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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
What is it about nature that helps us to understand? I think it is the peace of mind, and the healing we receive from spending time in nature. When we are restored, and refreshed, we can see more clearly.
Restoration through nature helps us to see the connection between us and the rest of the world. We suddenly fit, and we feel like we do belong. We also gain an understanding, that other people fit, and they belong too. In this way, nature actually teaches us compassion. We begin to care, because of the insight, that we are all connected to each other. That’s what I think Einstein was trying to say in this quote. The more deeply we look into nature, the more we understand.
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Blessings to everyone!
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When personal finances are discussed, the experts usually divide people into savers and spenders. We ran across a press release from Fidelity, the mutual fund giant, about a survey of workers in the non-profit world. They asked the participants if they were a saver, a spender or an investor.
We thought it was very astute to add that third category. Which one do you fit in?
The workers in the study split themselves about evenly between saving and spending. 46 percent claimed to be savers while 45 percent admitted to being spenders. So that leaves only 9 percent who classified themselves as investors.
Merging the two categories
We suspect that fewer people today would classify themselves as spenders than say a year ago. A lot of us are getting on the savings bandwagon. That’s definitely a step in the right direction, but saving it isn’t good enough.
This data suggests a bigg idea. We shouldn’t think of ourselves as either savers or spenders. We should always think like an investor. We should merge the two categories – spender and saver – into the third category – investor.
We must know how to invest it or we won’t end up with the resources we need to live the life we want.
From spender to investor
Here’s some good news for spenders: thinking like an investor doesn’t necessarily imply that you don’t spend. It means that you spend differently.
You look at every single dollar you spend as an investment. Is it going to bring you enough return to make it worth giving it up? And that “return” may not come in dollars earned on dollars invested.
It may mean that it adds enough to your level of “happiness” to make spending the money worth doing. If it passes that test, then spend, spend, spend! If not, hold onto it.
For example, you may see a real deal on some non-perishable consumer good. Buy it. Stock up. Say an item is on sale for half off. Let’s pretend that you know that it only goes on sale once a year. If you buy a year’s supply, you’re making 100% on your money. That’s hard to beat!
So get to know the promotional cycle of the brands you use regularly and time your investment appropriately. Know when various businesses need the money more. For example, from car dealers to contractors, there are seasons when people are buying a lot and times when people aren’t. Time your purchase for their slow periods and reap the benefits.
From saver to investor
Now let’s think about savers. It’s great to save, but if you’re only earning two percent on your money, where’s that getting you?
We know … we know … you’d rather earn 2% than lose 40%! We completely understand that thought process.
However, investors don’t operate out of fear. They operate rationally. And we have to resist the temptation to go with the masses because they’re usually wrong in the long run.
Just like with consumer goods, there are some real deals out there on assets right now if you can afford to hold them long-term.
The best time to get out of a particular market is often when everyone else is getting in. And the best time to get in is usually when everyone else is getting out.
Years ago, we were told by a very successful real estate investor that when you see the no-money down real estate infomercials proliferating, it’s time to get out of real estate. How many of those do we see now compared to three years ago?
Now think about stocks. Many of the same people who are touting doom and gloom now were spouting off about the end of the business cycle and the ever-upward spiral of stocks just a couple of years ago.
So to think like an investor, think for yourself.
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Using focus mode
Students can focus on their tasks in Focus mode without being distracted by other students and their tasks, which is ideal for students working in an online learning environment, where they need to remain attentive or focused on their tasks while under supervision. By means of this feature, the Co-Hosts and the Host are able to view all the videos of the participants without everyone else being able to see one another’s videos. In addition, screensharing has several benefits, since the host, co-host, and participants are able to see and interact with each other’s shared screen, and also view their own content, while the host and co-host can view each other’s screens. The host is in a position to easily share the participants’ screen with others if they feel the content of a particular participant should be shared with others.
Aside from the host, co-hosts, and participants highlighted by the host, there are still participants in focus mode who are able to see their own video but can only see the names of other participants, hear their non-verbal feedback or reactions, and see their videos and audio when unmuted.
In addition to scheduling meetings with focus mode, hosts can also rely on the next-generation scheduling system to begin the meeting automatically with focus mode turned on.
Prerequisites for focus mode in a Zoom meeting
In a Zoom meeting, use the focus mode to keep your attention
- As the meeting host, start the meeting
- with the Zoom desktop application
- that is compatible with Windows versions 5.7.3 and higher
- as well as Mac OS X versions 5.7.3 and above
- that are compatible with the Zoom mobile application
- for Android versions 5.7.6 and above
- and for iOS versions 5.7.6 and above
- In older clients versions, focus mode is still in effect (their videos aren’t visible to everyone, and the host can only see their videos and the shared content), but participants won’t receive notifications regarding it. If you want to initiate Focus mode, you need to have the required version of the desktop client on the host.
- Zoom Rooms can also be used to initiate focus mode in addition to the desktop client and mobile apps.
Schedule meetings with focus mode on
- This is the desktop client for Zoom
- software for Windows versions 5.9.0 and up
- as well as Mac OS versions 5.9.0 and up
- as well as Linux versions 5.9.0 and up
- as well as the Zoom mobile application
- for Android versions 5.9.0 and higher
- as well as the Zoom mobile application for iOS versions 5.9.0 and higher
How to enable focus mode
For all users in your account to be able to use Focus mode, follow these steps:
- For this to work, you need to be logged into the Zoom web portal as an administrator to be able to access and edit account settings.
- Click Account Management at the top of the navigation menu, then click Account Settings to access account settings.
- The Meeting tab will appear.
- To enable or disable the Focus Mode, click the toggle button under In Meeting (Advanced).
- To verify that the change has been made, click on Enable or Disable if a verification dialog appears.
- The option to enable focus mode when scheduling can be selected by selecting the check box next to that option, then clicking Save. Users have the option to schedule focus mode meetings so that they automatically start whenever the meeting is about to begin, which will help to provide fewer distractions for all meeting participants.
- Click the lock icon , and the Lock icon will appear, but you will need to click Lock before you can make this setting mandatory for all users in your account.
In order to use your Zoom account, you must have created a new one after August 21, 2021; or activate the New Admin Experience on your account in order to access the Group Management page.
A group of users can be enabled or disabled from using the Focus mode by using the following command:
- As an admin, one with the privileges to edit groups, one needs to log in to the Zoom web portal.
- You can do this by clicking on the User Management tab and then Group Management tab.
- Once the Group Management tab appears, you will need to click on the appropriate group.
- Next, you will want to click on Meetings.
- To enable or disable focus mode, click the Focus Mode toggle under In Meeting (Advanced).
- To verify that the change has been made, click Enable or Disable if a verification dialog appears.
There is a slight chance the option you have selected depends on your account level and if that level is grayed out, the option needs to be changed there.
- Then under the section Allow host to enable focus mode while scheduling (optional), you should select the check box. By using this option, users are able to schedule meetings to start automatically in focus mode at the beginning of a scheduled meeting, in order to minimize distractions for all meeting participants.
- (Optional) if you want to make this setting mandatory for all users in the group, you need to click on the lock icon, click on Lock, and then click Confirm setting to confirm it.
Focus mode can be enabled or disabled for your own use by following the steps below:
- Login to the Zoom portal by using your email and password.
- Click on the Settings link from the navigation bar.
- Navigate to the Meetings section.
- You can turn on or off the Focus Mode by clicking the toggle next to the In Meeting (Advanced) section.
- To verify that the change has been made, a confirmation dialog will appear. Click Enable to confirm the change.
- When the option appears greyed out, it has been set to lock at the account or group level, and the setting must be changed at that level.
- (Optional) If you would like to enable focus mode when rescheduling, please check the box next to Allow host to use focus mode in scheduling. By using this option, you can schedule meetings to automatically start in focus mode when they start, thereby providing all participants with fewer distractions when they attend a meeting.
How to use focus mode in a meeting
Windows | macOS
Participate in a meeting in a focused manner as either the host or cohost
- It is a good idea to start a meeting as the host or co-host.
- Click the More button on the meeting toolbar.
- Click the Start Focus Mode button.
- In order to confirm, click Start – or you can select the Don’t ask me again check box if you wish to skip this step in the future.
- A banner is displayed at the top of the video window informing you and the participants when the Focus mode is active. Moreover, when focused mode has been activated, the focus mode icon is always displayed at the top-left corner of the video window, next to the encryption icon.
The focus mode will be enabled once the host and any co-hosts are known, and participants will only see video of the host and any spotlighted participants and their own video after the focus mode has been initiated. The participants are only able to view the names and comments of other participants, as well as to hear them when unmuted.
In this tutorial, the host and co-hosts will be the only people who can see the shared screens of the participants on the webinar, but the host can grant access to all other participants as well:
- Please click on the arrow to the right of Share Screen to proceed.
- You can see all shared screens by selecting All participants from the section Shared screens can be viewed by.
- The host or cohost can select Host only if they want to return to the shared content being viewed only by them.
Please note that these options are only available when the host or cohost is focused.
Turn off the focus mode
- Click on the More button in the meeting toolbar.
- Click on the Stop Focus Mode button.
Android | iOS
Focus mode examples
The following examples demonstrate the use of Focus mode during a meeting. The first thing you see is what the hosts and cohosts are seeing during Focus mode. The second is what a participant sees during Focus mode.
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Dora the sister of the celebrated creature rescuer Diego is probably the best liveliness for youngsters. Children will look as well as will discover some new information without fail. Dora is constantly seen with her pet monkey and the two of them go out on different undertakings simultaneously sharing the light of information.
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Dora games are adored by kids particularly the pre-school players since the Dora games have an incredible, interesting and educational method of associating with the pre-young gathering who play the game. These aides the pre-researchers as it shows them and have a good time when they are learning and investigating something new. These games can be played on the net or can even be downloaded. At the point when the children play the games on the web, they will communicate with different children simultaneously.
At the point when the game is downloaded a couple of players can play and learn simultaneously. As your youngster progress to a higher degree of Car games and Dora games the degree of trouble increments. This assists with keeping the kid roused and makes the insect to reach to reach to a higher level. | <urn:uuid:f85b5b3f-ba87-4078-8f95-974661f4b55c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.istorselfstorage.ca/online-games-dora-is-here-to-teach/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967619 | 395 | 1.835938 | 2 |
In this chapter, you will learn:
- The principles of writing for your web audience.
- Which types of web copy are available to you.
- The basics of HTML for formatting online text.
- How to write for search engine optimisation (SEO), focusing specifically on keywords.
- The best practices for successful online copywriting.
- 9.6: Measuring Success
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Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families notes a new study that found states that adopted the Medicaid expansion provided by Obamacare — such as Arkansas — have had greater improvement in the health of mothers and babies.
In Arkansas, the uninsured rate for women 18-44 dropped from 26 to 11 percent. Said the release:
Medicaid expansion has played a key role in reducing rates of maternal death, decreasing infant mortality rates, and improving the potential for optimal birth outcomes that can increase the promise for a healthy childhood, according to the report. States that expanded Medicaid saw a 50 percent greater reduction in infant mortality, compared to non-expansion states.
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) physicians stratify patients with the same disease into different subtypes in order to guide the appropriate treatment, which is called Zheng (TCM syndrome) classification. of traditional excess and deficiency ZHENGs to modern therapeutic methods, with the prospect to help to promote personalized medicine. 1. Introduction As an important a part of complementary and alternate medicine , traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) plays an important role in people’s healthcare and is gaining in popularity with its efficacy evidence increasing [3, 4]. It performs treatment based on ZHENG (translated as syndrome or pattern) Classification which is called 30C550). The solvent post time was set to 5?min. The GC-MS operating condition was the same as the previous experiment except the column heat program. Table GSK2118436A 1 Temperature program of column incubator in GC/MS. 2.5. 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So all the GC-MS natural files after being GSK2118436A converted to CDF format via the software coming with Agilent MSD workstation, were subsequently processed by the XCMS toolbox (http://metlin.scripps.edu/download/) using XCMS’s default settings with the following exceptions: xcmsSet (full width at half maximum: fwhm?=?5; S/N cutoff value: snthresh?=?10, maximum?=?15), group (bw?=?5). The producing table (CSV file) was exported into Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Inc., USA), where normalization was performed prior to multivariate analyses. The producing three-dimensional matrix including peak index (RT-pair), sample names (observations), and normalized peak area percent was launched into Simca-P 11.5 Software (Umetrics, Umea, Sweden) for the analysis of PCA, PLS-DA, and OPLS. Differential variables with VIP values exceeding 1.5 between two different groups could be generated from loadings plot. Subsequently, those variables were further analyzed by Mann-Whitney test to confirm the changed metabolites by SPSS 17.0 (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA) with the threshold of value set at 0.05. Those variables, then, were identified by searching in NIST 2005 database and verified by requirements. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) (http://www.genome.ad.jp/kegg/) and Metabolites Biological Role (MBRole) (http://csbg.cnb.csic.es/mbrole) were based to select the related pathway. Many recommendations were searched to give GSK2118436A the biochemical interpretation of changed metabolites disturbed pathways of EZ and DZ in CHB. 3. Results 3.1. ZHENG Classification 3.1.1. ZHENG Classification by Biochemical IndicatorsSixty-seven indicators of two groups of patients were analyzed by PCA, PLS-DA, and OPLS analyses attending to differentiate objects of EZ and DZ. Automatic modeling parameters indicated GSK2118436A the poor explanation and predication of the models as shown in Table 2, meaning that the two ZHENGs could not be distinguished by profiles of biochemical indicators. Table 2 Automatic modeling parameters for the classification of EZ and DZ. Table 3 showed us clinical information of two groups of CHB-affected patients based on western medical diagnostic approach. The commonly used indexes revealed no significant difference between the ZHENG groups by analysis of Mann-Whitney test. It was illustrated that classification of EZ and DZ was irrelevant to these indexes. Table 3 Clinical information from CHB-affected patients based on the WM diagnostic approach. 3.1.2. ZHENG Classification by SymptomsOne hundred and fifteen TCM symptoms were analyzed by OPLS which could effectively extract variables responsible for the separation by removing variables unrelated to pathological status. Two groups could be completely separated as shown in the score plot (Physique 1(a)) with modeling (Model 1) information listed in Table 4. Physique 1 (a) Symptoms OPLS score plot of EZ and DZ. (b) Metabonomics OPLS score plot of EZ and DZ. EZ represents extra ZHENG patients group, DZ represents deficiency ZHENG patients group. Table 4 Summary of the modeling information of OPLS analysis. 3.1.3. ZHENG Classification. | <urn:uuid:2dd9e1b3-4292-428f-afba-40e5861b781c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://at-406.net/traditional-chinese-medicine-tcm-physicians-stratify-patients-with-the-same-disease/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.912819 | 1,153 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Time is not always kind to the people whose names get attached to landmark legal cases. Ernesto Miranda, the defendant whose 1966 Supreme Court case forced police to inform suspects of their basic rights (“You have the right to remain silent…”) was stabbed to death in a skid-row bar. Clarence Gideon won a 1963 Supreme Court case, Gideon v. Wainwright, that established the right of poor defendants to court-appointed lawyers. When he died a decade later the former mayor of his hometown recalled him as a “no-good punk.” It fell to the American Civil Liberties Union to put a marker on his grave.
Before the Gideon ruling, before Miranda , there was Mapp v. Ohio, the 1961 Supreme Court decision some legal scholars credit with launching a “due process revolution” in American law. The Mapp ruling changed policing in America by requiring state courts to throw out evidence if it had been seized illegally. The woman behind the ruling, Dollree “Dolly” Mapp, died six weeks ago in a small town in Georgia, with virtually no notice paid. She was 91, as best we can tell.
Mapp’s life was as colorful and momentous as her death was quiet. She went from being a single teenage mother in Mississippi to associating with renowned boxers and racketeers in Cleveland to making her way in New York City, where she launched one business after another. “Some of them were legitimate, and some of them were whatever they were,” said her niece, Carolyn Mapp, who looked after her aunt in her final years. Along the way she tangled with police, and when she stood up to them in Cleveland – a Black woman, staring down a phalanx of White officers in the 1950s – she made history.
Wayne LaFave, professor of law emeritus at the University of Illinois and a leading scholar on search and seizure, called her the “Rosa Parks of the Fourth Amendment.” From talking to Mapp’s family and friends, it’s clear that she wasn’t always easy to get along with. “She could be difficult, OK?” said Deidra Smith, a friend of about 40 years who adds: “She was brilliant and beautiful and bold.” It was Mapp’s boldness – “strong willed,” is how she’s described, time and again – that most defined and served her as she confronted illegal police tactics and draconian laws. Mapp was at her most determined “if you told her no. That just meant yes to her,” said Carolyn Mapp, who lives in Georgia. “She didn’t let go of anything.”
In 1957, Dollree Mapp, an African American woman then in her 30s, rented half of a two-family house in Cleveland, where she lived with her daughter. Although she had no criminal record, she had ties to Cleveland’s underworld. Mapp was divorced from Jimmy Bivins, a great boxer of the era who defeated eight world champions but never got a title fight. Mapp had accused Bivins of beating her – “I had to leave him or kill him, and I wasn’t ready to kill him,” she would later tell one author. (Bivins had accused Mapp of trying to destroy his career by feeding him fatty foods.) After the split Mapp had been briefly engaged to boxer Archie Moore, the light heavyweight champion. But they never married, and she later sued for breach of promise.
In May of that year, police were investigating a bombing at the house of Don King – a numbers racketeer who later became a famed boxing promoter – when they received a tip that a suspect might be hiding in Mapp’s home.Three officers showed up at Mapp’s place, demanding to be let in. Mapp refused. She called a lawyer, who advised her to relent only if police produced a warrant. Even then, the lawyer told her, she should make sure to read it. About three hours later, the police, now between 10 and 15 in number, pried a door to force their way in. A lieutenant, waving a piece of paper, said they had a warrant. Mapp asked to see it. The lieutenant told her no. So Mapp grabbed the paper from him and stuffed it down the front of her blouse. She would later testify to what happened next:
“What are we going to do now?” one of the officers asked.
“I’m going down after it,” a sergeant said.
“No, you are not,” Mapp told the sergeant.
But the sergeant “went down anyway,” grabbing the paper back and keeping Mapp from ever reading it. In years to come, she would say she suspected the paper was blank.
The police found the man they were looking for (although he was later cleared in the bombing). But the search didn’t end there. Led by the sergeant who had retrieved the dubious warrant – a man who would later say Mapp had “a swagger about her” – police searched every room, upstairs and down, rummaging through boxes and drawers. During this search they found a pencil sketch of a nude and four books considered obscene, with titles that included “Memoirs of a Hotel Man” and “Affairs of a Troubadour.” Mapp told police the materials belonged to a former roomer, for whom she had stored them. But she was charged under an Ohio law that made possession of obscene material a felony. At trial, Mapp testified that when an officer found the books, “I told him not to look at them, they might embarrass him.” The jury took 20 minutes to convict, after which Mapp was sentenced to up to seven years.
Out on bond, Mapp appealed – first to the Ohio Supreme Court, where she lost, then to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear her case (listen to an excerpt here). Oral argument can be a dry affair. But Mapp’s case was an exception. The justices drew laughs from the courtroom gallery while leaving no doubt how absurd they found Ohio’s obscenity statute. They took turns toying with the lawyer for the state, asking, if mere possession of obscene material constituted a crime, why the clerk of court had not been indicted, or the administrators at certain university libraries, or psychologists, or bibliophiles.
In their initial consideration of the case all nine justices agreed that the obscenity law violated the First Amendment. But when Associate Justice Tom C. Clark drafted the majority opinion, he shifted the focus of the case to the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable search and seizure. By the time Mapp’s case reached the Supreme Court, it had become clear that the police never had obtained a warrant to search Mapp’s home. Lewis Katz, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, would later write: “The illegal entry of Mapp’s house by the police was nothing extraordinary; it was an everyday fact of life for Blacks and other racial minorities. Police throughout America were part of the machinery of keeping Blacks ‘in their place,’ ignoring constitutional guarantees against unreasonable arrests and searches and those that barred use of ‘third-degree’ tactics when questioning suspects.”
Ohio, like many states at the time, allowed evidence to be used even if it had been seized illegally. That turned the prohibition against unreasonable searches into a right without a remedy, making it hardly any right at all. In Mapp’s case, five Supreme Court justices decided to change that. They threw out Mapp’s conviction and declared that the rule excluding illegally obtained evidence would now apply in all the states – a judicial thunderclap that served notice of a court that would be reining in police in the years to come.
After her conviction was vacated, Mapp moved to Queens, New York. In 1971 police searched her home – this time, with a valid warrant – and found $150,000 worth of heroin and some stolen property. She was convicted of ossession of drugs and, under new tough-on-crime laws signed by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, received a mandatory sentence of 20 years to life. Mapp wouldlater claim that the police had set her up due to her notoriety.
Mapp served time at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, where she became friends with Deidra Smith, who was also serving a lengthy drug sentence. “Dollree walked with an air of royalty,” Smith said. She refused to eat in the prison cafeteria, because it reminded her of animals feeding at a trough. Instead, food was brought to Mapp by another inmate. Smith and Mapp helped organize opposition to the so-called Rockefeller Drug Laws, which were later rolled back, with many of the mandatory minimums eliminated, and Mapp, who did extensive research in the law library, helped other inmates with such issues as visitation rights. In 1980 Gov. Hugh Carey, no fan of the state’s unforgiving drug laws, commuted Mapp’s sentence, and she was paroled soon after.
After her release, Mapp worked for a non-profit that provided legal assistance to inmates. A talented seamstress and dressmaker, she also threw herself into a variety of businesses, from beauty supplies to furniture upholstery to real estate. She spoke at law schools about Mapp v. Ohio and was interviewed for several books. A 1987 book co-authored by Fred Friendly, former president of CBS News, said: “Dollree Mapp is still a handsome, verbal woman, who has all the charisma and body English of a knockout.” Priscilla Machado Zotti, a political science professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, called Mapp fond of “colorful tales, embellished with curse words and opinionated bravado.” Carolyn Long, a political science professor at Washington State University-Vancouver, interviewed Mapp when she was around 80. Mapp was steely and unapologetic, Long wrote in a book published in 2006; in a recent interview she added, “I’m not easily intimidated, but I was intimidated by her.”
The accounts of Mapp’s life are rife with conflicting information – on when she was born, where she was raised,and even the race of her parents. Mapp was, it is fair to say, an unreliable narrator: She told different writers different things. Tiffany Mapp, who was Dollree’s great niece and who became her legal guardian, said Dollree repeatedly shaved years off her age. All the inconsistent birth dates “gave me fits with Medicare,” her great-niece said. Mapp’s family said the correct story is this: Dollree was born on October 30, 1923; she was raised in Forest, Mississippi, one of seven children; her heritage was mostly a mix of African American and Native American; and Dollree left Mississippi for Cleveland after having a child as a teenager.
Mapp’s only child, Barbara, died in 2002. About the same time, Mapp began showing signs of dementia. She continued to drive a “big old [Ford] Expedition” into her late 80s, Carolyn Mapp said. Tiffany Mapp recalled, “My great aunt was very, very, very strong willed,” adding: “She didn’t prepare for death. I think Aunt Dolly thought she was going to live forever.” Dollree Mapp died October 31 in Conyers, Georgia. Her family plans to spread her ashes in the front yard of her home in Queens.
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Washington: According to new research, a meal can trigger reward signals in the brain twice-first when the food is ingested and again when the food reaches the stomach.
The study, published in the journal ‘Cell Metabolism’, highlights how close interactions between the brain and the digestive system are able to reinforce food intake, and may even provide a clue as to why we sometimes overeat the food we crave the most.
It is a well-known fact that food can trigger the release of the ‘feel-good hormone’ dopamine in the brain.
“With the help of a new positron emission tomography (PET) technique we developed, we were not only able to find the two peaks of dopamine release, but we could also identify the specific brain regions that were associated with these releases. While the first release occurred in brain regions associated with reward and sensory perception, the post-ingestive release involved additional regions related to higher cognitive functions,” said senior study author Marc Tittgemeyer.
In the study, 12 healthy volunteers received either a palatable milkshake or a tasteless solution while PET data were recorded. Interestingly, the subjects’ craving or desire for the milkshake was proportionally linked to the amount of dopamine released in particular brain areas at the first tasting. But the higher the craving, the less delayed post-ingestive dopamine was released.
“On one hand, dopamine release mirrors our subjective desire to consume a food item. On the other hand, our desire seems to suppress gut-induced dopamine release,” said study co-author Heiko Backes.
Suppression of gut-induced release could potentially cause over-eating of highly desired food items. “We continue to eat until sufficient dopamine was released,” added Backes.
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National Navy UDT-Seal Museum
- CLIENT: NATIONAL NAVY UDT-SEAL MUSEUM
- FACILITY TYPE: MUSEUM / HISTORIC
- SIZE: 20,000 S.F.
- COMPLETION: 2018
- LOCATION: FORT PIERCE, FL
The National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum is the only museum dedicated solely to preserving the history of the U.S. Navy SEALs and their predecessors. Located in Fort Pierce, Florida, the Museum resides on the training grounds of the original Naval Combat Demolition Units (NCDU) and Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT), the Frogmen.
Built to honor the men who served with fortitude and dedication, the Navy UDT-SEAL Museum first opened it doors on Veterans Day in 1985. From humble beginnings, the facility has experienced tremendous growth, achieving national stature in 2007.
Ahrens was contracted to provide conceptional design, costing and construction of the new 20,000 SF, two-story facility as an addition to the existing 8,523 SF. This project consisted of a new restaurant on the second floor, concession area, 150 seat auditorium, artifact restoration area, conference rooms, additional glass display areas for artifacts and interactive display area. | <urn:uuid:2bb0ff17-56eb-40da-99b2-85e1d87e2107> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ahrenscompanies.com/national-navy-seal-museum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.87575 | 272 | 2.0625 | 2 |
On “The Ben Armstrong Show,” Dr. Mark McDonald talked about people who are suffering from the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) mass formation psychosis. “I would say the masks were the beginning point and/or the ongoing point of the fear and of the fuel that’s driving this car of terror and psychopathy in our country,” he said.
McDonald explained that the problem of wearing masks in this stage of the pandemic is the psychology of it. “The problem is mass delusional psychosis,” he said, adding that it should be addressed. (Related: More than 400 studies prove that lockdowns, mask mandates are harmful to human health.)
As a therapist, he shared that instead of trying to beat people over their heads with data, it is important to acknowledge that they are living in fear and allow them to talk about it.
“Once you understand where that person is coming from, and once that person acknowledges and accepts that you care about how he or she feels, now you’re in a much, much better position to offer advice, to offer solutions, to offer alternative ways of thinking that are more rational, that is more healthy and that is more agentic, meaning more autonomous. That’s the way to start the conversation,” McDonald said.
In discussing mass delusional psychosis, McDonald likened it to working in a psychiatric ward, where, when he entered a locked ward in a psychiatric inpatient unit, he would see that anyone around him who wasn’t wearing a badge was most likely psychotic or otherwise mentally ill, and it was the same feeling he’s had when he left his house in Los Angeles in May 2020. “I knew something was wrong. I knew this was not a medical illness. This was a psychological illness. And so I began to document and I began to notice it in my patients, and I began to speak out about it.”
McDonald said it felt like a visceral feeling, and with his years of training, he saw the loss of rational faculty and ability to create critical thought decisions that allow people to weigh risks and benefits to evaluate evidence or otherwise think for one’s self.
United States of fear
In his book, McDonald stated that he grew increasingly concerned by the negative mental health effects that he witnessed among his patients, such as stress, anxiety, depression, addiction and even suicidal ideation, all of which are directly traceable to the climate of fear stoked by health authorities and amplified by national media. Because of this, there has been hysterical overreaction from the government in the form of mask mandates, draconian lockdowns and even vaccine mandates that are of questionable value.
McDonald explained that America is actually suffering from two pandemics: the COVID-19 – a viral one – and mass delusional psychosis, a psychological one that is driven by a pandemic of fear in response to COVID-19. (Related: Lockdowns, mask mandates do far more harm than good.)
This is rooted in the natural anxieties of women on behalf of their children and families and has been inflamed and amplified by sensational media and driven over the top by people in power. The malady in itself is very real, according to McDonald. The question remains, however, whether or not people can regain their collective sanity as a society.
Armstrong pointed out that the loss of critical thinking that is coming out in society is due to public schools and universities, not the fear of the pandemic in itself. He pointed out that public schools and universities do not teach people to think critically but to obey. If the government is supposed to be the expert on COVID-19, or if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not question the contradictory statements made by the government, nobody would question it because people have been taught to follow, not think critically.
As Armstrong pointed out: Masks don’t work. What is happening now is has a lot to do with psychology, and it is a serious issue that needs to be addressed.
Watch below the full January 7 episode of “The Ben Armstrong Show.”
This video is from “The New American” channel on Brighteon.com.
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15 rescued tigers to be brought to Hanoi, Quang Binh
Fifteen tigers rescued by Nghe An policemen in two trafficking cases will be handed over to units that can meet the care requirements in Hanoi.
Nguyen Quoc Minh from Nghe An Forest Ranger Unit said eight tigers are living at Muong Thanh Dien Lam Ecological Area and the other seven at PuMat National Park. They will be handed over to cities or provinces that can offer better care.
On August 4, 2021, Nghe An Police discovered 17 tigers in illegal captivity at two households in Do Thanh commune of Yen Thanh district. The tigers were shot with anesthetic and put into iron cages to be carried to Dien Lam Ecological Area. However, nine tigers died of unclear reasons and the remaining eight have been kept since then.
The tigers were assigned to the Nghe An Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for management. The Nghe An provincial People’s Committee asked the General Department of Forestry to introduce the establishments which can satisfy the requirements to take care of the tigers.
In late August 2021, the department answered that the Soc Son Wildlife Rescue Center in Hanoi could receive four tigers, while Phong Nha Ke Bang Creature Rescue, Conservation and Development in Quang Binh province wanted to receive all eight tigers.
The Nghe An People’s Committee asked for the opinions of the Hanoi People’s Committee and Quang Binh authorities to prepare procedures for the handover. However, on October 14, 2021, Hanoi said the Soc Son Center was overloaded and cannot receive more tigers. Meanwhile, Quang Binh has not replied to Nghe An request.
On October 20, 2021, Hanoi Zoo sent a document to Nghe An authorities saying that the zoo wanted to receive all eight tigers. After that, Nghe An authorities asked the General Department of Forestry if Hanoi Zoo had legal status to raise the tigers.
In late 2021, the department affirmed that Hanoi Zoo has all legal conditions and facilities to take care of the tigers.
“Hanoi People’s Committee has agreed on allowing Hanoi Zoo to take care of the eight tigers and we will hand over the tigers to the zoo, but it’s still unclear when,” Minh said.
He revealed that the total expense to raise the tigers is VND4 billion.
Tran Van Hai, Deputy Director of MuongThanhDienLam Ecological Area in DienChau district, said the eight tigers are kept in separate cages. Allof them are healthy and the biggest tiger weighs 200 kilograms.
Hai said the food alone costs VND2 million each day.
Except for the eight tigers, there are also seven other tigers that need to be taken care of. They are in Pu Mat National Park and they will be brought to Phong Nha – Ke Bang Ecological Area in Quang BInh.
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Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the use of strategies that do considerable harm to poor people and themselves. When Helping Hurts provides foundational concepts, clearly articulated general principles and relevant applications. The result is an effective and holistic ministry to the poor, not a truncated gospel.
Brian Fikkert is a professor of economics and the founder and executive director of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College. Fikkert earned a PhD in economics from Yale University, specializing in international economics and economic development. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and is the author of numerous articles in both academic and popular journals. Prior to coming to Covenant College, he was a professor at the University of Maryland-College Park and a research fellow at the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector.
