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Paleo and Keto diets are sort of like the Kardashians of nutrition, you’ve got to have heard of them. It’s all the rave for anyone who wants to live a healthier life or cut down on some body weight. They’re popular, and for good reasons, but they are also similar.
In this article, we will explore what these two dieting options are all about. The similarities and differences. So, if you want to hop on the train, at the end of this article, you should know which diet is more suited for you.
What Is Paleo Diet?
The word “Paleo” comes from “Paleolithic”, which refers to an era in human history where humans lived in caves, worked as hunters/gatherers, and fed on natural, unprocessed foods. For this reason, you will sometimes hear the paleo diet referred to as ‘the caveman diet.
The philosophy around this diet is that processed foods are generally unhealthy. Thus, it promotes specific kinds of foods alongside certain lifestyle practices to improve and sustain your health.
Whole foods and healthful fats are the two categories of food mostly permitted in the paleo diet. Foods like meat, fish, nuts and seeds. Vegetables, except for corn which is a whole grain.
What Is Keto Diet?
The Keto diet plan is based on a natural body process known as ketosis. This process occurs when the body lacks carbohydrates to supply energy, causing the body to metabolize fats, turning them into ketones which then provides energy for the body.
If you have not deduced it by now, the keto diet involves the consumption of little to no carbohydrates and more protein and fats. So, energy is derived from the body through fat rather than glucose from carbohydrates. A typical keto diet consists of 65-90% of fats, 10-30% of protein, and 5% or less carbohydrates.
Inclusive and Exclusive Foods Groups For Paleo And Keto Diet
The inclusion or exclusion of certain foods is the major similarity between these two dieting options. In this session, we will explore different food groups and what is obtainable with regards to their consumption on both dieting plans.
Since caveman didn’t consume them, diary products are a no-go for paleo dieting. This includes milk and cheese and cream—the alternatives coconut milk, or any other products that do not contain thickeners or sweeteners. The Paleo Pro Protein Powder, a specially processed paleo-friendly product, would also make a good alternative.
Diary is rich in fat and protein, which are both huge elements of the keto diet. So, being on a keto diet still affords you the pleasure of enjoying your milk. But you can say goodbye to any form of the sweetened dairy product like ice cream or coffee creamers that contain sugar.
Both keto and paleo diet allow the consumption of natural meat. But given that the whole idea of a paleo diet is to avoid foods that are produced using modern techniques. Processed meat is excluded from the paleo diet. Preservative-free processed bacon is okay for some people on the paleo diet.
People on the keto diet are free to eat any processed meat as long as it has sugar content, which has glucose and can, in turn, get in the way of the body’s ability to achieve ketosis. If, for some reason, you consume more than you should, you can still achieve ketosis medically with drugs like this:
Vegetables with low carb content are ideal for those on the keto diet. Other vegetables can also be consumed in moderate amounts. Some vegetables called starchy vegetables are rich in carbohydrates and are excluded from the keto diet, as glucose can be metabolized from carbohydrates, which would alter the production of ketones.
The paleo diet does not have a serious need to avoid sugar intake, which is abundant in most fruits. So they are free to eat any kind of fruit they want, including citrus and berries. Fruit consumption is a little more reserved for people under the keto diet. However, fruits are not completely excluded from the keto diet. Small amounts of low-sugar fruits like apples and peaches are ideal.
Similarities Between Keto and Paleo Diets
Although there are different specifications as to what can or cannot be consumed by each diet plan, there a still some similarities between these two dieting options, and we will take a look at a few of them.
Both Highlights Consumption of Healthy Fats
Fats are essential nutrients that foster general body health as well as heart health. The keto diet is based solely on the manipulation of this micronutrient, and the paleo diet is all about a healthy lifestyle.
They both recommend the consumption of fish and the use of certain refined oils like avocado and olive oils—all known to have beneficial health effects on the heart.
Both Prohibit The Consumption of Legumes and Grains
Legumes and grains are excluded from the keto diet because of their high carbohydrate and carb content. This could affect ketosis and throw you off your dieting plan.
The paleo diet also abhors these foods for specific reasons, but particularly because they contain micronutrients that are bad for food digestion and nutrient absorption when consumed in large quantities.
They Are Both Ideal Diets That Aid In Weight Loss
Paleo and keto diets are all the rave because they have both proven to be successful dieting practices for people who want to go on a weight loss journey. Research has proven this in postmenopausal obese women who went on a paleo diet and lost as much as 10% weight in 12 months.
Both Prohibit Artificial Sweeteners
Our ancestors depended on honey and sweet fruits for any form of oral sweetness. So, unnatural sugar is not welcome in the paleo diet. And for the sake of ketosis, it is not welcome in the keto diet either.
Both Diets Promote Whole Food Consumption
A food is considered to be whole food when it has undergone little or no processing at all before it serves as a meal. Fish, meat, nuts, and fresh vegetables are examples of whole food. For both dieting options, the less processed the food is, the better.
Differences Between Paleo and Keto
Ideology And General Lifestyle
The paleo diet is based on an ideological idea dating back centuries. And it’s not just about the diet for people who choose to go paleo. Other lifestyle activities like short, intense exercises, meditation and even yoga are all incorporated for an even healthier life that takes both your body and mind along.
Conversely, keto is just all about the diet – the control of carb and carbohydrate and manipulation of micronutrients. There are no compulsory additional lifestyle practices unless personally motivated.
Ease of Sustenance
The Keto diet has more dietary restrictions than paleo. This makes it a more difficult dieting choice to practice as there are more foods to abstain from than you can consume.
The case is different for the paleo diet, as you can eat almost anything, just as long as it is not processed and sweetened. Thus, it affords you every nutrient that is available in the foods. This is a reason why many would prefer the paleo diet over the keto diet.
Pros and Cons of Keto Diet
- An efficient diet for weight loss
- Helps in the reduction of blood pressure.
- Serves medicinal purposes for conditions like seizures, epilepsy, and Alzheimers.
- Nutrient deficiency
- Keto can be expensive and difficult to sustain.
- Can have uncomfortable side effects like constipation and nausea and even low libido.
Pros and Cons of Paleo Diet
- Leaves room for the consumption of different food groups, and thus more nutrients.
- Also efficient as a diet for weight loss.
- Increases energy, reduces blood sugar and inflammation.
- Incorporates healthy lifestyle activities.
- The exclusion of legumes leads to a deficiency of phytonutrients and antioxidants, which are good for the immune system.
List of Foods
Let’s get more specific as to what foods are permitted or not for both diets.
- For Keto: Salmons is a good fatty fish option. Clams and oysters for shelled fishes. Fresh meat, bone broth, and non-fat vegetables like asparagus. Plain dairy products. Poultry and poultry products, especially egg yolk. Nuts, seeds and coconuts and other fruits. And for breakfast, you can still have coffee and tea, no sugar.
- For Paleo: Healthful oils like olive. Natural sweeteners like honey. Any kind of meat. Any kind of fish, including shellfish. Vegetables and fruits with special attention to citrus, berries and tomatoes. Nuts, seeds, cocoa butter, chocolate, and tea. All these are acceptable for the paleo diet plan.
Having seen appropriate information for these dieting options, you may just want to jump in and join the band, and you wouldn’t be the only one. Every person has their reason for wanting to choose any of these dieting options. But it would generally revolve around putting off some weight or managing a health condition.
Whatever your reason may be to make, if you’re going to do this, then I suggest you do it right. It is recommended to do so with the advice and possible guidance of a doctor or nutritionist. This would make it an even more satisfying choice. Thank you for reading. Thank you for choosing health.
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English training employments are accessible in the United States and in different nations. They come in conventional homeroom position, on the web and showing classes in different nations. Where you decide to educate relies upon your experience.
Training English in the United States at a conventional school for the most part requires a degree in instruction in addition to having passed an instructors accreditation program in the state where you need to educate. A few states acknowledge another state’s affirmation. This is by and large for showing English as the essential language.
Not all guaranteed or authorized English instructors educate in a customary school. English training employments may likewise be showing English as a subsequent language or ESL. This surmises the understudies have another dialect as their first language. Now and again these classes are called showing English as an unknown dialect, or called by the abbreviation EFL.
English training occupations are additionally directed on the web. This may involve showing understudies in a genuine study hall in a nearby school through PC or they might be in another state. The understudies may likewise be grown-ups who are learning English in an online class.
Showing English comprises of showing the correct utilization of the English language. This would incorporate right language, sentence structure, passage structure, word use, accentuation, and spelling. These have numerous subgroups. The English class would start by testing the degree of the understudies and afterward starting toward the start.
For more youthful understudies this would start with printing, at that point composing similarly as with signed up letters to make words.
Obviously encouraging English incorporates different degrees of testing. Schoolwork assignments ought to strengthen what the understudies realized in the study hall.
In some conventional grade schools there may not be a particular educator for English. One educator may show a few classes. They might be required to be comfortable with geology, PCs, math, control, and English. For English they would need to know about the structure and substance of the English language including the importance and spelling of words, understanding the guidelines of piece and sentence structure. They would hold perusing meetings with age proper books.
An English instructor at the following degree of tutoring, for example, a middle school would for the most part lead just classes educating English. Educators would be masters or have single subject certifications. An English educator at the middle school or secondary school level will have a decent establishing in oral correspondence, writing and sentence structure.
All educators including English instructors are required to proceed with their training by taking a few courses offered during the year inside their school region.
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Yes, the iPhone 4S is Bluetooth Smart Ready, but what exactly does that mean? It may be the first smartphone to support the new Bluetooth 4 wireless standard, however many consumers are in the dark about its improvements and benefits. So how will the addition of the latest Bluetooth technology really affect prospective iPhone 4S buyers and owners of the device?
The upgraded Bluetooth was one of the top iPhone 4S surprises not mentioned at the Apple keynote presentation. One of the reasons it was left on the back burner could be the fact that peripherals using the new standard with iPhone 4S don't yet exist. Although this is an area where future development looks bright, the technology hasn't hit prime time.
In the near future however, there will be numerous low-powered Bluetooth Smart accessories that will be capable of connecting to the iPhone 4S. Thanks to its power saving ways, the new Bluetooth technology makes it possible for incredibly small, low-power products (Bluetooth Smart) to broadcast information to Bluetooth Smart Ready devices like the iPhone 4S. This will not affect the capabilities of the iPhone 4S to connect to normal-power mode Bluetooth devices like current wireless headsets and the like.
Bluetooth Smart devices will only broadcast information using the low-power radio mode, installed in things like watches, window security sensors, key fobs, heart rate monitors and more. The iPhone 4S is Smart Ready because it will be able to read and interpret information from these devices with the right apps while keeping its backward compatibility with standard normal-power Bluetooth accessories. The iPhone 4S will also update to the latest Bluetooth 4 standards on the fly, while Bluetooth Smart accessories will have fixed firmware.iPhone 4S owners can look forward to interacting with a variety of small, unobtrusive devices installed around the house and workplace for a variety of purposes. All of these Bluetooth 4 products will communicate seamlessly with the iPhone 4S as they pass along wireless data in Bluetooth Smart mode.
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Women Hair Transplant gained popularity together with the invention of the FUE method. Women lose hair as much as men do. According to some researches, 25-30% of women suffer from hair loss in certain stages of their life. Since the anterior hairline does not change, in most cases hair loss is unnoticeable.
2 men out of 3 after 30 experience more or less hair thinning. This is why society tends to accept male hair loss as common or ordinary. On the opposite, female hair loss is not discussed often. Due to this women who suffer from hair loss face more psychological problems. Many women refer to different measures to camouflage problems such as hair paint or wig. With the development of modern technologies in the field, the female hair transplant success rate has been increasing.
Female Hair Loss Reasons
About 10% of our patients are women facing hair loss. Why does female hair loss happen? What is a female pattern hair loss?
- High innate hairline: No hair loss problem and hair transplant perfectly suites these patients.
- Pregnancy and menopause period. Women tend to lose hair during pregnancy. Sometimes hair can grow back after giving a birth. Hair loss in menopause is permanent.
- Hair loss due to stress.
- Seasonal hair loss. Usually, it occurs in spring or fall and hair re-grows back.
- Contraceptive pills.
- Polycystic ovary syndrome. A very often met disease in women which causes hair loss.
- Nutritional disorders and vitamin deficiencies. Wrong nutrition habits and mineral deficiency result in hair loss.
- Hair loss is a result of trauma, burn, face lifting, or accidents like a car crash. Women hair transplant is an aesthetic solution.
- Alopecia, a disease that causes sectional hair loss.
- Hair Loss connected to Cancer.
- Natural hair rarity.
- Inappropriate use of cosmetics.
Male pattern hair loss. Women with this pattern usually have a high testosterone level and are suitable for hair transplants. Their donor area hair is strong as men’s.
Hormone and metabolic problems (anemia, thyroid disorders – such as goiter, etc.). Medical treatment is more rational in this case. Reason must be determined and cured first. A hair transplant may not be a good solution. If there is no response to medical treatment, the patient can apply to a women’s hair transplant.
Female Hair Loss Categories
- Type 1. Little but extensive hair rarity. The front hairline can cover it.
- Type 2. Middle level hair rarity. The front hairline remains the same. The middle degree hair loss starts from the top and extends to the middle
- Type 3. High degree hair rarity and front hairline is distorted. Thinning and rareness are in an advanced stage.
Some tests are required before hair transplant for women to identify hair loss reasons and take decisions accordingly.
- Hemogram (whole blood)
- Iron and Iron Binding Capacity
- T3, T4, TSH levels
- Other gynecological hormone tests
- Thyroid Ultrasound
- Zinc level in the blood
- Total testosterone test
Can a Woman Have Hair Transplant?
Women’s hair transplant is done in several situations, such as male hair loss pattern (androgenic hair loss) and when medical treatment is completed or did not give any results. If women patients face thyroid disorders, anemia, or metabolic problems, hair transplant is not the correct solution. Total testosterone in the blood is an important criterion for female hair loss examination.
Physical examination helps to check if the donor’s hair is strong and dense. If it is, the female hair transplant success rate rises. Hair transplant in women or men can be done with such chronic carriers as HIV – Aids, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C. The procedure can be compared to an appendix or brain surgery to a patient with Hepatitis B. Women’s hair transplant must be done in the passive stage of the disease then.
How is Female Hair Transplant Done? No Shave Women Hair Transplant
There are two options of female hair transplant:
- Density Increase. Implanter pen helps to maximize the success rate of female hair transplants.
- Forehead Line Reduction. Hairline design in crucial in female hair transplant.
Women Hair Transplants in 3 Stages
1- Hairline Design
Forehead hairline reduction needs an accurate design. Women’s hairline is very different from men’s. To achieve a natural hair transplant doctor must do proper graft calculations and approve the design with the patient.
2- Hair Grafts Harvesting
Many clinics shave women to zero like men in female hair transplants, which is reversed many women’s lifestyles, very few of them are comfortable with shaved hair. First of all, a doctor must identify grafts number for hair transplants in women. Then a strip 2×10-15 cm2 is shaved to collect hair roots in both FUT and FUE (can be more than one strip). Unshaven hair transplant for women is very significant. With FUE grafts can be extracted one by one leaving almost no scars.
On average, depending on donor area strength, approximately 1000-2000 grafts can be harvested. This number is ideal for a single women hair transplant session. If required and donor capacity is good, another session may be scheduled in 10-12 months.
3- Hair Implantation
The recipient area in female hair transplants does not need to be shaved. Usually, hair grafts are implanted between the rare hair by the Dhi hair transplant (implanter pen) technique. Dr. Doganay has been operating no-shave hair transplants in women for more than 10 years.
Women Hair Transplant Video
Dr. Hakan Doganay has been doing FUE unshaven hair transplants for women for the last 10 years (since 2009). Hair transplants usually leave women patients happy. On our YouTube channel, you will find videos with female hair transplant reviews.
Must Know About Women Hair Transplant
- Grafts number for a single session in female hair transplant is much lower compared to men. Couple or several sessions may be needed at one-year intervals. Sometimes FUT method suites better than FUE.
- Hair sprays, gels, or other chemicals should not be used before the operation.
- Treatments like mesotherapy or PRP medical support are more favorable for women rather than men.
- Hairline must be planned very well in hairline reduction session.
- After no shave women hair transplant recovery period is shorter. Women come back to routine life much quicker compared to men. Patients can return to normal life the next day after female hair transplant. Both areas, implanted and donor are camouflaged with long hair and there is no sign of the surgery.
- No hair paint for 45 days after women hair transplant.
- No intense sun and steam baths.
- Usually, eyebrow transplant is done together with the hair if needed.
Hair Wash After Women Hair Transplant
The period after a hair transplant is similar for men and women. Hair wash must be more gentle because of unshaven hair transplant. Skin scabs must be moisturized by cream first, then washed off with warm water. Cream causes existing and transplanted hair sticking to each other, thus, the risk of damaging roots rises. To achieve the results of the operation, a woman (the same as a man) should wait for about one year. In the 7 – 8 months, the hair grows strong and dense.
Women Hair Transplant Results
There is not too many female hair transplants that rely on the internet. There are several forums and websites with Before and After hair transplant testimony. You can also check the real women’s hair transplant results operated by Dr. Hakan Doganay on YouTube and other social media.
Women’s Hair Transplant Cost
Hair transplant for women is more complicated (unshaven) compared to men, this is why the cost of the procedure. Get in touch with us for online consultation and your personal treatment plan. Female hair transplant cost in Turkey varies from 5000 to 25000 TL. The average female hair transplant cost overseas is 5-8 EUR per graft.
Dr. Hakan Doganay has been operating women’s hair transplants for more than 10 years at AHD Hair Transplant Clinic. Get in touch with us by 0090 533 247 1990 (WhatsApp).
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Women Hair Transplant Results?
Women hair transplant results success rate is high in the following cases:
a) Androgenic Alopecia
b) Patient’s high hairline is innate and there is no hair loss
c) Partial hairless areas caused by car accidents, scars, burns, surgeries, or other traumatic situations.
Is Hair Density Operation Suite Rare Hair?
In most cases, women patients, with hair loss problems, have hair rarity. Density increase in women hair transplants is easily operated by implanter pen.
How Much Does a Female Hair Transplant Cost?
Cases are individual and depending on your situation we offer you a treatment plan with two packages. One package includes Dr. Doganay doing the operation, another package has technicians – AHD Team doing the procedure. Dr. Hakan Doganay and his team have been operating women’s hair transplants for more than 10 years at AHD Hair Transplant Clinic. Get in touch with us by 0090 533 247 1990 (WhatsApp) for online consultation.
- Hair Transplantation in Women: A Practical New Classification System and Review of Technique James E. Vogel, MD Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Volume 22, Issue 3, May 2002, Pages 247–259, https://academic.oup.com/asj/article/22/3/247/183351
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How to approach the Bible
Even when you are intimidated and confused by it...
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Do you ever read something in the Bible, thinking you know what's going on, and then all of a sudden you read something that makes no sense?
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The Word in Color will help you learn how to color-code your Bible in an easy-to-apply way. In the end, you will feel comfortable and confident with any Bible passage!
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What is the Word in Color?
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What if I don’t know how to talk to God?
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What in the Bible lines up with History?
What are righteous characteristics from the Bible?
What should I take note of?
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Birthdays are generally depicted in the media as happy events that should be celebrated. However, for no small number of people birthdays can be complicated and evoke difficult feelings such as sadness, listlessness and even feelings of depression. Why is this?
The ‘birthday blues’ is a term used to capture the range of difficult emotions that some people experience around birthdays. They often come on in the lead up to a birthday, peaking on the actual day and then quickly dissipating, at times with a sense of relief.
There is no single clinical reason why people may feel down or depressed on their birthday and nor is it a pathology but rather a combination of association and arguably somatic memory. Let me explain.
Whilst we all have seen images heard stories or seen films depicting ‘the perfect birthday’ for children, for most of us this was not the case, but overall we enjoyed the day because we were allowed to celebrate it with those we love. However in many cases this simply is not so. For example, for children of divorced parents birthdays can be difficult as the loss of one of the parents may be highlighted on that ‘special day’. As a clinician this is something I encounter often with clients whose parents divorced acrimoniously – they wanted nothing more than to spend the day with both parents but can’t. Worse still I have encountered stories whereby my clients as children had to choose between their parents as to with whom they were going to spend their birthday. The outcome was that birthdays become something to dread rather than eagerly anticipate.
So, birthdays can represent a marker date (not dissimilar to Christmas) – a reminder – of a painful event which is compounded by the societal expectation of how a person should feel. This creates an internal conflict between the felt reality and how that person actually feels, which exacerbates the problem and can lead to symptoms of depression.
Why are birthdays so important to so many people?
Human beings are defined by time. We did not invent it as it passes whether we are aware of it or not, however, we structure our lives around time and use it not only as an important guide in terms of the passing of the seasons but also in measuring our time on this earth.
Birthdays are seen as something to celebrate as an achievement which may seem somewhat arbitrary in the modern world, however in a world in which infant mortality was rampant and few people lived beyond their forties – which constituted much of human existence – there was arguably much to celebrate in living another year.
However, I believe that there is something else that sits beneath this explanation that operates on an unconscious level and that is how birthdays represent an overcoming of death. It could be argued that becoming yet another year older is nothing to have a party about – especially once we have passed our youth. Birthdays mark the passage of time and bring us ever closer to death – something us humans have a hard time dealing with. So by marking birthdays and celebrating them, we are perhaps avoiding contemplating our mortality. They function in part as a form of
Like the actual new year, birthdays are psychologically and thus symbolically representative of an opportunity for renewal – we can put the bad or mediocre of the past year behind us and start another year with good intentions. Sadly, like new year’s resolutions, little generally changes following birthdays as we take our old selves with us into the ‘new year’.
Is there any physical reason why people would feel differently on their birthday?
From a medical perspective, there is no reason why anyone would feel differently on their birthday, however, as noted earlier, birthdays can evoke powerful memories that may be pleasant, difficult, or a combination of both.
We know from neuroscientist and Professor of Psychiatry Steven Porges’ work on Polyvagal Theory that our neural network extends to our gut and that we receive significantly more ‘data’ from our gut to our brain via the vagal nerve than the other way around. It therefore stands to reason that where we have powerful memories associated with a significant date, that we will feel and possibly experience those memories in our body too. How may these manifest?
Some people may feel lethargic or achy and others may have headaches or migraines in lieu of experiencing the actual feelings – and this is particularly likely in cases where there is a conflict between how the person feels, and how they believe they should feel based on social or family expectations.
How can people start to think differently about their birthday?
When I was a trainee psychotherapist, one of my tutors would say ‘if you feel stuck with a client, find the feeling’. Ultimately psychotherapy is about grieving – what clients grieve will vary, but they are coming to grieve whether they know it or not.
If birthdays have in the past been difficult and remain so in the present then there is something that has not been grieved. For example, where a client began to dislike their birthday or even dread it due to a family event such as parental divorce, and that feeling repeats in their adult life, then I would suggest that there are feelings relating to that loss of the parental unit that remain unresolved. Once these have been worked through, birthdays will be ‘freed up’ so a different meaning and set of memories can be ascribed to them.
So, the first step is in grieving whatever needs to be grieved and then the second step is in recognising that a birthday is largely symbolic and that as an adult we can take control of them and take responsibility for creating of them what we wish. The latter is critically important as it may be that one person’s idea of a ‘good’ birthday is a full-on bash with friends whilst another is a quiet walk in the woods. Both are equally valid.
Are birthdays as important as people think?
Human beings are symbolic and are unique (as far as we know) in world of mammals in that we are the only creatures that inhabit a symbolic world. The majority of what we do, create and celebrate has no pragmatic purpose, however that does not mean that it is not important.
The symbolic is the basic fabric of culture and we all subscribe to a culture, as it is through culture that we gain our sense of belonging and self esteem. Culture (whichever one you happen to belong to) gives us three fundamental stories which enable us to cope with death anxiety according to psychoanalyst Otto Rank, who was one of Freud’s acolytes – culture tells us where we came from, how to behave whilst we are alive and lastly, it tells us what happens to us when we die. Without culture, we have very little.
Birthdays are symbolic and embedded in culture thus they are important in us being a part of the world in which we live. However, particularly in Western Culture where we subscribe to individualism, we are free to create of our birthday whatever we wish.
I would therefore suggest that birthdays are important as all cultural markers are important, however, that does not mean that we should be indentured to them.
Are the birthday blues real?
Anything that a person feels is real, as it is their felt experience. This does not mean, however, that that feeling or set of feelings belong in the present. Nor does it mean that the ‘birthday blues’ are a pathology but rather a term that helps us makes sense of what someone may be experiencing.
If people are habitually getting the ‘birthday blues’ which is a set of difficult feelings akin to depression, then something from the past has got ‘stuck’ and is repeating as an experience each year.
A psychotherapist would work with you to uncover what it is that brings on these ‘blues’ around the time of your birthday and to work with you to resolve the underlying grief or address what it is in your appetite for life that is being suppressed.
Can birthday blues ever be a good thing?
Whilst it may seem counter-intuitive, it can be helpful to be curious about how we really feel around our birthday and to work out whether those feelings are perhaps telling us something important.
It’s no secret that in my profession the peak time for couple’s therapy enquiries is in early January (the same is true of a family solicitor friend of mine). This I believe is in no small part to the pressures of family Christmas being combined with a new year and a desire for new beginnings.
Birthday blues can also be a sign that something in a person’s life needs addressing and perhaps changing. Birthdays are a reminder of the passage of time and can increase feelings of anxiety when deep down a person knows they are not really living the life they want to.
If we can be curious about them, birthday blues can tell us important information about what we may want or what is missing from our life. And if you can’t make sense of it, it can be really helpful to talk to a psychotherapist who can help you unpick what the blues might mean – whether that is a loss that needs to be grieved or an appetite that needs to be expressed.
Mark Vahrmeyer, UKCP Registered, BHP Co-founder is an integrative psychotherapist with a wide range of clinical experience from both the public and private sectors. He currently sees both individuals and couples, primarily for ongoing psychotherapy. Mark is available at the Lewes and Brighton & Hove Practices.
Further reading by Mark Vahrmeyer
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Volume 74, 2016The 3rd International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Research (ICMER 2015)
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Experimental Investigation of an Automobile Air-Conditioning System using Integrated Brushless Direct Current Motor Rotary Compressor
1 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
2 UTM-Ocean Thermal Energy Center (UTM-OTEC), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Semarak, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3 Automotive Development Centre, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
4 Efficient Energy & Thermal Management Research Group, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100 Durian Tunggal, Melaka
a Corresponding author: email@example.com
The present study presents an experimental investigation on the effect of condenser air inlet temperature and dimensionless parameter of X on the performance of automobile air-conditioning (AAC) system using integrated brushless direct current motor-rotary compressor and electronic expansion valve. The other components of AAC system are from original component of AAC system used for medium size passenger car. The experimental results showed that the increment of the condenser air inlet temperature and X caused an increase in condensing temperature, cooling capacity and compressor work, while decreasing the coefficient of performance (COP). Meanwhile, the evaporating temperature increase with the increment of condenser air inlet temperature, but decrease with decrement of X. In general, AAC system have to work at higher value of X in order to produce more cooling capacity, thereby increment in compressor work also occurs due to energy balance. However, at higher value of X, the COP of the system dropped due to dominant increase in compressor power, as opposed to a rise in cooling capacity. Due to this reason, the best operation of this compressor occurs at X = 4.96 for constant T5 (35ºC), or at T5 = 30ºC for constant X (4.96).
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This fascinating Unesco World Heritage Site is one of the most impressive and best preserved ones. The Temple of Apollo Epicurius –also known as the Parthenon of the Peloponnese– was built in the 5th century BC by Ictinus, one of the two architects of the Athens Acropolis. Story has it that the Temple was dedicated to God Apollo who helped the people of the ancient city of Phigaleia to overcome an epidemic. To honor God Apollo, the people erected the temple, surnaming it Epicurius (a name that signifies “the one who helps or cures”). Vividly described by the Greek traveler, Pausanias, as a magnificent testament of majesty and strength, the Temple embodies in its structure the entire wealth of architectural knowledge of Greek civilization; combining all three of the classical orders used in ancient Greek architecture: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. It is speculated that the Temple of Apollo Epicurius was designed to reflect the first rays of the summer solstice –making it the first large scale sculptural work of art in history to represent an abstract concept– and that it also slides 50.2 seconds of a degree every year, so as to constantly facing the star Sirius; which was believed to be the birthplace of God Apollo. Currently, the British Museum features one of the sculptured friezes of the temple, the one depicting Hercules leading the Greeks into battle with the Amazons. The Temple of Apollo Epicurius rests 11km (7 miles) from the Abeliona Retreat, which is a comfortable 15 min. drive by car. If you prefer, you can take a 2.5hour hike in nature, following a fascinating flagged mountain path of 7.5km (4.5 miles), to reach the Temple by foot.
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دانلود کتاب راهنمای تشخیصی و تست های آزمایشگاهی موزبی
Mosby’s Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 5ed
This quick reference handbook offers clear, concise coverage of over 700 of the most commonly performed diagnostic and laboratory tests – including 39 new to this edition. Trusted authors, Kathleen Pagana, PhD, RN and Timothy Pagana, MD, FACS, bring together a comprehensive collection of full color designs, illustrations and photos to show exactly how various tests are performed. Related tests are grouped by chapter and presented in a consistent format to facilitate a full understanding of each type of diagnostic test.
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“The 700 laboratory and diagnostic tests in this reference are divided into 12 sections according to the body fluid analyzed or the type of scan performed. Each entry explains the basic pathophysiology behind the test, summarizes patient care and the procedure, and lists normal findings, critical values, indications, contraindications, potential complications, interfering factors, the clinical significance of test results, and related tests. The fourth edition adds 30 studies including breast cancer genomics, intravascular ultrasound, computed tomography of the heart, and platelet closure time. Online access is included.”
About the Author
Chapter 1 – Guidelines for Proper Test Preparation and Performance
Chapter 2 – Blood Studies
Chapter 3 – Electrodiagnostic Tests
Chapter 4 – Endoscopic Studies
Chapter 5 – Fluid Analysis Studies
Chapter 6 – Manometric Studies
Chapter 7 – Microscopic Studies and Associated Testing
Chapter 8 – Nuclear Scanning
Chapter 9 – Stool Tests
Chapter 10 – Ultrasound Studies
Chapter 11- Urine Studies
Chapter 12 – X-Ray Studies
Chapter 13 – Miscellaneous Studies
لینک کوتاه : https://bookbaz.ir/?p=27612
نویسنده : Kathleen Deska Pagana PhD RN
ناشر : Mosby; 5 edition
سال انتشار : 2014
زبان کتاب : انگلیسی
نوع فایل : PDF
تعداد صفحات : 1200
(ISBN) شابک : 0323089496
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Mount Batten, Plymouth
George Henry Jenkins (1843 – 1914)
11” x 17¾” (27.9 cm x 45.1 cm)
George Henry Jenkins, a self-taught artist, specialised in coastal, marine, landscape and moorland scenes of Devon and Cornwall. His pictures, painted in oils and watercolours, were exhibited at The Society of Western Artists, Plymouth Arts Club and The Royal Western Academy in Bristol.
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The theme for the 2019 national observance World AIDS Day is “Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Community by Community”.
World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988. Each year, organizations and individuals across the world bring attention to the HIV epidemic, endeavor to increase HIV awareness and knowledge, speak out against HIV stigma, and call for an increased response to move toward ending the HIV epidemic.
Here in Utah, this year’s theme for World AIDS Day recognizes the vital role of communities in supporting and educating at a local level, helping to deliver services at a regional level and raising awareness at a global level. For the research that investigates how to harness community power to reduce transmission of HIV and improve the well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS, visit the ISRCTN registry.
In correlation with World AIDS Day, the Utah AIDS Foundation, in partnership with University of Utah Health, brings the annual Red Party, that raises thousands of dollars each year for AIDS research and hospice. This year, on Thursday, Dec. 5, the Red Party will be held at Jaden Event Center at Trolley Square in downtown Salt Lake City from 6-9 p.m.
The Red Party 2019 will be a ‘RED’iculous fundraising event where UAF encourages guests to have fun, let loose and celebrate unity. Like the name, UAF wants to encourage our guests to wear red. Be creative. Be brave. Be fun! It’s an evening of hors d’oeuvres, music, dancing, a silent auction and entertainment.
Also in recognition or World AIDS Day, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, located on the UofU campus, once again brings its annual Day With(out) Art ’19: Together, Healthy, Proud event on Wed., Dec. 4. The evening includes making textile art — inspired by the AIDS Quilt — experimental live music by It foot, It ears, guided gallery exploration, resource tables, refreshments, and more. The museum will conceal Viola Frey’s Ethnic Man (1991) to recognize Day With(out) Art among over 800 participating art organizations.
