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Registration and breakfast will begin at 7:30 am, presentation begins at 8:00 am. Lunch will also be provided.
A half-day Seminar that helps to explain today’s reality for First Nations and Metis people.
With the growing importance of engaging Aboriginal businesses and employees in Saskatchewan, many companies are looking for resources and information about these communities. This course answers some historical questions that explain today’s reality for First Nations and Metis people. Make sure you attend … interesting, informative and entertaining.
– Introductions and goal setting
– Economic impact of Aboriginal People in Saskatchewan
– Terminology, demographics and socioeconomic issues
– Treaties and the Indian Act in context
– Metis history and current issues
– Myths and opportunities: residential schools, taxation, land claims and education.
The seminar will include role play, case studies, and quizzes for an entertaining, engaging and practical seminar that will give your team the edge in Aboriginal relations.
7:30 am – Registration, continental breakfast
8:00 a.m. – Seminar and presentation
Noon – Lunch
1:00 pm – Close
Aboriginal Awareness Seminar Facilitators
John and Winston have 36 combined years of facilitating experience. Seminar attendees can expect a
relaxed environment where you will feel comfortable discussing Aboriginal issues that are relevant to
you personally and professionally. Participants learn about Saskatchewan’s Aboriginal people through
interactive games, quizzes and the use of humour which creates a fantastic educational experience.
John Lagimodiere, ACS Aboriginal Consulting Services
John Lagimodiere is the President/Owner of ACS. He has been facilitating and hosting Aboriginal awareness seminars since 1998. ACS also publishes Eagle Feather News, a Saskatchewan Aboriginal news magazine.
John has a Sociology degree from University of Saskatchewan with a minor in Native Studies.
He has facilitated Aboriginal awareness training for clients such as SaskTel, SaskHousing, Saskatoon Police Service, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, PotashCorp, Crown Investment Corp and the University of Saskatchewan.
John is a member of the Métis Nation- Saskatchewan, CUMFI Local #165.
ACS Aboriginal Consulting Services P: 306-978-8118 ~ E: firstname.lastname@example.org
Winston McLean, Iron Wolf Consulting
Winston McLean, president of Iron Wolf Consulting, has over 20 years of experience in First Nation development. Hailing from the James Smith Cree Nation, he is a fifth generation descendant of First Nation leaders that signed Treaty 6, at Fort Carlton in 1876.
Mr. McLean studied Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan, with minors in Political Studies and Native Studies. He helped negotiate the 1992 Treaty Land Entitlement agreement and has expertise in lands and resources, organizational renewal, policy development and analysis, justice, economic development and international affairs. Winston has led crosscultural training for many Saskatchewan communities and facilitated awareness training for the Saskatoon Police Service, FirstSask Credit Union, Crown Investment Corp, PotashCorp and De Beers Canada.
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Grundy Center was incorporated on April 17, 1877, which was named after Felix Grundy, a congressman, a senator and a former US Attorney General from Tennesse. Grundy Center is located in East Central Iowa with a population of 2,706. Safe streets, quality schools, immaculate city parks, and well-cared-for city facilities are the pride of Grundy Center’s city government. From golfing to swimming, theater to museums, shopping to dining, you’ll see why we’re Living the Good Life in Grundy Center.
Grundy Center invites you to sample the good life! Just what makes living in Grundy Center so inviting? If you asked a dozen Grundy Center residents to share what the ‘good life in Grundy Center’ means to them, you’d receive a dozen different answers! One might mention the familiar greetings and waves that accompany any walk around town. A popular answer might be the high quality school district that leaves students well-prepared for lifelong learning. Another resident might point to the safe, clean streets and the feeling of security that comes with living in a community with very little crime. Still another might point out the outpouring of neighborly support that arrives in times of need. A young parent likely appreciates the feeling of security that comes from living in secure surroundings that offer plenty of activities for families to enjoy. What are you waiting for? We invite you to sample the ‘good life’ so you can arrive at your very your own answer!
Felix Grundy: 19th Century Statesman, Cabinet Member, Friend of Presidents
One was named “Grundy,” in honor of Felix Grundy, the renowned Tennessee lawyer, distinguished lawmaker, statesman, cabinet member and esteemed friend of presidents. He was born on September 11, 1777, in Berkeley County, Western Virginia, the seventh son of George and Elizabeth Grundy, a farmer of English decent.
In 1779, Indian uprisings on the frontier forced the family to move to Pennsylvania, but in the following year they migrated to Springfield, in central Kentucky, where George Grundy soon died. It was here that Felix Grundy, received his meager formal education, at the Bardstown, KY academy.
Felix Grundy, the 19th Century statesman after which Grundy County is named, was one of the greatest criminal lawyers of his time. He served with distinction in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and as United States Attorney General in the cabinet of President James Polk.
In Congress, Grundy championed the sale of public land in the West to settlers and pushed for the western development of railroads and mail service west of the Mississippi River. On January 15, 1851 – 11 years after his death – the Iowa Third General Assembly, meeting in what is now the Old Capital Building on the campus of the University of Iowa – established for the first time the boundaries of many Iowa counties and assigned them names
Mrs. Grundy wanted young Felix to study medicine. But the youth exhibited great talent as a public speaker and was determined to pursue a legal and political career. After completing his formal studies, Grundy spent two years reading law in the office of a George Nicholas, a practicing attorney. On November 5, 1797, at the age of 20, Felix was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Washington County, KY.
While residing in Springfield, Felix Grundy married Ann Phillips Rodgers, a second cousin of John C. Calhoun, who was to become the seventh vice president of the United States. The couple had 12 children. Two years later he was elected to his first public office – as a representative to the state convention which was called to remodel the Kentucky constitution.
In December 1806, he was commissioned by the legislature as judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and in April 1807, was promoted to chief justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court. Disliking the dull life as a justice was forced to lead, Grundy suddenly resigned in late 1807 and moved his family to Nashville, TN, then a frontier town numbering only a few hundred souls.
It was this disapproval of the actions of Congress which resulted in the placing of many new members in the 12th Congress – among them Felix Grundy. Re-elected to Congress in 1813, Grundy resigned the following year because of the illness of his wife, and returned to his law practice in Nashville.
On March 16, 1826, Grundy appeared in Judge Samuel Robert’s court at Edwardsville, IL, to defend one P.H. Winchester for the murder of Daniel Smith, the recorder of Pike County. In this trial Grundy exhibited all the points that made him one of the greatest criminal lawyers of his time. Meanwhile, Grundy abstained from office until 1819, when a panic that year abruptly ended his political retirement. He was elected to a seat in the Tennessee State Legislature.
For six years Grundy served in the legislature, then withdrew from public life for two years, and finally in 1827 he ran for Congress again, this time in Jackson’s home district. Although he was openly supported by ‘Old Hickory,’ Grundy was defeated. On the transfer of John H. Eaton from the Senate to accept the post of Attorney General in Van Buren’s cabinet.
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A few days ago, Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg announced to rebrand the company Facebook and now is called Meta. That said, Facebook the social network is still going to be Facebook. Meta is now the name of the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus.
Metaverse is a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with other users.
The Meta company is aiming to develop what it calls “the metaverse”, bringing it to life while helping people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. So underneath all the public relations talk it seems like nothing much is actually changing, aside from the name—“Meta”
According to what Mark Zuckerberg said “the metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today’s online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. It will let you share immersive experiences with other people even when you can’t be together and do things together you couldn’t do in the physical world. It’s the next evolution in a long line of social technologies”.
It’s a world of endless, interconnected virtual communities where people can meet, work and play.
However, The metaverse is still off-way to put on, but parts of it are already here (the VR technologies), as Meta’s prior objective is the Horizon Home, the early vision for a home base in the “metaverse”. Horizon Home will be the first thing you see when you put on your Quest (VR) headset.
Soon, you’ll be able to invite your friends to join you in Horizon Home, where you can hang out, watch videos, jump into games, and use apps together. Horizon Home consists of Horizon Worlds which is currently in beta, and Horizon Workrooms as Meta’s “productivity solution”. There are also Horizon Venues, an all-access pass to concerts, sports, and many more.
Besides, you’ll be able to make Messenger audio calls in VR. The Metaverse will “eventually” encompass work, entertainment, and everything in between, what Mark Zuckerberg says with a straight face.
Thanks to gaming entertainment, The real action in the metaverse today are based on gaming communities such as Epic Games’ Fortnite and Roblox which have large and vibrant user bases for their virtual worlds. But these are more narrowly focused than the supersize, general-purpose platforms Meta is talking about.
All that said, Meta’s positioning seems like a solution in search of a problem. It’s built around achieving the company’s business objectives, not responding to consumer demand.
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I am going to speak a little bit about Statistics. The topic today are “averages”. Suppose you have a set of “measurements” where . Then you can define the following quantities:
Remark: In the harmonic mean we need that every measurement is not null, i.e.,
There are some other interesting “averages”/”means”:
Generalized p-th mean.
where are the weight functions and they satisfy
A particularly important case occurs when the weight equals to inverse of the so-called variance of a population with finite size (generally denoted by ), i.e., when , the weighted mean yields:
Finally, a “naive” and usually bad statistical measure for a sample or data set is the midrange. Really, it is a mere measure of central tendency and no much more:
Here, refer to the maximum and minimum value of the sampled variable x in the full data set .
Many of the above “averages” have their own relative importance in the theory of Statistics. But that will be the topic of a future blog post handling statistics and its applications.
What average do you like the most? Are you “on the average”? Are you “normal”? 😉 Of course, you can consult your students, friends or family if they prefer some particular mean/average over any other in their grades/cash sharing, or alike :).
See you soon in other blog post!
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The Student Experience
Rochester Prep students know that an excellent education is key to achieving their dreams. By committing to our core values and giving back to others, our students can reshape history and write a new story for themselves.
A Typical School Day
We start each school day with three goals in mind: every student feels truly loved and cared for, learning is both rigorous and joyful, and students are prepared for success in college and beyond.
A Strong Start
All Rochester Prep students start their day with a firm handshake at the door of the school and a warm welcome from an adult who knows them and is committed to their success.
One of our oldest and most joyful traditions, community meetings are a time for students to celebrate accomplishments, come together as one school with one mission, and share their strong leadership voices.
Joy and Mastery
Learning should be both fun and educational. We build joy into every lesson while preparing students to master the skills and knowledge they’ll need to succeed in college and beyond.
All young people deserve the opportunity to discover their intellectual passions, so we are proud to offer a wide range of courses that spark curiosity and develop our students' interests.
Beyond the Classroom
Learning doesn’t end when the final bell rings. Our students have multiple opportunities to continue their learning and self-development through a variety of extracurricular activities.
It Takes a Village
We are honored to be a part of your lives. Our teachers and leaders communicate constantly with parents and families. They share updates and work as a team with parents and families to ensure every child has the support he or she needs to succeed.
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From kindergarten through 12th grade, Rochester Prep students engage in curricula that pushes them to their fullest potential.
From K through 12th grade, our schools embrace a college-going culture. Our students are engaged in learning for a longer school day and extra days of learning each year to ensure they are prepared to excel in college and beyond. Our students go on to excel in college at rates far outpacing their peers.
We recognize the unique needs of each student. To that end, our teachers use assessment data to target their daily lessons to meet students' academic levels and guide them to success. Each August, Rochester Prep staff members return to campuses three weeks before the start of school to engage in extensive professional development, coaching, and teamwork.
Rochester Prep partners with families to provide a supportive and safe environment for students that adds joy and master of academic subjects. Through regular communication, Community Meetings, and Advisory Program, our families are leading the charge outside the classroom as our teachers do inside the classroom.
Athletics and Enrichment
Across our campuses, Rochester Prep provides students with opportunities to participate in enrichment and athletics programs aimed to build their self esteem, help them discover new passions, and to develop interests.
At West Campus Middle School, students have the opportunity to get a hands-on STEM experience with Robotics where they learn construct, wire, and program robots to perform in a variety of settings.
Intramural Spring Soccer teachers students the basics of the sport, from dribbling and ball-handling, to collaboration and communication.
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- Fruits: grapes
- Crop Production: nutrient management, stubble mulching, Mulching for winter protection
- Education and Training: demonstration, extension, focus group, on-farm/ranch research, technical assistance, workshop
- Natural Resources/Environment: drift/runoff buffers, soil stabilization
- Pest Management: mulches - general, mulching - vegetative
- Soil Management: soil quality/health
Towards Resilient and Sustainable Grape Production in the North Central Region with Renewable Mulching Systems: Freezing stress, which could damage plant parts or kill whole vines, is the main challenge of grape production in cold regions in the U.S., including the North Central Region (NCR) leading to crop and vine losses. Soil hilling is a standard and somewhat effective cold protection practice for preventing vine loss. However, its negative impact on the soil-vine environment is a continuing problem because it contributes to soil degradation and declining vine health. Plant-based mulching is an alternative winter protection method that has not been widely adopted due to the cost of mulch and unavailability of specialized equipment in the market for its application. We propose to solve this problem by accomplishing the following objectives: 1) evaluate the efficacy and horticultural and environmental benefits of different types of renewable biomass mulch, 2) develop a mechanized prototype for mulch delivery, 3) engage local growers, throughout the life of the project, with the development/testing of a sustainable mulching system in their vineyards, and 4) evaluate the cost effectiveness of locally grown plant species and new mulching system compared to soil hilling. We expect that an optimum mulch, which provides winter protection while improving soil quality and vine performance, will be identified. We will also fabricate a mechanized apparatus that will deliver the mulch of choice. We will enhance producers’ knowledge and empowerment through education and engagement with project planning and execution. In the long-term, we predict that renewable biomass mulching will become an integral vineyard practice towards a resilient and sustainable grape production in the NCR.
Project objectives from proposal:
Growers will learn about biomass mulches and their horticultural and environmental benefits through the following deliverables: 1) workshops/field days to educate about renewable biomass mulches and demonstrate a prototype for its application. 2) presentations at the annual Ohio Grape & Wine Conference (in 2021 and 2022), 3) production of two factsheets that summarize the pros and cons of each mulch and cost analysis of its application.
- Growers will use mulching and increase profits by reducing negative impacts on soil and vine productivity.
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Note: This article was originally published on Oliver’s Insights on January 28, 2014 and has been republished with permission from the original author.
The past week has seen renewed concerns about the emerging world reflecting a combination of political problems in several countries including Turkey and the Ukraine, a currency devaluation in Argentina and ongoing concerns about Chinese growth. Such concerns also reflect the impact of the Fed slowing its monetary stimulus at a time when parts of the emerging world are vulnerable. This has seen falls in emerging market shares and currencies. Moreover, fears about exposure to the emerging world and a possible threat to global growth have seen share markets in advanced countries fall nearly 4% over the last week. Concern has returned that we may see a re-run of the 1997-98 “Asian-emerging markets crisis”. Our assessment remains that another “Asian-emerging markets crisis” is unlikely. However, it is even clearer that the secular cycle has now turned against emerging market shares (EMs) relative to developed markets (DMs).
The 1997-98 Asian/emerging market crisis
Economic history reminds us repeatedly about the prevalence of cycles – both short term and long term. Asian and emerging countries and shares are not immune having gone in and out of favour several times over the last few decades. In the mid 1990s there was much talk of an “Asian miracle”. Growth was thought to be assured by high savings and investment rates, strong export growth and a shift in labour from rural areas to cities. However, as is often the case during good times, excesses set in including a growing reliance on foreign capital, current account deficits, excessive debt levels and over-valued fixed exchange rates. Eventually foreign investors had doubts. In mid-1997 Thailand experienced capital outflows that became a torrent and triggered a collapse in its fixed currency, which then led investors to search for countries with similar vulnerabilities (so-called “Asian contagion”) which led to the crisis spreading across the emerging world ultimately contributing to Russia’s debt default of 1998 that briefly dragged down developed market shares in August 1998.
In the 2000s, Asian and emerging countries mostly got their act together thanks to a range of productivity enhancing reforms, less reliance on foreign capital, low and floating exchange rates and high foreign exchange reserves and this along with the industrialisation of China and a related surge in commodity prices (which benefited South American countries and Russia) saw their growth rates improve. The enhanced perception of emerging countries and a secular slump in the traditional advanced economies of the US, Europe and Japan at the same time saw them once more come into favour amongst investors.
This reached a crescendo after the global financial crisis with talk of a “new normal” of poor growth in advanced countries and their rounds of quantitative easing encouraging capital flows to the “stronger” emerging markets leading in fact to talk of “currency wars” as EM currencies rose. The surge in the value of Asian currencies versus the $US over the last decade as a result of strong capital inflows can be seen in the next chart. Recent weakness has only reversed a small portion of the rally from Asian crisis lows, but emerging market currencies generally have been a lot weaker, having been in a down trend since 2011 (just like the $A!).
Source: Bloomberg, AMP Capital
Back to the future?
Has Asia and the emerging world just gone full circle such that it’s now standing on the precipice once more? Several factors are driving current worries:
The end result has been for investors to start rethinking the outlook for emerging countries with flows heading back to the advanced countries. The problem for emerging countries in raising their interest rates to support their currencies – as has occurred in several including Brazil, India and Indonesia – is that it further serves to slow economic growth making the investment outlook in such countries even less enticing.
Put simply, there is no easy way out for countries with current account deficits when foreign investors start to withdraw their capital. In the short term domestic spending must fall, interest rates must rise and exchange rates fall to bring this about. The only way to sustained stronger long term growth is to reform their economies, but that takes time.
Still not 1997, but the risks have increased
The next table compares the state of current account deficits & inflation today with the situation before the 1997-98 crisis.
Source: IMF, Bloomberg, AMP Capital
The overall position of emerging countries remains stronger today. Current account balances are generally in better shape, central banks have much higher foreign exchange reserves, exchange rates are floating rather than fixed and not as high as they were before the Asian crisis and inflation is lower. Having mostly floating rather than fixed exchange rates is a big distinction today because, as IMF research has confirmed, floating exchange rates are less prone to crises than fixed: they create less economic distortions and don’t need to be defended from speculative attacks.
Source: IMF, AMP Capital
However, several countries are vulnerable, particularly Brazil, India and Indonesia where current accounts have moved heavily into deficit indicating a now heavy reliance on foreign capital inflows. See the previous chart.
Other emerging markets that are vulnerable thanks to current account deficits and hence a reliance on foreign capital inflows are the Ukraine, Turkey, South Africa and Chile.
By contrast China, South Korea, Taiwan and Russia with large current account surpluses are far less vulnerable.
While we don’t see a re-run of the Asian-emerging market crisis or a sharp collapse in emerging market growth the risks have clearly increased particularly for countries that now have large current account deficits. Emerging market growth generally is likely to be softer in the years ahead than what we got used to last decade.
Implications for investors
There are several implications for investors:
First, while emerging market shares are relatively cheap (with forward price to earnings multiples of around 10 times compared to 14 times for global shares) it’s too early to strategically reweight towards them. Notwithstanding likely bounces in relative performance along the way, the secular underperformance by emerging market shares relative to developed market shares could have a fair way to go yet, particularly given the extent of outperformance last decade.
Source: Bloomberg, AMP Capital
Second, investors in emerging markets should focus on current account surplus countries as these are less vulnerable to foreign capital flows, eg China and Korea. And in any case Chinese shares are amongst the cheapest in the emerging world.
Thirdly, emerging markets are unlikely to pose a severe threat to growth in advanced countries. Yes the emerging market share of world GDP is now just over 50% compared to around 35% in the mid-1990s, but more fundamentally a sharp slump in emerging market growth is unlikely given the stronger position of many emerging countries today compared to that prior to the Asian-Emerging Market crisis.
Fourthly, emerging market worries appear to have provided the trigger for a correction in advanced country share markets that high levels of investor sentiment had left them vulnerable to. But once investor sentiment falls back to more normal levels the rally in shares is likely to resume.
Finally, while a recession in emerging market countries is unlikely, slower growth than seen over the last decade will act as a bit of a constraint on commodity demand, providing another reason why the broad trend in the Australian dollar will likely remain down. Ultimately I still see the $A heading down to $US0.80. | <urn:uuid:62f89be6-48ba-4450-a32a-14d175f37f70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sharecafe.com.au/2014/02/05/the-threat-from-emerging-markets-how-serious/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95862 | 1,527 | 1.9375 | 2 |
What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation : 19 Hip Flexor Rehabilitation Exercises
Hip flexors are muscles in the front of the upper leg that help lift the hip. They can become limited from a selection of reasons, including sitting for extended periods, overuse or injury. There are numerous exercises to help refurbish these muscles. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
Hip flexor rehab workouts need to be done to boost the range of activity in the front of your hip and also to reinforce the muscle group. You can do these workouts with a resistance band or without weights.
To begin, stand with your feet shoulder-width apart as well as hold the band around your ankles. Maintaining your back straight, bend at your hips and reduced on your own toward the flooring. Go as low as you can while still preserving control. Pause for a moment, then slowly go back to the starting placement. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
One more wonderful hip flexor rehabilitation workout is the lunge. Start by standing with one foot in front of the other, after that slowly reduced on your own down till your back knee nearly touches the flooring. Hold this setting for a few seconds before pushing on your own back up to the beginning setting. Make sure to switch over legs when you're finished.
Weak hip flexors can cause troubles with stance and also movement. This can cause pain in the lower back, hips, and also knees. Reinforcing the hip flexors can help to boost motion as well as reduce discomfort. There are a variety of workouts that can be utilized for hip flexor recovery. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
One workout is the straight leg raise. This workout assists to reinforce the hip flexors and also the muscles around the hip joint. To do this workout, rest on your back with one leg directly and the various other leg bent. Raise the straight leg up towards the ceiling, hold for 2 secs, and then lower it pull back. Repeat 10-15 times for each leg. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
Another workout is called the hip flexion stretch. This stretch assists to extend as well as loosen up the hip flexors. The hip flexor stretch is an exceptional workout for improving hip mobility as well as front-of-the-hip stamina. To perform the exercise, stand with one foot in front of the various other, and flex your onward knee to make sure that your upper leg is parallel to the floor. Keeping your back directly, lean ahead from your hips up until you feel a stretch in your hip flexors. Hold for 30 seconds, after that release and repeat on the other side. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
The hip flexor stretch is an excellent means to improve hip flexibility as well as front-of-the-hip stamina. It's specifically valuable for professional athletes who require great variety of motion in their hips for tasks like running or jumping. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
One of the best methods to rehab your hip flexors is by doing forward lunges. This exercise will assist to extend the hip flexors as well as additionally work with the stomach muscles. It's an excellent concept to do this exercise routinely, particularly if you sit at a workdesk all day. An additional fantastic method to rehab your hip flexors is by doing mountain climbers. This workout works with the gluteal muscle mass in addition to the hip flexors. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
When it involves hip flexors rehab, one of the most crucial things is to ensure that you do not worsen any kind of existing knee discomfort. Enhancing the glute muscles can help to take several of the tons off of the knees, and also exercises like isometric exercise as well as lower leg increases can help to improve the feature of the hip abductors and also outlet joints. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
There are a variety of various exercises you can do to reinforce your hip flexors. Among the best is a simple wall surface rest. To do this workout, stand with your back versus a wall and slide down up until your thighs are parallel to the ground. Hold this position for 30-60 seconds, after that gradually climb back to the beginning placement. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
An additional terrific workout is the reverse lunge. To do this, stand with your feet with each other and also lunge backwards with one foot, maintaining the other leg bent at 90 levels.
Top Causes Of Hip Flexor Pain
Your hips help you move and also they can be harmed. One common injury is to the hip flexors, the muscular tissues on the front of your hip. If these muscle mass are injured, you may have trouble relocating your leg and you might really feel a pain in your reduced back. You can stop this injury by doing the right exercises.
Initially, you need to stretch your hip flexors. There are numerous great hip extends that you can do. Second, you must enhance your hip muscles. There are a number of great workouts that will certainly do this. You need to stay clear of sitting for lengthy durations of time if you have an injury to your hip flexors. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
Hip flexor tendinopathy occurs when there is an intense injury, like an autumn or cars and truck crash. It can additionally be brought on by overuse such as running or gymnastics. This sort of injury can also happen as people get older and the tendons naturally lose their flexibility. Quality 3 rips– the muscular tissue fibers are completely torn. If you have actually experienced a grade 3 tear, you most likely can't stroll without a limp. Work hip flexor stretches after a hip flexor stress into your everyday regimen to help boost blood flow in the area.
Various other hip flexors consist of the psoas significant, iliacus, rectus femoris, as well as sartorius, each of which has its very own unique function. Hip workouts can assist enhance the hip flexor muscles. Many workouts can be done in your home as well as are gentle stretches, which will assist to minimize tension and also protect against additional or future injury. Hip flexor stress are usually triggered by either overuse or periods of long term resting incorporated with weak hip muscles. While this condition is commonly not serious, it can be rather agonizing as well as can drastically restrict your activity if left untreated. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
Recognizing which hip flexors are weak and also enhancing them is one more way to strategy hip flexor rigidity. The hip flexor is a team of muscles that affix your thigh, or upper leg bone, to your pelvis and also back spinal column. The hip flexor allows you to raise your legs toward your torso. The muscular tissues of the hip flexor are additionally responsible for keeping your hips as well as reduced back strong, adaptable and properly straightened.
Lower your best leg slowly, after that repeat with your left leg. Prolong the opposite leg, maintaining the knee right. From a standing position, look straight ahead and take a generous advance with your ideal foot. Raise your left foot off the floor as well as slide it forward so your knee gets on the flooring next to your left hand and your foot is near your right-hand man. Specifically where your knee and also toes fall will depend upon your flexibility. Return to the starting position and also repeat with your opposite leg.
Standing in a large walking setting, a person should put both hands on a firm support before them. They need to push their hips onward while keeping their back straight. Heating up muscles prior to beginning workouts will certainly aid to ensure they prepare to be stretched and might stop further straining. You can continue your typical level of activity for the period of your therapy. You'll also get personalized at-home workouts you can make use of to more speed your recovery time as well as help avoid injuries. Your medical professional will certainly recommend preventing exhausting activity for days after the injury.
The contribution of these secondary hip flexors greatly depends on the setting of the hip at the time at which movement is started. Various other muscle mass help with bending the hip, but the iliopsoas is the key and also major hip flexor or hip flexor muscle. As a result of the hip flexor muscles' setting, they can become tight with repeated resting activity such as working at a computer system. When it comes to the hip flexors, they compile the bones of the leg as well as the bones of the hip or spinal column at the hip joint. If the hip is already flexed, such as when you are sitting, these muscular tissues aren't working.
Understanding Hip Flexor Pain Symptoms & Stretching Exercises That Can Help
You might accidentally stress your hip flexor if you do not warm up appropriately prior to physical activity, or if you press too difficult throughout exercise. It is additionally feasible to stress your hip flexor if you are relocating heavy furnishings or experience a short ruptured of intense physical activity. One more prospective factor for surgery is hip joint damages caused by various types of joint inflammation or long-lasting damage on the joint.
Professional athletes, particularly soccer players, runners, and also martial musicians, are particularly at risk to hip flexor pain. We placed a large amount of tension on the hip flexor muscles throughout daily tasks. This is particularly true for individuals that work physical work or professional athletes. If these muscles and tendons end up being overworked, small tears can establish that cause hip pain. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
A details kind of hip bursitis is iliopsoas bursitis in the hip flexor location. If your hip flexors feel limited, yoga for hip pain might be the response you're searching for. However, some forms of yoga exercise are much better than others.
Drive the knee back right into the ground while having the hip sink down as well as ahead. Treatment directions adapted under certificate by your health care specialist. If you have concerns regarding a medical problem or this instruction, always ask your health care professional. Healthwise, Incorporated disclaims any type of service warranty or liability for your use of this info. If you feel discomfort in your back, position a small towel roll under your reduced back. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
Advance with one leg, reduced your hips up until both knees are bent at about a 90-degree angle. Make sure your front knee is directly above your ankle joint. In order to reduce the risk of a pressure, always stretch correctly before doing any type of workout. Stretch gradually and hold the setting to make certain that your muscle mass are properly flexible.
People should begin by existing level on their back with their legs right. They will slowly pull the knee of their right leg towards their breast, as close as feasible without stressing. After gradually reducing the leg, repeat the very same on the opposite side. Leave your left knee on the floor, ensuring that your shin is pointing straight back. Buy your really own duplicate of my successful book, Tight Hip, Twisted Core– The Key to Unresolved Pain or Order the Hip Hook to launch the tension in your very own hip flexor.
Four Hip Flexor Stretches To Relieve Tightness, From A Physical Therapist
Put your ideal leg via the back of a chair, and also set your appropriate foot on the floor so your leg goes to a 90-degree angle. Lie on your tummy with your arm joints curved as well as your hands by your shoulders. It might look familiar if you're a yogi, however this action is specifically great for strengthening the back, shoulders, arms, chest, as well as abdominal muscles. It's additionally extremely therapeutic, and also some assert it assists with gastrointestinal problems like bowel irregularity. This move can be duplicated concerning 10 to 15 times, up until the area really feels effectively extended. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
While it might have led to experiencing some alleviation, it can be a lot more valuable to make use of targeted stretches for the muscle mass that are tight on your body (not your next-door neighbor's). Prior to we talk more about exactly how to loosen up your hips, a vital distinction needs to be made. Deal with the concern with info so you can identify if your customers really do have tight hips or if there is one more problem. With a couple of new stretches as well as workouts, you can help those with limited hip flexors loosen them up, improve mobility with less pain, and also stay clear of injuries. It's important to comprehend precisely what it indicates to have limited hip flexors so you can help your clients. They might really have tight muscles in the hips that require extending, but they may additionally need to strengthen the hip flexors or relevant muscle mass, like the glutes or core.
Typically, if you're healthy and balanced enough to walk around without discomfort, these must be fine for you to gently explore. That indicates going slowly and also not pushing into discomfort. This regular produce a great workout or cool off for your various other training, yet it can actually be practiced at any moment. Some individuals appreciate doing this regular when they initially awaken to shake off the webs, or right before going to sleep to obtain a nice stretch in. Really, you can do this routine whenever it functions best for you.
Maintain your eyes slightly up at about a 30-degree angle. Your shoulders should be taken down as well as away from your ears. Inhale again as well as press with your hands to lift your upper body off the floor. What Do I Do For Hip Flexor Inflamation
Inhale, then exhale as well as pull your belly button in towards your spine. Lie on your back with your feet level on the floor and arms bent on your sides in either a T or cactus arms. Hold for 15 to 30 secs. | <urn:uuid:30a13154-446c-4b32-a5ee-cbae5cda9eb6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hipflexorsfix.com/what-do-i-do-for-hip-flexor-inflamation-2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953698 | 2,929 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Corner molding is intended to provide a finished edge to paneled walls and to protect the edges of your walls from bumps and scrapes. Corner molding usually takes the brunt of any damage, often acquiring scratches and chips. If your corner molding has chips, you don't have to replace it, you can patch it to look almost new. Follow these steps to repair corner molding.
Step 1 - Prepare the Surface
Use a small piece of sandpaper to clean the chipped area of loose wood and splinters. There's no need to go too deep, just enough to smooth the area to ensure good adhesion of the wood filler.
Step 2 - Apply Wood Filler
Epoxy wood filler makes an excellent solution to repairing woodwork as it goes on as a paste and can be drilled, chiseled, machined, sanded, and accepts paint and other finishes. Purchase an epoxy wood filler in a shade to match your corner molding.
Knead the epoxy until the color is uniform. The mixed compound can then be applied and pressed into the chips and cracks with a spatula, a putty knife, or even syringes or brushes until it is slightly mounded. Use a putty knife to finally smooth the surface level with the surrounding area.
Step 3 - Finish Up
Let epoxy wood fill dry completely, then sand it until smooth. Test with your fingertip to make sure the patch is smooth and level with the surrounding area.
Step 4 - Shine the Surface
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||Knowledge work is usually less tangible than manual work. This study investigates four categories of knowledge workers use of space at a Norwegian institution for research and higher education. The four categories of knowledge workers are advisors and case officers (administrators), and lecturers and researchers (faculty). Most advisors are outcome oriented and highly competent in process driven work, and may work across a number of different fields or organizational units. Case officers on are usually task oriented and highly skilled in one subject. Lecturers are both task and outcome oriented, particularly concerning their professional hobby horses, the number of students passing their exams and student evaluations of their teaching. Most researchers are outcome oriented, particularly concerning development of ideas, funding, research partners, and publications in highly ranked scientific journals. How do these four categories of knowledge workers use space and workstations at this particular workplace?This paper is based on a mixed methods approach. A survey with 947 respondents (850 with cell offices and 97 with workstations in flexible offices/landscapes) during then spring 2016 gave a good overview of the respondents’ use of offices, workstations and common areas at this Norwegian institution for research and higher education. This paper presents a follow-up study of findings in the 2016 survey. This paper investigates the use of two floors in buildings with flexible offices/landscapes and two floors in buildings with cell offices. One floor in the buildings with flexible offices are used by administrators (mostly advisors), the other floor is used by faculty (mostly researchers). In the buildings with cell offices, one floor is used by administrators (mostly case officers but also some advisors), the other floor is used by faculty (mostly lecturers and some researchers). The data collection is firstly based on measurement of the areas in question. Secondly, monitoring of the data traffic (activity) during the week (where and when the data traffic takes place). Thirdly, trough observations, to study what kind of facilities there are at the different areas and when the four categories of employees are present, and what kind of work they do. Finally, semi structured interviews with a sample of individuals in the four categories of employees, and one focus group interview with each of the four categories of employees. | <urn:uuid:ba2ac34e-c59a-4d69-8961-20347709bdb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://architektur-informatik.scix.net/paper/eres2017_178 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959702 | 455 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Peter Jackson (biography)Medium:
Gouache on BoardSize:
4" x 8" (95mm x 205mm)Date:
1964This is the unique original Gouache painting by Peter Jackson.
A beautiful picture depicting the original Elizabethan Globe Theatre that staged many of Shakespeare's plays. The view is looking north from the Southwark bank over the river Thames towards St. Paul's Cathedral. This is the fourth St Paul's work commenced by the Normans and took 200 years to complete. Until 1561 there was a central spire but that was destroyed by lightning.
It was the third longest church in Europe and was in turn largely destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.
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Receptor recognition by viruses is the first and essential step of viral infections of host cells. It is an important determinant of viral host range and cross-species infection and a primary target for antiviral intervention. Coronaviruses recognize a variety of host receptors, infect many hosts, and are health threats to humans and animals. The receptor-binding S1 subunit of coronavirus spike proteins contains two distinctive domains, the N-terminal domain (S1-NTD) and the C-terminal domain (S1-CTD), both of which can function as receptor-binding domains (RBDs). S1-NTDs and S1-CTDs from three major coronavirus genera recognize at least four protein receptors and three sugar receptors and demonstrate a complex receptor recognition pattern. For example, highly similar coronavirus S1-CTDs within the same genus can recognize different receptors, whereas very different coronavirus S1-CTDs from different genera can recognize the same receptor. Moreover, coronavirus S1-NTDs can recognize either protein or sugar receptors. Structural studies in the past decade have elucidated many of the puzzles associated with coronavirus- receptor interactions. This article reviews the latest knowledge on the receptor recognition mechanisms of coronaviruses and discusses how coronaviruses have evolved their complex receptor recognition pattern. It also summarizes important principles that govern receptor recognition by viruses in general.
Bibliographical notePublisher Copyright:
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(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide)
Objection: Climate scientists never talk about water vapor — the strongest greenhouse gas — because it undermines their CO2 theory.
Answer: Not a single climate model or climate textbook fails to discuss the role water vapor plays in the greenhouse effect. It is the strongest greenhouse gas, contributing 36% to 66% to the overall effect for vapor alone, 66% to 85% when you include clouds. It is however, not considered a climate “forcing,” because the amount of H2O in the air basically varies as a function of temperature.
If you artificially increase the level of H2O in the air, it rains out immediately (in terms of climate response times). Similarly, due to the abundance of ocean on the earth’s surface, if you somehow removed all the water from the air, it would quickly be replaced through evaporation.
This has the interesting consequence that if you could somehow instantly remove all CO2 from the atmosphere, the temperature would begin to drop, causing precipitation to remove H2O from the air, causing even further drops, in a feedback effect that would not end until no liquid water was left, only ice sheets and frozen oceans.
CO2 put into the air by burning fossil fuels, on the other hand, stays in the atmosphere for centuries before natural sinks finish absorbing the excess. This is plenty of time to have substantial and long-lasting effects on the climate system. As the climate warms in response to CO2, humidity rises and increased H2O concentration acts as a significant amplifier of CO2-driven warming, basically doubling or tripling its effect.
An article from RealClimate — “Water vapor: feedback or forcing?” — has a good discussion of this subject. | <urn:uuid:30069445-8107-46ca-aecc-d64d2474c3b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://grist.org/article/climate-scientists-dodge-the-subject-of-water-vapor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.93909 | 372 | 3.453125 | 3 |
The head nurse from number seven hospital in Wuhan has not seen her family since January 22 and met us as she helped finalise the closure of Leishenshan Hospital, one of two built in record time to deal with the city’s Covid-19 cases.
We are the only foreign journalists to be allowed inside the facility.
When Bilong first encountered Covid-19 it was still being called the Wuhan pneumonia.
She admits they were scared at that time, there was a lot of uncertainty about the virus; how infectious it was, how serious it could be.
There were hundreds of people coming to the hospital panicking they might be infected, queuing in the hospital hallways, and no doubt becoming infected in the process.
That, she said, was the hardest time.
Dealing with a virus they knew little about and being unable to help all of those with symptoms.
On February 8, she was posted to the purpose built Leishenshan Hospital to lead nursing teams who had been drafted in from all over the country.
On the first day 12 patients were admitted, but soon the wards were full, even as construction continued.
At its capacity the hospital treated 1,300 people and 50% were admitted in a critical condition.
