for one’s family does not go away.”
The co-op operates from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. every weekday and offers age-appropriate music, science, math and English language curriculum in a small setting. Streeter and Muhammad intend to keep the co-op open even after the pandemic subsides.
“Children should enjoy what they’re learning,” Streeter says in the video. “They should feel safe, not just physically, but emotionally as well. This should be a safe space for just who they are as people.”
The Charles Koch Institute inspires and invests in social entrepreneurs developing solutions to America’s most pressing problems. Read more about our support for social entrepreneurs committed to education.
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You'll need to upload a scan of your child’s birth certificate, passport or adoption certificate.
If you have more than one child you only need to provide one piece of evidence.
Children aged 15 or 16
For children aged 15 or 16 on the first day of your academic year we'll also need evidence they're registered with special educational needs.
This can be a copy of their Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan or their Statement of special educational needs (SEN).
A signed letter from the child’s school or college confirming they are registered with special educational needs can also be considered.
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A Thousand Generations
Read Psalm 105:1–45; Romans 4:16–25
Medicine shows were common across the frontier areas of America at the turn of the twentieth century. Clever men made a living deceiving others. A variety of acts would perform, and, in between the di...
The Assemblies of God
The Assemblies of God was founded in 1914. Today there are close to 13,000 churches in the U.S. with nearly 3 million members and adherents. There are more than 69 million Assemblies of God members worldwide, making the Assemblies of God the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.
The U.S. Assemblies of God national office is located at 1445 N. Boonville Avenue, Springfield, Missouri. It houses the Fellowship's executive and administrative offices, service divisions and departments, and warehouse.
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I’ve been accused, occasionally, of not caring about my fellow humans, or even wanting to deal with them. So, in recognition of my failings, I’ve put together a quick three-part series on how to communicate with the three various types of folks that we have to deal with as technical consultants/geeks-in-residence etc. Hopefully it’s useful to some, annoying to others, and downright “that’s me!” to a select few.
Kicking me into doing this is completely and fully credited to Catherine Ullman from the University of Buffalo!
Part 1 – END USERS
Not just what to do, but WHY: Communication with end users should involve
- The aspects they can use at their role/job.
- Elements they can use in their everyday life
- A logic that runs both what to do and also why to do it.
Rather than a ”Because I said so” edict, a better approach might be, “Hey, we ask you to change passwords because…” and, “Hey, we’d also encourage you to adopt the same behavior at home…online accounts, and your social passwords too, because__(what might happen if you don’t)__.” Approaching things that way—as an educational approach, and posing it as a benefit to the end user, is always likely to elicit a more effective set of responses, and things tend to sink in.
Perception is Reality: Your understanding that perception is reality for many users is a key part of effective communication. Just because the perception doesn’t always level set with reality isn’t something we can always rationalize to end-users. Sometimes the simple act of listening is enough to let people know they’ve been heard. Engagement is key.
Communication is more than just verbal:Constant communication is key. Keeping the end user informed and up to speed on what is going on and why is critical. Good concise communication in written AND in electronic format is key.
Too much information?: If the end user’s eyes begin to glaze over, you’ve lost. Be judicious with the quantity and type of information.
Patience is a virtue: Even if you have to go into the closet afterwards and tear your hair out, be patient while working with end users.
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This document aims to provide some insight into the logic of the generic hard-filtering recommendations that we provide as a substitute for VQSR (the method we normally recommend for filtering germline short variants). We hope this will serve as a guide for adapting these recommendations or developing new filters that are appropriate for datasets that diverge significantly from what we usually work with.
Note that the annotations described in this article are for samples called at the population level, in order to filter out if these sites have data that cannot be trusted for accurate results. Even with VQSR, variant sites are being filtered out, not individual sample's data.
For instructions on how to apply hard filters in practice, see the documentation on JEXL filtering expressions and the Tool Docs for SelectVariants and VariantFiltration.
- Visualizing the distribution of annotation values
- QualByDepth (QD)
- FisherStrand (FS)
- StrandOddsRatio (SOR)
- RMSMappingQuality (MQ)
- MappingQualityRankSumTest (MQRankSum)
- ReadPosRankSumTest (ReadPosRankSum)
Hard-filtering consists of choosing specific thresholds for one or more annotations and throwing out any variants that have annotation values above or below the set thresholds. By annotations, we mean properties or statistics that describe for each variant e.g. what the sequence context is like around the variant site, how many reads covered it, how many reads covered each allele, what proportion of reads were in forward vs reverse orientation, and so on.
The problem with this approach is that it is very limiting because it forces you to look at each annotation dimension individually, and you end up throwing out good variants just because one of their annotations looks bad, or keeping bad variants in order to keep those good variants.
In contrast, VQSR is more powerful because it uses machine-learning algorithms to learn from the data what are the annotation profiles of good variants (true positives) and of bad variants (false positives) in a particular dataset. This empowers you to pull out variants based on how they cluster together along different dimensions, and liberates you to a large extent from the linear tyranny of single-dimension thresholds.
Unfortunately this method requires a large number of variants and well-curated known variant resources. For those of you working with small gene panels or with non-model organisms, this is a deal-breaker, and you have to fall back on hard-filtering.
2. Visualizing the distribution of annotation values
One of the most helpful ways to approach hard-filtering is to visualize the distribution of annotation values for a truth set called using a particular pipeline. These distributions are sharped by both the pipeline methodology and the underlying physical properties of the sequence data; so for a given pairing of data generation technology + analysis pipeline, you can derive filtering thresholds based on what the distributions look like for the truth set.
