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Long term disability insurance is a form of income replacement that an individual either purchases on their own or is provided by their employer. It is a lifeline for people who are no longer able to work as a result of injury or illness. Every long term disability insurer has an obligation to treat each claimant with the utmost good faith. Policyholders assume that the insurance company will accept and pay valid claims for disability insurance benefits. Unfortunately, that is often not the case. A significant number of meritorious disability claims are denied outright, or payments are terminated before a person is capable of returning to work.
More than 6 million Canadians aged 15 and over – accounting for 22% of the Canadian population – identify as having a disability, according to a survey conducted by Employment and Social Development Canada. In Canada, the most common types of disabilities among adults are pain, mobility, and agility-related, with the 10 most common types of disabilities related to the following conditions:
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November 30, 2021–10:23 a.m.
Over the last few days, we have been hearing about a new COVID-19 variant.
The Omicron variant was first detected on November 9 in Botswana in Africa, according to Dr. Gary Voccio, health director for the 10-county Georgia Department of Public Health Northwest District.
“Then a very astute physician in South Africa figured out that this was something new and different and was something that needed to be looked into,” Dr. Voccio said. “Sure enough, it was a new variant which has 50 different mutations, and it had now spread around the world. We have not yet detected any cases in the US or Georgia, but we expect that we will. People are so easily able to get on a plane and travel the world now, as we first saw with COVID.”
He said that we don’t know a lot about this particular variant at this time.
“We do not know if it’s more transmissible, how sick people will get from it, or whether neutralizing antibodies from the vaccine will be effective,” Dr. Voccio added. “We do not have that information just yet, but that will be forthcoming. However, we still recommend people still get vaccinated.”
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I went walking.
What did you see?
I saw a black cat
Looking at me.
So begins a young boy's exciting adventure with a menagerie of colourful animals. By the end of his walk he has a zany parade following him.
Julie Vivas' whimsical painting lend humour to this simple story. Children will enjoy identifying the animals and colours, and reciting the text.
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BEIRUT (AP) — A ship bringing corn to Lebanon’s northern port of Tripoli usually doesn’t cause a stir. But it’s attracting attention because of where it came from: Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odessa.
Razzoni, loaded with more than 26,000 tons of corn for chicken feed, is emerging from the edges of a Russian war that has threatened food supplies in countries like Lebanon, which has one of the world’s highest rates of food inflation. and depends on the Black Sea region for almost all of its wheat – a staggering 122%.
The fighting has trapped 20 million tons of grain inside Ukraine, and Rajoni’s departure on Monday calls for a way to extract those food supplies and deliver them to farms and bakeries to feed the millions of poor starving people in Africa and the Middle East. Marked the first big step. and parts of Asia.
“It’s a big deal to actually look at shipments,” said Jonathan Haines, senior analyst at data and analytics firm Grow Intelligence. “In the scale of 20 million tons it’s 26,000 tons nothing, absolutely nothing…
The smaller scale means that early shipments leaving the world’s breadbaskets will not drive food prices down or ease the global food crisis any time soon. Also, most of the discarded grains are for animal feed and not for people to eat, experts say. It would extend the effects of war to the world’s most vulnerable thousands of miles away in countries such as Somalia and Afghanistan, where hunger could soon turn into famine and where inflation has pushed food and energy costs out of reach for many. Have given.
For farmers in Lebanon, the shipment expected later this week is a sign that grain may be available again, albeit at a higher price, said Ibrahim Tarachichi, head of the Bekaa Farmers Association.
But he said it would not make a dent in his country, where years of corruption and political divisions have disrupted life. Since 2019, the economy has shrunk by at least 58%, with the currency depreciating so severely that nearly three-quarters of the population now lives in poverty.
“I think the crisis will continue as long as operating costs continue to rise and purchasing power continues to fall,” Taracchi said.
The conflict was on sharp display this week when a section of Beirut’s vast port grain silos collapsed in a giant cloud of dust, two years after an explosion killed more than 200 people and injured thousands more.
While symbolic, the shipments have done little to assuage market concerns. Drought and high fertilizer costs before the COVID-19 pandemic have kept grain prices more than 50% higher than at the beginning of 2020. And while Ukraine is a top supplier of wheat, barley, corn and sunflower oil to developing countries, it represents just 10% of international wheat trade.
There is also little to suggest that the world’s poorest people who rely on Ukrainian wheat distributed through UN agencies such as the World Food Program will soon have access to them. Before the war, half of the grain purchased for distribution came from Ukraine.
Razzoni’s safe passage was guaranteed by a four-month-long agreement the United Nations and Turkey brokered with Ukraine and Russia two weeks ago. The grain corridor through the Black Sea is 111 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide, with drifting explosive mines dotted with water, slowing work.
Three more ships left for Turkey, Ireland and the United Kingdom on Friday. All the ships that have gone since the start of the war about six months ago are stuck there.
Under the deal, some – not all – of the food exported will go to countries facing food insecurity. That means it could take weeks for people in Africa to see grains from new shipments and even more so to see the impact on food prices, said Sean Ferriss, a Kenya-based consultant of agriculture and markets for Catholic Relief Services, a partner in the world. Food distribution program.
In East Africa, thousands have died as Somalia and neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya face the worst drought in four decades. Survivors describe burying their children as they fled to camps where little help could be found.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Somalia and other African countries turned to non-traditional grain partners such as India, Turkey and Brazil, but at higher prices. Ferris said the prices of imported foodstuffs and important for the progress of the local crop could begin to decline in two or three months.
Ferris said who is first to get grain from Ukraine may be affected by human needs, but also comes down to the current trade system and commercial interests, including who is willing to pay the most.
“Ukraine is not a charity,” he said. “It will be on the lookout to get the best deals on the market” to maintain its fragile economy.
WFP said this week that it plans to buy 30,000 tonnes of wheat from Ukraine, load and ship it on a UN chartered vessel. It did not say where the ship would go or when that trip might take place.
In Lebanon, where the humanitarian aid group Mercy Corps says the price of wheat flour has risen by more than 200% since the start of Russia’s war, people have been long outside bakeries for subsidized bread in recent days. , often stood in tense lines.
The government approved a World Bank $150 million loan to import wheat, a temporary solution of six to nine months before it is forced to lift subsidies on bread entirely.
While the situation is tough for millions of Lebanese, the country’s nearly 1 million Syrian refugees, who fled the civil war across the border, face stigma and discrimination trying to buy bread.
A Syrian living in northern Lebanon said he often has to go to the bakery three to four times before he can find someone to sell him bread, with a preference for Lebanese. He described waiting lines of 100 people and every half hour only a handful of people were allowed to buy a small bundle of rotis.
“We get all kinds of rude comments because we’re Syrians, which we usually ignore, but sometimes it becomes too much and we end up empty-handed,” he said on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. decide to go home.”
Batrawi reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Anna from Nairobi, Kenya.
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- If you use invisible ink does a message appear equally well on all types of paper? Does it matter what type of invisible ink you use?
- Which surface has the most friction?
- Which will become ice faster, hot or cold water?
- Determine if the temperature of a liquid affects its viscosity.
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Mario Suraci would never have thought to claim the title for himself, but many of his musical peers will remember the bassist as the world’s most interesting (jazz) man. A consummate musician whose seven-decade career included long-running work with Bernadette Peters, Broadway show pit bands, tours with Shirley MacLaine, concerts with Frank Sinatra, Morgana King, Hampton Hawes and Joe Pass, and two years in Las Vegas accompanying Elvis Presley, Suraci died from natural causes at his Castro Valley home on January 9 at the age of 92.
Known affectionately as “The Commodore,” “The Silver Fox,” or “Mario the Great,” he was a mainstay on the Bay Area music scene until failing eyesight forced him into retirement several years ago. He could have thrived in New York City but was loath to move away from family and friends, or to give up sailing on the San Francisco Bay. In New York, Suraci (pronounced sir-ah-chee) probably would have had trouble finding space for the European sports cars that he loved to rebuild (the British Museum purchased an original MINI Cooper that he restored). He also flew airplanes and gliders, raced speed boats, and completed the professional Formula-2 race circuit in Europe.
While he loved speed, Suraci never pushed the time on the bandstand, or sweated getting to a gig on time. With his sharp reading skills and easy-going confidence, he was the one of the elite cats who got the call when a presenter needed to assemble a band for a nationally touring artist. Veteran soundman Lee Brenkman got to know Suraci while working at the Great American Music Hall in the 1970s, and quickly came to respect the man and his musicianship.
When the venue started presenting jazz masters like Teddy Wilson and Joe Pass, “Mario was frequently the bass player of choice,” Brenkman said. “He showed up with right attitude and was able to keep up with the big guys. If there was a rehearsal, he’d be there, and then if the show was at 9 p.m. he’d walk in 8:45, properly dressed, amp on a wheel truck. At 9 he was ready to play. He had other things to do, restoring cars, fixing the rigging on his boat. He was a polymath and inventor.”
In the 1970s he and drummer Tom Duckworth, a longtime rhythm section partner with strong electronics skills, created AXE (Artists Exponent Engineering), a company that designed and built sound gear for musicians and studios. A signature product was a battery-powered direct box, or preamp, with a line-level XLR output that allowed musicians to plug a bass or electric keyboard directly into the mixing consul. They often developed gear to address the sound problems they faced playing in elaborate touring stage shows with acts like Shirley MacLaine and Ann-Margret, gear that Quincy Jones, Prince, and Stevie Wonder bought for their studios.
“If he hadn’t been a musician, Mario would have been a professional race driver or on a Formula 1 crew,” Duckworth said. “My wife’s brother is a well-trained car mechanic. He’d go to Mario to figure stuff out.”
His technical acumen impressed his peers, but it was Suraci’s warmth and charm that made him such a widely cherished figure. When news of his passing started circulating on social media, fellow musicians immediately started sharing stories about working with him.
Jazz pianist Ellen Hoffman recalled a gig about 12 years ago at Anna’s Jazz Island in Berkeley, the last time they played together. She brought several arrangements of Duke Ellington pieces that featured drummer Eddie Marshall on soprano recorder. “Mario said very nice things about my arrangements, and urged me to keep writing, saying that he had played a lot of Duke Ellington arrangements over the years, but never any featuring recorder,” she recalled.
His friendliness didn’t mean he was a pushover. He attained near legendary status among his peers for firmly resisting the disrespect and mistreatment too often casually meted out to musicians-for-hire. If a socialite told him he had to take his bass around to the back door when the front door afforded the easiest route to the performance nook, he’d calmly inform her that he was no longer on the gig.
His uncanny knack for arriving five minutes before a show started led to a widely shared story about rolling up to the Fairmont Hotel for a performance with the Walt Tolleson Orchestra. The catch was that the gig required wearing a rabbit suit, and as Suraci entered the ballroom the panicking Tolleson snapped with a profanity that he had five minutes to get into costume. Doing an about face, Suraci replied over his shoulder, “No, you have five minutes to find another bass player!” Various versions of the story still circulate widely, told by players who treasure a blow struck for the dignity of musicians everywhere. The fact that the tall and lean Suraci cut a figure like a Roman centurion added to his gravitas.
“My wife said that he was so handsome that he looked like the hero in a romance novel and that his profile was like one on a Roman coin, no matter which angle you looked at him from,” Brenkman said.
One reason he wasn’t better known by the general public is that he didn’t pursue leading his own bands for recording under his own name. The most illustrious session in his discography was from a 1975 duo concert at the Great American Music Hall with the great jazz pianist Hampton Hawes that Concord Records released in 1983 but never reissued on CD. A bootleg of a 1974 Great American concert with jazz guitar maestro Joe Pass (and drummer Glenn Cronkhite) is available via Wolfgang’s.
Suraci recorded several albums with trumpeter Mike Vax’s orchestra, a Sophie Tucker tribute with vocalist Pat Yankee, and the francophone jazz project Paris Blues with singer Raquel Bitton. He’s probably best represented on album with pianist Dave Miller, who featured Suraci in his trio for almost two decades. He recorded three albums with the bassist (2008’s Everything I Love is my favorite), and often designed his arrangements around Suraci’s propulsive lines.
“We got together by happenstance when my regular bassist couldn’t play at the last minute,” Miller recalled. “Mario showed up two minutes before the gig. I found out later that it didn’t matter what the traffic was or how far he had to drive. He had this remarkable ability to walk in five minutes before the gig started. I called the first tune and I hear this locomotive behind me. He takes his first solo and it’s filled with this beautiful melodic sense.”
When Miller’s daughter Rebecca DuMaine relocated from New York City to the Bay Area in the midst of transitioning from acting to singing, his trio with Suraci and drummer Bill Belasco became her working band. She recorded three delightful albums with the group, most recently 2015’s The Consequence of You. Suraci became a mentor and coach who helped her refine her approach and repertoire.
“He really pushed me: What’s your sound? What do you want to be?” said DuMaine, who’s dedicating her upcoming album to Suraci. “It was a little bit terrifying. Here’s this guy who’s played with Frank Sinatra, pushing me and supporting me. It was my best learning experience.”
Suraci’s parents were Italian immigrants, and he was born and raised in Oakland. A gifted young violinist, he switched to bass in high school. Enlisting in the Marines in 1950, he was caught up in the Korean War and was with the First Marine Division at the brutal battle of Chosin Reservoir in the winter of 1950. Returning to the Bay Area after mustering out, he attended San Francisco City College and quickly established himself as a player capable of meeting just about any musical challenge.
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Ziplines in Passable could be unlocked early by way of the MAM Caterium Analysis tree, and gamers can use them to journey utilizing Energy Traces.
Ziplines are one of many early recreation instruments in Passable that may assist gamers get round a lot simpler. Only some sources are wanted to make a Zipline, however Energy Traces additionally must be crafted to make use of the instrument. Fortunately, the Energy Traces needn’t even have energy, and the Zipline can be utilized to trip throughout or switch between them.
Earlier than crafting and utilizing a Zipline, gamers might want to unlock the instrument by finishing a few of the Caterium Analysis tree on the Molecular Evaluation Machine, which could be unlocked in Passable at Tier One. The Zipline is the fifth department within the Caterium Analysis tree, and gamers might want to donate 50 Cables and 100 Quickwires to unlock the crafting recipe. Quickwire and Cable will already be unlocked when the Zipline recipe is accessible.
Each Copper Ore and Caterium Ore will must be collected to craft the Quickwires and Cables wanted to unlock the Zipline. Copper Ore could be crafted into Copper Ingots, then was Wire, which makes Cables. Equally, Caterium Ore must be was Caterium Ingots with the intention to craft Quickwires. It is advisable that gamers accumulate greater than what’s wanted as a result of each Cables and Quickwires are additionally required to craft a Zipline after unlocking the recipe.
How To Craft & Use A Zipline In Passable
The recipe for crafting a Zipline requires 30 Quickwires, 10 Cables, three Iron Rods, and one Xeno-Zapper. Iron Rods could be obtained by gathering a few of the Iron Ore useful resource in Passable and turning them into Iron Ingots. Gamers are given a Xeno-Zapper as a melee weapon after exiting the drop pod, however extra could be crafted utilizing 10 Iron Rods, 15 Cables, 50 Wires, and two Strengthened Iron Plates. As soon as the mandatory sources are collected, a Zipline could be crafted on the Tools Workshop.
Ziplines can be utilized to glide throughout Energy Traces merely be equipping the instrument, leaping on the wire, and holding down the left mouse button. As quickly because the button is let go, the Pioneer will bounce off the Energy Line. Gamers will mechanically bounce when leaving a Energy Line, which could be helpful for transferring to a different wire. As soon as gamers are on a Energy Line, the route they’re touring in cannot be reversed.
Ziplines are an effective way to get round, however there are limitations. If a Energy Pole is in the best way, the Pioneer might get caught, and gamers should use the directional keys to attempt to free them. Most Energy Traces in Passable could be transferred to, however they must be shut sufficient. Transferring additionally will not work if the angle between the 2 Energy Traces exceeds 80 levels. Though there are a number of constraints, Ziplines are nonetheless an important touring instrument in Passable.
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Expanding Internet Services Through Satellites
Program Year: 2021
The Asia Foundation hosts webinars on satellite technology use for key sectors
The Internet is a critical driver of economic growth, now even more so with the imperative digital transactions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in the Philippines, the 2019 national ICT survey shows that only 18 percent of households have access to the internet, with the highest proportion concentrated in highly urban areas like the National Capital Region.
The Asia Foundation supports the use of emerging internet technologies to provide internet access to underserved and unserved communities. In the Foundation’s 2018 research publication, From Analog to Digital: Philippine Policy and Emerging Internet Technologies, low earth orbit satellite networks were identified as a viable and feasible technology for the Philippines. “The distinct value of satellite broadband comes from its potential to offer a cost-effective connectivity solution in areas that traditional terrestrial networks find difficult, if not impossible, to reach,” says Grace Mirandilla-Santos, ICT policy analyst.
On March 10, 2021, President Rodrigo Duterte signed Executive Order No. 127 “Expanding the Provision of Internet Services Through Inclusive Access to Satellite Services.” This order updates the country’s satellite policy and liberalized access to satellite broadband technology. The new policy allows small internet service providers to directly access satellites, effectively removing restrictive market entry barriers and promoting internet connectivity. To raise awareness about this landmark policy and highlight practical use cases of satellite technology, The Asia Foundation co-organized webinars in partnership with critical institutional partners on economic recovery, financial inclusion, digital education, and telehealth.
In economic recovery and finance, proponents discussed how satellite technology could facilitate access and adoption of digital payments, benefiting small businesses and individuals in remote areas. Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Gregorio Honasan emphasized the need for this transformation: “[The DICT is] onboard with the goal to facilitate financial inclusion especially since the use of digital and online banking has been on the rise during the state of a public health emergency.”
Meanwhile, in the digital education webinar, advocates raised how satellite technology bridges the educational divide by providing the connection necessary for remote learning. On telehealth, healthcare professionals highlighted how satellite internet encourages the development of telemedicine programs, such as providing care to isolated patients in the pandemic. According to Dr. Aileen Espina of the Healthcare Professionals Alliance Against COVID-19 (HPAAC), there is a need to “better harness ICT not only for an effective COVID-19 response but also for achieving Universal Healthcare in the Philippines”.
The Foundation has co-hosted four webinars with the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines), Ateneo de Davao University, and HPAAC. Collectively, the four webinars drew more than 700 targeted participants from government, civil society, the private sector, and the public. Through these webinars, The Asia Foundation and its partners hope to show the potential of satellite internet as a connectivity solution for the underserved and unserved areas. After all, access to the internet is a powerful tool in encouraging inclusive economic recovery and growth during the pandemic and beyond.
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In The Den we read a story at the end of the session every day. We choose our stories carefully and we read the same story for two weeks so that the children become really familiar with it. The children are encouraged to help to turn the pages, to look at the pictures and point to different characters or objects and to talk about what they see. We also have a go at little activities linked to the story such as sorting objects, creating patterns and investigating sensory materials. The aim of our story time is to encourage the children to sit and listen in a small group for a short period of time and to foster a love of stories!
Each half term we send home an information sheet to tell you what stories we are reading and the different kinds of activities that we will be doing in story time and in our general classroom activity.
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To reduce traffic congestion, the Vizag Police are in plans to initialise one-way rule at some main locations of the city, just like how it is implemented on Beach Road.
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Police Commissioner, Mahesh Chandra Laddha said, “We began the trial run on Beach Road after eliciting opinions from the citizens. Several other roads in the city have problems with traffic congestion and parking. If the Beach Road project is a runaway success, we will replicate plans on other key roads too.”
Though the residents in the nearby colonies of the beach road are not happy with the rule and are demanding alternatives such as creating more parking spaces, the officials feel that the one-way rule will be an immediate solution to reduce parking woes.
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When requested to choose an exemplary passage from his work for a New York Public Library Commonplace Book, Philip Roth came up with this, from Zuckerman Unbound (1981):
Zuckerman was tall, but not as tall as Wilt Chamberlain. He was thin, but not as thin as Mahatma Gandhi. In his customary getup of tan corduroy coat, gray turtleneck sweater, and cotton khaki trousers he was neatly attired, but hardly Rubirosa. Nor was dark hair and a prominent nose the distinguishing mark in New York that it would have been in Reykjavik or Helsinki. But two, three, four times a week, they spotted him anyway. “It’s Carnovsky!” “Hey, want to see my underwear, Gil?” In the beginning, when he heard someone call after him out on the street, he would wave hello to show what a good sport he was. It was the easiest thing to do, so he did it. Then the easiest thing was to pretend that he was hearing things, to realize that it was happening in a world that didn’t exist. They had mistaken impersonation for confession and were calling out to a character who lived in a book. Zuckerman tried taking it as praise—he had made real people believe Carnovsky real too—but in the end he pretended he was only himself, and with his quick, small steps hurried on.
Twelve years later, in his new book Operation Shylock, Roth pretends he is only himself, and then doubles the pretense. We are given two fictional characters calling themselves Philip Roth, the as it were original Philip Roth and an impostor, who has arrived in Jerusalem usurping the novelist’s identity in order to advance a counter-Zionist movement, a “new Diasporism” that urges Ashkenazi Israelis to return to their countries of origin, particularly in Europe. This idea, one of Roth’s grand inventions, reminds me of Saki’s short story “The Unrest-Cure,” where an Unrest-cure could be defined as the equivalent of preaching Diasporism in Jerusalem:
Well, you might stand as an Orange Candidate for Kilkenny, or do a course of district visiting in one of the Apache quarters of Paris, or give lectures in Berlin to prove that most of Wagner’s music was written by Gambetta; and there’s always the interior of Morocco to travel in. But, to be really effective, the Unrest-cure ought to be tried in the home.
Roth’s career as a novelist has been one long Unrest-cure, in this sense, and has been tried in the home, if we take that home metaphorically as being the Jewish situation or condition. He has made himself the issue, the novelist as scapegoat, accused of Jewish self-hatred by Jews so defensive that they can’t bear any criticism, however accurate or well-intentioned. It is rather late in the day for a Jewish writer to present himself as a moral prophet, but in his books Roth has dared to do so, making moral judgments on the relationship between parents and children, husbands and wives and lovers, and he has thus earned a lifetime of unrest. Indeed his new novel seems the apotheosis of a Jewish Unrest-cure.
Having endured so many unkind readings, Roth the novelist responded by making the entire Zuckerman saga his own ordeal, the saga of the novelist’s travail at suffering his critics. This might have been intolerable had Roth forgotten or lost his comic gift, the uniquely painful laughter that he specializes in provoking. Poor Nathan Zuckerman going from scrape to disaster induces hilarity in us even as we wince at the humiliations that we endure with him, since his wounded dignity becomes our own.
Whether Operation Shylock marks the ultimate replacement of Zuckerman by “Philip Roth,” his successor in the new novel is a much livelier fellow than the author of Carnovsky. Compared to the authentic “Philip Roth” (not the impostor) of Operation Shylock, the Zuckerman of The Counterlife, The Anatomy Lesson, etc., was more passive and conventional. Women thrust themselves on the hapless Zuckerman. He is besieged by nearly everyone he encounters, and responds ineffectually. But “Philip Roth,” in Operation Shylock, is far more aggressive. Moreover, by narrowing the gap between author and protagonist (though the gap is certainly, as it has to be, still there), Roth the novelist has been able to create his most vivid character: fiercely comic, exuberant, stubbornly reasonable and unreasonably stubborn, lucid in extremis, above all immensely curious, about others as well as about himself.
It is irrelevant to accuse a comic genius of self-centeredness, whether the specialist in the aesthetics of outrage is W. C. Fields or Roth. The humorist, in portraying himself, gives us an exemplary figure, the person whose stance says: “We are here to be insulted.” To that extent, Operation Shylock’s “Philip Roth” is a descendant of the greatest of fictive humorists, Sir John Falstaff, who is there to be insulted and to return more, and more wittily than he receives. More than any other figure in literature, Falstaff is so intelligent a comedian that even his throwaway lines compel us to deep, prolonged meditation. So, too, Roth’s new novel offers perspectives that are intensely serious.
Still, he has not written Operation Falstaff, but Operation Shylock, and the Jewish image, as always, remains his central concern. One of the throwaway phrases in The Counterlife is “Jews, who are to history what Eskimos are to snow.” Roth’s perspective has always been that of the endless blizzards of Jewish history. Portnoy’s Complaint remains wonderfully funny on rereading, and is anything but a period piece. What is transparent is that book’s willing and positive Jewishness; as much as Patrimony (1991), an account of his father’s long dying, it is also a testament to the painful love for one’s parents. The sorrows and absurdities of love—familial, personal, or for a people—have been Roth’s true subject ever since. We do not expect a fierce satirist of Jewish life to be motivated by love for his targets, but that seems to me the innermost meaning of Roth’s new novel.
In its first sentence Operation Shylock thrusts us into the midst of things, with a reference, dated January 1988, to the Jerusalem trial of John Demjanjuk, alleged by the Israeli prosecution to be the notorious Ivan the Terrible, the vicious guard of the Treblinka death camp. The pathos of the State of Israel, its salient feature to many Jews of the Diaspora, is certainly present in this novel, with its reminders of Holocaust horrors. But equally present are the harsh equivocations that seem to some necessary for the survival of the state, at least in its present boundaries. The hypocrisies and brutalities of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians emerge with frightening vividness in Operation Shylock, which nevertheless balances the hypocrisies and brutalities with a sense of the Israelis’ desperation for survival. What emerges from Roth’s novel is the terrible paradox that Israel is no escape from the burdens of the Diaspora.
Roth begins his “confession” (the book’s subtitle) with the shock at being told of “the other Philip Roth” who is in Jerusalem to mount a crusade promoting “Diasporism: The Only Solution to the Jewish Problem.” Rather than madden both myself and the readers of this review, I refer to the author of Operation Shylock as Roth, the central character in the novel as “Philip Roth,” and the impostor as Moishe Pipik, the name assigned to him by “Philip Roth” in the book.
Moishe Pipik (Moses Bellybutton) is the eternal Yiddish little shot wishing to be a big shot. A rather shady private detective, Pipik longs for the worldly success of the author of Portnoy’s Complaint and its successors. Unable to emulate his hero as a writer, the impostor chooses outrageous action. Pipik, in “Philip Roth’s” name, has secured an appointment with Lech Walesa, and has sold the Polish leader on his plan to persuade hordes of Jews voluntarily to return to Poland, traditional paradise for Jews! But even that is only a particle of Pipik’s mad design. He is also the founder of Anti-Semites Anonymous, an organization which, like its model, urges its potential members to abstain from their addiction, which simultaneously recognizing that they are incurable.
Pipik is “Philip Roth’s” antithetical shadow: he looks like his original, dresses like him, has studied every mannerism, researched minutely the writer’s childhood history. Uncanny as this is, it is persuasive, if only because “Philip Roth” frequently confides in us his worries that he is still in a state of Halcion-induced nervous breakdown. The theme of the double, which Poe handled without humor in “William Wilson,” Roth treats both as Kafkan hallucination and as an American-Jewish comedy, set in Jerusalem during the hallucinatory trial of the supposed Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka.
What fascinates about Operation Shylock is the degree of the author’s experimentation in shifting the boundaries between his life and his work. It may even be that Roth has succeeded in inventing a new kind of disciplined bewilderment for the reader, since it becomes difficult to hold in one’s head at every moment all of the permutations of the Rothian persona.
One sees now that the crossing-point in Roth’s career was The Counterlife, in which Zuckerman, the novelist, and his brother, who has fled his American family to settle in Israel, turn upon each other in a debate over whose life it was anyway, and who was stealing the other’s identity. Whether or not Roth decides to bind his last four books together, they clearly are a tetralogy in which the novelist presents himself, along with his antithetical double or shadow self, as two opposing natures implacably set against each other. The Facts (1988), an ostensible autobiography centering upon Roth’s education as a novelist, annoyed me when it first came out. It seemed to be what Roth’s harshest critics consider his work to be: too clever, self-obsessed, a narcissistic reverie, but after Operation Shylock, I see that I misread it.
In its final section, The Facts explodes into a protest by Nathan Zuckerman against his author. Roth gets nearly five times the space for his narrative that Zuckerman gets for a reply, yet the fictional character’s thirty-five pages are the most memorable in the book, since Zuckerman may not match Roth in intellect, but overdoes him as a rhetorician of outrage. This outrage is a direct expression of his fear that he may cease to exist if his portrayer turns to explicit autobiography. Urging against publication of The Facts, Zuckerman points to an apparent weakness in Roth’s work that Operation Shylock has, I believe, transcended:
As for characterization, you, Roth, are the least completely rendered of all your protagonists. Your gift is not to personalize your experience but to personify it, to embody it in the representation of a person who is not yourself. You are not an autobiographer, you’re a personificator…. My guess is that you’ve written metamorphoses of yourself so many times, you no longer have any idea what you are or ever were. By now what you are is a walking text.
That last sentence spoken by character to author is nervy enough, but all of Zuckerman’s letter seethes with the anxiety of a walking text that is about to be replaced; it is a fierce plea that cries out: Don’t kill me!
The “Philip Roth” of Operation Shylock happily turns out to resemble Roth less than Zuckerman did. Indeed, “Philip Roth” is, I think, Roth’s most vivid character, surpassing Portnoy, Tarnopol, the protagonist in My Life as a Man, Kepesh, who is the professor in The Professor of Desire, and the long-suffering and charmingly manic Zuckerman. I suspect that much of the reason for this is the presence of Moishe Pipik, the double, the not-so-secret sharer. With Pipik to fend off, “Philip Roth” is given a target, and thus the scope to become the fullest of Roth’s characters in the variety of his sympathies. The initial pleasures a reader will take in this book will be its narrative exuberance, moral intelligence, and the high humor manifested throughout. But the most vivid impression, after several rereadings, is of the voice of “Philip Roth.”
Moishe Pipik, the double, has a remote ancestor in Alvin Pepler, the discredited TV quiz-kid who plagued the hero of Zuckerman Unbound by alternately praising and attacking him as the celebrated author of Carnovsky. In Pipik, Roth deliberately creates a more Dostoevskian double, at once in love with the idea of “Philip Roth,” and helpless to cease his persecution of the writer. Pipik is a zealot, a terminal cancer patient in remission, and something of an idealistic thug. Both of his mad crusades, “Diasporism” and “Anti-Semites Anonymous,” are animated by nightmare intimations of a ghastly double scenario: an all-out attack upon Israel by the entire Muslim world, and the inevitable reaction of the Israeli Doomsday Machine, its extensive nuclear arsenal.
