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The National Basketball Association was formed 70 years ago this Saturday.
Long before it became the premier professional basketball league in the world, the NBA was the red-headed stepchild of American sports. In the 1940s, baseball, boxing and horse racing were king. Hockey was well established and college football was even more popular than it is today. While college basketball had a huge following – particularly in New York City — the pro game was viewed as inferior. Before the advent of the shot clock in 1954, professional basketball was slow and boring. The sport was further tarnished by a scandal involving Fort Wayne Pistons forward Jack Molinas, who was banned for betting on his own team’s games.
Established in 1937, the National Basketball League [NBL] was comprised of 13 teams located in the Great Lakes area. Made up of small-market franchises that held their games in tiny gymnasiums, the NBL struggled at the gate. In 1946, the upstart Basketball Association of America [BAA] was founded. The BAA established itself in bigger cities than the NBL and played its games in major-market arenas such as the Boston Garden, Chicago Stadium and Madison Square Garden.
The NBA has had only five commissioners in 70 years. The first, Maurice Podoloff, served concurrently as president of the American Hockey League. David Stern enjoyed the longest tenure, presiding over the league for 30 years. Stern was replaced by current NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, in 2014.
The BAA started with 11 teams, four of which folded before the second season. Prior to the 1948-49 campaign, four teams from the NBL — the Fort Wayne Pistons, Indianapolis Jets, Minneapolis Lakers and Rochester Royals — joined the BAA. This was both a coup for the new league and dagger for the NBL. The Lakers were defending NBL champions and their center, George Mikan – the original big man and pioneer of the modern age of basketball – was the game’s greatest player and biggest star.
After a three-year battle in which the NBL and BAA competed for fans and players, the two leagues decided to come together. Representatives from both sides met at the BAA offices in New York’s Empire State Building to finalize the merger and, on August 3, 1949, the National Basketball Association [NBA] was launched. The new league had 17 franchises located in a mix of large and small cities. Some played in spacious arenas, while others performed in armories and high school gyms.
Following the 1949 merger, the NBA had 16 teams, but the new league quickly began losing members. By 1955, the number of teams in the league had dropped to just eight – all of which remain in the NBA today. The Chicago Packers joined in 1961. Renamed the Zephyrs the following season, the franchise has been a mess [the Zephs moved to the D.C. area in 1963 and were the Baltimore/Capital/Washington Bullets before becoming the Wizards in 1997]. Between 1966 and ’68, the NBA expanded from nine to 14 teams, introducing teams in Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, Milwaukee and Phoenix. By 1974, the league had grown to 18 franchises.
The American Basketball Association came about in 1967, placing teams in smaller markets while igniting a bidding war with the NBA for talent. In 1976, the two leagues merged, with the ABA’s Indianapolis Pacers, Denver Nuggets, San Antonio Spurs and New Jersey Nets being absorbed by the NBA. But the product was dull and fan interest was waning. From 1975 to 1979, CBS aired weeknight playoff games on tape delay, broadcasting them at 11:30 p.m. ET. The NBA was so lackluster that CBS affiliate WCPO in Cincinnati didn’t even carry many regular season games, deciding to run movies and other programming instead.
By the early 1980s the NBA was plagued by money-losing franchises, low attendance, declining TV ratings and dwindling national appeal. The situation looked bleak until Magic, Larry and Doctor J rode in to town wearing white hats.
In 1979, the NBA adopted the ABA’s three-point field goal. That same year, rookies Larry Bird and Magic Johnson entered the league, setting up one of basketball’s greatest individual rivalries while simultaneously resurrecting that of the Celtics and Lakers. David Stern was named commissioner in 1984. Stern played a major role in the growth of the league, implementing salary caps and expanding network and cable television deals. But it was the arrival of Michael Jordan, coupled with the Bird v Magic rivalry and the presence of Julius Erving, that saved the NBA.
Foreign-born players have had a tremendous impact on the game. Italian-born Hank Biasatti, who played six games for the Toronto Huskies, was the NBA’s first international player. Nearly 50 years later, the 1992 Olympic Dream Team broadened the global appeal of basketball. In 1991-92, there were 23 international players representing 18 countries on NBA rosters. By 2017-18, the league included 108 foreign-born players from 42 countries.
The NBA has witnessed some of sports’ greatest dynasties during its seven-decade existence. The first was the Minneapolis Lakers who, led by Mikan, won five titles from 1948 to 1954. In 1957, rookie center Bill Russell joined the Boston Celtics. Arguably the greatest team player in history, Russell guided the Celtics to 11 championships in 13 seasons, including eight straight from 1959 to 1966.
The 1980s were dominated by the Celtics and Lakers [who moved to Los Angeles in 1960]. Led by Bird and Johnson, the teams combined to win eight of ten league titles during the decade. The 1990s belonged to Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. Considered by many the greatest player in NBA history, Jordan willed the Bulls to six titles, including three-peats from 1991-93 and 1996-98.
The turn of the century brought about the emergence of the San Antonio Spurs and a revival of the Lakers. The Spurs won four titles between 1999 and 2007, while L.A. claimed five between 2000 and 2010. The Golden State Warriors have been the most dominant team of the last decade, appearing in five straight NBA Finals between 2015 and 2019, winning three.
The Hawks have moved more than any other franchise. They were the Buffalo Bisons for one month, then moved to Moline and became the Tri-Cities Blackhawks. After rebranding as the Hawks, the club moved to Milwaukee and then St. Louis before settling in Atlanta in 1968.
The NBA originated with 16 teams and, within a few years, was down to eight. In the 70-year history of the league, 17 former teams became defunct and 22 franchises relocated. The NBA currently boasts 30 franchises. The U.S. is home to 29 teams while one – the 2019 champion Toronto Raptors – is in Canada. The league is truly national in scope, with 13 teams in the Eastern Time Zone, nine in the Central, three Mountain and five in the Pacific Time Zone.
The NBA is not without problems. It is a league full of greedy owners and overpaid, entitled players. If you’re looking to see defense and effort, the NBA is not for you. And while the 82-game regular season schedule is bloated and largely meaningless, the NBA is growing in popularity. The league has broadened its global reach and is now China’s favorite brand. The NBA is the most followed sports league on social media and hopes to help basketball surpass soccer as the world’s number one sport.
Editor’s Note: To this day, the NBA claims the BAA’s history as its own. It now considers the arrival of the NBL teams in 1949 as an expansion, not a merger, and does not recognize the NBL records and statistics. This historical revisionism is ludicrous and insulting, as the older NBL contributed significantly to the growth of professional basketball in America and the success of the NBA. Five years before Jackie Robinson would break baseball’s color barrier, the NBL included several African-American players. Seven NBL players landed in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Two of them – George Mikan and Dolph Schayes – were voted to the NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996. Five current NBA teams trace their history to the NBL: the Lakers, Kings, Pistons, Hawks and 76ers. | <urn:uuid:6d0f614d-f4e3-4bce-a46b-d19604757689> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailydsports.com/history-of-the-nba/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97346 | 1,740 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The East by Southeast blog has posted a detailed account of Thursday’s protests in Kunming over the planned PetroChina oil refinery and reported paraxylene (PX) plant. The account describes how the protests switched focus midway through from just opposing the PX plant to broader opposition to the entire oil refinery:
Justice Gate sits at the intersection of Renmin Road (People’s Road) one of Kunming’s busiest thoroughfares. Large shopping malls sit across the intersection and a pedestrian commercial street leads to the site of the 5/4 protest. The police forces were lax in allowing the group to migrate southward to the gate, after all, it led the protest away from the government headquarters, but they were determined to not allow the crowd to shut down traffic at the Renmin Road. A human wall of police officers five-thick formed to prevent the mass from breaking through the gate. Underneath the shade of the great oak trees, the protester’s energy seemed to stall out. New tactics like singing the Chinese national anthem with the words “Rise Up! Rise Up!” “Forward on! Forward on!” reinvigorated the group. Elderly women sang Red Songs from revolutions soon to be forgotten. Outside of the gate, the blazing sun lighting up the intersection provided contrast to the shaded area occupied by the protesters.
It was at this moment that the movement changed. No longer were anti-PX slogans being shouted – the crowd shifted to “Oil Refinery Get out of Kunming!” Over and over. One woman shouted in Kunming’s local dialect, “Rise up Kunmingers! Rise up Yunnanese!” and the mass movement discovered a new slogan that hit very close to home. A new file of police rushed to prevent protesters from breaking out into the square, but their efforts were of no use. At 12:00pm the protesters broke through the police wall and shut down the busy intersection. Traffic going both ways on busy Renmin road reached a standstill. Storefront owners rushed out to see what was going on. Crowds gathered on shopping mall balconies to cheer on protesters and take photos. The movement had emerged from the darkness into the light and gathered new steam.
An article in the Guardian looks at the demonstrations as part of a rising tide of environmental protest in China:
The Chinese public are becoming increasing concerned about the state of their local environment and up to 80% believe that environmental protection should be a higher priority than economic development, according to a new survey. The survey, carried out by the Public Opinion Research Centre in collaboration with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, measured the public’s attitudes towards environmental protection and how they rate the government’s performance.
Such protests appear to be often tolerated by the authorities and, like the Shanghai protests, are sometimes successful in their goals. Last October, a week-long series of protests in Ningbo in eastern China by thousands of residents was sucessful in stopping work on an oil and petrochemical complex.
The frequency of protests is rising as China’s increasingly affluent and middle-class society becomes more aware of environmental issues. The number of environmental protests rose by 120% from 2010 to 2011, according to Yang Chaofei, the vice-chairman of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences.
Yang a told a lecture organised by the Standing Committee of the National’s People’s Congress on the social impact of environmental problems that the number of environmental ‘mass incidents’ has grown an average of 29% annually from 1996 to 2011. He said that the number of incidents which involve concerns about dangerous chemicals and heavy metal pollution have risen since 2010. [Source]
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Canada Is the Most Desirable Place to Live on Earth!
Want to work and study abroad? why not choosing the most desirable place to live on earth?
New data from Remitly has demonstrated that Canada is the most popular destination for people looking to move overseas- and by a long shot. With sky high safety ratings, impressively low unemployment rates and a scenic backdrop to boot, it’s not surprising that so many people want to live in Canada. For students, the temptation is even stronger.
Studying in Canada is rife with benefits. The country adheres to high education standards but maintains a reasonable price tag (unlike their Southern counterparts). In addition, employment prospects post-graduation are promising in a variety of industries, especially tech. Truly, Canada is a student’s dream!
Truly, Canada’s technology market is growing every day and building a reputation as one of the world’s top technology hubs. The industry is growing so fast that companies are running out of talent and actively recruiting as many tech experts as possible to move up north to work with them. If you’re looking to make a career shift, this is an opportunity that can’t be missed!
Armed with Tamwood’s hiring fairs, skills workshops, and connections to Canadian companies, it’s simple to find work. On average, our students make $15-18 CAD an hour, which goes a long way in covering your living expenses. It’s not difficult to make a sustainable living in Canada and enjoy a wonderful quality of life while you work. We help make sure of that for each of our students.
Of course, immigrating to a new country often comes with learning a new language. The best student programs offer English language training to help you acclimate quickly and gain a grasp of the language. Tamwood is an accredited member of Languages Canada offers a fleet of English language programming to give you a top-notch English education quickly, inexpensively, and most importantly, effectively.
Some people wish to study (or work) in Canada but worry about the financial toll of moving overseas and securing income in a new city. If this sounds like your situation, know that there are programs dedicated to helping you study sustainably, meaning you actually make money as you train for your dream career. For example, Tamwood offers industry-specific programs that are designed to be compatible with Canadian study permits so you can work and study.
Want to work and study as a student in Canada? Here are some programs that might interest you:
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To: The California State House
Get Single-Use PET plastics out of California!
Use AB 1080 to make a real difference in the world. Please get single-use PET plastic out of California.
Why is this important?
We applaud California legislators for continuing to protect the people, land, and waterways from plastic pollution. Tell them they aren't doing enough in State Assembly Bill AB 1080 to combat the real issue at hand: single-use PET plastic.
Source reduction solves nothing in relation to the plastic pollution in our environment. Recycling is not (and never has been) a viable option for 100% reduction of plastics in landfills. The only way to properly work on a solution to the plastics crisis includes a complete ban on single-use PET plastics.
All plastic that has ever been created is still around in some form. According to Plasticoceans.org, "We are producing over 300 million tons of plastic every year, 50% of which is for single-use purposes."
China is no longer a partner in the United States recycling program, and cities all over the country are struggling to find a solution to the plastic pollution crisis. In many places, refuse collection operators burn plastic trash or transport it to landfills.
When plastic is heated to a high enough temperature it becomes a toxic fume. When plastic bottles are transported to landfills, they often end up in waterways and our oceans, ESPECIALLY in California.
We know about the Garbage Island (the size of Texas). We know that California's economy is the fifth largest in the world-- bigger than Great Britain's economy. We know California coasts, rivers, and land are an asset both economically and environmentally. We KNOW Californians can make a worldwide difference, if our legislators will stop the garbage in its tracks.
We must protect all aspects of California, and the only way to really protect California (and the rest of the world from our trash) is through proper legislation that bans the biggest problem in the plastic pollution chain: single-use PET plastic.
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No new matter can be formed
You wrong there. Matter is formed all the time. If this was not the case the universe would not be expanding.
There's no "new" matter. All matter is here since the beginning of times when it was heavily dense before it started expanding.
New matter creation would contradict the Conservation Laws.
What about Einsteins law? hmmm now it gets interesting. Surely you can get mass from energy? Or does it only work the one way round?
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A bit baffling when you break it down. We always learned this was the "scissors throw" but the first kanji gives crab (as in sea creature) and the second something like clip or clamp?
What is the actual etymology behind this name? Does it refers to the crab's pincers? A special pair of scissors used to cut up crab?
Some insight would be appreciated.
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“Thou drewest near in that day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.”
Suggested Scripture reading – Lamentations 3: 53-57
Jeremiah, the weeping prophet was thrown into prison on several occasions because of his preaching. One of those prisons was a dungeon with deep, filthy mud instead of a floor. He was up to his neck in muck because he tried to call the people back to the Lord. In this predicament he cried out in despair, “They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. Waters [of depression and sorrow] flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.” (Lamentations 3:53-54) Believer, those times of discouragement will come. They came to one who also knew depression and he reported the following.
On a day that was cold and grey, when the wind moaned through the naked branches of the trees, I cried. My burden was more than I could bear. There was no one to help; no one to know. No one to care. I suffered alone. I had lost all, with no hope of regaining the joy of my heart.
There Lord, you came to me. Out of the dungeon of my soul you heard my voice. I breathed out my prayer to you and you drew near to me. And the day that was so cold became warm. The gray cloudy skies cleared and the sun of your love shown through. My world regained color. The leaves on the trees were green again. The difference came when you spoke two words to me. Two words brought healing and peace; strength and courage. You said to me, “Fear not.” There was no longer any room for fear because you heard my prayer. I need not fear because you argued my cause and none can accuse me of wrong. My enemies hate me. The Law condemns me. Lord, you saw my guilt and then took my reproach on yourself. As the caring wonderful Father you loved me. Your words gave to me, as they did to Jeremiah, strength and hope. Therefore, from this time forward I will:
“Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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Download the material and learn how Nap IT has developed early delivery design and seamless transition to routine processes
The Souza Cruz’s Distribution Center relocation in Rio de Janeiro challenged experts for the timing and lack of basic infrastructure in the environment. This is because technology had to be deployed in a large space without essential elements such as electricity and connection link.
This was the scenario faced by Nap IT during the Distribution Center change and implementation process, which left the carioca capital for Duque de Caxias city, in Rio de Janeiro lowland.
The whole process was performed in just over two months, with assertive and functional migration. Defined as a “silent transition”, the project was executed without the technical demands disrupting the client’s CID routine.
That’s why Nap IT has earned the British-American Tobacco global recognition, Souza Cruz’s Brazilian holding company. The multinational has awarded Guilherme Garibotti, Nap IT Project Manager, executive who managed the migration project at Souza Cruz, with the Northern Star Award, promoted in the United Kingdom.
The project started with two challenges: facing a technologically hostile environment, lack of local structure, no electrical supply and no option for internet connection via cable; and only five months to complete the work. But everything was done in advance and without impacting the operations progress.
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We have developed easy-to-read and readable material to let you know the work process for solving the technology challenge of a large company.
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As we become engrossed in our study schedules, we begin to learn more about our societies as well as who we are. When we know who we are, we are better able to make wiser and smarter decisions that will healthily impact our lives. A deeper knowledge of who we are equips us with the necessary tools to know what actions we must take to attract certain achievements in our lives.
Over these past few weeks, my studies during this period have not only opened my mind about media but of who I am as an individual. I have realized my self-defeating ways that prevent me from meeting objectives, my strengths and the habits that work for me and against me. This self-discovery while pursuing educational accomplishments dually is rewarding and humbling. Perhaps all of life is a school, teaching us hidden aspects of ourselves in every phase.
I have realized that we all have different learning styles and our learning styles may change as we become older. Once we learn our unique style, we can begin using winning mechanisms to help us retain the information taught to us.I am a visual learner. I learn best by seeing pictures, charts, timelines and written explanations. I have learnt that I better grasp a concept when I write summaries or rewrite the textbook information in my own words. If you enter my study space, you will be met with charts and drawings with explanations …. Doing this has helped me to grasp the concepts in media taught in my module. This process of learning may be a slow one, but it is a sure one that works in my favor.
Have you pinpointed your learning style?
What have you learnt about yourself as you pursue your studies?
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When Bear and Hare try to reach some juicy pears, they realise they need some help. Hare finds three chairs but is it fair that Hare has two chairs and Bear only one? When they have the same, Hare still can't reach the pears! So a little friend teaches them that fair isn't always everyone getting the same thing....with hilarious results! A beautifully simple picture book that considers, what is fair? The answer is not always as simple as you'd think!
Reviewed by Rachel Elvidge
Fair Shares is a charming picturebook, full of fun, and the vibrant illustrations by Anna Doherty give the characters real personality. Using a simple text, Pippa Goodhart tackles a complex message with glee.
Hare and Bear are delighted to discover a tree full of juicy pears, but the tree is too tall for them to touch the fruit. Hare finds three chairs to help them reach, but it doesn’t seem fair that she has two, and Bear only has one. When they share out the chairs equally, Hare cannot reach the fruit, which doesn’t seem fair either. Luckily, a passing beetle is on hand to explain that being fair does not always mean having the same thing. A fact further demonstrated when the friends try to share their fruity prize with their new pal.
Fair Shares would be a wonderful book to share with an early years or infant class. It could engender some interesting discussions about how different people have different needs, and how by respecting this, we can treat everyone fairly. | <urn:uuid:b4291129-ccfb-4bf4-ae9e-08a9c997c9a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bestbooksforschools.com/products/fair-shares | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974869 | 316 | 3.4375 | 3 |
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|موضوع: Advanced Methods And Tools for ECG Data Analysis الجمعة يوليو 25, 2008 9:35 pm|| |
Focuses on modeling, classification, and interpretation of features derived from advanced signal processing and artificial intelligence techniques. Topics include the physiological basis of the electrocardiogram, arrhythmia detection, heart rate variability, linear filtering, and more. For researchers. Expanded-outline format.
About the Author
Gari D. Clifford is a Research Scientist in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences where he is the engineering manager of a R01 NIH-funded research program, and a major contributor to the well-known Physionet Research Resource. He has taught at Oxford, MIT and Harvard and is currently an Instructor in Biomedical Engineering at MIT. Dr. Clifford, a senior member of the IEEE, has worked in industry on the design and production of several C- and FDA-approved medical devices, authored and coauthored over 40 publications in the field of biomedical engineering, and is on the editorial boards of Biomedical Engineering Online and the Journal of Biological Systems. Dr Clifford holds a PhD in Neural Networks and Biomedical Engineering from Oxford University and a Masters in Theoretical Physics from Southampton University.
Francisco Azuaje is a reader at the University of Ulster and was formerly a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. A Senior Member of the IEEE, he has several editorial board memberships in journals relevant to biomedical informatics and bioinformatics. Dr. Azuaje has co-edited other two books relevant to the areas of bioinformatics and systems biology. He received his B.Sc. in electronic engineering from Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela and his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and medical informatics from the University of Ulster, U.K.
Patrick E. McSharry is a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC research fellow at the University of Oxford, a research associate at St Catherine's College, Oxford and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He received a B.A. in theoretical physics and an M.Sc. in electronic and electrical engineering from Trinity College, Dublin, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics, on time series analysis and forecasting, from the University of Oxford. He is currently supported by a Marie Curie Research Fellowship and leads the Systems Analysis, Modeling and Prediction (SAMP) Group at the University of Oxford.http://ifile.it/1dyg4j6/
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Early intervention is key to solving any calf health issues
It has been unusually busy in our clinic over the past week or so. Normally, calls to sick animals in July are few and far between, and our days are filled mostly with TB testing, scanning and herd health visits.
However, one particular group of animals are causing trouble at the moment: calves.
“It been a hard year to rear calves” an exasperated farmer said to me as we looked over a pen of scruffy-looking calves.
Lots of farmers have found that certain groups of calves have given them lots of trouble.
So, what problems are we seeing and how are we combating them?
The most apparent issue in calves this year is a brown, rusty coat — particularly obvious in Angus calves. We’ve had a lot of calls from farmers concerned about their calves’ appearance.
We are also seeing a ‘spectacle’ look, where the whole coat is brown except for black hair around the eyes.
This all points to a common condition: secondary copper deficiency, where copper is ‘bound up’ in the digestive system by other elements in the animals’ diet — usually molybdenum.
Copper is required for proper growth, thrive, good immunity and in older animals, fertility. If there is any concern that calves are deficient in copper, it needs to be addressed immediately.
Blood samples will usually reveal the problem, but it is vital to take 8-10 samples to get a proper idea of what’s going on.
There are any number of copper supplements on the market, either injectable or oral products.
For oral products, it is important to take into account the levels of molybdenum in particular in the diet, as it can counteract the copper supplemented.
Injectable supplements bypass the digestive system but, like many animal health solutions, every farm has different requirements. Call your vet, who will advise you on the product that best suits your farm.
Another call we are receiving of late concerns coughing calves, often from farmers who have put huge effort into providing good grass, lots of meal and even more TLC to their calves.
A huge problem for us vets is that, by the time we are contacted, a lot of things have been tried.
A common scenario is, a group of calves begin to cough. They have been at pasture for a month and the farmer presumes it’s time for a worm dose. A dose is given, usually a white drench, but the coughing persists.
The farmer now presumes that the dose may have open since last year or out of date or no good as it was bought on special offer or not as ‘strong’ as required.
So another wormer is administered but the coughing persists. Often, mineral licks are introduced and the odd home remedy is used too.
By now, we are three weeks in and some calves begin to get properly sick.
When the vet arrives, it is very hard to decipher what the original cause of the coughing was and what is now causing the calves to get sick.
Calves’ coughing is usually caused by either a virus, a bacteria or lungworm. But things are often complicated. Calves may begin to cough due to lungworm and, even if treatment is successful, may continue to cough and get sick due to a virus such as RSV.
Equally, the coughing may start due to a virus or bacteria but two weeks later, lungworm may have reared its head in the group.
So it is crucial to contact your vet early when coughing starts and remaining in contact as a treatment protocol is implemented.
As with any disease outbreak, taking samples is the first step.
Faecal samples will help determine if lung worm is an issue. And I can’t stress enough how important it is to pool faeces from 8-10 calves.
The last thing you want is to get a negative lungworm result all because you picked the sample from the first piece of calf dung you saw in the paddock.
Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
The general statement “they’re just not thriving” is one we are faced with most often.
Along with what we have already discussed, gut worms and coccidiosis are prime suspects. Again, faecal samples from 8-10 calves will point us in the right direction for treatment options.
We are still coming across cases where calves were treated with products but at the wrong time.
For example, treating calves at turnout for wither worms or coccidiosis is of no benefit whatsoever. Not only is it a waste of money, it is also just teeing your calves up to run into problems in three or four weeks’ time.
A single calf in a group suffering from bloat is another condition we are seeing a lot of.
Lush clover-filled grass will cause bloat, but the bloat in individual calves is commonly caused by pneumonia. The nerve that is responsible for rumen motility passes by the lungs, so if a calf had pneumonia or has abscesses due to chronic pneumonia, bloat can occur as a secondary condition.
Early intervention is key to solving any calf health issues, so get your vet involved quickly.
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By Sebastian Morales
We’ve all been there, whether it’s because of a sports, school, work we’ve all felt stress in our life. Stress is a normal certain types of level can be good, and help you finish a paper but for the most part it’s not. It’s a feeling we all experience and we all hate it. A lot of people don’t know how to cope with stress. I personally didn’t know how to cope with stress, until career development. Which is a class designed to help students prepare for future education and future plans. In career development we had a teacher come in to talk to us about something called mindfulness. At first, I was “this is stupid and it won’t work,” I was so far from the truth. By the end of the class, I felt regenerated and I felt like I could take on the world. It even helped me the rest of the day I felt more creative and sharp. These exercises opened up a new window in my life, I feel like just by doing some exercises like the ones below just at the beginning of your day will make you feel great and help you just cope with stress of school a little better
- Deep Breaths- Inhale and exhale, this will just help you clear your head fast and effectively.
- Body Scan: This is the one that I benefitted the most from while doing the mindfulness class, you basically just lie down, Take a few deep breaths while closing your eyes. You then should your breathing flows naturally, start to scan your body. Bring your awareness to your body from the toes up and if you notice tension in any specific part, let it go.
- Breathing meditation: This is exercise is good to just feel the power of meditation, it requires more time but It helps to relieve stress.Close your eyes, count your breaths from 1 to 10, focus on your breathing while paying full attention to your thoughts | <urn:uuid:c65e37d1-613b-492d-9837-e1a248a87774> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gvhsjaguarjournal.com/2019/10/22/mindfulness-how-to-cope-with-stress/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964722 | 413 | 2.359375 | 2 |
National Novel Writing Month starts on November 1st every year. People from all over the world gather in coffeehouses, libraries, and other public locations to write 50 thousand words of the rough draft of a novel in 30 days. It is a time of writing madness. You set aside the regular activities of your life and focus on getting words on the page.
Practice Makes Perfect
The first few times that I attempted Nanowrimo, I was lucky to write 10 thousand words. I did not have the habit of writing every day, and I did not write an outline for my story ahead of time. In 2010, that changed for me. For the first time, a story woke up and “spoke” to me. No, this was not the sign of mental illness. One of the common traits that authors share is a connection to their subconscious mind where their “muse” works behind the scenes to create art. For the first time in years, my writing “muse” activated. I could not refuse to write this story even if I wanted to. Something within me pushed me forward as my story grew richer.
That year, I wanted to take part in the write-ins of my area for the first time. I was at a loss of how to participate. I did not own a laptop and did not have the funds to buy one at that time. As I read the forums at nanowrimo.org, I stumbled upon a thread about a machine called an alphasmart 3000. It is a digital typewriter designed for classrooms to teach keyboarding. The alphasmart has no internet connections, a tiny screen where you could only see a few lines at a time, and a large full-sized keyboard. I could download any text that I typed into the word processor of my choice. The best part is that I could purchase a used Alphasmart for around $25 including shipping. I bought one on eBay. It allowed me to leave my desktop behind and find the freedom to write in any location that I choose.
I also discovered Chris Baty’s book, “No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days“. In it, he describes his method of writing a rough draft. He believes in the adage: write quickly, edit slowly. What Baty recommends is to write with abandon. Do not erase what you write, let your mind go free and write everything that comes to you as fast as possible. Put out as much word count during each writing session as you can. Once your 30 days are up, take a deep breath and then go back and edit your words to clean up the passages, but not before. His book also offers inspiration to all new authors to develop good writing habits.
At the write-ins that year, I absorbed a great deal of information about the craft of writing. Before Nanowrimo, I thought you wrote a book and sent it in to a publisher and there it ended. Instead, I learned that the rough draft is only the start of the process. You also sel-edit your work, hire proofreaders to double check your manuscript for typos and content, and finally choose how to publish your book.
That November became a writing workshop for me. I asked an endless number of questions at the write-ins. My “instructors” were all a bunch of techie college students who were more connected to their smartphones than the surrounding people. They made me feel old before my time, but I absorbed the information and did not take their youth personally. In the end, I pushed forward and made the 50-thousand-word goal for the first time.
Why Participate in Nanowrimo?
If you are a new aspiring author, Nanowrimo will provide you with a support group of people who will cheer you on as you write your book. During Nanowrimo, discussions revolve around all the new software and tools that are available to writers. You will learn new techniques.
As the years have gone by, I have become a published author and poet. I sell short stories and poetry in magazines, following a tradition publishing path. However, my books tend to be independently published. I credit Nanowrimo with giving me my start. I have since upgraded to an Alphasmart Neo for drafting and use Scrivener as my writing program of choice to organize my novel projects.
I set aside October for planning a new long project, either a novella or a book. This includes brainstorming plot points, writing outlines and creating character sheets. During November, I clear my calendar and plan to spend at least two to three hours a day working on my rough draft, minus the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Sometimes I write with the wrimo groups, sometimes I write on my own. Nanowrimo is there to bolster me when I grow tired, to push me to keep on working. I like to use their energy. It is like coasting with full sails with a trade wind toward your goal. It makes those larger projects easier to complete.
To learn more information about Nanowrimo, visit Nanowrimo.org. There is a wealth of information about the program on the website. It is free to join and the writing information is available year round. If writing in November is not good timing for you, there are other months set aside with a similar format where you can gain a helpful push for your word count. The important thing is to write. Sit in your chair, use your writing machine of choice, and get the words flowing. | <urn:uuid:9f643b25-2a61-43b6-a490-10f1926d8728> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nowastedink.com/tag/nanowrimo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972065 | 1,168 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Impacts of +2°C global warming on winter tourism demand in Europe
Publikation aus Life
Wetter- und Klimarisikomanagement
Climate Services Volume 7 , 7/2017
Increasing temperatures and snow scarce winter seasons challenge the winter tourism industry. In this study the impacts of +2 °C global warming on winter tourism demand in Europe’s ski tourism related NUTS-3 regions are quantified. Using time series regression models, the relationship between natural snow conditions and monthly overnight stays is estimated. Based on these model results, we quantify the risk of tourism demand losses due to weather variability and assess the potential impacts of climate change. Hereby, the concept of Weather-Value at Risk (0.95) is applied. Snow data are provided by the hydrological model VIC, which is forced by E-OBS data to obtain historical snow values for tourism model calibration and forced by EURO-CORDEX climate simulations to obtain snow projections until 2100.
Under +2 °C warming, the weather-induced risk of losses in winter overnight stays related to skiing tourism in Europe amounts to up to 10.1 million nights per winter season, which is +7.3 million overnight stays additionally at risk compared to the reference period (1971–2000). Among the top four European skiing tourism nations – Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland – France and Switzerland show the lowest increase in risk of losses in winter overnight stays. The highest weather-induced risk of losses in winter overnight stays – in the reference period as well as in the +2 °C scenarios – is found in Austria, followed by Italy. These two countries account for the largest fraction of winter overnight stays in skiing related NUTS-3 regions.
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Twycross Zoo may have to look to a support fund created by the Government to safeguard its future.
The Zoo Support Fund was revealed by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in Parliament, in response to a question from Bosworth MP Dr Luke Evans.
Dr Evans asked during Prime Minister’s Questions: “Twycross Zoo in my constituency is world renowned for the conservation work and indeed protecting endangered species, but Twycross Zoo is now endangered itself with overheads of £650,000 a month with no income coming in.
“They have joined together with people like Bristol Zoo, Chester Zoo and London Zoo asking for £100 million from the Government to help care for the animals.
“Will the Government commit to support good zoos, so just like the animals that they protect, the zoos will be here for us all to learn from in the future?”
Mr Raab said in his answer: “I’m very pleased to be able to announce that as a result of our engagement and our consultation we can now announce a new Zoos Support Fund, which will be launched and open soon.
“It will be able to provide dedicated support alongside that already made available by the Treasury to help zoos care for their animals during this crisis, and I urge zoos concerned to look at the range of financial support already available, but also to make contact with DEFRA officials so we can see how it can be best tailored for them.”
A spokesperson for Twycross Zoo said that it was waiting for more details about the fund before it can comment.
Dr Evans said: “This is positive news for both Twycross Zoo and other good zoos throughout the country.
“Twycross Zoo is a charity which has educated children and adults alike for generations, its conservation work is globally respected.
“I’m very grateful to the Government for announcing this fund, and whilst clarity is needed in how it will be delivered on the ground, I very much hope it will go on to help secure Twycross Zoo’s future long after this outbreak of coronavirus is over.”
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A Conversation with Sylvia Zwettler-Otte
Published in "Logos - a journal of modern society & culture", volume five - issue one, winter 2006,
© Logosonline 2006, http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_5.1/zwettler.htm
Sylvia Zwettler-Otte was from 2001-2004 President of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Her most recent book is ‘Freud in der Presse’ co-written with Marina Tichy. We met in July 2005 in London where she genially agreed to this wide-ranging interview. Our conversation darted from Freud’s reception in Vienna in his early years of struggle, to the latest incarnation of the never-ending “Freud wars,” to repressed memory syndrome to modern sexuality to pharmacology and the psychosexual implications of the Harry Potter books. Readers will never look at a quidditch match in quite the same way again.
Q: How did you come to psychoanalysis? Are you Viennese-born?
Yes I was born in Vienna. I first studied Latin and German and became a gymnasium teacher. I liked teaching children very much. Then I started to study psychology because I needed background to approach psychoanalysis. I was already sure from what I had read and from my own experiences that I would like to be a psychoanalyst. I had wanted to study medicine too but it was more realistic to chose psychology because I had to earn money with my profession. Some psychoanalysts also told me that I would never really come close to the essence of psychoanalysis by studying medicine. Psychoanalysis is a topic of its own.
Q: What age range of patients do you treat now?
I work with adolescents but also with parents and grownups. I like to have the mixed experience between young people and grownups. After my psychoanalytic training I established a small practice that grew and grew and left me less time for school teaching. So I slowly gave up teaching. I also became more and more involved in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.
Q: So you are a nonmedical analyst - what Freud called a “lay analyst.” You know in the US how much, despite Freud’s endorsement, they are frowned on by psychiatrists.
Yes. There are now more psychologists than medical doctors as psychoanalysts in Vienna. It’s nearly two thirds, which doesn’t make our medical colleagues very happy. They are encouraging students in medical schools to be interested in psychoanalysis. But it was already the trend when I began my studies to have more non-medical analysts. As for who makes the better analyst, in my own experience I found it was really a matter, after ascertaining their talent, of how avidly one is engaged in the topic: Has this candidate the makings of an analyst who can make a contribution, or not? Maybe my medical colleagues wouldn’t so much agree.
Q: One project that spun out of the Vienna Society was your new book Freud in the Press, which examines how Austrian newspapers treated psychoanalysis from 1895 until the Anschluss.
The project was supposed to take two years. But even with my historian colleague co-writer we still needed ten years to complete it. In the beginning we had wanted to compare analysis then with the present time but we had to give it up as too ambitious. But I was surprised to find that most of the anti-Freud arguments that now circulate were around since 1895 when Freud and Breuer published Studies in Hysteria. I was surprised to see how little these arguments changed.
Q: Are you saying the arguments against analysis then were exactly the same kind as those deployed in today’s “Freud Wars”?
I wouldn’t say it was quite the same. There was a shift in some arguments. For instance, physicians read with much interest that this Doctor Freud had found a new idea with which to deal with difficult cases. There was a lot of interest among Viennese colleagues, which is documented in the Vienna Medical Journal and Vienna Cllinical Journal (Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift und Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift) from 1895 until psychoanalysis was expelled by the Nazis. They keenly felt their own restrictions, compared to what Freud was doing. Some doctors, for example, said that a gynecologist was allowed to ask any intimate question to find a diagnosis but that an ordinary doctor – a nonspecialist - is not even allowed to ask about sexuality. An ordinary doctor had to worry about his reputation if he asks about their sexuality.
Q: But sexuality was not the only concern, was it?
It is not the main concern today. Another argument against analysis was that it is not scientific enough. This is the main argument now, and, what’s worse, the effort to be ‘scientific” it is so even among some analysts the greatest concern. These attacks have always existed. The shift in contemporary criticism is that the reputation of the doctor is no longer at stake but it is more a concern about scientific aspects - whether one can repeat or prove results by statistics, and so on. This objection was always there. What is amusing is that they were saying from the start that psychoanalysis was dead and buried from the beginning, more than a hundred years ago.
Take for a famous example, an assistant at the Vienna University Clinic, Emil Raimann, who for decades followed Freud with an extremely ambivalent interest. When he got to know a bit about psychoanalysis he decided to write a book about it. Another skeptic at his clinic even told him he needn’t bother reading The Interpretation of Dreams - it’s not worthwhile. So Raimann attended Freud’s lectures but already was writing critically about psychoanalysis before getting to know it. So one day he asked Freud if he could accompany him after the lecture and then confessed that he – this is mentioned in one of Freud’s lectures - now would write much differently about psychoanalysis because he had a better idea of it. Nevertheless he continued to write critical reviews, somewhat attacking Freud but even more so even attacking Freud’s pupils, his followers.
Q: Who were more vulnerable?
Yes. This is a split which is very interesting. Freud was excused for working so long in relative isolation. One important commentator of the time said a genius is allowed to be alone because he needs solitude to carry on his work. But this dispensation does not apply to pupils. So this tactic of attacking the followers instead was one way of displaying ambivalence toward Freud and his findings. Like Emil Raimann they couldn’t stop it. They neither wanted to go into details of analytical work nor did they want to risk being drawn into analysis itself.
Q: That may be the key difference between earlier generations of critics and the current generation of critics. This acute ambivalence - because ambivalence means you really are attracted to the insights and explanatory power of the thing you are attacking. But for most critics, like Frederick Crews, today there is nothing whatever to be gained by examining psychoanalysis. It is a pure negative, a deadweight.
They say it but nonetheless many of them are attracted to some other form of psychotherapy based on psychoanalysis. These therapies must be serious, deal with sexuality, and so on. I am sure there is a secret attraction to psychoanalysis even now. And I think it was true also in earlier times. I think that if some psychoanalytic topic catches an unconscious conflict in the reader, it brings them some short period of relief because it is a lifting of repression which is experienced as pleasure. This, in my view, is the source of the secret attraction. This is an ambivalence where one can rail against analysis and at the same time enjoy it.
Q: Crews had a tremendous early interest in psychoanalysis before he rejected it and began what looks like a vendetta. Partly, the attack on analysis today is aided by the usually realistic view that it is too expensive to be available to the ordinary person.
It is a problem. In Vienna, even from the time of Freud, there was an outpatient clinic established through the very hard work of some colleagues who in the beginning struggled against other analysts who said we don’t need it and we don’t care. As long as you don’t send patients to us we are not interested in it. But through this outpatient clinic we are even in contact with insurance companies now so that it is possible in Vienna to have the whole analysis even without any money because insurance will pay it.
Q: The American private insurance system is extremely reluctant to fund ‘talking cures.”
Even the insurance companies have found that psychoanalysis is serious. It lasts a long time and it costs a lot of money but in the long term it might be cheaper if a patient -- for instance a psychosomatic patient who is always in the hospital – no longer needs hospitalization or drugs. One can prove cases of patients with many stays in hospital who after they started psychoanalysis had none. So even the insurance companies realize that psychoanalysis might be a good thing. There is some appreciation of the therapeutic power of psychoanalysis even among those people who have no idea about it. One eminent colleague, for example, has achieved a certain success in talking seriously to insurance firms and showing them how psychoanalysis differs from other therapies. It is important to understand the view of people from the insurance firms while at the same time preserving the essential precepts of analysis
Q: The battle is proving to insurance companies that psychoanalysis can be what they call bottom-line ‘efficient.’
Yes, that psychoanalysis is cheaper in the long term if it is really indicated. There are studies which prove that psychotherapy can be much more effective, such as that in Germany by Joachim F. Dankwardt and Ekkehard Gattig.
Q: The current “Freud wars” continue. How do you assess them after your study of Freud’s reception at the turn of the 20th century?
At a European Psychoanalytic Institute conference in Helsinki recently a colleague I met in a lift turned to me and said, “What would we talk about if we didn’t have the [Freud Wars] crisis?” He meant it was not a real problem but a pretend problem. He shared my opinion that there will always be a struggle between repression and insight. I don’t think the outside world is more hostile to psychoanalysis than it was in the beginning. I think resistance is a natural reaction that Freud had already foreseen and experienced. When he was confronted with this powerful ambivalence, he explained it as the difference between a flirtation with psychoanalysis and a marriage with it, with all its difficulties and duties. Other psychotherapies have always promised to be able to do the same as analysis, only quicker and less expensively. That is a flirtation, I think. But we should also realize there are situations where other short term therapies are necessary. it must not always be a full-fledged great analysis but also there can be, if indicated, short term therapies
Q: Studies show that analysis works but so do other therapies, under differing circumstances.
It is difficult. I think it is often impossible to foresee what the person will do with his new possibilities after analysis. It can go very well and go awry. It’s not so easy to criticize any particular therapy.
Q: What are the most frustrating aspects of dealing with the press and the public today?
I think we analysts are not used to dealing with ordinary everyday questions, We are not prepared for it. We are too specialized in our thinking. We are prepared for sitting behind the couch, not how to speak with a journalist who wants short clear answers.
I think analysts and journalists both have much to learn, I think we analysts are surprised that we often don’t recognize what the journalists are writing. It is sometimes nothing to do with what we have said. They write something quite different, and then we have a problem. But there is an international effort among analyst to make themselves aware of what the journalists need. And they need clear answers. We don’t give clear answers. (Laughing), They want answers quickly. We don’t act quickly. We are even proud not to do so. We have to learn to make compromises.
Our outreach program analyst Franciska Ylander invited a top journalist who told us what she would need from the analyst. There are, of course, some journalists who have some idea what analysis is like. The first thing I learned was, If you don’t have the time to prepare yourself, don’t give the interview. If you are asked to do it nevertheless, then say no a second time. A journalist interview is not a place for free association. One really has to think over what one is doing - and what we did until now was a bit arrogant, to feel we can answer everything every time. We cannot. We can with a topic with which we are well acquainted. Maybe we can pick out an important aspect of a certain problem so that the journalists can use it, but it is not so in every case. I think that we should listen – something we should already know from our profession – to journalists. And maybe also listen to their fears, which we might detect when they are speaking. Maybe also take into consideration what pressures they are under. In Italy a group of colleagues took time once a month to speak with journalists about ongoing topics, about whether psychoanalysis have something to say or not about it. So they provide a space where journalists and psychoanalysts can meet and become acquainted with each other.