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What command produces the output in the exhibit?
- show port-security interface
- show vlan private-vlan type
- show port-security
- show ip dhcp snooping
The exhibit displays the output of the show port-security command. This command is useful in verifying the reaction set for packets in violation. In the exhibit, Fa5/1 is configured to shut down if a violating packet is received. Port Fa5/5 is configured to drop violating packets and port Fa5/11 is configured to drop packets and generate a log message.
The output also indicates the number of secure MAC addresses permitted on each interface, the number of secure MAC addresses currently in use on the port, and how many security violations there have been.
The show port-security interface command shows the port security configuration on the specified interface. Below is an example of the command and its output:
In the example, seven MAC addresses are allowed on this interface. It can be seen that seven are now connected. Therefore, if one more user connects to the hub or switch connected to this port, the port will be placed into the err-disabled state and an SMTP trap message will be sent.
The show vlan private-vlan type command displays the private VLANs on the switch and indicates whether they are primary, isolated, or community VLANs. An example of the output is below:
In the output, VLAN 202 carries traffic from promiscuous ports to isolated, community, and other promiscuous ports in the same VLAN. VLAN 303 carries traffic from isolated ports to a promiscuous port.
The show ip dhcp snooping command displays whether DHCP snooping is enabled, what VLANs it is configured for, and what ports are trusted DHCP ports. An example of the output is below:
The output indicates that:
The switch is defending against a DHCP spoofing attack (indicated by lines 2 and 3)
Two ports are trusted and one is not (shown in bottom table)
Option 82 (relay agent information) is only allowed on trusted ports (indicated by lines 4 and 5)
ARP spoofing is being monitored (indicated by line 6)
Configure and verify switch security features
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2004 Museum Calendar
American Representational Art Exhibitions
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Please verify dates with sponsoring institutions before visiting exhibitions.
If you are touring, you will find American representational art venues to visit in Sources of News Articles Indexed by State within the United States.
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The news that President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize seemed to take everyone by surprise — from the White House to journalists covering the announcement in Oslo.
According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee announcement, “Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play.”
“Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama’s initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.”
“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.”
In addition to diplomacy efforts, the committee cited Obama’s efforts to address global warming and climate change.
The Nobel Committee additionally pointed to Obama’s outreach to the Islamic community as a key reason behind the decision to give him the award.
Also note a Pew Forum study showing how popular Obama is around the world — often much more so than he is at home.
However, there was political fallout from the award in the United States. Many of Obama’s critics rolled their eyes at the Nobel Committee’s decision to give the prestigious prize to a president who has been in office less than a year, and with much of his agenda still unfulfilled. Even many of Obama’s supporters were taken aback.
Read an Apr. 18, 2013, article from The American Spectator about the push to revoke Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize after the controversy surrounding his drone strikes.
Read an October 9, 2009 article from the New York Times on the public reaction to Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Read an Oct. 9, 2009, article from CNN about the mixed reactions to Obama’s Noble Peace Prize win.
Read an Oct. 9, 2009, article from The Guardian about the reactions in the Middle East to Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win.
Reaction from religious groups
Leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals, meeting in Landover, Md., congratulated Obama on the award, in particular because of the emphasis on nuclear disarmament cited by the Nobel Committee.Their comments are posted at Faith in Public Life.
At the Vatican, Catholic leaders — including prelates from Africa and America — reacted positively to the news of the award to Obama, according to this Catholic News Service story.
Concerned Women for America, a Christian advocacy group that aims to bring biblical principles into public policy, denounced the Nobel decision. Read the group’s response, “Dumbing Down the Nobel Peace Prize.”
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Finding digital solutions for mental well-being amid coronavirus crisis
Therapists turn to online counselling to help people deal with stress, anxiety and isolation
KARACHI: Mental health professionals in Pakistan have turned to digital counselling amid the Covid-19 pandemic that has made access to face-to-face psychotherapy difficult as millions remain confined at homes.
Experts fear that social isolation, a lack of routine and sudden changes in plans can be ideal breeding grounds for anxiety and depression and tough measures taken to restrict movements and social gatherings can limit access to help.
“Online counselling is coming as a saviour for millions during the lockdown. The hospitals and medical centres should be avoided as they are most contagious in this dire situation which makes therapy from home far safer,” says psychologist and expert in cognitive behavioural therapy Tipu Pervaiz while speaking to The Express Tribune on why remote help is coming across as a “better option”.
Covid-19 patient gives birth to healthy infant in Karachi
“People are deprived of face-to-face counselling and therapy and being in isolation is going to make the situation even worse for those vulnerable to mental illnesses. Many are going to have symptoms like stress and anxiety,” Pervaiz maintains, adding that this is where psychologists and therapists can become the front line of defence for those battling a range of emotions.
Calling online counselling the need of the hour, Pervaiz says it is a more practical and a realistic approach to lending a helping hand when the person needs it the most.
“If a person is having a panic attack or feels depressed, he/she needs help right away, not tomorrow or a week later,” he says, noting that visits to therapists require appointments in advance which could mean help may not be provided at the required time.
Meanwhile, ReliveNow, a mental health advocacy group, has launched free, 15-minute counselling sessions to help individuals deal with psychological problems and traumas in times of a global pandemic.
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Put in practice from March 19, the initiative particularly caters to the people with several mental illnesses that are also at risk of exacerbating due to the uncertainty created by the Covid-19 and the steps enforced in the wake of it, such as social distancing and lockdown, demanding significant changes in people’s lifestyles.
“One of the major things to come out of this [virus outbreak] was mental health and significant stress among people,” says Amna Asif, Founder and CEO of ReliveNow. “We have conducted over 200 sessions up to now and want to help people in whatever way we can within their premises.”
Asif pointed out that most of the clients availing services from them were women as there had been cases of domestic violence and abuse too, which is one of major outcomes from the current situation.
On digital counselling, she says she came up with the idea to have a more “accessible and affordable” platform for mental health in 2018.
“There was a stigma attached to it [mental health] and many victims would just not go to clinics to seek help, afraid of being termed crazy,” Asif recalls as she points out a “wee bit” improvement in people’s perception towards mental health now compared to when she started.
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“The millennials are more accepting of the new changes and open to discussions on mental health,” she remarks with a whiff of relief.
Asif says she wanted to create a digital platform for mental health in Pakistan which was “specifically bilingual and culturally apt” and where people could be heard and given professional support easily. However, she bemoans that there were really few qualified mental health experts for the country’s total population.
Future of digital counselling
According to researchers, the results achieved from face-to-face counselling can be attained through digital means as well. Studies published in the Journal of Affective Disorders and Cyberpsychology and Networking showed texting a therapist to be just as effective as meeting them in real life.
The study at the University of Zurich found out that depression in patients treated online decreased compared to a “minimal decline” in those who were treated conventionally. “No more depression could be detected in 57 percent of patients from online therapy compared to 42 percent with conventional therapy,” it said, also concluding that degree of satisfaction with the treatment and therapists was “more or less equally high”.
But despite the switch to online mediums and their effectiveness in providing counselling, there are also concerns over privacy and qualifications of therapists.
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Speaking to The Express Tribune, 26-year-old Maryam Ali* said that she thinks her communication is a lot more interactive and productive with her therapist when it is face-to-face as she feels “more secure.”
“I don’t always feel comfortable online or on video calls to discuss issues that are so complex. Real connection tends to take a back seat when we start relying on technology so much,” she says. “A proper treatment requires frequent visits and not just one session so it is greatly affected now due to the lockdown and physical distancing,” she continues.
Patients who prefer face-to-face counselling also say networking issues and lack of proper technical facilities have been some of the hindrances faced during online counselling sessions.
*(Name has been changed to protect privacy)
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Ransomware has become a significant problem for enterprises and organizations. Ransomware attacks have been steadily increasing since 2018, reaching 68.5% of attacks in 2021. Due to the danger it poses, organizations should know how to prevent ransomware and take steps to better protect their network.
What is a ransomware attack?
Ransomware is malware that locks access or encrypts files on a company network until a ransom is paid. While IT managers used to be most concerned with a ransomware attack’s potential to shut down a company’s entire computer network and negatively affect operations, they’re increasingly becoming more afraid of data exfiltration – also known as Double Extortion Tactics. These involve encrypting customer’s data and threatening to sell the data on the Dark Web if the ransom is not paid. As the ruined reputations of many companies can attest, the aftermath of a ransomware attack can be devastating even after your systems are back online.
How to avoid ransomware viruses
To reduce the likelihood of falling victim to the next ransomware attack, it’s important you know how to avoid ransomware and take action to implement security best practices. Below are ten actionable strategies to help you prevent ransomware attacks on your data:
1. Be diligent about backing up data
Make sure that regular data backups are a part of your routine maintenance activities. Store the files on an external hard drive and disconnect it from your computer after creating the backup to ensure that the ransomware cannot infect those files too. In case of an attack, verify that your backups have not been infected before rolling back.
2. Develop cybersecurity plans and policies
Create a cyber incident response plan so your IT security team has a clear blueprint to follow in the event of a ransomware attack. The plan should include policies about containing the attack and preventing damage to core assets, collecting forensic evidence, assessing the scope of the damage, and communicating to vendors and stakeholders.
3. Safeguard your endpoints
An endpoint is a remote device that communicates back and forth with a network. This includes everything from a desktop and a router to a modem and printer, as well as any other IoT devices within the organization. You can guard your endpoints and significantly reduce the risk of a successful ransomware attack by ensuring that all devices feature secure configuration settings and are not left with a security gap from default configurations.
4. Update your business systems
Check that all of your organization’s software, operating systems, and applications are regularly updated and patched to prevent a ransomware attack from taking advantage of known vulnerabilities to enter your network. Experience shows that companies that neglect this area are particularly vulnerable to ransomware attacks, such as the notorious WannaCry attack in 2017.
5. Configure desktop extensions
Executables (files with a .exe extension) are a favorite of hackers looking to break enterprise systems. Windows hides file extensions by default, allowing a malicious file such as “paycheck.doc.exe” to disguise itself as an innocent Word document named “paycheck.doc”. Ensuring that extensions are always displayed is a simple tweak that can prevent a ransomware attack.
6. Consider cloud technologies
More and more enterprises are transitioning their data from on-premise systems to cloud-based architectures. Cloud storage solutions offer robust security that is more difficult – but not impossible – for hackers to exploit, and they can restore your files to a recent version in case of a ransomware attack.
7. Restrict access
Open access invites malware to move quickly and easily through an organizational network, infecting everything in its path. Make sure users have only the level of access they require for their day-to-day work. In the event of a breach, this restricted access can limit the damage of the ransomware.
8. Develop a cybersecurity culture
Clearly explain to employees the dangers of ransomware and the terrible impact it can have on the organization. Have clear employee policies in place to prevent a ransomware attack from occurring when an employee is working from home, such as requiring a VPN service on a public Wi-Fi network and not inserting USB sticks or other storage media into a work computer. If possible, implement a Cybersecurity Chief whose job is to remind employees of these policies.
9. Hold regular cyber security training sessions
As human error is the most common cause of a ransomware attack, make sure all staff is properly trained in spotting malicious activity. Some favorites of hackers include sending a phishing or spear-phishing email that encourages the recipient to click a link, download an attachment, or visit a website that is infected with malware. In your cyber security training sessions, make sure to cover common attack strategies of hackers and any new threats.
10. Use zero trust technology to close the gaps
While the above precautions are useful, zero trust technology is the most airtight cybersecurity strategy. Taking a zero-trust approach is a highly effective way for organizations to control access to their data, applications, and networks and prevent a ransomware attack on their business. As the zero trust security model automatically distrusts both internal and external sources, every single request to access a file share, application, or cloud storage device must be authenticated, authorized, and encrypted. The model assumes that every attempt to access the network is guilty until proven innocent.
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Votiro’s Positive Selection® technology takes a ”trust only in the positive” approach to files presented, breaking down every element of a file recursively to the lowest-level element. Each element passes through Votiro Cloud, where the Positive Selection® processing engine analyzes it. If Votiro does not 100% recognize an element and trust it to be safe, that element will not pass through the Positive Selection® engine back into the newly reconstructed, fully functional, and completely threat-free template. The new file only contains elements that have passed the positive selection process, eliminating any potential security breach.
The process is fast and completely up-to-date, with no reliance on checking signature databases for known threats or sandboxing and no opportunity for zero-day attacks. Votiro’s Positive Selection® technology ensures end-users receive files free from the possibility of an attack 100% of the time.
To find out more about Votiro Cloud and its innovative approach to preventing a ransomware attack, click here. You can also contact us with any questions you have or book a demo to see our Positive Selection® technology in action.
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The Academy Includes New Inclusion Standards Beginning in 2024
In an effort to combat longstanding stigmas behind the Oscars and racial biases in the Best Picture category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced an inclusion requirement that will begin in 2024 on Tuesday.
For a film to be considered for the Best Picture award, it will need to meet a certain "representation requirement." In the past, the Academy Awards have been notorious for featuring films excluding minorities and misrepresent women.
According to the official Aperture, “On February 9, 2020, 'Parasite' rewrote history by becoming the first non-English language film to win Best Picture. The moment marked the culmination of a five-year effort to diversify our organization and expand our definition of the ‘best.’ In 2016, the Academy set specific inclusion goals as part of its A2020 initiative to double the number of women and underrepresented ethnic/racial communities and significantly grow its international membership by 2020.”
As the Best Picture award is often regarded as one the highest achievable honors in the movie industry, the inclusion requirement, now known as “Academy Aperture 2025,” hopes to disband systemic racial inequalities and promote equity in Hollywood. This means films that are made in 2024 will be eligible for Best Picture under the new standards, just in time for the 2025 awards ceremony.
The Aperture continues, “We are proud of these accomplishments, but our efforts are far from over. Our goals with Aperture 2025 are to further the dialogue and challenge our history to create a more equitable and inclusive community.”
In 2016, The Academy failed to nominate any people of color in all 20 of its acting categories. As a response to this controversy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, former Academy president, took direct action by pledging to double the represented number of women and minorities by 2020.
The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony is set to premiere on Sunday, April 25, 2021.
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Leaning with braceleted right hand holding a staff, residing on the mount of the Bull, with Graceful eyes, the blessing hands holding axe and deer, with an eye in forehead, blissful, three eyed, the hair wound as crown, with gauri to his left, Doing good to one who worships, to that God,R^ishabhArUDha (salutations).
R^ishabha ArUDhar : deity sitting on the Bull(bhOga mUrti)
This is one of the very auspicious mUrtis, praised in periya purANam as blessing the devotees for their great deeds.
There are two bull vehicles associated with Lord shiva. They are the mahAviShNu bull and the bull of justice.
dharma dEvatA(divine of justice), in order to be immortal, worshipped God very ardently. God as an indication of the justness ever, took the dharma as the bull vehicle. Thus dharma attained endlessness.
During tripura samhAra(1) as soon as the God put Its leg on the chariot, which the divines proudly thought "they" made it for God, the chariot's axle broke off ! The divines realized the futility of their pride. In the meanwhile Lord viShNu took the form of a bull, on which Lord shiva sat. This is the viShNu bull vehicle of God.
Check here for a mUrti in many ways like RishbhArUdar. (Additionally skandha is also seen.)
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Occupy This Question: What’s Changed In 4 Years?
By Mickey Z.
23 September, 2015
World News Trust
I was training a client on the morning of Sept. 18 when she mentioned she saw something about Occupy Wall Street on the news the night before.
"Yeah, yesterday was the fourth anniversary," I explained.
"It looked quiet," she said. "Did you go?"
I shook my head "no."
She did another set of exercises and then asked: "So, what's changed in four years?"
After a long, deep sigh, I replied: "That's a really depressing question."
Choosing not to fall back on privileged platitudes (“Occupy changed the conversation,” etc.), I instead made a sarcastic crack about how so many occupiers are now actively campaigning for a Democratic presidential candidate… and moved on with my client’s workout.
When I got home, I pondered her question more. I contemplated how swiftly and easily the movement was co-opted and how intensely a few diehards were punished. I even looked back at some of the thousands of photos I took during the first year and saw a sea of mostly white faces. I scolded myself for believing this was a revolution.
Then… I did the hard work. The real work. I decided to try honestly answering my client’s question.
What’s changed, she asked? Well, brace yourselves, comrades…
Thanks to us not finding a way to halt or slow or even identify the patriarchal, white supremacist capitalist machine, here’s a teeny tiny glimpse at what’s been going on since OWS “changed the conversation” on Sept. 17, 2011:
Since approximately 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth every day, that means about 1.2 million have died in the past four years.
Some 2,660 children are born into poverty each day in the Land of Opportunity™. Over the course of four years, that adds up to roughly 3.8 million.
Let’s take that focus on kids to a global level. The United Nations estimates 29,158 children under the age of five die each day from preventable causes. Four years = 42 million.
Please read that again: 42 million children under the age of five have died from preventable causes since the first “mic check” echoed across Zuccotti Park.
While we’re thinking globally, why not consider how the rest of the world might answer my client’s question? What’s changed in four years? More drones and bombs and other humanitarian weapons, more invasions, more occupations, more poverty, more disease, more repression, more rapes, more refugees, more prisons, more dehumanization, more marginalization, more environmental racism, and, of course: much, much, much more profits for transnational corporations, and much, much, much less hope for everyone else.
Also, thanks to Occupy, we’ve been told that the problem is, well… anything from the Federal Reserve to fracking to student debt to NYPD tactics. Outside of a few activists, no one is actually naming the problem. No one is talking about the foundation, the root: patriarchy.
As a result, the past four years have offered no respite for females as a class. Institutional misogyny, rape culture, prostitution, pedophilia, reproductive repression, pornography, conscious erasure, and straight-up femicide remain the norm under phallo-centric rule.
The inevitable outcome of such a male-dominated structure is, of course, ecocide. The all-out assault against our Mother Earth, our landbase, our source of sustenance.
On that note, I’ll offer a few ecosystem-based answers to my client’s query.
Since Sept. 17, 2011: 324 tons of mercury were emitted into the atmosphere for global electric power generation; roughly 5 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, storm water, and industrial waste were discharged into U.S. waters; and the Mississippi River carried 6 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico (creating a dead zone the size of New Jersey).
Some 292 million acres of rain forest have been destroyed; 19 billion tons of toxic chemicals and 2 trillion tons of pesticides have been released across the globe; and at least a quarter-million plant and animal species have gone extinct.
(And, since 800 trillion microbeads of plastic enter waste waters every single day -- and that’s just in the U.S. -- I’ll let someone else do the math as to what that adds up to over four years.)
Let’s not forget overfishing, deforestation, desertification, ocean acidification, spread of GM crops, melting glaciers, mountaintop mining, tar sands extraction, factory farming, off-shore drilling, topsoil erosion, and the ever-widening impact of the planet’s worst polluter: The U.S. Department of (so-called) Defense.
I could go on… and on and on and on. The damage is relentless and ongoing and impervious to Occupy-related tactics and self-perception.
None of our exhibitionist acting out or our Instagram selfies or our clever memes or our accumulation of social media notifications or our sign waving and petition signing and drum banging got us any closer to the root causes and certainly no where near to creating sustainable social change.
What could/should we be doing?
Suggested first steps:
>> Admit we’ve been tragically ineffective
>> Recognize the sheer scope of what we’re up against
>> Identify the root, foundational causes
I know plenty of folks will dismiss all this as Mickey Z. being negative again. I’ve heard the “gloom and doom” canard for years, but let’s bring to back to where we started: the gym.
When someone first starts training with me, they’re likely to tell me all about their (unhealthy) lifestyle and ask what I can do to help. If that person has alarmingly high blood pressure or seems to need some kind of medical clearance before training, am I being “negative” by pointing this out?
It might be more upbeat if I complimented them on their outfit or their handwriting but by no measure is it more helpful. Would they want me to “alter the conversation” without giving them any new information or tools? Nope, they came to me so I could name the problem and together, we’d start working on a plan to address it.
This approach may not be popular in age of social media narcissism and postmodern navel gazing, but without it, we might as well start chanting now: FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!
Mickey Z. is the author of 13 books, most recently Occupy these Photos: NYC Activism Through a Radical Lens. Until the laws are changed or the power runs out, he can be found on the Web here and here. Anyone wishing to support his activist efforts can do so by making a donation here.
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Schindler's Kraków -- The tragic story of Poland's Jews and of life in the Nazi wartime ghettos has inspired no fewer than two Oscar-winning movies: Roman Polanski'sThe Pianist (2002), set in Warsaw's wartime ghetto, and the possibly even bigger Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes. The film won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film was based on the novel Schindler's List (Simon & Schuster), by Thomas Keneally, and recounts the true story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who comes to Kraków at the start of World War II to make his fortune selling war goods to the German army. Though Schindler is a member of the Nazi party, he slowly comes to recognize the evil nature of the destruction of the Jewish community. By arguing to the Nazi hierarchy that he needs his Jewish workers to continue output for the German war effort, Schindler eventually manages to save some 1,100 Jewish people from certain death at Auschwitz. Much of the filming was done on location at various points around Kazimierz and Schindler's former enamel factory in Podgórze across the river, as well as at the former Paszów labor camp and Auschwitz itself. If you've recently watched the movie, you'll recognize several shots as you walk through Kazimierz. The best-known location is the still highly evocative courtyard running between Józefa and Meiselsa streets (now home to several cafes and restaurants). Most travel agencies offer full-length tours of "Schindler's Kraków". The movie was not without criticisms, chief among them that Spielberg managed to diminish the inherently evil nature of Nazism by portraying Nazis merely as crazies and lunatics. Others said he commercialized the atrocities or had managed somehow to exaggerate Schindler's goodness. Be that as it may, the movie continues to rise in the eyes of film critics. The American Film Institute ranked it 8th on its list of 100 Best American Films.
Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.
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In the short-run, the answer is likely ‘yes’. As COVID-19 (hopefully) slows and if economic growth remains strong, health care spending will fall as a share of the US economy. At least this is what the Office of the Actuary (OACT) at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) thinks in their Health Affairs study published last week. They write:
National health spending growth is expected to have decelerated from 9.7 percent in 2020 to 4.2 percent in 2021 as federal supplemental funding was expected to decline substantially relative to 2020. Through 2024 health care use is expected to normalize after the declines observed in 2020, health insurance enrollments are assumed to evolve toward their prepandemic distributions, and the remaining federal supplemental funding is expected to wane. Economic growth is expected to outpace health spending growth for much of this period, leading the projected health share of gross domestic product (GDP) to decline from 19.7 percent in 2020 to just over 18 percent over the course of 2022–24. For 2025–30, factors that typically drive changes in health spending and enrollment, such as economic, demographic, and health-specific factors, are again expected to primarily influence trends in the health sector. By 2030 the health spending share of GDP is projected to reach 19.6 percent.
In short, as COVID wanes health care spending falls as a share of the economy through 2024. By 2030, however, health care spending looks to rebound to be near 1 in every 5 dollars spent in the U.S. economy.
You can read the full article here.
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Ukraine's Upcoming 'Peacekeeper' Passes Factory Test. The All-Terrain Drone of the Future?
Unmanned vehicles seem to be all the rage in military applications. In September, we brought you news of Israel's Rex MK II, which can be adapted to a range of ground missions, can operate on land or amphibiously and has a large payload capacity of 1.3 tons.
Then in November, we introduced Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems' ROOK, a multi-payload military 6X6 Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) that is fully autonomous, can handle rough terrain, and comes with a deployable multicopter drone. Both the UGV and the drone can also be equipped with weapons.
Now, Ukraine-based Synergy DPE company has unveiled its new modular unmanned ground vehicle called Mirotvorets (Peacekeeper in English) that has already passed the next stage of factory tests.
According to General Director Ruslan Jalilov, Peacekeeper's system of optical vision and communication allows the vehicle "to receive video from cameras and control the robotic platform at distances from 1.25 miles to 1.55 miles (2 km to 2.5 km) in indirect visibility (on the platform there were significant changes in terrain and forest strip)."
The vehicle's abilities were demonstrated on snowy terrain, at low temperatures, and in difficult road and weather conditions. The multi-purpose robotic platform is ideal for military units as it is designed to perform logistics, evacuation, reconnaissance and other special tasks.
It is engineered with low-pressure tires and built on a stable and durable transmission base. This base has amphibious properties, a long-range, and a low noise level while driving making it inconspicuous during military missions.
The vehicle can maneuver through lakes, rivers, swamps, snowy areas, deserts, and trenches up to ~3.3 ft (1 m) making it ideal for combat zones. The goal of the vehicle is to allow the military to increase both mobility and security for future missions.
Synergy DPE has released a video of the impressive vehicle that highlights and illustrates its many military capabilities.
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The respiratory department at Electra Memorial Hospital is staffed by licensed respiratory therapists with education, training, and experience in all of our services. We perform several different Respiratory procedures as well as diagnostic testing.
- Arterial Blood Gases
- Emergency Services
- Pulmonary Function Testing
- Pulse Oximetry
- Respiratory Treatments
- Ventilator Management
- Bipap Therapy
Sarah England, Director of Respiratory
Phone: (940) 495-3981
Fax: (940) 495-4137
Arterial Blood Gases
Arterial blood gas is used to determine several parameters in the blood, such as PH level, oxygen, and carbon dioxide levels, along with several other values.
Pulmonary Function Testing
Pulmonary Function Test or PFT is a breathing test that measures lung volumes; it is used to diagnose lung problems such as asthma and COPD. It is the most helpful tool for early detection of lung disease and proper treatment.
If you are scheduled for a PFT, you should not smoke, eat or take any bronchodilators two hours prior to the test.
Respiratory treatments include a variety of modalities including nebulizer treatments, inhalers, aerosol treatments, PEP therapy of flutter, chest percussion and oxygen. These treatments are designed to care for patients with breathing problems such as asthma, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress and COPD including emphysema and bronchitis.
Ventilators are used for critically ill or trauma patients needing help breathing.
Pulse oximetry is a non-invasive tool placed on the finger to determine the oxygen level in the blood. It is the fastest and easiest way to determine if a patient is getting enough oxygen.
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In 2022, the 755th anniversary of Mogilev will take place. There were different periods in its history: from the fortress of a single ancient Russian state to the occupation by Lithuanians and Poles, from reunification with Russia to one of the most important cities of independent Belarus. Today Mogilev is one of the most important centers and prominent representatives of the Russian-Belarusian brotherhood.
In the translation of Trofim Surt’s chronicle, it is combined as the “Mogilev Chronicle”, under the year 1267, for the first time it is found on the site of the Mogilev castle. But today, most historians believe that this dating is conditional. Archaeological materials testify that the guard fortress was located on this site much earlier – back in the 11th-12th centuries. On this, in the district, the abundance of the center, the abundance of barrows around the city, and ancient Russian ceramics of the 11th century were found.
According to scientists, the center of the princely administration rises here. Thus, Mogilev, as a fortified city, most likely arose during the heyday of a single ancient Russian state. Its name, according to one of the most popular versions, is associated with the name of Prince Lev Danilovich Mogiy (“Mighty Lion”).
Over time, the city became more and more powerful and wealthy. According to observations, of all the ancient Russian settlements on the territory of modern Belarus, only he had three belts of fortification surveys.
However, in the XIV century, he discovered that, like other settlements in western and southwestern Russia, they were under strange domination.
It is known that in 1358 Mogilevil was captured by the Lithuanians, the Grand Dukes repeatedly handed over the city “as a pledge” to the rich, who issued loans to them. Those, in turn, squeezed everything they could out of the city on account of debts, did not give it the opportunity for normal transport.
But according to the present status of the position of Mogilev, it became after the signing of the Union of Lublin, which joined Lithuania and Poland to one state, as well as after the Union of Brest, which laid the foundation for the existence of the Uniate Church and the Catholicization of the lands of Russia.
In 1618, the Poles brutally suppressed the anti-Uniate uprising, arranging a mass execution of the defenders of Orthodoxy. And in 1654, the people of Mogilev themselves opened the gates of the city with Russian troops and for several years resisted the attempts of the Poles to capture it. However, after discussion, all the same, the tests were returned to their control over Mogilev.
At the beginning of the 18th century, an event took place in the area around Mogilev at the center of the events of the Northern War. In 1706, it was visited by Peter I and Marta Skavronskaya, who by this time had given birth to the emperor of two children and later became Empress of Russia Catherine I. The city greatly influenced the time of hostilities with the Swedish army. Not far from Mogilev, the Battle of Lesnaya took place – the one-time winners of the battles of the Northern War, which Peter I called “the mother of the Poltava victory.”
In 1772 Mogilev became part of the Russian Empire. By the way, in 2022, by the decision of Vladimir Putin, the 250th anniversary of the reunification of the Belarusian and Russian lands took place.
In 1780, a meeting was held in Mogilev between Empress Catherine II and Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. In honor of this event, the Joseph Cathedral was built, reminiscent of the Roman pantheon, and the arch of Catherine was installed opposite.
During the Patriotic War of 1812, the famous battle near Saltanovka was discovered near the city, as a result of which the French could not cut off the 2nd Army under the command of Pyotr Bagration from the rest of the Russian troops.
During the years of the experimental war in Mogilev, the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief was formed. And it was from here that Nicholas II left in violation of revolutionary Petrograd as the emperor, and returned back as just a colonel Romanov.
Shortly after the proclamation of Soviet power in Belarus, the city was transferred to the RSFSR, but in 1924 it returned to the BSSR again. Plans were prepared in advance for the transfer to the Belarusian capital, but over time this idea was abandoned.
“The most famous Chapaev of the Soviet cinema” – an outstanding actor and Hero of Socialist Labor Boris Babochkin – worked in the Mogilev Theater.
In 1941, Mogilev courageously defended itself from the Nazis. Soldiers of the people’s militia fought side by side with the Red Army soldiers. But the superior forces of the enemy still managed to surround and capture the city.
Already in August 1941, there was a wide underground movement here, actively fighting the invaders, despite the brutal repressions on their part.
During the occupation, the Nazis destroyed about 70 thousand Soviet citizens in Mogilev.
Nevertheless, under the noses of the Germans, the underground securities of sabotage at military facilities, gave the newspaper, released the captive prisoners of Nazism. In addition, 34 participants operated around the city.
On June 28, Mogilev was liberated from the Nazi invaders of the units of the 49th and 50th armies. This date was declared the day of the city in Mogilev.
Today, Mogilev is a major political and economic center of the Republic of Belarus, the fourth largest city in the country in terms of population. But it is also one of the “nodes” that reliably connects the Belarusian people with the Russians.
Alexander Lukashenko at the Forum of Regions of Russia and Belarus in 2018 called Mogilev a city more Russian than Belarusian. According to data from opinion polls conducted in 2022, 76% of the residents of the Mogilev region belong to Russia. A significant part of the population of the region sees the future of the region and Belarus as a whole in a single Union State.
For the share of 57% of the foreign trade turnover of the Mogilev region.
It places freight cars, plastic containers, meat and dairy products, and synthetic fiber in the Russian Federation. Two-thirds of its products are sent to Russia by the Mogilevliftmash plant. In 2016, there was a need for the Russian elevator market.
In Mogilev, the university used is the Interstate Educational Institution of Higher Education Belarusian-Russian University. He will receive training of several thousand future specialists in 22 professional areas. Since 2010, the Faculty of Engineering and Economics of the University has been preparing students for educational programs of the Russian Federation.
Mogilev is one of the most important definitions, extremely closely intertwined with the historical fate of the Russian and Belarusian peoples.
In this unity one can find potential development. And the closer Russia and Belarus are to each other, the more they will look in front of the people of Mogilev.
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By Jeffrey Frentzen
Marketing aesthetic procedures has gone viral. Teen idols take a stand, often in favor of plastic surgery, and the excuse is usually along the lines of, “I felt badly about my body and you too can get yours fixed.” The media propaganda to get kids used to the idea at an early age that cosmetic surgery procedures can get them all fixed up, even later in life, is raging out of control.
Essentially, media-based marketing pushes products and lifestyle changes via several beachheads: magazine articles, TV and radio shows and commercials, and public testimonials by well-known personalities and celebrities are primary fronts. These people lead their fans and others by example, and with children as the target the marketing machine has a very impressionable audience in the palm of its amoral hand.
The latest blast of media attention to children and plastic surgery centers on two areas: surgery to correct physical awkwardness or to resolve medical issues of some sort; and surgery to resolve a child’s self-esteem problems. The former is often couched in news articles that report children seek out plastic surgery to avoid becoming victims of bullying. The latter area, in which children want to “fix” real or imagined “physical problems” in order to feel better about their looks, parallels similar phenomena in adults who seek out plastic surgery.