Steve Corbett is the community development specialist for the Chalmers Center for Economic Development and an assistant professor in the department of economics and community development at Covenant College. Previously, Corbett worked for Food for the Hungry International as the regional director for Central and South America and as director of staff training. Steve has a BA from Covenant College and a MEd in adult education from the University of Georgia. | <urn:uuid:80a8cbc1-05f6-4c78-8e73-13c0434ce892> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ebooks.faithlife.com/product/43618/when-helping-hurts-how-to-alleviate-poverty-without-hurting-the-poor-and-yourself?utm_source=blog.faithlife.com&utm_medium=blog&utm_content=biblicalresourcesongenerosity-giving-seo&utm_campaign=promo-giving-seo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947283 | 253 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Elvis Presley's beloved piano purchased by Graceland to be music room restoration centerpiece
The King’s piano is headed back home. Elvis Presley’s Graceland announced that it reacquired the original baby grand Knabe piano that was part of the singer’s home in the 1950s and 1960s, and will place it on display in December. Graceland officials are calling the instrument’s return the most “significant piece of original furnishings to come home … since the Mansion opened for tours in 1982.”
The piano had been up for auction on eBay last month via Bang the Gavel Auction Services of California. Graceland officials would not confirm the purchase price or other details of the transaction.
The Presley-customized Knabe will be the centerpiece of a planned restoration of the music room at Graceland, which will be returned to its classic '60s-era appearance. Other items returning to the music room include a set of original white and blue draperies and a gold couch from 1964.
On Dec. 15 and 16, Graceland will be hosting its first holiday concert weekend at the recently opened Elvis Presley's Memphis complex. The programming will include a trio of concerts: “An Elvis Christmas at Graceland,” “An Elvis Gospel Christmas” and “Elvis Star-Studded Rock ‘n’ Roll Show.” As part of the proceedings on Dec. 15, VIP ticket holders will be able to view the piano on display and have their photo taken with it prior to its delivery to the music room.
The piano has a rich Memphis and musical history. Prior to Elvis' purchase of the instrument — built in 1912 by Wm. Knabe & Co. of Gallatin, Tennessee — it was the house piano at the Ellis Auditorium from the early 1930s until 1957. During that time, the auditorium played host to top acts including W. C. Handy, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Cab Calloway, among others. Presley wanted the piano in part because he saw it played by his blues and gospel heroes in concert as a boy.
Boosted by his explosive success in 1957, Presley purchased his Graceland mansion that spring. The Ellis piano came up for sale a month later, and Presley sought out the instrument, purchasing it from Jack Marshall Pianos-Organs for $818.85. Elvis refurbished and customized the piano, resulting in its white and gold appearance, and accompanying gold and white leather bench.
In 1968, Elvis’ wife Priscilla Presley purchased him a new gold leaf piano (that instrument sold at auction in 2015 to the Hard Rock Café chain for $600,000). The Knabe was then put in storage, where it remained for the better part of a decade.
In 1976, it was sold Ted Sturges, owner of the Sturges Recording Studio in Memphis and used on a number of recordings there (and was reportedly a favorite of Presley’s fellow rock icon, Jerry Lee Lewis). The piano would change hands several more times over the years before coming up for sale again this summer.
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A shotcrete core is not really the same as a concrete cylinder, and it's definitely not a beam or cube, so how do I enter one?
The testing machine only cares about specimen type, which is the geometry (i.e., cylinder, cube, beam, etc.), and test type (i.e., compression, tensile split, flexural, etc.). The specimen type is generic in that it is independent of material type (i.e., concrete, mortar, grout, shotcrete, etc.). ForneyVault has not yet implemented material types (coming soon!).
What this means is that a shotcrete core is typically entered as a cylinder specimen type. In ForneyVault, a cylinder has length and diameter, regardless of the material. Therefore, when you create default specimens, you can create a cylinder that is named something like, “Shotcrete Core,” and then provide the typical nominal dimensions.
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In 1919, Katharine Cameron (1874–1965) held an exhibition of her etchings at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC where she was praised by The American Magazine of Art for being among those rare printmakers who were able to render both the form and the spirit of Japanese art. This comparison illustrates the continuing impact that ukiyo-e prints (a particular genre of Japanese printmaking that flourished from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries) had on Scottish printmakers well into the twentieth century.
It also implies an influence that went well beyond the formal properties of printmaking to one which conveyed the essence of Japanese art. Embracing both the techniques and subject matter of ukiyo-e prints appears to be specific to women artists of the early twentieth century in Scotland. In contrast, male artists of the period adopted the technique and compositional devices of these prints while taking little notice of the content.
Japanese prints began circulating in avant-garde art circles in Paris in 1856 when the printer Auguste Delâtre shared 15 volumes of Random Sketches by Hokusai with Felix Braquemond who, in turn, showed them to James McNeil Whistler. Whistler moved from Paris to London in 1859, bringing with him a growing collection of Japanese art. Three years later, the London International Exhibition featured the Japanese art collection of Sir Rutherford Alcock, the first consul general to Japan from Britain. By the 1860s, Japanese prints and art were well known in Britain and quickly became influential in defining the modernist aesthetic.
Frank Morley Fletcher (1866–1949), the director of the Edinburgh College of Art from 1907 to 1923, first discovered Japanese prints as a student in Paris in the 1880s. He became intrigued by the process of creating woodblocks in the traditional manner and studied a pamphlet printed by the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC entitled Japanese Wood-cutting and Wood-cut Printing.
Morley Fletcher not only perfected the technique of woodblock printing, but he also incorporated printmaking into the curriculum of the Edinburgh College of Art, influencing a generation of artists including his fellow instructor, Mabel Royds (1874–1941). In 1916, he published Wood-block Printing: A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing, which just three years later was declared the authoritative textbook on the subject by Malcolm Salaman in London magazine The Studio. Morley Fletcher was credited with laying the groundwork for the success of woodblock printing in Britain.
Morley Fletcher adopted the multi-block printing technique and format of ukiyo-e prints in his colour woodcuts. He also took on numerous compositional devices from them, including flattening the picture space by creating a sharp juxtaposition between foreground and background elements, accentuating pattern through repetition, using large areas of flat graduated colour and cropping landscape elements. Morley Fletcher perfected the technique of ukiyo-e printmaking, yet according to his friend and fellow artist, Joseph Pennell, 'he had not in any way tried to imitate the Japanese subjects or made copies of them, but he has carried out the feeling of the English – country... in his color prints.' For Morley Fletcher, then, Japanese prints were more about the technique and formal elements, less the content and the subject matter.
The same appears to be true with etching revival artists of the period, including the most renowned of the group, David Young Cameron (1865–1945). In Ben Ledi, the composition draws much from Japanese compositional devices including the high horizon line, the sparsely engraved and flattened foreground space, and the sharp juxtaposition between the floral element in the foreground and the abstracted trees in the background. Cameron, like Morley Fletcher, was a collector of Japanese prints; included in the donation of his collection to the Perth Museum and Art Gallery at the time of his death was a print by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) from his series of views of Mount Fuji. It is worth noting that Cameron made multiple views of sights near his home in Kippen, Stirlingshire (including Ben Ledi), something that Hokusai had also done in Japan.
Given the direct influence Japanese prints had on Cameron's work, it is interesting to note that in his own writings and in reviews of his prolific printmaking career this influence was not mentioned. Cameron wrote essays on the old masters – including Rembrandt and Michelangelo – and critics often cited the influence of Rembrandt and Charles Méryon on his prints. Frank Rinder, in his 1908 catalogue on Cameron's etchings, summed up the consensus among critics when writing that Cameron 'would not, indeed, be the artist he is unless Rembrandt had, so to say, become native in his memory. The genius of Méryon continues, I think somewhat to obsess Cameron.'
Cameron and his critics establish him in the canon of western art while failing to acknowledge his indebtedness to Japanese prints. Clearly, this is a western-centric perspective, yet it also appears to be one of gender when his work is compared to that of his sister, Katharine.
Katharine and David Young Cameron were raised by a mother who was an amateur watercolourist, and both studied at the Glasgow School of Art, although David Young was the elder by nine years. Katherine became much more enmeshed with the Glasgow School artists, becoming part of a group of women artists who named themselves 'The Immortals'. Janet Aitken, Jessie Keppie, Margaret and Frances Macdonald and Agnes Raeburn were all part of this group.
As such, Katharine was perhaps more conversant with the avant-garde trends of the 1890s – including Dutch symbolism, the Celtic revival and Aubrey Beardsley – in addition to Japanese art. She was also among the first students under the direction of Francis Newbury, who added numerous design classes that had been traditionally associated with crafts to the curriculum of the Glasgow School of Art. It was this association with crafts, the Arts and Crafts movement and Japonisme (the western craze for Japanese art and design) that seemingly encouraged Katharine and other women artists to embrace the essence of Japanese art and not merely the formal elements.
In stark contrast to her brother, contemporary critics repeatedly commented on Katharine Cameron's assimilation of Japanese art. The Glasgow Herald of 22nd September 1897 stated, 'Miss Cameron has modelled herself – wisely as it proves – on the Japanese method of arranging flowers for painting, of selecting and throwing her branch or spray of flowers across the paper.' The Evening Citizen of 8th December 1900 praised her 'flower studies of a Japanese character' and The Artist of February 1901 stated, that the 'minute accuracy' of her bees is only seen in the work of Japanese artists.
Critics were also careful to distinguish Katharine's works from those of her brother. The critic for The American Magazine of Art of 1919 wrote, 'Miss Cameron is the sister of the famous Scotch etcher, D. Y. Cameron, but no trace of the influence of her brother's style is found in her art. In most instances she chooses a single flower, or a single plant always as seen growing. Her treatment is naturalistic and at the same time exceedingly decorative.' Such reviews confirm that Katherine Cameron intentionally modelled her work on ukiyo-e prints unlike her brother, who borrowed from Japanese art yet asserted his allegiance to the western artistic canon.
The same argument can be made for Mabel Royds, whose woodcuts have a stronger affinity to Japanese prints than those of her mentor Frank Morley Fletcher. Influenced by these prints, Royds created a forceful modernist sensibility by intensifying the use of repetitive patterns and heightening her colours. Unlike Morley Fletcher, Royds did not try to capture the British countryside in her prints, instead focussing as much on composition and design as the actual subject matter.
Both Mabel Royds and Katharine Cameron were influenced by Japanese art in ways that the more traditional David Young Cameron and the less experimental Frank Morley Fletcher were not. They were among the early generation of women who were able to seek an art education, and although both enrolled in progressive institutions, they faced formidable barriers. They also both gravitated to the so-called graphic arts that were traditionally associated with women.
Additionally, Katharine Cameron enrolled in the Glasgow School of Art at a time when its director was actively adding classes on design and decorative arts. A critic in The Art Journal of 1896 asserted that women were doing 'the most excellent work in arts and crafts… It would be wiser if many who are trying to win positions as painters and sculptors were to direct their abilities into the less ambitious groove of applied art.'
It was not just their educations and the success of women in the Arts and Crafts movement that inspired Katharine Cameron and Mabel Royds to be open to a wider range of Japanese aesthetic choices than their male counterparts. Women printmakers were not tied to and were not part of the historic canon of western printmakers beginning with Rembrandt and Durer, and therefore they were less obliged to perpetuate that canon. This was in contrast to David Young Cameron – who looked to these artists – and Morley Fletcher who was tied to the British landscape.
Finally, Katharine Cameron and Mabel Royds felt confident that their works of floral subjects, traditionally associated with women, were especially suited to capturing a modernist aesthetic of abstracted naturalism, heavily rooted in Japanese prints.
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Sarajevo – Jack Hammer
The name Sarajevo always conjures up the words war and genocide after the Bosnian war of 1992 to 1996. There were some horrific stories that came out of Bosnia and it’s capital Sarajevo. Jack Hammer, led by Piet Botha, seemed to capture some of that horror and violence in this hard-hitting song from their 1996 album, ‘Death Of A Gypsy’.
From the very first second of the song we are assailed by screaming guitars and pounding drums, which one could easily equate to the pounding of bombs and screams of those on whom the bombs and missiles were falling. But inbetween these barrages of sound, there is an ominous lull where the guitars become the background noise while Piet’s gruff voice half sings, half shouts the lyrics that tell some of the history. The delivery is somewhat akin to a prophet calling judgement upon the people, a voice in the wilderness. The chorus (sung by another member of the band, possibly Stean van der Walt) is the voice of a parent urging the children to ‘Go now go now child/Go with the night and go to the mountain’ to run away from the war.
The memories and news of Sarajevo and the atrocities that happened there were very fresh when Jack Hammer recorded this blistering political song. While this song is particularly about Sarajevo and the Bosnian war, it could easily apply to any situation in the world where such atrocities have happened (and we know that there are many of them). Perhaps what one can take from this, apart from a pounding of your aural senses, is the last line of the second verse, ‘Mother you must take your children/Away from the frontline’.
Where to find it:
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The day most of the creatures are asleep, the future creature will find us under of food waste, plastic bags, and the corpse of dead animals praying. The singularity with nothing is beginning. Not even an earthworm will even try to go near there if they were alive. The last mouse which is trying … [Read more…]
One thing I would like to change is that add more details about the shell and legs and head and add more color on the body parts of turtle (especially shell) If I did this again, one thing I would do differently is to add more complexed motors by making other parts of body move … [Read more…]
Have you ever heard of a law that make you put your mother on the mountain? Surprisingly, in some countries at the past, this law existed. This story, “The Aged Mother” is about a person who made the law and a son and mother which needs to obey the law. In the book “The Aged … [Read more…]
This idea of magazine cover came from a play called A midsummer’s night dream by William Shakespeare. In this play, I tried to characterize Hermia. I made this design choices that will be shown easily and some main information inside the play A midsummer’s night dream.
Lots of people think about their present and future but, they don’t usually care about everything they are doing even though it can change the future a lot. In the book A sound of thunder, this book talks about how small thing in the present can change the future a lot. Even a small thing … [Read more…]
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Lots of people see the same person and hear same information about the person but might think and judge the person differently. Like this situation, the book “The scar” written by An-Mei Hsu says a story about how aunt and popo sees An-mei’s mother as thoughtless person and An-mei seeing her mother as a … [Read more…]
The found poem was made by a paragraph at page four of the short story of “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” written by W.D. Wetherell. It is man verses himself conflict in the story narrator, the protagonist choosing Sheila Mant or the biggest bass he got in his life. In rising action, while … [Read more…] | <urn:uuid:09636b9f-a727-447f-8fa4-459fb93bdc22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.isb.bj.edu.cn/22andyo/category/uncategorized/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971887 | 503 | 1.5625 | 2 |
We have all done this. We become a business where we find the job quite simple and we have a good deal of great ‘buddies’ in the workplace. This scenario is extremely common and it happens to many people. You might ask – what is wrong with this situation? This sort of situation is you not stepping outside of your ‘comfort zone’. Things we tend to tell ourselves when we make this error include things like This a is fantastic occupation, This is a fantastic company to work for because or we say something such as the marketplace out there’s too silent to move between jobs at the moment.
There’s nothing wrong with being comfortable in a project but just do not expect your career to go anywhere quickly. However in case you do want to advance your career to the next level or beyond, you want to understand when you step into this ‘comfy’ zone where nothing or not many things challenge you on your day-to day job. The only way we develop (ourselves or our professions ) is when we expand our comfort zones by doing things that feels uncomfortable regularly. If you feel uncomfortable all the time, then you will know that you are growing yourself and your livelihood and soon that uneasy feeling will feel comfortable again by then you heard something new and it is time to challenge yourself .
You do Everything and anything on the job
This is something most People as cbap training Business Analysts have done at some stage of our careers. We have a tendency to do anything that a Project Manager asks us to perform because of various different reasons. Sometimes we just need to ‘please’ the Project Manager rather than make crime. Sometimes we almost treat it as a means to prove we are capable and can do anything that anyone yells at us. In a few other cases, more frequently than not, this error is made because it is the Business Analyst that does not really have a clear perspective of what a Business Analyst should and should not do within their functions. Again, you may ask what is wrong with doing whatever comes your way on a job. Do not get me wrong, it is great to help out from time to time using a job that falls out of your job, but quite often the project team begins to expect you to do anything and everything that comes your way. They do not recognize what you do would be a favor to the job. Doing non-business analysis jobs too frequently on a job dilutes your job and soon you will be seen as a general helper as opposed to a professional BA.
You Operate with no career plan
However, this mistake Is made by countless individuals who wind up completing their careers in the ‘slow lane’. They never implemented a strategy of where they were moving with their professions and this resulted in the majority of them not achieving anything remarkable during this span.
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Time and again, people have been hearing about the ill effects of using plastic. Plastic is causing grave concerns for the planet’s climatic and living conditions. There is enough discussion on this topic already on national and international levels. However, the real question is how many of us are listening to this seriously. Are we doing anything to reduce plastic pollution and protect the planet?
Most people have a misconception that reducing plastic pollution demands rocket science knowledge or strenuous efforts. Thus, they refrain from acting in the right direction thinking it to be a complicated and laborious task.
But, did you know that only a small change in your shopping choice can make a huge impact? Yes, you read that right; you do not have to tame a bull or do anything challenging to contribute here. All you need to do is adopt the following quick, easy, and effective habits.
Goodbye to disposable plastic
Are you in the habit of using a plastic straw? Or do you include disposable cutlery or containers made of plastic in your shopping routine? If yes, you do not need to stop buying all such essentials, but only change your choice about the material of plates, straws, glasses, cups, and other items in this genre. Look for eco-friendly materials like stainless steel while buying crockery or cutlery instead of disposable plastic.
Avoid buying drinking water
Drinking water is indeed essential for a plethora of health benefits, but it does not have to be unhealthy for the planet. Billions of people are in the habit of buying drinking water while traveling, hiking, working, commuting, and even for no reason. Nobody is asking you to quit drinking water; the need is to stop buying water bottled in plastic. Always carry a stainless steel bottle and keep refilling it; it will save you a lot of money also.
Prefer reusable items while shopping
Another easy and effective tip to reduce plastic pollution is to prefer reusable products over single-use plastic options. It is super easy to execute this step; type words like reusable and stainless steel while buying anything online. If you are an offline shopper, you can always visit a store offering steel bottles, steel lunchboxes, and other food/ beverage products to relish reusability perks. Save the planet and your money with this.
Support steel product manufacturers
There are plenty of manufacturers indulged in the production of stainless steel bottles, tiffin boxes, and other containers. Join a quality and sincere maker like Pexpo striving to reduce plastic pollution. Always buy fridge bottles or insulated products made of stainless steel for storing beverages or food. Supporting a team like Pexpo will be your step towards wise buying, plastic reduction, and planet protection.
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What do raisins have to do with mindfulness? Well, a popular mindfulness exercise centres around the experience of eating a raisin.
This short mindfulness exercise helps to nurture the present-moment awareness that is mindfulness. This exercise is also commonly used to introduce mindful awareness as an alternative to the habitual 'autopilot' way of eating.
In order to do this exercise you need a raisin and you will need to eat it. If you don't like raisins that's ok it can be something else! Any small piece of food will do.
The exercise takes the simple act of eating a raisin and breaks down this act into it's minutiae. You pay complete attention to the touch, sight, smell, taste, feel throughout the whole action of eating the raisin. The instructions below should explain in how much detail one can go into.
How to do the raisin exercise:
First, take a raisin and hold it in the palm of your hand or between your finger and thumb.
Take time to really focus on it; gaze at the raisin with care and full attention—imagine that you’ve just dropped in from Mars and have never seen an object like this before in your life. Let your eyes explore every part of it, examining the highlights where the light shines, the darker hollows, the folds and ridges, and any asymmetries or unique features.
Turn the raisin over between your fingers, exploring its texture. Maybe do this with your eyes closed if that enhances your sense of touch.
Hold the raisin beneath your nose. With each inhalation, take in any smell, aroma, or fragrance that may arise. As you do this, notice anything interesting that may be happening in your mouth or stomach.
Now slowly bring the raisin up to your lips, noticing how your hand and arm know exactly how and where to position it. Gently place the raisin in your mouth; without chewing, noticing how it gets into your mouth in the first place. Spend a few moments focusing on the sensations of having it in your mouth, exploring it with your tongue.
When you are ready, prepare to chew the raisin, noticing how and where it needs to be for chewing. Then, very consciously, take one or two bites into it and notice what happens in the aftermath, experiencing any waves of taste that emanate from it as you continue chewing. Without swallowing yet, notice the bare sensations of taste and texture in your mouth and how these may change over time, moment by moment. Also pay attention to any changes in the object itself.
When you feel ready to swallow the raisin, see if you can first detect the intention to swallow as it comes up, so that even this is experienced consciously before you actually swallow the raisin.
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All provinces have passed laws that makes the use of seat belts and youngster restraint systems obligatory. In the Nineties, motorcar safety features began to incorporate air bags. Although security legislation and initiatives have been met with scepticism and generated much debate, surveys of their efficacy have proven important reductions in dying and injury via their correct use.
Rights to the Daimler brand title have been offered to other producers. Automobile Magazine has turn out to be a staple of the automotive industry. Our readers encompass probably the most influential enthusiasts within the house. Automobile Magazine has long been house to the best automotive writing and photography, highlighted by unique editorial voices from the likes of Ezra Dyer, Jamie Kitman, and Jean Jennings. Our award-profitable tales take you far beyond the everyday car evaluation to embody journey, automotive design, personalities, collector automobiles, and in-depth news analysis.
Most trendy passenger vehicles are entrance-wheel-drive monocoque or unibody designs, with transversely mounted engines. To the tip of the 20th century, the United States Big Three (GM, Ford, and Chrysler) partially misplaced their leading position, Japan turned for some time the world’s chief of automotive manufacturing and vehicles started to be mass manufactured in new Asian, East European, and other countries. A major change in automobile design since World War II was the recognition of ponton style, during which working boards were eradicated and fenders have been incorporated into the physique.
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New data: Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery plagued with violations again this year
New data seen by WWF and Greenpeace reveal that the 2010 fishing activities for Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea have been as riddled with rule-flouting and traceability shortcomings as ever before. The conservation organisations urge international fisheries regulators meeting next week in Paris to put an end to the depletion of this key species, reports www.megafishnet.com with reference to WWF.
The data, made available to contracting parties of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), the fisheries body tasked with managing the species, focus on results of the organisation's new joint international inspection and regional observer schemes. ICCAT observers were present on board industrial purse seine fishing vessels and in tuna fattening farms in the Mediterranean throughout the 2010 fishing season.
Lack of compliance with fishing rules and reporting obligations, and traceability shortcomings, were seen across the industrial purse seine fishery and tuna farming industry throughout the season.
One case, for example, shows how deliberate misreporting enabled a catch of 18 tonnes of bluefin tuna made by a Turkish vessel to entirely escape ICCAT's documentation system. Key information was duplicated on compulsory ICCAT catch and transfer declarations. The skipper of the purse seine vessel also provided false information on the identity of the towing vessel receiving the fish. A formal inspection carried out on the same fishing vessels reports "serious violations" of the ICCAT rules, including lack of authorisation for delivery to towing vessels which transport the fish to farms.
Meanwhile, of 23 observers in Spanish and French purse seine vessels 15 encountered difficulties in estimating the amount of tuna in the cages, in most cases acknowledging this was "simply impossible" and were left having to accept an estimate by the vessel skipper or divers on tugboats. Of the eight who did not report such problems, three were on board vessels that did not make any catch.
In another example of many irregularities, observers have reported cages not being empty before new transfers of bluefin tuna from purse seiners - with farm operators claiming this practice had been found to attract the incoming tunas.
"It's easy to find evidence of fraud by just looking at public documents, which makes one wonder what is not being documented. A handful of governments in Europe, among them France, are backing the short-term profits of a corrupt and dying industry over the survival of a species. All the evidence is pointing to a tragic situation for bluefin tuna stocks and a fishery out of control," said a Greenpeace spokesperson. "The EU's chief fisheries official has insisted that the bluefin tuna fishery needs to be downscaled. But to give bluefin stocks the best chance of recovery, EU governments should go further and close this fishery altogether."
"These are cowboys of the oceans who think they can just plunder a natural resource for their own short-term gain and get away with it - such a free-for-all simply cannot be tolerated," said a WWF spokesperson. "ICCAT must stop this situation of incredible rule-flouting. Under no circumstances must the quota exceed 6,000 tonnes per year - as advised by scientists - and the industrial purse seine fishery and farming must be immediately suspended, before we are talking about just one more marine legend disappearing from our seas."
This fresh data on the table shows there is no improvement in the widespread flouting of rules exposed in the findings of a comprehensive investigation launched last weekend by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) focusing on the fishery between 1998 and 2007. This disturbing panorama of violations is still firmly in place in 2010.
Greenpeace and WWF strongly urge ICCAT member countries, meeting in Paris 17-27 November, to establish a science-based recovery plan for eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna which ensures the recovery of the species - including a drastic cut in the quota and establishing no-fishing zones in spawning areas. | <urn:uuid:dc6c132d-5315-434d-a707-a832259e375f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.megafishnet.com/news/new-data-mediterranean-bluefin-tuna-fishery-plagued-with-violations-again-this-year/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946066 | 814 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Escondido Root Canals
A root canal is a very necessary and beneficial treatment when infection or decay adversely influences the nerve of a tooth. The goal of the root canal treatment is to save the tooth, despite the infection.
The procedure is done by removing the decay and bacteria and replacing the void in the tooth with a medicated dental filling. When the root canal is complete, you can expect to have full function of your tooth again.
The Smile Gallery Patient Reviews
We use the latest technology and most efficient techniques to ensure your root canal is as painless as possible. We want you to be fearless when it comes to getting dental work done. We aim for this goal because requiring the removal of an infected tooth can lead to a lot of problems down the road, whereas root canals usually provide a permanent solution that can last your entire life. That’s why root canals are the preferred way to deal with decaying or infected teeth and why we want to encourage you to seek our professional services early.
If you know how gentle we handle cleanings and other procedures, you will trust our ability to handle a root canal in the same manner. Advanced detection and preventative maintenance can help lessen the likelihood of needing a root canal Do you think it’s too late to prevent a root canal? Are you experiencing any of the symptoms we describe below? Call us immediately even if you are just concerned that you are showing symptoms that will require a root canal. That will give us the opportunity to take X-rays and do an exam to identify the cause of the symptom. When we identify the cause of the symptoms, we can recommend the proper procedure.
Symptoms that Indicate You Need a Root Canal
Without the expert input of your dentist, it can be difficult to detect when a root canal is necessary. While the nerve of a decaying tooth may present in the form of pain, an abscess or sensitivity to hot and cold temperature, you might not show signs of any particular symptoms.
So if you think you might need a root canal, it’s best to schedule a consultation at the Smile Gallery to discuss everything with Dr. Bainer. The consultation will determine the best course of action for you. For now, here’s a little more information on when you might need to get root canal treatment.
- The tooth pulp is the living material inside the tooth. If your decay is starting to advance into this part of your tooth, you will probably want to consider having a root canal. The decay will usually result in pain as it begins affecting the nerves in the root. Pain may come at random times or when the area is touched. The tooth may also be tender to the touch.
- If you feel an infection or abscess inside your tooth, or at the tip of the root, you may need a root canal to treat the tooth and remove the infection.
- Sometimes if one of your teeth has experienced trauma, it may become infected. In this case, you might also need a root canal to promptly address the infection.
- Another more obvious sign for the need of a root canal is Pus draining into the mouth. While we hope you don’t wait that long to get an exam, there’s no guaranteed order of symptoms.
- Finally, the tooth or gum may become discolored or have an increased sensitivity to hot or cold food or beverages.
Once you or Dr. Bainer has detected an infection inside the tooth, it is important to take care of it right away. As mentioned, waiting can create further issues that are far more complicated to fix. Even if you are just concerned about some possible symptoms, it’s always a good idea to come in for an exam and X-rays. At the very least, the dentist can assuage your concerns and give your teeth a cleaning and other preventative maintenance to remove the need for a root canal. If your Root Canal requires a specialist Dr. Bainer will refer you to an Endodontist
Finally, root canals should always be capped with a crown. This last step is necessary to protect the filling from breaking. It also allows you to regain full function and use of your tooth. Although your tooth may remain sensitive after your root canal treatment, you can expect this to subside in a fee days. However, should anything ever not feel right we are happy to continue working with you until you and your teeth are comfortable throughout the day. After you receive a root canal, good dental home care is as important as ever. When cared for properly you can prevent further infection and greatly extend the life of your root canal.
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The Smile Gallery practices the Art of Fine Dentistry. We work to ensure our patients have the most relaxed and comfortable experience possible. Our individualized patient attention means you receive the best care possible. Our friendly staff is ready to greet you warmly, set you at ease, and create a level of comfort and customer service rarely seen in the dental industry.
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What if improving academic performance in some of the nation’s most disadvantaged and lowest-achieving schools was as easy as planting trees in the schoolyard? It’s not that simple, of course, but a new study from the University of Illinois suggests school greening could be part of the solution.
The study, published in Frontiers in Psychology and led by Ming Kuo from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at U of I, investigated the link between greenness and academic achievement in 318 of Chicago’s public elementary schools. The district serves a predominantly low-income minority population, with 87 percent of third-graders qualifying for free lunch during the study year (2009-2010).
Previous studies have documented a positive relationship between greenness and academic achievement, but, until now, no one had examined the relationship in high-poverty schools.
“The goal was to see if the greenness-academic achievement relationship holds for poor, urban schools because that’s where it matters. That’s where educators and policy makers are desperately trying to find ways to help kids reach their potential,” Kuo says.
The research team used high-resolution aerial imagery to quantify tree and grass cover in each schoolyard and its surrounding neighborhood, an improvement over previous studies that relied on coarse-grain vegetation imagery. “The older technology could basically tell us whether a 30-meter square was blacktop or green space, but the technology we’re using can tell us there’s a tree here, and a foot over, there’s grass,” Kuo explains.
The first step was to use a simple correlation analysis to identify relationships between tree and grass cover and academic performance, based on standardized test scores for math and reading. Schoolyard tree cover predicted academic performance, both for reading and math: the more trees, the better the performance. The same pattern showed up for trees in the adjacent neighborhood, but to a lesser extent. Grass, it turns out, does nothing for learning.
“There are consistent hints throughout the history of studying the effects of greenness on people that trees matter more than grass,” Kuo says. “So this finding was not a big surprise.”
The simple correlation tests helped the researchers evaluate the importance of other factors that could be related to academic performance: number of students in a classroom, student/teacher and gender ratios, and the percent of students that were bilingual. None of these showed strong ties to academic performance. But one other factor — disadvantage — did.
The researchers knew that race and socioeconomic status are strongly tied to academic achievement, and that they are strongly correlated with one another. Using innovative statistical techniques to simultaneously account for both factors, the team combined them into one they called disadvantage. After discovering that disadvantage strongly predicted low academic achievement in the correlation tests, the researchers included the factor in a more sophisticated analysis that accounted for disparities related to geography within the city.
That test confirmed that schoolyard trees positively predicted math scores. Reading scores tended to be better with more schoolyard trees, but the effect fell just short of statistical significance.
At almost 90 percent free-lunch eligible and only 10 percent white, schools in the Chicago Public School system are, on the whole, disadvantaged. But there were differences: The most disadvantaged schools in the sample had roughly half the number of trees as the least disadvantaged schools.
While Kuo is quick to point out that the study is purely correlational — it wasn’t designed to show cause-and-effect — she is optimistic about the results.
“Early math skills are one of the best predictors of later success, not just in math, but in school in general. So what we have here is a very exciting clue that maybe simply greening — planting trees in school yards — could potentially have a significant impact in math achievement and school success down the line for these kids. And you don’t have to plaster the schoolyard with trees — just bringing schools up to average looks like it could have a substantial effect.”
Kuo has spent her career quantifying the effects of nature on human health and behavior, but she understands people have a hard time accepting just how necessary nature is to the human experience.
“What I really want to do is figure out what helps for these schools. If trees didn’t work, then I would not want people spending money on trees. I want the money to be spent where it will make a difference. The outcome matters to me.
