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October 27, 2014
More than a million people over 50 have been pushed out of the workplace a new report from The Prince’s Initiative for Mature Enterprise (PRIME) has revealed. Up to 1.5 million people aged 50-69 “involuntarily” left employment over the last eight years due to a combination of redundancy, ill health or “forced” early retirement. Of these, 1.1 million people would be willing to work. Yet if the employment rate of this 50–64 age group matched that of the 35–49 age group, it would boost UK GDP by £88 billion (5.6%). The report: ‘The missing million: illuminating the employment challenges of the over 50s’ was produced by PRIME, now part of Business in the Community, in collaboration with The International Longevity Centre (ILC), the leading think tank on longevity and demographic change. The report explores the employment challenges facing older workers and calls for urgent action from policy makers and employers to ensure that people over 50 remain in the labour market, for example through flexible working and retraining.
There are currently 3.3 million economically inactive people aged between 50 and 64 in the UK, and the over 50s have a higher rate of long term unemployment than any other age group; but the UK population is ageing and unless measures are taken to support working longer, the size of the UK’s workforce is likely to flat-line says the report.
Over the next ten years, there will be nearly twice as many job vacancies needing to be filled as there are young school- and college-leavers. Older workers will be needed in order to avoid a labour shortage and skills gap. A higher proportion of older workers does not “crowd out” the labour market for younger workers. In fact, higher employment for older workers is associated with higher employment for younger workers as well.
The report also warns that leaving the workforce early means a loss in earnings and pension contributions, with serious effects on individual health and wellbeing. This could also lead to more public spending on areas such as health care and adult social care.
The report makes a number of recommendations for both business and Government, in particular calling on the Department for Work and Pensions to continue their work on the Fuller Working Lives framework.
Alongside PRIME’s existing work on enterprise, Business in the Community is committed to a new strand of work looking at extending working lives and making the most of intergenerational workplaces.
Baroness Greengross, ILC-UK Chief Executive said: “The case for working longer has never been stronger. Extending working lives is essential for delivering economic growth, maintaining a sustainable and vibrant business sector and harnessing the potential and capacity of the older worker.”
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https://www.space.com/aliens-time-traveling-humans-ufo-hypothesis.html How soon until AWS has a DeepTime SDK?
Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have profound visions for humanity’s future in space. Here’s how the billionaires’ goals compare. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-space-mars-colonies-spacex-blue-origin-2019-6
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s first cell-based meat venture Shiok Meats lifted the lid on its lab-grown shrimp dumplings at the Disruption in Food and Sustainability Summit (DFSS) on Friday (Mar 29). There were just eight dumplings showcased at the summit, but the high-tech dim sum took months and S$5,000 to cook up. Read more at: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/siew-mai-goes-high-tech-singapore-s-first-cell-based-shrimp-11393320
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"Core Issues Trust requests the Fundamental Rights Agency at its important event on Tuesday 28th October 2014, to put in place measures to ensure recognition of the right to change sexual indentity to match changed orientations, thus ensuring that the rights of individuals no longer identifying as LGBT are protected. Further it requests the FRA to recognise that such autonomous persons have a right to access counselling and psychotherapeutic support which allows, where appropriate, the management, reduction and where possible, elimination of such feelings, the request for which should be respected"
The Fundamental Rights Agency held an important event on Tuesday 28th October, 2014 entitled "Tackling Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination. Next Steps". Core Issues Trust provided two interventions in preparation for the meeting:
First: Riding roughshod over ‘Ex-gay’ identities: will the Fundamental Rights Agency protect sexual orientations of persons who are ‘Post-gay’ and their rights to access therapeutic support to reduce unwanted feelings, and behaviours?
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- This article is shared by Waseem Ahmed for PWP from Karachi city, Sindh, Pakistan
Can you measure rainfall at your home?
Yes, anyone can find out how much rain has fallen in his area by measuring it himself with a ‘Rain Gauge’. Although most of people may not have easy access to the standard rain gauge but by a pot that has straight walls and 3-5 inches’ diameter, for example like a Jar or a Beaker that has nearly 6 to 8 inch capacity can give a better idea of rainfall. I have been using such kind of a pot (pictures are given as set ‘1’) for many years to record rainfall at my rooftop and found it with 80-90% accurate readings. Some more examples that are closer to a Standard Rain Gauge are given (in pictures set ‘2’) that can be used for checking/measuring rainfall amount with a scale.
Important when it rains:
For measuring the rain, the instrument should be in open area, away from any shade, wall, tree, roof side, shelter or any spot from where accumulated water is falling. Also it should have some weight or support so that it does not fall away especially during any stormy or windy conditions.
After a period of rain or showers you can measure the water inside the pot by putting in a scale with using its mm (millimeters) side. Normally during a good thunderstorm or rain spell of 30 minutes, it rains about 20 to 30 mm however it is not a standard and it mainly depends on the intensity of rain.
We should also remember always that rainfall does differ from place to place especially in big cities e.g. on 19th April, 2012 Masroor Base (west side of Karachi) received 5 mm of rain where Defence, Korangi, Landhi got almost nothing (less than 1 mm).
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Ukraine, in a break with tradition that is certain to rile Moscow, is ditching the Soviet name for World War Two and aims to adopt the poppy, a mainly British wartime symbol, to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.
The moves, signaled by Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk on Wednesday, marked an attempt by Kiev to distance itself from Moscow’s Soviet-style celebrations, planned for May 9, as the conflict with Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine drags on.
In another break with the Soviet past, Kiev will align its calendar with that of its European allies by adding for the first time May 8 – known in the West as Victory in Europe Day – as a national holiday.
A decree signed by President Petro Poroshenko fixed May 8 as a day for reconciliation between those Ukrainians who fought only the Nazis with those who, after the war, went on to fight Soviet rule also.
Ukraine will then mark Victory day on May 9 with its own war veterans’ march in Kiev and several other big cities.
Kiev, with most Western governments, is boycotting the World War Two victory festivities in Moscow because of Russia’s role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Moscow denies it is arming the rebels.
Kiev has announced plans for a sweeping security operation involving tens of thousands of police across Ukraine to guard against attacks by separatists or Russian agents during the festivities.
Yatseniuk, whose government is set on a program of integration into the European mainstream following the ousting of a Moscow-backed president in February 2014, urged people to wear a poppy during the May victory celebrations in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities. He described it as a “European symbol”.
“Let all the other ribbons be worn by the Russian Federation which claims it was Russia that won the Second World War,” Yatseniuk said.
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One thing that can take up a lot of time is social media. If you really want to simplify your life, you can use social media in a way that doesn’t cause more chaos. Let’s look at the different ways to use social media more effectively, whether for work or play. Simplifying your online life can really make a huge difference in your overall happiness and success level.
Pick Just One
If you must use social media, choose the platform that you like best and stick to that one. Maintain profiles on the others without updating them just in case something ever happens, but most of the time you’ll be able to use just one for what you need to stay connected.
Now, granted, if you use social media for business, you'll want to keep all viable outlets updated. But you can use the automation tools in each outlet to simplify things.
Use Automation Tools
If you do need to use more than one account (for work or business, for example), find the right tools that enable automation and consolidation of accounts into one dashboard to make it faster to check up on the accounts.
Jeff Bullis goes over six of the social media dashboard options, giving you an overview of each.
Create Your Own Dashboard
If you need to use more than one social account and you don’t want to pay a monthly fee for automation, you can create a dashboard on your computer that enables you to click into your social media faster and more easily than one at a time.
Differentiate your connections by organizing them into groups or lists depending on what the platform allows. When you organize your connections, it’s easier to send messages to update them or check their updates when you have it on your schedule.
Organize your groups in the same fashion. If you add content to certain groups regularly, group them together. If you are using other groups for business or life information, group these together.
Excel is a great way to organize contacts and groups. Spreadsheets can be very helpful in simplifying contact information.
Train Your Friends
It’s not very productive to be chatting with your friends or family all day. If you’re working, turn off notifications other than emergencies. If you stop answering your friends and family during the day when it’s not an emergency, they’ll stop bothering you.
Turn It Off When Not in Use
When you are not actively on your social media platforms, turn them off so that you aren’t checking constantly. For some people who like using PCs still, one way to do this is to get social media off your phone and keep it only on your home PC.
Choose Your Time Window
Don’t check social media continuously. Even if you use it for work, don’t check it all the time. Pick times during the day to check it, set a timer, and stick to that. This way it won’t get out of hand, especially when you are trying to be productive.
When you train yourself to turn off distractions so that you can focus on what you’re doing at that time, you’ll realize that you don’t need social media to be on all the time. A few minutes of focused connection is a lot better than random interruptions to your workflow or your time with your family and friends.
Social media is great, in moderation
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How Many Calories Will I Burn With Yoga If I Weigh 120
With fitness being such a hot topic in today’s world, it’s no surprise that several individuals invest a significant quantity of their time looking for the very best exercise regimen and set of exercises to obtain themselves fit.
Yoga has actually commonly been among the globe’s most prominent fitness techniques, and also while that appeal remains to this particular day, lots of people pass over Yoga when they are attempting to reduce weight or strengthen their muscle mass. How Many Calories Will I Burn With Yoga If I Weigh 120 This is due to the fact that Yoga is generally considered a relaxing physical fitness practice as well as something to enhance adaptability, not Burn calories.
These ideas regarding Yoga may be true to some level, but it really relies on the kind of Yoga that you are taking part in. This is where the Yoga Burn system comes in. The Yoga Burn routine is carefully created with vibrant sequencing Yoga (much more on this later) by expert Yoga trainer Zoe Bray-Cotton.
With the help of the Yoga Burn system, many individuals have actually found out exactly how to lose weight, improve their flexibility, and raise muscular tissue tone, all from the convenience of their house. This review will certainly review the unique advantages of the Yoga Burn routine and also provide you a breakdown of the benefits and drawbacks of the system so you can choose whether or not the Yoga Burn system is the ideal option for you.
What Is Yoga Burn?
Yoga Burn is a special home exercise training course that is made to help females lose weight, tone their muscular tissues, as well as enhance their versatility. Specifically developed to be progressive and also enable individuals to develop their toughness and comfort with each posture normally, Yoga Burn offers a 12-week system for ladies to adhere to. By the end of the program, many people notice that they have actually slimmed down, show up much more toned, as well as have higher toughness than when they began the program How Many Calories Will I Burn With Yoga If I Weigh 120.
Yoga Burn uses dynamic sequencing Yoga and also rep of classes to aid you build up your toughness and also slowly overview you through each phase of the program. Before you recognize it, you will have the ability to execute even more intermediate Yoga moves and will be making the most of your new, toned appearance.
That Is Zoe Bray-Cotton?
Zoe Bray-Cotton is a professional Yoga teacher with over ten years of experience crafting one-of-a-kind Yoga programs for ladies who want to reduce weight, tone their muscle mass, and boost adaptability. Bray-Cotton has actually helped to promote vibrant sequencing Yoga, the specific sort of Yoga used in her Yoga Burn system, in order to aid ladies be tested as they relocate through the lessons and Burn calories with no special health club tools or weight training needed.
Bray-Cotton aims to make her health and fitness exercises accessible to women everywhere by offering her classes in a residence exercise version. She is additionally in charge of developing the Yoga Burn Instagram area where women can find fitness tips as well as support throughout their fitness trips with the Yoga Burn system.
The Yoga Burn System
The Yoga Burn system uses three various stages for you to advance with, a crucial element of vibrant sequencing Yoga. Every one has a different emphasis and improves the phase before it to fully develop your strength, maintain burning calories, as well as encourage proficiency of the program material. You can progress from one phase to the following as quickly as you feel comfortable and also confident with your present stage’s course product.
The very first phase of the program, ‘Foundational Circulation,’ concentrates on building up solid Yoga foundations. How Many Calories Will I Burn With Yoga If I Weigh 120 this phase will aid you find out exactly how to raise your versatility and will certainly work to improve your metabolic rate at a sluggish price that is best for novices. It offers a very easy means for those without any experience in Yoga to end up being acquainted with the positions utilized in the Yoga Burn program while lessening the general opportunity of injury.
The middle stage of the Yoga Burn system, ‘Transitional Flow,’ improves the Yoga basics that you discovered throughout the foundation phase. This aids you build your strength and also versatility along with raising the calories that you Burn during each exercise. The transitional circulation stage likewise presents brand-new presents and allows you to see adjustments in your muscle tone by the end of the phase.
The final stage of this program, ‘Proficiency Circulation,’ relies upon the stamina, versatility, and enhanced How Many Calories Will I Burn With Yoga If I Weigh 120 metabolic rate from the previous Yoga Burn stages to increase the workout. In the proficiency circulation phase, you will certainly Burn more calories, discover more intermediate as well as sophisticated Yoga sequences, and also start to see real changes in your body by the end of the phase.
The Advantages and disadvantages of the Yoga Burn System
As with all health and fitness programs, the Yoga Burn system has its own collection of benefits and drawbacks that you ought to be aware of. Very carefully examine both of these components, as this will aid you make one of the most educated choice possible about this item.
The complying with listing of pros considers every one of the advantages that you may have the ability to potentially experience when investing your money and time right into the Yoga Burn system.
- The Yoga Burn system begins sluggish and is intended for newbies. Between the posture tutorials and also the one-of-a-kind phasing of the program, you will certainly find out how to regulate and also enhance your core.
- The Yoga Burn system doesn’t call for any type of previous technique or experience with Yoga, as well as it is a great choice for any person who intends to lose weight, tone muscular tissues, and also boost adaptability.
- With the Yoga Burn system, you will not need to stress over mosting likely to a health club, paying fitness center subscription costs, or finding out how to make use of unique devices. The entire method takes place on a yoga exercise mat, and also since it is made for a residence workout, you can get suit any environment that you pick.
- When contrasted to a gym membership, the Yoga Burn system is relatively cost-friendly, as well as several individuals in your household can easily take part in it.
- You can quickly customize the Yoga Burn program. You can enhance or reduce the duration of the program in addition to the size of each specific lesson. You can advance via the stages slowly or rapidly depending on your demands, lifestyle, and body problem.
- Yoga Burn is easy on the joints as well as is designed to considerably enhance your body’s strength, all the while melting calories. This makes it a risk-free residence exercise as well as lowers the overall threat of fitness injury.
- Digital duplicates permit the program to be played anywhere around your home, permitting you to exercise in an entirely exclusive space or move your Yoga practice right into a living room so every person can How Many Calories Will I Burn With Yoga If I Weigh 120 have a try at the distinct Yoga Burn system.
- Yoga Burn is a fitness system only as well as doesn’t determine what you should be consuming. You can tailor your meal plan to assist supplement the weight reduction motivated by the program and can follow a diet regimen that works flawlessly for your way of living and requirements. This enables the outcomes of the program to be more dynamic.
- Zoe Bray-Cotton is a specialist Yoga trainer with more than ten years of experience. Her program is especially made to be progressive as well as very easy to comply with, and also you will certainly have the ability to benefit from clear, useful descriptions of each present.
Make sure to evaluate the following list of cons meticulously in order to comprehend any downsides or downsides about the Yoga Burn system that might be dealbreakers for you or your lifestyle.
- The Yoga Burn system is not made to be an automatic weight-loss system or something that you can only put half an effort into. It is a progressive workout program that ought to be complied with for at least the whole twelve weeks if you want to see the very best results. That being said, you may see results sooner than twelve weeks or a little bit behind twelve weeks, yet in either case, you will certainly require to be able to make use of the system regularly.
- Each 45-minute class is not a special collection of presents for the whole time. Rather, each video will be a fifteen-minute program that you repeat 3 times. Repeating is a crucial part of the program and permits you to progress, yet some people might want to have a completely How Many Calories Will I Burn With Yoga If I Weigh 120 one-of-a-kind 45-minute period as opposed to the three fifteen-minute portions.
- The Yoga Burn system is made for novices and those that have actually had no Yoga experience before. If you are an advanced Yoga trainee or you have a strong background of fitness, this program might not be the very best selection for you as well as most likely won’t be testing enough to see significant improvements in your health and fitness degrees or Yoga method.
Yoga Burn Frequently Asked Questions
These frequently asked questions can sum up crucial realities concerning the Yoga Burn system and also laid to rest any type of lingering worries that you might have regarding purchasing the Yoga Burn regimen.
How Does Yoga Burn Work?
As pointed out above, the Yoga Burn system utilizes an unique style of dynamic sequencing Yoga to educate your body. Each action builds on previous ones so you can proceed from beginner-oriented motions to more advanced Yoga poses easily while toning your muscular tissues and also shedding calories. The program has 3 stages that all job to maintain your mind engaged and also your body adjusting and also altering to reduce weight and also help tone your body.
Who Is Yoga Burn Intended For?
The Yoga Burn system is meant for any type of person that wishes to lose weight, tone muscle mass, and also accumulate their adaptability without investing lengthy hours in the gym and also requiring to use workout tools or weights. Yoga Burn is intended to rejuvenate your residence exercises and also can easily suit your daily routine, so you don’t need to stay with any type of rigorous regular and attempt to work going to a health club right into your day. Instead, determine when you want to comply with along with the videos and also get to function whenever you prepare.
Can You Do Yoga Burn While Pregnant?
Yes, it is possible for you to comply with the Yoga Burn system while expectant. Each video in all of the phases of the program comes with a checklist of adjustments, so you can quickly embark on the workouts during all stages of pregnancy. Additionally, Yoga Burn might help you come back right into form as well as start regaining your adaptability after having your infant, as all of the exercises can be done at your pace from the comfort of your house.
When Can I See Arise From Yoga Burn?
Like with nearly every other fitness program, the results you get will vary based on the individual and also other factors, such as diet plan, genes, and also any other exercises you may be doing while joining the Yoga Burn program. The Yoga Burn system is made to offer you leads to the quickest quantity of time, as well as many individuals do begin to see results within a month or 2. You may additionally discover increased versatility, even more muscle mass tone, and also enhanced stamina within this same timeline How Many Calories Will I Burn With Yoga If I Weigh 120.
Suppose Yoga Burn Doesn’t Function?
Often, also the very best exercise programs simply don’t suit your way of life as well as can’t help you reach your fitness objectives. If that holds true with Yoga Burn, you can quickly access a refund for your purchase if you call the customer service line through email or by calling their toll-free number within sixty days after your acquisition. A refund will be released to you within forty-eight hrs, and also you can continue on your look for the perfect physical fitness program without shedding any of the cash you spent right into this program.
Our Last Ideas on Yoga Burn
The Yoga Burn system is an one-of-a-kind means to slim down, strengthen your muscle, as well as boost your adaptability. The program is developed especially for females to help them Burn calories and also attain their preferred health and fitness goals all from the comfort of their homes. Although like numerous exercise programs, results are varied as well as rely on a number of elements independent of the program, we provide the Yoga Burn system a favorable testimonial.
This program is simply the best level for novices as well as aids you to accumulate your toughness and adaptability gradually, all while dropping weight. This program is exceptionally beneficial for people that do not have accessibility to a health club or do not intend to buy expensive tools.
If you pick to combine this program with a details diet plan that fits your lifestyle as well as follow closely to the program (consisting of day of rest and also exercising on the days where you aren’t complying with the Yoga Burn courses), you will likely have the ability to achieve wonderful results by the end of the twelve-week program for a much cheaper expense than signing up with a fitness center or participating in an in-person Yoga program. | <urn:uuid:ee04a2f0-831a-4264-82cc-0f5bfe2c5ca7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.primcartes.com/how-many-calories-will-i-burn-with-yoga-if-i-weigh-120/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959973 | 2,807 | 1.523438 | 2 |
From running to jumping to squatting, there are tons of movements where strong quads come in handy. So taking the time to target this muscle group through quad exercises is always a good idea.
First though, let’s get clear on what, exactly, your quads actually are. Your quads (technically known as quadriceps femoris) are the front muscles of your legs, Ava Fagin, C.S.C.S., sports performance coach at Cleveland State University, tells SELF. They’re called quadriceps because they involve four different muscles: rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, and vastus intermedius.
Together, your quad muscles are the primary driver of knee extension (basically, any move where your leg goes from bent to straight ) and they also play a big role in hip flexion (essentially, anything that involves bringing your leg closer to your chest) ), Fagin explains. That means your quads assist in loads of everyday movements, like walking, running, lunging, squatting, and climbing stairs.
Here, we explain everything you need to know about strength training for your quads, including what causes weak quads, how to boost your quad strength at home, and ways you can bolster this muscle group without doing squats. Then, we share 15 of the best quad exercises that will smoke the tops of your legs. Consider this your go-to guide on all things quad-related!
How can I make my quadriceps stronger?
You can make your quadriceps stronger by incorporating quad strengthening exercises into your routine. It sounds obvious, but, well, it’s actually that simple.
If you’re a beginner, doing bodyweight quad moves or leg exercises can be challenging enough to strengthen your quads, says Fagin. But if you’re a more advanced exerciser, you may find that you need to add external resistance, like through free weights, to your moves to feel that same amount of effort. That’s because to strengthen a muscle, you need to progressively challenge it—that’s what we call progressive overload. Often, we get that progressive overload from gradually increasing the amount of weight we lift.
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Where does the gas in the intestines?
Flatulence: what is the reason?
Firstly, it is isolated from the fermentation of food bacteria. Secondly, can swallow air while eating or talking (usually it goes to belch).
Flatulence is not severe or dangerous disease, but often the cause of embarrassment and discomfort.
Causes of flatulence
- Unhealthy diet (foods rich in carbohydrates are not digested, carbohydrates are fermented by bacteria in the gut)
- Consumption of carbonated drinks,
- Rapid ingestion of food and drinking large gulps,
- The conversation during the meal,
- Deformation of the sky, and the teeth of the nose,
- Intolerance to certain foods (eg, lactase deficiency - the inability to digest the milk sugar lactose)
- Frequent constipation (slow down the progress of food through the intestines, increase the likelihood of the fermentation and retain the escaping gases).
Symptoms of flatulence
- Pain or discomfort in the abdomen.
What you can do
Try to eat less foods that cause flatulence.
- Different kinds of cabbage (broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts), onions, artichokes,
- Pears, apples and peaches,
- Whole grains, wheat bran,
- Soft drinks and fruit drinks,
- Milk and dairy products such as ice cream, cheese,
- Products containing lactose, such as bread, cereals.
Drink lots of water, broth, do not drink soda, beer, and soda (they enhance the fermentation processes in the gut). Try to let go of beverage gases, for example, pouring from a bottle into a glass.
Learn to eat slowly and chew thoroughly pieces of food. This will reduce the amount of air ingested.
Avoid chewing gum, hard candy and smoking.
Visit the dentist (especially if you have artificial teeth) in order to check the condition of the oral cavity.
You can take medication, eliminate flatulence (simethicone, activated carbon).
Consult your doctor if you suffer from constant flatulence (or acute attacks), accompanied by abdominal pain and weight loss.
What can a doctor
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New brief explores implementation of ICC/MBI standards 1200 and 1205 for off-site construction
ABC Collaborative releases brief highlighting potential role of ICC/MBI Standards 1200 and 1205 in advancing building construction
The Advanced Building Construction Collaborative (ABC-C) Working Group (WG) on Codes, Standards, Permitting, Testing, and Accreditation released a brief detailing the role of newly developed Off-site Construction Standards 1200-2021 and 1205-2021 in transforming the construction industry. The brief highlights the current fragmented landscape of code compliance pathways for off-site construction inspections and approvals. The resource suggests the opportunity to provide uniformity and consistency for future projects through widespread implementation of the off-site construction standards—further driving off-site construction forward as an advanced building construction strategy.
Developed by the International Code Council (ICC) and Modular Building Institute (MBI), ICC/MBI Standards 1200 and 1205 are a coordinated set of standards that cover the entire off-site construction process, capturing best practices and supporting a consistent approach to verifying compliance. ICC/MBI Standard 1200-2021: Standard for Planning, Design, Fabrication, and Assembly in Off-Site Construction provides requirements for designers, manufacturers, transporters and assemblers to assure that off-site construction components are produced under a quality assurance/quality control process and that they can demonstrate compliance with building code requirements. While ICC/MBI Standard 1205-2021: Standard for Inspection and Regulatory Compliance in Off-Site Construction addresses the compliance verification process including permitting, in-plant and on-site final inspections, third party inspections, the role of Industrialized Building Departments, state modular programs and the authority having jurisdiction. The brief discusses the pathway for adoption of the standards and explores how Salt Lake City, Utah’s adoption process has been able to increase their housing supply in an efficient and flexible manner.
In addition to discussion of the standards, the brief outlines the development and adoption processes of the International Code Council’s International Residential Code (IRC) and International Building Code (IBC). The report suggests building codes and standards have the opportunity to integrate ABC processes, like off-site construction, to increase the efficiency and reduce timelines in the approval and permitting processes.
Leading authors of the brief include Ryan Colker, Vice President of Innovation at the International Code Council; Diana Fisler, Senior Principal at ADL Ventures; Lucas Toffoli, Manger of Carbon-Free Buildings at RMI; and Alyssa Watson, Associate at ADL Ventures. The brief incorporates valuable elements and insights from members of the ABC-C WG on Codes, Standards, Permitting, Testing, and Accreditation, drawn from working group discussion sessions. The ABC-C is supported through a grant provided by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Building Technologies Office.
The ABC-C WG on Codes will be developing a subsequent brief exploring additional strategies to advance construction, including more uniform code adoption and leveraging product evaluation processes and emerging concepts like productization. The following brief will highlight experiences around successful off-site code compliance, roadblocks, zoning regulations, and suitable areas for adoption of the standards.
The ABC-C is a diverse network of incumbent and emergent buildings sector actors — across manufacturing, construction, real estate investment, and development. The network includes some of the most innovative businesses working to accelerate the uptake, scaling, and mainstream adoption of high-performance industrialized construction solutions to enhance building decarbonization efforts. The Collaborative’s work leverages its collective knowledge to assist the U.S. construction industry modernize and create a sustainable built environment.
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Mutual Fund Profits
How Can I Keep More of My Mutual Fund Profits?
Provisions in the tax code allow you to pay lower capital gains taxes on the sale of assets held more than one year. The long-term capital gains tax rate is 15% for taxpayers in the 25%, 28%, 33%, and 35% tax brackets but increases to 20% for individuals in the 39.6% tax bracket. Lower-bracket taxpayers (0% and 15% brackets) pay zero tax on long-term capital gains.* Short-term gains — those resulting from the sale of assets held for one year or less — are still taxed at your highest marginal income tax rate.
This means that if you’ve been buying shares in a stock or mutual fund over the years and are considering selling part of your holdings, your tax liability could be significantly affected by the timing of your sale.
The main pitfall for most investors is the IRS “first-in, first-out” policy. Simply stated, this means the IRS assumes that the first shares you sell are the first shares you purchased. Thus, the first shares in become the first shares out. As a result, if the value of your shares has appreciated, more of the money you receive from the sale will be considered to be taxable as a capital gain.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. When you place a sell order, instruct your broker or mutual fund transfer agent to sell those shares that you purchased for the highest amount of money. This will reduce the percentage of the proceeds of the sale that can be considered capital gain and are therefore taxable.
In order for this strategy to work, you must specify exactly which shares you are selling and when they were originally purchased. Ask your broker to send you a transaction confirmation that identifies by purchase date the shares you want to trade. This will enable you to reduce your taxable gain and maximize your deductible losses when you fill out your tax return.
In some cases, you may be better off selling the first shares you purchased, even if this results in a larger gain. If the first shares are subject to the 15% long-term capital gains rate, but the recently purchased shares are subject to the higher short-term rate, the correct choice may not be obvious. Always consult a tax professional.
By carefully reviewing your brokerage statements, you can determine which shares you paid the most for. You can then specify exactly which shares you’d like to sell. A word to the wise: Make this request in writing. If the IRS calls the transaction into question, the burden of proof is on you.
Finally, the IRS also allows you to calculate your tax basis by taking the average cost of all your shares. On an appreciating asset, this should result in a lower tax liability than the first-in, first-out rule would dictate. Be aware, though, that if you elect to average, you must continue to average for any subsequent sales.
Using either system, you may end up with a lower tax liability from the sale of your shares than the IRS would assume using the first-in, first-out rule.
The value of stocks and mutual funds fluctuates so that shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost.
Mutual funds are sold by prospectus. Please consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses carefully before investing. The prospectus, which contains this and other information about the investment company, can be obtained from your financial professional. Be sure to read the prospectus carefully before deciding whether to invest.
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Parenting Dual Exceptional Children
This is the first comprehensive guide for parents of children with Dual and Multiple Exceptionality (DME, sometimes called Twice Exceptionality or 2E). Children with high learning potential may also have conditions such as ASD, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia, having ‘flashes of brilliance’ in some areas whilst needing additional support in others. As a result, their abilities may not always be recognized in an educational setting.
This book takes a strengths-based approach towards helping parents recognize and focus on their child’s areas of potential to support them towards better attainment and self-esteem, and build on these abilities while also identifying and addressing areas of difficulty. It provides an understanding of the mixed learning profile of DME children, explaining why they excel in some areas but not others, as well as guidance for parents on working positively with schools and providing their child with the support they need.
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The latest fulsome malarkey being propagated by the financial press and assorted pundits is that incomes are rising and Americans ought to feel more of a "wealth effect" than ever before. No one seems to mention how much of the current "deregulated" economy is still built on gig jobs, such as using Task Rabbit, and Uber here in Colorado - but still not earning enough to afford a median scale home in Denver (price: $549,000). Or a median priced home here in the Springs ($355,000).
Why not? Because one would have to put together earnings from dozens of gigs every day to make enough money to afford such homes, or even a basic single bedroom apartment in Denver for $1,490 a month. So the most the gig jobbers can manage is maybe- if they're lucky- finding a bedroom to rent in someone's home for $650 a month. That is now considered a great deal.
Oh yeah, the financial media is full of all the jobs going unfilled, but what are they exactly? In Colorado in general they include landscapers, agriculture workers, retail, restaurant wait staff (some 5, 600 positions vacant last month alone) and construction. In the case of the wait staff one restaurateur even told the Denver Post he would immediately hire anyone "with a pulse".. But still no takers, neither for line cooks. Why not? Well because one would need to earn at least $60,000 a year to afford even the most modest single bedroom apt. and neither job pays that much.
So, it was kind of laughable when on Sept. 12, the WSJ featured this editorial:
Trump's Income Bump - WSJ
In which it was claimed:
"Real median household incomes ticked up 1.8% to $61, 372 between 2016 and 2017 while the poverty rate dropped 0.4 percentage points to 12.3 % according to the Census Bureau. ...
Incomes increased across the distribution range with the share of people earning less than %15,000 declining 0.3 percentage points to 10.7%, the lowest level since 2007."
But how real is this income increase exactly? When one turns to the front page of the same issue, one comes to an article by Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg with a similar leading header 'Incomes Rise, Poverty Falls Again' . But when one reads between the lines, as it were, a different story emerges.
We learn, for example:
"Incomes have grown 10.4% in the past three years and last year's figure was the highest on record. But a change in the way the numbers are calculated over time makes comparisons imperfect and census officials said last year's figure wasn't statistically different from income peaks in 1999 and 2007.
The result is that the typical American household's income is stuck where it was before the last two recessions. The 2017 growth rate also lagged behind the previous two years."
In other words, last year's growth rate for income - the first full year of the Trump administration, saw less growth than the previous two years (for the Obama administration). In addition, as the quote from the piece points out, "last year's figure wasn't statistically different from income peaks in 1999 and 2007."
WSJ columnist William Galston also reinforced this in his column yesterday (p. A13), writing:
"Most of the income gains from the post- Great Recession low of $54, 700 in 2012 reflect increases in the number of people working and hours worked, rather than in hourly compensation for each worker."
Note that last part again, 'rather than the hourly compensation for each worker'. In other words, most of the financial media that jabbers on about the great income surge is comparing applies and oranges. Galston supports that take when he goes on to write: "As we approach full employment income gains will be sustained only by rising wages." In other words, rises in hourly compensation per worker.
Anyone else get the feeling we're being gamed here on the "rising" income issue? Maybe by media agents and sources committed to make Trump look better than Obama?
The real reason incomes rose also was noted in the article by Adamy and Overberg, showing why so many workers really aren't that much better under the reign of Dotard:
"Incomes rose mostly because more people worked more hours and to a lesser extent because their wages increased."
And we also read:
"Some economists said they are puzzled that wages haven;t risen more quickly given the overall strength of the economy and an unemployment rate around 4 percent"
But we already know why, because most employers don't want to pay higher wages. Recall in a January 10 post I cited a Denver Post Business column (Jan. 7, p. 3K, 'Don't Get Your Hopes Up For A Raise') from which we learned first and foremost, companies would much rather give one off "bonuses" and leave out any permanent pay raises. As the piece noted:
"Those one time bumps, whatever really precipitated them, don't mean higher wages are around the corner. ...And for now employers are in no hurry to raise them."
Why? According to Paula Harvey, VP of Human Resources at Schulte Building Systems in Houston:
"Companies are really hesitant to give raises. When you give a raise, it's stuck in the pay system. It is something you're guaranteeing: it's becoming a fixed cost. "
Harvey insisted it's much better for companies to preserve "flexibility" so instead companies enact "variable pay". This can come in the form of one off bonuses - say on a per year basis- or if you are a stellar performer you can get a "bigger bump". Say equal to a half year's wage increase of 3 percent. (If you are a super star performer you have the optimal chance of getting a permanent good raise.)
But for the rest it's 'catch as catch can'. In other words, permanent salary bumps are just too expensive and if "times get tough, the needed pay cuts hurt morale and productivity".
Despite the WSJ editorial's humping the income increase, it is mostly just a big myth, and nothing's changed since that Jan. 10 blog post. Indeed, in The Weekend Financial Times we learn companies have been even more tightfisted. According to Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, insists that companies have contributed to personal financial insecurity in the first place by removing financial safety nets. She goes on to say:
"As well as keeping wages as low as possible they have shifted the risks involved in meeting retirement obligations by eliminating final salary pension schemes".
"My concern is employers can implement low cost, gimmicky financial welness programs, instead of putting real skin in the game - investments in employees in the form of higher wages and higher retirement contributions."