The difference is there is a better chance an adult is emotionally mature and has a personality suitably developed to understand the underlying emotional problems and self-image issues when she tells a surgeon, “Fix me.” A child’s psyche is undeveloped and immature. Unnecessary procedures may be an attractive alternative for the immature child who can manipulate his or her parents into paying for such procedures.
As mentioned in [removed]this typical article[/removed], surgeons have reported that unnecessary procedures represent a small percentage of teen plastic surgeries. However, the advances being made in aesthetic procedures these days suggest more people are routinely considering procedures to adjust their looks. Plastic surgery as a solution to perceived physical “inadequacies” becomes more accepted in a society that demands instant gratification. Kids whose protruding ears significantly may impair an ability to feel “normal” among his peers. Plastic surgery has provided a solution to those types of problems for decades, and is within reason — as are procedures to correct any deformity. Many children, however, don’t have any deformities at all and simply want the surgery because their have been told by their role models that it is okay.
Still, the marketing hype settles on the solution to self-image problems as external: change your looks and be happier. As any physician can tell you, fixing the external without dealing with the underlying personality issues is a no-win situation.
As physicians, you can put a stop to unnecessary procedures for children in your own office. That will not stop the children, however, or the parents who will continue to seek out a practitioner who will take the money and perform the procedure.
Which takes me back to the media machinery that promotes plastic surgery as a viable solution for children who perceive themselves as “not pretty or handsome enough.” Americans live in a quick-fix culture that demands instant gratification. Also, the shallow media imagery that portrays celebrity plastic surgery as the height of beauty is very convincing to children — less so to adults. When Lady Gaga gives an interview to teen magazines in which she talks about her own physical insecurities and says she is open to plastic surgery as a solution to those insecurities, it makes a huge impression on her preteen fans — mostly girls.
The media latches onto this trend like a vampire and broadcasts its sick message to any child within earshot, using the available pervasive machinery: magazines, TV, radio, the Internet, etc. Children are the best targets for a media and marketing complex that seeks to convince the population to consume more products and services that it doesn’t need, and to feel badly about itself in the process. The propaganda is well-tested, sophisticated, and works on many levels — economically, socially, racially, mentally, emotionally, and physically.
This is what confronts you, the plastic and cosmetic surgeon, when a suitably brainwashed child and her equally anxious parents approach you to fix perceive body image disorders with surgery. It’s already an epidemic problem among adults who come into your office with neurotic self-image issues. Thanks to a hyperbolic media, the unhealthy trend is now being successfully leveled at children. And in a down economy where “just saying no” is sometimes not the first choice in doctors’ offices, it becomes increasingly important to stick to your guns and do more than just say no.
Educate yourself on the why’s and wherefores of this trend, stay up-to-date on which celebrities are promoting plastic surgery to children and denounce the fix-it mentality, and keep an eye on those corporate spokespersons and their firms’ activities in the aesthetic space — attracting new customers at earlier and earlier ages is a related and equally unhealthy trend that needs to be watched closely.
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Another spectacular mosaic has been found in the city of Lod while doing groundworks for a museum to house the spectacular mosaics already found there in previous years.
The mosaic was found in a late Roman-era house dating to about 1,700 years ago. The sheer quality of the stonework indicates the owner was extravagantly wealthy.
“The villa included a large, luxurious mosaic-paved reception room triclinium and an internal columned courtyard, also with mosaics, and a water system,” says archaeologist Amir Gorzalczany, the director of the present excavation.
In fact, this is the third mosaic discovery in this structure – which, in embarrassing contrast to modern construction, seems to have existed for centuries.
The archaeological find indicates the house survived in one form or another from the Roman era – the first century – to the late Roman era, around the late third century or early fourth, says Gorzalczany.
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Based on other Roman-era homes found in the area, which also had mosaic decorations, it appears that this luxurious manse of yore had been in the elite neighborhood of Roman-era Lod, he says. The Israel Antiquities Authority excavators also found Roman-era coins, ceramics and marbles, as well as other signs of luxury such as fragments from frescoes typical of the finer houses of Rome itself.
To whom might this lovely domicile have belonged? The newfound mosaic depicts nothing but animals and nature. No people. But it has a motif of three fish in the middle – all of which boils down to nothing concrete, Gorzalczany clarifies.
One theory could be that the inhabitants had been Jews who eschewed the human figure in art due to divine prohibition. Or maybe the house belonged to early Christians, based on the fish representation of the religion – but no other artifacts typical of Christian faith have been discovered there, Gorzalczany points out. Or maybe the owners were pagans, clinging to the ancient Roman beliefs.
Whoever made this mosaic needed great tiling skills – which begs the thought that it was the same person who made a strikingly similar high-quality mosaic found on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. It also depicts very similar animals and geometric patterns. But instead of the three fish in the middle, the Mount Zion mosaic features the goddess Gaia. At least that is what we call her 2,000 years later. Then she was called “Ge” in Greek, from which the word “geography” would arise, Gorzalczany says.
Move your car
The Lod mosaics were first found in 1996. In what’s becoming a cliché in Israeli archaeology, the initial discovery was made by construction workers, in this case building a sewage system, supervised – as is the norm in Israel – by archaeologists. Somebody noticed a bit of colorful stone.
“It was a total surprise,” Gorzalczany recounts. So was the quality of the work, so extraordinary that the mosaic with its animal motifs has been taken around the world for exhibition.
“The smaller the stones used in the mosaic, the more you can put into the picture and the better the quality – it’s like pixels,” Gorzalczany explains. “This quality was outstanding, featuring a vast range of colors and gorgeous artwork, with shadowing, volume, plays on light and dark, and even use of gold-gilted stones and glass tiles, which was very rare.”
That was in 1996. Then, in 2014, excavators found another mosaic in what had been the courtyard of the house. Digging it up, the archaeologists could see the corner of yet another one peeping. But they couldn’t get at it because it was under the neighborhood parking lot.
Now in 2018, following agreements reached with everybody concerned – including the neighbors who live there and liked parking there – the mosaic glimpsed four years before has been dug up. (The one found in 2014, meanwhile, has been re-covered with earth for the sake of its preservation.)
Given that it is smack in the middle of land used by Lod’s modern residents, this new one had to be quickly conserved, rolled up as one does with 1,700-year-old mosaic floor decorations, and moved..
Where did they sleep?
Back when the excavators noticed the corner of the “new” mosaic peeping from under the parking lot, they thought they had found the bedrooms of the ancient mansion. They had not, they realized, going on rectangular marks on the floor that seem to show where couches had once been placed for the feasting elites to recline. In short, they think they found a secondary reception or banqueting hall.
In other words, the house was grander than originally thought and they haven’t found the bedrooms yet, which could have been on a second story – in which case they won’t be found.
At this stage, the mosaic has been rolled up and taken away for painstaking preservation works by the antiquities authority.
“They’ll put all the stones back and strengthen and clean it,” says Gorzalczany, “working like doctors with scalpels, one stone at a time.” Eventually, presumably, it will be housed in the future Lod archaeological museum, to be called the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Center, which is going up about where it had been found in the first place.
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Some call it nshima or sadza, others pap or ugali. Whatever the name, maize meal is the staple food across much of southern Africa and large parts of eastern Africa.
Boiled and stirred into a stout white dough, it’s the starch accompaniment to most meals. So entrenched and seemingly traditional, Malawians call their favourite variety ‘maize of the ancestors’.
But maize is not as traditional as most people think. It’s an import (as are bananas, cassava, beans and potatoes), and in much of the interior of Africa, only a little over a century old. Its rise to dominance as a food crop has been incredible, but its future is far less assured.
Central Mexico is the original home of maize. It arrived along the west and east African coasts in the 1500s, before spreading inland, following the trade routes. Farmers appreciated the significant advantages it had over indigenous grains – millet, sorghum and rice.
Corn becomes king
Maize is a carbohydrate champion. It delivers a second harvest within a single season; its outer husk provides good protection against bird damage; it requires less work to cultivate; and it proved an excellent “pioneer” crop, opening up new frontier forest settlements.
Maize slotted easily into the food production chain, but initially only as a niche crop, complimenting a complex cropping system adapted by farmers to the poor fertility of Africa’s soils and its capricious climate.
That all changed in the beginning of the last century when maize vaulted into pole position as a mono-crop in southern Africa and Kenya. What helped drive the transformation was the British colonial economy and the demand for Africa’s white maize on the London starch market.
The ease of maize production on homesteads helped release men into the labour market, and the spread of hammer mills enabled the easy local processing of maize into flour. Today maize occupies three quarters or more of the land under cereal cultivation in Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In Malawi, it’s as high as 89 percent.
Maize has pushed original drought-tolerant crops like millet and sorghum out of the market. A powerful industry brands and packages it as the cornerstone of family life.
But Africa imports around 28 percent of its maize from overseas. Maize never became the long-predicted foundation of an African “green revolution”, and climate change is increasingly exposing its limitations as a reliable ever-bountiful crop.
We have a problem
The downside to maize is that it’s “highly sensitive to deprivation of water, sunlight and nitrogen,” wrote James McCann, an agricultural historian at Boston University. “Even a few days of drought at the time of tasseling [its maturing stage] can ruin a crop. Thus, maize monocultures are extremely vulnerable to environmental shocks.”
Maize also has a relatively low nutritional value – unlike the millet and sorghum it displaced. What that means is that in poor households, which cannot afford the vegetable and meat accompaniment, filling your child’s belly with maize meal doesn’t prevent malnutrition.
Kitui is an agricultural town in eastern Kenya on the frontline of climate change. It’s an arid to semi-arid zone, with seasonal rivers that dry up in the summer, making irrigation a challenge. It has a poverty index slightly below the national average.
Pastor David Mutinda farms just over two hectares and has noticed the weather is now increasingly erratic, which moisture-sensitive maize does not like. “The rains are no longer consistent, they either don’t come, or come at the wrong time, which affects which crops can be grown,” he told IRIN.
Mutinda has joined a programme run by Farm Africa, an NGO operating in east Africa to help smallholder producers boost their incomes.
In Kitui, Farm Africa promotes drought-tolerant cassava and sorghum, as well as hardy legumes as cash crops. It has introduced conservation agriculture, including minimum tillage techniques and terracing to help preserve soil moisture.
Mutinda is something of a model farmer. He grows cassava for both the market and his table, green gram (mung beans) that he sells to a local seed company, and has added cowpeas, mango trees and poultry to a steadily expanding business. He still has a little maize – there’s a cultural importance to being able to roast a few green cobs for your children as a treat – but his household no longer depends on it.
“I’m positive about this season because of the type of crops I’ve planted,” he told IRIN. “They’re able to resist drought so I can do well with them.”
Lydia Gathenya of Farm Africa says they are working with farmers to change the subsistence model of small-scale production. By increasing linkages with markets, the NGO is transforming farming from “drudgery” into a money-making business. “You don’t need to grow what you consume anymore,” she added. “If you want to eat maize, you can go and buy it.”
Africa will be one of the region’s hardest hit by climate change. Agriculture accounts for 75 percent of employment, with nearly all production rain-fed. The continent’s ability to adapt is hamstrung by the size of the bill to build resilience, institutional weakness, and the lack of political support to smallholder farmers.
Southern Africa is one region predicted to become even drier. There have been regular droughts since the 1990s, with currently 49 million people facing hunger due to an El Nino year – more than double the number affected by the last great drought in 1991/92.
The fight back?
The answer from the scientists is better drought-resistant maize. A Mexican-African project to develop Stress-Tolerant Maize for Africa was launched in March. The drought-proof hybrids are expected to increase productivity by 30 to 50 percent, and the project – funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – aims to have the seeds in the hands of 5.5 million smallholders in 12 countries by the end of 2019.
But the evidence suggests that the African seed market is complicated. According to a new study, farmers access 90 percent of their seed from informal systems rather than commercial agro-dealers, with local markets linked to new varieties only in an “ad hoc manner”.
That frustrates the uptake at scale of new, improved varieties. “There seems to be an investment lacuna between the science of plant breeding, which receives substantial funds, and the science of delivery,” the study by researchers Shawn McGuire and Louise Sperling suggested.
“My experience is that where you have challenging environments, you should adopt the most suitable crop,” said Edgar Kadenge of the Gwassi Integrated Community Empowerment Project in western Kenya. “You shouldn’t panel beat the crop, planting in an unfavourable environment, and expect good yields. Ultimately, you are just contributing to food insecurity.”
According to a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute, the 1990s marked the beginning of the period of uncertainty for maize after close to a century of undisputed reign. Climate variability is one factor, but so too were the end of state input subsidies and market support demanded by IMF-imposed austerity programmes, and the sharp drop in investment in public sector agricultural research.
African agriculture needs a farm lobby and the political will to deliver investments that will benefit smallholders, says the study. Although governments regularly trot out the policy slogans around building resilience, the perennial food crises in southern Africa, for example, suggest the primary audience is donors and the aid system – not the farmers.
“Given reasonable assumptions about future productivity improvements, it is unlikely that maize can provide the net revenue on the millions of farms that are 0.5 to 1 hectares or smaller to generate substantial income growth, especially in the semi-arid areas,” the IFPRI study noted.
Gathenya, pushing her cassava and market-led alternatives in Kitui, warns that “behaviour change can’t be abrupt”.
Like any good farmer, she knows that sustained success requires patience and careful tending.
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The Sonel MRU-120HD Ground Resistance Tester in weather proof hard case allows the user to take earth resistance methods, using the 3-pole and 4-pole methods. Additionally, the MRU-120 offers selective earth resistance measurements, using an auxiliary clamp, meaning no influences from parallel earths or opening of junctions is required.
It is possible to employ the Wenner method of measurement, the electrode and clamp method, for multiple earthing, or the two clamp method for measurements without the use of auxiliary rods. Additionally the MRU-120 will automatically calculate the resistance of electrodes and compensate for this reading for greater accuracy. Interference voltages and frequencies are measured with the MRU-120 to eliminate inaccuracies caused by these phenomena. The MRU-120 will calculate the distance between electrodes in metres or feet. When utilising a clamp for measurements, the MRU-120 can calibrate the used clamp. This instrument is built for accuracy and speed for professional measurements of various applications where ground resistance is required.
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Oral health care is of massive importance to an individual’s well-being. However, not every person is privileged to have quality healthcare. You do not even have to think too hard or as far as third-world countries before you figure out who these people are. Right here, in the land of the free, you can find individuals who suffer from what should be a basic human necessity.
Rural localities in America are filled with folks such as this. They lack proper dental hygiene and, worse, a cure for the oral illness when it does happen. The important question running through your mind right now is, “how can this be stopped or controlled.”
Luckily, this post has all the correct answers. Keep reading to learn how we can improve oral health in the rural communities in America.
Dental Health Education
To solve any problem, one must first begin at the root. For this reason, proper education on the benefits of oral health should be a part of every child’s basic training. The rural communities should have schools that teach the child to care for their oral health, the dangers of not doing so, and the best ways to solve the problem if it occurs.
In addition, campaigns that support and encourage dental careers should be put in place in these communities. This would help children be interested in having healthy, strong teeth.
Deployment of Dental Health Services in These Areas
Undoubtedly, a rise in the number of dental health professionals and their services around these communities would increase visits by the people affected with oral troubles. The government can help set up these services in areas facing such problems. So, go ahead and write a letter to your councilor, they would be more than happy to help.
Plus, mobile dental health services are now a thing if a traditional dental health care facility is too costly to run instantaneously. The dental health professional can move around to these communities using treatment aided by technology like digital orthodontics to examine and prescribe treatments for oral health illnesses.
Adoption of Best Dental Practices
Another major way to improve oral health is following the recommended and easiest dental practices.
- Brushing teeth twice daily: people living in rural communities should not play with the toothbrush. This would prevent them from having to visit the dentist. Brushing twice daily is perhaps the most common advice on dental health care and should be embraced appropriately.
- Changing and choosing toothbrushes: No matter how hard, a toothbrush is not meant to be used forever. On that note, your toothbrush should also not be so hard that it would harm your gums. You should change your toothbrush at most, at the end of the third month from the point of first use.
Also, as mentioned earlier, when choosing toothbrushes, you do not need to go for the hard-bristled options. Rather, the soft ones are better. You can also go for electronic toothbrushes as well; these types of toothbrushes would protect your teeth as well as your gum.
- Brushing the tongue: Often, we forget the tongue exists when we brush. This should not be so. Bacteria gather on the teeth, gum, and tongue as well. So, if you care about your dental hygiene, you should care about your tongue.
- Reducing coffee and sodas: Taking coffee in the morning has become a habit which we can’t seem to help ourselves against. However, despite being able to give you a daily boost, coffee can also have some side effects on your oral health. It is best to reduce the regular intake of these liquids for the safety of the teeth.
Introduction of Dental Therapists
Dental therapists are experts in the oral health care field. They provide services which include:
- The removal of loose teeth
- Covering of cavities
- Recommending best practices for dental care and so much more
The best part about these experts is that their services are pretty affordable. This makes them a good choice for individuals in the rural communities
The issue of oral health requires utmost concern. However, this is not often realized by the people that need it most. The people in the rural areas cannot have access to these services for a bunch of reasons. Among which are:
- Lack of care or interest in dental hygiene
- Low access to oral health services
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The Beaton Institute at Cape Breton University in Sydney, NS, is a community and university archives that specializes in the rich social, economic, cultural, religious, political, labour, industrial, environmental and rural history of Cape Breton Island.
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Thakur at the Dakshineswar Temple with Rakhal, M., Mahimacharan, and Other Devotees
Dwija, Dwija’s father, and Sri Ramakrishna – debt owed to one’s mother and father
Sri Ramakrishna is in his room at the Dakshineswar temple with Rakhal, M., and other devotees. It is about three or four o’clock.
It is the beginning stage of Sri Ramakrishna’s sore throat, yet he thinks the whole day only of the good of the devotees – how they might not get bound to the world, how they can gain knowledge and love of God, and how they may realize God.
Ten or twelve days ago, on Tuesday, 28 July 1885, he visited the home of Nandalal Bose at Calcutta to see the pictures of gods. He then graciously visited the homes of Balaram and other devotees.
Having returned from Vrindavan, Rakhal has stayed at home for some days. At present he, Latu, Harish, and Ramlal are staying with Thakur.
A few months ago, the Holy Mother came from the countryside to nurse Thakur at Dakshineswar. She is staying in the nahabat. The grief-stricken Brahmani has been living with her for some days.
Dwija, Dwija’s father and brother, M., and others are sitting beside Thakur. Today is 9 August, 1885.
Dwija is about sixteen years old. After the death of his mother, his father married a second time. Dwija often comes to see Thakur with M., though this displeases his father.
Some time ago Dwija’s father spoke about coming to visit Thakur. Today he has come. He is the manager of a Calcutta business. He was a student of D.L. Richardson at the Hindu College and has passed examinations for lawyer of the High Court.
Sri Ramakrishna (to Dwija’s father): “Please don’t worry about your son’s visits here.
“I tell you, go live a householder’s life after attaining spiritual awakening. If someone finds gold after hard labour, he can keep it underground or in a box or in water. It doesn’t affect the gold.
“I tell you, live a householder’s life without attachment. Break a jackfruit after rubbing your hands with oil. Then its juice won’t stick to your hand.
“If an immature mind is put in worldly life, it gets dirty. You should only live a householder’s life after you’ve attained spiritual knowledge.
“If you put milk in water, it gets ruined. But if you first churn butter out of the milk and then put it in water, you can keep the butter in water.”
Dwija’s Father: “True, sir.”
Sri Ramakrishna (smiling): “I understand why you scold him. You only threaten. The brahmachari said to the snake, ‘You are a real fool. I only asked you not to bite. I never asked you not to hiss. If you’d hissed, your enemies wouldn’t have been able to beat you.’ When you rebuke the boy, it’s only hissing.”
Dwija’s father laughs.
“If a father has a good son, it’s a mark of his father’s spiritual nature. If water in a pond is clean, it’s a sign of the virtue of its owner.
“A son is said to be born of one’s self (atmaja). There is no difference between you and your son. You have become your son in another way. On the one hand, you’re a worldly man working in an office and enjoying family life. On the other hand, you’re a devotee of God in the form of your son. I heard that you were a very worldly person. But it’s not true. (Smiling) You know all this. But you are very tactful. You are saying yes, yes even to this.”
Dwija’s father smiles a little.
“If your boys come here, they know what you really are. How great is one’s father! A person who practices religion by deceiving his parents will get nowhere.”
His earlier story – Sri Ramakrishna’s worry about his mother in Vrindavan
“A man owes many debts. Debt to the father, debt to the gods, and debt to the rishis. And there is debt to the mother too. Furthermore, there is debt to the wife. She has to be taken care of. If she’s a faithful wife, a person even has to arrange for her maintenance after death.
“I couldn’t stay in Vrindavan because of my mother. As soon as I remembered that she was at the Kali temple at Dakshineswar, I couldn’t keep my mind in Vrindavan.
“I tell them to live in the family and also keep their minds on God. I don’t ask them to renounce the world. Do this and do that too.”
Dwija’s Father: “I tell the boys to study. I don’t tell them not to visit you. But I don’t want them to waste time frivolously with the other boys.”
Sri Ramakrishna: “He (Dwija) surely has good tendencies from past births. Why aren’t his two brothers the same? Why is only he inclined this way?
“Can you forcibly stop him? A person acts according to tendencies of past births.”
The father: “Yes, that is certainly true.”
Thakur comes down and sits on the mat close to Dwjia’s father. He touches him now and then while he talks.
It is almost twilight. Thakur says to M. and the others, “Please take him for darshan of the deities. If I were well, I would go with him.”
He asks for sandesh for the boys. He says to Dwija’s father, “Let them eat a little. They should have some sweets.”
Dwija’s father strolls in the garden after visiting the deities in the temples. Sri Ramakrishna is talking happily with Bhupen, Dwija, M., and others on the southeastern verandah of his room. He slaps the backs of Bhupen and M. in fun and says to Dwija with a smile, “How I talked to your father!”
After twilight Dwija’s father comes again to Thakur’s room. He is going to leave soon. He is feeling the heat. Thakur himself fans him.
As Dwija’s father leaves, Thakur stands up.
Thakur talks freely – what is Sri Ramakrishna, a perfect man or an incarnation of God?
It is 8 p.m. Thakur is talking with Mahima-charan while Rakhal, M., and a few of Mahimacharan’s companions are also in the room.
Mahimacharan is going to spend the night here.
Sri Ramakrishna: “Well, how do you find Kedar? Has he ‘drunk milk’ or only ‘seen it?’
Mahima: “Yes, he is enjoying bliss.”
Sri Ramakrishna: “And Nityagopal?”
Mahima: “Good. He’s in a very nice state.”
Sri Ramakrishna: “Alright. So tell me, has Girish Ghosh changed?”
Mahima: “Very nicely – but he belongs to a separate class.”
Sri Ramakrishna: “Narendra?”
Mahima: “He is what I was fifteen years ago.”
Sri Ramakrishna: “And the younger Naren? Isn’t he guileless?”
Mahima: “Yes. He is very simple-hearted.”
Sri Ramakrishna: “That’s true. (Thinking some more) Who else?
“It’s enough if all the youngsters who come here know just two things. When they do, they won’t have to practice much spiritual discipline. First, who I am – and then who they are. Many of these youngsters belong to the inner circle.
“Those who belong to the inner circle won’t attain liberation. I will take up a body again (in the northwest).
“I feel great peace when I see these youngsters. How can I feel happy when I see those who father sons, engage in law-suits, and are busy with ‘lust and greed?’ How can I live without seeing pure souls?”
Mahimacharan chants verses from the scriptures for Thakur and talks of different yogic postures such as bhuchari, khechari, sambhavi, and so forth, mentioned in the Tantra.
Thakur experiences five kinds of samadhi – piercing the six spiritual centres – basic truth of yoga – kundalini
Sri Ramakrishna: “Well, some people say that in samadhi the atman flies around like a bird in the Great Space.
“Once a sadhu came here from Hrishikesh. He said, ‘Samadhi is of five kinds. And you experience them all. I have seen this. Like an ant, a fish, a monkey, a bird, and a serpent.’
“At times, the spiritual current rises up like an ant’s movement. Sometimes, in the state of samadhi, the atman swims joyfully in an ocean of ecstasy, like a fish.
“Sometimes, when I’m lying on my side, the great spiritual current pushes me, like a monkey playing with me. I stay quiet. Then this great current suddenly jumps around like a monkey and climbs up to the thousand-petalled centre. That’s why I jump up with a start.
“And sometimes, the great current rises up like a bird, hopping from one branch to another. The place where it rests feels like fire. Perhaps it rises from muladhara to the svadhisthana, from the svadhishtana to the heart, and in this way rises right up to the head.
“Sometimes, the spiritual current rises like the zigzag movement of a snake. When it rises to the head, I experience samadhi.”
His earlier story – first ecstasy at the age of 22 or 23, in 1858 – piercing the six spiritual centres
“Spiritual consciousness is not awakened until the kundalini has awakened.
“The kundalini lies in the muladhara. When it is awakened, it passes though the centre of the sushumna spiritual nerve, to pierce the svadhisthana, manipura, and the other spiritual centres, until it finally reaches the head. This is known as the movement of the great spiritual current. Thus finally one enters samadhi.
“You can’t gain spiritual awareness by just reading books. You have to call upon Him. The kundalini wakes up when you yearn for God. Listening and reading about spiritual knowledge in books – of what use is that?
“Just before I reached this state, I was shown how the power of the kundalini is awakened. How all the lotuses of the spiritual centres begin to open out one by one – and finally I was in samadhi. This is very secret. I saw that a young man about twenty-two or twenty-three years old, just like me, entered my sushumna nerve and began to play intimately with the lotuses, touching them with his tongue. First at the rectum, then at the organ of reproduction, and then the navel. These lotuses with four petals, six petals, and ten petals, all looking downward, began to look up.
“When it reached the heart, I still remember it very clearly. The twelve-petalled lotus, which looked downward, turned upward and opened out when he touched it with his tongue. Then the sixteen-petalled lotus in the throat and then the two-petalled lotus in the forehead opened up. Last of all, the thousand-petalled lotus, the sahasrara, opened out. Since then I have been in this state.”
His earlier story – Thakur talks openly – is he a perfect human being or an incarnation of God?
(Talks with God – view of maya – sees devotees before their actual coming – sees Keshab Sen in ecstasy – vision of Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute – and Narendra – and Kedar – illumined body in his first ecstasy – his father’s dream – the Naked One and samadhi in three days – Mathur’s service from 1858 to 1871, fourteen years – yearns for devotees on the roof of the kuthi – in continuous samadhi – practices all spiritual disciplines)
While he is talking of these things, Thakur comes down from his cot and sits close to Mahimacharan on the floor. M. and one or two other devotees are there. Rakhal is also present.
Sri Ramakrishna (to Mahima): “I have been wanting to tell you this for many days, but I couldn’t. I feel like telling you today.
“You say that my state can be attained just by practicing spiritual disciplines. This is not true. There is something special here.”
M., Rakhal, and the other devotees listen eagerly and in amazement to what Thakur has to say.
Sri Ramakrishna: “God talked to me. It’s not only that you can see God – you can talk with Him. Under the banyan tree, I saw Him coming up from the Ganges. O, how much we laughed after that! He twisted my fingers playfully. And then He talked. He actually talked to me.
“I wept for three days, and He showed me what the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, and other holy books contain. He showed it all to me.
“One day He also revealed to me what the maya of Mahamaya is. A small light in the room gradually became bigger and bigger until it spread out over the whole world and enveloped it.
“And then He showed me a big lake totally covered with sedge. When a breeze parted it a little, I saw water. But in no time at all, the sedge came dancing from all sides and again covered it completely. I was shown that the water was Sat-chit-ananda and the sedge was maya. Because of maya, you can’t see Sat-chit-ananda. But some-times, though you can get a momentary glimpse, maya again covers it up.
“I am shown what kind of devotees will come before they arrive. Under the banyan tree, I was shown the singing party of Chaitanya Deva stretching to the bakul tree. I saw Balaram in that party. If he had not been there, who would supply me with sugar candy and such things? And I saw him (M.) too.”
Sri Ramakrishna – Keshab Sen introducing the name of Hari and the Divine Mother into his Samaj
“Before I met Keshab Sen, I saw him in a vision. While in the state of samadhi, I saw him and his group. There was a room full of people sitting in front of me. I saw Keshab – like a peacock with its tail spread out. The tail meant his group. And I saw a red jewel on Keshab’s forehead. This is a sign of rajas. Keshab was saying to his devotees, ‘Please listen to everything he says.’ I said to the Divine Mother, ‘Mother, they hold the views of English people. Why should I talk to them?’ The Divine Mother made me understand that this is how it is in the Kaliyuga. Then Keshab and his followers carried the names of Hari and the Divine Mother from here. That’s why the Divine Mother took Vijay from Keshab’s group. But he didn’t join the Adi Brahmo Samaj.
(Pointing to himself) “There is something special within [me]. A boy named Gopal Sen used to visit me, quite a long time ago. He who is within me placed his foot on Gopal’s chest. Gopal said in a state of ecstasy, ‘You will have to wait a long time. I can’t get along with worldly people. I have to leave now.’ Saying this, he left. I heard later that he had quit his body after that. Maybe he has now been born as Nityagopal.
“I have had many wonderful visions. I had the vision of the Indivisible Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute. I saw two groups divided by a fence in the middle. On one side, I saw Kedar, Chuni, and many other believers in God with form. On the other side of the fence was a shining heap of red brick dust – illumined. In the middle of it, I saw Narendra sitting in samadhi.
“Seeing him absorbed in meditation, I called out, ‘Oh, Narendra.’ He opened his eyes a little. I understood that he had been born in one form in Simla as the son of a kayastha. I then said to the Divine Mother, ‘Mother, please bind him with Your maya. Otherwise, he’ll quit his body absorbed in samadhi.’ Kedar, who was a believer in God with form, peeped in and ran away with a shudder.
“So I say to myself that the Divine Mother Herself resides in this [body] and plays with the devotees. When I first had this state, the body would shine with light and the chest would become red. Then I said, ‘Mother, don’t manifest Yourself externally. Go within, go within.’ So now I have this dull body. If it were not so, people would trouble me a lot. They would gather in crowds if I still had that luminous body. There is no outer manifestation now. This drives away useless fellows. Only those who are pure devotees will stay. Why do I have this illness? It has the same meaning. Those who have devotion for some selfish reasons will flee on seeing me ill.
“I had this desire. I said to the Divine Mother, ‘May I become king of the devotees.’
“And then the thought came, ‘Those who sincerely call upon God will have to come here. They will surely have to come.’ Now see, this is exactly what is happening. Only those people are coming.
“My mother and my father knew what is here within. My father had a dream in Gaya in which Raghuvir said, ‘I will be born as your son.’
“It is He who resides here within. As for such renunciation of ‘lust and greed,’ could I have brought it about myself? I haven’t cohabited with a woman even in dream!
“The Naked One taught me the Vedanta. I attained samadhi in three days. Seeing me in samadhi under the madhavi creeper, he was perplexed and exclaimed, ‘Oh, what is this?’ Later he realized what dwelt within this. Then he said to me, ‘Please let me go.’ Hearing these words I went into a state of ecstasy and said to him, ‘You can’t leave till I have realized the truth of Vedanta.’
“I was with him day and night. There was only Vedanta. Brahmani would say, ‘Son, don’t listen to Vedanta. Your love for God will suffer.’
“I said to the Divine Mother, ‘Mother, how will I be able to sustain this body? How can I live in the company of sadhus and devotees? Please send a rich man to me.’ That’s why Mathur Babu served me for fourteen years.
“He who dwells within tells me in advance what kind of devotees will come to me. As soon as I see the form of Gauranga before my eyes, I immediately know that the devotees of Gaur will be coming. And if a Shakta comes, I have the vision of Divine Energy, Kali, before my eyes.
“I used to shout from the roof of the kuthi at the time of the evening service, ‘O all of you, where are you? Please come!’ See, now they all are gathering one by one.
“God Himself dwells within this. As if He Himself is working with the devotees.
“How wonderful is the state of mind of some of the devotees! The younger Naren automatically experiences kumbhaka without effort. And then goes into samadhi time and again. Sometimes for two-and-half hours at a stretch! Sometimes longer. How wonderful!
“All kinds of disciplines have been practiced here: jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, and karma yoga. Even hatha yoga, to add years to the life. A person dwells within this. How else could I have love for God and live with devotees after samadhi? Koar Singh said, ‘I have never seen a person returning [to life] after samadhi. You are none other than Nanak.’”