Hovering behind Pipik is, of course, the shadow of Jonathan Pollard, the American Jew who spied for Israeli intelligence. But in the tangles of Roth’s plot, it is not Pipik who is a Mossad agent, as might be suspected. It is “Philip Roth” who performs that role, in the Mossad’s “Operation Shylock,” whose purpose is to search out supposed secret American-Jewish financial backers of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Diasporism is Roth’s pretext for the operation, and it spurs “Philip Roth” to manic impersonations of Pipik, which invariably improve upon the fantasies of the double who is being redoubled:
No, I didn’t stop for a very long time. On and on and on, obeying an impulse I did nothing to quash, ostentatiously free of uncertainty and without a trace of conscience to rein in my raving. I was telling them about the meeting of the World Diasporist Congress to take place in December, fittingly enough in Basel, the site of the first World Zionist Congress just ninety years ago. At that first Zionist Congress there had been only a couple of hundred delegates—my goal was to have twice that many, Jewish delegations from every European country where the Israeli Ashkenazis would soon resume the European Jewish life that Hitler had all but extinguished. Walesa, I told them, had already agreed to appear as keynote speaker or to send his wife in his behalf if he concluded that he could not safely leave Poland. I was talking about the Armenians, suddenly, about whom I knew nothing. “Did the Armenians suffer because they were in a Diaspora? No, because they were at home and the Turks moved in and massacred them there.” I heard myself next praising the greatest Diasporist of all, the father of the new Diasporist movement, Irving Berlin. “People ask where I got the idea. Well, I got it listening to the radio. The radio was playing ‘Easter Parade’ and I thought, But this is Jewish genius on a par with the Ten Commandments. God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and then He gave to Irving Berlin ‘Easter Parade’ and ‘White Christmas.’ The two holidays that celebrate the divinity of Christ—the divinity that’s the very heart of the Jewish rejection of Christianity—and what does Irving Berlin brilliantly do? He de-Christs them both! Easter he turns into a fashion show and Christmas into a holiday about snow. Gone is the gore and the murder of Christ—down with the crucifix and up with the bonnet! He turns their religion into schlock. But nicely! Nicely! So nicely the goyim don’t even know what hit ’em. They love it. Everybody loves it. The Jews especially. Jews loathe Jesus. People always tell me Jesus is Jewish. I never believe them. It’s like when people used to tell me Cary Grant was Jewish. Bullshit. Jews don’t want to hear about Jesus. And can you blame them? So—Bing Crosby replaces Jesus as the beloved Son of God, and the Jews, the Jews, go around whistling about Easter! And is that so disgraceful a means of defusing the enmity of centuries? Is anyone really dishonored by this? If schlockified Christianity is Christianity cleansed of Jew hatred, then three cheers for schlock. If supplanting Jesus Christ with snow can enable my people to cozy up to Christmas, then let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
Here the voices of Roth and of “Philip Roth” fuse together. The irony cuts every which way, both celebrating and eviscerating the America of schlock, Gentile and Jewish. When this mocktirade reaches its apotheosis, there is something to offend nearly everyone, particularly Jews. “Better Irving Berlin than Ariel Sharon. Better Irving Berlin than the Wailing Wall. Better Irving Berlin than Holy Jerusalem! What does owning Jerusalem, of all places, have to do with being Jews in 1988?” This perhaps is “Philip Roth” disengaging from Roth, while surpassing Moishe Pipik in a Diasporism even more extreme than his.
Roth’s comic art in Operation Shylock is an aesthetic leap beyond the complexities of The Counterlife in projecting alternate, shifting realities. What are the limits of Roth’s assault on the imagination in Operation Shylock? One even begins to wonder whose photograph frowns at us on the dust jacket. Is it Roth or Moishe Pipik or “Philip Roth”? There is not an iota of difference in the quality of portraiture, in the novel, between Roth’s friend, the Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld, and Appelfeld’s foil or double, the Holocaust survivor, “Philip Roth’s” cousin Apter. Yet while Appelfeld is a real person and Apter is only a convincing fiction. Apter is in Roth’s pages as strong a presence as Appelfeld. Operation Shylock ends with a “Note to the Reader” whose final sentence is: “This confession is false,” but we are left uncertain just how false it is.
Both Moishe Pipik and “Philip Roth” are preoccupied with the still undecided case of Ivan the Terrible’s true identity, itself a reflection of thematic doubling carried over into terrible reality. Roth in his mock preface speaks of “agreeing to undertake an intelligence-gathering operation for Israel’s foreign intelligence service, the Mossad,” clearly part of the fiction, but shifts abruptly to fact, to the case of John Demjanjuk who has been confused with Ivan Marchenko, the likely real Ivan the Terrible of the Treblinka death camp. Yet Roth adds the further detail: Demjanjuk continues to maintain his total innocence, even though German federal archives prove that he was in fact a guard at the Sobibor concentration camp. However the Marchenko/Demjanjuk case pending before the Israeli Supreme Court is decided, Roth here reinforces his theme of the ambivalence of guilt, even as he also selectively records the events of the Demjanjuk trial, and something of its impact upon Israel.
Moishe Pipik is a somewhat shadowy character, whose lifelong compulsion to become Philip Roth is not adequately explained. Doubles and secret-sharers vex all novelists and story-writers, if only because their quests necessarily involve either forsaking their own identities or an initial, perhaps preternatural, lack of any identity whatever. Pipik is something of the self-hating Jew or Jewish anti-Semite that Roth himself was accused of being in the bad old days. The other founding member of Pipik’s Anti-Semites Anonymous is his girlfriend and nurse, a Polish-American enchantress named “Jinx” Possesski. As with Saul Bellow’s female characters, Roth’s tend not to be very convincing, and Jinx alas is no exception.
Indeed, the most successful characterizations in the novel, after that of the outraged and outrageous “Philip Roth,” are not of his double and the double’s girlfriend, but of the Palestinian and Israeli antagonists, emblematically presented as George Ziad, “Philip Roth’s” old friend from the University of Chicago Graduate School, and the Mossad officer Smiles-burger. Ziad, who is evidently connected with the Palestine Liberation Organization, has an eloquence in his anti-Israeli harangues that rivals even as it satirizes much that I have read by champions of the Palestinian cause:
These victorious Jews are terrible people. I don’t just mean the Kahanes and the Sharons. I mean them all, the Yehoshuas and the Ozes included. The good ones who are against the occupation of the West Bank but not against the occupation of my father’s house, the “beautiful Israelis” who want their Zionist thievery and their clean conscience too. They are no less superior than the rest of them—these beautiful Israelis are even more superior…. Who do they think they are, these provincial nobodies! Jailers! This is their great Jewish achievement—to make Jews into jailers and jet-bomber pilots! And just suppose they were to succeed, suppose they were to win and have their way and every Arab in Nablus and every Arab in Hebron and every Arab in the Galilee and in Gaza, suppose every Arab in the world, were to disappear courtesy of the Jewish nuclear bomb, what would they have here fifty years from now? A noisy little state of no importance whatsoever. That’s what the persecution and the destruction of the Palestinians will have been for—the creation of a Jewish Belgium, without even a Brussels to show for it.
Ziad, driven to the verge of breakdown by Israeli oppression, is without parallel in Roth’s earlier work. For the first time, we are given a character who suffers outrageous treatment but who is not Roth’s surrogate. Ziad’s passion, his extraordinary command of irony, go beyond Portnoy’s and Zuckerman’s in their more domestic and self-deceived struggles for survival. Except for “Philip Roth,” Ziad is Operation Shylock’s most sympathetic character, more so than the ambiguous Smilesburger, who preaches against strife and slander between Jews, but is also a relentless representative of the Mossad. Smilesburger, although he is a humane and lucid critic of Jewish self-hatred, Jewish self-love, and Jewish feuding, and is keenly aware of Israeli injustice toward the Palestinians, is not in the least inhibited by the sufferings of his victims.
The contrast between Ziad and Smilesburger grants the Arab the pathos and the Israeli a subtle combination of pragmatic ruthlessness and wasted wisdom. Yet Roth is again exploiting the thematic ambivalence that governs his book, since the reader surmises that there is another doubling here. Ziad and Smilesburger, PLO and Mossad, are caught in the dialectic of becoming what each beholds in the other. Smilesburger becomes more passionately inclined to outflank the Palestinians, and Ziad is trapped in fantasies of violent revenge. Neither can attain an unambivalent understanding of the other’s dilemma.
The epigraphs to Operation Shylock are from the Yahwist or J writer, the first authors in the Hebrew Bible, and from Kierkegaard, the two great ironic masters of primal ambivalence. “So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.” I read that “man” as the Angel of Death, who represents the possible fate that Jacob fears to confront at the hands of his vengeful brother, Esau. Perhaps Pipik after all is an Esau, and precisely such a threat for Philip Roth. “The whole content of my being shrieks in contradiction against itself,” writes Kierkegaard, who adds: “Existence is surely a debate.” “Against itself” is Roth’s reading of his own nature, of his art, and of life.
Shylock is introduced into the novel by David Supposnik, Tel Aviv rare book dealer and possible Shin Bet (Internal Security) agent. Supposnik, like Aharon Appelfeld a Holocaust survivor, associates “this modern trial of the Jew, this trial which never ends,…with the trial of Shylock.” Roth employs Supposnik to cast aside Romantic and modern emphases on the supposed pathos of Shylock, and thus to return us to the stage Jew’s “overwhelming Shakespearean reality, a terrifying Shakespearean aliveness.” As Supposnik accurately says, because of Shylock: “the savage, repellent, and villainous Jew, deformed by hatred and revenge, entered as our doppelgänger into the consciousness of the enlightened West.”
As the ultimate Jew, Shylock has caused immeasurable harm. It is refreshing to hear Supposnik’s repudiation of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sentimentalizing of Shakespeare’s farcical villain:
The Victorian conception of Shylock, however—Shylock as a wronged Jew rightfully vengeful—the portrayal that descends through the Keans to Irving and into our century, is a vulgar sentimental offense not only against the genuine abhorrence of the Jew that animated Shakespeare and his era but to the long illustrious chronicle of European Jew-baiting. The hateful, hateable Jew whose artistic roots extend back to the Crucifixion pageants at York, whose endurance as the villain of history no less than of drama is unparalleled, the hook-nosed moneylender, the miserly, money-maddened, egotistical degenerate, the Jew who goes to synagogue to plan the murder of the virtuous Christian—this is Europe’s Jew, the Jew expelled in 1290 by the English, the Jew banished in 1492 by the Spanish, the Jew terrorized by Poles, butchered by Russians, incinerated by Germans, spurned by the British and the Americans while the furnaces roared at Treblinka. The vile Victorian varnish that sought to humanize the Jew, to dignify the Jew, has never deceived the enlightened European mind about the three thousand ducats, never has and never will.
Is there a more memorable Jewish character in all of Western literature than Shylock? As a critic, not a novelist, I myself am unhappy at confessing that I do not know a stronger Jewish character than Shakespeare’s anti-Semitic creation, who has an existence as convincing as Hamlet or Iago even though compared to Hamlet or Iago he speaks only very few lines. It is worth noting that when the virtuous Antonio, generous Christian, proves the authenticity of his piety by spitting and cursing at the Jew, and when he suggests that Shylock be compelled to convert to the true faith, or else face execution, this was Shakespeare’s own quite gratuitous invention, and had no previous part in the pound-of-flesh tradition. The play, honestly interpreted and responsibly performed, as it was not in the recent Broadway production with Dustin Hoffman, would no longer be acceptable on a stage in New York City, for it is an anti-Semitic masterpiece, unmatched in its kind.
The strongest of all writers gave us a portrait never quite to be erased, however stage history and critical revisionism have labored to undo it during the last two centuries. Of all American-Jewish writers, Roth seems to know this best. Shylock, Roth intimates, is every Jew’s dreaded double. Supposnik’s shrewd and bitter tirade is the prelude to “Operation Shylock” proper, the mission upon which Philip Roth will embark on behalf of his Mossad handler who has taken the code-name of Smilesburger, and which brings the novel to its conclusion. The supposed Mossad operation, whose purpose is to unmask hidden Jewish supporters of the PLO, is clearly a fantastic invention, and Roth has “Philip Roth” refuse us any account of the procedure and details of the mission. The explicit justification given is that “Philip Roth’s” Mossad handlers have insisted on the omission “for security reasons,” and the command is followed by the amateur agent.
But the fictive mission that “Philip Roth” undertakes, to Athens and to another, unnamed, city, is also a response to the potent myth of Shylock. For “Philip Roth’s” secret sharer is not the wretched Moishe Pipik (who is certainly an anti-Semite, and perhaps not Jewish); it is Shylock. “Philip Roth” says he cannot “name for himself what…was impinging on this decision.” Was I, he asks, “succumbing…to a basic law of my existence, to the instinct for impersonations which I had so far enacted solely within the realm of fiction”? Yet by accepting Smilesburger’s proposal, he leaves the reader free, I think, to decide that, for him, it may also be a mission against Jewish self-hatred, just as it is for Smilesburger.
At sixty, and with twenty books published, Roth in Operation Shylock confirms the gifts of comic invention and moral intelligence that he has brought to American prose fiction since 1959. A superb prose stylist, particularly skilled in dialogue, he now has developed the ability to absorb recalcitrant public materials into what earlier seemed personal obsessions. And though his context tends to remain stubbornly Jewish, he has developed fresh ways of opening out universal perspectives from Jewish dilemmas, whether they are American, Israeli, or European. The “Philip Roth” of Operation Shylock is very Jewish, and yet his misadventures could be those of any fictional character who has to battle for his identity against an impostor who has usurped it. That wrestling match, to win back one’s own name, is a marvelous metaphor for Roth’s struggle as a novelist, particularly in his later books, Zuckerman Bound, The Counterlife, and the quasi-tetralogy culminating in Operation Shylock, which form a coherent succession of works difficult to match in recent American writing.
At the book’s midpoint, “Philip Roth” says to Pipik, “You could have established a chapter of A-SA right in Vatican City. Meetings in the basement of St. Peter’s Church. Full house every night. ‘My name is Eugenio Pacelli. I’m a recovering anti-Semite.’ Pipik, who sent you to me in my hour of need? Who made me this wonderful gift? Know what Heine liked to say? There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.” That is Roth’s comic Gospel, too. Operation Shylock’s answer to Shakespeare’s Shylock is Aristophanes, whose mode of comedy—exuberant, outrageous, hallucinatory—has found in Roth a living master.
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Sopro launches Level Up Laptops appeal to get more laptops to children in Sussex struggling to access education online
19 January; Launching today Level Up Laptops is a charity initiative created by Brighton based social prospecting company Sopro. It’s asking Sussex based businesses to donate laptops and other computer equipment that can be given to local schoolchildren struggling to access online learning resources.
Level Up Laptops will also take monetary donations through its Sussex based registered charity partner the Tarner Community Project. All funds raised will be used to cover refurbishment costs or to purchase new machines for local children.
Ryan Welmans, Sopro’s CEO and the mastermind behind this initiative explains why the project started:
“When I heard on the radio how a lack of devices is making it impossible for some of our most vulnerable families to home school, I knew we could help. So many businesses have old laptops lying around and we can reach the with our Sopro prospecting technology quickly to raise awareness and gain their support. We’re also donating staff time to handle the collection, refurbishment and fundraising plus our fantastic charity partner the Tarner Community Project already has links into local schools and the council.
To get the campaign of to a flying start, Sopro are funding ten laptops for ten local kids immediately.”
Emma Jacquest, CEO at the Tarner Community Project explains how these devices will help Sussex school children;
“Covid has accelerated the amount of education conducted online and it’s critical that vulnerable children don’t fall behind because of a lack of access to learning resources. We’re excited to be involved in this project to tackle the digital divide across Sussex and have every confidence in the generosity of local businesses.”
Level Up Laptops will accept any laptop that runs Windows 7 or later plus tablets, which many younger children need for their studies, refurbishing them and then connecting with local schools who will distribute the devices to children struggling to maintain their education remotely.
Matthew Ansell from Hove based marketing agency Matrix Marketing added;
“We’ve made a cash donation to help cover refurbishment costs as it’s critical to get usable devices out to children who are missing out on education. I wouldn’t be able to work if my children couldn’t get online and access sites like BBC bitesize because I’d need to teach or supervise them constantly. Without access to the internet, they would also miss out on video calls with their teachers and friends which are so important to their mental wellbeing during this pandemic.”
Many households are struggling even if they have one device already as parents are working from home and often there is more than one child who needs to join online lessons or use a laptop to access educational resources online.
It is estimated that 2.6 million schoolchildren live below the poverty line in England alone, and Ofcom estimates that about 9% of children in the UK – up to 1.7 million – do not have access to a laptop, desktop or tablet at home.
More than 880,000 children also live in a household with only a mobile internet connection. Online Nation 2020 – https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0037/194878/technology-tracker-2020-uk-data-tables.pdf
Full details of the Level Up Project can be found on its website at: https://leveluplaptops.co.uk/ or join our community at https://www.facebook.com/Level-Up-Laptops-103347615069389
Donations can be made via Just Giving here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/leveluplaptops
Privately owned and funded, Sopro is one of the fastest-growing B2B marketing technology businesses in the world. In four years and with zero capital investment, Sopro has built a highly skilled team passionate about technology, customer service and results resulting in an annual turnover that now exceeds £3m.
Sopro’s social prospecting format connects businesses with their target customers on a 1-to-1 basis with personalised, conversational email introductions, designed to flow naturally into the sales pipeline.
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About the Tarner Community Project
Tarner Community Project is a charity based in Tarner Park, Brighton, dedicated to supporting the local community and providing all year round activities for children and young people. With OFSTED good accreditation, we offer a caring, inclusive, service. Healthy living and wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do with an emphasis on physical and outdoor activities.
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On October 25, 2019, Community Connections Coalition held a resource fair at the Good Samaritan Center in Excelsior Springs for those in need. Precious Blood Resource Services(PBRS) was one of twenty other service providers who participated in the fair. Those who attended were assigned a companion to walk with them as they visited with the service providers that could meet their needs in the areas of housing, mental health, physical health, employment, and many other services. Attendees were able to pick out any clothing that they needed. Free haircuts were given, and lunch was provided by the culinary school at Excelsior Springs Job Corps. One woman and her husband who attended was very excited about the fair. She stated that she and her husband were homeless and walked all the way from Texas and came to Excelsior Springs. She said that a few agencies who were at the fair, including Good Samaritan Center, helped them with resources such as clothes, food, emergency assistance, and moral support. Now they both have jobs and a home to live in. Overall, the fair was able to help 78 people from 30 households.
The coalition holds this resource fair twice a year and is hosted by the Good Samaritan Center who provides emergency financial assistance, a food pantry, clothing, senior services, and special programs. Transportation has always been a major issue in the rural areas of Missouri such as Excelsior Springs. These fairs allow those who are low income, homeless or at risk of being homeless in Excelsior Springs to have access to services without having to travel long distances to get to agencies that can assist them. | <urn:uuid:46a29f98-5889-455d-ac54-02c4434c00be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://preciousbloodkc.org/community-connections/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.990223 | 329 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Steven Paul Jobs was 56. He died today after publicly fighting advanced pancreatic cancer since 2004. He, along with co-founder Steve Wozniak, built one of the most “commercially successful” personal computers and founded Pixar animation studios.
The Apple Board of Directors wrote:
We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.
Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.
His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.
Do not therefore consider this life as an object of any moment. Look back on the immense gulf of time already past; and forwards, to that infinite duration yet to come, and you will find how trifling the difference is between a life of three days and of three ages.
Let us then employ properly this moment of time allotted us by fate, and leave the world contentedly; like a ripe olive dropping from its stalk, speaking well of the soil that produced it, and of the tree that bore it.
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PORTLAND, Maine — Somali-American rapper and poet Munye Mohamed, better known as Shine, remembers rattling around the city, with his high school cronies, in a beat-up Hyundai Elantra.
They’d have great times, making up rhymes, recording them on their phones as they drove.
“Because we didn’t have a studio,” Shine said.
A decade on, things are different.
Shine now records his songs in real recording studios and can be seen driving a Rolls Royce in his latest music video. It’s a rental, but the song still snagged over a million views in its first five days on YouTube this month.
Shine’s life and career are on the rise but he’s also had his share of struggles. Born in war-torn Somalia, he grew up in a gritty public housing project. Shine found success with poetry in high school but then ran afoul of the law as a young man. His legal troubles behind him now, the father of three is focused on showing his children, as well as his community, that dreams are worth chasing.
“I want to spread the word that they’re worth more than money,” Shine said. “And it’s not really about fame.”
Shine came to the United States when he was five. By the time he was 10, his family had settled in Portland’s impoverished and densely-packed Riverton Park. Shine said he has fond memories of playing basketball with his friends on the asphalt court at the bottom of the hill.
At Portland High School, he discovered poetry and a love for writing. It brought him notoriety and friends. It’s also how he got his nickname.
“People started calling me Moon the Poet,” Shine said. “Poetry is the same feeling as rap. It’s expressing.”
Moon, short for Munye, turned into Moon Shine, which was then shortened to just Shine.
In 2011, he competed in the state’s Poetry Out Loud competition. Besting thousands, he made it to the regional finals. A few months later, however, he was arrested for breaking into cars in a movie theater parking lot. It was just the start. Over the next few years he had other misdemeanor scrapes with the law for theft and drugs.
Out of trouble since 2019, Shine said those days are behind him now. He draws lyrical and motivational inspiration from his time in trouble.
“A lot of people will judge you on your past,” he said. “But your history can make you a better person.”
Shine started his indie music career in 2015, releasing a trippy, spoken word piece on YouTube called “Pray for Me.”
Filmed entirely in Riverton Park, it starts with: “Never let your mistakes ruin your future but look toward the future with your mistakes to see what you have learned.”
After that first track, Shine released almost a dozen more over the next five years, racking up hundreds of thousands of views, and almost 10,000 followers, on YouTube.
But this month, he got even hotter.
Released on April 1, his latest track “Aspirations” snagged shoutouts on Instagram from established hip-hop stars Fat Joe, Jadakiss and Lil Reese.
Five days later, the song hit a million views. By this week, it totalled just under 1.5 million. The track’s lyrics continue with Shine’s positive themes of looking ahead and striving for a better future.
“When you’re down feeling low, I just want you to know that most people’s lives aren’t as great as they show,” he raps. “So, when you’re down feeling hopeless, know that nobody’s perfect.”
The “Aspirations” video was filmed last November in New York. Shine sank thousands of dollars of his own money into the project, hiring a professional director while renting a fleet of high-end cars, including a white Rolls Royce.
Childhood friend and fellow hip-hop musician Tanade Muse isn’t surprised by Shine’s success.
“He’s always been a hardworking poet. It was just a matter of time before he blew up,” said Muse, better known as Fetty 2-Times.
Fetty said he loves seeing someone from Riverton Park get a taste of success. It gives him hope and suspects it does the same for others.
“We’re all just neighborhood cats,” he said. “He works so hard — this is just the beginning. He’s going to make it out of the hood.”
Portland folk singer Jenny Van West first met Shine at an open mic she hosted a few years back at Mayo Street Arts. Van West became a fan right away, even before he was making slick music videos.
“He can make great recordings and videos, of course,” she said, “but it’s his words that get straight into my heart.”
Despite his rocketing success online, Shine said he’s keeping his day job in a laboratory, for now, and concentrating on getting his first full-length album out by fall. In the future, he hopes to keep doing his kids, and his neighborhood, proud.
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PROmoting Early Childhood Outside (PRO-ECO)
An outdoor play intervention for children aged 3 to 5 years in early childhood education centres
Early learning and childcare centres (ELCCs) can provide children with rich opportunities for outdoor play that they may not otherwise experience in their home or community. However, many ELCCs struggle to provide high quality and stimulating outdoor play time for various reasons.
The aim of this study is to develop, implement and evaluate a comprehensive intervention to increase time spent by children in quality outdoor play in ELCC. The PRO-ECO intervention integrates four core components:
- Modifying outdoor play spaces;
- Early childhood educator training and mentorship;
- Parent and caregiver engagement; and,
- Updating policies and procedures
This study works in close partnership with the YMCA of Greater Vancouver with support from scientific advisors and public health and licensing professionals. A Randomized Controlled Trial will evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention and how it can be modified to tackle barriers. Findings can enhance outdoor play practice and policy in ELCC settings.
Learn More and Consent for the Study
Your child may be eligible to participate:
1. Is your child aged 3-5 years?
2. Is your child enrolled in one or more of the following childcare centres?
- Beach YMCA
- Djavad Mowafaghian YMCA
- Marpole YMCA
- Metrotown YMCA
- Nanook YMCA
- Seasong YMCA
- Vista Point YMCA
- Woodward YMCA
If you answered yes to these questions and would like to participate, please provide consent via our Parent Consent Form
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How to Boil Water: The essential guide to roasted vegetables
With so many of you having to stay home and cook for the first time — ever or more than you have in a long time — we get that it can be overwhelming to have to cook all your meals from scratch. So, we’re here to get you started.
Each day we’re going to post a new skill here and go in detail about how to do it — a resource for cooking basics so you can get food on the table and get through this.
Lesson 6: Roasted Vegetables
If there’s a vegetable you think you don’t like, just roast it. This was a trick I learned when my kids were little. If they pushed away steamed broccoli and cauliflower, I’d roast them instead and they’d devour the whole pan. (They still do.)
Roasting is essentially baking at a high temperature. The intense dry heat of the oven evaporates the moisture in produce and caramelizes natural sugars, teasing out the sweetness of root vegetables like carrots and mellowing the bitterness of cruciferous ones like Brussels sprouts.
The process is simple: toss whole or cut-up vegetables with oil to coat them evenly (the oil is conducting the heat; unoiled vegetables cook differently); season with salt and pepper, toss again and spread them out with a little space to spare on a foil-lined half-sheet pan or other rimmed baking sheet.
Adjust the temperature and roasting time to account for the size and density of the vegetables:
- For big, sturdy vegetables like whole parsnips, halved sweet potatoes or cauliflower steaks, I start at 400 degrees because they need more time to cook through and I don’t want the outsides to burn.
- For medium-sized pieces — stems of broccoli, butternut squash chunks or quartered beets — start at 425 degrees.
- For small and tender vegetables, such as green beans, asparagus or sliced carrots, start at 450 degrees so that they’ll char quickly.
- To roast a mix of vegetables together, cut them so that they’ll cook at the same rate. If they have similar densities, such as sunchokes and celery root, cut them the same size. If mixing softer and harder produce, such as onions and butternut squash, cut the softer one (onion in this case), larger.
The vegetables are done when they’re nicely browned and a paring knife slides through them easily. The time will range from 10 minutes (for quick-cooking items like thin asparagus or sliced fennel) to an hour (for dense, big vegetables such as whole beets and halved celery root).
For more even browning, you can toss or flip the vegetables once or twice while roasting. I often skip this step if I’m too busy or if I want a really crunchy crust on just one side.
I also frequently skip seasoning the vegetables beyond oil, salt and pepper, though feel free to toss in smashed garlic cloves, halved chiles, citrus wedges or hearty herb sprigs (think thyme and rosemary) before roasting. Or season immediately after roasting by drizzling with fresh lemon juice, vinegar, soy sauce or a vinaigrette. Soft herbs or spice mixes are best added just before serving.
The best part about roasted vegetables may be that you can make big batches at one time. Simply split the vegetables among multiple pans and switch their positions on the oven racks throughout roasting. Leftovers taste great cold or reheated to eat alone as a snack or to make any soup, salad, sandwich, taco, grain bowl or other meal even better.
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The aim was to determine the evolutionary position of the Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 75 (CC75) that is prevalent in tropical northern Australia. Sequencing of gap, rpoB, sodA, tuf, and hsp60 and the multilocus sequence typing loci revealed a clear separation between conventional S. aureus and CC75 and significant diversity within CC75. Copyright � 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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A genetic variation that regulates iron metabolism may enhance athletes' endurance performance, researchers at the University of Toronto have shown.
The findings could help explain studies that show an association between the genetic variation and elite athletes across many sports and may help competitive athletes fine-tune their iron intake to boost performance.
The variation, found in the homeostatic iron regulator (HFE) gene, is a known cause of iron overload, a condition called hemochromatosis in which the body absorbs too much iron leading to organ and joint damage.
Athletes at risk for hemochromatosis but with iron stores below potentially toxic levels could have a competitive edge, but most athletes are unsure if boosting their intake of iron from supplements or diet is likely to be beneficial or harmful.
The findings were published online in Medicine & Science in Sport & Exercise recently and will appear in the journal's July 2021 print issue. The study is the first to look at the association between HFE genotype and endurance performance in competitive male athletes.
El-Sohemy and his colleagues studied 100 athletes from a variety of sports, tracking how quickly they cycled 10 kilometers while measuring their aerobic capacity through VO2 peak, a measure of oxygen used during exercise.
The researchers found that those genetically at risk for iron overload performed 8 percent better than those with a low risk, cycling 1.3 minutes faster on average. They also showed that athletes with higher risk for iron overload had a 17 percent greater oxygen-carrying capacity, which could explain why they cycled faster.
The higher-risk group was small (11 males), but the findings are consistent with studies on iron in endurance performance, which show that iron facilitates oxygen transport and that athletes with levels on the higher end of normal can circulate oxygen in their muscles more efficiently.
Athletes with the elevated genetic risk variation may be less likely to feel fatigued and more likely to recover quicker after high-intensity exercise, El-Sohemy said.
Nanci Guest is a postdoctoral fellow at U of T and sport dietitian who conducted the trial. She said she hopes the study raises awareness about the importance of genetics in optimizing nutritional status among athletes, trainers, and their coaches.
"Despite our vigilance toward addressing low-iron status, these findings suggest that we may need to direct our attention to achieving optimal iron status by aiming toward mid- or higher ends of normal," Guest said.
El-Sohemy and his colleagues are now looking at whether iron status is associated with other measures of athletic performance such as power and strength. They plan to examine whether HFE and additional genes could be important, and they hope to broaden the work further to include females and recreational athletes.
Drishti Thakkar is a graduate student in the Faculty of Information at U of T, who analyzed the trial data and compiled the results as part of an undergraduate project in nutritional sciences. "I'm excited to see more athletes consider genetic testing to obtain precise information for more personalized nutrition and training regimens," said Thakkar. "I think this is definitely part of the future in sports nutrition."
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Research in New Zealand is leading to advances in fire engineering design and protection. We look at some of the work under way at BRANZ and the universities.
THE MAJOR RESEARCH EFFORT BY BRANZ and The University of Canterbury to develop a risk-informed design fire tool for fire safety engineering is nearing completion with the B-RISK software entering a beta testing phase.
Experimental results ensure accuracy
A practical issue for the research project team has been getting suitable data to test the tool – experimental results that can be compared against the B-RISK modelling prediction.
Recently approved funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has allowed the team to conduct an experimental programme to generate this data.
The B-RISK tool estimates what size fire could occur in a room by populating the room with combustible objects from a database of typical items in buildings.
From this, it simulates how the fire in the room will grow and develop as it spreads among the objects.
B-RISK requires information about each of the objects, such as how easily the item will ignite and how large the associated fire will be.
The experiments are generating data for the modelling of room-scale configurations. Results will be compared with B-RISK predictions for the identical configuration to ensure the accuracy of the new tool.
The experiments involve three materials:
- Polyurethane foam – used in upholstered furniture.
- Medium-density fibreboard (MDF) – used for cabinetry.
- Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) – used for casing electronic goods.
The experimental programme uses reaction-to-fire testing equipment in the BRANZ laboratories to undertake a range of experiments:
- A series of bench-scale experiments using the cone calorimeter to determine the ignitability of the three materials.
- A series of real-scale tests on items made from the three materials in the furniture calorimeter to determine the fire size of each item (see Figure 1). This information will be used as item property data for the modelling of full-scale multi-item layouts in the standard ISO 9705 room.
- The same multi-item fire experiments in the ISO 9705 room, to compare the results to the B-RISK predictions.
Spill plumes widen application
The effects of balcony spill plumes are also being included in B-RISK with the assistance of Dr Roger Harrison. Spill plumes occur when smoke from a fire flows beneath an upper balcony construction and mixes with air, increasing the smoke volume as it spills around the balcony edge and rises to the ceiling in the adjacent space (see Figure 2).
The inclusion of spill plumes in B-RISK extends the applicability of the model to large public spaces such as atriums and shopping malls. Overestimating smoke production volumes in these can result in costly mechanical extraction equipment, while underestimation can lead to unsafe conditions in the event of a fire.
Compatible with Code changes
Along with new capability to include uncertainty estimates and sensitivity analysis, the fire design tool has been developed to be compatible with the new Building Code Verification Method (C/VM2) Framework for fire safety design. This allows modelling and calculation demonstrating Building Code compliance to be carried out more efficiently.
The Verification Method ensures more consistent design assumptions and safety outcomes by engineers undertaking performance-based fire design than before – design fire loadings and quantitative performance criteria weren’t previously published.
Launch in early 2013
Following the beta testing phase in the last quarter of 2012 where feedback and input will be sought from potential end-users, BRANZ plans to launch the B-RISK tool with a series of training seminars and workshops in March 2013.