Debi Edward prepares to enter the now empty Leishenshan Hospital in PPE gear:
On Wednesday, work will begin to dismantle the facility and the last five patients in its intensive care unit will be transferred elsewhere for treatment.
The site is still being decontaminated so we had to put on personal protection equipment to enter one of the wards – the same PPE which is now in such high demand in the UK - which had been empty of coronavirus patients for almost two weeks.
I found it uncomfortable to wear for the 45 minutes we spent filming in the ward, it must be incredibly hard trying to treat patients in it for hours on end.
The very fact they made us wear it to enter a partially decontaminated ward is an indication of how dangerous and infectious Covid-19 is believed to be.
I asked Bilong what she would say to nurses and doctors in the NHS.
Her first bit of advice was to learn as much as they can about the virus – how to diagnose it, how it spreads, how infectious it can be, how best to treat those with varying degrees of symptoms.
She also said it is important to protect yourself first and foremost because if you get infected you cannot take care of others.
Getting the right equipment should be a priority she said.
She also warned against underestimating the mental impact of this virus.
Providing reassurance to both the patients and colleagues was important when dealing with an unknown threat and when people are feeling so anxious and scared, she said.
Nurse Feng knows she is at the end of her journey while others are just beginning theirs.
She was one of the first to tackle Covid-19 but as she prepared to leave Leishenshan she wished she was one of the last.
She spoke with tears in her eyes as she told me this dreadful experience had changed her and never again would a day go by that she didn’t tell her husband and daughter how much she loves them.
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How do you lose fat and gain muscle? It’s a contradiction, actually because a lot of people think that in order to gain muscle mass, you also have to gain some fat. This is not applicable for most people. Unrealistic expectations of building more muscle lead many muscle-building enthusiasts to believe that they can’t gain muscle and lose fat at the same time.
Data on muscle gain indicates that mature adults typically gain 15 pounds of muscle maximum each year. However, many people tend to only gain 5 pounds of muscle at a time. This is equivalent to just 1.25 pounds of muscle gained each month while maintaining the same amount of body fat. To gain more muscle, you must add more calories to your diet. Eat 100 more calories each day so that in one month you will have 3125 extra calories per month.
What about fat loss? You can lose fat faster than gain muscle. That is, to lose fat, you must reduce your calorie intake for the day while increasing your calorie output. For the average person to lose weight, they need to eat 400 fewer calories per day than they normally do. That equates to a reduced intake of 12,000 calories per month. It results in 1 pound lost per week, which again adds up to 52 pounds lost in a year.
Taking this equation into account, you will realize that the increase in calories you need to gain muscle is relatively very small compared to the decrease in calories you need to lose fat. Now, what is it like to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time? It basically means that you have to eat more and eat less altogether. To clear this up, you first have to get rid of one particular myth about muscle gain, and that is the myth that you need to eat more to gain more muscle.
To get a better picture of this effort, take a look at what your body does with the calories you consume. Twenty-five percent of energy intake goes to the brain, while 50% of the calories the body consumes go to activities that support life, such as breathing, regulating body temperature, pumping blood, and replenishing cells dead. Another 20% of your body’s energy is allocated to your physical activities, such as moving, walking, and lifting. Amazingly, only 5% of your energy goes into adding muscle. As you can see from this calculation, only a small amount of the calories you consume are allocated to exercise and muscle building.
Your body has 2 main requirements to keep you alive:
- Carbohydrates or fat for the energy you burn
- protein amino acids
If the food you eat becomes scarce, your body comes to the rescue through its emergency backup system. If it thinks you’re in a dire emergency, your body activates this nuclear power plant that cannibalizes your muscles. You have to stop the activation of this nuclear reactor so that it doesn’t eat your muscles. This is how you lose fat and gain muscle:
- Take 1 gram of protein per pound of your body weight. That means eating 5 to 6 equal servings of protein consumed evenly throughout the day.
- Eat just enough calories to stop sending signals to your body that you’re starving. Be careful not to consume too many calories or you will gain weight. A good value for this plan is to eat 10% less of your energy intake each day. In other words, 10% calorie reduction.
- Eat proper nutrition, make every calorie count. Avoid eating processed foods. Add plenty of fresh vegetables to your diet.
- Make a 30% reduction in calories from fat. Instead, eat good fats, like nuts, olives, and avocados.
- Add more whole grains to your meals, as well as low GI carbohydrates. Avoid consuming simple carbohydrates from alcohol, sugar and white flour. Have a daily intake of omega 3 from salmon and flax, among other food sources.
- Be consistent when doing intense exercises. Ask a physical trainer to design a training plan that is right for you.
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September 23, 2017
By Brendan O’Brien
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – Protests in St. Louis over the acquittal of a white former policeman who killed a black man could impede the city’s bid to attract Amazon.com’s second headquarters, academics and business executives said.
Marked by scuffles, teargas and property damage, the protests have been unfolding as the city, which has a history of social unrest, is vying for the lucrative Amazon deal.
“There is no good timing for something like this and it will have an impact,” said Didi Caldwell, founding principal with Global Location Strategies in South Carolina, which helps companies choose locations for new businesses and expansion.
Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, said this month that it planned to build a $5 billion second headquarters that could bring 50,000 new jobs to the winning city.
An Amazon spokesman declined to discuss the site search.
In its call for proposals from cities, Amazon said a “compatible cultural and community environment” that included diversity, a high quality of life and stable business climate were key. The company intends to make a decision in 2018.
William Collins, a Vanderbilt University economic historian who has studied the aftermath of the 1960s race riots in the United States, said the impact on a city’s ability to draw new employers depended on how companies view such incidents.
“Does it suggest a deeply rooted problem that’s likely to make living, working, and investing in a particular location less attractive or less profitable than alternatives? If so, it can have lasting implications,” Collins said.
A September 16 ruling found former St. Louis policeman Jason Stockley, 36, not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2011 killing of Anthony Lamar Smith, 24.
In August, after clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, over plans to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, regional economic development officials wrote to site selection companies saying the violence did not define the city.
St. Louis Economic Development Partnership officials said they were aware of racial tensions highlighted by the protests but argued that the problem was not unique to St. Louis.
“The protests, although the timing of them was not the best for St. Louis, are really indicative of a national issue that needs to be looked at,” the partnership’s Chief Executive Sheila Sweeney said on Thursday.
The day before, protesters at a high-end shopping mall blocked traffic and chanted, “No justice, no profits.”
Other cities that have indicated they are in the running for the Amazon site include Seattle, Dallas, Houston and Denver.
Charlotte, North Carolina, which saw riots last year after the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer, has not seen business opt against moving there. Officials, who noted that the city’s efforts to break down bias led to the protests, said quantifying any lasting impact was difficult.
“It’s a troubling challenge of our time,” said Dianne Chase, spokeswoman for the Charlotte Regional Partnership, a public/private economic development organization trying to attract Amazon. “We’re not alone, it’s most unfortunate to say.”
St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson declined to speak on the issue, but told reporters this week that the city had a legacy of institutional racism and needed to move forward with more jobs and stronger civilian oversight of the police.
St. Louis is touting its central U.S. location, riverways, interstate highways and rail lines, vibrant technology environment and urban setting, as its main attractions.
While the city is a transportation hub with a low cost of living, good housing stock and access to research universities, the unrest could hurt its chances even if it made Amazon’s final list, said Global Location Strategies’ Caldwell.
Companies looking for locations will never announce they have eliminated a city for reasons like racial unrest, but that would likely be the case, she said.
St. Louis residents expressed concern on social media over economic impact related to the unrest.
“People were saying, ‘Unless the city cleans up its act, we’ll never get Amazon,’” said Lindenwood University economics professor Howard Wall.
“Sometimes the economics are sort of a wash and it just becomes about where am I more comfortable doing business and living,” Caldwell said.
The St. Louis metro area has been a hot spot for the national debate over racial bias in law enforcement since Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was killed in 2014 by a white police officer in nearby Ferguson. The Brown shooting sparked riots and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Did you know that your financial future depends on personal finance? Well, it does! Most people assume that personal finance is something you do as an adult. If you did not have a lot of money to make ends meet in your youth, then you would not need personal finance.
Unfortunately, your mother and grandmother never had the economic security you do today. In fact, they both worked long hours at very low wages just to keep up with the bills. As a result, both of them ended up having to file bankruptcy in order to avoid having their homes foreclosed on. Today, your chances of having to file such a bankruptcy are even slimmer than your mother and grandmother ever had.
How can this be? Why are your chances of living the type of life you want so much more slim? Well, it all boils down to using personal finance correctly. You have to learn the basics of personal finance before you can truly say you understand the concept. Here is what you will want to consider.
First, you must have a savings account. You want to have some money set aside to fall back on when emergencies arise. You may want to check out the interest free or no fee checking accounts available at your local bank. This will help you build a nest egg for the future. Even if you do not want to use this money, you still need it for emergencies and unexpected expenses.
Second, you need to have a budget. There is no way to live well without having a personal finance budget. Without one, you will not know where to go or who to talk to when you need the money for something urgent. Your personal finance budget will serve as your road map to your goals. If you are like most people, you have a lot of goals in life.
You may want to establish a joint bank account with your partner. Do this when you are living together, so that you can both establish separate accounts. In turn, your personal bank will know where to deposit your joint funds, saving you both time and frustration.
Finally, you have to learn about personal finance. You can do this by reading books or watching videos online. You also can get some great ideas from other working mothers. Once you know the basics, then you are ready to start building your personal finance strategy to help you manage your finances.
The most important thing when it comes to personal finance for working mother is that you are prepared to be financially responsible for yourself and your family. You must take the time to learn all you can about personal finance, saving and spending. And, most important of all, be financially prepared to handle unexpected expenses. When you have this information, you will be able to focus on building a solid financial foundation for your family.
When you are planning for your future, it’s important to know where you are going and how you are going to get there. This includes having savings and investment fund of money that will support you for the years to come. You can save up for retirement, go on an all-inclusive vacation, buy your first home, or do anything else you desire. Just know that money is always available to you, but you must plan for it.
One way to be fiscally responsible is to make a budget. Whether you are a stay-at-home-moms or you are currently working, you should create a budget. Include things like retirement, debt, insurance, taxes, groceries, etc. Be sure to make a list of everything you spend money on, as well as everything you earn. Then you can have a list of your personal financial goals to see what you need to do in order to achieve them.
The budget will help you know where your money is going, which is important for personal finance planning. If you spend more than you earn, then your debts will increase, which means you will be paying interest on it for many years to come. If you are able to save more, you will be able to pay off those creditors, which will free up your bank account for spending. Knowing where your money is going is essential, especially if you are a stay-at-home-moms.
Working mothers often have very limited hours, so they may not always have the money to do all the things they would like to. Because of this, they must make do with what they have. One of the most important things a mother could have is a personal budget. It will make it much easier to plan out your spending, know what is going out, and know where the money is going to go. The more time a mother spends planning her finances, the more time she will have to make the necessary changes to help her family survive. | <urn:uuid:17f6a012-00db-430a-9185-a030af80c8e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mom-and-kids.com/finance-for-working-mothers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971097 | 957 | 2.390625 | 2 |
In April last year, we got 7.8kW of solar with a SolarEdge inverter, including consumption monitoring. In November, we got a 9.3kWh LG Chem battery. From this experience, we have learned a lot from the benefits of solar and independently, batteries, and think there is a lot you should do prior to making the leap into batteries. Here are 5 steps I think households should take before getting a battery:
1 – Add as much solar as you can
It is important to remember that batteries do not produce electricity, just store and shift it. On the other hand, solar produces electricity. The electricity can be used to power your household, and export to the grid. While many complain that feed-in-tariffs (10-15 c/kWh) are much less than what you pay for electricity (25-35 c/kWh), they still present a good return for your excess solar. Just on feed-in-tariffs alone, once can expect 8-12% ROI (annual savings/revenue divided by cost of solar installation).
We used to pay around $1,600 per year for electricity. With solar, we were earning around $110 per month in feed-in-tariffs, more than covering the cost of our remaining grid electricity usage, resulting in running at around $700 per year profit. With current high feed-in-tariffs, it is a good time to go big on your solar now to payback a good portion of your system in the next few years.
This could even mean getting 10kW of solar or more.
2 – Consumption Monitoring
It is important to have a good idea of how much solar you are producing, how much electricity your house is using and when, and how much solar you are using directly (ie. self consumption). Prior to getting a battery, we had shifted loads like hot water heat pump, dish washer and washing machine into solar production times to maximise our solar production. This saw us being 65% solar supplied! And only using 2-4 kWh per day from the grid.
So we knew that getting a 9.3kWh battery was a bit overkill for what we needed. But at least we knew. Without consumption monitoring, we wouldn’t have been in tune with our electricity demand and solar production to become 65% solar supplied, and would not have known what size battery we needed or if we needed one at all.
3 – Hot Water
Like many shire households, we used to have a resistive element hot water tank for out hot water. It was on a controlled load, and produced hot water overnight. We found that it was using 8 kWh per day. This was around half of our daily electricity use!
We now have a hot water heat pump. This is efficient and uses 2 kWh per day on average. When we got solar, we moved our heat pump production for overnight, to come on at 1pm each day. For watching our consumption monitoring, it is powered by solar for pretty much all of the year.
Basically, we are using solar to make our hot water in the middle of the day, then using the hot water when needed. It is effectively an 8 kWh battery. A new hot water heat pump and tank costs between $2,500 and $4,500 installed, much cheaper than a Tesla Powerwall or LG.
Other than a heat pump, you could also use a timer to make your hot water system to make hot water during the day, or use a PV Diverter to power your hot water with solar (around $1,000).
4 – LED Lighting
We use lights predominantly at night. If you get a battery, it is wasteful to use up the battery capacity using inefficient lighting. It may mean that you get a bigger (more expensive) battery, or you leave less battery capacity available for back up or other purposes. Efficient lighting like LEDs can use 80-90% less than older lighting technologies.
5 – Electrify and be efficient
It is now possible to meet all your household energy demands efficiently using electricity. This may mean a heat pump for hot water, electric induction stove tops and ovens and efficient reverse cycled air conditioning for heating in winter. This means no more gas bill, and in particular, now more gas connection fixed fees. This saving on gas bills can help your payback on a battery. And even more, you can reach 100% solar supplied!
Rather than investing in a huge or multiple batteries, see what efficiency improvements can be made around heating, cooking and other uses, and see through your consumption monitoring what best battery may suit. | <urn:uuid:4a4ae350-aca2-4212-bcd2-aff33cf36cb4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://energymetalnews.com/2018/06/22/10-thinking-about-battery-storage-five-things-you-should-do-first/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957932 | 960 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Query: Has the Washington condition law altered about autos exhibiting front license plates? In our region I have recognized a considerable quantity of motor vehicles without having front plates. Some will have the plate lying on the dashboard and several look to be newer, high priced products. Has the regulation transformed or is it simply not remaining enforced?
Response: Have you at any time fully commited a minimal website traffic violation, like possibly you forgot to signal when you produced a right transform, and then understood that there was a law enforcement officer proper powering you? And maybe, if you are blessed, you experienced this: the red and blue lights occur on behind you, but when you pull above the patrol car or truck zooms earlier. If so, you just received a glimpse of just one enforcement need having priority in excess of yet another.
Officers have to prioritize their response all the time, so just because anything is a violation of the regulation doesn’t imply it’ll get addressed every time it’s observed. Circumstance in point: entrance license plates. Indeed, in practically every situation Washington law involves a motor vehicle to have a front license plate. But unlike many visitors legislation, lack of a entrance license plate does not raise your risk of a crash.
Compared with impairment, speeding and distraction (the major a few components in lethal crashes in Washington) enforcement of front plates is very reduced. The No. 1 intention of traffic enforcement is to lower visitors crashes, so officers concentration on the behaviors that contribute to crashes. Enforcement of front plates even now takes place just at a decreased frequency.
That doesn’t indicate a entrance plate is not important. It’s just vital for various factors. A front plate will make it much easier for law enforcement to place stolen vehicles, or a suspect motor vehicle fleeing from a crash or the scene of a criminal offense, and it allows witnesses and victims report this kind of a auto.
So why does not absolutely everyone just set a entrance plate on their auto? Your observation that numerous of the autos without front license plates incorporate newer, pricey versions probably has one thing to do with it. If you have a shiny, new and expensive car you could not like what a license plate does to the glance of your car. Even additional, you likely simply cannot abdomen the thought of drilling holes through that pristine bumper to mount your license plate. But no matter of how you experience about that plate on your bumper, the legislation is crystal clear: you have to have it.
Apart from . . .
There are actually a couple exceptions to the entrance license plate prerequisite in Washington. Of class, it would make sense that campers and trailers only have a rear plate, as a entrance a single would be pointless. Other cars that do not require a entrance plate include mopeds, bikes and collector cars. Outdoors of Washington, 19 states really do not require entrance license plates.
And for the outlier autos, the regulation has a provision that will allow a driver to enchantment the prerequisite for a front license plate. The Washington Condition Patrol may possibly grant exceptions “if the overall body building of the auto helps make compliance … difficult.” Utilizing the term “impossible” seems like a practically insurmountable barrier. Having said that, the law defines “impossible” in this context as “there was nothing built by the maker … which would permit the license plate to be affixed to the automobile …”
Just about every car or truck on the whole lot has a bracket obtainable to mount a license plate, but if you have some exotic exception you can get a go on the entrance plate. It’s not computerized although you will have to send an exemption request to the Washington State Patrol. | <urn:uuid:5cad2e5c-3640-4a81-afab-40b37d135385> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://txapeldunegarri.com/does-washington-state-website-traffic-law-need-front-license-plate.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94645 | 770 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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In a ‘call to action’, the team of psychiatrists and psychologists, who formed the ‘Covid Trauma Response Working Group’, say there needs to be an increase in mental health awareness training for all staff in health and social care settings, supported by more assertive outreach to identify those most in need.
In addition, more sustained funding is needed for psychological support services – not just during crises - and equity of access to support needs to be ensured between different teams, services, and localities, across the entire health and social care sector.
Explaining the study, lead author Dr. Jo Billings, Associate Professor at UCL Division of Psychiatry said: “In the UK, it has been estimated that 45-58%* of the frontline health and social care workforce met criteria for clinically significant levels of anxiety, depression and/or PTSD shortly following the first wave of the pandemic.
“This is amongst a workforce already under considerable strain pre-Covid-19, as evidenced by the growing incidence of stress, burnout, depression, drug and alcohol dependence, and suicide across all groups of health professionals, worldwide.
“The need to support the mental health of frontline staff during Covid-19 has been recognized, however, this pandemic has also highlighted a paucity of research on the mental health needs of frontline health and social care workers, and a lack of evidence-based guidance about what psychosocial support might be most effective in helping them.”
For the in-depth qualitative interview study published in PLOS ONE, 25 frontline staff** (17 female, 8 male) from a range of professions, services, and localities - but who all worked directly with Covid-19 patients - were interviewed between June 1st and July 23rd, 2020.
Health and social care workers were asked to describe their experiences and views about psychosocial support during the pandemic.
Support from psychological services, when available, was largely valued, and those who had accessed them, or knew others who had, spoke positively about them. However, there appeared to be large disparities in what was available and significant barriers to access.
Many described service provision as confusing and poorly communicated, leading to a lack of awareness about services available. It was also described as inflexible with some services only available Monday to Friday during working hours, which did not correspond to the shift patterns that most staff worked during the pandemic. Further many said they were too busy to access support services during the available times.
The interviews revealed there were ‘striking inconsistencies’ in the provision of mental health support across healthcare services, noted by those who moved between locations and specialties. There were particular barriers to access for staff who were not employed by the NHS, restricting access to many NHS-based services for social care staff and agency staff not on NHS contracts.
Participants also referenced an ongoing reluctance and stigma, summed up by Nathan, a junior doctor, “The problem with healthcare is that mental health is slightly stigmatized in healthcare workers and people don’t want to admit that there is a problem…they stress a culture of resilience and I don’t think anyone wants to be seen as being unable to cope with anything.”
Dr. Billings, who is also a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, said: “Significant steps need to be urgently taken to improve the psychological wellbeing and morale of the UK health and social care workforce and to ensure that the services they deliver to the UK population are sustainable, during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. Resources for support need to be made consistently available, and easily accessible to all staff. However, systemic and cultural barriers to access need to be addressed to ensure that accessing such resources is not inadvertently stigmatizing. Access to resources also needs to be equitable, within different teams and localities and across the health and social care workforce.”
Staff need ‘protected time’ during work to access wellbeing and psychological services; staff who are redeployed between teams need additional support; role modeling by senior staff and culture change are needed to increase willingness to talk; and a flexible combination of peer, organizational and professional support, is most likely to be acceptable and effective.
Co-author, Dr. Michael Bloomfield, UCL Division of Psychiatry and Consultant NHS Psychiatrist, said: “The results of this study show that a ‘one-size fits all’ approach to providing support is unlikely to be helpful. Nevertheless, these systems of support need to be coherent, consistently communicated, and easily accessible.”
Fellow author, Dr. Talya Greene (UCL Division of Psychiatry and University of Haifa) added: “More research is needed to fully unpack the structural, systemic and individual barriers to accessing psychosocial support. The views of workers from minority professional and ethnic groups need to be assertively included in future research. More collaboration, consultation, and co-production of support services and their evaluation is warranted.”
The survey was led by the ‘Covid Trauma Response Working Group’, formed by UCL clinical academics at the start of the pandemic. The group also includes mental health experts from the NHS, Oxford University, King’s College London, and the University of Haifa, Israel. | <urn:uuid:ebea7c04-460c-4500-ae78-1649421c8a90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reachmd.com/news/improved-mental-health-support-for-frontline-workers-urgently-needed/2009798/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973264 | 1,107 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Daily Zohar # 1089 – Pinchas – Like a wandering bird
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“וְלָקְחוּ אֲבָנִים אֲחֵרוֹת, וְהֵבִיאוּ אֶל-תַּחַת הָאֲבָנִים; וְעָפָר אַחֵר יִקַּח, וְטָח אֶת-הַבָּיִת ”
“And they shall take other stones, and put them in place of those stones; and he shall take another soil (mortar), and shall plaster the house. ”
We read in Leviticus 14 that if a priest examines a house and finds impurity (plague, leprosy) then he orders to redo the walls of the house and plaster it again.
The Zohar explains that this relates to the laws of Tikkun and reincarnation.
If a person did not correct himself he gets another body with new opportunities to complete the Tikkun of his soul.
“כְּצִפּוֹר, נוֹדֶדֶת מִן-קִנָּהּ– כֵּן-אִישׁ, נוֹדֵד מִמְּקוֹמוֹ. ”
“As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. ”
This verse also teaches us that the bird, which is the aspect of the soul, must leave its ‘nest’ in the comfort of the spiritual level and reincarnate.
In different lives we may find ourselves in different places in the world and in different social status. Each incarnation gives another opportunity to set our inner GPS (like the natural sense of direction birds have) to the right path in order to reach the destination that is the completion of the Tikkun and the Final Redemption. | <urn:uuid:b78015f9-07de-44bb-bcd0-0ad289092203> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailyzohar.com/daily-zohar-1089/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.815473 | 610 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Many of the patients admitted to hospital with a STEMI heart attack (ST-elevation myocardial infarction) have major blockages in blood vessels other than the one directly responsible for the heart attack. The best strategy for treating these patients remains an open question for cardiologists.
Stenting of the so-called “culprit vessel” is known as primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Researchers from the Ottawa Heart Institute, led by cardiology resident Juan Russo, MD, used patient records in the Institute’s STEMI registry to understand whether it is safe to stent the non-culprit vessels at a time following primary PCI but before patients leave the hospital. This approach is called staged PCI.
They examined the records of 1,038 STEMI patients referred to the Heart Institute between 2004 and 2011 who had a blockage of greater than 50% in at least one non-culprit vessel. One quarter of these patients had undergone staged PCI, while three quarters had PCI of the culprit vessel only.
Mortality at 180 days was 0.8% in patients who received staged treatment versus 5.0% in patients who received culprit-only treatment. Improvements in mortality with staged PCI remained significant after being statistically adjusted for baseline differences between patients that could potentially have affected the results.
Staged PCI was also associated with lower mortality during the initial hospital admission (0.4% vs. 2.6%) and at 30 days (0.4% vs. 2.9%). The rates of subsequent in-hospital heart attack (re-infarction), stent thrombosis, stroke, and major bleeding were comparable between patients who underwent staged PCI and those who underwent culprit-only PCI.
“Most importantly, we noted that all cases of re-infarction during the [initial] hospitalizations were related to stent thromboses in the infarct-related artery,” said Dr. Russo. No cases of re-infarction, cardiogenic shock, or death secondary to acute blockage of a non-culprit artery were seen, “suggesting that revascularizing non-culprit vessels at a time other than primary PCI may be a safe strategy,” he added.
The updated 2015 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology PCI guideline, published in October, indicates that PCI of non-culprit vessels at the time of primary PCI or afterward can be considered in selected stable patients. Clinical trials currently underway will provide more definitive guidance on the optimal timing of staged PCI. | <urn:uuid:cce946c0-a3a4-428f-9d8b-891b0fe5f70b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ottawaheart.ca/the-beat/2015/11/19/ccc-2015-treating-stemi-heart-attack-patients-multi-vessel-disease | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956398 | 536 | 1.75 | 2 |
Port of Miami Tunnel, Miami, FL
The Port of Miami Tunnel (POMT) will improve access to and from the Port of Miami, serving as a dedicated roadway connector linking the Port with the MacArthur Causeway and I-395. Currently the Port (located on an island in Biscayne Bay) is linked to the mainland only by the Port Bridge. The tunnel will improve access to the Port; improve traffic safety in downtown Miami by removing cargo trucks and cruise line buses from congested city streets; and facilitate ongoing and future development plans in and around downtown Miami. The project includes a tunnel under the Main Channel and related roadway work, including the widening of the MacArthur Causeway Bridge. Twin tubes, each 3,900 feet long and 41 feet in diameter, reach a depth of 120 feet below the water. The total capital cost of the project is $1.1 billion.
The Port of Miami Tunnel was developed as a public-private partnership (P3) between the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and Miami Access Tunnel, LLC (MAT). Following a five-year construction period, MAT will operate the tunnel for 30 years in exchange for an annual availability payment. The POMT was the second availability payment P3 project to reach financial close in the United States.
The need for improved access to the Port of Miami has long been recognized. A Draft EIS issued in 1996 identified an immersed-tube tunnel as the preferred alternative, which raised serious concerns about potential environmental impacts to Biscayne Bay and the disruptions of operations at the Port during construction. These concerns led to the consideration of a bored tunnel alternative, which also led to the decision that the project could be cleared with an EA/FONSI; that document was issued by the Federal Highway Administration in November 2000.
Continued pre-construction activities through the early 2000’s were led by the Florida Turnpike Enterprise, based on the assumption that the new tunnel would be tolled. However, significant concerns about tolling were raised regarding its impact on the cruise ship industry and on the potential diversion of traffic onto the existing, untolled bridge to the Port, which could undermine the purpose of building the tunnel in the first place. As a result, the tolling of the tunnel as a revenue source was dropped from further consideration.
In 2003, the Florida legislature passed a bill establishing the Strategic Intermodal System (SIS). The purpose of the SIS program was to identify areas for investment in a defined network of “strategic” logistics and intermodal facilities. Funding for the SIS was provided as a dedicated share of real estate transfer fees known as “doc stamps”, an important revenue source in the state. The Port of Miami Tunnel was seen as a logical candidate to receive funding from this program.
The SIS program also required that each dollar of SIS funding would be matched at the local level on a 50-50 basis. This led to discussions among the state, Miami-Dade County (which owns the Port), and the City of Miami on how that local share could be provided, eventually securing funding commitments from all three parties.
Pre-construction analyses also identified the significant potential risk associated with the tunnel, as a bored tunnel of that size had never been constructed in the U.S. As a result, FDOT began to explore the possibility of developing the Port of Miami Tunnel as a P3 in order to mitigate the state’s risk exposure, drawing on Florida’s recently strengthened P3 enabling legislation. Discussions with potential bidders regarding this approach were also positive, leading FDOT to initiate procurement of the project as a DBFOM concession in February 2006.
The concession for the tunnel was structured under an availability payment model, under which the concessionaire would receive ongoing payments over the life of the concession covering capital and maintenance costs, as well as milestone payments paid upon the completion of construction. FDOT also established a $180 million geotechnical risk contingency fund to cover any unforeseen circumstances that might be encountered during construction.
In May 2007, FDOT announced its intent to award the concession to MAT, comprised of the Australian investment firm Babcock and Brown and the French construction firm Bouyges, a subsidiary of which would serve as the lead contractor on the project. Once funding commitments from the state, county, and city partners were finalized, a formal award was made in February 2008. However, financing for the project soon became caught up in the market turmoil of that year, which would see the failure of both Babcock and Brown and Lehman Brothers, its underwriter for the project. In late 2008, Meridiam replaced Babcock and Brown as the primary equity partner in the concession.
During this period, it was also recognized that long-term credit assistance from TIFIA would be crucial in financing the project. In order to become eligible for this assistance, however the project had to go through a process of “federalization” to ensure that all Federal requirements (such as NEPA, planning, Buy America, and Davis-Bacon) would be met, since FDOT had previously planned to finance the project using state and local revenue sources exclusively and thus had not engaged FHWA in the necessary reviews prior to that time. This process was initiated in mid-2008 and was completed shortly before the closing of the TIFIA loan for the project in October 2009.
Project Financing and Delivery
MAT’s financing sources for the project include a $341 million TIFIA loan; $341.5 million in short-term commercial bank debt (provided by a “club” of 10 banks); and $80 million in equity from the partners in the concession. The TIFIA loan is backed by the availability payments due to MAT. Under the concession agreement, FDOT was also to provide MAT a total of $100 million in milestone payments during the construction period between 2010 and 2013, and will provide a $350 million final acceptance payment upon construction completion. This will be followed by 30 years of availability payments during the operating period totaling $32.479 million annually (in 2009$), with adjustments for inflation. Deductions will be made from this amount if MAT’s operation of the facility does not meet prescribed performance standards.
Total capital and operating costs over the life of the concession through 2045 are projected to be $2.65 billion (in year-of-expenditure dollars). Funding for these lifetime expenditures is to come from $221 million in Federal-aid highway funds; $1.89 billion in State funds; and $528 million in county and city funds. | <urn:uuid:f8f0a50e-99d7-4a17-89ec-815fc46cc38e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.transportation.gov/buildamerica/projects/project-highlights/port-miami-tunnel-miami-fl | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972128 | 1,370 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Love it or hate it, there's just something about Coke that brings you back to your childhood.
A simpler time, when you didn't count calories, you didn't watch what you ate, and you didn't worry about things like getting your "summer bod" ready.
But now that you're an informed adult, you probably think twice before indulging in an ice cold coca-cola.
It's hard, I know.
And in case you need a little extra motivation to help you get over your craving. You're definitely going to want to read this.
It's what happens to your body one hour after you drink a can of coke.
1. First 10 Minutes
10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don't immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor, allowing you to keep it down.
2. 20 Minutes
Your blood sugar spikes causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There's plenty of that at this particular moment.)
3. 40 Minutes
Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your liver dumps more sugar into your blood stream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked, preventing drowsiness.
4. 45 Minutes
Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
5. 60 Minutes.
The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
6. 60 Minutes
The caffeine's diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee) It is now assured that you'll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolytes and water.
7. 60 Minutes
As the rave inside of you dies down you'll start to have a sugar crash, you may become irritable and or sluggish. You've also now, literally pissed away all the water that was in the coke but not before infusing it with valuable nutrients you body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth. | <urn:uuid:241637f8-b35c-46ac-99c8-88f5fb743238> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mtlblog.com/what-happens-to-your-body-1-hour-after-you-drink-a-coke | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94602 | 509 | 1.679688 | 2 |
To help with increased demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, Davis Days delivered a $6,000 donation to Actions Inc. of Brazoria County on Tuesday, April 28. Actions Inc. helps feed our senior population of Brazoria County, and has seen an increase from roughly 5550 homebound meals per month to nearly 3000 homebound meals per week due to COVID-19.
Most seniors are able to drive to one of the Centers that Actions has throughout the county to get a hot meal 5 days a week. During the current conditions, many seniors are unable to travel and more meals are needing to be delivered.
It costs $6 to feed 1 Senior for a week.
We appreciate the continued support from our donors and will continue to explore opportunities and partnerships throughout our community.
The Davis Days Foundation partnered with Christian Helping Hands and Tyson Foods to help donate 2,000 pounds of chicken for local families.
During a time of such uncertainty due to COVID-19 and an economic downturn, many families do not know where their next meal might come from. Many of our local food pantries and non-profit organizations are in desperate need of monetary and food donations to help meet the increasing needs of our community. Davis Days knew Christian Helping Hands was needing help to keep up with demand, and that’s when Davis Days members got on the phone to see who could help.
"It took about four hours to get to the right person at Tyson Foods,” said Lori Whistler with Davis Days Foundation. "Her name is Mary Ellen, she's very sweet and she graciously agreed to donate two thousand pounds of chicken,"
"I think it's amazing," said Josh Davis founder of Davis Days Foundation. "It takes a whole lot of people to help a community and the more our foundation has given the more we realize just how much need there is out there."
The Davis Days Foundation is on a mission to improve the lives of young children and their families in our local community. If you’re interested in donating to the Davis Days Foundation please visit https://www.davisdays.org/donate-today.html.
Read and watch more about the partnership and donation on Fox 26 Houston’s website: https://www.fox26houston.com/news/two-pearland-non-profits-give-2000-pounds-of-chicken-to-struggling-families
Davis Days donated over 1000 bottles of shampoo, conditioner and Lotion to complete 495 gift bags for 7 Battered Women’s Shelters in Harris and Brazoria County. The bags contained beauty and hygiene products. Thank you to all of our donors for making these donations possible!
The Davis Days 2019 Crawfish Boil is in the books with another incredible turnout! We were able to raise $78,000 dollars towards helping youth in our community.
This is another astonishing amount of money raised, going far beyond my wildest dreams and certainly not possible without our great team and community support.
I am very thankful for all of our volunteers that help make this event possible. Without our volunteers, this foundation doesn’t exist. I also want to give a big thanks to our donors who make this event, and our foundation, more fruitful with every contribution. We are thankful for each and every person that came out to the crawfish boil and continue to help us build our foundation.
Now that the first event of 2019 is in the books, the fun part begins of getting to help the kids in our community and putting your dollars to work. Although we helped hundreds of kids last year with school lunches, coats, back packs, and school supplies, we definitely did not accomplish some of the missions we set out to do last year. Unfortunately, the logistics involved with getting special needs kids to Morgan’s Wonderland, was more than we anticipated. Getting kids to swim lessons wasn’t as easy as we had assumed it would be either. However, we feel like we are ready to start getting kids nominated for Morgan’s wonderland this year for a trip in August 2019. We will also be teaming up with local swim instructors to get moving on our goal of water safety and swimming lessons.
Davis Days will continue to focus on donating lunches, coats, clothing, back packs, school supplies, the Morgan’s Wonderland trip, and swimming safety; but we’re also going to be adding a new initiative this year. We will be setting aside the funds to start awarding scholarships to 1 boy and 1 girl from each high school in Pearland ISD, as well as Shadow Creek and Manvel High Schools. We understand the importance of education, and our hope is to help eliminate the financial barriers some the students face in our community. Scholarship amounts, qualifications, and details will be determined soon and we’re looking forward to launching this initiative this year.
Thank you again for your support, and we hope to have another successful year of Improving Lives in 2019.
Checkout This Year's Smilebooth Photos
We were able to deliver 70 coats to Pearland ISD yesterday and 535 coats delivered to Pearland Neighborhood Center this morning. Over 600 children will open presents for Christmas that will keep them warm throughout the winter school year. Thank you to everyone at Max Box Supplies that helped to separate and box coats by size and gender (Tory, Caitlyn, Victoria). Also, thank you to Cathy Garcia along with Burlington Coat Factory for getting this enormous task completed in time for Christmas.
I do not even know where to start. The amount of people that came out this Saturday was incredible. I prayed hard that we would have at least 50 people show up so that I could justify having a live band. Well God answered with over 300 people making it out to the 1st ever fundraiser and making it a GINORMOUS success. We had an incredible evening that raised a total of $90,000 dollars. That’s right NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS!! After food, beer, venue, band, auction items, and all expenses needed to throw this fundraiser, we will have $77,000 dollars to use towards helping others. A family friend put it best when he quoted Luke 12:48 “Whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required”. I could not agree more and looking forward to the opportunity to put this money to work for those that will benefit most.
I’m ready to start “Improving Lives, One Day At a Time”.
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Standard meetings at the job are essential if you need to stay powerful. There are many explanations why you should go to meetings at your workplace every week, and several different types of meetings you can do, depending on the company’s schedule.
When you do your meetings personally, you will learn regarding the problems facing the company, and you could ask for an alteration in management. You may also speak with supervisors about things that you find wrong with all your job and how to change it. You can study more with regards to your employer as well as the business as well.
Another reason to get regularly undertaking regular events at work is usually to learn about new ways to improve the method you do facts. This can include improving your skills, increasing the productivity of employees, and learning new strategies for your company.
There are a few things that you can easily do by meetings in your office that will help you make progress, as well. If you don’t want to leave the meetings early on, you can make a listing of goals and start to prepare your next reaching.
Its also wise to keep in mind that if you are having a achieving at your office, it is your responsibility to become the concerns of the employees. At times, just tuning in can help you fix problems. You may learn from your staff members how to get tasks done better.
Prior to going to your assembly, you should also go over what you are going to talk about in advance, so that you know what topics to discuss and how to business address any problems that may occur. You should have a good idea of what you will likely talk about ahead of the meeting, so that you be able to give attention to each issue and answer any inquiries that you might own.