His earlier story – in the steamboat with Keshab, Pratap, and Mr. Cook – 1881
“There are worldly people everywhere – everywhere ‘lust and greed.’ And yet I live in this state surrounded by them, constantly experiencing samadhi or ecstasy. That’s why Pratap (Pratap Chandra Majumdar of the Brahmo Samaj), when he came with Mr. Cook and noticed my samadhi in the steamer, said, ‘Dear sir, you seem to be possessed by a ghost.’”
Rakhal, M. and the others listen wonderstruck to all these amazing words issuing from the mouth of Sri Ramakrishna.
Has Mahimacharan been able to understand what Thakur is hinting at? Even after hearing it all, he says, “Sir, all this has happened as ordained by your destiny.” His feeling is that Thakur is just a holy man, a devotee. Consenting to his remark, Thakur says, “Yes, actions of my past lives are showing their effect now. It is like a gentleman possessing a number of houses. Here you have a special parlour. The devotee is His parlour.”
Mahimacharan’s brahmachakra – his earlier story – instructions by Totapuri
Is it a small thing to have a vision in dream? Narendra sees divine forms
It is nine o’clock at night. Thakur is sitting on the smaller cot. Mahimacharan wants to form a brahmachakra in the same room that Thakur is in. He forms a circle with Rakhal, M., Kishori, and one or two other devotees. Then he asks them all to meditate. Rakhal goes into ecstasy. Thakur comes down from the bed and, placing his hand on Rakhal’s chest, begins to chant the name of the Divine Mother. Rakhal comes out of the ecstasy.
It must be one o’clock in the morning. It is the fourteenth lunar day of the dark fortnight, pitch dark everywhere. One or two devotees are pacing alone on the masonry embankment of the Ganges. Thakur gets up. He also comes out and says to the devotees, “The Naked One used to say that at such an hour, in the depth of night, one can hear the anahata sound.”
In the later part of the night, Mahimacharan and M. lie down on the floor of Thakur’s room. Rakhal is sleeping on the camp cot. Thakur at times paces the room stark-naked like a five-year-old boy.
It is morning. Thakur repeats the name of the Divine Mother. Going to the western verandah, he has a view of the Ganges. He then goes near all the pictures of the gods and goddesses in the room and salutes them. The devotees rise from their beds, salute him, and then attend to their morning ablutions.
Thakur talks to a devotee in the panchavati. The devotee had seen Chaitanya Deva in a dream.
Sri Ramakrishna (in ecstasy): “Ah! Ah!”
The devotee: “Sir, it was but a dream.”
Sri Ramakrishna: “Is a dream a small matter?”
Thakur has tears in his eyes and his voice full of emotion.
Hearing that a devotee had a divine vision while awake, he says, “What is there to marvel at? Narendra also sees divine forms these days.”
Finishing his morning ablutions, Mahimacharan goes to the Shiva temple west of the courtyard and alone chants verses from the Vedas.
It is eight o’clock in the morning. Mani comes to Thakur after a dip in the Ganges. The grief-stricken brahmin woman has also come to see Thakur.
Sri Ramakrishna (to the brahmin woman): “Please give him some prasad to eat. There are some luchis and the like in the recess of the wall.”
Brahmin woman: “You must eat first. Later, he will be served.”
Sri Ramakrishna: “First eat the prasad of Jagannath.”
After having prasad, Mani goes to the Shiva temples. Then he returns to Thakur. Saluting him, he takes leave.
Sri Ramakrishna (affectionately): “You may go now. You have to attend to your work.”
. The section of Calcutta in which Narendra was born.
. Sakama bhakti.
Bhairavi Brahmani.
. Prarabdha karma, that karma which has already been set in motion, the result of past actions being experienced in the present.
. A mystic circle prescribed in Tantra.
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Choices and Consequences. Every day we make decisions, or decisions are made for us by others, that could impact the rest of our lives to varying degrees. When it comes to making wise choices, God’s word is our guide, but what does it say? How do we respond when the consequences of our decisions are not what we expected or hoped?
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Women of Worth. This programme examines the roles of several women in the Bible, as well as some Christian heroines from the history of the Church, to highlight the impact they made.
Take The Stand. We aim to inspire young Christians to share their faith with others by challenging them to take their stand for God, and by providing practical tips and biblical examples along the way.
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Black Arts in the UK
n.b. while the main focus of this website is theatre, there will be occasional content about Black literature, TV, and film.
Links to jobs, opportunities, and development programmes for emerging Black theatre-makers, artists, and practitioners.
Fancy a quick history lesson?
Click on the links below…
There is a rich history of Black contributions to British theatre and the landscape, which I’ve created an overview of in the gallery of pictures above.
From left to right:
- An engraving by William Hogarth from 1783 entitled ‘Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn’, which depicts a Black actress – one of the first pieces of evidence of Black actors during this time period
- A picture from 1854 of Ira Aldridge dressed in character – Aldridge was the first Black actor to play this titular role in the UK
- A production photograph of the National Theatre’s 2009 staging of Wole Soyinka’s 1975 Death and the King’s Horseman – the first Black play to be performed on the main stage of the National Theatre
Now, in the 21st century, we are no longer witnessing ‘firsts’ when it comes to Black performances in the UK (thankfully!). However, there still is a fight to combat the systemic racism in British theatre that continues to excludes and marginalise diverse Black voices, theatre-makers, theatre-goers, and critics. I intend this website to be part of this fight.
This website explores Blackness on the English stage, and includes a directory of different resources for Black people pursuing careers in theatre, a catalogue of current productions, and reviews.
To the left, you’ll find a few articles and resources which take you through the history of Black theatre in the UK. Don’t forget to come back here once you’ve finished reading them though!
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With its ancient Roman ruins, a wealth of great food, fantastic weather, and a volcano on the doorstep, Pozzuoli may well be a holiday destination but it's far from touristy!
Living in Pozzuoli - once the home of Sophia Loren - isn't really living at the dodgy end of Italy at all but as una mezza-Veneziana, I'm (almost) comedically obliged to paraphrase a quote from one of my favourite films (Love Actually)!
I should point out that I don't in any way subscribe to the Lega Nord notion of the North being superior to the South but I can tell you that after living in Pozzuoli for a short while, I did notice several marked differences between Puteoli (as those lovely Romans named it) and Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta.*
(*Venetian does not use double consonants - la Serenissima is Italian. There's a difference.)
Pozzuoli is noisy!
Perhaps the biggest difference (apart from the smell, which I'll come to in a bit) is all the noise. In general, Venetians - thanks to centuries of living in such close proximity to each other - have a very developed sense of privacy, and are, in my opinion, far more reserved and quiet than the average person in the South.
Especially in Pozzuoli.
(Also, for the record, Venetians are not ill-mannered, as some tourists like to claim. The same cannot be said of some tourists.)
It's not unusual for people in Pozzuoli to shout across the alleys to each other, or to hold a conversation with one person three floors up, while the other is at ground level.
Or even for them to stand under a window, and call someone's name instead of ringing their doorbell.
People in Pozzuoli are loud. Very loud indeed.
Pozzuoli is full of passion!
Sometimes it felt as though we were living in the land of caricatures and stereotypes. All those things you see cartoon Italians doing and saying seem to happen there. It appears that Pozzuoli is populated by what non-Italians would think of as 'typical' Italians.
Passione was, I suspect, coined to describe the people of Campania.
We lived right by chiesa Sacro Cuore (church of the Sacred Heart), and the bells went off on the hour, every hour. It was brilliant, especially at noon when they were particularly enthusiastic.
However, I do have to say that they did sound a bit tinny and flat... Venetian church bells, on the other hand, tend to be sonorous, and I do prefer them.
Still, honestly, despite being irreligious, it nevertheless filled me with comfort to hear the hourly bells.
Getting used to the noise in Pozzuoli!
No one seemed to bat an eyelid about people playing music loudly. On a daily basis we'd hear drum practise from an apartment across the alley, '80s pop from another.
Fortunately, someone, somewhere had the good taste to blare out a variety of classical music! And a gentleman who lived across the courtyard sang opera... loudly and beautifully. He was a real joy to hear.
All this aural assault took a bit of getting used to - not least because we'd spent the previous nine months living in rural Slovenia, which is exceptionally quiet. To the point that there are regulations regarding how much noise you can make after 10 pm.
Not so in Pozzuoli; it's a free-for-all.
Having said that, with a few exceptions, it was actually pretty quiet at night, which is no mean feat, since our apartment was spitting distance from the lungomare (seafront), where there are lots of bars, clubs, and restaurants.
One of the biggest downsides however, was the way that sound travelled throughout the palazzo we lived in, and the fact that no Italian seems to remove their footwear when indoors. I find that truly weird!
I'd even hazard that Anna Maria, who lived in the apartment above us, actually kept her stilettos by her bedside, and put them on the minute she rose.
Pozzuoli is nocturnal!
Another downside was that unlike us, most of the population of Pozzuoli is nocturnal. Yes, we'd go out for la passeggiata in the evenings, and we'd eat late* but would always be tucked up in bed while our neighbours were out partying. People partied seven nights a week. With fireworks too.
(*Being half-Italian, it's a habit I've had all my life.)
In the five months we lived in Pozzuoli, I did not have one single unbroken night's sleep, thanks to the aforementioned neighbours coming home between 3-4am, slamming the front door (despite the sign asking people to not do so), clip-clopping up the marble staircase, slamming their apartment door, clip-clopping across their wooden floors, dragging furniture around (maybe they only had sofa beds, which needed to be pulled out each night).
Consideration for one's neighbours was non-existent.
After we moved out, our friend, Stefano, who owned the flat, moved back in, and turned the apartment into a music venue. I'm glad we were not his neighbours.
These observations are not in any way a complaint about the noise; on the contrary, I really didn't mind it. As long as it wasn't keeping me awake.
All life is in Pozzuoli!
While Pozzuoli was certainly noisier than we'd become accustomed to, all of life is there, as they say. While it may attract tourists (mostly other Italians), the day to day noise is a reminder that this is a living, breathing town, filled with people who are simply going about their daily business.
People of Pozzuoli
Something else I noticed in Pozzuoli was how different to Venetian the accent and speech patterns were. Neapolitan lingo seems so much more laid back, and the accent is very pronounced. I spent five months waiting for someone to say, "Shaddappa you face"!
(By comparison, Venetians don't have much of an accent - well, not to my ears, anyway.)
Another big difference I noticed between Pozzuoli and Venezia is that modesty seems to not be a word in the Southern Italian lexicon. While I am absolutely all for people dressing entirely to please themselves (heck, I do), the amount of exposed flesh and underwear on show did take a bit of getting used to.
Actually, if I'm honest, I never got used to it.
I have a nagging suspicion that there's a small part of me which feels a tad envious of the carefree attitude there. I suspect that all our years living in conservative countries (Morocco, India, Thailand etc. - even Britain's home counties!) has had an effect upon what I now consider to be appropriately-clad.
I realise that it's likely a failing on my part that my immediate reaction upon seeing a middle-aged, bra-less woman in a diaphanous electric pink frock, with her thong clearly visible, walking along the high street, is to feel a little taken aback!
Food in Pozzuoli
Unlike in Venezia, this end of the country has the most wonderful pizza. Of course it does - we were a stone's throw from Napoli, the oft-espoused home of the best thing you can do with some dough, a tomato, and a bit of basil.
There is no shortage of greengrocers in Pozzuoli, and mini-markets with sizeable fresh produce sections, which was of course, brilliant news for two people who don't eat meat.
Our favourite greengrocer was about seven minutes' walk away, and run by an old man who always proffered samples of his most delicious soft and stone fruit for us to try. In our first week there, amato mio and I munched our way through 9kg of fruit and 3kg of fresh baby plum tomatoes. This was in addition to all the other fresh veg and salad we were eating.
We really took advantage of locally-grown food and low prices. €2,50/kg for fresh cherries - sì, I was totally all over that!
The only downside of our greengrocer was that we never knew when he was going to be open. Most shopkeepers in Pozzuoli close around 13h, reopen at 16h, and don't shut up for the evening until 20h.
Some however, including, it seemed, our greengrocer, re-open when they feel like it. I can't say I blame them, I would love to have that kind of attitude toward work... but if I did, I'd have no work. And then I couldn't gorge myself on fresh cherries!
Fortunately, we also had a good family-run mini-market close by, which seemed to have somewhat more comprehensible opening hours.
Pozzuoli is friendly!
At first the owners of my local store weren't overly friendly; however, after a week or so, they suddenly opened up, and started chatting.
In Italian of course - English is rarely spoken in Pozzuoli.
They asked us whether we were actually living there, how long would we be staying, etc. And then whenever I bought fruit and veg there, the elderly woman who always served me would throw in free herbs. Barring that first week, I almost never bought herbs the whole time we lived in Pozzuoli!
The man on the deli counter (who was, I think, the son of the lady who gave me herbs), used to invite me to stay awhile, for espresso and a chat. And much tasting of all the different olives he sold!
We also regularly encountered random acts of kindness from strangers at the Metro station, and from other customers in shops.
I do actually think a contributing factor to this growing acceptance may have been me removing my dreads - I suspect I ceased to look quite so intimidating once I no longer had green hair!
Not much I could do about the fact that I towered over most people there though. It's a common story, and in fact, outside Britain, the only place we've lived where we've not felt like Hagrid and Madame Maxime was in Belgrade (Serbia).
Weather in Pozzuoli
Having seen our first winter in years when we lived in Slovenia, and then spending a few cold, grey, and frankly, damp, days in Britain, prior to moving to Pozzuoli, I can say with complete honesty that it was so wonderful to be back in the warm.
If there's something this part of Italy has, it's shedloads of sunshine. In the five months we lived there, it rained once. For about 30 minutes. It was quite the deluge!
Temperatures were around 36°C, although with the humidity, it often felt so much hotter. However, because buildings there are built close together, creating air-flow channels between them, and because the walls are over half a metre thick (these are after all, converted palazzi), they are pretty good at staying cool. In fact, the entrance to our building, which has a marble staircase and stone floor, bordered on the chilly, even in the hottest weather.
That said, by the time Ferragosto came around (August 15th), we'd actually bought a fan.
The downside of the humidity and warmth, is of course, the mosquitoes*. I think I am doomed to live out my days being a walking feast. And unlike in Thailand, there were no jingjoks to eat them, so we were rarely able to have our windows open.
*When we lived in Chiang Mai, we met Dr Rampa Rattanarithikul, the world's foremost taxonomist on all things mosquito. Like me, she gets eaten alive but she told me that it's a sign of good fortune to be 'blessed' with a mosquito kiss. To be honest, I'd be very happy to not be quite so fortunate. I certainly didn't feel terribly fortunate when I contracted dengue fever back in 2013.
Still, the thing to do is to not complain about being bitten but appreciate that it's actually a privilege; many people never get the opportunity to leave their home environs, much less go to live in different countries, so in a way, I suppose Dr Rampa was right - I am a very fortunate person
More Neapolitan friendliness!
As I mentioned earlier, we found at first that despite their openness and familiarity with each other, people were a little reserved around us (maybe around other outsiders too) but it really didn't take long for the ice to break.
Our local pizza place, which was almost outside our front door, is a case in point; it didn't take long for the owner to know what we liked to eat and drink. Pretty soon he would laugh and and joke around with us... although I did learn to not joke around with him about having 'molto grande vino' because instead of pouring a me large glass, he'd open a bottle!
His mother was especially lovely, and very often if she saw us out walking, would come over, and give me a big hug and kiss my cheeks. Three times. That's the Neapolitan way!
Stefano was lovely too. When we arrived in Pozzuoli, he welcomed us with a large bag of fresh fruit, and was the very soul of helpfulness after we moved in. He even took us out to the opening night of his friend's exhibition in Napoli because I'd previously made a comment about how much I enjoyed his work.
As it turned out, Raimondo Castronuovo was just as friendly, as were the other guests and artists there.
Some of Raimondo's sculptures can be seen Stefano's video above.
Pozzuoli's Roman Ruins
As a lover of all things ancient Roman, one of the reasons I was so keen to live in this part of the country was all the ruins which litter the region. Ruins, which in most cases, are largely overlooked by tourists. We were hoping to visit Pompeii and Ercolano (Herculaneum) but we just didn't have time.
We did however, do a lot of exploring to do within Pozzuoli itself, where ancient ruins are legion.
THE TYRRHENIAN SEA
Or Mar Tirreno as it is in Neapolitan. Named by the Greeks for the Etruscans - the non-Greek people of the area, who settled in what was to become Tuscany. The deep blue Tyrrhenian Sea flows out of the bay and into the Mediterranean, and sparkles so much in the sun that it looks as though its surface is made of diamonds.
The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted that Tyrrhenian sounds very much like Mediterranean. 😉
Unfortunately, because many people in Pozzuoli seem to have a 'me ne frego'* attitude toward their environment, and leave their litter everywhere, the sea was just too dirty for us to risk swimming in. The beach was no better; despite there being a ton of litter bins, people still just left their crap all over the place. (I say beach... I do actually mean huge boulders of volcanic rock.)
*Me ne frego simply means, I don't care. It's an Italian thing, not a fascist thing, as some like to claim. Just because Mussolini said it, it doesn't mean it's a fascist saying. I'm sure il Duce also said, "Ho fame" (I'm hungry) or "Mi fa male la testa" (I have a headache) too!
Pozzuoli can be dirty!
And speaking of crap, I've never lived anywhere where there's so much dog mess. Again, people just don't clean up. To be fair, Pozzuoli wasn't horrendous - I'm just not used to seeing dog poo on the streets.
Bagnoli, just along the coast was much worse, though. Easily the most gross and stinky place I've ever visited in my life. In fact, it was so bad - not just with dog mess but with rotting food trash too - that one evening, despite having walked there with the intention of going out for dinner, it was so disgusting, that we turned around, and went to our usual pizza place back in Pozzuoli instead.
Which brings me neatly to...
... and the smell I mentioned at the beginning of this post, which, when the breeze is blowing down toward the sea, permeates everything. Do I need to tell you what this means for me, someone with acute hyperosmia? Let's just say that I was very grateful for our double-glazed, well-fitting windows. The smell still got in but it was bearable.
You might think then, that an overabundance of rotting eggy stench would keep me away from the volcano... you'd be wrong. How many people do you know who get to visit a volcano which is a 40 minute walk from their front door? I'm so glad we checked it out because it was really cool!
Pozzuoli - The Dodgy End Of Italy
While Pozzuoli may not have been the most salubrious of places we've lived, and certainly not the quietest, it absolutely didn't lack in character. And neither did its inhabitants.
In some ways it reminded me of some of the seaside towns in the South East of Britain... only with far superior food.
And Roman ruins!
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There’s no escaping rising oil prices. They’ve driven up the cost of gasoline, and the higher expenses registers every time people fill up the tank.
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“It’s a daunting problem, and I don’t think our state policymakers are even half aware of it yet,” Lewin said.
The best way to improve prospects is to boost natural gas production, said Bruce Bullock, director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University.
“It’s not like oil — where you can drive less,” he said. “It’s very difficult to reduce natural gas consumption.
“This time of year, most of it goes to power generation — to cool homes, offices and manufacturing plants. And if we get real hot weather, demand is going to be even higher.”
Cannabis industry to see tax cuts, reforms in California
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Esquire ran a provocative piece claiming that Sam Adams founder Jim Koch uses a clever trick to avoid getting drunk during a long night of imbibing: he swallows active dry yeast to digest the alcohol before it can get into his system.
Here's a look at the science of alcohol metabolism to find out if this trick could actually work.
How do humans digest alcohol?
When I wrote about alcohol metabolism before, I mentioned that humans metabolize alcohol in the liver. And while that's mostly true, it's more complicated than that.
When you drink alcohol, it travels from the mouth down the esophagus into the stomach. From here, many sources claim that about 20% of the alcohol you drink travels directly between the stomach and your blood vessels.1, 2
When I checked the research, it turns out that you directly absorb as much as 30% of alcohol through the stomach when you're drinking with food and as little as 10% without food.3 Since absorption through the stomach is slower than through the small intestines, this helps explain why we tend to get drunk more slowly when we're having our drinks with a meal.
Either way, though, the majority of alcohol eventually travels out the stomach into the small intestines, where the alcohol gets absorbed through the intestinal walls into the surrounding blood vessels.
The blood from the small intestines then goes through the liver, where the alcohol begins to be digested, but since the liver can't handle a whole lot of alcohol at a time, much of the alcohol passes through the liver without being digested. That alcohol circulates in the blood stream to the rest of your body and, well, gets you drunk.
Over time, the blood in your body continues to pass through the liver and your liver continues to process it, until you eventually convert all the alcohol in your blood into simple sugars or excrete it as acetic acid.
How does active dry yeast help metabolize alcohol?
Most yeast has an enzyme called Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH). There are several different types of ADH and other types of ADH can be found in plants and animals as well.
Humans possess ADH in both our stomachs and in our livers. The version we harbor can process not just alcohol from spirits, but also other alcohols that would be harmful to our bodies. In that way, our ADH protects us from small amounts of toxins that might occur in fermented foods and as a result of the fermentation that occurs during our own digestive processes.
The version of ADH found in yeast, specifically baker's yeast, is different than the ADH found naturally in the human body.4 It isn't as robust as the ADH in a human, but it can digest alcohol. How? Read on...
If you're a homebrewer or spirits enthusiast, you may know that yeast are responsible for converting simple sugars into, among other things, carbon dioxide and alcohol. So if you know them best for turning stuff into alcohol, why would they be used to transform alcohol back into non-hangover-inducing matter?
The short answer is that the ADH in yeast are part of a complex regulatory system. The yeast themselves digest sugars into ethanol, but yeast die when too much ethanol is present, so they had to evolve a system that would allow them to keep digesting optimally without committing suicide-by-alcohol.
How does all of this relate to Koch's trick? Follow my logic here:
- Jim Koch referred specifically to active dry yeast
- Fleischmann's brand active dry yeast contains only the yeast strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae 5
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast contains the ADH enzyme that digests ethanol.4
Big important takeaway: don't go swallowing random yeast strains. I'm looking at you homebrewers out there. As you well know, yeast can vary drastically depending on strain and geography. Much of the yeast used for brewing is Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but not all of it. I don't think you could get hurt eating other yeast used for brewing, but I haven't researched it in depth, so I can't recommend it.
So... does it work?
Believe it or not, I think so.
The basic argument goes like this: ADH is most effective at a slightly basic pH.6 But the human stomach, where supposed yeast ADH metabolism of ethanol would occur, has a pH around 1.5 to 3.5 (and that's really acidic).
While I get the argument that's being made, science has already shown in multiple instances that ADH not only already exists in the stomach lining, but that it acts to breakdown ethanol in the stomach.3, 7, 8
Those who argue that ADH won't work in the stomach's acidic environment reference one paper on liver ADH and another paper that looked at yeast ADH in an acidic environment, but only after 24 hours.
Here's where understanding alcohol metabolism comes back into play. It doesn't really matter what happens to ADH after a day or even an hour in the stomach. Alcohol absorbs very quickly, so any effect from yeast ADH would have to happen in a matter of minutes to be effective.
Can yeast make a difference in that amount of time? I did a quick experiment to find out.
An experiment with yeast and liquor
I asked a simple question: what happens if I combine active dry yeast and alcohol in a bowl?
If it didn't do anything outside the stomach, I could be pretty sure nothing would happen inside.
I combined 2 ounces of unaged rum (I was out of vodka as a result of my glass-chilling experiments) and one packet of active dry yeast. Then I stood around and took pictures, looking for bubbles.
After about 5 minutes, and seeing only minimal bubbling activity, I carefully took a sip from the now fully-dissolved mixture. Result? It didn't taste as strong as full-proof alcohol, but it definitely still tasted like alcohol.
Even after I had let the mixture sit for over an hour, I went back and it still tasted distinctly like alcohol.
What did I learn?
- While it seems that yeast ADH does help to decrease alcohol levels
- it's probably not that much.
- and it takes a few minutes, during which time some alcohol will inevitably make it into the blood.
My conclusions seem to match up with what has been observed in actual human studies. Dr. Joseph Owades, the biochemist and brewing expert Jim Koch credited with the yeast trick in the first place, actually patented the technique and includes in his patent application graphs that show the effect of yeast on blood alcohol levels.
As you can see from the graph, swallowing yeast does help to decrease the impact of drinking a beer on blood alcohol levels, but blood alcohol does definitely still rise. Keep in mind, also, that the graphs shown in the patent are the result of testing just one female and one male subject.
OK, so should I actually do this?
Let's first talk about who shouldn't use the yeast trick.
- If you're allergic to alcohol, know that the ADH in yeast will not fully metabolize alcohol before it makes it into your bloodstream, so don't do this, because you will inevitably react to the alcohol that's present.
- If you think you might be allergic to alcohol you may actually be sensitive to other compounds found in alcoholic beverages, not ethanol itself, so the yeast trick will do nothing for you.9
- If you're trying to avoid a hangover this trick may not be for you. Many researchers blame the byproducts of ethanol metabolism, acetaldehyde and acetate, and not just ethanol itself, for hangovers. The ADH in yeast only helps you digest ethanol into acetaldehyde and acetate and doesn't provide for further digestion of those two toxins.10
- Same goes for the Asian "glow." Researchers believe that the cause behind the Asian glow also has to do with acetaldehyde in the blood stream, not ethanol, so once again, the yeast trick might keep you from getting drunk, but probably won't do anything to help with flushing.
The only real situations I can see where this trick might be useful is if you were:
- A super-lightweight. A person who likes the taste of alcohol, but doesn't like getting sloppy drunk after a two sips of wine. If you're going to keep your consumption moderate anyway, this might help you stay just a little more sober too.
- A secret agent. You know, like if you had to get the Prime Minister really drunk and steal his briefcase of secrets when he thought you were passed out too? That sort of thing.
1. Brown University, Alcohol and Your Body 2. George Washington University, Alcohol Absorption 3. Use of measurements of ethanol absorption from stomach and intestine to assess human ethanol metabolism 4. The three zinc-containing alcohol dehydrogenases from baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae 5. Breadworld.com, The Science of Yeast 6. pH is a measure of acidity. 7 is neutral and 6 is 10 times more acidic than 7. For reference, limes have a pH around 2 or 3. 7. First pass metabolism of ethanol is strikingly influenced by the speed of gastric emptying 8. Human gastric alcohol dehydrogenase activity: effect of age, sex, and alcoholism. 9. Verywell Health, Types of Alcohol Allergies and Intolerances 10. Yeast does also contain the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), but I suspect that this second step in metabolism wouldn't be activated in the stomach before the acetaldehyde was already absorbed into the bloodstream, where the ALDH would not follow.
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The spicy Szechuan siren of Park Avenue
Break up with General Tso’s Chicken, already; photos by Tomas Flint
Have you ever looked up how many languages there are in China? The count is well over 300 (compared to the 200-ish spoken on the entire continent of Europe). Given the diversity in languages spoken, it should be no surprise that the term “Chinese food” does not begin to scratch the surface of the variety of cuisines present in China. It may also come as a shocker that the most commonly ordered “Chinese” dish here—General Tso’s chicken—was invented right here in the United States, but we will save that story for another day.
Sichuan cuisine was one of the first cuisines from China to strike out on its own in US food culture with a distinct identity. Known for its namesake peppercorn that has a unique numbing quality, it is also a cuisine in which spicy actually means spicy. Hot oil, chili peppers, ginger, and peppercorns are used liberally. Some Sichuan dishes have been modified heavily to become American Chinese favorites— such as pork in garlic sauce and kung pao chicken.
At Szechuan Opera, you can get the best of both worlds. It offers dishes most of us have had countless times—orange chicken, beef and broccoli, and yes, even General Tso’s chicken.
The appetizers run the gamut from the ubiquitous crab rangoon to the much less known beef tendon in chili sauce. You can choose to be as safe or as adventurous as you feel. Regardless, start with the Crispy Cucumber with Garlic (cold chunks of cucumber in a light soy-garlic sauce). It is refreshing and crunchy. I suggest keeping it around for the rest of the meal should you require a reprieve from a spicy dish. The Wonton in Chili Oil is a good start for fellow spice heads.
If you embrace spicy food (as one should!), welcome to heaven. Start with the dry hotpot. The “dry” part is a bit of a misnomer as the dish is served in a hot-oil heavy sauce. It comes as an ornate square bowl atop a flame to keep the dish warm and bubbling. If you are a shellfish fan get it with shrimp. The spicy chili oil sauce combined with the slight brine of the plump shrimp is delectable.
Other Sichuan dishes that will set your spicy spirit on fire include Shredded Beef with Long Hot Pepper (it has good wok hei, which leads to a spicy and smoky umami bomb!) and Diced Chicken with Pepper and Dried Chili in the Chongqing style (crispy cubes of chicken stir fried with crushed szechuan peppercorn, long hot green peppers, and dried chilis).
If your relationship with spicy food is classified as “It’s Complicated,” there are tons of options for you at Szechuan Opera. The Stir-Fried Ginger with Diced Chicken is a perfect choice for those who want something a bit spicy. The sauce is gingery and salty—perfect spooned on mountains of white rice. The Garlic Sauce Style is more balanced than the average takeout American Chinese joint and is great for those who prefer a slightly sweeter sauce.
I have to admit that I always order lo mein as a dish to share with my dining companions. As humble and basic lo mein may seem, Szechuan Opera’s is the best I have had in recent memory. The noodles are cooked to just the right chew, and the sauce walks the fine line between satisfyingly salty and over seasoned very well.
Recently, Szechuan Opera has added all-day dim sum to the menu. In my limited exposure, I have already found two must-try options. The Crispy Tofu Skin with Shrimp Roll consists of a thin, crispy, and slightly chewy soybean sheet enveloping succulent shrimp. The varying textures and briny note of the shrimp form a complicated but appetizing bite. The Pan-Fried Chive Shrimp Dumpling features a thick wrapper and, get this, chives and shrimp. Yes, it sounds simple but together, it is something greater in flavor. Pork bun lovers—Szechuan Opera has you covered with Cha Shu Bun (steamed bun filled with roast pork). They also have the famous pork Xiaolongbao (soup dumplings).
Want something sweet at the end of your meal? Szechuan Opera has a substantial dessert menu relative to other Chinese restaurants around town. Someday I hope to try the Durian Puff with friends who won’t disown me. For now, my top runner is the Sesame Bun (chewy bun studded with sesame seeds and filled with a sweet red bean paste—a nutty and sweet dessert that’s fun to eat). If you are leaning toward a cold dessert, try the mango, sago, and pomelo soup. The mango flavor is not cloyingly sweet, and the sago jelly will remind you of a much smaller and neutral version of a Haribo gummy.
Whether your dining crew is vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, picky as heck, or spice-addicted, Szechuan Opera has you covered. Just be certain to notify the staff of any dietary restrictions prior to ordering.Yes, the infamous General Tso Chicken will remain your first “Chinese food” crush but Szechuan Opera? That’s your shot at real, meaningful, and spicy love.
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EU starts review of Merck Covid pill
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) – the European Union’s top medicines watchdog – has started a review of a potentially ground-breaking antiviral pill to treat COVID-19.
The agency announced on Monday that it has launched a “rolling review” of molnupiravir, which was developed by United States pharmaceutical company Merck.
The company reported earlier this month that the pill cut hospitalisations and deaths by half among patients with early symptoms of COVID-19 – an extremely effective result that experts say could revolutionise the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier on Monday, Merck said the EMA had started an expedited licensing process for molnupiravir.
Merck has already sought approval for the pill from the US Food and Drug Administration. A decision is expected from the US agency within weeks.
If molnupiravir is approved by either regulatory body, it will become the first available treatment for COVID-19 that does not need to be administered via needles or intravenous infusions.
Public health experts say that having a pill that people can take at home to reduce their symptoms and speed recovery could vastly ease pressures on hospitals and help to curb outbreaks in poorer countries with weak healthcare systems. If approved, countries could take a two-pronged approach to battling the pandemic – reducing the risk to those who contract the virus, while continuing vaccine rollouts. However, international health officials have already voiced concerns that the pill could be subject to the same disparities that have defined the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.
Merck – which already has supply deals with the US, the United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore – has said it is committed to providing timely access to its drug globally with plans for tiered pricing aligned with a country’s ability to pay. (Al Jazeera)
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Research shows that there is a substantial amount of common content across the different approaches. Almost all of the systems we reviewed have substantial content related to the following teaching competencies: instructional planning, classroom management, interactions with others (staff, parents), and professionalism.
There is general consensus in the research that teaching competencies can be grouped into three main categories:
Research indicates that excellent teaching consists of a number of competencies related to content expertise, instructional design, and instructional delivery, as well as interpersonal traits such as helpfulness, friendliness, and open mindedness.