Origin of the data used in the visualizations below
We called variants on a whole genome trio (samples NA12878, NA12891, NA12892, previously pre-processed) using HaplotypeCaller in GVCF mode, yielding a GVCF file for each sample. We then joint-called the GVCFs using GenotypeGVCFs, yielding an unfiltered VCF callset for the trio. Finally, we ran VQSR on the trio VCF, yielding the filtered callset. We'll consider that passing variants are true while filtered variants are false. Note that this could also be achieved by annotating the raw callset using the Genome in a Bottle truthset for NA12878 as a resource (results are not exactly the same but similar enough for what follows.
We then extracted annotation values for all calls using VariantsToTable. This produced a table that we then loaded into RStudio for plotting.
Plotting methods and interpretation notes
We made plots for six annotations that tend to be highly informative among the recommended annotations: QD, FS, SOR, MQ, MQRankSum and ReadPosRankSum. The same principles can be applied to most other annotations produced by GATK tools.
All plots shown below are density plots generated using the ggplot2 library in R. On the x-axis are the annotation values, and on the y-axis are the density values. The area under the density plot gives you the probability of observing the annotation values. So, the entire area under all of the plots will be equal to 1. However, if you would like to know the probability of observing an annotation value between 0 and 1, you will have to take the area under the curve between 0 and 1.
In plain English, this means that the plots shows you, for a given set of variants, what is the distribution of their annotation values. The caveat is that when we're comparing two or more sets of variants on the same plot, we have to keep in mind that they may contain very different numbers of variants, so the amount of variants in a given part of the distribution is not directly comparable; only their proportions are comparable.
This is the variant confidence (from the QUAL field) divided by the unfiltered depth of non-hom-ref samples. This annotation is intended to normalize the variant quality in order to avoid inflation caused when there is deep coverage. For filtering purposes it is better to use QD than either QUAL or DP directly.
The generic filtering recommendation for QD is to filter out variants with QD below 2. Why is that?
First, let’s look at the QD values distribution for unfiltered variants. Notice the values can be anywhere from 0-40. There are two peaks where the majority of variants are (around QD = 12 and QD = 32). These two peaks correspond to variants that are mostly observed in heterozygous (het) versus mostly homozygous-variant (hom-var) states, respectively, in the called samples. This is because hom-var samples contribute twice as many reads supporting the variant than do het variants. We also see, to the left of the distribution, a "shoulder" of variants with QD hovering between 0 and 5.
We expect to see a similar distribution profile in callsets generated from most types of high-throughput sequencing data, although values where the peaks form may vary.
Now, let’s look at the plot of QD values for variants that passed VQSR and those that failed VQSR. Red indicates the variants that failed VQSR, and blue (green?) the variants that passed VQSR.
We see that the majority of variants filtered out correspond to that low-QD "shoulder" (remember that since this is a density plot, the y-axis indicates proportion, not number of variants); that is what we would filter out with the generic recommendation of the threshold value 2 for QD.
Notice however that VQSR has failed some variants that have a QD greater than 30! All those variants would have passed the hard filter threshold, but VQSR tells us that these variants looked artifactual in one or more other annotation dimensions. Conversely, although it is not obvious in the figure, we know that VQSR has passed some variants that have a QD less than 2, which hard filters would have eliminated from our callset.
This is the Phred-scaled probability that there is strand bias at the site. Strand Bias tells us whether the alternate allele was seen more or less often on the forward or reverse strand than the reference allele. When there little to no strand bias at the site, the FS value will be close to 0.
Note: SB, SOR and FS are related but not the same! They all measure strand bias (a type of sequencing bias in which one DNA strand is favored over the other, which can result in incorrect evaluation of the amount of evidence observed for one allele vs. the other) in different ways. SB gives the raw counts of reads supporting each allele on the forward and reverse strand. FS is the result of using those counts in a Fisher's Exact Test. SOR is a related annotation that applies a different statistical test (using the SB counts) that is better for high coverage data.
Let’s look at the FS values for the unfiltered variants. The FS values have a very wide range; we made the x-axis log-scaled so the distribution is easier to see. Notice most variants have an FS value less than 10, and almost all variants have an FS value less than 100. However, there are indeed some variants with a value close to 400.
The plot below shows FS values for variants that passed VQSR and failed VQSR.
Notice most of the variants that fail have an FS value greater than 55. Our hard filtering recommendations tell us to fail variants with an FS value greater than 60. Notice that although we are able to remove many false positives by removing variants with FS greater than 60, we still keep many false positive variants. If we move the threshold to a lower value, we risk losing true positive variants.
This is another way to estimate strand bias using a test similar to the symmetric odds ratio test. SOR was created because FS tends to penalize variants that occur at the ends of exons. Reads at the ends of exons tend to only be covered by reads in one direction and FS gives those variants a bad score. SOR will take into account the ratios of reads that cover both alleles.
Let’s look at the SOR values for the unfiltered variants. The SOR values range from 0 to greater than 9. Notice most variants have an SOR value less than 3, and almost all variants have an SOR value less than 9. However, there is a long tail of variants with a value greater than 9.
The plot below shows SOR values for variants that passed VQSR and failed VQSR.
Notice most of the variants that have an SOR value greater than 3 fail the VQSR filter. Although there is a non-negligible population of variants with an SOR value less than 3 that failed VQSR, our hard filtering recommendation of failing variants with an SOR value greater than 3 will at least remove the long tail of variants that show fairly clear bias according to the SOR test.
This is the root mean square mapping quality over all the reads at the site. Instead of the average mapping quality of the site, this annotation gives the square root of the average of the squares of the mapping qualities at the site. It is meant to include the standard deviation of the mapping qualities. Including the standard deviation allows us to include the variation in the dataset. A low standard deviation means the values are all close to the mean, whereas a high standard deviation means the values are all far from the mean.When the mapping qualities are good at a site, the MQ will be around 60.