In other words, despite all the media hype and hoopla, corporations, companies, employers are still getting the better of their workers. William Galston's final words in his WSJ column are a sobering reminder that our income situation is no where as rosy as we've been led to believe:
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One in every ten Germans wants their country to be led by a 'Führer' who applies a firm hand for the common good.
Eleven percent of respondents say that Jews have too much influence in society.
Twelve percent think Germans are by nature superior to other people.
Four in ten people think Muslims should be prohibited from immigrating to the country.
These are just some of the more hair-raising findings of the study, which the University of Leipzig has been carrying out at regular intervals since 2002.
Source: University of Leipzig
Islamophobia on the rise
Hostility to Islam has shown a particularly marked increase since the last report in 2014, when 36.6 percent of people didn't want more Muslims migrating to Germany.
Half of respondents in the most recent survey of 2,240 people also said they feel like “foreigners in their own country” because there are too many Muslims. That result marked a seven percentage point rise from the 2014 poll.
Overall, three in ten complained that Germany had been “infiltrated by too many foreigners in a dangerous way”, added the survey, which was carried out after a year in which Germany opened its doors to a record 1.1 million asylum seekers.
Skepticism appears to be running high against migrants, with three in five Germans saying that most asylum seekers “are not really at risk of any persecution in their home country”.
'More sympathy with violence'
“There has been no increase in extreme right attitudes, but in comparison with our study from two years ago people who have far-right attitudes are more prepared to use violence to achieve their aims,” Dr. Oliver Decker, one of the report’s authors, notes on the university website.
The report also claims to have found ”a clear polarisation and radicalisation” in German society, with more respondents also likely to completely reject violence this time around.
“The two groups exist next to each other. We have people who actively engage to help refugees and there are people who actively reject refugees,” said Decker.
Titled “the uninhibited middle”, the study argues that extremist ideology has become more acceptable in mainstream German society, leading to the increased popularity of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
“Most AfD voters have a hostile attitude to the world,” report co-author Dr. Elmar Brähler said.
Racist attitudes are also highly prevalent among people who up until this point have not voted, the study shows, with almost 30 percent likely to harbour xenophobic opinions.
“The potential for extreme right or populist right-wing parties is still higher than what electoral results have yet shown,” Brähler stated.
The survey noted an increase in negative attitudes towards Roma or Sinti communities, with half of respondents saying people from such groups should be banned from city centres.
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This course offers an advanced exploration of the theories of crime causation. Biological, psychological, sociological, cultural, and political theories may be examined using a "cause of crime" perspective. Emphasis is placed around the key concepts used in theories of crime and the multidisciplinary source of these concepts, how they are applied to criminological theory, and their importance for understanding the present state of criminological theory.
For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.
Criminal Justice 700 is the foundational course in the Doctor of Philosophy in Criminal Justice program. As such, the student in this course explores the theoretical conceptualizations of why individuals commit crime.
Measurable Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Analyze the historical development of criminological theory.
- Compare Christian Worldview constructs to criminological theory.
- Understand the past, present, and future trends in crime causation.
- Critically assess explanations of crime.
Textbook readings and lecture presentations/notes
Course Requirements Checklist
After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.
Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to create a thread in response to the provided topic for each Discussion. Each thread must be at least 600 words, demonstrate course-related knowledge, and use a minimum of 3 properly formatted citations in addition to at least 1 Holy Bible reference. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. Each reply must be at least 300 words, and requires a minimum of 1 properly formatted citation in addition to at least 1 Holy Bible reference. Citations must be in current APA format.
Biblical Position Paper Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to get you thinking about the nature of human behavior, specifically the deviant side of human behavior. A detailed discussion of 5-6 pages of the various aspects of the fall of man and the temporal ramifications will be explored. The heart of man and the wayward desires of the heart should also be explored in an effort to better understand the ease of finding oneself on the wrong side of the law. For this assignment, your only source should be Scripture.
Journal Article Review Assignment
In this assignment you will critically review one (1) recent peer-reviewed article in a minimum of a five (5) pages. You may wish to spend some time researching critical review techniques for journal articles prior to starting this assignment. At a minimum, you should pay particular attention to the identification the premise and supporting points of the article, a synthesis of the article with positivist school of criminology theories, and a critical evaluation of the premise(s) and supporting points of the article. The paper must follow current APA guidelines. The page count does not include the title page, abstract, reference section, or any extra material. See the assignment instructions and grading rubric for additional instructions and guidance.
Chapter Application Paper Assignment
The purpose of this paper is to present your well-articulated perspective and thoughts from the chapters assigned from the reading in 8-10 pages. Each paper must identify the premise and supporting points of the chapter, a synthesis of the information from the chapter, and a critical application of the premise(s) and supporting points from the chapter to an issue of criminal offending. Formatting must conform to the current APA formatting style.
Research Paper Assignment
In this assignment, you will select one (1) topic: a serial murderer or a policy. Whichever topic is selected, an introduction to the individual or policy should be detailed followed by a 11-14 page analysis of the theories that might be used to explain or support the individual’s move into criminality or the underpinnings of the policy. The paper (a total of 16-18 pages) should incorporate a Christian Worldview throughout or have a specific section of dedicated to Christian Worldview. It is extremely important that you keep the paper between 16-18 page requirement. Each paper must be thorough but not exhaustive. At least 15-20 sources, including the Holy Bible and no more than 2 books, must be used and cited. The paper must be written in the current APA format.
Each quiz will cover the Learn material for the Module: Week in which it is assigned with the final quiz in Module 8: Week 8 covering all chapters. Each quiz will be open-book/open-notes, contain 10 multiple-choice and 2 essay questions, and have a 1-hour and 30-minute time limit. | <urn:uuid:964e565b-e641-4b14-9964-31fcfa8219fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.liberty.edu/online/courses/CJUS700/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.892603 | 977 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Parenting is largely an amateur sport. Nobody gets to practice beforehand, and while there is plenty of advice available in the form of books and online resources, much of this is contradictory and some of it is simply wrong. There is a credible source of suggestions on parenting, though, in the form of discussing your child's development with a qualified mental health counselor. The following articles can assist you in learning more about what parenting counseling can offer, and parenting advice in general.
Medically Reviewed By: Aaron Horn, LMFT, MA
Parenting is when you are supporting the development of a child, which includes their physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development. It happens from when they are babies, to the time that they are grown adults. Some people have biological children that are born to them, while others adopt. When you're parenting, you’re helping a small human develop into a grown adult. Parenting is natural, and there are many different styles of parenting. There’s no one right way to be a parent, and each family will decide on their own how to best achieve the goals that they have for their kids.
Loving Your Children
One goal of parenting is to teach your children about all aspects of the world. Parents are teachers and have the responsibility to show our kids how to survive and thrive in their lives. Parents can encourage their children, teach them how to be kind, empathetic to others, and genuinely care about other people’s feelings. We want our children to grow up to be healthy and happy members of society. We want them to pursue their dreams, whatever those might be. Everyone has different goals, and it’s important to know what those might be.
There are many different parenting styles. Parents choose the method that works for them. One parenting style might work well for one kid, while another parenting type might suit another child better. There’s no one right way to parent. As long as you are treating your children with love, kindness, respect, and doing the best you can as a parent, your child will turn out ok.
Attachment parenting: Attachment parenting is one of the most loving kinds of parenting there is. It focuses on healthy parent-child attachment and is a philosophy that promotes bonding between parents and their children. It’s meant to help children feel secure and connected to their guardians. Attachment parenting is accredited to William Sears, who came up with the term in 1982. The same year, he published a book called “Creative Parenting” where he talks about how this style of parenting can help kids develop a deep bond with their parents. Essential aspects of attachment parenting involve breastfeeding, baby-wearing, trying to understand a child's needs such as why they’re crying, and bonding. These aspects are called the 7 Baby B’s, and in total, they include: breastfeeding, babywearing, bonding, bedding close to baby (co-sleeping), belief in the language of your babies cry, balance, and beware of trainers.
Authoritarian parenting: Authoritarian parenting is a parenting style in which people are very strict with their children. It is a rigid parenting style which demands that rules are followed and doesn’t take into account the emotional needs of their child. In authoritarian parenting, guardians enforce and emphasize punishment when a child doesn't behave rather than re-directing their child or teaching them how to act more appropriately. Authoritarian parenting is not to be confused with authoritative parenting, which puts more emphasis on the needs of a child.
Permissive parenting: Permissive parenting is a parenting style where people overindulge their children. Children of permissive parents are often known as “spoiled,” and they don’t have many rules or guidelines. Permissive parenting allows children to do what they like.
One of the things that are important to remember is that parenting is a problematic full-time job. Parenting is stressful, so it’s important to talk to other parents to get support and advice while helping your children grow into happy and healthy adults. Another thing that you can do is talk to your therapist or counselor. A convenient way to gain access to counseling as a parent is online counseling.
Sometimes we’re at a loss for what to do as a parent. It’s okay to ask for help. Online therapy is an excellent place to talk about parenting issues and decide what kind of parent you want to be. Your online counselor cares about you and your children. They’re there to help and guide you on your parenting journey. Reach out to a therapist at BetterHelp and find one that’s right for you so that you can get support and talk about your struggles as a parent. | <urn:uuid:1dfee986-82bf-44cc-acf4-2d33a0428f69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/parenting/?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964817 | 988 | 2.71875 | 3 |
History of Perfume and Fragrances
By: Roberto Sedycias
Perfume is one of those products that may influence our emotions. People`s sense of smell influences behaviour and sets different moods. It may even bring up memories of the past. As a marketing tool, perfume is also present in our everyday lives and it can be found in lots of consumer products. Besides the fact that perfume is so popular, have you ever wandered how it came into being what it is today? What`s the history of perfume?
Some anthropologists say that perfume was used by primitive man thru the burning of gums and resins for incense. Eventually from 7000 to 4000 bc, richly scented plants, animal and fatty oils of olive and sesame are thought to have been combined with fragrant plants to create original ointments.
Three thousand years ago in ancient Egypt, historians believe that perfume was first used in rituals, as part of their religious ceremonies, creating a pleasant smell. These scents came from gums, resin trees, oil and from a variety of plants resulting in a perfume unguent that was rubbed into the skin. Hundreds of years later, women of Egypt were using perfume for their cosmetic qualities. It is believed that Egyptian queen Cleopatra had her own exclusive balms and scents used as cosmetics and aphrodisiac, which helped her to conquer Julius Caesar and later Mark Anthony. Also from this same era, it is believed that perfume was used in Mesopotamia for ritual ceremonies. And farther east, in China, aromatic herbs were used for medicine purposes.
Later on as trade routes expanded, perfume became very popular and demand for scent products increased trade among different civilizations. Africa and India started to supply Middle Eastern civilization with spikenard and ginger. Syrians sold fragrant goods to Arabia. Mediterranean civilization began buying cymbopogon and ginger from South Arabia. And so the trade of scent goods kept on, and as it continued to swell, fragrance perfume was eventually introduced thru time to several civilizations such as Hindus, Israelites, Carthaginians, Arabs, Greeks, Romans and finally reintroduced hundreds of years later in Italy and France.
By the 13th century Italy was doing major trades of spices and perfumes with Eastern civilizations. Portugal and Spain were also trying to establish important trades of spices by having exclusive routes to the East. That`s how the new world of America got to be discovered. As Italian perfume influence swept over neighbouring countries, France began expanding the use of perfume by first offering perfumed gloves, which were most often perfumed with neroli or animal scents such as ambergris and civet. From then on, French perfume has become famous worldwide and today sets the standard for excellence.
Also France played a major role in re-establishing the use of perfume for therapeutic purposes in the western world. It has been reported that during Word War II, therapeutic perfume had been used in the treatment of wounds and burns, and later in the treatment of psychiatric problems.
Perfume has brought different people together in the past thru the trade of aromatic scents. It also played a major deal, since its trade meant economical power for the nations. And so the history of modern man has been greatly influenced by this special product, enabling new worlds to be discovered. On a personal level, perfume is capable of influencing people`s behaviour and that by itself sets perfume in class by itself. Perhaps that`s what makes it so desirable by all of us | <urn:uuid:e7fe95ec-47fd-4760-b002-afa12f07209a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aromaticattars.com/history-of-perfume/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.976193 | 719 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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Houghorth History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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The ancestors of the Houghorth surname lived among the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. The name comes from when they lived in or near the settlement of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Hayward's Heath in Sussex is another possible origin of the name. The surname Houghorth belongs to the large category of Anglo-Saxon habitation names, which are derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads.
Early Origins of the Houghorth family
The surname Houghorth was first found in the West Riding of Yorkshire at Haworth, a chapelry, in the parish of Bradford, union of Keighley, wapentake of Morleywhich. Historically part of Lancashire, the village dates back to 1209 when it was originally listed as Hauewrth. Literally the place name means "enclosure with a hedge," from the Old English words "haga" + "worth."
One of the first records of the family was Robert de Hawrth who was listed in the Pipe Rolls for Yorkshire in 1200.
Later the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 listed Alicia de Haworth; Johannes Haueworth; Johannes de Haworth; and Otes de Haworth as all holding lands there at that time.
"The Haworths or Howarths are very characteristic of Lancashire, Howorth being of less frequent occurrence. The Haworths of Great Haworth, a very old gentle family, have resided in that place for many centuries; the Haworths of Higher Croft branched off from them in the middle of the 17th century; whilst those of Sale in Cheshire belong to a still later branch. Haworth was a common Rochdale name in the 16th century. Abraham Hawarth was a Manchester boroughreeve in 1746. Haworth is a place or a seat in the county, but I scarcely think that this is a sufficient explanation of the frequency of a name which, in one form or another, is borne by nearly one in every hundred of Lancashire men."
Early History of the Houghorth family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Houghorth research. Another 103 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1609, 1629, 1639, 1616, 1683, 1676, 1679, 1680, 1683, 1767, 1833, 1767, 1793, 1797, 1812, 1817, 1798, 1802 and 1806 are included under the topic Early Houghorth History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Houghorth Spelling Variations
Before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago, spelling variations of names were a common occurrence. Elements of Latin, French and other languages became incorporated into English through the Middle Ages, and name spellings changed even among the literate. The variations of the surname Houghorth include Haworth, Howarth and others.
Early Notables of the Houghorth family (pre 1700)
Distinguished members of the family include Samuel Haworth (fl. 1683), an empiric, a native of Hertfordshire, and probably the son of William Haworth, who wrote against the Hertford Quakers (1676). In 1679 he was a 'student of physic' living next door to the Dolphin in Sighs Lane, and dealing in quack tablets and a tincture. He was patronised by the Duke of York (James II), and admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians on 12 Oct. 1680. His new way of curing consumption was brought to the notice of Charles II, who ordered him to test it on a case...
Another 182 words (13 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Houghorth Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Houghorth family
A great wave of immigration to the New World was the result of the enormous political and religious disarray that struck England at that time. Families left for the New World in extremely large numbers. The long journey was the end of many immigrants and many more arrived sick and starving. Still, those who made it were rewarded with an opportunity far greater than they had known at home in England. These emigrant families went on to make significant contributions to these emerging colonies in which they settled. Some of the first North American settlers carried this name or one of its variants: John Haworth settled in New York in 1820; James, John, and Richard Haworth arrived in Philadelphia between 1820 and 1860; Thomas Howarth settled in Maryland in 1699.
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The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Quod ero spero
Motto Translation: I hope that I shall be.
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The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading today will recognize the Los Angeles-based Beutner Family Foundation for its Vision To Learn program that has provided free eye exams to more than 21,000 children and free glasses to 16,000 of them.
The program will be honored as a GLR Campaign Pacesetter Program, a distinction that reflects its contribution to improving academic achievement and, with that, life prospects for young children in California.
“Because of Vision To Learn, the prospects for these children, like the words they now see on the page, are clearer and brighter,” said Ralph Smith, managing director of the GLR Campaign. “And the Beutner Family Foundation has offered a model that can inspire funders and communities across the nation to tackle and solve an eminently solvable problem.”
The recognition will come at a gathering Friday of foundations and donors working with the GLR’s Campaign to increase the number of low-income children who master reading by the end of third grade. More than 100 national, state and local funders support the Campaign’s efforts, many of them working in the 140+ communities that are aligned with the early reading goal.
Vision To Learn provides free eye exams and free glasses to elementary school students in low-income communities in Northern California and in the Los Angeles Unified School District. State-of-the-art mobile eye clinics staffed by opthalmologists and optometrists bring these services right to the school site, overcoming both financial and logistical challenges that often keep children from getting the help that they need. Students identified through preliminary screenings done by the school district receive eye exams and, if needed, glasses with frames that they choose themselves.
According to a study by the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health, more than 20 percent of elementary school students in low-income communities have vision problems, and 96 percent of those students who need glasses do not have them. Students with untreated eye problems tend to have lower academic performance that diminishes prospects for their futures.
Vision To Learn is changing that picture. The UCLA study found that students who have benefited from the program’s services show improved academic performance and increased confidence and focus leading to better classroom behavior and more participation. Other local foundations and businesses are joining the Beutner Family Foundation to expand the program so that more children can benefit and be well on their way to reading and school success.
“Vision To Learn and my family foundation are honored to receive the Pacesetter Award by the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading,” said Austin Beutner, Vision To Learn Founder and Chairman. “We see firsthand the importance of grade-level reading in the schools we are in every day. We are proud to be working to ensure the campaign’s success by providing the glasses kids need to read their textbooks and see the board, putting them on a path to succeed in school and in life.”
The GLR Campaign has bestowed Pacesetter Honors on several community coalitions and states since 2012, and in April named its first Pacesetter Partners: the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services and Sesame Workshop.
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The long pending demand of the Kerala for the construction of a Railway Coach Factory was approved by the Central government and more than 230 acres of land was acquired for the purpose by the state government in 2012 itself. The government decided for Coach Factories at the same time, one at Rae Bareilly in UP and one at Kanjikode, Palakkad in Kerala. The former one has already been constructed and started functioning, but the latter is completely ignored. Now, the Railway Minister stated a few days back that there is no requirement for another factory, which was corrected by himself later stating that the government has taken no decision to close the project, due to strong criticism.
The stand of the central government is nothing but discrimination against Kerala for political reasons. The reason for not proceeding with the project was stated that the state government is not keen and is delaying the acquisition of land for the project. It is a fact that the required land of 230 acre was already acquired and ready for construction. The Minister’s lie was exposed.
The Railways require coaches, the land is acquired and the Kerala Chief Minister and M.P.s have asked for starting the project.
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Similar to Minnal Murali getting featured in engineering exam question paper, here's the K-pop BTS making presence in English comprehension of a Central Board of Secondary Education CBSE Class 9 exam sheet.
BTS ARMY in India is overwhelmed to see questions related to the famous Korean band being asked in exam. The text over the K-pop sensation followed with about six questions, with the topmost one being - what effects did social media platforms have on K-pop groups?
Several netizens took to social media with the snippets of the question paper and expressed their fandom moment of joy. Take a look at some reactions, below.
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Why Does the Toilet Overflow When I Take a Shower?
Having plumbing problems in your Riverside City home can be a big headache, especially when something like a toilet overflow starts happening unexpectedly and requires sewage cleaning. If one of your toilets is overflowing when you take a shower, it is likely being caused by a clog between the shower and the sewer. As the shower runs, the water is stopped by the clog and pushed into the wastewater lines and comes out the first spot it can, which in this case is your toilet.
When this type of problem happens, it can create a major mess in your bathroom. It can be even worse if you take a shower upstairs and the overflow is happening in a bathroom you don’t use every day, such as in the basement or in a guest bathroom. If you have a toilet overflow that has gone unnoticed for a few days, to the point where water damage and mold has begun to set in, there are many professional water damage remediation companies that can thoroughly repair and clean up the area. Proper sewage cleaning is important to ensure everything is fully decontaminated to prevent disease.
You may be able to clear out the clogged pipe yourself using an auger “snake”:
Hiring a professional is often recommended to avoid spending money and time only to realize the problem is bigger than you expected, or unreachable by a common snake.
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A clogged pipe can be an easy, quick fix and may not cause much of a mess or damage if taken care of immediately. But, if the clog has been building up for many years and is far down in the sewage lines, it could require professional tools and the hand of an experienced plumber.
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Well-known for its ancient temples, beautiful palaces and alluring monuments, Gwalior is the tourist capital of Madhya Pradesh. Gwalior is best known for being the birthplace of the great musician, Tansen. The city is also popular for its rich cultural heritage and glorious history.
The city has been called ‘pearl in the necklace of the forts of Hind’. The star attraction of the city is Gwalior Fort which was the administrative centre of many North Indian dynasties. The rich historical past of the city is displayed through its beautiful attractions. The royal charm of Gwalior can be seen through its spectacular architecture. The rule of both the Rajputs and Britishers over Gwalior is reflected in every corner of the city.
When it comes to tourist attractions, Gwalior has much to offer to all the tourists. Some popular attractions of Gwalior include Phool Bagh, Suraj Kund, Hathi Pool, Man singh Palace and Jai Vilas Palace. The Tansen music festival organized every year in Gwalior is also a famous attraction. The culture and tradition of Gwalior make it a popular tourist attraction of India.
Best Time to Visit Gwalior
Gwalior in summer – From April to June
Summer in Gwalior is marked by extreme heat and humidity, with the highest temperature recorded up to 47 degrees Celsius. It is not an apt time to visit for sightseeing trips and leisure holidays. However, if you happen to be in Gwalior during this time, you are suggested to intake a large amount of fluid and wear cotton clothes.
Gwalior in Monsoon – From July till September
With the onset of monsoon, starting from the month of June, the temperature of Gwalior decreases and brings relief. The monsoon season lasts till the month of September and is characterized by moderate rainfalls. The weather remains pleasant and enjoyable around this time but the humidity rises. The temperature ranges from 25 to 32 degree Celsius, and the average rainfall is at 700 mm.
Gwalior in winter – From October till March
Winter season is just right to visit Gwalior, as the cold days are any day preferred over the summer heat. The temperature of the season ranges from maximum 21 degrees Celsius to minimum 4 degree Celsius. The visitors are found in abundance around this time, appreciating and exploring the attractions like Gujari Mahal, Archaeological Museum, Sas-Bahu Temples, Suraj Kund, Teli-ka-Mandir at leisure. A festival commemorating the Tansen music festival is held every year in the month of December, and lasts for 4 days. Pre booking a trip for Gwalior will be of help in this rush season.
How To Reach
By Air :
Gwalior has an airport of its own that is situated at a distance of 8 kms from the main city.Indian Airlines connect Gwalior to the important cities of Mumbai, Indore, Bhopal and Delhi.The services are operational thrice a week.
By Rail :
The Gwalior Railway Station is located in the city. It lies on the main Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Chennai rail link.The Taj and Satabdi Express connect Delhi and Agra with Gwalior.
By Road :
Gwalior is well connected by roads.The place is connected to all the major towns of madhya pradesh and the adjoining areas.Gwalior is linked to Agra which is at a distance of 118 kms. It is well connected to Mathura and Jaipur which is at a distance of 350 kms. Delhi lies at a distance of 321 kms, Lucknow and Bhopal are just 423 kms away and Chanderi is at a distance of 239 kms.
The location of Gwalior Fort itself is stunning. It stands magnificently on a rock that is isolated. The famous Mughal Emperor Babur described this fort as ‘The Pearl in the Necklace of the Forts’. The construction of the fort was begun over 1000 years ago. The architecture of the fort is stunning. You will be mesmerized by the stone carvings here. The fort houses three temples and six palaces. The fort stands silent proof for the rule of various mighty dynasties.
The name itself says it. Yes, Sun Temple is dedicated to Sun, which is worshipped as a God. The temple was built by the famous industrialist G.D. Birla in the year 1988. It is a reproduction of the renowned Sun Temple in Konark. The temple’s exterior is made of red sand stone and the interior is made of white marble. The temple attracts tourists from all parts of the world. Religious faith apart, the structure of the temple and the atmosphere make people throng the temple. The tranquil atmosphere gives you peace of mind. You will also find an attractive garden inside the temple premises.
Jai Vilas Palace Museum
Jai Vilas Palace is a stunning display of architectural grandeur of the bygone era. The palace built in European style has a blend of Tuscan, Italian and Corinthian styles. The palace is now converted into museum. The palace was constructed by Maharaja Jiyaji Rao Scindia in the year 1875. The Durbar Hall in the palace has its walls decorated with golden leaves. The largest pair of chandeliers in Asia is found hanging in the palace. Now a museum, the collections in Jai Vilas Palace are equally unique and awe inspiring.
Memorial Of Tansen
Tansen Memorial was constructed to commemorate a great musician of the bygone era. Tansen, the musician, was one among the nine gems that adorned the court of Akbar. The construction reflects Mughal style of architecture. The lush gardens surrounding Tansen Memorial offer great view. The memorial is famous for national level music festivals held here every year.
Tigra Dam is situated about 23 km from the city. The dam is huge and you will love the sight of migratory birds swimming in the water. Boating facilities are available here. This beautiful picnic spot is a perfect place to relax.
Gujari Mahal Archaeological Museum
An archaeological museum located inside the fort complex is one of the must visit places, especially if you are a history buff. This 15th-century Gujari Mahal, though in ruins, offers an interesting insight into the history of the kingdom in Gwalior, and thus is an ideal place for educational tours. The primal things to see in this museum are the sculptures dating back to 1st or 2nd century B.C, archeological discoveries like Terracotta items and Bagh cave frescoes as well as the statue of Salabhanjika. During your exploration in Gujari Mahal, you can also come across a large collection of popular images of Bagh Cave paintings and also photographs of nearly 75 years old Mandu and Dhar areas.
Teli Ka Mandir
An impressive element about this pilgrimage site is perhaps its attractive and classy architecture and the detailed artwork of the temple; you can see all that when you visit the Gwalior Fort complex. This Hindu temple is the tallest in the fort with an architecture amalgamation of the northern and southern styles. It is said to be as tall as about 100 feet and it resembles the temple of Pratihara Vishnu, as a matter of fact, Teli Ka Mandir is a temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu. However, the temple is also adorned with structures of river goddesses, amorous couples, coiled serpents and the famed vehicle of Lord Vishnu making it an important place for religious tourism in Gwalior.
For those who like wildlife tours, do make a quick stop at the Gwalior Zoo or Gandhi Zoological Park for you can find some exotic species of animals here. This zoo is one of the best places to visit in Gwalior to see white tigers. These beautiful but rather ferocious big cats are the main crowd pullers but also other animals here that can quickly catch the attention of the visitors are the golden pheasants, black bucks, various serpents, hyena, sambhar, bisons and deer. A time spent in this protected site for animals will offer immense pleasure and perhaps it can be an ideal destination to visit for kids during family holiday.
A 900 metre walk pass Italian Gardens can take you to another famous and grand attraction, Moti Mahal. A 19th-century palace which was once the secretariat of Madhya Bharat Government, Moti garden flaunts colourful flowers and an extensive work of fountains. Though in a dilapidated condition, it is one of the tourism places that still beautifully displays its tempera coloured walls graced by mosaic mythological paintings of darbars and processions. In fact, Moti Mahal has close similarities to that of Pune’s Peshwa Palaces.
Amma Maharaj Ki Chathri
About a kilometre walk from Jai Vilas Palace, you will reach Amma Maharaj Ki Chathri. It is a pleasant and lovely lush garden with acres of planted trees and floral ambience, and here you can find a Chhatri (Cenotaph) of the late Madhavrao Scindia. It is a calm place to for afternoon exploration. It has to be noted that it was at Amma Maharaj Ki Chhatri where the people of Gwalior visited to attend late Maharaja’s funeral, also, Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, and later the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee has attended the funeral on October 1st, 2001)
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Web security” or: How many working hours does the organization waste on surfing the social media?
For most employees and executives, surfing the Internet at work is part of their everyday routine. So much so, that business is unimaginable without it, and so organizations have to allow their employees to use the Internet to get information the organization requires: financial data, commercial information, legal information and so on.
Even surfing social media, news and lifestyle websites while at work and or using company resources for this is usually not strictly forbidden, if reasonably measured, nor is it perceived as harmful or inappropriate. Nevertheless, what about adult websites? Or gambling?
Improper (and sometimes illegal) use by the organization’s employees of the local computing infrastructure often expose the company to potential lawsuits and loss of valuable working hours.
Many websites use ActiveX, Flash and Java, which feature engaging visual, but at the same time pose risks stemming from files with malicious code being downloaded as they surf.
In early 2015, Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) introduced the Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act, which would prohibit federal employees from accessing pornographic or explicit material on government computers and devices.
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MAKING OF A MEADOW
Mark Pastorek of Pastorek Habitats LLC, a meadow maker from Louisiana, met with several board members of the Cypress Preserve Trust to make recommendations on creating a grassy wildflower meadow area. The Trust is now in the first stage of beginning this new project. First, we have sprayed the whole meadow area and the wildflower plots around the pavilion several times to kill invasive weeds. 2 plots have been developed- one on south side of north meadow ditch, and one on the north side of the ditch behind the outdoor classroom. Both plots were sprayed for weeds several times. Jim Bell planted broom sedge plants on the south side of the ditch. Native wildflower seeds- plains and dwarf red coreopsis, clasping coneflower, obedient plant, ironweed, and cardinal flower seeds- were planted in the second plot north of the ditch. Wildflower seeds were not planted around the pavilion this year. We do plan to plant more native grasses and wildflower seeds in the main meadow area next October.
Wildflower seed planting north of meadow ditch- Dec. 2015
Broom sedge planted south of meadow
ditch- December 2015.
In the past few years, the front area around the pavilion of the Cypress Preserve has been a showy wildflower meadow for the late spring and early summer months. Wildflowers are left to go to seed, then cut back, raked off, then weeds are sprayed through the winter months in anticipation of new wildflower seeds, planted in October, to bloom in the spring. In the last 2 years, the vetch, dock, and clover have become noxious weeds in the front plots. The Trust has made the decision to spray a whole year for weeds and not plant the wildflower plots in the front until October of 2016. Therefore the pavilion will not have wildflowers this spring and summer, but hopefully we can plant annual and perennial native plants and flowers that will come back each year and bloom in different seasons of the year. Spot spraying for weeds will be necessary, but we hope to continue the beauty around the pavilion by beginning to plant.
Pavilion after spraying for weeds in December 2015.
Wildflower plot in front of pavilion has fall bloom in 2018 consisting of boneset, goldenrod, ironweed, swamp marigold, and asters.
Meadow after being sprayed for weeds.
Broomsedge, purple love grass were planted by Jim Bell in 2017. Wildflower seeds were also planted in groupings along the trail. By fall of 2018,The meadow was filled with boneset and goldenrod. By Spring of 2019,the meadow's grasses and wildflowers were abundant.
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The European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe together with the European Commission are launching a new round of RELANG and Supporting Multilingual Classrooms workshops within the joint action on Innovative methodologies and assessment in language learning. RELANG focuses on relating foreign/second language curricula, tests and examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), and Supporting Multilingual Classrooms focuses on the linguistic integration of migrant learners in schools across Europe.
The activities are scheduled to take place between mid-March and mid-December 2022, each initiative offering up to 9 national workshops during this period. In view of the ongoing pandemic, workshops will be delivered in a combination of online and face-to-face formats.
The call is open to current European Union member states and the additional member states of the ECML until 16 February 2022.
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When scripting with PowerShell, you will come to a point where you need to work with strings that contain variables. Depending on your situation, there are several methods you can use when formatting strings in PowerShell. This blog will walk through these options.
We will start simple and ramp up the complexity.
We run into our first problem here. We are using a dollar sign in our string, so PowerShell thinks it is a variable and tries to insert it into a string.
As we haven’t set a variable for $6, the string we get back is incorrect. To fix this problem, we need to escape the dollar sign so PowerShell leaves it alone. In PowerShell, escapes are done using a backtick (`).
Let’s create a hash table for our beer and try and use its properties in a string.
Once everything is installed, we will be customizing and setting up the following:
We run into another problem where – PowerShell isn’t extracting the value of the properties inside our hash table.
We can wrap variables with properties inside some special tags to force PowerShell to return our variable inside the string, for example
$($myItem.price). This is called a sub-expression:
What if we need to use single quotes inside our string?
This works fine, but if we wanted to use double quotes, we have 2 options. We can escape using a backtick (`) or escape using double-double quotes.
With the above knowledge we can handle all string formatting situations. Here a final complex example of creating a HTML page out of a PowerShell string. It includes single and double quotes, dollar signs and hash tables and uses the format command.
The beauty of PowerShell is that you can get the job done in multiple ways. You most likely would not mix all of them in a single script, but instead stick with the one you feel most comfortable with.
The above examples should make it a breeze to do even the most complicated string formatting. Happy PowerShell-ing!
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Does height, ever madeBirds scared? ?
Do fishes get scared of water, sometimes? ?
Do droplets not think about,
Getting vaporized in sun? ?
What does water do,
When it gets thirsty? ?
How does the shadow of light look like? ?
How does silence,
Sounds like? ?
Why does silence scream so loud?
Why do trees not run,
When there is a fire in the jungle? ?
When will the sun come,
To collect his debt? ?
Why does moon borrow light from,
The sun to light up, our nights? ?
How can rivers be so determined,
To fulfill their destiny? ?
Mountains, do they even know,
How many people, live off them? ?
When will wind be tired? ?
Why does light waste its time
By going to a blind man? ?
Does time, have a master plan,
Of unequal distribution? ?
Does education, have the knowledge that,
It’s being used only for money? ?
How sad do stars get,
When they don’t see us at night? ?
Is death laughing or feeling disrespected,
After finding out that people are more afraid of
“What others will say” than her? ?
Is law not getting depressed,
Serving the very same people,
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The Labour law is a federal legislation applicable to all emirates of the UAE, enforced by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affair, with litigations adjudicated by the Federal and Local Courts of the UAE.
The Labour Law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is applicable to all staff and employees working in the UAE, irrespective of whether they are UAE nationals or expatriates. However, few categories as mentioned below have been exempted from its applicability.
The Labour Law in the UAE covers all aspects of employer-employee relationships, including employment contracts, restrictions on employment of juveniles and women, maintenance of records and files, leave rules, working hours, medical and social care, safety of employees, discipline codes, termination of employment contracts, end-of-service benefits, compensation for occupational diseases, penalties and employment related accidents, labour inspections, injuries and fatalities.