Q: Does analysis still mirror the standard New Yorker cartoon of the analyist scribbling notes behind a babbling patient on a couch?
I don’t think so. Some will take notes and I understand that. I sometime do this myself. [Donald] Winnicott said he could concentrate much better when taking notes. On the other hand, the notebook is something placed between the patient and oneself. We have learned to watch carefully our own counter-transference [personal feelings aroused in the analytical situation]. So some analysts prefer to concentrate on these feelings and not on the writing. I know also of a European colleague who conducts analysis while the patient is sitting on a chairs across from the analyst. So it is not possible to take notes. There are good reasons why the analyst can think it is important for patients to see the analyst and get a picture of him and his reactions.
Q: I know people using psychoanalytic techniques in group therapy.
I know people using psychoanalytic techniques in group therapy. There regrettably is a reluctance among analysts to address group processes and treatments It would be useful if we could all be more open to what group analysts have found. But I am not very hopeful in this regard. There are not usually very good relationships between analysts and group analysts because the latter often have not had such a long and careful individual training as the analysts
Q: So group psychoanalysis is possible.
I am sure that it is possible but there is also a lot of resistance against it, including among analysts. There are fields too where psychoanalysis can be a help, such as in forensics. . I took part in supervision sessions about hardened and disturbed young criminals in prison and I was deeply impressed at how the fate of a young person can be decided, how treatment can help. But it is a question of how one can persuade the public to spend money to help in research and so on.
Q: Let’s talk about your book on Freud and the Press. You found that Freud’s self-presentation of his early years of analytical exploration were not really a time of splendid isolation, as he portrayed it.
It is interesting that Freud exaggerated the period of loneliness. But I think everyone can understand why. Here was a new science and he had to protect it from threats outside and from inside. He also wasn’t sure about his new science, and he could not be. Then there also were his expectations. If you think about his letters to his fiancé. He was very much taken with the myth of the hero and to a hero it is necessary always to be in danger. And so he felt more in danger than he often was
Q: He needed to feel that way
It was certainly not always in accord with the facts. But even contemporaries recognized that a genius had to separate himself, and feel alone to perform the work. He later wrote in Moses and Monotheism that a new idea takes at least one generation to be established.
Q: Werner Heisenberg and Thomas Kuhn later said much the same thing about the history of Physics.
And Freud said this very clearly too. He used the examples of Darwin and others. On the other hand, he did not correct what he said about psychoanalysis, which took less than a generation to succeed. He published in 1895 Studies in Hysteria and by 1908 the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society was founded and the first International Congress took place. In 1910 the International Psychoanalytic Association was established. So 15 years is certainly less than a generation. I think the reason for the short time was that analysis often touches something important in people - something repressed that is relieved by a psychoanalytic idea at least for a short time. And this relief can be experienced as pleasure. . But there will be resistance because it is necessary for us to repress some things. So we never have an easy context. in analysis. In History of Psychoanalytic Movement Freud does say that analysis has established itself as a research method and as a clinical instrument --so he did see that there was not only rejection.
Q: There is a notion that Freud out of pride failed to make use of important contacts in Austria, and that if he made more efforts he would have gained notice and honors earlier.
I think one cannot overlook the Jewish problem, which still matters. It lasted a long time, but in Austria everything lasts a bit longer.
Q: Too true. What was your overall sense of his treatment in press,? It wasn’t all positive.
Press coverage was highly ambivalent - a blend of interest and criticism. The constant criticisms were about the open approach to sexuality, about not being scientific enough, and that the analysts would exclude others and were too arrogant. The newspapers denigrated Freud’s arguments about sexuality. The writers expressed concern that children should be troubled about sexual matters. One wrote that every healthy youngster undergoes this development and never made a fuss about it and now Freud comes along and makes a fuss about it. It is a complaint that has not changed
Q: What about Jeffrey Masson’s charge that Freud abandoned the seduction theory for fantasy not on the basis of evidence but out of sheer cowardice?
In seduction theory everything is outside, the threat comes outside the person. Seduction from outside is indeed a possibility. The seduction can be fantasy or it can be reality. It has to be decided case to case. We have to have our eyes open, and not be closed to anything. Freud helped to open our eyes in this respect but had to balance it again. Something which impressed me is that Freud took reactions of his colleagues seriously Maybe I expected him to be more arrogant than he was but he really thought about criticisms. He considered if he made a mistake. He thought it was quite astonishing that suddenly he found everywhere there was a seduction at the root of neurosis - until he found part of it was in the head of the patients. It was not always outside.He found too that the so-called seducers conveyed something in their unconscious, a feeling which was interpreted by the patient in a way which was experienced as a seduction But nevertheless there were also real seductions too.
Q: Freud never said otherwise.
When we are attending to reasons and causes outside ourselves which overwhelm us. It is a way of pushing our inner life away again, and, when we do so, we lose a lot of possibilities by doing that.
Q: By doing so we deny our own small but vital part of responsibility in what happens, or reacting to what happens.
Yes, exactly. In crisis intervention and so-called trauma therapy they say okay you are a poor victim and harm was done to you. Come to me and I will help. This is making a promise that an analyst would not make because he would guide the person so as to see what part was one’s own contribution to the problem he suffers from.
Q: And thereby establish some control over the problem by establishing control over oneself.
Persons who feel under severe pressure like to hear that they are not guilty of anything. So there is a silence about what is inside them. The analyst will not promise to prove all the bad is outside. He will not be able to sanction this.
Q: The Freud Wars critics first blamed Freud for concealing the level of real abuse and then when many ‘memories of abuse turned out to be false the same critics smartly turned around to say that this too was all the fault of Freud because of his concept of repression, which they said was an active repression much like amnesia.
So one has to keep both possibilities in mind - fantasy and reality - and treat them with great care. Repression is very important but it is not the only thing. Some authors are so rigid in the way they write about repression that they have only one trait they follow. I think this is what is picked up by the public. Such work should be checked by analysts who know the dangers and who can understand why a person tries to guide the concept in one direction that can do more harm than good.
Q: In great traumas – life-endangering accidents, battlefields, catastrophes and so - it seems a conscious act to repress memory.
So that only in hypnosis or in therapy can one begin to recover it, however untrustworthy the recalled memory may be. I think there is some awareness that one tries to push away and to repress things that are unbearable. But that also gives one a lot of hope that something can be solved later, if not now. This unfortunately is not my original idea but comes from Winnicott who says repression can be healthy, it can be a useful delay enabling [therapeutic] work later which cannot be done now. But it is interesting that you mention hypnosis because this was also a way to bring memories out, done by somebody from outside So one should question these methods. Hypnosis can in some situations be helpful but it is not the end of the journey. Even if by hypnosis some person were able to see something out which cannot come out in some other way, the person still would have slowly to integrate what has happened.
Q: So repression must be handled with the great care.
A lifting of repression can be really shocking. It is one thing to lift one’s own repression and another to go utside the consulting room to damage the repression of a lot of other persons who have not asked for analysis and not asked for a lifting of repression A lot of harm can be done. Maybe that process is in the direction of health but maybe it is a developing catastrophe. Because when people are suddenly confronted with the truth of material they have repressed themselves they would need help. I behind my couch cannot do anything.
Q: The accusation may not be true either
Yes. Given these deep feelings of the person it is sometime not clear whether it true or not.
Q: Critics point out that some analysts too readily regard any criticism as ‘resistance” – sometime it probably is, but certainly sometimes it is not.
I think it would be helpful if we restricted the term resistance mainly to the consulting room, clinical situations and theoretical discussions.
Q: What of politics. Does analysis have any role to play in politics? Psychoanalysis is fundamentally a very subversive science. It’s not there to stabilize, or underpin any society. Since Freud’s time analysts have operated at every point in the political spectrum.
Like any science it should try to keep out of partisan politics. If it is used for only one partisan side, it is not good either for analysis nor for the side it takes. Nevertheless there are moments when we might have the ability to make some things clear, such as the role of projections and so on in the policies we see. I think we can provide knowledge but we shouldn’t peddle ourselves in politics.
Q: What about the question of testability, testing the effectiveness of analysis? What is going on in that realm?
It is a very, very difficult situation because it would be easy if one could concentrate on typical symptoms which one might manage. Some of them might be managed by different types of therapy, but psychoanalysis often turns upside down the whole personality. So it is also a question of how the whole personality develops, which is not easy for the usual scientific methods to gauge Psychoanalysis is much more than only a treatment.
Q: Say more about that.
I like very much a remark by a colleague Michael Parsons who says that a person who starts psychoanalysis must not yet know why he needs it. In some ways it is easier if the person is very disturbed. But it is difficult when a person is not happy and does not even know if he or she is allowed to be happy. After five years of analysis he might be quite a different person who worked through old feelings and wishes and thoughts. All this may have changed. I am not very much in favor of testability because I think it is like in art: how do you show the development of the artist? It’s not easy to do. You have ideas about it but it is nothing you can test. Nonetheless I respect colleagues who try to make links to the positivist science and to test progress. One can test the absence of symptoms. One can even test how great a measure an impression is by projective tests. One can do some things. And, of course, we sometimes need to look up from our methods to have a new view on them, to see more. But it is my view that the possibility to test psychoanalysis is very limited.
Q: The Victorian climate of prudishness is gone. If so, people say the types and sources of neurosis have changed too
I think this view is suspect. In making sexuality seemingly so public the impression is generated that sexual satisfaction is so much easier to get. It is simply not true. We are again confronted maybe not so much with inhibitions from the outside but with the anxieties of the parents and so on. I think there is a return of Puritanism, What concerns me even more is that analysts often share this Puritanism in their selection of theories. These theories are much more concerned with security, and with abuse and trauma and anything which originates from outside. But they are also focused on the union between the mother and child, omitting the sexual life of the mother. The Mother is primarily the fusion with the child but where is the mother who is a woman with desires?
Q: Madonna-whore again?
Rather Madonna without the whore. I think there has been less change than was advertised. I think we again have split off the mother who is a sexually mature woman with her own desires with regard to the father. There is a lot of denial. We have a relatively uninhibited sexual culture on the surface but inside it a lot of split-offs, which is evident even if one concentrates on baby observation. In this splitting off of the woman of desire from the mother of fusion the issue of destructiveness arises, the antagonist of love. There is the little girl who hates the mother when the mother disturbs her desire for the father. And then her guilt feelings regarding her antagonism to the mother, and so on.
As Freud said – quoting our Viennese poet Johann Nestroy - progress always is half as big as it appears to be. So I think things seem to have changed more than they really have because repressed material always comes through the back door. We can’t avoid it and we shouldn’t take the surface as everything.
Q: What are you currently writing?
I am writing a book about separation. ‘Melody of Separation’ - a psychoanalytic study of separation anxiety’
Q: Did you say m-a-l-a-d-y or m-e-l-o-d-y of separation?
Melody, as in a song. It sounds romantic. But actually I think it is only our defense as analysts against separation which can be experienced as terror. It is tremendous fear of being separated. In analysis separation anxiety plays an important role. It mirrors earlier failures in the environment. In analysis every nonresponse of the parents can turn up, which itself was a kind of separation.
Q: You’ve also written about Harry Potter, rather famously separated from his parents.
There is a total split-off of the ideal parents – a magic couple - who died and lost Harry. They cannot do anything wrong to Harry anymore and they are still helpful from heaven or wherever they are. So there are these idealized parents and then there are the split-off silly parents. Terribly silly people. So every young person has a choice in this split-off and can remake his family as he pleases, falling in love again with idealized parents and know the bad ones are those from whom a separation is necessary.
The books, of course, also appeal to magical thinking .which is full of pleasure. – a special quality of the books is the mixture of fantasy and reality.
Q: Is Hagrid a father figure or another adolescent?
Hagrid is a very powerful figure but at the same time very uncertain of himself. This is very useful for every youth; their uncertainty is projected onto Hagrid. So young people can take it or leave it to identify with him. The books are a kind of treatment they can chose for themselves, how and whom they identify with.
Q: What about Hermione who is so self-confident and commanding?
And she wins the love of Harry by being a ‘chap.’ So her role of sexual identity is not fixed yet, which makes their relationship easier. She slowly comes into the role of a girl. There is a lot of sexuality in this book. It can be a pleasure without becoming conscious.
Q: The game of quidditch?
There are a lot of masturbation fantasies in there. Zooming around on those broomsticks. It’s a bit out of control, a bit of pleasure, a bit of fighting. But neither the parents nor the teachers recognize it.
Q: What happens when Harry and his friends grow up?
They will find real ways to satisfaction and not rely so much on magic thinking. Not long ago an Italian colleague Andreas Giannakoulas elaqborated that all our pleasure as grownups has to have some connection with infantile pleasures and experiences. We can only hope that Harry Potter as a grownup finds his way back to infantile, but controlled, pleasures, controlled in order to keep them longer
Q: I’m turning from witches brews to pharmacology, to the degree there’s any difference. We live in an age of intensively advertised ‘better living through chemistry.” Magic pills will suppress, if not cure, what ails you, and that’s enough. Does drugging people make them more amenable to psychotherapy? Can those who are too violent or too depressive or too passive now have better therapy?
I am not sure about this because one main requirement to do analysis is that people make their own decision to do it. So to stop violence by killing somebody’s vitality, how should it make him more accessible for psychoanalysis ? I am not sure about it. Maybe the very first time it will give the person a break from being out of their mind totally, but it is not enough for analysis, I think.
I know that there are serious efforts to combine the two. But the few cases where I had patients who were also with a psychiatrist who thought it necessary to give them medication, it did not last long. They wanted to have a clearer mind and to work unaided. They felt they could be more themselves without drugs. By choice they decided to leave it. On the other hand when I am on vacation sometimes they go back to it.
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Freud suggested that working in analysis there are many dangers for analysts and they should return every fifth year for their own analyses. We don’t know how often this happens because the colleagues who take charge of it are confidential, which is very correct. I think the possibility is not used enough. I also think that an analyst cannot acquire his capacity once and forever: he has to brush up now and again.- and in some way our patients help us with this because we have to watch ourselves. But there are also a lot of blind spots where we need the help of colleagues to regain our capacities. | <urn:uuid:1cb88d2c-d02c-4d3d-9af4-48711dad4114> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zwettler-otte.at/interview.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.978388 | 6,954 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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UMaine Supports Teachers with First Summer Educators Institute
Schools across the state held their last classes of the 2021–22 school year , marking the official start of summer for Maine students, parents and teachers. However, about 125 educators didn’t the classroom , as they took part in the first annual University of Maine Educators Institute being held virtually June 22–23.
The theme of this new UMaine Summer University program, developed in collaboration with the Maine Department of Education, is “Supporting Emotional and Behavioral Well-Being in School Communities: From Surviving to Thriving.”
“Educators have always faced challenges, many of which have been amplified by the pandemic, as well as by the social and cultural environment of the past few years,” says Penny Bishop, dean of the UMaine College of Education and Human Development. “We’re launching this institute in hopes of equipping teachers and other school-based professionals with new knowledge and strategies they can take back to their schools next year to meet these challenges head on.”
The program features six strands, with workshops led by faculty members from UMaine, as well as educators and other experts from around the state and beyond. The six strands are Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice; Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS); Trauma and Resilience; Social-Emotional Learning (SEL); Student-Centered Learning; and Exploring Wabanaki Studies.
The institute also included keynote speeches by Judith Josiah-Martin, a faculty member at the UMaine School of Social Work and former director of UMaine’s Office of Multicultural Student Life, and Catherine Bradshaw, university professor and senior associate dean for research and faculty development at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development.
Participants are eligible to earn continuing education units (CEUs) for professional development. In addition, more than a dozen educators are will take part in the institute as part of a three-credit graduate course that runs from mid-June to mid-July and includes additional content and strategies.
“We’re excited about the program for this inaugural institute and look forward to working with the College of Education and Human Development to make it the premier summer personal and professional development opportunity for educators in Maine moving forward,” says Patricia Libby, assistant dean of the UMaine Division of Lifelong Learning.
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Ultimate Guide for Understanding Uncertainties on a Morehouse ASTM E74 Calibration Certificate
Reporting the Expanded Uncertainty on an ASTM E74 Calibration Certificate of the measurement is a requirement of ISO/IEC 17025 and likely always will be. However, if you look at several different certificates of calibration, their Expanded Uncertainty reported, contributors, and reporting methods will vary greatly. Some include a blanket statement of uncertainty, while others simply ignore significant contributions required by several published standards. This guide describes the formulas, statements, and data reported on a Morehouse ASTM E74 calibration certificate and how it benefits the end-users.
At Morehouse, we follow the proper requirements per our accreditation and rely heavily on meeting the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and these published documents:
- ILAC-P14 "Policy for Measurement Uncertainty in Calibration" (1)
- JCGM 100:2008 "Evaluation of measurement data — Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement" (2)
- ANSI/NCSL Z540.3 & Handbook "Requirements for the Calibration of Measuring and Test Equipment" (3)
Morehouse also follows general acceptable metrological practices, such as the NIST technical Note 1297, "Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results." (5) The Appendix on a Morehouse ASTM E74 calibration certificate uses a similar method to what is found on a calibration report from NIST. The difference is that Morehouse includes the resolution of the Unit Under Test (UUT) because it is required by ILAC-P14. Therefore, Morehouse follows the ILAC-P14 requirements by reporting Expanded Uncertainty per point and replicates NIST's method in the appendix with one modification to include the resolution of the UUT (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Last Page of the NIST ASTM E74 Calibration Certificate for Morehouse 4.45 MN Reference Standard
NIST Formula for Measurement Uncertainty from Figure 1 is uc² = ur² + uw² + uv²
Morehouse Formula for Measurement Uncertainty, which needs to follow ILAC-P14 is uc² = ur² + uw² + ures² + uv²
Requirements for Reporting Measurement Uncertainty on an ASTM E74 Calibration Certificate
The two formulas above are very similar and follow the approach found in JCGM 100:2008 (2), except the Morehouse formula also includes the resolution of the UUT (ures2). The reason for the difference is that Morehouse must adhere to ILAC-P14 Section 5.4, which states, "Contributions to the uncertainty stated on the calibration certificate shall include relevant short-term contributions during calibration and contributions that can reasonably be attributed to the customer's device. Where applicable, the uncertainty shall cover the same contributions to uncertainty that were included in the evaluation of the CMC uncertainty component, except that uncertainty components evaluated for the best existing device shall be replaced with those of the customer's device."(1)
For short-term contributions, it is generally accepted that the repeatability and resolution of the Unit Under Test (UUT) should be included unless the repeatability is dominant. Otherwise including the resolution may not be required. ILAC-P14 Section 4.3, Note 2 states, "When it is possible that the best existing device can have a contribution to the uncertainty from repeatability equal to zero, this value may be used in the evaluation of the CMC. However, other fixed uncertainties associated with the best existing device shall be included." (1) Therefore, in most cases when a load cell or other instrument is not moved and the force machine is plumb, level, square, and rigid enough to not yield deviation in the same position, then we opt to include the resolution of the UUT in the reported expanded uncertainty.
The ANSI/NCSL Z540.3 handbook further supports these contributors by stating, "The value of this uncertainty estimate should reflect the results that are reasonably expected from the use of the approved procedure to calibrate the particular Type of M&TE. Therefore, the estimate includes all components of error that influence the measurement results of the calibration, which would also include the influences of the item being calibrated with the exception of the bias of the M&TE. Therefore, the calibration process error includes temporary and non-correctable influences incurred during the calibration such as repeatability, resolution, error in the measurement source, operator error, error in correction factors, environmental influences, etc." (3)
The end-user must do additional repeatability studies and account for other error sources per JCGM 100:2008 (2) and back out the contributors to uncertainty; we list the short-term contributors as required by ILAC-P14 in Morehouse certificates. The expanded uncertainty will be the absolute best the instrument can perform in our laboratory. These contributors follow ILAC-P10 "Policy on the Metrological Traceability of Measurement Results" (4). The end-user should break down all of the uncertainty contributors, calculate the appropriate coverage factor using the effective degrees of freedom, or correct Type A data at the source using the student's t correction, which turns most Type-A data into data with unlimited degrees of freedom. The importance of correcting Type A data would be if someone wanted to use a coverage factor of k = 2. The Welch-Satterthwaite equation may yield varying k values when used to correspond to a confidence interval of 95 %. Both methods are outlined in the Morehouse CMC-CALCULATIONS-FOR-FORCE-MEASUREMENTS Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
The contributions for the CMC uncertainty parameter for an ASTM E74 calibration are as follows:
Type A Uncertainty Contributions
- ASTM LLF reported as 1 Standard Deviation (k=1). ASTM LLF is reported with k= 2.4.
Note: The reason ASTM LLF is called out is that many reports do not list the standard deviation. In actuality, the Standard Deviation per section 8 of the ASTM E74 standard is what is required.
- Repeatability conducted with the Best Existing Force measuring instrument
- Repeatability and Reproducibility
Note: Repeatability and Reproducibility are from an R & R study and should not be confused with repeatability with the Best Existing Force measuring instrument, as noted in 2 above. It is up to the end-user to determine if these errors are significant and included in the final uncertainty budget.
Type B Uncertainty Contributors
- Resolution of the Best Existing Force measuring instrument
- Reference Standard Resolution (if applicable)
- Reference Standard Uncertainty
- Reference Standard Stability
- Environmental Factors
- Other Error Sources
Note: All uncertainty contributions should be combined. If appropriate, the Welch-Satterthwaite equation described in JCGM 100:2008 should be used to determine the effective degrees of freedom for the appropriate coverage factor for a 95 % confidence interval.
For more information on what is needed for proper force measurement uncertainty budgets, there is a detailed guidance document published by A2LA G126 - Guidance on Uncertainty Budgets for Force Measuring Devices. The 21-page document further explains definitions, terms, and requirements to complete a full uncertainty budget. Morehouse has an uncertainty template in Microsoft Excel to help any calibration laboratory that needs to meet the ISO/IEC 17025 requirements and set up their budget. The file can be downloaded at measurementuncertainty.info
Morehouse Measurement Expanded Uncertainty Calculations on the primary Certificate of Calibration
On our Certificate of Calibration for ASTM E74 calibrations, Morehouse states the following "The Expanded Uncertainty is the aggregate uncertainty of the Morehouse measurement process, which includes the uncertainty of the reference standards used for calibration and the resolution. It is stated with a coverage factor of k=2, such that the confidence interval corresponds to approximately 95 %."
When Morehouse reports the Expanded Uncertainty, we use the formula uc² = uw² + ures² + uv² for the combined standard uncertainty where
uw is the maximum standard Uncertainty for the Calibration and Measurement Capability (CMC) of the force devices used for calibration.
For deadweights, uw represent the estimated standard deviation in the forces applied by the deadweight standards due to the uncertainties in the determination of the mass, air density, and gravitational acceleration and includes contributions from the measurement process such as repeatability studies, the resolution of the best existing device, and environmental factors. For transfer standards, the CMC includes the uncertainties from NIST calibrations, reference standard uncertainty, repeatability studies, stability of the reference standard, resolution of the reference, and the best existing device, environmental factors, and other error sources associated with the Morehouse calibrating machines and measurement process
ures is the resolution of the force measuring system at the time of calibration.
uv is the standard uncertainty in the calibration of the voltage-ratio measurement instrumentation used at Morehouse. This term is 0 for an indicator that is supplied with the transducer to be calibrated together as a system.
Figure 2: Page from Morehouse ASTM E74 Certificate
The combined standard uncertainty is then multiplied by the appropriate coverage factor, typically k = 2, and the Expanded Uncertainty is reported.
Figure 3: Uncertainty Calculation for ASTM E74 Calibration Certificate
Formulas for Measurement Uncertainty on ASTM E74 Calibration Certificate Reports in the appendix
Morehouse Formula for Measurement Uncertainty uc² = ur² + uw² + ures² + uv²
NIST Formula for Measurement Uncertainty uc² = ur² + uw² + uv²
When we follow what NIST does in our appendix, we add in ures to the equation, where ures is the resolution of the force measuring system at the time of calibration.
Figure 4: Page from the Morehouse certificate appendix
The formula uc² = ur² + uw² + ures² + uv² is simple to follow. However, we will break it down further so you can check it using Microsoft Excel.
Standard uncertainty for this example
Figure 5: Uncertainty calculation to support the Morehouse Appendix
- We break down the individual components and reduce them to k =1
- uw is found by either taking the percentage force of the CMC uncertainty for the reference force machines times the force applied, a fixed value, or a formula for the reference standard uncertainty. In this example, Morehouse used deadweights known to within 0.0016 %, so we multiplied the force applied by this number.
- uv is found by multiplying the percentage for the CMC uncertainty for the reference indicator by the force applied.
- ur is the ASTM LLF from the calibration report. This is found by dividing the LLF by a coverage factor of k = 2.4 since that is what ASTM E74 uses for the LLF.
- ures is the resolution of the force measuring device divided by the appropriate divisor. In this example, it is the square root of 12, or 3.464.
- All of these numbers can be found in Microsoft Excel by using this formula SQRT((uw^2)+(uv^2)+(ur^2)+(ures^2))
- Then Expanded Uncertainty is found by multiplying by the coverage factor. In this case, it is 2.
Figure 6: As a % and Response Units
- To find the percentage, divide the uncertainty by the force applied and multiply by 100.
- To find Response units, multiply the percentage by the unit's output under test at that force point.
ASTM E74 Calibration Certificate - Conclusion
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A Bio is a thorough account of a person’s life. It supplies even more info than an individual’s fundamental truths. It information exactly how the individual personally experienced events that shaped their life. Biographies are necessary for understanding the lives of people who have actually made significant contributions to the globe. This sort of book is additionally beneficial to pupils as they examine the lives of famous people. However how can you locate an excellent Bio? In this article, we will go over a few of the important things you should try to find when reading a Biography.
You can locate a biography of a famous person by doing a search in encyclopedias. The Net is additionally a great area to discover a bio, as many websites have entrances regarding a person’s life. The very best bio resources consist of primary and secondary bios. You can additionally find details concerning a specific from encyclopedias, thesaurus, as well as backgrounds. Nevertheless, it is constantly best to start your biography by gathering additional resources.
Biographies of famous people can additionally be written by a team of people. Captain Charles Johnson created A General History of the Pirates in 1724, cataloging the lives of infamous pirates. This job assisted establish pictures of pirates in popular culture. A smaller sized team can be the subject of a bio, such as the individual musicians in New york city. Nonetheless, there are still a couple of rules to comply with when writing a biography. So, begin with a subject that fascinates you.
When creating a biography, the author ought to stay clear of misrepresenting the topic. She or he have to recognize the resources used to research the topic, however the biographer should avoid personal predisposition. It is very important to keep in mind that a biography is a work of art which a biography can not be a job of fiction. Inevitably, the goal of the bio is to tell the tale of a historical figure as well as the impact it carried the world.
In writing a biography, the author must try to capture the unfolding life of a topic. This implies that he or she has to disturb the flow of diurnal time in order to team products to disclose the character characteristics, grand styles of experience, and the actions that brought about a high choice. The biographer has the advantage of having straight perceptions of the subject and being connected with him or her in the same age. But the emotional element of living association will certainly often tint the writer’s sight of the topic.
The author’s objective is to make the life story interesting and also enjoyable. This suggests he or she will commonly make use of a plot framework to give the story a form as well as a storyline. The ebb and flow of life, nonetheless, does not create excellent analysis. A great biographer will use a story structure and also make the biography entertaining. The writer should also keep in mind that biographers do not constantly have the deluxe of time to read a life story.
A biography is a non-fiction style as well as should be written in the third individual, as well as the author should prevent using the initial individual. A biographer has to have accessibility to the person’s documents in order to precisely portray them. Bios are not implied to be true accounts, nonetheless, as the writer’s viewpoint will certainly be affected by his or her class, gender, and also time. So the writer must bear in mind that a biography is about a specific and not a basic history of a subject.
An intriguing biography must consist of details about your present job as well as obligations. Consist of the firm where you presently function so that your target market will certainly obtain a clear picture of your market experience. Include your previous setting too, if you have one. The biography can likewise define your location of knowledge. In this manner, individuals can find out more regarding your history as well as what you do. If you want to be noticed, compose a biography that reflects your passion. In this way, you can bring in a great deal of interest.
The goal of a bio is to direct the reader through the life of the individual. Whether it is an author’s memoir or a Hollywood bio, a biography must be able to offer the reader an understanding of the person’s character as well as life lessons. If it does, it will give a sense of ideas for your writing. This genre is terrific for finding out and also for developing your writing abilities. The diversity of biographies allows you to use it in multiple contexts as well as get terrific results.
A biographer aims to convey the unfolding of a person’s life in sequential order, utilizing sequential material to illustrate grand styles of experience or a high choice. The writer who knew the subject in his or her life time has the advantage of straight perceptions and also personal association, but the subjective aspect of living organization alters the author’s view. Thus, a bio is a beneficial property to both authors and viewers alike. The complying with are suggestions on exactly how to create a biography.
A biographer’s biography might be an autobiography, which is a written account of one’s life. Biographies can vary from a brief memoir to a detailed account of a life. A memoir is an effective publication to review as it can provide a look into an individual’s life. A bio can likewise be an individual overview for readers, such as those composed by Maya Angelou.
An example of an outstanding biography is The Miracle Worker by Tony Kushner. A biography of Helen Keller is an effective and inspiring read. Other bios take the type of plays and flicks. One such movie adjustment is Unbroken (2014 ). It highlights the power of history as well as provides a better appreciation of the past. So, whether you are a follower of background, or simply intend to discover more, a bio is a crucial part of any collection. The original source
In a bio, you must determine your audience and the objective of the paper. Ultimately, the bio is your very first point of contact with your target market, so it is very important to develop your identification and what you do. A bio can be formal, individualized, or even amusing. A bio for a college application, as an example, should be more official as well as understandable. However, a bio for social networks might be more casual. Once you’ve composed a biography, you can begin thinking of methods to boost it. | <urn:uuid:c59f4a02-cbc1-448a-b59d-894b8158fd83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gmmentertainment.com/2022/08/04/simple-advice-for-you-in-bio/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.9628 | 1,329 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education (IBCCES) offers certification programs to travel professionals. These professionals help families and individuals with special needs prepare for their perfect vacation. A Certified Autism Travel Professional™ (CATP) is defined as a professional who has demonstrated that they are both knowledgeable and capable of providing support and travel related services to an individual on the autism spectrum as well as their family.
This level of training is unique in the travel industry. It focuses on a specific and growing segment of the industry where special considerations on services provided are essential to providing a top level of customer service. When a member of a family has an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Vacationing and Travel experiences would differ greatly from a family with no members with an ASD. This variable and obvious difference has until now been overlooked in regards to vacation planning and even in accommodations and attraction venues.
There are a few travel providers who have answered the call for enhanced services with the hope that others will follow suit. Currently, Sesame Place, a SeaWorld Entertainment property, is the first theme park to offer official Quiet Spaces for guests with Autism. It offers guests who need it, somewhere to regroup from the overstimulating attractions of the park. On the destination venue side of tourism, Sandals & Beaches Resorts are IBCCES certified Autism friendly locations hosting the first Autism-Friendly Kids Camps. It comes as no surprise that both of these parks share a partnership with Sesame Street. Sesame Street recently debuted their first Autistic character, Julia. Julia appeared on Sesame Street this past April to help bring awareness to the Autism Spectrum and the characteristics associated with the disorder.
The number of autism-friendly resorts and attractions continue to grow each day. Recruiting and training travel professionals will be a big part of getting the information out to the families who will best make use of these locations. CATP undergo comprehensive training in autism-related travel and must pass and final exam. Additionally they require board certification in order to get approval as an official IBCCES Certified Autism Travel Professional. The autism travels website offers an extensive list of CATPs to 5.6 million parents across the US.
If you are looking for an CATP who is also a Disney Destinations Vacation Planner, Sandals/Beaches Certified Specialist & Orlando Area Vacations expert, you can contact JM Oliveri from Mouse Travels and he would be happy to help you plan your next vacation at no additional cost for his knowledge and help. Most importantly you pay only for your vacation and Quotes are always absolutely FREE so contact JM today!
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Its holiday time in Canada and Thanksgiving is one of the most fun holidays that Canadian’s celebrate. The Thanksgiving dinner table will reunite friends, family and neighbours! A big dinner with Turkey, pumpkin pies, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauces are laid on the table!
I thought I will entertain the health enthusiasts so that they don’t feel left out. I have been teaching Ayurvedic Cooking [which is the traditional Indian style cooking] that focuses on health and longevity. Ayurvedic cooking focuses on individual body type and balancing health using spices, herbs and foods that are perfect for each body type [Vata, Pitta & Kapha]. You can learn more about Body Type when you read my article in Naturally Savvy.
You want to indulge in delicious tasting foods with your family and friends but you don’t want to come out of the dinner feeling sluggish, heavy and sleepy. If you love being healthy you would want to go on a diet after a few days! Instead why not focus on a few dishes that are nutritious, delicious and aids digestion?
There are many Indian/Ayurvedic spices available that speeds up metabolism, eliminate gas, reduce bloating and assists the digestive process. The key is to use them in your cooking. You can also be “Extra Smart” and get your body ready for a heavy meal by kindling the digestive fire or the HCl in your stomach.
In order to satisfy your taste buds and your body/mind you must incorporate 6 tastes or rasa in your meal. They are sweet, sour, salty, pungent [hot], bitter and astringent. When you have all these tastes present in a meal it will balance the Vata, Pitta and Kapha body type. Sweet can be the dessert in the menu, salty can be any dish made with salt, sour tasting foods are cranberry or tamarind, greens can be the bitters and wine/cider/raw greens are your astringent tasting foods.
Before you begin with your Thanksgiving meal, stimulate the digestive fire or HCl by eating a 1-inch piece of fresh ginger with a few drops of lemon juice and a few pinches of salt on it. This starts to activate the salivary glands, producing the necessary enzymes so that the nutrients in the food are easily absorbed by the body. Drink a glass of warm water before you start your dinner. This will reduce the possibility of overeating.
Recipe 1: Oven Roasted Spicy Sweet Potato
4 cups of sweet potato, cubed or squared
2 tbsp. ghee
a pinch of ground cayenne pepper
½ tsp. of ground turmeric
1 tsp. of freshly ground cumin seeds
1 tsp. of garam masala
sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper
4-6 fresh curry leaves
¼ of a bunch of fresh cilantro leaves
a. In a bowl place the sweet potatoes and add ghee, cumin, turmeric, cayenne, garam masala, curry leaves, sea salt and black pepper.
b. Mix the sweet potatoes in such a way so the spices and ghee are coated evenly.
c. Lay them on a baking sheet.
d. Place in a pre-heated oven and cook for 20 minutes.
e. After 20 minutes check the potatoes and turn them the other side.
f. Roast for another 10 minutes until potatoes are soft.
g. Chop the cilantro leaves and garish the potatoes with these leaves.
Sweet Potato: Great source of beta carotene and vitamin A. It has antioxidant that reduces the impact of heavy metal and is anti-inflammatory.
Turmeric: One of the best Ayurvedic kitchen healer. Turmeric assists with digestion, maintains the intestinal flora, reduces gas, reduces inflammation and is used like a natural antibiotic.
Cumin: Great for all body types. You can use it for any digestive issues. Cumin also improves the mineral absorption in the intestine.
Ghee: Stimulates digestion and boosts the immune system. Use in moderation if your body type is Kapha.
Recipe 2: Cranberry Apple Sauce [Sour]:
Basic tips for making this recipe:
a. Soak the raisin for an hour before the preparation
b. Peel the orange skin and thinly slice them.
c. Dry roast the clove, cardamom and nutmeg. Grind the spices using a coffee grinder. Put the spice mixture is a small bottle or container the night before
2 ½ cups of organic cranberry
4 cups of grated Apple
¼ tsp. of raisins [soaked for an hour]
¼ tsp. of Goji Berries [soaked for an hour]
1 ½ tbsp. of balsamic vinegar
¼ tsp. of grated orange peel [optional]
½ tsp. of grated ginger
1 ½ cups of coconut sugar/sucanut
2 sticks of Ceylon cinnamon [or regular cinnamon]
1tsp. of cumin seeds
4 whole cloves
3-4 green cardamom
1 tbsp. Butter Oil [Ghee] or Sunflower oil [cold processed]
Water as needed
• Wash the cranberries and apples. Grate apple and keep these two ingredients ready.
• In a pan heat the ghee or oil. Add ginger, cinnamon and cumin seeds fry them for 2-3 minutes. Then add the cranberries and apple.
• Add rest of the grounded spices to the sauce – cardamom, and clove.
• Stir the cranberries and grated apples until they are coated with the oils and spices thoroughly.
• Add the thinly sliced orange peel and then the balsamic vinegar in the pan.
• Add water as needed. Bring to boil and simmer the ingredients, stirring frequently. Once it is simmering, add the coconut sugar, goji berries and raisins.
• When sauce is almost cooked, reduce the heat and keep in cover in low heat for 5 minutes. Let the sauce cool down and then serve.
Cranberry: Rich is Vitamin C and fiber. Cranberry contains a beneficial sugar/carbohydrate called D-Mannose that supports urinary tract health. The phytonutrients in the cranberries have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory power.
Ginger: It improves digestion, absorption and assimilation of food. Ginger improves circulation and helps with congestion.
Cinnamon: Balances blood sugar, improves circulation and helps to reduce congestion.
Recipe 3: Digestive Lassi
There are many recipes for Lassi. The following one is good for warding off gas and bloating:
1 cup room temperature water
3 cups of buttermilk
1 pinch ground ginger
1 pinch ground cumin
1 pinch ground coriander
1 pinch of hing or asafortida
1 pinch salt
Blend for one minute. Drink after
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What Do You Mean "Saved"?
What does it mean to be saved? The story is told of two business men who pass by a church and the sign out front read, “Jesus Saves.” Neither of the men knew very much about Christianity and one man said to the other one, “If Jesus saves I think I will follow His example, go to the bank and open me a saving account.” When we talk about being “saved,” what do we mean. There was a little girl in elementary school and they were learning about antonyms (words opposite in meaning). In class the teacher said that the opposite of “lost” was “found.” The little girl who has been in church all of her life raised her hand and said, the opposite of “lost” is “saved.”
YOU ARE A SINNER
Romans 3:23 - "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
The Bible defines sin in three ways
Sin is doing wrong. (I John 3:4)
Sin is failing to do right. (James 4:17)
Sin is doing something that you think is wrong whether it is wrong or not. (Romans 14:23)
How many times do you think you sin in one day? How many sins does that add up for one year? So how many sins have you committed in your life? Think about facing God as a judge with that many violations.
SIN SEPARATES YOU FROM GOD
The Bible says,
Isaiah 59:2 - But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
Romans 6:23a - For the wages of sin is death...
Death means separation. Physical death is the separation of your spirit from your body. (see James 2:26). Spiritual death is the separation of your spirit from God. (see Revelation 20:14-15)
One dirty spot on a nice dress prevents you from wearing it. One battery cable disconnected on your car will prevent you from driving it. One sin separates you from God.
GOD LOVES YOU AND JESUS DIED FOR YOU
The Bible says,
Romans 5:8 - But God demonstrated His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
II Corinthians 5:21 - He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Isaiah 53:6 - All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him."
God loves you so much that He sent His only Son to take the penalty that you deserve. Jesus took the punishment for your sins upon Himself.
Picture a book being a record book of your life. The sins recorded there are what separate you from God. Place the book on your right hand, which represents you. Now transfer the book to your left hand, which represents Jesus. Your sins were punished on Jesus!
YOU MUST RECEIVE JESUS AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR
John 1:12 - But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name.
How do I receive Jesus?
Romans 10:9 - That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved"
Faith is trusting in, relying and depending upon Jesus alone for your salvation.
Confession is a public acknowledgment of your faith.
Acts 2:38 - And Peter said to them, 'Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Repentance is a change of the mind caused by a sorrow for sins and leading to a reformation of life.
Baptism is immersion in water of a repentant believer in Jesus.
Acts 2:42 - And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Study the Bible, especially the New Testament
Fellowship with other Christians, including church attendance
Breaking of Bread, which is the communion service (the Lord's Supper)
Prayer, which is talking to God
What does it mean to be saved? Are you saved? Do you know for sure if you were to die today that you would go to heaven? If you are not saved -- today should be the day of salvation for you. Accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior now.
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The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) is warning Hoosiers about the dangers of synthetic cannabinoids, often called fake weed, K2, spice, OMG, Scooby Snacks, AK-47 or other names, after reports this month that individuals in Illinois and Indiana suffered severe bleeding after using the substances. Healthcare providers, schools and health departments encountering unusual cases of bleeding in individuals should inquire about potential exposures to synthetic marijuana. Anyone who has a serious reaction to synthetic cannabinoids should call 911 or go to the emergency department immediately. Individuals who experience bleeding symptoms should not take themselves to the emergency department but should instead call 911 or have someone drive them.
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The world decided to return to the consumption of palm oil
Food manufacturers have spent years looking for alternatives to palm oil. Now a special operation in Ukraine disrupts more than half of the world’s supply of sunflower oil, forcing the world to return to palm oil again, writes Bloomberg.
For example, the English company Iceland Foods Ltd. pledged to eliminate palm oil entirely in 2018, but has returned to using it in 25 products, including frozen garlic bread and biscuit puddings.
Russia and Ukraine supply about 65 percent of the world’s sunflower oil, 25 percent of wheat, 20 percent of barley and 18 percent of corn. The conflict caused problems with transportation, delivery of crops and fertilizers, as a result, food prices reached record highs, and the world decided to return to palm oil consumption.
Palm oil exporters do not miss the opportunity to win back market share, the newspaper notes. Some growers choose to buy oil only from suppliers whose farms are committed to not cutting down forests, clearing new land, or using forced labor.
At the same time, Greenpeace called sustainable palm oil a scam and said that some destroy forests for the sake of production and get away with it.
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“Sometimes fathers are the unsung heroes in families when it comes to head lice,” said David Florsheim owner of Lice Clinics of America Omaha. “When moms and kids are frantic, dad is often left to assure them that everything will be okay.”
Not that dads can’t worry and be a bit frantic themselves. “There’s also times when desperate dads bring the family or a child in for treatment,” David said. “Our message to all of them is, ‘your panic ends here.’”