Let’s check out the graph of MQ values for the unfiltered variants. Notice the very large peak around MQ = 60. Our recommendation is to fail any variant with an MQ value less than 40.0. You may argue that hard filtering any variant with an MQ value less than 50 is fine as well. This brings up an excellent point that our hard filtering recommendations are meant to be very lenient. We prefer to keep all potentially decent variants rather than get rid of a few bad variants.
Let’s look at the VQSR pass vs fail variants. At first glance, it seems like VQSR has passed the variants in the high peak and failed any variants not in the peak.
It is hard to tell which variants passed and failed, so let’s zoom in and see what exactly is happening.
The plot above shows the x-axis from 59-61. Notice the variants in blue (the ones that passed) all have MQ around 60. However, some variants in red (the ones that failed) also have an MQ around 60.
This is the u-based z-approximation from the Rank Sum Test for mapping qualities. It compares the mapping qualities of the reads supporting the reference allele and the alternate allele. A positive value means the mapping qualities of the reads supporting the alternate allele are higher than those supporting the reference allele; a negative value indicates the mapping qualities of the reference allele are higher than those supporting the alternate allele. A value close to zero is best and indicates little difference between the mapping qualities.
Let’s look at the distribution of values for MQRankSum in the unfiltered variants. Notice the values range from approximately -10.5 to 6.5. Our hard filter threshold is -12.5. There are no variants in this dataset that have MQRankSum less than -10.5! In this case, hard filtering would not fail any variants based on MQRankSum. Remember, our hard filtering recommendations are meant to be very lenient. If you do plot your annotation values for your samples and find none of your variants have MQRankSum less than -12.5, you may want to refine your hard filters. Our recommendations are indeed recommendations that you the scientist will want to refine yourself.
Looking at the plot of pass VQSR vs fail VQSR variants, we see the variants with an MQRankSum value less than -2.5 fail VQSR. However, the region between -2.5 to 2.5 contains both pass and fail variants. Are you noticing a trend here? It is very difficult to pick a threshold for hard filtering. If we pick -2.5 as our hard filtering threshold, we still have many variants that fail VQSR in our dataset. If we try to get rid of those variants, we will lose some good variants as well. It is up to you to decide how many false positives you would like to remove from your dataset vs how many true positives you would like to keep and adjust your threshold based on that.
The last annotation we will look at is ReadPosRankSum. This is the u-based z-approximation from the Rank Sum Test for site position within reads. It compares whether the positions of the reference and alternate alleles are different within the reads. Seeing an allele only near the ends of reads is indicative of error, because that is where sequencers tend to make the most errors. A negative value indicates that the alternate allele is found at the ends of reads more often than the reference allele; a positive value indicates that the reference allele is found at the ends of reads more often than the alternate allele. A value close to zero is best because it indicates there is little difference between the positions of the reference and alternate alleles in the reads.
Notice the values for unfiltered variants fall mostly between -4 and 4. Our hard filtering threshold removes any variant with a ReadPosRankSum value less than -8.0. Again, there are no variants in this dataset that have a ReadPosRankSum value less than -8.0, but some datasets might. If you plot your variant annotations and find there are no variants that have a value less than or greater than one of our recommended cutoffs, you will have to refine them yourself based on your annotation plots.
Looking at the VQSR pass vs fail variants, we can see VQSR has failed variants with ReadPosRankSum values less than -1.0 and greater than 3.5. However, notice VQSR has failed some variants that have values that pass VQSR.
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More than 10 million individuals are arrested and enter the U.S. criminal justice system each year. More than half have mental health disorders and two-thirds have substance use disorders. They are disproportionately low-income; 68% are minorities. The justice system has become the mental health care system of last resort. The three largest mental health care institutions in the country are jails.
The Stepping Up Initiative is a national initiative to reduce the number of people with mental illnesses in jails through a better connection to mental health services in the community. The Stepping Up Initiative is led by the National Association of Counties (NACo), the Council of State Governments (CSG), and the American Psychiatric Association Foundation (APAF). More than 500 counties have joined the Stepping Up Initiative. These counties are bringing their jail, probation, and community mental health and substance use agencies together to keep people out of jail and in community treatment.
I.M. Stepping Up (Implementation Mechanisms of Stepping Up) is a research study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH118680). The study will survey 455 Stepping Up Counties and 455 matched control counties to determine whether and how Stepping Up is helping counties reach their goals. The study will help improve Stepping Up efforts to reduce the number of people with mental illnesses in jail and will draw generalizable lessons that can be used for criminal justice and mental health implementation efforts.
Given that Stepping Up is the largest criminal justice mental health implementation effort to date, this study is an unprecedented opportunity to:
- evaluate multi-system justice and mental health implementation efforts on a national scale
- identify effective strategies for bringing evidence-based practices to vulnerable and underserved populations
- learn how to drive policy and practice changes that will improve mental health and reduce incarceration of individuals with mental illness
Dr. Faye Taxman of George Mason University (firstname.lastname@example.org) and Dr. Jennifer Johnson of Michigan State University (email@example.com) lead the I.M. Stepping Up study, with help from Dr. Jill Viglione of the University of Central Florida (firstname.lastname@example.org).
Our team is committed to respect for people of all races, colors, genders, religions, national origins, sexual orientations, history of criminal involvement, marital status, disability, height, weight, veteran status and age. We support Michigan State University’s goal of increasing diversity, ensuring equity, promoting inclusion, and enhancing outreach and engagement. Our work seeks to address structural racism and sexism, empower the unempowered, and elevate community and patient contributions to solutions.
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Sadly, life often comes with unexpected moments. Mary Melton is a lawyer that has handled many personal injury cases. One common source of trauma can be the brain. A brain injury attorney can be a crucial aid during a very stressful time in life. In this post, you will learn more about brain injuries and why having an attorney in your corner is essential.
Brain trauma can come from a wide variety of sources. Research shows that falls are the number one cause of traumatic brain injuries. The groups of people most susceptible to these injuries were infants and the elderly. During these age ranges, balance is most often impaired. If an injury happened when the party was another persons care, a case could be made.