For employment of any expatriate employee, an application will have to be made to the Labour Ministry in the UAE. This application should be approved by the Labour Ministry before the employee enters the UAE. Such employment permits have a validity of three years, subject to renewals for the same period. The Labour permit for an expatriate employee cannot be issued by the Labour Ministry, unless a formal written labour contract has been filed with the Ministry. But, nationals in the UAE can enter into an employment contract at any time.
An employment contract should essentially include date of employment contract, date of commencement of employment contract, nature of contract (limited or unlimited), terms of contract, designation and compensation.
There are two types of employment contracts - Limited Employment Contracts and Unlimited Employment Contracts.
Limited Employment Contracts are for a specified duration with characteristics such as specific commencement and completion date, not more than four years. However, it can be renewed with mutual consent. The employment automatically terminates at the end of contract period. However, in the case of unlimited contracts, there will be a true commencement date, but no completion date. The contract is terminated on mutual agreement by either party, by giving a 30 day notice of termination. The employee will, however, be entitled for compensation, if the termination of the contract by the employer is for an unjustified cause.
The Article 37 of the Law stipulates that the period of probation can be for a maximum period of six months. An employee or the employer can terminate the employment contract at any time during the probation period without the employer being liable to pay the end of service gratuity or the employee compensation for damages.
All wages and benefits during the probation period should be paid along with repatriation costs, provided, the termination of employment contract is at the behest of the employee.
On completion of the probation period, it will be considered as an employment with the employer, and the employee will be considered for calculating gratuity and other terminal benefits. However, the end-of-service gratuity or compensation in lieu of notice need not be paid by the employer during the probationary period. Probation is not compulsory, and is left to discretion of parties to agree upon the actual term of probationary period.
According to the law, remuneration is paid to the employee in return for his services under a labour contract, whether in cash or in kind, annually, weekly, monthly, daily, hourly, on a piece-rate, or productivity linked. Wage also includes cost of living allowances and incentives in recognition of honesty or efficiency, provided, these incentives have been specified in the labour contract or are part of internal rules of the establishment.
The term 'basic wage' is the wage specified in the labour contract as agreed between the parties for the term of contract. Any allowances of any nature are not included in basic wage. The UAE labour law does not prescribe any minimum wage. Wages can be paid in any currency, including UAE Dirhams or other currency, as agreed by the parties mutually.
Since last year, college and university students sponsored by the institute under which they are enrolled are allowed to work part-time under certain conditions, with a part-time work permit provided by the Labour Ministry. Part-time employment permit is also open to expatriate residents working full-time, holding a valid labour card. It is also open to expat wives sponsored by their husband. The part-time employment permit basically permits the holder to remain employed in more than one part-time job. Part-time work permits are available with a validity period of one year. However, female dependents and students with UAE residence visas, and expatriate male dependants who are sponsored by Emirati women do not need a work permit to work part-time.
Expatriate workers over the age of 18, can seek short-term work permits valid for 60 days at a time, according to latest rules by UAE Labour Ministry. This 60-day work permit can be renewed up to 5 times, provided, the renewal is done prior to expiry date of the permit or last renewed period. Short term work permits are not open to UAE and GCC nationals, and they do not need a work permit.
Employment of Juveniles under the age 15 is banned in UAE. However, effective January 2011, teenagers in the age group 15-18 years are allowed to work, on obtaining a teenage work permit from the Labour Ministry. However, there are certain restrictions on the type of work and hours of employment. According to a new decree issued in 2016 by the HR Ministry, students are allowed to complete training periods and fill in positions in the private sector after obtaining work permits. According to the decree, guardians of students aged 12 to 18 years should produce a written consent for training purposes, while those aged 15 to 18 years should seek work permit. The decree grants national and foreign students similar conditions in terms of benefits and advantages to those already filling the same spot.
The authorized temporary work permit allows facilities to hire national or expat students registered or non-registered in the Ministry's database, including students to work on projects with completion periods not exceeding six months, with Dh.500 as permit fee. The Ministry grants temporary work permit for facilities to use nationals or non-nationals registered in the ministry database, including students to work for lesser hours in the same jobs as those filled by their counterparts for a period of maximum one year, with a fee of Dh.500.
Juvenile work permits are offered to employ nationals or non-nationals in the 15 to 18 age bracket, thereby enabling them to work for a period of not more than a year, with Dh.500 as fee. The Ministry has however, warned against making the appointed students work for more than six hours a day. They should be granted more than an hour of rest, breaks to eat or pray, and should consider not to keep them on duty for more than four consecutive hours a day.
The permits can be availed from Tasheel Service Centre through ministry's smart phone applications.
Employers, before employing a juvenile, should retain copies of certain documents in the juvenile's personal file, such as birth certificate, physical fitness certificate issued by a specialized physician, written consent from juvenile's guardian, etc. Further, the employment of a juvenile is prohibited when the job requires night shifts, or involves hazardous jobs or is harmful to health, such as underground jobs in mines, quarries, furnaces of melting metals, oil refining, asphalt industry and bakeries. Further, when working hours exceed six hours a day, one or more breaks should be provided. Juveniles are not permitted to work overtime, or on holidays. A Juvenile work permit has a validity period of one year.
Employment of women at night between 10:00pm and 7:00am is prohibited, except under certain situations such as during work stoppages due to force majeure, employees in technical and administrative position, or other jobs as determined by the Labour Ministry, wherein the woman employee is not required to perform a manual job. Women are also not to be employed in difficult tasks and other duties harmful to health or morals.
The maximum working hours for an adult employee is eight hours a day (48 hours a week). This can be increased to nine hours a day, for specific jobs like those in cafeterias, hotels, trades and guards. The travel time is not included in working hours.
Labour Law states that any hours worked more than 'normal hours' can be considered as overtime. The UAE Labour Law has set the number of working hours per week at 48 hours, and employers who compel workers to exceed this limit without paying them are violating labour rules. Article 65 of UAE Labour Law states that the 'ordinary' work-hours for an adult worker is eight hours per day, i.e., 48 hours a week. But, an employer has the right to ask the employee to work overtime, provided, the employee is paid accordingly for the number of excess hours worked.
Also, instead of the usual eight hours a day, an employer can ask employees to work nine hours on a given day in a week, but, this extra hour should be deducted from their work time on another day in the week. After every five hours of consecutive work, an hour's break is allowed every day.
For workers involved in industries like trade, cafeterias, hotels, security and other jobs, the number of work hours may be increased to nine hours a day. Sometimes, an employer can ask their employee to work on their weekly day off, in return for extra wages, but, they are not allowed to oblige them to work for two consecutive holidays.
For additional work hours, the worker shall be paid a wage equivalent to the ordinary hourly wage, apart from 25 percent of the said wage. For instance, a worker earning Dh.100 an hour may be entitled to Dh.l25 every hour of overtime he / she works on a given work day. Article 68 of the Law clarifies that if a worker works overtime between 9pm to 4am, he / she is eligible for an additional 50 percent of the said wage.
If the employee is required to work on a weekend, he shall be given a day off during the week as a substitution, or will be paid basic wage, in addition to basic wage, and at least fifty percent of that wage. Friday is the weekly rest for all workers, except daily workers. If the worker is required to work on this day, he / she is entitled to a substitute rest day, or the basic wage for ordinary work hours, in addition to 50 percent of the said wage. Article 71 adds that the worker may not be requested to work for more than two consecutive Fridays, (except in case of day workers).
Overtime is permitted for not more than two hours a day, unless it is an emergency for prevention of occurrence of colossal loss, a serious accident or removal or mitigation of consequences thereof. Note: The overtime rules are not applicable to employees in managerial or supervisory positions, workers constituting the crew of naval vessels, sea workers enjoying special service conditions due to nature of their work, with exception of port workers engaged in loading and unloading and related operations.
Annual Leave : For every year of service, an employee is entitled to, an annual leave of not less than two days for every month, provided, his service is more than six months and less than a year. Thereafter 30 days annually if his service exceeds one year. At the end of the service, the employee is entitled to an annual leave for the fraction of the last year, he spent in service. During the employee's annual leave, he/she will be paid basic wage plus housing allowance, if applicable, along with any other allowances, which he receives during normal working month.
Sick Leave : The employee will have to report to the employer any illness or injury that prevents his from working, within maximum of two working days. The employee may not be entitled for any sick leave during the probation period. Following a three month period of continuous service following the probation period, the employee entitled to full wage during first 15 days of sick leave, half wage during next 30 days, and without pay for any following period.
Maternity Leave : Latest decree allows 14 weeks (98 days) and up to 6 months (182 days) unpaid leave thereafter. This new decree is aimed to develop a corporate environment that will help women to maintain a long-term career in the industry. Moreover, female employees are also given the option of 'keeping in touch' days to remain in contact with their teams. In the UAE, the number of maternity leave varies between the private sector, government and companies in the DIFC.
The UAE Federal Labour Law specifies certain provisions for employee safety and healthcare, stipulated under Article 91 to Article 101. The provisions of the law mandates that every employer should provide his employee with protection against occupational hazards during work, display instructions regarding fire prevention, make available first aid kit, provide clean and hygienic working environment, offer medical care up to standards determined by labour ministry, and ban entry of alcoholic drinks into the work premises.
An employer is also responsible for providing suitable transportation, accommodation, food, drinking water, and means of entertainment or sports activities to the employees. All these services, except food material, will be on employer's account.
Labourer Accommodation: According to new UAE decree, workers earning less than Dh.2000 will be eligible for free accommodation from December 2016. But, the decree is applicable only to organizations hiring more than 50 workers. The decree sanctions all necessary measures to be taken against facilities which choose to disobey and violate suggested terms and regulations.
The disciplinary codes includes fines, warning, suspension from work, prevention of periodical allowances, deprivation of promotion, termination of services and forfeiture of all or some of his gratuity. However, the forfeiture of gratuity shall not be imposed for any reason, other than for those stated in Article 120 of the labour law.
An employment contract can be terminated under circumstances such as, the two parties agreeing to cancel the contract mutually with the employee consenting to give this in writing, or, at the end of contract term according to rules of law, or if one of the two parties wish to end the contract, provided, they provide the notice as per the provision of the law, with acceptable reasons to cancel the contract without prejudice.
At the termination of the employment contract, an employee is entitled to any amount due in lieu of notice period, particularly, in case of unlimited contract. The employee is eligible for compensation (in case of unreasonable dismissal by employer) in case of unlimited contract, or compensation equivalent to the period until end of contract in case of limited contract, settlement of any balance of unutilized leave, or overtime payment balance, end of service gratuity calculated or repatriation expenses.
An employer will have to sustain repatriation expenses of the employee, to the place of recruitment, or to any other place at the end of the contract, as agreed upon by the two parties. However, if the employee is responsible for termination of his contract, he will not be eligible for repatriation expenses, and he will have to bear his own expenses.
Any employee, who completes one year or more in continuous service, shall be eligible to gratuity at the end of the service. The gratuity is calculated as 21 day's wages for every year of the first five years, and 30 day's wages for each additional year thereafter, provided, that total gratuity shall not exceed the wages of two years.
Gratuity is calculated on annual basis, after the employee completes at least one year of service.
An employee may be deprived of gratuity if he has been dismissed for any of the reasons stated in Article 120 of labour law, or if he left the job at self-will to avoid dismissal, or if the establishment has a pension scheme, which could be beneficial substitute to the employee instead of gratuity.
In case of any unresolved dispute between employee and employer, an application will have to be made to the labour office in the emirate wherein the establishment is located. The employer or employee will be summoned to hear the argument at labour office, and should make the recommendation within two weeks from the date on which the application is filed. In case, the parties fail to settle the dispute at the Labour Office, the matter will be referred to the court to be litigated in normal manner.
The Labour Inspection Department and the personnel employed therein shall undertake labour inspections. The visiting inspector will carry the identification card issued by the Labour Ministry, and shall be entitled to enter the premises for inspection. A Labour Inspector is responsible for supervising the proper enforcement of provision of labour law, providing necessary information and technical guidance, so as to adopt the best means of the provision of the law.
Maximum age for expat workers to remain employed in the UAE is 60 to 65 years. Expat employees are not eligible for UAE pension, but they are paid gratuity, an end-of-service pay out.
The retirement age for UAE nationals which was 48 years, has been raised to 49 years in February 2016. But, to be able to receive full pension benefit, Emirati employees should have accrued at least 20 years of service prior to the date of retirement.
Meanwhile, the retirement age for expats in the UAE is 60 years even as the UAE's Ministry of Labour does accept requests for work-permits of individuals over the age of 60 years, up to the age of 65 years.
In case the widow/widower lives with parents and offspring who were dependent on the deceased, the compensation will be divided as in a manner wherein the widow/widower will take one-eighth, and if more than one widow, this one eighth will be divided equally among them. The parents shall take one-third divided equally between them.
If there exists one or both of parents and a child, supported by deceased employee, who left behind no widow, the child shall take two-thirds, while the remaining third goes to the parent or parents in equal share.
In the absence of widow/widower, parents, brothers and sisters, the compensation will be distributed equally among children of the deceased. If the deceased has only dependent parents, then the amount will be distributed equally between the parents.
These are all different terms for the same thing, which implies that the employee or the worker is not allowed to work in the UAE for a certain period of time. An employment ban can be usually for six months, one year, or permanent. A six month ban is automatically imposed when leaving a job, unless there is reason not to, or when a longer ban in imposed.
A one year ban is imposed when a worker resigns before completing the limited contract period. A one year ban is imposed mostly in cases of expat workers leaving government jobs, expat workers who break the terms of their labour contract, in case of expatriates who lose a case with labour department against their employer if they were on temporary work permit and filed case with labour department, and possibly against workers who leave their job within a year of starting. A permanent ban is imposed on absconding employees, or on those who break the labour law in any way. During a ban, although nothing may be stamped on the employee's passport, when a new employer submits an application to Labour Ministry, it will automatically be rejected, if a ban is already on the employee's name in the computer file.
It may be possible to avoid or lift a ban by paying a fee, when transferring from one sponsor to another. However, it is best to check with the labour department of the particular emirate about transfer of sponsorship, ban lifting fee etc.
However, no labour ban will be imposed on UAE nationals who are not subject to labour bans, expatriate workers moving to a government job, oil company employees, expat workers moving to another employer within same free trade zone, expats having completed fixed term contract and having given notice in advance about not renewing it, expats who complete one year of unlimited contract and get NOC from current employer, expats sponsored by their spouse for residence visa, and in cases of expats having worked in the same company for more than two years (as of January 2011) on unlimited contract.
Other exemptions from employment ban or labour ban are for certain categories such as Engineers, Doctors, Pharmacists, Male Nurses, Qualified Accountants and Auditors, Agricultural Guides, Administrative Employees holding university degrees, Drivers licensed to drive heavy vehicles and buses, workers in private oil companies, and technicians operating on scientific, electronic instruments and laboratories, drivers licensed to drive heavy vehicles and buses and getting transferred on sponsorship to a similar party, and workers in private oil companies when the transfer is between such companies. | <urn:uuid:68f1889f-0bf4-4a98-987e-49884b1773b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tapuae.com/jobs/career-center/labour-law | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961933 | 4,253 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Succulent pieces of Goat or Lamb braised in gravy flavored with aromatic spices like fennel, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon & ginger. This dish gets it’s fiery red color from powdered Kashmiri chili peppers which have more color than heat.
Kacey from Rosauer’s Kitchen asked me if I had any goat meat recipes in my repertoire a few weeks back. She and her husband had raised a couple goat in their backyard, and now she had some goat meat in her freezer and she was craving a goat curry of sorts. Being Indian and having grown up in the Middle-East, I’ve eaten more goat in my life than beef and I miss that it is not as easily available here in the States, and hardly ever features on restaurant menus. So needless to say, I jumped at the chance to get my hands on some fresh, home raised goat. Thanks Kacey!
In India, we refer to goat meat as “Mutton” and sheep meat as “Lamb”. So when you see mutton on the menu across the country, it is referring to goat meat. From what I gather, this isn’t technically the same terminology used here, where both ‘lamb’ and ‘mutton’ are sheep meat and the only distinction is the age of the sheep when processed. The meat from sheep under one year is called ‘Lamb’ and the meat of sheep older (usually 2-3 years) is called ‘Mutton’. Anyway whatever the technical terms are… goat, lamb, and mutton are all delicious and underrated meats here in the U.S. For this recipe, we used fresh raised Goat meat, but you can easily substitute with lamb or beef (although beef won’t have the same flavor, it’s still delicious). The dish we’re talking about today Rogan Josh hails from the Kashmir region of India, but was first introduced by the Mughals from Persia to the region. The word ‘Rogan’ literally means oil or clarified butter in Persian or ‘Red’ in Hindi, while ‘Josh’ in Hindi refers to passion- fiery or hot – so this dish is all about cooking in an oil-based sauce. Rogan Josh usually gets it’s vibrant red color from powdered Kashmiri Chili Peppers that pack a lot of color, but not as much heat. So although it seems like a red-hot spicy Indian curry,don’t let it’s appearance fool you… this dish is very flavorful and aromatic but it doesn’t generally pack a lot of heat.
There are also numerous versions of this dish. Some with or without garlic and onion where asafoetida (a plant resin of sorts) is used to imitate the flavor base of onion & garlic. The addition of yogurt is also debated as an optional part of this gravy, but is featured in most recipes of the dish. Some versions also use tomatoes to create more volume, although this really alters the flavor profile of the original dish. The main ingredients of this dish are commonly Kashmiri chili powder, fennel seed powder and powdered dry ginger. The other spices or garam masala as we call it and the ratios varies from recipe to recipe, cook to cook.
The method to cook this dish is rather simple though. It starts with frying whole spices in oil or ghee and then adding the onions and caramelizing them until golden. Then the garlic- ginger are added and the meat is browned with the aromatics. Lastly we added the powdered spices (mixed with water to form a paste, so they don’t burn and turn bitter) and whisked yogurt and the meat is cooked covered in it’s own juices until the oil starts separating on top. Then you can then either slow cook the meat (this is how it is traditionally cooked) until the meat is tender, or you can cheat and use a pressure cooker (or Instant Pot) and expedite the cooking time to 20-30 mins instead. Both methods produce a delicious luscious gravy with tender pieces of meat.
Serve the curry with fragrant long-grain basmati rice or Naan or better still both!
- • 2 lbs mutton/meat (washed and cubed)
- • 2tbsp Ghee + 2 tbsp oil
- • 4-5 Shallots (finely sliced)
- • 2 tsp ginger garlic paste
- • 2 tbsp Kashmiri red chilli powder
- • 1- 1.5 tsp fennel powder
- • 1/2 tsp dry ginger powder
- • 1/2 cup yogurt (whisked well)
- • 1.25 cups water
- • pinch of saffron (optional)
- • salt - to taste
- • A handful of chopped coriander leaves, for garnish
- • 1" Cinnamon stick
- • 3 cloves
- • 3-4 green cardamom
- • 1 Tsp Cumin Seeds
- • 1-2 Black Cardamoms
- • 1 bay leaf
- - Powder the whole spices/ garam masala (Cinnamon, cloves, green cardamom & Cumin Seeds) together excluding the black cardamom and bay leaf & set aside.
- - In another small bowl, add the Kashmiri Chilli powder, fennel seed powder and ginger powder with 1/4 cup of water and mix together.
- - In a heavy bottom pot, heat the ghee & oil on medium high then add the black cardamom & bay leaf to the oil.
- - Then add the sliced shallots and fry them on medium-low heat until they start caramelizing and turning golden brown. (This takes a good 8-10 minutes so be patient, but don't turn up the heat)
- - Add the ginger garlic paste and fry for a minute or two.
- - Then add in the mutton (goat meat)/ lamb cubes and turn up the heat browning the meat well.
- - Once the meat is browned on all sides, add the Kashmiri chilli spices we mixed with water and fry it for 2-3 mins.
- -Stir in the whisked yogurt, a pinch of saffron (optional)and salt to taste. Cover and let the curry simmer on medium for 15 mins until the oil starts separating from the curry.
- - Once you see the oil start separating, add half of the powdered garam masala (whole spices) and add a cup of water to loosen the curry.
- - You can now transfer the curry to a pressure cooker(aka Instant pot) and cook on high for 8-10 mins then natural release the pressure. Or you can lower the heat, cover the pot and allow the curry to simmer for 45mins-60 mins until the meat gets tender.
- - Check to see if the meat is tender (if you're cooking bone-in the meat should be falling off the bone) & season with salt if needed. When it's melt-in-the mouth tender stir in the remaining garam masala powder and turn off the heat.
- - Garnish with a handful of chopped cilantro and serve with fragrant basmati rice or Naan.
- 1. Any cut of meat will work for this recipe, however, bone-in and shanks halved lend this dish the most flavor. I used a goat leg and while I cubed the meat, I added the bone in the pot for more flavor.
- 2Make sure to the whisk the yogurt before adding it to the pot, as this will help it not break and curdle.
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red light therapy
Red light therapy is a method recognized by the scientific and medical communities for the treatment of various diseases. Humans are the only species that has created an alternate universe separated from our circadian rhythms. Today Humans are bombarded with light bulbs, TV, cell phones, computer screens, and other devices that emit light heavy in the blue spectrum.
However, the sun produces infrared light and when the body is exposed to infrared light it experiences many health benefits. Infrared light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum which comes in three light waves: near, mid, and far.
Near-infrared waves have a shorter frequency range and penetrate the epidermis layer of the skin. This is how near-infrared waves are able to impact the body at the cellular level, encouraging tissue growth, speeding up muscle recovery, and strengthening the immune system.
Far-infrared therapy heats the body directly and rather than simply warming the air, it raises the core body temperature which helps melt fat and produces a deep, detoxifying sweat at the cellular level, where most toxins reside. The sweat then pushes out the toxins, cleansing the body and rejuvenating the skin.
Benefits of red light therapy:
Red light therapy is designed to enhance cellular function which helps fat loss, and immune function and increases lifespan. It can help reduce inflammation, improve blood flow and enhance the performance of energy-making mitochondria in the cell. Red light therapy increases the number of mitochondria and also boosts their function in the cell. Our skin, fat, and eye cells have light receptors of different wavelengths to trigger physiological functions. The following are some advantages of red light therapy:
Human bodies make less collagen as they become older. This causes wrinkles, drooping skin, and other classic indications of aging. Collagen levels must be high to achieve soft, smooth, and firm skin. Red light treatment, unlike other skin treatments such as intense pulsed light (IPL), does not harm one’s skin in order to stimulate tissue restoration. Red light therapy can make a person look years younger by brightening and tightening underneath the skin. Reduced under-eye wrinkles, forehead wrinkles, laugh lines, and crow’s feet are just some of the anti-aging effects that red light therapy addresses.
Acne sufferers frequently choose red light therapy to treat their condition. Red light therapy is very much effective in treating acne according to research. It works by lowering inflammation and sebum production. RLT can diminish skin redness while also ensuring that sebum does not clog pores.
REDUCED HAIR LOSS:
Hair loss drugs such as Minoxidil and Finasteride are replaceable with red light treatment. Irritation, itching, burning, and even worsened hair loss are frequent side effects reported by men and women who take Minoxidil. Finasteride is often used by males who have erectile dysfunction, reduced sex drive, and breast enlargement.
GET RID OF STUBBORN FAT:
The weight loss process is difficult and slow. also, seeing the same number on the scale week after week is very frustrating. Red light treatment can help one lose weight. RLT is a proven therapy in clinical tests to decrease fat and cellulite. The key to reducing cellulite is to improve mitochondrial function and collagen formation. RLT aids in enhancing the function of both components, resulting in weight loss.
END MUSCLE SORENESS AND BOOST PERFORMANCE:
Muscle soreness is especially common after doing a workout. Red light therapy can help to minimize delayed onset muscle soreness and speed up muscle recovery. RLT can also boost performance and endurance when administered prior to exercise.
RECOVER FROM INJURIES MORE QUICKLY:
When it comes to slow-healing lesions like burns, red light treatment can help speed up the healing process. RLT reduces inflammation while also encouraging angiogenesis, or the development of new blood vessels, collagen synthesis and granulation tissue production. Granulation tissue is a thin layer of tissue cells produced by the body to cover an open wound. The sooner one covers the wound, the sooner the body can begin mending the injury. Athletes utilize it to speed up healing from sporting injuries.
The red light treatment stimulates the generation of nitric oxide, which helps to alleviate inflammation. Nitric oxide is a mediator that aids wound healing, inflammation and blood pressure management.
- Improves skin
- Reduces hair loss
- Decreases stubborn fat and cellulite
- Relieves muscle soreness
- Boosts performance
- Faster injury recovery
- Reduces inflammation
Frequently Asked Questions
Liv24 safely and effectively jumpstarts your fat loss and your healthy lifestyle. We use the latest research to optimize your internal and external environments and teach you how to stay healthy in our modern world. We tune up your internal engines, also known as mitochondria, and tap into your fat burning cells with circadian biology, controlled cold adaptation, and light. This leads to significant fat loss, energy, and a sense of wellbeing.
People with a diagnosed heart condition need to be cleared by their physician. Otherwise, there are no restrictions.
Yes, you can eat out but we encourage you to make wise choices. We offer you tools to help you stay on track for making healthy choices in a variety of restaurants.
Absolutely. In order to keep your milk supply up while losing weight, you will need more calories. Our system does not involve caloric restrictions so you can continue to eat an abundance of healthy foods.
No, the Liv24 program does not entail exercise in order to lose fat/weight. Our system focuses on burning fat from the inside by stimulating your mitochondria and brown fat in order to burn a massive amount of calories. However, regular physical activity is an important component to lifelong weight management, and overall health and wellness. So while not part of the program, at Liv24 we encourage our customers to achieve national health recommendations of 2-5 hours of moderately intense physical activity each week.
Yes! Our Liv24 Refer A Friend program is a great way for you, your friends, and family members to save while losing fat together! When you refer your friends through our Refer A Friend program, they will receive a Liv24 discount to save on their initial plan, and you’ll receive a reward, too! To learn more about how the Refer A Friend program works or to refer your friends, talk to our coaches. Remember—losing weight is more fun with a friend!
Vitamin supplementation may be recommended for some people. However, the Liv24 program is not supplement based.
On the Liv24 program you will start burning fat starting with your first visit. Some people may notice considerable inch loss after the first two weeks to a month while some people may need up to 3 months before a drop in several dress sizes.
At Liv24, we use advanced 3D imaging created by AI artificial intelligence to give the most accurate measurements of lean body mass and fat percentages. You will be able to see the results between scans as the fat melts off your body. You will notice that your regular clothes are becoming too big. Our system gets results up to 4x’s faster than diet and exercise.
Absolutely! Cold thermogenesis affects cellular energy and metabolic health which is beneficial for people with diabetes.
No. Liv24 is not based on counting calories, dieting or any special food consumption or pricey supplements. You can eat what you want and as much as you want of the healthy foods. We teach you when and what to eat to maximize your fat loss for long term success and provide you with a long list of healthy low glycemic foods to choose from. Low glycemic foods include:
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Just like humans:
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A new Tel Aviv University study found that, like humans, bats living in Tel Aviv enjoy the wide variety and abundance of food that the city has to offer, in contrast to rural bats living in Beit Guvrin, who are content eating only one type of food. The study was led by research student Katya Egert-Berg, under the guidance of Prof. Yossi Yovel, head of Tel Aviv University’s Sagol School of Neuroscience and a faculty member of the School of Zoology in the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, as well as a recipient of the 2021 Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research. The study was published in the journal BMC Biology.
The researchers explain that despite the intensification of urbanization processes, which tend to lead animals to leave the city, there are animals that are able to thrive in an urban domain. One such example is the fruit bat. These bats, like humans, live in a variety of environments, including the city and the countryside; there are even some that forage in the city and then go home to roost in the country.
The urban environment is fundamentally different from the rural environment in terms of the diversity and accessibility of food. Although the city has a larger variety of trees per area, there are many challenges that bats have to face, such as buildings and humans. In rural areas, on the other hand, most of the trees are concentrated in orchards without barriers, but have less diversity – the trees are mostly of one type. Because of the fundamental environmental differences between the city and the country with regards to the distribution and variety of fruit trees, the nature of the bats’ movement when foraging in these areas differs as well.
In this new study, the researchers compared the nature of the movement of rural bats and city bats as they foraged for food. They used tiny GPS devices to track the bats, to see if the way they moved while searching for food was affected by their living environment, or the environment in which they were foraging.
They found that fruit bats foraging in the city are much more exploratory, enjoy the abundance of the urban environment, visit a variety of fruit trees every night, and feed from a wide a variety of trees. In contrast, the rural bats focus on only one or two fruit trees each night. Moreover, the researchers found that among the rural bats who roost in the countryside, there were many who left their rural homes every night in search of food in the city, and then flew back to the country after their meal. During their stay in the city, such bats share the same flight patterns as those of the bats that live in the city around the clock.
The study’s findings led the researchers to assess that even bats that live in rural environments their entire lives will be able to orient themselves in an urban, industrialized environment. They explain that there are animal species that are flexible – for them, the ability to adapt to a new and unfamiliar environment such as an urban settlement is an acquired skill. Such species, of which the fruit bats are an example, will in many cases be able to adapt to life in urban areas.
Prof. Yovel: “How animals cope with urbanization is one of the most central and important questions in ecological research today. Understanding the ways in which animals adapt to urban areas can help us in our conservation efforts. The urban environment is characterized by much fragmentation, and we currently have little understanding of how animals, especially small animals, like the bats, move and fly in such areas.”
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22 May 1968. The American submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) has dissapeared in the Atlantic for mysterious reasons.
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Sep 29, 2013
The sermon was delivered on Sunday, September 29, 2013, during the contemporary service at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by Rev. Tamara Lebak, Associate Minister.
In the Hebrew Scriptures, God creates humankind "in his own image." (Genesis 1:27) The word image refers to representation or perception, and the Latin, imago, also means the final stage of metamorphosis. Our identities are collages of our thoughts, feelings, and experiences, mixed with an understanding of how other people experience us. We craft an image of ourselves as we encounter each other and the world. That image of ourselves – who we think we are – is also influenced by our culture. Identity, very much like our understanding of the world, is socially constructed.
In Sartre's seminal work No Exit, he presents Hell as a place where we are defined solely upon how other people perceive us. In Sartre's version of Hell, we have no power over how we are perceived. The power lies entirely in the hands of others. Have you ever felt powerless over how you are viewed? This can happen when we feel categorized; it can happen when we feel defined by a single event in our lives; it can happen when we are stereotyped as only gay, only liberal, or only a person of color, and not as a complex human being.
Come and explore with me the nature of our identity, who we think we are, and why it matters.
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Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. is an American engineer and former astronaut, and the second person to walk on the Moon. He was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history. He set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on July 21, 1969, following mission commander Neil Armstrong. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and a Command Pilot... (wikipedia)
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.
By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?
Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.
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With time, the ropes would loosen and the mattress would sag, and this tool was made by the farmer to tighten the ropes periodically. NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS USED AFTER ROPE BEDS WENT OUT ABOUT 1800, SO THEY TENDED TO BE DISCARDED OR MADE INTO SOMETHING ELSE. Therefore you will not see this original colonial wooden tool very often!!
It is hand made of hard maple, to provide strength and protect against the stresses of turning and tightening. It also has 2 ANTIQUE IRON NAILS going through it in each direction again to add reinforcement and added strength. It is nicely hand planed along the surfaces, with hand-mitered/whittled edges. The large U-shaped part at one end was chiselled/carved out. This was meant to put over the ropes and pull them together, and tightening them, to provide a tighter, flatter surface.
The hole at the top would have a large dowel or stick put through it, the ends of which provided the handholds to turn the main shaft. Most of the ones you see are missing the dowel, as it was cannibalized for some other project after rope beds were no longer used, or they simply broke during use due to the stresses put into the rope tightening. This one is about 14" long and about 2" on each side. Nice early wood patina and appearance. EVEN STILL HAS THE ORIGINAL CORD USED TO HANG IT FROM A HOOK ON THE WALL.Came out of an early Revolutionary War Period Massachusetts estate. Would make a great colonial or hearth or kitchen or early bedroom decorator. You can obviously also use it with your antique rope bed if you have one. The item "RARE Early Antique COLONIAL ROPE BED TIGHTENER, Hand Made From Wood, Hearth" is in sale since Monday, May 13, 2019. This item is in the category "Antiques\Furniture\Beds & Bedroom Sets\1800-1899". The seller is "marvinsmom9" and is located in Hampden, Massachusetts. This item can be shipped worldwide. | <urn:uuid:d02b3452-2ac6-423b-ade7-cdae489661bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://woodfromoriginal.com/rare-early-antique-colonial-rope-bed-tightener-hand-made-from-wood-hearth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958709 | 452 | 2.203125 | 2 |
I’ve always found that one of the worst things about traveling to third world countries was passing by the poverty stricken villages. It’s a complicated situation to try to enjoy yourself while you are constantly passing by people much less fortunate. The only volunteer trip I’ve ever done was to Sri Lanka in 2005. I had been in between jobs right when one of the most deadly natural disasters in recorded history struck southeast and southern Asia. I figured this was my opportunity to help a nation in distress. I often do wonders at losing things, especially when I travel. When I arrived to Colombo I realized I had last all the contact information of the people I was supposed to meet and help…
My flight arrived at 3 am and one of those aggressive people working in the airport approached me and I explained my situation. He seemed to ignore every word I was saying and kept trying to offer me tours around Sri Lanka. I couldn’t believe it, I had literally traveled to the other side of the world to try to help and this guy was trying to sell me tourist packages! The guy at least got me to the capital of colombo where I got a hotel and crashed after a long journey overseas. The following morning I was able get in touch with a Sri Lankan church that was helping bring supplies to refugees, so although I never met with my original party I still was able to do what I had come here for.
Two things about this page. 90% of my time was dedicated to volunteering so I never had a travelers perspective on this island nation. The second thing is although I am now big on photography I hardly took any pictures when I visited, and those that I did were with a very old and simply camera. It’s hard to believe that this trip was nearly 15 years ago! I do hope to return and see the people I met again and the rest of the country under better circumstances. For travelers Sri Lanka has much to offer in terms of history, natural beauty and religion.