- enabling secondary beams to be solid web or to have multiple closely spaced web openings
- amending the detailing requirements for the floor system to remove impractical requirements such as congestion of reinforcement in the slab panel corners
- rewriting the 2006 software to make it more user-friendly.
Victoria University of Wellington
A student is researching the fire safety implications of green or sustainable building features. To date, the most negative impacts appear to be atriums and double-skin façades. Atriums have well developed mitigation measures for fire safety, but double-skin façades do not. Features such as low volatile organic compound (VOC) paints have positive fire safety impacts, and many have no or little impact.
Researchers have also been working with GNS modelling post-earthquake fire spread in Wellington.
For full details of this research project, see www.branzfire.com/frst/.
This 5-year research programme has been funded by the Building Research Levy and the Ministry of Building, Innovation and Employment.
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Hydrogen – The Solution for the World’s Power Woes?
Around the world, governments and businesses are constantly being called upon to make big investments in solar, wind, and geothermal energy, as well as biofuels. But, in the US, unlike in Europe and Asia, discussion of hydrogen energy and fuel cells as systemic, game-changing technologies is largely absent. That needs to change: these clean, renewable energy sources promise not only zero-emission baseload power, but also a zero-emission fuel for cars and trucks, the biggest polluters of them all.
By now, many have heard about plans by big car makers—including Honda, Toyota, and Hyundai—to launch hydrogen fuel-cell cars commercially around 2015. Daimler, Ford, and Nissan plan to launch such cars around 2017. Germany plans to build at least 50 hydrogen fuelling stations by 2015 as the start of a countrywide network. Japan and Korea have announced similar plans. But a bigger, largely unreported, message is that some European countries, especially Germany, have launched projects that combine renewables like solar and wind with hydrogen for energy storage, implying clean, zero-emission, stable power grids that require no coal, oil, or nuclear power.
Indeed, the bottom line of a new study by two American researchers, Willett Kempton and Cory Budischak, is that the combination of renewables and hydrogen storage could fully power a large electricity grid by 2030 at costs comparable to those today. Kempton and Budischak designed a computer model for wind, solar, and storage to meet demand for one-fifth of the US grid. The results buck “the conventional wisdom that renewable energy is too unreliable and expensive”, says Kempton. “For example,” according to Budischak, “using hydrogen for storage, we can run an electric system that today would meet a need of 72 gigawatts (GW), 99.9% of the time, using 17GW of solar, 68GW of offshore wind, and 115GW of inland wind.”
Their study lends scientific support to several such projects underway in Europe aimed at proving that hydrogen gas, converted from water via electrolysis—think of it as natural gas minus the polluting carbon—and stored, for example, in subterranean salt caverns, can smooth out fluctuations inherent in solar and wind energy. It builds in part on two recent studies at Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution, which conclude that, as Carnegie atmospheric scientist Ken Caldeira put it, “There is more than enough energy available in winds to power all of civilization.” The latest effort, scheduled to get underway outside Brussels this year, is the delightfully named Don Quichote project (Demonstration of New Qualitative Innovative Concept of Hydrogen Out of wind Turbine Electricity), designed to highlight utility-scale energy storage and transport, and to provide power for fuel-cell forklift trucks.
Meanwhile, near Berlin, five companies launched a €10 million pilot project at Berlin’s main airport in Schoenefeld in December, expanding and converting an existing hydrogen fuelling station to CO2 neutrality by linking it to a nearby wind farm.
Earlier last year, two German utilities, Thüga and E.ON, announced two gas demonstration plants. And the world’s first renewable energy/hydrogen hybrid power plant, producing both electricity and hydrogen as car fuel, started production in the fall of 2011. The previous year, German chancellor Angela Merkel laid the plant’s cornerstone herself, sending a strong signal of her seriousness about Germany’s shift to clean, renewable energy. Indeed, the much-noted Energiewende, or energy turnaround, that she announced in 2010 is arguably one of the most audacious acts of environmental statesmanship yet.
According to the author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, Germany is in the international forefront of fighting climate change:
“The clear alternative and the best news from 2012 came from Germany, the one big country that’s taken climate change seriously… There were days last summer when [Germans] generated more than half the power that they used from solar panels.” In fact, hydrogen technology will be an integral part of Germany’s evolving renewable/alternative energy-based system. Germany’s move towards renewable energy is likely to have a much broader positive impact. A six-article series, “The German Nuclear Exit”, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists argues that the move away from nuclear energy is already “yielding measurable economic and environmental benefits”.
More broadly, Lutz Mez, a political scientist at Berlin’s Free University, argues that the country’s shift has “observably decoupled energy supply from economic growth”, and that the “evolving Energiewende, rather than the nuclear phase-out” implies “continuing reforms of social, economic, technological, and cultural policy in Germany”.
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"Storykeepers Resource Kit,"
the new fully bi-lingual DVD based Christian education kit with both English and Spanish
language tracks/handbook, is now available, price $154.99.
These kits are licensed for use in schools and churches.
These new kits offer 4 DVDs, each
covering 3 or 4 episodes, and are cued up allowing teachers direct access
to all 46 parables and Jesus stories, in both English and Spanish. The 4
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Storykeepers has been showing on EWTN and Hallmark channels for nearly 10 years.
These DVD kits are ideal for
teachers wishing to focus on specific parables. Each parable or story takes about
2 minutes, so allowing the teacher to use the clip as a bright 'extra' for the class, yet
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Developed in the U.S. by and for Christian educators, the non- denominational
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The kits can be adapted for use with youth or even young-at-heart adults. It can also be
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The Story Lives On is
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Avanti or Bhairav Parvat Shakti Peeth is among the 52 Shakti Peethas of Maa Sati. Maa Avanti Shkti Peetha is located near Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, India. The temple is gorgeously situated on Bhairavparvat, at Bhairav hills on the banks of Shipra river a little distnce from Ujjaini town. Ujjain also known as Ujain, Ujjayini, Avanti, Avantikapuri and is an ancient city of Malwa region in central India, on the eastern bank of the Shipra or Kshipra River, today part of the state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the administrative centre of Ujjain District and Ujjain Division.
In ancient times the city was called Ujjayini. As mentioned in the Mahabharata epic, Ujjayini was the capital of the Avanti Kingdom, and has been the Prime Meridian for Hindu geographers since the 4th century BCE. Ujjain is one of the seven sacred cities “Sapta Puri” of the Hindus, and the Kumbh Mela a world famous religious festival is held here every 12 years. It is also home to Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga, one of the twelve Jyotirlinga Shrines to the Lord Shiva and is also the place where Lord Krishna came for education with Balarama and Sudhama from Maharshi Sandipani.
About The Temple
The structure of the temple is made with the use of unique colourful stones. The wall and roof for the temple is done with magnificent stones and gives a picture perfect view to the visitors. Prayers and other rituals are performed in the temple everyday.
As Such there are no records as to who and when the temple was constructed, but it probably dates back to 4th century BC, the time when Ujjain came to being by Avanti Kingdom. The Avanti Shakti Peeth draws its name from the Avanti Kings who ruled the region and was a holy place for the royal family. Avanti temple is mentioned in Mahabharata epic too. Devotees visiting this temple can find from local people about the temple and its origin.
About The Deity
The holy place is dedicated to a divine power “Goddess Durga”, worshipped by a large number of Hindu devotees as “Maa Avanti or Avantika”. It is believed that Devi Sati’s ‘Upper Lip’ fell here. The lord Shiva is worshipped as ‘Lambakarna’. The idol of Devi Avanti is always adorned with a red sari as the colour red is considered sacred by married women in India. Alternatively, a legendary Siddha peetha of a divine power is worshipped as a superlative power of Durga Shakti “Avanti” by the millions of devotees from all over the country, who visit this prehistoric divine temple every year.
Legend and Stories
According to the history, Daksha Prajapati, father of Goddess Sati insulted Lord Shiva and Devi Sati by not inviting them to Daksha Yagna. Goddess Sati was advised not to go the Yagna uninvited by Lord Shiva which Devi Sati did not heed to and went to the Daksha Yagna. Her father insulted her and Lord Shiva which hurt Devi Sati so much that she sacrificed herself in the sacred fire of the Yagna. On hearing this, lord Shiva got angry and he started dancing in fury to destroy the universe. To prevent this, Lord Vishnu cut the body of Sati with his Chakra. It was placed in 52 different parts of the world. That is known as 51 Shakti peethas. In this temple goddess sati’s Upper Lip was placed and worshiped as Maa Avantika.
Ujjain is famous for many festivals and the Kumbh mela. Shri Avanti Devi temple is also part of the celebration that is carried on in Ujjain. Specific to this temple, Shivaratri and Navratri are celebrated with great devotion and enthusiasm.
People pray to the Goddess for fulfilment their wishes and to gain prosperity.
Nearby Places to Visit
There are other interesting places near Avanti Devi temple like
Bade Ganeshji Ka Mandir,
Durgadas Ki Chhatri,
Siddhavat, Sandipani Ashram,
Navagraha Mandir (Triveni),
The Vedha Shala (Observatory),
Vikram Kirti Mandir,
Ram Janardhan Temple,
Bohron Ka Roja,
Begum Ka Maqbara,
Bina Neev Ki Masjid,
Maulana Rumi Ka Maqbara
Indore is the nearest airport to Ujjain and it is 52 kms away.. There are couples of national flights that ply from the major cities of India to Indore.
The Nearest railway station is Ujjain itself.
Ujjain is well connected to rest of the India and people can have all means of transportation to come here. When coming through your own means of transportation, Agra-Mumbai highway is the ideal road to reach Indore and from there to the Ujjain.
Bhairav Parvat Temple(Maa Avantika Shakti Peeth),
Bhairavparvat Road, Near Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple,
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Devotees visit this temple to seek fulfillment of the following:-
- Delay in wedding proposals
Yaa Devii Sarvabhuuteshhu Maatrirupena Sansthitah Yaa Devii Sarvabhuuteshhu Shaktirupena Sansthitah Yaa Devii Sarvabhuuteshhu Shaantirupena Sansthitah Namastasyaih Namastasyaih Namastasyaih Namo Namah
Meaning -Goddess Durga is omnipresent and a personification of the universal mother, who is omnipresent and who embodies power and energy. Oh great mother, who also embodies peace, I bow to you, mother, I bow to Durga and I bow to Shakti.
Ayi Giri Nandini Nandita Medini Vishva Vinodini Nandi Nute Giri Vara Vindhya Shiro Adhi Nivaasini Vissnnu Vilaasini Jissnnu Nute Bhagavati He Shiti Kannttha Kuttumbini Bhuri Kuttumbini Bhuri Krte Jaya Jaya He Mahissaasura Mardini Ramya Kapardini Shaila Sute
Meaning -I offer my salutations to the mountain's daughter, who fills the world with joy, who is praised by Nandi, who lives on Vindhya's summits, who gives joy to Her brother Lord Vishnu and who Lord Indra praises, Oh Goddess who is Lord Shiva's consort and who created abundance. The destroyer of the demon Mahishasura, the one with beautiful hair and the mountain's daughter, victory to you.
Madhu Kaittabha Vidhvamsi Vidhaatr Varade Namah Ruupam Dehi Jayam Dehi Yasho Dehi Dvisso Jahi
Meaning -Oh Devi Durga, we salute you for destroying Madhu and Kaitabha and granting Lord Brahma the boon of protection. Please bestow on me spiritual beauty, victory and glory and crush my inner enemies.
Mahissaasura Nirnaashi Bhaktaanaam Sukhade Namah Ruupam Dehi Jayam Dehi Yasho Dehi Dvisso Jahi
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Buying lottery tickets can be rational, and it can be a means to the end of investing your money for the right reasons rather than the wrong reasons. But it’s still a great way of losing money, and most people shouldn’t do it.
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Some juicy geoengineering news items in this post. I could turn just about all of them into a separate blog post if I had time, maybe I still will for some of them. Don’t miss this list! All of the links are active when you view it on the site. If you’re looking at this in your RSS feed reader or on your daily email, you won’t see the actual links, sorry.
- San Diego settles landslide suits for $284,000 – San Jose Mercury News
- Slip On Weak Layer – GEO-SLOPE International Ltd.
An example analysis using SLOPE/W software.
- UK’s first commercial scale geothermal power plant set to start construction in October – Ground Engineering (GE) Magazine
- Some reflections on the Eyjafjallajoekull ash cloud – Dave’s Landslide Blog
As usual, Dr. Dave has some great insights into this geologic hazard that is currently dominating the news.
- Port of Miami tunnel project on track for June start – MiamiHerald.com via ASCE SmartBrief
- Louisiana receives $81.5 million in new federal aid for repair of roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Katrina – NOLA.com
- New imagery from the Qinghai earthquake | Google Earth Blog
- Geogrids remedy poor site soils at World Cup stadium in South Africa – Geosynthetics Magazine
- Geo-Engineering Reconnaissance of the February 27, 2010 Maule, Chile Earthquake, Version 1: April 15, 2010 – Geoengineer.org Press Center
The GEER is an NSF-funded group that was created to collect perishable data in the wake of extreme events (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, or floods) in the interests of learning from the events to advance the state of geoengineering practice. This report on the earthquake was produced by over 40 lead authors and contributing authors from universities and consulting companies around the world.
- A Decade of Safety Success, March/April 2010 Public Roads
- Third landslide in North Salt Lake worries residents – Salt Lake Tribune
- Video: North Salt Lake hillside home backyard becomes landslide – KSTU
- Geologist: North Salt Lake City, Utah slide not ‘true’ landslide – Salt Lake Tribune
- Massive ancient rockslide shifted the geography of a continent – Montreal Gazette
- Parties play blame game over latest Pacifica cliff erosion – San Jose Mercury News – Via ASCE SmartBrief
- New Orleans-Area Levee Bolstered by Enormous Deep-Soil Mixing – ENR: Engineering News Record
- Yucca Mountain Shutdown Halts After Washington State Lawsuit – ENR: Engineering News Record
- Battle looms over 710 tunnel to finish LA-area freeway – San Jose Mercury News – via ASCE SmartBrief
Here’s a GeoPrac post from early 2009 describing the start of the geotechnical investigations for the 710 Tunnel in L.A.
- US Embassy in Hati successfully survived the earthquake – Critical Path Blog (ENR)
- The February 2010 D.GE inductees – Geosynthetics Magazine
- USGS wants to stop calling them ‘100-year floods’ – Arizona Geology
Finally! I think this is preaching to the choir for most of the readers of this site, but it will be difficult to get the momentum for the terminology shift.
- Report concludes dam removal didn’t trigger landslide | The Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME
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Teaching literary evaluation is essential to teaching secondary ELA. Crafting a great literary essay requires each effort and time, which makes it only natural for college kids to get stressed. With the intention to write a literary essay, college students symbolism in slaughterhouse five should first read the e-book they're supposed to write down on. It takes a while to finish studying the book; it is better to start reading effectively upfront as you might have to read it a few occasions for lucid understanding.
If the literature assessment is a part of your dissertation or thesis, reiterate how your analysis addresses gaps and contributes new information, or focus on how you've got drawn on present theories and strategies to construct a framework in your analysis. This will lead straight into your methodology part.
The concluding paragraph is just as vital because the introduction; it is wanted to make your essay nicely-rounded. On your conclusion restate the thesis assertion, summarize the details and keep away from revealing new info at this stage. Ensure you make use of compelling conclusive remarks to encourage the readers to behave accordingly based on your suggestion or name-to-action.
The introduction ends with the thesis statement. It's a declarative sentence which states the point you'll make and is the important thing to your essay's success. It's possible you'll present background info related to your thesis to assist your audience perceive the subject. It's essential include the creator's identify & the title of the poem you are going to analyze.
Why is that this subject necessary to investigate? Describe the importance of the research downside and state why a case study design and the subject of analysis that the paper is designed around is appropriate in addressing the problem. The final line of your introduction needs to move the reader to the primary body of your essay. Very often, that is where we place the THESIS as a result of is clarifies the query that the topic asks.
Because information is arranged in thematic columns, you will get a helpful overview of all goals, or all strategies at a look. You may add new columns as your understanding improves. Thus the evaluate matrix may also be a strong device for synthesising the patterns you determine across literature, and for formulating your personal observations.
It is advisable hook the reader right from the start. Draw them in by portraying the subjects and points in a tempting manner so that your readers will hold studying. W.5.9a: Apply grade 5 Studying standards to literature (e.g., "Evaluate and contrast two or extra characters, settings, or occasions in a story or a drama, drawing on specific particulars within the text e.g., how characters interact").
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Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a federal statute that applies to both women and men who need to take time off from work for medical or family reasons, including caring for a sick family member, or to handle issues which arise from being pregnant, giving birth, and caring for a newborn. The leave is unpaid, but the FMLA protects your right to return to your job in the event that you qualify. At Hollifield Legal Centre, we represent working women by challenging employers who retaliate against employees for taking leave under the FMLA or who have interfered with a right to take such leave.
Many working women are also the primary caregivers in their families. We will help you protect your rights to care for your family and children while preserving your employment.
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If you are pregnant or wondering if you qualify under the Family and Medical Leave Act because you or your parent, child, or spouse is ill, FMLA lawyer Travis R. Hollifield can assist you in explaining your rights. Many claims arise when a worker is denied leave or retaliated against for trying to take leave per the federal statute. There are two claims that can be brought against an employer:
Retaliation: where an employer does not reinstate you or reinstates you in a lesser position or commits other acts of retaliation, such as denying you benefits or otherwise altering the terms and conditions of your employment
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Under the FMLA, if you have suffered from retaliation or interference, you are entitled to recover the economic loss you have suffered including lost pay and the value of lost benefits and out-of-pocket expenses. You may be entitled to double that amount if the court or jury finds that the employer willfully retaliated or interfered with your rights. At Hollifield Legal Centre, we defend and protect the rights of women against violating employers. Contact us today for more information regarding your rights to make a Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) claim.
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'The First Robin is a 1939 one-shot Terrytoons cartoon.
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The medical trade has experienced overwhelming advances during the last 50 years, and now even further steps are being taken to help optimize affected person care. They frequently communicate with physicians and different healthcare professionals to clarify diagnoses or to acquire further info. Patient goals to help the world proactively manage its healthcare, supplying proof-based info on a variety of medical and health subjects to sufferers and well being professionals.
They’ve the operate of on-line assist teams for each e-sufferers and e-caregivers. They guarantee a patient’s health info and data are full, correct, and guarded. The individuals involved on this occupation were promoters for the profitable management of scientific data to ensure accuracy and precision.
It’s intended to supplement the knowledge that folks entry from their healthcare supplier or normal observe crew. As a result of it’s electronic, this means of report conserving has been both supported and debated in … View More A To Z Record Of Medical Illnesses, Issues, Common Medical Conditions Defined
Well being data methods have deep implications on the degree of security and ethics. Nevertheless in addition they work in quite a lot of other healthcare settings, including office primarily based doctor practices, nursing homes , house well being agencies , psychological well being services , and public well being companies. The electronic health record has been frequently expressed as an evolvement of well being report-maintaining.
Although States vary in regulations, students who need to work in nursing care facilities as well being care administrators must complete one of a number of health information administration packages and have obtained a minimal of a Bachelor’s diploma. A sometime-misinterpreted situation is that PHI privateness and security don’t always transfer in tandem.
Protected health information (PHI), also referred to as personal well being data, typically refers to demographic info, medical histories, test and laboratory results, mental health situations, insurance coverage data, and other … View More A To Z Listing Of Medical Ailments, Problems, Widespread Medical Conditions Defined
From the past 20 years, data know-how has introduced many main transformations in almost all fields of the world and healthcare is simply not an exception. We put together a listing of the biggest impacts technology has had on healthcare. Read on for information on health care methods around the world. Health data is the data associated to a person’s medical historical past, together with symptoms, diagnoses, procedures, and outcomes.
HIM professionals work on the classification of diseases and treatments to make sure they’re standardized for scientific, financial, and authorized makes use of in healthcare. Health information managers are charged with the safety of patient privacy and are liable for coaching their employees in the correct handling and usage of the confidential data entrusted to them.
HIPAA splits PHI specifications among its Privateness and Security Rules. The aim was to lift the standards of records maintaining in hospitals and different … View More A To Z Record Of Medical Diseases, Disorders, Frequent Medical Conditions Explained
What’s health information technology or HIT? Well being information professionals look after patients by caring for his or her medical information. Such de-recognized data can contribute to population well being management efforts and value-based mostly care packages. He had knowledge about medical information, but he did not know there was an precise degree for well being data.
Such methods could also be used to improve the efficiency and working of health care departments, administrative establishments, and patient care. Partners or enterprise associates of healthcare suppliers that signal HIPAA enterprise affiliate agreements are legally bound to handle affected person information in a way that satisfies the HIPAA Privateness and Safety Guidelines.
Information know-how has made patient care safer and more reliable than before. With detailed health records, the dangers of improper medications can be prevented and chances of medical errors will be diminished. As a part of the patient care process, … View More A To Z List Of Medical Ailments, Problems, Frequent Medical Conditions Defined
What’s well being information expertise or HIT? These electronic databases are additionally consolidating giant amounts of knowledge that are used for medical research. The underlying point of MyHealthEData is to encourage healthcare organizations to pursue interoperability of well being information as a manner of permitting patients extra access to their information.
The privateness laws govern how hospitals, ambulatory care centers, long-time period care amenities and different healthcare settings use and share PHI. Industries with an elevated demand for health information professionals embody academic establishments, consulting businesses, authorities companies, and healthcare software companies.
These paperwork are maintained as a part of a patient’s private health report. There are approximately 12,000 to 50,000 new jobs anticipated by 2017, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics cites medical data and health data technicians as one of the 20 fastest growing occupations within the US.
What is health information technology or HIT? 34 The Certified … View More A To Z Checklist Of Medical Diseases, Issues, Widespread Medical Conditions Defined
When speaking of healthcare systems one envisages an info intensive industry inside which dependable and timely data is essentially used so as to plan and monitor service provision. Although States vary in rules, students who desire to work in nursing care services as health care administrators must full one in all a number of health information management applications and have obtained a minimum of a Bachelor’s diploma. A someday-misinterpreted scenario is that PHI privacy and security do not always transfer in tandem.
The secondary patient file is a file that is derived from the primary record and incorporates selected information elements to help non scientific persons in supporting, evaluating and advancing patient care. Lined entities must evaluate IT capabilities and the likelihood of a PHI security risk, however the kinds of technology aren’t specified.
A few these positions embody insurance claims adjuster, skilled trainer for software program applications, supervisor or … View More A To Z Record Of Medical Diseases, Issues, Widespread Medical Conditions Explained
Find Well being Information Management Packages in the United States and Canada. Not solely do subtle medical practices help patients heal instantly; new know-how has also improved research so consultants can make healthcare even more efficient. Organizations cannot sell PHI except it’s for public health activities, analysis, treatment, providers rendered, or the merger or acquisition of a HIPAA-lined entity.
A few these positions include insurance claims adjuster, skilled coach for software program programs, manager or administrator of the well being informatics department, billing and coding technician informatics technician, database supervisor, and database administrator.
Technicians arrange and handle health data data by making certain its quality, accuracy, accessibility, and security. Well being data programs are essential for the hospitals and well being care establishments to make the billing processes, affected person scheduling and different processes efficient.
Health data techniques have deep implications at the level of security and ethics. The secondary … View More A To Z Record Of Medical Ailments, Disorders, Common Medical Conditions Defined
The medical trade has experienced overwhelming advances over the past 50 years, and now even additional steps are being taken to assist optimize patient care. And as more institutions are adopting electronic well being information, patients have easier entry to their own info so they can also perceive what is being executed to them. This repository of details about a single patient is generated by health care professionals as a direct result of interplay with a patient or with individuals who’ve personal data of the patient.
Whether or not in paper-based mostly data or an electronic well being record ( EHR ) system, PHI explains a affected person’s medical historical past, together with ailments, numerous treatments and outcomes. The primary patient document is the file that is used by health care professionals whereas offering affected person care companies to review patient data or document their own observations, actions, or directions.… View More A To Z List Of Medical Illnesses, Issues, Frequent Medical Conditions Explained
Well being information programs have deep implications on the level of security and ethics. These records would allow docs to not solely be capable to overview a affected person’s medical historical past, however would give them the power to interconnect with any laboratories or other hospitals that the affected person might have visited previously.
However they also work in quite a lot of different healthcare settings, together with workplace based doctor practices, nursing properties , dwelling well being companies , mental health facilities , and public health companies. The digital well being document has been frequently expressed as an evolvement of well being record-preserving.
Info expertise has made affected person care safer and more dependable than earlier than. With detailed well being records, the dangers of improper medicines can be averted and chances of medical errors can be lowered. As part of the affected person care course of, a HIS … View More A To Z Checklist Of Medical Illnesses, Disorders, Widespread Medical Conditions Explained
What’s well being data technology or HIT? As health information expertise (HIT) becomes extra prevalent, health information practitioners will continue to be essential components of the digital health file (EHR) workforce. Monitoring this kind of medical data throughout a patient’s life gives clinicians context to an individual’s health, which can help in remedy choices.
The association’s current identify is meant to cowl the wide range of areas which well being professionals work in as we speak. HIM is a really broad and profitable discipline for well being care professionals There are several career alternatives in Health Info Administration and many different conventional and non-conventional settings for an HIM professional to work inside.
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New college graduates might want to consider Boston as a potential launching pad for their career.
According to a new report by financial advice site Bankrate.com, Boston is the No. 6 best city for starting a successful career, thanks to its pay potential, opportunities for career advancement, and quality of life.
The personal finance website evaluated 100 U.S. cities based on several factors young people should consider when starting their careers, including job prospects, pay potential, quality of life, social opportunities and career advancement.
New York City took the No. 1 spot due to its high rankings for career advancement, pay potential, quality of life and the city’s social opportunities, followed by Los Angeles and San Francisco.
For individual rankings, Boston took the No. 3 spot for prospects of high pay, and placed No. 6 in terms of career advancement.
“Boston’s educated population and higher-than-average share of 20- to 29-year-olds mean new arrivals should find plenty of social opportunities,” Bankrate.com added.
Bankrate banking analyst, Claes Bell, CFA, said in a statement that job seekers most focused on quickly landing an entry-level position might disagree with the rankings, because early-career competition in Boston is stiff, but Bankrate wanted to paint an accurate picture of young workers’ overall quality of life.
“Although young grads will be faced with major competition for available jobs in these top cities, the opportunities for career growth and quality of life among peers far exceed what is offered in less competitive job markets,” Bell said.
The study analyzed 100 U.S. cities based on metro areas with populations of above 250,000 and per capita GDP levels of above $40,000.
The only area Boston did poorly in was its unemployment rate among 20- to 24-year-olds, which suggests it can be difficult for young people to find an entry-level position.
If you work in technology, however, finding a job shouldn’t be too hard for you since the demand for skilled tech workers has never been so dire.
This year Massachusetts ranked as the most difficult state in the country to hire tech workers, along with Maryland and Virginia, according to an index published by the Massachusetts High Technology Council, a trade group in Waltham.
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The Effects of Gx, Gy and Gz Forces on Cone Mesopic Vision
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The effects of Gx, Gy, and Gz acceleration forces on cone-type mesopic vision threshold values are examined. An experimental has been conducted on the Dynamic Environment Simulator, a three-axis human centrifuge, to reproduce an acceleration environment in a simulated night flight combat situation. Acceleration environments studied were levels of 1Gz, 1Gy, 1Gy, 1.4Gz, 2.0Gz, 3.0Gz, 2.0Gy in combination with 1Gz. A visual task was performed which determined 2050 visual acuity illumination threshold values. The gz environment is known to cause profound visual symptoms at relatively high levels. Physiological parameters recorded were PaO2, by ear oximetry, heart rate, and visual acuity threshold values. Results were zero means obtained by self pairing with 1Gz controls. Analysis was done by two tailed t-test. Results showed no significant shift if luminance threshold values at 1Gy or 1.4Gz significant increase in luminance threshold at the .05 level for 1Gx and significant increase in luminance threshold at the .01 level for 2.0Gz, 3.0Gz, and 2.0Gy in combination with 1Gz. Results will be discussed with respect to individual variation, daily variation, wearing of glasses, cardiovascular effects, effects of head movement, and pulmonary effects.
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Moji-ku is a ward of Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is the former city of Moji which was one of five cities merged to create Kitakyūshū in 1963. It faces the city of Shimonoseki across the Kanmon Straits between Honshū and Kyūshū.
Moji was first made into a port by Suematsu Kenchō with the financial backing of Shibusawa Eiichi in 1889. It was chiefly used for the transportation of coal, though there is a traditional song about the sale of bananas imported into Moji from Southeast Asia which survives to this day (Banana no tataki-uri). Moji was also the departure point for many troops in the Russo-Japanese War who were ferried across to Korea.
Lowry refers to the port in his novel Ultramarine when Norman is warning Dana about contracting venereal disease when he goes ashore in Tsjang Tsjang (Dairen); "Voyage before last, in Muji, it was, I picked up, the finest dose you ever saw, voyage before last in the Maharajah - she's lying in this port now" (Pg. 34) and again when the crew of Oedipus Tyrannus are talking about how Smithy contracted venereal disease in Moji; "got it in Muji he had, and never said damn all to anybody.." (Pg. 61).
There is no record that Lowry visited the port on his 1927 voyage to the Far East. Lowry was familiar with J. Johnston Abraham's The Surgeon's Log, which features a visit to the port where his ship takes on coal (Pgs. 122-144), which may have inspired him to feature the port in Ultramarine. Or Lowry may have known that Moji was a regular port of call for Blue Funnel ships to take on coal on trips to Japan. | <urn:uuid:eb9a5b6d-3ffb-4991-b671-9172b06724e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://guttedarcades.blogspot.com/2012/09/moji-japan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974574 | 404 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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A creative way to "deliver" an understanding of fractions! Seven games offer different levels for learning the values of: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/8, 1/10 and 1/12. Children practice identifying fractions, matching fraction equivalents and adding and subtracting fractions. Game includes 11 double-sided pizzas (one side is labeled with the fraction) with 59 individual slices, three double-sided spinners and game guide. For 2-6 players. | <urn:uuid:9dde56e6-bf09-40cf-ac1c-4350129f85ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.excellenceineducation.com/pizza-fraction-fun | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.826675 | 126 | 3.4375 | 3 |
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TapeBlocks are a creative and engaging tool that let anyone make circuits, including those with limited fine motor skills.
Using blocks, conductive tape and electronic components, including LEDs and vibration motors, the task becomes adaptable to different levels of experience and abilities.
TapeBlocks enable people who are blind and visually impaired to make circuits using vibration and sound output so they can feel and hear when they are successful. Those with motor disabilities make the most of the chunky blocks by pushing them together without requiring fine motor skills.
“TapeBlocks are the only circuit making activity that can cater to a range of different ability levels. By design, they are able to be connected together with minimal motor skills,” Monash Faculty of Information Technology (IT) academic Dr Kirsten Ellis said.
“If blocks are placed on a flat surface, circuits can be created by pushing them together using only the back of a hand, there is no other electronic kit that is this easy to connect. The blocks also provide accessible feedback to blind users and there are no hidden elements.”
TapeBlocks are discoverable to people with intellectual disabilities because they are error-tolerant and can be used with minimal instructions, providing instant feedback through the vibration and lights.
TapeBlocks challenge the way that circuits are traditionally made and therefore challenge those who are able to participate in and make these particular circuits.
"TapeBlocks is a fun, elegantly simple initiative that builds skills and understanding, speaking directly to our goals for Science Week in Victoria - we believe that science is for everyone, which means removing as many barriers as possible to participation, whether those be physical, cultural, economic or the sheer tyranny of distance," said Mike Flattley, CEO of the Royal Society of Victoria.
As part of National Science Week (15 - 23 August), Dr Ellis will be giving people who have traditionally been excluded from technology engagement activities the opportunity to independently participate in her online TapeBlocks workshops.