Upon having arrived at your meetings, you must make sure that you will not leave early. Most of your time and efforts at work is very valuable, and you should spend it doing your job and producing a difference. Tend not to leave the get together early, as it will not only affect the other staff that you are with, but it will in addition mean that you don’t have enough time to do anything else significant.
Meetings at your office are one of the most effective ways to learn and grow in your company. They will g98.com.vn supply you with a chance to demonstrate your credentials and fix problems. you can learn new approaches and techniques for handling conditions that can help your enterprise thrive.
Your appointments at work can also be great for personnel to learn new things. By interacting with your co-staffs, you will be able to discover more regarding new concepts that you have about your company or how to handle a number of the problems that you are facing. It can also be a fantastic opportunity for you to make new friends and develop interactions with all of them.
You should make sure that you do not keep your standard meetings in the office too early, either. You should have sufficient time to learn and grow. in your meetings. Possessing a good discussion and following through with your assembly can help you find out new ways of obtaining your job done.
Recognize an attack make it clear to your co-office workers that you are ever present for them. in the meetings. When you are not generally there when they are having problems, they may feel that you are not considering what they are stating and they may think you do not worry about them or their problems.
The last thing that you should carry out when you have get togethers at the job is to have notes. As you take tips, you will be able to perform more than just examine and note down information. You can even show your business employers how to better deal with your business and the issues that you deal with. This is important, especially if you are not an excellent listener.
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Step 2. Deploy AM
Deploying AM creates a default configuration that you can access as AM’s administrative user,
Deploy AM into Apache Tomcat, and configure it for use:
Copy the AM
.warfile to deploy in Apache Tomcat as
$ cp AM-7.2.0.war /path/to/tomcat/webapps/openam.war
It can take Apache Tomcat several seconds to deploy AM.
Go to the deployed AM application; for example,
On the AM configuration screen, click Create Default Configuration.
Review the software license agreement. If you agree to the license, click I accept the license agreement, and click Continue.
Set the Default User [amAdmin] password to
changeit, and click Create Configuration to configure AM.
When configuring AM for real-world use, do not use this password. It is only to get started with AM. The
amAdminuser is the default AM administrator, who has full control over the AM configuration.
Click the Proceed to Login link, then log in as
amAdminwith the password you configured in a previous step,
After login, AM directs you to the Realms page.
AM stores its configuration, including the embedded DS server, in a directory named after the deployment URI. In other words, if AM is deployed under
/openam, then it saves its configuration under
If you need to delete your configuration, the quickest way to start over is to stop Apache Tomcat, delete the AM configuration directory, and restart the AM web application to start the process from the beginning.
AM is now configured, and ready for use.
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I’ve never been a fan of ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) techniques for two reasons. The first is I’m more of an editorial photographer. The second reason, I never really found anyone who applied the techniques in a way that pleased my eyes.
All of that changed the day I met Canadian Photographer, Richard Martin. Richard is a great photographer with a passion for what he does that is pretty much unmatched. He’s a great communicator and I was exposed to his photography for the first time in a conference where he pretty much impressed me with his energy, passion and above all, a special gift for creative photography.
I invite you to take a look at Richard’s MOTION GALLERY before you keep on reading…
There are different techniques to producing creative images while moving your camera in one or more fashion. You can even go to the extreme of throwing your camera in the air as it triggers on a self-timer…but I really don’t recommend it…
Let’s cover some ICM techniques that make some common sense. This will go in direct conflict with everything I’ve always preached regarding using a tripod to achieve sharp images through enhanced stability. ICM effects are achieved by using longer exposures generally up to half a second. I’ve found that in most cases 1/8th of a second exposure is a good start. To work with wider apertures on a bright sunny day you may want o use an ND filter or even a circular polarizer to help reduce the amount of light entering the camera.
Vertical Movement :
This is pretty simple and often seen used with trees as a subject. This makes sense as the vertical geometry of a tree gets enhanced by the technique. You’re technically moving the camera angle slightly up or down… kind of a quick flick up or down…You can even wiggle from left to right to add to your end result.
Horizontal Side to Side movement:
A slight pivot on the horizontal line can create interesting effects with the horizon and circular movement on closer ground objects. With a slow speed and a handheld exposure it’s like a pan if you use it in one direction following a subject or you can quickly wiggle back and forth, a single or multiple times until you get the desired effect.
Most often used pointing up at a tree-covered sky, you’re simply moving your camera in a circular motion while keeping the lens pointed steadily in the direction of your subject. With some subjects, I would experiment with longer than usual exposure times to get the full effect.
There’s a whole variety of little movements you can try with a variety of exposure times. From little check mark movement to circular motions with your lens, don’t be afraid to experiment. I would avoid exposing longer than 1/2 a second as you may just lose the definition of your subject completely.
This week is all about having FUN with your camera while exploring a very creative and abstract side of photography. You can over expose as well as you can under expose. Your goal is to create a mind-boggling image where we can still recognize basic subjects in some form or another. The only restriction is NO ZOOM BLUR effects without a camera movement as well.
Smartphone users should look for a camera app that supports manual mode, your built-in app may already have a manual mode as well. Mine does but I also use an android app called Manual Camera by Geeky Devs Studio.
If you need more inspiring examples here’s a link to ICM IMAGES on FLICKR.
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The building, which is located inside a private property can not be visited, but its shapes can be seen along the provincial road towards Como. A single nave, with an irregular pattern, ends with a low apse carved by three splayed single-lancet windows. The façade has no decorations and is only moved by the monolithic architrave of the portal and by a cross-shaped window, which is identical in appearance to the capocroce. It is made of stones and pebbles. Next to the church was built a female Benedictine monastery, abandoned in the seventeenth century. At the end of the eighteenth century the mothers of S. Colombano di Como alienated their property in favor of Pietro Venini, owner of Villa Giulia. The descendants demolished the monastery in 1804 to create the avenue leading from the property to the lake. | <urn:uuid:15197825-e750-44a9-9b7f-18fb66098a9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bellagiotravelguide.com/listing/santa-maria-di-loppia-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964871 | 181 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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A report compiled by cloud-based work management platform The 4th Office and creative agency Rooster Punk has revealed how technology is empowering staff members to have more freedom and independence when it comes to getting their jobs done.
Some 40 per cent of executives who took part said their entire team works remotely full or part time, while over two-thirds said having a virtual team provides a competitive edge allowing them to cut costs.
Technology may be highlighted as an enabler, but not when it comes to email according to Dave Erasmus, founder of donation platform, Givey. He said: “I hate email because it turns you into a responsive person rather than a productive person. There’s something really wrong with working with that system.”
Sarah Pettinger, MD of Omobono, added: Email is still core for us but it’s got to the stage where it’s overwhelming, so were trying to reduce our usage of it internally. We are constantly looking at how we can do things differently to cope with client demand and reduce the pressures everyone faces dealing with multiple tools and channels.
Despite that, 97 per cent do most communications via email, followed by 71 per cent opting for the mobile phone, 62 per cent choosing video conferencing, 58 per cent on an online office suite and 55 per cent via instant messenger, according to the findings.
Although there’s a number of options to replace face-to-face interactions, 39 per cent fear the difficulties involved with leading the team remotely and it boils down to trust and motivation.
Damian Kimmelman, founder and CEO of Duedil, said: Working from home, or other locations, is driven from employers as much as employees. Offices are really expensive, if you can build trust with your employees you can reduce costs while offering freedom. Its a win-win situation.
However, if remote working is executed properly, rising businesses could stand to secure fresh young talent that wants to work for a forward-thinking firm, according to Pulse MD Chris Bagnall.
Trying to attract young people who are influenced to work for cool companies with a reputable culture and great perks can be a massive challenge for people like me trying to get talented people to take a leap of faith and join smaller, less established companies,” he explained.
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When we came back home, I remembered that another friend of mine had requested me to join a social networking site. So I got online and somehow came across these Bengali words “Tumi ashbe bole” ( which translates to “because you will come”) in her collection of favorite videos. I suddenly remembered a song I had heard from my mother long time ago. She had mentioned to me that the music and the lyrics of the song was by Durga Sen, a well known Bengali music director in 1940s. My mother, during her teenage years, had gotten vocal training under from him.
I sat down and tried to remember and was happily surprised that I could remember the whole song. I recollected that I had always found the song very difficult to sing but its lyrics and music were extremely romantic and had always touched my heart. I wondered in my mind, if my mom still remembered the song.
Tumi ashbe bole shara bela duar khule rakhi..tumi ashbe bole.
Pradip hoye jage je tai amar byakul akhi…tumi ashe bole.
Bhromor eshe gaaner chhole, tomar kothai gelo bole,
tai phule phule mor angina-r dhula gechhey dhaki..tumi ashbe bole.
Amar mon bolechhey ashbe tumi go..shyamali shandhaye,
chander alo porbe jakhon rajanidandhaye,
Takhon je mor mono-horon, gaane gaane korbo boron
Tomar hate prem diye mor badhbo ranga rakhi..tumi ashbe bole.
Because you will come to me , I wait all day with my door open…because you will come to me.
Like candles burning, my impatient eager eyes are awake…because you will come to me.
The bees, under the disguise of their songs, have cleverly communicated your news to me.
Hence, so many flowers have blossomed in my yard and have completely hidden any dust that had existed… all in preparation for your arrival.
My heart says that you will come in the dark beauty of the evening, when the moonlight falls on the lovely white tuberoses.
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Happy Holidays! As we move closer to Christmas, I’m going to provide 12 tips, one each day, that will help you lose those 12 pounds that most of us gain during the holiday season!
DAY 2: EAT MORE, NOT LESS
Yes, You want to eat more frequently to keep your metabolism revved up through the day! The goal is to not let more than four hours pass without a meal or snack. Yes, ironically, it is important to eat to lose weight! The number of times you eat is important to keep your metabolism revved up. Every time you eat, you have to burn calories to digest your food, and eating increases your metabolic rate. When more than five hours pass without eating, your body automatically lowers its metabolic rate. In contrast, by eating three meals and two healthy snacks throughout the day, your body stays at a steady metabolic burn rate that helps you burn calories and fat all day. Remember, we are eating every three or four hours because eating less will slow your metabolism. It sends a signal to your body that it is starving and deprived, causing the body to respond by slowing the metabolic rate and holding on to existing fat reserves in the body. So, eat more. Yes, you can do that!
And, when you eat more, always choose nutrient-rich foods, not empty calories. This means you will eat foods that are high in vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, fiber, and omega-3 fatty acids. This includes the lean proteins, good carbs and healthy fats. Eating junk foods is like eating empty calories. You want your calories to provide you with nutritional benefits that will help you heal your body and maintain a permanently healthy weight. Before you eat anything, ask yourself, is this a healthy, nutrient-rich food or empty calories? Commit to be mindful of everything you eat.
DAY 3 SPICE IT UP!
Here’s my quick tip of the day!
Spice it up. Cayenne pepper is known as a fat burner because it fires up your metabolism. It heats up the body, and the body burns calories when it cools itself down. One study showed that hot or spicy peppers (chili or cayenne peppers) caused a temporary metabolism boost of about 23 percent. This will help your body burn more calories so your body will store less fat. Some people have even purchased cayenne pepper capsules to supplement spicy pepper into their diet daily just to boost their metabolism.
DAY 4: GIVE YOURSELF THIS ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS GIFT
Give yourself the wonderful gift of optimal health and wellness. To do this, you must first decide that your health is one of the top priorities in your life. Know that you cannot move forward in losing weight permanently and restoring optimal health without self-forgiveness. Additionally, you must also forgive friends, family, and others who have fed you an unhealthy diet over the years, as they probably didn’t know any better and did the best they could with what they knew at the time. You will sometimes make bad decisions in terms of what you eat. We all lose control and make bad food choices, but it is important to know that one bad decision doesn’t have to turn into two or three. The key to weight loss and staying confident is to decrease the number of bad decisions you make on a daily basis.
Know that your body is “naturally thin.” I truly believe that most overweight people are actually naturally thin. The body is complex and designed to maintain healthiness. The body is smarter than any diet pill or fad diet on the market. If you just change your eating habits to align with your body’s natural ability to heal, stay slim, and have energy, you will never have to worry about weight again.
It is time to treat your body as the greatest gift that you have. It is time to shine as the healthy person you were always meant to be. When you have a healthy and positive energy in life, amazing things like love, joy, success, and wealth come your way. Every interaction at work, church, home, or in the streets can be simply magnetic. Get healthy, lose weight, and watch your entire life begin to change for the better. Be sure to enjoy healthy foods, support your body with nutritional supplements, cleanse your body through various detox methods, and stay physically active. Be sure to always make time to nourish your inner spirit and soul by giving your body the rest and relaxation it needs to stay strong and healthy. In 2012, give yourself a wonderful gift of optimal health and wellness.
DAY 5: GET OFF “DIETS” ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Even if you achieve your weight-loss goals through a particular diet, you typically slowly gain the weight right back. The problem is that you “go on” a diet, which implies that you also later “go off” the diet. A typical diet is something you do for a short period of time. Therein lies the reason 95 percent of people who lose weight on a diet gain it back. In fact, if someone tells me they’ve lost twenty or thirty pounds on some great new diet, I tell them to come back in six months’ time. If they have maintained their weight loss, then I’m willing to listen about this great new diet. By then, in many cases, they have unfortunately already begun to gain all the weight back.
So, I want to provide three reasons that diets are ineffective for PERMANENT weight loss:
Calorie Counting is Useless
Most diets focus on restricting calories by cutting back on the amount of food eaten. But calorie restriction doesn’t work in and of itself; losing weight is not just about eating less. In fact, if you eat too little, you set off a chain of chemical imbalances in your hormones and brain that actually cause you to gain weight. Yes, calories are important. But it is not the number of calories you consume as much as it is the type of calories that makes all the difference between how much weight you lose and how healthy you are.
You can actually have an identical amount of calories from sugary foods (cupcake) and lean proteins (turkey breast), but the metabolic effect will be entirely different. The nutrients in sugary foods are different from the nutrients in lean proteins, and so they cause a different hormonal response, which plays a key role in determining what happens to those calories, such as how much of them end up being stored as fat in the body. This is why calorie counting simply does not work for weight loss.
Diets Are Boring!
Too many diets force you to eat bland, prepackaged, unappetizing food or chalky-tasting milkshakes. This causes you to crave and fantasize about all the delicious foods you can’t have on your diet. These cravings or mental images challenge your willpower and cause you to give in to the foods you’re missing, making you feel like you’ve failed on your diet again. In my new book, Lose Weight Without Dieting or Working Out!, the DEM System allows you to discover whole, natural foods that are healthy and palatable, without the empty calories.
Yo-yo Dieting Slows Your Metabolism
Yo-yo dieting will alter your metabolism for the worse and make it more difficult to lose weight in the long term. Some of you who are constantly on diets have probably begun to slow your metabolism unknowingly. Here’s how this has happened: When someone goes on a diet, the body notices that it is not getting as much food as it used to or as it needs to, so in order to conserve energy, the body slows its metabolic rate. It also begins storing fat reserves to ensure that it will have enough energy throughout the day.
Your goal should be to change your lifestyle, including proper nutrition and getting physically active, as a way to achieve your weight-loss goals.
DAY 6: DRINK THIS, NOT THAT
You always here that it is good to drink water, but it’s important to note that drinking water and staying hydrated is absolutely critical for losing weight. Water flushes out toxins and supports every metabolic process in the body, carrying toxins and waste away from cells to the kidneys to be removed from the body. Therefore, water is essential to a healthy, functioning body. But so many people struggle to drink water, so I wanted to provide one option that helps you stay hydrated while not hindering your weight loss goals.
Coconut water is simply an outstanding beverage for so many reasons. It is my personal favorite these days. In tropical regions, it has been used for centuries as a health and beauty aid because it naturally hydrates the skin. It has a natural balance of sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, making it a healthy drink for hydrating and replacing electrolytes in the body. It is low in calories and has been shown to have antiviral and anti-fungal properties.
Water or juice from young coconuts is a super-hydrating kind of water that is not only delicious but also rich in minerals, especially potassium. It has almost twice as much potassium as a banana. Drinking it is an excellent way to replace electrolytes after a heavy workout or simply to hydrate the body on a hot day. Many athletes and runners drink coconut water instead of sports drinks like Gatorade. It is fat- and cholesterol-free and low in calories, with positive effects on circulation, body temperature, heart function, and blood pressure. Try Coconut Water as an alternative to sodas/diet sodas and store-bought fruit juices. The brands I enjoy the most are Vita Coco and O.N.E. Coconut Water.
DAY 7: STAY AWAY FROM THIS FAMILY MEMBER
If you want to minimize how much weight you gain this holiday season, there are certain family members you’re going to want to stay away from or limit your time around them. These are family members who cause stress, strife and unnecessary drama in your life! Let me explain why!
When you are stressed, your body releases cortisol (also known as the stress hormone). Fat caused by stress (i.e., stress fat) stores in the belly, yes, stress causes belly fat! Studies have shown that when cortisol is released into the bloodstream, you become less sensitive to leptin, the hormone that tells your brain you are full. When this happens, you tend to eat more and more and begin to crave sugar. That means that your body not only slows down your metabolism when you are stressed out, it actually tells you to consume more food. So, yes, stress can cause a hormonal imbalance that actually causes you to gain weight.
This is why I think to eliminate stress you not only have to get rest, sleep and relaxation, you’ll have to “detox” from family and friends who cause you unnecessary stress and strife. People who belittle you and make you feel unworthy should get very little of your time. These people trigger stress and negative emotions in your life. Sometimes they can just say hello, and your stress level increases because you know at the end of that interaction, you will feel low, hurt, or sad. Take steps to minimize the time you spend with these people and continue to find ways to minimize stress in your life. This will help you stay healthy, balanced and happy!
DAY 8: BURN 500 CALORIES IN 15 MINUTES DOING THIS!
One of my favorite things to do is to get in a sauna! Why I love the sauna so much is that I’m all about things that have a health benefit while providing a beauty benefit also. You can kill two birds with one stone. You release toxins, burn calories, and come out with radiant, glowing skin. I had a client that learned from my teleseminars about saunas and found that by sweating out her toxins in the sauna, her acne cleared up; this was due to her sweating out the toxins as opposed to them being released through the skin, causing acne and other rashes.
If you want to know how healthy someone is, sometimes you can just look at his or her skin and tell. If someone has clear, radiant skin, there’s a good chance he or she is very healthy; breakouts/acne, puffiness, or dry skin indicate that the body is having some health problems. Experts say that a sauna session can do more to clean, detoxify, and simply “freshen” your skin than anything else.
As it relates to weight loss, you can burn 300 to 500 calories in just fifteen to twenty minutes in the sauna, which is almost equivalent to 1 to 2 hours of brisk walking. Saunas works positively on metabolism, increasing its speed and intensity, which in turn results in weight loss. In my new book, Lose Weight Without Dieting and Working Out!, I describe the different types of saunas and the best way to get a home sauna for under $200! Make saunas a part of your strategy for health, beauty and vibrance!
DAY 9: CLEAN THE GUT, LOSE THE GUT!
Although belly fat is very common, most people don’t know that it is the most dangerous fat on the body. Belly fat, known as visceral fat, is located behind your abdominal wall and surrounds your internal organs. Visceral fat typically shows as the belly fat/spare tire around the waist and mid-section and even thin people can have stubborn belly fat. Belly fat, aka visceral fat, contains toxins and substances that are harmful to our health. Studies have shown that exposing yourself to an excessive amount of environmental toxins (e.g., pollutants, birth control pills, prescription medications, household cleaners, food additives, and pesticides) increases belly fat. Thus, a very effective way to get rid of belly fat is to eliminate toxins from the body.
Detoxifying the body and eliminating toxins can be accomplished through various detoxification methods. Detoxification is a total-body cleansing process that involves cleansing all of the detox organs, including the liver, colon, kidneys, skin, etc. Detoxification is critical to losing fat because many of the toxins the body holds onto are stored in fat cells. One way to detoxify to get rid of belly fat is to do either colonics or take colon-cleansing herbs/supplements. Additionally, in my new book, Lose Weight Without Dieting or Working Out!. I discuss in great detail ten ways to detoxify the body including Colonics, Saunas, Body Brushing and many others so that you can reduce the toxic overload in your body and not only reduce belly fat but also lose weight quickly.
JJ Smith (http://www.jjsmithonline.com), Author of Lose Weight Without Dieting or Working Out, is a nutritionist and certified weight-management specialist who has been featured on The Montel Williams Show, The Jamie Foxx Show and on the NBC, FOX, CBS and CW networks. Her advice has also been featured in the pages of Glamour, Essence, and Ladies Home Journal. Since reclaiming her health, losing weight, and discovering a “second youth” in her forties, bestselling author JJ Smith has become the voice of inspiration to women who want to lose weight, be healthy, and get their sexy back! JJ may be contacted by email at [email protected] and on Twitter: jjsmithonline and Facebook Page: RealTalkJJ | <urn:uuid:529dc536-6c5e-481c-9335-bf32c7824bd4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jjsmithonline.com/the-12-pounds-of-christmas-day-12-clean-the-gut-lose-the-gut/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958413 | 3,255 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Chem Demo Team
The Chem Demo Team consists of a group of Notre Dame students who demonstrate hands-on activities for Indiana school-children to encourage and develop their interest in science. They share significant research, conduct experiments for them to observe, and oversee the children's participation in their chemistry activities.
Celebrate Science Indiana
DNA Learning Center
A hands-on science center devoted to modern biology education, the DNA Learning Center will prepare local elementary through high school students to thrive in the gene age. This advanced science education center will be the ideal teaching tool to inspire young students to pursue careers in science and to build a knowledge base that will extend into their educational and post-educational careers. As a licensee of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center in New York, the Notre Dame DNA Learning Center utilizes teaching methods, Internet technology and intellectual property of DNALC such as specialized DNA learning kits that include reagents, supplies, equipment checklists, lab instructions and manuals for learning modern biology.
Digital Visualization Theater
The Digital Visualization Theater in the Jordan Hall of Science is a state-of-the-art projection facility in a 50-foot-tall dome that is used for instruction across the University. Throughout the year, there are also presentations for the campus community and for the public, including a Christmas star program in December.
Rare Disease Day Symposium
The Center for Rare & Neglected Diseases hosts an annual public forum on providing emerging experimental therapies led by local rare disease patients and their physicians. Updates from Notre Dame faculty and visiting researchers/clinicians on the latest research in lysosomal storage disorders, rare cancers and more broadly in rare inherited syndromes is presented and there is a poster session featuring Notre Dame student and faculty research in rare diseases.
The St. Joseph County Public Library’s Science Alive! program is going into the 23rd year in spring 2014. The event attracts STEM exhibitors from around the county for a day of hands-on learning open to the entire community. The University of Notre Dame has been consistently represented by individual faculty as well as groups from the College of Science. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Quarknet Center, and CHEM Demo teams are regular contributors.
Science Café offers a monthly casual gathering in downtown South Bend to promote scientific interest and literacy in the community. The events introduce new topics in science and engineering and invite audience participation.
The Experiencing Technology and Hands on Science (ETHOS) Center in Elkhart, Ind. holds an annual STEM outreach event where exhibitors provide hands-on activities geared toward kids grades K-12 and open to the general public. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Quarknet Center, and CHEM Demo teams are regular contributors. For current event information visits | <urn:uuid:ac4f618d-b567-4a8a-a313-1bcc14decd19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://science.nd.edu/outreach/generalpublic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.922281 | 580 | 2.640625 | 3 |
To prevent popagation The fundamental characteristic of the Ex d flameproof enclosure is its flamepath, Gas is allowed to enter an enclosure burn‑off/explode inside, with a flamepath to prevent propagation of an internal explosion, relieving the pressure wave and ensuring the flame is sufficiently cooled so as not to ignite any external gas as well as limit enclosure surface temperature to the defined T rating.
Uncertified internal components are allowed, subject to the type certificate limitations, as it does not matter if they can ignite the gas internally. They may be limitations to specific components particularly batteries can be an issue and special testing may have to be conducted.
External (i.e. through wall) components must be assessed (certified) to ensure the integrity of the enclosure is not compromised and usually they are assessed independently. either as fully certified items e.g. cable glands or certified as components.
If they are full certified in their own right then they do not need to be included1 in the enclosure certification, if they are only component certified then they must be detailed with in the enclosure certification or have a certification which covers the entire assembly.
The Temperature category is based on maximum temperature of the external enclosure, obviously as the gas is allowed to ignite internally the local any internal hotspots are largely irrelevant to the overall certification.
Although the common perception is of an Ex d enclosure and flameproof protection is ideal for putting uncertified equipment or custom solutions into Zone 1, there is a lot of standalone equipment. Sounders and beacons are a good example of equipment where flameproof Ex d is appropriate, particular where power or voltage constrains rule out intrinsic safety and internal component requirements make other protection methods impracticable.
The Equipment protection level was a concept introduced to Ex d in the 2014 edition of EN 60079‑1
Prior to this there was only one level of Ex d generally Category 2 for use in Zone 1 unless specified otherwise. However, with the introduction of Equipment protection levels (EPL) into the standard, Category 2 flameproof equipment will now be labelled as Ex db and there is a lower EPL (Category 3) and Ex dc for use in Zone 2.
Ex da, (Category 1) also exists enabling flameproof equipment to be used in Zone 0. But, the standard only allows for the certification of Gas detection equipment to Ex da so, gas detectors aside, intrinsic safety is still the only protection method allowed in Zone 0
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|Ex db||2||Zone 1||Conventional|
|Ex dc||3||Zone 2||See Ex nC|
The requirements for Ex dc were copied and updated from the Ex nC part of EN 60079‑15 Explosive atmospheres. Equipment protection by type of protection "n". Primarily but not exclusively used for components such as switches the 'C' part of Ex nC is 'enclosed break' i.e. sparking parts are sealed to prevent ingress of gas. The resultant being is that an assembly may not necessarily have to be 'flameproof but an Ex e style enclosure, which would have historically been certified Ex nC, may be suitable.
Ex dc aside, the protection concept Ex d relies on a flame path for its protection. One of the key criteria is that the flame path should never be impeded. Dust hazards would almost certainly block that path, consequently conventional Ex db protection method i.e. flameproof enclosures and dust are, mutually exclusive.
However, as Ex d protection is probably the first call for inclusion of uncertified equipment into the hazardous area prior to specific dust hazards protection methods (Ex t) it is widely used for category 2 (zone 21) solutions.
In reality the flameproof enclosure essentially is being used as protection by enclosure and ignoring the flame path. This is why generally a flameproof enclosure can only be certified for gas or dust not a hybrid atmosphere i.e. gas and dust Flameproof enclosures which are more recently certified will have separate (Label) lines for gas and dust with Ex t certification for dust.
Extra care must be taken when checking the labelling of Ex d equipment certified to a pre-2014 Standard as the labelling requirements were not clearly defined and open to misunderstanding, particularly relating to Hybrid gas and dust environments.
A combination of Ex d and Ex e, Ex de is often used for components, particularly switches, which are then incorporated into assemblies e.g. control panels, control station etc. with full Ex de certification. Strictly speaking these should then be Ex edb or Ex edc2.
The flameproof part of the component is an enclosure containing the switching part, as this is very low volume and usually partially sealed their is a low probability of gas ingress and the volume is generally small so the enclosure can be relatively lightweight and a flame path is generally not required.
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Elo matchmaking rank
- How does Elo ranking work in League of Legends?
- What are the odds of a match with the same Elo rating?
- How are Elo points calculated?
- How is CSGO competitive ranking different from ELO?
- What is Elo rating in League of Legends?
- How does League of legends ranking work?
- What happens to your Elo when you lose a game?
- What is ELO and how does it work?
- How is Elo calculated?
- What is the expected Elo rating of a stronger player?
- What does a 500 point difference in Elo mean?
- How does ELO work in chess?
- What does Elo rank mean in CSGO?
- How does CSGO ranking work?
- What percentage of CSGO players have a silver rank?
- Does MPV count in CSGO Elo system?
How does Elo ranking work in League of Legends?
The Elo ranking is creating fair and balanced games because you get queued against players with the same skill level. This creates a high-quality game, where both teams have the chance to win the game. Through a matchmaking rank, players can see better progress, otherwise, they won’t know if they do good or bad.
What are the odds of a match with the same Elo rating?
While two players with the same Elo rating would have a 50/50 chance of winning the match, for players with more or less Elo points the odds would favor one specific side, for example 70/30. Like with odds, there is no guaranteed winner, it’s just an estimation.
How are Elo points calculated?
The first factor in calculating Elo points is the number of rounds won. The more rounds that you win, the more MMR you will gain per match. This means that even if you lose, having a 14-16 score means that you will lose fewer MMR as opposed to a 6-16 loss.
How is CSGO competitive ranking different from ELO?
“For competitive, we built a CS:GO specific competitive ranking system that is significantly different and more complex than Elo. The CS:GO competitive ranking system started with ideas based on the Glicko-2 rating model and improved over time to better fit the CS:GO player base.
What is Elo rating in League of Legends?
In League of Legends the Elo rating of a player was used by the matchmaking in ranked games to find other players of a similar skill level to play with/against before the introduction of the League system in Season Three.
How does League of legends ranking work?
League of Legends has a ranking system called the League system, matching players of a similar skill level to play with and against each other. It comprises nine tiers which indicate the skill level of players. Players within each division are ranked using a system of points called League Points (LP).
What happens to your Elo when you lose a game?
When you win or lose a game, the system shifts your ELO based on the result, and the ELO of your opponents. If you lose a game to a player with a higher ELO than you, your ELO will shift very little, if at all.
What is ELO and how does it work?
Elo is your MMR AKA Match Making Ratio. This determines who you get matched with and against when playing ranked. When your teams elo is higher than the other team, you may end up with an easier game but less lp at the end. Winning games Increases MMR and losing decreases MMR. When on losing streak, ones MMR can drop very quickly.
What does Elo rank mean in CSGO?
The skill level in CS:GO is called rank or elo rank (Elo stands for Elo rating system and was originally invented to calculate the skill of chess players). CS:GO ranks are necessary to play fair games with equal teams: If you play a competitive match, both teams should be on the same level to allow a great game experience.
How does CSGO ranking work?
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive provides a great ranking system that players can use to track their progress. It is the only way to visually see your rating as a CS:GO player. There are a total of 18 ranks, which gives players a good spread of ranks to have an accurate idea of how skilled a player of each rank is.
What percentage of CSGO players have a silver rank?
About 32% of all CS:GO players have a silver rank. To give your more beautiful data here are some CS:GO facts: The biggest part is the middle group in CS:GO: 35% of all players have a Nova rank.
Does MPV count in CSGO Elo system?
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In this short article we’ll discover the various facets of Personal Advancement, including its importance in today’s world. This is an umbrella term that describes a series of techniques as well as techniques that aid individuals enhance their self-awareness as well as optimize their potential. These techniques involve developing talents as well as achieving desires. On top of that, they tie in with a person’s identity, worths, ideas, as well as individuality. By researching them, individuals can develop their skills and also come to be more reliable and fulfilled in life.
Individual growth can be a lifelong quest. Knowing brand-new abilities and also understanding can be really beneficial to one’s success. Buying individual advancement can assist an individual much better take care of funds. Relationships are a vital component of life, as well as individual advancement is an important facet of structure as well as preserving solid relationships. The objective of individual advancement is to boost the high quality of your connections. If you’re single, you should discover to connect far better with others and also get over any relationship anxiousness.
Personal growth can likewise enhance an individual’s financial situation. This is necessary since it can affect lots of facets of one’s life. For example, boosting one’s financial resources can aid an individual make better monetary decisions. One more integral part of personal growth is strengthening close relationships. Establishing and also maintaining a fulfilling partnership is a fundamental part of individual development. It can likewise aid a person conquered partnership anxiousness, which can affect a person’s capacity to construct relationships.
Improving one’s relationships is one more vital facet of Personal Advancement. It can assist a person improve their relationship with others, whether they’re in a charming connection or simply a friendship. Boosting interaction skills can additionally enhance the high quality of an enchanting relationship. Additionally, personal growth aids a person maintain close friendships. If a person intends to establish a romantic connection, they ought to improve their interaction and also overcome partnership stress and anxiety.
In addition to enhancing an individual’s connections with others, personal growth can help a person end up being a lot more confident as well as effective in their job. For instance, if a person has a solid feeling of positive self-image, they’re most likely to be a lot more favorable and also much more successful. This will inevitably result in a far better experience for clients and also a much more reliable relationship with coworkers. It will certainly additionally help a staff member keep motivated, consequently promoting success.
A personal advancement plan can consist of a variety of tasks. The primary step in developing a plan is to establish what abilities an individual wishes to establish. An individual development plan is a file that can be changed and revised as necessary. Nonetheless, it should be a living file that is upgraded as well as customized as needed. As a result, an individual advancement strategy need to always be a functioning paper that is frequently developing. This way, an individual can make use of it whenever they want.
A personal development plan can be made use of to develop objectives and also set goals. It is also a device for creating a person’s creative thinking as well as technology. An individual development plan ought to be a living paper that can be amended and modified as required. Better, a plan must be a living document that can expand with the individual as they grow. In this way, a plan will be a continuous operate in development. It can be adjusted as an individual expands and alters.
The goal of individual advancement is to enhance your life. It may involve enhancing your financial circumstance by getting financial literacy. By enhancing your monetary proficiency, you will certainly have the ability to make better choices in your life. Furthermore, creating a relationship is a fundamental part of personal growth. Putting in the time to enhance your interaction abilities is important for preserving a healthy relationship. It can likewise aid you stay clear of connection anxiousness. It is crucial for the health of an individual.
As a company owner, your staff members are your finest ambassadors. They will be the ones promoting your brand. Your staff members will certainly be a lot more devoted as well as pleased to help your company if they have the moment to learn more about individual development. Your company will certainly gain from your staff members’ self-awareness. The even more they feel confident concerning themselves, the a lot more successful they will certainly go to job. The more they really feel excellent regarding themselves, the far better they will certainly be, and also the more probable they are to stick with the business.
Along with boosting your connections, individual advancement can include improving your finances and establishing monetary proficiency. This will certainly assist you make even more educated choices and take better treatment of your funds. Additionally, you can boost your communication abilities and establish stronger relationships. Because of this, personal growth will certainly help you to end up being better, much more successful, and also more satisfied. When you deal with your connections, it is crucial to maintain a healthy psychological as well as physical health. A strong emotional connection is vital for self-development.
Creating relationships is an important part of personal development. Not only does it aid you boost your communication abilities, but it will certainly also help you to improve your connection with your companion. You can establish a strong partnership with somebody you love. You can enhance your communication skills as well as conquer connection stress and anxiety to take pleasure in a satisfying relationship. It will likewise help you to keep a healthy and also positive partnership with your companion. This will aid you to be more creative as well as innovative in your business as well as life.
It is necessary to improve your partnerships. This includes improving interaction abilities as well as developing a relationship with a suitable partner. These connections are essential sources of happiness and also personal advancement is important for maintaining delighted and also healthy and balanced close relationships. Your partnership with your partner is an essential part of your life, so it’s important to make it as good as you can. If you’re aiming to construct a partnership, individual advancement can be an integral part of your life. fba masterclass
The secret to individual growth is to establish a positive frame of mind. The even more positive you are, the a lot more certain you will be. You will be more able to make better decisions in your company and in your life. You will be better if you have strong partnerships with your partner. By reinforcing your relationships, you will certainly be a lot more certain in your interactions with others. In turn, your companion will certainly be extra pleased and also most likely to trust you a lot more. | <urn:uuid:c0d42b56-1cc6-4eb3-84a8-369389b6f4a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wholesaleshoescompany.com/2022/03/21/every-little-thing-you-need-to-understand-about-personal-growth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968734 | 1,359 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Lagos, Nigeria, 22 October 2019
CEO of Avanti Communications, Kyle Whitehill addressed a group of representatives from Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education, the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs and UN agencies, during an event to launch World’s Largest Lesson Nigeria. The World’s Largest Lesson is an initiative to teach over 500,000 children in one week about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). During the event children and young people, both in an out of school, showcased their ideas on how they can contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Avanti has been a partner in the effort to support the World’s Largest Lesson reach children all across the world.
Kyle Whitehill, comments:
For 15 years we have worked to launch satellites to deliver broadband into areas where it’s difficult to reach, with the aim of helping people to realise their ambitions by connecting them to a world of opportunity. Education is absolutely fundamental to enabling success and empowering individuals to be more, and, through projects like the World’s Largest Lesson, we can help children to build a better future for their families and communities.”
The lessons, taught by a team of 2,500 youth volunteers, aim to unlock in children a vision for the Nigeria that they wish to live in by 2030, and a Nigeria that has achieved the Sustainable Development Goals. 30,000 children will now take part in 300 afterschool clubs for the Sustainable Development Goals. Children in schools or in out of school community groups and Internally Displaced People camps will learn more about the Goals and develop ideas for community projects. The best of these will be awarded small cash grants to make these projects possible.
With a belief that everyone can be more, this is one of a number of projects that Avanti are backing to support people across Africa to realise their ambitions. That includes funding the education of more than 300,000 children across rural Africa and providing connectivity to refugee camps across East Africa and accredited university courses so the people there can continue developing skills and resources.
About the Sustainable Development Goals
In September 2015, 193 UN Member States adopted the Agenda 2030 including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Agenda 2030 seeks to guide countries to end extreme poverty and hunger, fight inequality and injustice and fix climate change. In most countries including Nigeria, the MDGs were only partially achieved and with a new agenda for 2030 came wider scope. There are 17 SDGs compared to 8 MDGs in order to create a universal and inclusive agenda that brings together interconnected issues affecting both people and planet. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
About the World’s Largest Lesson
World’s Largest Lesson brings the Global Goals to children all over the world and unites them in taking action. Since launch in September 2015, we have reached over 130 countries and impact over 8 million children each year. We believe all children everywhere should have the opportunity to learn about the Global Goals and feel inspired to take action for them. We believe in the power of creativity and that all children can find their own individual way of taking action for the Global Goals.