The official capital of Sri Lanka is called Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, which is located on the western side of the island. Aside from being very difficult to pronounce, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is a small suburb of the larger city Colombo, which is usually referred to as the nation’s capital. As a matter of fact, it wasn’t even until after I left Sri Lanka that I first heard of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte! These photos above are from one of the markets in Colombo. This was only about a week after the tsunami which occured far from the capital. It remained a busy place and life went on as normal here. This person walking on the left photo was a friend I made while I was in the city. The photo below were those who worked at the church and organized the entire relief effort.
Most of my volunteering in Sri Lanka involved packing up food, clothing, and hygienic items in Colombo. This was done during most of the day, then when night came I’d ride solo with a truck driver to make the delivery in the east. There was a day where our supplies didn’t make it to the capital and we were left without anything to do. With the day off I decided to see some of the natural areas of the country. These few photos show the one excursion I did while in the country. Much of Sri Lanka is made up swamps and wetlands, and I was able to take a boat through one not too far from Colombo. Despite this just being a day trip, I came across a reaosnable amount of wildlife. Even when we were still heading out of the village I saw this giant monitor lizard!
I came across monkeys, reptiles, and several species of birds. This large heron above may have been an excellent photo had it been taken with a newer camera, but I think I did the best I could have at the time. I’m not sure how often people come through this area, but the locals I passed by all smiled and waived to me.
The same day I visited the mangrove forest I was able to stop by the ocean on the way back to my room. The beaches here are absolutely beautiful. I’ll make it a high priority on my next return to Sri Lanka to spend time here.
Other than the brief swamp visit and stop at the beach the rest of my time was spent volunteering. Some of the locals seemed scared about making the trip to the disaster areas as some trucks were being hijacked. On my drive east we were pulled over literally about 10 times by police and the military. Sometimes they just questioned us from the street, other times they asked for my passport, and a few times they even inspected our cargo. Regardless of what they did or asked the military and police were always to polite and to the point taking little time. The photos above show damage from the city of Batticula. A strong bridge has been destroyed and even it’s steel railings deformed under the raging waters. On the right hand photo there was once a large market full of vendors. Now there is nothing.
The ride to Batticula was terrible and took all night. With so many road blocks and lack of good roads we hardly got any speed. I honestly don’t think we ever hit more than 40 mph on any of the supply runs. One point during the night I had fallen asleep and when I woke up we were going in reverse because a large elephant was walking towards us on the road. The road was so bumpy I didn’t really get any decent amount of sleep. When I got to one refugee camp which was part of a church at 5 in the morning I asked to use the bathroom. Exhausted, I went into the bathroom only to have a man come in after me and try to sexually assault me.
He hadn’t tried to hide himself from watching me use the rest room. I wasn’t sure if this was normal in Sri Lanka or what. After that I tried to leave and he shut the door and began to make some vulgar offerings to me. I started yelling which caused him to take off running and that was the last I saw of him. I wasn’t sure what to do of this situation. I was filled with regret when I later read that several women were leaving the refugee camps because of frequent sexual assaults. If that man would be so brazen with a male foreigner I could only imagine what he might due to a local single woman.
Below are some final photos of the damage. The clothing you see in the trees was ripped off many of the victims as the water raised several meters off the ground. Other incredible feats I saw included a fallen radio tower. It must have once stood at 100 feet (30 meters), but was found crumpled up into a ball like a toy. You can apply for Sri Lanka visa online | <urn:uuid:ec465972-21b2-4a80-bd15-a838c9af432a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.travelthewholeworld.com/traveling-sri-lanka/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.988893 | 1,433 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Bugs are amazing creatures — they inhabit the worlds below our feet, above our heads and everywhere in between. And while they tend to be small in size, they are anything but small in numbers: insects outnumber humans by the billions. Once you’ve taken a moment to shiver at that fact, remember that bugs can be a great source of scientific study, a key manufacturer of our favorite foods (including chocolate, coffee and honey) and, in many places, the perfect afternoon snack (more on that later). In this roundup, we’ll take a look TED-Ed’s best bug lessons, from the icky to the inspiring to the totally insane.
Plants have a hard time finding mates — their inability to get up and move around tends to inhibit them. Luckily for plants, bees and other pollinator species (including butterflies, moths and birds) help matchmake these lonely plants in exchange for food. Fernanda S. Valdovinos explains how these intricate pollination networks work and how it can all change from one season to the next.
An earwig is neither an ear nor a wig; it is an insect. Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel explain how folklore gave this bug its name, combining entomology with etymology.
Honeybees are some of nature’s finest mathematicians. Not only can they calculate angles and comprehend the roundness of the earth, these smart insects build and live in one of the most mathematically efficient architectural designs around: the beehive. Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson delve into the very smart geometry behind the honeybee’s home.
This is stranger than science fiction. The jewel wasp and the cockroach have a disgusting and fascinating parasitic relationship. The jewel wasp stuns the cockroach, and months later, a jewel wasp hatches out of the cockroach. At TEDYouth 2012, Carl Zimmer walks us through how this happens and why it personally fascinates him.
Everyone hates mosquitos. Besides the annoying buzzing and biting, mosquito-borne diseases like malaria kill over a million people each year (plus horses, dogs and cats). And over the past 100 million years, they’ve gotten good at their job — sucking up to three times their weight in blood, totally undetected. So shouldn’t we just get rid of them? Rose Eveleth shares why scientists aren’t sure.
Both honeybees and humans originated in East Africa, and the connection between us has survived the ages. Some of your favorite delicacies — coffee, chocolate, mangoes — have the honeybee to thank for their hard work of pollination. Dino Martins encourages us to remember how much we owe to these magnificent insects.
Every 13 or 17 years, billions of cicadas emerge from the ground to molt, mate and die. Adult cicadas only live a few weeks above ground, but you’d be hard pressed to ignore them — they are extremely loud! Rose Eveleth explains everything you need to know about these noisy insects, admitting that there’s still some things we just don’t understand.
In the past decade, the US honeybee population has been decreasing at an alarming and unprecedented rate. While this is obviously bad news for honeypots everywhere, bees also help feed us in a bigger way — by pollinating our nation’s crops. Emma Bryce investigates potential causes for this widespread colony collapse disorder.
What’s tasty, abundant and high in protein? Bugs! Although less common outside the tropics, entomophagy, the practice of eating bugs, was once extremely widespread throughout cultures. You may feel icky about munching on insects, but they feed about 2 billion people each day (Mmm, fried tarantulas). They also hold promise for food security and the environment. Emma Bryce makes a compelling case for dining on bugs. | <urn:uuid:77656efa-5ded-42bc-ba58-273bca3a6949> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/07/03/9-ted-ed-lessons-about-cool-and-creepy-bugs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.920871 | 806 | 2.875 | 3 |
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Well Connected members can play a game, learn a language, write a poem, go on a virtual tour, meditate, share a gratitude, get support, and most importantly, connect and engage with others every day across the country. All groups are accessible by phone or online.
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Programs that help people who are socially isolated due to disability or old age or who otherwise lack companionship relieve their loneliness by arranging for people (usually volunteers) to chat with them on a regular basis via the Internet to listen, talk and help them maintain contact with the outside world.
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Individuals who are age 50, 55, 60, 62 or 65 or older depending on the minimum age for qualifying as an older adult which varies by program.
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Adults who have a low level of contact and interaction with family, friends, neighbors, the broader community and other sources of social support. Social isolation may be due to a number of factors including age, loss of a spouse, living alone, death of family members or friends, retirement, disabilities, poor health, transportation issues, place of residence, low self-esteem or poverty. | <urn:uuid:91b80caa-ba6f-4e73-9ce4-c8df17435d6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.minnesotahelp.info/Providers/Covia/Activities_for_Seniors_Well_Connected/1?returnUrl=%2FSearch%2FStandard%2FActivities%2520for%2520Seniors%2F00015799%2C048%3F&pos=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.908459 | 716 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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The knowledge of human behavior, history, culture, ethics and communication gained with a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus in Social Behavior and Human Understanding forms a solid foundation for a variety of careers. Social Behavior and Human Understanding graduates work in human services, program coordination, public relations, or marketing. This focus theme is also good preparation for work and further studies in health care, legal services, public policy and public health.
Interdisciplinary Studies, like many majors, teaches content and skills that can be applied to a wide variety of career fields.
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Landmark in Glavni Trg square
In the year 1515 the late Gothic town hall was built in today's square Glavni trg, which between the year 1563 and 1565 Italian masters reconstructed in the Renaissance style. Dating also from that time is the balcony (loggia), decorated with relief, on which there is an image of the town’s coat-of-arms, surrounded by two lions and the year 1565 inscribed on it. The façade is enriched with pilasters.
Entanglements with the tower
Above the eastern part stands a Baroque small tower with a bulbous roof, about the construction of which a story says: "The job of building the tower was given to a master builder but he was paid too few gold coins; filled with wrath the builder did not construct the middle of the tower! Can you see the difference?
In the middle of the 19th century the building was given a late classicist look, in the years from 1952 to 1954 it was renovated and given its original image. Of particular interest is the Baroque hall, which was fitted by A. Quadrio. Today it serves for weddings and for the Mayor's receptions. | <urn:uuid:81f14a85-7ad3-45db-a522-392c252ee8df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.visitmaribor.si/en/what-to-do/sights/4982-city-hall-rotovz | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97825 | 249 | 2 | 2 |
The net has actually come to be more of a demand for today’s people as they can situate various details rapidly listed below. And also because of this need, there are over one billion existing sites and this is expanding significantly each year. CMS or Product Checking System is a vital part of internet innovation and also over a 3rd of all sites are powered by 4 significant CMS platforms that are: WordPress, Magento, Drupal along with Joomla. The allure of these CMS systems is that all of them provide attractive components and also concentrate on specific experience, access as well as success out there. However one substantial trouble that goes ideal together with these CMS systems is the danger to cyber security.
CMS platforms are added susceptible naturally due to the fact that they are based upon the open resource structures as well as such common innovation setups offer plenty of benefits, however on the other side it similarly has some problems which arise from the lack of responsibility. Given that there is no certificate expense, no person takes the obligation for potential troubles like protection worries. Currently these safety and security as well as safety and security vulnerabilities are functioned upon by both safety and protection scientists and also the cyberpunk’s area. And additionally with monitoring availability, cyberpunks can do any kind of kind of type of damages resulting from defacing the website to utilizing it for the blood circulation of malware and also this obtains the website blacklisted in Google as well as numerous other significant internet search engine.
Though the strategies and likewise capacities of the hackers are continuously establishing, yet there are essential ideas that can help you to protect your CMS web website from safety assault
The CIA version is used as a review to make sure the guarding of info within the organization. The set of guidelines restricts the access to information, assurance that the information is specific and reputable. In order to keep in line with the CIA design, it is essential for the firms to think about the spread of the details. CMS stands for both inner as well as outside details for that reason it is essential to take the defense of the system seriously as well as protect versus any kind of loss of details as well as its control.
CMSs have a range of plug-ins easily available along with the benefits that they originate from the diverse expansions offer the individuals the opportunity to tailor as well as also make use of the functions that are lacking in the original bundle.
This makes it a lot more susceptible and cyberpunks situate even more extent to entry. So, it is extremely necessary to discover your specific requirements and likewise make use of only those plug-ins that are needed as well as additionally prevent using unneeded outside plug-ins. Paying terrific focus to the reviews and likewise the tips from the CMS neighborhood as well as not downloading and install and set up all brand-new plugins can save your CMS website from safety and security strikes.
When it is all about the safety and security of your web site, it is a game. Cyberpunks will certainly look for out the technicalities in the software application and also developers will certainly attempt to repair the spot asap. Risk assessment aids the security as well as protection experts recognize the events that could occur as well as also damage the business’s buildings.
The thorough reports aid the programmers to secure the CMS website versus possible strikes. Utilizing devices like susceptability scanners allows the admins agility software to uncover the weakest elements and afterwards boost the security system. This decreases the problems done by any type of sort of violation and it should certainly be executed as a part of the disaster healing plan. Normal back-up of the website along with its information source is also an important task to carry out. | <urn:uuid:d567fdfd-8b2e-4c60-a2ff-a360454fa980> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bioblazefireplaces.com/what-does-a-cms-website-do-for-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972334 | 749 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The History of Coalport Station
Coalport Station was typical of all village stations on the Severn Valley Line, the main buildings dating from 1861. Like Ironbridge this station was inconveniently situated on the opposite side of the river from the settlement, the name of which it carried. The building is very similar in style to Arley on the Severn Valley Line and retains many of its original architectural features.
High above Coalport Bridge above the river, it was within sight of the LNWR station on the north bank at the end of that company’s single line branch opened on 17 June 1861 from Hadley Junction just northeast of Wellington.
The river gorge was not so intensely industrialised at this point, and when first opened both stations were almost half a mile from the nearest factory, the famous Coalport China Works of John Rose & Co to the west.
It was the LNWR which provided siding accommodation for the firm, and it is unlikely that the GWR received substantial traffic to and from the works. It is perhaps significant that Coalport was the last station on the Severn Valley branch to be ‘modernised’ at the end of the 19th century when a second platform with loop line controlled from a fully interlocked signal box opened at the end of 1895.
The signal box also controlled entry into a long siding running southeast approximately half a mile to Exley & Sons Gitchfield clay mine that had sunk in 1891. Three years later the firm opened a large roofing tile factory on the site, the Coalport Tileries – with all the very latest machinery. This factory owed its existence entirely to the railway. It was calculated that the eight kilns at the works were able to produce 250,000 tiles a week, incoming coal to fire the kilns and all this prodigious output being handled by the railway.
Exley’s was already a well – established local firm, and had both supplied the bricks and built the Craven Dunhill factory at Jackfield at the beginning of the 1870s. As with this tile making firm and Maw & Co, Exley’s had to negotiate with the GWR for the rights to extract minerals from beneath the railway. In this case the firm agreed to leave coal and clay under the line and for a distance of 30yd (27.4m) either side over an eight-acre area. Negotiations could be a cause of friction with the railway, as Maw & Co discovered in 1904. This firm used Arthur Grove of Bilston as its Mining Engineer, and after approaching the railway in December 1903 he reported in a handwritten letter to Maw’s Board Meeting in March 1904,’….I have not heard a word from their [the GWR’s] engineers and I don’t suppose I shall now until we do them serious damage when they will see their folly in not coming to an accommodation with us’. Fortunately agreement was reached before Maw’s mining activities threatened track stability!
Coalport Station was closed as with most of the Severn Valley line as a whole in 1963, after 101 years in use, although there was talk of closure even before the Beeching axe report of 1963.
The last stationmaster of Coalport was a gentleman called William Charles Weyman. He was born on 11 February 1857 and joined the railway as a porter at Rhymney Junction when he turned 19. He made several moves, in a variety of jobs: to policeman at Tredegar Junction, switchman at Andoversford, booking porter, Station Inspector and Stationmaster at Norton Junction. His final move was to Coalport where he took up position of stationmaster at the age of 42 in October 1899 at the salary of 30s (£1.50) a week. It is not known exactly when he retired, 1923. | <urn:uuid:1ac6e588-1725-4f9c-b421-5997f3f50779> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coalportstation.com/about-us/station-history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.982612 | 799 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Béatrice Turquand d'Auzay is a painter and sculptor. She is of French-German origin. Her two grandfathers fought during the First World War and were enemies. Through her work, Béatrice Turquand d'Auzay confronts the grief that had remained buried and gives substance to the story of her ancestry.
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About : Documentary filmmaking workshop
This workshop is for those who wish to learn, professionalise their film production skills, or who are on the lookout for a career change. Through this workshop, we will learn what the act of filming means intellectually, morally and aesthetically, through all stages of documentary production, from design to editing. Each student will make a documentary short film.
The documentary in your own home
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Watermelon is definitely a top quality fruit. Even though we all take pleasure in eating this lovely refreshing fruit, we usually dispose of the small seeds scattered inside without knowing or instead recognizing of their health and wellbeing benefits. These types of seeds are composed of nutrients that consists of fatty acids, vital proteins and a whole lot of minerals.
These types of seeds consist of nutrition which includes fatty acids, essential proteins and a lot of minerals. These types of seeds are full of vitamin B just like thiamine, niacin, foliate and minerals like magnesium, potassium, manganese, iron, zinc, phosphorus and copper. Besides, they’re a great resource of calories along with 100 grams of watermelon seeds offering about 600 grams of calories.
Watermelon seeds contain dietary fiber essential for the normal operation of the digestive tract, that help in case of intestinal parasites, as well as in the treatment of patients suffering from hepatitis and inflammation in the body.
Watermelons seeds contain citrulline substance which acts as an antioxidant, promotes expansion of blood vessels and have positive effect in case of arteriosclerosis, hypertension, angina and erectile dysfunction.
Watermelon seeds are healthy ingredient which is particularly useful for treating diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract. Using tea from fresh watermelon seeds will remove stones and sand in the kidneys.
To take maximum advantage of the medicinal properties of the watermelon seeds, you need to cook them, grind them or bake them.
HERE’S THE MAGIC RECIPE:
Take 20-30 watermelon seeds, grind them and boil them for 15 minutes in 2 liters of water. This amount will be enough to be disposed and consumed two days, and you should make a pause the third day.
Repeat the procedure for several weeks, but it is mandatory to pause every third day.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF WATERMELON SEEDS
As mentioned previously, watermelon seeds really are a rich source of nutrition as well as minerals and for that reason, shouldn’t be thrown away. These types of seeds have got a tough outer covering so that they ought to be chewed just before swallowing to obtain their nutritional content. A few of the health advantages of watermelon seeds are given below.
1. Protect heart health
Full of magnesium, the seeds assist safeguarding your heart, therefore it could work normally. Additionally, it maintains blood pressure level and enhances metabolism process. The seeds are fantastic to avoid us for suffering heart diseases as well as hypertension.
2. Prevent aging
The antioxidant content within the seeds assist you to avoid aging, strengthen your skin keep healthier as well as young.
3. Clean acne
Take cotton bud and dip it on watermelon seed oil. Use it in your face to clean acne, dirt as well as dead skin cells. This particular oil is suitable for each and every kind of skin and may assist deal with skin ailment.
4. Strengthen hair
The high protein as well as amino acid content within the seeds can easily strengthen hair. Additionally, roasted watermelon seeds could make your hair shiny since they have copper that produce melanin, a pigment that gives color for hair.
5. Treat itchy scalp
Watermelon seed oil possesses mild texture, therefore it could be absorbed easily. The oil can be used as moisturizer for dried, itchy scalp or even scalp with dandruff.
6. Prevent hair damage
The seeds include essential fatty acids which will avoid hair damage.
7. Blood Pressure Regulation and Coronary Heart Disease Prevention
Arginine helps you to balance blood pressure as well as dealing with coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease is definitely the illness that is a result of the narrowing of the arterial vessels, blocking blood circulation. Arginine, an important component present in watermelon seeds helps prevent narrowing of blood vessels. Other amino acids present in these types of amazing seeds are tryptophan and lysine.
8. Rich Source of Magnesium for better Immune System
We’re not through this unique seeds. The advantages of consuming watermelon seeds make sure a lot supply of magnesium. Magnesium is mainly present in foods like wheat, rice, oat as well as cocoa powder. It is important for sustaining a healthy defense mechanisms. Its insufficiency can result in muscle spasm, heart diseases, diabetes amongst others. Pantothenic acid is additionally known as vitamin B5.It’s essential for breaking down carbohydrates into energy and is also mainly present in legumes, animal meat as well as vegetables.
9. Dietary Management of Beriberi caused by Vitamin B6 Deficiency
It’s a water soluble vitamin whose insufficiency may cause a condition referred to as Beriberi. B6 is really a complex vitamin B also is water soluble helping convert carbohydrate into energy. It is crucial for the creation of neurotransmitters.
10. Provides Essential Amino Acids
Argnine and lysine are among the amino acids that is needed by the body for performing in the perfect way. The former works well for enhancing the metabolism within the body and also the latter is effective for the assimilation of calcium for strengthening the bones and the tissues. These types of amino acids also provide wonderful benefits for the sexual health.
11. Gives Unsaturated Healthy Fats to the Body
About 80 % of the fat in watermelon seeds are unsaturated fats as well as healthy naturally with an addition of omega fatty 3 acids. Usage of watermelon seeds just means great deal of energy to the body with no additional calories. A cupful of dried watermelon seeds can fulfil half the necessity for health fats daily.
12. Hair & Nails
The reason watermelon seeds might help keep our hair healthy and glossy and our fingernails long and robust is because they also include a good amount of protein within them. The protein within watermelon seeds even include other amino acids in them like lysine, arginine, tryptophan, and glutamic acid all of which are important amino acids necessary for body to keep hair healthy as well as fingernails sturdy.
13. Magnesium Source
The seeds of the fruits have got good amounts of magnesium within them that just works well for maintaining lots of body functions in a perfect manner. It will help in perfect functioning of the heart and in addition strikes a balance within the blood pressure levels. It may also manage diabetes to a good extent together with offering support to the metabolic process within the body.
14. Watermelon Seeds Can Cure Edema
Toss a teaspoon of dry and ground watermelon seeds in the teaspoon of honey and put this combination in ¾ cup of warm water. Mix well and consume immediately (at least two times a day). This particular exercise helps you to control edema problem.
15. Enhances Male Fertility
The lycopene antioxidant in watermelon seeds is definitely an excellent and efficient home remedial method to boost the male potency levels in men. This ought to be possible by including the dried seeds within the everyday diet.
16. Recovery Benefits
After any illness, one can possibly utilize watermelon seeds within the diet for proper recovery from the crisis. The effects are very noticeable over a couple of days. For those along with memory issues, watermelon seeds can help recover an excellent and sharp memory once again.
17. Treats Diabetes
A handful of watermelon seeds in the litre of water for 45 minutes ought to be taken every day like a home remedy for diabetes control. This really is one of the benefits worthy enough to be pointed out here due to the prevalence of diabetes within the population.
18. Moisturizes the Skin
The fatty acids within the watermelon seeds is an ideal use for soft, supple and moisturized skin. Additionally, it adds firmness as well as helps prevent skin conditions as well as acne issues. Overall, it maintains good health of the skin along with application as well as consumption.
19. Keeps the Hair Black
Copper is among the minerals contained in watermelon seeds which promote the creation of melanin within the body liable for providing colour to the hair. Additionally, it offers the colour to the skin.
20. Prevents Hair Breakage
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Kansas City Parents Find Struggle, Satisfaction In Raising Transgender Children
Parents expect to raise the child born to them. So, when a child takes on a different gender identity, they take on a unique set of challenges.
With heightened public awareness of transgender issues, an increasing number of parents are facing these challenges.
Debi Jackson is one of them. Her daughter transitioned socially (as opposed to medically) to a girl at four years old.
Debi thought she was raising two happy, healthy young boys when at about the age of three, the older one – who now goes by Avery — started asking for sparkly shoes and princess dresses. She only wanted to shop in the girls department.
“Then she got to the point when she very directly told us, 'you think I’m a boy but I’m a girl inside.'”
The family immediately sought out therapists, and talked to the school about what was going on.
At school, the kids were OK, but the parents stopped talking to Jackson and her husband when they dropped Avery off. Their Southern Baptist church community abandoned them.
Experts say accepting a transgender child can feel like losing a loved one. There are stages — denial, grief, anger and depression.
Jackson says it’s not really mourning the loss of the child, but the ideas we have for those children when we give birth.
“As soon as they’re born you start to imagine the prom dress, the wedding dress, and playing on the football team. We have ideas of what life will be like raising a boy and what life will be like raising a girl. And those milestones ... so many of them are gender specific that suddenly you have to swap.”
Lynn Barnett and her partner Gina Barnett adopted a one-and-a-half year old girl from China. Lynne says they didn't recognize anything out of the ordinary until the child was six or seven.
"Then he started wearing tuxedos to dress up events and going only to the boys department," she says of her son, Issac.
One weekend, the Barnetts took Issac to a gay pride event and he met a female to male transgender man.
"He came home and said 'you know, if I dress like a boy for five years I’ll grow a penis and be a boy.’”
He struggled for years after that – trying to live like a girl. Long hair, dresses, even a boyfriend.
"About the time he was 16, he said ‘OK I can’t be a girl anymore. I tried my hardest. I’m really a boy and I want to be known by a male name, so he became Isaac.'"
Why Isaac? As a girl he was Sara Beth. “Everyone knows Isaac came from Sara,” he told his parents referencing the Bible.
Michael, who didn't want to use his last name, is also a parent of a transgender kid.
He explains his situation is a bit different. His young son never let on he felt he was living in a woman's body. Not until he left home.
"Zoe told us about three or four years ago that she born in wrong body," he says. She is now 25.
“Up until the age of 21 or 22, we were raising a son.”
Michael says he and his wife were stunned by the announcement.
There were some difficult behaviors growing up but nothing he thought of as atypical.
"She would just 'hit the wall' real easily and become frustrated with herself physically and emotionally," he says.
Zoe was small kid, a bit behind socially, but she played sports. She was the sports editor for the school paper. She bonded with her older brother over the family passion for the Chiefs and the Royals.
Later on she revealed she was just trying to fill the role of a good brother and son.
"She came to tell us later that behind the scenes she had interest in girls clothing, that she envied girls' freedom to dress up and do those things," says Michael.
I asked Michael if it's hard to go back and look at pictures, family movies or talk about family experiences from when when Zoe was considered a boy.
Michael tells a story about a picture — a pencil drawing Zoe did of herself in high school.
It's an amazing likeness of what she used to look like, he says. She's in a suit and tie. Michael keeps it on his wall in his room — no one sees it but him.
He says one of the hardest things about this process is balancing his wish not to offend Zoe, but to remember the past.
He seems sad when he talks about this struggle, but says he keeps the picture to remind himself that Zoe is the same person underneath and her happiness is what's most important.
Dr. Jill Jacobson, a pediatric endocrinologist at the Gender Pathways Clinic at Children’s Mercy Hospital, says the clinic draws patients from all over the Midwest for it's multidisciplinary treatment of young people with gender dysphoria.
Jacobson tells patients one thing at the outset.
“Raise the child you have rather than the one you expected," she says. "I think sometimes that can sound harsh, but it's a message I give to families.”
But that's not so easy to do. Parents often see their children defying gender stereotypes – which are changing anyway.
Jacobson acknowledges research shows some 45 percent of those taking on another gender will revert back to their birth gender before puberty. So how's a parent to know when to trust their child's behavior?
Heather McQueen, a clinical social worker at Gender Pathways, says clinicians look for a pattern of behavior.
"We look for three things — consistence, insistence and persistence," she says. Basically, that a child keeps saying the same thing.
But here’s another haunting statistic. Around 40 percent of those with gender dysphoria have attempted suicide, according to the Journal of LGBT Youth and a report by The National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, among others.
The parents I spoke to say it's hard, but for the most part, their kids are thriving.
Eight-year-old Avery is homeschooled, a Brownie Girl Scout and takes martial arts classes.
Isaac is now 19 and goes to Johnson County Community College. He plans to go to law school.
Zoe is 25. She’s recently started school in Boulder, Colorado. She wants to be a therapist working with the transgender community.
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Most doctors agree that walking is a great way to improve or maintain your health. This is especially important as many of us are now working from home. But what if your “gait,” or the way someone walks, is contributing to some of the aches and pains you may feel in your body. There are some ways that you can work to change or improve your gait to make walking painless.
This should be prefaced by saying that everyone is different and there is no one-size-fits-all approach that will work for everyone. Some individuals may have anatomical differences that predispose them to a specific type of gait, and many people walk with slight differences with no pain at all. BUT, if you are finding yourself dealing with pain during or after walking, it may be worth it to review some common biomechanical faults in walking techniques
“Overpronation” is a common term that many in the walking and running community have heard of ad nauseum. If we look down at our feet, overpronation is when the arches of our feet collapse inwards as we take a step. In severe cases, this can have a cascading effect that can lead to our knees collapsing and our hips rotating inwards. Overpronation can lead to a common type of foot pain called “Plantar Fasciitis.” The hallmark sign of Plantar Fasciitis is pain near the heel of the foot that is especially painful during those first few steps in the morning.
If this sounds like something you may be suffering from, the first thing you will want to do is to take a look at your footwear. Many people suffering from Plantar Fasciitis can benefit from shoes with more arch support during their walks. Orthotic insoles are also a good option for greater arch support and have the added versatility of being able to be inserted in other shoes like your more formal shoes to improve your gait.
After reviewing your footwear, it is possible that your gait could also benefit from a stretching routine. You’ll likely want to stretch out your calf muscles. Many people know how to perform the calf stretch by either going into a lunging position while keeping your heels down or propping your foot against something and leaning forwards.
A pro-tip for calf stretching is to make sure to perform the stretch first with the knee straight on the back leg and then again with the knee bent. This will ensure you are stretching both calf muscles, the gastrocnemius and the soleus. These stretches should be performed gently and should be discontinued if you start experiencing pain. It is generally recommended to hold stretches for a cumulative time of one minute.
Walking is still a great way to get a boost in both your physical and mental health, and hopefully these tips can help with any aches and pains that you experience in your gait. If you continue to have pain, whether in your feet or somewhere else in your body, your physician or a Physical Therapist can help find the root cause and come up with a game plan to help keep you moving.
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"International Journal of Physical Education, Sports and Health"
2016, Vol. 3, Issue 5, Part A
Comparison of anticipation time of judokas, Wrestlers and BoxersAuthor(s):
Dr Mahesh KumarAbstract:
Objective of the study was to see if there is any significant difference exists between the judokas, wrestlers and boxers on anticipation time by comparing their anticipation time performances. To test the hypothesis that the three groups have non-significant differences on anticipation time variables namely number of early and late responses and also average time deviation from early and late responses, 96 male only sportspersons having mean age 22.49 ± 2.37 were being randomly tested who had at least participated at state level in their respective sport. Each sports person was given three trials of 20 responses and the average value of all the three trials was recorded on Basin anticipation timer (B.A.T.) machine. One way MANOVA using SPSS 23 statistical package was applied to get and analyze the results. There was a statistically non-significant difference in 4 anticipation time variables based on the sport which they practice, F
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Quote of the Day
Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that “Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” So which is it — stupidity, ignorance or insanity — that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?
According to latest Rasmussen Reports, 30 percent of Americans believe congressmen are corrupt. Last year, Congress’ approval rating fell to 9 percent, its lowest in history. If the average American were asked his opinion of congressmen, among the more polite terms you’ll hear are thieves and crooks, liars and manipulators, hustlers and quacks. But what do the same people say when our nation faces a major problem? “Government ought to do something!” When people call for government to do something, it is as if they’ve been befallen by amnesia and forgotten just who is running government. It’s the very people whom they have labeled as thieves and crooks, liars and manipulators, hustlers and quacks.
Walter E. Williams, Americans Love Government
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If the Roman Catholic Church keeps John Paul II traveling, it might either revitalize the church, or kill its Pope. At least in Mexico, where John Paul opened the third Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM), the church shows signs of being revitalized.
From the moment he kissed the concrete at Mexico City’s airport last January 26, until his final “muchas gracias” on January 31, the Pope had the attention of Mexicans well in hand. Federal police reported that 20 million saw the Pope personally during his six-day visit (the most conservative estimates say 10 million). They crowded into stadiums and plazas and filled open fields and road sides to wave at John Paul, whose itinerary was so intense that observers marveled at his ability to keep going so enthusiastically.
Serious challenges awaited the Pope in Mexico, but he responded with directness. In his first address, the Pope called Mexicans to remain faithful to the Roman Catholic Church: Mexico is fast becoming a secular nation, some believe, through its radical constitutional separation of church and state; it is the only Latin American country without official Vatican relations. But when the Pope cried, “Mexico always faithful” at his first speaking engagement, the crowds picked up his cry and chanted it at every gathering that the Pope attended.
Social and political pressures in Latin America are fragmenting what once was considered an indivisible church. Progressives have aligned themselves in various positions around the “theology of liberation,” a controversial social action dogma that calls for an uplifting of the poor, often through violent or Marxist methods. Conservatives are using all their influence to retain something of the ecclesiastical status quo. ...1
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Could the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) suffer collateral damage from China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea? The risk is clearly there.
The AIIB plans to make its first loan as early as the middle of this year.
That’s about the same time a UN arbitration tribunal in The Hague is expected to rule on the Philippines’ appeal against Chinese territorial claims to virtually the entire South China Sea.
Should China reject arbitration and/or the standing of established international fora for South China Sea dispute resolution — China risks painful blow back.
Given the political cover of such precedent, AIIB borrowers could feel emboldened to renege on AIIB loan repayments. China could then find itself lacking international political support in enforcing penalties, having itself rejected respected forms of multilateral dispute resolution.
For decades, China’s been the recipient of large-scale inward investment. As a result, China could write — and capriciously change — rules. But in coming years, China increasingly will be on the other side of the ledger.
That’s because China’s multi-decade accumulation of a US$3 trillion reserve hoard is now economically destabilizing.
The AIIB was created to put this reserve hoard to work. The goal has been to maintain employment levels in China’s now world-competitive infrastructure state champions.
These companies — like State Grid Corp of China and China National Overseas Oil Company (CNOOC) — are now among China’s largest employers.
Given that China’s internal infrastructure needs are now largely met, these state champions now need overseas contracts to avoid politically destabilizing layoffs.
Shifting from inward investment recipient to outward global investor represents a huge change for China. It will force a change in Chinese thinking.
At present, China believes neighboring countries either are — or should be — an extension of China, where rules are what the Communist Party says they are.
China’s South China Sea Nine-Dotted Line is a manifestation of this. It rests upon two retroactive fictions: undocumented assertions the line has existed ‘since ancient times’ and undocumented claims of its ‘indisputability.’
Given this, potential AIIB borrowers can’t help but wonder whether similar standards may be applied in dispute resolution over AIIB loans. Could land beneath AIIB-funded, Chinese-built infrastructure in third countries be retroactively claimed ‘indisputable’ Chinese territory?
AIIB borrower due diligence now must include evaluation of the above risk.
Already, China’s infrastructure state champions like State Grid Corp. of China and China National Overseas Oil Company (CNOOC) — are experiencing blow back along these lines.
Take Vietnam and the Philippines. Both have clearly benefited from Chinese inward investment. But both also are pushing back.