This Father’s Day, Lice Clinics of America – Omaha is saluting these caring dads. The clinic is one of David’s leading head lice treatment centers and the exclusive provider of lice treatment using AirAllé®, an FDA-cleared Class 1 medical device that has been clinically proven to kill live lice and more than 99 percent of eggs (nits). AirAllé uses carefully controlled heated air to dehydrate lice and eggs. Treatment takes about an hour and is guaranteed to be effective.
“We want dads to know that with the AirAllé device their family can be lice-free in an hour,” David said. “Traditional treatments can take weeks, and, in many cases, they don’t work because most lice have become immune to the pesticides and chemicals.”
David is referring to a study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology that found that 98 percent of lice in most of the United States have developed a genetic resistance to pyrethroids, the class of pesticides used in traditional lice products. Pyrethroids have also been linked to developmental and behavior issues in children. The AirAllé medical device is effective against pyrethroid-resistant lice and non-resistant lice because it doesn’t rely on pesticides or chemicals. The AirAllé device uses only heat and air and is 100 percent chemical free and FDA-approved.
“We want to make sure that parents, both dads and moms, know the facts about head lice and their treatment,” David urged. “Our solution is medically and clinically proven to be effective. Come to our clinic and you are guaranteed to be lice free in just an hour!.”
AirAllé itself was invented by a dad faced with the problem of head lice. A University of Utah research team was studying bird lice and found that the lice struggled to survive in the arid desert climate and often died of dehydration. When the daughter of one of the researchers got head lice, and traditional treatments continued to fail, he turned the research team’s focus to finding a way to dehydrate head lice instead. The idea for AirAllé was born, and after 10 years of development and trials, the device was cleared by the FDA as a safe and effective treatment for head lice.
To date, AirAllé has treated some 800,000 cases of head lice with a success rate of more than 99 percent.
Lice Clinics of America – Omaha also offers a complete line of pesticide-free, home lice treatment and prevention products that are also guaranteed to be effective when used as directed.
“The best lice treatment of course is to try to prevent your children from getting lice in the first place,” David remarked. “Our preventive shampoos and sprays serve as a lice repellant and, like mosquito repellant, they keep the bugs away from your children before they have a chance to cause a problem.”
The Omaha clinic is one of 330 Lice Clinics of America treatment centers in 35 countries, making it the world’s largest network of professional lice treatment centers and individuals.
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JLCPCB 3D Printing in Japan
JLCPCB is a Chinese company famous for manufacturing printed circuit boards.
You can order manufacturing PCB data created by KiCAD and other software by simply clicking on the web page, even from Japan.
The prices are quite reasonable, and JLCPCB is widely used among hobby electronics craft users.
JLCPCB has recently started a "3D printing service.
So this time, I would like to introduce what this 3D printing service is like, using my actual order as an example.
Again, when ordering 3D printing from JLCPCB, I decided to use the following two types of data that I have created in the past.
Chassis of an electronic musical instrument called RakuChord
RakuChord - an electronic musical instrument that can be played like a RakuChord with ease.
Plate receptacle for the drainer shelf
Introduction of Kitchen Drainboard and Fixing Problems with 3D Printer - inajob's blog
One of the difficult parts of 3D printer is to design a suitable design for 3D printing, but in this case, I was able to skip this difficult part because of my past efforts.
Once the data is created, it can be created again and again, which is a convenient feature of 3D printing and other machining processes, unlike manual processing.
Assuming that you have already registered as a JLCPCB user, we will introduce how to place an order on the web.
However, there is nothing difficult to do, just uploading the data.
Although JLCPCB is a Chinese company, the web service is written in English, so there is nothing particularly confusing.
Registration of order data
First of all, upload the STL file from the order page, which is a familiar feature of 3D printing, and the following screen will appear.
All you have to do is write the material, number of pieces, and description.
You can choose from a variety of resins and metals, but this time we chose the inexpensive SLA (Resin).
Furthermore, there are three different materials within that category, but the differences between these seem to be subtle, so for the large drainer shelf, I chose the cheapest, 9000R Resin.
The amount seems to be determined almost entirely by volume, and this draining rack was $16.49. (Note that the volume also affects the shipping cost.)
Product Desc is where you describe what it is. In this case, we chose to use "Kitchen tool".
Next is the RakuChord part. It is very inexpensive because it has only small parts in volume compared to the drainer shelf. The smallest screw part was only $1.0.
I selected different materials in the same SLA (Resin) for a test.
The next step is to check the shipping costs.
There are a variety of shipping options: very slow but cheap, fast but expensive, etc.
This time we chose DHL, which is fast and slightly more expensive.
This is because I have experienced various problems when I usually use cheap carriers such as AliExpress, such as the shipment arriving really crudely packed, taking a month to arrive, or being damaged.
The shipping cost this time was $27.63 with DHL. (The lowest price I could find was $9.77 from Economic Global Direct Line.)
The larger the product, the larger the shipping cost will be, and I felt that no matter how low the production cost is, there will be cases where we lose money on shipping.
About the review
If you have done 3D printing before, you know that it is difficult to 3D print some shapes.
That's why JLCPCB has a manual (?) review process exists. When you Order your registered order data, you have to wait a little bit for the review process before payment.
In my case, the review was completed the next day.
I was warned that some parts were very thin and that this part might not come out correctly, but this time I chose to proceed (YES in the figure below).
After placing the order, I waited for 6 days and the sculpture arrived at my home via DHL.
I personally felt that it was "fast" to receive an original molding designed by myself in 6 days.
About the workmanship (draining shelf)
I have been using a home-use (?) I was very impressed with the output of the optical 3D printer, as I had only handled a home 3D printer.
As for the drainer shelf, the simple shape and very 3D printer-friendly design made it possible to find no defects in the modeling process.
The dimensions were also matched with the 3D printer we already have at home, so we were able to start using it in our kitchen right away.
This may not be an appropriate comparison, but here is a comparison with the one made by our 3D printer (stacked type).
About the finished product (RakuChord)
This was also data that had been output with a stacked 3D printer at home, but it was a more complex shape than the drainer shelf, with many thin sections, making it a more difficult modeling from the 3D printer's point of view.
As expected, the thin, pointy corners were output with a slight warp, and I felt that even if a professional did it, this could still happen.
Well, the warpage is acceptable for my application, but it seems to be difficult to make it exactly according to the data.
There were some overhangs, but they were small enough to be output with a 3D printer at home, so there were no problems.
RakuChord uses 3D printer screws to secure the battery box, and these screws also engaged and secured without any problems.
About the workmanship (summary)
The data was originally designed to be output with a 3D printer, and because we had actually output the data before, we were able to complete the project without major problems. However, we felt that it might be a little difficult to design and order a 3D printer without one.
For a simple modeling object like a drainer shelf, it is possible, but for a complex shape like the RakuChord, it is necessary to brush up the modeling while actually making it many times at hand, so I felt that a 3D printer at hand is necessary.
In terms of details, it was not possible to make it exactly as the 3D data I ordered, but it is clearly more like a model than a 3D printer at home, so I think it is a good idea to order it when you have the right moment. I feel that it is better to order it when the time comes.
SLA (Resin), which is an inexpensive material, is only available in milky white, so I felt that people who cannot tolerate this color may have a tough time using it.
I have not tried it, but I think this problem could be solved with a little effort, such as painting on this.
Case outsourcing options other than 3D printing
For flat modeling, there is another way to design a PCB as a case instead of 3D printing, which is less expensive. (So-called "board sandwich method" and "Paris Pipedestroyer" are examples of this method.)
Also, there are services that allow you to outsource laser cutting, so if you need to cut transparent acrylic boards or boards with a certain thickness, you may be able to make it at a lower cost.
In fact, some of RakuChord's parts are outsourced laser-cut, which is cheaper and more accurate than outsourcing the same parts by 3D printing.
On the other hand, for 3D modeling or very thick modeling, such as RakuChord's chassis or the drainer shelves, you need a 3D printer or a CNC with a high degree of freedom to make them.
Well, rather than saying what is better, it means that there is a processing method for the right person for the right job.
This was my first time ordering 3D printing, but it was cheaper than I expected and I feel the quality was good for the price.
Ordering on the web was very easy, and I felt that I could use it easily.
However, I thought it would be a wise choice in terms of time and money to have a 3D printer at home and order the data after making a prototype at hand.
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Off-Campus Provider-Based Hospital Departments See a Change in Medicare Reimbursement
With several pen strokes on Monday, November 2, 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 into law. While many of the headlines surrounding this budget commended Congress for coming to an agreement to avoid a shutdown of the U.S. government by funding operations through 2017, there is much more to this budget. Among the cuts that Congress made to spending were several aimed at Medicare including the treatment of new off-campus provider-based departments of a hospital. Section 603 of the budget established payment reductions that eliminate the increased reimbursement associated with provider-based billing for off-campus hospital departments that are not dedicated emergency departments.
Provider-based hospital departments have existed for many years. In 2002, legislation was enacted to regulate the criteria necessary to meet the provider-based standards that allow for increased Medicare reimbursement. The regulations included in the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R) 413.65 reveal the specific standards both the department and the hospital must meet to allow for provider-based status. Included in these regulations are the principles of off-campus hospital departments. The regulations define off-campus departments as those that are located more than 250 yards from the main campus of the hospital. In the past thirteen years, a significant number of hospitals have embraced these regulations and acquired or opened off-campus hospital departments.
Treatment of new off-campus hospital departments
The enactment of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 establishes site-neutral payment limitations for services rendered to Medicare patients at new off-campus provider-based hospital departments that are not dedicated emergency departments. This effectively eliminates the Medicare reimbursement benefit hospitals received from operating these off-campus departments. Section 603 stipulates that new off-campus departments that are opened or acquired after November 2, 2015 would be eligible for the increased Medicare reimbursement until January 1, 2017; however, locations existing prior to the November 2, 2015 enactment would be grandfathered and would still be able to bill as provider-based after January 1, 2017. Off-campus locations that are opened or acquired after November 2, 2015 will be paid under Medicare Part B using the physician fee schedule, the clinical laboratory fee schedule, or the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) system after January 1, 2017.
The language used by Congress within Section 603 has left many questions and given few answers. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be forced to clarify the myriad of questions and circumstances that hospitals have when they finalize the regulations and provide their interpretive guidance. Stay tuned as more information will be coming on this important change in Medicare reimbursement.
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Winds could reach 50mph and there could be up to 80mm of rain as a sudden summer storm hits Cornwall this weekend.
The Met Office has this morning issued a yellow warning for severe weather set to last 12 hours across the whole of the county.
The worst of the weather will strike after 3am on Sunday morning and run right through to 3pm in the afternoon.
The Met Office says winds will gust at up to 50mph along the coast, possible whipping up the tide and causing local flood.
Parched roads will also see flash floods with spray a hazard for drivers.
The high winds could mean delays for high-sided vehicles on exposed coasts and on bridges and all motorists should look out for flash flood and spray.
The warning reads: "It’s likely that some coastal routes, sea fronts and coastal communities will be affected by spray and/or large waves."
The Met Office says tents could be damaged and there could be power cuts.
The full alert reads: "Outbreaks of heavy rain and strong winds are expected on Sunday. Southerly winds will gust at around 35-40 mph and up to 50 mph for exposed coasts and hills.
"In addition to the wind, heavy rain is expected. Rain will be most persistent over hills with rainfall totals of 30-40 mm likely to build up and south facing slopes in parts of the Brecon Beacons and Dartmoor could see as much as 60-80 mm of rain.
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In one of his final acts before leaving the USDA, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue signed an agreement ending a turf war between his department and the Department of Health and Human Services. It shifts oversight of gene-edited livestock to USDA.
A short time earlier, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn said he would not sign the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the USDA and the FDA. But, Assistant Secretary for Health and Public Health Services Admiral Brett Giroir, M.D. did sign for FDA.
Perdue, who left Washington D.C. as the Trump Administration’s longest-serving cabinet member, said the MOU clears the way for agricultural animal biotechnology innovations. Perdue, 74, said the MOU “clears a path to bring our regulatory framework into the 21st century, putting American products on a level playing field with competitors around the world.
“In the past, regulations stifled innovation, causing American business to play catch-up and cede market share,” Perdue said. “America has the safest and most affordable food supply in the entire world thanks to the innovation of our farmers, ranchers, and producers. Establishing a new transparent, risk and science-based regulatory framework would ensure this continues to be the case.”
The MOU outlines regulatory responsibilities for the USDA and the FDA in the use of genetic engineering in animal development where agricultural purposes are involved such as for human food, fiber, or labor.
The USDA sees agricultural biotechnology as holding “tremendous potential” to improve animal health, enhance farm productivity, improve nutrition and even enhance the need for some animal health measures.
Until now, the USDA and the FDA have had overlapping jurisdictions. The MOU commits the two agencies to cooperate to promote the use of the “promising technology” in the name of encouraging innovation.
The MOU supports the USDA in the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) published Dec.28, 2020. It addresses the movement of animals developed or modified by genetic engineering.
The MOU supports the USDA’s regulatory framework for cattle, sheep, goats, swine, horses, mules, and other equines, along with catfish and poultry.
“Under this framework, USDA would safeguard animal and human health by providing end-to-end oversight from pre-market reviews through post-market food safety monitoring for certain farm animals modified or developed using genetic engineering that is intended for human food,” according to Perdue’s statement.
The MOU also allows for the transition of portions of the FDA’s pre-existing animal biotech regulatory authority to the USDA. The FDA would continue to review intentional genomic alterations intended for any purpose other than agricultural use. These include biopharma and non-heritable genomic alteration, and the regulation of dairy products and shell eggs, along with certain meat products and animal food derived from animals using genetic engineering.
The USDA first announced it wanted primary jurisdiction over gene-editing on Dec.21, 2020. Gene editing will be used to develop more disease-resistant animals, reduce antibiotic use, and cutback on environmental burdens. Those in the animal agriculture industry see the FDA’s involvement as burdensome because of the agency’s culture. As a result, other countries are said to be moving ahead of the U.S. in this technological area.
“The USDA has put forward an open and transparent process to establish regulatory certainty surrounding a promising technology,” says the National Pork Producers Council’s Howard “A.V.” Roth, a Wisconsin hog farmer.
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I offer 1:1 Body Mind Coaching and Therapy:
Body Mind coaching and therapy are both powerful and effective ways to explore your relationship with your body and mind, reconnect with your existing internal resources as well as develop new ones.
Coaching or Therapy?
In my experience coaching and therapy are both useful processes of change that enable us to be at our best more of the time.
You may know if you are interested in coaching or therapy; however, if you are unclear about what the difference is and therefore unsure which will most help you be at your best, I give a short description below.
The focus of attention in coaching is on creating practical actions plans to achieve specific goals in the future. The core question is “What do I need to do to get from here to there?”
Body Mind coaching may help you if you are wanting to explore issues such as
- Find new ways of working
- Reduce stress levels to create work-life balance
- Be more assertive with a colleague you find difficult
- Overcome self-doubt that may be holding you back from achieving your goals or performance outcomes.
Whereas in therapy, the focus of attention is on understanding how and why our past experience is impacting our ability to function and be at our best now. The core question is “What do I need to heal so I feel comfortable in my own skin and can live fully in the present?”
Body Mind therapy can help with a wide range of issues, from the more easily identifiable such as anxiety & depression and relationship problems to non-specific issues such as feeling emotionally confused and uncertain what you want from life.
What does Body Mind mean?
In essence, a Body Mind approach means understanding
- what we experience in our body (sensations, feelings, muscle tension)
- what goes on in our mind (thoughts, reflections, fantasies)
- how both these influence our behaviour and relationships.
It is also rooted in the well-recognised interconnection between our biology, neurology and psychology.
When we are unable to express what is happening on an emotional level our feelings can become embodied; that is they can become literally trapped in our muscles and body tissues creating fixed patterns of how we hold and move our body. For example we might hunch our shoulders or clench our jaw.
Likewise, our thoughts too can become embodied - a habitual part of our mind creating fixed internal beliefs about who we are. For example “I’m not good enough” or “I can’t cook/do maths/understand technology...”.
Whilst the focus of attention and the goals may differ in coaching and therapy, the overall outcome in both is what I call “integration”; that is being at our best where we feel at ease with who we are and how we are living our life; we feel comfortable in our own skin, free from confusion and inner conflict.
How does coaching or therapy with me work in practice?
I offer a free 30-minute initial consultation where we discuss the changes or issues you want to work on as well as explore whether coaching or therapy would be the best approach to start with. Whichever approach we agree is not fixed in stone and can be reviewed at any time.
At the first session we spend some time discussing and agreeing more specific goals for the work including how long it might take. Again, this is not fixed in stone and we can review or re-negotiate it at any time. Subsequent sessions will unfold in line with this initial agreement.
The “tools” I use for both coaching and therapy include talking, listening, movement, breathing, energy, attentive awareness, and touch. Please note that any direct physical contact between us will only be with your express agreement.
We will review our progress regularly to ensure you are getting what you want and that we are both clear on what is working well and change anything not working so well.
My ethos is that of working in partnership. I am not there as an “expert” as I believe you are your own best expert. Equally, I am not there to do it for you. Rather, I offer you a compassionate safe space, acting as your guide and witness, sharing my observations and knowledge to support you in doing for yourself.
For your part, a desire to learn and grow, a willingness to engage with yourself honestly and the courage to explore what might feel like the unknown will help you get the most from either coaching or therapy.
Book your free 30-minute initial consultation now…
We can all benefit from both coaching and therapy at different times through our lives. If you find yourself wondering why – after all the things you have tried already – you still lack confidence or don’t feel at ease with yourself I can help you. Why not book your free 30-minute initial consultation now and give yourself the opportunity to find out:
- Whether coaching or therapy is the best option for you right now
- What might be the most useful aspect of your experience for you to focus on
- How often we might meet & how many sessions might be helpful?
This consultation also allows us to get a sense of each other and if we want to work together: whilst it is essential that you feel safe and confident that you want to work with me, it is equally important for me to be clear that I can support you to be at your best.
I look forward to hearing from you.
I offer a free 30 minute initial phone consultation.
Thereafter sessions cost £60 and last 75 minutes.
I am open to discussing a concessionary rate with you if you are unwaged or have a low income.
I am predominantly offering Body Mind therapy and Coaching sessions online via Zoom at the moment. If you prefer face-to-face sessions we can discuss how we can make this work in the light of any Covid restrictions or safety measures. Face-to-face sessions would take place in my therapy room in West Kirby.
NB. My therapy room is situated on the first floor and so is not fully accessible, so I am happy to discuss alternative venues if you have any disability or condition that means stairs are unworkable for you.
Make an appointment
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Stability Of Universal Screening Over Time: An Examination Of The Student Risk Screening Scale, 2022 The University of Southern Mississippi
Stability Of Universal Screening Over Time: An Examination Of The Student Risk Screening Scale, Rebecca Wagner Lovelace
Universal screening is a proactive method to identify students that are at risk for social-emotional and behavior (SEB) problems and provide information to schools to support early intervention for at risk children. Current recommendations for practice indicate screening should be conducted at three time points during the school year. Previous studies suggest that this recommendation is not empirically based and fewer screenings per year may be sufficient for identifying students at risk. The current study seeks to extend the literature regarding the stability and consistency of screening scores over time by analyzing ratings from the Student Risk Screening Scale (SRSS ...
Toddler Characteristics And Attention, 2022 Seattle Pacific University
Toddler Characteristics And Attention, Lani A. Taylor
Research Psychology Theses
Individual differences have become increasingly relevant when addressing variability across child development. Literature bears evidence that these differences may impact a toddler’s ability to respond to Joint Attention (JA). JA refers to a communicative gaze and pointing between a child and another individual. JA has been recognized as being a critical milestone, to the formation and cultivation of shared awareness and attention of an event or object. JA is a skill that is critical to the development of future language acquisition (Vaughan Van Hecke et al., 2007). The aim of this study is to measure whether child characteristics ...
Implementation Planning To Increase Treatment Integrity For Check-In/Check-Out With An Electronic Dbrc, 2022 The University of Southern Mississippi
Implementation Planning To Increase Treatment Integrity For Check-In/Check-Out With An Electronic Dbrc, Caitlyn Weaver
The present investigation assessed the effectiveness of Implementation Planning (IP) as a strategy for improving the treatment integrity of a commonly implemented behavioral intervention, Check-In/Check-Out (CICO). An electronic daily behavior report card (E-DBRC) was used to monitor intervention effectiveness for three students across a non-concurrent multiple-baseline design. IP was not associated with consistent improvements in treatment integrity for teachers who served as mentors within the CICO intervention. Teacher treatment integrity improved for one student’s teacher but had no sustained functional relation for the other two teachers. Student behavioral data were collected to determine if the implementation of CICO ...
Individual Characteristics Of Postsecondary Underachievement, 2022 East Tennessee State University
Individual Characteristics Of Postsecondary Underachievement, Natasha Godkin
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Underachievement in postsecondary education has been a growing concern for educators and researchers. Higher education institutions have implemented early alert systems to identify students performing below standards. This early warning system has major limitations that confine it to an identification only approach. The current study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Student Attitude Assessment Survey-R (SAAS-R) in a postsecondary sample. First, a confirmatory factor analysis validated the SAAS-R in a postsecondary sample. Predictive validity was then investigated by identifying students as underachieving or achieving based on responses to the SAAS-R and via a regression-based discrepancy model (ability vs ...
Perceived Social Support And Risk Of Cyberbullying In Adolescents: A Systematic Review, 2022 Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios- UNIMINUTO, Colombia
Perceived Social Support And Risk Of Cyberbullying In Adolescents: A Systematic Review, Sergio A. Castaño-Pulgarín, Katy Millán, Álvaro A. Acosta Echavarría, Ciro E. Redondo Mendoza, Milton C. Cardona Parra, Jose F. Castilla Tang
The Qualitative Report
This article analyzes the main findings of studies investigating the relationship between perceived social support and cyberbullying in adolescents. We reviewed research papers published between January 2015 and January 2020, included in the Web of Science, Scopus, PUBMED, and Science Direct databases. The protocol was previously registered on the PROSPERO International Systematic Reviews database (CRD42020176938). The article follows the PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews (Moher et al., 2015). Out of 1929 surveyed articles, 23 met the inclusion criteria and quality standards of scientific evidence set by Downs and Black (1998). Results reveal the types and characteristics of studies and instruments ...
Factors Associated With Racial And Ethnic Minority Youths' Mental Health Help-Seeking At School, 2022 Louisiana State University
Factors Associated With Racial And Ethnic Minority Youths' Mental Health Help-Seeking At School, Sam Allouche
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Despite the high prevalence and associated consequences of mental health problems in youth, adolescents with these problems are often left untreated. This service gap is even greater in racial and ethnic minority youth who not only engage in treatment less frequently, but also experience far greater discrimination and systemic inequality than non-ethnic or racial minority students; factors further contributing to a need for service. Schools may provide an ideal location to treat mental health problems in youth, in part because schools eliminate structural barriers, but also because school staff have an opportunity to observe students across a range of functioning ...
Using Contingent Praise To Increase Visual Engagement In An Asynchronous Online Learning Environment: An Eye Tracking Study, 2022 The University of Southern Mississippi
Using Contingent Praise To Increase Visual Engagement In An Asynchronous Online Learning Environment: An Eye Tracking Study, Andrew Rozsa
As more students move to online learning, this results in not only new barriers but new opportunities in academia. The purpose of this study was to examine how behavior-contingent praise affects visual engagement with an online video lecture when using WebGazer, a publicly available eye tracking software, with a user’s integrated webcam. A second aim of this study was to examine if using WebGazer with an integrated webcam was a valid alternative to hand scoring when collecting visual engagement data. Results of WebGazer measurement indicated a moderate effect size for three participants in the presence of contingent praise, and ...
Programming Maintenance For The Mystery Student Intervention, 2022 The University of Southern Mississippi
Programming Maintenance For The Mystery Student Intervention, Sarah Litten
The current study evaluated the effects of the Mystery Student Intervention (MSI) in university and community-based preschool settings on the appropriate and disruptive behaviors in the classroom utilizing a randomized independent group contingency. This study extended the literature base of the MSI, which was previously conducted in Head Start classrooms by Pasqua (2019), and Pasqua and colleagues (2021) which determined the MSI to be effective at reducing disruptive behaviors in the classroom setting. A nonconcurrent multiple baseline design across three classrooms was used. This study also sought to further extend the literature by evaluating programmed maintenance using a partial sequential ...
Development And Implementation Of A Comprehensive School-Based Mental Health Program, 2022 Loma Linda University
Development And Implementation Of A Comprehensive School-Based Mental Health Program, Melissa Harris
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The existing literature on youth experiencing challenges with mental health problems throughout their educational journey is growing. These challenges may result in children displaying a lack of social interaction, emotional and behavioral problems. The purpose of this project is to develop and implement a school-based mental program for preschool-aged children who are experiencing these challenges. The program will be designed by obtaining feedback from stakeholders within the school district. The participants will be male and female, between the ages of 4 and 5 years within Loma Linda, CA. The program involves the use of doctoral and master’s level marriage ...
The Effects Of Paired Kinesthetic Movements And Embedded Pictures On Literacy Skills With Preschoolers, 2022 Louisiana State University
The Effects Of Paired Kinesthetic Movements And Embedded Pictures On Literacy Skills With Preschoolers, Erica Lozy
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Reading difficulties during childhood often continue during adulthood and result in adverse effects (e.g., unemployment, poverty). A common method to teach early literacy skills is via multisensory instructional programs, which use combinations of mnemonic devices, such as visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic movements. The current literature on the effects of pairing visual mnemonics and kinesthetic movements with literacy skills, either in isolation or in combination, is sparse. The purpose of Study 1 and Study 2 was to compare the efficacy, generalization, and maintenance of and preference for letter sound interventions with and without mnemonic devices. Study 1 evaluated a ...
Applying Expressive Arts Therapy Interventions With Chinese Adolescents With Academic Maladjustment, Huaxin Wang
Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses
This thesis first explores the relationship between several concepts related to academic stress (academic burnout, academic weariness or school weariness, and school refusal) and their influencing factors, which are collectively referred to as academic maladjustment. It then reviews the empirical intervention research on academic maladjustment among Chinese adolescents. Study review has found that effective talk therapy interventions for Chinese adolescents with academic maladjustment often adopt a systematic perspective of family therapy and related techniques. Researchers worked with adolescents on their personal factors that contribute to academic maladjustment and work on the interpersonal level and obtained the cooperation of parents and ...
Finding Motivation And Connectedness For Learning With Special Education Students Qualifying Under Emotional Disturbance, 2022 Dominican University of California
Finding Motivation And Connectedness For Learning With Special Education Students Qualifying Under Emotional Disturbance, Nikole Denton
Master of Science in Education | Master's Theses
The purpose of this research seeks to understand the conditions for motivation among disengaged high school students in special education who qualify under emotional disturbance (ED) and support them in rediscovering their desire for learning while also determining how educators can be supportive in cultivating academic engagement and agency. The theoretical framework looks toward co-created curriculum through an understanding of intrinsic motivation (Ryan et al., 2021), self-Determination theory (Niemiec & Ryan, 2009), and critical pedagogy (Shih, 2018). Currently, there is a lack of empirical research on the effectiveness of pedagogical approaches in determining what works in engaging special education students who ...
Suicide And South Korean Youth: How A World Class Education System Affects Its Adolescents, 2022 Central Washington University
Suicide And South Korean Youth: How A World Class Education System Affects Its Adolescents, Grace Hendricks
Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
This presentation takes a look at the suicide rates among South Korean youth ages 15 to 19, comparing the numbers to those of the same age range in the United States. We will look at the raw numbers, go over similarities and differences, and end with contributing factors for both groups. Particular focus will be on how South Korea is considered to have the best education system in the world and the impact that fact has on the young people going through it.
Mindful Resources: A Guide To Mindfulness-Based Interventions, 2022 Minnesota State University Moorhead
Mindful Resources: A Guide To Mindfulness-Based Interventions, Lexi Marie Vogel
Dissertations, Theses, and Projects
Although mindfulness is often associated with wellness, relaxation, and simplicity, the literature surrounding it is extensive and often complex. The abundance of mindfulness research and resources presents a challenge for educators, parents, and other individuals interested in mindfulness-based intervention. This project examines the literature surrounding mindfulness with emphasis on interventions, targeted benefits, potential barriers, and key considerations to aid in the development of the resource guide, Mindful Resources: A Guide to Mindfulness-Based Interventions. Translating the information from the comprehensive literature review into this resource guide will simplify the process of selecting appropriate interventions and provide users with a sample of ...
Early Gaze Behaviours In Infants At High Familial Risk For Autism Spectrum Disorder: Association With Brain Development, 2022 The University of Western Ontario
Early Gaze Behaviours In Infants At High Familial Risk For Autism Spectrum Disorder: Association With Brain Development, Julia Teixeira Pinto Montenegro
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) show impairments in gaze-following and will seldom engage in joint attention (JA). The ability to initiate JA (IJA) can be more impaired than the ability to respond to JA (RJA). In a longitudinal study, 101 high-risk infants for ASD (62% males) completed MRI scans at 4 or 6 months of age. Subcortical volumes (thalamus, basal ganglia, hippocampus, amygdala) were extracted. Gaze and JA behaviours were assessed with standardized measures. The majority of infants were IJA non-responders (n=93, 92%), and over half were RJA non-responders (n=50, 52%). In the non-responder groups, models ...
Our Stories, 2022 CUNY New York City College of Technology
Our Stories, Katelyn S. Lopez
Publications and Research
This semester, we participated in the “Our Stories” qualitative research project that involves learning more about students' first year, and first-semester experiences at City Tech during pandemic times. As we organized and read students’ posts, we journaled and practiced reflexivity, a qualitative research process that helps us examine how we are interpreting the data that we are engaging with. T Reflexivity is a process in qualitative research involving frequent examination of one’s position in the project. These positions include one’s assumptions, feelings, and so forth. An essential question for qualitative researchers, according to Leavy (2011), is “Has the ...
Associations Between Perfectionism, Parental Expectations, Self-Esteem, And Academic Achievement In Gifted Students, 2022 East Tennessee State University
Associations Between Perfectionism, Parental Expectations, Self-Esteem, And Academic Achievement In Gifted Students, Hannah Scarbrough
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Intellectual giftedness can affect students in a variety of ways. Research often examines some of these potential effects, such as how giftedness impacts performance in school or attitude regarding academics. However, little research has been done on whether gifted students are more driven by internal pressures to succeed that they place on themselves or by external pressures to succeed that are placed on them by others. The present study examined how perfectionism (an internal pressure) and parental expectations (an external pressure) might affect a student’s self-esteem and achievement. Participants were 250 undergraduate students (M age = 20.35 years old ...
Encouraging Adolescents To Be Self-Directed Learners: Influences Of Classroom Motivation On Student Outcomes, 2022 University of Rhode Island
Encouraging Adolescents To Be Self-Directed Learners: Influences Of Classroom Motivation On Student Outcomes, Katherine Stearley
Senior Honors Projects
Teaching American adolescents in public schools presents a unique challenge: how to foster an instructional environment that simultaneously encourages intrinsic desires for lifelong learning, allows for the development of self-determination and autonomy, and teaches students appropriate academic skills. It was hypothesized that relying mainly on extrinsic motivations would be associated with more problematic outcomes for students while relying mainly on intrinsic motivations would be associated with more desirable outcomes. Additionally, it was hypothesized that schools organized around different educational philosophies would favor the use of different motivational strategies. A literature review was conducted that included a review of theories of ...
Promoting The Healthy Development Of All Adolescents Through An Equity Lens: Continuing Education For Secondary-Level Educators, 2022 University of Rhode Island
Promoting The Healthy Development Of All Adolescents Through An Equity Lens: Continuing Education For Secondary-Level Educators, Isabella Simone
Senior Honors Projects
American schools, as an institution, have a mission to educate society’s youth in a way that is characterized by, and promotes, equity regarding educational access, opportunities, and outcomes. Doing so promises to support the individual growth and development of all students. Unfortunately, high school students face challenges regarding healthy development — academic, social, and identity-based — during the transition from childhood to adulthood. These challenges include navigating their identity development, achieving academic success, managing school and family demands, and planning for their futures. Barriers to the successful achievement of these challenges include risk factors associated with family relationships, financial standing, gender ...
Effects Of Recess On Educational Outcomes In Elementary School Children, 2022 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Effects Of Recess On Educational Outcomes In Elementary School Children, Katelyn Whitham
Health, Human Performance and Recreation Undergraduate Honors Theses
Introduction: Because physical activity is beneficial for physical and mental health, the declining opportunities to implement adequate recesses in schools are devastating for children. If educational outcomes are positively affected by increased recess time or quality, schools are more likely to receive funding for programs and resources that support this renovation to recesses, providing research in lacking topics. Purpose: The purpose of this systematic review is to find related, academic articles for cross examination of data collected on the effects that recess has on educational outcomes so that schools may use this as a resource to receive funding to increase ... | <urn:uuid:7ab6ae90-6b37-4238-a46f-fe232c1e0aa0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://network.bepress.com/social-and-behavioral-sciences/psychology/school-psychology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.908472 | 3,625 | 2.015625 | 2 |
December 1, 2020
Plants on Aspirin
Researchers at IST Austria gain deeper knowledge of plant growth by treating seedlings with painkillers like Aspirin and the like. New study published in Cell Reports.
For centuries humans were using willow barks to treat a headache or an inflamed tooth. Later, the active ingredient, the plant hormone salicylic acid, was used to develop painkillers like Aspirin. But what happens, if plants are treated with these painkillers? By doing so, Scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria discovered an unexpected bioactivity of human pharmaceuticals in plants. The scientists published their study in the journal Cell Reports.
When pathogens enter a plant, infected cells set off an alarm before they die. They discharge methylsalicylic acid, which is later transformed into salicylic acid, triggering an immune response. Hence, salicylic acid is a stress signal in plants, but it also participates in regulating plant growth and development. In humans, salicylic acid proofed to be useful in a different way: Already in prehistoric times people realized that when they were drinking willow bark tea or taking other willow bark preparations, fever dropped and pain disappeared. Centuries later, scientists developed salicylic acid derivatives such as Aspirin and Ibuprofen. These so called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) suppress the inflammatory response of mammalian cells, thereby making us feel better when we have a cold. But how do they affect plants?
Losing the sense of direction
“When I got the idea, I had a really serious toothache and I had some Ibuprofen at hands,” explains Shutang Tan, who at that time was a postdoc at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria working in the group of Professor Jiří Friml. “I simply used the tablets from the pharmacy and I took the same amount as in my previous experiments with salicylic acid. Then, I observed the effect of the Ibuprofen on Arabidopsis seedlings.” The primary roots of the plant were significantly shorter and instead of growing downward, they were curling up, unable to respond to gravity. Furthermore, the plants developed fewer or no lateral roots at all.
Together with colleagues at the IST Austria and six other research institutions Shutang Tan looked at the effects of 20 different painkillers on Arabidopsis seedlings. “We found that all of the painkillers we tested, including Aspirin and Ibuprofen, were interfering with the auxin flow,” explains Tan. The plant hormone auxin is essential for all developmental processes within a plant. It is especially responsible for a plants ability to stretch its leaves towards the sun and its roots towards the center of the earth. So called PIN proteins regulate the flow of auxin from one cell to the other, depending on which side of the cell they are sitting. If the PIN proteins are not at the right location within the cell, the flow of auxin is disturbed, leading to a faulty development of the plant. Hence, the painkillers seemed to interfere with the localization of the PIN proteins. But it didn’t stop there.
Complex dynamics within plant cells
Looking closely, the scientists discovered that the effect is not limited to PIN proteins, but that the drugs interfere with the whole endomembrane system, suppressing the movement and trafficking of substances within the cells. The painkillers impair the dynamics of the cytoskeleton of the cells, a network of interlinking proteins, which among many other things gives the cell its shape and is involved in the uptake of extracellular material. Together with Markus Geisler’s group at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, the researchers at IST Austria uncovered that one group of painkillers, including the drugs Meclofenamic acid and Flufenamic acid, directly target an immunophilin-like protein, called TWISTED DWARF1, to realize these physiological and cellular activities.
Furthermore, the scientists were able to show, that NSAIDs have similar physiological and cell biological effects as auxin transport inhibitors – important chemical tools in cell biology, which interfere with the transport of auxin. “It would be very interesting to find out, if these auxin transport inhibitors can also be used as painkillers in animals. That is one big question we still need to answer” concludes Tan. Together with IST Professor Jiří Friml, Shutang Tan, who is now establishing his own laboratory at the University of Science and Technology of China, wants to investigate which additional proteins within the plant are targeted by the painkillers and what pathways they use to do so.
Shutang Tan, Martin Di Donato, Matouš Glanc, Xixi Zhang, Petr Klima, Noel Ferro, Aurélien Bailly, Jan Petrášek, Markus Geisler, and Jiří Friml. 2020. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs target TWISTED DWARF1-regulated actin dynamics and auxin transport-mediated development in plants. Cell Reports. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108463.
The IST Austria project part was supported by funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program (ERC grant agreement n° 742985 to J. Friml), the People Programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013). S. Tan was funded by a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) long-term postdoctoral fellowship (ALTF 723-2015). | <urn:uuid:788eab35-0438-4c91-bd3b-8d4bc91388a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ista.ac.at/en/news/plants-on-aspirin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937139 | 1,202 | 3.65625 | 4 |
On Friday I updated the 2D to 3D Tool for Inventor. This free technology preview allows you to quickly create 3D models of 2D-designed parts with an add-in utility for Inventor software. Activated as part of file import, the 2D to 3D Tool automatically transforms drawing views into orthogonal sketches, significantly streamlining the preparation of 2D views for 3D uses.
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Video gaming has grown leaps and bounds as an industry in Russia, turning into a $500 million industry.
Akella is at the forefront of all that, and we recently had the opportunity to play one of their upcoming games, A Stroke of Fate, which is a WWII adventure title coming out in a few months.
“Fate” is looking like a pretty solid game. It has beautifully detailed scenery and compelling mini-game puzzles like playing poker with Nazi officers to earn their trust and flirting with a receptionist to get information.
Here are my concerns: The English script needs work. It still feels like the Russians translated it into English. They need to have a native speaker rewrite it entirely to adapt it to an American audience. Also, some of the puzzles are not very intuitive and require going back and forth between four or more rooms.
Finally, there’s no voice acting, just text. I called Akella out on that, especially since they’ve been working on the game for almost two years. In response, they’re adding an ethnic German voice track — it won’t be English, but it will breathe some life into the characters.
“We’re working on voice over. All NPC and male hero speak perfect German,” said Akella’s Boris Tolkachev.
What really impresses me about this game is the amount of research and work that has gone into it so far. They recreated the “fuhrerbunker,” where Hitler took refuge as the war turned against him. The developers also researched Nazi artwork and German decor at the time.
The game’s developers from SPLine Games spoke to Blast through Tolkachev, who is our English-language contact over there.
Tolkachev said SPLine worked with a history consultant and pulled a bunch of history books, and bear with me because I’m going to list some things here —
- Walter Warlimont: “Inside Hitler’s Headquarters”
- “The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel”
- Antony Beevor: “Berlin: the Downfall, 1945”
- William L. Shirer: “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”
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- Leonid Mlechin: “Hitler and his Russian Friends”
- B. V. Sokolov: “Hunt for Stalin, Hunt for Hitler”
- Chuev S. G.: “Special services of the Third Reich”
I have no idea what the book is that’s in Russian, but they also gave me a list of like 30 website references too. Take a look at that here.
“In other words, we were very serious about it,” Tolkachev said.
But enough of that, people work hard to make every video game that comes out there (okay, most of them). Why is Stroke of Fate any different? It’s really a self-answering question. This is a chance to play a WWII adventure from an authentic Russian perspective, and I guarantee that no matter how many History Channel specials you’ve seen, there’s a lot about the Russian involvement in WWII that Americans don’t get exposed to.
The game, with voice acting and maybe a few more interactives like non-linear elements and repeatable minigames, has real potential. It’s mouse-driven, so you’ll do a lot of clicking, but what we seem to have is a good, cerebral adventure game with real historical backbone.
This is not a game you may have heard of. Gamespot hasn’t covered it. Blast is the first American media outlet to take an interest in the game, and we’re publishing the first hands-on review of it. Don’t expect Fallout 3 or a billion-dollar game. It’s a gutsy, conversational, alternative history lesson. | <urn:uuid:48db00cd-e6ff-413c-bf6c-cff09a0e692f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blastmagazine.com/2008/10/10/exclusive-a-stroke-of-fate-interview-and-review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948994 | 1,026 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.
You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning.
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
I love you today like I loved you when we met. I will love you tomorrow and forever, simply because you are who you are and your imperfections are perfect to me.
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
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Cherokee identity as revealed in fishing methods and materials. In Eastern Cherokee Fishing, life histories, folktales, and reminiscences about fish gathered from interviews with Cherokee and non-Cherokee people provide a clear and personal picture of the changes in the Qualla Boundary (Eastern Band of the) Cherokee in the last 75 years. Coupled with documentary research, these ethnographic histories illuminate changes in the language, culture, and environment (particularly, aquatic resources) since contact with Europeans and examine the role these changes have played in the traditions and lives of the contemporary Cherokees. Interviewees include a great range of informants, from native speakers of Cherokee with extensive knowledge of traditional fishing methods to Euro-American English speakers whose families have lived in North Carolina for many generations and know about contemporary fishing practices in the area. The topic of fishing thus offers perspective on the Cherokee language, the vigor of the Cherokee system of native knowledge, and the history of the relationship between Cherokee people and the local environment. Heidi Altman also examines the role of fishing as a tourist enterprise and how fishing practices affect tribal waters. | <urn:uuid:ca3de7c1-cb2c-4b5d-bc6b-753428c95d5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unfinishedii.com/ebook/eastern-cherokee-fishing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.914875 | 266 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Theater director and choreographer Rina Yerushalmi, one of Israel’s leading artists, is the founder and artistic director of the experimental Itim Theater Ensemble. After serving in the Israeli Defense Force she moved to London, where she learned the Laban technique and studied stage management. Her vision was to create a theater laboratory dedicated to the research and performance of classical texts in contemporary theater. In each of her projects she aims to reflect and touch life in the present by examining the flux and changing dynamics between actors, audiences, and familiar texts. Her unique theatrical language is based on visual images that present the classical texts in a new light, making them acute and relevant by means of expressive movement, music, and lighting.