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Dr. Craig Amshel, M.D. of Absolute Surgical Specialists, is happy to spread the word about FDA approval of Botox for the treatment of migraine headaches. Botox isn’t just about looking better, it’s about feeling better, and to those that get migraines, feeling better is paramount. Dr. Amshel looks forward to helping people improve their lives with Botox, whether it’s for wrinkle removal, or finding some relief from the crushing pain of migraine headaches.
There are about 3.2 million Americans that suffer from migraine headaches. A migraine is a headache that persists for four to 72 hours and involves sensitivity to noise, odors, and lights. Chronic migraines can be severely disabling to the sufferer and have an adverse impact on work, family, and social functioning. Sadly, many migraine suffers don’t respond well to traditional treatments and medications.
Research on this particular subject has been going on for quite a long time. The FDA has confirmed that Botox shots administered to the head and neck can alleviate and possibly prevent future chronic migraine headaches. To confirm this, the FDA undertook two experiments for 24 weeks each. After the first trial, people who received Botox for migraine were noticed to experience 7.8 fewer headache days and people who received just plain salt water, reported 6.4 fewer days of headache. At the end of second trial, people who received Botox for migraine reported 9.2 fewer days of headache as compared to 6.9 fewer days of the ones who received salt water.
According to the largest study performed to date, presented at the 45th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society (AHS), eighty
percent of patients in the study said that after treatment with Botox, their head pain was less frequent, less intense, or both. Compared to standard medications, which can cause a number of side effects, such
as upset stomach, drowsiness and weight gain, side effects from Botox treatment are relatively rare. About 95% of patients in the study reported no side effects.
Researchers are unsure as of yet why Botox relieves head pain. For its other uses — including alleviating wrinkles and treating certain medical conditions – the purified protein relaxes the overactive muscle by blocking nerve impulses that trigger contractions. For migraines, there is no muscle component. Scientists believe Botox works by blocking the protein that carries the message of pain to the brain.
Relief typically takes effect two to three weeks after Botox injections. The longer the treatments continue, the better the pain relief. Study doctors said some patients who had previously overused oral medications were able to stop taking those medications entirely after being treated with Botox.
For more information on Botox for its many uses, or any other way to help you put your best face forward, visit Dr. Craig Amshel at 139 S. Pebble Beach Blvd., Suite 200, Sun City Center, 33573, 813.633.0081 or in Brandon.
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Whether you have a one-track mind or are simply off the rails, this quiz that will ascertain your true love of trains.
Are you a foamer? A railfan? An Amtrak pass-holding, trivia-spouting train geek? Are you the kind of person who delights in the very thought of luxurious sleeper cars? Do you find yourself hypnotized by the rhythmic chug of a diesel engine?
Trains have always inspired a special (and occasionally maniacal) fascination for a certain set of people. The term “foamer” dates back to the days when the big railroads were serving the logging industry. Pollutants from the timber mills mixed with the water from California’s Feather River, and, as a result, the shores were lined with foam along Western Pacific’s scenic route from Utah to the Golden State. But that didn’t stop enthusiasts from wading in thigh-deep to get better views of the passing trains. And that’s why, to this day, train lovers are called foamers. (Not because, as some people think, they have a tendency to foam at the mouth at the sight of trains.)
In the past, “foamer” has been used as a somewhat derogatory term, but we’re taking it back—it’s time to tell the world, “I’m a foamer, and I’m all right.” Do you have what it takes to be called a foamer? Take our quiz and find out:
1. What is the most widely ridden Amtrak route in the United States?
A. Northeast Regional
D. California Zephyr
2. In what would later become Utah, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads were finally joined in 1869, completing the American Transcontinental Railroad. What ceremonial item was used to mark the occasion?
A. A replica of the two trains carved in ivory
B. A golden railroad spike
C. The Presidential train car
D. A silver shovel
3. What are the nicknames given to London’s subway system and Chicago’s elevated trains?
A. “The Underground” and “The Metro”
B. “The Metro” and “The Loop”
C. “The Subway” and “Muni”
D. “The Tube” “and the “L”
4. Detroit has a three-mile elevated monorail system. What is it called?
A. The People Mover
B. The Rapid
C. The Blue Line
D. M1 Rail
5. In which of these cities can you take a train directly into the airport?
A. New York
B. Los Angeles
6. The fastest passenger train in the world operates in
D. United Arab Emirates
7. The first railroad open to the public in the U.S. was the
A. Baltimore and Ohio (B&O)
B. South Carolina & Canal
C. Columbia Railroad of Pennsylvania
D. Boston and Lowell
1. A – The Northwest Regional
This route, serving, “the BosWash Megalopolis,” served more than eight million passengers and grossed more than half a billion dollars in 2012. Considered “higher-speed” rail, it maxes out at 125 miles per hour.
2. B - A golden railroad spike
The completion of the railroad shortened what was a six-month trip from New York to California into a manageable two-week journey. Around the country, people celebrated: America's "Manifest Destiny" had been realized.
3. D - “The Tube” and “the L”
The London Underground is known colloquially as “The Tube.” Chicago’s elevated rail system is known as the “L” and it converges at the core of the city known as “The Loop.”
4. A - The People Mover
Detroit’s “People Mover” was built in the late 1980s. Despite its catchy name, it only attracts about 5,000 riders a day. However, Detroit recently began construction on a second rail line, the three-mile “M1” system down Woodward Avenue that will connect to the People Mover, perhaps uniting it into a more functional, and hopefully popular, system.
5. C - Dallas
Dallas opened light rail service to its international airport this past August. The Big D’s DART transit system now has 90 miles of light rail, more than any other city in the country.
6. B – China
7. A - Baltimore and Ohio (B&O)
The B&O railroad opened its first 13 miles of track in 1830. By 1874 it stretched more than 800 miles to Chicago. Many of the lines are now owned by CSX Transportation.
6-7 correct – Bonafide foamer
4-5 – Railway aficionado
2-3 – Not even a train buff
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So far, New Zealand has adopted Zero Covid strategy. But with Delta Variant, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged that “the harsh reality is that the Variant Delta is here and isn’t going away any time soon.” Jacinda Ardern said that from December 2, New Zealand will adopt a new response to Covid-19 aimed at containing the delta variant rather than trying to eliminate it entirely.
“While no country has succeeded in completely eradicating the delta variant, New Zealand is in a better position than most countries to deal with it,” she explained, adding: “So far, his government has aimed to completely eradicate the virus, so – the so-called ‘zero policy’. -Covid-19″ with strict containment measures, strict contact tracing and strict border controls. In New Zealand, the disease has killed only 40 people out of five million people, but Increased pressure to finish closing It has been imposed on Auckland since the delta variable was discovered there in August.
Jacinda Ardern originally planned to change policy once the vaccination rate in the country reached 90%, but eventually reopened when the vaccination level is currently around 83%.
Strict rules remain for international arrivals
The new system looks like traffic lights, with green effectively indicating no control over the virus, orange requiring masks to be worn in certain places and red allowing businesses to remain open only to vaccinated customers and observing social distancing. The prime minister said Auckland would initially be placed in red, adding that authorities were still rating other areas.
Auckland is currently isolated from the rest of New Zealand, with roadblocks set to be lifted on December 15. Strict quarantine rules for international arrivals will remain in place, but Jacinda Ardern has pledged to ease them early next year.
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Promote reading in Primary
At Yago, the bilingual private school in Seville, we firmly believe in the importance of reading, so we promote reading with many activities in order to develop an interest in reading in our pupils.
We all know how important reading is for the intellectual development of children, but also for affective and psychological development. Reading gives us the opportunity to experience feelings and sensations through which we mature, learn and enjoy ourselves. Reading books, children laugh, dream and travel.
In P3 we are encouraging children to read through the game of Goose. In P3A we have a game board on the corkboard that the children themselves designed. Each square corresponds to the cover of a popular, modern story.
To play, children should voluntarily read a book, and fill in a review worksheet. When they hand in the worksheet, they can roll the dice and advance through the different spaces on the board that have prizes like, ‘Enjoy 10 minutes in the Games Corner (we have several fun games testing intelligence), leave 5 minutes early for break, or get a longed for House Point.
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As someone who doesn’t have a backyard, I miss gardening greatly. But, with a green thumb and a little bit of ingenuity, gardening indoors is possible. Growing fruits and vegetables in your home can be simply satisfying — seeing something grow from a seedling to something we eat can be deeply rewarding, not to mention delicious to consume.
Avocado trees can be grown indoors and produce a delicious fruit that is full of iron and vitamin E. The best way to grow avocados is to purchase a small avocado plant and place it in an area with high ceilings, because it can grow to over 11 ft. high (though this takes a number of years)! Make sure to plant with sand in the bottom of the pot to avoid the avocados becoming waterlogged. Potted plants can sometimes become clogged with water and then the plant itself drowns. Water daily, and prune the shoots for optimal growth.
Microgreens includes sprouts, radishes, kale, swiss chard, or beets. Fill a shallow tray with soil and moisten with water. Sprinkle the seeds evenly and place in direct sunlight, preferably on a windowsill. If you do not have access to direct sunlight, grow lights that can be purchased at most local gardening stores. Water with a light spray bottle daily so the sensitive plants won’t become waterlogged. Microgreens are relatively easy to grow and taste delectable in a summer salad.
The easiest edible plants to grow in both indoor and outdoor gardens are herbs. Dill, basil, and rosemary are popular options and will leave your living space smell delightful. Planting in a shallow planter similar to microgreens and placing close to sunlight will help the herbs grow. Basil needs as much sunlight as possible. Remember to prune the herbs so that they flourish.
Lemons can be used to flavour dishes and adds a refreshing taste to a cool glass of water in the summer months. Purchase a two to three year old dwarf lemon plant from a nursery and put it in a pot that is slightly bigger than the bulb of the plant. Use a draining plate in the bottom of the pot to catch extra water. Mist the leaves with water and keep the soil moist. Lemons need at least 12 hours of sunlight daily to thrive.
Similar to lemons, dwarf orange trees can grow successfully indoors while potted. Purchase a tree from a nursery and pot it with a draining plate to allow access water to leave the soil. Spray the leaves and keep soil moist in the sunshine. Buying both an orange and lemon plant together would be a worthy purchase considering their care is so similar.
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“A material that makes you happy”, that’s how Petra Kobrow calls the smooth clay, which she transforms into bowls, cups, vases and jugs on her turntable. In addition to the satisfaction that comes from working creatively with clay, the potter appreciates the archaic quality inherent in the material: “The oldest ceramic find is a good 20,000 years old.”
Closely related to the four elements
The material is closely linked to the four elements. Petra Kobrow shapes the clay that comes out of the earth with the help of water. It dries in the air and is burned in a fire. Which handicrafts could be closer to nature?
The route to her small pottery workshop in Wiehl-Faulmert was not exactly straightforward for the native of Berlin. She completed two apprenticeships, as an administrative inspector and as a translator, and each time she felt that she hadn’t got there yet. The jobs in the offices offered neither the desired freedom nor the desired creativity. Pottery courses in Cologne and Bonn let her see a perspective over time that would make her happy in the long term. Petra Kobrow began an apprenticeship with the Reichshofer potter Wim Weber, also learned from Tessa Lekebusch and Rainer Brodesser in Nümbrecht and was then not only at home in Oberberg in 2002, but also a companion.
In 2008 the woman from Wiehl started her own business. Today she sells her individual pieces under the name “Ton in Ton” in her Faulmerter barn, also on the Internet and in the Overather “Kunstgerei”. And she maintains contacts: “From 2008 on I worked for several years with physically and mentally disabled women in pottery courses. From 2013 I was part of the team of creative women who organized the exhibition ‘Textiles, Ton und Perlenglanz’ twice a year in the Denklinger Burg, ”reports Kobrow. Standing still is out of the question, which is why last summer she started an apprenticeship at the technical college for ceramics in the “ceramics city” Höhr-Grenzhausen, which she would like to complete with the master’s title. “If I keep broadening my horizons, I will gain much greater freedom to implement my ideas,” she is convinced.
The broad spectrum of creative options that is imparted to her in this part-time training is an important step in creative work. She is currently developing a ceramic in pastel tones with engobe painting, which she combines with stamping technology, each piece is unique at the end of the process.
Of course, she too was badly shaken by lockdowns. Petra Kobrow is actually a person who values direct contact with people very much, who likes to discuss wishes, and enables customers to pick up bowls before buying. When that was no longer possible, she was forced to try selling on the Internet and had positive experiences with a virtual market.
But she still prefers the analogue, which is why she opened the “Kunstgerei” (Lindlarer Straße 90) with colleagues in Overath-Immekeppel a few weeks ago in the rooms of a former butcher’s shop. There the team also offers other creative people space and the opportunity to present and sell pieces made of clay, wood, wool and wire.
Petra Kobrow also comes into contact with people during the pottery courses that she offers. She introduces a maximum of two people to the basics of turning ceramics.
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Phonological awareness diagnostic assessment resources
'How to' preparation video
This short preparation video 'How to navigate the online assessment' helps teachers familiarise themselves with the online tool (staff only).
The Phonological awareness diagnostic assessment guide (PDF 608KB) | assists teachers to administer the phonological awareness diagnostic assessment (staff only).
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PDF version of the assessment
The PDF version of the assessment (PDF 698KB) is available for teachers to familiarise and practise delivery of the questions (staff only).
The Phonological awareness diagnostic assessment student materials (PDF 2895KB) may be used to support delivery of the assessment (staff only).
Teachers administer the assessment using the online tool for entering student responses. The online tool is available via ALAN.
The Phonological Awareness Diagnostic Assessment information for schools (PDF 256KB) (staff only) outlines key information on the assessment for schools.
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Visit the Phonological awareness diagnostic assessment web page for information on the purpose of the assessment.
Visit the Phonological awareness web page for teaching resources to use in the classroom.
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans who approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing largely cite his leadership in attempting to solve the nation's problems as the reason for conferring their approval. This accounts for 54% of his supporters. By contrast, nearly two-thirds of those who disapprove of Obama's job performance mention policy areas where they disagree with the president.
Reasons for Approval
In the Gallup Poll conducted this past weekend, July 10-12, 58% of Americans said they approve of the overall job Obama is doing, while 36% disapprove.
Thirty-one percent of Obama's approvers say they approve because he is doing a good job or "the best he can under difficult circumstances"; 15% say he is trying new things; and 8% credit him for taking on numerous issues. Thus, a combined 54% cite some aspect of the president's leadership in solving the nation's problems.
Beyond those giving the new president an A for effort, 17% credit him on specific issues. Seven percent of Obama's approvers cite improvements to the economy as the reason they applaud him, 6% say they agree with Obama's policy stances and programs, and 4% cite Obama's diplomacy and success in changing views of the United States around the world.
Most of the remaining praise Obama receives from his backers has to do with his personal characteristics or style: 5% say he is straightforward with people, 5% call him intelligent or smart, 3% say he keeps his promises, and 2% consider him honest. Another 5% are satisfied merely by their perception that Obama is "better than George W. Bush."
Reasons for Disapproval
Members of the smaller group of Americans who disapprove of Obama's job performance are most likely to attribute their views to the president's policies. Just over half of the combined 65% mentions in this category involve government spending: 24% say they disapprove because Obama is spending too much government money, 10% say it's because the economic stimulus plan is not working or wasteful and 4% say it's because Obama is borrowing too much.
Another major policy criticism of Obama -- mentioned by 15% of those who disapprove of his job performance -- is that the recent government bailouts and takeovers of private industry that Obama has sponsored are leading the nation toward socialism.
There are two significant knocks on Obama on a personal level. One, expressed by 14% of those disapproving of his job performance, is that he is inexperienced or "doesn't know what he is doing." Additionally, 10% say something along the lines that he is "all talk and no action," or "doesn't keep his promises." Only 2% of his detractors say he is doing too much.
Praise for the job Obama is doing centers on his attentiveness to the country's problems, and includes a dose of admiration for his personal characteristics and style. Although positive, these assessments are relatively soft in contrast with the mainly policy-related criticisms of Obama from his detractors, largely centered on government spending and power.
Only six months into the job, it is natural that the president has little in the way of specific accomplishments driving his approval rating. Thus, at this early juncture, his supporters appear satisfied that Obama is on task. At the same time, the dramatic early steps Obama has taken to address the fragile economy -- perhaps combined with the fact that these have yet to spark an economic recovery -- have given his detractors a clear rallying point against him. The imbalance may be tenable for now, but a year from now, Obama may need more tangible economic or legislative achievements to sustain his majority approval ratings.
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Professional data on affordability, loan rollover, and APR that might cause you to think before borrowing.
You’ve probably heard loans that are payday be dangerous. However you may not have realized simply how dreadful they could be. That’s why we’ve gathered some stats, numbers, and figures to demonstrate you merely just exactly how destructive loans that are payday be. Now come with us for a magical journey through the dangerous realm of payday financial obligation. APR appears for apr, plus it’s a number that tells you exactly just what that loan will surely cost, with costs and interest, over the course of per year. This is really important because it enables you to accurately compare different types of loans. Unlike many unsecured loans, that are reimbursed over a period of years, payday loans only have payment that is two-week, so it might look like they’re less expensive than loans with longer terms, but that is just real if you’re really in a position to spend the mortgage right straight back, with charges and interest. (to find out more about these dangerously deceptive numbers, take a look at our we we blog post “How (and just why) to determine the APR of a quick payday loan.”)
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Myles Loftin recognizes the latent power that images hold , and seeks to utilize that power as a means for creating positive change. He is a photographer, director and a senior in the BFA Photo program at Parsons School of Design.
With a practice that blends portraiture, fine art and fashion photography, his photos exude a feeling of vibrance, freedom and youth. Loftin’s work deals with themes of blackness, identity, and representation of marginalized individuals. His subjects are often times friends, family members and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Of course there's value at talking to well-established photographers, ones with decades-long careers, who've seen it all, yeah?
But what's just as fun is talking to people closer to the beginning. Myles, while having already accomplished so much, still has a whole life, a whole career ahead of him, and it was fantastic getting to chat with him, see how his thoughts and work are evolving at this early phase, hear him talk about what the future holds, how he's being shaped by experience and formal education in the arts.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
This semester, I’m taking five classes. So I have my thesis class, which is basically a studio class to work on our thesis and brainstorm ideas. Pretty good type of stuff. Then there’s a professional practices class, which teaches you about the business side of photography. And then I’m taking this class called Queer Visuality, and it’s basically just about sourcing archival images and trying to uncover queer history through photography. So that’s been really interesting. And then I’m taking this other class called Photography as Expanded Media, and that’s about how you can use different forms of image-making to challenge what it means to make a photograph, or what a photograph can be.
My teacher, she was showing us books of artists who were thinking outside the box, in terms of photography, and there was this one photo, it was a photograph, technically, but it was literally just a swipe of inkjet ink and she’s like, “well, it’s ink on paper. Technically it’s a print…is it a photograph?” Stuff like that. And also just thinking about technology and also installation stuff, because I’ve been interested in seeing how my work could also translate into physical objects. If I were to like show it in a gallery space or whatever and then, what other class…I just signed up for a history of couture class.
Yeah. I had swapped it out because initially I signed up for this cinematography class, but the way they were teaching it was almost kind of like a basic photography class. So it would have been going over aperture and ISO, stuff I already know. And I think they had designed it for people who don’t necessarily have much experience with image-making, so I just exchanged classed. But this new class is really interesting. I knew that there was a lot to know about fashion, but when you really hear it, it’s so much. My class is like only two hours but there was just so much information, it was a lot.
Yeah. It’s interesting so far. I’ve never really gotten that much into the actual history or gone in-depth with fashion. So it’s interesting to get a more in-depth perspective about it. Yeah, other than that, that’s pretty much all I’m doing. Well, I mean that’s a lot to be doing at school! And then outside of that I’m freelancing here and there, whenever I can like fit in my schedule.
In some ways. I don’t think it’s been a huge help in my practice. I mean, it’s definitely made me think more about what I’m saying with my work. And how to communicate that, and how to challenge myself more. And also just getting feedback and stuff, because, say for instance if I wasn’t school and I was just making work and putting it on the internet. I wouldn’t have as much of a gauge of, you know, where I’m going with my work. Because like I feel like when you post stuff on Instagram, people who follow you are just going to say nice things for the most part, and people who are saying mean things are just saying it just to be mean and not to be constructive.
So like I feel like being in the classroom, it gives you that space to show stuff and have a conversation and people tell you things that you may not have thought about, and then you see other people’s stuff and you’re inspired to do something. So that’s definitely been a great part of it. Yeah, and also I just think, in terms of fashion photography, a lot of photographers don’t necessarily have…they’re just making beautiful pictures or whatever, but there’s no depth to it. And I feel like when you have a background and knowledge in the history of photography and stuff like that it helps you.
There’s very few things that I see on the internet that stick with you, where you remember that image a week later, two weeks later.
Yeah, and also, I feel like school helped me appreciate the process of creating a body of work. Understanding that it’s something that really takes time, and it opened my mind to like, “okay, this is not something that is going to happen overnight.”
Or happen quickly.
I feel pretty good about it. I mean, in terms of my thesis, I’m still not a hundred percent sure where I want to go with it. I know, for the most part, what I want to do, I know it’s going to have to do with black queerness, definitely portraiture. When I was in London, I was looking at a lot of archives of African-Americans from like the 1800s, those old black & white photos and stuff, and just thinking about how I can reference those in the portraits that I’m making of queer people, because there’s not really a lot of history of us. We kind of have to infer when we look at images.
A lot of what the class that I’m taking is, they talk about how a lot of queer history through photography is just, it’s seeing things and trying to create stories when you see a photo of two men together. You don’t necessarily know if they were in a relationship but because we don’t have that knowledge, because people weren’t allowed to talk about that stuff. We don’t really know. So all we have is basically our imagination.
Exactly, stuff like that! Yeah, that’s what I’ve been thinking about in terms of what I want to do with my work going forward.
That’s one thing I like, I’m always like thinking about and I’m like, does my stuff look like my stuff or does it look like, because I like, you know sometimes you see stuff and it’s like this looks like something I just saw like in this magazine by this other photographer and like, but it’s all, I wonder sometimes if my stuff is like that, so it’s like nice to hear when like people say stuff like that.
Yeah, I guess so. It’s always that one question I get in interviews or it’s like, “what are three words you would use…?”
Vibrant, youthful, free. I like to show an intimacy between my subjects and the audience. A connection.
When I start photographing someone, I get in a mode and, I’m not even conscious of it, but people have told me that I make them feel comfortable when I photograph them. So I don’t know…I’m very patient. I take my time when I’m photographing people, I don’t try to impose too much on the person that I’m photographing. Other than creative direction, I’ve tried to let the person’s essence, or whatever you want to call it, come out in the photograph.
Not a whole bunch. Sometimes people who aren’t used to being in front of the camera get a little awkward when that happens. They’re like, “what do you want me to do?” Sometimes I’ll just look at them and just see their posture, things they do or accents, or see them do something that I saw them do. But if they’re not used to it, they’re like, “okay, you’re just looking at me, what’s going on?”
Yeah, I don’t do a lot of full body shots. I definitely lean more towards closeness. I guess that also ties into the whole intimacy thing, I know when I see photographs that other people have taken of a close-up portrait, you just get a feeling. It almost feels like the person’s actually staring at you, if it’s a really good portrait, you know?
So I think that’s why I like doing that type of thing.
I’m interested in interesting people, and I want to share those interesting people with the world. I am also interested in fashion photography, just not as big scale, at the moment. I do like very DIY-type stuff, an at home/intimate/with friends type thing.
And even when I do do commercial stuff, I still like work that way. I just did a job where the whole brand messaging was DIY. I literally shot in this parking lot over by my apartment, and did this really cheap set up and shot it on VHS, stuff like that.
I think it’s maybe because that is what I got started with and so it feels most familiar. I think I’m most comfortable with it because that’s how I got started and that’s what I’m most comfortable with.
Yeah. I feel like the stuff that I’m most drawn to at the moment is stuff that (and I think that’s a trend in general at the moment) is…the whole natural-type thing. It doesn’t feel like this big production, how images used to be up in the 90s and 2000s. Even the fashion campaigns that have been highly produced and are “fancy”, they still want to appear real or natural.
Exactly. And some are good at it, and some aren’t!
I think at the moment probably in other places. I do look at fashion photography, but lately I feel like a lot of it looks the same to me and also…I used to go on Tumblr a lot to find images to source and whatnot. But now, not as many are on it, and after a while…using Tumblr, it’s the same images over and over again, so now I’ve been looking further back to source for inspiration.
I used to read so much more but I went to London. I was like, “okay I’m gonna try to read more” and I got this book by…have you heard of Josephine, he’s a queer, black queer poet. I think he’s from New York. He was around in the 80s and 90s, and he put together this anthology of short stories and poems. It was really good, and it helped me try to figure out what I wanted to do with my work. It’s nice to read something from someone who is somewhat like me in a way.
Yeah, in some of it, but it was just all so nice to see something where I felt I was represented or something that came from my community. Because I don’t really know a whole bunch about black queer history besides a few people, so to see that and to know that there are all these people who were part of this, like this book, was nice to…
Yeah, yeah. Exactly.
Yeah, definitely. Especially right now, I mean, whether we’re directly connected or not, I think that a lot of the young, black, or POC photographers are doing a lot of great work right now, and a lot of them actually getting recognized for that which is really good. We’re all part of this up-and-coming community.
In terms of inspiration to keep making work, and inspiration of, “what were actually doing is working,” you know, to see these people getting these great opportunities that they’ve been working towards for such a long time. Yeah, I think in terms of that, they’re definitely inspirational.
Yeah, sometimes it’s almost unavoidable, especially with Instagram and stuff, I talk about this all the time, how scrolling and seeing what other people are doing, and it’s like, “oh, I wish I had done this”, you know, but you don’t see the behind-the-scenes of what that person did to work towards that moment and all the conversations.
Yeah, exactly. For me, I definitely have had a pretty positive experience and I think that is because of all of the work that people before me have done to open the doors for young, black photographers to be able to shoot for brands and publications, and have their work seen by important people.
Yeah, I enjoyed it. There were definitely times where I wanted to go home, or I missed New York, but I think it was definitely necessary and I appreciated the time I took being out there.
I got a mini-break, basically. When I was in New York previously, before the study-abroad thing, I was in school full-time, living in the dorms and I was working as an RA, and then on top of that I was freelancing and paying for school. So it was a lot of stuff going on, and just being busy all the time. When I went to London, it was like a break because I was on a student visa, so I couldn’t work. I couldn’t really do a whole bunch, and then the British schools system, or at least at UAL, it’s very hands-off and kind of self-directed learning.
So a lot of the time I spent was outside of the classroom, and that gave me a lot of free time to just think. At first it was uncomfortable, just being alone and not really having much to do. And not really knowing what to do, because after a while I had already done the touristy things in London, so it was like, where do I even go? I didn’t have a whole bunch of friends there.
So it was a lot of just me going to the library or going out and getting materials and stuff like that. And I did make some work out there because we had to work on a final project for the course, it was continuation of this series I started in my studio class my junior year where I was taking portraits of black people with dyed hair.
So I continued that out in London and was getting people from parties that I was at, or on Instagram, because eventually I did, because like I knew a few people through Instagram in London and then they introduced me to people. And then I did a few things for some personal stuff that I’m working on, some of the stuff that I’m trying to figure out for my thesis.
Something like that, haha! It was also good to travel, I went to Paris twice, I went to Amsterdam twice, I got to travel a bit in England.
I would say no. Well, I keep a third, if I’m shooting like medium format. But if I’m shooting point and shoot, I usually keep most of those, yeah.
I just shoot point and shoot when I’m doing quick stuff, like documentary-type things. If I’m traveling, I’ll shoot with that, or just walking around.
Yeah, all film. I don’t even have a DSLR, I sold mine last year.
Well, I started shooting medium format sophomore year of college because in my studio class that was a requirement, we had to shoot on the Hasselblad and print black-and-white, we’d be doing 10 prints a week, it was a lot.
Yeah, so that was the start of me shooting on medium format. I was always interested in film and I think it was also right around that time when I noticed a lot more fashion photographers were using medium format. I was just really interested in the look and feel of it, and film in general. I didn’t even notice at first, and then one day, I was like, “I haven’t touched my digital camera in a very long time, I might as well just like sell it.” So I just posted it on Instagram and sold it.
Yeah, because you have to be pretty sure about what you want to photograph. I think it’s really good for portraiture and adds to that whole experience of photographing someone. Because I feel, when someone’s shooting you with digital, sometimes when you’re snapping, it can take you out of the moment. And not all digital photographers do it like that, some do shoot slower, but I feel like that’s because they did shoot film at some point. But the whole medium format thing really slows it down. You can tell someone, “okay, relax.” Because some people are just so tense. I was photographing my boyfriend this morning, and we spend basically every day with each other, but he was still putting on when I photographed him, and I had to put the camera down and tell him, “just relax!” So I definitely think it slows down time shooting with film. And also, I’m interested in the tones and colors, that’s a huge thing for me when I look at photos.
Yeah, it has helped me understand myself better. I mean, I think more so, I use it as like an outlet for all the stuff that goes on in my head and the images that come up in my mind and also wanting to use my talents to do something good.
Yeah. I really want to get into directing. I don’t know if I want to do a lot of commercial work. I mean, it would depend on what that work was, I’m really interested in working with artists, musicians and stuff. I would want to do that.
I could see myself doing that, or even just one-off things, or editorial-type type videos, but I’m also interested in art films. I worked on a short film for my junior year studio, because we were doing a whole unit on video, and it was interesting to get out of photos, and think about the moving image, because it’sso much different. And it was very nerve-wracking at first, but then, once I started actually making stuff I was like, “okay. This is actually kind of cool!”
You can get a lot more emotion out of it, because there’s more of a narrative and a combination of sounds and visuals. And also I’m a really, real big music person. And so that’s also a part of it, incorporating like sound…
Not necessarily narrative stuff. I have done that in the past, but I’m interested more in making portraits of people, and also just images that are more ambiguous, that do tell a narrative, but it’s not necessarily like one two, three. When I did the film that I was telling you about, it was a nonlinear narrative… Random Acts of Flyness had just come out, and also my professor was showing us a lot of Khalil Joseph’s work. So I was just really interested in clipping, looping clips together that weren’t necessarily in order, but still telling a story. Because I feel like I would tend to get wrapped up in, “okay what’s going to go first and next and…”, and I think sometimes it can be more interesting to do it in a way that’s not in order, because I feel like it leaves more to the viewers to interpret.
Those are the images that I’m always most drawn to, where you have to look at it for a second before you’re like, “okay, what is going on here? What does this actually mean?”
In school we read this book by Roland Barthes, Camera Obscura, I think that was the title but I may be wrong. He talks about the one thing in the photograph that makes you…say for instance you’re walking in a gallery, out of all of the prints this one photograph stands out. That’s what he calls the punctum.
Yeah! I’m also interested in like listening to people’s stories and, not necessarily telling their stories, but allowing their stories to be told through photography, or interpreting it through photography.
I’m trying to figure out how to communicate my experience in a way that’s positive and not necessarily self-deprecating, because I feel like oftentimes marginalize artists are expected to have this type of work that is super-negative. Not necessraily negative, but just talking about the oppression that you face, and “woe is me” type stuff. I’m trying to figure out in my work how to talk about that, but also have it be positive, as well.
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When I first joined Equals Money, I was hired with the goal of creating a single design system in a company split between old legacy technologies and multiple brands. At the same time, we were in the middle of a big rebrand. This meant I was taking on a challenge - I had to build a centralised design system that was efficient and could be used by multiple designers. At my previous company, we had a great design system in place, but it was just sitting on the design laptops. At this new company, rebranding as Equals Group, I would not only get to be a part of building products with more freedom, but the company was rebranding and interrupting the market with the knowledge of a company that’s been operating longer than any other fintech out there.
By the time I arrived at Equals, I knew what I wanted and how I wanted to do it.
What is a design system?
You might be wondering what a design system is or what it does.
A few years back, companies like Airbnb, Uber, and Spotify started to generate their digital products by design systems. A design system is a set of reusable components ruled by clear usability standards that allow you to build unlimited applications. Like lego bricks, you can create interfaces in an efficient way, manage design in scale, and reduce redundancy while creating a shared language and visual consistency across different pages and channels. Everything you see in an app, from a button to an input to navigation or even a pop-up belongs to a design system. The system starts with the definition of the smaller atoms, like a button, and grows to more complex components, like a card. Eventually, the system allows you to create pages.
The ultimate goal is to become efficient and consistent.
Why do I need one?
Every tech company dreams of being agile and building products quickly, and every CEO wants a multimillion pound product that you build in a few weeks. But the thing is, design, technology, and markets are all in constant change, which means that you need a flexible and dynamic foundation that allows you to make practical decisions and move faster than your competitors. This is one of the advantages of a design system: your company can focus its time on solving real problems, while simultaneously transmitting a strong sense of brand identity. Most importantly, you don't burn out your development team. Don't get me wrong, not everything will be perfect, and we’re always working on improvements, but a design system will place you on the right path.
It won't be easy to convince your organisation to develop a system because it means investing money and resources. Luckily for me, Equals was willing to invest in it. Even more key was making sure I had Bella, our brilliant project manager on my side, Jamie and Chris, a couple of Lead developers that were passionate about design systems, and James, a design ambassador who understood the value of the project to sell it and promote it across the company. I have a great team. This is key and very often underestimated.
One of the key elements of a design system is to keep it open and in continuous evolution so any designer can build it and maintain it. A design system shouldn’t belong to one designer, and when you have a great team like I do, it’s easy to involve everyone. A rigid system simply isn’t sustainable, and won't be fit for scalability. You’d also be surprised how much you can achieve when you invest your time in upskilling your team rather than trying to design it all by yourself or leave the whole responsibility to one designer.
Your team is key
When I first started at Equals, the team was divided between UI designers and UX designers, and very soon, we understood this structure didn’t fit for us. Currently, most of our team are becoming product designers and moving confidently in both UX and UI. Simply put, although UX and UI both focus on user experience, UX focuses more on logic and problem solving while UI focuses more on the visual and delightful aspects of the experience. Not every designer would agree with me, but I think it’s good to feel comfortable with both. You can unlock unlimited possibilities to approach and solve challenges when you build a digital product.
Some of the members that started with us as junior UX have become the most knowledgeable members on the team when comes to design systems, running workshops, and teaching others. I would always listen to their advice before any critical decision needs to be taken. The same goes for developers as they’re the ones who will build for you and their knowledge will save you headaches. The goal is to work together as much as possible. Each member of your team will be your best and most knowledgeable allies, and each of them will bring a unique skill so get them onboard.
Is it really worth it?
You might be wondering if all this effort could pay off in the short term. It has for Equals and on multiple occasions, this has been clear. Almost two years ago when the design system was still in the early days, we had to build an app in a few days, putting the team under quite a lot of pressure. The new way to approach design and build was critical to making it possible. We are currently bringing all Equals offerings under a single product, and once again, this approach has allowed us to make it possible and focus our energy on solving the real problems while building a strong-looking product.
There are still companies out there wondering if they should invest resources in design systems. If your company is actually serious about scalability, consistency, and agile framework, you should think about investing some of your resources on getting the foundations right by design systems. There’s a reason why the most successful tech companies are serious about it. | <urn:uuid:8a39b690-22c5-4b61-9eee-da7f11dc8dfe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.equalsmoney.com/meet-the-team-design-system | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973881 | 1,197 | 1.742188 | 2 |
LACMA's Latin American department has made another impressive acquisition with deaccession funds from the Lewin collection. It's a lacquer tray (batea), attributed to the workshop of José Manuel de la Cerda, greatest lacquer artist of 18th-century Mexico. The tray is circular, nearly a yard across, minutely decorated with a flat-world mash-up of fete galantes, bull fights, Greek mythology, and chinoiserie. (Above, the central medallion shows the myth of Arachne, complete with a gigantic spiderweb.) The "inauthenticity" of the decoration apparently didn't bother Cerda's aristocratic patrons in Mexico and Europe, most of whom had little access to Asian lacquer. European chinoiserie populates its invented landscapes with supposed Asians; Cerda's Orient favors Mexicans decked out in British redcoats. The only comparable piece in the U.S. is at New York's Hispanic Society. | <urn:uuid:d0a20006-84d3-4e1b-b253-87e0a093b4e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2010/03/mexican-mash-up.html?showComment=1268077666342 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931904 | 207 | 1.953125 | 2 |
A Basic Guide: (Acute) Wound Care for Seniors
Wound Care is important especially for seniors. It can help prevent infection and further complications in health. Here at Bayou Home Care in Louisiana, we provide Certified Wound Care services to give your loved ones professional wound care. However, when emergency situations arise, it is best to know even just the basics of wound care for acute wounds. Acute wounds are injuries that only occur on the skin. It happens when the skin is punctured, cut, or irritated/ruptured. Bleeding is often the clearest sign of an acute wound although swelling and pain can be signs as well if bleeding doesn’t occur. Here are simple steps you can do to treat acute wounds.
- Control the bleeding. If bleeding occurs, it is important to stop and control the bleeding to avoid too much blood loss. This can help prevent further complications from happening. Apply pressure on the wound using clean cloth and wait until the bleeding stops.
- Clean the wound. Once the bleeding has stopped, use soap or perhaps saline solution to clean the wound and the area surrounding it. Clean the wound thoroughly and rinse it thoroughly as well but don’t rub it too much. Be as gentle as you can to avoid worsening the condition of the wound. Doing this can help prevent infection and also prevent damage on the blood vessels, nerves, and muscles.