“As a society, we have not bothered to green our poorest, low-income minority schools. It might just seem like, well, that’s too bad, it would be nice for poor kids to have nice schools, but we can’t afford it,” she says. “The larger body of research is suggesting that, in fact, some of the reason for the disparities we see in low-income schools versus more affluent schools may actually be due, in part, to the physical facilities we’re providing. It’s not a surprise to anyone that if you don’t provide air conditioning or heating in a school then maybe the kids aren’t going to do as well. But this is the first time we’ve begun to suspect that the lack of landscaping, such as trees, may help explain, in part, their poorer test scores.” | <urn:uuid:5cc7c851-b64c-4587-81ee-987d1ade5e49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tunisiesoir.com/health/study-schoolyard-tree-cover-predicts-math-performance-in-high-poverty-urban-schools-details-7876-2018/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965241 | 1,150 | 3.3125 | 3 |
<person> Alan M. Turing, 1912-06-22/3? - 1954-06-07.
A British mathematician, inventor of the Turing Machine. Turing also proposed the Turing test.
Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science.
Turing was a student and fellow of King's College Cambridge and was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938.
While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an abstract machine, now called a Turing Machine.
Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office.
He masterminded operations at Bletchley Park, UK which were highly successful in cracking the Nazis "Enigma" codes during World War II.
Some of his early advances in computer design were inspired by the need to perform many repetitive symbolic manipulations quickly.
Before the building of the Colossus computer this work was done by a roomful of women.
In 1945 he joined the National Physical Laboratory in London and worked on the design and construction of a large computer, named Automatic Computing Engine (ACE).
In 1949 Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester where the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, the worlds largest memory computer, was being built.
He also worked on theories of artificial intelligence, and on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms.
Turing was gay, and died rather young under mysterious circumstances.
He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952.
He died of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments.
An inquest concluded that it was self-administered but it is now thought by some to have been an accident.
There is an excellent biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges, subtitled "The Enigma of Intelligence" and a play based on it called "Breaking the Code".
There was also a popular summary of his work in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
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Covering an area of 14 m2it is the largest alkali lake in Hungary. In the first third of the 20th century it was turned into a system of fish ponds. Because of its flora and extremely rich bird population with 280 species, it is a carefully protected area, and part of the Kiskunság National Park. The Tisza-völgy Exhibit House showing the changes of the area and the wildlife of the lake is located next to road E75. Besides visiting the exhibition, it is worth walking along the Gull study trail including the Beretzk outlook, which is a great place for observing the bird population of Fehért-tó, especially the gull colony of the Korom island. The almost two-kilometer long tour can be visited only with guides. The organised tours for observing the night flight of the cranes during the period of the autumn migration also start here.
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Service accounts are special Google accounts that can be used by applications to access Google APIs programmatically via OAuth 2.0. A service account uses an OAuth 2.0 flow that does not require human authorization. Instead, it uses a key file that only your application can access. This guide discusses how to access the Content API for Shopping with service accounts.
Note: Applications using service accounts for authentication can only access your own Merchant Center account. If you are writing a third-party application that needs access to your clients' Merchant Center accounts, please see the Authorizing Requests guide instead.
- A Merchant Center account.
Steps to using a service account to access the Content API for Shopping
- Generate service account credentials or access the public credentials
you've already generated. You will need to create an OAuth 2.0 Client ID and
obtain a *.json private key file:
- Go to the Google API Console.
- Select a project in the drop-down menu at the top of the page. If you do not have one yet, create one by clicking NEW PROJECT.
- If you have not already enabled the Content API for Shopping for this project, then search for it in the list of Google APIs and enable it.
- In the sidebar on the left, select Credentials. You may need to click the left-pointing arrow at the top left to see this.
- To set up a service account, select CREATE CREDENTIALS, and
then Service account.
the new service account. This also serves as the default username for the
service account ID. Record the service account ID, including the part after
the '@' character, for later use. Click CREATE, then go through the
optional steps of granting access to project and users, and click DONE.
The choice of role for the service account will not have any effect on what calls can be made to the Content API, as access to Content API methods is determined instead by the role associated with the service account ID in Merchant Center. If you are unsure what to pick, just pick Project > Viewer.
- You will be directed to the Service Accounts page where your new service account can be accessed.
- To obtain a JSON private key, click on the service account, then the KEYS tab. Click ADD KEY > Create new key and then select JSON as the key type. Click CREATE to download the private key to your computer.
- Add the new service
account as a user to your Merchant Center account. If you are a third-party
developer, you will need to have your client do this step for you.
- Go to your Merchant Center account.
- Go to Account Access in the settings of your Merchant Center account.
- Click + Add user and use the service account ID as the email
address for the new user.
If you did not take note of the service account ID earlier, go to the Service Accounts administration page and select the project you created.
- Specify the User access and Email notifications
preferences for the service account. Note that the use of the
Accountsservice requires Admin access.
- Click Add user to save preferences and be returned to the list of users. The service account ID should be listed with the chosen user role.
- Repeat the process for all other service accounts you want to add.
- Now you can access your Merchant Center account using the service account either by using the Google Application Default Credentials flow or by using the service account flow directly. The Content API for Shopping Samples show how to use both flows for service account credentials in each supported programming language. Please check out the code samples to try out your new service account and to learn what changes you will need to use service accounts in your own code.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I sign in to the Merchant Center UI with my service account?
- No, service accounts are not regular Google accounts and cannot access the Merchant Center UI.
- How often do I need to refresh service account access tokens?
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The Last American Vagabond
The Last American Vagabond
Russia has advanced in Ukraine and began strikes on Kyiv. Ukraine is losing ground and experts say that the conflict could end soon with Ukraine in a completely different state than it was just months ago. Yet the West continues to funnel money and weaponry. The United Kingdom now says that it will send long-range missiles into Ukraine.
UPDATED 1:21 PM PT – Friday, May 27, 2022
>Via The Postil Magazine
Part One: The Road To War
For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. I notice that the “experts” who take turns on television analyze the situation on the basis of dubious information, most often hypotheses erected as facts—and then we no longer manage to understand what is happening. This is how panics are created.
The problem is not so much to know who is right in this conflict, but to question the way our leaders make their decisions.
Let’s try to examine the roots of the conflict. It starts with those who for the last eight years have been talking about “separatists” or “independentists” from Donbass. This is not true. The referendums conducted by the two self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in May 2014, were not referendums of “independence” (независимость), as some unscrupulous journalists have claimed, but referendums of “self-determination” or “autonomy” (самостоятельность). The qualifier “pro-Russian” suggests that Russia was a party to the conflict, which was not the case, and the term “Russian speakers” would have been more honest. Moreover, these referendums were conducted against the advice of Vladimir Putin.
In fact, these Republics were not seeking to separate from Ukraine, but to have a status of autonomy, guaranteeing them the use of the Russian language as an official language. For the first legislative act of the new government resulting from the overthrow of President Yanukovych, was the abolition, on February 23, 2014, of the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law of 2012 that made Russian an official language. A bit like if putschists decided that French and Italian would no longer be official languages in Switzerland.
This decision caused a storm in the Russian-speaking population. The result was a fierce repression against the Russian-speaking regions (Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Lugansk and Donetsk) which was carried out beginning in February 2014 and led to a militarization of the situation and some massacres (in Odessa and Marioupol, for the most notable). At the end of summer 2014, only the self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk remained.
At this stage, too rigid and engrossed in a doctrinaire approach to the art of operations, the Ukrainian general staff subdued the enemy without managing to prevail. The examination of the course of the fighting in 2014-2016 in the Donbass shows that the Ukrainian general staff systematically and mechanically applied the same operative schemes. However, the war waged by the autonomists was very similar to what we observed in the Sahel: highly mobile operations conducted with light means. With a more flexible and less doctrinaire approach, the rebels were able to exploit the inertia of Ukrainian forces to repeatedly “trap” them.
In 2014, when I was at NATO, I was responsible for the fight against the proliferation of small arms, and we were trying to detect Russian arms deliveries to the rebels, to see if Moscow was involved. The information we received then came almost entirely from Polish intelligence services and did not “fit” with the information coming from the OSCE—despite rather crude allegations, there were no deliveries of weapons and military equipment from Russia.
The rebels were armed thanks to the defection of Russian-speaking Ukrainian units that went over to the rebel side. As Ukrainian failures continued, tank, artillery and anti-aircraft battalions swelled the ranks of the autonomists. This is what pushed the Ukrainians to commit to the Minsk Agreements.
But just after signing the Minsk 1 Agreements, the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko launched a massive anti-terrorist operation (ATO/Антитерористична операція) against the Donbass. Bis repetita placent: poorly advised by NATO officers, the Ukrainians suffered a crushing defeat in Debaltsevo, which forced them to engage in the Minsk 2 Agreements.
It is essential to recall here that Minsk 1 (September 2014) and Minsk 2 (February 2015) Agreements did not provide for the separation or independence of the Republics, but their autonomy within the framework of Ukraine. Those who have read the Agreements (there are very, very, very few of those who actually have) will note that it is written in all letters that the status of the Republics was to be negotiated between Kiev and the representatives of the Republics, for an internal solution to the Ukraine.
That is why since 2014, Russia has systematically demanded their implementation while refusing to be a party to the negotiations, because it was an internal matter of the Ukraine. On the other side, the West—led by France—systematically tried to replace the Minsk Agreements with the “Normandy format,” which put Russians and Ukrainians face-to-face. However, let us remember that there were never any Russian troops in the Donbass before 23-24 February 2022. Moreover, OSCE observers have never observed the slightest trace of Russian units operating in the Donbass. For example, the U.S. intelligence map published by the Washington Post on December 3, 2021 does not show Russian troops in the Donbass.
In October 2015, Vasyl Hrytsak, director of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), confessed that only 56 Russian fighters had been observed in the Donbass. This was exactly comparable to the Swiss who went to fight in Bosnia on weekends, in the 1990s, or the French who go to fight in the Ukraine today.
The Ukrainian army was then in a deplorable state. In October 2018, after four years of war, the chief Ukrainian military prosecutor, Anatoly Matios, stated that Ukraine had lost 2,700 men in the Donbass: 891 from illnesses, 318 from road accidents, 177 from other accidents, 175 from poisonings (alcohol, drugs), 172 from careless handling of weapons, 101 from breaches of security regulations, 228 from murders and 615 from suicides.
In fact, the army was undermined by the corruption of its cadres and no longer enjoyed the support of the population. According to a British Home Office report, in the March/April 2014 recall of reservists, 70 percent did not show up for the first session, 80 percent for the second, 90 percent for the third, and 95 percent for the fourth. In October/November 2017, 70% of conscripts did not show up for the “Fall 2017” recall campaign. This is not counting suicides and desertions (often over to the autonomists), which reached up to 30 percent of the workforce in the ATO area. Young Ukrainians refused to go and fight in the Donbass and preferred emigration, which also explains, at least partially, the demographic deficit of the country.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense then turned to NATO to help make its armed forces more “attractive.” Having already worked on similar projects within the framework of the United Nations, I was asked by NATO to participate in a program to restore the image of the Ukrainian armed forces. But this is a long-term process and the Ukrainians wanted to move quickly.
So, to compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Ukrainian government resorted to paramilitary militias. They are essentially composed of foreign mercenaries, often extreme right-wing militants. In 2020, they constituted about 40 percent of the Ukrainian forces and numbered about 102,000 men, according to Reuters. They were armed, financed and trained by the United States, Great Britain, Canada and France. There were more than 19 nationalities—including Swiss.
Western countries have thus clearly created and supported Ukrainian far-right militias. In October 2021, the Jerusalem Post sounded the alarm by denouncing the Centuria project. These militias had been operating in the Donbass since 2014, with Western support. Even if one can argue about the term “Nazi,” the fact remains that these militias are violent, convey a nauseating ideology and are virulently anti-Semitic. Their anti-Semitism is more cultural than political, which is why the term “Nazi” is not really appropriate. Their hatred of the Jew stems from the great famines of the 1920s and 1930s in the Ukraine, resulting from Stalin’s confiscation of crops to finance the modernization of the Red Army. This genocide—known in the Ukraine as the Holodomor—was perpetrated by the NKVD (the forerunner of the KGB), whose upper echelons of leadership were mainly composed of Jews. This is why, today, Ukrainian extremists are asking Israel to apologize for the crimes of communism, as the Jerusalem Post notes. This is a far cry from Vladimir Putin’s “rewriting of history.”
These militias, originating from the far-right groups that animated the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, are composed of fanatical and brutal individuals. The best known of these is the Azov Regiment, whose emblem is reminiscent of the 2nd SS Das Reich Panzer Division, which is revered in the Ukraine for liberating Kharkov from the Soviets in 1943, before carrying out the 1944 Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in France.
Among the famous figures of the Azov regiment was the opponent Roman Protassevitch, arrested in 2021 by the Belarusian authorities following the case of RyanAir flight FR4978. On May 23, 2021, the deliberate hijacking of an airliner by a MiG-29—supposedly with Putin’s approval—was mentioned as a reason for arresting Protassevich, although the information available at the time did not confirm this scenario at all.
But then it was necessary to show that President Lukashenko was a thug and Protassevich a “journalist” who loved democracy. However, a rather revealing investigation produced by an American NGO in 2020 highlighted Protassevitch’s far-right militant activities. The Western conspiracy movement then started, and unscrupulous media “air-brushed” his biography. Finally, in January 2022, the ICAO report was published and showed that despite some procedural errors, Belarus acted in accordance with the rules in force and that the MiG-29 took off 15 minutes after the RyanAir pilot decided to land in Minsk. So no Belarusian plot and even less Putin. Ah!… Another detail: Protassevitch, cruelly tortured by the Belarusian police, was now free. Those who would like to correspond with him, can go on his Twitter account.
The characterization of the Ukrainian paramilitaries as “Nazis” or “neo-Nazis” is considered Russian propaganda. Perhaps. But that’s not the view of the Times of Israel, the Simon Wiesenthal Center or the West Point Academy’s Center for Counterterrorism. But that’s still debatable, because in 2014, Newsweek magazine seemed to associate them more with… the Islamic State. Take your pick!
So, the West supported and continued to arm militias that have been guilty of numerous crimes against civilian populations since 2014: rape, torture and massacres. But while the Swiss government has been very quick to take sanctions against Russia, it has not adopted any against the Ukraine, which has been massacring its own population since 2014. In fact, those who defend human rights in the Ukraine have long condemned the actions of these groups, but have not been supported by our governments. Because, in reality, we are not trying to help the Ukraine, but to fight Russia.
The integration of these paramilitary forces into the National Guard was not at all accompanied by a “denazification,” as some claim. Among the many examples, that of the Azov Regiment’s insignia is instructive:
In 2022, very schematically, the Ukrainian armed forces fighting the Russian offensive were organized as:
The National Guard is therefore a territorial defense force that is not part of the Ukrainian army. It includes paramilitary militias, called “volunteer battalions” (добровольчі батальйоні), also known by the evocative name of “reprisal battalions,” and composed of infantry. Primarily trained for urban combat, they now defend cities such as Kharkov, Mariupol, Odessa, Kiev, etc.
Part Two: The War The Postil Magazine read more
Ukranian fake news? Via Parler
Here Is the Full Text of Putin’s Speech The Morning of Feb 24, 2022
Read it so that you understand the situation. You will not get a word of truth from the mouths of Western politicians and presstitutes.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, friends,
I consider it necessary today to speak again about the tragic events in Donbass and the key aspects of ensuring the security of Russia.
I will begin with what I said in my address on February 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries, and about the fundamental threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from year to year. I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border.
It is a fact that over the past 30 years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe. In response to our proposals, we invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic alliance continued to expand despite our protests and concerns. Its military machine is moving and, as I said, is approaching our very border.
Why is this happening? Where did this insolent manner of talking down from the height of their exceptionalism, infallibility and all-permissiveness come from? What is the explanation for this contemptuous and disdainful attitude to our interests and absolutely legitimate demands?
The answer is simple. Everything is clear and obvious. In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union grew weaker and subsequently broke apart. That experience should serve as a good lesson for us, because it has shown us that the paralysis of power and will is the first step towards complete degradation and oblivion. We lost confidence for only one moment, but it was enough to disrupt the balance of forces in the world.
As a result, the old treaties and agreements are no longer effective. Entreaties and requests do not help. Anything that does not suit the dominant state, the powers that be, is denounced as archaic, obsolete and useless. At the same time, everything it regards as useful is presented as the ultimate truth and forced on others regardless of the cost, abusively and by any means available. Those who refuse to comply are subjected to strong-arm tactics.
What I am saying now does not concerns only Russia, and Russia is not the only country that is worried about this. This has to do with the entire system of international relations, and sometimes even US allies. The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a redivision of the world, and the norms of international law that developed by that time – and the most important of them, the fundamental norms that were adopted following WWII and largely formalised its outcome – came in the way of those who declared themselves the winners of the Cold War. Read more Paul Craig Roberts
Russia Returns to Gold Standard – Government to Remove VAT (Tax) on Bullion. This bill will be submitted to the State Duma on March 4. . . .
Hal Turner Editorial Remarks
In one fell swoop, Russia just made the Russian Ruble the single most stable currency in the entire world.
Moreover, they just fucked the US Dollar and the EURO so badly, neither currency is likely to survive.
Nobody around the world will favor a US dollar, backed by nothing, from a nation $30 TRILLION in debt, versus a gold-backed Ruble.
Russia just completely SMASHED the United States and the EUROZONE.\
When Muammar Qaddafi in Libya planned on a Gold-backed currency for all of Africa, the West went into Libya and overthrew him.
When Saddam Hussein in Iraq announced he would start selling oil in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar, two months later was Iraq War 2 – and they hung him!
The U.S. Dollar being the sole reserve currency for this planet is why wars get waged, and now Russia has completely, totally smashed it.
You watch. The U.S. that has been saying “no nuclear war” and even Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin saying yesterday “All this talk of nuclear war is dangerous, stop it” is going to change almost overnight. The US is now in an existential crisis. Our currency has just been utterly smashed by Russia’s decision to back the Ruble with Gold.
Watch the rhetoric about Russia from this moment on. You will notice it is ratcheted-up to vilification like you’ve never seen before. Why, they’ll probably start accusing Russian troops of throwing babies out of incubators in Ukraine hospitals (like they accused Iraq) in order to justify going to war with Russia.
In my personal opinion, war with Russia is now a foregone conclusion. The US and Europe have no choice. If the Dollar and the EURO are to survive, Russia must be killed. Hal Turner read more
Michael Hoffman – NATO is a Moral Cesspit
February 27, 2022
By Michael Hoffman
President Biden has declared that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine will bring about a “catastrophic loss of life.”
That’s what George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleeza Rice perpetrated in Iraq from 2003 onward.
Mr. Cheney was enthusiastically applauded in Congress as recently as last January 6.
Mr. Bush has been passionately embraced in public by former First Lady Michelle Obama.
Condoleeza Rice is a well-paid “expert” commentator on Russia and Ukraine featured prominently in the US media that proudly employ her.
Joe Biden fully supported the bloody war crime invasion of Iraq, a nation that had not harmed America. Mr. Biden and the US ruling class are corrupt hypocrites. Putin will not be lectured or morally blackmailed by mass murderers pointing fingers at him.
Moreover, 32 years ago this month the George H.W. Bush administration promised the Russian government that if Russia surrendered East Germany, NATO would not “expand one inch eastward.”
That trick was played on the Russians by the cunning US Secretary of State James Baker, the Jimmy Savile child molestation facilitator Margaret Thatcher of Britain, and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. With supreme treachery, Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush subsequently pushed for the maximal expansion of NATO, in violation of the promise given to Russia. This is a major source of Putin’s grievance at present.
Another root of his casus belli can be traced to1999, when, with the avid assistance of President Bill Clinton, the NATO we are expected to believe is the guarantor of lofty virtue and blissful peace, carpet-bombed the Christian nation of Serbia for two and one-half months, bombing churches, schools and the civilian centers of Serbian cities, and refusing a humanitarian cease fire even for Easter (see here, here and here). Inflicting so-called “moderate suffering” on the civilian Orthodox Christian population suited NATO planners, as well as Mr. Clinton, and NATO’s US commander, Wesley Kanne Clark.
In 2011, at the urging of US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, NATO bombed the African nation of Libya and facilitated the torture-death of Muammar Gaddafi (sodomized with a bayonet), to the delight of Mrs. Clinton who expressed joy over the sadistic savagery:
“Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed. “We came, we saw, he died,” she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi’s death by an aide in between formal interviews.” [Source: CBS News, October 20, 2011]
Near total amnesia about NATO’s horrific war crimes and the depraved American and European malefactors who perpetrate them has been induced by the corporate media. The Russians have not forgotten, however.
The historical illiteracy of Americans is cringe-inducing. On Fox News on the evening of February 23 the host of the program stated that Russia’s entry into Ukraine was tantamount to Canada invading the American Midwest.
Madame, the midwestern United States was never part of Canada, but the Viking Rus did found the Russian nation more than 1,000 years ago, in Kiev.
Ukrainians and Russians have mutual interests and kinship across centuries. An alien wedge has been driven between these kindred peoples by an Anglo-American/European Babylon fronted by Brussels and NATO, and fuelled by CIA and MI6 misinformation, infiltration and subversion. Henry Makow read more
Paul Craig Roberts
Think back to 2014 when the US overthrew the Ukrainian government and installed a neo-Nazi regime. The neocons were smirking, laughing at how easy it was to buffalo the Russians. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland publicly bragged about how the US had spent $5 billion dollars preparing the overthrow of Ukraine. Much cheering of how Ukraine would now be used to destabilize Russia and seize the Russian Black Sea naval base.
After a long frustrating, humiliating 8 years of trying to get the West’s attention that this was not a scheme Russia could accept, and after one last effort which got nowhere, Russia has acted.
In his speech this morning Putin explained the long years of Russian frustration in her efforts to achieve mutual security with the West which remained intent on its own domination. Here are opening words from Putin’s address:
“I consider it necessary today to speak again about the tragic events in Donbass and the key aspects of ensuring the security of Russia.
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The development dynamic of the medical industry is nearly without parallel in any other industry. New materials, production methods, and optimised designs drive innovation in orthopaedic implants for hips, knees and the spinal column. These products are characterised by high geometric accuracy and surface quality, long service life and biocompatibility. This enables patients to benefit from fast healing success and reliable long-term function.
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The precise fit of the conical jam-fit between the ball head and hip stem, as well as between the hip socket and insert, is especially important for the functioning and product safety of the implant.
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Our closing thought helps us think about how noise affects us and lets us consider where we can go to escape from the hustle and bustle of our daily lives.
An evil black liquid is stopping the sun from shining on Aliikai’s Kingdom of Pearls. She has to find a way to rid the sea
These words from the Tao and the Kingdom of Pearls are often misspelled.
Cut out the sentences and arrange the main events of Tao and the Kingdom of Pearls in the correct order.
Read through the 'Up above and down below' closing thought and talk about the ideas in it during your class or school assembly.
Use this activity sheet to help children devise their own questions in a class quiz on Tao and the Kingdom of Pearls.
Match the Tao and the Kingdom of Pearls character to their personality trait.
Help children to build up a fuller picture of the characters in Tao and the Kingdom of Pearls.
A treasure hunt maths activity. Use with the 'Spirals and pearls' maths lesson or use with your own maths sequencing activities.
Look at how colours can be linked to words and talk about the shades of meaning.
Use this story planner to help with story structure when writing or telling stories.
Sewing with embroidery silks onto felt gives great results for beginner sewing projects. Use the techniques demonstrated to create simple shell cushions.
Use this shell template for simple sewing projects. Children can cut out the shell shape, draw round it onto felt with a felt-tipped pen and cut
Use these 'Shell shape' templates for your concrete poetry writing.
Use our 'Sea words' resource sheet for looking at shades of meaning with words describing different kinds of waves.
A collection of poems all about the seaside from children’s writer Jenny Heap.
This activity sheet investigates how it is important to have your own ideas about stories.
Talk to the children about what could be happening in our Sea topic's story starter image. (Also, perfect for talking about scale.)
Investigate Peter Adderley's paintings, which are an idealised, stylised version of reality.
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Start your Plucky ducks lesson with the 'Plucky ducks, all at sea' poem or use as inspiration for your own poetry.
Use this activity sheet to help children have a better understanding of our ocean's currents.
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This issue’s radio play All hands on deck, finds time traveller Amadeus Jones taking a trip to the 16th century where he meets Sir Walter Raleigh.
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Anatomy of a Light
There are many components and considerations that are important in understanding the anatomy of a light and therefore the effect light has on the anatomy of the space. Having an understanding of the components that make up a light is essential in achieving the right mood for the space as well as ensuring the space functions effectively for the end user. Understanding the technical anatomy of a light such as the lighting interface, wiring and LED drivers assists in creating a well functioning space. In addition, understanding the aesthetic anatomy of a light such as mounting, ceiling canopies and the light source assists in creating the right mood and aesthetic for the space.
The lighting interface can vary significantly between different types of light sources. Consideration at the beginning of the project needs to be made into who needs to control the lighting onsite and what level of control is required over the lighting. For example, there are some situations when you would want to restrict access to lighting controls such as childcare, aged care, public spaces and retail environments.
Typically electrical wiring for light fittings will either be 3-core or 5-core depending on the light source. Most standard ES lampholders run off 240 volt, which requires 3-core wiring including 2 power cables and one earth cable. If a product has been wired using 3-core it can be difficult to later retrofit a digital dimming system. Whereas most LED light sources run off 12 or 24 volt, which requires 5-core wiring including 2 power cables, 1 earth cable and 2 data cables. In 5-core systems, data is passed in both directions which allows for information to flow from the interface to the light fitting and vice versa.
An LED driver is required to regulate power to an LED light fitting. LED drivers can be non-dimmable or dimmable, typically dimmable drivers run on DALI, DSI or Switch DIM systems. It is common for LED drivers to be located in the ceiling cavity, however they can also be located on the light fitting itself as well as remote mounted in track lighting systems. It is important to be aware of the distance between the driver and the light source, because if there is more than 3m distance between the driver and the light source there is a risk of electromagnetic interference with the data signal. If you want your lighting system to work with digital dimming systems then you need the following:
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These teams compete in opposition to different faculties in or near their state and relying on what sport you play, there can also be regional and national competitions. If you disable this cookie, we won’t be able to avoid wasting your preferences. This implies that every time you visit this website you might want to enable or disable cookies once more. Strictly Necessary Cookie must be enabled always in order that we are able to save your preferences for cookie settings. Funding actually is a barrier, and the £150m group ownership fund will help to plug the hole left by the neighborhood pub enterprise support programme, which is due to end this month.
Soon after, he started the Get Acquainted Tennis Club, an adult program that he ran for 33 years’ price of Saturday mornings at Charlottesville High School. “When I think of the Boar’s Head Sports Club and of the people who make that place so particular, I consider Ron Manilla,” UVA men’s tennis head coach Andres Pedroso stated. “He’s somebody who treats everybody with consideration, is so type to everybody, a pal to all people within the organization and all the members.
They are claiming to pay to users however as per some feedback and experience i think they don’t seem to be paying to each employee. Singleton extended gratitude to Holtfield Coffee Station for working with the art club and permitting such a “great alternative” for the students. The sleeves are all being painted by the 36 fifth-graders who comprise the artwork club from the two elementary schools.
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“Ron has opened so many doors for us in the Charlottesville community – and much past. In 2008, Manilla started the “Xperience” Special Olympics tennis event at the Boar’s Head. Manilla has been instrumental in bringing a pair of professional tournaments to the Boar’s Head that, starting in 2002, Charlottesville neighborhood members have flocked to. Manilla began as the total-time YMCA tennis director in the late Seventies.
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We present that neural activity in the aging hippocampus and medial parietal areas is decoupled from individual studying states across repeated episodes in a novel spatial setting. Importantly, we discover that elevated excitability of the anterior hippocampus may constitute a potential neural mechanism for cognitive mapping deficits in old age. click to take heed to Rick HeckPenalties and shutoffs have been suspended for water customers unable to pay their bills. Meanwhile, Heck says a recommendation from the committee will doubtless take about a 12 months.
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Researchers have appeared into asking customers to determine objects in Magic Eye-like blotches. “When you flip my age, you start to consider things that you should be doing,” Manilla said. Is it that I’m drained and simply able to give up? No, as a result of I nonetheless have a passion for it.
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All in all, playing in a club sport is a superb alternative for athletes to continue their profession without the stress of being totally committed to a school sport. It’s an effective way to make associates while additionally getting train and having fun. Attending a brand new school with new people and not a lot of acquainted faces is a problem for anybody. For Taylor, becoming a member of the staff helped her discover her people. “It was not a make or break decision, however my faculty has a really good club lax program and it was an additional benefit,” Ramsey stated. With the pandemic and financial troubles, many colleges have made the decision to cut some of their varsity sports.
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So it’ll be enjoyable to observe this unfold once more, however I nonetheless discover it humorous from a satire perspective—this “okay, you possibly can have an excellent aristocrat, as a treat” vibe. The part on the reward for killing the dragon, and what’s the going rate and whether or not it’s a worthy sum, is a kind of few conditions where I’ll do math for fun. It’s only a really great method to get a learn on how everybody’s doing when it comes to wages and economic system and all that. The fifty thousand dollar reward right here is fairly substantial, should you’re looking at it from the perspective of a general citizen like Vimes. Members of the Watch get thirty dollars a month, which adds up to 360 dollars a year.
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Instead, a lot of the net could have a constant, secret Turing take a look at running in the background. But the machines are once once more catching up. All those awnings that may or is probably not storefronts? They’re the endgame in humanity’s arms race with the machines. Members of the Boar’s Head workers doubtless share an analogous sentiment. Around the club, it’s commonplace to see them immersed in deep conversation with Manilla.
So despite the fact that these two haven’t met, we’re being proven that this is finally one dependancy unknowingly battling one other. The query becomes who is going to succumb to theirs first. The Patrician has introduced a reward of fifty thousand dollars to anyone who can deliver him the dragon’s head. Vimes discusses that plan with Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler, who is promoting anti-dragon wares to as many marks as attainable. Vimes goes to stand amongst the hunters, who don’t appear to assume that the reward is high enough for all of the overhead and points in the aftermath. The Archchancellor deflects magnificently, and the Patrician goes to Wonse for suggestions on how he may handle the issue.
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However, the shady part about it’s that they didn’t include the duration of the mentioned plan. Just to add, it is just restricted to 250 captchas to solve in a day. So to put it simply, I would not suggest Captcha Club to anyone for its reviews and complaints it acquired is an indication that it has the potential of being a scam site. Do not waste your time and money right here. Another is if you take time to go to their social media pages, you’ll discover that they have tons of inquiries, messages, and complaints about their service.
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This could cause a trickle effect and improve club sport participation by skilled athletes, as these athletes will drop down a degree to continue to pursue their sport. My social circle is mostly my club associates, I’m even moving in with a few of them,” Stotland stated. Joining a club sport has given all three women a brand new group of friends. They are close with their teammates and are even shifting in with their teammates subsequent year.
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As you’ll be able to see, some corporations promote this sort of service by crowdsourcing the job to employees around the world. You might agree that memberships are normally supplied to prospects, and not to workers who have to earn cash and not spend money. That is more than the minimum wage in many international locations, and too good to be true for such a simple job. Many folks may not read the FAQ and end up working for days until they attain the minimum threshold. Notify me of recent posts by e mail.Credible system and accredited by officials computer based mostly work trying operatros with no expertise and expertise.
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The staff at this type of work are among the many lowest-paying staff. Such online jobs could also be ideal for faculty students, but not fitted to people looking for a full time online jobs. First is that almost about its payout provides. The rate of pay of Captcha Club for solving or answering captchas are ridiculously high. To a degree that you could make $one hundred inside a day.
Ultimate frisbee may not look like a club sport compared to lacrosse and water polo and could also be seen more as an intramural, according to Taylor, that doesn’t stop them from practicing hard. Some other advantages of joining a club team embrace getting a mental break, getting to experience a new sport and meeting a new group of pals. On the other hand, Stotland and her club water polo staff do have access to varsity amenities. Many faculties provide varsity athletes with athletic trainers, training services, and tutorial help. Some schools do not give club sport athletes entry to those facilities whereas others do. Many club sports are funded by students with perhaps somewhat assist from the school.