Theater director and choreographer Rina Yerushalmi, one of Israel’s leading artists, is the founder and artistic director of the experimental Itim Theater Ensemble (founded 1989). Her vision was to create a theater laboratory dedicated to the research and performance of classical texts in contemporary theater. In each of her projects she aims to reflect and touch life in the present by examining the flux and changing dynamics between actors, audiences and the familiar texts. All of the Ensemble’s productions are based on Yerushalmi’s adaptations of canonical plays or non-dramatic texts. The performances grow out of long periods of intensive work with the team of actors, sometimes devoting over a year of training and rehearsals to one project. Her aesthetic concentrates on the diversity and multiplicity of events at any given moment and the interplay between them. In each of her projects, she constructs new relations between time, space, characters, and actors, thus creating innovative compositions that do not necessarily emphasize the traditional centrality of the text. Her techniques include the free use of doubling and tripling of characters (three different actresses playing the role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet , or three simultaneous Clytemnestras in Mythos ); re-editing scenes of the original texts (placing the scene of the Creation of the World as a sequence after the destruction caused by Noah’s Flood in Va-Yomer/Va-Yelech ); juxtaposing famous scenes with unexpected visual images (David and Goliath as a clown fighting a giant woman on crutches in Va-Yishtahu/Va-Yera, 1998); and giving one character’s lines to another, thus altering traditional perspectives. Her unique theatrical language is based on visual images that present the classical texts in a new light, making them acute and relevant by means of expressive movement, music, and lighting.
Yerushalmi’s theatrical career started long before she formed the Itim Ensemble. She was born on March 1, 1939, in the northern Israeli town of Afulah, to Saul Yerushalmi (originally Yerusalimski, 1904–1984) and Haya (Angilovich) Yerushalmi (1908–2000), and grew up in Haifa. Both her parents immigrated to Israel from Russia, her father from Odessa in 1917, and her mother from Lachovich in 1920. Her father was an engineer and her mother was a nurse. She has one older brother, Uri Yerushalmi (b. 1936). She started her dance training at the age of six, studying the Mary Wigman technique with Yardena Cohen and later the Martha Graham technique with Rina Gluck. After serving in the Israeli Defense Force she moved to London, where she learned the Laban technique at the Sigurd Leeder School of Dance (1959–1961) and studied stage management at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1961–1962). Back in Israel she focused on studying and specializing in the Feldenkrais mind and body integration technique, which became a significant methodological resource for her theatrical philosophy and for the way she works with actors. She also studied the Lee Strasberg acting method with Nola Chilton before moving to the United States to study at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, where in 1970 she received her MFA degree in Theater Directing. Her final project, mentored by Professor Leon Katz, was an adaptation of Büchner’s Woyzeck. Moving to New York City, she joined Ellen Stewart’s experimental La Mama Theater, where she became a resident director (1972–1978). In 1972 she won a UNESCO fellowship to travel to Japan where she studied Noh and Kyogen theater with the renowned Yatoro Ohkura. This experience also had a great influence on the development of her aesthetic and performance ideology. On returning to Israel she founded and was artistic director of the Israeli branch of La Mama E.T.C., located in a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv (1972–1974).
The 1970s and 1980s
From 1970 to 1989 she divided her time between New York and Tel Aviv, teaching acting and movement classes at Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, The City College of the City University of New York (1980), Tel Aviv University, and Seminar ha-Kibbutzim in Tel Aviv (1984–1994). During this period she also continuously created and directed theater performances. Some of the most notable of these were her 1970 Toy Show, an adaptation of The Dybbuk by Leon Katz at La Mama E.T.C., New York; Garcia Lorca’s surrealist Chimera at La Mama, Tel Aviv in 1973, and her productions at the Haifa Theater, including her adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s novel Malone Dies (1978), Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author (1986) and Macbeth (1986). During this period she collaborated with stage designer Moshe Sternfeld (d. 1994) and conducted special workshops for Israeli actors on performing Shakespeare in Hebrew. In 1988 she directed Hamlet with a group of young actors who premiered the play at the Acre Alternative Theater Festival. When the performance moved to Tel Aviv it was performed in a rehearsal room at the Cameri Theater, eighty spectators at a time surrounding the actors and only a white circle on the floor demarcating the space of the action. In this production Hamlet’s confrontation with his father’s ghost was choreographed as an erotic encounter on the circumference of the white circle, echoing the biblical icon of Jacob’s wrestling with the angel. Yerushalmi’s Hamlet led to the foundation of the Itim Ensemble (in affiliation with the Cameri Theater, Tel Aviv) and won her the Israeli 1990 Margalit Award for Best Director and Best Production. It also paved the way to international recognition, her Hamlet invited to the International Shakespeare Festival in Braunschweig, where it was performed alongside productions by Peter Brook and Peter Stein. It was also performed in New York at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) in 1992.
Later Career and Honors
In her next production, Woyzeck 91 (1991), she adapted the play in order to explore the theme of eugenics, depicting Woyzeck (played by Shuli Rand) as a victim of military and medical experiments. She added to the doctor’s lines (played by a cross-dressed actress, Dina Blei) medical texts about the anatomy of the human body, and placed the audience as spectators observing an operation in a sterile white room. In her 1993 Romeo and Juliet she examined the concept of “being in love” by creating repetitive and simultaneous images that capture the feeling of timelessness. This was the first Israeli production to appear at the International Shakespeare Festival in London, under the auspices of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Following this, Yerushalmi received many more honors and awards, including the 1992 Ha-Levi award for Best Director of Woyzeck 91 and the 1999 Theater Academy Award for Best Theatrical Creation for her Bible project. This monumental and complex project—Va-Yomer/Va-Yelech (He Said/And Went), which was followed in 1998 by Va-Yishtahu/Va-Yera (They Bowed/And He Saw), an eight-hour-long epic performance based solely on selected and re-edited excerpts from the Hebrew Bible performed in the original ancient and poetic Hebrew. Perhaps Yerushalmi’s most innovative and political work, this performance is also her most Jewish one. Like all her works it examines characters, actions and social concepts from unexpected and shifting points of view. The story of the sacrifice of the Daughter of Jephtah, for example, was narrated by an actress whose movement and action gradually intensified, accompanied by the increasing volume of modern electronic music, emphasizing the perspective of the young daughter rather than the traditional viewpoint of the father.
By re-examining the Bible from a secular point of view, resisting any use of religious or cultural folklore, and creating contemporary images (the scene of the temptation was danced by the group of actors eating apples with forks and knives and evoking visual metaphors of sexual relationships) she explored the meanings and role of the Bible for Israeli society. Especially political was the second part of the project, Va-Yelech, which paralleled the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt and the conquest of the land of Israel with the twentieth-century’s ordeals of the Jewish people. In an almost empty theatrical space, the actors in modern black dress evoked the imagery and iconography of the Holocaust, the founding of the State of Israel and the ongoing situation of war—all transmitted solely via the biblical texts. Following this project (which ran for over five years, and was invited to leading theaters and festivals around the world, including the London International Festival of Theater, the Berlin Theater Der Welt, the Adelaide Festival in Australia, the Hamburg Sommer Theater Festival, and the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna), Yerushalmi created Mythos (2002), an adaptation of nine Greek tragedies about the House of Atreus that deals with the theme of personal and national revenge. In this performance, the theatrical space is “never completed” but is composed of hundreds of wooden boards that denote an archeological search into the haunting memories of Electra and Orestes.
Yerushalmi currently serves as Professor of Theater at Tel Aviv University. In 2001 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2002, for the first time in her career, Rina Yerushalmi received a theater building for the Itim Ensemble from the Tel Aviv Municipality. Located on Nahmani Street in the heart of Tel Aviv, this space is where she works daily, rehearsing and developing new theatrical projects committed to the exploration and reflection of the symphonic, simultaneous and complex experience of life.
Selected Works by Rina Yerushalmi
Mythos, adaptation (2002).
Electra, opera (1999).
Va-Yishtahu/Va-Yera, Bible Project Part II (1998).
Va-Yomer/Va-Yelech, Bible Project Part I (1996).
Hedda Gabler (1994).
La Juive, opera (1993).
Romeo and Juliet, adaptation (1992).
Woyzeck 91, adaptation (1991).
Hansel and Gretel, opera (1990).
The Chairs (1990).
Hamlet, adaptation (1988).
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1986).
Malone Dies, adaptation (1978).
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Are you Confident or Cocky?
Being confident is requisite for success. Even if you’re brand new to real estate, you need to look, speak and behave confidently, assertively, as if you’ve been around the block many, many times. I’m not asking you to be evasive about your inexperience or lack of sales, but if customers aren’t comfortable with you, you’ll never gain that important experience! Supplant (soften) your newness with other valuable traits – eagerness, responsiveness, reliability, willingness to seek help from others. But when does assuredness become arrogance, cocky, obnoxious…dismissing other viewpoints or feedback? Not that being shy, insecure or intimidated are preferred, but where do you draw the line between haughtiness and humility?
The biggest sale in real estate occurs inside your head – the mental debate that occurs within you as you encounter “real life” real estate – that first call, building inspection, market analysis, listing presentation, first property showing, writing up your first offer…getting it closed! Scrape off the crust of imperviousness for more severe retrospection, and likely, more sober and dramatic change:
- Assess your abilities, skills, beliefs, attitudes. But look too at failures, when you fell woefully short or gave up; when it was simpler to abandon your goals than DO what it took to achieve them. An honest self-assessment helps you focus on skills, strengths, other qualities you need to emphasize and work on. Many deficiencies can be overcome by coaching and practice. Others, you may have to delegate (paperwork, e.g.).
- Don’t compare yourself with others. Talents, intelligence, intuition, enthusiasm will vary. Rather than diminish or deprecate others, measure the “new and improved” you against the “old” you. Are you making progress? Segment long term goals into interim steps (small victories) that keep your momentum climbing.
- Listen to those you trust. Critics will not always be right, but hear them out. Thank them for caring about you. We spend too much time false-hoping people by avoiding the truth, confrontation, giving undeserved praise.
- Take your commitments seriously. When you tell someone that you’ll do something for them, DO IT! Be realistic in how much effort and time it will take. Better to not promise than never deliver!
- Never stop dreaming! Great champions visualize results beforehand… the elation, pride, rewards – focusing more on the glorious outcomes than the arduous, sweaty path to achieve it. Recognize, however, that some dreams are just fantasy. Dream big, but goal-set in smaller (sooner) increments. Stretch your goals, ambitions, dreams just outside of your current belief system (opinions) of what you or others say can be done.
By setting slightly unrealistic goals, you’ll discover unforeseen ways of achieving them. Be confident, but ever mindful that what’s needed for success is constant learning, vigilance, and hard work.
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DIVERSITY IN THE MARKETPLACE
Tomorrow's potential boaters won't look like the customers you see today. What is your business doing about it?
"There is a seismic shift going on in this country that everyone's talking about...[and] that presents an opportunity to our industry," said Thom Dammrich, president of the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), in his presentation, "Proven Strategies for Engaging New Markets", at the Marine Marketers of America luncheon during the recent Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.
That 'seismic shift' is the rapid growth - and relative youth - of minorities within the overall U.S. population. Dammrich is part of the Recreational Boating Leadership Council (RBLC) Task Force that has launched a "New Markets Initiative" this year to help train marine industry professionals in how to market effectively to an increasingly diverse customer base.
Dammrich shared some eye-opening statistics in his presentation. "Hispanics are the largest minority...55 million strong; 17 percent of the total U.S. population...and will grow to 20 percent by 2020," he said.
African-Americans comprise about 14 percent of the U.S. population and are projected to reach 18 percent by 2020, he reported. Asian-Americans are a smaller group, only around 4.2 percent of the total U.S. population; however, they have the highest household income of any racial group.
Asian-Americans, African-Americans and Hispanics also have younger median ages than the majority of the U.S. population, according to recent market research. For example, Dammrich said, "The median age of Hispanics in this country is 29 versus 43 non-Hispanic," concluding, "A younger market is a more diverse market by default."
These statistics inspired the RBLC to produce an educational video with case studies of five marine businesses that are marketing to minorities. Dammrich screened the video, which included a number of tips that might benefit IYBA members.
Increase the comfort level "Our job is to be inclusive...to reflect the communities that we serve," said West Marine CEO & President Matt Hyde in an interview onscreen. West Marine has produced marketing materials that portray more diverse groups enjoying boating than the all-white
models we've seen in ads and magazine spreads in the past. These new materials help to create a feeling of welcome and increase the comfort level for minority group members who might never have considered getting into boating before.
Freedom Boat Club also has expanded its portfolio of marketing materials to include those translated into other languages besides English. "Don't use the 'one size fits all' approach," advised Freedom Boat Club President & CEO John Giglio, who also cautioned against patronizing people for whom English is a second language. "Talk to them in English until they ask if you have someone who speaks their language - Then provide that person," he said.
Bob Pappajohn and the rest of the sales team at M & P Yacht Centre in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, realized that they were ignoring the growing Asian community in their area. So, they increased their own company's diversity by hiring Asian employees. They also began hosting events designed to make Asian clients more comfortable, including serving foods they love and co-branding with products they are passionate about.
Ian Pedersen, marketing manager for The Moorings North America, advised not only reaching out to more diverse cultural and regional groups but also exposing potential new customers to boating at a young age. "Provide low-barrier opportunities to try it out," he said. When marketing to younger prospects, he added, "Cultivate first, don't push the product."
For more information about the Recreational Boating Leadership Council, please visit www.rblc.org.
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WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday broadened its recommendation for COVID-19 booster shots for all adults as the new omicron variant is identified in more countries.
The agency had previously approved boosters for all adults, but only recommended them for those 50 years and older or if they live in a long-term care setting.
CDC Director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the new guidance reflects the emergence of the omicron variant, which has not yet been identified in the U.S. but that officials say will inevitably reach the country.
“Everyone ages 18 and older should get a booster shot either when they are 6 months after their initial Pfizer or Moderna series or 2 months after their initial J&J vaccine,” she said in a statement.
Walensky also encouraged Americans feeling unwell to seek out a COVID-19 test, saying “Increased testing will help us identify Omicron quickly.”
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GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the global risk from the omicron variant of the coronavirus is “very high” based on early evidence, warning of the possibility of future surges with “severe consequences.”
The U.N. health agency, in a technical brief to member states highlighted to reporters on Monday, said “considerable uncertainties” remain about the new variant that was first detected in southern Africa, but cautioned that the likelihood of possible further spread around the world was high.
Based on the possibility that mutations in omicron could escape an immune response and boost its ability to be transmitted between people, “the likelihood of potential further spread of omicron at the global level is high,” WHO said.
“Depending on these characteristics, there could be future surges of COVID-19, which could have severe consequences, depending on a number of factors including where surges may take place,” it added. “The overall global risk related to the new VOC Omicron is assessed as very high.”
TORONTO — Canada has confirmed a third case of the omicron COVID-19 variant.
Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé confirmed the new case on Monday.
Canada announced Sunday it has two cases of omicron COVID-19 variant among two people who had recently visited Nigeria. The two are isolating in Ottawa. The province of Ontario is also further investigating four COVID cases to see if the are omicron.
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s number of hospitalized adults with confirmed COVID-19 cases reached a new pandemic high of nearly 4,200 Monday as the state continued to confront surging infections.
The total of 4,181 surpassed the previous record of 4,158, which was set seven months ago during the state’s third wave.
Only Minnesota had a higher seven-case rate than Michigan as of Sunday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
State health officials are urging people to get vaccinated and to wear masks in public settings to limit the spread of the coronavirus amid the fourth surge. The federal government has deployed military medical staffers to help Michigan hospitals cope.
MADRID — One of Madrid’s major public hospitals says it has detected the first confirmed case of the omicron variant in Spain in a traveler who arrived from South Africa.
In a tweet on Monday, the microbiology and infectious disease service of the Gregorio Marañón hospital said that the sequencing of samples from the patient earlier in the day showed that the infection corresponded with omicron.
The hospital said that the patient is in good condition.
In a statement, health authorities in the Madrid region identified the patient as a 51-year-old man who had returned from South Africa on Nov. 28 after having made a stopover in Amsterdam.
He had first tested positive for coronavirus in a screening with antigen tests at the Madrid airport, the statement said, adding that authorities are watching other passengers who came in close contact with him on the plane from the Netherlands.
LONDON — Britain is extending its COVID-19 booster vaccine program to millions more people as part of efforts to tackle the spread of the new omicron variant, which is feared to be more contagious and vaccine-resistant.
The British government said Monday that it would accept in full the revised recommendations from the independent body of scientists that has been advising it, chief of which is that everyone aged between 18 and 39 should be offered a booster shot. Up until now, only people aged over 40 as well as those deemed particularly vulnerable to the virus were eligible.
The change in advice means around 13 million more people will be eligible for the vaccine. So far, the U.K. has given around 17.5 million booster shots.
WARSAW, Poland — Poland is suspending flights to seven southern African countries where the new coronavirus variant omicron has been detected.
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said that travelers from those countries will have to go through a 14-day quarantine.
The new rules are to begin Wednesday and last until Dec. 17.
The government, which has been resisting new restrictions as infections surge, is lowering its current limit of 75% capacity in restaurants and cultural events to 50%.
Poland is among a growing list of countries moving to restrict travel following the discovery of omicron, even though it still isn’t clear how it will affect the pandemic.
JOHANNESBURG — South African doctors say that the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases attributed to the new omicron variant cases is resulting in mostly mild symptoms.
Dr. Unben Pillay, a general practitioner in Gauteng province where 81% of the new cases have been reported, says he has seen a sharp increase in new COVID-19 cases in the past 10 days.
He said that so far the cases have been very mild cases, with patients having flu-like symptoms, dry coughs, fever, night sweats, a lot of body pains. He said most have been treated at home.
He also said that the vaccinated are faring much better than the unvaccinated.
The recent surge in South Africa has been among people in their 20s and 30s and doctors emphasize that COVID-19 symptoms are often mild in that age group.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will urge Americans to get vaccinated and to receive a booster shot as he seeks to quell concerns over the new COVID-19 variant omicron. But he won’t immediately push for more restrictions to stop its spread, his chief medical adviser said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and Biden’s leading COVID-19 adviser, said there were still no cases of the variant identified in the U.S. but that it was “inevitable” that it would make its way into the country eventually.
Speaking on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Fauci said scientists hope to know in the next week or two how well the existing COVID-19 vaccines protect against the variant, and how dangerous it is compared to earlier strains.
MADRID — Spain has imposed a 10-day mandatory quarantine for visitors coming from seven southern African countries, where omicron, a new coronavirus variant, was first been identified.
Spain’s move comes as more and more countries are imposing travel restrictions, even though much remains unknown about omicron.
The mandatory isolation affects travelers from South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe who arrive in Spain directly or with stopovers in other countries.
Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said that more than 200 nationals who were in the region and whose flights have been cancelled will be brought back to Spain on flights that are still operating to parts of Europe.
TOKYO — Japan announced Monday it will suspend entry of all foreign visitors from around the world as a new coronavirus variant spreads.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the measure will take effect Tuesday.
The decision means Japan will restore border controls that it eased earlier this month for short-term business visitors, foreign students and workers.
Over the weekend, Japan tightened entry restrictions for people arriving from South Africa and eight other countries, requiring them to undergo a 10-day quarantine period at government-designated facilities.
Many countries have moved to tighten their borders after the new omicron variant of the coronavirus was found in a number of nations.
LONDON — Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said there is evidence of local transmission of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus after the country reported its first six cases.
She told a news conference that not all the cases in Scotland had links to recent travel, adding that this suggests “there might already be some community transmission of this variant in Scotland.”
The new cases takes the U.K.’s total to nine after three cases were identified in England over the weekend.
The arrival of the variant on British shores prompted Prime Minister Boris Johnson to tighten restrictions on mask-wearing and testing of international arrivals to England.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s planning minister said a big vaccination campaign against coronavirus will be expedited this week to minimize the threat of the new variant.
Asad Umar warned that the new coronavirus variant known as omicron will inevitably come to the Islamic nation in the next few weeks, and he urged unvaccinated citizens to get their shots as soon as possible.
Umar said since the world is interconnected, it is impossible to stop the new variant from entering Pakistan.
LISBON, Portugal — Portuguese health authorities said they have identified 13 cases of omicron, the new coronavirus variant believed to be more contagious, among team members of a professional soccer club.
The Ricardo Jorge National Health Institute said Monday that one of those who tested positive at the Lisbon-based Belenenses soccer club had recently traveled to South Africa, where the omicron variant was first identified.
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To decide your organization’s benefits or misfortunes, and to have the option to figure charges towards the finish of the monetary year, you need to record a book of passage. Accounting records all deals for an organization and fills in as the reason for the benefit and misfortune account and the readiness of the balance sheet. Along with the pay proclamation, it is a principle part of the yearly report.
What is a balance sheet, and how would you Make one?
The balance sheet is an assertion of an organization’s resources and liabilities at a given point on the schedule. It’s partitioned into two sections, with the resources on the left and the liabilities on the right. The resources site gives data on the organization’s assets. The liabilities side shows the organization’s commitments. It’s significant that the absolute amount of resources consistently coordinates with the complete liabilities.
This is then neutralized on the liabilities side, which records value, obligation capital, and cash owed to providers. The things recorded are summed up yet to be determined sheet and dispensed aside or the other. In basic terms, value capital can be determined from the balance sheet by deducting acquired capital (liabilities) from the absolute resources. So, the accompanying applies:
Assets = liabilities (capital)
Assets = equity+ liabilities
Which can be reworked into:
Equity = Assets – liabilities
Who should Make a Balance Sheet?
The UK has no particular necessities about how you decide to keep your books, and the formation of a balance sheet can be barred relying upon the kind of business. By and large, however, balance sheets are required and should contain a specific measure of data.
The construction and size can be deftly founded on the size of the organization and the necessary intricacy. Private ventures, for instance, will in general have a lot more straightforward balance sheets than enormous partnerships. Indeed, even as a business person, however, a balance sheet and benefit and misfortune report are a smart thought to assist keep with the following of your monetary exhibition.
Unincorporated organizations in the UK are not needed to make a balance sheet, however, they might in any case decide to do as such.
What Types of Balance Sheets are there?
There are not many essential kinds which you can make to suit various purposes. They are mentioned and explained below:
1- Classified Balance Sheet:
The most famous sort, an classified balance sheet separates data by subcategories. These classifications are then characterized to make it simple to discover the data being referred to. There are no necessities about which classifications should be incorporated, yet keeping a predictable construction improves on the most common way of looking at data over numerous periods.
2- Unclassified Balance Sheet:
This one doesn’t utilize the classifications and subcategories of the ordered variant and rather records all things immediately. Resources are by and large arranged first, trailed by liabilities. There are no subtotals as would be remembered for an ordered one, yet rather aggregates are recorded for resources, liabilities, and values. This kind of balance sheet is for the most part reasonable for little reports with not many things to list, or for inner announcing purposes.
Resources are recorded by their liquidity, with cash resources at the top and fixed resources at the base. Liabilities are additionally introduced along these lines, by and large, coordinated by the due date.
3- Comparative Balance Sheet:
A comparative balance sheet is utilized to look at account balances at various focuses on schedule. This is especially valuable for acquiring an outline of the organization’s overall monetary position, for example, the direction of its total assets and obligations. The subtotals for the different focuses in time are introduced one next to the other. Relative balance sheets are the necessary structure under FRS 102, very much like with the old UK GAAP.
4- Interim Balance Sheet:
Since balance sheets are formed to envelop a whole monetary year, the expression “between time” doesn’t actually apply to them. Notwithstanding, interval fiscal summaries can be helpful to introduce periods that cover short of what one year.
For instance, openly held organizations that are needed to give quarterly reports might utilize between time balance sheets. Since it is simply used to allude somewhat to schedule, not a range of time, the brake balance sheet will contrast marginally from different reports remembered for a between time fiscal summary.
How would you Make a Balance Sheet?
The construction ordinarily follows the characterized style. The qualities for the individual things are taken from information in the bookkeeping records that were utilized to record all deals for the monetary year. For instance, in the event that the acquisition of a machine was financed with an advance, the worth of the “property, plant, and gear” (resource side) increments – thus does the worth of the relating obligation on the opposite side.
Devaluation for mileage, for example, the decay of the machine, and the interest paid on the advance are recorded in the benefit and misfortune report to change benefit sums. The determined benefit or misfortune is displayed under the balance sheet thing “value” on the liabilities side of the balance sheet.
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On the resources side, a qualification is made between current resources and non-current resources. The thing that matters depends on how long they’re held for. Here, fixed resources are long haul, like hardware and vehicles. These resources stay in the organization for a more drawn-out time frame. Current resources, then again, are “available for use”, for example, completed items, products, and things that the organization needs for additional preparing (material), just as receivables from clients (open solicitations), money, and bank resources.
Property, plant, and gear incorporates long-haul resources that are gained for functional use in the organization. Securing costs for these resources deteriorate as they’re utilized, contingent upon the resource and yearly mileage, on a star rata premise, which diminishes the benefit. It’s then, at that point recorded yet to be a determined sheet at the individual conveying esteem.
The liabilities side shows the wellspring of the capital. It records value, arrangements, liabilities, and, if relevant, conceded pay just as conceded charge liabilities. The liabilities show where or to whom the organization owes something and what the proprietor is qualified for.
On this side, development is significant. Investors’ value is viewed as long haul capital that remaining parts of the organization for quite a while, with other long haul liabilities, for example, home loans and bank advances recorded beneath. The circumstance is diverse for transient liabilities, for example, provider solicitations – these are typically settled inside a couple of days and in this manner are situated lower than long haul liabilities.
Arrangements are liabilities whose worth is not set in stone: These incorporate expenses, annuity installments, and expected case costs from forthcoming procedures.
As a rule, the making of a balance sheet and pay articulations requires a specific measure of master information. However you’re unquestionably not needed to, it’s prudent to recruit an expense advisor to set up your yearly fiscal summaries.
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The Hague, 20 February 2009
Pavle Strugar Granted Early Release
Pavle Strugar, a former General of the Yugoslav People’s Army convicted of crimes in the Croatian coastal town of Dubrovnik in 1991 and sentenced to seven and a half years’ imprisonment, was today released having been in the Tribunal’s detention facility for more than two-thirds of his sentence.
Strugar’s early release follows the 16 January 2009 decision of the Tribunal’s President, Judge Patrick Robinson. The President considered several factors when evaluating Strugar’s application including the gravity of crimes for which he was convicted, previous practice and the prisoner’s demonstration of rehabilitation, as well as Strugar’s “deteriorating medical condition”.
The Tribunal’s Statute allows for convicted persons to apply for pardon, commutation of sentence or early release and states that the President of the Tribunal will determine whether to grant such requests.
On 31 January 2005 the Trial Chamber convicted Strugar, pursuant to his superior responsibility, of the crimes that were committed in the UNESCO protected town of Dubrovnik during 1991. He was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment.
On 17 July 2008 the Appeals Chamber reduced his sentence to seven and a half years’ imprisonment in consideration of Strugar’s deteriorating health since the delivery of the Trial Judgement.
The President’s Decision on early release can be found at:
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The Trial Chamber judgement can be found at:
The Appeals Chamber judgement can be found at:
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This article develops a new human-machine perception interface method to convert visual patterns to accurate eddy-current stimulation using an electromagnet (EM) array. The eddy-current stimulation is formulated as a feedforward controller design. In this paper, a state-space model for the eddy-current stimulation is derived for design and analysis of the controller. Unlike traditional methods where the distributed parameter systems are often modeled using partial differential equations and solved numerically using numerical methods such as finite element analysis, the model presented here offers closed-form solutions in state-space representation. The novel approach enables the applications of the well-established control theory for analyzing the system controllability. The feasibility and accuracy of the feedforward control method are numerically illustrated and validated by generating the stimulation with two types of patterns, which provides an essential base for future research of human-machine perception interface.
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A Distributed-Parameter Control System Using Electromagnetic Images Stimulation for Human-Machine Perception Interface
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Li, M, & Lee, K. "A Distributed-Parameter Control System Using Electromagnetic Images Stimulation for Human-Machine Perception Interface." Proceedings of the ASME 2018 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. Volume 2: Control and Optimization of Connected and Automated Ground Vehicles; Dynamic Systems and Control Education; Dynamics and Control of Renewable Energy Systems; Energy Harvesting; Energy Systems; Estimation and Identification; Intelligent Transportation and Vehicles; Manufacturing; Mechatronics; Modeling and Control of IC Engines and Aftertreatment Systems; Modeling and Control of IC Engines and Powertrain Systems; Modeling and Management of Power Systems. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. September 30–October 3, 2018. V002T24A010. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DSCC2018-9217
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St. Paul College of Ilocos Sur (SPCIS), a Catholic educational institution, recognizes that the current COVID-19 crisis presents various challenges characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and fear. However, the school will continue its mission to provide quality education while taking care of the safety and overall well-being of its constituents regardless of the constraints we are facing now.
With the primary goal of producing students who are:
SPCIS offers HOPE (Holistic Outcomes-based Paulinian E-learning) which provides diverse learning delivery modes to ensure that NO STUDENT IS LEFT BEHIND.
HOPE is anchored in the school’s mission to provide quality Paulinian education that promotes academic excellence and holistic formation through innovations built on Paulinian Core values. Whether synchronous, blended, or home-based, the school is committed to principles of authentic learning and inquiry, student engagement, and collaborative learning. HOPE is a dynamic approach to our rapidly changing context, faithful to St. Paul’s ideal of CARITAS CHRISTI URGET NOS!
HOPE includes ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING and MODULAR LEARNING as learning delivery modes. This will ensure that teachers will have ample time to hold live sessions with students and do check-ins, and at the same time provide them with enough room to do activities and tasks on their own. This also addresses the issue of screen time, and bandwidth or connectivity issues.
The purpose of this program is to continuously provide quality Catholic education to all students of St. Paul College of Ilocos Sur by catering to their needs and learning modalities applicable to them.
The traditional Monday to Friday face to face classes are revitalized with other innovative teaching learning such that all the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) mandated by the Department of Education and the Most Essential Learning Outcomes that Paulinian schools set for all its students are met.
All faculty members are undergoing various In-Service Trainings to learn and master ways and means as to how the mentioned modalities are to be delivered effectively and efficiently. There will also be orientations and capacity building for parents and guardians to prepare them for their new role and responsibilities that they will do. SPCIS strengthens its commitment to open the school year, embracing the challenges and opportunities in these trying times. Operational complications are expected along the way. However, we would like to assure everyone that we will observe all the guidelines of the Department of Health and the Inter Agency Task Force on COVID-19, on whether the risks classification in the locality will allow face-to-face attendance in schools, or not. | <urn:uuid:dd3c1729-901a-401f-aa3a-8199f2c661d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spcis.edu.ph/spcis-hope-lcp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957812 | 541 | 1.765625 | 2 |
- Literacy and Communication: Students are to achieve the A1.1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages through the continual development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills;
- Interculturality: Recognition of the importance of linguistic and cultural diversity. To encourage reciprocal understanding and tolerance and respect for cultural identity and diversity;
- Autonomy in learning: Autonomous and individual work management. Establishment of learning criteria.
Can understand and react to simple sentences and information (name, surname, nationality, profession, age, family, languages, hobbies and address); Can understand everyday language; Can understand vocabulary as used in classes; Can understand some words and expressions when people are talking about him/herself, family, school, hobbies or surroundings, provided they are talking slowly and clearly; Can understand words and short sentences when listening to a simple conversation (e.g. between a customer and a salesperson in a shop), provided that people talk very slowly and very clearly; Can read simple texts;Can understand simple texts; can read and understand everyday information; can read and understand simple forms and surveys; can understand simple messages; can ask and request; can fill in forms with personal information; can describe and compare; can write simple texts.
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The teaching and learning process will be guided by the principles of active learning methodology. Ongoing assessment requires the completion of at least one assessment per language skill (listening, reading, speaking, and writing), each worth 25% of the final grade. Students who obtain a grade of 9,5 in each of the language skills and have attended 75% of the contact hours are exempt from the 'Época Normal' exam. Students who have complied with the attendance requirement but have a grade below a 9,5 on the assessment of one or more skills, must retake the exam for the skills which they have not passed. All enrolled students who have not passed the previously mentioned assessments or have not complied with the attendance requirement, will be admitted to the 'Época de Recurso' exam. The procedure for calculation of the final grade will be identical to the that of 'Época Normal' exam. | <urn:uuid:9d852b30-9fd6-432b-acca-3c1c8f46dd0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marinetraining.eu/nl/node/4565 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.927022 | 466 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Reporters say the Tacoma City Council unanimously voted to drop the speed limit to 20 mph on residential streets. Four neighborhood business districts will have their speed limit lowered from 30 to 25 mph under the new ordinance: 6th Avenue, Old Town, Lincoln, and McKinley Hill. These changes go into effect in January 2023.
This is part of Tacoma's initiative to cut down on traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries, which is called Vision Zero. Data shows that lowering the speed limit by just from 30 to 25 mph will double the chances of survival for pedestrians and cyclists hit by vehicles, councilmembers cited in their decision.
Officials say there will be a grace period before enforcement begins in January. They'll also start educating people about the new speed limits in the fall.
“I’m so proud to see the City take this important first step towards keeping people on our streets safe,” Tacoma City Council Member Kristina Walker says in a statement from the city. “The link between speed and injury severity in crashes is consistent, direct, and especially critical for more vulnerable roadway users. With tonight’s action, coupled with other actions in our Vision Zero Action Plan, our goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2035 is in sight.” | <urn:uuid:ad07112a-0f4f-41d3-bd74-323a07d87431> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://957thejet.iheart.com/featured/jodi-bender-mornings/content/2022-08-03-speed-limits-are-changing-in-tacoma-neighborhoods/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957862 | 260 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Thirty years ago, on July 31, 1989, Michael Harrington died in Larchmont, New York, a victim of the cancer that he had battled since 1985. He was sixty-one years old. Among Harrington’s enduring legacies are his authorship of The Other America: Poverty in the United States, the 1962 book that helped spark the War on Poverty during the Lyndon Johnson administration, his service as a political adviser to Dr Martin Luther King Jr (“You know,” Dr King once jokingly told Harrington, “we didn’t even know we were poor until we read your book”), and his leading role in the 1982 founding of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Harrington was raised in a devoutly Catholic household in St Louis, educated at Jesuit institutions, and gained his first left-wing political experience in Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker movement. In his last years, confronting his own mortality, he found the familiar religious phrases of his childhood echoing in Latin in his thoughts, especially Magnificat anima mea Dominum (My soul doth magnify the glory of the Lord).
Harrington hadn’t actually been a believer since departing the Catholic Worker for the socialist movement in 1952, at age twenty-four. Even the prospect of imminent death wasn’t going to change that; shortly before the end, he told his childhood companion and cousin Peggy Fitzgibbon, a nun, that if upon dying he somehow came face to face with God in heaven, he intended to accuse Him of mumbling.
That didn’t mean he had lost interest in the religious teachings and sensibility of his youth; their echoes continued to inform the way he understood the world, including his personal commitment to the socialist cause. “I grew up in the Church,” he told a reporter in the early 1980s, “and from the time I was a little kid the Church said your life is not something you are to fritter away; your life is in trust to something more important than yourself.”
In the introductory chapter of The Politics at God’s Funeral, an extended consideration of morality and politics from a socialist perspective published in 1983, Harrington discussed the implications of eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant’s argument that God’s existence cannot be proved:
So God is not the basis of morality, for morality rests upon reason, and reason cannot demonstrate that God exists. He is, rather, a postulate of morality, a being who gives us cause to act upon the categorical imperative of the conscience. One acts “as if” God were there.
A “postulate” is something suggested or assumed as true, as the basis of reasoning, argument, or belief. Socialism for Harrington, at least in his later years, had become a kind of Kantian “categorical imperative,” a requirement that must be obeyed to satisfy the demands of conscience. Thus, for a religious believer, “one acts ‘as if’ God were there,” or, in Harrington’s case as a socialist, one acts as if achieving socialism were an imminent possibility.
Interviewing Irving Howe, founding editor of Dissent magazine, a couple of years after Harrington’s death, I asked him whether his good friend and comrade had truly believed he would ever see socialism in his own lifetime. Not really, Howe replied, certainly not in his last several decades of political involvement. Howe, too, compared this understanding of socialism’s meaning to Kant’s categorical imperative, “something which helps . . . determine your immediate behavior.”
Socialism for Harrington, in other words, was more a process, or perhaps a journey. “Socialism is still beginning,” Harrington wrote on another occasion, “a task to be accomplished, not a destiny to be awaited.”
As readers of Jacobin don’t need to be reminded, democratic socialism is currently having its (hopefully longer than) fifteen minutes of fame in the United States, sparked by Bernie Sanders’s strong showing in the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning victory in New York State’s 14th Congressional District two years later, and a resulting tenfold growth in DSA’s membership. One side effect is that Michael Harrington’s name is getting mentioned more often in mainstream publications — if sometimes disparagingly.
Last March, in an article in New York magazine titled “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?” reporter Simon van Zuylen-Wood offered a good-natured, if gossipy, set of variations on the “Brooklyn hipster” trope about DSA’s recent gains (“At least in Brooklyn and the spiritual Brooklyns of America, calling yourself a socialist sounds sexier than anything else out there . . . ”). Well, whatever, he spelled the name right.
Not much history in the piece, at least before 2016, but van Zuylen-Wood does take one glance back toward DSA’s misty origins in the long-ago eighties, writing that the organization “was founded, to little fanfare, in 1982 by the social theorist Michael Harrington. Harrington’s group occupied the ‘left wing of the possible,’ a sensible enough mantra that excited nobody and helped the organization stay minuscule for decades.”
“Left wing of the possible,” I’ll admit, is not the most exciting slogan I’ve ever embraced. As a freshman in college in 1968, I joined Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which offered much more rousing alternatives — “The elections don’t mean shit – Vote with your feet,” is one I particularly remember from that fall (I still have the button). There were also a lot of bracing slogans about things we were determined to “smash” — imperialism, racism, sexism, you name it. Good stuff. Exciting. Of course, a year later, SDS, a hundred thousand strong when I signed on, proved that its most enduring legacy lay in smashing itself out of existence.
Somehow, in contrast, Harrington’s boring old DSA hung on for three and a half decades of obscurity until it could reinvent itself as the institutional base upon which the current revival of democratic socialism is being built. And, as I asked in a letter to the editor of New York in response to van Zuylen-Wood’s article, what is it that’s “behind DSA’s recent growth, if not a variant of operating as the ‘left wing of the possible’? Isn’t that what Bernie Sanders represents? And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? They are working within the Democratic Party to push it leftward.” And with considerable success, I might have added, as the party embraces what a few years ago would have been seen as fringe policies and slogans — Medicare For All, the Green New Deal, a $15 an hour federal minimum wage. All of which was an awfully long time coming — but might, with some historical perspective, be seen as the vindication of Harrington’s “sensible enough mantra that excited nobody.”
Still, it’s probably wiser to let sleeping slogans lie. “Left wing of the possible” was coined in a particular historical moment, the dawn of the “Reagan Revolution,” when Antonio Gramsci’s “pessimism of the intellect” seemed a better guide to the immediate future of the American left than its companion “optimism of the will.” Thanks for the shift lately to a more optimistic appraisal of the Left’s prospects go to Bernie, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and a host of others.
Members of the new generation of democratic socialists will naturally come up with slogans more congenial to the times in which we now live (and, I suspect, “the elections don’t mean shit” won’t be one of them). Since Harrington’s lifelong political project, from the 1950s through the 1980s, was recruiting the next generation of American socialists, I imagine that would strike him as entirely appropriate.
Reporting back to his comrades on a national speaking tour he had undertaken on behalf of the newly founded Democratic Socialists of America in 1982, Harrington commented wryly that the only “negative note” he encountered en route was an otherwise sympathetic article in the Baltimore Sun describing him as “the grand old man of American socialism.” Actually, he insisted, he remained in his sixth decade “a closet youth.” Thirty years after his death, I think both descriptions fit the man and his legacy. | <urn:uuid:d3b40a37-9985-44c8-acb4-9e2098827953> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jacobin.com/2019/07/MICHAEL-HARRINGTON-DSA-DEMOCRATIC-SOCIALISM | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964483 | 1,863 | 2.125 | 2 |
Before a man, when he gets up in the morning, can put on a coat, ground must have been enclosed, broken up, drained, tilled, and sown with a particular kind of plant; flocks must have been fed, and have given their wool; this wool must have been spun, woven, dyed, and converted into cloth; this cloth must have been cut, sewed, and made into a garment.
In doing so, they hoped to uncover certain characteristics of human nature that were universal and unchanging. He would later codify all this work in the book that kick-started public choice theory, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock, another University of Virginia economist.
Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it. Graduating from Cornell, Florence went to study at the University of Zurich. And I repeat again: The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it.
Although they may be credible in their research and the balancing of their arguments, their political orientation weakens their reliability significantly. Jane Addams State intervention and the economy essay able to use her upper-class connections to acquire fervent supporters, many of them women who became intimate and probably lesbian friends of Miss Addams.
Must they not live.
On the Systems of Rousseau's Thought. However, as Rousseau was now a well-known and respected author, he was able to have it published independently. This attracts criticism from conservatives and deontologists — according to what ends.
Mimerel proposes,francs to keep us quiet, like throwing us a bone to gnaw. He renews his furniture several times a year; changes his equipages every month.
Does this, then, make Smith an early proponent of the political Left. Each believer's duty went far beyond mere support of missionary activity, for a crucial part of the new doctrine held that he who did not try his very best to maximize the salvation of others would not himself be saved.
Admittedly, people are free to accept or to reject advice from whomever they wish. The classical liberal retort is who will provide those resources and to what age should people be deemed incapable of learning or striving by themselves.
But in the passage of The Wealth of Nations where he invoked the idea of the invisible hand, the immediate context was not simply that of state intervention in general, but of state intervention undertaken at the behest of merchant elites who were furthering their own interests at the expense of the public.
A Just and Enduring Government If a nation were founded on this basis, it seems to me that order would prevail among the people, in thought as well as in deed. Men have a natural propensity to make the best bargain they can, when not prevented by an opposing force; that is, they like to obtain as much as they possibly can for their labour, whether the advantage is obtained from a foreign producer, or a skillful mechanical producer.
Worker control socialism worker control capitalism sees the way forward through worker owned and operated businesses, usually small-scale and run on a democratic basis. It is a most remarkable fact that this double legal crime — a sorrowful inheritance from the Old World — should be the only issue which can, and perhaps will, lead to the ruin of the Union.