- Dress the wound. Prevent further exposure from bacteria and infection by closing and dressing the wound. If you have a first-aid kit on hand, you may use a gauze or Band-Aid for this. If this is not available, you can close the wound with a clean piece of cloth.
- Get professional medical help. After basic wound care, the wound must be assessed by professionals in order for proper treatment to be administered. Follow the physician’s instructions religiously and take the prescribed medication regularly.
Here at Bayou Home Care in Louisiana, we have Certified Wound Care Nurses to make sure that your loved ones are taken care of in the best way when sudden injuries occur. If you want to make sure that your loved one gets the best all-around health care, then choose Bayou Home Care in Louisiana! We specialize in services such as Certified Wound Care Nurses, Skilled Nursing, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Therapy among many others. We here at Bayou Home Care in Louisiana have been serving Southeast Louisiana by restoring quality of Life, providing care at the comfort of home and many more. You can visit any of our locations in Pierre Part, Houma, Metairie, Denham Springs/Baton Rouge, and Morgan City. Know more about us by visiting our site at bayouhomecare.com. | <urn:uuid:c1d24ca2-a21a-4c36-86c7-a23eecbfb815> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.bayouhomecare.com/a-basic-guide-acute-wound-care-for-seniors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936202 | 565 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Accelerate Deep Learning with Intel® Extension for PyTorch*
See how to use Intel® Extension for PyTorch* for training and inference on the MedMNIST datasets. These datasets are a collection of 10 MNIST-like open datasets on various medical-imaging classification tasks, such as pathology, chest X-ray, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. The demonstration runs on Intel® DevCloud. It is compared against stock PyTorch and shows the performance gain that Intel Extension for PyTorch offers.
Séverine Habert is a deep learning software engineer at Intel who helps data scientists use Intel® AI software tools. She holds a PhD in medical imaging from Technical University of Munich.
Product and Performance Information
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Most kids love watching Animal Planet, the Discovery Channel, and National Geographic for their content on wild life. It fascinates every child to watch wild animals on screen, their behaviors, habitats, feeding habits, etc. It is also the responsibility of every parent to teach children the importance of respecting wild life and the difference between domesticated and wild animals. There are also various camps and retreats that teach children about wild life and things that are safe to do around wild animals. Children should be taught the importance of signs that say, “Do not feed the wild animals”. You could also enroll your child in various summer camps, camping trips or wildlife hikes that have experienced guides who can teach the children the importance of saving endangered species and the dos and don’ts around a wild animal. It will help teach your children to respect wildlife and help them take an active interest in saving endangered species as well as teach them to be on the safe side if they ever chance upon a wild animal.
How To Teach Children Respect For Wildlife
Parental Guidance For Shows On Wild Animals
Children are fond of watching shows on the Discovery Channel and are exposed to the wondrous world of wild animals and their handlers. Parents should be responsible enough to let the kids know that wild animals are dangerous and the handlers are experts at what they do.
Educate Children On What “Wild” Means
Children often tend to be attracted to animals as cute and cuddly pets, but it is the duty of the parent to let them know that no matter how furry or cute an animal looks, wild animals don’t behave the same way pets do. They can be extremely dangerous and you would be putting your little one in danger if you don’t let them know what is safe and what is unsafe. Wild animals do not generally differentiate between an adult and a child and will react with their instincts, which might expose your child to danger.
Threat Of Diseases And Germs
Wild animals may have tons of germs and could be even sick or diseased even though they look normal on the outside. Teach your child that friendly neighborhood squirrel or possum might not be so friendly at times and might even be able to pass on a disease that they might not be affected by.
A Visit To The Zoo
Take your child to a nearby zoo, you could help them understand about the importance of the word “wild” without actually putting your child in danger. Explain to your child the difference between wild animals and pets, a lesson in the dangers of feeding wild animals will also help them to understand the gravity of the situation.
Buying A Pet
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When Margaret was eighteen she as well as her older bro Daniel relocated to Leadville, Colorado, with her sibling Mary Ann and also her sis’s hubby. Margaret ultimately wed as well as fulfilled J.J. Brown.
Margaret Brown was even more than simply an American Socialite as well as Benefactor; she was a lady with a large heart and also a love for individuals. Birthed as Margaret Tobin on July 18, 1867 in Hannibal, Missouri, to Irish Catholic immigrant moms and dads living in a 2 area home, she had 3 siblings, a sibling and also 2 fifty percent siblings.
Maggie had a possibility to wed rich men that made their ton of money in mining and also attempted dating her. Rather, she wed a self-educated business owner. When inquired about that she specified:
Margaret Brown competed an Us senate seat from Colorado in 1914. She suddenly finished her project to go back to France to collaborate with the American Board for Devastated France throughout World War I. Later, she utilized her brand-new discovered popularity as “The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown” to speak up for proficiency amongst kids as well as females, and also far better working problems for Miners. Maggie additionally remained to promote ladies’s legal rights as well as raise money for worthwhile reasons like the Red Cross.
In 1909 Margaret as well as J.J. authorized a splitting up contract. Margaret obtained a cash money negotiation, preserved belongings of their houses and also obtained a $700 regular monthly allocation to proceed her trips as well as social job.
Margaret Brown invested 1912 taking a trip throughout the Center East as well as Europe. Brown was delivered to the Titanic aboard the tender SS Nomadic at Cherbourg, France, on the night of April 10, 1912.
Throughout the 1920s Maggie satisfied a long-lasting passion as well as came to be a starlet. She outlasted her spouse, yet on October 26, 1932, Margaret Brown passed away in her rest at the Barbizon Resort in New York City. She was hidden with J.J. Brown in the Burial Ground of the Holy Rood in Westbury, Long Island, New York.
Margaret Brown’s popularity as a brave Titanic survivor assisted her advertise historical conservation, and also ceremony of the valor as well as chivalry shown by the males aboard the Titanic. Throughout World war she collaborated with the American 寵物移民價錢 Board for Devastated France as well as aided injured American as well as french soldiers. She was granted the French Légion d’Honneur for her activities, advocacy, as well as philanthropy.
” I desired an abundant guy, yet I liked Jim Brown. I assumed concerning exactly how I desired convenience for my papa and also just how I had actually established to remain solitary up until a male offered himself that might provide to the weary old male the points I wanted for him. I wed Jim Brown.”
Margaret contributed her time and also initiative to functioning in a soup kitchen area that offered the clingy family members of Miners down on their good luck. She was forthright when it came to female’s civil liberties as well as extremely energetic in the Suffrage activity to get ladies the right to elect.
Over the following 3 years they had 2 kids, Larry as well as Helen. In 1893 every little thing transformed for the Brown Family members. Changing from silver to gold manufacturing made the business abundant and also transformed about the ninety percent joblessness price amongst miners in Leadville.
Guests from her life watercraft later on informed the press that Brown after that endangered to toss the crewman crazy. After the Titanic Survivors were chosen up by the RMS Carpathia, Brown arranged a board of First Course Passengers to aid Secondly and also Third Course Passengers.
Margaret Brown ended up being a rich socialite, yet she detested pretenders. Brownish called her “the snobbiest female in Denver”.
Margaret assisted develop the Denver Female’s Club with various other well-off spouses. The club’s objective was to boost the lives of females with education and learning as well as philanthropy.
Margaret Brown came to be an affluent socialite, yet she abhored pretenders. She outlasted her partner, yet on October 26, 1932, Margaret Brown passed away in her rest at the Barbizon Resort in New York City. Margaret Brown’s popularity as a brave Titanic survivor aided her advertise historical conservation, and also ceremony of the fearlessness and also chivalry presented by the guys aboard the Titanic.
Throughout the thrill to conserve as numerous as feasible, Maggie aided various other guests obtain right into their lifeboats, rejecting to board her very own. The bold Brown was later on called “unsinkable” by a paper which reported on her persistent rejection to leave the ship up until she had actually aided as lots of as feasible to board lifeboats, as well as her various other activities to conserve lives as well as aid survivors.
Margaret’s social sights were not sustained by her partner that had really sexist ideas regarding the function of females in marital relationship as well as culture. Maggie likewise handled to frustrate J.J. as well as others by using extra-large females’s hats to attract interest to herself and also her reasons.
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Pages: 166 pages
Size: Paperback, 8.5 X 11 inches
Cutting edge homeopathy now includes the assessment of facial skin as a primary indicator of overall vitality and the use of specific cell salts to improve health based on that diagnosis.
Cell salts are twelve inorganic biochemicals found in the blood and tissues which catalyze essential processes.
- How to Read the Face as a tool for diagnosis, using skin color, condition of eyebrows, size and color of lips, blemishes, musculature, under eye circles, and more.
-How to Use Cell Salts through explanations of the twelve cell salts correlated with disease or imbalanced conditions.
Facial Diagnosis of Cell Salt Deficiencies is a fabulous, comprehensive resource that every physician who wants to incorporate natural medicine in their practice should have. It not only thoroughly reviews the pathophysiology of each cell salt, but also details the physical signs if one’s body is deficient. Each chapter has a summary and color facial photos of each cell salt deficiency in its acute and chronic states. I highly recommend this book.
– Cindi Croft, D.O.
This book has helped me to efficiently and quickly identify weak areas in my clients’ health, allowing me to more easily target priority issues, resulting in deeper and longer lasting balances for the sustained renewal of health. Cell salt supplementation has dramatically increased the general overall health and vitality of my clients.
– Christopher Noel, Licensed Massage Therapist, Energy Kinesiologist, Kinergetics Consultant
Dave Card is very knowledgeable in the field of Homeopathy medicine, and his approach is practical and articulate. His books can be used as a guide to wellness in Alternative Medicine, and they have been a great tool in my own practice. The pictures in Facial Diagnosis of Cell Salt Deficiencies allow patients to relate to their medical concerns. In our time, as more Americans are taking greater responsibility for their own health, I can see these books helping people to take care of their medical concerns. I strongly support Dave’s book, and will recommend it to anyone, including those in the medical field, as a guide and for the application of Homeopathic medicine.
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22 Jan Gethsemane Part 2: Thy Will be Done
Matthew 26:36-46 – Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.” And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.” And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.” And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”
Jesus begins His Gethsemane prayer with these haunting words: “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will” (Matthew 26:39). In this first of three prayers in the garden, Jesus humbly and earnestly made His request known that He preferred that the cup of suffering and wrath to be taken from Him.
Every moment of every day, sinners continue rebelling while thinking they are getting away with everything. The truth is, sinners get away with nothing but instead store up everything: “But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed” (Romans 2:5). The word picture is sobering. Imagine in God’s presence an uncountable number of cups, each with a person’s name on it. Every time they sin, their cup of wrath fills up more and more. Either you drink that cup or Jesus drinks it for you.
Having a relationship with Jesus means praying to make our requests known to God and then asking Him not only to have His way but also to transform us so that our way matches His. We might not start there, but we get there by praying until we pray the surrender prayer “as you will.”
Jesus prays this a second time, not because God didn’t hear but because He is reminding Himself to continually submit to God’s sovereign care.
Are you willing to trust God that much? It’s okay to pray, “I’m single, and I’d like to be married” if you also pray, “Your will be done.” It’s okay if you’re married to pray for a child if you also pray, “Your will be done.” God writes the story we call our life.
For the third time, Jesus prays for God’s will to be done. The subtle implication is not that Jesus merely prayed the same prayer three times, but that he only prayed it three times. He simply didn’t have enough time to pray it any longer.
Some suffering has a known expiration date like Jesus’ suffering, but some seems to go on endlessly. The question of God’s sovereignty and goodness amid suffering is a popular and valid one, but when seeking an answer, we must keep in mind that Jesus suffered most of all. He was betrayed, forsaken, martyred, ridiculed, and mocked—and He was God. Like Jesus, our lives have a purpose in God’s eyes, and the Father’s timing is perfect. Praying in a way that invites the kingdom down helps fix our eyes on eternity, like Jesus, who knew that the cross was not the end of His story.
In the midst of all of this, in His moment of greatest need and loneliness, Jesus’ friends left Him alone and fell asleep. It is easy to judge them, but don’t. They are us. We are them. Has God ever caught you being lazy? Have you ever been caught sleeping on the job, spiritually speaking? Have you been guilty of fruitless faith? Who among us hasn’t ever failed to be a faithful friend to Jesus? When we read the Bible, it can be tempting to put ourselves in the position of Jesus and see the failures of others toward us. But, before we use the Bible as binoculars to see their sin, we need to use it as a mirror to see our sin. Every one of us has had friends like Jesus’ friends and been friends like Jesus’ friends.
Humble prayer reminds us of this. We are weak, but God is strong, and His strength is perfected in our weakness. That’s good news for those us with bad resumes.
Jesus then arises to meet his pretend friend Judas, who betrays him and has him killed and buried. Three days later, Jesus roars back to life. For forty days, He appears to His followers and crowds of up to five hundred. Jesus was back in the pulpit! He began to give them final instructions before His ascension. What did He teach?
The Gethsemane Prayer.
We know this because nobody was there to hear Him pray this three-fold prayer. He was alone, and his disciples were asleep. So, He shared the details of those moments with them, teaching His prayer to them. It was so important that He wanted His followers to know what He prayed, how He felt, and what He said so we would learn from it and pray like it.
- Can your friends count on you to persevere in prayer for them?
- Describe any situation in your life where you struggle to pray, “Your will be done.” Keep praying.
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The Miami metropolitan area is the most populous in Florida, the Southeastern United States & the eighth-most populous in the United States. South Florida is known for its awesome weather and beautiful beaches. Miami’s unique year round climate and vast areas of water pose a constant and specific threat to drowning and sudden cardiac arrest in our community both in pools and natural bodies of water affecting all ages for various factors, as noted in the statistics below.
FIM has partnered with multiple local water safety charities, together we intend to create a unique Water, CPR & Life Safety program that will address the large number of lives lost yearly in Miami-Dade due to drowning, near drowning, boating incidents, and other preventable water incidents through water education and hands on training.
As part of the program, Fully Involved Miami has designed a hands on CPR & Water Life Safety program custom tailored to address the statistical figures most affecting the county. The program will train others to perform life-saving skills, like basic life support, automated external defibrillation (AED), or administering first aid until professional help arrives while also providing vital prevention tips. The hands-on training will provide children, their caretakers and their families the opportunity to acquire the confidence and skills that may one day save a life, both in and outside the water.
The intent is to provide this vital education to those children and families most at risk, while assuring that social and cultural issues don’t affect access to these lifesaving programs. In part, by taking into account the racial & ethical disparities by addressing factors such as physical environment (i.e. access to swimming pools) and the mixture of social and cultural issues with an emphasis on the importance of swimming skills, CPR and water safety education.
Our mission is to :
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History & Overview
The Australian Kelpie is a medium-sized dog used to herd sheep. In the late 1800s, a rancher named Gleason swapped a horse for a black-and-tan sheepdog puppy bred in Victoria of imported Scottish lines. He named her “Kelpie,” Gaelic for water sprite, and found her to be a fine worker. It was her offspring that gave the breed its name.
Many fine working black dogs resulted from the lines created by backcrosses to Moss, a black Australian dog from the Rutherford strain, particularly one named “Barb.” For many years, there was a general belief that the black ones were a separate breed.
Kelpies are still the top herding dogs in Australia. Sheep workers say a good Kelpie is equivalent to two men on horseback. They can be most useful in gathering sheep and bringing them into the pens, forcing them through the dipping vats, and loading them into trucks and railcars. Kelpies have been used effectively with horses, goats, poultry, and even reindeer. These dogs are rarely exhibited. Lately, they have been used in areas other than herding and have been useful in search and rescue, as dog guides and for drug detection work.
At A Glance
Country of Origin:
Sheepdog capable of doing the herding work of several men and travelling about 40 miles in one day.
FCI Classification: Section 1 – Sheepdogs and Cattle Dogs
1. North American Australian Kelpie Registry (NAAKR)
2. United Kennel Club (UKC) – Herding Dog Breeds
3. Australian National Kennel Council (ANKC) – Working Dogs
Medium (17 – 23 inches at shoulders)
Black, black and tan, red, red and tan, fawn, chocolate, and smoke blue
4 – 7
12 – 14 years
The coat is a double coat with a short, dense undercoat and a glossy, weather-resistant outercoat. Brush weekly to remove shedding hair.
Intelligent, loyal, friendly and independent
Most generally, Kelpies are good with other pets, but they will try to herd them.
Suitability for Children:
Kelpies need early socialization and obedience training, otherwise they will try to herd children.
These dogs need an athlete’s training schedule – exercise, exercise, exercise – or they may develop severe behavioral problems. Although they are friendly and trainable, their high energy and a great drive to work make them unsuitable for a house-bound or apartment living.
They bond strongly to one owner and, although loyal and intelligent, they are independent thinkers. Some owners may find their level of independence difficult to deal with.
Health & Behavioral Issues:
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Individual tax-payers will now have more money to save or splurge
February 26, 2010
Amidst all the debate about fiscal consolidation and roll-back of excise duty concessions, the finance minister has created quite a flutter in an unexpected area. The Union Budget for 2010-11 has provided individual taxpayers with some welcome revisions in tax slabs that would effectively put more money into their wallets. Consumers, who have been feeling the pinch of rising prices, now have something to cheer about.
The revised tax slabs will be as under:
Income upto Rs 1.6 lakh
Income above Rs 1.6 lakh and uptoRs. 5 lakh
10 per cent
Income above Rs. 5 lakh and uptoRs. 8 lakh
20 per cent
Income above Rs. 8 lakh
30 per cent
While the primary threshold (amount up to which no tax is payable) remains unchanged at Rs1.6 lakh, the income bracket falling under the 10% tax slab has been revised to Rs1.6 lakh-Rs5 lakh. Previously, this bracket was fixed between Rs1.6 lakh-Rs3 lakh. Similarly, the second slab of 20% tax has been fixed at Rs5 lakh-Rs8 lakh (from Rs3 lakh-Rs5 lakh earlier). The highest tax slab of 30% will now be charged on income in excess of Rs8 lakh, compared to Rs5 lakh earlier.
This dramatic shift in the direct tax policy means a savings bonanza for the inflation-hit consumer. Here is how your savings will shape up under the new tax system:
Suppose you earn an annual income of Rs4lakh, your tax incidence (excluding education cess) will now amount to Rs24,000, instead of Rs34,000 earlier—a saving of Rs10,000.
A person earning Rs6 lakh will shell out Rs54,000 in taxes. In this case, the savings compared to the earlier tax code will amount to a whopping Rs30,000.
Similarly, a person in the highest tax slab, earning say, Rs9 lakh, will be able to save a phenomenal Rs50,000 from the tax differential.
This is not the only carrot extended by the government, either. The existing tax-saving limit of Rs1 lakh has also been raised by an additional amount of Rs. 20,000 for investment in long-term infrastructure bonds.
Industry experts have welcomed the move. Ranjeet Mudholkar, principal advisor, Financial Planning Standards Board India, said, “The further slackening of income-tax slabs will benefit 60% of tax-payers. Apart from these, a tax payer can also avail deduction of Rs20,000 for investment in infrastructure bonds as notified by the Government, in addition to the limit of Rs1 lakh under Section 80C. Hence, from the perspective of financial planning, a tax-payer can channelize more funds towards their chosen financial goals despite earning the same income. Also, to optimise the use of excess disposable income, a tax-payer should employ strategic asset allocation towards better asset-creation in future.”
Nikhil Bhatia, executive director at PricewaterhouseCoopers believes this is an indication of how the slab rates will move from here onwards. “I think it is a step in the right direction. Under the direct tax code (DTC), the tax slab rates are expected to go up substantially. In that sense, it is not much of a surprise because an indication of this was coming through from the DTC itself, where the marginal tax rate has been proposed at Rs25 lakh. It is a populist move; one which will leave more money in the hands of the individual”, he said.
Dr Suresh Surana, founder, RSM Astute Consulting Group, agreed, “The finance minister has attempted to take the tax-payer on the road to the new Direct Tax Code (DTC) (proposed to become effective from 1 April 2011), by bringing the income-tax slab rates in sync with those proposed in the DTC.”
Contributions to the Central Government Health Scheme have also been allowed as deductions within the overall ceiling for tax rebate, besides contributions to health insurance schemes which are currently allowed as deductions under the Income Tax Act.
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1. A Contact Record is created by copying some Field data from the Lead to the new Contact Record
2. An Account Record is created by coping some Field data from the Lead to the new Account Record
3. An Opportunity Record is created by coping the Lead name and description to the new Opportunity Record
4. All new Records are linked together as related records
5. The user is redirected to the Opportunity Record
Opportunity Status Changed from In Progress to Won
1. An Order Record is created by copying some Field data from the Opportunity to the Order Record
2. The Account Record associated with the Opportunity is now also associated with the Order Record
3. The user is redirected to the Order Record
Making a Workflow Change
In this example, we will make a small change to the Opportunity Won Workflow by changing it’s button name.
1. Open app settings:
2. Click SharePortals Workflows:
3. In your default implementation there won’t be any existing Record Status Workflows. Select ‘New Record Type Workflow’.
4. A new Workflow entry is created. Click on it to view the configuration settings below:
4.1. Workflow Source Record
a) Workflow Description – A text string to identify the workflow in the list of settings
b) Workflow Action Title – The title of the workflow as it will be presented in the Record View workflow dropdown.
c) Source Record Type – The Record Type this workflow will launch from
d) Source Record Sub Type – The Record Sub Type this workflow will launch from
e) Show in menu – Add this workflow to the Record Type’s workflow dropdown
f) A condition for when this workflow can run. This involves a field and a value this field must be equal to.
4.2. Workflow Output: this is the target record type. Can be the same record or a new record of another type that is being created.
a) Destination Record Type – If it is the same Record Type the current record will be modified. If it is another type a new record will be created
b) Destination Record Sub Type – If it is the same Record Sub Type the current record will be modified. If it is another type a new record will be created
4.3. Workflow Data: Define what data is to be copied to the destination record(s):
Define what field in the destination record is to be populated with data from which field from the source record.
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For the 3 decades of living I’ve seen more than 100 war and action cool movies. Both for real and cinematic, then I conclude that no matter what Is the outcome.
Its a loss, nobody actually won. Because people are busy killing each other. That ruins innocent lives for the sake of winning, sovereignty or for the sake of Pride.
Why Am I saying this? Because of the recent tension conflict in the West Philippine Sea. Which both China-Philippine government is claiming for. What if China build infrastructure in that area and hire Filipino workers?
Or profit sharing for winwin situation or mutual benefit for every business that you made out of the natural resources? Hire Filipino fisherman for a great fishing harvest. That would be a different story instead of fighting for nothing.
We are living in a Millennial dominated era. Which means people like computers, technology and travelling. We cannot afford to waste life anymore even fighting for unworthy cause. Philippines have dozens of Filipino-Chinese billionaire who contributed to the Philippine economy. Which provides employment, livelihood and cool infrastructure in the country.
Reminds me of Castaway movie, I think most of people wouldn’t like to survive in a Remote Island life. People like Avengers tech cinematic time machine kind of life. As I traveled to different parts of the globe.
I appreciate its unique beauty, now I understand why boxer Ali prefers to go to Jail. Rather than joining the strongest Army in the world. Which he refused to go to war, travel thousand miles and then kill poor people from poor nation.
Build not Burn Bridges connect city to one another. I can see that China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a very ambitious program that connect Asia, Africa and Europe. A trans Continental passage in Asia, Russia and Europe by land.
The program involves more than trillion dollars investment for sea ports, roads, railways, airport and telco networks. So if you think about it its about passage like a cultural friendship and connections, not walls.
That expands to more than 70 countries. Made me think that its not about greediness or business dominance. Its about innovation, fairness and right to live. What if the Philippines which is composed of more than 7 thousand islands can all be traveled by land quickly and easily?
It would be an easy road trip for me travelling around 485km from Manila to Bacolod like riding an MRT, LRT, Acela, Eurotrail, Shinkansen, Shanghai Maglev or any Bullet Train options. Even cross country to Taiwan, HK, Indonesia or Brunei nearby.
Just like our ancient ancestors and parents sacrifices does build bridges. So we can explore and see the beautiful world. They don’t like us to see young people fighting or dying for. Being a traveler and business oriented minded soul keep us from being alive and enjoy happy going.
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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius
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Marcus Aurelius was the Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, and during that time, he kept several collections of journals that contained personal notes, militaristic strategy, and ideas on Stoic philosophy. While unlikely that he ever intended to publicly publish these journals, there is no real official title, so most often "Meditations" is used because of his in depth writings on philosophy. These journals give an introspective look at how and why Marcus Aurelius' operated as an emperor. This informative piece of history contains twelve sections that each chronicle different parts of Aurelius' life, including his source of guidance, self-improvement tips, and his ideas on how to analyze yourself and adjust your attitude to become a better person or leader. | <urn:uuid:ad5625e8-8d40-455c-a4eb-33f518b9a5fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.julieannepeters.com/meditations-free-download/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954811 | 189 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Prevue Scale Descriptions
When a large number of people take the Prevue Assessment, a graph of their results will form a normal bell-shaped curve. All Prevue scales are divided into ten areas under this normal curve. These standard tenths of the curve are called stens. Most people (68% of the population) will score in the mid-range, where the curve is highest (stens 4 to 7). Fewer people will score in the tails of the curve, at the extreme right or left of the scale.
The Prevue Assessments examine abilities, interests/motivation and personality through the following five assessments described below:
- Abilities: There are three assessments that measure specific abilities and together provide a measure of General Ability. These three assessments examine learning and reasoning skills potential:
- The Working With Words Assessment measures verbal reasoning (an individual’s ability to understand and use words). Verbal reasoning assessments are probably the most widely used type of ability measure because almost every job requires some level of ability to use verbal information whether it is comprehending simple written instructions, understanding workplace manuals or writing management reports.
- The Working With Numbers Assessment measures numerical reasoning (an individual’s ability to understand and use numbers). Numerical reasoning assessments are used in hiring decisions where there is a need to assess numeracy or an aptitude for data manipulation. This covers many clerical and administrative jobs as well as those in the banking and financial services sectors.
- The Working With Shapes Assessment measures spatial reasoning (a person’s ability to manipulate shapes or visualize objects in their mind). Many jobs involve tasks where you have to imagine how items or images can be organized or arranged within a particular space or area.
- Interests/Motivation: The Prevue Interests Assessment is designed to assess an individual’s likes and dislikes for different types of work. It is not a measure of performance but merely identifies types of work or tasks that an individual prefers to address. Interests assessments are particularly useful where persons do not have a prior work experience to gage their interest and ability for a specific type of employment. They are also used extensively in staff development and in guidance assessment situations, where people may need help in sorting out what they do or don’t want to do. They provide a means of exploring new options for people, suggesting areas of work that they might not have otherwise considered.
- Personality: The Prevue Personality Assessment examines personality traits that identify an individual’s preferred way of acting and thinking. An individual’s personality profile, like ability, is a key influence on how a person performs at work. It is particularly important in situations that involve interaction and cooperation with other people such as managerial, supervisory, customer-oriented, team or group based activities. The Prevue Personality Assessment is designed to measure how an individual fits the behavioral requirements of a particular job; or, conversely, if they are already in a job to identify the individual’s training and development needs. From the assessment candidate’s point of view they allow a person to consider work that best suits their temperament and which they will find more interesting and satisfying. The Prevue Personality Assessment is based on what is known as The Big Five or Five Factor Model of personality which identifies the primary personality dimensions that underpin all observable behavior. | <urn:uuid:cedec3c4-7a6b-4e1f-8fa0-938f9ceb3189> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hiringsolutions.net/documents-what-the-prevue-measures/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942481 | 685 | 3.203125 | 3 |
[ 4/July/22 ]
I would have everyone taught this set of ideas at the earliest age possible, and repeatedly with greater detail and nuance:
1/ That the world in which we exist seems, beyond any shadow of reasonable doubt, to be far more complex and fundamentally uncertain than any conception we might possibly have of it, and thus all understanding are wrong, and some are less wrong and more useful than others in any particular context.
2/ That all human beings are more complex than any human being may fully appreciate, and as such demand both respect and value; even when they are acting in ways that demand we restrain them, for survival’s sake.
3/ That evolution has given us brains strongly biased to prefer simple certainty over complex uncertainty, and that the more stressed we are, and the less we know, the more certain we are likely to be about any particular conclusion we come to.
4/ That as human beings we are both individuals and members of social groups, and both levels of structure have boundaries that must be respected if we are to survive. We have both sets of natures, necessarily. The more we understand about the natures and complexities and subtleties of those boundaries, the greater the degrees of freedom we can have to safely approach them; but the less we appreciate about the boundaries the greater the sets of constraints that must be present on our behaviour (for our own survival and the survival of our groups).
5/ That every human being requires both freedom and responsibility, and the more freedom one claims, the greater the responsibility one needs to demonstrate. The fundamental uncertainties present mean that everyone will make mistakes, they are an essential part of learning anything truly new, but in order to learn, we must be open to the possibility that something is actually a mistake, not simply take it on any level of “Faith”. And there are always dangers at that boundary – anything truly novel, truly unknown, holds both dangers and opportunities. Thus there is always a tension between security and liberty. Too great a focus on security removes all liberty (and thus paradoxically ends in destruction). Too great a focus on liberty leads to the destruction of some required sets of constraints for the existence of that level of complexity – again, paradoxically, resulting in destruction. There must exist an eternal tension between the ability of liberty to search the unknown for solutions to known threats and the desire to limit the risks present in the unknown. There does not appear to be any limit to the dimensions possible of such boundaries, and thus there seems to be potential for eternal exploration, and an eternal need for responsibility.
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Riversdale locals, regional and district councils are banding together to protect the nesting site of Wairarapa’s two rarest birds.
Two nationally endangered New Zealand dotterel (tuturiwhatu) are attempting to breed at the north end of Riversale Beach, hundreds of kilometres south of their traditional habitat.
Less than 1700 New Zealand dotterels are left in the country and none are known to be breeding south of the sanctuary at Cape Kidnappers.
Greater Wellington Regional Council Biodiversity Coordinator Robyn Smith says no one is entirely sure why the birds are so far south, but everyone she talks to is keen to see them breed successfully.
“The pair has tried to breed in this area for the past two summers without success. “With a bit of help from the community and visitors, we could make this summer third time lucky.”
Ms Smith says New Zealand dotterels are up against it and need all the help they can get.
“They scrape a small dish in the sand and then lay two or three perfectly camouflaged eggs in it. The nest is very easy to miss and the eggs can easily be crushed by feet, paws, hooves or wheels on the beach.
“Cats, hedgehogs, stoats, ferrets and dogs can also eat the eggs or young chicks. The regional council has set up traps in scrub behind the area, so hopefully we can protect them from wild animals.
“It would be great if locals and visitors can keep their dogs on a lead, north of the lagoon and try not to disturb them. We’ve put up a temporary fence and signs to let people know where the birds are.”
Bill Roberts of the Riversdale Beach Ratepayers Association is helping to spread the word about these rare visitors and is keeping an eye on them.
“Locals care about the beach and are interested in the bird life down there. I’m sure everyone wants the New Zealand dotterels to do well,” says Mr Roberts.
Ms Smith says regional council and Masterton District Council staff will be monitoring the birds every time they are in the area, but most of the time they will be left to themselves and the community.
Fences around New Zealand dotterel nests are a common sight on east coast beaches from Bay of Plenty to Northland.
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It is no secret that good hygiene is essential. What may be less well-known, however, is just how important it is – and how easy it is to improve your hygiene routine. Good hygiene helps to prevent the spread of disease, keeps you looking and feeling your best, and can even boost your self-confidence. As children, we were always taught the importance of good hygiene. Brushing our teeth, washing our hands, and taking a bath were part of our daily routine.
There are various things to keep in mind about the care of your teeth. From time to time, you should consult your dentist London when any problem occurs with your teeth. Brushing your teeth is a vital aspect of maintaining good oral hygiene. It helps remove plaque and bacteria from teeth and gums, and it also helps keep your breath smelling fresh. How often you should brush your teeth depends on your oral health habits, but most people should brush at least twice a day. It would be best if you use a soft-bristled toothbrush and toothpaste that contains fluoride.
Flossing is one of the most critical dental hygiene practices you can engage in. It removes bacteria and plaque from between your teeth and gums, which a toothbrush can’t reach. As a result, flossing is an excellent way to avoid cavities and gum disease. You can visit your dentist in London for any suggestions regarding your teeth problems. In order to floss correctly, use about 18 inches of floss, wrap it around your middle fingers, and use a gentle back-and-forth motion. Be sure to floss between all of your teeth, including the back ones.
Mouthwash is necessary for oral care. It helps to destroy bacteria and plaque from the teeth and gums, and It can help to prevent cavities, gingivitis, and bad breath. There are many different types of mouthwash available, and each one has its own unique benefits. Mouthwash can be used alone or in combination with other oral care products. It is important to use mouthwash correctly in order to maximize its benefits.
Showering is a personal hygiene habit that many people partake in on a daily basis. Though there are many differing opinions on how often one should shower, the general consensus seems to be that showering once or twice a week is sufficient. When it comes to the type of soap or body wash to use, it is best to consult with a dermatologist to see what would be most beneficial for your skin type.
Nails are a part of your body that often go unnoticed until they start to cause problems. How often you should clip your nails depends on a few factors, such as the type of clipper you use and how you file them. Learning how to clip and file your nails properly can help keep them healthy and looking their best.
Haircare is an essential part of a daily hygiene routine. shampooing and conditioning hair helps to keep it clean and healthy. There are many different types of shampoo and conditioner available, so it is essential to find the ones that work best for your hair type. Shampoo should be applied to wet hair and massaged into the scalp. Conditioner should be applied to the ends of the hair and left in for a few minutes before rinsing.
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We all know how difficult it was to pass our driving tests, which is why we want to help our children as much as possible. While they will have professional lessons from train instructors, there are still many ways you can assist them in passing as quickly as possible. The theory examination alone can be very stressful, and so your kids need the utmost confidence when the day of their practical test comes around. Thankfully, help is at hand. With the suggestions made below, you should be ready to get involved and improve their chances. Nobody wants to spend six months having lessons when it is possible to pass in as little as three.
Buy a Car for your Child
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Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to have a licence to purchase a car. That is why we think it’s a good idea to buy one for your child as soon as they start learning. If nothing else, it will give them the motivation to pass quickly. Also though, having a car means you can take them out in the evenings and let them get more confident with being on the road. So long as they have someone sat next to them who passed more than three years ago, there is nothing illegal about it. Obviously, the vehicle needs to be taxed, and the child needs to be insured. You can find used Hyundais and other models by searching online. There are sure to be lots of specialist dealers in your local area. You just need to work out where they are based.
Invest in Digital Learning Aids
Your kids will know computers like the back of their hands, and so investing in digital learning aids could be a wise move. You can get some fantastic theory test mock exam packs for little expense these days. By looking online, you’ll also find lots of driving simulation software that could help them to improve their skills. Some parents like to go a step further and book some time for their kids to use a driving simulation machine. Those items work in much the same way as the flight simulators used by military personnel. So, you can be sure they work very well.
Monitor their Driving and Offer Advice
There are lots of tools and devices that can be used to monitor automobiles these days. So, you could fit one of those contraptions to your child’s vehicle during all lessons. That way, you will know about their speed and reaction times and offer advice. Don’t feel like you’re spying on them because that simply isn’t the case. The information you obtain by monitoring their driving could make a huge difference to their chances of passing first time around.
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Dating back to the Neolithic Age, La Starza is the oldest known settlement in Campania. To the untrained eye, all that remains of the hamlet today are unrecognizable ruins in the middle of the countryside—a rocky formation overlooking a spring—but the site is, in fact, a cache of ancient pottery, earthenware, animal and plant remains, and metal artifacts.
The settlement was erected nearly 9,000 years ago and was continuously inhabited for eight millennia— throughout the Neolithic Age, Iron Age, and Bronze Age—until its eventual abandonment around 900 B.C. Among the many artifacts unearthed here were decorated ceramics and majolica dating back to a period between the 16th and 14th centuries B.C. Curiously, the nearby town of Ariano Irpino is renowned for its ceramic production to this day—and many have hypothesized that La Starza’s ceramic artifacts offer evidence that this tradition has been 4,000 years in the making. Artifacts used in metalworking and farming have also been discovered here, along with animal remains, a sign that agriculture was central to the settlement. Human remains have also been found on the nearby mountain pass, Sella di Ariano, a possible millennia-old necropolis. 41.2391143
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The Green Amethyst stone is also known as Katila in Hindi. Green Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz is one of the most precious and valuable stones belonging to the quartz group of minerals, with the exception to rare blue-green gem silica. The name Green Amethyst derives from the Greek word ametusthos, meaning "not intoxicated," and comes from an ancient legend. It is the official birthstone for the month of February. Green Amethyst has transparent to translucent clarity and a vitreous luster. Green Amethyst is beneficial when dealing with legal problems and money issues, which can lead to prosperity and abundance.
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As pressures to reduce GHG emissions from ships grow, methane slip from LNG fueled engines could well become the target of future regulations. Though LNG produces less CO2 than conventional fuels, a small proportion of the natural gas introduced into the combustion chamber can slip through the engine without being combusted. Since methane has a higher global warming potential than CO2, even this small source of emissions may come into focus in meeting IMO’s ambitious climate goals.
Alfa Laval and engine developer WinGD have already cooperated on a solution. The Alfa Laval PureCool system is the main component in WinGD’s iCER technology, an option for next-generation WinGD X-DF engines that reduces methane slip and boosts fuel and energy efficiency.
Short for Intelligent Control by Exhaust gas Recycling, iCER is the first development presented in X-DF2.0, WinGD’s second-generation dual-fuel engine technology.
CASCADE EXHAUST GAS COOLING
Alfa Laval’s PureCool is the cascade exhaust gas cooling system at the heart of the iCER concept.