Vietnam now trades electricity across its border with southern China. Vietnam’s also considered a potential route for the proposed $40 billion Kunming-Singapore Railway.
China and Vietnam also have agreements to cooperative manage fisheries and energy exploration in the Tonkin Gulf.
But at the same time, China’s CNOOC has placed a huge oil and gas exploration rig three times in waters claimed by Vietnam, sparking anti-Chinese riots in Vietnamese cities.
China’s State Grid similarly has suffered blow back — in the Philippines.
In 2008, State Grid won a pivotal contract to upgrade and operate the Philippine electricity grid under a 25 year contract.
Last year the Philippines summarily expelled Chinese State Grid technicians and replaced them with Filipinos. The reason? Undocumented Philippine allegations of a computer virus in the grid.
These two cases — among others — illustrate the ‘social license’ and ‘local caprice’ risk China’s been able to disregard during three decades of rapid internal economic growth in which it could set retroactively malleable rules.
The outside world, however, works differently.
In coming years, China must invest overseas to relieve growing internal economic imbalances and keep its populace employed to maintain political stability. This presents opportunities for borrowers and risks to China.
Ultimately, China’s power to enforce loan repayment on stroppy host countries may be hindered by Chinese precedents in claiming such obligations to be retroactively discretionary. Translation: the strategic gaming advantage now lies with AIIB borrowers.
This should moderate Chinese behavior and lead to a greater appreciation of compromise.
In the South China Sea, Joint Development Areas offer a way to solve this problem.
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This paper examines the role of the average workweek as a leading indicator of output and employment in US manufacturing industries. A separate VAR system is estimated for the aggregate, durable, and non-durable manufacturing sectors as well as for 16 of the 20 two-digit SIC detailed manufacturing industries. Each VAR system is comprised of hours, employment, output, and real wages for that sector or industry. Tests conducted for structural change show a structural break occurred after the late 1970s. Granger causality tests and impulse response analysis show that the impact of a given change in average hours on employment and output weakened considerably after the structural break point in 1979. Our results imply that the average workweek in US manufacturing has become less associated with the entire business cycle in both output and employment.
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Former Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed took lots of political fire for turning his personal passion for collecting Wild West artifacts into a city-funded venture.
But that didn’t matter to collectors, as Reed’s personal gun collection helped fire up prices as more of the late mayor’s vast estate was auctioned over the weekend, bringing in “well over $100,000″ total, the auction company said.
“Most of the top lots were firearms,” said Melanie Hartman, a certified appraiser with Cordier Auctions, which conducted the sale that attracted 1,300 bidders.
“It was a busy weekend for us,” she said.
Among the 800 items up for bid, Hartman mentioned an engraved first-generation Colt single-action revolver that fetched $2,500 during the live auction.
But it was an 1872 officer’s sword inscribed “Harrington” that topped even the Colt, bringing in a $3,000 bid, Hartman added.
Other items that were gaveled off at good prices during the two-day live sale included:
- A Remington Rand Model 1911 A1 Pistol for $2,000.
- An American Buffalo Shoulder Mount for $950.
- A lot of 12 19th century Arizona newspapers for $800.
- A Winchester Model 1984 Carbine for $800.
- A political cartoon by John Childs entitled “The Political Drill of the State Officers” for $650.
- And a 1726 funeral sermon for Thomas Symmes for $700.
The auction featured a large number of items from the American Old West era, of which Reed was an “insatiable collector,” the auction company noted. Other highlights were a reward broadside for famed outlaw Billy the Kid, a portrait painting of General George Custer, a cabinet card photograph of Crow Foot, son of Sioux chief Sitting Bull, and other antique firearms.
The latest series of sales, which wrapped up Saturday, were the second series of auctions to sell off all the items the 28-year “mayor for life” had amassed in his personal collection.
Previous sales in the fall of 2020 sold off nearly 2,100 collectables to the tune of “more than $100,000″ total.
And there still may be more items yet to be offered in the Reed estate, Hartman said.
“I have about 125 lots of items that have not yet been offered,” she said. “There’s no shortage of material here. But if there is anything else, I cannot confirm that. I wasn’t aware of these items (just auctioned) until a few months ago. Reed seems to be the gift that keeps on giving.”
All the items sold at the Reed auctions were said to be separate from the thousands of items Reed purchased using public money while he was mayor.
At one point at the height of his spending as mayor in the early 2000s, Reed envisioned using tens of millions of dollars in city-bought artifacts for use in five planned museums in Harrisburg.
First, the mayor amassed a $17 million trove of Civil War artifacts, including Abe Lincoln’s hatbox — but, alas, not the president’s signature stove-pipe topper – to open dubbed the National Civil War Museum in early 2001 to great fanfare.
But his planned National Museum of the Old West was a political misfire, ultimately leading to his ousting from office.
By the time the Patriot-News uncovered the breadth of the mayor’s spending on Wild West artifacts in July 2003, Reed had paid out $4.8 million for artifacts for the never-built National Museum of the Old West.
A public backlash forced Reed put his Wild West museum plans on hold in early 2004. He scrapped the idea altogether in fall 2006, reluctantly agreeing to begin selling off the 10,000-item Western collection.
But the political damage was done. Then-City Council President Linda Thompson won a shocking upset over Reed in the Democrat primary in May, 2009, ending his era after seven terms.
Reed then faced legal troubles over the artifacts in June 2015, when investigators with the state Attorney General’s office raided Reed’s Cumberland Street rowhome. The officers hauled away saddles, a totem pole, what looked like a stuffed fox, a whiskey barrel and assorted other artifacts.
In the end, Reed received a sentence of two-years’ probation for his 2017 guilty pleas on 20 counts of theft by receiving, all related to city-owned artifacts found in the former mayor’s home.
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World Immunization Week: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson headlines week-long commemoration of global vaccination efforts and calls for greater investment
Global partners pledge $1 for every like, share, or comment on social media posts mentioning ‘UNICEF’ using the hashtag #longlifeforall until May 10
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NEW YORK, 24 April 2022 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson is leading UNICEF’s global immunization initiative with a global message thanking the scientists, parents, health workers and others who have been so critical in helping to immunize children over the last two decades.
In a video released ahead of World Immunization Week, Neeson talks about how the efforts of scientists such as Jonas Salk, who developed the first vaccine against polio, and dedicated workers who fill vials at factories or deliver vaccine injections, have made it possible to save two to three million child lives each year.
“Vaccines are a remarkable human success story. Over last the 75 years, billions of children have been vaccinated, thanks to scientists, to health workers, to volunteers. If you’ve ever been vaccinated, or vaccinated your children, then you are part of the arm-to-arm chain that keeps all humanity safe,” said Liam Neeson, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. “We live our lives free of worry about catching smallpox. Once a terrifying diagnosis, polio is no longer a threat in most of the world. The conversation about vaccines in recent years has lost sight of how much good they have done for each of us. We need to celebrate this. It is perhaps one of the biggest collective achievements in human history.”
Every like, share, or comment on posts mentioning a UNICEF social media account and using the hashtag #longlifeforall from now until May 10 will unlock US $1 to UNICEF, from the United Nations Foundation’s Shot@Life campaign and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – up to a total of US$10 million – to help ensure all children get the life-saving vaccines they need.
Despite the successes, an alarming 23 million children missed out on vaccinations in 2020. This number can only be reduced through greater commitment to and investment in immunization services. UNICEF is the world’s leading provider of vaccines to children in over 100 countries. With Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and partners UNICEF supplies vaccines to reach 45 per cent of the world’s children under five. UNICEF also works with Governments in over 130 countries to strengthen national health and immunization programmes.
“The last two years have taught us that a health care system that leaves some children exposed, is a health care system that leaves all children exposed,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “The best way for the world to recover from this pandemic – and to prepare for future health emergencies -- is to invest in stronger health systems, and immunization and essential health services for every child.”
World Immunization Week – celebrated every year in the last week of April – is spearheaded by the World Health Organization and brings together global partners to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. The theme for this year is #LongLifeForAll, with ‘long life’ reflecting the importance of lifespan vaccinations.
“We are in a race against time to restore the immunization services disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerate progress against all vaccine-preventable diseases,” said Gargee Ghosh, President of Global Policy and Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “That is why we are thrilled to work with UNICEF and other partners around the world to ensure children – especially those in the world’s poorest countries – have access to the vaccines they need to live a long, healthy life.”
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1. ASHLEY JOON
Amid Denver’s array of colorful, powerful and often politically charged murals, self-taught painter Ashley Joon’s work is almost startlingly soft and sensual. Featuring tangles of showy blooms, her compositions seem charged with a lyrical energy that stems from Joon’s unique process. “I paint with a balance of instinctual movement and subtle observations,” she says. “I dance as I paint, using the rhythm of music to guide my brush while pulling imagery from my imagination, photography and live flowers.” Her feminine, abstract-impressionistic style has resonated with a variety of clients around town, including the Infinite Monkey Theorem, the Ramble Hotel and the Denver Art Museum, which recently commissioned Joon to create a mural celebrating the exhibition “Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature.” And when designers come calling for custom murals in residential spaces, Joon will be ready. “I could see floral murals looking fabulous in just about every room in the house,” she says.
2. ANNA CHARNEY
Years ago, when Denver native Anna Charney was in art school, something caught her eye: the tiny halftone dots which, when viewed from a distance, create the illusion of continuous lines and shapes. So Charney, a painter at heart, began incorporating magnified halftone patterns in her compositions. Though the majority of her “super-creative decision-making” for her current work—large-scale canvases, murals and installations featuring swirls of those enlarged dot patterns—is done on a computer, translating an image to a wall gives Charney the opportunity to reveal signs of the human hand. “I think the magic in painting is seeing the artist’s energy that was put into it,” she says. That magic is on display across the Mile High City: Look for Charney’s largest work on the Colorado Ballet’s Armstrong Center for Dance in the Art District on Santa Fe.
3. SANDRA FETTINGIS
When Sandra Fettingis examines an object, her eye instinctively seeks out the lines that create the form. “I find the line extremely elegant and harmonious,” the artist says. So when she begins the process of designing a new repetitive pattern—a signature element of her graphic, site-specific murals—it’s only natural that she takes visual cues from her backdrop’s unique lines: the shape of the wall, the surrounding architecture, even the sky. Minimal color palettes—typically comprising just three or four hues that pop against a high-contrast background—emphasize the elegance of Fettingis’ deceptively simple patterns while nodding to the structures they adorn, from an alley wall at Dairy Block to the interior of the Norwegian Bliss cruise ship. “It’s essential to me that a design fits seamlessly into a site,” Fettingis says, “so that the final work and its surroundings become complementary ‘friends,’ so to speak.” | <urn:uuid:1ec874dd-72f4-4c62-9f15-02d0b00ac3d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://luxesource.com/female-artists-denvers-mural-landscape-ashley-joon-anna-charnay-sandra-fettingis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.93567 | 660 | 1.742188 | 2 |
June 27, 2014
WB Govt launches State Seed Mission to make Bengal self-reliant in seed production
The state agriculture department hasundertaken a Seed Mission to make Bengal self-reliant in seed production. Atarget has now been set to increase seed production by five per cent everyyear. A committee will be formed soon to formulate a roadmap to achieve this.
State Agriculture Minister Arup Roy claimedBengal is the only state to go for such mission. The department has set atarget of catering to 65 per cent of the state`s demand for seeds in the nextfive years. Presently, Bengal is dependent upon other states for seeds.
For instance, few metric tonnes of potatoseeds are procured from Punjab while Jute seeds are brought from Andhra Pradeshand Karnataka. In fact, seeds produced in the state are able to address toaround 40 per cent of the demand.
The proposed state seed mission also aimsat bringing a synergy between the departments of Agriculture, Animal ResourcesDevelopment and Horticulture so that efforts can be taken for addressingrequirement of seeds together. Apart from the government-run agencies, a hugepercentage of the seeds are produced by private companies.
The state government plans to come up witha comprehensive plan so as to provide assistance. A detailed plan will be drawnup in this regard, said an official. Apart from the requirement for seeds of vegetables, pulses and paddy, thestate also has a good demand for seeds of flowers and fodder.
Mr Roy today held a meeting with officialsof the department along with those of Horticulture and Animal ResourcesDevelopment departments and West Bengal Seed Corporation Limited at Nabanna.
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Many individuals are after the lotto with something in mind – to hit the jackpot cost. Naturally, with a good sum of money for the jackpot prize, every person wishes to get rich at an instant via the lottery game. One good idea about the lotto is that, it is not simply a game of luck, you can discover to beat the lotto by analyzing some chances of getting a winning combination.
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Even though fair elections are held at regular intervals for state assemblies and parliament, they do not reflect a fair picture of equal participation of voters, especially a large number of women voters.
The word “ missing women” was coined by Amartya Sen when he showed that in parts of the developing world , the ratio of women to men in the population is suspiciously low. This can be ascertained by the help of the staggering sex ratio ( number of females per 1000 males) in countries such as India and China which reflected the gross neglect of women in voting .
Although the 2022 state assembly election witnessed an attractive women vote count , there were still a large number of them that did not vote . Women voter turnout in Uttar Pradesh exceeded that of men , though the overall turnout as well as female voting percentage was lower than in the 2017 election . In Uttar Pradesh as many as 62.24% of women electorate cast their vote higher than men who clocked a voting percentage of 59,56% but lower than the 63.38% female turnout recorded in 2017 polls.
The 2022 election the overall voter turnout was the highest in Amroha (72.27%) district and the lowest in Balrampur (49.12%) . A number of women voters were missing from U.P assembly elections due to various reasons. A large number of them had migrated to other states preferably Delhi and NCR, Bihar , Rajasthan on account of pandemic related migration.They did not have time and money to return back to their villages to vote .
In 70 years of Indian democracy, the absolute number of missing women has increased fourfold from 15 million to 68 million. This is not merely a reflection of the growth in the overall population, but rather of the fact that this dangerous trend has worsened with time as the number of female electorate, missing women has gone up significantly .
Not all women who are eligible to vote in Indian elections are registered to vote and are therefore missing from the electoral list . It is due to this reason that competitive electoral processes can perpetuate gender-biased policies in India. In the presence of missing women whose consent cannot be taken into account in the electoral process, democracy will fail to deliver policies that promote women’s welfare.
Even though a higher percentage of female voters go to the polls, there is a significant gender imbalance in India’ general population. According to the country’s 2011 census, the country has approximately 943 women for every 1000 men. This places India near the bottom at 186 out of 194 countries, according to the world bank. The sex ratio among registered voters is even worse . There are only 908 women for every 1000 men on the country’s voter rolls. This means that despite progress, Indian women suffer a double -blow at the polls.
If taken across the country, three states – Uttar Pradesh , Maharashtra and Rajasthan-accounted for more than half of the missing female voters. More than 20 million missing women , 30,000 women voters on an average in every constituency goes missing . Although the election commission adopts measures to ensure women vote inclusion by door step verification , a substantial number of officers involved , state TV and radio programmes motivate women to register, and several polling stations dedicated exclusively to women, despite this many women voters are left out. Shift of residence after marriage, refusal to provide photographs of women to officers to publish in voters lost are some of the reasons .
According to “ Down to earth” , “ India is facing an extraordinary situation that is terribly unfair to the women of India—21 million women who are entitled to vote will be denied the right to do so because their names are not on the voters’ list”.
The disenfranchisement of women voters was stark in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections when 23.4 million women were denied their right to vote . According to Down to earth , “ On an average there are over 38,000 women voters that go missing in every constituency” .
It is time to seriously consider the factors that are responsible for depriving women of their right to vote . Generating awareness about the basic constitutional rights in the first step which can be taken towards this direction.
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White Bridge - is located in the central part of Kutaisi, in the old part of the city, on the river Rioni. It is one of the most beautiful bridges in Kutaisi, its construction began in 1850 and ended in 1852, Project author was a military engineer Vite. In 1860 it was destroyed and by 1870 it was possible to make a bridge restoration project. Metal parts of the bridge, as well as railing, was painted white and the newly restored bridge was called a "white bridge". At present, it is a pedestrian bridge.
The river's white stones go well with the bridge. This place is for dating of lovers. The boys in order to prove their love had to jump from the bridge into the river. The men were judged by their jumping from the bridge.
There is a similar story of legend: director Kote Marjanishvili saw a boy who jumped from the white bridge. It was a happy meeting of director Kote Marjanishvili and future great actor Giorgi Shavgulidze.
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Badami cave temples, Badami, Karnataka
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The Badami cave temples are a complex of four Hindu, a Jain and possibly Buddhist cave temples located in Badami, a town in the Bagalkot district in northern part of Karnataka, India. The caves are considered an example of Indian rock-cut architecture, especially Badami Chalukya architecture, which dates from the 6th century. Badami was previously known as Vataapi Badami, the capital of the early Chalukya dynasty, which ruled much of Karnataka from the 6th to the 8th century. Badami is situated on the west bank of a man made lake ringed by an earthen wall with stone steps; it is surrounded on the north and south by forts built in later times.
The Badami cave temples represent some of the earliest known examples of Hindu temples in the Deccan region. They along with the temples in Aihole transformed the Malaprabha River valley into a cradle of temple architecture that influenced the components of later Hindu temples elsewhere in India.
Caves 1 to 4 are in the escarpment of the hill in soft Badami sandstone formation, to the south-east of the town. In Cave 1, among various sculptures of Hindu divinities and themes, a prominent carving is of the Tandava-dancing Shiva as Nataraja. Cave 2 is mostly similar to Cave 1 in terms of its layout and dimensions, featuring Hindu subjects of which the relief of Vishnu as Trivikrama is the largest. The largest cave is Cave 3, featuring Vishnu-related mythology, and it is also the most intricately carved cave in the complex. Cave 4 is dedicated to revered figures of Jainism. Around the lake, Badami has additional caves of which one may be a Buddhist cave. Another cave was discovered in 2015, about 500 metres (1,600 ft) from the four main caves, with 27 Hindu carvings.
The Badami cave temples are located in the town of Badami in the north-central part of Karnataka, India. The temples are about 88 miles (142 km) east of Belgavi (IATA Code: IXT), and 87 miles (140 km) northwest of Hampi. The Malaprabha River is 3 miles (4.8 km) away. The cave temples are 14 miles (23 km) from the UNESCO world heritage site Pattadakal and 22 miles (35 km) from Aihole – another site with over a hundred ancient and early medieval era Hindu, Jain and Buddhist monuments.
Badami, also referred to as Vatapi, Vatapipura, Vatapinagari and Agastya Tirtha in historical texts,the capital of Chalukya dynasty in the 6th century, is at the exit point of a ravine between two steep mountain cliffs. Four cave temples in the escarpment of the hill to the south-east of the town were carved into the cliff’s monolithic stone face. The escarpment is above a man made lake called Agastya Lake, created by an earthen dam faced with stone steps. To the west end of this cliff, at its lowest point, is the first cave temple.The largest and highest cave is Cave 3, which is further to the east on the northern face of the hill.The fourth cave, Cave 4, is a few steps down further east.
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The cave temples, numbered 1 to 4 in the order of their creation, in the town of Badami – the capital city of the Chalukya kingdom (also known as Early Chalukyas) – are dated from the late 6th century onwards. The exact dating is known only for Cave 3, which is a temple dedicated to Vishnu. An inscription found here records the dedication of the shrine by Mangalesha in Saka 500 (lunar calendar, 578/579 CE). The inscription, written in the old Kannada language,has enabled the dating of these rock cave temples to the 6th century. This makes the cave the oldest firmly-dated Hindu cave temple in India.
The Badami caves complex is part of a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site candidate under the title “Evolution of Temple Architecture – Aihole-Badami-Pattadakal” in the Malaprabha river valley, considered a cradle of temple architecture that formed the model for later Hindu temples in the region.The artwork in Caves 1 and 2 exhibit the northern Deccan style of the 6th and 7th centuries, while those in Cave 3 simultaneously represent two ancient Indian artistic traditions; the northern Nagara and the southern Dravida styles.Cave 3 also shows icons and reliefs in the so-called Vesara style, a fusion of ideas from the two styles, as well as some of the earliest surviving historical examples in Karnataka of yantra-chakra motifs (geometric symbolism) and colored fresco paintings.The first three caves feature sculptures of Hindu icons and legends focusing on Shiva and Vishnu,while Cave 4 features Jain icons and themes.The Badami cave temples are carved out of soft Badami sandstone on a hill cliff. The plan of each of the four caves (1 to 4) includes an entrance with a verandah (mukha mandapa) supported by stone columns and brackets, a distinctive feature of these caves, leading to a columned mandapa, or main hall (also maha mandapa), and then to the small, square shrine (sanctum sanctorum, garbha ghriya) cut deep inside the cave.The cave temples are linked by a stepped path with intermediate terraces overlooking the town and lake. The cave temples are labelled 1–4 in their ascending series; this numbering does not reflect the sequence of excavation.
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California Walnuts - NOVEMBER 2017 WALNUT MONTHLY MANAGEMENT REPORT
Tons Tons %
Nov. 2017 Nov. 2016 Chg
Crop Receipts 614,565 675,797 -9.1%
Total Supply 670,541 740,967 -9.5%
Monthly Shipments 99,091 109,939 -9.9%
Export Shipments 74,785 85,099 -12.1%
Domestic Shipments 24,306 24,840 -2.1%
YTD Shipments 229,891 292,102 -21.3%
YTD Export Shipments 164,603 220,630 -25.4%
YTD Domestic Shipments 65,288 71,473 -8.7%
Inventory 440,650 448,865 -1.8%
Shipments as % of Crop 37.4% 43.2%
Shipments as % of Supply 34.3% 39.4%
Receipts through November 2017 were 614,565 inshell equivalent ton compared to 675,797 the prior year, or down 9.1%. Last year’s final production was 686,000 ton indicating another 10,203 ton received in after November 2016. However, due to this year's lateness, the crop may “catch up” a bit and many believe there is still an additional 10,000 to 20,000 ton still to come in. The 2017 California walnut production was forecast at 650,000 ton so it appears that making this estimate is highly unlikely and the final crop receipts will still be close to the 9.1% that they are behind YTD.
Year to date supply for 2016 had carry in of 65,170 ton plus November 2016 YTD receipts of 675,797 ton equated to a total supply of 740,967 ton. For the same period in 2017, carry in of 55,976 ton plus November 2017 YTD receipts of 614,565 ton had total supply at 670,541 ton, down 9.5%.
Shipments as a percentage of supply are 34.3% for 2017-2018 versus 39.4% for 2016-2017 or a roughly 5% decline.
- YTD Export shipments of 164,603 ton are down 25.4% and YTD Domestic shipments of 65,288 are down 8.7%. Total YTD shipments are down by a significant 21.3%.
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Pumpkin carving has not always been a favorite tradition at my house. Why?
Pumpkin guts smell. They are slimy. It is a LOT of work to scoop out the pumpkin. It is a LOT LOT LOT of work to carve a pumpkin, and we are not professionals….even with stencils or guides, our results are mediocre at best. Pumpkins that are carved don’t last as long…they start to get a little funky, attract flies, and eventually rot.
Yes, I know there’s a trick to wipe out the insides with bleach or vinegar to lengthen the pumpkin’s life.
Guess what? I tried that, but I used APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, which apparently turns pumpkins into rotting slumping disgusting messes overnight. The kids were pretty mad, I’m not gonna lie.
So, we started using alternatives to decorate pumpkins, and have had so much fun!
Here are some ideas and inspiration for those who want pumpkins to display, but perhaps aren’t feeling the carving this year:
Emoji Pumpkins– these emoji pumpkins are super simple to make, and will be a hit with kids of all ages. You can paint or draw on the faces with sharpie, or cut some vinyl shapes out.
Puffy Paint Glow in the Dark Pumpkins– These pumpkins are doubly cool- kids can personalize however they want with patterns and designs, and they glow in the dark!
Melted Crayon Pumpkin- these colorful pumpkins are made using a popular process art technique that kids love. Plus, they get to see the fun in repurposing old crayons to make something new!
Galaxy Painted Pumpkin– these galaxy pumpkins are sure to be a hit. Kids will have fun dabbing on the colors, and adding stars. They can recreate actual constellations, or just create their own!
Unicorn Pumpkin– unicorns are definitely having a moment in the spotlight. Help your kiddo create their own magical pumpkin with an adorable unicorn tutorial.
Gingham Pumpkins – gingham and buffalo check are everywhere in decorating right now, so what better way to jazz up your pumpkins? This painting technique can be used on tons of items, and really pops in non-traditional colors like navy or green.
90s Pumpkins – the nineties are being celebrated in a big way, so why not reflect some nostalgia with your pumpkins? These shapes could be either painted on or cut out with a vinyl cutting machine…kinda reminds me of the intro to Saved by the Bell :: amiright??
PUN-kin Pumpkins– puns are hilarious both to adults and kids alike, so you can’t go wrong with these simple and easy pumpkins.
Lace Pumpkin -wrapping a pumpkin in lace or fabric is perhaps one of the easiest and fastest ways to dress it up. Try black lace for a spooky yet elegant look.
Metallic Herringbone Pumpkins – Painting a herringbone pattern on a pumpkin is a sure way to glam it up. Try copper or rose gold on top of a white or beige base coat.
Toy Story 4 Forky Pumpkin – super easy, super cute. I mean…it’s Toy Story.
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Do you really need a 4-year degree for an entry level job?
One of the ongoing themes of these weekly blogs is the fact that the current college system is broken.
This system not only limits those who chose not to attend a university, but also a significant portion of those who graduate. The fact that employers tend to favor college graduates over those who did not attend university has not only saddled a large segment of the population with debt, but has also caused businesses to overlook many skilled employees.
There have been countless case studies and surveys conducted which have shown that in many cases graduating college alone does not properly prepare an individual to complete tasks at their job. There is no significant difference between the skills of someone who graduates from a university and a high school graduate in entry level positions.
Within the Bloomberg article “Do You Really Need a College Degree for That Entry-Level Job?” Peter Coy compares the job experiences of college graduates to high school graduates.
Because employers tend to respect candidates with college degrees more, graduates have an easier time receiving a position that high school graduates. However, 49% of recent college graduates indicated that they “didn’t have to go to college to acquire the skills they needed for their current jobs.”
This data might cause one to reconsider the college process altogether. If college does not prepare a young adult for an entry level position, then why are they placed at a premium?
The article’s second case study further proves that a college diploma may be overvalued. A new research algorithm (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation which was created to test employee skills) indicated that 83% of high school graduates without college experience performed at a level comparable with the average entry level employee at various businesses.
While we can all agree that there are several benefits to attending university, perhaps it is time for us to stop placing so much importance on it.
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The text is directly taken from today’s drawing task. Complete on the sheet handed out (not in here):
Please complete all the tasks below. This is a chance to see your drawing progress and a chance for me to check that you are doing your daily 10mins of sketching at home!
Use a HB, B or 2B pencil. You have 25 minutes.
1. How many hours did you spend on your homework (doing the drawing exercises) since last class? If you did not draw at all write 0. You will not be marked down.
2. Draw a minimum of 20 curved lines varying your line strength.
6. Draw a sketch of the entrance to Afterlife from Mass Effect 3. See image (Courtesy of The Art of Mass Effect Universe’, 2012)
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The pandemic brought about increased levels of flexible working. This is a way of working that suits an employee’s needs, such as flexible start and finish times or working from home. Employees are likely to expect flexibility in their working week post-pandemic after experiencing the advantages of it.
Professionals aged 25-34 years old are most likely to expect more flexibility in their typical working week in a post-covid world. This is according to research completed by flexible office space experts Workthere, which involved over 1000 UK office workers. It was found that almost nine in ten (87%) of those aged 25-34 years old expect to have some say on a flexible working week moving forwards. This is a contrast to the older generation, with only 60% of those aged 55 or over sharing this view.
The younger generation have clearly adjusted and come to expect more flexibility in their week. They have a higher desire to work less than the national average of 38 hours week, with almost 79% confirming that they already work less than that. The fact that the younger generation have experienced flexible working throughout the pandemic means the desire for this kind of freedom is likely to develop further as the UK continues to recover. As businesses recover, they may re-evaluate their old practices and make the necessary changes to accommodate this trend. This seems to be the case already. A study from CV-Library revealed that almost two thirds (61.4%) of employers plan to offer flexible working to their employees post-pandemic.
It is important for employers to understand the reasons that their employees have for wanting flexible working. It is beginning to become an expectation amongst UK workers to have the option of flexible working. The pandemic has allowed them to recognise that there are alternative ways of working a traditional 9-5 office based job. Companies will need to move with the times and consider mixing up their practices in order to retain staff.
Flexible working provides benefits not just for the employee, but for the employer too so it may be wise to consider accommodating it within your business. When you are recruiting this could be a factor as to whether someone will apply for the position. The percentage of jobs which include the term ‘flexible working’ in job descriptions between January and July has risen from 3.4% in 2019 to 4.6% in 2020. Certain industries are more likely to mention flexible working than others: Social Care, Charity, IT, Marketing and Design. Although, it needs to be understood that flexible working isn’t an option for all professionals.
Any employee with 26 weeks continuous service can make an application to work flexibly for any reason. Applications should be done in writing and include:
oneHR is perfect for if you are working flexibly. You have 24/7 hour access to the system no matter where you are. Meaning you can work effectively whenever and wherever suits you.
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Udodiri Okwandu is a graduate student in the History of Science, with a secondary in African and African American Studies and a Presidential Scholar at Harvard University. She is interested in the history of medicine and public health, history of gender and sexuality, and critical race theory in the United States. She is particularly interested in the ways in which scientific and medical inquiry have been deployed by the state to manage and control marginalized populations.
Orginally from Southern California, Udodiri completed her undergraduate studies in 2017 at Harvard College where she graduated cum laude with an AB in the History of science (with a focus in Mind, Brain, and Behavior) and a minor in Global Health and Health Policy. Her senior thesis, which won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, an award which recognizes outstanding scholarly work or research by students selected by a committee of faculty from Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, examined the medicalization and racialization of Civil Rights protests in the 1960s, contextualizing it with the rise of law and order political ideology. | <urn:uuid:c1e39dad-7cb6-4376-a301-97cb295d20f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum-network.org/lectures/history-medical-and-scientific-racism-america/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963384 | 216 | 1.609375 | 2 |
In September 2019, a Bangladeshi couple challenged a long-standing wedding tradition. Baraat is a tradition in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan which dates back to ancient times. Baraat begins the celebration of a wedding day with a procession led, typically, by the groom and his family. It is often full of singing, dancing, and laughter.
At this wedding, the bride led the procession. Khadiza Akter Khusi led the procession with seven microbuses and thirty motorcycles to Tariqul Islam, the grooms, residence. The wedding went viral online and made national headlines, sparking debate on social media. According to the BBC, this is thought to be the first time where the bride led the procession in centuries. Khadiza has been quoted as acknowledging their choice as uncommon, but necessary for other women in the future. And the couple’s message was clear: women can do whatever men can.
The World Economic Forum presents the Global Gender Gap Index to measure the progress of gender equality, with parameters such as politics, the economy, education, and heath used. In South Asia, the World Economic Forum ranked Bangladesh as the highest country for gender equality. Progress can be seen in the education of girls; in 2008, female participation in education was only 57%. By 2017, it had increased to 95.4%. Similarly, the workforce reflects greater equality. Currently, Bangladesh has the highest female workforce participation in the entire Asian region. Political and social issues, again, demonstrate progress. This year, Bangladesh’s high court ruled that women no longer have to declare whether they have previously had sex or not on the marriage registration (men never had to make this declaration).
There are many examples that demonstrate progress; despite this, there are still serious concerns in terms of gender equality in Bangladesh. Nusrat Jahan Rafi was murdered after filing a sexual harassment complaint. A UN report found two-thirds of women who marry experience domestic violence. Despite the high number of women in work, women are not represented in important positions and there remains disparity in gender-based earnings. This wedding was a beautiful and courageous moment in terms of gender equality.
Young men and women are increasingly demonstrating how young people’s voices and actions create movement and change. Young people and especially young women are often mocked and belittled for their interests in both the media and their own lives. Yet, young people are demonstrating their engagement with social and political issues. From Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, Emma Gonzalez and now Khadiza Akter Khusi: young women are brave and it’s exciting to watch young people make progress important social, political and environmental issues. | <urn:uuid:d0138736-d769-4a0b-8b1c-7540b696a842> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.womensrepublic.net/a-wedding-that-challenged-gender-norms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959018 | 557 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Avoiding overdraft fees and declined transactions
Oops! Sometimes you may not realize your account balance has gotten low. To help protect against overdrafts, you can link your MIDFLORIDA savings account or line of credit to your checking account. We'll make a courtesy transfer for you to cover the transaction if you don't have enough money in your checking account.
- Transfer from a savings or another checking account that you're an owner on
- Transfer from a line of credit
- Courtesy transfers are free with Relationship Checking
Additional coverage for your debit card
Check Advance is an additional service you can add to your account to ensure your ATM and everyday debit card transactions are covered. This option can be added in addition to our standard overdraft protection options.
What is an overdraft and what is the cost?
An overdraft occurs when a payment or withdrawal is made on your account and there isn’t enough money to cover it, and there is no linked savings or line of credit to pull the funds from. When this happens, an insufficient funds fee is charged to your account. In some cases, we will return the item unpaid. In other instances, the item will be paid and your account will go negative. The insufficient funds fee can range from $10 to $30 per item, depending on the type of transaction and how often it occurs. In addition, if your account goes negative, you will have 5 days to bring your balance up, or a negative balance fee may be assessed. (See our fee schedule for specific details.)
Let’s look at an example: If a $100 check is written on your account, and you only have a $40 balance when the check clears, we may pay the check for you and take your account negative by the difference - $60. Also, an insufficient funds fee of $30 would be charged, taking the balance to negative $90. Then, if the balance was not brought back up until 10 days later, the account would incur another $20 in negative balance fees.
6 ways you can avoid overdrafts
- Emergency fund - Put a little aside in a separate savings account that you can tap into when an unexpected expense comes up. Open a savings account
- Overdraft protection - Link a savings, checking or line of credit to your account to draw funds from via courtesy transfers. Call the Help Desk or visit a branch.