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The guests’ first objective came from one Howard Wilkinson, and the win earned Boston a house tie with Lincoln City in spherical one. I was hooked from then on, and saw eight more Kettering video games that season – together with the fogged off, twice-played Bedford match, and the County Cup ties with Northampton and Corby. I made the mistake of not buying a programme for the Corby recreation, something I have but to put right. “Katie With the Smiling Eyes” hailed from Sligo, and Margaret, the topic of “Legacies,” from Leitrim. Delatorre Retired from american org. Then, I thought I will get some extra income without my common job as a result of this way.
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Human sexual behavior, human sex or sexual practice is the way that humans express and experience their sex. Sex is an essential part of human life that has been shaped and developed through history and is present in all cultures around the world. Individuals engage in various sexual acts, ranging from random acts done completely by accident to highly orchestrated actions with another individual in varying frequency, for a myriad of different reasons. Although most people who engage in this activity do so as a natural part of their everyday lives, there are some who choose to explore other ways of reaching orgasm.
For the purposes of this article we will focus on identifying one’s sexual identity or genotype. Sexual identity refers to the psychological makeup of an individual as it relates to sexual behavior and/or preference. Individuals with an external genetic factor predisposing them to engage in certain sexual behaviors (e.g., female dominant sexual orientation) are said to have a sexually defined genotype. Individuals with a genetic variant predisposing them to engage in certain gender oriented sexual practices are referred to as phenotypic sex.
Genotypic sexual behavior is influenced by a number of factors, including genetics, hormones, social and cultural support and other personal factors. People with a strong genetic makeup are likely to express and experience sexual touching and intimacy with others, regardless of whether they feel good about the action or not. If you have had sexual touching with someone and now feel uncomfortable or unwanted, then that is probably a good time to discuss your feelings with that person. Sometimes it is possible to work out your feelings with another individual even if you are still very much attached to the person that touched you. It is very possible to change one’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Eeyou Istchee’s award-winning Indigenous museum, cultural institution, and showcase of the history of the James Bay Crees. We’re glad you’re here, and we welcome the opportunity to share our culture with you.
Aanischaaukamikw is a museum, archive, library, teaching centre, and cultural centre, and a virtual hub designed for high-powered interactivity.
Located in the UN award-winning community of Oujé-Bougoumou, Aanischaaukamikw has been developed in collaboration with all ten communities in Eeyou Istchee, and helps “complete the circle” of the James Bay Crees’ quest to exercise full control over all aspects of their lives, communities, and cultural destiny.
Aanischaaukamikw has highly advanced interactive capacity, ranging from on-site wireless applications so viewers can “tour” the building guided by their hand-held devices to worldwide distance education capabilities in which objects can be viewed and rotated, multimedia files can be played, and documents can be examined and downloaded.
Our visitor interpreters, our researchers and our curators are all oriented to interact and share with visitors. This echoes a philosophy of knowledge transfer that encourages and validates the storytelling traditions.
Aanischaaukamikw flows from the knowledge that Cree culture and language must be captured, maintained, shared, celebrated, and practiced. Cree Elders have spoken of the need for a central place for the protection of “the ways”, and have developed a vision for Aanischaaukamikw over several decades.
Aanischaaukamikw is the realization of that vision. It is our primary location for preservation heritage, including documents, media, and physical objects, designed for preservation, conservation, and knowledge transfer.
More than anything, it is a living, breathing symbol of our determination as Eeyouch to preserve and share the stories and legends, the music, the pictures, and the physical objects that show this Indigenous people’s unique interaction with the land, expressed through hunting, fishing, trapping, and underscored with a reverence for the land we have always walked.
While the vision for Aanischaaukamikw had been discussed for decades, the actual project moved into high gear in 1998. A campaign team was formed, and over the next 13 years, over $21.5 million was raised for the building project and endowments from governments, businesses, Cree entities, individuals and families, and memoranda of agreements were struck with major institutions like the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
In November 2009 a ground-breaking ceremony started the construction of the building. In November 2011, Aanischaaukamikw opened its doors to the public for the first time.
The Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute Board of Directors provides oversight for all aspects of the day-to-day operations. This group has representatives from all ten James Bay Cree communities, headed by an Executive Committee.
Inspiration for Aanischaaukamikw’s bold design, with its massive laminated spruce beams, comes from the essential structure of the traditional Cree sabtuan.
Inspiration for Aanischaaukamikw’s bold design, with its massive spruce beams, comes from the essential structure of the traditional Cree sabtuan.
The original design was developed by eminent First Nations architect Douglas Cardinal through a series of visioning sessions and close collaboration with Elders. Cardinal and Rubin Rotman Architects of Montreal brought the project to completion.
Aanischaaukamikw has the distinction of certification as a “Category A Museum”, the highest standard for environmental conditions for a museum, and also has achieved the coveted LEED Silver Status.
The Institute has 279 m² (3,003 square feet) of exhibition space, 1,385 m² (14,908 square feet) of storage, lab, administrative, and technical space.
The building’s main level is divided into four key areas:
The entire building has temperature and humidity-controlled storage, research labs, administration, and conservation spaces, and office space for Cree entities concerned with language, traditional pursuits, arts and crafts, and tourism.
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Leaky capillaries in the brain portend early onset of Alzheimer’s disease as they signal cognitive impairment before hallmark toxic proteins appear, new USC research shows.
The number of Americans with Alzheimer’s is expected to more than double to about 14 million in 40 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Five Alzheimer’s drugs are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to temporarily help with memory and thinking problems, but none treats the underlying cause of the disease or slow its progression. Researchers believe that successful treatment will eventually involve a combination of drugs aimed at multiple targets.
USC Alzheimer’s research: five-year study
USC’s five-year study, which involved 161 older adults, showed that people with the worst memory problems also had the most leakage in their brain’s blood vessels — regardless of whether abnormal proteins amyloid and tau were present.
“The fact that we’re seeing the blood vessels leaking, independent of tau and independent of amyloid, when people have cognitive impairment on a mild level, suggests it could be a totally separate process or a very early process,” said senior author Berislav Zlokovic, director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. “That was surprising that this blood-brain barrier breakdown is occurring independently.”
In healthy brains, the cells that make up blood vessels fit together so tightly they form a barrier that keeps stray cells, pathogens, metals and other unhealthy substances from reaching brain tissue. Scientists call this the blood-brain barrier. In some aging brains, the seams between cells loosen, and the blood vessels become permeable.
If the blood-brain barrier is not working properly, then there is the potential for damage.
“If the blood-brain barrier is not working properly, then there is the potential for damage,” said co-author Arthur Toga, director of the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute at the Keck School of Medicine. “It suggests the vessels aren’t properly providing the nutrients and blood flow that the neurons need. And you have the possibility of toxic proteins getting in.”
Series of tests determines ‘clinical dementia rating score’ in USC Alzheimer’s research
Participants in the study had their memory and thinking ability assessed through a series of tasks and tests, resulting in measures of cognitive function and a “clinical dementia rating score.” Individuals diagnosed with disorders that might account for cognitive impairment were excluded. The researchers used neuroimaging and cerebral spinal fluid analysis to measure the permeability, or leakiness, of capillaries serving the brain’s hippocampus, and found a strong correlation between impairment and leakage.
“The results were really kind of eye-opening,” said first author Daniel Nation, an assistant professor of psychology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. “It didn’t matter whether people had amyloid or tau pathology; they still had cognitive impairment.”
The researchers cautioned that their findings represent a snapshot in time. In future studies, they hope to get a better sense of how soon cognitive problems occur after blood vessel damage appears. Zlokovic said it’s unlikely that scientists will soon abandon amyloid and tau as Alzheimer’s biomarkers, “but we should be adding some vascular biomarkers to our toolkit.”
In addition to Zlokovic, Toga and Nation, the study’s authors are Melanie Sweeney and Axel Montagne of USC, who are co-first authors with Nation; Abhay Sagare, Lina D’Orazio, Maricarmen Pachicano, Farshid Sepehrband, Amy Nelson, John Ringman, Lon Schneider, Helena Chui and Meng Law, all of USC; Tammie Benzinger, John Morris and Anne Fagan of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; and Michael Harrington and David Buennagel of Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena.
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ISLAMABAD (APP): Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi Monday cautioned the international community against a sluggish response over Afghanistan as it could cause grave humanitarian consequences.
“The challenges are daunting. The situation is becoming dire for around 18 million people of Afghanistan – directly in need of humanitarian assistance,” the foreign minister said in a statement delivered in a high-level ministerial meeting held in a hybrid format, in Geneva on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan
The foreign minister said solidarity must be shown with the Afghan people at this pivotal juncture, both in terms of financial and political support, adding it was a time to renew developmental partnerships, support nation-building, and meet the humanitarian needs of the Afghan population.
“Today’s Afghanistan represents an important opportunity as it begins its journey towards sustainable peace and development. The recurring cycles of conflict and instability during the last 4 decades can finally be stopped,” he opined.
Durable solutions require scaling up developmental interventions, provision of livelihood opportunities, and ensuring access to basic necessities such as food, health, and education for the Afghan people.
He said when they focused on the humanitarian situation inside Afghanistan, they must not forget millions of Afghans in large refugee-hosting countries, for whom the international support had dwindled over the years.
In line with the principle of international responsibility and burden sharing, Qureshi said, host communities must be supported especially during these challenging times of COVID-19.
“And peace cannot consolidate unless Afghanistan is provided the necessary economic and fiscal space. Past mistakes must not be repeated. The Afghan people must not be abandoned. It is essential to take a long-term view and adopt a pragmatic approach,” he stressed.
The foreign minister said on its part, Pakistan had been supporting the humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan in several ways, including by facilitating the evacuation and relocation of international staff, and the establishment of a humanitarian corridor for the delivery of relief goods through air and land routes.
“We are already airlifting humanitarian assistance comprising food and medicines to Afghanistan, which will be followed by supplies through land routes as well. Pakistan continues to host more than 3 million Afghan refugees, for over 4 decades. Over the years, we have also earmarked over one billion U.S. dollars for a range of development projects in Afghanistan,” he added.
The minister said that they reaffirmed their commitment to support the provision of humanitarian relief to the Afghan people under the UN umbrella, as well as the continuity of in-kind assistance to Afghanistan. “We will also continue to facilitate the UN in its humanitarian relief efforts by providing logistical and other support through Pakistan,” he said, adding Pakistan welcomed and appreciated the efforts of the United Nations to provide much-needed humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
Qureshi said ensuring sustainable development and promoting respect for human rights required political stability and peace in Afghanistan.
He said sustained engagement with Afghanistan, especially for meeting its humanitarian needs, was indispensable.
Pakistan appreciated the leadership shown by the UN Secretary-General on this account, and the UN agencies playing a leading role in ensuring humanitarian supplies, he added.
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Correns [hawkweed Hieracium spp.] and de Vries [evening primrose Oenothera lamarckiana] each independently discovered that their cutting edge work in classical genetics had been scooped a generation previously by Gregor Mendel [prev] crossing his peas Pisum sativum and carefully recording the results. Bell was then enrolled in Girton College, Cambridge where women were allowed to attend lectures and sit exams but not get a degree. She aced the Mathematical Tripos exams the following year and started number-crunching some astronomical data on solar parallax.
Between 1904, when Trinity College Dublin first admitted women, and 1907 when that cohort finished their courses and started to graduate, a peculiar window of opportunity for intellectual women opened up in TCD. Because of a reciprocal agreement with Oxford and Cambridge Universities, women who had qualified at those misogynistic institutions were invited to receive a University of Dublin degree ad eundem gradum [to the same degree]. Certain classes of people can to this day get such a degree [top of page 5] if they can muster €1,101 and appropriate paperwork. In 1904, the polymathic Provost of TCD was Anthony Traill and he pushed to open the door for women to get a proper degree depite their being denied the opportunity in Oxbridge.
super documentary on Newstalk FM] because they generally didn't spend more than a couple of nights in Dublin before going back to work on the other side of the water. Julia Bell wasn't the cleverest woman who graduated in this fashion. That feather probably goes to Philippa Fawcett [see L] who sat the Math Tripos in 1890 and scored 13% higher marks than the best qualified man.
Fawcett went off to South Africa to train the next generations of math teachers, but Julia Bell was head-hunted by Karl Pearson to beef up the maths in the Galton Eugenics Laboratory in London. She was there for decades, working on the mathematics of [human] inheritance. Her focus moved the field away from the easy cases like Mendel's round and wrinkled peas where experimental crosses were allowable and enormous sample sizes achievable. Human genetics was much more difficult because it relied on pedigree analysis. Pedigree analysis was only useful if there were large families of several generations with reliable diagnosis and excellent record keeping. Haemophilia in the royal families of Europe? That was possible. Hereditary deafness in the Davies family, shepherds and coal-miners up the Rhondda Valley in S. Wales - not so much.
In 1937, Bell collaborated with JBS Haldane [prev] to nail down the genetic linkage between colour-blindness and haemophila, the mutations for which were both known to be carried on the X-chromosome. Because the paper was published in the Proceeding of the Royal Society, the PDF is available albeit in a grey on grey scan that isn't easy for old eyes to read. The data wasn't easy to analyse either and the paper is not for the faint of algebraic heart. At issue is the case of heterozygous women: whether women need two copies of the mutant gene to manifest the disease or if one copy will do. Haemophilia is vanishingly rare in women because a) it is fully recessive = two duff-copies needed b) it requires a haemophiliac father who hasn't bled to death before he was old enough to make babies. This is decades before Factor VIII was available to ameliorate the symptoms of haemophilia. The discussion of the other disease starts with a great Haldanesque tell-it-like-it-is: "On the other hand, colour-blind women whose putative fathers are not colour-blind occur too frequently to be explained by illegitimacy." Which highlights another aspect of dodgy data in human pedigrees [prev on non-paternity] which doesn't happen is properly constituted lab-animal experiments. I think that analysis was the first description of genetic linkage in humans; and required finding 4 large families through which both disorders ran for several generations.
PDF here] of what we now know as Fragile X mental retardation but which was for many years know eponymously as Martin-Bell Syndrome: from another big pedigree study [part of which is shown above] in which boys kept popping up with 'mental deficiency', autism, big ears, long face and unfeasibly large testicles. Intercalated in the same extended family are numerous children smart enough to win scholarships. The paper included a lot of peripheral [and judgemental] data <TMI> V 32, said to be very fat, is employed in a fish shop . . .IV 3, a heavily built woman, crippled by arthritis . . . V48 Is unemployable, wet, and dirty </TMI> that would surely not be allowed in today's GDPR-compliant literature. Why Fragile X? Because if you look at the chromosomes of people with the syndrome, you can see a little waist at the end of the long-arm of Chr.X. We now know that this is due to an expansion of a CGG repeat in the FMR1 gene at that location. FMR1 affects the location and abundance of receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate - ah but that's another story for another time.
After WWII, Victor McKusick, of Johns Hopkins U, started to accumulate and publish everything that was known about genetics in our species; the first edition in 1966 flagged nearly 1,500 conditions. In 1987, the project went on-line to become OMIM now documenting nearer to 25,000 variations which are heritable. Not all of these are diseases: Kirk Douglas used to feature because his sons have a cleft chin just like their dad; but some post-McKusick functionary has tidied that anecdote out of OMIM entry 119000. OMIM is neverheless a treasure trove of genetical miscellania.
But Julia Bell probably deserves most credit for an infrastructural project that served as the human genetic foundation from which many subsequent forays towards the frontiers of science could be launched. The other great infrastructurialist, McKusick became famous for building on her work a generation later. Bell's gaffer Karl Pearson started compiling The Treasury of Human Inheritance in 1909 and the Galton Lab was still keeping the compendium up to date 50 years later in 1958. The most significant contributor in word count was certainly Julia Bell especially in the areas of ophthalmic and neurological genetics; as exemplified by her work [see above] on the mental and neurological deficits of Fragile-X. There is a good tribute to this period of her life by Peter Harper of Cardiff U. in Human Genetics (2005) v116:422-432 but you may have to go to SciHub to step round the paywall. I allowed myself a snitty comment about extraneous information in Martin & Bell but Bell's work on ToHI is characterised by the breadth of its accumulated, and apparently miscellaneous, data which has allowed subsequent workers to mine her tables for useful information long, long after the patients and their families have passed beyond their ability to contribute a DNA sample.
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Goa CET 2021 Answer Key will be available for download at the official website., dte.goa.gov.in. It is released by DTE Goa. The purpose of the Goa Common Entrance Test 2021 Answer Key is to predict the marks and estimate the results. It is released for sets A, B, C and D for subjects Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics To calculate marks, candidates need to add 01 marks for a correct answer. However, there is no negative marking. The total marks obtained by adding the marks is the probable GCET 2021 score of the candidate. Check more details on GCET 2021 Answer Key from this page.
Goa CET Answer Key 2021
Answer key of GCET will be released for all subjects in a single pdf. The examination will be conducted in 3 slots over a period of two days. The answer key provides the right answer to each question. Check below the date regarding the same.
|Goa CET Answer Key 2021||Dates|
|Physics exam for BE, B.Pharm courses under GCET 2021||29 Jul 2021|
|Chemistry exam for BE, B.Pharm courses under GCET 2021||29 Jul 2021|
|Mathematics exam for BE, B.Pharm courses under GCET 2021||30 Jul 2021|
|Answer key release date for Goa CET 2021||4-5 days after exam|
|Declaration of GCET 2021 Result||to be announced|
Download Here: Answer key of GCET 2021 will be available here after exam.
How to Use Goa CET 2021 Answer Key
Now, once you have downloaded the answer key, you must know how to use the answer key. Here we have provided the exam pattern and marking scheme of the exam:
Exam pattern: There will be a total of 75 in each paper and candidates will have to solve them in 2 hours time. The question will be multiple choice and will have 4 options out of which only 1 question will be correct.
Formula: The marking scheme to be used is +1 for each correct answer and no marks for wrong or unattempted questions.
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Highlights of GCET 2021 Answer key
- The answer key for booklet series ie, A, B, C and D for subjects Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics will be provided.
- The answer key contains answers to all 225 question that were asked in the entrance test. From each subject, 75 questions will be asked,
- Comparing the answer as filled by the candidate in the entrance test with that of in the answer key, can estimate the scores to be obtained in the test.
Purpose of Answer Key
The answer release before the result is declared, candidates can actually access their chances in advance by calculating their scores. Based on the scores calculated by the candidate, you may pin down the colleges you wish to wish. You are able to know in which area you scored better and which area needs more work. The actual result will, however, be known, once the result will be out but until then checking your performance in the test gives the candidate a sense of confidence.
GCET 2021 Result
The result for GCET 2021 will be declared after the commencement of the examination. Also, a merit list will be prepared by DTE as per the marks obtained by candidates in the examination. No individual score card shall be issued. Any change in schedule will be notified in designated newspapers.
GCET Previous Years Answer Keys
The answer key is released for each subject separately. Here we have provided previous years answer keys of GCET is provided below. Candidates can use these answer key to in case they are solving some previous year’s question paper.
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Vehicles requiring permission
Guidance for abnormal loads and agricultural vehicles.
Advance notification is required for:
- Anything wider than 2.90m (9’ 6”)
- Anything longer than 18.65m (61’)
Advance notification and indemnity is required
- Anything heavier than 44 tonnes
- Anything longer than 27.40m (90’)
Loads that could cause congestion are not permitted to cross at the following times:
- During peak traffic hours, i.e. Monday to Friday 0600 - 0900 and 1600 - 1900 (1530 -1900 on Friday)
- Or at the Control Room Staff’s discretion, depending on incidents, accidents or roadworks.
Loads over 196 tonnes are not permitted to cross the bridge.
Agricultural vehicles include tractors, tractors towing loaded trailers and other agricultural vehicles such as combine harvesters (on trailers or crossing under their own power).
Agricultural vehicles permitted to use the Queensferry Crossing are covered by Classes I or II in Schedule 3 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 and are subject to normal motorway restrictions: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/54/contents
Agricultural vehicles are permitted to use the Forth Road Bridge without the prior consent of the roads authority if they:
a) are not permitted to use the Queensferry Crossing; and
b) fall within the definition and provisions relating to agricultural motor vehicles set out in section 3 of The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986: www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/contents/made
Agricultural vehicles that do not conform with The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 may be permitted to use the Forth Road Bridge but only with the prior consent of the roads authority.
The following requirements for advance notification therefore apply:
- Agricultural vehicles up to 2.9m wide may use the Forth Road Bridge without providing advance notification.
- Agricultural vehicles over 2.9m wide but below 3.5m wide must contact FRB Control Room in advance of movement to gain permission to cross.
- Agricultural vehicles over 3.5m wide must contact FRB Control Room 24hrs in advance of movement and call again when arriving on site to gain permission to cross.
FRB Control Room can be contacted 24 hours a day on 0131 319 3083 or via firstname.lastname@example.org
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‘It wasn’t easy being a Churchill child – and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows’ ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘Mary’s affectionately intimate and emotionally volatile diaries […] are an informal record that perfectly complements Churchill’s own six authoritative volumes of memoirs of the second world war … This is a happy book’ SPECTATOR
‘A fascinating and intimate insight into the iconic Prime Minister’s family life’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘I am not a great or important personage, but this will be the diary of an ordinary person’s life in war time. Though I may never live to read it again, perhaps it may not prove altogether uninteresting as a record of my life’
In 1939 seventeen-year-old Mary found herself in an extraordinary position at an extraordinary time: it was the outbreak of the Second World War and her father, Winston Churchill, had been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty; within months he would be Prime Minister.
The young Mary Churchill was uniquely placed to observe this remarkable historical moment, and her diaries — most of which have never been published — provide a front-row view of the great events of war, as well as exchanges and intimate moments with her father. But they also capture what it was like to be a young woman during wartime. An impulsive and spirited writer, full of coming-of-age self-consciousness and joie de vivre, Mary’s diaries are untrammelled by hindsight or self-censorship or nostalgia.
From aid raid sirens at 10 Downing Street to seeing action with the ATS, from cocktail parties with presidents and royals to accompanying her father on key diplomatic trips, Mary’s wartime diaries are full of colour, rich in historical insight, and a charming and intimate portrait of life alongside Winston Churchill.
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So, you've seen sugarcane burnt with paper offerings in housing estates all over Singapore during the Lunar New Year period, specifically on the ninth day of celebrations?
You're not alone because there are plenty of young Singaporeans who are also wondering about this practice, its origins and significance.
Yes, burning paper offerings for the dead is common enough, but sugarcane?
Well, here's a handy explainer about this phenomenon and it's got to do with several myths surrounding the Hokkien people.
Sugarcane saved lives?
Sugarcane is burnt as an offering.
It is seen as an offering of thanks, as several myths describe the Jade Emperor having saved the lives of the villagers via sugarcane stalks.
One of these myths includes a bandit raid that occurred in ancient Fujian, China.
This caused most villagers to flee into the sugarcane fields and only surfaced on the ninth day of the Chinese New Year.
A variation of the myth was that the villagers were spared from a massacre by Japanese pirates by hiding in a sugarcane plantation during the eighth and ninth days of the Chinese New Year.
Yet another version of the myth involves a rebel leader, Huang Chao, who lived during the late Tang dynasty.
He and his followers successfully marauded through China from 875 C.E. onwards, until his death in 884 C.E.
The story goes that when Huang got to the Fujian province as part of his conquest, he mistook the word "person" which he heard in Hokkien to mean "wolf".
This led to a misunderstanding that Hokkien people were barbarians who couldn't tell humans from wild beasts, leading to a massacre of the villagers.
Those who escaped went into hiding amongst sugarcane stalks.
Jade Emperor's birthday
While we obviously can't confirm if these myths, they all lend themselves to the idea that the long, swaying stalks saved many lives.
Add to the fact that the ninth day of the Lunar New Year coincided with the Jade Emperor's birthday, the villagers and their descendants up till today, have been conveying their thanks via offerings of whole sugarcane.
11pm is the time to start offering
The ninth day of Chinese New Year thus, bears equal, if not greater importance, than the first day of Chinese New Year.
However, even though the birth of the Jade Emperor is said to be on ninth day, celebrations start at about 11pm on the eighth day, rather at the stroke of midnight, 12am.
This is because the Chinese Traditional Time System counted time via 12 milestones -- there are only 12 "hours" in ancient Chinese time, but each "hour" is thus equivalent to two hours in modern time.
The first, or the zi "hour" of the ninth day would, therefore, start from 11pm on the eighth day, and lasts till 1am on the ninth.
There's often a great crowd upon the local temples, and families do also carry out the proceedings in their own home, by having an altar ready.
One would see long uncut sugarcane stalks, as it represents a full year of sweetness and good luck, along with other offerings such as fruits, vegetables, seafood and roasted meats.
The plant is then burnt along with the paper offerings.
However, do note that burning of offerings should always be done in designated burners and receptacles.
Such burnt offerings ought to be carried out in a considerate manner, as it could cause a mess and inconvenience for cleaners and residents, due to flying ash, and are potential fire hazards.
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More than half of people incarcerated in American prisons and jails are parents of minor children. Ensuring that jail and prison policies support the preservation of family bonds is critical to successful reentry and strengthening the relationships between incarcerated parents and their children and families. During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has played a key role in keeping families together while a parent is incarcerated.
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HMCS COURTENAY J262
Bangor Class Minesweeper
Commissioned at Prince Rupert on 21 Mar 1942, Courtenay spent her whole career on the west coast, serving alternately with the Esquimalt and Prince Rupert Force. She was paid off on 05 Nov 1945, at Esquimalt and sold in 1946 to the Union Steamship Co., Vancouver for use as a merchant ship. However, she was not converted to this use, and has proved impossible to trace beyond 1951, when a purchase offer was made by a San Francisco firm.
In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be forgotten
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The following story was originally published as a DOE Office of Science “science highlight.”
Finding Gene Neighbors Leads to New Protein Functions
Conserved genomic neighborhoods provide a new discovery tool for understanding gene function in eukaryotes
April 5, 2021
With new research, genomic neighborhoods help scientists understand functionally related genes in eukaryotes.
Access to sequenced genomes was a watershed moment in life science research. Genome sequences spell out an organism’s DNA, the genetic code for how the organism develops, reproduces, and functions. As new technologies have developed, the availability of these gene sequences has grown exponentially. Unfortunately, scientists’ ability to decipher the functions encoded in these sequences has not kept pace. This is particularly true for eukaryotes—cells and organisms with clearly defined nuclei. As a result, researchers do not understand the function of millions of proteins, which do the work encoded in DNA. This challenge requires researchers to develop computational tools for predicting the function of gene sequences. In this study, researchers working with green algae discovered that physically clustered genes in eukaryotic genomes can be maintained over hundreds of millions of years. This phenomenon can help predict function.
Genomics hold the key to unlocking breakthroughs in bioenergy, carbon sequestration, and climate change mitigation. Leveraging insight from natural processes, researchers can design nature-inspired solutions to these challenges. This discovery will help researchers decode genomes and discover new, previously hidden functions. New functions and pathways can then in turn form the basis of novel synthetic biology strategies for important challenges. At the same time, findings made with green algae can provide clues into gene functions in their plant relatives. This technique also paves the way for larger and more robust gene function mining in eukaryotes with the inclusion of more genomes.
Although a popular method in relatively simple prokaryotes, scientists believed function prediction using gene proximity techniques was of little value in eukaryotes. This new research reassessed this common assumption. Surprisingly, green algal genomes contain blocks of positionally orthologous genes, whose significance is underscored by their conservation for long periods—700 million years in some cases. Although the selective advantage of maintaining gene neighbors is presently unknown, this study found that these neighborhoods can be used to understand gene function in the same way gene proximity has been used to understand prokaryotic gene function. Integrating the positional analysis with a phylogenomics-based computational genomics approach led to the discovery of a novel arsenic detoxification pathway and a unique way that algae make sunscreen.
Crysten E. Blaby-Haas
Brookhaven National Laboratory
This work was supported by the Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Biological, and Environmental Research, as part of the Quantitative Plant Science Initiative Scientific Focus Area at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Foflonker, F. and Blaby-Haas, C.E, Colocality to Cofunctionality: Eukaryotic Gene Neighborhoods as a Resource for Function Discovery. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38, 650-662 (2021). [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa221]
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This book explores the rationale, methodologies, and results of arts-based approaches in social work research today. It is the first dedicated analysis of its kind, providing practical examples of when to choose arts-based research, how the arts are used by social work researchers and integrated with additional methods, and ways to evaluate its efficacy. The multiple examples of arts-based research in social work in this book reveal how arts methods are inherently connected to the resilience and creativity of research participants, social workers, and social work researchers. With international contributions from experts in their fields, this is a welcome overview of the arts in social work for anyone connected to the field.
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Flexible Work Schedule
A flexible schedule allows an employee to work hours that differ from the normal company start and stop time. A flexible schedule allows workers to vary when they come in and leave their workplace. This refers also to people who work at home.
Does your company offer a flexible work schedule?
Everyone wants flexibility in their lives so that they can have a work-life balance that allows them to enjoy the best of both worlds. Adding flexible work schedules to the list of perks at work is a rapidly growing trend that can do wonders for your business.
Put yourself in your employee’s shoes for a minute. A flexible work schedule sounds nice, right? But is it good for the employer too? Let’s take a look at the Pros and Cons of Flexible Work Schedules.
Pros of a Flexible Working Schedule
Because working at home is part of the flexible working arrangement, employers can often save money on their ancillary expenses. This is because less office space is needed with workers at home, plus fewer furniture and personal needs are required at the office. Flexible working creates better economics.
Through flexible working, you can use the time you normally waste traveling to the office and spend more quality time with your family instead. Flexible work schedule reduced fuel consumption by the employer and less wastage of time by commuting and traveling from home to workplace and vice versa.
If you have a flexible work schedule you can be able to meet the day to day errands and take care of family members without any interference in work. It allows employees to meet family needs and life responsibilities as well.
Flexible work hours provide enhanced job control. When the amount of job control increases, this leads to a reduction of workplace-related stress. Hence, no unwanted disagreement between co-workers can take place. The employee decides what and how they will do the work given by the employer.
The employee does not have to be burdened by rescheduling prior commitments and juggle work along with their personal lives. This makes the employee more relax and can reduce absenteeism.
Better Client Support
The employer can easily attend a conference with the clients in the comfort of his house. Flexible working hours are beneficial for clients with different time zones.
Cons of a Flexible Working Schedule:
Flexible working often has workers coming and going throughout the day. They might become overwhelmed and lose track of the tasks and projects. Make sure to keep a to-do list every day to hold themselves accountable. A lack of contact with colleagues at the office could limit the cohesiveness of teams and exchange of ideas.
Not Every Employee Can Work At Home
Some of the employees won’t have the proper set-up at home in order for them to stay productive. As a result, they’re unable to work at a proper time, which affects the productivity of the employee and to the whole team as well.
Liability and Security Concerns
Employees who are at work might find themselves working in an empty, or near empty, office. For instance, an accident occurs and there is no one to assist them. Security logistics may also become a challenge. Emergencies may occur and there is no one to assist them, unless they have other colleagues with them.
A flexible schedule can result in the employee working overtime, which can result in high cost. If there are no clear boundaries about working hours, then they can easily fall into the trap of working all the time. A clear working schedule must be indicated so they will be guided well on finishing the tasks on a timely manner.
Distractions Might be a Thing
There are some people who takes advantage of a flexible work as an invitation to relax. They enjoy staying at home and unknowingly, this ha affected their performance already. There will be a lot of distractions working remotely, but there are ways to prevent this. Such as designing your own home office, locking the door, and be undisturbed on designated times.
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What you don’t need to do about the recent Facebook security breach:
- Don’t rush to change your password. Passwords were not affected during the breach, so they’re as safe as you’ve made them.
- Don’t panic. Even if you find yourself logged out of Facebook for some reason, Facebook says there’s no need to worry; it will have already reset the authentication token for you so that nobody but you can gain access to your account. You’ll need to log in again by entering your password and 2FA code (if you have enabled it), but that’s all.
- Don’t delete your Facebook account. Well, of course you can always do that, but this breach is not a reason to be quite that worried.
Here’s what actually happened
On September 28, Facebook published a security update explaining that the company’s engineering team has discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. The bottom line is that somebody performed a rather sophisticated attack that allowed them to steal 50 million user access tokens.