Bruere also became executive assistant to William Woodin, Roosevelt's first Secretary of the Treasury. This is the seductive lure of socialism.
Perkins — in a successful attempt to nominate Theodore Roosevelt, and thereby destroy President William Howard Taft, who had broken with his predecessor Roosevelt's Pro-Morgan policies.
References are given by the title of the work, the volume number in Roman Numeralsand the page number. Slavery is a violation, by law, of liberty. The Yankees who particularly embraced this view were an ethno-cultural group descending from the original Puritans of Massachusetts, and who, beginning in rural New England, moved westward and settled upstate New York "the Burned-Over District"northern Ohio, northern Indiana, northern Illinois, and neighboring areas.
And to convince the student of the wisdom of these ideas, Mentor recites to him the example of Salentum. Regardless of the political direction that the anarchist leans towards collectivism or individualismhow the anarchic community is to be secured presents philosophical problems that demand a close regard to possible inconsistencies.
Julia founded the first Juvenile Court in the country, in Chicago inand then moved on to become the first female member of the Illinois State Board of Charities, and President of the National Conference of Social Work. In fact, this has already occurred. When an official spends for his own profit an extra hundred sous, it implies that a tax-payer spends for his profit a hundred sous less.
Three Systems of Plunder The sincerity of those who advocate protectionism, socialism, and communism is not here questioned. We do not deny that it affords M.
These hands, and this remuneration, would combine to produce what it was impossible to produce before the invention; whence it follows that the final result is an increase of advantages for equal labour. This thesis has been summed up boldly by one of its adherents.
If your seas wash only inaccessible cliffs, let the people be barbarous and eat fish; they will live more quietly — perhaps better — and, most certainly, they will live more happily.
That is, it comes about in the ways in which human beings view themselves in comparison to other human beings. If the soil is poor or barren, or the country too small for its inhabitants, then turn to industry and arts, and trade these products for the foods that you need The state would be felt only by the invaluable blessings of safety provided by this concept of government.
In his discussion of how to properly educate a pupil about religious matters, the tutor recounts a tale of an Italian who thirty years before was exiled from his town.
We have heard M. A steady-state economy is an economy made up of a constant stock of physical wealth (capital) and a constant population size. In effect, such an economy does not grow in the course of time. The term usually refers to the national economy of a particular country, but it is also applicable to the economic system of a city, a region, or the entire world.
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A new and radical reexamination of today's neoliberalist “new economy” through the political lens of the debtor/creditor relation. > The debtor-creditor relation. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe.
His first major philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, was the winning response to an essay contest conducted by the Academy of Dijon in In this work. Objectives for Government Intervention There are many different objectives that governments might pursue by way of intervention in private markets.
These objectives fall under a few broad categories that characterize many of the efforts at government regulation.
The following are some of the more commonly observed regulatory objectives. A mixed economy is variously defined as an economic system blending elements of market economies with elements of planned economies, free markets with state interventionism, or private enterprise with public enterprise.
There is no single definition of a mixed economy, but rather two major definitions recognized [by whom?] for a "mixed economy". The first of these definitions refers to a. An examination of the possibilities for libertarian feminism, taking the feminist thought of the 19th century radical individualists as an example and a guide.
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- 1 What high schools are in Brisbane?
- 2 How many state high schools in Queensland?
- 3 What are the best high schools in Brisbane?
- 4 What is the biggest high school in Brisbane?
- 5 How do I choose a high school in Brisbane?
- 6 What is the smallest school in Australia?
- 7 What is the largest school in Australia?
- 8 What is the best school in Australia?
- 9 What is the best suburb in Brisbane?
- 10 Is Qasmt a good school?
- 11 Is churchie a good school?
- 12 What is the best primary school in Brisbane?
What high schools are in Brisbane?
High School Options in Brisbane
- Aviation High School | Clayfield.
- Brisbane Christian College | Coopers Plains & Salisbury campuses.
- Brisbane State High School | South Brisbane.
- Clayfield College | Clayfield.
- Earnshaw State College | Banyo.
- The Glenleighden School.
- Hubbard’s School | Milton.
- IES College | Spring Hill.
How many state high schools in Queensland?
In Queensland there are 1254 state schools and 540 independent and catholic schools. Queensland state schools offer students a range of award winning programs, high quality teaching and pathways to university or training.
What are the best high schools in Brisbane?
Best high school in Brisbane – academic results
- Queensland Academy (Science, Maths Technology) Toowong Campus.
- Brisbane Girls Grammar, Brisbane.
- Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane.
- St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School, Corinda.
- Brisbane State High School, Brisbane.
- Cannon Hill Anglican College, Cannon Hill.
What is the biggest high school in Brisbane?
Brisbane State High School is Queensland’s largest secondary school. Enrolment at this school requires the student to live in the catchment area otherwise entry can be sought for academic, sporting or musical excellence by following the selection process.
How do I choose a high school in Brisbane?
Here are 5 tips for choosing a good school in Brisbane.
- Making Sense of Secondary School Academic Results.
- The Importance of Secondary School Co-curricular Opportunities.
- Select the type of secondary school that suits your child and their needs.
- Quality teachers make the most difference to student outcomes.
What is the smallest school in Australia?
Mt Fox State School is Queensland’s smallest school with only 9 students!
What is the largest school in Australia?
Total Enrolments: 4054 From the perspective of attendance, Haileybury College is the largest primary school in Australia – the total enrolments of the school in 2019 is 4054.
What is the best school in Australia?
Here are the best global universities in Australia/New Zealand
- University of Melbourne.
- University of Sydney.
- University of Queensland Australia.
- Monash University.
- University of New South Wales.
- Australian National University.
- University of Adelaide.
- University of Western Australia.
What is the best suburb in Brisbane?
If you have room to move with your budget, here are some of Brisbane’s best suburbs to invest in over $1 million.
- Ascot. Ascot has been, for quite some time, a highly sort after suburb.
- New Farm/Teneriffe.
- Highgate Hill.
- Cannon Hill.
Is Qasmt a good school?
With an impressive academic record, Queensland Academies Science, Mathematics and Technology Campus is one of the most successful selective entry state high schools in Australia. QASMT students have access to cutting edge technologies and exceptional teaching staff.
Is churchie a good school?
Churchie, widely recognised as one of Brisbane’s most prestigious schools, is among Australia’s richest based on earnings and donations from alumni.
What is the best primary school in Brisbane?
The Best Primary Schools in Brisbane
- Clayfield College, Clayfield, Private.
- Somerville House, South Brisbane, Private.
- The Lakes College, North Lakes, Private.
- Rainworth State School, Rainworth, Public.
- MacGregor State School, MacGregor, Public.
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How do courts use GPS technology to track offenders?
Some states have specific laws that allow judges and law enforcement to use technology in ways that are intended to protect victims of domestic violence. For example, law enforcement and courts can use Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technology to track offenders who have committed domestic violence and stalking. There are two types of GPS tracking – active and passive. If a judge orders an abuser to wear an active GPS tracking device to monitor an abuser’s location, if the abuser enters a location where s/he is prohibited, the technology will notify you of the abuser’s location and may also be set to notify law enforcement or any court-ordered supervision agency that is monitoring the offender.
Alternatively, an abuser wearing passive GPS tracking may wear a tracking device 24-hours a day, but only be required to upload his/her location history once a day. The location history may then be reviewed from time to time by a probation officer or it may be used as a tool by law enforcement if you allege that the abuser violated the order. Depending on your state, a judge may be able to order GPS tracking in a criminal or civil court case. | <urn:uuid:6e339f34-de31-4408-9d90-a7060b1c88b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dev.womenslaw.org/laws/preparing-court/como-las-cortes-utilizan-la-tecnologia/gps-monitoring-offenders/how-do-courts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.928256 | 240 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based, collaborative platform that is a strong document management and storage system. Microsoft SharePoint 2016 Complete Course has been designed so that you, an administrator, site owner or a normal user, can fully garner knowledge about this web-based application and use it to full potential.
In this course, for administrators, you will learn about the interface of SharePoint Team sites: opening, navigating, working, sharing contents, using communication features, etc. For site owners, you will learn to create a new site, adding and configuring libraries, site settings, assigning permission and rights. For the users, you will learn to share and edit contents, accessing SharePoint and using alternative methods.
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
Edukite courses are free to study. To successfully complete a course you must submit all the assignment of the course as part of the assessment. Upon successful completion of a course, you can choose to make your achievement formal by obtaining your Certificate at a cost of £49.
Having an Official Edukite Certification is a great way to celebrate and share your success. You can:
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Course Credit: Edukite
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Updated at 12:21 a.m. ET: A debate over abortion has flared in Ireland over the case of Savita Halappanavar, a miscarrying woman suffering from blood poisoning who was refused a quick termination of her pregnancy and died in a hospital.
The 31-year-old's case highlights a bizarre legal trap in which pregnant women facing severe health problems in predominantly Catholic Ireland may find themselves.
It also prompted widespread anger, including protests in Dublin outside Ireland’s parliament, the Dáil Éireann. About 400 people gathered for a candelit vigil for Halappanavar in Cork, in the south of Ireland, the Irish Times reported.
Ireland's constitution officially bans abortion, but a 1992 Supreme Court ruling found it should be legalized for situations when the woman's life is at risk from continuing the pregnancy. Five governments since have refused to pass a law resolving the confusion, leaving Irish hospitals reluctant to terminate pregnancies except in the most obviously life-threatening circumstances.
Opposition politicians appealed Wednesday for Prime Minister Enda Kenny's government to introduce legislation immediately to make the 1992 Supreme Court judgment part of statutory law. Barring any such bill, the only legislation defining the illegality of abortion in Ireland dates to 1861 when the entire island was part of the United Kingdom. That British law, still valid here due to Irish inaction on the matter, states it is a crime to "procure a miscarriage."
Halappanavar, an Indian dentist living in Galway since 2008, was 17 weeks along in her pregnancy when she was admitted to the hospital.
University Hospital Galway in western Ireland declined to say whether doctors believed Halappanavar's blood poisoning could have been reversed had she received an abortion rather than wait for the fetus to die on its own. In a statement it described its own investigation into the death, and a parallel probe by the national government's Health Service Executive, as "standard practice" whenever a pregnant woman dies in a hospital. The Galway coroner also planned a public inquest.
Halappanavar's husband, Praveen, said doctors determined that she was miscarrying within hours of her hospitalization for severe pain on Sunday, Oct. 21. He said that over the next three days doctors refused their requests for a termination of her fetus to combat her own surging pain and fading health.
"Savita was really in agony. She was very upset, but she accepted she was losing the baby," her husband told The Irish Times in a telephone interview from Belgaum, southwest India. "When the consultant came on the ward rounds on Monday morning, Savita asked: 'If they could not save the baby, could they induce to end the pregnancy?' The consultant said: 'As long as there is a fetal heartbeat, we can't do anything.'"
"Again on Tuesday morning ... the consultant said it was the law, that this is a Catholic country. Savita said: "I am neither Irish nor Catholic," but they said there was nothing they could do," Praveen Halappanavar was quoted as saying.
He said his wife vomited repeatedly and collapsed in a restroom that night, but doctors wouldn't terminate the fetus because its heart was still beating.
The fetus died the following day and its remains were surgically removed. Within hours, Praveen Halappanavar said, his wife was placed under sedation in intensive care with systemic blood poisoning and he was never able to speak with her again. By Saturday, her heart, kidneys and liver had stopped working and she was pronounced dead early Sunday, Oct. 28.
Praveen Halappanavar said he took his wife's remains back to India for a Hindu funeral and cremation on Nov. 3. News of the circumstances that led to her death emerged Tuesday in Galway after the Indian community canceled the city's annual Diwali festival. Savita had been one of the festival's organizers.
At the vigil in Cork, child psychologist Mary Phelan told The Irish Times that she was furious about what had happened.
"I couldn't find the words to describe how I felt, I was so outraged when I heard what happened to this poor woman," Phelan said. "I feel mortified in front of the world that we have stood by and allowed this happen in our country today. I think we should all be hanging our heads in shame."
Ivana Bacik, a pro-choice advocate and law professor at Trinity College in Dublin, echoed what many others on Wednesday: "I think there's a clear indication that governments' failure to legislate over a period of years is largely responsible for the uncertainty around the law," she told the Guardian.
Bacik was successfully prosecuted in the 1990s for “providing information” about abortions in England, according to the Guardian. She was nearly sent to jail.
History of birth control in Ireland
Until recently, Ireland’s social and professional worlds were hugely enmeshed with the Catholic church. In the 1980s, teachers applying for a job had to submit their priest as a reference, and it wasn’t until 1979 that condoms were legal – and then only by prescription, according to Irish Family Planning Association, the country’s leading sexual health charity.
It wasn’t until 1993 that condoms could be purchased in vending machines.
Abortion has been mostly ignored in the political sphere – largely because women may leave the country for the procedure. In 2011, more than 4,000 women traveled to England; about 1,500 went to the Netherlands between 2005 and 2009. Other estimates say about 7,000 women leave the Ireland every year to terminate a pregnancy.
But even traveling has been difficult. In 2007, a pregnant 17-year-old dubbed “Miss D” said she wanted an abortion after learning that her fetus had anencephaly, according to irishhealth.com. That meant the baby’s brain would not fully develop and that the baby would most likely die in utero or within hours or days of its birth.
A social worker told Miss D she couldn’t travel to England, and that police would ban her physically if necessary. Miss D sued and was ultimately able to leave the country.
NBC's Isolde Raftery and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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What is Bitcoin?
13 mins read
6 mths ago
The past few years have recorded technological advancement across the globe. One of such significant changes in the financial market is the introduction of digital currencies, which eliminates the challenges that occur when completing transactions with fiat currencies such as dollars, yen, pounds, naira and many more. One of such preeminent digital currencies is Bitcoin.
Introduction to Bitcoin
Because bitcoin is digital, decentralised and encrypted, it has fast become a preferred medium of exchange around the world. And as its adoption increases, more people keep finding new ways to use bitcoin and simplify their everyday transactions.
Before we get into why bitcoin is so special, let’s take a quick look at the history of the world’s foremost cryptocurrency.
History Of Bitcoin
Since bitcoin gained popularity and its benefits have become apparent to both financial experts and regular individuals, many have wondered why it took so long for someone to come up with the brilliant idea that birthed bitcoin. However, while bitcoin was indeed the first implemented cryptocurrency, the likes of Bit Gold and B-money were proposed years before bitcoin but never implemented. Some of these ideas, though, were useful in the creation of Bitcoin.
And since its launch, Bitcoin set a precedence for other currencies because of its revolutionary nature and its ability to cover loopholes that other proposed digital currencies had missed.
Bitcoin was introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto, an alias of a person or group of persons. To date, no one knows the real identity of Nakamoto. And if you were wondering who the mysterious person could be and what led to the creation of Bitcoin, we discussed that in Who created Bitcoin?
For the purpose of this lesson, here’s a brief history of Bitcoin:
Aug. 8, 2008
The domain name bitcoin.org is registered. Today, this domain is "WhoisGuard Protected," meaning the identity of the person who registered it is not public information.
Oct. 31, 2008
An unknown person or group of people with the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto publishes the Bitcoin whitepaper on the cryptography mailing list at metzdowd.com. The paper was titled, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” and is now available at https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf. It serves as a guide for how Bitcoin operates today.
Jan. 3, 2009
The first Bitcoin block, Block 0, is mined. This is also known as the Genesis Block and it contains the text: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks". It is assumed that this was added as proof that the block was mined on or after that day and perhaps also as a relevant political commentary.
Jan. 8, 2009
The first version of the Bitcoin software is announced on The Cryptography Mailing List.
Jan 9, 2009
Block 1 is mined.
Features of Bitcoin
There are certain features that set Bitcoin apart from fiat currencies; they include:
The implication is that no one person has the power to make changes on the Bitcoin network, and all transactions do not need to go through one central point before they can be completed.
Bitcoin offers a reliable platform to complete transactions with low transaction fees. One of the notable features of Bitcoin is that it is non-refundable. This eliminates the possibility of you getting defrauded with a fake transaction because once a transaction is completed on the Bitcoin network and is confirmed on the blockchain, it is locked in. For a confirmed transaction to be altered, it would take altering every transaction that is confirmed after it - which is virtually impossible for any person to do.
We are well familiar with delays with transactions while completing payment with physical currencies, even when operating cashless. Transactions on the Bitcoin network are almost instant. It takes merely a few minutes to complete a transaction, and you do not have to worry about delayed transactions.
How Does Bitcoin Work?
Bitcoin transactions aren't the same as with fiat currencies like dollars or pounds. Bitcoin transactions take place on an open ledger known as the blockchain. The Blockchain contains the details of all transactions made on the network.
For example, if you want to transfer $1,000 worth of Bitcoin to a friend, it follows this process:
- you send the current BTC equivalent of $1,000 to the Bitcoin Address of your friend and the transaction is broadcasted on Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer network.
- A Bitcoin miner adds the transaction details to the Blockchain by solving a computational problem.
- The amount of BTC sent is added to your friend’s BTC balance.
- All nodes connected to the Blockchain are updated with the transaction and balances of the transacting addresses.
Bitcoin miners are very important to the working of the Bitcoin Network. Without miners to confirm and add transactions, the whole network doesn’t work because then, we would experience issues like double spending where one person can spend the same bitcoin twice - it is like duplicating a digital file and sending it to two different devices. Issues like this compromise the Bitcoin Network and is why miners are necessary.
Even though bitcoin is said to be mined, the mining process is very much different. While gold miners need to dig deep into the ground, Bitcoin miners can find Bitcoin in the protocol’s design.
The Bitcoin protocol is designed in such a way that only twenty-one (21) million BTC can exist. And the only way new bitcoins are obtained is when new blocks are added to the blockchain.
For the Bitcoin network to work, there has to be a way to ensure that the integrity of the network is maintained. This would make sure that there are no issues of double-spend or the addition of fake blocks of transactions to the blockchain, amongst other things. This is why miners exist -- to keep the network operating as it should. But for them to want to do this, they have to be incentivised. The creation of new bitcoins (mining) is how these miners are incentivised.
Scalability centres on the ability of a system to expand and accommodates its increasing demand. For instance, to improve a website's efficiency to accommodate its growing users, it needs to be scaled by including more servers. Bitcoin scalability centres on improving the Bitcoin network such that it can accommodate and process an increased number of transactions.
It is important for Bitcoin to scale because of its increasing number of users and the need to meet their daily demands. However, because of the Bitcoin protocol design, there is a limit to the number of transactions that miners can process per block.
Presently, the Bitcoin network can only manage to process about five transactions per second, which is relatively lower than most centralised exchange solutions.
A Bitcoin upgrade that could allow about ten thousand (10,000) transactions per second may be included in the system, but that might essentially threaten its decentralised nature. In this regard, Bitcoin experts recommend that effective scaling needs to be attained for the network's efficiency. This contributed to the fork in Bitcoin’s network that resulted in the creation of Bitcoin Cash.
Pros and Cons of Bitcoin
Every system has its pros and cons and so does Bitcoin. Lets’ briefly consider these.
Trading with digital currencies offer a safer means to complete transactions. You are able to control your transactions, and no one is able to withdraw money from your account without your approval. It is very difficult to steal your payment information. The Bitcoin protocol is secured with encryption, which makes it difficult for an organisation or individual to manipulate or control it.
You could also secure your funds with encryptions and create backup copies. And more importantly, your identity and personal details are safe and do not need to be disclosed to complete a transaction.
- High portability
Bitcoin is a digital currency which makes it the most portable currency ever to exist. You can easily carry millions without it having to cost you any extra weight or space. You can store your coins in any form of Bitcoin Wallet and take it with you anywhere, regardless of how much you have.
You can also complete transactions in minutes with just a click, saving you from outrageous fees without any stress to you.
- Legal status
In some countries, crypto trading is encouraged while it is considered illegal in other countries. There has been a lot of criticism surrounding the attractiveness of bitcoin to criminals. As such, you should confirm your state's take on Bitcoin before you start trading with crypto.
- Possible loss of access
Bitcoin can be accessed through a Bitcoin Wallet that stores the private and public keys to a Bitcoin Address. Without the private keys to an address, you cannot access the Bitcoin in it. And when proper care is not taken, it is easy to lose your private key which means you also lose access to your Bitcoin. In order to prevent this, however, there are certain wallets that are structured with backup mechanisms to safeguard the key.
In the past few years, the price of Bitcoin has varied, experiencing spikes as well as skyrocketing within short intervals. This often makes the value of Bitcoin unpredictable and unreliable as a form of payment for goods and services. However, Bitcoin is undergoing certain developments and acceptance across the globe that has set it to a steady rise in value. And as adoption rises, it is likely to reduce the volatility over time.
What makes bitcoin valuable?
However, this isn't the only reason why bitcoin is so valuable. Investors have found a nest in bitcoin as a form of digital gold. This is why many, rather than use it for only transactions, prefer hodling it. Bitcoin is seen as a scarce commodity with a limited supply that can be profitable when stored up.
How to access bitcoin
Bitcoin can neither be printed nor handled physically. It can only be accessed through mining or buying from someone who already owns it. However, only 21 million bitcoins can exist and once all 21 million bitcoins have been mined, one would only be able to get bitcoin from those who already own it.
The easiest way to access bitcoin is to buy from other people or from exchange platforms. You can buy bitcoin with cash, bank transfers, debit or credit cards, or other cryptocurrencies. But you need a Bitcoin wallet to hold bitcoin.
The Bitcoin wallet is a digital software program that enables you to buy, sell, or hold Bitcoin. This wallet contains a unique set of keys that are needed to complete transactions on the BTC network. The key provided in the wallet corresponds to your Bitcoin address. There are four types of Bitcoin wallet that is the desktop, hardware, mobile, and web.
Yellow Card wallet allows you to trade Bitcoin and offers an offline wallet where you can hold your Bitcoins. You will need a cryptocurrency wallet if you want to trade Crypto because the wallet holds the unique key combination to enable transactions on the network.
How to buy Bitcoin
You can buy bitcoin using cash, credit, or debit card or exchange other Cryptocurrencies for some BTC. The steps to purchasing Bitcoins include:
- Get a wallet: Regardless of your preferred method of purchase, you need a Bitcoin wallet.
- Select an exchange platform: Bitcoin exchanges are the easiest places to buy bitcoin safely. Many exchanges offer the creation and maintenance of wallets so that when you purchase bitcoin, you can hold it directly in your wallet on the exchange. There are hundreds of these exchange platforms in operation with varying policies on security, payment options, transaction fees, exchange rates, and many more. You should conduct proper research before selecting an exchange platform.
- Fund your account: based on the accepted payment method on the chosen exchange, you would need to add funds to your account. On exchanges like Yellow Card that allows you to buy bitcoin with cash, all you need is to pay cash for the amount you want to fund your wallet with and get a voucher that you can redeem on the platform.
- Buy Bitcoin: Once your account is funded, you can then purchase bitcoin. After the transaction is complete, you would receive the corresponding amount of bitcoin purchased in your wallet.
How to sell Bitcoin
You can use the same avenue implemented in purchasing your bitcoin also to sell them. However, while you can buy bitcoin through Bitcoin ATMs in some places, not all Bitcoin ATMs allow you to exchange bitcoin for cash. You can sell bitcoin on:
- Cryptocurrency exchange platforms: The platforms you use to sell your Bitcoin may be dependent on the amount of Bitcoin you wish to trade. Some platforms may be programmed only to receive large orders, while others allow you to sell any amount on their platforms.
Each crypto exchange has its specific policies and exchange rate, so it is best that you are well informed about these policies before selling your Bitcoin. You also have the option to exchange your Bitcoin for other Cryptocurrencies depending on your exchange platform.
- Peer-to-peer sales: With peer-to-peer, you can send bitcoin directly to the wallet of someone else while they pay you via your preferred method. That means you can sell bitcoin to family, friends, or colleagues and have them send cash to you. Some exchanges facilitate peer-to-peer trading amongst their customers such that you can sell to someone who you don’t know and have them send money to you. Escrow systems are usually put in place to ensure that both parties fulfil their end of the deal.
You can easily access, buy and sell Bitcoins using these platforms with no hitch. However, it is best to be well informed about your options before buying or selling on the selected platform to prevent any glitches.
Factors Affecting the Price of Bitcoin
- The demand and supply of bitcoin - like in every other market, the price of Bitcoin is largely influenced by the current rate of demand and supply. When there is an increase in institutional investment and media coverage, for instance, an increase in demand tends to occur, which will drive up the price of Bitcoin.
- The reward of mining bitcoin - as Bitcoin halving occurs, it reduces the amount of bitcoin that goes into circulation. The reduction in supply will affect the price of Bitcoin.
- Bitcoin adoption across the globe - Paypal recently announced that it would be allowing customers to pay vendors with Bitcoin. With over 26 million merchants across the world now able to accept bitcoin as a form of payment for goods and services, this widens the reach of Bitcoin. It will also influence the price as more people now seek to own the cryptocurrency and use it for payments across borders where their local currencies may not serve them.
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Fashion Revolution Week is a international #whomademyclothes campaign in April, which falls on the anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed 1138 people and injured many more on 24th April 2013. That is the day Fashion Revolution was born. During this week, brands and producers are encouraged to respond with the hashtag #imadeyourclothes and to demonstrate transparency in their supply chain.
We from JULIA LEIFERT believe in the change of the fashion industry and are part of Fashion Revolution:
"We people from all around the world who make the fashion industry work. We are the people who wear clothes. And we are the people who make them.
We are designers, academics, writers, business leaders, policymakers, brands, retailers, marketers, producers, makers, workers and fashion lovers. We are the industry and we are the public. We are world citizens. We are you.
We believe in a fashion industry that values people, the environment, creativity and profit in equal measure.
We want to unite people and organisations to work together towards radically changing the way our clothes are sourced, produced and consumed, so that our clothing is made in a safe, clean and fair way.
We believe that collaborating across the whole value chain — from farmer to consumer — is the only way to transform the industry.
Our mission is to bring everyone together to make that happen.
Fashion Revolution is a global movement that runs all year long.
We celebrate fashion as a positive influence while also scrutinising industry practices and raising awareness of the fashion industry’s most pressing issues. We aim to show that change is possible and encourage those who are on a journey to create a more ethical and sustainable future for fashion.
Fashion Revolution strives to be action-oriented and solution focused. Rather than making people feel guilty, we help them recognise that they have the power to do something to make a positive change.
We often call ourselves “pro-fashion protesters” because we love fashion and want to see it become a force for good.
We try to always be bold, provocative, inquisitive, accessible and inclusive. We tend to avoid negative protesting, victimising and naming and shaming. We do not target specific individual companies because we believe that the industry’s problems are bigger than any one company’s actions. We do not advocate boycotting simply because we don’t see it as an effective way to achieve systemic change." | <urn:uuid:49d744fb-63ae-4234-8c32-9521ca7b85d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://julialeifert.com/de-at/blogs/news/les-make-fashion-great-again | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942009 | 519 | 1.78125 | 2 |
A controversial proposal to extend the runway at Sligo airport on a raised platform in Sligo Bay has been described as "ludicrous" by local campaigners.
But the airport board said that it would be unable to continue commercial operations without the 259 metre extension to the runway.
Sligo County Council will decide by November 1st whether to grant permission for the development at Strandhill - where a plane with 40 passengers on board ended up with its nose in the sea having overshot the runway in November 2002.
A local conservation group said that even if the platform "five times the size of a football pitch" is built in the bay which has been declared a Special Area of Conservation it would only be a "stopgap" measure as the runway would still be too short for major commercial carriers.
"It is not Istanbul," said Frank Carter, spokesman for the group. The council has received 71 submissions in connection with the application for "safety improvement works", designed to meet the safety standards required by the Irish Aviation Authority.
Last February the Government announced an €8.5 million grant for the airport. The Dorrin's & Cummeen Strand Conservation Group has said that the proposal would be a "nightmare" for local residents. It would mean the loss of a popular bathing area and of a traditional access route to nearby Coney Island.
They have argued that the construction of a platform measuring 270 metres long by 150 metres wide and some 4.5 metres high in order to accommodate the runway would be "an outrageous imposition" on views.
It could also have catastrophic effects on tidal flow, the group argues.
Dorrin's Strand has been designated a Special Protection Area under the 1979 EU Birds Directive and has also been designated a Ramsar site because of its importance in the migratory patterns of the Brent Goose.
The project has also been opposed by local clam farmers who say it would interfere with a vibrant shellfish industry.
The conservation group said that even if the runway was increased to 1,458 metres it would still be considerably shorter than most regional airports including Knock (2,300 metres) and Kerry (2,000 metres).
"It is questionable if Sligo airport should be spending public monies on a runway extension which will not be viable in the medium or long term" said Mr Carter.
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Imagine Joni Mitchell, age 9, smoking cigarettes and listening to Claude Debussy records at her Saskatchewan home. Though this prairie girl was pigeonholed into the realm of folk as she was just coming up in the late '60s, her first interests were rooted in classical music. Joni: The Anthology offers a chronological account of the unprecedented musical endeavors she took through rock, jazz, pop and beyond, as well as a copious helping of her love of painting.
A collection of reviews and interviews - inaccessible or otherwise difficult to find, even in the age of the Internet, from a plethora of sources including MOJO, Rolling Stone, and Melody Maker cascade through the decades to paint a portrait of Mitchell that is as complex as it is revealing. Interesting are the juxtapositions: on one page a music critic denounces her experimentation with jazz, while on the next Mitchell explains how her original chords were so distinct that rock musicians couldn't grasp them, so she was suggested to hire jazz musicians on her later albums. Mitchell goes on to explain that her music went "outside the laws of jazz," creating totally original music that the taste-spinners pushed aside. Those harmonics are currently being studied and taught in music schools.
Joni: The Anthology invites you to sit in on a photoshoot as Mitchell, dressed in all black, mourns the loss of Bluebird, her stolen Mercedes Benz, which she bought with her first royalty check in 1969; learn why she snubbed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's invitation for her own induction, or why she chose to not play her hits on that 1998 tour with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison; understand just why her most appreciated compliment from a blind black piano player was that her music was raceless and genderless - a corroboration to why American jazz pianist Charles Mingus invited Mitchell to pen words to his chops on Mingus. Readers are privy to more personal matters like how she couldn't fulfill Graham Nash's desire of a traditional wife, or the relationship she developed later in her life with Kilauren, the baby girl she gave up for adoption when was 21. Aside from her discography and personal life, Anthology succeeds at presenting a didactic voice through the changing times. Her concerns in ecology and preservation are topics of concern equally important to Neil Young and Willie Nelson.
Music mogul David Geffen once told Mitchell, "You're the only star I ever met that wanted to be ordinary." Whether because of this, or in spite of this, we've placed Joni Mitchell among the constellations. There's a reason why my mother loves her, why Hissing of Summer Lawns was Prince's favorite album, why Bill and Hillary Clinton named their daughter after her song "Chelsea Morning," and why the second-in-command of the LA Crips - a three-hundred pound black man - is a fan Joni Mitchell.
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In Western culture, being fat (or anything other than model-skinny or athlete-fit) carries a lot of baggage with it. Overweight people are often stereotyped as lazy slobs who have no control over their eating habits. Everyone loves to hate the fat person, and it’s easy to critique their figure and habits under the guise of being concerned about their health. But are any of these stereotypes actually justified?
It’s undeniably true that there is a correlation between eating well and working out and living longer and with fewer health problems. There is also a correlation between obesity and health problems like type 2 diabetes. But correlation is not causation, and living longer and weighing less are both results of the same healthy habits. Fat in and of itself is not what determines whether or not someone is healthy. It can be used as a marker, but it should not be the only one.
While it’s true that getting regular exercise and eating well can have tremendous benefits for your physical health, these benefits can be seen at any weight and may occur with or without weight loss. In many cases, an obese person who does yoga, goes for walks, and eats well most of the time, will be in a far better position than someone who is naturally thin but lives off of junk food and never exercises. This is still true even if the obese person maintains their weight while taking on those healthy habits. Yes, someone with a lot of extra fat will naturally often shrink down as a result of these lifestyle changes, but there’s no reason they have to in order to start seeing health benefits like increased strength, stamina, and energy.
For some reason, we think that only thin people can be healthy. Even if your weight is a result of unhealthy habits, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you are seeing any negative health consequences, nor does being fat mean that you are still succumbing to those habits. So many people start exercise and diet plans with the sole intention of weight loss, and if they don’t see those results they give up, completely ignoring that maybe now they’re getting better sleep or they feel happier or they have less chronic pain, not to mention the benefits they can’t see or feel, like lowering their risk of heart disease.
Society has us believing that the only reason to work out is to reach or maintain a body type that is deemed attractive. If we can’t fit a certain dress size, then what’s the point? Lately, body-positive activists have started to pop-up and teach us that attractiveness comes at any size, and more importantly, your self-worth and moral value should not be wrapped up in your weight. Being overweight does not make you a failure, and you should not feel guilty for being a certain weight. The body-positive movement is incredibly helpful and revolutionary in so many ways, but unfortunately, since the concepts of exercise, weight loss, and attractiveness are so inextricably linked in our culture, many people misunderstand the movement. On one side, body-positive influencers are critiqued for “ignoring their health” or “promoting unhealthy lifestyles” since they aren’t actively trying to lose weight, and, shockingly, stand up for themselves and find beauty in their bodies just as they are. On the other hand, some people get so into the movement that they berate those same influencers for choosing to push themselves with a new exercise routine, because obviously, they couldn’t be doing these things for any other reason than to lose weight, and if they do want to lose weight then all their talk about self-acceptance must have been a lie, right? For some reason, it is so hard for our society to grasp that someone can love themselves no matter what they weigh, and still want to make changes to their lifestyle that make them feel good.
For most of human history, the athlete has been idolized. We love to see what the human body is capable of — what is the fastest or strongest we can be when pushed to the absolute limit? But we seem to have forgotten the reason athletes are so impressive in the first place: they’re exceptional. They’re not the norm. We idolize bodies that are the result of constant work and attention. Nobody is born with a six-pack. Why do we idolize a body type that, in a sense, isn’t natural? It requires constant focus to maintain. Men and women who are completely healthy still feel pressure to look like a small percentage of professional athletes, models, bodybuilders, and fitness influencers who devote their entire lives to developing their physique. Men in particular feel a lot of pressure to look ripped or be able to bench a certain amount, even if they are already quite healthy.
Most of us don’t have the time or resources to reach that level of physical fitness, much less maintain it for an extended period of time. It’s important to note that most of the supremely fit have their careers wrapped up in their physiques. Not only do they have a monetary incentive for maintaining their bodies, but they also do not have the distraction and time constraints of other jobs that do not contribute to their health goals in some way. Yet the mother or father who works 40 hours a week and comes home exhausted to help their kids with their homework and take them to their various extracurricular activities is still expected to be just as physically fit as the man being paid millions of dollars to work out in professional facilities all day long.
This brings me to the most frustrating stereotype of fat people: that they’re “lazy.” Not only is this stereotype harmful, it’s simply not true. When I think of all the people I know and love in my life who are overweight, “lazy” is rarely the first word that comes to mind. One person works an incredibly demanding and high-stress job and has very little time for anything else. One person has eight hobbies and is unbelievably creative and accomplished. One person spends all their time caring for other people and rarely has time to focus on themselves. Just because working out isn’t where your focus is at the moment, it doesn’t mean you’re lazy. Just because you have more pressing priorities that health and fitness ends up taking a backseat, it doesn’t mean you’ve failed in some way. And let’s not forget the large percentage of people who gain weight due to health conditions not under their control. People who gained weight from being on birth control or other medications. People who gained weight due to hypothyroidism. People who gained weight due to an injury that prevented them from exercising. People who gained weight due to a pregnancy. People who gained weight due to being bedridden because of some terrible illness. People who gained weight due to chronic stress or depression, or other mental health issues. Rape victims, who gain weight as a form of self-protection. People who are larger simply because of their genetics. None of you deserve to be called lazy for what you’ve been through. Never assume you know why someone else’s body is the way it is. You have not lived in that body, you don’t know what it’s been through — what it’s survived.
There is a reason why obesity is considered an epidemic in America. So many of us living here are overweight just because we have to fight to be otherwise. We live in a society where going to the gym costs on average $65 a month, and healthy produce is more expensive and less accessible than the nearest fast-food chain. Not to mention the lack of free accessible healthcare. In many ways, being healthy in the U.S. is a privilege that few of us can afford. There is a multi-billion dollar industry set up around making people feel bad about themselves, and then selling them the latest diet pill or at-home workout equipment. Sugar, under all its various pseudonyms, is omnipresent in the food we’re sold, and misinformation about what is and isn’t good for us overflows from shelves at the bookstore and page after page of Google searches. It’s impossible to know where to start. Yet, for some reason, individuals are blamed for the failures of our society. Taking care of our health should not be this hard.
It’s no surprise then that when you combine a culture that prizes thin, toned bodies and a society that makes it inordinately hard to achieve those goals, with an industry that profits off of that discrepancy, the result is an epidemic of eating disorders and body dysmorphia. According to one statistic in the book Body Respect by Linda Bacon, Ph.D., and Lucy Aphramor, Ph.D., R.D., children are 242 times more likely to develop an eating disorder than they are type 2 diabetes. Does that stat shock you? Clearly, our priorities are backward.
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Chicken diet plan for weight loss makes it easy to lose weight. Chicken contains many low cal and high protein ingredients. If you are looking for a healthy, tasty way to lose some weight, then read on to find out how the chicken diet plan can help.
What is the chicken diet?
The chicken diet became popular during Matt Damon’s preparation for his role in the film “Courage Under Fire” in 1996, during which he ate solely chicken breasts to lose about 60 pounds (27.2 kg).
Damon himself has said that this isn’t the healthiest way of eating, and he was just doing what he had to for the role.
Since then, others have adopted the chicken diet as a method of losing large amounts of body fat quickly without having to follow the extensive guidelines of typical diets.
This diet belongs to a category of dieting referred to as mono dieting. This is when you eat just one type of food for all your meals every day.
Followers of this version stick to eating only chicken, mostly breast meat, to achieve a calorie deficit. This is a state in which you eat fewer calories than you burn, leading to weight loss.
Is a Chicken-Only Diet Good for Weight Loss?
Chicken is a great part of a well-balanced diet, but a chicken diet isn’t a good idea for anyone.
When considering what weight-loss diet to try, you may have come across the “chicken diet” or “chicken-only diet.” And the claims — namely, quick and effective weight loss — may make the poultry-packed plan appealing.
Here, we’ll take a look at where this diet came from, whether it can help you lose weight and the pros and cons of the plan.
What Is a Chicken Diet, Exactly?
A chicken diet is eating chicken only. It’s a more restrictive spin on the carnivore diet, which is when you eat only animal products like meat and eggs and certain sources of dairy.
Where exactly did it come from? Well, it was widely reported that Matt Damon ate only chicken breast to drop 60 pounds for his role in Courage Under Fire in 1996, so that probably has something to do with it. More recently, a YouTube video by Buff Dudes titled “We Ate Nothing but CHICKEN and BROCCOLI for a week, Here’s What Happened,” has more than 2 million views.
What Can You Eat on a Chicken Diet?
Usually, a chicken diet consists of only chicken. Sometimes a chicken diet might also incorporate non-starchy vegetables, like broccoli, a la Buff Dudes.
Can You Lose Weight on a Chicken Diet?
You can lose weight on a chicken diet, but there are healthier ways to drop pounds.
Yes. Let’s look at the number of calories in a skinless chicken breast, which is the leanest cut of meat on the chicken. One 3.5-ounce breast has 160 calories, according to the USDA. (Plus, a whopping 32 grams of protein and just 3 grams of fat.)
Because you lose weight by going into a calorie deficit, it will be rather easy to consume fewer calories by eating chicken only. For one, a small breast (a 3.5-ounce piece of meat is roughly the size of a deck of cards) packs 32 grams of filling protein, so it’ll likely keep you satiated. What’s more, eating only one food is extremely limiting. Think about how much chicken breast you could actually eat in a day (without, you know, totally hating chicken breast by dinnertime), and it’s easy to see how you could cut calories rather effortlessly.
Weight loss alone does not make a diet healthy, however.
“I think going on a chicken-only diet is potentially very unsafe both in the short-term and certainly in the long-term,” says Melina Jampolis, MD, a board-certified physician nutrition specialist in Valley Village, California, and author of Spice Up, Live Long . That’s because of both the macro and micronutrient deficiencies that come with limiting yourself to only one food, which can have both short- and long-term effects on your health (more on that in a minute).
What’s more, the only good thing about eating one food and one food alone is that it makes dieting really simple, Dr. Jampolis says. Still: “That is not a good enough reason to just eat chicken,” she says.
Benefits of a Chicken Diet
Let’s look at some of the pros of including chicken in your diet:
1. Chicken Is a Great Source of Protein
Chicken itself can be part of a healthy diet, as it is a source of lean protein. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), chicken is a healthier protein choice than red meat because it contains less saturated fat. A diet high in saturated fat can increase your risk of heart failure, heart disease and the most common type of stroke.
The AHA also says that eating a lot of meat is not a good way to lose weight, especially if you have heart disease.
2. Chicken Is Linked to Healthy Weight Management
The research mostly suggests that there’s value in eating chicken in the context of a healthy diet (not alone). For example, a June 2015 study in Food and Nutrition Research states that consuming poultry as part of a vegetable-rich diet is associated with reduced risk of overweight or obesity, and a reduced risk of developing cardiovascular diseases or type 2 diabetes. The study also says that white meat is considered neutral or moderately protective in terms of cancer risk.
3. Chicken Is a Good Source of Vitamins
The same study indicates that meat, not just chicken, is the ideal dietary source of B12. B vitamins in poultry are similar to what’s found in other meats and don’t diminish during cooking. Chicken provides a good dose of niacin and is a good source of selenium. Lean meat contains factors that encourage the bioavailability of a number of nutrients as well.
If you are eating chicken, make sure it’s prepared in a healthy way, like steamed, roasted, broiled or grilled. Having just one serving per week of fried chicken is associated with 13 percent higher odds of death, per a BMJ study from January 2019.
Drawbacks of a Chicken Diet
Eat chicken alongside other healthy foods, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans.
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Here are the (many) cons of trying a chicken-only diet:
1. It’s Not Sustainable
Overall, a chicken diet is not something you can do for very long, and therefore not a long-term weight-loss solution. Once you start eating normally again, you’ll likely gain back any weight you lose while just eating chicken.