In addition, falls were the number one reason for brain trauma related hospitalizations. There are, on average, 523,043 ER visits related to falls and 62,334 longer term hospitalizations from brain injuries each year. A brain injury attorney has seen many causes of brain injuries. These professionals know what strategies work best for any particular brain trauma situation.
The highest death rate for traumatic brain injuries results from car crashes. Those who are in the
In summary, traumatic brain injuries are likely more commonplace than you think. Recent research shows that about 1.7 million people experience a traumatic brain injury each year. Having a brain injury attorney on your side helps you for each phase of your case. There are cases where someone will need legal representation, especially due to the extent of their injury. Mary Melton has helped families of those with brain injuries. She speaks for the client to ensure that they have someone to fight for them.
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Sep 17 2021 Global Printed Circuit Board Pcb Connectors Market Insights Regional Analysis Market Share Competitive Analysis Global Printed Circuit Board Pcb Connectors market report comprehensively elaborates the ongoing trends drivers and restraints aimed to provide a complete overview of the Printed Circuit Board Pcb Connectors industry. The
Problems associated with e waste are becoming well known in the scientific literature. In general WEEE is a complicated assembly of significant number of different materials many of which are highly toxic. For example the production of semiconductors printed circuit boards disk drives and monitors used in computer
Free Circuit Board 3D models for download files in 3ds max c4d maya blend obj fbx with low poly animated rigged game and VR options.
Apr 15 2008 Study E waste recycling poisons people with heavy metals. Researchers find high levels of heavy metals in a Chinese town that processes circuit boards with
Oct 22 2016 Things labeled just add water are usually highly processed foods and novelty bath tub toys but new research from the UK’s National Physical Laboratory may change all of that.. Working together with In2Tec and Gwent Electronic Materials NPS has developed a 3D printable circuit board that dissolves when immersed in hot water.. The technology was
May 23 2017 According to a new report Global Flexible Printed Circuit Boards Market published by KBV Research the global Flexible Printed Circuit Boards Market is expected to attain a market size of 26 billion by 2022 growing at a CAGR of 9.6 during the forecast period.. The Multilayer FPCB market dominated the Global Flexible Printed Circuit Boards Market
Promeco SpA is an Italian company based in Como that manufactures on proprietary technology plants and equipment for the recycling and recovery of waste with energy production material recovery or production of finished goods. Founded in 1996
Welcome to the Exporters’ Directory a Gateway to Sri Lankan Trade Industry. Find a comprehensive and up to date database of Sri Lankan exporters and service providers in agricultural food and beverage industrial engineering ICT and BPM sectors maintained and monitored by the Trade Facilitation Information Division of Sri Lanka Export Development
Global Printed Circuit Boards PCBs Market size was valued at US 52.12 Bn in 2019 and is expected to reach US 72.27 Bn by 2027 at a CAGR of 5.6 during the forecast period of 2021 2027. 2019 is considered as a base year to forecast the market from 2021 to 2027. 2020’s market size is estimated on real numbers and outputs of the key players and major players across the
Abstract Waste printed circuit boards are complex heter ogeneous mixture consisting of organic material metal and glass fiber therefore it is quite difficult for the recovery of valuable materials from waste printed circuit boards. In this study waste printed circuit boards without electronic com ponents knownasbareboards
Feb 17 2022 Global Circuit Board Labels PCB Label Market report discourses recent trends and technological advancements implemented by the key players. The report also offers insights on information of
This guide will explain common environmental issues associated with printed circuit boards and how suppliers and manufacturers address them. Are Printed Circuit Boards Hazardous Waste PCBs include a variety of materials. While some substances used in PCB production count as hazardous waste others have no negative impact on people or the
Jun 08 2021 3 ways advanced circuit boards are revolutionising your supply chain. Fortunately much of modern logistics is automated which means human management comes down to a combination of planning operations and assessing and reacting to information. That said it is still important to understand the technology at hand which is why we want to look
Mar 29 2022 The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Mar 29 2022 Concur Wire via Comtex Global Printed Circuit Board Technologies Market 2022 by Company Regions
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Sep 10 2020 Waste Printed circuit boards PCBs are one of the most valuable and recycled components of electronic waste due to the presence of precious metals such as copper silver gold and palladium. The rejects of the PCB recycling process named non metal fraction NMF have continuously been sent to landfills.
Mar 24 2022 We estimate that 99 of the UK’s circuit boards are currently shipped overseas to be processed at high temperatures in smelters
Since 2006 EGchip has been recycling electronic components from Europe North America Japan South Korea and others. EGchip buys all kinds of semiconductors and electronic components excess inventory brand new or used PCBA E Waste obsolete parts. We have experience of buying excess inventory for over 15 years. We buy excess electronic
Copper was recovered from waste printed circuit board using suspension electrolysis technique in this paper. The relationships between the current efficiency copper products purity copper products morphology and the electrolytic conditions have been studied.
Feb 02 2021 Dublin Feb. 02 2021 GLOBE NEWSWIRE The E Scrap and Printed Circuit Board PCB E ScrapGlobal Market Outlook 2019 2027 report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets s offering.
Mar 28 2022 Rubbish is a big problem. The average family in the UK produces more than a tonne of waste every year. 1 Just under half of that is recycled. That’s a lot of paper food and garden waste disused plastic and glass products and electronic waste. 2 Most of it is shipped off to countries like Malaysia Turkey Indone
Umicore is a global leader in clean mobility materials and recycling and makes a real difference in the markets it serves with its expertise in materials science chemistry and metallurgy. Umicore’s overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on an ambition to develop produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission
China Waste Recycling Machines Manufacturers and Recycling Machine Suppliers. specialized in scientific research design manufacture and marketing. Dry type circuit board recycling production line copper wire scrap recvcling production line refrigerator recycling production line more. E waste recycling can form a complete industry.