“The iCER option is a standalone installation adjacent to the engine,” says ,” says David Jung, Business Development Manager at Alfa Laval. “During operation in gas mode, it improves combustion by cooling and recirculating about 50% of the exhaust gas through a low-pressure path with full turbocharger capacity. This minimizes methane slip, and the PureCool system provides the vital cooling function that makes it possible.”
Trials at WinGD’s dedicated engine test facility, which were the final step in a two-year testing program, showed a methane slip reduction of up to 50% using iCER.
“This is not fine-tuning or a marginal improvement of LNG technology,” says Jung. “This is a major environmental gain that truly strengthens LNG’s profile. With the PureCool system at its heart, iCER will cut methane slip by as much as half.”
Beyond the methane slip reduction, the iCER solution with PureCool offers engine buyers significant operational benefits – creating value even prior to potential compliance regulations. When combustion is improved with iCER, fuel consumption in gas mode is reduced by 3%.
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If the coronavirus pandemic drove your life online, you’ve probably been there: Maybe you’re using video chat to get work done or connect with far-flung friends. No matter how much bandwidth you have, the lag between one person speaking and the rest hearing the words means you keep talking over each other.
It’s the annoying delay when you hit play on your streaming service, and your movie or TV show takes forever to load. Or when you’re about to reach a new level in a video game, but your controller doesn’t register your moves in time.
That fraction of a second—less than the blink of an eye—is called network latency. It’s how long it takes in milliseconds for a signal to make a round-trip from your computer to a server and back. The greater the distance, the longer it takes to make the trip.
Milliseconds may not seem like a big deal. But on the internet it can feel like wading through mud. It can even cause users to lose interest or take their business elsewhere.
Google has found that if search results are slowed down by four tenths of a second, their users do eight million fewer searches a day. And according to Amazon, even smaller delays—an extra tenth of a second—would cost the company 1% in sales, a staggering hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Duke computer scientist Bruce Maggs thinks we can do better. A few years ago, he and colleagues decided to take on a challenge: building a speed-of-light internet.
If they could get data to and fro more quickly, they wondered, could they make web surfing feel smoother and more seamless, even instantaneous?
The team presented their approach on April 6 at the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’22) in Renton, Washington.
In a project co-led by Brighten Godfrey at the University of Illinois, Gregory Laughlin at Yale and Ankit Singla at ETH Zurich, the team envisions a network stretching across the U.S. that responds 10 to 100 times faster than the normal internet.
If deployed in the 120 largest cities, it could give 85% of Americans the option of connecting over vast distances in near real-time, as if they were in the same room.
The problem is that today’s internet isn’t optimized for speed, Maggs said.
Given the speed of light, data should theoretically be able to transmit at a top clip of 300,000 kilometers per second. That’s a mind-boggling 670 million miles an hour.
At that pace, internet traffic should be able to cover the 2,800 miles between Los Angeles and New York City in 15 milliseconds.
But the reality is much slower. Maggs and his team showed that moving even small amounts of data over the internet—say, just downloading a webpage—often takes between 37 to 100 times longer than you’d expect.
“It should be faster, right?” Maggs said.
A big culprit behind the delay, they say, is the way internet traffic is routed.
Every time you check email, search for information on Google, or scroll through social media, data is being sent and received through hundreds of thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cables, thin strands of glass that are bundled together and transmit data as pulses of light.
But this system can be inefficient. Buried cables have to zigzag around mountains and squiggle their way across the landscape as they follow roads and railways, the twists and turns costing precious time.
Internet traffic traveling from Sweden to Croatia—a driving distance of about 1,300 miles—might take an 8,000-mile oceanic detour through a router in New York City first.
“Fiber paths almost never follow a straight line between two locations,” Maggs said.
Add to that the fact that internet providers often route data along the path that is the cheapest, not the fastest, even backtracking to save money.
“That means the path will be more roundabout,” Maggs said.
There’s another thing that gets in the way. When people talk about the speed of light, they usually mean the speed of light in a vacuum. When light passes through a medium other than a vacuum—such as air, water, or glass—it slows down.
The speed of light in a vacuum is 300,000 kilometers per second, but it slows down to two thirds that speed in silica glass, which is what normal optic fiber cables are made of.
“These things all compound and multiply each other,” Maggs said. Which is why—when it comes to response time on the information superhighway—the cosmic speed limit is far from a reality. But the researchers found that one tiny corner of it gets close:
In early 2010s, a custom-built network was set up to shave a few thousandths of a second off the time it takes for financial traders to send data back and forth between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and stock exchanges in New Jersey, a roughly 700-mile route traversing six states.
That amount of time is imperceptible to humans. But it’s enough to give trading firms an edge over their rivals in the stock market, where receiving data even a millisecond sooner can make the difference between making a profit or losing out.
By analyzing this specialized network, the team wondered if they could use similar approaches to reduce internet delays nationwide.
Part of the trading network’s advantage lies in how data is transported, Maggs said.
Instead of buried cables, it cuts trading times by using microwave radio transmissions to carry data through the air, where signals can travel 50% faster than light through fiber.
The network also saves time with a shortcut. Unlike fiber cables, which have to wind their way about obstacles as they follow the lay of the land, microwave signals don’t bend—they’re transmitted in a straight line. That makes for shorter routes, allowing them zip back and forth between New Jersey and the Windy City in eight thousandths of a second.
In tests, the researchers found that the financial traders’ microwave-based network was reliably faster than fiber even in bad weather, when rain can weaken the signal between towers.
The technology is decades old. The team’s research showed that something similar—towers equipped with antennas that send microwave signals to and fro—could be built among the biggest cities in the U.S. or Europe, and could shrink lag to within 5% of what’s possible at light speed.
Assuming a hypothetical budget of 3,000 towers spaced roughly 40 to 60 miles apart, the team figured out the best way to beam signals from tower to tower along the shortest possible paths, and without things like hills or buildings or trees getting in the way.
Just routing data along straighter, more direct routes, they find, would make it possible to click on a link to a website and get the request to a server three times faster.
And at an estimated cost of 81 cents per gigabyte, the potential value of such a network would greatly exceed its price tag. The team’s cost-benefit analyses suggest that for a company like Google, delivering search results a mere 200 milliseconds faster would mean an additional $87 million a year in profits.
But what’s most exciting about this, the researchers say, is the potential for people separated by hundreds of miles to feel like they’re interacting and sharing information online in real-time.
Studies suggest that delays less than 30 milliseconds go by too fast for most people to notice. If scientists could shrink lag times to less than that, they could make them virtually imperceptible.
“We’re not saying we can make the whole internet operate at the speed of light,” Maggs said. That’s because while microwave transmission may be faster than fiber, in terms of carrying capacity, it can’t compete.
But for applications where timing is everything, such a network could reduce lag at lower costs than existing services.
For online gamers, who are constantly sending and receiving data to play together in real-time, routing traffic through their network could shrink lag times to a third of what’s possible with today’s internet.
In the case of his musician wife, Maggs said, she and her colleagues on the West Coast could play together in sync over the internet and hear each other as if they were in the same concert hall, without noticing a delay.
“It would be kind of like deciding when to use the U.S. Post Office and when to use Federal Express,” Maggs said. “There’s a huge difference in cost and performance. You’d have to pick just the things where the latency actually mattered.”
If you’re just streaming movies, you might not care. But for Maggs, who used to play multiplayer online games as a kid, “When I’m sending my command to the gaming server, where I’ve just pressed F to fire my phasers, I want that to go as fast as I possibly can.”
How rain, wind, heat and other weather can affect your internet connection
Debopam Bhattacherjee et al, cISP: A Speed-of-Light Internet Service Provider, (2022) is available as a PDF.
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It’s a fact, passengers of a motorcycle are 28X more likely than passenger car occupants to die in a crash per vehicle mile traveled. In 2016, 5,286 people died in motorcycle accidents.
With the weather getting warmer and the days getting longer you can expect to see more riders on the road. We encourage you to keep our roads safe for all drivers by following these tips:
1. Always Check Your Blind Spots
Motorcyclists are much smaller than passenger vehicles and can be more difficult to identify while merging or changing lanes. Be sure to take a second look into your rear-view and side-view mirrors before moving over.
2. Be Extra Careful When Passing
It is lawful to pass a motorcycle in the same way you would an automobile, assuming you are driving on a section of the roadway that permits passing. However, the gust of wind your vehicle gives off while speeding past a motorcycle can cause the motorcycle to become unstable and possibly blow the rider off the road.
Make sure to signal your intention to pass a slower motorcyclist by using your left turn signal. Always make sure you are several car lengths ahead of the motorcycle before returning to your lane.
3. Maintain a Safe Following Distance
Many motorcyclists slow down by only rolling off the throttle or downshifting, so brake lights might not alert you of a bike stopping.
Provide 3 to 4 seconds of following time for motorcycles, and always assume a bike will brake when approaching a stop at an intersection. Riders can easily over-brake, slide and fall when cut off by other vehicles.
4. Be cautious in Severe Weather
Although you likely won’t encounter as many riders in the rain, there are still those who will tough through the elements. Motorcyclists that drive in inclement weather can be especially hard to identify, so be sure you are extremely mindful when driving in these conditions.
5. Turn Your High Beams Off When Motorcyclists are Approaching
Nighttime driving is already treacherous enough for riders, do them a favor and turn off your high beams so they can clearly see the road ahead of them.
6. Stay in Your Lane
No matter how small motorcycles might be or how much extra space there might appear to be on the road, motorcycles are allowed the full use of one lane. You should always give riders as much space as possible. Never veer over to share a lane with them.
7. Notify Motorcyclists of Your Intention to Turn Sooner
Initiate your turn signal sooner than you normally would when you know there is a motorcycle driving behind you. Not only is this courteous, it helps to reduce pile-ups involving motorcycles.
8. Always Follow Safety Protocol at Intersections
Nationally, 50% of all traffic accidents occur at intersections. Always follow the safety protocol for intersections every single time that you approach one: come to a complete halt, view and obey posted traffic signs and signals, look both ways for approaching traffic, and proceed slowly.
9. Watch for Turning Motorcycles
Not all motorcycles come equipped with turn signals, making it more important to give them their space. For those that do have turn signals, unlike cars, some motorcycle signals aren’t self-cancelling; so the driver must remember to manually turn it off.
Allow yourself and the motorcyclist a few extra moments to ensure they are actually turning.
10. Take a Second Look When Turning Left
Motorcycle collisions with a left turning car are often fatal to the motorcyclist. Before you cross a lane or lanes of traffic to turn left, take a second look for approaching motorcycles.
There is no such thing as a fender-bender for a motorcycle rider as they are completely exposed. You must take responsibility, as the driver of an automobile, to take caution and do whatever it takes to prevent motorcycle accidents.
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The closest thing to air conditioning that nature offers us.
WHAT IS AEROTHERMIA?
Aerothermal energy is an air conditioning system that is capable of extracting energy from the surrounding air.
This energy is generated naturally, so it is a renewable energy.
The aerothermal machine is capable of heating in winter and cooling any room in summer, in addition to generating domestic hot water. In addition, with a very low consumption and at the same time, in a sustainable way.
- The main advantage of aerothermal energy is that with this technology we can achieve savings of up to 60% compared to other systems.
- It is respectful with the environment by using renewable energy for air conditioning and natural elements such as water or air to transmit heat.
- Low maintenance, since there is no combustion, it does not require as much maintenance as other systems, this being cleaner than the others.
- With the same system we get air conditioning, heating and sanitary hot water.
- Depending on the type of establishment or home, thanks to being very flexible, it can be adapted using various complementary emitters such as underfloor heating, fan coils, radiators, etc …
- They can be installed in many places, adapting in each case such as in kitchens and garages.
On this occasion we installed the aerothermal machine in a cupboard integrated in the kitchen of a central apartment in Valencia (the front cover of the machine has been removed to be able to appreciate it inside).
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Question: Should people suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes, hyper/hypo tension and migraine fast? For instance, I am sick of hypertension with pills to take in the morning and evening. What do you recommend me to do?
The Glorified Allah decrees in 184th verse of Surah Al-Baqarah that the sick are allowed not to fast. They make up their fast on some other day. If they die before getting well to the extent that they are able to endure fasting, they will not be responsible. The verse also informs that fasting would be better for the sick if they knew.
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The similarities in the way that the ubiquitous cult of saints was expressed in Wales, Cornwall and Brittany form a major body of evidence for contact among these regions. Overtly ecclesiastical place-names, containing such elements as *lann, are unusually common in all three regions. The implications of these for similarities and differences in church-organisation are discussed. The significance of the appearance of the same personal names compounded in ecclesiastical place-names in different British-speaking regions is explored. These seem likely in most cases to reflect movements of the devotees of particular saints between Wales, Cornwall and Brittany from the sixth to the ninth centuries and particularly the reliance of Bretons on the educational and spiritual resources of important Welsh churches. Contact between Brittany and Cornwall was more sustained and more intimate: a tenth-century list reveals a number of Breton saints established at permanent cult-sites in Cornwall by the tenth century and more were to follow by the central Middle Ages; Cornish and Breton authors also drew on each other’s work in composing saints’ Lives throughout the medieval period. By contrast the relative rarity of Irish saints’ cults in Brittany and the absence of Breton saints from Ireland implies a more distant relationship.
Cultural relations between Brittany and Wales seem to have grown more distant in the ninth to eleventh centuries. The Norman Conquest, involving Bretons alongside Normans, revitalised these connections and in particular greatly raised the profile of Bretons in Wales. The attempt by the clergy of Dol in Brittany to make their see an archbishopric encouraged similar ambitions on the part of the churches of St Davids and Llandaf in south Wales. Sharing of pseudo-historical information between the clergy of Llancarfan (Wales) and Quimperlé (Brittany) created the conditions for Geoffrey of Monmouth to write (by 1139) his hugely influential ‘History of the Kings of Britain’. Geoffrey encouraged the opinion-formers of his time to see the Britons as a single people – not necessarily to the advantage of the Breton elite, who were part of French chivalric society in political fact, but who could be cast in the literary role of ‘barbarians’. This view of the Bretons reached a climax in the 1160s and 1170s when Breton revolt menaced the ‘Angevin empire’ of King Henry II of England, but became less relevant after 1203 when the Breton nobility transferred their allegiance to the king of France. The paths of Wales and Brittany then diverged, to judge by the comparatively slight role that Brittany played in the Welsh learned and literary tradition in the later Middle Ages.
The small amount of contemporary written evidence for the settlement of Brittany from Britain is discussed, in order to provide a context for the subsequent development of historical myths about Brittany. The theory of the settlement of a British military force in the peninsula by Roman authorities is evaluated and possible British and Continental contexts for such a movement in the fourth or fifth century are compared. In the sixth century the testimony of Gregory of Tours suggests that kingship was developing in Brittany along similar lines to Celtic Britain, but this development does not seem to have continued. Some reasons are suggested through comparison with rulership elsewhere in western Europe and the Atlantic Archipelago. The origins and significance of early regional units within Brittany that share names with regions in Britain (Domnonia and Cornubia) are discussed. The apparent isolation of Bretons (and Britons generally) from the rest of Western Christendom from the mid-seventh to the mid-eighth centuries finds an explanation in the ecclesiastical controversy over the date of Easter.
In the last century of the Roman Empire in the West, many decisions were taken which were doubtless intended as short-term measures, temporary concessions, to be reversed when affairs returned to normal. Affairs never did return to ‘normal’, and no one was ever able to fully clear up the resulting muddle, which over the centuries came to be dignified in history and myth as the ‘birth of the nations of Europe’.
In Brest, at the far end of Brittany, on winter mornings, people go to work in the pitch dark. They keep the same time as Paris and Berlin, but their city is further west than most of Britain, where the clocks are set an hour earlier. It is a concrete illustration of the uneasy way in which Brittany, a long, low, folded peninsula of granite and slate, about the same size as Wales, fits into the centralised, Continental power that is modern France.
In the ninth century, the Carolingian conquest of Brittany, together with a Europe-wide revival of learning, created a new interest in explaining Brittany’s past. Rival stories of Brittany’s British origins were set down by Frankish, Welsh and Breton scholars. The Bretons’ view of their own past was expressed wholly through the medium of hagiography, a considerable amount of which was produced during the later ninth and early tenth centuries: this allows us to gauge the nature of its authors’ links with the Insular world. The British origins of the founding figures of the Breton Church were proudly proclaimed despite a readiness to accept Carolingian authority; there seems to have been little real knowledge of the saints’ alleged sixth-century origins, but considerable opportunity to gather information contemporaneously from Wales and perhaps also from Cornwall and Ireland. The role of Llancarfan (in south Wales) in relaying information between Ireland and the hagiographers of Saint-Malo in Brittany is highlighted.
This chapter surveys the archaeological evidence for the period of the settlement of Brittany from Britain. The absorption of the Armorican peninsula into the land-based Roman Empire in the first century BC ended its long-standing role in prehistory as an important bridge for trade and cultural communication between the Atlantic Archipelago and the Continent. It was further marginalised by the concentration of resources in frontier zones under the late Empire. However, the political and economic decline of late-Roman Armorica was apparently gradual, in contrast with the sudden disruption of the relatively prosperous lowland zone of Britain in the early fifth century. Differences such as these may partly explain the absence of direct archaeological evidence for migration. The absence from Brittany of the high-status material culture seen in Britain outside the zone of English settlement in the fifth to seventh centuries (hill-forts, decorated metalwork, imported pottery) may reflect Brittany’s relative poverty but also the extreme diffusion of political power there, and a lesser degree of conflict. More modest, newly discovered archaeological evidence indicates Brittany’s continued connections to the wider world of north-western Europe in more basic developments in agriculture and rural settlement forms.
Between a hundred and two hundred manuscripts connected with Brittany, written in the ninth and tenth centuries, can be identified by their script, contents and Old Breton glosses; they survived the Viking age by being taken to Francia or England, and open a window on the sources and external contacts of Bretons’ scholarly culture. The manuscripts contain a wide variety of Latin texts, biblical, legal, grammatical, technical and historical. One of the most important subsets consists of manuscripts of the Irish canon law compilation, Collectio Canonum Hibernensis: it is unclear whether the text was obtained from Ireland or via Irish-influenced centres on the Continent, but the ability of Breton scribes to access both the extant versions in full, together with some of their source-texts, implies contact with the milieu of the original compilers. Glosses show that even texts that were widely available on the Continent, like grammars and the scientific writings of Bede, reached Bretons through Irish contacts. Some manuscripts reveal collaboration between annotators writing in Irish, Welsh and Breton, providing a context for the sharing of hagiographical information discussed in the previous chapter. The occasional sharing of rare texts allows us to pinpoint a few centres where such encounters may have taken place, among them are Reichenau and Echternach. The survival of Breton manuscripts in England suggests that Breton scholarship played a considerable part in the reconstruction of the English Church in the tenth century, after the Viking age.
Between 919 and 936, Viking attacks caused a sustained crisis in Breton politics: much of the ruling elite fled to Francia or England. By the time a new duke of Brittany was installed with the help of the English king Æthelstan, Frankish aristocrats had encroached on Breton territory, introducing the French language and social norms. However, the new ruling class embraced a Breton political identity. This involved, for the first time, the promotion of a British secular founding figure for Brittany as a whole, a certain Riwal, for whom a genealogy (a very Insular kind of ‘charter’ to rule) was constructed using materials that seem to have originated in south-west Britain. The relics and Lives of Breton saints had been exported to many parts of France and England, and as a result a number of centres outside Brittany produced Lives of Breton saints, or hagiography apparently influenced by Breton motifs, during the tenth and eleventh centuries. Within Brittany, eleventh-century writings produced at Rhuys (the Life of St Gildas) and at Landévennec (the cartulary) show renewed contact and input from Wales, Ireland and perhaps northern Britain.
How did Brittany get its name and its British-Celtic language in the centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire? Beginning in the ninth century, scholars have proposed a succession of theories about Breton origins, influenced by the changing relationships between Brittany, its Continental neighbours, and the 'Atlantic Archipelago' during and after the Viking age and the Norman Conquest. However, due to limited records, the history of medieval Brittany remains a relatively neglected area of research. In this new volume, the authors draw on specialised research in the history of language and literature, archaeology, and the cult of saints, to tease apart the layers of myth and historical record. Brittany retained a distinctive character within the typical 'medieval' forces of kingship, lordship, and ecclesiastical hierarchy. The early history of Brittany is richly fascinating, and this new investigation offers a fresh perspective on the region and early medieval Europe in general.
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January 19, 2021 | Written by: Katia Moskvitch
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A chat with one of IBM’s leading computer scientists and 2020 ACM Fellow Chandra Narayanaswami
We now take smartwatches for granted. But did you know that very early models go back two decades?
Between 2000 and 2001, IBM Research made headlines when it unveiled an internet-enabled designer watch that ran on the open-source operating system Linux. Dubbed WatchPad, its aim was to demonstrate the capabilities of the then-novel OS for mobile and embedded devices — complementing other efforts to adapt Linux for devices ranging from workstations to large enterprise servers. The futuristic watch featured Bluetooth communication and a VGA (640-by-480 pixel) OLED screen, ran Linux version 2.4, and even enabled mobile payments.
Chandra Narayanaswami, Distinguished Research Staff Member, Member IBM AoT, Member IBM Industry Academy, IBM Research
That’s not the only early mobile system that came out of IBM in the early 2000s. Four years after the WatchPad, the same team of researchers led by computer scientist Chandra Narayanaswami created a portable virtual computer — the SoulPad. It was the time before smartphones or slim and light laptops, and cloud computing was just nascent. (The first cloud platforms became publicly available only in 2006.) Meanwhile, IBM’s pocket-size device allowed users to carry their desktop around with them and re-create their home or office computer on any PC via a USB or FireWire port.
Fast-forward to today — the two ‘Pads’ main designer, Narayanaswami, has just received one of the highest recognitions in computer science. He’s been elected a 2020 ACM Fellow “for design and development of the Linux Watch and SoulPad, which influenced wearable and mobile systems.”
Chandra, please tell us more about these two projects that influenced — and to a degree kick-started — the entire wearable and portable device revolution?
It was the late 1990s, and along with the advent of the internet, there was a proliferation of non-programmable fixed purpose gadgets, I am sure many will recall pagers. At the same time, several ambitious projects seeking to connect these various devices had just gotten underway in academia. Back then, IBM had industry-leading notebook computers, and a few of us at IBM Research wanted to rethink computing devices for the emerging landscape of pervasive computing.
We chose to build a watch computer specifically because of the challenges imposed by the small form factor. The WatchPad, as it was called, incorporated many technological firsts and significantly pushed the boundaries in hardware packaging, power management, and embedded software to become the tiniest wireless device to run the standard Linux operating system, wireless software stacks, and graphics libraries.
IBM Watchpad, the internet-enabled designer watch running Linux from 2000
On top of that, the WatchPad demonstrated many unforeseen capabilities in a wearable and mobile device. It was the first wearable with biometric authentication and password vaults, Bluetooth wireless-based control and collaboration functions, and mobile web services, such as payments. A wireless body-worn hub, derived from the watch hardware in 2003, was in fact one of the earliest devices to sport mobile health monitoring. The Linux WatchPad won the Red Dot Design and Best of PC Expo awards and appeared on the cover of IEEE Computer.
As for SoulPad, this project fulfilled a long-cherished vision of the mobile and ubiquitous computing community to walk up to any computer, personalize it, and use it as one’s own.
In essence, SoulPad allowed users to start a computing session on one PC, stop it, and resume it later on another PC with just a mobile device like a pocket drive or an iPod — the “Soul.” It did this by combining an auto-configuring operating system and a virtual machine that were stored on the mobile device. We also laid out several of the improvements needed in virtual machine technology, application and system software design, and software licensing for this style of suspend/resume operation. Our paper describing this work won the Best Paper award in ACM MobiSys 2005. Commercial solutions such as U3, MojoPac, Windows To Go, Ceedo, and so on appeared soon after.
How did you get into this field of research?
IBM made amazing ThinkPads in the late 1990s, and the company looked to IBM Research to lead the way in building the future of personal computing. During this time, I was exposed to researchers working on multiple systems areas, ranging from efficient power management and thermal cooling to novel input devices.
But it was becoming clear that even the amazing ThinkPads were too big and heavy. Around this time, I started using early portable GPS units and digital cameras, and attended some of the early IEEE Symposiums on Wearable Computing. These experiences convinced me that we could unlock a lot of potential by making devices more portable and connected. I was hooked on mobile computing. Fortunately, the field was just emerging and there was a lot a computer scientist could do.
Fast forward 20 years — I have since changed my area of research and now I lead the Supply Chain Theme for IBM Research, working with AI. To my pleasant surprise, the work I did on the WatchPad continues to be relevant here, for example in the case of CryptoAnchors. This project incorporates tiny devices with a secure computing platform and sensors able to capture data from the physical world and report it to a blockchain ecosystem to document and protect our supply chains.
What especially excites you today about the field of mobile and wearable computing?
The COVID-19 pandemic has actually given rise to several interesting mobile applications, such as contact tracing and worker safety monitoring. These are great examples of wide-scale application having societal impact across the world. New uses continue to emerge for this field. Devices are becoming more capable and novel sensors are emerging leading to more possibilities at home and work.
I personally think there is a lot more to come from synergies between pervasive devices and the cloud. For example, I imagine a future where I could dictate a task to my home automation system to fly a 5G-connected drone to inspect my roof or my backyard. And then, it would produce an itemized report of issues that need to be fixed, along with suggestions for contractors to perform those repairs.
Talking about your current field of work, AI in Supply Chains. What are the most cutting-edge developments?
We are seeing more and more the need for intelligent self-correcting supply chains because of the scale and speed at which they need to operate. For example, what specific sequence of actions should a Chief Supply Chain Officer take in response to an impending hurricane, a potential supplier disruption, or to increasing incidence of customer dissatisfaction? Recent advances in AI — including deep learning and reinforcement learning, explainable AI, availability of real-time data from business processes and IoT devices, improved connectivity, and cloud-based computation — will help us get there.
Several challenges also arise in quickly finding and reconciling the relevant data needed for a particular problem. I call this the “data supply chain,” where the production, sourcing, quality, pricing, delivery, ratings, disposal, and recycling of data is treated with the rigor of a traditional supply chain. Operating efficiently at scale and speed continue to remain a challenge.
To help make progress, our research teams are using advanced optimization and AI techniques for faster and more accurate demand forecasting, inventory positioning and replenishment, and resource optimization. We are developing privacy-preserving platforms for sharing and analyzing data in multi-enterprise supply chain networks, applying workflow automation to improve efficiency and speed, building carbon calculators for reporting and improving supply chain sustainability, and so much more.
What’s the next step in your research and how can it benefit society once you achieve those future results?
People are starting to ask if quantum computing is ready for the optimization problems encountered in supply chains and whether it can help solve some of the above challenges. We need to find some of these answers.
We hope that our work will pave the way for a world with more intelligent and sustainable supply chains where people spend more of their time on interesting tasks and leave the repetitive, “boring” work to machines.
Inventing What’s Next.
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Return on investment (ROI) is an important part of digital marketing (and really, almost every part of marketing)—it tells you whether you’re getting your money’s worth from your marketing campaigns. And if you’re not, it’s critical to get to the bottom of it, and understand why so you can learn how to improve your campaigns. But first, you need to understand how you can effectively measure the ROI of digital advertising.
The most instinctive way to measure digital advertising ROI is to track metrics that tie directly to revenue and profit (think conversions, opportunities, etc.). While it sounds great on paper, in the real world, this oversimplified view can paint an inaccurate picture of your ROI, especially if your product is sold at a low price per unit. Big picture measurement often factors in soft metrics—things like brand impressions, impressions, website visitors, and downloads—which help tell a more complete story.
Here’s how to measure ROI using soft metrics for three popular digital advertisements—mobile video ads, native advertising, and programmatic advertising:
1. Mobile Video Ads
Mobile video advertising can be more effective than regular web video advertising or even television advertising. This is because mobile is a much more intimate medium—it’s less of a shared experience and has fewer distractions.
When done well, mobile video ads provide helpful information that drives traffic to your website, increases brand awareness, and is valuable enough for social sharing. Home improvement retailer Lowe’s recently demonstrated the value of mobile video ads with their #lowesfixinsix campaign on the popular video app Vine. The quick tips are fun and informative—and over 35,000 of their followers choose to have their ads in their feeds.
Measuring the ROI of Mobile Video Advertising
When evaluating the success of your mobile video advertising, take these metrics into account:
- Brand awareness: Measure brand awareness by looking at your direct traffic numbers (hits that come from viewers typing the URL directly into their search bar), the number of people who searched for your video by its name or hashtag, the number of clicks that came from referrals, and the number of social media shares and mentions. You can also find current search data on your brand name by using a tool like Google Trends.
- Purchase influence: Did your ad lead to an increase in sales? Look at the first-touch and multi-touch attribution that was generated by your video or video program for a look at the ROI but for a larger picture, look at the amount of traffic generated by your campaign and compare it to your sales numbers—including the numbers before and after the campaign launched.
- Accessibility: Track the placement of your ads and test them to make sure they are viewable on all devices and that they are not hidden on the page. This ensures people actually have access to your ads.
- Mind share: While you have no way of measuring how often people discuss your brand with friends over coffee, you can get a good idea how often people are talking about it by looking at the comments and shares on your mobile videos. A successful mobile video ad will have both.
2. Native Advertising
Effective native advertising fits seamlessly into the organic content of the sites that carry them. Also known as an “advertorial,” this type of advertisement provides useful information to readers in a format that resembles non-paid articles on the website. Native advertising can be found in hard copies and online newspapers and magazines, but it’s also seen on social media sites such as Facebook.
IBM pays to publish their own content on the Forbes platform as IBMVoice. Their paid content looks and feels like an article on the site, but it’s clear that it’s marketing content. In fact, native ads that look too much like unbranded content can actually hurtyour campaign and reputation if you leave readers feeling duped.
Measuring the ROI of Native Advertising
Measuring the ROI of native advertising can be challenge for many marketers. It’s measured primarily by click-throughs, which is an important factor to consider, but other measurements are also critical in understanding the full picture of its performance:
- Customer acquisition: How many click-throughs via native advertising led to acquiring information that you can nurture toward conversion? To measure this, divide the total number of click-throughs by the number of people who submitted contact information (for example, by signing up for your newsletter). This number should be higher in connection with a native advertising campaign.
- Reputation: Does the information presented in your native ad help develop the company as a trusted expert or thought leader? Does it increase the number of people turning to the brand’s website for advice? Look at the number of comments and queries you receive in connection to your ad, as well as increased traffic.
- Brand recognition: Do more people recognize your brand as a result of the native advertising? To determine this, look at your website analytics to find the number of hits that come in from your native advertising directly, and then use Google Trends to see if the number of people searching for your brand name is increasing.
- Mind share: Are people sharing your content on social media? Are they talking about it? You can usually find the number of social media shares right on the content page.
3. Programmatic Advertising
Programmatic advertising is software-created, specifically-targeted advertising. You probably see this type of advertising many times a day online—they’re often displayed as banner or sidebar ads that change whenever you refresh your page.
A huge amount of marketing dollars go into programmatic advertising. In fact, eMarketer reports that it expects to see programmatic ad spend reach $20.41 billion this year. This type of advertising is automated—created directly, without an ad salesperson or contracts, and is based on your goals. The biggest advantage of programmatic advertising is that it can be altered to best meet your company’s needs, based on the demographics, location, and behavior of your target audience.
Diesel, a popular fashion brand, included programmatic ads as part of their multi-channel campaign last fall. Their Shazam ads, for example, included copy specifically designed for the targeted setting. When Shazam couldn’t recognize a song, the Diesel ad empathized with the user.
Measuring the ROI of Programmatic Advertising
Because of its versatility and flexibility, programmatic advertising metrics must be measured frequently to be effective. While things like click-throughs and mind share are important your measurements should focus on areas such as:
- Recognition and reputation: Search for your brand name on social media and keep track of the number of mentions, as well as whether the mentions are positive or negative. Your recognition should increase the longer your programmatic ads run.
- Website traffic numbers: As your brand becomes more recognized, you should see an increase in traffic, from people who come directly to your site by typing in your URL as well as following your ad.
Hard metrics are without a doubt important for proving and improving ROI (and demonstrating the value of your activities and spend to the C-level), but it’s critical to track vanity metrics in addition to ROI in order to have a comprehensive view of how your ads are doing. As your brand pushes marketing boundaries into new strategies—like mobile video ads, native advertising, and programmatic ads—make sure you are measuring ROI beyond just revenue impact so your whole team can continue to drive engagement and improve sales.
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- 1 How do you clean grout without damaging marble?
- 2 Can you use grout cleaner on marble?
- 3 How do you get mold out of marble grout?
- 4 What do professionals use to clean grout?
- 5 Is baking soda safe for marble?
- 6 What is the best homemade tile grout cleaner?
- 7 What can I use to clean marble tile?
- 8 Will grout stain marble tile?
- 9 Can you clean marble with hydrogen peroxide?
- 10 How do you clean floor grout without scrubbing?
- 11 Does hydrogen peroxide damage tiles?
- 12 Is Dawn dish soap safe for marble?
- 13 Does bleach harm marble tile?
- 14 Does bleach damage marble tiles?
How do you clean grout without damaging marble?
Use a stiff-bristle toothbrush and wet it with warm water. Put a small amount of baking soda on the bristles. Gently scrub the grout in between the marble tiles with the toothbrush in a back and forth motion. Be careful not to brush the baking soda into the marble tiles.
Can you use grout cleaner on marble?
Do you have any advice? A: Acidic cleaners damage marble as well as grout, so stay away from those. However, mildly alkaline cleaners can be used for both materials.
How do you get mold out of marble grout?
At this point, you’ll need to mix a 50/50 solution of bleach and water, then spray or pour the mixture onto the surface of the stone and scrub it. Let this bleach and water concoction sit for 15 minutes before rinsing it out with water. This will extinguish those mold colonies and let you shower in peace.
What do professionals use to clean grout?
Q: What do professionals use to clean grout? A: whether you believe it or not, most professionals use a solution of white vinegar and water with a 1:1 ratio. This solution is often more effective than dedicated Ph-neutral grout cleaners.
Is baking soda safe for marble?
Baking Soda as a Homemade Marble Cleaner Baking soda is alkaline so you should only use it with caution. It is also a mild abrasive, so you need to use it gently rather than applying elbow grease. Because of these factors, a baking soda cleanser should not be used on marble every day.
What is the best homemade tile grout cleaner?
The most common and effective homemade grout cleaner is a mixture of baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, and dish soap. Cream or tartar and lemon juice is the best all-natural solution for whitening. Avoid using highly-acidic solutions like vinegar because they can corrode grout.
What can I use to clean marble tile?
For marble flooring, the Marble Institute advises dust-mopping floors frequently and cleaning with a mild, phosphate-free biodegradable liquid dishwashing soap or powder, or a stone soap. Soapless cleaners minimize streaks and film. After washing, rinse with clean water and dry.
Will grout stain marble tile?
Polished marble shouldn’t need sealing before you apply grout, but tumbled marble does — it’s so absorbent that the grout itself will stain it during the installation process unless you seal it first.
Can you clean marble with hydrogen peroxide?
For most organic food stains, the Marble Institute recommends cleaning with a solution of 12% hydrogen peroxide and a few drops of ammonia; if you spilled anything oil-based, like a vinaigrette, and the stain has set, attack it (gently) with a liquid cleanser that contains “household detergent, mineral spirits, or
How do you clean floor grout without scrubbing?
Easiest Way to Clean Grout without Scrubbing: Peroxide and Baking Soda. The easiest way to clean grout without scrubbing (or with minimal scrubbing) is with a homemade recipe or homemade descaler. We’ve found a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and baking soda often works best.
Does hydrogen peroxide damage tiles?
Hydrogen peroxide has two atoms of hydrogen and two atoms of oxygen. The best part is that there are no fumes, and the oxygen ions will not harm the color in the grout. Nor will it harm any adjacent carpets or fabrics. It is best to apply the solution and let it sit for 30 or even 60 minutes.
Is Dawn dish soap safe for marble?
A small amount of mild dish soap, like Dawn, mixed with water is a safe way to clean marble. Just make sure you don’t use dish soap that is abrasive or contains acidic ingredients like lemon juice.
Does bleach harm marble tile?
Since bleach-based cleaners have a high PH and can be very alkaline, any mixture with more parts of bleach can damage the marble, etching and dulling the surface. Simply add your bleach to the appropriate quantity of warm water and apply the solution with a sponge or soft cloth.
Does bleach damage marble tiles?
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The coronavirus pandemic might have been prevented if not for Chinese cover-ups in the early days of the outbreak and the World Health Organization “parroting” Beijing propaganda, according to a damning audit from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The 96-page report — obtained by The Post ahead of its planned Monday release — says the Chinese Communist Party destroyed evidence and buried troubling data, while nationalizing the supply chains and limiting exports of US companies 3M and General Motors, keeping key goods in the country.
“It is beyond doubt that the CCP actively engaged in a cover-up designed to obfuscate data, hide relevant public health information, and suppress doctors and journalists who attempted to warn the world,” reads the report, authored by Republican members of the Democrat-held committee.
Had China been more transparent and proactive when the first signs of the burgeoning health crisis emerged in Wuhan in late 2019, the outbreak could have been largely contained — potentially saving hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide, the pols wrote.
“Research shows the CCP could have reduced the number of cases in China by up to 95 percent had it fulfilled its obligations under international law and responded to the outbreak in a manner consistent with best practices,” the report said, citing a study on Medrxiv, a Yale University-linked online clearinghouse for medical manuscripts.
“It is highly likely the ongoing pandemic could have been prevented,” the report said.