Expanding on the debut of TapeBlocks at last year’s National Science Week, the 2020 workshops will be conducted virtually, with kits and training materials being sent out to a wide range of local and regional disability support organisations.
To learn more about National Science Week and to register to the online TapeBlocks workshop, visit: https://www.scienceweek.net.au/
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The present work evaluates the toxic effects of some environmental stressors on fish eggs and larvae and describes the biomarker responses of fish from locations with varying levels of pollution. Development of the main groups of biomarkers is discussed. The book demonstrates general trends and specific peculiarities of biomarker induction in early fish life and their association with the animal’s developmental stages. It addresses responses of fish eggs and larvae to pollution under experimental conditions and presents information obtained from in situ studies.
Chapters describe xenobiotics accumulation, anoxia and hypoxia, increasing temperature, eutrophication, and other unfavorable environmental factors, including biotic and abiotic factors, and their impact on fish embryos. They also examine fluctuations in biomarker levels in fish eggs and larvae that have been impacted by climate changes and discuss possible scenarios, especially for fish population size, reproduction, growth, development and biodiversity.
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Introduction. Stress Response in Fish. Stressors. Physiological stress response. Cellular stress response. Biomarkers: Classification, Characterization and Specificity in Fish. Biotransformation system. Antioxidant system and lipid peroxidation. Stress proteins. Haemotological characteristics. Metabolic rate. Cholinesterases. Endocrine disruption. Other biomarkers. Development of Biomarkers in Fish Early Life. Biotransformation system. Lipid peroxidation and antioxidant system. Stress proteins. Biochemical parameters. Metabolic rate. Cholinesterases. Endocrinology of fish early development. Development of the immune system. Biomarkers Responses in Fish Early Life. Experimental studies. Field studies. Fish Biomarkers and Climate Changes. Eutrophication effects. Increasing water temperature. UV-irradiation effects. Conclusions and Perspectives. References. | <urn:uuid:4d79b175-9848-4c4a-91f3-2c980e933a6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.routledge.com/Biomarkers-for-Stress-in-Fish-Embryos-and-Larvae/Rudneva/p/book/9780367452186 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.868693 | 394 | 2.5625 | 3 |
A note on womans cardiovascular health problems
Received: 09-Nov-2021 Accepted Date: Nov 23, 2021; Published: 30-Nov-2021
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a serious health problem for women in Southeast Asia that is under-recognized. With the exception of Singapore, the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, physical inactivity, and being overweight or obese has increased dramatically among women in the region. The situation is exacerbated by a lack of understanding that CVD affects men and women, as well as misconceptions about the disease and a lack of appropriate, local materials health literature. National heart associations and other organisations have worked to raise heart health awareness and promote healthy lifestyles. Singapore began similar prevention efforts in the early 1990s and has seen a decrease in the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors. In accordance with the Non-communicable Disease Alliance, the governments of the region have begun adopting suitable preventative initiatives and upgrading health-delivery systems. However, before these programmes can be completely implemented and successful, psychological, social, and cultural barriers to women’s cardiovascular health awareness must be addressed. The most common cause of death in women is cardiovascular disease.
Historically, women have been under-appreciative of these dangers. There are significant disparities in the relative impact of risk factors, especially when it comes to the age of presentation. The female ‘gender advantage,’ which was once thought to be attributable to female sex hormones, has yet to be explained. The benefits of post-menopausal hormone replacement are likewise debatable. Risk can be lowered by rational risk-factor management, but there is still a disconnect between estimated risk and evidence of subclinical atherosclerosis, and a more proactive approach to risk reduction in women, in particular, may be necessary. The debate about the efficacy of statins in women is likely attributable to issues with meta-analyses rather than gender dimorphism.
Cardiac rehabilitation lowers cardiac risk, however women have been underrepresented in the programme, despite the fact that the benefits are same for both genders. Recent claims of “sex prejudice” in the treatment of cardiac disease draw attention to a more serious issue. Too little is understood about the biology of heart disease in women, or the causes for significant disparities in risk, prognosis, and treatment outcome—medical or surgical— between men and women. Half of the patient population could benefit from studies that are more focused on these issues. Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is frequently overlooked or misdiagnosed in women. As a result, many people who are at risk of negative outcomes are not given appropriate diagnostic, prevention, and/or treatment options. This under-recognition is due to sexspecific IHD pathophysiology, which varies from classic models based on data from men with flow-limiting CAD blockages.
Symptomatic women are less likely than males with similar symptoms to have obstructive CAD, and they are more likely to have coronary microvascular dysfunction, plaque erosion, and thrombus development. More widespread nonobstructive CAD involvement, hypertension, and diabetes are linked to significant adverse outcomes similar to those seen in obstructive CAD, according to new research. The concept of non-obstructive CAD as a source of IHD and accompanying un-favorable consequences in women is a key emerging paradigm. This position paper covers existing information and knowledge gaps, as well as management choices that may be useful until further evidence becomes available.
Due of the participation of the mother and the baby, research in pregnancy is difficult since it involves a specific ‘sensitive’ population. These difficulties, which come with researching pregnancy in both normal and pathologic phases, have contributed to the paucity of pregnancy research. Until recently, the majority of pregnancy researches were nonrandomized and retrospective, reflecting current clinical practice and professional biases. Prospective studies were usually limited to single centres, had small sample numbers, and were observational rather than randomised studies that involved therapy. Barriers to research in pregnancy in developed countries include ethical and legal issues, research mandates, patient factors, the protracted nature of pregnancy, institutional commitment to research, interdisciplinary research and clinical collaboration, funding support, administrative issues, and the level of involvement of national cardiac and obstetric and gynaecological societies. Even prospective observational studies are difficult to conduct due to the challenges of gaining consent, recruiting participants, and following up.
Women’s engagement in research has been hampered by misconceptions about it. Increased drop-out rates during pregnancy, as well as difficulty with follow-up in the post-partum state, have been caused by the longitudinal nature of prospective studies in pregnancy, problems associated with enrolling women before pregnancy and in the first trimester, and failure to understand the commitment required by the patient, as well as many social factors. Due to these issues, as well as a failure to supplement funding assistance due to lengthier study periods than planned, studies with limited sample numbers have been conducted. Understanding the reasons that lead to a patient’s refusal to participate in research or their withdrawal after initial consent should make research involvement more appealing to pregnant women. National societies’ involvement in multicenter study planning and funding, interdepartmental and interinstitutional collaboration, institutional and extramural funding support, and patient incentives are all critical for reducing study duration and ensuring adequate sample sizes for successful pregnancy research.
Multicenter collaboration for prospective studies is more possible in countries with national health service structures, such as those prevalent in Europe and Canada, than in nations with a fee-for-service system, such as the United States. Participation in prospective multicenter registries and the use of telemedicine and handheld ultrasound technologies could not only improve the clinical care of pregnant women in developing nations, but also provide a platform for research throughout pregnancy. Recently, multicenter and even global registries backed by European cardiac societies have emerged, bringing much-needed data on pathological conditions such peripartum cardiomyopathy and pregnancy in congenital heart disease. Such studies are generally limited to non-US countries, but they are increasingly attracting participation from developing nations. Pregnancy in connective tissue illnesses, older women, post-chemo radiation therapy or organ transplantation, and in the HIV condition are all areas where research is lacking. | <urn:uuid:0c6a136c-4f5b-4b01-9fea-b2265e48c4d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pulsus.com/scholarly-articles/a-note-on-womans-cardiovascular-health-problems-9481.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95295 | 1,395 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Low profile conveyors are typically used in 24/7 applications where unplanned downtime or maintenance is intolerable. But the most critical areas of these conveyors that draw maintenance attention are the belt and the pulley/bearing system. Speed, load, accumulation and inclined operation increase forces on these components, highlighting problem areas, such as belt tension.
Tool-less swing-up tail pulley permits one-minute belt exchange, while retaining tension setting. Calibrations on both sides permit rapid precise “balanced tension” where each increment represents the tension setting per foot of conveyor length.
Belt manufacturers universally cite correct belt tension and crowned pulleys as keys to long belt life and consistent slip-free performance with positive self-tracking. But whether over or under tensioned, incorrect belt tension can cause problems, including bearing overload, miss-tracking, belt slippage, and accelerated component deterioration.
Correct tension varies, but typically it will be 1 mm of belt stretch per foot of conveyor length. However, a belt is often a little longer or shorter than its stated size. To ensure correct tensioning, you can use the tail pulley to set tension. Once all belt slack is taken up, tension is set through a scale on each side of the conveyor, where each increment represents the tension setting per foot of conveyor length.
A crowned pulley with a correctly tensioned belt is the preferred way to automatically center the belt. Flat across the center, a crowned pulley produces dual lateral opposing belt forces that balance each other when the belt is centered over the crown. If the belt moves off center, these forces become unbalanced, resulting in the “higher force” side directing the belt back to its centered position. Crowned pulley systems also allow higher accelerations and speeds with much less belt and component wear.
Properly tensioned belts on crowned pulleys easily withstand moderate short-term lateral forces without major displacement from center. When side loads increase, a V-retainer on the underside of the belt can limit off-center drift. The V-shaped profile rides in a groove cut into the pulleys (which reduces pulley rigidity), and a groove running the length of the conveyor bed. This approach allows the crowned pulley to quickly center the belt when the external force is removed, minimizing wear on the V-retainer.
Belting manufacturers recommend that V-retainers not be the primary belt tracking system due to the high wear the V-profile incurs. An alternative is to use the V-retainer on the top edge surface of the belt and have it guided and constrained from the top down by a rolling Delrin® V-guide, located opposite the point where the belt experiences side forces.
Low profile conveyor pulleys normally range from 1- to 2-in. diameter, but this small range can produce differences in conveyor capacity and performance, as well as belt, cleat, and bearing life. Logic dictates that a smaller-diameter drive pulley will have a greater tendency to deflect as the conveyor width increases (a 1.25 in. pulley without a V-groove will deflect nearly five times more than a 1.86 in. pulley with the same load). This creates an inherent “traction” disadvantage for load carrying, and can negate the belt-centering capability of the pulley. In applications that involve reversing, wider conveyors, accumulating or inclined operation, this disadvantage can be problematic. Flexing a belt over a smaller diameter also accelerates belt breakdown.
When scaled up in width, conveyors with small-diameter pulleys often cannot carry proportionally greater loads. For example, a conveyor with a pulley diameter of approximately 2 in., with a correctly tensioned belt, will carry twice the load at 24-in. width than it does at a 12-in. width. This rule of thumb does not hold as pulley diameters approach the 1.25-in. range.
As pulley width increases, a 1.25 in. diameter pulley will deflect nearly five times more than a 1.86 in. diameter pulley, and this effect is compounded when the pulley is weakened with a V-groove.
Smaller pulley diameters are limited in producing the proper belt tension needed for automatic centering with a crowned pulley. The resulting loss of “traction” and self-centering are sometimes compensated for by lagging or knurling the pulley, and substituting a longitudinal V-retainer, rather than a crowned pulley, for belt centering. Because the pulley must now have a V-groove in its center, as well as being knurled, its rigidity is further compromised. Knurled pulleys tend to abrade the belt underside and resist tracking, which reduces belt life. Impacted debris in the pulley knurl, or worn knurling, can lead to belt slippage and miss-tracking, as well as accelerated belt, V-retainer and pulley knurl wear. Abrasion can occur without any load on the conveyor, and increases with belt speed.
Bearing life is also affected by pulley diameter. A 1 in. pulley must run at twice the speed of a 2 in. diameter pulley to produce an identical belt speed. Small pulley diameters can result in smaller bearings with lower load capacity running at higher speeds, reducing service life. Ensuring that the bearing outer race cannot rotate in the bearing plate housing can improve bearing performance and avoid the need to replace worn bearing housings.
If a conveyor is used for multiple applications that can be run at lower speeds, a variable speed drive may be desirable. It reduces wear and power consumption, and provides optimum speed for each application.
Information was provided by Charles Mitchell, President, Conveyor Technologies Ltd.
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Monkey World: Summer Challenge Activities
Holiday fun at Monkey World
The challenge kicks off with not one but two activities to complete at the park! Kids can learn about our wonderful woolly monkeys with their fact sheet, create a woolly tail inspired door hanger, and even make fun feeders for the residents! As well as all the woolly wonders, kids can take part in Primate I-Spy. There’s so much to see at the park- can your eagle-eyed little ones spot them all?!
For just £2.50, kids can sign up to the challenge which runs until October. Each challenger will receive a beautiful card to fill with the challenge stickers, and a Monkey World pencil. There are a huge list of fun challenges and activities to complete at the park, and those who manage to complete 5 over the summer period will receive a certificate and be entered into a prize draw! See the website for the full list of challenge dates, and purchase the challenge at the adoption centre at the park.
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In many countries, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in restricted hospital visiting by relatives.
Staff have been forced to deliver unwelcome and bad news over the telephone. There are few training resources around how to do this. We created a bespoke training package consisting of a 15 min eLearning session and a 1-hour facilitated role-play session. Two simulated telephone calls to a professional actor posing as the relative were undertaken on a speakerphone. Following each simulated call, the actor gave feedback to the caller, focusing on the likely experience of a relative during these conversations. Elements specific to telephone conversations included ensuring the safety of the recipient to take the call (eg, not driving a car), ensuring they had adequate local support, and allowing a deliberate silence after delivering the bad news. Silence has a powerful impact, despite being uncomfortable. The opportunity to have written notes before calling and to offer a return call was seen as an opportunity for improving communication. We collated these experiences into a series of phrases found most useful and empathic by the actor and participants. A practical aide- mémoir was created from this learning that could be used to help deliver bad news quickly in the emergency department.
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Introduction and background
The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many challenges to the emergency medicine (EM) community around the world. To reduce the spread of COVID-19, many hospitals restricted visiting.1–3 Having difficult conversations over the telephone in time-critical situations has been an unexpected consequence and a challenge of the pandemic.4 Staff in emergency departments (EDs) may have to gather information from relatives, if the patient is unable to give the full information, while breaking difficult news of their current (critically ill) condition. Breaking bad news (BBN) is traditionally encouraged as an in-person conversation to optimise communication (such as body language, eye contact and touch).1–3 However, during COVID-19, this has had to be modified. BBN in person, let alone via telephone, is a challenging task. Within the ED, there is the added pressure of doing this with patients and their relatives when the physician has only known the patient for a short period of time or not at all. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine in the UK acknowledges and states that BBN is an important skill for healthcare professionals who work in the ED.5
There is limited research in delivering bad news from the ED over the telephone. Models such as SPIKES,6 BREAKS7 and Kayes8 (figure 1) are rooted in the oncology or palliative care setting.6 Here there is often time to build rapport (through regular clinic visits) and deliver bad news in a quiet, unhurried setting. SPIKES is a six-step approach first described in 2000, having been created to assist oncologists with a structure for BBN.6 In 2010, the BREAKS protocol for generic BBN was developed7 with the Kayes 10-step model being developed in palliative care in 1996.8 These models offer a reminder of important concepts that need to be considered for BBN, but these are focused on the face-to-face setting. Undoubtedly, these core concepts apply to everyday EM practice in relation to BBN. However, these models were not set up for the acute setting. Evidence does suggest that BBN is challenging in the ED, with physicians and those they speak to not always understanding or agreeing on what was said.9
Existing training resources usually recommend delivering unwelcome news face-to-face in a planned environment. Reisman and Brown2 offered scenarios around how a telephone barrier can make communication difficult and miscommunication more likely. Their case-based paper does highlight that telephone conversations are challenging and require a different set of skills. Collini et al recognise that training for difficult conversations and BBN is an important skill needed in the ED1 and describe their telephone simulation project. This concept paper will share how our telephone simulation training project has helped us understand best practices for delivering these challenging conversations in the ED and allowed us to form an aide memoir for practical use.
We developed a bespoke training package aiming to provide practice for staff on having difficult conversations over the telephone. This pilot project was set in Leicester Royal Infirmary, ED in the UK, a tertiary university teaching hospital serving a population of 1.1 million people, with approximately 240 000 annual patient attendances. The project was advertised to doctors and nurses working in the ED through departmental email and social media. For this pilot, we aimed for approximately 10% of staff to attend in the first instance.
The training package comprised two elements: a presession eLearning package followed by a 1-hour facilitated role-play session using trained actors for two simulated calls. The eLearning package (on Google Forms LLC) was created using information from existing ‘delivering bad news’ resources, experiences of senior ED staff and with advice for obtaining information in stressful circumstances from a Leicestershire Police call-handling trainer. The eLearning was reviewed and revised by three experienced EM consultants with input from specialist palliative care nurses.
The role-play session (online supplemental material 1) involved creating a typical COVID-19 scenario (box 1) based on the types of cases we were seeing in early to mid-2020. Using a small group of senior ED clinicians, We iteratively tested the scenario over one afternoon session with a small group of senior ED clinicians and actors who provided feedback about the scenario to ensure it was realistic from the perspectives of both the clinician and the relative. Following this feedback, the scenario was modified; evaluation and reflection forms were changed; and the session running times were adjusted. We sought to minimise patient-facing time away from the ED to maximise attendance. This resulted in a 1-hour training session with staff allocated to attend in advance of their shift.
A 42-year-old patient, Jamie Smith, is critically unwell and has been ‘red called’ into the emergency room. Paramedics handover that he has asthma. There are no relatives with the patient. There is no information on the hospital system as they don’t live locally and are visiting family. The man looks severely breathless. Prehospital oxygen saturations were 80% on air. It is suspected he has COVID-19. Non-invasive ventilation (CPAP (Continous Positive Airway Pressure) is commenced. There is no improvement.
One hour later, Jamie has a cardiac arrest and dies.
Following this, the pilot programme was rolled out over a 6-week period. Learners were intially invited to attend sessions through advertising via email and local social media groups. If there were spaces left on the day, learners were then allocated to sessions. Each group included one actor via telephone, with typically eight learners, two of whom would act as call-makers, with the remainder as active observers. Active observers were encouraged during the calls to reflect on phraseology, tone of voice, pacing and structure that they might use in their future practice, and to share this learning in a group discussion after the call. The script required critical information to be exchanged: scenario 1 conveying grave and uncertain prognosis and scenario 2 delivering news of the patient’s death (online supplemental material 1). The actor gave feedback to the call-maker, reflecting on their experience as a ‘relative’ during these conversations. The actor’s feedback was unscripted and did not follow a set pattern; it primarily covered positive aspects, with suggestions for improvement and any points of clarification. The facilitator used the actor’s feedback to encourage discussion and learning among the group. Feedback was written down and available for participants to take away and reflect on. All forms including actor’s feedback, participant’s reflections and evaluation forms were collected (examples in online supplemental material 1). The data were reviewed looking for useful phrases and structures that could be used in clinical practice.
A total of 61 members of staff (10% of the total ED staff) were trained between May and June 2020, with slightly more doctors (35) than nurses (25) and a medical secretary. We analysed the data from these initial pilot sessions to help understand what learning there was and what could potentially be used in clinical practice. Two of the authors (SE and LK) reviewed observers’ written reflections and suggestions for improvement, actor’s feedback and the evaluation forms.
What did we learn?
Preparations for these conversations is crucial. Like face-to-face conversations, the physician should be sure to have the correct patient notes and find a quiet, private space in which to make the phone call. Mental rehearsal for the call ahead is a useful practice. An advantage of the telephone calls over a face-to-face conversation, participants noted, is the ability for the physician write down a plan for the key points to cover within the call.
One essential aspect of telephone calls the actors emphasised is the need to check if it is a safe time to talk. With most people using mobiles, there are many anecdotal stories of patients having bad news being broken while driving, shopping and at the gym. All BBN teaching emphasises the need for language and tone to be sympathetic and empathic.1 6 7 10 11 In face-to-face conversations, the physician can use body language or offer tissues or a cup of tea, but with telephone calls, tone and language are the only thing one has.
Understanding what relatives know of the patient’s situation can help to sign post how you approach the next aspect of the call. The actors found it useful for helping to build rapport with someone they had not met as it felt as if the clinician was really trying to understand what was going on. These questions can also provide insight in to the relative’s emotional state.10 11
BBN recommendations all suggest that the physician deliver a ‘warning shot’, which allows the receiver of the news to be prepared.4 6 7 10–13 The ‘relatives’ found this even more important over the telephone. They recommended keeping it simple and not going into too much detail at first. For example, after introductions and checking that the person is in a safe place to talk, the person delivering the news should say something like ‘I’m really sorry but the news I have for you is bad. Sadly, a short time ago Jamie died’. Surprisingly, repeated feedback from the relatives was the need to get to the point of death quickly, after an appropriate warning shot. Going into details of what happened, and then finally saying the person died made the relatives feel as if they were being given false hope.
Giving space and silence after delivering the initial information to the relative gives them time to take it in and digest it. Silence is known to be crucial when news such as this is given.1 6–8 10 11 While on the telephone, everyone making the call found the silence uncomfortable. However, from the ‘relative’s perspective’, it was felt to be a great comfort.
Not all information needs to be given on the first call. As in the face-to-face setting, information such as bereavement services can be discussed later. Offering to call back and check in or call another family member was found to be a useful tool to ensure the well-being of the relative receiving news of a death over the phone. One key point is to ensure that if you say you are going to ring back, this needs to happen.
BBN, especially saying someone has died, be it on the phone or in person, is undeniably an emotionally challenging situation.1 4 13 14 Allowing the person who has made the call to have time to reflect after may reduce the risk of them overwhelmed by the task. Telling someone that their relative has died is probably one of the most difficult tasks healthcare professionals undertake.6 7 10 11
Additional points from the actor feedback included avoiding medical jargon, speaking slowly and using unambiguous terminology, avoiding overoptimism.
Moving forward and conclusion
Some of the themes that emerged from these trainings are similar to those raised in face-to-face conservations. Elements specific to telephone conversations included ensuring the safety of the recipient to take the call, that is, not driving a car, and ensuring they had adequate local support. Then after delivering the news, allowing a deliberate silence. This has a powerful impact, despite being uncomfortable. Not everything has to happen in one conversation. While it may seem more imperative to do everything in a single phone call, it may be preferable to handle the situation in the same way as when a relative is present in the ED. The recipient of bad news can be allowed time to digest a small amount of information, and then spoken to again after a short period, when they may have some questions and be ready to take on board the next steps (eg, hospital processes post death).
Our aide memoir (box 2 and online supplemental material 1) could help any caller think about what they need to do for a BBN. This training is now incorporated as a standard part of our induction period for new doctors to our ED.15 To help staff even further, we have combined this learning into a flash card to carry around (online supplemental material 1). Some of the key empathetict phrases from both observers and actors that could be used are in Box 3. Further work is being undertaken to look at the longer-term impact of this training. Anecdotally and from feedback received, overall confidence has improved.
An example of a structure to approach delivering news that a relative has died/is critically unwell over the telephone in the emergency department
Gather notes, review previous conversations.
Rehearse explanations and language.
For telephone conversations, you can keep notes in front of you.
Your language and tone are all that is available on the telephone—plan ahead to get them right.
Tell the team what you are doing.
Consider taking someone with you.
Are you in a quiet place where there is minimal chance of being disturbed?
Is the person on the end of the phone safe to talk? (not driving, at the gym, etc)
Are you speaking to the person you think you are, and is that the right person to talk to about this patient?
Are you the right person to have this conversation?
Check knowledge of events.
Try not to draw out delivery of unwelcome news.
Use unambiguous language that is less likely to be misinterpreted.
Space and silence
Allow some silence, with time and space for questions and emotions.
Remember it is much more difficult to take in information over the telephone, and you only have your voice and words to get your message across, so take your time!
Consider offering a call back if the person is unable to take things in.
Explain what will happen next.
Avoid too much detail if you have passed on news of death or other unwelcome news—no one is able to take in lots of information when they have received bad news.
Provide important numbers/information.
Plan a second conversation (potentially with a different person) if required.
Reiterate important information and the plan.
Provide contact details for further discussions.
These conversations can sometimes be stressful and emotional for you and the other person. Do not be afraid to ask for a few moments to find the right words or even to arrange for someone else to call back if it is not proceeding as you planned.
Are YOU ok?
Do YOU need some time out or an opportunity to debrief?
Empathetic phrases from both observers and actors
‘Are you safe to talk or would you like me to call back in a few minutes?’
‘I need to give you some difficult news, would you like to call someone to be with you?’
‘He is extremely unwell, I’m worried that this could be life-threatening’.
‘He is unwell enough that he could die’.
‘I’m so sorry but unfortunately….died a few minutes ago’.
‘I’ll give you some time to take this all in, I’ll be right here on the end of the phone with you’.
‘I’m sorry we had to do this over the telephone’.
‘You don’t need to do anything right away’.
‘We’ll take you through what happens next’.
‘Is there anyone else you’d like me to call?’
‘I’ll call again in 30 minutes to give you a bit of time to let all this sink in’.
Delivering unwelcome news over the telephone has been a consequence and challenge of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Moving into the future, it is likely this form of BBN will need to continue. The skill of communicating over the telephone is useful to staff working in EM and can be enhanced by focused training .
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Contributors All authors have been involved in setting up and delivering this training. SE and LK wrote the paper. LS, FD and AM have helped to edit the paper.
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Donning hats and gloves on a chilly Saturday morning, more than 200 GW students joined other college volunteers to help a D.C. shelter in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The students, led by project coordinators, visited a service center run by the Center for Creative Non-Violence, a non-profit organization that houses, feeds and cares for up to 2,500 poor and homeless people daily. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service is celebrated at various times around the civil rights leader’s holiday every year in D.C. and nationwide. GW participation was coordinated by the Office of Community Service, which participates in the day of service every January.
Several of the volunteers prepared and cooked meals for the D.C. Central Kitchen, a food bank run in the non-violence center. Others painted doors and washed walls in the living areas for poor and homeless in the center.
More than 70 women were staying at the shelter’s designated female-only floor. There is also a men’s floor, but students were told not to disturb those staying at the center. Living quarters range from private rooms to large spaces with cubicle-style dividers for living spaces.
Mike Tapscott, director of GW’s Multicultural Student Services, gave a presentation about what the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service means to the community. Tapscott paralleled the civil rights leader’s mission with the students’ work at the center.
“King established values and principles to the community of the world … One of the principles I’ve taken from him is being thankful,” Tapscott said. “Students who don’t share in these experiences (of community service) will leave GW unprepared.”
For some, community service is more than just the physical work. Freshman Kyle Boyer said he appreciates the friendships gained through service.
“I like that community service allows you to meet and interact with people that you cannot find on campus and it helps you realize that no matter where we come from we all share things in common,” Boyer said.
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“I feel like not enough people give back at GW,” she said. Jumpstart is a service program at GW in which students tutor D.C. children; work-study students are paid for participating.
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The president of the Humane Society of the United States canvassed in Portland on Sunday to encourage “yes” votes on Question 1 on November’s ballot — the referendum to ban the use of bait, traps and hounds to hunt black bear in Maine.
Wayne Pacelle is a veteran of anti-baiting campaigns. He led successful efforts to ban the use of bait and dogs in hunting of bears, cougars and bobcats in Colorado in 1992, Massachusetts in 1996, Oregon in 1994 and Washington in 1996, according to the humane society.
In 2004, however, the same year Pacelle became president of the humane society, Mainers rejected an identical anti-baiting ballot measure, 53 percent to 47 percent.
His visit to Portland on Sunday indicates strong national attention to the latest referendum and Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting, the statewide group advocating to eliminate bear baiting in Maine. The group is almost entirely funded by the Humane Society of the United States, which is based in Washington, D.C.
On Sunday, after meeting with Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting, Pacelle and a handful of volunteers walked from door to door in a Portland neighborhood, handing out fliers and talking to residents about their opinions on baiting.
Those who oppose the anti-baiting ballot measure say that the choice of location for the endeavor is questionable. That Pacelle and Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting chose Portland, the state’s largest city, to walk door-to-door, shows how “out of touch” they are, said David Trahan, executive director of the Sportman’s Alliance of Maine, one of the leading groups in opposition to the referendum.
“They choose the one place in Maine where there is virtually no bear hunting,” Trahan said. “He needs to travel inland for four, five, six hours into the very remote areas of the state where bear populations exist … To me, it’s just symbolic of their side of the campaign.”
Still, the majority of the residents Pacelle spoke with on Sunday supported ending bear baiting in Maine.
“What we’re really doing is saying there’s a right way to bear hunt and there’s a wrong way,” Pacelle said. “This is not about stopping bear hunting. It’s about making bear hunting more fair, more responsible, more humane.”
That sentiment echoed the message relayed on the fliers handed out on Sunday. The flier’s front read “Hunting is a Maine tradition. Cruelty is not.”
“I understand that hunting is a tradition,” said Connie McCabe of Harpswell, a volunteer for Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting. “It’s a part of growing up here in Maine. And I’m certainly not saying that’s something that should go away, but cruelty is just not necessary.”
McCabe was paired with fellow volunteer Lisa Smith of Falmouth, who said she’s concerned the practice of bear baiting is inflating the black bear population.
Maine’s black bear population is increasing. State biologists estimate it has risen approximately 30 percent in the past 10 years, but they attribute this increase to other factors, such as habitat gain and bear hunters not reaching harvest goals.
Another concern of Maine hunters is that if this referendum passes, it will lead to further restrictions on hunting practices in the state.
“It’s not about bears; it’s about hunting. Next they’ll want to stop hunting birds with dogs,” said John Schmidt, bear hunting guide and owner of Bear Creek Lodge in Island Falls. “And it’s not just about hunting. It’s about getting rid of people’s guns. That’s the bottom line.”
Pacelle said his group’s only interest is bears and not other hunts, such as deer or moose.
“I really want to assure hunters in Maine that we are not going to be seeking additional restrictions on hunting — not on bear hunting or other forms of hunting,” Pacelle said. “We recognize and accept Maine’s tradition of deer hunting and moose hunting.”
Pacelle, however, is often described by the media as “anti-hunting” and was quoted by the Associated Press in 1991 as saying, “If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.” He said this portrayal is an exaggeration.
“I think what we’ve seen is fabrication of quotes from me that someone puts on the Internet, and then somebody else sees and considers it gospel,” Pacelle said in response to the notion he is against all hunting. “Or they take comments completely out of context — and we’re talking about comments that are 25 to 30 years old to begin with.”
But Trahan says that the Pacelle’s stance is clear.
“For his entire lifetime, Mr. Pacelle has been dedicated to anti-hunting,” said Trahan. “So I was particularly surprised in his comments trying to say he doesn’t oppose hunting.”
In addition, HSUS has long been open about their anti-hunting stance, Trahan said, pointing to the organization’s statement on wild animals, which is posted on the HSUS website under “Our Policies.”
“As a matter of principle,” the statement reads. “The HSUS opposes the hunting of any living creature for fun, trophy, or sport because of the animal trauma, suffering, and death that result. A humane society should not condone the killing of any sentient creature in the name of sport.”
The last time Maine voted on bear baiting, in 2004, the practice was upheld by a 45,000-vote margin. Pacelle called the result a “very close vote,” even though anti-baiting advocates were significantly outspent during the campaign.
During the most recent financial reporting period — May 28 to July 15 — Pacelle’s organization has contributed more than $780,000 in cash to the campaign, which is 99 percent of all cash contributions to Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting during that time, according to the Maine Commission of Governmental Ethics and Election Practices.
By comparison, seven committees established to preserve Maine’s bear hunt and defeat Question 1 in November raised approximately $250,000 in cash in the same reporting period.
These committees include Friends of Maine Sportsmen, Maine Trappers BQC, U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance and Maine Wildlife Conservation Council BQC. Together, these groups have raised more than $1 million in cash to oppose Question 1 so far this year.
Spokespersons for those organizations were not immediately available Sunday.
Pacelle said his organization is more prepared for the campaign than it was in 2004.
“This time, we have seen some of the dirty tricks already, and I think we’ll be ready for them,” Pacelle said.