Circuit boards contain valuable metals like silver tin gold palladium and copper. Hard drives can be shredded and processed into aluminum ingots for use in the automotive industry. In 1991 the first electronic waste recycling system was implemented in Switzerland with the introduction of a system to collect refrigerators.
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Sep 29 2015 Xiu F. Qi Y. Zhang F. Recovery of metals from waste printed circuit boards by supercritical water pre treatment combined with acid leaching process. Waste Manage. 33 1251–1257 2013 .
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From the printed circuit board to the final product. Fundamental to ProMinent is a high level of vertical integration ranging from in house manufacturing of components and production of electronic components to final assembly and quality control of finished products.
Printed Circuit Boards Backplanes Cables Enclosures Precision Machining Plastic Injection Molding Precision. Welded Frames PCB Assembly Optical RF and Microelectronics. Global Footprint. Sanmina operates a global footprint of design manufacturing order fulfilment and repair. facilities in 20 countries on 6 continents.
Mar 30 2022 The E scrap Recycling market size is projected to reach 8.19 billion by 2028 from 3.22 billion in 2021 it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.3 during 2021–2028.New York March 30 2022
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If you’re not someone who likes change, you’re in good company – our brains are wired for predictability and familiarity. When we feel the comfort of that predictability being compromised by change, our natural impulse may be to resist, and to go back to our safe place that we can control. However as we also know, growth doesn’t happen without change, so in this meditation we will explore how to feel okay with change. We can learn how to flow with life's transitions, and help ourselves to grow into the person we’re becoming.
Start by finding a relaxed posture – this could be sitting, lying down, or even standing. If it feels comfortable, you can close your eyes.
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Topic: Generation Gap.
Research: Nada El-Mallah.
Design: Safeya Fawzy.
Concept: A dialogue between a father and his teenager son, expressed in two brochures designed in two different ways, but both complement each other and form one poster with the main message.
Topic: Militarized Cities.
Research: Yosra Gamal.
Design: Lamis El-Sayyed.
Concept: Develop a comic story to make an analogy between the military rule and the building keeper, to show how this keeper is taking a bigger controlling role than his main job description.
Topic: Personal Space.
Research: Farida El-Kotary.
Design: Mariam Ramadan.
Concept: A board game to teach people the types of social spaces, and how to differentiate between them, by categorizing the characters, and creating different situation to learn what to say and when according to the level of intimacy with the character.
Research: Noor Amin.
Design: Yosra Gamal.
Concept: Create two common characters people encounter in governmental offices, that depict the irony of situations that lead to bureaucracy, in a satirical way, to be published in newspapers as comic strip.
Various examples of other topics and concepts presented by the students.
Concepts include Post Cards, Interactive Posters, Brochures, Tool Kits, and Stickers.
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Curuf Tepesi is an area with very old copper stained smelter slags and no known source of the mineralization.
We examined the big red hills beside the site and found them to be very young semi-consolidated sedimentary breccias/conglomerates and arkoses with no indication of mineralization. We also examined local chlorite schists and found no mineralization.
Somewhere on this hill ancient miners were mining copper. Further work is needed to discover the source of the copper slag mineralization.
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And, you can also find offices with these indoor plants. There are many health benefits to having indoor plants and if you are someone who is undecided as to whether to buy them or not, then you should consider these benefits. The benefits are far worth the work in setting up a routine of watering and feeding the plants. There are also many indoor plants that you can buy that are low in maintenance which can suit your busy schedule.
Sometimes people are skeptical about what they hear about the benefits of something and this holds true with the benefits of indoor plants. These claims were already looked into by researchers and they have found them to be true. Here are some of the proven benefits of having plants in your home.
The improvement of mental health is one of the health benefits of indoor plants. You feel happier when there are indoor plants inside your home. Even if you just look at the greenery around you, it can make you happy. If you live in a city apartment, then having indoor plants make you think of the outdoors so you don’t so much feel boxed in. The presence of indoor plants is calming and gives you a sense of peace. Plants and patient and docile and helps to create a good atmosphere in your home. Indoor plants helps you to slow down when you are in a rush because of their calming nature.
The presence of indoor plants in your home improves your home’s air quality. If plants are in your home, then they will take up all the carbon dioxide and release oxygen in return. Fresh oxygen is beneficial for the body. More oxygen helps the body work more efficiently. You will not have much brain fatigue. Your mental health is supported with the release of the right types of hormones in your body.
Your immune system is boosted with indoor plants. Your immune system will work more if you get more sleep and feel more relaxed. You feel less stressed with the airborne chemicals that plants release. If you feel less stressed, then your immune system gets a natural boost. Perhaps you don’t feel these benefits, but if you haven’t had colds for a long time, then this is its manifestation. During flu season, a healthy immune system will work its best.
Plants beside a sick person’s bed can help them recover faster from it. There is a healing benefit to indoor plants. Illnesses in homes were found to drop with the presence of indoor plants.
These are just some of the many benefits that you can enjoy with indoor plants but there are a lot more. Investing in indoor plants will give you all the benefits above and moe.
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Last week Calgary, Alberta financier W. Brett Wilson called on businesses to refrain from putting up Christmas decorations until after Remembrance Day. He says early Christmas displays and sales show a lack of respect for our war veterans.
Wilson posted and tweeted the 10 days between Halloween and Remembrance Day should be free of Christmas sales and decorations. He utilized social media to make his point, taking his message onto the international stage and he received a lot of response to his online campaign, not all in favour of holding off on the tinsel.
“I welcome opportunities to raise the profile of those who serve or served our nation in a way the initiates conversation, because people who serve in uniform on every level deserve a lot more respect than they get, often because they serve in a less public way. Military members tend to provide their services out of sight. Once they are out of sight, they really are out of mind, forgotten and taken for granted,” explained Wilson.