2. You Could Develop Nutritional Deficiencies
“Just eating chicken could lead to a number of nutritional deficiencies, including B vitamins, which are important for energy production, vitamin C for healthy immune function, as well as skin and gums, and magnesium and fiber. And that’s naming just a few,” Dr. Jampolis says.
3. It Can Sap Your Energy
After going on a chicken diet, you might notice that your energy is running really low and you may have brain fog, as “the brain and red blood cells function on glucose,” Dr. Jampolis adds.
A protein-rich chicken diet is not a ketogenic diet, which is high in fat and moderate in protein. She explains that on the keto diet, your body adapts so that your brain can run on ketones after about five to seven days. A protein-only diet will not cause those ketogenic adaptations, leaving you dragging.
4. It Could Harm Your Gut Health
Other side effects include possible severe constipation from consuming zero fiber.
Your gut microbiome could also shift out of balance, which Dr. Jampolis says can happen in just a few days. So, you might feel pretty awful pretty quickly.
5. It Could Cause a Host of Other Health Issues
Long-term, without calcium and vitamin K, there’s a risk that you could harm your bone health.
Without any vitamin C, a nutrient found in abundance in fruits and vegetables, there’s the risk of scurvy, Dr. Jampolis adds. Scurvy is a disease that happened to sailors centuries ago during long voyages, when they didn’t have access to fresh food. Scurvy stems from vitamin C deficiency that leads to weakness, anemia, gum disease and skin hemorrhages (bleeding into the skin), notes the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Also, Dr. Jampolis says, without antioxidants in your diet, which counteract disease-causing free radicals, following a chicken-only diet may raise the risk for cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
6 Low Calorie Chicken Recipes that Promote Weight Loss
So, my top favorite recipes for chicken include:
From the Grill
Homemade spice rubs are one of my favorite ways to season chicken. From Joyful Healthy eats this recipe is 246 calories for 6oz chicken. It contains 9 grams of fats 0 grams of carbohydrates and 39 Grams of protein. If you are worried about the calories, decrease the amount from 6oz to 3 ounces.
2) Well Plated Grilled Chicken:
Everyone loves a well rounded flavorful marinade that can be used in a variety of recipes, and this is just that. This chicken marinade from Well Plated is 246 Calories for 7 oz of chicken. It contains 1 gram of carbohydrates, 42 grams of protein and 7 grams of fat. This recipe is delicious to eat with a lemon rice or rice pilaf.
3) Mediterranean Grilled Chicken Recipe:
Mediterranean Grilled Chicken is spot on amazing and delicious. With the creamy texture form the marinade it allows the chicken to just melt in your mouth. I want to give you a couple of tricks though. The recipe calls for chicken thighs, which are higher in fats compared to chicken breasts. If you are wanting to decrease fats change which cut of meat you are using. This recipes as is contains 307 Calories, 16.9 grams of fat, 5.2 grams of carbohydrates and 33.1 grams of protein.
From the Crockpot
4) Joy Food Sunshine:
Crockpot Chicken Chili is delicious. Not only is it low in calories but it has tons of flavor. The total calories for 1 cup are 194. The chicken chili contains 23.6 grams of carbohydrates, 18.5 grams of protein and 3 grams of fat. This is a family and busy life favorite recipe. It goes in the crockpot and is able to cook all day.
5) Diethood Honey Garlic Chicken:
This Honey Garlic Chicken has a lot of strong flavors and is great for a dish that uses rice or even on a salad. The chicken just melts in your mouth and makes you want to eat more. Per serving this recipe is 227 calories. 3 grams of fat, 23 grams of carbohydrates and 25 grams of protein.
6) Pinch of Yum:
Have you ever had an amazing Crockpot Quinoa Chicken Primavera? I love this recipe because not only does it have chicken, but it has a variety of other vegetables and quinoa. Quinoa contains high nutritional benefits such as high fiber and protein and contains many more nutrients.
So, Should You Try a Chicken Diet?
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Mercurial is a modern, open-source, distributed version control system. You may have heard of git, which is somewhat more popular today; git and Mercurial are very comparable and offer mostly similar functionality.
Developers use Mercurial to keep track of changes to the source code of their applications. It can be used to keep track of changes to any directory of files, although, like most source control systems, it does best when those files are text files (as opposed to binary files). Mercurial also allows multiple developers to work on the same directory of source code simultaneously, and it manages the process of keeping track of each developer's changes and then merging those changes.
Mercurial follows a time-based release plan and publishes a major release every three months, in February, May, August, and November. A minor release is published each remaining month. Note that Mercurial does not use sematic versioning, therefore there is no significant difference between 2.9.2 (the last of the 2.9 releases) and 3.0.
Backwards-compatibility is a critical requirement for Mercurial, therefore it's generally safe to simply upgrade your Mercurial installations as needed. It's a good idea however to do so at least once every three months, as some features can render old clients unable to operate on newer repositories.
A selection of noteworthy versions:
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When we’re first starting our work, we have to decide if this is a separate area of work we’re working on, or is this part of an existing line of work. If it’s existing, we can work off of that branch. If it’s new, we’ll start a new branch.
Our workflow then is:
hg branch MyNewFeature
hg commit -m "committing my changes"
hg commit -m "more changes"
At this point, we want to push our work up to the remote server. But before pushing the changes (ignore this if it is a new branch you haven't pushed before), we need to check if there are any incoming change to this branch. We can check this with:
hg incoming -b .
If there are any incoming changesets on our branch, we need to do a pull and rebase our changes to the top of the list of changes.
hg pull -b . --rebase
Once this is done or if there are no incoming changesets, we can proceed with the Push.
We only ever want to push our current work, not everything we’ve ever done. I really never push my entire repository, but my current line of work. The reasoning is that pushing the entire repository assumes I’m integrating multiple lines of work. But I only want to integrate my current line of work, and I only want to work in one line at a time.
If this is the first time I’m pushing this branch:
hg push -b . --new-branch
If I've already pushed this branch:
hg push -b .
The “-b .” command means just push the current branch, and not anything else.
To change between the working branches:
hg update myBranchName
See also the Mercurial Tutorial
A Mercurial repository is simply a directory (referred to as the "working directory") containing an
.hg directory with metadata about the contents of the repository. This makes Mercurial very lightweight and easy to start using. To create a new repository simply run:
$ hg init project
project is the name of the directory you'd like to create. This creates a
project directory along with a
project/.hg directory containing the repository itself.
$ cd project $ echo Hello World > hello.txt $ hg stat ? hello.txt
We just created a
hello.txt file in the repository and ran
hg status (or
stat for short) to see the current status of our repository. As you can see
hello.txt is annotated with a
? , meaning Mercurial isn't yet aware of it. The
add command registers this new file with Mercurial so it will be included in the next commit.
$ hg add hello.txt
Now that Mercurial is aware of a changed file you can run
diff to see exactly what's changed since the last commit - in this case we're adding the full contents of
$ hg diff diff -r 000000000000 hello.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/hello.txt Sat Jul 23 01:38:44 2016 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ +Hello
And once we're happy with them and ready to check in our changes we can run
$ hg commit -m "Created a hello world file."
Note that we included a commit message with
-m - if you don't specify
-m Mercurial will launch a text editor you can enter a commit message in. This is useful if you'd like to provide a longer multi-line message.
Once you've committed your changes they no longer show up if you run
hg stat since the repository is now in sync with the contents of the working directory. You can run
log to see a list of commits, and
-v includes additional details like the files each commit touched:
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You can download Mercurial from the project's website, and there are graphical utilities for Windows, Linux and OSX if you'd prefer that to a command line interface. Most Unix package managers include Mercurial, for example on Debian/Ubuntu:
$ apt-get install mercurial
You can verify Mercurial is installed by running:
$ hg --version
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mercurial.ini in your home directory on Windows) and add the following lines:
[ui] username = Your Name <email@example.com>
If you don't want to do this you can always specify a username when you commit with the
-u flag, e.g.:
$ hg commit -u "Your Name <firstname.lastname@example.org>"
To copy a remote repository to your local disk you "clone" it. To do so simply pass the remote URL you'd like to clone from. To clone the Mercurial source code simply run:
$ hg clone https://selenic.com/hg
This creates a local
hg directory containing a copy of the Mercurial repository you can build, edit, and commit to (though you can't publish your commits back to the parent repository).
Once you have a repository checked out, you'll want to keep it in sync as others publish changes to it. You can pull down new changes by simply running:
$ hg pull
This pulls in new commits but doesn't update your working directory, so you won't see any changes immediately. To update the contents of the working directory run:
$ hg up
Which updates your working directory to the tip (most recent) revision in the repository.
You can also run:
$ hg pull -u
To pull in new changes and update the working directory in one step.
Assuming you have write-access to the remote repository you can publish any commits you've made locally to the remote repository just as easily with:
$ hg push
This uploads your changes as long as there haven't been any other commits since the last time you pulled. If your
push is rejected because it would "create additional heads" that means you need to pull in those new changes and merge them with your own.
$ hg pull $ hg merge # this creates a new changeset merging your changes with the remote changes $ hg commit -m "Merged in remote changes" $ hg push
Most of the time this is all you'll have to do since Mercurial handles merging your changes automatically, however sometimes you'll need to resolve merge conflicts manually (see merging topic). If you need to you can always cancel a merge and get back to a clean working directory with:
$ hg up -c
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This is pretty disturbing. Google engineer Felix Krause has detailed an alarming privacy setting in Apple’s iOSthat enables iPhone apps with camera permission to surreptitiously take photos and videos of you – without your knowledge.
Clarification: Krause has since contacted TNW to clarify that he conducts his security research work during off-hours and independently of Google.
The researcher notes that granting camera permission will enable apps to access both the front and the back camera of your device, photograph and record you at any time the app is in the foreground, upload this content immediately, and run real-time face detection to read your facial expressions.
All of this without any notice or indication that your iPhone is snapping images of your face. No sound, no light, no LEDs.
Krause has shared a short demonstration of the documented issue on YouTube. Check it out below:
The most troubling concern here is that this is how this privacy setting is expected to work by design. Indeed, all signs seem to suggest this is yet another case of the trite “It’s a feature, not a bug” conundrum.
The most pressing issue is that anybody who chooses to exploit these permissions could scrape image data to locate users, find other existing photos of the device’s owner, and even watch you while you’re sitting on the toilet and livestream this spectacle for others to see.
Krause says there is little you can do to prevent this; though there are a few options, none of them would make for a particularly smooth and streamlined user experience.
One possibility is to equip your camera with covers. You can find numerous such accessories on Amazon. That, or you can revoke camera access for all apps – but not without sacrificing some app functionality in the meanwhile, like taking and sending photos straight from apps.
The Googler has since disclosed this complication to Apple. He also took a moment to offer some tips on how the Big A can handle this issue in a more responsible manner. One such solution, for example, would be to make camera permissions temporary – or at least add indicators to notify when the device is recording.
Interestingly, earlier this year Google discovered technical inconsistencies or vulnerabilities in competitors’ products on a number of occasions. Over the past twelve months, the Big G found critical bugs in antivirus software for Macs as well as glaring flaws in Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer browsers.
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March is National Athletic Training Month! Certified Athletic Trainers (ATs) play an important role in keeping student athletes safe on the field and court. We talked with Angelo Marsella, Director of Sports Medicine, and Sports Medicine Coordinators Elissa Linderman and Stacey Schreiber about what Athletic Trainers do and why they’re so important.
What do Athletic Trainers do?
Elissa Linderman (EL): Athletic Trainers help with the prevention, assessment, immediate care, and rehabilitation of physically active people who experience injuries or other medical conditions while playing sports. When working with athletes, we are the first line of defense against heat illness, concussions, and overuse injuries. Most commonly you will see Athletic Trainers at the High School, Collegiate, and Professional Sport levels.
What are the top injuries seen by Athletic Trainers?
Stacey Schreiber (SS): The most common injuries seen by ATs tend to be sprains and strains, typically of the lower extremity, but it is not uncommon to come in contact with more serious conditions, such as fractures, cartilage defects, and even dislocated joints.
What are the top ways Athletic Trainers prevent injuries?
Angelo Marsella (AM): An Athletic Trainer’s extensive knowledge of anatomy helps prevent and understand musculoskeletal injuries. ATs are educated in recognizing unsafe field or environmental conditions as well. They are prepared to design and implement rehabilitation programs that are functional and assist in a safe return to play post-rehab. ATs are also trained to inspect and properly fit sports equipment, such as helmets and shoulder pads in football, to ensure safety.
SS: Athletic Trainers place a strong emphasis on pre-season strength and conditioning as well as proper dynamic warm-ups before practice or events. Correcting muscular imbalances can be one of the most important factors in decreasing the occurrence of injuries during game play.
EL: ATs prevent injuries by educating people on how to reduce the risk of injuries and by advising them on how to properly use equipment, hydrate and eat, and use appropriate strengthening programs.
What makes for a good Athletic Trainer?
SS: The most important characteristic to have would be adaptability. Often, Athletic Trainers are faced with minimal resources, time, and assistance. We do not have the luxury of utilizing imaging tools, such as X-rays or MRIs, when faced with an on-field injury, and must react knowledgeably and quickly to each individual situation. ATs must adapt to every case, as no mechanism, athlete, or condition is the same. One day we may have to run onto the ice during a hockey game to assess a facial laceration, and the next day we could be applying a tourniquet and splinting a compound fracture on the football field.
How does someone become an Athletic Trainer?
AM: To become an AT, you must earn either a Bachelor’s or entry-level Master’s degree from a college or university that has an Athletic Training education program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE). The program must offer a major in Athletic Training. Students enrolled in an undergraduate Athletic Training program are expected to receive clinical experiences that provide supervised, hands-on- education as well as specified courses related to athletic training. After graduation, a student must pass the BOC certification exam and earn the AT credential before practicing as a certified Athletic Trainer. Many states have laws that require state licensure in addition to national certification.
Why did you go into Athletic Training?
EL: I was an athlete all my life and I saw it as a way to stay involved and give back to something that was always a big part of my life.
AM: While in my sophomore year of high school, I suffered an injury and had to go through rehab before returning to play again. Unfortunately, we did not have an AT at the school, and I began to advise my teammates who had also injured themselves. In my junior year, I met with my guidance counselor to discuss colleges and careers, and I told him I was interested in athletics and Sports Medicine. He gave me information on athletic training programs, and it’s all history from there!
SS: I got into Athletic Training because I wanted to combine my love for athletics and the health sciences. Growing up, I worked in my cousin’s Physical Therapy practice and got to know the profession at a young age, and I was convinced I would make this my career somehow. The reward that you get from bringing someone from their lowest point at the time of a significant injury all the way back to competition makes it well worth the time put in!
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Disability Pay Gap Widens
The Office for National Statistics has released new data in April 2022 which shows that the UK’s disability pay gap widened slightly to 13.8 per cent in 2021. The new figures indicate that on average, disabled employees earn just short of £2 per hour less than non-disabled colleagues, earning on average £12.10 per hour.
Among other findings, summarised here, the analysis found that “disabled employees with autism as their main impairment” had a wider pay gap in 2021 than “disabled people with other types of main impairment”. The findings indicated those with autism as a long-lasting health condition had a median pay 33.5% less than non-disabled employees without a long-lasting health condition; the highest pay gap out of all the groups.
Caroline Casey, disability activist and founder of the Valuable 500, is quoted saying disabled employees were “consistently overlooked and underserved” and said that figures added to a list of discrimination that includes “disproportionate redundancy rates [and] higher levels of long-term unemployment”.
Employers would do well to consider these findings and implications and ensure that they are not failing any disabled employees nor leaving themselves open to claims.
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In theory, retirement is a wonderful thing. You’re no longer tied down by a day job and have all the time in the world to spend on the people and things that you love most.
The reality of retirement, however, sometimes looks a bit different. Because no matter your age or interests, living is expensive. And if you don’t have a solid retirement savings plan, you could reach retirement age only to find that you can’t afford to stop working.
The most important part of planning for retirement is getting your finances in order. How do you do it? Read on to find out!
Decide When to Start Saving
In an ideal situation, preparing for retirement happens long before you reach your projected retirement age. Let’s say you plan to retire at 65. By starting at 25, you have a full 40 years to plan and save!
There’s nothing wrong with retiring earlier or later than the typical age if you want or need to. The best thing to do now is to choose an ideal retirement age for you and work backward from there.
Calculate Income and Expenses
It’s difficult to predict factors such as lifespan, so instead, you need to have a firm grasp on your income and expenses. Make a list of how much you make vs. how much you spend in your daily life.
Then, consider how things will change when you reach retirement. Your income for retirement will most likely decrease slightly, but will your expenses?
Think about how you want to spend your retirement years and what those activities might cost. Traveling the world, for example, is far more expensive than picking up gardening.
Organize Financial Goals
The next step is to organize your goals. Depending on where you are in life, your monthly retirement budget might be smaller now than it will be in ten years.
If you have credit card debt or student loans, for instance, you might want to spend more in these categories than on retirement.
Remember, the fewer debts you have once you reach retirement age, the better!
Choose a Retirement Savings Plan
When you’re considering creating retirement accounts, you have a wide variety to choose from. If possible, open a 401(k) with your employer in which they match your contributions.
Those who don’t have access to such a plan should consider an IRA (individual retirement account). There’s no such thing as starting too early. You can open a Roth IRA with bottofinancial.com as early as your teenage years!
The more time you give yourself to save, the better off you’ll be. And again, there’s nothing wrong with starting with a small amount of money and increasing the amount as your retirement age draws closer.
Enjoy Your Golden Years by Saving for Retirement
Everyone deserves to spend their golden years however they please. Whether you dream of seeing the world or simply enjoying time at home, you should be able to do it!
Retiring from your career can be frightening, but with a retirement savings plan, you’ll be able to cross that bridge without fear. You’ll be comfortable in the knowledge that you saved and prepared well, all that’s left will be to relax.
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Why leave a gift in your Will?
Isn't it the greatest of gifts, one that will live on for years after you?
Bequests are for everyday people
It's a common misconception that only wealthy people leave money to charity when they die. Bequests in wills are not just for the rich and famous.
The reality is that most bequests are made by ordinary, hardworking people who want to make a positive difference to their community after they're gone.
Keep on supporting
The simple fact is that without the generosity of these normal, everyday New Zealanders, many of the charities we know and support wouldn't even exist.
Bequests form the financial basis of many major New Zealand charities and are absolutely essential for ensuring the good work they do continues into the future. The good news is that including a charity in your will is just as easy as providing for your loved ones. And it can be as much or as little as you want.
Be the difference
You don't have to be rich or famous to make a difference. Whoever you are, whatever your situation, you can help make a difference and help create a better world by including a charity in your will.
Understanding why you want to leave a bequest, might help you decide what kind of gift you want it to be, and who you want to give that gift to.
Enrich people's lives
Charities improve our lives through the work they do, be it through a live performance, alleviating a social injustice or by seeking to eradicate disease. A bequest in your will can help your favourite charity continue with its research, with its home visits, with its newest performing art. It can continue making a difference to countless lives into the future.
Leave a memory
Including a charity in your will is a way to bring dignity, meaning and purpose to a life well lived. It is an opportunity to continue to support an organisation you have supported in your lifetime, or to support the charities you always wanted to, but were unable to in your lifetime. You, and your values, beliefs and generous philanthropic role modelling, will live on in the memories of those you support.
Perhaps you were supported by an amazing organisation, but you were unable to give back as generously as you would have liked in your lifetime. A bequest in your will is a great way to ensure that their vital work carries on to support others in times of need.
For the future
A bequest in your will can contribute to the future sustainability of an organisation, ensuring the institutions and ideas you value continue in the future, for your friends and family and generations to come.
Improvement and change
Another reason for leaving a bequest might be because you want to improve the community you leave behind with your resources. Your bequest could be the seed for that change.
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Basile Bouchon – Biography, History and Inventions
The first industrial application of a (semi)-automated machine was made in the early eighteenth century by a modest textile worker from Lyon, France.
Basile Bouchon, working in one of the many silk centers in Lyon, invented in 1725 a way to control a loom with a perforated paper tape. Bouchon was the son of an organ maker and a weaver and was familiar with the rotating pegged cylinders used in automated organs, such as the barrel organ. Thus he knew the fact that the information content for the cylinders of musical automata was first laid-out on paper, before the design was applied to actual very expensive cylinders.
The practice then was to punch holes in the paper designs that were wrapped around the cylinders, indicating where the craftsman had to drill holes in the cylinder for the pegs. Bouchon probably had the brilliant insight that the paper layout with punched holes already contained the information put on the cylinder, thus he concluded that perforated paper could code information about patterns, which he subsequently applied to the coding of weaving patterns for the loom.
Thus Bouchon adapted the concept of music automata controlled by pegged cylinders to the repetitive task of weaving and partially automated the tedious setting up process of the draw loom in which an operator lifted the warp threads using cords, inventing an attachment for the looms, which used a broad strip of punched paper to select the warp threads that would be raised during weaving.
Bouchon’s invention involved a row of hooks. The curved portion of each hook snagged a string that could raise one of the warp threads, whereas the straight portion of each hook pressed against the punched paper, which was draped around a perforated cylinder. Whenever the hook pressed against the solid paper, pushing the cylinder forward would raise the corresponding warp thread, but when the hook met a hole in the paper, pushing the cylinder forward would allow the hook to slip inside the cylinder and the corresponding warp thread would not be raised.
In spite of its advantages, Bouchon’s invention did not have much success because the number of needles was not sufficient to allow the weaving of large designs. Besides that, he used a roll of paper (see the image nearby), which was not very practical.
Only three years later, in 1728, one of the Bouchon’s assistants, named Jean-Baptiste Falcon improved on the machine, expanding the number of cords that could be handled by arranging the holes in rows. He also replaced the paper roll with a set of punched cards attached to one another in an endless loop (see the nearby image), which made it possible to change the program rapidly. Each punch card controlled a single hook or needle. Falcon’s system was superior because torn cards could easily be replaced whereas Bouchon’s system required whole rolls to be reproduced if one tear made a roll unusable.
Though the looms of Bouchon and Falcon eliminated mistakes in the lifting of threads, they still needed an extra operator (or even two of them) to operate. The loom of Bouchon and Falcon was modestly successful: about 40 such looms had been sold by 1762. The first attempt at full automation was made by Jacques Vaucanson in 1745, also not very successful. But it was not until 1805 that the widely successful Jacquard loom was finally produced.
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- Not to be confused with Equatorial Guinea.
Guinea (officially the Republic of Guinea; French: République de Guinée) is a former French colony in West Africa. The country is sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea.
|Guinee Maritime (Conakry)|
coastal Guinea, the home of the Susu people and culture and the capital city
|Moyenne Guinee (Dalaba)|
also known as Fouta Djallon, mostly hills and mountains in the interior with a relatively cool climate and home of the Pular (Peuls) people
|Haute Guinee (Kankan, National Park of the Upper Niger)|
the sub-Sahelian region mostly bordering Mali, bisected by the Niger River and home to the Malinke people
|Guinee Forestiere (Beyla, Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve)|
the southeastern region bordering Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire, home to the Toma, Kissi and other ethnic groups who have retained very ancient beliefs and rituals
- 1 Conakry — capital
- 2 Beyla
- 3 Dalaba — a small town often dubbed the "Switzerland of Guinea" because of its relatively mild temperatures and nice scenery.
- 4 Faranah
- 5 Forécariah
- 6 Kankan — the second city
- 7 Kindia
- 8 Labé
- 9 Mamou
- 1 Fouta Djalon — scenic region of forests and cultivated valleys ideal for hiking through Fulani villages or in search of waterfalls.
- 2 Loos Islands — a former slaving base, these forested islands with sandy beaches near Conakry are a popular weekend escape for expats.
- 3 Badiar National Park — savanna along the Senegal border home to antelope, monkeys, lions, & leopard during the dry season.
- 4 Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve — a UNESCO World Heritage Site partially in Guinea and partially in Cote d'Ivoire.
- 5 National Park of the Upper Niger (Haut Niger National Park) — headwaters of the Niger River; home to hippos, elephants, buffaloes, chimpanzees, and waterbuck.
|Currency||Guinean franc (GNF)|
|Population||12.7 million (2017)|
|Electricity||220 volt / 50 hertz (Europlug, Schuko, Type K)|
|Time zone||UTC±00:00, Africa/Conakry|
|Emergencies||117 (police), 18 (fire department), 442-020 (emergency medical services)|
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Guinea is a remarkable country with very warm, genuine people but little infrastructure. While they have tremendous natural resources available to them (which includes around one half of the world's reserves of bauxite, and many major gold, jewel, and metal deposits), they rate very poorly in the UN's quality of life index. Guinea is roughly the size of the United Kingdom.
Guinea belonged to a series of empires until France colonized it in the 1890s, and made it part of French West Africa. Guinea declared its independence from France on 2 October 1958. The first president, socialist Ahmed Sékou Touré, faced a lot of criticism from the West for alleged human rights violations and suppression of opposition parties. He believed in building a powerful, self-sufficient nation, without reliance on foreign powers.
When he died in 1984, General Lansana Conté took over. Under Conté's rule, things did not improve and the ideals of Touré were soon left behind. Conté made too many political promises and most of them were never fulfilled. In 1993, the first elections were held, though their results were disputed - as have those in all subsequent elections. Conté died in December 2008 without appointing a successor, leaving chaos in his wake. Immediately following Conté's death, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara took power by a coup d'état. Even though Camara came in as a popular figure, this has proved to be another political blow for Guinea and Guineans. In December 2009, Camara was shot in an assassination attempt.
In 2010, opposition leader Alpha Condé was elected as president. In 2021, Condé's attempt to run for a third term, considered by many to be unconstitutional, led to more protests, and a military coup that brought Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya to power.
The coastal region of Guinea and most of the inland have a tropical climate, with a rainy season lasting from April to November, relatively high and uniform temperatures, and high humidity. Conakry's year-round average high is 29°C (84.2°F), and the low is 23°C (73.4°F); its average annual rainfall is 4,300mm (169.3 in). The Sahelian Haute Guinee region has a shorter rainy season and greater daily temperature variations.
Guinea's population is comprised of more than 20 ethnic groups.
The Fulas or Fulani (French: Peuls; Fula: Fulɓe), comprise 30% of the population and are mostly found in the Futa Djallon region. The Mandinka, also known as Mandingo or Malinké, comprise 40% of the population and are mostly found in eastern Guinea concentrated around the Kankan and Kissidougou prefectures. The Soussou, comprising 20%, are predominantly in western areas around the capital Conakry, Forécariah, and Kindia. Smaller ethnic groups make up the remaining 10% of the population, including Kpelle, Kissi, Zialo, Toma and others.
Visa inquiries must be made at Guinea embassies, and are not available at the borders or airport. Also a yellow fever vaccination certificate is needed to enter.
In Europe a one month, single entry tourist visa costs €110, three months €150 and six months E€220. In USA a one month, single entry visa costs around US$100 and three month, multiple entry visa is double the price and is the only type available to citizens of the US.
- A one month stay visa got from the Guinea Embassy in London cost £70.
Royal Air Maroc (RAM) flies from numerous European cities to Conakry (CKY) via Casablanca. RAM supplies the only direct flight from Montréal to Africa (Casablanca, with a stopover in New York) and many connections from Casablanca to Conakry (also called Kry) and elsewhere.
Air France from Paris, France and SN Brussels from Brussels, Belgium. Air Ivoire flies to Conakry regularly from Abidjan en route to Dakar, as does Belvue. Expect to be asked for a "gift" by airport security.
Although cargo trains still run the old line between Conakry and Kankan, there are no passenger trains still operational in Guinea. The old station in downtown Conakry is worth a visit.
In 2008 travel between Guinea and Liberia was safe, though time consuming. Hiring a motorcycle is one of the best options.
Crossing the Guinean border with Senegal is possible but very uncomfortable and requires patience. Inside Guinea, the road between Labe and Koundara is unpaved and very rough. It takes about 8 hours for the whole journey with only minor breakdowns. There are some decent and very cheap places to stay in Koundara. Between Koundara and Diaoube (Senegal) is a similar journey. The border is relatively hassle free. There's a 20 km no man's land between border posts where you only know you've entered Senegal because the dirt road gets better. It's possible to change your currency at any hour of the night at the border towns on either side of the no man's land. Local transport from Diaoube to Tambacounda and on to Dakar is relatively easy.
Koundara is also the main jump off point for a trip to Guinea-Bissau.
The Guinea (Kopoto)/Sierra Leone (Kambia) crossing with a car or motorcycle is made possible with the 'Laissez-Passer Pour Vehicule', available at the Guinea Embassy (US$40) and with the 'Vehicle Clearance Permit', available at the Sierra Leone Embassy (US$40). An additional 'Ecowas International Circulation Permit' will be required for Sierra Leone, available at the border for SLL100,000.
An Ecowas 'Brown Card' may also be needed for proof of insurance for the vehicle.
There are no buses. Traffic in Conakry can be very heavy. The local transport vans in Conakry seem to be the most congested in all of West Africa. Taxis are very inexpensive, even if you want to rent one for a half or whole day. Expect to have to stop for gas almost immediately after you get in the car. The Government and business centre of the city is unfortunately located at the tip of a long and narrow peninsula which is only connected to the rest of Conakry, which sprawls onto the mainland, by two roads. This can be particularly frustrating at rush hour. Queues at gas stations in Conakry can be quite long and disorganized at certain times. Much of the infrastructure around the airport is being rebuilt, so trips to downtown or to la miniere might take unusual detours.
Bush Taxis ("504", for the common Peugeot 504 model) are used for transport from city to city. Keep in mind that there is a curfew at night, and if you try to drive into Conakry you will have to wait outside the city until morning. Local transport is usually able to leave Conakry after dark. Departure times are never set for local transport. In the early morning you might be told that a taxi will be leaving "toute suite" (right away) but will not get out of Conakry until well after dark. Intercity travel in Guinea requires a great deal of patience and a loose schedule. It is also possible to fly from city to city, but get to the airport early and bring cash for your tickets.
MotorTaxi/TaxiBike a much faster, and more comfortable way of travel is by motorcycle, which often serve as taxis.
The official language is French. There are numerous indigenous languages, and the three most prevalent are Susu, Pular (Foulah, Peuhl) and Malinke. Susu is spoken in the coastal region and in the capital city. Toma, Guerzé, Kissi and others are spoken in the interior (Sacred Forest) region bordering on Mali, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Liberia. There are a lot of people who cannot speak any English at all, even in the capital city.
Guinea has some spectacular landscapes with a few tropical, dry forests remaining, and the rainforests in the south are lush, verdant and full of wildlife - much of it destined for the cooking pot.
In Conakry, there is the National Museum which highlights the distinct ethnic tribes in Guinea and various traditional instruments, masks, etc.
The main port is located at the tip of the peninsula in Conakry, near the President's Palace. You can take a boat from there to the islands of Loos for a day or overnight trip. Its a bustling place where fishermen offload their daily catch.
Cape Verga has some of the best beaches in Guinea for exploration.
Mount Nimba is the highest mountain peak in Guinea for trekking.
In Conakry, one of the best places to grab a beer and hangout is the beach bar in Taouyah, an area with a large market and mostly residential with some night clubs and restaurants. Many expats, including the Peace Corps headquarters, live here and meet up at the beach around sunset for great pizza or fish or chicken dishes. There is a great breeze, live music, and lots of locals playing soccer games until the sunsets, especially on the weekends.
Music in Guinea is one of the best cultural activities the country has to offer. Some of the best Kora players in the world are from Guinea. There are many bars that offer live music.
The French-Guinean Cultural Centre has some great musical shows, movies, plays, and ballets (i.e. traditional West-African dance), and hosts exhibitions and conferences. It also has a library and multi-media centre. Members can take out books and use the computers and internet. This is a great place to meet expats, and local musicians, and artists. Most people there will know the best places to go see a show that week.
Outside of Conakry, there are many attractive tourism destinations for the adventurous traveler. Infrastructure, such as hotels, roads etc. is lacking outside of the capital but you can find basic places to stay with limited electricity powered by generators.
The Foutah Djallon area has superb hiking, sweeping vistas, waterfalls and cliffs. Fouta Trekking is a local non-profit that promotes equitable tourism. They offer hiking tours ranging from three to five days or tailored tours. Tourists stay in villages with part of the revenue going back to the villages for community development. Labe, the historical capital and seat of the Foutah Empire that reigned in the pre-colonial times, is a bustling city with some interesting history. You can buy beautiful traditional cloth in various navy blue colours. On the road from Conakry, via Kindia, is the city of Dalaba, where the major chiefs of the country met to determine the fate of the soon to be independent country from the French in 1958. There is an old mansion that you can visit and a ceremonial hut with amazing carvings inside. Kindia has some of the best vegetable and fruit produce and thus a lively market.
The coastline from Conakry up towards Guinea -Bissau also offers great tourism with beautiful untouched beaches, mangroves, and wildlife viewing. Bel Air is a well known tourism destination on the beach about two hours from Conakry on a well paved road. There is a large and usually deserted hotel where past political leaders have met. It's a very popular destination around major holidays. A much nicer place to stay if you like more eco-tourism is Sabolan Village which is a small hotel on a beautiful beach that is off the well paved road that leads to the Bel Air hotel. There are about ten modern huts there and a restaurant. Its a bit expensive for what you get but the setting is amazing. If you have a tent or want to stay in a more authentic and cheaper place, you can go down the beach or along the path, past the actual village, and stay in nice huts made by a local villager and now run by his son. Expats who work in the mining areas rent out the huts and come on the weekends but you can always pitch a tent. You have to bring your own food however.
For the more adventurous is a trip to the island archipelago near the Guinea-Bissau border called Tristao. You can drive from Conakry to Kamsar and from there you can get on a local boat to the Tristao islands. The boat takes four hours and usually runs once or twice a week. You can sometimes get lucky if there is a fishing boat going back to Tristao but they are usually very heavily loaded and may not be as safe as the passenger boat. Manatee, turtles, and many different bird types live in the Tristao archipelago. It's a very isolated place which maintains many animist traditions.
Kamsar is the main bauxite mining export town, where major shipments of bauxite leave from the Boke region. There are some pretty good hotels and restaurants that cater to the mining executives and expats. The Boke region is the main bauxite mining area. Boke, the administrative city of the region, has an interesting colonial museum, some decent hotels, and a Lebanese store on the main road where everyone goes to watch the football games (soccer) and have cold Amstel lights (when the generator is on).
Exchange rates for Guinean francs
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Exchange rates fluctuate. Current rates for these and other currencies are available from XE.com
The currency of the country is the Guinean franc (French: franc guinéen), denoted by the symbol "FG" or "Fr" or "GFr" (ISO currency code: GNF). Banknotes circulate in denominations of FG500, 1,000, 5,000, 10,000 and 20,000 and inflation is rampant.
- All Ecobank ATMs in Guinea take Mastercard or Visa card for cash withdrawal.
They do not sell a lot of trinkets in Guinea, but they do have wonderful clothing that you can purchase. The tailors there are very skilled and can create an outfit very fast (approximately a day). Masks, wood statues, djembes (drums), traditional clothing, bags made in Guinea are sold in many of the areas outside of major hotels in Conakry and along the roadside. Always haggle, especially if outside a major hotel as prices there are higher. A good rule of thumb is to halve whatever the opening price is and also to walk away if the prices don't come down. Negotiations are supposed to take awhile and are a way of figuring out the "walk away" price point for both buyer and seller.
The largest market in Conakry is Madina market. You can find everything and anything there. Be careful of pickpockets, mud (during rainy season) and traffic. Its a pretty hectic and chaotic place but you'll find the best produce, electronics, etc., at the best prices. You can hire a young boy to haul out your purchases for you if you are walking back to a parked car or where you're staying. Fee is about FG5,000 (€0.5 or US$0.7).
In certain parts of the country you can also find some nice carvings, many of which are created in the city of Kindia.
Many options are available for dining. For FG20,000 (€2 or roughly US$3), you are able to dine on delicious, nutritious food. If your taste buds would prefer something international, many other choices are available as well. The beef in Guinea is very good, and is highly recommended. Pork isn't served because of the dominance of Islam but is eaten among the forest people of the South east (Guinee Forestiere). There are good restaurants that are Lebanese which have European-styled breakfasts.
Outside of the capital, Conakry, you can often enjoy local dishes (consisting of Guinean style rice and one of the 4 main sauces with sometimes beef or fish in some cases) at a hole in the wall local restaurant for less than US$1 (FG3,000-6,000 depending on the exchange rate). You will leave full!
In Kankan, Guinea (Haute Guinee), there are few places to choose from if you wish to eat at a more decent restaurant. There is Hotel Villa and Hotel Bate. As of mid-2008, these were the top two places for lodging and meals. A typical plate can cost anywhere between FG35,000 and FG55,000. Note that prices of food and drinks can often dramatically increase at the spur of the moment and without any explanation!
Fruits are very inexpensive here, especially compared to the higher costs in neighboring countries (Mali, Ivory Coast and Senegal). For those who love pineapples, on the national road (which literally goes from the North of the country to Conakry in the South) you can find people selling this tasty fruit very cheaply on the side of the road in and around Kindia. Mango fruits, oranges and bananas can also be found in abundance throughout the country and at a cheap rate, especially at road sides.
Another alternative to eating out is eating "in". Since Guineans are generally welcoming and friendly people you may be invited to their home to share a meal. Most Guineans eat together from one big dish. Enjoy the experience and don't drink the local water if and when they offer it to you. Take bottled water (Coyah, Milo, etc.)
Canned European beer is available as well as local "Guiluxe" and "Skol" lager beers.
Water bottled in the name of Coyah is available everywhere for about US$0.50 per 1.5 litre bottle and is very good. Conakry's tap water is generally not safe unless filtered/boiled.
Guinea is a rather unsafe nation, due to the fact that it has a history of being one of Africa's most unstable countries; lawlessness and criminality are widespread. Most of the crime is done by officials in military uniforms, and usually targets foreigners. Most non-violent crime involves acts of pick-pocketing and purse-snatching, while armed robbery, muggings, and assaults are the most common violent crimes. Criminals particularly target visitors at the airport, in the traditional markets, and near hotels and restaurants frequented by foreigners. Stay vigilant, and apply common sense if stuck in a difficult situation.
Visitors should also avoid unsolicited offers of assistance at the airport and hotels because such offers often mask an intention to steal luggage, purses, or wallets. Travellers should arrange for hotel personnel, family members, or business contacts to meet them at the airport to reduce their vulnerability to these crimes of opportunity.
When taking photographs, avoid military bases and political buildings, as it can be considered espionage in Guinea and can land you in jail.
The police are completely ineffective. Low salaries and improper training contribute to the lack of professionalism of the police. If you are the victim of a crime, consult your embassy.
Corruption is extremely widespread - Corrupt police and soldiers target foreigners for bribes in just about any place in the country. Policemen will demand bribes at any checkpoint. Policemen will often intimidate you to pay bribes by confiscating a particular item.
Business trips to Guinea are strongly discouraged. Business frauds and scams are rampant, and if you are going for a business trip in Guinea, it is strongly recommended that you do not go.
The medical system in Guinea is in a very poor condition, and is not well equipped and is very limited. Some private medical facilities (e.g. Clinique Pasteur in Conakry) provide a better range of treatment options than public facilities, but are still well below western standards. There are no ambulance or emergency rescue services in Guinea and trauma care is extremely limited.
- Tap water is unsafe for drinking. Drink only bottled, unopened, water.
- Malaria is prevalent. Make sure to take anti-malarial prophylactics and cover up exposed skin during the evening and early morning when mosquitoes are at their worst.
If staying in the country for a long time it is advisable to bring anti-malarial drugs, and anti-diarhoea drugs (Cipro) as well as paracetamol and a medical kit with you if you are coming from Europe or the US as the drugs found in Guinea are usually of lesser quality and strength, albeit much cheaper.
The best insider's tip for eating fresh vegetables is to soak them in a big bowl of water that has one drop of bleach in it. This will kill any bacteria and you'll be able to have a salad or eat vegetables and fruits that can't be peeled such as tomatoes or keep the skin on cucumbers etc. for added fibre and vitamins.
A major outbreak of the deadly Ebola viral haemorrhagic fever erupted in Guinea in March 2014, killing more than 11,000 people in 2014-2016. This disease is fatal if not treated early and aggressively, and has showed a 40% fatality rate. As of June 2016, WHO has declared the end of Ebola virus transmission in the Republic of Guinea. Though WHO states, the risk of additional outbreaks originating from exposure to infected survivor body fluids remains and requires sustained mitigation through counseling on safe sex practices and testing of body fluids.
Ramadan is the 9th and holiest month in the Islamic calendar and lasts 29–30 days. Muslims fast every day for its duration and most restaurants will be closed until the fast breaks at dusk. Nothing (including water and cigarettes) is supposed to pass through the lips from dawn to sunset. Non-Muslims are exempt from this, but should still refrain from eating or drinking in public as this is considered very impolite. Working hours are decreased as well in the corporate world. Exact dates of Ramadan depend on local astronomical observations and may vary somewhat from country to country. Ramadan concludes with the festival of Eid al-Fitr, which may last several days, usually three in most countries.
If you're planning to travel to Guinea during Ramadan, consider reading Travelling during Ramadan.
As with most of West Africa, greetings are very much a part of daily life in Guinea. A simple, "ça va?" will often suffice. However, Guineans appreciate if you ask about their family, health and job/studies: "et la famille, la sante, le boulot/les etudes." Before getting to the point in a conversation, e-mail, etc., it is common and expected to greet somehow and ask how they are doing.
Greet, eat and exchange money only with your right hand; the left hand is used for bathroom purposes and is considered unclean.
The gender issue is quite complex in Guinea to say the least. Even though Guinea is a slightly conservative, Muslim, male-dominated society, foreign female travelers will rarely face any sort of difficulties. Don't be surprised if you are proposed to a million times! Cat calls, whistles and other similar forms of harassment are rare in Guinea and frowned upon. Guinean males often give up their seat to females as a sign of respect, especially in people's homes, outdoor settings, etc.
In general, men are still higher up the social ladder than women and this is prevalent in all aspects of Guinean society (education, jobs, etc.) Don't be surprised if men are shown more consideration than women in daily life. Once it's known that you are a foreign woman (especially if you are a Black foreign female coming from the US, Europe, etc.), and not a local, you will usually be granted a higher level of consideration).
For women it is NOT advisable to wear clothing showing anything from the stomach to the knees! Shorts, see-throughs, mini skirts, bare midriffs are considered tasteless if worn in public. It's not uncommon to be met with hostile stares or looks of disapproval from local Guineans or even worse. Tattoos and body piercings are not common and visitors are advised to cover them up when possible. A head scarf, however, is not necessary. Jeans (while still not very popular among Guinean women), long skirts and dresses, tank tops and short or long sleeved shirts are perfectly acceptable.