Trahan however takes issue with the mention of “dirty tricks,” which he says comes from only from those who support the referendum.
“The only dirty tricks they’ve seen come from their side,” said Trahan, referring to HSUS hiring PCI, a Los Angeles-based consulting firm that specializes in petition management, to gather signatures to put the question on the November statewide ballot.
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GP out-of-hours surgeries to be 'exempt from abortions'
Women will not be able to secure a medical abortion from GP out-of-hours surgeries, the Irish Independent has learned.
The GP service, which provides medical cover from 6pm to 8am, has become the first port of call for an increasing number of patients due to a shortage of doctors.
Dr Ken Egan, chairman of the National Association of GP Co-ops, said a woman seeking an abortion would not be classified as an emergency which is the service out-of-hours doctors provide.
However, he said they will treat women who have had an abortion and develop complications.
“We wrote to the Irish College of General Practitioners and it was accepted that out-of-hours would be exempt,” he said.
The revelation comes as Health Minister Simon Harris insisted the health service will be ready to roll out abortion services from January despite several GPs and obstetricians warning it is too rushed, leaving women at risk of ending with an unsafe terminations.
He is to hold meetings with medical bodies next week in a bid to alleviate concerns.
A spokeswoman for the minister said: “It remains the minister’s absolute commitment to bring in services in January. As referenced by adviser Dr Peter Boylan, delays would result in more women having to travel.”
He accepted doctors are raising genuine concerns and is committed to working with them to address the issues.
“But his commitment will not waiver,” she said.
The Institute of Obstetricians confirmed yesterday it has received a signed petition from a large number of obstetricians to hold an extraordinary general meeting.
It will not take place for a month after they submit a motion related to implementation of the service, including issues of safety.
An internal poll of 230 family doctors, carried out by the GP Buddy.ie, the online resource for GPs in Ireland, found that 84pc felt the January 1 deadline should be pushed out.
Although most of the focus has been on GPs up to now, it has emerged many doctors in maternity hospitals, particularly those outside of Dublin, feel they are lacking resources and staff to deliver the service from January.
Niall Behan, chief executive of the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), which will be one of the main centres for medical abortion, said: “The IFPA is committed to providing abortion care at our clinics as soon as possible.
“We’re working constantly on care protocols, internal training, patient information and procedures.
“The target of January 1 creates enormous challenges because there are still a number of outstanding issues.
“The IFPA is working with the Department of Health and the HSE to resolve these.
“It is absolutely imperative women get high-quality care. This has to be done right, not rushed.”
Alison Begas, of the Dublin Well Woman Centre, which will also be a major provider, said it was not possible to commit to a start-up date now.
But she was hopeful outstanding issues can be resolved, including concerns over access to ultrasound.
“There needs to be quick and easy access to ultrasound and a central booking system,” she said.
Retired obstetrician Dr Boylan, who is advising on preparation, said he believes the service can start in January.
The legislation returns to the Seanad for debate next week.
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America’s museum of record is ready to take beer history seriously. The Smithsonian recently hired its first beer scholar to run the new Brewing History Initiative chronicling the history of American brewing.
The groundbreaking new job belongs to Theresa McCulla. It entails keeping track of current trends in the industry and telling the cultural story of “the role beer has played — and continues to play — in American history,” according to a story in Smithsonian Magazine. In short, its a job that just made every beer lover have deep seated jealousy for McCulla.
“If you look at the history of beer, you can understand stories related to immigration and industrialization and urbanization,” McCulla told Smithsonian Magazine. “You can look at advertising and the history of consumer culture and changing consumer taste. Brewing is integrated into all facets of American history.”
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Xu Zhong: China Should Not Rush to Revamp Local Debt
There are several significant features of China’s current economy: an economic transformation under the pressure of high leverage, a lack of effective demand caused by a one-size-fits-all deleveraging campaign, and slowing growth in total factor productivity (TFP) (Editor’s note: TFP is a measure of economic efficiency).
An economic transformation under high leverage requires a low-interest-rate policy, which can reduce the debt burden on businesses and their financing costs. Such a policy can help stimulate corporate investments and increase the return on investments, yet can also encourage companies to borrow more. Thus, only when the return of capital grows amid low interest rates, can a drop in the leverage ratio become possible.
Given that the lack of effective demand caused by a one-size-fits-all deleveraging campaign has become a major problem for China’s economy, I’d like to put forward some suggestions.
China needs to focus on the quality and efficiency of its investments. Based on our preliminary calculations, TFP growth has been steadily slowing since 2008 and remained relatively weak in recent years. The most significant cause is the decline in both investment efficiency and the growth in investment-specific technological progress. The underlying reason may be that government spending and property investments have crowded out investments by other sectors, especially those by manufacturing enterprises.
For the past few years, the proportion of investment in China’s macro-economy has gradually declined, while the proportion of consumption has steadily risen. However, investments, especially high-quality ones, still play a notable role in stabilizing short-run economic fluctuations. A decline in the proportion of investment may not be equal to a decline in the value of investment. In the context of advancing high-quality growth, quality investments and technological advancement are more important.
Last year, top policymakers at a Politburo meeting stated that “the current economic operation is stable with some changes,” indicating that downward pressure on economic growth had increased markedly. “Stabilizing investment” has since become a key measure. In this regard, China needs to balance the goals of short-term demand and medium- to long-term structural reform. The link between the two goals is effective investment management, especially when dealing with infrastructure investment and local government debt.
Since last year, China’s local government debt has been tightened too quickly, and growth in infrastructure investment has slowed. In fact, the risks of local government debt are controllable. China should instead be wary of the new risks posed by the process of handling risks. The core issue of the sustainability of local debt lies in net assets rather than in the scale of debt. Local governments have gained a large number of quality assets on the back of debts. Some quality assets can cover their corresponding debts, yet governments currently lack the channels to cash these assets. If China rushes to revamp local government debt, the prices of these assets would be under great downward pressure. Therefore, China should refrain from taking a one-size-fits-all approach to dealing with local debt, and allow qualified local governments in need of capital to raise debt in a market-oriented way.
In addition, China has long had the problem of soft budget constraints. It’s easier for governments and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to obtain capital, but the efficiency and quality of their investments are relatively low, thus making insufficient contributions to TFP growth. The more capital governments and SOEs obtain, the less other sectors get and are able to invest, which lowers the efficiency and quality of investment of the entire society. Moreover, the high debt of local governments and SOEs are the main cause for the high leverage ratio of the whole country. Strengthening the budget constraints of governments and SOEs will improve the efficiency and quality of investments, and reduce the leverage ratio of the whole society.
Another major reason why TFP growth is slowing is the country’s declining demographic dividend. However, its influence will be greater in the long term, but limited in the short term.
Now China should properly understand the new economic situation. Both growth in the M2 (Editor’s note: M2 is a broad measurement of money supply) and the scale of total social financing will slow down as growth in potential output and the TFP slows. China should adapt to these changes, relying more on price adjustments to foster quality economic growth and to improve innovation capabilities. In the medium- to long-term, China’s economic development needs to focus more on the quality of investment rather than the quantity, and will moreover be affected by slowing technological advancement, an aging population, and external environment fluctuations. Economic growth will gradually slow and tend to stabilize.
China should also reform its financial system to adapt to a new growth model. In the long run, financial institutions should gradually shift their focus to new fields, including green development, 5G technology, education, health care and elder care services, away from SOEs, infrastructure and property investment.
Xu Zhong is director-general of the research bureau of the People’s Bank of China. This article is a translated excerpt of a speech that Xu delivered at a forum in Beijing on Jan. 12.
Translated by Liu Jiefei (firstname.lastname@example.org)
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Asking youth to follow traffic rules, Gadkari said, "Our biggest problem is we don't have respect or fear for traffic rules. People are not bothered about following rules, which results in road accident deaths."
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Communication is a moving target. We have a choice in how we present information to others, and a soft-start up vs. yelling can change the response we receive. Depending on how our day went, and/or our past experiences, we can also easily become triggered by something our partner says--even if they say it in a kind way.
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We have been leaders in organic movement which we helped initiate nearly 50 years ago. Indeed, from day one we have farmed organically. We also welcomed with open arms the “Local Foods” movement. We were initiators of multiple farmers’ markets in the 1970’s when these local venues were coming back on the scene after decades of absence. We were early supporters of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 which finally defined “organic”. We have certificates back to 1990. One of the hallmarks of the National Organic Program was the requirement for farms to be verified independently on an annual basis. There’s also an alternative system aimed at the same discerning consumer called Certified Naturally Grown. This doesn’t have near the rigor of the NOP. Some growers say “we grow with organic methods”. There’s no proof this is so, nor any way to know if those growers even know what organic is (much less the fact it’s illegal to call something organic without having been inspected through the NOP).
Over a period of decades now, we have all seen a shift. Not only do consumers want food which is organic and local, they are willing to go out of their way to get it and even pay more for the cost of its production.
This has attracted an army of wannabes. Many formerly “commercial” growers, have tweaked their growing practices to qualify as organic. This is generally a good thing, but over time many of the key organic practices have been diluted to allow huge corporations to benefit (putting smaller producers out of business) while largely continuing the spirit of their prior practice. As organics gained economic ground, the larger scale portion of the industry took over writing the rules, creating a kind of “big” and “small” organic. Organic milk and eggs in most grocery stores are familiar examples. But produce is not exempt.
Since consumers have been willing to pay more for organic foods, we’ve seen many, including grocers, who were more than willing to take your whole paycheck. But we’ve always attempted to make our organically grown food available to all in the Pittsburgh region, gifting to foodbank and any family who can't afford our organic foods.
What does this have to do with our CSA program? We were practically alone as organic or even sustainable growers in Pittsburgh 40 years ago. Now, there are any number of other options in the market. We would think you know where the others stand on many key environmental issues. Read between the lines. There are a number of CSA which are conventionally grown, or feature “naturally grown” produce. Others are really an amalgamation of crops grown by a large number of growers. Though some of those growers might be organic, many are not.
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Forming community resources as a first line of survival support for families impacted by internal migration, especially women and girls is an essential part of CM’s work. With a network of over 100 women formed as community resources, the impact is not only visible on a daily basis, but also in moments of social and environmental crisis.
CM’s leaders were first responders and organizers in times of serious upheaval when Hurricane Odile destroyed southern Baja California Peninsula; prioritizing protection of lives and the human rights of the people involved, including sexual and reproductive rights. Community leadership by the women formed by Centro Mujeres was also unequivocally demonstrated when confronting an epidemic of rape and other expressions of violence against women in a huge area where disenfranchised neighborhoods converge, and when a community suffered the consequences of a prolonged drought.
Sharing similar experiences – woman to woman—is a powerful way to build trust and facilitate learning. This is the core of program Promesa. This community leadership program in women’s reproductive health and human rights was developed to provide support and advocacy from within the community to women who reside in marginalized environments. This includes migrant women living in rural ranches, as well as poorer women living in La Paz and Los Cabos counties. Centro Mujeres provides intensive training to local women and in turn, they serve as a resource and advocate for their community.
This program delivers real impact on both a micro and macro level.
In addition to serving as an health and rights advocate for women in crisis, Promesa leaders in Los Cabos have also had important achievements in their community such as negotiating with the county to install street lamps to increase security, and with the state health department to increase local clinic hours in order to include basic health prevention programs like pap smears, and vaccinations.
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I am beginning a new series where I share some words that I believe would significantly enrich your vocabulary if used. Some of these words may be familiar but I believe that the knowledge of other ways of applying them would add value. Here at EnglishXP the objective is not only to improve your Engllish but to make your sound smarter in the process. Without further ado, here are today’s words.
- legerdemain [ˌlɛdʒədɪˈmeɪn] – noun
Meaning: skilful use of one’s hands when performing conjuring tricks.
Usage: He employed such legerdemain that it is nearly impossible to believe he is performing magic
- usurper [juːˈzəːpə, juːˈsəːpə]
Meaning: a person who takes a position of power or importance illegally or by force.
Usage: Prince Michael, the usurper of the throne has shown himself to be a compassionate king, defying initial opinion.
- seep [siːp] -verb
Meaning: (of a liquid) flow or leak slowly through porous material or small holes.
Usage: Due to the shoddy workmanship, water has been seeping through the foundation and has compromised the school building.
- western [ˈwɛst(ə)n] -noun
Meaning: a film, television drama, or novel about cowboys in western North America, set especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Usage: I live westerns, my favourite is the good the bad and the ugly
- finagle [fɪˈneɪɡ(ə)l] – verb
Meaning: obtain by dishonest or devious means.
usage: paul did his best to finagle his way to a job he knew nothing about, now he regrets it!
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Tobacco use remains the #1 preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and worldwide. Overall, cigarette smoking among U.S. adults (aged ≥18 years) declined from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 15.5 percent in 2016. Still nearly 38 million American adults smoked cigarettes in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Smoking remains the leading cause of cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). National efforts have included tobacco taxes and smoking bans which have both proven effective. More recently, the prescribing of apps for cessation has been utilized and shown to be effective. We recently reviewed and praised the outstanding QuitMedKit from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The app includes nearly everything the primary provider would want to have to aid patients in tobacco cessation: the 5A’s approach, information on medications for cessation, tips on motivational interviewing, graphics to assist in cessation, and links to online resources.
The QuitMedKit app does not include much information tailored to patients regarding personal health and financial goals. The SmokerStop app by Dr Titus Brinker in Germany uses personal motivation as its primary smoking cessation technique. The app uses data input by the patient to calculate health information such as reduction in blood pressure, lung cancer risk, as well as financial goals such as when an ex-smoker will have enough cash for movie tickets, an iPhone, etc. The app also allows patients to put in their own goals. All of this information is tracked by the app and reminders are periodically sent to to the patient to help keep them motivated.
Developed by a medical student (now faculty?) in Germany, Dr Titus Brinker, SmokerStop utilizes pure motivational goals (financial- and health-based goals) along with reminders, and the ability to track progress over time, to aid smokers in their cessation efforts. Interestingly, the app doesn’t truly utilize the 5A’s or other proven psychotherapy techniques. However, the app would likely be an effective add on to other more proven techniques: medications, CBT, ACT, etc.
Who would benefit from this App?
Patients/family members, Medical students, primary care physicians, midlevels, hospital medicine physicians, nurses, pharmacists or any provider who counsels patients on tobacco cessation.
Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the official policy of the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.
- Simple interface for inputting financial and/or health-related goals
- Sends reminders and tracks user progress over time
- Available for Android
- Lacks proven 5A’s methodology, motivational interviewing, CBT, ACT
- No information about the app or author
- Lacks any true instructions for patient use
SmokerStop by Dr Titus Brinker in Germany is an excellent motivational tool that providers can prescribe to smokers at the point of care. Although the app lacks a true “quit program”, it does allow smokers to set goals–both health and financial–and track progress over time while receiving reminders on their progress. For more complete tobacco cessation apps, we still would recommend QuitMedKit or apps with proven quit rates such as SmartQuit.
- Overall Score
- User Interface
Easy to use efficient interface to set goals and track progress.
- Multimedia Usage
App contains several calculators for financial incentives, health tracking timelines, reminders, and links to another free app by the author for comparing facial changes over time.
App is free
- Real World Applicability
SmokerStop is an excellent “fun” tool to assist patients with some health as well as financial information to assist in motivating them to quit smoking. The app lacks any truly proven psychotherapy techniques or the 5A’s, but could be used with apps that do contain those tools. The app does not contain any information on tobacco cessation medications.
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3 Tools that’ll Improve Your Writing Skills (Seriously!)
Be a better writer than you are now.
If I ask you — Is writing a craft or an art? What would be your answer?
Most people would say, writing is an art (I guess). But is it so?
Here, see the difference between art and craft I found on Google,
Art is described as an unstructured and open-ended form of work; that expresses emotions, feelings, and vision. Craft denotes a form of work, involving the creation of physical objects, by the use of hands and brain.
It makes more sense now. My definition of writing would be,
Writing is an art in the form of a craft.
That sounds nice, right!
The second question — What is the best way to improve your craft?
Practice, practice, and practice.
It’s the simple answer.
But can you imagine a sculptor sculpting statutes without his hammer and chisels; a potter crafting pots without his pottery wheel; or a painter painting without his brush and colors?
No. It can’t be.
Similarly, how do you expect a writer, who is basically practicing a craft, to perform his job without his tools?
A writer needs his tools just like a sculptor needs his hammer; a painter his brush, or a potter his pottery wheel.
So if you want to be a writer, a master in his craft, you need to have some important tools you can use to improve your craft.
I’m not talking about your laptop or PC or wherever you write. I’m talking about tools that are available online that’ll hone your writing skills and make you a better writer than you are now. They save your time too.
Here are the tools that I personally use to improve my writing skills.
I first heard about Grammarly when I was working as a content writer intern. Since then, I haven’t stopped using it. If you are a serious writer, I strongly recommend you to use Grammarly. This software literally saves you a lot of time looking for spelling mistakes, you may not find.
Grammarly will flag each error with a red line prompting you to consider it. You can either choose to correct it or leave it (if you feel Grammarly isn’t correct).
The best way to use Grammarly is to download the Chrome extension. Whenever you’re writing anything on the internet, whether it’s Medium, a blog, or an email, it’ll check each of them for errors.
It is free to use; however, a premium version is also available that can check plagiarism, fluency, tone, and a lot of other improvements. The free version can only check spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.
If you too suffer from the problem of writing constantly in a passive voice (which is a sin in writing), you should definitely use the Hemingway Editor. It helped me get rid of this problem and it’ll help you too.
Hemingway Editor is available in two versions — Desktop App and Web App.
The desktop app is premium, so you have to buy it.
The Web app is free to use. The only problem is you can’t save your written articles. Once you close the tab, it’ll be gone forever.
That’s why I don’t use Hemingway Editor to write directly. I paste the article from MS Word (where I write) and look for errors.
The editor can help you find the number of times a passive voice is used (in green mark), the number of adverbs used (in blue mark), phrases with similar meanings (in pink mark), hard to read sentences (in yellow mark), and very hard to read sentences (in red mark).
Though Grammarly can proofread your articles, it still misses out on punctuations and tense sometimes. That’s why I needed a proofreader that could check for my errors. So I found this, Writer, an online proofreader that you should try.
Like the other tools, it too has a premium version which can help you look at bigger problems. Since the proofreading tool is free, I didn’t buy the premium version.
The Writer works in the same way as Grammarly. It will check for errors and mark them with a red underline. However, I use Writer to find sentences that are missing punctuations and need tense improvement.
If you can solve these issues in your article, I can bet your writing will be more fluent than it ever was.
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Building a simple UI in Unity
Unity makes it easy for us to create a User-Interface (UI) for our game.
Right-clicking in the hierarchy and going into the UI section of the menu that pops up, gives you a list of various elements to use.
As you can see, most of them are pretty self-explanatory 😀
Evident by there being two different types for some elements, there’s also something called TextMeshPro.
TextMeshPro, often abbreviated to TMP, provides more advanced features. I’ll be sticking with the ‘default’ one here, though.
For my game, all I really need is some text and image displays. Text for the score and ammo, and image for the lives.
“A word of caution”
One suggestion when working with UI is to NOT use the “Free Aspect” setting for the game view.
Doing so can lead to headaches when you build the game, with UI elements not being where you expect them to.
My advice is to use an aspect ratio or resolution based on the target device(s) you are developing for 😃
I start by adding a text element from the menu, this automagically creates two objects in my hierarchy, the Canvas, and the EventSystem. The text element is then placed inside the canvas. The canvas is what will hold all the other UI elements, and there are a few different settings to tinker with.
One of the first things I like to do is set the UI sale mode to scale with screen size. By default, this is set to Constant pixel size.
By having it scale I make sure it looks the same even if played on lower or higher resolution.
The default “Render mode” is to have the UI occupy the screen space, as an overlay. Elements on our canvas then don’t follow quite the same way of working with positions as we have gotten used to with our gameobjects.
Instead, we use the reference resolution as a reference. It still uses the same axis direction but at a greater scale, and in reference to the anchor's position.
A text element with a size of 160x30 would be placed halfway up on the left edge of the screen, if it had an anchor in the center of the screen, with a position of -320 on the X-axis.
800 wide, anchor in the center means there is 400 to each side of it.
Left of it is negative, right of it is positive. Placing it at -400 would have half of the element be out of view, calculated from its own center.
400–80 = 320. Left of the anchor = -320 😀
Obviously, you don’t need to calculate the position yourself, you can drag elements around and position them just as you like. Clicking the anchor position gives you some presets.
Anchors are important, because when you’re doing the scaling that is the “reference point” used.
This is why I would recommend using not the free aspect option, the edge of the screen might not be where you think it will be!
Outside of that it really works similar to how Unity operates with components and scripts. So I won’t go into more details on it in this article.
I create a UI Manager to handle updating the UI information with public methods I can call and pass in the new info.
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STEM Professionals in Schools is a national volunteer program that facilitates partnerships between schools and industry to bring a real STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) into the classroom.
Friday 14th Alisa, Murray and myself headed off to Lambton Public School to show Year 3 students the wonderful world of Earth Sciences. We took with us examples of different rock types (Murray even included a few specimens from his personal collection), as well as microscopes for the students play with. The students were enthusiastic, engaged and made it a great day. There were definitely a few budding Earth Scientists amongst them. | <urn:uuid:388f7409-07cf-4714-ae1b-f0d7a5c98e0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uonblogs.newcastle.edu.au/earthscience/2018/12/17/2095/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.984823 | 121 | 2.125 | 2 |
A survey of 750 Muslims who converted to Christianity shows five predominant reasons they chose to follow Christ.
- The lifestyle of Christians. Former Muslims cited the love that Christians exhibited in their relationships with non-Christians and their treatment of women as equals.
- The power of God in answered prayers and healing. Experiences of God's supernatural work—especially important to folk Muslims who have a characteristic concern for power and blessings—increased after their conversions, according to the survey. Often dreams about Jesus were reported.
- Dissatisfaction with the type of Islam they had experienced.
Many expressed dissatisfaction with the Qur'an, emphasizing God's punishment over his love. Others cited Islamic militancy and the failure of Islamic law to transform society.
- The spiritual truth in the Bible. Muslims are generally taught that the Torah, Psalms, and the Gospels are from God, but that they became corrupted. These Christian converts said, however, that the truth of God found in Scripture became compelling for them and key to their understanding of God's character. | <urn:uuid:d7be3fb8-8a2a-4c23-8a3c-bb0ee6cf3921> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/2008/winter/9.13.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967523 | 213 | 2.3125 | 2 |
We can afford it
Deficits don't matter, after all
“Hence a historical problem arises, namely, that of discovering why the West has insisted for so long on seeing the power it exercises as juridical and negative rather than as technical and positive.” —Michel Foucault
A classic policy cudgel, conservative Democratic lawmakers like Joe Manchin will at least be consistent in pretending that US public debt is somehow unsustainable, while Republicans will bring up the issue selectively depending on whether their party is in power.
But anyone arguing about the deficit is already playing a pointless Washington D.C. game. For the last decade the country has added an enormous amount every year to the national debt, and it has not mattered. The yield on a 10 year Treasury bond is 1.63%, which gives America an enormous amount of borrowing power still, at incredibly low rates.
It actually makes sense to invest in the country now with more spending. The Build Back Better proposal isn’t particularly important in itself, what is important is maintaining the solid economic performance recently despite the pandemic over the next year. Renewing programs like the direct payments to parents per child would help many working families but would also keep consumers buying. The risks of not spending are much higher than the risks of spending.
And what exactly are the risks of adding more debt to the total? The government could conceivably face a loss of confidence in its debt if it was seen to be a repayment risk—or if that currency was not expected to be valuable anymore when it was repaid. But as the yield mentioned previously demonstrates, domestic and foreign borrowers still have plenty of appetite for the low risk and stable returns of American bonds.
What about the risks of domestic inflation? This is something that can probably be managed with a fiscal as well as monetary answer, but then here’s the optimal form of that response: maintain spending but raise taxes until the price rises slow down. But somehow that is not the answer that the majority of lawmakers, connected as they are with wealthy financial interests, are probably going to want to hear.
From a traditional Keynesian perspective, this is probably still the time for deficit spending. But what is Keynesian about running large deficits all through the last decade even during growth? Whatever rhetoric they throw out there, politicians are not making realistic attempts to reduce debt, or even stop issuing it. The traditional ways of discussing fiscal policy just don’t make much sense any more. A new set of ideas sometimes referred to as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is attempting to move into that vacuum. I have started reading about it and my newsletter today is influenced by some of its basic ideas but I can’t claim much knowledge of it really—but I think it’s worthwhile for investors to see what ideas they take away from reading economics sometimes. | <urn:uuid:c0272f76-1d58-4fb3-ab84-46d73a424fc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://longtrade.substack.com/p/we-can-afford-it | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968591 | 585 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Removal of cholesteatoma via combined approach Tympanoplasty
Combined approach tympanoplasty (CAT) or canal wall up (CWU) mastoidectomy is a surgical procedure performed for the removal of a cholesteatoma in which the wall of the ear canal is left intact.
Cholesteatoma is an abnormal growth of skin in the middle ear behind the eardrum. Layers of old skin build up inside the ear to form a pouch which overtime increases in size and damages the ossicles of the middle ear. The ossicles refer to the tiny bones which transmit and amplify external sound to the inner ear. Enlargement of this pouch may cause pressure or a feeling of fullness in the ear. You may experience symptoms such as foul smelling discharge, impaired hearing, and rarely, facial muscle weakness or paralysis.
CAT is most often indicated in children for removal of a cholesteatoma and to overcome long-term complications from the mastoid cavity.
The aim of this procedure is to remove the cholesteatoma, prevent future complications and spread of infection to other structures, and to leave the canal wall intact.
Combined approach tympanoplasty involves removal of the mastoid air-cells while retaining the bony walls of the ear canal intact. Surgery is performed under the effect of general anesthesia or local anesthesia with sedation. The operative steps include:
- A C-shaped hairline cut is made from above the pinna of the ear and a complete flap of skin from the mastoid bone is elevated.
- Your surgeon carries out a mastoidectomy (removing the mastoid air-cells in the skull behind the ear) to expose the ossicles of middle ear. A tympanotomy (incision into the eardrum) is performed to identify the facial nerve and prevent it from damage.
- Cholesteatoma with or without the damaged middle ear ossicles are removed based on the extent of injury present.
- Your surgeon will examine the cavity endoscopically (flexible tube attached to a video camera and lighted device) and check for any residual cholesteatoma.
- The bony canal wall is then reconstructed with bone graft or cartilage.
- The tympanic membrane is repaired (tympanoplasty) with a graft. Your doctor will pack the middle ear and external ear with gel foam to support the grafts. The incised whole skin flap is closed and sutured.
A second look procedure may be required after 9 to 12 months to evaluate for residual or recurrent cholesteatoma and for repair of the ossicular chain if needed.
Following the surgery, the operated ear and incision area should be kept clean and dry. Do not disturb the internal packing of the ear; you may trim the loose end of packing or change the external cotton wool packing if it gets soiled. The internal packing will be removed during your follow-up visit. Your surgeon may prescribe medications or ear drops to relieve pain and prevent infection. Avoid swimming, blowing the nose hard or strenuous exercises for a few weeks.
Risks and Complications
As with any surgery, modified radical mastoidectomy involves certain risks and complications. They include:
- Dizziness and ringing in ears (tinnitus)
- Loss of hearing
- Partial or complete facial nerve paralysis
- Taste alterations
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RAGHEADS: The story of a bluegrass family
Sometimes great things start from simple beginnings.
In the early 1970s, Al Taylor and his best friend Sam Karr strolled into a Holiday Inn in Lexington, Kentucky. A bluegrass band was playing there, one with a phenomenal guitar player with a smooth voice, a riveting mandolin player who would later become a household name in country music, a hard-driving banjo player who reinvented the instrument, a dobro player who changed the way bluegrass music would be performed, and a bass player who brought a deepness to the sound that was part of the reason the band became one of the most recognizable groups in the genre’s history.
The band was J.D. Crowe and the New South, and the banjo player was joined by Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas and Bobby Slone. The two men were so taken with the sound of the band that they made routine trips to that location from their northern Kentucky homes. But that is just the beginning of the story.
In 1974, they attended the inaugural Festival of the Bluegrass at Lexington’s Masterson Station Park. Joining them there, were two little boys – 10-year-old Sammy Karr and 8-year-old Robby Taylor. The two sons were in the process of beginning a bluegrass phenomenon without their late fathers even knowing it.
After the boys got lost at the festival, the two worried fathers decided the boys had to wear full-sized, white towels on their heads so they were easy to locate. The boys grew tired of the cumbersome towels and later decided to tear off strips and tie them around their heads, something their fathers later imitated. A lady at one festival announced loudly, “There go them ol’ Ragheads.”
The towel strips stuck, the name stuck and now, some 40 years later, the Ragheads have stuck as the original community of bluegrass music followers with international representation and thousands of members from every walk of life.
They are young and old, rich and poor, men and women, but mostly fans of a music that has in some way shaped their lives and told relatable stories that celebrate humanity with songs about love, sorrow, struggle, spirit, perseverance and maybe a little moonshine.
So at many bluegrass festivals, Ragheads are in attendance and easily recognizable with a strip of a white towel wrapped around their heads. But the towel represents more than just a fan, it is a symbol of family, a bluegrass family that is always growing and welcoming of others who respect bluegrass music and its rich history.
And that’s just the way Al Taylor and Sam Karr would have wanted it.
LEFT: Bluegrass fans of all ages are welcomed into the Raghead family. (Children 16 and under are admitted to SamJam for free.) RIGHT: Bluegrass legend Larry Sparks wears a rag, along with the members of the Lonesome Ramblers, in support of the Ragheads at the 2017 SamJam. | <urn:uuid:195f9d93-fea3-4b7d-9f49-12eb265abffc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.samjambluegrass.com/ragheads | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.981881 | 633 | 1.820313 | 2 |
ks down what it means to begin your own outside painting company. Check out this video for helpful details.
First, learn about the laws and regulations regarding the start of an art business within your state or local area. These vary from place to region, and it’s crucial to know what laws apply to your particular area. There are regulations that can be extremely restrictive, while others can be extremely strict. Certain regions require specific certificates to permit your company to be recognised. In certain areas you can get the certification is simple and in some, the procedure could be different. It is important to keep these points in mind prior to you decide to start getting your company started.
Insurance is a crucial aspect for any company that employs workers who are manual. To prevent legal troubles it is essential to ensure your employees are insured with appropriate insurance when they attempt to climb up and paint. If you do not get this part of your business taken care of then you could be held accountable to any possible injuries or damage that occurs.
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Is post-pandemic debt weighing you down? For many people, debt is an unavoidable fact of life. But the past two years of global turmoil has added financial pressure on many Canadians.
According to a COVID-19 financial well-being survey conducted by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, over half of Canadians have been financially impacted by the pandemic. To add to that, Equifax recently reported that Ontarians specifically are plunging further into debt in 2022, with a whopping 31.2% more credit cards being opened compared with the first quarter of last year!
So – how do you beat the trends and claw your way out? To get started it’s a good idea to have a realistic plan to pay back your debt.
We’ve put together 8 simple tips to help you on your way:
- Identify what you owe.
Knowledge is power, so stop hiding from your debt and tally up those credit card bills!
- Break it down.
Make a list and for each debt product, list the total amount you owe, your minimum monthly payment and the interest rate.
- Decide on a strategy.
Are you going to take on more shifts? Cut out takeout for a few months? Seek consolidation options? Research the strategies available for your situation before proceeding.
- Create your plan.
Once you’ve settled on a strategy, you’re going to need a plan. This is where you can begin to make note of exactly how you will pay back the debt.
- Choose a timeframe that is reasonable and affordable.
There is no since sacrificing your mental health to get out of debt. Though it may take a little longer, pace yourself so that you don’t end up becoming overwhelmed and giving up.