An access token is, as Facebook describes it, basically a key to your account. If a person has it, Facebook considers that person authorized to enter that account and doesn’t request login, password, and 2FA codes. So, having stolen 50 million user access tokens, the malefactors could potentially access those 50 million accounts. But that doesn’t mean they got access to your passwords or somehow broke the two-factor authentication mechanism. Your password is secure and 2FA is still working as intended. But stealing a token is a way to bypass those defenses.
Facebook explains that investigation of the incident is in the very early stages, but for now they suspect that somebody found a vulnerability in their “View as” feature and exploited it, gaining access to 50 million account tokens. That’s why they have turned the feature off, reset the user authentication tokens for those accounts, and are in the process of resetting those tokens for another 40 million users who have used this feature in the past year. The last part seems like just a precaution, but at the moment, they can hardly be too careful.
When the token is reset, the person who has it can no longer access the account and will need to log in again. The malefactors don’t have your login or password, so even if you were affected initially, they can no longer pretend to be you and access the account.
Facebook promises to update the post once it’s clear what exactly happened and whether any of the affected accounts were somehow misused, but for now we suggest doing what we described in the beginning of the post: nothing. There’s nothing you can do at the moment, so don’t panic. When the situation clears up some more, if users can take any useful actions, we’ll let you know.
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The list of insights CERN has discovered with its Large Hadron Collider may soon grow longer. The organization, officially known as the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is firing up the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator for a third run on Tuesday, July 5, almost exactly 10 years after scientists at CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson particle.
With the third run of the 17-mile collider, CERN scientists are hoping to understand more about the universe, including dark matter and dark energy, which together make up the vast majority of the universe. “There has to be more out there because we can’t explain so many of the things that are around us,” Dr. Sarah Demers, a physics professor at Yale University, tells NPR. “There’s something really big missing, and by really big, we’re talking about 96 percent of the universe really big.”
CERN researchers previously discovered the W and Z bosons and the Higgs boson.
According to CERN’s website, the organization primarily researches fundamental particle physics, studying how four distinct forces govern the particles that make up all visible matter in the universe. In 1983, long before the Large Hadron Collider was constructed, CERN researchers discovered the W and Z bosons, which are carriers of weak force, one of the four forces. In fact, CERN’s Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer won a 1984 Nobel Prize for that discovery.
In 2012, researchers crashed particles together in the Large Hadron Collider at speeds near the speed of light and discovered the Higgs boson, a particle associated with the Higgs field, which gives mass to elementary particles.
The Higgs field is believed to have formed a tenth of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang and is believed to be responsible for stars, planets, and life in the universe, NPR reports.
During the collider’s second run in 2018, CERN researchers learned more about how the Higgs boson decays, but more research remains to be done. “This is a particle that has answered some questions for us and given many others,” Demers says.
The Large Hadron Collider’s third run will look for answers about dark matter.
The third run of the Large Hadron Collider — located near Geneva, Switzerland — will continue for the next four years, followed by the fourth run in 2030, according to CERN’s schedule. The third run will focus on the question of dark matter, the invisible matter that holds galaxies and galaxy clusters together, according to Space.com.
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The town of Cantón Génova is located in the Municipality of Tapachula (in the State of Chiapas). There are 119 inhabitants. Of all the towns in the municipality, it occupies the number #193 in terms of number of inhabitants. Cantón Génova is at 826 meters of altitude.
Data: In Cantón Génova, there is a percentage of 6% of indigenous population and 64% of the households have a cell phone. Need more statistics on Cantón Génova? They are at the bottom of this page.
The town of Cantón Génova is located at 26.9 kilometers from Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez, which is the most populated locality in the municipality, in the South direction. If you browse our webpage, you will also find a map with the location of Cantón Génova.
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The population of Cantón Génova (Chiapas) is 119 inhabitants
|Year||Female Inhabitants||Male inhabitants||Total population|
|Fertility rate (children per woman):||2.6||8.33|
|Population coming from outside the State of Chiapas:||0.84%||0.00%|
|Illiterate population (men):||5.04%||8.33%|
|Illiterate population (women):||1.68%||23.26%|
|Schooling level (men):||6.83||4.30|
|Schooling level (women):||7.65||3.04|
|Percentage of indigenous population:||5.88%||9.71%|
|Percentage speaking an indigenous language:||1.68%||4.85%|
|Percentage who speak an indigenous language and do not speak Spanish:||0.00%||0.00%|
Find out more interesting facts about all the towns in the Municipality of Tapachula (statistics, photos, maps, restaurants...) at this link.
|Employed population over 12 years:||63.03%||33.98%|
|Employed population over 12 years (men):||72.58%||50.00%|
|Employed population over 12 years (women):||52.63%||11.63%|
|Number of inhabited private dwellings:||25||28|
|Homes with electricity:||100.00%||100.00%|
|Housing with piped water:||96.00%||0.00%|
|Dwellings with toilet or sanitary facilities:||84.00%||87.50%|
|Dwellings with radio:||40.00%||75.00%|
|Housing with television:||88.00%||83.33%|
|Housing with refrigerator:||32.00%||20.83%|
|Housing with washing machine:||8.00%||0.00%|
|Housing with automobile:||20.00%||0.00%|
|Households with personal computer, laptop or tablet:||4.00%||0.00%|
|Homes with landline telephone:||0.00%||0.00%|
|Dwellings with cellular phones:||64.00%||0.00%|
|Homes with Internet:||4.00%||0.00%|
Satellite photo of Cantón Génova
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Population pyramid of Cantón Génova (Chiapas)
We have compiled data on number of inhabitants of Cantón Génova by age and sex, to show you the following population pyramid of the town, from the year 2005. You can check how the percentages of children and adults are distributed, in addition to women and men. With this data you can analyze the demographic structure, and know if in Cantón Génova there is a generational replacement.
|Age range||Number of women||Number of men||Total population|
|Infants (0-5 years)||8||9||17|
|Youth (6-14 years)||9||7||16|
|Adults (15-59 years)||34||41||75|
|Elderly (60+ years)||6||5||11|
Photos of Cantón Génova
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The Postal Code of Cantón Génova (Chiapas) is 30800
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Surprise: Someone Bought an Unsigned Artwork Not Knowing It Was a BenCab
As this year’s edition of Art in the Park drew to a close last night, Gigo Alampay, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Center for Art, New Ventures and Sustainable Development (CANVAS), made a stunning announcement on his Facebook and Instagram accounts.
He revealed that one of the artworks he had sold earlier in the day was an unsigned painting by National Artist BenCab.
Being an affordable art fair, the maximum price for any artwork sold at the fair is 50 thousand pesos. BenCab’s original works go for much, much more.
Alampay would not reveal how much he had sold the work for, but he said it was priced the way other students’ works were priced.
“I honestly have no idea how much the BenCab would go for, but I estimate it would be at least ten times more than what we sold it for,” he said.
Art in the Park Treasure Hunt Story #2: If you liked my previous story, you’re going to love this one. Again, di na namin sasabihin presyo. Basta sobrang mura. We sold this artwork at Art in the Park today. It was unsigned and we told people who asked that we didn’t know who the artist was because it was consigned to us and we didn’t realize we didn’t know by whom. So we told those interested that we would inform them later once we found out the name. One person liked it enough to buy it even if he didn’t know who did the piece. Just before leaving he said, with a smile, that he hoped our mystery artist would grow up to be someone important. Well, nagdilang anghel ka Sir! Your artist is all grown up and now goes by the name of BenCab! :-) #artintheparkph #artph #canvasph #walalang #treasurehunt
BenCab’s work was 18x12 inches, mixed media on paper.
“We sold this artwork at Art in the Park today,” wrote Alampay on his social media accounts. “It was unsigned and we told people who asked that we didn’t know who the artist was because it was consigned to us and we didn’t realize we didn’t know by whom. So we told those interested that we would inform them later once we found out the name.”
“One person liked it enough to buy it even if he didn’t know who did the piece. Just before leaving he said, with a smile, that he hoped our mystery artist would grow up to be someone important,” Alampay wrote.
“Well, nagdilang anghel ka Sir! Your artist is all grown up and now goes by the name of BenCab! ;-)” wrote Alampay.
Alampay said when he approached BenCab, the artist said yes right away. Alampay said BenCab’s partner, Annie Sarthou asked him, “where do you get all these fun ideas?”
“It was to see if people would buy just for the art itself and not for the name,” said Alampay, who also approached well-known artist Emmanuel Garibay with the same idea in mind. Garibay sent him two works, 22x16 inches, acrylic on paper.
One of Garibay’s works sold about three hours after they were both hung, said Alampay. The other remained unsold at 5 p.m., the cut-off time Alampay had set for the experiment.
“Lots of people asked about it, and quite a few even seemed amused that we had ‘forgotten’ to get the artist’s name,” said Alampay. “Some said they’d think about it and come back. They were quite a few who took pictures of the Garibays. But I had set 5 p.m. as the deadline and then we would take down any work that remained unsold by then. So there may have been collectors who did plan on going back, but they might not have gotten back on time.”
“Alas, not all treasures are meant to be found, and not all hunts come to a satisfying close,” said Alampay on his social media accounts. “This unsigned Manny Garibay piece was on display for a full seven hours and while hunters came really really close, no one was able to close the deal by 5 p.m., our self-imposed deadline.”
“Ah, the thrill of the chase. And the regret of a chance not taken. Such is life. :-)” he wrote. “But no worries. Their loss is the children’s gain. This work will now be sold at full price, with all proceeds going to our One Million Books for One Million Children campaign. It’s been a good day. :-) “
Alampay said the BenCab work went pretty quickly, just ten minutes after it was hung. The gallery had deliberately hung the work at 12:30 p.m., much later than the opening frenzy of professional collectors at 10 a.m.
“It was probably fortuitous timing—the buyer was an art teacher who happened to be in our booth at the time, looking at another work,” said Alampay. “When he saw the BenCab piece, he asked about it and when we told him it was done by a student, he said the strokes seemed so assured and mature. That’s why he decided to get the piece, he told me just before he left, after I asked him what he liked about it.”
Now that the story’s out, Alampay said the artists will not be signing the works.
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The -transform is an important signal-processing tool for analyzing the interaction between signals and systems. A significant advantage of the -transform over the discrete-time Fourier transform is that the -transform exists for many signals that do not have a discrete-time Fourier transform. Thus, it is a more general analysis tool. In this series of 13 lessons you will learn how to work with the -transform and use it to characterize signal processing systems. You will learn how the poles and zeros of a system tell us whether the system can be both stable and causal, and whether it has a stable and causal inverse system. You will also learn how the pole and zero locations of a system give us insight into the nature of its frequency and impulse response. The insights gained with the -transform are particularly useful for designing frequency-selective filters. | <urn:uuid:95d78e41-b43c-4dd4-801f-cb55922eff8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://allsignalprocessing.com/courses/the-z-transform/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.924516 | 173 | 3.21875 | 3 |
For today’s devotional, I share with you a prayer that I needed to hear this morning.
Reform our deformed lives
by Walter Brueggemann
The words are familiar to us and we are filled with yearning.
So we say them glibly, passionately, filled with hope—
liberty, mercy, freedom, release, grace, peace.
We have some fleeting notion of what we must have
in order to live our lives fully
And we have some wistful certitude that these gifts
are given only by you,
you with the many names …
you … holy, merciful, just, long-suffering, forgiving,
We gather ourselves together to subsume our hopes
under your rich names.
We name you by your name, harbinger of liberty:
hear our prayers for liberty.
We are mindful of those caught, trapped, held, imprisoned by systems of enslavement and abuse, by ideas and ideologies that demean and immobilize, by unreal hopes and ungrounded fears. We ourselves know much of un-liberty, too wounded, too obedient, too driven, too fearful. Be our massive way of emancipation and let us all be “free at last.”
We name you by your name, power of peace:
hear our prayers for peace.
We dare ask for the middle wall of hostility to be broken down, between liberals and conservatives in the church, between haves and have-nots, between victims and perpetrators, between all sorts of colleagues in this place, and in all those arenas besot with violence, rage, and hate. We know we are not meant for abusiveness, but we stutter before our vocation as peacemakers. Transform us beyond our fearfulness, our timidity, our excessive certitude, that we may be vulnerable enough to be peacemakers, and so to be called your very own children.
We name you by your name, fountain of mercy:
hear our prayer for mercy.
Our world grows weary of the battering and the vicious cycles that devour us. We seem to have no capacity to break those vicious cycles of anti-neighborliness and self-hate. We turn, like our people always have, to you, single source of newness. Waiting father, in your mercy receive us and all our weary neighbors. Remembering mother, hold us and all our desperate friends. Passionate lover, in your mercy cherish all our enemies. Gift giver, in your mercy embrace all those who are strangers to us, who are your well-beloved children. Make us, altogether, new.
Hear our prayers for liberty, for peace, for mercy.
Form us in freedom and wholeness and gentleness.
Reform our deformed lives toward
obedience which is our only freedom,
praise which is our only poetry,
and love which is our only option.
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We determine our overall health with our eating and lifestyle habits. But the modern environment has become toxic, raising our risk of various diseases, and the busy lifestyle we have doesn’t allow having a healthy diet all the time, and this needs to change right now!
When we see the results of our routine checks, we are often shocked by the high or low levels of things like blood sugar, all of which are caused by a significant eating disorder. We aren’t even aware of these “silent killers” which can cause irreparable damages to our organism.
But the luck is on your side, as we offer an incredible and quick solution for your high blood sugar.
You will need an egg and vinegar. First, boil the egg somewhere in the afternoon, and after peeling it pierce it a couple of times using a fork. Then, place it in a container and pour vinegar over the egg, and let it stay overnight. The next morning, consume the egg in combination with a glass of warm water. Do this for several days, and then check your blood sugar to compare the levels before and after the egg treatment. You will notice that your blood sugar levels will be way lower than before. This procedure is definitely worth trying and sharing with others. | <urn:uuid:547e4511-40a6-4963-a771-3c90ef5edeec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthandlovepage.com/natural-way-control-sugar-blood-one-boiled-egg/?t=HLP | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953897 | 261 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Simple, deep truths – Algonquin Elder Albert Dumont in discussion with Dalva Lamminmäki, a keeper of Finno-Ugric Shamanism and traditions (25min).
Recorded 27 April 2013 outside of Greely, a southern part of the city of Ottawa.
Dalva Lamminmäki is a healer in the tradition of Finno-Ugric shamanism. She traces her lineage to the ancient practices of the Karelia area of Finland, where she had ancestral ties. She is a teacher with the Center for Finno-Ugric Shamanism, Helsinki.
Albert Dumont, “South Wind”, is a Poet, Storyteller, Speaker, and an Algonquin Traditional Teacher. He was born and raised in traditional Algonquin territory (Kitigan Zibi). He has been walking the “Red Road” since commencing his sobriety in 1989. He has published four books of poetry and short stories and one children’s book, written in three languages. | <urn:uuid:b7a1b6fe-7f80-4b62-8de0-1a0e81ea0d52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://equitableeducation.ca/2013/spiritual-traditions-dalva-albert | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944732 | 242 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The Hidden Dangers of Cat Poop
The Hidden Dangers of Cat Poop
You might not realize just how dangerous cat poop might be. The danger is not from the cat feces itself but from a nasty parasite that is contained in the cat litter. The parasite is called Toxoplasma Gondii and it is responsible for Toxoplasmosis which can be a major problem for pregnant women and people that have problems with their immune system.
The problem is so widespread that most backyards and gardens will have oocysts active in them and it only takes a single oocyst to get infected. The widespread feral cat population and the wandering nature of outdoor pet cats mean that infected cat poop is spread widely. Using protection when digging in the garden is highly recommended and taking precautions when disposing of cat litter is also advised.
Every year, 1.2 metric tons of cat feces are deposited in the US, raising the risk of infection with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, researchers from the Stanley Medical Research Institute and Johns Hopkins University Medical Center reported in Trends in Parasitology (July 10th, 2013 issue).
“Some cat feces are contaminated with Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan known to cause toxoplasmosis epidemics in healthy individuals, not just patients with weakened immune systems and pregnant mothers.
Co-author, E. Fuller Torrey, said: “The accumulation of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts, found in cat feces, may be a much bigger problem than we realize because of their apparent long life and their association with some diseases.”
Torrey said authorities need to gain better control of cat populations, especially feral cats. He also called for more research.
American backyards and communities contain between 3 and 400 oocysts per square feet. Just one single Toxoplasma gondii oocyst can infect a human.
There are between 25 and 60 million
feral cats in the USA
Cats become infected when they catch infected mice, birds and other small mammals. The infected cat then spreads oocysts through its feces in soil, water, grass, etc.
If you have a pet cat, no mice or rats in your home and your pet stays indoors all the time, you have nothing to worry about, Torrey said. If it does spend time outdoors, be extremely careful with litter boxes, makes sure sandboxes are covered, and wear gloves when you are gardening.
Torrey quoted one study showing that 100 T. gondii oocysts may be found under your fingernails.
Co-author Robert Yolken says parents, teachers and guardians need to be extra careful with young children.
Should we get tested? – Torrey says: “No, except perhaps in the case of pregnant women. Fifteen percent of us have antibodies, including me.” Somebody may test positive one day and negative the next.
Toxoplasmosis prevention in newborns inadequate in USA – American babies born with toxoplasmosis have significantly higher rates of eye and brain damage compared to infants in Europe, researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine reported in Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.
What is Toxoplasmosis?
Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by the common Toxoplasma gondii parasite.
Signs and symptoms of toxoplasmosis are usually “flu-like” and may include
The majority of infected people will have no signs or symptoms at all.
For people with weakened immune systems, such as patients with cancer, AIDS, or transplant organ recipients on immunosuppressive medications, signs and symptoms may include the same as those listed above, plus:
- Coordination problems
- Seizures (fits)
- Tuberculosis-like complications
- Ocular toxoplasmosis – severe inflammation of the retina
Toxoplasmosis during pregnancy
If a pregnant woman becomes infected with Toxoplasma gondii, there is a 30% chance that the developing fetus will also become infected (congenital toxoplasmosis), even if the mother has no symptoms.
The pregnant mother is more likely to pass on the infection during the third trimester. However, the risk of more serious outcomes is greater earlier on during the pregnancy.
The following risks and complications are possible if the pregnant mother becomes infected with Toxoplasma gondii:
- Miscarriage or stillbirth
- The baby may suffer from seizures
- The newborn will have jaundice
- The infant may have serious eye infections
- The newborn may have brain damage
- The baby’s liver and spleen may be enlarged
- Most complications appear when the child is a teenager or later, and may include:- deafness
– recurrent and serious eye infections
– rheumatoid arthritis
– brain cancer
– mental problems, including schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and problems in school
Cat population explosion worldwide
As background information, Torry and Yolken informed that between 1989 and 2006 in the US, cat ownership rose by about 50%, from 54.6 million to 81.7 million. However, during the same period, the country’s human population grew by only 23%. There are also between 25 and 60 million feral cats in the US.
In the UK, cat ownership rose from 4.5 million in 1990 to 8 million in 2009. Cat ownership has increased all over the world, especially in China and Latin America.
Some cat owners are very close to their pets. Torrey quoted one study showing that 62% of cats sleep with their adult owners and another 13% slept with children.
Written by Christian Norqvist”
There has certainly been a huge increase in cat ownership and in feral cat populations. The information that cats that are kept indoors are not at risk of contracting or spreading the parasite is welcome news for those of us that like to keep our pets away from native wildlife.
Even keeping your own cats indoors doesn’t prevent other cats coming into your garden, play areas and sand boxes and depositing their infected cat feces. So taking precaution so that roaming cats are kept away from these areas or using protection like gloves when working in gardens will help you stay clear of this cat poop infesting parasite. | <urn:uuid:80f30469-c136-40b0-b6e9-ad39cfa620ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.petcathealth.info/the-hidden-dangers-of-cat-poop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945629 | 1,312 | 2.921875 | 3 |
During this writing assignment, you will investigate what has changed in your life, such as leaving home, the birth of a first child, retirement, divorce, moving houses or a changed work situation. We will discuss what your life was like before the change and what it looks like now. We will look at what has been lost and what feelings these losses evoke. You will write about everything you did before the change and which people played a role in this.
Explanation of the writing assignment
Writing about a situation sometimes makes it easier to list all your thoughts and to get a good overview. Find a quiet place, pick up a sheet, notebook, the NiceDay app or a computer, and try to answer the following questions as extensively as possible:
- Which change has taken place?
- What did your life look like before the change? Which activities did you do? Which people were important and why?
- What does your life look like now? What has changed? Which activities do you do now? Which people are important and why?
- What has changed? What has been lost?
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Marbled beef is one of the most luxurious, sought after products in cuisine. Like truffles and caviar, it comes with certain connotations of rich and rare flavour profiles. Only found in certain specialty suppliers and fine dining restaurants.
It’s the kind of dish that’s treasured all over the world, so there’s certainly something special about marbled beef.
Let’s take a closer look at what beef marbling is, why it’s so sought after, how it comes about, and how you can make the most of your marbled beef dining experience.
What is beef marbling?
Beef marbling is simply the flecks of fat you see in a piece of raw meat. This intramuscular fat can be found within sections of lean meat like a spiderweb, giving it that classic ‘marbled’ look – and its name.
Marbling is notably the intramuscular fat, which is very different from the intermuscular fat, which you can also see on a piece of raw beef. The intermuscular fat is found between different muscles. It is much, much thicker, and is typically trimmed off from the steak as it does not improve the dining experience.
Intramuscular fat occurs within the muscle, and this makes all the difference when it comes to the marbling of beef.
The marbling in beef is highly sought after, to the point where beef cuts are given a marble score to rate them.
What are marble scores?
A marble score is a rating given to any piece of beef to indicate how marbled it is. There are different rating systems in place overseas, but in Australia, the Beef Marble Score (BMS) system runs from 0 to 9.
Beef with a marbling score of 0 has zero marbling in it, and will appear as a rich red colour with no visible flecks of fat in the meat. Whereas meat with a marbling score of 9 has an abundant amount of intramuscular fat, and will appear so thickly marbled that there is more white than red.
You’ll often find this grading system mentioned on menus, so you know exactly what you’re getting when you order. You can expect that cuts of meat with more marbling will be more expensive than those with lower scores.
Why is marbling so sought after?
The amount of marbling in beef is so important because it has plays a large role in the tenderness, juiciness and flavour of the steak.
Higher marble scores, make the cut significantly softer and more tender.
As the steak cooks, the marbling melts into the steak, making it unbelievably juicy, with a texture so soft that it melts in your mouth. This releases all of the rich flavours in the steak immediately, creating an unbelievably delicious steak.
Marbling in beef is therefore highly popular around the world. Especially because it takes a number of specific conditions coming together to achieve high levels of beef marbling.
How is some beef more marbled than others?
There are three factors that determine just how marbled beef can be, all of which are managed very carefully by cattle farmers. These are the breed of cattle, environmental factors, and diet.
The breed of cattle has a large influence on how much marbling steak has. Breeds such as Wagyu and Kobe are renowned for their marbling as they are genetically predisposed to higher fat levels. That said, other cattle breeds are also capable of seeing high marbling scores, such as Prime Angus beef.
Environmental factors also play a role in the marbling of beef. This includes providing a stress-free life for the cattle, not requiring them to walk too much (which would build muscle and reduce fat), and keeping them healthy and vaccinated to reduce the chance of illness. There have been rumours that some breeders will go so far as to massage the cattle.
Finally, dietary factors play an important role in the level of marbling. Marbling is higher in grain-finished cattle, and those with more energy in their diet will express more marbling. It’s also important that the cattle have good nutrition early in life, as restrictions of illness will reduce marbling. It has been said that some farmers will even treat their cattle to sweets and other goodies.
Overall, when it comes to marbling, by the time that perfectly cooked, highly marbled steak reaches your plate, a huge amount of time and effort has gone into reaching that level of quality.
How you can make the most of your marbled beef dining experience
A highly marbled steak cooked by a top-rated chef in one of Sydney’s best restaurants will always be an incredible dining experience.
But there is one thing you can do to add that perfect cherry on top of your marbled beef meal, and that’s pairing it with a premium wine.
A well-bodied, silky smooth red wine will complement your meal, matching it in boldness and flavour, with the meat bringing out the best in the wine and vice versa.
Our sommeliers generally recommend Bordeaux, Cabernet Sauvignon, or Syrah, but be sure to take your own tastes into account and don’t be afraid to relay these to the 6HEAD team.
Reserve your table with 6HEAD to try our Wagyu beef and other marbled steaks for an unforgettable dining experience that will give you a new appreciation of just how tender, flavourful, and delicious a premium steak can be. | <urn:uuid:1cc94748-a20f-4549-a14f-7ef215432991> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://6head.com.au/news/beef-marbling-6head/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959355 | 1,151 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The Woman at the Well
1-3 Jesus realized that the Pharisees were keeping count of the baptisms that he and John performed (although his disciples, not Jesus, did the actual baptizing). They had posted the score that Jesus was ahead, turning him and John into rivals in the eyes of the people. So Jesus left the Judean countryside and went back to Galilee. 4-6To get there, he had to pass through Samaria. He came into Sychar, a Samaritan village that bordered the field Jacob had given his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was still there. Jesus, worn out by the trip, sat down at the well. It was noon.
7-8A woman, a Samaritan, came to draw water. Jesus said, “Would you give me a drink of water?” (His disciples had gone to the village to buy food for lunch.)
9The Samaritan woman, taken aback, asked, “How come you, a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (Jews in those days wouldn’t be caught dead talking to Samaritans.)
10Jesus answered, “If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water.”
11-12The woman said, “Sir, you don’t even have a bucket to draw with, and this well is deep. So how are you going to get this ‘living water’? Are you a better man than our ancestor Jacob, who dug this well and drank from it, he and his sons and livestock, and passed it down to us?”
13-14Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again. Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst—not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life.”
Jesus, I know You are talking about spiritual things here. I thirst for true life. I try to quench my thirst with water from this world (the well) and I am never satisfied. If I turn to You, and drink Your water, everything changes. Your word is the water. I have experience it. For some reason I don’t live minute by minute in the new life You have given me, but it is there. I need this gushing fountain of endless life. I know, I have it, I just ignore it too much. Lord, help me to live the gushing fountain life.
15The woman said, “Sir, give me this water so I won’t ever get thirsty, won’t ever have to come back to this well again!”
16He said, “Go call your husband and then come back.”
17-18“I have no husband,” she said.
“That’s nicely put: ‘I have no husband.’ You’ve had five husbands, and the man you’re living with now isn’t even your husband. You spoke the truth there, sure enough.”
Jesus, You engaged this women while she lived in sin. You didn’t make her change first. You loved her while she had faults. Please Lord, never let me forget that You love me even though I sin. And Lord, help me to truly love others, while they are sinners, like me.
19-20“Oh, so you’re a prophet! Well, tell me this: Our ancestors worshiped God at this mountain, but you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place for worship, right?”
21-23“Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither here at this mountain nor there in Jerusalem. You worship guessing in the dark; we Jews worship in the clear light of day. God’s way of salvation is made available through the Jews. But the time is coming—it has, in fact, come—when what you’re called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter.
23-24“It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.”
Father, does my life worship you? I know I love You, though not nearly enough. I know my spirit longs to be with Your Holy Spirit. But I see my life and I am not talking about You with everyone around me. I’m not a 100% Christian. Day in and day out, do I make You smile? Are You given glory by my life, or shame? Please Father, help me live a life that brings You great glory. Please, do not let me shame You. Amen.
25The woman said, “I don’t know about that. I do know that the Messiah is coming. When he arrives, we’ll get the whole story.”
26“I am he,” said Jesus. “You don’t have to wait any longer or look any further.”
Jesus, You are everything! There is no need to look further or wait longer. You are the answer to all our problems and all our needs. I still look and wonder, but I know, You are it! Why do I ever depend on myself or my ideas or my ways? Help me rest my racing mind in You.
27Just then his disciples came back. They were shocked. They couldn’t believe he was talking with that kind of a woman. No one said what they were all thinking, but their faces showed it.
28-30The woman took the hint and left. In her confusion she left her water pot. Back in the village she told the people, “Come see a man who knew all about the things I did, who knows me inside and out. Do you think this could be the Messiah?” And they went out to see for themselves.
Jesus, this woman met You, and got so excited she not only told her friends, she told people who didn’t like her! If she was going to the well during the heat of the day, she was trying to avoid people. She was probably not popular with the villages because of her lifestyle. But she met You and all that didn’t matter. Lord, restore that excitement to me. Please Lord, help me to be on fire for You again. Help me to tell everyone I know, friend and foe, about You, all the time.
It’s Harvest Time
31In the meantime, the disciples pressed him, “Rabbi, eat. Aren’t you going to eat?” 32He told them, “I have food to eat you know nothing about.”
33The disciples were puzzled. “Who could have brought him food?”
34-35Jesus said, “The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work he started.
Jesus, how do I become such a good servant that doing Your will is more important than food? I’m so far from that now. I think about so much “stuff” that is definitely not part of Your work. Perhaps even most of what I do in a day has nothing to do with You. I sure can’t pass up a meal! I’m discouraged Lord. I don’t think I’ll ever change. Help.
As you look around right now, wouldn’t you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest? Well, I’m telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what’s right in front of you. These Samaritan fields are ripe. It’s harvest time!
36-38“The Harvester isn’t waiting. He’s taking his pay, gathering in this grain that’s ripe for eternal life. Now the Sower is arm in arm with the Harvester, triumphant. That’s the truth of the saying, ‘This one sows, that one harvests.’ I sent you to harvest a field you never worked. Without lifting a finger, you have walked in on a field worked long and hard by others.”
Father, am I sowing, or reaping, or just failing? My family needs You so much. I don’t know what I’m doing. My wife and children are heart-broke and sad. I don’t share You with them as I should, but when I do they tell me to stop preaching. I’m not worthy to share You with anyone. But then, who is worthy?
But I must thank You for some changes. There are people in my family who are committed to You. It is wonderful. Keep them close Lord. Satan is attacking and will keep attacking. Protect us all and bring in a good harvest from those around me. Use me if it is Your will.
39-42Many of the Samaritans from that village committed themselves to him because of the woman’s witness: “He knew all about the things I did. He knows me inside and out!” They asked him to stay on, so Jesus stayed two days. A lot more people entrusted their lives to him when they heard what he had to say. They said to the woman, “We’re no longer taking this on your say-so. We’ve heard it for ourselves and know it for sure. He’s the Savior of the world!”
Jesus, give me and my family the faith we need to know for sure You are our savior. It is one thing to hear from another, like the people in the village did a first. It is entirely different to encounter You personally and believe because of that. Help us all to encounter You personally and believe in You based on that.
43-45After the two days he left for Galilee. Now, Jesus knew well from experience that a prophet is not respected in the place where he grew up. So when he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, but only because they were impressed with what he had done in Jerusalem during the Passover Feast, not that they really had a clue about who he was or what he was up to.
Jesus, Your own friends and family rejected You and were the farthest from understanding You. Remind me of this often. I know when You bless me in business, the people closest to me are often the first to be jealous. I’m sure they will be the first to put me down if I tell them about my spiritual life.
And yet You went to them. You could have just never went back to them. Help me Lord to share with my family, to take the risk.
46-48Now he was back in Cana of Galilee, the place where he made the water into wine. Meanwhile in Capernaum, there was a certain official from the king’s court whose son was sick. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and asked that he come down and heal his son, who was on the brink of death. Jesus put him off: “Unless you people are dazzled by a miracle, you refuse to believe.”
49But the court official wouldn’t be put off. “Come down! It’s life or death for my son.”
50-51Jesus simply replied, “Go home. Your son lives.”
The man believed the bare word Jesus spoke and headed home. On his way back, his servants intercepted him and announced, “Your son lives!”
52-53He asked them what time he began to get better. They said, “The fever broke yesterday afternoon at one o’clock.” The father knew that that was the very moment Jesus had said, “Your son lives.”
53-54That clinched it. Not only he but his entire household believed. This was now the second sign Jesus gave after having come from Judea into Galilee.