Our Teachers Competency Assessment (TCA) model, is about much more than creating a rating – it is about giving teachers opportunities to improve through specific and ongoing feedback.
Descriptors: Performance descriptors are observable and measurable statements of teacher actions and behaviors aligned to each element and serve as the basis for identifying the level of teaching or administrative performance in one of four categories: Low level, Fair level, Satisfactory level and High level.
The TCA competency model specifies key performance domains, and within each domain are the specific behaviour indicators. The competency model is organised around the following eight domains covering all aspects of a teacher’s job performance:
These competencies are the basis for making actual assessments of teacher performance. The assessments will yield information of suggested areas for improvement.
Each of the above domains has a number of indicators. Indicators are observable and measurable statements that provide evidence of the application of knowledge and skills in practice. These may be visible during individual lessons or over the course of the year. In turn, the information can be used as an input to an individual professional development plan (IPDP).
The elements are more specific descriptions of actions and behaviors related to each Indicator. The elements further break down the Indicators into more specific aspects of educator practice and provide an opportunity for evaluators to offer detailed feedback that serves as a roadmap for improvement.
The TCA model identifies what each indicator looks like in practice at four levels of Performance Standard Index (PSI) with each performance level populated with a percentage range as shown below.
|Competency Level||Labels for the Index||Description|
|87.51 – 100||Expert||Teacher has almost all the competencies for effective teaching at high level. These are the identified strengths. Strengths have to be sustained and enhanced; however professional development needs have to be continuously address.|
|62.51 – 87.50||Effective||Teacher has majority of the competencies at high level for effective teaching. Strengths have to be enhanced. Training and professional development needs have to be addressed.|
|37.51 – 62.50||Developing||Teacher has average of all the competencies at high level for effective teaching. These strengths have to be enhanced; however, training needs have to be addressed as priority.|
|25.00 – 37.50||Beginning||Teacher has very few of the competencies at high level for effective teaching. Training needs have to be given priority and addressed urgently.|
Teachers and other staff at the school should clearly understand the meaning of these ratings. And they should discuss, with their peers, supervisors and principals, if there is a need to clarify what is expected of them at the school.
The teacher competencies may be used in several ways.
The teacher competency Assessment will be useful to many different groups within an educational system, including:
Teachers must document the IPDP and share them with their administrator. By completing the IPDP at the start of the year, teachers and administrators. The IPDP or will serve as a reference document for, discussions and professional development throughout the year.
To learn more about Individual Professional Development Plan (IPDP) click the following button:
To take the Teacher Competency Assessment. (for registered Expert Teachers only) Click the following button
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Getting the Medicare coverage you need should be as easy as A-B-C but often feels like navigating alphabet soup. As if keeping up with the latest texting lingo isn’t challenging enough! If you’re thinking, “SOS,” we’re here to help.
Whether you’re preparing to enroll in Medicare for the first time or you’re simply trying to review your current benefits, Medicare acronyms and abbreviations can make it difficult to understand.
To better equip you to understand all the Medicare jargon, we’ve created this guide to common Medicare acronyms and abbreviations that you should know:
CMS | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the federal agency administering the Medicare program.
In addition to Medicare administration, the organization works with the government to administer other health and human services such as Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and more.
IEP | Initial Enrollment Period
Your Initial Enrollment Period, or IEP, is your first opportunity to sign up for Medicare. It begins three months before your 65th birthday and continues for seven months.
It’s essential to sign up for Medicare during your IEP. If you miss it, you may experience a gap in healthcare coverage and face penalties for the lifetime of your coverage.
AEP | Annual Enrollment Period
Medicare Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) is your once-a-year opportunity to enroll in a new Medicare plan.
AEP begins on October 15 and runs through December 7, with your new plan going into effect on January 1 of the following year.
During the AEP, you can switch Medicare Advantage plans; choose to change from a Medicare Advantage plan to Original Medicare, or vice versa; and add, drop, or change your Part D plan.
OEP | Open Enrollment Period
The Open Enrollment Period, or OEP, begins January 1 each year and continues through March 31. During OEP – also known as Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment – you can make changes to your Medicare Advantage plan if you are unhappy, including:
- Switch to a different Medicare Advantage Plan – with or without drug coverage.
- Leave your Medicare Advantage Plan and go back to Original Medicare. You can also join a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan if needed.
HMO | Health Maintenance Organization
HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) Medicare plans cover medical expenses for care received within the plan’s network of physicians, hospitals, and practices. Oftentimes, HMO plans require that you choose a primary care provider and get a referral to see a specialist.
Care provided by a physician outside of the HMO network may not be covered by the plan.
PPO | Preferred Provider Organization
A PPO, or Preferred Provider Organization, is a type of Medicare plan. PPO plans a network of preferred hospitals, doctors, and other medical providers. If you choose to see a provider outside the specified network, you’ll pay a higher copay and may have a higher deductible.
PPO plans are a great choice for beneficiaries who want the flexibility to see a wider array of physicians, but you may have a higher monthly premium.
SNP | Special Needs Plan
A Special Needs Plan (SNP) falls under Medicare Advantage Plans. This type of plan is only offered to individuals who qualify due to specific health issues. The plans’ providers, benefits, and drug formularies are selected to cater to the particular needs of those enrolled.
MSP | Medicare Savings Programs
Each state government offers assistance to help qualifying applicants pay for Medicare premiums, deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. There are four types of programs offered, each with specific qualifications for approval:
- The Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program helps pay for Part A and B premiums, deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments.
- The Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary and Qualifying Individual Programs cover Part B premiums.
- And the Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals Program covers Part A premiums.
Learn more about Medicare Savings Programs.
COBRA | Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
If you’re still working past age 65, then you’ll likely encounter COBRA. The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, or COBRA, requires group healthcare plans to provide temporary continuation coverage for qualifying events.
IRMAA | Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount
If you fall into the high-income category of Medicare beneficiaries, you’ll experience an additional charge on your Part B and Part D premiums. This is known as the Income-related monthly adjustment amount, or IRMAA. The amount is determined by income taxes from two years prior and is recalculated each year.
Need Help Understanding Your Medicare Coverage?
We hope that clears some things up. Still need help interpreting your Medicare coverage? Talk to a CORE Insurance advisor today! Our advisors are here to help you understand the details of your Medicare options.
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Powder Horn: John E. Mitthins (FW-129), with Carving Unfurled
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and green and blue metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper
Overall: 12 1/4 x 14 7/8 in. ( 31.1 x 37.8 cm )
inscriptions: Signed bottom center: Rufus A. Grider/ of Canajoharie N.Y. / July 9, 1891
Signed and inscribed at lower center in brown ink below powder horn: "Rufus A Grider / of Canajoharie N.Y. / July 9. 1891."; inscribed at lower right: "The MITTHIN.", followed by a brief history of the horn; annotations in graphite
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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This story was co-published with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
A century ago, Congress created a homesteading program for Native Hawaiians with a singular goal: return Hawaiians — especially impoverished ones — to their native lands.
For decades, though, community members and lawmakers have decried the slow rate at which homesteads have been awarded.
To date, the program has only 8,400 residential lessees, compared with a waitlist that’s grown to more than 23,000 applicants. In three of the past five years, the awards fell into the single digits.
But no one, not even the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, the state agency that oversees the initiative, fully understood how far the program has strayed from its original intent. A first-of-its-kind analysis by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica of department data showed the program has benefited those with the means and knowledge to navigate the complex homesteading system while leaving behind much of the Native Hawaiian community it was primarily meant to help.
Much of this analysis was based on the department’s database of applicants, lessees and transactions from 1995, when it began using its current system, to January 2020. The Star-Advertiser and ProPublica presented the findings and methods outlined here to DHHL, but officials said the department doesn’t have the capacity to evaluate them.
To investigate who benefited from the homesteading program, the news organizations analyzed the award recipients’ addresses found in the database. We used the Google Maps geocoding API to look up the addresses’ locations. We excluded a handful of addresses that couldn’t be matched to at least the street level. We then aggregated those addresses into census tracts to determine areas’ Native Hawaiian population and median income. In cases where the award recipient’s address was a P.O. box, we used the location of the post office, which, according to the U.S. Postal Service, is typically in the same neighborhood as the person who owns the box. We chose to limit this analysis to Oahu, where residential demand is greatest, because the other islands included more remote, sparsely populated areas that had less reliable address and income data.
The data showed Oahu’s higher-income census tracts had more lease awards per Native Hawaiian household than lower income tracts. In fact, 60% of residential lease awards went to people living in census tracts with median household incomes greater than $75,000 — a threshold chosen because it split the Native Hawaiian population on the island into two roughly equal groups. The trend — that higher income areas had more lease award recipients — was consistent whether P.O. box addresses were included or excluded from the analysis.
This bias toward higher income applicants had consequences: The department routinely had to go thousands deep on its waitlist to find applicants willing and able to accept a lease during the past 25 years, bypassing those who couldn’t qualify for a mortgage. We calculated the amount of time lease award recipients were on the waitlist by linking together two different logs — one that tracks waitlist changes and one that tracks changes to leases — using the lessee name and lease start date. This allowed us to compare the date a person submitted an application and their position on the waitlist to the date the lease started.
Finally, the department has recorded the deaths of at least 2,000 applicants who never received a lease from 1995 to January 2020. Our count of those who died on the waitlist is also based on the transaction logs. We identified every person on the waitlist that included some indicator that the individual had died. In some cases, this was a death date. In others, the name of the entry included the text “DEC’D,” which means “deceased.” We then removed likely duplicates and anyone who had already received a lease. This count is almost certainly conservative because the department records a death only if it is reported by a family member.
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Zhejiang Hangyi Bicycle Manufacturing Company begins from Hangzhou Yuanshi Industrial Co.,Ltd,
Many people confuse the balance bike with the bicycle. The balance bike has no chains and pedals, and it is completely dependent on the baby to slide forward on its own. It is a good transition product before riding a bicycle. Next, Kids Balance Bike For Sale Manufacturers will introduce the characteristics of balance bikes:
The balance bike mainly exercises the baby's balance ability. It is the baby's first scooter. The beginner will appear very unstable just after stepping on the balance bike, but this is a normal phenomenon, because the baby's balance is weak, so it cannot be very good. Control the balance of the body. The baby needs to touch the ground with both feet and slide the legs forward together to exercise the baby's leg muscles to develop in balance.
The balance bike can actually exercise your baby's self-confidence ability while exercising balance. The more you dare to contact the outside world, the more helpful your baby's independent ability will be. The balance bike is more like a child’s extreme sport. The baby rides freely and can take full control of the bike with confidence and ease. Therefore, the balance bike will make babies feel safer, easier to control, and safer; more importantly, let them enjoy the sense of accomplishment of riding and prefer outdoor sports.
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I work with different types of machines every day.
It is often necessary to set things up differently for,
say, a Linux box, than a SPARCstation.
Going beyond that, you may want
to set things up differently on a per-host basis.
I have this test in my
setenv HOST "`uname -n`"
if (-e ~/lib/cshrc.hosts/cshrc.$HOST) then
So, if I log in to a machine
, and I have a file
, I can
environment for that one machine. Examples of things you would put in
Search path (
some machines have
, and some have
The same goes for
Terminal settings (
I always like to reach for the upper-right part of a keyboard
to erase characters. Sometimes this is the location for the
BACKSPACE key, and sometimes it is the DELETE key. I set
things up so that I can consistently get "erase" behavior
from whatever key is there.
shell variables (
environment variables (
may be different.
You may run a package on a certain machine that relies
on a few environment variables. No need to always set them
and use up a little bit of memory if you only use them
in one place!
In general, this idea allows you to group together whatever exceptions
you want for a machine, rather than having to write a series of
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Fit into hibernation - Fit for the coming season - Part 2
In autumn, lawnmowers, ride-on mowers and countless other garden tools can shift down a gear. Most of the work is done and there is more time to take care of maintenance, repairs and servicing.
The second part of our Winter Check-up series focuses on the engine, the electrical system and tyres. We asked the engine expert Wolfgang Gerlach from AS-Motor what needs to be considered.
Wellness for the engine
The good news for all owners of electric or battery mowers is that electric motors are normally maintenance-free. Only occasionally do air filters need be cleaned.
In the case of internal combustion engines, on the other hand, a number of points need to be worked through. We start with the air filter. This is removed and then checked for impurities. Dry dust, plant seeds and foreign objects can be removed by light tapping. Damaged, heavily soiled, or oil- and petrol-contaminated filters must be replaced. Our AS-Motor expert points out that when replacing a filter, you should always use original parts from the manufacturer. You can recognize AS-Motor filters, for example, from the logo on the filter. Unfortunately, there are many inferior copies available at the moment. Engine damage caused by copied filters is becoming more and more common. In addition, the dryness of the last few years has considerably increased the motors’ dust load. Therefore, it is advised to shorten one’s interval of inspecting air filters during the current season.
If the machine’s engine has run properly before the winter break, there is no need to unscrew and clean the spark plug. In this case, one must only be attentive to malfunctions and the engine manufacturer’s next prescribed service interval.
Engine damage caused by inferior copies is unfortunately not uncommon. The picture shows a new original air filter, a dirty original air filter and a cheap copy (from left)
Empty carburettor and tank
You must clean the carburettor carefully from the outside. Make sure that you do not damage any tension springs or loosen any screws. For 4-stroke engines the carburettor should also emptied before storage. To do this, close the fuel tap, start the engine and allow it to drain by letting the engine run until it stops by itself. There will still fuel left in the fuel filter and the fuel line, but the carburettor will be almost completely empty. Some carburettors also have a drain plug for the remaining fuel. Use this, if available.
Try to empty the petrol tank as much as possible during the last mowing. In the spring, fill up with fresh fuel. Machines with metal tanks are better equipped to avoid corrosion and condensation.
For machines with 2-stroke engines (except chainsaws and brush-cutters) the carburettor must also be emptied for storage. Proceed here as with a 4-stroke engine. It is also advisable to empty the fuel tank afterwards, as the 2-stroke mixture could segregate over the winter and cause engine damage in spring. Leave the fuel tank ventilation open. However, the fuel tap should remain closed. Otherwise the tank could dent or expand due to temperature differences. Basically, the following applies to 2-stroke mixtures: Only use fully synthetic 2-stroke oils. Mineral oils have become obsolete.
Our engine expert also points out that the oil in the fuel mixture of 2-stroke engines may stick to the fuel filter during the winter period and recommends: “Buy your 2-stroke mower a new fuel filter in the spring. This costs little and prevents starting problems and uneven engine running.”
Winterise batteries properly
Regarding the electrical system, one should first visually inspect the cables, the wiring harness, the plugs, the covers and the cable fastenings.
Please note the following in regards to the batteries. Maintenance-free wet and gel batteries are used in ride-on mowers today. Maintenance-free means that no acid or water needs to be refilled. It does not mean, however, that the battery does not need to be regularly charged when not in use and thus maintained. Once a battery is deeply discharged, it will suffer permanent damage. Therefore, if there is a risk of frost during storage, it is recommended that the battery be removed and stored in a dry place at 15 to 18° Celsius. The same applies to Li-Ion batteries. The batteries of ride-on mowers should also be charged at least once a month. So-called continuous maintenance chargers with intelligent electronics are particularly helpful for this. These are already available for around 20 euros in car accessory shops. Li-Ion batteries should be stored with a charge level of about 50 percent. In principle, batteries must be stored in a fireproof place, e.g. in a steel cabinet or metal box. Damaged Li-Ion batteries in particular pose an increased fire risk.
Clean cooling and sufficient oil
The petrol engines of ride-on mowers and combustion lawnmowers are usually air-cooled. The cooling air intake’s ventilation grid must be cleaned during the winter check-up. Also check, if possible, that the cooling fins of the engine are clean and the air baffles intact. However, cleaning and full inspection can only be carried out by a specialist dealer, as the cooling system is fitted with motor covers. Remember that dirty cooling fins can cause the motor to overheat.
For 4-stroke engines, check the oil level with the dipstick. If there is any oil missing, top up with the required amount up to the maximum mark. Make sure to observe the oil change and oil filter service intervals for the engine, the hydrostat and if necessary, the gearbox. This check is not necessary for 2-stroke engines as they do not contain engine oil.
For 4-stroke engines the oil level must be checked and, if necessary, missing oil topped up.
It is worthwhile to fill in a tyre sealant, especially for tubeless tyres. Downtimes are thus significantly reduced
The right pressure in the tyre
Ride-on mowers and garden tools travel at low speeds. It is not necessary to jack up the machines to avoid standing dents on the tyres. A few maintenance and control measures do make sense, however. Inflate the tyres to slightly higher operating pressure. Then the tyres should be checked for cracks, cuts, porosity, spikes and dents. You should also check whether any foreign bodies are between the rim flange and the tyre, and whether the wheel bolts are tight. In the case of tubular tyres, it is also necessary to check whether the valve is straight or has shifted. If necessary, the air must be deflated and the casing aligned, otherwise there is a risk of the valve shearing off.
As with every tyre, but especially with tubeless tyres, it is worth considering a tyre sealant. This greatly reduces downtimes as tyres can function even with many thorns stuck in the tyre. Tyres with sealant can lose some of their pressure if left standing for a long time. This is normal, as the sealant is distributed and can only work to its full effect when the tyre is driven regularly. Simply inflate these tyres again in spring and drive a few metres. Shortly before the start of the season, check again whether all tyres are still inflated or whether there are any “sneakers”. In this way you can avoid a negative experience at the beginning of the new season.
The new season can come!
Now your machines are ready for hibernation. They should be ready for use immediately at the start of the coming mowing season, without any annoying surprises, provided that you have written down any defects discovered during the check-up and had them corrected or repaired. Take advantage of the quieter winter months at your specialist dealer to have necessary repairs carried out in peace. Please always entrust work on blades and safety components to a specialist. We wish you happy working and good mowing in the next season.
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Right now, a lot people could use extra help, and that is particularly true for the most vulnerable people among us. Recently, some Massachusetts and Rhode Island shelters and food banks have gotten a little help in a big way thanks to Massachusetts Military Support Foundation, Amazon, Sysco, and the Patriots Foundation.
Both companies have donated 24 palettes of food daily to support those in need. While the donation was initially supporting the Food4Vets program, which has been operating from the Gillette Stadium parking lots, it has proven generous enough to help even more people in the area.
Now, in addition to veterans who are experiencing food scarcity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, shelters and food banks in Massachusetts and Rhode Island have been invited to collect donations to help feed those they serve. Every day, pounds and pounds of food is making its way from Gillette Stadium to those who need it most.
As of now, more than 60 shelters, pantries, and other organizations have benefited from the donation. From fresh produce to dairy items, organizations and nonprofits are able to take full pallets of food back to their facilities.
Crossroads Rhode Island works with those who are at-risk or experiencing homelessness, and according to Cicily Dove, Vice President of Family Services, it was an unexpected and welcome donation that is being split between their shelters and programs.
"We try to divvy up the bounty, I call it," she said. "When I told [the staff], they were like, 'Okay, great another donation.' But when they saw it and the quality of it, the guests and the kids [Crossroads serve] were over the top. I know there's some who maybe have never suffered food insecurity or who have never had to manage and monitor their money to the point where quality was a concern, but having good quality and variety of food is important, specifically in times of crises."
While the food provides practical and much needed resources for organizations like Crossroads, it is also giving those they serve something to look forward to. Most everyone is feeling the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but those who are experiencing homelessness, especially children, are going through extreme disruptions to stability. Something like this donation brings a small reprieve in at least one aspect of their life.
"If that can provide any amount of happiness or distraction or something that'll get folks out of their funk and fear, it helps with the overall dynamic of the shelter environment. I think that we see that on an on-going basis," Dove said. "You can give them something to look forward to. I think that you will see the anticipation and the excitement grow even more, especially if it's regular. You know, like 'Taco Tuesday.' This is like Patriots-Amazon-Sysco Wednesday."
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« It`s a state of law at work, and I will fire whoever I want, for whatever reason. » The problem with this statement, which employers often make, is that « right to work » laws include workers` rights during an employment relationship, particularly in the context of trade unions. The doctrine of « employment at will » governs the rights of employers and employees when terminating an employment relationship. Many people mistakenly use the term « right to work » interchangeably with the term « employment at will » because they do not understand the difference. If there is a contractual clause that puts you in a worse situation, for example, if you have agreed to work for less than the national minimum wage, your employer will not be able to enforce the contractual clause. They still have the legal right to receive the national minimum wage. Before we get into the cost of liability, we need to look at termination. You have two options for firing someone. First of all, with just cause. If an employee is rebellious, scandalous (assuming the incidents are serious enough), engages in illegal activities, etc., you can resign with good reason. Determining if an incident is serious enough to end with a reason can be a bit tricky, so you should consult a lawyer if you`re considering this option. If you don`t do things right and the employee sues you, you`re probably responsible for severance pay.
The judge may conclude that even if you had a reason to take disciplinary action, that reason was not sufficient to justify the dismissal. The judge may decide that the employee is entitled to dismissal (more on this below). If you have to fire someone for cause, that employee is clearly a burden on the company. You must cancel. But what do you do with employees who just don`t fit in? Or what if you have to downsize? Often, an employer goes straight out and says you`re an employee at will. On the contrary, employees won cases where their employers told them they could only be fired for good reasons. Even statements as light as « You will always have a place here as long as you continue the great work » have been considered such that the employer does NOT adhere to labor law at will. Since a contract still exists even if nothing is written down, it`s a good idea to write down everything your employer says about your rights at work and what you`ve agreed verbally.
The language of an employment contract should include a general description of the duties you expect from the employee, as well as restrictive agreements such as the non-compete clause mentioned above. It should include details about what happens when a contract employee leaves. No, there are several exceptions. You are not an all-you-can-eat employee if you have a contract, including a union collective agreement. If you are covered by an employment contract, you can only be terminated if the terms of the contract allow it. If the employer does not respect the contract during termination or discipline, you may have a breach of contract claim and you should consider speaking to a lawyer. The doctrine of unlimited employment applies when an employee works for an employer without a written contract setting out the terms of the employment relationship. This is the situation of the vast majority of labour relations. In addition, as an employee, you may terminate your employment at any time for any reason without any contractual obligation to continue working. You can`t be forced to work for an employer and you don`t have to give your employer a reason to fire. Find out what you can do if your employer doesn`t pay you what`s owed to you. For example, employers may dismiss employees who do not have a written employment contract for a non-discriminatory reason and not for retaliation.
That`s because Arizona is a state of unlimited employment, not because it`s a constitutional state at work. Female employees have a number of maternity rights: there may come a time at work when you need to check the exact terms of your employment contract. This may be due to the fact that a dispute has arisen between you and your employer, that you want to review your claims because you are threatened with dismissal or that your employer is trying to change your conditions. B for example in terms of working conditions, working hours or salary. As an employee without an employment contract, you are officially classified as an « employee » as opposed to « worker » and, as such, your terms and conditions of employment are based on the rights granted to an employee, as opposed to those granted to an employee. Employees at will are not obliged to make a termination. Many employees inform their employer by dismissal letter or verbal announcement that they want to resign. An employee`s intention to resign from their job does not have to meet professional standards or courtesy such as the two-week notice period. Each employment contract has « implied » terms and conditions for employees and employers, including: In these cases, you would use the contract to limit the employee`s capacity without notifying yourself in a timely manner. For example, if you have a job interview and the employer promises to give you a full year to learn the ropes, and you can`t be fired that year.
It sounds like a lot to you, and that`s why you accept the job. You may not want to sign an all-you-can-eat agreement in this case. If your employer tries to end your employment relationship during this year and you take legal action, you may be able to use your employer`s one-year promise against them. A contract gives you and your employer certain rights and obligations. The most common example is that you have the right to be paid for the work you do. Your employer has the right to give you proper instructions and work for you in your workplace. These rights and obligations are referred to as the « Contractual Conditions ». All employees, regardless of the number of hours they work per week, have the right to receive a written declaration from their employer within 2 months of starting work. The declaration must describe the main conditions of the employment contract. However, your contract may include terms that only apply during your probationary period and are less favourable than those that apply after your probationary period expires.
These Terms shall not deprive you of your legal rights. You should note that regardless of the existence of an employment contract, an employer is required to provide you with written information about your obligations and the company`s expectations of you. If you have determined that there is no oral contract between you and your employer, or in writing, explicit terms are still relevant, and you can accept as much or as few of them as you want. Labour law is complicated and, as is often the case, if there is a problem for which legal advice is recommended, there is no « one-size-fits-all solution » as the majority of cases must be assessed individually. You and your employer can agree on almost all the explicit conditions you like, but neither of you can accept a condition that puts you in a worse situation than the law (the law). In other words, any employment contract must respect your legal rights. Often, employers will ask you to sign an agreement at will, under the endless pile of other documents to sign. This is to ensure that they have obtained their right to terminate at will. If the employer tells you that you are entitled to 26 days of paid leave per year and that you are entitled to statutory sickness benefit, you have a verbal contract.
Your employer doesn`t have to specify how many hours of work they will give you if you have a zero-hour contract. If you have a zero-hour contract, your employer can`t stop you from working for another employer. A fixed-term contract indicates a date on which it ends. If you have a fixed-term contract, your employer should not treat you differently from a permanent employee simply because you are a term employee. They have the same legal rights as permanent employees. If you`ve never had a written employment contract before, take the time to reflect on the relevant conversations you`ve had with your boss and collect any emails or other documents that might be helpful in proving what was agreed upon and/or that you think could be part of your employment contract. If your job offer was unconditional or if you met the conditions and accepted it but were withdrawn, it is a breach of contract. Indeed, there is an employment contract once an unconditional job offer has been made and accepted. You can apply for compensation for breach of contract before an employment court or district court. You can only imply a term through « customs and practices » if there is no explicit term that addresses the problem. For example, if you have worked 35 hours a week for 10 years, even if your contract states that you should only work 30 hours, you are not allowed to work 35 hours according to habit and practice.
Explicit terms are specific details of your terms and conditions of employment that have been discussed and agreed with your employer. These details include some, but not necessarily all: Your employer can extend your trial period as long as your contract says so. For example, your employer may want to extend your probationary period to give you more time to evaluate your performance. However, you can only do this if your contract includes a provision stating that your trial period can be extended in these circumstances. .
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That is the name given by most humans to the strange race that dwells far to the north, in the glacial deep freeze that is too hostile even for the Bug Bears and great Giants. Although human like in appearance, they are of huskier build and much stronger than a human of comparable size. Dark complexion, extensive body hair, blue eyes and somewhat over sized nose for their faces. Frostmen are, seemingly, totally immune to the cold. They wear only light clothing and body harnesses, in some cases going as lightly dressed as someone living in the tropics despite dwelling in areas where ice and snow accumulate year round. It is said that they neither make or use fire!
Their language is unrelated to any known languages and, so far, has proven incomprehensible to the most skilled sages. There is even some indication that the bulk of their communication is non verbal, though evidence is scant. They are unremittingly hostile to any human, humanoid or demi-human that crosses their path. Weird powers and abilities are attributed to them, including weather and temperature control, but again there is no evidence to support these claims. Numbers, culture, settlements, religion are all matters of speculation. Though use of stone tools is recorded, there are many reports of the Frostmen using weapons and tools crafted of ice! There is no record of their making or using tools of steel, iron or bronze.
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Iran state media says two vessels have crossed Suez Canal and arrived in Syria, provoking angry response from Israel.
Iranian warships have crossed the Suez Canal and docked in Syria’s port city of Tartous, Iranian state media has reported.
The Mehr news agency said on Sunday that Tehran’s show of support has caused “extreme worry for Zionist forces”.
Youcef Bouandel, professor of international affairs at Qatar University, told Al Jazeear that Iran’s deployment has to be viewed as part of a “broader picture” – that it to say that the Iranian government feels that “Syria is the first step towards putting Iran in the corner”.
“Iran has been having a few standoffs with the West in general over its nuclear programme and over its oil emabrgo,” said Bouandel, who said that the docking of the ships on the Syrian coast had two largely symbolic meanings.
“Iran has been threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz and has been a strong ally of Syria over the last year in particular … the two ships … crossed the Suez Canal without being stopped or searched [which] suggests that they do not carry any weapons,” he said.
Tensions over the nature of Iran’s nuclear programme have lead to ever-tightening sanctions on the country’s oil exports, prompting Iran to threaten to close the strait, the world’s most important choke point for oil transport.
Move a ‘provocation’
Reacting to the news on Saturday, Israel’s foreign ministry denounced the deployment as a “provocation” and a “power play.”
Israel said it will be watching the ships’ movements closely to ensure they do not approach its coast.
“The strategic navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has passed through the Suez Canal for the second time since the Islamic Revolution,” Admiral Habibollah Sayari said in remarks quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
That Iran for the second time in one year has docked in Syria, is a sign of the end time alliance around Israel.
Russia is also using Syria as its naval base in the Mediterranean Sea. Also China has ambitions in the Middle East, and sided with the Basher Al-assad regive by casting veto against the US-EU proposal of sanction against regime in the UN.
Since the Basher al-Assad regime has refused to join the Islamic Jihad against the Zionist state, the Islamic movement in unhappy with Syrians. Iran tries to save Basher, by convincing him to side with the International alignment against Israel. Both the EU, Russia, China and Iran want to forces Israel to establish a Islamic state with East Jerusalem as its capital. When the International community agree and unite around this demand, it will be Israel against the rest.
So it will be. Israel be left totally alone with God of Israel. The Word of God says that all nations shall be summoned into Israel and face judgement.
Do not side with the enemies of Israel and His Messiah.
Written by Ivar
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(TPM) – Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order declaring a disaster in the state of New York on Friday as more individuals are reportedly testing positive for the monkeypox virus, with the largest outbreak occurring within LGBTQ communities.
The Executive Order will allow the state to respond more swiftly to the outbreak and will provide health care professionals with additional tools to increase vaccination rates among New Yorkers, according to Gov. Hochul’s Office.
“After reviewing the latest data on the monkeypox outbreak in New York State, I am declaring a State Disaster Emergency to strengthen our aggressive ongoing efforts to confront this outbreak,” Gov. Hochul said.
“More than one in four monkeypox cases in this country are in New York State, and we need to utilize every tool in our arsenal as we respond. It’s especially important to recognize the ways in which this outbreak is currently having a disproportionate impact on certain at-risk groups. That’s why my team and I are working around the clock to secure more vaccines, expand testing capacity and responsibly educate the public on how to stay safe during this outbreak,” Governor Hochul added.
I am declaring a State Disaster Emergency to strengthen our ongoing efforts to confront the monkeypox outbreak.
This Executive Order enables us to respond more swiftly, and allows health care professionals to take additional steps that will help get more New Yorkers vaccinated.
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) July 30, 2022
The Executive Order grants EMS personnel, pharmacists, and midwives the authority to administer monkeypox vaccines, and physicians and certified nurse practitioners will be allowed to place orders for the monkeypox vaccine, according to the document.
Providers will be required to send vaccine data to the New York State Department of Health.
While monkeypox cases rise across the nation, Democratic officials and healthcare professionals that belong to the World Health Organization (WHO) rush to find a new name for the monkeypox virus.
They say that the current name invites “racism,” and Ashwin Vasan, the 44th Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, wrote a letter to the World Health Organization demanding that the monkeypox virus be immediately renamed.
The state of New York officially joins the city of San Francisco in declaring a state of emergency over the monkeypox virus.
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But for those who are unfamiliar with Yorkshire and its history, here is everything you need to know about the Yorkshire flag, what it looks like and what it represents.
What does the Yorkshire flag look like and what does it represent?
The white rose, also known as ‘the mystical rose of Heaven’, inspired the centre feature of the flag.
The rose sits on a sky blue background. It was requested by the Yorkshire Ridings Society and was registered by the Flag Institute only 13 years ago.
According to the Yorkshire Ridings Society, the flag represents all that is strong and resilient about Yorkshire, its people and also offers a symbol of hope in troubled times.
The flag was designed in the 1960s but was only adopted in 1975 when the newly founded Yorkshire Ridings Society used the flag as a way to help safeguard the names and identities of the ancient Yorkshire Ridings, which were scrapped by the government in 1974.
How many flags does Yorkshire have?
Three counties of Yorkshire have their own flags based on the main Yorkshire flag.
East Riding of Yorkshire - this flag was registered by the Flag Institute on April 18, 2013, as the winner of a competition organised in conjunction with it. The flag features a Yorkshire white rose in the middle displayed in the East Ridings style with one sepal at the top, with a bi-colour background of blue and green. The blue symbolises the maritime activities, while the green represents agricultural industries.