Christmas music piped through stores in early November. Why not music relevant to Remembrance Day questioned Wilson.
“Terry Kelly’s song and video “A Pittance in Time”, always touches me deeply as it is moving and relevant. A pathetic minute or two on November 11th just doesn’t seem like much of a celebration of our military – which is why I simply don’t want the commercialization of Christmas to overwhelm Remembrance Day.”
Wilson, is a Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist and three-season panellist on CBC Television’s Dragons’ Den. He was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan and holds an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Royal Roads University.
He travelled to Afghanistan to visit front-line Canadian troops with General Walter Natynczyk, Defence Minister Peter MacKay, hockey player Guy LaFleur and actor Paul Gross and has hosted events to support military members and their families.
Wilson began work as an investment banker with McLeod Young Weir Limited (now ScotiaMcLeod or Scotia Capital). He co-founded an investment banking advisory firm, Wilson Mackie & Co.in 1991 and in 1993, he co-founded FirstEnergy Capital Corp., a leading Canadian stock brokerage firm providing investment banking services to global participants in the energy sector – via offices in Calgary, AB and London, England.
Wilson retired from FirstEnergy in July, 2007, but retained his role as chairman of the company until December, 2008. His primary holding company, Prairie Merchant Corporation, is the vehicle from which he makes most of his current investments.
Please visit www.wbrettwilson.ca for more information on W. Brett Wilson.
Read Under the Radar, Blog by Vicki L. Morrison for further thoughts on Remembering Remembrance Day.
Have your say and take the latest CMFM poll.
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The circular economy is opening new business possibilities for industries and especially SMEs. What previously was considered as waste becomes raw material and can be considered as a new product. The project aims to kick start a circular transformation and make a measurable contribution to delivering the boost in economic development, environmental services and entrepreneurial innovation in rural areas.
For this purpose, viable multidisciplinary circular economy-related SYMBIOMA Technology Innovation Platform in the NPA region will be established and service package thereof created. The Platform service portfolio will include access to laboratory and pilot-scale infrastructures and expertise to evaluate the valuable components from process side and waste streams and develop technology innovations, technology transfer support, knowledge about similar or compatible waste streams in the region in order to increase volume and improve possible profitability via aggregation, and assistance in exploring collaborative dynamics and business models such as clustering and industrial symbiosis. Food and beverage SMEs are vital in the NPA region and are therefore chosen as a pilot basis for project activities.
The approach can be up-scaled and replicated across other industry segments in rural regions. To ensure relevance of the project activities and Platform services to needs of SMEs multifunctional and multidisciplinary team is gathered and consists of multidisciplinary university research groups, laboratory and pilot infrastructure providers, R&D services providing SMEs, manufacturing SMEs and business support organizations. Project’s results will have immediate exploitation reach to 75 potential SMEs, who will be approached during the implementation stage. The 12 business support organisations and numerous authorities will be trained to promote the circular economy and SYMBIOMA services.
To establish and operate multidisciplinary Circular Economy (CE) related SYMBIOMA Technology Innovation Platform
Establish internal network governing rules, network expansion, platform marketing and durability strategy and develop service concepts for serving SMEs
To develop a service portfolio from Technology Innovation platform for SMEs to explore circular economy opportunities
Set of databases and toolkits of the current status of material flows, valorization routes, business conditions of food and beverage SMEs will be prepared in order to guide SMEs how to identify and prioritize new value chain opportunities
Train stakeholders on how to promote circular economy opportunities and SYMBIOMA Technology Innovation Platform services
SYMBIOMA will upskill and assist stakeholders in developing new industrial symbiosis partnerships and ventures, and train on the use of CE technology platform to allow new R&I activities and connectivity between rural entrepreneurs across NPA regions.
For more information please visit: symbioma.interreg-npa.eu
IT Sligo Project Participants
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Právní systémy Dálného východu II
[Legal Systems of the Far East II]
e-book, 1. edition
published: march 2019
e-book formats PDF
recommended price: 320 czk
The second volume of the book by Michal Tomáš is devoted to the comparison of the current legal systems of the Far East (China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam) with their foreign archetypes. It shows how foreign legal concepts and institutes have been adopted in the far-eastern legal environment and how they have been applied over time. The comparison of the current judiciary interpretation of the transferred foreign laws in the various countries of the Far East combined with the interpretation of the same concepts and institutes in their countries of origin gives an answer to a number of questions, including what further direction the law in the Far East may take. It also reveals the principal theme of the two volumes, namely to what extent does the interpretation of the new law survive traditional legal thinking and even whether it doesn't continue to develop at the expense of the law adopted from abroad. Continuing in the tradition of the first volume, the book will be suitable for experts and the wider readership community alike. Numerous illustrations help to document the explanations in the book.
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Pressure Washers, Children and Pets - Don't Mix
Small children and pets, especially the family dog, love playing with the garden hose and sprinkler system and in summer particularly, these are irresistible to them.
Pressure washers, however, are not the garden hose, and while older children can have this explained to them, smaller ones may not understand the potential for harm. Small children and pets need to be secured well out of the way of any pressure washing project.
The force of a pressure washing blast can cause harm in several ways. It can easily knock over a small child, who then may fall on concrete. Bruising would be the lesser concern.
The powerful jet spray can break the skin of an adult in an instant, let alone that of a child, and the scars can last. Skin lacerations are the most common form of injury reported by people using pressure washers, followed by bruises, punctures and eye injuries.
A high pressure water blast can also, in effect, inject detergents and toxic substances into a child's bloodstream and deeper bodily tissue. If that happens there may be little to see initially other than some swelling and discolouration, yet a deeper infection may be caused.
The eyes are particularly vulnerable, and serious long term damage can occur if a high pressure jet of water strikes a child's eyes.