Instead, on Jan. 1, CCP officials ordered that the Wuhan wet market from which the contagion is believed to have sprung “be closed and sanitized, destroying forensic evidence that may have provided insight into the origins of the outbreak,” the report said.
On Jan. 2, scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology completed a full genetic sequence of COVID-19 which indicated that it was likely highly contagious, but did not immediately share that data with the WHO.
Allegedly aiding and abetting the breakdown was the WHO itself and its director-general, Tedros Adhanom, according to the lawmakers, who called for Tedros’ resignation.
“The WHO has been complicit in the spread and normalization of CCP propaganda and disinformation,” they wrote. “Director-General Tedros should accept responsibility for his detrimental impact on the COVID-19 response and resign.”
While China tried to sweep the crisis under the rug and was derelict in its duties to inform the international health community — as required under International Health Regulations since the nation similarly erred during the 2002 SARS outbreak — the WHO hardly helped once it got involved, the report says.
Officials at the United Nations agency only publicly acknowledged the outbreak in a pair of tweets on Jan. 4 — five days after they learned of it through a Chinese media report uploaded onto a US-based website for inside medical news.
The WHO also ignored whistle-blowing warnings from the Taiwan Centers of Disease Control and the Hong Kong government about human-to-human transmission, incorrectly claiming for weeks that Chinese authorities had found “no evidence” of this — even though China by then knew it was genetically similar to the 2002 SARS strain, which was communicable, the report charges.
WHO director-general Tedros AdhanomFabrice Coffrini/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
“From the early stages of the outbreak, the WHO, under Director-General Tedros’ leadership, parroted and upheld as inviolable truth, statements from the CCP,” the report said. “An examination of their public statements, including the praise heaped on the CCP’s handling of the pandemic, reveal a disturbing willingness to ignore science and alternative credible sources.”
Medical staff waiting outside rooms at the Red Cross hospital in Wuhan.AFP via Getty Images
On Jan. 20, WHO investigators finally toured Wuhan, as sweeping quarantine orders were being put into place.
US officials, meanwhile, weren’t part of a February tour to assess China’s response, an omission for which there are conflicting explanations.
The WHO claims American experts were content with allowing other monitors to conduct the review, but the US Department of Health and Human Services told lawmakers that Americans were left out of the selection process, according to the report.
Despite mounting evidence that they and the international community had been misled, Tedros on Jan. 28 praised China on its “transparency.”
He declared a public health emergency two days later, by which point there were nearly 10,000 diagnosed cases spanning 19 countries — among them China and the US.
Internal documents showed that WHO officials were privately frustrated by the CCP’s refusal to hand over data on patients and cases, even as Tedros publicly praised them.
“We’re going on very minimal information,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead for COVID-19 in one internal meeting, according to the report. “It’s clearly not enough for you to do proper planning.”
The international community has condemned China’s handling of the early days of the outbreak, spurring calls for an independent investigation.
President Trump has repeatedly threatened his own retribution, with the administration weighing legal action against China.
As of Sunday, over 30 million cases and nearly 1 million deaths had been tallied worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The committee’s ranking member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) told The Post that both Tedros and the Chinese government needed to be held accountable for “the suffering they have allowed the world to endure.
“It is crystal clear that had the CCP been transparent, and had the head of the WHO cared more about global health than appeasing the CCP, lives could have been spared and widespread economic devastation could have been mitigated,” said McCaul.
In a rare letter sent by Tedros to McCaul in July, the WHO chief failed to answer any of the US government’s questions about its mishandling of the pandemic and maintained the body acted in a timely and impartial manner, the report says.
Lawmakers on the committee recommend Taiwan be admitted to the WHO, lauding the Asian country as an ignored early whistleblower.
But, the WHO’s bumbling response notwithstanding, the Republican committee advised against the US pulling out of the partnership, as President Trump indicated he would in July.
“We do not believe the withdrawal of the United States or the establishment of a competing international organization is the best path forward,” the report said. “By remaining part of a WHO that is ready for change, the United States can drive forward the necessary reforms of the International Health Regulations and the WHO.”
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Geometric objects formed of the same material can be merged together to form a single domain
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For example, here I can use this feature to combine a sphere and a rectangle to form a
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Transport strategies should be integrated. They need to be, if they are to be successful in the long term. They should be based on an understanding of who travels where, by what mode, how that is likely to change, and whether that can be influenced. Planning for each mode in isolation is easier, but inefficient, because the plans for each mode impact on the others, and frequently conflict. A plan for one mode might look quite sensible in isolation, but be completely ineffective because it fails to understand the characteristics of the travel markets it competes in.
Transport also suffers from an inherent tension between the needs of travellers and the communities they travel in. The tension gets worse, the longer the journeys. Often there is a mixture of local trips, longer trips and through trips, all competing for attention. There are often two levels of government responsible, sometimes more.
While a perfectly-integrated transport strategy is impractical, transport strategies will be far more effective if these issues are considered and addressed, even if only at a high level.
Taking London as an example, you can segment the transport market into three – journeys in inner/central London, journeys in outer London, and journeys from outer to central London. The three markets are very different. Inner/central journeys are dominated by sustainable modes, with less than 20% by car. In contrast, the car accounts for about 60% of journeys in outer London; driving is very much the norm. Journeys from outer London to central London are 80% rail.
Clearly, London’s transport strategy needs a strong focus on rail – how to provide for the large commuter flows between outer and central London with tolerable levels of overcrowding. But that needs to be woven into the rest of the strategy. Rail commuting creates a distribution issue in central London. It’s important to get rail services as close to the City as practical, but there’s also a strategic interest in facilitating walking from the rail termini (hire bikes are almost irrelevant, given the scale of the task). Improving the walking environment makes central London more attractive as a leisure/shopping destination, making better use of the comprehensive rail service. Rail also suffers from increasing overcrowding as you get closer to the centre – there’s a strategic interest in diverting some of this demand away from rail.
The low usage of cars in Inner London provides an unexploited opportunity. There’s quite a bit of through traffic and freight traffic on Inner London main roads, but local trips are dominated by sustainable modes. The local interest is to improve the sustainable modes further, with little interest in providing for cars. The strategic interest is to discourage car-commuting (which makes other road journeys unreliable), but also to provide alternatives to using rail services into central London (which are overcrowded). While the space available is highly constrained, there is a co-incidence of interests in promoting buses and cycling. In particular, given adequate provision on main roads, cycling could become ubiquitous, not just for commuting into central London, but for a much wider range of journey purposes, and with a broader demographic.
The situation in outer London is quite different. Local journeys are a little more dispersed, and orbital public transport less effective. Through journeys are concentrated on a few high-capacity roads. A large proportion of local journeys are still concentrated on education and shopping (and are predominantly short-distance), but car ownership is high, congestion intermittent, and car-usage is frequently the norm. High car usage creates a health, pollution and carbon problem. It also constrains the opportunities for non-car-owners. But policy is likely to be focused on creating opportunities to use alternatives to the car, rather than explicitly restricting car use. Take up of alternatives is likely to be slow. Conversely, there is less pressure on roadspace, and fewer through journeys. So there will be more opportunities to moderate traffic speed and to take space for cycling. Rather than a radical transformation, the strategic interest lies more in applying continuous support for incremental change.
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Cities of Cyprus
Larnaca or Larnaka is a city on Cyprus's southern coast and the capital of the same-named district.
The Church of Saint Lazarus, Hala Sultan Tekke, Kamares Aqueduct, and Larnaca Castle are all located in Larnaca, which is noted for its palm-tree coastline, also known as Foinikoudes.
It was erected atop the ruins of ancient Citium, where Stoic philosopher Zeno was born.
Larnaca International Airport, the country's principal airport, is located in the city.
It also boasts a marina and a seaport.
Nicosia is Cyprus's largest city, capital, and administrative center. On the banks of the River Pedieos, it is near the center of the Mesaoria plain.
Nicosia (Lefkosia in Greek) was a siren, one of Acheloos and Melpomene's daughters, and her name means "White State" or "City of White Gods" in Greek mythology.
Nicosia is the capital of Cyprus, the EU's southernmost member state.
It has been inhabited continuously for over 4,500 years and has served as Cyprus' capital since the 10th century.
Following fighting in the city during the Cyprus crisis of 1963–64, the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities of Nicosia were separated into the south and north of the city, respectively.
After Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus in 1974, occupying the north of the island, including northern Nicosia, this separation became a militarized border between the Republic of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.
North Nicosia is now the capital of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a state recognized only by Turkey.
Nicosia has established itself as the island's financial capital and main international business center, in addition to its legislative and administrative functions.
In terms of relative purchasing power, Nicosia was the 32nd richest city in the world in 2018.
Famagusta is a city on Cyprus' east coast.
It is located east of Nicosia and has the island's deepest harbour.
Famagusta was the island's most significant port city and a gateway to commerce with the ports of the Levant, from where Silk Road merchants conveyed their products to Western Europe, throughout the Middle Ages (particularly under the maritime republics of Genoa and Venice).
Northern Cyprus, which is claimed by Cyprus, has de facto control of the historic walled city and sections of the contemporary city.
Famagusta is the capital of Northern Cyprus' Gazimausa District.
Limassol is a city on Cyprus's southern coast and the capital of the same-named district.
Limassol, after Nicosia, is Cyprus' second-largest city, with a population of 183,658 and a metropolitan population of 239,842.
Limassol was named the world's third most up-and-coming destination in TripAdvisor's Top 10 Traveler's Choice Destinations on the Rise list in 2014.
In Mercer's Quality of Living Survey, the city is placed 89th in the world (2017).
Limassol was designated as a "Gamma" global city in the Globalization and World Cities Research Network's classification for 2020.
Paphos is the capital of the Paphos District and a beach city in southwest Cyprus.
Paphos had two names in classical antiquity: Old Paphos, which is now known as Kouklia, and New Paphos, which is now known as Paphos.
Paphos is located on the Mediterranean coast, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Limassol (the island's largest port), and is connected by the A6 motorway.
The second-largest airport in Cyprus is Paphos International Airport.
The city enjoys a subtropical-Mediterranean climate, with some of the island's mildest temperatures.
Paphos was included to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1980 because of its historic architecture, mosaics, and religious significance.
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If you set it in your first paragraph, you want to dwell on it in greater detail in subsequent sentences. If you determine to place the assertion at the finish, make sure the sentences previous it are logically related with one another, and gradually lead the reader to your thesis statement. Your essay will revolve round a single thought, often identified as your thesis assertion. In an expository essay, you need to construct a thesis that does not rely solely by yourself opinion, but as a substitute, lets you use research to prove that idea. This idea will go within the introduction of your essay, and the rest of your essay will relate again to this single statement.
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Neuroimmunology of Stress: Skin Takes Center Stage
Posted Aug 13, 2020
By Petra C. Arck, Andrzej Slominski, Theoharis C. Theoharides, Eva M. J. Peters and Ralf Paus
Like few other organs, the skin is continuously exposed to multiple exogenous and endogenous stressors. Superimposed on this is the impact of psychological stress on skin physiology and pathology. Here, we review the “brain–skin connection,” which may underlie inflammatory skin diseases triggered or aggravated by stress, and we summarize relevant general principles of skin neuroimmunology and neuroendocrinology. Specifically, we portray the skin and its appendages as both a prominent target of key stress mediators (such as corticotropin-releasing hormone, ACTH, cortisol, catecholamines, prolactin, substance P, and nerve growth factor) and a potent source of these prototypic, immunomodulatory mediators of the stress responses.
We delineate current views on the role of mast cell-dependent neurogenic skin inflammation and discuss the available evidence that the skin has established a fully functional peripheral equivalent of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis as an independent, local stress response system. To cope with stress-induced oxidative damage, the skin and hair follicles also express melatonin, probably the most potent neuroendocrine antioxidant. Lastly, we outline major, as-yet unmet challenges in cutaneous stress research, particularly in the study of the cross-talk between peripheral and systemic responses to psychological stress and in the identification of promising molecular targets for therapeutic stress intervention.
Stress and the Skin
Psychological stress is a prevalent aspect of life, usually triggered by a stimulus (stressor), which induces a reaction in the brain (stress perception). Subsequently, additional physiological systems are activated in the body, for example, the immune, endocrine, and nervous systems (stress response) (Cacioppo et al., 1998). According to Walter Cannon’s hypothesis, the stress response is an evolutionarily adaptive psychophysiological survival mechanism that allows the individual to react to an acute stressor — for example, a predator — with either “fight or flight,” and to react to exposure to chronic stress by saving energy (Cannon, 1914).
However, stressors have changed, and the present connotation of stress does not include the survival of the individual based on the putative preparedness to fight or evade predators, or to save energy. Hence, pathophysiological changes associated with the stress response are misrouted and serve as aggravating or triggering factors in the pathogenesis of many diseases, for example, inflammatory, autoimmune, and allergic diseases (Qiu et al., 1999; Chandler et al., 2002; Blois et al., 2005).
In a general sense, the term “stress” is widely used, for example in the context of exposure to environmental stressors, as depicted in Figure 1. In this review, we focus predominantly on psychological stress; however, as a relationship between environmental stress and psychological stress is highly suggestive, a discussion of this form of stress has also been included (Figure 1).
Systemic response patterns to stress: neuro-endocrine-immune circuitry
Activation of neurohormones by psychological stress occurs largely via the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, with subsequent upregulation of key stress hormones, such as corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), ACTH, and glucocorticoids (Cacioppo et al.,1998; Glaser and Kiecolt-Glaser, 2005). Via these stress-related hormones, accompanied by additional stress response mediators such as neuropeptides or neurotrophins (Webster, 2002), immune responses are profoundly altered (Glaser and Kiecolt-Glaser, 2005).
For example, glucocorticoids inhibit the production of IL-12, IFN-γ, and tumor necrosis factor by antigenpresenting cells and T helper 1 (Th1) cells but upregulate the production of IL-4, IL-10, and IL-13 by Th2 cells (Wonnacott and Bonneau, 2002). This may induce the selective suppression of the Th1-mediated cellular immunity and trigger a shift toward Th2 mediated humoral immunity. It has been postulated that this Th2 shift may actually protect the organism from systemic “overshooting” with Th1/proinflammatory cytokines that have tissue-damaging potential (Elenkov et al., 1999).
Besides such often-cited immunosuppressive effects of glucocorticoids, relevant examples of proinflammatory actions of CRH — which triggers the release of glucocorticoids — have recently been introduced, for example, in inflammatory arthritis, where both CRH and urocortin have been identified in the joints (McEvoy et al., 2001). Elegant experiments with hypophysectomized rats have further proven the effect of additional pituitary hormones — for example, prolactin (PRL) — on the immune system. In these studies, the lack of PRL resulted in abnormalities of the immune system, including increased thymic atrophy and lymphopenia, which could be reversed after grafting of syngeneic pituitary (Chikanza and Panayi, 1991).
Interestingly, elevated PRL antagonizes apoptosis in thymocytes exposed to glucocorticoids in vivo, which suggests that, under conditions of increased glucocorticoids, such as during stress, elevated PRL functions physiologically to maintain survival and function of T lymphocytes (Krishnan et al., 2003).
Neurohormonal responses to stress also include an activation of the sympathetic nervous system with a subsequent increase of catecholamines, a phenomenon that has received much less attention than the stress-triggered activation of the HPA axis. For half a century it has been known that lymphoid organs are prominently innervated by noradrenergic nerve fibers (Dahlström et al., 1965), and evidence that has accumulated since then supports the idea that the immune system is regulated via the sympathetic nervous system and catecholamines at the regional, local, and systemic levels (Cacioppo et al., 1998).
For example, lymphocytes express adrenergic receptors and respond to catecholamine stimulation with the development of stress-induced lymphocytosis, and distinct changes in lymphocyte trafficking, circulation, proliferation, and cytokine production (Sanders et al., 1997; Dhabhar, 2000).
Besides the classical stress-related neurohormones — such as the players of the HPA axis (including CRH, ACTH, and cortisol), PRL, and catecholamines — nerve growth factor (NGF) is now recognized as an important parameter in stress responses (Aloe et al., 2002). Besides its function as an important trophic factor for peptidergic and sympathetic neurons and their axon sprouting, NGF is increasingly recognized as a potent immunomodulator, promoting cross-talk between neuronal cells, glia, and immune cells and facilitating monocyte/macrophage migration through vascular endothelium (Levi-Montalcini et al., 1996).
Clinical relevance of stress in dermatology
The skin is exceptionally well suited to serve as a model organ for dissecting the complex neuro-endocrine-immune circuitry invoked during stress responses, for the following reasons:
(1) Hardly any other organ is continuously exposed to such a wide range of stressors as the skin, the prototypic environmental interface organ of vertebrate life; and this exposure occurs 24 hours a day during our entire lifetime (Figure 1).
(2) A special susceptibility of the skin to acute and/or chronic psychological stress has been described in a wide range of skin diseases, including pruritus, prurigo nodularis, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, urticaria, acne vulgaris, lichen planus, alopecia areata, and telogen effluvium (Whitlock, 1976; Zouboulis and Böhm, 2004; Hadshiew et al., 2004; O’Leary et al., 2004).
(3) Adaptive skin responses to acute stress, besides classical autonomic-nervous “stress indicators” of the skin such as flushing and sweating, include an enhanced skin immune function with increased intracutaneous extravasation of immunocompetent cells (Dhabhar, 2000) and increased mast-cell degranulation (Katsarou-Katsari et al., 2001).
(4) The skin and its appendages are exquisitely well innervated, and their afferent signals to the central nervous system are relatively overrepresented in the sensory cortex.
(5) The skin and its appendages are capable of generating the same mediators that are used during systemic stress responses, and they have established a fully functional peripheral equivalent of the systemic, stress-activated HPA axis (Slominski and Wortsman, 2000; Ito et al., 2005) (Figure 2).
(6) The course of skin disorders (listed in Figure 3) in response to stress and/or various stress-modulatory psychological or pharmacological interventions can easily be followed macroscopically, and skin biopsies for further in-depth histological, immunological, endocrinological, neurobiological, biochemical, and molecular analyses can easily be performed, thus greatly facilitating stress research in both humans and experimental animals.
The skin has established a fully functional peripheral equivalent of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis
The skin has its own neuroendocrine system, which is tightly linked into systemic neuroendocrine axes, probably in order to coordinate peripheral responses to stress and to maintain cutaneous and global homeostasis (Slominski and Wortsman, 2000). These activities are organized by the intracutaneous neuroendocrine axes, composed chiefly of a cutaneous equivalent of the HPA axis (Slominski et al., 2002; Slominski et al., 2005b) (Figures 1 and 2). Recently, a fully functional peripheral equivalent of the HPA axis could be demonstrated in microdissected, organ-cultured human scalp hair follicles, which were capable of synthesizing cortisol and showing fully functional feedback controls (Ito et al., 2005).
Strikingly, human skin also expresses CRH and, additionally, urocortin mRNA and protein (Slominski et al., 2002). Murine skin contains CRH protein but has not been shown to contain CRH mRNA (though it does express both transcripts and protein for the CRH receptor ligand urocortin). Hence, the neural delivery of CRH into the skin must also be considered as a possible means by which CRH protein can be transported into the skin in a highly localized fashion (Roloff et al., 1998).
Most recently, the expression of urocortin II (stresscopin-related peptide) mRNA in both human and mouse skin could be detected, and corresponding receptors for these ligands were also identified in skin cells (Pisarchik and Slominski, 2001). CRH-like immunoreactivity is further present in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia (Skofitsch et al., 1985), as well as in sympathetic ganglia (Merchenthaler et al., 1983).
Strikingly, acute stress increases the skin content of CRH, which may derive from dorsal root ganglia (Theoharides et al., 2004). Mapping of the cutaneous CRH signaling system in humans revealed that the CRH receptor type 1 (CRH R1) is expressed in all major cellular populations of epidermis, dermis, and subcutis. CRH-R1 appears to be the most prevalent isoform of CRH-R, and the CRH-R2 gene is expressed solely in the dermis and adnexal structures. In mouse skin, the CRH-R2 gene and protein are widely expressed in all cutaneous compartments.
The pathophysiological relevance of CRH-R1 may be reflected by the observation that CRH-R1 is involved in stress-induced exacerbation of chronic contact dermatitis in rats (Kaneko et al., 2003). Interestingly, affected scalp skin areas from patients with alopecia areata, which may be precipitated by psychological stress, show increased expression of CRH-R2 around hair follicles (Katsarou-Katsari et al., 2001).
Furthermore, affected skin areas from patients with contact dermatitis and chronic urticaria have increased expression of CRH-R1, as compared with normal control skin (TC Theoharides, unpublished data). Although the importance of CRH-R in the skin stress response is highly probable, the functional role of CRH-R expression in pathological human skin conditions remains to be identified.
Hypothalamic CRH production and secretion represent the most proximal end of the systemic HPA axis. CRH activates CRH-R1 and induces production and release of the proopiomelanocortin (POMC)-derived peptides ACTH, α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, and β-endorphin in the pituitary gland (Slominski and Wortsman, 2000).
ACTH, in turn, stimulates the production and secretion of cortisol or corticosterone by the adrenal cortex, which counteract the effect of the stressors by suppression of the HPA axis through a negative feedback mechanism (Slominski and Wortsman, 2000). Mammalian skin expresses POMC and produces the POMC-derived peptides β-endorphin, ACTH, α-melanocytestimulating hormone, and β-lipocortin. The first full demonstration of the cutaneous expression of POMC was accomplished in mouse skin (Slominski et al., 1991) and this was followed by insights from human skin (Schauer et al., 1994).
The presence of β-endorphin, ACTH, α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, and their modified forms in the skin was confirmed both by reverse-phase (RP)-HPLC separation and by liquid-chromatography mass spectrometry. In light of the existence of a local, neuroendocrine skin axis, it has been proposed that the cutaneous defense against stressors is organized similarly to the classical HPA axis. Effectors of this axis (CRH, urocortin, and POMC peptides) are capable of regulating skin pigmentary, immune, epidermal, dermal, and adnexal systems (see Böhm et al., 2006, this issue).
In this context, environmental challenges such as UV light and biological or chemical stress (Figure 1) trigger multiple pathways involving structuralized or simultaneous local production of CRH-related and POMC-derived messages (Slominski et al., 2005a), possibly to counteract the local effects of the environmental stress. This complex response would be susceptible to feedback inhibition by cortisol and/or corticosterone, which are produced locally in the skin (Slominski et al., 2005a; Ito et al., 2005).
The skin expresses the molecular apparatus necessary for the synthesis of adrenal and adrenal-like glucocorticosteroids. Specifically, production of deoxycorticosterone, corticosterone, and cortisol was documented in vitro (Slominski et al., 2005a).
Hence there is now experimental evidence that CRH triggers a functional cascade structured hierarchically along the same algorithm as in the classical HPA axis: CRH activates CRH-R1, stimulates cAMP accumulation, and increases production of ACTH with enhanced production of cortisol and corticosterone in melanocytes, of corticosterone but not cortisol in fibroblasts (Slominski et al., 2005b), and of ACTH and cortisol in human scalp hair follicle epithelium in situ (Ito et al., 2005).
The skin expresses additional neuroendocrine stress-related signals: prolactin, melatonin, catecholamines
This intracutaneous equivalent of the systemic HPA axis is complemented by additional neuroendocrine activities of the skin, whose role in cutaneous stress responses remains to be determined. For example, murine skin and hair follicles as well as human scalp hair follicles also express PRL, another key neuroendocrine signal whose level rises sharply during psychological stress responses (Sonino et al., 2004).
In addition, the skin and its pilosebaceous units display a complete local serotoninergic/melatoninergic system (Slominski et al., 2005b), which includes the capacity to synthesize melatonin (Kobayashi et al., 2005), the most effective neurohormonal scavenger of reactive oxygen species (Fischer and Elsner, 2001).
Whether or not recently discovered elements of a pituitary–thyroid axis, which are also expressed in the skin (Slominski et al., 2002), and the intracutaneous synthesis of catecholamines also feed into skin responses to psychological stress can currently only be speculated on and constitutes an important open question for future neuroendocrine and neuroimmunological research into cutaneous stress responses.
Skin mast cells and their functional role as “switchboards” of neurogenic inflammation during stress responses
Human mast cells are activated by a plethora of mast-cell secretagogues and other mediators (Figure 3) (Theoharides and Conti, 2004). This includes the stress hormones ACTH and CRH, as skin mast cells express five CRH-R1 isoforms as well as CRH-R2α (Pisarchik and Slominski, 2001). Strikingly, besides hair follicles, skin mast cells may be among the richest sources of CRH outside the brain (Kempuraj et al., 2001). Thus, skin mast cells not only are highly sensitive to modulation of their activities by classical stress hormones but also generate key stress hormones (at least CRH) themselves.
Conversely, once mast-cell degranulation has been induced by stress, the itch induced by one prototypic mast-cell product, histamine, elicits tonic sensory stimuli that differ from the central nervous system sensations triggered by pain and stimulates distinct cortical regions and brain processes (Walter et al., 2005). Thus, stress-induced mast-cell degranulation in the skin probably has immediate and prominent central nervous system effects, which may sustain a vicious, stress-induced cycle of proinflammatory events (Figures 2 and 3).
Mast-cell activation is well known for its key role in allergic and anaphylactic reactions; furthermore, mast cells are capable of synthesizing and secreting over 50 biologically potent molecules, including most cytokines (Figure 3). Hence, mast cells may easily induce a multitude of tissue effects necessary for the initiation of inflammation (Figures 2 and 3), the most prominent being vasodilation, vascular endothelial molecule expression, and chemoattraction.
In fact, mast cells have now been implicated in innate immunity (Galli et al., 2005). The vasodilatory, angiogenic, proinflammatory, and neurosensitizing mediators of mast cells include histamine, heparin, kinins, neuropeptides such as vasoactive intestinal peptide, and proteases such as chymase and tryptase (preformed), as well as chemoattractants, cytokines, growth factors, leukotrienes, prostaglandins, nitric oxide, stem cell factor, and vascular endothelial growth factor (Theoharides and Conti, 2004).
The most abundant mast-cell mediator is tryptase, which causes microvascular leakage, activation of proteinaseactivated receptors, and inflammation, as well as activation of neuropeptide precursors and direct proteolytic damage. Mast cells are also particularly rich in tumor necrosis factor and IL-6, both of which are implicated in inflammation and could perpetuate local inflammatory processes in response to psychological, chemical, mechanical, or oxidative stress.
Mast cells are located perivascularly in close proximity to neurons, and a functional association between mast cells and neurons has been reported (Arck et al., 2003a). Mast cells could also be activated by antidromic nerve stimulation, as shown for trigeminal or cervical ganglion stimulation that may result in neuropeptide secretion (Dimitriadou et al., 1991). Substance P (SP)-reactive fibers were localized close to mast cells (Arck et al., 2003b), and release of SP from sensory afferents could stimulate mast-cell secretion in vivo.
In contrast to the degranulation typically observed in anaphylactic reactions, in which most of the 500 secretory granules (1,000 nm each in diameter) release their contents in an explosive manner, mast cells can undergo secretion of the content of individual granules. Mast cells also have the ability to release some mediators selectively without degranulation.
This unique phenomenon was described first for biogenic amines and recently for IL-6 in response to the prototypic inflammatory cytokine IL-1; this process involves the selective release of IL-6, without histamine or tryptase, through small vesicles (50–70 nm each in diameter) (Kandere-Grzybowska et al., 2003).
Such selective release of mediators could be involved in a variety of processes, including stress response, angiogenesis, and cancer growth (Theoharides and Conti, 2004). In fact, elevation of serum IL-6 in response to acute stress is entirely mast cell-dependent (Huang et al., 2003). Such selective release of mastcell mediators is often associated with ultrastructural alterations of their electron dense granular core — which are indicative of secretion — but without degranulation; this process is termed “activation” (Kandere-Grzybowska et al., 2003).
Skin innervation and neurogenic inflammation in stress response
The skin is highly innervated by a plenitude of nerve fiber subpopulations, each carrying one or more neuronal mediators into the skin, which may be released upon central or peripheral stimulation (Peters et al., 2005). Skin nerve fibers also carry neuronal mediators, and the involvement of such neuronal mediators — that is, the sensory neuropeptide SP (Paus et al., 1994) or the neurotrophin NGF — in the stress response has recently been acknowledged (Peters et al., 2004).
Stress and the skin: working concepts
Established mouse models for investigation of the impact of psychological stress on skin homeostasis are now available (Arck et al., 2001; Arck et al., 2003b). In one model, exposure to sound stress severely impairs mechanisms of immune tolerance in various organs — for example, the Th1/Th2 cytokine ratio, the expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, and the presence of CD4+CD25bright regulatory T cells (Blois et al., 2005). Further, leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 acts as a key peripheral blood marker for stress perception (Blois et al., 2005).
This stress model is now widely used in neuroimmunological stress research, for example, to evaluate the effects of stress on bronchial hyperreactivity (Joachim et al., 2004) or on experimental colitis (Qiu et al., 1999). Using this model, it has been shown that stress exerts severe skin inflammation, affecting, for instance, hair growth or the aggravation of experimental atopic dermatitis (Arck et al., 2003b; Peters et al., 2005). In a distinct, complementary rodent stress model, mice exposed to foot shock showed similar inhibition of hair growth in a similar way (Aoki et al., 2003).
In this accepted murine model of chronic “psychological” stress, exposure to sound stress induces neurogenic skin inflammation characterized by increased NGF expression, upregulated perifollicular mast-cell degranulation, and perifollicular accumulation of antigen-presenting cells, thus inhibiting hair growth by downregulating proliferation and upregulating apoptosis of hair follicle keratinocytes and by prematurely triggering hair follicle regression (catagen) (Arck et al., 2001; Peters et al., 2004).
In the absence of functional mast cells or the neurokinin-1 receptor (Arck et al., 2005), and in the presence of neurokinin-1 receptor blockers (Arck et al., 2003b) or NGF-neutralizing antibodies (Peters et al., 2004), exposure to sound stress fails to induce premature catagen entry, neurogenic skin inflammation, and keratinocyte apoptosis. Intriguingly, stress exposure is associated with an upregulation not only in the number of intracutaneous SP+ nerve fibers, but also in SP immunoreactivity in dorsal root ganglia, as measured by retrograde tracing (Peters et al., 2004).
Therefore, in this model, psychological stress activates a defined, hierarchically organized cascade of events in which NGF, SP, and mast cells play key roles. It remains to be determined whether CRH and/or ACTH reside upstream of NGF and/or SP. The obvious question raised by these findings is how NGF and/or SP trigger or exacerbate deleterious inflammatory events such as mast-cell activation or migration of antigen-presenting cells. Indeed, NGF directly stimulates activation of mast cells via functional neurotrophin receptors (Marshall et al., 1999), thus aggravating cutaneous neurogenic inflammation (Figure 2).
Furthermore, in response to stress, mast cells may secrete proteinases such as tryptase and trypsin, which may subsequently trigger additional cytokine release, cell migration, recruitment of leukocytes, and endothelial-cell activation (Steinhoff et al., 2000). Tryptasereleasing mast cells can be found in close proximity to proteinase-activated receptor-2-expressing cells such as keratinocytes, dermal endothelial cells, and C fibers during inflammation.
These mechanisms probably act synergistically with NGF and SP to upregulate the neurogenic inflammation cascade. Moreover, the release of other neuropeptides — for example, calcitonin gene-related peptide — may also be upregulated upon stress exposure (A Kuhlmei and P C Arck, unpublished observations), and this may result in subsequent proteinaseactivated receptor activation. Further, NGF is also implicated in the HPA axis (Scaccianoce et al., 1993). Hence, stress-induced neurogenic skin inflammation may affect the HPA axis, thus affecting behavior or leading to even higher stress perception (Figure 1).
Perspectives: long-term damage of skin stem cells induced by stress?
Future research in the analysis of cutaneous stress response patterns should focus on crucial skin-cell populations that may be especially vulnerable to stress and that are critical to skin homeostasis and regeneration. One such cell population could be hair follicle epithelial stem cells, which are vital for maintenance and cyclic renewal of the pilosebaceous apparatus (Panteleyev et al., 2001).
Sound stress in mice upregulates the number of apoptotic cells in the bulge region of the hair follicle and attracts dense, potentially autodestructive perifollicular cell infiltrates consisting mainly of activated macrophages to this crucial epithelial stem-cell region of the hair follicle (Arck et al., 2001; Arck et al., 2003). This places the hair follicle at risk of irreversible damage by induction of programmed hair follicle organ deletion.
Theoretically, stress may also affect melanocyte stem cells — for example, in the hair follicle during premature, “stress-induced” graying or alopecia areata, or in the epidermis during vitiligo, a depigmentation disorder that, in a minority of patients, may be triggered or aggravated by acute psychoemotional stress (Nishimura et al., 2005).
Perspectives: from bench to bedside
No specific pharmacological interventions are as yet available to prevent or treat stress-triggered skin disorders in humans. However, based on the wealth of data that has recently accumulated in this field, reasonable pharmacological treatment options are slowly coming into sight. Abrogation of mast-cell activation seems to be a promising approach in this endeavor, but to date, few if any clinically available molecules can effectively inhibit mast-cell activation. Disodium cromoglycate was shown to inhibit rodent mast cells but was a very weak inhibitor of mast-cell cytokine release (Kempuraj et al., 2002).
Increasing recent evidence indicates that certain flavonols, such as quercetin, are powerful inhibitors of both prestored and newly synthesized mediators from human mast cells. The combination of such flavonoids with proteoglycans, such as chondroitin sulphate, appears to provide synergistic efficacy by inhibiting both activation and secretion of mast cells (Theoharides and Bielory, 2004). Appropriate CRH-R antagonists, when available, might also provide a unique therapeutic approach in skin conditions precipitated or worsened by stress.
An effective therapeutic intervention — for example, to abrogate stress-triggered telogen effluvium — would have to prolong the anagen phase of the hair cycle, thus preventing the premature onset of catagen, which forms the basis of stress-induced telogen effluvium. As external application of the potassium channel opener minoxidil to human scalp skin over many months can prolong anagen, it is interesting to note that topical minoxidil also very effectively counteracts the stress-induced, hair growth-inhibitory changes in murine skin in vivo, including the inhibition of mast-cell activation (Arck et al., 2003a).
Further, the prototypic stress-associated neuropeptide SP may be blocked by the application of a high-affinity neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist (Arck et al., 2003b). Thus, neurokinin-1 receptor antagonists might be useful in alleviating stress-induced hair loss and skin inflammation. NGF receptor p75 antagonists also deserve systematic exploration as candidate “anti-stress” drugs in the treatment of stress-triggered or stress-aggravated skin disorders, such as psoriasis and stress-induced telogen effluvium. However, one evidently must be very cautious in translating results from murine models to humans.
In conclusion, there is now solid evidence for the existence of both an intrafollicular equivalent of the HPA axis and a defined brain–skin axis, whose modulation by chronic psychological stress is of profound dermatological interest. A new era in neuroimmunology must begin, and the primary goal is clearly to dissect proximal from distal mediators within the hierarchy of factors released in the stress response. Only integrative approaches and interdisciplinary research will make this possible.
Lastly, dermatologists should become far more attentive to the effect of psychological stress on skin disorders, not only for the benefit of their patients, but also because the skin serves as a very clinically relevant model system for exploring the neuroimmunology of peripheral and central stress responses.
Article sourced from: Petra C. Arck, Andrzej Slominski, Theoharis C. Theoharides, Eva M. J. Peters and Ralf Paus. Neuroimmunology of Stress: Skin Takes Center Stage. Journal of Investigative Dermatology (2006) 126, 1697–1704. doi:10.1038/sj.jid.5700104
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The city of Angre dos Reis is situated 155km away from the Rio de Janeiro, it is a Brazilian municipality in souther part of the country. The city is located at an altitude of 6 m and it includes many offshore islands, and the largest of them all is Ilha Grande. Angra consists of the chain of 365 islands and more than 50 beaches. You can explore all of them by a boat or schooner rides, which is a type of sail boat used to visit the beaches.
About Angre dos Reis:
he city was established by Europeans in 1502.In the mid of 20th century the municipality came into notice and become popular. Its became famous due to its ferry terminal facility in the Bay of Ilha Grande and its harbour, which use to transport large quantities of oil and thus comes under the busiest port in the country.
Its beautiful beaches and nearby regions, makes it a center point for tourism. Most of its region is covered by hills and beaches. The city generates its economy by fishing, and tourism. The port has an oil terminal as well as shipbuilding. Tourism is highly developed with countless beaches, islands and pristine waters perfect for swimming or scuba diving.
Points of Attraction in Angre dos Reis
The most important center of attraction of Angre dos Reis is Great Island, it is the biggest island in the region, and also one of the best place for diving in Brazil. Coralreefs and an exuberant marine fauna are part of the itinerary for those looking forward to diving into the blue-green waters.
Others major attractions are mentioned below:
- Gruta do Acaia (Acaia Grotto)
- Praia and Ilha dos Meros (Beach and Island of Meros)
- Laje and Ilha do Guriri (Island of Guriri)
- Ilha das Palmas (Palms Island)
- Ilha do Pau a Pino (Pau a Pino Island)
- Lagoa Azul (Blue Lagoon)
- Ilha do Morcego (Bat’s Island)
- Lagoa Verde (Green Lagoon)
- Ilha do Jorge Grego (Greek Jorge Island)
Activities you can do in Agre:
- Boat ride
- Sun Bathing
The city has many infrastructure of hotels and restaurants, besides historical buildings, such as the Holy Trinity church, the monument to Aquidaba at Jacuecanga’s bay, and Leme’s Fort. The Marco da Cidade, the Colegio Naval the Ermida do Senhor do Bonfim and the Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Remedios, Our Lady of Remedies Church etc.
How to Reach:
- By Plane/airport:The nearest airport to Angra is the Tom Jobim International Airport, in Rio, which is about 160 km away from it.