North Riding of Yorkshire - This flag was registered by the Flag Institute on May 4, 2013. The yellow edged blue cross represents the colours of the arms attributed to the local saint, Wilfred, a prominent figure in the early history of the region. It is set against a green field, the three colours together refer to the North Riding’s natural features; the green represents the large tracts of the famous North York Moors National Park, while the blue and yellow reflect the North Sea coastline.
West Riding of Yorkshire - It was established by the Flag Institute on May 23, 2013. The flag features a ‘rose-en-soleil’ device first used by Edward IV at the time of his accession to the throne, combining the White Rose of the House of York with the sun emblem used by his royal predecessor, Richard II. The rose-en-soleil is a more elaborate form of the white rose emblem; the rose is placed against a red cross in Scandinavian style, representing the Anglo-Scandinavian history of the region.
What is the White Rose of York?
The white rose is an ancient symbol of purity with religious connotations; it was used by Plantagenet supporters of the House of York in the 14th century and famously represented one side of the Wars of the Roses.
It was first used as a heraldic badge by Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341-1402), the fourth surviving son of King Edward III of England. One of his older brothers, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399), used a red rose as a heraldic badge. Their descendants fought for control of the throne of England. The Wars of the Roses were ended by King Henry VII of England who, when he married Elizabeth of York, symbolically united the White and Red Roses to create the Tudor Rose.
White roses were also worn by soldiers of Yorkshire regiments in memory of their comrades who died during the Battle of Minden in 1759 on August 1 - this date is now established as Yorkshire Day.
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As humans, we exaggerate. We’re wired that way. It’s OK. And we’re so into it that we’re attracted to it as well. Turn on the TV or radio, read the paper, and you’ll see what I mean. Any advertisement wants to show you why you need bigger.
Even things labeled “good” can become harmful in excess. So where do you draw the line? Common sense tells us most of the rules. But common sense comes last when we seek the short term pleasure these “things” give us.
This is why the help industry is so “big.” We know what balance is, but we are addicted to our vices; small pleasures.
So the takeaway here is to seek help to break unbalance. And it isn’t always real obvious in our lives. When you hear people joking about your “excess” you should take mental notes. Maybe you do have an out of balance situation.
My best advice for balance is to seek God to give you wisdom in the situation. Then move on what He tells you. Discipline requires breaking habits of pleasure that are probably stealing more than you’re really willing to give up.
So pick a day to “excess” and for the remainder of the week live strictly by your new rules. You will see great changes in your life in all areas. And remember that to break these bad habits, you need to replace them with a good habit.
Life isn’t easy, but it can be very rewarding if you’re willing to put effort into it. Balance is one of the best starting places. Make a commitment to change yourself today! You can do this!
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India's fuel demand is likely to grow 5.5 per cent in the fiscal year beginning April 1 as economic activity picks up after devastation caused by the pandemic, government estimates showed on Tuesday.
Fuel consumption in 2022-23 is estimated to rise to 214.5 million tonnes from 203.2 million tonnes expected sales in the current fiscal year ending March 2022, according to the oil ministry's Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC).
It will cross the pre-pandemic level sales in the current fiscal. In 2019-20, India had consumed 214.1 million tonnes of petroleum products such as petrol, diesel and LPG.
Demand for petroleum products grew by 4.9 per cent in the first nine months of the current fiscal year that began in April 2021. Fuel consumption was 148.3 million tonnes in April-December 2021.
India consumed 194.3 million tonnes of petroleum produced in 2020-21 - the year that saw a pandemic-related lockdown crippling economy and mobility.
During the next fiscal 2022-23, petrol, used mainly in cars and two-wheelers, is expected to rise by 7.8 per cent to 33.3 million tonnes.
Sales of diesel, the most used fuel, are slated to grow by 3.9 per cent to 79.3 million tonnes, according to PPAC.
Consumption of aviation fuel (ATF) is projected to increase by 49 per cent to 7.6 million tonnes. This is however less than the pre-pandemic level of 8 million tonnes.
Cooking gas LPG, whose consumption had risen even during the pandemic year due to free cylinders distributed by the government to the poor to tied over hardships of lockdown, is projected to see a 4.5 per cent growth in demand to 29.6 million tonnes in 2022-23.
While kerosene sales are seen flat at 1.5 million tonnes, naphtha consumption is projected to rise by 3.3 per cent to 15 million tonnes.
Petcoke, a better-burning alternative to coal, is likely to see a demand growth of 2.8 per cent to 14.8 million tonnes while bitumen - used in road construction - is projected to see sale rising by 1.8 per cent to 7.9 million tonnes.
Demand for petcoke has fallen over the years - from a peak of 25.7 million tonnes in 2017-18 to 21.7 million tonnes in the pre-pandemic year 2019-20 and 15.6 million tonnes in 2020-21.
However, bitumen consumption, which reflects industrial activity, has been on the rise.
Naphtha consumption is expected to be above the pre-pandemic level in the current fiscal.
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Published: RTR 74, no. 2, 2015
Introduction to the Historical Book: Strategies for Reading
Steven L. McKenzie, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010, vii+169. ISBN 9780802828774
This is a basic-level academic book on Joshua to Ezra-Nehemiah, minus Ruth. The first three chapters deal with preliminary information. McKenzie explains that the genre of the texts is ancient history, and so is ideological, with moralising myth, invented speeches, etc. Joshua is aetiology rather than history. ‘Ai’ means ruin, and the story tells how it became so (p. 52). Still, there is a measured approach when presenting issues of historicity, and he quite rightly notes that archaeology cannot prove anyway that God’s hand was at work (p. 49).
After genre, McKenzie gives a concise history of critical scholarship of the Deuteronomist History, indicating that he subscribes to Noth’s theory (one, exilic author writing Deuteronomy to Kings). An overview is then given of critical approaches to Scripture, diachronic and synchronic.
Thereafter, the individual books are worked through—structure, literary features, textual history, and helpful ‘reading strategy’ or ‘tips for reading’ sections that ask significant questions that fuller introductions would answer. Given that McKenzie stresses that these books are ideologically intentional, more could have been done to explore that intentionality, and even to incorporate the driving purpose into the outlines or structures given to each book. For example, the structure of 1 Samuel is put as ‘Samuel’ for chs 1–7, ‘Saul’ for chs 8–15, and ‘David’ for chs 16–31. Surely this reads only the ‘history’ of the book (and even then, overly simplifies the text. The subheadings also only give event after event). This explains little of the book’s central theology.
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Acute and chronic copper poisoning (toxicosis) can affect animals in most parts of the world. Sheep are most frequently affected, although other species are also susceptible. In various breeds of dogs, notably Bedlington Terriers, an inherited sensitivity to copper toxicosis similar to Wilson disease in humans has been identified. Chronic copper poisoning has been reported in other breeds of dogs, including Labrador Retrievers, West Highland White Terriers, Skye Terriers, Keeshonds, American Cocker Spaniels, and Doberman Pinschers. Acute signs of poisoning are usually seen after accidental administration of excessive amounts of soluble copper salts, which may be present in orally administered liquid anthelmintics, mineral supplement mixes, or improperly formulated feed rations.
Many factors that affect the metabolism of copper metabolism influence the likelihood of an animal developing chronic copper toxicosis via effects on absorption or retention of copper. Decreased concentrations of molybdenum or sulfate in the diet are important examples. Primary chronic copper toxicosis occurs most commonly in sheep when excessive amounts of copper are ingested over a prolonged period. The disease remains subclinical until copper that accumulates in the liver is released in massive amounts into the bloodstream. Increased liver enzyme concentrations may provide an early warning of the pending crisis. Serum copper concentrations increase acutely, causing lipid peroxidation and intravascular hemolysis. This hemolytic crisis may be precipitated by numerous factors, including transportation, handling, weather conditions, pregnancy, lactation, strenuous exercise, or a deteriorating nutrition. In sheep, dog or coyote attacks have been associated with sudden outbreaks of chronic copper poisoning.
Ingestion of certain plants such as subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum), cause a mineral imbalance and excessive copper retention, resulting in chronic copper toxicosis (phytogenous toxicosis). The ingestion of plants such as Heliotropium europaeum or Senecio Pyrrolizidine Alkaloidosis spp for several months may cause hepatogenous chronic copper toxicosis. These plants (with normal concentrations of copper and low concentrations of molybdenum) contain hepatotoxic alkaloids, which causes retention of excessive copper in the liver.
In dogs with liver diseases such as chronic active hepatitis, the primary clinical signs may resemble those of chronic copper poisoning, which can be attributed to liver damage and subsequent retention of excessive copper; however, it is not clear whether chronic active hepatitis causes the accumulation of copper in the liver or is the result of such accumulation.
Acute poisoning may follow intakes of 20–100 mg/kg of copper in sheep and young calves and of 200–800 mg/kg in mature cattle. Chronic poisoning of sheep may occur with daily intakes of 3.5 mg/kg of copper when grazing pastures that contain 15–20 ppm (dry matter) of copper and low concentrations of molybdenum. Clinical signs of disease may occur in sheep or camelid species that ingest feed intended for cattle, which typically contain higher concentrations of copper than is appropriate for these species. Signs of toxicosis may also develop when water is supplied via copper plumbing. In general, cattle and goats are more resistant to copper poisoning than sheep. It is important that species-specific diets are fed to minimize the risk of chronic copper poisoning.
Breed differences related to the susceptibility for chronic copper poisoning have been reported in sheep and goats. Jersey dairy cattle are reportedly more susceptible than other breeds of cattle. Young calves or sheep injected with soluble forms of copper may develop acute clinical signs without evidence of a hemolytic crisis. Copper is used as a feed additive for pigs at 125–250 ppm; concentrations >250 ppm are potentially toxic—although as for sheep, other factors may be protective, eg, high concentrations of protein, zinc, or iron. Chronic copper toxicosis is more likely to occur with low dietary intake of molybdenum and sulfur. Decreased formation of copper molybdate or copper sulfide complexes in tissues impairs the excretion of copper in urine or feces.
Clinical Findings for Copper Poisoning in Animals
Acute copper toxicosis causes severe gastroenteritis characterized by anorexia, signs of abdominal pain, diarrhea, dehydration, and shock. Hemolysis and hemoglobinuria may develop after 3 days if the animal survives the initial event. The sudden onset of clinical signs in chronic copper poisoning is associated with a hemolytic crisis. Clinical and laboratory signs in affected animals include depression, lethargy, weakness, recumbency, rumen stasis, anorexia, thirst, dyspnea, pale mucous membranes, hemoglobinuria, and jaundice. Several days or weeks before the hemolytic crisis, liver enzyme concentrations, including ALT and AST, are usually increased. During the hemolytic crisis, laboratory testing will often indicate methemoglobinemia, hemoglobinemia, and decreases in PCV and blood glutathione concentration. In camelid species such as alpacas or llamas, no hemolytic crisis is seen, although extensive liver necrosis remains a consistent manifestation.
Affected animals often die within 1–2 days. Herd morbidity is often <5%, although usually >75% of affected animals die. Deaths may continue for several months after the dietary problem has been rectified. Severe hepatic insufficiency is responsible for early deaths. Animals that survive the initial episode may die of subsequent renal failure. Photosensitization may occur in association with chronic copper poisoning, reflecting the hepatotoxicity common to both acute and chronic toxicosis. Cirrhosis of the liver also occurs in affected dogs.
Acute copper poisoning produces severe gastroenteritis, with erosions and ulcerations in the abomasum of ruminants. Icterus develops in animals that survive >24 hours. Tissues discolored by icterus and methemoglobin are characteristic of chronic poisoning. Swollen, gunmetal-colored kidneys, port-wine-colored urine, and an enlarged spleen with dark brown-black parenchyma are manifestations of the hemolytic crisis. The liver is enlarged and friable. Histologically, there is centrilobular hepatic and renal tubular necrosis.
Diagnosis of Copper Poisoning in Animals
Presumptive diagnosis on the basis of sudden death preceded by hemolytic crisis with extensive liver damage
Elevated serum copper concentration is confirmatory but increase may be transient; measure copper concentrations in samples of liver and kidney at postmortem
Evidence of blue-green ingesta and increased fecal (8,000–10,000 ppm) and kidney (>15 ppm, wet wt) copper levels are considered notable in acute copper poisoning. In chronic poisoning, blood and liver copper concentrations are increased during the hemolytic period. Serum concentrations often increase to 5–20 mcg/mL, as compared with the normal reference range of ~1 mcg/mL. Liver concentrations >150 ppm (wet wt) are clinically relevant in sheep. The concentration of copper in the tissue must be determined to eliminate other causes of hemolytic disease, which may include zinc, chlorate, red maple, or onion poisoning. Other diagnoses to be ruled out may include bacillary hemoglobinuria, leptospirosis, babesiosis and postparturient hemoglobinuria. Liver damage associated with metal exposure, ingestion of pyrrolizidine alkaloids, mycotoxins, or various drugs such as acetaminophen should also be considered. Molybdenum tissue concentrations should also be determined.
Treatment and Control of Copper Poisoning in Animals
Intervention should focus on prevention
Once the hemolytic crisis and liver damage have occurred, treatment is rarely successful
Often, treatment for copper poisoning is not successful. Prognosis is poor in all species. Supportive treatment for shock and gastrointestinal signs may be useful in animals with acute toxicity. Penicillamine (50 mg/kg per day, PO, for 6 days) or calcium versenate may also be useful to enhance copper excretion if administered in the early stages of disease. Vitamin C (500 mg/day per sheep, SC) may potentially reduce oxidative damage to RBCs during hemolytic crisis. Ammonium tetrathiomolybdate (1.7 mg/kg, IV, every other day for 6 days) is effective for the treatment and prevention of copper poisoning. This treatment, which reduces copper absorption and enhances copper elimination, should be used conservatively. A withdrawal period of ~10 days is required for this medication. Daily oral administration of ammonium molybdate (100 mg) and sodium thiosulfate (1 g) for 3 weeks may reduce deaths in affected lambs. Dietary supplementation with zinc acetate (250 ppm) may also be useful to reduce the absorption of copper.
Plant eradication or reducing access to plants that cause phytogenous or hepatogenous copper poisoning is desirable. Primary chronic or phytogenous copper toxicosis may be prevented by top-dressing pastures with 1 oz of molybdenum per acre (70 g/hectare) in the form of molybdenized superphosphate or by use of molybdenum supplementation or restriction of copper intake.
High-risk flocks of sheep may be supplemented with dietary sodium thiosulfate to prevent or control chronic copper toxicosis. In addition, with molybdenum or thiosulfate supplementation, the prevention of chronic copper poisoning may be enhanced by routine evaluation of the copper and molybdenum concentrations in feed and avoiding provision of cattle feeds to supplement susceptible species such as sheep. Oversupplementation of animals with chelated minerals should also be avoided. Water is generally not an important source of copper for most food producing animals, although water standards exist for most species: cattle (1.0 ppm), swine (5.0 ppm), sheep (0.5 ppm). In dogs, genetic testing is available to identify carriers of the autosomal recessive gene associated with abnormal copper accumulation; however, the mode of inheritance is not known for all susceptible breeds. Periodic liver biopsies for evaluation of tissue copper concentration and testing of liver enzymes may also be useful to evaluate disease status. In addition to previously described treatments, zinc supplementation and prednisone or prednisolone administration enhance copper excretion and limit development of liver disease.
Copper poisoning, particularly chronic toxicosis, is a common occurrence in many animal species.
The insidious onset accompanied by high mortality and a poor response to treatment emphasizes the need to focus on prevention of the disease.
Marked differences in species and breed susceptibility should be considered in control strategies.
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The Global Community an alternative is a reflection of author's encounters of the past and the present. He is of the view that the greed and unresponsive designs of the owners of capital are taking the globe to a precipice of an avoidable disaster. His alternative is not a violent revolution or mass uprising, but an intelligent and judicial circumventing in the form of the creation of a global community. He gives the contours of such an alternative and hopes that the youth who are most important stake holders will develop and practice it at various levels. The aim of book is to make the reader aware that two of the major factors expected to nurture and preserve life, peace and happiness namely religion and science are being hijacked by the forces of greed and unresponsive designs. Three important phenomenon of the present times economic inequality, climate changes and nuclear wars are taking us to the precipice of an avoidable disaster. This book is attempting to reach the conscience of youth and students, who have already shown signs of massive response to each of these issues.
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Some times in life, you just have to muddle through the conversations until you figure out how best to communicate.
Most of the time, you are spot on. You understand them. They understand you.
Whether it is someone:
- less experienced.
- more educated.
- coming from a different background.
- has a different set of social ethos.
- grew up in a different country and yours is not their first spoken language.
If you both want to work together, come to an agreement or be around each other…you will muddle through until the communication is clear and everyone knows what to do next.
~ Dawn aka Hat Girl
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How the Food Industry Influences Public Health Policy:
Hi everyone! If you are a frequent listener of Causes or Cures, you’ll notice that I’ve focused a lot on the relationship between industry and health policy. Mostly drug companies, but this podcast will explore how the food industry influences public health policy. My guest is an expert in this area and has conducted research on this topic in different countries, which is great, because we can get a global scope of this issue.
In the episode, I chatted with Dr. Melissa Mialon about how the food industry influences public health policy and nutritional guidelines. She will describe the many characters of the food industry, what corporate political activity is and how they use it to influence health policy and nutritional guidelines, the fight over food labels, conflicts of interests involving decisionmakers of important nutritional guidelines, how the industry biases the scientific evidence base, and what we can do to make sure the system is not biased towards food industry interests and profits. Right now, I feel the policies and guidelines ARE biased towards profit for the food industry, and that’s not right. We should be putting people’s health first, end of story. When you consider our obesity epidemic ( that is only getting worse) and then listen to how the food industry influences health policy, you should get angry and advocate for change.
Dr. Mialon is a food engineer, a Research Assitant Professor at Trinity College, Dublin and an honorary Research Fellow at the University of San Paulo in Brazil. She is also an independent consultant currently working in France. She works for many health and consumer organizations, including the WHO, Blommberg Philanthropies and the Ministry of Health Ghana and is the co-cordinator of the Governance, Ethics and Conflicts of Interestin Public Health. She is highly published in the area of how the food industry influences health policy in numerous countries and is the author of a recent book, Big Food and CIE. You can learn more about her and read her publications on her website here.
You can listen to the episode here.
In the spirit of addressing regulatory capture of all kinds, also check out some of the other episodes, including this one:
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According to experts a very small percentage of women are candidates for hair transplant surgery. About 2% to 5% of women with hair loss will benefit from this type of procedure. They are:
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Ring Those Bells: A Carillon Q&A
Learn more about playing carillons from the first person to perform on the one in NC State's Memorial Belltower, carillonneur Tom Gurin.
This story is part of an ongoing series highlighting the restoration and completion of the Memorial Belltower. Click the link to learn more about the history of NC State’s Legend in Stone.
On May 14, carillonneur Tom Gurin donned a coat and tie and climbed about 124 stairs to the new playing cabin at clock level in NC State’s Memorial Belltower.
As the university reopened the tower after a lengthy construction and restoration project, and dedicated its surrounding area as Henry Square, we also debuted our new 55-bell carillon.
Gurin’s inaugural performance on that instrument included classical and popular selections, as well as a few pieces that reflected the tower’s history and even a couple requested by donors to the transformational Belltower project.
A graduate of Yale University, Gurin earned a degree in music with distinction and was president of the student-led Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs. He holds an artist diploma with great distinction from the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium. Gurin currently serves as Duke University Chapel carillonneur and has been a carillonneur in residence at Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral near NC State’s campus.
As he welcomed NC State’s carillon to the Triangle, we had the opportunity to ask him some questions about his musical art.
What does it mean to you to be performing the inaugural concert for the Memorial Belltower at Henry Square?
I am honored and humbled to be performing the inaugural concert at Henry Square. Playing this role in the history of the Belltower is a privilege. The Memorial Belltower represents so many traditions within the NC State community; it is truly the symbol of the Wolfpack. This concert, which is a century in the making, should be heard as the Pack’s loudest “howl” ever and the beginning of a new tradition on campus.
Why and how did you become a carillonneur?
Carillons are compelling. The bells themselves are rich with colorful overtones as well as complex symbolic meanings and associations. Some people associate bells with war, while others hear them as voices of peace. These nuances add extra dimensions to carillon music.
I began playing the carillon during my first year at Yale University after studying classical clarinet performance and jazz drumming throughout high school. Yale’s carillon attracted me because, just as it is at NC State, the belltower there is the icon of the school. In addition to being a war memorial, the carillon represents the booming voice of the student community. In fact, about 50 people signed up to audition for the Yale Guild of Carillonneurs (a group made entirely of students).
Following 10 weeks of lessons, I was one of the lucky six who were tapped for the job that year. (The following year, when I was teaching my own students, 100 people signed up to audition.) After graduating with a degree in music, I received a fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation to study carillon performance and composition at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium. I received my artist diploma there with great distinction in 2019. I have performed on about 100 carillons around the world.
For the completely uninitiated, what is a carillon in the simplest terms, and just how different and similar is it to a piano or organ?
I am guilty of using the phrase “kind of like an organ but with bells” in my usual 30-second elevator pitch about the carillon. However, they are really apples and oranges.
Although carillons have two keyboards (one for the hands and one for the feet), the playing technique is very different from those of other keyboard instruments. Pianists and organists play mostly with their fingers, whereas carillon keys are spaced much farther apart so that they can be struck with closed fists. This is because most of the keys are too heavy to press down with a single finger at fast speeds. Unlike most modern organs, which are electrically powered, carillons are entirely mechanical and offer no assistance aside from springs and levers. Because they are human-powered, playing the bigger bells requires a lot of force. For this reason, it is tricky to play across the upper and lower registers of the carillon quickly while maintaining acoustic balance and bringing out melodies.
Another difference is that carillonneurs cannot control “sustain” in the same way that other keyboardists can. If a pianist or organist holds down a key and then lifts up their finger, the note should stop. However, it is impossible to dampen a massive bell; once I strike a note, it will last as long as it takes to naturally dissipate. For the larger bells, that could be minutes, depending on how hard I hit it in the first place. This is of particular importance to composers of carillon music.
Finally, carillonneurs are typically hundreds of feet off of the ground during a performance. We are so far away that we hear the music differently from the audience. By the time the sound waves travel to reach other listeners, they will have blended together and been filtered by the air or wind. In Belgium, my teacher would sometimes listen to me playing from a quarter mile away and then call me on my cell phone to communicate his feedback. Carillonneurs must be able to “predict” how the music will sound on the ground based on factors such as tower’s height and design (i.e., whether it is “open” or “closed” at the top), the architecture of nearby buildings (sound can bounce off walls) and even the weather.
Although I often describe carillons as “kind of like an organ,” the experiences of playing on, composing for and listening to a carillon are entirely unique.
How far does the sound from a carillon like ours travel? When you rehearse, is it possible to “turn down the volume” or can everyone always hear you? Do you also rehearse on a practice carillon that’s more secluded?
The carillon has one of the largest dynamic ranges of any musical instrument. Depending on the size and proximity to traffic, the sound of some carillons can carry up to a mile away. I am unsure how far away the NC State carillon can be heard (anyone want to help me with a little experiment?), but I’m guessing the sweet spot is at about 100 yards away, in the direction away from the traffic.
Played with a lighter touch, carillons can sound extremely quiet. Playing quietly is often more difficult than playing loudly. Capable performers will utilize the entire dynamic range of the instrument for musical expression. However, because it is impractical to practice all of my music at ppp (that’s very, very quietly), it is necessary to use a practice keyboard. These instruments replicate the setup of a carillon keyboard but, instead of being attached to bells, they are attached to something quieter like a xylophone. It is absolutely essential for a carillonneur to have access to a practice keyboard. I use the practice keyboard at Duke University for several hours every week.
Our carillon has 55 bells. What does that mean in terms of octaves and comparison to others you’ve played? Is every carillon (and even the way its notes are numbered) a bit unique?
Fifty-five bells make about four and a half octaves. That is a wider range than most carillonneurs enjoy (two octaves is the minimum; four is standard). Just about every single carillon is unique, yes. For example, the largest bell at NC State weighs some 1,800 pounds. At Duke University, the carillon has only 50 bells. However, the largest weighs more than 11,000 pounds. It’s kind of like playing a violin versus an upright bass. The NC State carillon is especially unique, however, because of its beautiful sound. I spend a lot of time listening to bells and carillons (a LOT of time) and B.A. Sunderlin, the bellfoundry that cast and tuned NC State’s carillon, created an instrument that is very aurally appealing. It’s basically a Stradivarius.
Playing a carillon is a bit of a workout, correct? Even just climbing the stairs to most of them, not to mention that playing seems to be a very manual process? Do carillonneurs end up with blisters, calluses or other playing-related ailments?
Yes, yes and yes. It’s amazing what we do for the love of music.
Can one play just about any kind of music on a carillon? What is your favorite kind of music to play, and what’s most challenging?
The short answer is yes, for the most part. Rap and hip-hop music are challenging to play well on the carillon. I enjoy playing film music (“Moon River,” “The Godfather,” “Star Wars,” etc.). I like to play Disney songs, pop songs or other tunes that are somewhat recognizable. My hope is that someone who is on their way to class or who might be having a bad day will stop and smile. I play a lot of Bach, too.
I also like to do holiday-themed concerts. Valentine’s Day (“Single Ladies”) and Halloween (“Toccata in D Minor”) are always favorites.
At the same time, I am constantly working on new compositions to play on the carillon. One of my original compositions was published in 2019, and another will be published this summer. There is a wealth of music composed specifically for the carillon, including works by Samuel Barber, George Crumb and Nino Rota. Surprisingly, carillons don’t have to be solo instruments. I have composed and performed pieces for carillon and choir, carillon and flute, and more!
Carillonneurs seem to be a relatively small but very passionate group. Do you all travel around to play everywhere possible?
I have been a member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America since passing the exam in 2017. This group gives carillonneurs (who, by nature of the job, are usually isolated) a forum to convene and exchange ideas. It is common for universities and churches with carillons to host a series of evening recitals each summer, often in July or August. These are excellent opportunities for audiences to enjoy different styles of playing and for carillonneurs to hear their own instruments from the ground. For example, I will be performing several guest recitals this summer, including concerts at the University of Michigan and the University of Rochester.
What can an instrument like this one mean for NC State? Any chance of some friendly competition with the Duke folks?
It all depends on how we use it. There is an opportunity here to become a hotspot for carillon studies like at the University of Michigan, University of California-Berkeley and others. Will a carillonneur perform daily or weekly recitals? Will students have the opportunity to learn to play the instrument themselves? I’m all for some friendly competition!
What is your favorite thing about playing a carillon?
My favorite thing is to bring small groups of people upstairs to show them how the instrument actually works. There is often an aura of mystery surrounding carillon towers, since it is impossible to see the action during recitals without a live video feed. Because I can’t bring the keyboard downstairs, it’s sometimes fun to bring the audience up for a visit.
Have you had any interesting animal encounters up in belfries?
Sadly, most of my animal encounters in belfries have been with wasps.
Is there a misconception about playing the carillon that you commonly encounter when talking to the regular folks about your work?
A common question I get is, “How do you pull all of those ropes at the same time?” The bells in a carillon do not move. As much as I enjoy pulling ropes and talking to statues, I am no Quasimodo. Swinging bells, change ringing and carillons are all distinct forms of bell-playing with different histories. There are many, many ways to play bells, and I have tried a handful of them. Carillon performance, which does not involve any ropes, happens to be my personal favorite.
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Women are key contributors to an organizational environment, though the stereotypic perceptions about powerful women are common and often negative. Factors such as wage gap differentials between men and women imply that women are not of the same value to an organization’s success as men. Many empirical studies have examined perceptions about women in positions such as managers, CEOs, supervisors or directors. These studies have not, however, focused on how early life environments, and variables related to an individual’s upbringing, might influence the self-perceptions of these women and the roles they play in the workplace. The purpose of this research is to identify 1) perceptions about women in today’s workplace; 2) how individuals’ early life experiences correlate with their later perceptions about women in the workplace, and 3) how early life influences affect women as organizational leaders in groups and dyads. As such, it is hypothesized that this correlational study will discover that early life conditions, such as the quality of education, household income, and demographic data from both male and female genders will influence common attitudes about women in the workplace. The present research also aims to help employees become more aware of company perceptions and to improve gender communication in the workplace. Examining the workplace perceptions of men and women formed by early life influences, and specifically, researching how women work as leaders in an organizational setting can provide information that will be useful in corporate environments. Significant early life predictors can also be used as data for families and schools raising young women to become leaders in the corporate world.
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Imagine sheriff’s deputies pursuing suspects in a “Hill Street Blues”-era police cruiser with 357,000 miles in its rearview mirror. Imagine fire crews trying to douse a blaze using frayed hoses wrapped in duct tape. Imagine the Contra Costa County Elections Department tabulating election votes using such vintage technology as floppy disks, dot matrix printers and scanners older than the staff members who operate them.
Before you strain your imagination, be aware that the latter scenario is for real and will be employed during Tuesday’s election.
In fairness, there is some modern technology in the Elections Department. Let’s start with the 332,000 mail-in ballots, accounting for 60 percent of all registered voters in the county.
Those ballots, according to Clerk-Recorder Joe Canciamilla, are fed through machines in a warehouse across the street from the Election Department’s Martinez office. The machines take pictures of the signature box on each ballot, sort the ballots and slice open the envelopes.
Most of this has already happened, by the way. As has the one event that might entice you to become part of the election process.
“We have what we call our ballot extraction party,” Canciamilla said. “We’ll have 150 people in here — volunteers, family, friends. We barbecue. They get snacks in the morning, they get lunch.”
It takes roughly six hours for all the ballots to be extracted, smoothed and stacked neatly on trays. Those trays are then wheeled across the street to the processing center.
Welcome to Yesteryear.
“This is ’80s technology,” Canciamilla said, surveying the room. “This is probably one of the last places you’ll find a dot matrix printer in continuous service.”
The printer’s unique whizzing sound is instantly vaguely familiar, not unlike the opening notes of “We Are the World.”
The ballots are fed through huge counting machines. But not right away.
“We’ve found that because the equipment is so sensitive, because it’s so old, the longer ballots have a chance to acclimate to the humidity in the room, they tend to go through the machines better,” Canciamilla said. “We leave them here for a couple days to age, I would say, like a mediocre wine.”
And then: “Theoretically, you would be able to put this big old stack of ballots here,” Canciamilla said, pointing to a spring-loaded stacking platform, “and the machine would (process them) all by itself. But in reality, not so much.”
During a demonstration, processing supervisor Travis Ebbert had his feed interrupted at regular intervals. It seems almost anything — write-in votes, wrinkles, dirt, stains — will cause a ballot to be kicked.
“Ballots get banged up,” Canciamilla said. “People change their minds. They write things on them. They leave love notes, messages, especially during the (2015) Glazier-Bonilla (state Senate) race. And the machine rejects those.”
Rejects must be processed by hand. So those of you casting write-in votes for Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck, know your rapier-like wit is lost on Election Department employees.
There are seven scanners. Canciamilla said they all have their own personalities and that handling them is “an art.”
How many ballots can be processed per minute? Unknown, said assistant registrar Scott Konopasek, because “you can’t load a minute’s worth of ballots at one time.”
The information from the scanners is downloaded onto 3½-inch floppy disks, which are taken into a secure room — unconnected to the outside world; hey, you can’t hack what you can’t see — where the results are tabulated. That information is taken to another computer, where it is sent to the state. Only then can results be posted on the county’s website.
Amazingly, floppy disks, printer ribbons and spare parts can be found on eBay and Amazon. And when repairs are necessary?
“Uh, we know a guy,” Ebbert joked.
We’re still talking about mail-in ballots, by the way. Ballots cast at polling locations are fed through an on-site scanner and recorded on a memory card. The memory cards find their way back to the processing center and are tabulated there.
The money question: Why is the mail-in ballot process so dependent on technology born before the Berlin Wall came down and the International Space Station went up?
“The problem is that after (the disputed) Bush v. Gore (2000 presidential election), there was a sense of paranoia about the use of technology.” Canciamilla said. “And the funny thing, that wasn’t a technological problem. That was a paper problem. But the response was to clamp down on systems.
“There aren’t many options at this point. The state hasn’t approved enough new systems and new technologies, and the process for approving them, reviewing them and certifying them is so slow there’s just nothing out there.”
Further complicating matters is that California is considering legislation to change the way elections are conducted. Understandably, counties are hesitant to spend money on equipment that might become instantly obsolete.
Whereas going back to the future is never out of style.
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Preventing paradise lost
Updated: 2010-12-21 07:30
By Peng Yining (China Daily)
Seeds of hope
The central government in March this year introduced a law to regulate remote islands, stating that people who inhabitants need to register with local authorities and apply before carrying farming, fishing or planting.
Although the move is geared toward protecting the fragile environment of the country's islands, Lin is not in support.