All this just means that extra care is required when pressure washers are being used where children and pets are on the property.
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As the snow starts coming down this weekend, you may well fancy recreating some childhood memories by building a snowman.
But there’s so many ways to do it, that we thought we’d give you some top tips on how to make the perfect snowy creation.
1. The ratio rule
It’s a little-known fact, but the perfect snowman needs to be built in thirds – so if the bottom ball is 3ft wide, the middle one has to be 2ft wide and the top one 1ft across.
You can use this rule for any sizes, but if you want to build the picture-perfect snowman, you’ll want to follow this rule.
2. Let the good times roll
For the ultimate roundness, you need to be rolling your snowballs.
Start with a small amount that you can force into a ball with your hands. Then find a decent-size expanse of snow, and just start rolling your little ball around in the snow – it will quickly grow in size.
The further you roll it, the bigger the ball gets, and before you know it, you’ll have the perfect size.
3. Location, Location, Location
In case you’ve never tried it, moving a snowman after it’s been built is really kind of difficult.
So think a little bit about where you want the final snowman to be. Snowmen where lots of people can see them are good fun, just don’t go building one on your garden path or in front of where your car’s parked.
4. It’s all about the accessories
We’re talking scarves. We’re talking hats. We’re talking gloves. Grab everything you can and get your snowman wrapped up properly.
Try to use your old winter gear, because you won’t really want to be wearing a hat that’s covered in snow. Gloves on the end of sticks for the snowman’s arms always look great too.
5. Think about the face
A little pre-planning can help here, but don’t panic if this is a last-minute thing. Pick up a bag of carrots from the supermarket for the old-fashioned nose, and a couple of lumps of coal for the eyes.
For the mouth – sweeties look great when arranged into a smile, and you can use fruit pastilles, wine gums or even Skittles. Plus you get to eat whatever’s left.
6. Embrace the weird
Think outside the box when it comes to the final decorations – the most-memorable snowmen always have an element of weirdness.
A can of juice in his hand always looks pretty cool, or you can dress him up in summer wear – stick some shorts and a T-shirt on him.
7. Special effects
Here’s a top tip if you really want to give your neighbours a shock. Fill a balloon with water and plenty of red food dye. Then build the snowman’s head around the balloon. You can see where this is going…
Wait until everyone’s watching, then take a swing at the snowman’s head – the food dye will spill all over the snowman looking like blood, and give everyone a fright!
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Historic Dodgertown displays replica baseball cards
Historic Dodgertown unveiled a wall of 143 replica baseball cards honoring Hall of Famers including players, managers, coaches, executives, umpires and broadcasters, who have either played or appeared at iconic Holman Stadium. Seventy-eight percent of all living Baseball Hall of Famers have been to Historic Dodgertown, while 40 percent of all Hall of Famers have been in Holman Stadium.
Fans are invited to take a look at the wall, located at the first base entrance to Holman Stadium. The nearly 10-foot wide color poster represents Dodger players and those in the organization, as well as players of other teams who visited Historic Dodgertown.
Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Sandy Koufax, Duke Snider, Don Sutton, Pedro Martinez, Managers Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda are among those Dodgers whose baseball cards photos were taken on Dodgertown grounds. Also included among the Dodgers is 2016 Hall of Fame electee Mike Piazza who played at Holman Stadium with the Vero Beach Dodgers in the Florida State League and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Dodger Presidents in the Hall of Fame include Branch Rickey and Walter O'Malley. Rickey, along with co-owner O'Malley, signed Jackie Robinson and established Dodgertown as Major League Baseball's first integrated spring training site in the South.
O'Malley privately built Holman Stadium, which opened on March 11, 1953, naming it for prominent Vero Beach business leader Bud Holman, who was responsible for approaching the Dodgers to train at the site of the former U.S. Naval Air Station used during World War II.
Also featured in replica baseball cards are popular Hall of Fame Dodger broadcasters Vin Scully and Jaime Jarrin, the only active broadcast pair with one team who are winners of the Ford C. Frick Award.
The legendary Scully, whose first spring at Dodgertown was in 1950, is in his 67th — and final — season as the 'Voice of the Dodgers,' while this is Jarrin 's 58th season as the Dodgers' top Spanish-language broadcaster.
Hall of Famers who have been at Historic Dodgertown span several generations of American baseball, from legendary Philadelphia Athletics owner-manager Connie Mack (born in 1862) to players who have appeared in the 21st century. Among those Hall of Famers who appeared in uniform as a coach or a manager at Historic Dodgertown are the 'Yankee Clipper' Joe DiMaggio (1961, New York Yankees), Al 'Bucketfoot' Simmons (1949, Philadelphia A's), 'The Rajah' Rogers Hornsby (1962, New York Mets) and 'The Old Professor,' Casey Stengel, as manager of the New York Yankees.
Hall of Fame players in the display have typically been listed with the team they were with the first time they played at Holman Stadium. Joe Morgan with the Houston Astros, Nolan Ryan with the New York Mets, Willie Mays with the New York Mets and Ted Williams as manager of the Washington Senators are among those Hall of Famers who faced the Dodgers at Holman Stadium. The replica baseball cards are shown randomly, but familiar names include Henry Aaron, Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson, Stan Musial, Mickey Mantle, Dave Winfield, Roberto Clemente, Yogi Berra, Joe Torre, Ozzie Smith, Tom Seaver, Craig Biggio, Carl Yastrzemski, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and umpires Jocko Conlan, Al Barlick and Doug Harvey.
The wall is not limited to just Hall of Famers who played in America and are enshrined in Cooperstown, New York. The Japan Baseball Hall of Fame in Tokyo is well represented by 15 players and executives who have been at Dodgertown, including the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, who trained there on five occasions (1961, 1967, 1971, 1975 and 1981).