- Online banking – Check your account balance anytime by logging into your account on a computer, tablet or phone. Plus, use our free planning tools to track your spending in certain categories and make necessary adjustments. View all the features of online banking and how to enroll.
- Account alerts – By setting up an account alert, you can be notified when your balance falls below a certain limit. Then you can deposit money into your account to cover upcoming transactions. Log in to online banking to set up alerts.
- Text banking – Once you sign up within online banking, you can text the keyword BAL to 64335 to receive your account balance by SMS messaging before you make a purchase. View other keyword commands
- Account (check) register – Write down your transactions and keep a written account balance in an account register. You can receive these for free at any branch. | <urn:uuid:40158186-80df-4ce0-8b0c-2fff2bbd605d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.midflorida.com/resources/account-details/overdraft/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.917087 | 671 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Kamyenyets or Kamenets (until 1940 - Kamenets-Litovsky) is a city
in the west of Belarus in the Brest region on the Lesnaya River,
located 40 km north of Brest. Center of the Kamenets district. As of
January 1, 2020, the population of the city was 8,400 people.
Founded in 1276 by order of the Volyn prince Vladimir Vasilkovich, it was built by the town planner Aleksa. According to the Ipatiev Chronicle, it was Aleksa who chose the place for laying the Kamenetsky Detinets.
In the XIV century it became part of the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania. During this period, Kamyenyets was in the possession of
the princes Keistut and Vitovt.
In 1289, Kamyenyets was captured and completely destroyed by the grandson of Daniel of Galitsky, the Drogichin prince Yuri Lvovich.
Starting in 1373, the city was regularly attacked by crusaders, knights of the Teutonic order. In 1375 the commander from Balga Theodor von Elner made a major raid, devastating Kamyenyets and taking many prisoners. The campaigns were repeated in 1378 and 1384.
In 1382, the city was captured by the Polish prince Janusz Mazowiecki, allegedly in the form of a dowry for his wife Danuta (daughter of Keistut). The siege lasted 7 days. However, a year later, Jagiello recaptured the city.
In 1500, Kamyenyets was unsuccessfully stormed by the Crimean Tatars of Khan Mengli-Girey.
In 1503 the city received the Magdeburg Law.
In 1517, the diplomat and historian Herberstein passed through the city. In his travel notes, he wrote: "Kamenets is a city with a stone tower in a wooden castle."
The city was badly damaged during the Russian-Polish war of 1654-1667.
In 1795 it was annexed to the Russian Empire. Before the revolution, Kamyenyets was part of the Brest district of the Grodno province.
In the period from 1795-1940 the city had the official name Kamenets-Litovsk to distinguish it from the Ukrainian Kamenets-Podolsk.
In 1899, the academician of architecture V.V.Suslov arrived in Kamyenyets to study the possibility of restoring the tower and made a plan for its restoration. The project was approved by Nicholas II and in 1903 the work was completed.
From April 14, 1921, it was part of Poland according to the results of the Riga Peace Treaty of 1921, after the end of the Soviet-Polish War.
On September 13, 1939, the 3rd Panzer Division entered Kamyenyets. On September 15, the headquarters of Panzer General Heinz Guderian settled in the city.
Since November 2, 1939, Kamyenyets is part of the BSSR.
Since June 22, 1941, the city has been occupied by Nazi troops. During the Great Patriotic War, more than 6 thousand people were killed in the city. The occupation ended on July 22, 1944.
On June 24, 1983 Kamyenyets received the status of a city.
Since 1991 Kamyenyets has been a part of the Republic of Belarus.
On September 4, 2005, the Day of Writing was held in the city.
On September 8, 2012, the Brest regional festival-fair "Dazhynki" was held for the second time in the city.
Cathedral of Simeon the Stylite (Holy Simeon Church)
Polish School (City Gymnasium)
Church of Peter and Paul
Jewish synagogues converted for modern needs
19th century Orthodox Catholic cemetery
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Watched: August 18 2018
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, John Gavin, Nina Foch, John Dall
Runtime: 3h 17min
In the days of the Roman Empire, Spartacus (Douglas) is born into slavery and sold to a gladiator school after exhibiting some disobedience. Batiatus (Ustinov), the owner of the school, sees some promise in him and provides him with training and a prostitute – anything he could possibly crave.
Trainer and former gladiator Marcellus is not a fan of his new pupil though, and when he notices Spartacus’ feelings for servant Varinia (Simmons) he makes a point of keeping them apart.
One day, a bunch of rich bitches come by and demand a fight to the death. One of the chosen fighters is our hero, but when he loses the battle, his fellow gladiator refuses to kill him and charges the spectators instead.
After Draba’s death, and the continued mistreatment of the gladiators, Spartacus leads a rebellion and marches on Rome, freeing and recruiting more slaves on the way. Their plan is to amass enough riches to hire pirates to take them all back to their countries of origin. However, the Roman leaders are furious that someone dares defy them and set out to capture and/or kill them all, particularly Roman Braveheart Spartacus.
Spartacus is an epic not unlike Ben Hur, and apparently it was Kirk Douglas’ response to not getting the part of the Judean hero. Clocking in at well over 3 hours each, we’re grateful to Edgar Wright and the list for finally convincing us to watch them because they are fantastic.
We loved the political games, the old slave couple, Batiatus (for some reason, ’cause he’s a bit of a bastard. We think it was the actor who saved him), the humour, all the men looking for consent from the women before sexy-times (as a powerplay, but still!), and the epicness of it all. If you have 3+ hours to spare, Spartacus is the way to go. It’s impossible to dislike a story of people who are mistreated and repressed and who fight back.
Now, we are sorry to end this blog entry on a sad note, but one of the reasons it has taken us two weeks to update this time is because our beloved doggo Dewin had to be put down last weekend. He was our trusty film watching partner, and the bestest boy, but he was old and sick, and in the end we had to do the only humane thing for our wonderful friend. We will always remember his enthusiasm when watching anything with animals, particularly westerns with lots of horses, and (for some reason) Ingmar Bergman films. He loved Bergman. He was a better and more sophisticated man than us. Thank you for the good times, Dewin. We love you.
What we learned: I’m Spartacus.
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I am doing probably the dullest and most technocratic of all dissertations. It’s on why low and middle income voters don’t prioritise redistribution. I haven’t got a conclusion yet, or an intro, to be honest. I should really get on that. But it has a basis in the form of Chris Rose’s book What Makes People Tick, which itself is based on CDSM‘s three worlds of Settlers, Prospectors and Pioneers, all of which account, roughly, for a third of the population each. Long story short, and to get to my point without boring you, Pioneers are heavily altruistic while Settlers and Prospectors are not.
Jon Cruddas wrote a very good Labourlist article in the Summer of Intense Naval-Gazing on how Labour only had a stronghold on the Pioneers, but the Tories won the Settlers and Prospectors. Labour’s 2015 campaign -one that focused on zero-hours contracts, exploitation, the vulnerable- was a core vote strategy, one that reigned in the altruistic and the subjects of their altruism, but few else.
Still, Miliband’s championing of inequality should not be dismissed. It was quite exhausting reading how we should chuck everything we battled for in the 2015 manifesto out the window during the leadership contest, because it didn’t really make sense. It missed the point. Social inequality is, after all, the most transient and important issue of our time. It’s there, an elephant in the room, for any and all future governments. Even Blair agrees. Losing an election doesn’t change that, though it certainly hurts its victims; a recent Fabian report points out that 1.9 million more children will fall into poverty by 2030 should Conservative policies continue. But inequality has been rising since the 80s. A decline in trade union power, a stagnating of wages, a rise in inflation, housing bubbles, a lack of investment, increasing financialisation and globalisation, a 3 -decade race to the bottom. The result is this: The richest 1% have as much wealth as the poorest 57% combined.
It is very right to champion those left-behind. The 57%. (To start, we should make a Twibbon.) It is just and it is the Labour Party’s and Movement’s core mission. It is right to appeal to altruism. But it isn’t enough. We need to frame inequality differently to how Ed, and now Jez, frame it.
Elections, and thus the chance to reverse this trend and transform the economy to work for the workers, are won on competence. It’s the economy, stupid. Altruism wins us a third of the electorate; trust in the economy the rest. So if we want to fulfill our historical mission, and reduce inequality, and to win an election, we have to merge competent management of the economy and reducing inequality together as one. To plant them in the minds of voters as being causal.
And they are causal. Inequality hurts growth. It creates epic false economies. It neglects investment. It shuns productivity.
The unlikely source that is the IMF confirms this:
Raising the income share of the poor and ensuring that there is no hollowing-out of the middle class is good for growth.
And a recent OECD report confirms this too:
In Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, the cumulative growth rate would have been six to nine percentage points higher had income disparities not widened.
Inequality knocked off 6 to 9 percentage points off our growth!
But wait, there’s more! The OECD hands the Left a gift in its prescription:
Cash transfers and increasing access to public services, such as high-quality education, training and healthcare, are an essential social investment to create greater equality of opportunities in the long run.
The paper also finds no evidence that redistributive policies, such as taxes and social benefits, harm economic growth, provided these policies are well designed, targeted and implemented.
As though we needed it, another source makes the case for investment, and that means borrowing. But this blog post isn’t about that. Trying to get borrowing alone through to the British public is futile without taking the vital step before of saying NOT borrowing causes deficits. Yeah, that’s right. And not raking in greater tax revenues by raising the wages of the bottom percentiles causes deficits. Not taking action to close the gap will prevent us from closing the deficit. “Inequality causes deficits”, we should be saying. Because he has to borrow to plug these gaps, “Osborne’s inequality causes deficits”. ON GIANT BILLBOARDS.
“Inequality hurts everyone” we should say. It drags down the standards of living of middle-income voters who, hey, would you look at that, live in marginals. It doesn’t just affect the ‘poor and vulnerable’, and the interests of the poor are the interests of everyone. In such a way you can ally the middle and working classes as an electoral coalition. The middle classes, who may not -to put it crudely- have much sympathy for low-earners certainly will when it affects their own self interests. As much as it may pain us obnoxious, do-gooder Pioneers, people live in these three worlds, and live in their homes, and live further and further apart from each other. For 2/3 of voters, what impacts their security is what decides their vote. So inequality must be about them. It must be about national security. It must be about economic competence to sustain that security.
The bottom line is that as much as inequality causes suffering, it also causes economic incompetence. And, for once, we need to emphasise the latter and put altruism second on the list.
Miliband didn’t do this. Corbyn continues this neglect but with greater amplification, and he thus runs a path to ruin.
This is the epitome of merging principle and power. You don’t have to give up your values, but you do have to repackage them to pursuing inequality in a way that emphasises competence and thus electability. All else is obsolete and futile.
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Glenn Loury has taught economics at numerous universities, including Northwestern, Michigan, Harvard, Boston, and presently Brown, where he has been a professor of economics since 2005. He is the author of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (2002).
The following conversation comes from an interview with Glenn earlier this year.
Alex Riley (AR): What are your thoughts on the racial politics behind something like The New York Times’ “1619 Project?”
Glenn Loury (GL): I look at the “1619 Project” and at the spirit behind it, Hannah-Jones and the others, and I say this: Okay, the country is flawed, sure, but we have the benefit here at the start of the 21st century of being birthright citizens in this great republic. That’s a huge entitlement. Why would you stand apart from that? We’re practically an indigenous population here now, centuries on in the United States. How do you expect that you are going to get anywhere politically if you stand apart from it?
Your interests are much more effectively served by finding ways of joining your project with the American project. Isn’t this what King and company do with their “magnificent promissory notes” and their “I have a dream that one day my children,” etc., and with their strategy of embarrassing the country by exposing Bull Connor for what he is, and in calling us all to the higher ground? Join your project to the national project, which means affirm the national project, which means acknowledge the nation.
So when it comes to border control—and I don’t take a position here about who should or should not have asylum—I simply say that this set of issues cuts across the issues of African American membership within the American nation. You want to join up with the people from Central America and label us all in an intersectionality move as “non-whites,” and then call these guys who want a border on the Rio Grande “racist”? They’re not racists, they’re nationalists. And by the way, they’re nationalists on behalf of the same project that you should be affirming.
The brownness of those people is so superficial. That’s a racially essentialist move. You black advocates—and I’m speaking about practically every single member of the Congressional Black Caucus—you are making a racially essentialist and politically counterproductive association between the centuries-old historical claim of African Americans on the attention of the nation and that of people who want to walk across the border into the country without authorization.
AR: And the other group there whose interests those advocates are supporting with open borders are the business elites who are harming economic outcomes for poorer Americans while they save money on their labor force.
GL: Isn’t that ironic? They’re not planters on plantations anymore, they’re agribusiness. But they still need their crops picked!
AR: This reminds me of that wonderful interview you did several years ago with Harvard’s George Borjas on your podcast. Borjas wrote what is in my view one of the most important books on immigration for a general audience, We Wanted Workers. The two of you talked about this profound political problem, that it’s so demonstrably obvious that our current immigration policies are not helping the poorest Americans, which include a disproportionate number of blacks, and yet it’s nearly impossible to find black public figures on the left who even recognize the point you and Borjas were discussing.
GL: And by the way, that podcast discussion comes 15 years after I first met George Borjas, when he was teaching in the economics department at the University of California, San Diego. I remember sitting down with him and his telling me, “You are the only person in the profession who can say this.” That’s not quite literally true, but he was saying “You’re black, I’m Cuban, and they’ll cancel me, but would you please say it because the numbers are telling me that it’s a very serious issue.” And that was in the ’90s.
Roger Waldinger’s wonderful book, How the Other Half Works, has data from Los Angeles on all these different industries—hotels and restaurants, hospitals, furniture manufacturers, construction—and it has interviews with employers and workers. Part of what he’s documenting is how new employees are recruited through social networks that are heavily influenced by connections between Mexican employees and new immigrants. So a Mexican immigrant Manuel who came from a certain village knows someone already employed at the site, or it’s his second cousin from that same village and so Manuel ends up with the job. The book also looks at what language is spoken in the workplace. Frequently, it’s Spanglish, or large amounts of Spanish, and black workers are disadvantaged linguistically and they’re kind of displaced. It’s more than just the aggregate statistical stuff that Borjas does. It’s much more descriptive of the actual processes that are at work.
An interesting point Waldinger makes is that if you’re in a hotel room, you’re in your underwear, and the maid knocks on the door, if she is a woman who’s 5’2” who speaks little or no English, who has brown skin and came from a village in Guatemala, you don’t mind opening the door and letting her clean your room. But if she is a sassy African American woman from South Central LA, you’re damned sure not opening your door. Not because you are afraid she’ll rob you. It’s because you don’t want to lose face. This is a face to face sociology at work—it’s Erving Goffman—with someone you recognize as in the same social group you’re in. I thought this was a brilliant insight.
AR: [laughing] You know she’s going to say something! “What the hell are you doing, man?!”
AR: “Get some drawers on!”
AR: You have a profound paragraph in the First Things essay in which you call yourself “a man of the West.” You say, “Tolstoy is mine, Dickens is mine. Newton and Maxwell and Einstein are mine.” This whole set of intellectual and moral and religious discourses that made the West are yours. Given that much of the economic and cultural elite in the country no longer sees that as central to our project as Americans and that the same elite exert a tremendous influence over the culture, how can they be opposed?
GL: It’s a hard question. I agree that elites have lost confidence. It’s not just that they don’t any longer embrace and propagate this sense of pride or ownership of the Western civilization that we inhabit. They don’t even recognize what it is and what is unique about it. My God, slavery is a constant of human experience for thousands of years! What’s new is emancipation en masse as a result of a movement for human rights. That’s a completely new idea in human history before the 18th century. And where does it come from? We could go through the pedigree, and certainly Christianity is going to be part of that. That’s 2000 years plus of the evolution of our social and moral thought, but we don’t want to embrace the Christian foundations of our civilization.
I didn’t say that everybody had to be a Christian. I’m not now propounding a government religion. I’m acknowledging the intellectual history of the West. I don’t know where to start with the exegesis on the origin of this divergence. Is it Vietnam? Is it our loss of the belief in the righteousness of the American project in the global context? Did we miss our chance, and should we have taken our revolution and joined it up with the anti-colonial movements? Would people look more kindly upon the heritage that we have? Is that the beginning of it?
Do we look to the 1950s and the 1960s, where you get this triple whammy of feminism and racial liberation and anti-colonialism all coming together in a brew that leaves the enlightened college graduate or intellectual or journalist or teacher in 1970 looking askance at the project, as opposed to saying, as they might have said in 1945, something much more affirmative? “Hey hey ho ho Western civics got to go!” Jesse Jackson was leading that chant on the Stanford campus. The athletes at the ’68 Olympics who did the black power salute—they’re heroes now. No one would ever say of them “How ungrateful.”
I am a man of the West. What else would I be? I’m not just talking about my mother tongue being English. I’m saying I inhabit the civilization. What else would I be? I’m a person without a country if I eschew that.
Everything else is made up. Kwanzaa, with great respect, is a poor substitute for Christmas. And not because Jesus is Lord but because you made Kwanzaa up yesterday in a vain attempt to bridge a chasm that will never be bridged, a chasm that was created by the Middle Passage. This is a windmill tilt, the idea that you can reinvent. You can’t. Your heritage is in the spirituals. It’s in the slave quarters of the 1840s and 1850s in Mississippi and Alabama and North Carolina where, as many cultural historians will tell you, the root of the black church was forged. That’s your heritage.
We’re so rich, we’re so powerful. They say white supremacy and white America stole the land from the Native Americans. Certainly the native population was decimated and was dispossessed. I don’t dispute that. I would observe, though, that this is the story of the development of human civilizations going way, way back. That’s not a new thing. I grant that it happened. Hindsight is twenty-twenty. It’s retrospective morality when we use the experience of the last 200 years that has created the world that we now live in and project our values back onto people 200 years ago, and then judge them based on their race.
We stand on the result of all of that historical development. African Americans are rich and powerful, we have a long life expectancy, and our children can dream of anything. What are you talking about that we’re not people of the West, but Africans? That’s infantile, in my opinion. Eugene Genovese, in Roll Jordan Roll, and Sterling Stuckey, in Slave Culture, show that it’s all about what happened in 1820 and 1830 and 1840, as best they can figure out. That’s where the story begins for African Americans.
AR: The thought that came to my mind as you were talking about that heritage was of an experience I had the first time I was out of country for an extended period of time. I went to France as a grad student to do archival research. And I spoke French very imperfectly at the time. Linguistic difference always immediately makes you understand that you’re not in the in-group. I felt very depressed that my language skills were so bad and that I was faring so terribly in other ways as well. On French television, I happened on a program about American jazz, and turned it on just during a bit on John Coltrane. It was not just hearing him play. They had some interview footage, and when Coltrane spoke, I heard my language, American English, coupled with that musical tradition that I loved.
AR: It immediately just flooded through me: “There are my people!”
GL: [laughing] Yeah.
AR: “Those are my people, and they’re still there, and I can go back across the ocean, and I can find them again after this harrowing experience that I’ve had here across the sea.” Across the sea in a place, by the way, surrounded by a bunch of people who looked like me but were of another group. And then looking at an image on a screen of a guy who looked quite different than I, but whom I immediately recognized as a member of my group.
GL: Good story.
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“Until He Comes Who Has the Legal Right”
1. Regardless of man’s failure at government, what is God’s attitude toward his original purpose for the earth, and what is that purpose?
ALTHOUGH man has made a failure of human government, man’s Creator holds onto his marvelous purpose to have a successful government of righteousness ruling over all mankind on a paradisaic earth. Man’s Creator is not the kind of Person that a recent book author imagined him to be, when he wrote: “If I were God, I’d quit.”* The true God will not quit until he has realized the glorious purpose with which he started out when he put man on the earth. What was that purpose? The whole earth comfortably filled, with the human family enjoying peace and happiness in human perfection under God’s heavenly government.
2. It was sad to see the failure of what promising government of long ago, but it is comforting to have what assurance, as indicated in Ezekiel 21:27?
2 Sad it is, indeed, to see the failure of a government that starts out with bright prospects and good promise. In the face of such failure it is comforting for us to get the assurance that, in God’s due time, he will produce the longed-for ruler and put him in power so as to satisfy the righteous desire for every human heart. This is the hope that was given to the prophet Ezekiel at the time that God told him to declare the approaching ruin of the royal government of Jerusalem. Ezekiel’s message sounded a death knell for Jerusalem, but this was followed by the sounding forth of a life-giving hope, in these words: “A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I shall make it. As for this also, it will certainly become no one’s until he comes who has the legal right, and I must give it to him.”—Ezekiel 21:27.
3. When was Ezekiel given this prophetic message, and what had he been doing till then, with emphasis on what divine purpose?
3 At that time it was the seventh year of the exile of Ezekiel in the land of Babylon, or the year 611 B.C.E., likely in the fifth lunar month (named Ab) and on the tenth day of that month. (Ezekiel 20:1) Ever since Ezekiel had last seen the celestial chariot of Jehovah in vision the preceding year, he continued prophesying. In the course of the divine prophecies given to him during that time he had repeatedly declared God’s announced purpose, that the hearers of His prophecies “will have to know that I am Jehovah.” (Ezekiel 12:15, 16, 20; 13:9, 14, 21, 23; 14:8; 15:7; 16:62; 20:12, 20, 26, 38, 42, 44) The time had now moved one year closer to when Jehovah would make those words come true, so that the Israelites would have to know that Jehovah had spoken and that he had taken action in fulfillment of what he had spoken.—Ezekiel 5:13; 12:15; 21:5; 22:22; 37:14, 28.
4. If Ezekiel’s prophecies came true, then what about the news thereof, and what effect would this have upon the hearers of the prophecies, and why so before not very long?
4 As surely as Jehovah’s prophecies by means of Ezekiel were to come true, just so surely the news about the fulfillment of those prophecies would reach Ezekiel’s fellow Jewish exiles in Babylon. The news was bound to shake those exiles out of their unbelieving attitude toward Ezekiel and would vindicate the word of his God, Jehovah. That time was then not far off. Less than two and a half years from then the “battle in the day of Jehovah” would start against Jerusalem and the land of Judah. (Ezekiel 13:5) Quite properly, therefore, Jehovah the Warrior now used war phraseology in the prophecy that he gave to Ezekiel. Hence Ezekiel writes:
5. With what war phraseology does Jehovah give the prophecy of Ezekiel 21:1-5 against the “soil of Israel”?
5 “And the word of Jehovah continued to occur to me, saying: ‘Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and drip words toward the holy places, and prophesy against the soil of Israel. And you must say to the soil of Israel, “This is what Jehovah has said: ‘Here I am against you, and I will bring forth my sword out of its sheath and cut off from you righteous one and wicked one. In order that I may actually cut off from you righteous one and wicked one, therefore my sword will go forth from its sheath against all flesh from south to north. And all those of flesh will have to know that I myself, Jehovah, have brought forth my sword from its sheath. No more will it go back.’”’”—Ezekiel 21:1-5.
6. How is it determined from that prophecy whose war it is, and what is the instrument of warfare?
6 Jehovah speaks of it as His war. He is the One that draws from its sheath His sword, which is his instrument for the execution of his judicial decision against those upon whom he makes war. His “sword” signifies the earthly agency that he uses, but it could also include his unseen heavenly chariotlike organization.
7. Why did the unsheathing of that “sword” mean woe to all occupants of the “soil of Israel,” and was what the purpose of having the “sword” do its work from the south on to the north?
7 When this symbolic “sword” of Jehovah strikes, woe to all the occupiers of the “soil of Israel”! That sword will cut off “righteous” occupant as well as “wicked” occupant, just as when a forest fire devours the “still-moist” tree as well as the “dry tree.” (Ezekiel 20:47, 48) When Jehovah begins to wield that sword, it will not stop with cutting off those in the Kingdom of Judah, which lay southward from Babylon as a “southern quarter,” Judah being also a southern kingdom in contrast with the northern kingdom of the revolted ten tribes of Israel. (Ezekiel 20:45, 46) Jehovah’s “sword” would also continue its activity northward, going forth “from its sheath against all flesh from south to north.” What is the purpose of such extensive use of this “sword”? The heavenly Wielder of the “sword” explains, saying: “And all those of flesh will have to know that I myself, Jehovah, have brought forth my sword from its sheath. No more will it go back.”—Ezekiel 21:5.
8. Thus, how were “all those of flesh” to know that Jehovah had brought forth His sword from its sheath, and what was the reason for this?
8 Those on the “soil of Israel” and in Jerusalem were not the only sinners against Jehovah. “All flesh,” all humanity, were then sinners against him, even though they were not directly in a covenant with him as was the nation of Israel. They deserved to be punished also. They were not to be left in the position where they could exult over Israel and boast that Israel’s God, Jehovah, had taken drastic action against his own people but that they themselves, not being of Israelite flesh, had escaped Jehovah’s attention. They were not to be left with the idea that they were more righteous than Israel. Hence all those nations who had ill-will against Jehovah’s chosen people were also to fall by the edge of Jehovah’s sword as sinners against Him as well as against his people. His unsheathed “sword” was not to go back to its resting-place until it had executed his judicial decision upon non-Israelite flesh also. In this way “all those of flesh” would be made to know that it is the God of Israel, Jehovah, that battles against them with his “sword.”
JEHOVAH’S “SWORD” AGAINST “ALL THOSE OF FLESH”
9. What today is pictured by the “soil of Israel,” and whom will Jehovah’s “sword” cut off from it?
9 Shortly, within our twentieth century, the “battle in the day of Jehovah” will begin against the modern antitype of Jerusalem, Christendom. The ancient “soil of Israel” pictures the realm in which Christendom has operated. It pictures the standing and relationship that Christendom has claimed to occupy with God by means of his “new covenant” of which Jesus Christ is the mediator. Now is no time for anyone in Christendom to rely on any righteousness on the basis of his own merits and to boast of his own self-righteousness. Jehovah’s “sword” of warfare will cut off from this position that Christendom’s clergy claim for her all religionists who depend upon her having an acceptable standing with God.
10. What religionists besides those of Christendom are foretold to be cut off by Jehovah’s “sword,” and why?
10 However, Jehovah’s “sword” will not be applied merely to those adhering to Christendom. It will also be brandished against “all flesh from south [Christendom] to north.” Religionists belonging to all the rest of the world empire of false religion will feel the cutting edge of Jehovah’s “sword.” Their being non-Christians will not cause them to be spared. They will not be left to gloat over the destruction of Christendom as a rival religious system.
11. True righteousness cannot be gained through what religious agencies, and whose way of gaining it is it now urgent for us to accept?
11 Righteousness before the one living and true God, Jehovah, is not to be gained through Christendom or through any other religious system of the world that offers the hope of self-merit by means of one’s own works of self-righteousness. As the “battle in the day of Jehovah” against all false religion gets closer, the urgency increases for us to accept His way of gaining true righteousness.
12. Why is it appropriate for Jehovah’s execution of his judicial decision to begin at Christendom, but why not stop there?
12 That way is through faith in the ransom sacrifice for sins as provided in His Son, Jesus Christ. Since Christendom claims to be the “house of God,” it is appropriate for the execution of His judicial decision to start with her. This is the thing to expect in line with these words of 1 Peter 4:17, 18: “It is the appointed time for the judgment to start with the house of God. Now if it starts first with us, what will the end be of those who are not obedient to the good news of God? ‘And if the righteous man is being saved with difficulty, where will the ungodly man and the sinner make a showing?’” They will make no showing in the “battle in the day of Jehovah.” His “sword” will not go back to its sheath until he makes “all those of flesh” know that He has taken action.
13. The anointed remnant’s being intensely active in trying to warn everybody portrays what in Ezekiel’s case, according to Ezekiel 21:6, 7?
13 Is it any wonder that the anointed remnant of Jehovah’s Christian witnesses of today are moved to such intense activity in warning people everywhere about such a prospect? No, for in this way it is shown that they feel just the same as the prophet Ezekiel was told to express himself, in these words of Jehovah: “And as for you, O son of man, sigh with shaking hips. Even with bitterness you should sigh before their eyes. And it must occur that, in case they say to you, ‘On account of what are you sighing?’ you must say, ‘At a report.’ For it will certainly come, and every heart must melt and all hands must drop down and every spirit must become dejected and all knees themselves will drip with water. ‘Look! It will certainly come and be brought to occur,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.”—Ezekiel 21:6, 7.
14. When the “report” finally came to the Jewish exiles, what effects of it upon them were to be expected, and what effects upon religionists may be expected from the report of Christendom’s ruin?
14 After Jehovah’s “sword” did bring about the destruction of Jerusalem and the utter desolation of the “soil of Israel” in the year 607 B.C.E., the bitter “report” did come, even as far as to the Jewish exiles in Babylon. (Ezekiel 33:21, 22) Doubtless the “report” as delivered by an escapee from the destroyed Jerusalem did affect the hitherto unbelieving Jewish exiles in the very way that Jehovah foretold to Ezekiel. Doubtless their knees dripped with more than the mere sweat of horrified excitement. They were likely so weakened in spirit that their kidneys could not control themselves and their knees dripped with their own urine! They had to acknowledge that Jehovah’s word as spoken through Ezekiel had been vindicated. He was proved to be the truth-telling God. When, not before very long, the authentic report is published that Jehovah’s executional “sword” has actually brought about the utter ruin of Christendom, it will produce similar effects upon many religionists.
15. Does Jehovah really have such a symbolic “sword” today for his use, and, according to Ezekiel 21:8-10, what should Jehovah’s anointed remnant today do in that regard?
15 Skeptical as people may be about it today like those Jewish fellow exiles of Ezekiel, yet Jehovah really has a “sword” that He will use as his agency in executing her just deserts upon Christendom. The modern-day remnant of Jehovah’s anointed witnesses are calling attention to this notable “sword” that Jehovah will unsheath against the organization of hypocritical Christianity, as the prophet Ezekiel was told to do, when Jehovah said to him: “And the word of Jehovah continued to occur to me, saying: ‘Son of man, prophesy, and you must say, “This is what Jehovah has said: ‘Say, “A sword, a sword! It has been sharpened, and it is also polished. For the purpose of organizing a slaughter it has been sharpened; for the purpose of its getting a glitter it has been polished.”’”’”—Ezekiel 21:8-10.
NO BASIS FOR EXULTING OVER FALSE PREMISES
16. The interjection “Or shall we exult?” suggested what question on the part of religionists who assure themselves respecting God’s “sword”?
16 No religious basis exists for self-assuring persons to exult, using the argument: “We are God’s people. We have in our midst the house of God at which we worship. Jehovah’s executional sword will not come ‘organizing a slaughter’ among us!” Such an argument was suggested by the question that was interjected in the description of Jehovah’s sword to Ezekiel: “Or shall we exult?”—Ezekiel 21:10.
17. By those inclined to exult, why was the question raised as to whether the “sword” would reject the scepter of Jerusalem’s king?
17 Those Israelites who were inclined to exult would remember that their capital was the city of Jerusalem with its holy status because of its having the temple built by King Solomon. Also, its king was a descendant of King David, with whom Jehovah had made a covenant for an everlasting kingdom. Also, this Davidic king was anointed with oil into office and accordingly was called “the anointed one of Jehovah,” or “the Messiah” (Hebrew) or “the Christ” (Greek). And as a descendant of King David this anointed king was said to sit upon the throne of God, “to sit upon Jehovah’s throne as king in place of David his father.” (2 Samuel 7:4-16; Lamentations 4:20; 1 Chronicles 29:23) Would it be likely, then, that Jehovah’s “sword” would reject the scepter of such a king?
18. Was the “sword” of Jehovah going to reject “the scepter of my own son, as it does every tree,” and in view of the answer will Christendom’s political rulers receive exemption from execution by Jehovah’s “sword”?
18 Ah, but Jehovah’s sword was going to do just that, according to his own words concerning the sword: “Is it rejecting the scepter of my own son, as it does every tree?” (Ezekiel 21:10) For reasons that are stated soon afterward, Jehovah’s sword does not fail to reject that royal scepter of the Kingdom of Judah any more than it rejects every other scepter, every other “tree.” The fact that Jehovah said that the successors of David on the royal throne of Jerusalem would be like sons to him was not going to save them from the sword in case they were stubbornly disobedient. So, too, Christendom’s kings are not to be spared in the ‘battle in the day of Jehovah’ just because the religious clergy have anointed these kings to reign “By the Grace of God.” The claims of such rulers to exemption from execution by Jehovah’s “sword” will be rejected by the agency that Jehovah uses as his executional “sword.”—2 Samuel 7:14.
19. According to Ezekiel 21:11, who is it that gives the “sword” into the hand of the killer?
19 Back in Ezekiel’s day Jehovah is the One who gave his executional “sword” into the hand of the agency whom he used in bringing ruin upon Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Judah. Jehovah makes this fact very plain in telling Ezekiel to say: “And one gives it to be polished, in order to wield it with the hand. It—a sword has been sharpened, and it—it has been polished, in order to give it into the hand of a killer.”—Ezekiel 21:11.
20. What does Jehovah’s giving the “sword” into the hand of the “killer” constitute, against whom was it to be used under Jehovah’s supervision, and not even who were to be spared?
20 In this case the “killer” or slayer is the agency that directly acts as the executioner for Jehovah, but Jehovah’s giving the “sword” into the hand of the killer is Jehovah’s appointment and authorization of that agency to do the killing. The fact, too, that those who were to be “hurled to the sword” were found among those whom Jehovah calls “my people” proves further that this use of the sword “against my people” was by Jehovah’s permission, indeed, by His direction. Not even the “chieftains of Israel” were to be spared by the executional sword, not even the highest earthly chieftain of Israel, namely, King Zedekiah. His scepter would be rejected from being spared. The bare thought of such a thing was enough to make a man of Israel cry out and howl and to slap his right thigh instead of beating his bosom like a woman. This is why Jehovah said to Ezekiel as an illustration:
21. Consequently, Jehovah told Ezekiel to act in what way, giving what reasons for his doing so?
21 “‘Cry out and howl, O son of man, for it itself [the sword] has come to be against my people; it is against all the chieftains of Israel. The very ones hurled to the sword have come to be with my people. Therefore make a slap on the thigh. For an extermination has been made, and what of it if it is rejecting also the scepter? This will not continue existing,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.”—Ezekiel 21:12, 13.