Jesus, this man believed Your word, and not only was his son’s life saved, but his entire family received Your new life. Your Word is so powerful. Your Word knows no limits of time or space or anything. Your Word is life itself. Please Jesus, speak Your Word in my life to change me and speak it in the hearts of my family. Gives us all Your new, true, life that comes from Your holy Word. Open our hearts to love your Word and to allow it to truly change us all. | <urn:uuid:c027be6c-9eb9-4f27-ab52-821f4fb7fffc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://astoneintheshoe.org/2010/07/21/john-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.981186 | 2,785 | 2.21875 | 2 |
ISSUE # 5 page 1 May 1997
We use the propagation methods such as super glue and netting to increase the stock we have in our reefs. When many of the animals are divided they grow faster than the same size animals that are not divided. Each group of reef animals have certain things that you can provide to increase their growth rate.
Bright lighting and clean water are two of the most important things we have control over in our reef aquariums. The time it takes to grow the broodstock colonies is one thing that we do not have direct control over .
I always think of a Chinese quote when I am asked about starting a reef farm. The wise one asked - what was the best time to plant a tree? - The answer was twenty years ago. Then he asked - what was the second best time to plant a tree? - the answer is TODAY.
If you are like us , you did not plant sps corals twenty years ago, but many of us are ready to plant some today.
I am often asked what reef animals are the best investment for future broodstock. I have learned that you can never have too many GREEN - green stars. These green polyps come in many colors of green, but almost everything coming in from the wild has been shades of brown. Almost everyone who buys reef animals has enough BROWN. If you see colonies of bright green Clavularia virdis you can not go wrong if you buy or trade for as many colors as you can afford.
Bright red Mushrooms, deep purple Mushrooms, and all types of blue Mushrooms are always a great investment. I will repeat it again - there are three things that sell reef animals COLOR- COLOR- and COLOR!
The best place to start a reef farm is in the reef you have now, the best time to start a reef farm is today, and the best way to learn how to run a reef farm is to do it.
Order: Corallimorpharia ( Mushroom false coral )
Actinodiscus ( disk anemones - false coral )
1. The best tanks for production of mushroom rocks are deep tanks with good water quality and medium water flow. We use two Maxi - Jet 1000 power heads in each tank.
2. The best lighting has been florescent bulbs. We have had good production using three 40 watt 4' foot bulbs - two Tritons and one Blue Moon.
5. Use a good carbon in the tanks once every two weeks - We put 4 tablespoons of carbon that has been soaked in fresh water in a nylon bag and hang it in the corner of the reef behind a powerhead for one week. This removes toxins that these animals release to slow the growth of other reef animals.
SUBCLASS - ALCYONRIA - OCTOCORALLIA
ORDER - ALCYONACEA
FAMILY - ALCYONIDAE
METHODS FOR ATTACHING BRANCHING SOFT CORAL
ORDER Zoanthiniaria [Zoantharia] [Zoanthidea]
Family EpizanthidaeParazoanthus (Yellow polyps)
Epizoanthis ( Brown to red brown colonial polyp disks -
medium tentacles )
Family ZoanthidaeZoanthus ( small colonial polyps - Green, Red, Brown,
Blue, Purple, yellow and a range of other colors.
Central disk may be contrasting color. Polyps connected at base)
Palythoa ( larger than Zoantus with longer brown
tentacles. May be bright green in center)
These anemones do best when they are fed several times each week. The food that has produced the best growth is made up of blended fish and shrimp meat that has been mixed in SeaChem Reef Plus This red mixture has vitamins and iodide. We use four tablespoons of Reef Complete to one tabespoon food.
This colony was grown with VHO lighting. Intense light and strong current are two of most important things needed to produce fast grownig Zoanthid colonies. The best colors we have been able to produce in these cuttings are seen in the tanks with several Triton and Blue Moon 40 watt lights.
Many of the larger Zoanthids can eat baby brine shrimp and other foods. These feedings will increase the growth rate of these animals.
The best lighting is florescent bulbs. We have had good production using 2- 40 watt 4' Triton and one 40 watt 4' Blue moon on our 55 gallon test tanks.
SUBCLASS -Alcyonria -Soft Corals
This one year old 55 gallon reef aquarium has over 40 colors of Zoanthids and Palythoas. There are 45 colors of sps corals, 5 species of Xenia, and many soft corals. We make cutings from this tank each week. All of these colonies were started by gluing the starts onto the live rocks underwater.
The blue Zoanthid in the middle of this reef came from Mexico in 1995. It contrasts very well with the many shades of green and brown.
Since this is the month we celebrate mother's day, it's high time we discussed developing "mother colonies" for making coral cuttings.
What is the perfect mother colony?
It depends on the coral variety. Mother colonies can be grown in many ways. A good mother colony is a seed stock colony that you can periodically and continually take new coral cuttings from, to produce children if you donít mind (Most mothers know that children rarely do mind, you know.)
It is important to develop some good mother colonies of your most desirable and best selling corals. We will look at making mother colonies of two types of corals in very different ways. Green star polyps (clavularia) are low growing spreading, creeping corals and leather finger corals (sinularia) are upright branching corals. They are both easy keep and grow. They are both good sellers also.
|"Don't eat all your seed grain"
Can you imagine an isolated farmer
a hundred or so years ago actually
running into this predicament.
Sounds like he would starve to death.
We need to think of coral farming the
It's easy to sell your cuttings of a fantastic looking coral and end up continually telling anxious buyers or traders that you just ran out of that one, or that the last two you have left are not for sale because they are your only brood stock to make more cuttings from.
When you have a real "hot" coral it's hard to say "no" until youíre down to the last couple of specimens. The solution is simple but sometimes hard to carry out. Keep your hottest mother colonies in a back room and donít let anyone know you have them until you have multiplied them enough to keep a non-depletable supply growing for sale.
This may mean not selling ANY of your most coveted specimens for a few months or more while multiplying them, making mother colonies that you will not sell. You will eventually use your mother colonies to make sellable cuttings from.
Farmers have an old saying: "Don't eat all your seed grain" Can you imagine an isolated farmer a hundred or so years ago actually running into this predicament. Sounds like he would starve to death. We need to think of coral farming the same way: Donít sell your seed stock.
Once youíve gone to the trouble of locating and obtaining a really good speciman of bright true green star polyps, youíve already accomplished the most important part. It doesn't matter how well they grow if they don't "show." You went to the extra trouble and payed extra, after searching high and low to get the very best color. This will pay off many fold when your propagated corals sell much quicker and at a better price.
With this beautiful polyp rock you could make ten, twenty or more cuttings from it every month or two. The polyps grow back across the areas you strip to take cuttings from. You can make that many more cuttings from the same star polyp rock again in a month or so. Only strip about 2/3 of the polyps from the rock. Leave the other third in well spread out thin strips or patches so they can grow back out across the bare portions of rock that you stripped. This rock that you continually cultivate and harvest for cuttings is a valuable mother colony.
| The old method is to totally cut up a coral
into smaller cuttings and sell them all.
Making cuttings from cuttings by cultivating
This is a lot smarter and more economical than stripping ALL the polyps from the rock and selling the whole lot. Each month you would have to find a new star polyp rock and start over. The old method is to totally cut up a coral into smaller cuttings and sell them all. Making cuttings from cuttings by cultivating mother colonies is REAL propagation.
Now, itís time to get really smart by making a four by four inch flattish rock of dazzling green star polyps for the original mother colony. Use a razor blade to cut strips off of this polyp rock to attach to more four by four inch rocks. This is how we can cultivate new bare rocks into more mother colonies.
Use Super Reef Gel sparingly to attach the cut out patches of skin with polyps to the other two rocks in a similar manner - spread out so they can grow and fill in the bare spaces of rock too. Pieces of star polyp skin with only one or two polyps have a poorer survival rate. Try to cut up pieces of the skin with three to six polyps on each to maximize growth. Under excellent growing conditions these three rocks (the original mother colony and the two propagated new ones) will fill in with solid growth of polyps in about a month.
Star polyps commonly grow new skin across bare rock at about a quarter inch per week when they are at peak performance. Let's say it takes two months to fill in the new mother colonies though. Two months later we can strip 2/3 of the polyps from our three mother colonies and attach them to six more rocks. This gives us nine good mother colonies after four months. At the end of six months you should have 27 mother colonies with solid growth, or more if they grow faster. Now it might be time to start using the mother colonies to make cuttings for sale each time they fill back in.
You should be able to make 10 three inch polyp rocks to sell, from each mother colony every two months. Each of these rocks should start with two or three small clumps of polyps that will grow and fill in a bit over the next two months before they are ready to sell. This would be producing 270 green star polyp rocks for sale every two months. That adds up to 1620 star polyp rocks per year! This number can not be absolutely counted on. The number could be lower, or maybe even higher.
Each of the three inch star polyp rocks starts out with three small, perhaps 3/8 inch wide, clumps of star polyps. By the end of two months each clump could easily spread to well over an inch across, making the polyp rock quite desirable to most hobbyists. They will now swarm you and tell all their friends to come and buy these gorgeous rocks for $21.00 each. But, that's only if you own a store or could sell them at full retail price. $7.00 or a little less is far more likely if you are going to move them wholesale in large quantities. Remember, you'll still have expenses growing these corals so don't count your money yet.
This Sinularia turns green under intense light
The process for making mother colonies for finger leather corals is a bit different and they are slower growing. Once again, get a real pretty variety of sinularia. There are numerous varieties. I'm sure you can find one that either has unique coloring or is very fluffy or with some other desirable characteristics to start your collection of mother colonies.
Cut off all the branches leaving just a quarter inch or so of polyps on the remaining branches. Attach these branches to plugs or more rocks using Super Reef Gel or fishing line to tie them down.
After they attach and get comfortably established, three to four weeks after making cuttings, you can now re-prune branches from each of these new mother colonies to make even more mother colonies. Some people just cut the branches up into inch long segments right from day one and attach them all at once.
Simple, isnít it? Just make sure that you provide good growing conditions. Both star polyps and finger leathers grow best with good water current and bright lighting. After establishing these initial mother colonies, they can now be pruned for cuttings to sell or to make more mother colonies about every three months if growing conditions are good.
The more you subdivide the branches the more total combined growth you will get out of the original mother colony. The original mother colony can also be further divided too. A whole 55-gallon tank full of mother colonies on cement plugs, cement no-bake coral cookies or rocks could be very useful in helping a coral farming project get off the ground. In conclusion, concentrating on producing adequate numbers of mother colonies at first will help you get much higher sustained production later.
Making mother colonies of corals: what a way to celebrate mother's day.
Styrofoam fish shipping boxes
Carib SeaTM aragonite sand.
#3 portland cement
Mix 6 parts Carib SeaTM aragonite sand with 1 part portland cement.
Let the aragocreteTM set for 24 hours before you take rocks out.
Soak the rocks in white vinagar for 12 hours and rinse them in fresh water before you use them.
MAKING LIVE ROCKS:
We use styrofoam boxes for making our molds, because all of the finished live rocks will eventually be shipped in styrofoam boxes. We have noticed that the students tend to make the live rocks bigger and bigger if they have a chance.
Styrofoam boxes also hold the heat that is generated as the concrete cures. It is best to keep these boxes at room temperature so that the hardened rocks can be removed in 24 hours. After the rocks are removed from the beach boxes the excess aragonite is brushed off and saved.
The rocks are then placed under water for several days to continue curing. Cement becomes strongest when it is allowed to dry slowly. If the rocks are shipped before they are allowed to cure we experience a lot of breakage.
We have been mixing our batches of concrete in a regular size wheelbarrow and we vary the mixture of araganite and CarbiSea Aruba shells so that our live rocks all look different. You can add many differnet types of CaribSea gravel to your aragacrete mixture.
We always mix the aragacrete with clean fresh water. When you are mixing the water and araganite gravel try to get the mixture as dry as possible, while still getting it wet enough to hold together when you squeeze a hand full. The dryer you can make your aragocreteTM mix the stronger your final product will be.
Plese use the form on this page to report any ideas you have on new ways to produce live rocks from concrete.
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John B King Jr on Keeping the Gun Violence Conversation Intersectional
John King Jr., former Secretary of Education under President Obama, wrote for Elle Magazine on what he's seen these past few months from students across the country in their action against gun violence. He highlights the impressive magnitude of the movement that's formed since the Parkland shooting, but really focuses on the intersectional approach the leaders from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have taken:
"Only weeks after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, student leaders held discussions and collaborated with young people of color in Chicago, many of whom have been dealing with the plague of gun violence all their lives. Indeed, the Parkland students have leveraged their new national platform to shine a spotlight on others who, too frequently, fight for justice in the dark."
He also opens the conversation up beyond gun violence, specifically. For him and many others, this violence is a symptom of larger institutional issues within our government and society:
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As Muslims whose communities have been stereotyped, surveilled and vilified by the authorities, we fully grasp the wish to get in touch with the white supremacists who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 domestic terrorists. For us, it comes from a deep desire to say, “See, the trouble was not our communities.”
But by employing the “domestic terrorism” label to endorse much more legal statutes and law enforcement authorities, our country’s leaders are invoking systems that have been — and will continue to be — utilised to goal and damage Black and brown people.
Federal law enforcement presently has the tools necessary to examine and prosecute white supremacist violence. Regulation enforcement companies pick out not to use them.
Already in response to the assault on the Capitol, President-elect Joe Biden and some members of Congress are signing up for calls for new domestic terrorism legislation that would give even better electric power to law enforcement. It is a predictably misguided element of a decadeslong pattern. When white supremacist violence escalates, politicians frequently search to give legislation enforcement organizations a lot more authority — no matter whether it was President Monthly bill Clinton in reaction to the Oklahoma City bombing or Biden today.
But this is the erroneous takeaway, as supplying law enforcement agencies a lot more electrical power and methods is not the alternative to white supremacy. What leaders practically by no means accept is that federal law enforcement now has the equipment essential to examine and prosecute white supremacist violence. Legislation enforcement companies opt for not to use them — just as they chose to permit white supremacists storm the Capitol as the nation viewed in horror.
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The situation of Cesar Sayoc, who mailed pipe bombs to popular Democrats and was billed under federal terrorism-similar regulation, is a rare case in point of the Justice Department’s making use of the present authorities at its disposal to deal with white supremacist violence.
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In the course of the civil rights motion, the FBI investigated and monitored leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. under the guise of countrywide security. Congress designed a federal definition of “domestic terrorism” in the Patriot Act that has been utilized to disproportionately and unjustly goal Black and brown persons for surveillance, investigation and prosecution. The Trump administration applied these same authorities to monitor folks protesting police brutality and protesting the administration’s separation of immigrant people.
Federal organizations have been equipped to get absent with these abuses because of obscure, overbroad law enforcement powers. Not only is the federal definition of domestic terrorism malleable, but the FBI also eradicated safeguards to safeguard against abusive techniques after the assaults of Sept. 11, 2001, even professing that it can perform investigations with tiny or no suspicion of wrongdoing. Below President Barack Obama, the departments of Justice and Homeland Security issued Direction on Race, prohibiting biased profiling frequently but permitting it in the context of countrywide and border stability.
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We can’t come across our solutions in the methods that harm us. The extra we build up within just them, the more durable they are to deconstruct.
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A reconfigurable robot is one of the most efficient and powerful design paradigms for floors. It has a path planning algorithm and can clean any floor. This mechanism also uses the best possible route in a given layout and makes the entire process as simple as possible. This is a promising future technology for floor cleaning. Moreover, it can be easily integrated into any system. It is a good example of a reconfigurable robot.
The design process is often highly automated, but it requires human intervention in many situations. This is why a human designer is a crucial resource in such a project. A skilled designer can create the most functional and aesthetic floor. A good designer will use the computer to make the floor more durable. It should also be efficient and economical, and can save a lot of money in the long run. The floor design process should be able to accommodate multiple robots, such as a crane and a car.
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The design process of a floor involves a complex algorithm. A robot must perform the task by analyzing the space. It must also consider the user’s goals. For example, a robot should be able to adapt to a floor that is different from its intended use. It should be able to interact with the environment, move around, and operate autonomously. Its ability to do this will determine how a robot will function.
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Speech Sound Disorder
Speech sound disorder (SSD) encompasses a group of communication disorders in which children have persistent difficulty articulating words or sounds correctly. Speech sound production requires both the phonological knowledge of speech sounds and the ability to coordinate the jaw, tongue, and lips with breathing and vocalizing to produce meaningful sounds. Children with speech sound disorder may have difficulty with the phonological knowledge of speech sounds or the ability to coordinate the movements necessary for speech. The communication difficulties can impede the development of children by limiting their ability to effectively participate in social, academic, or occupational activities.
While some speech sound disorders stem from physical structural anomalies, such as cleft palate, others have their origin in perceptual problems such as hearing impairment. Still others, like apraxia, in which the brain does not deliver the correct movement instructions to the target muscles, arise from neurodevelopmental problems.
Most children shorten words and syllables as they’re learning to talk, but children with speech sound disorder continue this simplification process past the age when most children can produce words clearly, generally agreed to be age 7.
The DSM-5 includes the following diagnostic criteria for speech sound disorder:
- Persistent difficulty with the production of speech sounds that interferes with the intelligibility of one's speech or prevents verbal communication
- Limitations on communication interfere with social participation or performance at school or work
- The symptoms begin early in life and are not attributable to other medical or neurological conditions
Developmental experts believe that approximately half of a child’s speech is intelligible by age 2 and most speech intelligible by age 4.
According to the Child Mind Institute, other potential signs of a speech sound disorder include:
- Leaving out sounds or substituting an incorrect sound for a correct one
- An unusually hoarse or nasal voice or sudden changes in pitch or loudness that make understanding speech more difficult
- Running out of air while talking
What is an example of a speech sound disorder?
How is speech sound disorder diagnosed?
A speech-language pathologist tests a child's speech for how well he or she creates sounds and inspects how the child moves his or her lips, jaw, and tongue. The pathologist may also test the child’s hearing.
Are speech sound disorder and specific language impairment different?
Speech sound disorder is not the same as a specific language impairment. Speech sound disorder expresses itself with a delayed ability to produce speech sounds, while specific language impairment expresses itself with an inability to incorporate the structures of grammar into speech. Only about 2 percent of children with speech sound disorder also have specific language impairment.
How common is speech sound disorder?
According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, the prevalence of speech sound disorder in young children is 8 to 9 percent of the population. By first grade, roughly 5 percent of children exhibit speech sound disorder.
The cause of speech sound disorder is not well understood in many cases. Children who develop speech sound disorder often have family members with a history of speech or language disorder, suggesting a genetic component of this condition. Speech sound disorder may occur along with other delays in the use of facial musculature, such as difficulties in chewing, maintaining a closed mouth, and blowing one’s nose
Is speech sound disorder related to deafness or hearing problems?
Hearing impairment or deafness do often result in abnormalities of speech sounds. This does not mean someone with a hearing impairment has a neurodevelopmental speech sound disorder. For instance, a child who receives cochlear implants may be able to catch up to peers in speech sound production due to their new ability to hear others better.
Could speech sound disorder be caused by anxiety?
Speech sound disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder unrelated to anxiety. The disorder could, however, lead to anxiety in children who are unable to fully express themselves. Such anxiety could be expressed as selective mutism, where children do not speak in certain circumstances due to embarrassment.
Is speech sound disorder genetic?
There is substantial research suggesting the heritability of speech sound disorder. Studies have demonstrated familial aggregation for SSD, where approximately 26 percent of nuclear family members and 13.6 percent of extended family members were affected in a cohort of children with SSD.
Treatment for speech sound disorder primarily consists of speech and language therapy. A speech-language pathologist typically develops a treatment plan that helps a child identify and correct the specific sounds or words they have difficulty articulating. The speech-language pathologist may show the child how to move their tongue and lips to produce sounds correctly and provide opportunities to practice these skills.
In most cases, children with speech sound disorder respond well to speech therapy; speech difficulties improve over time. The condition appears to resolve in 75 percent of children by age 6. When a language disorder is also present, however, speech sound disorder has a poorer prognosis and may be associated with learning disorders.
How is speech sound disorder treated?
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Before scores of professional athletes brought black Americans' thorny relationship with love of country center stage, did you know that, in 2014, a black girl in Texas had started her own protest ritual of sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance? Much like how today's athletes are citing racial injustice as reasoning to exercise their First Amendment rights, the Houston senior, who has declined to be named, recently stated the following: "We live in a country where there isn't justice and freedom for all, and so I'm not going to stand for a pledge that says there is."
Black women and girls accrue among the highest costs for confronting America's sins—but they're also excluded from, and silenced in, narratives about this national reckoning.
During her three years of protest, the black teen encountered student, teacher, and school administrator vitriol, ranging from being told to leave the country to being described as "unappreciative" and even labeled as a "communist." Another black girl in the Houston area suffered even greater retribution for the same peaceful protest. After refusing to stand for the pledge for months in protest of police brutality, India Landry—a senior at Windfern High School—was kicked out of school and reportedly threatened to be escorted out by police.
When these black teenagers exercised their constitutional rights, their schools created an environment to make them feel unwelcome at best and criminalized at worst. In both cases, school actors used their power to silence India Landry and the other Houston senior simply for drawing attention to social injustice. To be blunt, these two stories demonstrate a broader American tale: Existing in a black female body incites perpetual attack.
What's more, this mistreatment doesn't wait for adulthood. To the contrary, it knocks early, on the door of black girlhood.
As early as five years old, black girls are seen as more adult-like and less innocent than their white female peers, according to a recent Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality report. The perception that black girls need less support, nurturing, and protection likely contributes to the disparate criminalization of black girls.
Whether it's a five-year-old getting arrested for throwing a tantrum or teenagers serving detention for wearing braids, black girls are disproportionately, and more harshly, disciplined at school than their white peers. According to a National Women's Law Center report, black girls make up about 15 percent of public school enrollment, but represent 52 percent of multiple suspension offenders among girls. Comparatively, white female students make up about 50 percent of enrollment, yet only represent 22 percent of multiple suspension offenders among girls. Taken as a whole, black girls are seven times more likely to be suspended than white girls in public schools. Expanding into the school to prison nexus, the Department of Justice reports that black girls are nearly three times more likely than white girls to be referred to juvenile justice, and generally more likely to be detained than their white peers.
Particularly in this political period, it's important to ask: What does our selective "seeing" of black women and girls say about our society? And how might we correct course?
For one, as public systems sabotage and erase black girlhood, it raises concerns around whether this nation wants black womanhood realized at all. Even after enduring racialized and gendered victimization, black women at the pinnacle of their professional fields still can't avoid attack. It might seem safe to assume that a highly credentialed individual would be able to exercise her agency to stand up to injustice. But those accolades are frequently moot for black women, who are often perceived as the age-old "Sapphire" stereotype: antagonistic and emasculating.
Take one of the most professional cities in the nation: Washington, D.C. In March, April Ryan, a member of the White House press corps since 1997, questioned former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer about the image the Trump White House had created of itself, and about comments President Donald Trump had made about former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2006. The result? Spicer told Ryan what to do with her body, and he accused her of wanting to push a particular agenda. In addition, within the past few weeks, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson criticized Trump for his insensitivity to the widow of a fallen soldier. Not only was she denounced and discredited for her commentary, but she was also called "wacky" and received a lynch mob threat. In this, Wilson is no different from her black female colleagues Representatives Maxine Waters and Senator Kamala Harris, who have been similarly criticized simply for holding white—often male—public officials to account.
Making any sort of move toward extinguishing these problems will require a fundamental perception shift—one that confronts the ways in which black women and girls are silenced. Phasing out school resource officers on campuses and, instead, investing in counselors equipped to offer trauma and mental-health services is one critical step that could prevent the criminalization of black girls. Moreover, hiring more educators and school leaders of color, while requiring culturally receptive trauma intervention trainings, could also significantly improve black girls' experiences within schools. In the workplace, meanwhile, hiring more women of color, as well as empowering already employed women of color to pursue upward mobility within the organization, could change the climate for black women.
But that's just a start. Seeing the full spectrum of black womanhood also means being honest about the contributions black women have made to society, and about the unique ways this same society strips them of this visibility. The scholar and activist Anna Julia Cooper spoke to this point over a century ago, in 1892, saying that "[black women are] confronted by both a woman question and a race problem, and is yet an unknown or an unacknowledged factor in both."
In short, to be a country that truly provides justice for all, America must reckon with this: that women face radically different realities, even in the same country—as they always have.
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18 Months to 24 Months
Eating and Drinking
- If your child is still taking formula, please remove it from their diet.
- Simply finish whatever you have left in the home, and then don’t buy any more.
- Toddler formula is not recommended.
- It will blunt your child’s appetite.
- All the nutrition they need will come from regular food.
- Remove bottles if your child is still using them.
- Bottles are a known source of tooth decay in babies.
- The longer you wait to stop the bottle, the more difficult the transition will be for your child.
- If your child is still breastfeeding, please feel free to continue for as long as you want!
- Continue the daily vitamin D supplement for your child.
- Provide a well-rounded diet with all the food groups.
- Make sure the diet meets the age-based requirements of nutrients each day.
- Encourage high iron-containing foods in the diet to prevent iron deficiency.
- Your child now needs 600 IU of vitamin D per day.
- The vitamin D will come from vitamin D-enriched milk (cow, goat, almond, soy, pea, etc).
- 16 ounces per day of whole cow’s milk provides the required vitamin D your child needs.
- If your child won’t take all 16 ounces of milk per day from the sippy cup, don’t reintroduce the bottle.
- Instead, just give a vitamin D supplement that evening before bed.
- Limit milk to 20 ounces per day. Drinking more than 20 ounces per day will negatively affect your child’s appetite, which can cause nutritional deficiencies.
- The milk should be given in a sippy cup.
- The milk should be given throughout the day with meals and snacks, just like big kids and adults drink it.
- Your child does not need juice.
- If you do give your child juice, serve all-natural 100% fruit juice and limit it to 4 oz/day.
- Offer your child water freely throughout the day.
- Don’t worry if they don’t want to drink, this simply means they aren’t thirsty.
- Please note that the amount of water needed daily may vary by individual and may need to be adjusted depending on levels of activity and environmental conditions like heat and humidity.
- We recommend 3 meals and 1-2 snacks per day.
- Avoid letting your child “graze” on food throughout the day.
- This will negatively affect the appetite and can worry parents that their child “doesn’t eat enough” at mealtimes.
- Eat meals together as a family when possible.
- Avoid distractions during mealtimes, which many parents use to get their child to eat more.
- We want your child to pay attention to their own hunger level, rather than eating out of distraction.
- Common distractions to avoid: TV, screens (phone/iPad), pets, music.
- The most common distraction is often the caregivers themselves.
- Imagine how distracting it would be to have Mom on one side and Dad on the other, both trying to convince you to eat more!
- Instead, we recommend caregivers eat their own meals and converse with each other, allowing your child to pay attention to their own hunger level, and eat accordingly.
- If your child cleans their plate, offer more!
- Provided there are no distractions, you can trust your child to eat when hungry, and stop when full.
- Avoid small, hard foods that can cause choking—nuts, popcorn, hot dogs, grapes, and hard, raw veggies.
Strategies For Picky Eaters
- Most caregivers will experience concerns about picky eating between 12 and 36 months of life.
- See our article on picky eating for more information.
Gross Motor Skills
- By 18 months, your child should be taking a few steps without holding on to anyone or anything.
- Your child may be attempting to climb on and off furniture or other objects.
- Avoid seats with wheels (e.g. baby walkers).
- They are dangerous and also inhibit independent walking.
- Avoid push walkers, as these can also inhibit independent walking.
Fine Motor Skills
- Your child is continuing to perfect their pincer grasp.
- To further encourage this skill, allow your child to feed themselves at mealtimes, even if it means a bigger mess.
- Offer your child a baby fork and baby spoon at meals.
- Remember, this is just for practice, and we don’t expect them to use these correctly.
- Most toddlers this age continue to hold utensils in one hand and feed themselves with their fingers of the other hand.
- Your child may attempt to throw a ball while standing.
- There are two “language explosions” in the second year of life (12-24 months).
- The first half of the second year of life was about language comprehension.
- At 18 months of life, your child should understand most everything you say to them.
- The second half of the second year of life is now about language expression.
- At 24 months of life, your child will have more than 50 words and will speak in 2-word sentences.
- At 18 months, some kids try to say 3 or more words other than "mama" or "dada."
- Sign language and animal sounds count as words.
- Your child may have their own “word” that they consistently use for something and that counts as well.
- An example of this is “ba” for bottles.
- Talk to your child all the time.
- She should hear as many words as possible from the people she cares about.
- This is best accomplished through interactive play with caregivers.
- Reading books is always encouraged, but most babies will lose interest quickly, and that’s ok too!
- Avoid “baby talk.”
- Instead, pronounce words correctly, to teach your child to make sounds correctly.
- Around 18 months of age, you may notice your child does the following:
- Moves away from you, but looks to make sure you are close by.
- Children at this age strive for independence yet often feel anxious and clingy in new situations and may fear separation from caregivers.
- Points to show you something interesting.
- Puts hands out for you to wash them.
- Looks at a few pages in a book with you.
- Helps you dress them by pushing their arm through the sleeve or lifting up their foot.
- Once your child’s first tooth appears, start brushing!
- Dental decay in baby teeth can negatively affect permanent teeth and lead to future dental problems.
- Apply a grain-of-rice-sized amount of fluoride-based toothpaste to a soft toothbrush.
- Press the toothpaste into the bristles to prevent your child from sucking the toothpaste right off of the brush.
- Most toothpaste specifically labeled for “babies” does not contain fluoride.
- Please make sure you buy toothpaste that does contain fluoride, even if labeled for “children.”
- Brush teeth once in the morning and once before bed.
- It is normal for your child to resist having their teeth brushed. The following strategies may be helpful:
- Allow your child to brush their teeth first then follow up by brushing their teeth for them.
- Make up a silly song about brushing teeth.
- Some children resist brushing less if brushing teeth while their siblings or parents are doing so as well.
- If these methods fail, don’t be afraid to bring in another caregiver to restrain your child while you brush their teeth.
- Sometimes it needs to be a two-person operation!
- The best thing you can do to keep your child’s teeth healthy at 18 months is to remove bottles if you haven't already (see discussion above).
- Thumb-sucking and pacifier use are still okay at this age.
- Plan your child’s first visit to the dentist at 2 years of age.
Common Illnesses and Injuries
- In the first two years of life alone, most children have eight to ten colds viruses.
- Each cold can last for up to 3 weeks.
- Vomiting and diarrheal illnesses are common as well.
- Fever will accompany many of these illnesses.
- Falls and head injuries are the rule, not the exception.
- Teething may continue to bother your child on and off.
- Keep your child’s car safety seat rear-facing until your child is 2 years of age or until they reach the highest weight or height allowed by the car safety seat’s manufacturer.
- Please review our guide on childproofing for ways to keep your baby safe in your home.
- Please review our guide on water safety for young children.
- Many parents start to think about potty training around this time.
- When To Potty Train?
- There is no exact age that is best for potty training.
- Potty training readiness varies greatly amongst children.
- Some children start showing signs of being ready between 18 and 24 months whereas others show signs closer to 36 months of age.
- Is your child ready?
- Here are signs that your child may be ready.
- Your child is dry for at least 2 hours during the day.
- You can tell when your child is about to urinate or have a bowel movement.
- Your child can follow simple directions.
- Your child can pull clothes down and up.
- Your child does not like wet diapers and wants to be changed.
- Your child asks to use the potty.
- Waiting until your child is truly ready will make the experience much faster and more pleasant for everyone involved!
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Fact Sheet: Dietary Supplements as Regulated Products
CHPA supports the regulatory authorities governing dietary supplement manufacturing, labeling, and marketing and works to ensure the availability of safe dietary supplements.
Today’s consumers are taking greater responsibility for their own healthcare. A prime example of this growing trend is the increased use of dietary supplement products in the United States. However, while consumers understand the benefits of taking dietary supplements to promote overall wellness, they may not fully understand the U.S. government’s role in ensuring that these products are safe.