Players like Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima, Tetsuhara Kawakami, Masaichi Kaneda and renowned sports writer and goodwill ambassador Sotaro Suzuki were all in Vero Beach. The Japan Baseball Hall of Fame also includes two Los Angeles Dodgers members who are featured: right-hand pitcher Hideo Nomo, who began his major league career with the Dodgers at Historic Dodgertown in 1995 as the first player from Japan to play in Major League Baseball in 30 years. Long-time Dodger executive Akihiro 'Ike' Ikuhara, assistant to Dodger President Peter O'Malley, was instrumental in significant international exchanges and team visits from Japan to Historic Dodgertown to develop friendships and bridge baseball's global borders. Ikuhara also served as a team ambassador, interpreter, instructor and authored two baseball books printed in Japanese.
Visit HistoricDodgertown.com for more information.
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Running dogs on pavement is a topic I’ve thought about but never quite gotten around to talking about for a really long time. Mostly because it’s one of those things that for me boils down to “know your dog, use your judgement” and writing a six word blog post hardly seems worth the time and effort. It’s been on my mind a lot lately, though, because with my most accessible dirt trails still flooded out my choices are three: Drive really far for a non-paved trail, run on pavement, don’t run at all. (And also because Squash wore a nail down too short this morning and it made me think about whether I needed to change my approach.)
Ask ten dog people about this and you’ll probably get ten different opinions on a spectrum from “absolutely not, never” to “it’s totally fine.” Personally, I’m somewhere in the middle. My strong preference is to run dogs on bare packed dirt or turf but I don’t think pavement is the worst thing in the world for recreational teams (like us) who stick to short distances and relatively slow paces. (My absolute most hated surface, thanks for asking, is gravel. It’s really hard on dogs’ feet and really easy for the bike to skid out).
Concerns about pavement are all about the dogs and potential for injury, particularly joints and feet.
Feet are pretty straightforward. Some dogs have really tough feet, but pavement can be really rough on paw pads and nails nonetheless. The pads can develop abrasions/excessive wear and nails can be worn right down to the quick. This can happen on any surface but more quickly on pavement because of its rough and unyielding nature.
My dogs have always had really tough feet and haven’t had any serious trouble with pad injuries, and today is the first time I’ve had a dog wear a nail down to the quick. I think just, be careful. Know your dogs’ feet. Use booties if necessary. And be especially careful when first starting out, increasing distances, or emerging from winter snows into spring dryland training.
Joints are less straightforward. Intuitively, it seems reasonable that regularly running on a harder surface could cause more stress, impact, and ultimately damage to joints than a softer surface. But is there evidence that there a significant effect? I spent some time before writing this browsing around PubMed and I admit I wasn’t searching hardcore but wasn’t able to find any research about dogs and safety/impact on joints of various surfaces. I didn’t find much actual research for people, either, mostly fitness articles that almost uniformly concluded there isn’t a “best” surface for humans to run on. However, a huge factor for humans is that the inherent unevenness of natural surfaces causes a lot of foot & ankle injuries, and that’s not really relevant in dogs. “Twisting their ankles” isn’t a thing in dogs like it is in humans.
If anyone has a good reference, though, I’d love to read it – drop it in the comments! (I mean a study, not an article.)
So right now we probably don’t know. Personally, I suspect unless a dog is clocking a lot of mileage or running a really fast pace, the difference between surfaces may not be enough to make a difference. But short of limiting distance and speed, the “better safe than sorry” approach is to avoid it altogether, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.
We’re all just trying to make the best decisions for our dogs, including that person (maybe me!) who makes different decisions about running dogs on pavement than you do. I have pretty fit dogs with tough feet and we stick to pretty low mileage at slow speeds, so my personal approach is to minimize but not be afraid of or completely unwilling to use it, either. If I were running farther, faster, or had dogs with tender feet I’d probably feel differently and make different decisions.
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More than 2,000 years ago, an ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, often called the father of Western medicine, devised a mouth rinse of herbs and wine to sweeten bad breath. This problem has been around a long time, and it is still a major problem for many people. According to some studies it is one of the three main reasons people seek dental treatment.
Here are some facts you may not know about bad breath:
- Bad breath is sometimes called halitosis, which comes from the Latin halitus (exhalation) and the Greek osis (a condition or disease-causing process).
- Chronic bad breath is usually caused by certain types of oral bacteria. These particular bacteria are present in about 25% of the population.
- Bad breath has spawned a major industry in the United States. Americans spend nearly three billion dollars a year on gum, mints, and mouth rinses to sweeten their breath. About 60% of women and 50% of men say they use breath freshening products.
- Diseases in the oral cavity such as tooth decay and periodontal (gum) disease can often cause bad breath. If either of these diseases are your cause for bad breath, treatment would be necessary to eliminate this problem.
- The tongue is the most common location for bad breath. Bacteria are relatively sheltered on the back of the tongue, where they live on remnants of food, dead skin cells and post-nasal drip. These bacteria can generate volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) that are also found in decaying animal or vegetable matter. VSCs are known by an unpleasant rotten egg smell.
- Bad breath can also be caused by dry mouth (xerostomia). This condition affects millions of people and can result from smoking, alcohol or coffee drinking, and it is sometimes a side effect of medications. Another cause may be mouth breathing.
- Halitosis can also originate in other parts of the mouth besides the tongue. These include inter-dental (between teeth) and sub-gingival (under the gums) areas.
- When people are starving (and sometimes when they are dieting to lose weight), their bodies begin burning their fats causing their breath to develop the smell of ketones — which smell like acetone, similar to nail polish remover. If people are not eating or drinking the coating on their tongue increases as well, making VSCs more prominent.
At our office, we want to fight bad breath or halitosis by making sure our patients understand how to clean their teeth, gums, the back of the tongue, and dentures.
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