THE THING THAT WAS NOT TO “CONTINUE EXISTING”
22. The failure of the thing mentioned to “continue existing” meant what as to rulerships world wide, but what did it not mean as to the royal line of King David?
22 What was it that was not to “continue existing”? It was the scepter of the kings of Israel, the rod or wand that is the emblem of royal power and authority in an active sense. That meant that the Kingdom of Judah was to go down, to disappear. Jehovah’s throne in Jerusalem was to be overturned, to be left unoccupied by a royal descendant of King David. The typical or miniature kingdom of Jehovah God among the Israelites was to be suspended, to cease functioning. This would leave only kingdoms of this world, Gentile kingdoms, functioning on the earth. Nevertheless, this did not mean that every rightful descendant in the royal line of David would be cut off, so that David’s royal line would cease to exist. Although no surviving descendant of the royal house of David would ever again wield a material scepter on a material throne in earthly Jerusalem, someone of David’s royal line would yet come who would have the natural right to the kingdom of David over the twelve tribes of Israel. Ezekiel waited for God to assure him of this.
23. How could the “sword” be said to make an encirclement of the Israelites, and how was Ezekiel told to emphasize the notableness of this “sword”?
23 Jehovah’s “sword” was to be so active in its destructive movements that it would appear to encircle the doomed Israelites. This was enough to make an Israelite slap his hands together in astonishment, if not in fear. The highly polished and sharpened sword was to be a noteworthy one, one of international importance. For this reason Jehovah commanded Ezekiel to call further attention to it, saying: “And you, O son of man—prophesy, and strike palm against palm, and ‘A sword!’ should be repeated for three times. The sword of the slain ones it is. It is the sword of someone slain who is great, which is making an encirclement of them. In order for the heart to melt and in order to multiply those who are overthrown at all their gates, I will make a slaughter by the sword . Alas, it is made for a glittering, polished for a slaughter!”—Ezekiel 21:14, 15.
24. Responsibility for the slaughter is taken by whom, and at what strategic points will the slaughter therefore be multiplied?
24 Note that Jehovah himself takes the responsibility for the slaughter despite his using an executional agency. He says: “I will make a slaughter by the sword.” So when the besieged Jews in Jerusalem rush to her gates to defend their holy city, it will be in vain; they will be overthrown. The slain there at such strategic points Jehovah will multiply. As the polished sword against them continues to be brandished, it will produce a repeated glittering. Sharpened to a keen cutting edge, it will cause fearsome slaughter.
25. To what is Ezekiel told to turn and direct his speech in order to indicate what kind of a slaughter, and when will Jehovah bring his rage to its rest?
25 As if the sword were alive and able to take orders as to where to direct itself, Ezekiel is told to speak to it in an apostrophe: “Show yourself sharp; go to the right! Set your position; go to the left! To wherever your face is directed!” Thus, according to Jehovah’s will, it is a directed slaughter. He knows upon whom to use his executional sword. There will be no rest for his sword until he has carried out to the full his judicial sentence. Just as he says: “And I myself also shall strike my one palm against my other palm, and I will bring my rage to its rest. I myself, Jehovah, have spoken.”—Ezekiel 21:16, 17.
INTERFERENCE BY DEMONS TO BE THWARTED
26. What road indexes was Ezekiel told to set up, and what question respecting the directive power of the demons here comes up?
26 Are the spirit demons, under the control of their ruler, Satan the Devil, going to be permitted to turn Jehovah’s “sword” aside, to turn it in a different direction from where he wants it to go first and directly? Try to do so, the demons might, according to the appeals of spiritualists, astrologers, fortune-tellers and false prophets under demon influence. But this will never succeed, according to what Ezekiel now tells us: “And the word of Jehovah continued to occur to me, saying: ‘And as for you, O son of man, set for yourself two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to enter. From the one land both of them should go forth, and an index hand should be cut out; at the head of the way to the city it should be cut out. A way you should set for the sword to enter against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and one against Judah, against Jerusalem fortified. For the king of Babylon stood still at the crossways, at the head of the two ways, in order to resort to divination.’”—Ezekiel 21:18-21.
27. Who is the “killer” here identified as being, and what kind of person was this “killer”?
27 Aha! Here we have identified for us the “killer” into whose hand Jehovah would give the executional sword to carry forward visibly the “battle in the day of Jehovah” against Jerusalem. It is the king of Babylon. Since Babylon was then a world power, the Third World Power in Bible history, no wonder that the “sword” of warfare that it wielded was such an internationally notable sword, well deserving of Ezekiel’s calling such attention to it! At the time of Ezekiel’s prophecy the king of Babylon was named Nebuchadnezzar. According to secular history, he was a very religious man, and much devoted to the demon god named Marduk. This meant that Nebuchadnezzar was very superstitious, relying for his official guidance upon demonistic practices, such as divination.
28. Of what does this remind us of the politicians of Christendom and resorting to forms of demonism?
28 This reminds us of how political rulers of even Christendom rely upon demonism for guidance in their political activities and decisions, the fortune-tellers and clairvoyants of Washington, D.C., for example, being heavily patronized by the national politicians who have their offices there. The Nazi dictator of the Third German Reich, Adolf Hitler, in his day was notorious for his dependence upon astrology, having a special official astrologer. They no more look to Jehovah for guidance than did Nebuchadnezzar.
29. As he marched down from the north, at what crossways was a decision forced upon Nebuchadnezzar, and how was he to decide?
29 Coming into the land of Palestine from the north, Nebuchadnezzar at the head of his mighty army came to a fork in the line of march. This was a place for decision. Just as Ezekiel had been told to illustrate it before the Jewish exiles back in Babylon, one branch of this crossways led to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, which lay to the east of the Jordan River. The other branch led to Jerusalem in the mountains west of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. The Ammonite capital city, Rabbah, was the less fortified city, easier to capture, and should Nebuchadnezzar direct his military campaign first against that city? On the other hand, the Judean capital was called “Jerusalem fortified.” It should be much harder to capture, requiring a longer siege that might discourage the Babylonian soldiers. Should Nebuchadnezzar postpone attacking it till after his troops were elated with a capture of Ammonite Rabbah? A tough choice! How was he to decide? By divination!
30. To how many forms of demonism did Nebuchadnezzar resort and why, and who now was to show superiority—the demons or Jehovah?
30 One method of divination was not enough for King Nebuchadnezzar. He must make sure by using three. By this means would the demons, of which Babylon was a superstitious worshiper, make the threefold divination result in such a way as to steer him contrary to Jehovah’s will—against Ammonite Rabbah first? Not when the Almighty God Jehovah had declared his purpose for his own executional “sword” to go first against Jerusalem. He outmaneuvered the demons, and hence Ezekiel was told to say of Nebuchadnezzar’s divination:
31. How does Jehovah describe to Ezekiel Nebuchadnezzar’s resort to divination, and what course would a drawing by his right hand favor?
31 “He has shaken the arrows [one marked for Rabbah and the other for Jerusalem, to be drawn out of a vessel after being shaken]. He has asked by means of the teraphim; he has looked into the liver [of a slain animal victim]. In his right hand the divination proved to be for Jerusalem, to set battering-rams, to open one’s mouth for a slaying, to raise the sound in an alarm signal, to set battering-rams against gates, to throw up a siege rampart, to build a siege wall.”—Ezekiel 21:21, 22.
32. The drawing by the right hand directed Nebuchadnezzar against which city, and so what did this mean for him?
32 What King Nebuchadnezzar drew forth with his right hand was the favored choice, to indicate the most auspicious course. In agreement with Jehovah’s will it directed the king of Babylon against Jerusalem first. That meant bringing up against Jerusalem all the Babylonian heavy siege equipment and using all the devices for besieging a strongly fortified city.
33. According to Ezekiel 21:23, how would the foretelling of such an outcome to Nebuchadnezzar’s divination seem to the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem in an oath-bound relationship to him?
33 How, though, did the foretelling of such an outcome to King Nebuchadnezzar’s divination sound to the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem? Jehovah foresaw how it would seem to them, and so he said further to Ezekiel: “And it has become to them like an untrue divination in their eyes—those who are sworn with oaths to them; and he is calling error to remembrance, in order for them to be caught.”—Ezekiel 21:23.
34. Why did Nebuchadnezzar’s divination, as foretold, seem untrue to the inhabitants of the land of Judah, and what was their attitude toward the oaths that they had sworn to him?
34 The foretold divination of King Nebuchadnezzar seemed to these Jews in the land of Judah to be “untrue,” because they felt that the king of Babylon would not desire to come against such a strongly walled city as Jerusalem. They felt that he could never take it if he tried. Furthermore, they could call upon the powerful international rival of Babylon, namely, Pharaoh of Egypt, to come to their assistance and turn back the military hordes of Babylon. What did they care about the oaths that they had sworn to the king of Babylon to be subject to him as vassals? They disregarded the fact that they had taken these oaths of submission to King Nebuchadnezzar as their suzerain lord in the name of Jehovah their God. So, in their self-assurance, they favored breaking their oaths to the king of Babylon by rebelling against him and relying, not upon Jehovah, but upon the Pharaoh of Egypt. They would influence their king, Zedekiah, to take this perjured, rebellious course.
35. How did Jehovah foretell King Zedekiah’s oath-breaking rebellion, and what questions did Jehovah therefore ask?
35 Through Ezekiel, Jehovah foretold that this would occur. Speaking of how King Nebuchadnezzar had put Zedekiah on the throne of Jerusalem instead of his nephew Jehoiachin in 617 B.C.E., and foretelling how King Zedekiah would treat his oath, Jehovah said to Ezekiel: “Furthermore, he [Nebuchadnezzar] took one [Zedekiah] of the royal seed and concluded a covenant with him and brought him into an oath; and the foremost men of the land he [Nebuchadnezzar] took away, in order that the kingdom might become low, unable to lift itself up, that by keeping his covenant it might stand. But he [Zedekiah] finally rebelled against him in sending his messengers to Egypt, for it to give him horses and a multitudinous people. Will he [Zedekiah] have success? Will he escape, he who is doing these things, and who has broken a covenant? And will he actually escape?” These questions Jehovah at once answers by saying:
36. What answers to those questions did Jehovah give to Ezekiel as regards oath-breaking Zedekiah and the Pharaoh of Egypt?
36 “‘“As I am alive,” is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, “in the place of the king [Nebuchadnezzar] who put in as king the one [Zedekiah] that despised his oath and that broke his covenant, with him in the midst of Babylon he will die. And by a great military force and by a multitudinous congregation Pharaoh will not make him effective in the war, by throwing up a siege rampart and by building a siege wall, in order to cut off many souls. And he [Zedekiah] has despised an oath in breaking a covenant, and, look! he had given his hand [in a pledge of covenant keeping] and has done even all these things. He will not make his escape.”’ ‘“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: ‘As I am alive, surely my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken—I will even bring it upon his head.’”’”—Ezekiel 17:13-19; 2 Chronicles 36:11-13.
37. What was the “error” that was to be remembered, and what caused the king of Babylon to remember it?
37 This rebellion against his Babylonian overlord would be an erroneous course on the part of King Zedekiah of Jerusalem. But the king of Babylon would not overlook this or forget about it. “He is calling error to remembrance, in order for them to be caught.” (Ezekiel 21:23) In this way the oath-breaking Zedekiah and his counselors were to be caught in the bitter results of their own erroneous action. Hence Jehovah goes on to say to those self-deceiving oath breakers: “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘By reason of your causing your error to be remembered by your transgressions being uncovered, in order that your sins may be seen according to all your dealings, by reason of your being called to remembrance you people will be seized even by the hand.’” (Ezekiel 21:24) Their transgressions against proper covenant-keeping came out into the open or were uncovered, and this caused the offended king of Babylon to remember their error.
38. The prophecy that the covenant breakers should be “seized even by the hand” meant what?
38 In due time the Jews deserved to be called to remembrance for the attention that covenant breakers deserve. So their rebellion would fail, the stout walls of Jerusalem would fail them, and they would be “seized even by the hand” and led captive to Babylon.
39. What would Zedekiah, “chieftain of Israel,” be obliged to do, according to the words Jehovah directed to him?
39 In view of this, what would King Zedekiah, as “chieftain of Israel,” be obliged to do? Through the prophet Ezekiel, Jehovah tells him straight to his face, saying: “And as for you, O deadly wounded, wicked chieftain of Israel, whose day has come in the time of the error of the end, this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘Remove the turban, and lift off the crown. This will not be the same. Put on high even what is low, and bring low even the high one. A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I shall make it. As for this also, it will certainly become no one’s until he comes who has the legal right, and I must give it to him.’”—Ezekiel 21:25-27.
DOWN WITH THE “HIGH ONE”!
40. Through what course was Zedekiah a “deadly wounded” chieftain, how did he show himself to be “wicked,” and how had his “day” come in regard to the “time of the error of the end”?
40 By his rebellious course King Zedekiah deadly wounded himself, thereby making certain his death, not in peace as king in Jerusalem under the suzerainty of the king of Babylon, but as a dethroned, childless, sightless, imprisoned exile in Babylon. By breaking his oath given in the name of Jehovah and by violating his covenant with the king of Babylon, he showed his wickedness. His day for eating the bitter fruitage of his badness as “chieftain of Israel” had come. It was now the “time of the error of the end,” not alone that “error” of King Zedekiah, but also the “error” of all the kingdom of Judah and Jerusalem. The time of this “end” began in the thirteenth year of Josiah as king of Jerusalem, which was also the year when the priest, “Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah,” began to prophesy. (Jeremiah 1:1, 2; 25:3-11) In order to illustrate those final forty years, the prophet Ezekiel had been instructed to lie publicly on his right side before a model of Jerusalem, that thus he might “carry the error of the house of Judah.” (Ezekiel 4:6, 7) Zedekiah shared in the “error of the end.”
41. In fulfillment of Jehovah’s command, how were the turban removed and the crown lifted off, and thereby what was brought to an end, this introducing what world situation?
41 King Zedekiah wore a royal turban, distinctive of his royal office, wearing also a crown. He did not voluntarily “remove the turban, and lift off the crown” from his head in obedience to the command of Jehovah through Ezekiel. This was done for him by the king of Babylon when he captured the fleeing Zedekiah and deposed him as king, destroying his royal throne and his royal city. (2 Kings 25:1-7; Ezekiel 17:19, 20) With that event the typical kingdom of God on earth, with a descendant of King David sitting on “Jehovah’s throne” in Jerusalem, came to an end. It had stood for 463 years, from 1070 to 607 B.C.E. This left the world stage in complete control of the non-Jewish or Gentile kingdoms, with no interference or restriction by a typical, miniature kingdom of Jehovah God on earth. What a world situation that introduced!
42. With what words did Jehovah indicate it was time for a change?
42 It was Jehovah’s due time for a change. This he indicated when he added: “This will not be the same. Put on high even what is low, and bring low even the high one.”—Ezekiel 21:26.
43. As to putting on high what is low and bringing low the high one, what must be said as regards Zedekiah’s family in contrast with Jehoiachin’s, and Solomon’s family in contrast with Nathan’s?
43 By this turning of things upside down things would not be the same for a long while. What was the “low” thing that was put on high by this destruction of the Kingdom of Judah, and what was the “high one” that was brought low? Not the family of King Zedekiah who was once high on the throne of Jerusalem in contrast with his nephew Jehoiachin’s family who were then exiles in Babylon, with Jehoiachin himself lying in prison. (2 Kings 24:8-16; 25:27-30) Nor was it the high family line of King Solomon the son of David in contrast with the low obscure family line of Nathan the son of King David. (Matthew 1:6-16; Luke 3:23-31) Both of these latter family lines became involved, genealogically, with the birth of Jesus Christ at Bethlehem-Judah, for the names of Shealtiel and Zerubbabel appear in the genealogies from both Solomon and Nathan. (Matthew 1:12; Luke 3:27) So there was no special abasement of one family in favor of the other as regards producing the Messiah.
44. Hence what was the high thing that was brought low, and what was the low thing that was put on high? And how?
44 Instead of the foregoing, it was the Kingdom of Judah that was the “high one” in being the miniature kingdom of Jehovah God on earth, so that it was the Kingdom of Judah that was made low by being destroyed in 607 B.C.E. It was the non-Jewish or Gentile kingdoms of this world that were the “low” thing that was “put on high” by the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah and leaving Gentile rule in complete control of all the earth, Jehovah’s chosen people of Israel being thenceforth subject to such Gentile rule.
45, 46. So what world power then dominated the earthly scene politically, and how had Jehovah foretold this reversal through Moses in Deuteronomy, chapter twenty-eight?
45 So, to begin with at this point, the Babylonian World Power, the Third World Power in Bible history, dominated the entire earthly scene of international politics. Long previously, in the year 1473 B.C.E., the prophet Moses had foretold this, saying under divine inspiration to the nation of Israel: “Jehovah will indeed put you at the head and not at the tail; and you must come to be only on top, and you will not come to be on the bottom, because you keep obeying the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today to observe and to do.
46 “And it must occur that if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God by taking care to do all his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you today, all these maledictions must also come upon you and overtake you: Jehovah will march you and your king whom you will set up over you to a nation whom you have not known, neither you nor your forefathers; and there you will have to serve other gods, of wood and of stone. The alien resident who is in your midst will keep ascending higher and higher above you, while you—you will keep descending lower and lower. He will be the one to lend to you, while you—you will not lend to him. He will become the head, while you—you will become the tail.”—Deuteronomy 28:13, 15, 36, 43, 44.
47. Thus in 607 B.C.E., what treading down or trampling began?
47 Being put on high in the year 607 B.C.E. when the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem and unseated the royal line of David, the Gentile nations began to tread down or trample upon Jerusalem as signifying a kingdom of Jehovah God with a royal descendant of David seated upon “Jehovah’s throne.”
48. Who caused those Gentile Times to begin, what had he also appointed for those Times, and how did Jesus speak of them in prophecy?
48 The Gentile Times for thus trampling upon the right of the royal line of David to the throne in a kingdom set up by Jehovah God were to last for only a measured period of time. Jehovah, who caused those Gentile Times to begin, had also appointed the time for them to end. In the year 33 of our Common Era Jesus Christ spoke prophetically about those Gentile Times that were still running in his day. Foretelling a destruction of the Jerusalem of his day, he said: “There will be great necessity upon the land and wrath on this people; and they will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the appointed times of the nations are fulfilled.” (Luke 21:20-24) Hence the year would come when those Gentile Times would end.
49. With what words, in Ezekiel 21:27, did Jehovah foretell the event at which those Gentile Times would end?
49 When? In the year when a remarkable event should take place. Not for all time would the kingship of a rightful descendant of King David seated on “Jehovah’s throne” continue as a “ruin.” Jehovah said: “A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I shall make it. As for this also, it will certainly become no one’s until he comes who has the legal right, and I must give it to him.”—Ezekiel 21:27.
“HE COMES WHO HAS THE LEGAL RIGHT”
50. Why did Jesus Christ not seek any kingship during his days on earth?
50 The year when the descendant of King David with the legal right should come and when Jehovah should give the kingship to that one would be at the close of the Gentile Times, or at the end of the “appointed times of the nations.” Those Gentile Times did not end in the days of Jesus Christ when on earth in the first century of our Common Era. No; for Jesus said that Jerusalem must be destroyed a second time and thereafter the Gentile Times must continue on still farther until they are fulfilled. That is why Jesus Christ did not seek any kingship in his days on earth. (John 6:14, 15) This is why Jehovah did not give to Jesus Christ the Davidic kingship at his sacrificial death, resurrection and ascension to Jehovah’s right hand in heaven.—Acts 1:6, 7; 2:29-37.
51. After his ascension, how long was Jesus Christ due to wait on Jehovah’s right hand, and then what action was due to take place?
51 Jerusalem’s second destruction occurred in the year 70 C.E. at the hands of the Roman legions, and Jesus Christ foretold that the Gentile Times were to keep on running for a time after that. (Luke 21:24) So, after his ascension to heaven in 33 C.E., Jesus Christ must wait in heaven until those Gentile Times ended. Then was God’s appointed time for the Gentile nations to be brought low and for God’s Messianic kingdom of a descendant of King David to be put on high. Then was the due time for Jesus Christ to come with his legal right to the kingship and ask Jehovah and for Jehovah to give him the kingship. This is what the Hebrew Christians were told, in Hebrews 10:12, 13, concerning Jesus Christ: “This man offered one sacrifice for sins perpetually and sat down at the right hand of God, from then on awaiting until his enemies should be placed as a stool for his feet.” (Psalm 110:1, 2; 2:7-9; Acts 2:34-36) Knowing from Daniel’s prophecy (Da 4:16-27) the length of those “appointed times of the [Gentile] nations” enabled Jesus Christ to calculate when they would end, namely, in 1914 C.E.
52. What vision was Daniel given of the coming of David’s descendant to receive the kingship, and in whom did Jesus Christ look for that vision to be fulfilled, and when?
52 The prophet Daniel was a fellow exile of Ezekiel, and very appropriately, then, Jehovah as the “Ancient of Days” gave Daniel a vision of the coming of the Messiah to him at the end of the Gentile Times to receive the kingship as the Permanent Heir of King David. Daniel writes: “But as for the rest of the [Gentile] beasts, their rulerships were taken away, . . . I kept on beholding in the visions of the night, and, see there! with the clouds of the heavens someone like a son of man happened to be coming; and to the Ancient of Days he gained access, and they brought him up close even before that One. And to him there were given rulership and dignity and kingdom, that the peoples, national groups and languages should all serve even him. His rulership is an indefinitely lasting rulership that will not pass away, and his kingdom one that will not be brought to ruin.” (Daniel 7:12-14) Jesus Christ looked forward to the fulfillment of that prophetic vision in himself in heaven when the Gentile Times ended in 1914.
53. At the end of the Gentile Times, how did Jehovah put an end to the trampling carried on by the Gentile nations, despite their occupying the site of earthly Jerusalem?
53 With the end of the Gentile Times in 1914, in the lunar month of Tishri (September-October), the appointed time arrived for Jehovah to put a stop to the Gentile nations (including Christendom) in their trampling upon what ancient Jerusalem symbolized, namely, the kingdom in the hands of the anointed descendant of King David reigning on “Jehovah’s throne.” Jehovah did this by then giving the active Davidic kingship to the one “who has the legal right,” that is to say, to His anointed Son, Jesus Christ. Thereafter the Gentile Nations could tread down and trample upon the Middle Eastern site of ancient Jerusalem all they wanted to in a literal sense, but they would no longer be trampling upon the real kingdom of the anointed descendant of King David, who has the legal right to it. He sits on “Jehovah’s throne” in the heavens, and the heavily armed nations of today can never overturn and destroy that heavenly throne or the “city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem.”—Hebrews 12:22.
54. What will happen shortly to the modern-day antitypical unfaithful Jerusalem, and how will this affect the Messianic kingdom of God as set up at the end of the Gentile Times?
54 How refreshing it is to the spirits of true lovers of God’s Messianic kingdom to know these wonderful facts! Shortly the modern antitype of ancient unfaithful Jerusalem will be brought to her perpetual ruin as pictured by the ruin of Jerusalem in the year 607 B.C.E. But that will not signify the ruin and destruction of the Messianic kingdom of God, inasmuch as Christendom’s claim to be Christ’s kingdom is false and has greatly misrepresented the Biblical facts. The hypocritical Christ’s kingdom on earth must go! The true heavenly kingdom of Christ must remain in heavenly power for the blessing of all mankind for whom Jesus Christ died as a ransom sacrifice. The Gentile nations, as well as Christendom, will not be able to interfere with this blessing. Their “appointed times” having run out in 1914 C.E., they will be brought to eternal ruin in the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” at the now-shaping-up world situation called Har–Magedon.—Revelation 16:14-16.
AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF CHRISTENDOM, WHAT?
55. Destruction on whom follows that of Christendom, and how was a parallel of this given in Ezekiel’s day?
55 Destruction of the political Gentile nations follows that of Christendom. In an ancient parallel to this, destruction of the Ammonite capital of Rabbah followed that of ancient Jerusalem in 607 B.C.E. It was Jehovah’s will that Jerusalem should fall first. That is why he took care that King Nebuchadnezzar’s divination should send him first against Jerusalem, down the right-hand branch of the crossroads. (Ezekiel 21:19-22; Jeremiah 25:17-29) In a warning for Rabbah of the sons of Ammon not to gloat over the ruin of Jerusalem, Jehovah told Ezekiel what to say:
56. In order that Rabbah of Ammon might not gloat over ruined Jerusalem, what did Jehovah tell Ezekiel to say to Ammon in warning?
56 “And you, O son of man, prophesy, and you must say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning the reproach from them.’ And you must say, ‘A sword, a sword drawn for a slaughter, polished to cause it to devour, in order to glitter, because of their beholding for you an unreality, because of their divining for you a lie, in order to put you on the necks of the slain ones, the wicked men whose day has come in the time of the error of the end. Return it to its sheath. In the place that you were created, in the land of your origin, I shall judge you. And I will pour out upon you my denunciation. With the fire of my fury I shall blow upon you, and I will give you into the hand of men who are unreasoning, the craftsmen of ruination. For the fire you will become fuel. Your own blood will prove to be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I myself, Jehovah, have spoken.’”—Ezekiel 21:28-32.
57. From that prophecy as historically fulfilled, what warning should all reproachers of Jehovah take, and why will the prophecy not fail of fulfillment upon them?
57 In due time the king of Babylon was used to bring ruin upon the land of the sons of Ammon. This occurred because the prophets of Ammon were “beholding” an escape for Rabbah from the “sword” of King Nebuchadnezzar, and this had to be proved “an unreality.” The diviners of Ammon were predicting that Rabbah would be spared, and this needed to be proved “a lie.” The purpose of this was to “put” the slain ones of Ammon, as it were, “on the necks” of the slain wicked Israelites, as if in one pile of dead ones. From this historic example, let all reproachers of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah take warning. The “sword” of the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” will reach them in their own land. In the land of their origin their blood will be poured out. The death that they divined and desired for Jehovah’s true people will come upon their own selves as a denunciation from Jehovah. Let them imagine no unreality about this; let them make no mistake about this. It is Jehovah who has spoken it. It will therefore not fail to come true, to His vindication.
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1885M1565 Drug Jar, St George and the Dragon, 1550-60 Maiolica, tin glazed and painted earthenware. Italy, Ravenna, Faenza
The material used to make this drug jar is known in Italy as maiolica. It is earthenware with a thick, opaque white surface called tin glaze. Maiolica was one of the first ceramics to be used specifically as a vehicle for painted decoration, either in lustre or in painted enamels. As a branch of pottery manufacture, maiolica was established in the northern half of Italy by the mid-15th century when the pots were often decorated with bold patterns in green and purple. As the industry developed throughout Italy, characteristic shapes emerged, amongst them drug jars like this used for display in pharmacies. This jar has an image of Saint George and the Dragon. According to legend, a pagan town of Libya was being terrorised by a dragon. The dragon was not satisfied with the sheep the town's people were offering it. They started to offer it people which began to subdue the dragon. When it came to the turn of the local princess to be sacrificed to the dragon, Saint George came by on his horse, slaughtered the dragon and rescued the princess. In their gratitude the town's people converted to George's religion of Christianity. | <urn:uuid:49d6aff5-bca5-4e67-afe8-057751af8d29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dams.birminghammuseums.org.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=20841&index=49&total=1000&view=viewSearchItem | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982813 | 278 | 3 | 3 |
Philip Johnson’s 1946 Booth House, in Bedford, New York is threatened and in urgent need of new custodians. Award winning architect and pioneering architectural photographer Robert Damora (1912 -2009) and his wife, architect Sirkka Damora, moved into Philip Johnson’s Booth House in 1955 thinking of it as temporary housing until they could build a home of their own design. The spare elegance of the Booth House evoked a simple, informal, unencumbered life style that suited them: they never left. When you find environment that soothes your soul there is little motivation to move on. Now 62 years after arriving at the house, at age 93 Sirkka finds the rural life there difficult to manage physically, and she is financially unable to continue in the house. The house must be sold. Sirkka is more concerned with finding appreciative stewards who will preserve the house than she is with the financial return from its sale. Unfortunately the future of the house is threatened unless she can find those custodians to pass it on to in rather short order.
Built in Bedford, NY for a city couple as their country retreat, the Booth House was Philip Johnson’s first constructed commission. Precursor to New Canaan’s Moderns, including Johnson’s personal residence the famous Glass House, it was erected in 1946 just as private building resumed after World War II and before the Harvard 5 (Johnson, Breuer, Johansen, Noyes, & Gores) moved to Connecticut just a few miles away. While Johnson built a house in Cambridge, MA as his thesis project while still a student, the Booth House is the first built structure attributable to a graduate of Harvard’s influential Graduate School of Design program led by Walter Gropius ̶ truly a landmark in the history of Modern Architecture. | <urn:uuid:a02c5aa3-8e78-46ea-ab40-d3ff8df4797a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://docomomo-us.org/news/new-philip-johnson-booth-house-threatened?items%5B%5D=58ef9977e9a40a7a497b2347& | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958544 | 374 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Is your company suffering from Lost Opportunities in Cost Savings and Revenue Growth?
Currently (and in the past), Companies focus their Quality efforts in Manufacturing and Engineering. Certainly this makes sense in that you must design and produce good products (and services) in order to generate revenue and profit. But what about the rest of the organization – Purchasing, Legal, Sales, Marketing, HR?
Is Quality just for Manufacturing and Engineering, and in many cases, only a select few within these functions, or are there reasons to broaden the focus of Quality to include more of the organization? The direct answer is YES. By broadening the reach of quality to involve all functions within an organization, or an enterprise wide quality model, everyone is responsible for quality and therefore cost savings, revenue growth, safety enhancements and efficiencies and effectiveness can come from everywhere and anywhere in the organization.
In multiple industries – Manufacturing, Automotive, Healthcare, Food and Beverage, Education, Government and others, most organizations only have a few “Quality Experts” or a small “Quality Department” that are tasked with increasing quality and blamed for quality problems. When Quality is expanded to include all functions, everyone becomes accountable and responsible for Quality but the benefits don’t stop there.
Expanding Quality to include everyone gets everyone in the action of saving money, increasing revenue, improving safety and increasing efficiency and effectiveness – and this isn’t “extra work”, it’s the work that should be done “all the time.” Expanding Quality also creates positive cultural growth by involving everyone. Everyone speaks in the language of Quality – People, Safety, Cost, and Time and everyone understands the tools and methods of Quality so “plug and play” project leaders can take on projects both within their areas of expertise and outside of them.
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By Jack Schembri
KU’s Actors Creating Theater club is putting on an inclusive performance of the “The Great Gatsby” geared toward combatting misogynistic stereotypes.
The two student directors, Angel Pena Martinez and Kyra Bernotas, want the play to challenge the white, heteronormative standards in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel. The performances are at Schaeffer’s Little Theater at 7 p.m. on April 28, April 29, and April 30.
“The Great Gatsby” was published in 1925, only five years after women got the basic right to vote. Although none of the characters have changed, the directors have altered their personas.
“We are bringing a modern twist to the play by adapting the female characters like Mrs. Mckee to not be portrayed as floozy, while still trying to transport the audience to 1922,” said Bernotas.
In the novel, Catherine is not married and is only used as a character who is slut-shamed and flirts with Nick, something the directors say they tried to change in the play.
“Rather than flirting with Nick, Mrs. Mckee is promoting other women by narrating the struggles of Myrtle instead of just watching the abuse,” said Sarah Lamana, who plays Myrtle.
ACT has also sought to make the play more diverse, casting a person of color in the traditionally white role of Chester Mckee. “Especially with Kutztown being a predominantly white school, I am really glad to be a woman of color in the cast,” said Ant Fritchman an Asian American woman who plays Chester Mckee.
“We are faithfully keeping to the script while also trying to leave any modern interpretation,” said Derek Noll who plays Nick Carroway, “Nick’s character is never openly (romantically) interested in Gatsby because of the time period, but we will portray that possibility as openly as we can without changing anything.”
ACT is composed of three men and 12 women, a logistical obstacle overcome by the women of the club playing male roles. The club is primarily run by students, with the aid of their advisor, Professor Derek Mace.
This is ACT’s third performance of the year and the first performance without the mask mandate for the audience.
In December, ACT sold out Schaeffer Auditorium with a performance of “The Dinner Party.” In February, ACT sold out their performance of “The Addams Family.”
“ACT prides itself on inclusivity, friendship and above all, unbiased opportunities in ALL productions,” said Ericka Csencsits, who plays Jordan Baker in “The Great Gatsby.” “ACT is like a family and we treat each other with respect and kindness.”
The cost of tickets for students is $8, while non-students are $10.
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The image above shows the Ecclesbourne Glen Coastguard Cottages and other tourist infrastructure that developed around them. The coastguard station itself closed in 1908, but occupation of the cottages continued until 1950. The station began as an anti smuggling watch house and 1818, as the small valley where the Ecclesbourne stream meets the sea was a good place for smugglers to get their goods ashore.
This Pathe news video shows the last occupant of one of the cottages preparing to leave the property for the last time. The cliffs stretching from the Old Town to Fairlight are always at risk of erosion and landslides. These building were victims of that erosion.
Sixty years on and nature has reclaimed the area, erasing or hiding most evidence of the buildings. It seems strange now that such infrastructure was ever there. The East Hill itself has always had buildings upon, starting with the ancient fort, but more recently a golf hut, football changing rooms and a cricket pavilion. They have all gone now, and the East Hill and glen is now clear of man-made structures.
That absence of structures has made the appearance of a building within the boundaries of the Rocklands Holiday Park all the more jarring. The holiday park is clearly trying to make the most of its location give most of the accommodation there views of the glen and the sea. That seems to be to the detriment of the glen itself. It’s been a few years since I last visited the glen, but I never remembered being able to see as much of the holiday park as you can now.
The new building, seen in the distance from the view above, seems innocuous enough. When I viewed the building close up however I could see why a group was set up to protest against it. It ruins the scenery. The work of the protest group has led to the council rejecting retrospective planning permission for the building. Hopefully this will be another building that becomes a just a distant memory.