Did you know that dietary supplements are considered a subset of foods under federal law and are therefore regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
FDA has primary responsibility for regulating dietary supplements and has the authority to:
- Stop any company from selling a dietary supplement that is toxic or unsanitary
- Stop the sale of a dietary supplement that makes false or unsubstantiated claims on its labeling or makes a claim that the product can treat, cure, or prevent a disease
- Take action against dietary supplements that pose "a significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury"
- Stop a new dietary ingredient from being marketed if the agency does not receive enough safety information in advance
- Require dietary supplements meet strict manufacturing requirements (Current Good Manufacturing Practices), including regulations for potency, cleanliness, and stability
- Require companies to register with the agency
- Inspect certain records and require companies to keep them for two years
FTC has primary responsibility for claims in advertising and has the authority to:
- Enforce laws outlawing "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" to make sure consumers are truthfully informed
- Challenge and stop advertising that is not adequately substantiated
- Investigate complaints or questionable trade practices
- Negotiate a consent order or proceed through an FTC process that results in a cease and desist order to change or fix promotion practices
- Stop false advertisements or other violations of the FTC Act
- Seek civil penalties for violations of trade regulation rules or violations of cease and desist orders
Information required on dietary supplement labels includes:
- Statement of identity (e.g., "ginseng")
- Net quantity of contents (e.g., "60 capsules")
- The statement: "This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease." (If claims describing the role of a dietary supplement on a structure or function of the body are made)
- Directions for use (e.g., "take one capsule daily")
- Supplement Facts Panel (lists serving size, amount, and dietary supplement ingredients)
- Other ingredients, in descending order of predominance
- Name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor
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Do you feed your dog scraps from your dinner plate? Do you share popcorn, potato chips, and pizza with your furry friends? How can you know if these foods are safe for your pups? After all, they’re okay for you, right?
If It Tastes Good, It Must Be Safe
Rat poison and ant traps are laced with sweet-tasting flavors to entice these pests to eat and die. You would never knowingly treat your dog to poison. Not all foods come with warning labels for pets like these poisons, however. What you don’t know about toxic foods for dogs can hurt them!
Common Toxic Foods You Might Be Feeding To Your Dog
- Beer and other alcoholic beverages cause:
- Diarrhea and vomiting, breathing problems and coma, are just a few of the terrible toxic effects of alcohol for your dog.
- Too much alcohol can kill your pet.
- Chocolate—Chocolate contains a toxic substance that can kill your dog:
- Methylxanthines, which come from the cacao plant, are found in caffeine, chocolate, and coffee.
- Symptoms of methylxanthines poisoning include vomiting, seizures, thirst, excess urination, tremors, and abnormal heart rhythm.
- Grapes and raisins—Raisins are dried grapes that contain an unidentified substance that can severely affect your pet’s kidneys and cause kidney failure.
- Nuts—Nuts are high in fat and can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and may lead to pancreatitis.
- Macadamia nuts, in particular, can cause severe reactions for your dog, including muscle weakness, vomiting, and hyperthermia.
- You may notice symptoms for up to 12 hours.
- If your dog has ingested macadamia nuts, call us right away at (916) 726-2334!
- Pizza and table scraps—These foods can contain various toxic substances that will make your pet sick. Pizza offers multiple health hazards for your dog:
- Dogs can’t digest dairy products, so that tasty cheese topping can cause diarrhea.
- Garlic seasoning in the sauce and meats can cause intestinal upset, harm to red blood cells, and could lead to anemia!
- Then there is the dough. Raw yeast dough can make your dog extremely sick from bloat and a twisted intestine.
- Salty snacks—Too much salt can have a deadly outcome for dogs. As with any toxin, symptoms can include diarrhea and vomiting, muscle tremors, and seizures. Too much salt can be lethal.
- Salted nuts
- All the things you love to snack on!
Keep Your Dog Safe From Toxic Foods. Feed Fido Veterinarian Approved Foods and Treats.
It’s tempting to treat your dogs with the treats you love to eat. You’ll help to keep them healthy and happy by offering vet-approved dog snacks.
- Never give your dog scraps from the table or share your snacks.
- Keep feeding times on a schedule, so your dog expects to be fed from its own bowl filled with approved foods.
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Exercise is commonly considered a source of benefits and an irreplaceable component of a healthy lifestyle. It is not without reason. But physical activity still can work against you in unexpected ways. Let us take a look at the reasons why …
1. Exercise burns calories, but … The No. 1 reason many gyms are in business is they offer the resources for exercise with the purpose of helping people lose weight. Even though exercise should be seen primarily as a way to improve the quality of life and maintain well-being, it is usually done for its caloric effects. If training no longer burned calories, we would see even more sedentary people in our society.
So in this sense, it is effective as an initiative to get more people active. But the problem is it also fires up the appetite. And it is this drive that is to blame for the reason many people are overweight, to begin with.
2. Exercise stimulates your hunger. Going for a half-hour jog is a great way to burn calories and melt some of your stubborn fat. But it also makes you incredibly hungry since it causes a tremendous insulin spike. If you are not careful, there is a good chance you may consume enough calories during the following meal, canceling out your weight loss efforts that day.
Do you know anyone in your life that complains about a lack of progress, despite working out consistently? Sometimes, physical activity can even act as a hindrance. It is crucial never to forget having a balanced and sensible diet is just as essential as exercising.
3. Make physical activity work for you, instead of against you. It is not difficult to allow exercise to enrich your life. You just have to take some practical (and mental) precautions. You must have the discipline to control your portion sizes and not increase them just because you have exercised. Be mentally ready, because you are going to feel hungrier on the days you exercise – especially if cardio is your go-to.
If you are looking to lose weight or lower your blood sugar levels, prudence is a value. You can not be too careful and never lose sight of your goal.
4. Your nutrition matters. Lastly, it bears repeating how and what you eat does matter. No amount of exercise will change that.
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Designs for Health ProbioMed™ Kids is a custom, synergistic probiotic formula offering 10 billion colony forming units (CFUs) per dose. It includes 11 diverse, well-researched strains, including Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium probiotic bacteria strains and the nonpathogenic yeast strain, Saccharomyces boulardii (S. boulardii). The amounts of each strain are clearly disclosed, and the formulation is designed to promote gastrointestinal microbial diversity in children. The delicious chewable tablets are a natural mixed-berry flavor (free of artificial sweeteners) and it is sweetened with monk fruit.
Children ages 4 years of age and older: Chew 1 tablet per day with a meal or as directed by your health-care practitioner.
Each tablet contains:
Children's Probiotic Blend 123 mg (10 billion CFU)
Saccharomyces boulardii 0.5 billion CFU
Lactobacillus paracasei (Lpc-37) 1.0 billion CFU
Lactobacillus plantarum (Lp-115) 1.0 billion CFU
Bifidobacterium infantis (BI-26) 0.5 billion CFU
Bifidobacterium lactis (HNO19) 2.5 billion CFU
Lactobacillus rhamnosus (GG) 2.0 billion CFU
Bifidobacterium bifidum (Bb-06) 0.5 billion CFU
Bifidobacterium longum (BI-05) 0.5 billion CFU
Lactobacillus casei (Lc-11) 0.5 billion CFU
Lactobacillus salivarius (Ls-33) 0.5 billion CFU
Lactobacillus gassed (Lg-36) 0.5 billion CFU
Other Ingredients: Dextrates natural mixed berry flavor, stearates (vegetable source), citric acid, silica, monk fruit extract.
GLUTEN FREE, DAIRY FREE, SOY FREE, VEGETARIAN, NON-GMO, VEGAN
General Safety Information
- Always read the label. Use only as directed.
- Nutritional supplements may only be of assistance if the dietary intake is inadequate.
- Supplements should not be used to replace a healthy balanced diet and adequate physical exercise.
- Keep all medications and supplements out of reach of children.
- If symptoms persist see your healthcare professional.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security law in order to help low and middle-income Americans during their senior years and after being disabled. Unfortunately, in today’s political climate there are those that want to greatly reduce the various Social Security benefits many Americans already receive.
Social Security benefits have helped and continue to help millions of poor and middle income as well as disabled Americans get by every month. These individuals are not receiving a lot of money each month, but it is enough to help them cover their expenses. Many individuals do not know what they would do if their Social Security income was reduced or eliminated.
Do you receive Social Security benefits? Tell us what your thoughts are regarding the political push to reduce Social Security benefits in the comment section below!
Social Security has never been more essential than it is today. Traditional defined benefit pensions are increasingly rare, especially for younger Americans. That means that for future generations of retirees, Social Security will be the only guaranteed retirement income that they can never outlive. Already, one-third of elderly beneficiaries rely on Social Security for all or nearly all of their income. That number will be higher for their children and grandchildren.
The problem with relying solely on Social Security? Benefits are too low to allow America’s families to retire and face disability or the death of a breadwinner without drastic cuts in their standards of living. Social Security benefits are modest by virtually any measure. Average benefits are only $16,000 a year.
Though the Social Security benefits are too low, they are still a major improvement over the time before Social Security. Prior to its enactment, people, as they aged, had no resources at all and were forced to move in with adult children or condemned to live in squalid poorhouses. Surviving parents often had no choice but to give up their children when spouses died prematurely; working families were left destitute when workers became disabled or died. Americans deserved better, and the country responded. It is time to respond further. Though Social Security has provided us with greater economic security, it can do more.
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We all know that exercise is good for us. Assuming we don’t overdo it to a point that stresses us out, exercise improves mood, promotes restful sleep, reduces stress, enhances energy, helps manage weight, and lowers risks for all the major diseases, from type 2 diabetes and heart disease to Alzheimer’s and cancer. So, how does it do all this? It turns out that exercise rewires some of our DNA in a way that protects against disease, according to a study of healthy men in Denmark.
Researchers put participants through a six-week endurance exercise program and analyzed changes in DNA, using before-and-after muscle biopsies. They found that exercise influences “enhancers,” sections of DNA that determine which genes are turned on or off. And it turns off disease-promoting genes. Are you pumped up, yet? | <urn:uuid:001990a0-f0ab-4ddc-bda9-146821eb3cfd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.betternutrition.com/health-news/exercise-rewires-dna/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937498 | 219 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Cricket Wales is the national governing body for recreational cricket in Wales and is one of 39 Boards affiliated to the England and Wales Cricket Board.
The Cricket Wales Board is made up of representatives from senior cricket, junior cricket, cricket officials and Glamorgan Cricket. Additional non-executive specialist skills also exist on the Board, for example Directors with responsibility for finance and welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
Cricket Wales shares with Glamorgan five main objectives in our joint strategy:
1. Successful elite teams and international players2. Fit-for-purpose facilities and infrastructure for cricket in Wales3. Increase the number of people positively experiencing cricket4. A great player and fan experience at all levels5. A more sustainable game in Wales
For further information visit www.cricketwales.org.uk
A new and first ever shared strategy has been progressed across Cricket Wales and Glamorgan Cricket. This will be published soon.
Safeguarding and Welfare is very important across cricket, and our supports and efforts can be seen here.
We have a diversity programme, mainly supporting black and minority ethnic cricket in Cardiff. This is also supported via collaboration with South Wales Police in terms of the Cardiff Cohesion Cup. Visit the Cricket Wales Equality page here.
A key growth for the game is women and girls' cricket. To find out more and to get involved, click here.
The Cricket in Wales Foundation is set up to attract donations and funds to take cricket into new areas of Wales. You can find out more here.
Each year, clubs that commit to junior cricket via the All Stars and Dynamos programmes are offered tickets, as a thank you for developing the game in Wales.
The Glamorgan Ambassador Club scheme encourages clubs to bring big groups to T20 Matches for ‘Big Night Outs’.Prestige recreational games also take place at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, and often include (depending on schedules)
Please visit our new welfare section on the Cricket Wales website by clicking here.
By far the biggest focus is growing the game for children via All Stars Cricket, and Dynamos.
About 125 centres are currently set to deliver these programmes.
Volunteers make cricket work. A typical winter's workforce education programme helped 670+ people get trained across all aspects of making cricket run in Wales, including coaches, umpires, and groundskeepers.
To find out more about our coaching courses, click here.
Through club recommendations, regional and Wales age group representative cricket and a network of very experienced coaches, we work closely across Glamorgan and Cricket Wales to produce the future Glamorgan professionals.
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A reading from the gospel according to John 21:15-19:
15 After Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and eaten breakfast with them, he said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
16 He then said to Simon Peter a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed that he had said to him a third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
18 Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to dress yourself and go where you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”
19 He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
Reflection: Follow me
Let us recall how Simon Peter denied Jesus three times. In the gospel reading above, Jesus asks Peter three times if he loves Him! Three times Peter answered in the affirmative and Jesus told him to feed and care for His sheep. Then in verse 19, He asked Peter to follow Him.
Jesus is not someone who is insecure about the love of another but He wanted Peter to verbalize, that is to profess or affirm, his love for Him. He also wanted to show to Peter that His past failures do not matter anymore but his love for the Lord is what matters most. Jesus does not condemn. He restores and leads His sheep to greener pastures.
Surely Jesus wanted Peter to follow in His footsteps as a Good Shepherd who will now take over the leadership of His flock since Jesus is now going back to His Father. Since Peter has now professed his love for Jesus, he is no longer free to do what he wanted or go where he wanted. From now on, He is a “slave” of Jesus who is his Master. He is going to follow what his Master wanted him to do. His work is the work of his Master.
Let us remember too that in the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, He called Peter to become a fisher of men. It does not matter what his background is. He has been trained for three years. After Jesus ascended into heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit and when Peter was empowered, he took his mission seriously. Yet when he died, he was crucified upside down because he felt unworthy to die in the same manner as his master. That is Peter, the ordinary fisherman who was anointed to lead in the great mission of saving the world.
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Cab drivers are often a good source of news information, or at least a good barometer of public opinion. Such was the case when I finally arrived in Mexico City this afternoon for visits with Grassroots International’s partners here.
The city hasn’t changed from the last time I came–the same heavy traffic and the same cloud of pollution above our heads. In the cabin of my taxi, I found an old newspaper with photos of damage in Cancun courtesy of Hurricane Ida last week. They are dramatic. Sections of the flat sand beaches of the famous tourist spot were left uneven. A caption on one photo says that the wild waves had carved out a seven-foot high wall in the sand!
I commented about the situation in Cancun with the taxi driver trying to make conversation during an expected 30-minute ride. He said that, according to the radio reports he listens to in his cab, the hurricane was the works of climate change. Even though I share his concerns about climate change, I thought the argument was a stretch and a sign of the fatalistic talk shows he tunes into.
Half way to the hotel, we changed the conversation to a critical subject in Mexico: the growing violence. My friend has seen it all. After several years driving throughout the city, he decided to work for the taxi service company in the airport instead on his own. “Even though I could earn more on my own, I didn’t felt safe. I have a family to feed.” And after a long pause, he added: “And I want to stay alive.” We laughed at his joke, but also understood the real fear behind it.
Like other cities in Latin America, urban violence is a constant concern in Mexico City. From the time you leave your home in the morning to when you return at night, you fear a bad encounter with the police or with gangs.
The government blames all the violence on the drug cartels. Since his highly challenged and possibly fraudulent election in 2008, President Calderon has attempted to portray his administration as in control of the domestic security. In two occasions, he literally dressed up as an Army commander— apparently first time a civilian president in the Mexican Republican has done such thing.
Clearly President Calderon is leading the country in his war on drugs, dressed as an Army official and with the financial backing of the U.S. The Merida Plan, a multimillion dollar initiative approved by the U.S. Congress last year, has turned Mexico into the second largest depository of U.S. weapons aid to curb drug trafficking in Latin America. (Colombia remains by far the largest recipient.)
Mexico is facing a serious threat with the U.S-funded Plan Merida. The funds are largely dedicated to purchasing new weapons; training local police and the Army to counter highly organize criminals; and increasing border control. The plan also includes, among other things, and expands the role of the Army as law enforcers in the streets and rural areas. In other words, the country has turned into a militarized zone where both violence and fear prevail among the local population.
Struggling to feed his family and without other means to escape this situation, my cab driver probably made a good decision. But would he be safe in a militarized country amid growing violence?
Powerful weapons–mostly intended military purposes–are easily smuggled to drug-traffickers, and corruption in the police force and other government sectors has eliminated any chance of success to curb drug-trafficking. The opposite seems to be true, as it is creating the conditions for a long war in Mexico whose battles are claiming thousands of civilian lives every year while fueling a growing industry based on violence and fear.
As we crossed the city, my friend decided it was time to listen to some radio. I am relieved he decided to catch up with a soccer match between America and Toluca, two major rival teams in Mexico. He probably decided to change the topic about violence to not scare the visitor, and, knowing that I am Brazilian, hoped to establish his own climate change, at least in the car. | <urn:uuid:7591ab20-bdd4-4546-b3ba-8b0364190aee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://grassrootsonline.org/fr/blog/newsblogclimate-change-and-violence-mexico/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97382 | 851 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Kamis, 03 Oktober 2019
Transwomen Gap in a Formal Work Attainment as a Constrain of Indonesia's SDGS Accomplishment. An Executive Summary for a Panel of Rhethoric Gender in Indonesia
By Fanny S Alam
Bandung School of Peace Indonesia for Euroseas Conference 2019
Humboltd University, Berlin
Thank you for your time and attention to our panel. Thank the Euroseas Committee who have already accepted my paper. Therefore, I am open for any objective and constructive criticism both from you and the audience. I would like to introduce myself, my name is Fanny S Alam, working as City Coordinator in Bandung School of Peace which is in line with School of Peace Indonesia National. We organize weekly programs to introduce human rights and social issues for the youth in the city. We set them thematically, starting from religions and beliefs, gender diversity and sexuality, and other minorities as well as politics and environment in purpose to develop the youth's emphaty and willingness to engage with minorities in the city. Discussing about minorities, one of which becomes the highlight in my paper, is about transwomen and their issues, mostly about how to attain formal work. It is definitely a hard issue to talk, mostly due to stigma and discrimination not only from societies but also from the government apparatus. Attaining formal work is important for anybody to secure their daily needs as well as their future saving. It is very common to see people search for a job. It is the world with competition, though. However, when coming to transwomen for their work, it is barely seen that they could work openly in formal sectors. As known that Indonesia has committed to signing platform of SDGs which has inclusion principles. It means this platform secures no one left behind, ensuring that all development interests must cover anyone without exceptions (stated by U.N. statement). It includes vulnerable or marginalized groups including LGBTI. The country has ratified U.N. covenant about human rights to Law of Republic of Indonesia no 12/2005 with Act 1 securing Indonesia human rights regardless the positions of sex, ethnicity, race, religion, and sexual orientation. However, its implementation faces some issues, particularly about transwomen positions. The norms of religion and heteronormative values are adopted in this country, therefore it makes their position harder to be recognized officially. From one of interview sessions with a transwomen activist from Srikandi Pasundan, she underlines how the societies and government apparatus label them social diseases, being arrested by public orders enforcers on the streets to be put in a short term day rehabilitation. Most of their transwomen partners work in informal sectors, such as waitress, spa therapist, hairstylist, and cook in several caterings. On the other side, another transwoman, name Abi says that she used to apply for some formal jobs. She is a university graduate in communication major and she faces some uncomfortable situations mainly in final interviews after revealing her true gender identity and soon after that most of the companies she applied never contact her. The above experiences leave us some questions, particularly about how the country shows their partiality to support anyone as they ratified through the national law. Why it seems difficult for them to appreciate and to recognize transwomen position as humans the same as others. If the government do not respect their rights, one of which is to secure their right for attaining formal work, then their commitment in SDGs is questionable and becomes another constrain because it seems to be reluctant for the country to stand for their rights fully. It might be challenging for the Indonesian government to be open minded to recognize their existence, while it is certain that the societies here will do so. With the rise of more conservatism in religion in Indonesia, it is still a long way to go for transwomen to be secured for their rights, especially for their formal work attainment. They are still struggling while the government has already been attached with some certain human rights ratifications which also address their rights in this country. | <urn:uuid:e16a1501-8442-463c-a4c0-8b9e21715a34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bsopindonesia.org/2019/10/transwomen-gap-in-formal-work.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972635 | 819 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Medicaid, a state-based health care system for the poor created in 1965 was optional from the start. It took a decade before the 50th state – Arizona – joined the program.
Every time Medicaid expanded in the ensuing decades – such as the extension of coverage to all uninsured children in the 1990s – the federal government allowed states to opt out. Eventually, none did.
Now states are facing another crossroads in the evolution of the program, assuming the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, politically survives beyond the fall elections. The Supreme Court on Thursday reaffirmed the right of states to reject expanding Medicaid to cover poor-but-working adults and prohibited the federal government from withdrawing support for other parts of the program to penalize non-participation.
Some states are already planning to ignore the coverage expansion offer when it goes into effect in 2014. “We’re not going to consider it,” vowed Anthony Keck, state Medicaid director in South Carolina. About 20 percent of the state’s population is uninsured, giving it one of the highest rates in the nation. “We believe you have to make health care more affordable first.”
The 26 states that mounted the legal challenge to Obamacare said the Medicaid expansion placed an unsustainable financial burden on their state budgets. While the federal government will provide 100 percent of the costs in the first two years of the expansion and provides additional payments to allow payments to physicians and other providers to Medicare rates, federal support dwindles to 90 percent after ten years, leaving states with 10 percent of the responsibility.
Health care proponents believe most if not all states will eventually accede to the expansion, just as they did to the original law and the children’s expansion. “Over time they will have to ask themselves why you would not want to do this,” said Cathy Schoen, vice president for policy at the Commonwealth Fund, a pro-reform think tank and advocacy group. “In states where 20 to 30 percent of working age adults are uninsured, it will provide relief to local taxpayers and the already insured, who pick up the cost of their emergency room care.”
About half the 33 million people slated to get coverage under the law will get it through Medicaid. The program’s coverage guidelines will be expanded to include uninsured individuals or families earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. These are people who, though working, are too poor to afford policies sold through the health insurance exchanges even with subsidies.
Now that state participation is optional, it is impossible to predict how many people will not gain coverage because of state opt-outs. The Congressional Budget Office issued a terse statement Thursday saying it will take some time to project how the court’s decision will affect its original coverage projections and program costs.
Other pro-reform analysts noted that very poor working people without coverage on their jobs will be the biggest losers if they live in states that do not expand Medicaid to take advantage of the new federal subsidies. “People with incomes between 100 percent and 400 percent of the poverty line will be eligible for subsidies to help them afford coverage in the new health insurance exchanges,” said Robert Greenstein, president of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. “But people below the poverty line will not be eligible, because the Affordable Care Act assumes they’ll be in Medicaid instead.” | <urn:uuid:b0b74775-0c5c-4171-9794-69cf8d8d2ad0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/06/28/Will-States-Opt-Out-of-Medicaid-Expansion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951074 | 697 | 2.28125 | 2 |
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In the medical industry, every single procedure is important. Of course, a medical professional is human and can make mistakes sometimes. These mistakes can either be easy to fix or they can be life-threatening – so what happens? There are several things that can happen but this can often depend on the nature of the mistake.
Here, we are going to look at what might happen if a medical professional makes a mistake. Keep reading to find out more about this issue.
A Complaint Will Be Made
The first thing that usually happens after a medical professional makes a mistake is a complaint is made by the patient. This can also be done by the family of the patient or even other professionals who have noticed the issue and want to solve it as soon as possible. If possible, the professionals will solve the problem and apologise as soon as possible but this doesn’t always work. If you are planning on making a mistake against a medical professional, then make sure that you are doing this through the correct channels.
Making A Claim
Did you know that many medical mistakes can actually be claimed against in a court of law? While this can have a negative effect on the reputation of the medical professional, you don’t need to worry too much about them as they have insurance to cover this kind of thing. This insurance is called medical indemnity insurance and it covers the professional when these kinds of things happen. Usually, their legal fees will be covered and more as long as they meet the requirements set out by their policy. This is why many professionals invest in this kind of insurance just in case something was to go wrong in the future.
If the medical professional has made a mistake that is not too serious then it is likely that they will receive some further training in order to prevent this from happening in the future. This could involve them shadowing a more experienced professional or even taking another exam in order to improve their knowledge. While this is not usually required, some professionals will want to brush up on their skills in order to improve their reputation after this kind of incident.
Depending on the kind of issue, you might find that the medical professional is suspended from their job. This could be during an investigation or it could be to prevent them from making the same kind of mistake on another patient. It is the responsibility of the medical board to make the decision on whether this medical practitioner continues in their current position or if they are removed from their role. This is usually only done in more serious cases, but it is possible, so this is something to think about.
When a medical professional makes a mistake, there can be a lot of results. The medical professional will need to have an investigation completed to figure out why they did this and how they can stop it from happening in the future. If you have been involved in a medical mistake or you have made a mistake on a patient, then you should take the appropriate steps to solve the problem.
Make sure to always have medical indemnity insurance and check that your doctor has this before undergoing any kind of procedure. This way, you can avoid any serious issues and reduce the risk of having expensive bills to pay if something were to go wrong in the future. | <urn:uuid:0ed15c12-0296-4520-86e9-f355f2cae1ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pandora--uk.co.uk/what-happens-if-a-medical-professional-makes-a-mistake/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.981339 | 657 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Civil society organisations sent an open letter to the EU Commission to criticise the new call for drug policy grant proposals that almost only focuses on law enforcement and excludes harm reduction.
European Drug Policy
This brief overview of the Hungarian system of diversion from the criminal justice system (elterelés) was prepared and submitted to contribute to the assessment of the European Commission on alternatives to criminal sanctions for drug offenders in Europe (PDF).
In the last 3 decades marginalized people who use crack in Paris have been chased from one public park to the other by the police. Recently the police even built a wall to block the users from the rest of society. This new documentary explores the history of crack in Paris, and amplifies the voices of experts and residents who call for a better solution: safe crack consumption rooms.
We are glad to present our new movie on why is it important to involve civil society in drug policy decision making, featuring the members of the EU’s Civil Society Forum on Drugs!
More than 400 professionals and community activists gathered in Prague to take part in the 5th European Harm Reduction Conference.
Vitaly Milonov, a Russian government politician notorious for anti-gay and antisemitic remarks, has found a new enemy: The Andrey Rylkov Foundation, a harm reduction organisation in Moscow.
More than 400 professionals and community activists gathered in Prague to attend the 5th European Harm Reduction Conference. Watch and share Drugreporter’s video report!
In this report, the EU Civil Society Forum on Drugs will provide you with guidelines on how to make the involvement of civil society in drug policy more meaningful.
While the Czech parliament discusses the amendment to the Criminal Code that would effectively decriminalise drug use, the Constitutional Court has repealed part of the law concerning small amounts of cannabis and ‘magic’ mushrooms.
What can we learn from the failures of repressive drug laws? How can we convince the people that they are failed? What are the alternatives of punitive drug policies? A group of NGOs launched a campaign to mark the 50th anniversary of the Misuse of Drugs Act in the UK – and the 100th anniversary of the drug law in Belgium. We discuss lessons learnt with Ester Kincova from Transform and Stéphane Leclercq from Fedito Brussels. | <urn:uuid:e05059dd-6c1d-4236-a2c0-322ee5c1fa98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://drogriporter.hu/en/archive/drug-policy-and-law/european-drug-policy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.9232 | 469 | 1.773438 | 2 |
When it comes to a child’s sleep, quality is important. When you invest in waterproof bed sheets for your kids’ beds, you’re also investing in better quality sleep for your children. Waterproof bed sheets offer many benefits for kids.
One benefit is helping a child’s body temperature stay regulated. Waterproof sheets wick away moisture and sweat, keeping your child cool and comfortable all night long.
Another benefit is their easy cleanup process. You can throw waterproof bed sheets in the washer and dryer as normal. If your child has an accident in these sheets in the middle of the night, you can easily take them off the bed and wash them. Then, they’ll be good as new!
A third benefit is that you won’t need to buy mattress protectors. A waterproof bedsheet is a great alternative since they protect the mattress from accidents with their waterproof ability. This is important since 15% of children still wet the bed at age 5.
A final benefit is their soft texture. Waterproof bed sheets are not only cool – they’re also comfy! Your kiddos will enjoy sleeping on these pillow-like sheets that are also great for children that still have accidents at night.
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The Adhesive and Sealant Council (ASC), along with UL Environment as the program operator, recently released a product category rule for sealants covering North America.
“The publication of the Product Category Rule (PCR) for sealants demonstrates that ASC is able to mobilize its membership to accomplish a task that is important for the continued use of sealants in sustainable applications within the building and construction industry,” says Steve Rosenberg, task group chairman, ASC board member and senior vice president for risk quality and sustainability management at Sika.
PCRs are documents that define the rules and requirements for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) of a certain product category. They are vital for the concept of environmental declarations according to ISO 14025 as they enable transparency and comparability between different EPDs based on the same PCR.
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Zoroastrianism in the World (text)
Zoroastrian Legendary History
Pre-Iranian mythology relates the stories of kings and warriors of the legendary Pishdadian Dynasty, predating Zarathustra. According to this history, King Gayomard (Kayomarz) was the first mortal; from his seed grew Mashya and Mashyani, the first human couple. This history also includes the story of King Jamshid, who received a divine warning that the world would be submerged in ice and snow. He built a “Vara” (fortress) and to which he brought pairs of men, women, animals, and seeds.
1,000 - 1750 BCE Zarathustra
Sometime as early as 1750 BCE, the prophet Zarathustra began teaching about the worship of one God, Ahura Mazda. His teachings were remarkable for their monothesitic and dualistic qualities, which scholars believe influenced the development of Judeo-Christian western religious thought. Zarathustra proclaimed a life-affirming message that demanded not so much belief as reason, action, and an ethic of personal responsibility for every individual. He lived a life of reflection and active benevolence.
728-559 BCE Median Empire
Around 728 BCE, Deioces founded the Median Dynasty in the city of Ecbatana. Later during the 7th century BCE, Scythian nomads entered western Iran from the Caucasus. Towards the end of this empire, Cyaxares overthrew the Scythians, and his granddaughter married Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon.
500-330 BCE Achaemenian Empire
In 500 BCE, Cyrus the Great conquered the Medes, the Lydians and the Babylonians, becoming the first Zarathushti world power and founding the Achaemenian Empire. At the time, this empire was one of the largest empires in history, stretching from modern-day Libya in the West to modern-day Pakistan in the East. During this empire, Darius I the Great (522-486 BCE) expanded the empire into Greece and Macedonia, and was defeated by the Greeks at the Battle of Marathon in 490. Additionally, Xerxes I (486-465 BCE), often known as King Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther, led a land and sea invasion of Greece. The Persians crossed the Hellespont to Athens and took the Acropolis.
331-248 BCE Seleucid Empire
In 331 BCE, Alexander the Great (or Alexander the Accursed) defeated the Achaemenian Empire and took control of Persia. His reign ushered in a period of Hellenization in which Greeks built temples designed to blend Zoroastrian and Greek religious practice.
247 BCE-224 CE Parthian Empire
A religiously heterogenous empire, the Parthians used religion as a diffuse source of influence through individual families to spread Parthian culture.
224-652 CE Sassanian Empire
Throughout the Sassanian Empire, Zoroastrianism gained widespread power and was declared the empire’s official religion as Sassanians built fire temples (Zoroastrain places of worship) across the Middle East. During this time, a master copy of the Avesta, Zoroastrianism’s most important collection of religious texts, is created.
314 CE Armenia Becomes Christian
King Tirdat IV converts to Christianity and by tradition his subjects convert as well. Historical documents suggest that before this conversion, Armenia was likely majority Zoroastrian.
652 CE Fall of Sassanian Empire
After decades of attacks, the Sassanian Empire is absorbed by the Islamic caliphate. From this point forward, Islam becomes the primary religion of Persia, ending centuries of Zoroastrian power.
700s-900s Many Zoroastrians Convert to Islam
During the 8th-10th centuries CE in Persia, Zoroastrians must pay jizya, a tax for non-Muslims. Due to this economic discrimination, Muslim families take hold the majority of land in Persia as Zoroastrian families struggle. Most Zoroastrians convert to Islam, but Zoroastrianism survives despite the pressure.
861 CE Cypress of Kashmar Cut Down
The Abbasid caliph of the Khorāsān region orders that the Cypress of Kashmar, a sacred tree thought to have been planted by Zarathustra, be cut down.
900s CE Zoroastrian Texts Produced
Facing the destruction of fire temples and redaction of sacred texts, Zoroastrian communities launch a concentrated effort to record their ancient stories and practices.