"The government did nothing to protect my island. I don't have to report to anyone," he insisted.
Over the years, he has also resisted almost all offers of cooperation, including a 2.2-million-yuan offer from a Xiamen company that proposed developing Crocodile Island into a tourism attraction.
"They just want to make money. They don't care the island's future," added Lin.
The only help he has accepted is from China Mangrove Conservation Network. The NGO in 2008 drew up a protection plan that involved planting mangrove, a type of coastal tree, to conserve the shrinking beach line. The organization provided free seedlings and taught Lin how to plant.
Lin Beishui (right) points out the shrinking coastline of Crocodile Island, one of many islets off the coast of Fujian province, to his son, Lin Dasheng. [Photo/China Daily]
"Lin accepts us because we want the same thing: to protect Eyuyu Island," explained Liu Yi, 28, director of the China Mangrove Conservation Network. "He can live on the island alone, but it's hard for him to save the island by himself."
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The islet used to be covered by mangroves, but people destroyed them for dredging and fishing, which means the sea can now directly sweep away the earth.
According to the network, 90 percent of mangroves in Xiamen have disappeared because of reclamation, coastal real estate development and pollution.
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Balancing friendly bacteria in the digestive system
One of the reasons probiotics seem to work so well is the presence of “good” bacteria. When the balance is out of whack, there are health repercussions and so, probiotics step in to establish order in the chaos of gut bacteria.
An imbalance of your gut bacteria means there are too many “bad” bacteria and they outnumber the good. There are many reasons for this type of imbalance, like illness, medications (for example, too many antibiotics), a poor diet, etc. Whatever the cause of the imbalance, it can lead to digestive issues, allergies, mental health problems, and obesity, among other things.
Helping to prevent and treat diarrhea
Don’t worry, everybody poops. But what does it mean when you transition from regular bowel movements to frequent bowel movements to full-blown diarrhea? It turns out, this problem could be due to an imbalance in the gut bacteria. Probiotics are widely used and known for their ability to regulate the digestive system, as well as prevent diarrhea or reducing the severity.
Improving some mental health conditions
Recent studies are suggesting that the health of the gut can have a big impact on the health of the mind. Research done in both animal and human subjects is finding that probiotic supplements may be able to improve some mental health disorders, including anxiety, depression, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and memory loss (2).
In one study, 70 chemical workers were observed for 6 weeks. Some were asked to eat 100 grams of probiotic yogurt every day or take a probiotic supplement. Those who did saw an improvement in their general health, depression, anxiety, and stress (3). Similar results were found in a study of 40 patients with depression (3).
Keeping your heart healthy
By lowering the LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, probiotics could actually be good for your heart and blood pressure. While this is only possible with certain probiotic strains that produce lactic acid, it’s an encouraging finding for many who live with high cholesterol and blood pressure. It is believed that this happens when lactic acid-producing strains of probiotics break down bile, keeping it from being reabsorbed in the gut. In fact, a review of five probiotic studies found that eating a probiotic yogurt for 2-8 weeks reduced total cholesterol by 4% and LDL cholesterol by 5% (4).
Reducing the severity of some allergies and eczema
Anyone who has experienced allergies or eczema knows how maddening the constant itchiness can be. It’s even more stress-inducing when your child or infant is dealing with eczema. A study found that infants who were fed with a probiotic-supplemented milk had improved eczema symptoms (5). And another found that the children of women who took probiotics during their pregnancy had an 83% lower risk of developing eczema in the first couple years of life. Although this link is still being researched, the findings thus far are exciting (5).
Improving the symptoms of some digestive disorders
For the 1 million-plus people suffering from Crohn’s disease in the United States, probiotics may hold some relief. Some probiotic strains are showing promise in improving the symptoms of both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. One study even found that a supplement with the probiotic strain E. coli Nissle was just as effective as prescription drugs in maintaining remission of ulcerative colitis (6). There is still little research showing any effect on Crohn’s disease, but probiotics are known to aid in managing bowel disorder and still provides some hope for those with digestive disorders.
Boosting the immune system
By promoting the production of natural antibodies, probiotics are showing signs of being able to boost the immune system and hold off overgrowth of the bad bacteria. A larger study found that probiotics could help to reduce the likelihood and duration of respiratory infections and another study of 570 children found that those taking Lactobacillus GG probiotics had fewer respiratory infections by about 17% (7).
Aiding in weight loss and belly fat
There are many reasons to believe that probiotics can be a big helper in weight loss and with belly fat. Some probiotics can prevent the absorption of dietary fat in the intestine and instead the fat is excreted during a bowel movement. They can also help you to feel fuller longer, acting as a mild appetite suppressant and allowing you to burn more calories while storing less fat. In one study, women who supplemented with Lactobacillus rhamnosus for 3 months lost 50% more weight than those who didn’t. Even in low doses, Lactobacillus gasseri can lead to a reduction in belly fat (8).
Not all probiotics are created equal and it’s important to research which strains will address the concerns you have. Talk with your doctor about any questions you have before adding probiotics into your diet. Whether it’s weight loss, heart health, or just regulating your bowel movements, there’s a chance a probiotic supplement could be the key to living a more healthy life.
References & Disclaimers
✝✝This noted statement is based on independent research and is not necessarily the opinion of the author
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FREQUENTLY BOUGHT TOGETHER
$5 Face bags!
Historical U.S. silver coins.
This is $5 Face Value Bag of (50) 90%, Pre-1965 U.S. Silver Dimes. These dimes in most cases are heavily circulated (RANDOM YEAR/RANDOM DESIGN) struck by the various U.S. Mints.
- Contains approximately 3.57 oz 90% Silver
- These are not sorted or handpicked so old Barber Dimes and Mercury Dimes are commonly found.
- Front obverse side (heads): Image of 'RANDOM' with the words 'LIBERTY,' 'IN GOD WE TRUST,' as well as date and mintmark.
- Back reverse side (tails): Features the "RANDOM" and reads 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,' 'ONE DIME' and 'E PLURIBUS UNUM.'
- Historic U.S. Silver!
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Pick up cloth bank bags to fill to the brim with 90% silver bullion!
Back when money was backed by something, the U.S. Mint (IAW the U.S. Constitution) coined money made from either gold or silver. All coins produced in 1964 or earlier contained precious metals because that's what our money use to be backed by.
Wasn't much inflation back then, by the way. Pick up some real money today!
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In its bid to bring the gains of science, technology, and innovation (STI) closer to the people to reduce demographic inequality, create opportunities for businesses and employment, and expand the potential for growth in the countryside, the Department of Science and Technology Regional Office No. IX (DOST-IX) will be conducting “Science for the People (SFTP)” Festivals in key locations in the region.
SFTP is a consolidated effort of DOST to bring S&T products and services to the countryside. This fiesta-inspired event aims to, among others: (1) reach and serve rural community folks, especially in places where regular access to government services is quite challenging; (2) introduce and demonstrate the beneficial applications of DOST technologies, programs, and services, which are all geared toward improving the quality of life in the region; and (3) promote collaborative efforts towards meaningful development through strengthening partnerships between DOST, other line government agencies, local government units (LGUs), private businesses, non-government organizations (NGOs), and local communities.
Through the SFTP Festivals, communities are set to benefit from the opportunities to be created by technology bazaars and exhibits, technology business fora, technology trainings, and nutri-feeding activities, among many other things.
For the first leg of its SFTP festival, DOST-IX has chosen the Municipality of Titay as its venue. Located at the western part of the Zamboanga Peninsula (ZamPen), Titay is a humble yet thriving municipality that acts as the gateway for travelers headed for Zamboanga del Norte and the other provinces of ZamPen. Given its inland location and distance from the main cities, it is often found on the wanting side of science and its advancements. Thus, DOST-IX believes that it is the most viable setting for its first Science for the People Festival, which will be held at the Titay Municipal Hall on 22-24 May 2017.
Among the highlights of the 1st SFTP Festival include nutri-feeding program for children, sharing of products of DOST-SETUP-assisted firms to senior citizens, and a tree planting activity.
DOST-IX is inviting the public to witness and take part in this event. Everyone is encouraged to view the various technologies that will be showcased, which include those related to disaster risk reduction and management, improvement and/or development of business enterprises, education, and health. Admission to all of the activities during the Science for the People festival is FREE.
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Make Your Own Slime – Hackley Family Crafts
Take time to create something new and unique with a monthly craft time for families at Hackley Public Library! On Saturday, February 8 from 11:00 am – 12 noon, visit with us to make Slime. Activities are designed for all ages and ability levels. Supplies are limited, and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
All ages welcome. Free.
Brought through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Public Library and The Coffee Factory.
About the Hackley Public Library
The Hackley Public Library is dedicated to 1) promoting knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, 2) combating ignorance, intolerance, and indifference, 3) promoting the free exchange of ideas, and 4) conserving our national and local cultural heritage.
The mission of the Hackley Public Library is to inform, inspire, and delight our diverse community by providing information, knowledge, literature, new technologies, and traditional and innovative programs.
For more information, please contact Hackley Public Library, 316 W Webster Ave Muskegon MI 49440, at Reference: 231-722-8011, Circulation: 231-722-8000, Youth Services: 231-722-8014, firstname.lastname@example.org, or @hackleyref. Visit our Flickr PR album: http://bit.ly/1DSbZ6E
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West Virginia officials to introduce 50 elk captured in Arizona
HOLDEN, W.Va. (AP) — Officials in West Virginia are set to introduce 50 elk that were captured in Arizona.
Gov. Jim Justice and the state Division of Natural Resources are scheduled to hold a ceremony Tuesday at the Tomblin Wildlife Management Area near Logan.
The governor’s office says in a news release the elk have been in a 5-acre holding pen since March to comply with federal disease testing guidelines. The pen is on reclaimed coal mine property, where grasslands have been cultivated and are considered key for sustaining elk.
They’ll join 35 other elk previously acquired from Kentucky’s Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area.
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The elk from Kentucky were first reintroduced in West Virginia in December 2016. Before that, elk herds hadn’t roamed the state since 1875.
Officials are touting the elk’s potential to help tourism.
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Data from Indeed indicates an increase in demand for teaching jobs in India. The data revealed a 41% increase in job searches for teaching jobs from July 2016 to July 2019. The demand for teacher roles has seen promising growth over the last three years. This could be attributed to the development of digital media which has opened avenues to new roles such as online tutors and e-educators.
Growth in searches for teacher jobs has been the highest in 2018-19 witnessing a 40% increase. 2017-18 saw an increase of 14% in job-seeker interest for these roles. While three years ago (2016-17) there was a dip of 11% in job seeker interest towards teaching roles.
The advancement of technology and e-learning has led to the rise of online tutor and e-educator jobs. The new-age profession does come with its perks. While the average annual salary for a teacher in India is Rs 2,19,804 and goes up to Rs 5,88,000 per annum; the average annual salary of an online tutor in the country is Rs 4,80,000 and goes up to Rs 9,25,000 per annum.
Commenting on the findings, Sashi Kumar, Managing Director, Indeed India, said, “Teachers exercise a powerful influence on the lives of students and so have the potential to shape the future. We all have teachers who have made a positive impact on our lives—whether they coaxed us out of our shells, believed in us, or inspired us to pursue our dream career. It is promising to see that the demand for teacher roles has increased by 41% over the past three years. The growth of e-learning and online teaching roles will only further the growth of teaching as a profession.”
Note: Salary estimates are based on salaries submitted anonymously to Indeed by employees, users, and collected from past and present job advertisements on Indeed in the past 36 months.
Image source- News24
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Tick tock, tick tock. It’s been mere minutes since your last meal, yet your stomach is growling.
You’re dieting. What did you expect? That it would be all sunshine and rainbows, that you’d glance at a glazed donut and not feel a flicker of desire, that you’d be bursting with energy at all hours of the day? Well then I have news for you: dieting ain’t easy.
The steps required are straightforward enough. You eat less, move some, and catch your zzz’s. But the simplicity of it all fools you. How many of you have triumphantly embarked on a dieting journey, fully confident that you’d slash away at your back rolls and chomp down on your broccoli, boldly rejecting temptation at every turn, day after day? Your enthusiasm amuses me. And interestingly enough, your overconfidence will likely backfire.
Enter the Dunning-Kruger effect. This phenomenon suggests that individuals who believe their skills are better than they actually are tend to gravely overestimate their true abilities, and consequently fail. If you think you have iron, unwavering willpower that will stand intact in the face of every distraction, you have a higher chance of losing control. You see this in students who apply to schools way above their calibre and are surprised when they’re not accepted; you see it in tone-deaf hopefuls auditioning for American Idol. Such people lack the cognitive awareness to accurately assess their own performance and strengths. To put it bluntly, you’re so sure that you’re good – great, even – that you fail to see how much you really suck.
Dieters are not immune to this. Why is it that over-optimistic individuals are more likely to flop? Because it never crosses their minds that there will come a place and time when their resolve will be seriously put to the test. You feel good now, but it won’t always be this way. You’re hit with a bout of hunger and it catches you so off guard that you panic and binge on a plate of brownies in a desperate attempt to alleviate the uncomfortable sensation. Such setbacks in isolation won’t derail your goals, but you’re so surprised that you stumbled in the first place that you give up entirely on your goals.
The human mind is truly fascinating, don’t you think?
The more you actively try to fight the hunger, the more difficult the process will be. If you can accept that hunger is a part of dieting, I promise that the inner voices screaming inside your head will quiet down. Expect it. Change the way you see it; it’s not a threat and it certainly won’t kill you. There are worse things you could be feeling right now.
Fortunately, there are some strategies to combat, or at least minimize, hunger. Below are 5 tactics I use to deal with hunger.
1. Be realistic with your expectations. So you want to lose 15lbs in one week? Sorry, but this isn’t The Biggest Loser; this is real life. If you think you can starve your way to a lean body, then I’m not going to stop you from trying. But I guarantee that it won’t be fun and you probably won’t succeed. You can’t go from zero to hero overnight (unless you’re Hercules). Don’t go all gung-ho in the gym, forget about strict 100% clean eating (can someone give me a scientific description of what that even is?), and incorporate your favorite foods into your diet every so often. Life should consist of work, friends, family, and so on and so forth; it should not consist of dieting and dieting only. Set a reasonable time-frame for your goals and put together a feasible, maintainable diet for yourself before you move ahead.
2. Moderate exercise. This doesn’t apply to everyone, but it happens to enough people that I think it’s worth mentioning here. Some individuals have reported that exercise increases their appetite. There’s a good amount of research on topic that’s really very complicated, and of course there are both physiological and psychological factors at play here, but I think that the latter tends to be more of an issue. On the one hand, there are people who will get in a workout and think to themselves, “Why would I waste the time I spent in the gym by ruining my diet?” and thus, exercise will act as the Diet Police of sorts. On the other hand, there are others who convince themselves after a hard, long run that they’ve earned the food and they deserve those bagels. You’ve been warned. More is not always better.
3. Be smart with your food choices. When it comes to the diet itself, there are lots of things you can do to maximize satiety. Focus on lean proteins. When I’m hungrier than usual, I’ll reach for some cottage cheese instead of a slice of Ezekiel bread because I know it will satisfy me more. Throw in a good dose of healthy fats to your meals, too – dietary fats slow gastric emptying. Eggs with avocado and white fish topped with some cheese are a few of my favorites. Fill up on fibrous vegetables; they’ll help add volume to your food without excess calories. Don’t drink your calories. Chug that water. Plan ahead.
4. Consider changing your eating habits. Do larger, infrequent meals leave you feeling heavy and lethargic? Do tiny, bite-sized meals piss you off? Does eating first thing in the morning only make you hungrier? It may make sense to re-assess not only what you’re eating but also when and how much. When I wake up, the last thing I want to do is immediately fill my belly with food, so I sip on some coffee in the early hours instead. It’s normally around 2p.m. by the time I eat my first meal of the day, and it’s a big one (LeanGains for the win!) – just the way I like it. It doesn’t make sense to eat if you’re not even hungry yet, so why force it? I encourage you to play around with different meal patterns and figure out what works best for you.
5. Find your Big Girl pants. Dig them out of the back of your closet; you know they’re in there somewhere. Pick the lint off if you have to, but I’m going to need you to slide them on. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? They’re going to stay on for the rest of this journey if you want to succeed. Sometimes, despite all the efforts you’re making, you just need to suck it up and do what you need to do to get where you need to be. If you’re constantly making excuses as to why you still haven’t shed those 50lbs of excess weight, perhaps you need to ask yourself if your health is really a priority to you at all. Stop talking the talk and walk the walk.
Nobody likes hunger; it’s never fun. But alas, we’ve figured out a way to take part in the Dieting Hunger Games – and if you play your cards right, you may even win.
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In response to the recent announcements of education stimulus funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Empirical Education is now offering assistance to state and local education agencies in building local capacity for rigorous evaluations. Our MeasureResults system helps state and district planners answer questions about the effectiveness of schools and of locally implemented programs. The enhanced analytic capabilities built into the MeasureResults system enables school districts to conduct their own rigorous research with findings relevant to their localized setting, using their existing datasets. Read more about how Empirical Education can work with state and local education agencies to take full advantage of ARRA funding. Also see how we partner with publishers to provide research packages along with their product offerings.
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With the school year beginning in just a few weeks, I’ve had classroom topics on the brain. I know that calendar songs are part of the daily routine in many classrooms, so I’m adding one more to my long list of ’em.
Seven Days in a Week lists each day of the week several times throughout the song so that it helps children not only learn the names of each day, but also the order. The song also touches on the difference between weekdays and weekends. Take a listen:
This song can be used in conjunction with a “Today Is” kind of song (I have always used this one) or just as a standalone.
After working in a school for several years, I’ve heard MANY songs about the days of the week — and I know they can get old pretty quickly if you hear them every day. That’s why I’m all about revisiting topics I’ve already written songs for and providing lots of options. In my experience, using a different song to address a long-term goal can be just what a child needs to finally master it.
What are your favorite “days of the week” and other calendar songs?
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GUIDELINES PDF - Japanese Translation
The ICNIRP Guidelines on Limiting Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields are for the protection of humans exposed to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF) in the range 100 kHz to 300 GHz. The guidelines cover many applications such as 5G technologies, WiFi, Bluetooth, mobile phones, and base stations. This publication replaces and superseeds the 100 kHz to 300 GHz part of the ICNIRP (1998) radiofrequency guidelines, as well as the 100 kHz to 10 MHz part of the ICNIRP (2010) low-frequency guidelines.
Citation: ICNIRP. Guidelines for limiting exposure to electromagnetic fields (100 kHz to 300 GHz). Health Phys 118(00):000–000; 2020. Pre-print. DOI: 10.1097/HP.0000000000001210.
The publication entails the main guidelines document and two appendices. The guidelines provides the exposure limits and rationale. Appendix A and B respectively provide further detail concerning the relevant dosimetry, and the biological and health effects reported in the literature.
ICNIRP submits its draft guidelines to open online consultation. The process for the RF EMF Guidelines is documented here.
Additional Information - Note that the Guidelines are the reference.
FAQs English - Translations available in Italian, Japanese and Portuguese
Differences 2020 1998 Guidelines English - Translation available in Japanese
In the above presentation, ICNIRP (2019) refers to ICNIRP (2020).
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Part 1: Availability
The importance of water cannot be emphasized enough. Without water we do not have life!
In Southern California the availability of water is determined by the State Department of Water Resources (DWR). There are many stakeholders who impact the final policy decisions of DWR. For me, the end users, the consumers are the most important.
The policymakers have, in the writer’s opinion, more heavily yielded to environmentalist’s pressure than to the needs of the end users. As a result, million of gallons of water are wasted by dumping it into the Pacific Ocean. The route is the Sacramento, San Joaquin Delta.
It is important to understand that the flow of fresh water through the San Francisco Bay naturally keeps marine water from too radically altering the ecosystem of the San Francisco Bay. Beyond maintaining this balance is a misuse of fresh water. The waste deprives the endusers forcing them into a water rationing and conservation mania.
The solution is, stop wasting water and make it available for human use.
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TMJ Specialist Near Sugar Creek, MO
If you’ve been having any issues with your jaw joint, you may need to see a professional about it. You’ll find a proper professional here at Koala® Center For Sleep & TMJ Disorders. Our professionals can get to the root cause of your issue. Get in touch with us today for a consultation with a TMJ professional near Sugar Creek, MO.
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For TMJ disorder (jaw joint disorder) or any issues related to your jaw joint, you could go see your primary care doctor, but that doctor will likely refer you to a dentist like one of ours here at Koala® Center For Sleep & TMJ Disorders. A primary care doctor can do only so much, like prescribe pain medication, but treatment like that won’t address the disorder itself or the particular cause of your case of the disorder.
TMJ disorder or related issues should be treated by a dentist or TMJ professional. We have these professionals and fully capable dentists here at our clinic.
A dentist/TMJ professional is able to properly interpret the symptoms of a TMJ issue or disorder and may be able to determine the underlying cause of your particular case of TMJ disorder. For instance, it may be that your case is caused by or complicated by a pre-existing health condition. Or maybe an unhealthy habit or a prior trauma is the culprit. Once the professional has some insight into what could be causing your case of the disorder or any symptoms you have, the professional can provide treatment. The treatments offered by dentists and TMJ professionals may actually address the underlying causes of TMJ problems.
Actually, researchers aren’t entirely sure what causes TMJ disorder, but they understand the symptoms and believe the disorder is caused by issues like:
– The effects of jaw joint rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis
– The misalignment or loss of teeth
– The misalignment or dislocation of the jaw joint
– An effect of whiplash
– An effect of a significant blow to the jaw or cheek
– Bad habits like teeth grinding/clenching, gum chewing, nail biting, or poor posture
– Stress (which can contribute to muscle tension and jaw clenching)
Also, genetics, age, and gender may be factors in many cases. Women aged 18 to 44 are more likely to develop TMJ disorder.
Treatment may be a therapy like jaw stretching or jaw exercising, but this may not be enough for a case of TMJ disorder. The most effective treatment may be oral appliance therapy. This particular therapy involves using a simple mouth insert at night to help the jaw rest in its natural position. What’s so great about oral appliance therapy is that it actually addresses the possible causes of TMJ disorder, and by addressing the causes, the disorder and its symptoms are relieved. In many patient cases, the therapy can reduce symptoms by 90%. The therapy is approved by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and recommended by us at Koala® Center For Sleep & TMJ Disorders!
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South African authorities have revealed that they have been conducting mass surveillance exercises on communications of foreign origins.
This revelation comes in the heat of numerous African nations spying on their citizens and the more recent xenophobic attacks against African migrants in parts of South Africa.
The country’s State Security Agency (SSA) stated that it had used the Signal Intelligence collection process — which involves bulk data gathering — to intercept electronic signals to gather data.
Issues the SSA claimed they were interested in included terrorism and organised crime, amongst others.
Although Privacy International revealed that the SSA had done this by tapping undersea fibre-optic cables to gather foreign signal intelligence data, reports show that the SSA had been collecting information on Internet traffic, telephonic communication, and satellite data of citizens without prior consent.
However, the South African government took no action to curb the problem before the outbreak of attacks against African migrants began, despite admitting to having the means to monitor and anticipate the trend.
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The Best Plants for Kitchen Counters
Growing plants in your kitchen has a simple charm that can’t be beaten. Of course, this comes with some challenges—after all, kitchens are designed for cooking, not for growing. When selecting a plant for your kitchen, there are three things to consider: size, light tolerance, and function.
Unless you have unlimited counter space—and let’s be real, that’s something we all want more of—your best options are likely underneath or on top of cabinets or in some inaccessible nook. For this same reason, it will also need to tolerate low light levels. Given the value of counter space in our homes, if we are keeping a plant on it, that plant needs to pay its own way, either by cleaning the air or by growing something useful.
1. Pothos (Devil’s Ivy) or English Ivy
Sure, these plants will spread out over time, but proper care will keep them well-behaved in the kitchen. Pothos is great for low-light kitchens or bright spaces, but English ivy requires time in direct sunlight. Though neither produces anything useful in the kitchen, they clean the air by filtering out solvents, mold, and bacteria. You’ll breathe a little easier and a little happier with one of these adorable ivies in your kitchen.
2. Aloe Vera
Aloe is a compact and useful plant but requires regular sunlight. Though visually stunning, its true beauty lies in its medicinal use. The next time you need to soothe a burn, simply cut off a lower spear, slice it lengthwise, and apply the gel for instant relief. Care is a breeze. Letting the soil dry out between waterings is recommended as root rot is a constant threat. This bold succulent is a welcome addition to any kitchen space.
Though you may not have luck growing tomatoes on your counter, you can still try your hand at basil, mint, or parsley. Most herbs need regular sunlight, but a shade-tolerant variety or plant-growing light can make these the perfect kitchen plant. Herbs can also be grown in small pots and kept to a manageable size with proper care. With the installation of a high output plant growing light, you can grow any herb right where you cook.
4. Cast Iron Plant
Though this plant serves only to bring beauty and oxygen to your room, it is unbelievably tolerant of any condition you could throw at it. This hardiness makes it worthy of its name, though it will likely need to be housed on the floor or in the corner given its height. Low or bright light, humid or arid, warm or cold, this plant won’t flinch, making it the perfect kitchen companion.
5. White Jasmine
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Antique collectors may have different interests when it comes to the items they hunt for. A peculiar and not so familiar antique object is the duck decoy, with its long and captivating history.
As a matter of fact, dedicated shows, auctions, and conventions across the U.S. and worldwide are committed to this art, and passionate people are exchanging impressive amounts of money to satisfy their hobby.
A duck decoy may be worth lots of money, whether it has been mass-produced, with exquisite realistic details, or manufactured by carvers hundreds of years ago. Passionate collectors know how to identify these markings, but those new in this domain might have struggles learning to recognize antique duck decoys.
Sometimes, it takes years of study. But if you are really interested in the matter. In that case, you can learn to check the key features and spot those specific elements of an antique duck decoy.
This guide will take you through all the essential tips, and information one needs to complete their antique collection.
Duck Decoys History
So what are duck decoys, first of all, and where is their popularity coming from? A long time before English colonists entered America, Native Americans made these birds and other animals decoys for hunting purposes.
The primary materials were mud and carcasses to conjure the outlines of these winged creatures. Later on, colonists started to imitate this technique and build upon the colonists’ hunting tactic.
Starting in the mid-19th century and going to the early-20th, the building and usage of painted, hollow, wooden, or solid duck, shorebird, and goose decoys became a true fashion. Most bird hunters used this special method in their hunting process.
While huntsmen today do not use duck decoys due to the modern technology and materials, these items are now considered genuine antique and vintage articles. Hence auction houses and antique affairs are buying and selling these magnificent works that belong to folk art.
Who Started The Duck Decoy Collection Trend?
Duck decoys were not so popular among collectors until de mid-20th century. However, the market first started with small niche passionate groups in the United States. Beginning with the 1950s, these enthusiasts began collecting old, antique duck decoys. Everything changed, and the antique market exploded when Han Sorenson of Burlington published “The Decoy Collector’s Guide” magazine.
Suddenly, due to this magazine number, people got crazily excited and started realizing the meaning and value of collectible duck decoys. People were sending information about their items and began an unprecedented communication movement. Soon after that, decoy shows and affairs started being organized all over the country.
What Makes Duck A Decoy Truly Valuable?
Today’s market is in continuous change, and the same happens with antiquities. Birds of wooden feathers might not always flock together. Therefore, it is pretty hard to predict how much money they are worth and determine the final price.
These are the factors that determine a duck’s decoy value:
1. The Maker
Some manufacturers are more worthy in terms of money than others, as we mentioned in the “Äntique Duck Decoy Types” chapter.
The prices also range by region. For instance, Long Island, New Jersey, North Carolina, and New England are areas that have specific key elements, decoy types, and collectors.
3. Decoy species
There are many different decoys species – from geese to ducks, shorebirds, and many more. Shorebirds, for instance, are rarer because that type of hunting dates back to 1928. Therefore, the prices might go higher. But specialists say that most passionate collectors will go for antique duck and goose decoys.
Besides their provenience and makers, the condition of duck decoys is also a major factor in affecting their value. Antique decoys are so valuable because a significant percentage of them have been repainted during the years or parts have been replaced.
Those in best condition will sell for higher prices. According to specialists, most decoys in a perfect state can be worth a fortune.
Unique models are more likely to value more than mass-produced ones. One of the rarest species ever is the Mason Factory wood duck, which had the highest grade for about $650,000. (here is an example of their work )
6. Strength of maker attribution
Are there any particular features the maker has attributed to the wood ducks? If the answer is yes, then you might deal with unique duck decoy models that value a lot.
There are many variations in duck decoy designs, shapes, and sizes. More extensive models have higher chances to value more.
However, professional collectors claim that sometimes it does not matter if there is a factory or handmade decoy in terms of price. So, expect the market to change and recalculate its principles.
Duck Decoy Makers, Regions, And Types
Are you ready for more information? Because we are just scratching the surface. So let’s move on.
The Mason Decoy Company was the most popular and successful commercial maker of gunning decoys. The manufacturer has sold its products worldwide, while the production pattern was quite similar:
- Made out of cedar
- Lathe patterned
- Pleasing forms
- Hand-painted in elaborate and realistic shades
- Easy to identify
Some of the finest decoys manufactured by Mason Decoys were Mason Premier Grade and Challenge Grade. These models had detailed paint patterns and were mainly hollow-carved, with flat bottoms. Their bodies are solids and time-resistant.
But Mason Company did not stop to only these models but also offered Standard Grade Decoys for a middle budget.
For instance, the painted eye decoy was the lowest Standard Grade and was smaller but more solid. However, the painted details were quite rudimentary, translating to smaller prices.
Mason Decoys also produced a full line of shorebird decoys, divided into two categories: Tackeye and Glasseye. These models were more prominent in size, with solid bodies and iron nail bills.
The earliest models had wooden accounts, though. The whole process of making these glasseye patterns was more elaborate than ever before.
Duck Decoys By Region
- Canadian carvers were producing wooden decoys for waterfowl hunting. Their techniques led to some of the finest decoys ever made.
- Antique decoys from the Ontario area were hollow-carved and had flat bottom boards. On the other hand, Quebec decoys were more solid and had feather-carved ornaments.
- The Chesapeake Bay was a leader in terms of production. Therefore, manufacturers from here were producing vast quantities of decoys. Those were mainly made of solid cedar with a heavy body and poured lead weights. Look at this massive model of Chesapeake Bay duck decoy.
- Illinois River decoys were more hollow-carved and had elaborate paint patterns to best resemble the genuine birds.
- Many antique duck decoy models come from the New Jersey area, a popular source for hunting. Most of these duck decoys have simple patterns, perhaps due to the fresh waters in that environment.
- Last but not least, New England was by far one of the most abundant sources of duck decoys due to the rick waterfowling area. Huntsman here needed huge varieties of decoys for both individual and commercial use. Hence the decoy models reflected the type of water duck that was easiest to find and hunt. The bodies were solid, while the details were most delicate.
Other Important Factories
It was not only Mason Decoy Company that had a monopoly on the duck decoy market. Some commercial decoy factories preceded the famous name, and many others followed. Factory Decoys in original condition and paint are also highly collectible today.
Types Of Duck Decoy
As you know by now, duck decoys are representations or replicas of real birds used back in the days by hunters, easing their job, especially during the winter months.
This being said, when attending antique affairs, expect to find:
How To Evaluate Antique Duck Decoys?
You might struggle to find genuine antique decoys if you are new in the duck decoy collectors’ niche. As long as you keep in mind some simple tips, the process will actually be simple.
1. Handle the duck decoy and start the slow and careful inspection.
Antique items should look and feel old in your hands. Check the paint and wood consistency, as well as the whole pattern. Do you notice bullet holes, cracks, or tiny chips? Then you might deal with an antique. Conversely, it is unlikely to be vintage if the paint looks new.
2. Inspect the eyes.
Most antique duck decoys have glass eyes.
3. Check the bottom of the decoy.
Some manufacturers have carved their initials or signature and mentioned the date of manufacture. Factory-made decoys would always say this information onto a metal tag placed on the bottom of the wood decoy.
4. Study specialized books on these subjects.
Compare the pictures in the book with your items and try to find similarities. Experts in antiques recommend these three sources in particular: “American Bird Decoys,” “The Art Of Decoy,” and “Wild Fowl Decoys.”
Identifying antique duck decoys is a form of art. Hence you should study the historical pieces and attend hunting shows, antique decoy auctions or talk to expert collectors.
Specialized forums are also a great source of information. Inspect as much as you can to learn the main subtle characteristics to look for in antique duck decoys.