- Decide which debts to pay off first, depending on the type.
A good starting point is to see which accounts carry the highest interest rates so you can tackle them quickly.
- Work directly with your bank and creditors to discuss your financial situation.
Sometimes the best way out of debt is to take out a loan with reasonable interest and payoff & close out revolving credit accounts like lines of credit or credit cards.
- Review your budget.
This will help you know if you are staying on track once your plan is in action so that you will see results!
If you don’t already have a budget, now is the time to make one! Having a budget that lays out your total income and expenses is an effective way to manage your day-to-day finances. It will help you figure out how much money you get, spend, and save.
If you decide to apply for a loan or line of credit, you may be able to pay off multiple debts with high-interest rates. Consolidating your debts means you’ll only have to make one monthly payment rather than paying each credit product individually (who has the memory for that), and the interest rate on the loan will likely save you money. Contact your financial institution to discuss whether this is an option that could work for you.
Managing debt isn’t always easy, but there are resources to help you. You can find unbiased and fact-based information you can count on at canada.ca/money. Looking to enter the housing market while managing your debt? Speak with one of our professionals to discover where you currently stand and what steps you can take to enter the housing market. | <urn:uuid:df5ff45d-2cc3-4520-8a13-b96e6b8b812c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jaguarmortgages.ca/8-simple-steps-to-take-control-of-debt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947021 | 723 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Felix Jen – 30 June 2022 – 15 min read
When we share images with our friends or to some newly-developed social media platform, we send around files like JPEGs, PNGs, and (if you’re exceptionally anal about quality) 32-bit TIFFs. When we share embarrassing videos of our friends or law school graduation videos with our parents, we send out MP4s, MKVs, and, AVIs. When we share PCB production instructions with our manufacturers, we send out “Gerbers”. Let’s talk about “Gerbers” as they are known in PCB production.
To understand the nature of the Gerber, we must first take a cursory understanding of the PCB production process.
Each PCB is produced in a “layer-based” process. Typical 2-layer PCBs begin like a grilled cheese sandwich. Two sheets of pure copper are the slices of bread and the cheese is the “substrate”. Effectively, we create a sandwich with substrate between two layers of copper—one on the top and one on the bottom. Next, portions of the copper from each side are removed using (primarily) chemical processes, forming the traces and planes the PCB engineer laid out. This creates our top and bottom layers we see in our EDA when designing.1
Next, to protect the bare copper from short circuits, the environment, and inevitable human fallibility, a protective layer of resin called “soldermask” is applied to the top and bottom layers. Soldermask serves a few additional purposes. In additional to protecting the copper layer, it also serves to prevent solder from adhering and helps to prevent bridges when soldering thin-pitched components present in modern day electronics. It also serves to create a barrier for the next stage of the process—surface treatment.
Once the soldermask is applied, we are left with some areas covered with soldermask resin and some areas still bare copper. Copper oxidizes quickly when exposed to a humid and salty environment, so we must coat the copper to prevent damage. This stage is called surface treatment and involves the application of an inert metal to the outer layers of exposed copper—the parts the soldermask did not cover.
Lastly, to achieve a bare PCB, a silkscreen layer is typically applied. This layer contains visual diagrams for component locations and text to designate what components go where. This can either be printed or actually “silkscreened” on for larger productions. Once this silkscreen is applied, we are left with what can be considered a finished “bare” PCB.
Once a bare PCB is finished, it is often sent for assembly, which involves the use of another layer, the solder paste layer. Solder paste is a viscous liquid which contains balls of solder. When a PCB goes through “reflow”, this solder paste is liquefied and becomes molten solder to hold components down and form electrical connections. Areas which have surface mount components typically have a solder mask layer applied.
With these processes, we typically have a complete assembled PCB. More advanced specialized layers and functions will be discussed later on in this post.
Having run through these production processes, we are left with what is essentially a stack of layers from the top of the PCB to the very bottom. Aptly, this stack of layers is known as the “PCB Layer Stack” or the “stackup.” In our typical 2-layer PCB, we end up with the following layer stack:
|Top Solder Paste||Assembly|
|Top Soldermask||Solder Masking|
|Top Copper||Electrical Connections|
|Bottom Copper||Electrical Connections|
|Bottom Soldermask||Solder Masking|
|Bottom Solder Paste||Assembly|
To effectively manufacture each one of these layers then, a PCB manufacturer (fab) must have the data which corresponds to the contents of every single layer. This is where Gerbers come in.
A Gerber file is, at its inception, an ASCII-based vector representation of PCB design data, optimized for data transfer between stakeholders in the production process. In some sense, one may think about them like any other type of text-based vector file format like an SVG. A little bit of trivia, the Gerber file format was named after Joseph Gerber who fled Austria during WWII, later going on to pioneer photoplotting for PCB fabrication.2
In modern days, the Gerber specification has evolved considerably since its initial inception. The original Gerber specification, RS-274-D, is still the most ubiquitous and easy-to-process format for Gerbers available, and is often colloquially referred to as the “standard Gerber.” The second iteration, RS-274X provided some additional extensions to the Gerber functionality, and is known as the “Extended Gerber.” In recent years, Ucamco—the owner of the open Gerber format—has released Gerber X2 with many more features to help manufacturers better understand provided Gerber files in complex layer stacks. In 2022, Ucamco developed additional modifications, known as Gerber X3 to address lingering issues with Gerber X2.
Gerber X2 and RS-274X still remain the most relevant Gerber standards to this day with older fabs preferring RS-274X and modernized manufacturers happily accepting X2. This blog post mostly will discuss X2, but differences to RS-274X will be discussed when relevant and in the comparison sections. Some mentions may be made to X3, the newest standard, but widespread adoption will likely take many years if not a decade as designers and manufacturers slowly migrate. Of note, on May 30, 2014, Ucamco has declared the Standard Gerber to be obsolete and any designers or manufacturers still utilizing the Standard Gerber should immediately move to Extended Gerbers.
A Gerber layer is a 2D vector image format with the image defined by overlapping graphical objects; this will make more sense later as we discuss the nitty gritty of the format. A single Gerber file will represent one single image, and, in effect, one layer of a stackup. The Gerber file is designed to be a complete representation of that layer and no additional files should be needed to reproduce that singular layer.
The Gerber format when viewed in a text editor is a stream of commands. These commands are responsible for creating graphical “apertures” (consider these as basic shapes) which are added together to create an image file. For example, if you want to made a house that a first grader drew in Gerber, the commands would consist of a square aperture and a triangle aperture. These apertures can be in either black or white. Additional commands are used to add metadata to the apertures (or to the file itself in X2).
An example of a Gerber which generates a circle of 1.5 mm centered on the origin is:3
%FSLAX26Y26*% %MOMM*% %ADD100C,1.5*% D100* X0Y0D03* M02*
Apertures in the Gerber format can be thought of as the basic building blocks of the final image. Effectively, they are the “pixel” of the Gerber file. Apertures can be “flashed” (replicated), or “drawn” (repeated along a path). The four standard apertures that are the basis of the format are the Circle, Rectangle, Obround, and Polygon.4 Circles and rectangles are fairly self explanatory, whereas the Obround and Polygon require a bit more context. An Obround consists of two semi-circles connected by a line segment. This creates what is similar to an oblong pill shape. The polygon creates a regular polygon of N vertices with a D outer diameter of the circle circumscribing the regular polygon. Each of these standard apertures may have a round hole in the center of them.
The following syntax of apertures covers the four standard ones:5
Circle: 'c' ',' diameter 'X' hole_diameter Circle Diameter 0.5 w/ Hole of 0.25: %ADD10C, 0.5X0.25*% Rectangle: 'R' ',' x_size 'X y_size 'X' hole_diameter Rect. of X = 0.044 and Y=0.025: %ADD23R, 0.044X0.025*% Obround: 'O' ',' x_size 'X' y_size' 'X' hole_diameter Polygon: 'P' ',' outer_diameter 'X' vertices 'X' rotation 'X' hole_diameter Hexagon of size .04 rotated 15 degrees clockwise: %ADD17P, .04X6X15*%
While these are the standard apertures, additional Aperture Macros (AMs) can be defined before usage. These AMs are then added to the aperture library and can be used like other apertures. These templates can be of any shapes and multiple primitive shapes can be combined to much more complex geometry. Discussion on the exact nature of creating the Aperture Macro is beyond the scope of this deep dive, but more information can be found under § 4.5 - Aperture Macro (AM) of Rev. 2022.02 of the Gerber X2 standard.
a o Now that we have a basic idea of the building blocks known as apertures, we can discuss how they are used to form images. Apertures are directly used in three main ways, the draw, arc, and flash.
A draw takes a single, closed, Circle aperture and drags it along a straight line. This creates a line with a thickness of the diameter of the circle and with rounded points.
An arc takes a single, closed, Circle aperture and drags it along a circular plot. This creates an arc segment with a thickness of the diameter of the circle and with rounded points.
A flash takes an existing aperture and stamps it on the image plane. This effectively just repeats the aperture defined at specified coordinates and is the proper way to create “pads.”
The region is the most complicated of the bunch. A region is defined by its “contour.” A contour is a sequence of connected linear or circular segments6. These segments are specified, if linear, by the direction and distance they need to travel, and if circular, by their start point and radius. Contours can be completely solid or “cut in” through the use of closing them off naturally or through polarity of multiple contours (outside the scope). We’ll return to polarity later.
Operations are the commands used to perform the things just described. Gerbers have 3 operations, D01, D02, D03. D01 creates a line plot (for draws) from the current point to the point specified in the command. For example,
X200Y200D02* would move from the current point, wherever it is, to point
(200,200). D02 executes the move. For example,
X100Y100D01* would move the current point to
(100,100). D03 creates a flash of the current aperture at the specified point.
X300Y-400D03* would flash the current aperture at
A Gerber file consists purely of black (“dark” in Gerber terms) and clear. The “image plane” (the blank starting image) always starts as clear. A dark object will get superimposed onto this clear plane, creating an image. A clear object can then be put on top to remove portions. Another dark image can be overlaid again to add back portions, so on and so forth. This method can effectively be used to create very complex shapes that a simple aperture or primitive could not. For example, if one wishes to create a rectangle with two holes inside of it, one could first create a dark rectangle on the image plane, followed by two clear circles within that rectangle. Should one desire another rectangle inside one of those cut out circles, one could add a dark rectangle.
One of the nicest updates in Gerber X2 is the extensions of attributes. Attributes are “meta” properties associated with the Gerber file itself (File Attributes), apertures (Aperture Attributes), or objects (Object Attributes). These attributes themselves do not define any part of the image at all and a pure Gerber reader can entirely ignore all attributes without issue. Attributes are effectively information labels attached to things.
Ucamco was cognizant that as PCB design and layout got more and more complicated, manufacturers would have a hard time understanding and processing Gerber files. Each Gerber file stood for one layer of the PCB and only one layer of the PCB. Therefore, in a multi-layer PCB or even a single-layer PCB with a stackup, multiple Gerber files would need be provided. In the stackup above, we already have 8 Gerber files which need to be provided. With no way of embedding the purpose of each Gerber file in the RS-274X or RS-274-D standards, PCB designers were left to find some way to communicate the purpose of each layer to the fab. Creative designers would create filenames such as top_copper.gbr or bottom_soldermask.gbr for their files so fabs could understand the purpose of the files given. Alternatively, some would change the file extension to be gerber.top or gerber.bmask to help differentiate.
This solution of file naming worked in the short run and for simple PCB designs of two layers. However, more complexity arose in the age of multi-layer PCBs, with some consisting of up to 128 individual copper layers all sandwiched together. With this many layers, any real naming scheme became impractical and difficult for both the manufacturer and the designers to keep track of, especially in an automated fashion. Existing Gerber viewers could not easily cope with the variety of creative solutions that humans came up with in naming (“What is layer.23gbr?” “Is l24.gbr Layer 24?”) and often required hours of manual intervention.
Gerber X2 solved this problem by creating File Attributes. File Attributes allow EDA software to automatically and quickly label each file for its intended purpose and position in the stackup without having to resort to unusual naming schemes. As well, even if the files were named asdklj.gbr, the attribute would still be able to tell the Gerber viewer that it was supposed to be the soldermask for the top layer as long as
%TF.FileFunction,Soldermask,Top*% is present in the first few lines.
This advancement overall solved significant communication hurdles from CAD to CAM (Design to Manufacturing) in modern complex designs and was one of the most important advancements in the format recently. Furthermore, because attributes are silent additional lines of metadata, X2 files are fully backwards compatible with existing Gerber systems which would simply ignore the extraneous lines.
Now that we have a fairly robust understanding of a single Gerber file, it becomes apt to discuss the Gerber “package” as I’ve come to know it. The Gerber “package” consists of all Gerber files in the layer stackup as well as typically the “drill file.” We’ll take a quick detour from Gerbers talk about the “drill file,” “NC Drill,” “Excellon file,” or a host of other names.
I’ll primarily call this file the Excellon file or the drill file in this blog post since I feel like those two names describe it best. The Excellon file is a file which represent all the holes to be drilled on the PCB. This step usually occurs before the soldermask stage but after etching of the traces.
The Excellon Drill Format is a subset of the Gerber RS-274-D instruction set and hence why the drill file is frequently known as the Excellon file. This file format has not received the same love and attention that the Gerber format has, and much of it still relates back to the dated RS-274-D standard. The file begins with a header which specifies important information such as the coordinate system, units, and number of leading zeroes in the format (00020 vs 020). The file then specifies the appropriate drill bit size for the next set of drilling operations. Much like the Gerber file, an operation is used to change the current point (where the bit is located) and a series of commands are then given to perform the required drilling operations. Then, an end instruction is sent and we begin with a tool change to a new bit size. This process is repeated until all needed holes are drilled.
While we have discussed the traditional stackup Gerbers earlier, it is important to remember that Gerber files are merely vector images. That means, they can be used for a variety of specialized purposes besides merely providing the stackup layers.
The most common non-layer Gerber you will see are the profile, plated, and nonplated Gerbers. As the name implies, the profile Gerber specifies the outer profile of the PCB. As well, the profile layer may sometimes show any interior slots or cuts which need to be made. The profile layer is frequently used in the manufacturing process to check whether any traces have contacted the outer edges or internal slots and may be cut during the routing and shaping process. The plated and nonplated Gerbers define holes on the PCB which may require plating or which should not be plated.
Another very important specialized Gerber is the FabricationDrawing Gerber. This purely informational Gerber file is used to aid the PCB manufacturer by providing additional notes or call-outs of critical areas, orientation of confusing components such as electrolytic capacitors, or even panelization instructions like mousebite locations. As manufacturers understand that such a Gerber is purely informational, multiple types of these Gerbers are often provided when such information is helpful or necessary.
Gerber files, like all things in the real world, must maintain a finite precision. For Gerbers, this is defined by the number of significant digits in the integer portion and the decimal portion. For example, a precision of 3-integer 4-decimal may give you a result of 125.3745 in the coordinates while a higher precision of 5-integer 6-decimal would give you a result of 00125.374498. Typically, it’s recommended to keep at least a minimum of 3-integer 3-decimal when working with PCBs with copper regions that are frequently susceptible to “aliasing” with lower precisions. Ultimately, the tradeoff with higher precision is a significant increase to file size with large packages involving tens of layers. However, with modern storage and compute power, one would do well to keep precision to the highest allowed in the EDA, unless otherwise instructed by your manufacturer.
The common Gerber file is a versatile tool for the world of PCB production. We’ve taken a deep dive into the technical workings of a standard Gerber file and discussed how the improvements in X2 have improved manufacturing efficiency and reduced confusion in the CAD-CAM pipeline. The simple format, consisting of only 27 commands total (some of which are discussed here) is often considered the backbone of the electronics industry.
“Gerber is the only data format, as far as I know, that has dropped enough historical burdens to remain lively, based on current practice deliberately surveyed. The result is, of course, a specification easy to read and to implement correctly.”
— Frog Chen7
Special thanks to Maker Keyboards for providing edits.
Note a few very important steps are skipped in this brief overview, notably the panel plating stage. Additionally internal layer pre-preg etching stages and lamination are omitted. [Back]
Ucamco, The Gerber Layout Format Specification, Preface, 2022.02, 7 (2022) [Back]
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Thing To Consider With Interest Only Mortgages
January and February are the months when most mortgage borrowers will receive their annual mortgage statements from their lenders. For most borrowers, there is little to do apart from making sure that the statement records accurately all of the payments made.
However, for borrowers with an interest-only mortgage, there are other things to consider. Lenders are becoming increasingly anxious about the large numbers of interest-only borrowers, nearing the end of their mortgage term, who might not have capital available to clear the debt when needed.
To try to reduce the scale of the problem many lenders now include with their year-end statements either a letter or a note which points out that some or all of the debt is on an interest-only basis, and asks borrowers to complete a form confirming how they intend to clear the debt.
For borrowers who have a plan or plans intended to clear the debt (this might be for instance an endowment policy although these are increasingly rare, or an investment or pension plan) this might not present a problem, but it might be a good idea to check with the provider of the associated plan that the lump sum projected is on track to clear the debt when it is needed.
However, if there are no plans in place or if the plans are not on track to clear the debt then it is important to take action to try to correct the position.
Outstanding Mortgage Term
For younger borrowers, where circumstances permit, it makes sense to consider making overpayments to reduce the capital outstanding. It is important in these situations to ensure though that any overpayments made do not trigger an early repayment charge. For most, it is sensible to make overpayments on a voluntary basis rather than apply formally to the lender for conversion from interest only to normal repayment. The reason is that borrowers could always revert to interest only later, should the need arise. If it is not possible to make overpayments then a lender might be agreeable to extending the mortgage term combined with switching the loan to a normal repayment basis so as to keep the increase in monthly payments to a minimum.
For older borrowers, those aged 55 and over it might also be possible to make overpayments or to ask the lender to extend the term. However, it is likely that these older borrowers will have a shorter outstanding mortgage term and so the opportunities to solve the interest only problem are reduced.
For these same older borrowers, an alternative solution might be available if overpaying or extending the mortgage term is not possible. It might be that a lifetime mortgage is available, the amount of which will depend upon the ages of the borrower(s), the property valuation and the mortgage debt. The following advances might be available:
-Age of the only or younger borrower – 55 = 24% of the property value.
-Age of the only or younger borrower – 60 = 31% of the property value.
-Age of the only or younger borrower – 65 = 37% of the property value.
A lifetime mortgage is a type of equity release arrangement and when setting up such plans there are normally three options regarding payments. These are:
-Interest Roll-up – no payments are required, and the interest being charged by the lender will be added to the debt which will increase.
-Payments of interest are made on a contractual basis in exactly the same way as other mortgages. In this instance, an application would be underwritten by assessing a borrower’s income both now and in retirement.
-Payments of interest are made on an elective or voluntary basis. In this instance, borrowers undertake to pay some or all of the interest arising but unlike 2 above there is no contractual obligation to do so. Because of this, there is no proof of income required and borrowers could, later on, elect to make no payments at all if their circumstances change.
Lifetime Mortgage Advice
If all or part of the mortgage is on an interest-only basis and you are unsure about how the capital will be cleared it is important to act and, if appropriate, to take advice. If a lifetime mortgage might be a solution, then speak to a qualified equity release advisor who is a member of the Equity Release Council. Members follow a code of conduct and will usually offer a whole of market service and so can research the market to obtain the best available terms. The amount raised is then used to clear the current interest only mortgage and further funds might also be available if required.
All of the plans available through an Equity Release Council member will have four safeguards. These are:
A no negative equity guarantee
Even if interest is rolled-up as set out earlier, the debt, charges and accrued interest will never exceed the value of the property when it is sold under the terms of the lifetime mortgage.
A right to reside
All lifetime mortgage borrowers are guaranteed that they can remain in the property for the rest of their lives.
The right to move house
Many older borrowers might wish to downsize in later life and all plans from Equity Release Councilmember lenders include this option.
Separate legal representation
All lenders offering Equity Release Council approved plans insist that borrowers take legal advice from a firm other than the firm who will act on behalf of the lender.
I recently received an enquiry from a prospective client with an interest-only mortgage and no means of repaying the capital when the mortgage term ends. He had just received his year-end mortgage statement and the lender had asked how the debt is to be cleared. He received a similar statement and request at the beginning of 2018 and ignored it! The mortgage term ends in 2020 and the debt in relation to the valuation of the property exceeds what a lifetime mortgage lender would offer. The problem could have been avoided if the client had taken some of the actions outlined earlier in this blog.
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Aiming to “amplify a greater message of unity, inclusion, diversity, and feminism in a fashion space”, Mara Hoffman invited the founders of the Women's March on Washington to open her show which featured modern silhouettes of utilitarian wear, described by critics as “Made for a modern warrior” and “Clothing for those who still have work to do”. Prabal Gurung debuted his collection of T-shirts featuring slogans such as “The Future is Female”, “We Will Not Be Silenced”, and “Nevertheless She Persisted”, with proceeds going to the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Gurung's own charity, “Shikshya Foundation Nepal”. Similarly, The Business of Fashion launched the #TiedTogether movement on Social Media, encouraging member of the industry from editors to models, to wear a white bandana advocating for “unity, solidarity, and inclusiveness during fashion week”.
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Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Changes proposed for the process of voting in 2020, govt approves coal exploration despite climate change rhetoric, and Hager responds to new Hit and Run news.
The way people vote in 2020 could be very different to previous elections, after the proposals of a range of interesting new changes. Justice minister Andrew Little is likely to put forward a bill containing technical changes making it easier to vote – for example, by allowing votes to be counted away from where they were cast. The point of that would be to allow polling places to be set up in “high traffic areas” like supermarkets and malls, where there aren’t private spots to count the votes. There would also be a removal on the restriction against voting taking place where alcohol is also sold, which might sound like the opening premise for a satire, but would really just have much the same function.
National isn’t keen on those changes, reports Stuff. In part, says their spokesperson Nick Smith, that’s because they weren’t consulted on them. But it’s partly also because he argues the changes are being made to benefit parties of the left. Another of the likely changes is to allow voting day enrolment – currently you can’t enrol and then vote on election day, and it is believed to have stopped thousands of people from casting a vote at the last election. Dr Smith says “we know from advice that if you allow same day enrolment and voting, that tends to favour parties of the left,” and that the government is cherry picking recommendations that favour them. Newshub reported his comments on consultation went even further – “This is the sort of conduct we expect from banana republics and not a respected long standing democracy like New Zealand.”
However, the process of voting is also changing dramatically each election in any case. Around 1.2 million advance votes were cast in 2017, roughly half the total overall, and Electoral Commission figures show that share has risen dramatically since 2011, where it was a few hundred thousand votes. It’s possible early voting has contributed to an overall rise in voter turnout, which in 2017 was up among every age group. It perhaps reduces the sanctity and community spirit that comes when everyone shares in the same day equally, but on the other hand, people have busy lives and it’s convenient.
It’s interesting that the government would push ahead with changes, given how flatly they’ve refused other, more substantive electoral changes. Earlier in the year it was confirmed that there was no chance of the MMP threshold being lowered to 4% in time for the 2020 election, nor would the ‘coat-tails’ rule be removed that allows electorate MPs to bring in mates, despite those being a recommendation of the Electoral Commission. That really highlights how minor and technical the changes are, given that they’re only about the process of voting, rather than about the outcomes produced by that vote.
The government has granted a permit for new coal exploration in the Waikato, despite their lofty rhetoric on climate change, reports Zane Small for Newshub. It is one of five mining exploration permits granted during the term, though the others are for other minerals. Anti-coal campaigners are dismayed, as it is the most carbon intensive fossil fuel. Energy minister Megan Woods insists the government is transitioning the economy away from fossil fuels, and that “we really are showing leadership in this area”.
Hit and Run co-author Nicky Hager says revelations from Taliban insurgents don’t change the central point of the book, reports Stuff. It comes after co-author Jon Stephenson revealed that insurgents told him they were in the vicinity of a village where the deadly NZSAS raid – Operation Burnham – took place, contrary to a claim made in the book. However, Mr Hager says the main story of the book is civilian casualties, and if anything the account from the insurgents backs that contention up. In the meantime, the inquiry will continue.
The Prime Minister has responded to claims around lobbyist GJ Thompson, and unrevealed conflicts of interest when he was acting chief of staff. Stuff reports Jacinda Ardern is comfortable the issue was handled appropriately by ministerial services. The story also notes that National hasn’t shown any interest in pursuing the matter further.
Seafood workers in Bluff have been left shocked at the news dozens of jobs at Sanford could be lost, reports Radio NZ. The town has a population of just under 2000 people, and the company is one of the biggest employers. The workers say the company is highly profitable, and the announcement has come entirely out of the blue. Many of those laid off workers will have few other prospects for work, though the company may offer some roles in Timaru.
An international story here, but one that seems important: The Guardian
A popular Auckland bike recycling and repair co-op is being shut down due to tenancy issues, reports The Spinoff. Loop Group, who operate out of a Minnie St location in Eden Terrace, say their future is now uncertain. Because of that, they’re trying to give away all of their spare bikes and equipment over Friday and Saturday this week and next, all free to a good home. The space is likely to be filled by a car park.
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For a feature today, a bit of feedback on a comment made about the story about telcos partnering with Stats NZ to share location data of users. I said I was unsettled by it, and I’ll share a bit of feedback before outlining why. Today’s round will be fully anonymous, because more people than not requested that.
First of all, it’s not unusual for your location to be easily tracked, wrote one person. “A good example of anonymised data use is google maps telling you what the traffic’s doing – whenever you open up the app you’re also sending google information about how fast you’re going and where you are. In fact, I’d recommend everyone have a thorough understanding of what apps use their location data on their phones.”
And it’s not new either, said another: “All the data being generated by our supercomputers in our pockets are driving all kinds of data mining and reporting. We are basically data generators, and you have little to no control over it. Tamely using anonymised cellphone data to track population density is 2010 or earlier tech and highly innocuous if you ask me. You should be more concerned about the surveillance device in your pocket.”
And location stuff is easy for telcos too. “It takes about 15 minutes to find the whereabouts of a given phone number in an urban area to within a reasonable distance, pretty much in real time. Based on the way they work with law enforcement, privacy from our telcos is basically nonexistent,” said a third reader.
So, to clarify, yes, I think we’re all aware that the ability of organisations to track people via their smartphone is now so common as to be innocuous. And the partnership with Stats NZ probably doesn’t materially change anything about that. Being unsettled by it isn’t about thinking that the government is going to abuse that. But just because we’ve had relatively benign political conditions for decades, doesn’t mean that will continue forever. And it has got to the point now where simply by using standard technology, the ability of individuals to control that is basically out of their hands, provided we want to participate in modern society. I can’t help but find that unsettling.
The dream is over for the Football Ferns, who lost to Cameroon in a game they needed to win to progress at the World Cup. The 2-1 defeat caps off a campaign that started promising, and ended as a nightmare. The one goal scored by the team during the whole campaign was an own-goal too. To think, they were just one late goal away from sneaking a draw against the Netherlands in the first match – a result that would have totally changed the complexion of their group. In any case, it will be another four years before they’ll have a chance to win their first World Cup match.
All’s well that ends well in that story about the kids rugby team who weren’t allowed to competition earn points if they included a girl. Radio NZ reports the boys in the team have agreed to forfeit points, and just play some footy with their teammate. And honestly, I can’t stress this enough, these kids are 11 years old – you barely even need to bother keeping score at that age.
And finally, we’ve got another episode of The Offspin for you to listen to in the wake of the Black Caps win over South Africa. I’m not sure if this is an appealing sell or not, but I talk at length about what I believe to be the greatest cricket shot ever played – Kane Williamson’s late cut in the penultimate over.
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The Mediterranean offers a wealth of lush vistas, azure waves and picturesque ruins, yet it is also home to one of the healthiest oils on the planet—olive oil. With evidence of its existence dating back to 6000 BC, olive oil is obtained by physically pressing olives and withdrawing the juice. It remains a pantry staple worldwide for its rich, nutty flavor and internal health benefits, but did you know that it is also really good for your skin? Packed full of lipids, fatty acids and antioxidants, such as vitamins A and E, olive oil provides a level of skin protection to help ward off free radicals and other environmental aggressors so you can maintain a youthful appearance.
To uncover all the dynamic skin care benefits of olive oil, we chatted with Amanda Rhoades, retail account rep at DHC (a Japanese skin care brand based entirely around olive oil). Read on to learn why you should be incorporating this miraculous oil into your routine today.
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ing the train, and said that it was conceded that the boy was on
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For a chronological, annotated timeline of all the 19th century cases that mention "buggery," "crime against nature," or "sodomy" see:
The following legal case is one of the 19th century cases those that mention "buggery," "crime against nature," or "sodomy".
Published Decision of the Michigan Supreme Court
"Crimes against nature" against girls under seven years old are referred to by a lawyer in this case in an argument about the competence of young children to testify in court about injuries they sustained by acts against them.
JAMES HUGHES V. THE DETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MILWAUKEE RAILWAY COMPANY.
Negligence—Injury to boy riding on foot-board of engine—Charge to jury—Competency of infant to testify.
1. Plaintiff sued for injuries sustained by being thrown from the foot-board of a switching engine, which was making up and distributing freight trains in defendant's yard, by a sudden start or a sudden stop, the negligence averred being the failure of the trainmen to put him off before moving, and the rapid action in starting and stopping. The testimony was conflicting as to plaintiff being on the foot-board, or, if there, as to his being seen by the engineer, or whether, if seen at all, he was seen before or after starting. The court instructed the jury not to find for the plaintiff unless the engineer actually saw plaintiff on the footboard, in which case he should have ordered him off before start
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ing the train, and said that it was conceded that the boy was on the foot-board, and assumed the boy said the engineer saw him before starting.
Held, that the court erred in treating controverted facts as undisputed, and that, as the duty to keep off a child entirely could not be quite the same as the duty which would arise from seeing him already on a moving train, there was error in saying the plaintiff should recover if the engineer saw him, without reference to the time and circumstances of seeing him.
2. The law regarding the competency of children of tender years to testify is fully discussed, and it is held that plaintiff's competency was not shown, and the desirability of legislation suggested» which is furnished by Act No. 82, Laws of 1887, providing for the taking of the testimony of children under ten years of age, if found to have sufficient intelligence and sense of obligation to tell the truth, on their promise to do so, instead of upon oath or statutory affirmation, such testimony to be given such credit by the court or jury as it may appear to deserve.
Error to superior court of Detroit. (Chipman, J.) Argued October 21 and 22, 1886. Decided February 10, 1887. Case. Defendant brings error. Reversed. The facts are stated in the opinion.
George Jerome (E. W. Meddaugh, of counsel), for appellant.
S. E. Engle, for plaintiff.
CAMPBELL, 0. J. Plaintiff, a little colored boy, who is now between six and seven years old, and was, when injured, five years old or under, recovered judgment in the superior court of Detroit for personal injuries causing the loss of a leg and some other damage. In July, 1884, towards the close of the day, but during daylight, according to the claim of his declaration, he was on the front of a switching locomotive which was making up and distributing freight trains, and standing upon a plank step used for switchmen and brakemen to stand upon in their yard work, and, as he asserts, was thrown off by a sudden start or a sudden stop, and
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run over. The negligence alleged was the failure of the train men to put him off before moving, and the rapid action in starting and stopping. Other facts were set up concerning the condition of the yard in which the accident happened, which ran from Hastings street across a block, and the use of it as a place of pastime by children, and some similar matters, all of which, although gone into on the trial, were finally ruled to be improper by the judge in his charge, This final ruling was in accordance with the decision of this Court in Chicago & N.W. Ry. Co. v. Smith, 46 Mich. 504, concerning such premises, where it was held, in a very similar case in all its circumstances, that the company could not be held, under such circumstances, for anything less than wanton and gross negligence involving reckless misconduct. Under the charge, as already given, the jury were directed not to find for plaintiff unless the engineer actually saw the plaintiff on the foot-board. If so, the court held he should not have started the train while the boy was on it, but should have ordered him off; and, in giving this charge, the court said it was conceded that the boy was on the foot-board, and assumed the boy said the engineer saw him before starting.