- By Bus:If you are already in Rio de Janeiro, take the bus to Angra dos Reis, which is about 155 km away. Rio’s Bus Station has bus lines that go to Angra regularly.
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What Is the Difference Between ATC & ATM Fuses?by Jamie Peacock
A fuse is used in an electrical circuit. Its purpose is to either protect a source of power or protect the electronic equipment. Sometimes fuses need to be replaced. Knowing what kind to use is important.
Both ATC and ATM fuses are considered to be a blade or plug-in fuse. They have two prongs and are made with a plastic body. Plug-in fuses were created in 1976. They both use the same color-coded amp ratings that are universally employed.
ATC fuses were created before ATM fuses. An ATC fuse will be larger than an ATM fuse in physical size. This is considered to be the regular size. An ATC fuse will be found in late-model electronic devices.
An ATM fuse is considered to be a mini fuse and it came out in the early 1990s. The only difference is it is smaller than an ATC fuse in actual size. It generally cannot be used in a fuse block that is made for an ATC fuse, as it will not fit in properly.
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Last week I made a last-minute, unscheduled visit to San Diego to be with my dad as he underwent a partial heart bypass (it went extremely well, in case you’re worried).
It was a pretty hectic few days but I made time one afternoon to go down to La Jolla, my favorite beach in pretty much the entire world, and gaze at the waves. I’ve always felt at peace on this long sandy mile, where the salt spray and fine golden dust are blasted by the sun. As it descends from its zenith and settles on a downward arc, mirroring Mount Soldedad’s western slope, the sun turns the ocean cobalt blue. When you’re racing an early-breaking wave and it momentarily blocks out the light with its bulk, the heaving mass of water is a dark violet.
When confronted with mortality, I find that nature is a comforting reminder of something much vaster than one human life. Despite all the flux, the mountains will always stand and the waves will forever tumble, reigning majestically over the temporal human body and spirit.
It took many years to overcome what was instilled in me from an early age. The religious education I had from the ages of 10-14 did a lot of damage beyond imprinting a false answer to the question “What happens when you die,” and I am still in the process of unlearning what I was taught.
Religion has a tremendous hold on humanity, largely thanks to some excellent messaging by its creators. The question of mortality has never been answered by an atheist in a grandiose way that captures the certitude of justice for all of the Old Testament God, the shining paradise for those who believe in Jesus Christ or Muhammad, the absolute oneness of Nirvana.
I think that’s a shame. I understand the fear of death, because for such a long time, I felt it, too — ironic, considering I believed in an afterlife. In our most fearful moments, when we are confronted by the darkness, God or some form of afterlife is comforting.
But as I stood on the shore and watched the waves collapse in an endless cycle of violence, and thought about how close I came to losing my father, I thought how beautiful it was to know that one day he will be dust, and so will I. His dust and mine, yours and others’, will break back down into the most basic elements: to nitrogen that returns to the earth and feeds new people, to carbon that feeds the trees, to oxygen that takes the life-giving form of water.
We’re not sure exactly why — if there even is a reason– but thirteen billion years ago, a tremendous spasm of energy birthed everything that ever was, is, and will be. And somehow, in this universe which is billions of years old, we fragile human beings have roughly 70 or 80 years to live. To run til we are out of breath. To eat until we are full. To have sex until our bodies spasm from pleasure. To make music and dance to it until we are covered in sweat. To laugh until it hurts. To cry until our lungs are heaving and our faces are a mess. To hold the ones we love the most, and listen to the rain falling.
The mathematical odds of you or I being conscious at the present moment, in the entire history of time itself (which for the sake of simplicity we will assume is measured relative to human perception of it, rather than some other beings’) is 5.38461538e-9 — that’s a lot of zeroes behind the decimal. You have a better chance of winning the lottery multiple times or dying in multiple plane crashes than you do of existing now, of being alive right at this moment. That’s so amazing!
Giordano Bruno, burnt at the stake by the Inquisition for believing that the Earth was not the center of the Universe, allegedly said “your God is too small” with his dying breath. And yet that dust fell to the earth. Maybe the wind blew his ashes into the sea, where the waves, with their beautiful and endless motion, took him to some far corner of our blue planet.
We’re all dust, and we live on, forever, and ever. Maybe not conscious forever, but it’s precisely the image of dust slipping through our fingers as our time — and mortality — slips away that I find poignant.
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Holly Krieger works in dynamical systems theory, in particular on chaotic systems. Some of her greatest mathematical moments have come from teaching students.
Julia Gog is a mathematical biologist, helping to understand how infectious diseases spread. One of her favourite eureka moments came while she was playing a computer game.
Nilanjana Datta works in quantum information theory. She loves how mathematics can describe nature simply and elegantly.
Anne-Christine Davis is a professor of theoretical physics whose long career has seen attitudes towards women change for the better. She had to put up with quite a lot at the start.
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb uses mathematics to process and analyse images. She loves the collaborative nature of maths.
Natalia Berloff is a professor of applied mathematics. It was a problem in network theory that lured her into the exciting world of maths when she was ten years old.
Imagine your weight depended on the colour of your underwear! Something quite similar happens with measurements in quantum physics. Find out more here...
Imagine your weight depended on the colour of your underwear! Something quite similar may be happening when you are measuring things in quantum physics. Find out more here...
Taming big data – Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb tells us about a new institute researching the mathematics of information
We were very excited to meet Andrew Wiles this summer! In this interview and videos he tells us what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.
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A growing number of Brits are making the transition to location independence. This transition often comes with tax consequences and in this article, I explain what they are. I also cover how UK taxation works for non-residents, businesses and more.
The UK is a residential taxation country, this means that tax residents pay UK tax on their worldwide income while non-residents only pay UK taxes on their UK income. There is a caveat, however, in that it is possible to be a UK tax resident while deemed non-domiciled. See my UK non-dom guide for more details on this status.
Unlike most countries, the UK uses a very straightforward residency test to determine whether an individual qualifies as a tax resident or not.
If you qualify as a UK tax resident, you will have to pay UK taxes on your worldwide income. For regular income (employment, sole trader etc), rates are progressive and range from 20% on income up to ~50000 GBP all the way to 45% on income above ~150000 GBP. The first ~13000 GBP is tax-free. Capital gains are taxed at a rate determined by your taxable income, see this page for more details. The UK has no wealth tax and no capital duty. It has a stamp duty (0.5%), an estate tax (referred to as inheritance tax, 40% above 325000 GBP) and a social security tax (2% to 13.8%). Most UK councils also charge a council tax. The tax year starts on the 6th of April and ends on the 5th of April of the following year. If a tax return needs to be filed, it must be filed before the 31st of October if filing via the post or the 31st of January if filing online.
If you are deemed a non-resident of the UK for tax purposes, or if you are a tax resident but qualify for non-dom status, you will have to pay UK tax on your UK sourced income and in certain cases, foreign sourced income you remit to the UK. The rates are the same as for tax residents, except that non-residents do not have a tax-free allowance.
Do note that income source usually refers to the location where work is performed, not where your employer, clients etc are located. See my article on foreign sourced income for more details.
Leaving the UK
Leaving the UK for tax purposes can result in significant tax savings, in some cases it may even result in the complete elimination of personal taxation.
The UK has no exit tax, and does not impose penalties on residents leaving. Leaving will also have no impact on your ability to manage / own a UK company.
If you were employed before leaving the UK (via PAYE) and received no other income, you will have to file form P85 (along with form P45, which you will obtain from your employer) after leaving. The form not only ensures that your status is correctly updated with HMRC but it also allows you to claim a tax refund if you are due one.
If you were self employed or received any reportable income for the year during which you left the UK, you will have to file a Self Assessment return. It must include the general pages (SA100), the residence pages (SA109) and any other relevant pages (partnership, rental income, self employment etc).
In any cases, there is no approval to seek from HMRC. Tax residency in the UK is a matter of fact, you either are a tax resident or you are not (see the flowchart above to determine your status).
You should also note that you may be liable to UK capital gains tax if you return to the UK within five years of leaving, and disposed of UK assets during your absence. The HS278 guide covers this in detail but in short, this rule is there to prevent UK residents from moving to a tax haven, liquidating all their investments (including UK stocks, ETFs etc) tax-free and then moving back the following year.
Taxation for non-residents
If you qualify as a non-resident of the UK for tax purposes and receive no UK income whatsoever, you will have no tax liability in the UK and no filing obligations. In other words, you will be completely free from UK bureaucracy. Do note that if you are a partner in a UK partnership, including an LLP, you will have to file a Self Assessment return even if you received no UK income.
If you do receive UK income, you will likely have a tax liability in the UK and will, in most cases, have filing obligations. Unless all tax owed was withheld at the source, you will have to file a Self Assessment return with HMRC. Your return will have to include the relevant pages for the type of income you received. Do note that there is no withholding tax on dividends received from UK companies and no reporting for those. Non-residents are also exempt from capital gains tax on the disposition of UK assets, except for real estate and land.
I have written guides specific to the UK LLP and the UK LTD. They cover how taxation works for these entities, their owners as well as how to register them, open bank accounts, payment processing accounts and more.
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On a recent Sunday afternoon, at the New Victory Theater, timelines collided. The New Vic, founded in 1900, is the oldest operating theater in New York City, but the play I was there to see, Ajijaak On Turtle Island, tells a story that is centuries older. And the whole performance was geared towards an audience that hadn’t been born before 2010. And it got more complicated yet. “Ajijaak” is the Ojibwe word for a whooping crane, and the play imagines a world in which figures from First Nations mythology coexist with contemporary ecological concerns and an urban landscape.
Ajijaak On Turtle Island, written by Ty Defoe (Oneida/Ojibwe Nations) and co-directed by himself and Heather Henson and featuring puppets from the Jim Henson Creature Shop, represents the first time in its century-plus of existence that the New Vic has presented a story from an Indigenous perspective. And what’s more, Ajijaak presents multiple Indigenous perspectives and traditions all at once. Diversity is woven into every aspect of this show, from the range of musical styles to the variety of puppetry techniques.
But most importantly, many of the performers are members of Tribal Nations. Some of the performers chose to list their ancestry in the program, which insists that heritage is as important to these dancers, singers, and puppeteers as any professional training. The musicians John Scott-Richardson (Saponi/Nansmond and Tuscarora) and Kevin Tarrant (Ho-Chunk and Hopi) sat in an opera box, from which their drumming and singing poured down over the stage and audience. Company members also provided choreography and technical consulting, representing traditions that include Echota Cherokee, Cheyenne River Sioux, Kuna, and more. In fact, before the show even began, a theater staff member took the stage to acknowledge and thank the original inhabitants of this land: the Lenape, the Merrick, the Carnarsie, the Rockaway, and the Matinecock. It wasn’t just priming us for this show, either; a plaque inside the theater delivers the same message.
Heather Henson does not boast any tribal affiliation, but her father, the magical Jim Henson, created a tradition of puppetry and story-telling that is upheld by all five of his children. Her company IBEX Puppetry produced this show, and the way her work honors simultaneously the environment and her father’s legacy resonates beautifully with the story of Ajijaak.
Ajijaak is a coming-of-age story and a hero’s journey of a baby crane. Right before the cranes’ annual migration south, the hatchling Ajijaak is separated from her parents. She must travel alone along across what is today called North American, a landmass many Native American tribes knew as Turtle Island. Look at your map, now turn it so south is on the top – Mexico is the turtle’s head, Florida and the Baja peninsula are its front legs, Newfoundland and Alaska are its hind legs. In the play, this reorientation was led by Joan Henry (Tsalagi/’Nde/Arawaka), who plays a grandmotherly narrator.
A talented puppeteer and singer, Henry is above all a storyteller, and this is her role both in the world of the play and on the stage. Her strong connection with baby Ajijaak was redoubled by the children in the audience, whom she absolutely captivated. Early on in the show, before their separation, Ajijaak’s parents teach her a song. It’s called Ho Ho Watanay and it’s based on a Haudenosaunee song. The song is Ajijaak’s inheritance and her strength. Henry and Henu Josephine Tarrant (Rappahanock, Ho-Chunk, Kuna, and Hopi), who performs as Ajijaak, then teach it to the audience. They lead a rousing sing-along and the fact that the lyrics are in Haudenosaunee stopped absolutely no one from joining in. After all, children are far less self-conscious than adults about enthusiastic audience participation. Henry promises that later on, Ajijaak will need our help to sing it. When that moment came, the children sang as if Ajijaak’s life depended on it, because it did. I sang too, betraying an earnestness I hadn’t felt since Peter Pan instructed me to clap so Tink knew I believed.
On her journey, Ajijaak meets a secession of allies, each of a different species and style of puppetry, each with something to teach her. Birch trees become a graceful deer, a series of hoops shake and jangle with blue crabs, a sly coyote jumps excitedly like a family dog at the park. My favorite was the shaggy, snorting bison. Performers held the bison face-masks over their chests, while their own heads became the beasts’ broad shoulders. (Bison are always my favorite: wise and calm but not to be messed with.) She’s destined for a confrontation with Mishibizhiw, the giant horned aquatic panther whom ecological destruction summons, angry, from her watery home. When Mishibizhiw appears onstage, it’s reminiscent of Chinese dragon dance. Multiple strong and elegant puppeteers are needed to manipulate this creature, which is no less beautiful for being fearsome.
Ajijaak also grows, maturing physically as well as emotionally, on her journey, and the cranes alone brought together many different methods of puppet-work. Marionettes walked, kites flew through the crowd, projections created the impression of an entire swoop (yes, that is the collective word for a group of cranes, you’re welcome), a massive crane puppet the size of a sailboat spreads its wings, only to cradle the same egg Ajijaak hatched out of at the top of the show. The show’s finale is a spectacular display of technical virtuosity and a reminder that every stage of life is but a temporary one.
The little boy, three or so, sitting to my right, didn’t fully grasp that. “Where’s Ajijaak?!” he not-quite-whispered to his dad. The symbolism may have been there for the grown-ups, but the kids were fully thrilled by the story. And although the little boy didn’t understand right away that baby Ajijaak had grown into an adult, the same way he can’t imagine how he will someday do the same, yet he was passionately invested in the story. He was relieved when his dad told him that Ajijaak was right there – safe, strong and now indelible in these children’s imagination.
Woke parenting notwithstanding, most of the kids in the audience probably didn’t realize how revolutionary Ajijaak On Turtle Island was. For them, it was just a fun puppet show, just like when I was a kid, The Lorax was just a fun book. And yet, The Lorax taught me to “speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues,” a refrain still deep in my heart that reminds me to contribute to Earth’s upkeep. I know Ajijaak will have the same effect on these kids, because on my way out of the theater, I heard a little girl absolutely belting Ho Ho Watanay.
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This post was written by Abigail Weil.
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A profound shift took place in pictorial art of the end of the XIX century with the appearance of modernism. The painter’s outlook, his thoughts, emotions, his perception of the truth became central and the desire to deliver something more than the objective reality shaped modernism’s philosophy. Actually, reality gets a new definition in the movement’s framework – real is what is painted on the canvas and not what you see around. The best pieces seem to be living their own life in their own universe, yet look very truthful to us. The most important date for the movement is probably 1863, the year of unveiling of ‘Salon of the Refused’, which displayed works of artists neglected by the official Paris Salon. At first it was created to mock at the queer modernists, but soon it became even more popular than any other exhibition and definitely not because of people’s desire to laugh. This short passage tells how the movement of modernist art appeared and stuck in the heads and hearts of artists and connoisseurs. Ever since that moment the new movements that praise the world of fantasy have been called modernism. | <urn:uuid:26aceb7c-af2f-4dc6-8e99-5d0a2210f1cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://artrussia.ru/en/modern/15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970956 | 236 | 3 | 3 |
Part one, a brief historical overview of the Reformation
The background to the Reformation, the Medieval church had become corrupt and had departed from the gospel in many ways. Greed and immorality were common in the church with Bishops who were meant to be celibate promoting their illegitimate sons to places of authority in the Church. At times there were even rival popes. The days were dark but even in this darkness God raised up men like John Wycliffe (1329-1384) he was a great preacher and scholar and was the first person to attempt to translate the Bible into English. His views were to influence the Bohemian preacher Jan Hus (1373-1415), Hus was burnt at the stake for his views.
God was seen as very distant and therefore prayers to saints were often used. This idea of praying to saints has no biblical justification and detracts from the centrality of the work of Jesus Christ. Also, it was widely believed that one had to partly earn one’s salvation, and if one could not achieve enough merit in this life the believer was sent to a place called purgatory to suffer until their sins were atoned for. The Bible never teaches that we have to earn our salvation, nor does it have any teaching about purgatory. People were concerned about their dead relatives and the Pope authorised the selling of indulgences which released the soul from purgatory. One of the men responsible for the sale of indulgences was a monk called Tetzel. (1465-1519) He was known for his selling of indulgences, one of his sales pitches was “As soon as the gold in the casket rings the rescued soul to heaven springs”. The idea was that souls could be released from purgatory for a price, the money raised was used at least in part to build St. Peter’s Church in Rome.
Martin Luther (1483- 1546) was an Augustinian Monk who soon showed himself to be an able scholar. He taught others, but he felt God was a monster demanding of him a righteousness he could not possibly achieve. He particularly wrestled with the opening chapter of the Book of Romans. Then one day he saw the true meaning of the text and he felt as though he was reborn.
Luther said “I felt that I had been born anew and that the gates of heaven had been opened. The whole of Scripture gained a new meaning. And from that point on the phrase the ’The justice of God’ no longer filled me with hatred, but rather became unspeakably sweet by virtue of a great love.
Once he realised that the righteousness we have is received from Christ it affected his whole outlook. He wanted to share the good news with others and did so by preaching, teaching, writing and translating the Bible into German.
“Luther wanted to reach beyond an academic readership and touch the hearts and minds of ordinary people. The decision to publish in German was iconic, making a statement about the inclusive nature of the Reformation that Luther proposed to pursue. To publish in Latin was to exclude the ordinary people. To publish in his native German was to democratize the debate about the future of the church by including those who were traditionally marginalized by the use of the ancient scholarly language. From that moment onward, one of the hallmarks of Protestantism would be its use of the vernacular at every level. Most importantly of all, the Bible would also be translated into the language of the people”. [Alister McGrath, Christianity’s Dangerous Idea, 51.]
Luther was quite a fiery person and made some very extreme statements but nonetheless, he was a great man of God. We must be willing to face up to his faults as well as praise him for his tremendous contribution to the development of the Church.
Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) was a priest in Zurich Switzerland who came to the same conclusions as Luther about the nature of the gospel at about the same time as Luther did. Zwingli does not appear to have gone through the same spiritual crisis as Luther but his conversion although a gentler affair was deep and very real. Zwingli set about reforming the Church in Zurich and helped to spread the Reformation message to other Swiss cities. Zwingli was first of all convinced of the authority of Scripture and he used this to test Church tradition, as a result, he came to the conclusion that salvation is by grace alone.
John Calvin (1509-1564) Calvin was born in Noyon France, he studied in Paris where there was a lot of theological discussions. We know that by 1534 he had become a Protestant. In January 1535 went into exile in Switzerland. He felt that his calling was to spend his time studying and writing and he produced his first version of his Institutes of Christian Religion, this was to become a great success and is still read today. Calvin himself wanted people to read the institutes alongside his Bible commentaries.
When Calvin visited Geneva, he was just planning on paying a passing visit, but he was not prepared for the intervention of William Farel who wanted the younger man to help in the Reformation cause in Geneva, Calvin but strongly objected saying that he needed to live in a peaceful environment to pursue his studies. Farel responded by saying “May God condemn your repose and the calm you seek for study if before such a great need you withdraw and refuse your succour and help.”
Calvin stayed in Geneva and preached regularly and taught many the basics of Protestant theology, many came from other countries to learn from Calvin and his associates, amongst them was John Knox the Scottish Reformer.
The Reformation quickly spread to other countries we certainly don’t have time to look at the whole of that history, but we must briefly mention the Reformation in England and also in Scotland. Although people were becoming open to Reformation ideas Henry viii was strongly opposed to the Reformation until he wanted a divorce, but the beginning of the Reformation in England was one that did not immediately embrace the ideas of Luther and Calvin. However soon many people began to preach and teach the gospel. Amongst was man who was to make a real impact on the Church of England he was Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) He was to pioneer having services in English and was responsible for the publication of the first Book of Common Prayer His actions were somewhat restricted during the reign of Henry viii but during the reign of Edward vi he had great freedom to develop his Reformation agenda. All this was to come to an end when Mary Tudor came to the throne and once again Roman Catholicism was the official religion of the kingdom. During Mary’s reign, Protestants were persecuted and many were burnt at the stake including Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer. When Ridley and Latimer were burnt at the stake Latimer said “Be of good comfort Master Ridley and play the man. We shall light such a candle by God’s grace in England as I trust will never be put out”
Another Englishman who was involved in the Reformation Was William Tyndale he was a great exponent of Reformation doctrine but his most lasting contribution to the English-speaking church was his very high-quality translation of the New Testament into English. He also worked on parts of the Old Testament but was captured and put to death before he could complete his work.
John Knox was a man of strong conviction who wanted to see the protestant reformation spread He embraced protestant principles in the 1540’s and by 1546 he made it clear that he accepted the Swiss Reformer Bucer’s teaching on the Lord’s supper. In 1546 he was captured by the French and became a galley slave and during this period he wrote a short work on Protestant theology where he showed that he accepted the idea that justification was by faith alone.
The Radical Reformation, The Radical Reformers wanted to take the Reformation further and rejected the idea of infant baptism and were the first to introduce believer’s baptism. They also believed that the Church should be separate from the state. There was various grouping around with similar agendas. We can see that much of our Church practice is indebted to the radical Reformers whereas much of our doctrine is indebted to the Magisterial Reformers.
Part Two, Some important teachings from the Reformation
At the time of the great Reformation as the Reformers tried to bring back the Church to biblical teaching, five important principles grounded all their thinking. These principles are often nicknamed the five Solas because each one points to a central truth which indicated the unique place each concept has, sola roughly translated from the Latin is alone, the five Solas are, Soli Deo Gloria (glory to God alone), sola scriptura (by scripture alone), Solus Christus (through Christ alone), Sola Fide (by faith alone) and sola gratia (by grace alone). I want to look briefly at each of these important concepts because they are vital not only to the health of the church but also to our involvement in the world in which we live.
Glory to God alone: the reformers were reacting against a man-centred theology where the glory of God had been lost, medieval theology looked to see how a man could make his ascent to God. Indeed, a whole system of merits had been invented and the gracious nature of God had largely been lost. Against this backdrop, the reformers rediscovered the graciousness of God in all its glory. They also realised that the God of grace was the sovereign Lord of all history. when you read the writings of Calvin and Luther one sees how these two men were captivated by a gracious yet awesome God. These two men realised that because God is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient that one should bow in worship before him and yet at the same time they realised how gracious this God is. They realised that God is sovereign over both creation and redemption and because of this God should be glorified in creation and redemption.
Calvin expressed it this way “All our controversies concerning doctrine relate either to the legitimate worship of God or to the ground of salvation. As to the former, certainly we exhort men to worship God in neither a frigid nor a careless manner; and while we point out the way, we neither lose sight of the end nor omit anything which is relevant to the matter. We proclaim the glory of God in terms far loftier than it was wont to be proclaimed before; and we earnestly labour to make the perfections in which his glory shines better and better known. His benefits towards ourselves we extol as eloquently as we can. Thus, men are incited to reverence his majesty, render due homage to his greatness, feel due gratitude for his mercies, and unite in showing forth his praise.” (Necessity of Reforming The Church)
The Puritans who framed the Westminster Shorter Catechism understood this when they said that “the chief end of man is to glorify and to enjoy him forever”. the reformation was a period when it was re-emphasized that the whole of life should be lived before the face of God. because of this, the whole of life was to be lived for the glory of God, not just a special sacred realm. For instance, Bach very often put on his musical scores “Soli Deo Gloria” he was conscious that whatever type of music he composed that it should be done for the glory of God. George Herbert the poet expressed this concept this way,
Teach me, my God and King,
in all things thee to see,
and what I do in anything
to do it as for thee.
A man that looks on glass,
on it may stay his eye;
or if he pleaseth, through it pass,
and then the heaven espy.
All may of thee partake;
nothing can be so mean,
which with this tincture, “for thy sake,”
will not grow bright and clean.
A servant with this clause
makes drudgery divine:
who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
makes that and the action fine.
This is the famous stone
that turneth all to gold;
for that which God doth touch and own
cannot for less be told.
I know the language is old-fashioned, but we need to heed the teaching today. If we are to follow the reformers in their teaching, we need to realise the importance of giving glory to God for all that he has done.
By Scripture Alone: We are to submit all our thinking and deeds to the guidance of scripture, the Bible is the only book that has authority over our lives because it is the supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice. All our Church traditions are to be tested against the teaching of scripture and if anything conflicts with the clear teaching of scripture we must reject it. The Scriptures are our guide to our relationship with God, with one another and to the society around us. To see the life-transforming role of scripture read Psalm 119, here we see clearly someone who delights in the word of God but notice that he applies the scriptures to the whole of his life.
The Genevan Confession (1536) Article 1 “First we affirm that we desire to follow Scripture alone as rule of faith and religion, without mixing with it any other thing which might be devised by the opinion of men apart from the word of God, and without wishing to accept for our spiritual government any other doctrine than that which is conveyed to us by the same word without addition or diminution, according to the command of our Lord”
Through Christ Alone: There is only one mediator between man and God and that is the Lord Jesus. It is Jesus who gave his life as a ransom for many, who paid the price for our salvation. Christ has achieved all that is needed by his atoning sacrifice, mankind cannot add anything to his work. He has done everything that is necessary for our salvation, on the cross he was aware that he had completed the work of salvation when he cried out “it is finished”. Our Lord now intercedes for his people before the right hand of the Father.
“We confess then that it is Jesus Christ who is given to us by the Father, in order that in him we should receive all of which in ourselves we are deficient. Now that Jesus Christ has done and suffered for our redemption, we veritably hold without any doubt, as it is contained in the Creed that is recited in Church, that is to say: I believe in God the Father Almighty and so on” Genevan Confession article 6
By faith alone: The only way that we can receive this salvation is to put our faith in Christ, we entrust him with our whole lives, knowing that we can never contribute anything to our own salvation. all we can do is put out the empty hands of faith and receive what Christ has done. the reformers emphasised the doctrine of justification by faith, one only has to look at Luther’s Commentary on the book of the Galatians to realise the central importance of this doctrine. Paul clearly teaches justification by faith in his letters to the Roman and Galatian churches, this doctrine has abiding relevance for us today.
The Genevan Confession Article 11 “We confess that the entrance which we have to the great treasures and riches of the goodness of God that is vouchsafed to us is by faith; inasmuch as, in certain confidence and assurance of heart, we believe in the promises of the Gospel, and receive Jesus Christ as he is offered to us by the Father and described to us by the Word of God”.
By Grace alone: Grace is God’s favour shown to those who don’t deserve it, it flows from the Father heart of God and is shown supremely to us in his gift of the Lord Jesus Christ to be our Saviour. The Lutheran Augsburg Confession (1530) it expresses the heart of the gospel this way.
Article IV: Of Justification.
1] Also they teach that men cannot be justified before God by their own strength, merits, or works, but are freely justified for 2] Christ’s sake, through faith, when they believe that they are received into favour, and that their sins are forgiven for Christ’s sake, who, by His death, has made satisfaction for our sins. 3] This faith God imputes for righteousness in His sight. Rom. 3 and 4.
The whole of the New Testament teaches us that our salvation is by grace alone. the old Sunday School acrostic helps us to remember what grace is,
We need to glory in the wonder of God’s grace, thereby glorifying him for all that has done for us.
Martin Luther said, “The law says, “Do this”, and it is never done. Grace says, “believe in this” and everything is already done.” Martin Luther Heidelberg Disputation 1518
Martin Luther also said in his Commentary on the Galatians, “Grace and peace, comprehend in them whatsoever belongeth to Christianity. Grace releaseth sin, and peace maketh the conscience quiet. The two fiends that torment us are sin and conscience. But Christ hath vanquished these two monsters, and trodden them under foot, both in this world and the world to come. This the world doth not know, and therefore it can reach no certainty of the overcoming of sin, conscience and death. Only Christians have this kind of doctrine, and are exercised and armed with it, we get victory against sin, despair and everlasting death and it is a kind of doctrine neither proceeding of free will, nor invented by the reason or wisdom of man but given from above. Moreover, these two words grace, and peace do contain in them the whole of Christianity. Grace containeth the remission of sins, peace a quiet and joyful conscience. But peace of conscience can never be had, unless sin be first forgiven.” | <urn:uuid:7c41336d-b6ce-4045-ae49-57c11975f7a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pneumaandlogos.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982366 | 3,793 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Jack Nicklaus - course details
Shortly after the Second World War, the decision was taken to build another course to alliviate the already overcrowded 18 holes. The 9 hole Xires Course was contructed in 1951 to complement the 18 hole Plan-Bramois . Originally a short, narrow course, the 9 holes were completely transformed to become, at its reopening in July 1988, the "Jack Nicklaus". It was in 1977 that Crans appealed to Jack Nicklaus' enthusiasm and the prospect of building his first golf course in Switzerland. In May 1981, the contract for the construction was signed by the American Champion. It then took a further four years to get the necessary permission before works could start on the 9 holes (6 on the location of the former short golf course and 3 on an adjacent site). Since the summer of 1988, golfers are taking great pleasure in testing themsleves on the "Jack Nicklaus ". An absolute must! | <urn:uuid:d1960b46-70e7-46cc-88cc-cde557259a03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.golfcrans.ch/en/page/golf-club/parcours/jack-nicklaus-course-details-70 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948138 | 289 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Neosho is a city located in Newton County Missouri. Neosho has a 2020 population of 12,742. It is also the county seat of Newton County. Neosho is currently growing at a rate of 0.60% annually and its population has increased by 1.21% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 12,590 in 2010.
The average household income in Neosho is $53,551 with a poverty rate of 21.53%. The median rental costs in recent years comes to $709 per month, and the median house value is $100,200. The median age in Neosho is 32 years, 30.9 years for males, and 33.3 years for females.
According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Neoshowas:
The highest rate of high school graduation is among native american people with a rate of 100.00%.
The highest rate of bachelors degrees is among 2+ races people with a rate of 54.21%.
88.74% of Neosho residents speak only English, while 11.26% speak other languages. The non-English language spoken by the largest group is Spanish, which is spoken by 7.88% of the population.
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The race most likely to be in poverty in Neosho is Islander, with 56.13% below the poverty level.
The race least likely to be in poverty in Neosho is Other, with NaN% below the poverty level.
The poverty rate among those that worked full-time for the past 12 months was 8.11%. Among those working part-time, it was 28.01%, and for those that did not work, the poverty rate was 26.23%.
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Non citizens include legal permanent residents (green card holders), international students, temporary workers, humanitarian migrants, and illegal immigrants.
Born in Neosho
94.83% of Neosho residents were born in the United States, with 59.84% having been born in Missouri. 4.30% of residents are not US citizens. Of those not born in the United States, the largest percentage are from Latin America.
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PTSD & Trauma Treatment
Trauma affects each of us differently and therefore requires an individual and tailored approach. Oftentimes, people will experience an emotional or psychological response, however this is not always the case, and these responses do not always occur immediately after something happens to us. The responses that we have to trauma are often confronting and can be difficult to manage alone.
What is trauma?
Trauma can originate from many sources and, broadly, describes any event which is deemed to be significantly disturbing or distressing. These can include: Physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, assault, witness to violence, motor vehicle accidents, workplace incidents and disturbing events in early life. A traumatic event can overwhelm our natural and established ability to cope and can cause novel feelings and experiences such as: Depressed mood, intrusive memories or mental images, nightmares, changes in our sense-of-self, as well as changes in mood which can include depression. The effects are usually significant and difficult to modify alone. This can require specialist intervention from a trained clinical psychologist.
The acute manifestation of these events can create illness such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), however more mild and moderate responses can result also. These can include depression or anxiety, as well as changes to our relationships with others and ourself. Notably, preexisting mood disturbances can interface with PTSD as can previous trauma. In the case of previous traumatic experiences, this can result in a phenomena termed ‘Complex PTSD’. This describes an experience marked by multiple episodes of trauma, and this is an important diagnostic consideration.
What are the effects of trauma?
The effects of trauma can manifest as: Depression, anxiety, flashbacks, disturbing and recurrent nightmares, fear, emotional fatigue, issues at work, and issues with relationships and with family, to name a few. These are just some of the manifestations, and trauma more commonly goes untreated for years. The main reason for this can relate to people avoiding a disturbing experience despite their discomfort, shame and guilt, depression, or the belief that a person is helpless in their situation.
We can help you
We have helped many people recover from trauma and PTSD and we are recognised as a leading treatment centre in this area. We employ a variety of specific and tailored treatments, including EMDR, depending on your situation, and we have proven efficacy in helping people overcome these experiences.
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Cat UTI Home Test – For All Forms of Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease
Are you worried your cat may have a urinary tract infection or bladder stones? These are symptoms of Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease. These problems are extremely common, especially in older male cats and those that eat dry food. They can occur in any cat however and this product can save much worry and hassle as well as cost. If your cat pees outside it’s litter box suddenly, cries when going to the litter box or has other symptoms, you need to get it checked. Luckily, there is now an easy way to do a first level check at home. If your cat has blood in the urine or other serious symptoms, like inability to pee, don’t waste time with this! Take him straight to the vet! If you just don’t know why your cat peed outside the box, or want to do a periodic check just to be careful, then here is a cat UTI home test for you!
This is the Ultra brand “Monthly Monitor-Early Illness Detection” cat litter additive.
The Ultra Monthly Monitor cat litter additive allows you to check the pH of your cat’s urine anytime. The directions say to sprinkle a layer on top of freshly changed cat litter. You are supposed to watch and look at the color of the crystals after your cat uses the box. If you wait more than 10 or 15 minutes the results may not be accurate. It takes a few minutes for the color to develop however.
I found an easier way when my cat recently peed on the rubber mat outside the box. I dabbed up the puddle onto a paper plate (the coated, waterproof kind but you could use anything waterproof) and poured a small amount of the crystals on top. This way I did not have to risk the crystals getting completely mixed into the litter and wasting them. This way I also used a very small amount. The UltraPet website says you can use only part of the bag and keep the rest for later use.
When I sprinkled the crystals on the puddle, it turned light green. This is good. Light gold to light green is what you want to see. An orange color indicates low pH. A dark green to blue color indicates high pH. You could also just pour the crystals directly onto the puddle if your cat went on a hard surface. I only used the intermediary step to make it easier to clean up.
What does a low or high pH mean?
According to the FAQs on the UltraPet website, if the crystals turn orange indicating low pH, this could indicate bladder stones and painful urination. It can be caused by too little water consumption. High pH (dark green to blue color) can also indicate bladder stones as well as bladder infections which can cause painful urination. This can also indicate bladder obstruction (urethral plugs) which restrict or prevent urination. This is deadly and requires immediate treatment!
Consuming too little water can cause low pH as well as poor food quality or too much magnesium or phosphorus in the food among other causes.
A light, golden green color indicates a moderate pH, which is healthy.
Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease
Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease encompasses all of the above mentioned conditions and more.
- Bladder Infections
- Bladder Stones
- Urethral plugs
- Painful urination
- Increased frequency of urination
- Blood in the Urine
- Behavior changes such as aggression
- It can be linked to Overgrooming and Peeing outside the litter box as well.
What Cats are at risk for Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease?
Any cat can get Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease but these factors increase risk:
- Male cats (according to some but not all sources)
- Neutered cats
- Cats that eat dry food
- Middle aged cats
- Senior Cats
- Cats that are overweight or don’t get enough exercise
What can you do to keep your cat healthy and make sure they don’t have a urinary problem?
There are so many factors in Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease (food, water, infection, age, gender etc) that it would be prudent to test your cat with a product like Ultra brand Monthly Monitor to make sure they are healthy and have a moderate urine pH.
How does Ultra brand Monthly Monitor compare to other products?
The only other product I could find was a brand of litter that looks great but you can only buy directly from the company and sign up for auto-shipping. If you have a problem and just want to check your cats health you may not want to sign up for this litter subscription. It also cost MUCH more than the Monthly Monitor package that is less than $10! I was so glad to find the affordable option of Monthly Monitor. It did exactly what I needed and was easy to use.
If you see your cat peeing outside the box, use some Monthly Monitor to make sure it is a behavioral issue rather than a medical issue. If it is a behavioral issue, you can check out my recommended products to cure cat anxiety and fix the problem here. If you want to clean up the mess of cat pee outside the box, here is my recommended cleaning method.
What if it is a Behavioral Problem?
Please check out my post on cat anxiety for the second.
As always, if your cat has a serious problem like straining to use the box, not urinating or you see blood in the urine, take them straight to the vet! It could be serious.
Please let me know if you use Monthly Monitor and what you think of this easy cat UTI home test!
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After a cold winter, a shift in weather patterns has unleashed a blast of early summer heat across Alaska. On May 9, 2020, temperatures hit 69°F (21°C) in Anchorage, just one degree shy of the record.
For a state with plenty of mountains, glaciers, and permafrost, spring and summer heat can bring more than just greening leaves and pollen in the air. It can also thaw soils in ways that encourage landslides.
That was likely what happened on Yudi Peak, a mountain near Anchorage, in May 2020. In the early days of the month, a “wedge failure”—a type of landslide that occurs along multiple planes—sent rocky debris sliding down the snow-topped mountain, according to University of Sheffield landslide watcher Dave Petley. Starting from an elevation of 1430 meters (4,690 feet), debris slid across roughly 2 kilometers (1 mile) before halting at an elevation of 1110 meters.
“It is well established that Alaska sees large landslides in the spring, and that their increasing size and frequency is driven by global heating,” Petley wrote.
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