There is a Christian minority (mostly concentrated in the southern forest region); however, Muslims, Christians and others tend to co-exist peacefully with tolerance and respect.
Guineans will often invite you to eat at their home. This is a sign of respect and consideration for the visitor. Accept the invitation where possible. If you are unable, it's better to politely respond with a simple "next time" or "prochainement". Simply showing up without an appointment at the home of a Guinean is not considered rude or impolite as it can be in the West. Don't be alarmed if you find Guineans popping over to see how you are.
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Latest data from transgenic mice suggest that orexin takes on an important part in the ventilatory response to CO2 during wakefulness. OX1Rs in the region, to the hypercapnic chemoreflex control during wakefulness and to a lesser degree, PD0325901 non-rapid eye movement sleep. Breathing is a complex biological process that is controlled by neural mechanisms including multiple neurotransmitters advertising adjustments of the respiratory travel according to metabolic demands along with other factors such as sleepCwake state. Rabbit polyclonal to HOPX Recently, numerous studies have shown that orexin-containing neurons play a role in the control of deep breathing, and there is a strong suggestion that these neurons might represent an important link between deep breathing and arousal claims (Nakamura 2007; Williams & Burdakov, 2008). The orexins, also known as hypocretins, include two subtypes of neuropeptides, the PD0325901 orexin-A and PD0325901 orexin-B (hypocretin-1 and hypocretin-2, respectively), which are cleaved from a common precursor (prepro-orexin), and bind to two G-protein-coupled receptors: orexin receptor-1 (OX1R), selective for orexin-A, and orexin receptor-2 (OX2R), non-selective for both orexin-A and -B (de Lecea 1998; Sakurai 1998). Orexin-containing neurons are located only in the dorsal and lateral hypothalamus, but project their axons widely throughout the whole mind (Peyron 1998; Nambu 1999). This anatomical feature explains the multiplicity of functions that are modulated by orexin, such as control of PD0325901 energy homeostasis, feeding behaviour, sleepCwake claims, stress response, nociception, cardiovascular and respiratory control. With respect to the control of breathing, orexin neurons project to regions involved with this function, such as nucleus of the solitary system, the pre-B?tzinger organic, the hypoglossal nucleus and phrenic nuclei (Fung 2001; Krout 2003; Teen 2005) and intracerebroventricular administration of orexin not merely promotes wakefulness (Espana 2001), but additionally increases venting (Zhang 2005). This observation signifies that orexin could be vital that you integrate ventilatory control and vigilance condition. More recently, research in transgenic mice suggest that orexin has a crucial function in CO2 awareness. Prepro-orexin knockout mice come with an attenuation from the hypercapnic chemoreflex during wake, however, not rest periods, which effect is partly restored using the administration of orexin-A and orexin-B (Deng 2007; Nakamura 2007). Also, the intracerebroventricular shot of the orexin receptor-1 antagonist (SB-334867) reduced the respiratory chemoreflex in mice (Deng 2007). Furthermore, firing of orexin neurons is incredibly delicate to physiological adjustments in PD0325901 extracellular pH and CO2 amounts (Williams 2007). The orexin neurons task to numerous brainstem regions like the areas which are suggested as putative central chemoreceptor sites, such as for example retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN), medullary raphe and locus coeruleus (Nambu 1999; Nixon & Smale, 2007). Ciriello demonstrated that both orexin-A axons and OX1Rs can be found within the rostral ventrolateral medulla like the section of the RTN (Ciriello & de Oliveira, 2003; Ciriello 2003). Within this research, we asked if OX1Rs within the RTN donate to chemoreception. We do therefore by focal microdialysis of automobile and SB-334867 (OX1R antagonist) in to the RTN to focally inhibit OX1Rs, and examined the consequences of both remedies on sucking in area surroundings and in 7% CO2 during wakefulness and non-rapid eyes movement (NREM) rest. Strategies General All pet experimentation and operative protocols had been within the rules of the Country wide Institutes of Wellness for animal make use of and care as well as the American Physiological Society’s and accepted by the Institutional Pet Care and Make use of Committee on the Dartmouth University Animal Resource Middle. A complete of 33 adult man SpragueCDawley rats (250C350 g) had been useful for the tests and they had been individually housed within a light- and temperature-controlled environment with 12 h of light starting at nighttime and 12 h of darkness starting at noon. Our regular research period (9.00C15.00 h) includes the finish from the rat’s rest period and the start of its dynamic period. Surgery Pets. | <urn:uuid:f773d5cd-fa2d-4bfe-a4e9-0d86f247f20d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://calcipotriol.net/latest-data-from-transgenic-mice-suggest-that-orexin-takes-on-an/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.899508 | 1,030 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Brain stimulation evoking sense of touch improves control of robotic arm
Most able-bodied people take their ability to perform simple daily tasks for granted—when they reach for a warm mug of coffee, they can feel its weight and temperature and adjust their grip accordingly so that no liquid is spilled. People with full sensory and motor control of their arms and hands can feel that they've made contact with an object the instant they touch or grasp it, allowing them to start moving or lifting it with confidence.
But those tasks become much more difficult when a person operates a prosthetic arm, let alone a mind-controlled one.
In a paper published today in Science, a team of bioengineers from the University of Pittsburgh Rehab Neural Engineering Labs describe how adding brain stimulation that evokes tactile sensations makes it easier for the operator to manipulate a brain-controlled robotic arm. In the experiment, supplementing vision with artificial tactile perception cut the time spent grasping and transferring objects in half, from a median time of 20.9 to 10.2 seconds.
"In a sense, this is what we hoped would happen—but perhaps not to the degree that we observed," said co-senior author Jennifer Collinger, Ph.D., associate professor in the Pitt Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. "Sensory feedback from limbs and hands is hugely important for doing normal things in our daily lives, and when that feedback is lacking, people's performance is impaired."
Study participant Nathan Copeland, whose progress was described in the paper, is the first person in the world who was implanted with tiny electrode arrays not just in his brain's motor cortex but in his somatosensory cortex as well—a region of the brain that processes sensory information from the body. Arrays allow him to not only control the robotic arm with his mind, but also to receive tactile sensory feedback, which is similar to how neural circuits operate when a person's spinal cord is intact.
"I was already extremely familiar with both the sensations generated by stimulation and performing the task without stimulation. Even though the sensation isn't 'natural'—it feels like pressure and gentle tingle—that never bothered me," said Copeland. "There wasn't really any point where I felt like stimulation was something I had to get used to. Doing the task while receiving the stimulation just went together like PB&J."
After a car crash that left him with limited use of his arms, Copeland enrolled in a clinical trial testing the sensorimotor microelectrode brain-computer interface (BCI) and was implanted with four microelectrode arrays developed by Blackrock Microsystems (also commonly referred to as Utah arrays).
This paper is a step forward from an earlier study that described for the first time how stimulating sensory regions of the brain using tiny electrical pulses can evoke sensation in distinct regions of a person's hand, even though they lost feeling in their limbs due to spinal cord injury. In this new study, the researchers combined reading the information from the brain to control the movement of the robotic arm with writing information back in to provide sensory feedback.
In a series of tests, where the BCI operator was asked to pick up and transfer various objects from a table to a raised platform, providing tactile feedback through electrical stimulation allowed the participant to complete tasks twice as fast compared to tests without stimulation.
In the new paper, the researchers wanted to test the effect of sensory feedback in conditions that would resemble the real world as closely as possible.
"We didn't want to constrain the task by removing the visual component of perception," said co-senior author Robert Gaunt, Ph.D., associate professor in the Pitt Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. "When even limited and imperfect sensation is restored, the person's performance improved in a pretty significant way. We still have a long way to go in terms of making the sensations more realistic and bringing this technology to people's homes, but the closer we can get to recreating the normal inputs to the brain, the better off we will be."
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Black Hammer’s Disaster Relief Committee discovered a global vaccine battle between different companies to receive approval from global health administrations. It’s important to notice that these companies have yet to announce that health administrations approve their vaccines. Likewise, there is no cure or ‘correct’ vaccine to choose from. Most companies are trying to sell their vaccines only to benefit from colonial capitalism instead of protecting Colonized people.
According to experts from India,
“Normally, a vaccine can be developed properly with all phases with proper follow-up in terms of efficacy and safety only after a period of 6-7 years. Here the world came up with a vaccine in 6-8 months. The important factor of safety should be considered here.”
Likewise, the percentage of the efficacy of each COVID-19 vaccine changes in different articles. Therefore, we cannot indicate the protection of the vaccines shown below. But we sure as hell can point out the dangers.
Pfizer is known to be a shady company in terms of hiding thier scandals. If you google Pfizer, you are unable to view their history. The first thing you see is their COVID-19 vaccine instead of their crimes. Let us look at their history.
Pfizer is a german/amerikkkan company that has faced numerous lawsuits. The most recent one was in 2018, where courts have stated that Pfizer has been involved in illegal marketing and healthcare frauds for a very long time. According to Drugwatch, ‘’Pfizer set a record for the largest health care fraud settlement and the largest criminal fine of any kind with $2.3 billion in 2009’’. This is horrendous. Many people have experienced severe health issues and allergies due to Pfizer administering drugs with serious side effects. Here are some examples of lawsuits against Pfizer:
Protonix- Many people have sued Pfizer because of the drug Protonix. This drug has caused severe kidney problems that have affected people’s lives permanently. In 2013, Pfizer settled to agree to pay $55 million to pay for their criminal charges. As reported by Drugswatch, they have stated that ‘’the U.S. Department of Justice said Wyeth promoted Protonix for unapproved uses in 2000 and 2001. Pfizer acquired Wyeth in 2009’’. Money will never restore the deaths and the severe health issues colonized people had to endure due to Pfizer’s eugenic administration.
Prempro- Approximately 10,000 women have sued Pfizer for Breast cancer due to Prempro. In 2012, Pfizer settled most of the court claims for more than $1 billion.
Chantix- 3,000 people have sued Pfizer because Chantix affected people’s psychological and emotional health severely. Individuals have suffered continuous suicidal thoughts and extreme psychological differences. In 2013, Pfizer settled the claims by paying $288 million.
Depo-testosterone- More than 6,000 individuals who have sued Pfizer for Depo-testosterone have stated that they suffered a near-death experience. Individuals have claimed that the testosterone products caused strokes, blood clots, and heart attacks.
Effexor- In 2013, most of the lawsuit claims were from women who were given this drug during pregnancy have stated that the drug Effexor caused birth complications such as heart defects.
Zoloft- In 2016, like Effexor, there have been lawsuit claims against Zoloft for congenital disabilities.
Eliquis- In 2017, injured patients have claimed and continued to file severe bleeding because of Eliquis.
Pfizer’s vaccine result
Pfizer’s final data analysis gave its vaccine 95% efficacy. The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine uses mRNA technology just like Moderna. After phase 3 analysis and experimenting on 40,000 people ‘worldwide’, the analysis of 94 cases of COVID-19 illness showed more than 90% efficacy. The article says that 42% of the patients in these trials were from diverse ethnic backgrounds, and 41% were aged between 56 and 85, which is also important as Colonized people have been disproportionately affected by the virus. Based on Pfizer’s results from their experimentations on patients, 170 people in the trial fell ill with the disease. Only eight had been given the vaccine, while the other 162 patients were in the placebo group and allowed to fall ill with the deadly virus.
Pfizer/BionTech recently got the green light in the UK, and the first guinea pigs to take vaccines will be health and social care workers and front-line workers. In other words, the majority will be Colonized people.
Pfizer/BionTech side effects
Ten of the cases in the trials resulted in severe illness, as opposed to mild symptoms, and only one of those had been given the experimental vaccine. There were no serious side effect issues that have been reported, although 2% of people said they suffered a headache and fatigue. These two symptoms occurred in 3.8% and 2% of participants.
After-effects of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine
The health administration has recently approved Pfizer in the US and the UK. However, after patients have received the injection, many have experienced severe allergies and death. Two nurses who have taken the Pfizer vaccine suffered severe allergies. Therefore, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will not cure COVID-19.
in other words, please stick to wearing your masks and continue social distancing because COVID-19 is not going anywhere for a while!
Moderna’s history with shady companies
In 2016, the CEO of moderna, stephane bancel, turned to a small company called Acuitas to access delivery technology for his mRNA vision. Acuitas was founded in 2009 by thomas madden, and it is headquartered in vancouver, british columbia. It’s important to note that madden had been involved in a lawsuit with Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, which had merged with a company Madden had worked for and fired him. To settle with the court, Madden got a license for the LNP technology he had helped develop. Bancel decided to get a license for the LNP technology from Acuitas and not Tekmira. Tekmira later changed its name to Arbutus.
In 2016, Arbutus terminated Acuitas’ license to the LNP technology, causing Acuitas to sue Arbutus in british columbia court. Arbutus countersued and stated that Acuitas had no right and were not allowed to sublicense the LNP technology to Moderna. A british columbia judge issued a temporary 2017 injunction (prohibiting an action by a party to a lawsuit until there has been a trial), stopping Acuitas from further sublicensing the LNP technology to Moderna.
A year later, in 2018, Arbutus reached a settlement that Moderna could only use the technology in four vaccines that targeted vaccines that already had been identified. Therefore, although there is not enough information on Moderna’s history on the internet, we should continue to be skeptical of the company’s shady connection with small companies and try to make a vaccine using technology, which could alter a person’s life. Moderna should not have been licensed LNP technology. These companies are aware of their actions, but they are focused on stocks and playing with Colonized people’s lives.
Moderna’s vaccine results
Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine allegedly has a 94% protection rate. Likewise, Moderna has used novel mRNA (messenger RNA) technology to develop its vaccine, involving the virus’s genetic code rather than any killed or weakened part. What is mRNA? It’s the pieces of genetic code that tell the body how to build specific proteins. This can be quite dangerous because this could change the genetic characteristics in the human body. It can trigger a change in the chromosomes, which can be harmful, and it will depend on the individual’s reaction towards the vaccine. For example, if a person were to have a child, they may or may not have missing chromosomes that will affect their physical or cognitive development. Furthermore, this vaccine is still not approved by the FDA (Food and Drugs Administration) and European Medicine Agency.
Pfizer and Moderna have received quite similar results in vaccine efficacy because they have both used mRNA in their vaccine. The trial involved 30,000 people in the US, with half being given two doses of the vaccine, four weeks apart. Whereas the rest had dummy injections (placebo). According to CNN (2020), None of the 11 people who received the vaccine became severely ill, but 30 of the 185 who received the placebo became severely ill, and one died. The analysis was based on the first 95 to develop Covid-19 symptoms.
Sanofi is a french pharmaceutical company that has been investigated and exposed for manslaughter charges. The drug Valproate (as known as Depakine in france) has killed over four babies where mothers have been prescribed to take the anti-epilepsy drugs. Depakine was found to be a life-threatening drug as it can cause a high risk of congenital disabilities if pregnant mothers have taken the drug. Sanofi denies all the allegations.
According to recent studies, between 2,150 and 4,100 children suffered severe malformations linked to the drug. France’s National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM) has shown that the drug can cause congenital disabilities. The malformations that have occurred in children are spina bifida, defects of the heart, and genital organs. This doesn’t even touch the investigations as recent as last year of the Sanofi vaccine, Dengvaxia, linked to the deaths of several hundred children in the Philippines.
Colonizers will continue to use Colonized people like guinea pigs and to produce propaganda to get us to trust them. Do not trust anything or any colonizer who is earning millions of millions of dollars from killing Colonized people and experimenting on them. Have faith in your community and your people because only unity will bring us together to defeat colonialism and imperialism at the end of the day.
Sanofi’s COVID-19 vaccine result
Sanofi failed to produce a COVID-19 vaccine and has delayed it until next year. This is because the older adults who were tested reported a low immune response, and this is due to the insufficient concentration of the antigen (an antigen is a viral protein that primes the immune system to fight the virus). As stated by the Guardian,
”Roger Connor, the president of GSK Vaccines, said the study results were “not as we hoped”. Sanofi/GSK has stated that they will continue to work on their COVID-19 vaccine until they see any improvement or developments with their vaccine. Therefore, there is no information regarding the vaccine’s side effects yet since the experiment is still ongoing. Try not to get your hopes up since they, and many other big drug companies continue killing Colonized women and children worldwide.
Conclusion: part one
Black Hammer will continue to expose the practices behind these drug companies. Neither Pfizer nor Moderna’s vaccine will cure COVID-19. This pandemic isn’t just going to disappear as easily as the ruling class wants it to. Just because you take the vaccine does not mean you are safe now; these vaccines do not promise anything that will keep you safe from COVID-19. Please stick to wearing your masks and continue social distancing because COVID-19 is here to stay, and it will not disappear for a while.
Black Hammer continues to distribute free KN95 masks to Colonized people. Because of the science of organization, we have given out hundreds of thousands of pieces of PPE. This is the testament to the strength of dual contending power!
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What is inclusive design?
The term inclusive design has many definitions, but I use this one: Design that can help everyone experience the world around them in a fair and equal way. It’s not something that you should think of as an add on, or something you do after a module has been built. Inclusive design is a way of thinking, of designing for everyone, not just the majority.
What is the difference between accessibility and inclusive design?
Making an online resource accessible and easier to use for a person with a disability is part of inclusive design, but it’s so much more. Inclusive design considers the nuances of people’s experiences, views and life experiences and tries to represent them authentically.
What does this mean for eLearning design?
It means creating the best possible experience for everyone, and making all learning content available to all. Ideally, everyone should be able to see themselves in what you create and not feel excluded from it. This will include:
- The things you say
- The instructions you give
- The images you use
- The stories you tell
- The way that you build
- The media you use
Tips to help you make your eLearning more inclusive:
You aren’t going to get this right straight away. This is a journey that you will have to continually work towards. The important thing is to get started. To help, here are some things you can do:
- Read/listen to Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro.
He won’t tell you what to do, but he will convince you that good design is your responsibility and change your mindset, which is a great start.
- To design for everyone, you need to start learning about everyone.
This is an impossible task, but it shouldn’t stop you from trying. Read and research widely, talk to people you know, talk to people you don’t know, and speak to designers from other charities to find out about their experiences.
- Put together a library of profiles and stories.
Include people from different backgrounds, ethnicity, race, gender preference, ability and experience. It’s impossible to represent everyone in your library but the act of creating the stories will help you to learn about other people’s experiences and remind you that everyone is different. When you are designing, think back to your characters and try to think about how those people would respond to what you’re developing. Will they see themselves in your images, will they understand your instructions, will you be telling their stories?
- Ensure your quality process includes a full review for inclusive design principles.
This will include a step by step review of all the images, stories and language used in the module to ensure it meets the standards you have set.
- Try to get a range of people to review your modules and provide feedback.
Treat their feedback with respect, try to understand their perspective and incorporate their opinion. This can be difficult at first – you may feel their feedback is unfair, that they have not used the module correctly or that they want too much. If you feel this way, read Ruined by Design again as a reminder of your role as a designer!
About Gill Chester
Gill has worked in learning and development for more than 20 years and is the lead developer at Little Man Project, a chosen partner to the Charity Learning Consortium. She often leads eLearning workshops at events hosted by the Consortium.
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A plugin for Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore to support repository, unit of work patterns, and multiple database with distributed transaction supported.
Extension that enables the usage of unit-of-work patterns in non-web applications.
You could look at this as being the equivalent of InRequestScope from web environments in console applications and services.
The unit-of-work scopes are kept consistent across async calls and tasks.
A little Persistence Ignorance framework that features those Unit of Work, Repository, and Inversion of Control patterns you keep hearing so much about.
Dermayon Entity Framework Repositories, including Generic Ef and Unit Of Work
Dermayon MongoRepositories, including Generic Mongo and Unit Of Work
Provides the UnitOfWork pattern for Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.
A .NET Standard compliant Unit of Work implementation for ADO.NET. The UoW is the workhorse of the data context, so the project was dubbed "lunch pail" as a reference to blue collar athletes.
Implements the basic ins and outs of LINQ to SQL functionality via the Ignorance IWork and IStore interfaces.
Implements the basic ins and outs of Entity Framework functionality via the Ignorance IWork and IStore interfaces.
Provides a UnitOfWork base class with change tracking to use with MongoDb
A featherweight way to add your custom logic to Entity Framework's SaveChanges operation.
NHibernate-specific elements of the unit of work pattern
Provides UnitOfWork abstractions in order to implement UnitOfWork pattern for Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.
Dapper Generic Repository And Unit Of Work
Repository pattern and Unit of Work pattern for Entity Framework.
Compose NHibernate-specific elements of the unit of work pattern within Autofac containers
DapperContext is a DbContext-like implementation for Dapper, supporting the Unit Of Work pattern and simplifying usage with repository classes and IOC containers.
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Oxford! Don your capes and answer the call - it’s time to become #RecyclingHeroes!
This competition has now ended. Congratulations to Mae Mitchell, our winner! You can see the winning entry
ODS, in partnership with Oxford City Council, are inviting the residents of Oxford to enter our online competition to become Oxford’s best recycler - with a chance to win £250 in Love2Shop vouchers.
If you are a resident of Oxford, with a passion for recycling, you need to get your creative powers flowing and show us how amazing you can be with your recyclables including bottles, cans, cardboard and garden trimmings.
Will you build a recycling robot made of old bottles and cans? Can your pet beat a homemade cardboard obstacle course? ODS want to see your fantastic creations and superpowered feats of strength - but remember to be safe - as with great creativity comes great responsibility.
How to Enter
The competition will run from Tuesday 28 September to Tuesday 30 November 2021, giving you plenty of time to collect your recycling and do something amazing with it.
The competition involves taking a photo or video of you or your family doing something fun and exciting in the name of recycling, or showing off how much they recycle compared to what they throw away in the general waste.
Heroes will need to submit a video or photos to the Oxford Recycles Facebook page or to Oxford Recycles on Twitter with a tweet including the handle (@Recycle4Oxford). Entry submissions must be submitted by someone who has followed or liked the relevant social media page and the video must contain recycling related content. The entry text must include the hashtag #RecyclingHeroes. Full details on how to enter the competition can be found at the top of this page.
Our panel of judges will watch the whole city’s entries and decide who will win £250 of Love2Shop vouchers.
Why we all should be #RecyclingHeroes
Remember, every hero needs to play their part. ODS and its partners’ aim is to increase the number of people who recycle within Oxford and bring communities together to care for the environment. ODS and the City Council would like more people to recycle and help Oxford become an even more sustainable city.
Residents can use the hashtag #RecyclingHeroes to share their videos and images on social media and explain what recycling means to them and to the environment.
Councillor Lubna Arshad, Cabinet Member for Parks and Waste Reduction, said: “We are very proud of what our residents contribute to making Oxford a great city to live, work and visit. The Recycling Heroes competition celebrates this, and we hope it encourages everyone in Oxford to do much more recycling so that we live in a cleaner, greener city and inspire this great example to other cities.” | <urn:uuid:93b0df40-b718-4ec0-9719-59971eeab6f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oxford.gov.uk/info/20295/recycling_in_your_community/1481/recycling_heroes_competition | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.940692 | 591 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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Requirements management provides the guidance your teams need to develop and deliver the right products. Studies repeatedly show that no development process will result in a successful product offering unless products are rigorously aligned and continually verified against accurate marketplace requirements and customer expectations.
Clearly product requirements are important in the development process, but historically they have presented a challenge to manage. For one thing, product requirements come from a variety of sources: These include government regulations, industry standards, company mandates, market needs, contractual commitments, and of course, consumer and stakeholder expectations. Your products have to be safe, work properly, and please your customers after all. Not only do you need to keep up with the ever-changing requirements from these sources, but you also need to update and share your product requirements within your product development and manufacturing teams, as well as your supply chain, in order to keep your products compliant. For organizations with thousands of employees and hundreds of products, each of which has its own variations for each model released, you can see how this process becomes extremely unwieldy very fast. Luckily, advancements in requirement management software go a long way in helping to manage this process.
Today we’re going to look at the specifics of what requirements management is (and in particular, what sets good requirements management apart) and why it’s so important to product development. If you’ve ever wondered what benefits it brings to your company and why you should care, then this post is for you. Let’s dive in!
What is Requirements Management?
Requirements management is a continuous process throughout a project in which one documents, analyzes, traces, prioritizes and agrees on requirements and then controls change and communicates that information out to relevant stakeholders. A requirement is a feature, specification, capability or constraint your product must have on delivery to the customer. Not all requirements management processes are created equal, though. Some companies place more importance on this than others – and that’s what separates the good from the “just okay.” If you only document the bare minimum information that is needed to get the work done, chances are that your products will have incomplete or inaccurate information, and that leads to some serious problems down the road. This brings us to why it’s important.
The Benefits of Requirements Management
Having a proper requirements management process in place helps to ensure that your organization documents, verifies, and meets the needs and expectations of customers, internal and external stakeholders. In other words, you make everyone happy. It goes beyond just that though. Enhancing the clarity of your requirements drastically improves your products. Having a proper process in place can prevent project failure, uncover issues earlier in development (which ultimately leads to time and money saved), and you can even prevent huge errors from resulting that could potentially damage your company’s reputation should they get out in the public. Rather than focus on the negative though, let’s look at the positive side and all of the benefits your organization will gain when you make good requirements management a priority.
Increase Productivity & Improve Product Performance
When done right, requirements management actually increases your organization’s productivity by reducing the amount of rework engineers must do. Think about it. By ensuring that all relevant and pertinent information about a product is outlined in a clear, easy-to-understand way, you avoid errors that result from inaccurate or incomplete information. Your team is able to build products to exact specifications the first time around, so things are done right and less changes are needed.
Adapt to Change Faster
Speaking of change, requirements management also helps organizations adapt faster. Things can change in an instant. It’s inevitable that your business will eventually deal with last minute changes to a product, and they can come from practically anywhere (at least, anywhere that your requirements come from): A change in law, a recall of a particular part or product, unexpected behavior or performance issues, changing customer demands and expectations. When you have a proper process in place to manage requirements, as soon as a change is made somewhere in development—say, for example, a designer changes the diameter of a hole for a screw in an assembly—that change gets communicated out instantly to everyone in the chain.
Reduce Time to Market
This is the subsequent result of increased productivity and the ability to adapt to change faster. Ultimately, your business will reduce the time needed to get a product out the door and into customers’ hands. More companies are facing pressure to shorten their product lifecycle, and a good requirements management process helps you achieve that.
Easier Traceability and Auditing
Heavily regulated industries—typically those in which quality and safety of products is critical, such as aerospace and automotive—need traceability in order to prove compliance. Traceability is much easier when you have a proper system in place for tracking each requirement throughout every step of a product’s development. This helps when it comes to auditing, as well. Should you ever have to be audited, it is a stressful enough experience on its own. Having the ability with a good requirements management process in place to easily trace everything back through the product lifecycle gives you peace of mind.
Prior to having software capable of managing this process for you, requirements management could be a daunting task for an organization. You would have to manually manage each change, which resulted in many errors and often led to miscommunication, project delays, and longer lead times – none of which helps your business. Luckily, software solutions like Solid Edge Requirements Management addresses these problems, providing seamless requirements management and tracking so you can focus on what matters most: improving your products and driving your business to new heights. | <urn:uuid:debf6d36-4c82-4a19-ae97-d498e277ec27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/solidedge/why-requirements-management-matters-in-product-development/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951327 | 1,161 | 1.773438 | 2 |
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Developers do not follow secure coding guidelines, but it’s not entirely their fault.
|By: Brand Barney|
Now, I hate to bash on coders/developers. Some of my best friends are
Here are five reasons coders might ruin your audit…and your security.
1. Coders regularly have heavy deadlines that may lead to scrappy qualityFrom a business standpoint, it makes sense to push product as fast as possible in order to beat competition to market. Well, from a security (and coding) standpoint, that is an absolutely ridiculous idea.
Coders don’t have the luxury to take their time with secure code. They have bosses, product managers, directors, and VPs harping them to push code as fast as they can. The faster code is pushed, the less time is spent making it secure, and the more mistakes are likely to be made.
2. Coders don’t always use proper documentationEach developer in your team probably comes from a different background and has a variety of skills and coding languages up his sleeve: PHP, Java, C, C++, Perl, Ruby, etc. Newbies, veterans, and job jumpers are all familiar with different code. The problem is, they are collaborating on similar projects.
Consider this very common scenario.
A developer is assigned to add a function to an existing product. He writes the function in an hour. Then, he finds a problem with the code written by one of his predecessors, and his function won’t work until he fixes the problem. So he goes hunting for broken code that he has no idea how to fix. No documentation exists that tells him who wrote the code, when it was written, or why it was created. Because his team never had a formal policy on code writing, he just wasted six hours to push that function (One hour writing the function, and five hours to fix the problem).
The majority of the time, developers write comments in the code, which I highly recommend. However, if comments are literally the only code change documentation, all it takes is one accidental line deletion and that “documentation” is gone forever.
Check out these hilarious comment examples taken from real code.
3. Coders aren’t magiciansIt’s probably safe to say that no developer knows every library and language framework out there. If you ask a web developer to create a scrolling, randomizing function that works on mobile devices in C++, what does he do? He’ll likely Google it.
Developers are living, breathing Google machines. The problem is, half the solutions they find on the Internet (and then implement in product and web code) are 10 years old, or have since proven to be insecure!
4. Coders code on personal, unencrypted machinesMany companies hire temporary developers during a product launch or for a new website. Usually those developers code on their personal machines. All it takes is one stolen, unencrypted laptop for a hacker to have your entire web code to himself.
5. Coders experience burnoutCoders truly are artists. They wish to create beautiful secure code that’s well-organized and designed. But good code rarely makes it into work projects. Good code is what your coders do in their free time. It’s what they look at when they’re feeling depressed at work.
Why? Like I mentioned above, most companies don’t give them license to use good code. The stress of yesterday’s (and tomorrow’s) deadlines slowly beat them down. They start staying long hours to get work done. Then they come to work the next day with a new pile of requests.
Burnout is the eventual fate of many great developers. The more burned-out a developer is, the less likely he will care about his code being secure.
Yes, I just made some serious accusations. Many organizations deny these problems happen on their team. “We have too large of a budget for this to happen!” or “My third party does all my coding. No way they have a problem with this!”
How do you break the cycle?
Well, that’s where you’re wrong. I guarantee that at least one of the above problems happens in 99% of organizations, regardless of size, budget, or team.
Before you begin to fix it, you must get the C-level to understand it’s happening. It’s not enough just to hire more developers or fire everyone and start over. Remember, this is a cultural problem that transcends your own organization.
If management and development members don’t understand the costs and damage insecure/sloppy coding can have on the business, it’s time to educate them on the benefits of secure coding practices.
Start secure coding practicesFollowing coding standards makes it simple to focus on security, rather than spending time fixing problems in code. If coding standard guidelines are spread across your organization, coders will easily finish each other’s work while constantly maintaining secure code.
If your coders don’t come from a security background, ask them to review the OWASP Top 10, and NISTguidelines.
Here are my recommendations to include in your secure coding practices methodology.
Test outside of productionMaking changes in a production environment is one of the most insecure actions a developer could ever perform. Unfortunately, it’s extremely common. Product managers need a quick product change so they push development to release it as fast as possible. In this case, fresh, untested code is allowed into the wild … along with any accidental vulnerability. Ensure your methodology requires that developers test code outside of production to avoid these situations.
Code reviewI hear this all the time, “Our guys are testing their own code, no worries!” I applaud those who test their own code, but that’s not enough. Code should always be reviewed to catch mistakes through external and internal vulnerability assessment testing. For bigger code releases such as product releases or a new website, it’s imperative to receive a penetration test to ensure your organization is secure and safe from malicious entities.
SEE AlSO: Code Reviews: A Method to Reveal Costly Mistakes
Patch managementI attended a talk at DefCon 2014, where a white hat SQL researcher discussed how he exploited Oracle’s SQL database for years. He then reported the flaws to Oracle…who would leave the problems for years before fixing them. This unfortunate company is a great example of bad patching practices. Security best practice is to always patch code flaws immediately. If you are participating in compliance mandates, you may have deadlines to consider as well.
SEE ALSO: Cross-Site Scripting, Explained
Code documentationNot only will proper documentation ensure your success as a team, but it also helps drive the team to understanding the prioritized needs of the entire project. As I suggested above, don’t let code comments become your only form of documentation.
I recommend that you follow and disseminate a properly outlined software development lifecycle. This will help your organization and developers create and maintain your applications in a secure manner.
This lifecycle should include development methodology, training, vulnerability testing, change control forms, etc. For instance, anytime code is changed, developers should use change control forms to document how the change will impact customers, how it might change functionality, how it impacts security, if there are any back out procedures, etc.
SummaryThe vast majority of developers do not following secure coding practices. It could result from poorly managed development teams, or just poor product planning in general. Until your plan contains documented, formalized, and secure coding practices, problems will continue to happen. Businesses will continue to lose data. You will fail your security audit. Start changing your coding culture today!
Have coding security questions? Ask away!
Brand Barney (CISSP, HCISPP, QSA) is a Security Analyst at SecurityMetrics, has over 10 years of data security experience, and will totally geek out if you mention Doctor Who. Brand loves to play jazz piano and daydreams about being as great as Dave Brubeck or Thelonious Monk. Connect with him on Twitter or check out his other blog posts. | <urn:uuid:74b4b1c6-9894-4195-b26e-5d1fae32ff35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blog.securitymetrics.com/2014/11/coding-culture.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.93838 | 1,721 | 1.632813 | 2 |
After arguing for years that we should stop treating Poland as an exotic, “backward” corner of Europe, I may have finally found something that is truly unique about that country: Poland may be the only place in the world where people have a higher opinion of Donald Trump today than they had in 2016.
A survey just released today by the Centrum Badania Opnii Społecznej (CBOS, which goes by the name “Public Opinion Research Center” in English) revealed who Poles considered the best candidate for the US presidency, from the point of view of Polish interests. 41% chose Donald Trump, and only 15% picked Joe Biden. Another 15% said that either would be fine, and 29% did not know.
Contrast that with a survey carried out four years ago, in which 57% of Poles polled (eventually I was going to use that phrase) supported Hillary Clinton, and only 6% (!) supported Trump. Another 14% thought either would be the same, and 23% didn’t have an opinion. Where else in the world has Trump’s approval rating increased by 35% over the past four years?
A couple interpretations of this bizarre data come to mind. First, it might reflect a Machiavellian assessment in which the key phrase is “from the point of view of Polish interests.” As long as the far-right Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, or PiS) governs Poland, having an ideological ally in Washington will help the country, unless you define “help” as “help save us from PiS.” It is doubtful that Poland would be discussed much in a Biden White House, given the monstrous domestic challenges the administration would face upon taking office. However, US relations with the EU would improve dramatically and relations with Russia would sour. Despite the ostensible anti-Russian stance of PiS, an American turn against Putinesque authoritarianism would inevitably sweep up Turkey, Hungary, and Poland. If even the Trump-appointed US ambassador was willing to publicly attack the PiS government’s homophobic bigotry, one can only imagine that criticism from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (or at least al. Ujazdowskie 29/31 in Warsaw, where the US Embassy is located) would intensify. The past four years of fraternal right-wing warmth between Washington and Warsaw would fall into a deep chill, akin to Poland’s dismal relations with Brussels.
An opponent of PiS in Poland might cheer such a development, but that is a risky attitude. A Biden administration might put pressure on Poland that would constrain some of ambitions of PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński (particularly regarding his campaign against the independent media, given that the opposition television channel TVN is owned by an American corporation). But I doubt the State Department would take any initiatives against PiS—that’s a job for the EU. Meanwhile, official propaganda in Poland could stoke hostility against yet one more enemy. This idea is not as improbable as it might seem: thirty years ago, Americans were more beloved in Poland than just about anywhere else, but despite an uptick recently, we’ve been finding less and less affection along the Vistula. It would not be difficult to revise the tirades against the Western decadence of the EU to include the US as well. I’m sure Mr. Putin would be happy to stoke those fires, should the occasion arise.
Another interpretation of the strange contrast between 2016 and 2020 might be a straight-forward case of ideological affinity. Four years ago the Polish press was depicting Donald Trump as a buffoon with no chance of winning the election; meanwhile, Hillary Clinton was relatively well known as Secretary of State, and the Clinton name had a lingering glow from those years of pro-American sentiment in the 1990s. Particularly after Trump’s visit to Warsaw in 2017, where he gave an address that could have been written by PiS speechwriters, he was adopted by the Polish far right as one of their own. If we consider that current support for PiS is almost identical to the support now given by Poles to Donald Trump, this makes sense.
As to Biden’s lack of popularity, that might be a result of simple unfamiliarity. Polish media coverage of the United States is certainly more comprehensive than American media coverage of Poland, but it would be unreasonable to expect that a US Vice President would be a household name. It is easy to imagine that a Bernie Sanders candidacy would have generated a lot of excitement, particularly on the Polish left. Though this has rarely been noted, Sanders would have been the first Polish-American president (his father was born in Słopnice in Małopolska, and emigrated from Poland in 1921). Biden, in comparison, is largely an unknown. So we might be dealing with ideological excitement on the right, combined with either apathy or a lack of knowledge among everyone else.
The one interpretation I need to debunk is that Poles, being so conservative, are prone to support Republicans. It is true that Ronald Reagan has a statue in Warsaw, and that Polish-Americans tend to vote Republic. There was a vague impression in Poland in the 1990s that the Republicans had been the “hawks” vis-à-vis the USSR, while the Democrats had been more “dovish.” This impression changed in the 21st century, particularly during the presidency of George W. Bush. He recruited Poland to support the American campaign in Iraq in exchange for a promise to lift visa restrictions for Poles. Not only did the Iraq campaign come to be viewed as a disastrous quagmire in Poland, but the visa rules were never changed. So prior to this year (again, according to a series of CBOS reports over the years), there has been a dramatic shift in the Polish attitudes towards US political parties.
It is certainly possible that 2020 will lead to a reversion to the patterns of the 1990s, but I can’t think of any reason why this would be the case. If I am correct that unfamiliarity is a key reason for the low score received by Joe Biden, we could expect a rapid shift in attitudes if he wins the election. Not a turn to an imbalance in the opposite direction, but more likely an alignment that would more closely mirror the ideological divides within Poland itself. If it comes to pass that Poles view American politics through their own ideological prisms, this would actually be something new. I’ve repeatedly had conversations with Polish leftists who admire Ronald Reagan, and the stunning support for Clinton in 2016 shows that she was likely getting favorable ratings by people who voted for PiS. Given an increasingly globalized politics, and increasing political polarization within Poland, I don’t anticipate such a disconnect to persist much longer. | <urn:uuid:3f2c0112-bd31-4b26-9d3d-2def1b939773> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://porterszucs.pl/2020/10/25/poles-are-supporting-trump/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974159 | 1,418 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Convenors: Netta Cohen (Christ Church), Harriet Mercer (Pembroke College), Marie Thébaud-Sorger (MFO)
Speakers will include Vladimir Jankovic (Manchester), Javier Lezaun (University of Oxford), Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute London), Amanda Powers (University of Oxford), Michael Drolet (University of Oxford), Rowan Boyson (King’s College London), Derek McCormack (University of Oxford).
The current corona crisis as well the ongoing climate crisis are drawing increased attention to the question of how humans manage the air around them. From debates about social distancing and the efficacy of masks to urban pollution and carbon capture technologies, issues about air management are pressing present-day concerns. Yet these concerns are not completely new.
This forum aims to start a conversation about historical cases and episodes of air management. In particular, we are interested in asking how spatial concepts and infrastructures such as local-global, urban-rural and inside-outside have shaped past efforts to manage air. How, for instance, has the air of particular spaces such as ships, hospitals and war zones been managed in the past? What technologies and practices have people developed to manage air? And how did those technologies shape the way people conceptualized the air around them?
Due to the current crisis, the forum will take place online and will be more informal than originally planned. Nonetheless, it represents an important first step in bringing together scholars from across fields as well as from various career stages. The convenors hope it will be the first of many workshops and events that bring together scholars who are interested in questioning and theorizing the various concepts used to understand past efforts to manage airs and climates.
PLEASE NOTE: This event will be held online via zoom. ‘Audience’ registration is required. To register, please emails email@example.com.
The forum is taking place thanks to the support of the Maison Française d'Oxford, the Centre for the HSMT, and the OEHN.
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GCSE AND A LEVEL RESULTS
History students at Charters School will be curious and inspired by the dilemmas, choices and beliefs of people in the past. Through the study of local, national and international events they will develop a greater sense of their own identity and through this appreciate the values and diversity of the wider community in which they form a part. They will answer questions of the present by engaging with the past and in doing so develop skills that will enable them to play a full part in a democratic society.
- They will have a strong chronological understanding of Britain’s past and how its relationship with Europe and the wider world has developed.
- They will be able to identify, analyse and evaluate different interpretations of the past and reach a balanced and reasoned judgement.
- They will be able to confidently articulate their understanding of the past both in academic writing as well as through debate and discussion.
- They will appreciate the ethnic and cultural diversity of our community and thereby become inclusive members of our society.
- They will develop a critical and enquiring mind, which appreciates the impact of individual endeavour and shows empathy with the past.
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If you get the following error on Oracle XE:
ORA-12520: TNS:listener could not find available handler for requested type of server
This is probably because the value for the processes parameter is too low.
For some reason, Oracle set the default value of the processes parameter on Oracle XE to 40. If your application opens many process or several queries are executed at the same time, the ORA-12520 could be displayed.
The solution for this issue is simple. All you need to do is give the processes parameter an higher value.
open sql plus (All Programs -> Oracle Database 10g Express Edition -> Run SQL Command Line) and run the following command:
Alter system set processes=100 scope=spfile;
Restart the DB:
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As the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown continues in India the people who live in remote villages are suffering to the point of starvation. Sadly, some have been reduced to even eating ants. One woman told Rev. Cornelius that her daughter was hungry and crying so she was cooking stones just to make her daughter think she was cooking something to eat. It just shows how desperate these people are.
Rev. Cornelius and volunteers traveled to one of those villages inhabited by Dalits who are unable to work and through the offerings given to this ministry, they were able to hand out bags of rice and bread to many families. But there are many more still asking for food. Below are photos of Rev. Cornelius and his helpers preparing rice and packaging cooked rice to be distributed to the poor. Others bagged uncooked rice in plastic bags to be handed out to those in need. Most of them are widows and children but some are elderly men unable to work.