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There’s No Other School In America Quite Like This One In Michigan
Anyone who went to school in Michigan can agree that field trips were always a unique part of the curriculum. Permission slips, packed lunches, and long bus rides always meant the opportunity to delve deeper into lessons in history, science, and art. But what if the museum was the classroom? That’s exactly the case for Grand Rapids Public School. Here’s more on this one-of-a-kind school that’s established a campus inside of a museum:
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A newly-funded position is making an impact in the lives of vulnerable women trying to escape human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
The Safety Network Coordinator is working for the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation (CEASE), and the position was created after the pandemic highlighted the extent of specific gaps in services for people in these dangerous situations.
“In March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, just as everything was closing down, two separate women walked into EPS police headquarters on separate occasions and asked for help while a third woman was referred by a police officer from another city,” says Kate Quinn, executive director at CEASE.
“This is highly unusual, that women would walk into the police station asking for help because they’re being trafficked,” Quinn says. “Traditionally, detectives would call me or CEASE Project STAR victim advocates, knowing that we would mobilize quickly to find safety for women in those circumstances. When the detectives called, the harsh reality was that it was the toughest time for domestic violence shelters as they tried to figure out how to negotiate the impact of the pandemic. There was one bed left in one shelter for the woman at highest risk of danger.”
The pandemic made visible all the gaps and strains in our safety systems for women.
“I wanted to make it sustainable. There has to be a better way to do this,” says Quinn. “What if I was sick? Or on holiday? And these urgent calls came in? We needed a more systemic response that would allow us to integrate and coordinate more quickly.”
CEASE has been responding to these needs for years, so the organization was building on a foundation of knowledge and experience.
“When I saw a call for proposals [for the position funding] from the federal ministry of Public Safety, I called Jan Fox from REACH Edmonton and Pat Vargas, from Catholic Social Services, who sit on the Alberta Human Trafficking Task Force,” says Quinn.
Quinn knows REACH well in regards to community safety, as well as the executive director of A Safe Place women’s shelter. She also contacted EPS detectives and asked if they’d like to be involved and they collaborated with the ALERT team.
ALERT is a specialized police team, made up of Edmonton Police Service and RCMP members, that conducts criminal investigations specific to human trafficking. While ALERT’s dedicated investigations have proven successful in targeting perpetrators, the Safety Network Coordinator provides a compassionate and fulsome response to survivor supports.
A key aspect of the funding proposal was the integration with law enforcement and community to improve responses to victims/survivors of sex trafficking. When the funding from the Public Safety ministry was secured, the position of Safety Network Coordinator was created.
“We know we have domestic violence shelters and homeless shelters that are almost always full and don’t have the specialized support these women need,” says Quinn. “That’s why we created the Safety Network Coordinator position.”
The individual who has been filling that position has seen first hand the impact it has on preventing vulnerable women from slipping through the cracks. It’s not an outreach position, but a doorway to wider supports and a bridge to law enforcement. This individual is remaining anonymous in this publication for safety reasons.
“I’ve been in this position since April of 2021,” she says. “I’m not a member of law enforcement so if someone tells me something, anything that’s shared, we can have a discussion about where the survivor wants the info to go.”
The Safety Network Coordinator can connect the survivor to either law enforcement, social services or both, giving them a stronger sense of agency and control when coming out of an exploitative situation.
“I provide support throughout any investigation, but in addition, there’s no requirement that someone has an investigation or is connected to ALERT to work with me,” she says. “And that’s where the CEASE side of things comes in.”
If someone is self-referred, she can offer support and systematic navigation to them as well as talking to law enforcement or ALERT if they’d like to report their experience. But they’re not pressured or required to do so.
“We’re just trying to connect them to other organizations and appropriate services,” she says. “No one organization is able to do it all by themselves.”
Her position is essentially a connector role between social services and law enforcement.
“What we’re doing is enhancing the safety network around these vulnerable clients,” says Quinn.
The new position can fill gaps by connecting services from law enforcement and social agencies to the people who need them, across different cities, regions, and provinces.
“We want to be more sustainable, integrated, comprehensive, and coordinated,” says Quinn.
This is the work CEASE has been doing for many years that is now more appropriately resourced.
“She is only one person and her job, primarily, is to be that first responder,” says Quinn.“The position is co-located with CEASE so she doesn’t have to do everything alone; there’s a community of expertise around her.”
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Background Methods simultaneously assessing multiple degrees of molecular handling are appealing because molecular signaling underlying organic neural phenomena occurs in complementary amounts. SDS or urea; the info herein show that elements common to lysis buffers may also improve proteins solubilization both after immediate homogenization and after precipitation. Conclusions This technique would work for evaluating gene and proteins expression from an individual brain sample, enabling a more extensive evaluation of neural phenomena while reducing the amount of topics. neural systems. 4. Discussion We’ve experimentally described an optimized buffer and incubation process for analysing human brain tissues via Traditional western blot by solubilizing proteins pellets precipitated from TRIzol. This system permits a thorough AV-951 study of the molecular signalling root neural phenomena via the simultaneous evaluation of gene and proteins expression amounts. Furthermore, the retrieval of proteins adds an even of analysis that’s challenging to infer using gene manifestation analyses only: the activation condition of signalling agents and additional post-translational modifications. Essentially, this system doubles the obtainable data without raising the amount of topics. Significantly, solubilization in Rabbit polyclonal to PSMC3 optimized lysis buffer produces examples reflective of different neural cell types and proteins classes, and may successfully AV-951 resolve proteins from little and AV-951 difficult to realize brain examples in both mice and rats. 4.1 Format from the optimized protein solubilization protocol Our protocol is graphically depicted in Fig. 7. Cells is definitely homogenized in 500L TRIzol having a Cells Tearor (BioSpec). The Cells Tearor is positioned on the cells (off), and turned on towards the utmost speed and gradually moved along for ~2mins to totally homogenize the cells. RNA and DNA are after that precipitated based on the producers protocol (Existence Systems), and the rest of the phenol-ethanol solution is definitely transferred to fresh snap-cap locking pipes. We suggest experimentally determining the perfect small fraction of the phenol-ethanol remedy per brain area to make use of for precipitation, as large proteins pellets are prohibitive to complete solubilization. The rest of the TRIzol-protein fraction could be iced and precipitated for long term experiments if required. At least 2x level of isopropanol is normally added to the answer to precipitate proteins, which is normally eventually pelleted by centrifugation (12,000xg for 15mins at 4C). The pellet is normally washed double in 95% ethanol and dried out. AV-951 During washes, it’s important to in physical form dislodge the pellet for comprehensive washing. This is achieved by utilizing a pipette suggestion to nudge it, and inverting the pipe. We have pointed out that the level to which track ethanol AV-951 is normally taken off the tube affects the performance of solubilization, with a more substantial volume of track ethanol interfering with this technique. We motivate experimenters to dried out pipes via vacuum or swabs if indeed they notice extreme ethanol staying after drying out. Pellets are after that dislodged in optimized lysis buffer (they often times float independently, but could be gently nudged using a sterile pipette suggestion to facilitate this technique). The quantity of lysis buffer should additionally end up being experimentally driven. As presented right here, up to 25% of the unilateral rat hippocampus effectively solubilizes in 100L lysis buffer and an individual cell suspension system enriched for microglia from bilateral hippocampi effectively solubilizes in 40L. Examples ought to be incubated in lysis buffer at 50C for 1C18hrs. So long as the experimenter is normally in keeping with the incubation duration between experimental groupings, our data suggest these incubation measures are similarly effective. After incubation, proteins can be kept at ?20C until additional processing. Open up in another window Amount 7 Graphical depiction of proteins precipitation and solubilization procedureTissue is normally homogenized in TRIzol, and a small percentage of the phenol-ethanol alternative (pursuing RNA isolation) can be used for proteins precipitation, as the staying fraction could be kept at ?20 to ?80C indefinitely. Isopropanol precipitates proteins, after which it really is pelleted and cleaned with 95% ethanol. The pellets are dried out, suspended in optimized lysis buffer (20mM.
Human brain tumors are probably one of the most formidable diseases of mankind. is the most delicate organ of human body. Several diseases like encephalitis, neurological disorders, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and tumor induce deterioration of mind function. The development of fresh restorative methods for these diseases is definitely a difficult challenge, and there is no effective treatment for almost all the mind diseases. In most of the instances, the major cause of the failure in the development of drugs to treat mind diseases is the presence of BBB. Out of the several mind disorders, mind tumors commonly possess poor prognosis, which varies according AV-951 to the type and grade of the tumor. Due to the presence of BBB, drug delivery to mind tumors has long been a problematic issue. Some group of experts like AV-951 Vick et al. and Donelli et al. described BBB like a controversial problem for mind tumor chemotherapy [1, 2]. They indicated that BBB is not the only element responsible for impeding the success of mind tumor chemotherapy, but later on, ANGPT2 studies exposed the involvement of BBB in drug restriction to different mind neoplasias [3C6]. Mind tumors can be classified into two major classes, namely, main mind tumors that start in the brain and secondary mind tumors that are generated with the cancers cells that migrated from tumors created in other areas of the body. Main mind tumors can arise from different type of mind cells or even from your membranes around the brain (meninges), nerves, or glands. The most common type of main tumors in the brain is definitely glioma, which arises from the glial cells of the brain. Gliomas comprise several types, namely, astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, and ependymomas. Astrocytomas are further classified as grade I (pilocytic), grade II (fibrillary), grade III (anaplastic), and grade IV (glioblastoma multiforme or GBM). BBB is definitely poorly developed in these types of mind tumors causing an increased vascular permeability . It has been demonstrated earlier that leaky interendothelial limited junction is present in human being glioma due to the fact that poorly differentiated neoplastic astrocytes do not launch factors essential for BBB function [9C11]. This tight junction opening causes increased chances of cerebral edema event . It is also observed that BBB stability in lower grade gliomas is better than that in GBM. As the degree of BBB disruption differs from your malignancy of the tumor, treatment of low grade mind tumors is still a challenging task, because of the presence of almost intact BBB. On the contrary, recent studies possess suggested that although the BBB may be disrupted at or near the core of the high grade mind tumors, most certainly it seems to be intact near the growing edge of the tumor where the invasive tumor cells may reside. The presence of the undamaged BBB AV-951 in such regions of the tumors can substantially impede drug delivery to these areas [13C15]. On the other hand, lack of BBB has been observed in additional main mind tumors like meningiomas, schwannomas, or pineocytomas [16C18]. Disrupted BBB also is present in metastatic secondary mind tumors, but the disruption is definitely negligible in smaller aggregates of metastatic tumor cells. Consequently, the drug delivery to these micrometastatic areas is not optimum; as a result, the tumor keeps growing and ultimately reaches to clinically significant size. Therefore, along with the existing restorative modalities, fresh methods of therapy are needed to combat against the BBB of different mind tumors (observe Table 1). Table 1 Type of common mind cancers and their BBB status. These cells are required for appropriate barrier AV-951 formation and interaction with the adjacent cells. They are also known as mind microvascular endothelial cells (BMECs). The BMECs differ from the.
Recent research showed that little interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA) in mammalian germ cells play essential jobs in retrotransposon silencing and gametogenesis. the ICM and trophectoderm (TE) cells. Used collectively, our current research reveals a significant reprogramming of practical little RNAs during early mouse advancement from oocyte to blastocyst. Intro RNAs which range from 19 to 32 nt consist of functional little non-coding RNAs involved with gene rules. Three main classes of practical small RNAs have already been discovered: little interfering RNA (siRNA), microRNA (miRNA) and Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA). siRNAs and miRNAs, with an average amount of 21C23 nt, are prepared from much longer transcripts developing double-strand and stem-loop constructions, respectively, by digestive function with an RNase III enzyme, Dicer, and their single-strand components are incorporated in to the RNA-induced silencing complicated (RISC) and work as mediators in gene silencing (1,2). piRNAs are 25C32 nt long, specifically indicated in germ range cells and from the Piwi family members protein (3C6). Gene silencing concerning such little non-coding RNAs seems to play important roles in rules of gene manifestation in advancement, differentiation and proliferation (7C18). Latest studies show that siRNAs and piRNAs are indicated in mammalian germ cells and perform important jobs in retrotransposon-silencing and gametogenesis (13,14,18). Many siRNAs, like piRNAs, look like derived from repeated sequences including retrotransposons. The contribution of such little RNAs (including miRNAs) to mammalian gametogenesis can be additional validated by failures of gametogenesis in mice carrying loss-of-function of the family genes and associated, respectively, with piRNAs (15C17) and siRNAs/miRNAs production (11,12). In early development of pre-implantation mammalian embryos, the first transition from maternal to embryonic (zygotic) programs takes place as early as the two-cell stage (19), and qualitative and quantitative changes in gene expression occur over the subsequent development. At the blastocyst stage, when the embryo is composed of two distinct cell populations, the inner cell mass (ICM) and trophectoderm (TE), marked differences in gene expression between them can be detected (20,21). Although small non-coding RNAs play key roles in gametogenesis (13,14,18), little is known about their subsequent contribution to early mammalian development. In the present study we investigated the expression of small RNAs in mouse unfertilized (metaphase II: MII) oocytes, 8C16-cell stage embryos, blastocysts as well as pluripotent ICMs by high-throughput pyrosequencing. While the recent study presented the expression profile of known AV-951 miRNAs in early mouse development (12), our current study has revealed comprehensive profiles of small RNAs formulated with uncharacterized little RNAs in pre-implantation embryos. The info hence demonstrate a extreme modification in the appearance of little RNAs from the changeover from oocyte to embryo during mammalian advancement. MATERIALS AND Strategies Collection and lifestyle of unfertilized eggs and embryos Feminine ICR mice (5C8 weeks outdated) had been superovulated via intraperitoneal shot of 7C10 i.u. of pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) and individual chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) at 48 h intervals. The feminine mice had been after that mated with male ICR mice and inspected for genital plugs the very next day. Unfertilized eggs (metaphase II eggs) had been also gathered from feminine mice without mating at 16C20 h post hCG, and put through treatment with hyaluronidase (300 U/ml in M2 moderate). Fertilized embryos had been gathered from plug-positive feminine mice PTGS2 on the anticipated embryonic age group as hours post-hCG: 8C16-cell stage embryo, 64C70 h; blastocyst, 88C94 h. Embryos had been cultured in KSOM-AA moderate formulated with 4 mg/ml BSA within a 5% CO2 humidified chamber (22). Isolation of ICM and TE Immunosurgery for isolation of ICM was completed as referred to previously (23,24). Quickly, blastocysts had been put into acidic Tyrodes option (pH 2.5) to eliminate the zona pellucida and rinsed three times with M2 medium (Sigma). Zona-free embryos had been incubated in anti-mouse antiserum (1:20 in M16 moderate, Rockland) at 37C for 10 min within a 5% CO2 humidified chamber. The embryos had been then AV-951 washed three times in M16 moderate and incubated in guinea pig go with (1:20 with M16 moderate, MP Biomedicals, LLC) for 30 min at 37C within a 5% CO2 humidified chamber. After incubation and cleaning three times in M16 moderate, ICM was isolated through the embryos by soft pipetting using a cup micropipette. Microsurgery was completed to isolate AV-951 TE populations. Quickly, zona-free blastocysts had been put into a drop of M2 moderate on a plastic material Petri dish, as well as the drop protected with water paraffin. Excess moderate was slowly taken out using a cup micropipette so the blastocyst could possibly be set in the Petri dish ready suitable for dissection (25). The blastocysts fixed onto the dishes were equatorially cleaved using a 30-G needle under a ZEISS stereomicroscope (Stemi 2000-C). Mural TE fragments were then collected via attachment to the tip of a 30-G needle. Construction of small RNA libraries from. | <urn:uuid:5e273ab1-8993-49b4-8adf-3c21e15bec2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bmn-673.com/tag/av-951/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.933546 | 3,043 | 1.75 | 2 |
“Martin Luther King, An Interpretation” explores a side of Dr. King that many don’t see – his human side, according to playwright and director Ira Knight.
Knight said his inspiration for writing a play about King’s human side came after hearing one of King’s speeches. It struck him differently than it had before.
“I thought about him in a different way,” Knight said. “As a father myself, thinking of some of the things he may have gone through and thinking of him as a human being instead of some icon or an alien creature from outer space that we can’t really relate to.”
The play is a one-man show featuring John Ivey as King. The character of King was intriguing to Ivey.
“The introspection of King had a great, great appeal to me because I grew up in the era where he kind of made his mark,” Ivey said.
The production originally premiered in November, following the election. At the end of each performance, there is a question and answer session with the audience where King’s legacy and relevancy are discussed. Following one of the question and answer sessions, Knight was approached by a member of the audience.
“There was actually an anonymous benefactor that I met with afterwards that said, ‘This work right here, this can’t stop here. It has to be continued.’ So they actually underwrote the cost of doing this six-month residency at the ArtsCenter,” Knight said.
Patrick Phelps-McKeown, the marketing director at the ArtsCenter, said that the ArtsCenter was proud to host the play.
“Ira is a leading member of the local theater community and has presented several great shows at The ArtsCenter before, so partnering with him for this production was a natural fit,” he said.
Phelps-McKeown also said that the ArtsCenter is dedicated to providing a platform for a diverse range of creative voices. Knight’s play fit that mold as a powerful look at the iconic civil rights leader and provided insight into the fight for civil right both in King’s day and our own time.
Knight said that after the election many people were feeling powerless, so he thought a look at King would benefit those feeling hurt by the election.
“It’s designed to really provoke though, to inspire, and the human condition is what it is and it’s not worse today than it was,” he said. “There are some things that may get us down, but actually if you see part of the play, it’s going to put into context that what we are facing right now, is nowhere near as bad as it has been in the past. So it’s to inspire and uplift us as individuals and not as a collective, but each of us, because we each have a responsibility.” | <urn:uuid:54c396df-9bc7-4bc2-9004-3b8617e0cfe9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2017/01/play-to-explore-human-side-of-martin-luther-king-jr | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.983868 | 623 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Validation Test Report for Delft3D
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This report describes the model setup, parameter selection and model validation of the Delft3D modeling system in nearshore applications. Delft3D, developed by Delft Hydraulics, is a complete coastal hydrodynamic modeling system, capable of simulating hydrodynamic processes due to waves, tides, river flow, and winds. Three high-fidelity observation data sets are used for validation tests. The first data set is from the Nearshore Sediment Transport Study NSTS data at Santa Barbara, CA straight and steeper slope beach profile. The second data set uses data from the Duck 94 field experiment conducted at Duck, NC barred beach profile. The third data set is from the SandyDuck97 field experiment. In general, Delft3D has been shown to be robust and accurate in predicting nearshore wave height and flows. A sample comparison between Delft3D and NSSM Navy Standard Surf Model is also included.
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Electron beam induced effects on Fluorine doped ZnO thin films (FZO) grown by chemical spray pyrolysis deposition technique were studied. The samples were exposed to 8 MeV electron beam at different dose rate ranging from 1 kGy to 4 kGy. All films exhibit a polycrystalline nature which shows an increase in crystallanity with irradiation dosages. The electron beam irradiation effectively controls the films surface morphology and its linear optical characteristics. Z-Scan technique was employed to evaluate the sign and magnitude of nonlinear refractive index and nonlinear absorption coefficient using a continuous wave laser at 632.8 nm as light source. Enhancement in the third order nonlinear optical properties was were noted due to electron beam irradiation. Tailoring the physical and NLO properties by electron beam, the FZO thin films becomes a promising candidate for various optoelectronic applications such as phase change memory devices, optical pulse compression, optical switching and laser pulse narrowing.
|Number of pages||6|
|Journal||Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures|
|Publication status||Published - 01-10-2017|
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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Kissing. What a wonderful thing. Could there be any greater demonstration of affection? Greeting your lover with a kiss has to be one of the most exciting things imaginable … and saying goodbye to them with a kiss leaves both of you with anticipation of your next meeting. But how important is kissing really? What is its significance in relationships?
I once wrote about Dating Pet Peeves and the most feedback I received were comments on point number 6 – someone who’s a bad kisser. It made me reflect on how important kissing in a relationship really is. I really didn’t think about it that much before, I knew it was important, but I didn’t put it higher than anything else.
The Science of Kissing
In my research on the topic, I came across this great article by Dr. Susan Krauss Whitbourne in Psychology Today about “The Kiss of Health“. She argues that kissing can give you life-extending benefits. What she says is that research has shown that “kissing—often and long—may actually improve your health, benefit your well-being, and improve your intimate relationships.”
Dr. Whitbourne maintains that “successful long-term relationships are characterized by physical affection.” That I agree with because nearing the end of my marriage, the lack of physical affection was definitely present. It declined over time actually, once that was gone, there really was nothing left in the relationship to hold on to. Although it’s nice to have a wild and passionate love affair, it’s the act of physical touch that stays with you and rejuvenates you. This makes a lot of sense to me and why I think that “one night stands” and purely sexual relationships do not provide as much fulfillment as those where there is some physical affection. The only purpose they do serve is to “scratch an itch” (so to speak).
The article talks about the specifics of a study that was done to test this theory (you can read about the details in the article), but it was interesting that the group who engaged in more kissing with partners reported to have more physical benefits such as less stress, less anxiety, they were able to deal with difficult situations better, they were more satisfied in their relationship, they exercised more, argued with their partner less … and had lower cholesterol. Ya, I know. Interesting isn’t it.
The Art of Kissing
OK, so now we know it’s healthy, but how do we do it correctly? Is there a right or wrong way to kiss? Well, that’s a loaded question!! I don’t think there’s a right or wrong way to kiss. I think you connect with some people and some you really don’t. I’ve been on dates that I wanted to kiss the person, and some where I seriously didn’t feel inclined to touch them at all. So it really depends on the chemistry between two people. Does kissing always have to lead to sex? NO WAY!! There are studies about the need to go back to the “make out session” in relationships. Build that tension, enjoy each other and focus on each other. I like that idea. I think it’s a great way to go back to that hot passionate place you used to be with someone. Talk about re-igniting the flames!!
So because you know I love lists … here are some tips to keep in mind when kissing your partner and a peck on the cheek or lips just isn’t in order:
- BREATH!!!: Make sure you have a clean mouth and pleasant breath. This definitely should be a “given” but seriously people, breath is important.
- TENDER: Keep it soft and tender to start it creates anticipation … don’t jump into the crazy passionate kissing right away.
- EYES: Open or closed? this is a personal preference, I prefer open.
- NOT JUST THE LIPS: Use your whole mouth, but again, keep it simple then take cues from your partner. Use your hands, touch.
- PASSIONATE: Shows that you are into the other person and demonstrates real intimacy with them (after you started tender).
- RELAX: the kiss should be natural and not forced, if you aren’t feeling it back from the other person then that’s your cue to stop and re-assess the situation.
The Kiss: Science or Art?
I would argue that the kiss is definitely both a science and an art. We know we enjoy it and we know that it makes us feel good and connected to another person. We know we don’t want bad kissers and we know that if the kissing stops then so does the intimacy. How we kiss and who we kiss is all up to us. What’s important is that we always do what feels good. Kissing, like any other intimate act, should never feel (or be) forced. Kissing should always come naturally.
Now stop reading this and go kiss someone!! I know who I’d like to kiss right now …
Your Sister in Dating Bliss,
Single Dating Diva
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Karimeen Coconut Milk Curry is an exotic dish in Kerala Cuisine. Among fishes, Karimeen is a delicacy for most of the Malayalee community in general. Karimeen has good taste and flavor that titillates taste buds. Kerala is quite famous for its scenic beauty and backwaters and it is in these backwaters that these Pearl Spot fishes live and breed in large quantities. The best variety of Karimeen comes from Kumarakom, yet another backwater tourism destination. Karimeen is prized for its nutrition aspect, delicious flavor and high demand. These fishes are categorized as ‘upper middle class’ fish and rated high. You will find a lot many authentic dishes with Karimeen. Restaurants functioning in the tourism sector serve Karimeen dishes at exorbitant rates. Karimeen Coconut Milk Curry is a specialty dish with Karimeen cooked in coconut milk spiced with ginger and ‘kanthari’. In Kerala, Bird’s Eye Chilli is known as ‘Kanthari Mulaku’ because it is extremely hot.
Karimeen Coconut Milk Curry is quite simple and easy to prepare that doesn’t demand much time and effort. Bird’s Eye Chilies the main hero here, contains high amounts of capsaicin that is considered quite healthy. You will find a lot many people shifting to kanthari revolution these days. People are fast planting kanthari plants in their vicinity. Capsaicin benefits those suffering from inflammatory disorders like arthritis, psoriasis and diabetic neuropathy. Pearl Spot fishes are low in fat and are high in protein. Karimeen is rich in fatty acids and lowers blood pressure preventing heart strokes. It also minimizes risk of Alzheimer’s disease and improves the mental functions. There are lot many thin bones in Karimeen but with practice you can easily master it. My small child handles these fishes alone. You can explore a well detailed Karimeen Coconut Milk Curry here. Enjoy the tasteful difference in the spice. | <urn:uuid:a087a018-68dc-4e60-9c85-c7e6668f92ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pachakam.com/recipes/karimeen-coconut-milk-curry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934744 | 419 | 1.90625 | 2 |
At the end of June, a group of computer scientists gathered at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington, D.C., to debate whether super-intelligent computers are really a threat to humanity.
The discussion followed reports a few days earlier of two self-driving cars that, according to Reuters, almost collided. Near-misses on a road aren't normally news, but when a Google self-driving car comes close to a Delphi self-driving car and prompts it to change course, that gets coverage.
To hear Google tell it, the two automated cars performed as they should have. "The headline here is that two self-driving cars did what they were supposed to do in an ordinary everyday driving scenario," a Google spokesperson told Ars Technica.
Ostensibly benevolent artificial intelligence, in rudimentary form, is already here, but we don't trust it. Two cars driven by AI navigated around each other without incident -- that gets characterized as a near-miss. No wonder technical luminaries who muse about the future worry that ongoing advances in AI have the potential to threaten humanity. Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, and Elon Musk have suggested as much.
The panelists at the ITIF event more or less agreed that it could take anywhere from 5 to 150 years before the emergence of super-human intelligence. But really, no one knows. Humans have a bad track record for predicting such things.
But before our machines achieve brilliance, we will need half-a-dozen technological breakthroughs comparable to development of nuclear weapons, according to Stuart Russell, an AI professor at UC Berkeley.
Russell took issue with the construction of the question, "Are super-intelligent computers really a threat to humanity?"
AI, said Russell, is "not like [the weather]. We choose what it's going to be. So whether or not AI is a threat to the human race depends on whether or not we make it a threat to the human race."
Problem solved. Computer researchers can simply follow Google's example: Don't be evil.
However, Russell didn't sound convinced that we could simply do the right thing. "At the moment, there is not nearly enough work on making sure that [AI] isn't a threat to the human race," he said.
Ronald Arkin, a computing professor at Georgia Tech, suggested humanity has more immediate concerns. "I'm glad people are worrying about super-intelligence, don't get me wrong," he said. "But there are many, many threats on the path to super-intelligence."
Arkin pointed to lethal autonomous weapon systems, an ongoing challenge confronted by military planners, policymakers, and people around the world.
What's more, robots without much intelligence can be deadly, as an unfortunate Volkswagen contractor in Germany discovered the day before the ITIF talk. The 21-year-old technician was installing an industrial robot with a co-worker when he was struck by the robot and crushed, according to The Financial Times. The technician was inside a safety cage intended to keep people at a distance.
An investigation into the accident has begun. But the cause isn't likely to be malevolent machine intelligence. Human error would be a safer bet. And that's really something to worry about. | <urn:uuid:77e030c3-24bc-41d8-b953-ed7d5c59d2b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.informationweek.com/mobile-devices/the-threat-of-artificial-intelligence | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968712 | 664 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Police are warning about a current email scam asking recipients to pay up or have personal details exposed to friends and family.
Police have received reports of the scam from several victims.
The email states that malware has been installed on the recipient’s device and has captured information about them including a password, along with potentially embarrassing footage.
Anyone who receives an email of this nature is advised to report it to their local Police as soon as possible.
If you have any doubt about a call, email or approach, it is more than likely it is a scam.
Information on current scams that are operating can be found on the Ministry of Consumer Affairs website: http://www.consumeraffairs.
Anyone who believes they are a victim of a crime, in person or online, should report the matter to their local Police.
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America—majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way—and a couple of bears. | <urn:uuid:2e41b06a-0022-4996-ad24-3b6e9f084c37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ecologysports.com/products/a-walk-in-the-woods-rediscovering-america-on-the-appalachian-trail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.887004 | 131 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Investigators have teased out yet another damaging thread in the villainous web of harms of the opioid crisis. A spike in hepatitis C infections is a costly, long-term, and major health consequence of the hype and disastrous reformulation of OxyContin, the powerful painkiller made by Purdue Pharmaceuticals owned by the wealthy Sackler family.
Purdue, in the 1990s, promoted and sold OxyContin to doctors and hospitals in a relentless campaign that stressed how this drug was supposedly safer and longer acting, releasing its potent effects over as long as a 12-hour span instead of requiring many pills that needed to be taken more often.
Although those claims of the drug’s benefits were dubious to start, patients — especially those abusing the highly addictive prescription medication — found they could get around OxyContin’s delayed release, getting an immediate jolt or walloping high, by crushing their pills. They then snorted Oxy as a powder or mixed it with a liquid and injected it.
The company, under regulator pressure and after increasing public clamor to do so, made a fateful decision: Purdue reformulated OxyContin into a new pill that needed to be taken whole. If smashed, the drug turned into a gummy mess that was supposed to deter abuse.
The unintended result, however, was to send opioid abusers off to seek another similar high. This launched the next deadly and still-running phase of the drug and overdose crisis, as users turned to heroin and fentanyl, a super potent, synthetic opioid.
Overdoses, including of heroin and especially of fentanyl, killed more than 70,000 Americans in 2017 alone, and they have become a leading cause of death for Americans younger than 55.
Opioid and heroin injections also have added to the nation’s health toll by causing hepatitis C infections to increase, according to researchers from the independent, nonpartisan RAND Corp. As the think tank reported:
The hepatitis C virus causes liver disease and is responsible for more deaths in the United States than any other infectious disease, accounting for 20,000 deaths in 2015. While the rate of new hepatitis C had remained steady for several years, the infection rate began rising at an alarming rate beginning in 2010. Injection drug use has consistently been identified as a predominant risk factor for hepatitis C, leading experts to consider whether the opioid epidemic might be a driver of the recent rise in the infection … [S]tates with above-median OxyContin misuse prior to the reformulation experienced a 222 percent increase in hepatitis C infections after reformulation, while states with below-median misuse of OxyContin experienced a 75 percent increase in hepatitis C infections over the same period. Before the reformulation, there was almost no difference in hepatitis C infections rates across the two groups of states.
In my practice, I see not only the harms that patients suffer while seeking medical services, but also the damage that can be inflicted on them and their loved ones by prescription medications and their skyrocketing costs and by dangerous drugs, notably in recent times opioid painkillers. It took us a while — with plenty of blame to go around for Big Pharma, doctors, hospitals, insurers, and other providers — to crash into an opioid crisis. Medical advances, in the meantime, have created, in effect, a cure for hepatitis C.
But the anti-viral regimen to lower the infection to undetectable levels takes time and has been costly, with California officials at one point estimating they needed to set aside more than $1 billion just to cover the drugs to treat infected patients on Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. Drug makers recently have begun to sell “authorized generic” versions of the anti-hepatitis C medications. These have sent the treatment cost plunging from their highs of as much as $95,000 per patient to potential lows of $24,000.
Still, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, a co-author of the RAND study on OxyContin and hepatitis C and co-director of the organization’s Opioid Policy Tools and Information Center and its Drug Policy Research Center, observed: “Even with recent advancements in the treatment for hepatitis C, the dramatic increase in infections represents a substantial public health concern that can have tremendous long-term costs if infected people are not identified and treated.”
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The Bunyoro Kingdom’s £500 billion ($313 million) claim for reparation against the United Kingdom is taking an even more serious turn as the monarchy’s representatives now consider taking their case to the International Criminal Court.
The representatives have sought advice from the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda about the possibility of suing the British Government for crimes committed by its soldiers in western Uganda during the colonial period.
“We want to file the case against the Queen of England in the International Criminal Court because we want less state interference in Uganda,” Mr Dodoviko Batwale, one of the representatives, told The EastAfrican last week.
Mr Batwale is among the 10 people representing the indigenous Banyoro from Kibaale District, the territory the British carved out to the Buganda for their support during the campaign to subdue Bunyoro’s six-year resistance (1893-1899) to colonial expansion in Uganda.
“The ICTR Registrar has asked us to submit our evidence before guiding us on how we can proceed on this matter,” Mr Batwale said. “We are gathering the evidence and will take it to Arusha next month.”
The Banyoro have compiled hundreds of reports (evidence) made by British field officers “to plunder and kill” in their original handwriting both in England and Uganda. The records mention vast quantities of ivory, food, cattle, cloth, cultural items looted by British troops, and destruction of villages and slaughtering of civilians by Nubian soldiers.
“British troops totally disregarded the food requirements of the indigenous inhabitants, who were doomed to hunger, starvation, malnutrition and disease, elements that reduced the population from 2.5 million people to a mere 100,000 people by 1900,” the Banyoro claim.
The kingdom’s most powerful King (Omukama), Cwa II Kabalega, fought British forces from December 1893 up to April 1899, resisting colonial domination and alien occupation.
Britain occupied the kingdom up to 1933, when, under the yoke of colonialism, Kabalega was forced into an agreement with the colonial masters. Bunyoro-Kitara remained part of a British colony until 1961, when Uganda gained sovereignty.
The EastAfrican has learnt that the lawsuits were part of the Queen’s agenda when presided over the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in 2007. But, somehow, the Banyoro were left out of the talks between England and Uganda.
“After Chogm, President Museveni met us on June 10, 2009 in State House and told as that Her Majesty the Queen of England does not want to be embarrassed, and therefore wants to settle the matter out of court. She has offered £700 million to settle the case. This money will be paid in instalments over a 10-year period,” Mr Batwale said.
“We are disputing the conclusions of the talks between England and the Government of Uganda because we were not part and parcel of the negotiations. And we don’t know whether the £700 million is as a result of our case. Besides, there is no written document to that effect.
The President meeting the Queen was not bad, but we should have been part of the talks. The President promised to meet us again over the same matter, but we have failed to fix an appointment with his office,” said Mr Batwale.
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