Check these videos for valuing tips:
Buy And Sell Antique Duck Decoys
If you are interested in buying and selling antique duck decoys and prefer the mainstream online platforms, check these sources:
Check the wide range of vintage and antique duck decoys on eBay. Make sure you pay attention to the seller’s activity and credibility, considering there are lots of replicas out on the market.
Get the top deals from trustworthy sellers. Etsy is one of the best online sources for genuine antiques. The wide range of products and prices is the most significant benefit.
The Ultimate Guideline To Antique Duck Decoy Collectors
What should a collector focus on when looking for an antique duck decoy?
- Determine what you enjoy seeing in your collection and focus on the style, origin, and the carver you are passionate about.
- Choose quality over quantity and define the construction method you are interested in. Look for original paints if you search for genuine antiques.
- The ideal alternative to antique duck decoys is vintage or contemporary carver’s work if your budget is low.
- Distinguish a collection from an investment. Not all passionate can collect $10,000 decoys and make this type of investment. If you are a novice, consider collecting more cheap decoys.
- You have a collection, but how can you maintain its value? Try to keep the objects away from the sun and dust. Avoid touching the items too much, as skin grease may affect the colors.
- Avoid repainting, treating, and varnishing the antique decoys. Professional collectors recommend cleaning the antiques with a simple cloth.
- Keep records of all your collectible items. Make sure you write down your antique history, value, and previous owners.
- Consider a decoy collection insurance. Some items might be irreplaceable to you, so think about a fine art policy.
Last but not least, let’s see what are the most frequently asked questions about duck decoys.
Q: Are old antique duck decoys worth the money?
A: Yes, they are genuine collection pieces. Considering the manufacturing of duck decoys started in the early part of the 20th century, it is easier to understand why hunting and antique passionates look for this kind of piece.
However, those repainted or repaired might not be as worthy as those in perfect condition. Hence the price ranges will differ. If you want to have precious items in your collection, pay attention only to those worthy sellers, as the market is full of replicas.
Q: What was the most expensive duck decoy ever sold?
A: The most expensive duck decoy was sold at an auction park in Shropshire, UK, in 2021. The buyer spent $2,400 for this piece.
Q: What Are Duck Decoys Made Of?
A: Ages ago, duck decoys were historically manufactured of Atlantic white cedarwood (especially on the east coast of the US) or cork.
On the other hand, more modern types were made of canvas and plastic. Artists paid more and more attention to details, so the painting started being more elaborate and accurate. This way, the decoys could resemble various kinds of waterfowl birds, and the hunting process is much simple.
Q: What duck decoys are worth the money the most?
A: These are the duck decoy models that represent a fortune in any collector’s portfolio:
- Lothrop Holmes, Red-Breasted Merganser Hen Carving
- Graves Mallards
- The Crowell Bundle
- The Wilson Merganser Drake Duck Decoy
Q: Do duck decoys attract ducks?
A: No wonder hunters were using duck decoys to attract real birds. Adding life-like decoys around the water was an effective method to attract birds to the pond. Since ducks will always feel safer in groups, the more decoys the hunters added to the water and around waterfalls, the more likely they were to attract their next prey.
Q: How can you wash duck decoys?
A: Antique duck decoys are very sensitive to any external factor (humidity, sun exposure, etc.). If you need to wash them, use only water, never soap. Most soaps contain ultraviolet brighteners, which will affect the color shades and make duck decoys look unnatural.
Q: Who are antique duck decoy collectors?
A: Most antique duck decoy collectors are usually waterfowl hunters that cherish the heritage of past waterfowl hunting techniques. Therefore, they look for wood, cork, or canvas antique duck decoys.
On the other hand, some collectors have never hunted but appreciate this kind of art for functionality and form. For sure, antique duck decoy collectors will always appreciate the beauty of these pieces or simply carry the nostalgia of antique creations.
For people interested in collecting antique duck decoys, these items are as valuable as any other antique pieces. Finding original ones might not look like an easy job, but as you can see, you just need to follow a few simple steps and learn how to create a beautiful collection.
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These cutaneous cysts are generated by the implantation of epidermal components in the dermis and subcutaneous tissue. Thus, the causes can be embryonic, traumatic or secondary to surgical procedures. Epidermal cysts are covered by stratified squamous epithelium with a granular layer. Hence, the name "sebaceous cyst" is a misnomer and may be confusing.
Clinically, they usually show as erythematous and sometimes painful nodules, often with a small opening on the surface, also called “punctum” which correspond to the communication of the cyst with the epidermal layer. These cysts may drain foul smelling and cheesy-like material and contain keratin, cholesterol and sometimes calcifications.
One of the problems with epidermal cysts is that they can be potent simulators of other lesions, especially when the wall of the cyst ruptures and the cyst become inflamed. Therefore, they can mimic pilomatrixomas, dermatofibromas, foreign bodies, among other lesions. Furthermore, to prevent recurrence, the wall of the cyst (that generates the keratin) should be completely removed.
On sonography, they show a variable appearance according to the phase of the cyst. If they are intact, the sonograms will usually show a well defined, rounded- or oval shaped, anechoic or hypoechoic structure located in the dermis and subcutaneous tissue. Also, these cysts may present inner echoes (debris) and sometimes show a “pseudotestes appearance” ( ie. brighter inner echoes and anechoic filiform areas) as the result of highly compacted deposits of keratin and cholesterol. Commonly, a connecting anechoic tract (punctum) to the epidermis can be detected on ultrasound.
Nevertheless, when the cyst is complicated with a rupture, the keratin is spread into the surrounding tissue and elicits inflammation and a foreign body reaction. The latter events may cause hypoechoic collections, adjacent to the cysts or a big change in the morphology of the cysts that turn into ill-defined hypoechoic structures.
Interestingly, posterior acoustic enhancement, a classical artifact of the cystic lesions, is usually conserved during all the phases. Ultrasound can show the lesion and measure the extent in all axes as well as demonstrate the connecting tracts and perform the differential diagnosis with other conditions. Moreover, color Doppler ultrasound may show increased blood flow in the periphery of the cysts during the phases of inflammation and rupture, frequently with low- flow vessels.
The proper recognition and assessment of the extent of these cystic entities through the sum of the clinical and anatomical data provided by sonography may support an early diagnosis and proper treatment. Thus, the addition of the ultrasound technology perhaps may help to deal with these entities, turning a possible nightmare into a dream.
1-Huang CC, Ko SF, Huang HY, Ng SH, Lee TY, Lee YW, Chen MC.Epidermal cysts in the superficial soft tissue: sonographic features with an emphasis on the pseudotestis pattern.J Ultrasound Med. 2011;30:11-7.
2-Jin W, Ryu KN, Kim GY, Kim HC, Lee JH, Park JS. Sonographic findings of ruptured epidermal inclusion cysts in superficial soft tissue: emphasis on shapes, pericystic changes, and pericystic vascularity. J Ultrasound Med. 2008;27:171-6
3-Kuwano Y, Ishizaki K, Watanabe R, Nanko H. Efficacy of diagnostic ultrasonography of lipomas, epidermal cysts, and ganglions. Arch Dermatol. 2009 ;145:761-4.
4-Wortsman X, Wortsman J, Clinical usefulness of variable frequency ultrasound in localized lesions of the skin. J Am Acad Dermatol 2010; 62 : 247-256
5-Wortsman X.Common applications of dermatologic sonography.J Ultrasound Med. 2012 ;31:97-111
Pilomatrixomas, also called pilomatricomas or calcifying epitheliomas of Malherbe are common and benign skin tumors that arise from the hair follicle matrix. These conditions are more common in children and young adults, especially on the head, neck and extremities. Clinically, they usually present as single or multiple painless, erythematous or slightly bluish nodules. Thus, these tumors can easily mimic other cutaneous lesions such as epidermal cysts, foreign body reactions, fat necrosis, calcified lymph nodes or vascular tumors, among others, on the clinical examination. Moreover, clinical misdiagnosis has been reported as high as 54% in some series.
On sonography, pilomatrixomas classically appear as target-shaped nodules with well-defined hypoechoic rim and hyperechoic center. Scattered hyperechoic dots producing posterior acoustic shadowing that correspond to calcium deposits may be found within the nodule nucleus (partial calcification). Nevertheless, 15 to 30% of pilomatrixoma cases had been reported to not show calcium and 45 % of these entities, in other series, had been reported as completely calcified. Furthermore, there are rare cystic variants of pilomatrixomas. On the other hand, variable degrees of vascularity can be present within the tumor which may also explain the challenging clinical diagnosis.
Ultrasound had reported correctness of diagnosis from 76% to 96% and provides reliable information about the extension, location and blood flow of the lesions. Therefore, a pre-surgical sonographic examination may be a good tool for removing the clinical disguise of these tumors.
1-Roche NA, Monstrey SJ, Matton GE. Pilomatricoma in children: common but often misdiagnosed. Acta Chir Belg. 2010 ;110:250-254.
2-Kumaran N, Azmy A, Carachi R, Raine PA, Macfarlane JH, Howatson AG. Pilomatrixoma--accuracy of clinical diagnosis. J Pediatr Surg. 2006 ;41:1755-1758.
3-Choo HJ, Lee SJ, Lee YH, Lee JH, Oh M, Kim MH, Lee EJ, Song JW, Kim SJ, Kim DW. Pilomatricomas: the diagnostic value of ultrasound. Skeletal Radiol. 2010;39:243-250.
4- Solivetti FM, Elia F, Drusco A, Panetta C, Amantea A, Di Carlo A. Epithelioma of Malherbe: new ultrasound patterns. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2010 6;29:42.
5-Wortsman X, Wortsman J, Arellano J, Oroz J, Giugliano C, Benavides MI, Bordon C. Pilomatrixomas presenting as vascular tumors on color Doppler ultrasound. J Pediatr Surg. 2010;45:2094-2098.
6-Wortsman X.Common applications of dermatologic sonography.J Ultrasound Med. 2012 ;31:97-111
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Where is Renaissance Fountain?
Tabor is home to Renaissance Fountain. You can easily spend a leisurely day seeing the sights and exploring what the area has to offer. If you want to find things to do in the area, you might like to visit Zizka Square and Renaissance Water Tower.
Things to see and do near Renaissance Fountain
What to see near Renaissance Fountain
- Zizka Square
- Tabor Tourist Information Center
- Renaissance Water Tower
- Baroque Chateau
- Dean Church of Lord's Conversion on Mount Tabor
Things to do near Renaissance Fountain
- Husitske Museum
- Lego Museum Tabor
- Museum of Chocolate and Marzipan Tabor
- Schechtl and Vosechek Museum of Photography
- Oskar Nedbal Theatre
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A SkillsCast for this session is not available.
In this talk we’ll explore powerful analytic techniques for graph data. Firstly we’ll discover some of the innate properties of (social) graphs from fields like anthropology and sociology. By understanding the forces and tensions within the graph structure and applying some graph theory, we’ll be able to predict how the graph will evolve over time. To test just how powerful and accurate graph theory is, we’ll also be able to (retrospectively) predict World War 1 based on a social graph and a few simple mechanical rules.Then we’ll see how graph matching can be used to extract online business intelligence (for powerful retail recommendations). In turn we’ll apply these powerful techniques to modelling domains in Neo4j (a graph database) and show how Neo4j can be used to drive business intelligence. Don’t worry, there won’t be much maths.
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Dr. Jim Webber is Chief Scientist with Neo Technology, the company behind the popular open source graph database Neo4j, where he works on R&D for highly scalable graph databases and writes open source software. His proven passion for microservices ecosystems and REST translate into highly engaging workshops that foster collaboration and discussion.
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Many Veterans have experienced the power of Recreation Therapy (RT) as a modality for healing. RT is seen as a clinical intervention, treating physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual well-being. This is why six years ago, recreation therapist Melissa Puckett and readjustment counselor Gil Ramirez began a cycling program to serve as an active vehicle to assist in community reintegration, encourage exercise, improve physical fitness, and decrease isolation with the Veteran and active duty men and women she treats.
With the support of staff from the Men’s and Women’s Trauma Recovery programs at the Menlo Park division of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS), in 2011 the cycling team logged over 10,000 miles while preparing for the Ride 2 Recovery (R2R), by cycling daily and participating in local century and half-century rides around the Bay Area.
“Cycling is an important part of recovery and rehabilitation for many Veterans as regular physical activity improves mood, reduces depression, decreases anxiety, and helps better manage stress,” said Puckett.
This past year, seven residents and four staff (Melissa Puckett, Ashley Myers, Gil Ramirez, and Matt Robles) participated and completed the R2R. A total of 35 Veterans from the VAPAHCS rehabilitation programs have participated in the ride since its inception.
Rehabilitation program residents reported that they had re-discovered a belief they held about themselves before experiencing trauma with statements such as, “I am and I can be a productive member of society” or, “I can be a better human being, husband and a father; the ride helped me realize that about myself again.”
The Ride 2 Recovery California (R2R) Challenge is a six-day ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles (approx. 450 miles). Produced by the Fitness Challenge Foundation in partnership with the Military and VA Volunteer Service Offices, the R2R raises money to support Spinning Recovery Labs, and outdoor cycling programs at Military and VA locations around the U.S.
VAPAHCS has one of the largest and most dynamic Recreation Therapy Services in the country. Each day, the 59-member staff provides therapeutic programs as an integral part of the clinical treatment teams in extended care, mental health, fitness and wellness clinic, and specialty programs including the Homeless Veteran Rehabilitation Program, the Men’s and Women’s Trauma Recovery Program, Western Blind Rehabilitation Center, Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center, and Spinal Cord Injury Center.
Learn more about VAPAHCS Recreation Therapy Service on their website.
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Ministers have launched a £2m fund to provide more accessible toilet facilities for disabled people at service stations in England.
The Department for Transport is (DfT) partnering with Muscular Dystrophy UK (MDUK) to award the money for Changing Places toilets, which officials said are expected to be ready by the early 2020s.
By providing more space and specialised equipment, including adult-sized changing benches and hoists, Changing Places facilities allow people with conditions like muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy to use toilets safely and comfortably.
Officals said a lack of suitable facilities affects more than a quarter of a million people - who cannot use standard disabled toilets - across the UK.
Transport accessibility minister Nusrat Ghani said: ‘This marks the next step towards our ambition of delivering a fully inclusive transport network.
‘It is unacceptable that, despite welcome investment in some areas, our roadside services are not more accessible for over a quarter of a million people, and I am determined to do more.'
Catherine Woodhead, chief executive of MDUK, said: ‘Individuals and families living with a disability often tell us that travelling by car is the easiest way for them to get from A to B.
‘Building Changing Places toilets at motorway service stations will make it easier for more than a quarter of a million people and their families to visit friends, go on holiday, or simply enjoy a day out somewhere – activities the rest of us take for granted.’
MDUK will work with the DfT to allocate funding based on detailed proposals by the operators of motorway services.
The Changing Places application portal will be open for three months with successful applicants announced in September.
The DfT’s partnership with MDUK was announced last November under the Government’s Inclusive Transport Strategy.
The strategy set out key commitments to improve disabled people’s access across all modes of transport by 2030, which included:
- £300m to make railway stations more accessible through the Access for All scheme
- £2m for audio and visual equipment on buses, so that passengers know where and when to alight
- a £2m passenger awareness campaign to increase disability awareness and reduce hate crime on our network
- an accreditation scheme for transport operators to receive formal recognition for positive work to improve disabled passengers’ experiences, such as training frontline staff and senior management on disability awareness
- measures to ensure future technology is designed inclusively from the outset, with opportunities sought to harness innovation
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Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Copenhagen and others report that they have performed the largest genomic analysis to date of whipworm Trichuris trichiura. Scientists say their study “Genomics of Ancient and Modern Populations Trichuris trichiura,” Posted in Nature Communicationprovides a global set of genetic data on which to base new methods of disease control.
Using genomic data to create a transmission map and ongoing analysis of the worm’s genetic makeup can help track factors such as drug resistance and predict how the parasite might continue to spread in the future. , helping to inform public health decisions, the scientists add.
Trichocephalosis is a neglected tropical disease estimated to affect up to 500 million people worldwide. It is caused by T.trichiura and is most commonly found in tropical and subtropical regions. However, parasite eggs found in fossilized remains have shown that the whipworm was once distributed worldwide, with evidence of this in Europe and other sites in North America where infections are rare.
Chronic parasitic infections can cause a range of debilitating gastrointestinal problems, nutritional deficiencies, and delays in physical and cognitive development, especially in children. The majority of these cases are treated with a group of drugs, which have varying levels of effectiveness, and there are few alternative treatments available.
The research generated whole genome DNA sequencing data from modern worms taken from human and primate hosts. These recent samples were obtained from several different regions, including countries in Africa, Central America, Asia, and Europe.
These were compared with ancient samples obtained from archaeological dig sites, the oldest of which date back a thousand years, mainly from Viking settlements in Denmark, as well as sites in the Netherlands and Lithuania. These samples are the oldest helminth samples from which whole genome sequencing data have been generated, and are suggested to be the oldest eukaryotic pathogens, providing unique insight into parasites of the human past.
Comparison of recent past and recent parasite data
Comparison of genetic data of past and recent parasites from around the world has shown how geographically distributed parasite populations are related and the likely influence of human migration in the global spread of modern parasites.
Data from researchers can be used to inform pest management strategies, with the broader goal of reducing the spread of disease. This data could also be used to help track parasite response to new and existing treatments, as resistance to current therapies is a barrier to current drugs that may be on the rise.
Through their analysis, the team provides further support that this worm is specific to humans, baboons and possibly other primates. Therefore, measures to try to stop the spread of T.trichiura will have to take this into account as only treating humans might miss the worms found in other primates in some areas.
“We describe the continent-wide genetic structure between whipworms infecting humans and baboons versus those infecting other primates,” the researchers write. “Demographic analyzes of admixtures and populations support a stepwise distribution of genetic variation that is highest in Uganda, consistent with an African origin and later translocation with human migration.
“Finally, genome-wide analyzes between human samples and between human and non-human primate samples reveal local regions of genetic differentiation between geographically distinct populations. These data provide insight into zoonotic reservoirs of infectious viruses for humans. T.trichiura and support future efforts towards implementing genomic epidemiology of this globally important helminth.
“Trichocephalosis can cause debilitating symptoms and have a huge impact on the development of children in areas where it is prevalent, which is why it is crucial that we find new ways to prevent infections and treat this disease,” said Martin Jensen Søe, PhD. , previously at the University of Copenhagen and co-first author of the study. “One of the main lessons from our research is that some primates can also carry the disease-causing parasite, so it is important to take this into account when planning measures to stop the spread of the disease. Trichuris trichiura.”
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The Underground Railroad Museum is located in Flushing, Ohio. The Underground Railroad Museum features an extensive collection of publications, books, memorabilia and other articles.
The museum was founded in 1993 by the late Dr. John Mattox and his late wife, Rosalind to preserve the past for future generations.
The exhibits portray what is known about slavery and the Underground Railroad in Ohio, and presents an understanding of the culture in the 1800's.
Much of the information and artifacts Mattox has gathered came from local sources. Mattox and the museum were accepted to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.
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What is Bluetooth and how do you use it? Bluetooth technology is a short-range wireless communications technology to replace the cables connecting electronic devices, allowing a person to have a phone conversation via a headset, use a wireless mouse and synchronize information from a mobile phone to a PC, all using the same core system.
What is Bluetooth in simple words?
In the simplest terms, Bluetooth is the technology that enables exchange of data between devices within a short amount of distance. Most Bluetooth devices have a maximum connectivity range of about 30 feet, and that distance is reduced when obstacles (such as a wall) are present.
How do I connect to Bluetooth?
What does Bluetooth mean on your phone?
Bluetooth is a wireless radio technology that allows many different devices to connect to each other and work together. It was originally invented as an affordable wireless alternative to wired keyboards, headphones, speakers, and other peripherals.
What is difference between Bluetooth and WIFI?
Bluetooth allows for short-range data transfer between devices. As an example, it is commonly employed in headsets for mobile phones, enabling hands-free phone use. Wi-Fi, on the other hand, allows devices to connect to the Internet.
Related question for What Is Bluetooth And How Do You Use It?
What do I need Bluetooth for?
What can I use Bluetooth for?
Is Bluetooth free?
And there's no cost to that. You only pay for the data transmitted to your smart device over the phone company's network by way of using the app. If you already have music loaded on your smart device, there is no cost for transmitting it from the device to your Bluetooth headphones.
What devices use Bluetooth?
Bluetooth-enabled consumer electronics such as phones, cameras, televisions, speakers and headphones simplify data sharing between devices. A Bluetooth mobile phone, for example, can wirelessly connect to a headset to make hands-free calling easier or can send pictures to another phone or computer.
Should Bluetooth be on or off?
Windows, Android, Linux, and iOS have been vulnerable to BlueBorne in the past. Millions could still be at risk. So, yeah, turn off Bluetooth if you're not using it or if you're near anyone you don't trust. You might end up flipping the switch fairly often to use Bluetooth headphones.
How does Bluetooth work with cell phone?
A Bluetooth® device works by using radio waves instead of wires or cables to connect with your cell phone, smartphone or computer. So when Bluetooth-enabled products, such as a cell phone and headphones, are in close proximity to each other, they connect, or pair.
How do I pair my phone?
Does Bluetooth cost money?
No. Bluetooth does not cost any money and will not drive up your cell bill. The technology doesn't use cellular data, so no matter how much you use Bluetooth in a month, it will have no impact on the bill you pay at the end of that month.
Does Bluetooth use data?
No, using Bluetooth doesn't count as data usage. However, if you're using an app that accesses data while using Bluetooth, you'll use data through the app. For example, if you're listening to music on the Pandora app with wireless Bluetooth speakers, you'll be using data to access the app.
Can you get Bluetooth without Wi-Fi?
Yes. You can use Bluetooth without Wi-Fi. In fact, Bluetooth does not need any internet access at all to be set up and used.
What is better Wi-Fi or Bluetooth?
Bluetooth and WiFi are different standards for wireless communication. Wi-Fi is better suited for operating full-scale networks because it enables a faster connection, better range from the base station, and better wireless security (if configured properly) than Bluetooth.
Does Bluetooth drain battery?
For Android users, it's as easy as clicking on your battery icon and selecting the Battery Usage option. So, to sum it all up: Streaming media with Bluetooth might have a small effect on your phone's battery, but just leaving Bluetooth running for background devices barely uses any battery at all.
What are the disadvantages of Bluetooth?
There are some important disadvantages of Bluetooth are given below,
Can a phone be hacked through Bluetooth?
If your device is Bluetooth-enabled, it can be hacked. There are a number of techniques hackers use to infiltrate Bluetooth-enabled devices and new vulnerabilities are discovered regularly. The most popular hacking methods are bluejacking, bluesnarfing and bluebugging.
Why is it important to disable WIFI and Bluetooth when you are not using them?
Turn Bluetooth off when not in use. Keeping it active enables hackers to discover what other devices you connected to before, spoof one of those devices, and gain access to your device. This prevents other unknown devices from finding your Bluetooth connection.
Why do you need Bluetooth on your phone?
Bluetooth is a wireless technology that uses a radio frequency to share data over a short distance, eliminating the need for wires. You can use Bluetooth on your mobile device to share documents or to connect with other Bluetooth-enabled devices.
Does Bluetooth connect to WiFi?
Electronic devices can have both Bluetooth and wi-fi capabilities because they serve different purposes. It's simple to connect them, and the result is that a Bluetooth-enabled device can access a wi-fi network without any interference between the two signals.
Which are examples of Bluetooth?
An example of a Bluetooth device is a cell phone headset. An example of a Bluetooth device is a wireless mouse. The standard wireless network for short-range transmission of digital audio and data. Using radio waves, Bluetooth transmits through walls and other non-metal barriers.
Why is it called Bluetooth?
Surprisingly, the name dates back more than a millennia to King Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson who was well known for two things: Uniting Denmark and Norway in 958. His dead tooth, which was a dark blue/grey color, and earned him the nickname Bluetooth.
Do all cell phones have Bluetooth?
All recent phones will have bluetooth, so if you really find one without: It's probably outdated and runs on an old version of Android. You might try an Amazon Kindle (that's really stripped down), but that has also no Google Apps, no GPS and no GSM and is a tablet.
What happens if I leave Bluetooth on all the time?
But leaving your Bluetooth on all the time can be dangerous, and hackers are exploiting the technology to access private information, spread malicious software and more. The virus allows hackers to "take control of devices, access corporate data and networks, penetrate secure 'air-gapped' networks and spread malware."
Why is Bluetooth so bad?
The biggest problem is that several wireless protocols are competing for bandwidth, including all of your 2.4GHz Wi-Fi devices. Bluetooth transfers data much slower than Wi-Fi does. Under ideal conditions, 2.4GHz Wi-Fi will support up to 600Mbps.
What happens if I turn Bluetooth off on my phone?
Tap the toggle switch to deactivate your device's Bluetooth functionality. In addition to helping extend battery life, shutting off Bluetooth can prevent possible hacking schemes. One common Android Bluetooth hack is known as BlueBorne; it can allow users to gain unauthorized access to your device.
Can someone track you through Bluetooth?
Google can still use Bluetooth to track your Android phone when Bluetooth is turned off. A Quartz investigation found that a user can turn Bluetooth off on their smartphone running Google's Android software, and the phone will continue to use Bluetooth to collect location-related data and transmit that data to Google.
How do I make my Bluetooth private?
You can prevent someone from connecting to your Bluetooth speaker by using a security code, buying a more advanced speaker, switching off the speaker when you're not using it, unpair unwanted devices, update your software, and switch off visibility.
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Inspiration & Motivation & Function
Zoom meetings can often feel boring and uninspired. As a team we wanted to find a way to react to content silently with more than just a little pop-up in the corner of your screen. OK Zoomer allows users to use one of four preset hand gestures to express exactly how they're feeling with camera feed app that can be routed to any streaming application. Ok Zoomer also wanted to take things a step further with live image stylization. Although current functionality is limited, OK Zoomer can morph any foreground person or background (including custom elements uploaded into the app) into a multitude of artistic styles that may spice up any feed with a simple click of a button!
Emotion can be expressed in its simplest form... emojis. OK Zoomer is equipped to handle four necessary options which include (👍, 👎, 👌, ✋). We find your hand, figure out the gesture, and wow, you now have an oversized emoji glaringly expressing how you feel!
Greenscreening and Neural Style Transfer
We allow users to at flair to their feeds! This is accomplished using some "Neural Style Transfer" that we can apply directly to the foreground person or background. We let the use freely upload any kind of background and at the flick of a switch, you've become a beautiful painting.
How we built it
The platform was built using a client-server architecture. The client is a webapp that makes requests to an intermediate Flask client-side server. The webapp was developed with ReactJS and MaterialUI (mui) for modern and efficient styling. This server makes use of OpenCV to capture the live device webcam stream, and sends the processed frames it receives to the webapp which renders them.
The backend is also built using a Flask server. It is hosted on McGill computers to leverage the compute resources. The frontend makes HTTP requests to a backend endpoint with the image data of the stream's frame. The server inputs the frame to the model, and then responds with the processed frame returned by the model controller. The frontend server then takes care of forwarding the frame to the client-side webapp in order to ultimately render it in the viewport. There are also routes to upload the selected background image and gesture recognition settings from the webapp to customize the model behavior and output.
We use an open source tool based on mediapipe to register hand gesture keypoints to a selected class. We spent countless hours (or minutes, you decide) generating classes for 9 total classes (4 right hand emojis, 4 left hand emojis, and one other class). In total, we help up our hands infront of a camera for a whopping 6k images used to train our little gesture classifier!
We use Mediapipe for keypoint extraction and train a simple two layer MLP for gesture classification. We then approximate centroids of the hands with a bounding box extraction provided by the extraction tool. We can compute where the emojis should be mapped and can use fast fast masking operations to fix them in all in real time (20+ fps)! We also make sure things won't be break so we make sure everything stays in frame and make the emojis 'sticky' so they don't fade away if the classifier fails on an edge case.
We use a segmentation neural network (YOLACT) with a resnet-50 backbone to perform instance segmentation (person / background) using pretrained weights learned on COCO. We also bust out pytorch's fast neural style transfer equipped with a few modes. We stitch everything together with a little blending stack and there you go!
Challenges we ran into
Training dataset for pose estimation
Datasets are hard to find! I don't know whose the last person that said "find something on kaggle" but let me tell you, the quality was not there. We spend a good half of the hackathon getting openpose together (Caffe) only to find out that the keypoints provided weren't correlated with the reference model output. We were then forced to swap to mediapipe and had to down the rabbit-hole of gathering data.
Local compute resources
A big goal of this project was to deliver an end product that could feasibly target the average consumer PC and push normal fps. This was accomplished with a lightweight version of the emoji mapper but CPU neural network processing was too slow. To handle this we had to offshoot our processing to a computer locked down with too much security and had to hack things together. Although our framerates were down for NST, we were still able to produce understandable results. Although most video-conference applications are nowadays built with a centralized server that mediates the connection (rather than peer to peer. For the purposes of this hackathon, we hacked a two-way HTTP connection to handlimage transfers to get to GPUs and push a usable fps rate :)
Accomplishments that we’re proud of
- Building our very own datasets to train with
- We built a webappp that enables users to control how their video looks to others, including toggling their favourite real-time hand gesture-mapped emojis as well as choosing which type of Neural Style Transfer individually for their background and themselves as a subject
- We were able to capture a live webcam stream on the frontend's client-side backend server and route it forward to our user-facing React webapp, which was not how we initially planned things.
- Our team managed to set up a consistent and reliable stream of frames from our local machines to a remote server with large computing resources and return a processed frame in near real-time
What we learned
We learned so many things
What's next for Ok Zoomer
- JOJOGAN + ARCANEGAN + One-shot learners
- Low latency and smaller lightweight in-house models
- Different protocol for bi-directional video stream pipeline between client and server
- Custom stylization
- Custom emoji mapping
- More data
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How Do You Prepare the Ground for Composite Decking?
How do you prepare the ground for composite decking? One of the most crucial steps in building decking is preparing a suitable foundation. Without it, the decking will encounter many problems. Not having an excellent foundation can make your decking unstable and unsafe, and most importantly, it can damage the integrity of the decking. The decking won’t last as long as it should. If you plan to build a plastic decking, you’ll have to prepare the ground. But the question is, how can you do it? Here are some tips and guides on how to do it.
Preparing the Dirt
One way to build a composite decking is to lay it directly on the ground. However, before you can do it, there are some preparations you need to make. Despite being a superior material, the dirt and grass can present problems for your composite decking later on. Some issues you may encounter are mould, insects, and moisture-related damage. So if you need to build decking on ground-level dirt, how should you prepare? Here are some instructions that you can follow.
- First, measure the ground according to the measurements of your planned composite decking. You can use some stakes, strings, and paint to mark the location.
- Next, remove any plants, rocks, and other debris from the installation area. If necessary, you can use a weed killer to remove any grass and weeds in the area.
- After clearing the ground, dig the entire area around 50 mm deep. Make sure to uproot any leftover weeds or grass and remove rocks and stones.
- After digging, you will need to make sure that the area is level. You can use a piece of wooden board and a spirit level to check it. You may need to dig more soil to flatten the area.
- Next, you will have to cover the area with landscaping fabric. It will prevent the growth of grass and weed, which can be damaging to your decking.
- For the next step, you will need to consider how you’ll want to build your decking. One of the options is to lay the composite decking on top of the ground. For this, you will need to fill the area with gravel. Once filled, you will need to make sure that the installation area is still level. You can use a hand tamper to make the surface flat.
- Another option is to use concrete slabs instead of gravel. All you will need to do is place the concrete slabs according to the plans of the decking frame. It’s a better choice if you want your decking to be elevated.
- Lastly, proceed to install your decking boards according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Preparing a Concrete Slab
Another common foundation for composite decking is a concrete slab. Many people have it and are considering adding a decking. While it does make a good foundation, there are still some preparations that you need to do for it to be a suitable ground for your composite decking. Here are the steps that you can follow.
- First, you will need to make sure that the concrete slab is in excellent condition. Poorly made concrete slabs tend to sink, along with anything you install on top of it. For this reason, you have to inspect the concrete for cracks and water problems.
- For water-related problems, you will need to use a self-levelling compound. Alternatively, you can use a concrete topping mix, but it usually takes more time. These fixes will level out the concrete. If you’re finding it difficult to level out your concrete slabs, you can use adjustable pedestals.
- Lastly, pre-drill the screws that you will use for the sleeper system. Most experts recommend that the screws you should use must penetrate at least 25mm deep into the concrete. When pre-drilling, you’ll also want to drill 6mm to 12mm deeper than the screws can reach.
- Lastly, install the sleeper system and lay down the composite decking boards.
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