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It was not disputed, but admitted on the argument in this Court, that, if the engineer actually saw the boy on the footboard before moving, he would be bound to use efficient care to prevent injury to him; but it is denied that he was on the foot-board, or, if so, was seen by the engineer, or any one else, in that position. The fact that the boy himself is the only witness who says the engineer saw him renders another question important, which is how far his testimony was admissible. Upon examining the testimony, we find that, while there are witnesses for plaintiff who swear to his being on the footboard, they do not agree as to the circumstances or cause of his being thrown from the board., On the part of the defense there is testimony which is not consistent with his being
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there, as well as positive testimony that he was not seen if there. The declaration does not aver that he was seen, but merely that he might have been seen with proper diligence, but it does aver he was on the board and thrown off. There was conflicting testimony as to the likelihood or possibility of seeing him on the board. He himself says he ran back and forth over it while the engine was not moving, and finally got on it just before starting, and then stayed on till he fell off. He also says he faced the engine, while the other testimony would not so indicate.
All of this shows the great importance of this particular fact, and the danger of assuming it when the testimony conflicted. So it was equally important to know whether, if seen at all, he was seen before starting, as the duty to keep off a child entirely could not be quite the same as the duty which would arise from seeing him already on a moving train. Most of the testimony indicates that there was nothing unusual in the running or stopping of the train after it started. This theory was not laid before the jury so as to call their attention to its significance.
The boy's own testimony as to how he fell off is not quite the same in the direct as on the cross-examination. On the direct, the impression he gives is that he was thrown off by a sudden starting and jerk. On the cross-examination he says he was carried forward, and in no other direction, with the engine, until near the switch, and then fell oft close by the switch. Rosa Bushey, one of his witnesses, on the other hand, says the engine went back with him towards Hastings street before taking him east to the switch. Tean,another of his witnesses, swore his back was towards the engineer while he was standing on the board, and that his hands were under the hand-rail. The testimony was by no means uniform upon the important matters on which this charge bore. The charge seemed to go upon the idea that the plaintiff's account was the one to be chiefly acted on by the jury, in
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connection with his testimony concerning the engineer, and there was no other testimony which covered that matter directly. He does not swear positively that the engineer saw him, but his testimony undoubtedly tends that way, but, when all compared, leaves the time and circumstances of such seeing in doubt. Without it, as the court substantially charged, there was no case for the jury. In connection with this there was testimony of the plaintiff himself that the engineer, when he saw him, told the fireman not to ring the bell until the little fellow got off, and there is no testimony that after this warning the boy showed himself, if he did at all, to the engineer. The court committed error in treating controverted facts as undisputed, as well as in saying the plaintiff should recover if the engineer saw him, without reference to the time and circumstances of seeing him.
Passing by minor points, this makes it necessary to determine concerning the admissibility of this proof. It has been held by this Court, as well as courts generally, that the fact that a child is under seven years does not create an absolute disability to testify. This was held in McGwire v. People, 44 Mich. 286,and is the doctrine of the text-books. But the authorities all agree that a child cannot testify unless capable of appreciating the obligation of his oath, if he takes an oath, or of his affirmation if that is substituted. And this is upon the ground that a witness must be under some pressure, arising out of the solemnity of the occasion, beyond the ordinary obligation of truth-telling. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 367; 1 Phil, c 2 (C. & H.), and notes. One or the other of these methods of attestation is required of all witnesses, children or adults, and persons unsworn cannot testify unless they prefer the other form, which in this State is under the pains and penalties of perjury.
The fact that this child was to be put under oath or affirmation was not brought to his attention at all, so as to show whether he did or did not understand the bearing or effect
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of it. He merely said he must tell the truth, or he would go to hell; but, when asked about any other consequences, he showed entire ignorance, and only said that his mother told him the day before that he would go to hell if he did not speak the truth. This is all that he said bearing on his veracity. He was examined by counsel, and not particularly tested by the court, and the court, without making any personal examination, or certifying or in any way giving an opinion that the boy understood the nature or obligation of an oath or affirmation, left it all to the jury, to be tested by the ordinary questioning and cross-questioning by counsel. This is what might, no doubt, be safe with many other persons besides children who usually tell the truth, and may have their truth substantially tested, whether sworn or not. But the law entitles parties to insist that all witnesses shall be put under some solemn obligation before testifying, and excludes witnesses who are incapable of understanding its sanction. As Mr. Starkie very well explains it, this is not done because the law imputes guilt or blame to those who do not appreciate it, but because it requires the highest attainable sanction for testimony. 1 Starkie, Ev. 22. It is not left to courts to let in everything which, in their general opinion, or in the case of the particular witness, might be safe. Neither does it rest on any particular belief. Any one may take the oath or obligation that accords with his own opinions, but he must do the one or the other. And he must be able to comprehend it. Upon this there is no conflict in the cases. It is necessarily to be left very much to the discretion of the trial judge if he undertakes to exercise that discretion, and acts upon such an examination as satisfies his own mind. He should conduct this examination as in his judgment will be effectual. It cannot safely be left to counsel to make the examination. In McGuire's Case, before referred to, the judge gave a careful personal examination to the child, and formed a distinct opinion of his own, founded
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on that examination. As the preliminary inquiry cannot be and is not under oath, there is the strongest reason for very careful aption by the judge himself on his official responsibility. The cases and text-books recognize this distinctly. See -1 Greenl. Bv. §§ 367, 368, and notes; 1 Edw. Phil. Ev. 11, and notes. In England it has been held that recent teaching for the occasion is not in itself sufficient, because the knowledge thus received may not be comprehended. 1 Edw. Phil. Ev. 12; Bex v. Williams, 1 Car. & P. 320. A careful judicial examination is much more satisfactory than answers which may or may not be really intelligent. The child's capacity and disposition to answer correctly and candidly such questioning as may be given is of the utmost consequence, because even among mature witnesses it is not always easy to discriminate between actual knowledge and what is accepted on hearsay and inference. It is obviously necessary for the court to be satisfied that the child will be disposed to tell the truth under some sense of obligation. In children of tender age no reasonable person would expect a complete power of discriminating between his means and sources of knowledge; and more or less undesigned coloring and misrecollection is almost inevitable. There can be no criminal responsibility in a young child, and the care used must therefore be rather in ascertaining his capacity and disposition than in impressing the terrors of the law. We are compelled to apply the law as we find it, until changed by legislation. But we are greatly impressed with the practical imperfection of the present rales. In France, and probably elsewhere, the courts refuse to administer an
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oath to children of tender years, and allow them to be examined without anything more than suitable cautions, leaving their statements on direct and cross-examination to be taken for what they are worth. This seems to be a sensible proceeding, and is probably quite as efficacious as our own system, and less likely to abuse. There is a proper desire in courts to receive such testimony as will throw light on the case, and there is no doubt that in practice children are often allowed to testify whose legal capacity to do so is very liberally construed. It would be better, we think, to put their testimony on the more rational ground that it is calculated to be of some value, and capable, under a proper examination, of being reasonably well weighed for what it is worth. The other points do not require much consideration. It is possible the instructions concerning damages were open to some criticism, but the judge appears to have desired to prevent any wild estimates, and it is not very easy to be precise concerning all the elements to be considered in such a case. The charge was intended to keep out improper considerations as far as possible, and to undo some rulings made earlier in the case which were found improper. In cases like this, however, it is not possible, after argument, to undo the effect of important testimony once in, and impressed on the jury by counsel.
For the reasons given, the judgment should be reversed and a new trial granted.
SHERWOOD and CHASIPLIX, J J . , concurred.
MOESE, J. [dissenting). In this case there is ample testimony, outside of the evidence of Hughes, that the boy was standing on the foot-board of the engine in such a position as to be easily discernible by the engineer and fireman. The foot-board was about eight feet in length, and the testimony is undisputed that he stood upon the south end of this foot-
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board. The evidence of all who claimed to have seen him there before the accident places him upon that end of the board.
The measurements and experiments show that he could have been seen from the front cab-window unless he stood in a space in the center, not over three feet in width, leaving from two and one-half to three feet of each end of .the footboard visible, so that a boy siting down could have bean observed from this cab-window.
The boy himself testifies that the engineer looked at him when he got on the board, and before the engine started, and that the engineer recognized that he was on by saying to his fireman " not to ring the bell until the little fellow gets off." In order to prevent a recovery in this case it is necessary to get rid of the boy's testimony; and an earnest argument was directed to this Court to establish the proposition that the age ' of the child, and his ignorance of the nature of an oath, as developed by his preliminary examination in the court below, should have led in that court to the rejection of his testimony. I, for one, take no stock in this proposition, and have but little patience to examine such an argument. I cannot consent for a moment to any rule of law, however well fortified by remote or later decisions of the courts, that will practically exclude the testimony of children under seven years of age, and leave them, in many cases, without redress for wrongs committed upon them.
Our criminal annals are full of cases where little girls under seven years of age are outraged and maltreated by fiends in human form. They are entitled, above all others, to the thorough and complete protection of the law; and I shall place no obstacles in the way of the punishment of the miserable and depraved beings who are capable of such crimes against nature and the law. If an extraordinary intelligence is required in the child, if she must understand the nature of an oath or affirmation, and that without any recent teaching,
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as one English case seems to hold (Rex v. Williams, 7 Car. & P. 320), before she can testify, then there is necessarily an absolute prohibition against her testimony; and any injury to her, unless some one is present to witness the act except the perpetrator, must go unpunished and unredressed. The most ignorant and depraved adult, under all the authorities, can testify under oath or by affirmation, and no preliminary examination to test his intelligence is required or provided for. There can be found but few, if any, children of the age of this colored boy that have any idea, without teaching, of the nature of an oath. Though we may take pains to instruct our children from the moment they can prattle that they must tell the truth, it is seldom, if ever, that we take the trouble to instruct our infants in the practice of the courts, or the nature or the obligations of oaths there taken. But if an injury should happen to one of them, which ought to find redress in the courts, we would be apt, and I think we would have the right, to then instruct the child, not only to tell the truth, but of the nature and obligation of the oath which it would be required to take.
The object of all judicial inquiry is to ascertain and determine the truth, and an oath is but a means to that end. It is not necessary now that an adult should believe in hell, or any other punishment after death, in order to be a competent witness; and the catechism of a child upon that subject, as was done in this case, is not only ridiculous, but absurd. Children should have at least equal rights with adults in this respect.
There can be but little, if any, trouble, in these cases, of determining the truth or falsity of the testimony of a child.
The danger of perjury comes from the examination of older and more experienced persons, who take the oath at once, without fear and without question. The proper way, in my judgment, is to examine the child upon the subject of its intelligence, and, if found capable by the trial judge of un-
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derstanding the nature and force of the oath or obligation to be taken, after proper instruction by the court as to the duty of telling the truth, and the consequences attending falsehood, the oath should be administered, and the testimony received by the court, to be tested and weighed by the jury according to the usual standards.
In the present case, the boy evidently understood that he must tell the truth, and that he would be punished here for a falsehood, though he did not know what the punishment would be, and thought that G-od would inflict it. Who will say that he was not right even in this, or deny that Deity does not in this world find means to punish the evil-doer with the pangs of conscience, if not otherwise. After the preliminary examination, the court permitted the boy to be sworn, and said:
"I don't know, gentlemen; I think I will have to receive the testimony for what it is worth. The jury can judge as to the competency of his statement. My experience and observation has been—and it has been quite extensive—that where children have to tell a complicated story, if they make mistakes, the mistakes are very apparent to the jury. You have the power of cross-examination, and such cross-examination, if conducted kindly and fairly, as I know it would be in this case, will lay before the jury quite accurately the intelligence of the boy, and the degree of credit that he ought to receive." I think the court did not err in this action, and that his remarks were sound, in common sense and in law. The boy was closely and keenly cross-examined by competent and shrewd counsel, and displayed an intelligence upon such examination not surpassed by any witness, and not equaled by some. And his evidence impresses me with its truth. His story of the transaction is candid and straightforward throughout, and unusually intelligent in its detail. The jury believed it, and there is, in my opinion, absolutely no reason for shutting it out of the case. If we are to discard the simple, unaffected narration 'of this child because he is not of an age to be punished criminally for telling a lie,
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and yet to receive in all cases, as we do, the evidence of suspected and condemned felons, Bubject only to the credence that a jury may give them, then the law is not, as I understand it, a safeguard and a protection to the innocent, and a terror to the evil-doer.
I find no error in the proceedings, and believe that the judgment is right as it now stands.
Link to the PDF of the Original Case Report
- This is the text of Hughes v. Detroit, Grand Have & Milwaukee Railway Company, 65 Mich 10 (1887). Also published as 31 NW 603 (1887).
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Inflation rose by 2.4% in the 12 months to June 2021, the highest level in almost three years, after the easing of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions prompted a rise in demand for goods and services.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the fourth consecutive month of rising inflation rates was driven by higher food and fuel costs, as well as a boost in people eating out and staying in overnight accommodation.
Clothing and footwear prices also increased alongside housing, household services and furniture.
Jonathan Athow, deputy national statistician for economic statistics at the ONS, said:
"Some of the increase is from temporary effects, for example rising fuel prices which continue to increase inflation, but much of this is due to prices recovering from lows earlier in the pandemic."
The Bank of England expects inflation to push above 3% by the end of the year before falling back towards its 2% inflation rate target.
It recently ruled out putting up interest rates as a way to combat inflation, reflecting its prediction that costs will fall on their own.
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Throughout my life I only saw mental health issues on the TV. I considered mental health issues as other people problems until I saw it manifest within my family and friends. Now I'm scared of the thought that someone I love, cherish, and respect could experience something dramatic and terrifying alone. Even worse, being hurt/kill while reaching out for help.
A sad by-product of going through a mental health crisis and using social media as a “call for help” is that person's reputation is shredded and people who aren't dedicated to that person safety. I have found that this adds to the drama and fuel the fire of paranoia.
The app is called “Help Me” and is designed primarily as an “SOS” (distress signal) to a selected circle of trusted people.
- One push of a button will send a “I am having a mental crisis” message and a location to the trusted people.
- Create a trusted community around the user with private conversations and a system to show their emotions. This will help the trusted people to be aware of the user range of emotions.
Miguel Hernandez and I have entered the DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon as a avenue to build this app. The category is Program for the People and specifically mental health.
This is an opportunity to learn, build, deploy, and scale an application with DigitalOcean.
An GitHub repository was quickly spun up to a basic Angular application. We used GitHub's projects to break the app into tasks.
We talked about what parts of the application that we know how to complete and what parts will be a challenge. We discussed what would be to consider an MVP version, version 2, and version 3.
We decided to use Angular 11 for front-end and NodeJS for the backend. TailwindCSS will be used for styling. The app will be hosted on the DigitalOcean platform. Finally, GitHub will be used for version control and GitHub projects for task management.
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Thailand is a popular travel destination and millions of tourists from all over the world travel to the Southeast Asian country every year. In particular, the heavenly beaches and dreamy islands in the south of the country attract countless visitors. In the north of Thailand, however, tourism is calmer and more relaxed. The area is more authentic and unadulterated. There are no islands or beaches here, but the region has its own wonderful charm. Culture, ethnic minorities, tropics, and mountains shape the northern part of the country. Countless national parks with breathtaking landscapes await you here. One of them is the Erawan National Park. Erawan is the name of a mythical elephant with 3 heads that played an important role in the history of Thailand for most of the rulers. The Erawan National Park is located near the city of Kanchanaburi and borders the Sai Yok National Park. The route of the death railway marks the border between the two parks. In Erawan a mountainous region with dense jungle awaits you, in which elephants, monkeys and other exotic animals live. A huge lake borders the forest area and is ideal for activities on the water. You will also be able to explore some beautiful caves here, but the absolute highlight are the waterfalls in the park. I also explored the Erawan waterfalls during my backpacking trip through Thailand and report on my experiences in this blog post. I hope you enjoy reading my travelogue and I’m glad you found my travel blog.
Overview of the waterfalls of the Erawan National Park
On the eastern edge of the Erawan National Park, a stream plunges over several imposing waterfalls into the great Khwae Yai River, which also flows through the city of Kanchanaburi. From the entrance to the national park, an approximately 3-kilometer-long hiking trail leads uphill along the waterfalls. There are a total of 7 different levels in the Erawan Park. The first two waterfalls are easily accessible for everyone. There are picnic areas, restaurants, and plenty of swimming opportunities here. Accordingly, mainly Thai families cavort here and make this area of the park a very popular travel destination. But the further you walk up, the emptier and quieter it becomes. Only a few people take the partly steep path to the remaining 5 waterfalls, although these are in no way inferior to the first two. Rather the opposite. Small fish swim in the turquoise-blue pools in front of the waterfalls and nibble at your feet, and at several viewpoints you have a wonderful view of the surrounding landscape of Thailand. But more on that later.
8 am - 4.30 pm
300 THB (Child 200 THB)
October to January
How to get to the Erawan Falls
Getting to the Erawan National Park
Getting to the falls is easy and runs through the city of Kanchanaburi. From there, a public bus (number 8170) runs from the bus station to the Erawan park entrance. I recommend taking the first bus at 8 am, as most tourists don’t arrive until around noon. A one-way trip costs 50 baht and takes about 2 hours. It is best to come early so that you can get a seat and don’t have to stand in the aisle with your head bowed. In the pictures you can see the bus schedule and the inside of the bus.
Getting to Kanchanaburi
As already mentioned, I recommend arriving via Kanchanaburi. Buses and minivans run regularly from Bangkok to the city from Sai Tai Mai bus station or Mo Chit. You have to reckon with around 150 to 250 Baht for the approximately 3-hour journey. You can buy tickets directly at the counter, but in the high season I recommend reserving tickets in advance.
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The route through Erawan Park
After the bus comes to a stop in front of the entrance, a ranger gets on the bus and distributes the tickets for entry to Erawan Park (300 baht for adults). There are some food stalls in the parking lot where I can get some provisions. Then I follow the paved hiking path along a small river and mainly meet Thai families there. A family man who I obviously feel sorry for me asks me why I am traveling alone. Wouldn’t that be boring? But his whining children and listless-looking wife confirm that I made the right decision. Soon we reach a huge area with the first and second level of the waterfalls. The second waterfall is particularly impressive. It bears the name of the national park because it is divided into three parts like the three-headed elephant Erawan. The area is ideal for swimming and relaxing. Picnic areas, restaurants and plenty of seating are in the immediate vicinity. Mainly families and tourists who are brought with tour providers gather at this attraction. Early in the morning it is still quite empty here, but on my way back people crowded here on the shore.
The most beautiful waterfall in Erawan
Since I want to get to the top as early as possible to have the small pools to myself, I follow the small path towards the summit. Over a small bridge it goes into the dense jungle. I quickly reach the third level, which is to the right of the path. It looks like a little paradise. An imposing waterfall falls into a turquoise pool where a local bathes. Fish swim on the banks of the clear water, waiting for food. Rock walls and tropical plants rise into the sky around this natural pool and give the place a heavenly atmosphere. For me, the most beautiful waterfall in the Erawan Park.
Short Facts for your Trip
The Erawan National Park has a tropical-monsoonal climate. The main season is characterized by cool (26°C) but dry weather (October to February). From March to May it is very hot (> 30 ° C). Then the rainy season begins at the end of May and brings a lot of rainfall and storms over the country. Accordingly, the waterfalls carry the most water during the transition from rainy to high season and are particularly rewarding. I visited the falls at the end of March and the river was very dry and hardly carried any water, but it was still very beautiful. You will find a climate table on the following page.
Erawan’s fish spas and viewpoints
The hiking path gets steeper and curves through the dense forest before returning to the fourth level of the river. Here the masses of water plunge over two large rocks into a large pool with turquoise water, which is perfect for swimming. Unfortunately, I visit Erawan Park in March at a time of the year when the river has little water. Because normally you can slide over the two rocks into the cool water here. So, I sit on the edge, put my feet in the clear water and let the small fish nibble on my feet. A free natural fish spa.
A wooden staircase, the steps of which are streaked with roots and rocks, leads further up into the mountains. The trail becomes more slippery and narrow. Sturdy shoes are definitely recommended. I come to a lookout point that promises a wonderful view over the vastness of the Erawan National Park. In the distance the green mountains stand out and clouds hang deep in the valleys in between. I sit down, enjoy the view, and let my thoughts run free. The background noise in the forest is only a small foretaste of the biodiversity that must prevail in the vastness of the jungle in front of me. How likely is it that I will see wild elephants on my trip through Thailand? A monkey that suddenly races over the railing and immediately disappears again interrupts my thoughts. I’m on my way again.
The waterfalls in the upper area of Erawan
After a short hike uphill, I come to the fifth level of the river. A spacious place awaits me, where small rocks in the river form a multitude of cascades. Since the water level is very low in March in Erawan National Park, this area looks very bare. The water flows barely noticeably over only a few rocks and does not necessarily give the appearance of a waterfall. However, pictures on the Internet from other seasons show a wonderful area that definitely invites you to swim and relax. A little above this area I discover a small, idyllic place where the water forms a pool. Another good opportunity for a fish spa.
I only meet a few people. The path becomes more demanding and the jungle thicker. Soon I reach a junction to the sixth level. This waterfall is also not particularly spectacular due to the drought in spring. Nonetheless, the remote place offers a real jungle feeling with its green backdrop, the splashing water, and the sounds of the animals.
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The highest waterfall in Erawan Park and a private pool
The last part of the hike is tough because it’s another 100 meters uphill. I don’t meet any more tourists this morning and excitedly walk to the seventh level of the river. A small pool awaits me, the clear water of which shimmers turquoise in the sun. Small fish swim excitedly on the edge when they see me on the bank. I don’t have any swimwear with me, but I go into the inviting water. Immediately I take a refreshing shower under the cold waterfall that falls over a rock into the pool in front of a cave. The climb was more than worth it, because where do you have such a shower all to yourself? Apart from the small fish, of course, which, as soon as I stand still, immediately start nibbling on me.
If you prefer to travel in a group, there is a possibility to join a guided tour. You don’t have to worry about transportation, excursion planning, or food, but you can completely focus on the beauty of Erawan National Park. I recommend booking a tour through Get Your Guide portal, where countless activities around the world can be booked easily and safely.
Conclusion on the waterfalls in Erawan Park
The waterfalls in the Erawan National Park are definitely worth a visit. I recommend coming straight after the rainy season, because then the river carries a lot of water. During the dry season, some areas were barely filled with water. It was nice and worthwhile anyway. It’s best to arrive early in the morning so that you can avoid the tourist rush around noon. I also recommend going straight to the seventh level. Because then there is the chance to have the paradisiacal pool all to yourself. The way there is about 2.5 kilometers long and requires an ascent of 200 meters. The trail is easy to tackle, but quite steep, especially at the end. Sturdy shoes are definitely recommended.
The water is incredibly clear and turquoise. At every pool or waterfall, I felt the need to jump into the water. Be sure to think of swimwear. But not only the waterfalls, but also the backdrop of the jungle make this place an unforgettable experience. The entrance fee is a bit too high in my opinion but shouldn’t be a reason to miss Erawan Park. I would definitely come back.
Accommodation and hotels in the Erawan National Park
The city of Kanchanaburi is a good starting point for the Erawan Falls, especially if you rely on public transport. There are a variety of accommodations* in the city, so you will definitely find a suitable place to stay. Furthermore, there are many sights in Kanchanaburi itself. Of course there are also accommodations in other places around the Erawan National Park. You can find a selection under the following link.
I hope you enjoyed my travelogue about the Erawan waterfalls. Further down the article you will find even more attractions near to the national park. Moreover, on my Thailand Blog I show you other beautiful travel destinations in Thailand and share valuable tips and experiences for your trip to Thailand. Did you like my blog post? Was I able to help you? Then I would be happy if you recommend my travel blog, leave a comment, or follow me on Instagram. Thanks for reading and have fun on your vacation in Thailand.
Sights and attractions in the Erawan National Park
In the national park there are some caves with stalactites and stalagmites inside. The best known is the Phra That Cave, which is located west of the National Park administration. There are also the Ta Duang, the Mi, the Wang Badan and the Rua caves in the park. The caves are closed to visitors on some days and a ranger is sometimes required for the visit. The best thing to do is to ask the administration for more information.
North of the Erawan National Park is the huge Sinakharin Reservoir. Here you can expect wonderful views of the blue water and an impressive dam wall. Activities on the water are also possible here.
The city of Kanchanaburi is a 2-hour drive south and offers some must-see attractions. The Khwae Yai River that flows through the city is particularly beautiful. Additionally, the famous bridge on the Kwai leads over this. The Thailand-Burma Railway, also known as the “Death Railway“, runs here. I took the train from Kanchanaburi to the Nam Tok terminus and highly recommend the ride.
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I read a lot about human behavior and decision-making. And what I’ve learned is that while there is immense value in technical guidelines and data, emotion is absolutely central to how human beings make decisions.
Have you ever attended a public meeting where removing parking was on the table? Or where sidewalks were proposed in a historic neighborhood? If so, you probably noticed that gut feelings spoke louder than evidence that there would still be plenty of places to park or data proving that sidewalks make people safer.
It turns out that transportation is very emotional. So why do we shy away from this reality when we do our work? Feeling emotions is part of living authentically, and there is no reason we can’t be authentic and professional at the same time.
As a consultant, I’ve been trained to approach my job from a technical and objective standpoint, and for a long time, I thought that’s what it was all about. The turning point for me was the convergence of two things: my work on the Denver Vision Zero Action Plan and the birth of my first child.
Like most parents, the transition back to work wasn’t easy and I experienced all kinds of conflicting emotions. But in helping to create Denver’s Vision Zero plan, I felt my work had a more direct and important impact on my city—and, by extension, people’s lives—than ever before. And while the traffic crash data was certainly telling, the things that stuck with me the most were talking to people from all walks of life at high-crash intersections, hearing victims’ stories, and visiting fatal crash sites within days of the tragedies. I came to see how a technical approach and emotion should connect: while data and analysis are critical to selecting and implementing the right solutions, it takes emotion to create a shared vision, make decisions about big-picture issues, and catalyze organizations toward change.
During that first year as a mom, it was hard to not be paranoid about traffic safety statistics while walking, biking, or driving around with my daughter. Our industry has the data and information we need about pedestrian deaths, street design factors, distracted driving, and speeding. We know enough to make real systematic changes, but perhaps we need emotion to remind us of why we need to get out of our own way and act.
Like all of us, I want my family to be able to safely travel in my neighborhood and beyond. And I want to know that I’ve done everything I can do to make that possible for all of us.
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By Ayathuray Rajasingam –
Sri Lanka is a country practicing pluralism. The 13th Amendment was a bi-product of the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord which provided room for a political system where the Provincial Councils also could enjoy power with the view to comply with aspirations of the aggrieved community. But Sri Lanka deliberately refused to allocate the required funds and power for the North-East Province for development and ignored the 13th Amendment which was a bi-product of the Peace Accord. In stead the Mahinda Rajapakse government de-merged the North-East Province and violated the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord, the result of which saw the rise of rise of Islamic terrorism in the Eastern Province.
Now Gotabaya Rajapaksa after assuming office wanted to implement ‘one law, one country’ policy which will have complex issues in implementing it. In a country practicing pluralism, any attempt to implement the policy of ‘one country, one law’ often results at the expense of the rights of the minority. The Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was signed mainly to avoid marginalization of Tamils so that the Minority Tamils will preserve and protect their identity. This will reduce the intensifying their protests. On the contrary it will promote mutual understanding and cooperation with the majority Sinhalese in all aspects and feel as Sri Lankans. Otherwise, the hardening of the ‘one country, one law’ policy can cause increased intolerance and even armed ethnic conflict. In the current situation where India and China are competing for supremacy, there is a strong possibility that China supported this idea to nullify the impact of the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord with the view to expand its activities from Sri Lanka. | <urn:uuid:3685dc06-f076-42fa-88ce-19bff0d0a17b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uktamilnews.com/2020/09/07/will-the-indo-sri-lanka-peace-accord-13th-amendment-be-wiped-out/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953811 | 370 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Like other German Jewish thinkers of her generation, Arendt was obsessed with temporality in general—beginnings, birth, the seasons of life, finality, closure, and death. Like other German-Jewish thinkers she considered time as an answer to the question of identity and what we call in the present “identity politics.” As we will discuss, Arendt’s whole political philosophy could (and should) be read from a temporal perspective; time was for her the most important hermeneutic principle underlying politics and identity, revolutions and constitutions, collectives and the individual, Christianity and Judaism.
Nitzan Lebovic is associate professor of History at Lehigh University. He received his B.A. in History and Theory of Literature from Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D. from UCLA. His first book, titled The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics (2013) focuses on the circle around the Lebensphilosophie and anti-Semitic thinker Ludwig Klages. His second book, Zionism and Melancholy: The Short Life of Israel Zarchi, came out in Hebrew in 2015 and is expected soon in English. Nitzan is also co-editor of The Politics of Nihilism (2014) and of Catastrophes: A History and Theory of an Operative Concept (2014), and has authored special issues of Rethinking History (Nihilism), Zmanim (Religion and Power), and The New German Critique (Political Theology). Professor Lebovic regularly teaches classes about the history of the Holocaust, the history of total war, introduction to modern Jewish culture, and the history of fascism. He is particularly proud of already having a small number of students that he has helped in their academic journey, in Israel, Germany, and the United States. | <urn:uuid:e039e9f5-e107-4ed1-9734-0d5be758c6b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dlcl.stanford.edu/events/%E2%80%9Channah-arendt-time-politics%E2%80%9D | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954884 | 387 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Previously unknown fragments of the Egyptian Book of the Dead were found in the Kyiv Institute of Manuscripts of the V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
Previously unknown and the only one in Kyiv fragments of the Egyptian Book of the Dead are stored in the Institute of Manuscripts of V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. Mykola Tarasenko, Senior Fellow at A.Yu. Krymskiy Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, started to study them as far back as 2015. However, he reported on the first results of his work only on this November 17 at the “XXI A. Krymskyi Readings in Oriental Studies”.
The Book of the Dead is the modern name of the collection of the ancient Egyptian funeral anthems and religious texts. Its original name – “The Spells for Coming Forth by Day”, and it bears no relation to the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Ancient Egyptians put papyri with the texts of the Book of the Dead in the tomb with the dead to help them to overcome the obstacles and dangers of the other world.
The study of various examples of this source helps us to better understand the worldview and culture of the ancient Egypt that influenced the further development of our civilization. This is precisely why Bonn Totenbuchprojekt, one of the most large-scale and expensive international projects in humanities that lasted 12 years, was dedicated to the study of the Book of the Dead. Nearly fifty researches were involved in it – almost all of them are the leading world experts in this field, and Mykola Tarasenko represented Ukraine as a part of it in 2007.
Nearly three thousand samples of the Book of the Dead, stored in various countries, were put on record within the framework of this project. Ukraine has six fragmented Egyptian papyri, inclusive of with the texts of the Book of the Dead. Until recently they were stored in one place – the Odessa Archaeological Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Pieces of history
Mykola Tarasenko paid attention to the small collection of Oriental manuscripts, stored in the Institute of Manuscripts of the V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in the stock of “Library of St. Volodymyr Kyiv University”. Among other things, you may find here calendars in Turkish and Arabic languages, Tibetan and Sanskrit manuscripts, as well as fragments that were indicated in the inventory list as “Egyptian hieroglyphs on papyrus”. Prior to that they were under the field of vision of the Egyptologists. The origin of all these documents is not yet known with certainty, but Mykola Tarasenko suggests that they were one of the private pre-revolutionary collections.
EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS FROM THE COLLECTION OF EASTERN MANUSCRIPTS CONSISTS OF 36 FRAGMENTS. THE LARGEST OF THEM IS 5.1×3.5 CM IN SIZE, THE SMALLEST ONE – 0.7×0.6 CM.
The Egyptian papyrus from this collection consists of 36 fragments. The largest of them is 5.1×3.5 cm in size, the smallest one is only 0.7×0.6 cm. Fragments are placed between two glass plates, and small piece of mummy bandage is stored in the envelope along with them. There is a likelihood that it belonged to the very same mummy, on which papyrus was found. Text of the papyrus is written in Hieratic (one of the forms of Egyptian writing. – Editor’s note).
The name of the papyrus owner failed to stand the test of time, but it is known that it was a woman. This is particularly evidenced by the shape of the wig on the remained parts of the vignettes and by the text on one of the fragments. This text is translated in such a manner: “[so that] her Ba-soul [could see] her (dead) body”. Feminine pronoun “her” is used here, which is the indicative of the gender.
This very excerpt affords ground to take up the position that papyrus was created in the late IV – early III centuries B.C. and falls into one of 11 groups (or so-called textual traditions), distinguished by the Egyptologists. This very group is marked as Louvre N. 3079; nine documents that are stored in museums of London, Paris, New York and other European cities fall into it.
The style and design of the papyrus point up the fact that it is highly likely that it was created in Thebes, former capital of ancient Egypt that was located on the ground of present-day Luxor.
СHAPTERS OF KYIV PAPYRUS REFER TO THE THIRD PART OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD – “COMING FORTH BY DAY” AND CONTAIN THE SPELLS ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE DECEASED INTO THE DEITY, ITS INTRODUCTION TO THE SUN SHIP, COGNITION OF MAGIC MYSTERIES, RETURN TO THE TOMB, AS WELL AS “WEIGHING THE HEART” AND UNDERWORLD COURT OF OSIRIS
Moreover, we succeeded in identification of some chapters of the Book of the Dead, to which Kyiv city fragments belong. For instance, chapter 87 “Spell for being transformed into a (snake) Sa-ta” may be recognized by the survived images of this very snake on one of the fragments. This and other chapters that were successfully identified refer to so-called third section of the Book of the Dead – “Coming Forth by Day” that combines chapters 64 to 129. This part of the Book of the Dead contains rhetoric about the spells on the transformation of the deceased into the deity, its introduction to the Sun ship, cognition of magic mysteries, return to the tomb, as well as “weighing the heart” and underworld court of Osiris.
Who is Felix Rönne?
It is still an open question, how papyrus turned out to be in Kyiv. Prompting the answer may be the inscription on the envelope, where this document is stored jointly with the bandage fragment: “Small fragments extracted from the Egyptian mummy in 1825 by Felix Rönne”.
It is unclear, where exactly bandage was taken off the mummy and where papyrus was pulled out. This could happen in one of the “anatomical theatres” of Europe or directly within Egypt alike. Then, perhaps, afore-referenced Felix Rönne presented the fragments of papyrus to the new owner, but who was this owner – remains unclear. On the other hand, there is some information about Felix Rönne himself.
Dr. Marc Etienne from Louvre, to whom Mykola Tarasenko turned for professional advice, made an assumption that this is one of the representatives of aristocratic lineage von Rönne, who lived in Lithuania in XIX–XX centuries. Complexity lies in the fact that there were only two Felixes among them: Felix I. Baron von Rönne, who was born in 1750, and his second son Felix II. Baron von Rönne, who was born in 1797. Both of them – people of knowledge and philanthropists, but who exactly of them may be the first owner of papyrus, is still unclear. Perhaps, some light on the origin of the document may be thrown by postal stamps and sign on the envelope.
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In the previous blog, we talked about 10 high-tech gadgets that you can buy to make your home “Truly Futuristic”. And since we promised in our previous blog, let’s talk about some more cool high tech gadgets for your futuristic home without wasting any time.
- LED Ceiling –
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Future is all about accomplishing things with dynamism and ease. Hence, Seo Dong-Hun brings this interesting concept of LED Ceiling. The Dong-Hun’s Concept for a customizable ceiling gives you the freedom and flexibility of lighting for different settings and parties.
In this, the ceiling is designed as web of circular LED units, which can be customized as per our choice or mood using the light wand remote. The light wand communicates through a sensor inside LED units.
- LULA – Lung Lamp –
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This lamp helps check the quality of air that surrounds you. When connected to the internet, it gives you data on possible health issues that may arise with prolonged exposure. The blue light indicates pure air and the yellow tinges indicates of unhealthy air.
Also Read : Cool Office Gadgets for Gizmo Freaks – Part 1
- WAT lamp –
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This lamp has an outrageously futuristic concept. It generates lights when fed with water, which acts as a fuel for this lamp. Water fuels a hydroelectric battery that generated the power required for its functioning. Designed by a French designer Manon LeBlanc, it is a cordless lamp composed of hydroelectric battery and carbon stick covered with magnesium stick to provide a charming warm light. The lampshade is made from sanded blow glass with the top made of bioplastic for securing and insulating the battery and holding water.
- WAVE Ultra Sonic Wine Ager and Refrigerator –
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This is an ultimate device for Wine Lovers who cannot purchase wine rack due to shortage of space. Designer Mika Yamamoto has paved the solution for this problem so you can continue to cherish your love for wine. He has come up with a unique concept for ageing and refrigerating the wines in his created device WAVE Ultrasonic Wine Ager and Refrigerator.
This appliance features two-layered shelves, the inner wall emits ultrasonic waves helping the ageing of wine by acting on a molecular level. The door comprises of touchscreen which serves as a navigation panel for settings and other information about the wine kept inside, ageing speed, information on the history of wine and much more.
- SWAN Umbrella Dryer –
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All of us would have witnessed a nasty situation in rainy season when people get inside the mall, shops, public places and even our homes with wet umbrellas eventually wetting the floor. This can cause risk of fall injury and some of us would also have been the victim of the same. Our Savior is concept gadget Swan Umbrella Dryer. Hence, instead of asking our guests to leave their umbrellas at a place near the entrance that might sound rude, we can ask them to dry their umbrella in this unique dryer.
- 1 Limit Faucet –
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Though our planet earth comprises of 75% water, it’s still very important to preserve this life-giving elixir. One of the areas where we could try to save maximum water is in our Homes. Most of the faucets output about 6 Litres of water in half a minute, and of which we use only about one and half a litre. Hence, the rest just strains down the drain.
Yonggu Do, Dohyung Kim & Sewon Oh designed an elegant faucet that limits the water usage. The faucet is more like an inverted test tube attached on the top of the tap. The glass tube holds in total 1 litre of water, more than enough for a quick hand wash. Test tube is refilled only after the 1 litre is finished.
- ICHEF + Oven –
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This concept gives your oven a futuristic look, very unlikely then we have it now. ICHEF + Oven has two distinct features one is of memorizing the cookbook and second the robotic chef. The Oven is equipped with a computer brain rather than a simple microcontroller. The design of the oven is very user-friendly with a touch screen panel. The oven makes cooking and baking much more easy and efficient. In order, to cook food successfully, the oven helps you in determining the food and its weight, eventually activates the oven.
ICHEF has three modes – MyBake, ProBake and StepBake. The modes have stages in the cooking process like defrosting, baking, and holding warm also saving the recipes and programs at the same time. This modern oven can control cooking time and temperature and assure that it never gets burnt.
- Hi-Can Bed –
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When so many things around are getting, the future look so, why not our furniture. The Hi-Can bed is equipped with remote controlled blinds to give maximum darkness at any time of the day. It is also built in with the HD projector and high quality audio system. You can also adjust the lighting and mattress height.
- Acoustable –
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Acoustable is a High-Tech Coffee Table which has an embedded sound system in it. It is designed by Belgian Designers Jerome Spriet and Wolfgang Bregentzer. Acoustable is a multi-functional table which includes Teac speakers, woofers and stereo amplifier with USB and iPod Connection ports. The sound system is placed in a polypropylene foam between the table’s base and top surface. The shape of the table depicts the natural curves of an elastic membrane and fills the space suggestively and so its sound.
- IQ Alarm Clock –
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That sound of the alarm is pretty much obnoxious in the morning and still it becomes a tough task to get on time. Well, this new smart futuristic alarm to our surprise doesn’t have the snooze button functionality. Instead it would pose you with some riddles to solve to silent the blaring alarm. Hence, this smart IQ Alarm clock makes it sure that you get up fast and in time rather than relying on that snooze button.
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Zheng-tong: Year 14, Month 6, Day 19
8 Jul 1449
Zhan Ying, instructor of the Confucian school in Hui-chuan Guard, Si-chuan, advised: "Previously, as the bandit son Si Ji-fa of Lu-chuan had repeatedly disturbed the borders, the Emperor ordered the generals to despatch the army and proceed to punish his crimes. However, the Jing-yuan Earl Wang Ji and the Commissioner-in-chief Gong Ju did not manifest the Emperor's wishes and instead gave rein to their own desires. Their luggage required 200-300 carrying poles, and 500-600 porters were employed to carry their variegated silks and other goods. They secretly sent officials of the military commission and other offices to seek great profits. They also dared to deliberately violate the Imperial ancestral instructions and, without permission, applied the punishment of castration. They claimed that they were going to present these people to the Court, but actually retained them for their own use. When the army was on the march, there was absolutely no discipline. The Great Army consisted of 150,000 troops and, from the day it proceeded, there was trampling and injury, without even the slightest pity being shown. Further, there were no plans made for transporting grain and each soldier carried six dou of grain. The carrying of such weight was extremely arduous. How could they be expected to be sharp and valiant! There were even some who ended up hanging themselves for this reason. Over 1,000 horses were sent for the purpose of carrying grain. I do not know what happened to these horses. Also, when they reached the bandit territory next to the Jin-sha River, they attacked but were unsuccessful, and troops were killed by the bandits. Yet, the regional commissioners and other officials sent fisher-people (漁戶) who had come to allegiance back as captured prisoners. Subsequently, they withdrew the army and divided the area between Mu-bang and Ava-Burma. And yet, they claimed their defeat as a victory and cheated Heaven to obtain rewards. Wang Ji and Gong Ju should be subject to detailed investigation. They have trifled with the law and are unrepentant. They harmed the troops and caused victory to be lost. The circumstances of their crime is such that 10,000 deaths would be too light a punishment. Formerly, during the Tang dynasty, when Nan-zhao caused alarm, the attendant censor Li Mi led 70,000 troops to rout them. The troops were defeated, but Yang Guo-zhong announced victory. Fan Zu-yu commented on this with the words of Guan-zi, saying: `When 10,000 li away from the Court, the danger of concealing the truth is extreme.' The Emperor presides over the whole Empire. How could he know of this deception. It is requested that Ji and Ju be arrested and sent to the Judicial Office, so that their crimes can be punished. However, first an honest and able official should be sent to examine and seal the luggage of the various officials, in order that the anger of Heaven might be dissipated and the hearts of the soldiers cheered." The memorial was sent to the Ministry of War, which, together with the Ministry of Justice, advised: "We should send a censor to proceed directly to Yun-nan, where he will, together with the regional inspecting censor and officials of the three offices, fairly examine whether the afore-mentioned crimes of plunder have taken place. On clarifying this point, they should memorialize, so that the matter is clarified and any crimes can be dealt with." The Emperor, having already assigned Ji and so on to proceed on an expedition of elimination against the Miao bandits, especially pardoned him and said: "Ying was aware of this. Have him follow Ju and so on and submit a self-impeachment." Ying was frightened that he would not be pardoned and he subsequently hid in another place.
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By Mike Willis
In the September-October 1997 issue of Wineskins an article was published entitled “I Just Want To Testify” by Dan Dozier. The magazine Wineskins is published by those supportive of Rubel Shelly, Max Lu- cado, and the Nashville Jubilee, if that helps you to identify its doctrinal stance. This article by Dozier tells us about the practice of “testifying” in worship assemblies.
The word “testify” is a Bible term. The word is translated from the various cognates of ma/rtus: ma/rtur, marture/w, marturi/a, martu/rion, martu/romai. The basic meaning of the word group is conveyed by ma/ rtus: “a witness (one who avers, or can aver, what he himself has seen or heard or knows by any other means)” (Thayer 392). The word is used throughout the New Testament to relate what the witnesses of Christ saw and heard from him. They could testify about his miracles, his words, his death, his resurrection because they had seen and heard the things that transpired. The words of the New Testament are the testimonies of eyewitnesses and the inspired words of men who recorded what they had seen and heard or had personally investigated.
However, the modern practice of testifying is something quite different. Men who lived nearly two thousand years after Christ are not qualified to give testimony about anything Christ did. They have never seen him nor heard him speak. Can you imagine a lawyer calling someone to give testimony about whether or not a man committed a crime, but the “witness” was on another continent and was not even born when the crime occurred? Such a lawyer would be laughed out of court.
Yet, the modern practice in many churches has “witnesses” “testifying” in churches about “what Christ has done for me.” These witnesses cannot testify about seeing Christ, for they have never seen him. They have never heard him speak one word. They have never touched him. Hence, all that they can testify about is their own subjective experience, whatever its nature may be.
Our brother became convinced that such testimony services were good in the church he attends, not because he found book, chapter, and verse to teach that it was good, but because of an experience his local church had. He tells how six teenagers and two adults related their experiences on a mission in poverty stricken regions of Mexico and Nassau. As they related their touching experiences of washing a child, feeding the hungry, and clothing those who were ill-clad, our brother said he changed his mind about testimonies in worship. Scripture did not change his mind, but experience did.
As a matter of fact, our brother belittles those who want to find Scripture for such testimony services before they practice them. He wrote,
Most Churches of Christ have not practiced personal testi- monies. One reason has to do with the view held by many that the New Testament is a blueprint for every practice in worship. This view holds that there is a clear pattern of worship in the New Testament, and it is to be replicated exactly in every age. It doesn’t seem to matter that the New Testament does not give a standard order of what worship was to be for any church. The reasoning goes like this: If a worship practice was present in the primitive church, that act of worship merits repetition today. If the New Testament is silent on certain activities, they had best be left out of our worship today. If you follow the reasoning, the conclusion is that we should not do “testimonies” because we have no specific, unquestionable illustrations of such being done in an assembly of worship in the New Testament.
At least this view takes Scripture very seriously, and that should be applauded. However, to use the New Testament as a detailed description of worship that outlines every form and sequence of the service is a mistake. . . . How one congregation orders its worship making use of those various elements, is up to each congregation. That is why Christian worship services look different in different cultures, and yet each one may be thoroughly acceptable and honoring to God (Wineskins 3:5, 31).
Obviously, this person has rejected the “blueprint” of the New Testament as the answer to whether or not one should have testimonies in worship. Having rejected the Bible as a “blueprint,” what use is there to quote the Bible to such a person? If one found a direct statement that said, “Thou shalt not have testimonials in worship,” he could set that aside as a legalistic interpretation of the Bible, binding cultural items of worship on people of another culture, or just reply, “I know that is what the apostle thought, but I do not agree with him.”
If there is no fixed pattern for worship, there can be no unscriptural worship. Paul said, “. . . for where no law is, there is no transgression” (Rom. 4:15). Consequently, any kind of worship is just as scriptural as any other. The group that brings in a rock “Christian” band, does not partake of the Lord’s supper (or partakes of it using light bread and water), who prays in Mary’s name, who teaches tithing, and preaches from the Book of Mormon is just as scriptural as the church in Jerusalem that “continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers” (Acts 2:42), according to this logic. Without a divinely revealed pattern, there is no unscriptural worship.
What Is Wrong With Testifying?
The thing that is wrong with testifying is that it makes faith rest on uninspired words rather than inspired words. Brother Dozier shows that is true from his own article. He related an incident in which his daughter Amy had “testified” to a Japanese friend and concluded, “Yasuyo was interested in the teaching about God, but what touched her heart most were the personal testimonies my daughter and others shared with her. . . .The message of Christ is of primary importance, but it very well may be Amy’s personal testimony that someday helps lead Yasuyo to Jesus Christ.” Note that Amy’s personal testimony would carry more weight than the divinely revealed message of first century eyewitnesses!
Our faith does not rest on the fallible testimony of people such as Amy, but it rests upon the divinely revealed word of God. Paul wrote, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom. 10:17). The personal testimony of Amy or anyone else cannot produce saving faith! Our faith rests on the miracles that Jesus performed in the presence of eyewitnesses. John wrote, “And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name” (John 20:30-31).
The Muslim who visits poverty stricken regions of Mexico and Nassau can produce the same kind of testimony as the children in his local church. Does their washing a filthy baby, clothing the ill-clad, and feeding the hungry prove that Muhammad is a prophet? If not, how can our children doing the same prove that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God? A person giving his personal, subjective testimony about some religious “encounter” proves absolutely nothing about Jesus!
This issue focuses attention on the heart of what is wrong with some preaching among us. Gifted speakers are able to relate some emotionally moving human interest story that will move one to tears, relate another story that causes one to break out in laughter, and wrap up his “sermon” with a third story that makes one feel warm inside. However, such stories do not and cannot built faith. Faith comes by hearing the word of God. Churches that are fed a steady diet of preaching that has little or no Bible content are filled with men who, at the very best, have a weak faith!
We do not need to change our public assemblies to have “testifying.” We already have all the testimony we need to create and build faith — that is the inspired words of the first century witnesses. What can the words of a person born 2000 years later prove about what occurred in the first century? Rather, let us preach the testimony of the witnesses. One who will not hear the witnesses of the Bible is not of Christ. John wrote, “We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error” (1 John 4:6). | <urn:uuid:c053ac94-74eb-400d-8924-82f6dd386ce6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.truthmagazine.com/testifying-in-the-assembly | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.9785 | 1,891 | 1.75 | 2 |
With many students leaving their University housing and moving back home for the holidays, it can be challenging for many LGBT+ students who have gotten used to the newfound freedom of the university lifestyle.
Going back home can bring about feelings of uneasiness for folks who may not feel completely safe around their family members or people they will be surrounded by.
This small guide aims to provide several ways to reduce the anxieties based around this time; making the most out of your time to celebrate and relax without having to sacrifice your happiness and holiday festivities.
Setting Boundaries can bring many benefits for stopping any unwanted stresses or experiences. It is important to remember that your comfort will be one of your most integral aspects to establish, and boundaries can help accomplish this. If you can do so, bring up some staple boundaries ahead of time with people you will be spending time with. Examples of these can be, but are not limited to:
- Explaining that you will not be attending any religious services during your time at home.
- Making a list of topics that you are not willing to discuss.
- The need to spend some time alone, without distractions.
- Asking individuals (if you are comfortable) to use your proffered pronouns.
- Not being left alone in rooms with solely people who negatively impact you.
- Dietary requirements, including any foods you no longer wish to consume.
- Explaining that you will not stay around people who use derogative language towards the LGBT+ community or any other minority group.
- Removing politics from the dinner table.
- Asking others around you if they have any boundaries they wish to add.
It must be noted that boundaries can take time to establish, and it may take you repeating them a few times for individuals to take them in.
An excellent article on this which explains boundaries further
Going home for Christmas isn’t just about spending time with your legal family. Spending time with people who actively show compassion and help you enjoy your experiences during this holiday can be much more beneficial for some and can be just as important. This can manifest itself by having a Christmas meal with friends or binge-watching cringy Christmas movies with your chosen family or just your pets.
While the spirit of Christmas has been entrenched by the narrative of spending it with relatives, a family can be found in friends and relationships who make you feel appreciated and safe to be who you are, just as much as relatives.
There are no ‘right’ people to spend Christmas with. It is yours to choose who you spend this time with.
Journaling can be a great way to express and visualise any emotions you are feeling or any thoughts you contemplate. This could be utilised if you feel like you have no one to talk to about specific topics or are still not ‘out’ to the individuals you are sharing Christmas with.
Reflecting on the day can help put concepts into perspective and help you unpack any next steps on how to act on them. Some ideas that you can Journal about are:
- Write a love letter to yourself
- Keep a day-to-day diary on what events happened
- Describe an outfit that makes you feel comfortable, go into as much detail as to ‘why’ as possible
- Write a letter to a person who has positively impacted you this holiday
- Being in the LGBT+ community is ____
- Recall a dream you have had. What made it a good dream?
- Review the last book you read
- Just one sentence
- A list of places you would like to visit
- Record your small wins
- Next steps in making you, you.
This website offers 59 different ideas
Create a mantra of self-acceptance
Creating yourself a mantra to repeat when things get hard, or simply just to repeat in the morning, helps remind you of who you are if you have to stop expressing yourself as openly around some individuals at home. It can be as short or long as you wish, encapsulating phrases such as ‘I am exactly who I am supposed to be’ and ‘I have the right to be me’.
Don’t feel you can’t be open about your identity in case you ‘spoil’ Christmas; this predicament is forced upon us, not brought on ourselves. If you know you are safe enough to be yourself, fully embrace being you. Just get ready for the multiple rainbow-themed presents that may come your way!
However, it must be stressed that if you are not safe enough to do so, this does not make you any less valid of an individual within the LGBT+ community. Not being ‘out’ to everybody in your life does not mean that you are suddenly unwelcome. Also, refer to the ‘create an exit strategy’ point if any altercations arise.
Distractions // Decompressing
The holidays can be very mentally and physically exhausting for LGBT+ individuals when constantly navigating whether a space is safe or not. Thus, it is essential to remember to take some time away without any distractions around you. This can come in the form of doing a solo hobby, napping, reading a book, going for a walk etc. Doing this helps ground and balance out the stress that you might have faced during the day/week/holiday.
You can also use this time to set up some time with people who provide a safe place. This support can be a refresher that you are not alone. These conversations can be utilised to talk through something that has happened over the holiday in which you need a second perspective. It can feel affirming to talk to someone who might be going through the same process or someone who has the energy to contribute positively to the discussion.
Create an exit strategy
Suppose you are in a situation where you do not have a support system or fall into a line of discussion that will result in negative responses. In that case, it may be important to have a plan of action when you feel this trapping sensation. This can be minor exit strategies such as leaving the room or something more major, such as staying somewhere else for a couple of nights. Some examples of things that could be implemented are:
- Having a friend call you and make up an excuse to get you out of the situation
- Find a support system whereby you would be able to crash on their sofa for a couple of nights if needed
- Have savings put aside on the off-chance that you need to come back to university quicker than you planned and thus need to make public travel arrangements
- Plan a route that you can walk (day and night-time) if you need to clear your head and get some breathing room before coming back
- Have a comfort playlist of music that you can put on
- Pre-arrange with an individual in your household, if possible, a ‘safe word’ in which they need to try and change the subject if it is said.
Extra Helplines and Contacts
Confronting the holidays can be overwhelming, here are some helplines and contacts
LGBT Foundation: Call 03453 303030 or contact by email email@example.com.
Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline: Call 03003 300630, available from 10:00-22:00.
Shout 85258: Shout 85258 is a free, confidential, anonymous mental health text support service you access 24/7. To start a conversation, simply text the word ‘SHOUT’ to 85258.
Albert Kennedy Trust: Supports LGBT+ people aged 16-25 who are homeless or living in a hostile environment.
Galop.org.uk: provides helplines and other support for LGBT+ adults and young people who have experienced hate crime, sexual violence, or domestic abuse
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Spring is in the air and that includes pollen. Seasonal spring allergies are a major drag for those who have sensitivity to tree and grass pollen. Sure enough the blooming of the flowers and trees are a sight to behold; they bring along sneezing, watery eyes, scratchy throat, and etc. At Jiffy Clean Laundry and Dry Cleaning, we have determined three ways to use our laundry service to alleviate the burden of seasonal allergies. Yes, laundry service with Jiffy Clean Laundry & Dry Cleaning can also benefit your health.
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Population in Urban Area, now
- World: 22nd
- South America: 3rd
- Brazil: 2nd
Population in City Area, 2022-03-03
- World: 39th
- South America: 5th
- Brazil: 2nd
Rio de Janeiro Urban Area Population Graph
Rio de Janeiro Population Review
Rio is the second-most populated municipality in Brazil, after Sao Paulo. It is home to 13.4 million people in the urban area and around 6 million in the city area, making it the sixth-most populated city throughout the Americas.
Since 1950, the population of Rio has grown by over 10 million people, and continues to grow, with predictions it will reach 14.8 million residents by 2035. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, Rio is also the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
A World Heritage Site
A part of the city has actually been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on July 1 of 2012. UNESCO has deemed Rio de Janiero a ‘Cultural Landscape’ named “Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea”, the designation recognizes the city’s exceptional urban setting that have shaped Rio; including the highest points of Tijuca National Park’s mountains, right down to the sea. This designation also includes the city’s Botanical Gardens, the Corcovado Mountain—with its famous statue of Christ—and the hills surrounding Guanabara Bay.
A wealthy city
Rio has the second biggest municipal GDP of the entire country of Brazil (and the 30th in the world). Estimated at about $201 billion USD (or R$343 billion), the city’s GDP can mostly be attributed to oil, mining, and telecommunications companies. The city is also home to many universities and institutes and is the second-largest center for research and development in the country. Almost 17% of the national-scientific output could be attributed to Rio de Janeiro in 2005.
Risk of crime
Rio has a high crime rate and violent crimes, such as murder, armed robbery, assault, and kidnapping occur frequently. The level of crime and the increase in crime over the past 3 years are both high. The current homicide rate dropped by 19% in 2019, to about 3,995 murders. However, the rate of police killings has surged and increased by 18%. Foreign visitors to Rio de Janeiro are warned to be on the lookout for opportunistic crimes—such as purse snatching and pickpocketing—and most criminals in Rio are armed.
Brazil’s patriarchal justice system also means that crimes targeting women, including sexual violence, are rarely prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Femicide (homicide that targets women for their gender) is also high in the city, with over 300 women killed annually in the state of Rio.
A tourist mecca
The city of Rio is one of the most visited places in the Southern Hemisphere. Apart from its stunning natural settings, the city also attracts tourists for Carnival, samba, bossa nova, and its famous seaside resort beaches, such as Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon. Additionally, tourists visit the statue of Christ the Redeemer that sits perched atop the Corcovaco mountains. Named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, the Christ the Redeemer statue stands at 38 meters tall.
There are, on average, 2.25 million international tourists that visit Rio de Janeiro each year, and there are 1.7 million tourists that come to the city for the city’s famous Carnival alone.
Poverty in Rio
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Our newest national monument recognizing labor rights hero César E. Chávez is the first of its kind, and the culmination of years of effort.
A sea of more than 6,000 school children, politicians, farm workers, National Park Service rangers, community members, journalists, and celebrities flooded the National Chávez Center at Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, or “La Paz,” on Monday, October 8. My NPCA colleagues and I had also traveled to the Central Valley site for a moment we had been waiting for and working toward for more than a decade: a celebration to dedicate the site as the César E. Chávez National Monument, the 398th addition to our National Park System.
When President Obama walked up to the podium at La Paz, I thought about the arc of my own involvement and the significant impact that Chávez had on my life and the lives of millions of other young people back in the 1960s and 1970s. I also thought about my personal interaction with César Chávez in the 1980s, and my most recent involvement, advocating for the new national park site.
In the late 1960s I was still in high school, but I became involved with the grape boycott campaign designed to force grape growers to sign contracts with the United Farmworkers. Heck, I was still a pimply kid, but I recall standing out in front of a grocery store in Fredrick, Maryland, gathering commitment signatures from shoppers who said they would boycott grapes. It was the first time that I became involved in a national social justice issue. It is amazing how many people of my generation have told me how they, too, were involved in this boycott effort. It is no wonder why César Chávez and his co-leaders, like Dolores Huerta, were so successful. They were able to create a huge movement in spite of the fact that they had little means. This was, and is, a quintessential American story of how ordinary people can accomplish great things.
In the 1980s, I worked for the U.S. Catholic Conference’s Campaign for Human Development, a program that provides grants and loans to projects in impoverished communities across the country. One day, I received a call from the United Farm Workers. Then César Chávez himself came on the phone. He requested a grant to help establish a better telecommunications system for the union. I remember thinking then, one of my greatest heroes, César Chávez, is calling me? I was honored to get that call and assist him in his efforts.
Over the years, Chávez rallied countless other partners and activists to help in his mission to improve the lives of farmworkers, and his legacy of nonviolent action resulted in more money, better benefits, safer working conditions, and legal protections for thousands of people. He’s not just my hero: Chávez is now recognized as one of the most important labor leaders of the 20th century.
Fast-forward about 25 years, when I came to work for NPCA as the Pacific Regional Director. One of the first conversations I had was with Jon Jarvis, then the Pacific West Regional Director for the National Park Service. We spoke about the possibility of the Park Service eventually establishing a site to honor Chávez and tell the historically significant story of farmworker union organizing. Seeing that there was support for this idea in the Park Service, I then worked to support the legislative effort that eventually led to the special resources study, which concluded there were five sites, including “La Paz,” that were indeed important and appropriate inclusions to the National Park System.
As I stood there at La Paz last Monday, with President Barack Obama in front of me announcing that he would use his power under the Antiquities Act to create the César E. Chávez National Monument, tears of joy welled up in me. Things had come full circle, I thought. César E. Chávez, my childhood hero and an iconic American historic figure, is finally getting the recognition that he and his fellow farm workers deserve.
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The United Farm Workers of America motto, “Sí, se puede,” is certainly echoing in many homes this week. It roughly translates into, “Yes, it can be done.”
Now, people throughout our great country can say, “Sí lo hicimos,” or, “Yes, we did it!”
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Ron Sundergill Senior Regional Director, Pacific
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As elaborated in our previous post, Dynamic Contact Resistance Measurement (DCRM) tests play a pivotal role in preventing unexpected failures of High Voltage (HV/EHV/UHV) Circuit Breakers by cohesively assessing the healthiness of their contacts.
Widely considered as the most comprehensive CB testing methodology, the success of any DCRM test depends on a trifecta of the right DCRM Kit, superior analytical skills, and in-depth knowledge of the CB design, its various operating mechanisms, etc.
In this post, we’ll highlight how SCOPE T&M Pvt. Ltd. helped one of India’s largest Electric Power Transmission Utility companies safeguard their power infrastructure by preventing CB failures through expert DCRM testing.
As part of their annual routine maintenance exercise, our client wanted to test their 420kV SF6 CB that was in service for over 6 years and used a spring-spring based operating mechanism.
Since the CB was connected to the Tie-Bay, it had Current Transformers (CTs) installed on both its sides.
SCOPE was roped in to conduct a comprehensive non-invasive DCRM testing of this CB to assess its operational healthiness.
Our DCRM Expertise
Using our state-of-the-art DCRM Kit ‘HISAC Ultima’, we initiated DCRM testing and observed the below abnormalities in the DCRM Signature:
1. A higher number of bounces in the ‘R’ phase on the CT1 side interrupter as depicted below.
2. A higher contact resistance on both sides of the interrupter for the ‘Y’ phase as depicted below.
Based on the above two DCRM results, our client asked the CB’s OEM team to open the CB for fault identification.
Upon dismantling the CB, the below two defects were identified:
1. The moving contacts of all the four interrupters had heavy carbon deposits as depicted below:
2. The Teflon-coated nozzle was punctured in the ‘Y’ phase of the CT2 side as depicted below:
Corrective Measures Taken
1. The punctured nozzle on the ‘Y’ phase CT2 side of the interrupter was replaced; and as a precautionary measure, the nozzle on the CT1 side of the interrupter was also replaced.
2. The moving contacts were thoroughly cleaned to eliminate all the carbon deposits.
On completion of the above two rectifications, the DCRM test was repeated to assess the impact of the rectifications and the resulting DCRM Signatures were found normal.
Here is a quick snapshot of the ‘before’ and ‘after’ DCRM Signatures:
1. ‘R’ phase CT1 Signature
2. ‘Y’ phase CT2 Signature
As organisations restart their business activities in full swing after the COVID-19 lockdown is lifted up, Utility companies should gear up for a sudden surge in electricity demand.
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