936 CE Migration to India Begins
Facing persecution, Zoroastrians flee from Iran to India, which splits the global Zoroastrian communities into an Iranian group and a community known as Parsis in India. When the first group arrived, the raja (a local ruler) presented them with a full glass of milk, indicating that their land was filled to the brim and unable to accept more people. A dastur (Zoroastrian high priest) responded by pouring sugar into the milk and arguing that Zoroastrians would sweeten the land without overflowing the milk.
934-1055 CE Buyid Dynasty
The Buyids, Shi’i Iranian leaders, take control of Persia. They take an interest in Zoroastrian history and produce coins that feature fire temples. At this point, Zoroastrianism had been displaced and persecuted, but remains resilient.
979 CE Riots in Fārs
Under pressure to convert from the caliph, Zoroastrians in the region of Fārs (modern-day Iran) revolt, showing that Zoroastrianism was still relatively strong in certain areas.
1000s-1500s CE Zoroastrian Dark Ages and Migration to India
During this period of upheaval and changing empires in Iranian history, there are few surviving sources which indicate how Zoroastrian communities fared. However, the great number of Zoroastrians that migrated to Indian during this time indicate that it must have been an organized community effort.
Late 1200s Gujarat Divided into panthaks
Parsis divide Gujarat into five ecclesiastical divisions (panthaks).
1478-1773 Exchanges Between Iranian and Indian Zoroastrians
In a series of letters that begins in 1478, Parsis begin reaching out to Zoroastrian priests in Iran for guidance on rituals and other spiritual matters.
1501-1722 Safavid Empire in Iran
From the outset of the Safavid Empire, the Shah makes financial success difficult for those who do not follow Shi’i Islam. In 1699, a decree forces all Iranians to convert to Shi’i Islam. In the city of Kermān, jurists relocate Zoroastrians to the outskirts of the city to prevent them from mixing with Muslims.
1510–1591 CE Meherji Rana visits Akbar the Great
An important priest from Gujarat, Meherji Rana, pays a visit to Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire, who loved to learn about different religions and even built a meeting house called Ibādat Khāna (the House of Worship) to meet with spiritual leaders. After talking with Meherji Rana, Akbar then took up an interest in Zoroastrianism and kept a fire burning in his court.
1673 First Fire Temple in Bombay
The first fire temple in Bombay (modern-day Mumbai) is consecrated, indicating that Zoroastrian influence has spread beyond Gujarat.
1789-1925 Qajar Dynasty in Iran
During the Qajar Dynasty, it remained difficult to practice Zoroastrianism in Iran. There were purity laws banning Zoroastrians from participating in public life, and a steady stream of Zoroastrians continued to convert to Islam to gain economic and social freedom.
Late 1700s Parsi Trade in China
What begins as a trading relationship transforms into an immigration relationship as Parsis settle in South China.
Late 1700s - Early 1900s More Migration from Iran to India
As trade between Iranian and Parsi Zoroastrians increases, Iranian Zoroastrians migrate to India in search of prosperity and religious liberty.
Early 1800s Parsis Flourish Economically
Despite the relatively small community of Zoroastrians in Bombay, they own a large number of businesses compared to Hindus and Europeans.
1853 CE Society for the Amelioration of the Conditions of the Zoroastrians in Persia founded
Seeking to assist fellow Zoroastrians in Iran, the Parsis create an aid society.
1857 Bharuch Riot
In the Indian town of Broach (now Bharuch), Zoroastrians are killed and fire temples are burned down after a rumor that a Zoroastrian man had disrespected a mosque.
1861 Zoroastrian Migrants Form First Indian Association in Britain
The first Indian association in Britain, called Religious Funds of Zoroastrians of Europe, is formed to support the growing number of Parsi families migrating to Britain.
1870 Parsis Migrate to Zanzibar
Barghash bin Said, who claimed to be the rightful ruler of Zanzibar, was exiled to Bombay in 1856. When he returned to become Zanzibar’s ruler, he took many Parsis with him, leading to a substantial community of Zoroastrians in Zanzibar.
During the violence and economic collapses of Partition of India and Pakistan, Parsis begin to migrate to various places around the world.
1970 Freddie Mercury forms Queen
Zoroastrian musician Freddie Mercury, born Farrokh Bulsara, forms the popular rock band Queen.
1970 Australian Zoroastrian Association Forms
In the 1970s, Parsi Zoroastrians begin migrating to Australia and form the Australian Zoroastrian Association in Sydney.
1979 Islamic Revolution
The 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran limits Zoroastrian rights, leading many to migrate most commonly to North America.
1980 World Zoroastrian Organization Founded
In London in 1980, Zoroastrians come together and form an organization designed to support displaced Zoroastrians in diaspora around the globe.
2003 CE the 3000th Anniversary of Zoroastrian Culture
UNESCO declares 2003 the 3000th Anniversary of Zoroastrian Culture, inspiring celebrations and conferences around the world.
Today there are somewhere between 125,000 and 200,000 Zoroastrians around the world, with most living in India and Iran. There are also substantial communities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Dubai. In addition, some Central Asian countries that formerly belonged to the USSR are beginning to re-examine and celebrate their Zoroastrian heritage.
Zoroastrianism in America (text)
1799 CE Parsis trade with Boston
Because of trade routes between Boston and Bombay, an American merchant noted his trade dealings with Parsis.
1860s CE California Gold Rush Attracts Zoroastrian Immigrants
After moving to California to become a prospector, Maneckji Javeri becomes the first Zoroastrian on record to settle in the United States. There are also records of another Zoroastrian prospector named Cawasji Zaveri.
1865 CE Zoroastrian Writes Abolitionist Letter
The New York Evening Post publishes a letter from a Zoroastrian named Dosabhai Faramji Cama that argues against slavery.
1892 CE Pestonji Davar Immigrates to San Francisco
Another early immigrant to the United States, Pestonji Davar comes to San Francisco from Hong Kong and becomes a millionaire.
1926 CE First Recorded Iranian Zoroastrian Immigrant
Rostam Kermani becomes the first Iranian Zoroastrian immigrant to the United States on record.
1929 CE First Zoroastrian Association Started in Chicago
Zoroastrians start the first Zoroastrian association in the United States, but it disassembles a few years later.
1929 CE First Attempted Zoroastrian Association of New York
After gathering in one member’s living room, seven Zoroastrians create the first Zoroastrian Association of New York. The organization fell apart when its main benefactor died, but a new Zoroastrian association would be founded in New York in 1973.
1960s CE New York Zoroastrians Meet Informally
In this era, there was no official Zoroastrian association, but that did not stop Zoroastrians from cooking holiday meals for each other in rental halls. An Indian restaurant owned by Rustomji Wadia became a popular meeting space.
1973 CE Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York (ZAGNY) Founded
Seeking to formalize their community gatherings, a group of 20 Zoroastrians create the Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York (ZAGNY). Today, the organization supports around 240 households in New York and beyond.
1977 CE First Dar-e-Mehr in the United States Inaugurated
The first Dar-e-Mehr (fire temple) in the United States is inaugurated in New Rochelle, New York.
1983 CE Conversion Initiation Controversy
In New York, a scandal ensues after priests initiate Joseph Peterson, who was not raised Zoroastrian, into the religion with a navjote ritual. Peterson’s initiation sparked arguments between Zoroastrians around the world as they grappled with the validity of conversion (Zoroastrianism is traditionally patrilineal) and the center of authority (some Zoroastrians in India felt that Zoroastrians in the United States were out of touch with tradition).
1986 CE Iranian Zoroastrian Association (IZA) Formed
After a growth in Iranian immigrants to New York, tension rises between the Parsi members of ZAGNY and the Iranian newcomers, causing the Iranian Zoroastrians to branch off into their own group. The IZA and ZAGNY continue to collaborate by co-running the Arbab Rustam Guiv Dar E Mehr Zoroastrian Temple in New York.
1987 CE The Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA) Founded
All 16 Zoroastrian associations in Canada and the United States join the multi-national umbrella organization the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA). Today, Fezana has 27 member associations and 12 non-member corresponding organizations.
1988 CE First Zoroastrian Games (Z Games)
At a wedding celebration in 1988, a small group of young Zoroastrians decided to create the Zoroastrian Sports Committee (ZSC) and organize a Zoroastrian sports competition. The tradition continues today as the Zoroastrian Games, or Z Games, hosting athletes from around the world in events like track, basketball, and table tennis.
1993 CE The First World Zoroastrian Youth Congress
FEZANA organizes its inaugural World Zoroastrian Youth Congress, which meets in Los Angeles. The creation of this congress reflects the way that Zoroastrian associations in North America consciously create educational programs and events that center young Zoroastrians.
1998 CE ZAGNY and IZA Joint Celebration
To celebrate Jamshedji Navruz and ZAGNY’s 25th anniversary, ZAGNY and IZA hold a joint celebration with more than 400 guests.
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Experts Urge Geneva II Parties to Seize Historic Opportunity to Stop Crisis, ESCWA Report: Syria Loses 10 Million Syrian Pounds a Minute
Enab Baladi Issue # 101– Sun, Jan. 27, 2014
As the impact of the ongoing so-called “war against terrorism” by Al Assad regime has largely affected the Syrian infrastructure; the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) issued a report showing the serious economic dislocation recorded in the past three years.
The report stated that Syria is losing 10 Million Syrian Pounds ($70,000) every minute; moreover, every hour 300 people flee their homes; 9,000 people fall below the poverty line eachday; 2,500 people succumb to abject poverty unable to buy their daily bread; 10,000 people lose their jobs every week; and 6,000 people die every month.
According to the report, Syria has lost 37 years in development over three years and has witnessed a decline across all development indicators to reach the second lowest ranking among all Arab countries; which indicates that “Every additional day of conflict costs the country US$109 million in GDP, worsens the drawback and increases difficulties for recovery”.
With 38% of students falling outside the educational system, and with unemployment reaching 42%, it is no longer distinguishable how to recover infrastructure and how to rebuild civil groups and organizations.
Thus basically, with each year the crisis continues, the country is now set back eight years in development in all aspects; today a quarter of the people of the country which have been growing wheat for 12 centuries fail to secure their daily bread.
The regime couldn’t deny these figures; however, to save face, the government held “terrorists” responsible for losses in services sector.
Mr. Hassan Zainab, deputy oil minister, says that the oil sector has suffered a 1600-billion-Syrian pound loss; he contributed the loss to the fact that most oil wells are located in rebel-held areas which resulted in a reduction in oil production from 385,000 barrels per day to 13,000 bpd.
Similarly, and due to the shelling of most services centers, and the ongoing clashes between regime forces and opposition fighters, the electricity sector sustained losses that exceeded 18 billion Syrian pounds in 2013; and 23 billion S.P in 2012.
The devastating figures were released in an attempt to bring the world into awareness of the catastrophic situation, and to seize the opportunity of the gathering of 45 international parties concerned with reaching a political resolution in Syria in Geneva II.
Experts are to present their findings to both Syrian delegations at the conference during the talks, in the hope that concerns over the future of Syria and attempts to save what is left to be saved will contribute to reaching a settlement.
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·Task: The multiple-source essay asks you to synthesize the arguments of at least 10sources·Length:2000-3000 words·Format: APA·Sources: a total of at least 10 sources, all of which should be from scholarly journals or credible trade journals. You should find your sources through library searches.o If you cite sources from websites or popular journals, these sources should be in addition to the 10 sources you have cited from scholarly or trade journals.·Topic: Please use the same topic that you used for writing assignment #3. It is recommended that you focus on or expand on the essay that you wrote for writing assignment #3. You will continue with the topic you have selected and will conduct additional searches in the library databases, hopefully focus the topic more, and determine the 10 or more sources to use in this essay. Please note that this is a review of the literature on a topic. It is not a persuasive essay using sources to support a point. Rather it is an overview of the current research on a topic.
Needs Into, thesis, and Conclusion. looking for 14 sources. APA 7th ed. 2000-3000 words.
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In reality, the DNC and many non-profit organizations and government agencies are reserved for relatives of donors and their political allies. Because they have the right graduates, the ruling class sends its children there.
Two-thirds of DNC employees signed cards indicating they wanted a union election. This is from NBC itself. A neutral third party verified the cards, and 67% of employees voted for it.
The union was actually targeting the DNC to organize. Alison Goh said, “We are thrilled that we joined SEIU Local 500 to live out our Democratic values on the job. According to NBC, Goh worked as a DNC staffer. He was also an SEIU union organizer. Goh was the last to hold the post of Special Assistant to the Director of Organizing. He retired after many years of experience in the field.
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Slate, a unionized left-wing organization, is currently in contract negotiations.
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Now a pair of chemists – Stevenson Professor of Chemistry Jeffrey Johnston and doctoral student Suzanne Batiste from the department of chemistry and Institute of Chemical Biology at Vanderbilt University – have developed a method that produces cyclic depsipeptides in a single step with high yields and in unusually large sizes, ranging up to rings with 60 atoms.
They describe the new process in a paper titled “Rapid Synthesis of Cyclic Oligomeric Depsipeptides with Positional, Stereochemical and Macrocycle Size-Distribution Control” published this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“I don’t know of any chemist who wouldn’t take a single-step synthesis over one that takes multiple steps,” said Johnston.
The Vanderbilt researchers achieved this result by adapting a standard tool in the synthetic organic chemist’s toolbox called the “Mitsunobu reaction.” Normally, this reaction is used to make one carbon-oxygen bond at a time. Johnston and Batiste modified it so it could be used to stitch monomers – small molecules that link to form molecular chains called oligomers – together and then bind the ends together to form rings.
The new method enables them to make rings in unusual and much larger sizes than those found in nature and to do so all in a single step.
Once they have synthesized the basic monomer, using others with different chemical units, called decorations, to produce a variety of different bioactive molecules is relatively straightforward.
In addition, the chemists found that they could control the size of the rings being formed by adding different salts to their recipe.
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“The salts act as templates. So salts of different sizes encourage the formation of rings of different sizes,” Johnston explained.
The combination of their chemical make-up and ring structure account for cyclic depsipeptides’ biological activity. They can be tailor-made to attach to specific receptors on cell surfaces. Receptors are large proteins with one end on the surface of a cell’s outer membrane that respond to the presence of specific molecules in the cell’s environment and trigger specific biochemical reactions within the cell. By capping a receptor’s outer end, cyclic depsipeptides can either block the receptor or trigger it, depending on how they are designed. For example, verticilide blocks the activity of the ryanodine receptor, which controls the concentration of calcium ions within the cell, in insects but not in mammals.
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Following are a few types of U.S. work visas that are available to foreign workers. The penalties for working without authorization include being barred from entering the United States for three or ten years, depending on how long you were resident permit turkey working without a permit. For example, if you work without authorization while in the United States on a tourist visa and later apply for a student visa, your unauthorized employment will make you ineligible for that student visa.
Money earned by a J-2 cannot be used to support the principal J-1 Visa holder. If you are a member of an entertainment group then you can apply this Turkish resident permit visa. If you are an athlete and going to participate in a competition. This category is for someone who has extra ordinary talent or achievements.
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Once you have fallen out of status—meaning that your authorization to stay in the United States on a visa or some other document has expired—you are expected to depart the United States immediately. You are not eligible for a work permit, or indeed for any other immigration benefit. A work permit is not required for a minor 16 years or older who has completed the requirements for high school graduation or has obtained a high school equivalency certificate and provided copy of certification to the employer. A work permit is not required for a 17 year old minor who has passed the general education development test and provided copy of certification to the employer. The application for a work permit is made on USCIS Form I-765. Be sure to read the instructions to the form, which explain more about who is eligible and what documents you need to provide.
Title 26 Sec. 773 to Minors under age 16 working as theatrical or film actors are exempt from the child labor law except that they must have work permits. Sec. 253-Minors under the age of 16 must have permit issued by state DOL to participate in employment in the entertainment industry. Sec. 508-Special permit issued by Department of Labor allows child under age 16 to be employed in the entertainment industry for a limited time. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.
Step 2: Attach Supporting Documents
If you do not qualify for employment or family-based visas, you can take your chances with the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, also known as the green card lottery. The US government runs this program in order to diversify the migrants that are settling in the country. Millions of people enter this lottery each year with the hopes of being granted a permanent resident card even without prior residency in the US. The Green Card or Permanent Resident Card, also called USCIS Form I-551 serves as proof of your immigration status as a U.S. lawful permanent resident with the right to live and work permanently in the United States. It is important to understand the difference between the card itself, and the status as a permanent resident. The CBP officer is trying to determine the reasons for the overseas trip and your intent to maintain the U.S. as the principal place of residence.
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- Your immigration lawyer will also plan and develop a strategy regarding the timeline for when everything should take place.
- In case an applicant needs extra space to answer a question, he may attach a continuation sheet to the form.
- For example, an arriving person who has three purses, whether each bears a different infringing trademark, or whether all three bear the same infringing trademark, is permitted only one purse.
Once you arrive in the U.S., you will have a lot of time to yourself while you wait for your green card. Why not use this extra time to come up with a business idea and a plan of action to make it work. If I could go back to those 7 months that I had, I totally would have done something. I don’t regret it but I could have dedicated more time into doing something more productive. One thing I am glad I did was volunteer for 4 months because that helped me make some new friends and references. New immigrants to the United States are far more likely to start a business than US citizens.
There are severe penalties if you don’t pay the required taxes. Not paying could ruin your chances of ever Turkish work permit becoming a U.S. citizen! Check out this article to get a clear understanding of the taxes you need to pay.
Specifically, the United States, Mexico, and Canada have agreed to provisions to enhance information exchange and cooperation on agricultural biotechnology trade-related matters. The top priority for America’s dairy industry in this negotiation has been for Canada to eliminate its program that allows low priced dairy ingredients to undersell United States dairy sales in Canada and in third country markets. As a result of the negotiation, Canada will eliminate what is known as its milk classes 6 and 7.
U.S. employers who wish to bring skilled professionals to the country can file applications for H-1B visas for such foreign workers and bring them to the country as temporary workers. Working in the United States without a work permit can put your entire green card application at risk. USCIS will closely scrutinize any green card application from an applicant who has previously worked without authorization. USCIS can overlook unauthorized employment only in some very specific situations—for example, spouses of U.S. citizens who have previously worked without authorization will not be barred from receiving a green card. If you’ve never worked in the United States before, you’ll need to get a Social Security number as soon as you get your work permit. Under the previous Form I-765, obtaining a Social Security Number could not be done through the work permit application itself.
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If the subject of a file is deceased, protection of privacy is not applicable but researchers are asked to provide documentation of the subject’s death. NARA also requires that a researcher provide identification, such as a valid driver’s license, before it provides access to original records. The next significant exclusionary legislation was the Act to Prohibit the Coming of Chinese Persons into the United States of May 1892 (27 Stat. 25). Referred to as the Geary Act, it allowed Chinese laborers to travel to China and reenter the United States but its provisions were otherwise more restrictive than preceding immigration laws. This Act required Chinese to register and secure a certificate as proof of their right to be in the United States.
The application for an entry permit must be made at least 30 days before travel, and the permit is valid for a stay of up to 30 days. Business travelers may apply for a multiple-entry permit, for a fee of US$50 per month, up to one year. Your travel out of the U.S. must be temporary and you must be able to prove that you didn’t intend to abandon your Legal Permanent Residence. If a green card holder stay outside of the U.S. for 1 year or more or if the immigration officer believes that a green card holder is living out of the U.S. permanently then the green card holder may be found inadmissible and denied reentry into the U.S. Exceptions apply for people temporarily living abroad because they or their immediate relatives work with the United States armed forces abroad, or are civilian employees of the U.S.
Meleanie Hain’s handgun was found fully loaded and in a backpack near the front door of the home, according to police. A second legal dispute with the sheriff continued after her death, but a federal judge dismissed that lawsuit on November 3, 2010. The legality of open carry of certain firearms in Virginia was reaffirmed after several 2004 incidents in which citizens openly carrying firearms were confronted by local law enforcement. The Virginia law prohibits the open carry, in certain localities, of any semiautomatic weapon holding more than 20 rounds or a shotgun that holds more than seven rounds, without a concealed carry permit. Connecticut is may-issue according to state law, but shall-issue according to court precedence and in practice.
The Court did, however, limit the scope of the decision by not determining if the state’s constitution protected the right. Council member Mary M. Cheh introduced the Death with Dignity Act of 2015. Committee on Health and Human Services voted 3–2 for the Death with Dignity Act. It then went through another vote in the council and the Mayor’s office. | <urn:uuid:29f55797-642d-44d2-8c8f-c6b634bb8d13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/turkey-citizenship-by-investment/index.php/2016/07/09/us-naturalization-and-immigration-citizenship-application-us-visas-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955556 | 1,918 | 1.679688 | 2 |
|Congress respecting the will of the people? What’s next, democracy?|
Eleven years later, it’s about time: The U.S. Senate today passed historic legislation to end the decade long ban on implementation of the medical marijuana law Washington, D.C., voters passed with 69 percent of the vote in 1998.
“This marks the first time in history that Congress has changed a marijuana law for the better,” said Aaron Houston, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), based in D.C.
The “Barr Amendment,” a rider attached to appropriations for the District of Columbia, has forbidden D.C. from extending the legal protection of Initiative 59, the “Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1998,” to qualified medical marijuana patients.
The amendment has long been derided as an unconscionable intrusion by the federal government into the District’s affairs, according to MPP.
The House voted 221-202 and the Senate voted 57-35 to approve the measure.
The omnibus spending bill now approved by both chambers of Congress removes this onerous provision, allowing the District to finally implement its voter-approved law.
President Obama is expected to sign the appropriations bill this week.
|MPP’s Aaron Houston: “This is the first time Congress has ever given its assent to a state or local law that permits medical use of marijuana.”|
”This is not only a huge victory for medical marijuana patients and for D.C. self-government; it marks a history-making shift on the medical marijuana issue,” Houston said. “This is the first time Congress has ever given its assent to a state or local law that permits medical use of marijuana.
“It shows that Congress is listening to voters, who have supported protection for medical marijuana patients for well over a decade,” Houston said, “as well as to the medical community’s growing recognition of marijuana’s medical value.
“Coming on top of the announcement that the Department of Justice will not interfere with state medical marijuana laws, this shows that the ground has fundamentally shifted,” Houston said. “It’s time for the federal government to take the logical next step as the American Medical Association just suggested, and reconsider marijuana’s classification as a Schedule I drug, which bars medical use.”
Ironically, MPP in 2007 hired former Congressman Bob Barr (R-Ga.) — the original author of the amendment — to lobby to overturn it. (Barr now calls himself a Libertarian, and says he has repented from his former drug prohibitionist ways. Unfortunately, now he has no power.)
|MPP’s Rob Kampia: “Today’s vote represents a victory not just for medical marijuana patients, but for all Americans”|
”Our lobbyists have worked directly with members of the House and Senate and their staffs since 2006 to eliminate this democracy-unfriendly law,” said Rob Kampia, executive director of MPP.
“In fact, senior appropriators in Congress sought out MPP staff to work through specifics and to help better understand D.C.’s medical marijuana law and the complicated legal maneuverings that led to the blocking of its implementation,” Kampia said.
|Caren Woodson, ASA: “Congress has recognized the importance of medical marijuana as a public health issue”|
”By restoring Washington, D.C.’s medical marijuana law, Congress has recognized the importance of medical marijuana as a public health issue,” said Caren Woodson, government affairs director with Americans for Safe Access (ASA).
“Washington, D.C., is not just the 14th medical marijuana state, this issue is now in the back yard of federal legislators and far more difficult to ignore,” Woodson said.
As a formality, before the law can go into effect, the Council of the District of Columbia will need to transmit the original 1998 initiative to Congress for a 30-day review period. The law will take effect at the end of the review, and local government officials will be tasked with creating regulations to oversee the implementation of the law.
The voter-approved medical marijuana law will apply to the 600,000 residents of the 70-square-mile District of Columbia.
Advocates point to ever-increasing scientific evidence confirming marijuana’s medical effectiveness, heightened public support, and a greater willingness by Congress to address the issue, as some of the reasons why the ban was lifted.
Recent milestones such as the Justice Department’s directive to federal attorneys in medical marijuana states have also contributed to a more tolerant environment, according to Kris Hermes, media liaison for ASA.
“ASA plans to work with local advocates to make certain that patients have a voice in the implementation of D.C.’s restored medical marijuana law,” Hermes said.
|Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) strongly supported allowing D.C. to implement the legalization of medical marijuana.|
”MPP would like to thank Congressmen Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) and Dave Obey (D-Wis.), Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) for their strong and abiding support of allowing D.C. to implement its medical marijuana law,” Kampia added. “Today’s vote represents a victory not just for medical marijuana patients, but for all Americans.”
Congressman Serrano originally removed the ban from the D.C. appropriations bill back in July after years of working to protect patients in the District. Congressman Obey helped ensure that the change made it through the legislative process and into the omnibus spending bill Congress passed today.
Medical marijuana is legal under the laws of 13 states. Bills are under consideration in several additional states, including New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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Function description for Floor Contact
The Floor Contact shall serve as support for the manager and contribute to the undertaking’s fire-prevention and fire-fighting tasks. The Floor Contact reports to their Manager and reports non-conformities to the Speak up portal. Local additional tasks should be clarified with the Unit for HSE and Emergency Preparedness.
Responsibilities and roles
The tasks delegated to the local Floor Contact must be agreed between the manager and the local Floor Contact. Different units have different special characteristics and needs that will determine the tasks that will be relevant.
The Floor Contact shall have knowledge and an understanding of the fire safety and organisational factors in the object, as well as the fire brigade’s emergency response options. The Floor Contact assist evacuation in the event of a fire alarm/fire.
The local Floor Contact shall have the necessary expertise to be able to perform their tasks with particular knowledge of applicable fire safety management documents. Necessary expertise can be obtained from training programmes prepared by the Unit for HSE and Emergency Preparedness.
- Assist the manager in performing the systematic fire prevention work.
- Report to and keep manager regularly informed of significant issues affecting systematic fire prevention work.
- Assist the manager with adaptation of fire instructions when needed. Examples include persons with disabilities or other local risk conditions.
- Assist the manager with the implementation and documentation of fire prevention training and fire drills.
- Participate in evaluation after fire drills.
- Carry out regular fire prevention rounds and report non-conformities in the Speak up portal.
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A recurring truth of the future of technology is that it sneaks up on us unawares. Technology is adopted before we’ve all had time to consider its consequences, the potential harms that might come. This is certainly true of the rapid spread and normalization of digital voice assistants in our homes. This blog post covers a little background on that particular technology, why we choose to call them “listening devices”, and introduces a small project we are launching to interrogate our relationships with these devices as they move into our homes.
A “Normal” Technology
These listening devices are everywhere. If you don’t have one in your home, the odds are good that you’ve been to another home that does. Home “smart speakers” have become surprisingly ubiquitous. In January of 2020, it is predicted that there is almost 90 million of these listening devices in people’s homes in America alone. The majority of these units are bought for homes that did not previously have a listening device, which has brought the user base up to 34.4% of American adults. This rise in popularity is frequently compared to the rise of smart thermostats, and this comparison can actually help us understand exactly what these listening devices are doing in our homes.
It’s all in a name. (Icons via the Noun Project: smart By Nithinan Tatah, T, Speaker By wira wianda, listening By bambaleq, device By DinosoftLab)
As they have spread, we’ve come to call these “smart speakers”. This adoption softens the blow by leveraging two well-known technological descriptors. “Smart” comes from the world of “smart phones” — devices that have overtaken the world and are global norms of everyday life. “Speakers” are devices that we’ve co-existed with for almost a century, bringing us joy through music, information from radio news, and more. How can a “smart speaker” be a threat? But there is alternative we could use that accurately describes their function. We choose to call these devices “listening devices” because it activates the role they play in our lives. They “listen”, actively observing what they hear. They are “devices”, designed based on a plan to achieve some aim, doing far more than simply speaking. We very intentionally call these things “listening devices” to provoke a more uncomfortable response.
A Very Real Privacy Risk
In order to record you, a listening device is supposed to hear a starting command like “ok, Google” or “hey Alexa”. However, in [2019 VRT NWS])https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2019/07/10/google-employees-are-eavesdropping-even-in-flemish-living-rooms/) (a Belgian news network) was given access to over a thousand of these recordings from a firm subcontracted by Google, and they found that many of these recordings were not preceded by “ok, Google”. A hundred and fifty-three of them didn’t even contain anything that sounded close to that phrase. It is also very common to ask your listening device medical questions, and VRT NWS found that the Google subcontractors have heard those questions as well. The Guardian published a very similar exposé about Apple’s Siri service last year. And let’s not forget about Amazon’s Alexa as well. The technical goal from these companies’ perspective is to use manual review to improve the device’s speech and phrase recognition, however the subsequent media storm clearly indicated that there was a disconnect between the public’s expectations and internal Silicon Valley ethical norms.
We need more investigation to understand exactly what these devices are doing, and research to question the potential implications. For example, the Northeastern Mon(iot)r Research Group dug into the question of how often devices are listening. They found TV shows do trigger numerous activations that record audio in the cloud. Read their “When Speakers are All Ears” study key findings for details. We strongly believe that this is exactly the type of thorough work we need from the academic community to help drive critical reflection, technology development, and policy responses. While this work begins to surface of the different ways these devices could be breaching our privacy, people give little thought when they invite one of these listeners into their homes. There are numerous incidents of these recordings attempting to be used against people in legal settings; it is still unclear just how often to us that is happening or how successful it is. However, at a high level it is clear that our collective desire to use these devices helpful features far outweighs our concern over potential harms.
A Design Problem
These devices are objects we place in our. What about their form? Does it offer clues about its function? Most of these home listening devices are blobs or obelisks that are meant to blend-in with a modern home; they fade into the background so all that is left is an omnipresent voice that responds when called-for. We know that these devices are listening to us, yet their design gives no strong indication that they can hear us. They universally adhere to the “Scandinavian sleek” aesthetic that characterizes our time.
A variety of “smart speakers” — cylinders and orbs (source: mon(iot)r research group
Our theory is that this approach to fading away is completely intentional. Time and time again we’ve seen Silicon Valley draw inspiration from norms in sci-fi literature. The “talking home” is a recurring narrative. Hal, the Starship Enterprise — these are just two of the most popular examples of speaking homes, where the intelligent AI system simply fades away into your surroundings. But this narrative design trick impedes any critical assessment of the technology because it is “out of sight, out of mind”.
This is a problem design can address. How can we design a listening device that prompts the user to think critically about its use? One approach would be to pull from a different sci-fi narrative trope — the helpful assistant robot! R2D2, Rosie from the Jetsons, the robot from Lost in Space. These are mobile characters that physically embody the computational assistant, even though they are not cloud-connected as our technology today has become.
That delightful robot was trying to warm us the whole time! (source)
An Alternate Path Forward
We are planning to build something that bucks the trend, attempting to be transparent about its role as a large set of ears in your home! Our goal is to redesign the listening device to support critical reflection. In order to accomplish This, we are going to have to design and build a listening device that truly lives-up to its name and looks like nothing else on the market. We have a few ideas about how to do this, and a few sketches for potential designs that do this.
This project builds on work from a variety of researchers, technologists, and artists. Karmann and Knudsen’s Project Alias is a “teachable “parasite” that is designed to give users more control over their smart assistants.” Sitting on top of a device, it plays the “man in the middle”, actively suppressing or altering the device’s ability to listen. It is an aggressively contestational design. Rubez Chong explored design interventions inspired by camp aesthetics to offer alternative objects that “hypervisiblize surveillance,” within a larger critique of surveillance technology and societal norms. The Algorithmic Justice League’s Drag Vs. AI project offers a withering take on the rapid adoption of facial recognition technologies by leveraging the popular culture power of drag makeup to confuse the algorithms. These projects are just a handful of those that inspire our thinking and offer us a design language to spark critical reflection on the technologies around us.
So what direction do we plan to go? One obvious core idea is that the device should give the user feedback while it is listening through visual or audio clues. Another way to draw attention to the device listening to us leverages those characters from sci-fi mentioned earlier. We can personify it to be friendly, attentive, or even scary. This is all in sketching and device prototyping now, so if you are interested in working with us on this project or know of related work please feel free to reach-out to us.
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