C.M.M. is so very grateful to all of you who have given to this ministry specifically for this cause. We pray for you daily. May God richly bless you physically, emotionally, mentally, and especially spiritually.
Children of the village give thanks for the food they have received.
In the above video, Rev. Cornelius expresses his gratitude to those who have given offerings to feed the hungry. See the photos below of the food being prepared and packaged to be handed out. Some rice was cooked and packaged to be eaten right away. Uncooked rice was given in larger amounts to families in need. | <urn:uuid:f7c683b0-4c06-4826-bae8-3a78424bf150> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://covenantmessenger.org/feeding-the-hungry-of-india-may-6-2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.988803 | 321 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Samos island is situated in East Aegean Sea. Samos is a nice island with unique natural beauties, green mountains, endless vineyards and wonderful beaches. Samos is the eighth biggest Greek Island ( 475 sq. Extend – 159 km coast line ) with a population 40.000 inhabitants.
Summer is cool, winter is warm in Samos so it’s ground is very fertile especially for olive and grape.
According to mythology Goddess Hera was born in Samos Island and today visitors can see the remains of The Temple of Hera here. Phythagoras who was famous Philosopher and Mathematician of ancient times lived in Samos. Famous Philosopher Epikouros and Astronomer Aristarchos also came from Samos Island.
Today Samos Island is regarded as one of the most beautifull and attractive Hellenistic islands.
FERRY to Samos:
Samos is located only 20 nautical miles south west of Kusadasi.
There are two ferries everyday between Kusadasi and Samos during season. There is one early in the morning and another one in the afternoon. Regular Ferry schedule everday starts by 1st of April and continues until end of October. Ferries depart at 08:30 am from Samos and Kusadasi. The return time is 17:00 pm from Samos and Kusadasi. Journey takes 1 hour 45 minutes.
From Samos you can reach Islands like Ikaria, Mykanos, Santorini, Pireaus etc.
For more information about Samos
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With new 3D printing tech being continuously and rapidly fired into the world, it’s easy to become numbed to even amazing breakthroughts. But May of this year will see the fittingly-named Massivit 3D Printer released to the UK and Ireland – and it’s time to pay attention.
Massivit’s build size is 1.5m x 1.2m x 1.8m – which, in the more common scale of measurement, is one MC Hammer, with width and depth to spare. Or any other person who is 5’11”, we guess.
Created by Massivit 3D Printing Technology and soon-to-be distributed by Papergraphics, Massivit to the will be the first 3D printer that can create these massive lightweight models in the UK and Ireland.
Not only is it super-sized, it’s super-quick with a printing speed of 35cm per foot. So a printed person could take around 5 hours to produce.
As the file can be created from applications including Cadcam and animation sofrware, the possibilities of what you can create are pretty exciting.
Massivit already created the world’s first 3D printed car with Autodesk, and has 3D adverts for buses and billboards, as well as props for theatre and theme parks, in mind.
Video: the car created by Massivit
3D pieces produced by Massivit feel like other 3D printed items – but can be much, much taller. So tall that the scale of possibilities are hard to grasp: filmmakers can produce models with 3D printers – which is muck quicker – for either on set or client approval, general design prototypes can be created more easily whathever the size and, of course, you can alsso repeatedly 3D print yourself to create a limitless clone army. If you're under 5'11", that is.
“In developing Massivit 1800 we had to reinvent 3D printing, we had to invent a whole new technology,” said Massivit co-founder Gershon Miller.
At the heart of Massivit is Gel Dispensing Printing (GDP). Instead of jetting plastics through a print head – as is the standard with 3D printing – Massivit ejects it through a small nozzle. Imagine a piping bag for baking - but with inedible plastic paste. UV rays then harden the gel.
Video: Massivit in action
“The result is a 3D printer with remarkable performance, stunning design, and some of the most advanced 3D printing algorithms in the market enabling very fast and very economical printing, saving on printing material and printing time of superfluous support structures,” continued Miller.
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2021 | January | Drawn from Life
2020 | December | Alan Figg | 58 Years of designs celebrating Christmas
2020 | November | Our Pakistan Connections
2020 | October | 20 Years of Printmaking at Swansea Print Workshop
Drawn from Life
We’ve worked with some terrific models of all ages, shapes and genders and they’ve inspired this current exhibition that showcases the work done by many of SPW’s artists throughout the last two decades. There’s no teaching, people just pitch up with whatever materials they want to bring and get stuck in with charcoal, pastels, pencils, paint, inks, chalks – if it can be smeared onto paper it’s fair game, with a huge diversity of styles. We hope you enjoy looking at this new exhibition and here’s to the next twenty years of life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop.
Ace lino-cutter Alan Figg has designed a Christmas Card for print every year since 1962 . This is a chance to see these designs and prints show-casing Alan’s mastery of the process. There are brief flirtations with designing for line blocks, etchings and mezzotints before returning to his proven media of relief printing. As his Christmas list began to expand it became impractical to print by hand. Much larger linoblocks were used to proof the initial design. These were then reduced in size, coloured digitally and printed commercially
Swansea Print Workshop has a rich history of working with printmakers from Pakistan. Sameera Khan, originally from Islamabad was Studio Manager for three years and she was the catalyst for a whole range of creative exchanges between our two cultures. This exhibition shows some of the work produced by our visiting artists, members and participants in workshops over the years as a result of these links and demonstrates how enriching this process was for all participants
This exhibition illustrates a timeline of artistic activity and a journey of discovery and innovation through the medium of print. Artists have worked with Swansea Print Workshop in many roles: members, invited artists, artists in residence, workshop leaders, workshop participants, sponsors and through collaborative projects with other printworkshops. This is a collection of prints by some of these artists illustrating the breadth of creative opportunities offered by printmaking processes. | <urn:uuid:96b62000-b499-48ae-9ce7-95fbeb0961c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://swanseaprintmakers.com/exhibitions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967733 | 468 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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Americans with disabilities are the largest minority in the country, over 54 million persons. Yet until recently, and especially before passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, they were not well treated by the travel industry, and numerous vacation possibilities were effectively barred to them. And even when travel industries were friendly to people with disabilities, many times a lack of money destroyed a person’s chance of taking part (a recent census survey found that 28 percent of people with a severe disability were below the poverty rate). With a growing, national sensitivity to their plight, reflected not merely in words but in legislation, the situation is today improving, though much remains to be done. Enforcement of the law is spotty, implementation is slow, and a great many travel facilities have not yet been adapted to the needs of our fellow citizens with impairments.
The key advance has been in the creation of travel organizations and tour companies for those with disabilities, a movement that is still in its very earliest years. These fledgling firms, many of them actually headed by persons who themselves are affected by disabilities, have already enabled thousands of others to enjoy the rewards of travel, and they are capable of assisting even greater numbers if their existence becomes known. Below are short-cuts to specialized listings for disabled travelers:
City and adventure tours
Helpful travel agents
Outdoor vacations for the disabled
Specialists Down Under
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SEARCH BEYOND ADVENTURES, INC.
4603 Bloomington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55407
phone 800/800-9979 (in Mpls.-St. Paul area call 612/721-2800)
Kailash Dhaksinamurthi founded Search Beyond Adventures in 1979 as a wilderness adventure company specializing in the developmentally challenged and mobility impaired traveler. Over the years, however, S.B.A. has truly become a worldwide tour operator, reaching destinations across the globe, from Iceland to Vietnam.
Aside from its large repertoire of destinations and tours, the company’s forte is its ability to match each disabled traveler with just the right-sized group—the appropriate staff-to-vacationer ratio—to suit their needs and level of independence. Group sizes range from 4 to 30 travelers, but the staff to vacationer ratios only range from 1:2 to 1:4.
It is crucial to understand, however, that at SBA travelers are not grouped according to disability, but rather according to how much individual attention they require, and how mobile they are. In other words, there is no differentiation between the blind, the hearing impaired, the developmentally impaired, and the mobility impaired, etc; differentiation is made based on level of mobility and overall independence.
The pros and cons to this approach are considerable. The downside is that a traveler with one set of needs may not wish to be lumped indiscriminately in a group of people with different needs; e.g., a visually impaired traveler may find it pointless and inconvenient to be the only visually impaired person in a group of mobility impaired travelers.
On the other hand, a visually impaired traveler could opt for a group with a 1:1 ratio, thus acquiring the two services most needed by a blind traveler: an individual guide and a good descriptor.
The bottom line: no matter what your needs are, Search Beyond Adventures can accommodate you with the appropriate ratio, so that even someone demanding constant one-on-one attention can participate in group travel.
Those looking to travel with SBA will eventually pass a screening, in which the Special Assistance coordinator will determine how much special attention traveler requires, and how mobile the traveler is. The Special Assistance coordinator will then suggest the appropriate tour category.
Search Beyond launches about 175 all-inclusive tours each year, the majority of which are of the “Regular Tours” category, (that is, a 1:4 staff-vacationer ratio for ambulatory travelers). Among the U.S. tours, the most popular destinations are Florida and California, (which often includes time at either Disney World or Disneyland), and the Music City tours, which travel to Memphis, Nashville, Branson and New Orleans. Plenty of the New England and Mid Atlantic states are available, as well as Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Alaska, and Hawaii. Camping trips, cruises, and baseball game outings are also available, as well as a number of international trips to Europe, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, Sri Lanka and Africa. The shortest tours are four days long, the longest are 11 days. Prices vary, depending on the length of the trip, the destination, and the category.
Some examples: a three-day “football tour” to Boston, Florida or St. Paul, Minnesota, with visits to games and local attractions for just $400; a five-day Disney trip will start at $565 land-only. The lower the staff-vacationer ratio, the higher the price: so a six-day “Special Assistance” Disney / Orlando trip is $2,030 if departing from New York. All tours are all inclusive. To order its free 18-page full color catalogue and a list of departure prices, send an e-mail them or call its toll free number.
Has arranged (for nearly 50 years) for persons with disabilities to travel to Lourdes and other Catholic shrines in Europe. Each fall (September 14 to 23 in 2003), it operates a large group trip (usually about 300 people) for persons with disabilities going to Lourdes. Accompanying the group are doctors, nurses, and paramedics. According to former manager Marie Gehringer, the key aspect of these journeys is the balm and comfort they bring to participants. “The spiritual healing is unbelievable,” she reports. “On one recent trip we had a 25-year-old man who was dying of a brain tumor. Throughout the trip, he came out of himself, pushing those who were in wheelchairs, helping the blind visitors. He later remarked, before he died, that the trip had helped him come to peace with himself.” Prices for the Lourdes pilgrimage start at $1,595 with flights from New York, $1,695 from Washington, D.C., $1,765 from Chicago, and $1,895 including air from San Francisco.
808 14th Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1516
phone/TTY 800/728-0719, fax 612/676-9401
Unlike the other organizations that we’ve listed in this article thus far, the primary focus of Wilderness Inquiry is to integrate tourists with disabilities with the able-bodied for vacations in which everyone learns about nature and each other. Wilderness Inquiry has hosted people of all levels and types of disabilities, including quadriplegics, deaf persons, blind persons, and the developmentally disabled. (A past kayaking trip, for example, to Isle Royal in Lake Superior was composed of three staff members, four able-bodied participants, a camper with cerebral palsy, a blind person, a person with a severe heart condition and another who had sustained a traumatic brain injury). The trips are rugged, yet relaxed in their pace, almost all involving camping. Participants are expected to help out with the daily chores (cooking, pitching tents, cleaning up, etc.) according to their abilities. The organization tries to put together groups in which the ability levels are balanced, to ensure that there is no undue burden on any of the participants.
Most of Wilderness Inquiry’s trips are reasonably priced, averaging $100 a day (or less), which covers all meals, equipment, instruction and staff. Popular ventures include a skiing and dog sledding trip in Northern Minnesota, a six-day canoeing trip through the Florida Everglades (including a visit to Shark Valley Nature Preserve with a lecture by a noted naturalist), a canoe trip through the Canyonlands and a 7 day “Lewis and Clark” canoe trip, which followed the famed explorers route down the Missouri River. In addition, Wilderness Inquiry sponsors a few international outings every year, to destinations such as Costa Rica and Australia.
JUBILEE SAILING TRUST
Woolston, Southampton SO19 7GB
phone 011-23-8044-9108, fax 011-23-8044-9145
A mix of able-bodied and disabled passengers regularly embark on sailing adventures aboard the “Tenacious” and the “Lord Nelson,” two huge 19th century style vessels. From afar these ships appear to be no different than the historic ones that have been turned into museums in the U.S. But the design of “Tenacious” and “Lord Nelson” (each of which were built within the last twenty years) have adaptations for persons with disabilities, including flat, wide decks that are wheelchair-friendly, lifts between decks for those who cannot negotiate steps or ladders, extra-large showers, and signs in Braille. And clientele are not just passengers aboard a cruise with Jubilee. Some 40 passengers (a maximum of 20 may have disabilities) actually become crewmembers on the ships, and each person must keep a four-hour watch every 16 hours on the high seas. Crewmembers are not expected to have any background as sailors, and will be taught how to set, stow, and brace the sails, tie knots, and steer the ship. Also, one hour each morning is set aside to clean the ship, and all are expected to help out.
Most participants with disabilities use wheelchairs, but a variety of people with disabilities take part. There are about 60 different trips offered each year ranging from four days to four weeks. Summer sailings call at the major British and French ports; in winter the ships sail to the Canary Islands and the Caribbean. Trips start at $750; financial assistance is available. Prices are kept low in large part due to donations and corporate sponsors.
Helpful travel agents
206 Chestnut Ridge Road
Rochester, New York 14624
Another specialist in customized itineraries for a broad variety of handicapped travelers, Access Adventures plans vacations for 500 to 600 persons per year. It is owned and operated by a determined former director of a rehabilitation center, Deborah Lisena-Tyo, who aims to make the entire globe accessible.
“I never say no,” she says. “It’s always ‘no problem’, or ‘we’ll figure it out.’ I don’t want to reinforce anyone’s fears. I use my rehab counseling skills as much as my travel agent skills.” Recently, she planned a trip for a paraplegic customer wanting to visit his childhood home in India—a tough assignment, she admits, but not one that she’d turn down. Around the same time, she arranged a trip for a woman with a circulatory disorder—she could not stand or sit for more than two hours at a time, but wanted to take her family to Australia. Ms. Lissena-Tyo was able to arrange for Qantas to provide the use of five seats at a reasonable, discounted price. This allowed her to lie down for a good part of the flight. Once “Down Under,” the family traveled in an oversized station wagon, booked by Access, that once again accommodated the client’s special needs.
Occasionally (usually by special request only), Access does arrange group tours, although these tend to be for local groups in upstate New York. One summer, it arranged for the tenants of a “head injuries group home” to go to Cape Cod for a week. Access will locate nearby hotel beds for some of the travelers, find chefs to prepare “ground food” meals, and utilize a Cape Cod “independent living center” for such further help as the group may need. Customized “Day Trip Adventures” to sites such as Niagara Falls, the Stratford and Shaw Festivals in Canada.
An expert in cruises (and a personal friend of my wife for many years), Ms. Yates’ greatest triumph was recently arranging a cruise to Bermuda for two 94-year-old passengers, who apparently had a fine time. The veteran herself of many cruises, and a former executive with a mental health organization, Ms. Yates specializes in the cruise needs of a wide variety of persons with disabilities, and in the similar needs of elderly persons.
SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TRAVEL BY THE HANDICAPPED
347 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
For disabilities that are not described in the foregoing discussion, travelers are always well-advised to contact The Society for the Advancement of Travel by the Handicapped (“S.A.T.H.”), whose experts can usually suggest a source of assistance. Murray Vidockler, founder and funder of S.A.T.H., is one of the great human beings of the travel industry, and he is ably assisted by Peter Shaw-Lawrence, the fiery advocate for those with disabilites who is treasurer of the organization. In recent years, S.A.T.H. has begun publication of a periodical magazine for travelers with disabilities, called “Open World,” that has quickly reached a high professional level and is absorbing to read, in addition to carrying many fact-filled, usable articles and advertisements on travel by the handicapped. Subscriptions in the U.S. and its possessions are $13 per year, and you can order one free issue online. For subscribers in Canada and all foreign countries, add $8. Checks should be made payable to SATH Publications.
FLYING WHEELS TRAVEL SERVICE
143 West Bridge
Owatonna, MN 55060
phone 507/451-5005, fax 507/451-1685
Serves more than 500 mobility-impaired travelers a year. Destinations are always inspected in advance by a staff member, and trips operated in association with tour companies at the destination. The key to a successful trip, says president and founder, Barbara Jacobson, is attitude at the destination as much as accessibility; in many nations, disabilities are regarded with loathing, the blind or mobility-impaired hidden out of sight or made into beggars, so that travelers are confronted by the prejudices of the cultures they visit, and may have to deal with the emotional stresses that result. Attitude in turn leads to inaccessibility, the failure by the host nation to create access for those with disabilities. “If you want to go to Syria or Egypt (for example), you’re going to get lifted.” Flying Wheels recommends travelers allow three months for the planning of a trip, so that they can fully explore with the client the different features of each location.
“The market is rapidly changing,” says Ms Jacobson, referring to progress in the field.” When we began in 1970, we could only handle escorted domestic tours, primarily to Hawaii and Disneyland. Now we go to all parts of the globe, offer cruises and customized itineraries.” Ever since passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, she points out, domestic travel in particular has been much less stressful, as more and more hotels and restaurants make their facilities accessible.
1580 Orchard St.
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
phone 707/887-7905 or fax 707/542-6274
In addition to operating tours of the wine country of northern California, and tours for gay and lesbian travelers to anywhere, Sunset provides customized itineraries for mobility-impaired persons, both domestic and international, and has done so for the last 11 years. Its founder, Linda Reitzell, was herself disabled by a head on collision in 1990. Her approach, from our own conversations with her, seems highly professional but pleasant.
35 West Sellers Avenue
Ridley Park, Pennsylvania 19078
phone 610/521-0339, or 800/846-4537, fax 610/521-6959.
Founded by Howard McCoy in 1985 to provide travel opportunities for people who were mobility-impaired. “We’re not an able-bodied travel agency that sets up a wing to attract more business,” he explains. “This is all we’ve ever done in travel.”
According to Howard, what sets his company apart is that he has also remained personally committed to his original goals. Staff members from Accessible Journeys check out all of the sites, hotels and modes of transportation. “Every place we send visitors to we’ve been. We do all the site inspections and all the hotel inspections, and can tell people what to expect. For example, a visitor to India who wants to visit the Taj Mahal can expect to navigate 21 very tall steps up to the first level. We hire porters to lift people in their wheelchairs up the steps. We tell people before they take their trips that this is basically the only way to see that site, so there are no surprises later on-and then they can either book the tour or not. Whatever they are comfortable with.”
Accessible Journeys offers more than 40 different international tours and cruises a year and half a dozen domestic ones, many of which are then personally accompanied by Mr. McCoy. His clients come from all over the English-speaking world, and while he can provide them with airfare to the starting place of the tours, he finds that most people prefer to use frequent flyer miles, or wait for special deals. The company also creates customized itineraries for those desiring them, and finds licensed companions for passengers needing such assistance.
WHEEL COACH SERVICES, INC.
Sion Farm Commercial Center B7
Christiansted, St. Croix
U.S. Virgin Islands 00820
phone 340/719-9335, fax 340/773-1414
Travelers with disabilities including dialysis needs, restricted movement, or just those who are slow walkers can enjoy a tour of the beautiful island of St. Croix by way of Wheel Coach Services. Wheel Coach does not usually arrange for entire vacations. Instead, it specializes in tours of the island (usually four hours long, costing $55 for those in wheelchairs, $45 for companions). Each vehicle can fit only two or three wheelchairs, so the exact itinerary is up to the customers. Usually the tour involves a scenic drive, and visits to a rum factory, a sugar plantation, and a botanical gardens. Wheel Coach can also make individualized arrangements for accessible activities for the disabled and equipment rentals.
On his first day in Australia, Andy Huesing, who has a spinal cord injury, met a gentleman crossing the street named Rod Gothe. Both men had just arrived Down Under, and both were in wheelchairs. Both men had also noticed, on their arrival, the need for a company that would service travelers with disabilities. “So we set out on our own,” says Huesing, “literally rolling from hotel to hotel, venue to venue, finding the best places to form the foundation of an accessible tour.”
Today, NeverLand Adventures boasts four to five group tours to Australia and New Zealand a year, and is recognized by the Australian Tourist Commission as the #1 specialist for disabled travelers to Australia. While the company is angled towards travelers with mobility impairments, its owners assure us that their “ultimate goal is to service as many types of people as possible.” Clients have included people who are both visually and hearing impaired, and travelers with spinal cord injuries, M.S., M.D., cerebral palsy, Lou Gehrig’s disease, spina bifida, brittle bone disease, diabetes, cancer, and slow walkers.
To co-owner and founder Andy Huesing, the integrity of the holiday is a key concern. “There is a misconception that in order for a trip to be accessible it has to sacrifice a lot,” says Huesing. “That was our biggest challenge. We wanted no compromises on our trips. We wanted our customers to be as free as possible on our trips, without the usual entanglements of disabled travel. This part is the most fun for me—seeing quadriplegics swimming in the Great Barrier Reef, people with M.S. riding camels in the outback, and 86-year-old women bungee jumping!” It is no wonder the company is named NeverLand Adventures: “In the Peter Pan mythos, NeverLand was a place of freedom and adventure where you never grew old—very in line with or philosophies,” says Huesing.
Groups are never larger than 12 customers, served by two or three staff and a bus driver. The company offers two-week tours in Australia and New Zealand starting at $3,400, and this includes absolutely everything except your flight to Australia: all transportation within Australia, hotels, meals, activities, motorcoach, scuba, and whatever else you do. For those wishing to experience the Outback, including Ayers Rock and Alice Springs, NeverLand offers a three-week Outback tour for $4,500, not including airfare. In addition, NeverLand Adventures plans to begin bringing Aussies to the U.S. in the near future.
Offers a variety of travel services for people with disabilities visiting Australia. Travel packages are usually customized based on type of disability and what the traveler would like to see. SeeMore arranges for accommodations, airport transfers, scooter and wheelchair rentals, transportation, and all kinds of tours (wine tasting tours are one of its specialties) to all parts of Australia. SeeMore also offers guided tours that cost as little as $25 for half-day or $35 for full-day itineraries, based on ten people taking part.
P.O. Box 499
Victor, ID 83455
An idealistic, non-profit group that offers educational and environmentally-proper tours of the American West. Its director, Clint Gross, was one of the early white water river runners. When rafting became too commercial for his tastes, and tourism to the West became saturated with tour companies that had “no empathy for the indigenous peoples and with the land itself,” Mr. Gross left the travel business. A few years later, a quadriplegic friend of his came to visit, and Mr. Gross was intrigued about forming a tour company for persons with ambulatory disorders—slow walkers and persons needing wheelchairs.
He has, he says, a “passion” for teaching people the natural and human history of the American West, and wants his tours to be different from the standard. “I want people to be aware of where they’ve been. I detest the motor coach companies. Their idea of seeing Yellowstone is to breeze in from one side and go out the other—an average stay of five hours! When you ask the tourists afterwards where they’ve been, they have to re-read their postcards. They don’t remember.” On his tours, a maximum of 11 passengers form the group that visits the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, the South West, and “other special areas of the American West.” Tours are usually about eight to ten days each, traveling at a leisurely pace to “soak up the sights,” as Mr. Gross offers a running commentary on the history of the location.
Access Tours runs four or five scheduled departures a year, and also will do custom itineraries for groups of six people or more. They’ve been in business since 1989.
Trains scuba instructors around the world in how to teach and dive with mobility impaired divers. In addition, the H.S.A. offers two or three group tours a year, for approximately 11 handicapped participants each. The trips are reasonably priced: The 2003 trip to Bonaire, for example, cost $920 for six days of diving and include all dives,hotels and ground transportation to and from the airport. For those who wish to travel on their own, the HSA provides, free of charges, a well researched “resort evaluation program”. They have lists of scuba resorts, in almost all the major destinations, ranked by the accessibility of hotel facilities (i.e. roll-in showers, wide enough doors, etc.), and the expertise of the diving staff in dealing with divers with disabilities. The list is available on the organization’s Web site, or you can call and someone will send it to you free of charge.
PO Box 605
Versailles, KY 40383
The Hertz or Avis of the wheelchair set, this company rents lift-equipped vans and mini-vans with hand-controls (when specially requested). Most of Wheelchair Getaway’s vehicles have either raised roofs or lowered floors, four-point wheelchair tie down with seat belts and power steering, locks and windows. Franchises are in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington State, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. While the company does not provide drivers or guides, the owners of their franchises, according to president Richard Gatewood, are knowledgeable in the needs of mobility impaired travelers and happy to advise on local restaurants and recreational facilities. The company was founded in 1989.
584 Pembina Highway, Suite 208
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3M 3X7
phone 888/441-7575 or 204/982-0657, fax 204/478-1172
“It all began when my father had a stroke,” explained co-owner Lee Meagher. “We wanted to travel and not have to bring his scooter with us, but we found it near impossible to find scooters to rent. There’s rarely a category for them in the yellow pages, and the companies that do rent them, often don’t advertise it. They concentrate on sales and maintenance. So you really have to do a lot to find them.” In the course of their travels, she, her father and her brother, were able, through laborious research, to find scooters in every city they wanted to visit. Not wanting to let their hard-won information go to waste, and recognizing that there must be many others in the same situation, they decided to found ScootAround. Currently, ScootAround serves as a network of scooter-rental companies in every major tourist and business destination in the United States and Canada. There are some 500 cities on its roster, including New York, Detroit, Montreal, Washington, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Honolulu, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and even San Juan, Puerto Rico, Amsterdam, and several cities in France. The company rates start at $110 for a three-day rental (it varies by location). In addition to scooters, it deals in manual and electric wheelchair rentals.
MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL USA
PO Box 10767
Eugene, OR 97440
phone 541/343-1284, fax 541/343-6812
Mobility International manages the National Clearinghouse on Disability and Exchange. Its stated goals are to “work to educate people with disabilities and disability related organizations about international educational exchange opportunities ... and community and volunteer service programs.” What does this mean? Well, if you or someone you know who has a physical disability, wants to go abroad to study (i.e. taking a course at a distant University), for work or to volunteer, M.I. will research the facilities of whatever institution you’re interested in, free of charge. Want to do an exchange program? Call M.I. first—it can give you in-depth information on all the programs that are out there, and which best facilitate individuals with disabilities. Additionally, M.I. sponsors cultural exchanges themselves with the goals of “leadership training, community service, cross cultural experiential learning and advocacy for the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities.” M.I. publishes a comprehensive guide called “A World of Options” which describes everything “from spending a year as a high school student in Spain, to receiving on-the-job training in Denmark; from volunteering with grassroots organizations in Mexico, to being a college student studying in France; to becoming a Fulbright scholar in Ghana.” To learn more, visit its informative Web site.
In 2000, Susan Sygall, foudner of M.I., received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the “genius grant.”
Adventures Within is a small non-profit organization that arranges skiing and outdoors trips for people affected with Multiple Sclerosis. Charlotte Robinson, director of Adventures Within, founded the organization soon after she was diagnosed with MS at the age of 26. Considering 40 percent of participants are repeat customers, this operation certainly seems to offer quality programs. Price is one reason these programs are so popular. Rates for a five-day ski vacation at the Breckenridge Resort in the Colorado Rockies, including special ski equipment rentals, private lessons, lodgings, and nearly all meals, cost just $425 per person. Transportation to Breckenridge is not included, however. Four to five-day outdoors trips in the summer (canoeing, camping, horseback riding, rock climbing, etc.) are also reasonable, costing between $375 and $425.
Epic Enabled specializes in safari-style visits to South Africa for people in wheelchairs and those otherwise mobility impaired. Small groups (usually four to 12 people) tour through beautifully preserved spots such as Kruger National Park in a spacious Mercedes truck that is fully equipped for wheelchairs and people with disabilities. Accommodations during tours are tents, cottages, and rustic bungalows, and participants are expected to help out with washing dishes, building campfires, and other chores. In exchange for your work, prices are kept very low. An eight-day tour of Kruger National Park, including transfers to and from the airport in Johannesburg, three meals a day, and all entrance fees, starts at $825 per person. Day tours of Johannesburg and Cape Town start at $25 and $45, respectively. Each of Epic Enabled’s tours has several opportunities to get out, see the beauty of South Africa, and get an up-close look at some of the world’s most amazing wildlife.
We know of two major companies set up to help visually impaired travelers. Both are well-established and well-respected operators, and we detail their programs below.
A Division of Directions Unlimited
123 Green Lane
Bedford Hills, New York 10507
phone 914/241-1700 or 800/533-5343
Lois Bonanni has headed Accessible Tours since 1982, shortly after her son became visually impaired. She has arranged both domestic trips and safaris in Africa, visits trans-Atlantic to Europe and trans-continental to Colorado. She has considerable confidence in the future of such travel by those with disabilities, now that hotel and cruise lines have finally begun setting aside rooms and facilities specially designed for their needs. In addition, travel needn’t be more expensive for persons with disabilities, she believes. That’s because U.S. hotels must now conform to federally-mandated standards, and provide facilities on a non-discriminatory basis. On occasion, Ms. Bonnani also plans and personally accompanies group tours to Europe with 10 to 12 visually impaired travelers.
The innovative Campanian Society offers tours that rely not on sight but the other four senses, especially the sense of touch. The tour company visits the monuments of Washington, DC, the Ghetty Museum in Los Angeles and Museum of Modern Art in New York, sandwich glass factories in Cape Cod, the beaches of Key West, the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, and anywhere else that permits visually impaired tourists to “see” the exhibits with their hands. The company also plans to offer trips to the aural Las Vegas (ca-ching!) and to San Francisco’s Wine Country, where travelers only need their taste buds. The Campanian Society offers seven to eight group tours per year, of about 12 visually impaired travelers and their families each, and can also arrange individualized tour packages. Tours generally include first class hotel accommodations, but do not include airfare. However, the Campanian society does assist its blind constituents in arriving safely at the destination. A six-night trip will cost an average of $2,500-not cheap, but worthy of consideration as this is the only tour company of this kind (that we know of, at least).
There are six major tour operators who have been offering caring, well-organized tours for adults with developmental disabilities for decades (in some cases). We profile these fine organizations below.
893 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025
phone 212/222-9575 or 888/222-9575 (from outside New York); fax 212/222-9768
Given the breadth of its interests and the remarkable scope of its destinations, this is the “Club Med” of travel for the developmentally disabled. Participants whale watch on Cape Cod, attend Broadway shows, visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, gamble in Atlantic City, make pilgrimages to Graceland, ride horses and more. International excursions ran this year to Puerto Rico and Europe. My personal favorite among their activities is “Make a Movie,” when participants gather together to write a script, then act in the film. Professional film-makers are brought in to do the actual filming and a premiere party is later held to screen the completed film. “Sproutstock” is a take-off on Woodstock, an annual weekend music festival. The young man with Downs Syndrome who appeared in the TV drama, “Life Goes On,” appeared in 1998 with his own rock and roll band.
Sprout is rightly proud of its safety record—leaders undergo rigorous training, and less-experienced group leaders are always paired with those who have worked a few trips before. A single drawback: all departures are from New York City, New Paltz, NY, and Bridgeport, CT, Carteret, NJ, and participants must somehow manage to travel on their own to these areas, without assistance from Sprout. All trips make use of a 15-passenger van accommodating 10 participants and three Sprout leaders. Participants must have “high to moderate” functioning levels, be ambulatory, and possess full eyesight and hearing. Other slower and less intense trips are operated for elderly travelers who are developmentally disabled and others who want a slower pace.
5276 Hollister Avenue, #207
Santa Barbara, California 93111
phone 888-967-2841 or 805/967-2841, fax 805/964-7344.
Web site: http://www.newdirectionstravel.com/
A non-profit organization, New Directions arranges “vacations with dignity” for the developmentally disabled, to “increase understanding and appreciation of such people by integrating them into society.” Arranges group tours to major tourist destinations around the world (Jamaica, Hawaii, Europe, Las Vegas, Fiji) that are in all ways comparable to the tours offered to average travelers, and involve no stigma to the participant, like the stereotyped image of “all wearing matching t-shirts and holding onto a rope,” in the words of the group’s former assistant director, Antonio Daniel. As most of New Directions’ passengers come from institutional settings, the organization makes a major effort to give them as much freedom of choice on their vacations as possible. Room service or dinner with the group, an afternoon of snorkeling or shopping or sunbathing, sleeping in or jumping up to greet the dawn—-all options are available, and the fact of choice can be a welcome respite from the more regimented life of group homes and institutions. The vacations, according to New Directions, have a lasting effect on their clients. Counselors and therapists report increased self-esteem, and a marked decrease in behavioral problems for months after their trips.
The organization was founded 18 years ago by Dee Duncan, a counselor at a residential care facility. It has grown steadily over the years and now offers approximately 40 tours a year. Most trips accommodate eight to 20 persons, and this year’s offerings include vacationing at a California dude ranch, touring Hawaii, and the “Holiday Happiness Trip”—four days in Disneyland at Christmas for persons without families. While the trips are not always inexpensive, they cost more to operate than the client pays. New Directions offers scholarships to all clients and can assist in finding regional subsidies.
PEOPLE AND PLACES
76 Riley St.
East Aurora, NY 14052
phone 716/937-1813 or fax 716/937-1814
Tours for adults with developmental disabilities, with 100 widely-varied departures a year, for an average of eight persons on each departure. Escorts are all volunteers with experience in the mental health field, usually as social workers, nurses or therapists. Participants supply full profiles of their health and needs on the application form, so that escorts can deal with such emergencies as might arise. The form can be requested by phone or by visiting the website.
The company has been in business for 27 years, and publishes a handsome, 60-page catalogue.
SUNDIAL SPECIAL VACATIONS
2609 Highway 101 N., Suite 103
Seaside, OR 97138
phone 800/547-9198 or 503/738-3324, or fax 503/738-3369
Operating for the past 34 years, this is the one not-for-profit company known to me that specializes in tours for developmentally disabled adults. It is remarkably active, and sends out an average of two or three tours of 30 to 35 persons a month, primarily to theme parks in domestic locations: Disneyland and Disney World, Universal Studios, Hershey Park, Branson, and western dude ranches. More recently, a number of international trips—cruises to Mexico and Alaska, Montreal and Quebec, a safari in Kenya, and the British Isles—have been attempted. Tours are each led by at least one paid employee and a staff of volunteers, many from the mental health field, and participants are arranged into groups by their levels of “self-care.” “Tours for higher functioning individuals” have a ratio of one escort per every seven travelers and are for those “who can care for personal needs without reminders.” The rest have a higher ratio of escorts, one to five, and are for those who may need “reminders to care for their personal needs.”
“We do this not from the pocket book but from the heart. This is not a money maker,” says owner Patricia Conner, who has a consistent record (mentioned by other companies in the field) in keeping costs low for her clients. Funds for the tours come entirely from private sources—especially from parents of the mentally disabled individual. More than 60% of all clients, according to Sundial, are “returnees,” a reflection of the general satisfaction with these tours.
THE GUIDED TOUR
7900 Old York Road, Suite 114-B
Elkins Park, PA 19027-2339
phone 1-800-783-5841 or 215/782-1370
This is one of the largest and most diversified tour operators specializing in the developmentally challenged traveler: 40 part-time, fully licensed social workers, therapeutic recreators, and direct care personnel, along with Irv Segal and his family, operate 64 trips a year, servicing approximately 1,000 clients. TGT’s size, however, does not compromise its quality; in fact, while most services like this one are staffed primarily by volunteers, TGT distinguishes itself by employing only paid professionals in the human services field, many of whom have worked for TGT for upwards of 15 years. In addition, TGT guarantees individual attention: the ratio staffers to clients is always 1:3, and should a person have to travel to a destination alone, a staff person is arranged to meet the individual at that destination.
TGT offers a wide array of destinations and activities. Three of the most popular programs offered by The Guided Tour include a stay at the Jersey Shore, Camp Lee Mar, or a visit to Walt Disney World. The Shore program, in operation since 1981, is run by eight staff members, and hosts 13 to 14 participants in a house in Ventnor, New Jersey, three blocks from Atlantic City and eight houses from the beach. The program runs from June to mid-September, and in September guests attend the Miss America festivities.
Camp Lee Mar, in Lackawaxen, PA, was purchased by The Guided Tour in 1994, and since then it has served as a summer camp for persons with developmental challenges, ages 5 to 21. The camp is fully air-conditioned, and aims to combine recreation with academics, including speech therapy, perceptual training, computers, and daily living skills. From September through June, the camp is an adult resort.
Other tour locations include Europe, Mexico, Hawaii, the Jersey Shore, Walt Disney World, Amish country, Iceland, and the Pocono Mountains. Activities include concerts, dances, cruises, and sightseeing, (special accommodations are made for mobility impaired persons).
Above all, The Guided Tour aims to provide vacations with dignity, as other tour operators in this category do. For example, travelers are taught how to manage their own travel budgets, and Mr. Segal always chooses restaurants where his clients will be allowed to sit where they want and eat like everyone else.
The Guided Tour became a full-time, year-round operation in 1972, after Segal left his post as director of the Ronald B. Nipon Association, one of America’s first recreation and socialization programs for adults with developmental challenges. Mr. Segal was formerly the director of the Association for Developmental Disabilities/Young Adult Group, and more recently served as chairman of S.A.T.H.-the Society for the Advancement of Travel for the Handicapped.
P.O. Box 10885
Eugene, OR 97440 USA
phone 800/686-1013, fax 541/465-9355
A quality organization that has been featured in stories in nationally respected newspapers such as “The Oregonian” and “The Los Angeles Times,” Trips Inc. offers vacations for people with developmental disabilities to destinations like Disney World, San Diego, baseball’s spring training in Arizona, Washington D.C., Australia, Nashville, Las Vegas, and New Orleans. There are also several road trips that leave from Portland, Oregon, bound for Seattle, central Oregon, or other reasonably close vacation spots. Trips Inc’s background is in special education (it is not a travel operator that switched to the developmentally disabled market) so chaperones, trip organizers, and leaders are well-versed in the special needs of clients. When flying is required, the price of airfare from the Northwest (usually valid from Seattle, San Francisco, or Portland) is included in the rates. For example, an eight-day vacation to Disney World and a Disney Cruise cost $3,100 per person, including air from the West Coast, and a six-day vacation to San Diego (with visits to SeaWorld and the city’s famous zoo), cost $1,795, also with air included. Of course if a passenger is flying from elsewhere, or does not need air at all, prices will vary. The road trips seem to be the most budget-friendly options. A six-day camping trip to Lake Billy Chinook in central Oregon costs $895, and a five-day visit to Seattle costs $995. A chaperone to traveler ratio of 1:3 or 1:4 is maintained on each trip, and groups average about 20 people total. | <urn:uuid:952bf528-e8df-441a-aa4d-5b7740c4690c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3224391 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949846 | 9,734 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Focus on Aging: Federal Partners' Webinar Series/Supporting Older Adults in Emergencies
Description: The Focus on Aging webinar series addresses important topics for public health and health care professionals, aging services organizations, the research community, and other stakeholders in aging. Each webinar includes information specific to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, as well as their caregivers. The May 2020 edition of the webinar series was on the topic "Supporting Older Adults in Emergencies: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery."
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WordPress's famous motto; "Code is poetry". I don't know how romantic it sounds, but it's definitely not meant to sound romantic. Like Mawlana, we first looked at the phrase, now let's look at who said this phrase. Who is this WordPress?
WordPress is one of the most used blogging systems in the world, open source and distributed free of charge. Using WordPress, you can set up your own server in a short time, publish your site and start adding content to your site, ie blogging.
A quarter of every site on the internet is WordPress. Every site ... This company is a giant company that employs nearly two hundred employees from their homes and does not even have an office. Then they say that "code is poetry". Why is that?
What Is a Poem?
In the sentence Code is poetry, the word code describes itself through poetry. What is poetry? I'm aware that this phrasing related more to the American poetry rather than Turkish poetry, which is quiet different and may be understood differently in Turkey. Nevertheless, is there not another concept that we can define poetry through, such as a common definition of what we call poetry, or the study of defining the code word through poetry in the sentence code is poetry? What is it like a poem? The poem is probably closer to silent than to speak, to feel more than to tell, to describe rather than to show. It's like letting the word go. A situation where words abandon their daily, ordinary meanings or where meanings tear these words off like a shirt. The poem is actually much more than what is written. The written part is a valuable essence obtained by various distillation processes. It is an inspiration that makes you look at the cold-pressed olive oil and take a journey that makes you see that olive, the tree, the soil and the people. Less words, more images.
How Is Code Similar to Poetry?
How does this ancient tradition called poetry, which has found its place in every culture, without exception, resemble code; that is, words written line by line on screens resembling a notebook application and parentheses, quotes or a lot of punctuation marks and symbols that fill between these words?
Poetry is about talking less and telling a lot. I'm not saying good poems are short. I always say that poetry is more than itself. In software, this criterion is relatively the same. More code means more breakdown and less flexibility. You should know the point you want to reach and thoroughly investigate the shortest path to here.
People say nonsense, good poems never do. When it comes to coding, you don't have the luxury of lollygagging. Every space is a possibility. First of all, the target and path should be drawn, and each step should be passed through logical filters. Neither in poetry nor in coding, the caravan is not flattened on the road.
Seeing the Big Picture
Reaching the purest and most distilled state of something is about coming from the whole. You cannot distill what you do not know. The destination you want to reach and the route you want to go should be clear so that you can distill this adventure. Good poetry and good coding come from the hands of people who can see the whole and summarize the whole with a precision that does not miss even the small details. As one poet said, "Good poetry is not written, it is erased". Good poetry is where you reach when you erase unnecessary parts of a poem.
Knowing and Building
If you're reading this article, you must know English. But some of you read poetry, fewer of us write poetry, even less of us write good poetry. Knowing English or any other language is not enough to write good poetry. The same goes for coding. Knowing all coding languages is not a sufficient hardware for coding. Codes are just tools that allow you to go to the destination you want to reach. Knowing English is not enough for you to create poetry, and knowing codes is not enough to set up an algorithm. The two are really close concepts. They're both about seeing the whole and being able to create a logical, simple but comprehensive summary. | <urn:uuid:1511f387-7e75-46f5-a9fd-472a69c7ee33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://6harf.com/en/code-is-poetry-wordpresss-famous-motto/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966314 | 857 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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